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lation, which are calculated to disabuse the public mind as to Popery, and to paint the real nature and designs of Rome in a true light.

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I can safely appeal to the Searcher of all hearts, who knows our most secret thoughts, that no worldly interest whatever has induced me to act so decided a part, in a matter involving the interests of eternity. It is painful to my feelings to be obliged to speak thus of myself, but I am compelled to do so; for I am not ignorant that 'converts from the Church of Rome' are always charged with being guilty of desertion from selfish and interested motives. The Lord having taught me a better way, I feel that the concerns of a neverdying soul are of the first importance. Influenced by this consideration, I trust I can fully appreciate the heartsearching question put by the Saviour of sinners: What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or, What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?' This is my solemn conviction, and actuated by it, I address myself to you, my Roman Catholic fellowcountrymen; and I earnestly entreat of you to shake off the trammels by which you are bound, to go to the fountain head, the Word of God, and to compare the tenets of your Church with the doctrines laid down by HIM in that infallible volume of inspiration. You have souls to be saved, as well as the humble individual who ventures to expostulate with you; lay aside, then, the fear of man, which bringeth a snare '—prove all things by that unerring guide, the revelation of God's will, and hold fast that which is good.' You have reason to suspect that man of unworthy motives, however learned and exalted in rank he may be, who would tell you, that the written word' is insufficient for man's salvation. Does he not arraign the wisdom, justice, and mercy, of our heavenly Father, when he ventures to question the sufficiency of the oracles of God' without the addition of the unwritten word' of sinful and fallible man? As rational and accountable creatures, I call upon you to assert your right to the possession and perusal of that

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Word, which contains the charter of your salvation—the title-deed of your heavenly inheritance. I call upon you to examine the doctrines of your creed by that Word-to examine them as men, who are deliberating for eternity; whose everlasting welfare depends on your arriving at a saving knowledge of the true faith. Receive the affectionate admonition of one who can have no other object in view in addressing you than the good of your immortal souls. 'I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.' And may the same Divine Teacher, who, I trust, has graciously opened my eyes to see the truth as it is in Jesus,' vouchsafe to confer on you also the same blessed privilege, to turn you from the darkness of error and superstition, and 'to give you the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.' Amen!"

INTELLIGENCE.

ISLINGTON.-On Monday evening, January 18, 1847, a Lecture was delivered at the National School Room, Church-street, by the Rev. A. R. C. Dallas, M.A., Rector of Wonston, Hants, and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Winchester, on the following subject:-"Popery in Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, a Warning to Protestants in England." The Lecture was numerously and respectably attended.

MANCHESTER, JAN. 14. -There is a rumour to-day that Lord Lincoln will not offer himself for Manchester. His declared willingness to endow the Irish Catholic clergy has, it is said, lost him the support of many, who, as Churchmen, would have voted for him in preference to a Dissenter; and his most influential_supporters are Churchmen, many of whom oppose Mr. Bright on that ground. The opposite party declare that in any case the return of their candidate is certain.

IRELAND.-A new Institution, entitled the "General Irish Reformation Fund, for the Restoration of her Primitive Religion, and the necessary protection of those becoming Converts," has succeeded in raising nearly £20,000 for a new body of Scripture

readers in Ireland. The prime movers in this noble scheme, have been Lord Ashley and the Rev. E. Bickersteth. -Encouragement of Popery in Ireland.-"A new charter has been granted to the Royal Hibernian School, providing for the endowment of Roman Catholic teachers in that establishment. This is merely another step towards destroying the Protestant character of our State institutions." (Another move of the Jesuits, who are bound to " peculiar care in the education of boys.") Dublin Herald. Reformation in Dublin. — The good work goes on most prosperously in Dublin. We have now the gratification to announce that, in St. Audeon's Church, on the first Sunday of the year, eleven persons were added to the Church; such as, we trust, shall be saved in the day of the Lord. After the converts abjured the errors of Popery, the Rev. Thomas Scott preached from the following appropriate words of the great apostle of the Gentiles :-"For this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets." (Acts xxiv. 14.) The converts also received the holy communion, and then signed the renunciation roll. The Rev. George Tredinnick, Rector of Ballyshannon, assisted in the solemn and interesting services of the day; and though the church was literally crammed with people, chiefly men, there was no interruption to mar the beauty of all the ordinance. Mr. Scott announced that he would receive another class of converts, God willing, on the first

Sabbath of the month of March next. One of the young men, who was intended for the Romish priesthood, and who is nearly allied to a distinguished and noble family, in the south of Ireland, has addressed a letter to his friends in his native parish, in which he assigns a few of his reasons for the vital step he has taken. No doubt many of his relatives will follow his good example. -Dublin Herald.

Protestant Italian Journal.- We are glad to observe that an Italian Journal will appear on February 1, to be conducted on the principles of the Reformation, by Christian Italians resident in London. It will be circulated among the Italians scattered throughout England, France, and other parts of the Continent. The title is to be "L'Eco di Savanarola."

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The Pope, the Jesuit, and Mr. Newman.-A clergyman at Rome, writes under date of December last, as follows:-" The Pope is hated by the clergy, especially by the Jesuits. As to them, this will show you the popular feeling. On the Pope's going to visit their convent, the people shouted again and again, Holy Father, do not take any chocolate there,' lest he should be poisoned. It is a fact, that letters have been sent to each Jesuit here, and each Cardinal, forewarning them that if the Pope fall sick, they will be murdered." From the same letter, we copy the following:-" Mr. Newman, at Rome.

-I heard Mr. Newman make a funeral oration over a Miss Brien. In matter, it was meagre,—in doctrine, barren, and in manner, ungraceful and unimpressive; altogether a failure."

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. Andrew Steinmetz. Elder, and Co.

BOOKS RECEIVED." Day on Monastic Institutions;" "Martin Luther's Councils, and Churches." Translated from the High German by the Rev. C. B. Smythe.-"Ireland in 1846-7, Considered in Reference to the Recent Rapid Growth of Popery." By Philip Dixon Hardy, Esq. -"The Novitiate; or a Year among the English Jesuits, a Personal Narrative, &c." By

London: Smith,

If our Correspondent from Wales will give us his name and address, we will see forwarded a list of such tracts as he requires, or he may obtain a list of the Welsh tracts of the Religious Tract Society, or the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

Macintosh, Printer, Great New Street, London.

PROTESTANT MAGAZINE.

MARCH, 1847.

NATIONAL JUDGMENTS.-PETITIONS TO THE THRONE AND

PARLIAMENT.

"The Church of Rome may flourish in the country that it ruins."

MUCH has recently been said, and more will be said, on the subject of national judgments. We would not be of those who rush in "where angels fear to tread," nor of those described by the Psalmist, who have either said in their hearts, There is no God, or deny his interference in the affairs of men or nations.

In our February number we pointed out the clear distinction between national and individual sins, and, on the authority of Archbishop Tillotson, endeavoured to show that however individuals may prosper, or be afflicted in this world, not exactly in the degree we might suppose merited by them, because hereafter each will receive a full amount of happiness or suffering, yet that, with regard to nations, it is not so, inasmuch as nations and public bodies of men will not exist as such in a future state, and that, therefore, national sins will ever draw down national judgments. There are many who think it rash and uncharitable to speak of judgments as visitations from the Lord in punishment of sin, and others who do not like to hear it said, that for any distinct sin a judgment has been sent.

Now, it is clearly laid down in Holy Writ, that the Almighty does and will inflict severe punishment on nations; and one very special cause for them is, we are told, Idolatry. May we not, then, say, with reference to the support recently given to the Church of Rome, "Is there not a cause?" a cause for the judgment? should we not strive and pray for the removal of the cause, as well as for the removal of the punishment?

Such are our own convictions. Whilst, however, we assert this, we believe that even if there were no such thing as Popery amongst us, there are still national sins enough justly to draw down punishment upon us. Sir W. Lington's petition and address have been adopted to Her Most Gracious Majesty and each House of Parliament, praying for a day to be appointed for a national fast and humiliation, as a means of averting the evils too justly to be apprehended. Such, too, is the light in which very large portions of the community view the question. It is highly gratifying to witness movements similar to those originated VOL. IX.-March, 1847. New Series, No. 15.

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by Mr. Hoare and his associates with reference to the late election for Middlesex. This may be the means of effecting permanent good by at once eliciting and expressing the Protestant feelings of this Christian country, and of arousing electors to adequate exertions to wrest off the grasp of Popery, and avert the evils which now darkly lower upon our political horizon.

Taking the written Word of Divine truth for our guide, and fully believing that national sins draw down national punishments; that we as a Protestant nation cannot fall into a greater national sin than that of allying ourselves with the antiscriptural Church of Rome; that by partaking of her sins, and promoting her idolatries, we shall be made partakers of her plagues, and bring down Divine judgment on the nation; we cannot disassociate the calamitous state of the Papal portions of Ireland in particular, from Popery as the main cause, nor regard the movement of those who would confer scriptural instruction with the food that perisheth, but as emanating from true Christian charity, and likely to be productive of consequences the most beneficial.

Rome is preparing for fresh aggressions upon us, and our theologians and statesmen are, we fear, prepared to concede to the apostasy the precious blessing which, in his mercy, the Lord has showered on our country.

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Against these further concessions it is our duty to petition, and we give in a subsequent place the petitions recently adopted by the Committee of the Protestant Association, praying that no further concessions may be made, and that the Act for permanently endowing Maynooth College be repealed.

PROCEEDINGS AT MADEIRA.-DR. KALLEY'S CASE.

SECTION I.-In January, 1843, Dr. Kalley was commanded, by the Civil Governor of Madeira, to abstain from a course of conduct of a religious nature which he believed to be LEGAL, and had pursued for years.

The Portuguese Charter declares, that "no one shall be compelled to do or abstain from doing anything, except in accordance with preexisting law." Dr. Kalley, therefore, in reply, begged to know what LAW forbade his procedure, and as none was pointed out, he did not see reason to change. He was therefore prosecuted.

The Portuguese Government having prejudged the case, while legal investigations were going on, tried to compel him to obey their despotic order, by planting police at his gates, and forbidding his friends, patients, and even his servants, to enter his house, and actually imprisoning some of them for entering, though the legal authorities decided that such Government proceedings were illegal.

After this, the supreme Judge in Madeira, on 31st March, 1843, declared that there was NO LAW against Dr. Kalley's conduct.

Notwithstanding this sentence, the local authorities continued their illegal measures against him.

* See post, pp. 83–85.

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Against the Judge's sentence, the public Prosecutor appealed to the Court of Relaçao, in Lisbon; this appeal, instead of being sent to that Court, was laid before the Governor's brother-in-law in Madeira; he had no legal authority whatever to interfere in any such case, yet on 5th July, 1843, he declared that HE ANNULLED THE SENTENCE OF THE JUDGE !

On the 11th of July, the same utterly incompetent person INDICTED DR. KALLEY, AND ORDERED HIS IMPRISONMENT WITH DENIAL OF BAIL. In virtue of THIS SENTENCE, Dr. Kalley was IMPRISONED on the 26th of July, and DENIED BAIL.

Against this he appealed; the British Government promised "to obtain for him ample compensation and redress," if his imprisonment and denial of bail should be proved illegal.

The Court of Appeal in Lisbon decided, on 12th December, 1843, that the denial of bail WAS ILLEGAL; and on the 22d of the same month, that the indictment (and consequently the imprisonment) was

ALSO ILLEGAL.

Dr. Kalley requested the British Government to obtain for him the promised redress; the justice of his claim for more than five months' illegal imprisonment was admitted; but fourteen months after the imprisonment was proved illegal, no compensation had been obtained.

On 24th February, 1844, the process being carried before the British Judge Conservator; he also decided that there was NO LAW AGAINST DR. KALLEY'S PROCEDURE.

The Public Prosecutor appealed anew to the Court of Relaçao against this sentence. Dr. Kalley quietly pursued his course, convinced of its PERFECT LEGALITY.

Meantime the Portuguese Judges were rendered, by the Legislature, dependent on the pleasure of the Government, which expressed its wish that Dr. Kalley should be condemned.

The Court of Appeal then ordered, the Conservatorial Judge to indict Dr. Kalley in virtue of a law of the Inquisition, dated 1603, and directly opposed both to the spirit and letter of the existing Constitutional Charter.

Dr. Kalley appealed to the British Government, against being left under that law, but no protest was made against its application to him wishing, therefore, to remain in Madeira at peace,

On the suggestion of the British Minister at Lisbon, he, in February 1845, withdrew his claim for compensation, on condition that all proceedings against him for the past should be entirely withdrawn, and that if they should ever be renewed, his claim should thereby be revived. The Portuguese Government consented to these terms.

From the day on which Dr. Kalley heard of the FIRST and ONLY decision against him in ANY COURT OF LAW, though fully assured that it was opposed both to the Charter and the Treaty, HE EVER AFTER

CAREFULLY ABSTAINED FROM THAT COURSE OF CONDUCT WHICH IT CENSURED.

Within a month after the agreement was made with the Portuguese Government (through the British Minister at Lisbon, and with the approbation of Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) IT WAS VIOLATED BY THE PORTUguese. A warrant was

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