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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-CHEAP EXCURSION to WORCESTER and MALVERN.-- A TRAIN will leave Paddington at 2.15 p.m., and Reading at 3.20 p.m., on SATURDAY, June 8, passengers having the option of returning by the train leaving Malvern at 12.10p.m. and Worcester at 12.45 p.m., any day up to Saturday the 15th June inclusive. Fares there and back:—Worcester, 15s. and 10s. ; Malvern, Hs. and 10s. Cd. ed in ) the that vners t the now THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1861. GREAT WESTERN RAILW A Y . EXCURSION RAINS AT LOW FARES will leave Paddington at 9.45 a.m., T and Reading at 10.50 a.m. anSaturday, June Bth, returning on Tuesday, June 11th ; and on Monday. June 24th, returning on Thursday, June 27th ; for Oxford (es. Rd. and 45.), Banbury (Bs. and is.), Leamington and Warwick (10s. 6d. and Os.), Stratford-upon-Avon and Bir mingham (12s. and 75.), West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Bilston (12s. Rd. and 7s. Rd.), Wolverhampton (13s. and Bs.), Wellington a nd Shrewsbury (17s. anl 10s.), Oswestry, Wrexham, and Chester (18s. 6d. and lls.), Birkenhead, Liver pool, Warrington, and Manchester (21s. and 12s. Rd.) PRICE 4D . STAMPED, SD. Ting ports 1 the had a to No. 21,506. PUBLICATIONS. THE ESSAYS AND REVIEWS. fant that he may be born again and be made an heir of ever lasting salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ"—and im mediately the child is baptised the priest declares—" Seeing now, dearly beloved brethren, that this child is regenerate and grafted into the body of Christ's Church," and this is said over every one of the millions of children baptised by the priest of the Established Church—and then without any proof or evidence of the fact, he dares with a temerity as to the Supreme Being, paralleled I admit in the Ordina tion Service—to thank God for the regeneration of the child. " We yield th€e hearty thanks most merciful Father that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant by thy Holy Spirit"—this is done habitually and deliberately—and by vir tue of the power received by the priest from the bishop in a reformed Protestant Episcopal Chdrch, established by law. The high Anglican does it, and glories in it; the broad church men do it, but they are ashamed of it—they must do it or become Nonconformists—the low church bishops sanction it and practice it, and so do the low church clergy, but a ma jority of them do not believe it. They attempt to explain it by all that is evasive and jesuitical ; they use palliatives for their conduct and opiates for their consciences ; but they know that the whole thing has no warrant from Holy Scrip ture, and that common sense and common honesty utterly repudiate it. THE EARL OF ELGIN AND THE GROCERS' COMPAN.I. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215., THINKING 'AND ACTING, BY A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER. (From the Brighton Observer.) The following is the second Supplemental Discourse, de livered in Christ Church, New-road, by the Rev. Robert Ainslie, on Sunday, the 26th May : The Book of Numbers, chapter 22, a part of the 6th and 12th verses—" Come, now, therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people, for they are too mighty for me; peradventure I shall prevail that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land : 12th verse—And God said unto Balaam, thou shalt not curse the people, for they are blessed." Last evening the Earl of Elgin was admitted " a brother Grocer," and entertained at a magnificent banquet in the hall of the Grocers' Company. The ceremony of administering the oath of admission to his lordship having been duly performed in the drawing-room, the noble earl was conducted to the hall by Mr. W. J. Thompson, the master, and the wardens of the company. About 120 gentlemen sat down to dinner, among whom were the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Earl of Hardwicke , Gen. Peel, Col. M'Murdo, Mr. Thos.Bowring, &c. at. in 1854 d to tons, Author of " Helen Lindsay," "*Our Homeless Poor," &c. " There is a charm about this tale which immediately cap tivates the reader. The tone of the entire story is so pure, thn style so elegant, and the circumstances imagined so real and truthful, that it will be strange indeed if the heartiest welcome be not accorded to its publication "—Messenger. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. REAT WESTERN RAILWAY. CHEAP EXCURSION TRAINS, allowing a longer time, will leave Paddi n o-t on a t 9 . 45 a.m., and R eading at 10.50 am , on SATURDAY, June Bth, returning on the 11th or 27th of June ; and on Tttesday, June 11th, returning on the 27th of June ; for Oxford (11s. and ss. 6d.), Banbury (1 ss. and 6 s. 6d.), Leamington and Warwick (18s. and Bs.), tr atford-upon-Avon and Birmingham (20s. and 95.), West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Bilston (21s. 6d. anrl 10s.), Wolverhampton (225. 6d. and 10s. 6d.), Wellington and Shrews bury (21s. 6d. and 135.), Oswestry, Wrexham, and Chester (335. and 155.), Birkenhead, Liverpool, Warrington, and Man chester 31s. and 175.) MISS FREER'S NEW WORK. Now ready, in 2 vols., with Portraits, 215., bound, HENRY IV. AND MARIE DE MEDICI. Forming Part 2 of " The History of the Reign of Henry IV., King of France and Navarre," from Original and Authentic Sources. By MISS FREER. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. The cloth having been removed, The MASTER, in appropriate terms, gave the toasts of " The Queen" and " The Royal Family of England ;" each of which was responded to with every demonstration of loyalty and respect. The MASTER then gave " The At my, the Navy, and the Volunteers." GOVERNMENT SECURITY LIFE POLICIES. THE CONSOLS ASSOCIATION, 429, STRAND, LONDON. Provides the Security of Consols for its Policies. `4 It lends, or returns to Insurers ON DEMAND at any time, about One-half of all Premiums Paid. Undoubted Security tor Money with a liberal Rate of Inte req. he Association possesses a Lame Capital. subscribed by wveral Hundreds of Shareholders. Full information may be cbtained on ap •lication to THOMAS H. BAYLIS, Managing' Director. This Day, in Fcap. Bvo., price 4s. 6d., BABY BIANCA : A VENETIAN STORY. By Mrs. VALENTINE. London : Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand. Now ready, 2 vols.. post Bro., cloth, price 215., A GONY POINT ; or, The Groans of Gentility. By the Rev. 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Its present resources, supplied entirely by the Voluntary Contributions of the Public. enable it afford, In addition to its In-pati , nts, effective Medical Assistance to an average exceeding 2.000 Out-patients weekly. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries m Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne,and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.;• Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-stre e t ; Masterman and Co. ; and at the Hospital. J. B. OWEN, 111. A„ Chairman of the Weekly Board. PRESENTS.— ORNAMENTAL and SCIEN -x- TIFIC.—ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assortment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, Ric., in Itallan,Alabas ter, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. 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The book will be sent, post free, secure from ob vervation, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope and two stamps. Address, HENRY SMITTI, M.D., 8, Burton_ crescent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. rrHE VIGOUR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN FOUR WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF LIFE. NO CONSULTATION NECES4ARY. This wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most shattered constifution, whether arising from self-pollution, excesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu ral causes. The time required to cure the most inveterate case is four weeks ; and, if used according to the printed in structions (which are very simple), failure is impossible. This life restoring remedy should be taken by all about to marry, as its effects are permanent. It is acknowledged by the thedical press to be the greatest discovery ever made. Success in every case is as certain as that water quenches thirst. 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CONCENTRATED VEGETABLE ESSENCE, for re invigorating the nervous and muscular system, weakened from causes acquired in early youth, also curing chronic and spasmodic stricture, renal pains, diseases of the bladder, kidneys, nervous debility, and all female complaints, at the same time enriching and increasing every vital fluid. 4s. 6d., lie., or four quantities in one, 3as. Physician's ad vice free on application, and "Buchan's Guide for Patients," one stamp. Sold by Buchan and Co., 22, Newman-street, Oxford-street. London, W., and medicines forwarded on re ceipt of post-office order. To be had of all chemists. Wholesale Agents :—Barclay, 75, Farringdon-st. ; Newbery 45 , St. Paul's Churchyard ; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford-st. ; Han nay. 63, Oxford-st. ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Hooper, 43, Ring Willlam-st., Loudon-bridge; Howden, 78, Gracechurch-st. ; Prout, 229, Strand, London. THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MANHOOD. Just published, the Twenty-fifth Thousand, SELF-TREATMENT SIMPLIFIED. 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"The temporary relief obtained by means of purgative medicines is purchased at the high price of the aggravation aad the perpetuating the disease.' —HENRY, M.D. .11...•••••• NO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER PHYSIC 1 POR CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION (DYSPEPSIA), PALPI TATION, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, AND LIVER COMPLAINTS, DEBILITY, DROPSY, EPILEPSY, PARALYSIS, COUGH, ASTHMA, C ONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, SORE THROAT, FEVERS tires without nu BARRY'S delicious HEALTH RESTOR or: riut ruiuonus e n : Or --,-- ING REVA eNv pe nee per d LENTA ARABICA FOOD, which, at a pay, tars fifty times its cost in Medicine, and Cer r tifl BltB t° '4-- any of the uncertainties, annoy - Jenses incurred by medicine, cod liver eatel, to " - T9 t c limates. drew lire, 51. D :pe. , 41,,8.--...-w e No 4,,,Stuart de Deciesof find it the safest remedy, An- We and; Dr. canir,b - `,•°-; Dr. Et extract 8 141 , arveY; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Shor- Cure No. 1,771, 1, 41 :4 1 56 .000 eur e , : ___ dyspepsia. Cure agony from dyspepsia, nerve n . - in tY Ye di o- ElizabeturiJacjgblYs, 832. n f ~ many years' t in discribable tion, flatulency, spasms, sink ii - e rs B , astin n : , of Lynn, Norfolk. Cure 1 vomitin,llitt_wnastipa of extreme nervousness, indic,' ti - A and nervous fancies. to o. 74, Zatherino. s, i Campbell, Syderstone Rec, neaj.BlP,iti:rhe itev.(n.laZiris t 'l' 4, indigesti'm and liver complaints. Cure isf o l,h e a,rn, Norfolk, of N 0.4,028: Laxton , Leicester, of two years' diarrhcea: - r , '''''t• Mr. Samuel 181, Fleet-street, London, of 2s-nre No.lBo. Mr. W. Reeves, nervousness, debility, N a g ness, cc nstipation indigestion, and debility. Yarg' nerrOus Eight years' dyspepsia, spasms, and nausea, Rev. John W. Flavel, Rid i 1 cralnPs, tory, Norfolk. Cure No. 1,906. Thirteen year s , c , - ; -,, Tn Reo gestion, and general debility, James Porter, 4.,1,!gi.1, %di- Perth. Cure No. 58,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoni a ,, , " ° ' Gate tree, near Liverpool, of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horro a r c s r o e i nervous irritability. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, limber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spiffily , of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. Similar testimonials from 56,000 patients who can be re /erred to. The Food is sold in canisters, 11b. 25. 9d., 2lb, 4s. 6c1., 121 b. ,"., 241 b. 40s. ; super-refined quality, 51b. 225„ 10Ib. 335. The lelb., 121 b., and 241 b. canist er s c a rriage free on receipt of l'ost-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent -14110, London ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182. Piccadilly, London ; Abbis, 60, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 150, Oxford- s t ree t ; 3 30 and 452, Strand ; 49 an d 60, and Bid 150, ; Batty, 16, Fi ns b ury pavemen t ; Phillips co.. tea dealers ; Petty, W oo d , an d C o., Ki ng Willim treeti city, andls7,Rigli Holbc•ra ; aud an grooms busi ping eign stage. 4 untry fictive ecline [natty tions. qr 3eans , and ecline uley, wheat ceded y was Oats I less 54s :o 26s 0 545 heat. n the 3.54 s much 'ith a with sie in I un- h, 3s when 8s Od ens. pork, '7l '7f ael 3ons, tion a gent. ►ard 1 has i]ng nean V AS Kea, olds, one, Ipi ms, tide irk , of rish rtes ,eth riey L. Booth, 307, Regent-street, W. THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSIIITIPS GOVIKRNAMNT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety In bus nese has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive, intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., late Piper and Co.. Paternoster-row. Just published, price 25., free by post, 2s. 4d., N SPERMATORRIICE A. F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerl ßy rcr ySu to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure b of Strictures of the Urethra. " The aim of the author is to present a common-sense view of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and Treatment of this Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional Fallacies, the Popular Delusions, and the exaggerations of Quackery by which they have hitherto been surrounded, to the destruction of the health and happiness of thousands. These objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly practical manner."—Medical Circular. London : H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street: DR. BRIGHT'S MANUAL, with Descriptive Cases, illustrated with Drawings from Life, Member of the College of Physicians. On Spermatorrhcea, Loss of Manly Power, and consequent impediments to married life: eontaining full particulars for self cure. J. Allen, 20, War wick-lane, Paternoster-row. Price ls. ; by post, 14 stamps ; sealed, 2 _ stamps. AN INCOME FOR A POUND !—Any person wishing. to know how it is possible to realise a large fortune with £l, can obtain satisfactory information by ad dressing a letter so E. 8., 15, Calthorpe-place, Gray's-inn road, W.C. IVITORTANT TO OWNERS OF HORS ES.- After long experience, deep researches into chymistry, by the aid of costly machinery, I have discovered the means whereby oats, beans. and oilcake may be ent rely dispensed with in the feeding of horses and cattle. I have now invented a compound meal, composed of locust beans, Indian corn, linseed, &c., at £l6 per ton, which is equal in value to £24 worth of oats, beans, or any other feeding material in the market. Two quarts of this compound meal, weighing 31bs., at the cost of 5d., mixed with a peck of chopped hay, is a feed for a draught horse, and superior in every respect to three quarterns of oats, costing 74d. 14 barrels weigh net 1 ton 1 cwt., at Its. per cwt., £l6 16s. net cash, free, delivered by my own waggons to any station in London. Nothing less than 21 cwt. sold at the manufactory, and orders must be accom panied with cheques crossed, made payable to the inventor, JOSEPH THO R LEY. Steam Mills, Caledonian-road, King's-cross, April 8, 1861. Single barrels, weighing 14 cwt., may be had for 305., at 77, Newgate-street, City, or of any of my accredited Agents in the country. THORLEY'S C ONDIMENTAL FOOD (mixed wt h crushed Oats, &e.) for My Horses.—Read Admiral Rous on the English Racehorse. 40s. per barrel, containing 448 feeds. THORLEY'S CONDIMENT fo r My Cows. Increasing the quantity and enriching the quality of Milk. 40s. per barrel. THORLEY'S COMPOUND for My Sheep. Sold in barrels, containing 449 feeds, with measure mlosed, and carriage paid to any railway station in the ingdom. THORLEY for My pigs. 405. per barrel. THORLEY'S GLEANER is Published every Monday in time for post, and contains forty Columns of valuable information, including Mark-lane Report, Agri cultural and Sporting Intelligence up to time of going to press. Price One Penny. Order of any Newsvendor.-77, Newgate-street, City. OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA i s th e most certain remedy for restoring and strengthening the hair. By it whiskers and m,,ustaches are produced and beautified. Ladies will find it especia'ly valuable, as the most delicate head-dress or bonnet can be worn without fear of soiling. Sold in bottles, 3s. 6d., 65., and 11s. C. and A. OLDRIDGE, 22, Wellington-street, Strand. TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.- Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. pre pared will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and iver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual costiveness, as a fa mily aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach they create appe ite, promote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, and by most druggists, in boxes, is. lid. and 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street," engraved on the stamp. Just published, price is., post free for 14 stamps, with Pho tographic Illustrations from Life, DISEASES OF THE SKIN. By ROBERT J. JORDAN, M.D., Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, &c., &c. Author of " Skin Diseases and their Remedies," Sto. Price 2s. 6d., by post 2s. 10d., Hours of Consultation from 11 to 2, and 5 to 8 ; or by ap. pointment. To be had from the Author 29, George-street, Hanover- For qualifications, Hanover square, London, W. see Medical Register. a, GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET, W., NEAR THE PANTHEON. DR. CULVERWELL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of Midwifery, and Apo hecaries' Hall, London, can be consulted daily (only) as ,bove, on all oases of Nervous Debility, Lan or, Incapacity, Loss of Memory, Sterility, and all Functional gu Derangements „f both Sexes, emanating from early and excessive Judo enoes Has Just published, price Is. ; by poet, le stamps, 18 sealed, No. 4, An entire new and original Work, entitled OURSELVES. Synopsis: The Physiology and Anatomy of our Generation --The Origin of Disease—Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure. Also, an Exposition of. and Remedy for, all Urinary Derange rents and Marital Disqualifications, MALE. The modern treatment of Syphilis, Stricture, Blennorrhagia Gonorrhoea), Spermatorrhcea, Impotency, and all Diseases of he Urinary Organs, with Prescriptions, &0.1 FEMALE. 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CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD: k MED !CAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRIREA, NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &o. - - - rust Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price ls., Sold by all Booksellers, and sent post paid, by the Author, for 12 stamps, I ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CU RE of PRE -1 MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions for Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. CURTIS, 15, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological Structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTER IL—Causes of Spervaatorrhcea and Impotence; Early Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER Review of the various Disqualifications of Marriage ; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of Gonorrhoea and Syphilis. 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Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater- Ennr"e 0 no ster-row ; Mann. 29, Oornhill. v' vv4/41 tatiO4 - 10 to 3 and 0 to 8 ;figndaya, KARI 2 1 am not about to expound the text nor the context, but on reading the narrative last week I saw the humanity of the present time expressed in the humanity that lived about 3,300 years since. Balak, the king of the Moabites, had some people to deal with who were very troublesome. Balak knew that they were too mighty for him, and he sent for Balaam to come and curse them. But God said to him thou shalt not curse the people, for they are blessed. A certain bishop of the Established Church has just sent to the Court of Arches, and in the spirit of Balak has said, " Come, now, therefore, and curse these Essayists, for they are too mighty for me ; (a multitude within the Church is on their side, and a greater multitude outside the Church) peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the Church." But truth, justice, and charity, which God has given to Englishmen, say to the bishop, and to the Court of Arches, thou shalt not curse the people, for they are blessed. They are doing for humanity what it requires. They are breaking the fetters from off the human intellect, and the human heart, and telling men to receive, and walk in the truth wherewith Christ has made them free. The Moabites are smitten with fear, and they are crying out, they are too mighty for us, because of the way in which they have done their work. Learning and the Christianity of Jesus will not put them down. Our creeds and canons are useless. Might from " Balaam" must come, and crush them, but Balaam is told they are not to be cursed, but to be blessed. Before I close, I shall again allude 'to the unwise, the rash, the obsolete act, of calling down the strong arm of the law for religious opinions, and enlightened Christian faith. I must now continue my answer to the question " W hat is it that a clergyman of the Church of England is required to believe ?" The graver and more serious questions which have Leen dogmatically dictated and imposed by ecclesias tical authority, and which in thoughtful minds awaken doubt and create difficulty, - are those to which we would chiefly refer. The first of these, coming under notice this evening, is what is commonly called the Nicene Creed. It occurs in the Communion Service of the book of Common Prayer. The words on which there must necessarily be a great diversity of opinion among the thousands who give their assent and consent to them are these "Begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, light of light, very God of very God, begotten not made, being of one sub stance with the Father." There are other versions of them. In the Ecclesiastical history of Socrates we are told that the words as determined by the Council were, " We believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of all things, visible and invisible; and in our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God, the only begotten of the Father, that is of the substance of the Father; God of God, and light of light, true Gok of true God, begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father." Eusebius, Bishop of Cmsarea, who was present at the Council, has left us the following account of that part of the creed we have already quoted, and which he origi nally sent to the Church of which he was the bishop. "We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible—and in one Lord Jesus Christ the Word of God, God of God, light of light, life of life, the only begotten Son born before all creation, begotten of God the Father before all ages." It has been said that this celebrated Council was held in the year A. D. 325, at the command and in the presence of Constantine ; but beyond the fact that it was held, very little intelligence of what actually occurred has come down to our time. Fifty-six years after the council was held the creed was enlarged more effectually to confute and suppress the Arian heresy. Mosheim tells us "that the ancient writers are neither agreed concerning the time nor place in which it was assembled, the number of those who sat in council, nor the bishop who presided in it. No authentic acts of its famous sentence have been committed to writing, or at least have been transmitted to our times." It is said that the time of keeping Easter was determined by this council, and had it not been for Paphnutius, a bishop of great influence, a decree would have been passed for the perpetual celibacy of the clergy. 1. The first remark I make upon the Nicene creed is, that we have not the exact words determined by the council; and the circumstance of its alteration and enlargement be tween 50 and 60 years afterwards renders it no longer the creed of the celebrated COuncil of Nice. 2. Neither the phrases nor the thoughts, in the extract I have read to you, are taken from the Scriptures, nor are they sanctioned by them. 3. The idea of a derived God, untreated yet begot ten, is repugnant to Holy Scripture, to common sense, and is destructive to the scriptural truth of the absolute eter nity of the blessed Creator. 4. They attempts made in the creed ascribed to Athanasius, and in the one under conside ration, to define the nature, analyse the essence, and de scribe the mode of the Divine existence, have egregiously failed, and must fail. How different is the laboured scho lastic jargon of these two creeds from the simple and beau tiful utterance of Jesus Christ, " God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." Considering the purposes for which these creeds were com piled, their utter disregard of and opposition to Scripture, the scholastic and incomprehensible phrases employed, the inconsistencies and self-contradictions they contain, it must be considered a standing miracle in the Esta blished Church, that thousands and thousands of the finest and most highly cultivated minds, from generation to generation, see so much beauty, simplicity, intelligibleness, and Scripturalness in theseltwo creeds that they conscientiously and heartily give their assent and con sent to them—at least till they are within the pale of the Church I Calmly to think of this mental phenomenon creates great distrust of the integrity of men, when they are compelled to attain the most sacred objects by means which ecclesiastics and politicians have declared to be neces sary, without any respect to the teaching of Jesus, or the will of God. How many of those who have denounced the Essayists are quite sound as to these two creeds it is not easy to say ; nor in the selector circle of the Episcopal Bench is it easy to define the shades of opinion—the private explanations—the mental reserve—the ineffectual labour to harmonise these creeds with Scripture. The masses of confused thought, and the amount of unsettled and un happy feeling in the minds of the more conscientious of the clergy form a sad penalty, daily and nightly paid for posi tion, for office, and for power. Release from these two creeds, and a return to the language and statements of Scripture, would be for thousands of the clergy an emanci pation they would gladly celebrate with a holy carnival. In the Rubric at the close of the Communion service we read, " The sacramental bread and wine remain still in their very natural substances." In the Catechism the child is taught the doctrines of transubstantiation. The question is, " What is the inward part, or thing signified ? The an swer—The body and blood of Christ which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper. These statements are utterly opposed to each other —the ono is scriptural, the other unscriptural and Popish; but all the clergy, including the bishops, have given their assent and consent to both of them. After the communion service, there follows " the public baptism of infants." I can here but indicate, in a few words, the extraordinary things and doctrines to which all the clergy have given their unfeigned assent and consent in this service. Ist. There shall be for every male child to be bap tised two godfathers and one godmother, and for every female one godfather and two godmothers. How strange it is that men will not receive Christianity as Jesus left it. It has been the work of councils and creeds, and churches perpetually to add to it, encumber, and disfigure it. I know of nothing more monstrous than what godfathers and god mothers undertake to do, and the amount of falsehood which the Church of England perpetrates and upholds by the administration ofinfantbaptism is fearful and appalling. Every clergyman knows two things. First, when he asks the godfathers and godmothers "Dost thou in the name of this child renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world with all covetous desires of the same, and the carnal desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow nor be led by them ?"he knows they cannot do it they have no power to do it, that the thing is an absurdity, and yet he receives the answer, " I renounce them all." And he knows a second thing and sees it daily before his eyes—that when nine-tenths of them have made their solemn ------- promise, they do not int en d t o k eep it. - And - then he asks them not what they believe, but in the name of the child, what he believes orw ill believe, andheasksorrathei 7 demands of the stupid as well as of the intelligent godfather, of the religious godmother, the doctrines, belief of irreligious childli g iou s i n a a n well e l l l e as thans th e 15 different and every one, without having thought of theologicalese questions before, or having well pondered them, replies in behalf of the unconscious and helpless babe, "All this I steadfastly believe." And the clergyman not only sanctions this, but demands it. All the bishops and all the clergy have given their assent and consent to it. They know that they have no warrant for it from Holy Scripture, yet they enforce it. Can any man be surprised at what is called the "spread of infidelity," when such wickedness can be deliberately per petrated in Christian Churches, and by intelligent clergy men in the 19th century in England. Among other things prayed for in behalf of the child is—" to release him of his sins" before one solitary thought has entered into the child's mind. In the collect before the address to the godfathers and , godmothers the priest says, " give thy holy spirit t 9 this in- I am obliged to pass over many things I should like to notice, and to touch lightly other things on which I ought to dwell, but there is so much for comment and censure that it would require a volume instead of two or three discourses to do justice to the varied topics to which the clergy have given their assent and consent. See that brief but meagre document called the Church Catechism, " which has to be learned by every person before he be brought to be confirmed by the bishop." The first thing that a child is taught to do is to utter false hood respecting his baptism. Hole taught to say "Wherein I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an in heritor of the kingdom of heaven.", This is theologically untrue ; it is false as a matter of fact, as proved by the state of children and of society generally: The high Anglican party belieiT this Roniish dogma : the Jew Evangelical party, including their bishops, do not believe it. Neverthelessthe Act of Uniformity compels them, nolens volens, to carry it out and practice it. And then the child has to repeat what his godfathers and godmothers promised he should do and believe, and is required to say that h? is bound to believe and to do what they promised on his behalf. All this is worthy of the darkestdays of popery and priestly power ; in fusing into the mind of the child all that is repugnant to scripture—inimical to a sound faith in the gospel and dero gatory to human nature, making the human being a mere believing machine. After the child has rehearsed the articles of his belief, the question is put to him " What dost thou chiefly learn in these articles of thy belief ?" The " believing machine" is then made to utter without any explanation or qualification, the following tritheistic confession of faith :—First, I learn to believe in God the Father, who has made me and all the werld ; secondly, in God the Son, who has redeemed me and all mankind ; and thirdly, in God the Holy Ghost, who sanctifieth me, and all the elect people of God." After this the child is taught to utter the Popish doctrine respecting the sacraments—that there are two only as generally necessary to salvation—Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Where is there in Holy Scripture a shadow of proof or of authority for this Popish teaching, and to which all the bishops and clergy have given unfeignedly their as sent and consent. Now we come to an unscriptural service that can only be performed by a bishop. It is the Popish sequel to a Popish baptism, and a Popish catechism : it is called " The Order of Confirmation." The qualifications in order to be confirmed are, " to be able to say the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, the ten Commandments, and the shorter catechism, and to acknowledge that they are bound to be lieve and to do all those things which their godfathers and godmothers undertook for them." How humiliating it is, as a man, an Englishman, a disciple of Christ, merely to read such priestly dicta when sanctioned by the Church of England, and how the cheek must blush and burn of him, who conscious that the whole thing has no warrant from Scripture, is compelled to take part in this ecclesiastical pageant, and to strengthen the buttress of the priestly hie rarchy. Conceive of a motley group of all grades of society flocking from villages and towns to a central spot to be con firmed. And then listen to the Bishop's communication that he makes to Almighty God—" Almighty and everlast ing God who has vouchsafed to regenerate these thy servantrs by water and the Holy Ghost, and halt given unto them forgiveness of all their sins :" this is said to God by a Pro testant Bishop. When did he hear it ? Who told him of it ? Is it not possible that he may be in error? "Who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his councillor ?" Is it net presumptuous to tell God, without any authority, what he has done, and is it not wicked and even blasphemous to tell God that he has given to some hundreds of children (and to repeat it at every confirmation) the forgiveness of all their sins, when at any rate in many cases he has done nothing of the kind ? But to this popish and unscriptural service the bishops and clergy have "unfeignedly given their assent and consent." I pass over the Marriage Service and come to the " Visi tation of the Sick." And here we have at once the rankest popery and blasphemy. The Rubric orders—that the sick person shall be moved to make a special confession of his sins—if he feel his conscience troubled with any weighty matter. After which confession the priest shall absolve him (if he humbly and heartily desire it) after this sort. Gar Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to his Church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him ; of His great meroy forgive thee thine offences ; and by His authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. The archbishops, bishops, priests, and deacons have one and all of them unfeignedly given their assent and consent to this wicked assumption of a divine prerogative. Where is it that Jesus Christ hath left power to his Church to absolve all sinners ? Who constitute the Church—the laity as well as the clergy? Have the laity, as a part of the Church, power to absolve all sinners? Have all the clergy power to do it? Certainly not, it is confined to the arch bishops, bishops, and priests. Where is the proof and where the authority of Holy Scripture for any human being to forgive the sins which a fellow-creature has committed, not against himself but against God ? There is none what ever. The priest says it has been left to the Church and com mitted to him. When was this done, and where in Holy Scripture is the proof of it ? In the truly popish style, some of them would fall back upon the extraordinary powers con ferred upon the Apostles, forgetting that th'se men had proofs to bring forward which no men since the days of the Apostles dare to allege. On one occasion you remember a man sick of the palsy was brought lying on a bed to Jesus. Jesus said to him, " Son, be of good cheer, thy sins be for given thee." Certain of the scribes said within themselves "This man blasphemeth," and Jesus knowing their thoughts said, " Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts ? For whe ther is it easier to say Thy sins be forgiven thee,' or to say, Arise and walk ?' But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house ;' and he arose and departed to his house." Now, whenever I see an Archbishop, a Bishop, a Priest, or any one forgive sins in this manner, and with such proof of his divine mission, I will resolve him as from God ; but falsely assuming a power which no man possesses—and officially employing it as a part of a Church system, whoso ever he may be, I will say with the scribe of olden time, " This man blasphemeth." It is but justice to say that hundreds and thousands of the clergy, who have unfeign edly given their assent and consent to it, ignore and repu diate it, and in their hearts utterly reject it. 'We now come to the solemn and truly grand service for the " Burial of the Dead." This service is constructed like the others on the true Church theory : —the child is regenerated by the priestly administration of baptism—then he is confirmed—and is in every way treated as a true Christian, whatever may be his character or his opinions. If a man or woman has been baptized and has not been excommunicated, it matters not the wickedness of his or her life—the manner of his or her death—or whether they die athiests or infidels, the clergyman is bound to bury such a person under the severest penalty for refusal. Why should he refuse? Havin g k nown b e f ore his ordination what is th e Ecclesias tical law of the case and that he must obey it. C onceive of the feelings of an honest conscientious clergyman when the worst and lowest female of the parish is brought to him for burial ; or when the most profligate and abandoned man—who by his crimes is brought to his grave. There is the corpse. There is the clergyman. There are some of the worst people in the parish around the grave, and they listen and hear the p r i es t say :—'• For asmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of His great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here de parted, we therefore commit his body to the ground ; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ." Again the priest says We give thee hearty thanks for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world." Again: When we.,43ha1l depart this life , We may r es t in Him, as our hope is this our brother d ot h . " What is more natural than after the funeral is over the attendants should talk about it. And the inevitable conclusion is, that what the wretchedpriest m s aaind is sn allth the presenceafe ;—nothing u o t o h f n G g o d s oinres:da vice—over a dead body—is either true or false. If true, the the holiest man that ever lived—plainer, more definite, and more consolatory to the weeping b s eo saide m n over v e e r r mourners. If, on the ther hand, it is untrue, and the conscience of the priest tells him it is a most unsuitable service to read over a profligate dead man or dead wom a n, what c an th e attendants think of the minister who thus deceives the mourners and degrades him self ? Verily his position is not to be envied. Then foll ows th e C omm i na ti on S ervice, the like:of which is certainly not to be found in Christ's Holy Gospel. Ten distinct curses are deliberately prodnced under the Cluistian dispensati94 um different classes 9i 9ileaderst many of which were offences against and the curses were the penalties inflicted by the Jewish law, which, however loudly :the clergyman may pronounce them, and however fervently he may desire them to be inflicted the civil magis trate in England can take no cognisance of them as such. To the Commination Service all bishops, priests, and dea cons have unfeignedly given their assent and consent. We shall now very briefly refer to the form and manner of mak ing deacons, and of making priests. It is not pretended that they are copied from any model contained in the New Testament. An archdeacon takes the lead, of whose office the Scripture is silent. Before wo enter upon the services themselves let us listen to the Rubric. "No man shall be accounted, or taken to be a lawful bishop, priest, or deacon in the Church of England, or suffered to execute any of the said functions except he be called, tried, examined, and ad mitted thereunto according to the form hereafter following, or hath had formerly Episcopal consecration or ordination." Now at that time such was the power of the Church, and such was the abuse of the civil law, that nb other Church was permitted to exist but the Church of England. Any one who said that any other congregation was a true church, or any minister not of the Church of England was a true minister, was to be excommunicated and punished accord ingly. Be it remembered that the theory of the Church of England remains the same ; the rubrics are unchanged, and the canons and ecclesiastical constitutions have not been revoked. Nevertheless a great change has taken place in defiance of the Episcopal power. Education and public opinion have triumphed, and while the theory of the Eng lish Church remains in all the bigotry and uncharitableness of a past age, religious liberty has been secured for all. There are two or three things in the manner of making deacons, and of making priests, that cannot be passed over. At the ordination of a deacon, the bishop puts this question :—" Do you trust that you are inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost to take upon you this office and minis tration to serve God for the promotion of His glory and the edifying of His people ?" And the candidate has to reply :—" I trust so." He is not called upon to banish and drive away strange doctrine ; nor has he any miraculous powers committed to him by the Bishop. But the fami liarity of the Bishop's knowledge of the mind of God in relation to all the Deacons ordained is to me unscriptural, presumptuous, and necessarily untrue. There may be ten, twenty, or thirty Deacons ordained at the same time. Some of them may be morally unfit; others of them may be in tellectually unfit ; and although they may be as the Rubric requires, " learned in the Latin tongue," their tastes, habits, and abilities may not be adapted to the pulpit, nor to the clerical work. And yet the Bishop in prayer uses these words :—" Almighty God, giver of all good things, who of thy great goodness has vouchsafed to accept and take these tby servants unto the office of Deacons in thy Church." Ibis is fearfully presumptuous. The Bishop has accepted and taken them, but what proof has he that the individuals he has just ordained have been put into the office by Almighty God ? Not a Deacon has been ordained since the founding of the Church, but what the Bishop has made over him the declaration in the solemn language of prayer which I have just quoted : the worst one that has ever disgraced the Church; and the best ono that has ever adorned it. But now we come to the form and manner of ordaining priests. The candidate for the order of priest hood is not asked if he is inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost : that question is unnecessary, as will presently appear. The candidate has to promise to be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erro neous and strange doctrines contrary to God's Word; to promote peace, and reverently to obey his superiors ; and at length kneeling down the bishop and the priests present lay their hands upon the head of the candidate, and the bishop uses these words :—" Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a priest in the Church of God now committed to thee by the imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive they are for given, and whose sins thou dost retain they are retained ; and be thou a faithful dispenser of the Word of God and of His holy sacraments in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen." These are not the words of a prayer, but of a charge, or command, and the bishop imperatively says, " Receive the Holy Ghost." The worst bishop who has ever sat upon the bench has said this to the worst priest that has ever disgraced the Church. Let us now understand who it is the bishop means by the Holy Ghost ? The Creed of St. Athanasius will give us the in formation. The Holy Ghost is one of the persons of the Trinity, of co-equal glory and co-eternal majesty with the Father. Uncreate, Incomprehensible, Almighty; the Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son, neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding"—This is the bishop's view of the Holy Ghost, and yet without any hesitation, this mortal assumes the power of giving a God, an eternal and almightilfeing, to his fellow men. He says, " Receive the Holy Ghost," and then tells him, a fellow creature, a fellow sinner, " Whose sins thou @lost forgive they are forgiven, and whose sins thou dost retain they are re tained." Some who are ordained believe what the bishop says, others do not; but all are obliged to use the power in the visitation of the sick and to absolve sinners if they de sire it. Bishop Wilberforce, in a sermon delivered at an Ordination in 1845, put the matter plainly and forcibly—he said, " All this is blasphemous frivolity; if it be not deepest truth." I believe it to be blasphemous frivolity ; deepest truth it cannot be. Common sense is against it ; both as to a bishop giving the Holy Ghost and conferring upon a fellow creature the power of forgiving sins committed against Almighty God. Holy Scripture is against it. Not one of the Apostles ever dared to say, "Receive the Holy Ghost," and certainly they committed to no man the power to forgive sins. It is an assumption of power worthy only of the severest censure, while there is no attempt to prove it by the working of miracles: To assume an invisible power over an invisible substance in man in its relation to an invisible God is one thing; but visibly to exert power over a paralytic limb or a dead body, is another thing. When I see a man doing the visible, I may have some faith in his doing the invisible. It is not, however, the disrespect nor the contempt that men bring upon themselves for such wicked arrogance and blas phemy, but it is the injury inflicted upon Christianity ; and until there is a thorough reform, national Christianity will be chiefly valued as a means of getting a good living, and by political influence aspiring to the highest preferment in the gift of the Crown and of the Prime Minister. But we are on the way to great changes. Trivial incidents often occasion great results. The Bishop of London has truly said in his recent publication, " If infidelity is to be resisted, it can only be by our opposing true criticism to the false, and being able to bring as great an amount of philo sophical and historical knowledge and deep research to aid the cause of Christian truth as are sure to be employed in the assaults by which it is menaced." But the Bishop of Salisbury prefers compulsion and the strong arm of the law, and has therefore during the past week declared an Eccle siastical war. Fair, candid, and legitimate reason, and a just, honourable, and learned appeal to Holy Scripture, he ignores, and seeks for might against truth. He has given notice to the Rev. Rowland Williams, of Lampeter College, that he will immediately commence legal proceedings against him in the Court of Arches. It has not publicly transpired on what part of his Review of Bunsen the proceed ings will be founded. The terms used in the letter are not those of a truth seeker, a philosopher, a biblical student, a disciple of Jesus who venerates Holy Scripture and is de. sirous of bringing the Christianity of the 19th century into harmony with that taught by Jesus Christ. The Bishop has nothing to do with that. The defence of Christianity he leaves to others. In the true spirit of a bishop who has a seat in the House of Lords, he undertakes to defend what was done in the time of Elizabeth, and re done in the time of Charles 11. He has been on scent for heresy for some months, and some genial wind and shower have directed him to the right track, and with all the keen ness and gladness of one who has found something in his enemy that will enable him to take vengeance, this Chris tian Bishop under " the best advice " pounces upon his prey. His words are these in a letter he has just addressed to the Archdeacon of Dorset : " As I believe on the very best advice that the writer of this Essay (the Rev. Dr. Rowland Williams) has brought himself within the reach of the Ecclesiastical law, I cannot escape from the conclu sion that I am bound to endeavour to show that the Church of England does protect her members against such false teaching as is contained in different parts of his essay," The Bishop has had " the best advice" on what subject— the unreasonableness, the unscripturalness of the Dr.'s teaching? nothing of the sort, but "that he has brought himself within the, reach of the Ecclesiastical law." What he has written may be true, Christian, and worthy of the Ist and 19th centuries, but about that the Bishop does not trouble himself; he will put the Dr. into the Ecclesiastical Court, and he will agitate the country and convulse the Church in support of Ecclesiastical law. All moderate men upon the Bench, and all wise clergymen who have not attained that honour, will deprecate this rash act. It is not every old building in a state of great dilapi dation, that is proof against a hurricane; nor is it every Church, with such obsolete laws, doctrines, superstitions, and ceremonies, that can come forth unscathed from the ordeal of popular criticism and the renewed cry for Church reform which will be heard from one end of the kingdom to the other. Admit, for a moment, that Dr. Williams is in advance of Ecclesiastical law and nearer to Scripture and primitive Christianity, is he to be punished for this ? And is all the superstition, the unscriptural statements, the popish rites and ceremonies and doctrines, with the usurped episcopal power of the Church of England, to be retained and upheld ? It may be that Dr. Walter Ker Hamilton, Bishop of Salisbury, in his innocent joy that he has caught an Essayist in his ecclesiastical trap, may be bitten before he lets him go; and though not blind, like Sampson,nor possessed of Herculean power, he may cause hustchroa t s w lal to the crazy old edifice of Ecclesiastical la w, H a ms may be the last victim whose persecution shall f dis m - honour the Church, and lead to, and bring about a re or pried upon tho Christianity and law of the Now Toga:lout, The Earl of HARDWICKE returned thanks for the navy, and said that though the toast might be con sidered one that was given as a matter of course, gallant men on distant service would feel that their profession was slighted if it were omitted on occa sions the present. (Hear.) The public mind was at this moment directed to improvements in the navy, and however much these improvements might draw on the public revenues, it would be very unwise not to maintain the naval supremacy of England. (Cheers.) General PEEL thanked the company on behalf o the army, and expressed the gratification which he experienced from the ' addition made to the toast during the last three years. (Hear, hear.) It - was impossible to overstate the effect of the Volunteer movement, which was beyond anything that could have been anticipated. (Cheers.) Colonel M'Muit,Do acknowledged the compliment paid to the Volunteers, and said that from what this new force had already achieved military men entertained a reasonable hope that, in case of danger, the Volunteers would become a most important supplement to the army in the field. (Cheers.) The MASTER—I now rise to ask you to join me in doing honour to one whom I have the high privilege to present to you as a Brother Grocer—Lord Elgin. (Cheers.) The work of the camp is often but the prelude to the labours of the Cabinet ; but although the fields of action differ so widely, and the arms are of so opposite a character, yet the victory to be achieved is no less difficult, the results no less im portant, and therefore the meed of praise is not less due to the successful diplomatist than is the chaplet to the victorious general. (Hear.) By the exercise of consummate tact, ability, and discretion, Lord Elgin has saved us from what might have proved a destructive and protracted war ; and by the appli cation of those business powers which he has ac quired in the steady, though unostentatious atten tion to the calls of duty, whenever made, as Jamaica and Canada can tell, he has succeeded in making treaties with nations, among the most peculiar, most interesting, and most populous in the world, dispelling the mist of fable in which they have hithertii been enveloped, and opening up a field for commerce, the urea of which it is impossible even to conjecture. (Clvers.) But we must not from this low ground alone regard Lord Elgin's work. If these treaties are carried out by both parties in a spirit of good faith, may we not antici pate the happiest effects from one-third of the human race being brought in more immediate connexion with this country ? And I am sure Lord Elgin will not think his honours dimmed by being re garded but as the instrument of that unerring hand which has guided human civilization from its first dawn in the fertile plains of India through a long vista of years to its present glory in Europe, and which has now led the mighty tide to the far dis tant shores of China and Japan. (Hear, hear.) I give you " The Health of Lord Elgin." (Cheers.) The Earl of ELGlN—Gentlemen, I can assure you that I do most unaffectedly say that it is very diffi cult for me to find words to express the feelings which your kind reception this evening gives rise to in my mind; and those feelings are very greatly strengthened by your having honoured me before dinner by that investiture which has enabled your Master to give me the title of " Brother Grocer." (Hear.) About this day last year was that on which the vessel which was carrying out to China the whole Special Embassy met with the disaster which very nearly resulted in bringing the mission,. to a premature close. However, I think I may now say that we succeeded in bringing the war with China to a termination—a result which was, in the first place, due to the gallant army, and in the next to the gallant navy, which accompanied the Em bassy ; for I must here repeat what I have said several times before, that though the services of the army were more conspicuous, those of the navy were not a whit less important. (Hear, hear.) believe that this country regards the treaty with China as of sufficient consequence to have justified the risk of shipwreck to 20 embassies. As show ing what would have been the feeling if the war with China had been protracted, I may mention that at a most critical moment of my proceedings I received a letter written by a friend of mine, a most eminent statesman, who stated to me that the war was most unpopular in this country ; that there had been a discussion on it in a place for which I have a most profound respect, though I dare not mention it, and in that place not one single individual said a word in favour of the war, though many said a great deal against it. (Laughter, and " Hear.") That was a most agreeable communica tion for a public servant to receive in reference to an affair which he had to deal with at a distance of 10,000 miles from his own country. (Laughter.) The letter went on to say that the universal opi nion was that what we wanted in this country was, not political relations, which led to war, but trade, which did not. I confess for myself that I entirely adopted that sentiment ; but after my ex perience in China, I must be permitted to doubt that you can have trade with that country without political relations. (Hear, hear.) You may have trade with a civilized country without political relations, but in China, if there was no conven tion, the authorities might at any moment re fuse to allow merchants to trade at all , orim pose regulations that virtually would amount to a prohibition. (Hear, hear.) Some years ago a merchant vessel was anchored in Canton, and an anniversary—the King's birthday, perhaps—occur ring, the men fired a salute. A woman was killed by a wadding from one of the guns, and the Man darin at that port said, " We will have no more trade with you till the man who fired the shot which caused the woman's death is given up. If I am cor rectly informed the man was given up, I should like to know what master of an English ship would in the present day give up a man for having dis charged his duty, to be disembowelled or perhaps a still more cruel fate. (Hear, hear.) I repeat that I agree with those who think that it is not political relations, but trade that we want with China ; but we adopt political relations as indispen sable to trade. i (Hear, hear.) We may congratu late ourselves n having secured these ; and I am happy to say that all the news which I have re ceived from China since my re t urn h ome i n d uces me to believe that our relations are established on such a footing as they aro not likely to be disturbed in future. (Cheers.) After some other toasts, the company separated. THE DISPUTE IN THE BUILDING TRADE.—EarIy yesterday morning information was sent to the central com mittee that notices were posted up in the yards of a large firm carrying on extensive works in the metropolis, that from and after this week they intend paying their workmen by the hour. The men understand that those not accepting these terms will be at once discharged. It is expected that the example of the firm above referred to will be followed to day by others. The masons declare that should this be the case they will at once withdraw all their men at work in the metropolitan firms. The bricklayers have called meetings for Thursday and Friday evenings in different districts of the metropolis to decide as to whether they shall adopt a similar course ; while a united delegate meeting ahe, carpenters, painters, and plasterers is t o be held on Friday f a o y r evening, when the following plan is to be submitted will consideration :—" That if the carp enters and painterb make up not less than two-thirds of the weekly expendi ture, the plasterers will reco mmend the following to their trade, viz., to call the who le of the plasterers out from those firma the hour system is introduced. The plasterers to regulate the payment of their men. That no compromise be entered into without the consent of the three trades." 1 By this plan it is intended to place the plasterers in front of the battle, t he y being the best organised body. it i s necessary to say, however, that this plan was agreed upon before the announcement made that several other large firms were about introducing the system of payment by the hour. ROBBERY OF WORKS OF ART FROM TUE ROYAL ACADEMY. —Leopold Baldacci, a e jour t neymen modeller, in t h e employ of M. Brucciani, fil sttree Bow-street Police-court, was brought before r C d o r r l l e s ,s el h at P o lice-court, yesterday, in custody of the detective force, chargedg' with of Sergeant Tanner, re stealing a case contain in seven cameos, tw o miniature ing silver ;mpres s i ons from t rifle medal dies, and seven oil brooches, a case contain paintings, the whol e valued a £2on arrangingOifromtheßoyal Aca demy, where he had been employed Fy. The prisoner was given into custody w' as en3P' xug to paws QUO Qf the cameo, „wa remaudocl. e sr ulTiniopedelitua:se The radical rottenness of the " system" which 7 has been pursued in India appears from this,—Mr. , Laing has been able to strike off at one 131.)w three millions and a quarter from the military expendi ture, one-third of a million from the marine, and half a million from the civil expenditure. What must have been the system which allowed insol vency to creep up, and even bankruptcy to threaten, while this unnecessary and wasteful expenditure remained unchecked ? Here is an absolute excision of £4,100,000 from the public expenditure of India, and yet we are assured by all the heads of the different departments that the service is more healthy and more effective than ever. Could not Colonel Balfour, and Mr. Hollingberry, and Capt. Rennie, to whom Mr. Laing attributes all this re duction, be induced to try their hands upon some ever-increasing columns of figures nearer home, and see whether the principle of increased efficiency and decreased cost could not be introduced into our revenue.hass u r p been ri s of taught It i.vse nroy t o b n y e very, a and Europeanmuch, e hto, i t the i s financier to cut down her expenses and increase her surprise of no one more than the orthodox official people out there, India stands in the position of true; but she can now pay her way lavishly, spend money in railways, and still have a little change in her pocket. India, however, is a very spongy soil, and the quantity of golden rain which would be suffi cient to produce all the fruits and flowers of good government in Ceylon or any other Cr Crown colony is absorbed without acknowledgment by that thirsty land. Four millions of savings do not count for four millions of surplus ; but let us be thankful and re joice that there is actually the sum of £239,896 on the right side of the annual account. If this can be effected now, it is very clear that it could have been effected long before. Nothing has been done by Mr. which the old-fashioned offi b .......m eials who nursed up the Sepoy Mutiny might not have done long ago. This change from insolvency to affluence has been simply brought about by the application of modern science and untrammelled common sense to circumstances which had been produced by evil traditions and ignorance of modern lights. Put a stupid man or an unskilful man in the richest mine the world can show, and bid him work it ; he will probably send you up the waste instead of the ore, and perhaps end by bringing down all the galleries and ruining the whole affair. But the mine is not destroyed for ever, the metal is still there. Send skilful men who have learnt the trade where it may best be learnt, and the rubbish will b e dug out, the water will be drawn off, and the mine will be made to pay again. It seems to have so happened in this case. There is quite as much skill in properly taxing a nation as there is in pro perly pumping a mine. There are natural laws regulating each operation which must be known. The old-fashioned Indian statesman—very esti mable men—did not know these laws, and in the honesty of ignorance flogged the country into in solvency. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Laing, who did know these laws, have just succeeded in getting it out of the quagmire, and setting it upon a hard level road again. How it will run for the future must depend upon who are intrusted with the reins. hipnaucvlboivmlniegeel Well, And now India, being set free from overweight, is expected to do great things. We ask her at once for twenty millions' worth of cotton, to be delivered at her earliest possible convenience, and to be paid for at a price proportioned to the chances of an effective blockade being established upon the Southern shores of North America. We ask her also for fifty million pounds of tea, if she can pre duce it cheaper and better than her neighbours on. ,tbe other side of the Central Mountains. We shall be glad to have also any quantity of silk which can be produced upon the same terms ; and jute, and indigo, and rice, and wool will be welcome. In. fact, India is supposed to be getting out of her un informed and listless state, and is expected to go to work seriously, and produce all that the refined and fastidious civilisation of the West requires. There is no doubt she can do it. She has climate, soil, and labour for anything. She could keep a hundred Lancashires going; and she could clothe ten mil lions of London ladies from the products of a hun dred millions of mulberry trees ; she could make happy as many working women with powerful tea and rich sugarcane—what is there which a popula tion of 150,000,000, with a country in which the amount of the earth's produce may be increased in definitely by human toil, could not do ? But if you want India to do this you must teach her. That Hindoo, happy in his dreams of bang and paradise, will wake up and work if you make it worth his while; but you must go to him and wake him up, and you must pay him before hand, for distant delights have small temptation to his simple mind ; and you must also tell him what you want and libw he is to do it. Moreover, after you have paid him, and after he has spent the money, and after you have got all your fine new machines ready for cleaning the cotton or getting the silk; or drying the tea, you must have some sys tem of law which will bind him to perform his con tract. You must do all this, or you will get no cot ton worth having. Lord Ellenborough may tell you that the old native cotton is the best, but Glas gow knows better. Glasgow has spun some of her finest work out of Indian cotton ; but it was grown from Georgian seed by an English planter. The productions which Europe requires of India are of a nature which can only be understood by Euro peans, and are only to be produced under European supervision. It is well, therefore, to ask, when we thus call upon India to step in and extinguish slavery by mere force of competition, whether we are to allow Englishmen to settle in India. Eighty years ago the East India Company were very decided in say ing "No." The Calcutta Secretariat of the present day is of the same opinion. So is the Council of India. So is Lord Ellenborough, as appeared from his speech in the House of Lords some evenings ago. So is Sir Charles Wood, who has just sent out to Lord Canning to disallow Lord Canning's own bill for giving a remedy u p on sma ll con t rac t s in the rural districts. In unbroken succession from the earliest days, the mere local Indian officials, and the Englishmen who, unlike Canning and Ben tinck and such like men, were content to follow others rather than to conscientiously study the sub ject, always objected to unofficial Englishmen in India ; " they band together," said one of the de spatches, " and insist upon what they call constitu tional rights." Mr. Laing is, of course, of a diffe rent opinion from these depositories of bad tradi tions, both in India and at home. In his Budget speech he says that, " To press on the construction of roads and communications, to pass just laws for the enforcement of contracts, to provide ready tri bunals for dispensing j us ti ce, to i mpress on all *an n ected with them the i mportance of encouraging independent English enterp r i se b y every means consistent with justice and with the equal r i g hts of our native subjects—these are within the legiti mate functions of Government." This is sound statesmanship and sound sense ; but it is also a rather clear admission that we have not done any of these things hitherto. We are, indeed, doing the very opposite of them just now. While the Bri tish public is add resse d c hi e fl y b y Old Indians crammed with the old nabob traditions of the se! - vice, and while Indian affairs are directed by people who have no opinion of their own on such matters,r and have no right to have an opinion, tut What Laingr . s Laingis must now b d sayingone will Mr. c remainundone. a.ndnlionn a gg as said long ago, and Lord George Bentinck that or and cchirp Macaulay all a s r a o i u d n long a attracta certainly than the noblest cat e g; but lu ther t at tsa low in the distance.—Times. e ga t s i s o h n ° P m P ore er s AILWAY CCVLKITEES. comm ittees of the House o f Yesterday, Manchester, and of t S h e Sheffield, and D L o a Stockton Lincolnshire r ri s ng ta t hd o ed n Rail w ay billsizto Railway, passed. hrfke osr Company for the construc tion of anTheexcteonmsmiointtfereomof Markeuhich to Skelton were , ntgn,emcrn.aillramwaknshtoaewk beeviindgeePn iexamined Y Lancashire and Yorkshir e R a i lway Com pany's cpa proposed extensi on b et Ween the Victoria station,n Manchester, and Salford ; and further evi dence elucidatory of the vast extent of the coal traffic, was continued in the Duke of Manchester's committee on the Barnsley Coal Railway, against which the Lancashire and Yorkshire opened their opposition. In the Commons' Committees the case of the Kilkenny Junction Railway was opened, and evidence taken in its behalf. The evidence of the South Eastern, Mid-Kent, and other interests, still proceeds in the London, Chatham, and Dover com mittee ; and further evidence on the Swansea and Neath Railway, the Sherborne Railway, Newcastle and Derwent and Cleveland Railway, without any conclusions being come to, occupied those com mittees, which rose at two o'clock instead of four o'clock, in order that the respective chairman might hold a conference with Lord Redesdale, the chair man of committees of the Lords, on the general state of buf,iness connected with public bills before the house. The following bills were disposed of and passed in Mr. Massey's committee (the chair man of committees of the Commons) :—Sitting bourne and Sheerness z.ailway (to raise additional capital and leas. tlueenborough Pier); Station ana Pimlico Railway Much Wenloc ; Great 'Western Railway (for Coal orookdale and Lightmoor Extension); w es' Mid land Railway, and Bonelli's Folectric e rap el g Victoria. Company.