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July 16, 1844. Oburation. REV. JOHN NEVIN'S BOARDING AND DAY ACAEMY. Tl 6, S TAFFORD ST R EET, LIVERPOOL. HIS ACADEMY is to be RE-OPENED on TUESDAY, the 23d instant. The system of instruc 010n pursued in it is eminently intellectual, with a view to sake each lesion understood before it is committed to memory, and to form habits of correct thinking. The Pupils are much exercised in mental Arithmetic and Corn laereial Calculations. By a constant course of written Exercises en the Rule of Grammar, &c., the practice of Correct Spelling and a thorough knowledge of the princi ge, aof Languag e are spee di I accurately acquired. 'story is stu ' die s d in con ion with Geography. The eo,rse of education in ding Classics, the Elements of Science Mathesnati , , Book-keeping, &c., is particularly Oda pted to young .ntlemen designed far the University 1 1 for business. The strictest attention is paid to reli to_llll ' a nd moral traini ng . Th e s it ua ti on o f t h e A ca d em y P ° P en and airy, with an enclosed Play-ground. Private Tuition is given in the' Evenings at the Academy a bd in amilies. AcadFore Terms, References, and Testimonials apply at the my. PIANO-FORTE AND SINGING. Mu— H. V. LEWIS, PROFESSOR OF Music, begs to inform the Gentry, his Friends, and Punili, in Li !ereeei , and its vicinity, that he has REMOVED to No. 11, ELI ZABETH -STREET, PEMBROKE-PLACE, where be e hopes to receive a conti n u anc e of their lib era l patro nag r. L EWIS gives Fi • mg Lessons to Advanced Pnnils, and r . Md is formin g an ca d emy f or b eg i nners; terms, Ei g h t eas per an m. He also gives instruction in ID$ to to Gentlemen at his residence on Tuesday and Friday Evenin gs , ___,PPlicalio ns are requested to be made at his residence, aim at the principal Music Shops. THE MISSES . : 2 1:pAi'd intend RE-OPENING m __ their SCHOOL . 27, QUEEN ANN-STREET, OR uND4 Y next th d instant. n tRIJCH HALL SCHOOL, RE AR WARRINGTON, WILL beodmetru.u-th OPENED e - 23d July. Cards of Terms will be for rded, and other narticulars aY be known, on ication to Mr. SKELTON, the SUPerintendent of Establishment. Brach Hall, June 191 h, 1844. B OARDING SCHOOL FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG GENTLEMEN, TOXTETH-LODGE, NEAR LIVERPOOL. MR. MITCHELL. (S uccess° a - Dr. C OWAN .) .111 RE-OPEN his SC on TUESDAY, the 30th instant. Bth July, 1844. THE WAIIION ACADEMY, Walton-on-the-Hill, near Liverpool, will be RE-OPENED on WEDNES DAY, the 24th instant. Cards of Terms, with a Prospectus ' may be obtained on application to Mr. PHILIP onliseller, South Castle street, Liverpool; or to r. M'GREGOR, the Principal of the School. Walton, July 13, 844. THE PIANO-FORTE. MRS. WELLER (sole Teacher of her Daughter, Chr Weller.) havin g been much soli _ cited to n extend istiana her PIANO-FORTE INSTRUCTION beyond her own residence at Walton-breck, begs to an ' r luide t o R ohe P u bli c , t h at s h sma e arrangements to devote vs a week UES DAYS an d F RIDAYS ) to T gl/J_ng LESSONS i verpool. erms may be known at the Music Warehouses. MR- or-qii------rs. CROWE'S ACADEMY of MUSIC, 11W42, MOUNT PLEASANT, will RE-OPEN, PIATO-MOR ednesday, the 17th instant,for INSTRUCTION Meth o d of NOF ORTE, on Lo g i er ' s Sy s t em . Si ng i ng on th e W ilhern—OßGAN, &c. Teachers, Mr.andMrs.CßOWE a.. tir.D.C. BROWNE. AO °n WEDNESDAYS and S . .RDAYS an EVENING 2-CADEMY at Half past , ve, for Instruction in Piano- Mr, or Organ and Sin • g " i i r • and Mrs. C. ..ntin . ne to attend SCHOOLS as naval, and also t. give PRIVATE LESSONS in the gher Branches of Italian and Enelish Singing. WANTED to PURCHASE, a CHAMBE ti ORGAN. ."--7------__ --- INSTRUCTION IN MUSIC, PIANO-FORTE PLAYING, AND SINGING. ,M O LINEUX most respectfully informs his N o . "ends an d the Public, that the ACADEMIES, Sty Birk en h ead, instant , H ardman -street, Liverpool, and No. 10, Bridge. . will RECOM.. I C , E on the 22d riMompays at Two LASS of LADIES be ved for Voc; LMu READING, on the IVtlh etn English' 60 modifie sto proserve the more distinct prodnornencl e for the sounds; to avoid the de proYcnent whie its indiscriminate application tends to onltiireel Tenor Voices; r °e-e on the voices of Ladies and Young Persons, and and to introduce the means to ac scientific knowledge of Musical Harmony. --,. ... , CLASSICAL, MATHEMATICAL, AND COMMER CIAL EDUCATION. NIRBENVm.I,II. FISHER will RE-OPEN his ACA 29th instant. , 39 , Great George-street, on MONDAY, the • In this Establishment young Gentlemen are instructed . St the Ancient and Modern Languages, Mathematics for any and General Literature, so as to qualify i the ClassesanY ljniver sitY, or for Mercantile Pursuits. All the are practised in French Con and have "I."' and r e o c ee! of Astronomy, Che • ry, OpPcs, Apvaraittistricity, Galvanism, . illustrated by extensive The S,Com 4 " t he G‘---r"t11 i 8 andsome and spacious . . building, op with eif,T.ttasiore or exercise and recreation, is fitted every re •T)e - g "n fence. The Boarders are treated d i le Ilse of a ' i, p " a, embers of the family. They have Gentlereen-iseVetit Juvenile Library, and each young . P" to th e Stu(it seParate bed. Particular attention is requisite is prov every study tiae Holy Scriptures • as we l l • so that thehe religiou I e " 'or the health and comfort, Pupils. 82 Moral, and intellectual improvement of P.S.--For qnalifications ea perience, and success e in Soolmunicating instructio 'M r - F. has the honour of r - IVTIng atonal to. nurnerous Cl g n m n . Merchants. and Profes- Gentlemen, of the er hi y highest respectability, who have entrOsted hint with the educatian g of their sons, and whose narneB tYIaY be seen in his Prospectus. I'ARVIN HALL SCHOOL, NEAR CHESTER. PRINCIPAL,—JOHN BRINDLEY, of Mlti3d . ale i n . C y t lege, Cambridge; M.A., Dr. Ph. of the . u f n r ivet Giessen; late Ilead Master of the oldswins o d Hospi tal Endowed School, Worcestershire. rny .. kssiSTANT,—Charles Jones. of 1 ' it College, Dublin. FIRST CLASSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL MASTER,—E. S. CRook, 8.A., of Pembroke College ambridge, in double. honours. . FRENCH MASTER,--MOLlSiellr . . u, 8.A., of the Uni versity of Paris. GERMAN, DRAWING, AN . MUSIC MASTER,—Herr Quellhurst, a native of iakozro Browne, JUNIOR MASTER S M ' DRILL MASTER AN . LAYGROUND SUPERINTENDENT, 'Sergeant Cox, :te of the 40th regiment. (The ; .ove Masters are resident.) DIACHER OF DANCING,—Mr. E. Webster, Chester. 'IBI7I NG SURGEON,—Mr. George Harrison, Chester. THE Objects aimed at in this ESTABLISHMENT 1.-_ , L re : - - Ed itittre a thoroughly Scriptural and Gentlemanly 2.4tntb ueat.leo, under Masters of high Classical and Ma atical attainments. f ° PrePare Pupils for the highest University honours, or the Learned Professions, and the Naval and Mill tarY College,. cliola rs _ .., , or to make them first-rate Business A guages ' w , Ell a sound knowledge of the modern lan '."-piTiZro.aintain in every department the strictest d ci abset;clitlited with kindness and moderation, and the 4.--B _e1_.3..1 corporeal punishment. . te ach Z e4llB of familiar Conversational Lectures to ofto R.tlowi principles as well as the common 1 I 4*—T 0 treat edge* din g them ithe Pupils as members of the family, provi -6 tabrle wi th th erally %nth domestic comforts at the same • - - in .. t o be i n 1 e Pnncipal and Masters. °L.a.de under one charge every e expense, both th ere tnainnecational and Domestic D artment, that ery, pri/renti II extras for .. Accomplishments , p Station nor unde "Lady Washing, Medical Attendance, pretext whatever. ir odee T TERMS. Abo v _ _vrelve Years of age.... Forty Guineas IFteene {ewelve and under Six- per annum. ' 1) Si 4 .- r8 °f a ge .. Fifty Guineas per annum. a ur yolLeen Years ******** ** Sixt Guineas per annu . m. pad aeueag pentlernen are received as Private Pupils, fl., ‘ " , e Ilui.ZlZe,..l separate Studies and Bed-rooms.— yeaqatci..l.4-" u oineas per Annum. y'i ll IN ADVANCE, either Quarterly or Haif a thi R e Vase f ~,_ Pla na or' . 4 lah -4 ' br ~..,oe present vacation the arrangements then i ginali 3 , laxpent will be completed according to the_ in Jen c g ° th tls ist or i'laut?osed. The School premises alone will 4° feet ), ' can aPrisi n it e of apartments upwards of . 160 o fe m et 4 Lir,. "Y 30 feet. 4 ." g a Lecture Hall and Readivg-room, , by 2 - s"p - roo t/I, 35 . ; 3 2 11•C lass - rooms,e___ach 20 feet square ; , for feet aP i 1 / 4 1t by 25 feet ; -e Sets f ... 1.1 ' a Gymnasium, 40 feet i °I. differ °j) -neing Bath , 30 feet by 12 feet; with . 1 ormi t . . hol e ent a, e , ories and Dressing-rooms, for pupils prepoPlay.lagreaoounc,at G in g Ili ee o ''' '"! sePerintended by the Masters, and the with the ls Bed-room. 1 Th e ate seal_ a rdens, and Cricket Field are on a taar Ilar aber * co., a atee th of Resident Masters engaged is a sufficient th a P f rehe nsive the course of instruction will be sound and Pectu r ° 4l hi s ti ; and Mr. Brindle y has much confidence erect 4 in hip shall be able to carry out his Prns- . 1 1, ileedtep.titsiintegri .. o t t 0 nods add ~,andt i sY l i, p a p n o d rt e7n for the School an in- 1 re tnie t , t a Sa.en,,, masters are expected to R . E-AS . SEM- I I'lph" ed that ' I34 Y, the 27th instant. It is particularly f . ) , ... 4N o‘.6ablisabiLw_ ill be. punctual in N th t e o ir t a h t e ten i d N a s n p ce E . c. . ~. .)th 8.1 , 14 1 th e pirnt will be OPE. '''ix2Bth I ILIC on THURSDAY and FRIDAY, tue Pr4'ock. instant, between the hours of Twelve and Bnil, ts l ; . ecta, eB Par t i". ti laY be obtained on application to Mr. 1 1 rt jy ali, 41 1/ Sth, 1844. EDUCATION. AGENTLEMAN,wflobVsVe;naccustomed to study and travel, is desirous of receiving Four or Six YOUNG GENTLEMEN to EDUCATE with his own Sons. In addition to the general Course of Education, his Pupils will receive Instruction in the following De partments of Learning :—Roman and English Literature, the Latin and French Linguues, the Firle..Uts,...Poetry, and Music. Lecture's will be deli ci to the Pupils three times every week, in the .f wing Branches so es sential to Youth:—History, graphy, Astronomy, Geo graphy, the Us, of the r es, Elocution, the Moral and Physical Manageme the Person, Political Economy, Wealth of Natio . The Pupils will have the advantage' of enjoying e cise free from street inconvenience, in Great George-square. No. 8, where all applications will meet with immediate attention from Mr. RANSOME. Mr. R. gives Pi irate Lectures in Families that may de sire so advantageous a mode of Education, or he will act as Private Tucor. Gentlemen can read with Mr. Ransome at any hour of the day, in all the above Departments of Literature. Evening Lectures given to Gentlemen who wish to im prove their leisure hours, at No. 8, Great George-square, on calling on Mr. R., or addressing a note to the Post. References—Hugh Price, E6q. ; J. Hosken, Esq. ; Capt. Snell, R.N. ; Sir W. Martin. The following Families have been under the care of Mr. Ransome :—The Hon. Mr. Cruikshank's, the Hon. Capt. Baldwin's, Count Shotten's, Judge M`Cauley's. STRANGE PROCEEDING OF THE PROMOTERS OF THE BIRKENHEAD DOCK BILL. Before these remarks come before the majority of our readers, the fate of the above bill, of which the third reading was last night to bemored in the House of Lords, may possibly be decided. What may be that fate it is therefore scarcely worth while now to speculate upon. From our present information, however, so strong is the feeling w hich has been excited in the minds of certain members of the house, by a proceeding of which we give the particulars below, that we understand a motion would be made last night for the re-committal of the bill, if not for its being thrown over for the present session. It is well known that, by the enclosure of Wallasey Pool, a space containing 160 acres of safe anchorage and beaching ground, which they have enjoyed from time im memorial, will be lost to the coasting trade and shipowners of the Mersey ; and it naturally became an object with those parties to take care that something like an equiva lent should be provided for them. Accordingly, upon the introduction of the bill in the House of Commons, a pe tition against it (the ordinary mode of proceeding , in such cases) was presented by the Shipowners' Association ; upon which an arrangement, was effected between the pro moters and the petitioners, which will be best understood by giving here verbatim the original clause affecting their interests and the amended clause agreed to be substituted. The clause (No. 128) in the original print of the bill in the Commops was as follows : "Provided also, and be it enacted, That the rates hereinbefore mentioned shall not he charged n respect of any vessel of less than one hundred tons register, entering the said intended basin near Woodside Ferry from any port or place within the United Kingdom, and not remaining there fur a longer period than THREE TIDES." The same clause, as altered by the agreement entered into, was as follows, the alterations being shown by Italics : " Provided also, and be it enacted, That the rates hereinbefore mentioned shall not be charged in respect of any vessel of less than one hundred tons register, entering the said intended basin near Woodside Ferry, from any port or place within the United King dom, and not remaining there for a longer period than seven days ; nor shall any rate be charged for a longer period, if such vessel shall be inward or outward bound, and remain within the last mentioned basin for shelter only, and not for loading or unload ing." - Here, then, were two distinct boons gained ; first, the substitution of seven days for the very inefficient period of " three tides," as that during which vessels might lie in the basin free of dues ; and secondly, the provision that vessels remaining beyond the seven days, for shelter only, should remain free of dues. And on the following agree ments being endorsed on the foot of the bill, viz.,— " On behalf of the Shipowners' Association, I approve of the al terations in this Bill, clauses 127, 128, 143, 145, 146,150, and 151. "JOHN NORTH, " Secretary of the Shipowners' Association." " On behalf of the promoters of this Bill, I agree to the above al terations being inserted in the Bill, as Parliament may direct. " Josi; PII AIALLAnr, 5 Mitrch, 1844." the petition of the Shipowners' Association was withdrawn, in the full confidence that the clause agreed upon would be faithfully inserted in the bill. The_bill went into the Commons ; not, however, with theclause inserted in it which hadbeen agreedupon with Mr. North, but with a totally different clause, suggested an ignorance of any previous agreement having been entered into) by the Lords of the Admiralty. By this clause the period for vessels to remain in the basin, free of dues—the unprompted suggestion, by the bye, of their lordships, who saw the insufficiency of the period of three tides first proposed—such period was extended to six tides, with a provision to meet the emergency of gales of wind or A verse winds; and the House of Commons extended that period to eight tides, in which shape it passed their House and was taken up to the Lords. When in that house Mr. Mallaby stated, in explana tion, that the admiralty bad " insisted" upon the inser tion of the clause as inserted in the bill (the eight tides clause) "instead of the one which was -arranoed ; and yet, in reply to a noble lord, he confesses,--" I believe they were not made acquainted with the previous arrange ment" with the shipowners! In corroboration of Mr. Mall•ihy's refutation of him self, with respect to this " insisting" of the Lords of the Admiralty, a letter from the secretary states, under date of the llth instant, " that their lordships made no specifie objection to the coasters remaining seven days in the basin." Mr. Mallaby admitted further in the house that no explanation, as to the arrangement come to, was offered to the House of Commons. The cross-examination of this gentlemen by Mr. Tal bot, on the 10th instant, and the evidence of Mr. John North, in reply, we give in full:— " Cross-examined by Mr. TALBOT.—Did you ever commnnicate to the Shipowners' Association, or to Mr. North, as acting for them, what the Admiralty insisted upon ? Mr. MA LLABY.—No ; there was no time for the purpose. Mr.• TA LBOT.—Do you mean to say that there has been no time since the Bill passedthe House of Commons ? Mr. MALLA BY.—No ; I do not mean to say that; I am certain that Mr. North, who stands there, was familiar with all the proceed. ings that were going on. COB' MITTE E.—Was he present ? Mr. MAL LABY.—No, I will not say that he was present. Mr. TALBOT.—Have you any means of stating to the committee that Mr. North was acquainted un'th the circumstances of what passed? Mr. MALLABY.—No. Mr. TA uno'r.—Yon never did communicate ' with him ? Mr. MALLABY.—No. Mr. TALBOT.—Do you still say that Mr. North was familiar with all the proceedings? Mr. MALLABY.--It is my conviction, because several of the mem bers of the Doelc Committee of Liverpool, who are opposing the Bill, were members of the Ship Owners' Association. Mr. TALBOT.—Your conviction is, that Mr. North was aware of it, at what time ? Mr. MALT Any.—l cannot say. Mr. TALBOT.—Not before the clause was discussed ill the Com mittee of the House of Commons? Mr. MALLAnY.—No. TALBOT.--You placed before your Counsel the Bill, as set tied with the Shipowners' Association ? Mr. MALLAnv.—I did. Mr. TALBOT.—When was that? Mr. MALLABY.—In the course of the discussion. Mr. TALEor.—When ? Mr. MALLABY.—In the Committee of the House of Commons. Mr. TALBOT.—Before the clause was discussed? Mr. MA LLA BY.—Yes, before the clauses generally were discussed." Compare with the above the straightforward explana tion of Mr. North : "Mr. TA LBOT.—At what time did you first become acquainted with the fact that the clause introduced into the Bill speaks of eight tides and not of seven days? Mr. NORTH.—Upon Saturday last. Mr. TALBOT.—There is no mistake about that? Mr. NORTH.—Not the smallest. I can explain it if you wish. Mr. Clay, who is concerned for the Coasting Trade, applied to me, as I had been concerned for the Association, for some assistance, which I willingly gave him. In the course of our conversation I told him incidentally, that the coasters were to have seven days' ex emption from dock rates in the Woodside Coasting Dock. On Satur day last, Mr. Clay, I believe, for the first time, had in his hand the Act as it is now before your Lordships' House, and, bearing in mind his conversation with me, his attention was attracted to the clause now in question, which only gives eight tides. He came immediately to me to ask for an explanation of it. I said it was impossible. I could not believe the fact till he showed it me in print. I was quite sure I could produce the evidence of the agreement which had been made, and I opened the box in which the papers of the Shipowners' Association were kept, and produced the Bill. Mr. TALBOT.—That was the first intimation you had of the change? NORTH.—YES. Mr. TALBOT.—Had you ever seen the Bill before then ? Mr. NORTII.—No, I may have seen the Bill, but I do not think that I ever opened it. By a LORD.—Had the Bill been generally published in Liverpool for the last few weeks ? , . Mr. NORTH.—I can hardly say whether it has or not, perhaps the Town Council and other official bodies at all connected with it mieht have had it before them, but it certainly never came into my .banils. Mr. TALBOT.—It was never before the Association? Mr. NoRTIT.—No." The intelligent reader will form his own judgment with respect to this evidence ; and, perhaps, may have an opinion, too, of the truthfulness of statement and pro fession, by which other portions of the bill have been supported before the legislature and the public. THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Her Majesty Queen Ade laide will return to England from the Continent on the 23d instant. BOLTON, SUNDAY MORNlNG.—Considerable excite ment prevails in this town in consequence of a threatened turn-out of the whole of the operative cotton spinners in the Bolton district. I stated in the Herald three weeks ago that the spinners of Bolton had given notice to their employers that they would leave work at the end of a month unless their wages were advanced 10 per cent. The term of notice expired yesterday and to-day, and as no satisfactory arrangement had been come to most of the operatives left work at the time fixed. The consequence is that many of the mills are now stopped for want of hands, whilst some of the masters have readily complied with the demand of their workpeople, and have agreed to give the advance required. Most of these masters hale made a condition that, unless the advance be made general, they will come down to the price paid by their neighbours. At present everything is in a state of the greatest uncer tainty. Many people think that on Monday morning the masters generally will give the advanced price, whilst others say, it is very probable that a compromise will be come to, the masters agreeing to pay five per cent. advance on the present rate of wages. There are others, however, who declare their determination not to give any advance whatever, and in this state things remain at present. The operatives, I understand, have called an extraordi nary meeting of delegates from all the mills in Lan cashire, to be held in Manchester, where it is said some defit.itive course will be adopted, not on y as regards Bolton, but other towns in the manufacturing districts. THREATENED SPLIT IN THE CHURCH OF ROME. The recently published number of the Quarterly Re view contains an article, the production evidently of either a Romish priest or one intimately acquainted with the workings of the Romish system, which contains revela tions so important that we make no apology for placing its substance before our readers. For some time a con,. troversy has been going on between the Roman Govern. ment and the Church of Rome in the kingdom of Bavaria, upon t the subject of some alteration de manded by the latter in the practices and regulation of the church. The rigorous censorship of the press how ever, which is exercised in most Catholic countries by ecclesiastics, together with the care taken by Rome to preserve secret whatever passes between the pontificate and the clergy, has hitherto effectually prevented the de tails of this dispute from coming to the ears of the laity or transpiring at all beyond the limits of the church itself. It has not moreover, up to this period, been pressed to extremity by those who feel themselves aggrieved, from a fear of creating schism and rupture of the establishment. A change, however, has at length been wrought in this latter point; and fully recognizing all the dangers and difficulties attendant upon separation from Rome, the complainants have now resolved to risk any evils which might result from such separation rather than continue to submit to the continuance of the practices against which they protest. The four points upon which they have been insisting are, first, that the public worship should be performed in all countries in the vernacular tongue ; secondly, that the cup should be given as well as the bread in the sacrament to the laity; thirdly, that the frequenting of the confes sional should not be compulsory ; fourthly. that the vows of celibacy shall not be obligatory on the clergy. With regard to the first of these points they complain that the " unchangeable" character of the laws of the church has been pushed so far that it becomes a fraud, the priests havidg multiplied the unchangeable laws in order to obtain money for dispensations to break them. They complain, too, that this particular law against ver nacular prayers has been relaxed elsewhere—but not for them. In France a prayer-book is used which has the Latin and the French trahslation in parallel columns; but such a work is prohibited in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and all other countries where the power of the church is abso lute. In the north of Germany and the Tyrol they use a German mass book; but it is rarely to be met with in Austria, Bohemia, and Syria. It is urged too that, in country districts and even in some towns, the priests themselves know little more of Latin than the people; . and hence the importance of the vernacular being univer sally permitted to be used. On the second point —the refusal of the cup to the laity—it is urged as opposed to scripture that, of the two elements composing the sacrament, one should ba refused of which it is specially said 9 dri..k ye all of it." The objections to the third practice—the compulsory attendance upon the confessional—we shall quote from the article itself:— " With the third point commences our difficulty, and one be fore which we confess ourselves compelled to yield : we are precluded from the possibility of proving our position, and we must ,tate at once our conclusion, which is this—that if it h d been the intention of any body of men to corrupt the morals of the human race, to habituate children of both sexes to im purity. filth, and profligacy, it would have been impossible to have devised a scheme more complete) , adapted to produce that effect than the practice of the confessional, as is now , ar ried on in the church of Rome. The common sense of mankind, the ordinary feelings of morality, would have made it impossible to carry into practice such a project, unless it had assumed the mask of religious duty to God ; and when the sense of morality is so far deadened, as that any persons should suppose that burning alive can be well pleasing to God, it is not difficult for such to imagine that obscenity in thought nd language should be so likewise. Whilst it is obvious that it is imp ssible here to prove our assertion, we will at least furnish the means by which any one who is so inclined may satisfy himself; we recommend such an one to read the ordinary English Roman Catholic prayer book, called ' The Garden of the Soul,' at the 1 arts which relate to self-examination in ()icier to confession : next, the books which are written to instruct the priests to extort from reluctant females in the confessional things which no pure minded woman has ever imagined; e. g La Methode pour la direction des ames d ans l e t r ib una l de la Penitence, et pour le gonvernment des Paroisscs, Paris, 1834;' II Confessore di retto per le confessioni della gente di campagna, Polo:ma, 1834 ;" Le Rituel de Toulon ;' or any similar books which make in all countries the stock in trade of a priest, and some or other of which are to be found in all their houses ; and then let them read any work of Theologia Moralis on the confessional and the seventh commandment. " This subject in Protestant countries is merely either a matter of speculation and theory, or a handle for controver sialists wherewith to attack papists —a task for which, it must be confessed, the heroes of ' discussion meetings' are singularly ill qualified. Ent with the honest ecclesiastics of Germany, the Tyrol, Switzerland, Poland, Bohemia, and Hungary, these things are no speculations and theories, but sad and painful realities. They know that corruption of the youthful mind is the natural and almost invariable result; and some ate determined that the fruits of this system shall not be hid in a corner any more ; but, let the consequences be what they may, the secret recesses of infamy shall he exposed, and the system be put an end to. " It is impossible in the very nature of thine s that a young female, or almost any female, can have such a burden on her conscience as can make her desire often to resort to special and private confession to a priest; and certainly it ought not to be toleiated that she should have indecent thoughts suggested to her, even at the early age of seven years old ; for at this period do they begin to insinuate their filth in the convents in which girls are commonly educated. The heads of the church them selves admit the liability of abase through the confessional, and frequent exhortations are published desiring all women who have improper solicitations made to them there to denounce the confessor ; but a moment's consideration will show the inutility of this exhortation ; and cue instance which we will give must suffice for all. An Italian gentleman of our acquaintance re moved with his family from the place of his nativity to a town in another state ; soon after their arrival the wife went to the confessional in the palsh church, where improper proposals were made to her ' • she ran home and acquainted h e r h us b an d : he made a formal complaint to the proper autho ities in her name : a day was appointed for tile examination cf the charge : and when the time arrived the lady naturally declined to appear. It is obvious that jest in proportion as the person offended is de licate, and the offence gross, there will be the greater difficulty of inducing the complainant to come forward. Scarcely any woman could be found who would go into the presence of se veral strange men and repeat the expressions by which her ears had been insulted. The result, however, was, that the priest hid h s license for hearing confessions taken from !lim a ; and neither husband or wife have ever gone to the confc , s , s t io h n em l since that period. The authorities at Rome do all that lies to repress these disorders: the licenses for but in where well-grounded complaints have been m . a the cure and the con fessions are renewed from year to year, and de al : coun try perishes there are no means of redress . are completely in ts in it, and the people vieaire are the only priesways refused Capuchins, the one a priest, the other a lay brother,t to their own profit. Two cant orders turn make a tour through a in their power. Knowing this blot in their system, the rnendi i country district. The former goes into the church and receiv es th e confessions of those who for various reasons do not choose to confess to the secular priest; whilst the lay brother, w i t h h i s donkey and hampers, goes ound from house to house to collect the contributions of the faithful for the benefit of the community. The system cannot be improved—delendu est. "The effect of the system upon the minds of the people is n a e, if h b ! e e t , hadbeen published m a more r Chelmsford)—than h f e u l l y s f acquaintedor d ) —th a n witht hat obvious: and Sir George Smyth e m i ght have given a much fuller defence of the term beastly,' which h e appl i es to May thseehisdopmp wnohoich—he( has the subject. The 'immediate object, however, of bringing for ward this point at th e present time is not so much witrefe renee to its effect upon the laity as to its effect upon the priests themselves • and whoever int nds to take the trouble of con sulting the works to which allusion has been made, should member that these books are the private and secret studies of those who from their earliest years have taken vows of celibacy upon them ; who live alone, shut up in their own solitary cham ber, apart from all the world, for many hours every day. Such persons require a peculiar absence from all demoralizing words and thoughts; it ought to be their unremitting labour to banish every imagination, even the most transient, upon details of vice; whereas, to sit alone and study all the forms and varia tions of impurity upon which Spanish and French casuists have written, analysing and classifying every variety of crime which the most brutal and sensual of mankind have ever perpetrated, as in the works of Sanchez, Escobar, Sa, Facundez, Gobat, &c., &c., is the sure and certain method to make the vows a nullity." The writer goes on to remark upon the practice, in France and elsewhere, arising out of the immorality thus engendered amongst the priesthood, of holding periodical visitations for the investigaton of charges lodged and tie infliction of punishment. In the dioceses of the North of Germany, where a bishop's court sits twice a week, he says, " So great and so incessant are the horrors brought to light, that the excellent prelate who presides over one see more immediately under our eye, passes the whole night afterwards in fasting and tears of penitence for the things whichhave come before him. The extent of immorality is so great that it is considered a good sign of a priest if lie is known to keep a mistress without causing any public scandal, and no notice is taken of him. If, however, she ethfrplyotnsplaces, because lies at the parsonage, or if they quarrel so that a disturbance is produced in the village, then he is removed to another parish; if the same thing occurs a second time the same treatment is pursued; if it is repeated a third time, he is degraded, all employment and means of livelihood are taken from him; and many such are to he seen throughout Germany breaking stones upon the road, or serving as privates in the army. These, however, are not the immoralities l a s , a p h e a r been hi de_ t h no e t such p s u t supposed to be the most secure from the eye of man, regardless of paper—hide ous vcuehn described.ap e u ri c b e lue upon crimes—committediteyea are minds Tic lloafsc bishopstan n the eye of God. In Italy, such offences, when not screened by some powerful patron, are pumShed by incarceration in a convent, with starving and repeated flagellation, which frequently terminate in death. But in Germany no such power exists ; more liberal, but less cruel ; more tolerant both of good and evil. The example of the court in the neighbourhood of the place to which we are now re ferring, tended not many years ago to sanction some of the worst of the crimes above alluded to ; and though it isnow mended, the effects of past days are not worn out." With respect to the fourth point, the CelibaCy of the clergy, the Reviewer states that—. 4 , It is a remarkable feature in the case that all the profligate clergy are strongly in favour of the continuance of the law of celibacy, whilst all the moral clergy are for abolishing it. The Protestants in these dioceses generally say, that this is in order that they max continue their flagitious courses in a way'which it would be more difficult to do if they were married, but this is not the real ground of their re sistance. They resist it because they know that it is popular at head quarters to resist it; and they take the side of the authorities at Rome in order to make friends to themselves of the Mammon of unrighteousness, that they may be in their turn befriended." Admirable as are those grounds on which to plant opposition to the slavery of the Papacy, it rejoices us much to remark a notice or two in the Review, indicating that those who are thus raising themselves against these evils are also departing from at least one of the funda mental heresies of the Papacy. The faCt to which we allude is thus referred to : . , "Those in favour of it are now kenerally styled Disciples of Sailer;' and the Ring of Bavaria, it is obvious; h as no objection to share the designation. But they have received another title from the many . bystanders who sympathise little either with them or their an tagonists. They are called Jesus worshiPPers;' the others Mary worshippers' (Mariadinsten); and these sobriquets clearly indi cate another great practical abuse Of the Papacy, as to which the two par ties have already come into - open collision. We say practical—for however clearly educated Romanists inay see the d ' emterkation be tween douleia and latreia —however sincerely they may protest against injustice when charged with giving to a dead woman the honour and, worship due only to God—the fact is entirely unde n i a bl e that in Roman Catholic countries thousands and tens of thousands live and die in habitual reliance on the intercession and mediation, not of the Saviour, but of the Virgin, nd other saints departed." We close our present notice of the subject with the fol lowing remarks, which bear more immediately upon the working of Popery amongst ourselves. At p. 165 it is said,— Hence the O'Connellite faction in Rome, which has always been opposed by Father Routham, the General ofJesuits, as being against all government alike in Church and State, whilst assnming the mask of attacking only the supremacy of an heretical church, has gained much support. That I i'Connellite faction, we grieve to say, has been taken up by all the English Roman Catholics resident in Home: and the admirers of Larneaunais are talking more composedly, and wits less alarm, of the possibility of their throwing off all connection with governments everywhere, and placing themselves at the head of the revolutionists throughout Europe. Some such desperate plunge seems, indeed, the natural death of a system so mighty, and with so much vitality, as the Papal system still possesses; it cannot die the way of all flesh, and expire like a candle burnt down into the socket, with a bright, perhaps, but momentary glare ; it must die in a con vulsion, and in such a convulsion as will shake all Europe to its very foundation." MRS. LLOYD begs to info hrr ,Friends and the Public that her SC[ L will REOPEN on the Ist Ancu , t. THE PARADE, astletown, Ale of Man. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD THE NEW POOR LAW AMENDMENT BILL. We some time ago adverted to the clauses in this Bill affecting the affilitation and support of illegitimate child ren, giving the substance of such of them as we con• sidered, if passed into law, would in most cases, so far from amending the present system, (defective as it is) be found to operate—first, as a den•al of justice to the un fortunate female ; secondly, afford the generally better conditioned seducer a ready means of escape from the support of his progeny ; and thirdly —as a consequence of both these effects—saddle the respective parishes throughout the country with the maintenance of nearly the whole of the illegitimate children, as well as induce other collateral evils in social life. We had hoped that what had been advanced on the subject by ourselves and several of our contemporaries, (especially the London Times—the unshrinking advocate.of the protection and rights of the poor,) and also after the representations made by numerous local authorities inagi,terial and pa rochial, (from this town brith personal and written), we had hoped, we say, that the new bill wculd, in this point, have been entirely re-modelled and rendered practicable and protective of the community; but in this we have been grievously disappointed, though certainly not greatly surprised, for the freaks and quiddities of our modern legislators are frequently such that, in our amazement at their amateur and blundering dealings with matters of which they exhibit a deplorable degree of ignorance and headstrong repugnance to enlightenment, we are often driven to exclaim—" What in the name of all that is con jectural, will they do next ?" The present Poor Law we have ever considered as a cruel and unconstitutional sub stitute for the humane act of Elizabeth, which with some few amendments and due administration of its provisions, might have met all the requirements both of the poor and ratepayers ; and it appears that each successive novelty that is introduced is but calculated still further to grind the former, and entail additional burthens upon the latter. The clauses to which we have alluded have a!ready pas sed the Committee of the Hoese of Commons; one or two of them modified for the better, hut the greater part with all their original sins upon their heads." In order to the better understanding of the kuhjs - et we shall state the substance of the several clauses seriatim, with such alterations as a few of them have undergone ; and point out, as we proceed, what we consider in the bulk of them to be still highly objectionable : The Ist clause repeals former acts, and was of course passed. The 2d, relating to the application of the mother for an order against the alleged father for the maintenance of the child, originally allowed only six months' after the birth for that purpose. This being too short, Mr. T. Dunconibe obtained an extension to twelve months ; and Mr. .1. S. Wortley having stated that, as the father might pay the woman hush-money even for that time, and thus rid him self of further liability, an addition should be introduced, leaving the father responsible thereafter, provided he bad admitted himself to be the father. Sir James Graham finally proposed, with the general assent, that the father should be liable to summons at any time, on proof bring given that he had paid money for the maintenance of the child within twelve months after its birth—this being to be taken as an admission of paternity on his part. — But still, the father might have been' a sailor, (captain, mate, carpenter, or sailmaker,) on a distant voyage to China, Africa, South America, India, &c., and may be absent eighteen months or two years ; and there is no pro vision for such a case. And how is the woman to pay the expense of the summons, getting up her witnesses, &c., she being already chargeable to the parish, and they pre cluded from assisting her (as will be seen below)? She might also keep her child for a year or two, and then be come a pauper, without his paying anything, in which case, too, her claim would fall to the ground. The 3d clause (of the original bill—for this is the 2d) allowed justices, on proof that the summons was duly served " personally," to make an order on the father for 4s. a week for the support of the child, or be committed for three months. In the present bill the allowance of 4s. was altered by Sir J. Graham to the paltry and inadequate sum of 2s. 6d., and has been agreed to. It was, however, agreed that the summons would be duly served if left at the man's place of abode, in place of " personally,"—cer tainly an advantage to the woman. By clause 4, justices might adjourn the case for forty days, and the man might give notice of appeal to the next quarter sessions, and the court order costs to be paid by either party. On this clause much discussion arose. Mr. Denison pointedly remarked they might as well burn the bill at once as retain it, as it would render the whole inoperative. The appeal would throw upon the woman ! the whole onus and costs of defending herself. What chance bad a poor woman, with a child, friendless, and in the presence of strange magistrates, against a father, backed by a sharp-cutting attorney, or counsel, ready to take every advantage? Few women would, or could, venture upon such a process; and he recommended that the adjudication should be by three magistrates in place` of two (in the first instance), and their decision to be final. Several members concurred in the objection to the appeal; and Mr. Wakley urged the extension of appeal to the woman as well as the man, and said that the distress of females who were left to support their illegitiMate children was a frequent cause of infanticide, which, to his knowledge, occurred to a frightful extent.—We may here state that the appeal of the woman to the ses sions, if she were refused an order by the justice, would be of no avail, for she could not go into court ; and, we may add, that in nine cases out of ten the appeal would defeat the order, and the child (and mother too) be eventually thrown upon the parish, although the father might be well able to maintain it. The parish, cannot, by the bill, interfere for an order.—On a division, the ap peal was retained to the man, and to the woman (a quite inadequate counterpoise) the right of renewing her ap plication to the justices, on producing fresh evidence. By this clause the rich man would always be able to throw the poor woman overboard. The sth clause is to the effect that all money payable under any order must be paid by the man to the woman, or, if she be incapacitated (being of unsound mind, or in gaol), to a person to be appointed by the justices, but not to any parish officer. The child must not be chargeable, and the order to remain in force for 13 years. This clause (with the exception of the 13 years, which appears to be a proper time,—the present law giving only 7,) is highly objectionable, and was well combatted by Mr. Borthwick and others, but was carried. It will operate as an in centive to new and gross immorality; for, if the woman -go to the man for her money, what more likely than a further illegitimate offspring! In the case of a servant who wished to keep her place and redeem her character, it will be worse than the present law. If the man re fuses her the money, she must apply for a warrant, and follow up the process by again and again appearing in court, to the inevitable loss of her situation. The clause will also cause constant breaches of the peace. A case in point recently occurred in this town. An order was ob tained from the magistrate by a female on the father of her child, and she went to him with her sister, and asked him why he refused to pay. He forcibly ejected her, and then seizing the sister threw her down into the street with such violence that,' her head coming in contact with the edge of the footwalk, her jaw -bone was broken, and her life was for some time despaired of. He was committed to -the sessions for this savage assault, but the case dropped for want of a witness, and the injured woman will remain an object for life ! By the 6th clause, every woman neglecting to maintain her child, if able wholly or in part to do so, whereby it becomes chargeable, shall be punished as an idle and dis orderly person ; and every woman deserting her child, so that it becomes chargeable, shall be punished as a rogue and vagabond.—Thus she is to be punished because she is unable to support her child or proceed against the father; for being destitute she cannot obtain an order against the man, and the parish must not assist her. With regard to the second part of the clause, will not the operation of the first conduce to the very offence of desertion ? The 7th clause is equally impolitic: No parish officer is to have the custody of any illegitimate child, or to re ceive any money under an order on the father, or in any way to interfere in an application, cr to procure evidence in support of it, under a penalty of 40s„ except after the mother's death, and the child become chargeable, when (generous concession !) he may apply. (The penalty stated was, in the present bill, extended by Sir J. Graham, in like manner, to the magistrate's clerk and the con stable.) By this clause, though the woman be confined in the workhouse, and remain there with her child, no matter how long, the overseers are to have no remedy against the father, and the mother being destitute can have none! The father, thus shielded, may go on in his iniquity in other quarters, and, in like cases, with like im punity. If this be not a premium on libertinism, we know not what is. And why exclude parish officers from interfering in the woman's behalf, in justice both to her self and the parish ? Surely (with reference to this and a former clause) they are more competent to apply for and receive the money than the.woman, or any acquaintance she might employ ; and, if she received it from their hands, is it likely it would be made a worse use of under their surveillance than if she received it from her own para mour, who might pay her off with one half of it, which, in her necessities, she might be induced to receive,—he claiming credit for the whole. ? It maybe added, as bear ing on this clause, that we find t on making inquiry, that exclusively of the great number of women receiving out door relief during confinement of bastard children, up wards of one hundred were sent to our Workhouse, and there confined from the Ist January to 31st December last Sear. Such are the principal 'clauses of the bastardy portion of the ' new bill; and if most of them be not greatly al tered, or abrogated, in the Lords, they will press most unjustly 'on the unfortunate mothers; afford indemnity to many profligate fathers; annoy magistrates by the recur rence of numerous cases of broils and assaults ;. and, finally, greatly increase the parish burthens. They were passed in the Commons, notwithstanding the clearest explanations and the most urgent remonstrances on the part of the authorities here and elsewhere; and afford another lamentable specimen of reckless legislation for the poor, which must be deprecated by all men of right feeling and practical views of the subject. THE MANCHESTER.—By a letter received at Lloyd's from their agent at Hamburgh it appears, that the wreck of the above vessel has entirely disappeared in the sands, and that no further salvage could take place. The goods saved along the coast have been sold for about X 1,500. CELEBRATION OF THE TWELFTH OF JULY IN LIVERPOOL. We gave in our last a brief notice of the meeting of the Grand Lodge of the Loyal Orange Institution, held in this town, at which a union was happily formed between that Institution and the Protestant Confederation—a t ery powerful body entertaining the principles of Orangeism. but who have hitherto been kept separate from the order by a few immaterial points of discipline, which from this time will be assimilated. The head quarters of the Con federation have been Birmingham, where their members are very numerous and influential; and to their exertions and organization, in a great measure, we owe the conser vative triumph which has been achieved in that town during the past week, and which, we trust, has finally broken down the tyranny which radicalism and chartism have hitherto exercised over the constituency of a borough so important and, at heart, so loyal. May that triumph be an example to the constituencies of other boroughs similarly trampled upon by faction ! _ On Tuesday the united orders met, and having arranged various matters of detail, and elected their several officers, the Grand Lodge was adjou ned until next July, when they will meet again in Liverpool. On Friday morning, the 12th—a day which has ever been set apart by the Orange body for the celebration of the triumph of Protestant principles over the power of Rome,—it was announced by placard that the Rev. T. Nolan, at the request of a respectable deputation, had consented to perform divine service in St. John's church, and to preach to the assembled body. In obedience to the wishes of their officers, the members had previously abandoned all idea of getting up any procession, or of making even the slightest demonstration which might have afforded an opportunity to the Romish and anti_ church party of the town, of getting up a disturbance and wreaking their spite upon the loyal supporters of the constitution, and the Protestant institutions of their country. At the usual hour of divine service, a nume rous body of members proceeded accordingly to church, without anything like array, or preconcert, and without a display of a single banner, or any other emblem ; and be fore the commencement. of prayers the whole of the body of the church was crowded with a respectable and atten tive audience. a considerable 'proportion being females, the wives or sisters of the members, the gallery also being respectably filled. Amongst the congregation we noticed the Rev. F. Parry and several others of the clergy of the town, J. Wilkinson, Esq., senior churchwarden, James Parker, Esq., &r. , &c. The service was impressively read by the Rev. Albany Lloyd, after which a sermon was delivered by the Rev. T. Nolan, of which the following is a sketch, part being given verbatim : The text was taken from Exodus, xviii c., 20 v. "And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk and the wortk they must do." The reverend gentleman then proceeded amidst the profoundest attention a.: follows: — It is known to most of you my brethren, that I occupy this place this more ing in compliance with the special re quest of the body that has wisely chosen this mode of celebrating a day, that in their hearts and minds has long been associated with principles to which they are ardently attached, as well as with the remembrance of mercies, for which this country can never be sufficiently thankful. An invitation to preach the gospel is one which any ser vant of Christ would find it more difficult to decline than to accept, and on this broad ground I might easily jus tify my appearance here this morning : but as much for the association's sake that invited me, as for my own, 1 deem it right to offer a preliminary word of explanation, inasmuch as this society, like a still holier society in the olden time, has of late years been almost "everywhere spoken against." Our blessed Lord has said, " Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake." Now, though not belonging to the Orange so ciety myself, I believe the imputations azainst them to be groundless, and I rest my belief on their openly avowed principles, which are brictly enunciated—Loyalty to their Sovereign, based on fidelity to their God. Their practice, in order to be consistent with their principles, must be " sober, righteous and godly ;" and while I protest against the unfairness of holding an entire body responsi ble for the inconsistencies or extravagancies of individuals, I have never discovered the practice of this body to he at variance with the high principles they profess. Your proceedings of this day, I cannot but regard as strictly in unison with your profession : you have come openly to the house of your God, to praise and to pray according to the sublime ritual of the church of your country : you have asked me to offer, from my proper place as a minis ter of your church, a word of instruction and exhortation, and you design a contribution to a strictly national and church purpose, the Blue Coat School of your town. I have cheerfully complied with your request, and DO,' pro ceed under the Divine blessing and guidance, to testify unto you the Gospel of the Grace of God, that Grace " that bringeth salvation unto all men," that faith that purifies the heart, the love that keeps the c9inmandrm nts, and in keeping of them finds its first, its best and great reward. I In the good providence of God, our lot, my brethren, has been cast in strange, eventful, perhaps even perilous times ; a restless desire of change seems to be the cha racteristic of the age in which we live. Mighty princi ples, the soundness of which hitherto has not been dis puted, are now . dragged forth and put upon their trial—an example from modern politics and theology will illustrate my meaning —the question, of national education, which we thought was included in the settlement of the national church, and of the sufficiency of Holy Scripture as the sole rule of faith, which also we supposed to have been closed up for ever, at the time of the Reformation, are now opened afresh, and find strenuous supporters on both sides. In such a time then, when the prescriptive re spect due to venerable truth and ancient usage, affords no longer protection to institutions time honoured and sacred, it were downright folly to expect, that an institu tion like the church, by God's blessing planted in the midst of us, should be allowed to maintain her position undisturbed, her principles unexamined, her privileges intact, her possessions unassailed. Only consider the state and aim of the different parties into which society is divided in the present day, and the position of our church, the protest she maintains, the counteracting influence she exerts against the objects and designs of them all : against the Revolutionist, she is the upholder of peace and good order: against the Infidel, she is the faithful witness and keeper of holy writ : against the Romanist, she is the stedfast protector against all tampering with either the truth of God or the liberties of man, denouncing alike her traditions and her encroachments, proclaiming in one article that " Holy Scripture containeth all things neces sary for salvation," and in another, that " the Bishop of Rome bath no jurisdiction in this realm of England." When all this is taken into consideration, our surprise will be moderated, that parties, who on every other sub ject, are wide as the poles asunder, having no other prin ciple in common, should yet be unanimous in this, and cry out together against our church " down with it even to the ground." Our church then has many virulent enemies against which she must contend, but in main taining the struggle, the word of our God to whom we look for counsel and for strength, teaches us that " the weapons of our warfare are not carnal." Danger to the church involves a duty of course on the part of her chil dren, to rise up in her defence. You, my brethren, are aware of the danger, and alive to the duty; and my object is to offer you a word of advice as to the manner in which, most effectually for the church, and at the same time most advantageously for yourselves, this defence must be conducted. In the remarks I have to offer, I have need to be comprehensive, for I must necessarily be brief; and unless I am also plain and easily intelligible, I feel that I must miss my aim altogether, which is to say something encouraging, instructive, and useful to you. Bearing this in mind, then, I would beg your patient and prayerful attention, while I endeavour to show you, first of all, what it is that makes a church valuable—without which it would not be worth maintaining or defending; in the second place, I will attempt to point out to you, ornament and protec ffrroomm itthsefigrslotreiosutasbpliasghemoooft,yothuor Church of h E is n to g r la y n , d ho h w as , been the pride of the country—the how her children may, and ought, and strengthen,tionon t support, and exalt her. If lam enabled it o speak airnriet orderin which accordancet y o o i u n apre havews impress tthh chosenethem momentous topics, will be with any clearness on these found that I have not wandered . far institutions ; and, lastly, from the spirit, at I will seek ca to show f her more deeply, I have chosen to address you •, for the ordi nancesteaching of God's eternal truth. She shows you the way in flearsyto, a rf nmd th eselt a t ‘ o v w, s ao o nr f dds our oonf church Hwohliych which you should walk, for she brings you to Jesus, who is the way, the living, and the true, as well as the only way. She teaches you the work that you should do when she declares to you the will of God, even your sanctifica tion • and that " without holiness no man can see the Lord." • First, then, we ask, what is St. Paul's description of " the Church of the living God ?"—" the pillar and ground of the truth." That only can be called a true church which has the truth, and preaches the truth, and provides for the transmission of the same truth in its purity and integrity to the generations yet to come, — the truth as it is in Jesus,—the truth that sancti fies,—the truth that makes free. In this consists the excellence of our own church. She is built 'upon the broad foundation of scriptural sufficiency, and scriptural truth; to the sacred word of God she assigns due pro minence in her creed, her articles, her services, through out. She has, under God, preserved the truth thus far ; and as long as she remains what she is, she will continue to teach it to her children ; since, where the liturgy is read, the truth of God is honoured and set forth in it. On this ground, then, we are bold to maintain for our church, that she answers the description of the Apostle, and, therefore, lays undisputed claim to the title. It' this, my brethren, be the real excellency of our church, in what should the character of r eal churchmen be conspicu ous ? Ought it not to be in the value the y se t upon that truth,—in the zeal with whic h the y defend and propagate it; and, more than all. in the growing holiness with which they are bound to make manifest its blessed influence over their own hearts and lives. Here the Rev, preacher en tered, at some length, into the gospel scheme of redemp tion, by Christ Jesus, meeting all the exigencies of man, and satisfying all the requirements of God, shewing that .in Christ the law of God is magnified, and made honour able, its perfections drawn out by the very act that de prives it all of its terrors. In Jesus only is that, other wise tremendous, question answered, " What is written in the Lord, how readest thou?" "Look unto him and be saved, for he is God, and beside him there is no Savi our." Thi s ., brethren, is the " one tiling needful ;" without this, all else is valueless, as the foam on the waters. .Make this your grand aim, "seek first the king-. dom of God and his ri , ghteousness, and all other thi ngs will be added unto you, —" Seek the Lord while he may be found," seek him in prayer and in the study of his word. He will shew you the way in which you must walk, and the work you must do; thus will your peace flow on as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea. We regret our want of space for even an outline of the 2nd division of this instructive discourse : it consisted of an appeal of the history of England from the reforma tion to the revolution ; exhibiting the two principles in collision—of Protestantism (which he identified with our church) and of Romanism, the enemy of God's truth. He sheaved that when Protestantism was in the ascendant, peace at home, and success abroad was the result. Whereas when Romanism provailed in the councils of the state, disaster and defeat invariably followed. The Revolution he dwelt upon, and the bill of rights, wherein he said was established and consolidated the power of the Sovereign, by defining and securing the liberties of the people,—after w hich be proceeded : It remains for me to say a concluding word, as to the mode in which, especially, I would have you to defend and support your church. Brethren, the best safeguard (humanly speaking) a church can have, is in the ardent affection of her members; and the fairest•reflection of her excellence is that emitted by their gradually increasing holiness. Every one amongst you can do something in this respect, and, while effectually serving his church thereby, he is also as certainly promoting his own growth in grace, and most convincingly refuting the calumny of his enemies ; " that whereas they speak evil of you as of evil doers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ." Now dear breth ren , b ear f rom me a word of exhortation, easily associated with the last remark. You know the severe vigilance with which your proceedings on all occasions, especially on such a day as this, are marked by the enemies of yourselves and of your principles; you know that, while your forbearance or self-control, will meet with no encouragement or cons , mendation, the slightest indiscretion will at once be magnified into crime, and thus discredit will be attached to our holy and our beautiful cause. Let me then exhort you, that the continuance and the close of this day, may be in unison with the mode in which you have chosen to commence it, being " sanctified with the word of God and with prayer," separate early, and proceed peaceably to your homes. The Christian's purest earthly delights ought to be at , horne ; his most cherished companions, the wife of his bosom, and the children of their love. Act on such anniversaties as this, in such a manner, that your wives and your children may have reason to rejoice, and to say it is good for them, and for you, that you have been here. Then, indeed, will you be in the way wherein you should walk, and in the work that you should do. After adverting to the good effects of the several Dio cesan Churith Building Societies, originated by the good Bishop of Chester, end now adopted in every other diocese in England, he enlarged upon the benefits re sulting, and likely still to result, both to the nation and the church. The public mind was gradually being disabused of that popular fallacy, that the church meant only the clergy ; and the energies as well as the affections of the people were directed towards the church of their fathers, which he looked upon as the great strong , hold of her security and strength, without which, he said, all parliamentary enactments and ecclesiastical commis sions would prove of no more avail against the tide of revolutionary fury than the cry of the affrighted courtiers before the plashing surges that dashed the feet of their in trepid kine, when he rebuked their sychorancy and ta - ught them to give the glory to God. After which he concluded nearly thus:—Finally, brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might; whether rejoicing in hope, kh e nayovowe tr i als t ai r lt e ss n oa g wn t strength. bp ir lk ti tv l e a ar n tni Many bitterness. Yon you, toe d o mua d r yeo endure, thy, have dr ex perienced or patient under tribulati on , con ti nue i nstant in prayer. r h Prayer realizes the p resence an d the power of God ; in disappointment wh ere you reposed confidence. f lament that your cause and y ourse l ves h ave met ty b t h h r oc e i sut hearthwre l nl may with coldness and unconcern where you expected, because you deserved, both sympathy and support ; and this even in high places. Still you have duties to perform : if others neglect or forsake their duties, that is no reason for us to be remiss in the discharge of ours, and we are not without encouragement, for we serve the Lord Christ, and He demands of his followers activity in every duty, fidelity in every trust. " Quit you, then, like men, be strong." We know Him in whom we have believed ;" and He will never desert his cause, nor abandon those that put their trust in him; we know that we shall, we must be, victorious in the end—" Even more than conquerors through Him that loved us." There is a principle and a power in true religion that can't be described; it must be felt to be undersood. It enhances worldly prosperity, acting like the pillar of the cloud lest the glare of this world's sunshine might wither the Christian's graces : and like the pillar offire it flings a light from heaven across the path of this world's tribula tion, lest adversity should blight the Christian's hope. True religion—" the faith of the Son of God"—enables the believer in patience to possess his sou!, tarrying the Lord's leisure, hoping still in God: it assures him that at last he shall surmount every obstacle, and rise superior to every pressure. So felt a holy man of old, so he believed, and so he spake, and his words are written for our learning and encouragement—" Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines: the labor of the olive shall fail and the fields shall yield no meat : the flock shall be cut off from the folds and there shall be no herds in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation." , A discourse like Hie above, coming from a mi n i s t er so universally and deservedly beloved- as is Mr. Nolan, wherever he is known, and whose hi , :h talent, sincere piety, and consistency of principle are acknowledged, may well be concluded to have been received, by the members of the order assembled, with gratitude and admiration. It was so received ; and from every source of.information which is open to us it has not been without its due effect, in strengthe,ing the hearts of the brethren, allaying that irritation engendered in their minds by the harsh and dis trustful conduct towards themselves and their cause by our local authorities ; and, above all, in leading them to look more deeply into the principles, for the dissemination of which they ire associated, and to strive to direct their proceedings and their lives in strict accordance with those principles. At the conclusion of the sermon, a collection was made in aid of the funds of the Blue Coat Hospital, after which the congregation Quietly departed. But it was not the intention of their cowardly enemies to permit a body of men, whose principles are held in detestation by all disturbers of the public peace, to return even from the performance of a duty so sacred as the at tendance upon the church of their land, without insult and attempted outrage. Accordingly, on the termination of the service, the church-yard of St. John's was found to be surrounded with a mob, filling the whole of St. John's-lane and the Old Haymarket, and extending for a considerable distance up Manchester-street and along Whitechapel, about whose mischievous bent there could be no question. Several attempts at stone throwing were made, and no taunts or insults were spared to induce the desired disturbance. The presence of a strong body of police, however, repressed any very active violence; whilst the highly-praiseworthy coolness and patience of the Orangemen most materially contributed to this gra tifying result. One party was followed along Lime-street, nearly to the Park, by a mob of disorderly fellows, who were only deterred from an attack upon them by the firm and resolute, yet forbearing, demeanour which they pre served. In the evening, the lodges dined at their various houses of meeting, displaying further their obedience to the au thorities of their town, by submitting to, what we cannot but think, a somewhat unreasonable demand of the magis trates, that the usual flags should not be hoisted from their lodge windows ; and we ate glad to be able to assert that, notwithstanding continual and persevering attempts to aggravate them, not a single case of disturbance, re quiring the intervention of the police, threw a stain over the orderly proceedings of the previous day. ENGRAVING FROM THE CELEBRATED PICTURE OF by William Salter, Esq., has been completed by M r . Moon, (publisher in ordinary to her Majesty,) and a t s be it r, k u e s t of be Wellington own to an n u m a o ll s y t subscribers' of names are now being taken at the Repo sitory THE WATERLOO A M T ra E t ß e L rl O o O o B b a A n N q Q n e u t E , T " . — fro A m h of s C e, l i splendidut o ri 'c n eh. t fis h tn e reee en 18thtgacytWai engraving srtsh o cae f ar rodcAuiesnrly readers—thatgd hsu3ai distinguished ea dt G orAuffinpeds; " who were with him on the Juno, field of Waterloo—te commemorate the glories achieved by the British forces on that eventful day. His Grace (about three years ago) authorised Mr. Salter—and him alone—to paint a representation of the banquet of that year, and every facility was afforded him, the officers pre sent having expressly sitten to him for their portraits. He is admitted on all hands to have succeeded in conveying in his truly national picture correct likenesses of all the gallant men who were present—some of whom have since been " gathered to their fathers”—as well as of the splen did apartment, and its appurtenances, in which they met. The picture thus possesses, and will continue as years re volve to possess, increasing interest. In the language of the prospectus of its publication, it is well remarked that " It is impossible to imagine a subject of greater and riaore general interest than this picture, which represents the actual portraiture of more than seventy of those warriors, who, having won fame and rank under their gallant host, thus assembled on the anniversary of the crowning act of all their heroism--to recall the events of that stirring time—to offer a tribute to the memory of those who fell— to rejoice with those who are spared—to offer their con gratulations to their veteran leader—and to receive his hospitality beneath his roof, proteeted during twenty-five years of a peace which was won and has been guarded by their valour." When we add that we have seen the en graving, and that it is an admirable work of art, in the finest style, a perfect counterpart of the original in indi vidual like n e ss an d d e t a il, w e trust we need not add a word to induce many of our townsmen to do honour to themselves as patriots and as men of taste by visiting Mr. b G y r Grundy's, l y s o , r m and r becomingleman f sub o s r cr o i subscribers. In 0 w I n u .ia t i he n bmoethroeoxm there are at present on view the fine picture of John Gladstone, Esq• . cellent likenesses. — POßTßAlT OF LORD S ANDON .-- ; that of the late George Canning, given Since the writing cf a notice of the Q ueen ' s p i cture, by ' Leslie now on view at Mr. • G run d y ' s Repository of Arts, Church-street, we hav e been' gratified with a view becoming of a splendid new portrait of Lord Sandon, destined, we believe, for the Collegiate Institution. The picture is painted by the same artist as the full-length portrait of Mr. Gladstone, which we recently had occasion to eulogise. It is rich and powerful in colouring, well studied in ar rangement of light and shade, and firm and vigorous in execution. The position is easy and natural, and the ex i.ression pleasing and characteristic. We are glad to find that it is proposed to engrave this portrait upon a large and important scale, uniform with the full-length portrait of Canning, after Lawrence—to which it will make an ad mirable companion; and from the deserved esteem in which the noble lord is held by all classes of his consti tuents, we feel confident that this opportunity . of being put in possession of a faithful record of his person will not be neglected by the public. The picture will, we understand, remain for a few day's at Mr. Grundy's, where we recommend our readers to take an early oppor tunity of viewing it. 2,