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he country seems prepared to de-
rs.) Is the Gower

•ep: e
tempts

hear.) I observe
various quarters, by Papists, and Trac-
especially

tariaes, and disappointed politicians, to involve Lord John
Russell in hopeless inconsistency, and to spew that after
what lie has said and done, he cannot now take a really
Protestant tone, o

dopt really Protestant measures. I
do not fierce in this, nor would I have you, my friends,
to adopt this notion. I do, indeed, doglike what• Lord
Jo4in Russell has said and done on this subject, as

are abusing him for it—far more cordially than Dr.
Wiseman, or the Bishop of Exeter, or Mr. Disraeli.
But why, I would ask, why should not. the events which
have brought conviction to so many, bring conviction to
Lord John Russell also? Are all the gentlemen, and
honourable members, and noble lords, who were emanci-
pators, and liberals, and conciliators, and who are now
coming out as Protestants, in all the zeal of young con-
verts, are they all inconsistent ? Ido not think so. If
they will allow me to vindicate their consistency at the
expense of their information, I think I can state a fair,
and what T believe to be a true case for many of them,
and perhaps for Lord JoLn Russell himself. (Applause.)
He has all along been a warm and sincere advocate of

. a.
He religious y respected the rights of conscience, nd,
therefore, he disapproved of, and opposed all legal re-
straints cr civil disabilities as penalties for religious
opinions. (Hear.) Doubtless this has been his charac-
ter and conduct as a statesman ; but lie never at any time
hesitated to restrain, by the 'wholesome arm of the law,
conspirators, or robbers, or other evil doers against their
fellow-subjects. if Lord John Russell had detected any

make his religious opinions an excuse for his evil prac-
tices, no man in the kingdom would have more resolutely
exposed the hypocrite, and punished the offender, titan the
noblelord. But what has t his to do with the subject ? Every
--- Lord J. Russell must excuse me when I say that he
—le P st- " or. it ' imbed it in his

-al not math, very a study, u no b..—
youth, then, in the multiplicity of his later cares and avo-
cations, he has forgot it. He has berm content with a
superficial view of it, and was willing to takelts advocates
at their word a'

id their oath, that the system was altered,
and that its modern administrators abjured the ambitious
views, and intolerant and anti-social principles of the dark
. Looking upon it then, merely as a corrupt religion
br. bat

and believing t _somanists had no more notion of any
political conspiracy than Wesleyans or Quakers, the noble
lord saw no reason for legal restraint or civil disability ;
on the contrary, he desired to conciliate;—and hoped by

that means to make all religionists equally loyal subjects
(Hear, hear.) In Romanis!n he saw no danger to liberty
of conscience in others, and therefore, he refused, in an,

true, told him whit Romanism ins, and that he was de-
ceived in it; but. he did not. believe them. had he seen
it in its true light—bad he studied its decrees of infalli-
bility in the light of the boast of unchangeableness—had
he believed the Papal Court, rather than the Popish
British Courtier—(hear, hear)—had he perceived that
encouragement to P3pery can never lead to equality,
but must, in due course, prove fatal to toleration, the
very liberty which induced him to

ame love of
favour the plausible petitioner for civil rigl
urged him to spurn the traitor as the common enemy (
the human race, the hinderer of

'ould have

the abettor
(Cheers.)

MMZMN;Ma=iM

and Protestant, and liberty-loving zeal which pervades
the people and animates the Queen— (tremendous cheer-
ing for some time)—l speak advisedly. Her Maj.sty is
nobly indignant at the arrogant insolence of the Pore.
(Long-continued cheering.) If Lord John Russell will
do this, and if in raising his hand for the defence of Eng-
l." h. .riu atretch it forth for the deliverance of Ireland

cheers

—it he will accept the principle, ano retort
the argument of the Popish priest who mid, at a recent
meeting :

" In the colonies and all over the globe, where the sceptre of
ngland has power, does the Roman Catholic religion exist in

I perfect form. There is an archnisn
alia, in Madras, and in other parts c
_ _ _

British dominions there are also bishops and archbishops,
sanctioned by the Queen and Legislature of this land. Is it
proximity that makes it unjust to have the same system in the
mother country? If it is good for the extremities—for the
hands and the arms—is it not good for the vital part of the
—tv? *4— of the Queen's dominions,

f you permit it in one pa'
ht it not to he permitted in all

(Laughter.) If Lord John Russell will say to this, yes, you
are consistent, and we must be consistent : there is plainly

dare not,

have unrestricted Popery in the vital parts of the
body, we are determined that, by God's help, and with
the strong, and unanimous, and loudly-expressed, will of
the people, we will not allow it to remain unrestricted in
any one of the extremities. (Loud cheers.) If Lord
John Russell will do shis, not a word of reproach will he
1: nay, such will be the en-

thusiam and the u iversality of his support, that to any
members of his present cabinet who are not prz.‘pared to
go with him he may say, I must dispense with your ser-
vices; and to the parliamentary nominees of Irish Popish

priusue nu may say. 1 Can tiinpufine Wll y mai V‘ltC3 et."
to Popish and tractarian virulence he may say, I was de-
ceived and willing to trust you, hut. now I know you, and
have done with you for ever. This is the tone for Lord
John to take ; but to take it with honour, it must be taken
at once, from conviction under his disappointment, not

, . .
from coercion under public opinion, and it must be taken
decisively. Let the noble Lord seriously compare the
glorious course which this would open before him with the

forget all that she has been saying and doing for the last
month, followed by an ignoble retirement from the
leadership of this great country. Let him consider what
was well expressed in a newspaper a few days aczo
Pope has said /will

England has said you shalt not, unu
Who is to give way ?" (A voice : " The Pope.") It is
an exciting combat. The infallibility of the Pope and the
independence of England are in Cie arena, and the civi-
lized world are the spectators. We have chosen our
side. We must stand to it. (Laud cheers, and cries of
"We will.") Every man should choose his side. The

land, a

contest is not simply between the Church of I
such, and the Church of Rome. This is the mistake into

Drds to the-►
hurch. The

which some of our n0,,-
and I would wish to say a _
They have no sympathy with either
reject in religious things the supremacy of II
Queen as entirely as the supremacy of the Pope: ar
with the State as the Ulm

ey consider athanc
nark of reprobation.

Those who thi.

snytiting; in c

- -
land; but may they not still very reasonably be expected
to do something in self-defence ? ( Hear, bear.) Do they
imagine that no matter whether Romanisni or Church of

tious Nonconformists will remain the same? DJ they
imagine that if Dr. Wiseman could carry out the canon
law in England, the Anti-State Church Soc'ety would be
allowed to hold their meetings ? ( Hear, hear.) Have they
so little knowledge of either the history or principles of
Popery, as to expect under her sway the fell liberty which
they enjoy now,and with which the Church of England has
no disposition to interfere ? If they, or any of then. accuse
the Church of England of the same intolerant principles

refer to the Tractarians in proof, we reply that the charge
is unfounded, end the evidence inconclusive. (clic
The Church of I

terly rept

iates the Tra

'he elins.

antics. (applause.) The scriptural prec
Articles gibes no quarter to their fals
tinued applause.) Accordingly those
have any conscience left from the shipwreck of their faith
are driven thereby to leave the Church of England to gt
to their proper place—(hear, hear)—even to tl
Roman temple of idolatry, the receptacle of our al:
(Immense cheering, and some interruW ion from c
son at the end of the room, which raised a cry c
him out.") The rev. gentleman continued,—No, don
put him out—we'll do him goad before tt

mong thew wlic

'oostate

of the boaFted intelligence of Dissenters
found the Church of England with the Trac
and on that ground to withhold from us their

r t) co

urination is wisdom, and if they will rairrly discriminate
they will find that the life and power and vigour and effi
ciency of the Church of England are to be found in th
immensely increased and rapidly increasing numbers an
zeal of her truly evangelical pastors and people. (Liu
cheers.) Let evangelical Dissenters then act upon th
impulses of their hearts against popish fraud ar
hood, and not be hindered or hampered by jeal
Established Church. (Hear, hear.) Let V
Popery in their own way, and unless
degenerated from their forefathers, the

have greatly
vill deal hearty
) And my friends

tyrant. (Apply

ords of

post as usual. I may remind you in th
your old and faithful friends that
"The people of Great Britain were assured by a legion o!
orators,—by Plunket and Canning, by Burke and Grattan, by
Grenville, Grey, Macintosh, Brougham, Whitbread Romilly,—
by 'all the talents,' indeed, from 1801 to 1829, that concession
would be a final and healing measure,—that Popery was clothed

passing of the ROP
Ireland as safe
peals of the pi%

s detected, and now f
;6.) . The' Pope of Rot
his bull, by whatever p

country and i

lied the Scv

'ort of t