The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-26 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LIVERPOOL GOVERNESSES' INSTITUTION,
SI, RODNEY-ST ET.
A LECTURE will be d ' red, in the Lecture Room
of the Institutio Half-past Seven o'c,ock i■ the
EVENING, (Tuesda e 26th instant, by J. P. GEO. SMITH
Esq., Treasurer the Institution, on:the Science of Meteors,

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR
SUPPORTING PROTESTANT MISSIONS IN
IRELAND.

A meeting was held last night in the theatre of the Col-
legiate Institution of the supporters and friends of the
Society for Promoting the Protestant Mission in Ireland.
The meeting was presided over b y the Rev. Dr. M'Neile.
The Rev. Mr. Wilkinson, the secretary of the Society,
attended and gave an account of the operations of the
mission. The object of the society was also ably ex-
pounded and defended by the Rev. Alexander Dallas,
rector of Wonston, Herts.

The admission was by ticket (purchased), yet the at-
tendance was exceedingly good. Among the principal
persons present were the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, Rev. A.
Dallas, Rev. Wilkinson, Rev. W. Pollock, Rev. F.
Barker, Rev. W. M. Falloon, Rev. W. Brewster, Rev.
D. Anderson, Rev. Vernon, Rev. T. C. Cowan, Rev .
H. Hampton, Rev. J. S. Howson, Rev, W. Mosse, Rev. S.
Boutflower, Rev. J. B. Lowe, Rev. W. Rawson, Rev. J.
R. Conor, Rev. T. W. Afograngtev. H. Wright, Rev. F.
A. Power, Rev. W. Maynard, Rev. A. M'Conkey, Rev.
D. James, Rev. Clarke, &c., &c. ; T. B. Horsfall, Esq.,
C. Inman, Esq., H. J. Webster, Esq., A. Hodgson, Esq.,
W. Jones, Esq., T. Forsyth, Esq., Christopher Bushell,
Esq., Edward Jones. Esq., Edward Cropper, EQq., John
Campbell, Esq., J. R. Anderson, Esq., C. S. Roe, Esq.,
Macclesfield, and a number of other highly respectable
gentlemen.

The Rev. CHAIRMAN, on rising to open the proceed-
ings of the
-meeting was greeted by loud and prolonged

cheering. He said-he must once more remind leis chris-
tian friends of their instruction and their encouragement.
in that and all their works : " In all thy ways acknow-
ledge him,"—that was their instruction ; " and he will
direct thy steps,"—that was their encouragement. He
would therefore call upon his reverend brother, Mr.
Barker, to ask the blessing of God upon their present
work.

The Rev. F. Barker having offered up an appropriate
prayer,

Dr. APNETLE continued his add ress : The special
object for which they were assembled that evening was to
hear from the Rev. Mr. Dallas, and his friend, Mr. Wil-
kinson, certain details of facts which had taken place in
some of the western districts of Ireland ; facts which, he
had no doubt, they would be very much interested in
hearing, as he and his reverend brethren had all been.

from time to time, as those facts bad come to their
knowledge. It had pleased God to cause a great
and manifold blessing to rest upon the use of Christian
missions amongst the Roman Catholic population of
that portion of Ireland to which he had made allusion :
very numerous conversions had taken place large
concessions had been made to the Protestant congre-
gations and new congregations had been formed,
entirely composed of converts, under the guidance and
ministration of clergymen ordained especially for that

society to convert Ireland ? Why had not that been done I the child drew a parallel between these acts
years upon years past ? Why was it that no great efforts I and those of the priests, she traced the pro..
had been made for the conversion and reformation of that gress of the corn from the field to the baker's, and
poor and unhappy country till now? He could tell them then to the hands of the priest's servant, who made the
that England was decidedly to blame for being so lax in wafer, which, after being consecrated by the priest, was
the matter; for allowing her fear of the priests to prevent worshipped as a god. The man was at. once struck by
her from !coking to the spiritual as well as the temporal the force of what he had heard. Mr. Wilkinson observed
wants of her subjects. (Hear, hear, and loud applause.) that in these schools the children were not mixed, but
There was another, and yet a stronger reason. Two ge- absolutely all Catholics. His Speech. which was exceed-
nerations ago he feared they could not speak so admiringly ingly interesting, and rife with statistics, is itiadcui...sible,
of the Irish clergy. Bright and brilliant examples there for reasons stated above.
were among them ; but the great body, he feared, were
content with performing their duties with faithfulness FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
and zeal to those whom they termed their own flocks, Dr. Lang has again been elected to the Legislative
forgetting altogether that the Roman Catholics were as Assembly for Sydney. This eccentric
much their flocks as were the Protestants. (Hear. bear.) popular,83 sometimes hpens, hi personage is un-
s fortune was made
They could now, however, speak differently ; for he be- by the unacceptableness of his opponent.
lieved that no body of men (2000 in number) could be Some time aeo the Pope attempted a religious invasion
more zealous in the vineyard than were the clergy of the of the lonian Islands, by appointing an Archbishop of
Established Church at present. (Applause.) ereTe was Corfu, in the person of Dr. Nicholson, an Irish priest,
not a man of them but.who worked with a fervency nd a who arrived at Corfu in May, 1849, but met with such a devotion in the service of God that was almost minim- warm reception from the enraged Greeks, that he shortly
lour •, not one of them but who was a soldier of Christ
and but who, under the banner of his gospel, was willing
safterware ds
en or disappeared,hearda
f.
to shed his blood for his divine truths. Hear, hear.) M. de Montalembert has returned to Paris from his
This was not the case two generations ago ; for then mission to Rome. He has been nominated by the Pope
the prevalent feeling amongst the clergy was that all the Commander of t'se fi--` ef the Ord,— F' T'
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..oman ,atholics belonged to the priest, and the Protest- .e . ass of . ..,ruer of .us. .heßoman municipal council has conferred on him the title
ants only to them, and that the more Papists Rome got
of Roman citizen. With the people at Rome he was ex-
Thank God those days had gone by; now it had pleased
the more labour w )uld the priest have, and vice versa.
tremelv unpopular. A crowd collected near his residence,
and commenced crying "Down with Montalembert !"
God to permit the gift of His holy word to be spread from Death to Montalembert!" The police interfered, and,
one end of hat benighted land to the other by as faithful some of the most turbulent were arrested.
a band of His servants as ever preached the gospel to an
OPENING OF TILE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS.—The sea--
ignorant and superstitious people. (Hear, hear, and ap- sion was opened on Thursday, at Berlin, by the King in
plause). Thus, then, those who instituted a society to person. His Majesty entered the hall at noon, followed
promote a change at once so good in its aim—,s?, st,wcfss-
r..l ;., 4,......—_,___ , by the princes of the rrir9l h,...-- I-,

!in in ILS operations, and so truly Christian and Protestant
in all its ramifications, have been emboldened to apply to
England—that land of Christian freedom and of Christian
liberty, for that Christian support which she has always
given. (Hear, hear, and applause). If they would look
back to the time, some 30 years ago, when a few men
gathered together in Dublin with the view of reforming
the Romanist population of that country, they would be
able to form some conception of the difficulties and trou-

hies by which that project was beset. (Loud cheers).
At that time it was impossible to say out boldly to the
Romanists, " You have no Gospel ; you bare not the
knowledge of the true God which we have. You want the.
Gospel ; you desire and we are willing to give it to von."

They however, boldly proclaim these truths to the

then, that in most instances these truths, when brough

.. nesters
in their state uniforms. The princes took their place to
the right of the throne, and the ministers on the left. His
Majesty wore a general's uniform, with helmet and plume.
He was received by the assembly in profound silence.
Having taken his seat, after saluting the deputies, he im-
mediately read the speech, which contains no expressions
on which we can rest any firm assurance of the main-
tenance of peace. It does, indeed, indefinitely postpone
al 1 l• .1 is • •••••• .
grounds

heme of

'russian

until after a derision has been come to on the future orga-
nization of the German Bund," and in this respect it sug-
gests a rational rule of conduct. But on several other
points we. meet with revolting mis-statements, dressed up
in the language most calculated to fire an excited popular

rorwara with christian simplicity, met with a warm res-
ponse in the breast of the Irish peasant. (Applause.)
The rev. gentleman then entered at considerable length
into the details of the formation of the society, a
ceeded to observe that the excuse of converting the he,
then, of having enough to do in works of charity at home,
and in foreign lands, could not be held as applicable in
this instance ; for was not the Trish Roman Catholic
worse off than the most idolatrous heathen of the East ?
They were not only perishing for spiritual food ; but worse
still, they had nothing but false notions of Christ and his

3cl pro-

assembly. We are told that " the peace with Denmark
is concluded and ratified, but that it has not been possible
as vet to eArry it in .all if. r.";.,t0 4.,• PI TIM _

at, sta cm Ito pun] ibc intr.) CiTeCt."" W ray not,
except that Prussia has been labouring underhand to
defeat and annul the engagements she herself had signed ?
We are told that in Hesse "disputes of the most irrecon-
cilable character have taken piece, and that an attempt to
interf.-- "eatened to violate the riahtti

Gospel. The heathen worshipped his fi
name or form but that of Christ
who was precisely in the same
reeard to the saving. t

3e side only
We certai

Ise God by eny

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ut the Romanist
is the Heathen in

hould have thought some

to a circuit of

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