The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-22 00:00:00

inittee have been assured. that a vast numbeeiif persons not con-
nected with your association have acknowledged the value and
tinportance of the statement then laid before the public, and
have expressed sentiment& of revived affection for our ecclesias-
tical establishment, and declared their firm. determination to
uphold the protestant institution of the united kingdoms.
" Your committee cannot contemplate the disclosures made
by those reverend gentlemen without feeling that the protestant
religion in the sister island is in imminent peril, and that so
extensive and deeply-laid are the plans for the extermination
of protestants from Ireland, that prompt and vigorous mea-
sures on the part of the English people can alone save our
fellow-churchmen, and stay the execution of the formidable
conspiracy.

" At the commencement it was determined that the subscrip-
tion should be limited-to the sum of El per annum as maximum;
and it was especially promulgated. that a money contribution
formed no part of tire principle of the association. In thus
keeping clear of the most distant Suspicion of seeking to possess
th(ouselyes of funds beyond what the commonest necessities
demanded, your committee feel that they practiCally deterred
the members from affording the pecuniary means necessary to
carry ou the affairs of the association. Your committee recom-
mend then, as 'a correction, that the limitation of £1 per annum
as the maximum be removed, and that members be permitted
to subscribe whateversumsthey may think proper; on this point
they venture to anticipate your concurrence, more especially as
contribution will continue as it has been heretofore, not in the
slightest decree compulsory or conditional, but entirely at the
free-will and option of the members.
" In the early part of the year the business of the association,
although it demanded great attention on the part of the honorary
secretaries, yet could be accomplished with requiring on the part
of those gentlemen any extraordinary sacrifice. Now, however,
that the duty has become so onerous, and requires so touch time
to be devoted to even the minor details of business, your com-
mittee have felt that it is absolutely necessary that assistance be
engaged to relieve the honorary secretary of the more toilsome
portion of the duty. Your committee have therefore placed at
the disposal of the.honorary secretary a suns of money annually.
for the purpose of enabling him to obtain the aid winch has thus
becOme necessary.
" Your committee cannot take leave of this subject without
noticing, in a particular manner, the valuable services rendered,
most handsomely and gratuitously, by those gentlemen who have
undertaken 'the secretaries' department. 'lo Mr. Hebbert es-
pecially your committee feel bound to say that much of the
prosperity of the association is attributable, and that to him is
due the highest praise you can bestow, for the.urbanity and at-
tention, the intelligence and ability, that have always distin-
guished his conduct in the business of the association.
In coufonnitv to the law which provides for the annual
assembling of the members, and the dining together on the
occasion, your committee have prepared a dinner at the Town-
hall, to which they have invited, in addition to the members of
the association, a number of distinguished friends of the conser-
vative cause in this part of the kingdom. Its doing- this they
have found it necessary to fix the .price of, their,tickets at au
amount which places it out of their power of some of the mem-
bers, and of very many of their other friends who have not yet
formally joined them, to be present on the occasion., Your
committee therefore recommend that a dinner be provided, at as
early a period as possible, for.such of their members andfrienda
as may be unable on account of the expense, or of accidental
causes, to be present at the anniversary dinner, and that a sub-
scription be raised forlhe special purpose of defraying those
large additional expenses which the assembling them together
in one place will necessarily occasion.
" The retrospect of the past year affords your committee
abundant cause for rejoicing, and also warrants the most
favourable hopes and anticipat►ons with regard to the future.
Instead of the intense hatred of our venerable church, which
existed before the association commenced its layouts, and open
hostility to our time-honoured constitution, which the evil-
disposed had so sedulously endeavoured to diffuse, and which
they had partially prevailed in exciting, your committee find
the old and truly English sentiments of loyalty to the King,
affection fOr the church, and devotion to our free and happy
country, again pervading the breasts of all ranks of our British
fellow subjects.
" They found the enemies of the Constitution, but a year ago,
numerous, proud, and confident, and its friends too generally
silent, inactive, and indifferent. They leave the foes of true
civil and religious liberty clamorous indeed, but distracted and
dismayed, and the defenders of the altar and the throne aroused
to the sense of the dangers that menace both, and Prepared to
defend with their lives and fortunes our venerable constitution
of -church and state."