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another would follow. How, then, could he be tolerated,
who had nothing to bring before them but dry details of
figures ? Every Englishman liked to know what he paid
his money for; and, therefore, he had to come before
them in some measure as a sort of Chancellor of the Ex:

chequer, and he wished he had the same powers—he did
not mean as a novelist, nor as a politician, for the society
bad nothing to do with party politics ; but every member
of the House of Commons to whom be had spoken,
said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had made
a dry detail of figures one of the most interesting
speeches ever delivered in Parliament. (" Hear, hear,"
and cheers.) It was a most pleasing circumstance
that the income of the society for the past year was the
largest it had ever yet had, being no less than £llB,OOO.
The society originated with the present century. It was
now in its fifty-third year, yet at the close of the last
century so dead was the Church of England to rnissienary
effort, that, although the sum of £1,400 was subscribed
during the first year, not one single clergyman of the
Church of England could I.e found who was willing to go
forth as a missionary to the heathen. The second year
£3.090 was raised with no better success, and it was not
until the third year that two German Lutherans were sent
forth. Let it not he forgotten that the first missionaries
sent out by the Church Missionary Society were Germans,
not members of our own church. This was very humili-
ating to reflect upon ; but it was gratifying now to be
able to state, that there were at present no less than one
hundred and thirty-nine ordained ministers of God
engaged in preaching to the heathen the unsearchahle
riches of the Gos; el of Jesus and in India there
were no less than twenty-one native missionaries. (Loud
cheers.) The reverend gentleman, after professing the
highest respect for all kindred societies, concluded with
an appeal to the meeting to support that society, and by
reference to the gratifying fact of a bishop being about to
be ordained for Sierra Leone, whose income was to be
supported entirely by native contributions. (Cheers.)
The Rev. Dr. MhNaina, in rising to second the
motion, was most warmly applauded. Having referred
to the increased resources of the society, to the
gratifying coincidence of increased funds, and to the
deplorable fact that in Scinde, although it had been
in the possession of England twelve years, there was not
yet a church at which the British soldiers end civilians
employed in the civil service could worship the God of
their fathers, he asked to what part of the world they
should look for young men of education, who would prefer
the souls of the heathen to the enjoyments and glittering
distinctions of English society? Where, but to England,
where alone they could expect to find such men ; where
the Bible was freely circulated, where the Gospel was
freely preached, and where no hindrance, as yet, by men
had been able to interfere with the foundation of the
Word of God.- (Cheers.) In other lands, the iron hand
of despotism was extended by the emissaries of Rome to
grasp the Bible and expel the missionary from them. In
Austria, and other parts of the Continent, restrictions
were laid upon the circulation of the Bible ; all the
Bibles connected -with the Foreign Bible Society
had been put under arrest in Austria ; and the at-
tempt had been made at home—Bibles had been burnt
in Ireland, and he had been informed one had
been burnt in Birmingham. [The Rev. S. B. Marsden :
It is true : it was in my own parish.] (Shame.) These
were the symptoms of what might beexpecten, were Rome
in power here. If she were to become dominant, fare-
well to all their labour ; farewell to the fountains from
which the missionary streams must spring. (Applause.)
Yet, what could be more marvellous than the hypocrisy
with which Rome claimed the support of Englishmen
with the plea of religious liberty, and a freely-circulated
Bible. (Hear, hear.) They had the audacity to put for-
ward as their plea, and to endeavour to put them (the
Protestants) in the position of persecutors; and, forsooth,
they said to the Liberals here, " we are the persecuted
party." (Laughter.) On this ground they were appeal-
ing at this moment in this country, aye, and in this town,
for support from the Liberals, whom they were beguiling
by this fictitious hypocritical cant. (Cheers.) If this
were yielded to, if men who were pledged as faithful ser-
vants of Christ and his Gospel, did not make head against
the pretensions of Rome, but listened to misrepresentations-
so as to divide their strength, and tocause sound practical
measures to be impracticable in the new Parliament,
farewell to their Missionary Society and Christian enter-
prise. (Hear, hear.) Let them not be led astray by the
hypocritical cry ; the liberty Rome would give was briefly
described in quotations. "'When heretics are strong,
we commit them to God ; when they are weak, to
the executioner." (Vehement cheering.) After
alluding, as a fair specimen of the spirit of popery,
to the assassins behind the hedges in Ireland, against
whose bullets no arguments were effective, he said,
there was but one cause really worth struggling for. It
was the cause for which faithful confessors in every age
had been content to suffer martyrdom under Jewish, and
Paean, and Papal superstition—it was to carry to all man-
kind, of every clime and every colour, those glad tidings
which angels delight to sing, and saints de-
light to hear—to aid by every means in their power the
accomplishment of the number of God's elect, and to
hasten the Messiah's kingdom. (Hear, hear.) Who
would not engage in so glorious a work; who would not
glory in the privilege of being allowed to put his hand to
so noble an Effort ? (Cheers.) The rev. doctor, after
alluding to the difficulties with which missionary efforts
had to contend, and warning -the meeting against sup-
posing that all the world would !be converted before
the second appearance of our Saviour, concluded with a
powerful appeal to further exertion. He resumed his seat
amid loud cheers.
The resolution was adopted unanimously ; and after
thanks had been voted to his Lordship, who delivered the
apostolic benediction, the immense- assemblage separated
at ten minutes past ten o'clock.

COLLECTIONS ON SUNDAY.

St. Alban's, Bpvington-bush
St. Andrew's. Liverpool
St. Anne's. Stanley
St. Augustine's, Liverpool

s. d.
4 7 6
35 0 0
14 0 0
37 0 0

.. _
St. Bride's, Liverpool
Ditto 2nd . .
Christ Church, Everton

• • • • • £36
••• • • £2B f 64 0 1
42 0 2

Christ Church, Hunter-stree.

Christ Church, Waterloo

16 0 0

St. Clement's, Liverp00l
Everton Chapel
St. George's, Everton
St. James'
St. James', West Derby
St. John the Baptist'• l4 3 6
St. Jude's
Knotty Ash .... .... 11 5 0
St. Luke's . .
Mariners
St. Mark'. • •
St. Mary's, Bootle.
St. Mary's. Edge-hill . 26 0 0
St. Mary's Church, Kirkdale ..
St. Paul's, Prince's-park.
St. Peter's, Everton
St. Saviour's .
St. Silas' Church
St. Simon's Parish Church 7 1 6
St. Stephen the Martyr, Ed2e-bill 7 0 0
St. Thomas's, Seaforth.
St. Thomas's, Warwick-street
At the Collegiate, yesterday morning • 17 18 6

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

MONDAY EVENING, MAY 17.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

PARIS, SUNDAY.—No news of importance. The num-
ber of political convicts whose sentences have been con-
firmed by the extraordinary commissioners is 9,144. Some
changes in the Ministry are spoken of. No Paris paper
is allowed to publish Count Chambord's letter.

TURKEY, CoNsTANTINoPLE.—GoId was rising alarm•
ingly. The new coin of 100 piastres being current at 115.
EGYPT.—Great agitation is said to prevail at Crete
Several ships of war had been ordered thither.

Continential advices report generally quiet markets for
public securities. The rains which have fallen in Belgium,
are reported to have done much good.
PORTSMOUTH.—Monday.—A fire broke ont at eight
this morning, in the Tar House, in the centre of the Dock-
yard, occasioned by the bursting of a small tar furnace.
The building was in flames in a moment, but a good sup-
ply of water, engines, and men, stopped the progress of
the fire by ten o'clock. Damage about £7OO.