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SPRING-THE AWAKING. BY DENIS FLORENCE M'CARTHY. A lady came to a snow-white bier, Where a youth lay pale and dead, And she took the veil from her widow'd head, And bending low in his ear she said— Awaken ! for I am here. She pass'd, with a smile, to a wild wood near, Where the boughs were barren and bare; And she tapp'd on the bark with her fingers fair, And she call'd to the leaves that were buried there— Awaken ! for I am here. The birds beheld her without a fear, As she walked through the deep'ning dells ; And she breath'd on their downy citadels, And she said to the young, in their ivory shells, Awaken ! for I am here. On the graves of the flowers she dropp'd a tear, But with hope and with joy, like us ; And even as the Lord to Lazarus, She called to the slumb'ring, sweet flowers thus — Awaken ! for I am here. To the lilies that lay in the silver mere, To the reeds by the golden pond, To the moss that rounded the marge beyond, She spoke, in her voice so soft and fond— Awaken ! for I am here. The violet peep'd, with its blue eye clear, From under its own grave-stone ; For the blessed tidings around had flown, And before she spoke. the mandate was known— Awaken'. for I am here. The pale grass lay with its long locks sere, On the breast of the open plain ; She loosened the matted hair of the slain, And cried, as she filled each juicy vein— Awaken I for I am here. The rush rose up with its pointed spear; The flag, with its falchion broad ; The dock uplifted its shield unaw'd, As her voice ran clear through the quickening sod — Awaken s for I am here. The red blood ran through the clover near, And the heath on the hills o'erhend ; The daisy's fingers were tipp'd with red, As she started to life, as the lady said — Awaken ! for I am here. Atli the young year rose from her snow-white bier, And the flowers from their green retreat ; And they came and knelt at the lady's feet, Saying all with their mingled voices sweet -0 Lady I behold us here. LITERATURE. BOOKS FOR REVIEW, &C.—Books, New Prints, Music, &c., intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed „ to the Editor of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded and receive attention. The Botanic Garden and Fruitist. London : Groombridge and Sons. The part for April contains descriptions of woody nightshade, or bittersweet, the silvery-leaved Daphne, the yellow-flowered fumatory, the Canadian lily, the asp, and the Corovitsky apple. This apple with the outlandish name is said to be a very ac ceptable early apple of northern origin, having been sent from Russia to the London Horticultural Society, in 1824. The present is a most useful publication to the possessors of gardens, large or small, as well as to the student of horticulture—one of the most inviting fields of knowledge which can engage the attention of young or old. A Sermon for the New Year. Edinburgh : Paton and Ritchie. Although we are somewhat late in drawing at tention to this sermon, still, as it may be read with profit at all seasons, so may we appropriately enough recommend it, even at this stage of the current year's progress. This sermon was preached in St. Bernard's Church, Edinburgh, by the Rev. David Brown, minister of the parish, formerly of Liverpool. From the eloquence of the discourse, we are not surprised that Mr. Brown's congrega tion expressed the desire that they might possess it in a printed form, or that they were seriously im pressed with it at the time of its delivery from the pulpit. We cull a passage, which forcibly urges the necessity of observing TITE STAGES OF TIME. How universal is the effect produced by the departure of one year, and the beginning of another ! There are events in the personal history of men whereby their at tention is called to the passing of time. Our recurring birthdays are among the most notable of these. There is a solemnity about that day in the revolving year which calls us to add another figure to mark An. upon earth, which tells na Te bore taken one step more nearer t o The upgrowing and recurring birthdays of our children have, although in a fainter degree, a similar effect, or the anniversary of some important change we have made in life, or the particular day on which our father, or mother, or some dear friend, died ; or when, after the lapse of years, unconscious of the chance, which time has been working on ourselves, we meet some one, and marvel at the tall stature, and manly face and bearing of him whom last we saw as a child, or the grey hairs and furrowed cheek of him whom last we beheld in the bloom and vigour of manhood. But these, and such as these, are personal changes ; and although affecting our minds ever so intensely, they do not produce a general, far less a universal impression. How different is it in this respect with the event which has just be fallen us ! The voice of Providence bath simultaneously entered the ears of millions of human beings. The truth it has proclaimed is equally affecting to all. We are car ried away as with a flood ; we are as a sleep ; or like the growing, withering grass ; we spend our years as a tale that is told. In the palace and the cottage—by the noble and the peasant—by the sick man in his bed, and the strong man in the street—by the prosperous and the un fortunate—by the young and the old, bath that voice been heard. Men of many nations, and lineages, and languages, and opinions, have listened to it; and while the voice has been differently interpreted, it has made itself heard by all. Now, take this one particular lesson from these reflections : it surely were well if a truth so universally heard, and of equal interest wherever it is heard, drew closer the bonds of fraternal fellowship among mankind. The conventional distinctions of life are so often obtruded on our notice, and the classifica tions of human society operate so frequently as a restraint on the best sympathies of our nature, that it is good for us to retreat occasionally quite out of the labyrinth of conventionalities, and in such a region of universal in terest as the present, to survey our mutual relationships ; and seeing that, classify and separate as man will, Provi dence is proclaiming that we are carried by a common stream to a common destiny, to gather into our hearts, as largely as we can, a spirit of love and charity to all our brethren of mankind. The Dodd Family Abroad. By Charles Lever. London : Chapman and Hall. The narrative is intensely exciting in the eighth part of Harry Lorrequer's new novel, and, as usual, abounds in that quiet undercurrent of wit and humour for which the work is conspicuous, and specimens of which we may select from any page : THE ACCOMMODATING FACULTY. After all, 1 suppose it is downright balderdash to say that a man is not adapted for this, or suited to that. I remember people telling me that public life wouldn't do for me; that I wasn't the kind of man for Parliament, and so on ; but I see the folly of it all now. The truth is, Tom, that there is a faculty of accommodation in human nature ; and wherever you are placed, under what ever circumstances situated , you'll discover th a t your spirit, like your stomach, learns to digest everything ; though I won't deny that it may now and then be at the cost of a heartburn in the one case as well as the other. THE. TARIFF OF PURGATORY. Father Maher's remarks upon poor Jones M`Carthy is, I must say, very unfeeling ; and I don't coincide with the conclusions he draws from them ; for if he was half as bad as he says, Masses will do him little good : and for a few thousand years, more or less, I can't afford to pay lifts' pounds ! Ask bin), besides, is it reasonable, that when the price of everything is falling, with Free-trade. that the old Tariff of Purgatory is to be kept up still ? That would be downright absurd ! Priests, my dear Molly, must lower their rates, as the Protectionists do their rents : that's " one of the demands of the age, and can't be resisted." As Lord George says, " The Church, like the railroad people, fell into the mistake of lavish expenditure! Purgatory was like a station, and ought never to be made too costly. No one wants to live there : the most one requires is, to be decently comfortable, till you can go on.' What's the use of fine furniture, elegant chairs and carpets ? they're clean thrown away in such a place." If Father Maher thinks that the rema r ks v are not u ered in a respectful spirit, tell him he's wrong ; for Lord G. and all his family are Whigs, and intend to do more mischief to the Established Church than any party that ever was in power ; and I must sa y, I never beard Father Maher abuse Protestants, Bigotry, and Intolerance, more bitterly than Lord G." HIGH SOCIETY AND GENTEEL MANNERS. It is the same with one's thoughts as with their diet; half the things we like best are only what is called acquired tastes. Trouble enough we often have to learn them ; but when once we do so, who'd be fool enough to go back upon his old ignorance again ? High society and genteel manners, Molly, however You may like them when you are used to them, are just 'like London porter—mighty bitter when you first taste it. I know there are plenty of People will tell you the contrary, and that they took to it naturally like mother's milk ; but, don't believe them it's quite impossible it could be true. THE GLASGOW S STONEMASON are beginning to wear moustachios, on t h e score - of health,.' as recommended by Dr. Allison.the Edinb urg h pro f essor, w h o regar d s them as a preventive to breathin g the fine dust which so much injures the mason, and shortens his life. CHILBLAINS.— From constitutional predisposition, some families suffer both pain and inconvenience from severe winter attacks of i chilbl a i ns , the most violent of which may be removed n a day, probably by one applies ton, by rubbing common chalk over the parts affected, whereever situated. If the hands, simply rub the chalk Well over th e parts at night, and put on gloves the ap. plication will instantly allay the itching, which is so an. !loving a fe a t ure o f th e c omplaint, and in the morning, in flammation, cause, and effect, will all disappear . The a i m . plicity of this remed, it is to be hoped, will not caus e it to be treated a s a quackery, and so neglected ; on the contrary, it is inf a llibl e, and worth recor di ng in the recipe book of every family. CURE FOR BROKEN CHILBLAINS.—One pint of sweet oil, three ounces of Venice turpentine, half a pound hog lard, three.ounces of beeswax. P ut i nto a p i p ki n, an d on a slow fire. Stir with a wooden sp oon t ill the wax i s dis solved, and the ingredients simmer. I t w ill b e f i t f or use immediately, but the longer it is kept the better it it. — Spread very thin On A 112e11 rag. THE VARIETIES. GENTILITY is said to be eating meat with a silver fork when the butcher has not been paid. - Ir would require several horses to draw all the strings of a piano-forte to concert pitch, the strain upon them, when in perfect tune, being about seven tons. " How is IT," said one little miss to another, " that John's never afraid, and I am ?"—" Because he's got a Roman nose and feels safe • don't you remember how we read, that it has always been said that a Roman knows —no danger ?" THE ELEPHANT AT EXETER CHANGE.—This ele phant once nearly killed an Irishman for an insult offered to his trunk. The act was rash in the extreme : " but it was impossible," the Hibernian said, "to resist a nose you could pull with both hands."—Hood. AN ATTORNEY. about to furnish a bill of costs, was re quested by his client , . a baker, to make it as light as he could. "Ah I" rep lied the attorney, " that's what you may say to your foreman, but it's not the way I make my bread." A GOOD PRICE FOR A LADY'S TOOTH.—M. A. Lenoir, the founder of the French Museum, relates that during the transport of the remains of Abelard and H eloise to the Petits Augustine, an Englishman offered him £4,000 for one of the teeth of Heloise ! INFIDELITY.—An Infidel, who had been attempting to prove that men have no souls, asked a lady, with an air of triumph, what she thought of his philosophy. "It ap pears to me, (she replied,) that you have been employing a good deal of talent to prove yourself a beast." FIRST Boy.—" Here's a pretty go, Bill ? Through this coagulition Ministry, there arn't to be no more transportation to the Diggins', by the old Bailey emi gration." Second (Jew) Boy.—" Oh, never mind, old feller ; they're going to let my sort into Parleyment ; and as soon as I'm in I'll do summat for ye !" RICH AND COMFORTABLE.—One of the wealthiest farmers on the Connecticut tells the fbllowing story : " When I first came to settle, about 40 years ago, I told my wife I meant to be rich—all she wanted was enough to make her comfortable.' I went to work and cleared my land. I've worked hard ever since,—and have got rich, as rich as I want to be. Most of my children have settled about me, and they all have good farms. But my wife isn't ' comfortable' yet." A KNOTTY POINT SETTLED.—First Juvenile Politi cian—" Wall, say, now the Demmycrats is in, wat do you spose they'll do ?"—Second Juvenile Politician (scorn fully) : " Do, yer fool? Why 'nex Cuby and Canadee, take the Givano Islands, 'or. Hingland, and bring Halbert and Wictory over, and show 'ern at Barnum's —that's what they'll do."—First Juvenile Politician : " They will ?—Hooray Demmycrats for ever'—say give us a plug, will yer ?" AN AMERICAN WRITER remarks:—England breathes with the lungs of Birmingham and Manchester; herheart is Australia ; her pulse is London 'Change. If plethora threatens her, and there is congestion in the bellows, or the furnace on fire, or if the boiler of the steam engine threaten to burst, or rattle, she prescribes for herself the medicine of the market. She discharges her accumulated manufactures upon the nations of the earth. Trade has increased all their avocations; and now the noble lord and the princely merchant can come together east of Temple Bar. Society is thus fused into and polished by Commerce, and more than all, Commerce opens up the track for the Church to follow on to evangelize the world ; and nobly does she now pursue the paths provided for her mission. YANKEE LEARNING.—The physician who attended sic transit has arrived in this city and taken rooms at the Tremont.—Boston Museum. The pugilist nihil fit has gone to Boston, and hopes to see sic transit in gloria mundi morning.—Springfield Post. He arrived safely, but soon delta blow at sic transit, and beta hole in his bead.—Boston Bee. We understand that nihil fit him and noctes head completely off.—Boston Museum. That must be a mistake, for sic transit was inter see Dr. Digg last evening and stayed till tecum.—Carpet Bag. Sic transit came into our office this morning with a " Carpet Bag." He cum by rail, with the carmen.—Hart ford Excelsior. Oh unum sculls ! Sic transit drove a to pone tandem temo rer from the eastward. He is visit ing his ante, Mrs. Dic Terra, in this city, and will stay till ortem. Dr. Dignos the Terris (Terrys). He like wise et super with us last evening. He eta beta pi. The pugilist also cum with him, and lambda man badly in the street ; he cutis nos off, and noctem fiat urna flounder.—Hartford Republican. Silicit the whole of you.—Nett York Tribune. THE AMERICAN PACKET-SHIP WATERLOO, Harvey, commander, arrived at this port on Sunday morning, from New York, after an excellent passage of sixteen days. BLACKBURN.—Tt is reported that the men at Brook house and other Conservative mills at Blackburn, are to parade the streets on Whit Monday, in white " billy cocks" with orange ribbons ; and that a handsome carriage and beautiful pair of horses are to be presented to Mr. W. H. Hornby. THE REV. ROBERT SPENCE, Liverpool, has received an unanimous call from the congregation of Ward Chapel, Dundee, to become their pastor. He is an admirable scholar, and an able preacher, and will make a worthy successor of the late Dr. Russell.—Glasgow Examiner. THE SIX-MILE-BRIDGE AFFAIR.—Mr. Wallace, of the Anglo-Celt newspaper, who was convicted of a libel on the 31st regiment, was on Thursday sentenced, by the Court of Queen's Bench, to six months' imprisonment, and to pay a fine of X5O. THE BunGET.—The Irish distillers, having a due regard for the morals of their customers, held a meeting on Thursday, in Dublin, for the purpose of passing reso lutions condemnatory of the proposed increase of Bd. per gallon on all spirits made from corn in Ireland. HUDDERSFIELD ELECTION.—The polling took place on Friday, and at the close the return was as follows: Goderich 675 Starkey .. .. 593 Majority for Goderich —B2 ANOTHER HINT FOR Liveupoor..--The conservators of the river Tyne are about to commence forthwith the con struction of the Northumberland docks, the specifications for which have been prepared by Mr. Plews, C.E., of London. There will be two entrances, one 70 feet wide and the other 52 feet wide, with a tidal entrance basin. The floating-dock will contain an area of about 50 acres. ATHLONE ELECTION.—A new election having been rendered necessary by Mr. Keogh, the late member, accepting the office of Solicitor-General for Ireland, the nomination took place on Wednesday, amidst considerable excitement, and some confusion. Mr. Keogh was again proposed by Dr. W. O'Connell, and his opponent, Mr. Norton, was introduced by Mr. John Murtagh. Scarcely a syllable of any of the speeches could be heard. On Thursday Mr. Keogh was returned by a majority of 79 to 40. ELOPEUENT.—During the past week the daughter of a tradesman in this town, a young lady about eighteen years of age, eloped with a gentleman belonging to Black burn, who, a e understand, in addition to a comfortable income from a snug little estate, is possessed of a wife and two children. An intercepted letter disclosed the route taken by the lovers, and they were pursued by the fair one's mother, and surprised at Greenock, in Scot land. The truant daughter was conveyed home, and ere this, possibly, the unfaithful husband may have been in duced to repent his folly.—Preston Pilot. AT THE ROLLS Coun - r, on Thursday, the Master beard the case of Preston v. the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Railway Company. The object of the plaintiff was to enforce the specific performance of an agreement alleged to have been entered into between himself and two of the executive directors of the Lanca shire and Yorkshire Railway Company, which railway subsequently amalgamated with the Liverpool and Man chester. The purport of the alleged agreement was the purchase by the railway company of a piece of the plain tiff's land, and the payment of £4,000 to him as a resi dential compensation. His Honour, without calling upon the Solicitor-General for the defendants, said the alleged agreement could not be held binding on the defendants, and dismissed the bill, but without costs. THE BOTTLE QUESTION.—On Wednesday, Mr. Gregg, inspector of weights and measures, preferred s complaint of selling short measure against Mrs. Stout, of the Royal Hotel, Brentford. The inspector went to that house, and called for a bottle of Guinness's stout, and afterwards veri fied the deficiency of the quantity supplied by measuring it. The chairman of the magistrates, Mr. R. Tubbs, considered the words quarts and pints were only conven tional terms, which for a long time had been acquiesced in by the public. There was no law to compel a publican to use either pints or quarts ; for lie might point to such a vessel and say that when filled it is 3:1., 2d., or ld., and it would then rest with the purchaser whether he bad it or not. The information was then dismissed by a majo rity of three to one. The decision excited a great deal of surprise, as well it might. A LIBEL. ON LIN . :ERPOOL.—A writer in the Glasgow Citizen of Saturday last remarks :—I have cften had oc casion to remark that I never elsewhere met so many rude well-dressed men as in this city of the " Dicky Sams," whose bearing towards each other, and to strangers, is really that of bull dogs. As the Swiss officer, who upon being taunted with his mercenary service, retorted on the Frenchman that they each fought for what they mast wanted, the one money and the other honour, so I sup pose Englishmen in general, and " Liverpudlians" in particular, value civility so highly that they never part with it ; they have an absolute horror of showing anything like good breeding. Not, I believe, that they don't know better, but they fancy a salient piece of impertinence ministers to their own self importance, while it wounds the amour propre of the recipient thereof. This kind of talent is much cultivated by " Young Liverpool" espe cially. and it is charming to see what proficients some " briskly juveniles" are at it. BAPTISM BY IMMERSION.—(From a Correspondent) On Tuesday, at St. George's Church, Everton, the Rev. , J. Lawrence, in the absence of the Rev. W. W. Ewbank, performed the very interesting ceremony of baptism by immersion, as prescribed by the Rubric, in the Book of Common Prayer, which runs thus :—" If they (the god fathers and godmothers) shall certify him (the minister) that the child may well endure it, he Mall dip it in the water, discreetly and warily, saying, I baptize thee,' " &c. In the Rubric for the " Private Baptism of Infants," in reference to all doubtful cases, we find the following ,—" Let the priest baptize it i n th e f orm b e f ore in ted f or public baptism of infants ; saving, th a t, a t the dipping ' m o Such t words, ti e child in the font, he shall use t hi s ap as are of s z e. And in the baptismal service f or - riper years" the Rubric states the " he eniently by the font,' the right hand, and placing him cony (the minister) shall take each person to be baptised by instructions, " shall ask the godfathers and g odmothers the name, and or pour water upon then shall dip him in the wa ter, him, saying." &c. From these three con nected with the exhortation of the m inster, zn each . of the three services referred to (which state s that ,ba ptrsm doth represent to us our profession, which is to follow the example of ou r S a viour Christ, and to be made like unto him ; that as he died, and rose again for us, so should we, who are baptised, die for sin and rise again unto righteous ness,") it is clear that our Church regards persons being placed under the water as a true representation, not only of a Christian's profession, but also of the death and resurrection of Christ ; and that it is this rule of Christian baptism in our church. CORRESPONDENCE. Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably requisite in any statement of facts. The Editor wishes it to be understood that be does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his correspondents. DR. M`NEILE'S SECOND LETTER TO PRIEST POWER. TO THE REV. MR. POWER. Sin,—Above two months ago, on the 15th of February, I ad dressed a letter to you in the public press, and sent you, by the post, a paper containing it. I need not now recapitulate the circumstances which led to the writing of that letter, but I must remind you of its contents. It contained a demonstra tion, on the authority of the Councils of the Church, that the Creed of the Church of England was the Creed of the Church Catholic, assembled, by representation, at Nice, A.D. 325, at Ephesus, A.D. 431, at Chalcedon, A.D. 451, and at Trent, A.D. 1546 ; and that the Creed of the Church of Rome—the Creed which contains all her differences from the Church of England —was never heard of, as a Creed, until the year 1564. The conclusion is inevitable. We of the Church of England are the true Catholics, in strict accordance with the true antiquity ; and you of the Church of Rome are modern sectarians, dating, for all that is peculiar about you, no farther back than the middle of the sixteenth century. I invited you, with all courteousness, to show, if you could, any inaccuracy in my statements, or any inconclusiveness in my reasoning: and if you could not. I invited you to the frank, and in that case honourable acknowledgment that your Church, in all that is distinctive about it, is a novelty, introduced by a Bishop of P.ome in the year 1564. I have been waiting for your reply ; so have many, very many who have read my letter. As yet we have waited in vain. SAINT PETER, in his first Catholic Epistle, in the third chapter, at the Tsth verse, wrote these words, "Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you." This supposes, as a matter of course, that the follower of Saint Peter in the ministry of the Church can give a reason; and it clearly makes it his duty to do so. I am at a loss to know how you reconcile your silence with this duty. There is, indeed, one hypothesis which would ex p lain your silence, but it would not throw an agreeable light upon your conscientious discharge of a great Christian duty. It you reel that you CAN not prove me wrong, and that you WILL riot acknowledge yourself wrong, then of course you must say nothing, and earnestly desire that my letter may be forgotten as soon as possible. Under these circumstances, can you wonder that I should desire that my letter should not be forgotten ? But I have a still further object in addressing you again. I wish to come to your assistance, and point out the best defence that can be made in answer to the charge of novelty brought against the Church of Rome. You might argue, if you were competently informed upon the subject, that the doctrines which distinguish the Church of Rome from the Church of England, though not condensed into a form of belief, and imposed by authority as a Creed, prior to the year 1564, had nevertheless been taught with acceptance in the Church for ages, as may be proved by reference to the writings of many of her greatest and most distinguished doctors. You might refer to ARNOBIUS and Sr. BASIL, and ST. EPHREM OF EDESSA and ST. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM, in support of prayers for the dead. To ST. OPIATUS OF MILEVIS, and THEODORET and ST. VINCENT OF LERINS, for the pri macy of the successors of Saint Peter. To ST. HILARY OF POITIERS, ST. JAMES OF NISIBIS, and ST. PACIANUS, for your doctrine of confession. To VICTOR OF ANTIOCH, and INNOCENT I. for extreme unction. And in support of Lenten Fasts and unbloody sacrifices, you might refer to ST. EH PHANIUS, and to ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, which last writer, in his Homil. xx. De ira, says—" Lent and the holy exercises conjoined with it, are undertaken, that by them those crimes being wiped away, which, in the course of the year, we have committed, we may, with holy confidence, be made partakers of the unbloody sacrifice." More, much more of this kind you might urge; I could prompt you through pages, chapters, volumes: but what then? I admit all this; and I perceive in this the good and suffi cient reason which existed for the otherwise unaccountable decrees of the Councils of Ephesus and Macedon, from which I furnished you with extracts in notes to my first letter. Those Councils pronounced an anathema on any one who should profess, write, or compose any ether form of faith than the Nicene Creed.* Why, it may be asked, were such decrees necessary? The answer is obvious. Heretical opinions, de rived from Paganism and perverted Judaism, were advanced and taught by so many individuals of eminence, that the Church, in council assembled, felt it needful again and again to protest against such innovations, and to keep her Catholic creed pure from their debasing admixture. Happy would it have been for Christendom and for the world, if this watchful wisdom of the assembled Fathers,—restricting the faith of the Church to what could be proved by sure war rant of Holy Scripture,—had been practically attended to by all their successors. We in England, though harassed long by the abuses of the Church, and the aggressive pertinacity of the Pope, never formally acknowledged your Creed. Our reforma tion of erils and falsehoods which had crept in among us was completed before your Creed was composed. Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne, and gave stability to what had been done in the reigns of Henry VIII. and Edward VI., A.D. 1559, five years before Pius IV. consummated the apostacy of Rome. In an evil hour, a Bishop of Rome, despi sing the authority of the Church, and gathering togethsr the leading heresies which had for years distracted her, arranged them into a creed of twelve articles, added them to the Nicene Creed, pronounced the thunders of excommunication against all who refused to receive them, and thus exerted all his over grown power, too successfully, alas ! to impose them as a creed indispensable to salvation upon the conniving clergy and the prostrate multitude.t Till then, the duty of Christian men among you was to pro test end reform. Since then, their duty has been to secede. The creed of Pope Pius IV. cannot be reformed. It admits of no palliation. Amputation is the only Christian treatment of it; the only process by which Rome can become Christian. There is a difference between practical corruptions and false hoods, however widely spread, in defiance of a Christian creed, and the systematic adoption, by authority, of an unchristian creed. There is a corresponding difference between reformation and secession. In England there was no secession. There was no sufficient cause for any ; because England's Reformation preceded Rome's Apostacy. In :559 the Church of England reformed her abuses; in 1564 the Church of Rome stereotyped her heresies. In connexion with this, I am anxious that my readers (I hope you will enable me to say, in my next letter, our readers) should have before them a specimen of genuine Christian antiquity, and to this end I transcribe for their edification the following passages from Tertullian—De Pra'scriptione "Itis a maxim not to be controverted, that what was first delivered is evan gelical and true; and wLat was afterwards imported is extra. neous and false—id extrancum et falsum, quod sit posterius immissum. Again, "We are not allowed to indulge our hu mours, nor to choose what another has invented. We have the Apostles of our Lord for founders, who were not themselves the inventors or authors of what they left us; but they have faithfully taught the world the doctrines which they received from Christ. 'Therefore, if an angel frt,rn Heaven should Area eh another gospel, we should say anathema to him. He r esies have arisen from philosophy and from human wisdom, which is different from the spirit of Christianity. What is there common between Athens and Jerusalem? Between the academic groves and the Church ? Our lessons come from the porch of Solomon, and teach us to seek the Lord in simplicity of heart. Having learned Christ and his Gospel, we must indulge no curiosity —no farther inquiring. We believe: that suffices. Our first maxim is, that nothing more is necessary." This is much to the purpose, when compared with the histo rical facts which I have set before you. I wish you could be induced to speak out. What can you be afraid of? Does not discussion, when conducted in good temper and gentlemanlike courtesy, elicit truth ? Backed as you are by what you con ceive to be infallibility, may you not succeed, peradventure, in silencing the gainsayers ? Or, are you under restraint ? Has your bishop forbid you? Or, have you had a hint from his Eminence, the Cardinal, that a discussion on the subject of antiquity is not likely to tend, at present, ad ecclesice utilitatern ? I had designed a further exercise of generosity in enabling you to trace some of your doctrines to a very early period ; but this letter is already too long. I must reserve for my next a proof that some of your leading peculiarities were derived from heathenism, and may be traced, with convincing clear ness, to the schools of Pythagoras and Plato. Meantime I hope you will prove yourself an obedient successor of Saint Peter, and give a reason for the hope that is in you. Your silence is attended with some risk. My first letter has been very largely circulated. Many and anxious are the inquiries, "Well, has Mr. Power replied yet ?" And some, in their audacity, have ventured to insinuate that Mr. Power can't reply, without betraying either himself or his cause or both. Even Catholics, as you call them, begin to talk thus, and the subject is so pressed upon them by zealous Christian neighbours, that they are longing for the shield of your defence. Hoping that you may be induced (better late than never) to take this matter into serious consideration, and praying in all sincerity that a saving blessing from on high may attend and crown your deliberations, I have the honour to subscribe myself, in the sense explained in my first letter, A PRIEST OF TIIE CATHOLIC CHURCH, .-ligburth, April 25, 1853. HUGH :SP:CELLE. DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF EPHESUS. "These things having been read, the Holy Synod decreed, that it should be lawful for no one to profess, to write or to compose, any other form of faith than that defined by the at Nice." Holy Fathers, who, with the Holy Ghost, had been assembled " But those who shall have dared to compose,. or to profess or to offer, any other form of Faith to those wishing to be con verted to the acknowledgment of the truth, whether from Paganism, or from Judaism, or from any sort of Heresy, that these, if they were Bishops or Clergymen, that the Bishops should be deposed from their Episcopacy, and the Clergy from their Clerical office; but that if they were Laymen, they should be subjected to an ' anathema.'" 3fansi, vol. iii. p. 1362. "The C a th o li c Faith delivered by the Holy EXTRACT FROM THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON. 318 Fathers, (viz. at Nice,)and by the Holy 150 Fathers, (viz., at Constantinople,) also by the oth er most Holy and glorious fathers, ( viz ., at Ephesus,) we g uar d, and according to that we b e li eve. Th e most Rev. Bishop s exclaimed, ' person makes any other exposition of faith. W e ne i ther attempt nor dare t o d o so. For the Fathers have taught, an d writings preserve d, tho se things which have b een set forth by them : and other t h an these we cannot speak.' " ‘‘Those principles which h ave b een set forth are sufficient ; it is not lawful to make any other exposition."—,l'arPi, -. t This submission surrendered to the Pope a power which has proved, and is, in our own days, proving, an iron sceptre indeed. The Archbishop of Pari s h as just quailed under its stroke. It bids fair to try to the uttermost, perhaps to wear out, the patience of mankind. LIVERPOOL *STANDARD, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1853. COLOURED STATUES. To Me EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—To your notice, last week, of the coloured statue by Mr. Gibson, of Rome, I should be glad if you would add the following remark, which will explain his object, namely,—to make known to the British artists the Polychromatic style of the Ancients. This emblazonry was common to the sculpture and architecture of the Pelasgic style of art, which preceded the Heilenie style in Greece, and which still continued even during the Hellenic era, after the fall of the Pelasgic dynasty in Greece. Pansanius, in his Peregesis, has noticed 3,000 statues in his travels in Greece, and most of those were in the Archnic style, which was the Pelasgic of the symbolic colours. With this explanation there can be no difference of opinion, as it is only the revival of an obsolete style, and which our critics had forgotten, for want of looking at the fountain head of the history of art amongst the ancients.--I am, Sir, with much esteem, Liverpool, April 25, 1853. SOL. GIBSON. THE NEW CHURCH 1N MYRTLE-STREET. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—In passing up Myrtle-street the other day, I was in duced to turn into the new church in course of erection, con nected with the Orphan Boys' Asylum, and was much pleased with the tower, as regards the size, winding stair, &c. Now, I do not know whether it is the intention of the com mittee to have a peal of bells put up in their steeple, but I hope a provision will be made for such ; that is, by carrying a circular stone-stair right to the top of the square part of the tower, and putting in proper beams for the framing of the begs, while building. A great mistake has been made in many of the steeples in Liverpool, by not fixing the beams at the proper time (while the walls were being carried up), and the want of circular stone stairs; for instance, St. Martin-in-the- Fields, a noble tower, built expressly for a peal of ten bells, but, strange to say, without its circular stone-stair, and the beams were actually put in after the tower was finished. The zigzag wood-stair that goes up that fine tower at Walton is most inconvenient, besides taking up a great portion of the ringing chamber. At Leeds parish church, where there is a peal of twelve bells, a circular stone-stair was obliged to be built outside the tower some time after it was finished, which shows plainly that the architects of St. Martin's, Walton church, and Leeds parish church, and many others that I could name, never could have visited those justly celebrated otccpica in Loudon, built by 31r Christopher Wren and other eminent architects. Indeed, we need not go from home, for we have one of the finest and Inost convenient towers in this part of the country, St. Nicholas'. Would that the church was equal to the tower. The steeple in Myrtle-street is admirably adapted for a peal of eight or ten bells, and some philanthropic individual may, ere long, be induced to present the institution with a peal of bells. We are miserably behind London, and many other places, as regards our bells, having only three peals, whereas London has upwards of sixty ! and new peals put up every year. Hoping Liverpool will not long remain in the background as regards music and bells,—l am, Sir, yours, respectfully, R. H. PSEUDO-CONSERVATIVES. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR, beg you will accept my cordial thanks, for the very pertinent observations you addressed to "A Protestant" cor respondent in the Standard of last week. My own experience, unfortunately, enables me to verify all you have stated with retard to that class of spurious Conservative-Protestants, who, while they are loudest in declaiming against their political or religious opponents, would still, to save a penny, patronise the Pope, were he to become a shopkeeper; and who, while the most noisy-tongued supporters of the creed which they profess, will borrow the Conservative journal from some unlucky and more conscientious Conservative with whom they have contrived to scrape an acquaintance. Now to my own case. I shall, for the nonce, call my neigh bour Mr. S. P. He is a wealthier man than myself; and, although I consider I am a sound Churchman, and a staunch Conservative, I must confess that Mr. S. P., with his fierce denunciations, makes my most decided expressions of disap proval look exceedingly like milk-and.water. Yet Mr. S. P. takes advantage of my acquaintance to dispense with sub scribing for the Standard, and regularly for years has been in the habit of sending for the loan of my copy. The sound of the newsman's horn who brings the paper of a Tuesday morning has not yet died out of our terrace till a messenger arrives " with Mr. S. P.'s compliments, and Mr. S. P. would be obliged for the loan of the paper." The paper, be it remembered, for which I have paid, and which I am legitimately about to enjoy after breakfast, when it is snatched from me with an effrontery that has never yet failed, because I really cannot muster sufficient courage to stop what has become an old custom, and what Mr. S. P. appears to regard as quite a matter of course; although, Sir, sometimes my indignation rises to a very high pitch indeed. If this is inserted, I hope it will be read and well pondered by Mr. S. P., and every member of the miserable class to which he belongs— for I am afraid, Mr. Editor, that many of your subscribers could each "a tale unfold," very much resembling my own. This much I shall say—that if Mr. S. P. does not take the hint from this epistle, I shall in future stop the supplies, and give him, in addition, a bit of my mind. Blackwood has shown that Whig governments have been better patrons of literature and the fourth estate than Tory administrations; and I am half afraid that what is true of Conservative leaders is likewise true of their followers. Let me ask—How is it, that while the Radical sticks exclu sively, and through thick and thin, to his own journal, the Conservative on the other hand is too often found giving no suprort, save the reading of a borrowed copy and empty words of praise, to the newspaper which upholds his own creed, while he heaps favours and bestows his cash upon those members of the press whose opinions and designg he honours in private conversation with the name of dangerous and incendiary ?—I am, Sir, your old subscriber, Liverpool, April 22, 1853. SENEX. A GLANCE AT THE AUSTRALIAN FLEET IN THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL. No. I. IN an age marked by the extraordinary material progress of the one we live in, we have a right to expect that advance ment will be exhibited in the means of emigration. Stimulated to: improvement by the remarkable Exodus from Britain and the continental countries, ships and voy ages are both better capable of investigation now than they were even a couple of years ago. A ship fitting out for Australia then was one of the most melancholy sights that could well be imagined. But London, the monopolist of that day, has been taught a lesson. Liverpool, by the introduction into the trade of some of the finest British American ships, has shown how that trade ought to be carried on ; has deprived the metropolis of its long enjoyed and unmerited prestige; has conferred great boons upon the passengers; and has inaugurated a new era in the " strange, eventful history" of English emigration i❑ the nineteenth century. The " cribbed, cabined, and con fined" ships for Australia, which lay in the London docks two years ago, have been to a great extent supplanted by what, in comparison, we may with truth call the floating palaces which are daily setting sail from the Mersey. Roomy berths, light, ventilation, baths, and airy hospitals are now enjoyed by the emigrant bound for the antipodes —luxuries these at which the luckless passenger to Port Philip in 1850 would stare with vacant astonish ment. Nor '.less startling would be his surprise at the accomplishment of the passage in eighty days, as is now not unfrequently the case, remembering that when he undertook the long voyage it always occupied 110 days, and oftener still 120, or exactly double the time which that glory of our own Australian fleet, the Great Britain, took to steam out to Melbourne. Liver pool has seized the great bulk of the vast trade in Austra lian emigration. A new department has been added to the features of interest, and to the sources of profit, in our port. The question of paramount importance at the present moment is, can we retain that trade ? and if so, ' by the adoption of what means? We must not close our eyes to the fact that jealousy and competition have been awakened elsewhere. The Clyde is intent upon catching and retaining all the emigrants from Scotland—a section of our island which in the matter of emigration is of no trivial importance, as may be imagined from the migra tory habits of its enterprising people. Our great metro polis is growling defiance at the northern port which has stepped in and deprived it of a monopoly which it only enjoyed too long. Bristol and Hull are looking with an envious eye upon Liverpool ; and at this very moment Mrs. Chisholm is on the banks of the Mersey, raising her silvery but indignant voice against alleged grievances in the ships engaged in the Australian trade ; of course forgetting not, at the same time, to show how very superior are the vessels with which she herself is connected. All jealousy and opposition Liverpool may neutralise, by simply doing justice to herself and the emigrant. Let the shipowners and the authorities do what they can to provide superior accommodation, and every facility and ease for the emigrant who comes hither—not only while he remains among us preparing for his voyage, but also as far as possible while he is on the great deep. The Dock Committee, the Police authorities, the Government Emi gration officer, and the Shipowner are the parties upon whom they depend for comfort and justice. The first named body have done well in, as far as possible, appor tioning the Saithouse-dock for the Australian fleet. It is hoped, and indeed anticipated, that ere long we shall see the fleet wholly accommodated in that and the neigh bouring Canning-dock. Were such done, Liverpool would soon attract hither the greater part of British emigration, from the many facilities which it would provide for the emigrant, including inexpensive and easy distances between the hotels and lodging-houses and the docks, and the consequent facility in visiting their ship, and in getting themselves comfortably settled on board. Then let our streets at the same time be cleared as far as pos sible of the hordes of wretches by whom they "nave been too long infested—vagabonds, without any lawful occu pation, who lie in wait for the simple countryman, and too frequently rob him of all the hard-won earnings with which he bad probably designed to carry himself and his family to the New World. The very height of local com petition which we have attained has been stigmatised as the cause of much that was wrong and unjust ; but we are of opinion that it must speedily work its own cure. Excellence of arrangement, both in providing information for the intending emigrant, and in making him healthy and happy on the passage to the land of his adoption, will undoubtedly be induced by this competition which, all must admit, presents to the view at the present mo ment an unlovely, as well as an attractive, aspect. As the spring advances the tide of emigration is swelling to an astonishing height. It is quite clear that thousands At present in the mother country do not contemplate spending the Christmas of 1853 in this little northern island. It is equally clear that the labour movement, originated by the dawn of the most extraordinary Exodus ever witnessed in the world, is not yet at an end. The old country, one sometimes cannot help fancying, must, ere long, become as attractive to the labourer—and as thinly populated—as the gold colony at the Antipodes. Even the stagnant current of German life is being moved by tidings of the far-off country, and the blue-eyed sons and daughters of Fatherland are flocking in thousands to the banks of the Mersey, there to take their departure for a young land in which they will yet exercise a great power —for the German is invariably an active and useful man when abroad. The Dutch, too,—they who founded New York,—are daily seen in our streets, side by side, with the refugee from Hungary and the Roman States. Altogether, the present year promises to be one of the busiest in emigration which we have yet witnessed. On visiting the Salthouse Dock the flags of several houses engaged in the Australian trade may be seen wav ing among the masts. First there is the Falcon, belong ing to Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Co., which will sail on the 10th of May, and which is one of the most beautiful clipper ships in the port. One of the most pleasing features in this vessel is the excellent light and ventila tion. There is a fine fresh current of air continually rushing through the vessel, while one may be in his berth and at the same time obtain a peep at the blue sky above. In a long voyage like that to Australia we suspect this must be a precious privilege, while, on the score of health, it is very strenuously advocated as a necessity, by the emigrant's friend and protectress, Mrs. Chisholm. The second-class cabin is very nicely arranged—and is in every respect like the first, so far as substantial comfort and healthfulness is concerned. A plentiful supply of decan ters and glasses are fitted in a rack over the table, on which, likewise, the plates and the necessary instruments of gastronomic warfare are very nicely fitted. Stewards, we should not omit to mention, will also be provided in the second cabin—one to every twenty-four passengers. The berths are large and roomy. The third-class berths are partly fitted up in the same style as the Government emigration ships, although this section of the vessel is not less airy than the rest of the ship. It is also well lighted. Indeed, for the purpose of fur nishing air and light, there are three great ventilators, in themselves sufficient to supply more air than is legally required by the act of parliament. Paper and pictures do not adorn the walls of the Falcon saloon or second cabin ; but there is, nevertheless, an air of quiet elegance, tho rough comfort, and respectability. about the ship, while the plain and substantial fittings, though they do not look quite so winning while in dock, will probably keep better, and be more comfortable upon the voyage, than others which have been highly decorated. We have noticed, in connexion with one of the Clyde emigration ships, which recently arrived out at Port Philip, that on one or two occasions liquor and provisions, which it was found could be spared out of the ship's stores, were put up by auction, and sold to the passengers. In the Falcon a fairer plan appears to exist. A price -list of provisions, &c. is hung up in several parts of the ship, which, of course, is strictly adhered to (luring the passage ; so that the passenger may know, before he secures a berth, what he has to pay for goods bought in this manner on the voyage. When we visited the Falcon, a few days ago, upwards of one hundred and six berths were taken. Like those whom she previously took out to Nugget Land, they are a most respectable body of people—not a few of them, we believe, being individuals in the middle rank of life from Scotland. In connection with the Great. Britain, belonging to the same owners, we have pleasure in stating that, in view of her intended departure in June, her sailing powers are being greatly improved. Experience has pointed out to her spirited proprietors the defect which alone prevented this noble specimen of naval architecture from distancing all her competitors; and it is generally believed that to the union of steam and sails which she will soon command we may look for the quickest voyage ever yet made by a ship in that fleet which can boast of a Marco Polo. In the same dock lies the clipper-ship Lochiel, one of the" White Star" line (Messrs. Pilkington and Wilson), which will sail on Saturday next. This is a single-decked ship, and is excellently lighted and ventilated. The berths, even in the third-class, are roomy and agreeable, and a great many have been taken. Those of the intending passengers whom we have seen evidently belong to the middle class of society ; and, whether attracted by the northern name of the vessel or not, not a few of them are from Scotland,—a country which appears to be sending away from her shores a large number of the more re spectable and well-to-do classes. The Ann Dashwood, a clipper-ship of 1,500 tons, belonging to the old-estab lished and familiar " Fox" line of packets, also lies in the Salthouse Dock ; and is advertised to sail with a limited number of passengers and specie early in the coming month. In reviewing the several portions of this fine vessel, we perceive with pleasure that the 'tween decks were ventilated through the upper deck in such a way as to introduce a copious supply of light at the same time. The seats, even in the third class cabin, are very nicely cushioned : while the water-closets, the hospital, &c., are apparently in such excellent order as cannot fail to insure a clean bill of health. We were especially struck on our visit to this vessel by the particular way in which several intending emigrants requested to know if there were baths on board. It was evident that Mrs. Chisholm had not been lecturing to no purpose, as many of the queries put were evidently suggested by her remarks on Thursday evening at the Mechanics' Institution. This is all right and proper ; and, where the necessary provisions to insure cleanliness and health do not already exist, we hope they will as speedily as possible be supplied. The Canning Basin has been much frequented during the past week by the visitors to the Indian Queen, a new vessel just completed in her fittings, and one of Messrs. James Baines and Co.'s already-celebrated " Black Ball Line" of packets, being, indeed, the sister ship to the Marco Polo. She is rigged in precisely the same fashion; but, both in the magnificent roof-promenade which she possesses and in the internal decorations, we think the Indian Queen by far the finer-looking vessel of the two. Those who had an opportunity of admiring the costly and elegant manner in which Captain Forbes's vessel was fitted up will be surprised to find the chief saloon of the Indian Queen, if any thing, superior in grandeur and luxury to her predecessor. The de corative work is chiefly iiluminated glass, in which the story of the heroine, after which the vessel is named, is elegantly pourtrayed. Every one will remember the history of Poccahontas, who saved the life of Sir Edward Smith (one of the early English settlers in America,) when menaced by her father, the powerful Indian chief, Powbattan. The illustrations have been designed by Mr, Rainford, of Renshaw-street, and the stained glass sup plied by Messrs. Forrest and Bromley. The chief subjects are—the first meeting of the Indian Queen and the Eng lish governor ; her warning him of impending danger ; their discovery by the Indians ; and Poccahontas saving the governor's life—the most touching episodes in the history. Besides these there are other appropriate designs, and a very tasteful one of the rose, shamrock, and thistle. Panelled mirrors, velvet carpets, and crimson and green upholstery, combine in giving the saloon and adjoining boudoir an air of elegance and luxury. The other arrange ments of the vessel are also very attractive. A deck house extends almost the whole length of the ship, and con tains second cabins, sleeping berths, cook-houses, and other offices ; while on the roof there is a clear promenade extending from stem to stern. Her 'tween decks are conspicuous in height, light, and ventilation. Baths and every sanitary convenience are fitted. Well may Captain Mills be proud of his vessel; for the Indian Queen is without question one of the richest and most noble-look ing craft that ever sailed from the Mersey. . At the GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION DEPOT At Birken head there are at present not more than forty inmates— these being chiefly English, and from the agricultural counties in the south. The Banker's Daughter will sail with 400 passengers on the 4th of May, and will be followed during the month by three vessels—the second to sail on the 9th, the third on the 14th, and the last on the 21st. We are glad to perceive that the chapel is being considerably improved at present. A fitting porch is in the course of construction, and accommodation is like wise being provided for an organ, which has been pro mised, and which will probably arrive in a short time. The arrangements in the out-offices, too, have been much improved of late. We were especially pleased to notice the alteration in the water closets, and the arrangements by which all the smoke in the immense establishment is carried by a flue to a tall chimney, so that there is not a particle left behind to incommode or injure the always interesting, and sometimes numerous family of emigrants, Fathered under the friendly roof of this emigrants' home. We have only glanced at a few of the Australian ships now in our port : a more extended notice we reserve for our next. SECRETS OF THE COALITION. (From the Standard of Saturday.) The Times of this morning, with its usual indiscretion, charges the Conservative party with a conspiracy with the Irish Brigade, the object of the alleged conspiracy being to obtain the defeat of the ministry on condition of ex empting Ireland from de Income-tax. We are now in a position to disclose the following revelation of the means by which the majority of De cember last, against Lord Derby's Government, was obtained, and our readers will probably judge to whom the charge of conspiracy is applicable. A few days before the division on Mr. Disraeli's Budget, which drove Lord Derby's ministry from power, a meeting of the Irish Brigade was held, to determine the course which they should pursue. One of the stipulations demanded by some of that party was, that in the event of a change of ministry, an Income-tax for Ireland should not be proposed by their successors. A right honourable gentleman who now fills a high office conveyed a pledge to that meeting that an Income tax for Ireland would not be proposed by the party then in opposition, in the event of their accession to power. The pledge was conveyed to the meeting by three Irish members, one representing a western county, the two others representing southern boroughs. We can further inform the Times that within the last twenty-four hours, when the right hon. gentleman was upbraided with the violation of his pledge, his reply was, that he had pledged himself for the old Whig Ministry, and had given none for the Cabinet now in power. Comment upon this transaction would be thrown away. TELEGRAPH.—On Monday the committee on the Bri tish Electric Telegraph Company Bill declared the pream ble proved, the clauses seeking power to run over the railways being withdrawn. ELECTION COMMITTEES.—The followinghave been fixed upon for decision. and there are many more to come : Tuesday, April 26: Finsbury, Clonmell, Carlow. Wed nesday, April 27: Bolton, Totnes, Harwich. Tuesday, May 10: Clare (co.), Liverpool, Sligo. Wednesday, May 11 : Bury St. Edmunds, Peterborough, Durham. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS, A CERTAIN SPECIFIC FOR NER VOUSNESS, LOWNESS OF SPIRITS, AND DISORDERED STOMACHS.—The wonderfully regenerating effects pro duced by these invaluable pills, are truly astonishing. They act in so peculiar a manner on the system. that by following the directions affixed to each box as to the mode of using them, nervous irritability is allayed, the tone of the stomach strengthened, the digestion improved, freedom of circulation given to the blood, and a robust state of health attained. Persons of studious and sedentary habits being more especially liable to the class of disorders here alluded to, should take Holloway's Pills to ensure a good state of health. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The anniversary meetings of the Liverpool branch of the Church Missionary Society were held in the Hall of the Collegiate Institution, yesterday. The morning meeting commenced at eleven o'clock. the Rev. Dr. M'Neile in the chair. The deputation from the Parent Society consisted of the Rev. R. Close, of Cheltenham ; the Rev. G. T. Fox, of Durham► and the Rev. F. F. Gough, missionary from China, Who has just returned from that country, and the Rev. J. C. Ryle, rector of Helmingham, Suffolk. Amongst the clergymen and gentlemen on the platform we noticed, the Revs. F. Barker, J. Jones, W. 31. Falloon, J. H. Jones, H. Marien, Gardiner, F. Parry, W. H. Wright, W. Hesketh, J. Wainwright, S. B. Sutton, D. James, J. R. Conor, A. Knox, (Birkenhead ;) Charles Inman, Esq., J• S. Ball, Esq., T. D. Andersdb, &c. . . The meeting having been opened with prayer, The Rer. Dr. M - NEILE rose, and said—My Christian friends, once more our Church Missionary Society presents itself before us, seeking its annual sue' plies for the support of its missionaries, and catechists and schoolmasters, and all the et ceteras inseparable from successful missions to the heathen. Once more we are called to the devout and grateful consideration of the spiritual riches enjoyed in this land, as contrasted with the destitution which is still the characteristic of so many lands. Everything in this world is comparative; and the aspect presented by every object depends greatly upon the medium through which it is seen, and the contrasts by which it is surrounded. View England in comparison with what it ought to he, considering its opportunities,. and with what every Christian heart desires that it should be, and manifold are our wants. Masses of our popula tion, sunk in squalid poverty and brutal ignorance, engage our sympathies in their suffering, and demand our best' efforts for their relief and instruction. These supply warm elements of appeal in sermons and speeches , on behalf of our Home Missions, our Pastoral Aid and our Scripture Readers' Societies. These invite our attention in detail to the back streets, courts, and alleys of our great towns, to the lanes and cottage& of many of our rural districts, and we sigh over the pain ful picture, desiring and combining to make England bet ter. But change the point of view : look at England as a whole, and in comparison with other nations of the earth, Pagan or Papal ; and then, manifold are our mer cies. Peace and comfort, social and domestic; civiliza tion, physical, political, literary ; cutkvation of every ele gance, as well as every convenience a life; wealth, com merce, and, above all, religion, pure undefiled religion, the word of God in our native language, in various shapes and sizes and types, suited to all, and brought within the reach of all, accompanied, too, with illustrations, both of geography and natural history, calculated to convey in struction, while they administer enjoyment to every" mind ; the Church of God, with government and or ders, and ordinances, which, if not perfect in their ad ministration (nothing entrusted to human management can long continue perfect), are beyond comparison su perior to anything else of the kind to be found on the facer of the earth. These are the elements of appeal on behalf of our foreign missions. Upon England so highly favoured ' • upon Englishmen end E ng li s h women , an d English children, partakers of these privileges; upon you, my Christian friends, among the rest, we call, on behalf of the dark places of the earth, that you will help forward the good cause, which has for its object to dispense among them also what you have had so long and so freely dispensed among you, namely, the unsearchable riches of Christ. The anniversary of our Church Missionary Society is a season well calculated to remind us of two things; first, that our Christian privileges are very great. 0 ! how great, when contrasted with the condition of hea then lands ; and secondly, that our Christian privileges are not sinecures. They are inseparable from respon sibilities. Their enjoyment calls aloud for their propa gation. There is a charge on our inheritance, and mis sionary exertion is a debt. There is a charge upon all our temporal blessings and possessions. Taxes are • lawful debt. Their payment is enforced by the law of the land. Missionary activity in some shape, either by personal effort or liberal self-denying contribution, is a gospel debt. Its payment is enforced by the law of love. If you pay your taxes, which every man must do cr have his goods distrained, what thanks have ye ? What do ye more than others ? Do:not even the publicans so? But if you join cordially in missionary enterprise, which no man need do unless he likes it, this is acceptable with- God. The object of the Church Misssionary Society is to pay this debt of love, and to give to every man who hears of it opportunity to join in so doing. It is armed on both sides. It has a collecting hand and a distributing hand : a collecting hand which enters every" house and every church and every meeting, receiving con tributions from all classes and of all magnitudes, cheques,- bank notes, gold, silver, copper; and a distributing hand dispensing riches for eternity in the north and in the south, in the east and in the west. The power and stretch of the distributing hand depend upon the supplies heaped into the collecting hand ; while the real success of both depends upon the blessing of God. The Church Mis sionary Society has twelve principal missions, some includ ing a larger and some a smaller number of subordinate stations, and of course of labourers. The missions are-- 1. Western Africa ; 2. The Mediterranean, the chief operations of which are in Syria and Palestine ; 3. Eastern - Africa. where the indomitable Dr. Krapf is making fresh incursions into the Usambara country ; 4. Bombay and Western India ; 5. Calcutta and Northern India.. 6. Madras and Southern India ; 7. Ceylon ; 8 ' China ; '9. British Guiana ; lO. New Zealand ; 1 1 - North-West America ; and last, the more recently formed mission in the Punjaub—that very important region containing a population of five millions, and forming the geographical link of connexion between' central Asia and what has hitherto been the northern frontier of the British possessions in India. Our friend. , who have favoured us with their presence as a deputation' will enter into some particulars respecting some of these missions, and I will no longer interpose between 3 1 ° 12. and tl:e combined instruction and enjoyment which7sue l l . advocates of such a cause cannot fail to communicate. (Loud cheers.) The Secretary, the Rev. H. CARPENTER, M.A., then came forward and read the report, which was as follows : REPORT. The Committee of the Liverpool Church Missionary Asso ciation have decided on holding their anniversary this year a. few weeks earlier than the time at which it was usually veld before. Our chief inducement for making this change was to• secure the assistance of friends at a distance, willing to come to us, as a deputation, to plead the cause of the Church Mis sionary Society; many ofwhom are generally so engaged by the' London meetings in May, that their help could not be ob tained for Liverpool in that month. The result of the change, in this respect, has been roost sa tisfactory. For we have had comparatively little difficulty is finding a deputation for April. Among those whose well known devotedness to the Gospel of Christ will give weight to their advocacy of this cause, and prove, we trust, useful to all of us, in stirring up our hearts to more zeal and activity, in aiding to spread abroad the glad tidings of salvation, throng our crucified Saviour. And when we think upon the condition of the heathen, "without Christ," " having no hope and without God in the world," well may we be moved, by the advocates of missions,- to feel compassion for men, as they are, "sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death." And does not this society deserve our energetic support, which maintains more than 160 missionary clergymen and more than MO lay teachers, in making known "among the heathen the unsearchable riches of Christ?" Nor have their labours been "in vain in the Lord." Not tO. speak of those who have "fallen asleep in Jesus," who wer snatched as " brands from the fire" by the missionaries of this society, in years gene by, there are upwards of 100,000 at this day more or less enlightened, gathered out of heathen and Mahemedan darkness, and learninrthe truth as it is in Jesus from the teachers of the Church Missionary Society. Of these, nearly-16,000 are communicants of our church, of blame less lives, many of them advanced in scriptural knowledge an spirituality of mind, and adorning the doctrine of God their Saviour in ail things. And we are thankful to say that our missionaries are still receiving, from day to day, fresh proofs that "God is with them, of a truth." _ _ A hindoo widow lady of high rank, niece to Dwarkanath Tagore, who died in Europe, has recently avowed her resolu tion to renounce heathenism and embrace the Gospel of Christ. For sonic years she has been studying the Bible, first led to it by a converted heathen, a connexion of her own, who died about two years ago, trusting in Christ. She persevered in searching the Scriptures amid many trying difficulties, arising from the opposition of her heathen relatives, till th light of truth so shone into her mind that she no longer could resist it. She has placed herself under the protection of native Christian friends in Calcutta ; and nether the threats nor the premises of her heathen relatives have prevailed to shake her constant resolution to become a follower of the Lord Jesus. 10,00 rupees were offered to her, with many promises of kind treatment from her heathen relatives, and permission to read the Scriptures without molestation, provided she abstained from a public profession of Christianity and continued unbap tised. And these offers and promises were accompanied with threats of uersonal violence, and even death also if she refused. But what was her reply ? _ " If you gave me 'ten million rupees, what good would they do me, when what I want is the forgivenesss of my sins and: the salvati;,n of my soul ? "And as to your threatnings to kill me, you may kill the body, but you cannot kill my soul." May we not be reminded by this of the spirit of the martyrs, and confessors in the primitiye Church, and of the rev ival of the same spirit, in those who witnessed for Christ at the time of the ReforrnatiGn in our own Church? This Hindoo lady is not ashamed of Christ, or of his gospel. She counts all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus. She es teems the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of this world, because she "has respect unto the recompense of reward." Other examples of a like spirit in other lands might be recorded. The poor needle-maker in the populous city of Ningpo, in China, a candidate for baptism from our missionaries there, who, after a long struggle, at last closed his shop on the Lord's Day, to the utter amazement of his heathen neighbours, is an— other proof of the power of gospel truth over the mind of man. His faith triumphed over all his anticipated losses. His faith. triumphed over the expected reproaches of his heathen friends. He has resolved to forego his worldly gains for one day weekly, that he may hallow the day of his Lord and Master; and that he may spend it in seeking after his salvation, which is better than all this world can afford. But we shall not say more of China, particu:arly as we have one here this morning who has laboured in our missionary field in that vast empire. We shall hear detai , s of the difficul ties of the work there, and the encouragements attending it, from the Rev. Frederick F. Gough, who has recently returned from China. The income of this association, we are happy to say, has in creased during the past year. The total amount from all sources was .4'2,668, being .t . 2.10 above what was received in the preceding year. But we are persuaded that a much larger sum would be collected, if our friends would use their influence, and bring the subject of missions more frequently before the minds 0 ' those around them. Let the wants of the heathen be made more generally known among the people—let them hear 0 f their miserable degraded position, and, above all, of the efficaCY of the Gospel to save their souls. as proved in ten thousand instances among them. Let them be reminded, too, of y ool* own privileges and responsibilities, and they will learn to value those privileges more than ever, and to feel greater concern fo r the spiritual destitution of the heathen. This would soon tell on the annual income of this associ ation. Why, for example, might not all the schools for th e poor of this town do what one of them did last year, from be boys of which upwards of in pence were received by th is association ? And if other sailors could be influenced to follow the exarnPle of one whose missionary box was his companion on the sear: and which returned home with him full from the contributi on ! of his brother seamen—if others in different classes and ecc i d, pations could be induced to follow these examples it Won . tend to subdue selfishness and enlarge their heart s, well or' extend the gospel of Christ more widely in the world. r- The committee wo u ld s t rong ly urge th e i mpor t an ce of Cili a terly missionary meeti ngs as one h e lp towar d s accomplish ing. this good result. But, above all, let us never forget that all our success i f the Lord. " Paul may plant, Apollos may water, e nf: God only can give th e increase."-1 Cor. iii. Let us rer !n ur her this, and foll ow our m i ss i onar y i n every land with " prayers continually a the throne of grace. This is a help rent,bieel will specially prize. This is a help all of us ought to _ r .; but which few of ua can truly say we baye rendereet should. In the promig, "ye sh T ' He gi 1 5 John x reap; Am u , had in o$ and Whid gnat raigh tome