The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-06 00:00:00

PAPAL ENCROACHMENTS.

GREAT LAY MEETING AT FREEMASONS'

The report of the proceedings at this meeting,
given in yesterday's &mos, was dispatched soon after tee
Mae of Lad Ashley's speech; die following appeared in
part only of our impreeskie
Copt 8i Z. PARRY proposed the Ant resolution, de.
I Mario; that the meeting had witnessed with the deepest
indignation the recent act of the Bishop of Rome in panel-
ling eat her Majesty's dominions into protium sod dim
eau, and filling them with his nominees, and thee mum-
leg • power not permitted even in the darkest periods of the
middle agora. He said—l will not waste time by saying, ex-
empt is very few words, how distinguished an honour arid
plater I desalt to be pot is this frost ;post is the battle
—an bumf which I understeed I owe to the regretted
absence of es esteemed nobleman. After the ad-
dress which we have already heard, considering
what we have bees In the habit of reading for so many
weeks pest, It would be presumptuous for me to attempt to
say anything new or even to say sell what has already barn
mud or atom However, I believe the subject has lost none
of its interest (Cheers.) Although it may be beginning to
be somewhat thnedbare—(cries of " No, no")—yet I be-
, hive it is a subject than which none mote important hes ever
been presented to this generation ; end lam perfectly sure
it is ou whisk mast make eve ry tree protatent cad every
loyal sehjese ia the lend burn within him. " Out of the
*bandeau of the heart the month speaketh." We are here
this day nominally—l would not eay chiefly, but nominally
I —to resist an aggression of the Bishop of Rome, but I hope
I shall not be eonsidered out Moeda if Ido do not strictly
adhere to it. The Bishop of Rome is not the only enemy
we have to eontend with. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The
protestents of England fur no epee enemy; an epee sway
nigh be met either in this er in any other righteous usu.
But unhappily we bees enemies to whom the term, the now
well known arm, "insidious," may I think be much more
ris
know t.l
tatipaPtilh the than
thee Popeo these last ben, is
his emi caries.
We
this matter, been comparatively straightforward. (Hear.)
We know ut with them we are engaged is an honest end
stand up fieht—(chars)--that with them we have • fair
Sold, sad that from them we neither input nor desire any
favorer. (Cheers.) Neither the Pope not his fine staff of
archbishop and bishops in this country could ever touch as
is any vital part, if we are only tree to ourselves. And if
we had been true to ourselveswe should not have been here
at the meeting this day. Nr, my lord, it Is not the Pope
who bee done this mischief. Even popery itself—that
mous roue evil of the world—(a tremendous burst el shut
ing, which drowned the remainder of the sentecee). Tee,
I deliberately say, that monstrous evil of the worki—(re-
sawed chars)—that mighty lit—(loud and prolonged
plaudits)—that very mtater-pits of Sams to delude and
destroy poor simple souls-1 my that even popery itself
would be comparatively harmless, if it remain as it is now
confined to Rome and Re men estbolie countries, and ev n
beading the persons living among us holding to that um
happy faith. No, it is not open popery; it upmr ry among
nominal protestant.. (Cheers.) It is simply popery as it is
prectieed in our own protestant church, and preached is oar
own protestant pulpits, by those who were placed there to
purl her rights, to perform her services, and who,
while betraying her, eat the very bread of our own
dear protestant church. (Cheers.) Toes. me the real
Ollaallira to she principles of the blessed sad glorious Re-
formai with whom we have to contend, end I, as a
humble individual living in the true church, am rejAced to
And that the champions of the Rotorua nitre are rising up,
se I believe they are, throughout the length std breadth of
the land, to defend that width we account as dearer than life
Itself. And we de well, in my opinion, not only thus to
stand up in defence of our faith, but well Mao in keeping
entirely aloof—to come out boo end be totally separated
from—thou enemies within our canto who have lately bete
=limg mush seal against the comm en enemy. My
so
do not like the massacre' of the 'remains' just now.
(Cheese.) Their mods of resisting the Pop of Rome moms
S. sae to mum a great deal toe much of popery. (Hear.)
And I do believe from my soul that they have proved them-
selves to be the same thing we think them to be—unsound,
dishonest, and disloyal. (Cheers) Lit any one observe
hoer the tractarisss dean silk this matter; how they
proceed to handle It. Are they reedy to uphold
end to suet the supremacy of our beloved Queen ?
No, no.) Not • bit of it. They have bees the
tint, eves before the Pope of Rome hiraself—(cheen)—
they anticipated the Pop is denying that supremacy.
(Choate.) Have they shows themselves ready to protest
etreeh against the supenlitions and idolatries of the church
of Items) Hue they in say instance proved themselves
',ad, to fight agnia—se l beds,* we must Attic sgain—the
&nous battle of the Reformation. They do ant—they
eannot—they dare not. (Count) And why nrt ? Because
in so doing they would be protesting serails; their own deer
trine s end practice. (Bar) Bet what have they done ?
They have called this matter • schism. ,Schism ! A Liu
enevuient little word that schism. (" Hear," and a laugh.)
II tio- church of Rome be what the cbureh of England consi-
ders her, this is not a aches. If your potation= be, as
I b. liens it is, better thm a name—• word —you will not
count to be gagged on the subject nearest and dearest to
your keerts—a determination to mast popery whensoever
and wheresoever it is propounded to you. Yes, I
ye seen it myself. They tried to es` me, and
therefore, I have • right to speak. (Hear, hear.)
This has been their petition in all these meetings ; they let
the people talk as much as they like about schism but never
of the men of sin. We have sea very lately in high places,
which I will not name—(loud cries of " °e'en!, Oaf.. d,
and grease.) I will only say in unelosior, that is
Is my earnest prayer that it may please Him who holds the
waters in the hollow of his bawd, tu guide and direst the
esensels of this nation In the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ
te the advancement of his own church, to the good of one
beloved Coast/Jived to the safety, honour, and welfare demi
deer (Imes and her dominion Old h cheering.)
Mr. O'MALLEY (Queen's tetanal) seconded the revels-
tioe. There was Cooly one point to whieO he would
venture to direct their anemias, and it was the solemn
obligation which every oar et the meeting had taken
upon himself. The battle woo not to be fought by
the loud cheer or the daubing oblige, but one upon which
all mutt make up their minds to direct their energies
steadily for a long time to come. Ile trusted the merino;
would enter into the spirit of Sir E award I arry's °Marva-
tions, and not carry on the combat for the elks of a protes.
lament victory, or as an exciting question, but as the eause;of
the honour of Clod, and the cause of his son Jesus Christ.
lie was us who months (ago felt convinced that something
was remitted to be done by the position of the Eetablished
Preussen Church. He believed that the Queen was the
aureate bead of the church in this realm, and he would
dr..w no fins distinction between spiritual end temporal
supremacy. (Hear, hear.) He acknowledged the Queen as
the supremo epiritnal head of the church—(hem, hear)—
because she represented the bead and sob Aliment of
the whole laity of the church who had hitherto
*Remised eapreme dominion in the Church of Christ.
And be wan persuades that any attempt to question the
earnest' supremacy of the Queen, was an Internet to with-
drew from the church that part of it to which tbs rightful
dominion belonge 1, and to centre it in the priesthood.
(Comm.) Ho had, therefore, felt some tint, ago that some
movement like this on the part of the laity should take
place. But now he felt glad that such a movement had not
been then Made, because events had sines mooned calculated
to add much forte and power to their Game, and then woe
I much excitement on the quotient (Meer, hear) But when
he said there was excitement in the natio., be could net
address a meeting like that upon his own neporeibility
the eight of Oodl, without warning every one present—Mussy
one who took put in this conflict—that it wes a religious
conflict—(hear, hear)—and must be waged in • adieus
visit, and upon religions principles, or it would not emelt
He hoped that all men would call to mind what reaps.
chatty they bed undertaken; not what by violence to
show their horror of error, but endeavouring to promote the
truth is seer way and by every means in their power—
(hear, kur)—ao that they might not make this a negative
contest, ant seeking to expose errcr alone, without else
I teaming to propagate the truth And he would harem
apes them that they should look into the institutue a this
seselep previous to the laudation of the church of ler
Mai. mad ask dionselves whether the spirit actuating Mein
wse tbs_ *Oa the church of England or not; sad, wbaio
Wit Wen he the tone toad spirit of the time, mad hemmer
these it might prevail amongst the archbishops sod
el the *birch, if they found men not actuated by lbsilia4
whit, let tbs. withdraw their support from then.
The engages was then put from the chair, sad Mild
sesaimeesty,
Hr. CHILDERS, M.P. wee called upon to meve tae
sowed resolution. That resolution was, he said, a tempi%
Geld for diessnien ; bat he shoed avoid it, for the pumas,
speakers ked so fully treated the subject that he would not
sump. toe& any thing to what they had advanced. It
might appear a SWIM pelisse that tie resoled= he was
pageges sessied SIMODIAOS week, and that the wording
was see sties whet the meeting might have expected. Bat
be make team them thst there was another resolution
.smite whielk he bagel meld satiety ell. He was smithies
teveZilitem bees heaciag that resolutics, which would he
beim the. by one quite algal te exposed's, his
feedess. Be (Mr. Childers) had always been the (fiend of
eelessies—(bens,eem)—bat to tolerate and to submit to
as Welk arm esseelf wets two very different things. He
agreed with the nage chairman that they owed their thinks
to the Pope. (" Beer," and la kw.) The tractarians
might wellweioßave metros " for • hidden viper
been
had lies at ear feet which the heat of the sea
shining front os had brought to light. and cow whet we
had to do wee to min the reptile sad cast it forth. (Chem.)
He would tell them a bon cot which he bad heard heft a
witty and distinguished Rama catholic. A friend aliksi
him, "Have you bum at Bs. Beisabas " The reply we?,
"No; sad I will tell yen why. Ide not like mock turtle.*
(Laughter and cheers.) had s good mesas too. If we
could resist the famisations of the reel turtle, we shmeld
surely not be led ears by the meek. The hon. lid
leased modems unlit theerlag to mow Ss
seemed moieties. osproxias sesviedes of the amigos
that the
nhush el .Remo
mead sever have
is the
aggrasio had there set bees heimisemats is se bp
many of the gap se the Berdia Aar& who bed he
tome time @viandthe • wpm et melmikalise_the
thee, ei the degethee
and strusernies ef einrek el Beglesd with
cher* of Rims, sad It toss oohs Ss angel the Min
unless the priasipies N hems wore repudiated. TM two
lotion was resolved with lead doming.
The Hari ef CHICHRISTRR wee musived with • mead
of warm yeLme when be rose te soma the ressistles.
His lordship said that he felt in muss with the gen—eses
who had preceded him that he was undertaking a isle
great responsibility in the sight ef Gad in vesnarbeg •
address nob a sassuss, sad as the mass tins tepee
osseales which wee ro important in the malts which might
feßew frees it, end wee oho lee or misdated to excite ths