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EUtD'S COLOURED PIIOTOGRAPIIIC
PORTRAITS.
At 34, Parliament-street, Westminster; 85, King William-street,
City ; and the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent- treet.
" A great improvement has been effected by the Patentee."—Times.

S COUNTIES RAILWAY.
NEWMARKET RACES.
on NIONDAT, TUE .DAT, WEDNESDAY, and THURSDAY,
October 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29tit, coaches will run in connexion
wilt; the ordinary trains leaving London,
via CAMBRIDGE.
7'15 end 11'30 A.m., and 115 P.M.
Via CHESTERFORD.
s'o P.M.
The Express Train will stop at Chesterford to set down pas-
sengers only on the above days. On Saturday, the 24th, a coach
will start for Newmarket on the arrival of that train at Cambridge.
An additional Train will leave London on Monday the 26th for
Che-terford and Cambridge at 1,4 before 8 A.m., calling at Waltham,
Harlow, and Bishop Stortford, returning from Cambridge at 610,
and Chesterford at 7'lo P.N.
Passengers hooked through, vii Chesterford or Cambridge.
Ey order,
C. P. RONEY, Secretary.

Iliabopsgate Station,
20th October, 1846.

STAINES and RICHMOND RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management of this Railway have the
satisfaction to state that arrangements have been made with the
London and South-Western Railway Company, by which the Scrip-
holders in this Company will be entitled to an equal number of Scrip
Shares in the New Amalgamater Company, upon payment of 11. 2s.
per share. Such new shares will then be considered as having paid
a deposit of 21. 2s. in the Amalgamater Company, to be called the
" Windsor, Staines, and South-Western Railway Company." Scrip-
holders will be required to deposit the scrip with the Secretary, at
the Offices of the Company, 32, Moorgate-street, on or before
SATURDAY, the 31st of October inst., between the hours of Eleven
and Four o'clock. A receipt will be given for the scrip at the time
the same is left at the Offices of the Company. Persons transmitting
their scrip by post are requested to write their names and addresses
In nil across the face of the scrip. Due notice will be given of the
times and places appointed for payment of the deposit, and for ex-
changing the Shares for Scrip in the Amalgamater Company.
By order, J. C. GOVETT, Secretary.
32, Moorgate-street, Oct. 14,1816.

lANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON
RAILWAY. . .
19, Great George-street, Westminster, October, 5, 1946.
It having been resolved at a numerous meeting of Shareholders in
ais Company, that a renewed application should be made to Par-
lament, in the ensuing session, for authority to construct a railway
from CHELTENHAM to SOUTHAMPTON, power being also given
to the Directors in that event, to allow those who shall dissent from
this decision to withdraw, receiving back their relative poportion of
deposits, after payment of the expenses incurred—parties being
Scripholders, are requested to notify in one of the annexed forms
(copies of which may be had on application), on or before the 21st
day of October instant, whether they elect to proceed with, or
withdraw from the undertaking. If the Scripholders who have not
yet notified their intentions shall determine (in pursuance of the
resolutions of the meeting), to proceed with the undertaking, those
who elect to withdraw, in case they signify their wish within the
time above specified, may receive back the sum of Fifteen shillings
per Share, with any further sum which may be found due to them
upon a complete adjustment of the Company's accounts, which ad-
justment will be effected with all practicable dispatch.
The Scrip must at the same time be forwarded to the Company's
Offices, in return for which receipt will be issued immediately, to
be exchanged hereafter for New Scrip by those who elect to proceed.
Scripholders, not being original allottees, will be required to give a
reference.

By order,
JOHN WHEELER, Secretary.

To the Directors of the Manchester and Southampton Railway

Company.
Gentlemen,—l hereby inform you that, as holder of the Scrip for
Shares in this undertaking, which I enclose, it is my wish to*
be a party to the pr ,posed renewed application to Parliament for
power to construct a Railway from Cheltenham to Southampton ;
and I elect accordingly to PROCEED with the undertaking, in such
ma.nier, and under such name or title, and subject to such conditions,
as the Directors shall deem best ; and I request you, accordingly, to
issue to me Scrip for Shares in the said Manchester and Southamp-
ton Railway, or any new undertaking founded thereupon, in exchange
for those now held by me.

Description .... • • • • •• • • • • ••••• • • • • •
Address • • • .
Total number of Scrip enclosed • • • • • - • • • • • •- • • • • • •
Designating No& .... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • " • .
* Parties wishing to withdraw will subs'itute the tollo vine; words:
—" Withdraw from the Company, and to receive hack tr.e balance of
my deposits, in respect of such Scrip, in the manner prescribed in
your Advertisement."

M_ANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management inform the Shareholders that the
Parliamentary Contract and Supplementary Subscribers' Agreement
*lll lie for execution at the following places and times, between the
hours of ten and four daily :
In London—From October 22d to October 24th, inclusive, at the
Company's offices in Westminster; and from October 26th to October
30th, inclusive. at the offices of Messrs. Bolton, Merriman, and Dun-
ning, Austin-friars.
In Glasgow—From October 22d to October 24th, inclusive, at the
offices of Messrs. Buchanan, Altkin. and Co.
In Manchester—From October 27th to October 31st, inclusive, at
the offices of Mr. James Wheeler, 58, George-street.
And in Southampton—During the same period, at the offices of
Messrs. Deacon and Long.
It will be necessary that parties attending to execute the deeds
should previously have transmitted their scrip to the Company's
offices, and obtained, in lieu thereof, the Secretary's receipt, in ex
change for which New Scrip will be issued after such execution.
Due notice will be given of the times and places, not herein speci-
fied, at which the deeds will hereafter lie for the convenience of the
shareholders.
- (By order) JOHN WHEELER, Secretary.
19, Great George-street, Westminster, Oct., 1846.

BORDEAUX, TOULOUSE, and CETTE
li AILW A. Y,
EZPELETU'S COMPANY.
The Shareholders in the Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette Railway
(Ezpeletq's Company, are requested to send in their Scrip to this
office forthwith, to be exchanged against Definitive Shares in the
Constituted Company, which will be ready for delivery as soon as
the arrangements for that purpose can be completed.
DAVID SALOMON% Chairman.
Bordeaux and Cette Railway Office, 37, Lombard-street,
London, October 19, 1846.

NEW SECURE ENVELOPE FOR NEWS-
PAPERS.
D priceELAR one in
TTORasnhdC,o 'S New Registered Envelope for News-
papers,
—lag' per Hundred, may be bad of all respectable
Stationers.

EYEBROWS, .
produced in a OUSTACHIOS, and WHlS-
KERSrtfeiwmwsleells, and Baldness removed and
Z'ONE'S AROMATIC REGENE-
prevented by the use of G
RATOR, an essential spirit, drawn'
minutes ; it is also a
7tum a few
tid4 only In triangular
from aromatic herbs and flowers,
il
Pamphlet,louble the size,
a few drops of which cure headed
most delightful, fragrant toilet per'
~r bottles, protected by the Government sntaa:m
7s. ; and double this, size, I Is. each ; enclosedp ins.
con-
taining testimonials of undoubted authority, entitled troll, Minutes'
Advice on the Growth and Preservation of the Human air, pic."
By post, 4s. 6d., 7s. 8d„ and 125., for money orders only.
Sold wholesale only at Grimstono's Herbary, Highgate,
London ; and by Messrs. Barclay and Son, Farrinxdon-street ; San
Oxford street; Messrs. Butler and Co„Cheapside ; Fisher and Toiler,
Conduit-street ; Mr. Johnston, medicine warehouse, 68, Cornhill ;
and by all chemists. Perfumers, and Whirs For Edinburgh, J. and
R. Raimes, Leith-walk ; for Mancha/4C •ruche and Son, Adver-
tiser-office.

TO TUE LAMM.
This lady had the following letter inserted in the "Times" news-
paper on Aug. 7, 184(3. Reader, remember, this letter was put into
the paper by the lady herself, as a testimony to me.
" Mrs. Weekley, of No. 3. Swan-street, Borough, takes this oppor-
tunity of publicly thanking Mr. W. Gemstone, of the ilerbary, High-
gate, for the efficacy of his Aromatic Regenerator, in having com-
pletely restored the hair on her head, after using it about four months,
and the whole of her hair is much stronger and mere luxuriant than
it ever was before the baldness appeared.
" Mrs. Weekley inserts this testimony to the virtues of Mr. G.'s
Regenator, feeling assured that many ladies would gladly purchase
an 11 s. bottle if they were as certain of its virtues as she is, from ex-
perience, not only in the restoration and production of hair in abund-
ance, but as a cure ef nervous headache ; as a toilet perfume it is far
beyond any to her taste. She will feel a pleasure in answering any
lady of respectability to the above facts.-3, Swan-street, Borough."
In cases of the hair becoming thin, weak, or turning grey, a few
drops on the crown of the head occasionally, every week, will pre-
vent the hair from coming away with the comb, make it strong, and
prevent it turning grey, rendering the hair luxuriant and curly. A
few dro:m on your hairbrush before brushing the hair, will give the
hair brilliancy, causing it to curl.
The most delicate ladies may use this delightful product of the
most aromatic herbs and flowers with confidence ; its refreshing
odour removes headache and makes it a most necessary companion
to the toilet. In cases of nevous headache, pour ten or twelve drops
on the erown of the head ; if v ry bad, repeat it every quarter of an
hour. In most cases relief is certain in ten minutes. It produces
hair on children's heads in a few apppliettions. If used on infants'
heads, it has such a peculiar cooling influence on the brain as to pre-
vent convulsions, as well as promoting the growth of hair.—See
pamphlet ef testimonials.
All letters addressed to William Grimstone, Herhary, Highgate.

THE QUEEN OF SPAIN'S MARRIAGE,
The marriage of the youthful Queen of Spain
Is certainly deserving of a strain ;
And lest you think we're slighting the "infanta,"
Our muse shall take the subject up instanter;
We've nothing that's political in view,
That we will leave for editors to do ;
'While some folks make a business to assail her,
Our business is the business of a tailor.
We want to give a hint (as you may guess) •
Touching her royal bride room's wedding dress.
MOSES and SON (without a word's dispute)
Should have the orders for the wedding suit.
Garments like these would make the courtiers stare,
Nor would he find their equal anywhere ;
The Spanish Queen herself would much admire
The elegance display'd in such attire.
MOSES and SON (which fac they scarce need state)
Are daily having orders from the great ;
And Egypt's Prince, while visiting our borders,
Forgot not to oblige us with h!s orders.
Then let the Royal Prince about to marry
Take up the hint which these few verses carry ;
MOSES and SON will choicely execute
The Prince's order for a wedding suite.

LIST OF PRICES.
READY MADE.

X Y. d.
Tweed ,Tagllont ....... ................from o 7 6
Chentriteld and Codrington Tag

Ueseription and make, including
ButinhemerregClosatetsredin Coatevery .. .. .. ..
..
... ............. .. 1 2 0
Biomes in every material ......................from 0 2 3
Splendid pattern Summer Vests ...„.
.............. 0 2 3
Cashmere and Persian ditto, in endless variety ...... 0 4 6
Black and Fancy Satin, ditto ...................... a 6 0
Fancy Trousers .. • • • • • • .......: .................... 0 4 6
Black, ditto... ...... ... • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ........ 0 9 6
Dress Coats. ..... ..•• •• •• •• •• • ••
••
••
',rock ditto .• • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • ...... • •• • • • • • • • • •• • • 1 3 0

HALL OF ROME, GREAT WINDMILL-
ST RE ET, HAYMARKET.
Eight doors from Coventry. street.
Under Distinguished Patronage.—The original Poses rlastiques awl
Tableaux Vivans.
Professor TURNOUR, ever anxious to diversify the attractions at
the above splendid theatre, begs most respectfully to inform the
Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, that he has succeeded in en-
gaging one of the finest Models of the day, who will appear every
afternoon and evening during the week in Professor Tumour's cele-
brated groups of Venus Rising frcn ;he Sea mil the Lute Player.
The new Classical Groupings, which have been acknoseedged by the
press as far surpassing anythiug of the kind ever attempted in this
country, will be repeated during the week, introducing the THREE
COLOUR FD FEMALE MODELS, natives of Ilindoostan, who have
been received with rapturous applause by fashionable and crowded
houses.
Morning Performance at Three o'clock, and Evening at Half-past
Eight.—Stalls, 2s. 6d.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is.

A NTWERP, BRUSSELS, and the RHINE.
..tx LONDON to COLOGNE in THIRTY HOURS. (Sea PASSag
Seven Hours only.)
The Antwerp Company's powerfbl, splendid and very favourite
Steam-ship ANTWERPEN, THOMAS JACKSON, Commander,
leaves the St. Katharine's-wharf, Tower, every SUNDAY MORN-
ING, at Ten o'clock, returning from Antwerp every Wednesday
morning, at Eleven o'clock. By this steamer and the railroad from
Antwerp, travellers going to the Rhine may reach Cologne in thirty
hours. Carriages and horses may be sent to the wharf up to one
hour before the time of starting, but all applications for the shipment
of goods must be made to the London Agents, Messrs. Lightly and
Simon, 123, Fenchurch-street, where, as well as at the Packet Office,
33, Regent-circus, Piccadilly, berths may be secured, and every in-
formation obtained.

TIIE CHEST.
MARKWICK'S PATENT CHEST PRO-
TECTORS are acknowledged by all to be the very best
ever invented.
" They are, in our opinion, calculated to secure general public
patronage. We have little doubt but as this very useful article be-
comes known, it will at the same time become very popular."—
Advertiser, Oct. 13.
Specimens and Pamphlet explaining their uses, &c., and containing
the opinions of the press, will be sent free on the receipt of two post-
age stamps. Depot, 69:King William-street, City. Liberal allow-
ance to the trade.

THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S
CHARGE.

The Right Rev. the Bishop of London held a visita-

tion of the clergy of the metropolis on Monday at St.
Paul's Cathedral. His Lordship was received at the
western door by the prebencja,eies, canons residentiary,
&c., at half-past eleven o'clock, and was immediately
conducted to the episcopal throne. Prayers were read
by the Rev. Mr. Peckman, and the lessons by the Rev.
Mr. Hall ; after which an able and eloquent sermon was
preached by the Rev. Dr. M'Caul from the second epistle
to Timothy, 3d chapter, 16th and 17th verses.
At the conclusion of the sermon the Bishop of London
pronounced the benediction, and the Right Rev. Prelate
then: proceeded to the east end of the cathedral, and
took his seat on a chair within the communion rails-
Archdeacon Hale sat on the prelate's right hand, the
canons and minor canons occupied chairs on either side,
within the railings, and the other clergymen present
seated themselves on benches in front of the communion
table. Mr. Shepherd, the registrar, then called over
the names of the clergy who had bean required to attend
the visitation. This ceremony having been concluded,
The Bishop of LONDON proceeded to read his charge.
The Right Rev. Prelate commenced by observing, that
the four years which had elapsed since he had last ad-
dresied them from that place had been marked by a
series of events of the deepest intt rest and importance to
the Churcheof Christ in this realm. Some of those events
had been of a very painful kind, while others had worn
a cheering aspect of encouragement mad hope. The most
remarkable of these varied features in the recent history
of the Church might be regarded as appropriate subjects
of contemplation on such an occasion as the present; for
God's dealings with his heritage ought surely to engage
the serious attention of those whom he had set over his
household to give them meat in due season. It would
be his (the Bishop's) endeavour to place some of these
topics before them for their consideration, that they
might draw from them thes) lessons which they seemed
designed to teach the Chureb M. larveespeed especially
its ministers. They would naturally expect, however,
before he entered upon any other subject, that he should
make some allusion to a charge he delivered at their
last synodal meeting, and which had given rise to much
discussion and had called forth the expression of a great
variety of opinions. He might have availed himself of
this opportunity to enter into a lengthened defence of the
opinions and counsels he had submitted to them on the
occasion to which he alluded ; and he might have vindi-
cated himself from those imputations which no person
who did not wilfully misconstrue or strangely misunder-
stand the plain language of his former charge, could have
cast upon him. He might easily fortify the position he
had taken when be last addressed them by the authority
of many of the most able defenders of our reformed
Church ; and he might have re-asserted, under cover of
their venerable names, what he was persuaded were the
true principles of its doctrine and discipline. But he
wished to avoid all controversial topics, lest he might
revive disputes which were now happily subsiding, if
they had not altogether ceased. He could not, however,
pass over the subject altogether without offering a few
words, if not in self-defence,- at least in explanation as
to the motives which prompted him to recommend a
closer adherence to the rubric than had been generally
practised for many years previously. Ile could not
state his opinions more clearly or succinctly than in the
words of their venerable Primate, addressed to the
clergy and laity of his province, in the pastoral letter
issued by his Grace early last year. Speaking of the
differences which existed as to the directions of the
rubric, his Grace observed :—" There have, I apprehend,
at all times been clergymen who have been di-tressed
by this inconsistency ; and of late ars it has been
regarded by many excellent men as irreconcilable with
the obligations which they took upon themselves on their
admission into holy orders. Under the influence of these
scruples, they thought it right to adhere as closely as
possible to the letter of the rubric in their ministration ;
whilst others of their brethren, not less conscientious,
have been determined by considerations, in their estima-
don of great weight, to follow the usage which they found
establishad in their respective churches. Under these
circumstances, a dive rsity of practice has arisen, which
is not only inconsistent with the principle of uniformity
maintained by the Church, but is sometimes associated
in the apinds of the people with peculiarities of doctrine,
and gives birth to suspicions and jealousies destructive
of the confidence which should always subsist between
the flock and their pastor. To prevent the increase of an
evil which might terminate in actual schisms was confess-
edly most desirable; and the mo,t effectual mode of accom-
plishing the object, it has been thought would be found in
general conformity to the rubric. Universal concurrence
in this easy and obvious regulation would have combined
the several to:vantages of securing compliance with the
law of the Church and the land, of putting a stop to un-
authorised ,innovations, and of excluding party distinc-
tions, in their character decidedly unchristian, from the
public worship of God; and I cannot but regret that mea-
sures which, with a view to these good purposes, have
been recommended by high authorities, should not have
been received with unanimous acquiescence as the means
of restoring order and peace, without any departure
from the principles of the Church, or offence to the meet
scrupulous conscience." These words precisely de
scribed the view which he (the Bishop of London) in-
tended to take of the subject, when he found a growing
diversity of practice existing in the churches of this
diocese, and when he was applied to by many of the
clergy as to the proper course to be pursued. It certainly
appeared to him that, while the consciences of those
clergymen who were distressed by a sense of these in-
consistencies of practice would be relieved by a more
exact compliance with the rubrical directions, no mi-
nister of one church could object on the score of con-
science to do that which he had expressly promised to
do, first, on the occasion of his ordination, and next, on
being licensed as the minister of a particular church
or chapel. He (the Bishop of London) did not, there-
fore, hesitate to repeat, with greater particularity, an
opinion he had expr, sled in a charge he delivered nearly
twenty years before, and to advise the clergy to act
in more strict conformity with the rubric, If
there bad been, on the part of the clergy in
this diocese, that universal concurrence to which the
Primate referred in these views, no general or serious
objection would have been made on the part of the lay
members of the Church. They could not well have stig-
matised compliance with the law as evincing a sympathy
with any particular opinions at variance with the doc-
trines of the Church • but the refusal of a comparatively
small portion of the Clergy to act upon his recommenda-
tions had precluded those advantages which he had
hoped might have resulted from his advice. It was not
to be wondered at, under these circumstances, that the
laity should regard with suspicion a return to a more
regular mode of celebrating divine service, especially
when many innovations which were re ally intended as
such, and which were moat objectionable, had been at-
tempted. He (the Bishop of London) was not disposed
to censure with harshness that dislike to change which,
in this instance, if it had been carried too far, proceeded
generally, if not in every case, from real attachment to
the services of the Church. The refusal on the part of
some of the clergy to carry out his recommendations,
and the speedylreturn of many others who had suggested
them to former practices, placed him in a situation of
great delicacy and difficulty with respect to those who
felt themselves under a solemn obligation to follow
the express directions of the rubric. In several
parishes a clamour had been raised which it was impos-
sible to still by reason, and the peace of the Church was
threatened with interruption. He, therefore, thought
that, however desirable uniformity might be, it would be
purchased too dearly at the price of that irritation and
discord which would certainly have resulted from an
attempt on his part to enforce in every instance compli-
ance with those rules, the observance of which he had
contented himself with recommending. Under these
circumstances he deemed it right, after consultation with
those whose opinions he was hound to respect, to inform
the clergy, as opportunity offered, that he did not re-
quire them to observe that degree of rubrical strictness
which he still thought would desirable. At the same
time, it was clear that he was not at liberty to direct any
one not to do that which the letter of the law required
him to do. The utmost length to which he (the Bishop
of London) could 'go was to abstain from enforcing
strict obedience to the law. He was well aware
that some of the parochial clergy thought it was his
duty to uphold them at all hazards, in opposition to their
parishioners, in requiring strict compliance with the
letter of the rubric ; bat it was evident if he had
done this in any one parish of his diocese that he must
have done it in all, and this was a course of proceeding
upon which, with a full conviction of the consequences
which were certain to follow, he was not prepared to
enter. Under all the circumstances, he considered him-
self bound rather to consult the peace of the Church than
the wishes of individual clergymen ; and he thought
that those of his brethren who were at the moment dis-
posed to complain of his net having effectually supported
them in their endeavours to carry out his n
recommenda-
tions,
I jce to mse, however,
would see, upon reflection, the extreme hazard of
the only mede in which he could have done so, and would
make due allowance for the difficulties of the position
ihne wwhaischboluiendwatos say place that, uponusti a calms andlf deliberate
review of the opinions he had expressed in his last charge,
he could not discover anything that he need scruple to
avow. lie considered that, as to those points which
related entirely to questions of doctrine, he was called
upon in the present state of the Church to express his
views freely and without reserve ; but with respect to
matters of outward observance and discipline he did
not think he would have felt himself bound to press
his opinions upon the clergy had he been fully aware
of the amount of prejudice and misinformation which
prevailed upon such subjects. He wished this observa-
tion, however, to be understood as applying only to
those questions of rubrical observance which had been
the more especial subjects of difference between the
clergy and their flocks, and not to questions which in-
volved, directly or by implication, any point of doctrine.
To use the words of his grace the Archbishop—" All
change in the performance of the service affecting the
doctrine of the Church, by alteration, addition, or omis-
sion, I regard with unqualified disapprobation. I may
further remark that the danger to the Church would be
great, if clergymen, not having due respect either to,
episcopal authority or established usage, should interpret
the rubric for themselves, should introduce or curtail

ceremonies at pleasure, or make divine service in any
way the means of expressing their own theological
opinions or party views." It was, he was fully per-
suaded, by the use of unwarrantable license in these
respects, that some congregations had been led to
doubt the scriptural character of some of the offices
of the Church. They had been prepared for the admis-
sion, first, of the ceremonies, and then of the doctrines
of the Church of Rome, by the introduction of unautho-
-rised forms and gestures in the celebration of Divine
service, and especially in the celebration of the sacra-
ments. This led him in the most earnest manner to
protest against the publication, by any clergyman of the
Establishment, of books of devotion or confession com-
piled by them on the principles-or from works published
by the authority of the Church of Rome. There could
-be no better method of unsettling or perverting ardent
minds from the truth of Scripture. He confessed he
could not understand how any one professing to be a
member of the Established Church could reconcile it to
his conscience to be accessory to such a proceeding, the
effect of which was to -diminish the importance of cer-
tain fundamental differences which separated the Church
of England from that of Rome, and to cause weak-
minded persons to regard at first with complacency, and
then with affection, some of the worst errors of that
Church. lie could understand such a course on the part
of one of that society to whom it was permitted by their
Church to disguise a sacred truth for a specified tempo-
rary purpose, but he could not comprehend the delusion
by which any one could persuade himself that in acting
thus he was pursuing his duty aA a faithful soldier en-
gaged in the ministry of the English Church. He looked
upon such a step as an act of undisguised hostility to the
Church, and, deeply as he deplored the loss of those
who, from having been among her ablest defenders, be-
came her revilers, be would rather see them pass over
at once than continue withia her pile, with the dis-
honest purpose of seeing how much of the Romanist
system might be engrafted into the Church, and how
much of error might be made compatible with the
truth.

Under the strong impression that every approach to
the practices of the Church of Rome, not entirely con-
sistent with the spirit of their own Church, was notonly
needless but dangerous, he would.caution them against
the propriety of joining an association or confraternity
for the purpose of mutual intercession. The professed
object of such an association was that, as the duty of
mutual intercession was enjoined by the holy apostles,
it must, therefore, be right and proper that Christians
in this day should remind one another of the perform-
ance of such a duty. But he did not see the neces-ity,
and he greatly questioned the prudence of their joining
any body for a similar purpose but that to which they
already belonged—the Church of England. One obvious
danger arising from such a combination was that it fos-
tered a spirit of party. They who refused to join it
were apt to be regarded by those who had as lukewarm
and inconsistent, and its members would perhaps find
that they would be obliged to carry it into effect by ob-
jects not at present contemplated. This was one of
many objections which might be urged against what
had been called the Evangelical Alliance. Although
this was an association which contained the elements of
disunion within itself, yet he felt bound to express
his strong disapprobation of it. It had been said by
many zealous, well-meaning men, that the Church
of England might publicly from time to time unite in
prayer on certain days for certain specified objects;
and, though he considered such assertions somewhat pre-
sumptuous, as coming from persons not holding authority
in the Church, and therefore not likely to have a very
considerable effect, yet it differed materially from
another proposal that had been made, that the
names of the persons comprising a contemplated brother-
hoed should be registered, in order that they might have
particular objects to pray for at specified seasons. Such
a plan was open 0 the objections he had already stated—
that it was likely to form a secret party in the Church,
and that it taught the necessity of doing something more
than the Church instructed its members to do. This as-
sociation proposed several objects of intercession, which
were to be remembered at the communion, but in which
proceeding there was danger of the error or misconstruc-
tion pointed out by the 31st article. He who, in partaking
of' the eucharist, accepted it not only for its benefits to
himself, but also on behalf of others who were not par-
takers of it, was in danger of being led on by successive
steps to believe that the priest obtained the remission of
sins and that he offered a sacrifice for the living and the
dead. But while he cautioned his younger brethren
against forming themselves into a society for mutual in-
tercession, he entirely agreed with the duty so proposed
to be performed. A special duty was laid on them by
the present state and prospects of the Church. The con-
version of surrounding countries, the advancement and
preservation of the faith, and he would add the recovery
of those who had lapsed, he thought needed that they
should seek Divine help. For such objects special prayers
might, perhaps, be required. In reference to this
subject he might advert to the present difficulties with
which it had pleased Divine Providence to involve this
country, by visiting the people of Ireland with severe
distress, and which might fitly become the subject of
particular intercession, both public and private.
The systematic efforts recently made to revive certain
opinions, and practices which had been usually regarded
as belonging to the Church of Romp had tended to per-
plex and unsettle tender minds, and to prepare the way
for an acknowledgment of that church by some of that
sex whose sensibilities were the livelier, and also by
others of their own sex whose minds were of the same
class. Of the latter, some were caught in the meshes of
their own subtlety; others were wrplesel by too great
reverence for the authority of antiquity; but, after all,
how inconsiderable was the number of those who had
left the Church in comparison with those who, by God's
blessing, held the faith in purity. A few had seemed to
be misled by the treacherous light of poetic mysticism,
and others had fallen a prey to Romanist sophistry, for
want of sound and well-digested
_theolozical learning.

It therefore behoved the clergy to be prepared, by sound
argument, to resist the approach of that adversary. In
pursuing these studies he would strongly recommend his
young friends to direct their attention to the subject of
the Papal infallibility, which was strongly connected
with the Papal supremacy. He was persuaded this was
the most weak and untenable, and the least dangerous
of all the grounds on which the Romish Church
claimed allegiance, but it was that which was most
successful in ensnaring tender consciences. No attri-
bute was more gladly recognised in a preacher than
the assumption of infallibility. Unstable and ill-
informed minds were most easily captivated by the
promise of a speedy and conclusive settlement of
their difficulties; and this was the leading feature of that
delusion which made so many captives—of that master-
spell which gave potency to the deceitfulness of men's
minds. To be assured by a professedly infallible crea-
ture that he was in possession of the truth, that he was
the only legitimate Interpreter of the mind of Jesus
Christ, and of the laws of his Church, and that those who
believed whatever he commanded, and practised all that
he enjoined, were secure of salvation, was too comfortable
a doctrine not to be easily embraced by many who could
not substantiate practically to their own minds all that
was included in those grand fundamental truths of the
Gospel—" Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved," and " Without holiness no man shall see
the Lord." It very commonly happened that persons who
were very imperfectly instructed in the grounds of their
faith, and who had quitted their own Church for that of
Rome, in consequence of the doubts suggested to their
minds by the writings and conversation of subtle dis-
putants, assigned as their sole reason for the change
that the comfort they longed for they fancied they
had found in the shelter of an infallible authority,
which spared them the trouble and responsibility of
thinking and judging for themselves. These people
told them that inward • conviction was far better
than argumentative demonstration. But was it not
marvellous that any person who had a tolerable
acquaintance either with the volume of inspiration or
the records of history should be persuaded to venture
his salvation iu so frail a barque as that of Papal in-
falibility—that infallibility which at different times had
stamped with its impress the most discordant and irre-
concilable doctrines and practices—that infallibility of
which the most learned doctors of Rome had never been
able to define whether it resided in the Pope alone, or in
the councils, or in the canons of the Church ? This
portentous doctrine of infallibility was, in truth, the
very keystone on which the whole system of Romish
error rested ; and if they removed it the whole fabric
would crumble into dust. He (the Bishop of London)
particularly recommended the clergy to make themselves
masters of \the arguments on this question. The asser-
tion of the Pope's supremacy necessarily involved the
assertion of his infallibility ; while the admission of his
infallibility led directly to the admission of his supre-
macy. Ile hoped the clergy would not fail to endeavour
to remove from the minds- of their people any doubts
they might have been led to entertain by the statement
that the English Church was in a state of schism. Every
thing that could be said on this subject they would find
in the works of Archbishop Cranmer ; and he need
hardly tell them that every argument which could be
urged in support of such an assertion had been fully
refuted in Dr. Barrow's excellent treatise on the Pope's
supremacy, of which Archbishop Tillotson said that no
arguments of moment, nor any considerations properly
belonging to the subject, had escaped the writer's
large and comprehensive mind. But so reluctant
was the Church of Rome to relax those artificial chains
by which she bound down the reason and consciences
of her children, that her partisans had lately be-
taken themselves to the use of a new weapon of defence,
which, if its temper were known and proved, would of
necessity, as it appeared to him, destroy the charm of
infallibility. When her champions were long ago
defeated upon Scripture ground, when they were driven
from tradition, and when the great Diana was unable to
protect them, they proceeded to undermine the very
foundations of the Christian faith itself, by advancing a
theory, or rather by expanding into a formal system a
principle incidentally put forth centuries ago by more
than one writer of the primitive Church. This theory
reduced the Christian Scriptures, from the eminence on
which they had hitherto been placed, as a final and con-
clusive revelation of the Divine will, to a mere vague,
obscure, imperfect announcement or suggestion of God's
counsels,—representing them as containing principles to
be unfolded from time to time, as the exigencies of the
case might'require, and as men's minds might be pre-
pared to receive them ; and it was assumed—for clearly
it could not be proved—that the Church vested with the
important task of elucidating those principles was no
other Om the Church of Rowe, It was vuttnifest that

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this theory involved in itself the radical principle of
infidelity. [To show the opinions held 'by the pro-
fessors of this theory the Right Reverend Prelate quoted
extracts from the works of Miiller, a German Rationalist,
and another leader of the same party ; but from the
rapidity with which his Lordship read them, and the
unfavourable position for hearing in which the re-
porters were placed, it is impossible to give the extracts
with anything like accuracy.] It appealed to him that
the common sense and honesty of every tolerably
well-informed mind would at once revolt from this
theory, whether propounded by a Romanist or Ration-
alist,
as being inconsistent with the essential character.
istics of the Gospel:revelation,:and that they would be in
no danger of being entangled in this web of sophistry.
He believed that the theory itself would, ere long, be
found to be far more dangerous to the system of error
which it had been contrived to uphold than to the truth
which it was intended to subvert. He left it to others
to expose the mischievous and insidious tendency of this
theory, and already many able advocates had come for-
ward to undertake the task. In closing his allnsion to
this subject, he wished to recommend to the notice of
his brethren some excellent tracts on the errors of
Popery, drawn up by the Rev. J. H. Tyler, and pub-
lished by the Society for Promoting Christian Know-
ledge, with a view to counteract the attempts now ramie
by the emissaries of Rome to unsettle the minds of the
members of the Protestant Church in this country.
Those tracts were admirably adapted to the end in view,
while the clergy would find a more ample treasury in Mr.
Brogden's useful and able publication, "Discourses on the
Errors of the Church of Rome," from the writings of the
divines of the 17th century. He would now quit this topic,
recommending them to make it the subject of daily sup-
plication in their prayers that these unhappy divisions
might be removed.
He would now recal their attention to one or two
points to which he had adverted in his last charge. One
was the duty incumbent upon them to celebrate Divine
service on each "of those days on which the Church cele-
brates the leading events of our Lord's mission. In ad-
dition to the nativity and crucifixion, the great events of
the circumcision, the manifestation to the Gentiles, and
the glorious ascension of our Lord, ought to be celebrated.
For each of these occasions the Church had provided ap-
propriate collects, epistles, and gospels, and the last was
especially intended by the Church to be held in remem-
brance. St. Augustine spoke of the celebration of the
ascension as so ancient that it must have been appointed
by the apostles themselves. Another point Has that of
daily prayers. It was now 18 years ago since he had
expressed a wish that the experiment should be
tried, such being the practice of the early Church,
and of their °am better times. lie had stated
it to be his belief that, if the practice were carried
into effect, a considerable number of persons
would be found to profit by it. He now desired to
repeat, with respect to the metropolis, his opinion that,
if it were unnecessary to solemnise daily prayers in
every church, yet that they ought to be read in churches
not inconveniently distant from each other, by an ar-
rangement for that purpose made among the clergy, and
that in every large parish, having more than one church,
there ought to be a daily service in one of those churches,
so that none of the people should be deprived of the
opportunity of attending daily prayers. He trusted that
no one would be deterred from a fear of superstition
from returning to this practice. In a work published
in the year 1714 it was stated that there were forty-two
churches in London and Westminster, besides St. Paul's
and Westminster Abbey, in which daily service was
celebrated, twenty-five of which churches were in the
city of London. He feared that the number now would
stand very different. It appeared from the last annual
return that there were not more than sixteen churches

in which there were daily prayers. lie could not help
regarding this as a change for the worse. In cases
where money had been left by pious persons for daily
prayers, the receiver of this money was bound in com-
mon honesty to perform the duty. He hoped that some
of our churches would also be open for private prayer,
so that persons living in crowded dwellings, who could
n )t their solemnize their minds for prayer, might resort
to the house of God.
He was next led to consider the spiritual provision
provided by the Church in the metropolis. Ten years
ago he had called attention to this subject. He then
stated, that omitting parishes of a less population than
7,000, the re was a population of not less than 1,380,000
to be provided for, and that there was church room for
only 149,000, being about one-tenth of the whole. In
the eastern and north eastern districts the spiritual des-
titution was even greater. He then said, that it was a
work of prudence, no less than one of charity and piety,
to endeavour to convert these multitudes to Christianity,
and to send more labourers into the fold. Fcr the ready
and in some respects unprecedented liberality with which
his appeal had: been answered he was thankful to the
Giver of all Good. The subscription received for the
general object amounted to 179,8551., and there was
besides a seperate fund formed at the suggestion of a lay
member of the Church, to whose support and co-opera-
tion the Church was much indebted, for the erection
and endowment of ten additional churches, parsonage-
houses, and school-houses for a population of 70,000 in
the district of Bethnal-green. There had been contri-
buted to thnt fund a sum of 60,0001., making together
about 238,0001 for the purpose of sup, lying the spiritual
destitution of the metropolis. Of the 63 churches
thus provided, forty four were completed, ten were in
r .r fn he Pnrrimanooa and
votes were obtained in aid of the erection of the other seven.
These churches would ciintain about 65,000 persons, and
would furnish the means of Divine service, once a day,
to 130,000, making a total of 205,000, who could, at one
time, join in service, out of a population of 1,380,000.
Supposing it was sufficient that persons attended Divine
service once a day, which he denied, 410,000 only had
an opportunity of attending Divine service once a day in
the metropolis, and the rest of the 970,000 would be
wholly unprovided with the means of church instruction.
It must not be forgotten that the population had been

increasing at the rate of 30,000 a p;ai, for whom it waa
also necessary to make provision. It had been calculated
that the number of persons who might be accommodated
in the churches and chapels of all denominations was
about 500,000, but he believed this calculation to be
much beyond the mark, while the population of the
metropolis at present amounted to 2,000,000. An ad-
dition of 400 churches, each containing 1,000 persons,
would therefore not be sufficient to meet the deficiency.
It was fearful to contemplate that more than 1,000,000
souls were unprovided with the means of spiritual
consolation, and that large numbers were passing
into the eternal world in " the gall of bitterness and the
bond of iniquity." Was this not a case in which the re-
sources of the State might be profitably employed, if not

to do all that was wanting, at least to aid the liberalit
of pious persons ? Luther told the magistrates of Gel:
many, that if they desired to see the prosperity of the
country, instead of laying out money in war and the mu-
nitions of war, they would devote it to pay schoolmasters
and teach scholars. So they might remind their rulers,
that if they would but apply a tithe of the mofley for
churches and schools which they voted to gaols and pe-
nitentiaries, the necessity would be prevented of laying
out so much in the punishment and reform of criminals.
The Church must endeavour, by her own unassisted
energies, to lengthen her cords'and strengthen her stakes,
and to gather into her fold those who were now scattered
abroad as sheep having no shepherd. A fresh subscrip-
tion had been opened 'for continuing the good work
which had been so successfully carried to a certain
point, and he earnestly entreated those whom he was ad-
dressing to urge upon their wealthiest parishioners the
claims of the Metropolis Churches Fund, and to remind
them that the wants it was intended to supply were in a
great tneasare occasioned by those very causes which
augmented their own resources and contributed to their
wealth. Liberal as had been the contributions to the fund
he had mentioned, he could not dissemble that it had been
raised chiefly by large donations, and that many whose
connexion with the metropolis was a source of profit, or
an (cession of pleasure to themselves, had not yet thrown
their offering into the treasury of the Lord's house.
There were not a few members of the Church whose in-
comes derived from the successful pursuit of commerce
in that great city were so large that they might annu-
ally build and endow a church without abridging them-
selves of a single comfort or luxury. Before he dis-
missed this important subject he thought it right to
notice what he could not but regard as an invidious and
unfair objection, which had been urged against the
•cheme of building additional churches in the metropo•
lis. They were told that the new churches were not
more than half filled ; and that the spiritually destitute,
for whose benefit these churches had been erected, re-
fused to avail themselves of the advantages provided f r
them. Now, he must observe in the first place, that
this statement was by no means generally true. MAny
of the new churches were extremely well attended, and
when this was not the case it might be accounted for
without supposing that the scheme itself was faulty, or
that the agents by whom it was carried out were care-
less or incompetent. The promoters of the plan were
not so unreasonable as to anticipate that the benefits
likely to result from it would be everywhere, or under
all circumstances, at once perceptible. It had been
found that in neighbourhoods where the people
had been desirous that church accommodation
should be provided the churches had been well at-
tended ; but in districts where the mass of the
population had long been left destitute of pastoral super-
intendence and instruction, it would have been perfectly
marvellous if the new churches had been all at once,
In
even after a short period, filled with congregations.
districts of this kind the work to be done by the Churchd
was of a strictly missionary kind ; the people required
to be taught the first rudiments of Christianity, and in
some cases before that was done they must even be
taught the knowledge of Christianity itself as a fact.
The obstacles which opposed themselves to the efforts of
the clergy in a work of this nature were even greater, in
some respects, than those which their foreign mission-
aries had to encounter. The change in the spiritual
condition of the people must be gradually wrought, and
he believed it would chiefly be accomplished by means
of the rising generation. The school must train up a
congregation fort' the church ; and there was reason to
hope that, in many cases, the influence of religious
instruction would find its way to the parents through
the children. In many cases it would be necessary to
provide schools as well as churches, and in some
instances schools should be established before churches.
The fruits of their charitable exertions were al-
ready sufficiently abundant and palpable to satisfy
him that their labour had not been in vain in the
Lord, and to encourage them to persevere in their un-