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SHEFFIELD ' n,EFORNIA'PIO-A*D COTE• TANT ASSOCIATION. The general meeting of the above society was held in the Music Hall, on Wednesday last. The admission was by ticket, and long before the hour of meeting the hall was crowded in every part by a most respectable audience. The orchestra was filled by nearly the whole of the clergy and Wesleyan ministers, and a large number of the most respect able and influential of the laity of the town and neighbour hood. HANLEY MARWOOP GREAVES, Esq. was appointed chair. man. The Rev. IL MThire, on rising, was received with loud and continued cheering. After it had subsided, he said—The resolution which I have been requested to move is this— " That the existing state of public affairs, and particularly the efforts which are now made for the furtherance of Popery, loudly call upon every Protestant to consider and co-operate in the most effectual means for checking the progress of so alarming an evil." In rising to propose this resolution, sir, it is not necessary for me to go through the lengthened details of proof of the documents of Popery which have been laid, in various parts of the empire, before public meet ings. I shall, therefore, merely lay before the meeting the documents on which the resolution is to be founded for your acceptance and adoption. I shall lay before you the docu ments which go to prove the facts—the awful facts which have been brought before the nation respecting the Church of Rome. I will show you the nature and importance of thoge facts, and then endeavour to apply them to the reso lution which I have the honour to propose. You have all heard of " Dens's Theology." This (holding up a copy) is that book. It consists of two sets of documents. I pray you bear this in memory—that it consists of two sets of do ments totally distinct from each other. These seven volumes contain the Theology of Dens, and this volume which I hold in my hand is what is called a supplement to it. This supplement to Dens, as it is called, was added by the Romish bishops, and is a work altogether different from it. It is not the work of any individual author, but it consists of the bulls dud the canon laws of the Popes of Rome, especially that of Pope Benedict the 14th, the nature of which you shall see, and which have been set up, and are at this moment in operation, as far as they can be called into effect, in superseding the laws of England, and are the real laws that govern the Roman Catholics of Ireland. This book, this Supplement to Den's Theology, has been proved to have been so set up, and therefore, I need not go through the proofs at the present time. It is proved by the Directories of the Priests, and the Satutes of the Romish Bishops, it has been brought home to them and established. This book of Dens bad been proved to be adopted by the whole body of the Popish Bishops from the year 1808 down to the year 1831, for thF Priests to be drilled in, and thereby to direct the consciences of the people. Now this is exceed iiagly important. When this book was first brought out at Exeter Hall, and for the first two years—viz. 1835 and 1836, all that we could prove was, then, that the Bishops of the Romish Church in Ireland, had selected it as the best book for the Romish Priests as their guide and standard. But in the year 1836, a new document was detected, and brought out in the year 1837, which was of very great importance —a document by which it was discovered that not only was this book appointed by the Bishops as the best guide for the Priests, but it was to be used by the Priets for a special pur pose, namely,—that the Priests by the continual study of the book, might be made so far masters of all the principles it contained, as to be able, by those principles, to direct and guide the consciences of the people. Now you will perceive the importance of this, *hen you come to consider how the power of the Pope is enforced in the Romish Church, and how the laws of the Pope are brought to bear upon the Ro man Catholic laity rho are governed by them. These laws are not promulgated as ordinary laws are, but paid men—the slaves and servants of the Pope, and his sworn adherents, the Romish Priests, are drilled and trained by the Bishops, and obliged to enforce these laws, under all the sanctions and au thority of their religion, for the guidance and di r e c ti on o f th e consciences of the whole Roman Catholic population. These laws of Popery with/the Roman Catholics, then, are made matters of conscience—they are compelled to observe them under all the terrors and powers of the Church. Now the book by which this was established, was the statutes, the provincial statutes of the Popish Bishops. Here are the statutes of the diocese of Dublin, or rather of the province of Leinster, enacted from 1770 to 1831, and in this b6ok we dis cover this one rule for the Priests—" That every Priest must have in his own possession, a summary of cases of conscience, which, in preference to all others, shall be by the Bishop se lected for him ; and in which he shall every day read, at the least, one chapter or case of conscience, that by this frequent reading, he may he assisted and instructed to direct the con sciences of the people of whom he has the charge, and for whom he shall render an account at the day of judgment . ; " Again, that the Bish o p s m i g ht k n e w t h at the P ri ests undr their superintendence were well trained in this,—the Priests were required, as we see by their old statutes, p 96, to attend an assembly or conference every month, except four months in the year. These were the old statutes of 1770. But in 1831, the Romish Bishops at the Leinster Synod, superseded those statutes by the enactment of another code. Here in my hand is a copy of those statutes, and although it has been frequently mentioned at public meetings, and is, thereby, perhaps, familiar to the eyes and ears of many of those present; still it may be interesting to you to see the book, and hear the facts. I will tell you something more of facts, and the singular manner in which it was brought to light. The rev. gentleman then detailed the curious manner in which he became possessed of the book ; and proceeded, in order to establish the principle of the resolution, I will say, in the first place, that you are called upon to adopt it, and that, as Protestants, you are also called upon to exert and associate yourselves against the encroachments of the papacy, by every means in your power, because all the hopes of any amelioration of the principles of Popery towards Protestants, which were anticipated before the passing of the Roman Ca tholic Bill, in 1829, have been completely and entirely blasted ; and also, because all the anticipations—all the worst fears of the Protestants of the empire, respecting the danger to our institutions, from the granting of political power to the Papacy, had been more than realised ; lst.—By repeated acts of public perjury—(hear, hear, and loud cheers) ; 2d.—By the proved organisation of Papal treason—(hear); 3d.—By having political power and station committed to some of the most turbulent and seditious agitators and disturbers of the public peace—(loud cheers); 4th.—By the daring invasion, through papal influence, of the rights and duties of Christian men, in taking away God's eternal word, as the standard of education, from the national schools of Ireland—(loud and continued cheers.) I have told you that the Popish bishops adopted Dens as the standard for the priests to instruct and guide the people from the years 1808 to 1831, when the Bishops of Leinster set it up again with the canon law. I must now take you back from 1831 to 1825 and 1826, and I will beg you to re collect these three points especially, on which the Protestants feared to commit power to the Papacy. Ist, That they would keep no faith with heretics as to pro perty, but that they would try to subvert the church esta blishment, to violate the act of settlement, and recover the forfeited estates in Ireland. This was one point. The second point was, that they could not be entrusted with power from their divided allegiance, because, if they were true and faithful subjects to the Pope, they could not be true and loyal subjects to their Protestant Sovereign. The third point of objection was this, that it had been proved, 'lamentably proved by history, not only of other na tions, but of England, that wherever Popery had power, it was intolerant and persecuting, and put heretics to death when it could effect its object. Now, these were the three cardinal points of objection to the admission of Papists to political power. It was believed that in these they would keep no faith with heretics; and that these were the chief objections on the part of the Pro testants and statesmen of England, I will satisfy you on the authority of the British parliament previous to the passing of what was called the Catholic relief bill, but what might more properly be termed the Protestant oppression bill.— (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Now, in order to establish this, I said I would show you what the facts were; and in so doing, I shall call your attention to the examination of the Popish bishops before committees of the Hous6s of Lords and Commons, and of the Commissioners of Education in Ireland, in the years 1825 and 1826. I call your attention especially to this, because those examinations are held up to this moment as a subject of triumph by the Roman Catholics. Mr. M`Ghee first referred to the Roman Catholic Directory and Registry for 1839, p. 149, to spew the boasts of the papists of Dr. Murray's evidence, and that it might b e re f erre d to a fair testimony fi rst , on Church and Lay property ; secondly, on Divided Allegiance ; and thirdly, on Persecution of Here. tics. Dr. Murray, in his evidence on property, (March 22d, 1825,) said, "There was no wish on 1' P part of the Roman Catholics to disturb the present estabbsioneat, or to partake of any of the wealth that it enjoys, nor any objection to give the most full and entire assurance on that subject by any de claration. The evidence of Dr. Doyle might be given even with more confidence still ; for he wrote a book, entitled ' An Essay on the Catholic Faith,' i n a l etter to Lord Liver pool, in which he calmly and deliberately referred to his evi dence on oath ; and quoted his oath as affording security for its truth." [See page 192.] The declaration and oaths of the Roman Catholics, 1826, were next quoted, by which they swore not to exercise any privilege to which they are, or may be entitled to disturb and weaken the Protestant Religion and Protestant Government in Ireland, and O'Connell's evidence before the Lords, May 11th, 1825, which was to the same ge neral effect. But at that time the committee of the Lords and Commons were not acquainted with that bull. The Commissioners of Education, however, knew that the bull existed; and in investigating into the College of Maynooth, made the bull a special subject of examination. Dr. Slevin, Professor of Can on L aw i n t h e C o ll ege, was questioned as to the bull, and went through all the provisions of it; but he endeavoured to get rid of every part of it, on the great prin ciple that this and other bulls were never published in Ire land. They say that when bulls are not published in a coun try, they have no operation in that country; but when they do publish a Papal bull in any country, it then comes into full force and operation. Dr. Slevin denied that this bull had ever been published in Ireland, and, therefore, there was no bull which applied to property or forfeited estates. Now what did these men do ?—these very bishops who have given this evidence, and voluntarily given their oath by themselves and with their brethren? The very moment they gained their object—the very moment emancipation was granted them, what did these Popish Bishops do? These Bishops of Lienster entered into their conclave, and there they concocted their secret statutes, and then they set up this code of c an o n l aw (h o ldi ng up t h e supplement to Dens) to ruin the poor Roman Catholic laity of Ireland, and in this code of canon law they published that bull for the restoration of all forfeited property, thus giving force to the very bull which one of their own professors had denied the existeuceof before the Commissioners of Education, in Maynooth, but which we have on his oath admitted, that when it was pub lished, it came into full force and operation. (Loud cheer ing.) [See supplement to Dens, p. 176.] We now come, said the speaker, to the second point of objection, as to the divided allegiance of Popery. It is clear that he that is loyal to the Pope, who is a foreign tyrant, cannot, therefore, be loyal to a Protestant Sovereign. Now, here is the ex amination of a man upon this subject. It is extracted from the evidence given before the House of Commons by Dr. Doyle. On this subject, 1 may mention, that there is a par ticular bull, which is published every year at Rome, in which all Protestants, of all descriptions, are excommunicated and denounced, especially all Protestant sovereigns and persons in authority under them, ecclesiastical and civil. This bull was well known to the committee of the House of Lords and Commons, and they examined Dr. Doyle as to that bull. It is called the "Bella ceence domini." Dr. Doyle denied that the the bull as a bull ever was in force in Ireland. [See Evidence, April 21, 1831, and also Dr. NV Hale's eviden ce , Nov . . 4, 1826.] Now in the teeth of all their oaths what was the fact? Not only was it false, and not only did Dr. M`Hale and Dr. Doyle know it to be false at the moment they were swearing that the bull had never been received in Ireland, for they knew the bull was printed in the 6th volume of Dens's Theo logy, which had been their standard for themselves and their priests, in their colleges and conferences, through all Ire land for seventeen years before ; not only did all their bishops know that the oath they were putting , forth, was u tt er l y at war with every principle of true religi on, and every f ee li ng o f their heart—but what besides this did they do? What did these bishops of Leinster do who had signed this oath? When they had succeeded in deceiving and blinding the British parliament, they went into their synod and enacted their provincial statutes, in which they not only pronounced the sentence of excommunication against all heretics, but they set u p thi s co d e of canon law in which this very bull is not published indeed, for it is quoted and referred to as in force and operation, I know not how often ; and another bull is put in force and operation —a bull which seems to have been wholly unknown to the committees of parliament, or the commissioners of education—a bull setting up not indi rectly, but directly the temporal authority and power of the Pope, and enforcing every command he may choose to issue, with all the sanctions of the church, and all the thunders of the vatican, and enforcing it upon the conscience of every man who acknowledges submission to the church of Rome in Ireland—(hear)—here is the extract from the bull, it is entitled thus— " The execution of the Provisions of the Court of Rome." "In the Bull Pastoralis Regiminis. Bullarium, Tom. 1., No. 47, Laymen who impede the execution of the mandates, citations, and other provisions of the Court flf Rome, are smitten with excommunication, reserved to the Pope, and s o are they who afford aid, counsel, or favour to those who im pede them." , Now you do not understand this, so allow me to explain for you this sentence of the law. He is excommunicated, that is, he is cut off from all the sacraments of his church, driven out of her pale, and out of the bonds of social life. (Hear, hear.) But thi s i s no t a ll ; t h e l aw proceeds— " Regulars and Ecclesiastics," that is, Monks and secular Priests, incur ipso facto suspension, as well from their orders as their offices, both which censures are received to the Roman Pontiff." Now look at the terrors of this law. If a Priest dares to refuse obedience to this law himself, or to enforce obedience upon others, he is suspended from his orders—he is suspended from his office—he is turned out, deprived of all his temporal possessions, without refuge or remedy, a wanderer, a vaga bond upon the earth. You have not a law on the British Statute Book to afford him redress against this tyranny— (hear, hear.) You may recollect the case of Dr. Malholland, who, when deprived of his living by his Bishop, applied to the House of Commons ; and when he wanted Mr. O'Connell, this mighty advocate of civil and religious liberty all over the earth—(cheers and laughter)—to apply to the Parliament of England for Protection, O'Connell advised him to go and submit himself to the Pope—(loud cheers.) But the law proceeds— " Notaries or scribes refusing to make the public instru ments of provisions and executions of this sort at the instance of the party, are deprived of the o ffi ce of no t ary , an d d ec l are d infamous.' Look, I beseech you, at this law of grinding tyranny—this law superseding the laws of the British Empire—this law en forcing all the commands of the Pope, whatever they are, or whatever they may be, on the whole Roman Catholic popu lation of Ireland, under the most terrible sanctions of time and eternity. Remember that this law is set up by Popish Bishops, who, swore in the face of God by the most solemn appeal to him, that the Pope neither has, nor ought to have, temporal power directly or indirectly within this realm— (Loud and continued cheering—(while they set up by this not only a divided allegiance, but a total undivided alle giance to, the Pope and rebellion at his will, against their lawful Sovereign—(cheers.) I trust the meeting is satis fied upon this head, and now I come to the third point in which the Protestants objected to concede power to the Papacy, namely, their intolerance and persecution of heretics. I might here refer to innumerable documents on this subject, but I shall confine myself to one alone, namely, the third canon of the 4th Lateran Council. The third Lateran Council was held A.D. 1179. The fourth Lateran Council A.D. 1215. These Councils denounced the most tremendous sentences against all heretics, but especially those who clung to the truth of Jesus in the midst of Papal darkness and idolatry. Our beloved brethren, the Albigenses and Waldenses, against them as being heretics, the 27th Canon of the third Lateran Council, and the third of the fourth Lateran were directed ; these Canons let loose on them the dogs of war, and beneath the bloody banner of these murderers their bones were left to bleach upon the hills, and the valleys of Piedmont were drenched with the blood of the slaughtered martyrs. (Hear, hear.) The Committee of Parliament was well aware of the nature of this third Canon of the fourth Lateran. Its history has been written in blood throughout the nations of Europe. Dr. Murray, before the Select Committee on State of Ireland, May 17th, 1825, said the third Canon of the fourth Lateran Council had no authority whatever in any part of Christendom ; it never had any au thority in those countries ; and it was madelor a particular purpose, which has long since ceased. This law was enacted to repress the errors of the Albigenses, which for some time before had been productive of extreme mischief in the South of France, and purticularly in Languedoc, and which, if not suppressed, threatened the very existence of society itself. Their errors aimed at the extirpation of the human race. Now history furnishes a flat contradiction to the truth of this statement ; for the Albigenses were not threatening the de struction of society. Vengeance was denouced against them for protesting against the Papacy, and for delivering human conscience from the thr a ld om o f P apa l t yranny . [See Dr. Doyle's Evidence, April 14, 1825 ; also Doyle's Essay, page 70, on the nature and e ff ec t o f thi s l aw , if it were set up in any country, and the Oath and Declaration of the Romish Bishops.] Now let me entreat you to consider this e v id ence of Dr. Doyle and Dr. Murray severally and jointly with their brother bishops—look at the confederated oath of the whole Papal Hierarchy of Ireland—look at their own confession of this atrocious Canon, and then I will ask you what did their bishops do ? But no—l will first pause a moment, and ask you could you disbelieve them. Could you have doubted them at the time? Could you have believed that under such circumstances—under any circumstances—such men, or any men, could be guilty of base, deliberate, cool, and collective perjury ? No—l will answer for you as Englishmen, as honest men you could not. (Hear, hear.) The moral sense of England could not have fallen so low as to suspect others of a crime so abhorrent from her very soil—and England had not yet been polluted by being habituated to Papal perjury. (Loud cheers.) Yet then I will ask you, what did these bishops do ? These very men, who had given their oaths, these detailed and laboured oaths, went into their secret synod, and there they enacted their secret statutes, in which they placed heretics the first on the list of the excommuni cated—and then they promulgated this canon law as the guide and standard for the consciences of the people, in which they lay down this law, among others, that they themselves are bound, in their ecclesiastical office as bishops, to exter minate all heretics out of the diocese, and the canon of thei r church on which they g roun d the aut horityl for this extermi nation, is that very identical blood-stained canon of revolu tion, and treason, and slaughter, which they had so solemnly sworn had no exist ence or au th o rity in the whole world.-- (Hear, hear, cries of oh, oh, and loud cheers.) Let me now read to you the law for the extermination of heretics, which they found on this 3d canon of the 4th Lativan Council.— (Hear.)—" The bishop is bound, even in places where the office of the holy inquisition is in force, sedulously to take care that he should purge the diocese entrusted to him from heretics, and if he should discover any, that he should visit them with the canonical punishments."—(Supplement to Dens, p. 82.)—Remember, then, that those punishments are, by this and all papal laws, the punishment of confiscation, exile, imprisonment, and death. (Hear, hear.) And here I will just mention, that there was another crime, never an ticipated or suspected by the Protestants of this empire, on which the committees of parliament never dreamt of examin ing them : that crime was the setting up the laws of the in quisition ; and I assert that in this canon law they have set those laws up, and that if they could be openly in force, they would be in force, and as far as they can they are at this mo ment in force and operation through the length and breadth of Ireland. And now that they are building their chapels and their nunneries throughout England, I would just suggest to you, as many of you as can find an opportunity, to examine them, and I will venture to assert y ou w ill f i nd that under neath them all there are constructed cells and vaults, which are for cells, and vaults, and dungeons of the inquisition. But now, lest you might suppose I would assert anything here in Sheffield which I should fear to assert in Dublin, 1 think it my duty to read to you a portion of the introduction to this book, from which I have been reading so many of these extracts, which is a book that I ha ve p u bli s h e d myse lf , containing th ose laws at full length, which I have partially quoted, together with the examination of these Romish Bishops, and the full detailed proofs of their iniquity. I have taken the liberty to ins gibe it with all due respect to his excellency the present lord lieutentant of Ireland, and in the introduction I have put its truth, and accuracy to the following test : " I hereby publicly address Dr. Murray, Dr. Keating, Dr. Kinsella, and Dr. Healey, the four Romish bishops of the Province of Leinster especially. I add to them the whole body of Romish bishops in Ireland ; I assert that these in famous Papal Decretals are the laws which they have wicked ly, cruelly, seditiously, and traitorously set up to govern this country, as a supplement to their anti Christian system, which they call theology written by Peter Dens. " I assert that the Romish bishops of Leinster have set them up, actually as published, under the authority of their archbishop, as a supplement to the conference book appoint ed in their provincial synod, and proved so to be, by their secret statutes and directories. I assert that the rest of the Romish bishops have set them up passively, by not declaim ing against them, as the laws to govern their respective pro vinces, and so all Ireland • and, I hereby challenge the whole mass of them, on e an d al l, to disprove the statements in this book, by appearing themselves, or appointing any priest or priests in Ireland to appear for them, bringing with him or them the provincial statutes of Leinster, the directories for nine years past, and the book proved in these statutes, direc tories, and in the catalogue subjoined to those directories, to be set up as the conference book of the province of Leinster. I challenge Dr. Murray to appoint Mr. O'Connell, if I have wronged him in this book, to institute an action against me for it in a court of justice, which I will undertake, please God, to defend.—(Loud and repeated cheering.) " I challenge him to petition the House of Commons, that this statement now laid before the Lord Lieutenant shall be investigated by a committee on behalf of the Romish hierar chy of Ireland. (Cheers.) " I challenge Dr. Murray to appoint Mr. O'Connell to meet this case on the public platform, before a body, con sisting of half Roman Catholics and half Protestants ; or I challenge him to appoint any man in Ireland to do the same, and disprove the facts stated in this book. (Cheers.) " And I do so, that whereas it is always the custom of Popery to deny all statements, and say and swear t h roug h all proofs ; then, where soever this book shall go, and I think it will go through the length and breadth of the empire, this may always remain a standing answer to the falsehoods of the Church of Rome, and an everlasting proof and monu ment of her crimes, that it may be asked now and hereafter. " Did the Popish Bishops, or Daniel O'Connell, ever accept this challenge ?" (Hear, and cheers.) Now, sir, this book has been printed some months, the at • tention of the Lord Lieutenant has been invited to it by a respectful dedication. His challenge to impeach one article of its truth has been given to the Romish bishops and O'Connell, and what have they done ? They have not even dared to notice it. 'Why ? Because they know it is every letter of it true—they dare not call public attention to it by an effort to impeach its truth, because they know they would only arrest the pubiic attention to the facts, and, if once the attention of' the Protestants of this empire was fixed upon the villany demonstrated in this hook, they tremble to think how the whole nation would arise with one unanimous voice of universal horror and execration. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) 1 now come to the second cause why you are called on to adopt this resolution, namely, because our fears have been more than realifcci by the proved organization of Papal trea son. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) This brings me to call your attention to the evidence adduced before the committee of the House of Lords, appointed on the motion of the Earl of Roden. I hold in my hand a digest of that evidence, and I would entreat your careful attention to two points in it—first, the proved organization of a body of traitors —secondly, the objects which this organized body is proved to have in view. The rev. gent. proved from the evidence of Major Rowan, Mr. J. H. Hatton, W. Fawcett, Esq. Major G. Warburton, Capt. G. Despard, and J. F. Uniacke, Esq., that this or ganized body was called by the name of the Religious Liberty Society; that the members are exclusively Roman Catholics, that they solemnly swear obedience to the Church of Rome ; that they are organized by parishes, and have masters in every parish ; and that there is a secret head of the society in Dublin. The objects of this so c i e ty were described to be, the vindication of the members from all charges of perjury ; the recovery of forfeited estates ; severing Ireland from Eng land ; and exterminating by murder the Protestant popula tion of the country. See the evidence of C. Plunkett, Esq. W. Faucett, Esq. H. W. Rowan, Esq. Captain Vignolles, Captain Warburton, an d A. W. owan, Esq. He then pro ceeded—Let us now see what is the collective and compara tive evidence of these documents. Ist. This evidence before the Committee of the Lords, proves a wide spreading and growing conspiracy in Ireland, organized under some secret head, supposed to be in Dublin. These statutes prove the assembling of a secret conclave in Dublin, which concocted them, and set up this code of Canon law, as a Papal law for ~`, ~ ~a ~.,'- Ireland. 2d. This evidence before the Lords' Committee, proving this conspiracy organized by parishes, and here now let me stop to remark that all the great movements of the people in Ireland are got up by parishes. Here is the com pendium of O'Connell's annuity for 1834, the number of contributions, and the channels through which they have come ; the amount is £13,485. The number of coatributions that make up the sum, is 605 , and among those who form the- collectors and contributors, we find three Archbishops, ten Bishops, and six hundred and twelve Priests—(cheers.) Again, here is the record of his annuity for 1835. Look at this long list, ybu see here Ireland parcelled out into parishes, the number given here is 1,227 parishes, with the respective contributions annexed to each. Do you not clearly see that if this is a mere popular or political movement of the people, the thing would be got up by counties or towns, or villages, or baronies. But no, it is by parishes, and who are the heads and masters of these parishes, but the Popish Priests of Ire land—(cheers.) I told you this fellow was but the Punch upon the stage—(loud cheers.) I told you I would let you peep behind the scenes, and see those who work the wires that keep him on his legs and move him—(laughter and loud cheers.) To return then to our documents, I say this evidence demonstrates that this conspiracy is organized by parishes, with parish masters in every one of them—(cheers.) These statutes prove the assembling of the heads of these parishes, to hold conferences together, and to be drilled in those conferences, to rule, by certain laws, the conscience of every man in those parishes, that is under the dominion of Rome. (Hear, hear.) 3rd. This evidence before the com mittee proves that those conspirators consist exclusively of Roman Catholics. These statutes demonstrate that those drilled and distributed directors of their consciences, are the Romish priests of Ireland. (Hear, hear.) 4th. This evi dence before the committee proves that these conspirators are all sworn to obey the Church of Rome. These c anon laws prove that eve r y R oman Catholic is compelled, by the heaviest penalties the church can inflict, in time or eternity, to obey every command the Pope may choose to give. sth. This book, the laws of the Papacy, proves from the evidence before the committees of both houses, in 1825 and 1826, and before the commissioners of education, that there were chiefly, as I have repeatedly stated, three objects of appre hension to the Protestants of the British empire, in giving power to the Papacy. Ist. Breach of faith, as to the for feited estates in Ireland ;-2nd. Allegiance to a foreign power, and treason to the British government ;-3rd. Per secution and murder of heretics, whenever it should be their interest or in their power to effect it. Again, it proves the repeated denial of this three-fold objection, through every mode of swearing, by examination, by voluntary oaths, sin gly and collectively, that men could swear, by all The Popish bishops in Ireland. 6th. This evidence before the lords demonstrates that the ribbonmen, in every quarter in Ireland, specifies exactly this three-fold object of treason. Ist Resnm p tion of the forfeited estates, of which the priests have the lists. 2nd. Throwing off the government oft heir lawful sovereign, by severing Ireland from England. 3rd. The extermination of their Protestant fellow-subjects, by assassination and open murder, whenever an opportunity permits them to effect their, purpose. After refering to a charge of Baron Richard's in the' Spring of 1838, delivered at Cardebar, in which the learned judge mentioned the fact that many of the homicides were committed on the return from the Mass-house, Mr. M`Ghee quoted Priest Morrisy's Development of the Inquisitorial System of the Court of Rome in Ireland, part 2d, p. 251, to shew the mortal blow struck and now striking at Protestants and Protestantism, by giving power to the papacy. He then continued—l need not dwell for a moment on the next head, on which I said you were called on to support this resolution, namely, that the apprehensions of Protestants had been more than realised, by the committing of power and station to the most turbulent and seditious Papal demagogues and dis turbers of the public peace. (Hear, and cheers.) What Protestant of feeling or principle in England is there who does not stand aghast at, the iniquity of men attending their young, gracious, confiding, unsuspecting Sovereign, to see the Crown of England placed upon her Royal brow, to hear her call her God to witness the solemn attestations that bound her to maintain his sacred truth in the Protestant Church and Protestant Institutions of these realms ; and then, when the oath had scarcely passed her Royal lips, to see the men in whose fidelity she reposed her Royal confidence, placing the most virulent, seditious, Papal agitator that ever threatened or disturbed her realm, on her Privy Council. My fourth reason is, in my humble opinion, the most power ful of all, namely that under this influence of Papal tyranny men invade the rights and duties of all Christians in our Empire taking down the Holy Word of our God as the standard of the national instruction in Ireland,—setting up over the education of England a Spiritual Star Chamber, a power unknown to the Constitution, and fearing in the conscious ness of their offence to appeal even to the Representatives of England. (Hear, hear.) But this is the part of the subject on which I will not attempt to enter. I leave it in hands far more competent to deal with it ; there is none like my dear brother, Mr. M`Neile, to stand forth in defence of the Scriptural Education of his country. (Loud and repeated cheering.) Yes, my dear brother, I commend the Education Board to your care. (Cheers and laughter.) I shall merely notice a charge that is brought against us, as a most over whelming and Unanswerable crime, namely, that we are endeavouring, indeed, to raise up a cry of " No Popery" in England. What, and do they think we shall shrink from the imputation ! I stand in the presence of my God and my Country, and before Heaven and earth I glory in the honour able office of' lifting up my voice like a trumpet to cry NO POPERY. (Loud cheers.) What, let me ask, has placed you there, and placed us here, as Freemen and Christians ? What has bestowed upon the British nation the blessings with which God has crowned the land? The blessings of your boasted Constitution ; the blessings of civil and re ligious liberty ? What but the bold fidelity of our Reformers, who, under God, in the face of danger and of death, lifted up their voices and echoed the cry through the length and breadth of England NO POPERY? (Loud cheers.) But it is unkind—but it is illiberal—but it is uncharitable to our Roman Catholic fellow subjects. Now let us just ask this simple question—do we really count the conduct of our Reformers to our forefathers—do we count their honest fidelity to them, and to God illiberal and uncharitable ? Do we not consider those Reformers—the noblest benefactors of ourselves and our ancestors—the best and brightest orna ments of their country ; and for whet, but for their resolute discharge of faithful duty to their God, in lifting up their voices to cry NO POPERY. (Loud and repeated cheers.) And is that which was faithful and christian, and charitable in them, unfaithful and unchristian in us ? I can lay my hand upon my heart before my God, and say, that, not in a spirit of hostility, but that as I love and value the best and dearest interests, the temporal and eternal welfare of my Roman Catholic fellow subjects, so in direct proportion, I feel called upon to raise and maintain the cry NO HOPERY. (Loud cheers.) If I could follow my heart wherever it would go, I would visit every spot where my Roman Catholic fellow subjects are deluded and enslaved, and there, as I value their salvation and their freedom, I would cry NO POPERY. (Cheers.) I would go into the mass-house where the minister of idolatry, a papal priest, takes ,n thing like this in his hand (holding up a wafer) this idol of paste with an image stamped on it—and while he blasphemously mocks the incarnation of the Son of God —mocks that wondrous " Mystery of Godli ness, God manifest in the flesh," pretending to embody in this, at his fiat, the " whole body, blood, soul, and divinity, of the Lord Jesus Christ." I would tell him that this idol is like other idols, the work of men's hands, " having eyes it sees not, having ears it hears not, neither is there any breath in its mouth—they that make it are like unto it, and so are all they that put their trust in it. I would tell him this. I would warn him to turn from this accursed idol, to serve the living God, and in the name of that God I would shout out NO POPERY. (Loud cheering.) I would go into his dark and damnable confessional—(hear, hear)—where my poor Roman Catholic countrymen entrust their wives and daugh ters to him, under the awful delusion of false religion, and while the tyrant was pressing his obscene, infernal investiga tion, putting the heart and feeling of the helpless creature on the moral rack, till she sunk enslaved and powerless at his feet, I would drag the victim forth in triumph from his grasp, and ring in the monster's ear NO POPERY. (Immense cheering.) I would go to the dying bed of my poor Roman Catholic fellow sinner, and while the light of truth is shut out from his eye, and the light of heaven from his heart— while the blessed book is denied him, or taken from beneath his pillow, as it was in Ireland by a Romish priest, and com mitted to the flames —while masses, and oils, and refuges of lies like these are set before him, as the hope of his immortal soul. I would tell him faithfully and affectionately of the glorious finished work of a crucified and risen Saviour. I would tell him of that righteousness that could cover all his nakedness, that precious blood that could cleanse him from all his sin. I would proclaim to him the glad tidings of free and full salvation in the Lord Jesus. I would exhort him to turn from those refuges of lies to the mercy of his Saviour and his God ; and as 1 loved and valued his soul and his eter nal happiness, I would cry NO POPERY. (Loud cheers.) I would go into the school room, where they dare to take the Bible from ---; but no —no, my brother :it is you who shall go there. (Laughter and cheers.) ' You will ex pose the iniquity that robs man of his glorious birthright from his cradle to his grave. You are the man to go into the school-room, to take the Bible in your hand and cry NO POPERY. (Loud, cheering.) But it is not only for the happiness, for the salvation of the Roman Catholics, but for the sake of every blessing we value in our Protestant Empire ; as I value the blessings of civil and religious liberty ; as I value the maintenance of the Established Christian Church ; as I value all that is dear to man ; as I value even life itself ; I would make my voice echo, if I could, from every rock upon the shores of the United Empire; and the words it ehould resound should be NO POPERY. (Loud cheers.) I would go into the conclave of the Popish Bishops, where they con coct their secret statutes and their traitorous and cruel laws, and shout in their ears NO POPERY. (Loud cheering.) I would go into their conferences with their Priests, and while I saw them with- their Dens's Theology and Canon Laws in their hands, holding their conclave to concoct their cruelties and crimes, I would lift up my voice, and in the name of the Holy God I would cry out NO POPERY. (Loud cheering.) I would go into the Ribbon Lodge, and tell my poor unhappy countrymen that their parish masters, instead of leading them, as they ought, to truth, and peace, and happiness, in time and in eternity, were leading them to guilt, and misery, and blood, and everlasting perdition ; and I would make the Ribbon Lodge resound with the cry of NO POPERY (Hear and loud cheering.) I would go into the House of Commons. (Loud and continued cheers.) I would look Papal perjury in the face, and while ,I gave no tice of a motion to extract its pollution (hear, hear), in the name of England, and of England's God, I would shout out NO POPERY. (Deafening cheering.) I would go into the House of Lords. I would take with all deference the report of their own committee in my hand. I would appeal to them whether it did not furnish demonstration of the cause of our misery. I would lay before them the authors and movers of the crimes they had detected ; and even in the midst of that august assembly I would cry NO POPERY. (Loud cheering.) , I would go into the Privy Council ; I would tell the Papal Privy Councillor, that he must be of necessity a traitor, for if he was not a traitor to his master, the Pope, he must be a traitor the Protestant Queen of England, and I would cry NO POPERY. (Loud and repeated cheers.) I would go to the very footstool of the throne--(hear, hear, and cheers) —and with a heart as full of loyalty and love to our graci ous sovereign as any subject in her realm ; prompted by those very feelings, I would tell her how her confidence had been basely dishonoured and betrayed by the men that ought to have laid down a thousand lives in her defence. (Hear, hear.) I would remind her gracious Majesty of the sacred principles of eternal truth, for the defence of which her royal ancestors were placed upon the British throne. I would remind her, that the throne that is founded on eternal truth, alone can look with confidence for its stability to God. I would remind her of the high and lofty covenant that ratified her sacred title to reign over a free and Protestant nation. I would tell her that the best security for the love and loyalty of a people to their sovereign was based on pure religion, and their faith and fealty to their God. I would tell her that the Protestant religion was, under God, the only solid bulwark of the British throne ; that on the very heart of Britain's monarch ought to be engraven the words, NO POPERY.(Loud cheers) I would go to the very vatican, and warn that man of sin, the Pope, to renounce the horrid blasphemy. 0, think what blasphemy it is ; a miserable sinner of the earth daring to call or think himself the vicar of the Lord of Life and Glory. I would warn him, as a fellow sinner, to " flee from the wrath to come ;" tell him that "all manner of sins and blas phemies should be forgiven unto men ;" that there was mercy for his guilty soul in the very Saviour whom he dis honoured, and that if there was hope for his soul, he must cry NO POPERY. (Hear, and Cheers.) In fine, sir, as a brother, as a man, as a Christian, above all, as a minister of Christ, I trust I shall never close my lips upon the sub ject till they are sealed in death, or till that day shall come when Heaven and earth shall take up the song of praise, that Babylon is cast, like a millstone, into the deep, when the Lord of Glory shall appear ; when she shall be consumed with the word of his mouth, and destroyed with the brightness of his coming. --I have the honour,sir, to move the adoption of this resolution. —The rev. gentleman then resumed his seat, amidst loud and protracted el-leering, The Rev. HUGH WNXILIS Was received with loud and protracted cheering. He said,—Sir, in seconding the reso lution which my reverend friend has proposed, I am anxious to take the whole meeting with us. It might indeed be sup posed, from the warm and apparently universal approbation with which the resolution and his masterly support of it have been received, that we are cordially unanimous in pledging ourselves to go forward in bold, uncompromising defence of our Protestant institutions. (Hear, hear, Yes, and applause.) Excuse me, lam not yet satisfied. Ido not indeed suppose that we have here any opponents in the common acceptation of that word, but I do not feel satisfied with the sort of sup port which we receive in this work from some who personally are amongst our kindest friends. (Hear.) There are true spiritual Christians who have an unfeigned disinclination to controversy, and a conscientious objection to every thing that engages their clergymen in controversial preaching or speaking. The subject which they desire to, hear continually from the ministers of the. Gospel, is per sonal religion, in one or other of its branches : either the doctrines which should be believed, the experience which should be enjoyed, or the duties which should be performed by the individual Christian. We highly value these topics, and can appreciate the spi ritual anxiety of mind which rests upon them for careful self-examination ; and most unfeignedly would we rejoice in such a state of things in our country, as would justify the wisdom, or even the safety, of confining ourselves to such topics. Thankful indeed would we be, for such a state of things as would circumscribe the duties of the clergy within the limits of the shepherd's office ; and most cheerfully would we devote ourselves entirely to the feeding of the sheep and lambs of Christ's flock, to the gathering together of those who are scattered, to the binding up of those who are bruised or broken, and to the strengthening and refresh ing of those who are sick and weary. But we are compelled to remember that the same men who in holy Scripture are compared to shepherds, are on the same infallible authority compared to watchmen, and also to soldiers. (Hear, hear, hear.) What if the fold be assailed by enemies from without ; are we to continue in the unin terrupted peaceful feeding of the flock, until both flock and shepherd become the easy prey of the wolf and the bear ? (Cheers.) Surely this would be to fasten with unjustifiable partiality on one Scriptural figure descriptive of our high and holy calling, to the neglect of other figures equally Scriptural and equally descriptive of our truly conservative office. While therefore we cordially coincide in the paramount im portance of personal religion and direct individual teaching in the truth, we cannot but feel that it would be a dereliction of duty, to confine ourselves exclusively to that course : par taking as we most sincerely do in the pain which arises from the necessity of controversy, we are nevertheless compelled to feel that the state of things around us inevitably involves that necessity. It has been said by a high political authority, that the bat tle of the constitution is to be fought at the registries ; but I would take the liberty of saying to my reverend brethren, many of whom I see around me, that in a higher and far more effective sense, the battle of the constitution is to be fought in the pulpit and on the platform. It is from thence that the people must be instructed in those principles of national god liness, which they are called upon to put in practice in every department of life, the registries and the hustings included. (Loud cheers.) It was the clergy of the Church of England who won the reformation, and by the clergy of the Church of England must the light and life and truth of the reformation be preserved and perpetuated. (Loud cheers.) If it be said that granting the necessity fu: controversy, still it should be carried on in a Christian spirit ; we say the same. Let the expression Christian be understood as refer ing us to the example of Christ in whose steps we ought to walk, and not to the fancies of men ; and we desire no other standard. In every thing personal, Christ was meek and lowly and patient ; when he was reviled he reviled not again,— nay, even when he was buffetted, he threatened not. He sought not his own glory. But when God's truth was con cerned Christ was eager and earnest ; the zeal of God's house had eaten him up ; his langugage was as strong as his zeal was sincere and ardent; to the perverters of God's truth who made void the 'commandments of God through their tradi tions, he said, " Ye hypocrites, ye are of your father the devil ; ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell ?" This was true Christian charity. Anything at all approaching - to this tone is now called un christian. Zeal for God is now denounced as fanaticism, and plainness of speech against the enemies of his truth is accounted vulgarity and uncharitableness. It has become the opinion of too many, that, in order to be kind and chris tian, a man must be soft and useless, that in order to be free from prejudice a man mus t b e free from decision, that to be impartial it is necessary to be indifferent. (Hear, hear.) Against this ensnaring opinion, this silken attire of seduc tive infidelity, we protest and protest loudly in the names of Apostles and Prophets, who were as warm as they were true, who felt kindly and spoke plainly and powerfully, presenting for our imitation that truly Christian combination of zeal without prejudice, candour without compromise, charity without latitudinarianism, impartiality without indifference, which should characterise every good faithful hardship-bear ing soldier of the cross of Christ. (Enthusiastic cheers.) In urging this sacred warfare, it is of the first importance to hays clear views of the genius and tactics of our great enemy. It is indispensable for example to know that no at tempt of Papal aggression is to be looked upon as single, de tached, or accidental, but all as links in a chain of attempts arising from the same unchanging principle. Passing inci dents indeed supply opportunities for seeming variety in the movements of the Papal system, and this gives to those move ments an appearance of natural extemporaneousness which deceives the unwary ; while, in fact, all is prompted by a cool, deliberate, and systematised organization. (Hear.) The appalling exhibition just now made to you, of the delibe rate treachery, planned, sworn to, and diabolically practised by the Papal hierachy and their political tools in Ireland, is but one link in this great characteristic chain. (Hear, hear.) It is a great mistake to look upon the Papal system as merely a false religion. It does indeed include a false reli gion, which wields for secular purposes,—(hear)—hut it includes more, much more. It is a temporal monarchy, whose aim is universal dominion. This giant ambition rests for its avowed support upon the assertion that our Lord Jesus Christ has left a vicar upon earth, to exercise all his authority until his coming again : that the Apostle Peter first, and after him each succeeding Bishop of Rome, was invested by divine right with this awful authority : that thus the Pope is Priest of Priests, and King of Kings. Innocen t 111 declares the combined po wers i n th ese wor d s —l n ?oken of spirituals, she (the Church) gave me a mitre, in token of temporals, a crown: a mitre for priestly power, a crowu for regal; con stituting me his Vicar, who hath written on his garment and on his thigh, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. (Hear, hear.) A conscientious disciple of the Papal system can no more brook a rival to the supreme Pontiff, than a sincere Christian can to the Lord Jesus Christ. I have no doubt that thou sands and tens of thousands of Reiman Catholics believe, with the utmost sincerity, in the divine right of the Pope to universal supremacy ; and that maintaining his right and per secuting his opponents even to death, they supply a standing fulfilment of our Lord's prophecy to his followers, " the time cometli when he that killeth you will think that he doeth God service.", The rise and progress of this delusion are thus sketched by Dupin, in his Ecclesiastical History of the Sixteenth Cen tury, lib i. chap. 8. " Until near the close of the twelfth century, the Popes had made their way to power by political intrigue, availing themselves of the weakness or wickedness of one sovereign after another, interfering as mediators between contending princes, and turning the negotiation to their own prOfit ; up holding coronation as essential to - the kingly character, and then setting a price upon the ceremony ; thus gradually obtaining concessions from all the states in Christendom, and securing every fresh advantage by the solemnity of a treaty. Thus arose the claims ; and all these were esta blished while as yet the pontiffs were simply vicars of Peter : but having introduced a maxim, that whatever was given to the Church was given to God, and became thenceforward part of the things that are God's,' they sub stituted a divine for a human right to their acquisitions, and from being vicars of Peter, promoted themselves to be vicars of Jesus Christ. With their new title they assumed a new prerogative ; their authority was no longer merely temporal, differing only in deg ree from that of any ot h er li ege lord ; it was a spiritual aut hority, spiritual from its end and from the character of him who held it, and extending to the controul of all earthly power for the good of the church. Such is the authority claimed by Innocent and Boniface. The bull of the latter was renewed by Clement the Fifth, with some spe cial exceptions in favour of the kingdom of France, and finally ratified by Leo the Tenth in the fifth council of the Lateran. Leo speaks of the jurisdiction implied in the title of the vicar of Christ, in the following terms : " Christ when about to leave this world and depart to the Father, in the solidity of the rock did institute Peter and the successors of Peter to be his vicars, to whom, as we are instructed by the Book of Kings, obedience is so indispensable, that whosoever doth not obey must die the death." —Cone. Lat. Less. 11. When the Reformation began, the Popes proceeded, in virtue of this title, to excommunicate heretical princes, and, in the interval between the excommunications of Henry and Eliza beth, Pius the Fourth incorporated the title into the creed which bears his name. This creed is professed on oath by all secular priests having cure of souls, all regulars, all members of religious orders, including military orders, when such are in existence. When the supremacy of this great idol is triumphant ; that is, when all, high and low, bow , down before the sovereign Pontiff, the system has all it can desire, and may he quiescent like a gorged lion. In such a state of things there may be political peace, if the hopeless prostration of superstitious slavery deserve the name of peace. Man cannot move against the system because it is supreme, and the Devil wit, not, because it is corrupt. (Loud cheers.) When this supremacy is disputed and resisted, then the system is roused into action, and has something to do. The refractory must be reduced. If the recusants be powerless individuals, redress is easy, because compulsion is easy. The righ of compulsion is grounded upon the property which the system claims in all the baptized. There is an-apparent-libe rality in one of the anathemas of the Council of Trent. "If any one shall say that baptism in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, conferred by a heretic, with an intention to do that which the church intends in that sacra ment, is not true baptism ; let him be anathema." The object of this concession, however, is made sufficiently clear by what follows. " If any one shall say that those who have been baptized are free from all the precepts of the holy church, either writ ten or delivered by tradition, so that they are not obliged to observe them, unless they will submit to them of their own accord, let him be anathema." Having then declared the lawfulness of infant baptism, the council proceed to lay down the 14th canon. "If any one shall say that these baptized children, when they grow up, are to be asked whether they will confirm what their godfathers promised in their name; and that if they say they will not, they are to be left to their own discretion, and not to be forced, in the meantime, into the observance of a Christian 4ife by any other punishment than that of keeping them from the reception of the eucha rist and the other sacraments till they repent, let him be anathema. (Loud cries of " hear, hear.") In strict accordance with this council, to the decrees of which, be it remembered, all Popish priests are sworn, their angelical Doctor Thomas puts the question, whether baptized infidels, as heretics and apostates usually are, also baptized schismatics, may be compelled by corporal punishment to return to the faith and unity of the church ? and having an swered in the affirmative, he suggests this objection—" No one believes except willingly ; but the will cannot be forced, ergo, no one can be forced to the faith." His answer to this objection is, " Negando conseq. non enim cogitur ut volens credat, sed ut ex volente fiat volens." (Laughter and cheers among the clergy and gentlemen on the platform.) That is, no one is forced to believe unwillingly, but that of unwilling, he may become willing. (Loud laughter and cheers.) Here, again, this anti-christian system arrogates the perfections of God, whose prerogative it is to change thehuman will, and con cerning the gracious agency of whose Spirit in man it is writ ten—" thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power." Against refractory individuals, therefore, the papal system is supplied with a summary process for regaining its ascendancy. A thumb-screw, a wheel, a sharp pointed pendulum, or any other such article of inquisition furniture, will answer the purpose, by either curing or killing. (Loud cheers.) If, however, the recusants (instead of helpless individuals) be a King or Queen, and a powerful nation ; then, redress on the part of the papal system is not so easy. Still, it must be attempted. The means used in such a case are variable ; neither restricted by principle, nor confined to argument. When force can be used with effect, the papacy uses force, when fraud holds out a prospect of more success, it uses fraud, (Loud cheers.) Ever since the dominion of the Bishop of Rome has been shaken off from this realm of England, attempts have been made, varying in their character according to circumstances, but all tending to the same result, namely, to recover the allegiance of England to the Court of Rome. The reign of Queen Elizabeth supplies a series of examples. I have ex tracted a list of them with their dates, but I fear they will be disregarded and felt wearisome as an old and obsolete story. (Cries of uo, no ; read, read, and cheers.) In 1560, the Bishop of Rome attempted by gentle words to win upon the Queen, he commissioned Vincentio Parpalia, Abbot of St. Saviour's, with a letter to the Queen, written in very obliging language, in case the Queen would join herself to the Church of Rome, and recognise his supremacy, he would disannul all the sentences against her mother's marriage as unjust—he would confirm the English service book by his authority—and grant the use of the sacraments in both kinds. Elizabeth would not hearken to any proposals from him, the Legate did not venture any further than Brussels. 2. The next year 1561, he tried again in a similar way, deputing Abbot Martingo, but with a similar failure. 3. The Bishop of Viterbo, the Nuncio in France, engaged the Kings of France and Portugal an d th e D u k e of Alva, to persuade Elizabeth to send deputies out of England to the Council of Trent, which had begun its sittings and was going on, Elizabeth answered, " that she desired with all her heart an (Ecumenical Council, but a Popish one she would never honour with an ambassador : that she had no business with the Bishop of Rome, whose authority was abrogated in Eng land by Act of Parliament : that it was not his, but the Em peror's prerogative to call conncils. And lastly, that she could not find he had any sovereign power over other Bishops." These methods failed. In 1569, the Bull of Pius sth was published, entitled " The sentence declaratory of our holy Lord Pope Pius V., against Elizabeth, the pretended Queen of England, and the heretics adhering to her; it is dated Feb. 4, 1569. After reciting her heresy, and contumely, the 4th and sth sections of the Bull, are in these words, " And moreover we do declare her to be deprived of her pretended right to the kingdom aforesaid, and of all dominion, dignity, and privilege whatsoever." " And also the nobility, subjects, and people of the said kingdom, and all others which have in any sort sworn unto her, to be for ever absolved from any such oath • and all manner of duty, of do m i n i on , a ll eg i ance, and obedience, as we also do by these presents absolve them, and do deprive the same Elizab e th o f h er pretended title to the kingdom, and all other things above said. And we do command and interdict all and every the noblemen, subjects, people and others aforesaid, that they presume not to obey her or her monitious mandates and laws ; and those which shall do the contrary we do innodate with the like sentence of Anathema." This Bull was fixed upon the gate of the Bishop of London's palace, and also in St. Paul's Church-yard, May 25th, 1570, by a man called John Fellows; he was a daring and doubtless a sincere Papist ; he avowed the deed and was hanged for it. Many copies of this Bull found their way through England, hut without much effect ; -the only men of note who were induced to rebel by it were the Earls of Westmoreland and Northumberland ; they were soon put down ; Westmoreland fled to Flanders, and lived in obscurity, supported by a pen sion from the king of Spain. Northumberland was taken and beheaded at. York, in 1572. 5. In 1484, Parry's treason was detected, and himself executed in Palace Yard, Westminster. 6. In 1586, Babbington's conspiracy failed. 7. Failing in all these attempts, a foreign invasion was organised. Sixtus the sth issued a Bull, in which he said that he granted it at the vehement desire of some principal English men, and in which he declared that he had used great dili gence with diverse Princes, especially with the Spanish King, to use all his force, that Queen Elizabeth might be turned out of her dominions, and her adherents punished because she was an heretic !! Therefore, by these presents, we declare that it is not only lawful, but commendable to lay hands on the said usurper, and other her adherents, and for this so doing they shall he well rewar d e d . Philip, King of Spain stirred up by this, prepared a vast fleet, the celebrated Spanish Armada. The winds and the waves, under the good hand of a pro tecting God, fought for England ; the miscalled invincible Armada was discomfited and shattered, and the palladium of a world's christianity was preserved. (Loud cheers.) Two attempts at assassination succeeded : one by Lopez, a Portu gal physician, and another by Patrick Cullen, an Irish fencing master. These also failed. Early in the reign of James 1., as soon as the Papists perceived that the King was sincere in his Protestantism, so that they could not work with him, they renewed their wonted course of attempts to regain the supremacy. The first is thus briefly recorded in Russell's Modern Europe, vol. iii. p. 171. " While James was taking these prudent steps, some bold malcontents conspired to place on the throne of England Arabella Stuart, the Kin's cousin-germa n , equa ll y d escended with him from Henry VII. Watson and Clarke, two Ca tholic priests, were accused of devising the plot, and executed for their share in it. But the chief conspirators were Lord Cobham and his brother, Mr. Broke, Lord Grey, Sir Griffin Markham, Sir Walter Raleigh, and other discarded courtiers. These daring and ambitious spirits, meeting frequently, be lieving the whole nation as dissatisfied as themselves, had entertained very criminal projects; and some of them, as appeared on their trial, had even entered into a correspond ence with Aremberg, the Flemish ambassador, in order to disturb the new settlement of the crown. Cobham, Grey, and Markham were pardoned, after they had laid their heads upon the block ; Broke was executed, and Raleigh reprieved. He remained, however, in confinement many years." The next was the gunpowder treason of infamous notoriety. 1 need not delay you with any description of the well-known particulars of that diabolical conspiracy, whereby a Protestant King and family, a n d p ar li amen t, were t o b e bl own, as a sky rockt, into the air, that so the earth might be left a prey to the usurpation of the Supreme Pontiff. (Loud cheers.) But I will read to you a passage, from " Burnett's History of his own Times," whereby the infamy of that conspiracy is fas tened, beyond the reach of the most ingenious denial, upon the Popish party. " And since I name that conspiracy (the gunpowder plot) which the papists in our days have had the impudence to deny, and to pretend it was an artifice of Cecil's to engage some desperate men into a plot which he managed so that he could discover it when he pleased, I will mention what I myself saw and had for some time in my possession. Sir, Everard Digby died for being of the conspiracy : he was the father of the famous Sir Kenelm Digby. The family being ruined, upon the death of Sir Kenelm's son, when the exe cutors were looking out for writings to make out the titles of the estates they were to sell, they were directed, by an old servant, to a cupboard that was very artificially hid, in which some papers lay that she had observed Sir Kenelm was oft reading. They, looking into it, found a velvet bag, within which there were two other silk bags, (so carefully were these relies kept,) and there was within these a collection of all the letters that Sir Everard had writ during his imprisonment. In them he expresses great trouble because he heard some of their friends blamed their undertaking; he highly magnifies it, and says, if he had many lives, he would willingly have sacrificed them all in carrying it on. In one paper he says, they had taken care that there were not above two or three worth saving to whom they had not given notice to keep out of the way; and in none of those papers does he express any sort of reason for that which he had been engaged in, and for that which he suffered." The country was long in such a state of uncertainty as to national religion, that, the casting voice for or against our Scriptural Protestantism may be said to have rested, under God, with the crown and the parliament. If they continued Protestants, and gave protection to free inquiry and scriptu ral instruction, the nation would become confirmed in Pro testantism. If they relapsed into Popery and crushed in qUiry, the nation would relapse after them. This was well known to Garnett, the master of the Jesuits, then in Eng land, and beyond question the prime mover of the gun powder treason. That conspiracy, aiming as it did at the King and Parliament, was suitable to the exigencies of the case for the restoration of papal supremacy. (Loud cheering.) The circumstances were widely different eighty years afterwards,'when the second James was on the throne. The controversy had been warmly urged in the interim. The papal pretensions, as well as the false doctrines and super stitious practices of the system, had been canvassed and un answerably exposed by Stillingfleet, Tillotson, and other Protestant champions. The pulpits of the church had sounded forth Protestant doctrine ; and the nation had be come so confirmed in Protestantism and liberty, that even the crown could not sway the people against them. (Loud cheers.) And here we behold the Proteus adaptations of the papal system to the existing circumstances. Instead of acting against the authorities, it availed itself of the character and preferences of the King, and acted with and by the autho rities. Violence against an unwilling nation, would of course have caused reaction and defeated the object, seeing that a nation cannot be conveniently secured at ex nolente fiat volens—(loud and continued cheering)—therefore, violence was not the suitable weapon to'wield. Intrigue was better. Dissimulation must be practised. Accordingly we find the papist King " endeavouring to gain the Protestant dis senters, and to form an unnatural coalition between them and the Roman Catholics. With this view he took occasion frequently to extol the benefits of toleration, and to exclaim against the severities of the Church of Eng land. He cotnmanded an inquiry to be wade into all the oppressive prosecutions which the dissenters had suffered, as a prelude to yielding them security or redress ; and by means of that ascendancy which the Crown had acquired over the corporations, he thrust many of them into the magistracy, under various pretences, in hopes of being able to procure a parliament that would give its sanction to the repeal of the test act and the penal laws against non-conformity. He af fected to place them on the same footing with the Catholics ; and to widen the breach between them and the church, whose favour he despaired of recovering, but whose loyalty he never suspected, he issued a new declaration of indulgence, and ordered it to be read in all the pulpits.”—Russell's Modern Europe, vol. iv. p. 139. The bishops, as the sentinels of the national religion, took alarm at this arbitrary violation of the laws, and after due consultation, determined not to comply with the royal mandate, but presented a respectful petition to James, remonstrating against the illegality of the power which he had assumed. There is indeed, and there was, a strictly legal and constitutional dispensing power in the Crown ; but of course it had its limits. It extended to the penalties, but not to the privileges of the subject It was, and is,' constitutional in the Crown to dispense with the sen tence of the law passed upon, a convict, and to throw open his prison'doors ; but it was, and is, unconstitutional and il legal for.the Crown to dispense with the habeas corpus, and throw any subject untried into prison. (Loud cheering for several ininuteS.) But even then, supposing such an exer cise of arbitrary authority, the Sovereign is not personally responsible. The constitution has shielded the Monarch behind We ministers, who are responsible to the nation, and upon whom, as the advisers of an illegal act, the concentrated indignation of an insulted people should fall. (Renewed and enthusiaStic cheering.) The responsibility of the ministers of the Crown stands connected with that other feature of the constitution, that no men can continue ministers after they have lost the confidence of the country. And if any men, after they have lost the confidence of the country, and pub licly confessed, in their places in parliament, that such is the case, shall continue to advise the Sovereign to retain them in office, such men become unconstitutional traitors ; and if the country continue to tolerate such men, it becomes par ticeps criminis in the prostration of its own liberties. (Tre mendous cheering.) I am indebted to an anonymous friend for the following animated account of the result in the days of James : " The day appointed for the reading of the Declaration soon drew nigh, and so nobly and faithfully were t h e Bishops sustained by the great body of the clergy, that ' not more than two hundred in all,' states Sir James Mackintosh, ' are said to have complied out of a body of ten thousand.' Irritated at this disobedience, the King, on the Bth June, ordered the Seven Prelates who had signed the Petition to be committed to the Tower, on the plea of having published a seditious libel against the Sovereign and his government. " The names of these venerable champions of our faith, are William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury; Wm. Lloyd, Bishop of St. Asaph ; Francis Turner, of Ely ; John Lake, of Chichester ; Thomas Kenn, of Bath and Wells ; Thomas White, of Peterborough ; and Sir Jonathan Trelawney of Bristol. Had they but lifted up a finger, the people would have risen in a mass to their rescue. But in meekness and lowliness, without any attempt to excite the popular sympathy, nay with the strongest desire and effort to suppress it, they proceeded to the barges that were to convey them to the Tower. The populace expressed their feelinzs in tears and prayers. Thousands begged the blessings of the Bishops, even running into the water to implore it. Multitudes, kneeling and supplicating Heaven for their deliverance, lined the banks of the Thames as they passed. On landing at the Tower, several of the guards, and even sonic of the officers, knelt ;town to receive their blessing ; and it was observed at the time, and deemed a mark of special Providential inter ference, that on the evening of the bishops' commitment, when they attended divine service in the chapel of the Tower, the second lesson was the sixth chapter pf the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, wherein they were exhorted ' to approve themselves ministers of God, with patience, in afflictions, in imprisonments.' " The same manifestation of popular feeling continued unabated throughout the following days. The nobility, of both sexes, hastened to proffer their solace and assistance to the venerable prisoners, and to beg their blessing; the soldiers on guard, despite the reprimand of their commanding officer, drank their healths ; and dense masses of true born English men thronged around the Tower, as if ready, should occa sion arise, to do battle for the passive guards of the common liberties. Even the dissenting ministers, though so long silent in behalf the Protestant cause, now came forward in many instances, with a noble forgetfulness of all past dis sensions, and sent a deputation to visit and encourage the Prelates whom they had before opposed. (Loud cheers.) " The day of the ever memorable twenty-ninth of June, heheld the bishops entering the court. The four judges were on the bench ; the Attorney and Solicitors-general, and two other eminent lawyers appeared for the crown ; while among the counsel retained for the prisoners, were the names, so dear to every Protestant, of Finch, an ancestor of the present Earl of Winchelsea, and of Somers, afterwards the great Lord Chancellor and Statesman. The trial, which proceeded in the usual form, and lasted during the whole day, was frequent ly interrupted by unusual and irrepressible outbreaks of the audience. On every turn of the case unfavourable to the prosecution, a triumphant laugh, or a shout of joy,' which the chief justice soon gave over attempting • to check, rang ominously through the court. Lord Sunderland, the King's prime minister, who had already become a secret Romanist, appeared as a witness ; and after having gone through the ordeal of being hooted, and hissed, and denounced as a Po pish dog' by the clamorous multitude around the doors, came into the court colourless, trembling, downcast, bowed beneath a load of public obloquy and self-reproach. Wil liams, one of the crown lawyers, on making some indiscreet allusion, was also recei ve d w i t h a general h i ss. " At length the counsel on either side had done their part, and the Chief Justice proceeded to sum up the evidence to the jury. Two of the bench, Wright (the Chief Justice) and Allybone, considered that the petition amounted to a libel ; Holloway and Powell pronounced it to be no libel. The jury retired in the evening, and could not concur in a ver dict until six o'clock on the following morning. At ten the prelates were brought into court, and the jury, through their foreman, delivered in their verdict—Nor GUILTY. (Cheers.) The shouts that arose within the court at the annunciation of this glorious result, were instantly caught up by the as sembled thousands from without. With the rapidity of the fiery cross,—the war-signs of the Highlands,—stunning ac clamations of triumph rushed from one end of the metropolis to the other, and were not long, before swelled by the thou sand voices of the soldiers, they thundered in the ears of the monarch himself, then occupied in the camp at Hounslow. The jurors were caressed as national deliverers, with a warmth of gratitude that it wou ld b e cold-hearted to' call extrava gant. The bishops, preserving the same equanimity which they had evinced throughout every stage of the proceedings, and incalculating submission and respect to the higher pow ers, escaped as privately as possible from the overwhelming gratulations which the exultant metropolis was desirous of pouring upon them. Some renegade and faithless church men fared according to their deserts, and were assailed with the reproaches and derision of the multitude. Nothing could stem the tide of universal joy. Its first ebullition was such as did honour to the piety of a Protestant nation ; for the people, grateful for so signal a deliverance, crowded to the churches, and performed their devotions with an earnest ness and ecstasy, and vehemence of gesture, unwonted in the character of English worship. Other more usual exhibitions of public rejoicing succeeded in the evening. Bonfires bla zed, even before the King's palace, and were not quenched till the morning of Sunday ; windows were illuminated ; bells pealed; the Pope was burnt in effigy; feasting filled the streets; fire-works and fire-arms added to what a witness of the scene described as ' a very rebellion in noise ;' and the excessive exuberance of delight, as might have been expected, in two many instances ran over into licence and disorder. The country was infected with the contagious and boisterous transports of the city ; the principal towns in the kingdom shared in the triumph ; and the grand jury of Middlesex, although sent out no less than three times, refused to find bills against several persons who had been indicted for the kindling of bonfires." (Loud and continued cheering.) The feeling of the nation was effectually roused. The Prince of Orange, of glorious me mor y, was i nv i ted, and Popery was defeated. (Renewed and fervent applause.) The strength of the nation lay in its true Protestant principle and awakened feeling. The Bishops gave expression to the prin ciple, and their reception by the nation manifested the feel ing. And thus, as the gunpowder plot against Protestant individuals, so also the toleration plot against a Protestant constitution, mercifully failed. (Cheers.) In our own days, the strength of the nation's Protestant ism, is not in any individuals of name and rank and station, but in the feelings and habits and hereditary attachment to the Established Chureh, of the great bulk of the population. If the Jesuit agents of the ambitious Pontiff, encouraged by the generous concessions of a deceived people, deceived by the base deliberate perjury which my reverend friend has this day exposed, be aiming now a blow at our detested Pro testantism, their mark will prove to be the hereditary attach ment of the people to the Established Church. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) How is this attachment to be undermined? if the increas ing population of the country can be kept out of the pale of the church, for want of churches and clergymen, that would do something. Hence the clamour of the " unnatural co alition" against church extension. (Loud cheers.) But even that would not work quick enough for the ardour of Papal ambition quickened into activity by flattering hopes of success. The portion of the population already under the instruction of the church must be tampered with. Hence the shameful discouragement of the church, and marked sup port of Popery in our colonies, shewing what our Papal-rid den government are willing to do, where they think they dare. And hence the EDUCATION PLOT at home ! (Loud and long continued cheers.) Of course its plea is plausible, founded on what is deserv edly dear to Englishmen, liberty of conscience. - (Cheers.) It is, that those who are not members of the national church may not be deprived of the benefits of national education. This is a sound and sufficient reason for not forcing them to learn the truths of the church catechism ; but it is no reason at all for proceeding to teach them, as if equally true, the false hoods of Popery, and thus breaking down by authority the distinctions between truth and falsehood. (Great cheering.) The plea of liberty of conscience is convenient to deceive ; but the root of the system, like that of its predecessor in Ireland, lies much deeper. It springs from the insatiable and indefatigable ambition of Rome, wielding to her purpose the genuine liberality and nnsuspecting honesty of English statesmen. Lord Stanley in Ireland was in no sense or de gree the accomplice, but in every sense the dupe, of the Most Rev. Dr. Murray, the agent for the Supreme Pontiff ; and in like manner Lord John Russell is not the accomplice, —no, sir, I sincerely believe that he designs not mischief, but that, partly from the deception practised by artful hypo crites, and partly from the coercion of his political circum stances and position, he is, in this matter of education, the dupe of the hon. member for Waterford, the agent for the Most Rev. Dr. Murray. (Vociferous cheering.) The scheme, as set forth by the committee of privy coun cil, has been so often dissected and exposed, that I will not delay you with a repetition ; but I will say that it is an artful scheme, most skilfully planned, to penetrate with a deadly wound the heart's core of England's safety, without carrying on its front any palpable cause for alarm, and consequent reaction. Its direct tendency is to reduce to a dead level in the minds of the people, Church instruction in religion, and Popish instruction in superstition, and Socinian instruction in infidelity—(loud cheers) : to exhibit as equally under the patronage of the government, and equally entitled to the support of the nation, the truth that there are only two Christian sacraments, and the falsehood that there are seven : the truth that there is but one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, and the falsehood of the media tion of the Virgin Mary, the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints : the truth that if a man could do all whatsoever is commanded him, he would still have no merit before God, but be an unprofitable servant; and the false hood that man's good works are essentially meritorious, en titling him to grace and salvation : the truth that to bow down to a graven image is expressly forbidden by Almighty God, and the falsehood that it is lawful and right to bow down to graven images : the truth that Jesus Christ is both God and man, and the falsehood that he is man only : the truth that temporal rulers should as such enforce the com mandments of God, and support what they believe to be the true religion; and the falsehood that as rulers they have no concern with religion. Sir, the committee of privy council propose to afford the means of instruction equally in all these truths, and in all these falsehoods ; and what is this but to undermine, as far as the system shall extend, the attachment of the people to the Established Church ; and thus to break down the fences, the only fences, which protect our civil and religious liberties from the grasp of Papal ambition? (Loud and hearty cheers.) I repeat the only fences, because, in merely political negotiation, the Vatican is facile princeps ; and as for the dissenters of all denominations, alas what paper walls they would prove in the iron hand of Rome, if the protecting bulwark of the Established Church were re moved! (Renewed and prolonged cheering.) Yes, Sir, with our Established Protestantism in the as cendant, there is no persecution. It says to every man, pay tribute to whom tribute is due, and receive in return ready and impartial protection of life and limb and property; wor ship as you please in church and chapel ; if you can conform, well ; if not no force, no injury, we assume no right to coerce the baptised. This is liberty, full unrestricted liberty of con science. But with Popery in the ascendant there is none of this. Policy with reference to other states may restrain or modify her practice, but the sworn law of the system, en forced where expedient by corporal punishments, pcenis cor poralibus, is CONFORM OR DIE. (Loud and repeated cheers.) What then is to be done ? Sir, Englishmen must speak out, and more, they must act consistently; they must not al low private interests or private connections, or private rela tionships to interfere with known and acknowledged public duty ; they must not only clap their hands at Protestant meetings, but they must pledge those hands as they hold them up, that they will never be instrumental in recording a vote for sending any man into the legislature, who will not join in turning traitors of divided, or rather undivided, allegiance to a foreign potentate out of the legislature. (Here the dense multitude in the room rose as by one consent, and by shout ings, waving of hats, and every demonstralion of approbation, showed their agreement with the reverend speaker, when si lence was restored, he proceeded.) Sir, that is the tone, the true old English tone, and I do most cordially rejoice in the evidence supplied by each suc ceeding week, that throughout the country, there is an awakening and rapidly strengthening determination, not only to raise the cry, but to do the deed : to say, not merely in the passing ebullition of a popular assembly, but in the calm de liberate majesty of collective wisdom and collective strength ; to say it in our families, in our shops, in our town-halls, and in our pulpits ; to say it at the registries and at the hustings ; until the sound shall not only arrest the march of the great practical premier of Irish beggars, but penetrate also within the precincts ofthe palace, and startle the luxurious loungings of our theoretical premier —ho ! England is resolved to defend and maintain her Protestant Constitution in Church and State. England is determined that upon the heads of all who aim heavy blows at Protestantism, heavy blows shall recoil, with over whelming might. (Cheers.) We would desire no better, than that England should treat the whole anti-scriptural and anti-church confederacy as the merchants of Liverpool treated Daniel O'Connell. I must tell you that story. The hon. and learned member for all Ireland visited Liverpool, under the congenial auspices of a Unitarian mayor. Not content with the beaten path of lionizing visitors, the mayor determined to escort the member into the newsroom at the Exchange. The mayor, in all the honest exultation of re forming pride, anticipated, doubtless, a fresh wreath of fame in that celebrated scene of commercial wealth and patriotic intelligence. The member, in all probability deceived by the flattering representations of his sanguine host, expected such a reception as would redound to the glory of ould Ire land, and, possibly, to the amount of the annual tribute, spoken of by my reverend friend. However that may be, (and historians, albeit sagacious in their comments, can, after all, only guess at motives,) the facts are instructive. The mayor and the member entered the newsroom. All was silence. There was no time for consultation, in words, amongst the assembled gentlemen. They looked at one another. It was enough. With a simultaneous rush, they formed a compact semicircle around the door, the mayor, and the member : and one voice, catchi ng b y sympathy the feeling of many minds, exclaimed, " Turn out the beggar p' The member turned pale. The mayor is always pale. And the member said to the mayor, we are not mighty welcome here. (Shoutsofla t u h g e mhteary,oar and thendloud a n p le p m la b u e s r e. w ) er The e li p e ee d d o i o ly r was open, and both at what the schoolboys call the right side to run away. Then the room rang with hearty hurrahs, groans for the popish faction, cheers for the Church and Queen, three chee rs f or Sir. Robert Peel, and three times th ree for the great captain, the hero of a thousand battles, the duke, the Duke of Wel lington, (Loud and hearty cheers.) aver ind This is the way. Let England treat the Me th o d tis . , the ministry as Liverpool treated the member _ e " a dtli mayor The kingdom, in the length and the br o dd , it, will then resound, as the Liverpool newsroom resounded, with groans for the popish faction, cheers for t i r e d by $ and Queen. (The rev. gentleman was interruP storm of applause, which lasted several minutes.), and u n• ain And further Sir, we mu s t h ave no t only this Pl b o ld an, equivocal demonstration aga i ns t ev il, but also a, a ccuse' repeated declaration of truth. Our ProtestantisaQs It of consisting of negatives. The accusation is fri e lsio s based upon the positive Revelation of God, arla,,P f o re th e `• the everlasting purpose of hi s l ov e, whereby vi'd o creo , foundations of the world were laid) he 'lath constantly dos. by his counsel secret to us , t o d e li ver f r om curse a nd tion those whom he hath c h osen i n Christ out of to a, d and to bring them by Ch r i s t t o ever l as ti n g salvation', 1!•onse, sels made to honour." It p roc l a i ms a lso the blessei 0411 quences of this divine love. " Th e y which he e n au , so excellent a benefit of G o d, b e ca ll e d according ty,,,rouglL purpose, by his spirit working in due season ; tbeY! i t i; ey be grace, obey the calling ; they be justified freely the image made sons of God by adoption ; they be made of his only begotten Son Je sus Ch r i s t ; they wal,* ‘ , r 't/sa to LA good works, and at length by G o d's mercy, u e ' - to everlasting felicity." ofcb sl ' The rev. gentleman proceed e d i n a beautiful st.-4,Gracs tened eloquence, to unfold the " glorious gosPel ` v on t° of God," in its experiment a l an d p ra ctical P, sat 010 human heart ; and afte r s econ di ng t h e re solution , par t amidst the loudest demonitrati ons of delight from every of the room. 7110 he The Rev. JAMES DIXON, in a brief speech, in 71/3 1;6 0 expressed his amazement at the horrible disclosuresitbseki to Popery which bad bee n ma d e , p r oposed a vot e 4 1, ale to the champions, Mr. M`Gh ee an d M r . M`Neile, kindness in attending the Meeting. The motion was seconded by THOMAS WALICSA' Ravenfie Thanks Park, and carrie b acclamaon. tie were then voted d to the Chairman, on t h L in t iPli ttl of the Rev. JAMES KNIGHT; and the Meeting bow about four o'clock. WINDSOR.—FRIDAY. al e ` • The Queen held a Privy Council at the Castle, tbliit noon, at two o'clock. It was attended by Vls c° u Ler bourne, Viscount Palmerston, Earle of Albet . L oot! : Ebrington, Lord Holland, and the Right Hon. ne • „ o ne); chere. The Hon. C. Gre v ill e was the clerk of th e . The Earl of Errol was appointed Lord Steward ef 9 ` . • jesty's household. for - 11 ck' .41 v t It is expected that the cour t w ill l eave the ca5t1e.,,,..0.)- ingham Palace, on Tue s d a y nex t, an d r eturn to '" the flowing Friday. of t h 6 r abeto OtS The ol d royal inner party, in addition to the me cabinet council, will include the follo w ing personag'" r, you , Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Gard iee MOP Barham, Lady C. Dundas, Baroness Lehzen, 11 ° 1 11 01 ' Cocks and Murray, Marquis of Headfort, Sir Hon. Col. Wemyss, and the Hon. C. A. Murray. ca stle The Countess of Albemarle will arrive at the morrow. WINDSOR—SUNDAY EVENING. St' Her majesty attended di v i ne serv i ce this niorniloarl est ( i George's Chapel, attended by th e C ou ntess of ra y a t ' Lady Gardiner, Lady Barham, Hon. Misses Mu r Me l " Paget, Marquis of Headfort, Earl of Errol, Vise elin a ' ud t he bourne, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Ebringte ° ' Ladies Eleanora and Constance Paget. the R ec. nd The first part of the se rv i ce was c h aun ted by , 100 . Gore. The com m u n i on serv i ce was rea d by the " latter 0, Rev. E. Moore and th e R ev . M r . C ann ing; the f the , whom preached a sermon f rom th e 14th chapter 0 musics. epistle to Timothy, and p ar t o f th e B t h v erse. Th e Gucc i & service was as follows : —Ch aun t s , D rs . Crotch an iioa . ‘' notigh ; Service King in F ; Sanctus and reponse,a , A a tha,, ° : Ashley ; Te DEUM and Jubilate, King's in F; e 1,11 0 :,'' " Praise the LORD," Croft, was sung by Me ssrs ' a tletr? French, and Turner. The solo parts by the latte_r s c e . Po ol were most beautifully: given. Mr. Elvey, Mus. Jaa a , es at the organ. ea Col. Wemyss has taken his departure from the j o g. he the Earl and Countess of Uxbridge arrived this no r " iu t Her majesty rode out on horseback, yesterday' great park, attended by a nu merous su ite. goo'a t4 The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny took an airing in a pony phaeton. 10/ 1.0 Chere' The Marquis of Normanby, the Rt. Hon. H and the Hon. G. Greville, left the Castle yesterdaP, , Lord Alfred Paget arrived at the castle from Lady Fanny Ho w a r d h as succee d e d Lady C. v r lady in waiting on the Du c h ess o f K en t. e aid' The following will join the r o y a l di nn er circle this e na rbs; —Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady s Co e a Lady Fanny Howard, Lady Gardiner, Hon. 1115 E ar l ale and Murray, Earl and Countess of Albernarle,cooool, Countess of Uxbridge, the L a di es El ea nora and c ount 1 3 0 1 viaco-,_ Paget, Earl of Errol, Vi scoun t M e lb ou rne, TT dor , Lo merston, Viscount Ebringt on , M arqu is of "' ea Alfred Paget, and the Hon. C. A. Murray. BAIL C OURT—WEDNEsuAY• (Before Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE.) THE QUEEN V. JOSEPH JOHNSON. jolll Sir William Follett moved in this case for a crul? I° errP.oof formation, on behalf of Henry Lawson, of ' against the defendant, who was of the same Plaede'cteeaw n y Lawson and a Mr. Ringwood acted as trustees „01. tors under the will of a Mr. Bland, also of Lice:l'lol that will interests were s e cure d t o th e f a mily of A ir " fjos e P and £lOO a year was give n t o th e w if e and children 0 na ici Johnson. This latter annuity was for some tint e i j s vev i e r? Joseph Johnson, as it became due quarterly. He' tees `' `e. became a bankrupt, and after that event the trus irat iol , o , dined handing him the £25 at the next quarter's e x P o .orel in the usual manner. Mr. Lawson, h ow ever, sen t hods Mr. Johnson, that the £25 s h ou ld be placed in the, , s jar Messrs. Clayton and Cookson, attorneys, of Linetn t ,'d dee° fields, London, to be paid over by them as they showidoriari prudent. Those gentlemen wrote to the defendan t ' bitay. e j ing him that they were ready to send the money t° p art e a condition of his acknowledging that he received it ne cc eele. t e d the annuity payable to his children. He refused t°, B e dein this, and wrote a letter to Mr. Lawson, in which 0 00 0 a l from him, or to send it to the attorney the right of the trustees to withhold the money in lie used the expression, " My children have been Pr e in i s er°,!, robbed already." On the 21st of September he ag.tt that be to Mr. Lawson in the most violent terms, assertior.,drea should have sent him (Lawson), his wife, and kcribe(! prison ; that he was as big a villain as Bland had (nil him ; that he would make him wish that he had ~ 'e t e b e l' t4 „f to Liverpool ; that he had never been born; and tna'' ",, forfeited all claim to any further benefit under thievioo Bland. The defendant also wrote a letter to Mr• 1 9 1 ;ree e , in which he said he meant to charge Mr. Lawson w_it s tr iste e ,, in regard to the goods on the estate to which he w;Ar. pairs in London. ttv ate and with violating the will under which he acted. - es 0 1 son denied that there 'was any truth in the dial e th made. bt o 0 Mr. Justice Littledale asked whether it was rig S as e 0 part of Lawson to hand over the money in question t° Clayton and Cookson. a o ing tor. Sir W. Follett thought he was justified in --, eS ta • those gentlemen were solicitors to the estate of f u thisof_ Hi, Lordship, who seemed to have a doubt off of ) J ob observed that that act did not justify the languag e son, and therefore granted the rule to shew cause' COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH—Ttivasl3°. THE QUEEN V. . she f ' o ', This was a rule calling upon the HARVEY defendant to ~4 what authority h e c l a i me d t o exerc i s e the office of V:io. 0t hello% cillor of the borough of Li v e r pool, on the ground t 7 re ciJ been disqualified, h e h av i ng filled the offic e ° ,e A ,- assessor. ca - or- it.' The attorney-general and Mr. Wightrnan sh° io teu a d against the rule. The defendant having been ePl_f er e eerrhe vising assesso r on th e 10 t h o f M arc h, his duties.: ne d. A tt o ci on the 15th of O c t o b er , an d on th a t day he re s 'llor et re' defendant was a c an did a t e f or th e office of counviouslYo,o election on the Ist of November, and having Pe e de d he c o signed his office of revising assessor the o aten Ain to l .,,. ineligible opteoobnlemlboeeacl: Pollock aeoidud (withna tch c iwl o el houlovrnr.mciiti was , s: otherwise owr. ii , P er , - tea of a man as revising assessor would render hi the rule, and Rule absolute. ELECTION OP LORD RECTOR 60 1 V. .OFFollec,::::g ----- ---- _ datl) hec'' (Prom the Glasgow Mail it Sal ur- ' ~4 c 11 ',1 C ter- 0 . c e- The election of Lord Rector took place YeS ~it , Fla f or nations.the I o t f i t s h ewe lwell poll—being known t s h u a c t c e t s h f e u 1 o i p n p as was anticipated Sir James Graham was re"' ' t it ol e re' election of the Hon. Baronet did not originnt e _ o l ‘ , 7 o tb° j o rl lege, but out of it, and it is equally well il t ., peolost liberals were not at all backward in supplying the the „Lid means to oust, upon political grounds, one of thepts zealous Lords Rectors who has ever been Pia" t wo °„ jag of the Institution. On the present occasion, vo tin*,, e t, nations have changed sides since their order .°'_. 13ar o v,jer year—Londoniana being then in favour of the to.", t he `_, J ) and Transforthana against him. The following:: coivii' of the voting, as announced yesterday in t u he ll. Hall : iierse 7 1 Graham. Natio Glottiana 97 ' • I / 10 • • 53 psitio .n the t tbC Loudoniana threenoto pcoi. * 70 • ' '" 1 Rothseiana Transforthana 34 ' ' li.• ~, ...--. 219 172 .-- 47 Majority of names, STATE OF TRADE• lep'; fa i r --- HALlFAX.—Although things are very uc e u re - ws s is oce , and prices lower than were ever known, still tb , 01°04 demand for some kinds of pieces, but without ari ti J e b a sae meat in value ; indeed there is no likelihood ef. s , frol li at present. In wool and yarns, a little variatio ; iifelo,e week's prices. BRADFORD.—Our piece market continues still v_ s e e r d Y to h : r s . but as prices have, for some time past, been sup tio irti!` r ;st seen the lowest point, a slack day seems to sak e r e is 5 I :,t of sion. Stocks are not very heavy. —Yarn, :--- 1 ` 1 1 .... foro, ec s/ sameness in our yarn market, much the ordinae is P sort business is doing, and without the least chap s the ouiYssre no a e t° Wool : — Combing qualitiesin dema id, which i;liastrilenely m of a s r v k h e i t c , h n t o h r a d t o c e a s n t b h e e s li t:a • n nearly allother kinds tiiis rather easier. ' 1 LEEDS.—No shadow of improvement can be lis It bee m i vhe so n in i e tiwe fe r t j h a e improve. Small as the production hseaes as high or ___ at ice ~ a further curtailment seems to be the only altep, pate.°_,„sry ii?anufacturers. In prices no variation can t ° be ' tatl r V el VilY short, where there are no buyers, prices re : u s soe ls 1 ! c ol , ' WAKEFIELD WOOL MAILICET•---COMbil e-. 'O l l4 01 leo for ' i$ tinues still pretty good, and also because 5 L oev er stock of such sorts. The trade, generally n u oise' dull. i i s 10 ? Li , bit o as they were last week, the derrianta r"' oe to I ,at Harwoon.—The cotton trade of IleYvv °° `iilis, o l i . Or rable state ; this week the hands in-all the : a wl P i , oe oc^ one exception, have commenced working thr: , ri p10) 1 per week, while hundreds are totally witho E u Distress is alarming. • er i° "n"----—n--".-------- ------ ii,•- rtc, 1 I S T E HARA—AN ARM OF THE PSOV S ;ri le cli l' ''!:'s j‘ P admirably adapted for steam navigation. three owlivoige so little force, scarcely ever amounting. t° res" dvi d t be hour, that steam-vessels might be used with g the i r le 1 4 p1 to tug laden boats against the stream ; w ith bablY ned , passage from be 0 - rood only Bawulpore to Hareke would.tPcra°o eight or ten days, while at present 1 woo d Is f the with difficulty, in a month and a half. Fit l e cour se eh ir . l immense quants throughout the who.erasi,, v et :1 0 5e river, afforded by the dense jungle of n n ' w hicb P l iit;ii 6 ' used universally by the inhabitants as fuel, for _ die 1 os ed it is well adapted. Deptits, similar „cathose °n di erepr spi and other great rivers of Ame, wb e r -,ed a tip their gatig ses ,, 'o ti se to supply the steamers, might e asily be intervals on the banks of the Ghara, Ny110;11'30 oil hesP o superior salubrity, a most important f the Mississippi. Other suPPu es ' and abundant d aPelcivil and e o°l , besidesfld ,an the people are civil ine , Alexander's Basf India and calonial gag 44 I.l lt —:a QIN e" ' k 1; tea: G and •••kr u n ` ol et ittass R eitt the: el.o h, , ery h e' t 06: "alit I k7Oit bai tote e lCr '*e t :11,4 of o 4 40 t ., ri• .441 1 .( 16 ' za 4 4 1 0 9'e k tsb