The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-07 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

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SOUTHWARK, Auu. s.—We are still without any alteration
in our Hop Market. The duty was done at 110,0001. on Satur-
day, to day it is at 120,0001.
MAiusToNu, Auo. s.—Our hop plantations are in a very
bad state—we certainly consider them past any material re-
covery ; for the want of sap they cannot generally get out of
burr, and where they have turned into hop the flea has done
them a very serious injury. 'We observe some others between
burr and hop very lousy and tinged with the red mould. Upou
the whole (from oar general information) we think very un-
favourably of the crop, and that the duty cannot exceed our
calculation we feel quite confident.

We have the painful task of recording a la-
mentable, and at the same time extraordinary, accident, which
occurred at the Pauper Lunatic Asylum for this Riding on
Wednesday. A poor man, called Thomas Wood, of Ossett,
28 years of age, was brought to that place on Monday, in a
high state of mania, and was immediately put in a ward, con-
cieved to be suitable to the apparent state of his malady.. Ori
Wednesday morning he attempted to hang himself in his
cell, by means of his handkerchief, but was discovered in
time to prevent the accomplishment of his delign. It was
thought necessary, however, to remove him to a place of greater
security ; and he was accordingly put into. a rcircutory cell.
But, previous to his being plac2d there, every possible precauticn
was apparently taken to secure him from the capability of doing
himself any. harm. A strong leathern belt was fastened
round his waist, with straps passing over his shoulders, and
bound down close to his body. To this belt, in front, were
firmly fixed two strong leathern pouches, or purses, into
which his hands were severally put, sod recur d at the wr'Es
by two iron bolts, which were fast lacked in their p'aus.—
For still greater security, two leathern straps were passed with-
in each other, and buckled round his ancles. In this situation,
he was put into a strong cell, where he was, a short time after-
wards, visited by one of the physicians of the asylum, and
deemed to be perfectly secure from any possible harm ;
yet, after the lapse of about two hours, he was found a corpse.
—He had contrived to gnaw open one of his pockets with his
teeth, so as to get the fingers of his hand ,out at the side,
and, in this situation, he had managed to unbuckle the
straps from both ,his legs. One of these he had fastened
round his neck, and with the other he had suspended
himself from the bar of the window shutter of his cell,
at a height of little less than eight feet from the ground
Our informant, on whom we can rely, and who has in-
spected personally, both the cell and the appara'us used
for security, assures us, tha the efforts he must have
made, appear most extraordinary, and scarcely to be accom-
plished by human power. Not the smallest shadow of blame,
on the score of negligence, attaches upon any one,, as no
man could have previously thought the act within the
bounds of possibility. The unfortunate man, we are sorry
t' say, has left a wife and two small children to lament his
loss.—The above is the first serious accident which has hap-
pened, since the opening of this excellent refuge for the most
lamentable of humanniladies.—(Leeds Intelligencer, Aug. 5. )

LITEktAIiY NOTICE.

FOR THE SUN.

A taSPECTFUL LETTER to the Earl of LIVERPOOL,
G. First Lord of his Majesty's Treasury, &c. &c. &c.
occasioned by the Speech imputed to his Lordship at the Isle
at Thuoct Bible Society Meeting., by the Rev. H. N.
N'0i4.2,i3, M. A. Perpetual Curate of John's Chapel,
klaCalcney, &c.

Thotigh the title-page of the work before us does
not fully explain the object which the Author has
in.teievi, we have ho hesitatioo in saying that it
will ring an alarum through the British Empire.
We.censider that every subject in these dominions
-is indebted to Mr. NORRIS for a most masterly
exposure, by reference to facts and to documents,
and by demonstrative reasoning, of a Society at
once the most extensive, the most alarming, the
Most vigorous, and: deeply planned of any that
has been formed in modern times, excepting that
of the 111-umines in Germany, to which it bears
in some points a very strong affinity. We are
firmly convinced that the Author's motives for
this extraordinary exposure are such as he states
them to be, and which are honourable to his
character, and testimonies of his courage. He
says-
" They are net undertaken, GOD is my witness, from any
" other motive than the solicitude which; as an Englishman,
" I feel in the welfare of the most highly-favoured country
apon- earth, -and from an earnest desire to render faithful ser,
" vice to that Church to which I have solemnly dedicated my
" life, talents, and 'i;s:ettions, and which I believe to be, within
these dominions, that one fold of Christ, integral within it.
self, but forming a part also of his Universal Kingclorn,which
Barn bound upon every principle, eternal as well as tempo-
" poral, to cb my utmost to uphold."
We have been long aware_ of the existence of
the following facts, and have anxiously looked
forward for a .public and authentic exposure of I
them; and we will take upon us to affirm that Mr.
Norris.has, in every instance, kept within the
timiti to which :he might have gone. As the
press of irocoriant matter is very great, we shall
not forbear condensing and abridging our Author,
so that we may give as much publicity as pos-
sible to the leading facts contained in the book,
within which there is an exposure of the whole
system,, in all it. -various
.ramifications, of the
" Foreign and British Bible Society." Mr.
Norris has shewn that thousands of women, pf
every age and station, are made the mere tools
of 'a Managing Committee ; that they are made
the collectots of subscriptions to an enormous
amount, which are remitted to the Committee of
the Parent Society, and which sums are disbursed
according to their orders ; that the females thus
engaged have been insulted by their leaders with
language the most indecorous and improper.
Af first, the Addresses of the Society to the
feMale part of the community, were limited to an
iuv,itation tic, its public meetings, and in the Ap-
pendix to the Report of the year 1810 will be
found this recoraed proviso Females not to
be called on to ad as Collectors." As soon as the
Managers of thi vast scheme felt strong enough
to take more vigorous means towards obtaining
the object they have in view, they organized
Auxiliary Societies-of Women, and made them,
instead of Men, CoeLEcTotts. The Financiersi
of the Society soon discovered the " beneficial re-
suit" arising from Females being Collectors.l
Sub-Societies were formed, Auxiliary Branch So-
cieties were organized by the exertions of a'
Mr.-Dudley ; these were spread throUgh every
county and district, and were stimnlated
by his 'Unwearied talents until his exploits
drew upon him the highest honours of the Society,
whose hired* Agent he Was, and we believe
still is. But mark—the private instructions
of these conductors of this portentous scheme,
were, that the female societies should have a male
counsellor, or two deputed by them, whO were
strictly enjoined to regularly attend their meetings,
to direct their movements, prepare their resolu-
tions, and conahunicate- with the Parent Society.
We do not know of one instance in which a fe-
male has been placed by the workers of thiS
scheme in a situation in which she would be left
for a moment to her own discretion. Every
female has been a tool, to use the words of one
of the organs of the Society, " not indeed to
take the under parts of labour, but to tie the
" branches, and direct the tendrils," with the
confident eXpectation that, with their assistance,
there would be " an abundant harvest." We
will undertake to affirm that there is not a wo-
man in the. -kingdom 'who could tell any thing
concerning the disburseMents of the money col-
lected by them, beyond the belief that a certain
ninnber of Bibtes and Testaments have been
sent, for which they were to obtain, if possible,
the full price ; there is not one that can tell
more of the Society than that they have attended_
harangueS, and been stimulated to obtain -mo-
ney, for they knew yot what. This pint will
be made more-'evident' hereafter. Our author
has shewn that 'the female's have been considered
as incapable of holding places of 'trust where the'
arcana of the uslein Would be made known ,- and
we shall presently shew that Princes and Lords,
and even Bishops, have been treated with the
same contempt. Now we will exhibit the in-
sulting and improper manner in which 'the feel-
ings of the females have been wrought on, and
which we trust will so excite their scorn and in-
dignation, as to induce all those who peruse
Mr. Norris's book, to immediately detach them-
selves from a Society which' has attempted, for
its own purposes, to hold their characters up
to the derision of men. They were first reli-
giously worked on. «They were addressed as
" fair hearers,. who graced the assembly," and
whose " infitience was often more powerful and
" effectual than authority." They were said to
4C manifest their zeal in frequently raising their
6 6 lily hands' in support of the pious andertalc-
" ing;" then the medicine was rendered more
pungent, and they were called on to imitate the
devout females " who adorned the triumph of the
" Messiah, and augmented his- recompense, who
" were the list to leave the cross, and the first
" to proclaim the resurrection ;" they were told
that they were " angels of mercy in -a female
". form." By the time the commissioned organs
and' agents of this Society had Wrought on the
feMales in almost every part of the 'country by
these fooleries, by mystifying the simple doc-
trines of the Church, and draWing them towards
the self stifficient tenets of Calvinism, they found
that their devotees were 4le to bear still stronger

stimuli, and at length Dr. Olynthius Gregory
assured them that " if they were active in the
" cause, God would be their lover." The majority
having imbibed the conceit of" imperious duty" in
obeying the directions of the Society, they were
at last told to cast behind diem all concern for
the remonstrances of those " in opposition to
" whose sentiments nothing but this strong convic
tiO7i would have induced them to-act." The ef-
fects of such advice have heed dreadful. Even
separation between husband and, wife. Family
schisms, friendships dissolved, and other calami-
ties. What will be the surprise of those who
are unacquained with the effrontery of these
leaders of the thousands of women now udder
their influence, when' they are informed that
they are- insulted with the title of "An Jima-
" zoniad troop-of female heroes," who area
,since
it is " a work of difficulty and address," to go in
pairs, a matron and a younger lady together, ,to
invade the retirement of private families, to be
" punctual," and 44 persevere" in calling in the
"forenoon" when the mastercif the family " is in
" the counting house, the factory, or the field" ! !
and it is notoriously the practice' to shun the
master of the family, " and his unexpected pre-
" settee at home is the signal for retreat, till a
more'convenient season ?" They are notorious-
ly encouraged, if rejected by the heads of the
family, to penetrate into the kitchens to ha-
rangue the•domestics, and induce them to sub-
_scribe, for - money is their one main object,
and inquire into the spiritual concerns of the
household: They have been exhorted to do
• more, even than this, actually to penetrate into
the vessels and ships of every port. Mr. Norris has
kept far within bounds, for we understand-that
very handsome, -well spoken females, apparently
under twenty years .of age, deputed by the So-
ciety, are in the practise of GOING ALONE to the
houses of single men for the purpose of obtaining
money to prOmote the ends of their employers,
and whose beauty and address render it almost
impossible to refuse what they solicit ; but we
cannot wonder at so great a prostitution of Mind,
or at so great a delusion, when .the females of
these societies tolerate such language as the fol-
lowing _ _ _

- " What may not be anticipated from the fu-
" Lure ekertions of a Society under such high pa-
" tronage, and with such powerful support ; a
" Society which, to the commanding energies of
" man, now combines-the more imposing Mu-
" ence of female grace, and zeal, and industry.
44 The ex.perience of years had proved that even
" in the capacity of a Bible Society it was not
"good for man to be alone. The harmony of nature,
44 however, is now happily completed. The hardy
" and Masculine trunk, which was found to be
44 deficient in that nourishing moisture which brings
" the blossoms to the maturely of fruit, has at
" length received a graft from a young enriching
species : and the union promises to contribute
" largely to the abundance and 4cellence of
" their common productions !! !"- The man who
penned. alb; metaphorical obscenity deserves the
severest punishment ; and, as Mr. Norris most
justly -observes, that females " must be led
" captiVe at the, will of those to whom they so
" disresputably-listen, and be driven to any
" lengths to which these men may urge them on,
in furtherance of their designs," we have
shown enough to convince any rational woman
that to ally herself to this Society is to be led
she knows not where, to be made an instrument
of, for she knows not what, to ,be cajoled as a
fool. and insulted as being void of all -Claim to
female delicacy._ This .money-raising system has
been, we understand, carried even into academies,
and boys are tempted, by the promise of being
made vice-patrons and committee-men, if they
will contribute one or two guineas, on their leav-
ing school.—Female seminaries have been. also
attacked with great success, and, credal Judivus,
even Sunday-schools and Charity-schools, "from
44 whom. the Society haS received • the'most con-
" staut support 'according to their means!!!?'

These are not all the measures-these sagacious
and persevering men have taken to obtain money,
and strengthen themselves with wealth and itum-
tiers, so as to effectually attain their desired end,
They have closely united themselves to the
Socinians, a Sect which declares " all creeds',
44 catechisms and articles as unscriptural
vations upon' genuine Christian Theology ;"
" The members of which Sect publicly revile our
" Liturgy as the Commun Prayer Book of the Sect
" of the- Thirty Nine Articles, still whimsically
" enough styling itself the Church of England;"
and who openly express their high satisfaction
at 44 the wonderful success of the Bible Society,
" and that hence they cannot but encourage- the
" cheerful hope," that Scriptural worship and
." Scriptural religion will rapidly gain ground."
A sect which bestows lamentations upon `4 such
" Christian scholars as are tied up by a NAM.ROW
" Ecclesiastical Establishment from doing JUS-
CC TILE to the Scriptures, and are obliged by
44 oaths and subscriptions to deliver that to the
"people as inspired truth *Mai TEIEY KNOW to
" be acarelbSs alteration, a sUperstitiou perver-
""sion, or a Wicked- corruption of the sacred re-
" cords." Before- we proCeed, we assure our`Readers that we feel and profess the most per-
fect toleration for, the opinions and worship of
every_sect, and that we are not actuated by any
personal hostility towards any sect; and that in
giving, all publicity to the undisguised assertions
of seas of different denominations, we consider
ourselveS as fulfilling our public duty, as well as
in stating the character and avowed principles
of the coadjutors of this great association. Oar
readers will be as much surprised,as we were When
we became acquainted with the fact,.when we
make known to tobem that the Socinians, aware
of the just.odiutn their public appearance as its
'zealous supporters would bring upon the Society,
have declared that they have given a greater
proof of _their " 'warm kegard,- by abstaining
" from the pleasure, and denying themselves the
honour, of being amongst- its most 'public and
" zealous proinoters."
Mr.' Norris's exposition of this coalition is
drawn, with a' master's hand 'from indisputable
documents, and is in itself enough t' give a death
blow to thiS Society. We will now enter su
perficially, for our lirnts will not admit of our
going deeper into the system of delusion practised

by the movers of the machine to carry on their
projects. When Princes, Nobles, Bishops, or
persons of distinction, are so cajoled as to accept
Presidencies and other offices, they are used as
a thew regiment with -Which to entrap the un-
wary, but their private system is never to admit
them into the closet of the Conductors, though
with extreme cunning they order that 46 the re-
" spect which is due to rank and character and
" influence should never be lost sight of, and that
44 their possessors should be placed in the list of
44 honorary ofjVcers, rather than on the Committee,"
" since, they continue, " it is undeniable that no-
" minal strength in a Committee is not unfrequently
"found to be real weakness." The surprise will be
increased, when we assure our Readers that Mr.
Norris has.proved that, though the Archbishop
of Canterbury directed his name to be with-
drawn, with pertinacious effrontery they still
continued to muster him as a partisair. That the.
Primate of Ireland, and the Archbishop of Dub-
lin, because they directed their names to be
erased since the conduct of the Society did not
conform to their original professions, were shame-
fully insulted and reviled, as well as the Bishops
of Meath and Armagh.. The celebrated Bishop
Marsh-they did not dare to continue to revilessince
he with vigour, learning, and precision, long
since convicted them of the grossest public de-
ception, in declaring that they had translated,
the Scriptures into various tongues, which they
had not donel and of making assertions respecting
the state of Germany and other countries
which were palpably false. The learned Bishop
Towline too has stood the brunt of their reproach
and calurniiy, for in one of the reports of their
deputed organs it is said, " that either the Bishop
" of Lincoln was • a false accuser, or the Arch-
" bishop of Canterbury was a traitor to the
" Church." Eve's the .hallowed dead are not
safe from their false and vituperative asper-
sions, for though it was notorious that the late
learned and respected Bishop Randolph 'gave,
not long before he was called away, " most ex-
" tensive publicity to a letter from Hertford, de-
" tailing some auxiliary speeches there; which
" developed rather prematurely those tendencies
44 of the Society which his penetrating eye had
" before detected," orse of the Society's agents
publicly declared, since he had some time before
substantiated ch'arges against the Society, that
" he lived and died, regretting that he ever sent
" it forth into the world," while on that Prelate's
unexpected death it was circulated by the organs
of the_Society, that " it is the practice of the Al-
" mighty, when he has great designs in view, to
44 begin by the removal of obstacles, and that it
" was a great mercy in GOD to take away such
4C a persecutor of his people! !!" Other Prelates
and Dignitaries have directed their names to be
erased from the rolls of a Society, which, as soon
as it had received warmth and vigour from their
fostering protection, exhibited their real objects,
and turned ow those who cherished them. Their
impudence has even gone the length of endea-
vouring to force honorary situations on Noblemen
and persons of distinction; among the former was
the Earl of Craven, who readily perceived, not
only the latent objects of the Society, but felt
the improper liberty whibh had been taken, and
in a dignified rejection of the honour conferred,
directed his name to be erased. The then Mem-
ber for Reading, in Berkshire, did the. same.
Our limits will not allow us
.to enter at length
on, the system of arilling and disciplining the
trumpeters of the Society at their public meet-
ings, or of detailing at length the practice of
dressing up the speeches made for future publi-
cation. Notwithstanding all their care and
cunning, some detections have been made by
their own members, over whom they either
had not gained sufficient controul., or whom
they had , not sufficiently drilled. After the
Society had scattered over the country splen-
did accounts of their success in India, and
had penned flaming recitals of Ilindou women
immolating themselves oh the pyres of their hug-
bands, and thus extracted more contributions
from their deluded votaries, it was stated before
a great concourse of persons in Freemason's Hall
by one of their own body who had long resided
in India, elat NOT Two Hundred Converts had
been made by them in twenty years. Mr. Owen,
who has been' well sltewn up in the Christian
Remembrancer, Mr. Roe, Mr. Cunningham,
and even Mr. Wilberforce, as if struck by an
electric shock, sprung up to soften down the
statement, but, in vain, the damning 'fact was too
'strong and too clearly stated, and we heard no
more of India and Ilindoo immolations for some
time rafter. The Society were allowed a footing
by the members of the factory at St. Peters-
burgh, under the promise, that they would not
disturb the Church of England. _But guess our
surprise at learning that 'their pledge was deemed
more honoured in the breach than in the ob-
servance ; for in 1816, only " three years after-
" wards,a dissenting place of worship was opened,
" under the alm\ost exclusive 'countenance and,
" support of the different individuals employed
" in the Bible Society's various departments;
" and this hitherto unanimous communion was
"4' dismembered."

In addition to air these means, they have -an
active resident at Cambridge, who spares neither
expence nor pains to make Converts among the
Students, to his pernicious doctrines, and we are
sorry to acknowledge that he has been too suc-
cessful. After all that has been said, it would
be superfluous to draw a comparison between the
Society for the Promotion of Christian Know-
ledge and this Association. But as the leaders
of this Society have made disparaging statements
respecting the Society for the Promotion of Chris-
tian Knowledge,we assure our readers, on the word
of Mr. N that that Society not 'I -* lat

. orris, is only circulates
the Bible alone, but also with the Liturgy, and
with select works from the most approved divitres,
as their applicants require, and that in fact there is
" no other limitation than its resources." As
a proof of the fact, the Rev. Basil Woodd actually
distributed Two Thousand Bibles alone in the
neighbourhood of Bentiuck
,Chapel. Mr. Wil-
berforce is also called on to bear testimony to the
fact. • To this let us, through Mr. Norris, make
,known that the Bible Society distributes ,'gra-
tuitously neither-Bibles nor Testaments, except-
ing in very few instances, and that 60 ladies were.'

rebuked by Mr. Dudley "as having carried the'
" mode of gratuitous supply to a mischievous excess,
" the amount being Five Pounds !! " The most
indigent persons-who are supplied with this So-
ciety's Bibles pay for them either at the time, or
half when the book is delivered, or by a penny
each week until the sum is completed ; and these
poor deluded creatures actually pay a larger sum
than . required by the Society for the Promotion
of Christian Knowledge from more competent
persons. , Moreover, the Society, when they grew
richer and more powerful, raised the price of their
Bibles, so
,keen are they in the pursuit of gain.
But the S2:Klety for. the Promotion of Christian
Knowledge has gradually diminished their prices
and increased their gratuitous distribution. If
our limits would permit us, we would gladly
quote Mr. Norris's precise exposure of this
grinding act; but the following table will be
proof enough that the Society are getting a profit
of many Pounds per Cent. by selling their wares.
1822` 1822.
Bible Society for the
Propagation
Christian Society. Chr
s. d. s. d.
36 2 8
3 '2 2 8
46 4 2
5 5 4 11
96 8 6
7-10 6 10

Bible, 24m0. - -
Non-pareil - -
Minion, Crown Bvo. -
Brevier, Demy Bvo. -
Ditto, with References
Small Pica, Bvo.

• _
We shall now offer a few remarks on their
Editors.—Bishop Marsh, as we said before,
has exposed thair false statements respect-
ing their having 'made translations from many
languages. Mr. Owen, one of the accredit-
ed organs of the Society, has affirmed that they
were " a body or men exceeded by none in the
" pains which they take to procure suitable
" editors for their foreign versions, or in looking
" closely into the principles of those to whom
" the editing of them is entrusted." Mr. Norris
has proved, and so has the Editor of the Christian
Remembrancer, that the Calvinistic translation
of Ostervald's Bible, which had been rejected
by the Pastors and Professors of the Church of
Geneva, was published by the Society, and loud,'
ly proclaimed by Mr. Owen as the edition re-
ceived and approved of by the Church of Gene-
va ; and that it had been carefully " revue et
corrigee, avec soin, d'apres les texts Ilebren et
Grec," when it had not undergone any such cor-
rection, but was " a vile copy of the grossest
errata of the edition from which it was printed."
The Editor was Mr. Meicier, a known Socinian,
who had published sermons, from which his prin-
ciples could haVe been easily known.
The Committee of the Society wished to "new
cast," and " fresh punctuate" the Irish Bible,
but were prevented, and, after a severe struggle,
consented to adopt Bishop Beodil's translation.—
These careful selectors of Editors confided in
one " M'Quig, whom they found in Watts's
" printing-office, whittler he had been driven to
" seek a livelihood by translating or correct-
" ing press-work, in consequence of practices
" which had drawn down ,upon him,—first, the
" suspension of his functions as a Methodist
" preacher, and subsequently irrevocable degra-
" dation from his ministry. This man, exceed-
" ingly defective in his, knowledge of Irish, ge-
nerally ignorant in other respects, and signal-
" ized only by the particulars above stated, and
" by the outrageous offensiveness of his conduct
" towards one of the most distinguished of the
g 4 Irish Clergy, is the second specimen which has
" transpired of the managing Committee's edito-
" rial circumspection." Bishop Cleaver's spirited
remonstrance compelled the Society to desist from
printing any more copies of their Welsh Bible, since
Mr. Charles, their editor, was she w n to have made
in the New Testament alone ONE THOUSAND AND
SIX ERRORS /. 1. ! The unsophisticated people of
Iceland said that it broke their hearts to see the
liberties which had been taken with their Scrip-
tures, in the Edition sanctioned by the Society.
,But enough. We will now offer a few remarks
on the manner in which the enormous sums have
been disbursed. Mr. Norris states the specified
" Revenue of the Bible Society to be EIGHTY
EIGHT THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY
POUNDS per annum." We do not deem the
expence of printing, &c. considerable, since, all'
(the gratuitous distribution is not worthy of men-
tion) Bi bles and Testaments in this country are paid
for at a high price, as the preceding table proves.
Of the copies carried to Smyrna, thence to Egypt,
Abyssinia, Armenia, '&c. the greater number are
paid for by the purchasers, or exchanged for MS.
and other Versions, as is reported by their accre-
dited agent, Mr. Jowett ; the agents and Mis-
sionary, expences will not consume more than a
small portion of so great a sum'. But it is noto-
rious that Church Livings of a certain value are
purchased by the Calvinistic Methodists, and men
of the same religious opinions are placed in them
.as are professed by those who are the directors
of this vast machine. Whether this circumstance
will account for any portion of the expenditure,
,tGe •Private Committee of the Bible Society can
make known if they please; so that there is
forming within the pale, of the Church a body-of
men who are verifying the declaration of one of
their accredited i -organs. that " the Members of
the Church of England did not see that they
' WERE WORKING THEIR OWN UNDOING." This
exposure will throw some light on the reasons
why the 'zealous and learned Bishop Marsh put
forth his Ordination Questions ; it was to raise a
bulwark against the Calvinistic. Methodists of
this Society ; it was to preserve the Hierarchy
ftoin being hurled from their seats; it was to
preserve the .Church against the mining at-
tacks of its bitterest foes. The adherents
of this Society heaped uppn that great, that
learned, Prelate every' vile and opprobrious epi-
thet; they accused him of oppression and spiritual
tyranny, though in five years he had rejected,
under the use of 'these admirable questions, only
one inefficient candidate, one Curate who would
not be examined, and one who vainly endeavoured,
to mislead the acute and able Prelate.—These
two latter persons were selected merely to agitate
the question, and of this the Noble Lord who
presented their Petitions, it is said, was aware.
But the Calvinistic Methodists knew that the
barrier which their steady and active'opponent
had drawn up could not be passed over, so they
vented their rage against the Prelate; but rage is
not often accompanied with wisdom, and they

went too far, and triumphantly foretold 4‘ thuiti
64 the Mitre and the Crown t7ouldfall together ll"
We will close our remarks, first, by offering our
humble meed of commendation to Mr. Norris,
not only for the masterly exposure of this alight,
scheme, but for the gentlemanly manner in.whic4l
he has addressed the Earl of Liverpool, who,
we sincerely hope, will ere long institute a Sena-
torial inquiry into the illegal mode of taxation
pursued by the emissaries of the Bible Society;
secondly, we wish it to be most clearly under-
stood, that we unfeignedly believe that the" n""
jority of the persons who have been made instill'
ments of by this Society are perfectly ignorant
of the objects in view by their leaders, but think
that they are performing their duty both to
God and man, while in truth they are in'
struments in the hands of the greatest enemies
`Me Church of England ever had to contend with;
and lastly we will conclude with Mr. Norris '
own words, 'who, as a " faithful monitor, warned
the country of its danger when the Society COn"
menced,as another Delilah,that caressing system
which he saw would prove destiuctive of out
Church's strength, and deliver it over an easy
pray to the Philistines."
The presidency ‘4 over this undertaking," ml
'Lord, is " the Crown," which, Mr. Owen tella
us, " it has ever been, and to his dying- h°l
44 will be, his wish and endeavour to see placed
" on the head of the C 4 CHURCH OF ENGLAND'
Alas, my Lord,.that wishes and endeavours even
semblaby well intended towards our little be"
Mended, but much spoken against cornmuni°n7
should be associated with means so completely
destructive of their completion ; but, my Lor`"
were this Crown of the Bible Society ever so pre-
cious, it is short sightedness indeed to predestine
it to the Church of England. Mr. Owent forget's
that there are others, besides Churchmen, who'
when his " due time" comes, will step forward
and claim a decisive voice in its appropriation;
In their communications among themselves, tbe'..
language has long been that of "wonder at the"
condescension" in doing 44 all the hard duties of
the Committees" and keeping 44 in=qhe bacA:
ground" on all public occasions, whilst he
" posts of honour were filled by gently;
men of the Established Church," who ,
" in all things the pre-eminence--the audien_,,c="'
the money, and the talents, being at the sawci
time all on their (the Dissenters) side." IS",°0(
does Mr. 0 wen.stippose that, when the (JO,. 1,,
Coronation tomes, they will be found "
quious ?" No, my Lord, they will then procialb,
.openly what they now only whisper through °d,
scure channels of dissenting intercourse, dente
alas ! beneath the notice of any but theinselve'
that,
stheir " voluntary shrinking behind" v1.35,,i.
disguised humility for the " making the Cle,r'as
their tools," to advance them to power, anu,n,
the surest game they could play for seating ihe;
selves in the Supremacy." . -

* Vide Episcopal Innovation.
± Not of New Lanark.

OLD nsE.----There is now living at Warringg;
ton, a horse which has attained the age of 43 yeals'
which it is supposed no other horse ever attained. The
and
belongs to the Mersey and Irwell Navigation Conll33,l'Y'siglit
more than half his life has been spent in towing boats;
is still good, and he possesses the use of all his limbs In
calf
able perfection ; his colour is a chesnut dun, and he is se"4o-
15 hands high. He grazes in summer on the luxuriant Pinto
age on the banks of the Mersey, and in winter is take-
stableTe, and fed on mashes and soft foOd.
n drops of essential oil of lavender, dfiistears:
buted about a bed, - will drive away bugs or