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TriE SUN, LONDON, TFICTIMDAY, MAY 28, 1840.

branches of the Institute, and the effects so beneficial to
religion which have resulted therefrom."
If any one in the meeting, en his presenting himself
before them, had had a thought eons© across his mind, and
had said to himself, " What can Lord Clifford say to us
about the Institute, this being the first meeting at which
we have ever seen him ?" he should have considered that
the remark was not uncourteous ; or if ever they had said,
" Does be mean to speak in Italian or English ?" that re-
mark would not have surprised him.—( Laughter.) Now
he was nut only going to speak English, but he was going to
speak it after the manner of a member of the Royal Fa-
mily, who was an ornament to this country—he alluded to
his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex.—(Great cheer-
ing.) The following were, he believed, the words, as far
as recollected them, of that Royal Duke, and used too at
a time when Catholics could not have assembled as they
did that day in that room—(Cheers)—to take advantage
of the impression produced in their favour by a tardy ac
knowledgment on the part of the Legislature.—( Cheers. )
The words were used by his Royal Highness when he
stood almost alone as the advocate for the restoration to
their birthright of seven millions of human beings.—
( Cheers.) As far as he recollected them his Royal Iligh-
ness's words were :—" The religious principles of a coun-
try will always centre in their political principles, and to
them they will always be more or less accommodated. Great
Britain, isolated in her position, has alway s cultivated a pecu-
liar species of civil and religious liberty unknown to other na-
tions of Europe." New, the object of the present Institute
was to make more known those principles of civil and re-
ligious liberty, in repugnance to which no profession of
Christianity could ever have permanent hold on the feel-
ings, and could only subsist in public estimation either by
silencing the voice of truth or the loud cry of m:srepre-
sentation.—(Choers.) The position in which the Roman
Catholic was placed by the Act of 1829. made it impossible
to silence the voice of seven millions of loyal subjects,
and therefore the question now came to be—What profes
sion of Christianity was that which was conformable to the
national spirit of civil liberty—and sooner or later that
Christianity would be the acknowledged Christianity of
Great Britain.—(Cheers.) Now, there was but one way
in which the course of the progress of events would be
stopped, and that would be if the Roman Catholics of her
Majesty were so to mistake their position as to descend to
the low arts of calumny and misrepresentation which had
been so successfully employed against them in the
reigns of her Majesty's predecessors.—(Cheers.) It was,
therefore, the main object of the present Institute to avoid
all calumnies, to speak to those who reviled them the voice
of truth, but carefully to avoid the language which had only
been employed in the propagation of falsehood.--( Cheers. )
The more they could impress the great truth among their
Catholic fellow-subjects, the more easy would be the solu-
tion of the problem. What species of Christianity was most
fit for the people of England ?—(Cheers)—and the dis-
semination of the branches of this Institution which the meet-
ing regarded as most effectual.—(Cheers.) He would now
say a few words with respect to his own country. A fort-
night before he left it a proposition was made for esta-
blishing an auxiliary branch of that Institute, and within
fourteen days after the first proposition he was directed to
hand into the Secretary a subscription of ten pounds.
—(Loud cheers.) It might not be unimportant or unin-
structive to advert to the history of the country in which
this happened. He could remember in 1819 having had
the honour of being gibetted there—(Laughter)—with
the Noble Lord now the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
who was called the Pretender—( Increased laughter)—
and also a Rev. Gentleman, who now resided on the
estate of the President of the Institute, who was called
his Satanic Majesty.—(lncreased laughter.) As for him-
self, he had had the honour of being elevated to the Pope-
dom.—(Roars of laughter.) And he believed three more
ugly personages could not have had the honour of being
gibbetted.—(Laughter.) Ho would venture to say no one
would have asked them to dinner, and the ladies would
have placed them in their book of " rejected addresses."
--(Great laughter.) Well, the Pretender, as he was
called, of Devonshire, had become Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, which, it was said, he was not fit for, because he
had invited Mr. O'Connell to dinner—( Great laughter)—
and Lord John Russell had been turned out of tke country,
because ho was friendly to Mr. O'Connell.—(Cheers.)
So much for party prejudices.—(lncreased cheering.)
Then, as to his friend—his Reverend friend, his Satanic
Majesty—he was content, notwithstanding she taunts against
his thriving upon the estates of his friend, the President
of the Institute ; and if he played the devil with any thing,
or any body, it was with the English language, for at
Alton Towers he still retained the Devonshire dialect.—
(Great laughter.) Then as to himself—there he was, at-
tending that meeting, and it certainly was such a meeting
as he never expected to see assembled for the purpose of
enlightening the minds of their fellow subjects, and re-
plying to calumnies, in the way of charity--( Cheers.)
It 'sad been said that, while be was in Rome last year, he
had been compassing the downfal of Christianity. Now,
what was the fact ? Why, that he had not been at Rome
at all last year, but in Germany.—( Cheers.) So much
for truth in that respect. Then it might be expected that
he should say something relative to what he had heard of
the character given by the Catholics of the Protestants
abroad. With respect to that, all he bad to say was, that
the general feeling he had met with on the Continent was
a well-founded respect for the English character, but a
deep regret that so little care had been taken by the
people to inform themselves of what the real merits of the
Catholic religion were. The Noble Lord concluded amid
much cheering by moving the resolution.

Mr. ADDIS seconded the resolution. The object of the
present Society was to dispel the ignorance that existed in
every part of the kingdom as to what the real principles of
the Catholic religion were, and thereby administer an
antidote to the poison that had been put forth by the
M'Ghees and the O'Sullivans.—(Cheers.)

The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, and declared it
to be carried unanimously.
Mr. O'CONNELL now came forward to propose the next
resolution. It is impossible to describe the scene that
took place at this moment ; the ladies, vast numbers of
whom occupied the meeting, rose to cheer the Liberator
of Ireland, and from every part of the room, not excluding
the galleries, the most enthusiastic plaudits proceeded.
Mr. O'Connell, having repeatedly bowed his thanks for
the honour done, and silence being in some measure re-
stored, proceeded to address the meeting.—Yes, he ex-
claimed, this is indeed a great day for England—( Im-
mense cheering)—a great day for truth, for religion, and
for charity (Great cheering)— and he hoped it
was not profane for him to say that it was a day
dedicated to the glory of God, and one likely
to promote a holy cause.—( Great cheering.) Catholicy
stood forward that day as she ought to do, with the most
ancient and most honourable nobility of the land around
her.—(Cheers.) She was persecuted no longer, she was
no longer enchained, and the people crowded round her.
—( Cheers.) Oh, it was indeed a great day for England.
—(Cheers.) There was something remarkable that it
should be the festival of the glorious Saint, who was sent
by the Pope of Rome as the first to communicate the
light of true religion to the ancestors of the English
people.—(Cheers.) It was the festival of St. Austin.—
(Great cheering.) He (Mr. O'Connell) remembered that
he had occasion once to write an epistle as to St.
Austin being the first to introduce Christianity in Eng-
land, whereupon he was called by a Methodist an egre-
gious liar. Such was the politeness with which he was
used.—( Laughter.) After some altercation, however, it
was admitted that he (Mr. O'Connell) was right. This re-
minded him of an Irish Counsel, who having nothing to
say to a witness, said, " Now, by virtue of your oath, are
you not a Dane ? to which he replied, No, and was about
leaving the box. 0, says the Counsel, come back, Sir.
Are you not a Swede ? and receiving a reply in the affir-
mative, he called him an equivocating rascal.—( Laughter.)
But to be serious ; this was a great day for Catholicy in
another point of view, namely, the contrast between the
manner in which they discussed religious subjects, and that
in which other parties brought them forward. They
had heard no imputations that day from any one upon other
Chi istian creeds.—(Cheers.) Whereas other meetings
had taken place where the foulest calumnies had been
uttered. They had been told that they did not know
what they believed. Now the fact was, that those who
said so were like Torn 7 humb—they made giants for
them, and then they killed them..—( Cheers.) It was a great
comfort to him to see some of tho discussions that had taken
place elsewhere against the Catholics, because he could not
find in them a single argument that touched upon the doc-
trines they professed, and where it did it was based upon error
and was nothing like what they believed.—(Cheers.) The
society to which be had referred had liars of all descrip-
tions, from Jesuitical M'Neil to forgery M‘Ghee.—
( Laughter. 1 It certainly was an honour to Ireland to
think that all these calumniators were Irishmen.—( Laugh_
ter. ) It was found, he supposed, that of all calumniators
the Irish were the boys to blacken.—( Laughter.) Now
he had had the curiosity to read an account of some of the
meetings that bad taken place at Exeter-hall, to see if
there was something to compete with in them ; but he
found the lies stated there so flat, stale, and unprofitable,
that they were not worth picking up out of the gutter.—
( Laughter.) But then they had issued pamphlets, and
he thought he might get them there ' • but what were they ?
Why, charges against the Catholic Bishops of being per-
jurers, and they named four of them. Now he, Mr.
O'Connell, stood there as their counsel, and he was pre-
pared to make good their defence. First, it was said that
one of them ( Dr. Healy) in 1834, sanctioned the third
Canon of the fourth Lateran. Now, what was the fact?
Why, just this ; that Dr. Healey was not a Bishop till
1839.—(Great cheering.) Now a friend of his (Mr.
O'Connell) had written to Dr. Murray on the subject,
and he would read his answer to the meeting.

" Dublin, May 22, 1840.
" DEARSIR,—I have been Just now favoured with your
letter of the 20th inst., in which you inform me that the
bigots of Exeter Hall have extensively disseminated a
handbill headed " Awful Perjury of the Popish Bizhopa
of Ireland ;" that the Irish Prelates are therein accused
of establishing in Ireland the Bulb. Ca3nee Domini,:
after publicly declaring to the empire that the said Bull
was never set up nor authorised in Ireland, nor would it
be ever published there ; and you beg of me to put you in
possessio • n of the true facts of the case. Now the answer
to all this is very short. As far as regards the accusation,
there are no true facts whatever in the case. The whole
is an impudent and unprincipled fabrication. No such
Bull has beon published or authorised by the Bishops of
Ireland, nor by any one of them. 't'o give an appearance
of plausibility to this atrocious libel, and impose on the
credulity of those who had not the means of ascertaining
its falsehood, the eighth volume of the Theology' of
Dens is pointed out as containing thin obnoxious Bull,
and the third Canon of the fourth Council of Lateran. In
both cases the assertion is utterly false. As a further proof
of the unscrupulous disregard of truth with which the
story was concocted, one of the four Leinster Bishops
(Dr. Healy) who is accused by name of having traitorouslT
employed this vehicle, in 1832, to set up these document 4
as the Canon Law of Irelan4, was not a Bishop until six
years later than that period. Is it not a pity that any por-
tion of the thinking people of England would allow them-
selves_ to be made the dupes of such convicted impostors ?
t is surely time that those who set themselves down to
l fabricate " ingenious devices," which are calculated to
tear asunder the bonds of Christian charity, should be

scouted out of the society of every lover of peace, of
order, and of truth.
" I have the honour to remain,
Dear Sir, very faithfully yours,
" D. MURRAY."
Such statements vvere hardly worth contradiction, but yet
those men got persons to believe them. Could any thing
be more inconsistent e,ith the Christian character than
being the authors of such falsehoods ? Ought they not,
he would ask, to raise a suspicion in the minds of conscien-
tious Protestants, that the cause could not be good which
they endeavoured to support ? Did, he would ask, the
ancient Christianity of the land require to be supported
from the murky regions of the unhappy?_( Cheers.) Were
such things to lead to the path of truth ? No ; there :l as a
sprit of the darkest desperation in these falsehoods.—
( Cheers.) Truth stood alone, eternal as the rock of ages,
on which Christ had founded his true and everlasting
Church.—( Cheers.) Now, with respect to Mr. Ker, of
Norwich, of whom something had been said ? That per-
sonage had got settled at Norwich, and being so, he
came to town to show his mode of working. He attended
what was called the Reformation Society.—( Laughter.)
What a ludicrous thing it was to give it such a name ; they
wanted to be reformed to be sure, and therefore he would
say, any money for a Reformer of the Reformation So-
ciety.—(Great laughter.) Well, this gentleman, Mr.
Ker, stated that Norwich contained two Popish priests,
two Popish chapels, and 2,000 Roman Catholics, and that
every species of bribery and corruption was resorted to
among them, for their own purposes ; that in one instance
a Roman Catholic priest had offered a Protestant 51. to
let his child go to the Roman Catholic school.—(Cheers.)
Now he (Mr. O'Connell) would lay Mr. Ker 500/. that
that was a lie.—( Laughter)—and he would prove it so—it
was improbable, it was impossible.—(Cheers.) Now he
had a letter from those two priests, which he would read
to the meeting, and then they would bo enabled to judge
of the truth or falsehood of the assertions of Mr. Ker :
" Catholic Chapel, Willow-lane, Norwich, May 24.
" Dear Sir,—ln answer to your welcome letter of Sa-
turday, I send you with pleasure the following particulars.
My ear has of late become so familiarized to the gross
falsehoods of the Rev. Mr. her agaiast us hero at Nor-
wich, and our holy religion, that I am not in the least
surprised he should tell falsehoods of us when at a distance,
and before a Reformation Society. What credit is to be
given to a Clergyman, himself an Irishman, who could
deliberately tell the Protestants of Norwich from the
pulpit, and afterwards confirm and glory in his assertion in
the 16'orwich Chronicle, that the people of Ireland were
so superstitious as to believe that their Priests—the cause
of all the crimes and miseries of Ireland—could, if they
pleased, " turn them into pigs or goats ?" And what is to
be thought of the members of the Protestant Association
who could listen and applaud ? Mr. Ker is a man of no
originality, except perhaps in falsehood. His discourses I
cannot better describe in short than as an ill-digested com-
pound from the notorious declamations of Gregg,
O'Beerne, Stowell, and M'Ghee.
" I beg you will confront the following statements with
the statements which you heard him make in the Hanover-
square Rooms. Ist. Before the formation of the Protes-
tant Association here towards the close of the last year,
my fellow-labourer, Mr. Abbott, had announced and en-
tered on a course of Controversial Lectures. This was
the means, in addition to the formation of a Branch Catho-
lic Institute, to promote Catholicism. The charge of
bribery and corruption is no more than the old threadbare
tale of " Five pounds and a pair of blankets to every con-
vert." I can testify that no Priest now living in Norwich
ever offered a Protestant 51. if he would send his child to
a Catholic school. No Priest would be such a fool. 2d.
The Parsons here kept a running account of our converts ;
they declared the numbers from the pulpit, calculating
them at 50, or 100, or 200, and some were so nice as to
draw the average. There were converts, but the number
the Parsons coined or caught up by hearsay, to show their
fright and alarm to their deluded hearers. Thanks be to
God, and to the help of the Protestant Association, since
last autumn, when the Association began here its whole-
sale work of lies and blasphemies, I have taken into the
church, and admitted to communion this Easter, 19 con-
verts adults, besides several children of Protestant parents
baptized. Mr. Abbot admitted 13 at Easter," purposes to
admit 14 more at Whitsuntide, and will then have 25
under instruction still. So much for Mr. Ker's falsehood
that owing to the Protestant Association we have not been
able to produce a single convert ! We prefer to go on
quietly and steadily. The fact is, dear Sir, many Pro-
testants own that we have been greatly benefited, them.
selves greatly injured, by the late violent, blasphemous,
and party-spirit harangues of the representatives of the
Protestant Association, who have been called in from even
the distance of 20 miles to attack us two poor Catholic
Priests. 3d. What ho said about the Chartists is false.
Mr. Collingridge indeed gave them a lecture—they were
pleased; and I never heard of their intending to join us
in a body. What is true is, they joined in hating the Pro-
testant Establishments and its wholesale plunder of Catho-
lic property and the poor. In haste to secure this day's
post, believe me yours truly,
" JAMES ETHERIDGE."
" Catholic Chapel, Maddermarket, May 24.
" Dear beg to subscribe my name also in con-
firmation of the correctness of all that is stated in the
foregoing pages of this sheet by my worthy fellow-labourer,
the Rev. James Etheridge. Your's truly,

"JOHN ABBOT."
So much for the truth of the story of Mr. Carr, and so
much for that Gentleman himself. Well, then, with re.
apect to M'Ghee, he had sent him (Mr. O'Connell)
a challenge to argue the question with him, but he would
net contamikate himself by arguing with such vagabonds.
Well, M'Ghec, not content with this, had taken up the 3d
canon of the Council of Lateran, and had put it iu the
shape of a resolution longer than his arm ; everybody was
to sign that, and then the Catholics were to be extin-
guished for ever.—(Cheers.) Now it was clear, both
from Collins's Ecclesiastical History, and from the evidence
of Dr. Doyle before the House of Lords, that they that were
called the Council of Lateran were no Council of Lateran
at all; and all the arguments and statements that were
built on that assertion, fell to the ground. It was a
council held against the errors of the Manacheans, a sect
that tolerated every bad principle, and asserted that it
was damnable to marry. He had followed this point
longer than he intended, but he now came back to the point
at which he left off. He asked them to show him a Catholic
that calumniated the Protestants.—(Cheers.) But then
it was said that the Catholic was a persecuting re-
ligion
' . if it was, was not the Protestant far more so ?
For a few years of persecution in the reign of Mary by
the Catholics, three hundred years of persecution had
been inflicted by the Protestants on the Catholics
(Cheers)—during which barbarities had been resorted
to which the savages of New Zealand would be ashamed
of.—( Cheers.) Talk to him of the Catholics being a
persecuting seligion ; what, he would ask, was the first
State that granted liberty of conscience ? Was it a
Protestant one ? No, it was Catholic Poland.—( Cheers.)
What had the Catholic settlers in Maryland done ? Why
they bad passed a law, emancipating the Protestants
there.—( Cheers.) In 1792 the Hungarian Diet eman-
cipated the Protestants; they gave them one-third of
their churches—nay, they did more—they enacted a law
that the Protestants should pay no tithes to the Catho-
lies.—( Cheers. ) Were such examples followed by the
Protestants? No. Even the heavenly Cranmer
himself persecuted both Catholics and Protestants, and
prevailed upon the crying child, Edward the Sixth, to
sign the death warrant of Parr and Joan of Arc.—
( Cheers.) He would now turn from this, and meet Lord
Winchilsea upon his own challenge. That Noble Lord
had told the meeting at Exeter Hall that liberty was
founded on the Protestant principle. Indeed I Who, he
would ask, instituted the British Monarchy? The Catho-
lics.—( Cheers. ) Who instituted the British Peerage ?
The Catholics.—( Renewed cheers.) Who instituted the
representation of the people in the House of Commons ?
The Catholics —(Continued cheering.) Who instituted
the Judges ? The Catholics.—( Cheers.) In fact, the
whole original frame of the Constitution of the country was
Catholic ; and he did not think it had much improved by
becoming Protestant.—(Cheers.) In those times the
poor could enjoy their limbs in the open fields, but
now, in Protestant times, they were shut up in
workhouses, away from their fellow men.—( Cheers.)
But then it was said Protestantism was favourable to
liberty. Favourable to liberty 1 Sweden was free when
Catholic—she became enslaved when Protestant. —( Hear.)
Look at Denmark also ; she was free when Catholic—
(Cheers)—she became Protestant, and what was the re.
sult ? Her King was declared absolute—her liberty was
put an end to—and up almost to the present day no man
could be a Catholic there.—(Cheers.) Then look at
Holland. There to be sure, it might have been a dis-
puted question, but when the Dutch found that their
liberties were safe, did they resort to Protestants? Where,
he would ask, were those instances which had been
boasted of in Protestant countries? He cculd not find
them. Perhaps he might be told they existed in Ireland. I
Perhaps he might be told they existed in the British Par-
liament.—(Cheers.) He might be told that in 1929 they
emancipated them. They did so; but why ? Why, be-
cause, as they said, in Ireland, " It was convanient to do
so."—(Great laughter.) Peel and Wellington, and the
whole lot of them, admitted that they did so because they
thought it was prudent.—(Cheers.) Ho stood there the
advocate of Catholicity, he stood there to maintain that it
was based on the principles of civil and religious liberty.
—( Cheers.) The Catholics, claiming the right of con-
science themselves, recognised it in others; in fact, the
principles upon which they went were, that they might
make a man a hypocrite by force, but they could not make
him a convert.—( Cheers.) The Catholics wanted no
worldly preference for their religion ; all they
if
it whaandtednowtaas
that it should be tried by its awn merits,
preference in reason, and in the eye of God, then let it
perish. —( Cheers.) But the Catholics came forward, and
acid, believe not the calumniators ; we are for every man
having liberty of conscience ; we are for upholding every
claim that is just, no matter what the colour or the creed.—
( Cheers.) The Catholics had aided in the great struggle
for the emancipation of the negro, and they would ever be
found assisting in all works of charity and love.—( Cheers. )
He stood there as the advocate of Catholicity. He stood
there as the advocate of the faith of his fathers.—( Cheers.)
With a thorough conviction of the truth of all and every
part of the Catholic doctrine—(Cheers)—and lie would
not for all the world could give abandon one particle of it.
—( Great cheering.) Why, he would ask, should the Ca-
t
tthlsliaawioluavlde beenstud Ct subct to take the disgraceful oath they
had been compelled to take ?—( Hear, hear.) Oh,
y
they were safe in believing the Catholic, because if
eye
edoftoredaissboen.,
they would find a
lieve any of the rituals of their Church. They must
theat o l h
Catholicici t, with
w
the
forbidden
either believe all or none.—( Cheers.) When they talked
to him of the sanctity of an oath, he would turn round and
ask what more they required to assure them of the sincerity
of the Catholic? Had they not been persecuted and
driven to distress—had they not been excluded from the
il4ercise of every right and privilege—had not they been
robbed and plundered of their property, and spoliated o f
their rank and station? And yet they had borne all this
sooner than violate the sanctity of an oath.—( Great cheer-
ing.) And yet the ministers who had imposed those oaths
on the Catholics would now again impose them. If those
oaths were again imposed, he was sure the Catholics would
be found to rise to a man to oppose them.—(Cheers.
would conclude as he had begun, by exclaiming that this

wls a great day for England.—( Cheers.) Catholic
truth had put itself forward with the manliness that
ought to belong to the truth of God.—(Great cheer-
ing.) She was no longer shrinking or timid. She
was no longer terrified or abashed, but she stood
forward in the plenitude of her strength, a:ld in her own
peculiar loveliness.—(Cheers.) No class of religionists
were more attached to the Sovereign of the realm than the
Catholics were.—(Cheers)—and none he was sure would
more cheerfully lose their blood and treasure in her de-
fence. " May her throne," exclaimed the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman, " be surrounded with glory, and
power, and strength, and dignity. May her family circle
increase year after year. May the lisping of her children
make the mother's heart happy. May she enjoy every
blessing that the world can afford, and when it shall please
Him who rules the destinies of all the nations of the
world to take her to himself, may she receive a crown of
glory that fadeth not away."—(Greet cheering.) The
Catholics were firm in their ahegiance to the Throne—
they were ready to join every band that struggled for free-
dom—they were ready to assist in casting off the fetters
of those who were in bondage; in short, their only wish
was that Christianity should flow through all the world in
one unbroken stream, and that, having began with the first
coming of the Redeemer, it might be fated to last till he
came upon earth again.—( Tremendous cheering.) The
Learned Gentleman concluded by moving the following
resolution:--

" That we solemnly protest against the unchristian tone
of calumny and of atrocious falsehoods exhibited at public
meetings, and by the circulation of mendacious; tracts by
many Protestant Clergymen and Laymen ; and whilst we
declare our readiness at all times to maintain the truth
and purity of Catholic tenets, and to give a reason for the
faith that is in us—we will on every occasion refute false-
hood and calumny with calm reasoning, and in the spirit
of benevolence and Christian charity.—(Great cheering.)
CHARLES WELLS, Esq. seconded the resolution which
was carried unanimously.
Lord STOURTON moved the following resolution :
" That the thanks of this meeting are due, and are
hereby given to the Office-bearers of the Parent Institute,
and its different Branches, for their zealous attention to
the duties entrusted to them."
Mr. CHARLES TOWNLEY seconded the resolution which
was carried unanimously.
The following resolution was also unanimously agreed
to, having been moved by Mr. P. HOWARD, and seconded
by Lord LOVATT

.4 That the following gentlemen be appointed the Com-
mittee for the ensuing year, with power to add to their
number, according to the regulations of the Institute, viz. :
—Messrs. Richard Abraham, Charles Addis, John Bo-
relli, Frederick Chambers, J. A. Cooke, P. G. Heatley,
Charles Innis, jun., Charles Edward Jerningham, Andrew
Loughnan, jun., Frederick Lucas, Francis Macdonnell,
Anthony Molteno, William Mylins, C. J. Pagliano, John
Reed, Francis Riddell, Henry Riddell, William Rogers,
I'. M. Smith, Richard Swift, and Charles Well."
On the motion of Mr. JONES, seconded by Mr. WEBBLX,
Mr. James Smith, the Secretary, was re-appointed.
On the motion of Mr. MACDONNELL, seconded by Mr.
lIERSE Y, the address from the Liverpool Branch to the
Parent Society was referred to the Committee.
The Chairman having left the chair, and the same
having been taken by Dr. Hughes, the Bishop Coadjutor
of New York,

A vote of thanks was then unanimously agreed to, for
his able and impartial conduct in the Chair.
The CHAIRMAN having returned thanks for the honour
done him, and Dr. Hughes having expressed the great
delight he felt in witnessing the proceedings of that day,
and assured the meeting that no exertion should be want-
ing on his part to aid their holy cause, the vast assemblage
separated shortly before six o'clock.