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on an institution like this. He deprecated the teaching of the
scriptures by parts, as was attempted by the Irish National.,Bo-
riety. Mr. O'Connell, when lately accused before the House of
Commons of a foul and scandalous libel on the tory members of
that house, had desired that the whole of his speech might be
read, which contained the libel complained of, as he contended
that the full and proper meaning of any part could not be de-
duced from the extracted part. And if this were true, as he,
(Mr. Horton) contended it was, of Mr. O'Connell's small essay,
was it not true of the stupendous works and promises of the
Almighty as contained in His word. Would the advocates of
extracts contend that the full and proper meaning of the Bible
could be obtained from extracts, when the same persons con-
tended that the full and proper meaning could not be obtained
from extracts of Mr. O'Connell's paltry little speech! But it
was contended by these advocates of extracts, that the scriptures
were not pure enough for their children. Were nut the scrip-
tures said to be a mirror reflecting, not only the nature of God,
but the nature of every human being ? He concluded after a
speech of considerable length in seconding the resolution, In
the course of his observations he said, owing to the engagement
of this adjourned meeting, they had been prevented from form-.
ing an auxiliary society that year at Manchester, and bad been
obliged to decline the aid of the Manchester clergy, which
would in all probability have produced the society £5O, which
he conceived the public of Liverpool were in a manner bound
to make good to them.
The CHAIRMAN said if every individual present were to give,
half a crown it would be, ust the thing.
The Rev. Dr. COOK, of Belfast, . rose to propose the next re-
solution, and was received with loud cheering. The resolution
committed to him was, " that the friends of scriptural educa-
tion do fee) themselves called upon to use their exertions to in-
crease the funds of this institution." The resolution was very
simple, if the call contained in the resolution were as easily
attended to. He thought, however, it had been said by a great
man of a neighbouring principality, " He could call spirits
from the vasty deep." But another-great man wondered very
much if they would "come when he did call." (A laugh.)
He felt in seconding this resolution somewhat like a second
Owen Glendower, and called, not upon spirits, but upon sove-
reigns, and not from the vasty deep of the Mersey, but from
their pockets. And as to whether the-4pirits would come, he
might be permitted, with no less.a person than Harry Percy to
doubt. It would ,be for the meeting to prove whether the
Chairman's call was to be realized. All he could say was, if it
were to be realized, he had no judgment. In attempting to ad-
vocate the resolution which was put into his hands, there were
several facts which he felt himself bound toadvert to. And the
first of these was, that the people of England were said to be a
most thinking people. The peopleof Ireland were said to bo a
most feeling people, and that they could beset on fire like
gunpowder, but that it was as difficult to set the other on fire as
it was to fire the Mersey.. •His object was not to set English-

men on fire; but. to attempt to reason. with them as iinost
thinking people, and to endeavour to show them the claims that
Ireland bad on their generosity and-aid. ,But before he did so,.
he considered that every Englishman had a right to asklira
this question—" What do you need? Have you not £50,000
of the public money to teach the public of Ireland, and are you
not promised to have £200,000 a-year to educate the poor of
Ireland ? Now, what possibly more can you want? When you
consider also what is done in building school-houses; what more
than all this can we possibly want for the poor of Ireland ?"
Now he thought this was a great question which every Irish-
man who came to claim the sympathy of England was bound to
answer; and if they were not able to answer this question, and
most satisfactorily, then he said the duty of the people of
England was to button up their pockets and not give them a
single farthing. He would leave the whole question to turn on
that single point. Notwithstanding they had all these grants,
their claims on England were not diminished, and their neces-
sities were not diminished. For, although thse £200,000 were
increased to one million, be stood before them to demonstrate
that they had not received one single farthing for the'true and
proper objects of a nation's education. He felt that in advo-
eating this view of the subject he was standing on the place, as
it were, where the first war trumpet against English education
was sounded, and where the first re-echo of the responding
trumpet was sounded, and where if each horseman did not
draw his battle blade, yet many a one drew his quill
and rallied on paper; and there were bold hearts and spirit-
stirring voices that arose in defence of scriptural education;
'and it they were not able to drive the enemy back over the
channel, they at least raised up a counteracting battlement from
which they might point the artillery of truth, until, in due time,
their point blank shot would drive down the erection of the ene-
my to pieces. He rejoiced that au Irishman had made the first
stand against this system in the person of the Rev. Hugh
M'Neile, whose eloquence was wanted in Ireland. He wished
to impress on the minds of the audience, that what they wanted
in Ireland was not an Irish want; it was the world's want; it
was the principle of the world's regeneration put into parts; it
was no less than the free and uninutilated Bible. -Had the
world ever been scripturally educated by the fettered Bible?
Did God fetter the Bible when he gave its primary elements in
the books of the law to Moses? No, he said, they were to
teach it diligently to their children. They were to teach its
laws diligently by the way side and in the houses, and write
them on the doors that every one might see them. The free-
dom of the world had been attained when the freedom of the
Bible had been attained. When the mind was made free by.
the presence of the word of God, it was giving civil and religi-
ous liberty to both body and mind. But was his-civil liberty
carried out if any man could send him to Loretto, to give a new
petticoat to the virgin ? It was to Protestants, that Roman
Catholic countries were indebted for whatever civil and religious'
liberty they enjoyed. The greatest mistake that man could
make was to suppose that popery was religion. He admitted
that it had a part that was religion; that it had the creed of
Pope Pius, the catechism of Trent, and all the articles of Trent,
and a host of councils; that it had an ianummerable multitude
of persons that were called the Fathers, and for aught he cared,
they might call them grandfathers. But this he knew, that while
we bad these persons to teach scripture according the unani-
mous consent of the Fathers, the unanimous consent of the Fa-
thers was the true terra incognita of Roman Catholic geogra-
phy; it was the north-west passage of the human, intellect.—
Hear and cheers.) He contended that popery was a monar-
chy, and religion was but a part and parcel of the monarchy.
It was merely a monatchy with one roan at Rome at its head,
with his cardinals as councils, and innumerable clergy to en-
force his decrees. This universal monarchy over the minds
and bodies of men was the single object of that institution. To
oppose this monarchy and to establish the principles of freedom,
were the objects of the institution which they were now engag-
ed to advocate. Another reason why they wanted assistance in
despite of what they had got, was, because what they had got
was not good. lie wanted no man to take advantago of him in
argument. God forbid that they should refuse extracts in their
c They had no objection whatsoever to the use of scrip-
tureshis.
extracts. Why, then, did they object when they could
have those extracts every day in their schools ? Why, just be-
cause these extracts were not the Bible. They knew very well
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whole bill, and nothing but the bill," and they had got the bill,
the whole bill, and he knew not how much more than the bill.
They had got the extracts, but they would not take them per-
verted. They would not take them in the new translation by men
not authorised, and of whose capacities for it, let every one read
the late examinations of the committee before parliament, and
judge for themselves. And they would not take a little more ;
they would not take just the least infusion of popery in the
world. They knew very well when a man wanted-to gain an
object, he dirt not generally ask the largest demand, but asked
a very very little. There could not have been a smaller request
than that to our first parents, just to eat the fruit. If Satan
had asked one half of the globe, and the public desecration of
the Almighty, this would have been too terrible a thing to have
been complied with; but it was the smallest thing in the world
that was asked. Just so when he tempted of Saviour, it was
the smallest thing in the world that he askecli just " command
these stones to be made bread," " cast yourself down from the
temple," " bow down and worship," and that for the whole
world. Some of the extracts 'might be correct, but some
were incorrect he knew, but just with the smallest infu-
sion of popery in the world. This little drop of poison in
infancy might prepare the man in after life to swallow poi-
son without doubt, and without fear. In the present system
of national education the priest promised to encourage the
parson, and the-parson promised to encourage the priest, while
they all of them knew, that neither of them meant to perform
what he promised, and all this in order to promote national
education. They said in Scotland,- " giff gaff makes good
friends." The priest promised to encourage what he called
heresy', and the parson promised to encourage what be called
idolatry, and blasphemy. He did not know whether this might
make the priest and Protestant good friends, but this he knew,
it would make them hypocrites and rogues. But it was said
" when we profess to encourage one another, we- don't profess
to encoulge one another at all, but only to permit one another.
This might be the meaning of the word according to the new
edition of Johnson. He alluded to the mismanagement, and
carelessness, or rather to the want of any management of the
national education committee. They took no care whatever as
to the particular management of any school, and attended to no
complaint. They were like the Gods of Epicurus, too high to
take cognizance of things beneath. Their system was only to
be introduced four hours a day. Could a man -be honest for
twenty hours, and surrender his honesty for four? Could he
be twenty hours an honest man, and four hours a bit of a.
rogue? A little impurity rendered impure the whole stream,
and a man who was a rogue for four hours, was so for the whole
twenty-four. Nit this was the system; get in the finger, work
in the whole hand, and when the hand was worked in the shac-
kle was contained on it. And like the boy, who went to catch
the horse, who put the bridle behind his back; and when the-
poor foolish horse came to the bribe of oats he seized him, and.
he bridled him, and he backed him. (Cheers.) It had been
said, by a great warrior, that a great nation could not have a
little wet ; so Protestantism could not have a little war. He
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the delivery, wiih moving the resolution.
The Rev. Mr. JAMES briefly seconded the resolution, which,
was unanimously adopted.
The CHAIRMAN after congratulating the meeting, on the
unanimity, and order, which had preserved, dissolved the meet-
ing about four o'clock. A collection was made at the donors.

Mr. Ewart was first returned to parliament as a tory repre-
sentative of Bletchingley.
HEMP CABLES.—At the institution of civil engineers, at its
last meeting, a paper by W. Cotton, Esq., "On Captain
Iluddart's improvement in Rope Machinery," was read. The
author states that Captain Huddart's attention was 'directed to
the subject in consequence of the external yarns of a ship'. cable
constantly breaking, owing to the extra strain experienced in
the process of twisting, the yarns being all originally of the
same length. Captain Huddart's improvements in the rope
machinery are of such a nature as to give to all the yarns an
increased length in proportion to the distance of the yarns front
the centre of the strand, and to the angle at which they are
laid.

ALE AND BEER.—A short time senee a medical gentleman
purchased a brewery with a view to biew pure and wholesome
beer, and advertised for a brewer. Within a week or so, he
had 75 applications for his situation ; and on inquiring of each
candidate what his pretentious were to undertake the duties of
a brewer, to his very great astsinishment it turned out that every
one of them founded his capability to preside over the mash tufi,
by asserting that he could brew capital ale and beer, of which
some of them brought most delightful sample's, without using
a grain of malt or a bunch of hops. The disappointed advertiser
declared further, that during his life he had never come in con-
tract with such a number of clever chemists.
GREAT CONSERVATIVE DINNER AT LEEDS, ON EASTER MON-
DAY NEXT.—A vast number of applications having been made
by conservatives of all ranks, to be allowed to join in the dinner
to which Sir Francis Burdett, Bart., and other distinguished
characteis have been invited, the committee of the Leeds Opera-
tive Conservative Association have applied for and obtained the
assistance and co-operation of a committee of the Leeds Trades-
men's Conservative Association. The joint committees D°l
announce that in order to meet the general wish, and to give full
scope for the display of conservative strength and feeling, they'
have determined to erect a pavillion, capable of containing 1500
persons; in which also, on the Friday in Easter week, they pro-
pose to give a ball to the conservative ladies of Leeds add the
neighbourhood, the guests to wear the conservative colours;
blue rosette on the left breast. Active preparations are goira
forward.—Leeds Intelligences.