The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-05 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDHNTS We devoted as much space as possible to the mass of communications which we hourly receive on the subject of the r,ent aggretAons, hut it is quite vain for us to attempt io find room for a tithe of these valued papers. We cannot understand "An Elector." One of the strongest arguments used 'oy the opponents of Dock rating is, that they are not liable to such an impost in con sequence of there being no beneficial interest attached to the property. We are reminded, however, that the West De. by Guardians pay the local rates for the Workhouse to the town ship of Everton, from which, if there is any force in the argu ment to which we have alluded, they ought clearly to be exempt. The more the question is agitated, the stronger are the claims of the dock-raters made. Ein 71.tberpool tailbatti. TUESDAY MORNING, NOV, 5, 1850. IT is hut yesterday, as it were, since Liberalism and high Churchism combined in their reprobation of what they termed "Protestant agitation," " Am phitheatre gatherings," and "Exeter-hall displays." Our M'Neiles and Stowells were sought to he put under a sort of ban, because ever and anon they gave faithful warning of the insidious designs and unchanged policy of Rome. The papacy was treated as an effete bugbear; the Propaganda as a collec tion of withered anatomies, grown grey and stupid over the perusal of musty polemics and lying legends ; and the Pope himself as a harmless old man, who might be left alone to wield his asserted apostolical authority, without danger to the liberties of the Christian world. To entertain any fear of encroachments to be made in our own country by this apostate power was set down as an indication at'once of mental weakness and credulity; and to proclaim such fear—to paint Romanism as it is and as it has been from the beginning of its heretical career—was regarded as intolerance and want of charity to be severely deprecated. Well, the issue has come, of which our Protestant champions forewarned us. The blow has been struck, too, with a sod 'enness and vigour, of which even they could scarcely have dreamt. The weak old man, but ,yesterday a fugitive from his own kingdom, and even now, owing his temporal sovereignty to the p• , has sence of a foreign arms had slum} advanced the cla turies, to exert power will WI both temporal and spiritual His fiat, we are told, 'iered for cen- has restored Protestant and heretic England " to its orbit in the ecclesiastical firmament, from which its light had long vanished;" and a minion of Rome—an Englishman, Dr. Newman, reared in the bosom of the English church—has been found to rejoice that " The mystery of God's providence is now fulfilled ; and though he did not recollect any people on earth but those of Great Britain who, having once rejected the religion of God, were again restored to the bosom of the Church, God had done it for them. It was wonderful in their eyes. The holy hierarchy had been restored. The grave icas opened, and Christ was coming out This disgusting blasphemy is perpetrated in the nineteenth century! It cannot be denied—nay it is openly admitted —that the step adopted by the Pope is an invasion Of the legitimate authority of the British Sovereign and of the Episcopate Bench. In the teeth of that authority, acknowledged by every British sub. ject who is allowed to hold office under the Crown, the Cardinal Wiseman, calling himself Archbishop of Westminster, proclaims that " until such time as the holy see shall think fit otherwise to provide, WE GOVERN , and shall continue to govern, th e _ _ counties of Middlesex, Hertford, and Essex as or dinary thereof." How the permission to the Pope to confer upon any person such an authority is consistent with the faithful observance of the oaths taken by her Majesty's ministers we leave to the world to determine. The Bishop of London at his Visitation held on Saturday last, expressed himself in very decisive terms upon the subject. He re marked : " The assertion now made of the Pope's right to erect Episcopal Sees in this country appears to me to be not only an intentional insult to the Episcopate and clergy of England, but a daring, though powerless, invasion of the supremacy of the Crown. The act of parliament which restored that supremacy provides that No foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, spiritual or temporal, shall use, enjoy. or exercise power. jurisdiction, superiority, authority, pre-eminence, or privilege, spiritual or ecclesiastical, within this realm ;' and, although while the law in this respect remains unchanged, the pretended erection of a Bishop's See in England, by the Pope's authority, can have no legal effect, it is manifestly the assertion, on his part, of a right to do that which the laws of England have for bidden. I cannot, therefore, but regard it as a measure against which not only the Church, hut the Government, of this county; is bound emphatically to protest." His lordship proce: ds to argue that "the very boldness of his pretensions now put forth by the Bishop of Rome will prevent their success." This, however, we contend, is not the question which " e, any manner of trary it has rr churchmen tc sleep, or to a disposition to treat with contempt, as in past years we have done, a power so arrogant and encroaching. It is nothing to us now whether Rome has put forth her pretensions too soon, or at the proper time; nothing to us whether she has been misled, by the secessions which have been _ _ made of late, into an erroneous opinion as to the disposition amongst us to submit our necks and our minds and conscience to her yoke. question, now that the blow has been str The real has the Church of England, have her clergy and her laity, and has the spiritual and temporal Head of that Church, the same Protestant vitality, the same determined antagonism to Romanism and its heretical doctrines, which they possessed at the period of the reformation, which they subsequently placed on record in the act of settlement, and which they have perpetuated the records of, since, in the so-called guarantees against the inroads of that power, which have accompanied our recent legislation ? Is the Protestantism of the present day sound ? Are we in earnest when we protest against the idolatry and the tyranny of this apostate pressure faith ? This is what we have now to prove, by re deeds, not by professions; and the emergency will important section of the community. The repeal try some men.—will test the sincerity of some who of the widow tax is almost universally demanded. have been coquetting with Rome, conforming to The excise duties upon paper, malt, hops, soap, &c., her practices, imitating the frippery of her cere- are marked out for fierce attack. A portion, or the monials, her bowings, her genuflections, her strange whole, of the demands might be successfully re attitudes and conceits, and even avowing her un- sited on the ground of the inability of the Govern authorized doctrines and her blasphemous fables. ment to spare the amounts which they bring in. These men the present crisis will test. It will But a proposition by the Government to renew the submit, in fact, to a searching ordeal, the whole income and property tax leads to some very im body of the Church, as well as the Protestant Dis- portant considerations, in which every class of the seater. Thus far, we rejoice to say that we are community is interested. In the first place, the warranted in hoping that we shall be enabled to public have a right to ask, "Is this tax to be a per meet the crisis triumphantly; and that the Church manent impost?" If the admission be made that of England, at all events, will be found up and it is to be so, then we have a perfect right to de stirring in the performance of its duty. Pursuing man d th a t it s provisions be made to bear more the passage in his visitation address, which we have equitably than at present upon the public. If we given above, the Bishop of London, who may be are still to be fooled in believing it to be only a received as the representative of the high Church temporary impost, we have a night to ask for proofs portion of our dignitaries, as distinguished from the that the policy, to enable us to pursue which it was Tractarian innovators, says of the tenets of Rome first imposed, is operating to as to afford usan hope and of her pretensions : of getting rid of it within any reasonable period. "They may dazzle and confound a few weak minds, or The income tax, we hate already said, was im 4te some ardent imaginations, but they will be in- posed for a limited peri o d an d f or a par ti cu l ar ob stinctively repelled by the commo n sense an d r i c h t f ee li ng of the people at large. Pop er y, as d eman di ng an ent i re jest. , That object was, by the reduction of the prostration of men's intellect, before an authority which duties upon foreign a r ti c l es o f consumpt i on, to re attempts to substantiate its claims, not by proofs, but by duce the rate of wages, and to give increased vitality gratuitous and inconsistent assertions, cannot long retain to the manufacturing interests. This accomplished. its hold upon the mind of a well-educated people imbued we were told that the revenue of the count r y would with a knowledge of Holy S cr ipt ure . It s f un d amental principle is, that men are not to examine, but to believe; so greatly increase in productiveness as to enable and at the present moment, by the re-assertion of super- Government to dispense with the tax. Has such stitions, which the more learned writers of the Roman a result followed ? Can we boast of any increased Church have long ago exploded, and by the revival of prosperity having been diffused throughout the legends, suited only to an age of the grossest ignorance, it seems to be pu s hi ng t h at pr i nc i ple to its very utmost country ? We say, d ec id e dl y , N o ! O n t h e con length, as though its maxim were, that the more incredible trary, stagnation of trade, increasing poverty, and a doctrine or history may seem, the more merit there is added misery amongst our labouring population in believing it. And this fearless contempt and defiance I have been the characteristics of the past four or of common sense has its effect upon some uninformed and five years. Our free trade journals have had to re humble minds, overpowering them by the very audacity cord not the triumphant issue of their boasted s -4 of its pretensions, while the auth or it y wh i ch displays it ' ys offers to relieve them from all the troubl e an d anx i ety of a ,ern, but the squalor, degradation, and crime which search after truth, assuring them that it is at once their have grown up increasingly amongst us during its duty and their happiness not to inquire, but to believe. operation. They have had to drag to light the But the Church of Rome employs different agencies and secrets of the sweating system, the horrors of the instruments to different classes of men. For those whose Door sempstress's garret, a n d th e worse h orrors o f education and habits of mind require somethin g lik e argu- • ment and evidence, she has her subtle dialecti c i ans and the infamous life t o w hi c h, i n it s i nsane l ove o f persuasive orators, who do not fetter themselves with a cheapness, a professedly Christian nation drives a very strict adherence to the canon of doctrine laid down large portion of its defenceless female population. by the Council of Trent, but insinuate, if they do not ex- Is it the prosperity which was promised us which pressly teach, various modifications of it, adapted to is driving thousands weekly of our skilled artisans remove what they term the prejudices of their Protestant to emigrate t o o th er l an d s ; w hi c h i s d epopulat i ng hearers, especially of those wh o are mem b ers o f th e Ch urc h of England. You will readily understand me to allude to f our rural districts, and converting once fertile and the Oratorians, as they are called, and I name them prin- fruitful Ireland into a waste ? Is an encumbered cipally for the sake of expressin g m y earnes t h ope th a t estates commission a sign of prosperity ? Is the none of you will give the least countenance to their pro- , reduction of one-third in the rental of property in oeedings, nor run the risk of impairing the strength of your ; Liverpool and some o th er large towns a sign of own convictions, and of weakening your attachment to the church of whi c h y ou are mem b ers, b y attending any of Prosp erity ?Is the fa c t th at cr i me i s d a i ly attaining their services or listening to their lectures." a height of daring and atrocity, previously un- This is valuable testimony and faithful warning. , known, a sign of prosperity ? None of these things With the same pleasure, and as equally significant are so; but, most striking circumstance of all, we of an awakening to the danger of fondling with cannot point to any signal prosperity existing this insidious apostacy, we receive the noble pro- ' amongst the manufacturing interest itself, which test made by the beneficed clergy of the metropolis, ' was to be specially benefited by the robbery of the and of other bodies of Protestant Churchmen agricultural classes. The home trade of the manu throughout the United Kingdom. . facturer has been for the past twelvemonths an un- What, however, it may be asked, is to be the remunerative one; and their boasted foreign trade captive this realm clergy of this di( attitude, on this occasion, of the Protestant Clergy and laity of Liverpool, heretofore so prominent in their antogonism to the pretensions and the hereti cal doctrines of the Papacy ? We are happy to be able to state that they are not likely to be found wanting in this emergency. This day, we . understand, a meeting of the clergy will he held, at which no doubt a plan of operations will be determined upon, commencing with a public meeting of the Clergy and laity of the• Church, comprising delegates from the entire North of England ; and at this meeting we believe that the feeling of those assembled will not he con fined to mere idle protest, or to the still more idle palaver of diplomacy. The Pope of Rome is a temporal as well as a spiritual ruler of his people.' He has lately been forced upon the acceptance of his subjects by foreign armies. When such a sovereign, so sustained in his temporal power, com mits an aggression upon the privileges of another sovereign, reigning in the hearts of her people, we do not conceive that a mere protest is all that is required. Something is due not only to the honour of Great Britain, but to the religious liberties of the Christian World. This Puppet Sovereign, up held by French bayonets, must not be allowed, in his desperation, to outrage the constitu tional rights of free and independent nations. We might, indeed, with perfect justice to Rome herself, re-impose those protections against her aggressive policy, wisely imposed by the laws of England in the Act of Settlement : but a shorter and more direct course is open to us, and is pointed out in the following letter published yesterday : " RESISTANCE TO POPERY. To the Inhabitants of the County of Kent. Men of Kent,—l make no apology for calling your at tention to the present most remarkable crisis. An Italian bishop has assumed to himself the power of nominating archbishops and bishops in this our free Pro testant country. Scarcely twenty years have elapsed since more than 20.000 of you met on Penenden Heath to warn our rulers of the evil consequences of encouraging the infernal ma. chinations of Jesuits, and the errors of Papal Rome. Your warnings were slighted —your opinions set at nought. Twenty short years have produced this result. But the same hearts beat in the bosoms of the Men of Kent; the same nobleman lives to lead you. Men of Kent, up and be doing ? Let your rallying cry be Win chilsea and Protestant ascendancy ! Proclaim to your be loved Queen that you regard her and no other as the head, under Providence, of the only Church established in these her realms, and sooner than this accnrsed domination shall prevail, let British cannon tear asunder the gates of Rome, the cross of St. George wave over the Castle of St. An gelo, and the arrogant priest tremble in his Palace of the Vatican. We have had warnings enough as a nation from a mer ciful Providence to have no dealings with Popery, but to cast aside as a plague-garment the contamination of her most debasing error and slavery. May these warnings not be disregarded ! I have the honour to be, Men of Kent ; Your faithful servant, BROOK W. BRIDGES Goodneston Park, Nov. 1, 1850." Such a course would, we believe, command the sanction not only of the Protestants of Liverpool, but of the Protestants of the entire country. A host of communications have been addressed to us upon this subject. Our correspondents, however, must bear with us, and give us credit for being alive to the emergency which has been forced upon this country. The following extract from a letter addressed to the Rev. Hugh NPNeile, as to the course to be pursued, which we have received from a valued quarter, must not be omitted from our present publ cation meetings. " Call public _ ~ and memorialise the Queen to prevent any such desecration of Englisn soil and her pre rogative, as the Pope and his myrmidons contemplate, and demand if the law, as it at present stands, should not meet the case, that she will immediately call together her Parliament, and pass such a law as will fully settle the point and for ever make such an aggression not only un lawful, but subject to heavy penalties and punishment. It is gratifying for Protestants to know, and which I can as sure them of, from personal acquaintance with many well informed Italian and French gentlemen, that while the Pa. pacy is extending her ambitious and presumptuous hand westward, she is crumbling to the earth in the east, and on the continent of Europe generally. Even in Belgium, the hot-bed of Popery, the men hate the priests, and the whole mummery; and it is seldom you will see a man, of any station in life, attending worship, even in those ancient, attractive, gorgeous churches and cathedrals. In fact, though the people on the continent are generally Roman Catholics by birth, they are of no religion in too many instances ; and, in my humble opinion, are waiting for that great change which I believe not to be far distant. And I further believe that this last act of the Pope's will do more to shake, if not to uproot, the Papacy, than any earthly act we could have witnessed ; by knitting Pro testants more closely together, and by putting a stop to those dissensions which have so unhappily been taking place in the Church of England, it being now apparent to the most sceptical that there is no appeasing the Church of Rome short of our own sniritnal_ and entian."....fi. illation sure td sent stirring occasion, and that the e will all act with promptitude and I am, Reverend Sir Your obedient servant, A PROTESTANT LAYMAN." THE Whig Government, in the session of Parlia ment which is drawing near, will have to grapple with a question more full of peril to the stability of their rule than has yet presented itself. The In come Tax, imposed as all the world knows for a temporary object, must either be renewed during this session for another three or five years, or the deficiency of five and a half millions, created by its removal, be filled up by the imposition of some other levy upon the resources of the nation. Which ever may be the course attempted to he pursued, it is tolerably certain that it must result in the open ing up of the whoje question of our present system of taxation; and that a demand will be made, so just in itself that we cannot see on what ground it can be opposed, to have that system remodelled to meet the altered circumstances of the people. Al ready we are met, to whatever quarter we turn our selves, with increasing impatience of the onerous of both public and local burthens. The reduction of the tea duty is loudly called for by an has been carried on at a positive loss to all engaged in it. The policy then, to enable us to carry out which the income .tax was originally imposed, has not brought about the results anticipated from it. We believe firmly that it will never bring about these results ; and we are disposed therefore, to repudiate altogether the counsels which would advise us to persevere in hoping for such results. We have now to decide virtually upon the alternative—it is no use blinking the fact—" is this tax, with all its admitted inequalities, to be a permanent one, or shall we, like an honest and sensible people, set ourselves to the task of devising a new system of taxation, which will alike satisfy the requirements of the state and press equally upon the resources of the people i" It is a well-known fact that all the modifications of our system of late years have been made upon no fixed or equitable principle. We have net remitted particular taxes because their pressure upon particular classes was unjustly one rous, but rather because we could afford to spare the precise amount which they produced. We all know, too, the hap-hazard manner in which many of our taxes were originally imposed to meet press ing emergencies. The imposition of a window tax, for example, nothing but a state necessity could have induced any people, advanced at all in civili zation, to have submitted to. The malt and hop duties are as distinctly taxes upon the land of the country as would be a tax upon wheat in any of the stages which it assumes before reaching the consumer. The legitimate answer, therefore, to a Government, seeking a perpetual system so unequal in its pressure, would be to say " take the amount you require, but before doing so, revise your mode of levying it ! Treat no class with favouritism ; and, in marking out your new system, bear in mind that you have yourselves deliberately changed the relations formerly borne by some classes towards the remainder of the community, and materially altered their respective powers of enduring the burthens which you_seek to impose I" . . In the decision of this question, the agricultural body, at present flouted by the free-trade organs, must exercise a most potential voice; and may be found by our Whig rulers to be no contemptible opponents. Originally the bulk of the taxes im posed upon the people of this realm have been borne by the agricultural interest. The local taxes especially hear heavily upon the owners and oc cupiers of the soil ; and taxation generally, as is pointed out in an article in Blackwood's Magazine for the present month, must be borne by the pro ductive power of the country, and goes to swell the price of every article raised from the soil, or the labour of our industrious classes. Can it be fair then that one-half or more of our entire taxa tion, direct and indirect, should De levied from these classes, exposed as they now are to competi tion with the foreigner who is subject to no such taxation ? In this country, as the writer in Black wood well remarks:— " More than one-half of the fifty-five millions which constitute the public revenue—twenty-eight and a-half millions—arise from taxes imposed on the following articles :—Spirits, malt, tea, tobacco, and soap. All these are consumed principally by the labouring classes, and must be paid for out of produce in the shape of wages. Consequently, in addition to the prime cost of produce and the profit of the grower, the consumer has, or ought, to pay that portion bo'h cf direct and indirect taxation which is leviable according to justice, and distinctly levied by the State on the article which he lynches s. To make this matter more clear, let it be understood that every quarter of w'aeat grown in Great Britain, before it is brought to market, is charged with a port on of the direct taxes which we hare enumerated ab ne, and also of the indirect taxes which come through the labourer; and that these are positive burdens levied by the state for the public service and the pyment of the national obligations." Again, the same writer reminds us that : "Agricultural produc . ion, estimated at the former prices, was calculated to amount to .£250,f00,000 annually. That can no longer be calculated upon. £91,000,000, according to Mr. Villiers, was the amount of the deoreciation in a single year ; and as the net rental of Great Britain and Ireland is under £59,000.000, it is plain that, supposing all rents were abolished, the tenantry must expect to draw £32.000,000 less than for merly, a depreciation which evidently would leave no room for taxation whatever." Can the agriculturist, such being the case, be re quired, in consonance with justice, to bear the burthens to which he is subjected under our pre sent system ? It is madness to think of it ; and gross inconsistency to hoot. We ask for cheap bread ; and yet we are adding to its cost of produc tion by imposing an undue share of taxation upon those who have to grow it! We say deliberately to our agricultural brethren, "you shall be sub jected to competition with the foreigner; and at the same time you shall bear a hurthen from which he is entirely free." Absurdity and injustice so utter as this can scarcely be conceived. The course to be pursued by the agricultural community is very distinctly chalked out, not only by the writer in Blackwood, but also by Mr. Blake more, M.P. for Herefordshire, and Mr. W. Miles, M.P. for Bristol. The taxation paid by the agri culturist must he balanced'by a revenue impost upon the produce of the foreign agriculturist. We must have, as well, a revenue duty upon every other pro duct of the industry of the country. Who can deny the justice of such a proposition ? .No man of common sense—no man who would hesitate to run a race with his neighbour upon the condition that he should bear a hurthen on his back from which his neighbour should be free. It is all very well for such organs as the London Times to point, in mockery, at rent as the great barrier against the farmer's sqccess in the competition which we have invoked for him. It is more than a question of rent which is now at issue; and the agriculturists are not the only classes who will be found prepared to agitate for a revision of our fiscal system. The trading and industrious classes, with their profits and wages reduced by the mania for cheapness, are daily becoming more impatient of taxation, both public and local. They are beginning already to discover that the destruction of the home trade of thee try is not the direct path to prosperity; and they may very reasonably he inclined to doubt whether the confiscation of the property of the landowner, and the pauperization of his tenantry, will materially improve their case. It is with them as it is with the agricultural body. They see incomes, whether arising from labour or produce, reduced one-third, whilst taxation maintains its fixed money amount; and they will demand im peratively to have the balance readjusted. ST. AIDAN'S COLLEGE MEETING AT THE COLLEGIATE LAST NIGHT A meeting was held in the theatre of the Collegiate In stitution last night, for the purpose of initiating measures for the erection of a theological college at Birkenhead, in furtherance of a design long since promulgated by the Rev. J. Baylee, and which has met with the patronage of numerous distinguished patrons of education and reli gion. It is proposed to render this institution something more than a mere theological school ; by its aid it is pro posed to supply the dearth of religious instruction at pre sent existing in Liverpool; a large number of curates will be sent forth from the halls of the College on a mission of evangelisation through the crowded courts and alleys of Liverpool. By this means the benighted population of this town will be instructed in their duty to their God and their neighbour, and it is but fair some effort should be made on their part to secure such inestimable advan tages. It is therefore hoped that the masses may be in duced to contribute their meed, however scanty, in the furtherance of this pious object. The meeting was well attended, and on the platform we noticed the following clergymen and gentlemen : Rev. A. Campbell ( in the chair), the Marquis of Bland ford, M. P., Revs. W. Pollock, J. S. Howson, Joseph Baylee, D. D. Stewart, A. M'Conkey, P. W. Brancker, G. W. Warr, H. M. Mosse, C. J, Hamilton, H. Hamp ton, T. W. Moeran, J. C. Prince, W. D. Long, T. Ro binson, Dr. Poggi, D. Hirsch, —Simm, Godfrey Massey, and P. Homan, Messrs. W. Jones, T. B. Horsfall, Adam Hodgson, J. Torr, T. Littledale, T. Bold, J. Bennett, Elias 'Arnaud, J. Longton, H. Moore, P. M. Dove, R. L. Jones, Thos. Chilton, J. Bouch, H. Winch, E. Jones, P. Wright, F. Messiter, H. Cole, W. St. George, and G. St. George. The chair was occupied by the Rev. Augustus Camp bell, one of the rectors of Liverpool. After a prayer had been offered up by the Rev. H. Hampton, the reverend CHAIRMAN rose to address the audience. He briefly referred to the object of the meeting, and observed that he had attended an evening meeting, contrary to his usual habits, from a conviction of the importance of the subject on which they were met, and his earnest desire to further his friend's (Mr. Baylee) design. He went on to say that the question before them was one deeply inter esting to them as Christiana, and as citizens : as Christians, they were constrained by the love of Christianity to pro mote the coming of his Kingdom upon earth ; as citizens, with families to protect, and homes to defend, they were constrained by the love of social order to save the com munity, with which their happiness was identified, from the fearful consequence of lawlessness and crime. When they thought of the countless numbers in this nominally Christian land living wholly without God in the world, by whom the name of Christianity was never uttered but as an exclamation of blasphemy, and to whom the human ising influences of the Christian faith were utterly un known, they must feel their responsibility but, if that responsibility rested upon those he was addressing, with how much greater weight roust It rest upon the local clergy, to whom the mass of spiritual destitution was nominally consigned; and if the weight of that solemn responsibility pressed heavily upon him, when youth and health made him more equal to the burden, with how much greater weight must it be felt now that youth had gone and strength had begun to fail ? When the silver cord was about to be loosened, and the golden bowl perhaps speedily to be broken, and the dust returned to the earth, and the spirit to the God who gave it. Well, therefore, might he pray to God, well might he call upon them to help forward that work of God. But how was that work of God to be done. How was that spiritual destitution to be provided for, how was that moral pestilence to be stayed ? It could not be done by the public ministrations of the Church, for its public ministrations could not reach the cause • it must he done by car r yi ng th e gospe l t o th e d oors of ihe poor. (Hear, hear.) An archdeacon of a southern diocese goes so tar as to say—" I cannot avoid expressing the convic tion that, under no circumstances whatever, can churches he so multiplied, or incumbencies so formed in our dense population, as to effect the purpose of bringing the gospel home to the doors of the lowest of the people. A church is the place for a public, not a domestic mission. The gospel must be preached in courts, and alleys, and facto ries, or the church bell will sound in vain." (Hear.) Whether this is true to the full extent or no, at least while there are so many neighbouring churches for the oublic mission, we should first try the domestic mission by extending the Parochial Assistant Association, and then build a church when the want of it is undeniably ascertained. The pressing want of the present day was the want of more labourers in the vineyard of the church, rather than the want of more churches. The harvest truly was plenteous, but the labourers were few. They must therefore pray to the Lord of the harvest to send forth labourers into his harvest ; and as the Lord of the harvest would not bless its increase without the labour of the husbandman—as the mer ciful Saviour, when he fed the multitude in the wilderness employed his disciples to distribute the food which he multiplied with miraculous abundance, so they must exert themselves by employing missionary labour to distribute the spiritual food which God had entrusted to them amongst the perishing souls around them. The command to preach the gospel to every creature, to preach the gospel to the poor, was not confined to those to whom it was originally given, it was the duty, or rather the pri vilege, of every Christian, and by no surer means could it be accomplished than that which was proposed for their acceptance by his zealous and never-tiring friend, of whose zeal in the service of our Divine Master be could not speak too highly, and whose sincerity in the maintenance of the pure and undefiled religion of onr protestant church, he answered for it, was surpassed by none. Into the details of the plan, of course, he need not enter, as that would be done by those who would address them on that occasion. He should there have brought his observations to a close if another subject of deep and momentous interest—(loud applause) —were not pressed upon him by the exigencies of the times. They were all aware that he was usually no controversialist ; those who had thought it worth while to mark the course of his ministry in this town and neighbourhood, for now, he believed, twenty-five years, were well aware of that fact. But recent events—(loud applause)—had convinced him that the time had come—(renewed applause)—when silence, or consenting silence, would be a crime. (Applause.) So long as the Bishop of Rome confined himself to the spiritual purpose of supplying the mere spiritual wants of those whom he calls his subjects in this country, by the appointment of Vicars apostolic there was no ground of complaint, because there was no assumption of spiritual authority over any :subjects of the English Crown but those of his own communion ; but now, with an unparal leled and audacious usurpation he has abrogated the ancient ecclesiastical divisions of the English Church, and presumed to convert this ancient and illustrious kingdom, this free enlightened Protestant kingdom of England, into an archepiscopal province, dependent, forsooth, upon his foreign Bishopric in Italy, and according to the openly avowed opinions of his adherents here, and the well-known intolerant doctrine of his court, all who have been bap tized are subjects of the Church of Rome. He has, by dividing our land into pretended dioceses, and appointing over each an intrusive Bishop declared officially that all baptized persons in this kingdom, Protestant or Popish, without exception, are obliged to submit themselves to the aforesaid intrusive Bishop, in all ecclesiastical matters under pain of damnation ; so that you, my friends, and I, and every Protestant man, woman, and child, in this great community, who refuses fo submit to their new Romish Bishop of Liverpool, and our gracious sovereign herself, if she refuse to submit to the new Cardinal Arch bishop of Westminster, are inevitably damned, when such audacious heresies as these are openly proclaimed amongst us, perhaps you will think that it is time for Protestant spirit to be roused, and Protestant blood to boil ; (loud cheers ;) our hearts may be hot within us, the fire may kin dle, and at last the meekest of us' may be provoked to speak. And how is Protestant spirit to manifest its just and it was beginning at the right end, and that he approved so much of encouraging people to help themselves, that so soon as £5O shall have been contributed to this fund by the working-classes, he will meet it by a corresponding sum of £5O towards the sinking fund. I shall take the liberty of mentioning his name, our well-known and highly-re spected townsman, John Naylor, Esq. He has already shown his interest. in St. Aidan's College, by a sub scription of £2OO to the new building, and by be coming Treasurer to the Liverpool Committee. His example will, no doubt, be followed by many others. An important question connected with this proposal is the machinery by which it is to be carried out. And to this, by the good providence of God, I am enabled to give a satisfactory answer. I am honoured with the pa tronage and co-operation of the Rectors of Liverpool and some of the clergy in the place which I am about to lay before you. First, th t there be five trustees to the fund, with a secretary and treasurer, of whom the Rectors of Liverpool are to be ex-officio members. The other three to be elected by those clergymen who give an annual sermon in support of the fund, and to be chosen annually from amongst such clergymen. That the Principal of St. Aidan's College, with its Board and the Divinity students, be the executive for raising the funds in co-operation with the clergy of the respective districts. Nothing to be done in any district without the sanction of its minister. The students of St. Aidan's College are not to collect sub scriptions, but to make known in the respeztive districts the objects of the fund, to assist the minister in finding suitable collectors, and to act as district secretary and treasurer, bringing the contributions monthly to the Board of St. Aidan's College, who will pay over all monies quarterly to the trustees, by whom all disburse ments, lodgments, and endorsements are to be made. By this means a gratuitous and effective machinery will be provided, a large number of earnest minded persons will be interested in the operations of the church, and we may trust that an untold amount of good will be effected. Mr. Bsylee then proceeded to ask, where, if they had all the necessary funds in the bank, were the two hundred men who would be found ready to consecrate themselves to this labour of love, and,if we had them, are they prepared for the office ? He hoped he was not presumptuous in say ing, that St. Aidan's College had gone very far towards providing an effectual remedy. He had numerous testi monials of its efficiency, and, within the last month, the Archbishop of Canterbury wrote for a student suitable for a very important post, and his grace added, " All your men are going on to my entire satisfaction." At an ex pense to Liverpool of about £6O per annum, S . Aidan's College has provided for the stated visitation of 2500 of her population ; and, if the students increase in the ratio of the last three terms, the college will soon provide visitors for 100,000 people. The college arrangements are such that, for a sum of £2OO per annum, we could provide that 100,000 people would be regularly visited every six weeks. St. Aidan's is framed upon such a system that there can he no intrusion upon the parochial rights or duties of any Liverpool clergy men, and yet that we can offer efficient help to all who desire to avail themselves of our aid. The Paro chial Assistant Association of Liverpool consists of those clergymen who choose to avail themselves of the assistance of the college, or who are otherwise favourable to its objects. No student can regularly visit in Liverpool until approved by the committee of that association, and even then only in the district to which its iacumbent invites them. Each student visits nine hours in each week, including the time which it takes him to go from the ferry to his district. He must visit at least 150 fami lies every six weeks. In the meantime he is receiving at the college a regular theological education, and is thus combining the practical and the speculative in religion, in such a way as to provide a well-finished minister of Christ by the time that his studies are completed. The result of nearly four years' experience has answered, if it have not silenced, the objections of those who doubted the possibi lity of contriving the two objects. And I trust the added experience of successive years will prove the soundness and the efficiencies of the system. The college consists of two departments —a senior and a junior. The senior are all divinity students ; the junior receive a general education. In the senior department there are lecturers in divinity, and in the junior a head master and two assistant The whole is un lertheconstants The difficulty of o o perform the laborious and self-denying duties of pastors in such a population as ours would be greatly obviated by a clerical aid fund. If an annual sermon for this purpose were preached in all the churches of Liverpool, the proceeds would amount to a sum sufficient to assist in the education of at least twenty divinity students annually at St. Aidan's College. As the number of candidates for such assistance would be considerable, the managers of the fund would be able to select a very superior class of men, and thus, at a very trifling expense, the efficiency of the church would be greatly increased. The difficulty in the way of the clergy is their unwillingness to add to the number of appeals to their people . - ......,C Lim a ao not over righteous indignation ? Not by crafty clamour or re- estimate the liberality of Liverpool in saying that such proachful controversy, but by calm, deliberate P r ote s t an t an additional appeal would be heartily responded to. union, similar to that which, in the 17th Century, drove It is exactly four years since the plan of St. Aidan's Col a Romish Sovereign into the panic of abdication, and lege was agreed upon by a large body of the Liverpool placed a Proiestant Sovereign upon a Protestant throne ! clergy, at the head of whom were the two rectors. I And, when 1 speak of Protestantism, I do not mean a trust I shall be excused if I enter somewhat into detail negative nonentity. Let it not be forgotten what part in narrating the leading facts of its history. As it was an was taken by the bishops of our chureh in that great untried plan, I felt that it was better to test the system struggle for religious liberty. Let a shout be raised simi. in an individual effort, before any appeal should be made lar to that which struck with terror on the infatuated to the public for any large pecuniary aid. In doing so, monarch's ear when the intended victims of arbitrary therefore, although favoured with the valuable counte power were rescued from his will by the verdict of a jury nance of the rectors of Liverpool and a few of my breth of free Englishmen. Let us adapt the language of our ren amongst the clergy, I was left to my own resources in great dramatic poet to the exigency of the times, and say, the pecuniary part of the effort..,. Almost every one p re - This England never shall dicted that it would be a failure. I felt, however, th a t 1 Lie at the foot of a proud conqueror ; I the need was urgent—that the object was undeniably Nought shall make us rue, good—that the system was calculated to prepare If England to herself do but prove true." experienced pastors and teachers—and that, there- But, my friends, in order to contend successfully in this fore, the blessing of God would rest upon perse most righteous ground, we must not look to legislative vering patience, industry, faith, and prayer ; and I protection. We must not cry to Jupiter, but help our- have not been disappointed. It has cost more than selves. We must recruit our armies. We must re-enforce £1,600 to finish the College. The annual expenses our garrisons. We must send Protestant mil- sioriaries, for rent, taxes, and salaries, amount to £1,350, not armed with the carnal weapons of secular warfare, and yet, _by the blessing of God, the college is able to but with the sword of the Spirit—the Word of God meet every engagement. More than thirty men have —to meet seducing Spirits, armed with the Word of been ordained from it, and in most cases the students Tradition, whatever shape they may assume with their obtain nominations the moment they have completed profane and old wives fables, speaking lies in hypo- their course. Experience has thus proved the value and crisy, forbidding to marry, and comman di ng t o abstain the soundness of the system. I trust I shall not appeal from meats with all deceivableness of unrighteousness by in vain to the inhabitants of Liverpool to come forward the direction of him who sitteth in the temple of God and aid a great work which has already conferred so much as if he were God himself, with signs and lying wonders practical benefit on the town, and which I have shewn to exalting himself above thrones and empires as the Lord of be capable of accomplishing the evangelization of our all. As Christians I call upon you to help the preaching teeming popul a ti on , as we ll as o f f urn i s hi ng we ll tra i ned of the gospel by an increase of preachers. As Protestants ' ministers at home, and missionaries for every part of the I call upon you to help the preaching of the Protestant world. A committee has been formed in London to carry gospel by an increase of Protestant m i n i s t ers . A s citizens out the objects of the college by raising £lO,OOO to erect I exhort you to defend your wives and families from the suitable buildings, and give it a council and permanent awful consequences of infidelity. As subjects I exhort government. It consists of men not only of the highest you to augment a ministry which will teach your fellow- rank and statio n , b u t w h a t i s o f f ar greater importance they subjects to fear God and honour the Queen when the days are men well known and highly valued for the soundness of of darkness are coming on and th e s t rengt h b eg i ns t o fail, their religious views and the earnestness of their Christian when the silver cord is about to be loosed, and the golden philanthropy. Thenameofthe patron, the venerated Arch bowl to be broken, and the dust to return to the earth as bishop of Canterbury, is of itself a sufficient guarantee to a Liverpool public for the purity of its principles. The it was, and the spirit to the God who gave it. (Applause.) The Rev. J. BAYLEE, Principal of St. Aid an College, honoured names of such Chsistian noblemen as the Earls then rose to address the meeting. He commenced by of Harrowby and Denbigh. Lord Ashley, and Lord Robert alluding to the 400,000 inhabitants of Liverpool, and to Grosvernor, and one who has privileged me with his inti the responsibilities attaching to the town in consequence mate friendship, the Marquis of Blandford, are a confir of her position is almost the centre of British influence. 'nation, were a confirmation needed, that his Grace, the He then contrasted the present condition of this town Patron, has not misplaced his confidence. To these lam with her houses of profligacy—her domestic scenes of dis- thankful to add our venerated Archdeacon, and our comfort—with the influence she might exert were she a I Chairman, to whose unwearied kindness I am most deeply city of saints, and if the gains of her comme rce were con- indebted. From the Uciversity of Oxford also the Col secreted to the Lord. Our town has increased its churches; l e ge has the high honour of having upon its committee but are their benches filled with wors hi ppers ? I s v i ce the Rev. Dr. Symons„ late Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, becoming less frequent ? To the Church, through her and the Rev. Dr. Cotton, Provost of Worcester ministers, has the Lord Jesus entrusted the great College. To these I am most thankful to add the work of producing pastors for the sheep of his pasture. names of the Liverpool committee merchants of the (Hear, hear.) And now, said the Rev. Speaker, let us first eminence, and among them I would name our inde ask ourselves what have we done ? Fron., long personal fatigable secretary, J. Torr, Esq. To the Liverpool clergy, experience I know the duties and the opportunities of the and to the truly excellent Chancell or R a ik es , I am a l so pastoral care, and my brethren of the clergy will bear me greatly indebted. Mr. Baylee then proceeded to make a witness when I say that there are 250,000 souls in Liverpool public declaration of his principles. Tractarians had beyond the reach of pastoral ministrations, not only of the called him a Puritan. Others bad taxed him with Trac clergy, but of the ministers of any Protestantdenomination. tarianism. He was, however, a whole-hearted Church- Speaking in round numbers,thereare4o churches in Liver. man, which was the most honourable name for 3 sincere and consistent Christian. H e b e li eve d R oman i sm to b e I p o o o o , l o f o o o r a R t o le m a n s n t i 4 s o ts o,o a o n o d p o eo th p e le r . D L iss e e t n u t s e d rs e , d a u n c d t from and the great predicted heathenizing of Christianity, and Rome to be the Babylon foredo ome d o f G o d t o u t ter an d spee d y men.ma in 300,000 souls from to p a i b n e f n e l a personalred for b experience per about ien eSeO when clergy- Idestruction. Tractarianism he believed to be equally far say, that with the other demands upon a clergyman's from the truth. It was R oman i sm i n most i ncons i stent time he cannot be an efficient pastor to more th an 1000 separation from Rome. It was an t agon i s ti c t o S cr i p t ura l people. Indeed, I might make the number less. Let simplicity and intelligent appreciation of true spiritual me ask you all what is the meaning of the pastoral care ? worship. But our religion was not a negation. He had In the exerc ses of a perplexed conscience, or of a endeavoured to enable the students entrusted to his care bowed spirit, or of a bruised heart in all the sore trials of to declare honestly and intelligently their unfeigned as life and all the harassings of daily needs, what would you sent and consent to all and everything contained in the wish for in the pastoral relationship ? Should not the Book of Common Prayer, which was the best human ex man of God be with you to cheer, to comfort and to bless ? position of divine revelation that was ever composed by Should he not know how your children are going on, and man. He then reviewed the contents of the Prayer how yourselves are progressing ? It is God's vo i c e th a t h as Book in a very instructive manner. How str a nge that said, " Should not the shepherd feed the fl oc ks ?" Th e such a Book should be accused of compromise and semi good shepherd came "to comfort all that mourn." How is popery. What, sir, are we to be told that those practices the duty fulfilled 1 How can one individual in the midst of and principles are not Protestant, which were meditated eight or ten thousand people do all this ? The thing is upon by a Ridley and a Latimer in the dungeon, and impossible. The remedy is within ourselves, as I shall. testified too by those blessed martyrs at the stake ! The now lay before you. Of the 400,000 inhabitants of Liver- Church of England presents to us the Word of God as pool more than 300,000 are willing to receive the pastoral the only infallible teacher of revealed religion. To that ministrations of the church. Deducting from these the members who are unable to contribute anything, there are Word she subordinates c reed s an d counc il s , muc h mor e individual churches and teachers. She is Protestant in at least 216,000 who are in comparatively comfortable cir- her opposition to Romish error. She is Catholic in her cumstances. 216,000 souls are about 41,000 families; if maintenance of Scriptural truth. Walking on earth, each of these subscribed 2d. a-week to a Liverpool Pa- her home is in heaven. May all her ministers, and rochial Aid Fund, the total sum would be £20,800 a-year. all her sons, imbibe her spirit, believe her truth, This would provide 200 deacons for the existing churches, and walk in the light of her heavenly hope. Mr. and leave a sum of £BOO per annum for incidentalexpenses. Baylee concluded as follows, by referring to the These added to the present number of the Liverpo o l chief objects of the meeting :—The masses of our clergy wouldS give one pastor for every 1400 people, in- people need pastoral care. I have shown that God eluding all classes of the population, Oh how mighty has given us abundantly the means of providing a change would this one effort make. And is this for them. In my own name, in the name of the board of effort impracticable ? Are indeed the service of God machinery and the faith of Christ—the hopes of heaven and the the gratuitous, and I hope I may say efficient, mac tixious fear of hell so little thought of that an added expense to raise the needful funds. Idoso in the earnests,taa coin. St. Aidan's College, and of its divinity students. T o ffer of twopence a week would not be contributed by the bap- hope that the co-operation of all classes of so ee v t a (Hear, tised members of Christ's body. But whatever apathy munity may accomplish so blessed an there may be, I think I can show you that the plan can have demon not be a failure. Let it be supposed that only one in ten permanent the college itself. Four year p U to this point, of those members of the Church, who are able to do so, sleeted the practical value of its system. its existence in would subscribe, and even then twenty new pastors would efforts almost individual have maintain edf the institution be be provided, and forty thousand additional souls placed continually 'increasing vigour. Bu t acknowledged need, unner the pious care of the Church. Doubtless, many of public utility, if it has hear.) I appeal to you also to give us your aid in making persons would gladly contribute a larger sum than two- if it has accomplished a large a pence a week. 1 would propose that all sums above two- not that there is a plea far pence be paid into a sinking fund, to provide endowments an individual. But, sir, I it now exists is but the germ for the new congregations. Every £2OO per annum paid more urgent. The college as into an institution caps into this fund, at tour per cent. interest, would provide of what may easily expandedl . A very moderate assistance a permanent endowment of £lOO in ten years. Two nle of benefitting millions..sy to improve its education, and thousand pounds a year, thus collected, would endow would enable us tire ten new incumbencies every ten years. How fearful se its numbers. (Hear.) That increase not to be left dependent upon the m health and strength of largely colonieswell the a responsibility rests upon the possession of property, of numbers would enable us to send efficient mission. when so small en effort would so amply provide for the aries to our neglected_ as as to wants of' Christs' Church. lam permitted to make apro- heathen world. (Hear, and cheers.) While Liverpool posal, this evening, which will have no small effect illen - itself wuuld :he gre . atly blepsed by the labours of such men . . couraging this effort. Ilaving explained the plan and its mode of operation to a gentleman, whom God has blessed with the means of helping such an object, and still more with willingness of butt to assist in it, he observed that during their training for the ministry. The College would he continually sending forth a stream of ministers accus tomed to the most difficult. and by far the most important Rad of tie ministerial office, the pastoral care. The THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sot. :11,15,i,./1 A t° l ? Church of Christ, sir, wants men wh o ko° l i di 4 , from house to house, and from individ ual t°l Ci' uls° 0 far the high and holy object of bringing s° „iligolo Yes, sir, she wants men able to go to . the P - e gs t , they may be rescued from the ways, and so oitt 4 4 l wages of sin ; able to arouse the careless. o il i n g ',, conscience, to instruct all; men who could "fei11,,,,"A to conscience, bowed down under the s ense sweet message of present pardon and acceP, e lkA the Saviour's cross, wno could remind th e loPi. the need of invoking grace ; men able to encored, tool r ,, to instruct the ignorant, to guide the perr le d oie., exhaustlessof fort rttthehe heart mou f r iai n ni e nd r e , smisni mind, ,wdaoi and d d n te t o o the ts m run e pt e hp t ly var i c ,0f '' blessing of God, that we shall be a ble tli to etrin ne us : lll l °ju G rrt: J 44 l St. Aidan's College men of this stamp , ° el l osiV are willing to go into the streets and lanes 0 00 0 community, in all the quiet energy of 8 .,, b" ,,ffer4 labouring to bring souls to Christ. I beg."' - n ietv" sir, and the friends who have so kindly assistel _ , o url r j this great meeting, my most cordial thanks; 'Ol tient attention. I sit down full of hope that 'jets -41 effort we shall be enabled to accomplish then (011?!; giving to the s econ d town in the emP _ a r m 0t,:, : vision for all its spiritual wants, in the stu b e, , and nv v e e d r r yp prayer, enduring eanmd true o u u , Archbishop • n n g e p d aasstsoer:vinagn d t 0 of ev every n t te r.u r e en - re p a t ,w ,l, flock." We have only to persevere, sir, in Pa t .' itll ,, 1 bouring not for the praise of in n a in n, w b h u i l i s t i r °l u rn ett s :itr e u l eternity, and as surely as Glad's word realize that blessing. "The Everlasling G'id' , nest * the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth 0°,,,,, , is weary : there is no searching of his i i giveth power to the faint : and to them tha w q might be increaseth strength. Even the Pt!, 1 p 10 , faint and be weary, and the young men shall anse,r2ol). theyßut they shal i t h m a o t u wait u on then wi th wings l.,ord shall as e a r g e i n e e i l and not be weary, they shall walk and [lot fsin u t fie ddl o ; rev. gentleman was frequently and loudly IWO 0 0 44 , „d c o ing the reading of his address, and when he " thei .., 'llt I re. eel' he was greeted with a hearty round of aPP"a e. be o' thethe make p C l O ea l a l s e ur g ere pleasure remark S tk t . oAr hearingi two e d t et the immediate business before him, that of preli to lof . l , o ingTihne behalf f u o is f of th e BL r institutionn Foa p ;nbeuxtt baedfdorreessenteorringg%s: people and of the Church generally, he wB5 - S est id gr • P 0 4 nothing could have afforded him higher ,gra'; fig"- ' f e ll to have seen two faces upon the Pla t°ll d fia" - P t absent upon that occasion. He alluded to Lar s eles,,, and Lord Robert Grosvenor, of whom it was well 'll°l o ere co lor er , him to speak in commendation, as they .sr s v a o n merited their on another the eovth. eFr warm ris eu,b o i e : c6 P t : oat 15: i n o 0 , it : le:ti to every friend of education and religion in Li ve lfoo le tt .) vicinity. (Cheers.) Ho would, however, resu o dtilli re which had been received from these noblemen' :hef " rea d proved that if they were not there in fwts' n the n. yeti ,_ r j _ there in spirit. (Hear, hear.) The noble !" 1 n cd 1 % 1 ",,b5 • letters of apology from Lord Harrowby an d ''r e aPP_,I" 0 Aw G ri r di o ten v r e s n w o ce r ro , el b lhe o eg t i h edh o in f e whom expressed their en br n ting!hed mitten.ot ibo obs e rve r o v f e th ethlan tColleg eotffh eeri nstatements f hi St. s e A ft expressedda ..n a . n d H . evo e bc:s t y i t l t e ebci i; e : : :_ ce. , 03 : ft : ,.t o ssol c ..l ,; ;:: felt considerabl e m co o n n s l i j d y e e r v a e b r l y "10 t e '' l T ' b ne O b li o ': 1 P ° . thing but his firm belief in the goodnesssuu i f s t o 'o' felt t s a e l scooualdh pride ave i n induced ass iassisting n h g i m the to pious h d ir vi se nbet) , Z e ct 0 0; scholar, the worthy Chr istian __ e minister, e re weed ttli he ad of this College. iodndoaa ( wb f lsottar, work. be r . , uot h f( e ffst a phe r isar . t ) irtugha l rele. ll ; . r it e rope: s : l l 6ol, o ni ; , ,, r .l s ,. 4” , :ei v eii :i ll omihri e nfe v eac e rpfnelo r ei ~ .l roi wap s hral o Heer m ndewei e henheago g sd r st o wi ht uneyenio.gedwos consideredh peculiarly itchhatext hi existed eadr local e suchr: ii . t iattr i c e ir , s ' ; b s,f o o 0 1, 1 45 , their ii , o to be su ffi cient to open not only their h earts ° " 11 ,, c , P s :.,udi and cause them, by every mean , ' in their P 0 )" frt'fith 0 a scheme as that which had just bee n dete,,:reTiceoltit,' much fervent eloquence and wisdom, bY t i ic e "l'i a ;cl accrue. When they looked to the s . ,,'dity,"ltittP,„ ) who, were it not tor the ministers o f relig t° Icl i ll det ° whn hi,' fr.” *ho ;.a.,..-..- -c - 1::,, , ,,1 01 ,0( 9. Al f°r ; . „, bability never he relieved from the ignor% dei- 4 ,• heathenism. He f e lt a s sure d th a t the P lB `;l 3 ll7be"' giving the local ministers the benefit of 511 ;0 0 '4 t t e ' students to make visitations to the pool' ne erow e re 0 ( ducive of the greatest advantage to all ce ll ge ' alo e I and those who were advocates for this c°,:bia c e lle' from thinking to depreciate the inealet - e vel e : . otek: a University course of education—but h ° " s fill e d ) rs e, " I ,', might be the University education, th ei•e a er,,,°o t :,4 necessity for creating an easier and c liee t be l'"( s gl ft e which the poor man anxious to serve ' os e' 0 ti - t mission might avail himself of the ben pas was d eg° sound Protestant education. There lle v h e s the, r o tte r so pregnant for good or evil to the Cha rc " a v 10/ ' - it —a time when it behoved the Church to Pa' w bell le fli ) tion to the education of its ministers , ° o r ive fr c ° heer l ' o more necessary that the people should (therehieg. eil ministry plain truthful and evangelical reacted he r ); ,' 3 4 He believed that all this would be effe ct hear) propounded by the Rev. Mr. Baylee (b e- rea re coar in ; such being his firm conviction, he bad th but ia s ia ,o, s sure in not only proposing the resolution' e t Standl' ill, both that gentleman and the meeting tu e o erg ec hia ° College should ever have his warmes t Ptois con most earnest support.—The noble N e— o reg A u t ee t t h e i d s te sta e g e e eep o y f t t h h e e epheirroc,eeedeinegssovt:l3 o. lic eet g, lal t e : *11 : amidst loud applause. is , r ef,' ro la n . o s quested leave to retire, and Alderman ~g • ' , Y e t he u l f 48 very warmly cheered. a ._ , o h e The Rev. Mr. PoLLoes next addregge a bseaV it st, t ", He commenced by apologising for the,ts: kicisa,' o ( Archdeacon. They were met for two ohi` - f St • ` - 0 01 0 1 , 4 , permanent establishment of the College e aco nce eo lie . :, and secondly, to promote the spiritual I . ) , t ical t arc% Liverpool, by properly constituted Eccles ° had O bo dtP h e he pie Since the commencement of that college , eo rs e ra reason to wish it well. For the two las t ,,Y o wledg,;;lolo pleasure and delight of witnessing the k f •'• the g e h ich 74 and practical Christianity of three °,, t ion ' c ee , fl e ;f i t educated in that institution, an ina t " - n ficie n a 0 1 ' . it eminently entitled to their warmest c° an d , 0 1 04 calculated to do great go od in this to° o ', o gla° ea th' Cer, the church at large. (Hear, hear.). H e Oe O n 5 presented a cheap access to the ministiltly'eoarse sc r i:er e °° : the very expansiveness of the univer .., t hen be ) tainly an advantage to the church ; huv em the he SP minister should not be shut out fr (itea e at .0 fits of a good colle g e education- tie , give ti " ng ill eir He believed that the system of edura re ar Pup tb.oo Aidan's College was well calculated :°,ke, e d u col o i for the ministry. He would n° a re , ° f j a g t o i time by going into the theological f e be lp swath and, pursued there ; but he could u°' ra ison w t ,,, t he t o that course would not lose by a eornP e f e rence l' i i al too, their Universities (hear, hear). In t belie ved , a ch ur or pected principal of that college, , t , , e afe w.hear t ' e he r P er a true and loyal son of the church, is in al l s will: i d man," a true son of the church as she , r , her _ ja g . 0 gelical doctrines, in all her catholitf,e' biro phea: t _ t 7. testantism against the superstition I.° 'He believe a n d idolatries of the church of Rome. equired, ,hetif) dG w e a op s di e t t h e e i ca wouldhe u tbh r l c ee h sys m h eadnlshthediepiedhwyh histi hcbleiej iii. t ric h_ t e o Y ite r enya : c t o h h a He differed on one point from th°' z wrah: rceoe : e n , a t et .o fo t r it : r; i e r a rai r ,i ; cogbeiLt et: ee (Mr. P.) believed that the the fi e believea or ai d , (Hear, hear, and a voice, 182 9 .) usur patio,° Ireii i e d time had come long ago when °occurred ' h .fyle s iii 4 arrogant than this of the c come w hen th e a 001,0 was a ssuine a tv retr (Hear, In ar.) The time was titles of the Irish Archbishops , f the law ; a i l sh j .bee the letter as well the spill,' °order a British Minister dared to tensheir Protestant ; I bishops should take precedence t. (Loud apti til il that Rom .. t hi , d , l at the levees of the Lord-Li eu _ Rem eward , a° 4 04 The tendency of the times were bringing .cox, this was God's retributive just whi ch we i nt 1 1,1 1 , 9 00 country that curse of Po of the la're‘rio bree'ir Ireland and the colonies. lieved, that to meet the tee nonentities a!: ho ve t ,,-A who are not mere negativ wan ted ghoul t ton, to (Hear, hear.) The men they the Holy aholv t hez i n , call from Heaven i moved faith which movie thepel, their office; moved by tha! d Latimer i 1) , ,tl , . • Ri dl e y an Ridley 00 ° ell 41 hold deep converse with ) Let thea , i d 1/ 8 07 at the stake. (Loud anelause.„ er y but who or° ll fof4 l ' will not only call " 14° Pe • P 't - ' Let them g s ° A b or of calm and serious simtrriuth which God a it/ pel, in the strength of that Let them b e reanbol.'" plate had given • them. let them _ enbto r _ ft ° , o r , mask all the specious pre . : I harlot. (I I " 'WO t be men " t jes, ,r 0 41 in the nakedness o peon, as well as bfeiangspre.traeiclitinytiaoton9ooifdßot ... ,I:or he 1 0 : : only oppose P loud cheers.) meet her with al, •• r ai , e u• o , able to sheer' her that we . d once t° f• g 0 for catholicity, an , _ re 4 quity, catholicity The - .0 h' I- es for church. (Tremendous app app In o f; PaijnlYtruth to her . r r i q uar, l 01,1,.; tV p oi the college.addressed in er 0 The meeting was subsequently _ vi3O, p c _ the Rev. Mr. Ho s u rb av D. D. Stewart, and Iva or at great o r 0 41 the Collegiate, who advocated of St. Aidan's Collg the P e r. ' been given to . g as A vote of the having _4,o replied, theme c' and that gentleman having man concluded by making an eloquenv PP bi .;P:ol o P e(rnilidaeeuaasree, y. hear) _,.5, i 1 • Edward Cardwell, Esq., M.P., has I ° l 'l j g sol' r.ii aeO his life subscrip tion to the Liverpool Chloe 1/ 0 Institution. ~,,t e , Dr. o ;iflntou k hsor e etri s Gt.t . hguaTeetr L ihndoE o aenn w rceysokr e euew, Lower sarsi alrnt M yeyhd:i a enpEb s i re t ytae e hers r ateeiinol o wni f fireagfrdr E omedrv t . an :t o r n siobi e: too C ctr o i i oti l at : .rte. bo d i t od e rti t ' 1 i ii":eo, ; elected Provost of King's College, Cora" ) 0 0, 4 ADERCROMBY WARD.—We understandov 6001, raFCpinlrtoaadiCouncillor ecyosi TAKING and had w pu b b il l e ish d e e d fe t n 4 , fi g rq a t sT ri o so o n f er tn i i i i ;heg e nt o ;rii , i dock,l had w O occasion 0 n t, consult my I got him o$ and converse . Nan him and ~ was immediately I t oo d o" I my joy w. a s ~,4 aisturbed ; putting nil yeg e rd . cP pocket to pay the "junior" ray quota f or eteb . l e 11 )1; for apearcio n!, ,fl e ;j ner, I found that my purse was VW' - 'itgi t o o r e bank notes, the currency , of tbat cial o ' n os -0 0 , causing much merriment, it was cua llja lie is ° Chief Bron acdonald, t h e pr esiding J o oo e rd t yo " What !des Mr. Campbell think &too.- client, andmiete,o oil to lake notes in the court but hicseP' bell I if LIVERPOOL: 1 0 44 . 1 PRINTED AND Plnalt PorP TUESDAY, NOV. a l io, ,rl l ,r EVERy TUESDAY, . or of!,tre e _ d i i , BY JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE2•I rarfor.“*.r' LEONARD ADDISON', of 14, ure r , LI At No, 4, ST. 611108(101 C 55501,1 4l e Le‘i titt Twl R '4tipuE THis 4 v,►m twi I 4 nith a l elit t t Ikettioe T' z (, till T I 80 1 411)e'1,1‘),. filVI Iti ' k r t it ' ati Cn a t 4 : (1) t h p _th; a a ll ; c e i r l ito L r e k ess ts It tit 111W ,h ree. it , T 1 1S'"I tir e , tr, ° p y ea ttit R Il e gu Ci l lit,k , 10A,