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cewarm and languid protestauts have come' to
to-day prepared to ask what is there new?—

f thillft Who have not condes
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ded to honour us
should

with their present:,
be disposed to reply, referring to the langua
passioned orator of Athens of old, who said,
down in the midst of dangers and evils,
—What is new ! Shall any thing be snore new," said he in-
'-nantly, " than that Philip, a savage barbarian, is threat-
Athens, is invading our colonies, is thundering at
1u not this news ?") (Cries of " Hear, hear.")
- and reverend

What is new ?"

ge of the im-
" Ye go up and

king whoa is new ?

I may add, in reference to what our dea
M'Ghee has so clearly, demonstrably, and incontrovertably
advanced this day, what can be more new than that the
despot of Rome, him whom we looked upon as a
annuated anile old woman—(cheers)--that
now, in this enlightened arc as it is emptiat

these days of liberalism and infidelity, when we bear it said
mere dreaming to suppose that Popery would ever re-
cover power—that he actually publishes afresh, circulates
throughout our Protestant land, the darkest dogmas of the
darkest ages of papal despotism, that he is furbishing his
weapons and preparing them for the impending and ap-
proaching struggle, and that we have the medals cast to com-
loody murder of St. Bartholomew cast over
to be circulated up and dowt
through the Popish dorninio

nint of Rome

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My friends, all

I dare say, will pass with many as idle fear and declamation;
but let those who think so, have the honesty and manliness
to grapple with the facts which Mr. M'Gliee has this day
brought forward. (Cheers.) It is easy said, " all this is
mere assertion and assumption ;" but what will Dr. Murray
and John of Tuana—l will not call them bishops,for:they are
not bishops at all—say to them? (Cheers.) I believe, in-
dee.3, that in this controvers

n far too I

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ground. (Hear.) If Popery be anti:Christianity, and if the
Council of Trent, and the creed of Pope Pius the Fourth,
consummate the apostacrof the Church of Rome, and if the

Church o

ome from that period became, therefore, cut off
from the Church of Christ, why should we mince matters;
why should we call Babylon a part of the spiritual Jeru-
salem, or anti-Christ a part of Christ? (Cheers.) Sir, our
church does not do so. Our homilies, unaccustomed to the
silken phraseology of modern charity, and breathing the true

phraseology of that love and charity which denounces the
crime whilst it compassionates the criminal, hesitates not to
call the Church of Rome anti-Christ, and the pope of Rome
the anti-Christian personification of the Apostaey. (Cheers.)
Therefore 1, as a humble clergyman of the Church of
England, am not afraid of saying Amen and Amen to the
expression of it. (Cheers.) Will it be said, " But your

church !s involved in a dilemma ; fur she admits the ord
of Rome, whilst she denounces the rites of Rome as ar
Christian ?" I do not find, i❑ any authorized document

our church, that she does recognize the orders of the Church
of Rome (hear, hear) ; but, if it is found that any practical
error has crept into the administration of our church, the
sooner our clergy send memorials to our archbishops and
bishops to ascertain upon what foundation it is that we admit
the orders of Rome ; and petition them, if they find no pro-
vision in our church, to re-ordain;the priests of Rome, as
Rome re-ordains our clergy when they unhappily apostatize
from her, the sooner will they be clearing away from our
church an apparent discrepancy and inconsistency which does
not really belong to her. (Cheers.) If it be said, " What
do you do, then, but destroy the integrity and apostolicity of
your own orders," I deny it. (Cheers.) The orders that
we possess through the corrupt channel of Rome were hap-
pily separated from Rome before Rome consummated her
apostacy in the Council of Trent, and in the creed of Pope
Pius the Fourth. (Hear.) The orders of the Church of
England, as they were anterior to the invasion of England
by Romish superstition, were separated from Romish super-
stition before Romish superstition was consummated into
anti-Christ. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Thank God we
have genuine orders, as we have Gospel truth, in the Church
of England. (Hear, hear, and great cheering.) Whilst
we maintain gospel truth supreme, I will go along with
every high churchman in the world in contending for the im-
portance of apostolical orders, for the golden candlestick—
but above all I will contend for the candle that is to illumine
the candlestick, and to illumine all the world. (Cheers.)
" Anything new does any liberal man ask ?" Is in not pas-
sing new, as it was said by my rev. brother, that there
should be men within the Church of England itself that are
beginning to talk of the Church of Rome as a " dear sister,"
as a "venerable another"—that they "love to hear her
soothing voice," and " wish again to grasp her maternal
hands ?" (Hear.) Alt, sir, they arc deluded by the silvery
sound of her dulcet voice—(bear, hear)—but I say, though
the voice may be the voice of Jacob, the hands are the
hands of Esau still. (Cheers.) What can be more new
than to find publications, professedly the organs of important
bodies in the Church of England, actually and gravely saying
they must unprotestantize the Church of England?' (Hear,
hear.) Is it not high time that my friend and brother,
M'Ghee, and my beloved brother, M'Neile, should try to
re-protestantize the members of the Church of England?
(Loud cheers.) When they begin to talk of unprotestant-
izing the Church of England, is it not high time for us to
Protestantize them? (Cheers.) Heve they not lost the
spirit of our martyred reformers ? Are they not unfaithful
to those thirty-nine articles tabich, twist them,
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pervert, beata.
them, niys.
tify„.tirm,,,parntliem as
you tnay, in t

guage or the Diauupv. US applied to the Church of
Rome. maintain their protest against Popery " unchanged,
unmitigated, unqualified"—(cheers)—and there they stand
the thirty-nine towers of our venerable Church of England.
(Cheers.) And however traitors within, or however open
assailants from without, may beset and beleager the Church
of England, while we stand firmly to those thirty-nine toss-
ers, and defend them against every attempt to carry them, I
believe God will defend us, because we are the guardians of
the truth as it is in Jesus Christ. (Cheers.) I will not tres-
pass longer upon your time, but there is one point upon
which I cannot refuse myself the opportunity of offering a
few remarks. We find ourselves, upon this occasion, if lam
not mistaken, bereft of the presence and countenance of"
of, s, ,‘7loe
of our leading Conservative friends. (Loud cries
no," from Mr. Sand. Holme and several voices.)
truly thankful that it is not the case, for I w
• as told that it

Pool, as in many other places, were were some who
upon us as a political body, and joined us under that ina-
,.ion but who have subsequently drawn back and said,
We pray you have us excused." We will gladly excuse
lem, because we are not a political body. (Hear, hear.)
tie are a religious body that has a political bearing, but with
mere politics, as such, we have no concern whatever. (Loud
cheers.) Surely it is high time that our reverend brethren
who had been prevented from uniting themselves with us in
the apprehension that we were a politi-
this holy warfare by
cal body, now at least to be convinced of the integrity
and the honesty with which we disavow any such character,
because now, do you-suppose the mere political Conserva-
tives wish us success? (Hear, hear.) Do you not suppose
they would much rather we dissolved ourselves altogether;
or, at least, do not many of them say is not your purpose
answered, is not your object accomplished, is not the ark
protestant truth safe in the hands of the Peel administration
(Hear.) Sir, it is safe in no hands but in the hands of the
great God—(cheers)—and we have no right to expect He will
protect it with His mighty arm except we, ourselves, do our
duty ! (Tremendous cheering.)
Sir,
0if the distinguished
the broad ocean, in
tnler sons should do
fighting Nels on surd
the that
battles Englando of
their expected
land,tuhp
their duty—(hear)—how much mo that
England's faith,
and England's church, and England's Bible, and England's
protestantism—(cheers)—expectetzery man—not merely Peel
and Wellington, and our great an
duty—but every man, down to the poormighty men, to do their
or the poor blacksmith over his anvil,
to weaver
d o
his overduty his
ni osoump
porting their common faith, and . . .
of the Gospel of Cl:lslitd.
4(0,1,
(Long-continued in maintaining the integrity
love, cordially
cahseewres.)maNylwucishh,
sir, as we may love

them " good luck in the name of the Lord," fervently as we
pray for them—we cannot, and dare not, commit the sacred
cause to them. (Cheers.) We have learned not to treat .
man, nor in any arm of flesh, lest the curse of God should
be upon us ; but "blessed i, the man that trusteth in the
Lord"—(hear)—but we have no right to trust in God, unless
our faith leads us to act according to his truth. (Cheers.)
And we believe that danger threatens not simply our Queen
and her throne, not simply our church and our liberties, hut
what is dearer to us than all, the truth as it is in Christ, the
blood that cleanseth from all sin, and, as far as we are
concerned, all the blessings which He who careth for us bath
given us. (Hear, hear.) These are things thather speak in the
controversy. (Hear.) It is not .merely whet one party
shall be in power or another; it 1, not simply whether we
shall have upon the one side conservatism, and upon the other
side liberalism ; but the great question at stake is plainly this,
shall we have the truth of God, as
it was proved and de-
livered back to us in the glorious days of the Reformation,
continued to us, and our children, and our children's chil-
dren's children? (Hear.) Or, on the other hand, shall we
have that dark mystery of iniquity again spread, like a
withering cloud, over our country, extinguishing the love of
liberty—extinguishing all that ought to be dear to us as men,
as Englishtnen, and above all, as Christians (Hear.) This
is the uestion at stake. (Cheers.) Therefore I have no
sympathy. with those. men who would convert our hallowed
cause into a mere instrument of party. (Cheers.) We
desire to move in a higher sphere than in the mere party
politics of this poor perishing world. It will matter nothing
to us, when, in a short time, we shall lay our head upon our
death -bed pillow, to what political party we belonged, except
as we conscientiously and believingly belonged to one ; but it
will matter to us whether we defended or betrayed the truth
of Christ—whether we were willing to live by it or to die by
it—whether, through fear of man or men, or from any
earth)), motive whatever, we have been ashamed of Christ
crucified to confess him before men, and however some might
reproach and others might sneer, to say, " Give me the truth
and the Saviour, who is the sun and soul of the truth ;
and you may take from me fame, and fortune, and life, and
family—take all but leave me my Saviour, my Bible, and my
heaven. (Cheeps.) Yes, my christian friends, this is the
practical upshot and issue of the whole ; and I rejoice and
thank God, that in the prosecution of your heavenly pur-
pose, you are going to adopt such calm, efficient, quiet
means of diffusing the light of truth among your poor
Romish neighbours and friends. (Hear, bear.) Sir, I ad-
mire the wording of the resolution,
i and I admire the pur-
port and object of it : I rejoice that t has fallen to my lot to
second it. I hope that we shall follow the good example in
Manchester, and at once set on foot a branch of the society
to employ scripture readers, whose immediate object shall be
to illuminate the minds of our poor dark Romish neigh-
bours. (Cheers.) The rev. gentleman, at considerable
length, proceeded to enforce the resolution, but we are
totally unable to find room to proceed with our report of his
address. The resolution was then carried.
Mr. SAMUEL HOLME, whose rising was the signal for a
tremendous burst of applause, which was kept up ibr several
minutes, moved a vote of thanks to the chairman. He
said—l have been requested to propose the thanks of this
meeting to the Rev. Dr. Tattershall, for his able conduct in
conducting the proceedings of the day ; and although it would
be improper and unwise in me to weaken the impression
which must have been produced by the brilliant addresses
which you have heard, I must beg to offer one or two re-
marks. (Hear.) It has often been said that the only clergy-
men who take part in our Protestant associations are the
Irish clergy. Now, I wish some of the crowd of my brother
mechanics, who are much nearer the sky than I am, and who
can take an observation at an angle of 45 degrees—(laughter)
—would be good enough to count the host of English clergy-
men who are on the platform, and not forget those from the
Protestant Principality of Wales, nor those from the city of
Chester. (Cheers.) I, for one, must confess that we are
deeply indebted to the Irish clergy—(cheers)—because Irish
energy, and Irish vivacity, have assisted to kindle the latent
warmth of England, and united, they emit a cheerful blaze.
I beg to say, with all respect to the assembled clergy, that on
their fidelity, humanly speaking, the destiny and the glory
of this country mainly depends (hear); and I trust that every
pulpit throughout England will ring with a sound ants
scriptural defence of Protestant principles. (Cheers.)
If such attempts are now being made, as we have this day
heard of, to unprotestantise England, then let similar attempts
be boldly and strenuously made to unpapalise. Rome.. (Re-
iterated cheering.) Let mothers instruct their offsprings in
the doctrines and principles of our national church—let
masters inculcate these principles at every family altar—
let employers exhibit the fruit of these principles to their
workmen, not in theory only, but by the influence of their
own consistent example. (Hear, hear.) Let us have Pro-
testant principles, which are identified with the maintenance
of our liberties, in our government—let us have them in our
pulpits (cheers)—let us have them in our schools—and, I
may add, let us have them in our town-councils. (Hear,
hear, and loud cheering.) Mr. Stowell has forcibly alluded
to those who advocate politics for their own sake merely, and
who have no higher object in view ; but I cordially join in
the opinion, that in themselves they are wanting, if they are
not pervaded with a hiaher influence, and not interwoven
with Scriptural truth. (Cheering.) At this late hour I will
add no more than to ask you, not only to thank the Rev.
Doctor for his conduct to-day, but to extefid your thanks to
the whole of the clergy of this town, for the noble and con-
sistent stand they have unitedly made in defence of our Pro-
testant institutions. (Loud cheering.)
The Rev. J. R. CONNOR seconded the motion, and it was
carried by acclamation.
Dr. T ATTE RSH LL briefly returned thanks, and a doxology
having been sung, the meeting separated at five o'clock, the
proceedings having occupied about six hours.