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LIVERPOOL FtiI.ALE ORPHAN ASYLUM, - - - PATRON. .The Right Rev. the I.,:)rd Bishop of CnEsTEII. PATRON ESSES. The Right Honorable the Countess of SEFTox. • The Right Honorable the Lady STANLEY. The Right Honorable the Lady FRANCES SANDON. The Right Honorable Lady SKELMERSDALE. The Honorable Mrs. BOOTLE WILBRA.HAM. VICE-PATRONS. JOSHUA WALMSLEY, Esq., Mayor of Liverpool. Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS • ' Rectors of Liverpool. Rev. AUGUSTUS CAMPBELL, Rev. THOMAS Moss, Vicar of Walton. • VISITORS. Rev. Was. HESKETH. Rev. JAMES HASSALL. AGENERAL MEETING of those LADIES and GEN TLEMEN who have already contributed, awl of all who feel interested in this projected Asylum, w" e held on TUESDAY, the sth May next, at Two o'clock, the LEcrulE Room of the ROYAL INSTITUTION, Cold t-street, for the purpose of Promoting its Establishme nd of appointing Committees. of Management, on whic cession The MAYOR has kindly consented to take the Chair. The following is the List of Donations and Subscriptions to this time : DONATIONS. Cresswell CresswelL.E s cllMrs. Dyson, Everton 5 0 0 Esq., M.P. 2O 0 oe. T. Dunlevie, Esq. 5 0 0 John Gladstone, Esq 20 0 o!Mrs. Eden 5 0 0 Mrs. Aikin .. ...... 20 0 (!Francis Foster, Esq.. 5 0 0 James Aspinall, Esq.. 20 0 &The Misses Gildart .. 5 0 0 Mr. Harmood Banner 20 0 0 Jas. M'Gregor, Esq.. 5 0 0 Mrs. Leigh - 2 O 2O 0 0 Rev. James Hssall.. 5 0 0 Edm. Molyneux , Esq 20 0 0 John Holmes, Esq... 5 0 0 Henry Moss, Esq. 2i) 0 0 1 ,C. H. Horsfall, Esq. 5 0 0 Henry Winch, Esq 2 0 0 01.Tatnes Hohne, Esq... 5 0 0 The Right Hon. the !Henry Holmes, Esq.. 5 0 0 Countess of Sefton 10 0 ()Mrs. Inman • 5 0 0 The Mayor - of Liver- IMrs. Jones, Lark-hill 50 0 pool 'lO 0 &William Jones, Esq.. 5 0 0 Thomas Pemberton, Miss Oakes Esq., M.P. ........ 10 0 (3!Win. Rydyard, Esq 5 0 0 Mrs. owden .... •.. 10 0 0 Mrs. Henry Steele Chris. Bullin, Esq. ..,10 0 Ojos. Shipley, Esq..., 5 0 0 C. Bardswell, Esq. .. 10 0 0 John Stewart, Esq 5 0 0 R. Bickersteth, Esq.. 10 10 ON. Salisbu r y, E sq . M I) _Miss Currie ........ 10 0 l! Mrs. Tonlmin Mrs. James Dawson 10 0 0(S. Lee Trotman, Esq 5 0 0 Joshua Edwards,Esq- It) 0 ( .A. Tinne, Esq 5 0 0 f Mrs John Fletcher .. 10 0 0.1. H. Wrigley, Esq 5 0 0 r Mrs. Wm. Foster .. 10 0 0 Roht.Woodward, Esq. 5 0 0 Matt. Gregson, Esq. 10 0 eKrs..T. G. Carter LancelotGraham,Esq.lo 0 C The Misses Righys Edward Gibbon, Esq. 10 0 0 Mr. Benbow 2 2 0 Rev. Wm. Hesketh.. 10 10 Mr. George Carter .. 2 2 0 Mrs. Regan John Holden, Esq... 10 0 0 'Sir. R. J. Jones Richard Jones, Esq.. 10 0 Mr. George Withers 2 2 0 Richard Leyland, Esq.lo 0 0 Miss Crank Ambrose Lice, Esq.. 10 0 OM. Donald 1 2 0 0 Mrs James Lawrence 10 0 0 X Friend, per Mrs. M. D. Lowndes, Esq. 10 0 G Leigh Tnns. Littledale, Esq. 10 0 0 Mrs. Adam Hodgson 2 J. B. Lloyd, Esq.., ..10 00 A Lady, per Mrs , Tneophilus Lahrucrc, • Moss Esq. ...... ..... 10 0 °Mr. J. Lloyd, Man Mrs.iames Molyneux 10 0 0 ?Ars. Edward Moon.. 10 0 c, cheater ... Mrs. Charles Arm- 2 00 00 2 00 2 00 Wm. Jos. Myers, Esq. 10 0 0 strong, West Derby 1 W. M'Crackan, Esq. 10 0 C Mrs. B. Buchanan 1 John Marriott, Esq. 10' 0 0 Miss Colquitt .. Thos. Newton, Esq., Mr. Robert Clay Moss-brook Mr. Newall 10 10 00 10 Chas. S. Parker, Esq. 10 0 0 A Friend, per Mrs. John Robin. E5q..... 10 0 0 H. Moss 1 0 0 Jos. Rigby, E5q..... 10 0 0 Horatio, per Mrs. John Ripley, Esq.... 10 0 0 Brsncker Mrs. Semple 10 0 0 Mr. Kaye Robert Semple, Esq. 10 00 A Lady. per Mrs Saint. Staniforth. Esq. 10 0 0 Jeffreys Saml. Sandhach, Esq. 10 0 Miss Lowe 1 0 0 H. R. Sand bach, Esq. 10 00 A Lady , LittleWoolton 1 1 0 Chas. Tayleur, Esq... 10 10 A Lady, per Mrs.Aikia 1 0 0 W.K.Tnompson.Esq 10 0 OiA Lady A. Waterhouse, Esq 10 0 0 Mr. Huh Mackay J N. Walker, Esq... 10 0 0 Mr. B. Prescot 1 1 0 Win Watson, Esq... 10 0 0 Mrs. Sothern 1 1 0 Jos. B. Yates,"Esq... 10 0 oMrs. Tinne 1 1 0 The Rt. Hon. the Ludy Mrs. Daniel Willis Frances Sandon .. 5 0 oMrs. Cartwright Thos. Brancker, Esq. 5 0 OlMr. Crosthwaite Win. Banning, Esq... 5 0 0 Mrs. Ferguson Jos. Brereton, Esq... 5 0 I. Friend, per Mrs. William Bird, Esq... 5 0 I Semple Jas. Buchanan, Esq.. 5 0 t A Friend, per Mrs. W. J. Brown • 5 ot. Brancker OlO 0 John Campbell, Esq. 5 0 1.: A Friend ' 010 0 John Crossfield, Esq. 5. o_o . Mr. Rainford - 010 0 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS. Mrs. Aikin 2 2 0 Me; Harrison M rs. Aspinall Mrs. Alexander Miss Alexander 1 1 0 Richard HarhOrd,Esq. 1 1 0 Miss Jrsse Alexander. 1 1 0 Richd.Hotighton,Esq.; 1 1 0 Mrs. Ellis Ashton Mrs. Henry Ashton.. 1 1 0 Lawrence Heyworth, Mrs. Adams illiss Armistead l. 1 0 Lawrence Heyworth, Mrs. Thos. Aspinall 1 1 0 Jun. Esq. Rev. Richard Appleton 1 1 Cillobert H , ..rsfall, Esq. 1 - 1 0 Robert Ashley, Esq... 1 1 0, John Hall, Esq 1 1 0 William Ashley, Esq.. 1 1 O'Mrg. Richar,i Jones 2 2 0 James Aspinall, ESq.. 1 1 01Mrs. Dr. Jeffreys 2 2 0 Mr. Thos. Ashcroft.. 1 1 o,Mrs. Jones, Lark Hill 1 1 0 Mrs. Harinood Banner 2 2 01Mrs. Inman Mr. Thomas Branch.. 2 2 &Mrs. Thos. Jevons Mrs.Blain,Kensington 2 0 0 Mrs. Iliff Mrs. Rector Brooks.. 1 1 0 Mrs. Jenkinson Mrs. Thos. Brancker. 1 1 0 Miss Jolley Mrs. J. B. Brancker . 1 1 0 William Jackson, Esq. Mrs. James Brancker. 1 1 0 Stafford-street ,' William Jackson, Esq. 1 1 Bedford-street ll 0 'Mr. John Jackson 1 .1 0 Wm. Jevons, Esq. 1 1 0 J. 0. Johnson, Esq 1 1 0 Henry Jenkins, Esq 1 1 .0 Mrs. Keightley 1 1 0 Miss Knowles Mrs. Killick Mrs. Jas. Lawrence 2 2 0 Mrs. Leigh Mrs. J. 13. L10yd.... 1 1 0 Mrs. Robert Lloyd .. 1 1 0 Mrs. Lawrence, Moss ley Hill Mrs. Jos. Langton Mrs. M. D. Lowndes 1 I 0 Mrs. Ambrose Lace 1 1 0 Mrs. Joshua Lace Miss Lace . , 1 1 0 Miss Jane Lace IMrs. Wm. Lowe liftev. Chas. Lawrence 1 1 0 John Lawrence, Esq. 2 2 0 li Henry Lawrence, Esq. 1 1 0 l'James Lister, Esq 1 1 0 1-Wm. Lewtas,'Esq. Peter Leather, Esq 1 . 1 0 Edmund B.Lyon,Esq. 1 1 0 Mr. Langdale Mrs. John Moss M';s. Henry Moss 2 2 0 IMrs.JohnMoore,jun 1 1 0 Mrs. Marsh Mrs. Maples 1 1 0 Mrs. Maxwell Mrs. W. J. Myers Mrs. Wm. M'lvor Nlrs. Mill Mrs. Edward Moon Mrs. Minton 1 1 0 Mrs. Lewin Mozley 1 1 0 Mrs. Chas. Mozley Mrs. Montgomery Mrs. Monk Mrs.Molyneux,News ham House . qrs. Jas. M`Gregor Ors. Macintosh, of Childwall. Mrs. Barnes Mrs. John Banner Mrs. Blake.. Mrs. G. A. Brown Mrs. Thos. Borsch Mrs. Benbow 1 1 0 Mrs. Byrne ...... 1 1 0 Mrs. James Byrne The Misses Byrne Mrs. T. Bold.. Mrs. Bowman Mrs. Bates 1 1 0 Mrs. Bardswell 1 1 0 Mrs. 'Bush by 1 1 0 Mrs. Benj. Buchanan. 1 1 0 Mrs. Barned 1 1 0 Mrs. Samuel Beckwith 1 1 0 Miss Birley Mrs. Bellhouse 1 1 0 Mrs. Charles Browne. 1 1 0 Mrs. R. B. B. H Blun dell Mrs. Benj. Banning 1 1 0 Miss Boyd , 0 10 0 Rev. Thus. Bold Rev. Wm. Blundell William Banning, Esq. 1 1 0 James Bateson, Esq.. 1 1 0 Geo. Blake, jun., Esq. 1 1 0 James Bunnell, Esq 1 1 0 W. J. Brown, Esq 1 1 0 Wm. Balleny, Esq 1 1 0 Mr. William Benson . 1 1 0 Richard Bevan, Esq 1 1 0 William Bevan, Esq.. 1 1 0 Geo. Booth, Esq 1 1 0 Robert Christian, Esq. 2 2 0 Henry Christian, Esq. 2 2 0 Mrs. Rector Campbell 1 1 Mrs. John Campbell . 1 1 G Mrs. Cciin Campbell. 1 1 C Mrs. J. G. Carter Mrs. Cartm ell Mrs. Dr. Chapman Mrs. John Crosfield . 1 1 0 Mrs. Chorley Mrs. Clare 1 1 Miss Christian Mrs. Cardwell Mrs. Wallace Currie . 1 0 1 Mrs. Byrom Corrie 1 1 Mrs. William Clay 1 1 ( Mrs. T. N. Carter 0 10 Nliss Lucy Colquitt OlO f Mrs. Churchill Rev. H. Carpenter Edward C. Clay, Esq. 1 1 C. W: Clay, Esq... Daniel Campbell, Esq. 1 1 Mr: Cannell • ' 1 1 Henry Coupland, Esq. 1 1 Taos Chilton, Esq 1 1 David Cannon, Esq. • 1 1 W. R. Coulborti Esq. 1 1 George Cram, Esq 1 1 W. B. Colton, Esq 1 1 J. A. Case, Esq 1 1 Mrs Davies, Harbuck Home.... Nils. Rd. Denistoun 1 1 Mrs. Wm. Dixon.. • . 1 1 Geo. Duncan, Esq 1 1 Thos. Dodson, Esq 1 1 M.ijor Dawson T. A. Dale, Esq , Gateacre 1 1 ( H Dutchman, Esq... 1 1 • Mrs. Joshua Edwards 2 2 Mrs• Earle, Speke lands Mrs. Wm Earle Mrs. Hardman Earle 1 1 Mrs. Richard Earle 1 1 Mrs. Peter Ewart 1 1 • G. W. Ewing, 1 1 John Eden, Esq 1 1 Mr. E11w00d.... Mrs. Perniough CnarlesFleteher, Esq. 1 1 Wm. Fosberry, Esq. 1 1 H. F., per Mr. H. Banner Mr. Fownes Mr. Fi6h. 0 10 :Mrs. L. Graham .. • • 2 2 Mrs. GrOvei 1 1 ( Mrs. Griodrod Mrs•MatthewGregson 1 1 ( ry! rs. Green, High Pas tures •• •• 1 1 Mrs. Robertson Glad stow, 1 1 ley. Thos. Moss 1 1 0 qev. Hugh M'Neile 1 1 0 Rev. Thos. M'Gill 1 1 0 Edrn. Molyneux, Esq 2 2 0 C. C. Molyneux, Esq 1 1 0 AT. Myers, jun., Esq 1 1 0 qr. John Myers 1 1 0 Jas. Mullineux, Esq 1 1 0 Jas. Moon, Esq 1 1 0 knclw. Melly, Esq 1 1 0 Maddocks 1 1 0 Mr. Lewis Morrison 0 10 6 Mrs. John North 2 2 0 Mrs. Newton, Moss brook Mrs. Nicol 1 1 0 Mrs. Newell 1 1 0 Rev. John North 1 1 0 1. Todd Naylor, Esq. 1 1 0 Wm. Nevett, Esq. Mr•Thos.Nixon,jun. 1 1 qrs. Ortt Charles Okill, Esq 1 1 0 tliss Poole 1 1 0 qrs. Thomas Porter. 1 1 0 drs. Stanley Percival 1 1 0 Ars. Perry 1 1 0 Irs.T. P. Pemberton 1 1 0 I .N. James Pownall . 1 1 0 .Irs. W. A. Phillips . 1 1 0 'rs. J. R. Pim •. • sirs. Pearson . tev. J. C. Prince 1 1 0 4 .ldward Pilcher, Esq. 1 1 0 ?eek Brothers and Winch 1. Pemberton, Esq 1 1 ;has. S. Parker, Esq 1 1 0 ;Ir. B. Prescot -• 1 1 0 fames Phillips, Esq., Bootle 1 1 0 Ilr.Pearson,Gateacre 0 10 6 Irs. Rigby, Moss House 1 1 0 Miss Robinson 1 1 0 Ars. Robin Ars•Robinson,Bootle 1 1 0 \liss Rigby. ‘liss Jane Rigby vlrs. Robt. Rankin 1 1 0 rhos. Robinson, Esq 2 2 0 John Ripley, Esq. Mrs. Girvin 1 1 t Robert itigbY, E;q... 1 1 0 Mrs. Duncan Gibb 1 1 t rhos. Rhumer, Esq..' 1 1 0 Rev.JohnGibson,Aig - Jas. Roberts on , E sq. 1 1 0 birth 1 1 t Wm. Rydyard, E sq ., Rev. Thos. Gardner, Allerton ......... Old Swan David Gladstone, Esq. 1 1 C Esq., Garston .... Robertson Gladstone, fhe Right Hon. Lady Esl Thos.Gladstones,Esq. 1 1 0 The Right Hon. the T.T.Glazebrook, Esq. 1 1 0 Lady Stanley.- 1 1 0 Mr. Grape! 11 , 1 r. Henry Gatliff Mr. Guyton Mr. Gossage Mrs. Howard, Waver- Miss Semple ........ 1 1 0 tree 2 2 0 A Friend, per Mrs. Mrs. Hesiceth Mrs. Joh i Holmes Mrs. Horsrall 1 1 0 Mrs. Henry Sandbach 1 1 0 Mrs. J. B. Horsfall 1 1 0 Miss Sandbach 1 1 0 Mrs. C. H. Horsfall 1 1 0 Mrs. Hugh Sanderson 1 1 0 Mrs. Hen -y Harrison 1 1 OiMrs. J. S. Smith Mrs. Hen •y Hill .... 1 1 0 1 Mrs. Altx.Smith,jun 1 1 0 Mrs. Hold • o 1 1 ()Mrs. Anty. Swainson 1 1 0 Mrs. He as Mrs. G. H irbreaves 1 1 0111-s. Squires 1 1 0 Mrs. Hiudley .. 1 1 0 Mrs. Harri 4, Hope-st 1 10, Mrs.Sherburne,Hurst Rev. W. Hesketh 1 1 01 House .. 1 1 0 Rev. J. Ha ma 11...... ,1 10; Miss Smallwood .... 1 1 0 Rev. J. He idlarn .... 1 1 0 Mrs. Stevenson ..... 1 1 0 Jas. Heyw)rth, Esq. 1 1 0. Rev. J. H. Stewart.. 1 1 0 Wm. H cry, ,Ess. .. 1 1 ()John Swift, E5q..... 2 2 0 T. K. -, Hass3.ll; Esq.. 1 1 0 Sir J. P. Salisbury . • 1 10. Mr. klornblown ,• . 1 10T. W. Siarlaud, BIN. 1 1 0 . 1 1 0 0 10 6 . Th 01446 Pravfft, q , I 1 0 1 Th,,. Honorable Mrs, W, r, Rniith, Esq. „ 1 101 Bootle 'Wilbraham, 2 0 0 Mr. Storrs..... Mr, R. Sanders . Mr. flyers, Park-road 1 1 0 Miss Ward l. 1 0 Mrs.J.Swire,Hope-st. 1 1 0 Mrs. Rt. Woodward 1 1 0 Mrs. Tayleur 2 2 0 Miss Wakefield 1 0 0 Mrs. William Tavleur 1 1 0 Mrs. Walker 1 1 0 Mrs. Henry Tayleur. 1 1 0 1 Mrs. Wm. Watson Mrs. Trotman 1 1 0 Mrs. Major Wilson.. 010 6 Mrs. Toulmin 1 1 O i MissSarahWaterhouse 0 10 6 Mrs.W. K.Thompson 1 1 0 MissMrgt.Waterhouse 010 6 Mrs. S. H. Thompson 1 1 olHenry Wood, Esq... 1 1 0 Mrs. Arth. Thompson 1 1 OlDaniel Willink, Esq.. 1 1 0 Mrs. Townsend l' 1 OWm. Willink, Esq... 1 1 0 Miss Townsend 1 1 0 DanlWaterhouse,Esq. 1 1 0 Mrs. Thomlinson 1 1 0 Octavius Waterhouse, Mrs. Tobin. 1 0 0 Esq . Mrs.Thompsou,Duke- Jas. Willacy & Son. - - 1 . 1 0 street Rev. John Tobin .... 1 1 0 Mr. Woollright 1 1. 0 A Friend, per ditto .. 1 1 0 Mr. Wordley 1 1 0 J. A. Tinne, Esq.... 1 1 0 Geo. Withers, Esq 1 1 0 Samuel Taylor, Esq.. 1 1 Order Wright, Esq 1 1 0 Jas.Tvrer, Esq. Bootle 1 1 0 Mr. Woodville Mr. Thos. Thompson 1 1 O,Mr. Worrall 1 1 0 IJos.BrooksYates,Esq. 1 1 0 Treasurer and Secretary, pro tempore, Mr. HARMOOD BANNER, Dingle Mount, by whom Donations and Subscrip tions will be thankfully received. A Donor of Ten Pounds will be a Guardian for Life, and Subscribers of One Guinea per Annum will be Guardians during the time they are Subscribers. LIVERPOOL SHIPMASTE ASSOCIATION. APUBLIC MEETING the SHIPMAS TERS' ASSOCIATION, RCHANTS, and others will be held, at the Clarendon- ooms, on WEDNESDAY next, the 6th May instant; at Two o'Clock, P.M. LIVERPOOL FEMALE PENITENTIARY. rrHE ANNUAL MEETING of the S . BSCRIBERS and FRIENDS of this INSTITU ". will be held at the Charitable Institution House, Sla ''-street, on FRIDAY EVENING next. The Chair to be to nat Seven o'clock. Mr. ASHTON, ll Mr. EDWARDS, Secretaries ' 4th May, 1840. LIVERPOOL CHURCH MISSIONARY AUXILIARY. THE ANNUAL MEETINGS of the above SOCIETY will be held, God willing, in the Must ALL, on the Evenings of MONDAY and TUESDAY, 18th and 19th instant ; and SERMONS will be Prea don SUNDAY, the 17th. The Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL, Rev. EDWARD BICKERSTETII, Rev. W. BouTimowEß, of Bury, Rev. J. E. WHITE, and several local Clergymen will attend. LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION, FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE COMMERCIAL, TRADING, AND WORKING CLASSES TO ARCHITECTS. rri HE Committee of this Institution are now ready to -L receive DESIGNS for their INTENDED BC DING. A Premium of £5O will be paid for the Desiom which the Committee shall most approve, and £25 f at which they shall deem the second best. Instructions to Architects, with a Plan of the Land, may be obtained on application at the Savings' Bank, Bold-street, Liverpool, on and after the 7th instant, to which place the Designs are to be sent, on or before the Ist July next, addressed to the Rev. JONATHAN BuooKs, MA., Chairman of the Committee. Liverpool, 4th May, 1840. SINGING. IUrR. BARKER, (from the Theatre-Royal, St. James's, London,) has the honour to announce, that, 'ng his residence in Liverpool, he will give LESSO NGING. Terms may be known on application the Box-office, Theatre-Royal, or of Mr. BARKER, No. 32, Falkner-street, G rove-street. GRAND CONCERT. 0N S DOHLER has the honour to announce a Grand IV CONCERT of VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, which will take place on TUESDAY Ev ng, the 26th instant, at the Royal Amphitheatre, Live 01. HERR MOLIQUE, the celebrated • inist, whose performances at the Philharmonic Conc s, London, have created such an extraordinary sensation, make his first aad only appearance in Liverpool on this occasion. Vocalists, Miss BIRCH, Miss DOLBY, and Signor ZUCHELL 1. VIOLINIST .. HERR MOLIQUE. PIANIST Mons. DOBLER. Mr. GEORGE EYTON will accompany the Vocal Pieces. Full Particulars will be shortly announced. Box places may be secured on application to Mr. WElss, Church-street. Tickets for Centre Boxes, ss. •, Side Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 3s. ; and Gallery, 2s. each ; may be had at the Music Shops and usual places, The Concert will commence at Eight o'clock. COUNTY OF LANCASTER—WESTERN DIVISION. IXTHEREAS, by patent, bearing date on the 14 Irday of VV s September, 1826, His Royal Highness P e Auuns- TUS FREDERICK of Brunswick Lunenbur , e of Sussex, Earl of Inverness, Baron of Arklow, K of the most no ble Order of the Garter, &c. &c. &c., rand Master of the most ancient and honourable fraternity of free and accepted Masons of England, constituted and appointed LE GENDRE NICHOLAS STARKIE, Esquire, M.P. &c. &c. &c., of Hunt royde, in the said county, to be his Provincial Grand Master, .And by virtue of the great Power, Trust, and Confidence re posed in me by the said LE GENDRE NICHOLAS STARKIE, Esquire, in appointing me to he his Deputy Provincial Grand Master. I JOHN DRINKWATER, of Liverpool, DO HERE BY GIVE NOTICE, that a PRONINCIAL GRAND LODGE will be held at the Adelphi Hotel, in Liverpool, on THURSDAY, the 28th day of May next, at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon, for the transaction of the annual business of the Province. Given under my Hand, and Seal of the Provincial Grand Lodge, at Liverpool aforesaid, the 25th day of April, in the Year of Masonry 5810, and of our Lord 1840. • JOHN DRINKWATER, D.P.G.M. • JAMES NORRIS, Provincial G. Secretary. :VANS, CIIEGWIN, and HALL, GRAPEL, WALMSLEY, and other Booksellers, have just received 13 LACKWO OD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. CONTENTS : I.—The Dead Man of St. Anne's Chapel, f the German of Otto Ludwig. ll.—Goethe's Life au orks. No. IV. lll—Judith, or the Opera Box. I On the Essenes. Part 111. V.—Carlo Sebastiani the Aide-de-Camp. Vl. Ten Thousand a Year. P ar t VII. Vll.—Lines on the Sale of the Black Arab, the Gift of the Imaum of Muscat. Vlll.—Ballads from the Romaic. ty W. E. Aytoun. IX. —Prendeville's Milton. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD and SONS, Edinburgh ; and T. CADELL, London. THE DEVIL IN LONDON ! On the Ist of May will be published, price 0 illingy Part I. of A SMODEUS, OR THE DEVIL ON '0 STICKS : newly translated from the Fre of LE SAGE, by JOSEPH THOMAS ; and illustrated ith 200 Engravings, from designs by the celebrated TONY JOHANNOT. To be completed in Eleven Parts. London : JOSEPH THOMAS, Finch-lane; Liverpool : C. DAvrEs and Co., and all Booksellers. AN HISTORICAL, FINANCIAL. AND STATISTI CAL ACCOUNT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHILI, from 1822 to 1839. By the Retired Governpr of the Island of Juan Fernandez. Captain Basil Hall, R.N., F.R.S., has jus üblished his sixth edition, entitled, "Extracts from aJo na l wr i t t en on the coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in t 'ears 1820, 1821, and 1822." And in the advertisement t is work, after al luding to it and the momentous scenes passing at that period, says as follows : "A similar work, or one executed in the same plan, at the present moment, after an interval of nearly twenty years, would unquestionably afford matter for one of the most in teresting, and, perhaps, useful comparisons between promise and perfonn.ance, that the political'world has ever witnessed." —London, March, 1840. This has emboldened me to offer the above information to my countrymen : the MSS. are ready for the press, and if encouraged by a sufficient number of subscribers, those who are interested with the history of that part of South America, and more especially the bond holders, may soon have a re trospective view of what has been the occasion of the non payment of their dividends ever since 1826 ; as well as a faithful and impartial statement of the resources of Chili. The work will be completed in 2 vols., Bvo., price 205.. illustrated with maps and engravings. Subscriptions received at the Standard-office, Liverpool ; and by Mr. SUTCLIFFE, Welbeck-street, Ashton-under-Lyne. The duty on the exportation of bar-iron in Sweden has lately been reduced one-half, or from 325. to 16s. banco per ship pound. The Earl of Mulgrave, eldest son of the Marquis of Nor manby, is about to proceed to Canada. His lordship starts in a few days. Mr. Wyon has submitted to the queen the model of a £5 piece of gold, which her majesty approved, and ordered to be coined. Mr. Estcourt, M. P.,has sold his beautiful seat, New Park, near D ev i z e s , to dward Colston, Esq., for £50,000. We regret to learn that eight more Jews at Damascus had forfeited their lives, upon the supposition of having been concerned in the murder of Father Thomas. The Duke of Cleveland is seriously indisposed. His. Grace's malady has, we understand, assumed a shape that excites considerable anxiety amongst his friends. Last week, several spring -knife cutlers and grinders sailed from Hull for St. Petersburgh, in Russia ; and, we under= stand, many others are preparing to follow them. THE LAKES.—Tourists have already began to assemble in the ` land of mountain and of flood," male famous by the poets, Wordsworth, Wilson, Southey. Coleridge, and others We understand that the Lord Chancellor has appointed William Adam Hulton, Esq., barrister-at-law, judge of the newly constituted court of request s a t B o l ton. Great distress has prevailed in Greece, and the price of . provisions had been considerably augmented. The severity of the winter had been such , that upwards of 500,000 ca ttl e had perished in the snow in Routnelia alone. Most of our inquiries have nosy been answered from the hills and moors ; and upon the strength of these we may safely characterise the present lambing season as one of the most favourable that has occurred in Scotland for a quarter of a century.—Dumfries Courier. The following is an extraordinary instance of the quick ness of vegetation. A gentleman who has a garden near this city examined his asparagus bed on Saturday Morning. There was then not a plant to be seen, but to his astonishment on Monday, he could have cut a dish for dinner.—Cork Con stitution. GOOD Nzws FOlt THE DONKEYS !—At a meeting of the West Lothian Agricultural Association, lately held, it was agreed " that a premium should be awarded against the next i s t h i t h o s r d t e h g e r a b d e e s d t t b w u o t y u e s a e r f -old d a n d i o m n a k l e y to, withis proper a v i ew s t o a f t u r s a is oi; the roll of the brute creation. —Glasgow Courser. A HANDsoME COMPLIMENT. —Among the regular toasts drink at a late celebration at Ithaca, New York, we find the following very pretty compliment to the ladies :—Woman— There's a purple half to the grape, a mellow half to the peach, a sunny half to the globe, and a better half to man." CRARTisT PIKES:—A few days ago, whilst the ploughman of Mr. H unt l ey was engaged ploughing a field at Sherburn Hill, near the city of Durham, he turned up from the mother earth a poke, which at first offered some obstruction to the plough ; and. on examination, it was found to contain forty pike heads. They were handed over to the authorities. — Tyne Mercury. ABSENCE OF MIND..--" Well, friend, where are you going?" said a Boston tyke the other day to an acquaintance w hom he met with a horse and a harness. "'Co Tadcaster, to be sure, to fetch coals." " Fetch coals ?" said the other, why where's your cart?" The as t on i s h e d carter, l oo ki ng back with some alarm, " Bang it if I ain't forgotten 't ! what a jok"! - G ARD EN Pors.—A patent has.been taken out fora garden pot. In appearance it is like a common one, but it has an of water ; w hi c h, on account of the porous outer or second side , by which anint errnediate space is formed for the supply nature of the material used in the manufacture, gradually a ro iters . thugh t h e , i n ner pot and yields to the flowers and shrubs therein planted a continued and uniform supply. iniptaal pralittmtnt, HOUSE OF LORDS.--THURSDAY. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. • The Earl of ABERDEEN.—My lords, I beg to give notice that on Tuesday I shall lay before your lordships a bill to remove doubts respecting the admission of ministers into benefices in Scotland ; and as it possible that I shall for some time delay the further progress of the bill, I shall on that occasion fully state the nature and design of the mea sure. (Hear, hear.) IRELAND. The Marquis of it' ESTMEATH wished to ask the noble viscount (Melbourne) opposite a question. A new and in tense system of agitation had commenced in Ireland for the purpose of severing that country from Great Britain. The noble viscount must of course be aware of the motives as signed for that agitation, which were that the other house-of the legislature had thought fit to entertain a bill brought in by the noble lord the member for North Lancashire. The Irish public were informed that, unless the legislature ceased to entertain that bill, the union between the two countries was to be repealed. The gentleman to whom he referred had many times professed his object of repealing the union, and since he bad publicly avowed that object, the noble viscount opposite had been accused, in that house, and had not denied the charge, of offering to that gentleman a very high legal office. Ile felt called upon to ask the noble viscount whether he would avow the confederation which existed between him and the honourable gentleman, and whether, in conformity with the oath which he, in common with every other peer of that house, bad taken, he bad told his Sovereign what would be the effects of the refusal upon the empire at large, and what would be the effects of the present agitation upon Ireland itself ? Viscount MELBOURNE was quite aware of the system of agitation which the noble marquis had said had lately com menced in Ireland. That agitation was certainly not new ; it was an old system of agitation newly revived, and it was not quite so intense as it had been on former occasions. With respect to the question, whether he disapproved of it or not, he had only to say, that he had always disapproved of proceedings of a similar nature. With respect to the advice that had been given to her Majesty on the subject, that was a question on which he could not give a specific or precise answer. (Hear.) The Marquis of WESTMEATH said, that it was only ne cessary to refer to the newspapers to see that such confede ration did exist. Lord HOLLAND rose to order. It was a most disorderly proceeding, to refer to newspapers when questions were put in that house. The Marquis of WESTMEATH said, that if he was a mem ber of her Majesty's government, he should be exceedingly sorry to get rid of questions such as he had put in such a manner. BUENOS AYRES Viscount STRANG/row) wished to know from the noble viscount, whether he had received any communication from France announcing their intention of despatching a consi derable military force to Buenos Ayres. Viscount MF.I.BOURNE replied that no such intimation had been received. CORN LAWS. Earl FITZWILLIAM said he had a petition to present from the inhabitants of Sheffield, signed by 10,964 persons, each of whom not following but perhaps giving the example to the petitioners whose petition was presented by a noble carl that evening (Malmesbury) stated his employment and residence. The petitioners complained that there was an interference with that free intercourse with foreign nations which it had been the intention of the Almighty should be kept up by giving to various countries various productions, and by ena bling them to exchange those productions one with the other. They complained that many obstacles were put in the way of intercourse with foreign nations by means of those laws ; they stated that the effect of those obstacles was most inju rious to themselves and those who depended upon them— that they produced great commercial inconveniences, and that, under particular circumstances, they created great dis trust among the great mass of the population in this country. In the view which the petitioners took of those laws he en tirely concurred, and he would take the liberty of laying upon their lordships' table the first petition, which was from the inhabitants of Sheffield, and at the head of which were the signatures of the master cutler, and several of the mgais trates of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The noble earl also presented a petition from Bradford, signed by between 7,000 and 8,000, and about 60 petitions from places in Scotland and England, about one-half of which were from agricultural pa rishes and districts—signed by upwards of 40,000 per sons, all to the same effect. FRIVOLOUS SUITS' BILL. On the motion of Lord DENMAN, the frivolous suits' bill was read a third time and passed. The noble lord also gave notice of withdrawing the rated inhabitants evidence bill. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY. There having been only 27 members present at four o'clock, he house adjourned till Friday. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY. After the presentation of several other petitions, Lord LYNDHURST presented a petitionirom Sligo, praying that that borough might be taken out Of schedule A, and in serted in schedule B of the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill. His lordship gave notice that in the committee on the bill he should move that the pruyer he complied with. COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH NAPLES. Lord LYNDHURST afterwards inquired whether there would be any objection to the production of the treaty signed by Mr. M`Gregor and the Neapolitan Minister, at the close of last year, and which was to have been ratified on the Ist of January this year? The provisions of that treaty were well known to all parties connected with the commerce of Sicily and Naples, and they were most desirous that it should be ratified. Connected with this subject his lordship wished to correct a misunderstanding as to what had taken place, and what fell from him in March last thereon. The facts which he then stated were admitted to be correctly stated: He agreed that there had been an infraction of the commer cial treaty between this country and Naples. The noble viscount stated that complaints had been made to the Nea politan Government; that an attempt had been made to ob tain redress, but it had not been accomplished. The noble viscount also intimated that the Neapolitan Government de sired that the monopoly should last for six months longer only. He at that time complained of the delay that had taken place, and he stated, that if ships of war were sent out,, the matter would soon be brought to a successful issue. He, however, never intended to sanction such proceedings as had, taken place on the part of her Majesty's Government, but as to which he would now give no opinion. Lord MELBOURNE answered that it was the intention of the government to lay on the table of both Houses of Par liament all the documents with respect to the subject. The noble lord had stated with great correctness what had fallen from him on a former occasion, but whether the inference he had drawn from it was quite so correct, he would not say. - Earl Fitzwilliam having moved for some returns regarding :he prices of corn in Scotland, &c., a desultory discussion followed. After the presentation of some further petitions, and after he orders had been disposed of, their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. Mr. BALDWIN took the oaths and his seat for Totnes. Mr. C. VILLIERS, to make way for the motion on the opium question, deferred his notice on the subject of the corn laws from the 12th to the 14th inst. Mr. HualE renewed his dropped notice for a select com mittee to inquire into the duties on imports, to ascertain whether they were protective, or to secure revenue, fixing the motion for Tuesday next.' He also gave notice that he should move an address for Dr. Bowling's report regarding our commercial relations with Egypt, &c. And that on Monday he would inquire of Lord Palmerston, if he could get the noble lord into the house, with regard to the inter ference of the British government in the affairs of Mehemet Ali, or for the detention of two vessels as reported in the newspapers, and whether ministers, or Lord Ponsonby, had given any directions relative to the affairs of Egypt. Mr. WARD stated that when the house resolved itself into committee on the miscellaneous estimates, he should submit a motion relative to the proceedings of the emigration board. FORMATION OF A FRoTEST4NT AMBONATION AT 13IRKENutAD, On Friday a very crowded public meeting was held in the Town-hall, Birkenhead, to consider the propriety of forming a branch of the Liverpool Protestant Association. The Rev. ANDREW KNOX took the chair. _ _ _ The CHAIRMAN in opening the proceedings, said the ob ject of the meeting was to uphold the institutions of the country as they had been established by our Protestant fore fathers, to maintain Protestant truth, to oppose error, and to preserve the institutions of the land from the insidious at tacks of the Papists, who had bestirred themselves into ac tivity on acco un t o f apathy into which Protestants had for a time unfortunately fallen. The Rev. W. M Al HARD, in a suitable address, in the course of which he showed how thankful we ought to be for the mercies of God to us, moved the first resolution. The Rev. FIELDING Oven rose to second the resolution, and after a few suitable introductory remarks, he proceeded nearly as follows. My Christian friends. The resolution, as you have already heard, speak of an express acknowledg ment, we are called upon to make, solemnly, to Almighty God for the large share of his favour which he has hitherto bestowed upon this nation. It also speaks cf a certain source to which we are enabled to trace un this measure of divine favour, and that is said to be the Christian and Protestant character of this nation ; and it still points out a duty which devolves upon us, especially at this crisis of public affairs, namely, that we should rely on God to bless our efforts in the preservation of these privileges, and for the continuance of that measure of divine favour for which we are called upon to express our devout acknowledgments. These are the three points into which this resolution divides itself, and but a few observations on each will be necessary in order to convince you that you may safely pass it. There is a question, how ever, which it is desirable to ask, and also desirable to have satisfactorily answered before we proceed further ; that question is this—whet is the use of a Protestant Associa tion—what are the objects which it contemplates? (Hear, hear.) Unless we can ask you, upon good and satisfactory evidence, " is there not a cause," we cannot possibly expect that you should respond to our invitation to night, and enrol yourselves members of this proposed Protestant Association. (Hear hear.) It is said by some that our object in forming these associations is a political one. I for one beg to dis claim altogether such an imputation. If I believed our present object was one purely political, I for one should not deem it fitting to be here either as a speaker or as a hearere but it is because I believe our object is purely a religious one, that I do deem it right to be here, and to give such humble assistance in furtherance of the object as it may be in my power to contribute. We have no sympathy whatever, nor concern, with the struggles for political party in the state ; our object is a higher, a holier, and a loftier one ; that which we seek to accomplish, which we labour to achieve is, the supremacy of the word of God, (cheers,) not merely its authority with regard to ourselves individually, or to our families, or to our respective congregations where its authority is not denied, but its authority publicly, its authority in the state, its authority as the ruler of the nation. (Cheers.) Are we asked " does any one dispute this?" 1 say it isdis puted and denied. The flag of Scripthre is no longer to be found streaming from the mast-head of the good old ship; if any where, it is found only half-maSt high ; another flag, even the flag of the man of sin, is elevated into the place of its dispossessed supremacy. (Hear, hear.) We care not, there fore, who are at the helm of power, we care not by what party denomination they may be called ; our object is, that the Christian and Protestant flag of England should be elevated into its proper place, that the word of God should be publicly honoured, and as the constitution of the country is built upon the enactments of the Bible, so the policy of the country should be guided and directed by the same. (Cheers.) We are, again, told that our objects and intentions are unchari table, and that we meet only to call names, and to excite and stir up a spirit of animosity and of acrimony in the minds of Protestants towards their Roman Catholic fellow subjects. We altogether disdain this imputation. (Cheers.) We be lieve, nay we are convinced in our consciences, that we are the true friends of our Roman Catholic fellow subjects—that we are the true advocates of their rights. Civil rights they may have ; we cheerfully acknowledge they have civil rights, and seek not to deprive them of them, but we conceive that their very first right, that the magna charta of their privi leges is the word of God. (Cheers.) And we are only op posed to those who would deny them this privilege, who would keep back from them this great charter, and who, for their own selfish purposes, would keep them in the condition of slaves. (Hear, bear.) Was Paul an enemy of the Jews when he spoke against their superstitions and preached the everlasting gospel ? No ; his heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel was that it might be saved. When the truth was concerned, he would have no compromise but he plainly told them that they lingered round the abolished ceremonies of the Jewish dispensation. " Behold I Paul say unto you that if ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing." He admitted no compromise of the smallest point ; Christ must be " all in all," or he would he bold and faithful in protesting against anything that militated against his high supremacy. ' Was our Lord Jesus Christ an enemy of the Jews when he spoke against the ignorance and blindness of their teachers ? No; He was their true friend ; and if we think we see in ,Scripture a body of men s poken of presenting in all their features the most exact resemblance to the church of Rome in the present day, we look into the Bible and see how our Lord Jesus Christ, our great exemplar, dealt with them. So we desire to deal with the members of the church of Rome. We find our Lord was faithful in denouncing in the most solemn manner the errors which led them astray from the truth, at the same time that he was inconceivably tender in spirit towards the victims of these gross errors. if we turn to the 23d chapter of the gospel according to St. Matthew we there find a description the exact counterpart of modern popery ; that chapter exhibits the Strong language which Jesus Christ used when reproving the sins of the Pharisees; from the beginning to the end it resounds " woe, woe, woe," but closes with an inconceivable expression of Divine tenderness mingled with sympathy 'to man—" Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would 1 have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wines and ye would not b" This is the conduct we should follow, and this the spirit in which we desire to act. (Cheers.) I ask who arc the people set forth in that chapter presenting to our minds the exact counterpart of popery ? They are the scribes and Pharisees. It is particularly striking to observe the close parallel subsisting between them and the priests of the Church of Rome in the present day. The Saviour's first woe we find directed against men who were the sworn ene mies of the gospel, men who "shut up the kingdom of heaven against men, neither going in themselves nor suffering them that are entering in to go." This. is the first sketch of the picture our Lord gives of these Pharisees ; and does not the accusation in that case most strikingly apply to the priests of the Church of Rome. They will not enter in the kingdom of heaven themselves,-and those that are going in they pre vent. In one sense the word of God is the kingdom of hea ved, and they not circulate it ; in another, the Lord Jesus Christ is the kingdom of heaven, but his glory they obscure by their false inediatorships ; and when the people would look at this book (the Holy Scriptures) they are subject to the ban and anathema of the Scribes and Pharisees, who thus " shut up the kingdom of heaven against men, neither going in themselves nor suffering them that would go in to enter." Against what is the next woe? That they make religion a cloak for hypocrisy, and a stalking-horse for their covetous desires and practices—" ye devour widows' houses," says the Lord, " and for a pretence make long prayers." Does not this describe the conduct of the priests of the Church of Rome ? They devour widows' houses, they engage men and women to leave their money that masses may be said for 'their souls. It may be said of modern Rome as was said once of ancient Rome, omnia venalia Rouses ; all things are to be had for money at Rome, masses, sacraments, redemptions from purgatory, absolutions, unctions, and what not. All these are to be had at Rome for money. (Hear,. hear.) These men for a pretence make long prayers, and thus devour widows' houses. (Hear, hear.) What is the next woe They burn with the earnestness of desire to make proselytes—" Ye compass sea and land to make one prose lyte, and when he is made ye make him two-fold more the child of hell than yourselves. We know the earnestness of desire in the Church of Rome to make proselytes, although they are exceedingly offended when they see the exhibition of any such desire among us. I am one who have never concealed from the priests and members of the Church of Rome my desire to make proselytes from among them. I glory in that. 'Why should we not proselytise from error to truth, from darkness to light, from the traditions of men to the commandments of God? Hear, hear.) Yes ; but oh, what strange proselytes the Church of Rome makes. I well recollect an instance which occurred in connection with my own ministry in Ireland, in which a Protestant man married at an advanced period of life, a Roman Ca tholic wife. He became childish, and his Roman Catholic wife introduced him to her priest. The man was sud denly converted, although he had not only been a Protestant all his life, but had been what was called an Orange man. This man at 70 years of age was baptised by a priest of the Church of Rome ; and I shall never forget the extra ordinary parade of his funeral, which was fixed on the Sun day, in order that there might be a large attendance. In this instance, although great pains were taken to prevent such a proceeding, they showed their willingness to compass sea and land to make if it were but one proselyte ; and greatly fear, especially in large towns like Liverpool, where it is not easy to watch the proselyting.practice of these gen tlemen, there are more Protestant death beds disturbed by their mummery than we are aware of. (Hear.) We find also it was the character of Pharisaism in our Lord's day to tamper with oaths—" Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, whosoever shall swear by the temple, it isi nothing ; hut whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor." We have in this verse a strieing and remarkable feature of the Church of Rome. Our Lord, we find, called those tamperers with oaths " fools and blind ;" we know of a certain oath which was recently prescribed to be taken by Roman Catholic legislators in these words : " I do swear that 1 will defend to the utmost of my power the settlement of property within this realm, as established by law ; and I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present Church esta blishment, as settled by law within this rein.,, and I do solemnly swear that I will never exercise any privilege te which I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion or Protestant government in the United Kingdom.' This is an oath, mark ye, which British Roman Catholic legislators consented to take, but which the Roman Catho lic Bishop of' Malta, acting under the express directions of the Pope; refused to take, as inconsistent with his duty to the church. (Hear.) It was, however, swallowed by these popish legislators, and then find them voting for the sup pression of ten bishoprics in Ireland, which the present first minieter of the crown called " a heavy blow and a great dis couragement to Protestantism." (Hear.) We next find them voting for the celebrated Appropriation clause, and constituting the exact majority of 25 in the House of Com mons, in favour of the English Church-rates bill. (Hear, hear.) These are facts which speak for themselves. (Hear.) It would be easy for me to follow out these parallels between Popery and Pharisaism, but I forbear at present, and will now direct your thoughts more expressly to the subject matter of this resolution, which speaks of the instances of divine favour, which this country has enjoyed in times past through the blessing of Almighty God. What are these blessings ? The Reformation was one ; and if the Refor mation was worth effecting, it is worth maintaining. (Cheers.) A translated Bible was another; and if it Was worth our while to contend, as our Protestant Reformers did, even to the death, in order to obtain a translated Bible, it is worth our while still to continue to fight for it. (Cheers.) Our Protestant Church establishment is another of these bles sings. Was it worth the while of a Cranmer, a Latimer, and a Ridley to go to the stake to accomplish this great blessing for outeountry ? Then it is worth our while to contend for it still. (Hear.) It has acted as a break-water for popery in this country ; and it is an incontrovertible fact, that in every country where a Protestant Church has been legaliy established, Popery has never made any way. Why has it not made way in Sweden? Because Gustavus Vasa established Protestantism there. Why has it not made way in Scotland? Because the Regent Murray established Protestantism there. Why not in Holland? Because of Prince Orange. Why in Germany? Because the elector of Saxony established protestantism there. In Eng land! Because Henry the Eighth established protestantism here. You see then the importance of making a determined stand in defence of the church establishment; for when it falls, not only does the constitution of England fall, not only is Ichabod written upon the walls of the country, but popery hi that hour becomes predominant. (Hear, hear.) Then another great blessing is the civil and religious liberty which this country has enjoyed in a larger measure, than any other country upon the face of the earth.. We may, perhaps, in making this boast, be reminded of America. What? Is there the same measure of well regulated liberty there as here, when, at the commencement of the present session of congiest, a resoltitiou was passed atsoluttly tensing to re. RATING STOCK-IN-TRADE. Colonel WOOD asked her Majesty's ministers whether they had any information to offer with respect to the mode of rat ing stock-in-trade, and the course which parish officers were ordered to pursue in rating such property ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL answered that Government, as far as he was aware, did not propose to adopt any measures on the subject. As to the course that parish officers were to pursue, he had only to say, that no new law had been intro duced by the poor-law commissioners ; they merely ordered the enforcement of the 43d of Elizabeth. It was quite a mis take to suppose that there had been any new law framed. Eves since that act personal property was liable to be rated, though for general convenience it had been held better to rate only real property ; the mode of apportionment only was altered. Col. T. Woo]) observed that he was anxious to know from the learned gentleman whether it was true that rates would be held invalid which did not include personal property. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied that the Court of Queen's Bench had held that rates would be invalid that did not in clude stock-in-trade, but that was no new law. Tlic law had always been to such effect. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in answer to Mr. Freshfield's inquiry, said that the subject of a new port of departure for the West India mails was under consideration, and that every port would have the opportunity of represent ing its own case. 11R/DGP:. Mr. Fox MAULS, in answer to inquiry whether he had seen a letter in the Morning Herald, addressed by Lord Western to Lord Melbourne, relative to the perilous state of Menai Bridge, and whether it was the intention .of the Go vetnn3ent to take any steps with respect to it, said that he could give no information on the subject, but he would make inquiry into the subject. REPIIISALS AGAINST NAPLES. Lord MAHON asked whether any official intelligence bad been received of those measures - of reprisal which, as the house was informed on . a previous occasion, had been taken against. the government of Naples. Lord PALMERSTON answered that on Thursday he received a despatch, dated the 17th of April, stating that reprisals had commenced, and that the Hydra was then in the Bay of Naples. MAINE BOUNDARY. Lord J• RUSSELL entered into long explanations, in answer to Mr. Hume's inquiry as to the state of the " Maine Boun dary" question, concluding with the expression of his con viction that it would eventually be amicably adjusted. The Grammar Schools Bill, on the motion of Sir E. WIL MOT, was ordered to be referred to a select committee. The Miscellaneous Estimates were deferred till Monday, and the Financial Statement from Friday till the Monday following. The Exchequer Bills Bill, and the " Chimney-sweepers" Regulation Bill were severally read the second time, and the remaining business having been disposed of, the house ad journed. KIDNEY BEANS AND SCARLET RUNNERS.—The seeds of the white kidney-bean and scarlet runner are much used abroad, and a trial of them is much recommended to the British cottager. They should be soaked in water for several hours ; some persons put them in over night. Put them into w C m o il l ti d hc hwa boilinga c t u e p r f t u 'o l r lov b fh o ec i no l i I n od g i dw,‘avbti water it arev cs.ho when nb e etn s h a eb l ye t sti begin Check . bteo T e kshwet the swell; r b; e olt u lhi iner they will then burst like a mealy potato—drain them immediately, bestand p m u o t d t e he o m f d b re y s t s i i l n l g r t e b g e u t i n re i t s l t t b o is l : Lre - p p a u r t e a fo l u r m d p i n o n f e e r iari T ri e h d e fat or butter into the saucepan ; when melted,.dredge in about a third part of a tablespoonful of flour • when mixed, add a wine-glassful of water or broth, stir it till it boils, then add the beans, (prepared as above,) with some chopped pars ley, some pepper and salt, and with or without a chopped shalot ; cover the vessel, and shake it now and then over the is fire, till the beans are quite hot enough, andhave had a couple of boils. They may be tossed up with any remains of cold gravy.--Labourers' Friend Magazine. BENDABLE STONE.—In the museum of the Asiatic So ciety a bending elastic stone. This stone is apparently granit e; about at Calcutta, one object of curiosoiti or t at one end, two and a half feet by six inches in length an d breadth, and about an inch thick. This stone , bein g yields to the pressure, and from the half begi n s t o bend as it t is lifted : and, as the lifted end is raised, thehbeenlidftianpgpropaocwheres nearer to the further extremity. On being relaxed, the stone reverts to its tOrmer level.—Caleutta paper. - eri4 any petition, during the melon, for the abolition of the greatest curse under which a nation could groan—the system of slavery? (Cheers.) No member of the American cone press will be' allowed even to moot the question, whether berfy . shall be enjoyed by three millions of her subjects ! America! celebrated for its murderous Lynch-law ; within many of whose States neither life nor property is secure, and wherein prevails a savage system of duelling, and the Bowie knife is frequently seen to triumph over the very sword of the magistrate ! (Hear, hear.) I say, then, in England we have enjoyed a larger measure of well-regulated liberty than in any other country, and that because the constitution of the country is based upon the principles of the word of God. (Cheers.) It may, indeed, be perfectly consistent for a Ro man Catholic, upon his platforms and at his dinner assem blies, to toast civil and religious liberty throughout the world; but I would just ask him to put his finger upon any Roman Catholic country where any full measure of civil and religious liberty is enjoyed. (Hear, hear.) When the Spanish nation sent its celebrated Armada to invade England, and to de throne our good Protestant Queen Elizabeth, we know that it was freighted with a cargo of something very likely to in terfere with our civil and religious liberties. (Hear.) You are aware, for they are in the Tower of London, and I have seen them myself, of the thumb screws and other instruments of torture with which the Spanish Armada was freighted, in order to give England a taste of civil and religious liberty after the Romish fashion. (Hear.) And if I might specify our blessings, I would say we have had prosperity ct .home, and we have been respected abroad, and also placed in a con dition to be the great missionary nation to the world. These blessings we owe to Our CHRISTIAN PROTESTANTISM. (Hear.) Remember, I distinguish here. There is a species of Pro testantism which is not Christian, which is based upon expe diency instead of principle. We have suffered under its operation in times past, and we wish to guard against it now ; what we wish now, and the object of this association, is the infusion of a larger measure of CHRISTIAN PROTESTANTISM into the land. (Hear.) It is for this purpose we hold our meetings, distribute our tracts and lectures, and call upon you to enrol yourselves members of these associations. And if I am asked whether I really and conscientiously believe these great privileges are in danger at the present day, I unhesitatingly avow my belief that they are. (Hear, hear.) We are in danger of losing all the blessings of which I have spoken ; and who are our enemies engaged in the assault ? You will remember that with the downfall of the established church, the constitution of the country is gone. We have first of all the POLITICAL LIBERALS, who consist of two classes. The first class contains ell infidels, deists, and so- , cinians in the land • they are all liberals to a man ; they de test all sorts of religion, and are anxious that all religion should be nationally cast out of the land. The next section consists of those who profess and feel some regard for reli gion, hut seeing the tninds of men are divided upon the sub , ject, and fixing their eyes exclusively upon certain abuses connected with the establishment, are desirous that all that is religious should be torn out of the heart of the British constitution ; and that the nation as a nation should know nothing of the subject. (Hear.) Then wp have upon the other hand, those who call themselves voluntaries. They are persons who are specially opposed, as they gay upon conscien tious principles, to the existence of an establishment. 'Why do they oppose it ? 1 may illustrate the character and reason of their opposition by a reference to a very celebrated cha racter of antiquity of whom you have doubtless heard. There was an extraordinary old voluntary in times past called Dio genes, who used to roll about in a tub ; and when on one occasion he was asked what he wanted; he said, " Stand out of my sunshine." Now when we see our modern volun taries rolling about in the tub of their discontent, and ask them the reason of their opposition to our establishment, they tell us it stands in their sunshine. They are not such great men as they would be if there were no establishment, and they would then be on a level with all the other teachers of religion in the land •, it is not so much because they wish to step up to our level, but because they desire, worthy gen tlemen, to draw us down to their level. These are the vo luntarious gentlemen. Then, between these two sections of political liberals upon the one side, and voluntaries upon the other, there comes in a third party, and who is he? (Hear.) He is the Roman Catholic. (Hear.) He finds himself in strange company, but as his object is to obtain a certain end, and as his alliance with these two parties is likely to attain that end, he is satisfied for a time to be in bad company. He differs from them both. From the political liberal he differs in thinking that' religion is a matter of no consequence, and that the state should have nothing to do with it. What he means by religion is, the aggrandisement and supremacy of his church—further than that he knows and cares nothing ; he therefore considers that the religious part of the question is just the most important, and his greatest anxiety is that the state should have every thing to do with religion provided it be the religion of the church of Rome. (Hear.) He dif fers again from the voluntaries, although he says he does not, (but we do not believe him), in objecting to an establishment. Aye, he says, I object to an establishment, not choosing to remember that the church of Rome is established wherever it can, and would be here if it could ; but he is willing to be a voluntary, or anything you please for a time, so that it will help to accomplish the desired end of his ambition which is the overthrow of the Protestant Church established by law. (hear). Now these three parties, thus strangely banded together, are doing all the mischief in the country ; they are the men whose machinations we are assembled to oppose. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of all their strong holds ; we stand here upon principle, with the word of God in our hands, and as we humbly trust, with the love of that Saviour whom it reveals, in our hearts. We care not what political party are now, or may be in power ; if their principles and their acts be consistent with the revelation of God we support them, and if they are the contrary, we feel it our duty to give them our most decided opposition. (Hear). What are the reasons why we think our great Protestant institutions are in danger from the machinations of these gentlemen ?We find popery is now, for the first time, for some centuries at least, con siderably in favour in high places, that Roman Catholics, like locusts, have even crept into the Queen's palace. We have them in the houses of parliament; we have them in the cham ber of the Privy council ; and we have them even surround. ing the person of our beloved Queen. (Hear). Is there no danger in this ? (Hear). Does any one here ask " why is it you are so afraid of popery?" I will tell you. I believe it to be an idolatrous system ; do you not believe the same ? (Cries of yes, yes). The worship of the Host and of the Virgin Mary is idolatry. (Hear). Then we have decided that it is an idolatrous system. We say 'again it is a superstitious system. (Hear). Then there are some that tell us it is changed—that though it was all this in times past it is not now. Let us try this. It is not very many months since a large cargo of relics, the skulls and hones of holy men, were landed at the custom-house of London and no duty paid upon them. (Hear). A considerable portion of that precious cargo was sent over to the island of saints, and it is an absolute fact that in one of the principal Roman Catholic Chapels of Dublin, portions of these relics were daily exposed to the view of the faithful, of course for—a consideration. (Hear). Superstitious ? Why have we not read very lately in the papers of aßontan Catholic in 'a southern county in Ireland, who had the misfortune to have a child somewhat deformed in person, and what was the sapient conclusion that the Roman Catholic father came to ? That his child was a fairy ! and he determined to ascertain by a stringent process whether his suspicions were true or not. He applied a red hot shovel to the child, deelaring that if it did not confess it was a fairy, and point out the exact place where the tine John Maloney was to be found, it should come in contact with the red hot shovel The poor child under the influence of terror made some confession, which induced them to stay proceedings till the next morning, but when that morning arrived the poor child was found dead ! (Hear). Will any one after this say that the superstitions of popery have changed ? (Hear). Was there no one in the neigh bourhood to prevent the perpetration of such an outrage ? NO. Further, this is not only an idolatrous system as it exists, and superstitious, but it is an arrogant system too. When it pleased Almighty God lately to remove from this life a public man, the late Under Secretary for Ireland, what did the Roman Catholics of Dublin do ? They made a proposal as appearS by the public journals, that his remains should be given to them for interment in a Roman Catholic burial ground, declaring that because of his opinions he belonged rather to them, than the Protestants. (Hear, hear.) It is an arrogant system then. It is further still, a blasphemous system. (Hear.) I shall read you one very short extract in proof of this assertion. lam reading now from a treatise, Tractatus de Ecclesice,:one of the modern class books of the Church of Rome in Ireland, where they say— and you will hear this upon the lips of intelligent Roman Catholics in Ireland—if at the last day, they should be found in error upon the subject of salvation, they will lay the blame of their deception upon Almighty God himself ! Here hre the very words : " Domine, si error est secuti sumus, Tre ipse nos deccpisti tam claro atque iterato precepto ecelesiam audiendi sicvt le, nisi cum ethnicis partem habere bellemus. Fidenter dici mus, Domine, si error est quern secuti sumus, Tve ipse, de cepisti nos et excusamur." Tractatus de Ecclesiae Page 511. Dublin, 1795. What think you of this? Is not this blasphemous? (Hear.) This you know is the name inscribed upon the brow of the harlot, BLASPHEMY ! (Hear). It is a treacherous sys tem also. The fashionable policy of the modern men who rejoice in the name of a liberal, is to conciliate popery. I say not only that it cannot be conciliated, but that it, ought not to be conciliated. It is the enemy of God and man. Every kindness we can shrew to the Roman Catholics per sonally and individually, it is our duty to do; but with the system, whose principles are written in the council of Trent, and whose conduct we see exhibited in the present day, is a system which neither can nor ought to be conciliated—it is that which every Christian is called upon by his fidelity to God, to stand forward and oppose to the utmost of his power. (Hear, hear.) How do we find a moderate Roman Catholic journal in Ireland, speaking a few days since ? Let us ponder the language of this most moderate journal— the Dublin Register:— "England deserves but little forbearance at our hands. Many a battle have we fought for her, many a brave Irish heart has been drained in her defence. We deserted not her standard when it streamed against the wind: We stood by her side on the field, and on the wave. What return has she made for all? Oppression. insult, and persecution. We have failed in our attempt to conciliate her good will. L. , us try . what we can do by an appeal to her interest and her fears. ' What is all this for? Because parliament is about to pass a certain measure, the standard of repeal—which is a trea sonable cry, (hear)—is hoisted in Ireland: and here we are told, after all the concessions, and all the conciliation, and all the.healing measures of the last ten years, that Ireland has never received anything from the hands of England, but " oppression, insult, and persecution." That if parliament passes one single, solitary measure, of which she disapproves, behold her gratitude, " she will appeal to our interests and our fears!" Aye, that will be the language of popery to the last, and any attempt to conciliate it, therefore, must ne c:ssarily fail. (Hear.) Let me ask again, why are we alarmed ? I find that within the last forty years, no fewer than 500 Roman Catholic chapels, and colleges have been built in the United Kingdom. There were only thirty then, there are 352 now. (Hear, hear.) Within the last ten years, there has been an increase of 88. (Hear.) There are 74 Roman 'Catholic Chapels in Lancashire, and nine Roman Catholic schools or colleges ; in Yorkshire, 50 chapels and two schools in Staffordshire, 29 chapels and seven school s ; i n Middlesex, 20 chapels and 13 col leges. (Hear, hear.) It is remarkable that whilst Roman Catholi ; chapels have multiplied more in the provinces, nearer the seat of government they have planted most of their colleges; for there are,more colleges, 1.. e. nurseries of popery, in Middlesex than in any other parr of the coun try. (Hear, hear.) And in addition there are £70,000 a-year given for the direct support and propagation of popery, in the endowment of Maynooth, and the stipends of priests and bishops in various ofour colonies. (Hear, hear.) Just conceive what a powerful influence must he at work in these days of retrenchment and economy in order to allow such a large sum to he annually expended for such a purpose. In addition to these things we have been lately astounded with the intelligence that the Queen has been advised to grant charters of incorporation to two Roman Catholic colleges in 'England, a thing unheard of since the days of James the Second. (Hear, hear.) I ask, if these things be so what is the duty of Protestant Christians of the present day ? We have national sins to be humbled for, as well as national mercies to acknowledge, and I will tell you what our national sins are. We have been tampering with popery for forty years. It is little more than that period since what is called the Quebec act was passed by which the church of Rome was established in Lower Canada ; that was the beginning of sor rows ; that was the first step we advanced towards the mo ther of abominations. How have we been repaid for that act? By a recent rebellion in Canada, and by a modern attempt too likely to prove successful, to seize what are called " the clergy reserves," which were expressly set apart for the support and encouragement of the Church of Eng land in that country. The next step was the endowrnent'of the college of Maynooth, and' what has been the result ?• We were told by the promoters of it that 4 domestic college . . would be likely to fiend forth as ernlable,gentle, tolerant, And benignant, priesthood, for previous to this they came from the continent, and in danger of being infected with conti nental principles which were not good, - What, I again ask, has been the result ? . We know that the men who have issued from that college have been the most factious, turbulent, and disaffected, and greatest opponents to the church and state, that Ireland has ever seen. (Cheers.) We were lately told by one of those priests that there was not a priest in Ireland who was not ready to put himself at the head of the population in case certain measures of which they disapproved passed the imperial legislature. (Hear.) Our next act was the fatal act of 1829, the act commonly called the Roman Catholic Emancipation Bill. When that act was passed, and when in an evil hour his majesty was advised most reluctantly to subscribe the royal sign manual to it, the wooden horse was admitted within the walls of our Troy—that horse which is now pouring forth its armed men, filled with fury and determination in their hearts against everything that bears the name of Protestant. (Hear.) And when, in addition to these three national sins, the establishment of popery in Canada, the endowment of popery at home, and the passing of the " relief bill, we, further refer to the co lony. of Newfoundland. where the Roman Catholics have a majority in the House of Assembly, and where a large and valuable grant of land has been lately made to them for the purpose of building a Roman Catholic Cathe dral and palaces for their bishops, enough is said to shew that the popish party in their ambition of supremacy, are endangering our most sacred institutions, and shaking the pillars of the state ;.and when, in addition to these, we men tion the. National Board of Education in Ireland, we have our national sins before us in most formidable array. (Hear, hear!) I would advise every individual around me to make himself acquainted with an admirable tract written by Dr. Croly, in which he shows in a brief, powerful, and com prehensive way, how while protestantism waspthe policy of England, she was triumphant at home and abroad, and that whenever the slightest encouragement was given to popery, she sunk and withered among the nations. (Hear.) I see here the worthy secretary of the Liverpool Protestant Asso ciation, and I know how happy he will be to furnish you with copies of it. There you will see our good Protestant Queen Elizabeth, during her reign, raising the dignity of the English nation to the highest pitch abroad, enabled to repress all seditions and treasons at home. and to cause her name to be feared throughout the world; there you will see James the First ascend the throne, and as his policy was Protestant, the same results followed. When his son Charles the First came to the throne, we do not see that he actually took into his councils Roman Catholics—but at all events he married the Popish Infanta of Spain, and what disastrous results fol lowed. Again ; with Cromwell ; his policy was Protestant, . and in consequence of it he almost realised his splendid boast, that he would make the name of Englishman as much dreaded abroad as that of ancient Rome was. Charles the Second was a concealed Roman Catholic, and it was in his reign that God visited the capital with two of the most fearful visitations with which any city was ever visited—the plague and the great fire. We know the respective hiStories of James the Second'atid of William the Third, of glorious, pious, and immortal memory. (Loud cheers.) And when you read the history or our country `'since this sketch, and since 1829, you will see the dangers in the present day are but the beginning of the troubles which I believe will never pass away till we have repented of these national sins, till we have ceased to endow the Church of Rome at home, and in our colonies abroad ; till we have obtained the withdrawal of of the grant to Maynooth, TILL WE HAVE REPEALED THE ROMAN CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION BILL, and consigned to its merited destruction, THE NATIONAL BOARD OF EDU CATION IN IRELAND. (Hear.) To conclude. I will relate an anecdote of a great general of our country in illustration of our own duty at the present crisis. When once pressed, with a little band of men, by a formidable enemy, he was counselled to retreat and retire lest discomfiture should be the consequence, just as many faint-hearted persons tell us to retire. " Sound to the charge," said he, " I will advance ; cause.is good, my sword is good, and I have every con fidence in th bravery of my followers, and with the blessing of God we will conquer." Then, added he, " with regard to enemy, we will kill some, of some we will snake prison ers, and some will run away." It is precisely in this spirit we would act ; this is the example we would follow ; with Christian protestantism inscribed upon our banners, and the sword of the spirit in our hands. which is the word of God, some of our enemies we will kill—with kindness, of some we will make prisoners—prisoners of hope, and if there be any that run away from us, we will with all diligence pursue them as they fly, and say—" turn ye, turn ye, why will ye die?" The rev. gentleman then resumed his seat amidst loud cheers. The Ch AIRMAI4 put the resolution, and declared it to have been carried. _ _ _ Dr. ORPEN, in moving the next resolution, snid, that on the great question which had brought the meeting together, ,lay men felt as much interest as the ministers of the church, because they were convinced that popery was the worst spe cies of idolatry that bad ever existed in the world. (Hear.) The Rev. HUGH M'NIELE on rising to second the resolu tion was received with great applause. He said—l have been invited to second this resolution ; and in doing so, it may be profitable to call the attention to what some of our enemies may allege to be an inconsistency in the representations that have already been made. (Hear.) You have heard the Romish system denounced idolatrous, superstitious, arrogant. blasphemous. Under some of these heads you have had statement made calculated to make you think and feel that it was morally impossible that such a system should pass current amongst men, or should increase under any circumstances among reasonable beings. Yet in the very same speech, you heard it alleged that nothing but a Protestant establishment by authority can prevent that system from spreading in every country. How is this? If it he so vile, if it be so abominable, if it' deserves all the epithets given to it in that • speech, supported as they were by the arguments you have beard, bow is it that it should require a Protestant establish ment by authority to prevent its increase among reasonable beings ? Now, this is one of the ways in which our enemies place the matter. They say if the Romanist system be so vile as you think it, why oppose it; leave it alone, it cannot succeed; on the contrary, if, as you admit, it has succeeded, if it does,succeed, if as you say it has increased in England, if its places' of worship from thirty have become more than five hundred, and fifty, then it cannot be the vile thing that you describe it. Here is one of the dilemmas in whicii they think they entangle the advocates of Protestantism. I have now g iven utterance to one of the favourite argu m ents of th e liberals. I like exceedingly to enter at once into our enemy's strongholds, because I feel our case is so strong as to be able to overturn them ; I never like begging any question, but I like proving our point. (Hear, hear 7) lam asked, then, by these gentlemen, " Why is it that a system so vile makes such progress, and requires such efforts to resist it?" The answer is brief : the proof of it may not be quite so brief, but the answer is this—the world is fallen. The world is fallen ! The application of the answer 'I will now spew as briefly es I can. It requires, no cultivation to produce in the natural soil of this world weeds of every description. Docks, thistles, nettles, and other vegetable vilenesses flourish in the soil of a fallen world if that soil be let alone ; but it requires constant care and patient toil to produce good wheat in that soil • it requires the constant use of the eradicating hoe, the plough, or the spade to guard against the constant • growth of tares, and to produce that salutary and nutritious food of man. (Hear, hear,) The soil of the earth we tread upon is in this respect an apt emblem of the character of those who tread it. The human mind is a fallen soil, It requires no cultivation to produce pride, malice, covetousness, idolatry, blasphemy, envy, hatred, perjury., and all un charitableness; these are the docks, these are the nettles, these the vegetable vilenesses ; leave man alone, and these are the bad produce, the poisonous luxuriance of every com munity. (Cheers.) These are the very features you have heard stamped upon the Popish system, these are the natural produce of fallen man's heart. (Hear.) It requires no cultivation to give increase to Popery. (Cheers.) Leave man alone, and you will have it in abundance, just as if you leave the natural soil alone, you will have weeds in abun dance. (Hear, hear.) But it requires constant care, vigilant efforts, and unwearied toil to produce truth and holiness and love—that is Scriptural Protestantism as my rev. friend has expressed it. Scriptural Protestantism my friends, is the result of pains-taking discipline, the result of prayer and preaching, and all the legitimate means used by those to whom the Scriptu ral trust has been committed—private means by private men, and public means by public men—and the result of ill this, carefully followed out, and constantly exhibited, is scriptural protestantism. (Cheers.) Here there is the rea son why a system, although verily as evil as my reverend friend has described it, does, nevertheless, make progress in this world unless checked, as he has shown it is in Holland, in Germany, in Sweden, and thanks be to God in England. (Cheers.) If the reformers of the sixteenth century had let England alone, if they h a d t a k e n th e a d v i ce now 'given to us by our liberal friends who say, " for mercy's sake do not agitate this question among the people, be quiet, leave the thing alone, leave England alone, for we are doing very well ; leave protestantisin to itself, it will increase, for it is the truth, leave the reformation to it se lf, an d do not agitat e thi s matter"—how, I say, if the reformers of the sixteenth cen tury bad left England to itself, she would have remained overgrown by the weeds, the poisonous weeds of the middle ages. (Cheers.) If the reformers of the second and third centuries liad left the Roman empire to itself, it would not have been weiged down under the polytheism of paganism. (Hear, hear.) If the reformers of the first century, and the great reformer, our Lord Jesus Christ himself, had left Judaism to itself, it would have remained infected with the traditions of men, arid the pharasaical performances which made void the commandments of God. (Hear, hear, hear.) If the ancient Prophets had let their nation alone, it would have followed the worship of Baal, and polluted the land with idols. If Moses had left his brethren atones they would have been content with their slavery—with the meats and onions and flesh-pots of Egypt—and have been content to spend their lives to the death in bondage. (Hear, hear.) Nay, if Almighty God had left the world alone, even after the solemn warning of the deluge, it would have turned into a second and a worse hell, where all the fierce mental pas sions of malignant demonism would have been added to the carnal vileness of unrestrained brutality. (Cheers.) But God in mercy protested against the downward career of our species, and calling to himself a man from Mesopotamia made him and his family witnesses against the flow of cor ruption of the human species, getting up a standard for truth in the world. (Hear.) Moses protested and rescued his brethren from the slavery of Egypt ; the priests protested and caused the images of Baal to be broken down in the land, from Dan to Beersheba, and our Saviour and the apostles, protested and put to shaani the pharisees. The first re formers in the infant chureh of Christ protested, they stood to their protest-whitst ralt to the lionsiti the.Romart Amphi theatre, and the blood of these martyrs proved the seed of Christ's church. (Loud applause.) Our reformers of the sixteenth century protested, and from the embers of the fires that consumed their perishing bodies there arose a moral, an imperishable flame, which has kindled and burnt in England ever since, in the light of which the British con stitution, with the Bible freely circulated, and all the holy and blessed consequences in public, private, and domestic life, all the endearments connected with a national establish ment, all the softness and sweetness of retiring love which glows like so many gentle and benignant flowers—all these fill the land with fragrance, and have sent up sweet incense to God—all, I say, have been warmed by the flame that burst from the expiring martyrs. (Cheers.) The flame that was lighted under the walls of Oxford, the martyrs declared never would be put out, and it never has. (Loud cheers.) Thanks be to God we are witnesses this night that it has not, and that it cannot be put out. (Renewed cheers.) But there has been mischief done, although the light has not been put out. (Hear, hear.) I agree with Daniel O'Connel (hisses) in these words, ." lam a repealer." (Laughter.) He says, " Hurrah for old Ireland, 1 am a repealer ;" so say I ; and there will never be real justice for Ireland till .she has our repeal, (Cheers. What is it? lam a repealer, sir; and I believe that the worst enemies of the Irish population have bad their powers enlarged, and their machinations increased, by the operation of the emancipation bill, falsely so called, in such a way as that they are rivetting the fetters of mental and bodily slavery upon that population; and what ever name they may give it, under whatever specious form they may present it to win the good opinion of the unsuspecting' English, it is a fact that the bondage of Romanism is made more intolerable since the passing of that act ; the difficulty of the people to get the Holy Scriptures, the bars against hearing the gospel, the almost impossibility of hearing and reading the glad tidings of salvation in their own houses, which might have been done before that measure, and now it cannot be done, and the only way to restrain the resisting power, the only way to put the people in a safe condition for the liberty in which we can have free course to preach the gospel in that country, without risk to the people themselves as well as to the preacher. is again to put Romanism where she must always be, unless she is at the top—if she is not to be dominant she must be coerced. The Romish system will not bear parallelism. Parallels suppose equality ; Romanism rejects equality. Romanism claims supremacy ; paralleli sm is impossible. If the system could be really parallel with British enjoyments, if thoitOadsh system admitted of British It it truly reeognlged the lest resort of British Ingle', it the Roman Catholics really and truly enjoyed the privileges of the British constitution, if jurors could he depended upon, if they were not afraid in the jury-box with regard to the verdicts they should bring in, if witnessess could be depended upon, if they were not under restraint because of the sur rounding people and the priests watching what testimony they shall give,—if these things could be depended upon as in England, I say of the testimony of witnesses, if the free un fettered verdict of juries in which British liberty rests, and without which it cannot continue, could be depended upon in the Romish population, then political equality might be what some call it, justice to Ireland. (Hear.) But as it is, po litical equality upon the statute-book becomes injustice to England in the practice. Injustice to England, I said, — for equality is utterly impossible. The systems can't be equal; they cannot continue parallel; the Romish system must either be so placed under restraint as to have no prac ticable opportunity, or it must be so placed above compare as to have no hindrance, no opposition, in the way of its utile versal power. (Hear.) Romanism is not a lovely thing to be fondled up to a certain point, and there kept still ; it is a mighty engine urged forward by the hosts of wisely or ganized men, cunning, crafty men, taking counsel together peaceably and quietly, and putting on any external exhibi tion that best suits the feature of the times they live in, and the country it is intended for—wearing one feature in Italy, another in Spain, another in Austria, another in France, another in Ireland, and another in England, just to suit the tone of the times, obtaining in theory the name of unchanga ble, and exhibiting in practice a perpetual camelion. (Hear, hear.) It is never the same. What a mystery of iniquity is here ! Its present aspect is this country is two-fold. .It has one species of books for England, and another for Ire land ; it has a modified theology fit for the English mind in which all the baser principles are completely obicured, in which the most amiable sentiments are professed, and the charity which is known to be the idol of the present indiffer entism is highly extolled. But it has a different species of book for a different species of readers. I think it may be well to supply you with one specimen of this difference—a specimen of the mode in which a certain subject is treated in a book intended for the amiable, intelligent, and educated population of England, and how the same subject is treated in a book intended for the practical purposes of Romanism•in other countries. (Hear.) Here is a specimen of the lan guage in which they treat on one subject when intended to suit the taste of English readers. You will observe I am going to meet the reproach so frequently thrown out against us that we slander the system, that we are bigotted misrepresenters of our Roman Catholic fellow subjects. •1 am not willingly a misrepresenter of any one, but I have been painfully compelled to the conchs sion that Romish writers misrepresent their own system, in order to deceive British Christians. (Hear, hear.) The subject which I have selected to supply you with a specimen of this is their treatment of images. I hold in my hand a book of the celebrated Mr. Gother, which has gone through a great many editions ; this is anew edition printed in Edin burgh in 1836, and intended for the reading of Englishmen and Scotchmen. (Here the rev. gentleman read a passage from Gother, containing a softened gloss on the use of images.) This sounds eery simple .and very innocent ; and this is al leged to be the only use Roman Cathclics make of .pictures. Here is a representation of the case in a book intended for English readers. I protest that if I had access to no other books upon the subject, if I were so easily to be taken in as to take Mr. Gother's word without examining other hooks, or to take the celebrated Bossuet's word, who wrote for the purpose of salving over the mischief popery creates, by ap parent sympathy for the people among whom it rests—l say if I were content with this sort of reading I should be a libe ral. I should say, my good friend Mr. Ould is a perfect bigot to ascribe such sentiments to persons who write so gen teely as this. (Hear.) Nov here is the very delusion they have practised upon England, and here is the very delusion we want to dissipate by means of Protestant Associations ; we do not desire to misrepresent Popery, but to draw away the mask by which they misrepresent it in order to gain upon you. (Cheers.) Now, I will give you the use of images as it is set forth practically to my poor fellow-countrymen, and not to them only, but to the great bulk of what is called the Catholic world. I turn to the Second Nicene Council, ap proved by Pope Adrian, kept by the whole church, declared to be a general council, and referred to by the inspired as sembly of Trent. At that council the Bishop of Constan tinople told these circumstances concerning the use of images as a practical illustration of the sentiments he laid down. " A carter went, with his goad in his hand, into one of the churches of that city, (Cyprus) to say his prayers. In the midst of his devotions, he chanced to see an image of the virgin in cteours on the wall; upon which he lifted up his goad, and struck out the right eye of the figure. On leaving the church, he returned to his team, and soon afterwards having occasion to use his goad, the instrument broke, a fragment entered his right eve, and blinded him. This man," adds the bishop, " I myself have seen, and I know him to have only one eye." Now what impression is that intended to have upon the mind of the reader with regard to the virtue of images ? "We protest," says Bossuet, " that Catholics ascribe no virtue to images—they' have only the same regard for them as any affectionate Protestant might have for anything that had belonged to his friends." Aye, but the carter that the Bishop of Constantinople told about had a very different view ; he felt what it was to touch an image. " Another man," says the Bishop, "of the city of Citium, in the same island, being employed to hang a church with veils, in honor of the festival of the blessed virgin's assumption, in the course of his work drove a nail into the forehead of an image of St. Peter, painted on one of the walls. He fastened his rose, and spread the veil; but, before an hour was over, he was seized with an intolerable pain in his head, particularly in his forehead; this continued.two days of the festival, during which he lay in great torment. It happened, however, that the bishop of Citium heard of the occurrence ; and he, after giving the man a severe reprimand, directed him to go and take the nail out of the image : he elid so, and, as soon as the nail was extracted, his pain ceased." (Laughter.) Now I pray you, Mr. Chairman, to observe the connection with which I read these things. It is not to pro duce the passing laugh—l wish I could read them without producing it, because when all we say and do is reported the laugh seems as if we were laughing of our Roman Catholic brethren. (Hear.) God forbid. I would not willingly laugh at any of their absurdities any more than I would commit any other sin, but I cannot be restrained from showing you the excess of the misrepresentations, of the deceit, of the men who know that this is the use of images upon tens of thousands of people ; I say the deceit of the men who put out such books as this.to make the people of England believe that the Roman Catholic's worship of- images is perfetly in nocent. (Hear.) This is the cl arge, that Popery has two faces. I want you to see teat it has one face all blandness and all charity—anti, indeed, as I said before, I do not wonder our liberals are deceived who will rot take the trouble of searching for the other face. (Hear.) Them, they say, that other free has been expunge d long since; i , : was lost in the middle ages, and you are ungenerues b.sots to rake up those stories and tell what passel at the Second Council of Nice, as if it were in operation new in Ireland. A VOICE.—I-fear, hear. Mr. MeleTeree.--That is a liberal, I suppose. (Hear.) I would ask him—Did you hear Mr. Ould's story about the fairy, that occurred in Ireland the other day? (Cheers.) I have said enough now, Mr. Chairman, to show your friends in this place, in this large respectable and influential assembly of your parishioners, our object in ionising Pro testant associations. If any man ask us "Is it right to form such associations—is it right to go about agitating this question," I ask him " is it right to keep England protes tant? (Cries of Yes, yes.') If it be right to keep Eng land protestant, then it is right to use means for the pur pose. (Hear.) To expect results without suitable means, is the basest enthusiasm of an unreasonable mind; but to use the means is sound practical wisdom. We anticipate results; so do some who do not joie our agitation. There are many who say, ' keep England protestant certainly, but we will not join protestant associations." Who arc the instil meu then—the men who expect the harvest without the seed, or the bold industrious labourers who drive the plough, break up the tallow ground, and work it in spring time, that they may leave a harvest as the legitimate result of their pains taking and toil? (Hear.) You can all do something. You have had a petition against any further grants to May moth, I am informed. A petition against ' Maynooth shows the nature of one part of our proceedings. Some thing was said by my friend Mr. Ould about politics, and I confess I stood in doubt, at first, of what my friend meant when he said, if this were a political object he would not be here. Sir, it is a political object. (Hear, hear.) There are various senses in which that word may he used, and he was right in the sense in which he used it. It is a political object in this way—it is a political object, because it inter ests the whole kingdom. What is the difference between political and a religious object ? I said I felt in doubt, and 1 was staggered when I heard my friend distinguish between political end religious, and say this was entirely a reli gious question. 1 know, however, that lie and 1 agree ; know his meaning well, and I only refer to it that you rnal know mine. Tile politicians have assailed our religion, and they have snide the defence of the Bible to be a political question; we cannot defend the use of the Bible without be ing accused as political partisans ; we cannot defend the, free circulation of the whole Bible in the native language of the country, or its use in national education, without being abused for it as politicians. It is thus, not because we volun teer political .movements, but because our opponents vo lunteer anti-religious movements. (Cheers.) We are there fore brought into collision with them. It is not, however , a party political question, and as my friend puts in that word , Ido not object. Maynooth was founded by Mr. Pitt, forty-five years ago this summer, and has been supported by every British minister since, of all parties, there fore when we oppose M a y noo th, i t i s not a party ques tion. Sir Robert Peel would support Maynooth if he were prime minister to-morrow, and I should be as much oppoeetl, to him as I am to Lord M e lb ourne , so wou ld M r. O u ld, a n d so would all the protestant associations in the kingdom. (Cheers.) We will make this quite clear as regards party politics—we are repealers of a measure which the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel carried. We want them to acknowledge that they were wrong. We ourselves truly he lieee and think they were wrong. I wish the noble duke, whose 71st birth day has been celebrated here to-day—(greet careering) —oh ! it' he would redeem the pledge he gave us 1829, how would your cheering for bins be heightened an,", improved'.! (Hear, hear.) He said if the emancipation bi l l did not tranquillize Ireland, he would go down to the hots` and ask for additional powers—and he had the same coeti deuce in their lordships granting them, as he now heel in ask' ing them to pass the present bill. (Hear.) Has it tranquil: lized Ireland . ?_ au • Herg is e a curious specimen of their tranquility, scarcely dry in t he newspapers, where - the great arch agitator, my brother repealer, only he means a different act, said— " Why, they did not give us religious liberty until the year 1829—and then they did give it to us, even ? Was it $ free gift ? Were we not imploring them to give it to u$ before they consented ? Oh ! yes, we were imploring, t ° be sure, but we implored with five or six millions at our backs. Whenever you want to persuade a stubborn fellow , who won't go on, bring five or six and twenty fellows wit h you—if you want to cow a fellow who won't do what is right by all means have as many of your neighbours looking a t you as you can." Perhaps you do not know what this means, but I dare say b e knows it very well— " So we took five or six millions to look at Wellingto n , and Peel and Co., and behold they took the infection .1 1 -''" as if we had the cholera. Peel and Wellington took the emancipation cholera, and we succeeded in infecting then'; (Great cheering.) Yes, we got the emancipation, and ho°,; We got it, and no thanks to them—that is the way we got No thanks to them! 0 grateful, grateful Mr. O'Coune' . (Hear.) But there is another passage in this speech that I have a little more interest in. He says— " Stanley may have the advantage of the bigotry so Ml,' dominent in England, and which holds out such rewards tit those unprincipled and mercenary scoundrels who go slandering the people of Ireland," He calls an exposure of popery slandering the Irish people' a s . hence he means the speakers at the Protestant Associatio%, Those unprincipled and mercenary scoundrel s ! M r.Chairtu 4 o) , a conscience has been a subject of pains taki ng s t u dy with for some years. and I hav e seld o m m e t w ith more instr,,!, b , tive sample than that presented by Mr. O'Connell. i , manner in which he so rudely assails others as mercellarY' h is but the unintentional vibration of his conscience tongue. (Hear.) Mercenary ! Where are our rents ? cenary ! Where are the collecting boxes f o r Robert 0" pe, Mortimer O'Sullivan, and Hugh M'Neile ? (Hear.) ,i c h defy him or any man to point out a single instance in n we have been paid for our Prote s tant agitation, whil 11 easy to see that his agitation would have been t•L tv and brief but for the thousands wrung oat of the s c_ " y earnings of a priest-ridden peasantry. Scoundrels ! but do not know the exact etymology of that word , to its practical application i s o bvious. Again, I ret f the the valuable lesson to be derived from the study oc_e human.conscience. Men have been detected, thleYes have