The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1850.

feelings and so apt to lead men late arose set of extra's-
gues, or to commit themselves to words sad opinions which
in their more thoughtful moan% they midst aiterwards
coademo. (Hear, hear.) If he felt a panful resrnalbility
in taking any port Is these proceeding', that tailing was
erectly segmented by the ciensestanca that the resolution
ha now seconded, sad which they had just heard read,
involved a chugs or au imputation upon some of oar
brethren of having bola by their conduct instrumental to
wards produing that event, that drogue and extraonlinory
aseumption of the Pope of Roam—which had bun the im-
mediate cause of that meeting being called. He should have
bees ashamed of himself if, on wining into the room after
the meeting had commenced and haring had very little time
to read the revolution pat into his hands, he had dared to
undertake supporting it if the subject had been a saw one to
his thoughts. (Haar, hear.) Bet kis mind had been di-
rected to the question, and the resolution conveyed allega-
tions which he woe prepared to eupport. (Cuero.) It was
notorious throughout Cluirouldem—in all cuticle" nations—
that hopes had been entertained for many run pat that the
thatch of Zeeland would be reconciled to the church of
Rome, and that thole hopes were founded upon the personal
observations of many R man eatholics in this rountiy and
upon the reports of the proceedings that were going on in
our own church. He added to that his own observations;
and would say if the allegations made is this large
assembly juetifiad the belief that practices were going
on in many of our churches, and doctrines were
preached from her pulpits to the world such as bad been de-
scribed—to say nothing of more secret and deogerous pro-
ceedings—(l"er, hens)—they wen justified in coming to
the same nodules that had bean arrived at by the Roman
catholic', that these practices and the conduct did afford a
ground fcr such a trope al that the church of England would
be reconciled to the church of Rome. He would not repeat
anything that had been advanced with respect to those pap
Beals: practises. He did not oak more then, in the mho
of truth, to tures what seemed to hint not only erroneous
but culpable to the conduct of members of the church of
Ragland. But this he must say, that lay members of that
church—men who dearly loved the principles of the blamed
Reformation, who believed that it was founded upon truly
scriptural and truly catholic principles—bad a right to ark
from the rulers of that church, and a right to know, whether
the practices now complained of ware or were not sceordiog
to the law, and doctrine, and moons of that church.
(Chun.) And if they were so consonant, as some
might be led to suppose they were from the
chink they had already received, and the toleration they
had experienced fr.m some of the prelatcs—why then it
would be the bounden duty of the protestant laity holing
the opinions they did of what was really the church of the
gospel of Christ, to use their best exertion" humbly,
j earnestly, patiently, and piously, but firmly, to endeavour to
get thou laws and canons altered, coed the church of Eastland
brought back to that simplicity of the gospel upon which its
foundations won lei +. (Load and long cheering.) He
declared it to be their du, to cloth's, and to nee our beloved
church purified from those 'rum But his bolt& wu, that
there was no necessity for such en apprehension. It had
I always been his lot—and a very honoured lot he considered
it—to late a very decided part, so fu as his exertions could
go, in promoting the greatest passiblo extension of tolen+i n
in all matter, of religious belief. (Cheers.) He had been
willing to go far beyond what he knew to be the opinions at
Menu whom he had then the honour of addressing (Hear,
hear.) And he felt it his deity to say on this ocomion, and
as this momentous subject, that his Opinions on that
head were unchinged—(cheep)—that ha was prepared, un-
less he saw good reason for changing his opruion—(hear)—
maintaia the same worse hereafter. For he wee an sdvo
Oita of toleration to the greatest linable erotic not only is
memedanca with civil freedom and privileges, so far as they
Wald be conceded to those who differed from us in religion,
bet he was an advocate of that broad system of eimprono-
sineness arid toli.ration upon which he believed our anus.
cep bed desired to found tae church of Enalend. (Cheers )
He b tiered a to be nee man, that we should have a coropre.
bestirs system of church tormulte and doctrines and prin.
sines, and it was because he believed toleration to be
amential to the c u.• of truth that ha was the more
foetus of the power of Popery. (Mush cheering )
It was because they knew that it that power obtained any
dominion in this country, all toleration mu at an end.
(Owen.) Being firmly convinced that .ueh was the case,
and that writ had been going on of late yeas, both in the
country end the church, had a tendency to encourage this
system, he telt that now was the time for all climes to come
forward ant resist its progress. (Hear, hear.) They must
nut be contented with protesting against error, bat they
must continue their el-Ilion, until they had suomeded in
re-eetablishiog the truth. (Hear, hear) Depend loon it
they would not gain anything by violent measures; they
knew how that o soerinient had bun tried, and how it had
failed is the Romish church. (Cheers.) They knew how
every attempt at fettering human opinion had foiled. They
know that it was not by violence that the great Redeem. r of
the world had worked. (Hear, hear.) And therefore he
wee most anxions, as a Christian and a protestant, that in
this moment of excitement, at • moment when eves the most
patient mon must be moved with indignation, they should
prey for the gift" of patience and love in dealing with
each of their brethrea as they deemed to be in fryer, and
in their endeavours to purity the church (Hear. hear.)
It would not be becoming in him to h.nord an opinion as to
what should bi their course, but that they should endeavour
by some means or other to check the progress of events, woes
matter upoa which he hod not the slightest doubt whatever.
At the tune time he trusted that they would &lonia from all
harsh personal arguments, and that in matters connected with
the polity of the church they should be careful not to narrow
the broad basis upon which she ought to stand. He proposed
this Insolation with a deep conviction that it would receive
the support of every sincere member of the church.
Lord C. RUSSELL came forward to support the resolution,
and was received with loud cheers. He said he felt great
pleasure in sec riding the resolution which had just been
proposed by his old friend and schoolfellow. lie (Lord C.
Ruull) and others who had hitherto contented them.
solves with remaining in comparstive obscurity, felt that
sow the time had come when they could rue Lougee remain
quiescent. (Hear, hear.) Insolent and ham:lions, in-
deed, had been the conduct of Rome at all times, and never
mon so than in the issue of the laat bull, suppressing
all existing bishoprics. (Hear, hear.) Rome bad always
been insolent in her pretensions, and insidious in her prac-
tices, insidious in the day of he penury, and Insolent in
that of her power. (Hoar, hear.) One word row with
reelect to the fors within their own household. It wes the
more their duty to look to those foes becomes those whose
Immediate duty it was had in reality Wicked the question.
(Protracted cheering.) If he wanted a plain proof of that,
he had only to refer to a speech recently delivered by ono of
oar prelates. (Name, name.) lie should not name him,
but be would soon be recognised by the description. (A
laugh.) That prelate, in dealing with the papal aggte.eioo,
bad talked most eloquently and with great grief of
those who had gone over to the faith of Rome,
mentioning armour others oats who called himself Fother
Iguatios, sad was at that moment advising young women
in the north of Ireland to enter English families as scullery
maids in the hope of converting the inmates. lied the pre-
late in question forgotten what had taken place nearer
home? (Hear.) It was tints to speak out plainly, and to
tell this prelate that there was another name still mon dear
nth, people of England implicated in the peeversions, and
tau there might he lees danger from an embryo
, maid than from a full-blown archdeacon. (Cheese, laughter,
] and cries of "Oxford.") These facto were occurring every
day before their eyes, and rendered a lay demonstration like
the present an absolute nerreisity. They must tell these ,
parties and the world that they sekaowledged ao suprentsay
but that of the Qatar, and that they were determined to
uphold it. (Rear, hese.) They must also tell Vices
ministers who still remained faithful, that they loved them
and them only, and they must tell their temporal rulers that
they wen determined to defend the protestant church at all
lumens and against all comers. (Loud cheers.)
The resolution was then put and agreed to amid load
abeerioe.
] Mr. BAXTER rose to move the neat resolution, whisk
Odin epos her Majesty to interpose her royal authority for
the serration of ell abuses in the church. He mid be bed
be many years been watching the progress of aggremiem
on the part of the Romish church, and of penes.
sion on our own, and in common with his fellow
eitiuse had felt the reeponaibility resting on him
testify apish nett a state of things, (Hear, hear.) Bat It
was inspcosible that the coerce they had talus, parsing hem
toleratios to the centuries of privileges, sad from privileges
to endowments, wind have ended mach otherwise. (Hear.)
Passing themes to the recognition of titles—(lud akestriag)—
it wee impossible for say reflecting stied not to perceive
that such ware only the beginning of the end, sad
that the sad must come before lug. (Hear, hear.) That
end had use sooner than might have been expected, sad
some in a form which manse lass than an invitation send
have induced the Pope to adopt. (Hear hear.) What
would he the judgment of Europe en the seeded el the
Pope ? Let them weigh it is the balsam of animas, sad see
how his fount attempt would hare bees veseived b MM.
trim completely ands Roman catholic domination. He (Mr.
Baxter) would act go to Rome, busses there the Pope might
say that the lily of the people had overturned the order at
thiogs; bat he would ask how math an essouptio• of
power weuld have bees received in Austria? (Hear,
hear.) Why, Austria was the eluirek's nanny daughter,
and still ti that empire the Pope dared set
take epos himself the appointment of bishops. (Hear,
hear.) He asserted that no sue bell soshi have bees gob
lashed, no such division of tenbwp gift 105
Austrian dominions without calßill dews inkievier est
concerned immediate aosdenue Orem the OM peter an
the country. (Hear, heat.) WitlY the digit of krt.
land hull, hafts her grime, her esieublalle dad
her titles were mon when Wilds the last 1.111 tank tea ide
ginned a syelom d teethes which it Pas asp pens &Ida
have sprung up is • county elan ewe Mie rllllll alb%
free disunion, and faithful peemling. Bel Nib MU Y the
early ages of the church. lies tie beree► el awe inn
is u it was eadeavouliag to do at present mei these who
had remarked the delimitated from mound destint the at-
tachment to forms and ceremonies, whisk had been growing
up foe some time, arid compared them with what lad sip
coned la the aerly apes of the dumb, wend dad a remark-
able similarity. In either time 11 had all arisen ken
one 'Usti fact. Whenever the eye of the Christen wee
taken boa the glory or his Bodoemeu and rested
on ebsurreasee sad learMankil; wharves he bevel began
ea
Mei, whether it was a seeramestot study a hem, an
ordisaase7 or • priest,
]ellowiag the muss as
to take the I
piece Ito ine—thera, end then only, was there daapr
to the pale duties' et the church. And now, what was the
comet of mitts whisk they to pursue ? Net to
rely open agitation and tom te bat to hold fest thole teed-
many. Let every tine protestanbc to oat kis
who was inestid, or in peril of Wastedlir=
error, that he wee In dealer lola_ Ide area
liberty, sad bowing down at the -WNW Ici=
anise. Popery had stoles in upset the of
Now that the people had awoke, and had fend it 'bray
it be their be yes to see that it did not abide libeel.

WILLIAM LOCKE woad duo rekolatioa. He
aid he owed it to the late that he was secretary to the
Boated &hag tfaion that ha appeared in that honourable
position, sad the course which be thus took wes band partly
epos his own *aperients with regard to thaw school".
(ems.) They wen, he believed, all screed is direlainsina
any sympathy with Rome. Oa that subject he might adopt,
with a slight shanties, the wards of the pest, and my—

Ram Imp:enter atm& b Ideas; midi -
AA lola lined Aside but to be uses.
All who lad read the history of their own cavalry with
atomic.; sad the history of the sister island—all who had
trawled the wane el Rwasaisia—must ho eciaoiaeed that

England wad never bear the supremacy of the Pope.
(Hear, hut.) Bat milker meet they allow Use destrines of
their own Munk to be frittered away teem within. (Heer„
hear.) Should they sot resist the aggrearime be their ewe
Muer, u as the more open and palpable messhe from
without? He had so doubt that when perlimenst meet it
'nal& take or the question in the right spirit, mid lift dld
not he would be one of the foramst to come leeward
sad appeal to the Quids to dissolve parliament—(immesee
eheering)—end to call to her counrils men who would era
and carry into effect the fulinee and wishes of the umiak
(Loud Chun.) Was it honest or comiatent that nee pre
fusing Ennio doctrines should continue to ;est the bread
of the church of England ? (Cheers.)
Mr. PLUMPTRII, M.P., considered it an !ensue to take
part in lush a meeting of laymen of the Churelt el England.
The laymen had, aa teen noble chairman bed intimated,
bun looked upon by many parties almost as nosentities, but
he trusted that from that day forward they would make it
that they were a living and moving body in the
ehourah. As a member of parliament, he bed felt it his
day—whether rightly or wrongly was not then the
point for discuesios—to oppose the concessions which had
been made to Rome. Let the laity speak out. Letithem speak
to their most 'serious Sovereign, whom might O.d long'
preserve—Good churn)—and he trusted they would find in
her the desired regress; let them declare by their eon-
duct, and In their walk and conversation, that they would
not abide these ebominatious ; and, sts ,rir all, let them
speak frequeetly and f U 7 to the Prince of the kings of
the earth, and beseech Him to keep and guide them in this
evident time—to give them His power, and to command de-
, Ilverance for them. (Cheers.)
The resolution was then put and carried amidst acclame
done that were lone continued.
Mr. JOSEPH CARIER WOOD, of Westminster, then
moved the following address to her Mejeaty, which he said
contained the gist and substance of all they had heard, and
would be pointed and circulated about the country for sig
nature,. (Cheers )
To her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria. by therms of
God of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the
Fai,h ; the loyal address of the undersigned lay member*
of the united church of England and Indeed, humbly
showeth,—
"That we the undersigned have witnessed will the
deepest indignation, the insult lately offered to your Majesty
=le !mulled apostelical letter of the Bishop of Rome,
we regard ea aims l alike amine. your Maj. sty's moire
gad dignity, and the civil and religions liberties of sour pots
tenant mei, eta
Happy, by the blessing of God, under your benign
gsmernment, we look to your hlejestyu the sole fountain of
tumour within this realm ; and we therefore denounce es
stylise% and audacious, the recent set of a foreign priest
potentate, who, in defiance of your Majesty's prerogative, Imis
presumed to parcel out your dentini ins Into provisos
sad diocese, fill them with his nominees, and Invest the
holders thereof with territorial titles—iwerilieg thus the in.
dependents achieved by our forefathers at the glorious Re-
lissmatier, and sepiring at the establishment of a rower not
permitted eyes in the darkest periods of the middle ages.
We earnestly beseech your Majesty to resist this into-
lerable aggression ' • and we tender our hearty "Laurance
that nothing Mimi be wanting on our part to give effect to
year Majesty's determination.
" But we desire also humbly to represent to your Majesty
ear conviction, confirmed by the recent testimony of several
bisbopa of our church, that the court of Rome would
have attempted such an act of aggression, had not encourage-
mean been held out to that encroaching power by many of
the clergy ~f our own church, who have, for several years
past, shown a dune to assimilate the doeteien and services
of the church of linalanl to those of thL. P. 'min communion.
While we would cheerfully c intend for the principles of the
Reformation spinet all op. a enemies, we hays to lament that
our most dangerous foes are thou of our own household
and hence we feel that it is to little purpose to repel the
ions of the foreigner unless those principles sad peso-
Bees
aggressions
have tempted him to such aggressions be put-
liely and universally repudiated.
" We are conscious that the evils to which we allude are
deeply seated, and have been the growth of a series of years,
sad hence we enter, sin no expectation that they can be sud-
denly eradicated. But we humbly entreat your Majesty, in
the exercise of your royal prerogative, to direct the menthes
of the primate' and bishops of the church to the necessity of
using all fit and lawful means to purify it from the infection
of false doctrine; and, as respects external and 'nib's I
observances, in which many novelties have been introduced,
to take are that =warts may be promptly aiepted for the
repression of all such practices. Without attempting to
enumerate with particularity the innovations to which we
allude, we may briefly notice:
" The manner In welch what is termed ' the sacramental
system is carried out,—by en exaggerated ye tion for
the aimed in our pariah churches ; its costly decoration, as
a place especially holy ; its separation, in acme instances,
from the body of the church by the po-opish rood screen;'
and its enrichment by symbolical ornaments, such as crosses,
candlesticks, tapestry, Ac. ; all intended to bring bock into
the church the ideas of en altar and a twills, notwith-
standing their sedulous exclusion from all the formularies of
the church.
" Connected with the same system, we noticeelbe with.
drawal of the service from the body of the people into the
chancel, where the prayers are often read or intoned, with
the reader's face turned towards the mecallad ' altar,' and
away from the congregation ; u as to change the protestant
envies of limited minister and people, into an imititioa of
the Militia ritual, wherein the priest prays for the people
in words neither heard or understood by these.
Those histrionic arrargentente of the public services
of the church may, some of them, viewed tingly, seem
to possess little importance. Bat It is far otherwise,
when they are considered as parts of a corrupt system;
and coupling these, and various ether innovation', with
the adoption, by the same parties, of the Romish system
of auricular confeselon, penance, and priestly absolution,
there seems no reuse to doubt the sentence el a settled par.
pose, in many of the parties so eating, to bring back our pro-
testant chetah to Wee very corruptions, both of doctrine
and pretties, from which it was clammed by the blessed
Reformation.
" Already great alarmis naturally created by the apparent
return of to many members of the church of England to
Boarish superstitions, and this state of things, if suffered to
mi,tinue, will probably lead emu of the people to depart
from the faith of their fathers, and =soy wore to teal a
general distrust of, and alienation from, all forme end
eilaistratime of religion.
" While we feel deeply conscious that the true and am-
tail remedy for the dangers which beset oar protestant
church belongs to no human power, but only:to the supremo
bead of the church, whose Almighty aid is to be *ought by
humble, persevering prayer, we are thankful that, by tee
emstitution and the canting laws, there is vested in your
Majesty, as the earthly head of our church, a wholesome
power of interpoiltiou ; which power we entreat your
Majesty now to ozonise. Tee records of the reigns of you"
Mejestra illustrious predecessors, both before and since the
glorious Revolution, furnish many examples of the manner
in which the mischief' and abuses which at various tuna
have sprung up In the church have beet dealt with by the
exercise of the royal authority.
• That it may plum your Majesty, on a view of the
peculiar perils is which our proteetaat church is new
pieced, to interpose for its defense, is our humble pi lion ;
end that it may please God nag to preserve your Majesty
the fall enjoyment of all your royal authority, for the wen-
being of this nation sad for the fuethenose of His was
glory, Is the earnest primes of
" Year liejeety's leysltlablute."
The mut promiasst perigee of the address, parti
thoseelating to the restyle% were sealked by
rg'COOD thee sold, that as he had done his duty is
Main weed In weed the Mims be the Oness, it new
Islam W lsisrm le perm is hr their Merles. Thee
Ow amid be coy dear of the ediziptlee was est of en
=(Hem) When they had heard the Matemme
OW* chairman, and more glowing 'loggers be
led meal hided, giving them both' Mee el the
eml Whir On had hurl the sound legal elides wiMitil
hese delleseed before them, to enable then tsesenikr the
'abject carefully, he was bound to judge that there was
little for him to say, and hos would not detain them five
mint's. There woe em part, however, of the subject which
he
thought reassined to be brought CliCdt, to their habits and
ietit. He thoughtthat it was a domestic question, and
ided to by O m teamed gentleman who had addressedi
Sm. Bat while a part of the adult laity of the protestant
MMUS' of this ematry were mumbled there, be might were
thou that they kaew sot hew ,s
knew holy gentlemen
irk' had beim so mush alluded to might be laterferiag with
*ilk families and thildrea—(►uer, beer)—ee haw soon they
might be 'sauteeing Is the larger *bre ill the labour's,
doom who would leek up to their Impedes to know why
the were to remain protastanes. It mead not bat rift"
MIMS there was a high psweo is the diesel that had not
der its duty plainly sad Me menkbetememl way. (Hew.)
Re mid, let the bishops/if Ingkiednewo the 'Mee eta loving
seed united church aroma dna. end they knew how to
Mak it. Bat if they did undo this, if they Bled is their
duty, let the essesquases tall upon ash NPR hesda.
(Chosen) He had now only to propose the wieldes of the
address, sad pine it in the Maa of tse sale bed ia the
than.
Mr. J. J. CUMMINGS said it behaved them set merely
to address the Clues, bet to used desk united Yoke mom
sae from one end the Wariest te the ether ; and they
would elicit a reepcses that Rani s& was sod England
would be protester. The vales el Mord woe ail sell
for Banked, hut he the whale went he esainsed ado
balm( that the t Unruh of Bentend wee tie Mak
of the workre sheore)—sal drat the noshed sew
arrived when the voile of the Immo& of Wend sea be
heard not only for their ewe oranny bat it, ihe Illkolles of
the whole world. They were unsW
_la a= with the
Pope, but there had bee. asothar—Mnik although
ocomparatively pada( ever with more ceillisestowas
of more importune—the battle le the rslurp Oren&
of this country's and whoa It wee paellas mossy
was not aware of its magnitude, while Ohms wore
trembling with amilety for the * kited liberty of the obaseh
of lashed. The address was then pat, eat amid nassi-
ItOiERT DIVAN, Bsq., rue to propose thanks to the
chairman, eragrotulating the meeting that suck a Lades had
boon toyed for the crisis. (Cheers.) Se looked upon it as