the State, and transfer the emoluments of the Protestant Church to the Catholics, and to open to them all the great offices of the State, he could understand that; but if they proposed to maintain the Protestant Church Establishment as the religion of the State, then he would say there would still exist a barrier between the Roman Catholic and the attainment of his wishes. . . . . . . How many were the objects which would still remain to be attained by the Catholics? How would it be possible hereafter to deny the propriety of Catholic priests exercising their spiritual authority for temporal purposes? Might not the priests, after the proposed measure of relief was granted, claim to be the best judges of what was patriotic, and for the best interests of their Church?. It was not to be endured that an appeal should at once be made to the generosity and to the fears of the English people. On the one hand, they were told that the Catholic prelates had done everything in their power to promote peace in Ireland, and, of course, discouraged the Association; and on the other, that the whole Irish nation, from the Peer and the priest to the lowest peasant, were banded together to obtain emancipation. He was perfectly satisfied that nothing would have such an effect on the people of England, as fair dealing on the part of the Catholics.

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The very first objection which he would always take to the conduct of any individual, or any party, was where it evinced any want of manly candour or sincerity. (He instanced the exclusion from Dr. Milner's authorized 'Catechism' of the second commandment. The Catholic bishops had stated, in a formal declaration, that they had framed it in the simplicity of their hearts;' and their declaration set out with stating, that the Catholics, in common with all Christians, received and respected the entire of the Ten Commandments, as they were found in Exodus and Deuteronomy;' whereas he found in this Catechism the first commandment given,' I am the Lord thy God;' and the second commandment was, Thou shalt not

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take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.' It was true there were ten commandments in all, for one was divided into two, to make up for the second, which was omitted. The ninth was, 'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife;' and the tenth was, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods, &c., nor anything that is his.') Let them reject the second commandment if they would; but do not let them come down and state, in the simplicity of their hearts,' that to the House and the public of England, which it was difficult not to perceive was borne out by the fact....... He believed in his conscience, that if the House of Commons ever consented to admit Catholics within its walls, the only effect would be that of increased discord and dissension...... He thought it right to retain all the existing disabilities. He had no choice but to state with firmness, but without asperity, the principles which his reason dictated, and his conscience and honour compelled him to maintain. ...

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It was a matter of consolation to him that he had now an opportunity (after the Duke of York's death) of showing his adherence to those tenets which he had formerly espoused."-Times, June 10, 1845.

ancestors, too, were of that opinion, as is plain from an authority not to be questioned, namely, the Act of the 30th Chas. II., s. 2, by which the following solemn declaration is required to be subscribed, not only by the Sovereign at her coronation, but by all Members of the Legislature, and was regularly taken by them previous to the year 1829:

"30 CHAS. II., s. 2.

"I, A. B., do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do believe that in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of

bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever; and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous. And I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever, and without any dispensation already granted me for this purpose by the Pope, or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man, or absolved of this declaration, or any part thereof, although the Pope or any other person or persons or power whatsoever, should dispense with or annul the same, or declare that it was null or void from the beginning.'

"I therefore repeat the important question embodied in the advertisement, How can it be possible for the Legislature of a professed Christian country to endow the priesthood of a Church thus branded-branded even by the Sovereign herself?' Yes, Sir, this is the question which demands the serious and immediate investigation of the people of Eng

land, if they desire to preserve to themselves and transmit to posterity, the inestimable privileges of civil and religious liberty.

"A PROTESTANT SENTINEL. "Feb. 12, 1847."

ARE PUSEYITE BOOKS NECESSARIES FOR A STUDENT FOR THE CHURCH?

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THE following case, Toovey v. Brown," was tried in the Court of Exchequer, Saturday, Feb. 6, (Nisi Prius sittings,) before the Lord Chief Baron and a Middlesex jury:-—

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The action was brought by the plaintiff, a bookseller in Piccadilly, for books supplied to a son of the defendant, who is a gentleman of property residing at Pimlico. The son was a pupil of King's College, at the time the books were supplied, and to his entrance into the Church. was preparing for Cambridge, prior Amongst the books supplied were, Newman's Sermons," a Roman Missal, a Roman Breviary, "Pusey's Sermons," "Ward's Ideal of a Christian Church," and others of a similar character. The young man became a Roman Catholic, and the father naturally enough refused to pay for the books. It was proved for the plaintiff that some of the books supplied were useful, and some were requisite to the completion of the young man's studies; but it did not appear that there was amongst them any one academical book, in the strict meaning of that word.

Under these circumstances,

The Lord Chief Baron was of opinion that the defendant could not be held liable for them, and nonsuited the plaintiff.-Record, Feb. 11, 1847.

LYING WONDERS.

THE half-yearly Circular of the Geneva Evangelical Society, just published, contains the following, from one of the evangelists of that Society:

"I entered a house, and conversed with the family: the mother listened with a lively interest to the declarations of the Gospel, but she received with the same simplicity the fabulous

legends which were told her. For example, she believed with all her heart (and many others on these mountains with her), that the Virgin appeared, in body and spirit, to two little shepherds, who watched their flocks, in the neighbourhood of the village of C., about a month ago. She seated herself on a stone, and said to them, 'My little children, do your parents go regularly to mass and confession? and you, do you go also?' 'Not much, Madam.' 'Ah!" she replied, thus the Holy Virgin has caused the people throughout the world to experience that the dearth of wheat, disasters of various kinds, and especially the potato disease, are because they have not sufficient confidence in the priests, do not attend mass often enough, and are not regular at confession; and if they persevere in this forgetfulness of religion, I announce to them a general scarcity during seven years.' At the same moment, the stone on which she was seated was broken into a thousand pieces, and she disappeared in the air."

THE DEAD BEFORE THE LIVING

-OR, ROMISH CHARITY, A CIRCUMSTANCE, our authority for the narrative of which may be found in the Belgian paper, "La Semaine," of the 3d January, and the Paris journal, "La Voix Nouvelle." From the former it appears, that when, some time since, the tempestuous catastrophe at Monville and Malonnay, in France, had left some hundred unfortunate wretches mutilated, houseless, and in danger of starvation, the public charity was awakened; and in the ancient city of Rouen alone, the humane congregations of the various churches contributed in behalf of suffering humanity no less a sum than 10,400 francs. In presence of this munificent sum the special Ecclesiastical Committee of Rouen would seem to have been somewhat bewildered; for, after being touched with the generosity of the faithful, they dexterously distributed it according to the following Resolution :

"Seeing that among the victims of the above mentioned calamity, there

are great numbers of dead, for whom hitherto nothing has been done; that, nevertheless, it is but sheer justice that these should partake of the charity of the faithful, and that prayers should be offered for the welfare of their souls; that thereby all the victims would benefit in exact proportion to their wants by the succour accorded to them; that this idea ought to be the more welcomed, seeing that there exist resources more than sufficient for the aid of those unfortunate persons who have survived."

Seeing all this, the Committee proceed to declare by their Resolution, that, "in order that all the victims may profit, according to their necessities," the entire sum of 10,400 francs raised at Rouen, shall be invested in the public funds; that onehalf of the interest resulting from the same shall be employed in celebrating low and high masses, at the rate of a franc and a-half for each of the former, and forty francs for each of the latter; and that the other half of the interest should be distributed among the surviving victims, on condition that, when the latter ceased to need it, the amount given should be employed as before, in the celebration of masses for the dead.

One might reasonably be astounded at this solicitude for the dead at the expense of the living, even though the latter had received from other quarters that more than sufficient aid which the Ecclesiastical Committee at Rouen declares them to have received. But the latter declaration has been proved to be totally untrue; and the Prefect of the Seine Inferieure having estab lished his proofs before the General Committee of Administration, the latter have indignantly protested against the unseemly course adopted by the ecclesiastics of Rouen.

The Resolution of the Ecclesiastical Committee of Rouen has just been published by the Paris journal, "La Voix Nouvelle," a paper which urgently and very properly calls upon the Government to see justice done to those from whom it is now withheld.-Church and State Gazette, Jan. 29, 1847.

MISCELLANEOUS.

PAGAN AND PAPAL ROME.-Imperial Rome governed the bodies of men, but did not extend her empire further. Papal Rome improved upon Imperial; she made the tiara stronger than the diadem, Pontiffs more powerful that prætors, and the crozier more victorious than the sword. She devised a system, so complete in all its parts for the subjugation both of body and of mind, that, like Archimedes, she asked but for one thing-and that Luther denied her a fulcrum of ignorance on which to rest the lever by which she could balance the world.

CHRISTMAS-BOXES FOR JESUS AND

MARY, SOLICITED BY ST. JOSEPH. -(Etrennes pour Jésus et Marie, solliciteés Saint Joseph.)-Such is par the burlesque title under which a Paris journal publishes, in its first number of the year, an appeal addressed by an ecclesiastic to Christian people, inviting them to hasten with their offerings for the repair of a little church in Normandy, placed, says he, under the invocation of the Holy Virgin, and where Jesus and Joseph receive especial homage (hommages tout particuliers). We regret that we can only place before our readers some of the phrases of this curious and characteristic article. After setting forth that it seemed that Mary wished now to unite herself to her chaste husband, that he might be invoked with her, and that by him also our misfortunes might be removed, the author adds, in conclusion, that the first benefactors of this Church have already received signal favour from JESUS, MARY, and JOSEPH, that new favours might with confidence be expected from this TRINITY OF THE EARTH, fervently invoked in this sacred temple. Christians are then earnestly entreated to give to Jesus and Mary the Christmas-boxes which St. Joseph seems to solicit for them, and God will bless the sacrifice which they have made, in the name of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Here is, certainly, a Trinity which the Apostles never thought of! Who can say, after this, that the Church of Rome is not making progress toward a still

grosser Paganism! L'Esperancé, Jan. 21, 1847.

CABINET.

A MAN may with as much propriety expect to be saved by his advances in mathematics, as by his mere opinions about religion.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when be

queathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing. In Roman Catholic countries there is no Mortmain Act, and those who, when dying, impoverish their relations by leaving their fortunes to be expended in masses for themselves, have been shrewdly said to leave their own souls their heirs.

THE PROTEST.

ROME! Rome! I would not be thy slave,

For countless mines of wealth;
I dare not the Almighty brave,
Nor peril my soul's health!
How to a fellow-worm could I
Unlawful homage pay,
Yet deem insulted Deity

Th' avenging arm would stay?
My Shepherd!-I another call,

My Prophet, Priest, and King: Oh! Jesu, Thou to me art all,

Thy praise alone I'll sing. Say, could I dream that rags or bones Could me deliv'rance give? That images of wood or stones

Could bid me hope, and live? That holy water blots from sight

The stain of sin;-they say, "Puts devils from the soul to flight," And fits for realms of day! That I must satisfaction make, Though Christ atones alone, And says, "Poor trembler! for My sake,

Thou'rt welcome to a throne! In regions of unchanging bliss,

Thou too shalt reign with Me. Believe in Me-I promise this,

For I have died for thee." Oh! who would bear such joy to lose,

For Purgatory's pain?

To think when here our eyes we close, We there must die again!

Deceitful are thy charms;

I would not death should find me there!

I shun thy treach'rous arms. Dear Saviour! save thy blood-bought child,

And keep me ever thine; Preserve my faith, pure, undefiled,

Nor Rome's false wiles be mine. Then, when this body turns to dust, This soul is called away, In Jesus I will put my trust,

On Him my spirit stay.

Then let his welcome summons come, My soul fears no alarms;

The flesh must slumber in the tomb, The soul-in Jesu's arms! December 28, 1846.

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much good. We might hope that the disclosures of those who have seen the interior of monastic life, would tend to diminish the insane ardour with which some are seeking to cover our land with Monastic Institutions.

INTELLIGENCE.

THE Bishop of Oxford has just appointed the Rev. E. M. Goulburn, of Merton College, his examining chaplain. Mr. Goulburn is one of the leaders of the Anti-Tractarian party.→→ Morning Paper.

PROTESTANT CHURCHES IN TURKEY.-The American missionaries have laboured with considerable success to spread the pure Gospel among the Armenians of this empire. The Turkish authorities shew them every toleration, but not so the priests of the Armenian rite, who, exciting the population against them, have cruelly persecuted many of the proselytes. Lately, at Nicomedia, the populace attacked their houses, and a young man lost his life at the hands of these fanatics. The Governor of the city, whose protection the Protestants claimed, at first shewed himself unde→ cided, but at length he called together the principal inhabitants of the city, and declared, That the Armenian Protestants had the same claim on the protection of the Government as others, so long as they obeyed the laws of the empire; that he well knew the instigators of the disorders, life by their violence, they should anand that if any Protestant lost his swer for it with their heads. Imme

diately after this declaration, the priest who managed the affairs of the

diocese in the absence of the arch

bishop, delivered a sermon, in which he exhorted the people to abstain from all violence, and added, "You should neither enter their houses, nor allow them to enter yours, nor transact any business with them, nor salute them in the streets; and if any of your family are found infected with this poison, you must cast them out.” Notwithstanding these obstacles, a little Church of fourteen persons has been constituted at Nicomedia, and