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NEW BIBLE SOCIETY:

A numeious meeting of persons of both sexes
took place yesterday in the Egyptian lipid, at the
Mansion House,- for the purpose of foUadil4 :La
auxiliary. Bible Society. The LoiA Mayor in the
Chair.

The Hail Was cowl-Act:Ay fille l wheu the Chair
was taken, and the assembly was as highly respect-
able as it was unusually numerous. •

The Lomi Mayon opened the businessoulfl iu
a 0-tort htit neat speech expressed his happiness at
finding so respectable a meeting assembled for
the best of purposes ; assembled- to give to others
that book, which was not only the foundation of
our comfort here, but which furnished the means
of finding the road to eternal happiness hereafter.
Feeling, as all present must, the great benefits
which they had derived front that book in their
edhcation, it was a subject ;If surprise, that a so-
ciety lit‘e that now to be established, had not be.
fore been formed in the, city of London. It had
been said that such. a society might endanger the
EstabllThed :Church. lie. had been educated in
the religion of the Church, was sincerely. attached
to its interests, and could he conceive that such a
society would, have a tendeney to endanger them,
he could never appear-as a member of it ; but how
the Established Church could by possibility be,
injured by distributing bibles to the peOple, he
was at a loss to conceive, not "knowing how such
an evil could possibly occur from their proceed,.
ing ; the society hart his warmest • support,. and
he thought that Hall had never been graced be-
fore, as it was graced them,- by the company there
assembled.

The Rev.-Air. OWEN appealed to the experience
of the last eight ) ears, if the predictions, origin-
ally thrown out aga.inst.the.Bible Society had in
any one instance been verified by
,facts. He
would appeal to the Citizens of London, to their
wives and their itaughters, if any of the evil con-
sequences wlnch had been anticipated were found
to result front the establa..nhent of the original
Bible Society. It any were still afraid that snch
a Society would be injurioAs to the State, when he
could shew theta a Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and a First Lord of the Treasury among. its-sup-
porters when he could go up to the Courts, of
Justice, and point to two' eminent Judges who
-were among their; when ascending to the Epis-
copal Bench, he could point to mitres, the owners
of which were adorned with all that piety, and
virtue which ennobled humanity, who were with
thiS Society,—surely,,,when he poiated to such
-characters, apprehension must - cease: If they
went to tl'Oristocracy of the country; it would
be found thai States Men, who Were at present em-
ployed, and who were not emplOyed,, were with,
then', and-when the same might be said almost of
the aggregate of the British Population, who, if
adorned with no outward 'distinction, were yet
entitleil to the admiration of Posterity ;as orna-
ments to 'iterative and as benefactors to. Mankind ;
they must be satisfied, that the plan was as un-
exceptionable in practice as-it was noble in prin-
ciple. In this stage of the business it was not his
intention to trespass longer 'on their titne. He
would, therefore, conclude by intr4ducing to-them
_Dr. Brumahaute, the Chaplain to the Swedish
Ambassador.

Dr. BatiMAHAUTE expressed his inability to ad-
dress as he 'could wish.so august a 'netting as
that now assembled.; in the. presence of the first
Magistrate of the first City in the world.
however, the simple langage of truth and grati-
Ode continues to be welcomed to British hearts,
he hoped, that what he was about to say, though:
not el?g,anthr expressed, and though uttered in a
foreign tone, would not be altogether disregarded
The Rev. Gentleman then went on in a strain of
eqsy unaffected eloquence, to prove the necessity.
which existed for the eAtablishment of the pro-
posed Soc4ety, and to set forth- the exclusive be-
nefits Which it might be the means of bestowing
upon -the.whole NI"orld. Great and successful as
were the exertions whic.ti bad been made by &lie
Bible Society, there were yet, many millions Who
had-never heard the Saviour's name, and there
were many other million* who :had heard his
name, but who had never seen his word, He.
strongly. enforced the necessity of establishing
Bible Societies among Christians of. every deno-;
mination in the British Empire,' as such was the
pressure of the times abroad; that friendS and foes
were constrained to. look W this country for relief.
Sweden, though second to no ct',•untry in the world,
in an ardent desire to obtain religious knowledge,
yet looked up to this country for aid. From the
information which be had on the subject, he was
led to, infer, that one-third of the poorer classes
in Sweden were without a bible and if such were
the case in that country, what must be the situa-
tion of others,. where no such Societies were form-
ed for the dissemination. of the Gospel as had
been established, through the means of the Eng-
lish, at Stockholm. On the effect produced on the
minds dfthose abroad, who were thus succoured
by England, he could say much ; but be would

only take up their time at: present by si-itting obe,
ciremnstance, which had <lccurred in he province
of Dal eca rii a :—W hen Swstten was forced to make
peace with France and Rusiia, and to cease to be
the ally of Litn.sland, the same prayers continued
tti be offered up for this couutry hi ,Daleeariia,
'which were customary before. Some notice was
take of this circumstance--and it whs reoreseoted
to the people of Dalcearlia that thh'hought to be
discontinued, as•the English were then their ene-
mies ; to which the . Dalecarlians
" Oh, 116 ! the English are not our, them:lies
'they are our best friends : they sent ha, cora
in our distresg, medicine for the relief of our
wohnded men, and, above all, they have sent us'
the Bible !",
The Rev. Mr. IJUGHF.S observed, the Bible So-
ciety 'had now, as had been said by a pious
Pre-
late, become generally known, and was firmly
estaljlkhed. Triumphantly successful over all
that had opposed it, it was now seen what,These
its real objects ;and it was known that no dark
plats injurious to the State were connected with
it. A small volume had sufficed to t:ontoins the
,;allies of the friends, and the lists of do o atic 'l:5 to
'the original institution, '' a.nd now, (said he),
behold the voliime which .is filed with them at
tfv, close of the eighth year."—[Mere he held wri
to the view of the Assembly, a 'eery, small pump/4e,
and a thick octavo book.]-7-Magistrates, senetora,
Prelates, and Nobles, had come forward to sup-
port it. Within the last 8 years the Society had •
expended 100,000/. and had distributed 290,00 U
'Testaments and 140,000 Bibles. It had led to
the establishment of hive similar societies on the
continent of Europe, one in India, and twenty
in North America. . Through its means the GoA,
pel had visited eery part of the globe, promot.
ing unity and love, ushering in true religion, Itike
an angel surprising in glory. The City of LOn-
don, never backward liberally to contribute to-
wards the prosecution of any laudable nndertak-
ing, would from this day rank higher than ever.—
Meeting there as they did, in the cantle of that
circle, the circumference of which inclosed the
world, they ought not to confine their tabours to,
the oar, but spread all their sails, and court the
favouring breezes, to waft the Gospel to every
' shore, and 'to recognise in every clime the; bonds
of brothenhood throughout the vast family of man.
(hipp/auses) He proceeded to chew that the ge-
neral system of Education now established would
be injurious rather than beneficical, unless by dis-
tributing the Gospel geherally, proper aliment
were provided for the mind. He concluded by
eulogising the conduct of the Lord Mayor on the
present occasion, and by expressing a hope that
his example would be followed by every future oc-
cupant of the cic chair.
Twenty-one Resolutions, embodying the Plan
,and Regulations of the Society about to' be form-
ed, were then read by the Gi:crvtary,. -
Mr. ROWCZOFT hoped the gemeral
the Gospel Nvotild lead to .universal peace. As
they met for the purpose of marking the impres-
sion made on their convinced minds of the bene-
fits resulting from the establiAithent of a Bible
Society, it behoved them, by liberally subscrib-
ing to the plan, to give the world a demonstra-
tion of their sincerity. Saying this, he wished •
to be understood as not urging any thing-that on
a future occasion might make their effort' for
sapplying the poor with bread ineffectual. What
they were now called upon to do they could ea-
sily accomplish ; greater exertions would proba-
bly be necessary on the occasion to which he had '
alluded. He concluded by moving, that the as-
sembly should agree to the resolution which:had
been 'read.
hir.FAVELL thought the purposes to which that
ball had' usually been appropriated, necessary to
'the reputation of the city, and the • proceedings
of this day were, in his opinion, very far from
in uny way tarnishing time reputation of his Eord7
ship, or the City of London. If authorised to
do so by his -Majesty's Office of Heraldry, he
should feel disposed from this day to quarter in
'the City arms opposite the dagger, which ap-
• geared as a weapon of, blood, that book which
went to proclaimpeace to all the world.. He was
not in the habit of flattering those in power, and
made it his, business "to tell the people the truth ;
but he could not augur unfavourably-for the cowl- ,
try, when he saw the chieflqinister of the Crown,
and the chief Magistrate of the City of London,
in the midst of a meeting assembled for that par-
noSe, which was the object` of the assembly he •
jj had the honour to address. Under all the gloomy
. circumstances pf .the times, one bright ray shed
its light, not only on this country, but on the
whole world, when efforts were made to teach
ever* one to read. When he reflected, that, but a
few centuries ago, single combats were solemnly
decreed by Judges, to decide a question of right,
and contemplated the 'change which had since
taken place in sodiety, he thought it was not
an Utopian idea to hope the,ekertions now mak-
ing to benefit mankind in general would lead to
universal peace. He concluded by stcondiug the

motion.
The LORD MAYOR now came forward to put
the question. Ladies, he observed, were com-
petent to bec6me subscribers f—and if any Gen-
tleman wished to propose any additional resolu-
tion, the hustings from which he addressed than
would be at the service of any one.
The question was then put, and theresoiution
carried ne►nine contradicente.
The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER, honour-
ed as he had been by the invitation of the Lord
Mayor, rose for the purpose of. proposing a reso-
lution, in which he was satisfied the whole As-
semby would cordially concur. The resolution
was—" That the _grateful thanks of this Meeting
be given to the Lord Mayor, for his prompt coin-
plian,;e, with their wishes, for proposing the re-