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of the nature and objects of the Foreign Aid Society, the
only thing that remained for him was to endeavour to follow
the line of argument he (the chairman) had laid down, and
to fill up some of the vacancies which he had left. The
chairman had spoken of authority. They were clergymen,
and they gloried in the privilege of being clergyme4 of the
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established church ; they delighted in her apostolic form of
government, not because it was essentially connected with
salvation, but because it was the best adapted to hand down

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This was not the ease with Presbyterianist

the truth was preached, whether by Presbyterian or Episco-
palian, God would own his own word : but the question was
its preservation—they were bound to see it preserved; and
on that account they delighted in the episcopal form of church
government. They had the precedents of all the most dis-
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tinguished bishops of the church in this work; and further,
this was not new work, for, previous to the depression of
the reformed church, our bishops—even those who had the
reputation of being the highest churchmen—were in constant
communication with the reformed churches of the Continent.
Letters were extant which shewed that the most delightful
Christian intercourse .was carried on between our bishops
and the members of the reformed Continental churches :
when they went to France, they communicated together ;
and neither bishop nor Presbyterian, when they were there,
said anything about church government; but they had all
things in common. (Hear, hear.) Referring to living
authority. the reverend gentleman quoted some. passages

from the Three Sermons preached by the Bishop of London.
during Lent 1842, in St. James's Church. published with
a preface by the Rev. Augustus Campbell, jun. rector of
Liverpool, and one of his lordship's chaplains. It was there
laid down that none of the Continental Protestant churches
were in any sense schismatic, because they held all the
essentials of sound doctrine. The Lord Bishop of London,
therefore, had given his sanction to the objects of this
society, and the Rector of Liverpool fully approved of them
by giving his imprimatur to these sermons. The meeting,
therefore, were assembled to promote the interests of a
society, the object of which was to assist those brethren who
could not, in their positions, be considered as schismatics.
He would refer only once more to the authority of the Bishop
of London, just to show what the right rev. prelate consi-
.dered would justify separation from the national church—
namely, if she required us to hold as scripture what was not
in the word of God. This was a justification of separa-
tion: it justified vs in separating from the Church of Rome
at the time of the reformation, and it would justify us in
separating again if it should come to pass that she required
us to receive some article of faith at variance with the fun-
damental truths of the gospel—for instance, if she com-
manded some act of worship, such as falling down to images,
which was forbidden by the word of God. He need say no
more upon authority ; but after what he had said he trusted
every churchman would be convinced that this was a lawful
object, and that he might give the right hand of fellowship
to those continental churches, who, although not holding one
form of government still held the head, confessing that Jesus
Christ is the son of the living God. There was another
question which the meeting was entitled to have answered:
They had just heard that large numbers of the pastors of the
churches were affected with the neology of Germany, Soci-
nianism, and Arianism, and with unsound doctrine : the
chairman had also told them there were a certain number
who did hold the orthodox faith, but the question was, what is
that orthodox faith; have they any document to show that
what they called orthodox faith was what we should call or-
thodox faith ? Now, if he (Mr. Burgess) could not show
this, he did not see how he could conscientiously call upon
the meeting to support the Foreign Aid Society ; and. there-
fore, he would first say a few words upon the orthodoxy of
principle. He held in his hand a paper published twice a
week in Paris, which was the organ of the leading pastors,
who called themselves orthodox. The same question had
been put to them in France, and in answer the pastors,
in this their publication, stated that they confessed
the faith of Christ crucified. The reverend gentleman
read several passages from this publication, which shewed
that the supporters of it were earnest in asserting and
maintaining the faith of Christ our Saviour. They
preached, he continued, and propagated just such doc-
trine as we would wish to see spreading throughout the
length and breadth of the land. The next thing would be
to inform the meeting what the Societes Evangeliques had
really done. There were three, of then, with which the Fo-
reign Aid Society was in connection. The first, the central
committee of which assembled at Paris, was formed in 1833,
and it had now 128 agents .in occupation as schoolmasters,
missionaries, and colporteurs. From its commencement to
the present time, it had sent out 270 agents ; and it had
extended its influence over 26 of the departments of France,
opening many places of public worship, founding many
schools, and altogether operating upon a population of not
less than three millions of people. Another society with
which the Foreign Aid Society was in connection was one
formed at Bordeaux, which bad extended its operations
throughout five departments, in all of which it was preaching
the doctrines of the Gospel. The third society with which
this institution was in connection was formed at Geneva,
and of this Mr. Currie would give some details. Another
society, which had lately been formed in the North of France,
had made application to be taken into connection : it was
founded upon sound principles, and he hoped it would be
taken into association, so as to receive occasional help.
Besides these great societies, there were institutions in dif-
ferent parts of France which sprung out of them. For in-
stance, the Evangelical Society of Paris had established a
normal school for educating teachers to teach Protestant
doctrine. Other schools had been established in different
parts of the country, and within the last six months two
young English girls bad been rescued from consignment to
a nunnery through the instrumentality of one of them. The
rev. gentleman then entered into some interesting details, in
the course of which he stated that a Protestant church was
about to be erected at a place called Sourmont, on the very
spot where one had been destroyed in the time of Henry IV.
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mayor of the commune. Mr. Burgess then shewed that, in
violation of the fifth article of the Charte Constitutionnelle,
which enacted that every man should have liberty to profess
his own religion and have toleration for it, much persecution
had been inflicted upon the Protestant pastors. The details
into which he entered on this part of the subject were too
long to report: at the close of them he hoped that the pro-
ceedings which had been taken, in violation of the letter of
the constitution, would serve to enhance the value of the
religious liberty which we ourselves possessed. The great
obstacle to the spread of the Gospel in France was Popery.
(Hear.) Popery was the great enemy to the preaching of
the Gospel in France, as it was to the spread of truth every-
where ; but it was such Popery as we had scarcely any idea
of in this country. He was told that it was very bad in
Ireland, but he doubted whether the superstitions of Ireland
could equal the superstitions of France and the Continent.
The rev. gentleman here adduced some horrible blasphemies
from the charge of the Cardinal Bishop of Lyons to his
clergy, and shewed that there must neceesarily be the great-
est opposition between Popery, which held such doctrines,
and the truth of the Gospel. Here, then, he said in conclu-
sion, was a field for Christian missions! It appeared to him,
indeed, that there was as much need of the Gospel in France
as there was in New Zealand. It seemed, too, to have de-
volved upon the Christians of this country to bring the
thirty-two millions of France out of the darkness, just as
much as it did the hundred millions of heathen under the
British crown. He concluded by moving the first resolu-
tion.

The Rev. JAMES CURRIE, in seconding the resolution,
entered into some details of the operation of the Evangelical
Society of Geneva.
The resolution was unanimously carried. _ _

The Rev. Dr. TATTERSHALL, after a few general observa-
tions in support of the objects of the society, moved the
second resolution. .

The Rev. F. BARKER seconded the resolution. He said
it had occurred to him, since the last publication of the
Parker Society, that the Foreign Aid Society must be-
come, to all persons acquainted with those publications, a
subject of much greater interest than it had hitherto been.
No person could peruse the letters written by the most
eminent reformers of England, upon the death of Queen
Mary, and the accession of the great and good Queen Eliza-
beth, without feeling the deep obligation under which this
country lay to such persons as Peter Martyr, Bullenger, ar. d
others, whom the reformers Sands, Jewell, and others, ap-
pear to have consulted on all occasions. To his mind this
was a pleasing opportunity of expressing the acknowledge-
ments under which the Church of England lay to the foreign
reformers. (Applause.)
The resolution was then carried.
Major THon.PE moved the next resolution ; and after a
few general remarks, he said there was work enough to do in
Geneva and France, in spreading the gospel, if the society
had ten times its present amount of income. The Lord was
every day, in those countries, opening fresh doors through
which Protestantism could be,forwarded and error put aside,
hut the society had not the means. Funds were wanting.
Money was the sinews of war, and without it nothing could
be done. The gallant officer then showed how the interests
of Protestanism were advancing in different parts of the con-
tinent—first, by the conversion of Roman Catholics, and
next, by the operation of the societies in connection with the
Foreign Aid Society ; and he concluded by a few words of
affectionate Christian exhortation.
Mr. MIDDLETON seconded the motion, and it was carried.
The Rev. Mr. BURGESS here said there was one duty yet
to perform, and a pleasing duty it was ; it was for him to
move the cordial thanks of the meeting to the Rev. Chairman
for his able services on this occasion, and for the exertions
he had made on behalf of the Foreign Aid Society.
The Rev. Mr. CURRIE seconded the motion, and it was
carried by acclamation.
r. M'NEILE then returned thanks for the compliment;
and, after singing the doxology, the meeting separated.

THE MILITIA.—We have good authority for stating that
the Militia for this county will be raised early in the course
of the ensuing spring ; that a ballot will take place when they
will be regularly embodied, and had up for twenty-eight days'
training and exercise. Preparations are already making to
carry this object into effect.

THE FUNDS : SATURDAY NIGHT.—The public funds have
continued heavy all day. There was a slight reaction in the
first few operations of the morning, but the advance was not
wholly supported up to the close of business. The brokers
and jobbers are now principally occupied with the arrange-
ment of the three accounts, which fall for settlement in the
early part of next week. In foreign stocks the settlement
will be made on Monday, and the Consols and the other
English securities the day following. Money, of course, in
the present abundance is procurable at very easy rates, so that
little fear appears to be entertained for the resuls of the ge-
neral adjustment of differences. Consols for money and the
account left off at 94k to 1, and for the opening, 94/ ; Bank
Stock, 1711 to 1721 ; Exchequer-bills. 60s. to 625. premium ;
India Stock, 2611 to 2621 ; Three per Cent.. Reduced; 95 ;
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 101 to s ; New
Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 101 ; Long Annuities, 121 ;
India Bonds, 555. to 575. premium ; and South Sea Stock,
105/. In foreign stocks, Spanish Actives were quoted 18/
to / ; ditto, New, 23/ to / ; Mexican, 31i to 32k ; ditto, De-
ferred, ; Danish, 841 to 851 ; Colombian, 231 to
Brazilian, 72 to 73 ; Belgian, 102 to./ ; Dutch Two-and-a
Half per Cents., 52 to 1 ; and Portuguese Converted, 351
to 361.

The Cheshire county rate for the ensuing year has been
fixed at a penny in the pound.

`WANT OF EMPLOYMENT.—An advertisement having been
inserted in the Times, for a respectable young man as clerk
or messenger, salary 30s. per week, a person applied at the
address given, and found at seven o'clock above 600 letters.
He was told that 150 came by the six o'clock post; that there
was another post then to come, and the country letters next
morning. The letters by hand were also pouring in as fast
as they could be received.

THE LATE LORD HILL.—The following anecdote, for
which we are indebted to a correspondent, shows that, like
his great friend " The Duke," Lord Hill was on principle
opposed to warfare. The truly valiant
The late Lord warrior laments the
necessity for war when winning victories :—..
Hill, when he heard of the successful results of the Indian
and Chinese wars, was so overcome that he exclaimed, with
Thank God, I have
tears of joy bursting from his eyes—.
lived to hear of these glorious victories, and to know that
there is an end of war ! horrid war !' Salopian Journal.