The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-22 00:00:00

PROTESTANT 'TEA PARTY.

A grand Protestant tea party was held last night in the
Concert'Hall, Lord Nelson-street. The hall was decorated
with flags for the occasion, and the attendance was most
numerous. The chair was occupied by the Rev. George
Reed ; and among the gentlemen on the platform were
Revs. V. M. White, - Sutton, J. Bardsley, Samp-
son ; Dr. Thorburn ; Messrs. G: Byford, Brownbill, J.
Williams, Haigh, &c.
Letters of apology were read from the Rev. Di. Hume
and other gentlemen, who were prevented from attending
by-indisposition, or prior engagements. -
After prayer had been offered up,

The Chairman briefly addressed the
gratulated them that, (

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night, they had assembled in such nt

_A he felt
assured that the speeches which would be delivered would
be equal to the occasion, and truly Protestant in their
character.. (Hear, hear.)
The Rei. V. M. 'White then came forward. After a few
introductory observations, he referred to the recent
Bible-burning case in Ireland. Protestants, he said, did
not burn Bibles. He had seen, however, a notice of a
pamphlet speaking of the proceedings of Protestants in the
recent remarkable Bible-burning case, as if an extraordi-
nary triumph had been effected there by the Church of
Rome, and a most disastrous defeat effected on the cause
of Protestantism. He should like to know what Protest-
antism had to do with the ease. They were not Protest-
ants who then burned the Bible ? (Hear, hear.) He was
not a Protestant from whose house the Bible was brought,
nor was it a Protestant churchyard in which it was
burned; for that the Bible was burned no man living
could deny. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) It was not a Pro-
testant attorney-general, nor a Protestant solicitor that
prosecuted. No ! the government that prosecuted had not
merely a Roman Catholic attorney-general, but they had
a Roman Catholic solicitor•general, and a Roman Catholic
law-adviser—they were all members of the Church of
Rome together, and a pretty mess they made of the whole
• eoncern. (Hear, hear.) The Bible was burned. (Hear,
hear.) It was only necessary to read the judges' charge
to know it ; and, if any little technicality prevented the
law-officers f om fixing the crime beyond any doubt, on a
particular party, they might ride off in triumph,
—but that the Bible was burned in a Roman Catholic
burial-place—that it was brought from the house of
their priest, and that he was connected with, if not legally
in some form, he did not believe that there was a Roman
Catholic in Ireland doubted. (Cheers.) But if that case
did not establish bible burning, he could. He had docu-
ments which would prove, that a Roman Catholic Priest,
in the west of Ireland, did at one time burn four testa-
ments. Aryouth of fourteen years of age was present, add
when he took one of them out of the fire, the priest took
it from his hand and threw it ba3k again. The case was
brought before the magistrate, and the informations of the
lad taken, but when the case came on for trial, the boy so
contradicted himself, that a bench of four magistrates
unanimously committed him for perjury, declaring that
they did not believe one word which he spoke on the
second, and that they believed every word he had spoken
on the first occasion. (Cheers.) He loved Protestantism,
because it glorified and honoured God—because it was
the friend of civil and religious liberty. But in propor-
tion a 3 they found Popery existing, they found the iron-
heel of despotism crushing. to the earth the rights,
prerogatives, and liberties, civil and religious, of men.
Popery could not prevent men from thinking, but so far
as it could, it prevented men from acting. (Hear, hear,
and cheers.) In conclusion, the Rev. Gentleman
announced that he had taken the Hall in order that those
persons who may be excluded this day from St. George's
Hall, may be addressed at the other, and the same gentle-
men who are to take part in the meeting, for the preser-
vation of the Sabbath.

.stration.

A collection was then made to defray the expenses of
the meeting, and to liquidate certain expenses incurred
at St. Paul's Church, owing to the refusal of the parish-
oners to lay a Church rate.

The Chairman, in stating the object of the collection,
observed that Protestants must have been asleep at the
last vestry, else the result which then took place would
not have occurred.

The Rev. J. Bardsley then addressed the meeting, and
in an argumentative speech contended that the unity and
oneness claimed for itself by the Church of Rome, was
not an unitrof feeling and faith, but merely consisted in
saying the same creed. It was the unity of faith, he said,
of, which the poor man spoke, when he was brought to
the gallows, after condemnation. He was a Romanist,
and when he came to make his confession before death,
fearing that if he did not believe enough he would be
damned, he said, "I believe all that the Church of Rome
has taught, all that she does teach, and all that she even
hereafter shall teach." (Laughter.) The Rev. gentleman
then addressed himself to the doctrine of the " Immacu-
late Conception," and showed the unity in faith of
Catholics by declaring, from personal experience, that no
two Catholics could be found agreeing on this point. He
gave an instance which came under his own observation.
He was conversing with a Romanist, and when he taxed
him with a new doctrine in the " Immaculate Conception"
being introduced into his church, he denied that it was a
doctrine obligatory on him under pain of heresy to believe.
and alleged that Catholics were allow to believe or reject
it as they pleased. While they were arguing on the point,
another Catholic came in, and when the question was
stated to him, he at once declared that it was heresy not
to believe it. (Laughter.) That was a specimen of the
unity of faith among Catholics, and of the contradictions
in which they involved themselves when pressed in fair
argument. The rev. gentleman then applied himself to
the infallibility of the Popes, and, in reviewing their
history, narrated several instances where that infal-
libility had proved most fallible. In conclusion he briefly
touched on the difficulties in which the chairman, as
incumbent! of St. Paul's church, had been involved,
by the withdrawal of the Church-rate, and trusted that
the Protestants of Liverpool would not permit him to be
left to himself in a district which abounded with vice and
poverty, but that they would come forward to his aid
with a generous sympathy and cordial co-operation.
(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
The Rev. Mr. Sutton then addressed the meeting. Ho
com.renced by declaring that Protestantism was an active
principle. Protestantism was not satisfied with signing
Petitions merely, with declaring what was error, but
Protestantism was a practical and constant exhibition of
that which was right, not only by word of the lip but by
the action of the life. Protestantism was practically after
all only another name for Christianity, and Christianity
was a diffusive principle and must be. Christianity could
not exist in a system or an individual without its being a
diffusive principle, and so with Protestantism. It was
not satisfied with the personal reception of truth, but it
took its stand among men in the advocacy of truth.
(Cheers.) The speaker then proceeded to consider the
hopeful signs which the present times presented in con-
nection with Protestantism. He declared that never
before were the forms of vice so malignant and dreadful
as at present, but while that was the fact, one to be
deplored by all men, there were yet great and powerful
antidotes at hand, and if this spread of vice called on
Protestants to be up and doing, they had yet the assurance
that:it needed but zeal and exertion on their part to suc-
cessfully combat the great evil. Education and missionary
labour were the chief antidotes to be relied on, and he
congratulated the meeting on the great increase that had
taken place within the last century in those means of social
and religious refprmation. He then passed on to the
Sabbath question, and declared that the Sunday news-
papers were the chief incentive to the desecration of the
Lord's day. No one had a higher opinion of the English
Press, taking it all for all, than he had. It advocated all
that enlightened the mind, purified the heart, that saved
the country from anarchy and confusion, and it led men
to religion and to God. Bat for the Sunday papers,
nothing brought more disorder, discomfort, and rain, into
a family than they" did, and he besought every working
man, as he valued his happiness, as he respected his con-
science, as he feared his God, to take in his paper, but
never to allow his wife or children, or anybody in his
household, to touch it on God's holy day. (Hear, hear,
and cheers.) The sale of intoxicating drinks on the
Sabbath conduced to the same deplorable end, and he
urged that those evils could be rectified by a right and
wise use of the elective franchise in sending religious men
into the House of Commons. The reverend gentleman
resumed his seat amid general applause, and rounds of
the Kentish fire.

Several hymns and anthems were sung by the choir
during the evening, and the proceedings closed with the
blessing.

The funeral service of Mickiewicz, the Polish poet, was
to be celebrated at the church of the Madeleine on
Monday morning, at half-past ten, and the remains of
the deceased were afterwards to be conveyed to Montmo-
rency, to be interred by the side of his friends General
Kniaziewicz and the poet Niemcewicz.

CRICKET ON THE la.— A novel and somewhat exciting
game of cricket on the ice, came off on the field known as
Aston's Eyte, Long Meadows, Oxford. The match,
which was very evenly contested, was witnessed
hundreds of spectators, who took great by some
interest in the
strange proceedings. The falls were not so numerous as
was anticipated, which may be attributed to the fact that
every player was expert in the art of skating.
Dense fogs prevail in the British Channel. The Alma
would have reached Southampton on Thursday if the
weather had been clear, and would have made the pas-
sage home from Malta, including a stoppage at Gibraltar,
in eight days—an unprecedented voyage. Just before
the Alma arrived home, one of the seamen fell from the
top-gallant mast on the deck--a height of 150 feet. Sin-
gular to say, he broke no bones, and he is doing well. He
must have caught hold of something while falling, which
broke his fall, for his hands are cut dreadfully.
PHOTOGRAPHY AND CRIME.—The town council of Sun-
derland have sanctioned the erection of a photographic
apparatus, by means of which parties who are suspected
of being " wanted elsewhere, can have their portraits
sent off to the police officers of large towns, by which the
labours of the detectives throughout the country will be
much assisted. On Friday the portraits of a gang of
seven were handed about the police court when the
worthies were at the bar, and the unmistakeable identity
of the parties was remarkably demonstrated.—Sunderland
Times.
Tne Toronto Colonist records a distressing accident 'in
the theatre of that town. During the performance of a
piece called the " Enchanted Isle," the youngest daughter
of Mr. G. Cook, musical director and leader of the
orchestra, was attired in a fairy costume, and having
approached too near the stove which is placed behind
the scenes, the light fabric forming the skirt of her dress
caught fire, and instantly enveloped her in flames. She
was conveyed to the ladies' dressing-room, and in great
suffering lingered till morning. The doomed Was.. 4
comely little gill, ilA6i (14itic A favorite!,

TRA.DE REPORT

,-MONDAY,

COTTON : The Cotton market continues without change,
with a fair demand, and a moderate supply, prices are very
firm. The sales, including 50 Pernambuco, 6d to 6al ;
70 Bahia, bid 80 Maranham, 511 to 6kd ; 600 Egyptian,
54d to 8d ; 2,600 Surat, 31d to 41d—are reported 10,000
bales, of which 2,000 are on speculation and
PIG IRON : Our market for warrar'
buyers, cash ; 77s 6d sellers. No busin(
- —4 for 71 p

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Cabin, in two berth state-rooms, Twenty-one Guineas each berth ;
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