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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-22 00:00:00

WILLIAM MELVILLE LOMAS,
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That Mr. Thomas Taylor be appointed a Select Vestry-
man.

It was moved as an amendment by Mr. IL W. Houon-
TON, seconded by Mr. Jomv WILKINSON,
_

That Mr. Thomas Arthur Bushby be appointed a Select
Vestryman in the place of Mr. Taylor.
Upon a show of hands the Original Motionwas declared
to be carried, whereupon a poll was demanded by Mr.
Houghton on behalf of Mr. Bushby.
JONATHAN BROOKS, Chairman.

NOTICE is THEREFORE GIVEN, that the several
POLLS above mentioned will be taken a ST. NICHOLAS'
CHURCH, TO-MORROW, the 16th instant, at Ten o'clock
in the Forenoon.

M. D. LOWNDES, Vestry-clerk

April 15, 1845,

PARISH OP LIVERPOOL

At the ADJOURNED VESTRY, held in SAINT
NICHOLAS' CHURCH, on WEDNESDAY, the 16th day
of April instant,

Mr:RAYMOND WILLIAM HOUGHTON in the

The Poll was commenced at Ten o'clock this Morning,
and, at Half-past One o'clock, p.m., no person having
appeared to vote for Mr. Ford, Mr. Briscoe, Mr. Wow].
house, and Mr. Bushby, within the time limited by the
Chairman,—Mr. Thomas Wheelhouse, Mr. James Stitt,
Mr. Samuel Blackburn, and Mr. Thomas Taylor, were
declared to be duly elected.
At the close of the Poll the numbers stood as follows :
Persons. Votes 1 Persons. Votes
Mr. E. Ford .... 122 315 1 Mr.T.Wheelhouse 398 945
1
Mr. J. Briscoe:.. 121 313 Mi. J. Stitt.... .. 402 949
Mr.J,Woodhousel2l 309 Mr. S. Blackburn .4(12 950
Mr. T. A. Bushby 122 308 Mr. T. Taylor .. .. 401 950
M. D. LOWNDES, Vestry-clerk.

April 16th, 1845

ANOTHER PROTESTANT DEMONSTRATION

Last night the adjourned meeting of the Protestant
Operatives took place at the Music Hall, and long before
the hour appointed, the room and stairs were crammed to
suffocation by respectable gentlemen and well-dressed ar
titans

Mr, Parker? of St. Anne's Ward, appeared long
before the proceedings commenced, and was loudly
cheered on taking his seat. We never saw so densely

packed or so eager an assemblage

The Rev. HUGH NI`NEILE in the chair,

Prayer having been offered by the Rev. W. W. Ew-
bank, the Rev. Chairman rose to address the meeting, and
was received with treme, do.►s cheering. After stating that
the meeting consisted of the Protestant Operative Associa-
tion of the town, he proceeded to say,—ln thus assembling
and re•assembling together, we are not actuated by any
desire to find fault with others, nor to hinder any of our
fellow subjects from enjoying any advantages that can
really conduce to their true happiness, but we are assem-
bled under a deep sense of our own responsibilities and
particular Christian duties. The question now before the

kingdom is the whole question of the Reformation—(hear,
hear)--a question of the moral conquests of three centu-
ries. (Hear, hear.) The Reformation of England con-
sisted of two leading branches—the one theological, and
the other legislative. In theology the victory was won
by our faithful controvertialists, Right Rev. Prelates
and others, many of whom sealed their testimony to
the all•sufficiency of the Son of God as the Saviour
of man by their blood. In the Legislature the victory
was consolidated from time to time, until at last triumph
was inscribed on the banner of England by the Act of
SettleMent. TI at victory was followed by a long peace
—I will not say the best possible use was made of that
interval, on the contrary—alas, far otherwise ; and, now,
the whole line of contest has to be gone over again—the
Tractarians in theology', and the Parliament in legislation,
are both busy in the service of Rome. In opposition to
both of them we are associated in defence of Protestant-
ism, and I am thankful to say, the voice of Britain, out
of doors as they call it, is with us. (Loud cheers.) Our
sense of duty, my friends, is not superficial or transient;
it rests upon our deepest and most abiding convictions.
With the sacred Scriptures in our hands, and the history
of the Christian Church before us, in its primitive purity,
and its subsequent defilement, we - believe, and are per-
suaded, that Romanism is fraught with dishonour to God,
and is destructive to our fellow-creatures. (Hear, hear.)
With the political history of the world also open before
us, we are equally persuaded that Romanism, as a system,.
is so essentially opposed to the well-balanced interests of
authority in the ruler and liberty in the subject, that in
proportion as that system is raised into ascendancy, the
nations of the earth must sink into slavery,—slavery men-
tal and bodily, slavery civil and religious. (Hear, hear.) Is Romanism to be endowed, is socinanism is to be en-
We perceive with pain that the present discussion of the dewed, for the sake sf fair play ? Or is the Church of
great principles of the Reformation is entangled and fet- England to be disendowed in order to get rid of apparent
tered by the question of endowments ; and that both the preferences and partialities? I say if that alternative be
tone and practice of the legislature is tending strongly and so put my answer is this, and I believe I shall not be
rapidly beyond the bounds of just toteration and erotec- alone in it—" rather let the state confibcate eve.ly farthing
Lion, even to the indiscriminate support, from the public of Church property and apply it to national purposes than
treasury, of all sorts of religious bodies, without regard to endow wills one penny which is fundamental error."
the agreement with, or opposition to, the Word of God, (Loud cheers.) The alternative is a solemn one; but
of the opinions which they maintain. lam much struck every thing is comparative, and I hold it to be a ruiner evil
with the. contrast in this respect between England as i to be guilty of sacrilege against the intentions of human
now represented (should I not rather say, on this testators and donors, than to be guilty of blaspheming
question, misrepresented.) by the present House of i a!ainst the plainly revealed will of Almighty God
Cemmons, and Rome : Koine Pagan, as well as Rome (Hear, hear, and cheers.) And now as regards ti‘-
Thp relieion. it it •

an ._._ .. am tree to au, it a tits-
tinction could be clearly drawn, if a seperation could be
made between the primitive portion of church property
and the papal additions to church property, and if the in-
tentions of the donor, irrespective of truth or falsehood,
were binding upon the trustee, I think, and I freely ad-
mit, and boldly say, that then—if that were so—the State
would be as much bound to apply the papal portion of
church property to those that represent the papal chic-
trines, as to apply the primitive portion of church pro-
perty to those who represent the primitive doctrines.
(Hear, hear.) But the distinction cannot be made. It
is absolutely impossible to make the separation. Even
independent of the great question of truth or error, an
equitable adjustment is absolutely impossible. In the
meantime the nation has declared again and again that
the question of truth or error ought to have chief weight.
(Hear.) The Act of Settlement—eminently a national
act—proclaimed that truth should be paramount, and
truth alone endowed in England. The influence of
that act—still eminently a national sentiment—rnodi.
fled the concessions of 1829, and rendered the con-
tinued Protestantism of the sovereign and keeper of
the great seal imperative in England. The State,
also as the trustee, has been continued Protestant.
If that is, now, to continue no longer—if the State
as trustee can no longer feel justified in applying the
whole of the church property to one class without finding
resources somewhere else to give funds and endowments
to another class—if this alternative must be pit. and acted
upon (mind these hypotheses)—if tauth and falsehood can
no longer be distinguished so as to be the basis of action,

e other a

ice is to

be acted

upon in

ru
bate 1,t..t we.k.

have watcl

Empire in the zenith of its grandeur
polytheism, supported by the public re-

have been anxious to see whether the question of truth
error won't] be taken up by any honourable,_or right lion.

_
venues. , policy of the empire was tolerant of all
sorts of opinions concerning the gods and the unseen

gentleman. or noble ford in the house. J made an at-
tempt, us you know, to get the question of the truth or

falsehood of the matter canvassed before the debate began.
There was no response—no entering into the question.
(Hear.) Last Monday night I told you, at the beginning
of the debate, that brrnch of the subject was not taken
up at all ; but in the course of the week there was one, a
master's, hand applied to it. The right hon. gentleman
the member for Edinburgh, [Mr. Macauley] in a
very splendid and talented speech, did for a little
while attempt to gropple with this great subject. He did
it in this way. I have not the paper with me, and there-
fore quote from memory ; but what I say is substantially
correct. He said, that, in endowing the Church of Scot-
land and the Church of England, you were endowing
error, because there is nothing perfect. (Cries of
"Oh, oh.") There is some error, in every church, he
said ; the Church of Scotland and the Church of England
disagree in some things; they cannot both be perfectly
right; therefore, in endowing both, you are endowing
some error. (Cries of " Oh, oh.") Then he spoke of
the translations of the Scriptures into the languages of
the east—translations containing, in the first instance,
many errors, yet they were circulated ; and he drew an
argument from thence, that, as you are under an inevitable
necessity to endow some error, therefore you are only
deing what you have been 'already doing, and what you
cannot help doing, when you endow Popery. (Hear, and
a laugh.) This was the substance of the right hon. gen-
tleman's argument, only I have render -el it from his high
and polished elocution, down to the plain English of her
Majesty's subjects the Protestant Operatives of Liver-
:mil. (Cheers.) And in similar plain English I want to
tell you what I think of it. (Cheers.) I want to ask
you whether there is not a very considerable difference-
between nutritious food, containing as much of our food
does contain, some mixture of poison, (such is the strange
order of things) and a poisonous dose outright ? (Hear
aod cheers.) Is there not an essential difference between.
/be prosagation of subsearitiel truth, although it be inevi-
bly allied with some mixture of error, and the propaga-
tion of notorious, fundamental, destructive error? (Chs.)
I would ask the rightletetroaddthmo:aff,onseeonleerysf.et gentleman whether he does
not recognise the difference between essential and non-
essential things? ' I know the Church of England and
the Church of Scotland differ, but in what ? Why
one has a Church Government with what is called
a Bishop at the head of it, and The other has men
at the head of it for a year, whom they call Pres-
sbyters, and once a-year, when they meet in Edin-
burgh, they have a Moderator of all the Presbyters ;
and during the meeting he is the Bishop of Scotland.
These are differences ; but in what respect are they
parallel to the difference between Romanism and Chris-
tianity? (Cheers.) In what respect are they parallel to
the difference between the one offering once offered upon
the cross on Calvary and the offering of the sacrifice of
the mass ? (Hear, hear.) The differences in the one
tettcihhoa soieunser,;i
tnepositively,l
iareoerf
this
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enboarcytfretoeaebrmrr.egrtpou:r(,meLeleonnt
have
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tion urs
Yet
hirsene.t.
It was with no small concern that I saw, toe ards the
close of the final speech in the debate—in the spe ch of
the right honourable baronet at the head of her Maj sty's
government (hiss, s. and cries of " hear ")—a reference
to the agitation in Ireland—the agitation which has for
its object the dismemberment of the empire. (Hear,
hear.) It was, I repeat, with no small concern that
I observed the right hon. gentleman said, that that agi-
tation could not be suppressed by force; and upon this
ground he advocated the measure before the house as a
mode of suppressing the agitation by kindness. (More
hisses.) I would venture to say te that right hon. gentle-
man, entrusted as he is with the government of this coun-
try, that it is the duty of the government, s a long as the
law is as it is, to see that law respected. (Cheers.) The
union between England and Ireland is the law ; and I
say it is holding out a premium upon disaffection, agita-
tation, and rebellion—(cheers)—for a gentleman in his
situation to tell the country that the law cannot be up-
held, (for that is the meaning of it,) and that the agitation
cannot be suppressed. But the aeitation is against the
law ; and it is saving in other words that, as the law can-
not be maintained by the power of the state, it must be
altered in order to please the disaffected, and in
order to cater to the appetites of the rebellious. (Loud
cheers.) This I conceive to have been one of the most
dangerous sentiments that have been uttered for years by
any msmber of her Majesty's government. I consider,
that to tell the nation from that high place, that the law
cannot be maintained by the power of the state, but it
must be altered to meet the demands of the disaffected,
is a most revolutionary sentiment. (Great applause.)
Is it any wonder, then, that we are associated to oppose
this measure ? Are we not perfectly justified in using
every constitutional effort in our peer to hinds this
measure, or, if it should pass, to remedy it at the earlier
possible opportunity? (Loud cries of " Yes, yes," an
cheers.) Are we not perfectly justified in signing such a
rel
declaration as that which was submitted to you last
week? (Cheers.) I have been making inquiry, and
I believe I shall be quite justified when I tell you, that
upon comparing the sheets with the poll-book, in order
to guard against any unintentional zeal upon the part of
non-electors who might have signed the declaration, sup-
posing it to be a petition, but who really were not qualified
to sign it seeing it is a declapation of electors only. 800
voters have appended their names to. that declaration within
the week. (Cheers.) I anticipate twice that number
within a very short time. I have before told you of the
use to he made of this declaration. You must be early in
the field if your measure of political influence is to be
practically efficient. (Hear.) To be early in the field
you must have this declaration ready to send to the gen--
tlemen who compose the Conservative Slciety, who, in
their combined wisdom associate for the purpose of select-
ing the candidate to represent yon in Parliament. (Hear.)
nu y met in couclave the last time when. Mr. Justice reesseie
well was appointed to the bench and left a vacancy, to de-
termine whether they would propose Sir Howard Douglas
your present member or Mr. Colquhoun. After some
debate they determined upon Sir Howard Douglas. All
the time you knew nothing about it. The first you heard
of it was, that "there was a candidate." you had no
choice. If you leave the matter to the last now. you
will be card al down with the stream, hod you will have
no choice. In order to have an independent will, you
must have an early will. (Cheers.) Here is the oportu-
nity. We are giving you an oppootunity of an early will.
One or two thousand of you sign this declaration ; then
we will send it into the Conservative Committee, and
and when they sit down to consider who will be a fit and
proper candidate to select, they will have to consider
this, " we want to have a Conservative candidate, but
look at these 1,500 or 2,000 fellows, they will have a
Protestant." (Cheers ) They will say. "if we select i
for a candidate a Conservatiove,, who snot a Protestant,"
i
—a queer sort of a combined animal—" f we select a
Conservative who voted for the Maynooth Grant, and the
radicals bring forward a candidate. these 1,500 or 2,000
men will walk away; thus, the radical will he in ; and it
will be our fault, for they gave us notice." (Ch,ers.)
'reds is the very turning point. They will blame you for
letting the radical in ; but if you have the first word, and
if they do not' choose a Protestant, you can blame
them. (Loud cheers.) This is the plain English of
the present movement ; and seeing that the interests of
the Reformation are at stake, I consider myself altogether
in my place when I am encouraging this movement.
(Cheers.) The reverend gentleman then re id the follow-
ing extract from a letter from the Lord Bishop of Chester,
to show that his opinions on the Maynooth endowment
had been misunderstood :

" Eaton square, April 11.
" My dear Dr. Tattershall,—l shall have great pleasure in
presenting your petition, and heartily wish it were likely to
meet with success proportioned to the justice of its prayer.
' J. 13. CHESTER."

(Signed;

(Cheers.) He alao read the followiug from Sir Howard
Douglas:— _

Grear-street, April 12, 1845

"My dear Sir.—l have the honour to acknowledee the re-
ceipt of your letter dated the 10th instant, and to acquaint yon
that the petition which accompanied your letter was presented
to the House of Commons yesterday by my noble colleague.

"IV receive with great gratificatiOn the vote of thanks from
the great meeting by which that petition was vot d. I thank
yon. my dear sir, for the terms in which you communicate to
me that expression of public feeling on this most important
subject, and beg to assure you that I s.zall continue to act in
this as on all other occasions, in conformity with a firm and
steady attachment to the great print pies of the Reformation.
" I have the honour to be. my dear sir,

Your most obed

t. humble servart,
" HOWARD DOUGLAS

" The Rev. Dr. Tattershall "
(Loud cheers.) The reverend gehtlemen consed his
eloquent address amidst loud applause.
[Our reporters had prepsred reports of the addresses of
Mr. Parker, Mr. Harhord, the R.-vs. W. W. Ewhank,
D. James, and J. James, in movinc and seconding the
the next resolution, but at so late an hour that we could
not find room for them.]
The CHAIRMAN then in a very animated speech, which
was listened to pith profound attention, said that as the
last speaker had truly said that in reaching the place of
meeting after the opening (being detained elsewhere) he

had the greatest difficulty in getting in, and found many
hundreds on the stairs and outside, who could not accom-
plish an entrance, it was proposed to him, and he cordi-
ally acceded, that in order to follow out the object in view
a requisition just prepared, and alraady signed by many
gentlemen, wh;ch he held in hand should be forwarded to
the Mayor, suliciting him to call a public meeting of the
borough, to adopt en address to her Majesty, imploring
her as our Protestant Sovereign, to exercise her royal pre-
rogative, and refuse her signature to the bill should it
reach she throne. The Chaitman then addressed the
meeting with great effect; and after he had pronounced
the benediction, the mcetublage quietly dispersed.

On Thursday last, a young man named Cadwallader
Jones. whilst unioatlin4 a lorry laden with ootton, at the
New Quay. fell on the pavement, and was so much in-
jured that he died on the following day.
FlRE.—Early yesterday morning, a fire was discoverect
in the yard of Messrs. Thos. Vernol and Co., iron ship-
builders, North-shore. There are tsvo smithy wooden
sheds in the yard of about fifty yards lon

'unning

exertions of the fire police and Messrs. Vernon's men,
the only damage was the burning down of the ro ,f of one
of th- sheds. and a small part of the other. Mr. Hewit
judiciously directed his principal efforts to preserve •the
end of One of the sheds which was contiguous to two fine
new iron s' to he launched to-morrow, fear-

that if the sl
it, it not irretn

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Ittraturr.

NOTICES.

The Church Visible, and th- Church Invisible. Perris,

Liverpool.
We have here two scriptural discourses preached in St.
Michael's Church, in this town, by the Rev. Mr. Carpen-
ter, the truly estimable, incumbent, wherein Le shows that
in the new testament, and in the standard, of our Church,
the word " Church" has the two following principal
meariinzs:—

" 1. It signiffi.s that vast body diffused throughout the
world, which has been baptised i,)to the name of Christ,
which professes faith in his word and sacraments, and
obedience to his cinarnknds. This body cln be seen by
the eye, and it,a profession known to ail, being distin-
guished from Jews, Heathens and Mahommedans, by its
outward religious badges and its public acknowledgement
of Christ. Hence this body is denomina►ed visible. And
from its being extendel through many d fferent nations
of the earth, and rot like the J,v;is, church confined to a
single people, it has received the epithet of catholic or
universal. _ . _

"2. Now, within this great body of the baptised. that
is, within the visible ;•athefic Church. every real servant
of Christ under heaven way be found: where else are we
to look for Christ's true disciples, my dear brethren, if
not here? Snail they be found in the ranks of Judaism,
Heathenism, or Mahomedani7sm, for these divide the
world with Christ. No- surely amo,,g these. Every true
believer on earth is somewhere within the borders of the
visible church. Yes! blesscd be our God and Saviour ;
many, very many dwell within the precincts of this visible
church, who not only outwardly prafess Christ, but in
their hearts have a living faith in his saving name. Mul-
titudes are here, who are wasiied indeed by His Holy.
Spirit: but, all these, thus inwardly sashed and sancti-
fied, are Christ's spiritual am! mystical body ; or, as they
are often designated, His Invisible Church on earth. In-
visible, I say, not because the members of it are not per-
sonally visible; for this they are: not because they do
not wear the outward badges of Christ; for this they do
but because that faith which unites them to Christ is in-
visible to man, being dis erned only by God ; and because
their inward sanctification is known, with certainty, to
His all-searching; eye alone, and must necessarily be in-
visible to their fellow-men."

The rev, author establishes with unanswerable force
and chtarness that these views of the church are ac-
cordance with the scripiiires, and with the formularies of
our national church. Mr. Carpenter also cites in an ap-
pendix a great number of autnorities from the writings
of the most learned and godly men of different ages, and
of diffecent schools, all concurring, substantially, with the
definitions above given.

Hints to Promote a Life of Faith. London : Hatchard ;
Liverpool: Grapel.

This is evidently the work of a very spiritually-minded
man, who dedicates it " ti his sons on their entrance into
the world," and who has wr tten it " chiefly to assist the
inexperienced inquirer in the dil.gent and profitable peru-
sal of the Holy Scriptures." The work is divided into
Meditations, which are each headed by a number of pas-
sages from Scripture. The chief divisions are the follow-
ing :—" To glority God the design of creation"—" The
worldling admonished"—" The practical call to self
examination"—" The two sacraments"—" Tiie Chris-
tian's answer for the hope that is in him"—and " The
end of faith." The sub ivi,ons of these subjects" enter
deeply and practically iota the experimental " life of
faith" which it is the design of the writer to unfold; and
though the author s.-ems to think the work will chiefly
commend itself to the young, we teel confident that the
most matured will derive profit from is perusal. There is
pious fervour, scriptural faithfulness, and practical appli-
cation, in almost every line.

The Library of Travel. Chapman and Hall, Strand.

The number of this work for the present month, and
which nearly completes the s&cond volume, is a continua-
tion of Egypt and Nubia, by J. A. St. John (being Part 7),
and is rep!ete with highly- interesting m4ter relating to
these extraordinary countries, their stupendous ruins and
monuments of antiquity, their present condition, and the
manners and austoms of their inuabitants, together with a
narrative of stirring adventures and perils experienced
amongst them by the author and others. The descrip-
tions of many of the ancient temples and palaces, and of
much of the scenery on the upper part of the Nile, are pe-
culiarly graphic, and we do not remember to have derived
greater pleasure and information rem any former number
of the work than from that before us, which is moreover
Ilustrated by fine lig7lette woodcuts.

Christ our All in All.

London :

This is another volume by the Rev. Robert Montgo-
mery, who issues his works with such rapidity, that were
it not that his recent publications contained the substance
of discourses previously preached to his flock, at Percy
Chapel, we should rnervel how the reverend gentleman,
consistently with the performance of his ordinary avoca-
tions, could find time for the publication of so much in-
structive and important matter, especially as his writings
exhibit, in the main, such contit;uous arguments, such
lucid arrangement, and, generally, such classical language.
The work is founded on Cul. 3 c. 11th v. ; and in consi-
dering his subject Mr, Mont emery divides it into three
heads, " A mysterious person contemplated," " A vast
assertion vindicated," and "A spiritual economy gars-
trated." In treating this glorious theme the rev author
unfolds the scriptural attributes and offices of the blessed
Saviour, and with becoming ministerial fidelity proves
Him to be the " All in All" to his church, both as regards
the government and glory of God, as also the character
and salvation of every member of that church. Appended
to the volume is the admirable essay which accompanied
the author's poem " Luther," entitled " The Reformer
and the Reformation." Though the doctrinal views of
Mr. Montgomery are associated in some minds with an
estrangement from church order and discipline, the sub-
joined passages will show that in his case (as indeed is the
fact with all true evangelical churchmen) a confident be-
lief in such doctrines is best calculated to bind us firmly
to our scriptural establishment. We cannot but admire
the following glowing description of the Church of Eng-
land as respects her relation to the social state of the em-
pire :
" May we not at once assert with a grateful largeness
of expression, that she is the spiritual Centre,from whence
our domestic morals pre-emint ntly derive their sacred
force and beautiful expansion? Circulating, as she does
by her varied ministrations, a rich life-blood of celestial
influence through the vast framework of the social body,
—who shall duly estimate the pervading energy with which
she purifies the hearts arid households of the land ? Con-
sider, for instance, that when on every Sabbath-day she
opens in the gospel the gates of mercy to mankind, and
causes the freshness and the fragrance of eternity to
breathe over the deadness and dryness of our sin-fevered
world,—how much of all that constitutes the moral
heaven of the coming week—how much of all that
is chaste in love, refined in thou:At, exalted in idea,
and benevolent in action, might be traced up to
the truths she expounds, to the ordinances she ad-
ministers, and to the motives which she is authorised to
supply ? Around her as the sun of our social system, the
graces of private life may be said to shine and act; while
from her they derive the evangelic beauty of their expres-
sion, and the philanthropic form of their development.
How many crushed hearts does her soothing voice revive!
How many chilled and desolated natures does she warm
and cheer! flow many dark, doubting, and depraved
spirits does she enlighten, convince, and restore! And on
the bosom of Jesus how many a threading head has she
pillowed in peace! And consider. too, bow finely adapted
is her ritual to that varied round of experiences, which are
commensurate with the circles of social life. Whether
present at the bridal altar, to hallow the bonds of human
affection with the principles of divine purity; or placing
in the baptismal embrace of the child-loving Redeemer,
new-born inflincy ; or hovering with all the watchink eyes
of a spiritual mother beside the solemnities of a dying
bed; or chanting over the cherished du-t of some departed
saint the august requiem of immortality : in a word, whe-
ther you contemplate social life at the height of action, or
in the depth of affliction,—may we nce pour forth a na-
tional hymn of gratitude to the Most High for the influ-
ence, the character, anti the principles of the Church of
England ? Surely he that toucheth Her toucheth the apple
of the Nation's eye !"
Nor can we refrain, from extracting the following elo-
quent appeal in defence of the church's suitability to the
nations wants:— _ _

" Against all these varied elements then of existing
enmity, (combined in their action though clashing in their
principles,) is there ought in the ruling doctrines and
ritual apparatus of the Church of England, calculated to
make head ? Under God, we believe there is : and in her,
we venture to aaert, amid the rising waves of revolution
and the tossing sea of popular discontent, the peace, hap-
piness, and glory of the empire can alone be safely arked.
To illustrate this would require a volume ; yet may the
whole be concentrated in this one inviolable fact,—the
saving principles of our church. are in absolute harmony
with the revealed promises of Heaven; and the more the
nation is taught to embody the purity of the one in her
character, the more she will realize the blessing of the
other in her welfare. For demonstrated it may be with
the precision of mathematical proof, that " righteousness
exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people."

True, in the eye of our church no relation which man
bears to this world is forgot ; but it is pre-eminently over
the destinies of his eter►ial conscious.:ess that she bends

her watchful and unwearied gaze. In order to discipline
the infant of time for its manhood in eternity, she per-
petually brings before the responsible soul its ever-awful
relationship to Godhead, in the ti bine aspect of Creator,
Redeemer, and Judge : and in all the detail of that super-
natural hidden life which religion inculcates, there is a
celestial provision for counteracting the infection of that
lower form of visible and acridly life, which our blended
experience must continually !ace. heavenly and holy in-
deed must that church be, that unteaches human pride
before she teaches Livine knowledge—that everywhere
subordinates the intellectual to the moral, the temporal
to the eternal—and in contrast with the baseness of expe-
diency, and the vagaries of opinion, authenticates sacred
principle as the only sand rd of what is right, and the
Word of God as the only test of what is true. Above all,
while by her Litany our venera'ed Church interprets the
national conscience in reference to sin felt and salvation
needed,—what irradiations of j y does she attract from
the sanctuary of peace above, %herewith to illumine this
blighted world of darkness, graves and tears! Mindful
that the begun heaven of the spirit consists in that moral
reflecticn of our Maker which holiness begets within,—
she ever sets before the eyes of her people the promotion
of the Divine glory as the great purpose of their I:ves, and
the exhibition of Divine love as the great motive of their
hearts ; and teaches them-that not in wealth acquired, not
in rank enjoyed, not in the palms of intellect, not in the
pursuits of science, but that in spiritual reconciliation

with God in the conscience,—the perfective erandeur and
ennobling happiness of our nature can be found. Pro-
foundly indeed does she show the way to be happy, by
affording the means how to become holy. And if it can
be proved that universal truth is the object of the intel-
lect, and universal gond the object of the will,—what is
the Church of England in her doctrinal voice but the spi-
ritual echo of this almighty text—" Christ is All and in
All?"

SELECTIONS.

A PILGRIMAGE PERFORMED, YET NOT

ACCOMPLISHED.

" I remember when I was yet a boy, in Dresden. that
the late king. being affliced with a super-delicate senti-
ment of virtue, ordered al Titian's Vennees, and indeed
all other pictorial nuclides, to be ejected from the royal
gallery. Never did king or subject better illustrate the
truth of an assertion made by a countryman of mine,
whose name aas Swift, viz., that a nice man is a man of
nasty ideas. The old King of Saxony's religion, too, had
something of the hyper-complexion which distinguished
his virtue. I can very well recollect all the Romanist por-
tion of the German Florence being in an ecstacy of admi-
ration at the announcement that the monarch was about
to perform a pilgrimage to the holy sepulchre at Jerusa-
lem, on foot. A fever of expectation shook the whole
line of road, at the idea of beholding a Chri,tian king
again turning to the neglected shrine. The expectation
was not altogether fulfilled ; but the monarch, neverthe-
less, performed the pilgrimage."
" We never heard of it !" exclaimed the two travellers,
looking at each other with manifestations of very great
surpise.

" That is to say (I resumed), that his majesty performed
it after a fashion. He asked the distance from his own
country-house, at Pilnitz, to the Armenian convent in the
Holy City ; and in spite of his education, he was nothing
less than astonished To find that it was something more
serious than a promenade to Toplitz. I do not know if
he had a vision of boiling his peas, as an English pilgrim
did, of whom I can tell you something; but he certainly
experienced some unpleasant sensations at th., idea that,
the way being so long, he might chance to find himself
without peas to boil. He wept at the reflection that he
might be a devout, but a hungry king, while one-half of
Dresden were solacing their appetites on the terrace of
Braila, and the other at the baths of Link and the Bastei.
He thought of the dangers, but he would be devout. The
attendant pains were great, but the resulting pleasures
were not to be denied. In short, he would not go to Je-
rusalem, but he would perform the pilgrimage. Accord-
ingly, the exact distance having been learnt, he set out
round his room, and walked the entire number of leagues
by pacing up and down a long gallery—deducting only
the amount of water passage, which was but fair. If ad-
miration had been great at the commencement, surprising
fun was excited during the performance. Every evening
the citizens of Dresden knew how far their religious ruler
bad proceeded on his way, or how far he would have pro-
ceeded if he had but set out. Now he was breakfasting in
imagination at Breslau—sleeping in fancy at Olmutz—
and passing. by a pleasant fiction, through Buda. During
two days that his majesty suffered from a real bilious at-
tack—the result, perhaps, of a Barmecidal repast at Esaek
on the Drave—'he king rested at Belgrade while confined
to his bed in Dresden. But his holy zeal soon reinvigo-
rated his liver; and, as he glided by his palace windows,
the mystified multitude below learned that the monarch
was lodging in the house of the chief mufti at Ist irnboul.
The pilgrim traveller suffered a little from the heat (of
the room) as he descended from the western coast of Asia.
Minor; but the inconveniences of the route were things
beneath the thought of him who, whether at Btarsa, Smyr-
na, or any other locality on his way, could ring his bell in
the desert, and order champagne from his own well-pa-
tronised Hotel de Pologne. The king was puzzled one
mid-day (he had. by calculation, just reached Beyrout),
that his progress was checked by the unexpected arrival
of a portion of the imperial family from Vienna. Visitors
of such condition must be attended to—nevertheless, his
pilgrimage must be continued ; and he, like the clever and
facetious palmer that he was, did both—he attended his
guess with much politeness during their stay of two days,
and put down the time thus spent as c:msumed in a sea
voyage from Beyrout to Acre. The moment they left, the
royal pilgrim went ashort again, and happily accomplished
the remaining distance to Jerusalem, through Nassara
and Nablons, without any other hindrance and obstruc-
tion than bis going one night to see a French vaudeville.
while supposed to be enjoying his well-earned repose at
Rama or Muddin. And thus was accomplished that royal
pilgrimage that was never performed. The king went to
Jerusalem without going there ; and the people saw him
return who had never departed. My narration, gentle.
men (said 1), is more real than the pilgrimage, which was,
however, actually executed as I have told vou."—" Re-
miniscences of a Ride in a Schnell Wagen.l'—Fraser.

LORD ABINGER'S OPINION OF THE MAYNOOTH
GRANT.—A letter from the la'o Lord A hinger to Lord
Ashley on the grant to Maynooth College, written in
1839, has just been re-published, and from it we take the
following extract :—" Though it is an essential part of
toleration to permit those who dissent from the religion
of the state to educate their children after their own
fashion. there ought not to be any system of education at
the national expense that does not comprehend as an es-
sential Dart of it instruction in the estlblished religion.
To tolerate is one thing—to cherish and to propagate
quite another. The sower of good seed, though he may
not separate or gather tl,e tares until the harvest, is not
enjoined to sow them with the good seed."
SCENERY ON THE NlLE.—Egypt is always singular and
interesting ; but under an autumnal sunset it is beautiful.
The sun sinks behind groves of palms in a goldsn sky, upon
which their most delicate Patherings are distinctly de-
scribed. A rich amber light glows over the landscape,
and makes the meanest and most uncouth objects beauti-
ful : soon the feeblest star has lighted its lamp, and the
black vault of heaven seems thickly studded with brilliants.
Such is the purity of the atmosphere, that you may watch
a setting star till it touches the low bank of the river.
Profound tranquillity reigns through the universe ; or is
only broken at intervals by the mellowed murmur of a dis-
tant water-wheel. The moonlight streams upon the bo-
som of the ancient river. A beautiful meteoric phenome-
non heightens the interest of the scene. Ever and anon
bright star seems to shoot away from amongst its fixed
companions—glances horizontally across the heavens,
throwing off a long luminous trail, then, bursting like a
rocket, leaves all nature intensely tray-coil as before.
But wherefore all night long shine these? for whom
This glorious sight, when sleep bath shut all eyes ?"
" Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep,
Celestial voices to the midnight air,
Sole. or responsive each to other's note,
Hymning their great Creator !"

Library of Travel.

FATAL EFFECTS OF LITERATURE IN CHINA.—One
of my domestics th;s morning was called away by the
sudden death of his grandfather, an old man, nearly 80.
The immediate occasion of his death was a journey of a
hundred miles, in order to attend a literary examination.
That such a man should attend as a candidate for literary
honours, after perhaps nearly sixty years of unsuccessful
application, shows at least ardour in the pursuit of his
object. The present case of perseverance, which proved
fatal, and similar attempts, ,re caused by a good-natured
►aw made by the Emperor Keen-lung, who was a great
patron of old people : he decreed 'hat ;Al Sew-tsae gradu-
ates cf seventy, who would attend but once and go through
the exercises after that age, should receive the next de-
gree, called Keu-jin, by a special act of imperial favour,
without any regard to the merit of their essays. But this
►aw, which originated in the most gracious intentions,
causes annually, in different u Ills of the country, the
death of several persons. The candidates at these exa-
minations have to sit, whilst composing their essays, two
days and two nights at a time, in little sentry boxes,
where they cannot lie down. and surrounded by the smoke
caused in cooking for them ; and this is repeated thrize—
so that altogether they sit up often, in extremely hot wea-
ther, six nights ! This toil and inconvenience, not at all
pleasant to young men, is frequently fatal to the old per-
sons who attempt-it —Piddinu's Chinese Olio.

BORIIWI.ASKI THE DWARF.—I knew Bornwlaski -a a
private gentleman. Towards the end of the year 1785, he
and his family came to Birmingham, and took possession
of a vacant house belonging to my father. and nearly ad-
joining the one in which we resided. We paid our shil-
lings. for such was the sum demanded, and we saw Bo-
ruwlaski. I was so charmed with him, that, with the per-
mission of my father and mother, I invited him and his
family to share our roast betf and plum pudding on
Christmas Day. They came; the little gentleman, his
wife, and Monsieur de Trouville, the lady's uncle.
From this time, 1 sent tht m a regular invitation to tea
and supper once in every week during their stay in Bir-
mingham, I never saw a more graceful man nor a more
perfect gentleman than Boruwlaski. He spoke but little
English. He uttered the few phrasea he had learned wi. h
assumed vivacity, when in public ; but at our fireside,
where he was no longer obliged to exert hin self, he was
frequently silent, and sometimes sad. Oree, after supper,
(unasked of course), he sent for his guitar, and danced a
dance of his country to hi. own music, the guitar being sus-
pended from a ribbon rind round his neck. I cannot
imagine it possible to excel either h's performance on the
instrument, or the grace and agility of his dancing.
Madame Bornwlaski, though born in Poland, was quite
a Frenchwoman. She was of a middle size, very In nd-
sorae, and very lively ' • her dark eyes were p trticularly
fine. She spoke English well, and talked much, and
laughed, and sang French songs. I should think she was
fifteen years younger than her husband, who was then
forty-six years of age. She was a woman whom any man
might love, but certainly not a woman whom it was pru-
dent for Bornwlaski to marry. I admired her ; but. ear-
siderine how she was situated, Ircuid not like her. Their
eldest child was still with the Mar, rave of Anspaeh, the
two others were with their parent.. The elder, a most
lovely and charming little creature, was frequently with
us ; the younger was an infant in is mother's arms. In
1807, I was at a sea-hathine place on the northern, coast of
Yorkshire, where I met with a lady from the neighbon, -
hood of Durham ; and Boruwlaski being accidentally
mentioned, I expressed a great desire to know what had
become of him. " I can tell you," said the lady; "he
lives at Durham, and is much respected. His savings, and a
subscription among us,havc enabled him to ict ep house, and
haveawoman servant. He walks along unnoticed and alone;
_ _

and if I, or any other of his friends, chance to see him,
we join him, and take his hand instead of his arm." I
need not say that 1 had great satisfaction in learnimg that
this extraordinary and deserving little man was allowed
to pass his latter days in repose and independence, atter
a life of such exertion and anxiety. He was now sixty-
eight years of age. Time passed on. I sometimes
thought of Boruwlaski, but 1 always concluded that he
was dead; and great was my astonishment u hen, in 1821,
1 beard that he was not only living, but in London ; and
that, at the age of eighty-two, this apparently fragile
being had travelled 259 miles. He died in 1837, at the
age of ninety-eight. —Berilltyls Miscellany.

SIR ROBERT AND THE CHURCH.—Sir Robert seem..
to have forgotten that the present royal family was placed
on the throne chiefly for the support of the Protestant as-
cendency; then, how can he reconcile it to his consci-
ence, as the minister of that crown, to endow that faith
which will ruin his royal- mistress if it gain the ascen-
dancy ; and which it will probably do, if he continue to
oppress the Church of England as it is now oppressed ?
Whilst be is thus exalt.ng the Papists, what means of de-
fence has he left in the power of the Church of England ?
Where are her legislative assee:blies ?—they do not exist.
Where is the independence of the catbedrals?—in the
hands of commissioners. Where are the tithes?—forced
from her by a violent commutation. Where are the
church rates ?—refused by the law courts. Where are
her poor members ?—forced from her protection by the
Poor Law Commissioners. Where are her registers ?
crossed by the national entries of births without baptism.
Where are her marriages ?—transferred to the registration
office. Where are her parishes I—on the point of being
absorbed in the unions. Where are the church schools ?
there has been an attempt to transfer them to the home
secretary. And if ye may judge from the success of their
schemes in Ireland, the attempt will be repeated in Eng-
land. Can any reasoning person after this enumeration
doubt the schemes of government ? Is not the direction
of events too marked to be mistaken; In another gene-
ration, the forced commutation of tithes will pass through
a second forced form ; and the established clergy—once
an estate of the realm, and an estate of parliament—will
be pensioners of the sate, dependent on the frowns and
smiles of ministers. Sir Robert Peel, in speaking of the
Irish tithe. has expressly declared himself on this point;
and when he has created the same overwhelming neces-
sity for England, which his wily confessions have brought
to pass in Ireland, an overwhelming necessity introducing
Sir Robert's plaes will absorb all things. No churchman
—no Protestant can ever trust Sir Robert. No English
farmer or landowner can believe what he says ; and what
is far worse, Sir Robert cannot trust himself. He has
advanced on theory as to all things too far to recede ; he
has tampered with a variety, and complexity, and exten-
sion of affairs too vast for the comprehension of any one
man ; and unless he is removed from office, England will
be made to pay the price of his presumption and his ex-
periments.—Church and Stile Gazelle.
THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR.—At a few hundred yards
from the river is the temple of Luxor, the first object that
strikes the eye on approaching Thebes. It stands on an
artificial foundation, sufficiently elevated to place it above
the inundation. We turned into the Arab village imme-
diately before it, and approached it on the north side. A
stupendous propylon, more than two hundred feet broad,
and eighty feet high, gives entrance to the temple. Two
colossal statues, half buried in the sand, are placed against
the propylon •, and immediately in front of them were two
beautiful obelisks, eighty feet in height, anti covered with
hieroglyphics, cut in the eranite, near two inches deep,
with a finish and niceness of touch that is as fresh now as
when first sculptured. One of these obelisks is now in
the Place de la Concords at Paris ; the other maintains its
original position. The whole surface of the propylon is
covered with representations of battle scenes, cut in inta-
glio rilievata. The prodigious number of human figures,
horses, and chariots, is no less astonishing than the spirit
and animation which pervade the whole. It is a speak-
ing picture, and excites the most vivid emotions of sym-
pathy with the vanquished. and exultation with the proud
victors, that are seen riding in triumph over the battle-
field. The flight of the enemy, the rapid pursuit, the con-
tending cohorts, the rise and fall of glittering standards,
denoting the alternations of success and repulse, the in-
vincible victor of the day, discharging clouds of javelins
from his chariot, the fiery steeds of which are urging their
way over the bodies of the slain, with all the tumult.
shock, and confusion of a great battle, are depicted upon
the wall of the propylon with a spirit and truth that may
rival the happiest efforts of the pencil. This is a most in-
teresting historical picture of ancient warfare. The hero,
whose glories are here so vividly celebrated, is most pro-
bably Sesostris, whose victorious car, if we believe the an-
cient writers, rode in triumph over all the known regions
of the world. Passing under the portal of the propylon,
we entered into a court, two hundred and thirty-four feet
long by one hundred and seventy-four feet wide, where the
remains of a double range of pillars, with the bell-shaped
capital, are still to be seen. This court is much obstructed
by an Arab village built within it, the huts of which, erected
against the walls and columns, much impair the effect of
the whole. A portion also serves as a magazine of grain.
Beyond this court are other propylaea, behind which is a
double row of seven columns, with lotus capitals, each
twenty-two feet in circumference. This row of columns
conducts into a court one hundred and sixty feet long, and
one hundred and forty wide, terminated at each side by a
row of pillars. Beyond this is another portico, of thirty-
two columns, and then follows the sanctuary, or inner-
most part of the temple. It is impossible. by description,
to give an adequate idea of these extensive ruins. The
temple of Luxor is supposed to be of great antiquity. Vast
cost and labour were expended in its construction ; and
though it does not equal the grandeur of Karnak, it exhi-
bits much of that gigantic architecture which character-
ises ail the works of the Egyptians, and displays a finish
and skill in its sculptures that denote a highly-advanced
period of art. The interior of the t, mple is, however, so
much filled up with sand-heaps and Arab huts, that it is
impossible to get an idea of it in its original state. The
exterior colonnades remain in almost unbroken lines,
while the interior is completely unroofed and ruined. It is
still the skeleton of a magnificent temple.—Lib. of Tray.
SKETCH OF THE PREMlER.—Sometimes a sturdy Ra-
dical, or an indignant agriculturist, determines to catch
the eel by the tail and electrify him. He puts some plain,
direct question, and demands an answer. You think Sir
Robert must now,he fairly posed, his veil must be rent,
parties must soon resume their old habits, for he must
say something positive on which a war-cry can be raised.
He rises, leans forward on the table, playing with his
glasses, or puts his hands under the tails of his blue frock-
coat; and, in the most open and candid way, declares his
determination to answer frankly the question that has
been put to him. This is satisfactory, it propitiates. All
are on the qui vice. There is hushed silence; all heads
are stretched forward in expectation of the announcement
of policy. Perhaps Lord John Russell and Lord Palmer-
ston exchange a glance or ensile of incredulity, for they
know their man. Meanwhile the soft bland voice has
poured itself forth, its faintest tone heard in the most re-
mote corner, the bearing bespeaks a full consciousness of
the responsibility of the duty of the moment, the face
wears the placid expression of innocence. You are fairly
preporsessed for such a man. But what is he saying? By
that cheer from Mr. Cobden and his Sancho, Mr. Bright,
he appears to have said something pleasant to the manu-
facturers. But that roar of delight from the other side?
Oh, be has convulsed the country gentlemen by some
well-timed compliment to agriculture. Another cheer,
more general, is the reward of some pompous maxim of '
the public good. It is clear the house has warmed to him.
The more kindly they entertain, the more candid grow
the speaker's tones, the mere earnest is he to do the best
which the state of things allows. An elaborate statement
follows of the different courses open to him, of their se-
veral advantages and disadvantages, in all of which he
adroitly rouses the prejudices slumbering for the moment
around him, and establishes a sympathy with each ; cen-
tering hopes in himself, and setting old hatreds against
each other, until, having thus led the various parties into
a mental melee, he winds up with an • upon the whole,'
leading, with pompous affectation of resolve, to a declara-
tion of what he means to do, which, in fact, comprises—
in an artful woof of phrases, sounding, but bodiless—al.
most every thing that he does not mean to do. Meanwhile
he has skilfully diverted the attention of all from the real
point at issue, to their mutual jealousies and asperities.
Ten to one lie sits down ' amidst loud cheers,' having ut-
tered much, but avowed nothing. It may be asked, how
can such a body be so transparently cajoled ? The answer
is, it is done—done every day, in almost every speech ;
and. the more it is done, the more they seem to like it."
—Fraser.

MELANCHOLY FATE OF ONE OF THE HEROES OF WA-
TERLOO.—Mans in the first returning force from Cabool
will carry to their graves the recollection of the Jelum's
treacherous ford. But a few marches more, and the force
expected to be within the provinces ; it had reached the
banks of the Jeluna, or ancient Hydaspes, and, to point
out the ford, stakes bad been driven diagonally into the
bed of the river. Next morning, the advance-guard
crossed, and discovered that the river had risen from six
to eight inches during the night : the additional power
produced upon troops crossing may, therefore, easily be
conceived. It was considered necessary, however, to at-
tempt it with the main body. Each took the stream with
his own corps; horses ree►ed, quivered, and snorted in
terror, losing a footing at one moment, and regaining it
the next ; the crisis required presence of mind, as even a
good swimmer might not have reached the further shore
amid struggling horsemen and trampling columns. Be-
hind was rt troop of European lancers, and, anxious not
to be detained by the infantry, thee had entered the tiger
some few yards too low down. Ere they had got mid-
channel, their horses were swamped; heads of horses and
riders alone were above the water, except when, by a ter-
rific effort, some charger almost sprang from out of it.
Then occurred a fearful scene : the immediate struggle of
man and beast for life itself. There was an old man. whose
life had been spent !n arms, who had fought in Spain and
Portugal, and on whose breast hung the silver badt-,e of
Waterloo. tie was an old officer to be only in command

of a troop. He snuggled well, often lifted his powerful
horse with hand and knee, and the medal of Napoleon's
last fight ever and anon appeared above the current ; but
these exertions only expended the strength of both, end at
last he gave it up. Oh ! to see the old man's grey locks
floating on the oily eddy, as he and his charger sank to-
gether! it was horrible ! A melancholy funeral party
placed that evening within unconsecrated graves the gal-
lant Hilton and nine of his n.en, and over the spot a rmt-
nurnent was erected to their memory; but a few mot.ths
after, and the river had swept it away, and a sandbank co-
vers one of the heroes of Waterloo.—Asiatic Journal.
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND NEVER SUBJECT TO
ISOM R.--lt is clear that the Church of England is not, in
the sense in which many of the Protestant actions may
he so c,nsidered, the offspring of the Beformltoti. She
had an existence in this coun'ry prior to ,he introduction
of Popery, and she never thoroughly submitted to Rome.
When Augustine came into England, he was resisted by
tie remnant of the British Church in his endeavour to
impose the yoke of Gregory upon the priests of Bangor.
The Anglo• Saxons did not completely recognize the su-
premacy of the Romish Pontiff, nor admit the doctrine of
transubstantiation ; and it was the knowledge of this,
doubtless, that induced Alexander 11. to favour the en-
terprise of the conqueror, hoping by that means to receive
in return the obedience of the nation, which, in its un-
conquered condition. had refused to acknowledge his
authority. The suEmisu ion of England to Rome was the
act of her Norman conqueror, and not of the people; and
it may be well conceiv. d, that, the bulk of she'popuhvion
being Saxon, these regarded the recognition of the Papal
supremacy, not as a matter of religious faith, but as one
of the hard conditions of their conquered estate. The
rule of Rome and the domination of the Normans were
by them put into the same category. The higher bene.

'Ha: LIVERPOOL STANbARD.

fives of the Church were bestowed upon ecclesiastics of a
foreign origin ; and, although the fiery passions and selfish
nterests of the Norman kings prevented the state from
becoming ultramontane, the clergy were in general the
slaves of Rome. Between these dignitaries, whose inter-
ests were those of a class obnoxious to the lend and the
people, there was no sympathy ; and whoever reads the
history of the times will see, in the indignant and frequent
memorials of wrong and grievance suffered by the laity at
the hands of their spiritual lords, which were sent to the
higher authorities, both the amount of irritation that ex-
isted and the just grounds for its existence. That the
conqueror and his immediate descentlan's did not recog-
nize the supremacy of the Pope is evident. Hildebrand,
i. e. Gregory VII., in 1079, sent to William, one Herbert,
an under-deacon of the Roman Church, and a monk
named Teuzon. demanding that the king should take the
usual oath of fidelity and submission to the Pope, and pay
the usual tribute. He answered, " that he granted the
one, but refused the other. As to the oath of fidelity, I
(said he) have not been willing, nor am I now willing to
take it, because I never promised, and I do not find that
my ancestors have taken it." The money was however
sent ; the king apologizing for its deficiency, on the ground
of its having been carelessly collected during his stay in
France. The Pope complained to Lanfranc ; but the pre-
late could only answer by expressing his sorrow that,
though the king would pay the money, there was no hope
of his yielding the homage. The controversies of the
successors of the conqueror with the Papal see, especially
in the matter of Becket, are sufficiently known.—Church
of England Quarterly Review.
AN ARTFUL DODGER.—Among the cleverest of the Ro-
man picture-dealers is Signor A., a most fair-spoken fel-
low and facetious withal, who, conscious of his own ta-
lent, is ever ready to adduce some instance of its happy
exercise. 'Tis but a year or two since he made a whole-
sale transaction, which in a short half-hour, transferred to
a young Irish peer the accumulated .übbish of his maga-
zine. At the lucky moment of tailor's visit, there arrived
a liveried servant with an official-looking missive, which
A. apologised tor opening, and after glancing at it, said,
" Very good, but I have no time now to look at your pic-
tures ; come again." The servant hesitated, and to the
inquiries of the stranger, A. said it was only the particu-
lars of a lot of pictures which had been sent to him for
sale, the heritage of an old Bolognese family, but that he
had never had leisure to open the boxes, which must
stand over until he could attend to the matter. On his
lordship pressing to have a sight of them. A. reluctantly
opened the cases, protesting that it was of no use, as it
would take much time to clean and arrange and value this
collection, before which, of course, the pictures were not
for sate. The list exhibited Guidos, Domenichinos, Ca-
raccis, Carlo Dolces,—in short, just that class of names
which impose upon an Anglican amateur,—and the dingy
ca ,vasses were freely acknowledged to be so completely
obscured by dirt and old varnish, that their merits were
undistinguishable. The more the dealer seemed anxious
to divert his customer to the brightly vanished ornaments
of his own walls, the less willing was he to lose sight of
this singular chance of procuring" a genuine gallery ready
made," and ere the parties separated, a transfer was made
to the peer of a mass of trash which scarcely merited the
outlay of cleaning, in exchange for a thousand louis-d'or.
A still bolder coup-de-main was successfully played off by
the same worthy some years before, at the expense of an
experienced purchaser and acknowledged connoisseur. He
persuaded the late Mr. Coesvelt to look at a picture of
high pretensions and some merit in his house. Whilst
they were discussing it, the jingle of posting bells was
heard in the street, and the proloneed crack of a courier's
whip echoed in the doorway. A. started, rushed out, and
beheld an express, booted, spurred, and splashed. who
handed him a letter. Tearing it open, he appeared struck
with confusion, and exclaimed, Well, here is a fine
scrape I have got into." " What is the matter ?" " Why
I am talking of selling you this picture, arid here is the
courier from Ancona to buy it, by a Russian gentleman to
whom I offered it last week, for such a sum." The price
was a large one, and Mr. Coesvelt would not have thought
of giving it for the picture, which did not interest him
much ; but so cleverly did A. contrive to transfer to it the
interest of this dramatic scene, that, in the excitement of
the moment a bargain was struck • and our countryman
went off delighted at the idea of having done the Russian
—the latter being an imaginary personage, and his courier
a Roman pdstboy, hired to gallop up in the nick of time !
Foreign Quarterly Review.
ASPECT OF POPERY IN ENGLAND.—In Eeglaad, Ro-
manism wears its most courtly dress, and speaks in most
gentle accents. All that can ensnare a fastidious taste,
or charm a generous disposition, is brought forward ;
tales of ancient faith and holy martyrdom are told in win-
ning words, and every thing that is graceful in antiquiay
claimed as an integral element in the constitution of the
Rom;sh Church. Charity is the phrase that is ever on
her lips, and she would fain persuade men that it is with a
breaking heart she seeks them, that the erring children
may be restored to a suffering mother; but to him who,
in the first impulse of a confiding nature, has listened to
her voice and believed her testimony, how sad and start-
ling is the conviction which a closer acquaintance with the
reality must ever bring ? Ancient faith and holy martyr-
dom were in the days when Romanism was unknown ;
persecution and cruelty have marked her sway since she
came into existence, and the mam rs who have fallen have
suffered at her hands; she has been no sharer of her
Lord's sorrow, but a despiser of his grief, and a writer of
his children. She has seized upon the intellectual Neut.

ties and genius of every ae,e through which she has passed,
as appliances of her regal state and the tribute to her
worldly dignity : she has enriched herself with the mer-
chandize of souls, which she has sold into dark•!ess, that
she might revel in wealth and earthly grandeur. Llz any
man who would put faith in her professions f charity and
maternal love cast his eye over the record of the Inquisi-
tion : let him remember the years of persecution to which
she has submitted the children of God, and the blood she
has shed : let him reckon up the anathemas of the Coun-
cil of Trent : let him steadily consider every indication
which the present century has afforded of the hnchangea-
hie nature of her spirit, and let him judge, how for she
who speaks of charity can feel it—how far she, with the
word of love in her mouth, and the blow of cruelty in her
hand, can ever have humanity at heart. Men may talk as
they will of schism and heresy. 'Where can more he found
than those which Rome has harboured ? Men may mourn
with maudlin sentiment over the evils of the Reformation,
and cast their small censures upon the mighty spirits who,
under God, brought it to pass. What would Christendom
have been without the Reformation, but a corrupting
mass of spiritual wickedness and abomination ? And it
ill becomes those who breathe the atmosphere of Christian

liberty, and intellectual freedom, to despise the men who
purchased the privilege which they enjoy with their own
life's blood and labour. If men will know what. Ron an-
ism is, let them not learn it from the holiday phrases and
scholastic sophisms of Oscott theses, or of Oxford tracts ;
but let them look at it in the face of Rome : let them mark
it in the full exercise of its degrading influence in B- lgium :
let them gather it from the tra-h which the Jesuits sell,
and the debasing doctrines which too many of the eccle-
siastical dignitaries of France sanction.—Church of Eng-
land Quarterly Review.

THE ARMY.

WAR OFFICE, APRIL 18.

Ist Dragoon Guards.—F. Delany, Gent., to be Vete-
rinary Surgeon, vice J. Mellows, who retires upon half-
pay.
2d Dragoons.—Lieutenant W. C. Grant to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Craven, who retires ; Cornet Sir G. F.
Hampson, Bart , to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Grant;
H. W. D. Lyon, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Sir G. Hatnpson. •
6th Foot.—Lieut. the Hon. G. C. Chichester, from the
6th Foot, to be Lieut.. vice Lucas, promoted.
10th Foot.—C. Barlow, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Angelo, who resigns.
16th Foot.—Major H. M'Manus to be Lieut.-Colonel,
by purchase, vice Campbell, who retires ; Capt. R.
Luxmore to he Major, by purchase, vice M`Manus;
Lieut. G. H. Wallace to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Luxmore ; Ensign E. Flood to he Lieut., by purchase,
vice Wallace; J. T. James, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purcha e, vice Flood.
19th Foot.-11. Braddell, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Warden, promoted.
32d Foot.—Lieutenant J. D. C. Smyth to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Markham, who retires; Ensign A. G.
Brine to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Smyth ; C.
Clapcott, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brine.
39th Foot.—Catain W. Munro, from the 86th Foot, to
be Captain, vice Anderson, who exchanges.
63d Foot.—Ensign G. Woodyatt to be Lieut., by pur-
chase, vice Macauley, whose promotion, by purchase, has
been cancelled.
81st Foot.—Lieut. F. Hyde, from half-pay of the 4,11
Foot, to be Lieut., vice Powell, promoted ; Ensign
W. 8.. Browne, to be Lieut., by purchae, vice Hyde,
who retires ; H. J. Liddell, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Browne.
tiGth oot.—Captain A. C. Anderson. from the 39th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Munro, who exchanges.
87th Foot.—Brevet Lieut.-Colonel H. A. M,genis to
be Lieut.-Colonel, without purchase, vice Streattield, who
retires upon full-pay; Brevet Major I'. O'Brien to be
Major, vice Magenis ; Lieut. R. S. O'Brien to be Captain,
vice O'Brien ; Second Lieut. A. D,war to be First Lieut.,
vice O'Brien; E. 'l'. King, Gent., to be Second Lieut.,
vice Dewar.
89th Foot.—H. N. Kippen, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Collingwood, who retires.
90-h Foot.—Serjeant Major S. Williams to be Quarter-
master, vice W. Newland, who retires upon half-pay.
91,4 Foot.—D. E. Manners, G. nt., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Howard, promoted.
2d West India egiment.—J. Robertson, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Nott, whose apt ointment
has been cancelled.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment.—Lieut. A. Griersoi, from
half-pay 46th Foot, to be First Lieut., vice W. J. Kirk,
who exchanges; Second Lieut. H. Bird to be First Lieut.,
by purchase, vice Grierson, who retires; J. Henderson,
Gent., to be Second Lieut., by purchase, vice Bird.

The area of Ireland is 12,819.423 Irish acres ; the total
number of farms is 685,309, of these 306,915 are under
five acres.
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TOE FORCE OF NEGLIGENCE.—From the inefficiency
of the " Detective" Police force in discovering the perpe-
trator of any crime, it is the intention, we believe, to alter
their title to the more appropriate one of the " Defective
Force."—Punch.
GnAss.—To afford one instance of its applicability to
novel purposes, we may mention the employment of
glass of deep and brilliant golden hu 3 for frames to small
or moderate sized pictures; also for ornaments in friezes
or cornices, capitals of columns and pilasters, and a
variety of decorations now executed in gilding—one very
obvious advantage over the last-mentioned mode being
durability, owing to the impossibility of fading or tar-
nishing.

Under the distinguished patronage of his Majesty the
King of PrusAia. and of the Nobility and Clergy ,f
the United Kingdom, and especially recommended by
the Faculty.
KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES.

CIOUGHS, COLDS, and CATARRHS, have been so
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zengeof the season, that the CONSUMPTION these
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parts of the kingdom, ' stimonials of their efficacy in the
alleviation and cure.o all Pulmonary Complaints. Thirty
years' experience has so fully proved their utility, that
they are not constantly recommended by the Faculty, as
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ther constitutional or arising from recent cold. They
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of time, as is attested by the most respectable and un-
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Prepared and so.d in Boxes at Is. lid., end Tins 2s.
9d., 4s. 6d., and 10s. 6d. each, by THOMAS KEATING,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, No. 79. St. Paul's Churchyard.
—And sold by all Druggists and Patent Medicine Venders
in the kingdom.
The following are from among a great many letters the
Proprietor has received in proof of the efficacy of these
Lozenges

•' should feel extremely obliged to you if you
would send me a tin of your most excellent Lozenges,
for having tried them, I find they are the best remedy for
Cough that can possibly be had ; this I can testify from
experience, for I have been troubled with a most violent
Cough for many years, and have tried many things, but
without any benefit, until I met with your Lozenges, and
they afforded me instant relief.
" I remain, sir, yours truly,
" HENRY WOODERSON.
" I, North Feltham-place, near Hounslow,
Feb. 12, 1845.

" To Mr. Keating, St. Paul's."
" Dear Sir,—Having been fora considerable time dur-
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at laying down in bed, which continued for several hours
incessantly, and. after trying many medicines without the
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".LAMES ELUS.
(Late Proprietor of the Chapter Coffee-house, St. Paul's.)

" 9, Claremont-terrace, -Pentonville, Feb. 17, 1845-
" To Mr. Keating."
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druggists, Church-street ; Robert Clay, and Wm. Fisher,
Bold street ; Apothecaries' Company; Robert Lathbury,
Castle-street; J. B. Johnson, 37, Scotland-road; Ross
and Nightingale, Chronicle-office, Lord-street ; George
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Wagstaff, St. James'-street • Thomas Green, Edge-hill;
Edward Pearson, Fairview-Place, Toxteth-park ' • Charles
Wallwork, druggist, Bootle ; John Brownrige. druggist,
Old Swan ; Trumper,droggi,t, Rock Ferry ; Wm. Price,
druggist, Wavertree ; Mr. Wm. Higgins. druggist, and
Mr. R. Smith, druggist. Birkenhead.
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Liverpool.
To attendants on Public Worship, KEATING'S COUGH
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