The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-23 00:00:00

Ws on e the Church Missionary Society at this time, may he tt?entioned the large legacy of £6OOO bequeathed to the so add by the Rev. Mr. Natt, of London. To this we may edd the➢ name of one, who, under the humble signature of 1 Elaellistoteros' ( less than the least), has contributed tu don,,wards the establishment of a mission in China, the munificent t • l ° 4 of X6OOO. Nor should we omit to mention a con tribution from another quarter—a donation of £lOO, as well ,a‘hseaB4oaciffetityuablysubscription of £25, having been presented his Majesty the King of Prussia. to worilnd whilst we would desire, not to glory in man, or any Work Oman, but to glory only in the Lord, we cannot but r ejoice in this enlarged liberality manifested at this time by th e :members of our own beloved church. In all this we de ,,lr to see the hand of God, and to acknowledge in this sea /2413b1e relief to the society' s funds, an evidence . , that the I'L r eat R fad of the church will not suffer any work of his to :sqluish for want of means. Only let the conductors of this 1))letY continue faithful to Christ, and He will give them undant proofs that their labour is not in vain in the Lord. To t'ii thar i k f „, ' 3 augmentation of the society's funds . are Th e ._"' r.° saV our own auxiliary has contributed its v‘ s e hare. incr_:eceipts of last year were X 2,7.10 15s. 7d., showing an , e 8e above the preceding year's account, of 136,) thi Abroad too, as well as at home, the Lord has followed paiiss_4?c.iety with his favou r and blessing. Seldom has i a year ). L 'u In which the hand of death has been less busy in the .'n4 of our Proved th missions:l.y boarCL In Sierra Leone, w i bich ri h e a s s no t a s; ,e grave of so many of our devoted missiona . I_ , , wh o iiti'ngle death occurred during the, past year. And He to li ve r the souls of his servants in life, has enabled them faith at ° himself, and has blessed them in their wm . of fill id labour of love. Thousands of the liberated Africans ehild°ruern churches there, and so many thousands of their population C owd our schools, that nearly one-fifth of the whole . Leon,,.•has received instructions in our mission in Sierra isperi'e a.larger proportion than can be found in any nation °four land, This has been acknowledged by the legislaturewith the ,0144,1. TT committee of the House of Commons, bortle`;:el°r!l the member for this borough at its head, have slo t , • "1:41C teStitnOny to the valuable results of our mis in that tee' s ow _ tint - a c°- -rY• Co adopt the language of the commit i; MissioriarreP2rt ' To the invaluable exertions of the * Churc * 13y their Society the highest praise is due. os olt ~ effort s 4,,,,, y `-'ol one -fifth of the whole population—a school'Usually high proportion in any country—are at tfo , tl, 4 ior a a r i l d the effects- are visible in consinlerahle intellec ' In N0'2!4,1 rel; -sligious improvement.' and vcess\torthswest America, k too, Gospel Preach er4 in t'ia, and in New Zealand, tle in in Northern, Southern, 40, vat' on 0 7 our missionaries is still owned of God the his Inn th e i sci at tlis. has added .0 est4„oll., 2hamed mission, Bishop f l t us attai ns ) : t° confirm the previous Selwynac counts of the reli stock of 13 arriv a l i'l'ellts of the once cannibal New Zi,!lan , ders. On 11:!...111,Itorai an!, found the natives possessed 0 r ui t te a astonished an u c i t ' ii i , arid ittmassPeirrtitlual know)e(ulgeh whichlm n i l New Zealand, nner ia t i n v e e Print ed a ' t °° prea9h. , y reas .n ssaillia, h e bear. lab °c al testi , our mission 1 ' r I)°eters os 'otlY to the character and . success r; of the . 1:0 0 1 of h: ! Mir society. Nor is this all : a .111'haP 1 11 '3 s: 001 " of oOr missionaries and . henor two''nee. conferred two ecclesiastical aPP OI . t " bee motes! toone has th e s r s a v o p r i k . i s ,; e t h t e s Pro senlOr M issionaries in New Zealand ; islands 4 l ' a med the Pti I, the ' offi • f krchdeacon, and the other f B " oc P c 's o Co ' mmissary for the Bay o " No; another markcatie conclude without noticing,place, give n to the of his favour which the Lord our God that is pa at. lir GMirch Missionar , Society during the year . in the last has tai all th Y h's grace he has I bled this society to rn.ain kinatio4 ose great prin '. pl ' enabled el truth, for the.di.sse pet? So e i e ° tl f which. arnonegi tehse of heathen the Church Alission °testant d ers this ". originally[ established. From these great i.ipeiety, )ear ?ctrines, as enunciated by our Reform ,nwre t han is b ed Ines, has not swerved in the past year, no . ,_ ° t . G0d , , 4 guile before. Let this be recorded to the praise ''''Pt ese-r grace The same object which its pious founders o _ every sure 1° l'lew, has continued to be the single aim _ .F . 4ited, fr-ns._s,Ye committee in London up to this hour . 0 it A n l . l !aixed, as '-unarst to last, in aiming to give a pure, ll a knew that ifthll'au. adulterated gospel to the heathen. A w°4l d be emote Gospel hd in faith, the heathen teolissidtitea°,intv4erotecd, to Christ., a - ndlive. It has been preache , New Zealand, m , 11 , , and ni _ i heathen in Africa, ine living tor,Chri st i`i'eewhere, have been converted, and ar The Pro s , t Z i.and will live with Christ hereafter. b r i e hea been toe, this society has never hitherto departed. _rctactlat!ling theria°tpalliation of Romish errors—no s reserve in f energy ' i a t y i . 1 ginta ted t ri 1 esoannedtrineurietr t e . r (. :o ' h y r e i l s , t , — es n o o n t w l . e ' i.t.ers, or 1 7 ,... 1 i 1 i c •in a region high l part of this so- not(, ba't% soperstitious frivolities. It determines en. removed above such knowreligiousto ghtesin 'Jesus Christ and Him crucified, and all the . 1144.. frott%elLtrns.bling, sanctifyitlg„ and - sayi of the ever "Mg G o , ' l "lng that great fundamental truth ng effects which atiell"tinithit!.-thee. path in which the society has hitherto moved, Path of f I • ch may it conti u e to 0 • for ever! This is the bitllelf• Fo4litihowfuilone", t,O GOd-, blessing n'e to man, and safety to bl est it , and g tnis course hitherto. Christ nas . going the tame ''' e 'nay be assured from his promises, tnat pur- evmearti.t.enctioul r,e still, He will meet and bless the society veaUnts as ,seavlioPGsosz then read a statement during his so tic' st y ear t'irlis treasurer from which it appeared that ... th u to the "t'lthary had forwarded increased cont lib th e Is Parent so ,swiggals : tit. • P. IluntnYcOatE, in moving the first resolu s erdinrylir o.at endedsurro as they were by the realities . of open ttaraeter, lii t)f iri th iii i t s e., : i7 ll he:glitiews4Bllllt. o,trefresliingto form one of a meeting tauthiot r!st,..re true,were told it was th e h e;. ng, spirits sent f 1 ), that the as we angels of God were I,reseiitw,i,it salvation ; n orth to minister l w to ere the m m an w y •ho were hearts of his itna:inres.Ponded to wiirthe t ' c e h r airman in the fervour nos tearnstanati°a had observed. Many, he trusted, were a h t ei p h i e li l east,h e tt ed t ' 4 , ..4,,to,,b.e heirs of salvation, and deemed i Ices sett I th F ha nd in .s 7 or the greatest of their blessings, to lend ' lt was " 11 he "ten d'ng the knowledge of sal - vtion which nT'ssible fo r ho pe °f glory, in the cross of Christ. the glow Shen thi s , — : e of bYe-gone days to look . back u is with grati tss l etY was formed without feeling thei r' s ° hear!! ( is of praise"ue, and without lifting them up in e u xi;:r t e r, whie:' hear.) itti:/i4g, See what God has be creifil,wed fro t n' a a at first indeed a little stream .ould then send e4ev`,ltheist grin the sanctuary,wrought that and p arir s eroad, at'tlig anele deep . ; but n . oit waters of life globe unity (I,wee reach., deeper still ; now whichwas a thou or sei oeess,) `ice to all the . nations those lessons les t , s ,hatess and ad been often told in ' o . ' f the habitable an '' f nomy which we were too apt to e n ' a 4 ] 40 ould omy lay by the first £lOO, the . s ntiwnold almost Could Only lay by the first £lOO, the jOrtoOst f li .-n • so that if life toehichrtthnitY were .sopriorwed of course as , hardly any limit ))n nurnbe ,wealth o f „,,, e ' theremight wasp t grow. There had test, made err es . : e t c• instances n. not truth of this had f or t tit h e Pori...% r . 0 f N,V.hen this intention ehad. t whether of te _ e m an 11,_ ,esethsbness and aggrandisemen, been carried on we had ths,a_s!en hsLa, elt.or for those who came after,. how h e ), lisd m a t.n riches had vanished into thin air; Lee ways catty 10 themselves wings and flown away , ' t ths4 laden'ia . se in which we must see that the first ' step iiietk b e :el the , • machine being once put in motion, (.:Iniretateth, wh e n accumulation which even his friei . the w il ch Nlie,wuo was nne of the first supporters , n ot . the st,then Tsonary Society, could hardly have ant:cipatecl. Pes„ °t 'Ject ' s u ed God w rought ' Hear, hear.) It was true rs ,a, • -4 8 not ti , . • Every di .It Was o maid one needless penny.. , , w i t h faitti.etates nt, collected was distributed consistently, ‘, , N os . and he ,°rtl'narY prudence, balanced arid checked D) cr ee, , lsh, ti. ~rusted there would be no improper attemt . to c 4le (4 14 ' It Were, any fund that should look like . an In: cliff:lY thontrtY• (Hear, hear.) The Church Missionary weemse wi th ' t h 4, as fa r a s eeiti s li o rnethin el. Other ; aPossible, receive t with a one .i l , i , a it n hand h a e i r i d e. treat and s an equality between the necessity of , re tr;pr desi to sae. necessity for diffusing —that there was a e at d eo ,u In the way of receiving, as well as there was ale'llteistit:ho2l4o,eilro .itn the . way of distribution. , (Hear.) He . mi g h t ~,sns 40, , utit as they had year atter year made their tes tna ,no w ch,. a sort of a rithmetical progression, te:: that n et al pr:nge 9te mode, and get into the process laiti„"eY oli Ig!'ession, multiplying their receipts, in order t It ~..t ;e ar , e f ', in the same proportion distribute the ever det'a rin, mo ue the perishing heathen. (Hear, hear.) krsatittla wheicotsit!ble to have listened to the report, and to the Ple as u de, ~,,,P announced without feelin. of pleasure and tleift,,ed by .igatitu tr e " tl re and"" as he d e w w o aB u l ' d p e r b s u v a t d h e e d b t l h e a s s t i ' t n h g o o s e t G feelings d he , of lo n t her hi s titne statements st;bse uently to be msde, it was m enu's th e a ,l 3. °or his i nclination to stand for one moment liti4re,ol..,..theret,o7Y !'it' that gratification and spiritual improv r e .; tiOs, thafte,.the should conclude with moving the . fie as . Theiltited aotiLnj report and treasurer's accounts b 4 1)0 4 1, ev. p r. ta. re'llated'. •,. • / devolved ,Doe ed - i ira sf see p 8 said the gratifying dutyro.. 44 4 n Y his ss ; . °l-I .'ng the report which had just been p he oaso;;.t N oye ' d " t. fri e rid, Ile should have been sorry if l'ettecinlotis with oPPortUnity this day of connectiog a few e. tha t 4 th ere vv..al that admirable document ; and . lie, !. ZeDaft olf ere ort I not aPpended to the resolution a distinction Zoeidett the reccolr9usldo_further be separated from Li a e nd o ci e r. bed taokkia nnalnyhieft.the. society, and be lt printed was impossible he 4l4 tief 'tea r that r (tleart near.) . . sq.,. aeto r i l , ePort, stating, as it did, every so luminously . rest!th th e , Y !..e Progress of the society, cheering ... ci et aistin es.tkrriony nobly borne by it, at the close, to the ttsyrld'il:eas%tiellithenig doctrines of the Church ' Missionary So- I. r 4 411 N I c heist were the doctrines of the Gospel . of oor Ist t o he st• (Cheers.) It was impossible, he said, t ss os e _ r that testimony, so nobly borne, without think to 44 ear an a dnii r lit hte4e ha that th e report.. r so p.rinted , a . nd so circulated would t b e s , ~ .d mei_ able Tract for the limes : ( Loud cheers.) e sth n onli zed ust a strange thing for one in the present day 4 ttr a °4 1 , ; b„,,t? sPeak thus strongly with regard to such 1!i0,11,14te thin"'it wag so ! likewise to be because it a meared 11 ti,lgithe borne'' It should be necessary i that such a testimony 'l4 etitt'qed in: (Hear, hear.) He appealed to the d.is tles the Pleadetivi,dnal opposite to him, who had so Ire ,ll„.se Iva % the ea Use of the Church Missionary Society ilhlt)iottihey sininntelittlf its original secretaries—lie appeale a d st t i o f niottwhave been ast , o f ni r sh t e h r e l n i l n 3 144,11clve,been told to vindicate e°tll 'i l 4 t in h 'ending ;Ortheemes'sa'rOnaories who should he (hellat• It hay --e doctrines of the cross. ' (Cheers.) Never ar ke lik e e etitered • ti' s into the mind of any of them that a iii bee th at L • could have been brought against them— ttl,„ l eh l'ad been reserY d f r the present day. They I V; th ar,ged withnc.irculaetingodoctrin,es peculiar to them carsti',/°,0111? n ad bee p q ,i te n ot s _, . told they employed no missionaries st 4, 4 e . ; t he _ u omit . to be examined by an irresponsible . re eh, ‘ lor ity, ,Y, were likewise charged with assuming episeo tdi'arreth dn'et'vnieY vvere ► told they neglected the propagation s es e t'N n t hern se n i e s e , .?pd that they preached " _doctri t n he finisall a , doct or v a t (Hear, hear.) We, continued h ti o the . c P h rea c h Christ crucified : is that a doctrine lit inn tleee,s.,tell Missionary Society ? (Cheers. We Dect, _ lirsenes 1 , , , of the commencing, regenerating, sane st 7 !k, h ,Q 1. 14 . n e t s t •! h oy ghost : is that a doctrine pe . c_t!- t?taietyi ii4ca'trirn :Ponsib_le committee ?" (Cheers.) we h,Zriat . ,(l - 1, 5 0 by faith alone : is that peculiar to our fs st A t ,' W e hay _ i rt we are a blessed society. (Grea t d„_ is tke e fs ono ,_ then written upon us a proof that we ii'aerttiotgs .Ite,ela7ton toga's a revelation unto men —but the 'lic t ° thth4t ter a• on• was befor e ! (Applause.) W e preach s to eris t e GospelainlY are " peculiar," but they are pecu tli;'ispsilt ti„..,Thia, 8i of. the Lord Jesus. (Hear, hear, and c c a ' the y w j , I 1 the real offence —the offence of the 41 PSt a 4 lt ly I'D Will not bow before that cross will invent Mtifta..s„e:, th e lasbrstn...e_fi_etitious charge of their own,.in order to n m e'e,) del ~,,l ' ,'_`4 ur others whom God blesses with his oa a oth W e, t rn he owns as his servants. (Great ap -114 the th e ltit y, je rev doctor proceeded, were told by the ',tees Laptn.at the church's doctrines were—wh y w.hat (4, 4 . 1. : B s itY of h Poem regeneration, sacerdotal absolution, 14 l ' 4 lt, ° eosiseenrnlng connected ' with the visible church h s ek t , te ati i0,...Lt become connected with the Lord Jesus );,e t o rs , e these Was eon of the whole practice of christt a y 4 werauseetedno eonnection with the church till we isms., , Ina 44: (: hr Ol t d that t i w ith e the Lord Jesus Christ of (tChehel.mni } l , t l i t t ‘ :t rril'any"fa church IC l r o c c s t e r?n e e e . ' of t \ , Ve b vv o et . called upon . )r,: t s t .) l 'i 4(414,, such thingsthi as essential church doctrines an d ) tln rut}, th_l‘'veY ot imbibed by instinct I ( 11ea .l. bette ri n b ey _ w ere not imbibed by instinct, for instincttiinct tliirttii.?_,;Binde:,,c):ll:Fe than . the reason of man:iw` ere Itb‘,l4llt`li edoelitat.o4(ll,lnosuignht idifficulteir r l i t n their operations, : N' eretoldthat the hl ll i tt 4 he sttrf.,ier'ee of the cliurClT;is s discipline ~ d o trt th h e e A 11 Y 1 7 B erip tu "e Scripture." No, indeed, nor in. the ,ti,ainilroranditiete, nor in any other depths, but I 'l pe a ean'lla bathe :()f Prejudiced and illogical minds. (Hear.)nots Y i a tq"44er 4 rY . Was invented, and mighty 0 e t a , th ri 'liai se 0 ewith—the chief a th,th s 1 . ak s sonl :le revolu: imi (Hear, hear.) W e might ..ttst itt , i ht ef I ''''ee " ehurch. doctrine e " and expose them heels took ~t hirl i een :lit e 'i st th e t aYi (Ile , sk Vte ,ii t r ti . retl,_ "r‘s Instinct ttiid 80,Irtire 44101\t'r.;1 thi4llll tt'ipiletithrifllitlA lotttl tilli'l l t;.:; 1411 4 . 14 4tlttaiti IMO i ihl Spirit blasts them ; and they were turning back to thei r own native pollution, there to sleep with the wreck and the ruins, like those of the cities of the plain, of all the systems that have dared to raise themselves against the pure doctrines of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Renewed cheering.) He would ask attention but for one instant more, because he felt he had forfeited his own pledge. They had beard of "irresponsible committees;" they had heard of the charge of assuming episcopal authority—and he trusted there was at least one among them who would sit at the episcopal bench ere long, but, he would not say, in the presence of the chairman, who that individual was. (Cheers.) But, certainly, they ordained no missionaries; they only se lected those who had been ordained ; and what was the exa mination to which those missionaries were subjected? Sup pose there was the society (and believed he was one of its members) for the propagation of the gospel. Let it not forfeit its right to that name! (Hear.) It was a high pretension ; and he faithfully blessed God that they could say, in the face of the world, that though they called themselves the Church Missionary Society, they could challenge investigation into the results whether they were a society for the propagation of the Gospel ! (Cheers.) But take the society which bore that name—suppose the humble individual who now ad dressed the meeting to present himself before that society and ask for an appointment ; suppose he honestly said he was no believer in the doctrine of baptismal regeneration ; suppose him to state his reasons in all their native force for clinging to the doctrine of justification by faith ? Suppose he added that, Episcopalian as he was, he did not think the Episcopalian channel the only channel for conveyin g Divine grace ? Suppose be did not believe, as he certainly did not, in a church visible, believing that there was, indeed, one Catholic church spiritually ; if he honestly stated these things to the committee, responsible or irresponsible, would they employ that individual ? Would they send him abroad to do their work ? (Hear, hear.) Oh, that he could multi ply himself into millions, in order to maintain the doctrines of the gospel wherever heresy, wherever " church doctrines," and all the inventions of men had been introduced as their substitute ! (Loud cheers.) The Rev. EDWARD BICRERSTETII was then introduced, amidst much cheering, to support the resolution. He re joiced at seeing himself again surrounded in Liverpool with so many dear brethren, whom he had so long loved. Glad he was to support his dear brother Buddicom in this reso lution. With him he well remembered the time when the Liverpool Association was indeed very feeble—a single con gregation at first, two or three added afterwards, and then how little was the interest felt in this blessed cause! But, at the present anniversary there had been thirty-seven ser mons preached, and probably £7OO or XBOO raised after those sermons. To God our Saviour be all the glory ; let us mag nify together his great name; let us thank God arid take courage for what was before us ! (Hear, hear.) The report had given many of the details, with which he had been furnished; but there were two or three facts respecting the present state of the society which he would communicate. He was glad to say that the great debt of about £20,000 had been reduced to £lOOO. (Cheers.) So that the society at present was only owing to those who had advanced money to it, to enable it to carry on its proceedings, the sum of £lOOO. (Applause.) Weinustremember, however, that in the income of £116,000, the sum of £12,000 was absolutely a donation and legacy, and, therefore, could not he considered as regular income; and we must remember, also, that ail the members of the so ciety through the country deeply sympathised in its peculiar circumstances, and, therefore, made extraordinary efforts to increase the income of the last year. (Hear.) He trusted that the blessedness of having made those efforts, and the happy result, would act as quickening motives to sustain, and even to increase, our exertions. (Hear.) The general state of the society's missions was this :—there were 92 sta tions ; 1241 Christian missions ; 687 schools ; and 36,904 scholars; there were 66,000 attendants upon public worship; and about 6000 monthly communicants at the Lord's table. (Hear, hear.) This, generally, would shew the members of the society how large it had progressed in its foreign missions. (Hear.) With regard to the West African mission, he was thankful to be able to state, that while we had been so grie viously afflicted by the results of the Niger expedition, God seemed more and more to be opening the way from Sierra Leone into the interior of Africa;—(cheers)—for the so ciety's linguist, Mr. Thompson, had gone 160 miles eastward, into the interior, where he had established friendly relations with the chiefs, who were willing to send their sons to the mission schools at Sierra Leone, and earnestly pressed the society to send missionaries to them.' (Hear.) Thus was there a mutual pledge for the progress of divine truth in the interior of Africa. (Hear.) He was happy also to say, that the converted natives from Sierra Leone, who had settled at in the Bight of Benin, were preparing the way for another native missionary settlement, and therefore for the progress of truth from that part of Africa. Thus, more and more, the way seemed opening for the spread of the gospel, as was originally hoped it would, from the colony of Sierra Leone. (Cheers.) With regard to other missions, he would mention, that at Calcutta there had been 96 fresh baptisms within the year; in another place, the name of which was not heard, there had been 660 baptisms within the year; and in the Tinnevelly mission there had been 1,221 baptised within the year. These simple statements, all of which were connected with deeply interesting facts with regard to each baptism, might serve to show how delightfully progressive the work:of Christian missions was. (Hear, hear.) Then, with regard to New Zealand, the progress of the gospel was truly grateful and delightful. At ,on one Sacrament Sunday, there were 1,100 persons present; the church was too small to hold them ; and of these 1,100, no less than 487 New Zealanders partook of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. (Applause.) He wished our own congregations were in such a state, or that even half of our congregations were ready, in general, to stay to receive the Lord's Supper. (Hear, hear.) At Torrago (we believe) there had been 198 baptisms within the year; and four chapels had been built by the natives ; and, taking the general statement of the number of natives who had embraced Christianity in the last four years, in New Zealand, it would be found to have in creased from 2000 to 35,000. (Loud cheers.) Many, neces sarily, were yet very ignorant ; many had, doubtless, em braced it from a variety of merely temporal motives; but they were all under a' course of instruction, the effect of which would be best illustrated by some facts. War and cannibal ism had almost, if not entirely, ceased. (Loud cheers.) Ancient superstitions had been forsaken. Many were making the most diligent use of the means of grace, and were making rapid progress in scriptural knowledge. The sermon of the Bishop of New Zealand, to which the report referred, was delivered in June last; and it stated "Christ ha's blessed the work of his ministry, in a wonderful manner. A few faith ful men, by the power of the spirit of God, have been instru ments of adding another Christian people to the family of God ; young men and maidens, old men and children, all with one voice praising God,'all offering up daily their morn ing and evening prayers, searching the Scriptures to find the way of eternal life, valuing the word of God above every other thing, and displaying in their outward lives open pro mise of the influence of the spirit. Where will you find through the Christian world more signal manifestations of the presence of that spirit, or more lively evidence of the king dom of Christ?" (Cheers.) When we considered that the Bishop of New Zealand had comparatively little interest in the Church Missionary Society before he went abroad, he (Mr. Bickersteth) thought that this testimony from his lord ship on the spot was peculiarly important, as showing his sense of the value of its missions. To God, as he had said before, be all glory ! (Cheers.) But yet more to our God be the glory that this beloved society had maintained stedfastly its great Protestant principle ! (Loud cheers.) For his part he had better hopes of the S'obiety for Propagating the Gospel than his friend Dr. Byrth; he could not but think that that society had given a pledge to the church that it would ad here to the articles in their plain and grammatical sense, and he knew many devoted servants of our Lord Jesus Christ, depending simply upon his grace, who were labouring faith fully under that society. (Hear.) He knew, too, that no one would more rejoice to hear such a statement than his friend Dr. Byrth himself, because what we wanted was not party feeling, but we wanted to exalt our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and to advance his gospel in its purity and simplicity. (Cheers.) Adverting to the plain duty of ad hering to the principles of the society. he could not but feel there was a deep responsibility upon all our societies. They were all under a solemn obligation to Almighty God to employ, as missionaries, only faithful and devoted servants of their Lord and Master ; and the command was plain—" If there come any unto you, and bring not the doctrine of Christ, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed, for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil doing." (Hear.) Upon this peat principle we must rest; upon this principle trust was reposed in the committee by all the contributors to the so ciety ; and it was a duty equally, to Christ himself, to the contributors who supported the society, and to the heathen, to whom, if whom, if we sent an adulterated gospel, we should be doing nothing but mischief. (Hear.) He felt, therefore, that therein had been one peculiar trial of this so ciety during the past year. One of its missionaries, Mr. Humphreys, had embraced views which he (Mr. Bickersteth) could not but think were a departure from the simplicity of the gospel ; a full statement of those views would be pub lished in the appendix to the report, with a plan of the church he proposed to erect, founded much on Tree tarian principles. The meeting would, therefore, judge for themselves. The committee at Madras and the com mittee at London acted promptly and immediately upon the case ; and whilst they had done so at these places, he (Mr. Bickersteth) would read a portion of a letter he had in his hands from the Bishop. of Calcutta, which would show that there was a real danger. Bishop Wilson, in a letter, dated September the 3d, last year, said—" I feel it to be a very serious evil, the semi-Popery which is disgracing the Protestant church, and reviving more than all the exploded statements of the nonjurors a century after the happy settle ment of church and state, and the glorious revolution of 16b8. It is a cruel system of error, and seems to have some thing of the strong delusion to believe a lie, of which the apostle speaks. It is actually desolating my diocese, and especially my infant missions, so that I have been compelled to speak more boldly and decidedly than, under other circumstances, my position would have allowed. I trust I have checked its progress, though I find that nothing will damp or convince a thorough going disciple of their school." (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) When the missionaries abroad were in this condition, did it not become a plain duty upon the society, especially when one of their own lanourers was so tainted, to take a decided stand ? Yes. (Hear.) He felt then, and he felt now, God had gra ciously assisted and directed our beloved committee to make a decided stand against this modified system of popery. (Loud cheers.) He had attended several committees of the society in London upon this subject, and he had been truly delighted with the spirit of Christian wisdom, firmness, meek ness, and love, which had marked their proceediugs ; and whilst he would not lead his dear brethren to put confidence in any human being in any time of temptation, he thought the society might adopt the beautiful terms of the Apostle, with regard to the committee in London. " We have con fidence in the Lord, touching you that you both do and will do that which is right." (Loud cheers.) At this time, too, it was peculiarly important we should be steadfast and firm in defence of the great Protestant truth of our re formation. (Cheers.) The Romanists were full of energy, and activity ; they were invading all our missions ; they were entering in atithe doors which we had opened, and in every way they were exerting themselves by multiplying and send ing out labourers among the heathen. The very way in which they exerted themselves was exceedingly simple some times. He held in his hands an advertisement from the Catholic Magazine—[Feb. 1843.]—N0, he would not call it the Catholic, but the Roman Catholic, Magazine, (cheers,) from the Bishop of Hobarton ' who said he " feels compelled to solicit the attention of the Catholics of the United King dom to the state of his newly-created diocese. The diocese extends over the whole of Van Dieman's Land, which is equal in extent . with Ireland. As soon as a sufficient number of priests can be obtained (and may the spirit of God now inspire some who are regardless of the comforts and con veniences of this life to offer themselves at the altar of mercy, to labour for the salvation of this deplorable class,) they will sail for this land of exile and misery. The charitable are therefore humbly solicited to contribute towards the relief and regeneration of this fallen and degraded class." And what was to relieve, and regenerate, and convert them ? " Donations, particularly in money, (and the faithful are earnestly invited to join in subscribing even in small sums for this work of mercy,) chalices, loxes, holy oil-stocks, crucifixes, tabernacles, candlesticks, missals. breviaries, tures, h e s ! o prayer -books, books ofi piety and instruction, vest n i t i albs, surplices , altar - linen of each kind. P io wa t e r vast"—(loud laughter,) and so they went on h s e o u li r. i ) tc t t y g e o ther contributions. -Observe! no biblee ,—(bear, word of God was never asked for! (Cheers.) Let them take their holy-water vats, their chalices, jee4rordnxweso,z4 the ie holy oil-stocks ; but, by the blessing *ending there men of God who had the love of Jesus shed abroad in their hearts, and with the Bible intheirCulisoridsst we c ared not for till rho trumpery which p a p a cy might (bold cheers,) Let not us lied at oil t rill? dittkkliqtlt it fret IV 1 4 . 2c however, fe t,s, mid rood it NOM?. e avowedly separated from the mummery of Rome, and avow edly separated from Tractarianism. (Loud cheers.) He looked at these things indeed as the resnit of success; he looked upon Tractarianism and things of that kind as marks of God being with us ; Cod was upon our side, and the devil was raging, and opposing in every way the progress of the triumph of divine truth. Thst marked the progress of the kingdom of God, for a state of peace with evil was the worst of all states. He thought it very needful—and therefore he had spoken so plain—that we should show, and distinctly show, we were separate and distinct from this modified sys tem of popery. (Hear, hear.) He could not but feel it was a Christian duty to do so ; it was needful, in order to show our dissenting brethren this, for they were, or had been, in danger of identifying the whole Church of England with thir modified system of Popery ; it was needful to show the go vernment,too, that the Church of England was not carried away with the spirit of Popery. (Cheers.) Then rally round the standard of Protestant faith, the word of God in its simplicity without the traditions of man, the 39 articles in their plain, literal, obvious, grammatical sense, without any jesuitical interpretation,—(cheers)—and the more we were opposed in this the more simply and plainly let us con fess the truth, as it was in Jesus Christ. (Cheers.) His friends probably were not so well aware as be wss of the op position which the society had to endure in its eOrlier days. In the year 1817 there was an opposition to it something like the present, headed by Archdeacon Thomas, of Bath. That opposition was very much in the same strain of spirit as that it was now meeting with; and it was a curious fact, that for want of other armour, he held in his hand, in the trac tarian newspaper, The British Churchman, a reprint of " the protest" of Archdeacon Thomas. Now they should take care what they were doing, for when the protest came out, one friend sent the society £5O, because the pro test was so bad; and as soon as Mr. Wilson's defence of the society came out, he sent the society £5O more because the defence was so good. (Cheers and laughter.) Taking the badness and the goodness together, the society thus obtained from one individual £lOO. (Hear.) But what was more, the income of the society was then £20,000, whilst shortly afterwards it amounted to £30,000, and it had gradually been advancing ever since. (Cheers.) He trusted, then, that all the opposition to the society would, by the blessing of God, but help forward the mighty work, and we should at length have the joy of seeing the whole of our beloved country en gaged in this effort of Christian wisdom and love, the very best token for our land, not that he expected by any present exertions, or contributions, to convert the heathen world— (hear)—but we might gather an election from the heathen world who should be jewels in the crown of the Redeemer, who should be our joy and crown of rejoicing in the day of Christ. This, indeed, would be a joyful recompense to all who in faith and love had engaged in this work of love and mercy ! (Loud cheers.) The resolution was then carried. The Rev. A. W. HANSON moved the next resolution, which set forth, that whilst desiring to acknowledge with thinkfulness to Almighty God the large pecuniary means placed at the disposal of the committee during the past year, they would earnestly press upon "the members of the association the necessity of continued liberality, in order to preach the Gospel lo the heathen, especially in the empire of China. He felt that he was almost out of place, for he be longed, when at home, and he yet belonged, though away from home, to a doomed race. Christianity was to be pro claimed to all the nations of the earth ; by the prediction of God himself we were taught that in every nation, whoever heard Him, and believed in his son Jesus Christ should be saved ; but whilst this resolution called upon them to acknowledge with thankfulness to Almighty God the blessing which it had pleased him to bestow upon the society during the past year, he dared not, as a representa tive of Ethiopia stretch out his hand in thanfulness unto him. (Hear.) What then should lie do? Better to lay the reso lution upon the table and propose it without offering a single remrrk in its support that it might be adopted by those who dared adopt it. He did not however desire to be understood, that now or at any future time, he did, or ever would do anything than express what he felt before God to be his de signs with refererence to the heathen world. (Hear.) For For the whole race of fallen man the gospel of Jesus Christ was to be proclaimed ; for the healing of the nations that life that life-giving tree had been given ; for the pro pitiation of human guilt whether that guilt was the pollution of an African, an American, a European, or an Asiatic was the blood of Jesus Christ shed ; and so long as the command of God was to go into all the world proclaiming the life-giving truth of his gospel, giving unto them the bread of eternal life, which came in the per son of the Lord Jesus Christ,—so long it was our ditty, with out distinction, without reserva4ion, and under all possible circumstances to give obedience to that command. (Loud cheers.) Believing this to be their duty, and the duty of the Christian church, he would forego every consideration, and make the one remark which he had to offer. It was not new to the good citizens of Liverpool that the people of Africa were an inferior race. The inferiors, however, might pre sume to follow behind those who were so far above them. (Hear, hear.) Adverting to the resolution he remarked that at least eight-tenths of the whole members of the Church Missionary Society were members of the church of England ; therefore, there wasreason for thankfulness that they had done so much, and he trusted they would be enabled to do even more, considering that whilst the wants of the missions now established were increasing, new ones, especially in China, were required. We had been told that the heart of Africa, a point proposed to be reached by the Niger expedition, bad been laid open to the enterprise and benevolence of Chris tians, and this from a point once little thought of, but one to which many eyes were now turned. The meeting had been told that Mr Thomson, an agent of the. Church Missionary Society at Sierra Leone, had been able to reach Timbo in Central Africa ; he (Mr. Hanson) believed it might have been stated with perfect truth that Mr. Thomson had gone a stage forward, having reached Sago, which point Sago was the next before he would arrive at Timbuctoo. Upon the whole line which he had been enabled to traverse, he , -ad invariably found a friendly disposition upon the part of the native chiefs. He had every where received welcome. (Hear, hear.) Everywhere the chiefs had expressed their willingness to re ceive teachers; thus a communication had been opened be tween the colony and these several points, and the people were waiting with anxiety for the teachers, which Mr. Thom son had promised should be sent. He contended that the Niger expedition could not be pronounced a failed expe dition, although the disastrous results had prostrated all hope of penetrating into the interior by that channel, because it had shewn that the gospel must be spread, in that country, by native agency. The necessity of for native agency was, indeed, no longer a disputed point ; and on this discovery he addressed an animated appeal to the meeting, to aid in educating native missionaries. For this purpose, be added, the society had instituted a school at Sierra Leone, which they had been pleased to call " the Christian Institution " Messrs. , were at the head of it, and there were 27 youths receiving instruction in it, but the building in which they had hitherto assembled from day to day had become so dilapidated as not to be fit for use. It would, perhaps, be unsafe for them to congregate within its walls, lest, at some unexpected moment, it should fall down and crush them. The estimate which the society had made, for enabling them to carry on the purpose with reference to that school was some thing like £2000; and, whether wisely or unwisely, he did not say it had been thought expedient to set aside a fund for that purpose. Having so created a new treasury, and received the contributions of christians willing to give towards this spe object, the society bad been under the necessity of making a special appeal to the public to enable them to carry on these operations. Towards this £2OOO, unless be were mis taken only £3OO had yet been received : and he stood before the inhabitants of Liverpool, an unworthy representative of the Church Missionary Society, because he was the only representative of her country Ito plead before them, and to beg of them, in remembrance of their former connection with the sons of Africa, to come forward and give as much as they might be willing towards this object. He would re mind them that God loveth a cheerful giver : let them, therefore, give as in their hearts they might be disposed. After some observations on general duty, Mr. Henson con cluded thus :—I think it will not be denied that my country men are a people who have always suffered grievous wrong : and as the representative of them, I may say they are all disposed to forgive the injuries we have received at your hands. (Cheers.) I look not to the past; but I offer these remarks because I believe it to be the cause which my coun try, although inferior to yours, has yet pursued, and so set you an example. (Loud cheers.) The Rev. HUGH STOWELL seconded the resolution in a most eloquent address, which he commenced by a deserved eulogy upon the talents and the character of Mr. Hanson, whose appearance, he remarked, was full of bright promise for the future destinies of Africa. The second part of the rev. gentleman's address was an ample and powerful vindica tion of the aims and principles of the Church Missionary Society, as well as of its protestant basis. The resolution was then carried. A collection was made at this period of the meeting, during which the hymn commencing " All hail the power of Jesus name" was sung, the whole meeting lifting up their voices in it The Rev. Hunts M'NEILE, amidst loud chsers, said he had been requested to move, " that the divine blessing which had, of late, been so manifestly bestowed upon the labours of our missionaries abroad, called for our grateful thanks to God ; and we desire to commend to the special prayers of all the members of this association the several missions of the society, that in each of them the Gospel may continue to be the power of God unto the salvation of many souls." (Hear.) Before he offered any observations upon what might be called the peculiar matter brought before the meeting in this resolu tion, he wished to make a few upon another subject. Some of the opening remarks of his Christian brother from Africa invited him to a kind and friendly explanation. He was sorry, and the Christian in common wish all others must be grieved, at the appearance of embarrassment with which an important feature of this great subject was broached by Mr. Hanson, and the apparent feeling of pain with which he retrained from what might otherwise have been the tenor of some of his observations, especially when that short sen tence dropped from him that the Africans are a doomed race. Upon this he (Mr. M'Neile) thought it important to offer a kind, a friendly, and an affectionate explanation. (Hear, hear.) He must cordially agree in the sentiments of all his dear Christian brethren, that the Gospel was to be preached to every kindred, tribe, people, and nation, without exception and without reserve, without exception as regards them, and without reserve asregarded the manner of ap proaching theM. The rev. gentleman then proceeded to con tend, with great power, that although this was the case, and although from one class of prophecies encourage ment was to be drawn in this work, there was another class referring not to the spread of the gospel for the conversion of sinners, but to the fore-ordain( d dealings of the Almighty God with the nations of the earth as nations. It was with regard to this divine view of the nations, as such, that we were to take up the solemn language of God con cerning Canaan. Mr. M'Neile then justified the prophecy at great length ; after which he supported the resolution in most able speech, which, from the want of space, we are nnable to report, in the course of which he exposed the dan gers to which our Christian missions are liable from Tracts rianism and Popery, and called upon the meeting to stand fast by the everlasting Word. Dr. TATTERSHALL seconded the motion, and it was adopted unanimously. The Venerable CHAIRMAN said the business of the day was now over, and the meeting must adjourn, so that it only remained for him, at parting, to invite their co-operation in returning thanks to Almighty God for the blessing which he had vouchsafed upon the proceedings. Let them, under such circumstances, cordially unite in thanksgiving to Him. (Hear.) Though thei general character of the meeting had been satisfactory, there was one person who might have been touched, in a tender place, by what happened to have been said, both there and in another places, in allusion to the cir cumstances of his country. The meeting would anticipate the respected and beloved individual to whom he alluded, (Mr. Hanson) hut might he (the Chairman) be permitted to offer his testimony to his respected and beloved brother, that even the circumstances, and awful circumstances, which be longed to his own race and nation, and which had been dwelt upon with such thrilling power by his friend (Mr. M`Neile)—even that most awful denunciation of the divine vengeance, upon the family of Barn might expe perience in the blessed remedial system of the gos pel a reverse similar to that under which the whole of man kind? (Hear.) We know it was the curse pronounced upon man that in the sweat of his brow should he eat bread ; and we could not deny that the stern necessity under which man now endured life, had formed the occasion of many an aching bosom, many a wearing hour, had been the mea ns o f much suffering and much affliction. But at the same ti me l et h i m (the chairman) remind all, that, under the remedi a l system which was connected with the Gospel labour had cease d to be the curse of man for employment became joy, (blear.) Whatever then had been the character of labour ass divine imprecation upon the first father of mankind, we knew now that a life of christian labour and of christian employment, was in fast allied to the greatest happiness and eri j oyme „,, that ewald fall to the lot of matt, ( Hear) I-membered chi atriltius posagil 111 Atehtleoluti koloy "lathe; dud nz doubt those around him did likewise, where he aaid—" I am not," said he, " much disposed to envy any man ; but if there is one individual more than another who is the object of my envy, it is a young man going forth to labour for his wife and children." (Applause.) There we might see the curse pronounced upon man—the necessity to labour in order to eat his bread—reversed, and that which seemed at first to make the wretchedness of man turned to con stitute his happiness. (Applause.) Thus lie could not but think that the original curse pronounced upon the family of Ham shall, under the divine blessing, through the medium of the Gospel, be made the means of blessedness to that very family. (Cheers.) He could believe that that which origi. nelly seemed to be their judgment shall, in the gracious pro vidence of God, become their blessing—(hear. he,:r)—and that the very circumstance which connected the children of }lam with the children of Japheth shall lead them to the Father and God of Shem and Japheth, and make them free with the liberty which Christ alone can give, and make their very bondage itself the means of their spiritual eman cipation. (Loud applause.) Many and many a child of Ham, he trusted, would hereafter come before us, to whom we could only address the language of the Apostle to Phile mon when he commended Onesimus to him, begging him to receive, not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved." (Loud cheers.) He (the Chairman) trusted that even these few words might convey to his dear brother some testimony of the deep sympathy that we had with the wrongs to which his race had been exposed, of the earnest desire we had in every way to mitigate the sufferings to which Africa was exposed, to repay the debt which we felt we owed to the inhabitants of that continent, and of the joy with which we hailed every opportunity by which the means might be increased of reversing the original sentence, and becoming the instruments of God's mercy, instead of the agents of his justice. (Hear, hear, and great applause.) " Praise God, from whom all blessings flow," was then sung, and the meeting adjourned till this evening (Tuesday). The sum of £64 16s. 6a. was collected at the meeting, and on Sunday at the churches upwards of £7OO. SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION OF NEGRO CHILDREN IN THE WEST INDIES A public meeting of the members and friends of the Ladies' Society for the promotion of Scriptural education among the children of the emancipated negroes in our West Indian colonies was held in the Music Hall, at twelve o'clock on Friday last. The meeting was numerously attended by the clergy and the inhabitants in general. Among the gen tlemen on the platform was the Rev. Augustus Hanson, an African, and an ordained minister of the Church of England, who attended as a deputation from the Parent Society, and whose somewhat novel appearance_ attracted considerable attention. The Rev. HENRY RAIKES, Chancellor of the Diocese, took the chair. The Rev. C. W. LAWRENCE having supplicated the divine blessing upon the proceedings and objects of the society, The Venerable CHAIRMAN said he wished, before pro ceeding to the business of the day, to discharge a debt of gra titude which he owed to the individuals who bad invited his attendance on this occasion, for it was no small favour con ferred upon him individually to have invited his , to share in a measure so eminently wise and benevolent as this society. (Hear, hear.) In using the words " wise and bmevolent," he trusted he used them advisedly, because this society, in an eminent degree, possessed the character of being, at the same time, wise and benevolent ; not did he think it easy, in general, to find any case where wisdom and benevolence were disjoined. (Hear, hear.) He admitted it was possible to have a kind of benevolence without wisdom, but le firmly believed there was no true wisdom disjoined from `Jenevo k ice, for if we considered the end and object of wisdom— namely, that it endeavoured to lead men into the right direc- tion, how was it possible they should so be led, except by motives of obedience, or how was it possible for them to be guided into the right way, unless benevolence was the guiding principle of the person leading? (Hear, hear.) As he said I before, he believed this society was both wise and benevolent, because if we considered the state of the coloured population, the circumstances under which they stand at present, the new immunities into which they are introduced, it seemed abso lutely necessary that something should be done, speedily and effectually, for the purpose of enabling them to receive aright, and profit by as they ought, the boon of liberty be stowed upon them. (Hear.) The circumstances under which that boon was given, or rather he might say, the manner in which that boon was received, had raised our coloured population to no ordinary degree of eminence among the children of Adam. He did not think, in deed, there was a single case on record where such a boon as the liberty bestowed upon the coloured po pulation of the West India islands was given under such circumstances, received in such a manner, and improved in such a degree. (Hear, hear.) If we consider what their state had been before the change effected in that state by the resolution of the House of Commons—the circumstances of their being at once transferred from the condition of bondrnen to that of freemen, that liberty was bestowed upon them with so little preparation, given so suddenly and completely, and where there had been so little moral preparation to re ceive it—he contended that the manner in which they had received the boon of emancipation proved them to be pos sessed, in no ordinary degree, of all those qualities that stamped upon the character of this people a quality and a character which he trusted would endure always. But still the fact remains, that, however wonderful the circumstances were under which the boon of liberty was improved, and how wonderful the manner in which it was received, we must be aware that the iron, literally, had entered into their souls. (Hear.) The way in which they had received the boon of liberty, the manner in which they had received the Gospel of God, the total absence of all irregularity and violence, of all outbreak and riot, was a perfect miracle in the history of man but at the same time, we must be prepared to think that a people treated as they had been, ground down as they had boen, neglected as they had been, were not, generally speak ing, in a state fit to profit by the boon of liberty, or to im prove, to its full extent, the privileges which they now pos sessed. Therefore, he contended, it was the bounden duty of the British public, not merely to improve the gift of liberty to the coloured population of the West Indies, but it was likewise as much their bounden duty to add to the gift of liberty the sanctifying influence of that knowledge which alone maketh free, and which alone influences men to use the gift of liberty without abusing it. (Hear.) Let the meeting be assured that the gift of liberty, if there was no moral re straint acting upon the mind of mass, at the same time, was a most questionable good ; to give a man liberty before he was prepared to use it aright, was to turn him loose with all his passions and propensities unsubdued ; it was literally nothing less than like opening the doors to a collection of wild beasts, and turning them loose upon the community around. (Hear.) It was in vain to give liberty to man un less the gift was accompanied by the gift of that knowledge which taught man to use freedom properly, and saved him from the danger to which he was so prone, of abusing the gift to his own destruction. (Hear, hear.) The question immediately occurred, how was it possible so to teach the coloured population of the West Indies? The venerable chairman then elaborately pointed out to the audience that the important objects herein aimed at were to be accomplished by spreading religious education among the young, for which he remarked their mental temperament was eminently fitted ; and he concluded by eulogising the present society, which had been formed with this special design. The Rev. W. W. EWBANK then read the annual report of the Ladies' Association, from which it appeared that God was blessing the object with increasing success in all, or nearly all, of the British dependencies in the West Indies. The total amount of subscriptions raised in Liverpool was £lO7 10s., which had been remitted to the parent society.— The. rev. gentleman then moved the adoption of the report, and, in the course of his address, he read a variety of extracts from the report of the parent society, chewing that the con dition of the coloured population really required the amelio rating exertions of such an institution. He next adverted to the prospect now opened of evangelising Africa, by edu cating the children of the natives in the West Indian colo nies as missionaries, and sending them forth to preach the everlasting Gospel upon the shores of their fathers, to men of their own kindred and complexion. It would be impossi ble to spread the Gospel in Africa by European agency ; its evangelisation must be accomplished by native missionaries. The rev. gentleman then urged, with much effect, that the greatest difficulty experienced with regard to the translation of the Scriptures had been the difficulty of so entering into the minutiae as to be able to convey to the minds of the na tives the exact sense of the 'Word of God. One or two il lustrations of this difficulty were given, clearly proving that the greatest hopes of permanent success rested in the edu cation of the natives as missionaries. Therefore, with regard to the translation of the Scriptures, and the preaching of the Gospel to the natives, he soon hoped to see a glorious array of priests. and also of bishops, going out to Africa to preach the Gospel ; and he also trusted to see his friend now upon the platform (Mr. Hanson), at no very distant period, Bishop of Cape Coast Castle. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Ewbank con cluded by enlarging upon the effects of the religious educa tion of negro children, observing that it was one of the high est commendations of this society, that it sought to train up those children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Mr. ADAM HODGSON seconded the resolution in an inte resting speech, in the course of which he referred to a variety of speculations as to the future condition of Africa and its natives, indulged in by many learned and devout men, founded upon the prophecy that " Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her arm unto the Lord." He expressed his cordial belief that the civilisation and evangelisation could be accomplished in no other way than by educating her children as missionaries to spread the Gospel there ; and, after going through a variety of motives for supporting this society, he sat down amidst great cheering.—The resolution was carried. The Rev. Dr. TATTERSHALL moved the next resolution, which set forth that the meeting, being deeply conscious of the wrongs which in past times had been inflicted upon the sons of Africa, was anxiously desirous as far as possible to repair them, and was of opinion that the best mode of doing so was to promote the religious education of the negro chil dren in our West Indian Colonies. In speaking of the wrongs of Africa, the reverend doctor exhibited a picture of what is known by the Middle Passage, as published by parliament, on the motion of the late Mr. Wilberforce ; and he said he must anticipate a full concurrence of the meeting in a desire to repair those wrongs. The best mode was by promoting religious education among the rising generation, for those who had been the worst sufferers were now past restitution on our parts. The Rev. R. P. BUDDICOME, Principal of St. Bee's Col lege, seconded the resolution in an able address. The motion was then carried. The Rev. AUGUSTUS HANsosr, a gentleman of colour, and recently appointed chaplain on the Gold Coast, then came forward to move the next resolution. We were sur prised to hear the correctness with which the rev. gentleman spoke the English idiom, and at the fluency of his language. He moved that this meeting remembering how closely Li verpool was connected with the West Indies, and how much wealth had been derived from the connexion, could not but feel that this society, for the scriptural education of negro children had great claims upon the inhabitants of this great commercial town. He enlarged upon the responsibility of Liverpool with relation to the education of the liberated Africans is the 'West Indies. and be narrated two instances which promised to promote the diffusion of the Gospel on the continent of Africa. The Niger expedition, he contended, had not beets a failure, because it had shewn this truth to us, that if Africa was to be evangelised, it must be through the instrumentality of her own people. It was a great point to have ascertained this, and it was an opinion which he him self firmly held. Mr. Hanson, in a very eloquent manner, then dwelt upon the future d estinies of Africa, urging that they were full of promise, and that the L ord , who was now beginning to make Ethiopia s tretch forth he r hands , accord aingglotoriattes prophe cy, wpeoorpelleoftolis h a The Rev. HUGH NVNEILE, in anc gl secondin y, g the motio n , com menced by observing tha t benevolent and C hristian motives had been set forth in supp ort of the societ y . On t he subject of Christian motives the re was one point to which it might no wo uld make o f h er a great and ur . or be useful to call the attention of all engaged in this work. granted that, as the children (the to the governor's The meeting had heard an interesting pdreesscerni:t2\ioinarcohfios,ol,l7s schools in the island of Antigua, and some eulogiurus passed nglish language ;—(hear, ynEttneti in Africa. ( r u ,aea p dd o yN i ox t ir l ht i mi e wb m a seb b dya y ..)111rpi proficiency ifio g etie o i cevtineeocrnotycikoyiri nt ' s s of ot l i a rii en d g y tre;i ( nl hear,)—and, with regard to the ultimate missionary results to be expected froM the education of the children of negross e n l g e l l i n s t h mt l s an o g f u u a s g e e inlness in the West Indies, this fact alarmed him ; b ecause, if they they wouldw% it r h e e el d foe u ,,r e ee a no t c e ne d e t oo f fr the from infanc y n lsot c , y i.nc i ei t iri h tt t. ra. He thought it deserving of serious and careful attention by the conductors thcec schools, 50 to mimetic their matters Hear.) the! the children of riegroee In the 1 .4 / 4 js t t Indira ehot'hd be otittegteti bat the lice of their otift lilostmtge ge yell tie to the learning of the English tongue. If both could be done of course it would be better; but suppose it should be found by experiment that if the children are educated in the language of their fathers, and they cannot be wade to exhibit a proficiency in English ; then came the decision to be made. And if it were made with regard to the childre❑ themselves, he should let it be favourable to the English lan guage, which opened to them so much more sources of en joyment; but it had reference to their fathers and their father's praise—(hear,) to any missionary prospect of useful ness to be derived from the exertions of these boys when they grew into men, and availed themselves of the opportu nity of crossing the Atlantic to the continent of Africa—then the language spoken by some tribe of Africa ought to be taught in the schools of the West Indies. (Loud cheers.) He would now at once advert to a topic which he thought of very great consequence. He stood concerned when he heard prophecy made a ground of encouragement in this or in any other such case, because he considered precept the ground of Christian duty, and not prophecy. They had long toiled in this cause against those who quoted prophecy against them — prophecy hard to be gainsaid—a prophecy which more than answered the analogic argument derived from the future state of this eternity, and made to hear upon a hope of the future state of Africa for that solemn prophecy from him who might be called the Second Father of Mankind, which seemed to realize the end of the present dispensation declared Canaan to be still accursed to slavery. (Hear, hear.) We knew that the Canaanites were driven into Palestine before the victorious sword of Joshua, and a remnant of them, after being expelled by David, took up their abode in Africa: the Africans were their descendants, and the prophecy to which he referred was an atitiful and a solemn one—" Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall lie he ; blessed he the Lord God of them ; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japeth, and he shall dwell in the tents of them ; and Canaan shall be his servant." (Hear, hear, hear.) Still the solemn burden— " Canaan a servant." (Hear, hear.) He knew it was writ ten in another prophecy, " Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God." (Hear.) He knew that these prophe cies were also written of the coming of the Son of Man, and a restitution of the Jewish people to their own land, a light set up upon the earth, which should, indeed, forego and do away with the curse which was only coeval with our dispen sation ; but during this dispensation he trembled when any case of this kind was made to rest upon prophecy as the basis of duty. In spite of this prophecy which marked the race as a race, which marked the condition of the race, considering them as a race, and which be believed indelibly marked them during the present dispensation—in spite, he said of this prophecy, precept supplied duty. And when our Lord commanded the gospel to be preached to every creature, he did not exclude Canaan—(cheers)—and when he describes the elect who shall come from the four ends of the earth at the second advent, he does not except the Canaanites—nay more, he includes them, because the elect body shall be con stituted of multitudes that no man can number, out of every tribe and kindred, arid people, and nation. (Great cheering.) This was encouragement certainly ; but precept was the basis of our duty. (Hear, hear.) It was our duty then, ( _ notwithstanding this prophecy, to carry the gospel as tar as lay in us to every race ; and if feelings of kindliness arising out of compunction for past unkindness, should quicken us towards one race more than another, by all the powers of such instincts of humanity, the African had a high claim upon us. (Hear, hear.) He felt that none of those friends and brethren present, who might take a different view of this subject from the one he bad expressed, would consider him out of place, with the strong convictions he entertained himself, in endeavouring to guard against such views of pro phecy as might embarrass the subject or expose the de fenders of it, or the believers of it, to an answer which would be left itself unanswered. (Hear, hoar, hear.) He thought, in this point of view, thE l it it did service to recognise not one passage only, but the whole drift of what was written con cerning this unhappy race. (Hear.) He could not leave it. however, without another reflection, fur prophecy contained deep and high moral instruction; and he would specially ad- dress this reflection to his young friends present, namely to the source of the tremendous curse put, by the spirit of God, into the mouth of Noah, and following the decendants of one of his sons, even to the latest generations, was disrespect to his father. (Hear, and applause.) It spoke loudly, with a standing miracle, to every young person, to remember the fifth commandment ; the sight of a son of Canaan proclaimed to every intelligent reader of the Bible, the fearful conse- quences of dibresoect to parents. (Hear, hear, and great ap . Let children consider this, for they would find in this prophecy, and in its results, a strong appeal to that high . . duty to those who, next to God, were above them in the world. (Hear, hear.) He would say another thing with re gard to one part of the speech of his rev. friend who had just sat down (Mr. Hanson), concerning whom he scarcely knew which most to admire, the Christian wisdom in the selec . tion of his topics, and Christian feeling with which those topics were discussed, of the propriety of the language with which all his thoughts were clothed. (Applause.) One point he (Mr. Hanson) touched upon which li . e . (Mr. Nl`Neile) thought deserved to be replaced before the consideration of the meeting and strengthened. Mr. Hanson had reminded them of the relation which the merchants of Liverpool bore towarde the negroes of the West Indies, by whose labour and toil many of them had accumulated wealth. The rev, gen- tleman enlarged on this topic, making it the ground for an eloquent appeal on behalf of this society, and he concluded an able address by seconding the resolution, which was unanimously carried. A vote of thanks was then presented to the Venerable Chancellor for his occupation of the chair ; who, in acknow ledgement, contrasted the present position of the coloured population of the West ludies with their condition fifty years ago, when the cruelties of the Middle Passage were unre strained. He fervently thanked God for the change, and to Him rendered all the glory. The Doxology, " Praise God from whom all blessings flowk. was then sung, and the meeting separated about three o 'cloc LIVERPOOL AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY. The annual meeting of the supporters of the Liverpool Bible Society was held on Friday evening, in the Music hall, Bold-street. There was a very numerous attendance, including, among other clergy and gentlemen, the following: —The Revs. Chancellor Raikes, Dr. Byrtb, H. Carpenter, E. Bickersteth, R. Davies, J. Cordeaux, C. W. Lawrence, H. Hampton, W. Ackworth, F. Parry, Evan Jones, James Lister, Dr. Beaumont, John Peill, Whitley, John Kelly, and Thomas Carter; and Messrs. Isaac Harrison, Adam Hodgson, T. 0. Cooper, John Priestley, W. Brocklebank, John Jones, Wm. Rushton, Thomas Rimmer, John Eden, John Godfrey, Moore, and Wm. Kay. The Rev. Dr. BYRTH, in the absence of the Chancellor of the Diocese, was called to the chair ; and, in a powerful address, he urged the claims of the society upon the com munity of Liverpool. The Rev. R. DAVIES then read the thirty-second annual report of this auxiliary, from which we make the following extrocts " With respect to the labours and operations of the Liver pool auxiliary, your committee report that the annual sub scriptions during the past year amounted to £343. Is. ld., being £2O. Os. 9d. less than the previous year, which was also less than the year preceding. The donations were £39. 7s. 6d., being £93. 12s. 7d. below the last year. The Ladies' Branch Society contributed in the last year £220. being £35. 7s. more than the year before. But this has not by any means raised that department of your institution to the position it formerly held, and this can only be attributed to the want of ladies' collectors to carry on the operations of this important section. By the sale of books there has been received at the depository during the last year the sum of £525. Is. 41d., ben g £33. Os. Gid. more than the previous year, and that was a yrar of increase; so that, compared with the report of the year 1840, £Bl. 14s. 43d. more has accrued to our funds from this very sure and certain indication of the value of the Bible Society, for in this case we have positive proof of the increasing desire of the public to possess them selves of the Holy Scriptures. In giving a Bible to any one, we cannot be assured that the gift is properly appreciated ; but when that volume is sought for, and paid for, we may entertain a reasonable hope, at least, that it is properly va lued. The country associations have contributed to your funds the following sums:—St. Helen's £76; Prescot £5O. From the Mechanics' Association there has been obtained £8 ss. 5d., being £1 10s. sd. more than last year. Your committee cannot but believe that a very considerable sum might annually be obtained from this source, if the proprie tors of extensive establishments would permit and encourage the formation of associations among their workmen. Ho nourable mention might be made of gentlemen who have done this, but to notice them by name might appear to be invidi ous, and would, most probably give pain to those benevolent individuals who have thus distinguished themselves. The Welsh Branch Society have in the past year contributed £463 7s. lid. to the funds of the society, being less than last year by £4B Gs. 3d. Lut this dimunition is not to be attri buted to any decreasing zeal or interest in the cause, for this branch endeavours to supply the need of the - Welsh popula tion of Liverpool, without trenching on the funds of your auxiliary : and the Welsh schools are supplied with Welsh bibles and testaments without drawing upon your depository. It has been a subject of astonishment how so large a sum is raised by the Welsh community of our town. The question might be answered by replying that they are deeply conscious and have a lively sense of what they owe to the Bible. But this is not all. Admitting the full force of gratitude for so inestimable a treasure, they have brought this feeling to operate strongly on every individual. A reference to the appendix of the report of the last year will show that, not content with a subscription from the head of the family, the wife also contributes her subscription, and each member of the family, according to his means, even to the youngest child, is enrolled as a contributor to the Bible Society. This will solve the problem, How is it, that while the auxiliary em bracing the wealth of the merchant princes of Liverpool obtains from the English portion of the community in subscriptions and donations only £382 Bs. 7d. The Welsh branch has raised £463 7s. lid. ? Your committee trust that the statement of this fact will create a holy rivalry in the breasts of those who in this cause of Christian benevolence have not donn what they could_ The total number of copies of the Holy Scrip tures distributed by this auxiliary and its branches in the past year amounted to 9309, making a grand total of 237,558 copies issued since the year 1811. The following is a par ticular statement of the issues during the past year : To the Ladies Branch Society „ St. Helen's ditto „ Prescot ditto „ Mechanics' Association „ Schools „ Subscribers .. „ Non-subscribers at cost prices, and copies claimed by subscribers Various grants 2550 3186 138 681 4135 50;4 Mr. PAYNS then read a statement of the accounts The Rev. HENRY CARPENTER moved the adoption of the first tesolution, in a speech of considerable length, during which he reviewed the objections commonly urged against the institution, and said they only served to increase his at tachment and reveration for it. During the rev. gentleman's address, the Chancellor entered the room, and took the chair, which Dr. Byrth vacated. The Rev. Wm. ACKWORTII, adeputation from the Parent Society, seconded the resolution. He commenced by ob serving, that the support which Liverpool gave to this ex cellent institution was by no means commensurate with its importance; after which, he drew several pictures of the awful destitution with regard to the Scriptures prevailing both in Manchester and other large towns. Following this branch of his subject, he described the great work which yet remained to be done in our eastern dependencies, making that the ground for a powerful appeal for support, and then giving a description of the want of the Scriptures in Italy and France, he strongly urged that they alone were able to stem the torrent of popery which was over-running those lands. The details into which the rev. gentleman entered were too discursive to be reported otherwise than at a length which we cannot devote to them. He next described the success which had attended the efforts of the society in va rious parts of the world, particularly in Australia and New Zealand, and he terminated his address amidst loud cheers. The Venerable CHAIRMAN, in passing the resolution, apologised to the meeting for not having been able' to arrive sooner ; and he expressed his decided approbation of the principles and objects of the society. The resolution was adopted unanimously. The Rev. Dr. BEAUMONT, after an energetic speech, in which he warmly contended for the circulation of the scrip titres without note or comment, moved time next resolution, expressing an earnest prayer to God that he would continue to bless all the efforts made to advance the cause of the Bible Society. The li.tvA BonsAttp Iltcittotericxtt, amidst loud cheers, Asgunth34 the teaolutlttm ISt was tritlf gludj ttiett his friends on this occasion, and to see such a number of them gathered together; and though he had come to Liverpool on behalf of another society—[toe Church Missionary Associa tion]—he rejoiced to have an opportunity aff.trded him of pleading for this. (Hear, hear.) He cordially loved the Bible Society. (Hear.) He rejoiced to say that he bad be longed to it now for between thirty and forty years, and he had never yet repented of belonging to it, hut, on the con trary, he had cordially blessed God for having a part and a share in that magnificent plan of communicating to the whole world the Inspired Book, that every nation might read " in their own tongue the wonderful works of God." (Hear.) He rested the duty of labouring in the cause upon the plain direction of God's word, that having freely received, we are freely bound to give. (Hear, hear.) The command of cur Saviour was " G into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature ;" and this society gave abundant oppor tunities for extensively fulfilling that command; it was not an agent of evil, but it was an agent of g ood, that was seen flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting Gospel to preach to every nation, kindred, and tribe upon the face of the earth. (Cheers.) The Bible Society, he conceived, was a mighty instrument of God for accomplishing the mighty work that could not otherwise have been so effectually ac complished. Other institutions there had been which had tried this, and God had blessed their labours to a certain extent. The Scotch Bible Society, which separated from the British and Foreign Bible Society, had been honouring God in a limited degree by diffusing the word of God. If he turned to the translation society, the Christian Knowledge Society, it had been honouring God to a certain and limited extent in diffusing the sacred scriptures in different languages. The Trinitarian Society, which acknowledged the Trinity, and began with prayer, (which he trusted the grand majority of the friends assembled ever felt to be a most important principle)—they, to a limited extent, had been honouring God in diffusing the Scriptures. The Baptist Translation Society had also done something in a similar way ; but how feeble and limited were all these efforts, and of other societies in foreign lands, compared with the mighty work to be done to give to every nation the inspired volume ! (Hear, hear.) When he looked at the British and Foreign Bible Society he saw efforts more corresponding to the great necessities of our fallen race. (Cheers.) It was a delightful fact to know that this society had been distributing, in thirty-nine years of operation, fifteen millions of copies of the Scriptures directly from the society, and ten millions more indirectly, through other societies ; so that twenty-five millions of copies of the Holy Scriptures had been distributed through the agency of the Britisn and Foreign Bible Society. (Loud cheers.) Besides this, the Scriptures had been distributed in 161 different languages through this society. (Cheers.) It was such a magnificent delightful scheme, so full of promise in every way, so connected with the promise of God's word, "My word shall not return to me void," that lie could not but wish the British and Foreign Bible Society good suc cess in the name of the Lord. (Cheers.) He would admit, indeed, that there were, and there would be, great imperfec tions in every human i ns tit u t ion , and e ver y human exertion. (Hear.) in all translations of the inspired volume, there being no promise of inspiration to the translator, there must, of necessity, be imperfection and improvement, by degrees. (Hear.) None of them had put in a claim of infallibility— they left that to the Pope of Rome ;—(cheers)—nor did any of them want human tradition to make complete the inspired volume. (Great applause.) Let it be remembered that the great apostle of the reformation, the. glorious Luther, — (cheers)—by an imperfect trarislation—by the Vulgate—had, through the mercy of God, given to him the light of reforma tion truth (!) Let them then, at first, endeavour to obtain what was substantially, and in the main, the word of God, and circulate it far and wide, with the full assurance that our Heavenly Father will abundantly bless it. (Hear.) He felt then that as yet they were but in the beginning of this great work. Twenty-five millions of copies of the Scriptures had been distributed, it was true, but of those twenty-five mil lions not one million had yet been distributed among the heathens ; the twenty-four millions had gone an - tong pro fessing Christians. (Hear.) Six hundred millions of hea thens had not yet had, from this society, one million copies of the Holy Scriptures! (Hear.) What a mighty and urgent appeal was there for all their exertions! (Hear.) Should we be cavilling about this trifle and that trifle, disputing about this question and that question, when six hundred millions of our fallen race were waiting for divine light? (Hear.) Here there was a very weighty and powerful claim upon us. And he could not but also feel that the more the Holy Scriptures were distributed and read—and read as it had been suggested with the blessing of God, looking upward for the teaching of the Divine Spirit—and the more we might hope Christians would be united together. (Hear.) He could not but forget that amid the apparently multiplying controversies, and the increasing earnestness and zeal of those controversies, rea6Christians were more and more in unity together—(hear ;)*.real Christians were more and more saying " Grace be with rill them that love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and truth •" more and more determined that the human name shall be lost, and the name of Christ magnified and declared ; more and more determined to cease from man " whose breath is in his nostrils," and cry " Glory to the lamb that was slain to receive riches, and honour, and power, and wisdom, and glory, and blessing, and salvation to our God and the Lamb for ever and ever." (Cheers.) He felt the great need of this re-union—(applause)—for they had mighty enemies upon every side raised up against them. Infi delity was taking every advantage to multiply its attacks upon them ; a spirit of lawlessness and insubordination was raised, and spreading in its efforts and attacks. We lived, perhaps, upon the surface of a hidden volcano, as many had justly remarked, at the annual meeting in London; but their old enemy especially, the Pope of Rome,—(hear, hear)—as a giant refreshed with nerve, was awakened, and exerting himself with unequalled and unparallelled activity. It was a very striking fact, that large societies had been formed among the Papists—one comparatively of recent formation, namely, in 1822, raised about £lOO,OOO a year—for the pro pagation of popery. (Hear.) Then there was the exertions of this society throughout Europe, and its revival of the most abominable corruptions. (Hear.) He had in his hand a newspaper giving an account of the charge of the Arch bishop of Lyons, with the most astounding statements of the idolatry of Rome. (Hear, hear.) In another part of the paper there was an astounding description of the worship paid to the virgin, published in Rome itself. It was surprising to see how in every part of Europe the agents of Rome increased in among the open idolators of the apostacy. When he looked at their exertions in every society, exertions made with an energy unequalled in sending forth missions to all the meetings a - all the great Protestant societies, seeking to mar the work our God had prepared and blessed among the heathen ; when he looked again at the exertions of the Papacy in our own land, and con nected with this he could not but deeply mourn the spread of papal principles in our own church--:amodified form of po pery, had therein been proposed in direct opposition to the standard of faith in the established church of this realm, which it was most grievous to see—how, he asked, was ail this evil to be met? (Hear.) By rallying round the great principles of the Protestant reformation, (loud cheers) the holy bible, the word of God, the only standard, the divine rule of faith and practice. (Renewed cheering.) Rally round that standard, and by the grace of God, through divine truth, we yet trusted to overcome all our enemies—nay, by their very attacks to be quickened and roused and animated to more exertions, and to more devoted zeal for Him who has bought us with his blood. (Hear.) He could not but feel confident that the Bible Society had now special claims upon us. Let infidelity, let popery, let lawlessness, let tractariati ism, let every form of error only lead us more and more to a bold confession of that precious sufferer who has redeemed us with his blood, and to an entire devotedness of heart to him that communeth with all who live with him in sincerity and truth ! (Cheers.) The resolution was then carried. The Rev. JOHN KELLY moved the next resolution, which thanked the passed officers for their services, and re-elected them. He grounded his attachment to this society op two points, the first of which was the principle which it distinctly . . regarded, of the sufficiency of the scriptures, and next upon the unequivocal testimony there had been given of the practical good results from its operations. The Rev. Dr. BYRTII seconded the resolution, and it was unanimously adopted. _ Thanks were then voted to the Chancellor for presiding, in reply to which he expressed his convictions of the great utility of the society, after which the meeting separated. The anniversary of the Royal Agricultural Association for 184.1 has been fixed to take place at Southampton. A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against Edward Thomas and his wife, for the double murder by poison at Laleston, Glamorganshire. NEW MAGISTRATILS.—Fifty-eight gentlemen have been added to the commission of the peace for the West Riding of loi k shire. The Rev. Sydney Smith, who it seems is one among the innumerable sufferers by the bad faith of the repudiating States of the American Union, has published an address to the Congress at Washington, in which he sets forth in pecu liarly forcible language the infamy and fatal consequences of such conduct, not only in a pecuniary, but in a moral and political sense. DEATH FROM A FIGHT.—The death of a man named Charles Ferguson, a bookbinder, in the employ of Mr. Whewell, of Little Bolton, was occasioned on Monday, the Bth instant, by that brutal mode of fighting for which Lan cashire, especially that part of it, has been so long signalised. At the coroner's inquest a verdict of " manslaughter" was returned against four persons, and they were committed for trial at the assizes. - '‘,The experiment of an "elephant-battery" has been suc cessfully tried at Dum-Dum. Elephants have now, for some vearF.R, been used with the guns in Assam, Sylhet, and Arra can, where they have been found most efficient, and are pre ferred to any other description of draught cattle. Their application to ordinance draught is considered a great im provement, and they may be expected to completely super sede bullocks in Bengal, Assam, and all the adjacent districts, or in fact wherever artillery is required in jungly or mountain country. IMPORTANT SALES.—Our pages to-day exhibit, both in quality and in quantity, sales beyond anything that it has ever been our good fortune before to announce to our nu merous and wealthy readers. The lauded property alone approaches in value one Million sterling, and its eligibility is EU intelligibly stated, that we will not weaken Mr. Robins's arguments by any observations of our own. In pursuing this splendid list of property, its variety will be as apparent as its intrinsic worth. The estate of the Earls of Ducie and Berners alone are estimated, with the timber, at half a million of money. Then comes the North Mymms Park Estate, so long in the enjoyment of Alderman Heygate, with an Eliza bethan mansion worthy of an emperor, and a park of 1,000 acres of land. With these three estates Mr. Robins seems to entertain no doubt that three scats in parliament will necessarily follow. Next we perctive, in Scotland he an nounces the sale of the two entire islands of Rasay and Rona, in the Western Hebrides, extending to eighteen thousand acres. Then he draws rather severely upon those who do not move at a railway pace, for he invites the speculating capitalists to a freehold estate in North America, and twenty thousand acres of finely timbered lands, situate on the east bank of the mighty Mississippi. This property abounds in mineral wealth, and will be a secure source of investment, with most brilliant prospective advantages. Returning to England, he invites the capitalists, and a little army of sport ing gentlemen, to the innumerable seats, with their domains, in which there will be found field sports to their hearts' con tent. Then again some thousands of acres of fertile lands. " Here verdant pastures wide extended lie, And yield the grazing herd exuberant supply; Luxuriant waving in the wanton air, Here golden grain rewards the peasant's care." Again, the Weddington Castle, recently inhabited by the Earl of Hillsborough. The entire freehold estates of John Winter, Esq., the solicitor to the bank at Acton and Ealing ; the Orchard Hill Estate, in Bucks; two valuable farms, near to Billericay, in Essex ; and in Leicestershire, a castle and 2,000 actes of land not far removed from the town. In the Isle of Wight, Lord Spencer's celebrated marine villa; and at Bonchurch (at the hack of the island), an Italian villa ; at Horndean, near to Fareliam station, a snug abode with parkish grounds; at Cheshunt, the renowned gardens , upon which it is said £5,000 was consumed by the late N't . Harri son, upon the lawn only, in rare exotics; lie was accounted the first of botanists: the other villa is in the Elizabe than style. Then into Kent. the non-pretending abode and grounds of Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. Belli:: ;—but we must take leave to pause, or our readers may be fatigued before the task is half accomplished. Our great surprise arises out of the circumstance of Mr. Robins's felicity in doing justice to each, and in such glowing terms, without being fairly charged with plagiarism ; it really must be a work of labour, and aided by c onsiderable tact. In con c l us i on , w e promise our monied readers a treat in the perusal, begging, en passant, they wi l l not overlook the announcement of the Hon. Mr. Wilson's extraordinary display of stock, which is upon the Didlington estate that is to be sold in June (the live stock remains until September). By the way, we have overlooked Einanuel Brothers and CO., whose _gold and silver is c,titt,iitett - St :00,000 i OW to biti tiold ibily. , A , ./Prorn Mt no+, MO 10i DREADFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. • • (From our Second Edition of Friday last.) This morning, at a quarter before three o'clock, an ala rm of Fire in Jackson's-lane , between Union -street and Queen. street, (a short distance to the N. E. of the Exchange), reached the fire station ; and in a few minutes a numbered fire engines and water carts reached the ground. The fire originated in a warehouse on,the east side of Jackson's -l ane known as "Jackson's," and near the south end of the lane% there being but one house, occupying the corner between it and Union-street, that next to the Government Emigration Office. The warehouse contained cotton in the cellar, and here, it is believed the fire originated (from what cause is not yet known). It blazed up with great fury,and rapidity, and Jackson's-lane, which is very narrow, soon became filled with a dense black smoke, which completely darkened the air, and opposed the efforts of the firemen. Mr. Rush ton, the police magistrate, Mr. Leverett, and many other superintendents, were immediately on the ground, with a considerable force of fire and ordinary police; but, as usual, half an hour elapsed before water could be got in any effec tive quantity from the mains, and in the mean time the fire progressed. In a short time the second story of the ware house had caught:fire, and from its containing a large quantity of saltpetre, the worst apprehensions were entertained, and great caution was necessary. Luckily, however, a series of slight shocks, resembling a cannonading, preceded a grand explosion, which last may be said to have blown up the greater part of the warehouse, the ruins of which fell partly into the street and partly, the north wall, upon an adjoining shed, also containing saltpetre, which it effectually arid luckily crushed in, so that the material is now scarcely combustible. 3 , high part of the N. W. corner of the warehouse alone remained standing. The explieion shook all the neighbouring buildings, and even found its way down the soughs and water pipes in the street, causing a noise like a continued bombardment. The opposite ware house—" Wrights"—on the west side of the lane, soon caught fire—first at the top—and being six stories in height the engines could not effectually reach it, and by half-past four o'clock the three upper stories blazed out from the doors and windows in the two fronts to Union-street and the Lane. It is lamentable to state, that though numbers of idle strong men were about, none of them could be prevailed upon, though offered good pay, to work the enaines ! and the police officers had to be sent for from various distant parts of the town. This is a frightful account of the moral state of the poorer classes, but it is nevertheless deplorably true. Water was conveyed as rapidly as possible from ,'the Fire station and elsewhere by the water carts, in the default of that from the water company's pipes. Shortly before, and about four o'clock, the blaze, together with the successive explosions was terrific, and we may add, sublime. About five o'clock all hope of saving Wright's warehouse being at an end, after every possible exertion and great danger to those employed near it from the falling of materials, the cat-head coverings in Union-street, &c. ; an thefuu found attempt was made to cut off the progress of the fire in the range of valuable warehouses adjoining on the north, and stories he o i f g a ti c tLi m nt p o li Q sh u m ee e n n - t s i t n re t e h t e ; b ru g but s H alls way (six to beimpo ss ible nest warehouse, and the firemen directed their efforts towa r ds this object on the warehouses further north, in which it is to be hoped they will succeed. many of pion-street, crushing the back 0 f Great i l a t ti r s t e o a , f t o h n e warehouse first burnt, fell Ir o n _ by e wind° • e wa s l o l south side of it, in alarm, 'l l l: cl intb Ei i i t i rt in n g ts made the: , and the fi r . x er t : ti e° r a e nP s i :, crushing in the yard n out • with smoke and fl g a r m ea e i could, in carried out, or throw books,a p s iec t e h n e the}' c le. o . ' c i o n nsiderable qunagonottitr;ht,by ) of books, andwindows, tg t s warehouse i w 6 o'clo t c h k e and explosion, saltpetre n the exertionshise a n and iwnedr were great. were It also i a partly isolated g of another hereafter report further progress. Wr• h,, we shall now nearly all in a blaze. It stands cellars,end t. Union-street, p n p i r o e n h - e s o t r s e i o e n t , a andare entertainedas t here is also o'clock ' wh ose and E t a G f H a T lliu , c o f t, o t li c e K ._ s wa lls. o on after six Mayor, Mr. Councillor Sheppard, an we found the men in authority, who had joined Mr. tu h d several other gentle warehouse, before noticed, was b 5 ton. ~ w_• ~ urned down half. right s P or three stories, and the smoke and flame bad lts h e i g h t in volumes from some of the lower doorsbegun to issue street, and the windows in Jackson,s-lan i n union. understood that there was a quantity of e. i A to s ,.. it was spirits in the cellars, (which are, however'a--'-tre and vaulted,) while grea t exertions were made to, fortunately prog ress of the fire from above, equal, or r arrest th e were exerted to pr event an explosion from greater eff or t s from the narrown ess of the two streets on its angle, which, gle, on the east and sout h, and the great height of the an buildin g , must have been attended with serious consequences engaged at the engi nes, as well as to the neighbouring huses, to a ll Up to half-past 7 o clock, the walls still stood pearl o, and being well built , g ave no indication of a fall ebrect very slight projec tion of the lofty pediment, sur e"nd a the end fronting to Union-street, which may havmenunting arisen in the original bu ildin g . The police were exceeding' in throwing water i nto the highest windows and door? active s . which taken also to the top of th e corner premises—a lodging house —iii and the corner opposite that street and the lane. Water also copiously poured into the cellars of the warehouse was by such apertures as could be found in the first floor and also by the cellar doors—the waste water being danam up by damaged cotton in the street, so that it found its way into them. The water thrown in from the elevated bran: pipes (from the windows and roofs) must have been most The warehouse and its contents were before doomed ; and the great danger became of the probability of the heavy masses of cotton, &c., some of it half consumed, falling with the floors and from its weight and swelling, with the water thrown upon ' it, bursting out the lower part of the walls, and thus pro jecting the whole pile into the streets. No danger was at this time apprehended from flooded. in the cellars, which appeared to be effectually lt became evident, at length, that the efforts of the fire men ises or and ti the prope rters were ny e , longer available, eithe r to save the pr em (nearly the whole) that was stored within; and Mr. Hewitt, of the fire-police, foreseeing. this probability beforehan, had sometime before got, with several of his men, and at great peril, upon the top of the next extensive warehouse, of equal height, on the north the w i n d being unluckily from thesouthward and eastwward, w ard, blowhich cing on the fire in the direction of the whole range north tained a vast quantity of valuable raw m aterial. Notwitha standing the great exertions of the parties on the roof to out off the fire, it caught the next warehonse, the flames fir„,_ bursting out at the top window. The cat-head wa s but '' short di s tance from it to the north, and caught tire soon after. A very short time before, we saw Mr. Hewitt 0_ n the very outer peak of t he cat-head roof, looking "how thefire blew", and directing men. his• The street (Jackson' s -lane) to the south of it, was piled w ick the ruins of the warehouse opposite, in which the fire broke out, to the height of 15 to 20 feet. We have stated that in the latter warehouse a succession of explosions from saltpetre took place. The great explosion (which w „, soon succeeded by another almost as terrific) had a most alarming and destructive effect on the houses adjoining, and particularly on Mr. Chalk's at the corner, and the more contiguous. The out-houses behind it were thrown d o wn by the united blast and the haglikein, of the materials; the back apartments ruined explosion, as if by gunpowder : time glass blown i ll , and the window frames smashed and burned. Even the cellar window, under the front parlour, was similarly dealt with' and the s hutter fixed upon it outside blown into the street like a tompion from a gun. The celings and plaster-work were also torn otl, and the house partly on fire, though stil t standing, is s complete wreck. the fire is here and then it i s so drenc hed with water that the s m ouldering in it , but cellars were nearly a foot deeP. Mr. Rushton and other ge ntlemen , perceiving that the fire was extend westo the north part ,i of the range of ware houses on the st side of Jackson a- ane, went round about half_past seven o'clock. into Queen -street, to direct opera tions in that quarter. Here we found the whole street filled with a suffocating timber-smoke. The third warehouse had effectually caught fire, though holes had been made in th e roofs, and engines were at work in all directions, a ll those available in the town being put into requisition. Next to the shed, adjoining the warehouse on the east side which had first ignited, and from which the explosions h a d d d as anoth andhed, also filled with a large procee e , w quantity of saltpetre in bags, such omen as could be got on the emergency, were employed to carry . it out into a yard i n Queen-street. A quantity of cotton in small bales was also carried out of the lower story of the third warehouse, now and each bale was carried on the back of on fire at the top, a s ingle man, who staggered beneath the load. Mr. M`Guffie, drt.ggist, Oldhall•street, was amongst the first at the fire, and rendered most active a5,..i,0.n0e. B nker and Lieut. the Honourable Frederick Fitz- Capt. ou , came tit the ground at e roy, of the 15th Infantry, . ina,..lthst five o'clock, and with 40 of diet en were most active i n keening off the idlers at the s everal street ends. The fire broke out about three o'clock7not yet known how. Al r. Maxwell, the Insurance offices salvage agent, was, AS Usual, at his post, and was most energ,e,tlT.. I Tbe warehouses i n the range alluded to are all called rig mt s," and are all vet in danger. Armstrong. and 355 Dixon,Police-fireman 255 first who got on the top of the warehouse next to that consu med. One poliee.o ffi a er was severely, but not dangerously wounded by a brick in the warehousel. hi Union-street falling and cutting lmitu in time forehead• \ e have heard of no other accident. t) breaking was mos t active i g open the doom s A policeman the war ehouses to admit the throwing; in and windo ws of of time water. The whole of the police indeed, officers and men, did tha t which England expects every mati to do min the hour of peril. . At a quarter .- past eight the front of the large warehouse came down with a great crash into Union -Street, struck house opposite, and carrying part of the corner of the house along with it, it caught tire, but the engines being brought to bear upon it, it was soon got under. We understand ount of property destroyed is about £45,000, which is pr i n cipally pr i insured in the Liverpool, the Globe, an d t h e London Corporation Fire Insurance-offices. ---......--_ sl:tctaaotttoer i ah have At a meeting of the Dublin corporation on Wednesday, Mr. Costigan was elected treasurer of the h corporation of Dublin. Several members of the council, w o bad voted for Mr. Guinness on a previous occasion (the election bt basing votethey for i'ad M 're.lC' influencedost i,,an Q , EFN 's P n a t dhteesrostsie;ce—r acteCt a E: sFAI Fleet, t o: OF T by he r. the e ~ declared pias "pressure re e e g f a r 12m, declared without"rythoflit E 22 , for tiis t c r j o b r — bi n us s o T t o . ne h l da i e - : and cap. 'll u arsha ß ls u e L a " l " under the Bench a e ke classification p tl) ei their re residence d will eu n c o e now i t t a i k l i e u r d e a g t i v a l a t sanctioned t io b n e s Q , b ‘ been sed on the 31st of May last, and in place.l. manudstthtThe act was pas at'lleewwadlaX tahseprescribed " rulers " by the 12th section of the act, which states, "that after the p a ssing of th is act, it shall not be lawful for d the marshal or keeper of the Queen's prison to grant an le, or to grant the liberty of the rules to any person. e x cep t for the purpose of continuing the liberty of the rules of the Queen's Bench Prison for such time as the marshal shall think fit, not more than 12 calender months after the passing of this act, to those persons who shall be in the enjoyment of the liberty of the rules of the Queen's Bench of Fleet Prison at the time of passing this act ; and that all persons iu the cus tody of the marshal or keeper, to whole the liberty of the rules of one of the said prisons shall not have been granted before the passing of this act, and also those persons towhom such, liberty shall have been granted before the passing of this act, after the next determination of such liberty, shall be confined within the walls of the (illeell'ii Prison, and that it shall bendeme escape Wally such prisoner be suffered to go beyo thewalls of the pr.ison except as hereinafter provided. The period will expire on Wednesday week, the 3lst inst•, when the rules which have existed in one shape or other vrill cease. The rules were attached to two prisons, the Flee and Queen's Bench and were enjoyed by persons wbo could afford to pay for them Some progressive Steps have been adopted by the Legislature to abolish the privil, as it has been found to militate against the interest of credi t; tors. Those prisoners who were in the rules of the Fleet ova removed with the other prisoners in pursuance of this act . were granted the privilege, and the day is fast approacl • z for their annihilation. The interior of the Queen's Prison "- has been altered into live classes, and it is expected that on the expiration of the twelvemonth front the pas , ing of the on the separation will be effected. A material tlistinctio s i e i t i take place in those prisoners remanded by the I e ,„ " 1 v--- %rya Debtor's Court, as well as :hose who refuse to tileselue .' • under vesting orders obtained by their creditor s .f.,.'passing of the act several prisoner • ' • confineme have a pp lied to t - . -nt - 1 o—i , libe r ation ; slit! 0b0t,.•• I'd bud bet II All ..—• bgd the C6ltrt • A