The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-15 00:00:00

upon him by a foreign prince, and to exercise any-
thing like power or authority over her Majesty's
subjects in this kingdom, with him the simple ques-
tion would be, whether that individual ought not to
be taken to the nearest port and sent about his busi-
ness.— (Loud cheers.) He felt assured that the
people of England would assist her Majesty in
taking any step which might appear to be neces-
sary -fee showing that they were firmly determined
to maintain that Protestant faith and those Protes-
tant institutions which now so happily prevailed
amongst them. But he could not conceal from him-
self that Papists abroad had been encouraged in their
attempts to diffuse their doctrines amongst us by the
practices of a certain section of the Church of Eng-
land.—(Hear.) In alluding to this subject he had no
desire to speak in a spirit of bitterness. The laity of
the Church of England had a right to speak out upon
this subject; and he did not hesitate to avow that
whilst to him it would be a source of the greatest
happiness if he thought that one of his sons was fit to
take upon himself the office of a minister of Christ, and
to inculcate the doctrines of the Church of England,
vet rather than see that son a minister of the
Protestant Church, with a Papist's heart, he would
follow him to the grave.—(Loud and protracted cheer-
ing.) Feeling that strongly, and having the warmest
interest in the welfare of the Church, he could not,
on an occasion like the present, blink the awful ques-
tion,—" Are we to have Popish priests in the bosom
of our English Church ?"—(Hear, hear, and vocife-
rous cries of " No.") In his own neighbourhood re-
cently an English clergyman had become a Papist.
He was chaplain to an English bishop, who had given
him his living. Another chaplain to that bishop had
previously been perverted to the Church of Rome,
and he was now going about the country en-
deavouring to draw the people over from our
Protestant Church to the Church of Rome. Would
they close their eyes to these things ? Would they
attend a public meeting against the aggressions of the
Church of Rome, and close their eyes to practices
which were being carried on in their own Church ?
—(Cheers, and cries of" No.") God forbid. Heart
and hand, therefore, they should unite in their oppo-
sition to Popery, whether in the Church of Rome or
the Church of England. In making these observations
he did not desire to raise the "No Popery " cry.
He bated " cries," because it was now matter of
history that the raising of " cries " had been attended
with unprecedented crimes, and great misery, wretch-
edness, and suffering in the land.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Sir C. PAYNE moved the adoption of an address to
the Queen, founded upon the preceding resolutions,
and that the High Sheriff do present the same to her
Majesty at the first convenient opportunity.
Mr. C. L. HIGGINS seconded the motion.

The resolution was carried unanimously, and,
after a vote of thanks had been passed to the High
Sheriff for presiding, the meeting dispersed.

BIRMINGHAM.

Meetings have been held during the present week
in the parishes of St. Martin and St. Thomas, and
the churches of St. Philip and St. Mary, at which
memorials to the Queen against the Pope's assump-
tion were unanimously adopted.