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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-25 00:00:00

might, and probably had, heard at least something of
the truths of the Gospel, but it was impossible that the
latter could have received even one ray Of the light of
Christianity. They had perhaps read Da. Livingston's
book, and if so they would probably remember
readirig of His conversation With one of the
African chiefs who; having heard Livingston's
discourse of those truths which were preached by the
Apostles, asked—" How long have you known these
things ? Did your fathers know them ? " To which
Livingston replied—" Yes ; we have known them for a
long time." " Then," said the chief, " why did yoh
note ome to us and tell us those thrilling truths which
you are now telling us for the first time?" He
had never himself been in the district to which it
was now proposed to go forth, but he had been in
other parts 'of Africa aiid had seen hundreds and
thousands of human beings who had never heard of
Christ. He could speak of that which •he had seen
with his own eyes, and he must say that as far as
he had had an opportunity of travelling amongst these
people, he had found them to be without Christianity,
and without intellectual knowledge of any kind. Many
of the tribes were living under systems of heathenism
and entirely opposed to the introduction of Christianity.
These systems very often presented great difficulty to the
missionary. Some of the people, again, have never been
in the habit of believing anything, or, at all events, any
thing requiring to be constantly. practised. They were
prudent so far as this world was concerned, but they had
no belief in anything connected with a ritle of faith.
The results of Christian teadhirig Were already being
seen in the smithern parts Of Africa, and these results
trete greatly encouraging. In Natal there were'several
Missionary stations, in which the natives were no longer
barbarous, unclothed and ignorant as their fathers were,
and as they themselves were before their conversion,—
but living with their-families, and bringing them up in
the nurture and admonition of the Lord. The children
could be trained in the schools of the missionaries, so that
a good foundation will have been made before the young
mind has been defiled by the wickedness of the lives which
their fathers are leading. The children were peculiarly
docile and willing to learn. Then there was the hope
that these children as. they grew up might not only
enter the"church by being outwardly baptised, but
might also receive into their hearts the truths of Chris-
tianity% Towaids the • conclusion of his addresei the
speaker stated that according. to his calculations the
expense of the mission for their first outfit, Conveyance,
&c., would be between £4,000 and £5,000. They bad
estimated that in future years the work could be carried
on for much less, probably about £2,000 a year, £l,lOO
of which would be for salaries, and £l,lOO in expenses
.of maintenance, &c. He hoped that they would be
able to raise a capital of £20,000, and obtain annual
subscriptions to the amount of £7.,700 a year. He was
glad to say that they had already received in contribu-
tions from this country about half the sum he bad
named, viz., £ll,OOO down, and £9OO as annual sub-
scriptions. (Loud ‘applause.) That which was near to
the sea was near to LiVerpool, and to their hearts ; and
he therefore hoped they would give this mission their
greatest support. (Applause.)
The Rev. Rector -CAmrnsm„ in seconding the reso-
lution, said,—My Lord Bishop, ladies and gentlemen,
I rise to second the resolution which has been proposed
by Archdeacon M'Kenzie; and in deference to the dis-
tinguished individuals who will follow me,- I shall feel
it my duty to trespass as briefly as possible upon your
time. The obligation of missionary work rests apon the
command of the Saviour that the Gospel, should be
preached to every creature ; and I am prepared to
maintain that our first Christian duty is to preach it to
our heathens at home ; still, when that duty is done,
we are not to leave the other undone. We are bound
to teach all nations. We are celled upon to teach them,
and I think, as a, commercial community, we are called
upon to apply commerce to a higher and holier purpose than
as a mere means of acquiring wealth, and to endeavour
through its means to carry the light of Gospel truth
over the world. This truth being acknowledged, it
will be admitted, I think, that Africa has peculiar claims
to Christian sympathy. The people of England owe a
debt to Africa, which has not altOgether been cancelled
by the great and noble and self-sacrificing act of negro
emancipation. And if England owes a debt to Africa,
I think, perhaps, it may be admitted that Liverpool is
burdened with a vast part of the obligation ; for there
was a time, as you may well know, when Liverpool, so
to speak, was the great slave state of the British empire,
and when a considerable portion of its wealth was gained
In that which I may now he'permitted to call an unholy
traffic. I say I may now be permitted to call it that
unholy traffic, because there was a time when it would
not have been quite so safe to call it so in presence of a
Liverpool audience. I have been told that when the
benevolent Clarkson—the pioneer of that emancipation
which was fought for by Wilberforce, the father of
that distinguished prelate who will shortly address
you, aided as he was by that noble lord
who will also address you, and who I am very happy to
welcome to Liverpool as a very old acquaintance of the
town—old in years, but young in vigour and in benevo-
lence,—when Clarkson announced his intention to pay
a visit to Liverpool, the merchants of the day said that
they had such a vested right in the slave trade that they
were resolved to throw him into the river if he came.
Now, I was told this anecdote by no less a man than Mr.
John Bright—(ironical cheers)"—and although I do not
suppose that you will expect me to endorse everything
he has said—(laughter):-(I assure you I am not going
into the views or projects of Mr. John Bright)—
(langhter)—but I suppose you do not expect me to
endorse everything he has said—certainly not everything
he said in this very hall recently—(lene ter)—still I have
no reason to doubt his accuracy in this respect ; and
at any rate we all know that Liverpool, at one time,
was the head quarters of the slave trade, and therefore
Liverpool owes a debt to Africa which I hope you, my
friends, will now be diposed to pay. And in order to
facilitate the payment I will venture, if I may bo per-
mitted, to enlist the sympathy of my fair friends whom
I see before me—my fair parishioners, if I may so call
so large an assembly ; but yost know mine is dot a little
flock. It is not often that a bishop has a charge of
280,000 souls. I would appeal to the ladies to assist
the women of Africa in return for the kindness which
they showed to Park, the English traveller. Any of you
that have read his travels may have perceived that
whenever he was ill-treated it was by the men, and
whenever he was well treated it was by the women.
On one occasion when the men bad beaten him and
stripped him and left him for dead, a woman, like the
good Samaritan, gave him wine and oil to heal
his wounds. There is one other pleasing instance
of that kindness ; - when he -was waiting in a
miserable state of suspense, hardly knowing what his
fate was to be; a woman invited him into her dwelling
—she was the mistress of a family, and a person of some
consequence.. She prepared food for him, and afforded
him the means of comfortable repose and sleep. The
females of the family pursued their ordinary avocations
of spinning and singing; and, as he could not sleep, he
could hear that he himself was the subject of one of
their songs, the burden of which was—
" Let us pity the white man—
No mother has he to bring him milk;
•
No wife to grind his earn."
Park adds that he was so much moved, that instead of
going to sleep, he passed the great portion of the night
in tears. Now these ladies, as you know, were no fair
ladies. But they were tender-hearted ; and if in faith
they were heathens, they were Christians in charity. I
I can hardly fancy that the fair ladies who now
hear me will be less to the women of Africa,
than they were, to the weary traveller. And as
I may now plead for emancipation without the
fear of a watery grave, I may entreat you to
do all in your power to raise them to the glorious
liberty of the children of God. Archdeacon M'Kenzie,
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devote himself to missionary work in Africa. He has
devoted himself to that work, in company with his
sister, for four long years, and, I believe, for love, and
not for money. Well now, it has been rather
industriously reported in the town that he bad
committed an act which I should consider to be an act
of insubordingion to the Bishop of Natal; that be
refused to receive the sacrament at his bishop's hands.
I am enabled to assure the assembled company that
there is not one single word of truth in the statement.
(Great applause.) Something look place between the
bishop and some other clergyman, with the circumstances
of which I am not acquainted, but at the time of its
occurrence Archdeacon M'Kenzie was many miles off,
and, therefore, could not have been a party to the act
with which his name has been erroneously, not to say
falsely, connected.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Lord BROUGHAM, who was received with uproarious
cheering, the audience standing up for some time, then
stepped forward to move the next resolution. He said,
my lords, ladies, and gentlemen, I heartily thank you
for the kindness, the great kindness, with which
you
have received the mention of my name. Ido not think
you could have received me more kindly had I not been
prevented, by a shocking accident, eight and forty
years ago, from being your representative in Parlia-
ment. (Laughter and applause.) It is very well known
here that on the Saturday night of that election, a pro-
position was made by the friends of, our adversaries—
Mr. Canning and General Gascoigne—that you should
return one and one, Mr. Canning and myself, leaving
out on one side Genelcal Gascoigne, and leaving out on
the other side my friend Mr. Greevey, who by that time
bad been returned and Was member of Parliament, having
been returned for ThetfOrd. So that the proposition was a
very reasonable one, and ought past all doubt to have
been acceded to by our party. I left my excellent
friends to determine whether they would accede to it or
not ; and they, unfortunately for me, (for it kept me
three sessions'out of Parliament,) determined on Satur-
day night, at a great increase of labour and an enormous
increase of expense, to go on with the election for the
next two or three days, whereby I was left out, an,d the
other two were returned. (Laughter and applause.) I
have always since then considered myself in the nature
of, as lawyers say, member for Liverpool, though not
actual member for Liverpool and, as I said a little while

ago, I do not believe you could have received me.with
greater kindness had I filled that capacity, instead of
having failed to obtain it. (Applause.) Well, it is
barely possible you might leave received me with con-
siderably less kindness, because we all know that in the
best-reguleted. in the best-dispo4d Censtiteents; and
with the lest-inclined member, occasional differences,
occur, which have been prevented—good arisitigoutof evil
—have been prevented from the possibility of arising
because of the connection never havine been established.
(Laughter and applause.) Now, I really know not
whether I ought to have referred to the election of 1812,
had it not been for a statement made by our reverend
Rector in his speech, which he has just concluded before
I rose,—l mean the statement which he said he had on
the authority of my good friend, Mr. John Bright. He
said he could not endorse all Mr: Bright's statements--
any mere, perhaps, than I do; but that he might safely
endorse ; for I know it lee Side the authority of Mr.
Bright-I had it from Thomas Clarkeou himself. It
was notified to him, and he was warned to take care
how he came here, in consequence of the watery grave
pointed out. (Laughter and applause.) Now, gentle-
men, at the election in 1812 a confirmation of that
anecdote happened to myself. I had two years before
the great happiness of carrying a bill through Parlia-
ment, which for the first time treated the slave trade
not as a commerce to be put down by pecuniary penal-
ties, but as a crime, as it really was, to be severely
punished—the Slave Felony Act. It was passed' in
1811, bat introduced in 1810; and at that election
(I remember it as if it were but yesterday),
the statement of the reverend rector brought
it fresh back to me to-night,--I remember it
as if yesterday. a placard was exhibited upon the hustings
by way of patting me down-s" Will yod ehonse a marl
who has proclaimed slave trading to be a felony ?"
(Loud applause.) I answered to that, I recollect,
" Then you ought not do choose Mr. Canning any more
than me. I say nothing of General Gascoigne ; I know
nothing of his opinion ; but Mr. Canning. as well as
myself, was for aeclaring it a felony, having always
been a strenuous adversary of the African slave trade."
But these are different times now! (Applause.) You
in vain could try to raise not only a clamour—not only a
hostile cheer, but you in vain could attempt to
raise the slightest imputation against a candidate
for any office in Church or State -by representing
him as an enemy of that detestable crime, the African
slave trade. (Loud applause.) And as the rev; rector
well observed, Liverpool is now entirely free from that
stain, and it becomes the people of Liverpool to testify
their sense of their freedom from that enormity—from
even the vestige of the remains of that enorniity--by
heartily stipportirig tie° present niotion. (Loud applause.)
The venerable archdeacon, who has been himself in those
parts, though to the southward of the scone of, we hope,
the labour of the missionaries now proceeding—the
venerable archdeacon bas described, in touching
terms, the character of this simple people. I
believe that in the north, upon the Zambesi—upon
the scene of Dr. Livingston explorations—they are
still better adapted to receive not only the lights of
civilisation, and the blessings of religion, but to receive
also instruction and helps to commerce and manufactures
by the instruction and the helps given to their agricul-
ture,—in the raising of cotton above all,—that produce
which is of such essential importance, nay, such
absolute necessity, to hundreds of our fellow-country-
men, here, in Manchester and Liverpool, and all
this neighbourhood. We are most likely to obtain
their help in that cultivation, and in that
manufacture—we are most likely to obtain it as the
result of the missionary labours to spread civilisation
and the blessings of religion among them. ( Ap-
plause.) . The Archdeacon gave you his account of the
character of those natives. and the reverend Itector has
given a very touching anecdote of some parts of their
character, in setting forth the kindly treatment of
travellers—amongst others of Dr. Livingston, and it
was the same with Webber in formertiines. His
panegyric on the women as comparatively free from all
cruelty practised by the men, has been supported by
both of those travellers, as you are reminded by the rev.
rector to-night. I was much struck by his account of
the sable colour having no effect upon the traveller, and
of the white colour having no sinister effect upon the
negrues ; and it reminded me of an anecdote I heard
related in the presence, I think, of my excellent friend
the present Lord Lyndhurst. We were dining in coin
pany of a French gentleman of the name of Dalzac,
who had been engaged diplomatically, first in Holland,
originally in the West Indies. and that gentleman was
then an ex-minister. He had ceased to be a miitister ;
lie was on his way to another station, but on his way
to the station he arrived in England, and we were
honoured with his-company on that occasion. He said
he had been in Cuba, and gave us a number of very
curious particulars in respect to the state of the negro
inhabitants of that island, now completely emancipated,
and living in comfort, in a great state of civilisation,
and.. even refinement; and he told us that one day
be went to the house of one, a negro gentleman.
He was received, entertained hospitably, nay, with
very great elegance, not to say sumptuously, in
this country house of this negro gentleman : and
lie was very much amused with what happened after
dinner one day, when, as he was giving his opinion
of the great liberality and kindness which seemed to
reign in the household of this gentleman, this negro
proprietor, landowner—a negro country gentleman :
Oh, I ant a man," said the negro, "quite free from
all prejudice. If I find a person who is w, 11 bred, well
educated, well behaved, I hold out the hand of fellow-
ship to him if his colour were as white as that table-
cloth." (Loud laughter and applause.) This only
shows that the prejudices of colour are not confined to
whites,—for that negro gentleman had the same pre-
judice, and got over it apparently with difficulty, but
seemed to take pride to himself in having overcome
that prejudice. I only wish our brethren—our white
brethren all over the world, and most especially
in the United States, where that prejudice exists
to a degree to be met with in. no other
part of the world,—l only wish they could,
like the Cuban country gentleman of sable colour,
overcome their prejudices and treat their black and
mulatto fellow-countrymen, as he was disposed to treat
Mr. Dalzac, the Frenchman; and to hold, if they find a
Negro or mulatto well bre and deserving of their
;society, and of intercourse with them upon equal terms,
that they should treat him with as great courtesy and
respect as if his colour were the colour of the table cloth
at which they were seated. (Applause.) Now, it
appears to me that we have great efforts to make for the
purpose of undoing the effect which still linger of
African slave trade, and of West India slavery now
happily abolished, and there can he no better means of
accomplishing this desirable end than by encouraging this
mission, and encouraging all those who, with the mission,
will improve the agriculture, and, to a certain degree,
plant manufactures among this simple people—who are
disposed to work—who, if the Portuguese traders would
let them alone, would be inclined peaceably and profit-
ably to work for themselves, and to abandon that traffic
in their own persons which these Portuguese governors,
and all the persons employed under them, never cease to
carry on by all means in their power, to the extinction
of all other industry, to the extinction of all hope of
civilisation, to the frustration of all attempts at improve-
ment, religious, political, or moral, of this people. If we
can, by encouraging this people, which from the statement
of the Archdeacon it appears a great sum has already
been provided for, and only about as much more is
required to ensure their succets.—t,hen I really think
we might have the pleasure of being able to take pride
to ourselves for having done the utmost in one power to
undo the effects of the former misconduct of this country,
—which is to be laid at the door, not of the people of
Liverpool, but of the Parliament of this country, which
in all ages, from the very first down to the last moment
when the traffic was abolished ;—and here is certain
vindication to be offered for the Americans themselves,
Or the Southern States of America themselves,—Parlia-
meat has insisted on their having slavery, which they
refused to have, and now we have abolished it ourselves,
we think fit to wonder that they had not followed -our
example. (Loud applause.) I wish before I sit
down to express how gratefully I felt it a duty to
come here upon the present occasion. It is nove,sixty
years since I have been a labourer in this cause, and at
any one time during those sixty years, bad the proposal
been made to me to come to Liverpool upon an occasion
like the present. I should, as a matter of coarse, have
executed it. I had suffered, this morning, some
disappointment in not being able to attend three
other engagements. I would fondly have been present
6t the meeting of Queen's College, from the Senate
of which I had-aemost kind and affectionate address. I
would fain have been present at the library which we o we
to the munificence of your fellow-townsman, and my friend
and host, William Brown—(applause)—an unexampled
munificence in extent, and equal to all other acts of
munificence in the wisdom which has directed it. But
instead of being able to go there, all I could do was to
take off my hat in passing the building, in token of my
profound respect for that patriotic individual. (Lend
applause.) And the last disappointment I had was
this, that I would fain have attended a most im-
portant movement, that of the Early Closing Associa-
tion--(applause)—whose labours I consider to be of the
utmost possible importance. Whether I regard the
religious improvement of the working people, or their
moral improvement, or their comfort, that Early Closing
Association has my most hearty good wishes. I could
do no more than attend this meeting, and I heartily
wish the same success to this meeting and to all con-
nected with it, and to the mission which is about to go
out. I move—" Resolved : That this meeting is deeply
interested in the object of the Ozford and Cambridge
Mission, in the confident hope that it will not only pro-
mote pure and undefiled religion, but by the advance-
ment of eivilisatioe, science, and the useful arts, tend to
the final extinction of the slave trade."

Mr. ASPINALL TOBIN, ill6econding the motion, said
that even if he had had the presumption to wish to make
a long speech on this occasion, he might well have been
deterred from doing so after listening to the eloquent
language of the noble lord who had preceded him, and
who was s) closely associated with that noble band of
Christian philanthropists who had so long struggled in
the cause of liberty and religion ; and who had come
again among us accompanied by one who bears the
honoured name of Wilberforce. Their object was to
carry the light of the gospel and to teach the glorious
truths of Christianity to those whom England has so
deeply wronged ; whereby, to some extent, we might
atone for the injuries which this country has irflicted
upon Africa. He had been urged by the Rector
to be present as one who had been long connected
with the coast of Africa, and taken a deep interest
in the civilisation of that country. Dr. Living-
ston himself had pointed out the great want, of a
christianised commerce ; and he would call to mind
that in 1850 a committee of the House of Lords
reported and declared their views to be_ identical with
those of Dr. Livingston—that the slave trade would
never be permanently suppressed unless mecum were
taken for fostering a legitimate native commerce. To
foster such an effort should, therefore, be one great and
chief object of their exertions. He entirely concurred
in those remarks made by the Rector of Liverpool.
England had inflicted great wrongs on Africa; but to
s nee extent she had endeavoured to repair those wrongs.
Over a vast extent of the coast—for some '2,000 miles—
the slave trade had been abolished, and in his opinion
all that was required for its complete extinction was, that
the Government should employ an efficient fleet of swift
steamers. A great change had been going on in that
country. He had received many native letters from that
region as well expressed as could be desired, even from
fellow-countrymen. The successful establishment of a
white mission could not fail to rouse the spirit of the
natives. Even in a physical point of view the country
had greatly improved, for their rivers were no longer
found to be the great sources of pestilent disease
they formerly were. The exports from this to that
country now included some of the finest silks
and satins; and the quantity of finest coral required for
the trade to that country now exceeded ordinary belief.

The native princes Were no _longer content to sail in
wretched canoes rowed by equally wretched paddle-
men. His friend, Mr. Horsfall, was nest propar-
ing for the King, of Old Calabar, a fine steam pea,
for the navigation of the rivers of that country.
He concluded a most able and eloquent speech by
a well conceived and well-merited compliment to Lord
Brougham for the part he was now taking in teaching
the present generation of Englishmen their duty to
Africa, and sat doWn amid much applause.
The Bishop of OXFORD, irhd vrae greeted with pro-
longed applause, then moved—" That the Clt ford and
Cambridge mission is entitled to general support at
this particular time, not as a new society interfering
with others already engaged in missionary work, but as
temporarily organised with the special view of meeting a
want, for the supply of which no other instrumentality
at present exists; and this meeting therefore undertakes
to use its best endeavours to assist in procuring the
necessary funds." His lordship began by thanking the
chairman for the Welcome accorded him, and the
audience for the kind way iii sfhleh he had been
received; Re had come amongst them cOmpiiratifely
a stranger, and yet surely upon an errand of
Christian love, we were strangers nowhere, but met
brethren in the Lord wherever ye go. The resolution
which he had to speak to sounded, as he road it, a little
dry—(a laugh) ; but it was necessary, he believed, that
it should be dwelt upon. It was-the organisation of the
unorganised body which they were asked to support.
The resolution stated that this was not a new society, and
that it did not come into competition with any existing
society. Now that he thought was an important fact.
He was not at all fond of multiplying upon every occasion
new societies, to which there were two great objections;
first, the Waste of funds which aught to ire Conce-
ntrated upon the Object; and the next, the rivalry
and party spirit which was apt to spring up. Now
they were at no expense for organaatiori. The
idea of an organised society was soniesihat as folloWs :
First, a house, a goodly inkstand, a supply of pens; a
quantity of paper. a well-dressed man at a well-covered
table; and looking respectable.—(Laughter and applause.) •
Well, they had none of these. They met in the room
of the Gospel Propagation Society, for which they paid
nothing.; used its paper, for which they thanked them ;
employed its pens, for which they were grateful • wrote
with its ink, and made the best use they could of them.
The whole expense was that, for six months, they had
engaged a clerk at £1 a week. From the charge of
multiplying societies, therefore, he thought the people
of Liverpool would say that they were tolerably free.
(Applause.) This attempt was an echo, sounding from
the battlements of Christianity in England to the voice of
that good arid holy man, Dr. Livingston. The right
rev. prelate glanced at the spirit evoked in the Univer-
sities by the visit of lir. Livingston, and said there
arose a settled purpose, commtinicated front Cambridge
to Oxford, that this call of his should be answered, and
that England's church should send forth men to tread
upon the pathways he had opened, into the fastnesses
of error and of' woe. (Applause.) And thus, with this
object, the leading men in those two universities con-
sulted together. They agreed to collect funds to carry
out the work ; and the same good spirit which induced
them to begin thus induced them to give •up their
universities, and work in Africa. They might not know
how great a sacrifice it was to do so—to leave all the
honours and comforts of collegiate life, and proceed to
a barbarous and almost unknown country. The master
of Trinity College said that M'Kenzie was the only man
he grudged to the Colonial Church from the University
of Cambridge. In point of fact, their mission was not
a society, it was the Christian feelings of England
appealed to on behalf of a number of men who were
Without Christ. If it pleased Gol to allow the plan to
prosper, they would fall back upon the Gospel Propaga-
tion Society, and also the other great society_ of the
Church-4he Church Missionary Society. He had
expressed his desire to the secretary of that society, that
they should use the opportunity by sending their
niissionaries to labour with the other brethren in the
great Work of evangelising. Africa. Ho wished it to be
distinctly understood that, it was more the Church
acting through the instrumentality of a society, than
the creation of a new religious society. This being the
case, the resolution called upon them to pledge them-
solves to aid in this work. Of its magnitude and
extent they had already heard from the speakers
who had preceded him. They could, perhaps,
form some idea of what a land must he over which
Christianity has no influence by taking a similar case at
home. If there was one particular spot, one street, from
which all religious influences were absent, they would
find that there the evil crowd together, and sin dares to
show itself in the most open manner. But even in these
places there is a perpetual breaking in of the rays of
Christianity, whereas in the places where their mission
would work, no such thing could possibly have happened.
It was, therefore, necessary for a Christian people to
bestir themselves. He had great confidence in asking
for their support, in asking them to aid a simple and
practical endeavour to plant in the Southern part of
Africa those blessings they now enjoyed here—in
England. The plan was not to make an English
colony, it .was for quite a different purpose—it was
that there might be English Christianity and English
civilisation, and so make a good negro population, but
not an English one. He would would. ask them to
make some real sacrifice in order to carry out this work.
The money they have already got has been collected
mainly from the poorer and agricultural districts
of England, which have really far less to give
than those great commercial emporiums like Liverpool.
He lied recently received letters from Dr. Livingston
himself, urging upon him the importance of their present
attempt, amid in which he had said that if he (the
Bishop) would only give himself to this work, and secure
a Christian settlement of our fellow-countrymen in
that region, the work of a whole life would
thereby have been accomplished. There were many
circumstances of the day which ought to be urged
upon Christian philanthropists as induceinents to do all
in their power to forward this.undertaking at once—with
all the means in their power. There was the all impor-
tant fact of the valuable assistance of Dr. Living-
ston himself being now constantly and enthusiastically
available to them in the promotion of the interests of
such a settlement. They could scarcely fail to appreciate
the value of such assistance. There was also the counte-
nance and aid of the present Governor of the Cape, Sir G.
Grey—than whom they could not expect to find one in
so influential a position more disposed to help them in a
manner which only one in his influential position could
do. Then, again, if they allowed the corning autumn
to pass without accomplishing their object, who in the
present disturbed state of the moral and political horizon
could tell what might occur to break into the harmony
of Christian enterprise. War may break out. Eng-
land had raised herself immeasurably in the estimation
of Europe, and of all the world, by voting for the
emancipation of the slave at a cost of twenty millions
sterling; and by at once entering upon this new and
glorious enterprise she would add to her lustre, fame,
and power. Her opportunities and resources were
undoubtedly great, and equal to the task, but if she
neglected them they might become lost to her forever.

Mr, ADAM Hoflososr seconded the resolution. He did
not hesitate for a single moment to express his deep
interest in the movement. This was not the grst meet-
ing of the kind which had been held—he referred to
these which had been held for the purpose of strength-
ening the hands of Lord Brougham and Mr.
Wilberforce in their efforts for the abolition
of slavery. He regarded this meeting as one of
those steps by which England was endeavouring
to retrace the course she had pursued, and the injury
she had inflicted upon Africa. Ile hoped that this was
connected with the prophetic obserrations of Mr. Pitt in
the House of Commons, when be &flounced in terms of
vehement and withering eloquence, the injuries we had
inflicted upon the natives of Africa. We -had- given
them, he said„ just so much of our own knowledge as
would enable them to perfect themselves in the art
of self-destruction, and turn Africa into a ravaged
wilderness. Three score and ten years have passed away,
and much that Mr. Pitt depicted has been fulfilled.
They were now invited to enter the interior of this
injured country, and assist in propagating the blessings
of Christianity. He trusted that we would find not only
that this town, but that the empire at large, would
imitate the universities of Oxford and Cambridge with
a response that would show the heartiness and the
vigour and the determination with which we shall enter
into an enterprise so full of promise to the best interests
of humanity and religion. (Applause.)
The resolution was carried by acclamation.
Lord BROUGHAM, in a few humorous and complimen-
tary remarks, moved a vote of thanks to the chairman,
which was seconded by Dr. Raffles, and carried amidst
great applause.
In reply, the CHAIRMAN said the thanks of the meet-
ing should be given where they were most due, add that
was to his rev. brethren and the noble lord who had
favoured them with their presence. He would accept
the vote as a compliment intended for them as much as
for himself, and thank them accordingly. With respect
to Archdeacon MiCenzie, he paid a high compliment to
that rev. gentleman's learning, zeal, and ability; and
also to the Right Hon. Lord Brougham.
The proceedings clomd with the benediction, which
was pronounced by the Bishop.

LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.

YESTERDAY.

(Before Mr. Commissioner PERRY.)
In Re SYLVESTER MAnsoN.—This bankrupt, who
was formerly a butcher and publican in Waterloo-road,
Liverpool, came up on application for his certificate.
Mr. Copeman appeared for the assignees, and Mr.
Wynne for an opposing creditor. The bankrupt was
examined with reference to his conduct, particularly as
to his losing money at cards, also as to the origin of the
debt due to the petitioning creditor. Several witnesses
were also examined, who deposed that the bankrupt
had lost as much as £3O at one sitting. Mr. F. Fair-
burn, the petitioninc, creditor, was then examined as to
the origin of the debt slue to him by the bankrupt,
which he stated was for money lent upon bills of
exchange, but could not give dates without going to the
bank.

Mr. Wynne afterwards addressed the court, and con-
tended that the bankrupt had brought himself within
the 201st section of the 13ankruptcy Law Consolidation
Act, 1849. which enacts that any bankrupt who shall
in one day the sum of £2O, shall not be
toa certificate. He also urged other grounds of
entitledl lose by
gaming
objection.
Mr. Ccpeman, after reviewing the evidence given by
the various witnesses, and combating the objections of
Mr. Wynne, asked for an immediate certificate.
His Honor said, with regard to the 201st section, he
considered that, looking at the provisions of the old
statutes, it was never intended that the loss of £2O in
one day by gambling, at any time, whether the bankrupt
was then a trader or not should disentitle him to a certifi-
cate,. but that such loss by gaming, to come within the
provisions of the statute, must be within twelve months
next precedini, the bankruptcy ; therefore, that objec-
tion must fail.° And, with regard to the other grounds
of opposition, he would refer to the proceedings, and
deliver judgment next clay.

The reports received at Mark-lane, state that the
weather continues most satisfactory for the growing
crops throughout the United Kingdom.
A Cabinet Council was held on Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Gcorae Seward, the secretary of the Atlantic
Telegraph ComPany, has addressed a communication to
the morning papers in refutation of certain statements
made by a deputation which recently waited on Lord
Palmerston, desirous of promoting the laying down of
a cable to America, via Greenlana. He (Mr. Seward)
shows that 'from rectnt scientific experiments, and the
experience now accumulated, greater facilities than have
been believed in by the most sanguine do actually exist
for the safe and permanent establishment of telegraphic
communication between Ireland and America,