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

THE LIVERPOOL STANbAI9.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
We are unable to reply with confidence to the letter of "Inqui-
sitive."
SeTeral articles and letters have been again postponed.

Voz Libtrpool &tantarb.

TUESDAY MORNING. AUG. 29, 1348.

THE budget of the most incapable of even -Whig
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
pp; 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 eaffre war, and for the proposed loan to the
West India planters. We have no assurance, how-
.evere 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-
ems; 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 he madness, even
could we assure ourselves that the necessity for our
having to do so was only temporary. We must
take 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
add 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
case 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
Parliament, 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,"
has 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-
lap 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 Joa 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 he 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
c)fcounties, 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
realize.d, we must alter the composition of Par-
liament.
We must fill both houses with .men of 1,
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 corn-
Tort, 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
hefore mooted ; and we beg respectfully to urge
won 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 proud 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,
ean_no longer afford to sustain the overwhelming
amount of the general burthens of the locality
thrOwq:uPon them. These burthens must
distributed•;- *15:1 we can see no plan at once so
he t being worked, as that

Mrt. DAMSON IN A FIX:.—Mr. Councillor Ranson is at
present holding a controversy with the Journal vrhiPh
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 tine new vessel, 12 years
A 1, 400 tons, intended for the China trade, the pi.operty
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."

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 he 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, Win. Ryan,
Joseph Baylee, John Hughes (Aberystwyth,) G. Cuthbert,
Thos. Bold, I. B. Phillips, H. H. Higgins, E. G. Jones,
C. W. Lawrence, Wm. Hughes, Henry Hampton, J.
Brancker, J. Stewart (West Derby), H. -Marten, D. J.
Hirsch, R. Faulkner, E. It. Jones, A. Knox, and D.
Barry ; the Worshipful the Mayor, Chas. Groves, Esq.,
Adam Hodgson, Esq., A. Swainoon, Esq., and Richard
Harbor& Esq.
The Rev. Rector Baootts 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 Gozl in Foreign Parts, had en-
deavoured to forward. the principles and objnts 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 England. 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, toTender to this society not a cold and chillier
assent, but a solid, substantial, and enduring support.
(Hear, hear.) His Worship concluded by calling upon
the Rev. John Jones, who, in the absence of the Rev.
Rector, who was obliged to leave town, had been selected
to move the first resolution.

The Rev. 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.
Ho 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 aed 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 he 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 he might have the 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, bad 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 to 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 had "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
Eton: year to year from 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 been boasted of by Rome in her palmiest days.
Nuthing 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 evangelical labours 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, hut 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 to 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 were 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 had done in that country
whose political connexion with us was now dissevcred—
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. Time 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, devoted 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 a right 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 Tinnevellv, 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
Redeemer, " despised and rejected of men ;" and in
conclusion he defied any one to point out a single instance
in which any Missionary of the Propagation Society had
embraced the false, fallen Church of Rome. He made a
powerful appeal in favour of the missionary cause, and
concluded an able speech amid great applause.
The Lord Bishop of FREDERICTON rose to propose tie
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—Nee
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.
I half. He was happy to bear his testimony to the general

good character, Christian zeal and activity or fbeMissicen-
aries throughout the whole of his diocese. B:r thdi ex-
ertions the number of churches built, and comirAnicants
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
arouse 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
sph itual 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 exertlnns and disiaterested labours
performed by them. Some of the parishes were So large
that it was entirely impossible for one man to perform
duties with satisfaction to himgelf, or with that advantage
be desired to his flock. He strongly appealed to the
meetinn 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 loud cheers.
The Rev. Dr. M`NEILE then came forward to second
the resolution, and was received with several rounds of
applause. When it had subsided, he spoke nearly as fol-
lows :—ln compliance with the request of the Committee,
through their Rev. Secretary, 1 have much pleasure in
rising to second this resolution, proposed by the Right
Rev. Prelate. Various reasons of a minor and more secu-
lar character might be urged, and especially in this town,
for 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 am content 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 us, 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 duties for 12
months. I speak in the hearing of some of the younger
branch of our clergy, who may perhaps be willing to vcs
lunteer their services for twelve months. (Cheers.) We
have lately heard much about emigration. It is remark-
able how emigration stands connected with population in
the earliest history of the world. The command was 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, and 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 eradicator. 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 originally pro-
nounced, and weeds have been the natural produce ever
since. Our Missionary Bishop Heber, one of the sweetest
singers who ever graced our Zion, has indeed sung of
Ceylon'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 are: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 may say 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
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 Pelagians do vainly
talk. She not only declares truly that the offering of
Christ once made, is the only satisfaction for sin,
whether c final or actual, but also argues contro-
versially tlINt the sacrifice of the mass is a blas-
phemous fable and a dangerous deceit. (Hear, hear.)
She not only declares truly that we are accounted 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 justification, 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 splendida peccata. 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, bin; 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 repugnant 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 forOgn 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 nowegoing
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-
;ether 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
Ind 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
posts, 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 falSej and Wl* 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 Misdonary
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, arter,which,
The Rev. THOMAS NOLAN said, in pi-oposing the 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 bad especial claims upon the in-
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 greater 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 he added to their list of missionary associations.
The church had already showed its sincerity and benevo-
lence 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 in
the flesh to love one another in the spirit. He then al-
luded to Ireland, which was an integral part of the king-
dom, and he trusted would remain so. 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 all its 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, he trusted, be but a beginning,
but an auspicious one; and, after a high compliment to
the Mayor, he moved the resolution.
Mr. ADAM lIODGSON seconded the resolution.
The Rev. Mr. POLLOCK, 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. HORSFALL returned thanks for the high compli-
ment paid to him. He could 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 ,1
Bishop of Madras, the meeting separated.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(By EXPRESS.)

FRANCE.
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 the capital.
It is said that government has connived at their escape, in
order to get rid of two such persons. Serious apprehen-
sions of an outbreak are entertained, and the most exten-
sive military preparations have been made. An immense
tent has been erected in the Champs ElyEies, and the vast
area is covered with soldiers. The populace seem quite
ready for another insurrection.

MONEY MARKET. YESTERDAY.
Notwithstanding the rise in the corn market, and the un-
happy financial exhibit of the treasury, we have rather better
quotations in Consols. They are now 861- to for money and
time, with a fair business doing. Reduced Threes, are 86A to
A. Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 87 to 4. Exchequer Bills,
30s. to 345. premium. It must be observed, however. that-the
improvement in the funds noted commenced only with the re-
appearance of sunshine, which seemed to flatter with a promise
of more seasonable and settled weather. Previously, and
whilst the rain was pouring down, or threatening, Consols
were heavy at 83i to 6k.

LONDON CORN MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
Fine old and really choice samples of new realised from 2s.
to 3s more money than on this day se'nnight, but the trade was
not so lively as might have been expected, the millers acting
with great caution. The secondary and inferior parcels of
new Wheat met with little attention, at prices varying from
425. to 565. for red, and 455. to 60s. for white. Foreign, both
bonded and free, sold at an advance from 28. to 3s. per qr.
Barley was in fair request, at an improvement in value of Is.
to 2s per qr. The sale for Oats was not brisk, but in the busi-
ness transacted Is. to is. 6d. more money was obtained. Beans
were Is. to 25., and Peas, 3s. to 4s. dearer.

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET—YESTERDAY.
There was some inquiry for Rice, but holders were disin-
clined to accept last week's currency, and buyers were not dis-
posed to advance in the face of the large quantity offering.

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
In some instances a choice Scot makes 4s. 4d. ; but tbe
general average of best qualities do not reach'that figure. The
number of Sheep is smaller, and some of the very best. des-
criptions make rather more money. The weather operates
against big Sheep, and trade is slow, but everything is cleared
off at fair rates. Good Calvers are not quite so plentiful ;
trade is, however slow, at very little advance.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET—YESTEUDAY.
The share market rallied yesterday to a small extent
from the extreme depression noticed last week; but still
the public only appear to be interested in it as sellers.
The greater part of the business consists of jobbing trans-
actions. Midland stock is quoted 91.2; London, 114.15.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET—YESTERDAY.
The market was steady yesterday, and no change in
prices.

LIVERPOOL PRODLTCE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
Since Thursday last there has been an improved demand
for Sugar ; the grocers and refiners purchasing much more
freely, rather higher prices have been paid ; and should
the present fine weather continue, we may safely look for-
ward to a further advance. The sales comprise 120 hhds.
Jamaica, at 355: 6d. to 375. ; 200 hhds. Porto Ricol3ss.
to 365. 6d. ; 150 tons Paraiba, afloat, 20s. 3d. ; 5,000 bags
Bengal. principally at 38s. 6d. to 41s. 6d. for good to white.
Molasses are more sought after, and full prices paid. 80
puns. Porto Rico realised 18s. 3d. Bengal Rice is in less
request : about 5 to 6000 bags have been sold, chiefly t
11s. 3d. to lls. 6d. per cwt. for middling; white much
broken, being 3d. to 6d. cheaper. Rum is more in demand ;
holders continue very firm, and will not sell at previous
rates. Saltpetre very flat ; nothing doing in the article.
7000 bales Cotton to-day. Steady market.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, AUG. 28.
We have had a large supply of all kinds of Stock to-day, and
prices a little lower. Beet, sd. to 6d. ; Mutton, 51d. to -6 id. ;
Lamb, sd. to 6d.

Na ',musts FOR THE BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.—
The licensing day for this borough is fixed for Monday
next, and the number of new licenses for which applica-
tion will be made, inclusive of two notices for transfers,
is 221. The numbers in the different wards are as follow,
viz., in Everton Ward 34 ; in Kirkdale 11 ; hi Scotland
43 ; in Vauxhall 6 ; in St. Paul's 3; in Exchange 3 ; in
Castle-street 2; in St. Peter's 10; in Pitt-street 3; in
Great George-street 10; in Rodney7street 4; in Aber-
cromby 16; in Lime-street 10; in St. Anne's 16; in
West Derby 24 ; in North.and South Toxteth 26.
WHOLESALE DEPREDATION.--On Thursday, a man
who gave the name of Barker, and a clothes-dealer, call-
ing himself Jas. Conway, were brought up on charges of
wholesale theft of wearing apparel, umbrellas, &c., from
the Assize Courts. Barker, it appeared, attended the
court, and seized all he could lay his hands on, the pro-
perty of jurymen, witnesses, &c., and Conway received
and paid for the stolen goods.
ANOTHER ARREST.Ataher committal for "treasonable
conspiracy" has taken place. Mr. Martin Boshill, con-
nected with the firm of Messrs Orr and Barber, merchants,
South Castle-street, who was apprehended on Wednesday
by warrant, was brought up before Mr. Rushton and
full bench. Mr. Rushton expressed his deep regret at
seeing a young man of his rising rank and station in life
placed under circumstances like the present. He had
been a most active member, and, from his own hand-
writing, was proved to have been a member up to a recent
date. He had no doubt but he had been made the dup€
of older and designing men ; but his only alternative was
to commit him for trial, upon the evidence which hai',
been adduced against the other prisoner with whom lit
was connected. He was committed for trial.
During an unsuccessful attack on one of the barricade:
raised in Paris during the insurrection in June List,
young garde mobile was made a prisoner by the insur-
gents, who proceeded to hang him to a balcony ; but LI
shot cut the halter and killed his executioner, while th,
garde mobile was found in a swoon by his comrades, wh(
shortly afterwards successfully renewed the attack.