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COMMERCIAL and GENERAL LIFE
'kJ ASSURANCE ANNUITY, FAMILY ENDOWMENT tUld
LOAN ASSOCIATION.

OFFICES, 112 and 113, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.
H. G. WARD, Eq., M.P., Chairman.
LIVES ASSURED on every known system.
LOANS URANTED repayable by instalments.
ANNUITIES immediate and deferred.
ENDOWMENTS for children payable at 14 or 21.

The rema'ning Shares will conttnue on Fele until the 2,
December next.

Inter st arovred on the paid-up capital, 5 per cent. per annum,
payablo 11,1f-yoarly.
Applicat ons for Shares and Frospeci 1r EA to he made to
FREDERIC LAWRENCE, Resident Secretary.
MOftices, 112 and 113, Cheapside.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AMUR-
AWCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The steady success and increasing prosperity of the Society has
enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a
second Bonus, averaging 60 per cent. on the amounts Invested on each
Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

Premium. Bonus Bonus in g 2 5 rote
g
11, added. Cash. —6 E
4 g
.
Xs. d. !X s. d. s. d. s. d. # s. ds
I :1837,170 9 3 77 5 1 12 3 5 346 2 3
60 1000 74 3 4 .1838 144 2 2 64 5 6 9 16 4 296 13 4
1839 116 16 0 51 511 711 9 247 4 5

The division of profits is armaal, and the next will be made In De-
cember of the present year.
This institution offers many important and sabstantlal advan-
tagc,s with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrmr, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
F. FERGUSON CAM ROUX, Sec.

SCOTTISII EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
Incorporated by Royal Charter. Established 1831.
Head Office, 26, St. Andrew's-square, Edinburgh ;
London Office, 61 A, Moorgate-street.
PRESIDENT.
His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEITCH and QUESNSBERRY.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
The Right Hon. Lord Gray.
Sir Neil Menzies, Bart., of Menzies.
David M. M. Chrichtoun, Esq., of Rankeilour.
ROBERT CHRISTIE, Manager.
The leading principle of this Mutual Assurance Society is, that the
whole Profits are divisible among the Policy Holders every three
years. In illustration of the eminent success which has attended the
Society, it may be stated that the additions made to Policies have
been at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured and on
the vested bonus.
Thus the holder of a Policy fbr 1,000/. effected on the Ist of March,
1832, will, if it become a claim during the present year, he entitled
to 1,2971.; or, ifeffected on or before the Ist March, 1833, to 1,2751.,
and so on as regards other Policies.
The Accumulated Fund exceeds 260,0007., and the Annual Revenue
is above 70,0001., the whole being in a course of steady and increas-
ing prosperity.
No other Life Assurance Institution whatever can warrantably'
hold out greater advantages to parties Assuring than this Society does.
WILLIAM COOK, Agent for London.

61 A, lloorgate-street

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY.
No. 11, LOMBARD-STREET, at the Entrance of the Old Post

office, London.
DIRECTORS.
JAMES MORRIS, Esq., Chairman.
JOHN LABOLTHERE, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq.
John W. Buckle, Esq. George Lyall, Esq., M.P.
John Dixon, Esq. Stewart 31arjoribanks, Esq., M.P.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. John Martin, Esq., M.P.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Thomson Hankey,jun., Esq. Robert Milford, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq.
George Johnstone, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
John Loch, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq.
AUDITORS.
A. W. Roberts, Esq I Henry Sykes Thornton, FIN.
Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq. George Stone, Esq.
Airuanv—Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S.
In the LIFE DEPARTMENT, a Bonus was declared in June
1829, exceeding one per cent. per annum on the sums insured, on an
average of the different Ages ; and two subsequent divisions of nearly
equal amounts were made up to Christmas 1835 and Christmas 1842.
On an average of the three divisions the Reversionary Bonuses added
to the several Policies at the end of every seven years amounted to
about 27 per cent. on the total premiums paid thereon during those
seven years, and the whole amount of Bonuses allotted at the three
Septennial divisions exceeded 530,0001.
In the FIRE DEPARTMENT, a Return of profit was declared
on the sth of June, upon the premiums received on all Policies
which had been in force seven years at Christmas 1843, and the same
is now in course of payment daily (Friday and Saturday exoepted)
between the hours of ten and three o'clock.
Notice is hereby given, That Assurances which expire at Michael-
mas must be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with
Mr. SAMS, No. 1, St. James's-street, corner of Pall Mall ; or with the
Company's Agents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become
void.

GEORGE SETS, Secretary.

THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS' and GE-
NERAL FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
(Empowered bf Act of Parliament.)
Adelaide-place, London-bridge; 444, West Strand.
23, Thistle-street, Edinburgh.
Wason.buildings, and Mathew street, Liverpool.
Great Bridgewater-street, Manchester.
The Company transact business in every department of Life and
Fire Assurance, in Annuities, Reversions, and Loans.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
ACTUARY—J. T. Clement, Esq.
At the last Quinquennial Meeting there n as added a bonus to the
Life Policies equal to 25 per cent. on the sums paid, and a bonus of
five per cent, to the Sbarcs in addition to the payment of the annual
i •te re. t.
For the convenience of parties wishing to assure for a specific
sum, without a prospective bonus, a new table at lower rates has
been calculated, on which, as well as on the participating scale, one-
half the premium may remain on interest at 5 per cent. for five
years, thus enabling a persm to assure his life for £1,009 on the im-
mediate payment of the premium for £SCO only.
The following are the annual premiums for the assurance of
£lOO for the whole life, one-half cf which may remain for five
years by merely paying the interest annually at 5 per cent. ; and
should the policy become a claim in the interim, the amount due
will then be deducted.
Ago 20 without profits... £1 13
30
40
4 a

0 with profits £l )8 0
8
3
4

For short periods the premiums are considerably lower, and for
any ages or contingencies not usually advertised, information may
be obtained on application to the Actuary or Secretary.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The Company insures houses, furniture, stock in trade, farming
stock, and every desotiption of personal property against los or
damage by fire.
The Direct :re pegs to remind their friends, whose premiums
became due at Michaelmas, that no extra charge is made at this office
for the transfer of policies, and that they will be rated on terms
peculiarly favourable to parties Insuring.
Insurances may be effected for any period of time ; if for sevon
years, the premium and duty will only be charged for six.
Sept. 28, 1844 NV. T. FA WCE fr. Sec.

ASYLUM FOREIGN and DOMESTIC LIFE
OFFICE, 70, Cornhill, and 5, Waterloo-Place, London,
Established in 1844.
DIRECTORS.
The Honourable William Fraser, Chairman.
Major General Sir James Law Lushington, G.C.8., Dep. Chairman.
J. Harvey Astell, Esq. C. W. Hallett. Esq.
J. Clarmont Whiteman, Esq. Foster Reynolds, Esq.
Geo. Palmer, jun., Esq. Thomas Fenn, Esq.
W. Edmund Ferrers, Esq. G.Farren,Esq.,Resident Director

MEDICAL OFFICERS IM LONDON.
R. Ferguson, M.D., 9, Queen-street, May-fair.
J. Forbes, M.D., F. H.S., 12, Old Burlington-street.
T. Callaway, Esq., Wellington street, Southwark.
Parsons suffering from chronic disease or irregularity of form, in
pregnancy, or old age, are insured at proportionate rates, the Aylum
being the Co rpany which originally (in 1d2.1) extended the benefits
of life insurance to such cases.

RENEWABLE TERM INSURANCES FOR HEALTHY

LIVES.

The advantages of a whole life Policy are secured by the smallest
necessary outlay in the first instance,—the contract being continued
year by year, whatever the future health of the assured (after the
primary examination), at a stipulated slight increase of premium,
little exceeding the price of an ordinary term insurance,
.up to the
alp of 70, when the rate remains stationary.
Extracts from RENEWABLE TERM rates for select lives.

AGE Ist yr. 2d yr. Btl yr. 4th yr. sth yr. I 6th yr. 1 7th yr
-- - -- - - -
30 1641

Extracts from the EVEN RATES for select liyss.

AGE I 20 I 30 1 40 I 30 1 60 1 70 1 SO
Prem.l 1 11 1-11 9 2 01 2 17 11 4 2 01 6 10 9110 18 6119 1 8

GRAND JUNCTION CANAL.
REDUCTION OF TOLLS.
Notice is hereby given, that the Thoroughfare Tolls for Merchan-
dise on this Canal, have this day been Reduced to One Halfpenny per
Ton per Mlle.

By order of the Corn nitteee,
B. C. SALE, Clerk to the Company.
Office, 21, Sumy-street, Strand, Oct. 2, 1844.

CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN RAILWAY,
via St. Ives, Peterborough, Deepiag, Bourn, and the Car
Dyke. Capital, 1,250,000!., in 50.000 Shares, of 25/. each.
Deposit, 1!. 10s. per Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Earl FITZ WILLIAM.
Tnc Worshipful the Mayor of CAMBRIDGE.
The Worshipful the Mayor of SHEFFIELD.
The Rev. H. ARLETT, M.A., Pcmb. Coll. Cam.
A. BARNETT, Esq., Lombard-street, London.
JAMES BRAND, Esq. 9, Broad street, London.
The Rev. H. BIRKETT, M.A., Ernmauel College, Cambridge.
HENRY BRUCE, Esq., Mincing-lane, London.
W. ELLICE, Esq., Leadenhall.street.
Mr. Alderman FISHER, Cambridge.
ROBERT GARDNER, Esq., Chaseley, near Manchester.
E. lIARPUR, Esq.. York.
Captain HENDERSON, Montague-square, London,
LUKE JONES, Esq., M.A., Parker's Piece, Cambridge.
THOMAS LAYCOCK, Esq., York.
R. G. LATHAM, M.D., King's College, Cambridge, and 29,
Upper Southwick-street, London.
Sir ISAAC MORLEY, Doncaster.
C. PARKER, Esq., Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire-
THOMAS PRICE, Esq., York.
The Rev. JOSEPH PULLEN, M.A., Corpus College, Cambridge.
General REYNARDSON, Holywell Hall, Lincolnshire.
BROWN ROBERTS, Esq., Old Jewry Chambers, London.
G. SKELTON, Esq., M.A., 2, Hyde Park.street.
Mr. Alderman STEVENSON, Cambridge.
B. VICKERS, Esq., Sheffield.
W. VICKERS, Esq., Moorgate.street, London.
D. WADDINGTON, Esq., Manchester.
JOSHUA PROCTOR WESTHEAD, Esq., York House, near
Manchester.
J. H. WEBSTER,- MD., Jesul College,' and king's Parade,
Cambridge.

(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER.
George Watson Buck, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Barnett, Hoare, Bradshawe, and CO.
STANDING COUNSEL.
Thomas Webster, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Humphreys, Keightley, and Co., London.
Messrs. Bonner and Sons, Spalding.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Jones and Walmsley.
A detailed Prospectus will be issued forthwith.
Oct. 1, 1844,

PUBLICATIONS.

REVELATIONS OF LONDON.
By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq.,
With Illustrations on Steel, by Phiz, Is commenced in the present
umber of Ainsworth's Magazine.
London : John -111ortImer, Publisher, Adelaide-street ; sold by all
Booksellers and Newsvenders.

Price 2s. 6d.
HO 0 D'S MAGAZINE
AND COMIC MISCELLANY,

For OCTOBER.
CoNTExre :—Our Family. A Domestic Novel. By the Editor.
Chapter XII. Our Godfather; Chap. XIII. Our other Godfather and
our Godmother; Chap. XIV. The Christening.—September in Paris.
—Old Mr. Fleming's Journey. By Miss Lawrence.—Three Gaelic
Melodies. By Delta.—The Priest's Dagger.—Tempest and Calm.—
Rambles at Rio. By Peregrine.—The Monk's Finger.—The Viol of
Our Lady. By the Mountaineer.—lncidents and Impressions ; or, a
Trip to Calais. By F. O. Ward.—The Streets of Paris.

EMPLOYMENT.--Persons having a little time
to spare are apprised that Agents continue to be appointed in
London, and country towns, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY,
or the sale of their celebrated teas.
011iees, No. 1, Great St. Deleifl-churchyard, ISizhepsgate-street.
They aro packed In showy leaden canisters, from ens ounce to a
pound, with the price and weight marked on each packet, and but
Ittle trouble is occasioned by the sale. The license is only I Is. per
annum, and many during the last nineteen years have realised con-
siderable incomes by the agency without one !shilling let or loss.
Application to be made (if by letter post-paid) as abuse.

BURGESS'S NEW SAUCE, for general pur-
poses, having gained such great approbation, and the demand
for it continuing to increase, JOHN BURGESS and SON beg most
respec,folly to offer thus their best acknowledgments to the rublie
for their liberal patronage of the samo ; its utility and great conveni-
ence in ail climates have recommended i, to the most distinguished
oreign connections, who have all spoken highly in Its recommenda-
tion. It Is prepared by them only ; and for preventing disappoint-
ment to families, all possible care has been resorted to, by each
bottle being sealed on the cork with their firm and address, as well
as each label having their signature, without which it cannot be
genuine.

JOHN BURGESS and SON'S long-established and much-esteemed
ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES COntinues to be prepared by tkem after
the sane manner that ha given the greatest satisfaction for many
years.

Warehouse, 107, Strand, corner of Savoy Stops, Laudon,

LEA. and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
SAUCE.

Prepared Nom the recipe of a Nobleman in the county.
" Great Western Steam-ship, June 6, 1844.—The cabin of the
Great Western has been regularly supplied with 'Lea and Perrins'
Worcestershire Sauce,' which is adapted for every variety of dish,
from turtle to beef—hom salmon to steaks—to all of which it gives
a famous relish. I have great pleasure in recommending this excel-
lent sauce to captains and passengers for its capital flavour, and as
the best accompaniment of its kind fbr a voyage.
(Signed) " JAMBS I'IOSICEX."
Sold wholesale by the proprietors, Messrs. Lea and ?erring, Wor-
cester ; Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Farringdon-street ; and the prin-
cipal oil and Italian warehousemen in London; and retail by the
usual vendors of sauces.

SILVER-PLATED DISH COVERS.
B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing
4, Silversmiths, 14, C,ornkill. Lendon,opposite the Hank ;of
England, submit for choice in their Plate-rooms, many Patterns of
SILVER-PLATED DISH COVERS, of Sheffield Manufacture,
from Fifteen to Twenty Guineas the set, viz.
Doulple Dome Pattern. ' The Melon Pattern.
Size. £ s d. Size.£. s. A.
lated Dish Cover, 2.,in. 5 11 6 l Plated Dish Cover, 90 in. 5 17 0
Dish Cover, 18 in. 4 7 6 1 Dish Cover, 16 in. 4 14 0
Dish Covers, 16 in. 5 12 6 2 Dish Covers,l4 in. 6 6 6

Per set £l5 13 91 Per set . £6 17 ft
The above have silver handles and mountings, and silver shields
forc.igraving the crest or coat of arms.

A Price Current, illustrated by Drawings, and containing every
information relative to the purchase of Silver or Sheffield Plate, may
be had on application, or will be sent into the country, free of
post:Te, in answer to a paid letter

THE EPISCOPAL FREE CHURCH
OF EXETER.
(From the Western Times.)
The Episcopal Free Church, of which so much
• has been said of late, was opened on Friday morning
by the Rev, H. 13. Baited. The church met in thegreat
room built by our enterprising neighbour, Mr. Ni-
cholas Tuckett, fur public purposes. It is one of the
most elegant halls in the West of England, not equal
to the great Subscription-room in extent, but cer-
tainly not behind it in elegance of decoration and
proportion. Mr. Tuckett, we believe, was himself
the architect; he spared no expense in decorating it ;
and its general appearance is no mean compliment to
his taste and ability. A gallery has been erected at
• one end, which rather mars the effect of a beautiful
stained glass window; and an excellent organ, sup-
plied by Mr. Vinnicombe, occupies the centre of the
gallery.
The chapel was filled long before the hour of ser-
vice in the morning; in the evening, the congregation
was even still more numerous. The service was
conducted with much order and decorum. Prayers
were read by the Rev. Mr. Shore, of Bridgetown,
who well understands how to read the beautiful
liturgy of the Church of England. Jackson's Te
Deum was chanted by a small but efficient choir ;
and the congregation joined in that beautiful service
with great taste.
The Rev. 11. Bulteel, who preached the opening
sermon, is a gentleman well known to this county,
being first cousin to the lamented John Croker Bulteel,
Esq., M.P. for South Devon. Mr. Bulteel seceded from
the Church on grounds which will he set forth in our
outline of his sermon, about 15 or 16 years since, on
which occasion we heard him preach in this city,
in the open air, his secession making at the time a
great sensation in the county. Since then he has con-
tinued steadfast in his views; and he now appeared in
Exeter to show, not only that he has not seceded from the
ground which he then took, but that the principles on
which he left the Church have been steadily progressing.
Ile is a fine-looking, powerful man, about five feet
ten inches in height, with a frathe which seems cal-
culated for any act of physical endurance which man
may be called on to undergo. 'We are not aware
that this fact is very essential to be noted in connexion
with an opening sermon ; but we mention it in con-
sequence of an article which appeared in Bentley's
Miscellany,: setting forth how the Rev. Gentleman,
since he has given himself up to the more diligent pro-
pagation of evangelical doctrines, had withered and
pined away in the flesh, and become almost a spec-
tacle to excite commiseration, instead of remaining a
man, as he was in form and substance, when the
writer of the paper first remembered him at college.
We believe the paper was entitled " Recollections of
Eton," it appeared in the number for August. The
writer having described the stalwart form of Mr.
Bulteel, and his muscular strength and personal ac-
tivity, attributes the decline of his physical powers to
his adoption of a more rigid walk and conversation in
accordance with the convictions of evangelical truth.
We admit that whatever a man's convictions may be,
twenty years take a great deal of elasticity out of his
frame, and reduce his bodily activity; but Mr. Bul-
teel bears evidence, by his clean-built frame, the
healthy hue of his cheek, the brightness of his eye,
and the health-bearing tone of his whole exterior,
that neither the abstractions of study, nor the quiet
habits of his calling, have had any visible effect upon
his physique. You will seldom see more unequivocal
evidence of health, calm vigour, and temperance, in
the visage and bearing of a man.
His text was from Galatians 4, chap. iv., verse 31
—" So then, brethren, we are not children of the
bondwoman, but of the free."
He commenced in a low tone and rather hurried
manner; but as he proceeded with his subject he
warmed upon it, and became excited and animated,
although fettered by a written composition, and re-
strained by the necessity of reading it.
He said they had sent for him on the present occa-
sion, to open a place of worship for the use of such
persons as saw fit, from motives of conscience, to free
themselves from the communion of the Church by law
established, and as a reason for so important a step
might justly be demanded of them, it could not be
deemed amiss if they took the present opportunity of
stating at least one momentous objection to a longer
pale—the complete state of
members, and especially her
bondagecontin continuance
whichl eithin
herher
ministers, were reduced, a state so much unlike that
of the primitive Church, as to render it impossible that
both Churches could derive their constitution from
the same original. He would solicit their attention to
two great points, which afforded a just and reasonable
defence of their conduct. The first was—the Freedom
of the Church of Christ ; the second, the Bondage of
the Church of England. By the term " Head of the
Church," it was implied that the Church allowed the
King supremacy in matters ecclesiastical, the Church
resigning her independence, and making the
magistrate her supreme head, without whose appro-
bation and allowance she could administer, transact,
or decree nothing. No ecclesiastic of the Estab-
lished Church could exercise his functions without the
magistrate's approbation ; no Synod or Church As-
sembly had a right to sit without his express per-
mission, or impose their acts as authoritative, till
they had received his confirmation ; neither could
any member be excommunicated, or expelled, the
society, without the consent of the magistrate. To
this account of the supremacy given by the Bishop,
it might not be amiss to add that by the 37th article
the same power, in matters ecclesiastical, was allowed
the Christian princes, as was allowed all godly kings,
in Holy Scripture, by God himself; and it is added,
that to them the chief government of all estate of this
realm, whether ecclesiastical or civil, in all cases, doth
appertain. The second canon spoke precisely the
same language, pronouncing that " whosoever shall
hereafter affirm that the King's Majesty hath not the
same authority in causes ecclesiastical that the godly
kings had among the Jews, &c., let him be excom-
municated ipso facto, and not restored but after
public revocation of his wicked errors." And, more-
over, by the Act 26th of Henry VIII., chap. 1, they
found that " the King, his heirs and successors, shall
be taken and reputed the only Supreme Head on
earth of the Church of England, and shall have full
power, from time to time, to visit, reform, correct and
amend, all errors, heresies, and enormities, whatever
they be, which, by any manner of spiritual authority
or jurisdiction, are, or lawfully may be, reformed,
ordered, corrected, or amended." So then, according
to this doctrine, the independence and liberty of the
Church of England was but a name, or a shadow—the
Church could do nothing—the King could do every-
thing—to him belonged the supremacy in all matters
whatever; doctrine, discipline, and what not, were all
subject to him—from the moment of the alliance no-
thing could be. safe from his touch, except the preach-
ing of the 'Word and the administration of the Sacra-
ments. It might seem strange to say that the Ring

might interfere with the Church's doctrine, seeing it
was contained in her Thirty-nine Articles. But ne-
vertheless it was true ; for though he might have no
right to alter them, yet if the meaning of any one of
them be disputed, he might put his own interpreta-
tion on it, and act accordingly. The Reverend
Preacher then supposed a case where the Bishops
might come (as they had in respect of Mr. Whis-
ton's book) to a dear decision that a minister had
committed heresy, and yet the Crown could pre-
vent them from removing him ; and thus vir-
tually decide that the heresy in question was not in-
consistent with the Church doctrine. The preacher
then showed the position of the Church with respect
to discipline. To say that she had none would be
incorrect; to say that she had just as much as the
State allowed her would be wide of the mark. Even
when convocations were used, she had but this show
of liberty. The clergy met, and the Bishops con-
sulted, but, when they came to an act of needful dis-
cipline, they might find their hands effectually tied
But, now, even the shadow of freedom had departed,
the convocation met no longer. The Church, like
Esther of old, waited without, knowing that it is
death to enter the Royal presence unbidden. She
has not been called into the Royal presence these
127. years. Alas, for the freedom of the Church !
she is impotent ! and as for discipline, the insulting
law tells her that she must not exercise it for herself,
but receive the whole from the State. You that eat
State bread 'shall and must be governed by State
rule—the bread I give you is mine; and I will see
to it that none is deprived thereof, except upon such
conditions as I impose ! Such was the language
of the civil magistrate, the Church itself tamely
bows:. to it, and meekly suffers the usurps'.
tion of Caesar in things which are God's !
The Church might see her doctrines denied,
her precepts despised—she might number among her
incumbents characters the most profligate and aban-
doned, but having received the civil magistrate as
her head upon earth, the removal of such plague-
spots became mostly difficult, often impossible. Be-
hold next the miserable bondage of the Church's
ministers, in respect to the Book of Common Prayer!
Not one word had the Church or any minister a
right to alter of this book, and as excommunication
in most cases was impossible, all that died within the
limits of the parish, with a few exceptions, must have
the service of the Church performed over them. The
minister had frequently to declare with his lips what
in his heart he disbelieved—the beautiful service,
fitted only for those who die in the Lord, was prosti-
tuted day by clay, to the ungodly and profane. The
Rev. Preacher pointed out the dilemma in which a
clergyman was placed, in consigning to Heaven one
whom the language of Scripture would assign to a
very different destination—or he must pacify his con-
science by leaving out a portion of the service, for
doing which neither the State nor the Church gave him
authority. They placed him where he was to perform
the work for which they paid him; he was bound to
fulfil his task, and must look to a fresh Act of
Parliament for relief to his conscience. The clergy
of this diocese knew that this was no imaginary as-
sumption. Let them refuse to thank God, according
to the prescribed form, for taking the soul of the des
parted drunkard—let them fail to express a hope of
his blessed resurrection—and they would soon find a
power which abated nothing of its demands, and a
party which insisted upon the fulfilment of the bond ;
and the most lenient treatment they could expect
would be fourteen days' suspension, and publication
of their offence before the whole congregation ! As
the Church was in bondage to the State, so the
Church's inferior offices were in bondage to the supe-
rior. The State having tied up the right hands of
the Bishops to prevent any outbreak against itself,
left the ends of the cord in the hand of the Prelate,
that he might use it as a lash for the backs of
the inferior clergy, a bond for the complete sub-
jection of the incumbents, and a halter for the
necks of the curates. Of all le 'people in the kingdom,
the curates were• contented with the least liberty.
Whether in deacon's or prieit's orders, young or old,
it made no difference; he could not be exempt from
the arbitrary will '.of his _superior. The incumbent
might escape from the Bishop's indignation with a
mere scolding ; but the curate, Sold as he was into the
hands of the 13ishop; was liable to be dispossessed in a
moment of his means of subsistence; his license might
be removed at the 'sovereign pleasure of some cruel
lord—either-with or without reason ; and straightway
he might find his mouth stopped, and his occupation
gone. The same bondage was manifested in raising
the ecclesiastic to the Episcopal Bench. There was a
time whet, the Presbyters of the Church had a large
share in the election of Bishops. The testimony of
antiquity proved that the appointment to that office
required the sanction of the people in confirmation.
But how stood the matter now ? Were the people
consulted in the appointment of Bishops ? Were the
Presbyters consulted ? Oh, no ! It was by no means
necessary, according to the State Church doctrine,
though that Church declared that the Bishops were
an order entirely distinct from that of Presbyters, the
highest of all orders ; and though it was obvious, that
being so, they were set up either for the greatest good
or the greatest mischief in the Church, yet so little
had the Church been careful of her liberty in this
most important of her concerns, that she allowed the
head of the Church to take up any one of her Presby-
ters and of him to make a Bishop. Though the ac-
tual ceremony of ordination was done by the laying
on of the hands of the other Bishops, yet the actual
creation was the work of the Monarch; and no one
could be chosen to be a Bishop by any other power
in the realm; and if any portion of the Established
Church were to set about it for themselves, they would
incur most rigorous penalties for their presumption.
It was confessed also, that when the conge d'elire had
been granted, if the parties to whom it was issued re-
fused to appoint the person named by the Sovereign,
the person so refusing would incur the consequences
of a prcemunire; so that the leave to elect, which
sounded as if there were liberty in the matter,
amounted to the liberty of electing whom the Sove•
reign bade them to elect, and also of suffer-
ing the loss of goods and chattels, and en-
during what other hardships he knew not, if they
refused to obey the mandate of the Crown,
so that throughout the Established Church, from the
lowest of her people to the highest order of her
officers, their reigned one continuous system of bond-
age, which would make them, if they quoted his
text, read it by the rule of contrary—we are not the
children of the freewoman, but of the bond. The
Bishop must say, I was made by the State and am in
bondage to it. The Presbyter must say, I am in
bondage to the Bishop, and the Prayer-Book ; and
each of the people must say, I too am in bondage, for
I have no liberty to vote on the appointmeut of a
minister, nor have I liberty to reject one sent by the
higher powers. I am as a nonentity despised, and
deprived of my Christian rights. The Reverend
Preacher then referred to the evidence that this bond-
age was felt by the ministers of all parties—by the
evangelical minister, who scrupled to prostitute
Christian services over the grave of the ungodly ; and
by the Tractarian clergy, who desired to set the
Church above the State, and rule it according
to the laws of antichrist. It was felt also by the
despotic Prelate, who, though content for his own
convenience, to act under the State, yet fretted
under a restraint which prevented him from
annihilating those who offended him. The leader of
the Tractarians complained that he and his brethren
were as so many galley slaves, condemned to work in
chains; and the Bishop of Exeter, in the same
charge which rebuked him for using the comparison,
declared that they were as much without the means
of synodical action, as a maniac in a straight waistcoat
was deprived of reedom of action. The Bishop re-
buked his brother for a fault which he himself com-
mitted almost in the same breath. But these compa-
risons were exceedingly unhappy. Galley slaves were
fettered on account of their former misdeeds, and ma-
niacs were bound down and restrained to prevent the
outbreak of their insane ferocity. What the galley
slaves did before they were chained, history would
tell—they robbed and plundered on the King's high-
way. What the maniacs had done when their arms
were unrestrained by the straight waistcoat, of which
they now complained, would be learned from the his-
tory of the Non-Conformists, from the reign of Eliza-
beth down to 1688. Years upon years of tyranny,
oppression, imprisonments, confiscations, and execu-
tions, had taught the State at length, that the rule of
churchmen was maniacal, arid that the only remedy
was the straight waistcoat and confinement.

Having shown the Church of England to be in a
state of bondage, the Rev. Preacher next asked what
was to be done in such a enact ? The words connected
with the text furnished a reply—" Stand fast in the
liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be
not again entangled with the yoke of bondage.' This
casepo i n to
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say that, at his ordination, he laid himself under vows
from which he could not possibly recede, for God had
said, " It is better that thou shouldest not vow, than
that thou shouldest vow and not pay." This certainly
held good in the case of a lawful vow but suppose.

the case of an unlawful vow, such as if a Jew should
vow to offer a dog or a swine to Jehovah. It was
clear there would be more sin in fulfilling than in
breaking such a vow, and in the case of the forty con-
spirators who vowed to kill Paul, neither God nor man
could blame them if they took the liberty of releasing
themselves from that bond. "Did you (Presbyter)
bind yourself to work out a system destructive, not of
the lives, but of the liberties of the Church of Christ ?
If so, the vow itself involved what was sinful, though
you knew it not at the time, and therefore you cannot
be bound to the performance of it. But examine the
vow itself, you vow to obey all godly admonitions of
the Bishop, bat do you vow to give up the exercise of
your judgment of what is godly and what is un-
godly ? It was more than probable, that as the mind
expanded, and more light was found by the teaching
of the spirit, the man might perceive ungodliness to
lurk in the very places which, at his vow, he least ex-
pected it ; when clearly detected, rebellion in such
cases was a virtue. He would examine a case in
point : a friend of his held a curacy or licensed chapel.
In it he remained for several years acceptable to the
people, sound in doctrine, blameless in life. Sud-
denly he is admonished by the Bishop to cease from
the care of that flock—to break the tie of many years
—and to tear himself away to make room for a suc-
cessor, whom the people did not desire to have. Was
such admonition godly ? The Bishop said yes, because
the State gave him power to make it. On the other
hand, his friend said it was ungodly ; because, said
he, if you can bring no New Testament objection
against me and my ministry, you can have no New
Testament authority to warn me off. The Bishop's
monition then is ungodly, seeing that it proceeds from
the assumption ofwer which the New Testament
disallows. Again,"PresbYter might find himself
unable to perform his vow. He solemnly promises,
at his ordination, to banish and drive away all erro-
neous and strange doctrine, contrary to God's word.
He has, perhaps, learnt to consider strange and erro-
neous such doctrines as the following :—First, that
the Bishops have the power of invariably communi-
cating the Holy Ghost to every priest whom they
ordain. Second, that every priest ordained has such
a privilege conferred on him thereby, that whosoever's
sins he remits they are remitted, whosoever's sins he
retains they are retained. Third, that the act of
baptism performed by the priest does convey the
blessings of ordination. Fourth, that the chief civil
magistrate has such a supremacy over the Church, as
to be esteemed the final judge of heresy, the fountain
of all discipline, and the creator of all Bishops.
However erroneous, these are the doctrines of that
very Church to which he has sworn allegiance ; so
that the same vow binds him to banish and drive
away, and also to defend and maintain, the same doc-
trines. How was it possible that the vow could be
performed ? He then entered into a lucid exposition
of the Episcopalian principles, for which we regret
that we have not space. In England there had al-
ways been a bias in favour of Episcopacy ; in Scot-
land, in favour of Presbyterianism. IVe understood
him to say that Episcopacy was a mere matter of
order; and for the well ordering of the Church there
was no occasion for the Bishops to be seated among
the senators and nobles of the land. Bishops created
by the Presbyters and voice of the people were as ca-
pable of discharging their episcopal duties as those
who owed their creation to the Crown. The Rev.
Gentleman drew a glowing picture of the advance of
the Church under such a reformation as ha proposed.
She would effectually stem the advancing error of
Puseyism, which should be more fitly denominated
Anglicanism—a system of tyranny and oppression,
blood and darkness, error and terror. Where Po-
pery had destroyed its hundreds in this land,
Anglicanism, had destroyed its thousands. As
cruel every whit as Popery, it showed no more
mercy to those who bad the misfortune to fall within
its grasp. What stopped the mouths of the con-
scientious of Christ in the reign of Elizabeth ? What
imprisoned, fined, banished them—even shed their
blood ? What raised the flame of civil war in the
time of Charles the First? What brought the head
of the unfortunate monarch to the block? The ty-
ranny of the Anglican system was the cause of it all.
The principles of the Anglicans of the present day
were the same as those of their fathers in the seven-
teenth century—the same love of forms and ceremo-
nies—the same regard to the traditions of the elders
—the same doctrine of a human priesthood—the
same blind obedience to Bishops, whether they com-
manded according to Scripture or not—the same
hatred of the doctrines contained in the Thirty-nine
Articles—and the same detestation of the right of
private judgment—nor was there any disavowal, since
the resurrection of the sect, of a right to act in all
respects as their fathers had done before them, should
it please God to give them the same power.
With one passage more from this sermon, so re
markable for its boldness and eloquence, we miss
conclude, merely adding that it will be published
Here is a striking portrait of a well-known cha•
meter :

The Bishop of Exeter has undeceived the people,
and is even now opening the eyes of the nation. We
have in him the portrait of a good State Bishop;
many there are who assign to him the very first place
on the Bench, and esteem him the Church's pride and
ornament. It would indeed he invidious, as well as
useless, t.) deny him the possession of great talents,
great knowledge, and great zeal ; the former
quality was displayed in his writings against
the Roman Catholic Church ; but, perhaps, in
ceasing to write against them, a talent of a still
higher order was displayed; since it is generally thought
that it was to this eloquent silence be owed his elevation
to the Episcopal Throne. Ilis zeal has prompted him
to run to the extent of what the law allows him; and
in the performance of his episcopal functions be has
the merit of having deprived more clergymen of their
licenses, and of having proriounced more ecclesiastical
censu7es, than, perhaps, all the other Bishops together.
No man has ever yet been able to accuse him of a
culpable negligence in any matter wherein the epis-
copal will is resisted; none has taxed him with having,
from any amiable infirmity, stayed the infliction of
punishment from the heads of evangelical transgres-
sors ; the very Brutus of the Bench, stern in ecclesi-
astical virtue, he delivers his children to the lictors,
and beholds the scene unmoved.