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HER MAJESTY'S MARRIAGE. THE LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY SATURDAY' Nov. 23. At the Court of Buckingham Palace, the 23rd, day of No vember, 1839. PRESENT. The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council_ His Royal Highness the Duke Lord Wynford of Cambridge Lord Brougham Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Denman Lord Chancellor Lord Abinger Lord President Lord Ashburton Lord Privy Seal Lord Hatherton Duke of Norfolk Lord Langdale Duke of Devonshire Lord Monteagle Duke of Montrose The Speaker Duke of Wellington Hon. T. P. Courtenay Marquis of Salisbury Hon. Henry Pierrepont Marquis of Anglesey Sir Robert Peel, Bart. Marquis of Normanby Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. Lord Chamberlain Henry Goulburn Earl of Surrey Lord Chief Justice Tyndal Earl of Albemarle Sir William Alexander Earl of Jersey Sir George Cockburn Earl of Erroll Sir Stephen Lushington Earl of Tankervillo Mr. Herries Earl Minto Mr. Vice Chancellor Earl Howe Sir George Murray Earl Amherst Sir Henry Hardinge Earl of Durham Sir Robert Adair Earl Ripon Sir Brook Taylar Viscount Castlereagh Hon. Thomas Erskine Lord J. Russell Sir Edw. Hyde East, Bart. Viscount Strangford Sir John Cam Hohhouse, Bt. Viscount Palmerston Mr. Tennyson D'Eyncourt Viscount Melbourne Edward Ellice Viscount Beresford Mr. Baron Parke Viscount Ebrington Sir Alexander Johnston Lord Burghersh Mr. Justice Bosanquet Bishop of London Sir Edward Knatchbull,Bart. Lord Willoughby de Eresby Mr. Planta Lord Holland Mr. William Peel Lord Ellenborough Mr. Labouchere Lord Hill Hon. George S. Byng Lord Bexley Dr. Lushington Lord Bloomfield Hon. George Grey, Bart. Lord Wharncliffe Mr. Chancellor of the Exche- Lord Lyndhurst quer Lord Cowley Mr. Macauley Her Majesty being this day present in Council, was pleased to make the following declaration, viz— " I have caused you to be summoned, at the p:esent time, in order that I may acquaint you with my resolution in a matter which deeply concerns the welfare of my people and the happiness of my future life. "It is my intention to ally myself in marriage with the Prince Albert, of Saxe Coburg, and Gotha. " Deeply impressed with the solemnity of the engagement which I am about to contract, I have not come to this decision without mature consideration, nor without feeling a strong assurance, that with the blessing of Almighty God, it will at once secure my domestic felicity, and secure the interests of my country. I have thought fit to make this resolution known to you at the earliest petrod, in order that you may be fully apprised of a matter so highly important to my kingdom, and which, I persuade myself, will be most acceptable to all my loving subjects." Whereupon all the privy couucillors present made it their humble request to her Majesty, that her Majesty's Most Gra cious Declaration to them might be made public, which her Majesty was pleased to order accordingly. C. GREVILLE (From the third edition of the Sun of Saturday.) Her Majesty held a privy council, this day, at Buckingham Palace, at half-past one o'clock, which was attended by an unusually large number of members, there being upwards of 100 privy councillors present. The proceedings excited unusual interest from its being generally understood, that an announcement of her Majesty's intended marriage with Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-would be made to the Council, and as early as twelve o'clock, a large concourse of persons had assembled in front of the Palace, and at two o'clock, the number had increased to several thousands : there was a very large sprinkling of fo reigners among the crowd. Her Majesty looked in excellent health, and delivered the address with great composure. The Council broke up shortly before three o'clock ; and, on leaving the Palace, her Majesty's Ministers and other leading political characters were received with the usual popular marks of applause and disapprobation. Lord Mel bourne, who was near the last that quitted the Palace, was loudly cheered by the majority of those present, but there was some vehement hooting from a mob of persons who followed his carriage round the entire front of the Palace. • Ills lordship smiled and bowed good-humouredly to his assailants. The Marquis of Normanby and Lord John Russell were in the same carriage, and came in for a pretty equal share of applause and disapprobation. The Duke of Wellington, who was looking extremely thin and pale, but in good spirits, was most enthusiastically cheered. Lord Mont eagle (Mr. Spring Rice) was greeted with a hearty groan. There was a sorry attempt at a cheer for Sir Robert Peel, from the same knot to whom we have before alluded. Mr. Goulburu, Mr. Croker, and others of that party were allowed to pass almost unnoticed. The reception of his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge was of the same lukewarm character. Lord Palmerston's reception was by no means flattering ; but it would be inpossible to particularize all the ♦arious shades of shouting, cheering, hooting, and hissing which alternately prevailed. We observed - ai - nong the crowd a certain noble marquis who has lately ratted from the Whigs, and a baronet of some celebrity in East India affairs, who were signalling the populace as to what parties they should cheer or groan. These two gentlemen appeared to enjoy the fun amazingly, and remained on the ground till the last carriage had left the Palace. Her Majesty and her attendants, escorted by a party of Lancers, left Buckingham Palace for Windsor, and was greeted on her route towards Hyde-park with loud and general cheering by the assembled multitude. (From the Globe of Saturday.) Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg Gotha, thus signally honoured above his fellows, is, we are assured by those who have had opportunities of being in his company, and of observing his bearing towards his equals and inferiors, worthy of the proud distinction which awaits him. Reports assigns him accom plishments such as qualify him to adorn a court, and justify the hope that his intimate relation to our beloved Sovereign will, under the blessing of a gracious Providence, confer on her the pure and refined enjoyments of domestic life, without which even the splendour of a court, the power of a throne, and even the affectionate loyalty of an empire leave an aching void in the heart. That void will, we trust, be occupied fully and enduringly by the contemplated union of which the Privy Councillors of the Sovereign will have this day official in formation. Prince Albert is the second son of Ernest, reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and derives his birth from a long un broken line of Protestant ancestors ; to one of whom Luther was indebted for protection, and probably preservation from death, when after the Diet of Worms the Pope employed his powerful influence with the Princes of Continental Europe to effeat his destruction. Thus was the Reformatisd instrumen tally indebted for the protection and preservation of its great author to an illustrious member of the family about to become connected by marriage with the Queen of England ; of all the other countries of Europe most benefited, in► its religion, laws, arts, and literature, by that great event. His Royal Highness was born August 26, 1819, and is con sequently the junior of her Majesty, who was born on the 24th of May preceding, about three months. (Fro,n the Spectator.) Of so little consideration in the eye of the constitution is the consort of the Queen Regnant that he is not known to the law ; and the little that Blackstone says about such a person age shows his insienificance " The husband of a Queen Reg nant, as Prince George of Denmark was to Queen Anne, is her subject, and may be guilty of high treason against her ;" and he adds a line about the impunity attending his " con jugal infidelity," which cannot possibly interest Prince Albert. All that can be said of the husband of the Queen may, therefore, be comprised in a few words. Politically, he can ostensibly be nothing ; though privately he may be almost everything. The representations and advice of ministers will avail little against the wishes and arguments of a beloved spouse; and the deliberations of the nuptial couch—if, as is ardently hoped, harmony, tenderness, and love attend it— will probably be found infinitely more efficacious than those of the Council-board. Happily, the destinies of England do not depend upon the will of any two human beings ; but, if Prince Albert be endowed with great intellectual attainments, sagacity, and firmness, united with ambition, he may, never theless, have immense influence in this country, and may be come the instrument of great good or almost irremediable evil. The vulgar and predominant feeling, at this moment, is not, however, what effect will the Queen's husband produce on the institutions and policy of the country, but what are the " creature comforts," those possessions which the dullest can understand and the least ambitions appreciate, with which he will be endowed ! Their curiosity can readily be satisfied. He will be naturalised by Act of Parliament ; he will be crea ted a duke, and, perhaps, Duke or ',cent, and a Privy Coun cillor (though, if he be wise, he will refuse all honours con nected with responsibility and duty,) a Field Marshal, a Knight of the Garter, the Bath, and, perhaps, of all the other Orders ; and, like his uncle, be authorised to quarter the arms of England, with a grant of precedence of all per sons except Dukes of the Blood Royal. This much from his wife. From Parliament, perhaps, £30,000 a year, with lau dations from all sides for so moderate a wish ; and the same desire for popularity may induce him to be satisfied with £50,000 per annum, in case he should survive the Queen. For their illustrious progeny, the good-natured country will "be no less considerate, and loyal people may chant the burden of the song written on the Prince of Wales's marriage, just forty-five years ago : " The Royal House of Hanover, the darling of the nation, TQ larnly, now to last for another trpneration !" BOHEMIAN Womss.—ln every corner of this part of Germany, each female, from the maid servant to the mis tress, has a spinning -wheel ; and there is no good housewife in Bohemia who would not consider herself disgraced if she did not spin within her establishment all the linen articles necessary for her hoasehold.—Strany's Germany. THE MELANCHOLY EFFECTS. OF OPIUM EATING.—The following anecdote gives a curious example of the effects of immoderate habits of using opium. An English ambassador lately sent to a Mahomedan Prince, was conducted upon his arrival at the palace through several richly decorated and spacious apartments, crowded with officers, arrayed in su perb dresses, to a room, small in dimensions, but ornamented • with the most costly and splendid furniture. The attendants withdrew. After a short interval two persons of superior mien entered the saloon followed by state bearers, carrying under a lofty canopy a litter covered with delicate silk and the richest cashmere shawls, upon which lay a human form, to all appearance dead, except that its head was dangling loosely from side to side as the bearers moved into the room. Two officers holding rich filligree salvers carried each a cha lice and a vial containing a black . fluid. The ambassador considered the spectacle to be connected with some court ce remony of mourning and endeavoured to retire, but he was soon undeceived by seeing the officer holding up the head of the apparent corpse, and after gently chafing the throat and returning the tongue, which hung from a mouth relaxed and gaping, pouring some black liquor into the throat, and clos ing the jaws, until it sank down the passage ; after six or se ven times repeating the ceremony, the figure opened its eyes and shut its mouth voluntarily : it then swallowed a large portion of the black fluid, and within an hour an animated being sat on the couch with blood returning into his lips, and a feeble power of articulation. In the Persirn language he addressed his visiter, and enquired the particulars of his mission. Within two hours this extraordinary person be came altered, and his mind capable of arduous business. The ambassador, after apologising for tqe liberty, ventured to in quire into the cause of the scene he had just witnessed. " Sir," said he, "I an an inveterate opium taker, and I have by slow degrees fallen into this melancholy excess. Out of the diurnal twenty-four periods of time, I continually pass eighteen in this reverie, unable to move or speak ; I am yet conscious, and the time passes away amid pleasing fancies, nor should I ever awake from the wanderings of this state had I not the most faithful and attached attendants, whose regard and religious duty compel them to watch my pulse. As soon as my heart begins to falter and my breathing is imper ceptible except on a mirror, they immediately pour the solu tion of opium into my throat, and restore me as you have seen. Within four hours I shall have swallowed many ounces, and much ti me w il l not pass ere I will relapse into my ordinary torpor."—Aforewood's History of Inebriating Ar sv. Liquors. ri''' C? k'it", 1•• 1. e e rill ev, 4‘ t 4.17..:i Silittl ' t'd: . 4. * : , ~. 1. 4 VVi Wir,; - tvt..9/ THE QUEEN'S MARRIAGE. (From the Standard of Friday-) It is formally announced by the ministerial journals that the marriage of the Queen is to be celebrated in April next. The consort selected for her Majesty is Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, a prince so young (for he is the Queen's junior) that it would be absurd to say anything of his personal cha racter. We have heard, however, that he is an able and in genuous youth, and we earnestly hope that he will contribute to the happiness of the princess who is to bring him so near to the most splendid and exalted throne of the world. It is, indeed, a promise of tranquility -and honour to the Sovereign's future life, and of benefit to her people, that she will have near her one faithful friend above the temptation of official salary, or the lure that influences needy dependents, who will tell her the truth ; and, with the knowledge of cha racter which a man must acquire, and which a husband will not fail to act upon, must purify " the private and social circle" of the court. One such friend the Queen had at the commencement of her reign in her admirable mother—but we believe it to be certain that the influence of that excellent adviser, was early impaired by the arts of low agents, su borned by the minister : the influence of a husband may be supposed to stand upon a firmer foundation, and sooner or later, if he prove a man of prudence and good feeling, it will be exercised for the honour of his wife and Queen, and for the good of her people. On the whole, therefore, the coun try, we think, has reason to rejoice in the prospect of the Queen's marriage; and while we adhere to the system of ex cluding the natives of Britain from all approach to the throne —a system as impolitic in regard to the interests of the Royal family as it is insulting to a nation possessed of an aristo cracy, wealthier, more accomplished, more independent in spirit, and more highly descended, than any princes of the Continent, while, we say, this system is adhered to, probably no family of the Continent ought to be preferred in a Royal alliance to the family of Saxe Coburg. The Queen's marriage will, as we have intimated, probably depose the dynasty of bedchamber women, and set her Ma jesty free to communicate with all her people, when every thing may be hoped from her natural good sense and right disposition. Nevertheless, the ministers, we believe, think themselves, as usual, " lucky," in the approaching event : they have lived one year upon the accession, another year upon the coronation, and they expect that the royal marriage will carry them through the third ; and a year, half a year, Or even one quarter day, is a great matter to men in their position. THE ROYAL MARRIAGE. (From the Morning Herald.) It is said that her Majesty has caused the whole of her Privy Council to be summoned to attend her on Saturday next, and that she will then announce to them her intended marriage with Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg. Her Majesty's Privy Council consists of upwards of 200, and is composed of nobles, statesmen, judges, civilians, &c., and although it may appear strange that a young lady should announce to some 200 gentlemen at once that she is going forthwith to enter into the holy•state of matrimony, yet it will be found that if she does so her Majesty is following as near as may be the precedent of the reign of King George the Third. In the year 1761 there was much speculation as to who King George the Third would marry, some saying that he would marry a foreign princess, others asserting that he would espouse one of his own subjects, and controversial pamphlets were published, arguing the advantages and dis advantages of each. However, on the Bth of July, 1761, all doubts were put an end to by his Majesty calling the whole of his Privy Council together, and making the communica tion to them, which was published by the royal authority in - a London Gazette extraordinary on the same day. The following is an extract from the London Gazette:— " At the Court at St. James's, the Bth day of July, 1761; — Present—the King's Most Excellent Majesty ; his Royal Highness the Duke of York, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor, Lord President, Lord Privy Seal, Lord Chamberlain, Duke of Bolton, Duke of Leeds, Duke of Bedford, Duke of Rutland, Duke of Queensberry, Lord Great Chamberlain, Duke of Newcastle, Lord Steward, Earl of. Huntington, Earl of Winchelsea, Earl of Sandwich, Earl of Shaftsbury, Earl of Holdernesse, Earl of Rochford, Earl of Albemarle, Earl of Godolphin, Earl of Cholmondeley, Earl of Kinnoul, Earl of Bute, Earl of Buckinghamshire, Earl Powis, Earl Harcourt, Earl C ornw allis, Earl of Hard wick, Earl of Egmont, Earl of Thomond, Viscount Falmouth, Viscount Barrington, Viscount Bateman, Viscount Ligonier, Viscount Royston, Lord Berkeley, of Stratton, Lord Sandys, Lord Anson, Lord Lyttleton, Lord Melcombe, Lord Grantham, Mr. Vice-Chamberlain, Henry Legge, Esq., George Grenville, Esq., James Grenville, Esq., Mr. Secretary Pitt, Lord Chief Justice Wiles Master of the Rolls, Henry Fox, E sq ., Ch ar l es Townshend,i Esq., Robert Nugent, Esq., Welbore Ellis, Esq., Sir Francis Dashwood. " His Majesty being this day present in council was pleased to make the following declarations, viz.:— " Having nothing so much at heart as to procure the wel fare and happiness of my people, and to render the same stable and permanent to posterity, I have, ever since my ac cession to the throne, turned my thoughts towards the choice of a princess for my consort, and I now, with great satisfac tion, acquaint you. that, after the fullest information and mature deliberation, I am come to a resolution to demand in marriage the Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg Strelitz, a princess distinguished by every eminent virtue and amiable endowment ; whose illustrious line has constantly shown the firmest zeal for the Protestant religion, and a particular at tachment to my family. I have judged proper to communi cate to you these my intentions, in order that you may be fully apprised of a matter so highly important to me and to my kingdoms, and which I persuade myself will be most ac ceptable to all my loving subjects. Whereupon all the Privy Councillors present made it their request to his Majesty, that this his Majesty's most gracious declaration to them might be made public, which his Majesty was pleased to order accordingly.' This occurred on the Bth of July, and the Earl of Harcourt being deputed by his Majesty to ask the hand of the princess (afterwards Queen Charlotte), his lordship on the Bth of August left England for that purpose, and arrived on the 15th at Strelitz. On the next day he disclosed the object of his mission, and it would seem that Happy, happy is the wooing That is not very long a doing;" for by the 17th of the same month the princess had not only accepted his Majesty's proposals, but was actually on her way to England. She landed at Harwich on the 6th of Sep tember, in the night, after a very tedious passage, having been three times in sight of the English coast and as often driven (di' by adverse winds. On the 7th of September the Princess slept at Lord Abercorn's, at Witham, and on the Bth arrived in London, and after dining at St. James's Palace with his Majesty King George 111., the marriage ceremony was performed by th e Archbisop of Canter bury in the Chapel Royal at St. James's, in the presence of the royal family and a great number of the nobility. The marriage ceremony on that occasion was that con tained in the Book of Common Prayer, a part of which seems to be not applicable to the marriage of a reigning Queen whose husband will be her subject, as it would ap pear to be rather anomalous that a lady should vow at the altar to obey one who by the very act of their marriage be comes under her government as one of her subjects. As a foreigner Prince Albert owes no allegiance to the Queen, bu as the husband of a Queen Regnant he is one of her subjectst QUEEN ELIZABETH'S SENTIMENTS ON THE SUBJECT OF MARRIAGE, AS DELIVERED TO HER FIRST PARLIAMENT. The historian having stated that " the education of Eliza beth, as well as her interest, led her to favour the reforma tion ; and that she remained not long in suspense with regard to the party which she should embrace," describes the pro ceedings of her first parilament, concluding with a subject which interested the nation, in the passage we here subjoin. "The House (of Commons) in no instance departed from the most respectful deference and complaisance towards the Queen. Even the importunate address which they made her on the conclusion of the session, to fix her choice of a hus band, could not, they supposed, be very disagreeable to one of her sex and age. The address was couched in the most respectful expressions ; yet met with a refusal from the Queen. She told the speaker that, as the application from the house was conceived in general terms, only recommending marriage, without pretending to direct her choice of a husband, she could not take offence at the address, or regard it otherwise than as a new instance of their affectionate attachment to her; that any further interposition on their part would have ill become either them to make as subjects, or her to bear as an independent princess : that evenwhile she was a private per son, and exposed to much danger, she had always declined that engagement, which she regarded as an incumbrance ; much more at present, would she persevere in this sentiment, when the charge of a great kingdom was committed to her, and her life ought to be entirely devoted to promoting the in terests of religion and the happiness of her subjects; that as England was her husband, wedded to her by this pledge (and here she showed her finger with the same gold ring upon It with which she had solemnly betrothed herself to the kingdom at her inauguration), so all Englishmen were her children; and while she was employed in rearing or governing such a family, she could not deem herself barren, or her life useless and unprofitable ; that if she ever entertained thoughts of changing her condition, the care of her subjects' welfare would still be uppermost in her thoughts ; but should she live and die a virgin, she doubted not but Divine Providence, second ed by their counsels and own measures, would be able to pre vent all dispute with regard to the succession, and secure them a sovereign, who perhaps better than her own issue, would imitate her example in loving and cherishing her peo ple ; and that, forher part, she desired no higher character or fairer remembrancer of her should be transmitted to posteri ty, than to have this inscription engraved on her tombstone, when she should pay the last debt to nature Here lies Elizabeth, who lived and died a maiden Queen.'—Hume's History of England. .NCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR BUILDING, &c CHURCHES AND CHAPELS On Wednesday the meetings of this distinguished and most useful society were resumed for this session; there were present the Lord Bishop of London, in the chair, the mos t Reverend Archdeacon Cambridge (of Middlesex,) Rev. Drs. D'Oyley and Spry, H. W. Norris, Benjamin Harrison, Joshua Watson, H. J. Barchand, J. Cocks, N. Connop, Jun., Arthur Powell, and W. Cotton, Esqrs. After a great deal of other business had been transacted, the following grants were voted :--Towards building a chapel at Porthleven, parish of Lithnuy, Cornwall ; building a church at Ardsley, parish of Darlield, Yorkshire • building a church at Marshwood, Do rse t ; re-building the chapel of Wynford Eagle, Dorset ; building a chapel at Dolfer-Kerry, Montgomeryshire; building a chapel of ease at Holbeach Fen, Lincolnshire; building a chapel of ease in the parish of the Holy Trinity, Coventry ; building a chapel at Cornish Hall End, parish of Finchinglield, Essex ; building a new church at Tipton, parish of St. Mary's Ottery, Derbyshire ; re-building the chapel of Yeaveley, parish of Shirley, Derby shire ; enlarging, by re-building, the church of St. Cuthbert's Barton, parish of Stanwick, Yorkshire ; increasing accom modation in the church at Barton, Bedfordshire ; increasing accommodation in the church of Kimbolton, Hereford ; building a chapel at Peckforton, Chester ; increasing the accommodation in the church of Wem, Salop ; enlarging the church at Messing, Essex ; increasing the accommodation in the church at Bray, Berkshire ; increasing the accommoda tion in the church of Backford, Chester ; rebuilding the church at Landysilio, Pembrokeshire; building a chapel at Camburne, Cornwall; building a church at Leekhampton, Gloucestershire; for the purpose of a Dissenting meeting house to be converted into a chapel of ease, at Ness Mayo, parish of Revelstoke, Devonshire. The business was closed by the statement of the society's operations, since the the 31st of March, 1839, viz.:—Appli cations received for building, repairing &c., churches and chapels, 112 ; number of grants, 93 ; number of additional sittings, 29,964 ; free sittings. 21,741; am ount of money granted, £14,730. The society has pledged itself to £12,000 beyond its pre sent means, in anticipation of the collections to be made under the authority of the Queen's letter. LANCASTER AND PRESTON RAILWAY. — The operations on the whole of this line are proceeding with great spirit and activity. The principal structures at both termini are corn pleted, and on Messrs. Mullins and M`Malion's contract the undertaking is in a great state of forwardness. The opera tions of the last-named contractors, have been conducted in a manner eminently worthy the reputation they have hitherto gained in this neighbourhood. Indeed, throughout the entire line, the most praiseworthy pains have been manifested, re gardless of cost, to rival the excellence of the engineering works on the North Union Railway. —Preston Chronicle. 4 - I , A \ TIrdOOI 'II MAT IVE)firOTSTANT ASSOCIATION. The annual meeting of the members and friends of the Liverpool Operative Protestant Association, was held on Friday evening in the Music-hall, Bold-street. The spacious edifice was crowded to excess, showing that public interest on the important objects of this and similar associations is increasing rather than abating. Amongst the gentlemen on the platform, were the Rev. Hugh liti`Neile ' the Rev. B. M Marshall, the R ev . A. 'Conkey, the Rev. W. Maynard, the Rev. J. R. Connor, the Rev. Mr. M`Kenzie, of Wigan, and a large body of the patrons and officers of the society. The Rev. Hugh M`Neile took the chair. The CITAIIIMAN said he never felt so strongly as he did this evening, the responsibility of the position in which they had placed him as president at the formation of their Pro testant association. Their proceedings had assumed an impor tance, and were exercising an influence, in this great town, far beyond what he could possibly have anticipated within so short a period. Proportioned to their influence should be their wisdom—their genuine, zealous, watchful, practical wis dom ; and it was one of their high and sustaining privileges to recollect it was written in the holy scriptures, that "if any man lack wisdom, he should ask of God, who gives to all men cheerfully and upbraideth not, and it shall be given to him." In humble d e p en d ence upon thi s promise, they should now proceed to ask the divine blessing upon this and all their undertakings. The Rev. Mr. MARSHALL offered an appropriate prayer. The CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting to the follow ing effect :—Before I call upon the secretary to read the re port, I wish to make a few observations, but I shall not detain you very long. It is one painful necessity connected with the Christian Church in this world, that we should be en gaged in contention : " Till Jesus comes, our conflicts cannot cease, ' Our joys are joys of conquest, not of peace." (Cheers.) The Christian Church is compared to the salt of the earth, that must go on exercising its counteracting influ ence, counteracting the corruptions of the world. It is com pared to the light of the world, and it must go on dispelling to the utmost of its powers, the darkness that surrounds us. (Cheers.) In carrying out the duties involved in these figures of our Lord, the salt and the light, it is absolutely indispen sable—it is, I should rather say, inevitable—that we should be found men of contention. It is often said that the clergy should be. men of peace, but where and by whom is this said ? It is nowhere said in the Bible. In the Bible we are called ambassadors for Christ, to fulfil the ministry which he com menced, and what account does he give of his own ministry ? " Think you," he says, " that I came to send peace upon earth ? I tell you nay, but rather a sword." This is remark ble. A sword belongs to the ministry of the Christian Church ---not a sword of steel, but the sword of truth, which coming in contact with the abscess of mases_en...ity to God, causes a gush of sensible corruption ; and so it comes to pass that the fine edge of God's truth becomes an occasion of contention in a world which lies under the dominion of the devil—(hear). So entirely true is this, that no man who does not cause some commotion can be a faithful ambassador for Christ. He does not carry out the sword, whereas our Lord said he came to send a sword ; and the man who manages his life, and the mi nister who manages his ministry, so as to have no contention in a world like this, just manages so as to be unfaithful to our Lord Jesus Christ. (Cheers.) It is true that we have a peace—such a peace as the world cannot give ; " my peace," said our Lord Jesus Christ, " 1 give unto you;' we have indeed a peace that passeth all understanding in the enjoy ment of God within : but, I repeat, our ministry is not peace, because our ministry is truth, and truth provokes. "Am I become your enemy," exclaims the apostle, " because I tell you the truth ?" (Cheers.) Now in the contention in which we are engaged, there is not only the general opposition de rived from man's enmity, but there is the special opposition derived from the organization of that enmity ; and the grand organization of it, the grand h ea di ng f or th o f man's enmity against Christ in an organized plan and strong phalanx is anti-Christianity. (Hear.) This sets up in opposition to Christianity, and yet in such a way that it seems to be mag nifying Christ, for while it is anti-Christian at heart, it is MYSTERY upon the forehead. (Cheers.) Upon the forehead is mystery that needs unravelling—that needs to have the mask torn off to see its real character. (Cheers.) It pre tends to exalt the Saviour, while it really degrades him; it is the grand master-piece of the devil ; it is the system of the Papacy—(loud cheers). Now as Christ is the • beloved of God, and the lover and Saviour of men, this anti-Christian system is not only opposed to God's truth, but it is also op posed to man's happiness. (Cheers.) It is not only a false religion ruining the souls of men in eternity, but it is also a temporal tyranny enslaving the bodies of men in time— (hear). We oppose it on both grounds—both as it is a false religion, and as it is a temporal tyranny ; as it is opposed to man's happiness hereafter, and to man's liberties here. (Hear, hear.) I was greatly struck with a passage that oc curs in a letter from the celebrated Baxter to Oliver Crom well. He says—" Sir, these papers presume to tender you their service, because the subject of them is such as it most nearly concerns both us and you that you should be well ac quainted with. The Roman canons which batter the unity, catholicism, and purity of the church of Christ, are mounted on the frame which I have here demolished. The swords, and pens, and tongues against which you are now engaged, and which you must expect from henceforth to assault you, are whetted and managed by the senseless, tyrannical, un godly principles, which I have here detected. Unreasonable as they appear to the unprejudiced, they are such as have animated the studies and diligent endeavours of thousands, wherewith to captivate the princes and nations of the earth to the Roman yoke. Vain as they appear to us, who see them naked, they are such as have divided and distressed the churches of Christ, and troubled and dethroned princes, and laid them at the feet of the Roman pope •, they have absolved subjects from their oaths and other obligations to fidelity, and they have involved many a nation in blood. Oh ! the streams of saints which have been shed by those Roman prin ciples in Savoy, Fiance, Bohemia, Poland, Germany, Ire land, and many other lands ! Easy is the war which I here manage ; it is against those adverse principles -which have armed thousands and millions against innocent or against their lawful sovereigns, whom God had bound them to obey. They have fastened knives in the breasts of the greatest kings, as the lamentable case of Henry 111. and IV. of France doth testify ; they have, in a few days' time, in Pa ris, and the adjoining parts of France, perfidiously butchered nobles and other persons of eminence, and people of all sorts, to the number of nearly thirty thousand, as Thuanus reck ons them, if not forty thousand according to Davila. The doctrines which I here confound have invaded Eng land by a Spanish armada—(whether by the pope's con sent' and on recount of religion, I have hereafter shewed out of their own writers) ; they have prepared knives and poison for our princes whi c God did frustrate ; they have laid gunpowder to blow up king and parliament, and hel lishly execute the f ur y o f th e deluded zealots in a moment, and then sought to have charged the puritans with the fact. They have in a time of peace, by a sudden insurrection, mur dered so many thousands in Ireland in a few days or weeks as posterity will scarcely believe. They are dreadful practi cals, and not merely speculations, against which we dispute." I am reading to you the language of a famous difsenting mi nister, addressed to Oliver Cromwell when he was protector. Talking about Popish principles, he says, " they are dreadful practicals ;" and 1 would have you notice these wise princi ples of Baxter. He proceeds—l beseech you, therefore, that you receive not this as you would do a scholastic or philoso phical disputation about such things as seem not to concern you, but as you would interest yourself in a disputation upon the question—Whether you should be deposed and murdered as an heretic? and whether we should be tormented and burnt as heretics? and whether the lives of all the princes and people upon earth whom the pope judges heretics should be at his mercy, &c., so do in this cause. I speak not this to provoke you to deal bloodily with them as they do with the servants of the Lord ! I abhor the thoughts of imitating their cruelty. ! It is only the necessary defence of your life and dignity, and the lives of all the protestants who are under your protection and government, and the souls of men, that I desire. On what terms we stand with those men whose religion teaches them to kill us if they can, and to venture their lives for it is easy to understand. When we have no security from them for our lives but their disability to destroy us, we must disable them or die." The distinction Baxter makes is valuable. We abhor the thought of exercising cruelty upon them, but we abhor the thought of standing by till they exercise crtelty upon its.— (Cheers.) If their system was like ours, which would exer cise cruelty upon no man, then both might live quietly ; b u t because it is a system hat will not live except it b e para mount, and will notlet live except every thing else be under most (hear) ; and since, in the good providence of the Al mighty, England is yet paramount in this matter, we want to keep her so. (Immense cheering.) This is a serious ar gument, and I wish I could set it briefly before you, for your grave consideration. We assert that the Roman system is dangerous too, and unless restricted by wise and protective laws, will be subversive of the liberties of England, both civil and religious. We appeal, for proof of this, to the i nnehang: ed and unch angea bl e l aws o f t h at system, which affirm that all the power of Christ, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings, is imparted to the Pope, as his vicegerent—that in the Pope is the top of both powers, spiritual and temporal. (Hear, hear.) Both swords are his ; and it is of necessity to salvation for every creature to be a subject of the Roman pontiff'. We appeal to the language addressed to the Pope by the best writers upon the system, wherein they call him " King of Kings—Monarch of earth—all power is given thee above all powers—above both heaven and earth"—and such like. • (Hear, hear.) We appeal also to the language which the Pope himself uses. I will read a passage from the pream ble of the famous bull that deposed Queen Elizabeth :—" He that reigneth on high, to whom is given all power in heaven and earth, bath committed the one holy catholic and apostolic church, out of which there is no salvation, to one alone on earth, namely, to Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and to the Roman Pontiff, successor to Peter, to be governed with a plentitude of power : this one he bath constituted prince over all nations, and all kingdoms, that ke might pluck up, destroy, dissipate, ruinate, plant, and build." In answer to this it is alleged that the supremacy of the Pope is merely spiritual—that it refers only to matters of faith and ecclesiastical discipline —and that it has no connection what ever with the affairs of this present world. This answer goes upon the delusion that religion has no connection with Doh „tuts here we detect the secret source of the unnatural coalition between the Papists and the Voluntaries. (near, hear.) In showing you, then, that religion is inseparable from politics, I shall be answering them both, and at the same time encouraging you to persevere, to maintain, and defend, by all lawful means, the religion and liberty of this land, based, as they are, upon the national establishment of Christ's holy church. (Hear, hear) 1 say this, and submit it for examination by every candid man, that religion and politics are as inseparably connected with this world as are the soul and body in a living man. (Hear.) Man, as a rea sonable creature and a free agent, is under a moral govern ment—that is, a government which acts not by force, pro perly so called, but by motives. The will is influenced to refuse or to choose, and actions follow as the legitimate re suit. Motives, then, bear the relation to actions which cause bears to effect. Motives are causes; actions are their effects. Is it possible to separate cause and effect? Certainly not; for if effects do not follow causes, they are no longer causes ; and if causes be causes, then they do cause effects to follow. This is clear. An autumnal storm is a cause; the scattering of the sear and yellow leaves of the forest is an effect. The voracity of the vulture is a cause, and his gorging upon the carcase is an effect. The fierceness of a hungry tiger is a cause, and his springing upon hi s prey i s an effect. Gravi tation is a cause, and the orbit of the planets is an effect. Now, as it is in the natural world, so is it in the world of morals. Motives are causes, the movements of the mind within are causes, and actions of the body are effects. In furiated jealousy is a cause ; murder an effect. Pride and envy are causes ; mischief and strife effects. Covetousness is a cause; theft, forgery, and their kindred crimes, effects. Supernatural terror is a cause ; superstitious slavery is an effect. (Great cheering.) Now, if it be true, as undoubt edly it is, that he who commands the storm is thereby mas ter of the leaves of the forest, and that he who commands the law or principle of gravitation is thereby master of the planet's orbit, it is equally undeniable that he who commands the mind is thereby master of the body, that he who corn mands the motive is thereby master of the actions. He who can excite jealousy can lead to murder ; he that can stimulate to pride and envy can produce strife and mischief ; he that can excite covetousness can lead to forgery and fraud ; he who can excite supernatural terror can degrade to supersti tious slavery ; he who can absolve the mind from allegiance can stir up the body to rebellion. (Cheers.) See, then: a man's religion rests in his mind and motives; a man's poli tics as regards this world in his body and actions. NV hat, then, is spiritual supremacy ? Supremacy over mind ; su premacy over motive ; supremacy over cause ; and who shall separate it from supremacy over effects? (Loud cheers.) Well does the great usurper of Christendom know this ; (hear, hear,) and, therefore, he puts his claim only to spiritual su premacy. (Cheers.) He only wants to command the cause; he has nothing to say to the effect. Religion has nothing to say to politics—not at all ; the storm has nothing to say to j 3, --"°" the scattering of theleasses! Oh, give him spiritual supre macy, and he will take care of all the rest ! (Hear, hear.) Give the Pope the spiritual power he claims—that is what all our statesmen are saying; why that is all he wants. (Hear, hear.) Let him have free course in exciting supernatural terror over the consciences of ignorant people in the confes sional, and then see the effect. A superstitious degraded slavery in the same people at the registries, at the polling booth—aye, and in the senate-house. (Cheers.) Only let the Pope have spiritual supremacy over the conscience of Mr. O'Connell, (hear) and he thereby has actual supremacy over the politics Mr. O'Connell. (Cheers.) Only let the Pope have spritual supremacy, in England, and although it sounds more plausi ble, and temporal rulers are not so alarmed about it because it is only spiritual; but even suppose the , Pope claimed no more—l am prepared to shew that when he says he claims spiritual power only, it is a lie—that he claims actual poWer ; but suppose he claims only spiritual power in England, and Englishmen are slaves. (Cheers.) This argument, you per. ceive, is of a grave character, calculated to meet at once the apology of the Papist, and the gloss of the voluntary. As such I have briefly stated it for your acceptance this evening, and having done so, and put our movement upon the right foundation, I will sit down, calling upon the secretary to read the report. (Loud applause.) The rev. chairman, before he sat down, read a letter from Mr. M`Ghee, who expressed his regret at not being able to comply with the invitation of the committee, in consequence of the exhaustion induced by attending two meetings within the last few days, and the necessity he wa s un d er o f return ing to his church in Ireland. The letter then proceeded : " But I beg you will assure them that my heart is with them, and that 1 feel assured that it is in the union and cor dial co-operation of all the humbler classes of society, in the faithful maintenance of true religion, that the best security of the British empire is; under the Divine blessing, to be hoped for; and while traitors and demagogues, and Popish priests, endeavour to flatter and deceive the people, that they may make tools and slaves of them, by pretending to set them up as the source of all power,' the best resistance to be offered to their schemes of tyranny and treason, is in the association of the people themselves for the maintenance of the Protes tant church, and, under the auspices of their faithful shep herds, to let those traitors know and see that the people are well assured that the only true source of all legitimate power, the ouly true source of all faithful subjection, the only true standard of righteous authority in rulers, and loyal obedience in the people, is the word of that eternal God, in whose hands all earthly power doth consist—the King of kings, and Lord of lords. In this is the true strength and blessing of a nation ; and I trust the operatives of Liverpool will follow out the principles of that holy cause they endeavour to maintain, and furnish an example worthy of honest emula tion to all the operatives of England.—Believe me, my dear friend, yours faithfully, " R. J. 111`GnEa." The Secretary then read the following REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE: It has been oftensaid that the English people are unwilling to move until they have beetrfurniehed with good substantial reasons, but that when once roused, the weight of their indig nation makes ample amends for the len g th of the delay. Whether or not this truly describes the general' character of the men of England, your committee do not pretend to say, but it is their settled conviction that such has been their bearing towards the grand question of whose developement the united kingdom is now the theatre—" Whether Popery has changed so as to agree with the constitution of England, or whether England's constitution is to be changed so as to agree with the principles and policy of the Court of Rome." After the French Revolution, when the infidel tyranny of Napoleon, the reaction of Popish superstition and slavery, had forced the Roman Catholic Priests to fiy the country, England, with more generosity than judgment, freely offered them an asylum, and in the fulness of her unsuspecting hos pitality, notwithstanding the present enmity of France, (for the two nations were then at war,) notwahstanding the bur densome load of war-taxes, and the increasing national debt, housed, clothed and supported, as gentlemen, 7000 French Roman Catholic Priests. Upwards of 30 years have passed since then, and our fathers have gone the way of all living. Would to God experience enabled us their children to judge otherwise than that in their benevolence to those Popish re fugees they were nursing an adder to use its poison against their offspring. These true servants of him who speaketh lies in hypocrisy, eagerly embraced the opportunity of insi diously instilling their tenets into the minds and families of their benefactors, and covertly lodging the poisoned leaven of their smooth deceits in every circle which the too generous sympathy of. Protestant hearts had laid open to their Romish treachery. Englishmen had been accustomed to view Popery as a deadly foe, from whose soul-destroying doctrines, and society-destroying practice, from whose dark supersti tions and iron tyranny, they had been delivered under God's special providence by a noble army of martyred fore fathers ; and against whose hereditary malice they were bound to struggle to the death with all the devoted loyalty of eman cipated freemen. But these smooth-tongued foreigners said, not so. By their well-trained pencil, Popery (or, as they mis call it, the Catholic religio n ,) was pi c t ure d f or th as maligned and persecuted ; her own harsh tenets, if ever she had any, it was insinuated were quite obsolete, and her superstitions all forgotten ; to remember her past misconduct was censured as unforgiving and uncharitable—to give implicit credence to her present profession belauded as generous and becoming— and to attempt searching deeper than the surface, branded as bigotted and unchristian. These and such as these being largely insinuated (and often but too well received) in influ ential circles, the Court of Rome began to move for an in crease of civil rights, at first humbly, cautiously, and covertly, by tuesns of gentlemen of known Protestant principles and unspotted integrity. The great body of the English people, accustomed to have their own professions unhesitatingly relied on, were unwilling to judge hardly oftheirneighbours, and while they still retained their hereditary hatred of Popery as they knew it once was, were inclined to hope that it really had improved with the improvements of the age, and perhaps too confident in their own power to stopwhen theypleased, were willing to con cede as much as possible to Roman Catholics now, by way of giving Popery a TRIAL. Some, indeed, were found from the commencement to protest against this feeling ; some who knew Popery better than to believe her own character of her self, when there was any thing to be gained by speaking lies; who had examined the threads of the system closely enough to know that no sincere Romanist is his own master, and that consequently any concessions to Romanists, as such, were concessions to the court of R ome ; an d w h o knew that court well enough to be assured that it never will, and never can, rest until all acknowledge the Pope to be, what he claims to be, Christ's vicar upon earth, supreme above all terrestrial things, with all the kings and rulers of the earth bowing in abject submission before his antichristian throne. Some were found to put these forward, but their opposition was overborne, and their voices drowned in the general cry of give her a trial. Well, then, we have given her a trial, and what is the result? Is Popery changed, or she not? For the last twenty years Popery has been on her trial before the world. The English people are her jury, and the English senate her judge. The witnesses have been called, and the evidence gone through at large. The case is now drawing to a close. And the Protestant reaction which we see all over kingdom—the reviving spirit of our Protestant forefathers; which wefeel running like a strong under-current, and every here and there shewing its. strength upon the surface ; the tone of bold, uncompromising protest, which we hear re echoed from every hill, and swelled into greater strength and fulness as it goes by the acclaim that greets it from every valley that it crosses, is now rolling in befere as the jury's verdict, that POI'ERY IS GUILTY ; and the no-Popery cry, that fills every post-horn in the kingdom, and swells every breeze that sweeps over it, is no encertaimt-prelude to the judge's sentence upon the criminal—TaesssroaTaTlON‘FOß. LIFE. England has, indeed, been tardy in her verdict ; but she likes not hasty steps, and she was weighing the evidence with care. She has been slow, -in her movement ; but she remembers the old proverb, " better well than 'soon." She has waited until the tone of suppliant prayer, which the ad vocates of Popery at first assumed, has been exchanged for the unblushing assertion of a rightful claim, and this often laid by to make room for the haughty menace Or the imperi ous command. She has waited to see the bulwarks of her constitution one by one conceded to, or seized by, the liege subjects of the Italian bishop; to see Papist judges upon her bench, to administer Protestant justice—Papist members in her senate, to maintain Protestant legislation—Papists in the very privy council itself, to give responsible advice to our inexperienced Protestant monarch. England has waited pa tiently to see the established church of Ireland not menaced, but attacked and despoiled—ten of her bishops swept away, and the whole body of the parochial clergy stripped of one fourth of their lawful incomes at a blow ; to see the Pro testant clergyman and the English Bible banished from the national education of the Irish poor, and' placed, during an appointed hour, on an equality of permission with Popish priests and their popish doctrines ; to see an attempt made to import the same system into England, and, in spite of its failure, to see a special board appointed to manufacture such a change in the national education as will prove palatable to the father-confessor of Mr. Wyse. She has patiently listened to Daniel O'Connell's agitations and his perjuries, his solemn public pledge to repeal the union between Great Britain and Ireland, and his last manifesto, which declares that, in order to preserve the British throne, the Queen's troops must be all sent out of Ireland ; that it moist be roused from the centre all round to the sea, and organized in every parish ; and in the face of this is astounded to hear proclaimed from the House of Lords, and confirmed by the seizure of some treasonable papers and conspirators, that the dreaded Ribbon conspiracydeesexitt, exists organised in every parish—its object ascertained to be the utter extinction of Protestants—so darkly secret, as to have baffled' detection for years, notwithstanding its 'extent ; and its. members so exclusively Papists, that no one, be he ever so staunch a Papist, is admissible as a member who is connected even by marriage with any Protestant, lest any soft relentings of human nature might prevail on any to give timely notice of the deadly blow, and thus, as before, the object be defeated; the whole thing insensibly rivetti ng our attention on the Feast of St. Bartholomew, when the sun set on 40,000 unsuspecting Protestants, who were doomed never to see its light again ! All this, and more than this, has England seen : her education perverted—her Established Church rifled—her constitution violated—her throne endan gered—and a million of the lives of her most loyal subjects placed in imminent jeopardy. Now England says she has seen enough : Popery is not changed, and, with God's bless ing, I ,rill havo none of it. Shur committee eannet e li ee k et- the place bet with f ee li ngs of sincere thankfulness to Him who holdeth in His hand the hearts - of all, and seems now to be turning the heart of this people to do what is right, and will be to them an everlasting blessing.. True it is only a com mencement, but it is a cheering one. We trust it is as the first big drops of a thunder-shower, Which indicate.the quick descent of that which will purify the atmosphere, and cleanse and refresh the earth. To promote and foster it within their sphere, by diffusing sound historical and other information; to organise and direct its efforts, by giving to its voice a tongue which will speak in unison with the constitution ; and, above all, to consolidate its effects, by endeavouring to infuse a Scriptural, a Christian spirit into its very desires, and to test by Scripture what may be doubtful. in its wishes, aid to seek by prayer God's blessing upon what is right, thus clearing away the rubbish to lay a firm foundation, — these are some of the objects of the Liverpool Protestant Operative Association—to attain these your committee have been employing a two fold agency : Ist, by holding public monthly meetings in different quarters of the town. At these a clergyman has g enerally presided—the argu men t s an d facts brou g ht forward have been invariably listened to with kindnesi and attention by crowded audiences—at these they also propose petitions —one numerously signed was presented to the Town-council, deprecating their intended extension of their present system of education ; another to the same effect is now in course of signature. Petitions to both houses of I parliament, praying for the repeal of the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act, are ready for presentation, each havi ng nearly 5000 sign a t ures. The association has also held some special meetings, one of which was addressed by the Revds. Edward Naugle and T. D. Gregg. The other principal agency which your committee makes use of is that of their tract distributors, from whose active and self-denying ex ertions we hope to see much solid fruit. Your association numbers about 25 efficient tract distributors, each of whom visits from 20 to 30 families every week, lending tracts, m any of which are upon time subject of Popery, and urging upon them the necessity of attending places of public wor ship, and sending their children to Scriptural schools. In connexion with thiS syStem of visiting and tract distribution, your committee hope neat year to procure time establishment of a small library, towards which subscriptions or donations in either books or motley will be 'thankfully received by all members of the committee. The committee would here re turn their thanks to the Church of England tract society for two liberal grants of tracts, and no less cordially to the Pro testant Association for their kind assistance and advice, and also for a liberal grant of tracts. With regard to the results experienced by your association, your committee do not wish to say much : they had rather that the good effects of their exertions should be felt by others than talked of by themselves. In the contest we are waging your association has many friends before it and many by its side. If it be God's will to crown , 4) our joint efforts with success, and give us final victory, we can, afford to give the honour to those who deserve it better than ourselves. They will only say, that so far they 'have met with encouragement beyond their most hopeful anticipations, and enter upon the second year of their_operations with their views much confirmed, and their hopes and courage animated by the experience of a year. Nor do they consider it the least encouragement that now, when anxious to give weight to the association by procuring six additional vice-patrons from the most influential clergy men of the town, they met not. with one refusal, but were warmly received by all. To those, and to the other clergy men who have been kind enough to lend us their school rooms and preside at our meetings, we would respectfully tender our most cordial thanks. In conclusion, your committee would desire ever to bear in their minds and hearts Him who does as He WIL L i n the hosts of heaven and among the nations of the earth—without whom nothing,, however well intended, or calmly weighed, can be either strong, or wise, or holy, productive either of present happiness or permanent good. Into His hands they would commit their own and all similar associations, and all other attempts to promote the knowledge and service of Him —their hopes, their fears, their wishes and, designs they 'would register before him, humbly seeking upon them all sanctification of the Holy Spirit, through the grace that is in Christ Jesus ; and to His watchful care they now commend these kingdoms and all they contain—the Queen, the senate, and all classes of their fellovV-subjects, and especially their beloved brethren, the Protestants of Ireland, whose past and present services they do not forget, and in whose present critical position they feel the most lively interest—these with those who hate them—all our friends and all. our enemies we beseech Thee to BLESS. That it may please Thee to have mercy upon all men- —that it may please Thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, and turn their hearts, we beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord. . The Rev. Mr. MAKENZIE, of Wigan, moved the first re solution. He said it was the duty of all Christian individuals, communities, churches, and nations to contend earnestly for the faith of the gospel—the faith once delivered to the saints. If it were lawful and commendable to struggle for its posses sion, preservation, maintenance, support, and extension, it was equally right arid laudable to defend and protect it from the invasion, inroads, and ravages of all its enemies, so that the spiritual freedom and civil liberty which it secured, and all the temporal mercies and eternal blessings with which it was fraught, might be offered to, and enjoyed by, all who received them. Kings should be its nursing fathers, and ' queens its nursing mothe rs , and teach all their subjects to "fear God, to honour th e i r Sovereign, and to love the bro therhood," establishing the different ranks and orders of men, and their relations to God and one another, as well as their duties to the Lord, to themselves, and to their neighbours. This was the faith which our forefathers believed, received, and established, and by which they defeated the claims of the Pope, silenced his oracles, wasted his temples, cast out his power, and shattered to pieces the crown and mitre from his impious head. It was then that ,Protestant England, like a gia.e .rfter.o4, 0.(1 Avith wir f!, r 0 311 hog might nerd mnjegty, snapping asunder the chain by which she had been so long dragged as an enthralled, enslaved, and degraded captive at the chariot wheel of Papal Rome, slaying the monster of civil despotism andspiritual tyranny, and proclaiming with a loud voice, "Babylon is fallen !, is fallen !" from the altar and the throne, froin our palaees and our senate-houses, from our universities and our schools, aye, and from our happy homes and warm fire-sides. .(Hear.) He was anxious to exhibit to them Protestantism mid Popery, the.one in its true light and the other in its real darkness; ,the one with the sunshine of eternal truth irradiating its countenance, and in its lustre presenting thelleity to our view in all his holiness, righteous ness, goodness, amiableness, and loviness ; and revealing to us the being, nature, essence, and unity of the Godhead, and the subsistence of three divine persons the same in substance and equal in power arid glory, sustaining and discharging their respective offices in the economy of , grace and in the scheme of human redemption ;—and the other with the clouds and darkness of damnable errors and delusions and falsehood, obscuring the splendour of the character and perfection of Jehovah, and concealing from view the glories, excellencies, and beauties of the only Redeemer and Saviour of mankind : —the one declaring the Lord Jesus Christ the prophet, priest, and King of the Church of the living God, the Crea tor, preserver, and supporter of all men, the righteous and gracious governor and ruler of the universe ; and the other denying these truths, ascribing these attributes to " the Man of Sin, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth, and destroy with the brightness of his coming," even the Lord God the Pope of Rome ;—(cheers)—the one erecting a kingdom consisting of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost, producing philanthropy, patriotism, loyalty, and piety; condescending to employ kings and queens as her nurs ing fathers and mothers, deigning to engage as her hand maids, science, literature, and philosophy ; and stooping to ride in the chariot of state, and to sit upon the bench of our civil jurisprudence, that all under her auspices and wings " might live quiet and peaceable lives in all gladness and ho nesty;" rejoicing in being the patron, the friend, and pro moter of intellectual, moral, and religious improvement, the minister and maintainer of national greatness and prosperity, of social order and happiness, and of purity, chastity, peace, joy, and comfort in the palace of the monarch, in the hall of the peer, in the cottage of the peasant, and in the cabin of the operative and the artizan ; exhorting us to obey them that rule over us, and to be in subjection to them, even down from the eternal king and sovereign, who sits upon the throne of universal dominion and government, down to lords spiritual and temporal, to spiritual instructors and civil magistrates, to husbands and wives, parents and children, masters and servants. (Cheers.) In one word, Popery was the very reverse of all thiS a complete contrast to it ; for s h e had no sanctuary of love, light, and liberty ; she had never erected a kingdom of righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. (Cheers.) Popery was no religion, and was not Christianity ; the Church of Rome was not the bride of the Lamb, and the Pope was not the vicar of Christ on earth, but the offspring of the devil, the son of perdition, and the representative and the governor-general of " the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience." He was a civil despot and a spi ritual tyrant, professing to have Power in heaven and on earth ; aye, and in the imaginary, fiery, and intermediate regions of purgatory between heaven and earth, and in the burning regions of hell beneath. He pretend e d to h ave th e keys of allthese.places, and arrogated to himself the right of enthroning and dethroning kings and princes at his will ; and of enacting and annulling laws at his pleasure, using the civil power to oppress, torture, and kill the bodies of men, and exercising his spiritual authority to intimidate and destroy their immortal souls, by denouncing everlast ng anathemas against them, and by punishing them with the infliction of eternal death. (cheers.) He had thus drawn a parallel between Romanism and Protestantism, contrasting them with each other. He spoke as unto wise men ; let them judge whether the one was worthy of all rejection, abhorrence, de testation; and the other of all acceptation, love, veneration, attachment, and support, because it contained the faithful saying, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sin ners, even the chief ; and also the promise of the life that now is, and that which is to come. The one was the greatest curse which could fall upon a nation ; and the other was the richest blessing which of kingdom could pos s e ss . A s th e poet had said, " Of all our earthly goods, a good wife is the best,—if bad, the bitterest curse of human life ;" sup plying church for wife, let us say, " Of all our earthly goods, a good church is the best—a bad the bitterest curse of human life."- This bitterest curse of human life, our forefa thers experienced in this country, when the whore of Baby lon, the mother of abominations, the harlot of Rome, drunk with the blood of saints, was wed to the state, to the civil con stitution of England ; but the magnanimous reformers, and particularly the invincible heroes of 1688, divorced her, arid united,.in the bonds of a national compact and marriage rela tion, the Protestant religion to the crown and government of this 'realm. (Cheers.) 'He might venture to foretel that they would reiterate the sentiments expressed in a paragraph which he had already quoted on a public occasion, the author of which was the late great Robert Hall, a dissenter and a Baptist minister. " Christianity," says he, "is the pillar of the state, the safeguard of nations, the parent of social order ; and that which has a power to curb the fury of the passions, and to give to every one their rights: to the laborious, the reward of their industry; to the rich, the enjoyment of their wealth ; to nobles, the preservation of their titles ; and to princes, the stability of their thrones." How different the opinions of some of the descendants of the illustrious non conformist, and their political voluntary coadjutors, in the present day ! (Cheers.) The heavy artillery of infidelity was playing against this pillar ; the thunderbolts of the Vati can were striking against it ; the battering-rams of political voluntaryism were pushing against it ; and the earthquakes of republicanism and revolution were trying to shake it ; bu it remained, blessed be God, unshaken, unmoved, unsha tered, and uninjured ! As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Having got this good principle, as ICr:i'ranklin would say, let us go through with it as our brave and courageous ancestors did, regardless of all opposition and dangers, even unto death, until they had witnessed the glorious change, Popsh descen dancy, and Protestant ascendancy, in church and state. It was the very germ of the reformation, that Popery should be continually falling, and Protestantism perpetually rising; (cheers) the one kept in its retrogressive movements, and the other preserved in•its progressive advancements, purging out the virus bf Romanisn in filth and manners, in doctrine and practice, in disCipline and worship, in life and conversation, leavening and fermenting the whole ,national mass with the spirit and princiPles of the gospel, instructing, educating, ci vilizing, moralizing, and chris.tianizing the whole body of the .people, so that the iiinOom might become one new lump. This was the prinCiPle which actuated and roused the Royal Heroine of Britain, and her patriotic and Protestant sub jects, when the Spanish " invincible" Armada made its ap proaches to our shores. The sovereign and the people went forth to meet the" foe, saying, "The-eternal God is our re- V he is fuge, •and underneath us - are his everlasting arms : the shield of our help, and the sword of our excellency :" singing,— God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform • He plants his footsteps in ihe sea, _4 upon th o ctr)rr o . Ye fearful saints fresh 'Courage take, The clond ye so much dread, IS big with mercy, and shall break, With'blessings on your head. It was then that Protestant England believed in the un changeable..truth, confided in the faithful promise, leaned upon the Omnipotent arm, rejoiced in the reconciled coun tenance, and trusted in the seasonable interposition of her God, even the God of Providence and of salvation. (Cheers.) It was then that Britannia ruled the waves, Burying her foes in deep and wat'ry graves ; Though round her breast the swelling clouds were spread, Eternal sunshine settled on her head. The Papists and their allies exclaimed, " Why make such a loud noise, 'and sound such a fearful alarm ? There is no danger. Ireland is quiet, and peaceable, and comfortable ,• - England is serene, and tranquil, and undisturbed ; Scotland is route and still. Why are you uniting the Churches of England and Scotland together? Why are you joining Gos pel ministers and their Christian people together? Why are you combining the peers and the nobles of the land to gether?' Why are you associating the Protestant gentlemen and the Protestant operatives together ? " 0, innocent creatures ! 0, gentle lambs ! 0, harmless doves I. 0, guile less preservers, and plotless supporters, of all that " is pure, and true, and honest,. and lovely, and of good report !"—he should answer them by and bye. Why were they (he con , tinned) rallying their forces around the standard of eternal truth ? Why were they unfurling the blood-stained banner of the Cross as a signal of war against all infidels, Papists, Socinians, and anti-Protestant dissenters, who " are • all honourable men !"—the noble, illustrious, glorious, intrepid, enterprising, bright; intelligent, moral, and super-'excellently pious advocates for civil and religious liberty !—ay, and the faithful allies, the dear brothers, and strenuous supporters of the frugal, peaceable, and reformed Whig-radicals of immor tal memory, as promisers of economy, peace, and reform, and as performers of extravagance, of war at home and abroad, and of abases and corruptions in church and state? -(Cheers.) He answered these questions in plain, unequivo cable, anti-Popish, anti-Jesuitical language—" Because you are denying that God,is the ruler of princes, that he is King over all the earth, and that his kingdom ruleth over all ; and that consequently all are bound, in the spheres in which they move, the stations' which they occupy, the relations which they sustain, the talents which they receive, the influence which they possess, and the opportunities which are afforded them, to live unto and promote his glory, honour, and praise— Maintain the glory of his cause, And honour all his laws. Because you are doubting and denying the divine inspiration, ant:aenticity, and genuineness of the Scriptures of truth, and placing on a footing of equality with them the damnable he resies of Popery, and all the abominable and blasphemous creeds which compose the heterogeneous mass of all your errors in the school of our national education, in the palace of our national morality, and in the temple of national reli gion ; and therefore poisoning, polluting, and embittering the streams of our scriptural education and sound theology, so that all who drink of them, in preference to ` the pure water of life, which proceedeth clear as chrystal from the throne of God and the Lamb,' may be demoralised in their spirit and principles, and in their habits and characters, dying in their sins for ever." (Cheers.) He answered them in one word—" Because you are undermining, unsettling, shattering, and attempting to destroy the old, tried, valua ble, and improvable institutions of the country, both civil and sacred. (Loud applause.) You are convulsing the nation—the altar is rocking upon its foundation—the throne is trembling on its base—the monarchy iS tot terint on its pillar—and the imperial crown of Protestant England is vibrating on the innocent, youthful, and royal head which wears it, even the head of our most gracious sovereign Queen Victoria ; and long may it remain there, surrounded with the light lustre and beauty of the Star of Brunswick ; irradiated and adorned by the beams, the rays, and splendour of the Sun of Righteousness,—admire and preserve that royal diadem ; and esteem, venerate, obey, and protect, as true-hearted loyal Britons, the sovereign lady who wears it—the grand-daughter of George the Third of immor tal memory—(cheers) —who opposed, resisted, and hated Popery even unto the death, leaving the crown of his illus trious ancestors to his legitimate successors, unstained and untarnished by the foul breath of the anti-Christian beast and vile harlot of Rome. Have patience and you will hear that in the hour of her need, the day of her diff,aulty, and the night of her adversity, she will again send for the hero of a hundred battles and of a hundred victories too, in defence of the altar and the throne of her ancestors, and of these realms, to be her counsellor, her adviser, her polar star, and her sheet-anchor—in the clouds, storms, and tempests which may surround her." It i s very remarkable (proceeded the rev. gent.) that the charge of disloyalty should be advanced against, and fastened upon the conservatives of this country. I shall not say a word of what is transacting in the Court, but I exhort you to do your duty to your God, to your Queen, and to your country, without the Court, and then you will diffuse a purifying and sweetening savour through the palace, so that her Majeety may live in a clearer, purer, and more Protestant atmosphere. It frequently happens that the loudest professors of loyalty are the first transgressors of it, and they who are the first and best criers against treason, are the first and worst actors of treason. When Jehoiada, the High Priest, with the rulers and leading men in the kingdom, brought forward Joash the young pious Prince of Judah, who was providentially preserved from the m ur d erous d es i gns o f his grandmother, " And he brought forth the King's son, and put the crown on his head, and gave him the testimony : and they annointed him, and clapped thei r h an d s , an d sa id, God save the King." ho on that occasion rent her clothes, and cried—Treason ! Treason ? It was Athaliah, the daugh ter of Ahab, who wickedly seduced her husband and licr son to idolatry; and who committed treason and murder by de btruying all the seed royal, that she might usurp the throne and government of Judah. In this nation we have brought forth the King's (George III.) gran d-d aug h ter, we put the crown on her head, gave her the testimony, (the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible,) annointed her Queen, clapped our hands, and said—God save the Queen, and we still say—God save the Queen. We leave it to the descendants, of those who murdered Lady Jane Grey, and martyred Craniner, Ridley, and Latimer, to shout as hard as they please—disloyalty ! disloyalty ! and to cry as loud as .they will—treason ! treason ! We shall exclaim—fear God ! fear God ! honour the Queen ! practise loyalty towards the Sovereign, and obedience to her laws ! We repeat it—God save the Queen from her ministers, her advisers, her flatter ers, her courtiers, her deceivers, and especially from him who is the counsellor, adviser, upholder, supporter, preserver, dragooner, and master of her Majesty's ministers ; and the sworn, perjured and paid enemy of Britain's Protestant throne and altar ! (Cheers.) My operative friends, I con gratulate you on your forming yourselves into a Protestant Association. You have done well to come into the ranks of the Protestant army, composed of the Episcopalian Esta blished Church of England and Ireland ; and the Presbyte rian Estabiished Church of Scotland, and all who enlist under their Protestant banners. You are right in joining your distin guished patron, your invulnerable champion, your indomi table leader, your invincible commander in Liverpool, the Rev. Mr. M'Neile a -a(loud cheers.)—one of the bearers of eternal truth of the Protestant ark. (Loud cheers.) After a few further observations, the rev. gent. concluded by mov ing the first resolution, which, with the others, will he found in our advertising columns. Tie Rev. A.. M'CoNKEY, in seconding the resolution, begged to express, in the first instance, his cordial concur rence in the objects of the society. He was sorry that the necessity of his shortly occupying their attention might take away the impression .made by the heart-stirring eloquence of their friend from the north, who had been kindling up the true Protestant feeling. He trusted the meeting had caught somewhat of his spirit in their hearts ; although they could not venture to give it such utterance, they could not but see in him much of the determination of his forefathers—the determination to hold the truth through evil report and good report, even to the death. (Cheers.) As to the important matter the chairman had brought before them, he need only say that, as usual, where he had struck the blow, he made one blow do.. These considerations left his (Mr. M'Con key's) task easy ; but he purposed, by the blessing of God, to manifest his zealous co-operation with the society, by unremitting exertion to bring its objects and whole machi nery before the operatives of his own district. (Cheers.) The society was an instrument of much spiritual good, that might so act upon the minds of the operative population as to elevate them to the high Scriptural standard of true Pro testantism. (Cheers.) What was that which bound toge ther and preserved the elements of the British constitution, since it became Protestant? It was Christian, Protestant principle, (cheers,) which, so long as it was kept, would make the constitution stand for ages a monument of honour and glory to our country. But let " liberality," as it was called, settle upon it—let Popery be allowed to act upon it, and soon all the materials composing it would be burst asun der. "(Hear, hear.) He supported this society with heart and hand, because it was not only supporting Protestantism, but because it was aiding, by its exertions, under the blessing of God, to snake the British constitution a permanent struc ture, efficacious for its purposes, in handing down to our children's children real civil and religious liberty. (Cheers.) His heart went with the society, because he believed the true stability of the constitution depended upon the mass of the people. (Hear, hear.) Upon the principles that existed in their hearts, depended loyalty and obedience to the throne: if the mass of the people were not established in true Scrip tural Protestantism, in vain had we rulers and counsellors, kings and queens. These were the great objects this society had in view, and therefore he felt it incumbent upon every minister of God to support it; and he supported it because the instrument by which it proposed to effect all these re forms was the principle of eternal truth. (Hear, hear.) It was not every freedom that constituted true liberty ; that was true freedom only which resulted from a knowledge of the Word of God, shewing us our position as sinners and as subjects —as beings of a community in time, and as beings of a community hereafter. (Hear.) We might be at large, and still not be at liberty. The beast of the forest, that prowled for prey, far from the prying hand of man—he was at large, but not at liberty. The patient ox, with days of toil and nights of repose, yielded his willing neck to the service of the master at whose hands he received the suste nance necessary for his life ; his yoke was the sweet toil of liberty, and he enjoyed his being, because he was answering the end of his creation. It was so with every rank and grade, from the poor person who asked for alms to the king upon the throne. It was only he that knew the will of our com mon Lord and our redeeming God—who, knowing it, con tinued in pati en t o b e di ence to t h at will—who stood up bear ing faithful testimony for His truth, desiring that nothing but that will be done with him and with his—it was only such a person who enjoyed freedom, and was at liberty. It was to bring this truth home to the minds of the people, that was the object of this society ; and he embraced it as an instrument of bringing before the operative community their common interest and their common danger. Dangers were spreading around us, and it was now time for all true Protestants to defend their faith. In a tract published by this society, he found an enumeration of what had taken place within the last fifty years. Fifty years ago the num ber of Roman Catholic chapels in England did not exceed 13 ; now there were 513. (Hear, hear.) At that period there were no Popish colleges, and only two other seminaries; now there were ten colleges and sixty seminaries : seventeen nunneries and. one monkery. (Hear, hear.) Within that period a Popish college in Ireland had been endowed by an annual grant from Parliament. In the British colonies there were 23 Popish bishops, and only eight bishops of the Church of England ; and besides ail this the government was lending a helping hand to take awa y th at w hi c h t h e R oman C at h o li cs dared not openly of themselves offer to do, namely, to rob the nation of the word of God. (Cheers.) Protestant England was, however, now awaking. We had been sleeping whilst Popery had been stealing upon us, but she had not yet fatally struck us ; the noise of her velvet feet had been heard, and now the Protestant soul had awakened, and the Protestant operatives of England, by the grace of God, would lay the foe prostrate before them. (Loud cheers.) After a few more eloquent and spirited remarks, the rev. gentleman concluded by seconding the resolution, which was carried amidst loud cheers. On the suggestion of the Rev. CHAIRMAN, a collection was made at this stage of the proceedings, and donations pre sented by several gentlemen towards purchasing a library for the use of the association. The Rev. Mr. CONNOR moved the next resolution. It had been remarked that Popery must either be uppermost or un dermost. He thanked God she was undermost now, and had been so for the last 300 years, and from his heart h e praye d that the Lo r d m i g h t keep ier so. (Cheers, and cries of " Amen.") But now that she was undermost, she was going about stealthily, hovering round the court, some time in place and some time out---and why she was ever in place he was at a loss to tell, for by the ancient constitution of Eng land she ought ever to be out of place. (Hear, hear.) Every King of England had been warned o f thi s i ns idi ous lady in waiting. (Hear and laughter.) There was not a century that passed in which her character was not unveiled ; and now the Protestants of Liverpool were confirmed in their minds of - her real ebarsartur by_ the dizoovary of the Ribbon, conspiracy and other events of the last year. (Hear.) Some people would not believe that Popery was a drunken, dis honest, faithless, and perjured servant ; but the Protestant Operative Associations of England were convinced of it. We found in the Bible that Popery was drunk with the blood of the saints ; that she was faithless; for the decree of the Council of Constance was yet unrepealed, which said that no faith was to be kept with heretics. (Hear, hear.) And we had now perjurers coming before us with oily words ; they would not interfere with the Established Church ; they swore it ; yet with their assistance down came the axe, and away went ten bishoprics ! (Hear.) And in the notes to their Bible they said that Protestant heretics were to be banished, their goods forfeited, and themselves even punished with death. (Hear, hear.) We were quite willing to present this old servant with her discharge, and to say " Wewill have no more Popery in England ;" nay more, we were willing to en ter our protest upon the pillar of God's throne, and to caution all that visited our land, to beware how they received into their dominions, this servant that wasted her master's substance in riotous living. (Cheers.)—After shewing how. Popery had stolen into high places, the rev. gentleman ob served that she was now before a jury who had pronounced her guilty, and declared she should have no permanent esta blishment in this land. Protestant ascendancy must prevail, because it was the principle of truth. (Cheers.) Protestant Ascendancy meant the Church of England upheld in truth, and established by law ! (Cheers.) It meant that the church should he upheld by a Protestant ministry. But Protestant Ascendancy did not argue hatred to our Roman Catholic brethren. (Hear.) No, when we agreed for Protestant Ascendancy we argued for the ascendancy of the truth. He begged to move the second resolution The Rev. Mr. MARSHALL, in seconding it, showed, from the " Laws of the Papacy," that Popery in the present day retained its old hatred to Protestantism, and that suc h b ulls as the Bulla Cenw Domini—the horrible nature of w hi c h was so ably exposed by the Rev. Mr. .M`Ghee, in his spee c h at Sheffield, lately reported in the STANDARD, were in force in Ireland. The resolution was put, and adopted unanimously. The next resolution, moved by Mr. LEATRERBARROW, and seconded by Mr. LEDERS, was also unanimously adopted. On the motion of Mr. WATSON, a vote of thanks was pre sented to Mr. M'Neile , for his abl e con d uct in the chair ; and, on its being carried, most hearty cheers were g i ven for the three watchwords of P rotes:tanti sm , namely, " Scriptural Education,7 " Church Extens ion ," an d the " Repeal of the Emancipation Act." Mr. M'NEILE acknowledged the compliment nearly as f o ll ows becomes my duty now to dissolve this meeting, first expressiug my very cordial acknowledgments for the vote of thanks which you have so kindly passed for my poor exer tions in this cause—not poor indeed with regard to my abilities, for they are the best I can give, but poor, as every rest creature's exertions must be poor, i n ref er ence to the g ire cause in hand and the great and glorious master whl o . serve. (Cheers.) His name an d hi s cause are alu to pression great. (Cheers.) It is well to look ul) ou him, that our minds may be calm, and that we may re Do that strength which alone is to be depended 111,1'7' be excitement of creatures evaporates, but he that waits , be 3 the Lord—he shall renew his strength. There ula s ''o . l; collectedness about our strength if it is to be suc,ees' t o , there must be a self-possession in every soldier in the a_r, be which is to keep its place on the day of trial ; there rea_!, l ' ve , a confidence in the leader, in the great captain of our 'f eat, tion, animating every rank, from the highest to the to and that can only be had by patient waiting upon Go d , ; ', t i e de adversaries' cause is one of mere p ar ti zans hip. So ell s they know of our anxiety to forward God's truth all",7 tal it salvation, that they c h arge us w i t h organ i z i ng th e se Pro' e : the societies, and attending these Protestant meetings, fotstry comparatively paltry object of displacing the present ;Dia l "; from the government of England! (Hear.) They el a , i g e ;re with this as the rea l en d o f our movemen t. So l' t ` are they capable of entering into our real feelings, so they capable of appreciating our true principles, that tle l ic ' po , pression of them, in all sincerity from us, sounds he! It crisy to them. (Hear.) They charge us with hypoeV . vi elf is but lately that my rev, brother, Mr: M`Ghee, and el. to were called, by an urgent and largely signed' req uisition , to hold two Protestant m ee ti ngs i n new places, and add t ,tto the list of our Protest an t assoc i a ti ons . e went flrs" t ks Yorkshire, next into Sh ro p s hi re , an d h e ld t wo such n i d I as would have rejoiced y our 'hearts. (Hear, bean) in find the old stories in the radical newspapers of the Yorkshire, retailed fro m p a p ers o f th e same descriptaytit, Liverpool, raking up a ll th e ma li ce , s l an d er , a nd undo e l ver bleness against us, whom th e y ca ll unc h ar it a ble, urb°ed said an evil word of them individually—who have a "tio against their principl es — w h o h ave s h own t h e i r falsehood _, as have compared th em w ith S cr i p t ure, b ut w h o aga inst tbea' A ; individuals, have ne ver u tt ere d one s i ng l e ill- n atured On r , whereas, upon their side, they do not meet our arguiaeoat;ot they do not compare them with Scripture —they d „boe maintain their own principles by the Bible, but they tof Us personally, they call us " surpliced ruffians" for T ap , argument against what fro m our own lip s they Gann° ) swer. (Hear.) The same we expec t aga i n . (He 3r. j ue look for no better treat men t so l ong as my Lord ena bles we to speak, and so lon g as ev il principles are fostered. 100 know of whom they come, and whose children they ar e t bor foster and propagate th e same . T o suc h the great 3u of Christian charity said, " Ye are of your father the D e . /. , be he was a liar from th e beginning. 'When lie speaketh Itbe speaketh of his own, f or h e i s the father of it ; tberein,r ‘ ,lle children of God manifest and the children of the Devil• no t that doeth righteo usness i s o f G o d ; b u t h e that doe th t bis righteousness is not of God, neither is he that loveth l o ur, brother." And I wou ld i nv it e you, even a t this late, ba t to consider what the love of • a brother means, an u the Scriptures lay down as the mark of love to his b r other ) that you shall in no wise suffer ain in br other. (11'31..1 Our - he r; Now, if God has commanded a duty, and your prot bo , not performing it, or if God prohibits a sin, and oy ur t u teat ther is guilty of it, to stand aloof and say nothing, to as him as if all were right, as if sin was duty arid duty sb'he. if good were evil an d evil good, as if it were all a like _ thee ther man bows to a n i mage or b ows no t, as a ll a like Avh c as if he holds the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ or not , t, it were alike wheth er h e keeps - the sabbath day o r ° co on alike whether h e sanctions perjury, or rejects it with h it is oh, it is to upset the foundations of right and wrong,j rai n to mix light a n d d ar k ness , it i s t o di s h onour God a"" w ho souls, to treat truth and falsehood as those men treat it profess they cannot distin gu i s h b e t ween one an d the o' o who call those who hold falsehood b ro th ers , and those flv Itg hold truth bigot s , an d w h o wou ld s il ence tru th, because of things in the wor ld it w ill no t m i x w i t h t h e i r heterogetipe mass of falsehoods. (Cheers.) But if tru th there, as a chemi ca l t es t, th e cause i s explained. T ile a for of God- will not mi x w ith th e variousof en a n te ue this reason—the Ch urc h o f Ch r i st i s as a b ur d e nsoree t ; to lies. bring in the world, a n d th e peop l e o f Ch r i st are a trouubel worldly men—they are condemned in their course. se that know they are right. I w ill ven t ure t o say o f itlY n d ui y there is not a man i n thi s t own t h a t h as a b use d me , proceedings, butwho know s i n hi s sou l th a t I have ueer lhare ll lowing the truth of G o d as an h onest m i n i ster i n the ":, ) of Christ. (A voice—" I w i s h th ey b a d a ll d o ne like,?'" „ - 0 0, _I have an answer to send from this town to Dr. NV,I sil.' who said, at the co nsecra ti on o f a new P op i s h c hapel ' 4 ,60 minghain, that " wherever the strong hold of Protesr`a e lle is, it is not in the hearts of the people—it is in th ea h e sions, their prejudices, a n d i n th e i r i gnoran ce of t w ere tholic religion." (Hear, hear.) I wish Dr. Wisen laa it to here to take the answer himself, but I must conveY i o ust '' him in the best way I can . (H ear , h ear .) N°' dismiss this assembly, kept here in almost nub t all force to this late hour. S ure ly, sure ly this is n o ° ftV mere show, nor all passing away in the exeitement Go d' moment ! (No, no.) Surely you are concerned for i „ yO ,l truth in this town and co un t r y ? (Y es , y es .) Ser, e !„, r ely will follow it up up on y our k nees by your bed-side , a nd r aj'` God will bless you! (H ear , hear.) Let us sing his Ir'eiga, before we part ; let us p ra y for one another, for our Ol t yOli , and for all that are in authority over us ; and let ° gor e : my dear brethren, that there is no danger of such au t . l ch o as one of my reverend brethren intimated some st l, 9' l olijau t —that it is the law of the land, passed in the reign oft! the the Third, of glorious memory—(loud cheers) --- !,ltiou , Queen of England cannot, according to the cons,t!', o o.l; Marry a Papist—(hear) —it cannot be; the law stane7f r oso there is no risk. Never should a suspicion of it be breathe ti oor any man. (Hear, hear.) It is against the law—it is t l i tt ).0 , 1 stitutional to suppose it. (Hear, hear.) I have P ic Ova. the law to silence suspicion from any man. The ', 3 ,...f0r not be broken. (Hear.) It is mighty still—(clieers),.a that is unrepealed. I say you ought to pray for her and . toes o are in authority under her, for one another, for the P a f a tiott the church, for the su ccess o f t h e P r otestant As° e, o ert2 for the regeneration of o ur coun t ry , th a t God in his , may preserve us still, that he may keep us sheltered fro to, arm of despotism, and f rom th e ebullitions of democrata' pieq with relig ion above and contentment below, and g i A l e ers.) and grace to all for Jesus Christ his sake. Amen. t'.. ss iug s The Doxology, , 4 Praise God from whom all flow," was then sang, and the meeting separated. As a proof of the mildness of the season, green I' a - 0r excellent quality were sold yesterday in the market at derate price.—Brighton Gazette. Pr is VAN AMBURGH.— Great fears are entertained l 3 ogar that the leg wounded by the lion will have to underav 3 tation. He was on Sunday in a very precarious state. Ijo Miss Emmeline Monta g u the leading female perforu h l t i a t tragedy, at the Bath theatre , is about to make her deg Drury-lane, in the ar d uous character of Juliet. W e A5 TAKING SNUF F .—A p erson sa id to his frien d , ' ch a os- tt learning to take snuff, that it was w rong to teach one 's bad habit, as a man generally folloled his nose. aa ri scft It is rumoured, that the crown lands, which c° - 2 to '- considerable part of the tow n o f Shefford, are lik e ! ret est ~e sold, as the late Duke of Bedfo r d's was the last lif e-13 therein.—Herts Reformer. - note d . SERVANTS.—It was an observation of Elcve:;, , hltledove ' miser, that if you keep one servant your work 'sil l 1- " ore' if you keep two, it will be h a lf done ; an d if you ke e l' you will have to do it yourself. liur if The Geneva papers mention the weather as being llecnua the mild there. They state that in several gardens t°",,,riug . ' town, lilacs and other plants that usually flower i n ' a re in full flower at present. AI er Anixishinan, on passing through a field of cattle P oo li o day, said to a friend, " Whenever you see a herd cut c o re t lying down and one of them standing up, that On e is ' be a bull !! . o f . ' t hose Among the new French peerage creations ar e i the three editors of newspapers :—M. Berlin, editor,orier Journal des Debals.—M. Keratay, editor of the " Francais.—M. Etienne, of the Constitutionnel. i., DO, Miss Augusta Maywood, a young American l i ti,: t l 'i s , 1' 7 5 created a vast sensation in the Academie-Royal e, ," - q,at w s extraordinary dancing in Taglioni's styie. Her (.(' on the 11th instant. ati lute.; We can hardly doubt that the friends of the COlonicg the ft rest in the metropolis will take some mode of exp!e': o n a c °ll ' gratitude to Sir John - Colborne, whose character " duct they so highly esteem.—Brighton Gazette. arly thil' . SHOCKING.—We are exceedingly sorry to 01 . li reea, against the ladies, but we have lately heard thiev l s4evc h about them. It is currently reported and generallY L_,'„ k ear of the whole sex, that they do not scruple to it ( ' other's frocks.—Cincinnati Paper. of die The Earl of Kingston has intimated his intentntotbett .4:71: enitei:Ostioo rat:c:toll 0 charging the heavy outstanding engagements of b' L i on re fltheectslattheeVhiisgchoeusnt t cre K d i i i t ig o s n b ohriosulogrlid. lordship.—Cork This c d o e r t 4 e . t s ra t i a i ?:: . t i i t : ar.e4g e IL -- The Capitole estimates the . produce of the Year, ge tolu,V in the Bordeaux districts at about 1,000,000„;,;-: that to (264,186 English gallons) of wine of ordinary qua"' 183" last year amounted to 1,150,000 ; and that cl . 2,213,624 hectolitres. . fla Cc r s The Hartlepool and Durham Commercial SbiP.P l 7, 1 4c :i, pany held their general annual meeting at the 1 , :t . n .!"1 A ( I '4, Hotel, in Hartlepool, on Tuesday week, and deel,aitioatioti dend of £9 per cent. for the half year.- 1V - ilo ght°, l ; Goon EXAMPLE.—We are informed that Lady °a(; to t o of Astley Hall, near Chorley, has begun to poor, and that this act of charity will be eontin 1 ..„ it the whole winter.—Blackburn Standard. SA '''' , 6 The rifle brigade, at present quartered at is said, to receive the distinction of the name °f iro n of , tit . rifle guards. Lord Alexander Russell, younge' l 'ai s apP °l late Duke of Bedford, has joined the corps, on 0 a t o to ment as second lieutenant. lead c f , a aa No clue whatever has yet been obtained likely ~ at ' - a v the apprehension of the offenders who cut the to r° e l,';: o pets aa stock Colliery, and which caused the death of „1_ their who were descending. 4300 has been o ff ered 101 ---it RA T- prehension. s. , BATTLE.—ONE WAY OF SAVING COUNII, _ t o p a ° ' f , c o. prisoner came to the House of Correction a sh°." 0 0 c atl not In the custody of any constable, but with 111 ' to ae° mitment in his hand, like a certificate of adm ission t hat hospital.—Brighton Gazette. drie: 4(l9). Y f : The Court of Common Pleas decided, on We _ lts o ff, t v aliens may bring actions for libels in British eu_u to t ot tit 'io tice. The case on which the question arose waf t drag° il l sani v. Lawson. The plaintiff was an interprete r v„itist hill' at Constantinople, and complained of libels 3 g . "" „ i ce& the Times newspaper. The radical papers have recommenced their ± 1 0 1 ,10, "-d f t re: attacks upon the proceedings and motives of the J t bas l3 : a et ager. Because her majesty meets with all ei ,,, w he?_., to grateful, and honourable reception from the p . e o l ) 4, os tiu" she goes, she is accused of setting herself up 13 ur P rs and decrying the Queen Victoria. _„. er aell,ool! Mrs. Alfred Shaw has entered into an engl a , at I '', fait year with the manager of the theatre of La Sel at arda!fir and was to make her debut at that theatre o;!:"flaicio,v in a new opera, called Überto, Conte di San a ilf aes tro_.", g ge: namesexpressly for her by Signor Verd, ' i r, bar e_l.:',; - tbe' not as yet known in this country. 01 - ', a lin av ment, Mrs. Shaw is to appear during the Car Iv i'. l thy, ta opera, also composed for her. t he. d 3 11. : DEATH OF JOHN LANDER:—Died, on t is tie nod v i i, Wyndham-street, Bryanston-square, in p . .-d ) ti a stca asi o je i t t : John Lander, an officer in her Majesty v i c aar 3 r toli a a enterprising young man was the brother of 7 0 8 14 4 43 ra the faithful servant and attendant of Captaici, to 4 0, 00 10 his African expedition. The services r ender o t,„lre dee; cal science by thd Landers are too recent t ni , 1 1; 1 0 05,,,10 , r. in a brief obituary. The British governmceiVo to e i ,,,r o ci .. r mined, in the year 1829, to send out au esli t a t l e bard r oo t! e t ', the course and termination of the Nige l .l , d by his ofa ssl ic volunteered the undertaking, acco ' InPanl b . le des ire, ve ° I. t, io John, who was alike influenced by ,1 laud ile „ a rt: 1 1 w herA i e ing his brother, and of visiting Africa. . o iS39 6t . ' i p expedition was published on their r eturn e l st itite re xpe jiti ro , their perilous adventures excited the d " P a mothe r e ;1.1 01. b are' brothers soon afterwards entered 1 1 Pr wil i c a the -. 0 il'a a d to the same quarter, the termination 1 °John;ls 3cnoriarit-a ther, Richard, did not long survive- a .,,i a int, c ps l e of having fallen a victim to a pulmonary o ti "?.. fIC a prs,,. o by his labours in the promotion of seie ui c i e er sev e . n, _):,,,s t . a o widow and three very young children , . I ` . `„„ erovis•;7o, a: to age, with nothing more than such teniPo! 3 !Ybis s t ", ell t . `_,c father's prudence may have secured on,u.'..,„oiataar.,cote. This aar, act ., ir / i . pc, junior clerk in the Custom-Iwin-x. , i on , 1 ,0 60 9 01 1,1 e. kindly given to him hy the Earl of: diti '? i rl it r e i res t ' l ' i' W 3 ‘, 5 11 th e A G f o r d i c e a ri n e h e x , p a e s d a i t r i e o wz i d i w fo h r i c itiilieexsp7c e s .: fui P t a c t rt g a e i ;-o o t i l l s o l ° V I : man took, as-usual, a most.patriotiel, ilit La in iog ,a a d sessed of considerable literary talent. J u .,' F edor% tru e pretending and inoffensive in derneanoo.•_orthy o. moral and social duties in every respect " pious Christian.—Standard.