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superintendent at Portsmouth, with his flag on board
the Victory, 104; and became a vice•admiral, November
9, 1840.

By the death of Vice-Admiral Bouverie;the following
promotions take place:—
Rear-Admiral Charles James Johnson to be Vice-
Admiral of the Blue, vice John Surnam Carden to the
White, vice Thomas Browne to the Red squadron.
Captain Price (June 13, 1815), Superintendent of
Sheerness Dockyard, to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue,
vice Rear-Admiral Charles Sotheby to the White, vice
Robert 'Elliott to the Red squadron.
Retired Captains N. L. Pate hall (October, 1815),
Rowland Money (March, 1815). John Sheridan, Sir H.
L. Baker, Bart., C. 8., G. W. H. D'Aeth, Robert Ram-
say, C. 8., J. C. G. Roberts, C.B.i all of the seniority of
June 13, 1815, are promoted to the rank of retired rear-
admiral, without increase of pay.
Rear-Admiral Price has seen some distinguished ser-
vice during his career; he has been wounded, and was
officially mentioned on no less thun eight gallant oc..a-
sions. We regret that we have not room for his services
to-day,
His Grace Algernon Duke of Northumberland is now
the senior captain on the active list for promotion, and
Captain James Scott, C. 8., succeeds to the half-pay list
of 14s. 6d. per diem.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN LA.RCOM.—Captain Joseph
Pafford Dickson Larcotn (1841) died on the let inst.,
at Gosport, aged 55. He was a lieutenant of 1814, and
commander of 1839.
APPOINTMENTS.

Commander A. P. Eardley Wilmot (reported yester-
day) to command the Britomart, 8, at Devonport, to be
commissioned with a complement of 80.
Lieutenants—F. D. Yooge (1845) of the Albion, 90,
and J. D. Curtis (1849) to the Britomart; John Ward,
(1850) to the Excellent, gunnery ship at Pgrtsmouth.
Mater—Thomas Earl (1850) to the Britomart.
Mate—Arthur Bagley to the Britomart.
Clerks—E. J. Bennett (1843) to be Acting Paymaster,
and J. N. Wicker, to the Britomart.
Masters' Assistant—C. Williams to the Britomart.
Gunner—William Stevenson.
Boatswains—John Walker and Carpenter Henry
Lurcombe, to the Britomart.
DOCKYARD.—Mr. Wide, clerk of the third class in
the factory department at Woolwich, has been permitted
to exchange with Mr. Pike, clerk of the third class at
Pembroke yard.
DISTILLING SALT WATER INTO FRESH,---For the
last two years the newspapers have teemed with ac-
counts from our men of war of the success which has at-
tended the fitting of Mr. Grant's galley for the purpose
of distilling sea water into fresh, for the consumption of
the ships' campanies, and of the readiness of the Ad-
miralty on most occasions in bringing forward steamers
for service, to have the distilling-galley placed en board.
As the Hogue, 60, screw guard ship, will be some time
in the hands of the engineers of Portsmouth-yard, it
would be most advisable if Mr. Grant's distilling-galley
was fitted to her. It would be eminently serviceable in
many respects in the Hogue. When stored this vessel is
too deep in the water; but bad she the distilling-galley,
she might dispense with some of the weight she carries.
At present she only stows ninety-two tuns of water;
and, in consequence, directly she goes to sea, the crew
are put on a small allowance, a disagreeable and un-
pleasant thing, especially when they are kept on salt pro-
visions. We may remark that, so long as seven years ago
the Admiralty commenced fitting distilling apparatus
to our steamers; but no plan has answered so well as
Mr. Grant's. Our Portsmouth correspondent, in yes-
terday's communication, adds:—" By letters recently re-
ceived from the Reynard screw-sloop, Commander era-
croft, it appears that Mr. Grant's distilling galley has
now been in constant use on board that vessel for
the last two years, and that it has answered in every
particular. The Reynard's crew have been particularly
healthy, which is solely attributable to the wholesome
distilled water. The deleterious character of the water
received by the British men-of-war at Hong-Kong and
other places is well known. The Reynard, when the
letter was written, was perfectly healthy, but two sloops
of war were lying near her with much dysentery and
low fever on board." While speaking of Mr. Grant's
galley we may mention that we have heard it suggested
that the distilling galley now on board the Termagant,
screw-frigate, in ordinary, could be easily shifted from
that vessel to the Hogue, whereby her comfort and
qualities would be materially improved.
Bellerophon, 78, Captain Baynes, C. 8., and Mariner,
12, Commander Mathison, have both been paid off at
Devonport by Mr. Henderson. The Styx sailed with
those who wished to avail themselves of a passage for
Portsmouth on Wednesday evening, in charge of Mr.
Brown, master of the St. George, and arrived at Ports-
mouth yesteriay morning ; and the Sprightly steam-
tender, Master- Commander Allen, left Portsmouth on
Wednesday evening for Plymouth, taking down a few
supernumerary seamen ; also to convey a portion of
marines and teAmen, waiting a passage to the eastern
ports,
Britomart, 8, on being prepared for commission, at
Devonport, has been found defective. Several timbers
have been found rotten and covered with fungus. A
more extensive examination of her state will be neces-
sary.

Buzzard steam-sloop (and not the Rosamond) was put
out of the basin at Woolwich on Wednesday, and is to
proceed to Greenhtthe to have her compasses adjusted,
and then to go to Devonport.
Penguin, 6, packet-brig, Lieutenant-Commander Les-
lie, arrived at Devonport on Tuesday evening from Pal-
tn,-,uth, to be paid off.

Wasp, 12, screw steam-sloop, Commander W. P.
Crozier, arrived at Devonport on Wednesday. She has
defects, which are to be made good, and will be com-
pleted by to-morrow evening, when she proceeds to the
coast of Africa.

Retribution, 28, steam-frigate, Captain Warden, will
be taken out of dock at Portsmouth to-day, when the
Medea steam-sloop will be taken in.
INFERIOR COPPER SHEATHING TO OUR MEN OF
WAR.—FAntome, 12, brig, is about to be brought for-
ward for immediate commission at Portsmouth. She
was docked on Tuesday, went out again on Wednesday
morning, and was masted, and is being rigged by the
dockyard with dispatch. This brig has had a thorough
repair, and was only coppered about seven months
hack. When taken into duck on Tuesday some of her
copper sheets were so much deteriorated that it was ne-
cessary to shift about 30. Surely this copper must be
of a very inferior manufacture; it ought almost to last
as many yt ars as it has months. Many of her other
sheets were much pock-marked—always a bad sign. On
a former occasion we animadverted on the state of the
copper of the Apollo, which had been literally washed
off her bows. The Fantome's promises to be somewhat
similar. Surely it would be advisable "for the chemist
of the yard to examine and report on all. copper articles
sent in for the use of the service.
THE TURKISH SQUADRON AT PORTSMOUTH.— The
Turkish frigate, the Mirat Zafir, Captain Mehemet Bey,
and brig Simla Bahir, were towed into Portsmouth Har-
bour yesterday afternoon, and have gone up Priddy's
Hard, where it is supposed they will remain some
months. The frigate's band, as she was towed in, per'
formed several English pieces of music tolerably we 11,,,
" Rule Britannia and " God save the Queen" being
amongst them. It is rather a singular circumstance,__
that neither of these vessels have any person that
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LIVERPOOL, Nov. 7.
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bowsprit and received other damage. The Belle and the
from New York; the Bombay Packet, from Bonny; the
Alliance, from Charleston; the Sandford, from Galatz;
the Prometheus, from Bordeaux; the Gannet, from
Rotterdam; the Sisters, from Leghorn; the Calcutta,
the Duke, and the Duke of York, from Calcutta. Sailed,
the Camillus, for New Orleans.
YARMOUTH, Nov. 5. —Arrived, the Westmoreland,
from Quebec, for Wisbeach, very leaky, and with loss of
bulwarks, &c.
CUXHAVEN, Nov. 4.—Tbe Erie, of and for Bremen,
from New York, was wrecked on the Mehein Plate,
at the entrance of the Weser, last night; crew saved.
PARIS, Nov. 7.—The Vincent, from Rouen for
Brest, in being towed down the river from Honfleur,
broke shear, went ashore, and sunk, having started some
planks.
ELSINORE, Nov. I.—Tbe Ondernehmung, from Mir-
lingen for Memel, has put in here to-day, with bowsprit
sprung and damage to stern, having come in contact
with the Queen, from Hull fur St. Petersburgh; the lat-
ter proceeds without much damage. The Louise, from
Konigsberg for Hull, put in here yesterday with part of
cargo thrown overboard.
GRAVESEND, Nov. 7.--Wind fresh, cloudy.—
Arrived—Cornwall, from Sydney; Stephani, St. John's;
Mareniro, from Savannah; Treffry, from Bordeaux;
Lionne, from Gravelines; Joseph, from Guernsey; Mel-
ville, from Wallace; Charlotte, from Denim; William
Jolliffe, from Havre; Fame, from Calais; Earl of Auck.
land, from Rotterdam; Lord John Russell, from Har-
lingen; Magnet, from Amsterdam; Rhine, from Rotter-
dam; Princess Victoria, from Antwerp; Philip Laing,
from Calcutta; Ann, from Amsterdam; Harlequin, from
St. Kitts. Sailed—Tory, for Vancover's Island; Hast-
ings, for Calcutta; Giraffe, for Toningen; Damiana, for
Cadiz; Sympathy, for Stettin; Waterwitch, for the
Azores; Albert, for Pernambuco; Queen of the West,
for St. Michael's; Isabella Wood, for Demerara; Soho,
for Antwerp; Sir Robert Peel, for Dunkirk; Index, for
St. Kitts; Venezuela, for Havre; Menai, for Calais; Lis-
moyne, for the Clyde; Fyenoord, for Rotterdam.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
Swedish barque No. 83, on the 16th of October, in lat.
40 N., lon. 12 W.
Harnburgh barque No. 43, on the 19th of October, in lat.
43 N., lon. 13 W.
Rival schooner, for Newfoundland, in lat. 50 N., lot]. 34
W. all well.
Cordelia, for Gibraltar, in lat. 49 N., lon. 24 W.
Martha brig, of Whitehaven, on the 4th of October, in
lat. 44 N., lon. 59 W.
Harpooner barque, from Callao for London, on the 17th
of October, in lat, 27 N., lon. 27 `,

Arethuss, from Newcastle for Constantinople, in Ist. 40
N., lon. 12 E., out 23 days.
Janet brig, from Cuba for the Clyde, in lat 51 N., lon.
8 W:
Minerva, from Troon for Valparaiso, in Ist. 15 N., lon.
27 W.
Raleigh, from Liverpool for Rio Janeiro, on the 27th ult.,
in lat. 42, lon. 15.
American barque Caroline Augusta, on the 2d of No-
vember, in lat. 49, lon. 11.
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Columbia, from Bremen for Charleston, on the 28th ult.,
in lat 41, 13n.
Lucy barque, and the William Wallace, same day.
Dutch ship, showing No. .451, in a red flag, with an
anchor i❑ the angles, on the 28th of August, in lat. 18
S., lon. 33 W.
Bato, from Dordt for Batavia, on the 24th of August, in
lat. 1, lon. 18. .
Aurora, from Antwerp for Valparaiso and San Francisco,
on the 29th ult., in lat. 45 N., lon. 13 W.

THE REV. DR. CUMMING ON THE
TEACHING OF CARDINAL WISEMAN.

A lecture was delivered yesterday in the Hanover•
square Rooms by the Rev. Dr. Cumming, to show
that " the Teaching of Cardinal Wiseman is the best
Reason of Protest against his Intrusion as Arch-
bishop of Westminster." The lecture was delivered
at the request of the Society for Promoting the Reli-
gious Principles of the Reformation. Much anxiety
was evinced by all classes to hear it, and in conse-
quence there was a great pressure for places. Long
before the hour appointed for the commencement of
the lecture the room was densely crowded, whilst all
the passages and staircases were filled by parties, both
male and female, who found it physically impossible
to obtain any better position. In fact, we never ob=
served a more general desire to unite in a demonstra-
tion of sympathy upon any great public question.
On the platform we observed Admiral Harcourt,
Sir Philip Malcolm, Sir John Maxwell, Bart., Mr.
Henry Pownall, and a great number of clergymen of
all denominations. _

Admiral Hericouier was called to the chair, and
after some introductory observations the Gallant
Officer referred to the charge recently delivered by
the Bishop of London, which he said reflected infinite
honour upon that distinguished prelate. It was a
charge which eminently celled upon the clergy to
struggle manfully against inward disease and out-
ward corruption in spiritual affairs. He strongly
condemned the intrusion by the Pope of Rome into
this country of a hierarchy which denied the supre-
macy of the Crown, and ignored the existence of the
Church of England. The people of England would
never serve the purposes of an aggressive church and
a foreign priesthood. He had only one fear upon the
subject. It was lest the excitement, which was now
very considerable, might pass away. The work would
not be done by simply attending meetings for a short
time. On the contrary, Popery could only be rooted
out, under God, by every individual, in his own
sphere, trying to circulate the truth as revealed in the
Scriptures, and to promote the religious principles of
the Reformation.—(Cheers.)
Dr. CUMNIING then presented himself, and his ap-
pearance elicited repeated bursts of applause. The Rev.
Doctor said that, on the one hand, he must express his
regret that so much inconvenience should be caused
by the pressure to hear what he had to say ; but, on
the other hand, he could not avoid expressing his gra-
titude to God that the popularity of Cardinal Wise-
man had brought so great a body of Protestants to-
gether to protest against his assumption of an autho-
rity in this land for which he had no claim whatever.
--(Hear.) He could not better commence his lec-
ture than by reading what, in his opinion, was one of
the most memorable documents that ever proceeded
from high official authority at any period, or under
any crisis in the history of this country. He alluded to
the noble Protestant and truly faithful letter which
Lord John Russell had just addressed to the Bishop
of Durham—(Loud cheers)—a document which,
indeed, he only expected from his Lordship, knowing
that he held the principles which were therein so elo-
quently and powerfully embodied—and a document
which gave the crowning blow to the mighty and
successful efforts of the daily metropolitan press to
appreciate the crisis, and to rouse the sympathies of
Protestants against any unjustifiable invasion. It
would be supererogatory to read the whole of the Noble
Lord's admirable letter , but there was one part of
it which he had read vs ith delight, and which he
was sure would give intense satisfaction to the meet-
ing. Lord John Russell said, " I confess, however,
that my alarm is not equal to my indignation."—
(Loud cheers.) His Lordship then stated that upon
ttais subject, " The present state of the law shall be
carefully examined, and the propriety of adopting,
any proceedings with reference to the recent assump-
tions of power deliberately considered."—(Hear, hear.)
He (Dr. Cumming) had not the slightest doubt that
this would be done ; and he would only add on this
part of the subject, that such a sentiment came with
the greater grace from a nobleman so distinguished
as Lord John Russell, after having advocated, as he
had, what were called the " Claims of 1829," than
from any who, despised as prophets at the time, but
who were now found to have been faithful and true
advisers, thought the Emancipation Act was not so
desirable as some supposed it to be.—(Hear.) Lord
John Russell added—" Clergymen of our own
Church, who have subscribed the Thirty-nine Ar-
ticles, and acknowledged in explicit terms the Queen's
supremacy, have been the most forward in leading
their flocks ' step by step to the very verge of the
precipice.' The honour paid to saints, the claim of
infallibility for the Church, the superstitious use of
the sign of the cross, the muttering of the Liturgy so
as to disguise the language in which it is written, the
recommendation of auricular confession, and the ad-
ministration of penance and absolution—all these
things are pointed out by clergymen of the
Church of England as worthy of adoption, and
are now openly reprehended by the Bishop
of London in his charge to the clergy
of his diocese." Here, he believed, was the real
secret of the invasion made upon this.country by the
Pope. Even the cholera did not strike its victims
unless there was a contaminated air to act as its con-
ductor ; and Cardinal Wiseman would never have
dreamt of coining into the midst of us if it had not
been represented to the Pope that the atmosphere of
England was morally tainted, so that ho might expect
to meet with universal success.—(Hear,s hear,) But
those to whom this taint was owing had been, as the
Fremier said, openly reprehended by the Bishop of
London in his charge to the clergy of his diocese ;
and he was bound to add that the Bishop's answer to
the address of the clergy of Westminster was a docu-
ment which entitled him to the gratitude of every
minister and laymen in his diocese —(Hear, hear.)
In the present lecture he laid claim to no greater ap-
prehension of the crisis than was felt by thousands of
his brethren in London ; but he believed there might
be a possibility of the tide of " indignation," which
had just set in with such force and strength, running
in a wrong direction.—(Hear, hear.) It was just
possible that we might, in our hatred to this gross in-
vasion, fly to the extremity of renewing pains and
penalties which were not expedient, or engage in a
proscriptive, persecuting, and merely political course,
which would be attended with no practical advantage.
He begged to say, that in the remarks he was
about to make he entertained no personal
hostility to " his Eminence the Cardinal,"
as he assumed to be, "of Westminster."
Cardinal Wiseman was a distinguished scho-
lar ; he was also a most accomplished scientific
writer; and any one acquainted with his works upon
science and religion would be ready to own that he
was a scholar of the very highest order in his peculiar
departments. But it must not be supposed that the
fact of his being a perfect scholar afforded a pre-
sumption that he was also a perfect theologian or a
true Christian.—(Hear, hear.) Nor had he any de-
sire to interfere with the rights and privileges of his
Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen ; but he went—
along with his fellow-subjects—to protest that Car-
dinal Wiseman, whilst entitled to all the rights of a
citizen, had no right, at the dictation of a foreign po-
tentate, and that potentate an Italian priest, to parcel
out England into Popish dioceses, and to claim all
baptized men as the subjects of his power and as
obnoxious to his jurisdiction. (Hear, hear.) But he
would not consider this visitor in red in the character
of a cardinal at all, though he assumed to be a cardi-
nal—that was, a temporal prince ; because if a fo-
reign temporal prince meddled with the rights and
privileges and jurisdiction of our most gracious
Sovereign, judging from Lord John Russell's letter
and from the temperament of the country, he would
meet with such a resistance as would convince him
that his master had perpetrated a great blunder in
sending him. He would rather treat him (being
a minister of the Gospel himself) as a clergyman
and as an al Jibishop professing to tench certain
doctrines and to inculcate certain lessons,
wishing to ascertain by severe analysis whether
Westminster would be very much benefited by getting
rid of the ministers who now instructed it, and super-
seding them by the instructions of "his Eminence
the Cardinal Archbishop.: But, as he had already
said, he should never advise persecution, for persecu-
tion never convinced, much less converted, any man.
But it always raised a sympathy with the persecuted
person. It had been said that, as we should not send
P. Protestant bishop to Rome to convert the Pope and
his adherents, therefore the Pope should not send
bishops to this country. Brit he did not hold with
any such compromise. No compact should be made

[PRICE SD.

with Rome. However much they might carry out
free trade in everything else, there ought to be none
with Rome.—(Cheers.) It might be worth while to
inquire what had been the practical effects of the
teaching of the Pope himself and his cardinals upon
their own ground in their own city.—(Hear, hear.)
In 1848 a great convulsion shook Europe to its very
centre. It had been found that in Rome there was
one ecclesiastic of one sort or other to every thirty of
the people, and that there was a priest to every sixty
or seventy of the population. Now, if the doctrines
of the Church of Rome were so precious, there was a
most splendid opportunity of developing their effects,
and of trying their fruits in what was called
" the capital of the Christian world." If Popery
had failed in Rome, and he contended that
it had manifestly failed, such a result was
owing, not to any want of hands to work it, or of
priests to represent it, but to some inherent flaw in
the system. On the other hand, looking over Lon-
don, there was not one minister, of any denomina-
tion, to ten thousand of the people ; and it might,
perhaps, be argued that Protestantism had failed in
this metropolis, because it was not adequately repre-
sented and effectually carried out and brought home
to the hearts and consciences of the people. What,
then, had been the results of the two systems ? In
the first place, when the revolution broke out, in
1848, the subjects of the Pope in the city, which was
the model city of the world, were moved ; and what
was the conduct of the Vicar of Christ, and those
whom he instructed ? Why, when the first vibrations
of the political earthquake were felt at Rome, his be-
loved subjects rose en masse, his Prime Minister was
murdered before his face, and he was dismissed in a
footman's livery upon a coachman's box ; and judging
from facts which had since transpired, the people were
the last to wish him back again.—(Hear.) But what,
on the other hand, had taken place in London ? The
same wave that swept over Rome reached the metropolis
of Old England. A few crotchetty men thought to
disturb the capital in the hope of obtaining their
crotchets ; but, he would ask whether that which took
place showed that our Protestantism was inadequately
represented ? Not at all ; whole masses of English-
men rose as one man to put down the crotchets of
troublesome men, and he himself saw them rally
round the flag of our country, and heard them sing
spontaneously, " Long live the Queen."—(Cheers.)
If our Protestantism made us do this, it was worth
keeping, and if the Cardinal's teaching produced the
results described in Rome, he would ask whether it
was worth having ?—(Cheers.) But the controversy
must not be that of person against person, or church
against church ; it must be that of light against dark-
ness, that of freedom against slavery, that of the reli-
gious rights of this country against the spiritual des-
potism of the Pope of Rome. Viewing the controversy
in this light he should proceed to notice " the teaching
of Cardinal Wiseman—the best reason of protest
against his intrusion as Archbishop of Westminster."
In the first place, when the Cardinal was made Arch-
bishop and received the pallium, he repeated a solemn
oath in Latin, which was to be found in the Pontifi-
eale .Romanum, and which, being translated, is as
follows :—" All heretics (that was Protestants) and
schismatics (that was the Greek Church) I will prose-
cute and attack to the utmost of my power (pro
posse)." The following was a curse the Cardinal was
to use if a parent attempted to remove a child who
had, against his parent's will, entered the service of
the church :—" May he be cursed in his home and
out of his home. May he be cursed in watching and
sleeping ; in eating and drinking—walking and
sitting. May his flesh and bones be corrupted. May
there light on him the curse which the Lord sent by
Moses. May his named be razed from the Book of
the Living," and so on.—(The audience were so dis-
gusted with the terms of this horrible anathema, that
the Rev. Gentleman was unable to conclude it.) Such
was the cursing of Cardinal Wiseman, as printed in his
own document, and which, when he had the pro posse,
he would pronounce with all the accompaniments.
But he would show the actual teaching of the car-
dinal from the books he approved, the principles he
professed, and which he commended to the study and
adoption of priests and others in his diocese. There
was a saint, St. Alphonsus Ligouri, who was cano-
nized by the Pope, that was enrolled among the saints
in Heaven, in 1839. This saint had a breviary and
missal, containing a prayer, which every Roman Ca-
tholic was bound to read on the 2d of August, 1851,
that God would be pleased to enable him to follow
the example of St. Alphonsus Ligouri. The reverend
lecturer then expounded the example and doctrines set
forth by this canonized person at much length, from a
Life published by Dr. Wiseman, in the course of
which he recommended a variety of practices, and as-
serted a number of dogmas most repugnant to Pro-
testant notions. The passages read related to the
doctrine of mental reservation, venial lying, oaths,
theft, the worship of saints, the intercession of the
Virgin, confession, and other branches of Roman
Catholic faith. It had been stated by the Protestants
that the Roman Catholics did not permit the Catholics
to read the Bible, but that was not so. They allowed
the peasants of England to read the Scriptures in
French, the French peasants to read it in Dutch, and
the Dutch peasants to read in Russian ; they, in
fact, allowed them to read it in any language
but that which they understood.—(Cheers and laugh-
ter.) By the doctrines of the Roman Catholic
Church it was lawful to equivocate with heretics—to
deny the truth and bear false witness—in short, they
allowed every departure from the moral law, and those
doctrines were inculcated by the moral theology of
the Church of Rome, which Cardinal Wiseman was
bound to support and to teach. He had now ex-
plained the doctrines held by Cardinal Wiseman,
which he was not ashamed to avow and proclaim as
the truth. He did not, however, call upon them to
detest the man, but only to shrink with horror from
the principles which he avowed. It was his (Dr.
Cumming's) strong conviction that the Pope had in
this matter made a grievous blunder, infallible though
he was. Pius had been feeling the pulse of the Pro-
testantism of England. Because it was calm he
thought it was weak ; because it was silent he thought
it was indifferent. The Pope imagined that
Old England was so cold that it would hear a cardi-
nal; but he would find in six weeks that it would not
bear a monk—(Hear)—and if he might judge from
the manly spirit exhibited in the Prime Minister's let-
ter, it would not endure even a Puseyite. The ap-
pearance of a cardinal in the capital had had something
like the effect produced by the appearance of the
French flotilla off Boulogne.The one roused the loyalty
of England, the other stirred up its Protestantism,
and under it both Puseyism and Popery would dis-
appear. We had got the real thing now, and wanted
no sham Popery. If the comparative merits of the
two churches were to be tested by the splendour of a
ritual, by the gorgeousness of robes, or by the gran-
deur of the service, then he solemnly believed that
St. 13arnabas-in-the-West would be swallowed up by
St. George-in-the-East.—(Hear, hear.) But this
aggression would do much to unite us all. In such a
case Churchtnen could not afford to do without the
Dissenters, and he told the Dissenters that they could
not afford to do without the Church. A crisis was
coming, which would demand the combined and
faithful efforts of all. The Pope had parcelled out
England, but, strange enough, he had not meddled
with Scotland. Whether or not the Pope thought it
sufficient to have only one cardinal, be knew not; but
he could not help suspecting that John Knox had done
more good than they gave him credit for, and that the
days were coming when John knoxes would be want-
ing. At the same time, he believed that the sections
of the Protestant Church differed only in ceremonial
details, and that they agreed in all that was essential.
All their churches were the planting of the Lord.
Each grew in its own native soil ; all their branches
shot in the same unsectarian air ; all their fruits
ripened in the same Catholic sun ; and the roots
blended with each other in the soil, invisible to us,
but all cohered in faith and love. Let them, then, be
brethren in arms, and rivals only in renown. Let
them take for their guide that part of the Bishop of
London's letter to the Westminster clergy wherein
he stated with great force and truth, that the Pope
was not the centre of unity, but that the centre of
unity was the Lord Jesus Cbrist.—(Hear.) Let
them keep to that definition. They might even learn
a lesson from this aggression. As in the Church of
Rome they were made to forget their differences, and
all were told to cleave to the chair of St. Peter and
look to the Pope, so in the Protestant Church we
must forget all differences and believe only in the
Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world.
Uniformity, depend upon it, was not God's law.
A tailor could produce uniformity by cutting
all our coats exactly alike ; but the unity
of the living God could only be produced by
changing the heart itself. Wherever there was
life there was unity, but not uniformity ; and wher-
ever there was death there was uniformity, but not
unity. Let them, therefore, make common cause in
protesting against Rome, and in upholding Protestant
and Bible Christianity.—(Cheers.) Preferring each
their own ecclesiastical communion, let them unite
together against the common enemy, who had dared
to parcel out England as if it were a colony of Rome,
and he would say down with the tiara and up with
the old flag of England and the Queen's Crown.—
(Loud and long-continued cheering.) He deprecated,
as the Prime Minister had, the example of men like
Mr. Denison—(Hear, hear)—and he begged to say
that if i
jurisdiction depended upon the mere nterrie-