The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-28 00:00:00

land there are now
556. (Hear.) See

this is not activit
s

activity? Twenty convents There must be always con-
vents; always victims. wherever there are priests! Three
monasteries ; 624 priests in England, and SG in Scotland,
total 710 ! Is that activity ? (Loud cries of " Yes.") The
code of laws in 1832, of which I have not read you near the
number I have prepared, striking at the root of the throne-
-is that activity? (Loud

pres-s of Rome—hardly dry from
—not issued from the press, aiming at the throne of
.eign, and declaring that the Pope is to exercise his
authority indirectly to overturn the throne of the Protestant
Sovereigns! (Hear.) Is that activity? (Hear.) Is your
Sovereign sworn does she hold, as our Chairman said,
the ceptre by her oath to maintain the Protestant religion in
this country ? (Yes.) How is she to maintain it? Can
your Queen maintain it? (Hear.) Is it not those men who
are appointed by her as bishops, and those men whom they
appoint as ministers—is it not they that are to maintain the
Protestant religion? (Cheers.) How are they to uphold the
throne of the Sovereign if they do not uphold boldly with
fidelity the word of God against any system that tends to
overturn it? (Cheers.) Let me say something more. There
never was a r • ' •

your Sorer€

cheers.) Bo
the I

n your country's history- when such a
responsibility has been thrown upon the bishops and clergy
as at this present moment. (Hear, hear.) England, in the
prosecution of what her people called freedom—England has
demanded, and England has obtained, what she calls a re-
form in parliament. The result of that has been to throw—
now mark its plain effect—politically, a vast preponderance
of the government of this country into the hands of the
population of this country. The equilibrium of the British
constitution has been destroyed—(hear)—by the reform
bill; and the population of the country, their representa-
se of Commons are as you know, the prepon-
in the government of the state. (Hear,
hear.) If then the clergy will not exert themselves to teach
the people their Christian duties as subjects to their sove-
reign—if they will not exert themselves to teach the people

tives, ti

their Christian duties in sending representatives to the par-
liament, who will maintain the word of the living God, and
who will not compromise the word of that God with popery
and infidelity (Cheers.) If they will not do so—l speak
as I think—but in my conscience I believe the fate of Eng-
land depends upon the fidelity of the clergy to their sove-

elity to the

Protestant Church. of England. (Tremendous applause,
during which the reverend gentleman, who spoke upwards
of three hours, resumed his seat.)
The Rev. FREDERICK PARRY seconded the resolution in
a short address, in which, after describing the pleasurp with
which he had heard the statements of Mr. INl`Ghee. he ex-
pressed a hope that the collection, ,rhich was about to be
made, woul-► ' -^.—such a collection
as had nr

be an unusually libe
before been made oci

3, to ellab

mn, nommen&

t this period, while the collection

King of Kings !

.otect the c

of the Gospel into

a was carried

}self bast given

A. liberal collection w

The Rev. JOSEPH BAYLEE: moved the third resol
At that lat

the me

knowir

th
nigh exhausted, and remernbei
friend and brother Mr. Stowell (loud cheer
follow him, he should not presume to detain
than five minutes. (Cries of "Go on." and