The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-26 00:00:00

the progress of this usurper. Cheers. At mot a wide, It
behoved every earnest sad enthoth at OW -to
regrind to such a sell, Is ray mei the whisk* oleadard
of the reformer, sadism* more "tmetard bribe Nth ease
delivered to the mien" (Oltaiali vibe Mas this
mighty Philistine, who thus awl ea blood the
British boa in his lair ? One il Arobbishop Wise-
man. A very little time bo tbs.& maid peeve whether
or no he was a wise Man. (Chime) INN thoo, was tie
Gollah. Was there ate WOWDodd lbws, with' s
and a stone at miss is Odds the battle ? fat
at but outer umr the • thmelth In the
st ; David, fascist afil all tow of man, eirt2
old " swoTr: of the ibem;nka '
which" the sh
* the
West tae` 11ths Old. It the greet protestant
'Ad em emgibelindk denenseed end anathematised thereat
&mike ell get tar gospel width wee " not soother," stood
in Sok skint that day, his exhortation would be, "stand
hal, I/WIND is the liberty'.whenwith Christ bath made yea
free, and be sat entangledagait with the yoke of bondage."
(Chews.) In his ball the Pops said be "had sot
felled to implore the Mother of God sad the saints, whose
virtues had made Ragland illustrious, that they would deign
to obtain by their isterosmion with God the happy meow of
this enterprise." (Laughter) What had they to fear from
math a prayer ? Ron was Rome, with her many mediators :
they know but of " ono Mediator, the man Christ Jens."
(Cows.) Let them lift up their hearts to God, that he
would be pleased to change the counsel of this Haman into
foolishness. (Chun.) There was nothing to be leered, he
trusted, for protestant Britain, either from begins foes with-
out, or, what wee as bad, from tales friends within. Let
them cosaider the insidiousness of tnetarianism. Not many
weeks back a young noblemen imenpied that chair. Whets
was he nowt The avowed npreuntione was a
traitorous deserter to the enemy • camp. (Rear,
boar.) Let this think of Hoary Wilberforce as a child
at tits happy &adds of his honoured father, and as a young
men at his father's dying bed,—the only one of his thus
pressnt,—and than think of him as drinking gladly of the
cup of abominations. Had that man been toll at toe outlet
that such would be the bans, he would have Arun from
the prospect wilt home. (Hear.) Let those who held the bead
sow forget their denominational antisocial,. Let those who
" loved the Lord Jesus Christ in eincerity," and who were
loyal subjects of Queen Victoria, make a oemmon as-
sault against a common enemy. Let them once more
rally round the unfurled Innen of the Reformation,
inscribed with fidelity to Christ and loyalty to the
Quin. Night God in' his mercy give her Majesty the
spirit of government; sight she be made wise as so angel
of light to discern good front evil; is her days might the
righteous fiourlik, and enjoy abundance of peace, the blessed
integrity of a pare gospel, and the full and ten pediment' of
love to Christ. (Cheers.)
The Rev. Dr. CROLY moved the first reeelutios. He
said he wee delighted to see es large en assembly convened
for so important a purpose. Were the purpose merely per-
sonal and political, it would be important, but the muting
wee Mill more important as being composed of proustania
who were determined to resist error under ell cir-
cumstances. He had come forward not so much to
speak to the immediate motion as to ask a question. His
question was this—what bad been done ? Nothing. 'What
wee intended to be denet The knew not. What had
been even promised to be done ? They knew sot. lie was
a practical man, and he demanded what great public body
in this country bed come forward and pledged keel' to
maintain the interests of the country. (Hear, hear.) He
only echoed public feeling when he said that ministers
should in the first instance have advised her Majesty to
Resemble parliament. (Cheers.) That would have been no
novelty. Parliament bad been convened for so trifliog a
purpose es the quelling a quarrel in a manufacturing town ;
whereas they had now before their eyes the greatest
aggreasion since the days of the glorious Reformation.
(Hier, hear.) With regard to the letter of the prime minis-
ter, he must winless that to him it did not appear altogether
satisfactory. Having looked over that letter for some distinct
pledge to the people, he had not found any pledge what-
ever. (A voice, None.") His lordship said he would
desire the law) en to look into the law of the land That
might be a very protracted investigation indeed, and he
wuuld not have the great church of England saved by a
Chancery suit. (Cheers and laughter.) There were pas-
sages in the letter which, he most repeat, did not gratify
him as a protestant. It began with what, in all gentleness
of speech, he would call rather a sarcasm than an en-
couragement) (Hoar.) Hie lordship declared that
his alarm wee much less than his indignation.
Now his (Dr. Cron's) indignation wee much lOU than his
alarm. His lordship evidently mistook the meaning of the
two words. He (Dr. Croly) was not indignant if a house-
breaker entered hie house, but he was very much alarmed.
He was not indignant merely because an emissary of Rome
came to this country and tried to raise a disturbance amongst
them ; but he should be very much alarmed if he thought
he cams here sheltered by men in power,—that he came to
en incautious church and an indifferent people. (Hear,
hear.) His lordship told them there wee another den-
ser infinitely more important. He (Dr. Croly) did
not agree with him. No man amongst them could more
disapprove of, was more disgusted with, or would do
more to put down, what was called Trutarianins. (Cheers.)
He looked upon Tractarianiam as a recruiting officer of
Rome, to a eon of ecclesiastical jackal, content to live upon
the crumbs which would be thrown to it, after the distrac-
tion of Christianity, by the nobler and bolder beast. But he
could not bring himself to regard the danger firm the two
as equal. They might es well talk of treading on earth-
worms, while they had the boa.coestrieter usfoldiug its
coils before their very eyes; they might as well be hunting
rats while the lion was roaring at their side; they might as
well shriek from the shower while en inundation was coming
with unabated force up to their doors ; it would, in feet, be to
turn away from real danger, and to waste their energise
upon that which they could trample under their heel at any
hour of the day. He solemnly and sincerely believed that
then was at that moment, and had been hatching for
yam, a groat conspiracy 'gaunt the protestant rele•
gnu throughout the satin of Europe. (Hear, hoer.)
The audacity of the Pope did not surprise him.
Why had the minister of England rant three pallets
into the most important countries of the Mediterranean, in
direct connexion with Rime ? (Hear, hear.) Why had he
sent Into Greece a man who wee scarcely known except as
the writer of the History of the Roman Catholic Association ?
Why had he sent to Malta—the most important tonnes
possessed by this country in the Mediterranean—a lint=
catholic governor, who had refused a shelter to the honest
and higlinsinded min; who attempted to give • free
eonstitutnn to Rome ? When they saw the influence of
Pointy in degrading men, and in depriving them of
the common use of their common understanding, then
Ito would say far be from them the crime of
giving any countenance to KM,. They bad heard of the
miracle of the Virgin at Rimini, which, though a
wooden Image, bad the power of opening its (yrs.
(Laughter.) Why there were thousands of dolls
to be had in London at a stifling a piece,
which wild do the same. (" Hear, hear," arid laughter.)
Well, but the Pope had made himself • party to this scan-
dalous and degrading imposture, for a crown of gold wee to
be presented to this block of wood, and the Pops appointed
the day of the Anna: with of the Virgin, as it was called,
for the ceremony. The suss thing accented throughout all
Italy. Thera were virgins everywhere wishing and weeping.
(Laughter.) When the French army invaded Italy under
Napoleon, every one of thews virgins began to wink, and
Buonaparte was obliged to have them all brought before
him, by which means he prevented an insurrection.
And to show the attar inanity and ineptitude of
Rome a largo work wee pablislith showing the different
eirimmemages under which they viriln were to wink and
weep. ("Hear hear," and laughter.) Bat there was no
novelty in all this. There were similar Seenth is this coon-
try in former times. They had formerly a bottle of St.
hawks' blood, though sada a different name, In this
reentry ; and whoa SW asnasteries wore destroyed, this
wee found to be a bottle of duck's blood. (Laughter.)
There were Mu instruthsu hand for making the images
laugh, sad weep, and sty eat (Laughter.) In Ireland,
it wee smith in tee of sks polka papers, that a priest was
smut fir to a this 4 the agoay of death to administer
extreme mods. Is Ida, which soneisted in anointing the
head sad lest et the dying ma, as being necessary for
his antrum into Paradise. This wee what the French
meld all thstoki his boob for the jeethey. (Laughter.)
The thbotelmtvenos, moved two late, and les was told that no
muss am* be true. "Net at all," said the priest, " the
wily m gestates) is slow, I will overtake his." (Laughter.)
Re fismathogth meths a esthilisate, which he put into the
dead miry month, sathog that the doossoth would have
bed othasmennotioa, bit Uss be (the priest) arrived two
nem Wm lath. (Lengths.) This was a missies from the
print le BS. Paw. (lasibtor.) Now sass who believed
In then *kis meld be roads to believe anything. (Rear,
bear) They !odd fool is Is he their duty, they wen
told es; seed NOM theirothersigs—(shosth)--to plun-
der their badlsria, dose their mothatrates, to be one of
a animilass el asomsaathen to root sat every leading man
In the land. (Roar, hear.) Kea severed with -blood,
imbed slashing thou sad atonemeth ter their crimes by
an spit Ilaahaliaa et *sir guilt, oral Is receive ateolution
has the rink slid they bray believed that they same out
as Irmo as new hoes babes. (Lasghlat ) The Roman
othlalls relights was an easineeial roligiow (hear,
bear )—sun wherever its burning
;Whoel pond, it
loft beim diem behind. If this atemosth had then made
Ise sa pet derithoss shore Right bs KIM thaveo. bat that
thb both amid some la an ogo so as the
wit not Wised te be fripsotod.lll=, thank
Crtwas had the privilege of free sethals—tbay had what
SO ward of dos spirit ea mats who were ready
ID 'MY as tissir sassatom did, who would rejoice to
mil thole boss kw tie mainessonse if 'MI and religions
liberty. (thlssers.)_ _
Rev. R. DIBDIN sthoadod the roothation. He MU that
it as Wine of the established thatch he felt
it to be ry torsion kb robe against the rise and spread
of Pasotha. (Roth, boar.) Bat after all Peeelises, dim-
seemed end diegestlas though it was, was a part of the
spawn of the goose seamy, popery. They should soon gat
rid ottb• ken* by anttiog- down** Net. (Rear.) Let not
tbs natimes thelbmiesin be weal em the casket, and
thread Sloth thas ell bulk iwlL (Moo, both.) The ray.
g=m wits prowls& Idea bad spasm ef the presort on-
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