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At the Norfolk Protestant meeting, Mr. Pete,
(a Dissenter) seconded the address to Her Majesty, and
called upon all his brother dissenters to " take common
ground with their brethren of the Church of England, and
to merge all their differences in the defence of the greater
• principle with which each was identified." Referrin'
evi,' to the ignorant 1 f--"--

.laently to and factious position attempted
to be forced upon dissenters by some of their would-be
leaders, Mr. Pcto remarked—" It was said dissenters
should take care lest they might be forging fetters for
themselves ; but his answer to that caution was. thfit

Protestant Dissenters were never more called upon than
now, to show that, while they valued civil and religious
liberty, they desired not that liberty which meant lust for
power. He hoped Dissenters were able to draw a line
of distinction between the point where civil and religions
liberty ended and where tt rr tonal aggression and lust for
power began." _

- A number of the clergy in the Oxford diocese have pro-
tested against the bishop's address to the Queen forthe fol-
lowing, amongst other, reasons :—" 1. Because we do not
mainly object to the act of Papal aggression on account-of
its schismatical character,' as respects the church of this
country, but 'as a part of a system repugnant to the word
of God, perilous to the souls of men, and as an act inju-
rious alike to the supremacy of the Crown, the rights of
our church, and the privileges of every Christian in our
land. 2. Because we object to commit ourselves to such
al description of our church as that contained in the pro-
test, which seems to us to be of a more exclusive character
than that given in the nineteenth article. 3. Because the
protest appeals to the judgment of the Universal
Church, as if it were possible that such judgment should be
now by any means collected ;' which appeal we decline to
make in this matter for the reasons stated in the twenty-
first article of our church ; and because we recognise the
word of God contained in the holy Scriptures as the only
infallible rule of faith and conduct."

Lord Roden has published a letter on the papal aggres-
, after giving entire the letter written by
Lord Clarendon to Dr. Murray, about the Irish Colleges,
and his wish to consult the Pope about them, his Lord-
ship says :—" I shall leave it to you to draw your conclu-
sions from its contents; for myself I can only regret that
such an abject appeal could have been made by the repre-
sentative of our Protestant Queen, who reigns by the
right of those glorious principles, to a foreign potentate,
and that the Pope. to gain his sanction to any object
which her Majesty might find it necessary to adopt for
the benefit of her subjects. Sad, indeed, was our posi-
tion, when the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland entertained
so profound a veneration for the character of the Pope.
and such an implicit reliance upon his upright judgment,'
that it was with pleasure' he asks Dr. Murray to submit.
the statutes of the proposed colleges 'for the considera--
lion of his holiness.' Sad, indeed, would it have been
for England if the prime minister had held the opinions
of his colleague, and had the country been deprived of
that Protestant letter which Lord John Russell felt it his
duty to address to the Bishop of Durham. The country
waits with great anxiety for his future proceedings. I
trust that whatever he may propose, after what he has
now experienced, he will be guided by the opinion he has
asserted in the maintenance and encouragement of the
Protestant faith throughout her Majesty's dominions.
Nothing short of this, I hope, will satisfy the people of
England. Nothing short of this can secure to the British
nation the continuance of that divine blessing which she
has hitherto so signally received.

sion, in which

, .
The Bishop of Oxford, In his reply to the address from
the authorities of Eton College, says :—" Stirred up by
Pope's indecent aggression, the stream of common
opinion is now running with the violence of a flood
muddy and turbulent, and to overwhelm all ordinary bar-
riers with its violence; and so it is among us. Unchari-
table thoughts, harsh words, and unproved imputations,
abound. Those who fear the spiritual domination, and
those who hate the spiritual corruptions of Rome, and
those who hate all assertion of spiritual authority any-
where, and even those who hate all belief in spiritual
realities, are for the time united together. Our very walls
are inscribed by the same hand with the legends of 'No
Popery,' No Priestcraft." No Religion.' In such a time
even good men become the subjects and the victims of
fierce mutual suspicions, and the common enemy alone
triumphs. Such a time must be full of danger to the calm
and peaceable and loving temper which should possess
our own souls ' • and to the maintenance of our common
church against these evils, then, we must guard with as