The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1850.

PAPAL AGGRESSION.

TM soadset of the Pep sad lit entimaries is this setter
had hem straightforward, far with this we Wen matutain-
leg a fair geW,sp fight,—we could expect no lamer from
them. It was sot the Pops who had done ts this
mischief; sad ems Popery, that monster evil of Me world—
that mislay lie would have been to Ise harmless and pawst,
len if cenfined to Home, or even to these amongst ourselves
who held that nahappy faith ; but it was Popery
preached and practked in Protestant pulpits by those
who woes the garb and oven ate the very bread of oar
shuck. (Loud thews.) Thee* wen the real enemies to
oar protestant faith end to the principle, of eur religious Irn-
Sonsatlat. He rejoiced to see the champions of oar faith
at length standing up to defend that which we bald dearer
that life. (Hear, hear ) And he advised them not only to'
defend that hi*, but in doing so to Mend entirely aloof from
some who had lately been load la thole donut Natio& of popery.
He did set like the preludes of the Tractarians. (Maar.)
The made of moths the mum enemy was of itself
popish, unsound, and disloyal. ([macaw cheering.) Toy
were the first to deny Me wapreensey of the Queue.
Than had they been the first to denounce the idolatry and
prastiers of Rome, or to protest and fight the bottle of
the Raformatice ? No, they dared not, for in
dolts, so they would be protesting and fighting against
their own primipies and practices. No, they protested, as
Archbishop Land, would have protested. Hs would not
acknowledge the supremacy of the Pope—no, he would see
him at the bottom of the BA Sea first, and why ? &MUM
he wanted to be a Pope himself. (Immense cheerios.) Bat
they were there today to tell the Pope, whether it his.
or abroad, whether at St. Peter's or St. Bernabes, that we
will sot have popery in protestant England—that yowl:loot
touch the uncles& thing, that England will not be 'abject
to that apostate church, and that we will, OM being our
helper, rid ourselves of that foul pestilence which the Pope
has sent to our shores. (Hear, hear.) He did sot believe
in the new-born seal of the Tractarians in resisting this es
ormolus ; he believed that seal was shown to meek their own
Popish designs. (Hear, hear.) Bat the laity of Reiland,
with a good sound phalanx of clergymen at their back, would
not be gagged, but would resist Popery wheresoever
aid by whuneoner it was put forward. They bad at-
tempted to gag him. (" Hear,' and a laugh.) They
talk, d loudly of the sin of "aelleie," but only to put a stop
to the impression of protestant feeling and protestant prin.
rip's& (Cheers, and mist of " Oalord, Osfora.")
hir.OIIALLY. Q.O , secondd the resolution. He con-
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PROTEST FROM ARCHBISHOPS AND

BISHOPS.

To the Queen's Most Lizoelleot Majesty. The humble
tiddrses of the Arei:bishope and Bishops of the

Church of Ragland.

May it please your Majesty,
We, the archbishops and undersicoed bishops of
the church of Ragland approach your hiejfety. with
sentiment' of veneration and loyalty at a time ;7111011
an unwarrantable insult has been offered to the church
and to your Majesty, to whom appertains the chief
government of all estates of this realm, whether they
be ecclesiastical or civil. This, our country, whose
church being a true branch of Christ's holy catholic
church, in which the pure word of God is preached
had the ererameats are duly administered according
to Christ's ordinances, is treated by the Bishop of
Rome in beefs, been a heathen land, and is con-
gratulated on its restoration alter an interval of three
hundred years to a place among the churches of
Christendom. The return of our people is antici-
pated to a communion, the errors and corruptions of
which they deliberately renounced, and' whkh con-
tinues to maintain practices repugnant to God's
word ; inculcates blasphemous fables and dangerous
di cut,, and prescribes, as secosseary to salvation, the
belief of doctrines grounded on no warranty of scrip-
tore.
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It is put of the same arrogant assumption that in
defiance of the law which declares that "no foreign
prelate or potentate shall use and exercise any manner
of power, authority, or jurisdiction—spiritual or eeele-
siaatical—within this realm, the Bishop of Rome
has 'ended to exercise spiritual dominion over the
of this country; and in nominating ordain
• h ecclesiastics to particular planes or gees in
England has re-smarted his claim of supremacy over
the kingdom, and has interfered with a prerogative
constitutionally belonging to your Majesty alone.
We consider it our duty to record our united protest
against this attempt to subject our people to a spiri-
tual tyranny from which they were freed at the Re-
formation. And we make oar humble petition to
your Majesty to discontinues by all ciinstitutional
means the chums and usurpation. of the church of
Rome, by which religions divisions are fostered and
the labours of our clergy impeded in their endeavours
to diffuse the light of true religion amongst the people
committed to their charge.
J. B. Ceatuer. G. Peterborough.
T. Bbor. E. Worcester.
C. J. Imam. J. Lichfield.
E. Duaelni. A. T. Chichester.
C.R. Winton. T. Elsy.
B. Bath & Wells. B. Oxon.
C. Lincoln. J. Yowler St.
J. Bangor. Assp_h.
0. Rochester. J. P. Miutritester.
II Carlisle. R. D. Hereford.
J. 11. Gloucester J Chaster.
and Bristol. S. Norwich.
C. J. Boron. A. Llasdatl.
E. Salisbury. J.t3odoe arid Man.

teeded that the Queen was spiritually, as well at suer-
rarity, the head of the slush, as rept, sends' the great body
of the people who, in reality, lensed the church of this coun-
try—(ser, leu)--sad that any attempt toil derive her of
that supremacy had no other object than to add to the
power of the priesthood. (Load sheers.)
The resolution was then pat and carried maid mach
sheering.
Mr. CHILDERS, M.P., moved the next resolution,

eharglng ths areesive Isovissat• of Emote the twee
lugs of the Treetarian party la our own ohnrek. e had
always been a Mad of toltration, but it was smother %hiss
coattail' to agyresplon sad attack from those we tolerated.
(Hear, hear.)
The Burl of CHICHESTER stionaled the moieties, sad
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strongly esalesseit i pnatlees sad oodust of the
tartan party. He \di dist the laity had a right to demand
of the nders of the shwa whether the puttees and con.
don he complsined of were or were not consonant
with the doctrines and noon, of our church ;

and, if they wen—which, seeing the way in whin;
they had been tolerated and sneounged by eons
of our prelates it night be supposed they were, it Valid be
their duty toile.. their best exertion to obtain an alteration
of those doctrines and atone, so so to bring our church beck
to the einplicity of that gospel on *hien it was rounded.
(Cheer.) He was the advocate of toleration, even to that
broad bails on which our torenihen intended to found the

;bur& of England, but beelines he was tolerant, and be-
lieved toleration to be essential to the cause c f truth, the

MEETING OF LAYMEN.

THIS DAY.

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more iellOtte WY be of the power of popery. For he knew 1
that if that power ever obtained anything like :mesa- i
&say in this country, then all toleration woo at an end. ,
(Load cheering.) It was their duty not merely 1
to protest against error, but to meet it by the plain declare-
tios
of the truth. Nothing wee to be got by violent or forci-
ble
measures. They knew bow that bad failed by what had ,
taken plus amongst the Roman catholic:. They knew well
from the bible that that was not the way in which Ood de-
sired the truth to be propagated, bat would they pray for
patience with which to deal with thou whom they believed
to be error, and with those amongst ourselves whams opinions
and practices are fortunately so closely bordered upon error.
Lord CHARLES RUSSELL also :poke to this moie-
ties, and observed that this was a time when those who, like
himself, studiously avoided everything like public eontentios,
to come forward and openly and boldly decline their senti-
ments. He agreed with the words in the last resolution, as
refuting to the late aggressive step of Rome, the weeds " in-
10test and insidious," end those words reminded him not
only of the urns in which they were coated, but of the put
and present character of Rome. Rome had always been in-
solent and always insidieus—insolent in her day of power, and
insidious in her day of depression. But it came to those by
whose conduct tbis aggregates had been invited—and he would
ark if a distinguished prelate of our church saw ea nub danger
to our church from the preaching of. Father Ignatius, who
recommended Herndon scullery-maids to go into protestant
families for the purpose of converting them, whether he did
not see mere danger in the insidious teaching of a Tia7tarian
archdeacon. (Loud cheering, god cries of "Orford.") He
would tell our rulers, spiritual as well as temporal,
that the protestant laity of England were prepared to main-
tain the istegrlty of our church at all hazards end against
all comers. (Mash sheering )
The resolution was then pat and carried.
Mr. BAXTER moved the next resolutios:
.. That, while this meeting feels deeply conscious that the
true sod effectual remedy for the dangers which beset our
Protestant church belongs to no human power, but only to
the supreme head of the church, whose Almighty aid is to
be sought by humble, persevering prayer, it is thankful
that, by the British constitution and the existing laws,
there is vested in her Majesty, as the earthly head
of our church, a wholesome power of interpo-
sition ;—which power we entreat her Majesty now to exer-
cise. Toe records of the ridged of her Mejesty's illustrious
' predecessors, both before and since the glorious revoliatiee,
furnish many examples of the manner is which the Isis-
chiefs Lind abuses wnialt at various times have sprung up in
i the church, have been dealt with, by the exercise of the
royal authority ; and it appear' to this meeting, that on no
i former occasion has • more urgent need alined, for such an

A large assemblage of the lay members of the
eltarelt of England met to .day at the Freemasons'-hall,
garment to a summon, in the shape of a public' advertlog
meat, calling a general meeting, for the purpose of pros
tenting against the late insolent and Insidious attempt of the
Bishop of Rom*, and alto of invoking her Majesty's aid to

suppress the various Ruttish innovations recently introduced,
in some quutere, Into the services of the church of En.land."
The chair wu taken at • few minutes after one o'clock by
the Right Ron. Lord ASZLIT ; end amongst the gluttonies%
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on the platform were cbserved Lord Overstone, Evl Waldo-
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grave, air H. Willoughby, M.P. ; Pluzaptre, M.P.,
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aid several clergymen.
The Hall was crowded to anew, and very many found it
impoesible to obtain admission. The gallery waa filled with

The Rev. lir. AURIOL having offered up a prayer,
The CHAIRMAN, who was warmly welcomed on enter-
ing the room, opened she business of the meeting by ad-
dressing this. present as—Protatant brethren of the church
of Ecgland,—lt grieved him to Geo this distinctive epithet,
but the exigencies of the times compelled him. (Cheers.)
While the lay members were as much churchmen as the
clergy themselves, no one could impute to them unworthy
motives. (Hsu, hear.) This would be reason enough
for their assembling in such numbers at such a time, even
if du manifesto from the Vatican bad never appeared.

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(Neer.) The Bishop of Melipotomus, for such only was his
title—(chun)—had said, that that manifesto referred only
to parochial matters, but it was for them to show that they
were determined to maintain Mu Protostar.t church intact.
This flattop of Rome, who was supported on his throne by
foreign bayonets, bad presumed to portion out this realm
into bishopric' and districts, and to intake., with the
rights of our protestant 8 igo. (Chute.) They, the
lay members of the church, protested spins: this violation
of our rights and liberties, end wen determined to resist it
(Cheers.) But it might be said the whole question was only

in • " name," and that " • rem by any other name would
smell as sweet" ; he answered, that there was much in •
name, especially with the great body of the people. But if the
matter was of suet small importune* as Cardinal Wiseman.
and his coadjutors asserted, why was it that they were so
strenuous in the desire to uphold that name. If they, the
members of the church, acquiesced in the title assumedly
Cardinal Wiseman (the title of Archbishop of Westminster),
they would be acquiescing in the sovereignty of the Pop*,
and be preparing the way to the reaubjegatlon of this
emmtly to the Roman See. The church of Rome
reigned no limitation, and never would ; therefore he raid the
Ramiall hierarchy was not compatible with ours ; that, net
oontent with equality, they would demand supremacy, and,
therefore, it was that they, the protestant& of England, mum
not yield to them eves one hair's breadth. (Hear.) The
manifesto told them that a hierarchy was necessary to the
existence of the Romish system, that, without a hicrarelty,
they could have no canon law—no sysiodscal action. But
did they suppose that we were not aware that their more
law sou • law of persecution, and that it set up the Pope es
God; and, with rigged to synodical action, we had nut it
even in our own -Chard. They did not stand there if
reimpose dieshilitis a Roman Catholics, or to deny
them civil and religions liberty • bat they steed
there to say that their own should not be trampled
apes. They waged no wet against their own Rums
Catholic fellow subjects, but they did wage interminable war
against the Pope sad his Cardinals. But let there turn their
eyes from these outside mischiefs to the evils that were widens
the Chunk (bursts of applause). Let them tarn their eyes
from Popery in flower to I', pert' fa bud, from the c pea enemy
to the concealed traitor, from the menace hurled against the
Chub to the doctrines preached in the pulpit, from the
foreign assailant to the foe in our household. (Cheers.)
What had brought about this aggression on the part
or a power so wily as the Church of Rome ?
Some might gay eras time& some another. He maintained
most emphatically that all others were secondary cause' as
compared with the great and master temptation, the ten
diary of many of our clergy unite faith and practice of Rome,
the pervereioms to that creed, and the adoption of practices
in many of our churches suited only to • Popish meridian.
they knew this well—(" Too vein—when as amongst
Idiom practices he mentioned the adoption of auricular eon
gtnieo and other doctrines as well es ceremonies of Rome,
who could wonder that the "Popes eye should have been de-
ceived and that he should think the time was come when
England ,was sip* for convention to his creed. They
protested against these " histrioalm" fitted only
tor a theatre. (Cheers.) How were they to Wrest
themselves to the evil ? Many of our prelates admitted it
prevailed to a frightful extent, while other, admitted that
they could not deal with it. It wee then time far the laity to
peeks% against these enormities in their length and breadth,
said le so other way than the present was a united ex-
premien of that laity to be obtained. That laity loved
W thumb, the simplicity of its faith, and its gospel
&erecter, and would do all they could to maintain its
efficiency. Bat the church must maintain its seripturel
character, if not, they must, as their forefathers had done,
sort from it all that belonged to Rome. (Cheers.) if the
neeestity arose, be would rather worship with Lydia on the
banks of the river, than with 100 aurpliced priests
in the temple of St. Bunnbas. (Much cheering ) The
course they proposed to pursue was to address the
Queen to investigate' tke evil, end do by way of remedy,
all that the law allowed her to do. This wee simple and
safe, and enabled them to combine in common effort an
who attired an effective reform. They would approach
her Majesty, and say to her, that by God's'lrece they would
not abate one jot or title of all our forefathers won for neat the
alorions reformation. (Cheers.) They would say they
blessed His holy name for all those holy martin who had
gives uptheir lives to his faith and fear. We will (said the
noble lord) accept the troth they bare transmitted se vs;
we will look to Christ for aid and not to the Virgin—Om&
cheering)--and as will say with the immortal Labor,
who, when at the stake, addressed his brother inselps
" Bs of pod cheer, Raster Ridley, we hare MI
day lighted such a cantle in Ragland
roal4Oink
blessing, shell never be:pat out." AThree doss
and one cheer more greeted the noble lord at the Minelvelest
of this address.)
Copts& Bir R. PARRY moved the first resolution, de'
• the isdeomisa et the meeting eh the recut act
of Os dlleeen. la somisales ibis scantly tato
Me spit, Idelwie madams, sad
lbsdrereasise a peas led MI sided ea tbe
WS m Bose la thle may sort he M*Owl ales"

usterposision."
He passed in review the course of the Hanish church
from] the moment toleration war granted—passias; from
Lleration te the cl.im of privileges—trout claiming privileges
the conferring of endowments and tithes. But the lasi
act of the Pope, though to be expected from the previous
eons of that power, had come at a most extraordinary
time. But this bell awned a power which the
P.ipe hart tot even in papal countriss—oot even
in Austria. What then must we think of this attempt
to noose to whet the Pope calls " the prosperous realm of
England," and oy we restore it to tl.is bosom of the catholic
church from which it hat ben repented for 300 years, and
,11.• to it as its spiritual navernor and archbishop one be-
loved Cardinal Wiseman. (loud cheers aad lauebiar.) Was
it to be wondered at that this protestant country should
ries as one man to oppose as attempt so in-
solent Bat war aid by the catholies that unless
we allowed the Roman eatholice to hen bishops
they could has no church, and we wore denying the toilers.
tioo. But thin chart& bad existed 300 years without any
such claim being mid*. (Hear, hear.) But we had not
denied them bishops. They had always had bishops for their
congregations, but they had not bishoys in power over Bog-
land ; and that was what they now claimed. it was net the
object of the prottstaats in this movement to interfere with
any man's religion, or to substitute religious persecution
for religious toleration, but what they did ntine.
wee to asset ithe supremacy of the Queen and
to uphold her prerogatives. His denied, u had been assorted
by a groat public man, that by this movement they
OM exciting the people to religiou bigotry. Not at
ell. Bat what they were doing was to assert that the
Pope, in parcelling out this country into bishoprics
and archNshoprio, was breaking the law of this
country, and interfering with the Queen's ire.
Cardinal Wiseman now said, is his appeal as e railed it,
to the commonsense of the people, why quarrel with my
*Woof " Archbishop of Westminster, it soafen no title ;"
' but was that the language of his first manifesto ? Na at all—
' then he drew himself as the cardinal archbishop, and declared
ti We govern England." He looked at the political partof the
question, and said, let the laws of the country be upheld and
°toyed ; but looking at the sewed part of the 'abject, he
saw in the church herself, among her own eons, popery was
in these latter days stealing in upon the church. (Hear.)
He advised them not to depend on agitation, but., looking
opts prayer, le: them point oat to their erring neighbours
how they were leaving the way of lite, and following that
which led to destruction. Let them address bar Majesty to
' abolish those forms which were now " set up as stumbling
blocks in the way," and to maintain the law. of the country.
Mr. Loess, secretary of the Ragged School Union, MY
ended the resolution, which was spoken to by Mr.
PLIMPTII, M.P., who trued much of the existing evil to
emaacipatioo.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Oa the motion of Mr. J. C WOOD. an address to
her Majesty was agreed to, in accordance with the previous
resolutions, and detailing the peculiaria of the Tree-
tarian mode of worship—es distinct from the ordi-
nary term of the protestant church—and ustmilating
to the Hondas ceremonial, condemned them in the
strongest terms, and prayed her Majesty to interfere to pat a
atm. to such practices.
A vote of thanks to the noble chairmen aloud the pro-
ceedings.

IMPORTANT MUTING or TIM COLL. TRADE, Nzw-
cAntl-olg-TYII.-0a Tuesday a most iallueatiel meeting
of the merchants and coalownen of Neweeetle-calyne, and
sarrounding districts, was held at the Guildhall in that town,
to consider the gtest inequality between the duty upon Bel-
gian and upon Bog Halt coals as levied by the French
goverment. The Mayor of Newcastle, W. Armstrong,
Esq., was in the chair, and animist the gentlemen present
we observed, Matthew Bell, Eq., M.P., Wm. Hon, Beq.,
M.P., the Hon. H. T. Liddell, Hub Taylor, Beq., Oarsman
of the coal trede,_and agent for the Doke of Northumberland,
N. Meabwrith, Keg , meat for the Magni' of Loadondury's
oollieries, IL Morton. But., agent for the Bari of Durham's
collieries, Alderman Lamb, Alderman CUT, Pileholas Weod,
Req., ite. Resolutions were adopted to the effect " That
the commercial and shipping interests of this district am
dleadvantageously affected by tke present rates of duty on
coals imported into France, and the mode In which those
duties are isvMd, whereby the interecruse between the two
ematries is Molted, and the natural expasslos of trade ob-
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