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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22.

Noavastoas-aaasw, near Bridgewater, cannot be
recommended to those who want to lead a quiet
life. Its magistrates, clergy, and people have lately
joined in making it better known than respected.
A few Sundays ago some blackguards went to
Northmore-green church and interrupted the ser-
vice by their profane gestures and language, one
of them, at the suggestions of his companions,
having gone up to the communion rail, where a cler-
gyman from another parish was doing duty, and drunk
up the whole contents of the chalice. Some of them
were subsequently brought before the bench of
magistrateb, when Mr. BROADMZAD, who pre-
sided, went out of his way to animadvert on the
character of the religious service—a matter which
had nothing whatever to do with the claim of the
cleric, to the protection of the laws—and ended
by passing a most inadequate sentence. This
was bad enough; but now the Rev. J. Hurry,
the incumbent of the church, appears in print,
addressing a letter to the Somerset County Galatia,
a production which is, on the whole, more to be
regretted than either the excesses of the poor
ignorant labourers, or the aberrations of the
bench.

I have just received the copy of your paper contain-
ing the eloquent and charitable speech of Mr. Broadmead in
inflicting condign punishment upon the *mandrels who re-
viled the Body and Blood of Christ in my church on the
26th of August, and I write to assure my friends in the
neighbourhood that I am not in the slightest degree
annoyed at that ridiculous and infidel effusion,
I am only sorry that the bench had not the
courage and manliness to give expression to those senti-
ments on a like occasion when I was present, and when
I could have held up their ignorance and atheism to
merited scorn. Poor Mr. Broadmead could not understand
" how God could be glorified by all this." Of course he
could net. A man who is too pudding-headed to be in.
trusted with a brief, after all the money that has been
spent on his legal education, could not be suspected of
having sufficient brains to comprehend the beautiful sym-
bolism of catholic ritual. But let him know that thousands
of poor outcasts, who have been brought in vain under the
successive appeals of high, broad, and low church, have by
means of these rites, which he despises, been convertedinto
intelligent and earnest worshippers of the Saviour, and that
" those men," of whom he speaks so insultingly, are but
two insignificant units of a mighty band of priests who
each in his day, has had to endure the same spite, per-
secretion, and derision as are now outpoured upon the
clergy of Northmoor, but who, by their genuine piety
and deep learning, have become a great power in the
church, so that the Bishop of London and other bishops
besides are now lying prostrate at their feet. We belong
to an army who, ere five years have elapsed, will have
exorcised from our beloved church the demon of protek
tantism, who has already degraded her doctrine and prim.
tice to the vulgar level of the sects. Therefore, tell Mr.
Broadmead that the next time the ruffians are summoned,
as they will doubtless soon be, he had better have some-
thing more sensible to say than be had on Thursday last
for I shall be there, and if he grunts out any of his pro-
testant twaddle I will say something that will convert him
into streaky bacon where he sits.—Your much obliged ser-
vant, James Hunt, Incumbent of Northmore-green.—
Heathfield, Swansea, September 6.—P.S. Of course, Mr.
Broadmead has never read a page of devotional theology in
the coarse of his life. If he had, be would have known
that dear Father Ouseley is one of the most sublime
writers of the age in that kind of literature.
It should be mentioned that we have not here
the ipsissima verba of the Reverend Incumbent, the
Editor of the Somerset Gazette, having, as he tells
us, " omitted some of the more offensive per-
" sonalities." We have the fullest confidence in
our brother's taste and judgment, but we are
curious to know where and on what principle he
drew his line. We should like to be able to ad-
mire the ingenuity that could invent anything
more offensively personal than the heavy compound
epithet which Mr. HUNT flings at the head of Mr.
BROADNEAD. The reverend gentleman speaks
of the persons whom he has converted : it
is to be hoped that his proselytes cannot write.
These Northmore clergy, if Mr. Hiner has cor-
rectly described them, will be heard of again.
They belong to a formidable band, who have got
" the Bishop of LONDON and other bishops pro-
" strata at their feet," and who, before five years
have passed, will have cast out " the demon of
" Protestantism " from the Church of England.
They had better not, for that same demon is their
kindest though probably not their wisest friend.
It is solely to him and his easy good humour that
they owe the protection and toleration they receive,
while trampling not only upon the bishops but
upon the laws of the land and the convictions of the
country. Mr. Hurry is very hard upon those who do
not read enough devotional theology to know that
his friend, Father °MIELE; is one of the sublimest
writers of the age in that kind of literature.
This compliment is no doubt well deserved ; but
if Mr. HUNT is going to write any more letters,
we would recommend him now and then to give
Father CirrYrinnux a turn in his private read-
ing. There is little theology and lass devotion
in this author ; still something may be learnt from
him as to those external proprieties which, if not
virtue, are often its outworks, and which we can-
not afford to lose even in parochial controversies.