The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-14 00:00:00


niceties, which confined each speaker's actress to 20
minutes, he concluded.
Tae Hey. D. EDWARD, late missionary at Lemberg. in
CMthew, pneensied to stickers the meeting, and said that
he had limo forborne to whips a word ut the annoyances
and suffering to which he had been suleicted, through the
insteuineutelity of the Hoggish church, but Ise now felt it
to be his duty to repose the proceedings of those persecu-
tor. of the protestant church. Us had only gone to preach
the gospel to the Jews, but that was an offence to the
church of Home, and it was opposed in every way. In
Cisllicia, which was the fragment of Poland, which fell to
the share of Austria, and in which there were four or five
milaans of people, the power of the Jesuits, as in other
pans of Poland, prevailed to • great extent. In the ten
years preceding 1848, owing to their inttiaeace over the
governors of uallieia, the whole control of the country was
In their hands, and to sake or place of emolument was
conferred without their consent. The inhabitants
of the few protestant villages were treated like
heathen', and the pulpi s were filled hr men
preaching the nationalistic doctrines of the school 01
▪ tenni', which had been moulded by the Papal influence
with the diabolical object of sapping the worse. of the
prote.tant religion. In 1011 English Bibles were taken
from 'needier, of the Sketch church in that The
rev. gentleman then proceeded :it sow length to diveusa the
question of the opposition of the Itosnish church to t
heu
he
spread of true religiou, hut we. obligee{ to concl
abruptly, is evesequeuee of the tune allotted to him having
espitent
The Hue. 11. ALLON moved—" That the expulsion in
recensher, Itlil, by the Austrian goverment of the lice.
Mr. Edward from Awetrian Co:md, after he had revolved
forenal perrnieston to remain; and the expulsion in January
last of the Rev. 141... n. Smith and Wmeste from Hungary,
where they bad been allowed to settle WI upwards of ten
years as peoteetant minister. to the British resiikuts, and as
osionegaries among the Jews, is • bash and anwereentable
preeeelare ; that these gentlemen are entitled to public sym-
pathy. and that this meeting deeply regrets that th, it CAN'
invoi.ine as it does the rights awl liberties of our country-
men is foreign pert., should not have drawn forth a more
prompt and decisive eat( rposition on the pert of the British
mileometer at ViennA. and of the government at home."
'I he Kee. De. 11 Ef II EIHNOTON seconded the resolu-
tem. es his h was agreed to.
Iho Rev. Prawns./ CCNNINOIIAM, of New College,
Elinburgh, moved . That the promeilinas complained of
are to be mixed to the machinations ,4 the chareh or Rome,
anal displ ty the turgreseve and intolenuit spirit of popery
now so elms ly allied with the deepatisnes of Europe ; and
that while the members of the Homed' church enjoy in this
country fall liberty both to hold and to propmete their
oi aus, it is the dere of this free and rote:Ant nation
tot to wear from demanding an equal liberty for pro.
te seems abroad, and to eserrioe the utmost vigilance it!
guar . ... 4 stains emernaehnsenrs of popery at home."
it. contended with great force that this traareetion was
trmeable to the tompact which hid ben entered into be.
tweet ;he ilesitotie countries of Europe and the Hanish
church, to erneh lid. rtv and keep down the people.
The Rev. F. JUDSON seconded this resolution, and on
behalf of the Wesleyan Methodists expreesed their stow
polly with the sufferings of the rev. gentlemen ou whose
behalf they had met.
J. COOK EVANS, Esq., supported the resolution, which
Ito. passed unanimously.
Tee hew. Mr. WINOATE then rose. but as it was then
• somewhat late hour, the meeting ha I become very thin,
and he corifiervi Milani( to a very short statement. Ile
said boded net dessert* enter into any detail of the suffer•
burs he had endured merely for the purpose of exciting
their sympathies. hut to eahibit the wrongs 'lone to Christ
and hi. cause. The etiet for th.te pulonn of his rev. bra
thee and himself Arrived in Pesth on 4th January, which
was the prepara•me Satitaoh previous to the celebration of
the Duly Communion, and was announced to them while
Hoy were .0 preparing. In order to show what had
1,. en the estonatiou in which they bad been held by the
authorities in reath, he :ould state that • few months
before an agent of the Church of Lapland Society for the
Conteraine of the Jews had been ordered to leave l'esth,
but on hi. ‘Mr. Winging's) Ovine a guarantee for his ten-
dert, be was allowed to fur some little time. On
Mgt January they received a notice to quit Hungary imme-
ikately. They remonstrated with the Governor of
I'esth, but as it was an Imperial edict he could do
nothing. An influential member of their congregation,
a man of high station and eonside ration, was des-
patched to represent the case to the British embassy
V., one, hat Mr. Grey, the attache, to the embassy,
resumed a representation of their ems in writing, and as
they did not ascertain that that was necessary until the
night tutor', they were compelled to leave, a threat of
forcible expulsion having been made to them by the autho-
rities. The only answer they received to a petition they
prr.ested, was ' immediate removal as soon as possible."
It was ordered that the circulation of the Scriptures should
be %topped, the ministers Were not to be allowed to exercise
their functions, and the chapel cis to be e:uaed. They had
only three days lor the whole of their preparations. They
left on the loth of January, when the Danube was nearly
frozen over. Both Mr. Smith and himself had medical
eirtileates that two member. of hi. (Mr. Wingate's) family
could nut tame nithout endangering their lives, and the
sum thing was the ease with Mr. Smith's only child. On
the last .lay he (Mr. Wingate) w is occupied until haltpaat
eleven ii'clock at night in endeavouring to pet • passport
fur a Hungarian servant who nursed his young baby, and
without whom este it must have died. Ile had pre
viously requested the proper functionaries to arrange
this matter, and it wee only on the hut day, at three o'clock,
that he knew that the authorities had refused to grant the
nurse a passport, and it was only by great and unceasing
effort. that at last, at half-pact eleven o'clock at night, he
obtained it. When they reached Vienua Mr. Smith's child
was NO ill that it could go no further, and through the Bri-
tish cubism there leave was obtained for them to remain
for •algort time. Then with regard to Mr. Dula Ed-
ward, he was first a missionary in Moldavia, and in 1848
he went to Lemberg, in Gallicia, to promote the conversion
of the Jews. His designs and labours had been all along
openly avowed in various examinations before the local au-
thorities, sail his whole proceedings lead beck distinctly au-
thorised by law. Nothing of • political diem:ter had ever
been laid to his charge. Yet, on the 18th of December,
1151„ he received a peremptory order to quit the country,
although the laws which had guaranteed his religious
Übe nj were sot abrogated till the end of the same month.
Mr. Edward had, when dismieled from (Militia, also the
*epee. sanction of Prince Sehwarzenberg, the Military Go-
vernor of Oallicia, to whom he appealed, on being prohibited
by the rages in May, ln,l, from conducting Divine ser•
vice in his own house, and who enjoined that his meetings
should not be disturbed. By the order be received to quit
the country, only thirteen days were allowed to prepare,
and to remove his family beyond the borders, a dimmer of
from 400 to jOO miles, and with his family ins ruts most
unfit fur the journey. The eat. mopess alleged against
hint, in reply to hi. objection aglinst this proceeding, was,
that eighteen months ago he had preached at a village four
miles distant, when.. his permission extended only to
Lemberg. Mr. Edward bad, however, on that occasion the
consent of the proper authorities; and the village was a
colony of protestant OtTNIALILS reckoned to the Lemberg
congregation. Mr. Edward went to Vienna, where he ap-
plied in vain for relief. and with great difficulty obtained
permission to return for his family. He received neither
aid nor sympathy from the British embassy. They tra-
velled through deep mow, and amidst a Polish winter,
hi. wit, bi inc within four weeks of her confinement ; ae
companied by two young children, they reached Breslvu,
whine Mrs. Edward was prematurely confined.
'the Key. Mr. DeseAs moved, and the Itev. Dr. IlAm.
ILION seconded, a resolution " That while these proceed
Mg. an fitted to alarm the friends of civil and religious
liberty, they are especially instructive to the Diem; of
Christian semitone ; and when, in the mysteries providence
of (hid, doors of great usefulness are suddenly dosed, it be-
comes the duty of all the churches of Christ, with renewed
energy, to enter in by those that still remain, mad in thew
critical and portentous times, to be ever on the watch that
sn inmesittle lichl of evangelistic labour be either over•
d or left uneultivated"—whiek wee agree& to, and
after a vote of thanks tote chairmen, the meeting sepa-
rated at a Fate hour.