shall not have placed themselves, by the appointed time, in one of the four classes, will be subjected to such restrictive measures as the Government. will think it right to employ. The Pope is dead well be it so, CABINET. GOD is a friend always able and ready to advise. Whenever, therefore, you are at a loss, spread your case before him. He can direct you by his word, or by his Spirit, or by his providence, and sometimes, perhaps, by all three, and lead you by a right way, though often seemingly dark and unlikely. God may sometimes permit the enemies of his people and children to triumph over them. Satan, and all his instruments in his hand, cannot move a step without Divine permission. When we are hurried with worldly business, let us remember Jesus, who said, "Labour not for the meat that perisheth, but for that which endureth to everlasting life." When assaulted with the fiery darts of the wicked one let us remember Jesus, who was in all points tempted as we are, yet with out sin. THE STAR. THERE is star that shines so bright, Which Balaam saw, of Jacob's star. Yes, when the Spirit of our God Gave visions to his darken'd eyes, He saw the stem of Jesse's rod, He saw the glorious sceptre rise. Britain, thou highly favour'd isle, This star illumes thee, far and wide; And glowing 'neath its charming smile, Thou might'st have lit the world beside. But in the kingdom one dark deed, Aim'd at thy peace a deadly blow, One king, regardless of his creed, Unloos'd the chain that bound thy foe. Uprose that foe, proclaim'd his power With wily air and blushing face, Yet gathering strength from hour to hour, Wills now to subjugate thy race. power, England! thou spring of might and Should, by the wily serpent led, Yield and succumb to Popery, In lands abroad or streets at home, Long as thy voice shall e'er be heard, No treaty with apostate Rome !! IOTA. 1 NOTICES OF BOOKS. The Ancient Faith of the Holy Catholic Church, demonstrated in a r Lecture delivered in the Rotunda, ·Dublin, April 18, 1846, and tested by an Appeal to the Roman Catholic Archbishops of the Four Provinces.-By the Rev. ROBERT J. M'GHEE, A.M. London: Seeley, Burnside, and Seeley, pp. 72. WE have fully referred to the above. Learning, eloquence, and piety pervade the whole. The tabular form will be found particularly useful, to all who wish to have a clear and sucChurches of Rome and England. cinct view as to the creeds of the two INTELLIGENCE. ENGLAND.--It is rumoured that the Rev. F. W. Faber, late Fellow of University College, Oxford, and Rector of Elton, Hunts, is about to become the founder of a new order of religion, the special principle of which is to be submission to the will of God, as expressed in its motto, Voluntas Dei!. The patrons are believed to be St. Thomas of Canterbury, and St. Wilford, and the brothers of the order will be instructed to exhibit Chris tian character principally in its aspect of cheerfulness, and will be employed in assisting parish priests in all the duties which may be properly intrusted to laymen.-Cambridge Advertiser.- -London.-French Protestant Church.—On Sunday, May 30, a most interesting scene took place in the French Protestant Church, St. Martin-le-Grand, where two (formerly) Roman Catholic ladies, firmly convinced of the truth of the Protestant faith, and converted under the pastoral guidance and instruction of the minister of the church, presented themselves for the purpose of publicly renouncing the errors and superstitions of the Church of Rome, and rejecting the delusions of Popery, to embrace the religion of Christ.Kingston-on-Thames. An elegant new Catholic Church is rising rapidly towards completion in this place, or we should more correctly say, at Saberton, a village situate midway between New and Old Kingston. The situation is admirably chosen. It is on the banks of the Thames, having only the high road between it and the river. The length of the church is eighty-two feet, the width fortyeight feet, the height of the tower seventy feet. It will have a nave, aisles, and chancel. There will be a Presbytery, school-room, and cemetery attached, occupying about an acre of ground. The whole is the gift of Alex. Raphael, Esq., and will amount to 10,000l.-Tablet. IRELAND. Tipperary. The Papists of Tipperary have memorialized the Board of Works for a loan of 1,000l. to build a chapel in that town. COLONIAL.-Nova Scotia.-Popish churches are in course of erec tion at Petite, in the district of Windsor, and at Fergusoni, Cove, and Herring Cove. May 5, at Rome, Cardinal Acton received into the bosom of the Roman Catholic Church the Rev. J. D. Ryder, his wife, Mrs. Ryder, his sister, Miss Sophia Ryder, and his three eldest children. The Rev. J. Ryder, is the second son of the late Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, nephew of the Earl of Harrowby, and first cousin of Ambrose Lisle Phillips, Esq., of Grace Dieu Manor. Mrs. Ryder is the sister-in-law of the Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Wilberforce.-The Beacon.Breslau.--The German Gazette of Frankfort, in a letter from Breslau, 21st May, states, that the Jesuits were seeking to obtain a footing in Prussia. Several young men who had commenced their studies in that place, were about to set out for Rome, to make themselves thoroughly ac quainted with the doctrines of that Society, when they would return to the former city. FOREIGN.-Rome.-On DEATH OF HIS HOLINESS THE POPE.-On Saturday evening the French Government received a telegraphic despatch from M. Rossi, the French Ambassador at the Court of Rome, dated June the 1st, announcing the sudden death of his Holiness Pope Gregory XVI. that morning between nine and ten o'clock. The real name of Gregory XVI. was Mauro Capellari. He was born at Belluno on the 18th of September, 1765. He was elected Pope on the 2d of February, 1831, and took his seat on the pontifical chair by the name of Gregory XVI. ELECTION OF A NEW POPE.-The conclave of the Sacred College lasted only two days, opening on the 14th, and terminating on the 16th of June. The new Pope, Cardinal Mastai Ferretti, on ascending the throne of St. Peter, takes the title of Pius IX. He is only fifty-four years of age, and therefore one of the youngest popes ever elected. Stamped Copies of the Protestant Magazine, price 6d., may be had at any time by order to the Publisher, and may be forwarded to any part of the kingdom, post free. N.B. Every Subscriber of 10s. annually to the Protestant Association is entitled to a copy of the Magazine: to be had on application at the Office. Macintosh, Printer, Great New Street, London. THE PROTESTANT MAGAZINE. AUGUST, 1846. THE NEW MINISTRY. THE curtain has now fallen over the Administration of Sir Robert Peel, and other actors are brought before us to play their part on the political stage. Lord John Russell has constructed his Cabinet, and to him, as the First Minister of the Crown, and to his measures, do many of the Protestants of this country now look with intense anxiety. Though his return to office after the signal failure in his attempt to form a Cabinet last autumn, is remarkable, it was not altogether unexpected. Indeed, it seemed to follow as a natural consequence from the late Premier's deserting the cause of the Protectionists, that Lord John Russell should again be entrusted by Her Majesty with the formation of a Cabinet capable of administering the affairs of the empire. The seals of office, if not the reins of Government, are now, therefore, again in his hands, and the country looks with no small degree of solicitude to the policy which he may deem it judicious to pursue. In most instances, the past is a guide to the future, and from the animus of the Cabinet when he was formerly in power, we might in many cases infer with tolerable accuracy what would be the course pursued by him on the re-assumption of office. We believe, however, that while the proceedings of the late Whig Administration were decidedly hostile to the Church ir Ireland, there are those of the present Government, and amongst them the Noble Lord himself, who think it expedient to retrace their policy, would gladly avoid making the past a guide for the future, and being compelled, in consistency with former errors, still to deal out heavy blows and severe discouragements to the Protestant Church in Ireland. Much as some may privately wish it, they fear as a Government to make the trial. Long may they do so. The failure of the rash and dangerous experiments then made, has operated in a two-fold way. It has shown the experimentalists that the ultimatum sought after by them, viz., the VOL. VIII.-August, 1846. New Series, No. 8. pacification of Ireland, is not to be obtained by such proceedings; and besides doing this, the shock which it gave to the feelings and principles of the conscientious, no less than the political friends of Church Establishment in Ireland, raised up so strong a tide of opposition to the Administration, as wasted by degrees its power, diminished its majorities, and left it ultimately a wreck, broken into a thousand fragments, and tossed over the wide surface of the ocean of Politics. To Lord John it has been entrusted to collect these scattered fragments, and call his spirits from the vasty deep. At his first bidding they would not come, or when they did come, driven by the waves of politics together, it was not to unite, but to rebound from each other. An experiment that has once been made, and proved futile as to the object to be effected, and almost ruinous to those who made it, will not by wise men be a second time attempted under similar circumstances. We might, therefore, in the language of some, exclaim, “Let the policy of Government be what it will, let them distribute offices as they may, burying all distinctions between Protestants and Roman Catholics in perpetual oblivion, as far as civil privileges are concerned, yet it is abundantly clear the Protestant Church will no more be despoiled, the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland will not be endowed." We should rejoice to find it so, but this must be borne in mind, that it is not what one Member of a Government, nor what a whole Cabinet intend, that can always be accomplished. Governments have yielded too frequently to pressure from without, to suffer us to forget that other elements than the dicta of official personages must be taken into consideration. Nor are we left to conjecture. The recent speeches of Parliamentary leaders evince a desire to see the Romish Priesthood in Ireland endowed, and an intention of doing so as soon as the Protestant people of this country shall be found willing to permit such a course, and the Roman Catholic Priesthood consenting to it. Of these two difficulties we are inclined to build more on the former. The proposed recipients of the bounty will no more object to receive the stipend, than to avail themselves of the Grant to Maynooth College, and the various Government payments of many thousands a-year, made either to their Priests, their Bishops, or for building schools, chapels, &c., in Ireland, or our colonial and tributary possessions. They aim after establishments throughout the globe. Every country supplies proof of this. Absolute supremacy, unconditional endowment, fettered by no State interference, no exercise of the right of veto by a heretic-Sovereign, or Council-that they would readily receive. It is clear that the Roman Catholics do not object to endow ments as such; but they apprehend probably the annexation of some condition which they may deem injurious. . But this appears now to be abundantly clear, that many of the present Government, like those of the last, have conceded the principle, and will contend that further endowment is but an extension of it. They renounce the high religious ground that for Christian men to endow Antichristian errors, and the worshippers of the Triune Jehovah to promote idolatry, is the surest way to bring down Divine wrath and punishment upon the nation. On the evening of Thursday, July 16, Lord John Russell, the head of the Government, and more moderate in his views than many of his Cabinet, is reported in the "Times" of the following day, to have spoken thus upon these subjects: "With respect to the Church in Ireland, and the endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy, I voted with my Hon. Friend the member for Sheffield, in favour of providing for the establishment of Maynooth out of the funds of the Established Church. Wę were defeated by a great majority, the opinion of the House being adverse to that proposition. I afterwards continued to the end to give a zealous support to the Bill, which provided for the establishment of Maynooth out of the Consolidated Fund. I made no difficulty in supporting that Bill because the motion of my Hon. Friend was not carried." Hence it is abundantly clear, that not only does the Noble Lord not see any insuperable objection to the endowment of Popery in Ireland, but would absolutely deem it preferable to impoverish the Protestant Church, that he may deck Popery with the spoils; would not only endow the idolatry of Rome, but would rob a portion of Christ's Church of its revenues, that he may give them to the Antichristian Church of Rome. As King Hezekiah of old, one of the most pious of Israel's kings, cut off the gold from the temple of the Lord, that he might, even at so costly a sacrifice, purchase peace with the Assyrian monarch, would the Noble Lord now rob the impoverished but truthteaching Church in Ireland of its remaining revenues, in order to conciliate Rome, and render the modern Babylon friendly to this country. so But it may be supposed by some that his Lordship's opinions have changed since then. Far otherwise; he assures us they are what they were. In the next sentence of the same speech, he proceeds as follows: Well, I now say that I retain my opinions with respect to the Protestant Church, and with respect to Roman Catholic endowment; but I do not think that it is necessary that I should urge these opinions at the present moment, for I should be doing that which I must confess at the present moment to be impracti |