The Provinces are more animated by Protestant fervour than even

the Metropolis. Great Protestant demonstrations were made at Newton in Lancashire on Tuesday, and at Liverpool on Wednesday.

The affair at Newton was a meeting of the Grand Protestant Associa- tion of Loyal Orangemen of Great Britain "held by virtue of a warrant from the Right Honourable the Earl of Enniskillen, the Grand Master, to de- termine upon measures of resistance to the Romish aggression." The meet- ing was so numerous, brethren arriving from all parts of the kingdom begirt

with their Orange scarves, that the shire-hall was densely crowded. The resolutions were of the strenuous &anter which has always marked the Orange resolves both here and in the sister isle ; the speakers did not forget the old hortative to "keep your powder dry and put your trust in God," nor omit to assure Protestant England that the Orange organization is the only one that has ever proved itself able to grapple with Rome. Several clergymen delivered speeches. The Reverend S. Fenton, incum- bent of Wavertree, supported a resolution, which was adopted, that the district wardens should prepare requisitions to the Members of Parlia- ment, desiring them to support any bill " for the suppression in any -way of the Romish heresy, for the disallowance of any money to Maynooth or to Romish missions, and for the dismissal of Romish Consuls, and the sub- stitution in their stead of true Protestants."

The meeting at Liverpool was called by the Mayor, on a requisition very numerously signed by most respectable Protestants ; but as body of Irish Roman Catholics answered to the call of placards, and attended "to prevent their religion from being insulted and their rights trampled upon." Mr. William Brown, M.P., Mr. Heywood, M.P., and Dr. Hugh Id`Neile, were present The Irish Catholics were controlled by a number of their priests. Mr. Horsfall moved a resolution condemning the Pope's invasion on the prerogative and encroachment on civil liberties ; but when he proceeded to speak, he was interrupted by hooting, which was drowned but not stopped by as vociferous cheers. The Mayor vigorously asserted his rule, and with difficulty obtained Mr. Horsfall a hearing, till he re- ferred to the excommunication of Queen Bees by the Pope. Cries of " Read it !" were then merged in shouts of " Turn him out!" Clappings of hands, groaning, and scraping .of the feet, formed the fundamental tones of an unceasing roar, which at last brought Mr. Horsfall untimely to his seat. Mr. Walmsley, a Roman Catholic priest, met as ill a recep- tion from the other side. Ile declared himself a John Bull, bred and born in that neighbourhood : but the Protestants could ace in him nothing but the oily Jesuit. The Mayor, by desperate adjurations of final measures against his own party, at last got Mr. Walmsley a hearing ; which he improved by declaring that Mr. Horsfall's stories would be fit materials to add in a new edition of Tales of my Grandmother. He wound up by declaring, that " if the Pope should bring an army against this coun

if the Pope should set foot on this land with an army, [a tolerably

taut probability !] he himself would become a belligerent priest and stand forward in defence of his Queen." " He would honour the man who should drive back the Pope, and he would shed his blood in the cause." Mr. Shiel, a Roman Catholic, supported a resolution moved by Mr. Walmsley- "That, considering the undoubted loyalty of her Majesty's Catholic and Protestant subjects, thepresent contemplated address is unnecessary, and can only tend to destroy the peace and good feeling at present existing be- tween the members of every religious denomination in this town." Several other Romanists were briefly allowed to speak amidst every sort of interruptive noise. On a show of hands, " the vast numerical preponderance of the Protestants" was displayed, and inspired raptur- ous cheering. The Reverend Hugh M'Neile then attempted to speak. Waiting a long time in vain till the uproar should subside, he at length drew a chair to him, and sitting down, leisurely began to make a speech to the reporters, without attempting to make himself heard by the meeting- " The gentlemen of the press stood up, and, loaning forward with their note-books, formed themselves as well as they could in to an audience for the reverend gentleman. This proceeding was at that received with shouts of laughter and groat cheering by the vast meeting. The Doctor, thus ad- dressing the reporters, had got no further than the remark that The question before the meeting and, unhappily, before the country, which was shaking the kingdom to its centre, was not a new question '—when the uproar be- came deafening, and scarcely three of the reporters into whose ears the re- verend Doctor was shouting his speech could hear his remarks. The malcon- tents being unwilling that Dr. M'Neile should gain the cars of these gentle- men,jumped from the pit upon the reporters' table, and made a sortie upon the platform. The confusion at this moment was indescribable. Inkstands were upset, and notebooks and slips of copy were flying about in all direc- tions. The reporters were compelled, of course, to leave their seats and take refuge upon the platform. At this moment a body of the Police, armed with their staves, made their appearance, and attempted to drive the invaders back into the pit. The Mayor mounted the table, and exclaimed that he would not desert his post, although his worship's voice was all but inaudi- ble in the uproar." In a few minutes, through the exertions of the Police the disturbance was subdued, and the proceedings were resumed."

Dr. M'Neile finished his speech ; the Protestant party carried all their resolutions ; and the meeting dispersed.

The meeting at Bristol was one of the largest and most influential ever held there, and was marked by the vigorous eloquence of the Dean Dr. Gilbert Elliot, in protest against English Papacy, as contrasted with the Romish Papacy which the country now universally opposes. He is said to have " electrified " his audience by his strenuous denunciation of priest, craft of every denomination.

There have also been a public meeting at Macclesfield, a large meeting of the inhabitants of Worcester, a special meeting of the Town-Council of Nottingham, and a large public meeting at Derby ; at all of which the favourite Protestant demonstrations have been made. Similar demon- strations have been made in the East, at Yarmouth, Colchester, and Ro- chester ; in the West, at Plymouth and Falmouth, at Bristol and Car- marthen, with minor manifestations extremely numerous from smaller places scattered among these movements of the larger centres. At Birmingham, an influential meeting of the Roman Catholics of the town deliberated last Monday evening on the propriety of issuing an address to the inhabitants. A temperate address was moved by Dr. j. H. Newman, the Oratorian, and unanimously adopted by the meeting.

Dr. Wareing also published an address to his townsmen of Northamp- ton, written in a style of unaffected and familiar goodnature, which con- cluded in this form-

" For the ten years and upwards that I have resided at Northampton, I have found nothing but civility and good feeling among you ; and it will be something surprising to me if this feeling is disturbed by an accidental change which concerns no one but myself and my flock. I leave you to en- joy your own opinions, and follow out your own views in religious and spiritual matters. Surely I may claim this same liberty from you. In ex- ercising this liberty, I violate no law, I am guilty of no disloyalty to our gracious Queen. Neither the law of the land, nor her Majesty Queen Vic- toria, requires me to swear any belief in the spiritual supremacy of the Crown. In all temporal matters I cheerfully obey the laws of the land I live in, and -am loyally and devotedly attached to my lawful Sovereign, Queen Victoria ; whom may God long preserve to reign over us.

"Allow me to subscribe myself, your friend and fellow-townsman

"Northampton, Nov. 18. + WUL 'FY tREIN0.1 Mr. Wardleworth, a surgeon of Bury in Lancashire, a married man with four children, has eloped with Miss Bell, the daughter of a Wesleyan minis- ter. When Mrs. Wardleworth returned from a visit to the sea-side, she found that her husband had fled, after disposing of his cattle and other pro- perty to raise money ; and that he had come to Loudon and sold his busi- ness. Miss Bell was governess in a school, and her family and the Wardle- worths were intimate. Mr. Wardleworth was somewhat of a literary man, and had recently written in the Bury Observer, a monthly periodical, a series of articles entitled "Home and its Relations."

Burglaries and attempts to break into dwellings are again reported from the provinces. At Manningtree, one of these offences was attended by an unusual atrocity. Some experienced robbers entered the house of Mr. Vail, a hairdresser, by cutting holes in a back-door; they rifled the place of a good deal of property, set fire to the lower rooms, and decamped. The family were awakened by the smoke, and managed to escape from the house. The exer- tions of the neighbours prevented the place from being entirely destroyed, but little of the building or its contents was saved. There was no immediate clue to the villains. Newmarket fair, held recently, was infested by swarms of pickpockets and rogues of all kind. Many persons were robbed in the street. James Betts, ayouug man from Snafiwell, while defending his wife and sisterfroin a gang of thieves, was struck down, and died in a little time. The murderers .seaped detection. This crime so alarmed the people, that they would not leave the town but in large bands; and the first market after the fair was thinly at- tended, though it has been usually thronged—terror kept many away.

An Irish mob have behaved with great atrocity at Leeds. Armed with bludgeons and pokers, they attempted to force their way into a public-house on Saturday night ; but baffled there, they wont to a beer-shop, smashed every fragile article, and cleared the till ; on their retreat, they assailed Policemen Storey and Musgrave, beat, kicked, and jumped -upon them, and left them senseless ; one, of the savages then threw a brick at James Rhodes, an Englishman who was passing along the street with his son, and fractured his skull. Rhodes has since died ; an arm of one Policeman was broken, another sustained a fracture of the skull—both are in danger. Seven men and a woman are in custody.

On Friday evening last week, there was a most destructive collision, though without loos of life, on the Toneashire and Yorkshire Railway, near Huddersfield junction. An engine which hadbeen undergoing repairs in the engine-shed on the main line, close to the junction, was driven onwards in order to its being shunted to the line on which it was to be worked. In con- sequence of some singular mismanagement, it was brought into violent ool- limn with the paasenger-train from Bradford. Tho shock was so violent as to smash completely. the engine and tender as well as the engine belonging to the passenger-train, and bring the train itself to a dead stop. The pas- sengers in alarm jumped out of the carriages r • but had hardly time to become conscious of their fortunate escape, when a g.rods-train, supposed to be from Leeds, dashed into the standing train, doubling up all the carriages in a mo- ment and knocking them to shivers. The scene that presented itself after this second catastrophe is described as the most terrible that ever a railway accident produced ; the entire line being blocked up with a huge masa of fragments of broken carriages and engines. Not a single person was hurt. A temporary line of rails had to be laid down to restore the traffic.

Cockermouth Church, an ancient and beautiful structure, was burnt down -on Friday last. At two o'clock in the morning a Policeman discovered that the building was on fire ; he raised an alarm, and the townsmen turned out with alacrity ; but as only one small engine was on the spot, and the supply of water was small, the edifice quickly became little better than a heap of ruins. The parish-books were saved, but some valuable paintings were destroyed. The disaster is supposed to have been caused by hot-air pipes recently fixed in the chancel. The church was built in the fourteenth century, and enlarged and beautified in 1825; when it was made sufficiently spacious to accommodate a thousand persons.