TURKEY.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 343, 1 February 1861, Page 4

TURKEY.

The French troops continue their operations in Syria. They have met with little or no opposition, and have reinstated, the Maronites in their villages; but they have exasperated without being able to punish the Druses, who have eluded them. The following despatch from Constantinople is dated November 17 . — General Kmety has resigned the Syrian command on account of having been reproached by Fuad Pacha with partiality to the Christians. VICTORY OF THE CIRCASSIANS. News has been received here from Circassia of the signal failure of Bariatinski's expedition against Daghestan. Great loss was suffered by the Russians.

ORANGE OUTRAGE IN IRELAND. The Belfast Orangemen have recently given an astounding example of their intolerance by an outrageous attack upon the Bishop of Down and Connor. It is impossible to convey a notion of the nature of the proceedings to which we refer except by lay-, ing before our readers an entire report ■of them. We take the following from the Northern Whig :— "On Monday evening [November 12] in the Music Hall, the annual meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign parts was, advertised to be held, under the presidency of the Lord Bishop of the diocese. An opportunity was taken of the occasion by a number of the Orangemen of Belfast to perpetrate the most scandalous and disgraceful series of insults it has ever been our lot to witness. It was well known throughout town yesterday that the Orangemen intended a display— and a display they made of it—that they intended to insult their bishop, by preventing his taking the chair, and placing Dr. Miller there in his stead, in consequence of the antipathy which they entertain toward

him by reason of certain proceedings with which the public are familierj namely, that, he inhibited the Rev., Mr. Potter from! preaching in the parish church on an' Orange' anniversary. This is the cause of their* ill-will, as their violence ldst hight; provedl ' , At the appointed time the hall was! crowded by an audience "which appeared toj be composed principally pf working men.; the remainder were women* ,The parties! about to occupy the platform ascended the small staircase from the lower; room;: and, immediately upon the Lord Bishop making his appearance, accompanied by a number of ladies, the deputation, and about 20 clergymen, he was received with tremendous groaning and hooting, which was kept up for several minutes. Dr. Miller was received with the warmest enthusiasm —'Kentish fire, cheering, and clapping of hands, for which he gracefully bowed, seemingly overcome with the honor. A Voice—Down with the Bsihop. (Tremendous groans.) Another Voice—Don't dare to go into that chair; you'd disgrace it. (Hisses and groans.) ' Order, order.' (Kentish fire.) • Put the Pope out of him.' (Kentish fire.) IHeis a Puseyite.' 'To h—l with the Pope.' (Groans.) The bishop took the chair. A Voice—Put him out; out with him. 'No Puseyite.' •No surrender.' • Throw him out of this.' (Tremendous cheering, :and Kentish fire.) 'Three cheers for Dr. ' Miller.' (Cheers.) * Groans for the Puseyite.' (Tremendous groans.) ! Dr. Miller here rose on his feet simultaneously with the bishop. A Voice—Hear Dr. Miller. Another Voice—You'll beat him, Miller, my boy. (Cheers, and Kentish fire.) The bishop here looked round him, and i faced the raging storm. Nearly the whole audience got on their feet and groaned and hissed. This lasted fully five minutes. Rev. Mr. Seaver—This is disgraceful.; I never thought such a scene as this could occur. (Groans, and Kentish fire.) Bishop—l call upon Dr. Miller to open the proceedings. A Voice—-There will be no proceedings Opened till you leave that. (Cheers.) ' Mr. Charles Ward here got upon his feet to do what he could to allay the raging fury of the audience. s A Voice—Hear Mr. Ward. (Kentish fire.) i Mr. Ward—l hope we shall do nothing « —(A voice, 'Won't we?')—inconsistent with the character of a Christian and Protastant assemblage; but, at the same time, I am determined that we shall carry out what we came here to do, but in a loyal and Christian manner. (Cheering, and Kentish fire.) I rise to object to the presidency of the Lord Bishop on this occasion. (Great applause. 'Go on; we will do it.') I trust, my friends, that you will keep order—

A Voice—We will when we pitch out the Ifuseyites. (Groans.) Mr. Ward—That you shall keep order, and we will carry out the appointment of another chairman. (Dreadful shouting.) ' Bishop—l beg to call upon the Vicar of Belfast to open the proceedings by prayer. (Groans, hooting, and scandalous disorder.)

Mr. Ward—l am in possession of this meeting at present, and I will permit no man to interfere till I have done. (Great applause.) I know my rights, and I will maintain them. (Cheers.) I wish an explanation from his lordship, and I am in a position to show why he should not occupy the chair at a meeting of Protestants. (Kentish fire. *Go on.' « Put out the Puseyite.'Y

Bishop—-This meeting is about to be opened by-:—(Groans.) A Voice—Go down, sir, you're no Protestant. No Popish bishop here.

Seaver—iWe have paid for this room. (Groans.) Mr. Ward—l will not be put down. I'll finish (Cheers, and Kentish fire.)

Mr. Seaver—This is not a political meeting. (Confusion and jostling on the platform—the ladies frightened.)

Mr. Ward—l will continue till 1 have done.

Here everybody tried to speak, or shout, or stamp with the feet. A shout made itself heard, * Don't palaver with him. Go orijl Ward.' (Kentish fire for a minute.). Mr. Kuox (vicar-general)— You're a a disgrace to the Christian name. (Groans.) A Voice—We'll put you out too^ (Kentish; fire.)

Mr. Seaver (as understood)—A disgrace not only to Christianity but to civilization.

A person, who, we are told, is called Greer, or Green, here jumped on the platform, and got into a hot discussion with Mn Seaver. He said, Gentlemen—(Great hurraing.) A Voice—Shew him the door. Another Voice—ls the Puseyite not gone yet? (Groaning.) Another Voice—He must go, or there will be no^meeting here to-night.

Dr. ■'Miller came forward to calm the disorder, and was received with unbounded enthusiasm arid Kentish fire.

Mr. Ward—This is a public meeting, and I won't let the clergy ignore the laity. (Applause.) I say the laity have a right to say who shall preside here this evening —(cheers) —unless the clery are prepared to make this a mere clerical meeting, to ordain every; person present as clergymen.

A'Voice—No Pope. (Cheers.) Mr. Ward—The laity will not be treated as a mere appanage to the clergy.

A Voice—-Down with the Popish bishop. (Kentish fire.) Mr. Ward—l did not come here to set the laity against the clergy. I come here for a special object—to mark our disapprobation of the recent conduct of the £ord Bishop; (Tewifia yeUing.)

..;-A Voice—No Popsh bishop.. The glorious and immortal memory. (Shouts isufficient to raise the ceiling.) Mr. Wavd—l want the bishop to answer a question. A Voice—Send him up to the nunnery. (Great hilarity.)' Another Voice—Groans for the bishop. , (Groans.) : Here considerable shuffling took place at a corner of the platform. Several ladies appeared to be greatly frightened. The audience rose en masse ta their feet, and the groaning and abusive language used towards the bishop were absolutely frightful. The bishop rose, as if to say something. His brother and several ladies went towards him and implored him to leave, which he did, in their company, after a last look at the savage scene before him. Fourfifths of the clergymen on the platform accompanied the bishop down the back stairs to the back door, and left with him. The members of the deputation, the Bey. Mr. Downing and the .Rev." Mr. Moeran, remained behind. ' Their object being accomplished, in a scene which baffles description, a long round of Kentish fire, intermingled with epithets as 'The Pope is gone;' 'The Puseyite is chased;' * Down with him;' * Away with him;' brought this part of the performance to a close, by a man shouting, * They're a parcel of scandalous ruffians. They're well away/ (Dreadful cheering.) ; Mr. Ward—The resolution is as follows that I have to move:—" That this meeting is of opinion that the recent conduct of the Lord Bishop of Down in having inhibited the Rev. Mr. Potter, of Stratford from preaching in the parish church in this town is deserving of the strongest reprobation." (Tremendous applause;) ; Rev. Mr. Pay ne—No, no; emphatically, no, no. A Voice—Put him out. We'll chase you too. (Applause.), ; : Mr. Ward--" And we are also of opinion that the refusal of his lordship to comply with the request of the important deputa-, tion who waited upon him, and who afforded him an opportunity of withdrawing the proceedings which he has commenced, is a sufficient justification on our part for refusing to permit him to preside over this meeting—(great cheering)— believing, as we do, that he has taken advantage of his position to make an aggression on the religious liberty of both clergy and laity, which his calculated to inflict the greatest injury on the Church of which ; we are members, and to which we are devotedly attached. Be it, therefore,, resolved that we will not permit his lordship to preside over this meeting, he having forfeited our confidence, and disqualified himself from presiding over a meeting of the Protestants of Belfast." (Tremendous cheering, and Kentish fire.)

Dr. Miller having taken the chair at the request of the mob, the meeting was opened, and a brief address delivered by the rev. gentleman.— Home JfJews.

A letter from Hayti mentions a curious incident. Among the Acul mountains there had been found in an old house a bust of Lord Nelson. It is of white marble, somewhat stained by time and neglect. Nelson is represented in hi? "costume of admiral, and bears on his breast five decorations. One, in commemoration of the battle of Aboukir, has the inscription, • Rear-Admiral Lord Nelson of the Nile.' Another bears the words, ' Almighty God has blessed his Majesty's glory.' This bust, interesting in its artistic and historical association, was found on an altar devoled to the fetich worship, where for half a century it had been reverenced as the Deity of the Mountain Streams. The names of the sculptors were Coale and Lealy, of Lambeth. Thus for fifty years the bust of an English admiral has been worshipped as a heathen idol. A Turin paper gives the following as the probable future strength of the Italian army:—lo4 regiments of the line, 8 of grenadiers, .4 of marines, 54 battalions of bersaglieii, 4 regiments of engineers, 16 of artillery, 8 of cavalry of the line, 12 of lancers, 12 of light cavalry, 2 of hussars, 2 df mounted guides, and 5 of the transport train.

The new Bishop of Rochester has just ' held his visitation. In his charge he dwells with a. force amounting to severity on the sports^ dress; and personal'habits of the clergy of his diocese. He speaks of young I clergymen who 'play cricket,' * belong to archery clubs/ 'play cards,' 'dancer * hunt/ 'course,' 'shoot,' 'goto the opera and the theatres,' ' are singular in,' their , dress/ 'worldly in their language,' 'and with anj unseemly habit and demeanor, such as smoking, or adopting the modern excesses in the cultivation of the hair,' The Post remarks that the style of the bishop's charge would almost lead to the belief that a large' number of the younger clergy of the Rochester diocese are a very fast set of gentlemen.

At the opening meeting of the Royal Geographical Society the other evening, some amusement was caused by the reading of the following letter from Captain Burton. The letter was addressed to Dr. Shaw :-*- ---1 Salt Lake City, Deseret, Utah^Territory, September 7- My dear Shaw: You'll, see my whereabouts by the envelope. I reached this place about a week ago, and am living in the odor of sanctity—a pretty strong one it is too: prophets, apostles, et hoc genus omne. In about another week I expect to start for Carson Valley and San Francisco. The road is full of Indians and other scoundrels ; but I've had my hair cropped so short that my scalp is not worth having* I hope to be at San Francisco in October and in England somewhere in November next. Can you put my whereabouts in some paper or other, and thus save me the bother of writing to all my friends ? Mind, I'm travelling for ray health, which has suffered in. Africa, enjoying tf\9 jrapre air of the p*av-

ries, and expecting to return » a state of renovation, and perfectly reacty to leave a card upon Muata Yanvo or any tyrant of that kind.—Ever yours, R. P. BuiftoN.' Sir James Brooke sailed on November 20th, from Southampton, in the Pera, for the seat of his government of Sarawak. The numerous frieads and admirers of this distinguished man will learn with pleasure that his health is completely re-established, and that he is enabled once more to give | the benefit of his temporary presence and advice to the enterprise with which his name is identified. ' ' It appears from a letter in the Limerick Reporter ■ that a grand banquet is to be given to the Limerick, Clare, and Tipperary contingents of the late Irish Brigade, on Monday evening the 3rd of December, in the" the theatre of that city, and that General Lamoriciere, Major O'Reilly, Cardinal Wiseman, and Archbishop Cullen will attend. Preparations on an extensive scale it is said, are being made for the event, which is expected to come off with unusual eclat Eliza Cook is but a small poet, [?] yet her commonplaces have the merit of. being genuine and homely, and her manner is without affectation; for that reason her verse is popular with the uncritical million, and nobody can grudge the popularity it earns.* The Messrs. Routledge have made, therefore, for the million, an illustrated Christmasbook of " Poems by Eliza Cook." They are all kindly and domestic, in pleasant harmony with human life and with all. aspects of nature. The volume is exceed- > ingly well illustrated with pictures of which all are calculated to give pleasure in fami-: lies. Fr. Wolf and Mr. Harrison Weir contribute sketches of home birds and otheranimals as charming as they are true,' Mr., S. Read some exact studies of trees, Mr.. E.Duncan illustrates sea scenery, and in the figure drawing, for which as well 'as for, some landscapes Mr. John Gilbert;.is, re-,, sponsible, there are not a few more nataral arid graceful than the bits of conventional = picturesque of which Mr. Gilbert is only too - dexterous a master. A tew mornings ago it was announced that a terrible explosion had taken jpUce on board the steamship Tonning during her voyage to London, and while she was some 40 or 60 miles off Yarmouth. An inquest' on the dead bodies which have been re.-.! covered has been opened in that'town. The captain described the fearful character of the explosion, which blew up the whole of * the vessel midships. Eleven persons have * fallen victims to the catastrophe, and another is expected to die. ' tfhe renowned Father Redmond, of Arklow, has addressed the following cha-1 • racteristic epistle to the Freeman:— Isid- ' cereiy thank God that our Holy Father, having been sacrilegiously robbed- of ■ the States of the Church, and thereby rendered dependent on the bounty of others, has thrown himself on the pence contributions of his multitudinous children, who will be sure to pour into his plundered coffers a revenue that will render him more independent than if he enjoyed the uncontrolled possession of his States. It would be a sore affliction to see him the pensioner ' of kings or emperors. Sooner than be so, Pius IX. would walk barefooted, with scrip and staff, and take up his abode in the catacombs, as Peter did before him, :It appears that the bird found in the eagle's nest * has given another touch of his quality,) and • threatens to press his claws still more vigorously on the sacred things and persons of ' the Catholic Church, He has interdicted ' , the formation of committees in Catholic France for the collection of the humble revenues of the Pope, lest they should degenerate into dangerous political associations; The idiosyncrasy of tyranny is always the : same. The despot trembles at the rustling of a leaf, and apprehends danger from the moaning of the wind. I should like to test the principles of the Imperial Liberator—the , disinterested paladin of oppressed nationali- < ties. Were I a parish priest in France, I would be a committee in myself, and I <■ would place collectors at my doqrs the first Sunday of every month; and I would call >" on my people to bring each his four weeks' ' 4 pence, or I would go through my congre--1 gation and receive it myself, and hand it to Imy bishop who would forward it to Rome. ■ I wonder would the Man of Liberty prosecute me for contumacy, Or send his gendarmes into the sanctuary to seize on the Pope's cash-box? I would put him1 to the • trial, and he should not wear a double aspect in my instance, at all .events. Honor I to the brave Pope, to the illustrious Pontiff, who prefers the poor man's /penny to the pension of king or Caesar.

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