The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-23 00:00:00

the first day of the week. It was the day, which on each return of the day, the primitive Christians devoted in an especial manner to the worship of their risen Lord. On that day a new creation had been introduced. The risen body of Jesus was (that new creation ; in its germ the first fruits, and sure promise of the harvest to follow. The erder of things was reversed. The established order of God, or as men speak of natur e in the case of the human body, from the beginning of the world h a d b een life, death, and after death, corruption. But here was a new th i ng. L i fe, d ea th , an d a f ter d ea th no corruption • but a re surrec tion of inter r uption and immor of m ta c ii , i t Y: This Was a gr ea t thin g ; a g l o ri ou s thing; a fact full ?fright and blessed hope to man as man—not a disembeelred t ; but man b ot h b o d y an d soul. This was a life-givingact proclaimed by the Apostles. Wherever they went with great power gave the witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesu s . And the habitual salutation of the believers of this E fatt when they met with one another i n t h e morn i ng o f this we -4 'day of th e wee k was, " He is risen ! H e is risen !" Th ey already act uaint .d with the loving commandment of their G o d , which ' reecued every seventh day front the sentence aof labour pronounced against the fallen race. "In the sweat 4,,shy brow shalt thou eat thy bread ;" this was the sentence. days sh a lt t h ou labour, the seventh is for rest , this was the loving limitation of the sentence. They were acquainted With the reason assigned in their inspired scriptures for his rest, namely, t h at on the seventh day God ended his work 'which he had made, and heir es t e d on th e seve n th d a y from all his work which he had made, and God blessed the seve th day and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from his iwork which God created and made. They had probably never nquired why God w as pl ease d to occupy six portions of time I .m. the work o f creation, or why he was pleased to represent tunself as resting on the seventh portion. They were influ enced by revealed facts. Doubtless, he who said, "Let there d ea light, " be light," so th at light was in a moment, might as easily have , n Let there be a perfect creation iti all parts in a (Rmoment ;" and in a moment all would have been perfect. ear, hear.) B ut in point of fact he adopted another and quite a different method. He chose to mark out several distinct measures of time, each consisting of an evening and a morning, and to divide the work of creation into a number of compartments, assigning one to each of those measures of time. W hy lie fixed upon six of these periods for the accomplishment of hie work rather than four, or five, or ten, or twenty, he did ;not seelt right to explain. But he did distinctly declare that bin Bl m days he made heaven and earth, the sea and all that sn tiler' s is, and rested on the seventh day," and that on that eccount T6 he had '.blessed the seventh day and hallowed it." this may be well applied what St. Paul says on another that' after quoting the weds " thou shalt not muzzle the , ox t treadeth out the corn," be says, " doth God take care 'or Zip,o or is thi s wr itt en a lt oge th er f or our sa k es ?" F or Int sakes, no doubt, this is written. So may we say. does ""d take care for rest? Can the Most High be weary ? Or Is this written for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this s penie of creation was adopted and revealed. (Applause.) ~,,...l t° from the beginning, man's time was reckoned in seven `-`"" hads God's time in the creation of man and man's Worldbeen, six working portions and one resting portion. "`his resting portion was allotted to the creature, for the la,l espe service of G o d. I n t h e early history of man, previous to e itittoduction o f t h e pecu li ar i t i es of J udaism, we have significant i n ti mations of the observance of this portion of his time. As th e resolution before us expresses it, " it obtained sie.ntinct rec ogn i t i on ;' in the history of Noah for example. ~ ° read that wh en h e sen t f ort h a d ove to see whether t h e Waters were abated from the earth, "he stayed seven days a nd again sent forth a dove out of the ark, and he stayed yet °t ler !seven days and sent forth a dove." This does not tell t ir L a ah ; but it tells this much, that Noah gave special notice to io - seventh 4 Y. Still more explicit in the history of the at "? of the Israelites through the'wilderuese, before they reached Mount Sivai, and before the ceremonial law was given, We read this recognition of the Sabbath. It occurs in the history of the mann a , °t act " and this is the thing which th e L or d aotamanded--gather it every man accordi n g t o hi s ea ti ng , an P454°12°. ' for ever mao, according to the n um b er o f y our And th e c hild ren of I srael did so, and gathered 'Mlle more, some less. And Moses said, let no man leave of it till the morning* Notwithstanding, they hearkened not !Into Moses; but some of them left of it till the morning, and It bred worms and stank. And it Came to pass, that on the eiZtil day they gat h ere d twice as much, two omers for one Mast, and Moses said, this is that which the Lord bath said, to-Morrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath, bake that which ye will bake to-day, and seethe that ye will seethe, and that Which remaineth over lay up for you to bo kept till the morn ing; and they laid it up till the morning, and it did not stink, sieither was there any worm therein. And Moses said, eat that to.day, for to-day is a Sabbath 'unto the Lord ; to-day ye shall not find it in the field; six days ye shall gather it, but, on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none." Let it be carefully noticed that this was pre- vious to the introduction of anything peculiarly Jewish. This is enough of itself to show the essential distinction be tween the seventh day commandment, and the ceremonial of the Jew, whatever place this commandment may have after- Wards occupied in that ceremonial. (Applause.) Bearine all this in mind, I p rocee d now to enquire in what connexion . 174 . divine commandment was given that man should keep JAZ . ' day in seven. W as it amongst the ceremonials of th e ' a s legal, typi ca l, and temporary ; or w as it amongs t law, ; everlasting arid unchanging requirements of the moral ' • The ans wer i s p l a i n . Th e sevent h d ay commandinerit 8"t faa nd armin g th e or di na n ce s banscribed from a pattern in the mini stration of Moses, but, as our resolution affirms, it etu seleranly re-enacted in s ee . se -enacted he publication of the moral law. 4, r „.. sue fou r th among ten commandments given as no other andmieesta were ever given. This appears specially in tee Particulars. First : All the details of the Jewish cere- Zelda' were given to Moses, and by him communicated to now ee LP, le s But the ten commandments, including the one e, — ' t ° "7 were spoken to the whole nation, by the voice of God himself. This appears on ti a face of the history. r . a not this to invest Moses with a degree of importance . e . 4l ' ti:e to the c eremonial institutions, which was denied to satllis us) .regarded ee , , the moral commandments ? And was not 42).07, aenedvecadetae moral commandments with a superiority Pendent , of, Moses ? (Hear, bear.) Secondly : Kti moral cornmanements alone were written—engraved PaY God hinsself--by a direct and immediate exercise of his P a llor, and thus secured from any possible mixture, addition, sitrunaentalty. °ir mutilation, b y t h e infirmity of a human in (Bear, hear.) And so important was this, :et as when the tables wore broken, a special commandment _ 0, given to prepare new tables, and again the same sacred w 44 Were ieseribe.d by the finger of God. Thirdly, the Ten Commandmeata alone were Put into the ark, and deposited in :the_ most holy place. This fact is plain, and it involves a ear Rod very eignificant separation between these command ents and the ceremonial institution of the Jews. The full force of this cannot be appreciated without reference to the type--the ark i n the. moat holy place, The moral law within it, and the mercy seat upon it, was the type ha o u f Christ. Con cerning it the Lord himself h a d said, mercy seat above upon the ark, and in the ar shall put the al Pat the testimony, that is, the tablas that I shall g i ve thee t and there I will meet with thee, and I will ocinainune with! thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cheru biees which are upon the ark of the testimony." Here, in a figure, and by representation, was Christ risen and ascended into the true holy place. By him the moral law was kept, in the letter of it and in the spirit of it : it was in his heart. In him It was honoured and magnified. In him God is well pleated. IfereY and truth, like cherubims of glory, here meet together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. The loire, the everlastio g love of God, flows forth in blessed harmony With his untarnished holiness. He is just, while he justifies the ungodly, Perfectly r i g h teous, and just, and true, while he lovingly and freely justifies the most ungodly. This was the high lesson taught by the ark,e—now observe, the command- Meets enelosed in the ark were of such a nature as to need the Mediation of Jesus Christ to make atonement for the breach of them. The uncleanness contracted by the breach of the eerettumial law might be removed by a .ceremonial sacrifice, batithe guilt incurred by a breach of the moral law could not be removed except by the sacrifice of the Sun of God. (Seer, hear.) This stamps the eteroal obligation of the Moral Law, the seventh day comMandment included, in the high court of the everlasting and unchanging equity of Jehovah. But In Opposition to all this it is asked, where is the morality of observing every seventh day more than every sixth, or every tenth, day? For !the other commandments of the moral law- We can see a reason. It commends itself to sound enlightened reason, that we should worship only one true and living God; and that we should worship bins in spirit and in .troth, without the absurd use of images; also that we should not profane his name ; also, that we should honour our parents, and-avoid all manner of . injury to our neighbours, in their life, or property, or purity. These'com mandments commend themselves to our reasoo. But where where is, or can b e is the rea son after all , s the morality of T more tha n th e Paying s peci a l attention to the seventh day, an nixth? Our answer is, the very highest saeea of morality 4 submission to the mind and absolute sovereignty of God. (Rear, hear.) Those commandments which commend them.. selves to the dictates of sound human reason, and have f or their i mme di a t e obje c t the ad v antage of human society, m ri ay he complied with, without any reference to God. The of man's reason may be flattered ; the convenience ience of fsociety, and the secu r ity of property may be consulted , andt hus obe client, ,ay t „ se nt, without any direct regard to God's a uthority. On the other hand, a command which makes no ePPeal at all to human reason, but rests entirely on the law giver, - River, cannot he to treated. If obeyed at all, it is because re is ecknowledged ; if disobeyed, it is because he is disregarded. o uch a commandment is the fourth. I do not indeed deny, out that it may be shown by sound reason that creatures should have some periodical rest. But it would be difficult to give sufficient and reasonable proof that that rest should b 0 every sevent h d ay. (A pp l ause. ) The sanction of the commandment is exclusively the divine authority % a sign lt to was °ll t his account that thi s c omman dment was given a the J ew i sh people in the inspired ministry ef the prophets, as it i s written, " Behold I have given you my Sabbaths. to ha sig n b e t ween you and sue, to know whether ye w ill serv e : Lord." With such as commandment before them, so doe Went and so sa nc ti one d, w h a t were t h e pr i m i t i ve Ch r i s ti an s to ''''"? They w ere to ren d er l ov i ng obedience to t h e comman ds silent their God, which sanctified one day in every seven, klrd t hey were to honour with holy joy the day of their Lord sa d Qa.viour's tri ump h aver d eat h . Th e i r i nsp i re d l ea d ers t aught them how to do this ; by transferring the i tem the seventh thy to the first day of the week. The seventh b een 4Poititai because of cre a tion finish e d, an d spoke of i "t felt s th a ..-e ' . in WIS 400E1 booms° of OW ;nation corn! iy. n: , ~Y.t; ~. NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1856. movement as well as a clerical movement ; and ono reason why I shall not detain the meeting by a speech to-day is, that I know there are laymen here who will stand forward upon this subject, in support of so great and noble a cause. (Cheer..) It is a consecration of St. George's-hall to-day to meet to gether here, Christians of all denominations, who hold the truth as it is in Jesus—(emers)—combining together, as one man, to resist to the very utmost, by every lawful means, the doing away of our Sabbath protec tion laws. We (.1,3 not want to compel people to keep the Sabbath. All that we want is the continuation of those blessed laws which have protected the observance of the Sabbath tLroughout this sacred land. (:Tear, hear, and cheei , .) And therefore I shall sit down, merely assuring this meeting that it is fr.,m my inmost soul I support and second every syllable which has been uttered to-day in moving this resolution. (Cheers.) _ . . . . The resolution was then put from the chlir, and carried unanimously amid loud applause. The Rev, Francis West said he had . great pleasure in moving the second resolution :—" That this meeting solemnly believes that the Sabbath is essentially desecrated, whether by its cpcn profanation in evil works on the one band, or b simple secularisation, as a day of mere amusement, or of wo , Idly business, on the other. It sees therefore with profound sorrow the licensed opening of public-houses on the Sabbath, for the sale of intoxicating liquor, to the great and acknow ledged demoralisation of the people. And it regards with the utmost apprehension the existing, or proposed, provisions for their so•ca'.led amusement, whether by music in the public parks, or by opening museums, exhibitions, or other like places." The rev. gentleman proceeded to say that he rejoiced to witness an assembly like that at present gathered together for the defence of the Christian Sabbath, and to titter a voice which should be heard throughout every part of the United Kingdom, and which ho trusted would be but the beginning of similar great efforts upon the part of all their large towns, and rural population, in the defence and support of the Christian Sabbath. (hear, hear, and cheers.) ll° heartily rejoiced in the clear, and well-defined, principle of the first resolution, which had been carried unanimously, by so vast an assembly as, he thought, he never before had been per mitted to witness. (Cheers.) It clearly showed that, with all the diversity of opinion which might exist among moral and religious teachers, and various bodies of Christian professors, yet in the main, and on the great and fundamental questions, they were an united body of Protestant Christians. The whole of this question, in its most extensive sense, as well as in its minutest details, turned upon the principle which had been so ably enunciated by Dr. M'Neile. Either the Sabbath was of human origin, and the result of human opinion and human legislation, or it was strictly and imperatively obligatory, be cause of its being divine. (Rear, hear.) There, then, must rest the strength of their cause, that it was a divine ordinance. They could not be weak while they had weapons of argument from a divine armoury ; and he believed that they could not but be successful, if they carried out their controversy in the spirit which had been that morning suggested to them. The Sabbath did exist, and he would ask how it came to exist ? Would any one tell him at what period it was that the men of of all nations, or the men of any one nation, met together, and deliberated, and determined that they would observe one day in the seven as a day of rest from all labour ? The speaker traced out the distinction between the Christian Sabbath, and the Sabbath of the Jews, and showed the divine authority upon which our Sabbath rests. He then proceeded to say that it was clearly shown to be absolutely necessary upon physical grounds alone, that there should be a day of rest to all work ing men, a day of rest to all mankind. This was included in the gracious command of Almighty God himself. God had nowhere sanctioned idleness or improvidence, but he had declared that labour was to terminate with the sixth day, and that the seventh was to be the Sabbath, the day of rest, the day free from all worldly occupation and toil, from all mental anxiety and care, from all the deliberations and calculations of the senate, from ti.e business of the counting-house —a day of cessation for the barrister of perusing his briefs, anti of the mercantile man from corresponding and answering letters. And of all who sought their pleasure or their own pelvate ends, not one of them had the sanction of the principle, or the letter of the word of Almighty God, if they followed any work of labour whatever upon the Sabbath day. As it was neces sary that each day should have its Sabbath by the sweet repose of sleep, "tired nature's sweet restorer," so it was necessary that there should be a pause made after the .toils and the obligations of the whole week, and that the Sabbath should be kept sacred as a day of rest and retire ment—of mental repose—of pious meditation—of the indulgence of fireside affections, and of all the virtues which spring up around the hearth-stones of all Christian fa:nilies. (Rear, hear.) That was the true repose for man, that his l.eart should find rest, and that he should enjoy what God had appointed for the recruiting of his tired nature, by one day out of the seven being free from all worldly engage ments. In the evidence which was given, when Sir Andrew Agnew's committee sat upon the great question of the obser vance of the Lard's day, when a much fairer investigation of the subject was given, than that by the late committee upon the sale of beer act, in reference to which, any one examining the important report would clearly see,lthat there was not a fair opportunity for those who could give evidence on behalf of morality, and of the working man's Sabbath of rest; in the former committee's report it would be found declared, by a physician of long practice and experience, that he found it absolutely necessary to enjoin upon all his patients, to have an equivalent for the Sabbath day, it they did not literally observe the Sabbath. For instance,,a minister should have his Monday free from all interruption and toil, and the great press of business which had frequently to be encountered by them. The Sabbath of the minister was his working day, and he rtjoiced to work upon it. But he had a t to onc• d and happy Was the ministi ese times, was able to secure even half of that. (Cheers.; take the testimony of all medical rt en, and it would hi fo:ind that they all declared this day of rest as absolutely needed for the physical condition of mln. (Hear, hear.) But it was not merely a question of physics. It was a question for the mind, it was a question for the heart, it was a question for the soul; and well might George Herbert say, that " where there is most of prayer, there is most of heaven." The ques tion involved the most dangerous results. If once the great houses of amusement were opened, such as museums and natiokial galleries, of course the lesser might claim the s.une p,ivilege. Every town which possessed such opportunities for the desecration of the Lord's Day would have open public If these exhibitions were once allowed, they all knew what the consequences would be. Shops would at once be opened ; and they all knew that if once shops were opened, the next thing would be that, after the fatigues and anxieties of worldly commerce during the morning of the day, there should be a liberal supply of amusements for the latter part of the day. And then the Sabbath, which had been the glorious distinction of this country, would be at once demolished, and they should have substituted for it the French Sabbath, which robbed every man of the right which God had chartered to him in his own moral law. (Hear, hear, and cheers,) This was a time when he felt satisfied they should look for very serious results from the question which now engaged them. Former times had witnessed a great controversy, the settlement of which might be looked upon as a test of the Protestant church—the great doctrine of justification by faith alone in the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. This question struck at the very root of the entire system of heterodoxy and superstition, since it was it se lf the very root of the Christian doctene of all Christian morals. That question happily might be considered now as virtually settled. They then had another great controversy into which they had been drawn—the doctrine of spiritual regeneration by the power of the Holy Ghost, in which they were opposed to all the mere traditions of men, and all mere externalism. Ile did not need to say that it was by the church of England, chiefly, this great question had to be settled, and it was in hands thoroughly adequate to the whole controversy. and which bad in point of fact already carried the day. But museums they were now suddenly called to a new controversy, which struck at the root of all their Protestant institutions, which affected the offices of their Christian ministry, which touched very vitally all their Sabbath-school institutions, which concerned . the. very religious organization that was now so happily spread over the whole of the land. This was not a time for men to go to sleep, when, • already they were informed, that there were two organised societies deliberately proposing to obtain, for the desecration of the Lord's day, and of the whole sanctity and worship of the day, the sanction of the legislature. It was without pre cedent, that man should openly avow the principles which had been put forth by one section of their opponents. It was a time to forget all the paints whereon they differed, which were multitudinous, and to consider only,on - the other hand, these points, which wore few, bet simple, sublime, and practical, on which they all agreed. What was the secret root, and the real strength, of all the opposition to the sanctity of the Lord's day ? The real mainspring of it was a question of gain; and he thought it was clear that one of the principal points was the failure of the Crystal Palace, as a mere money-making speculation. Those who got up that scheme were anxious to cover their blunder— their commercial blunder—by laying hold of the glins— the hard-earned severely procured gains—of the wo r ki ng classes, the great misses, in order to swell their dividend. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) There were other interested persons, among those who were the open opponents of Sabbath observance. The resolution which he was moving referred to ono point which revealed a secret of greet moment in the right adjustment of the question. That Point was in regard to the sale of intoxicating liquors. (Hear, hear.) They knew very well these who were inte rested in that sale, that if they could gain the sanction of the legislature to make the Sabbath a clay of amusement, it would be easy to turn it into a day of the highest profit to themselves. (Hear, hear.) A day of worldly amusement to the wo r ki ng man was usually not only . made an expen sive day, not only the most expensive day in the week, b u t usually swallowed up a large portion of the earnings of the week ; and if these earnings were to bo spent merely to gain what was called amusement, they all knew into whose deeply pockets the p ro fit s would run, and w h y parties could fi n d reason s in their ow n self i shness for a d voca ting a Sabbath t o be spent in amu sements. (Hear, hear.) The advocat es o f Sabbath interestedobservance had b y not b e only ir w to o rl d ly, contendga insand i i with those ca w ho were i but they had to oppose a legislature which was fearful?) , indifferent upon the great question of the Christian Sabbath. Tainted, probably, originally iu their edu cation by the lax notions which had been taught in their Systems of moral and political philosophy; Lnowing weli that the w hole bias of hamau nature was against all that was sanctified and pare: and look ing to nothing to re,zulate public questionsbut the voice of the people, they were willing to take shelter in their systems of philosophy and in the supposed voice of the people. Dr. l!PNeile bad truly told those around him where their weak ness lay, and yet he could not but think that here was a demonstration which ought to be considered by all legislators as having a voice of potency, for it was a union of strength, an exhibition of combination and of earnest ness, which perhaps had never been exceeded in this town upon any former occasion. (Hear, hear.) Let the legis'a tnre then hear the voice of the people. Lot the people give ont a distinct enunciation of their determination to contend to the last, by all lawful means, for the preservation of what was the chief glory of this land, and the most blessed inheritance of their Christianity. (Cheers.) They had to contend with the infidel spirit of the age, with that im patience of moral restraint which it required all the efforts of legislators, and magistrates, and police, and of those who , the minist ,nd to bri of the gospel, to redu to ord Ito somE Bnt they hail even .monk themselves, read those statements, and to say what they would find to hive been the results in Scotland. Let him appeal to y remind .hem -that he look his statistic 3 from - the report of Mr. Thomas - Lenten, superintendent of the police,' and that they referred from the beginning to the end of the year, on Whit Sunday in each case. In 1853, the new act was not i n f orce , b u t i n _ Let them tak the reiult? 1855 it did tin Sunday hands of the police, those two yea. In 1853. - Aiding on' Whit of drunkards found in the alone, were 1,340 ; in ers.) But that did not show the full adva from eight o'clock t them tat on Vie hat in 1 that th( T days, a'er enabled them in 1E that t the S. Lem, why. t and th the who: hoar,)—th ath alo as, in of IVlonday—let lock, to Mond riguisliod b tverstition of the forret tecioa of G them t particu t twelve inion as to t if t ( menced, and spoke of joy and triumph. The observation remained the same. Toe authority to alter the day was sufficient. It was not a day for secular labour. It was not a day for carnal amusements. It was a day to be kept holy to the Lord. And the commandment to keep implied that, whatever men might in general think of it, as of other holy things, there would always be a people who would esteem the f.hservation of it as a privilege, and enjoy it as a pleasure. (Hear, hear.) The mode of observing it in detail was not specified in the commandment, but was left to the interpretation of the heart of every believer; just as the mode, in detail, of honouring father and mother was not specified in the fifth commandment, but was left to the interpretation of the heart of every loving child. The fifth commandment, enjoining the duty of honouring parents, without specifying details in which that duly is to ha performed, constitutes a sort of moral thermometer, by which the warmth of loving affactio❑ in children may be measured. Some are content barely to avoid actual disobedience, p'eading as an excuse, that no particulars are siveitied._ Others are desirous of carrying their attention to the highest pitch of watchful this as thoir privilege, because no particulars are specified ; and there are various grades between. The fourth commandment, enjoining the duty of keeping holy one day in seven, without specifying the details in which that holiness consists, supplies a similar thermometer, by w:tich the warmth of Christian aff;Ttion towards God may be measured. Some are content barely to avoid actual dis obedience, pleading as an excuse, that no particulars aro specified. Others aro desirous of carrying their Sabbath observance to the highest pitch of holy and devotional love, of spiritual enjoyment, of attending to works for the good of man and the honour of God, pleading this as their privilege, because no particulars are specified. Thus stood the opportunity to know, and thus it still stands. Now, look at the facts of history. Wo see, as long as the true spirit of Christianity prevailed, a high sense of the privileges and sanctity of the Lord's day prevailed also. When Christianity declined, this also declined; when Chris tianity revived, this also revived. Infidelity, of course, pays I have already said, it is not anal grateful love, pl no attention to t with open infidelity we maintain our present controversy. The great Apostate from the Christian church treats this as she does every thing else, for her own aggratviisement.. (Hear, hear.) She dexterously made use of the Lord's day, to bind her slaves by the double knot of man's love of sin, and fear of punishment, Because he fears punish ment he must attend mass, and so make some satisfaction for his sins, that is in the morning of the Lord's day ; and because he loves sin, he may multiply carnal amusements of the eye, and car, and the palate, and all the works of the flesh, without a thought of God, that is on the c.vening of the Lord's day. (Applause.) Thus under the lash of conscience she gives part of the Lord's day to her superstitions : and that account being settled, she gives the remainder of it to fl !shy indulgences. In the morning the stool of penance ; in the evening the theatre and ball-room. Arc we to have such a Sabbath as that in the treatment of the day ? (Hear.) The unconverted Protestant, however he may as a matter of established custom observe the Lord's day, yet finds no joy in it, feels no privilege in it, obeys no divine authority in it, and is rather open to the discussion of the question on the lower grounds of the practical benefit to be derived or injury to be sustained by the com munity ; even here we are not afraid to meet him. (Hear.) But this will be taken up by subsequent speakers. I shall only remind our friends amongst the working classes, that those who would deprive them of the religious sanction of the Lord's day, on pretence of ministering to their amusement are not their real friends. ((fear, hear.) Thay may rely upon it there is truth in the saying that '• strong as the love of pleasure is, the love of gain is stronger ;" and that if the seventh part of time which God gave them for rest, be taken from them for the Bake of pleasure, it w:1: before long be given to mammon. (Hear.) If they consent to have places of entertainment, such as the Crystd Palace and Museum', opened on the Lord's day, they give up a strong hold of this question, and will never be able to object to opening the warehouse and the shop on the Lord's day. If they wish to give you mental and moral improve ment, to enlarge your minds, and to make you more complete scholars, let them not do it with that which costs thenaselve.4 nothing. (Cheers.) If they wish to do anything for the working classes, let them give a part of one of their own days. (Near, hear.) Let them pay wages on Friday night, and dismiss their men on Sdurday afternoon. They would thereby show their sincerity, because it cost them something. (Hear, hear.) Let them give six days wages for five and a half days work, and we will believe them. Cheers.) But take care of them in the other direction, for it will be seven days work mid six days wages. (aear ) Not seven days wages. No. They will say to the working man, you can work cheaper. Yon can do without a Sunday coat, and your children will not require to he dre,sed nicely to go to church ; you must work seven days and your pay be the same. (Hear, hear.) Our opponents in this question are enticing the working classes by a promise of amusement. and they will entrap them into seven days toil. (Loud applause.) But, sir, I must have done. It is proposed not only to argue the question before the people, hut to petition parliament. Here it is tlalt we feel our weakness. Sir, the cause of our weakness is our good character. In our approaches to parliament we arc weak, be cause, like good and peaceable citizens, we confine ourselves to argument-and entreaty. If the advocates of the religious observ ance of the Lord's day could justify to themselves the principle cf dole; evil that good might come, and if ther,fore they assembled by thousands in Hyde-park and other public places, and proceeded by physical demonstrations of various kinds, to intimidate the noble and honourable members of right honour able and honourable houses, in their residences, doubtless they would gain a hearing. But we would rather never he heard is. (Hear, hear.) No. We id if we than adopt the use of s use only the weapons v be beaten, we parliament and Goal is not mocked ; though he be and long-suffering, pan of him to a considerabl has carried her provocation and if she [ength already ; proceed another step legislating for the secularisation of his holy day, the outraged majesty of Jehovah is not without means of retribution; his children have no occasion to attempt to take the law into their own hands. We wait upon time ; our times arc in his hands, and we discharge our duty, leaving the event with our God. Sir, 1 rejoice in the demonstration to day ; and in the discharge of your duty, sir, I call upon you, in the presence of this grand assembly of your townsmen, and if .public writers fail to do it, that you shall, in the place at which you have been so honourably delegated from this town—(cheers) —that you will give an adequate, and as we know you are qualified to do, report of what your eyes have seen, and your ears have heard, this day. (Cheers.) One word more, on the higher and more blessed features in this question, and I conclude. The subject commends itself to practice in your lives, more than in the excitement of a public meeting. One of the characteristics of the Lord's Day is, that it gives repose—repose of body and of mind, though it is a highly intellectual mission above. It carries its own reward, resting in high enjoyment, like music Full ofJoy, without alloy. Our very rapture in tranquility A little child, a meek-faced, gentle, timil child, Sat singing in her cottage door at eve A low, sweet, Sabbath song. No huma ear caught the faint melody, No humin eye beheld the up.ifted aspect or the smile, _ _ That played upon her lip, As, ever and anon, she brea hed the oft-repeated burden of her hymn. Worthy the Lamb! Worthy the Lamb I A seraph near the th-one in the full glory stood, with eager hands he struck the gold n harp-strings, Till a flood of heavenly melody willed forth unceasing; Then with a mighty voice he cri. Holy, holy, holy, evermore, Lc, d, Gud, Almighty. The helven:y courts rang will tha sounds, The ker , rchy of angels awl wral.t archangels Throbbed a.lrt burned w'th d -ep-C L adoration; Higher and higher t II the chorus ran, In all its rich rnAgnifleence of sound, Holy, ho'y, holy, Lord, God, Almighty. Yet even then. while the majestic sound was at its height, There c une au,•ther voice, a voice that seemed to float— Float upwards from some world afar, . . But esti h )w sweet I And mingled with the seraphs, Ever al a founraia's music with the roar of the reverberate thunder. ------- Loving smiles lit up each sneers face At that new anthem. Brn.'es of joy, Which yet brc .me morejnyous As they caught, from time to time, The oft-"epeated bu den of the hymn—the Sabbath hymn, Worthy the Lamb. Worthy the Lamb. (Great:applause greeted the Rev. speaker as he resumed his seat.) Mr. John Cropper said : I shall not detain this vast assembly with any remarks of mine upon this important sub ject, but content myself with seconding the resolution which has been read ; and expressing the thankfulness which I feel cause as this. at being permi..ted to take a part i n so noble, and so holy, a (Cheers.) The Rev. Andrew Knox said : Mr. Chairman, my personal perhapsa,a(l the e re l j a o r i g c e e st t o w s h e andcon rdaetari friend, whom I have known from my boyhood, I noble g m u e e a t t 1 5 n g y , o o w u as pr e e v s e id r in i g el o d ve in r this any i e ch y room in the town of Liverpool. I congratulate you ' and I Liverpool h consecration . on te of St. George's-hall b y this noble Christian meeting—(cheers) —a meeting of the v ery greatest importance to the best inter ests of this noble nation. (Cheers.) In standing up to sup_ port up port this resolution which has b een moved, and so ably dwelt upon, . by my dear brother, Dr. M'Neile , it is not my intention f to detain this meeting fur a moment.l do not stand here to make a speech upon this subject, although it is a subject dear to my heart, on which I dwelt at great length on the last Sab bath, and for many years. I stand up merely to support this my hearty concurrence in it. resolution, and to express I stand up here to declare that I believe that the very b est interests, both spiritual and temporal, of our beloved count ry are involved in the question which has been now brought be fore us. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) God's word distinctly guides us; for Ho has given the Sabbath to his people, to be a sign between him and them, that he is the Lord who has sanctified it, and has set it apart for himself; and the history of his dealings with those nations to whom he had given the Sabbath, and who desecrated the Sabbath, distinctly teaches us that Ile will visit, with the heaviest judgment, the nations which dishonours and desecrates the Sabbath. (Cheers.) Our enemies, I doubt not, will be prepared to say that this is a Clerical movement—that it is the clergy who are getting it up, I rejoice, howler, to bo able to doclaro that this is a lay regard to the cemmanda of God heir lax ob:-;?rvance of the S )ath d❑y had altered the tone of public to blame in it 3W who dared to encounter the sneer, and the f ater enemies to contend church mi, which wore_zencrallyd the Sint of th( There were respect .irected against those who, like 11Iost High God, pail a literal r the sanctity of the Lord's day. I was necessary, theretre, in crier to gain the point at which they were aiming, that they should endeavour-to awaken themselves to a sense of responsibility, and shake off the fearful apathy which had so long rested upon the church. (Hear, hear.) They must nd they had well begun. (Cheers.) Let them awaken, reflect upon what took plac:, th - E; previ Sabbath before. Let them think of a x . of Chris f all denomi a clear exposition of ctity of-the day, nature of its ob 'vanCe. Simultaneous) , 144 se; mons were (Hear, hear, and cheers.) This preached on that subje( was without parallel in the hi;tory of the Christian Church ; and it was well followed up by that most noble and glo rious assembly by which they were surrounded here to - day —an assembly composed of men of one heart and mind—men who had taken up that question never to let it drop until they had carried the day. (Cheers.) He urged them not, however, to forget had to contend with, and that whatever money wf, th could of who opposed the C 1; church but mark, learn, and inwardly digest, they should be able to sustain their part in the great controversy without fear, and with a full confidence in the strength of their prin ciples, and the justice of their cause. (Hear, hear.) He would not venture to say, as had been sometimes said, " agitate, agitate, agitate," he should rather sav, " think, read, deliberate, converse, practice, live, and let the impres sion of your spirit, and your conduct, be such as to mike your enemies tremble, because of the moral calmness and high principles with which you enter this great controversy." (Cheers.) They had been frequently twitted, in reference to this question, with the assertion that it was a mere ministers question, a question of the clergy. He rejoiced to think that the clergy were engaged in it. He should not be a true and faithful watchman for Christ if he had not come for. ward, or at least been willing to Come forward, and take his own share in whatever odium might attach to that question. But it was not a question for ministers only—it was a ques• tion for all—for all Sunday-school teachers,and all their tract distributors—for all those scripture readers and all their town missionaries—for all christlan parents, and all who loved a social order, who delighted in Christian worship, who longed for opportun'Aics of more extensive usefulness, who stood by protestant christianity, and who longed to see the word'of God firmly established in the land. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) They maintained their Sabbath, and by the grace of God they would do so. (Cheers.) Oh ! that there might be such a collection made thet morning as would furnish an opportunity for th ther fullowing up of the great efl engaged, of a Sabbath press in Liverpool,— ~lhhrnent Lich they Aver( might delup. the rest of the kingdom with t.!lt (Hear, heir ) He best tracts upon t cafe? apin the rich ma .o withhold his p at he neC ne:?(Ito call upon - the contribution in any measure sustain the movement, he did poor men, for he knew already that their hearts were tho roughly in the cause, and that they would stani with them to the last. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He had been delighted last night to receive from a number of men work ing in a large manufactory an expression of high encou ragement, and of confident hope in the success of the movement, for those black-faced mechanics knew they lost all, As he feared God and hononred th long may she to reign over them— S ahhath thanked them f always connected love of the Queen, with love of God, that chee )nqe(l t see the prosperity". of all those institu mercifil, social, aril religions, ho mos resolution which he hadr ~ pcOatical, corn- cordially moved thi (Loud cheers.) The 13.. v. Joseph Bardsley, in the absence of the Rev. ltv. Pollock, seconded the rco.ution. After stating that he assumed what he conceived luid been clearly and unanswer ably established by the preceding speakers, namely, the divine institution of the Sabbath, be proceeded to say that there was one part of the subject embraced in the resolution villch had not as yet been brought before them, and that vas in referenm to the law which regulated the sale of ntoxicating drinks on the Sabbath day. He conceived that important question. When they remembered a England and Wales 103,000 public n they remembered that, on MIS a m tint there wer houses and be( an average, from three to four per each of these hour e connected with and th were employe:l in conn drinks in this country alone, he co Do.00r) persons with tt t the mu dqation of it should he an important nch of t if they would vindiente the honour of God andl That the Sab mt. subjec [is holy da tt was C.ese of intoxicating liquors might be very clearly proved. In district, one of the seventeen police districts of censns•Seuday there were in attendance at the publ places of worship in the evening, 17,805 ; and at the ,ondon, or same time, or rather on the same evening, between tha hours of 9 and 10 o'&cok in the same district, there were nssembled in the public-houses and bee more than 20,000 persons. Last year arrangements were made in Manchester to ascertain, as far as possible, how many visits were made on the Lore's day to the drinkine houses of that city, and it appe.:red from the statement then made out (and if there were any inaccuracies they were in favour of the publicans, for while many visits must have been made unseen, those only that were seen were reported)—that taking 1437 public-houses and beer shops, and taking an average of nine Sundays, there were on any one of those Sundays visits from men to the num ber of 120,000, from women to the number of 71,000, and visits from children to the number of 23,000—making altogether from men, women, and children, visits to the amount of 214,000. And he feared that if they were in possession of the information it would be found that Liverpool, in this respect, occupied a bad and proud pre eminence, for while in Manchester they had but 1437 public-house and beer-shops, in Liverpool they had 2348. He had been very much struck the other day by the state ment of one of the inspectors of police, that if a person stool in Naylor-street he could at. any time count. from the place where he:stood, thirty-three public-houses and beer shops. (Cries of "Oh I oh !") Need he then say that it could not surprise any one when they remembered the number of such houses in the cointry, that the Rev. Mr. Clay, of Preston, should say in his last report, " during the last two years I have heard 1126 male prisoners attribute their offences, fraud, larcenies, burg laries, rapes. stabbing, and homicides to drink, and if the habits and history of every prisoner were carefully looked into, it would be placed beyond doubt, that nine-tenths of the English crime, which the law is compelled to deal s L t eoi o sn, u t cheers, h d hueutiwgthlr ailsthd ia a pat n pnt d edhr es e l I m soraar o ml t t eh i es o e, emotion.) everyiG.)n ) ea, lV to h i rs i e e arp n heoh7 t va h eet they AN ith, arise from the English sin, which the law scarcely discourages." m ell t; e ee m 3v b 3or r eoo c that openou( remembered open for what he was certain he might call, with some fi!er exceptionse" the worshippers of 13acohus,” not fewer than 103,000 houses, had they not in the form of that fact, a dreadful picture of the desecration of God's holy deer? (Hear, hear.) The question then was, how were they prepared to deal with it? What could they do in the matter ? In the first place he would remark, that to him it seemed an extraordinary anomaly, marvellously strange, that whilst by the law, the butcher could nut sell his beef, or the baker his bread, or the bookseller the bible, yet that whilst all these were forbidden, by the same English law, the publican and the;; beer house keeper might sell their beer and branly (Hear, hear.) Was not that a strange thing? (Hear, hear.) If it could be affirmed of bread, beef, and of what the grocer sold, that they led to nine tenths of_ the crime of the country—if that could be affirmed of them, surely they would have arguments ten thousand times stronger than at present, for preventing, by law, those various places from being opened on the Sab bath. That, however, could not be said of them ; and why then should an exception be made in favour of those houses which led to so much crime, so much vice, and so much immorality? (Hear, hear.) He repeated why should - an exception be made in favour, by law, of allowing those persons to seek intoxicating liquors on the Sunday, which, though not intended by them, yet, nevertheless, as an iaevitable and invariable consequence, led to so much crime, so much poverty, and so much irreligion ? (Ap plause.) Perhaps it might be said that they could not deal with it by law. Well, they had dealt with it already by law. The principle had been conceded, and all they asked for now in this country, was an extension of the same thing. "Would their opponents—enemies he would not call them—but would their opponents, abide by the results in t S h c a o t tl i a t nf , a ? s t I h t which led them to repeal Wilson Patte n ' s act. Would they now abide on the question of con v eni ence p o u f bl t i h e e s l u a ff st er a e c d t , in ! or incon venience to the public—of advantage or disadvantage to morality and social order ? Would they allow the question to be treated upon that issue? He did not say it ought to be so tested—they took the higher ground, but they i were prepared as an argument t o adopt it. Th e y went to Scotland, and what did they find? He woul d ask them to read the statements of the magistrates of the chaplains, of the ministers of the gospel, of Scripture readera,:andof city missionaries, he would as); the to and what di 4_ho4 t and. i❑ 185: of the m rs of mention one iamortir by the authorities of : prison, but on the 22r, )W, to t 1 1855, t them t August, when the qtiestion 1, ihe Lord st said t le best For seven years, the average number in the prison had been 698, but on the day before the Lord Pcovost,mada the statement, there were only 408 in it. Mbar hear.) But let him now say a few words on the subject, so far as it - was connected with England: They were told that there was no advantage connected with the act, and thpt there was nothing in it in favour of morality and so order.. That. was . the statement, for they were tole one magistrate t - that the 3n on the Tu more d more drinking - io coffee-hou no good. nor lead at they o )osition memo: V. White put t Hoisfall A Iris( If that were so, he would grant that the law If it did not dhhinish the amount of drunkenn, to social order and morality, he admitt to expect nothing from it. - But on what authority w affirmed, in the first place, that any advantages were not derived from Wilson Patten's act ? He knew not if they could take a better :authority, or select:a better illustra tion, than the case of London itself. London was divided into seventeen districts. Sir Richard Mavne was the head commissioner over all, comprising a population of 2,500,000. He need not, therefore, say, that whatever could be proved in reference to London would more or less be applicable to all their large towns. (Hear, hear.) Sir Richard Mayne ordered a return to be made in all the districts of London, and what did they show? He took 1834-55 from the first month to June in each year. and he found that while in 1854, the average number of drunkards every Monday morning in the hands of the police were 3,224, in 1835, they were only 2,076. (Hear, hear, and cheers). But, it is said, has it not. been proved that there was as much drunkenness for the whole week as before? Certainly not; for if they tcok the whole week, they would find that'wb:ileinlBs4 the numbers were 13184, in 1855 they were only 12,333. (Cheers.) It was then said that the reaction was on Tuesday, but there he met them again by a reference to the report; and there the statement was, that while on the Tuesday in► 1354 there were 2542, in 1855 there were only 2101, instead.of the terrible reaction which was so much relied on (Hear, hear.) He held in his hand two tables respecting their own town, Liverponi on Monday fi only I a reaction on tr drank all That anal tablei c did he 1 5, 8,546- who can have four or five members can address the H X) or 400 members - present • On an in the on most. occasions, not more than use, and a mem- on a -motion, but may not be successful in what we call in the House of Commons Head Constable, and they iproved, that no sooner was Patten's act superseded by the one wh I now ex- a great chang, mt Live nd in ref That was the staqmi :le to it t mil 10 o', ,rtant fac m Sand 10 o'clock the following day, in the six montlis before tl passing of Wilson Patten's act, and t they found that the average number 461, and only 212 after it cent. (Hear, hear, and the n redm ) He asicen 1 order and an of nearly that nothing in favour o (Hear, hear.) In Presto' the aver 1 morality ? er on the [d after it 1 in Winn. ze num the a while the ay 31, it had shown lieved that the I want they have than that at Lee hell in Yorkshire, the wor for the elosinz of t on th Sabbath day by og men in 3. n d what L. at the I. Mg men enrr lops - alfo, eatedly to s catching the Speaker's eye. The meeting then broke up. p by the I very unportan circles sustc tt attendan wished t hat Vinitv of con• flint compa TUE CONCERT HALL neral a upon t India ( riven by t Therefore, if I do not in ad- dition to my vote suppoit the petition with my voice, you may depend upon it, that it shall not beimy own fault. (Cheers.) As already intimated, the Concert Hall was prepared for holding a similar meting. Mr. Adam Hodgson, who was to preside, attended with several other gentlemen, but as the crowd, with little exception pressed to st. George's Hail, it was considered better not to hold any demonstration in the Concert Hall. The Right lion. Spencer Horatio Walpole has accepted the office of Archbishop's Church Estates Commissioner, vacated by the lamented decease of the Right Hon. Henry Goulbourn. The income attached to the office is £lOOO a year. Sin PATRICK GRANT, C.B.—A banquet on an unusual scale of magnificence will be given to tia;s gallant and dis tinguished officer,' by the East India Company, at the London Tavern, on the 2nd of February, in celebration of his appointment as commander-in-chief of the army in the presidency of Madras. It is the first instance of an pang's service being nominated to that rid highly responsible appointment s and in military orders wander of is called to ion for the ,es and hospital lardinge has Le oppor ;uggested the hon- The several 'masters re learn has just .r annual Herbert. their highest duties were iu was the best.guardian of tt wa3 their day of rest, they should have it asja were to pi - to.._ day of religion. (Applause.) The resolution was unanimously adopted. The Rev. V. White proposed the third resolution. _ said the resolution which had been entrusted to him dealt "e should there `•Lges of the - q at the with the working cl, special ad Sabbath them. H id of r great work in redemption; and he could nottelp thinking that the lax use and notions which so extensively pre vailed, at the present time, in reference to it, could not otherwise be regarded than as distinct indications-of the infidel tendencies of the age. (Hear, hear.) The order of creation, and. God's providence over man, showed that there must be.different classes in the world —but the man that set one class against another, was the man that was working for the destruction of both. With that remark in regard to the working classes, they would allow him to show how the Christian Sabbath was specially fitted for them. In the first place, it was' specially fitted for the working classes, because they had intelligent minds and immortal souls, equally with the best and noblest. (Hear, hear.) Let them take up the speeches of those persons who advocate what they call " Sabbath recreation," and they would find that they deal with man as if he neither had a God to serve, a soul to save, nor a Saviour to love. (Hear, hear.) He did not say that all felt or said so, but there were many who professed such feelings ; and he was not wrong, he thought, in asking if that were not the natu ral and inevitable result of the anti-Sabbath movement? (Hear, hear.) They never heard a single sentence uttered directing the sinner to the Saviour, telling him the need of salvation, or the way in which that salvation was to be obtained. They were told that under the Christian dispensation they were loading men back to the observance of the old and obsolete Jewish ceremony ;'but who we-e'the men who were leading them back, not to the - old and'obso'ete Jewish ceremony, but to something below it? The Jews never had any such ob servance on the Sabbath—nothing so purely carnal as opening of museums, opening of Crystal Palaces, opening of public-houses, and playing of bands in public gardens. "(Cheers and laughter.) He would tell them where they would find the counterpart of it. If they read history they would find that there was a religious sect of men whose Heaven consisted in carnal pleasures, and that was the Heaven not of the Jew but of the Mahommedan. (Hear, hear.) How differently did the Sabbath deal with the working man, His home might be humble and his fare scant, but it did not deal with hi-n as if he were a mere brute, or as if he had a body merely to be fed and clothed. There were great diversities in the positon of men in the world. Some were born under the sunshine of prosperity. Well, they had their day; they were very apt to:forget themselves. Accustomed to command, it was just pr sible they might fancy themselves more than mar. 3rore, a d:ln writer taught them to pray born under the cloud of adversity, the first, and they oontinued so to the last there was, tt ger against which t )mething 1 adatiger that constant trial and trouble m to fancy that they w, original curse pronol men, but the poor working-classes sons of toil. Work, work, work, was their Z..— L... stotv, not unfrequently from that early childhood, they had scarcely known a parent's love, till they mingl their ashes with those of the stranger in ,the commoi burial place. They werettant merely sons of toil, but the] were children of servitude. All needed the Sabbath, bu the poor man's trials rendered the Sabbath indispensabit to him. (Hear, hear) The rest of the Sabbath was th( very enjoyment which the poor man needed, and when th( late Dr. Blackburne was asked by a'minister in town thif question, whether, putting altogether out of the question the law of God, the °penult; of parks and other places of amusement for the working classes would be more bene ficial to their bodies, than the rest and exercise which God's word had already provided for them, he answered that he had not the smallest hesitation in declaring that he believed ,if all the medical men li n England were,to assemble to discuss what sort of Sabbath in itself would be most beneficial to the working classes, they would say that it was the very Sabbath that the Bible commanded them to keep. (Applause.) It was good for their bodies ......it was good for their souls. They were told that the Sunday in Paris was a far better thing than a Sunday either in Liverpool or Glasgow; but he should tell again t r that if the Sabbath day once b ecame j a d ay o f p l easur e, I would be jeePessitole CV prevent It also being mob A CIAY n and t mmen, reports the total des•, kberdare. It was er ed for divine , r about 700 T 1 DU, a repor flue, wh' .ch had mad with which tt fl th becaus tion, by lately In one and thy and benevo- leration than rmarthen Fagan's kir. Clive, iglabonrhood, and fflrded commo- about y, a woman, enza a tire i in cleaning for the purpose of oue useu tor the fire a quantity of church had been decorated at Christ '', fuel being very dry sent a u”osed that. ti was a layer of felt betty-i felt nrobitblv which is at top 236 feet long and 93 feet 4 inches wide, and at bottom 191 feet long and 40 feet wide. There were 13 charges in all-11 of 160 each, and two of 300 lbs each—total 2360 lbs of powder. The hour named was half-past four, but all was not ready for Mr. Deane to operate upon with his 10 voltaic batteries and electric wires, till an hour and a half after, when the de molition was pronounced complete as far as it went. Two cables were again used, to which the small wires leading to each charge were attached. In addition to a large number of engineer officers, there were present, although it was dark, the commander-in-chief, with two aides-de. camp, Brigadier-General Straubenzee, with his aide-de camp, and two officers of the Ilth Hussars, viz., Captain Dallas Yorke and Cornet Wilkin, besides the garrison of Sebastopol and the officers on guard, the whole being under :the superintendence of Brevet-major Nicholson, R.E. The enemy took no notice of the explosion, non have they been firing much lately from the north side,. although, it is reported that, on New-year's day the, French and Russian pickets were uselessly firing at each other. vas consi through the roof, probably ;1 unsightly. There es ; thia aount of damage CENTRE DOCK AT SEBASTOPOL--. h:tve blown up the bottom of the centre doe A CRIMEAN TlEuo.—The following' obituary notice apt pears in the Dublin Evening Mail:—Died at Malta, &on; the effects of a wound received on the memorable Bth or September, Ensign Lionel Edward Fitzgerald, of the 4lst Regiment. A member of a respectable family in the Queen's County (the Fitzgeralds of Rockview), he was thrown upon the world at an early age to carve out his own fortune; and, having first tried a civil employment, to which he had been appointed through the influence of the Hon. Thomas Vesey, now Viscount de Vesci, he en listed about twelve years ago in the corps to which he remained attached until his death. As colour-sergeant he _ to the East, anti bore his part diets and arduous duties which de distinguished corps. until the fall of assault on the Redan his name General of 'Division among those .ecompanied his regiment in all file deadly e volved upon that Sebastopol. In the recorded b, ..... . -. ge nerous spirits who worthil a civic crown by volouteering to place then to to brine murderous fire in 0' yes under a sy their wounded comrades to a place of s service honou to the It was while engaged _ wound, whioh„ Linn to an early, but •onduct, on that occasion 11% eived t a number of tt Between twbnt former were returning fr, (I-Li vere the We c great satisfaction a .nd men, by whP; in he —On Saturday evening con. the neighbourhood of Haver. counter which took esex Militia and nd thirty of the at which place .s of th m Kampstead East Middlesex Militia is situated. 3r drink, and were somewhat bole.. When n it the toll-gate . , close to the Chalk Farm th London Railway, they were met by - 0 returning front nearly twenty labouring m their work. An alteroation -en m, who , peedilfled to , trowels, and other (a.Ow la . botiver) recei ve d a wound in the “,, -eely used. I n the melee ed by a b a y onet, o r some other c o h n e e ekrw or hic fe h llo N NI , v s sharp instrument. The flesh was literally stripped off the cheek bone. Fortunately the wounded man was rescued from the grasp. of the militiamen, and conveyed by his companions, whither could not ,he ascertained, as the pollee were not at hand. The consequence was, that those who provoked the riot escaped unpunished. Shortly after the occurrence one of the Officers of the regiment was on the spot, .but it was i mposs ib le for the bystanders to give such information as would lead to the detection of the leaders in the affair. To avoid the violence of the militia, many of th e wor k men took refuse in a brewer's yard *IQ by. In a riot s were f ,t on, Frid of wo not the na England s Sabbath, who were loudes gentleti them full should wt t thanks for the kind manner in which ion have adopted the last resolution. It was '' Rpt my t tor I a,:sare you, if pride is justifiable and be with great pride that I sh —c, it will petition, as the chairman of this meeting, and with still greater pride. that I shalt present it to the House of Commons. (Cheers.) know me to make one further practical observation with I to my-self not every memo ing._on every question Rouse of Comm not so'; mach inkenness was own sills, and cation of the (hear, hoar.) :r if those vriOng y, a, t irom ilay set their Fs (ay .ests of mand of the a it on was