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not one that would eVetx get at the trutirat all. Ido not see how any man, unless he devoted the entire of a life, and what can we who are so busy in the active pursuits of life do ? —get at the uanimous interpretation of alll the fathers. He must go through and all over a multitude of volumes, digest and collate them, then compare and condense the whole, and then draw forth their responses thus collated, and thus con densed, and thus drawn out. If a man is not to find the pearl of great price, or to know the way to happiness till he has obtained it by going through all the fathers, it would be melancholy indeed. Thank God, we may go not to the fathers but to the grandfath ers. (Applause.) Thank God we can go not to Father Augustine, or Chrysostom, or Jerome, but to Father Paul, and Peter, and John. (Cheers.) Yes, my friends, we do not call them father, for we call no man father spiritually but one, who is God ; he is our father and our Lord, and we leave the Church of Rome to call any man her father ; therefore, papa the Pope, and the Popes, and the brands of Anti-Christ upon earth. We do not, there fore, speak even of the apostles as fathers ; nor do we speak of the early fathers in any other sense than simply as words conventionally used, for we hold no one father but the ever lasting father, the Lord upon high, who is the father of us all. But with regard to the fathers themselves, I have read to you already (having quoted it somewhat earlier than I: in tended) the opinion of a Roman Catholic bishop with regard to the testimony of the early fathers. He admits, that until a very late. period, in the church the doctrine of purgatory was wholly unknown. I find it is clearly made out by seve ral of our distinguished controversialists, especially Mr. Faber and. the present Bishop of Exeter, that nearly at the close of the third century there is not the slightest intimation or whisper in any one of the fathers about an intermediate state of penalty and suffering between death and the resur- . - rection for those who depart in the Lord. There are upon the contrarya multitude of passages in their writings that r ..qt distinctly and flatly contradict any such notions. 'But I shall hold myself excused, and I dare say you will, f rom at . . all entering into the views of the fathers upon this suhject, because if all the fathers from Ignatius down to Origen, yea, down to the last father that wr o t e were , w ith one unan i mous • • • voice to give testimony to purgatory, it would not weigh against one single part of a sentence of the word of God more than a feather against the world. I know of no compaiison by which I could fairly shadow forth the extent of difference between the testimony of poor fallible worms and the deci sive voice of the spirit of the living God ; therefore I could not allow, in my own mind, all the testimony of all the fathers to weigh ought unless that testimony were endorsed and authenticated by the word of God. As witnesses to facts, as credible historians we respect and revere the fathers, but as propounders of doctrine, as adding ought to revela tion, as sublimating as it were the records of God's word by their own imaginations we do not receive them, and we say— " 'Why shall the fathers act as Christ and the Apostles and the Prophets ? The word of God is our sufficient rule, our only rule ; and to that, by the help of God, we will stand to our dyin ,, day." But whilst the Church of Rome has thus little or nothing to appeal to in the Apostolical Fathers, has not the shadow of .1 an appeal to the word of God, I gratit'thai she has a powerful appeal to the carnal reason and to the deceived heart of fallen I know it, and therefore conceive it to be of great im- portance, that, in proceeding as I shall to repudiate altogether and disprove the doctrine, that this should be distinctly and frequently shown, not only on account of its beatingdown one of the strongest pillars of Popery, but on account of the congruity of its erroneous doctrines to the fallen henrt of man You will often have advocates for purgtitop , among professing Protestants : they do not advocate it by name, but they advocate it by insinuation. Those who are accus,- tomed (thank God, I have little been) to profane and foolish jesting with men, will often have heard them say, "'Well, if we are not s ood enough to go to heaven, we are too good to go to hell.' What is this but an insinuation that there may be some middle state for them ? The heart, therefore, is prepared to wish for a middle state. The worldly man and the wicked man, then, will be anxious to indulge their evil passions yet with a quiet conscience ; they will wish tp have their fill of earthly indulgence, yet to escape the penalty, for they will continue to sin if conscience tells them that their sin brings with it no punishment hereafter. To such men what a harbour of refuge does purgatory present! If men may by any measure of temporary punishment, by even thou sands of years of sore suffering, have the gratification of their lusts and passions here, we know that man is so much a crea ture of sense he will do so. Aye, the mere fiction ofpurga- tory upon the lusts and passions of the carnal man, will ope rate in order to restrain and curb, but as flax before the flames, when temptation rages and evil passions assail. The fear of everlasting torment is feeble to deter guilty man from eating of the fruit of death ; but when you transmite the terrors of hell into the mere presence of purgatory, hew fee- ble will be its aim ! I will venture to say there is not a man in this room, who speaks the honest sentiments of his mind, who will not admit, if he followed his natural inclinations, he would become an advocate for purgatory, and gladly lug the . . . _ fond idea to his heart. It is just what we want—the thfng that will allow us to follow the bent of our dispositions and passions upon earth, and rescue us from the eternity of woe beyond. It is not only thus in the darker passions of the human heart that the fiction of purgatory finds an advocate : it finds an advocate even in the finer affections and in the more, refined sentiments of the soul. Yes ; indeed, Popery works often with fearful power and efficacy in this way ; and I know not how I can better illustrate my meaning than by giving you a simple instance that ' came under my own observation. A lady at one time connected with my own flock, possessed of consi derable Christian knowledge, and not without strong religi ous feeling, married a medical man who was carelessland de voted to the world. What little better feeling she had was much withered by such an unwarranted and unwise' union. Their lot was cast in a neighbourhood where resided a;Romish family of distinction, wealth, and great benevolende. Her husband attended as a medical man upon the family, and they showed kindness and attention to the strangers, for they were comparatively such in the neighbourhood. In process of time it pleased God in his mysterious Providence that the medical man, in riding out to visit his patients, was seized with some sudden attack of disease, which terminated fatally before his wife could arrive to catch his last breath, When he was committed to the grave, and her mind awoke from the torpor in which the blow had at first stunned; her, her former religious convictions and feelings rushed upon her mind, and she felt a thrilling agony in the thoughti " What has become of my husband's soul ? " That one agonising idea so occupied and possessed her soul, that all her personal bereavement and sense of desolation upon earth was absorbed in its intensity. Whilst in this state of mental anguish, she was invited into the bosom of the Romish family she was treated there with the utmost tenderness, assiduity, and deli cacy,. nor was the slightest attempt made to insinuate their peculiarities into her mind. But they watched, and discerned the state of her bruised spirit ; and they availed themselves of an occasion when she remarked—" Oh, could I but be as sured it were well with my husband's spirit, I could bow in submission to the hand of God ! " They then gently and kindly, smoothly and tenderly, insinuated " How dreary, and cheerless and dismal is your faith ! It offers you no hope; it allows you no intercession on behalf of departed friends ; but ours is more Christian and more consolatory. Our creed teaches us that, though our friends may have died in the midst of guilt and sin, yet we may reach them by our prayers, and preserve them by our services, and nourish their very souls by masses to be celebrated ; and we may thus abate their torments, and expedite their admission into heaven." It touched the chord that vibrated in her desolate breast, and she listened with avidity to that which promised her some light in the midst of her gloom. She caught at this straw, and clutched it convulsively. The consequence was, she admitted the visits of the priest, she was gradually drawn into the toil, and she was on the very eve of conforming to the Church of Rome, when, at this crisis, her friends, hear ing of the state of her mind, immediately insisted upon her leaving the family and returning to them. I had Several in terviews with her, and I found it no difficult task to disabuse ber mind ; for she had too much of the light of Scripture, and a too enlightened conscience, to be able to swallow the absurdities of Popery when they were revealed to her in their real nakedness. The priest had taken care to veil and cloak them so that they did not startle her ; and when I shewed them to her in their own writings, and told her in what they believed,—when she really found what was in the hack-ground, she started and said, " Oh ! they never told me this." It was a simple saying; and I said, " No, they would never have told you that till you were prepared to receive it ; they must first administer an opiate till they have stunned the conscience and stunned the understanding, then they would reveal to you the darker mysteries of their creed ; but they only give it to you drop by drop, as you are capable of receiving the soporific draught." The conse quence was, she broke off from her connection with Roman ism, returned cordially to the bosom of the church, and is, I trust, at this moment, a faithful and obedient servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now I think that illustration will make manifest to you the subtle appeals of Popery to the tenderer feelings and the more exquisite sensibilities, more plainly than any statement or argument of my own could have done. You see, then, how Popery takes advantage of the doctrine of purgatory, not only in the craft and deceits and passions of the natural heart, but also in the dearer sensibilities and the more exquisite affections of thellpul. Hence it will not be lost labour or a superfluous task, that I proceed to shew you, by a few simple arguments, that the doctrine of the Church of Rome touching purgatory is altogether and utterly to be reprobated and rejected. First of all, we reject the doctrine because it is founded upon a most unscriptural distinction between sins venial and mortal. If all sins were mortal, one of the principal reasons for purgatory would be done away, because mortal sins, unless expiated by the blood of Christ, and atoned for by penance here, admit of no forgiveness hereafter; but venial sins may be forgiven, either here by means of penance or penalties, or hereafter by means of certain sufferings endured in purgatory, and shortened by masses, in their satisfaction. But where does the Church of Rome find, in the whole com pass of Scripture, anything about venial sins ? Where does she find any countenance thus to make nought of the law of God ? Where does she find any authority for instructing us that God ever allows his holy law to be violated by trans gressors at small cost, and yet says with regard to the trans gression that it may be held as a venial sin in his sight ? Upon the contrary, we are told that the thought of foolish ness is sin ; that for every idle word we utter, we must give an account at the judgment ; that he who offends in one point is guilty of the whole law, because be opposes the authority that enforces the whole; that he who offends in one point thereby offends in all, because it is not inclination that keeps him from offending in all, but circumstances, convenience, or something else than simple submission to the authority of God. Again, are we not taught that " all unrighteousness is sin" ? Are we not taught that " God's anger is revealed from heaven against all the unrighteousness of man " ? The distinction of sins, therefore, into lesser and greater, into venial and mortal, is a distinction not only unsanctioned by Scripture, but, in the face of the inexorable and immutable character of the law of God, has a direct tendency to bring that law into dishonour and disrepute, leads men to take a fearful licence and liberty with God's indefeasible command ments, and set up the standard of their own righteousness, on one side of which is slavery, and on the other is the grave, so that each man will alter the standard, as may suit his convenience or his purpose. I have no doubt there are thousands and tens of thousands of poor ignorant dupes of the Church of Rome, who are to be pitied for their ignorance rath er than blamed for their errors, who are led to indulge in sin under the fond notion that their sin is venial Their guilt lies more at the door of the Church of Rome, than at the door of their own conscience, because they have been brought up in the dark delusion, and still retain it till the iron of it has destroyed their very souls. But we reject the doctrine of purgatory, not only upon the s core of its being founded thus on an unhallowed distinction, but we reject it on the score and upon the ground of the re striction of temporal punishment even where temporal punish ment is removed. This we conceive must be acknowledged to be a Scriptural doctrine. Does not the word of God every where tell us that the divine being is a pardoning God, not partially and by halves and by un-Christianizing, but pardon ing them freely, fully, and completely , when he pardons the m at all ? This is beautifully described by the prophet_,, Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrigteous man his thoughts ; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God for he will abundantly pardon." A ga i n . " As far as the e a st is from the west, so far bath he removed our transgressions from us." Again, " Come now let us reason together saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow ; though they be red like crimson they sh all be as wool." If w hiter what room is there for fu r th er than wool, if purer than snow, punishment ? What reason is there for temporal infliction s from God or from man upon the sinner? My Christian friends how does Popery take away the abundant grace of God, representing him as pardoning like man, and not like himself, for it is in his pardoning grace especially he sets himself forth, for he says, " As the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your th oug ht s ." Man would par don partially and reserve punishment also ; but God, infinitely above man, " " acts with no such partiality. - He forgives freely. Who; exclaims the enraptured prophet, " is a God like unto thee, t hat pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? be retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercy." That is his glory : lie is a God that pardoneth iniquity. Does he not then describe the plenitude of his pardoning grace in the strongest figure that earth can Tarnish—that he will cast the sins of his people be hind his back, that he will cast them in the depths of the sea ? " He will turn again, he will have compassion upoh us ; he will subdue our iniquities, and then cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." Does he not assure us "he has blotted out our transgression as a cloud, and our iniquities as a thick cloud?" Where, then, is there room for further punishment? Where are the tortures of purgatory; May we not gladly say with the Aostle " Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect ? It is God that justifieth ; who is he that condemneth." "It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh interces sion for us." We therefore in toto reprobate the doctrine that there is any reservation of temporary punishment, for, surely if the grace of God is free to forgive men everlasting punishment, it is free to forgive men temporal punishments. If it forgive the greater, why not forgive the less? Will God dishonour the glory of his grace by reserving temporary punishment, when he has delivered from evodasting woe? The very thought is abhorrent to our ideas of God, and of the glory of the gospel which he has given to poor fallen sinners. So my christian friends I would further say, that the idea of temporal punishment receives no sanction what ever in such expressions as these, where it is said, " Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth' every sin whom he receiveth." We admit that while God pardons his people, he punishes guilty backsliders, but what then? Not in the way of satisfaction to his justice, not in the way of ex piation for iniquity, not in the way of making a supplement to the finished work of Christ; but simply in the way of a father's discipline. The corrections given are not therefore by way of satisfaction, but by way of sanctification ; they are blessings intended to be the means in his fatherly hands of restoring our souls to everlasting health. But we object equally, earnestly, and entirely to the doc trine of purgatory, because it dishonours the finished work of Christ. " There is now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." Free from all sin ; therefore no speck, not a stain is left to be ex piated-in the purgatorial fire. He is said to be " the Lord our righteousness, Jehovah our righteousness." What room can there be for aught to be added to it; what reason can there be for ought to be diminished from it ? So again our .blessed Redeemer is represented as saying to the sinners that came to him—" Son (or daughter) thy sins be forgiven thee, go in peace." But would the poor penitent go in peace if he thought he was to enter upon the dark dreary dungeons of a horrible purgatory? Can the Redeemer mock his people by thus pretending entirely to forgive, and yet reserve a dark measure of punishment beyond the grave ? Oh, shame, shame upon those that thus dim the lustre of the crown of redemption upon his brow, that thus tarnish his brightest attribute, the fulness and freeness of his forgiveness through his own blood ! My christian friends it cannot but be conceived that the dishonour done to the Saviour is still more deep and awful, when we remember that deliverances from the pains of pur gatory are ascribed to the masses, and prayers, and interces sions of mortal men, in so much as they are to proceed from the authority of men paid for the purpose, who say masses, and offer up intercessions for the spirits in purgatory, and that these will avail for their deliverance? WYE.. •• .• • But we equally denounce also the doctrine of purgatory as in the face of Scripture, upon the ground that it entirely con tradicts the declarations of the Word of God, touching the immediate transition of the spirit of the just to the bosom of his God. " To-day," said our Divine Masterto the penitent thief upon the cross, " shalt thou be with me in paradise." Surely if there was ever one that deserved to pass through the purgatorial purifications it must have been one thus plucked from the very verge of hell, with all his sins up to that time, upon his soul. I say if there was any one in need of purga torial purifications it must have been he; yet Christ said not " thou shall this day go with me into purgatory," but " this day shalt thou be with me in paradise." How noble the tri umph ! lie took him at once from the cross of shame to the throne of glory, the first fruits as it were of his power upon earth to forgive sins. Then, my Christian friends, look at other passages of similar import. Paul says, and not for himself alone, for he might appear exempt from the ordinary fate of the saints—" We are confident 1 say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. There is no intermediate state here : the transition is at once from the earthly house of the tabernacle to the bosom of the Redeemer in heaven. The same truth is taught us in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus : there was no interme diate state there. The beggar died, and angels carried him into Abraham's bosom : the rich man also died, and when in hell he lifted up his eyes in torments, but he could not pass from thence to heaven, nor could Lazarus pass from heaven to him. Their state was fixed for ever. Is not Scripture then always the same? " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest"—" Behold now is the accepted time, behold now is the day of salvation." Blessed hope of the child of God ! At once he leaves his tenement of clay, at once he wakes up in the presence of the Saviour, amid the spirits of the just made perfect ! Oh, let not the dark clouds of purgatory intervene between the death of the believer and the presence of his Lord and Master! We reject, finally, the doctrine of purgatory, because it places into the hands of the priesthood of Rome—of a poor fallible worm like ourselves—a terrific power that has a most mischievous and mercenary tendency. Take away purgatory from the Church of Rome, I say again, and you take away the most fertile source of her gains, the most fearful sword that she brandishes over the crushed spirits of her votaries ; you take away, in short, that which forms the very pivot upon which her terrible power turns. Take away purgatory, do away with masses for the dead, prayers and intercessions for the departed, and you take away the gains of the priest hood—for, no money no mass, and no mass no money. It is a terrific truth, that this doctrine of the Church of Rome is not a mere harmless theory, is not a mere day-dream, is not a mere notion, that we may let alone as of no practical im port or of no practical avail ; it is a doctrine that is wielded with fearfully practical power by the crafty priesthood of Rome. Therefore, my Christian friends, the doctrine of purgatory, connected as it is with, and based upon, the dis tinction of venial and mortal sin, the distinction between pardon for it and temporary punishment we have proved to be unsupported by Scripture, and to be opposed to Scripture by a variety of Scriptural arguments levelled-to the simplest mind, and so dear and unequivocal, that I do not see how any Romanist can resist them. In bringing, then; this mat ter to a close, suffer me to remind you, as members of the Reformed Catholic Church of England, that if you are such, not in name and profession only, but in spirit and in truth, you may go to your homes, and lay upon your pillows to night with renewed gratitude and joyfulness for the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free. The rev. gentleman then drew an eloquent comparison between the departure of the Protestant in the full assurance of immediate reception into his Saviour's bosom, and that of the poor Roman Catholic dying in the expectation of going through the pur gatorial purification. It brought to his recollection the verses of our early childhood,— How fine has the day been ! How bright was the sun ! How lovely and joyful the course that he run ! Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain : But uow the fair traveller comes to the west, His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best, He paints the sky gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretells a bright rising again. Just such is the Christian. His course he begins, Like the sun in a mist, while he mourns for his sins, And melts into tears : then he breaks out and shines, And travels his heavenly way : But when he comes nearer to finish his race, Like a fine setting sun, he looks richer in grace, And gives a sure hope, at the end of his days, Of rising in brighter array ! Yes, my friends, he added, this is the beautiful departure of the child of God, like the summer's sun setting in cloudless radi ence, and leaving his perpetual track along the ocean and athwart the heavens ; but the departure of the saint of , the Church of Rome is, at the best, but as the sun going down upon some wild and stormy evening, amidst the fitful glooms of uncertain night, and with dark shadows brooding about his departure. Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory, not partial, not marred, not alloyed, but the fulness of unclouded victory through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Cheers.) The rev. gentleman then resumed his seat amidst loud ap plause. The Rev. Dr. TArrERsHALL, seconded by Mr. Jour; HOWARD, moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Stowell, for his able and eloquent lecture. The motion was carried by accla mation. The doxology, " Praise God, from whom all blessings flow," was then sung ; and a blessing having been pro nounced, the meeting separated. LIVERPOOL EASTER SESSIONS.-FRIDAY FORGERY John Barlow Love, a respectable looking man, aged 55, was indicted on a charge of having uttered a forged- bill of exchange to Messrs. Barlow and Co., leather-dealers Dale street. Mr. Henderson was for the prosecution, and Mr. Ramshay for the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence, that the prisoner called at the prosecutors, with whom he had previously dealt, and purchased a quantity of leather to the amount of £59 45., if paid in cash , promising to call next day with the money. Next day he called, and brought two bills in payment ; one for £3O, and one for £29 4s. One of these (that for the £3O) was drawn by the prisoner, and accepted by a Patrick John Tierney. The prisoner in dorsed the bill, saying that Mr. Tierney was a highly eminent man in the town of Kells, near Dublin. It was received as good, but was returned unpaid. The evidence of Patrick Tierney, a gentleman retired from business, and residing with in six miles of Kells, which last town he well knew, said there was no such person as Patrick John Tierney living there, but there was a poor labouring man of the name of Patrick Tierney lived in the neighbourhood, who was not in a condition to accept suc h' a bill. The signature to the ac ceptance was not witnesss handwriting. The prosecutor admitted that since he received the bill in question, the pri soner had paid him the sum of £2O towards the bill. Mr. Ramshay ably cross-examined the witnesses, and addressed the jury with great force and ingenuity in behalf of the pri soner. The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after being absent about ten minutes, brought in a verdict of guilty. He was put down. Mr. Henderson stated to the Court, that there was another serious charge against the same prisoner ; and as a conviction had been on the forgery, and there were a great number of witnesses in the case alluded to, he wished to be guided by the Court as to whether it would be necessary to proceed with it ? (The case referred to was a charge against the prisoner for having received, in February last, two thousand three hun dred and thirty pounds weight of silk, the property of Samuel Briggs and others, he knowing the same to have been stolen. The circumstances were laid before the public at the time ; and it may be added as somewhat remarkable, that the par ties who stole the property are not yet known, and (we learn) that the wife of the prisoner has been offered £5O by the owners, if he would give such information as would lead to their conviction. On his being applied to, however, for that purpose, he stated that he could not supply such informa tion, inasmuch as he was not personally acquainted with them at all, and only received the silk to be sold in his usual way of business as a commission agent—adding that he could not point them out, though ten times the amount offered were given to him.) • The Recorder in reply to Mr. Henderson, said, that as the prisoner had been convicted on the charge of forgery, it would not be necessary to go into the other, and the witnesses might therefore be discharged. Sentence deferred. The recorder only sat for a few hours on Saturday, when the cases having been gone through the Sessions terminated. SKULL OF A FEMALE FOUND —Yesterday morning, great part of the skull of apparently a female was found in the privy of an uninhabited house in Great George-street, and was conveyed to the coroner's office. The skull-cap is defi cient, and appears to have been removed by sawing on the left side of the skull above the ear, and breaking on the other. On the right side, near the temple, there is a semi circle inverted at the margin of the bone, evidently the lower o part of a circle made in trepanning with a circular saw. Further b ac k on th e sa me side, is also the remains of another but larger cir c l e , p r obably also the result of a similar opera t - depositedin Nothingsoeh a is ye p t l k ac n e o . Late en as to whom this relic of mor tality belo nge d, or o f t h e c i r cumstances that led to its being in. en Wednesday night last two men were killed on the Eastern C ount i es Railway, at Witham, pear Chelmsford, by the falling of upwa r d s o f 300 t on s of earth. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE TOWN-COUNCIL Yesterday a special meeting of the Town7council_was.held for the purpose of giving the necessary notices for holding a market from Monument-place to Burgess-street, for the sale of hay and straw, and to confirm a bite-law of the Finance Committee substituting a coach stand in Stafford-street and another in Burgess-street, for the one now used in London road. The Mayor presided. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said, the Finance Committee, for the purpose of carrying out the wishes of the council, with a view of removing the haymarket to Monument-place, had meant to pass a bye-law, removing the present site of the hackney-coach stand which now occupied that site to another a little further down. In the Finance Committee was placed the power of making bye-laws for this purpose, and they. . . considered they were justified in recommending the council to discountenance the existing stand, and substituting in its place a stand in Norton-street and Lambert-street. There would be room for nine carriages ; and he moved that there be a stand for nine carriages there instead of the one to he displaced. This, however, was merely to afford room for the experiment of the haymarket in Monument-place. The TOWN-CLERK read the bye-law passed by the Finance Committee. It stated that the coach-stand in Monument place should be discontinued from the Ist of May, and sub- kituted the place already named. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE observed that this bye-law of the Finance Committee related only to the coach-stand; and that it was for the council to appropriate the land for the haymarket. The TOWN-CLERK then described the plan for the bay market. The land proposed for the new haymarket com ,. menced at a line draWn from the westward corner of Audley- street to the western corner of Moor-place, which was above the Monument. It Tan 34 yards westwardly until it was at a distance of 18 yards from the eastern corner of Stafford- street ; it then 'ran 69 yards, till _it was 17 yards frornthe east corner of Lambert-street; and from the line extending from the west side of Andley-street to the west side of Moor place, to the distance of 19 yards from the west corner of Moor-place, it ran in a straight line through London-road for 127 yards, where it stopped 'at the distance of 15. yards from the - east corner of Hart-street. At its termination it would be 15 yards wide ; at its commencement above the Monument, 50 yards Mr. PARKER inquired what was the area ? The MAYOR replied that it had not been computed yet The DEPUTY TOWN-CLERK, after having inquired from . _ the Surveyor, said it was 3,962 square yards. Mr. Alderman EARLE asked how many carts it would The TOWN-CLERK then read the document of appropria- ion of the site for the haymarket. Mr. PLATT asked whether it was intended to abandon the ;oath market. - . The TOWN-CLERK replied in the negative; it was the in ention to have three markets. - Mr. H. HoLmEs.—lt is merely an experiment, is it not? Mr. RIGBY thought the south market had abandoned itself. Mr. PARKER asked whether he was to understand that the bye-laws just brought in were to have the sense of the council taken upon them ? The MAYOR said some one would, move them. The TOWN-CLERK said the bye-laws as they stood for coaches were passed by the, Finance Committee, under the general authority of the council, and in pursuance of the directions of the council that they should discontinue the stand in London-road, and appoint another place. But with regard to the appropriation of a market-place, that was an act which rested altogether in the council. The council, however, had determined they would appropriate a place in London-road for this market. The MAYOR.—As an experiment ? Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said this was a pro forma meeting for that purpose ; and they could not discuss the question whether the market should be held in that situation. Mr. PARKER had not risen to discuss the question whether the market should be removed, but merely to ask for infor mation with regard to the alterations of the coach stand. The chairman of the Finance Committee had come down with a plan, which was to be settled by this pro forma meeting. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said the Finance Committee had power already. Mr. PARKER.—Then I shall say no more. Mr. JORDAN begged, as an individual, to enter his protest against the removal of the haymarket into London-road. Ha had been a member of the Markets Committee ten, years before the erection of his Majesty's statue in that place, and he would never consent to it. The MAYOR said the council had not now to discuss the propriety of changing the market; they had decided that already. Mr. JORDAN.—AII 1 wish is, that my opposition may be recorded. The MAYOR.—But we have already decided. Mr. JOHN SMITH.—Mr. Jordan had better enter his pro test in writing in the minutes of the council. Mr. JORDAN meant that he protested to the gentlemen of the public press. Mr. Alderman EARLE.—Hid you not an opportunity of protesting against it at the last meeting? Mr. JORDAN.—I had not, sir. It will be a disgrace to the town to see hay and straw sold there. It is a street entrance. _ _ Mr. PARKER said the last council had been completely taken by surprise ; and he would like the chairman of the Markets' Committee to tell them.what accommodatiOn there was for the farmers. _ _ The MAYOR.—Why at the last council it was decided, upon a division, that there would be. Mr. JAMES LAWRENCE said that every question which was then asked of the Market Committee they answered. The MAYOR repeated that it was too late to re-open a discussion on the removal. Mr. PARKER.—AIIow me to say that I should have been furnished with two or three memorials had that been known ; but, of course, if I can do nothing, I must Mr. H. HOLMES.—Sit down. (Laughter.) Mr. GLADSTONE.—Mr. Mayor, are we to decide upon this appropriation without hearing one single argument? The MAYOR.—You had arguinents at - the last council, and you then decided to make the experiment. Mr. GLADSTONE thought there were a great many, and decided arguments too, against the appropriation ; but if they were not to hear arguments and reasons in favour of the appropriation, he should not condescend to state his reasons for opposing it. He would merely move that the consideration of it be postponed. Mr. JonnAw.—l second it. Mr. ROBINSON said the council had power to post, one the consideratron for six months > which would settle the question. Mr. Alderman EVANS contended that abundance of rea sons had been urged at the last council for the appropriation, for the debate occupied a considerable time. A number of gentlemen had come now in the expectation of not being de tained to discuss a subject which had been discussed already. Mr. PaocTort.--Then I should like to know what we are here for? The MAYOR.—To carry into effect a decision of the last council. Mr. Alderman EVANS.—We are here to give a legal cha racter to the decision of the previous council. Mr. PROCTOR said they were there as mere automatons, if they were not allowed to discuss the subject. The MAYOR repeated that the council had been called to appropriate part of London-road for a market. Mr. Alderman EARLS.-1 must protest against being called an automaton. if the gentleman thinks hiMself one it is very well. The TOWN-CLERK entered into an explanation of the exact position of the question. At the last council the Markets Committee reported as follows :—" Resolved, that it be re commended, as an experiment, to authorise the selling of hay and straw in part of London-road, near the Monument, subject to the usual toll." The council came to the determination, upon a division, to approve of the recommendation of the Markets Committee ; and then, by a standing order, the re solution of the council approving of the recommendation of the Markets Committee could not be rescinded or varied ex cept upon motion, made by notice, which should specify the object and refer to the resolution to be rescinded or varied. Therefore, this vote of the council stood obligatory upon the council, according to the standing orders, unless notice had been given, specifying the resolution, and stating the object to be to have the resolution rescinded or varied. Then the object of the meeting to day was for the council to carry that resolution into effect, namely, by adopting the arrangements to be legally advised. Those arrangements required that there should be a formal appropriation of the land to be used for the sale of hay and straw by farmers, subject to the usual toll. That was the business of the council to-day ; and in order to clear the way for making those legal arrangements with regard to the appropriation of the market, they were furnished with bye-laws on the part of the Finance Commit tee, by which, under the power vested in them, they could remove the stand for coaches in that place. Mr. PLATT asked whether any time was mentioned for its continuance, as it was only an experiment? The TOWN-CLERK said, the period for the appropriation was left blank. Mr. G. 11. LAWRENCE said, that was not what Mr. Platt meant. Mr. BIRKETT could not see, with Mr. Gladstone, why this subject should not he postponed for a month. If it could not, he agreed with Mr. Procter, although he voted for it ; if it could not be postponed for a month or any other time he thought they had been called together to very little purpose. It would enable him (Mr. Gladstone) or any other member of the council to give notice, that the order passed at the last council should be rescinded. He (Mr. Birkett) did not mean to say he should vote for it ; but he wanted to know whether Mr. Gladstone could move or not a postponement of the question. The TOWN-CLERK.—It rests with the council to proceed with the appropriation or adjourn it, as they think proper. Mr. BIRKETT.—Then Mr. Gladstone is in order. Mr. GLADSTONE then moved, and Mr. JORDAN seconded, an amendment, that the consideration of the appropriation be postponed. Mr. PARKER said, he should support the amendment on the ground that the council had been taken by surprise. The MAYOR.—You cannot say that, I think. Mr. PARKER, in continuation, said, that had there been a little more time given, he should have been put in possession of memorials against the appropriation from the inhabitants round the monument. There were between forty and fifty houses there the rent of which was £3O a-year, which would be destroyed by this experimental market. He was prepared to prove that the experimental market would only accommo date about forty loads of hay. Mr. KILSHAW.—That is above the monument. Mr. PARKER.—It would only accommodate about 40 loads of hay, while thousands of pounds worth of property would be injured, for the private houses he had spoken of could not be occupied as private houses when the market was es tablished. It was now an open square from the top, but the owners of those houses must, if the market were brought there, convert them into shops, in order to make their money of their property. But, said the gentlemen who advocated this, " It is merely an experiment ;" so in order to carry out this " experiment," an immense amount of.property must besacrificed, just to please the whim of the Market Com mittee. Now that was a great hardship. Had they come forward and at once have said they intended to make into a permanent market, the objection would not have held. The MAYOR repeated that all this had been discussed be fore, and could not be again entered into. The simple ques tion was, whether this land should be appropriated or not. Mr. PARKER.—Then I shall support the amendment. The council then divided, when there appeared-- For the amendment.. ... ... 22 Against it Majority for the amendment.... ' 7 For.—Councillors Shaw, Houghton, Preston Edwards, Blundell, H. Holmes , J. Ho lme s , R obinson, Wood, Birkett, Gl a dstone, Procter, Parker , Trotman, Jord a n, Pl a tt, A. Smith, jun., Mather, Harbord ; Aldermen Griffith, Chilton and the Mayor-22. Against.—Councillors Sandbach, Copeland, Priestley, J. Lawrence, Cooper , Lloyd , Rigby, Kilshaw, J. Smith, G. H Evans H. Lawrence ; Aldermen Bul le y , , Earle, R. Houghton, and Molyneux—l s . Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said the next subject for consider ation was the particular day to which this matter should be postponed. Mr. ROBINSON suggested it should be this day six months. Mr. GLADSTONE said his object was that what he had stated the Council should carry out. He thought it right that sheds should be put upon tho south market. They might cost some £2 OO or £3OO, but it wa due to the public that the heavy outlay which the Corporation had been at in that place should not be a bandoned till it had had every pos sible chance. If, after having tried every means to make it answer, it did not answer, he should be an advocate for try ing London-road or so me. o ther place. He might as well take that opportunity of stating that he thought it extremely doubtful whether it was either now ascertained . , or likely to be ascertained, that two markets would not answer. One great reason of the south market not answering was that it was too far east; the north market answered very well ; and if a situation could be found about Hope-street, or towards St. James's church, he did not see why it would not answer. Mr. Alderman EARLE thought it would be a great pity to go to the expense of erecting sheds when the south market was so likely to prove a complete failure. He was afraid it would not do. He thought if this experiment in London road was allowed to be tried- Mr. PARKER.--lou stopped me, Mr. Mayor, and I do not see why you should hear Mr. Earle. Mr. JORDAN.—It is no use talking now. Mr. Alderman EATILE.—Mr. Gladstone spoke, and I wish to speak too. The M AYOII, said the reason he had voted as he had was that no experiment was necessary ; he was sure that both buyers and sellers would go to London-road. Mr. Alderman EARLE said if the votes were examined it would be found that several members had now voted for the postponement who had voted for the appropriation of the market at the last meeting. M r. Bi RKETT said he had voted for it because some gentle men thought the subject had not been sufficiently discussed, but he would be no party to postponing it for six months. Mr. JAMES LAWRENCE was glad that this decision had taken place because it would show the public what little con fidence could be placed in the resolutions of the council. A desultory conversation then took place upon the question whether the postponement should be for a month or till the next meeting of the council. It was terminated by Mr. Gladstone saying that be would agree to the postponement being only till the next council, and a resolution to this ef fect was unanimously adopted. The council then separated, the proceedings having occu pied about an hour. MR. R. M. RAYMOND'S FIRST APPEARANCE AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE, LONDON. Mr. Malone Raymond, who has acquired some celebrity in the provinces, made his debut on Thursday night as Major O'Flaberty, in Cumberland's play of the " West Indian." His performance was marked with much good sense, good taste, and discretion, though it was not elaborated in all its details. The tone of the character he had completely appre hended, and added to a perfectly gentlemanlike bearing the delicate kindness of the good major, with a pleasant under current of quiet humour. His first important speech, where he contemplates Charles Dudley as an object of compassion, was given with so much feeling that it produced a favourable impression at once upon the audience • and when, in his in terview with Lady Rusport, he pretended to weep over her departed husband, there was so much drollery in the obvious assumption of grief, in the very deliberate sorrow, that the application of his handkerchief to his eyes was the signal for a roar. He remained a favourite throughout the evening, and though his points were quietly given, not one of them missed fire.—London Times. The " West Indian " was revived on Thursday night at this theatre, for the purpose of introducing to a London au dience a new Major O'Flaherty, in the person of Mr. Malone Raymond. from the Liverpool theatre, Mr. Holt taking (for the first time) the part of Belcour. We have much pleasure in recording the success of Mr. Raymond. He is an experi enced and a pleasant actor—one who stands every chance of making a durable impression on the metropolitan boards. His conception of the character of the major was a correct one, and his execution of that conception was highly credi table to his abilities. Whimsical, comic, and full of fun, but without caricature, the part in Mr. Raymond's hands never waned into forgetfulness of his being an officer and a gentle mm ; and if, in the early scenes of the comedy, there was a want of sufficient buoyancy, the concluding portions, especi ally the last scene, were so rich in the expression of genuine humour, that we can only ascribe the comparative frigidity of the first to the novelty and tremour that ordinarily attend a debut in London. He was repeatedly applauded during the progress of the piece; and when the curtain fell he was una nimously called before it, when he very modestly received the congratulations of the house. A. similar compliment was al so paid to Mr. Holl. The comedy was announced for repe tition on Saturday next, amidst the cheers of the audience. —Morning Chronicle. Cumberland's excellent comedy, the " West Indian," was revived at this theatre on Thursday night, for the purpose of introducing to a London audience, Mr. Malone Raymond, of the Liverpool theatre. The office of criticism is often painful and vexatious, as the critic, in the exercise of his duty, may be compelled to mar the budding hopes and fond anticipa tions of some aspirant for fame, on which his future pros pects may depend, be it as author or actor ; but no such ne cessity exists on this occasion, as we feel ourselves bound to award unqualified praise. The parts were well conceived and well sustained. Mr. H. Holl made a most mercurial Belcour, and rattled through the part with all thegaieti de caul - of a thoughtless, bustling, lively young fellow, who carried his heart on his sleeve, in love with every bright eye that smiled upon him, but, e'perdument amoureux of Louisa Dudley, (well personated bf Miss E. Yarnold) the only daughter of Captain Dudley. The Major O'Flaherty of Mr. Raymond was a quiet, unostentatious piece of acting, in which the broad humour of an Irishman was well sustained in the gen tlemanly deportment and bearing of an Irish gentleman and officer. There was no rant, or vulgar swaggering, nor any clap-trap attempts to catch the applause of the gods; but the humour of the Irish blunders seemed to exude naturally from the liveliness and honesty of his nature. The success of Mr. Raymond was unequivocal, and we have no doubt that this re vival will have a long run, and give the actors in it opportuni ties of eliciting continuous applause. Mr. Raymond and Mr. Holl were both called for at the conclusion, and received the unanimous approbation of the audience.—Morning Herald. SINGULAR FORGERY. -At the Commission Court Dublin, John Lockey Mills, a fashionable looking young man, of about twenty-five years of age, was, on Thursday, convicted of having forged or altered a note of the value of one pound to thirty shillings, with int I nt to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of reland. The pri soner was a clerk in the cancelling department at the bank, and is stated to be very respectably connected in the county of Roscommon. The jury accompanied their verdict with a recommendation to mercy. He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. RUGBY SCHOOL.—The masters have recently established six scholarships, for students at this institution, three being worth £3O a year, and three £2O. Each scholar,hip is ten able for threw years, so that there will be a vacancy in each class of ocholdt cvery yea, They are open to all boys below the sixth form. At the first election, which has just taken place, tile first scholarship Was adjudged to Smith, minor, and the second to Smith, malor. MURDER AT STOURBRIDGE.—A tinker, named Sampson Shipstone, of Stourbridge, near Worcester, and living with a woman, by common report the wife of another man, has been committed for trial for the wilful murder of a child, which the woman had by her husband. SUICIDE BY BURNING.—A lunatic woman, a cook, resid ing at Paddington, London, committed suicide on Wednes day last, by setting fire to her clothes in order to suffocation. The poor creature suffered dreadful agony, and said that she had no motive for committing self destruction, but she could not overcome the impulse to do so. ALLEGED INSULT TO THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.— There is not a word of truth, it appears, in the statement that has gone the rounds of the press, of an insult having been offered to Bishop Alexander since his arrival at Jeru salem. At a meeting of the Jew's Society, held in Dublin last week, the Rev. Dr. M'Caul is reported by the States man to have thus alluded to the matter :—" There was not a syllable of truth in all the malicious reports spread so in dustriously concerning the insults offered to the Bishop of Jerusalem--These reports were not what people had heard, but what they wished to hear, and they should be thankful to God that their enemies had disclosed their malignity, be cause they would be able to avoid them. So far from the reports having been correct, letters had been received from Jerusalem from the 14th of February, up to the 9th of March, from which it appeared that the Bishop had ;been well received by the Turkish authorities, and orders given to protect and afford him every facility, nay more, a procla mation had been issued to the effect That whosoever toucheth the Anglican bishop, toucheth the apple of the Pasha's eye. ' " An extensive fire happened on the morning of Wednesday last, at the village of White Roothing, near Hatfield, in Essex. It raged with violence for several hours, and occa sioned the total destruction of six houses, the dwellings of poor labouring families. The property is not insured. POPULARITY OF THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT.—Addres ses of approbation of the measures proposed by government are daily increasing in number. An address of this kind was presented to Sir Robert Peel, signed by about 1,300 of the inhabitants of Ashton-under-Lyne, including the most res pectable inhabitants. A petition signed by upwards of 1,500 of the working men of Carlisle prays the House of Commons to " support the present administration, and to enact with the least possible delay the various alterations in the import duties which are proposed by Sir Robert Peel." Lord John Russell and his lady are about to secede from le Church of England, and join the ranks of the presbyte- MURDER BY POISONING IN LEICESTER. — An inquest wa held on Tuesday, at Leicester, on an elderly woman, name Waring. From the evidence it clearly appeared that arsenic had been wilfully put into the teakettle by two girls named Mary Barnes, aged 18, and Charlotte Barnacle, aged 20'; the water contained in the kettle was used for tea by deceased, who was immediately afterwards taken ill, and died at three o'clock the following morning. The mother of Barnes had also partaken of some of the same impregnated water, and lies in a very dangerous state. The jury returned a verdict of " wilful murder," and the two delinquents were com mitted to the borough gaol by warrant of the coroner. FATAL ACCIDENT EROM PLAYING WITH A KNIFE. — On Friday last, a little boy, about two years and a haif old; the son of John Mitchell, residing in Longcroft-place, ac cidentally cut itself with a penknife, and died on Sunday. The mother had been peeling some onions, and on going out a short time left the penknife on the table : on her return, she found the child with the penknife in its hand, which she took from it. In a short time the child said, " Mammy, I'm hurt here, " pointing to its abdomen ; and, on stripping it, she found a small incision through which its bowels protruded. Mr. Steele and Dr. Outhwaite attended it, when it was found necessary, before the bowels could be put back, to . maks a further incision ; but, notwithstanding the endeavours which were made, the child died on Sunday. It is supposed that there was some internal injury, not visible from the exterior, which caused its death ; and an inquest is to be held this day, at three o'clock--Bradlord Observer. THE LAW RELATING TO WlLLS.—Motions under the late act are becoming very numerous in the Prerogative Court. Inattention to simple directions is so continually defeating the intention of testators that it may be beneficial to persons making wills to be cautioned against the principal sources of error. The 9th section of the act requires that, after the first of January, 1839, a will shall be in writing, and signed at the foot or end by the testator or some other person in his presen ce or by his dire c ti on , an d suc h s i gnature must be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, whc must subscribe the will in the presence of the testator. If therefore, the signature is made anywhere but at the foot of end, or if the signature be not made, or acknowledged in the presence of at least two witnesses present at the same time, or if these witnesses do not subscribe their names in the presence of the testator, the will is worthless. Three wills were last week refused probate because, although attested by two (and in one instance by three) witnesses, neither of the wills were signed by the presence of two present at the same time. The 21st section requires that obliterations, interli niations, or other alterations made in a will shall he executed in like manner as a will ; that is, by being signed by the tes tator; and attested by two or more witnesses present at the same t i me . Alterations made subsequent to the Ist of Jan uary, 1838, in a will dated prior thereto, fall under this section so far as regards the alterations, and in many instances, wbere wills have been altered, legacies, intended to be merely increased or diminished, have been entirely lost, the substi tuted legacy being invalid, and the original sum being tile- Bible, in which case alone the alteration takes effect.—Na ional Advertiser. The following are the receipts of the principal railways fen the last week—that is to say, up to the date the respective returns are made, viz. :—York and North Midland, £1,618 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, £2,100; Midland Counties, £2,552 ; Great North of Engl and, £ 1,338 ; South West ern , £5,506 ; Birmingham and Derby, £1,068 ; Northern and Eastern, £1,252; Great Western, £13,462; Birmingham, £16,802; Croydon, £392 ; Greenwich, £894; Manchester and Bir- Eastern Counties; £921 ; H u ll an d Selby, mingham, £36 3 ; £921; Birmingham and Glocester, £1,698; Blackwall, £748 and Brighton, £2,618. CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY The annual meeting of the Liverpool Branch of the aura Pastoral Aid Society was held in the Music-hall, Bold-street last evening, at seven o'clock. The following clergymen anC gentlemen among others were upon the platform :—The Rev. Chancellor Raikes, the Rev. C. Lawrence, the Rev. A. Irvine, the Rev. W. W. Pollock, the Rev. J. Cordeaux, the Rev. F. Ould, the Rev. T. Nolan, Rev. H. Carpenter, Rev. F. Barker, Rev. W. Rawson, Rev. T. Carter, Rev. J. Whitley, Rev. J. N. Peill, Rev. Dwyer, Rev. Butler, &c. &c. ; Adam Hodgson, Esq., C. Bouttlower ' Esq., J. Howard, Esq., J. A. Payne, Esq., Bowles, Esq,. W. Maples, Esq., Richard Ilarbord, Esq.,s W. Jones, Esq., &c. &c. &c. On the .. ADAM HODGSON, seconded by thc Rev. C. LAWRENCE, the Rev. Chancellor RAIKES was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN said he had very ing the request to take the chair—the more so, because he saw there had been a certain exercise of their patience till the chair was taken. The fault unquestionably did not belong to him or to the rev. friends around him. They themselves could bear witness that they had been on the spot anxiously waiting, that the time might come when the chair might be occupied with any prospect of success. The appearances were not perhaps very flattering at the present time, but at the same time he had had enough of experience at public meetings never to be disheartened by a thin room at first, because it had frequently turned into a full room at last ; he had likewise had sufficient experience to know that a small audience gave a tone and character to the meeting—a more solid tone pervaded the speeches than when they had a full room and clamouring audience to sti mulate the feelings of those addressing them. In truth, the subject was so really a good one, and so decidedly necessary, that it mattered little, comparatively speaking, whether the room was full or not. If they could but get an audience sufficient to make their statements before them, they would depend on their communicating to others fairly what they had heard. They were aware, he was fully convinced, of the great object for which that society was instituted. When the population increased so rapidly and so largely as it had done in that town for years, they could easily conceive that there was a necessity for building more churches, in order to meet the wants of the inhabitants; and if the necessity for build ing more churches existed, unquestionably a necessity also existed for supplying those churches with ministers. In this town many churches had been built, and many clergy men had been supplied to fill those churches, and whatever might be the increase of population in Liverpool, he could not but doubt that the well-timed liberality of the rich would take care that the spiritual wants of the community should be sufficiently supplied. Unhappily the case was very dif ferent in the other parts of this district ; there were places where the population bad increased almost as rapidly as with ourselves, but where there had not been the wealth nor the ,liberality in order to. make provision for the spiritual wants of the inhabitants.. We had a melancholy picture of an im mense population growing up without any of those means of grace and knowledge which we knew and felt from experience to be absolutely necessary to guide men to a conviction of the truth, or make life itself a blessing. Much bad been done, and he was thankful so much was doing, to supply the want of the church accommodation; and if it pleased God to spare their lives, they hoped in a few days, with their friends at Preston, to make a report of the last year's proceedings for building churches in the surrounding district of Lan cashire. But building . churches was nothing unless they supplied them with ministers. After dwelling for some time on this point he said whatever might be their means of con tributing to the wealth of the society they all might contribute to its efficiency. Those who could give nothing could at least give their pravers,—" The prayer of a righteous man availeth much." It would be in vain that clergymen were appointed were not the prayers of faithful men employed in imploring that blessing which came from on high upon their labours. The Rev. THOMAS NOLAN then offered up a prayer for the divine blessing upon the proceedings of the meeting. The Rev. CHARLES LAWRENCE, Secretary to the Local Society, then read the report of the committee for the past year, of which the following are the chief features : After stating that the auxiliary had remitted to the Parent Society the sum of £226, the report alludes to the lack of zeal manifested to the society by its supporters, and chal lenges more attention to its objects. The system upon which the society has acted is noticed in the following terms:— " The existence of the Additional Curates Society may be looked upon with satisfaction by your committee as a happy provision by which those may be assisted who take different views of an important, but not a primary question. This society has taken her stand upon a great distinction not always remembered. Her supporters regard the' Bishop as the sole dispenser of holy orders and the guardian of the pre cint of his diocese, but subject to such limitations, and those connected with the rights of incumbents, the usages of the church, and the laws of the land, have ever recognised the right of the laity to interfere, more or less, with what may he termed the localization of men once admitted by the bishop to the functions of a minister of the gospel. And it would be strange if an opposition, professedly based upon principle, to such a system should exist in Liverpool, where there is not a clergyman now resident, who, after having been, of course, ordained by the bishop, arid being virtually subject to his authority, does riot owe, in a less or greater degree, ;he fact of his position in this town to lay patronage. " The recognised right of interference in the localisation of the clergy seeking assistance, in this case entirely limited by the rights of incumbents, who, at 'their hands, the subscri bers of the Church Pastoral Aid Society exercise, not through a committee of delegated laymen, but through the more suit able machinery of a clerical committee. The system, we contend, is a correct one. If it should work ill it will not be from defective principle, but from the frailty of that material of which all human institutions must consist, and from the errors of judgment and corruptions of heart which creep into the working of the best systems, and disappoint the soundest great pleasure in obey- principles. " W ►thin the last 15 years a great change for the better has taken place in England in regard to her church ; and in no place is that change more apparent than in Liverpool. Churches have been multiplied in districts judiciously chosen. Men, faithful to their divine master, and fully com petent to their work, have been attached to specific portions of the vineyard, and the whole will soon present the appear ance of systematic and progressive cultivation. Among all the difficulties still to be encountered, and hindrances every day experienced, what thanks to God do we not owe for the dew of His grace lying so thickly on this favoured town ! The Church Pastoral Aid Society has not been inactive and unblessed in bringing about these results. The districts of St. Paul's, of St. Michael's, of Christ Church, of All Saint's, and latterly that of St. Barnabas, have received grants from her. May not your committee, then, conclude with the ex pression of a hope, in conjunction with earnest prayers to God, that he will pour forth in still more abundant degree the healthful spirit of his grace and fertilising dew of his blessing upon us, that this great town shall at no distant pe riod rise from the unsuitable position of a receiver which now she occupies with regard to this society, and pour back an ample return into the exhausted coffers of her benefac tress ! May not rather a still better founded confidence be placed in the power of the word of the grace of God, now so fully ministered among us, to touch the springs of men's hearts, to subject them to the claims of the Saviour, to melt them at the recital of the spiritual indigence of others, and to moor them to Christ-like efforts of mercy." The following collections were made in aid of the associa tion, last Sunday week, in this town St. Mary's, Edgehill. Seaforth St. Barnabas St. Mary's, Kirkdale All Saint's . St. Luke's . St. Simon's St. Paul's £36 0 0 33 0 0 20 0 0 19 0 0 15 0 0 10 10 0 9 0 0 5 16 0 The TREASURER then read a statement of his accounts ; from which it appeared, that, whilst Liverpool had contributed only £205 ss. 2d. to the funds of the Parent Society for the year, she had drawn from them, in the same period, a sum of no less than between £5OO and £6OO. The Rev. W. POLLOCK, incumbent of St. Helen's, then moved the first resolution, to the effect that the report be printed, and the usual officers appointed. He pre sumed that that resolution was never intended to be any thing more than a peg to hang a speech on ; but, as far as it referred him to the report that was just read, it gave him the opportunity, if he only had the power, of speaking to any length, and of speaking on almost any subject con nected with the interests of the Church of Christ in this country. When a short time ago he received a letter from the committee of the Pastoral Aid Society, requesting that he would consent to appear as one of their deputation, he felt there was ,but one course to pursue, and that was, at once to obey. He felt, indeed, as well he might, that the society might have found many abler advocates, though, at the same time, he felt they could not find a warmer one. They never could find an advocate who felt every feeling of pastoral obligation, and every Christian sentiment of regard and esteem, or one who would plead their cause, at least, more earnestly than he would do wherever he appeared as their representative. And now that he had come, if any thing could give him additional pleasure, it was to see him (the Chancellor) occupying that seat. (Applause.) He (the reverend speaker) did not wish to adopt the language which would be most disagreeable to him—that which might be deemed the language of flattery, but he would say it gave any minister in the Church of England confi dence to have him presiding over any meeting that took place They did feel that his presence was of itself an as surance of the purity, of the holiness of any cause be per mitted to be heard before him. He would follow the report in the first place, generally to the principles of the Church Pastoral Aid Society ; and in the second place, to the opera tions of the society, its success, and its results in Liverpool. The rev, gentleman then took a very animated and eloquent review of the period when this society was established, in the course of which, he said it was when chartism was assaulting all that partook of the nature of settled law—when socialism was blaspheming against all that was held good or sacred, and above all when popery had returned at length within the precincts of the constitution ; it was at such a - period, in the I year 1837, that God put it into the the hearts of other chosen chosen servants to institute and organize the Church Pasto ral Aid Society. (Applause.) When the founders of this society looked abroad on the state of things he had described, they attempted to meet them by such means as he would further lay before them. They looked with much anxiety at the distractions by which society was torn and shaken, and they felt persuaded that the true way of healing this was only if they might happily succeed in multiplying in the land the dwelling places of the son of peace. They believed that the oil which should be thrown on the troubled waters was of that bought by the unction of the Spirit of the living God. Such, he was sure they could bear him witness when he said, were the first persua sions of the founders of the Pastoral Aid Society. But they had another step to advance. Having determined to give themselves to the work of God—the holy work of ad vancing so far as they might the cause of the gospel amongst their countrymen—they had then further to inquire by what legitimate means they might carry their design into execu tion. Was there a lawful and ordained instrumentality for the spread of the gospel of Christ already in existence, or must they desire a new one ? They had already a chief shep herd and a fold in this country, and was it their duty to ac knowledge that fold or to found a new fold ? The founders at once decided that the fold should be the Church of England. They knew her to be holy in her faith—catholic in her constitution—and apostolic in her descent. They saw her when they looked at the annals of her history—they saw her in better and purer times, although they were more troubled times—they saw her supported by the blood of many a martyr to the truth as it was in Jesus—and even now they saw the tokens of God being with her in the con version of many a sinner. They knew, too, when they looked at her parochial system, that the machinery only needed to be carried out in practice to give to every sheep a fold and every fold a shepherd. The fact was that prin ciple would not permit them,and inclination never tempted, them for a moment to look urther than the church. There were some whom they might be permitted to call unautho rized dictators, who had been bold enough to pronounce that that was not a church society. (Applause.) Really, he must confess, they were in utter ignorance of the autho rities which, no doubt, such parties were able to produce in support of such an assertion ; but until those authorities ' were produced, and as yet they had only heard the result— until they knew the full authority on which such a statement was based, they were constrained to say, first, that it was essentially wanted and required for the wants of the church on the one hand and the order of the church on the other. It was an earnest desire to extend her borders, to throw wide her sanctuary, to carry out her m i n i strat i ons, to w id en h er courts, to strengthen her streets, to perpetuate her standing, and to develope her spiritual exercises ; it was a, desire to see her .a clean church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. He said that if such feelings and such efforts as these could entitle any society to be called and ad mitted as a church society, then the Pastoral Aid Society was all that it pretended to be ; indeed, it was the Church Pastoral Aid Society. (Applause.) But, secondly, he must be permitted to observe as well, th a t if t h ere were any like Reno and Shiinski of old, who would impede them in their good work, whatever difficulty they (the society) might find in making out that they were a church society, they need say little of the task they had imposed upon themselves of proving their claim to the hon oured name of churchmen. Yes, the name of church- —(cheers man was an honOured name, / —and as far as he, an humble individual, was concerned, he did venture:to say that he had no higher earthly ambition, as far as title was concerned, than to be esteemed both a warm and high churchman. (Hear.) But it might be that he, in common with the multitude, might be mistaken as to the true meanine rchman saw in his might be necessary to deny us, the comfortable truth of ,ustification by faith—it might be necessary to return towards Rome, at least as far as Appii Forum, forgetting that both bond and captivity awaited them there—all these things might necessary - to entitle them to be called churchmen, 'were necessary, then he would confess that he was not a churchman, and the society he had the honour to re present was not a church society. (Applause.) He had spoken negatively on this point, but if he had spoken nega tively of the services rendered by the society to their beloved church, it was not because he was. compelled to do so. He thought he was able to give substantial proof of the truth of all that he had stated. He should not, however, at that time do anything more than deal with general remarks. Mr. Irwen who was to follow him would go into detail. 247 incumbents had already been aided by the society, and many of them by more than a single grant. He was himself a pluralist on the bounty of the society. Under these 247, there was a popu lation in charge of 850,000 souls. Not to speak of the aid rendered to such—not to speak of the increased means of grace,. they had cast into the treasury of the church £130,000 each year. They spoke of the church building society. H e had the happiness to say, that through the instrumentality of this society, 154 churches had been already built—one within his own incumbency, and there were 64 now in progress. 117 licensed places of worship had been opened in neglected districts, and 37 more were contemplated. Great good had been done by the distribution of tracts, prayer books and homilies, &c. Their good example had been followed by the institution of the additional Curates' Fund Society, and a similar society had been established in Ireland. " May our common work go on and prosper, for it is in the name of the Lord, and for the glory of his great name." An attempt had been . made to establish a -piece of rivalry—of unholy rivalry•—between the Church Pastoral Aid Society and the Additional Curates' Church Society ; but they were the par ties who utterly repudiated it. If any gentleman objected to that society being called their daughter, she was their sister ---a 'sister that they laved and prayed for. He sail distinctly, that if there was an objection to the peculiarity of their prac tice, then let such person subscribe to the other society ; only, for God's sake, let no man be guilty of the hollow, transparent,' dissimulation of making the peculiarities of one society an excuse for helping neither. What was the posi tion of the society in Liverpool ? He found that Liver pool received £6OO a year from this society, and that she only returned £201) in money. (Hear, hear.) He must say, honestly and openly, that this ratio should be inverted, and that instead of returning one-third of what it received, it should give three times what it received. Where the fault lay he did not presume to say. He was a stranger and hardly known in Liverpool, but yet as a stranger address ing a Liverpool- audiences •he would venture on his own responsibility to say plainly that he should have liked to see some of the Liverpool champions who were not there. He should have liked to have seen some of these champions for the truth of Jesus,- who took an honoured lead in every holy cause.- He should: have liked to have seen them stand there to advocate and to support. the Church Pastoral Aid Society.- He would put it honestly to that meeting through the chairman. Was it right, or was it not right, that those champions of whom he spoke, should be forward in pro moting the cause of foreign missions? Then they should stand there with them. Was it right, or was it not right, that those faithful men should have given their testimony in behalf of scriptural education ? Then it was right that they should take their stand there. Was it right, or was it not right, that they should have raised their voices against Po pery ? Then they should have been there. The champions agains Popery ought to be the champions of the Church Pas toral Aid Society. He really thought that be ought to beg pardon for these observations,• but he would only say that they were all -his own ' • he alone would be responsible for them. For the rest of Liverpool, he trusted that the report of another year would present a very different account, and he hoped that henceforward Liverpool would be found a warm, liberal, and consistent friends to the Church Pastoral Aid _Society._ (Applause.) _ _ but if they The Rev. FIELDING doLn seconded the resolution. The rev. gentleman, after explaining the absence of some of the Liverpool champions of this society, which had been com plained of by the last speaker, remarked that just at the time such a society as this was called for it sprung into existence. During the last 40 years. nine millions had been added to the population, and two millions within the last ten years, and it was increasing at the rate of 240,000 annually. This in- crease would require an addition of one thousand clergymen, and it was a fact, that this society supplied one-third of that number at the expense of £27,000 per annum. England was blessed, because of her profession of the Christian church ; let that church be efficiently worked, and a supply of faithful pastors be continued to her, and those blessings would be perpetuated. The best method then of manifesting an attachment to the church was by hearing the truths which she taught, and exerting ourselves as we had opportunity and means of spreading her ministrations among the sons of men. He therefore appealed to the meeting on behalf of this society; and concluded by saying, that its motto might well be the harvest is great, and the labourers are few, pray ye to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send forth more labourers." • The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. The Rev. ARTHUR IRVINE, one of the secretaries to the Parent Society, proposed the second resolution, which said that the meeting being fully convinced of the necessity which still exists for the operations of the Church Pastoral Aid Society, could not hear without deep concern that its financial state did not justify the committee in extending aid to many applications, the consideration of which they were obliged to postpone, and therefore they called for increased exertions. kfter some preliminary remarks the reverend gentleman said he had not to congratulate the Parent Society London upon one of the fullest meetings he had ever seen, that althou he might congratulate it upon one of the most intelligent and attentive which it had been his pleasure to address, and still more might he congratulate it upon the meeting being pre sided over by the Chancellor of the Diocese. The Church Pastoral Aid Society was not a new society, but at the same time it required in some respect an apologist. He did not allude to the old objections , to those storms which raged aga inst it, or to that bluster which , instead of destroying i t had only had the effect of making it take deeper root, of strengthening its branches, and of enabling it to afford shelter and sustenance to many a perishing family. He alluded to the grounds and reasons of the misconceptions which, he feared, had prejudiced its cause in this neighbourhood. From the want of a general understanding of the mode of its operations its 'proceedings sometimes appeared anomolous, and some times eccentric. In some way or other the operations of the society were orderly in themselves, though they were liable to be misconceived. For instance, there might be a population of large amount which had no grant, and there might be in the immediate neighbourhood of it a much smaller popula tion which had a grant To him who was unacquainted with the principle of the operations of the society this might ap pear anomalous. But it was forgotten that the society might not be able to act upon the large population—that according to its principle it could not send a minister or lay assistant into that large population until the incumbent had applied for a grant. When the society commenced it was appealed to from many quarters ; the committee was aware there were more pressing cases which might be brought before them, but because the incumbents did not choose to apply, the society was not at liberty to interfere. Hence the appa rent anomaly of grants being made to small populations in the neighbourhood of large populations which were without a grant. There were other circumstances which made the operations of the society appear unjust, and which required close scrutiny to be fully understood, but the meeting might depend that the society did not misapply its funds. It de pended of course upon the representations made by the cler gyman applying of the nature and character of the place, and if those representations misled the society, surely it was not the society which was in fault. (Hear, hear, hear.) He could answer for this on the part of the society, that if they had reason to believe that a grant was ill bestowed they would take the earliest opportunity of having the defect remedied. They would not, however, act upon mere representation, but upon full investigation ; therefore he would ask any one who objected to the grant to allow the matter to be brought before the committee, and if they would give information he would ensure that the matter should be righted. lie had deemed it right to occupy some portion of the attention of the meeting on this point, because it was a matter of wonder why the support of Liverpool to this society was not greater than it had been. The population of the country had increased since the commencement of the society upwards of six millions ; but there had been no commensu rate spiritual provision made. The consequence was, that there was now in this country a population larger than the entire kingdom of Scotland without spiritual provision. In the large towns, it was presumed, there were a mil• lion of human beings destitute of pastoral supervision. In London there was only one minister to 15,000 of the po pulation; and the population in the manufacturing districts and the large towns were equally unprovided for. It was almost within the memory of some persons when letters used to be addressed to "Birmingham, near Wednesbury ;" hut so rapidly had the population of the former increased, that while Wednesbury had but little above 11,000, Birmingham had upwards of 200,000. This increase had taken place without any corresponding increase in the means of grace. But he would not detain the meeting by enlarging on this topic. It might be said, " Why does not the Church, with her ample endowments, provide for these things ?" She was not able. Her endowments were exaggerated. The in come of all the benefices in England was only three and a half millions, and if this sum were equally distributed among all the beneficial clergy it would only yield an average income to each of £215 per annum. There were 3535 livings under 1350 per annum ; and it was a fact that there were benefices and vicarages in England under the value of £5 a year ; but in addition to all this there was a large amount of nets churches which were not called benefices, the endowments of which were still smaller than the average of the benefices. For these the church had no means of making provision. But it was said if the church is not able to supply this deficiency the dissenting body were. Now, giving the dis senting body full credit for the best' motives, and the greatest exertions, they were not able to supply it. Or the authority of a dissenting publication he would state that the whole amount of their places of worship in Eng land, and those embracing the deistical, Socialist, and the idolatrous Romanist, were only a little above 8000. By some they were stated at 6000. But take there at the larger number, there were in England 10,500 benefiCes—and if one dissenting chapel were given to each benefice, there Would still be 2500 benefices—unsupplied. , What, too, was the fact ? The dissenting chapels were not equally distributed. In part of the county of Lancaster there was a considerable proportion of the whole, leaving the other parts of the county totally destitute of spiritual provision. M a ki ng every allow ance for prejudice and conscience, and giving every credit for the best motives, he must say that dissenting teachers were not pastors ; he knew it from his own experience, when in charge of a neglected people, for be had never found them visiting the sick or the poor. They were removed periodically, and this circumstance made them the ministry of the congregation rather than of the district. He repeated, he had never found them exercising pastoral supervision. Now, to supply these deficiencies which the church could not supply, and which dissent was neither able nor willing to supply, the Church Pastoral Aid Society stepped in. It was obliged to interfere; but it interfered not with the order of the church in any degree ; it mearly supplied the means to overburdened ministers of assistance, whether they chose to employ clerical or lay aid according to the canonical order of the church. From its first institution it had supplied fas sistance to 470 incumbents, operating u pon the population 00 two millions. Its operations did not at presen t extendttoass. large a number ; but from the first it had supp lied that sistance. He would not detain the meeting with the num ber of school-rooms and cottage lectures supplied by many of the society, but he would bring before the meeting two or three instances of overburdened clergymen. The rev. v aged gen tlemancr- then related the manner i n which s t ol income,l apply to gymen, some 80 years of age had been .schoemspeoe eralfllsemda the society for aid, particularly in part there must, necessa in which, if aid had not be en g ranted, rily, have been intermission s in the e rvices of the church. He also described from correspondence with the parties, the excellent effects produced by the assistance of the society, not only in dese cases, but it - , many districts of Yorkshit Worcestershire, and other popular counties, for a report of which we regret we have not room. The Rev. ROBERT DAVIES said that at that late should confine himself merely to cordially seconding solution • which being put, was unanimously carried The Rev. JOHN CORDEAIIX (of St. Silas's) rose I the third resolution, and said that he should best consult the comfort of the meeting by offering only a very few re marks. That resolution was—" That this meeting desire to record their unabated attachment to the principles, objects and plan of the ( to move earnest prayers ig, as we arc would, at of the clam convinced that no system, however excellent, can prosper without it." The resolution went to record un unabated at tachment to the principles and objects of the society, and that led them to the second clause, that they must look to the Lord for its future progress and prosperity. It was essen tially a Church of England society in its principles and . ob jects. It was s society which sought the Christian pastor to go from house to house ; to spread abroad the light of religion, and to induce those who seldom atter.ded divine worship to go to the House of God. Let them but look to this and other towns, and they would find that tens of thousands were without the means of religious instruction, and had no real hope of eternal salvation. In the society, however, they had a remedy; if they had the heartfelt inclination, they had the means in the gospel of truth. Their efforts were not prescribed. and they had but, with uncompromising fidelity, to preach that blessed gospel. It was deeply to be regretted that the expenditure of the society exceeded its funds; and he implored them not to let it be said of Liverpool that while she received £6OO of the society's funds annually they only sent £2OO to the general fund. He besought their earnest prayers, so that a blessing might rest on the future labours of the society, and that by that blessing they might bring thousands from darkness and de lusion to the glorious light of redemption. Equally (lid he implore them . to cultivate personal religion for if they felt its benign influence themselves, they wo u ld 1.") e the better ena bled to appreciate its worth, and to dispense it to others ; and their prayers would not, he trusted, be in vain. One speaker had likened the society to a ship proceeding gallantly on her course, and such was his own attachment to the noble vessel, that he was prepared to nail his colours to the mast. (Cheers.) Some were invidious enough to frown upon her, but she nevertheless proceeded bravely on her course ; she had been launched six years ago; her sails were filled with the breath of heaven, and be doubted not all present would fervently exclaim " God speed her :" The Rev. Mr. NOLAN, in seconding the resolution, said that he would not trespass long on the attention of the meet ing at that late hour. The resolution expressed an unabated attachment to the principles and objects of the society.; and they had much reason to be attached to it. There was no need of a rival society, for their society had passed the fiery ordeal, and had come out pure and unscathed by the flames of opposition. lie passed a high and delicate compliment on the bishop who was placed over them, and for whose long preser vation to them he sought their prayers. So long as they kept within the pale of the church, so long would the fair portions remain to the flock, and the refreshing waters of salvation flow around them. Let them, therefore, pray to God, whose true church it was; let them strive heart and hand to leaven the corrupted mass of humanity around them. Every Christian however humble could forward the object in view, for he could influence others by his example. They must not, therefore, give a barren vote on this occasion, but must speak well of the society wherever they went, and pray to God for his blessing upon it. He would say a word with reference to the contributions to the society, and was reminded of an apt but somewhat quaint saying, first " Make all you can ;" secondly, " Save all you can ;" (both of which were good precepts)—and thirdly, " Give all you can," which he hoped they would on this occasion. Before he sat down he begged to allude briefly to what had fallen from their respected friend, Mr. Pollock, with reference to the non-attendance of certain of their brethren in the ministry. lie assured them from that gentleman that on looking round and seeing what he conceived to be a paucity of attendance at the meeting of reverend gentlemen, he had made some remarks, no doubt in the zeal of the moment, but that he did not purpose them to apply to particular individuals, and least of all to that brother in whose behalf, in the domestic afflic tion that pressed upon him, their warmest sympathies were engaged. As they felt the grace of God operating on them serves, so ought they so to labour as to be the means of ex tending it to others. If they thus clung to the church, they would go on conquering and to conquer, and the dew of God's blessing would descend upon their labours, and crown them with success. The CHAIRMAN here intimated that it was now time the meeting should be brought to a close. Any slight cloud of difference that had arisen between some of the speakers was, he felt convinced, the result merely of individual zeal for the welfare of the society, and was worthy of consideration only inasmuch as it evinced this individual anxiety for the success of the society, and their ardent attachment to the church. The church was title parent, and it was a pleasing reflection that the child hail been enabled to assist the parent in the hour of need. Mr. ADAM HODGSON proposed a motion of cordial thanks from the meeting to their worthy friend the chairman for his kindness on this an on former occasions, which, he felt assured, would be met in feeling the most cordial by all who were present. The motion was immediately seconded, and carried by At the suggestion of the chairman the Doxology was sun and the meeting then separated. The Duke 6f Sussex has been appointed by her Majesty to be the Governor of Windsor Castle, in lieu of the late Lord Munster. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 15.—The royal mail steamer Me dina, Captain C. F. Burney, for the West Indies, left here this day at one p.m., having on board GO passengers. It is stated that the expenses of the Great Marlow Election Committee were £lOO per day ; and as the committee coin menced its sittings on the 16th March, and did not terminate till the 11th April, the expenses must have amounted to from £B,OOO to £lO,OOO. The Frankfurter Gazette states that the consul-general at Trieste has officially announced that the corn-trade has been declared free by the government of the lonian Islands. Lord Abinger will not be able to take his seat on the bench this term, through indisposition. A. man, of the name of Michael Welsh, was examined at the Marylebone (London) police on Friday, and, from the evidence, there is little doubt he intended to commit crimes equal in atrocity to the dreadful tragedy recently perpetrated in Aldermanbury, that is, to murder his children ; but his intentions were providentially frustrated by their presence of mind. A fatal conflict took place near Waterford on Monday last, in disposessing a tenant from a farm. The latter, and a large ►party of his associates, resisted the law, and during the pro cess of taking forcible possession, the tenant received a wound from one of the constabulary, and died in a few minutes. The Duke of Marlborough has been appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Oxfordshire, in the room of the late Earl of Macclesfield. DUKE OF LANCASTER'S YEOMANRY. — The Lancashire Yeomanry Cavalry will assemble in Lancaster on the 10th of June, under the immediate command or Lord Francis Eger ton. REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—An eminent jeweller, who at one time was reported to be worth four hundred thousand pounds, is now an inmate of the Charter House. LOVE AND LAW.—The difference between love and law this—in love the attachment precedes the declaration; in law the declaration comes before the attachment. We hear with pleasure that the splendid chapel built for the Irvingites, on St. Augustine's Back, in this city, is likely to be purchased and dedicated to the service of the Established Church.—Bristol Journal. There is no doubt now that Mr. Hume will be our member. Mr. Jobson, no doubt, has told us that he is sure of being returned; but, withont intending any disrespect to him, we hold to our opinion that Mr. Hume will be the man, and it is with no small feeling of humiliation we make the admission. We feel deeply the disgrace that the Montrose Burghs incur in being the means of again restoring Mr. Hume to a place in parliament.—Montrose Standard. EXPOILTATION OF .COALS FROM PRESTON QUAYS.-011 Sunday last, the Albion brig sailed from the port of Preston with a load of coals, for Stettin.. This is the first vessel which has been loaded for a foreign port at Preston Quays. On Monday, the Rambler, also loaded with coals, for Que bec, left our port, having been laden at Lytham. These vessels are both the property of the Messrs. Humber, of this town.—Preston Chronicle. THE FRENCH POSTOFFICE AND THE ENGLISH PRESS.--. The Boulogne tribunal of first instant, has been engaged in the trial of the Courier, employed by the Morning Chronicle, Morning Herald, andMor . nin g Past, to transport the late -, • intelligence received by the Calcutta mail from Paris to Boulogne. The Procureur Du Roi took eight days to con sider of the sentence. It is stated that the venerable Earl Grey afforded indiffer ent proof of his sympathy with the tactics of her Majesty's Opposition in Parliament, by the reception he gave the other day to the presumptuous individuals who solicited h i s coun tenance to the Northumberland County Meeting on the In come Tax. The Noble Lord signified his disapproval of the agitation sought to be created, and intimated that, in the plight in which the country was left by the late Administra tion, the financial measures of Sir Robert Peel were sound, and had his approbation. CHARGE OF FORGERY.—At the Cambridge sheriff's court, on Friday, Mr. W. B. Buller, surgeon, Mary Buller, his wife, and Edwin Buller, his brother, were charged with having forged a promissory note for £2OO, purporting to be executed by the father and mother of the female prisoner. The ma gistrates committed the female prisoners, and discharged the female. , On Thursday, a yo ung gen tl eman, of independent fortune, of the name of Mr. R. B. L. Burton, aged 18 was thrown from his horse whil s t r idi ng i n H yde -park, and unfortunately killed. The deceased was a personal friend of Prince George of Cambridge. TROOPS FOR INDIA. —On Friday, the 29th Regiment em barked for Indi a , an d i n a few days the 10th Regiment, greatly augmented, will also embark for the same place' An extensive gang of juvenile thieves has been captured at Warrington, and comm i tted for trial. •••••• R ENFREWSRIRE BANK.—A.. 4 meeting of credi tors was held on Monday, when claims to the amount of £25,000 sterling.were g i ven in. lieutenant Napoleon's stepped hat forward, ore fell poiffckaedt , arid returned it to him. Emperor. "In " Thank you, Captain," said the what regiment, sire ?" re tor a t ruepview, when a young ted the Sub. quick as lightning,. Napoleon smiled, passed on, and forthwith had the lucky youth promoted to the step of his a mbition. NEW MAGISTRATE.—At the general quarter sessions of the peace, held by adjournment at Preston, on Wednesday, E s q., of Flaxmoss House, the 6th instant, William Turner, magistrate for Lancashile. near Haslingden, qualified as a MALTA, Aram s.—William Curving, a seaman of the Cambridge, after a trial which lasted two days, has been fa court-martial assembled on hoard de clared, by sentence o tit and Ist instantguilty the Impregnable on the 31st t • v of to the Cambridge, whilst that the murder of a boy belonging, vessel was lying at 'Gibraltar, and sentenced to be hung on board of his ship, which sentence will, it is said, be carried i n t o execution to morning. SINGULAR AFFAIR. —A sheriff's court was last week held which a female named in Maryport, in servant, Ann Mawson, sued h e r late master , Thomas Archer, of Do venby , for a balance of wages ; the testimopy was of such a nature as to puzzle the jury, and they . had to pay the usual penalty at tending a want of decision ; they were locked up, night came on , and in this d oleful p li g ht wer e they situate • orone who c andle. About midnight some had" a heart to feel for other's woe, " humanely placed window of the r oom, and three of thea ladder against th e ma de their escape. On this circumstance unfortunate j ur y men to the under-sheriff in the m being made known or n i n e, who most gladly availed ning,he released the other liberty.themselves of the proffered MARRIAGE OF A POK who has writtensu PRIEST.—The Genevese tra vellerTimes, records the followsoing in a letter dated New York, take leave to record th e amusing incidents of the day I Catholic priest was the e fact of a riot at Rochester. A lead lives of revelry exciting cause. These gentry may riot in their cow, and debauchery without hazard of a this rev. congregation, but to commit the crime which gentleman what do you think committed is an unpardonable sin. Anti are enjoined h it is? I will tell you; but the ladies w ., e ......v hot to read the horrid tale,--he has taken a , IT , es, married l