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Ann so _oe obtained. The surest method
by which we can oppose such agg:ession, and preserve our-
selves free from such domination, is to diffuse as widely as
possible those truths on which our Protestant church is
founded, resting as they do upon the pure word of God
without human addition or adulteration. In conclusion
I must repeat my gratffication at this instance of confi-
dence which you have shown in me by the presentation of
this address. There is no reason why as Metropolitan
should not accept it, and with God's grace I shall always

" es far as possible, the principles'it
enunciates. The deputation then bowed and retired,
highly gratified with their reception ; and his Grace, who
own from Windsor in the morning in orde
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ddington Park, near Croydon.
Meetings have been held in nearly all the parishes in
the kingdom, to protest against this daring aggression, at
which 'some of the Tractarians endeavoured to defeat the
object, but in every instance the resolutions have been
carried with acclamation, excepting at Gosport, where that
party mustered unusually strong.
On Thursday the Rev. T. Nolan delivered, in Lon-
don, the lecture which we announced last week, when the
---- was crowded to suffocation, and the lecturer was
red with extreme cordiality. Henry Pownall, Esq.,
, occupied the chair. We make the following ex-
tracts from the rev. gentleman's able address:—`• Look-
ing at the period of Catholic emancipation in 1829, re-
membering the promises that were made, the hopes and
expectations which were entertained by sanguine Pro-
testants of the healing effects of that measure, could any
one deny that the provisions of that measure had been
carried out to such an extent as to leave the Romanist
without any complaint ?' He dared not put the question
on the other side, and ask if it had been carried out in
such a spirit as to 'rave the deceived Protestants without

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not extravagant, penalties. Her Majesty's advisers, it is evi-
dent, will not be wanting to this exigency. And here I cannot
but regret the failure of the bill proposed a short time since for
opening diplomatic relations with the sovereign of the Roman
States, which hes prevented us, without in the slightest possi-
ble degree compelling us to recognise his usurped spiritual au-
thority, from dealin.v: summarily with him on this occasion, in
this act, based as it partly is on that temporal power we have
substantially
.and practically, if not formally, acquiesced in
allowing to him and his successors.

I do fully respond to your request that I will, under Provi-
dence, do my utmost to resist by every constitutional means
this encroachment, and vindicate the royal prerogative.
But a further duty, as clergymen, yet awaits us. I beseech
you, brethren, anxiously and nraverfnlly to
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assailants only from without, or the open deserters from us, but
the ignorant, timid, misled, or selfseeking, or treacherous (for
such there are) from within. I earnestly invite each of you to
review the whole tenor of his ministry, doctrinal and ceremo-
nial, jealously to note how far the one is consonant with the
simple teaching of Scripture, the other with the chnste and
set ere yet truthful Church of England ritual. Be assured, I
will myself seek to do the same. But mystic theories of Scrip-
ture's prophetic future; baseless speculations on the scheme
of man's conversion and salvation ; systems of a church and
kingdom " of this world" to legislate in dogmatic teaching and
rule in perfect discipline; a hierarchy and priesthood of our
own, differing in name alone from that proposed to be now set
up by the Romanist; mediwval follies and ceremonies, the cast-
off slough of Rotnanism jealously preserved, or even in imita-
tion reproduced (and such has been the case) in our new
churches, are symptoms, the prevalence of which might well
encourage Rome t 3 seek to tender again her ministrations to
our people. Let such as have but for a moment listened to
these empty and dangerous delusions remember the real nature
of our high and holy mission. We are appointed for the people,
we are sent to the people, we are responsible for the people, that
in simplicity and integrity we teach them Truth.
Happily I can say with thankfulness I hope as little cause of
anxiety on this head exists in Manchester as in most place s
containing an equal population. Nor do I speak as of any one
case calling now for special remark. But this subject is most
important, and cannot too carefully be kept in view by some
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And now, dear and reverend brethren, commending you to
our great Spiritual Head, in the full confidence and certainty
that He who is all Truth will succour and save hie nwn if o t.‘,

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Him indeed seek to become so, I remain ever, your sincere
friend and bishop, J. P. MANCHESTER.
The Rev. C. D. Wray, Rev. H. Stowell,
and other clergy of Mancheste:.

On Friday the parishioners of St. Andrew, Holborn,
London, waited upon the Archbishop of Canterbury, with
an address to big Grace, signed by 700 parishioners. The

Arcnoisnop, having taken the address, replied as follows
" It is very gratifying to me to receive this address, which
evinces so deep an interest in that great cause which I
shall endeavour, as far as may be, to promote. Coming
from so important a parish as that of St. Andrew, Hol-
born, I cannot but regard it as an important addition to
the testimony so generally borne by the country in oppo-
sition to the recent act of Papal amession. Perhans we

though a very unexpected opportunity, and one of which
we cannot help thinking without some degree of indigna-
tion—of showing how greatly mistaken those must be who
supposed—if (here be any such—that the Protestant feel-
ing of this country has in any way diminished. It seemed
to be necessary that something of this description should
have occurred in order that the feeling of the country
might be drawn forth ; and now that it has been elicited
with so much strength and firmness, it may perhaps be
almost more necessary to keep it within due bounds than
to add to the existing excitement. But, at all events,
those who are anxious to preserve the principles of the
Reformation, as I am sure do those who have the appoint-
ment of the holy office, like myself, must always feel it a
very great assistance when they meet with the co-opera-
tion of the clergy and laity of the country. It must be a
matter of regret that anything should have occurred in
our c'ourch to have led to the error to which I have
alluded—the supposition that the Protestant principles of
this country have in any degree declined. I trust, however,
that it will now be seen, if it be not already seen, that
those who gave rise to that opinion form a very small
minority not only in our church, but in the country at
large. I think, too, we may now see that to which we
have hitherto been blind, hut to which we must never be
blind in future, that the Church of Rome is an aggressive
church, and that she will never be satisfied without clo-
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