The old spirit which lit up the fires of Smithfield against Protestants is also most prevalent among the Irish. As illustrations, the following extracts from the last two Annual Reports of one of the Surrey Chapel missionaries are given:-

"Report, .-The deluded creatures in Glass-house- yard are nearly all Irish, and the appearance of a Protestant among them immediately excites their anger. If they could secretly murder him they would not hesitate to do so. Even the children are taught to watch my movements, and their parents will grind their teeth at me as I pass their doors. One woman said recently, ' If you intend to come here you had better order your coffin.' In there is an Infant School belonging to the Established Church, and the Roman Catholic children, no doubt prompted by their parents, are constantly breaking the windows by throwing stones. A few days since, the door was burst open, and a donkey put in

" An Irishman recently said to me, 'Here you are again, bad luck to ye. We have no pace hare for the like of ye. Faith, and we war never so tarmented in our lives before. Och! and I should like to roast ye, and all the like of ye! Oh, wouldent I like to have the kindling of the fire, and a drap of whisky over the fun. The curses of be upon ye for iver and iver !'

" Another Irishman accosted me in the street, and said, 'Are you the priest?' 'You know I am not,' I replied. 'In whose name then do you come here ?' 'In the name of the Great High Priest, King Jesus!' 'By the blessed Virgin, and holy , and by Jasus ye shall not go down here, heretic as ye are, if ye do I will stab you to the very heart;' and he presented a knife with a sharp point, and dared me to stir a step farther. I told him he had no right to stop me on the Queen's highway, and I was determined, whatever might be the consequences, not to be prevented from doing my duty, and rushed past him. He followed me, gnashing his teeth, and uttering the most awful imprecations. An old woman cried out, 'Why did you not rid the world of an inimy, and do God a sarvice ?' ' Sure,' said he, 'and if it had not been for my own neck I would, but the - Protestant Government would have been after me, bad luck to them.'

" In , where I occasionally visit a sick person, I have had as many as six dogs set at me, but through the mercy of the Lord they were not permitted to injure me.

" The foregoing are some of the difficulties which I have had to contend with."

" Report, .-In my Report of last year I mentioned the case of a man who threatened to murder me. Near the same spot an Irishwoman cried out this year, ' Oh, you -- --, should we not like to have our will of you ? and you must look out that we do not. We should like to have the roasting of your Protestant heart.'

" I offered one of the bills on the Crystal Palace to an Irishman, and he said, ' And is it the Crystal Palace you would keep shut; sure, and cannot we go to mass, and then go to Sydenham in the afternoon; and should we get a drop of whisky too much, would not our priest forgive us? Ah, you Protestants have no such privilege. I tell you candidly, it is not going to the Crystal Palace, but being heretics that will damn you all. I only wish we had the power as they have where Francisco is imprisoned, and we would not only confine you, but put you into the Crystal Palace, set fire to it, and blow you all to hell together. And it would be the greatest service done to God and his Church since the times of good Queen Mary!'

" Another said, ' Isay, you Protestant, then you still keep on in your hellish work ! Ah the day will come when you and all the like of you will sorely rue the day that ever you circulated that book of yours.' [I really cannot repeat what he called the , the terms he applied to it were so dread- ful.] 'I don't know a bigger enemy than you, because you are always telling the people to search it. And take you missionaries all together, you are worse than an army of soldiers against our Church. You have completely inun- dated this neighbourhood with that book of yours. May the Lord reward you for your pains and your obstinacy! Many an Ave Maria have I forwarded to the upper world for the destruction of you all.'

"The whole of the foregoing are Roman Catholics, for I meet with no direct opposition from others. Although they are awfully indifferent to the truths of the Gospel, I meet with civility and respect from the most abandoned."

The following case, which recently occurred to a woman who had been under the visitation of a London City mis- sionary, and who had eventually renounced Popery, illus- trates what the spirit of Popery still is. It is taken from the " Times " newspapers of , :-

'" .-Police Intelligence.-.-, Roman Catholic priest of , , Bermondsey, was summoned before for committing an assault on , an Irish woman......

" a young woman with an infant in her arms, on being sworn, said: That she now lives in Palmer's rents, , , and that her husband is a labourer; that on last Sunday three weeks she gave birth to a child, while lodging at the house of a Mrs. Harrington, in , . She knew the , the defendant; and he called upon her last Friday while she was sitting by the fire, with her child in her arms.

.... He inquired if she had had a child christened lately. She said that she had, and he asked by whom? and she answered by the , the Protestant clergy- man. The moment she mentioned Dr. A.'s name, the defendant struck her on the side of her head with an umbrella, and exclaimed, 'Don't you think you have sold your soul to the devil?' She replied, that she did not think that she had; upon which he walked out of the room. He returned, however, in about three or four minutes in a passion; struck her three times with the umbrella, in the landlady's presence, and said to her, 'Why don't you send those devils out of your house ?' The landlady at first said

" expressed some surprise that no witnesses were called on either side; and said, that under the circum- stances he should send the case before a jury, without mak- ing any remarks himself on the subject; and for that purpose should order the defendant to enter into his own recognizance in the sum of 100l. to appear and answer the charge at the Sessions."

"Dec. 11.-Surrey Sessions.-(Before Mr. T. Puckle and a full bench of Magistrates.)

" , a Roman Catholic priest connected with the , surrendered to take his trial for committing an assault on , a Protestant woman, under very singular circumstances.

", a sickly-looking woman with an infant in her arms, on being sworn said: 'I am the wife of , a labourer. On Friday fortnight I was living in Palmer's-rents, , and was my landlady. A and lodged there also; and I slept in the kitchen which they all used. I was confined not quite three weeks, and had not been out of bed, only to the fire. I know the defendant: he is a clergyman; and I saw him before and after I was confined... On the Friday in question defendant came into the room, and asked me, "Did I get my child baptized ?" I replied, that I did. He asked whether it was himself who did it? I replied that it was not; but it was Dr. Armstrong. He is a Pro- testant, and myself and my husband belong to his congrega- tion. Defendant said, "Did you sell your soul to the devil ?" I told him I considered I had not; when he struck me on the left ear with his umbrella. I think in my mind that he was very angry. He went out to the next house,

" Cross-examined by Mr. Woollett, who appeared for the defendant.-I came from about 3 years ago, and went with my parents into Wales. They are Roman Catholics, and I was such until I married. I came to Bermondsey a month before last harvest, and had been at Mrs. Harrington's about 6 weeks, and was to pay her Is. 6d. per week. I first knew Mr. Donovan 3 nights after I was confined, when he came to check a man who had troubled me. The police could not take him or quiet him. That was the reason he was sent for. The defendant then left 1s. for me, but I did not speak to him. I owed Mrs. Harrington a little rent, but she did not look for it until defendant beat me and told her to turn me out ..

"Mary Harrington, the landlady of the house, cross- examined by Mr. Robinson for the plaintiff.-Did not defendant tell you to pitch those devils out of the house?

"Witness.-Yes, he did, in a very civil manner.

" Mr. Robinson.-And you took the bed from under her immediately after that.

"Witness.-I did; but she did not sleep on the floor, she slept on the sacking with her clothes on.

" Mr. Sweatman, a surgeon, residing at , a member of the Established Church, said, he had known defendant from a boy, and he was a very amiable and kind- hearted gentleman, liberal in the extreme, and very inoffen- sive in his manner.

"Mr. Kirwan, of , , also spoke in high terms of him, as did Mr. Joseph Luke, of and Miss Isabella Stephens, of , with whom defendant lodged for some time.

"Mr. Robinson then addressed the Jury in reply, con- tending that after what the woman had said, the charge had assumed a more serious aspect. No doubt his character was respectable, but they were there to suppress the domination of priests, which now they had a clear proof of, leading them to believe that he exercised a power over his flock which was far superior to the civil authority of the land.

" The CHAIRMAN then summed up the case at great length, reading over the evidence carefully. There were two points for the consideration of the Jury. They must first be satisfied that an assault had been committed, and if so, whether there was any justification. They had heard the whole of the evidence, and it would be for them to consider whether the defendant was guilty or not.

" The Jury consulted for about 20 minutes, and returned a verdict of guilty.

" Mr. Robinson said he was instructed not to press for any severe punishment, as his party had no vindictive feeling towards the defendant. There could be no doubt that the assault was committed in a moment of excitement, therefore he had no wish to aggravate the case.

" The foreman of the Jury said they wished to recommend the defendant to mercy.

"The CHAIRMAN said, it gave him great pain to pass sentence on a person of the defendant's position in life, but the Court as well as the Jury were of opinion that not only an assault had been committed, but 8 aggravated assaults were proved upon a poor weak woman. It was an act of religious persecution which no minister of any denomination

" The fine was immediately paid amid the execrations of the mob and dreadful howling of the women, who were in a most excited state, so much so that both the defendant and his accuser were obliged to be sent out privately through the gaol."

A weekly newspaper thus commented on the occurrence,- "' A woman has become a Protestant, and her child has been baptized in a Protestant Church. O'Donovan, hearing this, declares that this has 'sold herself to the devil,' at the same time, as if to clench the bargain, " striking her three times near the left ear with his umbrella.' This, however, was a mere ebullition. For on cooler con- sideration O'Donovan calmly ordered the woman's landlady 'to turn the devils out.' And all potent, a Pope in little, was O'Donovan at the hearth of Mrs. Harrington, the landlady. Donovan had spoken; and bed was taken away from her, and she and her child (the baby 3 days old, be it remembered,) slept on the bare floor that night. O'Donovan, after such pious work, went to his bed . . meanwhile , 3 days delivered, lay on the bare boards. ... Daniel O'Donovan, we doubt not, never thought himself more truly a priest than when beating a woman, weak with travail, striking her 3 times with an umbrella till she cried for mercy, cursing her in Irish, and bidding her go to 'the 17 devils.' We believe that the