The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-07 00:00:00

ram SAIL OP RII4PPIOrItURY ON "ESSAYS
AND Arrarris."

The jubilee of the Wert Bromwich Auxiliary of
the British sad Forgive Bible Society was celebrated on
Tuesday by a public meeting. The Earl of BAUM/BUST
presided.

The ruble CH A IRM AN. who was received with loud ap-
plause, said he would soy to his good (needs, the men sod
emus al West Brunswick, that it gave him peat and sin-
ree phone* to be again &mowt them, after au lour an in•
tared of slowese, and the more so because when be came
bare be hand lied great pogrom bad been made io adyssociog
the istersela of the miry they all so truly loved, that they
had yr their Marta to the work, and that the results had
hew era to the effort, sod that they bad every reason to
Umiak tied and to take mime. He wished be could say
there hod tem mottling new since he saw them last One
thing bad ceemed to which he would make allusion. As
excoller end admirable moo. who case DR that platform
whes be wee there four years ago, had pee to his net. He
spoke of the Rev. Jobs Angell James—(applause)—a man
whose sympathies allowed no sanitarian spirit to control
the Christian love in his heart, sod who had detennised,
with the grace of God, to allow full play to his largo, liberal,
sad generous feelisp. But runiethiog else had ocearred.
Sim be stood on that platform four years ago am bad
been an erroneous, singular, and chimerical production,
in the form of • volume called " Brays sad Reviews."
(Applause.) Thor " Essays and Reviews" had be..
drawn op and publiehed by learned profemors, by mm
holding high station in the I:Diversities—moo who re-
ceived, be did not Imitate to say, the breed of the
church for the purpose of preaching very different doc-
trine., and lay iew down very different principles, from thaw
to be found in thsi bad book. (Applause.) The " EassYs
and Reviews" were directed point blank against, the book
• that they loved, which they had deternsised to spread
threnglriut the whole world, aid which, try God's bleeping,
they weedel so weed, despite all such opposition. The
Dusk weer formed as to attract atteation, soil then to go
seam • In balloon, and. thank God, to explode into utter
nothing. (Applause.) They might ask him why, at such
I a meeting m that, he touched upon this subject, To this
he would answer that it wee the main matter—the thing
itself —the main subject they bad before them ; fur if
there was a particle of truth is the " Emays and Reviews.,"
then the Bible Society was the greatest imposture and
piece of charlatanism that had ever existed in this world.
• Bible .Society said that thin was the pure, simple,
aduoadultentted Word of God—that it was the [mi-
rage of iuspiratioo, and that it had been dictated by God
himself. These were their principles, rod if they were
true. then those put forward by the &mints end Reviewer'
were f •Ise, irretnevably false, in anything they hail said or
had done, or could lo until the end of time. (Applause.)
He loved totonoh upon these things when he came amongst
thole friends whom he loved from the bottom of hie heart—
the working men of England. He bed loved and respected
them long, and be hoped that they loved and respected him.
He liked to talk on thee. subjects, as he wished to drive the
truth borne to the mem of people, to met them against the
doctrines taught in the " Emmy. and Reviews;" to show
them that the heart was far better than the bead ID all thorn
spiritual matters that related to eternal love ; awl to prove
to them that in the simplicity of love they would attain a
far deeper and truer insight into the thaws of the Most
High than by the mist elaborate study of geology and
metaphysic.. It might he asked, " What can they knew
of these things whose talk is of bullocks:" and he could
say that they would know much more by experience than
those could possibly know who only knew from study mid
burning the midnight lamp. Navy of the working men of
England in the agricultural and niechanical districts had
very little time to devote to the study of history and
science, but they might have- and many of them bast—
heard of the triumphs that boil been achieved by the
Bible at all times, how it bad changed barbarism into
civilisation, made the savage become mild and gentle,
and raised weenie from the condition of servitude to
that of equality with man ; how it bed raised us from
the appalling subjection in which we were bound heart
and mind to the Papacy ; how it had introduced the great
Reformation, and given us freedom of body, of thought.
nail a expreasese, and how it bad given us power to walk
r Christie.. and free men. When the working man had
men, by the simple operation of God's truth upon the
heart, a bad and drunken husband become a model of
conjugal fidelity and kiroows— when be bad seen a re-
' mint. son and slaughter brought to support aid love
their father and mother—and when he had aro a bad
father and mother caused by its working to become kind
and good permits—when ho • hail seen them rote champs
wrought by its effects, would he hesitate to receive it se
being sent down from heaven and inspired by God, because
sonic learned professor sitting in his chair said be had some
doubt se to whether the world was treated in six slays or
in six generations, or that because ichthyosauri had been
toned in chalk the she. could not have been created on
the sixth day? Thor great practical experiences, these
great triorupfla the Scriptures tool effected; and when science
should have produced upon the !Muds of a millionth part of
the Mimeo race • millionth part of the good that was
dune by the Bible every hour in England alone, thou and
thee only could science come into creemetitiou even with
the very fringea of the masted Word of God.

PIUIDING INSOLVIIPICT &Motifs. —W. (ofizelk of
Baskresptry) bare been f &Veered hy Mr. Chief Commissioner
law with the following communioitioo :—lu No. 1 of the
Git:die it is said that a point nose of much importance in
auntry owes. and that the Chief Commissioner gave his
opinion on the subject; but the article sods without stating
what that opiniou was. Mr. Law repressed this opt:Ova—that
a country petition bled here ought at ono to be deemed bu-
sbies. pending in the county court also, because the law
has doomed it to be bind in the county court from whyee
gaol it come ; and that. though the sclierlnle may not yet
have been filed and sect down with the order of reference,
no the 11th October. the matter is entitled tub called pend-
ing in that court which :Alone can have to hear it. No man
will say that the legislature intended that ace whose petition
was recorded, and whom i•tereet in property pained to •
trustee for credit:manor before 11th October,shotald
is prison unheard horatnie his *awhile sad orderof retinues
were not lodged is the county court till after that day.
It is further mid eamerniog the beenep sad deceives by
comity swots :—• The Judges were Urea empowered to
discharge or reensed the prisoner, and I. do all things re-
quisite with regard te his schedule, tan realeatioe of his
property, and lie aggelatensat of dividends. is the same
manner we the esemieimiseers of Leedom" This is very er-
roneous : the ermint4 swots cannot reties property, nor
make dividends. They Iwo no Aker for the purpose
they cased appolet Ibe areigase, who is as officer of this
court. tbe seasty eau* la regard at a prime tooolveocy,
is a court of bowies under the refersees from the court :
as moo ILA that ditty is performed, the judge must mend back
the record to Yortugaletreet.