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GREAT A great meeting of the inhabitants of Birkenhead was held on Friday, :in an open area in 'front of the Market, for the purpos .of addressing the Queen on the Papal sons, was .about , three-quarters full. Since the breaking up, by the violence of a :mob of Roman Cathafic " navvies,' temporarily engaged at the dock works, of the meeting called a fortnight ago, by the magistrates of Birkenhead, to memorialise her Majesty upon the subject of the recent Papal aggression, an unex ampled ferment has prevailed amongst the inhabitants of all classes, aggravated in a great measure by the boastful national in'depenaenc expression ofiiß6inan Csth - olic Rev. Mr. Brown—that this was they (the Roman Catholics) priest, I " the f ident here—the place in whic Iva; determined by t ut majority of the poptila_ ;eps, and tion to wipe out their town meetings held, to take steps for the holding of a meet.i able to overawe th, was as follows gative of the Crox-%'n consider it of .earn that Ile police-c Ureen, the well-known wine I and stood he nm Sirken- PROTESTANT DEMONSTRATION The resolution was.earried ananirnonsly. AT BIRKENHEAD. • P.'F. CURRY, Esq., then moved, and Mr. CooKE-se eonded the following resolution:— "That an humble address be presented to the Quetsl l , assarin.,7 - Her Majesty of the deep feeling of resentment enter tained by this meeting at the insult offered to her Crown, and of their cordial co-operation in any measures which Parliament s wisdom may deem •proper to repel the aggression oat the 1 his resolution was also passed amidst loud cheering. The fourth resolutionjorthe adoption of an address to the Queen, was moved by the Rev. F. REnnEAn,:incurn bent of Rock Ferry, who, in a very able address, alluded to his long advocacy of. the emancipation of.the -Roman Catholics from all civil fetters. He was in favour of the" Roman Catholic: Relief Rill_ end fnr fhia linr. of onni-Inet he had been almost discarded by his reverend bretLren. He, however, took that opportunity of confessing that they had'been in advance of him ; and he now saw no o the condition they were in prior to 1829. Mr. HENRY WATSON seconded the resolution, which was agreed to nem. con The a/1,1 { "Tire humble address of the inhabitants oFthc town of Bir kenhead, in the county of Chester, and the neighbourhood thereof, in public meeting assembled. " We, your Majesty's faithful subjects, beg leave humbly to approach your Majesty with heartfelt assurance of undeviating loyalty to your crown,.and.of sincere attachment to your per- )f indignation the insolent attempt of th , Tferewithyour Majesty's undoubted pre therefore, humbly venture to pray that such effecti m its w►saom, may deem proper, to secure to your Majesty the sole and .undivided sovereignty in this land, and to the nation the full enjoyment of Protestant independence, and we humbly assure your Majesty of our cordial co-operation therein." 011 the motion of Mr. CONWAY, seconded by Mr. C. GROVH3, a vote of thanks was p asse d t o th e c h a i rman, ••• • • . _ At the conclusion of the proceedings, three cheers were given for Lord 'Beaumont and the Duke of Norfolk ; after which the meeting sung the National Anthem, accompa nied by a brass band, and quietly dispersed at two o'clock_ After the meeting was concluded, the special consta bles, accompanied by a band of music, were paraded from AL 1 Ffiee, where they ; - n . s b t; - tary, which bad bivoucked in the ' market, were rity of marched to the Castle Hotel, which is to remain for a Irage- short time as their barracks it Mr- A melancholy incid ent marked the close of the pro- the vicinity of the. Town-hall, fell down, as at first supposed in a fit, and was removed to the ..ugeist shop of Mr. Warry, and promptly littended by to the Dr. Donlevy and . Dr. Rob er t son , w h o f oun d t h e unfortu over- nate gentleman quite dead. His melancholy decease is bree should noCbe reign ;von a ques in pursuance of a cor terry, Sir George Grey selves warranted in ri: ina a meet Birkenhea; e' under tli ; and a me ,ously and very inflt duly called by the cl ever, the day on v s issued, a notice they eon sa.tri objecting, in parti —the 111 of the troops in the neig ill suited for military d lace being - in their c itimate voico of a peopl address- the first onset ired that unication from the Home Secre did not feel 1 them- Peace by arrancem( of the Commissioners of meeting v ad. OnM in which " Qu•rh - ood that the locality was h.ntion, howeve? h!e, was in nion ava rtes, with a proviso thEt' the. tmait endeavours ng from violent i bour'eood _were invited to be bles ; and about 709 were so whom were volunteers. A meat to the Protestant popul sworn in a lrn in, the n Jurce of enc ion was: the fa for a 1 tion of t had tE and to resist any Roman entlidic navvies". It was also expected that the yeomanry of the neighbourhood would rall: place of meeting to prevent its voice from beir borne by the migratory Irish enini— ' works ; and under rh--- Brown "" assistance of his men (Protestants) to prose tn.ck which micht be made by the catholic ain from t _ to at,. aeing present at the Meet- mg, telling them that an inquiry solicited by himself was I DR. M'NEILE ON THE CANON LAW OF THE tending before Sir George Grey as to the events which CHURCH OF ROME. took place at the preceding meeting, the result of which I might be affected by the display of any turbulent condor' On Thursday the Market - strongly-formed platform, p - The Rev. Dr. M'Neile delivered his lecture on Tuesday, the above subject, at the Amphitheatre, to as crowded ,•. pare was fitted up with Police-station, to contain the parties who had convened the which .was from the front of th, street. The g, the entrance to -hall, in Hamilton ion of the —o—consisting of upwards of 3,000, and hundreds could not obtain admittance—was composed of persons in the upper and middle walks of life On the platform , hipful the Chancellor Raikes, nearly all the °mat number of leading gentlemen in By far the greater pi .angements made Cor the n Ming were most complet , .mencing of the tr and the scene pre I,ted at the hocr for corn .he finactnvrm. 1;R •: 1 the en- mined About corps, 'er witn nuam noogson, hsq., ,irman) and Others, he was received with the most ' • the whole multitude present rising enfilidod th es arran also upon the ground and both the Ip,:iahetiellly into )ng I:ody held the Several 'Forasmuch as be is called God, he may be judged of no man, for God may be judged of no man. The Bishop of Rome may compel by an oath all rulers and other people, to observe and cause to be observe4whattoever the See of Rome shall ordain concerning heresy, and the favorers thereof; and who will not obey, he may deprive them of their dignities. He that ac knowledges not himself to be under the Bishop of Rome is ordained by God to have primacy over all the world, is a here tic, and cannot be saved, or is not of the flock of Christ." Su7h is the position assigned to the Bishop of Rome, and such the authority claimed for him by the Canon Law. It is difficult to determine which is greater, the blasphemy of the assumption itself, or the cool effrontery with which it is called only a spiritual jurisdiction. We!l might the author of our homily against wilful rebellion say : " It is well known, 'as well by all histories as by daily expe- rience, that none have either more ambitiously aspired above emperors,'kings, an.l princes, nor have more perniciously moved the ignorant people to rebellion against their princes, than certain persons who falsely challenge to themselves to be only counted and called spiritual."—Homily against Wilful Rebell ion, sth part. It is a favourite objection against our English Church, urged from divers quarters, that we give to the Queen, or the "Queen's Government, the supremacy in spiritual things which Roman Catholics give to the Pope. But is _ this the case ? Surely, it is - reasonable to ask that so grave a question should be carefully investigated before positive assertions are made. You have now heard a de- scription from the Papal canon law of the absolute supre macy of the Pope. Looking back at it, allow me to ask and the supremacy of our here do we say, or on what utiona evidence is it alleged, that we think that the Queen, or the Queen's Government, is " not bound by any decrees or laws, but may compel as well clergy as laymen to receive her decrees.?" Nay, our Queen and her Govern me as much and truly bound by the laws of the realm, eccle siastical and civil, as the meanest of the subjects of the realm. The Queen's supremacy in church matters is ad ministrative of existing laws, not absolute or legislative. We have no exclusively ecclesiastical legislature. Parlia ment, not considered as distinct from the church, but as a part nf -hurch, -q of c. die bishops forming a part of it, considered sufficient, and convocation was suppreSsed under t no titer f sisted •upon by the promot matey the ma objeet - ed to the locality, pr he mee command of ins, _ Lne Liverpool force were also on the spot ; ~ in their judgment, an outbreak had been likely, the hoisting of a flag at Woodside would hay • ibrought over 250 policemen, who were posted for the purpose at the central station at Georee's Dock Allay_ ndants of Id if _ . For further security, five con under the command of Co the market. It had that the shops in the r public houses, should I or security caused by tl of the 52d Regiment placed inside :ept closed ; but id abroad, the shops were zener.l ly at eleven o'clocl Jon,v - the feel stnd having briefly referred to the events wl hin► to call the present meetinz, Letters were read from Sir Philip Eger , Tollemache, Esq., regretting their inability to be present The latter gentleman said— " I hope that those who speak will express themselves yen freely with respect to the Tractarians in nnr Awn ph/IT,I, ch had led I look ug had it nc and his friends wo most dential s as the principal ive, but I bell ke the lute nost Provi Mr. PEECY DOVE, manager of the Royal Assurance Company, moved the first rfsolution, which was to the effect that the late Papal bull was alike insuitinz to the crown and people of this country, Mr. Dove referred in beautiful terms to the two powers between whom the meeting had tf choose in bestowing their allegiance. On the one hand they had their beloved Queen, the object of the national affection, because she was a truly Britisl Queen ; British by her birth, British by her habit devotedly attached to I cause of Protestantism. On the other hand they had Pope, a weak prince, propped on his tottering throne French bayonets. After some further remarks and eloquent anneal to the lovaltv of his hp.rpr. n, concluded by movinz ti _ Rev. ANDREW KNOX Luis country was in opposition to civil and religious liberty, and which must be kept down with the strong arm of the law, and that, they would have no ial Archbishop or Popish hierarchy in England The rev. doctor here alluded to the manifesto of Cardinal Wiseman, in which he justifies the recent bull of the Pope on the ground that the canon law could not be called into operation by vicars apostolic, and sh owe d f rom D r. Wise- forward to second it with very great pleasure. . his own desire not to have come forward on the present occasion, not from any feeling of friendship towards the I Carat Pope of Rome, or towards the Pope's measures, because he was enabled to enter his solemn protest against both him and his measures in the Town-hall there, about a week before the late melancholy attack upon the police force took place on the recent occasion.of their attempting to hold a public meeting on this vitally important qur Lion; and whilst upon the subject of the disgraceful which was then made upon the authorities of Birkenle be could not hut express his horror and indignation th, when English Protestants met together to enjoy their un doubted privilege—the exercise of their civil and relie; - liberty—their proceedings ehould have been so lously interrupted, and that bad it not been for the time] . assistance of the inh a bit an t s th emse l ves, many peoph might have been murdered* (Hear. hear.) They bar been told, indeed, by the Romaniets in Birkenhead, tha Birkenhead was the only place in England where resist anco to a public meeting called to appeal against th insidious encroachments of Rome had been succes ful, but he (Mr. Knox) was proud to see that present meeting, held in the most public manner, open market square of Birkenhead, showed that the IL tnanists were greatly mistaken, and that the true an, public spirit of English Protestants animated the hearts oi the inhabitants. (Tremendous cheers.) At the request of the committee he had given way, and even consented the middle, and the mod to take part in the erecting. From the rosition which he I no in'''" held in Birkenhead, b e i ng now one o f t h e o ld est i nhabi- '' tants, (as he had resided 23 years amongst them, as the spiritual head of this township,) it would, perhaps, not be contended that he was nut of place in coming before them, to enter, in • common with the multitude he saw before him, his protest against the insult which had been offered to the Queen on the throne, as well as to her sub jects. (Loud cheers.) They were met that day to con tend for that which was clear to every man, hut especially to Englishmeu—the principles of civil and religious li berty. (Vehement cheers.) Thank God, in this country, both Protestants and Roman Catholi cs , enjoyed th e blessings of civil and religious liberty, under the sway of their Protestant Queen. (Hear, hear.) The Pope of Rome, a foreign prince, had dared to invade our Queen's dominions with his bull—(" hear," and laughter)—and to strike from her hands that sceptre which she, in the fear of God, swayed over people in this country. (Much ap plause.) The speaker then proceeded to denounce the . late acts of the P a p a l see , an d conc l u d e d an eloquent ; speech amidst much cheering. _, e suojects The resolution was carried u nan i mous l y, with /mama- owe him no allegiance; and if this stat e of things shall lest Con, a forest of bands being held up in its favor. for some time, and the sovereign being admonished do not W. lltooter, Esq., submit himself to the church, hi s su bj ects are a b solved from barrister-at-law, (neph ew t o th e Bishop of Lime r i c k,) all fealty to him." moved the next resoluti on , which The Pope may dethrone the Emperor for lawful causes. was to the effect " That this meeting is of opinion that Archbishop Cranmer published a tract entitled " A such measures should be adopted, in reference to the re- Collection of Tenets extracted from the Canon Law, cent Popish aggression, as trey secure to her Majesty the showing the extravagant pretensions of the Church of sole and undisturbed sovereignty in this land, and to the Rome." It is thus spoken of Strype in his first volume nation the free enjoyment of Protestant independence." of Memorials of Cranmer : The learned gentleman protested against the Canon Law p his One of the first things wherein be (i.e. Cranmer) showed of the Church of Rome ; and asked the meeting whether his good service to the church was done in the Parliament, in they would prefer being pieced under he canon law of the latter end of this year, 1533. When the supremacy came the 'Chu rc h o f R ome , o r the common law of England. under debate, and the usurped power of the Bishop of Rome This observation gave rise to an immense shout " for was propounded, then the old co ll ec ti ons (f rom the Canon England." Law) of the Archbishop did him good service; for the chief, The Rev. Mr. LUNatE, m i n i s t er o f S t. Andrew's I t a n t: l l o in n ' lli ' : shoulders. ghole burden, of this we i g hty cause was . Presbyterian Church, sec on d e d t h e resolution in a speech On the subject of the usurped authority of the Bishop of great power; and declared that, alth oug h a dissenter, of Rome, Cranmer made the following selections, and and opposed to the establishment of archbishops and gave them with accurate references to the several decretats bishops, he would be content to take his stand under their in which they are found. They have been frequently mild and tolerant rule, rather than submit to the tyranni- verified, and cannot be gainsaid. They are reprinted, cal rule of a Papal power. (Hear, hear.) They had been and may be examined, in the Parker Society's edition of told that Cardinal Wiseman had disclaimed that the Pope the archbishop's works. sought any temporal dominion; but he knew how to in- " The see of Rome bail neither spot nor wrinkle in it, nor terpret the disclaimers of Rome. The Church of Rome cannot err. The Bishop of Rome is not bound by any de was not to be judged by what she said in times of tern- crees, but he may compel, as well the clergy as laymen, to pest, but by what she said in times of calm. (Applause.) reg o v e . his decrees and canon laws. The . Bishop of Rome hath c a les o i r ? t r y ai li n e j a u n d g y ci t i o . d a i n sc d er m n a t y he as a s r o ti ii Rome claimed temporal as well as spiritual power. Pius d e tl 'i la i t m wno a ut an s c e c c o ja u l n the Fifth excommunicated Queen Elizabeth : should the (acquit) them that the council bath damned t ! but no man bath present Pope be allowed thus to treat their Queen ? authority to judge him. nor to meddle with anything that he (Cries of " No, no.") Popery made men bad subjects, bath judged, neither emperor, king, people, nor the clergy; as well as directly interfered with their duty to the sove- 7 3 V il i o t p is o n f o i t io ta m w e f tn e for any man to dispute of his power. The excommunicate rstate saass emperors e r - reign. (A voice : " The broken heads the other week depose them from t ' i l t y ei sub j ects a 1d lr i tal c e m s ' prove that.") But he rejoiced at the part taken by the their oath of obedience to them, and so constrain them to Duke of Norfolk and Lord Beaumont. Those noblemen rebellion. The Emperor is the Bishop of Rome's subject, and must either break with Rome or England, and he (Mr. the Bishop of Rome may revoke the Emperor's sentences in Lundie) bad no doubt o n w hi c h s id e th e b reac h would be. temporal causes. It bel onget h to the Bishop of Rome after he is elected ; and he Father Ignatius had said that there were 100,000 Roman- to allow or d isallow t the Emperor may translat e he . empire from one region to another. The ista in London, and that if Napoleon had had such a force Bishop of Borne is judge in temporal things and }lath two he would not have hesitated ; and Bishop Gilhurst had swords, spiritual and temporal. The Bishop of Rome may said ja Edinburgh, " that the time lie trusted was coming give authority to arrest men, and imprison them in manacles when ttleo British empire would crumble in the du s t— and fel' ers. 'The Bishop of Rome may compel princes to re (groan)e—eenti when Rome should regain her ancient ceive his legates. It apn e ertainet t h ,N to d t c li i e Bishop of Rome to supremacy." (Disapprobation.) The rev. gentleman judgei e w t i e ci a l e ni n ' i g n h : tAehecakrLt; and i d decrees of the Bishop then-referred to the late assault on the police as a proof Rome y , be of ' no force nor strength. All kings. bishops, and that Popery .exetee„ised temporal power in England, and nobles that allow or suffer the Bishop of Rome's decrees in contrasted the reggious liberty of this country with the anything to be violate, be accursed. The Bishop of Rome may tyran,nv pcnetiaed In th 4. Roman States, where the Bible be judged et none but of God only; for although he neither when totted was inntriAiAly destroyed. He concluded regard his own salvation, nor no man's else, but draw down eetuidpt Sreat Applause. with himselfinnumerable people by heaps.unto hell. ; -y et may . no mortal man in this world presume ,to reprehe“ Min. sat the canon law was the basis of the hierar ently called into existence by the Pope. The cardinal " In order to adopt this second and more natural expedient, one condition was necessary, and that was, the catholics must have a hierarchy. The canon law is in applicable under vicars apostolic." Thus our attention is fixed by the cardinal upon the canon law—" the real and complete code of the church." Let this be borne in chy re at tack 1 scanda mind, for you will doubtless•be told thattheCaa ;;;I;iW — isol;- 4 solete—acodeof the dark ages, unsuited to modern improve.. ment, and not to be ascribed to Roman Catholics of our times without extreme prejudice and bigotry. If the peo ple believed this it would not be his fault, and by doing so they would practically falsify the proverb of Solomon " Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird," for the cardinal had expressly told them that the Romish Hierarchy had been made with the special object of introducing the Canon Law, which was not ap plicable under Vicars Apostolic. The rev, doctor then proceeded to say that the canon law, speaking comprehen 'v, might be divided into three heads,—the ancient, _ern. With the ancient we have no immediate concern. The middle commences with the appearance of Isidore Mercator's collections of canons in the ninth century. The modern period contains the canons of the Council of Trent, and the various transac tions and concordats between the sovereigns and the see of Rome. The general character of the middle code or Canon Law, properly so called, of the Church of Rome, is thus given and exemplified by Mr. Hallam : "The superiority of the ecclesiastical over the temporal power, or at least the absolute independence of the former, may be considered as a sort of key-note which regu'ates every latabase 111 lIIC Lanon Law. It is expressly declared that sub jects owe no allegiance to an excommunicated sovereign, if, after admonition, lie is not reconciled to the Church. And the rubric prefixed to the declaration of Frederick .11.'s deposition in the Council of Lyons, asserts that 'the Pope may dethrone the Emperor for lawful causes.'" Tn confirmation of these statements, the following cita tions al e given : "The laws of kings have not pre-eminence over ecclesiasti cal laws, but are subordinate, or subservient, to them." "Tile statute laws of laymen do not extend to churches, or • -tical persons, or to their goods to their prejudice." - ereign remains excommunicated_ hi. el,h! While a sc were the We and waving their hats by t Rev. W. Rawson, the Chairman, after a feW in t - marks, reminded the meeting of the deep re under to the lecturer for his In tl Protestant cause, and of the fact that persons of every shade of opinion, nearly from every party in the kingdom, some of them the distinguished •epresentatives of the old Whig families of the land, 'hose names have been associated for centuries with the '-les of civil and religious liberty, have re-echnew end Lzingclom to the other, d ~ed as bigoted and intolerant when few s ago, and in no stronger terms by D-. (I ad cheers.) The Chairman then very ably , dto low that with the warmest attachment to -li pus liberty, it was pre-eminently necessary It on the application of abstract principles I trod u. )ry re t'ey WE obligatio services in t end of the opinions re denout i'NeilE r into! % of Rome. It was neither allegiance to a foreign er modified, however .nee to say that ...••....“11 • The Rev. 'Dr. 111`1\TEiLE then rose, and the enti: of the meeting again broke forth. He commet stating that the subject on which he was to address usiasm ced by as they were aware, was the canon law, by which the Church of Rome claimed jurisdiction in spiritual things as an engine for coercion and oppression in temporal things. The rea3on for a special discussion of that question was, that it was maintained by all the atodern apolo •, was not applicable to the present state of affairs this country. All writers, from Dr. Wiseman down, ounded their dt fence mainly, if not exclusively, that the authority claimed by the canon law was spiritual, and not calculated to interfere with the temporal affairs of the So vereign and her 1 - mbjects. They also said that the division of England into dioceses was nothing more than the dis tricts marked out by the Wesleyan bodies. If the oath taken by a Popish bishop was that h e wou ld con fi ne him .. rely to teaching the rel ;ion of his Church without intertering with Protestant people, they would no more object to a Cardinal Archbishop than an itinerant Wesleyan preacher. Such was not the case ; .England against ;his aggressia he vibration of a united st that t he creation of Popish Bishops and - . recent chances have rendered Parliament less suitable for the discussion of such subjects than it was, (and, doubtless, they have done so,) we are reduced to a choice Convocation would ' be the greater evil, because it would open an arena for the worst posfible meddling and, if successful, the worst possible t clerical meddling ant- e are t ful for the ecclesiastical laws and the Articles of Religion already established among us ; and while the royal supre macy is administrative of these, no one, whatever the ex tent of his nonconformity may be, need entertain the prehensions of tyra-nni It may inc been s centuries ago, the prisons of England were filled witligood and holy men because they were non -conformists; but it should be remembered that between the reign of Charles 11. and our time, an important revolution has taken place, the Protestantism of the Sovereign (previously contingent) '—en secured by law, and the Bill of Rights has been „ nn-entifortnist need now feel the finger of perty legalised to the Church ; and a s he acquires all pro perty subject to this impost, and with a corresponding re duction of what would otherwise be its price, and as the paymentinvolves him in no expression whatever of approval of the thing paid for, he has little to complain of. Again I would ask, where do we say, or on what evidence is it alleged that we think, t at our Sovereign " may be judged of none but of God only; so that though he should nei ther regard his own salvation, nor no man's else, but draw down with himself innumerable people by heaps into hell ; yet may no mortal man in this world presume to reprehend him ?" On the contrary, if our Sovereign were to forsake the Protestant religion, and exert the prerogatives of the crown to bring back the nation to ur laws n doing forefathers under James 11. aid; not only reprehending him, but if he continued obstinate, dethroning him, and placing his nearest of kin, being Protestant, in his place. That some members and ministers, and even dignitaries of the Church of England, take a different view of the supremacy, rid of and independence, and syno dical legislation, and even manifest in their hearts and tempera the seeds of ecclesiastical dominatic, is no really s9und argument against the English Church herself. There are extreme men on either side; but happily on both sides they are legally helpless. They may fora time complain, and disturb, and partially pervert; but the ut most they car do is to retire. In saying this, Ido . not allege or imply that the Church of England is without fault. No institution. _entrusted to human management however perfect at first, can, without a miracle, confine long without fault. There are blots on her fair face— ' which her first reformers had not courage to remove, and which the alousy of cc children render 3 it difficult to remove now.' But though faults may be found in her system, vastly greater faults may be found in every other ; and in a fallen world like this, the choice of wisdom is a choice of evils. The reverend gentleman then proceeded to quote largely from other portions of these authorised documents, ex hibiting the immunities claimed by the ^lergy—the awful excommunications and anathemas pronounced on -all faithful christians, and others, not within the pale of the Roman Catholic Church, and the intolerant persecution of the excommunicated. He then proceeded to show from what has happened in Austria, Venice, Naples, Sar dinia, France, Spain, &c., and recently in the Nether lands, Bavaria, Saxony, Switzerland, &c., that the ope ration, upon a Roman Catholic population of the Canon Law, quickened into, vigorous exercise by fresh missives from the Papal Court, was such that every Roman Catho lic government in Europe had been compelled to guard againt it, in crder to secure their own independence even in temporal things. [This portion of the lecture was unusually important, but as the whole of the arguments - erenc,s here, as our readers can thus possess themselves of them in a much more convenient shape.] The rev. lecturer then concluded as follows :—But it may be asked, and i remains further to he answered, how would the introdu tion of the Canon Law' affect the P roteqant community of this country, who have no respect for its authority ? This, of course, is not so direct, nor so complete, nor so immediate, but it is real and dangerous. Protestants are unsuspecting and uncombined, because they are free. (Cheers.) Ile cultivation of personal responsibility is inseparable from a corresponding cultivation of inde pendence of thought and feeling. This is one inevitable result of the free exercise of private judgment ; and as every one individually must give account of himself at the judgment seat of Christ, it is right and proper that every one, individually, should think for himself now. As there will be no vicarious religion then, (except in Christ himself,) so there ought to be none now. No mortal can answer for another there, therefore none should dare to do it now. (Applause.) This constitutes the excellence of our condition as self-examining Christians ; and. although circumstantial uniformity is incompatible with it, we have, to a greater extent than many seem to think, substantial unity. Our unity in word is not, in deed, the sing-song of a flock of parrots, all taught to reiterate " church, ' '• church," "church I" (Much laughter and applause.) Our unity in action is not the mechanism of a regiment all shouldering or ordering arms at the word of command, or at the example of a fugleman. (A laugh.) There cannot be such unity where reason and freedom are in exercise. (Hear.) If we give ourselves up to a general, to be wielded at his will, and others do the same, there may then be unifor mity of movement, but there ceases to be personal liberty. Such is Papal uniformity—a great piece of human mechanism, the responsibility of the unthinking and unquestioning masses being transferred to the presiding geniuses, who touch the secret springs, and keep the giant arms in motion. (Loud cheers.) It has been said of Protestants by a Romish controver sialist archbishop, that " if God would make known what is the specific creed of each individual of fifty millions of em, it is probable that not ten out of the whole number could be found to agree, on all points, in substance and detail, in the principles and doctrines of Christian revela tion." This is a gross libel. They would not, it is quite possible, give the same expression in detail to their views —the Evangelists themselves differ thus—(hear)—but millions among them would give substantially, in every thing fundamental, th e s ame con f ess i on o f heir faith ; while Rnmanists, though they might give memoriter t'-e same words in answer to the same question, could boast no more of - intelligent unity than exists between the priest who reads Latin and the Irish labourer who can read nothing. (Laughter.) But the very excellence of our condition as individualised self-examining Christians, constitutes a main part of our- exposure to the machina tions of such a conspiracy as R om anis m . Its obj ec t i s temporal supremacy. Its means are unscrupulous. Its organisation is complete. Where force can be used with safety and effect, it may—where fraud, it may—where a combination of both, it may. The Canon Law lays bishops, and through them their priests, under an obliga tion to endeavour by all means, force and fraud, to obtain ascendancy. For this purpose, having brought their own people into a state of convenient vassalage, they would, as in Ireland they do—and it is already commenced in England—(hear)—employ them in diverse disingenuous missions among Protestants : to foment divisions, to suggest doubts, to discourage reliance on the Bible, by insinuating uncertainty as to its canon, and obscurity as to its contents. In a country like this, containing a teeming population, to thousands of whom we have no means of extending the blessings of true Christian teach ing —our voluntary friends objecting to a public provision, while they and all fail to make a sufficient private one— there must always be a large number of persons open to the machinations of such a body as the drilled agents of a Romish hierarchy. Those agents are employed skilfully, according to their qualifications for fraud or force, for perfidy or audacity, to unsettle the foundations of heretic society, and keep up communication with their priests. Noisy bullies are employed to interrupt Protestant meet ings, and from all parts of the house they recognise and respond to a concerted signal from the platform. Sisters of Charity are employed to commend themselves to the good graces of unwary and indignant Protestants, by vi sits of sympathy, and little douceurs of tea and sugar, beginning with cases of mixed marriage where some members of the family are Popish, and so extending their insinuating influence. Writers of tales and catechisms are employed to captivate and incoctrinate the youthful mind. Poets and musicians are employed to gratify the taste and entrance the senses. Nor does the plan of the campaign end here. Witnesses are su borned. and party confederacy prevails, to defeat the course of justice. (Hear.) And simultaneous combina tions, with intent to intimidate, act in diverse localities, with all the precision and punctuality of a disciplined army, while no man sees the officers in command. The Roman Catholic Church has seldom of late years been re garded steadily under its genuine and exclusive aspect, of an unappeasable foe to civil liberty. Popery may be in many senses a cheat, but in every sense a tyrant. In vague and abstract-terms we allow Popery confines her jurisdiction to things spiritual, but in practice, by vigilant and subtle induction, by claims of relationship. between things spiritual and things temporal, she brings all the affairs of this world within her constructive empire. In the council room, in the confessional, in the closet, in'the chamber, in the street—ever watchful, ever menacing, ever exacting, ever calculating ; where Popery, through her minister, finds admission, there, there is no security nor confidence, no free agency, no free speech, no ho!d nor independent thought—all is unconscious, irretrievable, and unvarying bondage, An instance of this has just occurred in our own town. I have the fact under the hand of a reverend brother, assistant to the minister of St. John's Church, and I now tell it to you. A Roman Catholic priest, learning that some Roman Catholic children at tended the Ragged School in Hodson-street, publicly threatened the parents of those children that if they per severed in sending them to the school, he and the other preists would not attend them on their death-beds. (Hisses and groans.) Sir, this is the way Rornanism as sails the poor in temporal things ; and the same thing is done with regard to their votes, and tneir conduct in other respects, as to sending their children to school. (Hear.) If they do not vote for the priests' nominee, whether for Parliament, Town Council, or Board of Guardians—in terdict ! (Cheers.) The rites of the church are refused. (Hear.) They will not baptise the child. They will not church the wife. They will not give them extreme unc tion on their death-beds. (Hear, and cheers.) What Mr. Wise, in his " History of the (Roman) Catholic As sociation,"saysof that most - cunningly-devised confederacy may with truth he said of the entire machinery by which a Popish hierarchy assails a Protestant community :—" It designed t -, -" -' ' language which could was tit._ .. to tell ministers, in a _ no longer he misunderstood, that, whenever the associa tion chose to call, there were the people ready to follow; that obedience to the asso c i a ti on was th e paramount le in ti princip►, heart of every peasant in the country; that the power of the association was, therefore, absolute and univer.al ; that it could not be got rid of by the law, because it never infringed the law; that it could not be got rid of by brute force, because it never rendered brute force nee-- ary ; that it was therefore tmattackable and it could a tack of . , that, without inju r ing exi s ti ng i ns tit u ti ons, i t m i g h t ma k e use of these very institutions for every purpose of injury ; aat it could wield the constitution against the constitu• tion, introduce a sullen, perpetual war into the bosom of peace, disturb every relaiion of society, without violating a single enactment on which such relations repose; and, 11 . . minister to choose between coercion and conciliation." It is from this we have to defend ourselves. It is with reference to this that our senators should learn wisdom. Self-defence by law attainst such a system is not intole rance. To treat such a system as if it were merely reli gious opinion is infatuation. To exclude the agents of is nothing more than common prudence. England may rest assured that her choice is narrowed to the painful, but inevitable, alternative of exclusion or submission. Fair participation is utterly impracticable not to he judged of or treated according to the ordinary principles of human nature. Reason and argument ar IY• • • . - Romanism is absence o miracles they are insufficient aginst violence or treachery. Romanism, beaten in argument again and again, conti nues to say and Co as before with unblushing effrontery. The same unfounded misrepresentations in defiance of historical truth, and the same dogmatic absurdities in defiance of unanswered argument, are reiterated on every side. In like manner the same abuse of their spirituali ties, as they call them, into an engine for coercion in things temporal, and the same ostentatious denial before Protestants of those principles to which they are pledged on oath among themselves, are everywhere practised. In vain shall English statesmen diplomatise—in vain shall English law-officers prepare bills for the _pplication of moderate penalties—if men who refuse to abjure the Pope o: Rome, the audacious and ambitious head of the code of the Canon Law—if Romanists, persisting in their fo reign allegiance, though called only spiritual, be not. by law excluded from place and power in Britain, and that without any interference with them in the exercise of their religion. as was the case previous to 1829 (hear, and cheers)—if, in a word, the privileges con ferred upon them by the. Emancipation Bill be not sub stantially withdrawn, all the boasted light, and liberty, and liberalism of England will not save her institutions, will not perpetuate to het• children the h1...;. -; us freedom. (Vehement applause.) For n Church, in the highest and best sense of the term, we entertain no apprehensions. (Hear.) We know in whom we have believed, and who said, and still says to his own, " Fear not, little flock, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." " All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." " I give unto them eternal_ life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.' "My Father which gave them me is greater ti the Chri and no mar be able to pluck them out of my Father's hand." " I and my Father are one." Yes, for the members of Christ's mystical body, the bride, the Lamb's wife, the blessed company of all faithful people. we fear nothing, and have nothing to fear. The.promises of God to them are all yea and all amen in Christ Jesus. Neither the gates of hell, nor the machinations of Antichrist, shell prevail againstany one of them. Their loud hahelujahs shall ascend before the Throne, when the smoke of the torments of the beast and the false prophets shall also ascend. Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen And again they shall call hallelujah ! But we have no such promise for our beloved country. The golden candlestick of pure and apostolical Christianity may be removed from England, as it has been from other lands ; and we confess we have not become so transcendental or so cosmopolitan, as to have abjured all Christian patriotism. If this be a weakness in the eyes of abstract philosophy, we must plead guilty of it. Patriotism is permitted, nay, it is to be cultivated in the followers of Him who wept over Jerusalem ; and England is called, and loudly called, to the decision and energy essential to the present crisis, in the name, the sacred, the animating name of Chiristian patriotism. (Cheers.) Christian patriotism ! the most touching, and, next to the love of God in Christ, the noblest passion of the human heart,—the love, the undy ing love, of that country which protected the cradles of our infancy, and encloses the ashes of our fathers ; the happy scene of childhood when all was hope and joy ; when innocence was in every heart, and pleasure in every eye ; when every smile was bliss, and every thought was buoyant rapture ; when a father's benignant encourage ment, a mother's affectionate embrace, a sis'er's softening and humanising companionship, conveyed to the ripening character indelible impressions of philanthropy—impres sions associated for ever with the walks, the trees, the rivers, the mountains, amongst which the gentle influ ences twined themselves around the yet plastic soul. (Applause,) Christian patriotism ! the only romance of sensibility and virtue 1 (Cheers.) Englishmen, up ! (Tumultuous applause.) Free-born Englishmen, be wise, be firm. (Renewed cheering.) Deliver your country, your beloved country, unequalled on the globe. 0, deliver her, and keep her delivered, decidedly, and no mistake, from the despotic grasp of Antichrist, from the iron chain of the Canon Law. The reverend doctor resumed his seat amidst overwhelming applause from every part of the house. The Wor. Chancellor RAIKES said, he felt it would be in vain to attempt, by any words to which he could give utterance, to express so fully as the meeting had done the universal feeling of gratitude which they entertained towards their respected friend Dr. M'Neile. (Cheers.) Alluding to the designation applied to Mr. Pitt of " th e pilot that weathered the storm," he said it was his honour and privilege to direct their gratitude, if not to the pilot that weathered the storm, yet to the watchman who had first given warning of the coming tempest. (Loud cheers.) It was his privilege to hold up to their gratitude and through them to the gratitude of the United King dom, the individual whose eye, quickened by the steady study of the Word of God—growing in light from that testimony of Jesus which was the spirit of prophecy— foresaw, in the dark abyss, the invasion that was preparing, and prepared to meet that invasion by rousing up the feeling which had actuated that great assembly that day. (Applause.) He had not laboured in vain, and they themselves were witness to the fact ; and if the invader came, and found the coasts of England guarded, as they ever had been, against foreign aggression, thanks to him who bad sounded the alarm—(cneers)—whose trumpet gaveno uncertain sound—(renewed cheers)—whose clarion sounding from one end of the kingdom to the other, had united all sects'and denominations in a firm determina tion to resist the aggressions of the see - of Rome, and to contend with might and main for the Briton's best privi lege—the privilege of worshipping God according to the dictates of his conscience, and the letter of the revealed Word of God. (Much applause.) If they would per mit him to point them to the vista that was before them, he would say, that the same power that bad appointed bishops throughout every part of this country, without the leave or sanction of the constituted authorities—that had presumed to dictate to Protestant England, and to send the canons of a poor trembling Italian bishop— (laughter and cheers)—to supersede the law of the land that same power might and would scatter in every one of our parishes agents that would carry into the interior of society the spirit of that canon law which had been so admirably and beneficially discussed. (Hear.) Mark the effect. In every parish new sources of collision and dispute would arise. And let them not doubt that agents would go found. We had supplied them. Maynooth would send forth its hundreds. (Hear and cheers.) Men trained and exercised in all the low polemics of the canon law would be forth, to disturb the peace of our local communities, and to add one fresh element.ot discord to' those which already interrupted the peace and prosperity of the land. (Applause.) He concluded by moving a vote of thanks to the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, for his able and instructive lecture. The motion was seconded by Mr. W. JONES, and car ried amidst the greatest enthusiasm. A similar vote was awarded to the chairman, on the motion of the Rev. C. W. LAWRENCE, seconded by JOHN CROPPER, Esq., and the meeting separated after singing the national anthem. GAS AND POPERY.—When the chairman of a company, formed for lighting the Eternal City, waited on the late Pope to solicit the required permission, Gregory indig nantly asked how he presumed to ask such a thing so utterly subversive of religion. The astonished speculator humbly stated that he could not see the most remote connexion between religion and carburetted hydrogen— " Yes. but there is, sir," shouted the Pope, " my pious subjects are in the habit of vowing candles to be burned before the shrines of the saints ; the glimmering candle would soon be rendered redicuious by the contrast of the glaring gas lights, and thus a custom so essential to ever lasting salvation would fall into general contempt, if not disuse." No reply could be made to this edifying argu ment. Silenced, if not convinced, the speculator with drew—the votive candles still flicker, though not so numerously as heretofore, and they just render visible the dirt and darkness to which Rome is consigned at night. The introduction of gas and the fall of the Papacy ap peared, therefore, to be simultaneous events reserved for the astonishment of the Romans in future agcs.—Froni the Gal JPurnal of October, 1850. Mr. Rivers, the chief of all rose growers, not except ing even those of France, has made the first step, and an important one too, towards an improvement in the pre sent taste for rose-growing. He, has commenced weed ing the rose catalogues until he has reduced those inter minable lists of names to, comparatively speaking, a very few. He has shown that endless variety ought not to be so much the florists object, as obtaining a choice selection of really good and permanent sorts. Fifteen years ago, the catalogue of the Messrs. Loddigies, who were not much given to this branch of the trade, had no less than 1,527 species and varieties named in their catalogue ; and well do we remember how puzzled we used to be in the blooming season to discover the difference between many of the varieties. Since then the rage for novelty has added two or three thousand more varieties to the cata logues—but certainly not more than two or three dozen of really good sorts ;—and we believe this pandering to the frivolous taste for novelty has had the effect of tiring the public, and really injuring the nurserymen. If the florists of this kingdom were to combine and establish a central society, similar to the Horticultural, and let every new flower be submitted to the decision of such a society before being offered to the public; then a real good would be accomplished. They would have the benefit of a cer tificate, upon which reliance could be placed ; and the tradesman would not be run into an endless search for ephemeral novelties, and expensive puffing of worthless articles, having only a short period of sate: his time and energies, on the contrary, would be devoted to the steady improvement of really good things, which would give satisfaction to the purchaser, and in the end be much more remunerative. We are indebted to the same clever cultivator for another piece of valuable and practical advice; namely, to plant groups of one sort of rose; or in other words, instead of filling the beds of the lawn or rosery:with as many varieties as we can co ll ec t, t o chose as many distinct and good varieties as we have beds, and fill each with one sort only, the effect will be a richness and fulness of colouring instead of the usual motley appearance they now present. Such advice as that given by Mr. Rivers, need only to be disseminated—its practi cal utility will speak for itself. There are two branches of Natural History which are so intimately connected with Floriculture and Botany, that they ought to be, to a certain extent, familiar to all real lovers of Flora, whether in field or parterre. We allude to Entomology and Ornithology ; to the florist and horticulturist they are of the utmost importance, for both friends and enemies to discriminate between the one and the other it is obviously necessary that in our endeavours to be rid of one we may be sure we do not injure the other. We think it was those interesting writers Kirby and Spence who mentioned a curious incident, bearing upon this point, which, as far as we can remember, was as follow' —Some t) is ime since, the farmers of New England found the grass of their meadows destroyed to such an extent, that they were absolutely obliged to import hay. They noticed that the spots which appeared burned, or withered, were always frequented by a peculiar bird, the Blue Crow, which were actively engaged in pecking up the grass. The.ccerulean crow was at once declared to be the enemy who destroyed the farmer's hopes, and a war of extermination was commenced, and waged to such an extent, that soon not a blue crow could be seen. 0,11 I_ e grass d Jid not improve, but on the contrary, the evil went on increasing, apparently in the same ratio as the birds decreased. Thi s p uzz l e d t h e poor • farmers beyond measure, and they wou. continued mystified to the present day, that one of those stupid dull who happened to visit New England for the purpose of Poking his nose into this and to that,'—as Ingolsby has it—was asked to account for the phenomenon which was ruining the agricultural community ; and, after a short examination, he shewed that the fields were infested with the grub of the cockchafer, which fed upon the roots of the grass, and was in its turn fed on by the blue crow. So the farmers discovered that they had destroyed their best friends." The great expense of works treating upon t.,,L Ed probably have had it not been ows ca Duujruta MIS nunerw neen toe grek, _...3aek the student; but the beautiful series of illustrated trea tises upon Entomology, by Miss Catlow, and Ornithology, by Mr. Gosse, just published by Messrs. Reeve and Ben ham, there is nothing to be wished for. In them our botanical friends will find beautifully-coloured drawines, and descriptions of all the most familiar species, especially those most likely to come under his observation whilst pursuing his hortit ultural amusements. Riots on the Cultivation of the Hollyhock, by William Clater.—ln presenting these few brief remarks upon the cultivation of the hollyhock, I beg to say. that year's experience induces me to enforce the same routine as the previous one, feeling confident, after twenty-five years oultiiiting" this ornamental plant, that purchasers following these directions may insure success. The holly hock will grow best in good old garden soil, well trenched over to the depth of two feet, with plenty of thoroughly decomposed manure—such as old cucumber beds, or night soil mixed with earth. Sandy loam they like, and if the subsoil be wet, they will thrive remarkably well in the summer, but in the winter wet is very injurious to them ; to prevent which I remove, to the depth of one or two inches, the mould round the neck of the plant, and fill up with white sand, about six inches round the stem, level with the surface : it is simply to preserve them from wet, insects, and slugs, from which, in the winter, they are apt to suffer very much, if not killed. They may be propa gated by single eyes in July or August, also by cuttings in the spring, placed on a slight bottom heat. Young plants raised ,ram summer cuttings are best preserved by repot ting► them in October into large pots—the larger the better, in light rich sandy earth, and placed in a cold frame ; thus they will grow during the winter. In March or April turn them out .into the open ground, and they will bloom as fine and as early as if planted in the autumn. Plant them not less than four feet from row to row, and three feet apart in the row. If grouped in beds, not nearer than three feet each way. They will grow well in the shade of distant trees, but by no means must the roots interfere. In May, when the spikes are grown about a foot high, thin them out according to the strength of the plant : if well established and very strong, leave four spikes : if weak, two or three, or only one, at the same time placing a stake to each one separately. The most robust grower does not require a stake higher than three feet from the ground. Stake them before they get too high, and secure them well by tying, and they will grow erect. If the weather is dry at this season of the year, they must be watered with a solution of guano, or any other liquid manure, poured carefully round the roots, avoiding pouring it on or too near the stems. To grow the flowers fine, cut off the lateral shoots, thin the flower buds if crowded together, and take out the top of the spike according to the height desired, paying attentioti to the usual height and habit of the plant. Observe, by topping it, ycu may increase the size of the flower, but at the same time shorten its dura tion of flowering, and perhaps disfigure its appearance.— Gardener's. Chronicle. I RiTriniltural anb 30ortirtiltural. REVIEW Gazetteer of the World. Fullarton and Co., Edinburgh, London, and Dublin_ The constant accessions to our geographical knowledge render the publication from time to time of carefully col lated gazetteers essentially necessary, and never was one more wanted than at the present time. Its necessity is known in every counting-house or place of business. The efficiency of the old standard works has become so much lessened by time and new discoveries, that they are now rarely consulted in this emergency. We are glad to see the difficulty grasped by a firm like that of the Messrs. Fullarton and Co., whose name is a satisfactory guarantee that the work will be completed. The first division, con sisting of two parts, of The Gazetteer of the World, has been placed in our hands, and we have made a careful examination of some of its leading articles, and feel much pleased with the masterly manner in which they are writ ten. The geographical and descriptive parts of the work far surpass in completeness and vividness any gazetteer or geographical dictionary yet published. It is also beauti fully illustrated. We understand the work is strictly limited to subscribers; for these particulars, however, we refer to the advertisement in another column. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS J. Coomber.—Your heath is Erica hyemalis, the other plant is Churizema varium. T. Mayor.—The flower shewn at the Liverpool Horti cultural Society is Tritoma media, formerly called Vel theimia repens. CORRESPONDENCE. PAPAL INTERFERENCE TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD SIR,—I hope to see copied into your paper the com plaint of the Rev. Mr. Wolsley, as to the interference of the priests with the Hodson street Ragged School. Such unwarrantable conduct cannot be too much exposed, and many persons will not believe that the priests go to such lengths unless confirmed in this able manner. My object in addressing you is to urge upon all those who expressed their indignation at such conduct, when mentioned by Dr. M'Neile, in his lecture last Tuesday, to come forward with small contributions and assist in maintaining these schools, as one among the many means of driving Popery from our land, by imparting the light of God's truth to the poor and ignorant. The Papacy hates our religious instruction of the lower orders ; for so long as they are in darkness the priests can persuade them to do anything. - Yours, &c., CONSISTENCY. Liverpool, Dec. 16, 1850. -.40...-.---- TO THE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—In your number of the 3rd instant, appears a paragraph pointing to a remarkable coincidence—viz., the departure of Cardinal Wiseman from England, with the burning of Richard Bay field in 1531 : both events occurred on the 20th November ! Bayfield, as your paragraph states, was burnt " for bringing over and selling certain books; among others, the New Testament." It might be interesting to some of your readers to give a few of the circumstances attending the murder of this Protestant. I therefore beg to subjoin a brief extract :—" * * * * and so hee was delivered to the sherifes to carrie to New gate, being commanded to bring him againe upon Mon day following into Paul's Upper Quire, there to give attendance upon the Bishop of London with the residue until they had done with him : and by and by the sherifes were commanded to have him into the vestry, and then to bring him forth wine in antichrist's appal - ell to be degraded before them. When bee (the Bishop of L on . don) had degraded him kneeling upon the highest steppe of the altar, hee tooke his crosier state and smote him on the Brest, that bee threw him downe backwards and broke his head, that hee swounded, and when hee came to himself again hee thanked God that hee was delivered from the malignant church of antichrist, and that he was come into the true sincere Church of Jesus Christ mill- tent here in earth ; and I trust anon, sari he , t ! a b n e t heaven with Jesus Christ, and the church triutliP' 1;e11. ever; and so was he led forth through the Quire ° w est gate ; there rested about an hour in prayer, and an s°dthete to the fire in his apparel! manfully and joYfullY' hoar for lack of a speede fire was two quarters of alive. And when the left arm was on fire a" . bAci he rubbed it with his r i g ht hand and it fell fro m and he continued i n p ra yer to the end without More rnq e re The account goes o n to show that Sir Thomas N(i sto ttin sti the chief cause of the immolation of this unint' NO W. man. LOCAL MEETINGS. SELECT VESTRY.—.At a meeting of this body „ n w day a lett er was rea d f rom th e o ffice of the Privy o"ocer. promising furthe r p rocee di ng s towards checking til e d t ot crowding of the Irish steamers.—Mr. Harbord stoaftrseeri, in consequence o f th e recen t inquiries by the r' v porl upwards of £lOOO w a s now the amount of Cl.B'r°fioce other parishes for th e t we l ve months, for the tosg°""nerlf of lunatic Kupers, which had hitherto been iloP, og o chargeable to Liverpool.—The minutes of the . Worko Committee recommended the aprointment of I \ l 7,: rc of water as assistant storekeeper to the matron at 3 "...kV £l5 per annum.—The tender of Mr. Turner to Put 130, rugated iron roof over one of the buildings fo r was confirmed. - amerou s ahae L'UBLIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM.—A in.--- - t t, highly influential meeting was held on Tuesday, a o n Town-hall, presided over by the Venerable Arebdelaery, Brooks, and convened by a - circular from the tovrn'con addressed to the nobility, clergy, gentry, and other the t.uatriino nu; formed, al i c nt o de r r i oa s i rf s y t t i ai n ine g d o ps f rcei t se h ildi e tei c nfi l te e s r i g nf y os tr o i nected with Liverpool, inviting their co-operation mow establishment of a free public library and museum , b. Y o s tributions of money. books &c., &c. An associat.ian of all donors to the library or museum, of the mern`lngi the. Joint committees of the Council and ' the Roia t 'lthe d the ft"' Horsfall. Esq. was appointed chairman; an Dr. Hume, secretary. tfutha't the time ntdisem.neoTnibbeionir;aiso,ontf: ea ,-, .UOCK COMMITTEE.—The weekly meeting w as “ . "'El2o s ' Thursday. A recommendation to pay over to M,r,; 00 01 Threlfal and Mr. James Lawrence the sums of 4u p o ck, Committee.mi te, i.t ,f , :p's co sfl u tl £5OO, on account of property required for WapPinz nr i g ht, was confirmed. A letter from Messrs. Gibb. , ,:v e s a lt• requesting berths at the north-west corner of t% v ra9 house Dock for a line of sailing packets to Austrn„ l , l : Se on the sth instant, to the effect that the comm' not recommend the adoption of the road in ceet: n 0 0 ' ea ' ltliCom construction of the road, and a note had been rec k ba d r e v n e t;s o - r r oad said , that t it a s w u a m s n u o f t x i n m a oo fi twsatisa patste ni r t . oer r i v t ei b e from the borough engineer, certifying that the w °l. the been efficiently done. The matter was referred °m o p Committee of Works. A memorial was read frog t ' s o Tocrrefhefeetßar surveyor u e y: read t ° t the Harbour resolution of M astersthe , garet Itodick, stating that, on the 2nd of October ia:tireett was severely injured by the fall of a gate in Ma' °° : w ork' which had been l e ft i n an insecure state by o ui rrs h e or men in the employ o f th e D oc k C omm ittee. ' w ith plicant claimed £ll lOs for medical attendance, S'eight any amount of compensation the cotnmittee t ho think fit to allow. The memorial was referred to Committee of Works. Distrirt D€llls. c : tclo ll/ The house inLord- . street, Preston, in which oil' I Arkwrient lived, has been pulled down., A Protestant Association for Reston and t he t° On g ' has been f orme d, an d t h e worthy vicar of Pre` consented to be pre.qdent. ,ete bls Blackpool is about to be lighted w ith ga s, the ` 7. ' . 0 eur Oil Gas CoMpany, of London, having undertak e ' ply the town for five years a t their own risk. , t er, ° r/ Two boys were drowned in a pit near Manct:chthey Wednesday, through the ice givi ng way o n " I were sliding The distance between Preston and Kendal 2 01 ' 1 , - r O, which was recently walked within twenty-four 1,0 eighty-six miles. The Mayor of M anc he s te r ente r t a i ne d a g reat 1 311°1bet t he of gentlemen to dinne r o n W e dnesd a y. company were T. Thorneley, E.g., M.P., Jos. Esq., Thos. Rodick, Esq., of Gateacre. The bells of Preston parish church rang a n or! 51, on Friday evening, to announ ce the acquittal Ideal Henry Blackhurst at the Liverpool assizes. So 0 0 ,40 was Mr. Blackhurst of of his acquittal, that he gas' for the bell-'ringing six weeks ago. thatele A correspondent of the Fred - on Chronicle says , "_ m teer mice of Southport forsake the houses during the su., the months, to ramble in the fields and make nests,'"oitv sandhills. In October they return to the houses f" ter quarters. lir goy' CHILDREN EMPLOYED IN FACTORIES.—In ner's (the Lancashire) district, 148 factories empicy ;tit. dren —boys, 14e5 ; girls, 544 ; total, 1949. ; 11 15' Howell's district, 11 fact or i es —b o ys, 72 ; girls, total, 87 Js deliaere.he The Rev. Hugh Stowell, of Manchester, c-- a t tilt lecture on Wednesday to a crowded audience,oat Beaumont Literary Institution, Mile-end, on the s r u ec j ei lt of " The Defences which have been set up for the Papal aggression." tic',ester. MANUFACTURING PROSPERITY. The Mat— a sis' papers state that 62 persons were sum moned by the be fore tant overseer of the parish of R a d c liffe, to aPP` u ar „, on the magistrate, at the p e tty sess i on s held at ' Monday last, for non-payment of poor-rates - MILDNESS OF TIIE SEASON.—The gardener of 011 Egerton, of Eaton Bank nea Tar °He, on the 4th ' n o t gathcred a dish of green , peas, r and P on th y e 6th inst. he r f lo 12p a dish of new potatoes, a ll sou nd and perfectly f ttwh r he o eTer m ehbeer d ffbe isease. Both were grown in the open air. 46 Thomas Lever Rushton. E.q., ex-ma or of Boltoll,ol'd given £lOO to the Dispensary, as a public exPre s , s Tabi his gratitude for the testimonial (£330) subscribe d ;i c e@ his fellow-townsmen, in acknowledgment of his s er bicl) to the borough, during the period of two years is he officiated as chief magistrate. On Wedne oof s ßfw d : a elsta y ribiem , eodpp a r walking along Edward-street, Preston, some skips sforopoaf rope, which Guianahae gentlemanwindow unfortunaterde af namedbecelhl become doognme eanh rottenmlseermm,Portertsuco: o_for : 00 : 010 lived a eae g L eki n nt o i a sga r r d g t e e l r of an hour. iS Huyton Church on Sunday week, and a very h an nr opo: collection was made "i n aid o f th e more extenEiv e . ' w en' gation of the gospel in hi s di ocese , by th e estab , c ls rcl' of a college and an ext ens i on o f th e m i n i s t r y." " ii `' „least ship has also preached i n S u tt on Ch urc h, n ear St. " for the same object. ag /3 1°f% CHARGE BY ROMAN CATHOLICS AGAINST T-- SOCIETY.—At a meeting of Roman Catholics in r ding e' chester on T ues d a y l as t, a M r . W. J. Cl e ary, ac e °,. r ing to a report in the Ma nc h es t er G uar di an , said to the progress whi c h R oman Catholicism had Great Britain,--" That it was a fact, that there wet abets four times the number of Catholics in England fi at ions were three hundred years ago. The tide of cot' GI to Romanism set in immediately after the esrablii. o tion of the Bible Societies—those societies and &mor n° f the had continually run side by side. The reading ° ,OlO Bible had done more to demoralise the inhabitants cotto country, and especially the youthful inhabitant!, 1, 0 0 anything else. Children w e re trained to read it 60,1'ere early and unthinking age, and eventually th e Y. o ver , brought to treat it with contempt and to threw eietl board." These false accu sa ti o ns against the Bible ov f t he are, we fear, generally participated in by the mas s 7 a tion Roman Catholic b o dy, an d th e i r public enenf rse to affords evidence that the Roman Catholics are the reading of the Word of God. ~,u N Al lt DRAINAGE OF MARTIN MERE: EXTRAO.-- . t ip, CROPS.—About eight months ago we gave a des"rlif of of the process adopted by D. Boosie, Esq., en beo B ,4° Sir T. G. flesketh, Bart., for the drainage of that „I.7 r er sive tract of land, near Rufford, known as Martin fi e` { of which in past years has been frequently under wattl e of weeks and month s t oge th er , an d was thus ex pert'incaP a profitable cultiv a tio n . M r . B oos i e ' s enterprising t ioll went Las, we are glad to say, resulted in the reclatir trigof many hu n d re d acres of land, a portion of w hi r oiP s ' year has yielded mo s t sa ti s f ac t or y crops of oats, t - o f tll O &c. From one plot of this reclaimed land two toll ba lb 6 largest turnips were f oun d t o co nsist of only 4l lollbs' without either tops or tap roots, thus averaging o till' each, a weight seldom equalled over such a 0%00 The plot altogether measured only about four sta tut e a lso acres, and is a heavy crop all over. . The crop of 0 1 %00 (of which there were about 100 acres this last sc i aitf• were also abundant, and are turning out of good ,g e her oag These results must he highly satisfactory to Sir . 1 1 ,' j to flesketh, whose spirited example may be coalmen Wo other landed proprietors in that neighbourboot on giol lately observed about fo ur s q uare miles of land be.. caps' to the latter completely under wat er ; ye t a ll this l' a b u tt• hie of being brought into cultivation and produeillei! dant crops of almost all sorts of agricultura l pro ''' i l „ a g nk w ; here they were Preston Pilot. next, the ' ist W eel(' BRILLIANT Fox HUNT.--011 Thursday, it' ' w ith tt! ° one of the most brilliant runs of the that b c d i a e tw u k g nn h °3 , '‘b' near J. F. Anderton s' crack pack of foxhounds belou z i ng to that eat ciaugh' admirer of the chase, T. P C.oßverrosekbeles:oleitlgr'i,:de,or(nlis: nin ton Hall, took place. The .. meet ', w . r. ' s a t the , er Oil Goosnargh, at eleven o'clock, wh en Basnape en ditto; E4. a , r Hargutu ~,, tosi e to un - ' o u.e , almost sure to ,_,,, fl -_.,, that cover was drawn, an d `''' f ox brow- f o r with the pack close up. Havingafine] dog fox Isis wag lr 600 short distance, he made throu g hg c Wl r iiiting lianh u tic erj nargh, and up the high Fell, but from some cause round for Claato closely pressed, e turned short , r of `,.s ton, going throu 1 ' g 1 the covers of the masie ts bounds. Altering his colittle, h e took ,tl ie ipi ground in tile direction of JJ e -b. 1 Bleasdale Fells, thence down towards a ill Ping , n u ,i - fil l S • ' Sykes Fell, the hounds drivinroguhitt; at a rattling Pe ee r i le , Marsha thence wyreflo he whipped n his nose P°i nteu i A VV ' through the lantations at and when last seen and followed by the shepherdteiii dogs that were up were carrying a most brilliant t e tlP over Tarnbr oo k F e ll, b u t n i g ht closing in bro u g ht S ete horsemen an d s h ep h er d s t o a standstill, and they "oft: obliged t o l eave th e b rave little pack to finish the ;3,0c,L with as game a fox as ever broke cover. At twelve o 0 0 0, rot a single hound had return ed, but stran g e t°, (Of though the kennel door was left open and foo d place',el ; t ber them, many were found asleep under the trees in l localities, in the morning. Te n of the p ack Were bro. er to the kennels on Friday night by the Tarnbrook snetl herds, who stated that they thou g ht, from being tha n e on the fell the following day, flirt old reynard, afte r ,rbe close run, had returned to the covers at Claughton. "so dist a nce gone over by the horsemen , and th at at a 11).,,x which none but rider s and c at tle of sta mina and P " could have sustained, was, at least, twenty.five Mile& `TRY, LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Pee. 17, It bf Job his w grate 1) 7 :; ( 13 berth 18