The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

TUE LIVERPOOL STANDARi

TUESDAY MORNING. AUG. 29, 1848.

THE budget of the most incapable of even Whir,
Chancellors of the Exchequer has been at length
laid before the House, at so late a period, indeed,
that it may be almost considered a posthumous
production. Sir Charles 'Wood has waited to col-
- lect for the nation every scrap of financial comfort
which the chapter of accidents could possibly turn
up; and the result is, nevertheless, a deficiency of
upwards of two millions sterling, to be made up by
increasing our debt, and saddling permanently upon
the country the additional amount of interest to he

paid. It is true that only a portion of this defi-
ciency is upon ordinary income and expenditure,
nearly two millions of it'being for expenditure on
the Caffre war, and for the proposed loan to the
West India planters. We have no assurance, how-

ever, of the continual recurrence of similar extra-

ordinary items of expenditure; there is little pre-
sent prospect of such an improvement in the con-
dition of the country as will afford us a margin of
ordinary revenue sufficient to cover such emergen-
cies; and the question with which we commenced
the session—How are we to equalise our expendi-
ture and our revenue ?—remains still to he solved.
It is clear that we cannot continue to borrow as
-we are now doing. It would be madness, even
could we assure ourselves that the necessity for our
having to do so was only temporary. We must
lake the bull by the horns, and decide promptly
upon either retrenchment or an addition of taxa-
tion. There is the probability before us of an
early claim for money for the relief of Irish dis-
tress. We may also be drawn into a continental
struggle ; or, supposing that we are fortunate
enough to escape this evil, there is certainly little
chance of our being, for some while, in a position
'to disarm, and thus effect any considerable saving
in the expense of either branch of the service.
Peddling reductions elsewhere will effect little. Our
first effort, therefore, must be by some modification
of our system of taxation, or some fresh impost, to
iind to the amount of the ordinary revenue of the
country, which, it is tolerably clear, has been cut
down to too low a scale.

Who, then, are the party upon whom we shall
have to call to conduct this operation ? The Whig
party are obviously incompetent for the task. Their
past failures as financiers have been too signal to
allow us to entertain any hope from that quarter;
and there does not seem to be any other party at
present sufficiently strong to assume their places.
The Conservatives, following the ordinary tactics
of their astute leader, are "biding their time"—
waiting until their opponents are hopelessly run
aground, to come forward with some magnificent
project for their extrication. It may be found,
however, that the country has had rather too much
of this kind of strategy; that the game of setting
each other puzzles may be fun to the statesmen
who play it, but is death to those at whose expense
it is played. We cannot, as a community, afford
every two or three years to be driven into raging
fever, or wasted to tenuity, in order that this or
that rival state-doctor may be provided with a great
ease to operate upon. 'This-question of money—
this living beyond the nation's means—is the thing
of all others which must be dealt with at once ; or
-,we-may find ourselves some of these days beyond
the skill of the great Tamworth physician himself.

A portion of the people of Liverpool petitioned
•T'arliament, the other day, that it would graciously
"abandon its usual practice of bringing its sittings
to an end; and the same cry of "esto perpetua,"
bas just been repeated from Birmingham. Many
--persons declined to concur in a request so exacting,
for two, or three reasons to which we shall briefly
advert.

It is indecorous, say these petitioners, in grown-
up legislators, to be hurrying off to grouse and
partridges when there is legislative business of im-
portance remaining to be done. Why not let their
gamekeepers and the poachers have a season to
themselves, and give the country the benefit of their
own presence, during the winter, in Whitehall and
Downing-street ? The indecorum we admit. It is
.shocking that honourable members should prefer a
day with Joe Manton, amongst the heather and in
the bracing autumn, to a night with Joseph Hume
in the heated atmosphere of St. Stephens; or should
have the bad taste to think of powder and percus-
sion caps,. whilst John Bright is ready primed and
loaded for an anti-church battue, and Chisholm
Anstey willing to talk them to sleep for any given
number of hours. The poet tells us truly, how-
ever, that _

." Men are but children of a larger growth."
Our very pedagogues loved a holiday, as well as the
urchins whom they flogged through their acci-
dence. Members of Parliament are made of flesh
and blood ; want exercise, at times, and change of
air ; and if they do manage to combine amusement
with their search of these, we can scarcely blame
them. Many of the truants, moreover, have busi-
ness of their own to attend to, which cannot be de-
legated so easily as the Brights of the house can
delegate theirs to a salesman in Manchester or a
broker in Liverpool. Some of them are lieutenants
of counties, sheriffs, and chairmen of quarter ses-
sions. Many have estates and mansions, which
attract their notice as well as the grouse and par-
tridges which are upon them, and have tenantry
besides, whose welfare and wants require to be at-
tended to. Before the dream of our advocates of
continuous legislation—all work and no play—can
be realized, we must alter the composition of Par-
liament. We must fill both houses with men of
the Cobden and Brotherton stamp—human clocks,
that go for ever without winding up—take constant
lodgings for them in a cheap neighbourhood, and
stipulate with them, on behalf of the public, after
the Squeers plan, for "No holidays, except at the
request of their friends."
We are ourselves rather anxious than otherwise
to get rid of Parliament just now. We are sick of
its endless debates, which lead to nothing ; its in-
competency for good, and its proneness to evil.
We are sick of the miserable exhibition made day
after day of an incapable Ministry, subsisting only
upon the charity of its opponents, or rather being
kept up, like a football, by the kicks which it re-
ceives. But most especially are we tired with the
sayings and doings of the rump at present left in
London to do the dirty work of party. In charity
and pity they should be sent home to wash out of
their brains the dust and cobwebs of a session in-
tolerable enough from its length and prosiness to
have qualified half of its members for finding com-
fort and comparatively rational enjoyment within
the walls of a lunatic asylum. Rebuke sensible
members for hurrying off to the moors, indeed !
Who would not be glad to get anywhere out of the
each of such a nuisance as they have been enduring
for the past nine months ?

THE question, whether or not our dock and cor-
porate estates are to be made to contribute to the
support of our local burthens, will be brought
before a meeting of the ratepayers of the parish,
advertised to be held in the vestry of St. Nicholas'
Church, on Thursday next. A more important—
indeed a more vital—question, as affecting the
financial interests of all classes, was perhaps never
before mooted ; and we beg respectfully to urge
upon our townsmen the duty of being present on
the occasion, and of supporting the proposition
which will be brought forward by our respected
churchwardens.
There are, no doubt, many and plausible objec-
tions against the proposition in question. It is our
interest, as a community, to cheapen to the utmost
the dock accommodation of the port. We ought
to invite, by every temptation within our power to
offer, the resort of the commerce of the world to the
shores of the Mersey. This ever has been the
policy of the authorities of Liverpool; and we see
its result before us in the prottcl position which we
hold as the first commercial port in the world.
But there is a limit beyond which such exertions,
and, so far as the parish of Liverpool is concerned,
such forbearance, cannot be carried. By the vast
extension which our commerce and our population
have sustained, that parish has been reduced to but
a small speck upon the area which they cover; and
its inhabitants, now no longer the wealthy mer-
chants of the port, but the struggling shopkeepers,
the humble:tradesmen, and the working classes,
can no longer afford to sustain the overwhelming
amount of the general burthens of the locality
which is thrown upon them. These burthens must
be distributed; and we can see no plan at once so
mat and so easily capable of being worked, as that

proposed, namely, to tax, along with other pro-
perty, that of our dock and corporate estates.
We will just mention a few facts which tend to
show the urgency of the case before us—the ra-
pidity with which the wealthier classes of our popu-
lation are withdrawing into the- outskirts, beyond
the reach of the parish tax collectors. In Stafford-
street, a few days ago, we observed no fewer than
fifteen houses to let. In the upper part of Isling-
ton there were eleven, and in Bold-street nine
shops. Nearly half of the houses in Rodney-street
are unoccupied ; as are a large number in Clarence-
street. Bedford-street, St. Anne-street, and similar
neighbourhoods. The rates for every one of these
houses, so described, are accumulating upon the
heads of the shopkeepers and the poorer portion of
the middle classes. This must have an end. It
must result in the ruin of thousands, or leave once
wealthy and thriving Liverpool a deserted locality.

IMPORTANT TO COFFEE DEALERS.

In consequence of the trustees of the Albert Dock ware-
houses having recently resolved to raise the delivery dues
on the article of coffee, when bonded in their warehouses,
from tfd. to 2d. per parcel; and that each of these pay-
ments should be made by the merchant instead of the pur-
chaser, a meeting of the merchants, brokers, and dealers
in that article was held yesterday, at the office of Messrs.
Molyneux and Taylor, Royal Bank Buildings, for the
purpose of considering how the proposed alteration would
affect the trade.

Mr. ROYDS having been unanimously called to the
chair, he explained, in a brief and pertinent speech, the
objects for which the meeting had been convened.
Mr. SHARPE, an extensive coffee dealer, then stated

that a few of the coffee buyers met on Saturday, when
they came to the resolution,-Ist, That with reference to
the delivery rates payable on coffee at the Albert Dock
warehouses, they are of opinion that these rates should be
paid by the importers; they recommend that all coffee
should be re-weighed on delivery, in order to protect the
buyers from pilferage and other causes of loss, and se-
condly, that the dealers in coffee will on all occasions give
a preference to coffee bonded in the Albert Dock ware-
houses, because of the superiority of the system there em-
ployed for its preservation. The meeting also recom-
mended that a memorial be presented to the trustez:s
the dock, with the view of inducing that body to modify
the proposed rates, and to place them on such a basis as
would be calculated to advance the interests of the trade.
Such being the state of the question, he would submit
these resolutions to the consideration of the meeting.
Mr. FERRER said it most be a matter of arrangement
whether the buyer or seller should pay the rates. He
then entered into a full statement of the position in which
the trade stood with regard to these rates, contending at
the same time that the rates levied by the dock trustees in
Liverpool were much less than what was paid by the
dealers in the London market. He then proceeded to
read a statement of the amounts paid at London, as com-
pared with what was paid in Liverpool. He said, in Lon-
don, the dues on a bag of coffee of one cvvt.rnot bulked,
was ls. Id.

Mr. SnARPE.—One
Mr. FERILER.—One and threepence if bulked; but that
includes landing, sampling, and rent for twelve weeks.
Barrels, bulked or not bulked, ls. 6d., tearage -Id., so that
on barrels the merchant there has 18.10 d. to pay. Tierces
Is. 6d., tearage 11d., making ls. 7d. altogether. Now,
at the Albert Dock, even under the 2d. proposed rate, the
total amount paid on bags is to be nd. ; on barrels Is. I d.,
and on tierces 10d.,—being 6/d less on bags, 9d.. less on
barrels, and 91c1. less upon tierces than was paid in Lon-
don. He thought that whatever way this was arranged,
the Liverpcol dealers in coffee bad no reason to complain.
He should like to see the merchants of Liverpool placed
on the same footing as the merchants of London were.
After some further conversation, it was agreed to send a
deputation to the Dock Committee, with the view of com-
ing to the best possible arrangement respecting the pay-
ment of these dun. It was stated, we should remark, by
every gentleman present, that the working of the Albert
warehouses, with regard to the article of coffee, had, since
their opening, been most excellent ; and they were of opi-
nion that it would be better for the trade if all the mer-
chants were to bond their coffee in the Albert warehouses.

MR. DANSON IN A Fix.—Mr. Councillor Danson is at
present holding a controversy with the Journal which
improves as it proceeds. The reporter for our contem-
porary made Mr. Danson say that when the water works
were purchased by the Corporation there were twenty-
seven yards of water in the Windsor wells ; when he was
corrected by Mr. Lace, who said, "inches, not yards."
In a letter to the Mercury, Mr. Danson denies in toto
the alleged correction of Mr. Lace, and then the reporter
for the Journal comes forward with his notes and clearly
establishes the accuracy of his original report. But this
is not enough. Mr. Danson again falls foul of Mr.
M`Donald, and boldly asserts that the report of the latter
gentleman to the Mayor "was written and signed by a
Mr. French in the establishment of the Journal." To
this the editor replies that "there is no person in his
establishment of the name of French." Mr. Danson also
accuses Mr. M‘Donald of being a " tool" in the hands of
the Journal. This is of course beneath Mr. M'Donald's
notice, but that gentleman has reminded Mr. Danson of
a conversation between them, which took place on the
morning of the sth of April; during which Mr. Danson
"promised to give Mr. M`Donald his full support—main-
tained that every member of the Water Committee were
sick of the contemplated project—and that it was only
necessary to apply the match to the magazine in order to
blow the whole concern to pieces." Mr. M'Donald leaves
Mr. Danson to reconcile his subsequent conduct with
these statements, and so the matter stands at present.. ,
To-morrow will be launched from the building yard of
Messrs. Cato, Miller, and Co., a fine new vessel,J'.2 years
A 1, 400 tons, intended for the China trade, the property
of Messrs. Pryde and Jones, of this town.
PITT-STREET WARD.—At a meeting of the Pitt-street
Ward Branch of the National Confederation, on Friday,
the thanks of the meeting were tendered to Mr. Councillor
Robinson and Mr. Councillor Toulmin, " for supporting
in the Town Council the opinions of the ward on the water
and rating questions."
THE WEATHER has been unusually unsettled since our
last. Thursday was a fine harvest day, as was Friday, un-
til evening. On Saturday it rained the whole of the day,
but Sunday was warm and fair until night, when the rain
again descended very fast, and for several hours. Yester-
day was a lovely day, with a much more settled appearance.
Loss OF A STEAM VESSEL AND SLOOP.—On Sunday
morning, about two o'clock, the Prince of Wales steamer,
bound from Belfast to Fleetwood, came into collision with
the sloop Jane belonging to this port. The steamer re-
ceived such injury that it was found necessary to run her
ashore near to the Point of Ayre lighthouse. She has
received considerable damage, but it is hoped she will be
got off. It is feared that three persons on board the
steamer (men in charge of cattle) were unfortunately lost.
The sloop drifted on shore about a mile south of the
steamer, and it is feared is a wreck. At the time of the
collision it was raining very fast, and it is supposed that
in consequence the lights were not distinguishable. The
steamer is a first-class iron vessel, and was built by the
parties who built the Princess Royal of this port and is
almost as large, indeed the two vessels are extremely like
each other.
CRICKET.—On Wednesday the return match between
the Cestrian and Birkenhead-park Clubs was played in
Birkenhead-park, which terminated in favour of the Ces-
trian by twenty runs.—On Thursday a match was played
on the ground of the Roscoe Club, between the St. Helen's
and Everton clubs, when the former won, with nine
wickets to fall.
On Thursday, a brewer at Birkenhead, named Thoma-
son, was convicted in a penalty of £2OO for working an
illicit still.
On Friday night a fire broke out in the brass founder)*
of Messrs. Cowgill, Corner, and Jones, Argyle-street.
With the Green-lane water, however, the flames were
extinguished before much damage was done.
JUVENILE DEPRAVITY.—A friend assures us, that the
following was actually delivered from a dissenting pulpit
in the south :—Brethren, what a grievous sight it is to
see little children that can neither walk nor talk, running
about the streets, taking the name of the Lord in vain.
Mr. Brough's benefit on Thursday, at the Amphi-
theatre, was a very satisfactory one to him. The amateurs
did their best.
The next exhibition of the Liverpool Academy, which
will probably open on the 13th of September, is expected
to be very attractive, numerous very fine pictures having
been already secured for it.
Invalids and strangers are requested to visit the Victoria
Baths, Cases-street, Clayton-square, where they will re-
ceive every attention from experienced assistants, with
private and separate apartments for ladies and gentlemen,
and at considerably reduced prices.
DR. MUSPRATT'S LECTURE AT THE MECHANICS'
INSTITUTE.—On last Saturday night, Dr. Muspratt gave
his second lecture at the above institution. The subject
was on sulphur, and was illustrated by some of the most
brilliant experiments we ever witnessed. There was an ex-
cellent attendance, and all left highly delighted. We per-
fectly agree with Sheridan Knowles, that De. Muspreet's
extemporaneous statements and elucidations are remark-
able for their readiness, precision, and perspicuity.
NEW ORLEANS SERENADERS.—This talented corps of
vocalists, whose excentric performances have gained them
such universal (eldt, will conclude their last engagement
in England during the present week. We attended one
of their concerts on Friday, and were not only pleased
with the visible improvement in the style and effect of
their performances, but with the superiority of their me-
lodies, and the unbounded enthusiasm with which they
were received. Little Ole Bull handles the bow well, and,
indeed, promises to be one of the first violinists of the day.
The novelty of these entertainments is not likely to wear
off so long as they are conducted in the creditable manner
these concerts have presented.
MORE ARRESTS.—On Wednesday night Inspector
Boyd arrested a man of the name of Somers, a Chartist
orator, who keeps a provision dealer's shop in Hurst.
street. The arrest was made by bench warrant, and the
charge was the heavy one of treasonable conspiracy.—On
the same night another chartist leader, named O'Donnell,
residing in Great Crosshall-street, was taken into custody.
Somers is the man who made himself so notorious, a few
months ago, by his inflammatory harangues at the Music-
hall. Bath men were brought before the Mayor, at the
Town-hall, on Thursday. His worship committed them
for trial, and intimated that bail would-be accepted of the
following amounts ; their own recognizances of £4OO, and
two sureties of £lOO each the same bail, of course in
both cases. They were unable to procure this, and con-
sequently were taken to Kirkdale gaol.
Lord Hardinge arrived in London on Friday night from
Ireland.
On Saturday morning, at three o'clock, Mr. George
Everett, surgeon. shot himself with a pistol, as, be Nva.l
being driven in a cab in London.

ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE SOCIETY
FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL
IN FOREIGN PARTS.

The anniversary meeting of the above society was held
yesterday evening, in the Theatre of the Collegiate Insti-
tution ; and was very numerously attended. The audience
was particularly respectable and intelligent, as, indepen-
dently of the great body of the local clergy, the meeting
was to be addressed by two eminent Colonial Bishops—
the Bishop of Madras (Dr. Spencer), and the Bishop of
Fredericton, New Brunswick, (Dr. Medley), who sailed
from this port about three years ago for his newly-formed
diocese. Amongst the clergy and laity present, in addi-
tion to the distinguished speakers we observed—Revds.
Cecil Wray, Dr. Carpenter, James North, Robert Davies,
Thos. Nolan, Frederick Barker, J. C. Prince, Wm. Ryan,
Joseph Baylee, John Hughes (Aberystwyth,) G. Cuthbert,
Thos. Bold, I. B. Phillips, H. 11. Higgins, E. G. Jones,
C. W. Lawrence, Wm. Hughes, Henry Hampton, J.
Braucher, J. Stewart (West Derby), H. Marlen, D. J.
Hirsch, R. Faulkner, E. R. Jones, A. Knox, and D.
Barry ' • the 'Worshipful the Mayor, Chas. Groves, Esq.,
Adam Hodgson, Esq., A. Swainson, Esq., and Richard
Harbord, Esq.
The Rev. Rector BROOKS moved that the Worshipful
the Mayor be requested to take the chair.
His WORSHIP took the chair, amid loud cheers, and on
doing so, called upon the Rev. James North, one of the
clerical secretaries of the society, to offer up prayer.
The CHAIRMAN then proceeded to state the object of
the assembly. He need hardly say that the meeting was
called for the purpose of supporting the great object
which, for nearly a century and a half, the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, had en-
deavoured to forward. The principles and objects of the
society were clearly defined—the propagation and spread
of the doctrines of Christianity in distant regions, (pri-
marily amongst our own colonies, and secondly in foreign
lands,) according to the formularies and discipline of the
Church of. Ent;land. It was not his intention to enter
into a detail of the operations of the society, because
there were those present who could speak more fully on
that subject. His duty was simply to ask their calm and
deliberate attention to the sentiments which would be
laid before them—sentiments from which, if they were
Christians indeed, they would feel themselves bound
under obligations the most obvious-, and by love the most
endearing, to render to this society not a cold and chilliug
assent, but a solid, substantial, and enduring support.
(Hear, hear.) His Worship concluded by calling upon
Cie Rev. John Jones, who, in the absence of the Rev.
Recto:; who was obliged to leave town, had been selected
to move the first resolution. _

The Rey. JOHN JONES came forward amidst applause
to propose the resolution. He had great pleasure in
doing so on every ground ; and it was not necessary for
him to use many words to enforce- it, inasmuch as it
was to be supported most ably.- They were highly
honoured upon the present occasion by the presence of
two of our colonial bishops. He felt this to be a high
honour to this town, and more especially to that meeting,
and he hoped from the statements which would be put
forth that evening, a new era would start in that society,
for its operations were most important to our colonies.
He had no doubt the statements they would hear would
convince them-that hitherto they had not done their duty
to the society. He bore his testimony to-the excellence of
the society, notwithstanding the prejudices which had ex-
isted against it. It would bear the strictest and most
minute scrutiny-, and, in proportion as that was made, so
would it be the more manifest that its objects were honest
and its faults few and far between, and that it had been
the means of diffusing in our colonies most incalculable
benefits. It was an unostentatious society, saying little
but doing much ; and most thankful- should he be, if
meetings like that tended, as he believed they would; to
remove prejudices-which had existed. How many mis-
sionaries might have been sent forth, had those prejudices
not prevailed ! There was a time when the society Was
not so well supported as now, but God had been pleased
to revive religion in the Church, and in the same propor-
tion had the support afforded to that society increased.
(Cheers.) The rev, gentleman concluded by proposing
the first resolution.
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop-of MADRAS (Dr.
Spencer) said he rose to second the motion with mingled
feelings of responsibility and anxiety,. and with a deep
and anxious desire to •do justice to the important trust
committed to him. He believed it was known to some
present that lie had come to the meeting under peculiar
circumstances. He was suffering from considerable
bodily evils, and' a very heavy dispensation of the Al-
mighty ; and thought he should not have strength, how-
ever lie might have tha disposition. to speak at great
length upon this deeply interesting subject, for it was in-
deed a subject of deep interest to all who were present,
and of infinite interest to those upon whom God, in His
mysterious providence, had thought fit to lay the crushing
responsibility of a- bishop's office in our colonial depen-
dencies. The church of the colonies was bound to us by
the closest ties of national and spiritual relationship. The
resolution spoke of those ties, and therefore it was our
manifest duty to minister to the necessities of the colonial
church, and toe pray in spirit and in truth that
the peace of Almighty God might rest upon the church
both at home and abroad. These churches at home and
abroad were one. They had one body, whose head was
Jesus Christ, and they bad " one Lord, one faith, one
baptism, one God and Father of us all." The natural tie
between them was this—that thousands had gone forth
froti. year to year frtnn this port to seek abroad for that
home which their native land had denied them. The
subject of emigration had, therefore, become a subject of
the deepest- interest. Great Britain had become too
straightened to hold the immense population which God
had given to us, and it was absolutely necessary that hun-
dreds of thousands should go forth annually to seek a
temporal home in the colonies. God had committed to.
Great Britain a colonial empire far more vast than that
which had bees- boasted of by Rome in her palmiestalays.
Nothing could- be more wonderful than the colonial em-
pire ; and if it had not been for the labours of the Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel, the hundreds of thou-
sands who went forth to that empire would have been.
unable in very many instances to find a church. They
might have found a refuge for their bodies, but would they
have found a refuge for their souls ? Would they find
the pure, unmixed, unadulterated, clear religion of. Jesus
Christ in those dependencies of the British Empire, were
it not for the really eyangelicallabours of the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel. in Foreign parts. (Hear
and applause.) He (the Bishop) trusted that he would
not be considered in any sense the advocate of a party,
for the Rev. Gentleman who preceded him had alluded to
party questions connected with the society. He was
quite aware that the society had, by those who were igno-
rant of its real principles, been associated with some party
divisions in the church, but those who knew what the
society was, knew very well that it was far above all party
spirit—that it sought to do to the utmost of its abilities
that which it professed en do—that it promulgated the
gospel, the whole gospel, the pure and blessed gospel, as
it was handed down to us by Jesus Christ and his apostles
—that it propagated the gospel and nothing but the. gos-
pel throughout the length and breadth of the colonial
empire of Great Britain. He hoped the Bishops of the
church, all of whom ware the supporters of the Propa-
gation Society, would never be supposed to be tainted
with any Anti-christian spirit of party ; and though
he was then pleading the interests of the Propagation So-
ciety, yet equally and thankfully should he be to stand up
in Liverpool or elsewhere, to advocate the interests of the
Church Missionary Society. (Applause.) He contended
that the Propagation Society was spreading the gospel
throughout the length and breadth of the Colonial em-
pire of Great Britain. Look at what it had done in Bri-
tish America ! Look at what it bad done in that country
whose political connexion with us was now dissevered—
he alluded to the United States of America. He believed
that the Episcopal Church there was a pure, Evangelical,
fruit-bearing branch of the church of Christ, and that,
under God's Providence, had it not been for the labours
of this society's_ missionaries, there was every reason to
believe that the Episcopal Church of America would not
now have a local habitation and a name. Thne would
not allow him to enter into what the society had done in
British America, but there was a Right Rev. Prelate pre-
sent, the Bishop of Fredericton, who would speak upon
that branch of the subject. Let him, however, pass
on to that country, of which he could speak after a
ten years experience,—let him pass on to British India,
where the society was acting up to its professions and
propagating the gospel, throughout the length and
breadth of that marvellous and deeply interesting land
—a land of the deepest darkness and of the most hide-
ous idolatry, and for the restoration of which England
had done comparatively nothing. But what as a nation
we had neglected to do had been done, according to their
means and opportunities, by the agents of the Church of
England—by the two handmaids of that church, the Pro-
pagation Society and the Church Missionary Society,
neither of which he would exalt at the expense of the
other. He hesitated not to, declare that the missionaries
of the former society were all that they could be wished
to be—faithful deyoted servants of the Lord Jesus Christ ;
men chosen by those who were best qualified to choose,
the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of
London, and a committee of clergymen. Therefore, the
society had aright to claim the confidence of the church
and to say, " Give us your confidence, and be assured
that, so far as it is in our power to judge, we send out no
man to preach the gospel in foreign parts who will not
preach the gospel—aye, and nothing else but the gospel."
And what had been the result ? Why, in the south-
eastern extremity of India—in Tinnevelly, a district about
as extensive as Ireland, the gospel had struck deep root
downward, and borne unequivocal rich fruit upward. '
There, both the Church Missionary Society and the Pro-
, pagation Society were labouring hand-in-hand, as brothers
in office and brethren in love, knowing no distinction, and
in that province alone there were at the present moment
50,000 converts to Christianity. Were they content with
a mere nominal conversion, such as another Church was
contented with, where they numbered now their tens of
thousands, they might, without the slightest difficulty,
number their hundreds of thousands. Rome now num-
bered 700,000 converts ; the Church of England numbered
her 50,000 ; but he would infinitely prefer the tens of
thousands of our converts than he would accept the hun-
dreds of thousands of such converts as he feared those
who had embraced Popery to be. (Applause.) The
Bishop then proceeded to say that when the native of
British India embraced Christianity he became, like the
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The Lord Bishop of FREDERICTON rose to propose the
next resolution, to the effect that the Society was entitled
to the aid of all true Churchmen, He came from a part
of the world intimately connected with Liverpool—New
Brunswick, and as his diocese was mainly supported by
the Society whose anniversary they had met to celebrate,
he trusted increased exertions would be made in its be-
half. lie was happy tt bear his testimony to the general

good character, Christian zeal and activity of the Mission-
aries throughout the whole of his diocese. By their ex-
ertions the number of churches built, and communicants
connected with those churches, had increased, were in-
creasing, and were the means at their disposal greater,
would increase still further. (Hear, hear, hear.) It
was time however for the people of this country to
prousa themselves, and to tell the Government that
into whatever colony members of the Church of
England emigrated, it was their duty to see that their
mutual wants were not neglected. (Loud cheers.)
He showed the wickedness and the folly of the doctrine
advanced by some, that the Colonies might be thrown
off. It would be just as natural for a parent to dis-
card his own family because they were a burthen to him.
If they did they might depend upon it that the country
would not become merely a second-rate state, but sink
into the lowest depths of degradation and ruin. (Hear,
hear.) The right rev. prelate then at length detailed the
operation of the missionaries and clergy connected with the
society throughout his diocese, and gave a very gratifying
statement of the great exertions and disinterested labours
performed by them. Some of the parishes were so• large
that it was entirely impossible for one man to perform his
duties with satisfaction to himself, or with that advantage
he desired to his flock. He strongly appealed to the
meeting, for support, in order not only to build more
Churches, to support more missionaries, but also to
enable them to establish schools in connection with the
Church of England for the education of youth. His
lordship concluded by proposing the resolution, and re-
sumed his seat amid lotid cheers.
The Rev. Dr. APNEYee then came forward to second
the resolution, and was received with several rounds of
applause. When it bad subsided, he spoke nearly as fol-
lows compliance with the request of the Committee,
through their Rev. Secretary, 1 have much pleasure in
rising to second this resoliition, proposed by the Right
Rev. Prelate. Various reasons of a minor and more secu-
lar character might be urged', and especial-4.in this town,
fbr the support of this Society; but I prefer the reiteration
of that highest of all reasons, that the direct object of this
Society is to Christianize our colonies. (Cheers.) Touch-
ing this venerable Society, I areecontent that you should
take things as you find them on this platform. We have
a specimen of its Catholicity from the East and West,
and the plain, straightforward, and businesslike address
which you have just heard from the Right Rev. Prelate
will commend itself to your attention ; but I cannot
refrain- from noticing the address which preceded it,—
that deeply touching address, in- which the feeling
of fervent' piety seemed only checked by charity, tem-
pered with a deep sense of responsibility. (Loud cheers.)
If in the-division of labour allotted to -ne, I shall feel dis-
posed to speak on a different subject to those who have
preceded me—if unable to refer to facts which I have-wit-
nessed, either in India or New Brunswick, I should speak
to facts we can witness around us—l am sure you will
think it is in perfect keeping—filling up the branch of the
labour allotted to me in the support of this society. (Hear,
hear.) Before I'advert to this subject I wish to say some-
thing respecting those members of our church who would
wish to spend 'a portion of their time in some of our colo
nies. It was only the other day that I received a letter'
from a clergyman in George Town, Demerara; who having
important matters requiring his presence in this country,
would be willing-to pay the passage from this country and
home again, together with his board and lodgings, and
£BO, to any brother-willing to perform his (Pities for 12
months. T speak in the hearing of some of the younger
branch of our clergy, who may perhaps be willing to vo-
lunteer their services for twelve months. (Cheers.) We
have lately heard much about emigration. It is remark-
able how einigratien stends connected with population in
the earliest history of-the world. The command etas this,
—" Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and
subdue it." The former part of the command is obeyed
to the letter, the latter but tardily so. until we are driven
to the painful necessity 'of emigration. The earth;must
be replenished and subdued. (Hear, hear, ants cheers.)
The object of this society is to• propagate in the colonies
the Gospel, the everlasting Gospel of the grace of God,
as it is revealed in the- Scriptures, and as it is defined in
the Articles, enjoined in the-Litanies, and exemplified in
the history of the Church of England. (Applause.) In
this, the society, like all good colonists, is not only a
planter, but also an eraditator. This is rendered neces-
sary in our fallen world by the pre-occupied state of the
soil with weeds. " Thorns and thistles shall it bring
forth to thee" was the solemn sentence criginally pro-
nounced. and weeds have been the natural produce ever
since. Our Missionary Bishop Heber, one of the sweest
singers who ever graced our Zion, has indeed sung of
'eylon's Isle, " that every-prospect pleases, and only man
is vile ;" but this must be received as poetic license,
since even these noxious' weeds abound both in the
jungles of the plains and in the brushwood of the moun-
tains. Neither are these -the only or the worst weeds
which we have to contend -against there and elsewhere.
In the moral, as well •as in the physical world,
noxious plants are indigenous, and the great Tempter.
of mankind continues his- malignant activity in pro-
pagating the evil and counteracting the good. Our
church is not only
an exponent of the direct and.
saving truths of revelation, but also an antagonist of error,,
particularly of those fatal- forms of error, so destructive
both in our colonies and at home, which ate:pressed with
proselytizing zeal by the missionaries of Antichrist. In this-
our church follows the example of the great apostle, who-
not only proclaimed the glad tidings of the gospel, but
also denounced the falsehoods of those Judaising per-
verters who had introduced what they called another gos-
pel, but what St. Paul said- was not another. It was not
a gospel at all. We marsay further, that our church in.
this is a follower of St. Paul, only as he was a follower of
Christ. For Christ was not content with revealing the
mind of God in direct rays of pure white light; he felt
that the infirmities of fallen man required a more antago-
nistic dealing with error, and therefore he exposed and de-
nounced the falsehoods of the Jews around him, even
those entrusted with the highest ecclesiastical dignities.
They boasted their national-descent from Abraham, their-
sacerdotal succession from. Aaron, and their covenant re-
lationship with God, while all the time they were making
vain the Word of God through their traditions, and-
teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Christ
rebuked them, not denying-their national or ecclesiastical
privileges, but while he freely conceded to them that they
were the seed of Abraham, he told them that they had so
far departed from being followers of Abraham, that they
had become the children of the devil, who was a liar
and a murderer from the beginning, and that they
were doing the works of their father. ( Hear, hear.)
In happy harmony with these examples, the venerable so-
ciety, on whose behalf we are assembled, in her efforts to
propagate the Gospel, adopts no new, no fanciful, no in-.
dependent course, but walks dutifully in the steps of our
mother church, not only expounding truth, but exposing
and denouncing falsehood. Our venerable society does-
not presume to give a one-sided, partial, or partizan as-
pect of our truly Catholic Church ; but taking her solemn.
I stand on the broad foundation of the British Reformation,
she not only declares truly that Holy Scripture containeth
all things necessary to. salvation, but also argues contro-
versially against the tradition mongers, that whatever is
not read in Holy Scriptures, nor may be proved thereby,
is not required of any-man to be believed as an article of
faith, or be thought necessary or requisite to salvation.
She not only declares truly that original sin is the fault
and corruption of the nature of every man, but argues
controversially that: original sin does not consist in the
mere following Adam's example, as the Palagians do vainly
talk. She not only declares truly that the offering of
Christ once made, is the only satisfaction for sin,
whether original or actual, but also argues contro-
versially that the sacrifice of the mass is a blas-
phemous fable and a dangerous deceit. (Hear,, hear.)
She not only declares truly that we are accoupted righte-
ous before God only for the merit of Christ by faith, and
not for our own works and doings, and that good works
follow after jestification, but also argues controversially
that works before justification are not good, whatever
men may think of them, neither do they make those who
perform them meet to receive grace, but they are at the
best only splendid° peecata. She not only declares truly
that Christ has ordained two sacraments in his church,
that is to say Baptism, and the Supper of- the Lord, but
also argues controversially that five other things which
the Romish apostacy declares to be sacraments, are not
to be counted for sacraments. She not only declares
truly that Jesus Christ is the one only Mediator between
God and man, but also argues controversially that the in-
vocation of saints, and bowing to images and pictures
and relics, are all fond things vainly invented, grounded
on no warranty of Scripture, but'rather repugnaet to the
word of God. She not only declares truly that general
councils may not be gathered together without the com-
mandment and will of princes, but also argues contro-
versially that when they are gathered, they may err,
and have erred in things pertaining to God ; and, there-
fore, what is ordained by them as necessary to salvation,
has neither strength nor authority, unless it can be shown
to be taken out of holy Scripture. She not only declares
truly that the Queen's Majesty has the chief power in
this realm of England, and other her dominions,.
in-
eluding all her colonies, but argues controversially that
no cause in her Majesty's dominions, whether ecclesi-
astical or civil, ought to be subject to foreign jurisdiction,
and that the Bishop of Rome has no jurisdiction in this
realm of England. ( Loud, and long continued cheering.)
Thus, while propagating in our colonies the best blessings
to mankind which. human instrumentality can aim at,
this venerable society is found, where we delight to find

her, on the right side in the great controversy nowkoing
forward between the Christians of England and the states-
men of England. England's statesmen are no longer
true to England's Church. (Applause.) The Christians
of England and the Church of England are openly, de-
cidedly, and irreconcilably opposed to the Church of
Rome, (Hear, hear.) They believe her system to be
idolatrous, and cannot consent to recognise it as Christi..
anity, to encourage it, or endow it, without feeling that
they are sinning against God. The statesmen of England
are willing that Romanism and Christianity should divide
the world between them, both at home and abroad. They
endow both in the colonies, and then plead this fact as a
reason for endowing both at home. They wish truth and
error, light and darkness, Christ and Belial to dwell to-
gether in harmony. In other words, they wish to make
indifference universal, and to banish from the earth all
zeal for religion, whether right or wrong, because zeal
elicits sincerity, and sincerity explodes liberalism. The
Christians of this country are unwilling to be parties to
any such compromise. The Church of England solemnly
protests against it, and binds all her ministers by a most
solemn vow to keep up the controversy that is, to mani-
fest and elicit sincerity. So does Romanism. Whatever
politic tone she may assume for a time, and for a purpose,
to the statesmen of England; so far from any contented
and peaceable division of the world, she claims all the
world as her own, England not excepted ; and she is
indefatigable in her labours to obtain full and undisputed
possession. Hence her ceaseless activity, both by fraud
and force, Force is failing her even in her native city
on the seven hills, while fraud is favouring her even in
the citadels of the Church of England. Alas, for our
fallen watchmen, both those who have deserted their
?ostst and those who still occupy their posts, though

they have deserted their principles ! (Hear, hear, hear.)
Sir, Christianity and Romanism are essentially, and fun-
damentally opposed to one another. It is the real and
final object of each, when fairly, frankly, and unreservedly
administered, to destroy the other. If Christianity were
universally triumphant, there would not remain a Roman-
ist upon earth, not a man, woman, or child to bow to an
image or say a prayer to a saint. And if Romanism were
universally triumphant, there would not remain a Chris-
tian upon earth, not a man, woman, or child, to find God's
service perfect freedom. (Hear, hear.) This sort of sin-
cerity is found fault with as excessive, and we are asked
why adopt such extreme language; why not admit that
Romanism is Christianity though much corrupted ? Sir,
I answer that I know not, and cannot divine what is meant
by corrupt divinity. The terms are contradictory. I can
as easily understand light lead or heavy feathers. I can
as easily understand earth that will not gravitate, or steam
that will not expand. Is our church Christian ? (Cries
of " Yes, yes. ') Yes—then Romanism cannot be.
(" No, no.") Our great philosopher, Bishop Butler,
says, " Every thing is what it is, and nothing else." If
our church be true, Romanism must be false, and what is
false cannot be Christianity, and ought not to be called
by the sacred name. (Cheers.) In this the consistency
of Romanism is worthy of our imitation. She does not
call us Christians to be fraternised, but heretics to be co-
erced or burned. It is very encouraging, Sir, in this great
controversy, to find this venerable society supported as it
is- by the whole Episcopal. Bench, unequivocally on the
side of the Christians of the realm in their fidelity ; and
in opposition to the temporising indifference, the practical
contempt of God's word and commandment exhibited by
our statesmen. There is no hope for the. Christianity
of our colonies through our statesmen, but there may be
through this and kindred societies, and our Missionary
Church. On this ground, I have' much pleasure in com-
mending this cause to the favourable regard, the liberal
support, and the incessant agitation of this meeting and of
the whole Christian community. The Rev. Dr. con-
cluded by seconding the motion, and resumed his seat
amid loud cheers.

A collection was then made, after which,
The Rev. THOMAS NOLAN said, in proposing tlsa next
resolution, that if there were a little disadvantage to speak
at so late an hour, there was some advantage, and that was
there was little left to be-said, after the preceding addresses.
' The motion he had to propose was—" That the cause of
Christ in the- colonies had especial claim* upon theini-
habitants of Liverpool, from the close commercial relations'
that existed between this-port and our colonial empire."
Bishop Butler had said, that if two evils arose, one of
which was greeter-than the-other, we are apt to overlook
the smaller altogether; and the converse of this had been
stated with equal force of two good things, one greater
than the other. The cause advocated that night was
worthy of their sympathy and support; and the society
ought to be added to their list of missionary associations.
The church had already-showedits sincerity andbenevo-
knee by establishing their Protestant School Societies ;
their Church Pastoral Aid Society; the Church Mis-
sionary Society, and other institutions ; and why
should not the call of our colonies be equally at-
tended to ? Why should they not speak to Eng-
land's exiled children in those colonies, and say to
them, " Know the-- Lord." If commerce were an
advantage—and Liverpool. would not deny it—the pro-
motion of this cause would be beneficial to them all. The
exchange of the products, natural or artificial, of one coun-
try for those of another, were mutually advantageous, but
confidence would be more established by the bond of a
common church ; by the same spiritual tie. That was a
power which would lead men who never saw each other ha
the flesh to love one another in the spirit. He then al-.
hided to Ireland, which was an integral_ part of the king-
dom, and he trusted would remain sa. What was the
cause of commotions there and the want-of unity and sym-
pathy between the countries. It was because there the
hearts of the mass did not- throb with our's in favour of
Scriptural truth. If our Church had acted more energe-
tically in former years, and obtained the means then to
extend the dominion of Christ, the evils alluded to would
not have arisen. They should, however,- be thankful that
the Church was progressing in good works; and pray that
they might be enabled to hand it down to their posterity
in allits grandeur and purity. He then referred to our
noble docks, and the numerous vessels, with their names
and destinations on their sterns or rigging, to show what
commerce existed between this port and our colonies. The
present meeting would, be trusted, be but- a beginning,
but an auspicious one; and, after a high compliment to
the Mayor, he moved the resolution.

Mi:.A.D-A. ILI HODGSON seconded the resolution.

The Rev. Mr. PoLLocx. after a high: compliment to
the chairman, proposed a vote of thanks to that gentle-
man, which was carried by acclamation.. Thanks were
also voted to the Right Rev- Bishops.
Mr. HORSFA LL returned thanks for the high compli-
ment paid to him. He conkl only say that' this and every
other kindred society which-had the glory of-God and the
good of his fellow-men at heart should ever have his
cordial support. (Cheers-)
After a blessing, pronounced by the Right Rev. the
Bishop-of Madras, the meeting separated.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(ny EXPRESS.)

PRANCE.
FLIGHT OF LOUIS BLANC AND CAUSIDIERE.

On Saturday, the National Assembly of France was
authorised to prosecute Louis Blanc and Causidiere, but,
when they were searched for, it was ascertained that they
had flown, and it is believed they have left, tha.eapital.
It is said that government Las connived at th2ir escape, in
order to get rid of two such persons. Serious apprehen-
sions of an outbreak are entertained, and thamost exten-
sive military preparation& have been made. An-immense
tent has been erected in the Champs Elysies, and the vast
area is. covered with sokliers. The populace - seem quite
ready for another insurrection..