The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. THE WES 1' INDIA MAIL. " The Tweed, royal mail steam-ship, Lieutenant George }arsons, commander, arrived at Southampton on Friday evening, at five o'clock, with the usual tortnightly mails. She has experienced fine weather generally throughout the passage, with the exception of the two last days when it blew very hard indeed. The latest dates brought by the Tweed are—Demerara, 20th October ; Trinidad, 21st ; Jamaica, 24th ; Barbadoes,' 25th ; Grenada, 26th ; St. Thomas's, 30th ; and Fayal, 13th N He irgo consists of a small quantity of British coin, and gold dust, 8/ serons of tobacco, 24 tierces and 68 barrels of coffee , 1 tierce and 2 barrels of ginger, 618 ounces of silver, 13 cases and 122 kegs of succades, 4 caves of cigars, bees'-wax, &c. cfac",.. • dollars Forth at Ilayannah ; Tay, in the Gulf of Mexico; Trent, in the Spanish Main ; Eagle, at St. Thomas's ; and the Reindeer s of no ith the exception A society of bankers and capitalists has been formed at pankfort k to buy foreign corn and flour to sell at prime cost to i tbelakers— - • . Sivoii, the violin-player, is now at New York. His audiences are described as " the complete fill of the Taber nacle (the largest church in the town)." An account is given in a French journal of a gentleman committing suicide by cramming his ear full of gun-cot ton, and igniting it with a cigar. Mr. Newman arrived at Rome on the 28th .of October, and had an interview with the Pope the next day, at church. He occupies chambers in the Propaganda College. The sale of gun cotton in Bavaria has been prohibited by the government, on the ground that, as it cannot by its appearance be distinguished from ordinary cotton, its sale may possibly give rise to accidents. The Duke de Bordeaux was married, on the sth instant, to the Princess Maria Theresa Beatrice, sister to the reigning Duke of Modena, the only sovereign of Europe who has not recognised the King of the French. The princess's fortune is said to amount to 12 millions of francs. The cholera has extended its ravages from Persia to disease were, by the last accounts, perishing daily. Fourteen hundred persons in all: bad then been carried off. All the bazaars were closed ; the greatest terror prevailed, and many of the inhabitants had fled. REPUBLIC OF CRACOW.—The protecting powers have resolved to make an end of the independence of the repub lic of Cracow. so dangerous for the repose of its neigh bours, and to sanction its incorporation with the Aus trian dominions to which it belonged before 1809. The Russian and Prussian commissioners having received or- ders from their respective governments to regulate certain' reference to that resolution, it is probable that this deter mination will be published at Cracow in a few days. Thus, the extinction of the republic of Cracow, and its may be considered as a fact accom- plished. The three protecting powers have acknowledged that the existence of Cracow, as an independent state, is incompatible with the security of Germany; and as they had established that republic alone, and without the co operation of any other power, to try whether a shadow of Polish independence could be suffered to exist, result had not justified their expectations. In fact, at the creation of the republic, and afterwards, in different treaties, those _ _ powers expressly stated, that should circumstances render the existence of the republic dangerous, they reserved to themselees the right to annex it again to Austria.—Augs burgh Gazette. IRE LAND The operative masons and carpenters of Galwayisve given notice that they will not work under 4s. a-day. The National Club have raised upwards of £3OOO for the Irish poor Numbers of vessels are now arriving at Cork with In dian corn, which is selling there at .£lO 15s. per ton. Dr. Nugent, domestic physician to Mr. O'Connell, has . been appointed inspector of lunatic asylums, although the situation had been promised to the brother-in-law of the Lord Chancellor. _ _ The statement in the Dublin Evening Mail that O'Connell bad announced that the Repeal association was indebted to him about £6OO has not been contradicted by any of the repeal party. Even the agitator did not notice it at the association meeting on Monday last. The state ment in the Mail must therefore be true. ENDOWMENT OF UNITARIANISM. — The government has endowed four additional professorships of theology in connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyte rian Church of Ireland; and in addition it is said that two professorships in connection with the Unitarian body in this country have also been endowed. • The prospects of Erin are beginning to brighten. The idea of a famine winter is fading away. The latest accounts state that " corn and provisions of all kinds are becoming more abundant, and, greatly to the satisfaction of all par ties save one, the speculators and hoarders are likely to be the sufferers in the combination to uphold the market prices of food beyond their natural level." Twelve months ago, owing to the great mass of notices of railway bills, the Dublin Gazette was increased to six or eight times the ordinary dimensions. Now tbere is scarcely a railway scheme to be heard of, and the Gazette is filled with proclamations from the lord lieutenant for presentment sessions, to adopt measures for the relief of the destitute, Demerara portance whatever that the crops are Wo r king exceedingly well, notwithstanding immense quantity of rain had fallen, more particularly in Jamaica. Such wet weather had not been experienced for many seasons. Just previous to the sailing of the packet it bad moderated. Sickness bad prevailed to some extent in Jamaica, but the disease was on the decline. The storm of the llth October was not felt at Vera Cruz to any great extent. however, a severe that Tt _ visited Montego Bay, Trelawney, and Falmouth in parti- I much damage was done to some of the craft in the harbour d on board the Tc eed on the 16th of and was buried at idad, and time. s in a very infirm state of health at the PORTUGAL THE INSURRECTION.—FALMOUTH, Nov. 19.—The smack Marys, Captain M'Lennen, arrived in this port last night from Lisbon,•having left the Tagus on the 11th inst. at three p.m. From information received from Captain Ms Lellan. it would appear that Lisbon was in a state of great confusion and excitement when she sailed, and fears were generally entertained that the success of the queen's troops were very doubtful, although no news had reached of any decisive engagement having taken place between Saldanha and the popular faction. The British squadron was in a state of instant preparation for receiving and pro tecting the queen end family, if deemed necessary, and no sailors or marines had landed. The American frigate, which had sailed for Oporto, was not only not allowed to but had •nd totally eat dismast en fired upon by the batieri and had been towed into a neighbouring port ly loss had occurred Captain Ati,ellen did not Wheth The _ &ought no letters whereby to gain detailed information. — Timer. 11 1arys lef Marys has CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Cape of Good Hope papers have arrived to the 18th of September. The latest intelligence from Graham's Town, the neighbourhood of the Caffre war, reaches to the 12th of the month, at which date it appears the governor had fallen back to Line Drift, on account of the difficulty ex perienced in obtaining provisions for the troops. Sir Andries Stockenstram had, it is stated, left the command of bis forces, and returned to his farm, in consequence of differences with the governor. Acc ,rding to these ad vices, the aborigines continue their depredations, and a large number of oxen and sheep have been swept away from several of thoae farms which were not thoroughly protected. On the Baviaan river and at Bottas post the Caffres seem to have been irresistible.—Times. THE WAR IN MEXICO (From a Correspondent who has resided many years in that country.) The news brought by the Caledonia, after having pe rused our various columns from the United States and Mexico, certainly gives us a very different idea of the future success of our Anglo-Saxon friends, from that be fore mentioned. The battle of Monterey was certainly one of great slaughter, and the official returns, one month after its occurrence, had not reached Washington. The genre Government have hazarded a stroke of mercy at the first trial of participators in the Irish food riots. The rioters of Dungarvon, fifty-one in number, were brought to trial at the quarter sessions, on Tuesday. Mr. Hatchel awed the case against the prisoners very leniently. They pleaded guilty ; the ringleader, Patrick Power, was sen tenced to twelve months' imprisonment, and the other fifty were discharged without sentence on finding sureties. c1egn0.,... At the Association meeting, on Monday, Mr. O'Con that the invaut... , nell announced the heads of eleven bills which he has in ties and ammunition, tn., —_ hands ; but as the bill mania seizes Mr. O'Connell every hot to fire; and we all know that t tut., ,o year, about the same season, we may conclude that the ~en cannot charge with the bayonet, preferring, as their present notices will not be more productive of legislation brief historic lore leads us to believe, being behind trees than their predecessors. They are a regular ruse, and --and, in fact, carrying out the Indian warfare. We never the only inference we draw from them is, that the tribute for an instant doubted the real moral courage of these our is not absolutely abandoned. race, but of course custom, instead of patient, accustomed SHOCKING TRAGEDY.—On Wednesday night, one of submission to their superior officers, has always been their et aracteristic. Ampudia had so admirably placed himself within the the most appalling events took r Lurgan, glace at near Loughrea, when Mr. John Lalor, (brother to Mr. Lalor, inspector of national schools,) who has been for a con wall3 of Monterey with 7000 troops; that although some siderable time past labouring under insanity, set on fire days previously, having received distinct orders from the house in which he resided at Lurgan, and it was con- Santa Anna to retire from that place to Saltillo, was so sumed to ashes. He also shot his sister Sarah, aged 30, convinced of success, that he took this stand upon him whilst endeavouring to induce him to leave the house self, rather than join the two other wings of the 'Mexican when burning. The gun-shot wound inflicted on the army ; and although he has not proved victorious, ac sister at once put an end to her existence.— Galway Mere. cording to acknowledged warfare, he has not been beaten, SUPPRESSION OF THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—His in having made terms by which hostilities are to be dis- Excellency the Earl of Besbot ough hos promised to do it. continued for such a while, taking all private property, His will be a bloodless victory and an easy one. The ammunition. and six field pieces with him, thus allowing modus operandi is simple. " 1 will," said his Excellency, Santa Anna's great trap for the States' soldiers to take of down the Repeat A.slbeteafttlo w by giving. plane: ill, ...ti effect, by inveigling them into the passes of the mono- " tains, and between the passes. They now have a park of the leaders!" John O'Connell is marked down for a commissionership of stamps or excise at £2,000 a-year— thirty field pieces to act upon them, which, if well ma " say £2,000 ;" Captain Brodrick a stipendiary's corn naged, must cut the Americans up ; and the firing troops mission in Tobago or some other warm locality ; and then will be thoroughly slaughtered by the Guerillas, who there will remain but Robert Dillon Browne and one or have a deadly hate towards their northern brethren. two others worth buying at the lowest possible price. A The day will ere now be rued when they penetrated into a strange termination all this will be to a ten years' fierce peaceful country, in the rapacious and unjustifiable spirit agitation for a Repeal of the Union. which they have exhibited. The cabinet have indeed at 'W as hington disgraced their country an d countrymen, by REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The meeting on Monday wa enlivened by the presence of one of the Roman Ca emptying their coffers in such a pernicious warfare, in tholic bishops, Dr. Browne, of Elphine, and the receipt having pandered to the worst passions of their western of more money than has for several weeks past been poured brethren ; for which a just Providence will visit with a into the repeal exchequer. The week's rent was an serious loss the most valorous of their troops. nounced at 1:372 3s. 2d., of which £2OO came from Boa- The fleet now remains actively employed between Pen ton, and £2O from Patterson, in America, and £63 from sacola and Matamoras, Vera Cruz, &c., &c. Report the Roman Catholic bishop and clergy in Waterford. Mr. states that it is their early intention to make an attack O'Connell was present, and made a speech, abusing the upon Alvarado and Tampico. After passing the bar at Young Irelanders, for whom he declared" he did not care these two places, the attackers will require to proceed at He announced " that the Roman Catholic least eleven miles in small boats up the river, the banks two p ence." of which are so thoroughly covered with wood of great prelates assembled in synod, last week , in Dublin, had done him the honour of entrusting to his care certain pe thickness, that, with tact and zeal, the attacked wia not allow a living man to enter either of their ports. The titions to Parliament, which they had agreed upon. One ano visest course would be, seeing their immediate danger, at of these was for an amendment of the Bequests Act ; third, to attack the castle of St. Juan de Ulloa ; but of they for an alteration of the marriage law ; and a complaining of the persecution of the religious orders on able fully to anticipate coming events. der existing laws. supposition however, seems to be, that the slaughter had been much greater than that which we glean from the daily papers ; that it exceeds 800 killed and wounded; and notwithstanding the great clemency which they endeavour to blind the world with, the terms which General Taylor made to the Mexicans are those, not of a great and decisive victor, but of one who was 7hted to make terms in any way. Private letters state that the invaders were so desperately off with regard and ammunition, that they had in reality not to supplies e are u ALGERIA. (From the 3loniteur Alge'rien.) OVERFLOWING OF THE ARRACH. ,tful catastrophe took place the day before yes- OXFORD, Nov. 19 —The following degrees have been The Arrach, swelled by the heavy rains which conferred :—Bachelor in Civil Law: Rev. J. A Hessey, len in the course of that day and the preceding fellow of St. John's College, head master of Merchant overflowed its banks and inundated the lower part I Tailors' School, commutation.—Masters of Arts; C. J. Mitidjab. Towards nine o'clock the Parke, Oriel ; Rev. A. Forbes, Brazennose ; Rev. E. T. inundation was increasing, and the water rushed on with Waters, Worcester ; Rev. W. Dalton, Pembroke, incor rapidity and fury. Of the eleven houses composing the porated from Trinity College, Dublin.—Bachelors of - Malson Carree, seven had already disap- Arts : F. R. I'. Bastard, Balliol (grand compounder); all that they contained. Here and there H. C. Butler, Queen's; J. W. R. Roy, and J. R. Hen were perceived the wretched inmates hurried by the water wood, All Souls'; S. I'. H. Jervois, J. H. Wotlehouse, toward the sea. Before they reached it they disappeared F. E. Tuke, J. W. Parker, and C. W. Goode, Brazen under enormous waves, occasioned by the collision of the nose; W. T. Browning, Exeter; H. R. Wedmore and waters of the Arrach with the high tide. All human suc- H. S. Polehampton, Pembroke; E. Eade, Balliol; A. cour was impossible; it was a frightful spectacle which King, Oriel. nothing can describe. Towards ten o'clock the inn of La The Rev. Wm. Dalton has been apphinted by the Lord Nonvelle France, on the roof of which eight or ten per- Bishop of the Diocese Rural Dean of Wolverhampton. sons had sought refuge, fell into the water. Seven of The Rev. J. A. James, of Birmingham, has refused to them followed the course of the stream on the ruins of the assume the degree of D.D. conferred on him by the Uni roof ; it was in vain that attempts were made to rescue versity of Glasgow. them, and they could not be induced to trust to Swim- PREDOMINANCY OF THE CHURCH.—ACCOrdingtO the ming. They were soon overwhelmed by the water, and a last return of the Registrar General for England and few moments afterwards an unhappy mother, with a child Wales, 79 per cent. of the population are baptised, 90.7 in her arms, was carried away, and also disappeared. per cent. are married, and 85 per cent. are buried accord- Nine persons were seen on a hillock, about a hundred ing to the rites of the established religion. metres below the bridge, only part of which was discern- Sonoa AND MAN. -L - 41e Rev- Dr. J. Griffith is to be ible. They had only a few metres of earth left. Two or the new bishop of this Diocese, vacant by the translation three others were clinging to the ruins of the chimney of of Dr. Short to the see of St. Asaph. By the last returns, the inn; eight persons shut up in a house near the bridge the income of the vacant See was £2OOO per annum.— uttered cries of distress, and called for help ; a few metres Post. [The Morning Herald of yesterday contradicts further on was the roof of a house in the water, with this; and, with an air of authority, announces that Arch -yen or eight persons in it. The greatest efforts were deacon Shirley will have the vacant Bishoyric.].. _ _ UNIVERSITY (5- CLERICAL NEWS. of the plain of t: of the peared, with . made to save the persons who were on the hilock, but Th e Church Building Society resumed its sittings on nobody could get to them, and the gendarme Schmitt, Monday last, the Lord Bishop of London in the chair. who had courageously plunged i n t o th e wa t er to convey The payment of grants were ordered to seventeen parishes, ropes to them, would have perished, but for the devoted providing addit:onal accommodation for 8124 persons; of aid of Corporal Aubert, who had himself a few moments which 2958 were free sittings. Several new applications before vainly attempted to reach the unfortunate suf- were examined, and votes of money granted ; including a ferers. During this time efforts were made, though new district Church at Paddington ; Eccles, Lancashire ; unfortunately without avail. on the right bank. Twenty an d a nother at Dukinfield, St. Mark's D:strict, Chester. men of the 6 , h Company of Native Sharpshooters, corn- LORD RECTOR OF GLA SGOW UNIVERSITY.—The elec mantled by Lientenant Tirard, as well as some men be- tion of this office was proceeded with on Monday last, the longing to the sth Chasseurs, threw themselves into the c andidates nominated being the poet Wordsworth, and river, in the hope of saving, by swimming, some of the I Lord John Russell. The result of the gross poll was a p er sons in danger. Their efforts were, however, useless, m ajority of 21 for Wordswoi th, the numbers being 212 as the current carried them away so s t r o ng ly that ten of and 191 ; but as the election is conducted by sections, or them were near perishing. A sergeant and two Native " nations," of which there are four, and each candidate Sharpshooters were lost in this manifestation of devoted- having a majority in two of them, the Vice-Rector, Dr. ness. About twelve o'clock a boat was brought to the Nicholl, gave his casting vote in favour of Lord John spot from Algiers, with four boatmen to guid e it. These ' Russell. It is, however, surmised that, under the cir men speedily set to work, and after four hours' perilous cumstancet, his Lordship will not accept the office. efforts, succeeded in saving nineteen persons. By four SEE OF ST. ASA PH.—An order in council has just o'clock the bridge had considerably fallen, and aid could been promulgated, carrying into effect the recommenda be afforded to the nine individuals spoken of above, who tion of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners that the Bishop were also saved. The bridge of the ford of Constantino, of St. Asaph do pay into the credit of the Ecclesiastical which had been carried away by the waters, floated down Commissioners, the fixed sum of £l,BOO by half-yearly until it came against that of the Maison Car ree. As it payments, that being the excess of the income of the see might prove a great obstacle to the flowing off of the• over and above the sum of £1,200, which the Commis water, soldiers were set to work to remove it. In an rnissioners believe would be a suitable annual income for hour after, the circulation was restored, and no danger a Bishop of St. Asaph. The recommendation is made in existed for either habitations or individuals. The troops, c onsequence of the provision for uniting the see of St. in consequence, were permitted to withdraw. The num- i Asaph and Bangor not having yet come into operation ; ber of dead is now known to be twenty-three in all, and a n d the appointment to the bishopric, though made, is not seven dead bodies have been as yet found. On the 4th, yet completed. the loss in constructions and goods was estimated by the DR. SCORESBY'S SERMON TO THE FEMALE FACTORY Mayor of Itussein Dey at 2G.000f. We just now have OPERATIVES.—On Sunday week, the Rev. Dr. Scoresby learned that the principal bridges over the Nlitididi have delivered his promised lecture to the female factory opera suffered severely. Those of the ford of Constantino, of tives of Bradford and neighbourhood. Long before the the Oued-el.Kebir, the Chiffa, and the Mazafran, are ' commencement of the service, the church was crowded, destroyed ; those of Rovigo and Mok-a.Khera have and many hundreds had to go away, finding it utterly im stood firm• It is to be feared that the habitations of the possible even to obtain standing room. The church is colonists in the province of Algiers have suffered. considered to be capable of holding upwards of 3000 peo ple, and of this number fully 2000 were mill girls. The Mr. E. Eyre is to be appointed Lieutenant-Governor of scene was interesting in the extreme, and must have given New 'Zealand, under Governor Grey, the worthy vicar the greatest satisfaction. It is the vicar's Canada is shortly to be annexed to the United States intention at the request of the factory girls, to publish the by magnetic t e l e graph wires, the contract for a line from sermon in a cheap form for their use. The test was taken Buffalo to Toronto being taken at 125 dollars the mile— from Numbers, 10th chapter, and part of the 29th verse, 4,000 dollars the entire distance. —" Come thou with us, and we will do thee good." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. RAILWAY INTELLIUENCE. Notice has been given of an intended railway from the Birkenhead line to Parkgate. It is calculated that upwards of £260,600 are paid weekly to railway labourers in England. The Bedford Branch of the London and North-Western Railway was opened on Tuesday. It is said that Major-General Pasley has ceased to be the government inspector of railways, and that Captain Coddington, deputy inspector, will probably succeed him. The opening of the Penmaen Bach tunnel, on the Ches. ter and Holyhead Railway, was celebrated last week at Conway with great rejoicings. A Fox OUTDONE.—A fox, in attempting to cross the Whitstable Railway when the last train was coming to this city on Saturday night, was run down, and its head com pletely severed from its body.—Kentish paper. No passengers whatever are conveyed on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway on Sundays, nor any work done beyond what the post-office can compel by act of parlia ment, viz., the carrying of the royal mail bags. A GOOD RESOLVE.—The Great Western have given notice of their intention to apply to Parliament for powers to erect bridges over the line where the public roadways cross on a level. The junction tunnel between the Midland and the Shef field and Manchester Railway is now open for the goods traffic only, and the average number of waggons of goods daily are from thirty to forty. The works on the Trent Valley line have been pushed forward with almost unparralleled rapidity ; and there is every probability that the line will be ready for opening by the middle of March next. EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—AMOTIESt the powers to be applied for by the London and North Western Rail way Company, of which notice is given for next session, there is power to enter into agreement with the East Lan cashire Company, for the working of all or any portion of that railway. On Friday morning last, the early railway train be tween Kendal and Lanca-ter ran over and killed a fine black cat, which was crossing the line with a mouse, and was too intent upon her prey to notice the 'approach of the engine. The cat was afterwards found completely cut in two, with the mouse firmly fixed between her teeth. The first general meeting of the shareholders of the Paris and Strasburg Railway took place in Paris last week, and went off satisfactorily. A very full account and report of the state of the works was given, from which it appears that the first 120 to 140 miles from Paris are ex pected to be opened in the spring or autumn of 1848. SHEFFIELD CAN AL.—On Monday, the 9th instant, a special general meeting of the Sheffield Canal Company was held in the Town-hall, at which it was agreed to sell the canal and property connected with it, to the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company, for a perpetual an nuity of ss. on each share of the canal. . . Mr, John Platford. who, owing to ill health, was obliged to give up the managership of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, has been succeeded by Mr. Eborall, jun., assistant-general goods manager at the Birmingham Station of the London and North Western Railway. Mr. Hargreave has been appointed superintendent at the Sheffield terminus, and Mr. Burney goods agent.. On Thursday, a workman left the Chesterfield station in a railway carriags, taking his day dinner with him, but on reaching his destination, he left it in the carriage. Having communicated his loss to the station clerk, the telegraph was set to work, and an answer quickly ob tained that the dinner was found, and would be sent by the next train. . The Norfolk Railway Company are about to erect a slaughter-house at their Trowse station, about a mile from the Norwich cattle market, for the purpose of slaying the bullocks there, and taking the slain meat, instead of the live bullocks, to the London market. This (says a corre spondent) is to obviate the complaints so constantly made, of the beasts being bruised so much upon the rail in their journey. RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER THE TWEED.—The con tract for building the bridge over the Tweed, in connec tion with the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, haLjust been let to Messrs. I‘ , l'J ay and 131ackstock for £184;000. The bridge will be a light and elegant structure ; its height is 120 feet, the arches are twenty-seven in number, and we need scarcely say that it will be one of the noblest ar chitectural objects in the kingdom. SALE OF THE PAISLEY AND RENFREW RAILWAY.— On Tuesday last, a competition took place at Renfrew between the Caledonian and Ayrshire Railway Companies, which are respectively promoting the Glasgow and Neil son Direct, and the Paisley and Hurlet Branch Railways, for the Paisley and Renfrew line, which, ultimately, was sold to the Ayrshire Company, who guarantee 6 per cent. per annum, and which has raised the shares to £1 2s. 6d. premium on the original stock. THE NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION.—An undertaking formed by amalgamation of the Leeds and Carlisle, the York and Glasgow Union, and the York and Carlisle companies, having obtained an Act for the formatio❑ of two lines, which expressly provides that the two lines shall be proceeded with simultaneously, lately decided to proceed with the line up Wensleydale and postpone the making of the other from Auckland to Tebay. The shareholders resident at Barnard Castle are very indignant and threaten law proceedings. The Railway Times, in giving the paragraph from the Sunday Times relative to the attempted bribery of a rail way official, appends " fudge at the end, whilst the Railway Record says that Mr. C. A. Saunders. Secretary of the Great Western Railway, is the official referred to. The Railway Chronicle says that the idea of Mr. Saun der's retirement from the Great Western Railway Com pany has been Mooted, and that a sum has been talked of as a proper consideration for his past services, and that the report has originated from that circumstance. The adjourned meeting of the Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby Company was held on Thursday, at Rotherham. The result was, that the old company is dissolved—but the report presented by the directors was so satisfactory, that it was determined to adopt their re port, and to carry out the suggestions of the directors, by applying to Parliament for a line to connect Rotherham with Doncaster, which has become necessary through the contemplated changes in the London and York scheme between Retford and Doncaster. The shares represented at the meeting amounted to 10,455. LIABILITIES OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE-MEN. — In the Court of Common Pleas, on Friday. rules nisi were granted in two cases, in which verdicts had been given against Provisional Committee-men. The one was in the case of Parratt v. King. in connection with the Tonbridge and Rye Harbour Direct Railway ; and the other was that of Shaw v. Clarkson, in the London, Ports mouth, and Chichester Railway. In the Secondlries Court, Mr. Barnett, a printer, got a verdict for £ll2 against Mr. Newte, one of the Provisional Directors of the Jamaica Southern and Eastern Railway. VERDICTS AGAINST THE NORTH WESTERN RAIL WAY COMPANY.—TWO writs of inquiry were heard on Wednesday, at Warwick. before the sheriffs of the county, to assess damages in actions brought against the North Western Railway, for compensation for injuries received by a collision at Coventry, on the 2nd of June, 1845. Juigrnent bad been allowed to go by default in both cases ; the plaintiff, being Mr. Haywood, an attorney, of Birmingham, and his wife. The first action was for the injuries snstained by Mrs. Haywood. The collision oc curred whilst the train was waiting at the Coventry sta tion, and it was caused by the negligence of the man who had the charge of the points. There were two collisions, from the effects of which the carriage in which Mrs. Hay wood was, bounded twice into the air, and she was thrown with great violence from side to side of the carriage; her face was lacerated and she received a severe concussion of the brain, from the effects of which she has not vet re covered. Sergeant Allen addressed the jury for the plaintiff, who claimed £5OO damages. Mr. Macaulay ap peared for the company, and called for the production of the correspondence between the plaintiff and defen dants, i❑ order to show that the company had manifested a disposition to meet the injury in a spirit of fair and ho nourable compensation. The jury gave their verdict for the plaintiff for £3OO ; costs, 40s.—In a second case, in which Mr. Haywood alone was plain iff, to recover ex penses to which he had necessarily been put by the illness of his wife, such as medical attendance, travelling, &c.. a verdict was taken for the plaintiff, by consent, for £7O ; costs, 40s. SEVENTH ADDRESS TO THE PROTESTANTS OF THE EMPIRE. BY THE COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL CLUB. But, some say, though you repudiate Romish priests, you admit, nay you invite the co-operation of your own clergy. Where is the difference ? Why not get rid of the priestcraft altogether ? Our answer is-1 he English Church is an enemy to priestcraft, by her principles, by her lows, by her history, by the temper of her people, by the spirit of her clergy. And if you wish to know the difference between an Eng lish clergyman and a Romiob priest, here it is : The English clergyman is a counsellor of peace, hold ing forth God's truth ; the Romish priest is an instigator of strife, hawking about the lies of Popery. The English clergyman comes to you with the Bible in his hand, and appeals to your judgment and your consci ence ; the Romish priest would rob you of your Bible, and tells you to submit blindfold to the decrees of his church. The English Clergyman teaches men to worstip God and to honour the King, to do their duty to their fellow men with the hope of heaven before their eyes ; the Ro mish priest teaches men to worship the Virgin and to ho nour the Pope, and, with the fear of purgatory before their eyes, to pay their "duty" to the priest. The English clergyman teaches men how, with "a con science void of offence towards God and man," they should " hold fast the liberty wherewith Christ has made them free ;" the Romish priest, prying into men's consciences, and the consciences of their wives and children, rivets their sins together in a chain, wherewith be holds them fast in the bond of iniquity. This is the difference between the English clergyman and the Romish priest; and, therefore, the Burnish priest is a fit tool for fastening the yoke of error and supersti tion upon the neck of a nation of slaves subject to the tyranny of the Pope, while the English clergyman is a fit minister for diffusing the blessings of Christ's grace and truth among a nation of freedom subject to the lawful so vereign in the fear of God. But, say others, granting that there is this difference between the English clergyman and the Romish priest, that the church of England is a blessing to this nation, and the Church of Rome a curse to any people—still, why call the English clergyman into your counsels, why make him a party to the political action of the National Club, and of the associations which rally around it-? We answer,—That from the remotest period of our his tory, in British, in Saxon, and in Norman times, accord ing to the terms of the Magna Charts, according to the principles of the Reformation, according to the settlement of the Protestant Constitution by the Bill of Rights, the clergy have always been one of the estates of the realm, and as such have had their share assigned them in the ad- ministration of public affairs; but that for more than a century past they have been excluded from that influence which the Constitution originally assigned to them. That if the influence of the clergy had been allowed to ue, our church herself would have been maintained in a state of greater efficiency, and'safe from the lament able confusion and divisions with which she is reproached ; the State would have been preserved from the course of godless legislation in which it is engaged, and this Chris tian land would have been spared the curse and the dis grace of seeing a large portion of its population grow up in a state of spiritual destitution and of practical infidelity. That in a land where God's truth is recognised, and the instruction of the people in that truth provided for by the State, the business of legislation and public administra tion ought not to turn, and cannot turn exclusively upon the affairs of this world. That even in regard to the affairs of this world, the principles of religion ought not to be set aside by a people profe,sing allegiance to God's truth ; that more especially all the institutions and all the laws which affect the intel ligence and the morals of the people must bear the stamp of those principles, if they are to harmonise with the - - tion's faith. That the ministers of religion are, by their very calling, which is truly not of this world, responsible for the reli gious conduct of the nation not only in private but in pub lic life ; and that they ought, therefore, to have a voice— and that an influential voice—in the discussion of public questions. Let but the clergy and the laity of our church go hand in hand—let them but make an united effort to recal the nation to its ancient principles, its hereditary faith ; and, evil as the times are, we have no cause to despair. The truth is mighty, it will preva.l! RICHARD NUGENT, Hon. Secretary. 13, Cockipur-street, Nov. 20. THE SHORT TINIE EXPERIMENT IN LANCASHIRE The Lancashire manufacturers are determined to prove the absurdity of the idea of realising short hours by mu tual agreement. Their wiser workmen (being taught true wisdom in the Ten Hour Bill school) have begged them to curtail the production ; and have offered to take their share of the loss. And after a while, when they had their own interests in their eyes, most of the masters were un derstood to have consented to a general working of short time. But we, says the Halifax Guardian, knew them better than to believe that this would last long, or go far. And now in these short weeks how do matters stand ? The Manchester Guardian and Manchester Courier of Wednesday both tell the same tale. The markets are dull, and prices falling. And yet, though the interest of the masters is thus directly involved iu short time, the Guardian says,—" We do not hear of any further exten sion of short time this week," for that " the attempts to produce a general agreement for that purpose at Ashton, Stalybridge, and Hyde have failed for the present." And the Courier carries out this evidence of folly by declaring, " We hear of several concerns that had gone on to short time, !riving commenced full time again." We therefore repeat our problem of the 24th ult., and call upon tLe opponents of factory legislation to answer (if they can) this simple rule of three question—" If a rising cotton market, and a depressed demand for yarns and cloth, cannot bring about a general agreement for a reduction of the hours of labour, for the master's own benefit, what extreme algebraic sign for an unknown quantity shall represent the chance of such an agreement, with none of these inducements, and for the sole benefit of the workmen?" " A NUT TO CRACK TOUCHING THE TREATY OF UTRECHT." (From the London Guardian.) The Ulysses of modern Europe will not deserve credit for the astuteness which distinguished his great prototype, it he suffers his vaulting ambition to carry him over the barriers of Utrecht, for no one knows better than he does the value of that treaty to the House of Orleans ; and although he may desire to repudiate some distasteful clauses, which are now invoked against him, we suspect that he will he reluctant to invalidate others to which he may hereafter appeal. That the aforesaid treaty was framed with one grand olject—an object which the mutual renunciations were intended to subserve, and by the light of which they ought to be read ; that these renunciations, read them how you will, do not bar rights acquired through colla terals—these are the positions on which Louis Philippe founds his case. Grant them true—which we are well disposed to do ; but let us follow them out to their legi tiroate consequences ; Has the King no other cause de pending in which these pleas may be used as admissions against himself? Has he no favourite hobby, to which they may oppose an awkward impediment? His great object since 1830 has been to legitamise him self upon the throne. He would rather be King of France and Navarre, by the grace of God, and by virtue of hereditary succession, than King of the French by the will of the sovereign people. He holds himself forth as the veritable successor of Henri Quatre and Louis Quar torze. He rebuilds the chateau of Pau—he restores the salons of Versailles ; Le Bon Roi reappears in Beam, and Le Grand Monarque in Paric, both identified with him, " pia nepotis Augusti munificentia redivivi." He would fain he the head of the Bourbon family ; hence he asserts an interest in tke marriage of Queen Isabella, and forbids the banns with any but a prince of that ancient stock. Ile sends to London, to be placed in the Royal Exchange, the white shield, blazoned with the golden lilies, although they are proscribed in his capital. He cultivates the friendship of the Autocrat abroad, and of the legitimists at home, describing the Duke of Bordeaux t ß o u t be e v t e h n e u g p e o n n u ine this r v e i p e r w e s a e n i t i a n t k i v t m h a e ip a s n t e o ie c n o t n k )p i le gs e . as impossible, and having thus set him a s id e , h e c l a i ms y e et of re the chain of succession to Louis XIV., and that link is supplied by the Treaty of Utrecht. The Dauphin, son of Louis XIV., had three sons. The Duke of Bordeaux is the sole male representative G f the Duke of Burgundy. the eldest son. But there are not wanting descendants of the Duke of Anjou, the second son, and the head of that branch is Don Carlos, while Louis Philippe has to trace his line back to the second son of Louis XIII. flow, then. are the claims of Don Carlos, as next heir to Louis XIV., in default of issue of the Duke of Bordeaux, excluded ? By the renunciations of his ancestor, Philip of Anjou, when established as King of Spain, to all claims on the throne of France. But if the renunciations of the Duke of Orleans to the Spanish crown are not binding on his descendants, how can those of the Duke of Anjou to the inheritance of his French ancestors be more obli gatory ? If Louis Philippe, who wants a throne for his son, may repudiate one clause of the treaty, why may not Don Carlos, who wants a throne for himself, dispense with another clause ? If there are " no more Pyrenees" visible from Paris, bow can they be viewed from the side of Madrid? We know of one mode alone in which this problem can be solved. It is worthy of the genius of Talleyrand, but it savours at the same time of the spirit of the Old Bailey. Coxe mentions that the renunciation of Philip V. was confirmed by a solemn oath, but that it was a remarkable fact, that, either from negligence or connivance, the Dukes of Orleans and Berri gave only a mere declara tion. This circumstance of the insertion of the words " Nous jurons solemnellement sur les evangiles," &c., in the acts, and the omission of the solemnity of the oath, was commented on by Bolingbroke at the time, as " car rying something along with them which neither the Queen nor he liked ;" but the renunciation was a fait accompli, and the transaction too far advanced to be " overhauled"—so it passed. Are we now to learn the force and meaning of this omission? Are we to be told that the descendants of Philip of Anjou are bound by his oath, that those of Philip of Orleans are unsworn ? We will not think so ill either of the honesty or the sagacity of the King of the French, as to believe that he will be willing to avail him self of this plea, or so audacious as to put it forward. And if not, the arch-intriguer is caught on the horns of a dilemma. If the treaty be binding, Lord Palmerston re lies on it for his protest against the offspring of the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier. If it be of no effect, Louis Philippe must descend from his lofty pedestal—he can not be head of the Bourbon family, but must be content to reign a citizen king, with a patent bearing date from July, 1830 ; for even supposing no such restoration to await young Henry as was achieved by his illustrious namesake, he must still be prepared to find a new pre tender to the throne of Hugh Capet in the Count of Mentemolin, seeking to avenge, under the character of Charles XI., the twofold wrongs offered to unf,rtunate kinsmen—the forced abduction of Charles X. of France, and the protracted imprisonment of Charles V. of Spain. Nov. 24, 1846. apologies made by those who were indifferent to Protest , antism on behalf of Rome. He had always found this to be the practical experience of almost every Christian, that all forms and modes of error would close, conspire, and co-operate when Bible evangelical truth was to be put down or overturned.. _ He had met with a remarkable exemplification of thii conviction during the last summer, when visiting the west of England. He referred to meet ings he had held on behalf of the British Reformation - Society at Bridgewater, Taunton, and Torquay, at which places the Roman Catholic priests and the Sociniart preachers combined to put him down. Their efforts were not successful, and be entered into statements showing that, by what they had heard at those meetings, many Roman Cathol'es had been converted to Potestantism and many wavering Protestants con fi rmed and renewed in their faith. The reverend lecturer added interesting accounts of his discussions with popish priests at Wool wich, Chelsea, and Bermondsey, in the history of which he introduced his answers given on those occasions to the doctrines of popery, and by this indirect route, be sug gested to his audience a vast variety of reasons for the faith that was in them. The principal, however, of these practical conflicts and controversies was at Hammersmith, where he engaged with Mr. French, a Roman Catholic barrister, in which the whole of the popish theology seemed to have been sifted with a vigilance worthy of Luther himself ; but as that discussion has been printed, we need say little more than that it was upon the most vital points of Romanism. In the course of narrating the arguments on the Invocation of Saints, several atro cious corruptions in the Psalter of St. Benevento were pointed out by the reverend gentleman. In the Te Deum wherever the name of God and of the Lord occurred, they bad been expunged, and the name of the Virgin Nary substituted. The 95th psalm in our prayer -book com menced with, "0 come, let us sing unto the Lord : let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation :" in this matter it stood, "0, come, let us sing unto our Lady Mary, let us heartily rejoice before the Virgin who brings us salvation." Other psalms were named with which a similar liberty had been taken. There was also the Atha nasian Creed. He had none of the dislike to this creed which :rimy persons felt : but he did not like it one whit the better for its popish " improvements," for it said, " Whosover wisheth to be saved it is essential that be hold a firm faith concerning Mary," and "unless be keep this faith he shall perish." Then as to the Te Deum and our noble Liturgy. The former was the nearest approach to the sublimity of inspiration that could be conceived ; and nothing would more rejoice him than to hear sang in all the parochial churches of Scotland, "Thou art the king of glory, 0 Christ," or to hear prayed that most beautiful petition, " In all time of our tribulation ' • in all time of our. wealth ; in the hour of death and i n the day of judgment, good Lord deliver us." (Applause.) He recollected when he first entered an English parish church after coming from Scotland hearing a clergyman who prayed that prayer : he was not satisfied with reading, be prayed it. (Hear.) fie ( Dr. Cummings) shut his eyes and enjoyed it as thoroughly as though the supplication had been extemporaneous; and he should never forget those words. The Te Deum was meet praise for saints to offer—meet praise for God to hear. But could the meeting conceive how horrified he was when he read it, as amended by a distinguished saint and cardinal of the Rornish church ? "We praise thee, 0 Mary, as the mo ther of God : all the earth cloth worship thee, spouse of the Eternal. To thee all angels cry aloud, Holy, Holy, art thou, 0 Mary, mother of God : heaven end earth are full of thy glory ! And so it went on to the close. (Hear.) Then in the Litany it was said, "Be merciful to us and spare us, 0 Lady !" " From all evil and mischief, --, 0 Mary." "In all time of tribulation, in deliver u THE C_ , URT 6- FASHIONABLE WORLD. The Court left Windsor for Osborne on Wednesday. Her Majesty will continue at the Isle of Wight until the Ist of December, when the royal visit to the Duke of Norfolk at Arundel Castle will take place. At the ter mination of that visit the Queen will go back to Osborne House, and remain there till the Court's return to Windsor for the winter. _ . .. .. Sir William Massey Stanley, Bart., arrived in town, on Friday, from Houton Hall, Cheshire. The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, and the Ladies Egerton have arrived in Belgrave-square. from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, at Trentham-hall. The l'Torninq Post contradicts, on authority, a report in the French papers that Prince Louis Napoleon Bona parte was about to marry Miss Burdett Coutts. LAW INTELLIGENCE Twenty-six Irish barristers died last year, and 83 were called within the same period to the bar. The Small Debts Act will coo e into operation the first week in January. It has been arranged that Mr. Ferrand shall show cause to-day (Tuesday) against the rule obtained by Mr. Lewis, the poor law commissioner, for libel. In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, the sth instant, Lord Denman stated that a user of twenty years did not give an absolute right of road, though un doubtedly it furnished strong evidence of the existence of such right : the right itself could not be created but by deed. COURT ETIQUETTR.—Mr. Sumuel Peet, a member of the Society of Friends, who was called to the Irish bar this term, in moving for a scire facias addressed his lord ship thus :—" Mav it please the Court, I am directed by my client to ask," &c.. instead of conforming to the usual form of opening a motion—" May it please your lordship.s" The distinction did not appear to be observed by the Court, but it was at once recognised by the members of the bar, amongst whom it created some merriment. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Lady B—, the wife of a dis tinguished Lord, was a few week. since Fo alarmingly ill, occasioned by a disorder in the Liver and Stomach, as to induce the pill sicians to disclose to the Hon. Mr. D—, her Ladyship's son-in-law, that they entertained hut little hopes of her recovery. In that state, arid unbeknown to her medical attendant, she was strongly advised to try Holloway's celebrated Pills, which she took for only thr e e weeks, when she found herself ,as well as ever she was in her life. The accuracy of this extraordinary atatepent can be proved beyond all doubt. BRITISH REFORMATION SOCIETY. Two lectures on Popery were delivered on the evenings of Tuesday and Friday last, in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson• street, by the Rev. Dr. Cumming of London, an eminent minieter of the Established Church of Scotland, whose able advocacy of the truths of Protestantism are well known in the metropolis and elsewhere. The Rev. Hugh M'Neile presided on both occasions; and the plat form was filled by a most respectable assemblage of clergy, merchants, and others. In his first lecture, Dr. CUMMING introduced a short review of the conduct of the Roman Catholic Bishop, Wareing, whose explanations in the Morris perversion have been the theme for strong animadversion by the indepen dent press. Dr. Wareing, he observed, had acted a most consistent part. If be had acted otherwise, he would not have been doing his duty to his church. The principles of his church and the practice of the Bishop were, in this matter, in happy harmony ; for Rome held that when her people were asked concerning their faith, they might either conceal or confess it—that it was lawful to conceal their faith, if a greater good could be accomplished thereby, than by acknowledging it. And, therefore, if Dr. Ware ing bad given young Morris a dispensation to conceal his faith from his parents, he acted only upon the precedents set by St. Signori, who laid it down that it was lawful to use equivocation when equivocation was necessary for the interests of the church. Approaching the more immedi ate subject of the lecture, Dr. Cumming remarked that he neither desired nor designed to cast any new light upon it. Popery seemed to him a grand perversion of all the distinguishing truths of the gospel ; and here was " the mystery of iniquity." Infidelity was Satan acting at least a honest part : Popery was Satan acting the part of an angel of light. One system denied all truth ; the other admitted all truth, but only to crucify, to vitiate, and annihilate. The one, therefore, was properly called the " mystery of iniquity", for it made God's truth the caterer of men's lies, God's word the pioneer to man's superstitions; it embraced the truth, not for the sake of truth, but for the sake of establishing under its guise those deadly superstitions which ruined souls and dis honoured God. He asked the audience to refer to any one doctrine in the word of God, and then observe how popery perverted and caricatured it. Take the Bible ;it claimed the exclusive monopoly of the circulation of that blessed book. It made baptism a mysterious exorcism; the Lord's Supper, not the impressive and beautiful so lemnity of Sion, but an idol before which the people must prostrate themselves and give worship ; it made prayer—the privilege of Protestants—a penance to Roman Catholics ; it made the minister of God, not the preacher of " Glad tidings," but a sacrificing priest ; it denuded God of his robes of beauty and of glory as a reconciled Father in Christ, and arrayed him with the robes of vengeance, telling the poor sinner, though he suffered, and underwent sacrifices. that lie had penances yet to en dure after Christ had suffered that a guilty world might be finally redeemed ; it regarded our blessed Lord as an im perfect mediator, requiring the intercession of the virgin and saints to eke out his mediation ; it regarded the Holy Spirit as inadequate to sanctify and make us fit for heaven, and told us of a purgatory where souls are purified which the spirit of God could not purify on earth. In short, Popery, pretending to be exclusively apostolical, I the hour of death, in the day of judgment, and from the wqs emphatically the great predicted apostacy of the New torments of the damned, good Mary deliver us." (Hear, Testament. The system was extremely well calculated to hear.) If it were replied to him that he proved these make progress. It was fitted for fallen humanity. It in- perversions from old documents which were extremely sisted upon absolute, unquestioning outward obedience, scarce, he replied , hat the Church was infallibl e; th a t if -whilst it allowed bounds that covered the most congenial tb' '3BO internal licence ; it enacted a ceremonial most stringent ais doctrine were big oemy in the thirteenth century, it could not but be blasphemy now ; that the Church must be consistent. But he was not left to prove those corrup tions from any old hooks, for they were regularly pub lished in the Catholic Psalter by Marini, the Pope's bookseller at Rome, one of which he held in his hand. The Doctor, having concluded his narration of his contest with the Catholic barrister, proceeded to say that in his various engagements he had been met with strong objec tions to the course that was being pursued. It had been alleged by some eminent persons, distinguished members of the Protestant Church, that such a course was cad and mischievous; and he had himself heard Roman Catholic priests say that nothing delighted them so much as meet ings like the present, for the result was an acce-ston to their numbers. That statement bad invariably been made by the priests of the Church of Rome. If the priests found that these meetings were converting their people, was it likely they would say so ? NV( uld they not conceal the fact ? Tne very circumstance of their boasting demonstrated to hint, that these meetings, instead of ma ki ng converts to Rome, were converting Roman Catholics to Protestan tism. (Hear.) He had heard it said that Roman Catho lics were most conscientious in their creed ; and that, therefore, we had no right to pronounce it to be wrong. He believed the Roman Catholic laity were most consci entious : they had perilled their everlasting all upon the truth of their creed. But this did not prove that the creed itself was right. A man might be conscientiously wrong as well as conscientiously right. When we wished to know what was truth and what error, we did not apply to man's conscience, but " to the law and to the testi mony" ; and if one text in the Bible pronounced it wrong, that text would be true, and all men's consciences wrong._ It had been urged that there were many good men in the Church of Rome. He believed there were—many good men. The Bible led bina to believe it to be so, for it said, " Come out of her, my people, lest ye partake of her sins." This text clearly taught him that God had a people in that church. But did it prove that church was tight ? Quite the reverse. It had been urged—even in the House of Commons last year-1 1 attacking Re to give an appeirance of great unity it made the lace- amanism we were attacking Christianity it self. This objection proceeded from a total ignorance of the distinction between the two. Should we be defacing a beautiful tree by removing the catterpillars that preyed upon its walls ? Should we be destroying the gigantic oak by removing the parasite plant that clung to its trunk and branches ? The very reverse. The removal of the plant that fed upon its juices would strengthen the integrity of the oak. So it was with Christianity ; remove popery . from it and you removed an incubus that pressed upon and encumbered it—you would allow it to expand free and un shackled in all its beauty and glory, until, by the blessing Roman results. a ( t C h h o e l j e e r s s h o ei g i re it ot h m ad o jo b r e it e y n o u f rg t e h d e C th h a t t ist t i h att e , of God, it had accomplished its predicted and destined were T world ; and it had been asked if it were right that a hand ful of men upon a little island in the midst of the ocean should presume to say they were right and the rest of the world totally wrong? Truth was not contingent upon majorities or minorities. (Hear.) Our appeal was "to the law and the testimony ;" and if we found our religion sustained by scripture, that religion was true, though its advocates should be confined in dungeons or burned at the stake ; and if popery were found to be condemned by the scriptures, that religion was false, and it must be opposed though the gold of the universe were piled on her altars. It was not the rules of numbers or the doctrines of proportion that determined what was the truth ; but it was this—" What say the set iptures ?" (Hear, hear.) It had also been alleged by the champions of Romanism that she had produced many distinguished men and illustrious literati ; and it could not be supposed to be so corrupt a system, otherwise such accomaished men as the Arch bishop of Carnbray would not have belonged to it. He (Dr. Cumming) replied that Greece and Rome, with the most wretched theology, had the most accomplished scho lars. Infidelity itself enrolled among its ranks Voltaire, Diderot, Gibbon, Hume and many other men of distin guished scholarship. This taught us, and a most import ant lesson it was, that knowledge might be, as Bacon pro claimed it to be—power ; hut that sanctified knowledge alone was peace and holiness and happiness, as well as power. (hear.) It was perfectly possible to obtain great knowledge in science. literature, a..d art, yet with that knowledge to have the most unsanctified and unholy heart : it was possible to be the first among all the ency cloetcleists of the universe, and yet have less knowledge of God than a Sabbath-school child. (Cheers. Some had alleged they did not like controversy, and therefore they dis ipproved of these meetings. If by controversy was understood the calling of hard names, he utterly repudi ated it ; but by controversy he meant contending for the truth in opposition to error, not in the spirit of bigotry, but in the spirit of love and of sound mind. The real question about controversy was—was it scriptdral? St. Paul went into the synagogues and proved out of the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ; St. Jude told us to contend for "the faith once delivered to the saints." The next question was—was controversy calculated to do good ? His answer was, How were our missions in every part of the globe carried on at this moment ? By contro versial discussion. All our precious things had been pur chased at this price, and they must be maintained at the same price. The crown of our Queen and our glorious constitution were sustained only by ceaseless conflict; . and the integrity of the scripture, the safety of our com munion, access to God's word and the social privileges of Protestantism, could only he maintained by controversial conflict. Many sentimental persons exclaimed, " Let us have peace at any sacrifice." Peace cannot be purchased at too high a price. Better truth without peace, than peace without truth. (Hear.) Again, he asked what had made England what she was, and elevated her to her rank among the nations ? How came it to pass that in Swit zerland you could tell that one canton was Roman Ca tholic because the people were dirty and idle, and in no sense prosperous; and that another canton was Protes tant, because you saw the people industrious, prosperous, clean, and happy? Why was it that Scotland presented so complete a contrast to Ireland ? How was it that Scotland, with all her faults, was able, with but a few re giments, and a very few police, to keep order? Because it was a land of Bibles, of pure and Protestant Christi anity. How was it that Ireland was in so unhappy a state ? He admitted that there might be political and social faults in that country, but its great governing evil was its prevailing Popery. If it were not so, how was it that Ulster, which was Protestant, presented so marked a contrast to the other three provinces of Connaught, Mun ster, and Leinster, which were Catholic. One was per fectly quiet and peaceful ; the others the scene of constant oneutes. The one was Protestant, and Popery prevailed in the others. He was indeed persuaded that the secret spring of all atm prosperity as Britons was just our Pro testant and Bible Christianity. The secret of the stability of that diadem which girds the Queen of England's brow was the existence of the Protestant Church in the midst of England's government. He believed, therefore, that if that assembly loved their country as patriots, they would identify themselves with this cause ; and if they desired to glorify God and to win souls to Christ, they would throw all their energies into this important and holy cause. (Loud Cheers.) At the close of each lecture, Dr. Cumming received the warmest thanks for his eloquent and truly Christian ex position ; and the proceedings terminated by the Cbais man pronouncing a solemn benediction. ration of the outward man to take the place of the mor tification of the lusts of the soul and the evil affections of fallen nature It was so constructed too as to meet every man's idiosyncracy. If you were metaphysical, it had subtle and skilful disputes left unsolved, upon which you could exercise your acumen ; if you had practical du ties to be performed, such as pilgimages and penances, if you were a man of taste, it had paintings to gratify the eye, poetry to charm the imagination, music the most captivating to rivet the ear—and a great philosopher had said, " if you make captive mans five senses, in mine cases out of ten you nay calculate upon making captive all the rest of the man ?" if you were rich, your wealth was made to help you on the way to Heaven; if you were poor, she would meet your taste in poverty ; if you would whip yourself to heaven, she would make the whip, con secrate it, put it into your hands, and teach you to 1153 it Well. Popery was admirably adapted to human nature; in short, no evidence was needed beyond the religion of Rome to show the false spirit of man's adversary. Satan found that the persecutions of the first three centuries were a mistake, a gross blunder; and when he found that " the bl od of the saints" became the " seed of the church," that the death of the martyrs was only the sig nal for thousands of Christians to spring up, he laid aside the attitude of an open foe and assumed the position of a concealed enemy—undermining Christianity under pro- fessions of friendly attachment. And if jou looked at Popery in the social aspect, the same awful talent was displayed. It was most versatile ; a perfect Proteus. If republicanism was in the ascendant, it was, first and fore most, in preaching democracy ; if despotism was the order of the day, it would cast its instruments before the despot's throne, and put a scourge into the tyrant's hand with which to lash the people. In short, it was a system fitted for all emergencies ' • adapted to all circumstances ; and the more he thought of what Romanism was, the less was he surprised at so many becoming Romanist. He was, in deed, most astonished at so few not becominz Romanists. Like the proud vulture that hovered over t! tle, Popery preyed upon the " dead ;" it dared n t, and might not, touch " the living." (Cheers.) And from its consonancy to human nature Popery was likely to spread still more. The eloquent lecturer here quoted some sta tistics from the Tablet, a Roman Catholic newspaper, shewing the increase which is said to be making to the numbers professing the Popish faith ; and he also referred to Dr. Wiseman's account, as given at Nottingham. of the additions making to their chapels and cathedrals. During the last six years many convents and nunneries for sisters of mercy and sisters of charity had been opened. All these cases of increase he attributed to the modes in which Popery operated upon the fallen nature of man. Parting from this topic, the reverend gentleman said he should next endeavour to obviate some of the pretences of Roman Catholicism, and in the next lecture he would give some account of the practical conflicts and con troversies he had been engaged in during the last few years. (Hear.) It was frequently urged by Roman Catholics that they hold every truth which Protestants hold—the Nicene creed for example—and that all the dif ference was that they only held a little more. They held the Nicene creed with the additions of the articles added to it by Pope Pius IV. (Hear.) The reverend lecturer adverted to these additional articles in some detail, and answered the several pretences of the Church of Rome founded upon them. Then, continued the lecturer, some of the Roman Catholics were continually saying, " look around this great land, and behold its magnificent cathe drals: we, the Roman Catholics, built them, and if we built them, how can our creed be what you represent it to be?" Perhaps, on examination, it might be found that some of the magnificent cathedrals in this country had not been built by Roman Catholics. (Hear.) But suppos ing Popery had erected them all—and he admired them beyond measure, and to hear the Gospel preached in a cathedral was a treat to him he could not find language to describe—did eot Herod and the Jews build temples that were the admiration of the world ? It was possible for these splendid structures to be mausolea and sepul chres instead of temples for living saints wherein to wor ship the living God. But he would refer to instances. - Canterbury Cathedral was built in 1073, York in 1173, Winchester in 1079, and Lincoln in 1118. In other words, our most beautiful cathedrals, or most of them, were raised between the eleventh and the thirteenth centuries. Let any Roman Catholic history be opened, and it would be found that the whole of these cathedrals were raised in all their grandeur when Hildebrand was treading on the necks of princes, making emperors and kings do penance, and kindling the fire of war over the length and breadth of Europe. During the periods when those cathedrals were built there was all the fanaticism of the Crusades ; and the Waldenses were obliged to hide in the caves and dark places of the earth. It was possible, therefore, to build these splendid churches and yet crucify afresh and put to open shame Him who was the light and life and Lord of the Church. Yet Mr. Pugin, according to his own testimony, was converted by the belief that the Roman Catholics had built all these beautiful cathedrals. Catholicism had been grateful to that gentleman. But he could take the meeting to a cathedral more beautiful even than St. Peter's when filled with all the pomp and splen dour of unrestricted Rom,nism—even on the day when on its roof there were lit ten thousand lamps, mating it almost like a sun blazing in the midst of the hills. He could shew them a cathedral grander, nobler, more last ing and more glorious than York, Canterbury, Antwerp, or St. Peter's. He could take them to the spot near which he had spent his earliest years—to the tur-covered cottage in any parish in Scotland. There he could intro duce them at eventime, and shew them the grey-haired man opening the big Ha' Bible and reverently reading it to his family. He loved to listen to the reading of the good old man ; and then he would bid them kneel and join in prayers so truly beautiful that even our own mag nificent liturgy could not approach to them. That turf covered cottage was the temple of the living God. (Cheers.) The rev. lecturer, in closing this branch of his subject, re minded the audience that upon our religion in time rested ourdestiny in eternity. The lecture itself was terminated by some general observations of a most striking character upon the necessity of sustaining our national protestantism. The protestantism of England was England's glory. Whilst that lived, she lived ; when that died, she would die. Without being either a prophet or a prophet's son, he ventured to predict that England's greatness and England's protestantism must be gathered to a common grave, or be raised to a common throne. What had raised England to what she was—the land of asylums for the paor, of schools for the ignorant, of churches for the people? What had made this a land that a slave did not tread upon its shores but the manacles fell from his bands and the fetters burst from his feet? What made this a land in which, in many parishes, at least, our doors might be almost without bolts—and the days were not long since they were so ? What had made this land a land of liberty and of bibles ? It was its Protestant Christianity—its scriptural, pure, and holy religion. (Cheers.) He therefore called upon all of every denomination to bold to their ancient pro testantism—to embrace it with ardent sympathy, with holy hearts, and with enduring affection. (sheers.) THE •SECOND LECTURE commenced by a remark that the reverend lecturer scarcely knew which set of apologies was most injurious to the truth—the apologies plad,e Ulna fur i taelf ' or the