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The annual meeting of this society was held this morn-
ing at the City of London Tavern. On the platform we
observed, beside Lord Durham, who presided, the Right
Hon. C. Tennyson M.P., E. Baines, Esq., M.P., R.
Wason, Esq., M.P., B. Hawes, Esq., W. G.
Langton, Esq., M.P., Rev. Dr. Newman, Dr. Styles,
Dr. -Bennett, Rev. J. A. James, and other eminent dis-
senting ministers.
Lord DURHAM, on taking the chair, was hailed with
loud applause. His lordship merely called upon J. Wilks,
Esq., M.P., to open the business.
Mr. WiLics instantly 'rose and said, I feel myself at
home once more, and surrounded by the friends of my
youth ; those who, during my past life, have supported me
' in that line of conduct which I have endeavoured to pursue
with regard to the principles of protestant dissent. ( Cheers. )
It is, as it were, after wandering through many a region
to find one's self again surrounded by sisters and brothers
in some native and happy home, where all the storms and
trials are forgotten and blotted from the memory and the
heart. (Cheers.) This society began when my Lord Sid-
mouth attempted to interfere with the rights of dissenters
under pretence of bestowing upon them fresh privileges,
but which they, with a dignity and unanimity worthy of
their principles, rejected and frustrated; and thus religious
liberty gained the first triumph it had achieved for more
than one hundred years. (Loud cheers.) We then
found it necessary to continue such a society for the
protection of those against whom local tyrannies ever
exercised injustice. We had the support of distinguished
and enlightened men, to whom dissenters were ever
attached, and they came forward with an intre-
pidity and zeal and energy when Lord Sidmouth, in the
House of Peers, did indeed only assist our cause by the
course which he took. (Cheers.) In the successive meet-
ings of our society, we have had the countenance of his
Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. (Cheers.) Then
we had the excellent and lamented Sir James Mackintosh.
(Hear.) Lord Holland needed no solicitation (Applause);
and his lordship, beside presiding on three different occa-
sions, prevailed upon Lord John Russell, Lord Dacre, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Ebrington,
and Lord Nugent, men whose names will emblazon the
history of our country, to support our cause. ( Cheers.) For
they felt our cause was interwoven with the well-being of
society, and general peace and piety. (Cheers.) The hon.
gentleman then proceeded to give an account of the pro-
ceedings of the society since the last meeting in 1832.
There had been seven applications made to the Committee
on miscellaneous subjects ; twenty-one applications to
protect Dissenting Ministers from the exaction of turnpike
tolls on the Sabbath Day ; twenty-eight applications on
the subject of poor rates demanded for chapels, but he was
happy to say that grievance was at an end, for he held in
his hand the short act of 1833, for the exemption of all
churches, chapels, and places of worship, from poor rates.
There had been five applications to obtain relief from ex-
tortionate demands for church rates. He had hoped that.
that question would,have, ere now, teen sottled, anctAlaat he
should have had to meet them with triumph instead of dis-
appointment (Hear. ), for the bill introduced was an evil
rather than an advantage. (Cheers.) Easter dues, the
relics of ancient tyranny, had been enforced in many in-
stances, and in others, demands had been made for burial
fees for dissenters interred in their own vaults. ( Shame. )
There had been disturbances, he was sorry to say, in some
remote parts of the country, and the religious worship of
the pious peasant had been interrupted, and sixteen of such
cases had occurred. Upon the subject of out-door preach-
ing, numerous applications had also been made. Ile hesi-
tated to recur to a case which had occurred within the last
fortnight, but he felt it his duty to so, more espe-
cially when he saw in the chair a nobleman as ele-
vated in rank as remarkable for his love of liberty—
when he found himself nominated by such men as Mr.
Abercrombie, Mr. Tennyson, and others of such respec-
tability and influence. The hon. gentleman here pro-
, ceeded to mention a circumstance relative to a lady re-
siding at Wool, who had a school for the education of
children, whom she was in the habit of bringing every
Sunday to the parish church, and because she was a dis-
senter, the new rector, on his appointment, refused to
admit the children to worship their God in the chancel
of the church. (Hear and hisses.) Three or four days
ago, he (Mr. W.) understood that the home missionary
had arrived in that parish, and was about to commence his
important labours, in consequence of a remonstrance ad-
dressed to the clergyman by some gentlemen of the pa-
rish. These were trifling persecutions, in comparison to
what they had suffered in ancient times. But more impor-
tant matters had engaged the attention of the society of late,
the measure relative to church rates ; and the consequence
of the efforts that had been made by their friends in Par-
liament and elsewhere, the dissenters would be in future
relieved from the vexations and injustice to which they had
been hitherto subjected. Much was anticipated, but he
was sure they would all learn the result with more of grief
than joy. He would not enter into the subject of the
marriage bill, which they could not sanction without com-
promising their principles, and submitting to an in-
sult which they had no reason to expect. He regretted
to find that the Ministers were still the advocates
of that measure, and that they contended it was one
which the dissenters should receive with gratitude.
He need not remind the meeting of the peculiar hardships
to which the Baptists were exposed. An application was
made by a clergyman in Cornwall to the Bishop of Exeter,
and they were all aware of the insulting reply—that the
rubric and the canon were imperative, and that he could
not allow the interment of the body in consecrated ground.
(Applause and hisses.) The hon. member then alluded at
some length to the inconvenience and expense of establish-
ing schools. When a parish church was to be built the
duty on bricks was taken off. A Protestant cler-
gyman's saddle-horse was exempt from duty, while
the poor dissenting ministers were - obliged to
to pay to the last farthing. With respect to the exclusion
of dissenters from the universities, he was glad to Ilea"'
testimony to the liberal feeling by which his Majesty's
ministers had been actuated in the measure which they
were about to pass, and which had received the sanction of
all the honourable and intelligent portion of the com-
munity in and out of Parliament. The hon. gentleman
then instanced some individual cases of the injustice and
inconvenience to which the exclusion of dissenters from
the universities gave rise. He would now say a few
words on the Church-rate Bill. Why should not
the sinecures, amounting to 300,0001. a year, be
appropriated to the use of the church ? Why
not do as in Ireland, abolish church rates altogether, and
appropriate those enormous revenues to the maintenance
of the church? (Great applause.) Why should not the
established clergymen depend upon the voluntary contri-
butions of the people? (Applause.) It was the withering
and blighting tyranny of the church which had prevented
the liberal and enlightened portion of churchmen from
doing what was prompted by their better feelings. He
regretted that his friend Mr. Guest, of Merthyr Tydvil,
was not present; that gentleman had, in addition to the
parish church, erected a place of Episcopalian worship, Which
he had been for a long time prevented from accomplishing,
and which he succeeded in doing when left to the impulse
of his own honourable and upright feelings. (Applause.)
Let not the bishops any longer interfere in these matters—
let them only allow the spontaneous feeling of enlightened
churchmen to operate, and the most pleasing and beneficial
results would ensue, connected with the voluntary principle.
In order to show its power he would refer to what had
been done by Protestant dissenters within the last century.
He would remind them of the millions expended by
them in the erection of thousands of chapels which arise,
a universal blessing in every part of the country, and tending
them.
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to the history of Wales : seventy years ago there were but
38 chapels in that principality, and now there were rip-
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wards of 1,500 (Applause) supported by the voluntary
contributions of the people, and in contrast to the
three hundred churches there, which were, generally

speaking, so deserted, that When banns were abou'
to be published hi any of these churches, the dell,
or sexton was obliged td go round and collect a congregation
of two or three'families. In contrast to this picture, there
Were few chapels in the Principality which had not at
least Sunday schools, and in many instances day schools ;
thus evincing the disposition of their founders to make mer
philanthropists and virtuous, and imbued with the religious
principles which the themselves advocated and professed.
It was under these circumstances gm he had felt extremely
disappointed on the subject of church rates. The measure
that had been brought forward he earnestly intreated the
noble lord and the hon. friends who had honoured them with
their presence to co-operate with the universal feeling o'
the Protestant Dissenters and Methodists throughout the
country (Cheers. ), to impress upon his Majesty's govern-
ment the necessity of abandoning it, not with reluctance,
but with that kindly feeling which they had shown upon
many occasions, showing that they were determined re
longer to persevere in a measure which they found to la
mistaken. (Cheers.) He felt deep regret that his Majesty's
governmenthad not upon the subject of parochial registration
adopted a very different course from that which they had pur-
sued. Of all the difficulties which have embarrassed them.
by far the greater proportion had originated from the im-
perfect state of parochial registration. It was the difficul-
ties upon this subject which had rendered ineffectual the
attempts to obtain relief ; and it was those difficulties
which gave peculiar inconsistencies and anomalies to the bill
of Lord John Russell. (Cheers.) They were met by paltry
and unworthy economy in the first measure, and now another
measure was introduced. He was sorry to say that he was
afraid the means by which the bill was attempted to be
carried into effect was so full of inconsistencies that the
cup which had been raised would fall from their lips.
(Cheers.) He was afraid that the whole arrangement
would render the carrying of the measure into effect im-
practicable. Lord Althorp had stated in the House of
Commons that the bill was founded on econom_y.
(Cheers.) He had told that noble lord and the
government, and he would tell them again in this meeting,
that they did not understand the people of England.
(Great cheering.) It was not the mere amount which
they regarded, but the principle. (Great cheering.) What
they complained of wassinecures, pensions, and the impro-
per bestowing of the public money. These were what the
people of England impatiently disdained. Money was but
a slight consideration with the enlightened and benevolent
people of the British isle. (Cheers.) As a proof of that
he would only advert to the fact, that when the slaves
were to be emancipated not 500 persons in the whole
empire raised their voice against granting twenty millions
for so great a purpose. (Great cheers.) If in future
ages there was any thing that would cast a sacred halo or
the age in which we lived, it would not be the laurel's
dipped in blood which the country had won, but it would
be the fact, that to relieve a burdened and oppressed people
it had done that which would not only give pleasure to earth
but heaven. (Great cheering.) They had cheerfully
agreed to a man to raise so large a sum as he had stated.
(Great cheers ) The same principle applied to parochial
regiStration. The bill that had been introduced on the
subject was to effect the object at less expense, at the ex-
pense of 100,000/. instead of 200,000/., which was to be
appropriated to a much more enlightened design, a design
which he was sure would not be murmured at by that great
economist Mr. Hume himself. (Laughter.) He must in jus-
tice to himself and the proposers of the bill, say, that supposing
it never should pass, he was glad it had been brought for-
ward, as it was founded upon the principle of substituting
civil for ecclesiastical registration. (Great cheering.
That was freeing the country from unpopular trammels.
and placed the registration of this country upon the same
footing as France and Belgium, and other continental
countries. There were other grievances for the consideration
of the Protestant Dissenters, and among the resolutions
which would have to be brought forward, he hoped some
allusions would be made to them, in order that they might
be brought under the eonsideratiOn of the noble lord and
those gentlemen in high stations who had honoured the
meeting by attending it. He referred to civil and reli-
gious liberty in the eastern and western possessions of this
country. (Cheers.) He had heard that in those parts
difficulties had been imposed upon missionaries per-
forming the marriage ceremony. (Hisses, and loud
expressions of displeasure.) Such an interposition was
not sanctioned by law, and was inconsistent with
moral and religious opinions, and Christian charity. ( Great
Cheering.) The Protestant dissenters were also anxious
that all civil disabilities should be removed from their Jew-
ish brethren. (Great cheering.) The bill that. was
brought into the House of Commons on the subject had
been unfortunately thrown out, and the hopes that
had been raised were for a short time cast down ;
but he was in hopes the time was not far distant
when such a measure would again be introduced with
success' as, in his opinion, the Jews were a long op-
pressed and injured race. (Great cheering.) He would
especially invite the attention of the meeting to the mea-
sure for the appropriation of tithes in Ireland. He was
glad to hear Lord John Russell express his determination
to support to the utmost of his power those principles
which would obtain such an appropriation of the Irish
tithes as would relieve that neglected and injured empire.
(Cheers.) On the success of this measure of
liberality for Ireland the success of similar
measures in this country depended. (Cheers.) He had
already pressed upon the attention of the meeting the his-
tory of the proceedings of their society during the past.
year ; he anticipated that the meeting that day would pro-
mote an ultimate and speedy achievement of that which
they desired to obtain, he was convinced that they would
be firm and prudent, not converting friends into enemies
(Great cheering), but would be desirous to co-operate
with them, being convinced that if they were only
constant and persevering, they would have a just and
well founded hope of succeeding. To use the words of
the great Hooker, the time would come when three words
of truth uttered in charity, would be of more avail than
6,000 volumes full of angry declamation, and vehement
and pert abuse. (Cheers.) All the dissenters desired was,
liberty, and to obtain that they need not be precipitate but
dignified and tranquil. ( Cheers.) Liberty should be more
and more blended with knowledge, and liberty should be
loved for the good which would result from it, without
which it was nothing but a name. (Hear, and cheers. )
If such a principle pervaded the breasts of those who
wished for liberty, no administration, no bishop, nor any
combination, could prevent the speedy success of liberal
principles in every part of the country and the world.
(Cheers.) That principle had risen and still kept rising,
and would do so as long as it was supported by such per-
sons as the noble lord in the chair (Cheers), till know-
ledge, truth, peace, and liberty should fertilize the earth.
The hon. gentleman sat down amidst great cheering.
Rev. Mr. CHAPLEIN, of Bishop Stortford, moved the
first resolution. His appearance before them that day
was rather compulsory than voluntary. But he was glad
to stand before so many of his enlightened countrymen and
Christians, and so many highly respectable females, as the
advocate f civil and religious liberty, even at the expense
of some portion of his own. (The rev. gentleman here
read the resolution.) He felt attached to that resolution,
and was willing to support it, because it was based upon
the most important and valuable principles—because it
tended to advance the sacred cause of civil and reli-
gious freedom. In order to secure the interests of religious
freedom, they should first look to the Parliamentary enact-
ments. But the enlightenment of the public mind was the
best mode of accomplishing that ; first let them propagate
knowledge, and then they would find that Parliamentary
enactments would go forward consistently with the wishes
of the people and the interests of mankind at large. (Ap-
plause.) It must have afforded great satisfaction in the
progress of events, to witness the increase of conviction in
the minds of the British public, in favour not only of civil
but of religious freedom. That increase had been remark-
able not only among the Protestant dissenters but among
members of the church of England ; the cause of civil and
religious freedom had increased, was increasing, and
would continue to progress until it was firmly and uni-
versally established throughout the land. He did not
despair of seeing, even in that house of which their noble
chairman was so distinguished and valuable a member,
the cause of civil and religious freedom voluntarily and
steadfastly supported (Applause)' especially if the time
should come (and that it would come he did not doubt),
when a certain measure of relief, of just and generous and
kind relief, should be carried in reference to the bench of
bishops. It was with some degree of trembling that he would
proceed a step further. He would not speak of their sovereign
without the most profound respect, and he spoke of him
with the same feeling of respect and attachment that per-
vaded the British public at large. (Cheers.) He would
make one remark respecting William the Fourth—that all
his subjects knew of him was in favour of the liberties
of the land. (Great applause.) He anticipated,
upon these grounds, that the cause which they had pro-
fessed to support and advocate, would greatly and happily
increase, and under that conviction he begged to submit
the resolution which he held in his hand to the meeting.
Col. Annisost seconded the resolution. He should
have contented himself with doing so, as anything
further, us the way of observation, appeared to him
to be quite unnecessary, after the able exposition they
had just heard as to the nature of the resolution ; but he
should not satisfy his own feelings if he refrained from ex-
pressing his delight and gratification at seeing a nobleman
of transcendent talents, of high rank, and distinguished
for his strenuous advocacy of the principles of civil and
religious liberty, occupying the chair on the present occa-
sion. (Loud applause.) It was right they should be told
that, although met as a society of Protestant Dissenters,
that meeting had no feeling of animosity towards the

members of the Established Church ; on the contrary
they cherished them as Christian brethren, but they wer
lecidedly hostile to domination of all kinds the:
were decidedly hostile to the exaction of com-
pulsory payments fof the support of a churcl
!stablishment to which they did not belong. (Ap-
plause.) They should be equally hostiie to any other sect
f they acted in an equally domineering manner. The esta-
blished church appeared to him sufficiently rich and ample
to supply all these purposes, and he trusted the time wouk
some when the church would be convinced that she stood upoi
more elevated, more dignified, and mci'd exalted ground
when she ceased to receive any further compulsory sup-
)ort, and rested entirely upon her own resources. (Grew
applause. )
The resolution was then pflt from the chair, and carriei
unanimously.
The Rev. Mr. JAMES, of Birmingham, raze to move th(
next resolution, and was received with loud
long continued cheering. He trusted that these tokens o.
approbation would not be mistaken. He had very little
to recommend him to their notice but a loud voice, whist
was occasionally useful, and a m afitt heart. (Cheers. '
He was well pleased to see so enlightened, consistent
and distinguished a friend of liberty occuppying the
hair of that meeting (Cheers), and presiding over
the business of an institution Which bore upon its front
the noble, the lofty, and hallowed inscription of—" The
Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty!" (Grea'
applause.) He was sure his lordship was too goo('
a Protestant, and too firmly attached to the cause
of civil freedom, to imagine for a moment, that al-
though a member of the church of England his lerdshij
was out of place in such a situation. (Cheers.) The
present society should never have existed, and that might
seem a strange expression after the eulogium which he had
just passed upon it : but there never should have been
necessity for its existence, and having existed, it ought
long since to have accomplished its work and retired.
They should only meet as they occasionally (lid their
lawyer, or their doctor, to tell them that they needed
them no further, to pay them their bills, to bow
them to the door, and be thankful that they wer(
gone. (Laughter and applause.) The theme of the
present meeting, as it had been described by their
eloquent secretary, was liberty ; true, just, impartial,
and universal liberty. (Hear, hear.) They wished for
nothing higher, they would accept nothing less. They were
told they had liberty already, and that the dissenters were
the most querulous, dissatisfied people on the face of the
earth. If the meeting would pardon a jett d'esprit, he
would remind them, of the cook, who, when the eels were
writhing under her knife, cried, " Down, down, ye wan-
tons—strange that ye can't lie still." The Dissenters
would lie still, and repose under their privileges, when they
had obtained the full amount of what they had a right to
expect. It was no new thing for the oppressors to com-
plain of the oppressed ; but the oppressed were after all
,he best judges of the pressure of the burden. Was it
liberty such as Britons in the 19th century should enjoy,
when their children were to that moment without a civil
registration of their births, which would be admitted as
evidence in a court of justice? Was it liberty when a sa-
cred rite was about to be performed, which many present
had passed through, and he hoped had passed through well,
a tie which nothing but death could dissolve ; was it
liberty that, on such an occasion, they could not
have the prayers and advice of their spiritual instructors.?
Was it liberty when such of them as were parents passed
through the noble monuments of British learning and
worth, the Universities, to see over the portals of every
college, " Off, off prophane ; no admission for Dissenters."
Loud cheering.) The reverend gentleman then al-
luded to the petition which had lately emanated from
the University against the admission of dissenter-.
lie, as a dissenter, could not sit tamely down under such
en unjust stigma, and they should all rise with wounded
feelings, and proclaim the injustice and unfairness of such a
charge. (Hear, hear.) One of the gentlemen who
had signed that declaration, had stated to a friend
,n London, that although he had conscientiously
signed it, such was his feeling of Christian charity.
Dissenters could leave railing to those who liked it better,
because, perhaps, they felt they needed it more. (Laugh-
ter.) Principle, not passion, must be their instrument.
Passion was like the tornado, that shivered the mast, and
endangered the vessel, but principle was like the trade-
wind, which wafted the vessel safe into port. (Cheers. )
This cause must succeed ; practical grievances must and
will be redressed ; the nation demanded it, aid the legis-
lature was attempting it, and it must be achieved.
(Cheers.) There was a fallacy prevailing with respect
to the voluntary principle. They were asked what it
would do for society if left to itself, and then they were
referred to the dark and remote rural districts. Why, the
object was to get society to take up the voluntary principle,
and then, of course, there would be no dissenters. But
the Church of England itself, depending on itself, would
not be able to accomplish any thing, with all its wealth,
influence, or piety. But the fact was, that one-half of the
places of worship built within the last fifty years had been
erected by the voluntary principle,an d were supported by those
whom the voluntary principle led to enter their walls.
(Hear.) When the Reform Bill was thrown out, the
political union put out a placard, " Patience, patience !
you have a good cause and a good King, and must suc-
ceed." Now he would say to this meeting " Patience,
patience ! You have a good King, a mighty and a
heavenly Leader, and you must succeed." Patience ! but
not with the paralysis of one principle ! ( Hear.) Be
firm, dignified, and unflinching. Let the voluntary prin-
ciple have room, and you will have the world redeemed
and the church harmless. (Cheers. )
W. DAY, Esq., seconded the resolution.
The Noble CHAIRMAN, in putting it, said—You are
all aware that though this resolution refers to the future
acts of this society, it involves a great and important prin-
ciple ; and I shall feel it my duty, before the meeting
breaks up, to give my sentiments fully on that subject. In
putting the resolution, therefore, I beg leave to be consi-
dered as only acting officially. (Hear. )
The resdution was then unanimously adopted.
JAMES BALDWIN BROWN, Esq., L.L.D., proposed the
third resolution. As a Whig, he felt some difficulty in
coming forward to complain of a Whig Government. The
present Ministers were greatly indebted to the Protestant
dissenters of this country, who had done every thing in their
power to return men attached to that administration. The
whole of Lord John Russell's election expenses were paid
by dissenters. In acting so the dissenters expressed their
gratitude for the past, but they thought also they were ex-
pressing their hopes of the future ; but in that theyhad been
grievously disappointed. (Hear.) The Ministry had intro-
duced a bill entirely opposed to the principles of dissenters,
when they had the means of introducing a more enlightened
and liberal measure. ( Hear.) It had done/Injury to the
cause of the ministry, and the continuation of such a course
would sever their best friends from them, (Cheers.) As
to the Church Rate Bill, Dissenters objected as much to
support the edifice by compulsion as they did the minister,
or any other part of the establishment.- This bill, like the
Marriage Bill, was opposed to the whole unanimous opinion
of the dissenters of the country, and if his Majesty's Ministers
were wise they would abandon them. It would not be
prudent that a resolution should be put for the separation
of church and state, when they had invited his lordship
to preside, who, of course, and he spoke with the greatest
respect, would not put such a resolution ; but he thought
it right to say, that the dissenters were looking to that
point, (Cheers.) Let not the Tories imagine they would
throw themselves into their arms—they were ll' higs in
principle, and should be Whigs when the heads of Whigs
ceased to exist. (Cheers.) Nor let the radicals imagine
dissenters would join them. (Laughter and cheers. )
They never would vote for Tories, (Cheers) and they
never would join those who would destroy the constitution
of the country. Much alarm had been expressed at
voluntary principle, but that was no new principle, and it
was the principle of the majority of the people. (Cheers. )
A certain archbishop had said he tolerated Dissenters !
(Hear, hear, hear.) Tolerate, indeed ! What right
had the rev. prelate to say he would tolerate him, any
more than he had a right to tolerate the prelate? (Cheers. )
He concluded by reading the resolution.
G. BENNETT, Esq., seconded it. . .

Dr. CARPENTER, of Bristol, requested permission to
address the meeting. He had heard sentiments that had
delighted him, and no doubt they were sentiments of a
great portion of the dissenters; but there were some of
their brethren who thought things were carried with too
high a hand. ( Hissing and cheers. ) He had been a dissenter
from his birth, and recollected when a childthat he was struck
for no other reason, and how his uncle, a dissenting mi-
nister, could not pass through the streets without being
called after. (Hear.) He knew that dissenters were ill-
treated. He could not submit willingly to church rates
compulsorily extracted, but there was a large portion of
dissenters who preferred tranquillity to entering into an-
noying circumstances. (Laughter. ) The Reverend Dr.
continued in this strain until the impatience of the meet-
ing compelled him to desist. The resolution was then put
and carried unanimously.
Taos. Witsow, Esq., • seconded the resolution, which,
on being put by the Chairman, was declared to be carried
unanimously.
The Rev. ALEXANDER FLETCHER proposed the next
Resolution.
The following were the resolutions proposed, and to be
proposed to the meeting, at three o'clock, when we were
obliged to go to press :
" I. That this society, including hundreds of congrega-
tions in England and Wales, cherish with unabated regard
their attachment to the great principles of religious free-

( eAlit;eis*see this society *h „eit, Deeraeaim•
their colifieeioir thai religion will most beneficeblVtiottriels
where it receicee fy,lty rdurldry suppirt, and ltiartill
compulsory and ex 0.14 ceetrjiutions rather stint its
i growth, deform its lovelketir elne: einbitter its fruit, than
assist a blessing essential to eektiel happiness, pee-emi-
nently useful to mankind, and aect& Gut ! And
that, in, thu avowal of these sentiment:," they would dis-
tinctly disclaim, language most positive',
and with sin-
cerity most pettfeneeele any. design or desire_ w; obtain for
e to
revenues of
existing establishments, which'. eeen etreffeted ii. 7111 at-
tainable, they would reject with disdain.,"
themselves the exclueite or
sine
" 3. That vvlie this society annoutiee principles, wlas:.se
wentual prevalence %CAI il?root for ever is-retailed supers -
ions, persecuting seltishneerr tyrannous obtrusion on the
rights of conscience, and many an hypocritical abase, they
cannot overlook the peculiar and practical grievanree by
.which the vast body of dissenters are in this country op-
pressed ; nor can they conceal their utter cliteppointrdent
and regret that adequate and prompt relief has not been
supplied or attempted by an administration, to whose they
were truly attached—many of whose illustrious inerntere
have presided in this room at the meetings of this society.;
and who have achieved, in the good cause of freedom end
reform, victories which the present generation gratefully
acknowledge, and posterity can never forget."
" 4. That such disappointment and regret are aggra-
vated by their high expectations from the patriotism and
justice of several members of the Government, by their
persuasion that a great majority of the Commons' House of
Parliament would have supported cheerfully any liberal,
emstitutional proposal, by their loyal reliance on the grace
and goodness of a Sovereign, during whose reign parlia-
mentary reform has been bestowed, and by a real eon&
lenee, that no church, or body in the State, would or
.•ould have withheld the reasonable redress of wrongs
Maimed by millions of the people, if those claims hart re-
ceived from tits Government generous, cordial, and de-
cided support."
" 5. What this society concur with " The United Com-
mittee for the redress of those grievances," and to which
they belong; and with the multitudes of Congregations;
and of wise, well-informed, unambitious, peaceful, and
holy men, who have urged those grievanees on public at-
ention, in a reprobation of the ill-judged. Marriage Bill
submitted to Parliament, isad of the Churehliateaeimmu-
tation proposed by Lord Althorp, and which they-deetn an
evil rather than a benefit, and must decline and oppose..
And that they instruct their committee with unslumberins
energy and undiminished perseverance to snake every proper'
exertion to prevent the success of that measurer to obtain
an early abrogation of their grievances, and of all the
..
wrongs that yet annoy and degrade them ; and to diffuse .•
throughout all classes of the country, accurate knowledge
of the principle and utilities of Religious Freedom, and of
the sad and wide-spreading evils which existing abuses
create, and which the perfect prevalence of Religious
Freedom alone can correct or destroy."
" 6. That, though attentive to their own peculiar affaire,
this Society would not allow them to engross their exclu-
sive attention, but would generally recommend„• that all
the Members, as well as the Committee, should exert their
parliamentary influence to banish intolerance in every
form from our Eastern empire and Colonial poSsessions ;
to remove all civil disabilities from the British Jews; to
insure to the hundreds of thousands of emancipated Negroes
the blessings of education, and mural and religious know-
ledge, and earnestly to promote that wise and benevolent
appropriation of the tithes of Ireland which may conciliate
her people, may lessen their calamities, and may form an
excellent and splendid example for imitation and praise."
7. That the following Ministers and Gentlemen of
different denominations constitute the Committee of the
Society, with power to add to their numbers, and appoint.
all other officers—Rev. F. A. Cox, LL.D., Rev. W. B.:
Collyer, D.D., Rev. George Collinson, Bev. Joseph
Fletcher, D.D., Rev. Alexander Fletcher, A.M., Rev,
Thomas Jackson, Rev. John Lewis, Rev. Thomas Rus-
sell, A.M., Rev. John Styles, D.D., Mr. Edward Ashby,
J. B. Brown, Esq., LL.D., William Bateman, Esq.,-
James Esdaile, Esq., Martin Prior, Esq., Thomas Wilson,
Esq., Matthew Wood, Esq., M.P., John Wilks, Esq.,
M.P., J. Broadlev Wilson, Esq., and James Young, Esq. ;
and that most cordial thanks be presented to those mem-
bers of the Committee who have heretofore rendered their
assistance, for the combination of zeal and prudence they
have long and usefully displayed."
"8. That this Meeting embrace with gladness an
opportunity -to renew their acknowledgments to John
Wilks, Esq., ALP., the Honorary Secretary to this
Society from its formation, for his continued interest in its
welfare and dedication of his time and talents to its affairs;
and especially for his Parliamentary exertions to obtain
returns of the church cess, to introduce and pass the act
for exempting places of worship from rates, and to bring
before the Legislature and the country the imperfections
and injustice of our parochial yegistration, of which now
the nation, as well as-Dissenters, cOmplain ;..and. that .he
be assured of the confidence and gratitude which his ardu-
ous and useful labours every where and justly excite."
" 9. That this Society discharge with cheerfulness their
debt of gratitude to all the Members of both Houses of
Parliament who have presented their petitions and advo-
cated their cause ; but especially would express their obli-
gations to those gentlemen who have favoured them by
their attendance at this Meeting, and afforded anew a most.
acceptable pledge that religious liberty will find always in
them consistent and devoted friends."
" 10. That last, but most willingly, this Society express
their grateful delight that the Right Hon. the Earl of
Durham has presided at this Meeting ' • and they profit
eagerly by the occasion to apprize him of the general ad-
miration and attachment he has won, not merely by high
rank and eminent talent, but by his exertions in the cause
of Reform by the liberal principles he has ever avowed
—by his frequent and spontaneous interpositions on behalf
of Dissenters, and by the sacrifices he must have made to
increase the welfare of the people, and to promote know-
ledge, freedom, and happiness, throughout the land."

The Minister of the Interior has appropriated
a sum of 1,200 f. for a grand plate to be run for at the
races in September next.—French Paper.
Public attention has been a good deal excited
by an order of the Portuguese Governor of Macao,
expelling from that settlement the agents of the Fo-
reign Roman Catholic missions which have for ages
been established there, as a medium of communication
with the missionaries in the interior. The agent for
the celebrated Propaganda Society, a native of Italy,
and three French missionaries, representing, we un-
derstand, valuable property in China, have taken re-
fuge in Canton. We shall be glad to be enabled to
lay before our readers the causes of this very singulir
measure of severity practised by a Christian Governor
towards ministers of the Gospel, who have hitherto
been esteemed of irreproachable characters, in whose
fate the whole Christian world of all denominations
cannot but feel a lively interest.—Canton Register,
Dec. 26.

`THE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH.—His
Grace, we are sorry to state, has been for some days
confined to bed from the effects of an accident. He
was riding along Constitution-hill, accompanied by his
niece, Miss Beresford (daughter of Lord George),
when, owing to some want of management of his reins,
he was thrown, and sustained a severe contusion on
the side. The right rev. prelate is also suffering from
gout, with which complaint Lord George Beresford is
also attacked at the residence of the Archbishop, in
Charles-street, St. James's.
EXEMPLARY CONDUCT.—We have much
pleasure in making known the following trait in the
conduct of a clergyman of the established church in
this city, who has some glebe lands at Churton Heath.
The tenant called upon him the other day, and inti-
mated that his rent was too high, and had been so fon
some years. The rev. gentleman instructed' him to
have it valued ; and not only reduced the rent of the
glebe according to the valuation, but refunded the
amount above the valuation which had been paid dur-
ing six years, amounting to 26l.—Chester Courant.
JOURNEY TO THE NORTH OF INDIA.—
Lieutenant Conolly, in his" perilous " Journey to the
North of India," proceeded from St. Petersburgh,
through Novogorod, to Moscow, crossed the dreary
steppes at the foot of the Caucasus range, and made
the passage of the mountains into the vast desert that
lies north and east of the Caspian Sea. In his in-
teresting narrative, he judiciously dismisses this part.
CaucasusTh
isintelligent
li notgentye traveller's
pgp.e a rs The,
toeeit
briefly. It is when he gets to the country of the
Toorkmuns, that his book becomes especially interest-
nviews, as to the probability and possibility of a Russian
invasion of India, deserve considerable attention, from
the excellent opportunities of observation his journey
passagethe.
Russians. of
the
afforded him. His life was frequently in great danger,
from the treachery of his guides through the desert,
who led his party away from the camps of the natives,
into unfrequented places, with the view of robbing, if
not of murdering them. His account of a night spent
under such circumstances, is to the last degree in-
teresting. Lieutenant Conolly's account of Persia,
also, is replete with interest—vivid, well written, and
attractive, for the sake of the matter even more than
the manner. This work is written not only in a wise,
but in a candid spirit. A tone of good sense pervades
its pages, which exhibit an intimate acquaintance with
the customs and manners of that part
,of the east to
which it relates. It ought to find a place in every good
library, as a worthy companion to the labours of FA.
phinstone and Frazer.—Atlas.