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REPEAL ASSOCIATION MEETING.

The weekly meeting of this body, on Monday, was at-
tended numerously, owing in all probability to the expec-
tation that it was the last tvir. O'Connell would attend
prior to his departure for Derrynane. Mr. Kelly, M.P.
took the chair, and after several of the minor fry had
spoken, Mr. O'Connell handed in one pound from
Antrim, and read a letter stating that a species of ribandiem
prevailed in that county, which he was called upon and
did denoUnce most emphatically. Mr. O'Connell then
alluded to the withdrawal of the proprietors of newspapers
from the associaton, and said that he was desired by the
committee to state that in future every member of the as-
sociation would have the privilege of buying any Dublin
newspaper he thought proper! With respect to Repeal
reading-rooms he moved a resolution, at the instance of
the committee, that members might form Repeal reading-.
rooms, to which the as,ociation would give every support
in its power, but world not pledge itself to make any pe-
ouniary grants ! The announcement of these two va-
luable privileges elicited loud cheers. The first thing to
be considered was, whether it was necessary to hold the
Clontarf meeting. The holding of that meeting he re-
garded as a constitutional privilege, and the prevention of
it as a constitutional wrong. The holding of such meetings
was the simph at and the surest method of ascertaining the
public mind respecting any alleged grievance. Lord
. Althorn, who said he preferred a civil war to the granting
of Repeal, yet; with that constitutional justice which was
an ingredient in his mind, said—" I will admit that if the
great and overwhelming majority of the people of Ireland
demand a if epeal of the Union, they are entitled to have
it." He had tried first a Precursor Society ; but every-
thing they solicited from 'England was refused. lie then
commenced the Repeal Association to call out the people,
and let the universe know that the people of Ireland de-
manded Repeal. He made that experiment, and it was
perfecar successful. In no other country hut Ireland
could I e tree made it. He then proposed his usual
h tekneyed eulo.iiums on the Repeal multitude, and talked
cf the perfect peacefulness of the monster .meetings.
Judge Burton, when parsing sentence on him. admitted
this ; and yet the court was unanimously of opinion that
these meetings were so far criminal as to constitute a
guilty conspiracy. if that doctrine were true, it would he
in the power c f the judges to say what number of persons
would constitute a letwful or unlawful meeting ; and he
would as soon take the length of a judge's foot as the
measure of the question, or the judge's conscience. But
the English judges had unanin:ously decided against the
Irish court, and that was a decision of the utmost im-
portance. They had thus vindicated the principle, and
the vindication was most complete. What need, then, of
a meeting at Clontarf to vindicate that which was already
vindicated? The committee had taken this view, and
had unanimously resolved that such a meeting was unne-
cessary. Next as to the Preservative Society—the com-
mittee on this subject desired to sit again, as great diffl-
Culties surrounded it. The Irish convention act was a
serious bar to its formation. Haste, therefore, was
dangerous. It was quite right the public mind should
ripen on the sulject of Berea and federalism. There
was a great and growing disposition on the part of those
styled Conservatives to consider and adopt a plan for the
restoration of the Irish parliament.• They thought a fe-
deral parliament more easily obtained, and they thought
it equally protective of Irish rights. It was the duty of
the association to receive every man who was a Repealer,
whether he was a federalist or not ; and every man was a
Repeal .r who was for the repeal of the act of union,—for
there could he no federal parliament till that act was re-
pealed. The Catholic Isis :op of Killaloe and several
other clergymen had become federalists. He (Mr.
O'Connell) was not hurt at the unfounded opinions of
Mr. G. Porter; he wets brought up in Protestant preju-
dices, and ought to be looked upon with a kind and gene-
rous feeling. He was to he admired with his Protestant
prejudices more than if he- had none of them, as they
showed he was the more sincere and determined. He
had written a work on draining land, hut it would not do
—lreland had been sufficiently drained already. (Laugh-
er.) He (Mr. O'Connell) was convinced that an ab-
sentee tax st'ould be• imposed on every Irishman who kept
a permanent residence out of Ireland. (Hear, hear.l
Mr. Sharman Crawford had lately expressed his difference
c-f opinion from some distinguished leaders of Repeal, but
hoped that " senile means might be devised for uniting
those who agree on the common grounds that Ireland
ought to have a representative body, with powers com-
petent to rive her i he management of her own resources."
He (Mr. O'Connell) agreed with Mr. Crawford in that
principle, was ready to join hint in any effort that would
give the Irish the power of taking care of themselves, and
wondered why Mr. Crawford did not come forward with
such a plan. (Cheer s.)

MEETING OF THE DUBLIN CORPORATION.
On Wednesday last, as announced in cur last, a special
meeting of this body was held for the purpose of consi-
dering the adoption of a petition to the Queen, upon the
motion of Dr. Maunsell. praying " that her Majesty will
be graciously pleased to hold her Court, anal to summon
an Imperial Parliament, to meet at least once in every three
years, in her loyal clay of Dublin ; also, that she will re-
commend to the consideration of Parliament the propr.ety
of making such provisions as shall secure that the same
shall be done in future times." For an hour previous to
the time announced fur the commencement of the pro-
ceedings, every available scat in the body of the Ascern-
bly-room— and in the gallery was crowded to excess. The
chair was taken by the Lord Mayor, and shortly after the
opening of the meeting
Dr. Maunsell, after a few introductory remarks, said,—
Let us consider the erobahle operation upon Irish Pro-
testants of an arrangement for the periodical transference
of the court and legislature to Ireland, and I will ask
would not such an arrangement be, at the least, as safe for
Protestants as is the present plan ? What is now the po-
sition, and what roar be the reasonable expectations of
Irish Protestants ? Two institutions, and two only, in
which they have a special interest, have been suffered to
remain—the University and the Church. Now, I ask
any reflecting man will he engage that the Protestant Uni-
versity (already threatened) will not, within a year. be
thrown as a sop to the monster of agitation ? On this
matter the handwriting of the Premier has but recently
appeared upon the wall : the vision of those who cannot
read it must be strangely distorted, either by their wishes
or their interests. The question is no longer a moot one:
the days of the University of Dublin, as an exclusively or
special Protestant institution are numbered, and I will
again ask, when the university shall have been sacrificed,
how long do Irish Protestants suppose their church, as a
national establishment, will survive ? Surely, if the his-
tory of the last fifteen years be remembered, no one, not
the most sanguine truster in statesmen, can in his sober
moments fail to see that this establishment is already
doomed—that the purses of the great English proprietors
of Irish soil already gape for that remnant of the patri-
mony of the church. to the appropriation of which they
have already made a first step, by converting it from an
actual property in the land to a stipendiary rent-charge?
The ostrich hiding his head in the sand in the belief that
he thereby conceals himself from his pursuers is a type of
exalted wisdom in comparison with our example of folly,
if -we continue obstinately to shut our eyes to those facts.
No ; let no one hope that a minister whose mind is trained
in manoeuvres for riding over political shoals—(l adopt
the ;mile from the Quarterly Review)—will hesitate to
slip these the two only remaining anchors of Irish Pro-
testantism, as a national eAablishment, if doing so will
enable 'him to escape official wrest , even were it but for a
session. I presume I need scarcely ask are the personal
and individual interests of Protestants at the present time
likely to be set r than those of a collective kind ? I will
waste Ito time in proving at this time of day, tha if there
he any patrtmage in question, it will be exercised, less in
recompensing the cervices of former friends, than in pur-
chasing tt.e future support of renegade repeaters or nomi-
nal Protestants. (Cheers.) This policy has been frankly
The wheat. crop through Ireland this' year is most
enou:h avowed by the Prime 'Minister himself—it has abundant. Several farmers in the county Kildare have
bees, defended without scruple by the organs of his govern-
-20-barrels to the acre.
meat—yet though all these concessions shall be matte to
the popular outcry, a period must arrive when to concede EFFECTS or THE PicEr. POLICY IN IRELAND.—It
more will become impossible; and I ask those who know has been often said that the apathy of the Protestants of
Ireland will not that period he the commencement of the Ireland towards the present government has no existence
real struggle for repeal. By sacrificing the university and hut in the representetioes of a dissatisfied press. The
the church, and by postponing the individual interests of f Ilowing tact, however, s roves the contrary. On Tries-
Protestants, the consurematien may perhaps be delayed ; day, at a meeteng of the Conservative Registration Society
hut it will no less certainly arrive at last, and when it of Dublin, a report of the committee was read, in which
does come, it will find the Irish Protestants a betrayed, they say that, not having the meen, of defraying the ex-
weake.eed. denationnliged garrison of England, not DVEati nensee_of theenasteecek. anal being involve.' in. consider-.
possessed of a spoil to mollify their conqueror. To my ble debt, they had resolved to suspend their or-rill-ions
Protestant brethren I would then say—make your terms for the present, end &stress the ch-olcs in their employ-
before the breach its your bulwatks becomes indefensible. ment ; and it aae only at the eat nest solicitation of a
Despair not of staving your strong places, or, at least, if number of gcnt!etnen present that the clmarailtee con-
treason within obliges you to sacrifice them, secure the seated to continue thee- eat 'lions until a public meetnie
honours of war. This can only he done by some exlibi- of the Conservative c nsdtu ,ncy shall have been held in
floe of national Protestant strength—for there is a Pro- November. ( n the aecessien of the present government
testaet nation in Ireland, arid they can show that such is the Coeseevetives in he city ef Publin wet e vigorous at d
the case—by a demand that before further legislation shall u atecl. Against all the intrieues at dlh eats of a Wbig
be engaged in to our ruin, legislators shall see Ireland, Lrd Lieutenant and his of they had sue -eedeil in
Protestant as well as Roman Catholic Ireland, with their rest uing the represent:it-ion from Mr. O'Connell. At the
own eyes. We must no longer he objects of barter and I registry le 1810. and during the yt ars; which preceded Sir
sale between Irish lawyers and place•buoters. and English Robe, t Peel's attainment of !lice, they deteated their op-
ministers, ignorant of our real position. If Irish Protes- portents at every registration session ; all wa,s activity and
tantism is to be sold, we ought to insist upon the bargain exertion. At the session of 1841, immerievely succeeding
being made in our presence. But s:.ould the plan which the expulsion of the Whiz!: and the succession of the To-
-1 have taken the liberty of proposing to the consideration ries, the Conservative majority numbered 247 ; they re-
of this house ever be breught to perfection, I confess I gistering,729 claimants to 482 Radicals. On the corres-
see a future very different from that whi, la now awaits us. nonding session of the next. Near, 1842, when Sir Robert.
Holding the court and parliament here alternately could Peel's system began to be dsveloued, their tnaj•srity
net render the condition of Irish Protestants worse than it dwindled to 36; they being eble only to register 139 to
now is ; but it would render them, in common with other 103 Radicals. On that of 1843, their majority was turned
Irishmen, more respectable as a body—it woula enable into n minority, their opponents registering 60 Radicals
Englishmen to learn, what they do not now know, the ac- to 47 Conservatives ; and then, at the May sessions of the
tual position of Protestants in Ireland ; and if that was present year, 1841, they registered only 118 Conservatives
once known to legislators, a due weight would be given to to 223 Radicals, leaving the Repeaters a majority of 1(i5;
Protestant as to other Irish interests. I will hang out no and on that of last August, but 150 Conservicives agtinst
false colours in the hope of gaining a vote from centlemer, 286 Repeaters, leaving the latter a n ajority of 136 on that
opposite. I tell you frankly, my lord, it is my hope and session. Stich are the results of the three years practical
firm belief, that by giving Irishmen their due share in le- working of the Peel policy in Ireland. with respect to the
gislation, and at the same time protecting them from the Conservative body : a disheartened, broken-drove consti-
domination of the Romish church, a long step would be tuency—a dispirited, almost bankrupt, Registration So.
taken towards Protestantising "'eland, and that, too, irty, succourless, disgusted, and on the eve of dissolution.
without curtailing the liberties of nay fellow-countrymen NATIONAL EDUCATION IN. IRELAND --The Lord
in any trarticelar—nay, with the certain effect of raising Primate of Ireland, in les reeent Visitation Charge to the
an impregnable bulwark for the defence of the common Clergy of the Di scese of Armagh, ob:erves—" With
liberties of all. I think the plan I propose would I reference to a subject upon which the clergy have ex-
vastly benefit the collective interests of nay brethrerrin 1 pr.ssed an almost unanimous determination, I must offer
religion. As to their private interests, I will only task, af, w remarks--I mean the subjset of education. The
would it be less advantageous to the Protestant than to the attempts of the Commissioners of National education to
Catholic barrister to have the field of impetial parliamen- remove objections to their plan have been eenerally felt
tare practice thrown open to him ?—to the physician to
have the squares of Dublin, and the provincial trans'ons by the clergy to be insufficient for the purpose. My own
were so • and that co-operation with
of the aristocracy ft led with the noble and the wealthy ? that they
—to the speculator to have the opportunity beenagreed urging his
opinion is
National art ont e t rms. proposed Ild not have
nu
railway bill within a walk of his own office ?—to the to. Bovine expl fined my vie, s upon this
question at much length in nay last charoe, it is not my
tradesman to have his employers quadrupled?—to the I intention to enter into a discussion of it at present. I
peasant to have his landlord resident at his door, as a I shall only obserte, that the views which I put before vou
sympathiser and supporter in his daily toils and wants, not at that time I continue to entertain. The more 1 refl.ct
an eccasional visitant in the capacity of a collector of rent? upon the subject the more firm is my conviction that
If these would be benefits, they would, I submit, be se- I education, to be really beneficial, must be based upon
cured to the Protestauts well as to the Catholic resident I religion ; and that the instructors of youth do little to
in Ireland,and that wi hout risk,hy the plan 1 now propose. pro Mote their well being if they do not instil into their
The learned gentlemen proceeded to argue that the plan he minds the •erintlioles of Divine 'froth for the reguletioe
proposed would be beneficial to the interests of England I of their conduct in after life. I will take leave to add
by fixing another political centre in the empire and .thereby what 1 said en a former occasion relative to the plan of
raising a greater probability of the landed gentry residing National Education, when its rules were first promulgeted
permanently amongst them--and by making. English —that it it be consi•tettt with the principles of the Roman
capitalists acquainted with the economical resources of Catholic Church to debar the members of its communion
Ireland. He also spoke at great length to show that the from the use of the Scripture, I maintain that it is not
legitimate objects of the repealers would be advanced by consistent with the principles of the rrotestant Church to
the pro Posed plan, and concluded as follows What establish a system of National Education founded on such
benefit have the masses of the Protestant 'or Catholic pretensions. I presume not to interfere with the Roman
people of !relent' obtained from Whig or Tore ? I Catholic priesthood in the exercise of any power which
ask this house have they been sufficient to recompense they may conscientiously believe to belong to them. But
either party for the cruel injuries that the feuds of the if they wish to preserve their consistency as Roman Ca-
English rattles have brought upon our country ?—for the a tholies, let us endeavour to preserve curs as Protestants.
neglect of our social interests that these political fends If th-y ate persuaded that religion may be taught v
have engendered and perpetuated among ourselves ?. out the Scriptures, he it so, as far as regards themselves ;
Would it not be for the common good of all, if we could hut 1 t not us, as Protestants, sanction such a principle
give the world a practical demonstration that English by establishing sehools whieh shall be called national ones,
political parties in Ireland are (as is the fact) resolving in which the essential truths of revelati n are not set
themselves into their elements ; and that, in the ordinery forth, in which the Scriptures arc not recoenised, are not
course of nature, those elements must, sooner or later, at peeded to, are not devoutly read, as the only pure and
enter into new combeiations—(loud and long continued authentic source of religious faith and practice." We
cheering from both sides). It will be remembered that I need scarcely say that v. e agree perfectly in the opinion
am now speaking of political dissensions—l make no so ably, so lucidly, and so forcibly expressed by his
lusion to religious differences. I advocate no latitudina- Grace.
rienism—no conciliatory concessions on points of reli-
gious doctrine or religious practice. Even here, where so
many differ from me in rehgion, I do not fear to avow
that I feel the stronger interest in the welfare of my Pro-
testant fellow •countrymen—but the plan for which I ask
the support of the council involves no religious conces-
sion. Let us agree to differ in religious matters—hut let
us break the spell that has so long bound us to the tails
of English Whigs and English Tories. Let us, if it were
but fsr the sake of novelty, give one unanimous vote for
old Ireland—(long-continued cheering.) When the ap-
plause subsided, Dr. Maunsell again rose and fomully
moved the resolution set forth in his speech, stating at
the same time that he had consulted but two members on
his side of the house, one of whom was Alderman Butt,
upon the subject, and they had declared their approval of
his proposition. He had expected that one of these
gentlemen would have seconded his motion, but it now
appeared that they had changed their minds, and he there-
fore withdrew his motion.
Mr. O'Connell congratulated Dr. Maunsell, warmly on
the tone, temper, and manner of his address, and closed
his speech in the following emphatic language :—" Things
cannot remain as they are; there must be a change, and,
God forbid that that change should he effected without
the assent of men of all persuasions and all religions. I
would consider it trot a blessing but a curse, if a change
were forced upon arty portion of the Irish people. I am
rejoiced to see every hour symptoms which tell me that
other combinations are about being formed, which will
meet more than half way every assistance which we c
give towards attaining those advantages to Ireland,
which the learned eoctor would have extended to us once
in three years,tbneetri
e!bveuentsionwniti_iilcechlc,
elo,usri.hss.oet.loil like vou should have
elnyzer,y;itsidurel
lamtfel)wei'whedekiss aaPenParnaifeel's'--

TO THE DFPERsED PROTESTANTS IN THE
SOUTH AND \N EST OF IRELAND.

BRETHREN.—In these evil times. as I have seen some
faint hearts amongst you, and know of more, permit one
of the dispersed of your body respectfully to give you a
few words of counsel, and not to count it to him fur pre-
sumption.
The Snake has thrown a new lure—a federal parlia-
ment ; whether the infatuated Mr.- Hutchinson it was
who started the hare, or the Snake himself, no matter;
the Viper has adopted it as his own. Does it require
anything beyond common sense to discern that as far as
the father of lies is concerned, he only wants that toy
well parked with popish influence and craft to blow up
a quarrel between it and the imperial paniament on any
invi-nted pretence, and then to arrive at his darling
repqe.
Surely, surely, no Prote,tants awake will heed him.
It may be true that much of our business is mismanaged
by English officials, who know little of our country, and
are backward to learn it, but these are only matters of
detail ; the basis of the union is fraught with advantage
even to excess for Ireland. and it is part and parcel of the
Plan of the agitators to shower inventions so thick into
the House of. Cornmons' that there should be no time
for ministers t. effect business ; but were the -country
once at peace ait‘in the Scorpion crushed, and
his riverend coadjuters put on their good behaviour, the
prosperity of Ireland would know no bounds.
It is true, we have at pres,rit the hideous deformity in
the heart of the country of a band of taut iated democrats
consuming her bowels, itiv:ting, adherence arid co-o.aera-
tion, threatening massacre, and Westing fo.. blood ; for
what else means their phraseology of " Ireland biding

her time?" The bait of plunder flung cut to the peasant
Must have had its influence; for by the Jesuit finesse he
is perpetually urged to put into the raffle, that he may be
eager for the day of drawing ; yet the poor people are not
ill-disposed if let alone, and the proof is that it is thought
indispensable not to relax for one moment the stimulant
of sedition upon them. All this is true, wofully true;
and as it constitutes a government within the government,
having the torch and the stiletto for its device, it may
make se me honest beasts to quail. But, Protestants, re-
member you are hated because Neu hold the Bible. It all
resolvt s itsi if into this. The Bible wid the right of private
judgment in religion it is that renders popish priests str-
pet fluoas lumber—that it is translated into every known
.language for circulation by Saxon aid maddens them to
fury—now that they blindly suppose that they have only
a short time to w it to sacrifice your church, which has
taught you to know what they are, and what they are not.
You cannot have forgotten the pope's circular, dared
from Rome on 4th May last, addressed to his worship-
pers in Italy, denouncing the New S ork Bible Society.
He tells them plump, that reading the Holy Scriptures, in
the vulgar tongue, leads to certain perdition ; and forbids
what the Saviour enjoined. if this be not the beast drawn
in the Revelations, God has given us our reason to betray
us. • This circular was published in all the papers. So,
Protestants, take your line. Waver not. Have no fel-
lowship with their principles. I was once an emancipator
myself, a- conciliator, and am well reviled es a dupe and
worse. Observe the return which the Duke of Welling.
ton and Sir Robert Peel daily gf t fir having brought for-
ward the emancipation act; and mind, this is not the ex-
ception but the rule. NI hat folly, then, is it to hope that
the sense of shame will asseciete some of the more re-
spectable persons of the Romanist versuasion to denounce
the agitators! They don't conic forward ;at least I
know of but one or two .that have, wid they are well
scoffed and spit at by the demon for their honesty. Be
not seduced by any of his baits. Hold alocf to the last.
It is the trial of sour faith. Let every Protestant say to
hipstlf, " If 1 was the only one left I never would unite
with them." Nail the Bible and the Union :lack together
to your heart. Have s,irriething in your hand also to
make him repent who would approach with the rags of an
Italian priest to defile either. The. English Protestant
people will yet consent to dis'inguish between the true
and the false in Ireland. Our brethren of the north are
alive to our sufferings; nay, the English dissenters, much
. as they dislike the monarchical principle, and the Church,
will yet, trona a sense of shame, postpone their aversion
to these elements.in order to teach the turbu ent popt,h
agents here that if they expect protects, n and security
they must at least let others enjoy it. . aich. Be fi-m.
Be indifferent alike to their cajolery or their threats.
Call to mind the words of the Psainib,t, which cannot be
found, by-the-hv, in the popish Missal—" I was young,
and now am old, and yet saw I never the righteous for-
saken ;" am, brethren, your sincere well-wisher,
WESTMEATH.
Conlin, September 21st, 1844,

UNIVERSITY lk CLERICAL NE WS.

VICE-CIIANCELLORSHIP OF OXFORD.-It is expected
that the bard will meet at Oxford to elect Dr. Wynterr's
su ceso,. on Tuesday next, the Bib inst. It is confidently
expected that, no withstand:ng. the vigorous exertions of
the Tractarians, Dr. Symons will be successful. In every
town the business should be taken up in an energetic
way. One or two ef the resident clergy mtlit canvass all
the rest, and might at once communicate the result to the
Oxford committee. Bnt whatever is done, should be done
at once. Our opponents are quite beforehand in all this
preparation. They are always aware of their strength,
and are anxiously looking for the hour of trial. They
calculate on having in Oxford, on the day of cortst, more
than three hundred or their partisans. Of course. this
amount of votes can be ow-numbered, twice told—if the
friends of the truth are equally energetic. But will they
be so ?

A PPOINTIU ENTS.—The Rev. William Penrice Borrett,
M.A., of Caius College, to the rect,ry of Sit•ton, in the
county of Gloucester;' value, £323. The Rev. Casten
Gerrard, 8.A., of Corpus Christi College, to the rectory
of Wickham Skeith, Suffolk ; value, £123. The Rev.
henry Deck, M.A of Corpus Christi College, to the
rectory of St. Barr,abas, Manchester. The Rev. Daniel
Moore, M.A.. of St. Catherine's El all, to the incumbency
of Camden Chat el, Camberwell. The Rev. Dudley So-
merville, 8.A., of Qu. Cellege, to the curacy of
Sutton Cherry arid Shenton. Leicestershire. The Rev.
Anhur Shm 8,A., of Queen's College. to the curacy
of Siia.ieston Leicester-hire. The Rev. William Fleet-
wood, of St. Catherine's Hall, to the curacy of
St. Catherine's, Northampton. The Rev. Charles Lisle
Phillipps, M.A., Magdalene College, to the curacy of
Rosliley, Leicestershire. The Rev. John Bedingtield
Collyer, M.A., of Clare Hall, to the Archdeaco:rry of
Norwich.

The Rev. T. R. Welch, Chancellor of the Diocese 0..
Chichester. expired suddenly at Brighton. he deceast d
was Im:6er-in-law of Dr. Shuttleworth, late Bishop o:
Chichester.

trcted against every enemy, a.-id are supplied by Him with
abundant pasture —as a household, ot which our Lord
himself is the ruler. From these significant images we
learn the immediate connexion ot Christ with those who
are within the pale of the church, as their sovereign pro-
tector defending them by his power, providing for their
wants by his bounty, and leading them to salvation by his
Inly word through the appointed means of grace. A still
closer connexion is intimated where our Lord speaks of
Himself as the vine of which He•is the root and we are
the branches &riving life from Him, and when He is de-
scrlbed by Paul as the head of the church, of which He is
the body and we are the members; if such were the ap-
pointment from the begiming, as appears from ample
testimony, is it not reasonable to imagine that a disbelief
of the church is next to a disbelief in the Gospel ? If the
truths of the Gospel be necessary to the salvation of man-
kind, the arrangement of which the Gospel is reserved for
our use can hardly be of less importance. If nothing
more be said for the church than that it is the institution
of Christ—that he laid the foundation of the building, arid
that it was competed by the Apostles under his holy
spirit, surely we ought to be cautious before we meddle
with what he has estabii-ied, and we may be sure tlyit
his w% ret is not to be improved by man, and that from
his provide,tial wisdom and most perfect knowledge of
the disposition of his creatures, he alone knew whet was
right.

Three new churches arc about to be built in Scotland—
one at Melrose, cue of Falkirk, and one at Dalkebth.
Gratifying evidences of the increase of the Church in
this part of the empire..
PEEL MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL.—OH .Wednesday the
Bishop Of So,ior and an bid the foundation stone of
a new building to, be erected at Peel, Isle of Mao for a
mathematical school, the previous building hating become
irreparably delApidAed.
Cnuacn EXTENSION.—Last week a meeting of the'
Ripon Snci,ty for Increasing Church Accommodation
was held at Leeds. During the five years which lane
elapsed sine • :t• formation it has been enabled to expend
upwards of £23,000 in grants towards the building of thirty
new churches,
,and the rebuilding-of six others; towards
increasing the endowments of thirty-sevenpacr benefices,
and towards the erection of seventeen parsonage houses.
CONSECRATION OF NEW CHURCHES.—The beautiful
little chapel, Horsley Chapel, in the remote district of
iteedAaier, was consecrated as, charel of case to Eladon,
11 the Bishop of Durham, on Wednesday week. on
Ttn sday the Lord Bishop of Exeter consecrated a new
church at Wo dbury Salterton, Devon. The Lord
Bishop of Norwich consecrated a new church at Laken-
ham, Norwich, on Tuesday. It is dediCated to Sr. Mt rk.
The Bishop of Sodor and Man has lately been perform-
. ing the rite of confirmation in the diocese of St. Asaph.
At one place he rejected several of the candidat- and at
the close of the ceremony, having summoned the clergy,
tild them that he had never seen catechumens presented
for cotifiimation so b oily prepared, and that had the con-
firmatinn been to take place in his own diocese he should
have put it off altogether.

ROMANISM AND DISSENT.

On Tuesday last Ills Grace the Lord Archbishop of
Canterbury held his visitation of the clergy of his diocese
at Maid-tone. In the course of h s lordship's charge we
find the fallowing important observations :
I look forward with hope, though I em not altogether
free from anxiety, to the future destinies of cur church.
It is not from direct viols nee from without, or from dis-
sension from within, that. I apprehend immediate danger,
but what may eventually be the result of her external
dissensions, and the differences now exisfug w thin her
own bosom, if they sheuld ever proceed extreme leng'hs,
it is painful to contemplate. "If ye bite and devour one
another, tape heed that ye are not consumed one of an-
oth.r," was the warning of the Apostle to the Galatians.
I am far from asset ting that that language is applicable•in
ell its stuificancy to the state of our own church, but I
fear there is enough of division to weaken those resources
which, if applied in conjunction, might much more effec-
tually aid the cOmmon object of promoting the glory of
G.td and the happiness of our fellow-countrymen than
they can be promoted whilst that division is to be found
which, unfortunately, it is notorious does exist amonest
us. 'By- these indications of discord the hopes of the
Roreanists have been raised—without any sufficient ground
I fully believe. From the extent of resources at their
command, and from the unity of purpose which marks
their proceedings, they have succeeded in reeking an im-
pression in our colonies ; but, notwithstandne the gi,;an-
ae resources which they possess, their success in this
country will probably be limited to a few converts. At
the time of our separation from Rome it was satisfactorily
shown that we could not partake of her communion with-
out partaking of her sins ; end, as no material alteration
has taken place in her system, and as her doctrines are
tinckinged, and, in her own estimation, are unchangeable,
it may be presumed that fete persons who have considered
the grounds on which our reformers were justified, will be
disposed to return to her communion. Among the Dis-
senters, within the last few years, so far as I can judge
from some of their writers, and the expresions employed
at their meetings, a feeling of dislike to the church ap-
pears to he gaining ground. After reasonable ellowance
is made for temporary excitement, I see enough to con-
vince me that serious designs are in agitation for the sub-
version of our national church. Under the circumstances
alluded to above, I see no reason for alarm, but much to
regret in the partial estrangement of the people from the
church, as writ as in the defeat of measures by them useful
to society ; the succ-ssful oppoSition, for example, made
to the plan proposed by the government for the education
of children employed in • the mining and manufacturing
districts affords a melancholy proof of this. The principles
of dissent indeed appear to me to be essentially faulty, as
they open an inlet to errors of every description, and act
directly in opposition to that spirit of unity which Christ
acted upon when he founded the church. In this latter
principle of unity the strength of the church consists.
While she has utety in herself there is little dread from
external violence, but she may suffer irremediably from
divisions within herself. What is wanted at present to
insure her efficiency is peace. In speaking cf peace, lam
far from recommending the compromise of principle with
indifference, or the sacrifice of the truth—that peace which
alone can be lasting and useful is to be found in the church,
and in the determination of her ministers to act cordially
together in the discharge of the duties assigned them, ab-
staining from unprditable controversies, or from an in-
dulgence in rancour, through slisht differences, (for differ-
ences must needs exist,) but discussing them with temper,
and with no desire than that of elucidating the truth. In
speaking thus of the church, I do not deny the existence
of piety or the hope of salvation out of its pale; but, as
all revelation proceeds from our blessed Lord, I can hardly
be wrong in the belief, that Be who brought down the
word to the church from on high has also provided the
means of transmitting it to all generations. Those who
view matters in this light will readily admit that itimplies,
if nothing more, a want of faith to seek elsewhere fur the
means of grace titan in the sanctuary which the Lord hss
built—" es He himself bath said, ''upon a rock,'
and the perpetuity of which He has insured to the end of
the woTld. The various figures under which this question
is described in the Scriptures point out the connexion be-
eorveecetne
bc
ya aCnd
rtiisnte.
aLnotir .y
llitimisdidreeesti
a fold under His peculiar care, in which the -Rock are pro-
Sednaatal ag!):lerk-nilengti—doanis