The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-04 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

11.1011TETARY

AND, COMMERCIAL,

•
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EITNING.
f, )3. Y the Royal Mail steam ship, Thames, which
rep or
eu at Southampton on Sunday, and which was
Irix!rted in' the Northern Daily Times, of yesterday,
e have received our private and general intelli-
gene
of froni the West Indies, and the western coast
South America. Our dates.from Valparaiso are.
too , thei August -15. Ituaco 16, :Coquimbo 1 0-,*
2,lllLtera
T, 17, Cobija 19,'Inquique 19, Avica 20, Islay
Tt.,lTl,_'n• 25, Callao 26, Paytu 29, Suayaquil. 31.
i "-names brings another addition •to our vast
mportation of golbd, amounting to 2,700,000 dots,,
all about X 540,000. It is believed that this is not
a the bullion brought by this vessel, as - she had
several packages on freight, which were supposed
t" contain specie. Of the amount actually. 4seer,
ai
—,,,,".1
- X 2,409,639, is from the •.Gttlfof Mexico; of
which
13 81,000 dols. is for aedottnt Of the Mekican
ond-hoid ' •

;vest Indian advices do not Contain any-
St. f eenimercial or political interest. From
Port inceqs we have an official account of the ex-
pre 8 ef that Island, up to the 20th August, in the
jildsie'lt Year, which will be found in our West
a news of this day.
ITuredates from the Gulf and West India Island
are,
ton, cztr,.r4, Cruz, Sept: 4, Havamth, Sept: 9, Kirigg•
10, a,""i2, 16, Trinidad, Sept. 10, St. Vincent, Sept.
'3t. Thomas, Sept. 15.
have ','arge arrivals of gold noticed in this journal
vrellueed its benificial effect on the London
ThereY-Diarket. Consols opened at 024 to 03*,
day b„,were a' variety of quotations during the
fide "‘ every thing, denotes a speedy return of con-
k cre. India stock was done at 246; India bonds
The is., and Exchequer Bills at 8s- and 13s. dis.
Steel.f()reigri house was most inactive. Mexican
tlin.,--awas principally dealt in at 24/ 25 for the set-
liet'a.7 On the 14th ; Grenada deferred, at 84 8a;
for:uvian at 72+ for 31 per Cent Bonds, and 50+
'the 3 per Cent.
in 11 the Railway Market, there was a tendency to
G7revement. Eastern counties rallied to 121.
leaat Northern- were 10s" to I highci. North
Sn°l.4l Westerns ranged between' 1041 and 1031
lin-tuth Westerns tonched 74, but the advance was
fr— Maintained. Midlands were actively dealt in
5h°1131,2,9i to 6+ Norfolks were firmer at 48+.
till,-"seury and Birmingham, which were at one
ini-e to day 644 are now fully 21 higher. Berwicks
attired ss. to South Eastern were dealt in
t0.,111- div. French Shares were rather weaker
I\,„-a3% Paris and Lyons are last quoted 25a;
-j„"lern of France.
Q. 4641 Mining Shares were more in demand—
eatN'lloget at 2ft ; Nouveau Monde, 4 to 1- pre-
iili Phillips, to dis ; Agua Fria I pre:
hig„"3) Oriental Bank shares •were ten shillngs
Rai, English and Scottish Australian were sold
pIT dis. Union of Australia were ss. higher.
al '"tian Agricultural Company 35. Crystal-
8. Ace' shares 11 premium. Peel River Land, par.
, Land, 34 to 35. Vandierrian!S Land, 15.t0- 15
'AustililaBian. Peninsular and Oriental

la 0 entire quantity of gold exported during the
s' week; amounts to X 150,000 only,- against
1:°96,0001. imported in the same period. The Steamer.
Inch will leave for the Mediterranean to-morrow
4: expected to take out about .&100,000 worth of
tliver for the East Indies and China. The West
14dia, steamer took out about 160,000 or £70,000
14 gold bars, on account of the Peruvian Loan.
The trade of our port is still in highly satisfac-
lery condition. The imports and exports are both
- . _

buing on to a large extent. The stock and money
markets have also improved both in prices and-
amount of business done. On Saturday, a very.
Inarked improvement took place in the value Of
raillvay shares, and has been fully supported with
I' Prospect of a further advance, which we shall
Jaztve to report to-morrow. The good sense of the
Public is beginning to discover the absurdity of
giving way to alarm at a moment when all the
great interests
.of the country are in a most pros
perons state. The bank,of England must speedily
reduce its rate oe interest. The Joint Stock Banks
will soon enter into a fierce competition with the
their deposits al-

Threadneedl
teady amount to X 21,000,000, and we strongly su
IRA:c that the next returns will show a further in-
Zjne their money-power, and that they also
bullion holders.
MARKET AND Fonnirx EXCHANGES. -
4SSisi glue the current price of Gold, follows, to
btllel,‘4o merchant in calculating the rates of
Ctin Exchange, by the actual current rates of
I°4, as last reported
°lldon 775. 9d. Paris, • Hamburgh,-;
lift Vienna, -; St. Petersburg, -; Ber-
; Milan, -; Constantinople, -; Alexandria,
Syda' Bombay, -; Calcutta, ; Hong._ ;
trekeY, 77s ; Port Phillip, -; Adelaide, -; mon-
* York, • San Francisco, -;
_le • -----; _ow-
Ile°
Brazils, --.

LONDON CORN MARKET, MONDAY.
for the e weather since Friday, although showery, has heen fine
souti‘ season, with westerly winds, veering from north
neat
pih and last night a white frost. The supply of English
at to this morning's market was small, and the quantity
ilejaerally being indifferent, met a
:slow sale, on the terms of
ler: sennight ; the market was tolerably attended by mfl
'tent the country, who purchased foreign only in retail t
the quotations. Of English barley there was a good supply;
clliality ery variou The finest sold readily at last week's
lie`es; second and ins. ferior are difficult of sale. Beans and,
61.45 t are unaltered in value. Oats sell slowly at an advance of
bet .° ls• er r. Fr flour the demand ws nt extensive
la the p
saleq madeo the extreme prices falastoweek were
alined.

LONDON CATTLE MARKET. MONDAY.
Prb,, We
Were tolerably well supplied with foreign stocks to-day.
gra7.deniand for it ruled steadily st full prices. From our own
Nve:lng districts the receipts of beasts fleshup this morning
all be slightly on the increase. and in improved condition. For
4 reeds, as the' weather was favourable for slaughtering, and
3 e
whatht a.ttendance of huyers was good, the demand ruled some-
The brisk, at fully last Monday's advance in the quotations.—
Primest Scots were worth quite 4s. 6d. per 81bs. There
at
about an average supply of sheep on sale ; but the general
Ight of
tlmost breeds was by no means heavy.' On the whole,
to'eti'`:( cotton trade was less active, but we have no change to
per tie, in prices. - The primcst old Downs were worth 58. 2d..
h'• Calves were in short supply, and steady request, at
11.4_ 's advance in prices of from 6d. to Bd. per Blbs. The
neft calves were worth ss. 4d. per Sibs.

YESTERDAY.—Between one and two
tab -4 Yesterday morning, a man named Thomas Banton, a
be -driver from Waterloo, was brought into the Northern
bc'Pltal with a fractured thigh. ppeurs that he had
lillttidrivillgtwo gentlemen in the cab,.both of whem were
beim ein liquor, as was the driver himself. One of the
elncl °Men took the reins, and the driver, when goingto
,„ge Places with the latter party, (the foot-board, being
oN.•Y 11.1.1,a11,) slipped and fell on the. road, and the wheel went
uls thigh and fractured it.— John Corneila, a boy
tailed .21 ,ears' of urge, rselellt" belonging to an American s.hip
fell 64.tue urecian, lying in the Nelson Dock, accidentally'
n-" the hold, and severely injured his ribs.—A very
4a-eCtabl a • whose name is at present unknown,.
y dressed man,
p gettnio. on: to the top of the Great Howard-street and
'41114111e kuer-s°quare terminus in Dale-street, (which, at the,
Procf,„`v.as moving on), when he fell. o.aff the roof, thereby
Proe seven concussions of the brain.
Iluineeetiquig in the direction of the Northern Hospital, it
As the bus was
oil hoar lately conveyed him there.—ltichard Lewis, a seaman
eo l the brig • Angore, fell overboard, and received a
the Degilld fracttire of the le together with_ dislocation of
aft the joint. Amputation was performed three hours
A. 4 tsl'C accident.
9ity INGfILAR MISTAKE.—On board the steamer
aolhf 4411 chester, which arrived in Liverpool from Phila-
vs‘46 .aa,„" Sunday, was a passenger whose luggagem boreng the
of G. R. B. Clemenson. Yesterday i this
r ap,-„m'as found ling on the deck of the vesselnio in a 'state
-44 trre4t lifelessness. The police were at once. called in,
'e
ed,
ffi conveyed to the Northern Hospital. The
t'4l,l° his N . 177, who brought the body there, reported-
t'4lll4.l:tratisllteictoir otltat all life was extinct.. .A report was fur
'oe coroner's office, and the coroner's beadle was
tltn.Niii7:tti_o the steamer for the purpose of making enquiries
aft 40 state of health and habits of the passenger
rna vova..e• On his way back to the coroner's court,
hate tf4 hq,,king necesssry enquiries, he happned to
.call
0100"Pital and there, to his surprise. and gratification,
In been 1,
-god the patient upon whom the inquest was to have
Which recovered from the state of unconsc_io.usness
ttr°o4e_ceivel-e 'ay, rallied considerably, and was in a fair way
1 a renewed lease of life, and save the coroner
Pie.
Fafter 12 MOOR STREET.—This morning. shcrtly
°l's^ ,Yel°ek: a fire was discovered in room lof the ware-
eiN. 'Messrs. J. Lynch & Sons, situated in Moor Street,
xltitil leK
and Street! An inimedilte alarm was given, and Mr.
far After, a body of firemen were promptly on th. e spo e
'ell' great difficulty, an entrance was forced into th
some °llse, and the fire was found to have oricrinated amongst_
The .saelcs in the warehouse. It was speedily extinguished,
mereellines were not brought into play. Had the ire got
1,11 lie!d
b^efore. ')Oing --disov€red, the most serious results
resultek.owin to the narrownes of the street,
large mass of warehouse property ius the vicinity.

PACIFIC SETTLEMENT

OF THE
EASTERN QUESTION.

Northern Dey Times Office,
Tuesday Morning

- We hasten to lay before 6111- readers the . follow-
ing most important intelligence, just received from
our London correspondent ; • ,

LONDOIN

MONDAY NIGHT

A . telegraphic dispatch arrived here to-day,
which gives some hope of a pacific solution of the
Eastern Question. It is as follows:
. " PARIS, MONDAY.

" The AssentWe Yationaie announces positively
from Ohnutz, that the conference of Vienna has
been re established between the four Powers.
The spread-of the negociations has been resumed,
and a solution more happy and more prompt than
might have been hoped for, is probable."
The joUrnal in which this announcement is
made; is -one of the Russian organs in Paris;
and it is supposed that the information has been
communicated to it, frOm an official Russian source.
The fact of the conference having been resumed is
not only probable itself, seeing that the four
Power's failed to express their own meaning in the
Vienna note, but if war is to be- avoided, it is the
only course open for them to take.- They will now
have to define precisely their exact intentions
and views, and to submit them again to Turkey
and Russia. Thus another opportunity ieopen
for. Ole close of the present embarrassing state of
things, with honour to all Parties:
In the meantime, all parties remains in statu quo,
Russia in the principalitiessthe allied fleets before
Constantinople, and the four Powers at Vienna.

Most pacific professions are made by all parties
The danger still is in delaying the conclusion.

The Berlin correspondent of the Morning
Chronicle has the following :

"It is currently.reported at St. Petersburg, that
several bottles hermetically sealed and air tight,
but not containing any memoranda to indicate
their- origin, have been picked up on the highest
latitudes of the Siberian coast, and forwarded to the
Russian Government, which has not only commu-
nicated the circumstance to her Majesty s Envoy,
but delivered to him several of these, bottles. An
impression has consequently arisen that these
bottles belonged to Franklin's expedition ; and it
is hoped,'feeble as these evidences may be, that
they may tend to throw some light upon the fate
of our countrymen by producing a search in a new
direction corresponding with the set of the currents
that have .thrown these bottles on the Siberian
coast. A letter from St. Petersburg received last
night (Friday,) states that the Queen's messenger,
who embarked on Saturday at Cronsta,dt, was
charged to convey one of the bottles to the Admi-
ralty, with divers memoranda relating to the sub.
ject drawn up by, or communicate 4 to, the British
Legation at St. Petersburg.

LIVERPOOL AUXILIARY

SOCIETY

BIBLI

Last evening' the Annual Meeting of the Liverpool.
Auxiliary Bible- Society, was held in the Collegiate Institu-
tion, Shaw-street, The Lord Bishop of Chester presided.
The theatre of the institution was crowded to excess.

Amongst those preSent we noticed the following :—The Lord
Bishop of Chester, • Rev. Dr. McNeile, Rev. Dr. Razes,
Rev, J. Jones, Rev,"W. Rawson Rev. F.. Barker, Rev. C.
M; Bate% Rev.. F Parry] Rev:J. Wright, Rev, T. Car-
ter, Rev. E. Gabriel, Rev: IL 'Hampton; RON': F; Gal, Rev.
Mr. Vernon, Rev. Mr. Nevenharn, Rev. it. Mac Can, Rev..
W. Hughes, Rev. J. Edwards, Rev. J. Kelly, Rev. W. F.
Taylor, Rev. C: W. Lawrence, Rev. J. England, Rev.. J.
West, Rev. Mr. -Reade-,:Rev. J. Holmes, Rev. Mr. Hirich;
Rev. Mr. Robinson, 'Rev_ Mr. Cooper, Rev. Dr. Dixon, E.
Cropper, Esq., A. Hodgson, Esq., C. Inman, Esq., W:
Jones, .Esq., Richard. Griffiths, Esq., H. J. Webster, Esq.,
W. Maples, Esq., G,. Willes, Esq., J. Eden, Esq., W.
Collitti Esq., It: Payne, Esq., Leather, .Esq,,
Howell, Esq., J, Cropper, Esq.: I. I. Glazebrook-, sq.,E 0.,
H. 3.toore, Esq., J. K. Romithwaite' Esq., Rev. T. C.
Cowan, Rev. W: London, Rev. J. T. Willink, ReV. D.
Barry. • _

Tlie meeting -was opened by reading part of the 19th
psalm.
The CHAIRMAN then rose, and said, before I proceed to
what is the proper business of this meeting, to call upon
the secretary to read to you the report, I wish to giVe ex-
pression to the great pleasure I feel in meeting you again on
the present occasion, and seeing you assembled in such num-.
bets as you are. Why, I am sure that you are all fully
sensible of the vast importance of the object for which we•
are niet ; fully sensible of the call of diity which hai:
brought us here. But perhaps you may not be at all times
equelly sensible of the greatness of your privileges in meeting
thus together, and for this object.. It is only when we' com.7j
pare other countries with our own, that we become fully
sensible' how great a privilege it is to live in a land where
the gospel has free course, and where liberty of conscince
is protected, both by the authority of the laws, and the
united force of public opinion. (Hear, hear.) When we
look abroad, when we look at the continent of Europe, we.
do not find thatthe same is the case in every country there.
(Hear, hear.) Very recently, at this very moment—we have
now the little dukedom of Tuscany,—(Hear, hear.)—we
have a very painful instance .of the hindrance that still eon=
tinues there, to be thrown in the way of:the free circulation
of the word of God. (Hear, 'hear.) Now, my. dear
friends, bear with me in the few words which I am going to
say to you on this subject. lam aware it is a very difficult
point that arises in the case, as to the right of independent States
to form their own laWs, for their own internal government.
Speaking in the abstract, such a right seems to be essen-
tially and necessarily implied in the very idea of national
independence. (Hear, hear.) Let me also draw your at-
tention to another principle, and .that is, I believe the
law of Tuscany is not in express language Whatever its
spirit may be.--ris not in express language directed against
the circulation of the bible in any other versions than those
of which their own church approves. But without dwelling.
either on that distinction, or the delicate question of inter,
national law—i which is a matter foreign, I beg to say, to the
purposes of our meeting here, think we may all with
safety say this, that the policy of any government, which
attempts in this day, to inflict civil punishment on a person
for distributing the bible, is a policy that in the end will re-
coil on its authors, (hear,hear,) because it will enlist against
them the moral sympathies of all liberal and enlightened
minds in every country of the world. (Great applause.)
Happily, in this -country of ours there are no hindrances
there are no impediments i—(hear, hear) ,—we have a clear
fieldopen to us if we are but .willing to act up to the standard
of our duty. But what does this meeting of the Bible So-
ciety in our happy country show ? Why it shows this, that
good men, though differing from each other in minor points
and forms, here meet together in concord, to co-operate
together for the great object of this Society hear,)
and thus give a noble proof to all the world, not only
to England, Sut wherever English transactions are
read or known,. it gives a noble proof, notwithstand-
ing their differences, they know how to preserve . amongst
themselveS a spirit of Christian charity ; they know how
to recognize, as Protestants, in the circulation of God's
Word, a common ground on which they can take their
stand side by side, and a centre of union on which they can
show to the whole world that as Christians and Protestant
Christians, they are all still bound together. (Cheers.)
These are things for which we cannot be sufficiently grate-
ful, and it is only when we' are reminded by the painful
contrast in other countries that we become sufficiently sen,
sible, I think, of our great
.privileges, under Providence, in
having this liberty of conscience and action amongst our-
selves. (Hear, hear.) His Lordship then referred to the
presence of a deputation from the Parent Society, and then
called on the Secretary to read the report.
_ _ .

The Rev. Mr. PARRY then read the report., from which
it appeared that the issue during the last year had been
1,168,794 copies, being an increase upon last year of
14,152. During fifty years of its past existence; the
issue had been 26,571,103. (Cheers.) The total receipts
had amounted to £109,160 10s. Bd., being £7ll 19s. 10d.
more than was reported last year. (Applause.) In Ike con-
tributions from the Auxiliary Societies, there had been an
increase of £2,422 16s. 11d. on the preceding year. Froni
the Liverpool Auxiliary, there was subscribed £405 2s. 101,
being £2 19s. more than the previous year, and £l3 13s.
had been received since the accounts were made up, making
a total for the year of £4lB 15s. Donations amounted to
£206 15s. The contributions of the Ladies' Branch were
£224 6s' 3d., being an increase, as compared with the pre-
vious year, of £8 12s. 4d. The Jubilee Funds, although they
did not properly belong to that report; might be stated as
about £l,OOO. • The increase upon the receipts from
associations connected with that auxiliary body were
£29 18s. The Welch branch was £450 16s. ld., after
supplying the wants of their countrymen in Liverpool;
The Mechanics' Association, £4 12s. sd. The proceeds of
the sales of books in Liverpool, £699 7s. Id. Up to the
time of closing the accounts for 1852, the total receipts
were £3,768 ss. 4&d., being £223 13s. sd. more than the
previous year. (Applause.) The total number of bibles de-
livered in the different branches was 10,641, and of testa-
ments, 10,225.

The Rev. C. M. BIRRELL then came forward and moved
the adoption of the report. He said the report contained
materials which an infallible historian would consider of
more value than much which received greater notice, and if,
as it were said by a celebrated French author, Francis I.
derived more honour from the labours of Stephens the
printer of the Bible, than from all his great'efforts in peace
and war, or even from his patronage of art and science, he
thought they might safely say respecting the distribution of
a large number of Copies of the Inspired Word, it would ob-
tain an imperishable record somewhere when the great com-
mercial and mercantile transactions of the country had
floated down the stream of oblivion. (Cheers.) He rejoiced,
that although the enthusiasm attendant on the first estalop
lishment of this society had passed away, that so great a
number still continued to distribute the Bible amongst the,
poor, and as the old were removed, he trusted the young.
would press forward to supply their places, until there was
not a family in England which had not the light in its awell-.
ing. (Applause.) Although this was a local society, it was
intimately connected with' the' foreign one. They had stay-
ing amongst thein every year as many as 15,000 seamen
from foreign countries, speaking foreign languages, and not
fewer thanlo,ooo emigrants fro them Continent passedannu-
ally through their streets, and lodged in their greatboarding-
houses for a few days before emigrating, and it was singular
they should not have awakened earlier to the responsibility
which that fact involved. (Cheers.) When they did so,
they found multitudes of those strangers who came from
Protestant countries, were, notwithstanding, destitute of the
bcriptures, whilst those who came from Roman Catholic.
countries were entirely ignorant that such a boot had exist-
ence. (Hear, hear.) Their foreign Colporteur had sold 128.
Bibles, and 1,592 Testaments. This was a very short state-
ment of a very glorious fact, and an analysis of that item, a
history of the copies that had been so distributed, if followed
out, would give to every heart in that assembly the greatest
gratification. Portuguese and Spaniards who had before
purchased Bibles, left them at home amongst their friends.
and then bought others, and even the Greek seamen could
now read the'Word of God in the very characters and al-,
most in the very words of the Holy. Ghost. (Cheers.)
Rome dared not to give the bread of life to the hungry na-
tions, but they should have it in spite of her. (Great
applause.) Before Rome's corruption she had no ob-
jection to the laity reading the Bible ; she gave it
then in the Vulgate, because the people could read it, she
gives it now because.they not read it (hear). She it gave it
then because it was the Vulgate, and she recommends it now
just because it is not the Vulgate. (Hear, hear). But the.
Bible society, in the strength of God, has resolved, that every
nation should have it in the Vulgate, and that in the honest
sense of the word. (Cheers) The state of Tuscany might
mike laws to the effect, that any person circulating works
hostile to the Roman Catholic religion, should be condemned
to hard labour, for a period of not less than five years, and
not longer than 10 years, and a Scotch young lady—blessings
on her head—(loud applause)—gave. away a 'copy of
Deodadis bible, and that being an act contrary to the Roman
Catholic religion, she was sent to prison. (Oh, oh). But
England would speak to Tuscany about that. (Cheers). Did
the Grand Duke suppose he would by such means keep the
bible out of his domimons ? As well might he attempt to trans-
port the blue depths of the Mediterancan, or prevent the sun
flooding the plains of Italy with glory (applause). They
were told there were 20,000 Protestants in his dominions,
and depend upon it they had bibles, or they would not be
there. (Hear, hear, and cheers). And nothwithstanding
the sleepless espionage of the police, and the dread
of the most horrid dungeons, the bible entered,
and even the Roman States why at almost every point,
let them consider the state Of things in alas ! one of the most
Romish countries in the world—poor Ireland. When the
Irish version-of the scriptures was 'first 'published, and it
was not until the seventeenth, century, late enough to make
protestants ashamed of themselves, almost every copy was
bought up and burnt, and one csuit cleverer than the
rest, to make short work of it, seized the types, and carried
them offito France. But he had learned during a recent
tour in Cennamera, that a certain bishop finding that the
people were clamorous for' argument against the protestant
scriptures, which had made an entrance there, had been ob-
liged to promise that he would give them a version of the

scriptures in their native Irish, at a
possible. Perhaps he would go to Franc

a period, as

find the types

li them now to the u

iimlly intended

He did not

:pool which frii

+lecorated. the hills of that (

hich they were

young poop

le received the bible, noiby extracts, but in the
ipsissima verbs of the book itself, should tremble fi
stability of his faith. (Loud applause.)
asking a friend with whom he tra
that remind him and help him to imagin
peasants must have been in the days of.
replied "in the Swiss mountaineers in-th

He remembered
led, did not all

I the German

ether. " Yes" he
days of Zuingle."

rib in that couritry Onring 200 years ; had
en the. Bible to the people ? She had not. tat one of
the very first things*hieh the bible society did, new nearly hall

century ago, was to print the scripfiires iii Chinese at a
Singapore, and seven years after to .issue another version
in. Chinese, which was executed within the dominions of
China itself. (Applause.) Other versions had been made
since, and passed , through the country every year, and
not, it seems, without some striking results. (He whose path
was on the deep—whose way was on the bright waters—and
whose footstep Wits not known, He liad, by means, various
and complex which their utmost diseerunient could not trace,
had made so vast a breach in the citadel Of that gigantic
country, that all which remained for them, was.to rush in
with the'sword of the spirit, with tho'wOrd of God. (Ap-
'Anise.) They required no force to help their enterprise—no
Nemesis, —no fury—no revenge—no devastation—but they
wanted men whose hearts were filled- with the love of God,
and whose feet should be beautiful upon the mountains, when
they published the glad tidings of salvation=and said to the
nations of the world, behold your King. (Great applause.)
If they were to judge from that single omen, the rapid diffu-
sion of the word of God immediately the drama of their history
was coining to a crisis, Never, perhaps, had there been a similar
period, saving that which succeeded the reformation, when
the books seemed to fly, like the electric spark, from country
to . country—from the-throne of the King to the home 'of
the humblest . peasant. (Applause.) In the 250 years
which followed that event, there were circulated five millions
of copies of the sacred Scriptures, in twenty.-two languages.
But let them mark that within the last sixty years, there
,had been put in circulation twenty millions of copies of the
Scriptures, and not in twenty-two, but in one hundred
and sixty-four languages, of which 130 were. never printed
before, . (Applause.) There might be danger in exaggerat-
ing the importance of the era in which they lived; Mit,
upon the contrary, there was danger in overlooking the most
significant and extraordinary events, and ,not knowing
the day of their visitations

He could not but look uppn it
is a most significant fact, that at a time when nearly all the
great countries of the eastern, and of the western world, were
either already in commotion, or resotinding with the moans

of the approaching storm, a storm which would smite pro-
bably the present despotisms into ten • thousand fragment
God should be revealing his purpose to give universal spread
t(1 his holy word. It might be his intention that those who

survived fhose disasters, and that judgment, should construct
society upon better principles, or in some other way to pre-
pare the world for the coming hereafter Of Him who had
promised at last to reign over them, and if there were any

point more clear than —another, with respect to the practical
question before them, it was that they should turn them-

Ives with energy to the dissemminatioii of the Bible ; and
if it Were the fact that the Church of Christ in that island,
)f her long tranquility, had althost forgotten
self, how to consecrate her wealth, how to
live in the 'spirit of the Crucified, he knew nothing more
likely to recover that knowledge for her, than that she
should, with one heart and soul, without ecclesiastical dis-
tinctions, give herself no rest until all the nations of the
world were in possession of the word of life. (Loud and
enthusiastic applause.) _• • _ • _

how to deny I

The Rev. Dr. APNirLE; on coming foilvard to second the
resolution, was loudly applauded. He observed that the
.resolution had been presented to the meeting in what he con-
sidered a very practical, business-like address, and, with the
proposer, he too felt a pleasure in telling them that the Bible
would be circulated in spite of Rome (applause). • :The great
subject of the Bible was our Lord Jesus Christ, and salva-
tion by Rim to fallen sinners of mankind. If salvation
were beyond question, the all-important concern, then
clearly beyond question, the Bible was an. invaluable posses-
sion. Now, iu order to estimate the importance of this
possession, he thought they should not confine themselva
to arguments drawn from without the Bible, but they shOunr
go within, and open the book itself, and endeavour to find
out, from the arguments contained therein, something of
the value of that wonderful possession. Our Lord said, that
salvation was of the Jews, and, therefore, the man who
turned away from Jewish history, as a matter with which
he had no concern, must remain in very great ignorance of
the Word of God. The Rev. gentleman dwelt on this point
at great length, and elopiently pointed. out how forcibly
the epistle .of the Great Apostle himself bore on it. lie
thought they would do well to apply themselves to the history
of that people to estimate, so far as they could, the nature of
the advantages connected with the oracles of God, which
were committed to their charge, how there were temporal ad-
vantages connected with this possession. The Jewish people
had in the oracles of God such a law as no other people upon
earth possessed. The law that the Jews had contrasted with
the laws of other nations, was Divine wisdom contrasted with
human wisdom—that which was perfect from the first, and
could not be improved to the last, compared with that which
was imperfect to the end. Where were the laws of Greece—
those of Solon and Lycurgus ? Where were the Institutes
of Nurna ? Where the code of Justinian—where the provi-
sion of their own Alfred ? Some of them repealed—some
of them neglected, all imperfect ; but where was the Jewish
laws ? Why here (touching the (great applause)
Gentleman em
gai.neat then
advantages
illustrated perfect in the letter, unchangeable as the God that gave it.
rrhe Rev.
outG
lnustatgreasand
tedhi4meassrpLugmsenNtv,hibehy
these- Jaws conferred on the Jewish people ; • how with
them slavery was mitigated, and all debtors released from
pointing
their obligations in every recurring fifty years. With them
no one could be plunged into permanent poverty, nor,
on the other hand, could any family. be raised into
permanent wealth.- With them the offender had a place
of• refuge, where he would remain Until
.his offence was
inquired into by the proper tribunal, and the other arrange-
ments connected with this refuge were a very early anti-part
of the order of our civilization of trial by jury. The Rev.
speaker then 'Minted out how the laws committed to the
Yews, hindered them from cultivating the .arts in connection
with their worship ; and observed that the corrupt tendency
of man in this particular reached its climax in the culti-
vated heathen. By them were made likenesses of men and
women, and the ideal of what was perfect, or ought to be
perfect in the human form condensed and stereotyped in
their beautiful models of Juno, Jupiter, Diana, and Apollo.
It was otherwise with:the Jews, with one exception, which
deserved to be noticed and explained. The cherubims were
made by command from heaven, but they were placed
behind the veil, as the emblem of what was in heaven, not
of what was on earth. There were temporal advantages also
connected with this possession of the word of God. He
believed that the laws they so much prized—the basis of
their civilization—the ground-work of their protestantism,
all rested upon this ;round possession, that by the mercy of
God unto them had been committed the oracles of God.
(Applause.) Tlie Rev, gentleman referred to the spiritual
advantages attending on • this poSsession ; and shewed
how St. Paul reconciled the objections arising out
of this subject. For it did not follow that all who
heard. the word of God whould profit by it, though
some would ; and so it was with nations- some would hear
the word and obey it, while others would relapse and fall
into disobedience; for " all were ndt Israelites that were of
Israel." It was then well that they all heartily and cordially '
combined to circulate the word of God on every side. They
had well done so, and, by the blessing of God, that had so
far' succeeded, that many hindrances had been overcome, and
much of the apathy and prejudices of men conquered. They
had not only these hindrances to contend.with, but they had
another and more subtle antagonist. Who did he mean
now (laughter) ? he would not name' him—he rather de-
spised him (applause.) Who was it that, in the eighth
century, quenched the light that the venerable Bede had
rejoiced to have kindled in this country, by rendering the
Gospel of St John into his native language ? That was
suppressed and absolutely extinguished, - and by whom ?
Who was' it, that, in the 14th century, sealed up the foun-
tain of life that Aickliffe bad opened to his fellow-country-
men ? Who was it that persecuted with untiring enmity
the devoted king ? In a word, who vv4s it that, in every
way, and in every nation, objected to the people reading the
Bible, and hindered them from possessing it ? (applause.)
It' was-no late story, there she was at her work still. (Hear,
hear.)' Witness the charge of the Bishop of Bruges. Wit-
ness the charge of his brother Archbishop, in which he
warned all the faithful not only against making a purchase
of, but even accepting as a present, -any' of their (the
Society's) polluted works. Witness the conference of the
Bishops of Lombardy, in 1850, in which they circulated
decrees; against the Society and its works. Witness the
encyclical letter of the Pope, in :1845, renewed in
1847, confirmed in 1850, calling the Bible Society the
.work of the Devil, and denouncing its books as unfit
pasture for the sheep of his flock. (Applause.)—
Witness the concordat entered into only the year before
last with the courts of Spain and Tuscany. Witness still
•more recently the conduct of the Grand Duke of Tuscany
himself, and the noble exploit of a band of armed Zendaives
seizing a weak and defeancless lady. Witness how through
all these scenes of persecution. the Bible had taken
• wings,• • millions of copies had found their way abroad,
and now even in the very heart of the apostatised
kingdom itself, its people were to be found reading es
Bible,• • and when they heard the tread of the Gens
d' Armes, hiding them as his own poor countrymen hid them
in the turf stack or the haycock, when they heard the priest
coming, and when they wanted a wisp pulled it from the
other side. • (laughter mid cheers.) The medicine required
for the spiritual sickness, was diffused, and spiritual health
was enjoyed, to the glory and praise of God. Yes, and even
in a dungeon moral and physical health might be enjoyed.
(cheers.) It was enjoyed by that dear young lady, who had
become the object of the sympathy of all, because of her
sufferings—she enjoyed it that night upon the cold floor of
her cell, in the place where Rosa Madmi was confined, and
they had all read the, graphic descriptions .of the narrowness,
the inconveniencies, the dampness, and the darkness of that

ell. Which would any one there prefer—her warm heart,
even in that cold cell, when she lifted up her prayer to the

is and feelings
d fine lln(

Lord Jesus; or the thoug.
Duke of Tuscany, in his put,
Or would any of them prefer tee thougl
confessor of the Grand Duke
Duke was his own master.
must be who opened his heart as bet()
(Loud cheers.) He was -

He di
He ova

a part Of his religion: lit
feelings; his failings, his infirmities, his des.
—he . mast reveal all to his confessor.

The people of this country IttTc b
than they knew before, what the
(Cheers.) Since the Papal aggres
their spiritual liberties, their civil liberti
to discover it. That was an appropriate

a fool

since it

ha'd rdet with in Ireland, Within the last few weet
of hear; hear.) Many persons would now az,ree
in that society, of whoni they thought in their cha

cheerin

aching t

miething very I

year's ago,- tht they were a very Ultra set
uncliaritible, unkind,- if not
There was nailing" like a taste
and laughter.) . The gnostic& was asked once -by a Right I
Reverend Prelate of the Church of England, a di
ornament of the English bench, of anotll

tinguished ornameht of th
dinner party in. London-
Dishe to the Irish,
land ?" The ahSwez
thine there

Have you

said the En,

" what arc Called Tractarians in Irc7

No, my lord, we have the real I

big Mends, who.weut id pi

Rgate the Gosl

ilia meant. to do so witl

'sV df arty 1c

had got a taste of the real thing. (1
sons used to say_ to him—" If you only
Christian spirit, the people will hear y
people Wotild—you make the contention yours
well," he replied, 'I don't think it, but there is no use ii

arguing. I cannot convince you:"
their honourable zeal, and he would soy
his might say—Good luck to them-
plause) —in their warm, fervent ansiet
Gospel in Ireland, for which he -
he only wished they would s
their ardour for that of

scheme for goiug and preichin
to the Roman Catholics of Ireland

s any Chrl

a their

it—(cneers)
;ed a very p:

o controversy, no

angry word, no contention—they would
any of the errors of • Rome. They would just f,,TI an(
the Gospel, Well, they went
to arrangement made in Dublin, and went round the (
try with the Word of God in their hands, to nronamat,

They s

truths contained in the ev
nothing like experience. He did not

Iting G

the pro-verb retarding thosi

per

would teach con those who
Instead of being. listened to—quietly,

places they narrowly
a specimen of the terms generally given to tl
their backs-were turned; herd was W
here was what' those. dissenting fries
effors, for which he sincerely timhk&
hoped they would repeat under more
were called. " The villains with whc
abolical attack upon the faith of this i
and long-oppressed people." Diabol
faith, by gentlemen who did n
faith, but who contented thems
the Gospel of Christ. (Cheers.:
gentlemen had a pure, honest purpos
ing truths of the Gospel, and not to give tl
to men. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.)
was the animus of their whole conduct, but the manner in
which they were. received showed that the system
the people. (Cries of " Hear, hear.") If the people were
left to themselves they would have received them very differ-
ently. (" Hear hear.") The poor people of Ireland were
like the Grand Duke of Tnscany—not their own mas
They must open their hearts to tl
priest. (Loud cheers.) It was t
with as antagonists, and not the pee

1. There

!scaped with their 1

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imposer

He did believe a:

ightest offence
believed tha