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sermon which we have just hearti—we can
God, and Jesus Christ, and eternitYovitho4.4.---
the sense of these things in our t>av-ia,._'#yart,t;or 9f
things above, or the unseen world to whicli (stes'are:f.t fast ha.tening. I must confess that what most came
home to my own experience, and what I believe told
most on the hearts and consciences of all no* in thii
house, was, that of our not seeking after the fruits of
our preaching; not doing what our forefather's laid on
the elders othe Church—trying to find out the fruits
of the sermons delivered on Sabbath. We 'Aischarge
ourselves of the mere performance of our duty without
any further anxiety, as if it were a matter settled and
set by, as it were. The minister has preached, the
people were pleased, and there is an end of the
affair ; and this not merely as to the manner in which
we have performed our work in the pulpit. We may
carry our, satisfaction back, not merely to the delive-
rance, but to the preparation of our sermon. I was
not altogether aware of the arrangements of this day,
else it might have been altogether spent in accordance
with the nature and spirit of the exercises 'wheriAn
we have just been engaged—that is altogether! Sabba-
Ccally—ins.ead of which I had to pass, by as invent
transition from the labours of a Committee engaged in
important, io doubt, but still outward business-7-to puss
from this to the most sacred and'gpirittitiTiefflcs 0! the
House of God. What a change l—what an enl::rge-
ment !—what a felt and imm,diatelratislation, a if one
had entered a new country or a new Climate, nhe
came within the precincts of this house and breath( d its
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fs
stortry't,ai lent
nt 'saintly, t
sd devotions
ieobnas4
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to holy
tartunewls pehaenrlee,
notal
—I came not from aught of that " strife of fongues'
from which the Psalmist longed to hide himself
lifiro jomin tleide
in the especial presence of God. All wjis kindly
and generous and Christian-like courtesy. And if
there be a wide difference between the best and highest
place on earth and the lowest place of Heaven, let
us not wonder that there should also be a difference
between the blandest of human companionship when
the theme is the Church's secularities, and the whole
tone and temperament of this higher felloWship when
we have met to celebrate the most solemn of the
Church services, to listen to the man of God, and to join
in breathing aspirations after higher and better things.
Let us, therefore, make a strenuous endeavour—let us
cherish it as our fondest hope, that all our external ar•
rangements may soon be settled and set by, that so the
ministers of God may be set free for giving, themselves
wholly to prayer, and . the ministry of word. Oh,
that this delightful spirit may wax stronger and stronger
amongst us every day, and may be sent forth from
this Assembly, as from a centre throughout the
Church and throughout the land. Then would it
be a gladsome land truly, when the religion- of the
ministers told upon their congregations, and these again
upon their households, until from one end to the other
there should be heard throughout our borders the
melody which dwelleth in the habitations of the right-
eous. Oh that wo were sufficiently impressed with the
solemnity of our work, and were unceasing in prayer
for that unction from the Holy One, without which we
can neither save our own souls nor the souls of others !
I do hope that our secular business will be indefinitely
abridged—and whereas the secular has hitherto over-
shadowed the spiritual, that in all time coming the spi-
ritual will be made to overshadow the secular, so that in
point of fact this will become a great spiritual anniveit-
sau—a Christian jubilee, so to speak—a day of refresh-
ing from the Lord, and that from a central and
commanding part of the country a stream may go
forth, and an impression be made on the minds of
our Christian ministers that this impression will
be husbanded and kept, and prayed with and
prayed over ; and not only kept fast, but acted upon,
so that out of this fountain-head may emanate such
streams as shall tell on hundreds of congregations and
many thousands of the household of our beloved land,
and that our Church may become, through the descent
of living water from the upper sanctuary, like a well-
watered garden, abounding in all the pleasant fruits of
righteousness. The Rev. Doctor concluded by intimating
that the evening sederunt would be devoted to conversa-
tion on the state of religion in this country.

[ALDTERTISEME.NT.]
THE SUGAR QUESTION.,
The Sugar Bill is to be brought forward this evening
and I call on all Members of the House to give the mat-
ter only one moment's reflection, and they will agree with
the Chancellor, that it is an important question.
The consumers should now have cheaper sugar, parti-
cularly as the revenue can afford the trial, and the re-
venue may benefit by the change, which would give us a
large amount from the produce of countries which now
give nothing.
Why should not the poor man have his sugar for
feurpence, instead of sixpence or sevenpence per pound?
And the sugars of all nations would be required—of
course, a foreigner paying a higher duty than our own
colonies. Indeed, our own colonies should only pay a
nominal duty of ls. or 2s. per cwt., and not make a chief
requisite of life the mode of obtaining so large ttn amount
of revenue, for it is felt chiefly by the poor. But to the
point. Lord John Russell has given notice of his amend-
ment on the question, which will not even be listened to.
But I warrant him, that if he will read this, and call to
his aid all his machinery, he will carry his measure, and
receive the support of every interest—colonist, foreigner,
the trade, shipowner, and, in fact, every trade. Let
him give immediate notice, and there is ample time for
all to show if they do not take this view of the measure.
He cannot carry his present amendment—it injures too
many interests, and will scarcely be noticed.
When you wish to carry an important point, let every
interest derive advantage from the change—injure none,
and you do away with opposition.
I am practically experienced on the point, and never
saw a better opening. Sugar reduced from sixpence to
fourpence per pound for the poor man, will increase
the consumption of Ireland and Scotland materially,
where they scarcely see it now. Even the cattle may
be fed on molasses at the duty I propose ; and as the
consumption is so great in India' and the islands pro-
ducing it, so will it be here, if they can get three pounds
for one shilling, instead of two pounds. The adultera-
tion would be done away with, which is said to be (in
the last price-current) 100 tons per week in London—
thus injuring the article it is mixed with and also the
revenue. Why is the consumption of sugar only the
same now that it was fifteen years ago, and the popula-
tion 15 per cent. more ? Because the price is the same
and adulteration going on to a great extent, and the
question of duty always on the lapis.
The produce of the British possessions this year will
be 200,000 tons, which we should use with no change of
duty, and thus the revenue, with all sweets, would be
5,500,0001. Next year the produce of India will be
greater, and of Mauritius, owing to the import of hill
coolies there. And why cramp our West India colonies
and prohibit them being sent there. Demerara, Ja-
maica, and all our islands, would thrive if free emigre.-
gration was allowed, and why prohibit it any more than
from this country to all the world ? Appoint Govern-
meat Emigration Officers, as in this country, to license
and inspect emigration ships, and the people would go
into a land of comfort, and be brought in many instances
to Christianity ; at any rate, would be more useful
members of the community, and likely to improve. See
the vast increase in all trades by such a measure. Why
grant the boon to one colony, and not to all ? This
would be the grand death-blow to slavery and the slave
trade.
I propose that Lord John Russell gives notice at once,
and thus give timely notice to the country and his
friends that the consumer be considered, as the revenue
can afford the trial, and may gain instead of lose, if not
in sugar, by the increased consumption of other articles.
It is a grand trial, and may be the means of giving
future Ministers the power of raising two or three
millions of revenue with much ease.
We now pay the War duty, and we ought to see it
changed.
Propose that the duty be reduced on—
British plantation to 10/. per ton, would give .C 2,000,600
Foreign do. to 301. per ton-60,000 to 70,000
tons would be required this year; say
50,000 at 301.
British do. Molasses, at 2s. per cwt. £150,000
Foreign do. do., at 12s. per cwt.... gugg
Other sweets

X 4,000,000

Yours, respectfully,
A PHILANTHROPIST.

[ADVERTISEMENT.] HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND
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THE HAIL—Of the numerous compoundft con-
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tion of the hair, few survive, even in name, beyond a very
limited period; whilst " Rowland's Macassar Oil," with a
reputation unparalleled, is still on the increase in public es-
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for restoring, preserving, and beautifying the human hair,
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The very facts of the high and distinguished patronage it
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thorities which stamp its superior excellence and title over all
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principled shopkeepers, who vend the most spurious trash s!!I
the ((genuine" Macassar Oil : whereas the genuine artic • is
wholly the invention and property of A. Rowland and Son,
and the amalgamation of its costly exotic materials renders
abortiveany attronpt to discover its component parts--thus
proving! the imposition of all other articles bearing the title
ni o Macassar Oil." The genuine article has the words
" Rowland's Maeassar Oil" on the wrapper.--All others are
fraudulent eauntertbits
PIANam IN THE ASCENDANT.—In the biography
gardt, we find the foll
of M. Liszt, which M. G. Schilling has just published at Stut-
wini
F eaumerationof the titles of the
celebrated niat)..cst „o
Au ic Councillor of Prince Roenzall-
z—
irmilaijoal leader of the band of the chapel of the Grand
14uke of Saxe Weimar: Doctor of Philosophy, de Fine Art 4,
and Sciences ; Knight et the Royal Cird of Merit
of Prussia; gu'ighf. of the Order of the Lion of
Belginl-4, of the Falcon of the Grand Duke of
Wermar, of the Otticre, of the Duke Ernest of
Saxony and of Ow Prince of Roenzoll ; bearer of the
Royal GA Medal Tecompensing merit in the arts
itussWO) Wwtemberg, and of the Imperial Medal of
3 &O.; honorary citizen of Pesti* and otherHungariark ehles; member of the Royal Prime Academy of Arts Nu* Sciences ; and member, fit a Zeal or honorary, and errs..
P°ndent of a llVAtitade of other learned and art,isti* sokit•
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