and our cringing, conciliating, expediency statesmen came to the rescue; the Parliamentary Grant was at once withdrawn, and the schools were thrown on the private resources of their supporters." Chapter V. is on the "Betrayal of the Church in Ireland-Deprivation of Ten of its Bishoprics-Heavy Tax on the Incomes of Bishops aud Clergy." It contains much interesting and important matter. But want of space precludes our entering fully upon it, or on Chapter VI. which is on "The Church in Ireland robbed of one-fourth of its Income-The Conversion of the Papists the Duty of the Church-The True Office of Bishops and Ministers." At page 19, we have, in Chapter VII., the following points treated on: "State Support of Popery in the Colonies-Romish Bishops and Priests Sent and Supported there at the Public Cost-The Progress of Protestantism Retarded by Government Sanction of PoperyEncouragement given to the Building of Idol-Temples at Home." This brief chapter concludes at page 22, thus:— "The above statement, of course, gives only a very imperfect idea of the variety of ways, and of the extent of the support by which the Popish religion is maintained, encouraged, and endowed by the British nation and its dependencies. The instances here given may be looked on only as specimens of the evil, and they could be multiplied ad infinitum. For the last thirty years, the aggregate of sums of money squandered, for the above purpose, in our foreign possessions alone, directly or indirectly, must at least exceed half-a-million! Can we hope to preserve our colonies, and foster Popery in them? deluge their shores with Popery, and not experience the bitter fruits of our sin and folly? Can we sow the wind, and not reap the whirlwind ? " Can we The number of delinquencies charged against Protestant Statesmen increases as we go on. Chapter VIII. touches upon, "The Irish Poor Relief Act-Romish Chaplains salaried for the Paupers The Status of the Pope's Church recognised by Law "— and asks, "Why should Protestants be in Workhouses at all? " The writer considers "This Popish Poor Law, then, we consider as another evidence of the want of principle on the part of our rulers; and national acquiescence in it as a token of want of judgment and spirit, discreditable to any people, and injurious to their best interests." If it were not that amidst a great decay or departure from political Protestantism there was also to be discerned a great increase and revival in many quarters of spiritual, Bible Protestantism, we should read with heavier forebodings the recapitulation which this pamphlet contains of the desertion, if not betrayal, of the Protestant cause. The heading of Chapter IX. is "The Protestant Corporations of Ireland handed over to the enemyExtracts from Speeches of Sir Charles Wetherell and Mr. Butt against their Confiscation-Kingly Charters trampled on and Protestant Rights invaded by the Government of the day." At pp. 27 and 28 occurs the following: 66 Royal charters were, however, made waste paper of; the rights, privileges, and liberties of true men were esteemed but lightly; the promotion by corporate officials of Popery and its twin-sister, sedition, was not feared, nay rather, was courted; the addresses, petitions, remonstrances of Irish Protestants were trampled upon; the attachment to truth, loyalty, and religion of the Corporations in past times, was forgotten, or rather recorded against them as a crime-they were exclusive-they were anti-Popish-they were Protestant, and accordingly they were doomed!" Having referred to the prognostications of future evils the writer adds,— In "Nothing could be truer than all this, nothing more lamentable. The Corporations were, by this Act, handed over to the Papists, and henceforth few Protestants troubled themselves about them, and those who did were not benefited by their amalgamation with idolaters. short, they immediately became strongholds of the enemy, and were used for the promotion of the intolerant and seditious designs of the Papacy. "And now for this presumptuous act of national disobedience, for the violation of the chartered rights of Protestants, for the confiscation of their property, for the injury done to their Church, for the assistance given to Popery, we impeach the traitorous statesmen that committed the fraud, and hold them responsible for the injustice and the irreligion of this Act, until the Corporations be restored, as they assuredly shall be, to their rightful owners, the Protestants of Ireland." Chapters X., XI., and XII., we must pass over, noticing only their titles, or, rather, contents. That of Chapter X. is"The Socinian Fraud Bill of Sir Robert Peel-Usurpers of Property left for Religious purposes Confirmed in their Plunder-Might prevails over Right.' Chapter XI. is "The Charitable Bequests Act' involves Treason to the Throne— Romish Pseudo-Prelates exalted over Protestant Bishops and Nobility-Protestant Commissioners giving effect to Bequests for Romish Purposes, and Protestant Bequests Invalid unless sanctioned by Romish Commissioners-Popery thus encouraged in its Usurpa tions." Chapter XII. “Bill for Admitting Infidel Jews to Corporate Offices—The Declaration 'on the true Faith of a Christian ' abolished for this purposeThe Infidel substitute for it—The Christian Religion Injured and Dishonoured thereby." As the writer comes nearer to events of a more recent date the work increases in interest. At the same time there is also the less need for our entering fully upon them. Chapter XIII. is headed thus: "National Endowment and Establishment of three Godless Colleges in Ireland—Romish Students taught Popery therein, and compelled to attend the Mass Worship-Lord Clarendon's Letter to the Pope -Treason to the Throne and Church connived at by our Rulers." After the gigantic scheme of godless education, which cost the country 100,000l. for buildings, and now costs it 21,000l. a-year for the endowment of three colleges, it might have been supposed we had acted liberally towards Ireland. Chapter XIV., however, tells us of more and more that has been done. It speaks of— "The Infamous Maynooth Endowment Bill-Superstition, Idolatry, Blasphemy, Sedition, and Treason, Nationally promoted and encouraged-The Petitions and Remonstrances of Protestant Millions Despised-Lavish Expenditure of the Public Money in the Propagation of Popery." Well may Protestants blush and be ashamed of this. But they must do more, they must repent of it. Nay, they must do more than that; they must get rid of it. So much has been heretofore said in the pages of this Magazine that we forbear to quote much in extenso. the writer says:— But at page 48 "Thank God that millions delivered their souls by a faithful testimony against so diabolical an act ! Thank God that the Protestants of Great Britain, jealous for his honour, stood up to forbid the sacrilege! Thank God that their protests still live, and may yet, with the Divine blessing, be instrumental in overturning the system of iniquity which this infatuated, this disastrous measure was meant to sustain." And he adds,— "In order to enable our readers to appreciate more fully the fearful sin of this State endowment of an idol college, we append a statement of the sums voted for its support for the last half century; and we beg of them to calculate what results might reasonably have been expected from the employment of the same funds in promoting that true religion which it was England's glorious mission to establish and spread over the earth : "From the year 1796 to 1800, inclusive, (5 years) £38,335 0 0 1801 to 1810, (10 years) 82,935 O 0 0 0 0 0 5 years) 78,365 0 (5 years) 156,800 (4 years) say 112,360 0 0 "Over three quarters of a million lavished on the promotion of the soul-destroying tenets of Rome, and on rearing up tribes of men to perpetuate the offering up of idol sacrifices in the land! "How terrible and just, therefore, is this our impeachment of traitorous rulers, who have gone in direct opposition to the Word of God, despised the remonstrances of 'his servants, the prophets, which spake in his name to our kings and our princes, and to all the people of the land;' broken faith with the Church (established for its truth) and made a covenant with death, and agreement with hell '-raised up bands of spoilers to desolate, and wither, and blast the best interests of the Irish people, and likewise to go forth to England, Scotland and foreign countries on the same pernicious mission; who have made a profession of religion, truth, and liberty, that they may the more readily hand over the people to blasphemy, falsehood, and bondage!" The subject of the following chapter is one of a very solemn character. Some of the facts referred to, with remarks thereon, were given at the time in the Annual Report of the Protestant Association. Chapter XV. speaks of— "Anti-Christian Laws followed by National Calamities-Diplomatic Relations with Rome Bill-Petition of Clergy against it-Treason Involved in this Enactment." The writer says,— "It forms no part of the present work to picture in detail the fearful devastation created in Ireland by the famine of 1846-7, which swept probably a million and a-half of souls into eternity, and from the horrors of which another million fled for succour to other lands, many of whom also fell victims to starvation and disease. Nor did England escape unscathed from the disasters, for her shores were crowded with fugitives from the grasp of death, who carried infection into English hearths and homes, and rendered many of them desolate. Commercial distress, bankruptcy, and misery followed in the train of the famine, which have been described in the following extract, from Douglas Jerrold's newspaper, entitled, 666 "The year 1847 will be memorable as one of the most disastrous in our mercantile annals. A decline in Consols from 100 to 79 represents depreciation of the public securities of 168 millions. The fall in railway shares, estimated at fifty per cent., shows a diminution of sixty millions in the value of this property. The failure of commercial establishments is probably underrated at twenty millions. The loss on East and West Indian produce, machinery, and manufactured articles, is computed at 100 millions. It is difficult to estimate the actual depreciation of Colonial property in plantations and buildings; some have raised it as high as 400 millions; and if this prove correct, the loss of imperial treasure during this year does not fall short of the National Debt.' "It should not be forgotten that all these disasters were predicted by the opponents of the Maynooth Bill, as probable consequences of the national sin of endowing that idolatrous seminary; but their deprecations of the guilt and folly of the measure were ridiculed by the godless statesmen of the day. "We can, however, have little hesitation in attributing these tremendous calamities to the anti-Christian laws which we have been reviewing. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of the law.'—(Deut. xxix. 29.) And He having revealed that disobedience to his commands, and the national support of idolatry, would be visited with his heaviest vengeance, we are fully warranted in saying that our unfaithful conduct as a Christian State and nation have richly merited the terrible chastisement which God in his justice and mercy inflicted upon us." We must pass on from Chapter XVI., which is on— "Government Support of Romish Schools in England and ScotlandLowering of the Franchise for Papists in Ireland-Clergy Reserves (Canada) Bill-Other Efforts to advance Popery-Romish Testimony to the Anti-Protestant Legislation of Late Years: to Chapters XVII. and XVIII., pages 58 and 61. Chapter XVII., is on :— "Omissions of the British State to fulfil its Duties-The Church Neglected-Scriptural Education Discountenanced-No Efforts made for the Conversion of Papists-Protection withheld from Converts and other Protestants-Inhumanity to Factory Workers Encouraged-Desecration of the Sabbath. "As might have been expected from the perfidious course pursued by our rulers, and the Legislature which proved itself to be only the creature of their will, the great and important duties devolving upon England, as a British State and nation, were wholly unattended to, and the promotion of God's glory and the best welfare of the people altogether abandoned. And yet how could it be otherwise? If our laws were based on falsehood, fraud, and wickedness; if the exaltation of anti-Christianity and the propagation of idolatry were primary objects of our legislators, how could they be expected to labour for the advancement of heavenly truth, and for the enthronement of Christ in the hearts of the people? Nevertheless, our object in show |