The Express. — London, England, 1850-11-02 00:00:00

VISITATION CHARGE OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON. THIS DAY. Tnis day having been fixed for the delivery of the bishop's charge, a considerable number of the rlorgy of the diocese attended St. Pant's Cathedral in o rder to be present on the occasion. The service r ommerctd at eleven o'clock. At the canolaeion of the prayers, the sermon was preached by the Rev. H. Mackenz e, rec.or of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. Toe reverend gentleman selected for his text the 29th v. of the 20th chap. of the Acts of the Apostles u Take heed, therefore, unto yourselves, and to all thr; flak over which the Holy Ghost bath made you o verseen, to feed the Church of God, which he path purchased with his own blood." At the conclusion of this discourse, the Rev. Prelate proceeded to deliver, from the Communion, his charge to the clergy. AB the length of the charge precludes our giving it entire to-day, we subjoin extract* from some of the most important parts of it, reserving the whole until - . ...... . Monday. Tam Bishop thus speaks of _ua. ooausx's osmows. The Jadieial C inteeitteo of the Privy Column have stated tact Mr. o..rhain's doctrine appears to them to be as follows: "That baptism is a eamantont generally asesesary to salve. pace. bat that the pees of regeneration does not so neersarily accompaay the set of baptism that regeneration invariably takes peace in baptism ; that the grace may be pentad be fore, in, or after baptism ; that baptism is an effectual sign of epee by which o'd works invisibly in us, bat only in such a worthily receive it, in them alone it ha. a wholesome et fie, and that without retranslate the gealtacations of the ricipient it Is not in itself an effectual sign of grace; that infanta baptised, dying before actual sin, aro certainly saved: hat that Ia so case is regenbredilin Is baptism nceoadi lima! " Bat Mr. Gothanes ssserti bus are not folly or adequately repressated by the toregoing statement. Hsi real errors, as I eemoircv them to be, are ot a most serious mature; being. as far 1 sea saderstand his language, sot merely of a doubt lel tendency, with reference to sae Coarch*s doctrine, but precisely and dogmatically opposed SO that dorrine. Those errors are pasted over is silence by the Judisial i o their elaborate neon to the Qesea, a encase which is in ore poiat of view satisfactory, lasagna& as if it doe , not expressly condemn Ma errors Is gmetioa ' it t ermini, d=en mot ezproilly vindiestie r or ie WIN san c t i on "Mr. Gorham; says the Judeial Natal:tee, maintains this grime of regeneration does act sowers pw acceenoany the act of halation, that reggeoration leve ret, takes placers baptises ; that the gram may be emoted tx bre. In, or after haptbasa." It is tree that. Mr. Gorham thisin es"e of hie answers; but is others he goes mach funkier, and advances positions from which it follows a a at aigery inference not only that there may be eases in which infante are not regenerated in and by baptism, but that they are in so sine so regenerated ; that infanta, duly I. p.,e,!, may be reneneratik, bet that if they ere, it is Sew , baptism, ?Ten set of prevenient grew.; and that so goy come to baptism already regenerated; that forgiveness el tins, the Re • nature, adoption into the family of God, the bone wide membp re of Christ, children of God, tad is ttetors ot the kinadom of Homo, " are benefits conferred , •catby recipiaats"—" not in baptism, bat by an act of Teeniest gram gives by God before tapilsm"—eo making neipitaiie of the rite, that baptism is V. IS , an effeetisel sign of Owl's grass bestowed bekmband, impinging a sew nature, and strearthesiag sad 0011firrning fails in his The', ace .rding to Mr. Oorbans, the strength - emelt and sae finoir g ot faith is the whole of the spirional grog bestowed in loy:ism, even on worthy realpients ; faith, t roveu silo. e r of nner.tiois , the new eaten, and adop tion ista the tally of God, ham been all bestowed eyrie sue, it at all, before Airtime. It did sot spirt to mop »Ibis to reconcile such statements se these with the pica and nacqnlvosal teaching of she Church ot Knotted as to the notate of a sacrament. They seemed to me to he a plus dell d of Shot which the church asserts, that se infant is made ~nd by prism (not before nor after it)• member of Christ, a child of God, and an Inheritor of the kingdom of bravo' It there be any meaning in words, these ststenients ate • lye se euntrenietiGns of the truth that in a pearement the r %V wad and visible part, er sign, is a means whereby we recoiwe the inward and epiritual gram, no well ea a OA, to seine as thereof. If this theory of Mr. Gorham'. be true, th.n is hipl is,. 81010 h ecr assessment according to the insect.% delio Woo, nor ens we, with a safe conicience, tune Valle to teeth our children t hat catecbiam, which yet the church d.rt s is to he learned of every one of her members. 1 , appeared to me, then, that the es aMertiona of Mr 0 ahem, wroth were paoeot over without notice by the Judicial Com mittee, but to which I meld not shut my eyes, went to de rite holy bap ism el its sacramental chancier, and utterly to erowate its p caller and distinrive gram. 1 am not now cosaiderip g, sor was this th, question been the Judicial Ciieeitter. whither Mr. 0 whim's theory be defeesible as ineoiesivent with the Isnot' ire of Holy Scripture which I en p outdid it is not), but whether it be agreeable to the Oracle teaching of the Chnrch of Bnaland; whethe r it e,. d with the dt dilation which she ha. draws, is arcoriance with the primitive Cbu;ch of Christ, from the word ed Go% the as. source of truth ? Now, that hiotisneel me nyval. lotto iing in that term the remi,sion el oriental tan end the implanting of a new principle of e;.iritarti lit., kJ:Weed the doetrioe of our church, is, to my wed, to plain that I find its difficult to undimmed bow any ;tram cgs penuela himselfol the contrary. Oar diarrhoea next emphatically refuses to admit ' that the ar.ielta contain the whole doctrine of the Church of linglAnd." In support of his views he cites the opinions at Ihshop Pearson and 1/r. Waterrland, and, above all, the ~olemn declaration of assent to the Prayer link made at ordination, and the effect of the Canoe with respect to the d , ctrines of the sacra ria nte reclaim d in the Prayer Book. With respect to Lie argument put forward by Mr. Gorhais's coun sel. t h at the Prayer Book was " to be consider. d i - inply as • guide to devotion, and note defining any toerine,” he thus 'peas : It appear to me to be a perfectly inadmtuable sappoaition, tact, is a soignee act of devotion, and especially in the ccli. beaten' eta sacrament, any point of doctrine should be em bodied es• certain and acknowledgi d truth, about which the cherish eaterteine any doubt. Tbt. would safely be nothing short of addr. mina the Author ot Truth Is the lan realm of falsehood. Oa the contrary, the assumption of a aomeine, at true in • rewsibed form of prayer, or thanks , tine to God, is in fact, the most soles. and positive a•arr , ion of that doctrine which can possibly be made. Will any one m that it the artistes of religion had •• , utain.,l no dir at declaratioa et the dootrine of the It y siring), it would not have; been expressly and most tobenely ...baited by the thaw. when she direced her sacs ion to pray to the " Holy, Bleated, and GI cries Trinity, three 14.111/1,1 and one God," or that because the special with at the Idely Ghost Ia the seonomy of man's solvstioo, that of renewing him ia the lane, lean, is ant in terms ...rod in the article, it is therefore not irs. tied by our Chereh when ,he instructs se to pray, that having been re. "'aerated sod made the children of Gad, by adoption and pee., cc easy he duly renewed by his Holy Spirit. The t tr,ct of the 27th article, and the invalidity of Mr. (Leitrim's theory of prevenient grave, and its in applicability to ihtants, are then diectiseed by oar dio man aide great learning and minuteness, in which the various authorities aro investigated and balanced with great cri it al acumen, and the decieion come to that Mr. Oortiam's theory of the comparative if not absolute inefficacy of baptism could not ba reconciled with the language of our authoritative formularies." 1 , appeared to me (Cuilt.lll,ll the Bishop) that he went to mach greater letw.hs in depreciating the sacramental she tarter of baptism than say wii:er of our church with whose works I wee arquiated, except the opponents of Hooker; that he left far in the backgretuad theme who maintain the typuthetical, the condi:ional, or the charitable theory of eftkotey, in his assertion that in all eases the for et.. fru of original bin, the grace of regeneration and &deta il n into the family ot 0 td, are sot the eff,ats or the molts act ' , lntro, bet or a prevenient ;sat of grace, when a hap loid infant possums them, or of • subsequent eat of erre, loon got y fellow at some later time after baptism. Bishop then proceeds to state hue view of TEO DOCTIIIIII OP 11117PTISW. I am or opinion that the real doctrine of our Church as to he 'Met of baptises is correctly stated Is the tollowing words id we of the new learned ef bee seas, Bishop Beveridge : Ulises* esr Blessed &visas ealtii to Nie Agates that es "'r: a man be been ef water sad et the Spirit he meat* eider into the kingdom ot Gad, yes he doh am say %bet eery te e wh o is so horn shall Labelle mental life. It is tree that au that are hoptbed, been ef water and the Spirit, are ~P fthy admittod into the Mega or kiegdous ef 0 doh irinn , hot 'trope they submit to tho Goverement itr laws muldibbed in it, they forfeit ell ik ir right and title t, the ling/done of heaven. They are brought into a state of ...veva, but unless they continue in It mod live memediegly trey cannot be laved. Baptism pats as in the way to heaves, k •:..lees wt walk is that way we Cta cow thither. 11 :n-a we were baptised we were been of water and of the int. es as to Imre the seed of pw HMO is ear hearts l-cwieat to enable as to bring forth the traits of the Spirit to "cease* teaspiatioa—to believe aright In God oar &moor, 1%1 lunbey sad serve hies faithfully all the days of oar life. E : it we areleet to perform what we then promised, and t. do sot minuet to the end of our baptism by keeping our t , .cienote trod of offence towards God and towards etas, we too a I the benefit of it, sad shall ma certainly perish as if we td newer bees beptimed." Or I might adopt sea still shorter "Mt*, °Jim Church's mind, the language °gelato learned & e 4 ildicioes relate, Bishop Van Midert :—"They who sloe with our Ceara eadentand by regeneration that first Pie of holiness—that breezing of the spiritual life of ilia It i• I,oi only the sign but also the pledge--assuring as I fleeciest c .eseyanee. Tem far, and this lax may, they'll kit tie meaning of spiritual regsaeration, and this they `ta'ae to he Oven in baptism. The ultimate 'Moog of the tt they scloooleogo to he Nadsitt upon our lablasiseat ' , oath is grace." This domgne is briefly and d ra ps: in the Celled already referred le--"Ckes iell = . nue end made thy children by sdni= sad .his, daily be meowed by thy Holy Spirit." P e e ! a , hug. ibe maintains/sof what we believe to be tie ;fun iinettioe t baptism with the error of the Chorale Bow "'Lea the opus operatom, appear not to eadeseMind d • t e ta'‘t ever. at 1 eennot do better then Tibet* the:Vi e rle .0 a.. pretest learned ;Bishop of &sager to ohm what the vidersaot is, a this respect, between the two Oltardwa: —"That baptism h the tallow sense iblIPOSil Thigh God bosom therms efreisaseadsa is a duties moms above ewe Mash awl ts Ohs Gaga of lases. Setae yeles ea wide h see lithos bated, la eypeshilaa te the %edible awl Screee ef that Cheesl ww—dat thie gseeKle estessmad• cited e'er matained le th m e di ssarem theme tier te hreed the 'eel of toe the soma dos I only lastremintaL, mad the Ighlt the Melissa WWI OE reeeawatisa—thst it is est the tester bet *ebbed elObsit with width ear slue see wined away. !hat tits stoat of faith is the essessesat of basin is eel say *tea esemised is the water, bet the premiss of God la CUM& maim dm sesesity of Wailes. whoa it may le boa, await roes toy separeatinal quality seamosisated a the sisment of water, bat ita the padre summeeimsat and inechnisa of Ohrl4. It should be remsiabseed flat the elms of this Cseasil et Trent saathassalms them who aim that the meraments of ilas sew law de cast muds the geSO9 Ida& they The sent et to deckles, to the bishop's view of it, is ant be amiliwa Mr. Ovelan's erroneous and almost solitary 1111111 of flee effects at baptism, inasmuch as it leaves the flawadories se tbs church u they were, and IL footles the advocacy of strange doctrine leaves it certain that it " will lesleMly toalladisted by him whenever he reads the sarries of the church." He, therefore, recognises as seed for any " fresh synodical declaration on the subject of baptism, deeming the language suf ficiently plain r and any attempt at " a more precise mad stringent definitioo, at this time of day, as evil- Talent to an admission that the church has hitherto left a moat important point of christian doctrine unde termined and uncertain.' But though thus opposed to any fresh synodical action on this particular don. trine, our diocesan admita not only the right, bat the claim of the charch to synodical action, and the advi aibility of its revival on each an improved form as would, by including the voice of the laity, sasimilate it to the convocations of the church in America. WOMANISING INNOVATIONS IN PIJVLIC WOUOIP. Then, with regard to the mode of dlebratieg Divine warship: it has hem • subject of gnat unsaddles to me to en the changes which have been introdoeed by • few o the clergy, at varianee, as I think, with the spirit of the Chewab l e directions, sad, in some iguana., with the letter. It has always been osteriaid at evidence of tie wisdom and moderation of these who framed our Comma Prayer, that they retained sash tereureeles se they thought best to the tailing fora of God's honour and glory, ad to the Inducing of the people to a most perfect and godly living, without error or supentitioe, putting away other things which they perceived to be most absurd, "em In men's indium:es it often eltanceth diversity in divers countries." Bat this principle has been lost sight of by the persons to whom I allude, and they have pre sumed, following their mere private judgments, and not the rules or intention of the Church, to introduce, one by ens, those very forms and observances which the re formers of our Liturgy had purposely disc manned and laid did, but when It is now sought to revive. some of them for the fires time dose the Itelormatloe. These in aovations have, In Mho lostanere, ben carried to each • length as to renter the Church service altacrt histrionic. I really eannot characterise by a gentler term the continual changes of poster., the (repent genuflexion., the cumin, the peculiarities of dross, and some of the decorations el Marches to which I allude. They are, after all, • poor imitation of the R.lnvis cisrenienial, and radish, 1 had no doubt, to the obeervint numbed of that Church, a subjoin, ea the me hand, of ridicule, as being • faint and mend copy of their own gaudy ritual, and, on the other band, of exaltation, as preparing those who take delight in them to wet • faller gratitlation of their taste in the Roman tweimuelon lamby no means insensible to the vale* of the esthetic principle in the eat , roals of roll. pea, bet great edition is requisite not to ley suck stress apes that which is material and emblematic as to detract from the Importance of that which is purely spiritual —to substitute, in feet, the mere machinery of religion for the 'Seco which it is intended to produce. I have always untended, and atilt contend that we are bowed to outs out all the Chetah's directions for the celebration of Divine service; bet I contend also, that we offend spinet her order, tot less by the addition of what It torolds er does sot enjoin, then by the omission of anything that it prescribes. Buffer me to remind you of the language which I held to you on this subject eight years ago. " Such practices," I observed, "which are neither prescribed, nor mow. mended, nor even noticed by ear Church, nor sanctioned by pedal custom, throw discredit upon thou Leung eseemonies and expressive Sodas, which are intehded to enlida the devotion of thou who are espied in the devise of Ood, and to do holder to his holy nano. In resisting as exonerated spiritualism, we mutes careful sot to incur the charge of materialising religion, and, above all, we most be ware of arbitrarily connecting the gine ci O id with ordi names of merely human appoldnuat, and of teaching oar pope to place the seressonde which the church has ordained, however significant and laudable, on the same footing as the sacraments which had been ordained by the Lord Jesus himself." In 1846 I again complained of the efforts which had for some time put been systematically made to revive anionest the members of our communion opinions and practises usually regarded se peculiar to the Church of R me, and spoke of them es tending to proles and unsettle sensi tive and imperfectly-instructed conscience., and to pre pare them for an acknowledgment of the paramount authority of that Church, which, as it concedes within', nor admits the possibility of its dreg, even in the minutest feature of that complicated system, which was stamped with the character of noebangeehlenees by the Council of Trent. has manifestly • great advantage in dealing with unstable and undciiibtfa minds, whedon; one step has been taken in advance towards that ~sum. I had hoped that thew distinct expressions of my opiniod would have the off et of check's; the innovations eluded to, and of awakening thow of the clergy of my disci se who had departed the furthest from the simplicity of our Reformed ritual, to a sense of the danger of all endeavours to assimilate it to the Roman INTIMAJCIfaI, and to the inconsisteney of each endeavours with their own obli gations, as ministers of ear /Wormed Chrtrob, band by solemn pledges to observe her sales, and to carry out her intentions. That expectation has been disappointed ; neither my public 'short ition• nor my private admoni tions have prAuced the desired effect. I have been told that I bad no authority to forbid anything which was not in express terms forbidden by law; and that practices which, th)ugh properly laid aside by the Church, and so by implcation condemned, have not been actually prohi bited, aro therefore lawful, and that canonical obchence to a bishop is only that welch he can enforce in • court of law; and so the innovations which I objected to have been persisted in, with additional change introduced from time to lima, with the manifest purpose of assimilating the services of our retonsed church as nearly aa possible to those of the R moon. Once more I dec'are my entire diopproval of such poetic's, and my earnest wish that, while every direction of the rubric and canons is observed oh. re it is possible, no (MA should be introduced into the celebration of the public worship which is not expretsly pre method by them, or mactiossd by long.established usage. It is • duty at all times incumbent upon the members of our Reformed Church, especially upon her ministers, to abstain from exerything whisk may Deem in any way to countenance the errors of the Church of Rom, and load any pence to believe that the difference between us is less than it really is; to forbear from imitating its pecu liarities, 11.0111 recommending is books of devotion, MU attending its services, eves through ntriosil, in this country at least ; in short, Is diaa all intercourse with it as • Church. But this duty proems upon us with peculiar bete at the preernt time, when that Church is advancing its pretensions to 'pintas' dominion amongst as with an arrogance hitherto unknown. DEPUTATION TO THE BISHOP OP LONDON.—Yes tacky morning • deputation from the clergy tf the City of Loudon waited upon the Bishop of London, at Landes Home, Bt. James's, for the wpm* of prewriating to Ids lordship a memorial from the clergy from;tbe mehdesosszy of leindon, en the *sliest et ths remit papal epgreesiow&— I _ _ The Rev. R. R. Roxby stated that t►e subject of the pea posed attempt to push the bassists of the papecy ia thh wintry had bees productive of wiry eonsiderable minty amongst the City clergy, who bad esfielestly miasmas& their teenage by the forcible resolutiens they bad pored at a public meeting. The reverend pude roan having read to kis lordship the semerlal, the Rev. H. IL Roxby said the memorialists ware desiresa of approaching his lordship with all dee respect, sad at the ease time would venture to express a hope that his lordship would sup his best eliftiOlil both is parliament sad la t►e UMW' of his episcopal functions to repel the signalises whish bad appeared to be the dispoeition of Rome. to make as the spiritual liberties of this country. The Bishop of London said that, having read the memorial presented to him by the clergy of the City of London, he wished to ex press bit entire concurrence is its principles. It was iso important, however, that he would rather abstain at present from making any formal reply, preferring to wait a day or two, is order to make a meltable reply to a memorial of so great importance. WATZIFOID AND LIMIRICK RAILWAT.-011 Taw day, yisreseat to nodes, • spiel meeting of the shareholders of t►e Waterford and Limerick Bellamy Company eras held at the large room. Towle-hell, for the purpose of whacking and empowering the directors to berms ea sortgao or beads each sums of as may be seoessary for the mar. pas of miming on the larks, net be eased la the Irish 250,0001 The Rev. J. T. Medliootr. Samoa aSo Booed of Directors, took the chair, sad WA the assatt spookl zombi was called In cosplisa with tha skim of geveromeat, previous to the advasemmat of the mosey required to-ma them by leea. Is 1847 a Mediae meeta den to the tee about to be propoood ass sdorad aus at i o i eitarelsoiden, hot they required a bait a* than Is call for 250,0001. as Ike sat sheatormas taus The Public Lou Csandstiossio wadi ad yams 174,00* but, as he Won absnwi, tboy regaled a boob roseatis at the iisabilists TM olaksts Sea Ned the naslstfss, le Ss olha *it *ea= h. taparorod a Mons as suassz sb a i b i zt w a t ak lam GI sitay, sot swan is Ss 4 7 . :z a be s : aseemeey he Vas.,.. peopl' of the endertehlmy. in with the II It 3l, e. 8. Thai, sea the diatom , was esbetemdally Ve reeolmmo, I. ardor * sada v to mond whtk Os work now fa pogrom THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1850. NATIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION. Tostefaay evening a soiree on road oak took pl.s. tie ßriderkotas Hoak Losiespbablas e ander the ;I ts ef the Suathwark erSemesifimp and Yiaaaid Anseititisa. Tbs easapaa F y esserhiedi fa Ike larg sl e mem of the betel —*e'er/est, ea ems NM* la tho hogwash —at Were& sir , and Alai Min amp pest Ia Minim is re earl eeffee, at ea atheneed pedal el Ifte sa envie dessert wr provided, and*. Foesediaps were also edlessed at intervals by some emelleet Toed sad Melseasatal node. the meal parts Wei siebbsd by ths Orin palmilislas of Miss Cabin. Asesess Maw ea the dais ware tile WOW. I .g: rocipcx, Esq., in the shale • Krim T. Aida" R. Ls Blond. J. Mama, J. Thesites b T. isammisy j W. Howard, J. B. Slidell, H. Biking's., . Newman, J. A. Lyme, J. Orommith, Apology Pellet', Dr. Beane, Dr. Brady, I. J. Blake, Lake Embletaa, J. Herrin, The. Walker, W. Duke., R. Harris, Thos. Bailey, J. K. Webb, T. Res pell, Ind, May, Brook, Laagley, Slued, White, Lee, Alszeader, T. J. Thurber, T. J. Nicholls, Harry Preece, R. Gimbal, sad the pester Rawer of the will , knows reformers of the borough. Toe People's Anthem was then sang, the whole assembly hieing in the sense. The SECRETARY (Mr. Howard) reed letters of apolm Sera several gammasa who bad been invited to attend; Mem Me. Locke Kier, sad Mr. Cobden, M.P., aelpettlag their inability to be prosaic; from Sir W. War Werlit ' s private secretary, stating that the bon. baronet was elsest hem tows, sad would be so for a considerable time ; Seim Si: Joshua Wabash', and from Mr. Hume. Tee CHAIRMAN ran stated that it had been arranged that the business part of the proceedings should be embodied ra" is a single resoludon, aad urged on the meeting the neersity of peneverisie Ahem in the core. Mr. THWAITES proposed the following resolution:— " That this sasetiag. ner ds. with satisfaction upon the pro speedier of the aggregate useably of the members of the Neural Reform Aroda loa. held on Monday, the 141 of October last, at the London T , and upon the gratifyieg remit of the Jamie held at the same plies on the seresding des ay, rejoices in the eff.nt which those ineetiogs have manifestly produerd upon the public, as evideneed by the metropolitan and perinatal um., and, haviag congregated together this evening for the premed** by every lawful means of the great end eoestltutiosal objee's of paella• wintery and dearial reform, strongly urges upon the In habitants of the borough of Southwark particularly, fa common with the people at large, the imperative duty of in creased support of the effects of the National Reform Associa tion." The great lesson which the people bad first to)earn;eru, he observed, that of seltralianee. and that was one reason why he aympethbed with mestinp whit* had for their end, not revolutioa, not the uprooting of the eonstitation, not the alteration of the ship, bet the smearing that it should be better mart He (Mr. Dural's') wanted se reform beyond rat of tier( to every male adult a voile in the *eking of the laws by which he was aemasd. The Fuliameatei7 and Finaocial Referee Amer. don did not go so fax as that, but be geld r eadier. ire with them r far as they went, Masers that the time had arrived ter all earnest triads N sad= vane—al (needs of popular rights end jp: si e= the mares to suite with this association ; and he that when its objects had been mined, tbe ameleisa itself would feel that mamboed mirage was the only seem basis. Whoa a junction had one been effected between the farming and the working Meese, the people would have power over the parseeiringe el the nation, and rue would be an end pat to class localities and eajnot tirades. (Chun.) Mr. WALKER seconded the resolute, which wee adopted eaanimously. The meeting was subsequently addressed by Mr. Tindal Atkinson, Mr. Arley Follett, sad Mr. Searle, sad the amembly dispersed at a late hour. Scorn Devoic RAILWAY.—An extraordinary gene tal mecum of the shareholders is to be held at Exeter, on Tuesday, N0v.,12, to take into consideration the following 'pedal report of the directors :—" la compliance with the resolutiv adopted at the meeting of the 24th September last, the directors hays proceeded to consider the terms of an arrangement between the holders cal 604. and 251. shares, with a view to admit both closets to an immediate partici pation in the revenues of the company. TOP directors have submitted a case to the eminent actuary, Mr. Ansel', and hue had the advantage of repeated conferees's with that gentlemen, the result of which has been to induce them unanimously to recommend the following arrenpment : That the sum of tea shillings and ninepenee per annum be paid half-yearly in perpetuity on sub 251. shut, the first payment to become due on the 15th March, 1851 ; such an nual sum to be paid as an equivalent for all arrears and future payments of interest guaranteed to 16th March, 1867, and in satisfaction of all further claims in reepret of the 251. shares until March 15, 1867, sane the surplus net revenue shall permit a dividend to be made as' the 501. share*, exceeding 6 per cent. per annum; in which ease this arrangement will not preclude the holders of 251. shares from participation in the surplus, rateably with the holders of 601. shares, as provided by the original term on which the half shares were issued. That after March 1.5, 1857, the holders of halfeharee shell, in addition to the sun of 10.. 91. per annum iv perpetuity, on each 251. share, divide rateably with the holders of 501. shares, In "copes: of any farther amount applicable to dividends on such shares. Any arrangement of the 'nature contemplated will require the traction of parliament; and the directors propose with the concurrence of the proprietors, to introduce a bill in the next edition which .ill embrace the following objet's : —l. To carry tow effect the proposal to capitalise the debenture debt, which bee been several times before the proprietors, and hea in principle neeived ,their re peated sanction. 2. To enable the company to carry oat the arrangement now proposed between the holders of CM. and 251. shares with the assent of a prepou denting majority of :nth clasp. 3. To authorise the creation of capital, in place of suzlt portions of the ori. Rini parliamentary capital as are now maimed, or shall have been s dead or forfeited. With reference to the first object of the bill, the directors propose that the dividends on the debenture stock should be payable in priority to thaw on all other climes of share*, the stock ranking nest to the debentures. It is proposed that the maximum dividend on the debenture stock shall net exceed 5 per cent.; and it may be hop -4 that, with the ineressing credit of the company, it may be eo issued that the average rate of Jokiest on the reseal debt will be considerably reduced. In regard to the esegad object the directors feel assured that the arrant meat sew proposed b torten the different claws of aharettoldi re is ewe which all may adopt with a conviction of its justice and policy; sad they cruet that the proprietors will, therefore, give it that measure of support which shall ensure its being serried into effect at au early period. No payment ofdivi dead could he made prior to the royal meat to the intended hill, bet immedistrly after that event the first half year's payment might be made on the 251. shares; and gosh dividend as the then state of the would afford might be declared on the 501. shares. With respect te the remaining object of the bill, it will enable the semi:mil' to tender ay..ilsble wh it may be expedient te do so, the whole of the share capital of 1,600,0001. already authotised natter the first and second acts; but it will not authorise any addition to such capital. The application of revenue in part liquidatien of the floating debt, which wog reported in Aetna, with a further sum of about 10,0001, la the current nail's's', and arrangements which have been maws for poi:posh:4r payment of a considerable amount for Hoed periods, have eo far reduced the pressure on the !nods of the company, that the directors do not anticipate beteg obliged to call on the proprietors to satiation any immediate issue of new shares, ender the powers lest 'du rad to; and as it is not tutreameable to anticipate that a progressive in. provement to the oompaare affairs will facilitate the raising of the new capital when the necessity trim, on better terms than could now be expected, it will be the object of the dipo lar@ to defer the arrangements for this purpose as mask as predate DEATH OP LORD RANCLIFIPIL—Thin noble lied, who for many yews has led a retired sad quiet life expired at his seat, Bann; Hall, la the minty of Noniagits6, at Mn o'clock y esterday (Fridayl morning. The Right m. Augustus Henry Anne Perkins, was Dmw Raudiffe, in the peerage of baked, and a Miami of My land. He was IMAM en the 10th of Jaw, 1785, semested his father, Themes Borebby, Ant baron, November 17,1100, and married Lady Elisabeth, eldest daughter of Ofierxe, sixth Earl of Greased, en the 16th of °ember, 1807. the lordship had for many years bean separated from Lady Knack& ( oho survives him), sad has died whitest —....nuently the title of bares is antis& The 1.7.;;;. Tames) Parkins, of Reddingien, sear Nottingham, sad with it a very small ponies of the late noble lord,. estate. The rest M the heirable property, between 1,0001 . sad 2,0001. a year, is easseeded taby 13i: Rieittrd Levies*, Ben., of Kaookdries Code, toasty Westmeath, see of his lordship's eldest sieter, married to BM Riehard father of the preerat basset, as the 3rd of December, 1810. Bet every pennyworth of keirable property, which is sap ped se be very masidarable, is willed to tore. Bart, who be about 23 years ha& been living upon Intimate mew with his lordship. ADNIILALTT INQUIRIE3 AND INSPECTION OP RAH. !OURS AT CARDIGAN AND Naw QC/AL—Repeated ma 'Minus having bees wade relative to the obstructions owed to the navigation of the vine Tivy, Is Cardiganshire, so inquiry has takes plains before Captain 'lambuses's, R.N.. the Admiralty impostor of hansom% who hen beim wet down as a oommissienor to inspect and report on the nbirot Captain Weabingtoa held kis ooart at the Town-ball, Car- digan, to hear the eemplatet of ponies. an sable to a peas don presented to the Beard of Aisalralty acme time slam, praying inquiry inth eke alined grievances. The petitioaen mated that great damage ha been done to tka nangetion et the river sad the harboar, aad, in order to prove th e ems. witnemem from Llsehred stated that when the tin plate works were earned on there years ago the tide flawed up beyond Llechryd-bridp, that the water supplied the do works, mia that bargee used to pees freely up and down the deur. This cannot be `sesemplished now, owing he the large quantities of rubbish whisk lad beta emt btM tie river from the ertesaire elate gastrin now belag worked ma he banks, at iiigenso. Is eassequenes Ere aid seals me sow wined firma Cardigan et a gni* moues. lbsersl sow madam wan as= i ss d caspaeleass showed WA the thee beim C is *a Yr mrp sok abollswar, swiss ts alts asailassl isliall s 4= was denied ism lam lb* isaidas Os Asada vas alle gives SNIPORNIS the dais al bar, sot las *Vt. fag se the nails rot the wadi oflbdwr, @NI IM .II amid OM ride es ass *ls Irides. Ili Newt tad with = gi b! sire= sal w ine d Coed far s W A 'Wed sad Impalasi the - ismiseer at New Posy teem ertilell plies a memoNal had boom ens to the Lori el the Aisiasigh MO; dist lobes,rah* Weis b. honed thask THE NEW POPISH BISHOPRD AT LIU:MOMS. A meeting of the parishioners of Limebouse eon veiled by,the ehariewermas aad mersein i la sompUene with a requiutioes. namenvely read. me held yassiodal, at do Tows-hall, Claseiblene,Limebmen,he the parpose, se stated in the plain bated tang brOeseaNdentiea the alarming mmeminNMl* Wonted kriber asks= he the Pip id leak guiles of mabiling ant** Hahn of Great Britain awl listen, a Boman Oaths& Iblemesin, add adorin a pentacle her Majesty. =that her Majesty will, with no advised her met hie Privy Caton, les igosidnisaly pined to take ememe he the hasediate rsereenn eif the Peps% oreg_aan hi syyliashig the Buy. Dr. Winans. im Asehhieberee Wen minter Min yeammt may Ileum menelgehm On He "el of the Of pewee mimed le the milt awl tatemtiem of the Imo ef Mb email, astiessiiiis to ile free red leimame ineeignows, end emenegy ft the sepia man, aeon sad d me men argon meregaiga mature *hied ems Monyaimenig the heet aad Mann nem* of aB her lege ins*Me. The Re,. G. Edema who is famdwmiaa the loofa el the Milltery Mot Mudd end the Rev. sun. Williams, lasenheat of St. 3...., Helenas Eon George Rolm% curate of at. Anne's; Rev. Hemp Enos, assistaist carats of 151. Anne's • Rev. Bayly, Boyne minim ; IMr. Alfred Blyte, Mr. are, Mr. Suave, Dr. Cumin, Mr. W. W. Jetsam, Mr. Litley, Mr. J. Y. Roberson, Mr. J. C. Bed. path, Mr. Nathan. Lint. &me, R.N. Mom Hitch add Blackburn, coureinardem, Mr. vestay sleek, Mr. F. Alum, together with a seasiderable amebic of the other principal hibabitesteef the parish, di eaten as well as apiseopaliam, were d a leat The CHAIRMAN i the moonier, xpreweed the Nunn it gave kin se take the chair ea son e as poems ocesedon, and hie hope that any diligence that might take plum would be soodoeted wi th temper and fair ness, but Pill with that firmer and denies whin the einuesitiones called for. It bed bout said that in regard to the late Papal Ball egpoiating a Ro man catholic hierarchy Ins this onney, they were lighting with a shadow, but he them& as Engllehmen and Noonan, they wo uld not Wi dely Neon dun to the lade fa whisk they lived , or the , they mined, or the religious peinigke in whisk abbey boa hem nartneed,lll they did eat seep hewed M ono the G a te d tionigaised at tem" Men led bees meads lei Reeked spiritually Mina thakdoillyttecof the bin* N . (Cheers) It had also hon mod thee Ma mumnes whin had exalted so mach ekem is the salad el proteeleat Beaked was nothing more an extension of the einem wieeneery by which the *hop of Rene had hitherto ihriated the ministerial appointments and Venetian of his edhereate in these king. dem He (the Chairman) could net admit that plea which partook of that Roguish snidely_ whisk had always ette mercerised the proceedings of the Vanua. It was true that the bishop of Rome had for a keg time governed hie ad hermits haze by means of what were called vino apeuelie, and he admitted that no one had • right V. complain that the Pope should make provision that those who were of his com munea should receive spiritual beans and saperintendanes by competent hands duly recognised by the head of the church. But those perms, though they were called by the Roman esthetics themselves, had no territorial jurisdiction oar did they assume ',MMus' supremacy, or any of thee pretensions which the late Ball declared should be the pre rogative and dignity of shoes who might he seat here in the seas capacity in future. (Hear, hear.) The vicars epos- Mao heretofore always took their titles set tem any e:112 wee, but from superseded or non-existiag sus. But, lag to De.Wiesmen, this eeaatry was than regarded by Rome " as a planet that had strayed out of its orbit"—(" hear," and a laugh)-mad was in a schiimatical state. He looked upon this Memo of the Bishop of Bone's as en open, avowed, and unaligned attempt to overthrow and subvert e Protestaat faith of this country—that faith which was founded upon the scriptures, which England and leaked had se espied, which not only churchmen but all orthodox dissenters received as the only trite faith drawn from the gospel, and necessary to mane salvation. (Cheers.) And what was it that the Bishop of Rome desired to introduce in ite stood ? He had no wish to open up any theological questions; but he would an them to look at the condition at Bpain of Italy, of the papal power itaelf—(hear)— and at th at vary flourishing papal kingdom the Brink, and this say whether they were prepared to 'tibias this country se popery, whisk east a torpor over all that it came in contact with„lettsred the intellect of man, cod destroyed his energy sad his liberty. (" No, never. ' ) Within the last Sew years the church of R ome had declared that the Virgin Mary was immaculately conceived—thus den*, that which was the foundation of the Christian faith—that Jesus Christ was the only one who came into the world without sin, and therefore the only one who could nuke atonement for sin ners. Any church, however large, professing such a doc trine, it was their duty to prevent by every means in their power from obtaining a hold or raising up her banner ' amoogat us. (Loud cheers.) The Rev. Mr. WILLIAMS moved the first resolution, declaring the Pope'. appointment of Cardinal Wiseman as Archbishop of Westeniast, r to be a direct encroachment on the prerogative of the crown—an assumption of power at variance with the institutions of the country, and an attempt teener the union of chorth and state. He ma not ose of those who felt alarm at the present proceedings of Rome, LT he be lieved the protestant religion, which was founded on the word *God, possessed within itself the e !cantata of indistructihdity —(hmar, hear)—but it was our duty at such a crisis to strengthen each others halide, in order that we might hand down that mountainous, the blessings of which we enjoyed, M oar mirceinors untamined. Mr. DIXON, in seconding the neolation, observed that the religi as liberty of this country was one great source of Me political freedom. He did not wish in the least to diminish the liberty which 1131111111 attunes enjoyed here, but, on the ether hand, he was not disposed to allow them to take away any of that liberty which he row possessed. (Cheers.) Tee evolution was pseud unanimously. Mr. SPENCE moved the second resolution, to the effect that the meeting viewed with indignation the contem plated attempt to restore completely ?the Roman catholic hierarchy in Great Benue and Ireland, as being subversive of loyalty add fidelity to the throne, and tending to destroy ✓eligious liberty. r. CLTMMING emended the resolution. He congests- laud the parish of Lieehouse on being the foremost in the metropolis in resisting this aggression of the Romiah church. Without undernilong the rellaiou onsideratioes, he looked upon the gentian rather in apolitical than • religious spirit. It should be remembered that the agents of. Rona always acted in a two-told ',putty—enlistees and political—their object bang to extend the political as welt as the spiritual Wastage of the Pope. As it appeared to him, they were not there to speak amnia one religion or another, but to resist the myosins spirit of a foreign government when directed against this country. (Hear, hear.) Tao cha-acter of the I gmermant of Rome was stereotyped. Its character was Meek falsehood, covetousness, and entity. Hawing this, and man the efforts it was now making here, it behoved the fro people of England to be vigilant, and resist at the wait the attempts of the agents of Room to increase the power of the lead of their of oreh. The Rev. R. B. BAYLEY (a dimities minister) also spoke in sot of the resolution. The reselatles wee then pat sod carried. The Rev. Mr. HARRIS, of Bennalgreen, moved a re tonne resemmondiag teat protestant, generally should, Making al poises of difference oa son emential points, mite together M withstand the inroads and attacks made apes the Mush by its avowed enemies, and resist the subtle, insidious, wad therefor* dangerous, assa2lM of false friends. He took occasion to thank the Bishop of London Ire the manage in which he had so unmistakably spoken out is the subject, aid also the nem whieb, Makin: all dif ferences on ether questions , had aim one end of tbs country le the other raised its Mei in amedeme with the true *pint of peotestant Ranted. (Cheers.) The motion was mended by Mr. W. Jonesow, and sap " Ned by Mr. Rename, a diameter, who spoke egliwelt' nein rates, het said he would rather live ander the epees, el the protestant then that of the Roan% @burn, kneeing that wean the latter rated liberty was at an sad. The resolution was then eluded, se was me moved by the Rev. H. Bores, and seconded by Mr. Laurie, signeng M a petition to nu Majesty embodying the preview Mai' Om, and anther adopting an address le the bine Of the Nome, pink; him to use hie infinceree ill the WOOD off Leeds to pass a law to setae* the sermon of the Qom sad the royal pre rog ative inviolate, and to provost Susi" ' eeteeenscies from issuing titles inemelsesat with the law N the land. • so pas we. appointed to carry cat the objects of the la i li Mes were then voted to the chairman. which henna been ackaowledged, the proceedings terminated. It is with feelings of pfeeenre that we (Exeter Thing Post) publish the following official letter, with re ference to the supposed sanction of (*arousal to the steps moody taken by the Pope. It was addressed to a gentle man is tbis city : Downforstroot O 28. 1850. " am directed by Lard Jam Russ e ll) to M. inform you, in 'sewer to your question whether a list of Roman catholic prelates contained Is a newspaper is masa, that he has no other mesas of judeing that you have yourself—namely, by reading the bull of the Pepe in the nowepepers. "To the sexed qamtioo, ' whether the 'realm a the above Popish bishoprics, or the appointment thereto, bare raeolved the sanction and approbation of ha Majesty's ati sisters ;* Ism directed to answer that they have not reosived seat suctfou and approbation. "I am directed further to Mate that Lord Mint°, when in 113111., wr not vanished on this memo, and sever gave any epoirstenanos to it. I have the honour to be, dr, your obedient servant, " R. W. GRIT." Lune.—The Rev. Dr. Hook, vicar of Leeds and rang dies, hasjaat laud a circular, aanoaacing "that as Meneley nest a meetly; of the elergykl the dummy of Lads will be held la the yummy of the porta thank, to take iato 'eossideraiss the propriety of addenda; the Lord Bishop of the diocese epee the weak offered to the chunk and state of Ragland by the Underseas pride end tyranny et a tartish primes and potentate, who neither bath, nor might to have, may jarisdation, power, reporierity, putimiaosse, or authority, ecclesiastical or aPiritaal, within this realm. but who lase lately established, ro far as Ia bin lies, an he retail and hitimatioal blare:shy amongst as • Ma also, in the met or tke clergy deciding upon an adieu a his lord ship, to draw up, or appoint a eenririttee to draw eal T si stek an address as shall express the sentimehts oldie APCMHICAIIasi Hatz.—Nasas et gentlemen who pawed their szeasinetion ism Kiellie• sad prestige a medicine, sad resolved eertillestes to pestles. ea Thstedsy, 00. 31. 1360: Jam* Beady. Dews; Emboli dykes, /adds, Yotkailie. GREAT EDUCATIONAL CON FERENCE AT MANCHESTER. Nov. 1. The great end °occluding meeting of the cocgreeo took plus het evening, at the CUM Exchange. The build fag was eio crowded, although capable of amootodating more than 2,000 people, that the secretary felt called upon to express regret that they bad not been able to procure • larger building. The Free Trade Hell, he said, was engaged; sad they had procured the wood best room In the town. He was sorry it was so inadequate to the wants of the meeting. The announcement of a donation by Mr. Lomb*, of 600 t. to the asesedation, made to the meeting alter the second resolu tion had bees agreed to, on the modition of which the gift had been made, was received with great cheerier; and te.• interest fettle the proceedings may be conceived from the fact that the very large and crowded Ludlum present, though sa tirise the greatest (nem:modems, from being obliged to stand, was kept t og ether from 7 mail within • few minutes of 12 o'clock at night. Amongst the company on the platform wino R. Cobden, Esq., M.P., Richard Harris, Esq., WP-, William Hargreaves, BK., of the Grams, Milotborp ; W. B. Mame, Esq , Manor House, Fair Beat, Wrotham, Kent, chaireasa ; Rev. R. Thorp rector of Burton Overy, near Leioseter ; Rev. W. F. Walker, Oldham ; WiUtam Edward Forster, Bsq., Rawdue Hall, Leeds ; Rev. J. A Bayam, Nottingham; Mr. Alderman Weston, C. B. Raw lins, jun. Baq. Welter Ferguson, Bag., John Atkin and others, (e ' en Liverpool ; Joseph Batley, Bei., Huddersfield ; John Mills,Beq., and John Brooks, BK., Asbton.ondee- Lyne; Dr. Saiterthweite, Tulketh Hall, Prestos ; John Stores Soil, Req., Halifax ; Holbrook GasksU, Req., Pros- Warringtoa ; Peter Rylandrnurch Hugs Reid. Esq , Nottingham ; Rev. A. F. , Blythe, Chem tarffeld ; Rev. H. W. Croakey, Derby ; Alexander Henry, M.P., James Heywood, M.P., Rev. Loaned Batson, D.D. sad L.W. Bacon, of New Haven, Coln., U.S. ; Rev. Patrici Brewster, Paisley • and G. J. Holyoake, London. W. B. HICKB ON, Euq. (editor of the Westtaituter Re view), presided, and In opening the proceediega coups tnlated the assembly and himself upon the object and teximicia of the meeting. They were aseembl.d in the cams of moral sad mental program- a ammo which should take precedents of all others, as affording the best guarantee fee the safety of all social and political changes. Alladlag to the power of the people to effect their own deliverance from the bondage of ignorance, he mid it was ono of the lessons which the men of Man chester had eat the democracy of this country, that it was to themselves they must trust when • battle was to be fought, and not to the heads of politics! parties, or to the chiefs of privileged orders. (Cheers.) Let them assert and exercise this power, he &intended, and they would soon obtain the secession of the statesmen of the land. (Applause.) Having taken a general view of the means which hod been hitherto adopted to effect the educa tion of the people, the Chairman described the agita tion which led to the ea ablishment of the committee of council of education,—ut establishment which, from the dissatisfaction which was felt with the government plan, on account of its partiality sad inefficiency, paved the way for a broad national system such as the one which the association now formed proposed to effect. He sat down amidst mach cheering. The Rev. W. M'KERROW, having announced that the meeting wss one for conducting the business of the anode tion, and not for debate, read over the names of the gentle men who had been unable to attend, and from whom !stun had been received. The names, in addition to those reed at the Conference, were those of Alexander Henry, Esq., M P with • donation of 1001,—(ekesn)—and Richard Gardner, Esq., with one of 501. (Cheers.) A letter had also been received from L , rd Melgund. _ The Bev. J. A. BAYNES (of Nottingham) moved the first resolution :—" That the existing educational provision to: this pantry is very defective, both in amount and qUality, and demands the serious attention of every friend of moral progress." He expressed his extreme satisfac tion that, notwithstand:ng the varying matt rials of which the Conference was composed, the whole of the resolu tions bad been earrisal noaninionsly. It seemed to him like an augury that former strifes were about to eau', and that Moro energies which had long been severed and divided were to be united to promote the cause of the people's elevation. JOSEPH BATLEY, Esq. (ol Hudderefield) seconded the resolution, arguing that the only security for national and Nth accent nt was the virtue and progress of the million, and that this virtue and progress was mainly to be brought about by t►e national scheme of enucation proposed by the associatton. JOHN AIKEN, Esq. (of Liverpool), supported the reso lution, drawing a powerful contrast between tee condition of England, as it regarded ignorance and pauperism, and America, where a system of popular education was thoroughly established. The speaker further conteaded that the question of education involved not only moral duties, bat also the commercial progress and prosperity of the coun try; and he maintained that if England intended to pre serve her maritime equality with the United S aces, she must look to the intellectual improvement of her people, fum whom the officers and 11•111Lta were chosen. (Cheers.) The resolution being put and carried unanimously, The Bev. Dr. DAVIDSON (of the Lancashire Ind.- pendent College) moved the second resolution That any system of public schools, to be ge lly acceptab.e to the people of this country, must be confined to secular instruc tion." He did not subscribe to Dr. Johnson's detiuiiico of the word "secular," because, taken in the sense of un holy, it laid the ministers woo supported the Lancashire scheme open to the charge of being either knowingly or ion -meetly favourers of infidelity. The entire Bible was certainly meant to he kept away from the schoole, extracts only being admitted; this, however, was not loom any die. like to the Scriptures, but because they could hope to attain a comprehensive and national system of education, to which either protestant or catholic could accede, without ex eluding the entire protestant versi , m from the schools. Did those who wanted the win le Bible admitted /I qoire that it should all be read ? If not, they meant that parts should be used, and this amounted to the same thing as the extract* of the association; the only diff recce bring that in the one case the selections were to be made by an iatelligent body of men, and in the other were to be left to the caprice of Ignorant schoolmaster who mialit take them in hand. The Rev. W. F. WALKER (of Oldbam), in secmsding the resolution, said that the committee of council had done much to forward the cause of education, since they had sent oat • gnat number et better qualified schoolmasters than bad ever been in England before. It remained, he con cluded, with the working classes to furnish the means where./ this improved system of instruction could be carried info effect. Mr. COBDEN, M.P., on ruing to address the meeting was received with prolonged acclamation. He said, Mr. Chairman, Indies, and gentlemen : the very first excision on which I had the honour of addressing a Manchester Audi gees, was upon a question connected with this. It was at the foundation of the Manchester Atheneum. Teat was In the year la% end for more than two years after that, I think theonly question on which I appeared beton a Man cheater audience, was in connection with national education. I well remember as long as 16 years ego, meeting Mr.W.ilker at the York Hotel, in the effort, at that time not very suc cessful, to form a society for the promotion et gener,l educa tion. Now, I mention these fact., not with the view of showing my own inconsistency in being here now ; that's of very little coesequence; but I wish to draw our attention to the fact that at the time I am 'peeking of I had the pleasure of uniting with many gentlemen who eatertained similar polities! sentiments with myself, who are not now in the ranks of national educationalists them selves, bat are, I am afraid, On this qoastion to be ranked among oar opponents. (Hear.) New, I want to call our good friends beck to their original opinion. (Hear, hear.) How kit that them gentlemen, the great champions of civil and religions liberty, are not now the advocates of an biotite this for the preservation of those prime:pies which they have se much at heart? How is it that they are not ining with as to advocate the enlightenment of the people, epee which alone the eivil and religions liberties of the people can rest? (Hear, hear.) Here is a plan on a principle emanating from the society of which we form a pare ken tonight, intended for the very purpose of re. Roving the diesenten from this dilemma, and runevieg from them the Wombs under %hick they suffer ; and we have the fullest convietioo, and entertain no doubt whatever, that when ear fineds hive the opportunity coolly and diem's elonately to sounder the question now submitted to them, they will as a body unitedly jails our ranks In the eivemey of this mph= of education. (Hear, hear.) For what kit we r Fe to do ? We do not propose to interfere ** wi th teachings, the fundamental principle of dissent betas repudiate • state aid for religious :rabies. ThagetiesaonwM km/ sat now been addreetieg et, has made a Tema* In whisk I skink we cannot altogether concur, when he states that the plan is one whieb excludes the Bible from the school'. (Chan) Now, what I understand by the plan of this emaciation le this, that it is one which does not ompal the scholars to peed the Bible, if contrary te their eon. meditations movictioss, or that of their parents, but I em not a party to the exclusion of the whole Bible. from any school when the local board can unite is Intrr during It. For instance, one-half of out parishes in the United Kingdom, and a great deal more, are smell rural parisbee containiog a few hundreds of many cease with only • parish church, where there is not a tipple dimwits!. I dm% understand this to be a plan which will prevent a eosamonity like tine, where ell are agreed, from harken the whole Bible intredneed into their schools. What 1111 do may is this: we will not ressymil the reading of the Bible, when that shall have the sliest probably of deter. Meg Boman catholk• and others trees seeding their dill dna to the schools. But I have said It before, and I say it now—for you mast repeat your aremmente till yea find them coming bock to you from your very sammies—l have said it before, the first time I had the hamar of addressing the asso ciation in this town, we pa eight ROMs= a psi at least to the teachers of wise as meek I will venture to my, u Is paid in any Christina country en the tea of the earth; sad we don't propels to take away one shilling from these teachers of Christianity; we tell them, those' they byre not taught the to read write, or spell, or know even the y of their seighbostiog granmear socw "ria— ii ( 4 , lB :the:T ve klar ar4=nut —.w. to t of eve the th t e h m etZeineeet .. . " Ignorant i. d ried. oties et In three neessoo m mattees; and yet these parties, the parties to the in whisk eight millions per annum are exceeded religious training, them parties have the effrontery to 0011111 • forward and tell us we are mi ring : a lthe a, the their _peepletaithanwhernirreligeiremereedammetr the e ( o C: p riz is ) side. (Loud thews end laughter.) I my, if yen are afraid of the mama, lee mom the effect upon the New England states. Why r tbe seheola in the New England mates have given the them ea education which, impend with oats- 1 m ere secular Matron ion—might well make as blunt. Oar opponents, however, will not dray that ear visa of oiosstioa might gin IKON secular la streetimo; bet they say it will produce infidelity aid irre!i ese. But what has Seen the effect la New England ? Wows will you find, among all the protestant countries in the amid, • country which ie, par taw/knee, a religious tom sainity,stompared with the New England states? What ere r testa ? Do you reply," The number of pleeeeof worship ?" • they hare far more chapels and churches, In pr.por litla to the population, than we have. Is it the observatien of the Sabbath? Why, I have been there, and I have seen chains rat SCION the streets 00 • Stlatilly, to . prevent the traffic interfering with the celebrations of reli gions worship. (Haar, hear.) Is it the reepe.t paid to the ministers of eel con ? Why, I can vouch for it, that there is no country ia Europe where the ministers of religion are treated with mach lid deters, ea as in the New England stem (Hear, hear.) Is it that forms of reticent are omitted there, whilst we observe them? Why, if this meeting had bean in the New England states, I sppul to Dr. Baden, whether you would not have beget* your proceedings to-night with prayer. Their courts of law begin their trials without first uttering up • prayer. The sheriff calls for _prayer before the fudge begins to administer the laws. Every thing in the New Eng and States betokens the diffusion of and the respect paid to religion and the extension of know ledge. Take the numbsr of missions supported for the con. version of the heathen—take any test you please, and I affirm that the people of the Now England States, where this system of secular education is adopted, are • more re ligious body than the English people, or any protestant community that you can mention. I say, then, that I want such • system of education here as they have in the New England States. What I want is • system of education which, whilst it will leave the people fully as religious as they are now, will also give them that secu lar knowledge which the Americans are now taught. When we have questions submitted to us as politiciaus, which, sixty years ago, were evolved frees the studies of the most profound thinkers of that age, but which have now become the every day topic, of politicsl warfare—and we live in • state of society calling upon men to exercise their faculties of judgment upon questions of this complexity—it is necessary tor the safety of society to educate the people up to the condition in which they are to be found in any country upon the face of the earth. But I want to see better safeguards for morality in this country. (Hear, hear.) Are we so moral that we can dispense with the all, of the athool master ? Why, what have been theists exhibitions in this country ? Have there been no great crimes so prominent catastrophes that have warned us of the s tate of the sub stratum of the population ? I want public schools In this eountry to purify the moral atmosphere of the state, and to elevate the mental condition of our population. One half of the people of this country cannot read with any com fort and satisfaction ; but when they have read two or three lines, and they cones to • long word—a word of three or four syllables—down goes the book in duple. (Lstetliter.) I tell yen to ask those of your opponents who oppose you on religions ground., and profess to have so much more religion than the rest of us—ask them how • nun can be a protes tant unless he can read the scriptures ? Why, is not votes tantiera itself founded on the very assumption that every man exercises his private judgment oa them? (Cheers.) Well then, • sincere protestant, a religious man, who oppose• us for wishing to teach people to reed, is standing in the way, I consider, of the progress of those very religious doe trines which they ars bound by their own eoueientious eonvictions if possible, to advance. (Cheers.) While I allow to Roman catholic' the freest indulgence of their opi nions, and while I will never vote in the Howse of Commons to prevent them from having the freest scope and earners of their religion moll thie, country—(cheers)—yet I say as • protestant, and I say to the proteatenta who are opposing us, If you want such • religious people here 01 they have in the New England states, help us to give the people the power of reading the scriptures in their own native tongue. (Hear, hear.) Now, air, this question having been promulgated in its , present form, having been brought before the country as emanating from Maechester, it will be expected that this controversy will be followed up in the same spirit which hes hitherto characterised Manchester la this agitatiou. (Hear, hear.) You have not many of the difficul ties we had before in another agitation, but you have some greater obs tacles than we then had to encounter. It was proposed at our meeting yesterday to doings the Lancasbire Public Schools Association into the National Public Schools Association. Now, I think that was very necessary and very wise, and for this reason—it is of very little use your educating tameable* unless you educate those parte from which Lancashire is supplied with its population. We are apt to tbink. and our enemies are disposed to keep up the delusion, lay charging us with the facts, that the great slums of ignorance and vice and misery are ill our large tows,. There never was • greater mistake. Take this great ft yof Msnchester, and I will venture to say that not one half of the po- pulation were born in Manchester. They are immigrants. And where from? Why, from those fountains, the overflow of whirls furnish these great towns with population, the rural villages, the agriceltunl districts of this country, and berate, any attempt to stop the progress of ignorance and its consequences, vice and misery, in large towns, will be utterly futile, eta long as you direct your attention merely to the education of the people of Manchester and of the other great towns of Lthcathire. You must secure a low which, as in the Me of the New England statee, as in the osse o! Massachusetts for instance, compels every locality, every parish, to furnish • school and the means of education to the whole population to furnish not merely a building such as our orders in council are now aiming at doing, furniabiog Lerida and mortar of which we have more already than are used ; but to furnish a master and the means of giving in struetion to the great body of the people in all parts of the country. (Applause) Now, to obtain such • law as thet, you must agitate, and you must bring public opinion to bear upon parliament. Yost will have to make this a hustings question. (Cheers.) I hare had an opportunity lately of testing and proving that the great difficulty in dealing with agricultural labourers is that of being able to do anything for them because they are not sufficiently educated to serve themselves out of the immediate sphere of their daily occu pations, and I would say, therefore, es a matter of self self interest, if you wish to give the people an ambition to go be yond the bounds of their little parishes, where they are often rooting upon the miserable allowance of some two or three little loaves of bread • week—if you wish to make them despise that state of existence in which they now live r teach them reading, writing, arithmetic), and gurgrapey— let them know something of what is g ing on in the cAonies of Americo ; let them feel the am bition which the middle class people entertain to remove from the scene of their birth, In order to advance themselves in life, and with the prospect of returning enriched or benefited to their former home. Ido not put it on principles of belt-interest : I say it is our duly, if we wish to see a community worthy of the name of Englishmen, we must educate them better than they are now. Oh what a fund, oh, what • mine of riches, Ices neglected iu the mess of the populatios of this country. Thank what a nee it is— that noble race which produced a Burns, a Shskspeare, or a Milton ! (Cheers. t Aed then think bow many hundreds, nay thousands, of this race have pined in stet d ignorance, like the very ox they drive, because they had not the elements, the mere tools of s cience placed in their hands. because they had not been taught to read or write and Jetsetters they have been deprived of the opportunity of adding to the glory of the ceuntry and the fame of the people with whom they were surrounded. (Great cheering) You quatrel with their vices—you say they are drunken; would. not you be drunken—l speak to the people of a more ele vated class, to theme in easy circumstances—would not you be drunken, u your forefathers were not a century ago, if you had not had Nome stimulus applied to your intellect, and some other resource+ be-idea the dram to produce that excitement which, mental cr physical, is necessary for the healthful existence Of the people ? (L tud sheen.) Take toe people of a superior rank, to whoni I refer: go back only forty or fi'ty years. At that time when there was not found upon their drawing room tables, as there now is, this multitude of cheap literature in its meat attractive forms to invite them to constant study ; when books were acarcely ever turned over by the class to which I refer—what was their constant habit ? Drunkenness ! And how were their evenings spent ? Why—for want of even intellect or activity of mind enough to sustain a conversa tion among themselves—behind pieces of painted pasteboard, playing at cards ; there was not an evening party without a card table, simply because they had not intelligence and activity enough to furnish each other an evening's amuse ment without such resources. (Hear, beer.) Well, now you find the people—l speak of those in easy circum stances—complaaning thattbe asys and evenings are too short for them. Such are their increased resources, and such are the occupations for their minds, such is the differacee in education, that the evenings are spent not In such frivolity as drinking and curceplayiag, but 'in intelligent communion ; and the evenings and the days are too short for the enjoyment of these intellectual qualifications. (Chan) But would not the working classes, it they were taught to read and write, and if they were taught not merely reading and writing, but something of their owe nature, and of the laws of the nature which surrounds them, would not they find other solace, and other resources for gratification than in the ginahop, or the dog-fight, or the pitch.and-toss of the public house I Yes,— already they sbow symptoms ot improved tuts. See how they flock to our =wiped entertainments, end how they resort to the cheap trains to make themselves better acquainted with eaters. (Cheers.) Rove they not shown, that even without the advantages of education they possess an honourable aspiration to throw off the old shin—to find comfort in better and more Christianlike enjoyments! Then •on all these . _ grounds, whether it is on the' very humble plan t, 4 i^tprov:ng the taste for national smasemente—wbetber this, or to give to men the power of judging, what they will be called upon to judge, of the political destisies of this emstry—or whe ther it be to judge of the highest of all quetions, that of their religious faith—or whatever the motive may be—give the people instruction, elevate their minds, improve their Welders, stimulate thermion, and I will be brand that in every phase In which yon can view mankind, they will some out better and happier tor the proems to which we have sub mitted them. (Prolonged cheering ) The Bev. Dr. BACON (of Newhaven, Connecticut, United States) followed in support of the resolution, and WAS greeted with a hearty bunt of applause on rising to address the assembly. His speech oonsisted chi, By of • staff meat of foots in regard to the common school system of his owl! meetly. The state of Connecticut wee one of the smallest of the vest union. The north eastern, or New England states, were the oldest districts of the country, with the exception of some few settlements at the south ; and the system of com mon sehook there established was, as it now stood, identical in almost every feature with that defired 14 the mio gramme and proposals of the Lancashire Association there being schools for welly education in every locality, supported by local taxes, governed by the people them selves, and controlled exclusively by the lout authorities representing merely the people of each locality. In the stelae of Connecticut and Mamachusetts—the two moot thickly populated of all the states In the seion—a person might travel upon any highway from moraine to night, day alter day, in every direction, end he would never be more than • mile nom a school-bones. (Load cheers.) Hers aad dim, et the tournedos of two goads, he would ■ ~, f