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to the duties for which this meeting has been
called.
Mr. WESTERTON—Then, sir, I understand you
as chairman will not allow me, upon the occasion

of electing churchwardens, to put any question as
to the application of the offertory money. (Hear.)
The CHAIRMAN—You may understand what you
please. (" Oh, oh.") If you recognise my autho-
rity as chairman you will not proceed to put ques-
tions which I have decided to be irrelevant to the

business of the meeting; and if you are not pre-
pared to abide by my decision, I will at once leave
the chair, for I assure you it is a position which I
have no ambition to fill. (Hear, hear, and a voice—
" That is what you always do.")
A PARISHIONER—I submit that it is a question
for the meeting to decide whether the questions are
irrelevant or not. ("No, no, for the chair.")
Mr. WESTERTON—Put it to the meeting whether
the questions should be asked. (" No, no," and
" Yes.")
The CHAIRMAN—I have no question to put to the
meeting. If you will not abide by my decision—
if you will not abide by my authority—l will resign
the chair. (Cheers and laughter.)
A PARISHIONER—You always do.
The CHAIRMAN—Yes, because I have no ambi-
tion to take part in these unseemly contentions.
(" Oh, oh.")
A VOICE—We shall have a second St. George's-
in-the-East here soon.
Mr. WEsTEnTON—I hold that it is for the chair
man to put it to the meeting whether my questions
are irrelevant or not. ("No, no," " Yes, yes," and
a gentleman in a very excited tone, "I beg your
pardon, it is no such thing.")
The CHAIRMAN—If you will not abide by my
authority as chairman I will leave the chair—say
are you willing to abide by my authority or not ?
Mr. WESTERTON—Yes, if you will put it to the
meeting. (Cheers, and " Oh, oh.")
A PARISHIONER—If the chairman is honest he
will answer the question; if not, we shall know
what to think.
Another PARISHIONER—HoId your tongue ; you
are a Dissenter.
Other PARISHIONER—HoId your tongue. What
are you ?
The interruption and noise was here repeated,
and the chairman failing to restore order, rose, put
on his hat, and was about to leave, when
Mr. ex-Churchwarden HALL rose and proceeded
to address the meeting. Having obtained a hearing,
he said that when churchwardens were elected that
was the proper time to discuss the receipts and ex-
penditure connected with the parish church, and
when all legitimate questions having reference
thereto should be freely put and as freely answered.
(Hear.) if Mr. Liddell would not answer the ques-
tions which had been put, the natural conclusion
which people would draw was that there was some-
thing wrong in the matter. (Loud cheers.) He
wished to make some remarks upon the occurrences
which had taken place since he undertook the office
of churchwarden.
The CHAIRMAN—I beg your pardon, but will you
allow me to ask whether you rise for the purpose of
nominating some person for the office of church-
warden or net ? (Oh !)
Mr. HALL—Yes, I do. (Hear.)
The CHAIRMAN—Then I must request you to
confine yourself to that motion and to speak to the
point. (Cries of " Oh," " Shame," " Hear," and
cheers.)
Mr. HALL would do so, if the chairman would not
interrupt him. (Hear.) Since he (Mr. Hall) had
been in office he had always endeavoured to act in
a conciliatory spirit, which the chairman had ad-
mitted. But the result had been the same in his
case as in that of Mr. Westerton—the more conci-
liation he had shown the 'nora extravagant had
been the conduct of the clergy of the parish, and
the more determinedly had they gone on in the course
of Romanising the people. If he had not had a
strong mind and strong nerve to resist them dur-
ing his year of office, he should himself have been
handed over body and soul to the Papal church.
(Laughter, and eli s of " Hear, hear," and
" Shame.") When lie saw the whole of the clergy
of the parish fully prepared and determined to
carry out the principles and practices of the Jesuits
—when lie saw things which made the blood
boil within the breasts of all who possessed any-
thing of the heart and the soul which ani-
mated our great Protestant reformers—it was high
time they sould take steps to resist these aggres-
sions upon our Protestant religion—these advances
towards Popery which had of late been renewed
and extended, and were still being carried on.
(Interruption. A Voice—" Tell us what they are ;"
an 1 cries of " Question," " Order," and " Chair.")
The CHAIRMAN—I must entreat you to reserve
these remarks to some appropriate occasion, and
confine yourselves to the proper business of the
meeting.
Several PARISHIONERS—GO on; now is the time.
Mr. HALL resumed—Many present would re-
member the conversion to Popery of two young
clergymen of the parish; young men who, he be-
lieved, were honestly inquiring after truth, but
who, having been imbued with Puseyite principles
at Oxford, unfortunately came to that parish as
curates, when, under the system of teaching they
received. They found the course towards the doc-
trines of Popery easy and natural; and one after
the other had gone over. (Cries of "Shame,"
" Order," and cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN again interfered—This had no-
thine- to do with the election of churchwarden.
(" hear, hear," and " Oh, oh.") He might observe,
however, that one of the persons referred to by Mr.
Hall had never been at Oxford. (" Well, it was at
Cambridge.") If they would obey his authority
as chairman he would remain in the chair, if not
he would leave. (Hear, hear.) •
Mr. HALL must persevere in making a statement
which he considered germane to the business upon
which they were assembled. (Cheers.) He had
in his hand a list of the perverts from the Church of
England, brought about by this teaching of which
he complained, numbering between 200 and 300,
including members of Parliament, peers of the
realm, and people of high station of both sexes.
The CHAIRMAN, rising suddenly—Then I shall
not remain to hear it.
The rev. gentleman here left the chair and the
room, accompanied by his friends, and saluted by
hootinge, graylings, hisses, waving of hats, and
cries of " He has gone to St. George's-in-the-East."
Mr. WESTERTON then moved that Mr. Hall
take the chair, which was seconded and carried,
and Mr. Hall presided during the remainder of the
proceedings.
Mr. HALL then proceeded to address the meeting
at very great length, observing that his observa-
tions were not made out of any disrespect to Mr.
Liddell, for when he entered upon his duties he was
desirous of conciliating all parties,bat lie soon found
that was impossible. Referring again to the seces-
sion of the two curates, Messrs. Fothergill and
Wormall, he said that he had felt it his duty to
communicate with the Bishop of London on the
subject, and stating his opinion that it was owing
to the system pursued in the churches of St. Paul
and St. Barnabas. The reply was an expression of
regret at the circumstances, and an intimation that
it had already been communicated to him (the
Bishop) by Mr. Liddell. He complained that the
judgment of the Privy Council, ordering the relenoval
of the crosses and other decorations of the altar in
the parish church of St. Paul's, had been evaded.
Though they had been removed for a time, the
crosses had been recently restored, and were set up
over the communion-table, not upon it—a distinc-
tion without a difference—the super-altar remained,
the embroidered altar cloths were still used, the
bowings and genuflexions still went on, the services
were choral, the candlesticks and candles were there,
and the latter were lighted ; the rood screen re-
mained, and the Ten Commandments were merely
printed on a piece of paper and pasted up against
the wall, as though they wanted to get rid of the
commandments altogether, St. Barnabas Church
was, if possible, slid more nearly assimilated to the
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Church of Rome, and to make it so the Latin
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ling of little bells went on as one portion of the
congregation was dismissed another and
was
admitted, and the Litany was
murdered and
mutilated by chanting and singing, so that
and i
nobody could understand it. This was all done
designedly to accustom the people to the system
and practices of the
the transition from Pe
Protestantism to Romanism
might be easy. The
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nearly £60,000 for church building,
had subscribed
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about £20,000 had been expended upon
of which
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the build-
ing over the way (St. Paul's), and
nearly £40,000
upon St. Barnabas, which would only holdis
about
600 people. (Shame.) He held that this
wasteful sacrifice of the funds subscribed was a,
by the
people, to the vanity of priests and priestcraft.
(Cheers.) He contended that those who were at
the head of the clergy in that parish were nothing
more nor less than Jesuits; and if they were not
in the pay, they certainly were in league with the
Romish Church. They would never be satisfied.
until they had seduced the people from theirglorious
Protestant liberty. (Cheers.) He proceeded to
quote largely from the books used by the clergy of
St. Paul and St. Barnabas, with a view to show-

that they taught Romish doctrine. He had no fear
of the middle and lower classes, but he regretted';-
that many of the higher classes were disposed to,
give way to the Jesuitical conspirators who were
finding their way into so many of our parish.
churches. (Cheers.) He referred to a list of per— i
versions from that district, mentioning, amongst
other names, those of the Countess of Arundel„
Capt, Pakenham, the Duke of Leeds, Lord anal