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

AN D COLONIAL. A society of bankers and capitalists has been formed at Frankfort, to buy foreign corn and flour to sell at prime cost to the bakers. THE WEST INDIA MAIL. Sivori, the violin-player, is now at New York. His The Tweed, royal mail steam-shin , Lieute nant George Parsons, commander, arrived at S. nthamp ton on Frida y audiences ar e described as " the complete fill of the Taber - evening, at five o'clock, with the usual fortni g htl y mails. nacle (the largest church in the town)." She has experienced fine weather generally throughout An account is given in a French journal of a gentleman the passage, with the exception of the two last days when committing suicide by cramming his ear full of gun-cot it blew very hard indeed , ton, and igniting it with a cigar. The latest dates brought by the Tweed are—Demerara, Mr. Newman arrived at Rome on the 28th of October, 20th October ; Trinidad, 21st ; Jamaica, 24th ; Barbadoes, and had an interview with the Pope the next day, at 25th • Grenada, 26th ; St. Thomas's, 30th ; and Fayal, church. He occupies chambers in the Propaganda College. The sale of gun cotton in Bavaria has been prohibited 13th 'November. Her cargo consists of a small quantity of British coin, by the government, on the ground that, as it cannot by dollars, and gold dust, 87 serons of tobacco, 24 tierces its appearance be distinguished from ordinary cotton, its and 68 barrels of coffee, 1 tierce and 2 barrels of ginger, sale may possibly give rise to accidents. 618 ounces of silver, 13 cases and 122 kegs of succades, 4 The Duke de Bordeaux was married, on the sth instant, cases of cigars, bees'-wax, &c. to the Princess Maria Theresa Beatrice, sister to the The Company's steam-ship Ovde was at Grenada; reigning Duke of Modena, the only sovereign of Europe Forth at Ilavannah ; Tay, in the Gulf of Mexico; Trent, who has not recognised the King of the French. The in the Spanish Alain ; Eagle, at St. Thomas's ; and the princess's fortune is said to amount to 12 millions of francs. Reindeer, at Demerara. The cholera has extended its ravages from Persia to The news brought by the Tweed from the West India Bagdad, in which city about one hundred victims to the Islands is of no importance whatever, with the exception disease were, by the last accounts, perishing daily. hudred in all ad that the crops are looking exceedingly well, notwithstanding Fuurteen off. All the n bazaars persons were closed ; h the then been carried ror immense quantity of rain had fallen, more particularly in prevailed, and many of the inhabitants had fled. Jamaica. Such wet weather had not been experienced REPUBLIC OF CRACOW.—The protecting powers have for many seasons. Just previous to the sailing of the packet it had moderated. resolved to make an end of the independence of the repub lie of Cracow. so dangerous for the repose of its neigh- Sickness had prevailed to some extent in Jamaica , but hours, and to sanction its incorporation with the Aus the dThie storm of the 11th October was not felt at Vera sease was on the decline. trian dominions to which it belonged before 1809. The Cruz to any great extent. There was, however, a severe Russian and Prussian commissioners having received or hurricane in some parts of Jamaica on that day. It ders from their respective governments to regulate certain visited Montego Bay, Trelawnev, and Falmouth in parti- affairs connected with commerce and manufactures, with reference to that resolution, it is probable that this deter cular, and much damage was dune to some of the craft in the harbour. niination will be published at Cracow in a few days. A Mr. Rawle died on board the Tweed on the 16th of Thus, the extinction of the republic of Cracow, and its November, and was buried at sea. He embarked at Trin- reunion to Austria, may be considered as a fact accom idad, and was in a very infirm state of health at the plished. The three protecting powers have acknowledged time. that the existence of Cracow, as an independent state, is incompatible with the security of Germany; and as they had established that republic alone, and without the co- FOREIGN PORTUGAL THE INSURRECTION.—FALMOUTH, Nov. 19.—The operation of any other power, to try whether a shadow of smack Marys, Captain M`Lennen, arrived in this port last Polish independence could be suffered to exist, result had night from Lisbon,!having left the Tagus on the 11th inst. not justified their expectations. In fact, at the creation at three p.m. From information received from Captain of the republic, and afterwards, in different treaties, those 31`Lellan, it would appear that Lisbon was in a state of powers expressly stated, that should circumstances render great confusion and excitement when she sailed, and fears the existence of the republic dangerous, they reserved to were generally entertained that the success of the queen's themselees the right to annex it again to Austria.—Augs troope were very doubtful, although no news had reached burgh Gazette. of any decisive engagement having taken pine.- between Saldanha and the popular faction. The Bri r tish squadron was in a state of instant preparation for recsiving and pro tecting the queen and family, if deemed nectssary, and no The operative mesons and carpenters of Galway have sailors or marines had landed. The Ame,ican frigate, given notice that they will not work under 4s. a-dar. which had sailed for Oporto, was not only not ailiiwed to The National Club have raised upwards of £3OOO for enter, but had been fired upon by the batteries and totally the Irish poor. dismasted, and bad been towed into a neighbouring port. Numbers of vessels are now arriving at Cork with In- Whether any loss had occurred Captain M'i.ellen did not dian corn, which is selling there at £lO 15s. per ton. learn. Business was completely at a stand-still wia-n Ihe Dr. Nugent, domestic physician to Mr. O'Connell, has Marys left. The Marys has brought no letters a hereby been appointed inspector of lunatic asylums, although the to gain detailed information.—Times. situation had been promised to the brother-in-law of the Lord Chancellor. I R f; BAND CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. I The statement in the Dublin Evening Mail that Cape of Good Hope papers have arrived to the 18 hof O'Connell had announced that the Repeal association was indebted September. The latest intelligence from Graham'- Town, to him shout £6OO has not been contradicted by the neighbourhood of the caffre war, reaches to the 12;h any of the repeal party. Even the agitator did not notice of the month, at which dote it appears the governor had it at the association meeting on Monday last. The state fallen back to Line Drift, on account of the difficulty ea.- ment in the Mail must therefore be true. perienced in obtaining provisions for the troop:. Sir ENDOWMENT OF UNITARIANISM. — The government has endowed four additional professorships of theology in Andries Stockenstriim had, it is stated, left the command of his forces, and returned to his farm, in consequence of connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyte differences with the governor. Acc - rding to these ad rian Church of Ireland; and in addition it is said that vices, the aborigines continue their depredations, and a two professorships in connection with the Unitarian body large number of oxen and sheep have been swept away in this country have also been endowed. are b of n o righten. T from several of those farms which were not thoroughly protected. On the Baviaan river and at Bottas post the idea The prospects of a famine winter is fading g a nni .Thetatest accounts Coffees seem to have been irresistible.—Times. state that " corn and provisions of all kinds are becoming more abundant, and, greatly to the satisfaction of all par- THE WAR IN MEXICO. ties save one, the speculators and boarders are likely co be (From a Correspondent who h the sufferers in the combination to uphold the market as resided many years in prices of food beyond their natural level." that country.) Twelve months ago, owing to the great mass of notices The news brought by the Caledonia, after having pe- rused our various columns from the United States and of railway bills, the Dublin Gazette was increased to six Mexico, certainly gives us a very different idea of the or eight times the ordinary dimensions. Now there is scarcely a railway scheme to be heard of, and the Gazette future success of our Anglo-Saxon friends, from that be- is filled with proclamations from the lord lieutenant for fore mentioned. The battle of Monterey was certainly presentment sessions, to adopt measures for the relief of one of great slaughter, and the official returnQ, rne month the dest tute. after its occurrence, had not reached Washington. The general supposition however, seems to be, that the Government have hazarded a stroke of mercy at the slaughter had been much greater than that which we first trial of participators in the Irish food riots. The glean from the daily papers ; that it exceeds 800 killed rioters of Dungarvon, fifty-one in number, were brought and wounded ; and notwithstanding the great clemency to trial at the quarter sessions, on Tuesday. Mr. Hatchet which the endeavour to blind the world with the terms stated the case against the prisoners very leniently. They y , which General Taylor made to the Mexicans are those, pleaded guilty; the ringleader, Patrick Power, was sen ' not of a great and decisive victor, hut of one who was reseed to twelve months imprisonment, and the other fifty were discharged without sentence on finding sureties. delighted to make terms in any way. Private letters At the Association meeting, on Monday, Mr. O'Con state that the invaders were so deep raielv off with regard sell announced the heads of eleven bills which he has in to supplies and ammunition, that they had in reality not hands ; but as the bill mania seizes Mr. O'Connell every another shot to fire; and we all know that these valiant year, about the same season, we may conclude that the men cannot charge with the bayonet, preferring, as their present notices will not be more productive of legislation brief historic lore leads us to believe, being behind trees than their predecessors. They are a regular ruse, and —and, in fact, carrying out the Indian warfare. We never the only inference we draw from them is, that the tribute for an instant doubted the real moral courage of these our is not absolutely abandoned. race, but of course custom, instead of patient, accus t ome d SHOCKING TRAGEDY.—On Wednesday night, one of submission to their superior officers, has always been their ct aracteristic. the most appalling events took place at Lurgan, near Loughrea, when Mr. John Lalor, (brother to Mr. Lalor, Ampudia had so admirably placed himself within the 1 inspector of national schools,) who has been for a con walls of Monterey with 7000 troops ; that although some siderable time past labouring under insanity, set on fire days previously, haying received distinct orders from the house in which be resided at Lurgan, and it was con- Santa Anna to retire from that place to Saltillo, was so sumed to ashes. He also shot his sister Sarah, aged 30, convinced of success, that he-took this stand upon him- whilst endeavouring to induce him to leave the house self, rather than join the two other wings of the Mexican when burning. The gun-shot wound inflicted on the army ; and although he has not proved victorious, sac cording to acknowledged warfare, he has not been beaten, sister at once put an end to her existence.— Galway Mere. in having made terms by which hostilities are to be dis- SUPPRESSION OF THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION. — His continued for such a while, taking all private property Excellency the Earl of Besbor °sigh has promised to do it. t ammunition, and six field pieces with hi m , thu s a ll ow i n ' Santa Anna's great trap for the State s ' s oldi ers t o takesaid his Excellency, operandi is simple. " His will be a bloodless vic 1 will, ory and " an easy one. The effect, by inveigling them into the passes of the mono- , modus put down the Repeal Association by giving places to all tains, and between the passes. They now h ave . ~,,,,, oc t_the leaders!" John O'Connell la_ marked down far a bortraissionership of stamps or excise at £2,000 a-year— thirty field pieces to act upon them, which, if well ma " say £2,000 ;" Captain Brodrick a stipendiary's com naged, must cut the Americans up; and the flying troops mission in Tobago or some other warm locality; and then will be thoroughly slaughtered by the Guerillas, who tbere will remain but Robert Dillon Browne and one or have a deadly hate towards their northern brethren. two others worth buying at the lowest possible price. A The day will ere now be rued when they penetrated into a strange termination all this will be to a ten years' fierce peaceful country, in the rapacious and unjustifiable spirit which they have exhibited. The cabinet have indeed at agitation for a Repeal of the Union. Washington disgraced their country and countrymen, by REPEAL ASS Repeal meeting on Monday wa emptying their coffers in such a pernicious warfare, in I enlivened by the presence of one of the Roman Ca having pandered to the worst passions of their wester n i tholic bishops, Dr. Browne, of Elphine, and the receipt brethren ; for which a just P rov id ence w ill v i s i t wit h a of more money than has for several weeks past been poured into the repeat exchequer. The week's rent was an serious loss the most valorous of their tro ps. flounced at £372 3s. 2d., of which £2OO came from Boy- The fleet now remains actively employed between Pen ton, and £2O from Patterson, in America, and £B3 from sacola and Matamoros, Vera Cruz, &c., &c. Report the Roman Catholic bishop and clergy in Waterford. Mr. states that it is their early intention to make an attack O'Connell was present, and made a speech, abusing the upon Alvarado and Tampico. After passing the bar at Young Irelanders, for whom be declared" he did not care these two places, the attackers will require to proceed at twopence." He announced " that the Roman Catholic least eleven miles in small boats up the river, the banks prelates assembled in synod, last week, in Dublin, tad of which are so thoroughly covered with wood of great done him the honour of entrusting to his care certain pe thickness, that, with tact and zeal, the attacked will not titions to Parliament, which they had agreed upon. One allow a living man to enter either of their ports. The of these was for an amendment of the Bequests Act ; ano wisest course would be, seeing their immediate danger, at ther for an alteration of the marriage law ; arid a third, once to attack the castle of St. Juan de Ulloa ;but of complaining of the persecution of the religious orders un course we are unable fully to anticipate coming events. der existing laws." ALGERIA. (From the Moniteur Alge?ien.) OVERFLOWING OF THE ARRACH UNIVERSITY 4. CLERICAL NEWS. A frightful catastrophe took place the day before yes- OXFORD, Nov. 19 —The following degrees have been terday. The Arrach, swelled by the heavy rains which conferred :—Bachelor in Civil Law: Rev. J. A II« ssey, had fallen in the course of that day and the preceding fellow of St. John's Coll, ge, head master of Merchant night, overflowed its banks and inundated the lower part Tailors' School, commutation.—Maslers of Arts; C. J. of the plain of the Mitidjah. Towards nine o'clock the Parke, Oriel ; Rev. A. Forbes, lirazennose ; Rev. E. T. inundation was increasing, and the water rushed on with Waters, Worcester ; Rev. W. Dalton, Pembroke, incor rapidity and fury. Of the eleven houses composing the porated from Trinity College, Dublin.—Bachelors of village of the Matson Carree, seven had already disap- Arts: F. IL P. Bastard, Balliol (grand compounder) ; peared, with all that they contained. Here and there 11. C. Butler, queen's; J. W. R. Roy, and j. R. Hes were perceived the wretched inmates hurried by the water wood, All Souls' ; S. T. H. Jervois, J. 11. Wot;ehouse, toward the sea. Before they reached it they disappeared F. E. Tuke, J. W. Parker, and C. W. Goode, Brazen under enormous waves, occasioned by the collision of the nose; W. T. Browning, Exeter ; H. R. Wie'rnore and waters of the Arrach with the high tide. All human sue- 11. S. Polehampton, Pembroke ; E. Eade, Balliol ;A. emu- was impossible ; it was a frightful spectacle which King, Oriel. nothing can describe. Towards ten o'clock the inn of La The Rev. Wm. Dalton has been appointed by the Lord Nonvelle France, on the roof of which eight or ten per- Bishop of the Diocese Rural Dean of Wolverhampton. sons had sought refuge, fell into the water. Seven of The Rev. J. A. James, of Birmingham, has refused to them followed the course of the stream on the ruins of the assume the degree of D.D. conferred on him by the Uni roof ; it was in vain that attempts were made to rescue versity of Glasgow. them, and they could not be induced to trust to swim- PREDOMINANCY OF THE CHURCH.—According to the a - r i n g. They were soon overwhelmed by the water, and a last return of the Registrar General for England and few moments afterwards an unhappy mother, with a child Wales, 70 per cent. of the population are baprised, 90.7 in her arms, was carried away, and also disappeared. per ceat. are married, and 85 per cent. are buried accord. Nine persons were seen on a hillock, about a hundred fug to the rites of the established religion. metres below the bridge, only part of which was discern- Sonon. AND MAN.—The Rev. Dr. J. Griffith is to be ible. They had only a few metres of earth left. Two or the new bishop of this Diocese, vacant by the translation three others were clinging to the ruins of the chimney of of Dr. Short to the see of St. Asaph. By the last returns, the ten ; eight persons shut up in a house near the bridge the income of the vacant See was £2UOO per annum.— uttered cries of distress, and called for help ; a few metres p os e. [The Morning Herald of yesterday contradicts further on was the roof of a house in the water, with this; and, with an air of authority, announces that Arch seven or eight persons in it. The greatest efforts were deacon Shirley will have the vacant Bishopric ] . made to save the persons who were on the It hock, but The Church Building Society resumed its sittings on nobody could get to them, and the gendarme Schmitt, Monday last, the Lord Bishop of London in the chair. who had courageously plunged into the water to convey Th e pa y men t of g rants were ordered to seventeen parishes, ropes to them, would have perished, but for the devoted I providing addit onal accommodation f. r 8124 persons; of aid of Corporal Aubert, who bad himself a few moments , I which 2958 were free sittings. Several new applications before vainly attempted to reach the unfortunate suf- I were examined, and votes of money granted ; including a ferers. During this time efforts were made, though new district Church at Paddington -, Eecles, Lancashire ; unfortunately without avail. on the right hank. Twenty i an d another at Dukinfield, St. Mark's District, Chester. men of the fish Company of Native Sharpshooters, com- LORD RECTOR. OV GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.—Thr elec manded by Lientenant Tirard, as well as some men he- tion of this office was proceeded with on Monday last, the longing to the sth Chasseurs, threw themselves into the candidates nominated being the poet Wordsworth, and river, in the hope of saving. by swimming, some of the Lord John Russell. The result of the gross poll was a persons in danger. Their efforts were, however, useless, majority of 21 for Wordswoith, the numbers being 212 as the eurrent carried them away so strong l y th a t ten of and 191 ; but as the election is conducted by sections, or them were near perishing. A sergeant and two Native " nations," of which there are four, and each candidate Sharpshootets were lost in this manifestation of devoted- having a majority in two of them, the Vice-Rector, Dr. ness. About twelve o'clock a boat was brought to the Nichol', gave his casting vote in favour of Lord John spot from Algiers, with four boatmen to guide it. These Russell. It is, however, surmised that, under the cir men speedily set to work, and, after four hours' perilous curnstances, bis Lordship will not accept the office. efforts, succeeded in saving nineteen persons. By four SEE OF ST. ASAPH.—An order in council has just o'clock the bridge had considerably fallen, and aid could been promulgated, carrying into effect the recommenda be afforded to the nine individuals spoken of above, who lion of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners that the Bishop were also saved. The bridge of the ford of Constantina, i of St. Asaph do pay into the credit of the Ecclesiastical which had been carried away by the waters, floated down j Commissioners, the fixed sum of £l,BOO by half-yearly until it came against that of the Maison Cal r6e. As it payments, that being the excess of the income of the see might prove a great obstacle to the flowing off of the over and above the sum of £4,200, which the Commis water, soldiers were set to work to remove it. In' art missioners believe would be a suitable annual income for hour after, the circulation was restored, and no danger a Bishop of St. Asaph. The recommendation is made in existed for either habitations or individuals. The troops, consequence of the provision for uniting the see of St. in consequence, were permitted to withdraw. The num- Asaph and Bangor not having yet come into operation ; ber of dead is now known to be twenty-three in all, and and the appointment to the bishopric, though made, is not seven dead bodies have been as yet found. On the 4th, yet completed. the loss in constructions and COOd3 was estimated by the Due SCORESBY'S SERMON TO THE FEMALE FACTORY Mayor of Hussein Dey at 26.000 f. We just now have OPERATIVES.—On Sunday week, the Rev. Dr. Scoresby learned that the principal bridges over the Mitidjah have delivered his promised lecture to the female factory opera suffered severely. Those of the ford of Constantina, of tives of Bradford and neighbourhood. Long before the the Oued-el-Kebir, the Chiffa, and the Mazafran, are commencement of the service, the church was crowded, destroyed ; those of Rovigo and Nhkea-Kbera have and many hundreds had to go away, finding it utterly im stood firm. It is to be feared that the habitations of the possible even to obtain standing room. The church is colonists in the province of Algiers have suffered. considered to be capable of holding upwards of 3000 per,- ------ j pie, and of this number fully 2000 were mill girls. The Mr. E. Eyre is to be appointed Lieutenant-Governor of scene was interesting in the extreme, and must have given New Zealand, under Governor Grey, the worthy vicar the greatest satisfaction. It is the vicar's Canada is shortly to be annexed to the United States intention it the request of the factory girls, to publish the by magnetic te legraph wires, the contract for a line from sermon in a cheap form for their use. The teat was taken Buffalo to Toronto being taken at 125 dollars the mile— from Numbers, 10th chapter, and part of the 29 th verse, 4,000 dollars the entire distanc e. —" Come thou with us, sad we pill do thee good." THE LIVERPOOL *STAND'A'RD. RAILWAY INTE LLI GENCE. Notice has been given of an intended railway from the Birkenhead line to Parkgate. It is calculated that upwards of £260,000 are paid weekly to railway labourers in England. Tire Bedford Branch of the London and North-Western Railway was opened on Tuesday. It is said that Major-General Pasley has ceased to , be the government inspector of railways, and that Captain Coddington, deputy inspector, will probably succeed him. The opening of the - Penmaen Bach tunnel, on the-Ches ter and Holyhead Railway, was celebrated last week at Conway with great rejoicings. A Fox: OUTDONE.—A fox, in attempting to cross the Whitstable Railway when the last train was coming to this city on Saturday night, was run down, and its head com pletely severed from its body.—Kentish paper. No passengers whatever are conveyed on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway on Sundays, nor any work done beyond what the post-office can compel by act of parlia ment, viz., the carrying of the royal mail bags. A Goon RESOLVE.—The Great Western have given notice of their intention to apply to Parliament for powers to erect bridges over the line where the public roadways cross on a level. The junction tunnel between the Midland and the Shef field and Manchester Railway is now open for the goods traffic only, and the average number of waggons of goods daily are from thirty to forty. The works on the Trent Valley line have been pushed forward with almost unparralleled rapidity ; and there is every probability that the line will be ready for opening by the middle of March next. EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—AMODrSt the powers to be applied for by the London and North Western Rail way Company, of which notice is given for next session, there is power to enter into agreement with the East Lan cashire Conipany, for the working of all or any portion of that railway. On Friday morning last, the early railway train be tween Kendal and Lancaster ran over and killed a fine black cat, which was crossing the line with a mouse, and was too intent upon her prey to notice the approach of the engine. The cat was afterwards found completely cut in two, with the mouse firmly fixed between her teeth. The first general meeting of the shareholders of the Paris and Strasburg Railway took place in Paris last week, and went off satisfactorily. A very full account and report of the state of the works was given, from which it appears that the first 120 to 140 miles from Paris are ex pected to be opened in the spring or autumn of 1848. SHEFFIELD CAN AL.—On Monday, the 9th instant, a special general meeting of the Sheffield Canal Company was held in the Town-hall, at which it was agreed to sell the canal and property connected with it, to the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company, for a perpetual an nuity of ss. on each share of the canal. Mr, John Platford. who, owing to ill health, was obliged to give up the managership of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, has been succeeded by Mr. Eborall, jun., assistant-general goods manager at the Birmingham Station of the London and North Western Railway. Mr. Hargreave has been appointed superintendent at the Sheffield terminus, and Mr. Burney goods agent. On Thursday, a workman left the Chesterfield station in a railway carriage, taking his day dinner with him, but on reaching his dstination, he left it in the carriage. Having communicated his loss to the station clerk, the telegraph was set to work, and an answer quickly ob tained that the dinner was found, and would be sent by the next train. . . ..„........ ........_ The Norfolk Railway Company are about to erect a slaughter-house at their Trowse station, about a mile from the Norwich cattle market, for the purpose of slaying the bullocks there, and taking the slain meat, instead of the live bullocks, to the London market. This (says a corre spondent) is to obviate the complaints so constantly made, of the beasts being bruised so much upon the rail in their journey. RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER THE TWEED.—The con tract for building the bridge over the Tweed, in connec tion with the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, has just been let to 'Messrs. M . Kay and Blackstock for £lBO,OOO. The bridge will be a light and elegant structure ; its height is 120 feet, the arches are twenty-seven in number, and we need scarcely say that it will be one of the noblest ar chitectural objects in the kingdom. SALE OF THE PAISLEY AND RENFREW RAILWAY. — On Tuesday last, a competition took place at Renfrew between the Caledonian and Ayrshire Railway Companies, which are respectively promoting the Glasgow and Neil son Direct, and the Paisley and Hurlet Branch Railways, for the t'aisley and Renfrew line, which, ultimately, was sold to the Ayrshire Company, who guarantee 6 per cent. per annum, and which has raised the shares to £1 2s. 6d. premium on the original stock. THE NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION.—An undertaking formed by amalgamation of the Leeds and Carlisle, the York and G!asgow Union, and the York and Carlisle companies, having obtained an Act for the formation of two lines, which expressly provides that the two lines shall be proceeded with simultaneously, lately decided to proceed with the line up Wensleydale and postpone the making of the other from Auckland to Tebay. The shareholders resident at Barnard Castle are very indignant and threrten law proceedings. The Railway Times, in giving the paragraph from the Sunday Times relative to the attempted bribery of a rail way official, appends " fudge " at the end, whilst the Railway Record says that Mr. C. A. Saunders, Secretary of the Great Western Railway, is the official referred to. The Railway Chronicle says that the idea of Mr. Saun der's retirement from the Great Western Railway Com pany has been mooted, and that a sum has been talked of as a proper consideration for his past services, and that the report has originated from that circumstance. The adjourned meeting of the Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby Company was held on Thursday, at Rotherham. The result was, that the old company is dissolved—but the report presented by .the directors was so satisfactory, that it was determined to adopt their re port, and to carry out the suggestions of the directors, by applying to Parliament for a line to connect Rotherham with Doncaster, which has become necessary through the contemplated changes in the London and York scheme between Retford and Doncaster. The shares represented at the meeting amounted to 10,455. LIABILITIES OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE-MEN. — In the Court of Common Pleas, on Friday, rules nisi were granted in two cases. in which verdicts had been given against Provisional Committee-men. The one was in the case of Parratt v. King. in connection with the Tonbridge and Rye Harbour Direct Railway; and the other was that of Shaw v. Clarkson, in the London, Ports mouth, and Chichester Railway. In the Secondaries Court, Mr. Barnett, a printer, got a verdict for £ll2 against Mr. Newle, one of the Provisional Directors of the Jamaica Southern and Eastern Railway. VERDICTS AGAINST THE NORTH WESTERN RAIL WAY COMPANY.—TWO writs of inquiry were heard on Wednesday, at Warwick. before the sheriffs of the county, to assess damages in actions brought against the North Western Railway, for compensation for injuries received by a collision at Coventry, on the 2nd of June, 1845. Juigment had been allowed to go by default in both cases; the plaintiff, being Mr. Haywood, an attorney, of Birmingham, and his wife. The first action was for the injuries sustained by Mrs. Haywood. The collision oc curred whilst the train was waiting at the Coventry sta tion, and it was caused by the negligence of the man who had the charge of the points. There were two collisions, from the effects of which the carriage in which Mrs. Hay wood was, bounded twice into the air, and she was thrown with great violence from side to side of the carriage; her face was lacerated and she received a severe concussion of the brain, from the effects of which she has not vet re covered. .31r. Sergeant Allen addressed the jury for the plaintiff, who claimed £5OO damages. Mr. Macaulay ap peared for the company. and called for the production of the correspondence between the plaintiff and defen dants, in order to show that the company had manifested a disposition to meet the injury in a spirit of fair and ho -1 pourable cempensation. Tne jury gave their verdict for the plaintiff for £300; costs, 40s.—In a second case, in which Mr. Haywood alone was plain iff, to recover ex penses to which he had necessarily been put by the illness of his wife, such as medical attendance, travelling, &c., a verdict was taken for the plaintiff, by consent, for £7O; costs, 40s. THE C„URT ef FASHIONABLE WORLD The Court left Windsor for Osborne on Wednesday. Her M.jesty will continue at the Isle of Wight until the Ist of December, when the royal visit to the Duke of Norfolk at Arundel Castle will take place. At the ter mination of that visit the Queen will go back to Osborne House, and remain there till the Court's return to Wind.or for the winter. Sir William Massey Stanley, Bart., arrived in town, on Friday, from Hooton Hall, Cheshire. The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, and the Ladies Egerton have nrrived in Belgrare-square, from a visit to the Duke and Docile4s of Sutherland, at Trentham-hall. The "orninq Post contrAdicts, on authority, a report in the French papers that Prince Louis Napoleon Bona. parte was about to marry Miss Burdett Coutts. LAW INTELLIGENCE, Twenty-six Irish barristers died last year, and 83 were called within the same period to the bar. The Small Debts Act will come into operation the first week in January. It has been arranged that Mr. Ferrand shall show cause to-day (Tuesday) against the rule obtained by Mr. Lewis, the poor law commissioner, for libel. In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, the sth instant, Lord Denman stated that a user of twenty years did not give an absolute right of road, though un doubtedly it furnished strong evidence of the existence of such right : the right itself could not be created but by deed. COURT ETIQUETTE.--Mr. Sumuel Peet, a member of the Society of Friends, who was called to the Irish bar this term, in moving for a scire facias addressed his lord ship thus :—" May it please the Court, I am directed by my client to ask," &c., instead of conforming to the usual form of opening a motion—" May it please your lordsinp.s" The distinction did not appear to be observed by the Court, but it was at once recognised by the members of the bar, amongst whom it created some merriment. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Lady B—, the wife of a dis tinguished Lord, was a few weeks since so alarmingly ill, occasioned be a disorder in the Liver and Stomach, as to induce the physicians to disclose to the Hon. Mr. D-----, I I , er Ladyship's son• in-law, that they entertained but little hopes of her recovery. In that sta'e, and unbeknown to her medical attendant, she was strongly advised to try Holloway's celebrated Pills, which she took for only three weeks, when she found herself as well as ever she was in her life. The accuracy of this extraordinary statement can be proved beyond all doubt. SEVENTH ADDRESS TO THE PROTESTANTS OF THE EMPIRE. BY THE COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL CLUB. But, some say, though you repudiate Romish priests, you admit, nay you invite the eo-operation of your own clergy. Where is the difference ? Why not get rid of the priestcraft altogether ? Our answer is-Ihe English Church is an enemy to oriestcraft, by her principles, by hrr kws,'by her history, by the temper of her people, by the spirit of her clergy. And if -you wish to know the difference' between an Eng lish clergyman and a Romish priest, here it is : The English clergyman is a counSellor of peace, hold ing forth God's truth ; the Romigh priest is an instigator of strife, hawking about the lies of Popery. The Eng,ish clergyman comes to you with the Bible in his hand, and appeals to your' judgment and your consci ence ; the Itomish priest would rob you of your Bible, and tells you to submit blindfold to the decrees of his church. The Eng'ish Clergyncan teaches men to worship God and to honour the King, to do their duty to their fellow men with the hope of heaven before their eyes ; the Ro mish priest teaches'men to worship the Virgin and to ho nour the Pope, Ad, with the fear of purgatory before their eves, to pal their "duty" to the priest. The English/lergyrnan teaches men how, with "a con science void of offence towards God and man," they should "hold fast the liberty wherewith Christ has made them free ;" the Romish priest, prying into men's consciences, and the Onsciences of their wives and children, rivets their sins-together in a chain, wherewith he holds them fast in the bond of iniquity. This is the difference between the English clergyman and the Romish priest; and, therefore, the Romish priest is a fit tool for fastening the yoke of error and supersti tion upon the neck of a nation of slaves subject to the tyranny of the Pope, while the English clergyman is a fit minister for diffusing the blessings of Christ's grace and truth among a nation of freedom subject to the lawful so vereign in the fear of God. But, say others, granting that there is this difference between the English clergyman and the Romish priest, that the church of England is a blessing to this nation, and the Church of Rome a curse to any people—still, why call the English clergyman into your counsels, why make him a party to the political action of the National Club, and of the associations which rally around it ? We answer,—That from the remotest period of our his tory, in British, in Saxon, and in Norman times, accord ing to the terms of the Magna Charta, according to the principles of the Reformation, according to the settlement of the Protestant Constitution by the Bill of Rights, the clergy have always been one of the estates of the realm, and as such have had their share assigned them in the ad ministration of public affairs; but that for more than a century past they have been excluded from that influence which the Constitution originally assigned to them. That if the influence of the clergy had been allowed to continue, our church herself would have been maintained in a state of greater efficiency, and safe from the lament able confusion and divisions with which she is reproached ; the State would have been preserved from the course of godless legislation in which it is engaged, and this Chris tian land would have been spared the curse and the dis grace of seeing a large portion of its population grow up in a state of spiritual destitution and of practical infidelity. That in a land where God's truth is recognised, and the instruction of the people in that truth provided for by the State, the business of legislation and public administra tion ought not to turn, and cannot turn exclusively upon the affairs of this world. That even in regard to the affairs of this world, the principles of religion ought not to be set aside by a people profe-sing allegiance to God's truth ; that more especially all the institutions and all the laws which affect the intel ligence and the morals of the people must bear the stamp of those principles, if they are to harmonise with the nation's faith. That the ministers of religion are, by their very calling, which is truly not of this world, responsible for the reli gious conduct of the nation not only in private but in pub lic life ; and that they ought, therefore, to have a voice— and that an influential voice—in the discussion of public questions. Let but the clergy and the laity of our church go hand in hand—let them but make an united effort to recal the nation to its ancient principles, its hereditary faith; and, evil as the times are, we have no cause to despair. The truth is mighty, it will preva , l! RICHARD NUGENT, Hon. Secretary. 13, Cockspur-street, Nov. 20. THE SHORT TIME EXPERIMENT IN LANCASHIRE The Lancashire manufacturers are determined to prove the absurdity of the idea of realising short hours by mu tual agreement. Their wiser workmen (being taught true wisdom in the Ten Hour Bill school) have begged them to curtail the production ; and have offered to take their share of the loss. And after a while, when they bad their own interests in their eyes, most of the masters were un derstood to have consented to a general working of short time. But we, says the Halifax Guardian, knew them better than to believe that this would last long, or go far. And now in these short weeks how do matters stand ? The Manchester Guardian and Manchester Courier of Wednesday both tell the same tale. The markets are dull, and prices falling. And vet, though the interest of the masters is thus directly involved in short time, the Guardian says,—" We do not hear of any further exten sion of short time this week," for that " the attempts to produce a general agreement for that purpose at Ashton, Stalybridge. and Hyde have failed for the present." And the Courier carries out this evidence of folly by declaring, " We hear of several concerns that bad gone on to short time, having commenced full time again." We therefore repeat our problem of tho 21th ‘dt., and call upon the opponents of factory legislation to answer (if they can) this simple rule of three question—" If a rising cotton market, and a depressed demand for yarns and cloth, cannot bring about a general agreement for a reduction of the hours of labour, for the master's own benefit, what extreme algebraic sign for an unknown quantity shall represent the chance of such an agreement, with none of these inducements, and for the sole benefit of the workmen ?" " A NUT TO CRACK TOUCHING THE TREATY OF UTRECHT." (From the London Guardian.) The Ulysses of modern Europe will not deserve credit for the astuteness which distinguished his great prototype, if he suffers his vaulting ambition to carry him over the barriers of Utrelht, for no one knows better than he does the value of that treaty to the House of Orleans; and although he may desire to repudiate some distasteful clauses, which are now invoked against him, we suspect that he will be reluctant to invalidate others to which he may hereafter appeal. That the aforesaid treaty was framed with one grand object—an object which the mutual renunciations were intended to subserve, and by the light of which they ought to be read ; that these renunciations, read them how you will, do not bar rights acquired through coils terals—these are the positions on which Louis Philippe founds his case. Grant them true—which we are well disposed to do ; but let us follow them out to their legi timate consequences ; Has the King no other cause de pending in which these pleas may be used as admissions against himself? Has he no favourite hobby, to which they may oppose an awkward impediment? His great object since IS3O has been to legitamise him self upon the throne. He would rather be King of France and Navarre, by the grace of God, and by virtue of hereditary succession, than King of the French by the will of the sovereign people. He holds himself forth as the veritable successor of Henri Quatre and Louis Quar torze. He rebuilds the chateau of Pau--he restores the salons of Versailles ; Le Bon Roi reappears in Bearn, and Le Grand Monarque in Paric, both identified with him, " pia nepotis Augu ti munificentia redivivi." He would fain be the head or the Bout bon family ; hence he asserts an interest in the marriage of Queen Isabella, and forbids the banns with any but a prince of that ancient stock. He sends to London, to be placed in the Royal Exchange. the white shield, blazoned with the golden lilies, although they are proscribed in his capital. He cultivates the friendship of the Autocrat abroad, and of the legitimists at home, describing the Duke of Bordeaux rem as impossible, and having thus set him a s ide, he cl a i m s to ßu t be e v t e h n e ugenuine thisviewrepresentative a linkyet of thea remains to ancient kings. the chain of succession to Louis XIV., and that link is supplied by the Treaty of Utrecht. The Dauphin, son of Louis XIV., had three sons. The Duke of Bordeaux is the sole male representative cf the Duke of Burgundy, the eldest son. But there are not wanting descendants of the Duke of Anjou, the second son, and the head of that branch is Don Carlos, while Louis Phil ppe has to trace his line beck to the second son of Louis XIII. How, then, are the claims of Don Carlos. as next heir to Louis XIV., in default of issue of the Duke of Bordeaux, excluded ? By the renunciations of his ancestor, Philip of Anjou, when established as King of Spain, to all claims on the throne of France. But if the renunciations of the Duke of Orleans to the Spanish crown are not binding on jsis descendants, bow can those of the Duke of Anjou to %be inheritance of his French ancestors be more obli gatory? If Louis Philippe, who wants a throne for his son, may repudiate one clause of the treaty, why may not Don Carlos, who wants a throne for himself, dispense with another clause ? If there are "no more Pyrenees" visible from Paris, how can they be viewed from the side of Madrid? We know of one mode alone in which this problem can .. ---- -.- be solved. It is worthy of the genius of Talleyrand, but it savours at the same time of the spirit of the Old Bailey. Coxe mentions that the renunciation of Philip V. was confirmed by a solemn oath, but that it was a remarkable fact, that, either from negligence or connivance, the Dukes of Orleans and Berri gave only a mere declara tion. This circumstance of the insertion of the words " Nous jurons solemnellement sur les evangiles," &c., in the acts, and the omission of the solemnity of the oath, was commented on by Bolingbroke at the time, as " car rying something along with them which neither the Queen nor he liked ;" but the renunciation was a fait accompli, and the transaction too far advanced to be " overhauled"—so it passed. Are we now to learn the force and meaning of this omission? Are we to be told that the descendants of Philip of Anjo•i are bound by his oath, that those of Philip of Orleans are unsworn ? We will not think so ill eitber of the honesty or the sagacity of the King of the French, as to believe that he will be willing to avail him self of this plea, or so audacious as to put it forward. And if not, the arch-intriguer is caught on the horns of a dilemma. If the treat y be binding, Lord Palmerston re lies on it for his protest against the offspring of the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier. If it be of no effect, Louis Philippe must descend from his lofty pedestal—he can not be head of the Bourbon family, but must be content to reign a citizen king, with a patent bearing date from July, 1830 ; for even supposing no such restoration to await young Henry as was achieved by his illustrious namesake, he must still be prepared to find a new pre ter•der to the throne of Hugh Capet in the Count of Montero , tin, seeking to avenge, under the character of Chat I , s XI., the twofold wrongs offered to unf. .rtunate kinsmen—the forced abduction of Charles X. of France, and the protracted imprisimment of Charles V. of Spain. Nov. 24, 1846. apologies made by those who were indifferent to Protest antism on behalf of Rome. He had always found this to be the practical experience of almost every Christian, that all forms and modes of error would close, conspire, and co-operate when Bible evangelical truth was to be put down or overturned. He had met with a remarkable exemplification of this conviction during the last summer, when visiting the west of England. He referred to meet ings he had held on behalf of the British Reformation Society at Bridgewater, Taunton, and Torquay, at which places the Roman Catholic priests and the Socinian preachers combined to put him down. Their efforts were not successful, and be entered into statements showing that, by what they had heard at those meetings, many Roman CathoEcs had been converted to Potestantism, and many wavering Protestants confirmed and renewed in their faith. The reverend lecturer added interesting accounts of his discussions with popish priests at Wool wich, Chelsea, and Bermondsey, in the history of which he introduced his answers given on those occasions to the doctrines of popery, and by this indirect route, be sug gested to his audience a vast variety of reasons for the faith that was in them. The principal, however, of these practical conflicts and controversies was at Hammersmith, where he engaged with Mr. French, a Roman Catholic barrister, in which the whole of the popish theology seemed to have been sifted with a vigilance worthy of Luther himself ; but as that discussion has been printed, we need say little more than that it was upon the most vital points of Romanism. In the course of narrating the arguments on the Invocation of Saints, several atro cious corruptions in the Psalter of St. Benevento were pointed out by the reverend gentleman. In the Te Dears wherever the name of God and of the Lord occurred, they had been expunged, and the name of the Virgin Mary substituted. The 95th psalm in our prayer•book com menced with, "0 come, let us sing unto - the Lord : let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation :" in this Psalter it stood, "0, come, let us sing unto our Lady Mary, let us heartily rejoice before the Virgin who brings us salvation." Other psalms were named with which a similar liberty had been taken. There was also the Atha nasian Creed. He had none of the dislike to this creed which wally persons felt : but he did not like it on e w hit the better for its popish " improvements," for it said, " Whosover wisheth to be saved it is essential that be hold a firm faith concerning Mary," and "unless he keep this faith he shall perish." Then as to the 7e Drum and our noble Liturgy. The former was the nearest approach to the sublimity of inspiration that could be conceived and nothing would more rejoice him than to hear sang in all the parochial churches of Scotland, "Thou art the king of glory, 0 Christ," or to hear prayed that most beautiful petition, " In all time of our tribulation ; io aIL time of our wealth ; in the hour of death a n d i n t h e d ay of judgment, good Lord deliver us." (Applause.) He recollected when he first entered an English pari s h church BRITISH REFORMATION SOCIETY. Two lectures on Popery were delivered on the evenings of Tuesday and Friday last, in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson street, by the Rev. Ur. Cumming of London, an eminent minister of the Established Church of Scotland, whose able advocacy of the truths of Protestantism are well known in the metropolis and elsewhere. The Rev. Hugh M`Neile presided on both occasions; and the plat form was filled by a most respectable assemblage of cleigy, merchants, and others. In his first lecture, Dr. CUMMING introduced a short review of the conduct of the Roman Catholic Bishop, Wareing, whose explanations in the M orris perversion have been the theme for strong animadversion by the indepen dent press. Dr. Wareing, be observed, had acted a most consistent part. If be had acted otherwise, he would not have been doing his duty to his church. The principles of his church and the practice of the Bishop were, in this matter, in happy harmony; for Rome held that when her people were asked concerning their faith, they might either conceal or confess it—that it was lawful to conceal their faith, if a greater good could be accomplished thereby, than by acknowledging it. And, therefore, if Dr. Ware ing had given young Morris a dispensation to conceal his faith from his parents, he acted only upon the precedents set by St. Signori, who laid it down that it was lawful to use equivocation when equivocation was necessary for the interests of the church. Approaching the more immedi ate subject of the lecture, Dr. Cumming remarked that he neither desired nor designed to cast any new light upon it. Popery seemed to him a grand perversion of all the distinguishing truths of the gospel ; and here was " the mystery of iniquity." Infidelity was Satan acting at least a honest part : Popery was Satan acting the part of an angel of light. One system denied all truth ; the other admitted all truth, but only to crucify, to vitiate, and annihilate. The one, therefore, was properly called tie " mystery of iniquity", for it made God's truth the caterer of men's lies, God's word the pioneer to man's superstitions; it embraced the truth, not for the sake of truth, but for the sake of establishing under its guise those deadly superstitions which ruined souls and dis honoured God. lie asked the audience to refer to any one doctrine in the word of God, and then observe how pery perverted and cHricatured it. Take the Bible; it imed the exclusive monopoly of the circulation of that ssed book. It made baplim a mysterious exorcism; pop chi ble the ..- Lord's Supper, not the Impressive and beautiful so- l after coming from Scotland hearing a clergyman who lemnity of Sion, but an idol before which the people Prayed that prayer : he was not satisfied with reading, be must prostrate themselves and give worship ;it made prayed it. (Hear.) I-7e ( Dr. Cummings) shut his eyes prayer—the privilege of Protestants—a Penance to Roman and enjoyed it as thoroughly as though the supplication Catholics ; it made the minister of God, not the preacher had been extemporaneous; and he should never f org et of " Glad tidings," but a s icrificine priest ; it denuded those words. The Te Deum was meet praise for saints to God of his robes of beauty and of glory as a reconciled offer—meet praise for God to hear. But could the Father in Christ, and arrayed him with the robes of meeting conceive how horrified he was when he read it, vengeance, telling the weir sinner, though he suffered, as amended by a distinguished saint and cardinal of the and underwent sacrifices. that he had penances yet to en- Romish church ? "We praise thee, 0 Mary, as the mo dure after Christ had suffered that a guilty world might be ther of God : all the earth doth worship thee, spouse of finally redeemed ; it regarded our blessed Lord as an im- the Eternal. To thee all angels cry aloud, Holy, Holy, perfect mediator, requiring tee intercession of the virgin art thou, 0 Mary, mother of God : heaven and earth are and saints to eke out his mediation ; it regarded the Holy full of thy glory ! And so it went on to the close. (Hear.) Spirit as inadequate to sanctify and make us fit for Then in the Litany it was said, "Be merciful to us heaven, and told us of a purgatory where souls are purified and spare us, 0 Lady !" " From all evil and mischief, which the spirit of God could not purify on earth. In deliver us, 0 Mary." "In all time of trib u l a ti on , i n short, Popery, pretending to be exclusively apostolical, the hour f death, in the day of judgment, and from the was emphatically the great predicted apoatacy of the New torments of the damned, good Mary deliver us." (Hear, Testament. The system was extremely well calculated to hear.) If it were replied to him that he proved these make progress. It was fitted for fallen humanity. It in- perversions from old documents which were extremely sisted upon absolute, unquestioning outward obedience, scarce, he replied , hat. the Church was infallible; th a t if whilst it allowed bounds that covered the most congenial this doctrine were blasphemy in the thirteenth century, it internal licence ; it enacted a ceremonial most stringent could not but be blasphemy now ; that the Church must to give an appearance of great unity; it made the lace- be consistent. But he was not left to prove these corrup ration of the outward man to take the t lace of the mor- tions from any old books, for they were regularly pub tification of the lusts of the soul and the evil affections lished in the Catholic Psalter by Marini, the P o pe's e o v f er fa y ll m en an,s natu id re io . syn et er w ac a y. was so f co y n o s u tr w uc e t r e e d m to et o a a p s hy t s o ic m al e , me et The Doctor, having concluded his n arra ti on o f hi s contest bookseller at Rome, o ne o f w hi c h h e h e ld i n hi s h an d. had subtle and skilful disputes left unsolved, upon which with the Catholic barrister, proceeded to say that in his you could exercise your acumen ; if you had practical du agreat m philosopher usic the hoad various engagements he had been met with s tro ng ebjec ties to be performed, such as pilgimages and penances, if Lions to the course that was being pursued. It had been c e a y p e t , iv p a o t e in tr g y to to rivet charm m you were a man of taste, it had paintings to gratify the alleged by some eminent persons, distinguished members of the Protestant Church, that such a course was evil and mischievous; and he had himself heard Roman Catholic et the ic ear—and the imagination, said, "if you make captive man's five senses, in tine priests say that nothing delighted them so much as meet cases out of ten you nay calculate upon making captive ings like the present, for the result was an acre-sion to their all the rest of the man ?'' if you were rich, your wealth numbers. That statement had invariably been made by the was made to h , Ip yeu on the way to Heaven; if you were priests of the Church of Rome. If the priests found that poor, she would u,cet your taste in poverty; if you would these meetings were converting their people, was it likely whip yourself to heaven, she would make the whip, me _ they would say so ? W uld they not conceal the fact ? secrete it, put it into your hands, and teach you to use it Tne very circumstance of their boasting demonstrated to sell. Popery was admirably adapted to human nature; him, that these meetings, instead of making converts to in short, no evi knee was needed beyond the religion of Rome, were converting Roman Catholics to Protestan- Rome to show the false spirit of man's adversary. Satan tism. (Hear.) He had heard it said that Roman Catho found that the persecutions of the first three centuries lics were most conscientious in their creed ; and that, were a mistake, a gross blunder; and when he found that therefore, we had no right to pronounce it to be wrong. " the blood of the saints" became the " seed of the He believed the Roman Catholic laity were most consci church," that the death of the martyrs was only the sig- entious : they had perilled their everlasting all upon the nal for thousands of Christians to spring up, he laid aside truth of their creed. But this did not prove that the the attitude of an open foe and assumed the position of a creed itself was right. A man might be conscientiously conceded enemy—undermining Christianity under pro- wrong as well as conscientiously right. When we wished fes,ions of friendly attachment. And if you looked at to know what was truth and what error, we did not apple' . Popery in the social aspect, the same awful talent was to man's conscience, but "to the law and to the testi displayed. It was most versatile ; a perfect Proteus. If mony" ; and if one text in the Bible pronounced it wrong, republicanism was in the ascendant, it was, first and fore- that text would be true, and all men's consciences wrong. most, in preaching democracy; if despotism was the order It had been urged that there were many good men in the of the day, it would cast its instruments before the despot's Church of Rome. He believed there were—many good throne, and put a scourge into the tyrant's hand with men. The Bible led him to believe it to be so, for it which to lash. the people. In short, it was a system fitted said, " Come out of her, my people, lest ye partake of for all emergencies; adapted to all circumstances; and the her sins. This text clearly taught him that God more he thought of what Romanism was, the less was he had a people in that church. But did it prove that surprised at so many becoming Romanists• He was, in.. church was tight ? Quite the reverse. It had been aa . a, ..,.., sstooishsa ot so f a . .7 not h...,„; ri g R oman i st .. urged—even in the House of Commons last year—that in Like the proud vulture that hovered over the field of bat- attacking Romanism we were attacking Christianity it tie, Popery preyed upon the " dead ;" it dared n t, and self. This objection proceeded from a total ignorance of might not, touch " the living." (Cheers.) And from its the distinction between the two. Should we be defacing a consonancy to human nature Popery was likely to spread beautiful tree by removing the catterpillars that preyed still more. The eloquent lecturer here quoted some sta. upon its walls ? Should we be destroying the gigantic oak tistics from the Tablet, a Roman Catholic newspaper, by removing the parasite plant that clung to its trunk and shewing the increase which is said to be making to the branches? The very reverse. The removal of the Plant. numbers professing the Popish faith ; and he also referred that fed upon its juices would strengthen the integrity o f to Dr. Wiseman's account, as given at Nottingham, of the the oak. So it was with Christianity ; remove impel,: additions making to their chapels and cathedrals. During from it and you removed an incubus that pressed upon and the last six years many convents and nunneries for sisters encumbered it—you would allow it to expand free and un of mercy and sisters of charity had been opened. All shackled in all its beauty and glory, until, by the blessing these cases of increase be attributed to the modes in which of God, it had accomplished its predicted and destined Popery operated upon the fallen nature of man. Parting results. (Cheers.) Then it had been urged that the from this topic, the reverend gentleman said he should Roman Catholics were a great majority of the Christian next endeavour to obviate some of the pretences of world ; and it had been asked if it were right that a hand- Roman Catholicism, and in the next lecture he would ful of men upon a little island in the midst of the ocean give some account of the practical conflicts and con- should presume to say they were right and the rest of the troversies he had been engaged in during the last world totally wrong ? Truth was not contingent upon few years. (Hear.) It was frequently urged by Roman majorities or minorities. (pear.) Our appeal was "to Catholics that they hold every truth whi c h Protestants the law and the testimony ; ' and if we found our religion hold—the Nicene creed for example — and that all the dif- sustained by scripture, that religion was true, though its ference was that they only held a little more. They held advocates should be cortfieed in dungeuns or burned at the the Nicene creed with the additions of the articles added stake ; and if popery were found to be condemned by the to it by Pope Pius IV. (Hear.) The reverend lecturer scriptures, that religion was false, and it must be opposed .. adverted to these additional articles in some detail, and though the gold of the universe were piled on her altars. answered the several pretences of the Church of Rome It was not the rules of numbers or the doctrines of founded upon them. Then, continued the lecturer, some proportion that determined what was the truth ; but it of the Roman Catholics were continually saying, "look was this—" What say the scriptures? " (H , ar, heir.) It around this great land, and behold its magnificent cathe• had also been alleged by the champions of Romanism that drals : we, the Roman Catholics, built them, and if we she had produced many distinguished men and illustrious built them. how can our creed be what you represent it to literati ; and it could not. be supposed to he so corrupt a be?" Perhaps, on examination, it might be found that system, otherwise such accomplished men as the Arch some of the magnificent cathedrals in this country had not' hishou of Cambray would not have belonged to it. He been built by Roman Catholics. (Hear.) But suppos- 1 (Dr. Cumming) replied that Greece and Rome, with the ing Popery had erected them all—and he admired them I most wretched theology, had the most accomplished scho beyond measure, and to hear the Gospel preached in a i lars. Infidelity itself enrolled among its ranks Voltaire, cathedral was a treat to him he could not find language to I Diderot, Gibbon, Hume, and many other men of distin describe—did not Herod and the Jews build temples that guished scholarship. This taught us, and a most import were the admiration of the world ? It was possible for ant lesson it was, that knowledge might be, as Bacon pro these splendid structures to be mausolea and sepul- claimed it to be—power ; but that sanctified knowledge chres instead of temples for living saints wherein to wor- alone was peace anti holiness and happiness, as well as ship the living God. But he would refer to instances. power. (Hear.) It was perfectly possible to obtain great Canterbury Cathedral was built in 1073, York in 1173, knowledge in science, literature, a d art, yet w ith that Winchester in 1079, and Lincoln in 1118. In other words, knowledge to have the most unsanctified and unholy our most beautiful cathedrals, or most of them, were heart : it was possible to be the first among all the encye raised between the eleventh and the thirteenth centuries. clot mdeists of the universe, and yet have less knowledge Let any Roman Catholic history be opened, and it would of God than a Sabbath-school child. (Cheers. Some had be found that the whole of these cathedrals were raised alleged they did not like controversy, and therefore the! in all their grandeur when Hildebrand was treading on the disapproved of these meetings. If by controve ray was necks of princes, making emperors and kings do penance, understood the calling of hard nines, he utterly repudie and kindling the fire of war over the length and breadth ated it ; but by cone raversy he meant contending for the of Europe. During the periods when those cathedrals truth in opposition to error, not in the spirit of bigotry. were built there was all the fanaticism of the Crusades ; but in the spirit of love and of sound mind. The real and the Waldenses were obliged to hide in the caves and question about controversy was—was it scriptural? St dark places of the earth. It was possible, therefore, to Paul went into the synagogues and proved out of the build these splendid churches and yet crucify afresh and scriptures that Jesus was the Chri-t ; St. Jude told us to put to open shame Him who was the light and life and contend for "the faith once delivered to the saints. Lord of the Church. Yet Mr. Pugin, according to his The next question was—was controversy calculated to do own testimony, was converted by the belief that the good ? His answer was. How were our missions in every Roman Catholics had built all these beautiful cathedrals. part of the globe carried on at this moment ? Be cootie,: Catholicism had been grateful to that gentleman. But he versial discussion. All our precious things had been P . n.r_ at . the could take the meeting to a cathedral more beautiful even chased at this p rice, and the y must he maintained'me ' nu than St. Peter's when filled with all the pomp and splen- i same price. The crown of cur Queen and our g dour of unrestricted Romanism—even on the day when constitution were sustained only by ceaseless conflict ; on its roof there were lit ten thousand lamps, making it and the integrity of the scrip ture, the safety of our com; almost like a sun blazing in the midst of the hills. He munion, access to God's word and the social of could shew them a cathedral grander, nobler , more las t- Protestantism, could only be maintained by controversial. ing and more glorious than York, Canterbury, Antwerp, conflict. Marty sentimental persons exclaimed, " Let us or St. Peter's. He could take them to the spot near have peace at any sacrifice." Peace cannot be purchased at which he had spent his earliest years—to the turf-covered too high a price. Better truth withou' peace, than peace cottage in any parish in Scotland. There he could intro- without truth. (Hear.) Again, he asked what had made duce them at eventime, and shew them the grey-haired England what she was, and elevated her to her rank man opening the big Ha' Bible and reverently reading it among the nations? How came it to pass that in Swit to his family. He loved to listen to the reading of the zerland you could tell that one canton was Roman Ca , good old man ; and then be would bid them kneel and tholic because the people were dirty and idle, and in an join in prayers so truly beautiful that even our own nag- sense prosperous; and that another canton was Prates , nificent liturgy could not approach to them. That turf- tent, because you saw the people industrious, prosperous. covered cottage was the temple of the living God. (Cheers.) clean, and happy ? Why was it that Scotland presented The rev. lecturer, in closing this branch of his subject, re- so complete a contrast to Ireland ? How was it that minded the audience that upon our religion in time rested Scotland, with all her faults, was able, with but a few re ourdcstiny in eternity. The lectute itself was terminated by giments, and a very few police, to keep order? Because some general observations of a most striking character upon it was a land of Bibles, of pure and Protestant Christi the necessity of sustaining our national protestantism. The anity. How was it that Ireland was in so unhappy a protestantism of England was England's glory. Whilst state ? He admitted that there might be political and that lived, she lived ; when that died, she would die. social faults in that country, but i , s great governing evil Without being either a prophet or a prophet's son, be was its prevailing Popery. If it were not so, how was it ventured to predict that England's greatness and England's that Ulster, which was Protestant, presented so marked s protestantism must be gathered to a common grave, or be contrast to the other three provinces of Connaught, Man raised to a common throne. What had raised E ng land to ster, and Leinster, which were Catholic. One was pet what she was—the land of asylums for the p o o r , o f sc hools fectly quiet and peaceful ; the others the scene of constant. for the ignorant, of churches for the people? what had emeutes. The one was Protestant, and Popery prevaile d made this a land that a slave did not tread upon its shores in the others. He was indeed persuaded that the secret but the manacles fell from his hands and the fetters burst spring of all our prosperity as Britons was just our Pro from his feet ? What made this a land in which, in many testant and Bible Christianity. The secret of the stabilitf parishes, at least, our doors might be almost without of that diadem which girds the Queen of England's brow bolts—and the days were not long since they were so ? was the existence of the Protestant Church in the midst What had made this land a land of liberty and of bibles? of England's government. He believed, therefore, that It was its Protestant Christianity—its scriptural, pure, if that assembly loved their country as patriots, the! and holy religion. (Cheers.) He therefore called upon would identify themselves with this cause; and if the! all of every denomination to hold to their ancient pro- desired to glorify God and to win souls to Christ, they testantism—to embrace it with ardent sympathy, with would throw all their energies into this important and holy hearts, and with enduring affection. (Cheers.) holy cause. (Loud Cheers.) TIIE SECOND LECTURE At the close of each lecture, Dr. Cumming received the commenced by a remark that the reverend lecturer scarcely warmest thanks for his eloquent and truly Christian es knew which set of apologies was most injurious to the P osi tion ; and the p roceedin g s terminated b y the Chair . truth—the apologies made by Rome for itself, or the man pronouncing a solemn benediction.