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London, England, 1845-05-02 00:00:00

SEAMENS' CH URCII.

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to customers asking for tho same man to wait upon them;
every person has clean brushes, they never being used
twice, without being washed; and parties are not pressed
to buy things they do not want. Address, Ross and
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" Whitehall, April 29, 1845.
" Sir R. Peel presents his compliments to Sir C. E Smith, and
in reply to his note of yesterday, begs to decline receiving the
parties referred to by Sir Culling Eardley Smith, who wish for an
interview with Sir Robert Peel on the subject of the endowment of
Maynooth.
" That subject has undergone the consideration of the House
of Commons during ten nights of debate, and Sir R. Peel feels it
to be wholly out of his power, consistently with the proper discharge
of the official duties he has to perform, to discuss in personal con-
ference out of Parliament the merits of measures of general public,
not especially affecting particular or local interests."—Upon that
letter he would make no comment, for it would be for the meeting
to deal with it as it thought fit.—(Hear, hear.) If, however, as
was the case, Sir It. Peel received a deputation on the subject when
the measure was in its infancy, a fortiori, he ought to receive
one now, when it was more advanced and when the public mind
was more opposed to it than ever. In consequence of the letter
which he had read, the Committee had on that morning come to
the following resolution :—" Resolved—That it is matter of the
deepest regret and surprise that Sir It. Peel has not deemed it con-
sistent with his public duty to receive a deputation of gentlemen
who would have been able to prove to him the fact that the whole
of the country, as well as the metropolis, are most decidedly
against the endowment of Maynooth ; and that this resolution be
respectfully transmitted to Sir It. Peel."
The CIitIRWAN having read the resolution, concluded by ex-
pressing his desire to hear the opinions of the deputations from the
various parts of the country.
The Rev. Messrs. Robertson and Griffiths, of Edinburgh, and
Dr. Cullen, of Leith, severally addressed the meeting, and stated
that the most perfect unanimity of opinion existed amongst all the
denominations of Protestants in Edinburgh and Leith, as regarded
the propriety of opposing the grant to Maynooth.
Archdeacon IdacEE,l of Dublin, said that Churchmen and Die.
senters were all opposed to the grant in Ireland.
The Rev. H. STOWELL, from Manchester, felt that they ought
to thank God for the unanimity which prevailed amongst them.
Sir Robert Peel thought Protestantism was a negation, but he
would find that it was a stet n affirmative—(Cheers)--and he would
find at the next general election how much opposed the English
people were to concessions to Popery. if all Protestants did not
belong to the same corps, it was quite clear, from their unanimity
on this point, that they fought in the same army, and that the
same glorious banner waved over their heads, having on the one
side," The Gospel of Christ," and on the other, "No peace
with Anti-Christ."—(Loud cheers.) There was a large party in
Manchester devoted to Mammon, and they praised Sir Robert
Peel for his commercial policy, although they admitted that he had
deceived them in religious matters, but for his part he would prefer
a man of humble mind and principled heart to a man, however
mighty his mind was, if he was a man without principle. He was
happy to inform the meeting that a memorial was in course of sig-
nature at Manchester, which was addressed to the Queen, and which
already contained 20,000 signatures, playing her Majesty to dis.
solve Parliament, and try the feeling of the country on the question
before she put her hand and seal to the measure for endowing
Maynooth, a Bill which would virtually destroy the right of the
House of Brunswick to the Throne, and would virtually open the
door for the representative of the House of Stuart, if it had a re.
presentative living.—(Loud cheers.)
The Rev. Dr. HAGLEY said he came for the purpose of lending
his aid to oppose the grant, and he was not desirous, in doing so,
to wound the feelings of any class of persons.
Mr. BAINES, formerly M.P. far Leeds, next addressed the meet.
ing. He said he recently had the pleasure of presiding at a meeting
held in Leeds to consider this question. It was so numerous a
meeting that its numbers were only restrained by the size of the
largest building which they could command in Leeds.—(Cheers.)
At the meeting to which lie alluded a petition was adopted, pray-
ing Parliament not to agree to the measure, and out of an adult
male population of 25,000 in Leeds, the petition was signed by no
less than 16,000 persons.
The Rev. Mr. NEW/THAD also urged on the meeting the pro.
pries, of expressing an unanimous and decided opposition to the
proposed measure.
The Rev. Dr. Masses, of Manchester, corroborated the state-
ments of the other speakers as to the feelings against Maynooth.
In Manchester there was a strong and decided opposition to it.
The Rev. Mr. BROWN said that he appeared at that meeting as
the representative of seventeen congregations of the Free Church
of Scotland at Aberdeen, and he could bear his testimony
to the very strong feeling of opposition which was entertained in
Aberdeen to the pernicious, faithless, and iniquitous proposition of
Sir Robert Peel to endow Popery in this country.—(Loud cheers.)
The Rev, Dr. MARSH, of Leamington, said that he saw in the
meeting before him no Protestant or Dissenter, but a tessellated
pavement of Protestant heads, and he was confident that every one
of those heads presided over a true Protestant heart. As a true
Briton he was a lover of civil liberty ; and as a Christian he
was a lover of religious liberty, and he attended at that
meeting to maintain those principles. What was Protestantism ?
It was the religion which Jesus Christ propagated on earth. Did
Protestantism want visibility ? The meeting which he saw around
him afforded the best and most perfect answer to that question 7
(Cheers.) Did Protestantism want antiquity ? What were the
Patriarchs? They were Protestants.—(Cheers.) What were
the Apostles? They were Protestants. What were the Pro.
phets ? They were Protestants ; they all protested against error.
—(Cheers.) They had this at their side—visibility and antiquity.
—(Cheers.) He should have brought his daughter, who accom-
panied him, to that meeting, if ladies were allowed to be present.—
(Hear.) And he only regretted that they were not. The Rev.
Gentleman concluded with a lengthened prayer to the God of peace
and charity to bless their exertions.
The Rev. Mr. Bickersteth, of Watton, Mr. S. C. Hall, of New-
castle-upon-Tyne, Mr. Ralph Wilson, of Newcastle, the Rev. Dr.
Raffles, as a Protestant Dissenter from Liverpool, Mr. Rice
Steevens, from Newport, in Wales, representing the Dissenters of
various denominations in that town, and the Rev. Mr. Steevens, of
Swansea, stated the co-operation of their constituents to oppose
the grant.
Mr. Jones, cf Merthyr Tydvil, and Mr. Fowices, a magistrate of
Montgomeryshire, spoke to the same effect ; after which the meet-
ing (at three o'clock) adjourned to six o'clock in the evening.
The evening sitting was resumed at six o'clock, when Sir C. E.
Smith took the chair.
Prayers having been read by the Rev. C. Prest, and some routine
business disposed of,
The CHAIRMAN asked whether any Dissenters from Leicester
were present ?
The Rev. Mr. MENsore, of Leicester, said that there was no de-
putation from Leicester, but he held in his hand a letter from the
Dissenters of that place, expressing the reasons why they did not
deem it right to join the Conference ; and this letter he would beg
to read.
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The CHAIRMAN decided it to be the sense of the meeting that
the letter was inadmissible, and that as there was no deputation
from Leicester, they would proceed to the next name on his list—
Birmingham.
The Rev. Mr. ROBERTS, Dissenting minister, of Birmingham,
while the religious bodies whom, in the unavoidable
saidabs that,
absence of the Rev. Angell James, he represented, were to the
full anxious to preserve and assist the civil and religious liberties
of their Roman Catholic brethren, their attachment to the great
principles of the Reformation united them, whatever their minor
differences amongst themselves, in strenuous opposition to a measure
which tended to overthrow the Reformation and the Protestant
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and the smaller meetings of the vari • ous congregations which had
taken place there.
The meeting was afterwards briefly addressed by numerous
deputies from different parts of the country, when
Dr. Massr
moved a resolution to the effect that the deputa-
tions should wait upon the carious
members for their cities,
boroughs, and counties, and represent the state of public feeling on
the subject to them, and call upon them to oppose the further
progress of the measure.
The resolution was then carried unanimously.
Mr. E. BAINEIi, jun., of Leeds, next moved a resolution con-
demnatory of the conduct of Sir Robert Peel in refusing to receive
the deputations on this subject.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
The Rev. Micnosisima., of the Scottish Free Church, then
moved a resolution pledging the conference itself to contribute, and
to uit iN best exertions, each deputation in its own locality, to

A public meeting of the inhabitants of the City of London was
held on Wednesday, in the Great Hall in Crosby-square, for
the purpose of raising subscriptions in aid of the erection of a
church for the seamen of the port of London, in the new street
about to be made in the neighbourhood of the London and St. Katha-
rine Docks. There were present the Earl of Cadogan, Lord Rad-
stock, R.N., Colonel Wyndham, M.P., Lord Bishop of London,
Captain Elliott, Mr. Somes, M.P., J. Labouchere, Esq., Admiral
Bowles, H. Lambton, Esq., M.P., Sir Augustus Clifford, Admiral
Young, Hon. Captain W. Waldegrave, C 8., Sir E. Parry, R.N.,
Sir John Franklin, R N., Captain Saurin, R.N., Rev. Mr. Smith,
Captain Gambier, R.N., and many ether naval officers. The
meeting was sot very numerous, owing, in some degree, as Lord
Radstock said, to the great Wolff to be seen at Exeter Hall ; those
present, ho sever, were chiefly members of the higher classes. The
Earl of Haddington presided.
Letters were read from several reverend gentlemen, and frost
the lour Members for the City, containing excuses for their non-
attendance.

The Earl of HADDINGTON, the chairman, said, whatever faults
might be attributed to the people of the present day, a deadness of
feeling to religiously charitable purposes was not among there.—
(Hear, hear.) About twenty years ago a ship had been devoted
by the Admiralty to Divine service as a floating chapel for sea.
men. That ship was now completely worn out, and the present
meeting was. for the purpose of raising subscriptions for the erec-
tion of a church for seamen resident for the time being in the
port of London. The church was intended to be in connexion
with the Sailors• Home.-- (Hear.)
The Bishop of LONDON moved the first resolution, to the effect
that the great interest the country had in its commercial marine,
made the object before them, as it was intended to promote thowel.
fare of the supporters of that marine, one of national importance.
He said he thought that in time the sailors might, after receiving
proper religious instruction, become missionaries to the most distant
parts of the world, wherever the spirit of commercial enterprise
might carry them. The seamen of the commercial marine of the
country had until the last few years been considered as hardly
having souls to be saved.—(Hear, hear.) A church was now, how.
ever, found necessary for the sailors resorting to the port of Lon.
don, and for the erection of which a considerable outlay would be
required ; it was not a considerable outlay, however, in this great
metropolis, whose merchants were kings and princes, and which
owed its prosperity to the skill and bravery of the very men for
whom that church was to be erected.—(Hear, hear.) In the hope
that this would not be the only one, but would be the commence-
ment of the erection of churches in all the ports of the kingdom, be
had ventured to move the first resolution.—(Cheers.)

Mr. Ro➢INBON, chairman of Lloyd's, seconded the resolution,
and it was adopted unanimously. _ .

JOHN ABEL SMITH, Esq., M.P., moved the second resolution,
and in doing so he highly eulogiscsl the good feeling of the Bishop
of London in regard to his great and unceasing endeavours to pro.
mote the spiritual welfare of the people of the metropolis.
Sir EDWARD PARRY seconded the resolution, which was as fol.

lows :—" That the meeting learned with great satisfaction that
measures had been taken to secure a site for the erection of the
church in the proposed new street in the neighbourhood of St.
Katharine and London Docks."—Carried unanimously.
JOHN LABOUCIIEUL, Esq., moved the next resolution. He said
he felt confident that those who had contributed so liberally to the
erection of the Sailors' Home would be equally liberal its their
contributions towards the erection of a church for the use of those
for whom the Sailors' Home was erected.

Mr. YOUNG seconded the resolution, which recommended a sub.
scription being raised for the erection of the church, ant4lso that
all parties concerned in the commerce and shipping trade of the
country give their aid in the cause.

The following subscriptions were then announced : —Queen
Dowager, 501. ; Bishop of London, 301.; Earl of Haddington,
;50/. ; Mr. Seines, M.P., 100/. ; Henry Hope, Esq., M.P., lOUI. ;
Baring Brothers, 100 guineas; Lord Cholmondeley, 501.; Rear-
Admiral Sykes, 501.; Hon. Capt. W. Waldegfave, C. 13., 251.; J.
Labouchere, Esq., 501. ; Earl of Cadogan, 50/. ; Admiral Bowles,
1201. ; and many more to a very large amount.

HEDWOIII II LAM BTON, Esq., MP., moved the appointment of a
Committee, and Sir Jouti FRANKLIN having seconded the resolu-
tion, it was adopted unanimously.
WILLIAM COTTON, Esq., moved, and the Earl of CADMAN
seconded, the appointment of John Labouchere, Esq., to the office
of Treasurer.

Admiral Lord RADSTOCK then moved, and Captain ELLIOTT.
R.N., seconded a vote of thanks to the Earl of Haddington and
to the Bishop of London for their presence, and the Noble Lord and
the Right Reverend Prelate having respectively returned thanks.
the meeting broke up.

ECCLESIASTICAL COMMIS-
SIONERS' PROPERTY.
The following resolutions respecting the leasehold property be-
longing to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, passed
at a meeting held 15th April 1845, were issued on Wednesday by
order of the House of Lords
1. That no lease for lives be renewed by the addition of a new
life, nor any lease whatever upon consideration of a fine.
2. That AO estate which is subject to a lease when it becomes
vested in the Commissioners, shall at any time be sold to any
other than the person beneficially interested under the existing
lease, until he shall have had the option of becoming the
purchaser.
3. That every estate, already and hereafter vested in the Corn.
missioners, shall at the first convenient opportunity be surveyed,
and a full report made of its value, and of its circumstances with
reference to the relative advantage of retaining or parting with it.
4. That the Commissioners, having taken such report into
consideration, shall, unless they find special reasons for not parting
with the property, hold themselves prepared to entertain an °lifer
for the purchase of the reversion from the person beneficially inte-
rested in the lease.
That in all cases of the Commissioners declining to sell, an
entry shall be made upon their minutes of the special reasons for
their so declining.
6. That the price of the reversion shall be, as a general rule,
the amount of difference between the value of the whole fee, calcu-
lated as if the estate were actually in possession, and the value of
the leasehold interest.
7. That whether the Commissioners for any special reasons de-
cline to sell, or the lessee decline to purchase the reversion, the
Commissioners shall hold themselves prepared, in any case, to pur-
chase the leasehold interest at its market price, if the lessee be
willing to sell the sane.
8. That in any case in which the lessee shall have declined either
to purchase the reversion, or to sell his leasehold interest, th
. Commissioners shall consider themselves free from any restraint re-
specting the sale or letting of the property.
9. That tithes, and lands or other hereditaments allotted or
signed in lieu of tithes, vested in the Commissioners, shall not in
any case be sold, until due consideration shall have been had of the
wants and circumstances of the places in which such tithes arise or
have heretofore arisen.
C. K. MURRAY, Treasurer and Secretary.
Whitchall.place, April '25, 1845.