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tiehtt executing the &Inn commission, What peace-ethere cannot be true peace, there cannot be real peace ; there may be a treacherous peace, there may be a false pretence of Peace " to long as the whoredonis of thy mother. Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many." Here then is the history. The application of it in the New Testament that I alluded to is remarkable, and I wish to take it briefly in passin g I s dore, I show you the application of all this to the p a p ac y. We are authorized by a passage in the New Testainent, wherever we find such features as those described in the character of this woman Jezebel, there to apply the name of Jezebel: - I will read a message from the Lord Jesus Christ to the church of Thyatira, and We find in it th ese wor d s . : — " And unto the angelof the church in Thyatira write : these things saith thes-Son of God, who bath his eyes like unto a name of fire, and his . feet are like fine brass : I know thy 'Works and charity and service and faith, widths , patience and thy works: and the last to be more than the first. Notwith -standing I have 'a few things against thee because thou 'merest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my. servants. to commit , fornication, and 'to eat thins sacri fi ced unto idols," "I hav e sornewhotagaiust you, " says the Lord God, ". be taus° you sufler that woman Jezebel, becatise you could bear -her with complacency, although she seduces my people to - commit e fornieation, and to eat things . sacrificed to' idols ; litre sonaewhat against you, saith the Lord God, because you have so little - feeling of the honour due to me that you can sit quietly andalirregaed the idolatries of that woman Jezebel." (Hear.) You see there that the evils existing in the Church of Thyatira, bore the aspect of idolatry, and the Lord himself called the promoter of them by the name of Jezebel. If then I can. discern those same features in any existing system I have the warrant of the New Testament for applying the very name, as well as the character of Jezebel to that system. (Hear, hear.) Let us, then, try.this system. The first fea- • true in the scriptural history and character of Jezebel was her heathen idolatry. Now, my lord, lam quite aware of the comparative wantof interest that always attends, and must attend, written documents ; at the same time it is absolutely necessary, if sound information is to be propagated in the country, we should get it out of authentic sources—not con • fining ourselves to our own observations, hut referring our hearers to sources whence they can supply themselves. I have here a work. of the celebrated Joseph Mede, entitled, "The Apostacy of the Last Times." From that work, under the head of Demonology, I will read the account he gives to us of the heathen mode ofidolatry, and the parallel he points out between it and Popery. (Hear, hear.) " Demons in the Gentile theology were an inferior sort of deified powers, as a middle between the sovereign gods and mortal men." So says Plato—(in Symposio) so say all the Platonists, and well might all the other sects of philosophers. lam sure the most do for it is a very antient doctrine, insomuch that Plu tarch fetcheth this distinction between sovereign gods and ' demons, as far as the antiquity of Zoroaster, "they (says he) seem to me to have solved great and difficult doubts, - who have placed the demons between the gods and men; and found out what in some sort uniteth and joine' us with, them.. , Whether this be the doctrine of the Magi and Zo roaster, .or the Thracian . doctrine, derived from Or pheus, or the Egyptian or Phrygian," am (p. 11:)' Again, Plato saith in -his 4iinposiinu, " God, is not ap proacheet by neenehut ell 'commerce and intercourse between; gods and men is performed by the 'mediation a demons." yoit Wish to see in what part iculars? Demons," saith he, " are reporters and carriers from men to the god!, and again from the gods to men, of the supplications and prayers of the one, and of the injunctions and rewards of devotion from the other." And Appuleius, in the place forequoted (his treatise concerning the demon of Socrates), describes them thus :—" Demons are middle powers, by whom both our desires and merits pass unto the gods • they are carriers between coon on earth and the gods •in heaven ; from hence of prayers, from thence of gifts : they bring to and fro ; from hence petitions, thence supplies . : or they arc certain inter preters on both sides, and conveyers of recommendations ;" " for," said' he, " it beseems not the majesty of the sove reign gods to manage these things themselves." Whence it is that Cetera. in Origen• terms his demons " the peers, pre sidents, w ants, and o ffi cers of the Most High God, who, bei eglected, can do so much hurt as the peers and officers of the Persian or Roman kings." (page 13.) Then there is an account of• what the heathens held concerning demons ;—but, what were these demons ? I come now unto another part of this doctrine, which concerns the original of - , :deinons, whom you shall find to be the souls of men deified qfter death, for the canonising of the souls of deceased wor thies is not now first devised among Christians, but was an idolatrous trick even from the days of the elder world; so that the devil, when he brought in this apostatical doctrine among Christians, swerved but little from his ancient me thod of seducing mankind. Let Heaiod speak in the first Piece s as being of the most known the most ancient. He tells us, that " when those happy men of the first and golden age of the world were departed this life, the great Jupiter promoted them to be demone; Ahat is, keepers and protec tors or patrons of earthly mortals, and overseers of their good 'and evil works, givers of riches," &c. The same Plato would have all those who die valiantly in the field to be " accounted of the golden kind," and to be made demons, and the oracles to he consulted how they should be buried `a-7'stl honoured, arid accordingly ever afterwards - their sepul , ehren to-be served and adored as the sepulchres of demons ; in Illie;snantier should be done unto all who in their lifetime excelled' in vittue, whether they died through age or other wise. ThisSallan Eusebius quotes, to parallel with it the then _hartalesai practice of Christians in honouring the me mory of martyrs, by holding their assemblies at their sepul. chres, t o the en d that he -might show the Gentiles that Christians also honoured their worthies in the worthiest fashion. But it had been well if, in the' next ages after, thia custom of Christians (then but resembling) had not promisthe very same " doctrine of demons " which the Geritlia4 nractised. * * * * Philo Byblius out of the Phoenician history saith, concerning the Baalims which arc mentioned in Scripture, Bard Belus whose worship Jezebel, the daughter of Ithobaal, King of Tyre, brought into Israel, was a deified Phoenician, King of that name, as Virgil will tell us, in the verse concerning the Phoenician queen Dido— " Implevitque mero pateram quern Belus et omnes " A Belo soliti." Nay, Baal, or in the Chaldee dialeet, Bel, (for all in one,) was the first King of Babel, after iiiinrod. And as it is written (Eusebi. Chron„) , that he was deified, and reputed a God after death, whence afterwards they called all other demons Baalim, even as because the first Roman emperor was called Caesar, thence were all the emperors after him styled Caesars. * * * * * . So we see here, that the Babylonians and the neighbouring countries, which spoke the Hebrew tongue, or some dialect thereof, called all demons Baalim, from the first demon, -or deified King, in the world, Baal or ktelus, from the time when Belus lived in Babel. Phoenicia with the neighbouring people, was under the kingdom of Babel, whence may seem also to have come their community of language and ceremonies. Arid here note a wonderful frilatery 3 ; - ttote aid ttabtlitto a c ct patrt , i, Me world, of ambitious diaiiiirTiOin was also the foundress of idols and the mother of-the fornications and abominations of the earth. But that we may return again more close to the matter iii hand, this order of demons or soul gods, as I may call them, found place in the regions of the elder Romans, who called theirs Penates, Lases,' and Manii Dii, and %lieu once they began to canonize their deceased emperors, which was from the time of Augustus, they called them din or-gods, which before that time was more general. Tully, in Its' second book concerning laws, shall be my witness tifithis countrymen acknowledged this distinction of sovereikir goda, and soul deified power, for then you find this law.' "Let them worship the gods, hoth those who were ever anointed celestial, and those whom their own haVeadvanced to heaven." And again, "Let the rites of separate souls be kept inviolable, and let them account the de ceased worthies as Gods." Would to God the present Chrit tian Romans- had not renewed this law. * * * * But lest I might seem to have no measure in raking this Ethnical dunghill, I will now leave the theology of the original of de mons, and show •you yet another piece -of that doctrine, namely, concerning the manner how demons were to be wor shipped, and as it were brought to the lure of men when they . had occasion of devotion with them, and this was done by consecration of images. This you shall hear from an an cient author, and passing skilful in the mysteries—even Hermes Trisgemistus, who, in his Asclepius, speaketh in English thus :—" It is a wonder (saith he) beyond all won . ders (and he saith truly) that man should find out a way to make 'Gods ; yet, because (saith he) our forefathers erred much through unbelief, and had small regard to religion and divine worship, - therefore they divined an art to make Gods, (he meaneth images) and because they could not make souls (he means to their senseless bodies) therefore they called the 'souls of demons and angels, and put them into their images and holy mysteries, by which means alone these images have power of helping and hurting; which, thus incorporated, he saith, are called by the Egyptians holy animals" And in . another place :—" That kind of Gods (saith he) which men melee is composed of two natures—of a divine, which is first and more sacred ; and of that which is amongst men, namely, the matter whereof they are made." The sum of all this Inastery is, that images were made as bodies, .to be informed with demons as with souls, for an image was a trap to catch demons, and a device to tie them to a place, and to keep them from flitting. The like also hath Eusebius out of Porphyry, that the Gods did exceedingly delight in consecrated images, ' and were circumscribed and enclosed therein as in a sacred place, and the image being taken away, that is, dissolved, which detaineth the duty upon earth. * * * * Hence came that answer or defence of the Gentiles as Arnebins snakes them speak—" We do not think brass and gold and ailver and other metals of images to be Of themselves Gods slid holy powerS, but in them we worship and reverence the • ads b!etight into these images by sacred dedication, and iL e ePing theie residence there." And in another place he makes this objection for their behalf—" But you say, per ' Hans the deities present themselves unto you in some sort 'trader the images, and because the Gods cannot be seen they are thus worshipped and have religious service don them. ! And th us have we seen the ground of the idolatrous use of l a r s ' and found that the worshipOf them also is a doctrine 9 mous ; for as at first they were ordained for demoua, , Whatever deity is wershipped in this manner, though it w erethe tree ar i d s o v e re ign God, ia thereby made e demon. And thus you have seen the theology of alemoos ; lst, for t heir return arid degree to have been supposed by the Gen "les, an inferior and middle sort of divine powers between the sovereig n an d h eaven l y G o d s and mortal men ; 2nd, their ( Lftice to be as mediators and agents between those sovereign Gods and men ; 3rd, theiroeigihal to be the deified souls of worthy men after death.; * * * 4.h, the way to worship them, to find and receive Benefits from them, namely, by consecrati ng images and pillars,ewherein to have and retain their presence, at de vo tio ns to be g i v e n th em ; sth, t o a d o re their relies and to temple them. Now, this is remarkable, as tracing to the same origin of Baal, the idolatry of the Zidonians, and the idolatry of Jezebel into Israel. He pro 7,;tteed,4- Now, therefore, judge impartially, whether St. NN, LL' ''' Prophecy be not fulfilled already amongst Christiana: Who foretold that the time should come when they should :ause and revive again the " doctrines of demons," whether the deifying and worshipping of saints and angels, Whether the bowing down to images, whether of men or Other thi ngs, visible broaden idols and crosses, like new ss lnon pillars, whether the adoring or templing of relics ; i lli eo 't.,her these make not as hvely an image of the Gentiles' whether demons as . possibly could be expressed . and these two words comprehend not the whole pith and near • " si of Christian apostasy, which was to consist in spin: fernieation or idolatry, as appears r e velation. name and uationsination given by St. John, in his The Whore of whore she not rightiv termed the Babylonish oy on, is • - der ek which bath revived and replanted the doctrines' of °fts first founded in the antient Babel. This makeS the parallelver ' more striking. There is much more than this that esvouldY instructive, but I am sorry I can read so little. I „ s , however, Strongly recommend my reverend brethren En'utiPyuhteabl themselves in • shall co possession of this little book, that they eto give to others the information contains. I is ,_ . 0 nttne myself under this head, to one quotation more ; _show the inveteracy of idolatry, when once intro he'lre c: into a professing church. (Hear, hear.) We may Cr M esses house, the idolatry of Jezebel„ so long as she lived in hartelesses house, among the Zidonians, was comparatively , a nd she but when she was married to the churcloof God, d ist ; s aL :btained influence in Israel, then her idolatry was eeC t (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") Mede says — under heaven "der re [kirks, Tartars, or any other unbelieving nation , unto thy Lord and Saviour ? Are they notall olio aen theto him, so that and he to them ? But as for thee, he had thou out of many nations to espouse thee to himself; are thine mayest say with Israel."—lSa. 63, 19:)—" We ..; -but as for them, thou never bearett rule over .;„,,, g rey were not palled by thy name." " But to thee' l ikto . a . cot,e wcfrds of Ezekiel) he swore an oath, and entered called, a . d nant with thee, and them becamest his, and wert withiva a r wilt still be called by tiffs name.' Thee he washed 6 r thY birth, thoroughly washed thee from the pollution w i th gold al , d and anointed thee with oil. Thou wart decked and 'vol. -silver, and thy raiment was of fine linen and aivr4, _, and idered work ; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, '. 1 11 1 1 1 do. ! welt exceeding, beautiful, and didst prosper unto I ' l thy reP9wlt went forth among tin heathen. for thy beauty I for it Was perfect through the comliness which the Lord thy God hath put upon thee. But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredat out thy fornications upon every one that passed by. And of thy garments thou didst take, and decked thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon. Thou hest also taken the fair jewels of thy Lord's gold, and of thy Lord's silver, which he had given thee, and madst to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them ; and tookest thy braided garment and covered them ; and thou bast set the Lord's oil and his incense before them." Profaning the sacred things of God; this is addressed to the church of Rome.. She is not guilty of the comparatively harm less idolatry of the heathen, but she is guilty of making the instruments and vessels of the Lord's house subservient to her idolatry of making the very cross on which the Saviour hung an object of idolatry;—(hear)--that wood which the holy Scriptures call " the accursed tree," this modern Je, zebel calls " the holy cross • " and bows and prays toit. (Hear.) Judge now between the L ord and his people of the whoredom of .this Christian Jezebel. The decision and sum of all this ......_ --- whoredom of the church is thus set forth :—",Judgenow between the Lord and his people, ye that have wives ! give sentence ye husbands ! whether of the two in question hatli most dishonoured our Lord and Saviour I which of the two is most likely to fret him, and kindle the_coals of his fury and jealousy. They who never were in roVenant with him, nor yet are called by his name ; or whether his; spouse, his darling and beloved one, to whom he was betrothed and mar ried. Judge according to the manner of wedlock, and the notorious precedent of Israel. He that is a father (we say) is best able to understand the love of &father, and therefore God's love to his children. For the like reason,. he that is an husband is sensible of the jealousy of an husband, and so of the case of Christ with his unfaithful and treacherous spouse, the CHRISTIAN JEZEBEL."—Now, here is the first branch of the parallel. You recollect that, in the scrip tures, we found Jezebel to be of heathen origin, bringing her idolatry into the church of God through her marriage with Ahab; and here we find Popery of heathen origin, bringing the idolatries of the heathen, of demons, the deified souls of men, the interposers between God and men, the carriers of prayers from hence ' and of blessings from thence. We find Popery, I say, intro ducing into the Christian church precisely the parallel of what Jezebel introduced into 'the Jewish church. (Cheers.) And here, therefore, is one clause jus tifying the denomination we give to Popery when we call it " that woman Jezebel." (Continued cheers.) I am quite ready 'to confess, that if the parallel terminated with one clause of the character, it would ill justify us in applying the title. If we find four features in tne character, and can ap ply but one, I should shrink from adopting the expression ; but if we find that the whole four will apply, then; beyond all question, the character of Jezebel, the name of Jezebel, and the end of Jezebel, belong to the Papal system. (Great applause.) The second characteristic, my lord, which we found in the scriptures, - was the persecution of the Lord's eetvantg, even-unto death. • -How should •1 attempt to-prose that this is the characteristic of the Papacy? (Hear, hear.) The advocates of the Papacy will deny anything, and in the present time their policy is denial. (Hear, hear.)• They affect to say that old stapilards, 'to' whick,theix - Triests titre swoi-n, are obsolgte; If We go to the general counsels, they . _ say they are old :if we go - to the language of any of their modern writers, they say that is only an individual opinion. The counsel which general is too old ; the writer that is -young enough is too particular; so that neither the modern writer nor the ancient •counsel fastens a charge upon this Proteus. (Hear, hear.) Nevertheless,. if 'the Church of England be fairly chargeable for all those articles •to 'which all her clergy are pledged on their ordination, it it equally true that the Church of Rome is fairly chargeable with those standards to which all her clergy are pledged upon oath. (Hear, hear.) This, then, is the basis of, the charge. All her clergy are pledged to the creed of Pope Pius IV. (Hoar.) That creed tiet them down to all the canons and general councils, especially those of the Council of Trent; so that they are fairly chargeable with all the canons of those yet un rescinded general councils. I protest I do not see how it is possible to have a more straight forward, or a more honest ground of appeal than this. (Hear.) I am not ashamed to propound it before a society of Englishmen, 1 should not be ashamed or afraid to let it be tried by a jury of my fellow countrymen, and ask them if this is not a fair ground of charge. (Hear.) If these men swear to these documents then I say their church is liable to this charge ; but I should say ; that I do not think the individual laymen who belong to the system, are all personally liable to the. charge, and especially in this country, for I believe that everywhere the popish hierarchy are the oppressors of the people, and that the laity are the oppressed. (Hear, hear.) I believe that popish , hierarchy are the deceivers, especially in Protestant &bun- , tries, and that the popish laity wattle devolved (cheerS) ; and I can readily i Roman. Catholic, in such a meet ing as this, when he such sentiments as duke, I am about to describe from Astir own deem:netts saying " that is a grosi calumny-4 am a Roman CatholiOnd I never heard such things in my life." (Hear.) I would,eay to Audi a man. " Do you think your priest is such a l'Ool as to say these things in England ; he known his. time, and whilst England has power to restrain Romanism, he will take care how much he professes." (Hear, hear.) I would farther say to such a man, " Take the trouble to ask your priest whether he tells you all that he believes himself—(hear)—whether he would-be willing to read to you in English what he has sworn to in Latin." (Great cheering.) how, in the first place, my lord, the catechism of council of Trent contains these sentiments. " Heretics, and schismatics do not belong to the church, any- more than vagabonds, or renegades belong to an army from which they have deserted. Yet it is not to be denied, but that they are in the power of the church, as persons to be called by it to judgment, punished, and doomed by anathema to damnation." (Hear, bear.) Now, my lord there is a translation of this catechism, which was published in Dublin, in the year 1816 ' • and the way in which the translators have dealth with the original, will supply, a characteristic illustration of what I have just been saying. The words of the original are " non negandum .tamen guilt in ecclesim potestate sint, ut qui ab cd in judicium vocentur punia..Zur et anathemate damnentur." (page 78, edition 1587.) They have artfully omitted one important word in the translation. They have translated this " as those who may be judged by her, and condemned with an anathema." Not an attempt td translate puniantur ! (Cheers.) That was for themselves to swear to, but it is not convenient for them to tell it just at present. ( Loud cheers.) So this honest representation ?—Are such men tobe trusted? (Hear.) I will now read a passage from the Lateran Council. If any believer, receiver, defender, or favourer of heretics, being excommunicated, does not satisfy the church within a year, he from henceforth shall be infamous, and shall not be admitted to give testimony, or to public ollices." "If he does not satisfy the church !" There is no description .of what will satisfy the church. (Hear, hear.) That matter is left open. It is in the power of the priest in each case to determine what will " satisfy the chuw.h.." " The elturchtt -4s-utsinpaiertivety easy to be satisfied tiWtngland, but it ie not so easy a matter in Ireland. (Hear; hear.) It is not an easy matter in Spain or Italy. (Hear, hear.) The council then goes on He shall have no power of making any will, or succeeding to any inheritance. No man shall, be - obliged to answer him in any cause, but he shall be com pelled to answer others. If he be a judge, his sentence shall be void and null, nor shall any cause come before him." My lord, the judges of Great Britain—they are Protestants (hear) —according to this council, to which let it be remem bered the Popish priests are sworn, their sentence is null ! (Hear, hear.) Can we, then, wonder at the insubordination that exists among the people in Ireland. (Hear, hear.) The Popish population are to be taught—if their priests dared to teach them what they themselves are sworn to—that the. sentence of every Protestant judge. upon the bench is null and void, because those judges are heretics that have not " satisfied the church." (Loud cries- of " Hear, hear.") The council then goes on :-.—" If he be an advocate, he shall not be admitted to plead. If a clerk, or notary, the instru ments drawriby him shall be of no moment." (Hear.) This, is said to be all the spiritual supremacy Of fhe Pope ; but the spiritual supremacy of the Pope, applying itself to secular things, absolutely makes a man.. an outlaw who will not " satisfy the church." (Hear, hear, and loud applause.) Once more. The council of Constance commands that "all archbishops, bishops, and other pers ons chosen for this work, shall admonish and require all emperors, kings, dukes, princes, &c., professors of the Catholic faith, also all other such professors, exercising temporal jurisdiction; and exhort them, by the apostolical authority, to expel from their king doms, provinces, cities, &c., all heretics above mentioned, as morbid sheep infecting the flock of the Lord, and not to permit them to preach in their districts, to. possess dwel lings, to reside, to enter into any contracts, to carry on any business or dealing, nor to eujoy the comforts of the offices of humanity with the faithful." (Hear, bean) Here is a direct sentence of excommunication. (Hear, hear.) You remember I am stating this to shew that the persecution of the Lord's servants which tharacteckseil %Web" al also charae terise Popery. The next passag e' shall Adduce for this purpose is from the 4th Lateran council. The whole of it is too long to be read here, but I will read a portion which conveys what I want to set before the meeting :—" We ex communicate and anathematise every heresy erecting itself against this orthodox faith which we have above laid down, condemning all heretics by whatever names they are known. Excommunicamus et anathematizamus omnem luvresim ex tollentem se adversus bane sanctum, orthodoxam catholicam fidem, quarn superior exposuimus, condemnatus universes &Prelims quibuscumgue omnibus conseantur." (Concil. Labb. et Cos., vol. ii., col.) You see, my lord, these . , principles are still •in their councils ; these councils are referred to- by name in the Council of Trent ; the Coun cil of Trent is endorsed by the - creed of Pius ; and the creed of Pius is sworn to by every beneficed Popish 'priest in the kingdom. (Loud cheers.) But you will ask, " But, if this be so, and if they have sworn to do this, why do they not do it ?" (Hear, hear.) I hold now in my hand a copy of the celebrated Rhemish, Testament, and . I will read you one of the notes, which will sufficiently-account for the present state of things. (Ileac, hear.) It is a, note upon our Lord's parable of the wheat and the tares, in the lath chapter of Matthew. The verse is—" test ye pluck up isiso the wheat with thein,;"rhe note says;—" The good must tolerate the evil, when it is so strong that it cannot be redressed without danger and disturbance of the Miole church, and commit the matter to God's judgment in the latter day. Otherwise, when ill men (be they Heretikes or 'other malefactors) may be punished or suppressed without disturbance and hazard of the good, they may and ought by publike authority, either spiritual or temporal, to he chastized or executed.'?—Why do they not execute the decree of Lateran and Constance? Why, because it so ksppens that the evil is so strong in these countries that it cannot be re dressed without danger of disturbance to the whole .of the church. Long may it continue so in England. (Cheers.) But if it should ever be otherwise--if, through the negligence of Englishmen—if, through their extreme generosity, and un willingness• to believe there is that duplicity in others which - they feel 'themselves incapable of entertaining—if, through the supineness of Englishmen, arising from this and similar causes, they refuse to be awakened, and Papists obtain power in the council, in parliament, and about the court, until the evil must be removed, then, then we shall have it here. (Cries of " Hear, hear.") It so happened in Israel that 'the good became so weak through the union of Ahab with - Jezebel, that Jezebel would have contrived to cut off all the tares only for good Obadiah, who saved a hundred of them by fifties in a cave. It so happens that ." that, woman Jeze bel" has not the power in England; it so happcins that neither " that woman Jezebel", no any thing connected with her, can be upon the throne of England—nor married to the Sovereign. (Cheers.) It so happens, that in stead of being like- our gracious Queen, she is still like a traitor, nibbling about the court, speaking lies in hypo ' crisy, and getting in by every back door she can contrive— (cheers) ; in the treasury Mr. Wyse and Mr.' O'Ferrall, in the privy council Mr. Sheil„ in the parliament blustering away Daniel O'Connell---(Continued cheeri) ; and striving •by every effort to attain that turning point of ascendancy when it will be convenient to remove the tares ;—then woe betide us ! (Hear, hear.) But, my lord, now is the time for us to stand, whilst " the evil are so strong." (Cheers.) They call us the evil ; and we must strengthen this heretical evil, that we may not be cut-off. In order that the patience recommended in this note may be uractird, the good must tolerate the evil when it is so strong that it cannot be sup pressed without danger. (Hear, hear.) Now I say, for peace sake, let us keep " the evil" so strong that it cannot be sup pressed without danger, because, if the PrOtestant good be come so Weak that they would attempt to suppress it in this way, I am sure there would still remain enough alit to have a terri ble fight. (Hear.) For the sake of peace, then, let us, the Lord's name, keep so strong that they must have patience. (Loud applause.) My lord, that is the "object of this meet ing. Yes, our object is pe4e, althpulh they say we are agitators, hut it is not a false, a treacherous peace ; for in that respect we say with Jehu, " What peace so long as that woman Jezebel deceives, and do long as her whoridenus and witchcrisfts arc so many ?" •The ntxt feature we find in Jezebel's character was, that site fed the idolatrtius prophets. She kept a table for the prophets of Baal: 'Need I draw forth the application of this chsrSeteristic here ? Popery avowedly feeds those idol priests who bow down to images. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) I have prepared myself here, by what I have already said, to steer clear of. all' their quibbling about worship. I have authorized myself distinctly to charge them with idolatry in the words of the Scriptures for the single fact of bowing down, and .'no man with his eyes open can deny that Papists bow doen to images, that they are idol teachers. and that the system which harbours them is like to Jezebel who kept a table for the priests of Baal. (Cheers.) Let any man go into a Popish,chapel,and see the image of the virgin dressed in silk and satin, the wax idol put into her lap, the various saints anti relics stored round that temple of idolatry ; the poor creatures taught to bow their heads, their knees, aye, and to prostrate them selves to the ground before t hose saints:and relics when the consecrated. piece of bread is carried round, an when the idolatrous priest says "'Ecce Aqnus - Dei,"'aeci when all fall down before that piece of bread as the heathens did before the image of. Nebuchadnezzar of old—let him say whether this system does not sanction, feed, support, and keep a table for Baal's priests? (Loud cheers.) 'Oh; that' woman Jeze bel ! (Renewed cheers.) But, my Lord, here I must con fess they have siolen a march ueon us ; alas, that it should be true, but it is true that England is so far impli cated in the guilt that she is now actually supporting idol priests! (Hear, hear.) She is paying for their teaching in their college of Maynooth ; she is paying them to teach others in the colonies of her empire! (Hear, bear). Here is a parliamentary paper containing an account of the grants for the colonies— Gibraltar Cape of Good Hope Mauritius Lower Canada 300 a year to the Church of Rome. 200 2595 2000 PP 1600 Upper Canida Nev Brunswick Newfoundland .. Jamaica. Trinidad Demerara & Esequibo 1370 Berbice New South Wales Van Dieman's Land . In all £14,763 a-year actually paid, like Jezebel of old, to feed the idol priests and teachers of Baal, the bowers down to images I < (Hear.) And besides this, Maynooth has £9OOO a-year (hear) ; the education board of Ireland, which is al most exclusively in the hands of the priests, receives no less than X 50,000 a-year, and the board of works, ..£2OOO a-year. There is, at this moment, more than £70,000 a-year paid by the British state for the absolute cultivation of the Popish apostacy ! (Hear, hear.) There is a remarkable passage in our history connected with the en- . .. couragement of the false priests, and the screening of them from justice—a passage which, long as lam trespassing upon your attention, I shall be glad to read, (Hear, bean) I read from a work on English history, a passage concerning the reign of Henry the Second. " When a clergyman was ac- culed,.he waitried in thcem•lesiustioal courts; "whence lay no appeal, and then the clergy having absolute power over their own body, the trials were conducted with such indulgence, that the- greatest crimes were punished Daly with degra4ation, add less Ones with short duration or easy confinement. , The laity, discontented to suffer for offences for which the clergy were liable only to slight correction complained lotidly. The clergy, again, sure of impunity, daily committed on the laity outrages, which, for fear of punishment; they durst not re pel. The abuse so increased, that.it , wasprovethnthe King, in the-fifth year of his reign, that above a hundred murders bad been committed by ecclesiastics; of whom not one was . . . _ _ punished even with the degradation enjoined by the canons. The bishops, instead of repressing their disorder, maintained to the utmost of their power the immunities and abuses of their clergy. .A priest had debauched the daughter ota re spectable.man, and to prevent his guilty intercourse being disturbed had murdered the father. The king declared that God had appointed him to administer justice without dis tinction to all his subjects; that it was improbable God would punish priests less severely than laymen ; and that murder, robbery, and crimes of this nature, should for the future be tried in the king's courts. He, therefore, demanded that this atrocious criminal should be brought before a civil tribunal, and sufferpunishment upon conviction. Becket, the primite, in order to screen this man from justice, placed him under custody of his diocesan. In deference to the primate the prelates declared that no clergyman ought to suffer for any crime, nor even bejudged in a secular court. It was a maxim, they said, that no one ought to be punished twice for the same offence ; but eeelesiastical,censures were a punishment, and of all punishments the most grievous because they touched the soul !" Such was the state of things in England when " the. evil" was not quite so strong as it is now. This same Becket, of whom you read here that he screened this monster, seas himself canonized after his death, and pilgrimages without nelabir and wealth beyond count, were brought to his shrine_ (Rear.) Here you see is a clear proof both in the principle and in the practice, of this feature of Jesebel belonging also to the Papacy—that they screen, that they protect, that they feed, that they support idol priests. Nay, my lord, we find in the sequel of Jezebel's history a complication of iniquity. We find her encouraging Ahab to seize upon' Naboth's vine yard, suborning false witnesses to swear away his life ; we find treachery leading onward to murder and robbery by means of subornation of perjury. Now, in looking into the Papacy let me be fairly understood to say this—if practices be found in individuals belonging to any system, practices which are condemned by the principles of the system to which the parties belong, it would be altogether unjust and unfair to charge upon the system the enormities of those individual practices ; but if practices be found, age after age, in strict conformity with the principles—practices which emanate from the principles, practices which, instead of being the exs ceptiou are in truth the rule—they must be the rule while the principles are held and carried out—then it is fair, and true, and right, and conclusive to charge those practices upon that system. (Cheers.) What practices, then, do we complain of in the case of Popery ? (Hear) My lord, we complain of treachery, we complain of perjury, we complain of murder ! (Cheers.) The well known case of John Huss presents a sample of this accumulation of iniquity. He got a safe conduct from the einperor to go to the Council of Con stance, and the council voted that it should not protect him ! They voted that pledges given contrary to ecclesiastical authority were perjuries, and, despite of the safe conduct, they burned him ass heretic! {Hear, hear.) My lord, the massacre of St. Bartholomew's eve supplies another instance. (Hear.) In vain they have endeavoured to escape from the charge of that tremendous fact. (Hear.) The massacre of St. Bartholomew has been traced to them on the most clear and conclusive evidence. Some of the writings of their own party, which have been found, prove beyond contradiction, that the mas sacre of St. Bartholomew was planned at least two years be fore it was executed. Davila, in his account of the peace ratified in 1570, says, that' the Queen-mother, the King, the Duke of Anjou, and the Cardinal of Lorraine, thus resumed their old plans against the Huguenots, which were to grant to them.a.bollow kyieo, to-ev, - ttwir forrl i ca aillea..mt of their kingdom, e poscia con ante e con opportunita opprimere capi della fattione: " And afterwards artfully, and at a fit ting opportunity, to overwhelm the heads of the faction." The same author praises Charles as a perfect master of slant lation, and describes his whole conduct, from this peace un til its fatal issue in the massacre of St. Bartholomew, as con trived to delude the Huguenots, and to entice them into the snares which he had prepared for their destruction, The most eminent. French Roman Catholic .historians all agree that the chief object of this peace was only to entrap the Pro testants to their extermination. Thus, also, Pre Griffet says, that it was made dans la eve de les enrelopper, plus surement ef, plus ais6nzent dans un massacre g‘ntral. " With a view to involve them the more surely, and the more easily, in a general massacre." As to the numbers of Protestants who fell victims to Popish zeal in that indiscriminate, though well organised, slaughter, in which neither age nor sex.was spared, during the eight days that it continued, Davila calculates that about five hundred persons of rank, and above ten thousand of inferior condition, perished in Paris alone, besides those slaughtered in the provinces, (History of England, book xvii.) quotes Daniel, who says, that three thousand were butchered in Paris, and Strype, who reckons these at ten thousand, Papire Masson states the victims in the country, exclusive of Paris, at ten thousand. La Popeliouere calculates them at twenty thousand, in the capital and provinces together. Adriani, De Serres, and De Thou, give a total of thirty thousand ; Davila, of forty thousand ; Dr. Lardner estimates the total numbers massacred at sixty thousand ; Sully, at seventy thousand, and P6refixe at one hundred thousand. And to leave no loop-hole of escape, when the news of that tremendous massacre reached Rome the rejoicings were great, the feastings were great, a jubilee was proclaimed, and a medal was struck. (Hear,) Now a medal is a standing tes timony. Some of these medals have got into the hands of the heretics! (Hear, hear.) One of them is in the hands of the writer of this book, Sir William Colburn, baronet, resident in Bath. He has published an account of the mu• sacre in this book, and caused an engraving to be inserted in the book containing the inscriptions upon the medal. The engraving is here facing tie title-page, You ob serve the two circles. Upon each is an impression, anti the two contain the two impressions upon the medal. The upper one is Gregory the 13th, the supreme pontiff; the under one is lingonotorum strages, the slaughter of Hugonots—the destroying angel with a cross in one hand, a sword in the other,and the unfortunate Protestants bleeding at her feet. (Hear, hear.) Now was there ever such a pattern set up ! And was ever a pattern set up so faithfully followed as the pattern of Jezebel and the imitation of Popery ? (Cheers.) My Lord, I ant altogether satisfied that a case of idolatry, originating in heathenism, a case of persecution against the Lord's servants unto death where it could be done, a case of deliberate support of idolatrous teachers, a case of combined treachery, perjury, robbery, and murder, a case precisely transcribing the features of the his tory of Jezebel, is made out without straining a single point or exaggerating a single document Against the Popish church. (Renewed cheers.) Then if this be so, if we be, as Israel was, a church of God, if we be with the Scriptures in our hands, pledged witnesses against idolatry, against persecution, against fostering and favouring idols, against treachery, against perjury, against robbery,. against murder; if we be faithful witnesses against these things then, I flak, whether we be not justified, nay, whether all are not called upon, the clergyman in his parish, the peer iq his place in parliament, ' the gentleman in his influence in the country, the artizan at his work, the farmer in his farm, the labourer in his cottage —whether all are not justified in saying, " what peace so lung as the whoredom of Jezebel continues,' and her witchcrafts are so many (Cheers.) I ask, are we not justified in influencing our representatives in Parliament —not, I say, with reference to a party question on temporal politics? (Hear.) No, - Ely. lord; it is a matter of national Protini tantism, and liar a- matter of mere party politics.— (Hear.) Are we not justified in doing, all of us, all that we can to influence ow.represcntatives, and say to them—" In the various matters of detail in English politics, we do not ask you to pledge yourself—we will have no delegates in the British House of Commons ; we love independent members, therefore we will not ask you to pledge yourself upon the matters which create differences of opinion between Eng lishmen, the various matters of Protestant legislation— but here is a matter upon which the life of your country depends, upon which the prosperity of England hangs ; here is a matter we cannot consent to leave without having your sentiments ; and, we must tell you, if yqu expect our support you must be a Protestant, you must Say if you are one, you must act as one, you must declare in the House of Commons you are one ; We will not have popish members —we will not have pro-popery members." (Immense cheer ing.) What we ought to do is, to properly influence our members, influence our influential gentlemen, with regard to the labours of their representatives in Parliament ; letter after letter should be written to them at seasonable opportu nities, making the distinction between party politics and na tional Protestantism, and saying to them, "rational Protes tantism is what we must have, and what we will have." (Hear.) The people of England, then, must become determined, and they must say so, not to risk this iu the hands of any one particular set, or any particular representative. (Hear.) You know the adverse influence under which men may be sent to parliament; you know they are led by the circumstances of the party in the house, and cannot advance unless you support them. Our friends in parliament want to be backed in the country ; they want such an expression for Protestantism as you once gave for reform. (Hear.) All England was once in a flame for that bill, but it would be a dear-bought reform if bought at the expense of our Protestantism. (Hear, hear.) Only let the country raise her arm for Protestantism as she did for reform, and she will maintain both. (Cheers.) Yes, my lord, we want to have national Protestantism maintained at any risk. (Continued cheering.) We know that behind Ole bulwarks of her national Protestantism there is sufficient strength fol' the country to recover from any disaster that may befal her ; but we know if once the crippling influence of idolatry gets in, if once the ensnaring, the debasing power of " that woman Jezebel" gets round the high places of the country, if once she can wind her venomous embrace round the executive power of the land, we know then that not only the power of man but the tutor of God is against us ; then the secret of our strength, like Samson's lock, is cut ; and England, isith'all hei prowess, will then sink as helpless illtt! the ems of that woman Jezebel, as Salllsoll did into the bands of the Philistines. (Heat,) In thew:labouring town of Whitchurch I referred to this same Jezebel in a passing expreession.of the speech I delivered thetas :andasked, ' What peabe so long as this woman Jezebel• continues her witch. craft ?" I believe .no person who was present on that oc casionhad, or could have had, the slightest suspicion of any application of the word Jezebel except to the Papacy. But Popish malice is not to be restrained by fact, or by argument, or by reason. c The ingenuity, moreover, of the Pro-Popery advocates In this country is not to be measured by any known rules of probability. Imagination was fertile ; methinks,` my lord,. I could trace the secret source. Familiar with treason themselves, with enough of what is human to be conscious of its base- - ness, and enough of what is diabolical to persevere in its cultivation, they readilyembrace any opportunity of ascri bing to another the secret venom which is rankling in themselves (cheers) • and so it is in what - my Lord Bacon calls the "faculty o f irewhich they have taken a high degree. (Loud cheers.) They slid say, and publish in their newspapers, that 1, a clergyman of the established church, not only called our, ,gracious Sovereign Jezebel, but it was absolutely given in a ministerial paper under the heading, in capital letters, of " An Incitement to Murder the Queen." (Cries of " Shame.") The resolution which I have been requested to second, I will take the liberty of reading again, now, that you have heard some of the grounds upon which you have been invited to pass it. [Having read the resolu tion, the rev. gentleman continued.] I hope that enough has been said to lead to an intelligent assent to this state ment, and to such passing of this resolution, in this assem bly, as will go to the swelling of that rising tide of British Protestantism, which, I rejoice to say, is gathering upon every aide—which is getting strength from the north and the south—which I had lately the happiness of seeing burst forth with electrical influence in the city of Glasgow, and twice in the city of Edinburgh—which it was the privilege of some who now hear me to see kindling itself again in the neigh bouring town of Whitchurch—which others may have seen or heard of in Sheffield, in Manchester, in Liverpool, in York, in Norwich ;—it is travelling its course right and left, taking all the great towns; it is moving southward, and . has a resting-place in Worcester, and another in Here ford ; it gathers with it Bristol and Bath ; it embracei Brighton from the south ; and it is condensing itself, before the meeting of parliament, to come, with the combined power of the rising ,feeling and the deter mined zeal of 'the . Christian Protestantism of England, to say to the governments-to any government—for Ido not speak of individual men—to say to_ Lord Melbourne if he be at the head, and equally to Sir Robert Peel if be be at the head of government,—(cheers)--e• We will have no half mea sures in this cause." Cheers.) The careful measures which our leaders are observing will not do ;—(hear, hear)—even the. Conservative leaders are not committing themselves to Protestantism. (Hear, hear.) .L_ssiy e nry lord, it will not do, and the people of England must tell them so,—(loud cheers)—and the people of England will say, " We have no confidence in you, Conservatives as , you are, unless you also become Protestants. (Renewed deers.) After all, m lord, what is Conservatism without Proteseent s feelinne • Hear, hear.) Why, it is only a little higherem an - inclined p inree it is easily topped over. (Hear, hear.) Nothing will stand firm but what has the truth of God for its basis, and unless they shall declare themselves Protestants let us not be content with them—let us not be satisfied. (Hear.) I believe that those Conservative leaders to whom I am alluding are waiting for this very thing. I believe they want to be justified, and not only to be justified but to be pushed forward by the popu liir voice. (Hear, hear.) I believe that Sir Robert Peel `would be glad to be urged by thecountry to undo what he did against his will ten years ago, and has been ashamed of ever since ;—(hear)—and I hope and believe it would rejoice him to find that-the watchwords which we took the liberty of giving for the people of England three years since are become national watchwords. The first of them is scriptural education—(hear, hear, hear)—the second is church extension—(cheers)—and the third is the repeal of the emancipation bill. (Long con tinued cheers.) And now, my. lord,- I must draw to a con clusion. (Cries of " no, no," and "go on.") lam thankful for the opportunity of addressing your lordship and this very large and influential assembly upon such a subject as this. I trust that as far as the argumentative part of the question goes, in fastening upon the awful system of Popery the fea tures that belong to that woman Jezebel, I have plainly and without exaggeration succeeded. I trust also that in ap pending to that the few observations I felt called upon to make of a personal nature, 1 have not used a word imbe coming of my position in the church or my character as a Christian. (Cries of " No, no.")- I trust also, my lord, that the distinction has been sufficiently marked between the de crevices priesthood and the deceived people. (Hear, hear.) This is a distinction which ought to be more sand more kept in view. lam altogether - satisfied, my lord, that we have many Roman Catholic fallow-isubjects who bete no conception of the iniquities of the. system to which they belong—that if they could but be satisfied, from sources they don't suspect, of the principles their own priests are pledged to, 1 solemnly believe many of them would forsake that system for ever. (Hear, hear.) But they are not con vinced, and they mistake us, on these occasions, as condemn ing en moue • the whole system. (Hear, hear.) They mis take us as acting from enmity against them (hear); they mistake us as advocates of a particular set of men in the kingdom ; they mistake us as party politicians; and they do not believe the truth, that we are enemies to no man. (Hear, hear.) Myself and my reverend brethren, who are engaged iu this work, have no connection with any party, and we have uo confidence in any man or party, whatever his politics may be, until he avows publicly that the word of God is his stan dard. (Hear, hear.) To that word of God we must return if we would have peace for ourselves or safety for our coun try. (Cheers.) Having discharged this duty this morning as regards my country, I would just, in conclusion, invite your attention, my lord, and the attention of this large as sembly, to the grounds of personal peace held forth in that word. Here we shall find real patriots, and here alone. It is only while resting upon the divine principles of truth, re vealed in the gospel of Jesus Christ—it is only while resting upon that assurance of God's love, which calls forth the sweet response of love to God, that we shall rise so above the fear of man, so above the clamours, wherever they are against us, and the flatteries, where they are for us, of the passing multitude, as to be consistent, and to enjoy stability. (Hear, hear.) "There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked." No man can have real peace. in time of danger, but the man who is trusting in him who rules the storm, who walks upon the whip of the wind. (Hear.) Trust in God is stability. There is nothing in the universe so strong as the soul that trusts in God. (Hear.) Trust in God is reposing upon him who made all things around us, and invested them with all their attributes and all their pro perties. without whom they cannot exist, without whom they cannot hurt a hair of our heads. The Lord our God has invested fire with its property ter burn, and water with its _.to drown, and he who gage , the- evopartiaa CAIII ii their agency; its-Is as easy for him to protect ,'its /servants in the fiery furnace, or in the depths of the sea, as it is upon the surface of the ground, and we have revealed specimens thereof. We read of three of his servants who, on the order of the idolatrous king, were cast into the burn ing fiery furnace, It was • God that bad invested that fire with its property to burn ; it was God that had given to woollen garments a ready susceptibility to receive the smell of fire; he who gave, suspended, and they walked through the midst of the tire ; " and the form of the fourth [in the fire] was like to the Son of God ;" they came forth, and not a smell of fire had passed over their coats, their hozen or their hats, because they were not careful to answer the king in this matter; they trusted in God. (Cheers.) There, my lord, is true peace ; there is a peace which no tyrant can demolish; there is a peace which even while the flesh of the poor creature trembles in anguish, enables the spirit to remain stayed upon the Lord ; there was the peace enjoyed by our martyrs when " that woman Jezebel" had power in England—(cheers) —to tie them to the stake, and lay her faggots around them., (Cheers.) When the flames reached them, when their poor trembling flesh quivered in the flames,—for they had feelings like other men—still leaning themselves upon their God, their cry was, noue but Christ : " be of good cheer, brother," said one of them, " we are this day lighting a candle in England which shall never by God's grace be put out." (Cheers.) Surely there was prophecy as well as power there—(hear)—and if it shall please the Lord our God to enable his servants now to repose on his word, to find peace in their own souls, to rest upon that stability in the midst of danger, the testimony of conscience, that they are serving him when they are telling his truth, we have no fears for the result. (Cheers.) The end of Jezebel was, when Jehu came into Jezreel, and looked up at the window, she had attired her head and painted her face, and she looked as the Queen. And Jelau called, " who is upon the Lord's side, who ?" There lOoked out two or three eunuchs from the window, and he said, " throw her down." They threw her down ; and he his ehariot-over her body ; she was crushed In the streets; ; " andllogs did eat the flesh of Jezebel." (Cheers.) And whit is the end of the papacy to be ? The Lord Jesus Christ him ,elf teaches us he shall come again in his glory, that that man of sin, the son of perdition, shall he destroyed before the brightness of his coining. Babylon is fallen, is fallen ; that is the cry. As Jezebel fell in the streets of Jezreel, so when the great Babylon is fallen, the Lord's children shall raise their hallelujahs, when the smoke of her torments shall ascend for ever. (Cheers.) I wish, my lord, before I sit down, to enable any of my friends here, who feel desirous to put themselves in the possession of this valuable little book. 1 have mentioned two books. One is Mede's Apostacy of the latter times, and the other is Sir William Colburn's volume on the massacre of St. Bartholomew ; I now call the attention to the sth volume of the Reformer's Library, and entitled " papacy as opposed to knowledge." It contains a very important and valuable digest of the various documents, with the original in notes, at the foot of the pages, which it must be extremely useful to refer to. I particularly recommend it to my reverend brethren, who, I do hope and trust will buckle on their armour in this cause, and get themselves qualified by secret study to explain it to their people, both in public and in private. (Hear) And I assure you it is not so hard a task as you may fancy it. (Hear.) It is not at all neces sary that you should be able to do it with commanding powers of oratory. Nay, you are personally safer without them. They constitute a painful snare. It is flattering to human nature to attract attention and secure applause. It is our bounden duty (from which we must not shrink through fear of vanity) to exert all our powers to the utmost in the service of Him who rave them. When they are such as challenge the admiration of our fellow creatures, they be come in the same proportion dangerous to ourselees. But, with interior powers, honestly to do whit we can; to do it usefully, although we cannot dolt brilliantly ; this is at oneo 'more self-denying and less dangerous. Let every one of us then be busy. (Loud cheers.) Let parochial petitions be got up upon this subject. Let meetings be held in your school-rooms, if they_ be only of 10, 20, or 30 people ; ap prise them of the effects of Englaed's deliverance from ido latry ; show them what it is advise them about it ; put them in possession of facts. (Cheers.) You cannot have a better back ground than Popery, upon which to exhibit in beautiful relief the everlasting and glorious truth of the Gos pel of our Lord Jesus Christ, Avail yourselves of such back ground, (cheers), and you are doing two things at once. How can you skew Christ better than by chewing him in contrast with Antichrist ? (Cheers.) Let those preachers - who have learned this lesson adopt parochial petitions, for if we can but come to the 'system ot pin:legal petitions throughout England, no government can keep the reins of govermuent— no, not for a month, without pledging itself to national Protestantism in church ,and state. The rev. gentleman then resumed his seat amidst the most enthusiastic cheering. The noble Cu.tioseeN then put the resolution, and it was adopted unanimously. HENRY JUSTICE, Esq. moved that the following address be presented to her most gracious Majesty the Queens— " TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the un dersigned inhabitants of the t own and neighbourhood of Mar. ket Drayton, in the county of Salop, beg leave humbly to ap proach your Majesty with the most unfeigned assurances of loyalty and attachment to your Majesty, is the Sovereign of this Kingdom, - and with earnest prey ors for the security of your Majesty's throne, and the prosperity and happiness of your reign. " While we pray that your Majesty may ever be duly mindful of, the Protestant principles which seated your illustrious family on the throne of these realms, and gave your Majesty a title and right of succession thereto, we regard it as a Chris tian duty, and as an act of loyalty to your Majesty, to express our deep concern and alarm at the uppoAntment of members of the Romfsh church to high and iafluential situations un der the Crown, and to the exalted lank of confidential coun sellors of your Majesty, a a time when that apostate church bah openly threatened the extinction of the Established Re ligion in this country, and is now seeking, by deep-rooted conspiracies and secret intrigues, again to bring the whole people of these islands under the tyrannical yoke of the Romish priesthood. " We have also witnessed with utter disgust the introduc tion at your Majesty's court, by the prime minister of the Crown, of the arch-infidel of the day, who denounces mar riage and parental affection, declares reveletion to by a series of falsehoods, ridicules the idea of a future state of rewards and punishments, and even denies the being of a God. " Considering the appointment of Papists to offices of pub lic trust, and to a share in the national councils, not only dangerous to the civil and religious liberties of Englishmen, but utterly incompatible with the security of the throne, and the maintenance of that pure and reformed Religion which your Majesty has sworn to uphold, and deprecating in the strongest terms the sanction publicly given to infidel princi ples, we humbly beg that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to admit to the administration of public affairs only such statesmen as are firmly attached to the Protestant prin ciples of the British Constitution, in Church and State, and to discountenance the propagation of atheism and infidelity. —And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.' The Rev. J Ames LEE, vicar of Market Drayton, seconded the motion. I rise to second the proposition of presenting this address to her Majesty the Queen, (the rev. gentleman said,) with great cordiality. In the first place it refers to the apostacy of the Church of Rome, but this part of the subject has been so clearly and fully explained by Mr. M'Neile in his able and excellent address that it is unnecessary for me to en large upon it. In the second place it embraces another and a peculiar feature, and that is the subject of socialism. (Hear, hear.) There may be a considerable number of persons in this room who scarcely know that such a system of infidelity is now being actively propagated in different parts of the country, and more particularly in the densely populated mining and manufacturing districts. Indeed it is awful . to think what progress this hideous system of iniquity is making. (Hear, hear.) And what, I ask, are the doctrines and prin ciples advocated by the professors of socialism ? (Hear, hear,) The first is, that man i s a mere crea t ure o f c i rcums tances, and that, consequently, he is a being of no moral responsibi bility—(hear, hear)—that there are no such things as merit or demerit—no such things as rewards and punishments. (Hear, hear.) Why should there be, if the doctrine is true, that man is an irresponsible being? (Hear, hear.) Another principal feature in the doctrines of socialism is that there ought to be no such thing as marriage—(hear, hear)—that the . " irrational" names of father and child, and of husband and wife, should entirely cease ; (hear, hear) and, in short, that there should be no worship of God and no church, and that man cannot be regarded as a rational being until all wor ship of a Supreme Being shall be abandoned. (Hear, hear.) These are the abominable doctrines which are now being se dulously propagated by the socialists in many parts of this country. I hold in my hand a paper relative to this syste m , which will read, as it gives a tolerably straightforward ac count of the progress and present state of this great iniquity. " There are now upwards of sixty Branch Societies, in the principal towns in the kingdom, in which there are places of meeting for lectures on Infidelity and Socialism. The Sab bath is occupied in the delivery of seditious and blasphemous addresses, tea-parties, profane singing, music, &c., ecc. In some places, Sunday and Infant-schools have been esta blished, for the inculcating of Infidel principles. A Tract Society has been formed, and six tracts issued : these are fre quently distributed under the Wesleyan and Church tract covers. A most blasphemous weekly periodical is circulated at ar'to of 49,000 per ieeek., Three is a regular orgadized ' central tabard, with .president, vice-president, and secretary, and a great number of salaried emissaries, whose whole time is devoted to the advancement of Socialism. Additional im petus has been given to their proceedings by the disgraceful presentation of their founder, Robert Owen, to the Queen, b the first Minister of the crown.'-'—Sheffield Mercury.(llear.) These are the tenets, and this is the position of this degrading sect, yet the founder and promoter of the system has actually been introduced at court, and presented to her Majesty by the Prime Minister of the crown •! (Hear, bear.) These, in conjunction with the Papacy, are the persons who are at tempting to effect the subversion of the Protestant institu tions of the country, and who are drawing our young and un suspecting Queen to the verge of a most dangerous precipice. And shall we cooly look on and not come to her rescue ? Does not Protestantism—does not genuine loyalty call upon us to address her and warn her of the evil designs of these enemies alike of the altar and the throne? And does not the genuine spirit of patriotism re-echo the cry and say, " Address her too?" (Repeated cries of " Yes ' yes.") Then, gentlemen, I beg to second the resolution, and I am sure you will pass it unanimously. (Cheers.) The NOBLE CHAIRMAN then put the motion for the adop tion of the address, and it was carried unanimously, amidst loud cheers. Mr. M'Neiez then moved that an association be now formed, to be called the Market Drayton Protestant Asso ciation. (Cheers.) W. C. Noecorr, Esq. seconded the proposition, and it was carried Ananimonsly. The Rev. Mr. LEE, vicar of the parish, was appointed president, and the Right Hon. the Earl of Bradford, vice president of the association. The Rev. Mr. Let then read a code of rules for the go errnment of the association, which was also adopted. The HIGH SIEURIF, begged to propose the cordial thanks of the meeting to the noble Chairman, for his able and cour teous conduct as president of the meeting. (Cheers.) The Rev. Mr. PIGOT, in seconding the motion, observed that he had been greatly interested and informed by the pro ceedings of this meeting. (Hear.) He was sure all of those present might truly say it had been good for them to be there. (Cheers.) He admitted that the enemies of the established church were many ; but we might with confidence venture to say that the friends of the church were as many and more. (Cheers.) Si inonumentum (marls eircum.rpice." The friends of the church would not desert her unless she deserted herself. (Cheers.) With regard to the friends of the church, he could say, most conscientiously, that he believed there was not a firmer or a more liberal member of the establish ment than the noble lord in the chair. (Cheers.) God bless him ! (Great cheering.) With regard to the enemies of the church, we were by the highest authority commanded to pray for them, and he hoped we should do. (Hear, hear. But at the same time, we must say, that we would have NO SURRENDER ! (Loud cheers.) He would, if possible, *make the whole establishment ring with this emphatic watch word. (Applause.) Union was strength. This had been a day of triumph to the church : oh, that it might be a triumph in Christ! (Loud cheers.) He begged heartily to second the motion. _ _ _ The Earl of BaAnvoan begged to thank the meeting, and his old valued friend Mr. Pigot, for the honour now conferred upon him. He bad been more than amply rewarded for any time and labour he had given to this meeting, by the most eloquent and able exposition of the principles of popery by the Rev. Mr. M'Neile. (Loud applause.) The Rev. Mr. LICE moved a vote of thanks to the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, for his excellent address upon this occasion. The meeting must feel highly indebted to him and he was sure they had been very much informed by I:lin—indeed a deep debt of gratitude was due to him for his great exertions in favour of Protestant principles. (Loud cheers.) Sir ROBERT HILL said, he had the highest pleasure in being nernitrozsi tv second the mouon. _ The Earl of Baanrono then put the question, and it was carried unanimously, the entire meeting rising in one accord. The Rev. Mr. MlNetLe rose to reply. I know not, my lord,. he said, whether it is desirable I should say anything in reply to this expression of your thanks—(hear, and a voice "The more you say the better"). But I will say this, from one of the writings of Fenelon. He says, when the Romans heard Cicero speak, the common acclamation was " Oh' le grand orateur ?" but their emotions evaporated in ad miration of the speaker. When the Athenians heard De mosthenes speak, the common acclamation was, " ballots Philippe I" " Come along, down with Philip !" {Hear.) Their emotions did not evaporate in admiration of the speaker, but forgetting him they resolutely addressed them selves to the matter in hand. (Hear.) Now that is what I want. (Hear.) The best thanksou can give me is " Come along, down with that woman Jezebel, down with image worship, and with idolatry, down with every thing that brings the curse of God upon our dear and beloved land!" That is the first step. Hear is the address to her most gracious Majesty,—(hear)—whom they falsely say I likened to Jezebel. 0 ! for language to give utterance to the deep detestation with which my loyal soul recoils from the traiterous senti ment ! My lord, I love the queen with the honest ardour of a Christian patriot, and daily pray for her, with the chastened earnestness of a Christian minister. I am. dutifully and cor dially, yes lam enthusiastically devoted-to her commands, next to those of my Lord and Saviour : and am willing in obedience to them to risk my life a thousand times. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) Here is the address to her, setting forth as you have heard the various mischiefs by which she is surrrounded, through the baseness of men who are tam pering with " that woman Jezebel," and bringing her snares round the throne of this true Protestant monarchy. (Cheers.) Oh that our gracious Sovereign had the experi ence as truly as she has the principle ; oh that she had the power as truly afeshe has the throne of our Queen Elizabeth (cheers), to frown such pro-Popery ministers out of her in dignant eight. (Loud cheers.) But a little patience.. Ex perience grows. Our Queen is young. She is deceived by a Popery-supporting, because a Popery-supported rainis try. They have made most unconstitutional use of her royal name ;—but she will tind that out presently. (Cheers.) Let us pray for her—that the holy Spirit of God will gOide her mind, as she reads the words of the Bible, that he will convey the truth of our Lord Jesus Christ to her soul, and endow her richly with political discernment of who are the supporters of her throne—namely, the supporters of the Bible, and who are the undertniners of the throne—namely, the supporters of " that woman, Jezebel." Now then, aliens, batlons Jezebel ! Sign the address ! (Immense cheering.) The call of the rev. gentleman was immediately responded to by large numbers ; and about half.paat four this interest ing meeting separated, highly gratified with the proceedings. LIVERPOOL ROYAL INSTITUTION.—The third Soirée of the season in the Liverpool Royal Institution, was held last night. Considering the unfavourable state of the weather, the attendance was numerous and respectable, and a very pleasant evening was spent. The next soiree is appointed for Monday, the 4th of February next. " HANNAY AND DIETKICHSEN'S ALMAIVACK FOR 1840. " The third annual impression of this miracle of cheapness has just made its appearance. How 112 large dewy Bvo pages of very closely printed matter can be sold for sixpence, really astonishes us of the broad sheet. As an astronomical and nautical publication, it is the hest that appears, and is illustrated on the present occasion by a plate of the occulta tions of the fifteen principal fixed stars that will take place during the year, and is a very useful assistant to teachers of , the globes. To farmers and. graziers it 'oat be isivaitutble, containing, as It doss, a list of all the ffsft In England. It also contains a useful chronology of remkable occurrences; a chronological summary of the events that occurred during the year 1838 ; a list of all the country bankers, with the houses they draw upon in London (very nitieh improved since last year) ; a list of the flag and commissioned officers of the navy ; naval and prize agents. The field officers of the army are given alphabetically, which is a desideratum. The royal family ' • her Majesty's household ; the Queen Dowager's household ; the chief officers of state; the house of peers ; the bishops and deans of cathedral churches; the lords lieu teuants of counties ; the house of commons, with the Lou don and country residences of the members ; the court of aldermen; the Queen's ambassadors and consuls abroad ; the universities of Oxford and Cambridge ; lists of stamps ; public holidays; and transfer days in the funds, &c. 'We cannot do less than give this almaneck our unqualified reeom mendation, and we make no doubt but it will find its way to the counting-house of every commercial establishment iu Europe."—Constitutionalist, Sunday, Dec. 8, 1839. Sold by HANNAY and DIETRICHNEN, 63, Oxford-street,. London. Price Sixpence. By SMITH, Bookseller, Scot land-place ; at the MERCURY OFFICE, Liverpool ; and by all other Booksellers in the King4wn. Hors.—Hops are 'spry generally grovin upon the white lands, or the " 111 Al y lands, as they are called, in some parts of the youth of England, that is, upon the lands near the chalky downs, which consist of a mixture of chalk and clay or marl, which lands are never the best adapted for grain crops. These lands are, of course, very often in the near vi cinity of the naked chalky downs ; and it is really owing to the uninterrupted driving of the cold winds over:those downs, as much as to any other cause, that the cultivation of hops is so uncertain, The plant is one of the rankest or moat rapidly growing of all plants cultivated by the British farmer, and for this reason, among others, it is very delicate, so that a slight chill in the atmosphere, which is not perceptibly felt by the other field crops, causes a stagnation of the juices of the hop ; and according to the time of the year at which this takes place, the result is, destructive insects, the growth of parasitical fungi upon the blocs and leaves, or a deadening of the edges of the latter; and, under some inveterate eircum ' stances, any two of these. or all the three together, may befal the plants, and so reduce the crops almost to nothing. It is, we believe, matter of current remark, that the hops in Kent are much more liable to suffer by these means than the hops about Farnham in Surrey, and Alton in Hants.- That such is the fact notifies the view which, we have taken of the case, for the snow storms are invariably much more severe on the hills in Kent than they are on the hills about Farn ham a n d Alm—Midis', Ragland and Wales. LETTER FROM THE REV. HUGH M'NEILE TO MR. ALDERMAN EARLE. Roscommon-street, 20th Dec. 1839. Sir,—l could scarcely believe it possible that you had spoken concerning me in the council, such language as I found ascribed to you in a public paper ; at the same time as it could not be classed with those anonymous attacks which more than defeat their own malignant purpose, I felt it my duty to notice it. But first, it was right that I should ascer tain whether you were correctly reported or not. For this purpose, I enclosed you the version of the report, with a few lines, asking if it was correct, or if it contained inaccuracies or misrepresentations of what you said : thus supplying you with an opportunity for that sort of explanation which I con ceive no one gentleman should ever hesitate to give another. If you used the words ascribed to you, 1 expected that you would candidly say so ; if not, that you would gladly avail yourself of the opportunity to disclaim them, or any part of them, which you found erroneous. In this, however, I was disappointed, your answer neither avowed nor disclaimed anything in the report I sent you, but referred me to " a much better account" in another journal. I read it there, and still feeling called upon to notice it, 1 wrote ; Ist, to complain of your evasion of my first inquiry ; 2nd, to ask you if you admitted the accuracy of " that much better account" to which you referred me ; and 3rd, to transcribe for your' especial attention two particular passages, concerning which I requested to be informed, whether they had been spoken by you or not. One of them represented you as having charged me with double dealing. In your reply, which I received on my return home from Market Drayton last night, you deny any evasion, and pro ceed to say—" it was never my intention to answer your que ries; and I beg now to decline doing so, inasmuch as Ido not, recognise your right to put them. I shall be ready and able to defend my conduct, whenever any act on your part shall make it necessary for me to enter upon that defence." This is language for which I confess I was not prepared, either from a reformer of your liberal school, or even a member of gentlemanly society. It savours more of the crushing - arrogance of the middle ages, and the chair of Hildebrand, than of the freedom of inquiry, which is the boast of the present age, or the forbearing from threatening which is the characteristic of a well tutored mind. I am at a loss which to depltire most, on your account, the implication that our - town-council is an irresponsible StarsChainber, the members of which may vilify their neigh house as they please, without recognizing lice rigid of a fellow-subject even to ask, did you do it? or the courageous threat of self-defence against a clergyman ! whom you have publicly accused of double dealing, and whom you have en deavoured to turn into ridicule to the extent of your ability. You ground this charge upon a passage in a speech of mine at the commencement of the school controversy, in which I commented upon what Mr. Blackburne was reported to have said in the council. Upon that controversy, and in reply to my speech, Mr. Blackburne wrote a pamphlet. There the matter rested between him and me, and upon the showing of my speech and his pamphlet, I was willing to allow it to rest. I presume Mr. Blackburne also was con tent, or he would have added something more. If you think he has left anything material unsaid, and feel detous of re-opening the controversy with me, do so in the way of argument,without any ungentlemanlike call ing of names, such as I grieve to say your late speech contains, and I will endeavour to answer you. In the meantime I make this pub lic call upon you to substantiate the chargesof double dealing which you have publicly advanced against me. There are several other passages in your speech, upon which I shall take the liberty publicly to comment, as it best suite my convenience. But first, on this charge of double dealing. It is a grave charge, affecting not merely the judgment and discretion of the party accused, but his moral honesty. It Should not be advanced without unequivocal evidence. This you will admit. You will thereforebe so good, without loss of time, to defend your conduct in advancing this charge, now that an act of mine, in challenging you to the proof, has made it necessary for you to enter upon that defence. Be assured, Sir, that it is with sincere regret I find myself brought into this sort of personal collision with you. I did not provoke it. lam not conscious of ever having spoken of you, or alluded to you in any way previous to your late attack upon me. I deal with principles and not personalities. If I occasionally mention the names of individuals it is merely for the illustration of sonic principle, and not for any personal abuse. I defend the great fundamental truths of Holy Scrip ture in opposition to the false doctrines, vain traditions, and deceiving inventions of Popery, and its old ally Infidelity. I defend also the great fundamental maxims of liberty on which the British constitution is based, in opposition to the anti social intolerance and persecution of Popery, and its new ally Radicalism. In return, I am honoured with abundance of personal abuse, but I look in vain for any answer to my arguments. Anonymous abuse is of course disregarded, and the most flagrant falsehoods, and malicious misrepresentations, whe ther by suppression or exaggeration, are passed without com ment. But when a gentleman of your connexions and station In society becomes the organ of an unfounded charge, I am compelled by a sense of duty towards him, as well as to my self and the public to demand an explanation. Had you given it in private, the courtesy with which I asked it would have characterized the only use I would' have made of it, but my courtesy being rejected, I am forced neon the only other - course open to sue. - "boeth7e iailae charge, I wait for the proof. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, HUGH M'ICEILE. THE NEW GRIMALDI AT COVENT-GARDEN. Mr. T. Ridgway, who for the last five years has been the admired clown and successful comic Mime of the Theatre- Royal, Liverpool, is to make his appearance at the Theatre- Royal, Covent-garden, in the splendid new Christmas panto mime, under the management of Madame Vestris. There cannot be a rational doubt of Ridgway's success : he will shake a decided hit. We are confident that there is not a true appreciator of the genuine old (.irimaldi humour in the metropolis who will not recognise in the new artist a worthy successor to the head master of the school—poor old JUR ! prince of true fun and frolic ! ! The recollection of the master will be buoyantly revived this Christmas, by the face and performance of Ridgway ; and, by the unaided force of genuine humour, free from the slightest coarseness, the cha racteristics of Grimaldi's style. The most delicate-minded or modest lady need not deny herself the gratification of seeing and laughing with the new clown. We never saw Ridgway, in the most exuberant paroxysm of comic richness, exceed that difficult but " honourable stop," or outsport discretion by the wanton perpetration of anything approaching to grossness. He will be a pet with the Londoners, and will merit and maintain the appreciation of the rams, which at no former period, since the days of iiazlitt, was ever so ge nerally distinguished by competent critics. The new pantomime, entitled " Harlequin and the Merrie Devil of Edmonston, or the Great Bed of Ware," has been in active preparation for some weeks. It will he produced its accordance with that taste, and enhanced by that enterprising liberality, for which the managementest V v.seais is proverbial. There is not slather and mother of a race of budding little ones, who have seen Grimaldi in &pi of yore, who have not a treat in store for them—a double treat while the new pan tomime runs. What a twofold pleasure to parents, to have the innocent reminiscences of their youth recalled and at the same time to see in laughing faces and eyes overflowing I with tears, the picture of their joy revised in the children by their side. THE EXHIBITION.-List of prizes gained by the subserie hers to the fund for the encouragement of modern art in th prsent annual exhibition :-John Clow £5O, John Pointer 45, John Saunderson 40, Thomas Clough 35, Thomas Tom lin 30, Hugh Jones 30, Henry Ashton 25, John J. Hamilton 25, Thomas Harrison 25, Richard Rathbonc 25, John Ash worth 20, Isaac Chambers 20, James Cullen 20, George J. Wainwright 20, Samuel Turner 20, Richard Henderson 20, The Mayor of Liverpool 15, Richard Scholes 15. John Well stood 15, Thomas Winstanley 15, William Haskayne 15, W. Askew 15, Edward Griffin Jun. 15, William Nixon 10, Mat thew Sibson 10, Samuel Turner 10, Mrs. Farrell 10, Miss Duckworth 10, Miss Diana Clarke 10, Daniel Nelson 10; William Shipley 10, Benjamin Ellis 10, Gilbert Harrison 10; Stephen Scott 10, Daniel Willink 10, John Miller 10, W. N. Bell 10, Adventure 10, Joseph Mayer 10, H. G. Ashurst 10, W. W. Currie 5, Edward Griffin, Jun. 5, W. S. Cain 5, W. Worthington Maddock 5, W. Wikes (Birmingham) 5 John Lynch 5, Dr. Webber 5, G. T. Webb 5. Thomas Frost 5, John Finch 5, R. P. Glynne 5, R. L. Jones 5, N. S. Glazebrook 5, James Smith 3, David Murphy 5, E. John son (St. Helens) 5, Mr. Foster (Blue Coat School) 5, E. P. Thompson 5, Miss Wood 5, Robert Allen 5, E. P. Thomp son 5; and John Davies 5. ANCiENT F ES TI VAL' OF Si'. VALENTINt'S DAY.---At a recent meeting of the Royal Soeisay of Literature, the secretary read 'a . paper "On the Ancient Festiv a l 0 St. Valentine's Day, " by the Baron Hammer Purgstall. The origin of this celebration has excited much attention, but. hitherto without any satisfactory result ; it is to be looked neither in the calendar of the "tannish church nor in the Roixiish festival of the goddess Februsta, but in the oldest of existing calendars, the festivals of which have passed successively into the Roman and Christian ones. Among the ancient Persians, the month-of February bore a name corresponding to that which it bore in the Roman calendar (from febueare, because it was the period of purification and lustration.) It was the intercalar month; and the intercalar days were called by the Persians, Foordian or Poordiati, which is the name with the Hebrew Purim ur Poorim (an is the Persian plural, and in: is the Hebrew.) A second festival of the month of Februar is Candlemas, an.sweing to the ancient Persian festival, bade. These festivals were cele brated, the former at the end, and the latter at the beginning, of February.. The 14th, St. Valentine's day (on which day, according to the popular custom, still prevalent in England, young persons choose their partners.) is dedicated in the Indian calendar to Ganeslta, the god of matrimony. In agreement with the rural tradition in this country, that birds select their mates on this day, there exists the following anc i ent ca l m -w ary t ra diti on o f the Arabs and Persitins. In the month of February three drops fall from heaven—the first on the 7th, the second on the 14th, and the third on the 21st day, the effect of which is to reanimate nature at the returning of spring. The first drop evaporates in the air ; the second falls on the water; the third mingles with the earth ;—the first awakening the generative power in the atmospheric regions, the second in the animal, and the third in the vegetable, kingdoms. This tradition is exactly noted down in the Persian and Arabic calendars, and is recorded in the almanac annually printed at Constantinople. The festival of Valentine, therefore, agrees with the most ancient festivals of the Indians, Persians, and Arabs, celebrated on the same day, consecrated to the god of matrimony, to the rise of generative power, and, perhaps, also to Valentia, the goddess of strength and vigour. With regard to the custom of writing love-letters on this day in particular, the Baron Hammer Purgstall, in the absence of all previous information on this point, makes the following suggestions :—This custom is, most likely, the remains of a very ancient usa ge , w hi c h the Persians practised, not on the 14th February, but nine days later, on the 23d. On this day (which answers to the sth Sapendomadd Feridoon is reported to have written the first taltsnian against impure beasts and noxious animals ; and, ever since, spells and talismans were written in Persia on that day, —a practice which appears to be perpetuated in England by the Spell and talismanic virtue of amatory epietles.—Literary Gazette. AK A ;.-:--7-.l.'''})., 2 ",7-- 0- 6 1.17.44 1 t o _ --t ...., 71149.4,, , ; d i ~-; e ---, • '• pe," - t - ' 0 ( 1 , _ .. ~„ • ~, . ....e 7. AST---/' NATIONAL SCHOOL SOS .44 i-----,-) , -,s. A IN (From the Times of yesterday.) The following letter hasbeen communicated to us by a friend. It deserves a very attentive perusal:— " Dear Lord Ashley,—l send herewith my first subscrip tion to the National School Society. The lateness of this subscription is the result of circumstances purely accidental, and not of any change effected by recent publications, or by any other recent occurrence, in those opinions which in duced me to take an active and public part in support of the society. Those opinions are contained in the following pro positions : . - "1. That man is by nature amoral and religious as well as an intellectual being, and that the cultivation of his intellect without a simultaneous development and direction of his moral and religious sentiment would make his intelligence a source of evil instead of benefit to his race. " That the endowment, that is to say, the establishment, of a national religion and the uniformity of religious obser vances and opinions as far as it can be attained without vio lating the liberty of conscience, are very great public advan tages. _ _ _ 3. That the church of England, independently of the ad vantage which it now possesses of being already established and moulded up with our civil institutions, is more tolerant, has a better foundation in truth, and is of greater utility, than any other form of religion that could be substituted in its place. " 4. That the clergy of the church of England, already the authorised teachers of the national religion, are better quali fied by their attainments and their high moral character to be the teachers of every part of useful knowledge than any other class of persons who could be appointed for that purpose. _ _ "5. That though it is an essential part of toleration to permit those who dissent from the religion of the state to educate their children after their own fashion, there ought not to be any system of education at the nat.onal expense that does not comprehend as an essential part of it 'instruc tion in the established religion. To tolerate is one thing—to cherish and to propagate quite another. The sower of good seed, though he may not separate or gather the tares before the harvest, is not enjoined to sow them with the good seed. " G. That the applicati on o f th e na ti ona l funds for the propagation of any but the national religion is an exception from a general principle to be justified only by some obvious political necessity or expediency. " The institution of Maynooth College, whatever effect it may have had in practice, was intended to prevent 'the in convenience of a foreign interest being introduced among the Roman Catholic priesthood, which might tend to the dismemberment of the empire. " The Regium Doman was proposed and justified upon the same principle of securing the interest of the Protestant empire. " 1 7. That the application of the national funds for the propagatioq of.anrother than the establishes religion merely to secure tlii! Volitteal interest of a party, hovrever it may be masked under theltpecious names of toleration and liberty of conscience, is, in effect, nothing less than treachery to the state and to the Sovereign. " 8. That no restraint or political exclusion should take place on account of any religious opinions or observances, except when they lead to the depravation of morals, or characterise some political hot tility.to our social institutions. The aberrations of conscience, - when they turn upon the fashion of a button or the form of a dialogue, are of no im portance ; but when they lead to the destruction of life or property, or liberty, or take the form of avowed hostility to the state, they will justify, if they do not imperiously demand, exclusion from all political powers. " These principles, formed in early life, .and corroborated by the reflections and experience of maturer age, I think it my duty in the present times not only to avow, but steadily to act upon. I shall, therefore endeavour to support the so ciety with the most anxious wishes for its success. " I am, my dear Lord &c., " Abinger-hall, Oct., 1839. " ABINGER. VISIT TO LIVERPOOL OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE.—On Friday last, thea Righ tII on. H. Labouchere visited this town, as the invited guest of the mayor. During the day, he received a number of deputations from the va rious commercial associations of the town. He was waited upon by the following, amongst others :—by a deputation from the American Chamber of Commerce ; by Mr. Henry Tindal Atkinson, as a deputation from the Anti-Corn-Law Association ; by Messrs. Sandbach and Tinne, on behalf of the Duty on Slave-Grown Sugar Association ; by Mr. Cairns, Mr. Daglish, and Mr. Alderman Moon, on behalf of the Brazil Association. ; and by Messrs. Alderman Sheil, Kil lock, Greensheil, Maunder, arid Mocatta. as a deputation from the Hayti trade. In the coarse of the afternoon Mr. Labouchere made is appearance on Change,' where his reception was anything but flattering. The cheers which greeted him were " few and far between." When Sir Ro bert Peel's name, however, was introduced, the cheering was vehement, and enthusiastic in the extreme. Mr. Labouchere will carry an unpleasant tale to his ministerial colleagues. In the evening he dined with the Mayor and a party of mer cantile gentlemen, at the Town-hall. POULTRY.--" When," says Mr. Bose, " it is wished to have eggs during the cold season, even in the dead of winter, it is necessary to make the fowls roost over an oven, in a stable, in a shed where many cattle are kept, or to erect a stove in the fowl-house on purpose. By such methods the farmers of Auge have chickens fit for the table in the month of April, a period when they are only beginning to be hatched in the farms around Paris, although further to the south it would be desirable that stoves in fowl-houses were more commonly known near our great towns, where luxury grudges no expense for the convenience of h av i ng f res h eggs ." It is worthy of remark, that the Irish peasantry, whose poultry occupy, at night, a corner of the cabin along with the cow, the pig. and the family, frequently lay very early, in conse quence of the warmth of their night quarters ; and there can be no doubt that this is the chief secret of having new-laid eggs in winter, paying, at the same time, due attention to protect the hens from wet, and to have them young, or, at least early in moulting.—The Poultry Yard. CASTLE-BUILDING By A LAWNER.—" Were I solicitor general, we should see how they would look then," said Mr. Horatio Luckless, on arriving at Pump-court. He had just returned from Westminster, where he had not faded in at tendanee on any day in the term ; but where, alas ! he had as yet not had an opportunity given him of addressing any of the fifteen judges. He now wound up his way to his long, dirty staircase to the very topmost story, pulled down the little notice of his clerk, pinned to the outer door, " Return at six," drew front his pocket his ponderous key, unlocked the door, and pulled it open. Here lie saw his tire burning, his books and furniture all right, but nothing, I regret to say, to remind hint that during his - absence any client bad ap peared. He now appeared for his dinner; his laundress had placed two mutton chops on a plate, ready for him, in his clerk's room, and these he now essayed, by the help of his bachelor's oven, to cook himself. " Oh," said he, fixing them before the fire, " more improbable things have come to pass than that. It is true I have been called some time, and have not made much way yet ; but who can say what to morrow may bring forth? Who knows that the government may not take me on as counsel in the special commission? They will want a working junior, well used to sessions prac tice. Well, down I go. The third day Frost is brought up; Campbell happens to be taken ill. I chance to have got up all the facts. lam asked to take the lead. This, of course, I consent to do, although a little nervous at first. Well, now comes my turn. I open in grand style, and go through the whole statement to the complete satisfaction of the court. Tindal, at the close, gives me an approving smile. Then we go on with our proofs. The case is on the point of breaking down, when, by the judicious course I pursue, I at once restore it, and everything goes right for a conviction. Maule tells me afterwards it could not have been done better. Well, so far good. I return to town •, I find that one of the cabinet bad been present all the time, disguised as an attornev'e clerk. I learn, accidentally, that tie has mentioned me to Lord Mel bourne, who, it is well known, is puzzled ap to whom he shall appoint. lam sent for—l ant asked to take it. Of course I assent. 1 am appointed solicitor-general. I am intro duced at once to the House of Commons, and make my maiden speech. The house is electrified; the tories tremble prodigiously. Campbell is promoted. I am offered the attorney-generalship, which 1, of course, accept. All this time I have been in full practice. I am presented to the Queen, who this time takes particular notice of me, and in vites me to dinner, which of course I accept. She is charmed with my wit and information. Melbourne on this looks somewhat displeased; but I restore his good humour by my admirable advice to him on the conduct of his government, and my brilliant speech in the house in its defence. Cotten hani retires ; 1 am offered the great seal. lam appointed. Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. and retain the entire con fidence of the Queen. I am, of course, created a peer. I should like to know what Miss Jenkins, who declined to dance with me a second time last Tuesday evening, would say then. 1 meet with complete success in the House of Lords. Brougham and Lyndhurst sink into insignificance. I preside over the Court of Chancery with mingled urbanity and dignity ; the arrear is soon disposed—l reduce it to a mere shadow."—And here, alas ! poor Luckless cast his eyes on his mutton chops. In his dreams of greatness he had forgotten to turn them, and, I grieve to say, they were reduced to a cinder.—Legal Obxerrer. THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—Another embankment brings us to a massive stone bridge, sufficiently expansive to admit the passage of the Junction Railway, and it was for this reason executed at the joint expense of the two companies. The Birmingham deptit is just 1121 miles from London; the station is one of the finest in the world. The entrance is by a handsome portico with lonic columns ; the receptacle for the trains has six instead of four lines, as at Euston Square ; it is 117 feet in length ; the roof is of wrought iron, in two spans of 36 feet 6 inches each. The engine-house is capable of holding 16 engines and tenders, and under each engine is a pit three feet deep, which enables the engine-men to get underneath to examine and repair it. In front of the engine-house are store-rooms, offices, work shops, over which is a tank holding 170 tons of water, with provision for a steam-engine to work a pump from a well e , below, in case the regular supply should fait. In the loco motive department, preparations arc made to ensure the safe and economical working of the railway. Each engine carries a box of teals ; the various out-stations are fitted up with urges, work-benches, &c., enabling the engineers to execute necessary repairs: Wolverton, however, is the grand central station, where preparations' for every thing have been made upon a vast scale, equal to any want that can possibly arise. It is a curious fact, showing the amount of the general con sumption of materials required, that in an average trip to London the engine will exhaust 2000 gallons of water and 24 cwt. of coke ; and the tender carries a ten of . coke, and upwards of 700 gallons of water. For the accominollation of travellers going the entire distance, the trains which arrive from London run into the Grand Junction line.at Birming ham, where there are excellent. refreshment-rooms. In the same way, from Manchester and Liverpool run into the Lon don and Birmingham etation, whence they are forwarded after a brief interval. This magnificent work, which has carried the previous inventions of men of genius to a degree of public usefulness never anticipated, has now, it appears from the - reports before us, alr ea dy b egun to make returns of interest exceedingly promising for the future. The outlay being upwards of six millions, it will require. to pay 10 per cent., that the road should produce £600.000 annually, be sides a large addition to defray the various expenses of main , taining so vast an establishment. It is, at the same time, far removed from all fears of its proving a mere speculation ; hosts of travellers, both for business and pleasure, will ren der its returns certain and ample ; the receipts have been steadily advancing, from the hour of its partial opening to its complete operation, and its half-yearly reports continue to be more and more satisfactory. As a proof of this gra tifying fact, it will be sufficient to mention that the receipts for the first six months of 1839, namely, from the Ist of January to the 30th of June, reached as high a sum as £270,000 ; which sum added to the same for the other six months, will give for a total annual receipt the handsome income of £540,000 a-year. But if we estimate the annual receipts by the returns of a single month (July last), they would realize the immense sum of £720,000 per annum. During some weeks the receipts were as high as from £15,000 to £20,000, or upwards of £60,000 per month ; an immense increase upon the previous year, months, and weeks, preced ing it. This increasing ratio is in part to be attributed to the immense numbers flocking out of town for the season. The recent opening of the Derby and Birmingham Railway, of the branches of the North an d Midl an d Counties, the Aylesbury and Birmingham, will all, like tributary streams falling into a vast river, bring a rapid increase of business, besides adding to the prosperity of the rural districts, and forming an important epoch in the annals of civilization and of science. Thus, in whatever point of view contemplated, whether in its magnitude, in its triumphs of skill and labour over incredible difficulties, in its national utility or social results, this head and centre of British railway Hues will remain an enduring monument of the entei prising spirit, enius, wealth, industry, and ind o mitable pereererens. of a 1 British proprietary.—Chamber:' • .11;