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attractive as when she is preaching, not herself, but
the pure and simple doctrines of the cross—never
more repulsive than when she is, tractarianly, thinking
only of herself, and boasting of the privileges she pos-
sesses, and can bestow out of her vast treasury.
Church idolatry, in whatever form or guise it may pre-
sent itself, we do certainly condemn ; but if there be
anything which would make us intensely love what we

would not idolise, it would be such a voice from the
temple—so bland, so attractive, so every way fascinat-

ing, as that of Doctor Sumner

It would give us pleasure to repeat, in this place,
several passages from the charge which have a peculiar
interest just at this time; but we are obliged to for-
bear, and must be content with the following passage

" The church is that body which assembled in the upper
chamber at Jerusalem, and there received the visit of their
risen Lord ; the church is that party which abode together,
had all things 'n common,' and continued in apostolic fel-
lowship ; the church is that company of faithful men in all
ages and countries who maintained their fealty to the doc-
trines and institutions of the gospel. The ministers of this
church are those called to serve the united world, to perform
the prescribed rites, to teach, to rebuke, to exhort, to warn,
to comfort, and to commit perpetually to their fellow men
the things which they have themselves received. Such is a
simple analysis of the church—the Holy Catholic Church—
of which Christ is the head, and with which He has engaged
to be present by his spirit to the end of the world. We
must beware of applying to the members of the body, which
members compose it, the power which really belongs to the
Head alone. If we speak of the ark of Christ's church, we
must bear in mind that we are still speaking metaphorically.
The ark is not limited to any special locality on earth, like
the ark of Noah ; it extends as far as the knowledge of
Christ extends, for He is the true ark that saves all that
commit themselves to him. The ministrations of the church
are those through which the community on earth enter,
but Christ is the only door through which heaven is entered;
still many will he admitted into the visible ark who may
remain for ever excluded from the heavenly one. The
members of the church are branches of the vine • the
church is not the vine--that name belongs to Christ alone ;
the church is the pillar and ._round of truth, but the church
is not the truth, neither has it life in itself: Christ alone is
the way, the truth, and the life,' through which every in-
dividual member of the church must seek access to God.
Yet all this, undeniable in itself, is practically contradicted

whenever the services, and the ordinances, and the ministe-
rial offices are magnified beyond their due proportions or
placed before the people with a prominency, and we know
the importanceof prominency, to which they have no claim.

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Church principles in their proper sense we must approve.
All must approve of that cordial agreement with the articles,
that sincere preference of the services, that willing confor-
mity to the discipline of the church which shows that our
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profession is honest and consistent; but, upon the contrary,
I must think that to set up, as it were, church principles in
opposition to the principles of the gospel, and to place them
in an invidious contrast is unreasonable and unscriptural.

There are other congregations of Christians which profess
the same truth. We honour those also, and gladly say,
' Peace be with all men that love the Lord Jesus Christ with
sincerity ;' but we attach especial importance to the church
of the English nation, and we rejoice that it has pleased
God to distinguish her as a witness to himself. We are
thankful that the reformed church, of which most is known
in foreign countries is the church which has most strictly
adhered to primitive doctrine and discipline, and which most
near►y approximates both in her articles and creed, as well as
in the order of her ministry to Scripture itself, and to what
may be proved from Scripture. Let us, therefore, be con-
tent with these advantages, and let boasting be excluded. It
is no sign of greatness to vaunt of authority. In the sight
of man as well as God, he that humbleth himself is more
likely to be exalted than he who assumes an air of authority,
which could never be entrusted to man in after ages as it
was to the apostles, unless men, like the apostles, were en-
abled to read the heart. But though none can forgive sins
but God alone, and though regeneration is not of the will
nor of the work of man, but of God, yet God, whose spirit
goeth where it listeth, has given much to us which we may
justly prize as a talent, and esteem as an office of infinite
importance sufficient to give us cause to tremble at the posi-
tion we hold."

LOCAL NEWS,

THE LIVERPOOL SHIPPING REGISTRY.—We perceive
that the Registry Book of the Liverpool Shipping has now
commenced. It only remains for those concerned to endea-

your to second the views of the promoters of it—its utility
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and value are self-evident

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY IN ROLD-STREET.—OTI Saturday
night, or in the course of Sunday, a daring robbery was
effected on the premises of Mr. Davis, optician, Bold-street.
The perpetrators succeeded in carrying off a large quantity
of gold and silver spectacles and eye-glasses, and every thing

portable which appeared valuable.
CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.—The number
of passengers on this delightful line for four days, com•
mencing on Saturday last, amounted to 5,865. The travel-

ling is daily increasing

TIMBER AND SALT.—The total number of loads of fir
timber imported into Liverpool and Gloucester from Prussia
during the year 1840 was 5,039; and the total quantity of
salt exported from the above ports to Prussia during the
same period amounted to 946,900 tons.
REMARKABLY QUICK PASSAGE.—The Lydia, belonging
to Messrs. C. W. and F. Shand, sailed from Antigua on the
evening of the Bth May, was off Holyhead on Sunday, the
30th, at 8 p.m., but in consequence of calms and thick wea-
ther, did not arrive until Wednesday morning June 2,
making the passage to Holyhead in 21 days, and 'Liverpool
in 24.

GRANTS TO DISSENTERS.—From a parliamentary return
just issued, it appears that the state grants to dissenters
amount to £974,940 16s. 4d., and yet how loudly do dis-
senters rail about paying a church-rate ! The above return
opens to the mind the unreasonable scruples of persons
having, or professing to have, consciences, which forbid
them paying to an establishment of which they disapprove,
when they are actually receiving many thousand pounds
more from the taxes of the country than they contribute
towards the established church.
LONDON H BE RNI AN SOCIETY.—We beg to call the se-
rious attention of the public to the meeting of the Liverpool
Auxiliary of this society, which will take place on Tuesday
next, when, besides the gentlemen whose names are mentioned
in the advertisement, we understand the Rev. Hugh M`Neile
will advocate the claims of the society upon the sympathy
and liberality of all friends of scriptural education and pro-
testant truth.
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CONFIRMATION.—During the present week the Right
Reverend John Bird Sumner, D.D., Bishop of Chester, has
visited several churches and administered the holy rite of
confirmation to a considerable number of young persons.
On Tuesday morning to 591, at Everton ; and in the after-
noon to 931, at St. Jude's; on Wednesday morning to 683,
at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields; and in the evening to 726, at
St. Michael's ; and yesterday to 1000, at St. John the Bap-
tist's. On each occasion his lordship delivered an address,
urging his hearers, in most affectionate and striking terms, to
the due performance of their religious and moral dties, and
to a constant remembrance of the vows and promi uses which
they had so solemnly ratified and confirmed.
ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS FOR BIRKENIIEAP.—The
following gentlemen were elected, on Tuesday last, as com-
missioners, in the place of the seven whose period of ser-
vice had expired ; J. D. Case, Esq., Messrs. D. Appleton,
Jos. Mallaby, John Laird, Wm. Jackson, J. S. Jackson,
and S. Stansfield. Messrs. Rayne", Hanson, and Ravens-
croft were elected in the room of the following gentlemen
who had resigned, Messrs. Brodribb, J. S. Jackson, and R.
Russell.
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SPEEDY JUSTICE.—On Wednesday morning, at two
o'clock, a burglar attempted to enter Dr. Melson's house,
Newhall-street, Birmingham; at ten he was taken; at twelve
committed; at four pleaded guilty ; at half .pasi five was
sentenced to ten years' transportation ,• at eight he was on
his way to Warwick in the caravan ; and on Saturday he was
on the sea bound for Botany Bay.
WEST INDIA PACKET STATION—On Tuesday, in Com-
mittee on the question, the Post-office authorities gave a de-
cided testimony that Bristol was, for their purposes, the
most preferable port for the depot ture of the mails to the
south and west.—Bristol paper.—[The inhabitants of Bristol
have evinced a laudable anxiety for the protection of the in-
terests of that city ; but no suitable manifestation in favour
of the decided prefrence which is due to Liverpool has yet
been made. Something more is wanted than a mere petition
or memorial from the authorities.]
A RASCALLY PORTER.—Thomas Matthew, a young man
who has been employed by Messrs. Jeffery and Morish,
Compton House, was charged before Mr. Rushton, on Toes-
, day, with having stolen a sum of money, the property of Mrs.
Sylvia Hathaway Delano, wife of Captain Delano, of one of
the New York packet-ships. The prosecutrix stated she
lived at No. 64, Grove-street. Being an American she was
not very well acquainted with the value of English notes.
On Wednesday last, she received from Mr. Bowman, of the
firm of Wildes, Pickersgill and Co., £25, in three notes and
five sovereigns. On Friday last, she purchased goods at
Compton House to the amount of £4 18s. lid., and directed
them to be sent to her lodgings. In the afternoon, between
three and four o'clock, she was about to go out, when she
gave to her landlord four sovereigns and a note, which she
believed to be a one pound note. She directed him to pay
for the goods, when they were brought home, and told him he
would have to receive two shillings in change. She returned
home about five o'clock, and found the, goods there, and
was, on the following morning, showing them to a friend,
when she recollected that she had given to the landlord one
of the notes which she had received from Messrs. Wildes,
Pickersgill and Co., under the impression that it was a one
pound note. On examining her notes, she discovered that
the note which she had given was a ten pound note, as she
had two other £5 notes left. She had no English or Irish
notes in her possession when she received the notes from
Mr. Bowman. That was the first paper money she had re-
ceived in England. She went immediately to Compton
House and informtd Mr. Jeffery of the circumstance. Mr.
Thomas, the keeper of the lodging-house,corroborated Mrs.
Delano's testimony, and said that he gave the money to the
prisoner without looking at it, who gave him 2s. and de-
parted. The note which he gave the prisoner was not an
Irish note like that produced. The warehouseman in the
service of Messrs. Jeffery and Morish said that he sent him
with the parcel to Mrs. Delano's, and gave him 2s. to enable
him to give change out of the £5. On the prisoner's return,
after a long absence, witness asked him for £5. He said,
" It will not be £5, but £3 18s., and the 2s. you gave me
will be £4." He produced an Irish note and three sove-
reigns and three halfpence. Witness said, " I want £5."
The prisoner said, " I have made a mistake, and only re-
ceived £3 18s 14d. I must go back for another sovereign."
The prisoner left the shop, and was absent about ten or fif-
teen minutes. He returned and produced a sovereign, say-
ing that he had a hole in his waistcoat pocket, and it had
slipped between that and the lining. The prisoner was dres-
sed in the same dress on Friday as be wore at the bar. The
Irish note was marked by the witness, and produced in
court. J. L. Franklin stated that he was a clerk in the
Bullion-office, kept by his brothers, No. 1, Lord-street.
On Friday afternoon last, the prisoner (he believed) called
at the office, and said that he wanted a£l Irish note. Wit-
ness gave him one, and he gave for it twenty shillings in sil-
ver. The prisoner then asked for change of a ten pound
note. He gave his name and address, which Mr. Franklin
wrote at the hack of the note, but he did not recollect what
it was. Ile said he was a pig dealer. The note was changed,
, and it afterwards passed out of their possession in the course
of business. The prisoner, in a very long defence, declared
that he only received the sum which he paid over to the
warehouseman, and that one sovereign, having passed through
a hole in his waistcoat pocket, had been concealed in the li-
. fling ; but his pocket was examined immediately after he was
taken into custody, and no halo was found in it. The pri-
' seasr was aosamitasi for 164.