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Mr. HOLLAND admitted the importance of the question
was too great to be discussed in a cursory manner. He
had a motion to propose, which, if permitted to make and
able to carry, 'would, he thought, meet any objections
which might be raised against receiving the report of the
Council. He then entered at great length into the general
question of limited and unlimited liability.
A desultory and somewhat warm discussion followed,
in which Mr. Maclver, the Chairman, Mr. Sheil, Mr.
Forwood, and other gentlemen took part. Ultimately,
Mr. CLINT moved that the report be adopted, with the
exception of the clause relating to the Law of Partner_
ship, the latter portion of which he proposed should b
altered as follows: "Which this Council, without proe
flouncing any opinion off so important a subject, submits-
to the consideration of the Chamber at large."
This motion was unanimously carried, and the report
so altered was adopted, and ordered to be printed and
circulated among the members.
Mr. HOLLAND then moved that the Council be re-
quested to take the report of the sub-committee on the
law of partnership into early considehtion, and report
their opinion to the Chamber.
Mr. ROBERTSON seconded the motion, which was car-
ried nem. con.
Mr. FORWOOD said he had intended to offer a few re-
marks ; but these had, in their general tendency, been
superseded by Mr. Bouch's observations. He then briefly
alluded to the proposed arrangements relative to the ma-
nagement of the docks, and concluded by impressing on
the Chamber the benefits which such arrangements must
impart to the commerce of Liverpool.
Mr. SuErfl moved a vote of thanks to the Council, for
the very able report they had prepared, and also for their
general attention to the business of the Chamber.

Mr. HOLLAND seconded the motion, which was unani-
mously carried ; as was also a vote of thanks to the
Chairman, on the motion of Mr. POWLES.
The meeting then separated

ROMISH LECTURE AT THE
CONCERT HALL.

LIST night, the Rev.W.H.Anderdon,latevicar ofSt.Mar-
garet's, Leicester, but a pervert to the Church of Rome,
lectured at the Concert-ball. His subject was, "There
is such a thing as a Church upon earth ;" and he intends
to follow it up by another lecture next Monday evening,
with the view of proving that "It is not a Protestant
body." There was a very limited attendance, the audience
principally being composed of the lowest classes, who
cheered vociferously any point that appeared to have been
made by the lecturer.
Mr. ANDERDON began by giving his definition of what
he considered a church. A church, or the church—for
there could but be one—he took to be a body not human
in its origin, formation, growth, or work, or influence, but
in all those things Divine, coming from Heaven, formed
and moulded by Heaven, and working by heavenly laws ;
the only authorized expounder of truths, the one ordained
channel of grace and salvation. How did the church in
his sense take men ? Not as a member of civilized society,
who was to be accommodated with a religion, as he might
with any other article of comfort or refinement, by the prin-
ciple of supply and demand—a neat manufactured article,
not inconveniently narrow nor awkwardly large, that would
neither pinch nor sit too loose, that he might have made
to order, and superintend in the cutting out, and send
back if it did not fit. The Church took man as an indi-
vidual soul, a being by nature helpless and blind, as unable
to discover the truths of Revelation by his private judg-
ment as he was to create himself by his own hands ; and
presented to him a system of Revelation which he was to
accept as Divine, both as a whole and in its parts, on which
if he exercised his individual judgment he started with
an act of disobedience, and to criticise which was to upset
ipso facto the authority which had set it afloat. Thus to
enlighten man, to train, to guide, and if they would,
subdue him,—to exorcise him of the Devil, of pride, and
unbelief, till he sat at her feet clothed and in his right
mind, listening to the teaching which was not her's, but
his Creator's,—that was in a Catholic view the office of
the Church. _ _ . • . . _

Mr. ANDEBDON, then figuratively assuming that he was
addressing a Protestant audience, said " Here, then, is
the real difference between us, and it is essential. You
regard the church—as from an eminence you survey her;
I from beneath look up to her. You regard her as the
workmanship of man ; I as the creation of God. You
approve of her ; I submit to her. You trust her, or rather
agree with her, as far as you can see ; my trust follows
her far beyond, out of sight, into the region of faith.
You adopt her teaching so far as it accords
with your judgment ; with me is no preconception
or judgment where the church teaches, except to
square them with her teaching without delay. You
test the church's doctrines by your intellectual
perceptions—l test the soundness of my intellectual per-
ceptions by the doctrine of the Church. Should the two
things appear to vary, you would then follow your own
judgment, as taking it to be the highest authority. I
should follow the Church, as being sure her authority was
supreme over my judgment. In mysteries equally beyond
our comprehension, you adopt a certain rule in treating
one, and a contradictory rule in treating another, as evi-
denced in the Incarnation contrasted with Transubstan-
tiation—mine
is the same consistent rule for each and all.
God has revealed, and the Church proposes to my belief
the several articles of the Apostolic, the Nicene, the
Athanasian, the Tridentine creed. I believe in Transub-
stantiation, as I believe in the Holy Trinity ; and in the
existence of Purgatory, and the power of indulgence, as in
the resurrection of the flesh and everlasting life ! I might,
perchance, find more passages of Scripture to prove one
than another, but that is not the ultimate ground of my
belief. I believe, because the Church teaches, whatsoever
she teaches, and in her living voice I find an exposition
of the silent letter of Scripture, and a correction of the
stammering lips of my own uncertain judgment."
The lecturer then divided his address into two heads—
the necessity for such a church, and the testimony afforded
of its existence in the first two centuries. First, as to its
necessity, he contended that, if there was a revelation sent
to man, it was sent not to be discussed, but accepted.
Affirm one part of the full Catholic creed, and they
thereby affirmed all its kindred and consequent parts ;
deny one, and they had, in principle, denied the remainder.
The faith was one, and rested upon one principle of
authority ; the consequence was, they must either take or
leave the whole as a whole. His next proposition was,
that a revelation would be committed to a channel secure
of transmitting it unimpaired. It was not enough to
have a message of truth, unless the channel also was safe
from damage and destruction. Man, in his undertakings,
meant well and began well, but he could not secure the
future—that lay beyond his grasp. His plans failed and
came to nothing from the action of time, and from
the train of events of which he was not the master.

He instanced a man founding a college or religious house.
He framed its statutes accurately, left it to the good faith
of his country, and died content. Then came 'a parlia-
ment, or revolution, and overturned all his cherished pur-
pose. Whatever men had made, he could of course
modify, and he had as much right to do it as another. A
government adopted a particular religion, no matter whe-
ther from calm political consideration or the force of circum-
stances. In Austria, Piedmont, and the Duchy of Baden,
the religion was the Catholic faith, and the government
with its utmost determination and severity could not bind
that faith to its use. But lay the scene in Sweden, Prus-
sia, or England, and make the form of religion, in itself
pliant and malleable, any form of Protestant opinion, then
they had a thing which had sprung to existence at the will
and under the plastic hand of the State. Its very life
was private judgment. The private judgment, or what-
ever might be called the religious or liturgical view of the
sovereign, home secretary, or minister of public instruc-
tion, was worth more than that of the citizen, just as the
view of the look-out on the mast-head was clearer and
quicker than that of the sailor who lounges on the deck.
After ridiculing the exercise of private judgment in
religious matters, and contending broadly for the infalli-
bility of the Romish church in matters of opinion, Mr.
Anderdon went to the second part of his discourse, quoting
a variety of fathers to show the existence of " the church"
and the authority it exercised in the most primitive ages ;
and concluded by urging that as surely► as there was a Reve-
lation, so surely was there a visible teaching truth, pos-
sessing the gift, which God alone could give, to discern
between the false and the true--to gather up the true
into articles of faith—to anathematise the false as here-
sies,—in a word, the gift of infallibility !

SIG/TS OF THE TIMES.—The Rev. Fielding Ould will
deliver a lecture on this subject, on Friday next, in St.
John's Church School Room, Oliver-street, Birkenhead,
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MONDAY EVENING, FEW:MAZY 6.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

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closed firmly ; Consols 921 I. Californian Mines improved,
favourable advises having been received per the Niagara
steamer; Aqua Fria 10s. better.
THE RvsslAN ENBASSY.—Baron Brunow has not yet
departed, although every preparation has been made for
his doing so. The Baroness is not to accompany him,