"N. B. Those who attend the sick should suggest the above to dying per

sons.

7. A Plenary Indulgence is gained on the feasts of St. Peter and St. Paul, and of the Patron Day of the parish, or on any day within the octave of the above feasts. A Plenary Indulgence is also gained on the feast of the Assumption of the blessed Virgin Mary, on Christmas Day, and Easter Sunday, by worthily receiving the sacraments. To gain the Indulgence on any Feast, it is necessary to pray for the conversion of those who are out of the pale of the Catholic church."

REFORMATION SOCIETIES. The following rules and regulations, intended to define and explain the system of discussion which it is the object of the British Reformation Society to promote, have been unanimously agreed to by the London and Dublin Committees, and are earnestly recommended as a guide to local Societies and individuals acting in connection with the institution.

1st. The object of the discussions instituted by the Reformation Society is the promotion of religious enquiry among Roman Catholics.

2d. The method by which it is proposed to attain this object is the public comparison of the doctrines of the Church of Rome with Scripture. To give uniformity and effect to the means for promoting this comparison, the following is proposed as the mode of establishing and conducting Societies and Committees throughout Ireland :

1st. As the great questions which it is intended to discuss lie between the Bible and the Church of Rome, all political associations should as much as possible be excluded from the agency engaged in the controversy. In conformity with this suggestion, the representatives and friends of the Society in Ireland, when employed in the formation of new Institutions, should adopt the plan of select, private meetings of friends to the religious principles of the Reformation, in preference to large promiscuous assemblies convened by public advertise

ment.

The advantage of such a course would appear to the Committees to be threefold.

1st. It would obviate the danger of being outnumbered and outvoted on the question of forming a Society.

2d. It would free the Society from all appearance of a political association.

3d. It would do away with the neces

sity of using large popular assemblies, for the mere object of sanctioning resolutions of form, and listening to speeches and statements which are often irrelevant, and not unfrequently of an irritating nature.

2dly. When a Society bas been formed by a private meeting of those who are friendly to its objects, a public meeting should then be summoned for the sole and avowed purpose of comparing the doctrines of the Church of Rome with Scripture; and the different speakers selected to take part in the discussion are to have their respective subjects allotted to them. In all attempts at the promotion of public discussion, where an auxiliary Society has not or cannot be established, it is recommended to the depu tation that they use every endeavour to carry along with them such persons in the neighbourhood as are favourable to the Society's objects.

3dly. In a controversy which is intended to enlighten the understanding and engage the attention of the Roman Catholic peasantry, it will be necessary that every reference to the doctrines which they profess should rest upon the ground of undisputed and undeniable authority. The apostolical declaration-"We write none other things unto you than what ye read or acknowledge," 2 Cor. i. 13, supplies a rule that ought to regulate every reference to Roman Catholic doctrine; and with the lower classes especially the discussion should be confined to the difference between their modern, known, and authenticated catechisms and books of devotion, and the word of God. In conformity with this principle, the Committee feel themselves called on to discounteuance any reference to merely human opinion, and to recommend a close adherence to the word of God as the ultimate authority in the controversy.

4thly. The Committees would only farther intimate to their friends and fellow labourers in the country, that as the direct and immediate object of the Society is the instruction of the Roman Catholic population of Ireland, they feel themselves called upon to adopt every expedient for the furtherance of that object, by promoting public discussion wherever it may be practicable to collect an anditory of persons of that persuasion; and they confidently anticipate in this solemnly important undertaking, the cordial co-operation of their. Christian brethren of every denomination.

Reformation Meeting.- A Meeting of the Ballymena Branch of the British

Reformation Society, was held in the Methodist Chapel of that town, on Wednesday, 8th inst. The house was crowded to excess by a most respectable and very attentive audience, among whom were several intelligent Roman Catholics of the middle and upper classes, whose conduct throughout the day was most exemplary.

The meeting was also honoured by the presence of a great many ladies of the first respectability.

Among the clergymen present, we particularly noticed the Rev. Messrs. Crawford, Cooke, Cumming, Drew, M'Clelland, Stewart, Houston, Dick, and the Messrs. Ould.

On the motion of Mr. Cumming, Mr. Crawford was voted to the chair. The business of the meeting was opened by the Rev. Mr. Cumming, in a discourse upon the doctrine of Auricular Confession, of which time will not at present permit us to attempt an outline.

The thanks of the meeting were then voted to the ministers and others concerned in the Methodist Chapel, for their kindness and attention to their accommodation, &c. And it was also stated at the same time, that regular quarterly

meetings would be held, at which all, whether priest or layman, of the Romish communion, were invited to attend.-The meeting then separated in that quiet and orderly manner, which so peculiarly characterised the entire proceedings of the day.

ECCLSIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

At an Ordination held by the Lord Bishop, in the Cathedral Church of St. Calman, on Saturday the 18th, the following gentlemen, Bachelors of Arts, were ordained Deacons, on letters demissory from the Diocese of Cork:John Penrose for the Curacy of Tracton; Edward Heard for the Curacy of Rathclaren; and John Leslie for the Curacy of Abbeymahon.

The Rev. Theobald Butler, of Ballyhire, county of Clare, is appointed to the perpetual cure of Drehetarsna, near Adare, in this county, vice the Rev. R. Harte, appointed to a valuable living in Canada, North America.

The Rev. Mr. Seymour, of Killenamery, county of Roscommon, has been appointed to the living of Kilronan, void by the death of the Rev. Mr. Little.

But little of a novel character has occurred since our last publication. Our foreign relations continue unchanged materially; nor has any circumstances of a decisive character occurred either with respect to Turkey or Portugal. In truth all public feeling in Ireland seems to be concentrated at home, and the awful character of our domestic situation calls for all our attention. The exhibition of party feeling increases in intensity; Brunswick Clubs are to be found in almost every part of Ireland, and produce corresponding denunciations from the Roman Catholics, who seem to consider them as combinations, not for defence, but extermination. To this delusion the invective of Mr. O'Connell, and some injudicious speeches made at Brunswick meetings, have undoubtedly contributed; and we hesitate not to say, that we regret to see the clergy of the Established Church occasionally active in their formation. However interested

they may be in the event, assuredly they might commit to laymen the active engagement in politics, which designed as it may be, has a character of hostility that is alien from the profession of the minister of peace. One thing is very striking; the degree of apparent indifference with which the Government surveys this demonstration of Protestant feeling, and whether it be their determination to use it against the Roman Catholics, or that they expect it will burn itself out; the awful disorganization of Ireland seems to affect them but little. One act of vigour has been indeed dis played. Mr. Lawless repelled from Ballibay, not by military or police, but by the fear of the angry Protestant popula tion, and recalled by the Roman Catholic Association, has been arrested and obliged to give bail, for having intended to enter that town. This measure was supposed to have been but an anticipation of others, but as yet it stands alone.

I ever lov'd thee, gentle moon, And all the strange and wayward thought,

Which thy serene and dream-like noon Has to my brooding memory brought; For ob! how dear is it to me,

To leave the glare and din of day, And on the dewy banks of Cree,

To hail thy pale and pensive ray!

How often, too, on Korah's rocks,

That sternly check the rushing wave, And fling far back the billowy shocks That vainly round their bases rave,Have I reclined, when ocean lay,

Like some gigantic warrior dead, O'er whose still face thy waning ray A dark and lifeless lustre shed!

Was there no beauty in that hour,

Tho' all the past to me was pain? Could I forget the boundless power

That spread thy radiance o'er the main? Could I forget to raise the prayer,

Whilst midnight stillness touch'd my soul,

To Him whose hand had launch'd thee there,

Along thy path of light to roll?

And if a cloud across tby face

Its thick but transient shadow threw, To veil awhile thy modest grace,

Did not the darksome breeze that blew With such a sad, unearthly moan,

As it came down from grey Dunroe, Fall on me as I stood alone,

With something like prophetic woe?

Alas! when youth should,round my brow,
The joy of early life have thrown,
The wrongs that I am suffering now
By gloomy fancy then were shown;
The mystic spell of sorrow lay

In my young smile and early tear,-The dark dream of a future day

Of grief that I awoke to, here.

Thou moon of ever-gentle beam,

Chaste beauty of the starry sky, Why does to me thy radiance seem

More dim than in the years gone by? Oh! give me back my youthful heart, My mountain glen, my rock and rill, And I will see thee as thou art,

In thy unfaded beauty still.

For though I dreamt of future ills,

The tear of mimic woe was sweet; And, wandering on my native hills,

I lov'd thy pensive beam to greet ; But oh! how calm would life have been, Like music of a mournful tone, Had all the ills by fancy seen,

Come o'er me but as dreams alone!

But, other-darker fate was mine; Thought's sharp and ever-fretting chain,

That round my suffering soul would twine The secret grief and wasting pain; The fever'd sense of utter wrong,

The lurking foe I could not see, The cup of evil full and strong,

Have left me-what I still must be.

And now, perhaps, in this still hour,
E'en many a head in slumber lies,
Across whose dream of worldly power
My sad and injur'd spirit flies;
But Thou, whose throne on high is spread
Midst solar ray and starry gem,-
Has not thy Sovereign mercy read
Forgiveness in my heart for them?

But pass, ye troubled scenes, away; For surely it is more than vain, To glide into a by-gone day

And suffer what we've felt, again; Man ever has enough of woe

Along his present path to feel; Then why should busy memory go And from his former sorrows steal?

Away-the lunar beauty lies

Upon the wave that sleeps in light;
And see!-the dusky vessel flies,
Dim-gleaming, with a phantom
flight!

How sweet the dewy beams that fall
Upon the silver-crested grove!
And sweet the glittering coronal

That lights Dunbredin's peak above!

Give me-give me this holy hour,
To seek Jehovah's midnight throne;
There, strong in my Redeemer's power,
I pour my ardent prayer alone;
It is not from the lips it goes,

Such sacred silence is abroad,
The thought that in my spirit glows
Is heard before the throne of God!

WILTON.