The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-05 00:00:00

duet of the government in the niattert
that the endowment of a second church in Ireland w°o‘l444ld,
to the peat* of that country.
whichad n lineation cg
ing favourably of the events had lately taken
wept
Ireland, but he believed that the people there w
dossed and betrayed by the priests. ereakp
Tke Rev. Dr. Missal seconded the resolution.
Mr. R. T•ergia said that there was • large roux
the population who he feared possessed very little of the
ligious sentiment. He thought that for their 'ekes the
tire abolition of those religious establishr cots which a. 7
been founded by the piety of their nneeeten, would b.
evil. He agreed in a great deal of what had been
saidb ..7
he could not bell :ye it wrong that the state Moult .-."
bete to the support of religion. So far he demented ftcoi;
the resolution.
The resolution was then put and carried.
The Rev. J. BURNT moved a resolution pledging the
meeting to oppose the endowment of the Romeo eglohe
priesthood. That they regarded such a prvieet as
tempt to perpetuate the existence of the present by the
ands
an • new ecclesiastical establishment in Ireland, and
an important step towards the adoption of the perei"
principle of paying the teachers of all religious creeds,
such a measure was nut demanded by the people of
andthat they looked mom it with well.merited tospQ
that in place of citing justice to Ireland, it would moo
veil one glariog wrong*, and prolong the areeedane, git
a narrow section to whose neglect of dove 'th
present miseries of Ireland might be mainly goo
ll* said that if religion came front heaven the first prod —a
its divinity was that it should support itself. (Hear, heira
He could not nodes staled a church that boasted of being
on a rock, and as being one against which the glue of hell
should not prevail, coming to the state and saying, o
nee, for I cannot maintain myself." (Hear, hear.) t riu—r:
man who precede! him had alluded to the wh-gs, and kid
that they viol:led their promises. Now, the whim leo,
said that they would give up the church estsblishment.
jy
they did was to prevent the established church from gads.
the dissectors so badly as they used to do. They did pi"
wish to prevent the church establishment inni rvbbing thr
pockets of the dissenters, but only they mut du it ia flee
gentlest manner. (Laughter.) They cut down ten Ogle
bishop', but they kept the revenue of those bishops salt it
was to the bishops sod not to the money that they photo&
(Hear.) He believed that they would done gaol to Ireland
by endowinga second church in that country. What Wad
wanted was to be let alone, to allow her to develop her en
resources. (Hear, hear.) He did not join io the cry of is
popery. He believed that that cry was at best a mistake.
His cry was not • no-popery one, but a nceplyinentto-up
church cry. (Hear, i ear.) On this question he badmen
of the heated feelings of the th• ological controversialist, one
the penuriousness of the political scurpmist. He wee
actuated solely by • strong conviction of the evets of a stn
church, and that it would not contribute to the pews ig
Ireland. (Hear, hear.)
The Rev. A. Rent seconded the resolution, which wet
carried. _