Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-27 00:00:00

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British Association

THE LONDON STRIKE

it the Congress of the

)n Saturday evening, among

Arms, where the

feeling appeared to prevail that the mass of them had
had enough of it ; and they affirm that if it were not
for the obnoxious and disgraceful " document" or " decla-

COURT AND OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Queen held a Privy Council on Friday morning
at Balmoral. It was attended by his Royal Highness
the Prince Consort, the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of
Elgin, and Lord John Russell.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the offi-
cial residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in
Downing-street. All the Ministers wire present
Lord John Russell and the Earl'or Elgin arrived in
town on Saturday from Scotland. - -
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has returned to
London from Penmaemnaur, Conway.
Lord John Russell intends to leavelondon on Tuesday
evening, to rejoin his family at Abergeldie. His lord-
ship will receive the freedom of the city of Aberdeen,
before his return to London.

Sir George Lewis proceeded to Balmoral immediately
after :the Cabinet Council, where he will remain the-
Secretary of State in attendance on the Queen until the
return of the Court to London.
Sir Stafford and Lady Northcote have been honoured.
with a command to visit the Queen and. Prince Albert,
at Balmoral.
We understand that the Master of the Rolls has, with
the full sanction of the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, entrusted to Mr. W. B. Turnbull, barrister, of
Lincoln's • Inn, the onerous duty of arranging and
calendaring the foreign state papers, the most important,,
perhaps, of all the various documents in his honour's
custody.
Mr. George Xrehmer, Russian Consul-General, died
suddenly on Saturday morning at his residence, No. 2,
Chester-terrace, Chester-square.
The Comte de Paris and the Due d'Aumale have.been-
on a visit to the Duke of Northumberland, at Alnwick-
Castle, and Lord Ravensworth at Eslington Park,
where they have been entertained with true Northum-
brian hospitality.
A rumour is current that the youthful Earl of Bel-
more, Castlecarle, county- Fermanagh, Ireland, will
shortly lead to the hymeneal altar Lady Louisa Crich-
ton, only daughter of the Earl of Erne, Crom Castle,.
Lisnaskea.

COUNTY FERMANAGH M.P's.—The lion. H. A. Cole,
the Hon. John Cole, and Captain Archdall, are all now
at the family seats, enjoying that relaxation from Par-
liamentary bustle so congenial to hard-working and
assiduous members.

PEDESTIVAN FEAT BY THE DIJCBESB 0, MAN-
CILESTER.—On Monday last, the Duke and Duchess of
Manchester left Tomnadown,• in Glengarry, to proceed
to visit Lord Malmesbury at Achnacarry House. They
set off on foot, expecting to overtake their ponies, and
were accompanied by a guide. When about half way,
the guide was dismissed, the Duke conceiving that he
was sufficiently acquainted with the path over the hills.
Unfortunately, however, his Grace turned to the left
instead of the right hand, and came down upon Loch-
Lochy instead of Loch-Arkaig. The journey, however,
was proceeded with, and about eight in the evening the
Duke and Duchess arrived at Achnacarry, having tra-
velled from twenty to twenty-five miles of rock; bog, and
steep corries—a pedestrian feat which probably no lady
of the peerage ever surpassed.—lnverness Courier.

SOCIETY-FOR THE PROPAGATION OF
THE GOSPEL IN, FOREIGN FARTS.

Last night, the annual meeting of this excellent
society was held in the hall of the-Colleoiate Institu-
tion. The meeting, ,it was announce. would be
addressed by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of St.
Helena; the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of. Brisbane,
Austrplia,; the Itev. C. E. Driberg, M.A., a missionary
recently 'returned from Calcutta ,• the Rev. David
Willios, M.A., rector of Nannerch and' Hon. Canon
of St. Asaph; and the Rev. W. C. Dowding, M.A.,
diocesan secretary.
It may be proper to state here, that the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts has
been engaged. since 1701 in endeavouring to plant
the Church of Christ among our countrymen abroad,
and among the heathen. Its first missionaries were
sent to 'North America, in 1702: Since then its opera-
tions have been extended gradually- to the West Indies
(1710),: Australia, 11795), India (1818), South Africa
(1820), New Zealand (1839), Ceylon (1840), and
Borneo (1849)-. Mere than four hundred clergymen
and seven hundred lay teachers and students are main-
tained wholly or in part by the society.
There was a numerous and respectable attendance ;
but the, hall was by no means so crowded as we have
seen it upon former occasions. At half-past six o'clock
the REv. RECTOR CAMPBELL took the chair ; and amongst
the gentlemen on the platform, we observed the Right
Rev. tjie Lord Bishop of Brisbane, the Right Rev. the
Lord Bishop of St. Helena, the Venerable the Archdea-
con of Liverpool, the Rev. Canon Williams, the Revs.
W. C.- Dowding, a W. Warr, J. North, Dr. Taylor,
H. Lomas, Cleminson, T. Pain, C. W. Lawrence, J.
llowsln, T. Wall, R. Haines, T. Maddock, Titley,
Portance, Leveson, J. Evans, T. Owen, Ireland, J.
Pickles, T. Gardner, Power, C. H.... Burton, T. Harker,

T. Redhead, J. Moore, Sampson, Vernon, C. Wray, T.
0. Powell. J. Twist, Cotter ; also, Messrs. Adam Hodg-
a m, TQmlinson, J. Eden, &c., &c.

The. meeting- having been Opened with prayer, offered
by the'.Rev.' G. W. Yvarr,
_ The CHAIRMAN said, as they would shortly be ad-

dressed by some practical labourers in the missionary
field, the relation of whose personal experience would be
more interesting than anything he could say, he should
not treipass upon their time ; but would endeavour briefly
to pre-engage their sympathies, in behalf of the Society
for the Propakation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
Since it was established in 1701, it had been labourin&
faithfully and consistently in promoting the Redeemer's
kingdom throughout the British provinces for nearly
one hundred and sixty years. That was no
small claim, he thought, upon their sympathies.
The annual report contained a list of 414 ordained
missionaries, supported wholly or in part by the society,
in addition to upwards of 700 lay teachers, students, and
catechists. During the year, £15,874 was contributed
for the eXtension of missions in India. The report also
recommended the extension of the colonial episcopate, by
the erection of the new sees of British Columbia—(ap-
plause)—which were endowed at the sole cost of that
noble individual, Miss Burdett Ccutts—(Loud applause)
—St. Helena, Brisbane (Australia), and Waiapa (New
Zealand), making a total at present of thirty-eight
colonial bishoprics. Large additions had been made to
the missionary allowances for the dioceses of Capetown,
Grahamstown, Colombo, Mauritius, Borneo, and Colum-
bia; and new missions had been established at Singapore,
on the river Pongas; and in Independent California. Five
new missionaries have already commenced their labours in
India, oaf adras, Delhi, and Moulmein; and the society an-
nounces its intention to occupy Lahore, Patna, and. Bombay,
as well as Milnapore, Allahabad, Bareilly, &e. (Applause.)
They saw by that, that the operations of the society were
very extensive, and most gradually, extending; and he
had recently been told, and heard it with the greatest
possible satisfaction, that in this town its merits were
beginning at length to be better appreciated than they
were formerly. (Applause.) Five and twenty years
ago, when a friend of his was secretary .of this society,
the receipts amounted to the miserable sum of .£7.5 in the
town and neighbourhood of this vast port. They now
amounted, he believed, to £2,000. At that time there
were only six colonial bishops. Now there were 38.
H. thought they had reason to thank God for this.
(Applause.) He should conclude with but one obser-
vation,—that if any suspicions should have been intro-
duced upon their minds with respect to the Protestant
character of this society, he thought he might venture
to assure them that they might dismiss them as idle
tales. (Loud applause.) In short, the mode of its
government seemed to him to prevent the possibility of
any such reality. It was governed by all the bishops of
the Established ChurCh. Its missionaries, he believed,
were ehosen by a committee .of clergymen appointed
by two Archbishops and the Bishop of London ;—men,
he should think, above suspicion. (Applause.) He
was convinced that upon enquiry they would find what
he told them was true ; but if - they wished to be
satisfied without enquiry, he thought they might be
satisfied by hearing of the men who supported the society.
It was supported, not merely by the official patronage,
but by the cordial and friendly co-operation of our own
bishop, the Bishop of Chester,—who was not a very
suspicious character, he believed. (Laughter and
applause.) And moreover, it was supported by the
cordial and friendly' co-operation of a venerable
ftud venerated man, who was once bishop of this
diocese, and is now Lord-Archbishop of Canter-
uury. (Applause.) ire thought, tlierefire, they
might dismiss all fears with respect to the Protes-
tant character of this society. Faults -it might have,
And, indeed, The society that was administered by fallible
men could escape faults ; but whatever faults it might
have, he, thought they were more than compensated by
the absence oanything in the shape of sectarian bias,
and by the presence of truly enlarged and catholic
spirit of the Church of England.. (Loud applause.)
A letter from the Lord Bishop of this diocese was then
read, stating the pleasure he should have felt in attending
the meeting, but that his confirmations prevented him.
The LORD BISHOP of BRISBANE, who was the first
speaker, proposed the following resolution :—" That the
success which has attended the past "
ll .
i ale labours
blessing the
society abundantly proves that ha
'accompanied the
-6eney emploe yed', and that propor-
tw.:. us the facts of missionary work are known, its
friends and supporters will increase, both in numbers
and in zeal." The right rev. prelate spoke o'
length upon both points contained in the res-
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remark-that if it had been otherwise, if no measure of
success had been vouchsafed to its labours, he was
not prepared to acknowledge that it would have been
any argument against the society or the agency it em-
ployed ; .because he believed God, by delaying the fruit,
often tried the faith of his ministering servants. And
whether, for those at home who took an interest in the
missionary work, or those who at the call of God left
their kindred and lands, and went to distant parts of the
world,—for both, he believed the plain rule of the Gos-
pel was this,—they were to work in their day, and leave
it to GO to vouchsafe a blessing upon their work
when He should see fit. But great and abundant
had been the measure of success with which God, in the
course of his Providence, had seen fit to bless the labours
of this aged missionary and handmaid of our. church.
He should call attention to a few simple facts, as an
instance of this. In a distant county from this,
he was about to attend a meeting on behalf of this
society, find going to church, he asked the lady of a
brother clergyman, with whom he was staying,
for a Prayer 1390 k ; and, picking up one, she said
that is- not quite a Prayer Book : briiig you
And what was that book which he took to the

House of God, and used in our beautiful service of
evening .prayer ? It was not exactly and strictly a
Prayer-book of the English Church. There were some
alterations in it. It was the Prayer-Book of the
knericaii Church—and what a missionary lesson was
tad to him,--tha't he could take up the Prayer-book of
a great country like the United States, and use it in our
e rening service, because it was almost identical with our
own. America had received from us not only-that richest
of all blessings, God's Word, but had taken from us also
the Prayer-book, one leading to the
theot fact -that theher. Was there
it a measure of success here, in
Church of England, the church of this little speck in
the world, should have been the instrument in God's
ha id of sending the Gospel to that great portion of thed
world, the United States ? (Applause.) He woul
take another instance of the success which had attended
the past labours of the society, and should point to our
West India possessions. They were inhabited by the
tool. negro population, slaves from the African coast
but the society, hand in hand with the Government, at
the time of the abolition of slave torture, built churches
and opened missions for the conversion of these poor'
In our West Indian possessions, there wer,
Christian portions of the world like our e"
same might be said, almost without excer'
corner of the earth. •kmiali3e.\ p
the country

there were now

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diocese of Capetown, the diocese of Grahamstown, and
the diocese of Natal. Again, there was the measure of
success with which God had 'semi fit-to bless our endea-
vours in the 1 ndian Empire-, - - Would that we had
there done more in God's service ! He believed that, if
the Church of England had been more awake and alive to
her missionary responsibilities,we should never have heard
Of that mutiny and outbreak which had made so many
hearts sad. (Applause.) In the midst of all, there was one
spot which remained tranquil, and at peace. There was
a shield cast over one part of our Indian Empire. What
part was that ? The district of Tinnivelly. (Applause.)
And then he asked,
why was Tinnivelly peaceful, whilst
the rest of our Indian Empire was torn and distracted
on every side ? The answer was : there the Church
of England, by her two missionary societies, had
been active in God's service; there God had blessed
her endeavours, and had afforded His protection
and presence in the hour of need. God had spoken
abundantly and told us,—"lf you had attempted in the
rest of India what you have done in this part, you
should have had no mutiny, no outbreak." God had
warned us in this. For a time He shook our empire.
He then restored India to our power, hoping we might
use India more faithfully; and might He give us grace
to do so for the time to come ! But time would fail
him to point out the success of this scclety in past years ;
and he should close that part of his subject by one simple
fact. What was the condition of those countries in which
the society had been' . labouring, when it sent
forth its first missionary, with the blessing of
peace ? He believed that in those different countries,
there were not more than twenty ministers of God's
church to be met with. It had gone on, and quietly
laboured in this great work of love ; and what was
the condition of those countries now ? Instead of twenty
ministering servants, there were now more than 3,000,
who had gathered around them their several congre-
gations. He said, could any other branch of God's Church
sow such a measure of success as this Society of the
Church of England could ? But how were they to
reconcile the figures hehadgiven with the statement made
by the chairman, that the society had 400 ministers
abroad, whilst he stated that they had 3,000 ? He had to
tell them of the principle on which the society acted in
making each colony self-supporting, and withdrawing
its aid from a colony in proportion as it was able to
maintain its own church, and transferring that aid to other
colonies, which had since sprung into existence under
the same fostering care. The right rev. prelate then
proceeded to discuss the second part of the resolution,
that in proportion as the facts of missionary work were
known, its friends and supporters -would increase in
numbers and zeal. If in this town of Liverpool there
were any not friends and supporters of this great mis-
sionary society, and yet had hearts earnestin mission
work, it must be for this plain reason that they had not
taken pains to inquire what the society was—what the
work in which it was engaged; and how, in dependence
upon God's blessing, it carried on its work. (Applause.)
The great and desirable object was to make the society
known. He had to speak, not of suspicions, but of
simple ignorance in regard to the work in which the
society was engaged. In the diocese of Salisbury,
with which he was twenty-one years connected, the at-
tention
of the clergy was called by their bishop to the
claims of the society. The first year 32 associations were
formed, and £230 sent to its funds. They then began I
to have missionary meetings in their villages ; and five
years ago, when they met at their anniversary, they
had increased to 342 associations, and a contribution of
£4,090. (Applause.) They would find the church extend
at home in proportion as she fUlfilled her work abroad. He
wished that those who thought this a doubtful
society, would read its reports. His lordship next
made reference to his approaching departure for his
own diocese, and made a stirring appeal to the
audience for pecuniary support in the work in
which they were engaged. He could not forget, he
said, whilst he was ipaaking to them in his native land,
there were more than thirty of his brethren in the
episcopate, in different colonies of England, engaged in
their ! own dioceses, doing at the present moment
their proper work; and, in pleading for the society,'
he was pleading on behalf of them, and the infant
churches which they were attempting to strengthen and
form. ' What was the diocese to which he himself was
sent ? It was a part of the great Australian Empire,
1,500 miles from north to south, and more than 1,500
from east to west. It was occupied by the poor Eng-
lish settler, by the poor Australian savage, and by poor
coolies imported from China. Colonial Bishops were
often blamed for lingering in England rather than going
to their dioceses; but the fact was, that the Church of
England which sent them out made no provision for their
support, and they were obliged to remain here and make
appeals on behalf of themselves and those whom they.
were to have in charge. When he asked what pro-
vision there was for him ? his answer was, " You will
find three churches and three clergymen when yod get
there, and you must go and look for support." There
were in his diocese ten parishes, each 6,000 square
miles in extent, and seven of those parishes would
be without pastors unless he courd take them
out fro= England. The Bomish Church acted
in a different way. Since he had been consecrated
bishop of that diocese, there had been a Catholic bishop
sent out, with the same title as himself. The Catholic
Church provided the means : the Church of England
did not; and that was the reason they saw' colonial
bishops going about from spot to spot. The right rev.
prelate concluded, amid applause, by a further earnest
appeal on behalf of the society. .'

The Rev. C. IT DOWDING, honorary secretary to the
institution, seconded the motion, and in doing so, he

said he might be permitted to say a word or two that
the 13i5hop of Brisbane had' omitted to state, no doubt
from a feeling of modesty, as the remarks he was, about
to make related to himself, When he (Mr. Dowding.)
was first appointed to the ministry, he was put under
his char:re, and the pleasure he felt in labouring as it
were under his protecting wing, would never be forgot-
ten. He might say that the people had been stirred
nn to the VA work by the bishop himself in thp
diocese dilubi6ti to and though .

gifts
were small, the amount was considerable when taken
altogether. (Hear, hear.). It was owing to his exer-
tions that the diocese of Salisbury occupied the position
which it does at present. (Applause.) As regarded
the whole existence of the society, it had been a splendid
success. In its early days of mission life, it had many
difficulties to contend with. Men at the present time
said that a hundred years ago the society was not very

iety was either for good or for evil, andwa's
onnected with the Church of England itself. When a man
said that the society was less active than it should have
been he simply said that the Church of England was
so, because the church and the society were co-exten-
sive. If a dark cloud bad come across the church, then
that cloud had passed across the society, for the simple
reason that the rulers of the church were the rulers of
the society. (Applause.) Allusion had been made to
the American Church. They had heard a great deal
on that subject last year from two eminent gentlemen.
He had never been a missionary in the United States,
but he had travelled a good deal in that country, and
he knew the feeling that existed between the American
Church and that of England, and that feeling was love.
He had heard the Bishop of Lichfield say, that if the
Gospel Propagation Society had done nothing else than
plant the American Church, the world owed it a
debt of gratitude ; and, at the same time, he stated
that those who abstained from helping the society were
without excuse. The mention of the American Church
reminded him of the way in which a mission,
if thoroughly planted, would reproduce itself. America
had sent missionaries all over the country, into the far
west, axd even to Africa. Of late their minds had
been disturbed by the dreadful news from China, and
America had managed to maintain a much more neutral
position than England had been able to do, and he had
no doubt America would lite able to do God's work in
I that great empire. In Japan also there eras much
I reason to believe America would be successful

L, as was

shown by a long letter in one of the Liverpool papers.
He agreed with. the Bishop of Brisbane, that no success
did not show that there was no blessing ; and, he had
to say, that the society was altogether free from party
spirit. Dr. Livingston, who, although not of the Church
of England, had gone to the University of Cambridge
for the purpose of telling what he had seen in Central
Africa. He there stated that the Church of England
had opportunities of doing God's work ; and, he'said,
he had opened the door, and they should take
care, under God, that it should never be dosed, A
great meeting was held, and Cambridge asTeed to start
a mission, and Oxford joined than. This was not a
rival society, but one that was in perfect harmony with
s no
the Propagation of the Gospel Society. (Applause.)
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were now able to tell the people what, became of their
-(Triptions. (Hear, hear.) He thought missionary
were not likely to go down, as some people
.14611 fnnrba of thn soeiet.

..a whichhisrright7everend brotherz would, said, f€4* it had been shown tam buv •""""‘,........ ...---,
e measure, be more Conneeted,,Africa and the Isle had been increased three-fold in three years. a Lon-
Helena. lie might point to the missions in the don alone, the increase in four years was £20,000. lie