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I belies 41 i 3 re ar to hilt t in Heav next as our sn' lit the toil and the pain v n , ! gleveloping t of our i purchase " Henc 3 . — Blackwood ' s Mayan S AT CANTON culty in f ame upon pot - , which Is the wi 1 awall on one side, and it a foot high from view, the he reposition, up to the most ost at random u h int he reader to eminent men He could I !end, well aware raze war azainst ns, piqued quisitions. ran, He- V Dart. I LONDON IN TIMES PAST. — Considering the enormous and in many parts demoralized, population of London, it is marvellous there should be so little personal insecurity. and it is rather a rare occurrence for people in the habit of going about town, to meet with the slightest molesta tion, by day or night, comparatively speaking, to times past, as the following instance will serve to show :—At Kensington, on Sunday evenings, a bell used to be rung at intervals to muster the people returning to town, and as soon as the multitude had assembled sufficiently strong to insure mutual protection, it set off. George IV. and the late Duke of York, when very younv, men, were stop ped one night in a hackney coach and robbed, on Hay hill, Berkeley-square. To cross Hounslow-heath or Finchley-common, now both enclosed, after sunset, was service of great danger; those who ventured were nays well armed, and some few had even bail-proof ear- In those days there was a house on Finchley flown as the place of rendezvous for high unately these occurrences are now matters .re a child whom I not vex stern discipline of school. not take him with me to freez le very lo r to rear a it with c cur in- tua ow the exceet ess, as in his where " in g riches of the po ption of th( lit;is that every man has h I^ to escort yot o. At last wt , w of potteries on 1, wit! , eonta s of the crimir , which is dor wall, beyond t ricEs :ended t they becom emory so I a substitute, who can be found ( never money.] PeoniP r- -- ' n easily ,re touncl to in of two or ti s condemned to death m I keeping them en- well doubt' 1: fined a xer dis 1 " llt arincr 1 for the me Fietchrr t 3f my duty, I 'irer duel than life'!! It is bleb We can c of, howeve ged his . agonie 1, - the ‘ aCoti4 d c; so hit lie 1)1 'Mips thus ded lisped wort; and grate me of thi AND City! snout tl: Dim Ha s, with littl a treat diffi- Watertor of drawer: a broken tootl —The manager of the Goofowran, is spoken of 1, when last seen, apairof - • ms soint rather the lisp, which he endea spectacles."—A bur- they f following manner : It black eyes on a turned up to conceal its grayness."— tollct.l 111/1 , 11 CC ihr.ok with re its keep. with Lim as I over the to be oecnsi, n exact proportion )f social Ireland at I extreme! to find z down his eheel it social I worse t le hour ?dory, hat hour, he used to rambl ble to divert his mind fro amity 1 II grove j little rustic memorial was raised o often have I seen him, the tears point to his dau d nt rpst.' s in any countr upon the f ,ly hours vc moral. They proved the not the mind into invo He was natural! bo , ciatior She had places y belore their eye lAN IN THE DECLINE OF LIFE is with ei person whose spiri ly excited-ihe depression . Like a bow overstrained nee of the nisfortunes rendered his nd of r his country, leaving him t of private enj reflec- times a str ng instance of hi " Depend c le in life to have a mind Lited !" It s waiKs Ott. Ile bat! particul r parts n so nfl then almost ander on, his fl He had a favouri this garden " chasing each other" monument, and at times, vas a him ma- Igness of this world's g mid's attainments reflection ; they he finest natural lent manner in endowments, having acquired the ni,.... paper are alike tion, without a pecuniary want or a prole,. yet weighed down with a constitutional depression that left the poorest wealthy and the humblest happy in the 51. London • . comparison. Nor were they without a kind of mournful anal rival, strant2, )dd medl light and sublimity fc illustrations, and now buirt underground for sucli I and whimsical e it strance inferences Iron s with g smile and the tear of al. Perhaps, after one when he leg ad wall he would reseholi so re- comic, I have not I stone, Esq., &e., Sc' upon such At the Norfolk Protestant meeting, Mr. Pete, (a Dissenter) seconded the address to Her Majesty, and called upon all his brother dissenters to " take common ground with their brethren of the Church of England, and to merge all their differences in the defence of the greater • principle with which each was identified." Referrin' evi , ' to the ignorant 1 f--"-- .laently to and factious position attempted to be forced upon dissenters by some of their would-be leaders, Mr. Pcto remarked—" It was said dissenters should take care lest they might be forging fetters for themselves ; but his answer to that caution was. thfit Protestant Dissenters were never more called upon than now, to show that, while they valued civil and religious liberty, they desired not that liberty which meant lust for power. He hoped Dissenters were able to draw a line of distinction between the point where civil and religions liberty ended and where tt rr tonal aggression and lust for power began." _ - A number of the clergy in the Oxford diocese have pro tested against the bishop's address to the Queen forthe fol lowing, amongst other, reasons :—" 1. Because we do not mainly object to the act of Papal aggression on account - of its schismatical character,' as respects the church of this country, but 'as a part of a system repugnant to the word of God, perilous to the souls of men, and as an act inju rious alike to the supremacy of the Crown, the rights of our church, and the privileges of every Christian in our land. 2. Because we object to commit ourselves to such al description of our church as that contained in the pro test, which seems to us to be of a more exclusive character than that given in the nineteenth article. 3. Because the protest appeals to the judgment of the Universal Church, as if it were possible that such judgment should be now by any means collected ;' which appeal we decline to make in this matter for the reasons stated in the twenty first article of our church ; and because we recognise the word of God contained in the holy Scriptures as the only infallible rule of faith and conduct." Lord Roden has published a letter on the papal aggres , after giving entire the letter written by Lord Clarendon to Dr. Murray, about the Irish Colleges, and his wish to consult the Pope about them, his Lord ship says :—" I shall leave it to you to draw your conclu sions from its contents; for myself I can only regret that such an abject appeal could have been made by the repre sentative of our Protestant Queen, who reigns by the right of those glorious principles, to a foreign potentate, and that the Pope. to gain his sanction to any object which her Majesty might find it necessary to adopt for the benefit of her subjects. Sad, indeed, was our posi tion, when the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland entertained so profound a veneration for the character of the Pope. and such an implicit reliance upon his upright judgment,' that it was with pleasure' he asks Dr. Murray to submit. the statutes of the proposed colleges 'for the considera- - lion of his holiness.' Sad, indeed, would it have been for England if the prime minister had held the opinions of his colleague, and had the country been deprived of that Protestant letter which Lord John Russell felt it his duty to address to the Bishop of Durham. The country waits with great anxiety for his future proceedings. I trust that whatever he may propose, after what he has now experienced, he will be guided by the opinion he has asserted in the maintenance and encouragement of the Protestant faith throughout her Majesty's dominions. Nothing short of this, I hope, will satisfy the people of England. Nothing short of this can secure to the British nation the continuance of that divine blessing which she has hitherto so signally received. sion, in which , . The Bishop of Oxford, In his reply to the address from the authorities of Eton College, says :—" Stirred up by Pope's indecent aggression, the stream of common opinion is now running with the violence of a flood muddy and turbulent, and to overwhelm all ordinary bar riers with its violence; and so it is among us. Unchari table thoughts, harsh words, and unproved imputations, abound. Those who fear the spiritual domination, and those who hate the spiritual corruptions of Rome, and those who hate all assertion of spiritual authority any where, and even those who hate all belief in spiritual realities, are for the time united together. Our very walls are inscribed by the same hand with the legends of 'No Popery,' No Priestcraft." No Religion.' In such a time even good men become the subjects and the victims of fierce mutual suspicions, and the common enemy alone triumphs. Such a time must be full of danger to the calm and peaceable and loving temper which should possess our own souls ' • and to the maintenance of our common church against these evils, then, we must guard with as the other red with bamb( forty, as they formed two layers, fill of ground enclosed in the shed. t I not .1 the tail; v alf-a-dozen lar rangling, which is the pt were I aring from my rvant t I often ;pot, I called on out it, as so many rumours of executions of fro to me to be for many ye ty peo here, keeps a mi verted native livi Dnary s capital with I le most correct information on the subject debted to him for the follm remarl, illions of inhabitants, I all t 4- Canton, the capital undred a year ace last year , and to tb umber e llest, one. TE The lenges .ly all the me is Pekin, ti st or pieces va One are beat iers gu, tenced to death must bt The num cuted in o usual nun .ty-nine—ti an to twent interval between the days of executic time times a week is not unusual. are be they I ewer' •angled : . One vi cut up it from tw ) death with ba )efore execution. M ly the local authorit t I time is m lways pr 4 )ted are Latin the appro my lord, be The heads t, tut, man, I w",,; thrown under Igh we titisT ,verages from three to five I- The largest number - , eight hundred, to . greater severity of the pres e nt Viceroy, Seu. up to the present time, Ist October, 1849, tl was two 1 - and the crowd of rabble is very grey leached uy procure nt of a sum of Berric . asit —lt was the case rresistibly met during self tired, and wept hiense)f turn into ti sere the ,ieture of some friend, or the cont ency of some acci- ailing an ear or festive e ould burry him into ti' me of elle urned—the jest, and the tale, and the necdote pushed each other aside in an almost endless variety, and day dawned upon him, the happiest, the pleasantest, and the most fascinating of companions. The friends whom he admitted to intimacy may perhaps re cognise him, even in this hurried sketch, as he has often appeared to them in the hospitalities of the Priory; but, alas ! the look all-eloquent—the eye of fire—the tongue of harmony—the exquisite address that gave a charm to everything, and spell-bound those who heard him, are gone for ever !—Curran and his Contemporaries. CIIaISTMAS TALE.—The following is a brief extract from the preface of the third volume of The Family Friend, just published :—The present volume contains, —Frank Illeanwell, or Mistaken Purposes. The tale was designed by its author to supply ap nate reading for the Christmas -tide—a love of po c teaching at this season, through the agency of tn.' in the vestments of fiction, having been widely devel ed. The editor believes that the Christmas Story co mcd in this volume is not inferior to any one hitherto blished in the special shape of a Christmas Book. It • a tale that will invite a struggle of tears and smiles , and nail ) , leave the latter triumphant. In illustration of the .teapness of THE FRIEND, it may be remarked that e CHRISTMAS STORY to which we have referred, am nts in matter to more then one and a half of the Ch ' tmas Books usually sold at FIVE SHIL LINGS but, i addition to this Tale. which is complete in the Volume he purchaser receives about THREE HUN DRED AN !GUT pages of varied, and highly useful mat ter—the hole at half the price of the ordinary Christmas Books. or are the printing and external embellishments inferior to Works of higher price and pretensions. The readers of the Liverpool Siandara may obtain the volume of WAREING WEBB, CrIEGNIN, ROBINSON'S, DEIGHTON and LAvonTr.s, and other Booksellers. have f .s been n to the i aties as IT pn. Vipt THE LIVERPOOL STANDAIIn TilE PAPAL AGGRESSION. A large meeting, convmed by the High Sheriff for the county of Surrey, took place on Tuesday at Epsom, Mr. Henry Drummond sent his excuses for not being Present - , Ott the ground of his inability to attend a meeting in the open air at this time of the year; he contributed, however, his strong protest against Popery, and against the doings of Romish priests. Sir Edward Sugden, late Lord Chan cellor of Ireland, in temperate but earnest language, pro posed the first resolution. He wished for no persecution ; he had voted for Roman Catholic Relief in 1829, and would repeat his vote to-morrow if called upon to do so. Cardinal Wiseman said they had done nothing contrary to law. The law was certainly in an anomalous state, but he believed it bad been infringed both by the Pope and Cardinal Wiseman. The first Parliament of Elizabeth passed a law to declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or autho rity, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm. That was the law then, and that is the law now. Its severe penalties only, such as punishment by death, had been an- "Then, I assert here, and I am prepared to do so everywhere, hat by the law as it now stands, the Bishop of Borne and his Archbishops and CArdinals have no right to assert or maintain. that they have any spiritual or ecclesiastical jurisdiction in this realm. There was another act passed in the lath year of Elizabeth to prevent hulls, letters or instruments to be received from Rome for any cause whatever; no man was to put in use any bull, letters, or instrument from the Bishop of Rome in any case whatever, and if he did, not only he, but those who abetted him, were to be held guilty of high treason, and suffer death. Now, everybody knows that such a punishment could not be inflicted in these days, and therefore the penalty was vay, but the act that swept away the penalty declared peat should not go beyond the penalties and punish ments, and that it was still unlawful for any man in this land to put in use any bull, writing or instrument of the Bishop of Rome. I am aware a quibble might be raised on the con struction of these acts, as to whether such persons could be punished or not; but Ido not care much about that. The law is clear that no one is permitted to do such things. It is equally clear that, by the repeal of the act so far, it was intended to enable the Roman Catholic to put himself in communication, as he was already in communion, with the see of Rome, for it was said there was no use in granting to the Roman Catholics the free exercise of their religion if they could not communi cate with the head. of the Church. Nothing could be more reasonable, and, therefore, nothing that was necessary to enable them to communicate with the head of their religion could be objected to ; that being the object of the repeal. But that repeal does at the same time enact that nothing in the act shall authorise any one to introzluce or publish any instrument from the Bishop of Rome. That, therefore, is the law now. Now I say that the law has been infringed; and though those pains and those punishments are no longer operative that were in flicted by the statutes of Elizabeth, yet there are punishments that the law will inflict on those who disregard the injunctions swept av that the I of the Legislature." Sir Edward contended that the spirit of the oath taken by the Roman Catholics, under the Relief Bill of 1829, has been grossly violated, for therein the Roman Catholic members promised to do no act to subvert the Church of England :—• " He swears not to subvert the present Church Establishment in this country ; and, lastly, be swears that be will not exercise any .rights he has, or may obtain, towards weakening or en dangering the Protestant religion or government in this coun try. Then, I ask you, whether the Bishop of Rome, or, rather, those who abet him in this country—for the Bishop of Rome himself is, of course, not bound by such an oath-1 ask whe ther they have acted up merely to the oath they have taken ? is the recent act of the Bishop of Rome no attempt to subvert the Church of this country, and to weaken and undermine the Protestant Government? The Bishop of,Rome te!ls us plainly that his object is to establish a Roman Catholic hierarchy, and that hierarchy, as Dr. Doyle says, is to flourish for ever. The Archbishop of Westminster, he says, will cease never, that of Canterbury may cease in P. day. If that is not endeavouring to subvert a Church Establishment, I should like to know what Sir Edward Sugden had no intention in what he had said, to attack his fellow-subjects the Roman Catholics. In this respect, his acts had always kept pace with his words : " I have held an office in which I was surrounded by Roman Catholics, 'and I was put to the test on this point. I can say, confidently, however, I never neglected the interests of a single Roman Catholic whom I found entitled to consideration because be was such. I considered only talent, character, and good conduct, and his religion never entered into my mind, or influenced me in any way whatever. I therefore repel with scorn the argument of Cardinal Wiseman, that those who have got up these meetings have time it to gull the people with fanaticism. I say it is untrue. The people :lave not been gulled at all, nor driven into fanaticism. I disown every ap proach to fanaticism ; but 1 feel deeply the indignation that every English Protestant ought to feel, and that every English Roman Catholic, too, ought to feel, for he has a common in terest with us all in enjoying the blessings of the Constitution, Ind therefore it is his interest to oppose the aggressions of the Mr. H. T. Hope, Sir John Easthope, Mr. Mangles. 3T.P., Lord Abinger, Mr. Locke King, M.P., and the Hon. F Scott, M.P., moved the resolutions, which p mously. Several of the speakers were warm in condom. nation of the Tractarian innovations. ;ed unani- The prelates in Ireland have resolved to be silent at the present ct isis. The Bishop of Cashel is the only member who_advocates spea;:ing out boldly. The clergy of the diocese of Dublin have, after all, nobly spoken out. They have entrusted their address to the Queen to the Archbishop of Dublin. The Blackburn Standard of Thursday contains a report occupying nearly eight folio columns, of a great anti-Papal meeting held at Blackburn on Saturday last. Meetings have also been held at Cambridge, Nottingham, and other An immense county meeting took place at Carlisle on Wednesday, at which the High Sheriff presided. Nearly 7,000 nersons were present. Mr. Howard, M,P., a zea lous Roman Catholic, moved an amendment, but it was negatived by an overwhelming majority. An immense county meeting was held at Devon on Friday, at which Earl Fortescue, the lord-lieutenant, pre- Lord Courtenay, Sir J. Y. Buller. Sir T. D. Ac _au, and thousands of leading Protestants were pr The proceedings were very enthusiastic. On Thursday the Marquis of Exeter was honoured with an audience by the Queen, to present a loyal address sty from the county of Northampton, against aggression, signed by 21,266 individuals, which address her Majesty was pleased to receive very gra ciously. to her Maje Panal DEFENCE OF THE PROTEgTANT FAITH.—The commit tee for carrying out the resolutions passed at the London meeting., at which Lord Ashley presided, numbers above a hundred of our leading lav and clerical Protestants. A— Among the number are- the Marquis of Northampton, the Earls of Cavan, Chichester, Effingham, and Walde grave, Lords Hill, H. Cholrnondeley, and C. Russell, Sir E. N. Buxton, Sir E. Parry, J. Tollemache, Esq., M.P., Rev. Chancellor Rallies, Revs. Dr. M'Neile, H. jwell. J. H. _Stewart, T. Nolan, and J. B. M ar sd en , _ )bert Glad- !, Esq., I much vigilance as against external Popery. The curse of Popery is that it will separate us from God, and these evils will do so no less. We must not, through any dread of hard names or unjust imputations, shrink in this day of reproach from maintaining firmly our own church prin ciples. To hold all that our church teaches—to believe in their natural sense, without reserve or equivocation, either on this side or on that, all the doctrines of her articles, catechism, and liturgical formularies—to love her and her English Bible and her Book of Common Prayer, her daily devotions, and her decent ceretnonies—to believe that her mission is from God; her creeds, her sacraments, and her orders from Christ ; that man did not give them and can not alter them ; to rejoice that she sets forth Christ and Him crucified, and not others instead of Him, or forms without Him, as the sinner's hope and the saint's joy, and so to live and teach ourselves—this, my beloved brethren. is at snch a time as the present our bounden and onr especial duty." The Rev. Dr. Biber has withdrawn from the National Club in consequence of the recent circulars sent out. The Publishers' Circular of the 16th instant, contains the titles of one hundred and eighty publications on the Papal question, issued from the press in one month ! It is stated that Cardinal Wiseman has received auto graph letters of congratulation from the Emperor of Austria, the King of Bavaria, and the President of the French Republic. The Rev. W. Maskeil has had one of the cellars adjoin ing his residence in. Victoria-place, Clifton, fitted up as an oratory, where lamps and candles are constantly kept burning, and where he has the Romish prayers, weeded of Mariology.—Bristol Gazette. Lord St. Germans is about to enter the literary lists in defence of Cardinal Wiseman. Mr. Pugin, the celebrated architect, has published a letter denyinr , that Lord Shrews bury will imitate the " unworthy" conduct of Lord Beau mont and the Duke of Norfolk. The ire of the Tablet is raised at the clearance which is being made in Protestant families of Popish servants. It is the necessary consequence of the plan put forth by Mr. Spencer, the Papist, viz„ that Popish servants should do what they could to make Papists of the children, and re port the general doings of the family to the priest. It is stated that the authorities of Ushaw College, a Roman Catholic establishment. have taken the very extra ordinary step of withdrawing their custom from one of the most respectable tradesmen in the city of Durham on the ground that they will not have dealings with any one who may take a part in resisting the insolent pretensions of the Pope to supremacy in this kingdom. The letter of Lord John Russell to the Bishop of Dur ham has been published by the Messrs. Ackermann, Strand, on a large single sheet of card paper, about a foot and a•half long. It is printed in large type, within an elegantly executed lithographed border, the vignettes on which illustrates the working of the Popish system in England. A NEW TITLE FOR THE BISHOP OF EXETER.—A letter passed through the Torquay post-office last week, ad dressed " The Archbishop of Westminster, Bishopstowe, Torquay," which, being delivered at the place above mentioned, was returned by the bishop, endorsed " Not known in this house—H. Exeter," and sent back to the dead-letter office. ROMISH SUPERSTITION.—We have before us a card, purporting to be a subscription list of a member of St. Patrick's Infant Burial Society, which was founded in 1832, by Dr, Murphy, "Bishop of Adelaide," and of which Dr. Brown, " Bishop of Liverpool," is patron.. Among the benefits conferred is the following :—" Persons of any age may become members, or enter their deceased friends, and obtain the benefits of a mass each week for the living, and one each month for the deceased, on payment of one penny per week." Truly Popery is semper eadem. ROME AND ENGLAND. - Otlr Church is composed of laity—served by clergy—ruled by the Queen—and esta blished by the national will. This is Protestantism : we have it voluntary and involuntary. The Church of Dr. Wiseman is composed of priests—served by Jesuits— ruled by the Pope—and is established in corruption, by the father of lies, for the perversion of all human happi ness and divine glory. Are they alike ? Is there a single feature of similitude between them ? Then let things be called by their right names—Papist and Protestant.— Church and State Gazette. FATHER IGNATIUS•—The Londonderry Standard says that the report given in that paper of how Father Ignatius advised Romish servants in Protestant families to conduct themselves, was not " disfigured or disguised in the slight est degree." The same sketch of his lecture was copied in the Tablet and other Roman Catholic journals, without any complaint of misrepresentation. Our contemporary adds, "There are many persons in Derry who heard Mr. Spencer, and can prove that the report was quite correct. We certainly do not think that he shows much of the spirit of an apostle in backing out of his crusade by deny ing his own words." The Pope has peremptorily ordered the American Protestant Episcopal Chapel in Rome to be closed. This has been done at the desire of the Propaganda. When the Republic was established in Rome, General Cass, the American diplomatist, prevailed upon the government to leave the society, their dwelling, and wealth, in peace. The members were delighted, and when the Pope returned to Rome he sanctioned the opening ot the chapel. Now that all danger is past, the Propaganda tell him that to tolerate heresy is a sin. He has accordingly ordered the chapel to b e c l ose d. S uc h are Popish truth, toleration, and gratitude ! TOLERATION OF POPERY.—The Liverpool Journal, which has always been considered a Roman Catholic or gan, thus speaks of the conduct of the Pope of Rome : "The Protestant visitors are denied the privilege of suit able worship ; the American church, recently promised to the services rendered to Mr. Cass, the American minister, is threatened to be withdrawn ; and the poor Jews soli cited, with limited success, exemption from the tyranny to which they have been so long and so cruelly exposed. No men condemn more earnestly this policy than the English Catholics ; but they owe it to themselves and to the spirit of the age to make his Holiness acquainted with their opinions. The world is not in a condition to endure any longer proceedings originating in the dark ages-of po litical and social ignorance. It is not now sufficient that people do what they think right ; they must do what their neighbours think right." THE INFALLIBLE CHURCH.—The following very cu rious chronological table will show the progress which corruption and error have made in the "Infallible Church" —that church which is the "rock," and is alike un changed and unchangeable : .A•D. A . D . Holy water introduced 120 Canonisation Penance.. Monkery Mass in Latin Extreme Unction Purgatory . . Invocation of Virgin and (Dispensations l2OO 5,..,,:-,.. 593 . Inquisition ....... 606 s AuricularConfession 1215 709 Elevation of the Host 1222 715! onts . Papal Usurpation.... Kissing the Pope's toe Image worship THE TRACTARIAN ERA.—The Rev. Dr. Morrison, of Trevor Chapel, Brompton, has just published a very useful sermon in reference to Paseyisrn and Romanism. Dr. Morrison points out how Popery and Puseyism have flourished hand in hand. " From 1830 to 1850 (the Tractarian Era) Roman Catholics, in England alone, built two hundred and thirty-four chapels or cathedrals— a number exceeding by one hundred and seventy-five the two best decades they experienced before from the period of the Reformation. In fact, the Tractarian reign, from 1830 to 1850, has done more for Popery than the thirty years before, of bard Popish labour, had been able to effect. From 1800 to 1810 the Romish chapels built were sixteen; from 1810 to 1820 there were twenty ; from 1820 to 1830 there were thirty-nine. During the thirty years, then, which preceded 1830, there were onty seventy-five Catholic places of worship erected ; while, in the Tract- Arian period, from 1830 to 1850, two hundred and thirty four reared their heads in our cities, towns, and villages." THE ROMAN CATHOLIC LAITY AND 'THE PAPAL BRIEF.—The Daily News states that the Roman Catho lics of England are already beginning to display that deep uneasiness and distrust with which the late proceedings of the Vatican had from the first inspired them: that• Dr. Ullathorne, the new Bishop of Birmingham, has inter dicted, under menace of his heavy displeasure, a clerical meeting convened in his diocese for the purpose of taking into consideration the defenceless state to which the Pope's letters apostolic had reduced the clergy ; that Northumberland and Lancashire are stirring painfully, wirh morbid symptoms of unrest; that in Yorkshire the priests are said to be unanimous in their disapprobation of the late changes, and look with repining eyes from the palmy condition of that free.and constitutional priesthood which, unmolested by Pope or Cardinal, has existed for ages, and will continue to exist on the neighbouring soil of Ireland. According to a Rcman• Catholic correspond. ent of the same journal, the indignation of his lay brethren awaits only the first lull• of the Protestant hurricane to find for itself a vent. It is added that Cardinal Wiseman and his party have prepared for the consideration of the bishops a plan which wilt virtually throw into the hands of the prelates the administration of the whole of the temporalities wherewith lay charity has endowed their church. THE BISHOP OF LONDON AND Ma. BENNETT.-00 the fourth of the present month, Mr. Bennett wrote to the Bishop of London in the following terms :—" I hereby send you my resignation of the perpetual curacy of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge." And on the eighteenth of the same month the Guardian newspaper states that " the formal resignation of Mr. Bennett has not yet taken place." We doubted from the first whether Mr. Bennett was really in earnest, when be talked of " resignation." If Mr. B. were acting a bona fide and straightforward part, would he have left this act uncompleted foe a whole Fortnight ? However, as we now see that there is trickery and manoeuvring on Mr. Bennett's side, all eyes will be directed towards the Bishop. His character, previously lowered by a supposed want of firmness and decision, was considerably raised in the public estimation by his proceeding towards Mr. Bennett. But wofully will it be damaged, if all that talk of " resignation" shall turn out to be a solemn farce; and if the Bishop shall consent to give back St. Paul and St. Barnabas into Mr. Bennett's hands. Surely some real friends of the Bishop's will apprize him, that any scheme for keeping Mr. Bennett in that sphere of mischievous influence, will sink his diocesan's character in the public estimation, in a manner and to a degree quite fearful to contemplate. There is only one path of I onour for his lordship in this matter, and that is straight forward. If he desires to be regarded as a sincere rebuker of the Romanising schismatics, he must listen to no terms—to no propositions. No deal ing, no negoriation can be listened to by the Bishop without a plain loss of dignity, and character. " Perform your promise !"—this must be the first, last, and only word. We say all this, not so much out of regard to his lordship's character, as from a fear lest the Church, of which he is so prominent a ruler, should be seriou'ly injured in the public esteem by the weakness or insuffi- Herald. ciency of on of lioo data dianitums•—Mornm.9 THE DUTY OF PROTESTANTS. At the meeting of the Irish Sr:witty, in London, on Wednesday, the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, oho was received with most enthusiastic applause, spoke with great effect. British Christians, he observed, had already boldly and forcibly discharged the duty of protesting against the late Papal aggression. But they had more, much more, to do. The Cardinal Archbishop, his sovereign the Pope, and their whole staff of parochial priests, would laugh the protests of the English people' o scorn if they did nothing but talk. It was the duty of British Christians not only to protest against Romanism, but to oppose Romanists. As false religionists, they were to be opposed by true reli gion ; as political conspirators they were to be opposed by legal restraints. (Prolonged cheering.) It was said frequently and well, that restraints by law were unavail ing in matters of opinion. He agreed in that statement ; and, if Romanism was nothing but a false religion, he was content that nothing but true religion, reason, and argu ment should be used in opposition to it. But, if Roman ism was aggressive in act as well as false in word,—if there aas a bold avowed determination to introduce into lerant persecution so soon as Romanists had the power to carry it into effect,—if there was a system of desertion from the Protestant ranks, and of increase to the ranks of their adversaries,—and if, in the face of all these overt acts, they did nothing but talk, what must the end be ? Ireland could tell. For the last 50 years Christians had been prOtesting and Rome had been acting, and deeds, not words, had prevailed. So it must be in England if, with such deeds as he had mentioned, British Christians were content with words. The question was, then, what should be done ? This question had been frequently asked, but he was not aware that any very distinct answer had been given to it ; and surely it was vain to find fault with Cabinets and Parliaments for not doing something, if they had no intimation of what that something ought to be. In answering the question, he thought they might consider Romanism in its twofold aspect, as a false reli gion, and as a political conspiracy. And first, then, con sidering it as a false religion, what was the duty of British Christians ? He thought it was their duty to put them selves in possession of how and why it was false, and this could only be done by contrasting the Romish religion patiently and in detail with the only standard of truth— the word of God. The rev. Doctor then proceeded, at considerable length, to argue that the Papal system is a blasphemous parody on the scriptural prophecies descri bing the kingdom of Jesus Christ that shall be established upon the earth. Popery was the devil's corruption of God's prophecy of the kingdom of Christ. Satan offered the kingdoms of this world, and the glory of them, to Christ, if He would take them as Satan's vicegerent. The vile temptation was rejected with scorn, but Satan found another ready to take, as far as he could take, what Jesus had refused, and that was the Pope of Rome. He (Dr. M`Neile) would advise British Christians, then, to make themselves acquainted with the merits of this ques tion. .It was true there were foul abominations in the system of Popery ; there were secrets of the prison -house which ought not to be opened to the public mind, and which were awful and detestable ; but, short of these, there was much that might be profitably studied. He also considered it the duty of British Christians to take care that no more pecuniary support should be given to Popery. Let the English people at once demand of the Government and of the Parliament that there should be, instantly on the meeting of Parliament, a disendowment of Maynooth College. (Loud and continued cheering and clapping of hands.) What sense was there in Eng lishmen raising their voices against the aggressions of the Papal power while they were contributing their money for the teaching of the teachers of all the abominations of Rome ? There were also large endowments of Popery in the colonies from the British Treasury, and there were numerous subscription-lists for Popish chapels and schools containing Protestant names. Let there be no more Protestant subscriptions for Popish chapels. This was also a time when British Protestants should manifest their sincerity by making exertions and sacrifices for the propagation of Christianity both at home and abroad. He had heard it stated lately by a clergyman, who had made some inquiries respecting the marriages which had taken place in his church by bans in the course of the last year; that he found one-half of them were marriages between Roman Catholics and Protestants. It was the bounden duty of British Christians to guard against do mestic intercourse with Roman Catholics. If Protestants allowed their sons to become intimate with the daughters of Roman Catholics, they could not consistently turn round and say, after permitting such intimacy, " I forbid any marriage." It might appear very bigoted thus to separate man from man in the community, but he (Dr. MI - Neils) was persuaded that half the existing mischief arose from the carelessness with n hich these matters had been viewed. He would now ask them to consider, look ing upon Romanism as a political conspiracy, what was the duty of British Christians. He was clearly ofopinion that there was no intolerance in a guarded and carefully arranged self-defence, which went no further than the claims of self-defence imperatively' demanded. What, then, did self-defence of the British constitution demand ? This question was long debated some years ago, and there was , a wonderful agreement on this point,—that without some security the free possession of civil privileges by members of the Papal church was incompatible with Pro testant safety. This opinion was entertained by Mr. Pit and Lord Grenville. The same view was taken by M r , •, • but when, subsequently, Mr. Canning introduced his scheme of securities into the House of Commons, al though it was supported by Mr. Grattan and Mr. Plun kett, it was opposed by the Roman Catholic priests in Ireland, and the result was that Mr. Canning gave way upon the subject, and the securities were withdrawn. The question was, could anything practical be done now ? He would recommend that the people sI Home should be a sine qua non for the holding of offices of trust and power under the Sovereign of England. This was no interference with religion, except as what was called religion introduced allegiance to man. It was a requirement every nation had a right to make. If the Itomsn Catholic were content with protection to his pro perty and his person, he should have both fully and freely, for they sought not to hurt a hair of his head ; but if he asked for power, place, and privilege, then they might reply,—" Certainly, if you share our undivided allegi ance." Ho would only refer to one point more. He thought it was the duty of British Christians, in the agi tation of this great subject, not to urge to extremes ques tions which could not be satisfactorily and finally decided. He considered' that the question of the supremacy was one of these. . This question of the supremacy, which bad been arrogated by the Pope, which was divided be- tween the PO - pe and the Sovereign in Romish States, which was separated here, and given entirely to the Sove reign, was one of a most perplexing nature. He consi a....A Fbnl- tbrk 4,1 • .• uerea mat toe way of British Christians was to have a good understanding upon this point, and Lot to urge it to extremes. It it were pressed too far on the one side, they might depend upon a recoil. There was a division on the question among Protestants, and where honest Protestants were divided moderation, calmness, judgment, and discretion in the adjustment of the difficulty should mark their steps. Where the great lines of demarcation were plain, where Christ had spoken,. and Antichrist had rejected, he counselled no moderation, but opposition with all his heart and soul, and might and strength. But there were questions of a very different character—ones. tions concerning which he believed the most devoted advocates of the Protestant cause would feel themselves in a difficulty,if they were invited to lay down the line of exactness, and to say what was the authority on the part of the secular power, and what orr the part of the eccle siastical sYnod, in the adjustment of national questions involved in both.. He was persuaded, then, that he gave the counsel of a friend when he requested British Chris tians to forbear on this question, and to seek rather a hood understanding than a rigid laying down of the line Of separation. (hear, hear.) IMMORALITY OF THE CONFESSIONAL.—We are in debted to the Morning Herald for the very timely publi cation of the following bull of Pope Paul IV., denouncing, and thereby admitting on the most unimpeachable authority, the abominations of the confessional : " 'Whereas, certain ecclesiastics, in the kingdom of Spain, and in the cities and dioceses thereof, having the cure of souls, or exercising such cure for others, or otherwise de puted to hear the confessions of penitents, have broken out into such heinous acts of iniquity as to abuse the sacrament of penance in the very act of hearing the con fessions; not fearing to injure the same sacrament, and him who instituted it, our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ, by enticing and provoking, or trying to entice and provoke, females to lewd actions, at the very time when they were making their confessions." The Herald then copies from Da Costa the annexed account of the effect of the bull in the city of Seville. Hew entirely does this Romanist testimony justify Miranda's pithy. remark,— " Nature the says) placed two barriers for the preservation of female virtue—modesty and remorse. By confession and absolution the priest removes them both.' " When ' this bull (Da Costa writes) was first introduced into Spain, the inquisitors published a solemn edict in all the churches of Seville, that any person knowing or having heard of any friar or clergyman's having committed the crime of abusing the sacrament of confession, or in any manner having improperly, conducted himself during the confession of a female penitent, should make a discovery of what he knew, within, 30 days, to the holy tribunal; and very heavy censures were attached to those who should neglect or despise this injunction. When this edict was first pub lished, such a. considerable number of females went to-the palace of the inquisitor only, in the city of Seville, to, re. veal the conduct of their infamous confessors, that twenty notaries and as many inquisitors were appointed to, minute down their several informations against them ; but these being found insufficient to receive the depositions of so many witnesses, and the inquisitors being thus over whelmed', as it were, with the pressure of such affairs, 30 days more were allowed for taking the accusations, and this lapse of time also proving inadequate to the intended purpose, a similar period was granted, not only for, a third, but a fourth time. The ladies of rank, character, and noble families, had a difficult part to act on this occasion, as their discoveries could not be made of any particular time and place. On one side, a religious feat of incurring the threatened censures goaded their con sciences so much as to compel them to make the re quired accusation ; on the other side, a regard to their husbands, to whom they justly feared to give offence. by affording them any motives, for suspecting their private conduct, induced them to keep at home. To obviate these difficulties they had, recourse to the measure of yet, who,no tw looanstbaenindg. covering their faces with, a veil, according to the fashion of Spain, and thus went to the inquisitors in the most secret manner they could adopt. Very few, however, informed of the discoveries and accusations made by their notwithstand ing this accumulation of proofs against the confessors, produced to the inquisitors, this holy tribunal , contrary rs)bsooufl should, every from one, th putee thenceforth;, t } :ia t end busi nesstoc:e3led by ordering that all crimes of this nature, proved by ltweaosivtafideupsel: escaped teiphdreeeeentfiaclteli:o d vigilance with th suspicions s p t c e i their s h ; u husbands, d s , perpetilal si!euce wad oblivion." Pet. 24,15 ..oNAL• DR. MINEILE AND THE CONI'ESN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CH..— le" SIR,— I do not o ft en see your paper , an d since f ies the impression of last Friday I have been incessantiLls cupied. With your readiness to publish a state lne rw my prejudice, w ith ou t any i nqu i ry i nto it s acc urae9, predate the courtesy which induced you to offer tn! ch s lish my reply. It w ill b e an ac t o f j us ti ce , in " l ha le free press should deli g ht, f or a ll th e journals il'h'quer, reprinted y our s t a t emen t t o g i ve i nsert i on to this e Without further preface, I will state facts : On Sunday morn i ng , th e B t h i nst., preac hed a ser, u r ll on the words o f St. P au l (1 Cor., iv. 5), " Therefar e t i , ge a d nothing befo r e th e ti me un til the Lord come." sue h'ici• from the context that the things referred to were the 0 den things of man's heart, in reference to which 01 3 4 should attempt to judge his fellow-man ; and distingins,li, them from out war d ac ti ons, w hi c h are to b e , and nit judged by man ; pointir , ont the appropriate tribrr, which God has appointed for each of these judginen the civil magistrate, from day to day, for the one; t bir Lord Jesus Christ, in the day of His coming, for other. the Enlarging on the Ch r i s ti an d u t y o f no t judging te j secret things of the he ar t " b e f ore th e t i me ," I contras is with ft the anti-Christian practices of the confessions, to which the Romish priest institutes inquiry into these el t . of men fe e th e express purpose o f pronounc i ng iudgale s& I shewed that, according to their system, the pr i es t se- lig there as God, an d th a t it is mortal sin to conceal sul i t t a from hi m . All i s t o ld , an d h e appo i nts w h at h e Pug'" suitable and adequate penance. The penance being c's formed, the affairs of the penitent's soul are consid ered settled up to that d a t e . He is distinctly told that the tl est solution given him is judicial, and that what the p rie d thus declares on earth God ratifies in Heaven. The of tent is relieved from the working of an accusing conseie.,' and society d e f rau d e d o f the benefit which would ha ve ' suited from an open confession. This led to a statement of the secrecy of the Rnm of confessional, on which I quoted thus from the evideneer, Drs. Doyle and Magaurin (Roman Catholic bishops)b ef° a committee of the Douse of Lords in 1825 : " r e Right Rev. J. Doyle, D.D. " Would a priest consider himself justified, in case be to ceived in confession a knoWledge of an intended cr il p e ! take arty measure by which he co u ld pre ven t the executio n. ' that crime? • " No, he cannot, more than the me ans h e uses with t he in dividuals themselves. s• ei " Could he not w a r n th e p erson aga i nst w h om the crap intended to be committed? " He cannot. " Right Rev. James Magauria, D.i7 noWn " Are not the parties who commit a mur d er gener a k l to the priests? . . _ _ " I do not think they are. the PO Supposing it were stated to him in confessions vieois priest think it consistent with his duty t o di vu l ge a ny Pal' communication which was made to him in confession? " I do not think he would. prevent the " Might he not disclose so much of it as wou ld.prev---., „to perpetration of the crime without committi ng the peep - has made the confession. , He-could not divulge any part of it." Commenting upon all this, I said that whatever fit d miNht be in the priest's mind concerning his church an her authority, he was, in the eye of the law of both and man, as guilty of the murder in such a case as.thedbe: luded wretch who actually committed it, and no pup s ,3 ment could be too severe for him ; no, not even caP' punishment. I had no sooner uttered this expresslar than I felt it would be taken out of its context a nd Os" understood, and I immediately made an attempt to Inn: dify it. In this I did not succeed. I f e lt a t the motnenttv that I had not expressed myself clearly, and Pd° ll° wonder that I was misunderstood. Under ordinary circumstances I would have taken Ila further notice of the affair in public ; but the eire d v r e , stances of Liverpool at the time were very peculiar. to , had just had a town's meeting convened by the Mar,t,.„ address her Majesty on the s u bj ec t o f th e P a p a l cently published. At that m ee ti ng severa l Roman Cr tholic priests appeared, and an a tt emp t was ma de to crop. a disturbance and defeat the object of the meeting• had been my privilege to resist that attempt, and Ttie,_r 7,when„. failed to address the meeti ng a t some l eng th. ~1. - citement occasioned by this i n th e t own h a d no t subsn' ua I was engaged and advertis e d t o d e li ver a l ec ture on tm felt Papal canon law on the 10th, an d some anx i e ty was it t , lest further disturbance sh ou ld ar i se . M y a pprebenat was, that the expression 1 had made use of, as aboven G , scribed, would be seized up on an d t urne d t o accoua t tb l e . aggravate the feeling already e xc it e d aga i ns t me 'l'd's. Papal party in the town. I determined, therefore, to arm hostility, as far as I could, by candidly expressing: og the evening, the regret which I sin cere ly felt at ha vi , used a phrase in the pulpit so liable to m i sc onception• lei . was not to preach in the eve n i ng ; an d, th er efore, „t o . the second lesson, said a few words from the reaul"c. desk, avowing my regret for h a vi ng use d an e xpression o my sermon in the morning which a moment's retlec ti ga would have caused me to avoid, as palpably liable to eii, T • t. --1 • • efter before God, and expressed it honestly before them. it These are the facts of the case. And now, sir, Pe r . o me to add, that it is not a f ac t th a t an y pecu li a r sensatL o ot was manifested in my congregation in the morning ; t• a fact that any remonstrance of any kind e 0 915 gation after the morning's , service ; that it is not 3 : l the that I ever said Ihad no consciousness of having u se- hat language in question. Ilnew, and knew perfectlY,ten- I had said; One gentlem an o f th e congrega ti o n wO a note, not - of remonstrance, but of kind inquiry, O t a r er s caS tain whether he underst o od me aright. His Or g tiot brought into the vest r y bef ore th e evening service,l t ' d n ot I we were leaving the vestry to go into the church, $ l3 read till after the service self make ed upon td any comments in d e b defence upon all this. I:understand full well the o r i s . to which awry man must be exposed who adopts 0 ?. 13 3 $ tently the tone which, for man years, I have fe":,„4 Christian duty to adopt. I'have counted the cos t ' : r a - e make no complaint. It is, however, right that exagg' tion and misrepresentation should be met by facts. ou r In conclusion, bear with a little further trespass onYrit space, while I transcribe a passage from a pamphlet, ; e a ten by a clergyman, the Rev. J. Nolan, who 1 0 °, t he a Popish priest; He was converted to the faith o' an Gospel, and aedressed s e v era l p amp hl ets t o his R° b u t Catholic fellow-countrymen. He challenged r inquirY' his, no priest responded. H e li ve d severa l years ett h e ipt ,' publications, but is now d ea d. Hi s •` third panWii—this published in Dublin in 1838, at pp. 23-25, contains ltatement : -1000 .my frienab, .he most awful of all considera:,, ap: this, that tin oughthe confessional I bad been frequen t .4 o o- prised of intended assassinations and most diabolical clone racier, and still I dared not - give the slightest intima!i?n,t.nosc. ._ marked-out victims: of slaughter. B u t i though my begtlili all trembles at my recollection of th e mur d erous acts, '__, la duty obliges me to proceed, and enumera t e o ne or LP stances of the cases alluded to. r• d e ' r . ed h ,been' a ii of etifinrdstwiisththewchaosseeoifnateniewrseodnwho wasassassination barbarouslyi quainted at . confessio n . O ne o f t h e fi ‘e cons pirators . 0 v ie whom were sworn to commit the horrid deed) broach e 46 t . o_ the bloody conspiracy in the confessional. I implore(' . s. ti . o desist from his intention, but, alas, all advice was usel e :„d to' dissuasion could prevail; his determination was fixed, ' 1 "to b i 6 only reason for having disclosed the awful machinationlat his confessor seemed to have originated from a hope ',`,,,decig' wicked design would be hallowed by his nrpvious tickw_i_A the • aaau s•-••••-- anti ment ef it to a priest. Awful to relate! • yes. awful • pn'i band that now pens it shudders at the record it makes' era death by the band of ruthless assassins. Oh, inoffensive man, the victim of slaughter, died a "'sprees death countrymen, yotvwill now naturally ask, whether n 1 ....1 ! the perpetrators of the bloody deed most to be cenaol:" t o the who knew the murderers and the murdered previous i n die act,—l who had met the intended victim of slaughte r public streets but a short time antecedent to his death " I must now proceed to the recital of another case• flt• " It is that of a female administering poison to bet n i to to Her first attempt at parricide n.- wed ineffectue . t" m y dear _ or immediate retching that seized the man after ta/i?ie'saion. draught. The perpetrator of this foul deed came to an!e'd tha t and acknowledged her guilt ; but circumstances prod and she only sought -for priestly absolution to ease her Inr* l cr itne: prepare her for a speedy repetition of the heinnu,'. Was Again she attempted the act, and it was successful,' called on to attend the dying parent. The unnattir„ ce d and convulsive agonies of the unfortunate man conv . P2„, Con that the disease was of no ordinary nature. The pro it: ra ricel. fessfon of the daughter, who at the time made her aPP' Ils a se rushed upon my mind, and suggested that the parent ; ca fes" sional, I could not e ven hi nt at t h e propr i e ty of cond time poisoned. F rom w h a t I h a d : k n own in " d ing CP sen d • ,vie se medical assistance, for th e R om i s h doctrine impres the sllg k p. bible secrecy on my lips, and prevented my giving_, est intimation of itiein - qtlaCii, ;.t:l;iiiiiiiePO:tn l ' Pare nt ;.,,c"fati l* scions of the came of his death, died in the most e xc h ! 0 10 0 1 agonies. O I h, monstrous system of confession • , e ttor iniquitous tribunal ! " Thou cloaker of crimes—thou ." wickedness—thou brutal murderer !"- I am, sir, your obedient servant , • HUGH v. 31,pr . ,..r . London, Dec. 17. ilo-..111 ssiunictee-ly re: rarnoo °E. TO rzE EDITOR OF THE MORNING v.- - l otion • Sir.—l am cbliged by the opportunity your i i: l ogre' affords me to explain the use I made of the w e ro fTne e " dome , on the occasion referred to. In my leqe I weg pd desirous he n en i g t ahtptsh,pi simply ccporalimtytitomtenoni tell fi n ol under esf fa much ecevtseno p maf r s e et s :, s l J e t r c e a for s e, t ali i : Ids e e oat i ii. o , t o i I v attempt to specify the very words I had Inad e i 6 l,ol o , t; t he s yc l , i how ever, !a „ - the exception of one expzession " capital Pe n 3 it, ° a nd, inte ndg urd er : to cathrseouogfh a an p y rie fi st a c io o n gni o sa f n a t ny of C a h n ur i c n h trd a e t Ite rfe rt n o g the pulpit, to say the least of it, and as gretted having usectit. My apprehees i nctlY that I had not limited the expression ' r op position tha t ` case, but had given just grounds for f iie ofessional itself I intended to apply it generally to the r chara cterised itt ; This was indeed- atrocious, and as se h o rror h orr or of ge l ' no one can ea t er t. i n a more unfe'e— a sentiment than I do. er vant, I am, sir, your crbedieso g Gil ArNE II4 Nu . Liverpool, Dec. 20, 1850. to such Ca o st n le n . COURT AND , EON" ; .----- dO f Lord John Russell left town on Tuesday for Win, ..., Castle, and the Duke and Westminster of Bedford. the iSII, Mn R. B. Sheridan's play of " The - quis and Marchioness of Westminster and Lady OctO ri a Grosvenor, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter 3 d 14° 1 Lady M. Cecil, the rkarl and Countess Spencer an ~,e G. Spencer, and Lord George Lennox, also arrived at t i l 0 tic" was performed at Windsor before the Queen. A 0 The Princess Mary of Cambridge was confiror s s. Kew on Thrsga?. by the Archbishop of CanterblPZl n ce Thursday slated by the Bishop of London. The Queen aked.rr.- d Mr. liraterhouse, jeweller, of Dame-street, Dublin , ba d the honour, on Friday, of submitting to the Queen . Prince Albert a curious ancient Irish tvoch,,, celled w" Tara brooch. The Earl of Lincoln and Lord and Lady Mille/ 'dine d with her Majesty, QC Saturday, at \cow c a stle. Albert were present. BE % ,„• E I mtru e d !q`re Tr thz e x s taid t °eat vt. "e ir 6 10 eno Oies, SLR Gp o M iddle a liddh Se n , v erh ra The At ti At, 1 4 , t rider ,hest Nteti . 0f th e Lil ,',horn and ti n ~ ' .el atte i , Brits katic also here and bo ar , t ht i o the I thei r ; 1.02, T 1 tle g: of i j N 3 ee Rare s qv ti nif 184 ! rep, T . 6, 1 ,11 11 4 , v atn e , ait,l in;; tb e , wh i ,fir Ooh he ti tt 4l !'af