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we may trust all this is working together for good, and
working well. We have great cause for thankfulness, -
and in no particular greater cause than in this,—that Another district of 6000 souls had in the same manne
the ministers of all your churches are fulfilling the been provided with scriptural aid. leaving him 18,000. He
duties of their offices with exemplary zeal and faith- thought it was a great mistake generally entertained, that
EASTERN COUNTIES RA-lI4WAY. fulness, and perseverance,—with great efficiency also, if a clergyman obtained a curate from the society he was
THE SHAREHOLDERS in this,RAILWAY are and, let me not omit to add, with a zealous spirit of therefore relieved from a portion of his duties. Now, he
harmony and concord, which I hope, and trust, and pray, (Mr. C.) could tell them that he worked, notwithstanding
requested to meet a DEPUTATION, appointed by the
Manchester Proprietors at the Clarfndon-rooms, at Half-past nothing may be suffered to disturb. (Applause.) All all the assistance he bad received, from nine o'clock in
Twelve o'clock Tuts DAY gpesdry), to confer with them on this is well,—is encouraging ; but in the case of each of the morning to nine o'clock at night (hear, hear) ; with
the present position of the*Property.
H. DAVIES and CO. these churches and districts, if the incumbent had to do not an hour to call his own. The rev. gentleman explained
the whole of his work alone, and single-handed, without that he had one Jew scripture reader, whose labours were
any assistant to share and lighten his labour, it would be directed to the instruction of 3000 Jews ; besides this, be
impossible for him to accomplish the unequal task ; for • had three Irish readers, who direct
BIRKENBEAD, LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE however zealous and devoted he may be, he could never, amongst the Trish Romanists in his park..
JUNCTION RAILWAY. with man's strength, and man's time, traverse all the division of 3000 to each scripture reader, was again sub-
'THE Public is respectfully informed, that on and scenes inviting his labour, tread all the narrow alleys, divided into the districts entrusted to lay visitors. In
1. after Thursday, February the .2ftth. TRAINS will run on search out all the recesses of squalid poverty, rude igno- extolling the benefits the Pastoral Aid Society had con-
this Railway between MANcitEsTER, WARRINGTON, and ranee, vice, and shame. He never could do this singly, ferred on his parish, he summed up by saying that when
CHESTER, conveying Goons from all parts of Lancashire, without help. (Hear, hear, and applause.) And then, he entered upon his charge there was only one church,
Yorkshire, and the North of England, to C sTER,SHROP- on the other hand, in almost every case, the stipend he one clergyman, one service whereas there were now four
SHIRE, and NORTH WALES, also to and from KENHEAD himself receives for his labour is far too mall to provide
and its DOCKS. ~„ churches, two clergymen , II Sunday services, and one daily,
GOODS will be received and tom- d DAILY from the the services of an assistant curate to relieve him of a Where there were five day schools, no Sunday school
following Stations, viz. : portion of his duty. There is not the means to procure there were now fourteen daily and four Sunday schools
BIRKENHEAD .. Egerton D Station. such assistance. Now, it is to meet cases of this kind— for one clergyman there were now s,---
BIRKENHEAD
CHESTER General aitway Station. it is to furnish this assistance in districts where the pope- ture readers where there were none ; -
WARRINGTON LOIRIOD and North-Western Station. lation require it, and where the endowment is too small, municants, one thousand and ninety. All tin..
MANCHESTER D' —Liverpool-road. it is to furnish the help of a curate, that the Church Pas- the Pastoral Aid Society. Where could he have gu..
For Rates and oth articulars apply to the above Stations,
to JHN ROBERTS, Goods Manager, toral Aid Society was established. It has subsisted, ask for £5OO a- ear to carry out his designs ?He be-
andFebruary 18041851. Birkenhead. under God's blessing, with increasing success for several lieved had it not been for the society he should have sunk
N.B.—ln all Letters of Instruction and Shipping Notes, years. and has been productive of solid and substantial exhausted into a premature grave. The rev. gentleman
relative to Goods intended to he sent by this Company, please gm- (1.. i• . nmiri. the „,,,o- prithe.inca-t,, ti„„),,.
R benefit over the whole extent of our country; but
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state " Vii the CHESHIRE JUNCTION
RAILWAY." scarcely any part has profited more than the diocese of
-----••••••■••••=riffe 1 Chester, and certainly no place so much as this town wh,
of Liverpool. (Applause.) It is on this account I said T. B. HORSFALL, Es q., next came forward to move
that one of my reasons for wishing to bear testimony in the second resolution, which was to the effect that, not-
favour of this society was, that Liverpool was the place withstanding the great good effected by the instrumen-
where we are now assembled, and Liverpool is one of the tality of the society, an immense amount of spiritual
greatest debtors to the society's bounty. (Hear, hear.) destitution still remained unassisted. Mr. Horsfall said
I said, also, that besides thinking this a most fitting place that, after his lordship's very admirable remarks, and
___....,. :...,,.„ ;„ ,y,,,, „„t„,„,-, after the elaborate statements of the rev gentlemen who
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The Bisnor put the resolution to tie meeting, when it

ARE NATIONS BECOMING PEACEFUL ?—Has the con-
duct of the English government for twenty years past
evinced the reality of the alleged disinclination to hos-
tilities which is said to be creeping over all established
governments, and to which popular ones in particular are
in so remarkable a manner ? Has not our conduct, on
the contrary, even in Europe, been aggressive and pro-
vocatory to war in the very highest degree ? Did we not
unite with France to force a revolutionary government on
Spain and Portugal, and to prevent a legitimate one in
Belgium from recovering its lawful possessions ? Did we
not, along with Russia, Prussia, and Austria, throw down
the gauntlet, at the time of the bombardment of Beyrout
and the siege of Acre, to France ; and did not the firm-
ness of Louis Philippe and the accession of Guizot, whom
he called to his councils at the critical moment, alone
prevent a general and a frightful war in Europe? It is
well known, to all persons -acquainted with the subject,
that we were still nearer a war with France some years
afterwards, when the affair of Otaheite and Queen Pomare
revived the ancient and undying jealousy of the two
countries. We know it for a fact, that at that period the
French were prepared for, and fully expected, instant hos-
tilities; and that for several nights six thousand choice
light troops slept armed and accoutred on board the huge
war-steamers at Cherbourg, ready to start at daybreak
for a descent on the southern shores of Britain, and on
some of its undefended dockyards, where not a vestige of
preparation had been made to repel them.—Blackwood.
THE PROEESSOR AND THE PLAYER.—Mr. Charles
Mathews writes to a London paper as follows :—" In my
small farce of the Ringdoves,' the name of Methusalem'
occurs, and has been by me so printed. A gentleman from
King's College, Cambridge, who signs himself ' Screw-
tatpr,' has attacked me on the correctness of the name,
which, lam 'told bp him is Methusalon,' and lam re-
ferred to Genesis, chap.-5, v. 27,' in support of his correc-
tion, and requested to acknowledge through -the public
press. Now, with all humbleness of spirit, I beg to differ
from this erudite moonshee, and to affirm that Methu-
Belem' is strictly correct. Firstly let me premise thitt-
the common Hebrew makes it Methusalech;' with
the final clieta. Indeed, the name of this very old
gentleman, who attained to nearly a thousand yaers of
age, is spelt in various and dissimilar ways. On one of the
sculptured rocks of Metayath—which, by-the-by, is a
comparatively recent authority, being but of three thou-
sand years's date—the name is written Methusay/u.
man ; and even among the Yezides, or Devil-worship
pers who have no ' written book,' it is Methuz-iman.
The single authority extant for ' Methuselah' occurs in
the Chaldaic version • but the Chaldaic being in a She-
mitic dialect, a sort a congener of the Hebrew and the
Syriac, the authority is singularly hypothetical. The
cpmmentators—Rashi. Gomora, the Talmud, the Mishna,
and the Council of Beth 'Din•-•all agree in spelling the
name Methusalem' ; and if more modern authorities are
required to prove my position, I would refer to the
learned Polander, Rabbi Scher:tile Lock Baumer, and to
the very reverend and erudite chief rabbi of the Jews of
Great Britain, Doctor Adler. Itis strange that the name
spelt Metbusalene occurs in the Shezdar of Brame, and
• in the Ti Kong of the Chinese Confutzee, a copy of which
is in my possession, and to which' Screw-tator.' of King's
College, Cambridge, is most welcome to refer."
A iCENE IN CAMP ON THE PUNJAUD BORDER.—
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to near such teamuutly, MG pa CCVLA G•a•J‘A, •••
a peculiarly fitting time (Applause.) I say this with had succeeded his lordship, he might rest-satistied wan
special reference to the recent measures that have been formally moving the resolution ; but he felt be sbould be
taken by the Pope of Rome—Maud applause)—fur estab- doing-himself a wrong if he did not give utterance, on
• fUn+ nrnacinn to nnc, venal. and it should be little more

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lishing a Roman Catholic hierarchy in this country. (Ap- LW" "CUZ,Uilt_i..ll. "...f cm,. .. .- --
plause.) There are two points of view in which this than one word. The resolution spoke of the existence of
proceeding may be regarded. It may be i„ed as great spiritual destitution, and, if proof were needed of
an infringement of the supremacy of the Queen, and the truth of that, he might, amongst other melancholy
he independence of the realm. In that evidences, refer to the lamentable fact that, at this too-
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egression on
respect it will be the dut, of our legislators to repress toe --
intrusion by such temperate but firm measures as may be sand prisoners : he might also state that, on the average,
adequate for the purpose. (Cheers.) The other point of
view there were not less than seventy individuals placed daily
in which it may be regarded is—and it is that point
before our stipendiary magistrate, charged with every
of view on which alone 1 wish to speak—it may be re- description of crime. This showed clearly that legal
garded as an undisguised attempt towards drawing over enactments were impotent in repressing crime, and that
the people of this country to the Roman Catholic com- frequent punishment (for many of those then brought
munion. (Hear, hear, and loud applause.) Speaking before the magistrate had often been in the same situa-
with all humility, and with a dependence upon the piovi- tion before) tended to harden the offender. He consi-
dence of God, I am ready to say that I, for my part, dered that the remedy for this state of things would he
humbly trust that those expectations of success which found in building schools and churches, and putting
have . been so openly avowed by the agents of the zealous men in them—men who would preach the Gospel,
Roman Church will not be realised in the event. We and who would have no respect for Romanizing practices.
are not without great safeguards. There was once a time (Hear, hear.) Speaking of the necessity of zeal on the
when Popery prevailed over the whole, or over nearly the part of those acting for the society, he said if it were a
whole of Europe. That was a time when intellectual society for the relief of the temporal wants of the poor—
darkness prevailed, and when the Bible was a sealed book. if it distributed food and clothing amongst them—it
Popery even now prevails over a large portion of Europe; would merely he necessary to say where it was located,
but it is over that portion in which the Bible is still, as and the people would flock to it ; but as its benefits were
far as possible, withheld by the priesthood from the hands
of the people. In our own free, Protestant, happy coup
of a spiritual character, professing to s upply what people
try—(applause),—the Bible is in the hands of all, and I
trust I may also say, through God's grace, not only in the
hands, but in the hearts of our people too (loud applause.)
It is the Bible that will be, usder God's blessing, our
great safeguard. It is the standard of our reformed
church ; it is the ground-work of our confidence, our se-
curity, under God's blessing, against relapsing into the
errors of Romanist», and all vain traditions of man's de-
vice. (Applause.) I think we can meet the movement
of the Pope by the free circulation of the Bible, and also
by another means kindred to this,—by bringing,—for if
we have but the mind and will, we have the ability—by
bringing the services and ordinances of our church within
reach of the dwellings and homes, to the very doors of our
vast population. (Applause.) I gladly own that much
has been done in this direction in Liverpool, but very
much still remains for us to do. The number of
our churches and ministers, great as has been the in-
crease, is very far from being adequate to the magnitude
of the people, and to the spiritual exigences of the coun-
try. There is a most urgent and imperative claim upon
as to use our best efforts to supply this deficiency which
now exists, and especially at the present time. If we are
really desirous to preserve our people from the perversions
of Rocnanisna, the way is, under God's blessing, to provide
them with places of worship, with ministers for those places,
and withthe means of religious instruction within the bo-
som of our own church. Let this be done, and all the edicts
from Rome will fall as idle paper on our shores. (Great
applause.) His lordship then proceeded to observe that
the present was a time especially calling upon all to assist
in its efforts, so excellent,useful, and benevolent,a society,
and having thanked the auditory for the patience and
-attention with which they had listened to him, sat down
amidst loud applause.
The Rev. W. POLLOCK, before the report was read,
stated that the committee had felt some delicacy in cal-
ling upon the bisbop so often to preside over their
meetings; he had, therefore, waited on his worship the
mayor, with the purpose of soliciting his presence as
chairman. His worship signified the pleasure he should
have taken in complying with the solicitation, but was
prevented accepting the invitation from the press of
prior engagements as well as from ill health. His wor-
ship had, however, presented him (11r. Pollock) with a
five pound note, to be applied to the purposes of the
society.

are riot aware

go out and compel aim to come in. (Hear, hear.) Now,
he thought it behoved the laity to take care that so laudable
a society did not pine for want of funds. It was
with this view that be, a layman, addressed the meeting.
He had read in the papers, that the society had provided
four hundred faithful ministers, who were constantly going
about in the pursuit of their sacred vocation ; and he con-

sidered so noble a result ought to be liberally maintained ;
but he found that Liverpool stood in the position of a
pauper in relation to the society, for while she contributed
only £lOOO to its funds, she received £l6OO ! This was
disgraceful. (Hear, hear.) He hoped the laity would
come forward and prevent the continuance of such
a state of things, and that by the appointment of
faithful ministers the Gospel would he preached to the
poor in churches in which, as had been said by Mr.
Champneys, not one rag of Popery could be seen, nor
any Romanising practices observed. As Mr. Horsfall
resumed his seat, the room resounded with loud and long-
continued plaudits.
The Rev.. J. MILLER, rector of St. Martin's, Birming-
ham, one of the deputation from the Parent Society,
came forward to second the resolution. He said he had
always thought a great mistake had been made at public
meetings of that description, by having more than two
parties as a deputation ; and if he might be allowed he
would, without meaning any harm to the secretaries, say
that that rule might have been observed on that occasion
with advantage to himself,—for he found himself in the
painful position of having nothing to say, after what had
been said by his friends, Mr. Champneys and Mr.
Bardsley. Mr. Miller, however, proceeded to give some
further information relative to the working of the societys
His own parish contained 30,000 souls, though from
circumstances he did not participate in the benefit of the
society : the church accommodation for these 30,000
people was one church, containing about 260 pews. He
contrasted this deplorable state of things with the energy
displayed by the Dissenters and the Roman Catholics,
who he believed were about to erect another cathedral,
and whose priests, monks, and sisters of mercy, abso-
lutely swarmed the town. The rev. gentleman afforded
much information of an interesting character, relative to
the working of the society.
The Rev. Dr. WNEILE, in the course of supporting the
resolution, delivered a long. eloquent, animated, and ar-
gumentative speech. He said they had heard that even-
ing an interesting description of the original condition of
the Church, when the people of England were also the
Church of England,—when every parish had its pastor,
and every pastor was able to attend to that parish. They
had been long and gradually declining from that happy
state of things ; and it was worth while to trace some few
of the steps by means of which the people of England had
become divided into large masses from the Church of
England. The people for this were not all to blame ; the
rulers of both Church and State had partly themselves to ,
blame, when, by drawing the Act of Uniformity so tight,
they forced 2,000 of the best, or some of the best minis-
ters of the Established Church to become Dissenters.
Something like order was of course indispensable, and
where to draw the line required wisdom ; but when the
same undeviating line was applied alike to essentials in
doctrine and principle, and to non-essentials in forms and
dress, human nature could not bear such an uniformity,
—no such example of uniformity was to be found in any of
the works of creation,—and then it was a division and
separation took place. Unity in diversity was the order
of all God's works; unity in diversity belonged to every
nation, as a nation, under heaven ; and unity in diversity
should be the characteristic of a national church ; other-
wise, in proportion as a rigid uniformity was insisted upon,
the church was rendered impossible to be national, and
some of its people must be lost from it (applause.) He
would not say there had not been perverseness on the
other side, in causing a division ; but when these minis-
ters did leave, a large mass of the people left with
them ; influence attached to such masses ; property be-
; came theirs, and in due time political power also ; and
the fact was, that now political power was so divided
amongst the members of Christian churches, that no vote
of public money could be obtained for the extension of
the Established Church to meet the exigencies of the po-
pulation. (Hear, hear.) There ought to be a public
• grant of money for church extension ; but, the truth was,
that no government could carry such a grant. They (the
audience) might be inclined to say " Improve the parlia-
ment, so that the next House of Commons will give it."
They couldn't ; they had not the power; but they could
take one step towards it, by improving their own repre-
sentatives—(hear, hear, and loud and prolonged cheers) ;
—and let him avail himself of that opportunity of saying
that the probability was they would shortly have the chance
of trying to do this. (Cheers.) Dr. Yr Neile then alluded
to the debate in the House of Commons, and to the ad-
journment for a week. Rome was always working trouble
to England. What connexion was there, did they think,
between Rome and this adjournment ? He was not at
liberty to tell this I but he was At liberty to know from
. Rome's laws and Rome's practices that wherever ahc was

After transacting cutchery (office) business for an hour or
twe, I was sitting with Swahn Khan, Vizeeree, and his
interpreter, talking over Bunnoo affairs, when the cry'
arose that " swords were going.!" Swahn Khan having
no arms, according to camp rules, bolted out of the tent;
while his " man Friday" began dancing about, ringing his
hands, and ejaculating, " Oh, that I had now a sword !
This is the evil of taking away men's proper tools !"
Having ever since the first attempt of this kind kept a
double-barreled pistol on my table, I now cocked both
'barrels and walked outside, for the row had grown quite
deafening, and I thought there must be a dozen Ghazees
at least ; in which case one person inside a tent 14 feet
square wouldstand but a poor chance. Scarcely had I
glt out at the one door than the Ghazee, for there proved
to be only one, forced his way through the sentries and
chwassees, official messengers, and entered my tent at
the other door. Hearing the rush I turned round, and
saw through the screens of the tent, a Bunnochee with a
naked sword plunginglafter me like a mad bull. The
outside door of .an Indian tent turns up, and is supported
on props during the day, as a kind of porch, to keep off
the sun. It is very low, and I knew the Ghazee must stoop
as he came out, so here I took my stand. His turban was
knocked off in stooping at the door, and when he stood Up
outside, he glared round for his victim like a tiger who had
missed his spring. Then his eyes met mine, and seeing no
resource, I fired ore barrel into his breast. 'The shock
nearly knocked him down, for there could not have been
two feet between us. He staggered, but did not fall ; and
I was just thinking of firing the other barrel at his
head, when a stream of soldiers and camp followers,
with all kinds of weapons, rushed in and bore away the
wretch some twenty yards towards a native's tent, into
which, hacked and chopped in every direction, he con-
trived to crawl ; but was followed up, and was so mangled
by the indignant crowd before my people could interfere,
that I wonder he survived a minute. He lingered how-
ever, till night, in spite of the remedies which the native
doctor, by my orders, applied to Lim. The rage of the
soldiery was beyond description, and I had great difficulty
in preventing his being carried off to be burned alive.
Even late in the evening a deputation came to say that i 1
was apparent the Ghazee could not live out the night,
and "had he not better be hanged at once, while he had
any life .n him ?" I said, " No, let him die ; the exam-
ple will he just as great, perhaps greater, if his body is
i exposed oa the gallows afterwards." My tent, immedi-
ately after this startling occurrence was besieged by the
officers and soldiers, some half naked, just as they had
andrus h eiet uponwas
really- th fort
quite works
s u ifiwc
eenntcompensation they
for the heard my pistol ;
danger to see the unfeigned anxiety of the men, and hear
their loud greetings and congratulations. All discipline
was lost in such a moment of strong feeling. Thirty
swords at least, covered with blood, were held out.among
the crowd, and as many voices shouted, " I hit the dog in
this way !" " I cut him that." And certainly they Lad
not left much of him untouched, though they had beein
too much in each other's way to deal very fatal blows,
Then came all the officers and sidars of the force. throw.-
ing down nuzzars and whirling money round my head, as
I is their custom on occasions of triumph or deliverance,
and the sun set before I could get rid of the assembly.
The worst part of the whole business is, that the Ghazee
slashed one of my sycee, grooms, most severely before he
entered my tent, and I am afraid he is anything but out
of danger. The poor fellJw was cooking his dinner, and
the cowardly rascal sliced him with his tulwar all down
the back.=-Edwardes's Year on 14c Panjab *Frontier.

The Rev. W. BREWSTER then read the report, which
was a very interesting document.
The Report opened with the following remarks :—" In
times of unparalleled excitement like the present, when
the holiest principles of our religion are assailed, and the
time-honoured institutions of our country imperilled by
the machinations of infidelity, and the devices of super-
stition, it must be gratifying to every Christian patriot to
know that there still exists in the kingdom one society at
least Scriptural in constitution, loyal in purpose, and
Protestant in determination ; a society whose unceasing
object it has been, and still continues to be, to preserve
unmutilated, and transmit to succeeding generations,
unimpaired, the rich blessings of the Reformation ; a so-
ciety which, with a modesty that bespeaks her merit, and
with a perseverance which demonstrates her sincerity,
toils on through goodreport and evil report in thethankless
office of serving others ; a society which, in the use of
means which God has ordained and promised to honour,
seeks to instruct the ignorant, reclaim the wanderer, con-
vert the sinner, comfort the afflicted ; a society which,
desirous to protect the national faith, and elevate the
national character—not by the adoption of untried theories
—not by submission to time-serving expediency, but by
diffusing through the length and breadth of the land
sound Scriptural Protestant truth : in a word, it must
be cheering to know, that we have still amongst us, in
active operation and undiminished hope, the Church
Pastoral Aid Society, established fifteen years ado, by
men of God, keenly alive to the spiritual necessity of our
eountry. The society has been carried on and conducted in
the spirit of faith and prayer ; and, year after year, has
the committee received testimonies increasing in number
and importance to the value of its labours."
The report then proceeded to allude to the direct ad-
vantages furnished by the society in affording fellow-
labourers and lay agents to the clergy; but the blessings
resulting indirectly from the operations of the society
were inestimable. The funds have not, however, kept
pace with its acknowledged usefulness. There are now
above fifty pressing cases before the committee of the
parent society, who have been obliged, within the last few
days, to resolve not to make any new grants until the end
of the financial year, in consequence of a falling off in the
xeceipts ; and unless their recent appeal is liberally re-
sponded to, there must be a diminution of the society's
operetions. Notwithstanding this state of things, the
grants to Liverpool are greater than at any former period
--being 23 in number, involving an outlay of £1,600 a
year—whirlst the town contributes, in return, less than
£l,OOO per appum ; the parent society having sustained
a loss by these grants, in eleven years, of more than
£5,000. Ti 4 committee very properly ask, " How long

tolerated she was intolerant; that wherever she was en-
couraged she would disturb; that wherever she was treated
with kindness and courtesy as agood neighbour, she would
prove an enemy in the disguise of a neighbour. She
had done so, and she would do so again as soon as the
power was given to her. (Applause.) He felt confident
that unless ottr rulers would defend the country against

Romanism, politically so considered, she would continue
her operations till her object was gained. He had no
confidence in intellectual enlightenment against Rome
the lore of Oxford could not prevail agains
had some of our firs
ing him who honour

scholars kissing relics
d winking pictures.

, and honour-
Laughter and

applause.) At an advanced stage of his speech, the rev.
doctor asked what would they do, should one of their
members come before them again for re-election, when,

there were loud erie
Mr. Horsfall."