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controlled into calmness, and the famishing multitude
were fed and filled without toil. (Applause.) He is
coming again, to deal with the whole earth, as he did
with the poor demoniac at Decapolis : that so, the
world being delivered from the frenzy of Satanic
rebellion, may again occupy its right place of subjection
at the feet of Jesus, clothed with righteousness, and in
its right mind of holy love to God : the good time coming.
I could enlarge on this branch; it is a glorious subject—
one on which I take delight in preaching. (Hear, hear.)
The miracles of the Lord Jesus are not only proofs of Isis
divine mission, and not only emblems of his saving truth,
but they are specimens of his royal power. They were
the outgoings of that Majesty which could not be entirely
hid even in the disguise of his humiliation. His time
to assume the power of royalty was not, however,
yet come. He bad other objects to attain. He hid when
they desired to make him king ; he kept out of their way.
He had to win his way to a righteous reign. He would not
reign by mere power against law ; and law having been
violated he would not take to himself his power to
reign until he had satisfied the demands of law. He
would not act against law, even against Satan. He
was made of a woman, made under the law, and
:Acted accordingly ; and his work, and our happiness
in him, would not set before us an illegal escape from
danger. The Christian's position was not an illegal
escape from danger—if it were so, we should feel ashamed
of it. But what was it then ? It was a legal gaol
delivery. The law was satisfied ; the judge was satis-
fied ; the king was satisfied. Open, then, the prison
door. (Hear). It was a noble, it was a glorious, it
was a triumphant exit from a state of danger, and not an
illegal escape. And, therefore, the time was not come
for Jesus to threw off his disguise and take to himself the
power to reign. He would not accept the proffered bribe
of Satan to take the kingdoms of this world and rule over
them, on condition of serving the devil. " All these are
mine," said the devil to him, " and to whomsover I will, I
givel them." "I will give th,:m all to you," said Satan,
"if you will only worship me." He refused the bribe; "Get
thee behind me, Satan," he said. It remained for another and
a very different person to accept the bribe, and take all of the
world that the devil would give him. (Cheers.) And this
!cads me to my fourth head, which is, that we have a
caricature of "the world as it shall be" presented to us in the
assumptions of Antichrist. (Cheers.) But here we have a
mystery to deal with, and must find Antichrist, not in an open
avowed antagonist, but in a professed disciple of Christ. He
is called " the son of perdition," a title given only to him, and
to one other wha was like him. It is given to Judas Iscariot,
and he was by profession a disciple of Christ, by office, a
governor in the Church, by practice, a traitor. 'this is signi-
ficant. This teaches us where and how to look for Antichrist.
I now quote from Bishop Jewel, who says:—

" We may not look that Antichrist should say, I am Anti-
christ, I am that man of sin. I am the son of perdition, I am
the adversary, and am contrary to Christ. He shall not shew
forth himself in such a sort, he shall not so speak of himself.
He is subtle and cunning, he shall deceive the learned and the
wise: he sh ill cast himself into a colour of holiness: he shall
fast, he shall pray, he shall give alms, and shew mercy: he
shall walk as if he were a disciple of Christ : he shall counter-
feit an angel of He shall go before, and the world shall
follow him. to shall the mystery of iniquity work. Iris life,
his religion, his doctrine, shall be close and hid, and secret.
Antichrist workettl in mystery. The learned and wise shall
be deceived. They shall honour Antichrist unawares. They
shall say, We defy him, and detest him, and yet shall fall
down and worship him. This is a mystery. So secret shall
his dealing be, it shall not be known to many,"
And again :

" In matters of princes, if any man take upon him the name
of an ambassador, or deputy to a prince, Furring no commission
thereto, an.l in this boldness presume to levy and raise a power,
and force the subjects to follow him : although he work all this
under the name, and by the colour of the prince's authority (as
in the manner of rebels to do) yet he is a traitor, and his doings
are not well thought of, because he. dealeth in the prin -e's
matters without warrant from the prince. Even so antichrist
he shall cor

1 the name of Christ, yet will he do all thingi
azainst Christ, and under pretence and colour of serving
Christ, he shall devour the sheep and peOple of Christ ; he
shall deface whatsoever Christ bath
taught;

house which Christ bath built. -----
" He shall be contrary to Christ : his faith contrary to the
faith of Christ : and his life contrary to the life of Christ. Is
any man desirous to know Antichrist? By this mark you may
know him : he shall be contrary to Christ. To show you at
large this contrariety in Christ and Antichrist would take a
long time. It shall be sufficient we consider only some few
wherein they are manifestly contrary, that by them judgment
may be made of the residue.

St. Paul saith : For by one offering he bath perfected for
ever them that are sanctified.' And again : We are sanctified,
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.'
What is he then that saith, I make priests to offer a daily sa-
crifice, for the sins of the people; by whom the offering up of
the body of Christ is made every day'? He is contrary to
Christ, he is Antichrist. St. Paul saith, God hath put all
things under his feet, and gave him, to be the head over all
things to the Church.' What is he then which saith. lam
the head of the Church'?—which saith. ' All the Churches of
God are knit in me : you must understand as I understand :
you must hear with mine ears, and see with mine eyes : I will
govern and direct you'? He is contrary to Christ: this is
Antichrist. Christ ordained that the Communion should he
ministered under both kinds: what is he then that delivereth
it to the people but under one kind? He is contrary to Christ.
He breaketh the first institution of the Lord's Supper : he is
Antichrist.

..gist saith, My kingdom is not of this world: if my
kingdom were of this world. then would my servants fight,
that I should not be delivered to the Jews : but now is my
kingdom not from hence.' What is he then which saith: I
tm Lord of Lords and King of Kings ; I have a right to both
-4.: my power and authority reacheth over all the king-
'he world?' He is contrary to Christ ;he is Anti-
christ. ._ rist washed his disciples feet. What is lie, then,
that giveth his feet to be kissed of kings and emperors? (Loud
cheers.) He is contrary to Christ; be is Antichrist. Christ paid
tribute to Caesar. What is he, then, that exempteth himself and
his clergy from the temporal sword and authority? He is con-
trary to Christ; lie is Antichrist. Christ allowed marriage,
and reproved fornication. What is be, then, that alloweth
fornication, and ferbiddeth marriage? (Applause.) He is
contrary to Christ ;he is Antichrist. Christ saith, Search
the Scriptures.' And "Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures.'
What is he then, which saith, Ye may not search the Scrip-
tures, for they will lead you into error ?' He is contrary to
Chriq • he is Antichrist." (Cheers.)
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Now, t said, that there was a caricature of the world as it shall
be in the assumptions of Antichrist. Seeing that the claims of
Christ were greatly corroborated by miracles, Antichrist also
lays claim to miracles : but they are lying wonders put f ,rth
with all deceivableness of unrighteousness. (Hear, hear.) He
lays claim also to universal dominion over the kingdoms of this
world ; but it is usurped and unrighteous,
a dominion given to
him by Satan on terms which Christ rejected with holy indigna-
tion. When Pa.vin Rome was taken out of the way, and nominal
Christians began to exercise temporal power, the devil saw his
opportunity again, and ,offering the same bribe, he was not
rejected :it was a bargain. (Hear, hear, and laughter). The
grand delusion, the master conceit of Antichrist is, that his
church is the church of the prophecies. Ignorance of the
Jewish mystery lies at the bottom of this Romish conceit.
(Cheers). The Roman Church in its infancy, received a solemn
warning upon this point from the Apostle Paul, Rom. xi. 25-27:
" For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of
this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that
blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the
Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved •, as it
is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer and shall
turn away ungodliness from Jacob : for this is any covenant
unto them, when I shall take away their sins."

Untaught by this, and seeing predicted in the word of God, a
glorious, universal, holy church, under one head, a great priest
upon his throne ; Antichrist has assumed it as his owe. His
most distinguished advocates, in proof of the invisibility and
immutability of his church, appeal with all confidence to such
prophecies as these. (From Isaiah ii. v. 2.) :

"-And the spirit of the Corcifdiali nest npon him, the spirit of
wisdom and understanding', the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord."
On this ground he assumes the divine right to clear the world
of all his enemies. This shall be done by the Churcb of the
Prophecies. Before the head of that church all opposition
shall fall. "He shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from
the rivers to the ends of the earth. They that dwell 1 the
wilderness shall bow before him: all nations shall serve him.
For the nation and kingdom that will not serve him shall pe-
rish •, yea those nations shall be utterly wasted. The faithful
shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it; but
the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgres-
sors shall be rooted out of it." (Hear, hear.) Compare this
with the decrees of Antichrist, as follow :
" Secular princes shall, if necessary, be COMPELLED, if they
desire to be accounted faithful, that for the defence of the
faith they shall publicly make oath, that they will endeavour,
bona fide, with all their might, to extirpate from their king-
doms all heretics marked by the church, so that when any one
shall be about to assume any authority, whether spiritual or
temporal, he shall be held bound to confirm his title by
this oath. And if any temporal prince being required•and
admonished by the church, shall neglect to purge the kingdom i
from the heretical filthiness, he shall be bound n the chain of
excommunication by the Metropolitan and other provincial
Bishops, and if he Filiall not make satisfaction within a year, it
shall be signified to the Chief Pontiff, and then he may pro-
claim his subjects absolved from their allegiance, and bestow
his kingdom upon good Ce.tholics, who (the heretics being ex-
terminated) shall, without any contradiction, possess the.land,
and preserve it in the purity of the faith."
What answer can be given to this? I wish those who are wil-
lingly ignorant of the Jewish mystery, and who therefore deny
Jewish restoration, would consider this and see how they can
answer the pretensions of Antichrist. With us theanswer is sim-
ple. Antichrist has stolen from the prophets, and applied to
Gentiles and to Rome in this dispensation, what the propeets
themselves distinctly tell us, belongs to Judah and Jerusalem
in the time yet to come. Dr. Thomas Goodwin informs us, in
his exposition of the Epistle to the Ephesians, that he was dis-
puting once with a Romanist, who urged this upon him, he
said—" If the Church of Rome be not the true church, and the
church to which all churches shall submit, which bath had all
riches and glory, and honour, and power in the earth for hun-
dreds of years; how is it, how bath this ever been fulfilled to'
you Protestants, that all nations have flowed to you? That you
are a mountain set above all mountains? That abundance of
prosperity bath been in you? Whereas, saith be, you have
ever been in persecution ! What, I repeat, is the answer to
this ? Dr. Goodwin says, " the truth is, there is no answer but
one for it, and that is, that the time is yet to come." Yes, the
good time is yet to come, of which Jehovah speaketh, when he

In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that lialteth,
and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have
afflicted; and I will make her that ballet') a remnant, and her
that was cast far off a strong nation; and the Lord shall reign
over them in Mount Zion from henceforth even for ever. And
thou 0 tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter of
Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion ; the
kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem."
Under his beneficent sway we recognise the world as it shall
be. But observe how the assumption that now is the time for
it, supplies an apology for the usurpation and persecutions of
Antichrist. It does in truth supply a defence, and by no means
a contemptible defence, for the sincerity of those persecutions,
at the outset, while yet it was possible for the Roman church
to deceive herself with the notion that she was the Church of
the Prophecies. (Hear, hear.) But no such apology can be
pleaded for her now. (Hear, hear.) Because the Church of
the Prophecies makes quick work of her enemies. Opposition to
her is out of the question. Her victory is instantaneous and
final ; and is immediately followed by universal and permanent
peace. Swords are beaten into ploughshares, and spears into
pruning-hooks, and war is learned no more. What has the Roman
church to say to this? After centuries of conflict, her victory
is not complete. Nay, she has retrograded in her power.(Cheers.)
Her dominion over the world is not what it was. She dare not
now speak as she did in the days of Gregory VII. or Paul 111.
Why does not Pius IX. treat Victoriaas Pius V. did Elizabeth?
(Hear, hear.) Are his principles changed? No, in no wise.
What then ? His policy. (Cries of " Yes.")
Why so 't Because
his power is less. (Great cheers.) As a ministry of the Church
of the Prophecies, the Church of Rome has proved a miserable
failure. She has mistaken her mission. She has not accom-
plished her errand. (Hear, hear.) She has not got rid
of the heretics. (Loud applause.) She has not given
the land to the faithful. (Hear, hear.) Had Rome been
indeed the Church of the Prophecies, the Reformation
could never have taken place. And had the Reformation
brought in ,the Church of the Prophecies, Rome could never
have survived. The Church of the Prophecies will do truly and
thoroughly, what certain boasters of Rome have pretended to
do. She will put an end to controversy. Has Rome done
this? Nay, she has inflamed, and is still inflaming contro.
versy all the world over by leer false assumptions. (Applause.)
Thus, my Christian Frieods, whether we look into Paradise or
Prophecy;—whether we learn. from the Godlike realities
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coming is given to us in the Ten Commandments. No more
instructions are needed, in order to theintrodu...tion of the good
time. As far as man is concerned, alt that is required is the
will to obey. The Ten CommandmeOs obeyed, would give us in
the essential principle of it, the world as it shall be. (Cheers.)
Here our subject becomes eminently practical. Because the
difference between the world as it is, and the world as it shall
be, is not that the one is material and visible, and the other
immaterial and invisible. If that were the case, none of us
could at any time make the smallest approximation towards
the expected good. We have no means of making the attempt,
or even of fancying how the attempt could be made, to change
the material into the immaterial, or the visible into the in-
visible. But the difference is this. In the world as it now is,
dwelleth unrighteousness ; and in the world as it shall be
dwelleth righteousness. At the change from the one of these
to the other, we can all aim, and aim too with approximating
success. Obedience to the ten commandments would do it.
(Hear, hear.) It would banish all idolatry of any kind, all
false gods, all graven images and pictures, as aids to wor-
ship. (Hear, hear, and applause.) It would put an end to all
blasphemy of every kind, and to all Sabbath-breaking, and to
all dishonour to parents and superiors, and to alt murder, and
adultery, and theft, and false witness—nay more, it would
banish from the heart all desire of evil ; it would introduce
universal love. Love is the fulfilling of the law. Gad is love.
He that dwelleth in love, that is, in law; dwelleth in God, that
is, in happiness. The fulness of this blessedness is not,
indeed, within our reach at present; but a foretaste of it is.
And the foretaste enjoyed, cultivates a capacity for the enjoy-
ment of the fulness. The fulness waits for the second coming
of the Lord Jesus. (Hear, hear.) On this point, I must once
more quote from Dr. Chalmers. He says :
" We have not to strain at a thing so impracticable as that of
diluting the material economy which is without us—we have
only to reform the moral economy that is within us."
" It is this which signalizes the Christian from the Mahometan
Paradise; not that sense and substance, and splendid imagery,
and the glories of a visible creation seen with bodily eyes are
excluded from it; but that all which is vile in principle, or
voluptuous in impurity will be utterly excluded from it. There
will be a firm earth, as we have at present, and heaven stretched
over it, as we have at present; and it is not by the absence of
these, but by the absence of sin, that the abodes of immortality
will be characterised. There will be both heavens and earth, it
would appear, in the next great administration ; and with this
specialty to mark it from the present one, that it will he a hea-
vens and an earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.' "
But, Sir, I feel that I must conclude. Fallen as we a.-e, and
surrounded by objects fallen like ourselves, it is difficult for us
to form any vivid conception of a state of things, all righteous,
all very good; a state where every object without is absolutely
perfect, and eve' y capacity within fully cultivated ; where
every touch is science, and every string is harmony. Be-
hold the enthusiast in the arts, luxuriating before some
beautiful production of the statuary or the painter! It is
no passing, cursory, unheeding view he takes. No!. he is
in his element. His cultivate taste is imbibing rapture.
Every line, every feature, every shadow has its appropriate
charm for him. He dwells on each in detail ; then upon the
general effect ; then upon the comprehensive design of the-ar-
tist, the moral, the history, the poetry of the noble work. Sym-
bol, allegory, imagination, all are in active exercise, and a pic-
ture of Corregio, or Caracci, from its first faint outline,throu-h
its gathering plot, to its final catastrophe, is traced anti crii-
cised like a play of Shakespeare; a statute of Phidias is read
through and through like an ode of Pinder. Faint r faint
illustration this I Estimate, oh, estimate, if you can, the ex-
quisite enjoyment of that scene where every visible object is
God's work—all bear the unstained impress of the wisdom
and love of God I There every faculty of man shall be
cultivated into the most refined capacity for admiration and
delight and praise: every touch divine science, every string
immortal harmony: every trace, every feature, every line per-
fect in the sunlight of unsullied beauty : each in itsel a
study ; combined, a volume of infinite wisdom and power and
love; and crowning all, the light and life and glory of all, the ,

purchaser, deliverer, possessiir, upholder of all, Jesus the
chiefest of ten thousand and altogether lovely 1 Estimate,i if
you can, the delight of " the world as it shall be 1" Estimate,
if you can, the happiness of "the good time that's coming!"
(The Rev. Doctor resumed his seat amid prolonged marks of

approval. 1 nrougnout ms powerful discourse he was listened
to with profound attention, and repeatedly cheered on finish-
ing some of his most effective sentences. The concluding por-
tion of his lecture completely electrifierl his auditory, and the
applause that followed the delivery of the peroration exceedcd
anything of the kind we have ever experienced to have been
produced by the power of eloquence.)
Mr. SAMUEL HOLME rose, and was received with loud
applause. He said be should be indeed most unwilling.
to weaken the thrilling, the eloquent, and the solemn
lecture which had just been delivered, by any remarks of
his own, were it not that he purposed to conclude the
few observations he was about to offer by a motion. We
lived in extraordinary times ; events seemed to foreshadow
the approach of some great event in the world's history
of greater importance than any which had yet tran-
spired • and he had been thinking that we ought to be
thankful to God, who, in all periods of extraordinary
emergency, raised up extraordinary men to meet such
emergencies. Such a man was the Rev. Dr. M'Neile—
(loud and prolonged cheering)—a man fitted to be the
leader of the Protestant feeling of a nation. (Cheers.)
Whether the circumstances which were approaching
might be for weal or woe, was known only in the councils
of the Eternal. They had social, relative, and public du-

ties to discharge as laymen ; they should support their
clergy, who so nobly stood forward in the great emergency,
and aid and assist them in their efforts in preserving to us
the blessed word of the Most High God, and all the bless-
ings and privileges which were secured by it.. (Cheers.) Let
them not deceive themselves ; a mighty struggle was
approaching in this country. The period was not far dis-
tant. The banner on the one side would be, the eternal
Word of God—on the other, the word of fallen man ;
but we, who possessed the blessing of the Bible, knew to
which side, in the long run, victory would incline. When
he looked round on that great assembly, he could not but
be forcibly struck with the fact, that we enjoyed blessings
of no ordinary kind. It would be impossible there should
be such an assembly as that in Rome for the purpose of
discussion and hearing the Word of God expounded ;

lrist was predominant, free dis-
cussion in this country would soon become stifled, and
the Word of God extinguished. (Hear, hear.) They
had now an act of duty to perform. They must all
rejoice that the young men of Liverpool had set them so
noble an example, by affording them the benefit of those
lectures. They, thus, had done their duty, and merited
their cordial support, and he hoped a blessing would
recur to themselves for what they had done; and while
he called upon them (the meeting) to join him in a vote
of thanks, he would still have them to remember that it
was God who was the author of all ; and while he pro-
posed that the thanks of the meeting should be given to
the Rev. Dr. M'Neile for his able lecture, he would ask
them to raise their hearts in thankfulness to God, and
bless Him that He had given them such a man. (Loud
and prolonged cheering.)
The Rev. SAMUEL MIN TON briefly seconded the reso-
lution.

The Rev. Doctor WNEILE, on rising to respond,
was again hailed by loud and prolonged cheering. He
begged to say one word in acknowledging their vote of
thanks. This society of young men commenced under
circumstances not favourable, in the estimation of some,
for its future progress. At the commencement he was
not altogether satisfied with what had been done, or the
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to their ardour. That, however, was not the object of it.
His object was to give to their ardour a right direction, and
to guard them from what might have endangered it at the
time. That advice was taken in the spirit in which it was
given ; progress attended their efforts, and the society
now numbered 300 young men as its members. Let him
ask 300 more to enrol their names, and thus record their
thanks for the lectures which had been delivered for them.
In conclusion, he could only say, that if they had had
pleasure in listening to his lecture, it was not greater than
the pleasure he had had in delivering it. (Loud and pro-
longed cheering.)
The Rev. DAVID JAMES moved a vote of thanks to
the chairman, and after highly eulogising him as a citizen,
a merchant, and a Christian, said he deserved to be placed
in the house of the legislature of his country—(loud and
prolonged cheering)—and he trusted by the mode of their
expressing their high estimation of him that night, they
would give him an assurance that when the crisis should
arrive, when the banner of " Horsfall and Protestantism"
should be unfurled, they would be prepared to rally around
him, and place him in a position where he could advocate
the claims of Liverpool and Protestantism—(cheers)—
and represent justly, fully, and impartially the loyalty of
this great town, as well as the best interests of every class
of society within the realm. (Loud cheers.) He pro-
posed that they should give Mr. Horsfall their cordial
thanks for the service he had rendered in presiding
_over
that great meeting. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. BRODRIBB seconded the motion, Whilst they
looked for the good time coming, let them remember that
duties were theirs--the events God's. He called upon all
to look forward, for their enemies were at work, and let
them from that time henceforward labour indefatigably to
forward the good cause. They would shortly be called
upon to stand forward, and express what their feeling on
the great question at issue was. Their chairman had al-
ways been ready, and would be again, to stand by them ;
then most heartily did he second the vote of thanks.
(Cheers.)
Mr. HORSVALL said. he could only say that he thanked
them most sincerely for the kind adoption of the resolu-
tion which had been proposed. He must express his re-
gret that their worthy friend should have made anything
like a political allusion. He regretted it on many grounds.
It placed him in a rather painful position, and one in
which it was not quite correct to place a gentleman at
such a meeting as that. They had met for one specific
object, and he regretted that any observations were made
of a different bearing to give anything like a political aspect
to the proceedings. He felt at all times anxious to
promote any good object, such as the object of that night ;
but in preference to receiving any vote of thanks to him-
self, he would rather join in that cordial response which
they had just now made, and which had been so well
earned by their reverend lecturer. He begged to thank
them for the great honour which they had confered on
him. (Loud and prolonged cheers.)
The Rev. Dr. APNEILE again addressed a few words to
the meeting, reminding them that the announced object
for which they had assembled was of a strictly Scriptural
tendency ; and, recalling their minds to this, he would
call upon them to join in singing " Praise God from whom
all blessings flaw," after which a prayer would be offered ;
and he trusted that, with their minds so imbued, they
would leave the building and retire to their respective
homes.

The hymn having been sung, and the prayer offered,
the proceedings terminated about half-past ten.

SHOP DECORATIONS.—The most simple and pleasing
decoration we have seen in Liverpool, is that in front of
Messrs. Wintle and Shaw's show-rooras, in Parker-street.
It consists of a row of pots of evergreens and flowers,
which, though quite common in I;,aris, is new in Liver-
pool. It has a most pleasing effect to the eye of the
pedestrian on the opposite sid,„ and the visitor to the in-
terior. We have paid a nisi', to this establishment, and
can assure our fair reader,, that there are many things
within to delight the eyee• —see adv.
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March 25, 1851.

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.-YESTERDAY.

The Speaker took the Chair at 4 o'clock.—Sir William
Gallway took the oaths and his seat for the Borough of
Thirsk, in room of the late Mr. Bell.—Mr. J. B. Smith
presented several petitions, from places in Scotland, in
favor of an extension of the Franchise for counties.—A
great number of other petitions were presented, on
various subjects.—ln reply to a question from Mr. CAY.
LEY, Sir G. GREY said he had not yet received any report,
except from the Inspector of the District, of the coal..
pit explosion, which took place a few days ago, neat
Glasgow, but he could not at present give any opinion
upon the construction of the act, with regard to inspec-
tion ; but in proposing that act it war certainly his inten-
tion that an efficient inspection should be secured, with a
view to the prevention of accidents.—Lord J. RUSSELL,
in answer to Lord R. Grosvenor, stated that either on
Tuesday or Wednesday he would name the day when
he would move the adjournment of the House for
the Easter holidays.—Mr. RFYNOLDS, again referring
to the case of Miss Talbot, stated that he had been
assured by an eminent lawyer that the young lady
was not a postulant, and in confirmation of his own
assertions to that effect, made upon the authority of Dr.
Doyle, he read a passage from the speech of Mr. Page
Wood on the proceedings in Chancery, on Saturday.
Under these circumstances he begged to state, no member'
could say Miss Talbot was a postulant. At the same time
he acquitted Mr. Craven Berkeley of any improper or
pecuniary motive in his share of the transaction.—Sir B.
HALL explained that he had only stated Miss Talbot to-
be a postulant, on the authority of the Catholic Bishop'
of Clifton, who was one of the parties concerned to whom'
he naturally gave credit. —The adjourned debate, on the
motion for the second reading of the Ecclesiastical
Titles' Assumption Bill was then resumed by Mr. W.
FAGAN, who at considerable length opposed the bill.—
The lion. Mr. SMYTHE eulogized the recent act of the
Papal See as the first attempt to unite the grandeurs of
an hierarchy with the recognition of the voluntary princi-
ple.—Mr. M. MILNES, after the closest investigation, and
after considering the subject, not abstractedly, but with
reference to existing circumstances, felt it his duty to
endeavour to check papal innovations by supporting the
ministerial measure.—Mr. SADLEIR replied at considera-
ble length tothe observations of Mr. Milnes, and defended
the conduct of the Pope, Cardinal Wiseman, and others
concerned in the late papal arrangement from various
censures which' had been passed upon it —Mr. HENRY
BERKELEY believed that the Pope had been encouraged
to make the recent encroachments by the prevalence of
Puseyite practices- in this country, and urged the neces-
sity of reforming the Church of England, by defining
more strictly its forms and ritual, and making any depar-
ture from them penal. He should cordially support the
bill.—Sir J. YOUNG' was convinced that it was essential
to the safety of the Established Church of England and
Ireland, especially of the latter, to afford complete tole-
ration to all who dissented from them; and be could not
support the present measure because it restricted that
toleration.—Mr. GRAFTON declaimed vehemently against
the extension of the bill to Ireland, and entered into a
very long and diffuse speech relative to Protestant ascen-
dancy and English mismanagement in that country.—Mr.
GRANTLEY BERKELEY said he rose as an indignant Pro-
testant to repudiate the language which had been used on
a former night by the member for West Surrey. (Mr.
Drummond), and was proceeding to impute to that gentle-
man a belief in ghosts and other superstitious sentiments,
when he was interrupted by some laughter and loud cries.
of "question." The honourable member then briefly
concluded his remarks, by expressing his intention to
vote for the second reading of the bill.—Lord CASTLE..
REAGH characterised the government measure as impo-
tent and ill. considered, and believed, if passed, it would
be found impossible to carry it into effect.—Mr. A. B.
HOPE, whose voice was frequently drowned by loud'
cries of " divide, adjourn, &c." described the policy-
which dictated the present bill as a wretched system
of suspicion and restriction, disgraceful to the mag-
nanimity of the country and repugnant to the prin-
ciples of toleration. (Loud cries of " divide, adjourn,"
&c.)—Lord J. RUSSELL said he hoped it would be con-
sidered that the discussion had extended to a sufficient
length, 26 members having opposed, and 22 supported,
the bill. He trusted if there were any other gentleman
who wished to address the house he would be heard then.
(Cheers.)—Messrs. Moore, O'Connell, Oswald, Reynolds, and'
many others, amidst much confusion and loud calls for a divi-
sioa, demanded an adjournment, which was formally moved'
by Mr. HOBIIOUSE. There were—For the adjournment, 64
against it, 350.—Mr, M. O'CONNELL then moved
that the House do now adjourn. —Lord J. RUSSELL said it was
evident from the division, that whatever might be the opinion
of the speakers, the listeners were perfectly satisfied. If the
adjournment was insisted on, he should move that the House
resume at twelve o'clock on Tuesday —This was carried upon'
a division by 306 to 43.—Considerable dissatisfaction was ex-
pressed at this arrangement, and it was ultimately determined
that the House should resume at half-past four this (Tuesday)"
afternoon.—The House adjourned at two o'clock.

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

The eleventh ordinary meeting of the members of this
society was held last evening, in the Small Room of the
Royal Institution, Colquitt-street. Amongst the gentle-
men present were Joseph Brooks Yates, Esq. ; Dr. In-
man ; Dr. Dickinson; Dr. Thompson ; George Padley,
Esq.. M.R.O S.E., &c., &c.

ICIr. JACOB exhibited a number of casts from nature,
of reptiles ; the process is entirely new, being effected by
means of elastic moulds. The same gentleman exhibited
the copy of a bust from the British Museum, taken by
the electrotype process. The specimen was an exceed-
ingly beautiful one; and by a casual observer would be
taken to be an original.

JOSEPH BROOKS YATES, Esq., the president, thanked
Mr. Jacob, on behalf of the members, for having exhi.
bited the specimen. He then presented to the institution,
on behalf of his brother, James Yates, Esq., a model of
the enciphalartus caffer, at present flourishing in the
conservatory at Chatsworth. In shape the model pre-
sented somewhat the appearance of those conical edifices
of confectionary we see in the windows of pastry
cooks' shops, only that its surface is entirely covered
with scales, resembling slightly the scales of the
fir, though of smaller size. The model presented was
about half the natural size, upwards of two feet high,
and of proportionable circumference. The learned
president elaborately detailed the relation held by the
particular species before the meeting to the various
branches of the same genus. He stated that much of
the sago which is imported into this country is obtained
from nuts produced by the tree ; each of the scales
before spoken of containing two nuts. It is peculiar
to southern Africa, and supplies the Hottentots with one
of their staples of food. Ten or eleven years ago, Baron
Ludwig, an eminent botanist of the Cape, presented the
Duke of Devonshire with two large leafless trunks of the
enciphalartus caffer : they were planted out, thet is not
in a hot-house, where together they soon improved in
appearance, and are now in a highly flourishing condition,
though their age is supposed to be a century. A vote of
thanks was passed to the donor.
D. DICTUNSON made some very interesting remarks
relative to the family of the plant. He showed that in
some respects the enciphalartus caffer resembled the tree
from which the palm oil of commerce was obtained ; it.
the and m te
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was not the result of atmospheric pressure. He had for
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a piece of glass, perfectly clear
and free from dirt, and he watched its ineffectual attempt
to get upon the glass ; but another surprising cir.
cumstance was, that in the track of the fly he found
the pollen of plants. How the fly got this pollen
on its feet at this time of the year he could not say,
but undoubtedly it had been on plants somewhere..
Another similar experiment was attended with the same-
result—the inability of the insect to climb beyond a cer-
tain point up the sides of a goblet. On the other hand,
a fly placed under an exhausted glass walked as well as
though the air pump had never been used. The Doctor
proceeded to explain the operation- of walking by the
anatomical conformity of the foot, as opposed to the
theory of the atmospheric pressure. _

Dr. THOMPSON, the secretary of the society, observed
that it had so happened that one of his little children
called his attention to a fly, and ho knowing that Dr.
Inman required some specimens, attempted and succeeded
in capturing it, and he too confined the fly in a pill-
box ; and from what he observed, when he took it from
its confinement, induced him to suggest that what Dr.
Inman supposed to be pollen was nothing more than
magnesia—(hear)—which was generally found in such
receptacles as pillboxes.—Dr. Inman good humouredly
replied that what he saw was certainly pollen.
Dr. Thompson exhibited a model of the celebrated
Indian chrystal Kohr Noir. In shape and size it is not
unlike an egg, supposing, one-third part to be eut off.
Dr. DICKINSON exhibited a copy of the celebrated
work by Dr. Black on fishes. The president observed
that although this work was upwards of sixty-five years
old, it was remarkable that the colours of the illustrations
were still retained. The President announced that Mr.
Brougham, nephew of Lord Brougham, had applied to be
received as a member of the society. He should lay the
letter on the table, and it would be disposed of in the
usual way.

Mr. GEORGE PADLEY read a paper " On the Advan-
tage of Early Scientific Education." The author, in
speaking of classical education, observed, generally,.
it either almost exclusively formed the education of
professional men, or was on the contrary almost solely
neglected ; he did not wish to undervalue its advan-
tage, but he would not extend undue importance to it.
Speaking of the sciences, he said it must not be supposed
that mathematical science was essential to progress in na-
tural science ; on the contrary, some branches of the
latter were perfectly simple, and did not require the aid of
any other science whatever. We are unable, from limited
space, to give more of the subject. A paper was to have
been read by Mr. Spencer, on the " Origin of the Heroic
Ballad," but we regret to say that Mr. Spencer was una•
ble to attend, from indisposition.

THEATRE ROYAL.—Mrs, Warner and Mr. Barry Sul-
livan, with an excellent company, have played a succes-
sion of leading dramas at this theatre during the pas!
week. The present is announced 43 the closing one of
Mrs. Warner's engagement,

GAs CHANDELIERS,
in great variety, and of the most recent designs, may be
i nspected at
WILLIAIr-PENN SMITH'S
GAg:FITTING WORKS,
ITANOVER-STREET, opposite the TAX-OFFICES.

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tit:eitirsciut.

TUESDAY, MARCH 18.—Wind S.S.W.
ARRlVED.—Riverdale, Maxwell, from New Orleans,

Elizabeth, Clasen, hence at Hamburg.
William IV., Barrett, hence at Helvoet.
Senhora, Casey, from Matanzas, at Queenstown.
Hamlet, M'Laren, from the Mauritius, off ditto.
H.M. steamer Vulcan sailed from Queenstown for the Cape
of Good Hope, with troops, 16th instant.
William Bromham, Bromham, from Sierra Leone, at Ply-
mouth.

Pauline, from Ostend, for this port, off Peachy Mad
Lucy, sailed from Sydney for Callao 20th Nov
Germanico, Zupper, sailed from Tries
Marc!

,te for this port Gth of

Albanian, Winsor, hence at Malta.
Water Witch (s.s.), Blain, hence at Naples, and sailed for
Sicily 4th March.

Qtieen of the South, Quick, and Jenny Lind, Champion,
hence at Naples.
Ann, Duncan, sailed from Naples for this port Ist March.
Rattler (s.s.), Carter, fram Leghorn, at Al a rseil les.
Themis, Parsons ; S. Veneranda, Papaperto, and N. S. della
Grazie, Stella, hence at Leghorn.
Minerva, Green, and Etnelia, Guglielmino, hence at
Highlander, Stephenson, hence at Malaga
Cuidado, Prams, lit
Thrifty, Jermygb, 1
Margaret, Cook, an
Hums, Jarvis, hen(

e at Cadiz.
ce at Corunna.
iainsburg, hence at Bayonne,
t Malaga.

the Gironde for this port 13th March.
9, Pertheris, hence at 13ourgneuf, and sailed on her

e, Allen, sailed from ditto for ditto 3rd March
Salacia, Brown, hence at Adelaide.

Emigrant, Price, hence at Rio Janeiro, to land one of the
crew with thigh broken, and would proced to Valparaiso on the
11th February.
Flora, late Bond, hence at Palermo.
DUBLIN, March 14.—A .case, without marks, containing
bell glass, three large and three small, four coloured red and
two blue, was picked up on the 2nd March, in mid channel.—
March 17. The Fidelitas•sustained much damage on the night
of the 15th instant, by fire, supposed to have originated in the
mate's berth.

MALTA, March 6.—The American ship John Spear, Spear,
from Trieste for Liverpool, put in here the 26th February, with
loss of foremast, jibboom, maintopgallatitniast, &c. The Nor-
folk Hero, Holmes, from Liverpool for Constantinople, pUt in
here 2nd March, with loss of bowsprit, &c,

WEDNESDAY, M

ARILIVED

J9.—Wind S.W. to S., moderate.
Jenny Wren, and Electric, Douglas, Calcutta—
Constitution, Britton, New York—Forest Queen, New'
—Queen of the West, St. Michael's—Hakon Jar], Alt
—Enterprise, Evans, Dieppe—Malibran, Smith, Man:
Cuba—Fortitude, Leggett, Havre—and Monkey, Yot
Jersey

SAlLED.—Harriet and Jessie, Connor, for Charleston—Geo.
Washington, Holdredge ; Vanguard, Norton: end Charles
Crooker, Duncan, New York—Marin, Thomson, Malta—Jer-
sey, Day, New Orleans—Forster, Williams, Naples—Templar,
Marshall, Ceylon.