The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-08 00:00:00

w • 4nd 'frmatra, --c .w,a,.ll,lloAggn, mu. T 441.07, CIWANDL2RII to bee Majes_ty and the 3rdne of the Belgians, at the B ee Hive, 31, Haymarket, London, sole Manufacturers of the PATENT PLAITED WICK, TRANSPARENT WAX, & SPERM LIGHTS. These Lights, manufactured upon a new principle, are also much improved, from the Wax and Spermaceti beipg previ ously clarified, which renders them so pure that the light emitted from them is more brilliant and staidy than any before submitted to the test cf public approbation. They do not require snuffing, or any attention after lighting, and are by far safer for reaing by and lighting rooms, than any other kind cf Candle hitherto invented. They should be put out with at; Extinguisher if required to be re-lighted. SOLE AGENTS: F. AND A. FOW.NES, 10, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT BLIND. THE ANNUAL MEETING of the MEMBERS of this CORPORATION will be holden, a the ScnooL, on FRIDAY next, the 15th instant, at Elemon o'clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose of electing a President, four Vice- Presidents, a Treasurer, and a Committee, for transacting and managing the affairs of the said Institution or Charity, in pursuance of the Act of Parliament passed for incorporating the Institution. All Persons who shall have contributed to the said Insti tution or Charity the sum of Ten Pounds, at any time, as a Donation, or may have contributed a sum not less than £1 Is. as an Annual Subscription, and continuing to pay the same, are Members of this Corporation. Tradesinen who have any Demands against the Cnarity are particularly requested to send in their Accounts. . . The freasurer begs to acknowledge the receipt of the following Legacies and Donations : LEGACIES From the Executors of the late £9O 0 0 19 19 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 22 14 5 Mrs. E. Nugent ----- Mrs. Patten Miss E. E. Rigby Richard Sutton, Esq. Moses Samuel, Esq. DONATIONS R. S. Cox, Esq., London James Heyworth, Esq.. The Archbishop of Armagh 1 0 0 Jas. Harrison, Esq., 106, Islington 10 0 0 Cresswell Cresswell, Esq., M.P lO 0 0 Lord Boston Isaac Knowles, Esq lOO 0 0 John Moon, Esq 25 0 0 Mr. Robert Williams Harpsichords and Piano-fOrtei are particularly acceptable, on account of the increased number of Musical Pupils now in the Institution. AT the FOURTH GENERAL ANNUAL MEETING of the LIVERPOOL DOMESTIC MISSION SO CIETY, held in RENSHAW-STREET CHAPEL, On FRIDAY, the Ist of January, 1841, THOMAS THOHNELY, Esq., M.P., President of the Sncietv, in the Chair, 1. Nleved t solutions were unanimously passed : Rev. J. MARTINEAU, seconded by J. P. HEYWOOD, Esq That we eater Mission with faith of whici Christian met brethren, anti tal power. if penetrate the afflicted and 2. Moved I he fifth year of the operations of this ed reliance on the principle's in the ;.iblilhed, viz.\ that it 4the duty of for the moral wantsoftbeir neglected gion, tree from Sedarianism, has vi !red with wisdom and with love, to d elevate the condition of the most bandoned. J. H. Tliom, seconded by SAMUEL BRIGHT, That ti nister to Report of the Rev. John Johns, our Mi exhibits the various ways in which a be led mind may connect itself for good tions of humanity, and raises the hope, ministration of spiritual and temporal an must be found together. with the that in sn charities, 3. Mos ml alvat RHONE, Esq., seconded - by CHRIS- TOPHER )unts, as now read, having been DOKS YATEs, Esq., seconded by Gentlemen be the Committee for the audited, be r 4. !Moved by Jos. THOS. HARVEY, ESQ That the follov ensuing veal Thomas Bolton, Esq., President. I Mr. T. B. Blackburne, Mr. Rathbone, „ C. Booth, - „ Rawdon, „ S. Boult Rev. J. Robberds, „ R. E. Harvey, Rev. Dr. Shepperd, RR. H. ;ones, M r . J. D. Thornely, ev. J. Martineau, „ R. V. Yates. Thomas Holt, Esq., Treasurer. Rev. J. H. Thom and Mr. R A. Fletcher, Secretaries . -.-. 5. Moved by THOS 1S HOLT, Esq., seconded by the Rev J. H. THOM, That it be in the discretion of the Committee to determine where the future Annual Meetings of the Society shall be held. 6. Moved by, SWINTON BOULT, Esq., seconded by G I-1 OLT, Esq., That the Resolutions now passed be Advertised, as in for mer years ; and also that, along with the Treasurer's ac counts, the present constitution of the Society, the names of its supporters, and of the CoMmittee for the present and pre ceding year, they be printed as the Report of this Meeting. THOMAS THORNELY, Chairman. The business of .the Meetl4, Rathbone was yoted into the Chair; acing been concluded, . . . _ And, on the triotion of the Rei. J. MAILTINEAu, the cor dial Thanks of. the Neeting . were given to the President for his conduct in the, chair, and his attention and valuable ser vices to the Society during his year of office. FIRE AND LIFE. ASSURANCE COMPANIES We beg to draw the attention of our readers to the follow ing excellent article on Life Assaf arice. The cessation from business of a recently established office in London, within the last two days the premiums of which were notoriously low, will be a convincing proof that the established offices are the most to be relied upon. Although they charge higher premiums, they, have respectability and stability to to recommend. them : . . It is impossiblefor the trade of the country to be in a healthy state, or for the commercial intel ests to he prosper ous or conren; ed, until the floundering system or managing the national currency has undergone a searching investiga tion and reform. But our whole system of banking must be amended, and a proper code of legislation framed for the re gulation of the joint-stock banks. We are persuaded that every impartial person must see the propriety of making it imperative on every joint-stock bank, without regard to lo cality, to register the names of the partners annually at the Stamp-office I that their deeds of settlement should be sub mitted to the inspection of a public officer, and that his cer tificate should be the warrant for the Stamp-office authori ties to issue the license. The regulation ought not, however, to be confined to joint-stock banks. It ought to be ex tended to all fire arid life assurance companies. The facili ties of establishing the latter class of companies are most ob jectionable. They are under no species of legislative check or regulation whatever, and thus temptations are put in the way of the vicious to dupe the public. We are perfectly sensible of the imOortance of life-insurance companies, and of the great benefits they confer upon the community. The remarks we have have made, both as regardsjoint-stock banks and insurance companies have, we trust, been explicit. We trust that our object has been seen, namely, to protect the genuine firms ; to separate the tares from the wheat ; to support the real against the fictitious, and thus encourage and advan tage the sound institutions and the public. To accomplish this purpose the. life-insurance system -specially requires to be placed under the controul of legislative enactment, fer seve ral bubbles of that class have burst in the metropolis, and there may be more to come. We have heard of one instance lately, of a most extrecr dinary kind, where the extent of the ' • ' ly incredible. But the plan is of easy ac flaming prospectus with a series of names uilli,hed, all well " enquired " for effect ; *empting kind are circulated, promisin,. aelut;:ort Is cornplishm for director tables of t annuities on conditions which cannot pay the company ; but as that is never intended, the parties concerned give them •ouble about it, and the public greedily take the %Ar, the. price generally at once, so as to secure Then, to make the picture more pleasing, they 'unce that the company is established under variety of acts of parliament, which are se are the statutes applicable to friendly e nothing to do with insurance companies. r, is attained, and in a short time the fi ce t Royal Union Fire and Life Insu r some other fine sounding title, nothing ivent such impositions, and to secure the , resulting from a proper system of well surance companies, the subject ought to be me active member of the legislature. He will . materials, and no want of evidence, to satisfy islation to correct existing evils is essentially re may be said in answer to us on this point, as in regard to the London joint-stock banks, the law does not require the partners to be re ractice the same thing is done, as the directors ti s t-stoel: banks generally print the names and .heir shareholders, which are given with their Senonsir selves no t bait by in the bargain take care tc and by virtue of a _ such to be the usual practice, as re joint-stock hanks, which it certainly is, e practice is not so general with regard to insurance iez , . But at any rate we do not consider it entitled to weight. Our object is not to obtain guarantees from Lble establishments. We know that they will always reasonable satisfaction, but the right of as certaining the names of partners i❑ joint-stock banks and life-insurance companies should not be left to the discretion of the directors. To guard the public from imposition from spurious firms, we maintain that the law should compel them all to register them all annually. A mere printed list is no guarantee of authenticity. We do not strictly believe every thing that we see in print ; and, i❑ point of fact, in the case of the Imperial Bank not more than one-sixth of the partners returned to the Stamp-office ever signed the deed. Fictitious firms could have no difficulty in providing printed Eats of shareholders, and the law should take care to prevent the concoction of such fraudulent lists. Therefore the deeds of settlement with the signatures of the partners, verified by the oaths of witnesses who saw them sign, should be lodged with a public officer, with duplicates for examination; and his cer tificates to the Stamp-office should be the warrant for a li cence, to be followed up with advertisements in the London Gazette. We learn by a report in the Sun, evening newspaper, that on the 21st John Thorogood received the balance of his wages, amounting to nine hundred pounds! ! ! The money was paid to him at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill. The Sun, with the greatest simplicity, exclaims, What will the oppressors of conscience say to this noble manifestation of public feeling ?" Whatever oppressors of conscience may say to it, men of common sense and common honesty will say that John Thorogood has made a good job of his con science: Thousands of such martyrs may be had for a ninth part of the money. By the bye, how much money besides has this man received personally while in gaol? No small sum, we are inclined to believe.—Essex Standard. PRODUCTION OF ENGLISH SULPHUR. —We are glad to find, on personal inquiry in the north, that the use of sul phur ores ccntinue,, to gain ground, and that no fear need be apprehended of want of demand, unless his majesty the King of the Sicilies should determine on giving up the duty of £4 10s. per ton, with with which he visits th e art i c l e o f sulphur e xported from his dominions—a matter not very likely while he has the markets of France, Russia, and America to sup ply. 'We should not, however, be surprised if, in time, .we do not export even sulphur ores to other countries. We find that a preference is given to the Wicklow ores (which are now being raised in great abundance), the stocks having been worked off, and some contracts entered into, which will take up much of the ore raised in the next few months. The price continues to be maintained, and we think, that a prudent course being observed by the miner, in accommodatingsc his supply and prices to the state of the market , the sul phur never can compete with our home produce, while, at the same time, a remuneration may be secured to the miner, and a fair profit afforded to the manufacturer. Lancashire alone, we find, will consume • `J 0 000 tons of ore annu all y , and hence we may reasonably expect that the mines of Wicklow will find ample demand for their produce, at the same time 'that Cornwall may contribute to the supply—the quantity consumed in• Newcastle; Glasgow. &c,, bein goonsidcrably on the,increase.—Mining Tourncir (1, - br aibrrpool &tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8, 1841 It must, we think, be now sufficiently evident that the time has arrived for making a permanent provision to meet the increased expenditure of the country. Temporary expedients, calculated only to stave off the evil day, have too long been depended upon by our Whig financiers; and we trust that the session of par liament which is approaching will not be allowed to progress many weeks, without some intelligible state ment of our financial position being elicited, and a sound principle laid down by which the revenue of the country can he raised to the level of the increased wants of the government. The financial statement for the year ending sth Ja nuary, 1841, which has just been published, exhibits a deficiency, as compared with last year, of £254,009, or, in round numbers, of upwards of a quarter of a million; and, bearing in mind the ridiculously insuf ficient sum demanded last session to cover the expenses of the expedition to China, we may fairly conclude that a large additional sum will be wanted this year to reimburse Government for the increased expenditure under that head alone. Independently of this, how ever, we have to provide for the cost of the Syrian quarrel ; and it is evident that, to do this and, at the same time, to place the nation in a position to engage at once and with effect in any course of action which its honour and interests may require, an effective and extensive increase of taxation has become indispensa bly necessary. A very slight examination of the pre sent position of our foreign relations will show that, although it may not be necessary for Great Britain to possess those vast armaments • which our French neighbours consider compatible with the existence of an " armed peace," yet that a large increase of our naval and military forces will be required, under any circumstances, not only as a measure of precaution against the possibility of foreign aggression, but to en able us to carry on efficieutly those struggles in which we are already engaged. We must increase our force in China, unless we expect our hostilities against that people to be protracted over a much greater space of time - than has ever yet been calculated upon; for we cannot yet depend upon the telegraphic despatch which announces its termination. We must recruit our In dian army considerably, to enable us to carry to deci sive conclusion the embroilrnents in Affghanistan and elsewhere, into which the hasty policy of Lord Auck land has led us; and although the settlement of affairs in Syria would undoubtedly enable us to detach a por- tion of the nean fleet into the eastern seas yet, in the present unsettled state of western Europe, wa see little prospect of doing this to any considerable extent, consistently with the. preservation of our own interests and .safety, in case of any sudden outbreak of hostility in that quarter. To provide for this pressing emergency, a bold and vigorous administration of our financial resources be comes absciutely necessary; and we press the subject thus early upon the consideration of our readers be cause we are fully convinced that, even whilst imposing an increased taxation upon the country—a measure which, we fear, will be far from a popular one—it is perfectly within the power of an honest government to ntroduce, along with it, such alley mg and judicmu changes in our present system as will give a stimulus to industry and enable the communit iv* par cone, upon that, artial:, qoraumpttort By no sucll system, however, can of a nation, which draws the breath of it eriously be netited THritTP,E, CIitiRCII,ZTRZU Hrs. WA.YLETT, the eele the Theatres-Royal, Drury-lane, C( Mr. ALEXANDER LEE, the eel engaged for a limited period d Vocalist and Actress,from tea Composer, i , and will preside the Piano- TWO NEW PIEC THIS present FRIDA t and TO-MORROW (Saturn.,, will commence with a new Drama, called THE SPANISH PRINCES, OR, LOVE IN DISGUISE. John of Paris. Grand Chamberlain.... Mr. Tilbury. Pedrigo Potts.. Mr. C.F. Marshall. Theodore.. Mr. Bland Princess of Navarre. • Mrs. Waylett. In the course of the Drama, Miss De Blaquiere will appeal atertaintnents in an admired Pas Seul. During the Evening, Mrs. I.Vaylett will sing the following Songs :—" Come, dwell with me," " When the dew is on the grass," " The Tr;_ ,, 7ldour," new Cavatina, " When night elves dance their fairy rings," " Meet me by moon light alone." To which will be added the laughable Interlude, called LONDON LARKS; OR, THE HAPPY AFRICAN Murtoch Delany Mr. Raymond. Edward Mr. C. F. Marshall. _ _ Mr. Mungall will dance his admired Sailor's Hornpipe. Miss De Bkiquiere, a popular Scotch Dance. Mr. C. F. Marshall will sing the popular Comic Song, called " The Teetotalist." Mr. Charles Bland will sing " The flag that braved." To conclude with a grand Tale of Enchantment and terrific Legend of Romance, called • . ONE O'CLOCK ; OR, TIIE KNIGHT AND THE WOOD DEMON. Guelpho ..Mr. Tilbury. Willikind.. Mr. C. F. Marshall.. Oswy.. Mr. Bland. _ Una.. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. J7Focc, at the , Box office from Eleven to Three. Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d.—Second Price, Half past Eight : Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is. ; no Second Price to the Gallery. THOUSANDS OF PERSONS HAVE VISITED THU DRUIDICAL ROCK HARMONICON, AT No. 15, BOLD-STREET. THE ONLY INITRLMENT OF THE KIN rN THE WORLD J. RICHAR ON, Proprietor. THE THREE CARACCI. UNION GALLERY, SLATER-STREET. A RRANGEMENTS having been made for the Exhibition of these Paintings in Glasgow, the Proprietor begs re- speetfullf to intimate, that they will be REMOVED at the CLOSE OF TIIE PRESENT MONTH. Jan. 7, 1840 JOHN BENTLEY, Keeper LIVERPOOL GRAND SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS. THEATRE ROYAL. T HE THIRD CONCERT of this Season will take place on TUESDAY Evr.NING, J..n. 12, 1841. PRINCIPAL PERFORMERS. Miss BIRCH, Miss DOLBY , Mr. HOBBS, Mr, BLAGROVE, M r . LINDLEY, Sen. The Orchestra will be complete in every department. Leader M r . HEMJANN. Piano-forte.. Single Tickets for the Boxes and Circle, 7s. 6d. ; Upper Boxes. ss. each ; and for the Gallery, 25.; may be had at the usual places. The Lottery for this Concert will be drawn on Friday, the Bth instant; all orders for extra Tickets should be given on or before the ith instant. The doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Concert will commence at Eight. TO CORRESPONDENTS Several communications intended for insertion in our pre sent number are unavoidably postponed. We regret much our inability to insert the fourth communi cation forwarded by " Pacianus." The crowded state of our columns will, we doubt not, be a sufficient apology to our respected correspondent. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.—This document, which is now looked for with the greatest anxiety. will be brought by the Sheffield, which sailed from New York on the 13th ult. The arrival of the Sheffield has been expected for several days, and she may make her appearance any tide, though, as the wind is " right in her teeth," much uncer uncertainty hangs over her. The Caledonia, which left Boston on the Ist instant, will probably arrive here on Tuesday or Wednesday. The Toronto, a London packet. ship, which left New York almost simultaneously with the Sheffield, may possibly touch at Portsmouth before the latter reaches this port; but the probability is, if the easterly winds continue, the Halifax steamer will bring the President's Message. It was our intention to have bestowed some notice upon a foolish article which appeared in the Liverpool Times of Tuesday, but our space is occupied with matter which could not so conve iently be postponed. We shall pro bably recur to the subject on Friday. It will be seen from our correspondent's letter, that the Ro bert Kerr sailed from the Shannon last week, with a ful. complement of emigrants for our \\ est Indian Colonies. It has long been the aim of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD to diffuse correct information on this subject, which our correspondent . states is much needed ; and we shall never cease to press it with increasing importunity on the legis• lature and the public generally. It is of paramount im portance. ew burthens. It may seem a cheerfully under their little odd, perhaps, to call the remission of any particular imposts, whilst admitting and contending for the necessity of increased taxation generally ; but the inconsistency is not real. In medical practice it is not unusual, we believe, for the constitution of the patient to be supported, to some extent, by stimulants, even when under a general course of depletion ; and, by si milar relief and encouragement afforded to the com merce of the country, we may be enabled the better to undergo that course of financial or fiscal depletion to which Whig incapacity has rendired it necessary that we should be submitted. We shall not attempt to point out the medium by which the revenue required ahall be raised. But we must confess our anxiety that it be something direct and tangible—something that will not bring a spy into every household or place a clog upon the ordinary movements of commerce. It may be thought an ex cellent device, for a government that seeks popularity at the expense of principle and of justice, to impose the burden of taxation upon objects where it imagines it will not be felt—to place ten per cent. upon this, or prrlfort, coming oppressive and embarrassing. It is a delusion to suppose that because spread over a wide space such taxation is not felt. On the contrary it is doubly felt ; because, being placed upon articles of consumption, it tends alike to diminish the comforts of the consumer and to lessen the profit and the demand to the producer and the trader The very limited extent to which this injudicious principle was carried last year by the present Chan cellor of the Exchequer will, we venture to say, prove by its results that it cannot be resorted to in our pre sent position without producing disappointment. 'We may indeed be told that the financial statement just published, exhibits an increase under the head of £622,310 for the year; but of this increase we must bear in mind that £589,095, or within £32,000 of the whole has been paid during the last quarter. We may therefore fairly attribute this increase to the revival which the trade of the country has sustained during the last month or two, rather than to the additional per centage imposed by Mr. Baring. In many im portant articles there has been an actual falling off. The duty upon colonial spirits for instance, in the port of London alone, is stated to be deficient to the extent of nearly £150,000; and, although a portion of this result may be attributed to other concurrent causes—the increase of temperance in particular—yet the fact that such a falling off is apparent in other ar ticles affected by Mr. Baring's measure, sufficiently shows that increase of revenue to any material extent is not to be derived from such a source. Direct taxation, however, it will he urged, we cannot have in any other shape than in that of a property tax. To some extent we admit that this is true. To a modified measure of this description we must come at last, if circumstances—a continental war for instance render a large increase of revenue necessary. To this we must come, or to an increase of the debt of the country; and of the..two alternatives, we must confess that we prefer the former. If as a nation we have al lowed a set of imbeciles and tricksters to plunge us into an extensive war ; if, in the frantic pursuit of phantoms—under the delusive names of " Reform" and "Liberalism"--we have outrun prudence and despised the dearly-bought experience of past ages— we should pay the penalty, and not allow it to he entailed upon our children. We are well aware of the unpopularity of such a doctrine; but is it unreason able, we ask, or is it unwise ? On the contrary, were it acknowledged and acted upon, there are few na tions, we think, who would allow incapable or dis honest statesmen to plunge them wantonly or madly into war and its consequent expenditure; and Great Britain would be amongst the last to show this self sacrificing spirit. _ Let us not, however, be mistaken as advocating a property tax at the present crisis. We trust that the necessity for such a measure is far distant. To some thing, however, of a similar nature we would gladly revert even now, in the hope of getting rid, in return, of a number of petty and harrassing imposts, which we believe to be of serious injury to the commerce of the country ; and the abolition of which we as firmly believe would very slightly—if at all—diminish the amount of our national revenue. Within the last fifteen or twenty years a reduction of taxation upon various articles has taken place, to the amount of eight to ten millions per annum ; and yet, except in the recent instance of the reduction in postage, no corresponding reduction in the amount of revenue has followed. In the case of a great portion of the im posts fixed upon for reduction or abolition, the selec tion has been, we think, of very doubtful propriety— founded more upon the principle of pandering to the popular will than upon considerations either of justice or expediency; and we are confident that such a modi- fication of duties—and in some cases an abolition of duty—might be made upon various other articles as would, without materially lessening the present re venue, give an impetus to manufacturing and commer cial industry, which would be attended with the best results. On an early occasion we shall return to this subject, which we regard as one of pressing importance, and endeavour to point out a few imposts, the removal or modification of which would, in our opinion, benefit the trading portion of the community ; and we are in duced to do this, because we feel a perfect conviction that any alleviation of the burthens of taxation to be derived from such a source, is systematically kept in the background by our ministerial contemporaries, in the hope of turning the full tide of popular complaint to swell the anti-corn law agitation. At present, how ever, we cannot afford the space for so important an inquiry, If the spirit which once animated the mortal re mains, now resting beneath the dome of the Hotel d'lnvalides, could look just now upon the movements of his Parisian lolators, what a contemptible opinion he must form of that most absurd and fickle people . ! But three short weeks ago the very air was burdened with the cry of " Liberty !" The car which bore the ashes of Napoleon—of him whose armed heel had trampled into the dust the living form of Liberty—fed although it had been by blood shed like water, on the scaffold and in the field—was welcomed with all the enthusiasm and theatrical pomp which a nation of me lodramatists could pay to a concentration of the heroics. War, war ! was the universally expressed sentiment of the French mobocracy; a war of propagandism, of encroachment, and, en fin, a war of glory. And yet what do we now see as the conclusion of all this min gled Bobadilism and absurdity ? The fierce soldier has laid down his pike and his musket, and the still fiercer journalist his pen, dipt in mingled gall and fury, to witness—the forging of the very chains which are to hind down their democratic spirits in an endless subserviency to a dynasty and a regime which is the very antipodes of that in whose laudation they have so lately manifested symptoms little short of lunacy ! The fortifications of Paris are to he carried on in "hot naste," and la jeune France, "pleased with a fea ther—tickled with a straw," is watching the progress of the circumvallation and the detached forts. To promote what end are these works to be carried on, at an expense of something like forty millions sterling ? To protect " la jeune France from being walked over some fine day, we should imagine. To prevent those ruthless islanders, in whose honour was raised a few days ago the cry of " a bas l'Anylais," making a kind of European Bow-street of the Tuilleries. Not at all. France—la jeune France"—is able to maintain her own against a world in arms. But she is anxious—de votedly anxious—to enable the King of the Barricades to repress at the cannon's mouth any little escapades to which, in her exuberant spirits, she may be tempted ! The revolution of July is to he secured ; and the dan cing and fiddling people of Paris, distrustful of their own discretion, are busy in providing Louis Philip with the means of perpetuating the only result of that revolution—the substitution of the absolutism of stockjobbing and the telegraph in the person of the head of the House of Orleans, for that of legitimacy and settled institutions in that of the elder House of Boi trbon. We care not how long our French neighbours—or our Parisian neighbours, for they are the French nation—may remain in their present Elysium. At any rate we trust that it may last until " the trap" is completed. The government of France, so long at least as it is swayed by Louis Philippe, will do no violence to the peace of Europe ; and when this precious scheme of detached forts is perfected, the " pressure from without" will be in his hands, and will be too formidable for any mob of jo urne y m e n tailors or even medical students to resist. The Emperor, it is true, tickled the Parisians after another fashion ; but his shade, if allowed to contem plate the present temper of his worshippers, must per ceive that any straw is sufficient. To dictate dis patches from " head-quarters at Moscow" or London, would be, no doubt, very glorious, but very expensive; and the King of the Barricades can secure his ascendancy—and Napoleon could have done the same equally well, had it suited " his genius"—by simply enclosing Paris in a suit of ornamental artillery, the muzzles of which could on occasion he turned to sweep the Boulevards and threaten with bombardment its purveyors of fashion and cuisine. " Vive la I Dagmelle" we say, so long as we are allowed .to sleep Munclizusens sews from t duced an unus ;.•;.t the clangor of being eaten Up b lent in the political flit by the oval& 7,ree of exc and commercial world. The expedition, under the command of Admiral Elliot, we are informed, had penetrated as far as Pekin, , and after a few days' nego-, . . _ ciation With the Emperor of China in person, accord ing to some accounts, and with a mandarin - of high rank, according to others,. the demands of the British government have been conceded in full. Two millions sterling are to be paid as a compensation to the opium dealers for the value of the cargoes delivered up to the Chinese authorities, and one million sterling for the expenses of the expedition. The privilege of trading is to be conceded to us upon a broad and satisfactory basis; and commissioners are to be appointed to ar- range all minor matters of dispute. In addition to these concessions, his Excellency Commissioner Lin is to be delivered up to the British admiral, the Em peror, with true diplomatic tact, disowning the late measures of that functionary, which he assures us have been undertaken not only without his sanction, but altogether without hiS knowledge. In the mean time the British force is to be withdrawn from the. waters of Pekin and to proceed to Canton, there to await the progress of the proposed arrangements. All this, no doubt, may be very satisfactory—so far as it goes. It may be very just that the smugglers of opium should be paid the . value of their deleterious and contraband commodity by a peaceful nation, Whose laws they were outraging by its introduction, and that Great Britain should be remunerated for the cost of her expedition, undertaken in defence of that contraband trade. But have we arrived at the re quired consummation ? Are we one whit more assured of the enjoyment of an intercourse with the Chinese people than we were before this vaunted expedition was undertaken ? We humbly imagine not have penetrated, it islrue, to the capital of China, and menaced with destruction the seat of government; yet without even the shadow of security for the pro mises held out to us, we are told very civilly—and it is matter of great congratulation, that we are for the first time spared the indignity of being addressed as barbarians—that we are to yield up the advantage of our position, and to kick our heels at Canton or else whete, until it suits the convenience of the Celestial Empire to cogitate upon our case, and administer what it may deem a satisfactory remedy. " Procul, oh, procul este profani" is the request of the sublime brother to the sun and moon. " Take yourselves away from my august presence. Hang, draw, and quarter my Commissioner Lin, by way of recreation, whilst famine and pestilence takes off your fine soldiers' and your sea-dogs,' and the elemente swallow up and scatter, one by one, your floating palaces." It does really seem to us that this is a most "lame and impotent conclusion" to what we fear can only be considered as the first act of this great international drama. We have either done too much, or Ave have achieved too little. if we are engaged in a just quar rel, the reparation which we seek should have been a prompt, an efficacious, and a definite one ; and we ought not to have retrograded one step until that re paration was fully secured. If we are to make war upon the principles of the buccaneers, we should at least hold our captives until the ransom is duly paid down; but if, on the contrary, we seek to vindicate the national honour and to advance our national and com mercial interests, we should have something definite— something intelligible—sanething more than a mere promise, the fulfilment of which is dependent for tithe and extent upon that uncertain thing, negociation, be fore we consent to lay down the advantages which a large expenditure of the public money has given us. A communication once entered into with the Emperor of China or with his high functionaries, ought surely to have been improved and pressed to some practical and immediate result; and not broken off in a vague reliance upon the issue of negotiations with that very class whose interests or prejudices we have always heretofore found to present insuperable bar riers to a proper understanding' with the government of that singular and incomprehensible people. _ It may be—for we adaiii that the intelligence which has reached us so far, is of a very interesting character —tha.t Government is in possession of information which fully warrants the course which the Admiral in command of the expedition has taken. We trust that such is the case; and yet we cannot but doubt the prudence of that course. The forces engaged in the expedition, we are assured,rare seriously afflicted with ill health, and - a great portion of them are daily yielding to the diseases of the climate. The expenditure at tending a protracted negociation, when the expedition, whose presence alone ensures a successful result, is imperatively required to remain on the spot, must be enormous ; and we know sufficient of the character of the Chinese nation, and especially of its Govern ment, to warrant us in the belief that every hour of delay will serve only to lessen the chances of permanent advantage. We cannot then, upon serious consideration, enter into the sanguine views which we have heard enter tained as to our present position in this quarrel. There has been displayed sa far, by the leaders of the expe dition to China, a want of combined action, and of well directed energy, which cannot materially have raised us in the opinion of the Chinese people; and we have seen as yet no result of our arms sufficiently imposing, to induce that people to abate so much of their inveterate prejudices as would warrant them in entering, with good faith and sincerity, into the en gagements which are so confidently spoken of. What ever may be our desire to witness the restoration of amicable relations between our own country and China, we are afraid that we have not yet arrived at such a restoration; and we would therefore earnestly warn our readers against giving to the current anticipations their implicit confidence, until they are confirmed by some intelligence of a more satisfactory character than any which we at present possess. TRIBUTE OF ESTEEM.—The Rev. Peter Browne, assistant curate to the Rev. Fielding Ould, was presented on the 2d, instant, with a beautiful pocket communion service, by the congregation of Immanuel Church, Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, the flock amongst which he recently laboured, as a testimony of their high sense of his ministerial efficiency. A VESSEL FIRED INTO AT SEA.---A letter from Cape Town dated October 13, says :—" The Vixen, Tinley, from Liverpool, which arrived here on the 10th instant, was fired into by a brig on the morning of the 31st of August. The Vixen saw the brig ahead at noon of the 30th of August, with top-gallant sails just above the horizon, both vessels on the starboard tack ' • at one a. m. 31 s t o f A ugus t, the Vixen came up with the brig, and it being very dark and squally, determined to run to leeward some distance and then haul her wind again ; this was done to avoid giving any uneasi ness on board the brig from the near neighbourhood of such a clipper looking schooner. The brig, however, much to the astonishment of Captain Tinley, bore up, ran down towards him, and when within hail fired a small gun from his taffrail at the Vixen, and on passing under her stern endeavoured to rake her by firing a very heavy-shotted gun, which very nearly dismasted her, the shot passing right through the Vixen's spars. Mem. The Vixen will no doubt be the schooner which was fired at by H. M. packet Magnet, on the supposition of her being a pirate." BRANDY AND SALT.—fn reference to an advertisement which appears in another column, we have been requested to insert the following wonderful cure by the use of this com pound :—John Beecher, son of Captain Beecher, Catherine square, Mason-street, Hail, was afflicted with scrofula for seven years : he had gone on crutches for the last two years, had wounds all over his body, and had been given up as in curable by several medical men. He did not begin to use the brandy and salt till the 28th of April last (1810). He took one tablespoonfull of the remedy in the morning, and another in the afternoon ; and rubbed himself also with it. His wounds were so bad that he had recourse to a little spermaceti ointment to soften the hardened skin, which he washed off before applying the brandy and salt. He was cured in three months, and he is now in good health. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—The past week's performances at this favourite resort have been exceedingly well attended, and the pieces most enthusiastically received. Mr. Corner sal's personation of Napoleon is excellent. His close resem blance, in personal appearance, to that great captain, give great additional effect to the•character. Mr. Sloan, as Molly Malony, is also deserving of the highest commendation. The genuine Irish humour he introduces in this character has never failed to elicit the warmest plaudits. The horsemanship has been well received. Mr. James Cook's representation of "The Fisherman of Naples" is one of the most daring acts we ever beheld. On Monday, a new piece, founded on the late war in Syria, will be produced for the first time. It is from the pen of Mr. H. Beverley, jun., and, judging from the talent displayed in his former pieces, we anticipate that it will be well received. AN UNTOWARD RESULT OF DRUNKENNESS.—The mu seum of the Royal College of Surgeons, in Dublin, contains the picture of a man whose face was eaten ::way by a pig, while he was lying in a state of intoxication. The entire nose, both cheeks, and parts of both ears, in fact, all the most eatable parts of his face, were chewed off by the ani mal ; nevertheless, the wounds all healed, and he recovered ; but, of course, with all the disabilities of enunciation, chew ing, and swallowing, attendant on such extensive destruction of soft parts. He,.notwithstanding, under generous regimen, contrived, while in hospital, to keep .up a good condition of body. His principal regret lay in the unavoidable disuse of his tobacco-pipe. The picture exhibits him, after the,wounds had all healed, without nose or ears, but with two beautifully white and perfect rows of naked teeth.—Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal. OPERATIVE PROTESTANT TEA PARTY, On Wedr BSOCIATION and friends of this associa- Lion assembled iii . the Music-hall, Bold-street, for the pur pose of celebrating the advent of the new year by taking tea together. Between seven and eight hundred persons were present, and a most pleasing evening was spent. The Rev. Hugh M`Neile presided, and around him sat a considerable number of the principal friends of the Protestant cause. Tea having been served— __.__ Mr. 11VNE1Lu addressed the meeting nearly as follows : To those who have put, and to any who may be desirous to repeat, - the question why I approve of such a meeting as this, I wish to say I approve of it because I desire to promote unity and concord and harmonious 'co-operation among Pro testants of all ranks in the community. I approve of it because as a Christian clergyman I desire to communicate religious instruction in season and out of season, not only in the pulpit but in the street, in the private family, in the public meeting at the tea party. (Applause.) I approve of it because as a Christian friend I desire to bear the senti ments of my brethren, and to give and receive pleasure by any lawful and innocant means in my power. (Hear.)' Ido not know whether it is at all expedient to argue the question with any of our friends who may be here against their better judgment ; but there is one point I think it right to touch upon, because it will lead us to a statement of our Protes tant principles. Some of our poorer brethren were hurt at the idea of a Protestant meeting connected with a charge for admission tickets, which charge was beyond their means of payment, so that they must feel themselves excluded from our meeting. They will, lam sure, do us the justice to feel quite satisfied that there was no intention of excluding any one ; but, if their necessities exclude them, it is a part of our Protestant principles to know that poverty is no crime ; that he who is hindered from attending a meeting of this kind, and the man in moderate circumstances who is hin dered from attending a meeting where the tickets would cost a guinea, are but specimens of that subordination of rank in the state which it is one of our principles to maintain. (Hear, hear.) lam confident if our Protestant operative friends will but think a little of this matter, they will not feel in the least degree unkind or uncomfortable towards their brethren in better circumstances, who can afford to give a shilling for their ticket, and can have their enjoyment for the same. (Hear.) And I should say they should remember the meetings we have often had, and anticipate the meetings we will have again, when the Amphitheatre will be full of them, without any charge. (Cheers.) I said that I wished to communicate religious instruction in season and out of season. My friends, if we would main tain Protestant principles, we must know what they are. In order to know, and to have clearly before us, what those principles are, we must frequently revert to our original do cuments. I propose, therefore, to occupy a little of your time by reverting to a few of our fundamental Protestant We principles . . The first of our Protestant principles to which I would call your attention, is the completeness and the exclusiveness of the Holy Scriptures as a rule of faith. When I say com pleteness, I refer to the exclusion of the apocryphal books ; and when I say exclusiveness, I refer to their sufficiency without the traditions of men. Here, then, is one of our great principles, that " Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salva tion : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation. In the name of the Holy Scripture we do understand those canonical books of the Old and New Testament, of whose authority was never any doubt in the church." You are aware that the Romish Church reckons amongst the books of 'Scripture what we call the apocryphal books. It becomes me to inform you concerning those books, that they were never in the Hebrew language at all ; that they are ex tant only in the Greek, with the exception of one, which was never in the Greek originally, but is found only in the Latin. It becomes me also to tell you that they were never recog nized by the Jewish Church as belonging to the Scriptures. There is a remarkable passage in the Jewish historian Jose phus, which instructs us as to these books. . _ . Josephus says—Contra Appian, lib. l . s. B—"`fie have not an innumerable multitude of books among us, disagreeing from, and contradicting, one another, but only 22 hooks, con taining the records of all past times, which are justly believed to be divine. Five of these belong to Moses, which contain his laws. As to the time from the death of Moses, till the time of Artaxerxes, King of Persia, the prophets who were after Moses wrote down what was done in their times, in 13 books. The remaining 4 books contain hymns to God, and precepts for the conduct of human life. And how firmly we have given credit to these books of our own nation, is evident from what we do ; for during so many ages as have already passed, no one has been so bold as either to add any thing to them, to take any thing from them, or to make any change in them ; but it has become natural to all Jews, immediately and from their birth, to esteem these books to contain divine doctrines, and to persist in them, and if it be necessary wil lingly to die for them." That is the testimony of the Jewish historian Josephus to the integrity of the canon of the Old Testament, and to the exclusion of the apocryphal books. Now these apocryphal books contain some very curious things. They contain fa bles, such as the casting out of demons by fumigation ; that is, they cast the devil out by smoking him. (Laughter.) It is no wonder, therefore, that such hooks should be adopted by Romish doctors, in order to give an appearance of scrip tural authority to their fables and lying wonders. Here is one of our Protestant principles then—to maintain the in tegrity of the canon of Scripture, as we have it in the autho rised version, to the exclusion of the apocryphal books ; and I am glad of this opportunity to inform so many of my ope rative friends of these simple facts concerning those books : that they were never in the Hebrew language—that they were never recognised in the canons of the Jewish church — that they were never acknowledged by our Saviour, or by any of the Apostles—and that no reference is made to any of them, and no quotations from any of them, in any part of the New Testament. I may also inform you that they were never recognised as belonging to the Scriptures for 400 years in the rilaristian church—that the first commencement of the introduction of them, as supplying authority for doc trine, was in the sth century, when the errors of Romanisni, which had been already infecting the church, began to spread. Upon the subject of the Scriptures we further maintain their sufficiency to the exclusion of human traditions. The theory of the Romish church, against which we have to contend, is this—that Almighty God has not only given us the Bible, but that he has left an authority in the living clergy in the church, from age to age, to legislate with divine authority for the members of the church ; and that that di vine authority abides from age to age in living ministers ; and that, if an assembly of ministers be lawfully convened, and their enactments be properly made, such decisions of the church have the authority of a divine commandment. (Hear, hear.) That is their theory. With that they have a lever ready to upturn the foundations of Christian society, at the option of the hierarchy, in any age whatever. I have read ybu our Protestant principle, and that is, that it has not pleased God to give such power to fallible men, but that he has given us a complete canon of divine instruction, to which no man should dare to add, from which no man ghould dare to take away, and in which no man should dare to make a change. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the traditions of men, ordered to be reve renced with-equal piety of mind as the word of God, it is a fruitful source of error. We have to contend agairst it on every side •, and it will be useful to you to perceive the right position which our Christian church occupies in this matter, in her references to the authority of men. The Christian ministers who lived near about the time of the Apostles, and who succeeded the Apostles in the management of the primi tive church, were men like ourselves, so far as inspiration is concerned. They had advantages, as witnesses, with re gard to what was going on in their own times ; they knew the facts as they occurred ; and, as witnesses of those facts, they are valuable historians. All that men require in.order to be faithful witnesses of facts, is that they should know those facts at the time they occurred, and that they should be honest men to report them. They needed no special in spiration of God, above their fellow-men, to be faithful wit nesses of facts ; but there is a great difference between wit nessing facts and interpreting the Scriptures. In order,that a man should interpret the Scriptures, so that his opinion should have more weight than that of his fellow-men, he must have more inspiration of the Holy Spirit than his fellow-men ; and in order to interpret the Scriptures, so that his statements shall have equal authority with the Scriptures, he must be inspired equally with the writers of the Scriptures. (Hear.) If the opinions of those men are to be taken as more than men's opinions, they are of God's inspiration, and then we have a Bible extended through folios, and we do not know when to stop. But if when inspiration ceased, Divine authority ceased, then we have nothing to go by but the written, inspired, and sacred Word of God. (Cheers.) Observe, then. When they deny, as you find Romish writers deny, and some Protestant writ ers, too, I am sorry to say, the sufficiency of the Scriptures, and challenge us to account for certain of our own practices, in the observance, for example, of the first day of the week, instead of the seventh ; be prepared with this distinction. The testimony of antiquity is valid as historical attestation of facts, it is useful also as the testimony of all Christian men is useful in its place, for the elucidation of doctrine, but it is not to be depended upon, as anything more than the private judgment of the individuals cited. We keep Good Friday, we celebrate Easter Sunday and Christmas Day ; these are the old practices of men who lived in olden times, and have borne witness to the fact that those days were kept ; and it required no more than an honest man to tell us of the fact. As fas as these facts throw light upon the Scriptures, we re joice in them, and we plead their testimony, but there is a great difference between this and an authoritative interpre tation of the Scriptures ; so be upon your guard, my Pro testant friends, and remember this distinction between the witnesses of facts and the interpretation of doctrine. There is another of our Protestant principles I should like to say a few words upon. Again Igo to our original docu ments. This is the grand Protestant principle lam going to announce now—the foundation of our peace with God here, and of our glory with God hereafter. I will read it to you from the language of our Protestant church : " We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works and deservings : wherefore, that we are justified by faith only is a most wholesome doctrine and very full of comfort, as more largely is expressed in the homily of justification!' - - The Romish Church maintains that we are justified by a righteousness put into us and made our own by infusion — that we are justified by being made personally holy—that we are justified by being sanctified. That is her doctrine. Now as no man is perfectly sanctified, so according to them, no man is ever perfectly justified. They hold that the justifica tion of a sinner is an imperfect and a progressive thing, going on from less to more in this world, unfinished in most cases even at the point of death, and to be finished after death, partly by purgatory, partly by prayers and masses in the church, which masses are to be paid for by their'living friends. (Hear.) The Protestant doctrine, that is to say, the Scrip tural doctrine, protesting against Popish errors, is, that a sinner receiving God's testimony concerning His Son, is jus tified at once by the merits of Jesus Christimputed to him, and accepted as if he hall done all the righteousness that Christ did. Thus our Scriptural justification is perfect. From this results a nearness to God upon the part of the justified person, in which nearness communion is enjoyed, by which commu nion holiness is cultivated ; so sanctification is gradually advancing though hindered by the flesh, and when the spirit separates from the flesh, ipso facto sanctification in the spirit is perfected, and the spirits of just men are made perfect. So that the very arrival of death is the perfection of Christian sanctification, Christian justification havingbeen perfected in the act of faith. In the moment of real faith justification is perfect, and then sanctification begins : in the moment of death sanctification is perfect, and the wait ing for the resurrection begins ; in/ the moment of the second advent resurrection is perfect and glory begins for ever. This is the Christian doctrine opposed to Rome root and branch. (Hear.) Bear this in mind then and be upon your guard against all Romish mixtures, that you may find among Protestants— nominal Protestants • and instruct not yo urse l ves on l y b ut your friends, yo u r families, and your children in this doc trine. Let me inform you, my friends, that this Christian doctrine of justification is not understood by the bulk of the members of our Christian church. The Romish doctrine is entirely adapted to the human heart. It leaves something of proud self dependence for men to be doing; it leaves something to be accomplished by self, and something for the church to accomplish after the man is dead, for which they are to receive pay. Selfishness is natural, and cove teousness is natural, the Romish doctrine of justification, therefore, is natural, and it cleaves in some measure even to nominal Protestants. I am sorry to say it has appeared with a very awful aspect at one of our Protestant universi ties. I am not one of those who can consent to smooth or gloss over fundamental error, because it happen s to be among my party. In our own church we grieve to see these errors spring up ; we grieve to see this sent-popish, if I should say semi, doctrine of justification insisted upon by some learned, clever, and laborious minister of the' church. They have written it, they have preached it, they have per severed in it ; they have glossed it over and explained it away ; they have puzzled their hearers, and I may say with out untruth, they have puzzled themselves in the manner they have treated this subject. But hold to the beginning— to the first foundation—of your confidence, my Protestant friends. (Cheers.) I have to request you not to be impatient at such an ad dress as this. When I said I liked to take all opportunities of preaching the gospel, both in season and out of season, you approved of it. I put your patience in this to the test. Some possibly would prefer more exciting topics—they .would wish me to touch upon matters which are all in good time ; but it is more useful to give such instruction as I am giving you now. I proceed`to our third grand Protestant principle. I will gtate it first in the langua , ge of Scripture, and then I will read you the article of o ur , church, condemning its opposite. " God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." " See that ye make no graven image to bow down to it, for ye saw no manner of similitude in the day that the Lord thy God ipake to you in the Mount." Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image" * * thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them." " The Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons, Worshipping and Adoration, as well of Images as of Reliques, and also invocation of Saints, is alond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather re pugnant to the Word of God." You have already heard the word of God it is repugnant to ; and you are aware of the practice of the Romish church. Upon this point we have the singular advantage that the practice is one that cannot be denied. This is indeed a sin gular advantage, for there is scarcely anything we say about Romanism that is not denied ; but, observe, it is not denied by themselves. You do not find Romish priests coming forward and denying what we allege. What we allege is taken from documents to which , they have sworn. Some of them venture to disclaim in a newspaper what they have sworn to at their institution to their benefices, but, generally speaking, their denials come from their apologists in the liberal press. (Hear.) If I were to say they worship images, that would be denied ; and we should hear before the week is out of this " most base, unchristian, uncharitable, and bigotted charge against our atholic fellow-subjects," being advanced by that " everlasting bigot, who will not let the town be quiet at this winter season, but gets his Protestant fellow subjects together to abuse their neighbours." (Hear, hear, hear.) -And yet, if I were to say that they worship images, I might be able to defend the saying ; but I am not going to say that now. I will, however, tell you what lam going to say, and it will require a man of a brazen front to deny it— that is, that they bow down to images. (Hear, hear.) They bow down to them. (Cheers.) The Holy Spirit in the Holy Scriptures has put the two things—` Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them." I hope you will all teach your children the commandments. I hope you will all teach your children the creed, the Lord's prayer, the ten commandments, and the church catechism, set forth for their instruction in the vulgar tongue. lam glad to mention that. There has been &neglect of this. Let all your young people know the catechism—every word of it. Gather them about the fireside every Saturday night before going to bed—make them stand up—and examine them upon every question in the catechism from first to last ; and when they have gone through it, make them change places and go through it again. (Cheers.) Let me now call your attention to this—" Thou shalt not bow down to them." The Romanists have a very curious scale by which they graduate the state of men's minds in worship. There is what we may call low-water mark—that is, the subdulia; here, higher up, is the dulia; and higher up still is the latria. Now the subdulia expresses a state of mind which it is very proper to give to an image ; the dulia expresses a state of mind which it is lawful and right to leave to the Virgin Mary ; and the labia is a state of mind fit only for God himself. You can imagine a Ro manist—John, Thomas, Peter, or any name you please to . give him—in the mass-house, upon his knees—it may be his bare knees—kneeling before the image. If I were to say " He is worshipping the image," I should be told, " Not at all ;.he is only giving the image subduila." If 1 were to say " He is worshipping the Virgin Mary, for he calls upon her as the Mother of God to have mercy upon him," " Pooh !" I should be told, " you are a Protestant bigot : he is giving the Virgin Mary nothing but dulia ; they never give any real worship of the latria description except to God himself." (Hear, hear.) It is hard for any man to get at the state of another man's mind, but it is easy to see what he is doing with his body; and in this case the commandment of God extends to the undeniable attitude of the body, as well as to the invisible state of the mind. Who has the hardihood to deny that the Popish worshipper has been bowing down his body to the image ;—(hear, hear) and our God, and the God of the whol e wor d has said, as plain as language can say it, " thou shalt not bow down to them." (Hear, hear.) So that in the outward act, without any quibbling about the state oPmind, the whole body of the Popish people in this town, in the sister island, and in every country where Popery has come, are in the outward act of bowing down, deliberately defying and disobeying the living God ! (Loud cheers.) I have in my hand now a specimen of the sound Protestant doctrine put forth for the instruction of your forefathers in this country at the time of the Reformation or soon after. I hold in my hand the book of Homilies of the Church of England, and I will read you in connection with what 1 have , just said, a specimen of early Protestant preaching upon the subject of these images : " What meaneth it, that Christian men, after the use of the Gentile idolaters, cap and knee, before images? which, if they had any sense and gratitude, would kneel before men, carpenters, masons, plasterers, founders, and goldsmiths, their makers and framers, by whose means they have attained this honour, which else should have been evil-favoured and rude lumps of clay, or plaster, pieces of timber, stone, or metal, without shape or fashion, and so without all estimation and honour, as that idol in the Pagan poet confesseth, say ing, ' I was once a vile block, but now I am become a god,' &c. What a fond thing is it for man, who bath life and reason, to bow himself to a dead and insensible image, the work of his own hand ! Is not this stooping and kneeling before them, adoration of them, which is forbidden so ear nestly by God's word ? Let such as so fall down before images of saints, know and confess that they exhibit that ho nour to stocks and stones, which the saints themselves, Peter, Paul, and Barnabas, would not to be given to them being alive; which the angel of God forbiddeth to be given to him. And if they say they exhWlt sum huiluiu not to the image, but to the saint whom it representeth, they are convicted of folly, to believe that they please saints ,with that honour, which they abhor 'as a spoil of God's ho- pour; for the greater understanding, and more more abhor to deprive lama of his due. honour bth now like unto the angels of God, do with angels flee to take unto them by sacrilege the honour due to God : and here withal is confuted their lewd distinction of Latria and Duli where it is evident, that the saints of Go that as much as any outward worshipping I not ant( ;Ileac ;oral bited to them. But Satan, God's even God of his honour, desireth exesedingly that su ring to rob honour might be given to him. Wherefore those which give the honour due to the Creator, to any creature, do service ac- ceptable to no saints, who be the friends of God, but unto Satan, God's and man's mortal and sworn enemy. And to attribute such desire of divine honour to saints, is to blot them with a most odious and devilish ignominy and villany, and indeed of saints to make them Satans and very devils, whose property is to challenge to themselves the honour which is due to God only." Mark, I pray you, the spirit with which ..,ur Protestant fore fathers spoke upon the subject. Mark the energy of this Homily. There is not an atom of milk and water speaking; but it is a bold, plain, straight-forward denunciation of Popery. It goes on thus— " What meaneth it that they, atter the example of the Gentile idolaters, burn incense, offer up gold to images, bang up crutches, chains and ships, legs, arms, and whole men and women of wax, before images, as though by them, or saints (as they say) they were delivered from lameness, sickness, captivity, or shipwreck." This is what they are continually doing. Let me give you one passage more from this admirable Homily. Here is a reference to an old doctor of the church, who desired Chris tians not to attend to these images when they were first in troduced, St. Chrysostora— " Do not regard the ashes of the saints relies of their flesl the eyes of the faith and behOld them clothed with heav virtue, and the grace of the Holy Ghost, the brightness of the heavenly light." But, adds the preacher of the Homily— ,nd shining wit] s and relic- " Our idolaters found too much vantage of relic water, to follow St. Chrysostom's counsel. And because re lies were so gainful, few places were there but they had relics provided for them. And for more plenty of relics, some one saint had many heads, one in one place, and another in ano ther place. Some had six arms and twenty-six fingers. And where our Lord bare his cross alone, if all the pieces of the relics thereof were gathered together, the greatest ship in England would scarcely bear them." How many ships would it take to earry them now, if three hundred years ago they were so many, Archbishop Cranmer being witness, that the greatest ship in England could scarcely bear theT ? (Hear, hear.) But there is more here— main in the hands of the infidels, for the which they pray in their beads bidding, that they may get it also into their hands, for such godly use and purpose. And not only the bones of the _saints, but every thing appertaining to them was a holy relic. In some places they offered a - swo some the scabbard, in some a shoe, in some a saddle that had been set upon some holy horse, in some the coals wherewith St. Laurence was roasted, in some places the tail of the ass which our Lord Jesus Christ sat on, to be kissed and offered unto for a relic. For rather than they would lack a relic, they would offer you a horse-bone, instead of a virgin's arm, or the tail of the ass to be kissed and offered unto for relics. 0 wicked, impudent, and most shameless men, the devisers of these things ! 0 silly, foolish, and dastardly daws." I protest I am reading from the Homily. This is not the hasty, ill-advised, and angry language of a bigot : it is the language of a real protesting Church of England Homily. sound and stedfast, and they cannot find fault with it. They may find fault with me, but they sill not find fault with the Homily— " 0 silly, foolish, and dastardly daws, and more beastly than the ass whose tail they kissed." Now listen to how this terminates. This is not mere railing in anger against them : it is holy indignation against their errors. And see how it ends. It ends thus— " Now God be merciful to such miserable and silly Chris tians, who by the fraud and falsehood of those which should have taught them the way of truth and life." Mark that! It withdraws its indignation from the poor mis led people to the fraud and falsehood of the misleading priests, and then it asks God for mercy to these poor idolaters. Here is Protestant spirit and Protestant piety combining in this great Protestant principle. "We protest against idolatry; we cannot speak fables before you, to the dishonour of our God ; we have not so learned the living God as to speak softly about what dishonours him, because we cannot feel softly about what dishonours him." What is love ? How do you feel about the persons whom you love ? Let your hearts be interested about a fellow-creature, and when you hear another dishonour him, what does your love do ? It rouses all within you. But if you can be content to gently remonstrate, quietly expostulate, or compromise a little for peace sake—oh, Ido not envy such love. I should not like to have such love palmed upon me for love, and I should be ashamed to deal towards any man whom I love in this way. (Hear.) What shall we say of the love of God, and of the righteousness of those who cau go quietly about their work whilst others are absolutely reviling the truth, who are quiet for the sake of present peace, loving peace with men more than they love glory with God? We have no fellowship with such persons ; we hate such " liberalism" as this! (Cheers.) ' . . , There is but one pr Protestantism to which attention It is this " The Queen's Majesty hath the chief power in the realm o f E ng l an d, and other her dominions, under the chief go vernment of all estates . of this realm, whether they be eccle siastical or civil; all causes doth appertain,.. and is not, nor ought to be, subject to any foreign jurisdiction." That is a noble principle our established Protestantism. We disclaim all . foreign jurisdiction. Here, again, we come into collisioi!. with Romanism. Romanism has an allet and no allegiance ; Romanism has a head, and no heau a head for the convenience of a pp arent loyalty, and a head for the reality af a determined usurpatio n . Queen Victoria is their convenient h ea d f or apparent loyalty, when it suits their purpose, and Pope Gregory is their real head for determined usurpation over the whole world. (Hear.) We have come to a very curious state of things in this coun try with regard to this great principle of Protestantism. By a very artfol ;management of the case, the Romish party giance, who ha, re putting themselves for ad the Pro Ave a divided allegiance, Ira as the loyal party to the crown of Engfani., `s, who have no divided allegiance, and disclaim foreign jurisdiction of every kind, are thrown upon the appearance of being dissatisfied with the sovereign. This has been a very " ingenious device"—very. B u t, lik e mos t ot h er ingenious devices, it has not lasted long. We have a very beautiful light thrown upon it in the great moving power of the " loyal" party. The grand declaimers upon loyalty, the shouters of nine times nine at the name of the Queen, in their public meetings all summer, are now shouting nine times nine for the dismemberment of the empire! (Hear, hear.) The popish party are now shewing the agitation for the repeal of the union ; they want to separate Ireland from England. They call Ireland " the first gem of the sea," and according to their own shewing they want to take the fairest-gem out of the crown of our Sovereign Queen Victoria. (Cheers.) Cannot you understand how it is that men who have such a design to carry on should endeavour to cloak themselves be hind the report that others are disaffected? (Hear.) Do you not see the policy of gettipg up the cry of Jezebel ? (Cheers.) Having a plan of their own to carry on, and find ing it exceedingly convenient for the attainment of that plan that they should acquire a character for loyalty to set out with, they all avail themselves of some convenient opportu nity to throw the charge of disloyalty upon their opponents. (Hear.) But there is another reason for the cry alluded to. The reference to Jezebel was such a home thrust against popery ; it told so, for the more that woman's cha racter-is examined the more will it be found the perfect counterpart of the Romish hierarchy—of their covetousness, their self-aggrandisement by means of secular power, their treachery, their subornation of perjury, their persecution unto death for the attainment of temporal objects. All these features stand prominent in the character of' Jezebel. The figure is too plain for any to be mistaken ; and when they saw it set before popery, and everybody saw it, they threw dust into men's eyes, by saying, " Oh, he intends Queen Victoria!" (Hear.) There is on this subject a very remarkable paper in the last number of a celebrated periodi cal—the Quarterly Review. There is a 'note in that paper in corroboration of some other statements with iegard to divided allegiance, and the note contains a copy of an oath taken by the Romish bishops to the pope. It is taken in Ireland in private before the public ceremony of consecrating the bishop. That fact is of itself wor th k now i ng . (H ear .) It appears in a book of Mr. Morrissy, who was himself a Romish priest ; he could not fall in with all their plans, and they had a quarrel with him. He states that this is an oath taken in private by every bishop before consecration. Why it is not taken in public requires very little explanation ; but testant ;re it is— " I. N.. iv., elect of such a church, from henceforth will be faithful and obedient to St. Peter the Apostle, and to the Holy Roman Church, and to our Lord Pope N., and to his successors. I shall never to their prejudice or detriment reveal to any man the counsel they shall entrust me with, either by themselves, their nuncios, or letters. The Roman Papacy, and the Regalities of St. Peter', 1 will help them to keep and ma;- tain against all men. I shall take care to con- serve, defend, increase, and promote the rights, honours, priviles, and authorities of the Holy Ro man Ch urc h f or our Lord the Pope and his successors. I will' observe with all my power, and shall make others do the same, the rules of the Holy Fathers, the Apostolic (Papal) decrees, ordinations, dispositions, reservations, provisions, and mandates. l will persecute and fight against all Heretics, Schismatics, and Rebels to our Lord the Pope and his successors." Now, the Queen of England is a heretic, and there is not a popish bishop in her dominions who has not sworn to perse cute her ; then they come and tell us that they are loyal men! What do you think of that ? The last clause, it seems, has been withdrawn of late years out of the oath, and there is a very curious history why it was withdrawn. I cannot enter into it at present, because I could not put you in possession of it in a short time ; but in this oath there is enough without that clause. But here is more of it : " I shall visit personally the shrine of the Apostles every third year, and render an account of all my pastoral office to the Pope and his successors, and of all the affairs of my church, and discipline of my clergy and people ; and will receive the Apostolical or Papal mandates, and shall put them most diligently into execution; and if justly prevented, I shall make the necessary communication through some proper clergyman," &c. &c. You will have observed that there is one clause in this oath in which they swear they will keep and maintain against all regalities of St. Peter. men Regalities are may be seen by turning to vol. i. p. 56, of Romanism as it rules in Ireland,' or to Barrow on the Pope's Supremacy.' They include a power ' of rendering void promises, vows, oaths, obligations to law,'—a right to dethrone heretical princes, absolve their subjects from their allegiance, and empower Roman Catho lics to exterminate them and seize their lands'—to possess the spiritual and temporal sword, and to be superior to all sovereigns upon earth'—and to have ' . a plenitude of power What the gri •will." fringe any law, and act according to his The comment ofthe reviewer upon that is in-these words : " Now as every oath, according to Dr. Dens, implies ne :essarily the reservation salvo jure superioris,' is it worth while to take the trouble to transcribe the oath of allegiance to the British Sovereign, which is taken side by side with this oath to the Pope? If the Romish Bishops in Ireland do admit the regalities, their oath to the Crown is so much If they do not, their oath to the Pope is per y must take their choice." .s a most important paper throughout ; and I am glad ,Ge it in a publication which has the species of circulation that the Quarterly Review has. They are beginning to see that what I and others have said for the last ten years is true. We have been trying for the last ten years to bring the facts ses of_the community who read the Quarterly :•e have been laughed at, attempted to be put iculed as " ultra-Protestant bigots." They down. They did not put us waste E jury- Thil (Hear, hear.) .hem tin. it CPI, now, with all the simplicity imaginable, they are bringing out things concerning the real objects of popery, which we have been saying for these ten years. It is a splendid fact! Here is not a speech at Exeter Hall, or at the Liverpool Amphitheatre. Oh ! dear, no ; but it is the QuartErly . ,„. fievtew. Having testant pi (Cheers.) as called your attention to four of the great Pro- rinciples,—the completeness and exclusiveness of the Scriptures—the doctrine of justification—the nature of true worship, excluding images and relics—and the single supremacy of the lawful sovereign, of our land, who, as the ' postle Peter says, is supreme—" the king as supreme"-1 ill release you with a few words of advice as to practice• then went t in his usual animated style , )testants of Liverpool to have their gainst the annual grant to Maynooth ould be brought forward at an Lord St his bill for al Alluding to t direction of Irish registration. e conservatives obtaining the cautioned the members of the lst divisions, if some of them should not be ires that would be propounded. Patience recommended to them. Mr. M`Neile brought forward the system of t lie affai was the motto hi concluded by a t; with which he had emarks expressive of the satisfaction ierved the formation of a benefit society in connection with the association, and strongly urged them to withdraw from all secret societies. The last subject to which he referred was the library, which, he was glad to ob serve, was in a flourishing state : but at the same time he remarked that donations of books or money would be ac ceptable. He then sat down amidst loud cheering. The Rev. W. FALLooN then addressed the meeting at con siderable length. In the course of his remarks he said that it was the principle of the association to hate Popery, but to love Papists, and to desire to bring theca out of their spiritual bondage. Protestantism was the great bulwark of this coun try. It was the principle which had made it victorious over all the nations of the earth. Mr. WHATHAm hat Prot contendlny, ,:stunt associations would result in the political salvation of the country, and that the members of them were doing the work of statesmen. tic then announced that Mr. Samuel Holme announcement which would next address the meet was received with great cheeirin.z4 have been requested by your .eedings of this interesting nion that no man ought to able pre bsoluiely forbid, yet I have pleasure in ac est, and assisting in the best way I can the ana Protestant principles which h the prosperity of the country. large as- .unerence to Protestant principle, and to their attachment to our national institution s , cannot out be satisfactory and betoken good to our cause. Our na tional blessings demand our national gratitude. Few leave the shores of England, for a residence abroad, who do not return home with increased reverence for the excellence of our laws and the freedom of our constitution. We know not, or do not appreciate fully the extent of our privileges till t, Although I have taken Pc , LIS of the day, and have to sociation, yet 1 do not hesi- T ► lys regretted the necessity for de, 1. It pre-supposes danger, human ature is too apt to engender we are called on to part from them me part 1 been conne tote to avc I with t e hold sacred is jeopardis ;ed, - when a combining to destroy, it is the duty of every erotestant who values our national privile ges t o . . i join you as sincerely -, Allan in the sentiment Nula pax cum R oma— l desire to be distinctly understood on this point—it is against the 'eciples and the practices of that church which I protest, e she is the enemy of all liberty, both civil and reli gious, and she is attempting to destroy the institutions under which England has risen to greatness. it is a g ainst popery then, and not against Roman Catholics that we wage war. Many of the Catholics are no doubt sincere and conscientious in their belief, and to them we roust display kindness, for we are the subjects of one monarch, and our own lives ought to exhibit the fruits of that Pro testant faith which we are united to defend. Our opposition, then, to the system of popery ought not to be mixed up with zny unkind feelings to the professors of those principles. But, sir, there are many things against which, as a member of this Association, I protest, as well as popery. I protest against that system of education sought to be Made national, and I hope the people of England will never become luke warm on this important topic. It is called by the fashion able term liberal; but, being a plain man, I like to call things by their right names. I designate it a system op posed to Scripture—a truckling to the infidel spirit . of the age. God is not recognised in it at all ; and we find in Scripture that woe is denounced, not only against the actual transgressor, but against all people that forget God. I hope the united voice of Protestantism will be raised, so as to compel any and every ministry to place the education of the people on a religious basis. But, sir, I would not close my -yes against any errors even in our own venerable establish 'ult. I am willing to admit that the Oxford divines have `he world much. valuable matter ; but some of the opinions which have emanated from Oxford I do not agree with. (Hear.) 1 think they savour too much of popery, cannot be defended from Scripture, and are calculated to do much injury to the Church of England. Whilst, therefore, I protest against popery, I protest against that which is assi. milated with it. There are, no doubt, some defects in our church, and those are to be expected—there is defect in every human establishment; there are spots even on the face of the great luminary of day ; but I would gladly see them carefully removed by her friends, and not have them left to be rudely dealt with by her enemies : I would not, if possible, have one spot or defect about her to mar her beauty. I protest, too, against the prime mini s t er o f E ngland intro ducing to our young and gracious Queen such an apostle of indecency as Robert Owen. Why, if any minister had pre sumed to introduce such a man, who delivers lectures on the absurdities.of the Bible, and the curses which marriare en . becaus given to ..ieorge the Third would have driven him from his presence—(Loud cheers drowned the remainder of the sentence.) I venture to say that, although Lord Melbourne had the hardihood to introduce him to the Quev, he would not have the audacity to introduce him at this moment into the travellers' room of any respectable hotel in the kingdom. (Cheering.) 1 pro test too against the continuance in office of a ministry con trary to the national voice, and who, if a report which I observe in the London naners be correct. hnla _ oonus to crime, and offer a bribe for treason. It is there asserted that Frost, the convicted traitor, for' whom a gallows had been prepared, but whom the government dared not execute, has been appointed a clerk in the commissariat department of Port Arthur. (Loud cries of " Hear," intermingled with hisses.) I protest too against the massacre of defenceless women and innocent children which has taken place in Syria. The blood which has there been shed calls for retribution, and must be accounted for. 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