The character of the men who administer this frightful system, as may be supposed, is truly diabolical, with a few exceptions. No honest man, no virtuous man, no truthful man, no believer in revelation, could consent to trade upon souls as these men do. One is disposed to agree with the celebrated Dr. Meyler himself, once a Roman Catholic, and brother of a Romish Archdeacon, that the propagators do not really believe one sentence of what they teach. It is true they are restrained from mimicking Christianity as their brethren on the Continent do, by causing most dissolute characters to represent the Father, Son, aud Virgin Mary on the stage, each acting a part, and evincing all the bad passions of our nature, as the Greeks of old represented their deities, accompanied by blasphemies which I dare not name. (See Lord Kame's History of Man.) But if they do not this, they do quite as bad. They wink at the practice of witchcraft, just as Rome did before the Reformation, when an Act to suppress it became necessary. (Hen. VIII., A.D. 1511.) They call in the assistance of the devil as a third deity, making the Virgin first, to assist them in their operations. (See Hales' Chronology, 3, 341.) But I must add one of these evokings of the evil one against a true Christian, who loved God's Divine Word:-" I adjure thee, Satan, and all thy agents, by the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, to take no rest, neither in the day nor in the night, till you have brought a temporal and eternal confusion upon them, by contriving the matter SO that they may be drowned or hanged, or devoured by wild beasts, or torn by vultures, or eagles, or consumed as by fire, or killed by their enemies-make them odious to all living creatures." Now, it will seem very natural that men cherishing and diffusing such sentiments should rely more upon the powers of darkness than of light. Accordingly we find a very remarkable coincidence between the talents, to the interests of the three thousand priests Look at their bold attempts during this very ses- 1. A Bill for the abolition of the Queeu's su premacy. 2. The legal introduction of the Pope's Bulls, thus investing him with absolute power. 3. The Host to be carried in the streets, of course supported by a military force, as our legislators well know that without a guard it would not be tolerated. 4. A complete repeal of the Statutes of Mortmain, and a power to Popery retrospectively to sue in certain cases for Church property, of course under the auspices of a Popish Chancellor, an additional boon which they demanded,-with free liberty for the Jesuits to carry on their conspiracies in England. 5. That every regiment and every ship in Her Majesty's service shall have a Popish priest as its guide. I grieve to add, that our present and late Government voted for the second reading of a Bill which would have placed the tiara of Pope Pius the Ninth over the crown of Victoria. persons addressed by our Lord as the serpents, the covetous and extortioners; both most censorious and uncharitable towards those differing from them; both quick-sighted to the trifling faults in others, but most blind to their own enormous crimes; both guilty of a brutal rejection of the pure and holy doctrines and precious promises of the Gospel; both virulent persecutors of Christ and his true fol lowers; both call on the devil to assist their operations. Hence, in Ireland, treason, murder, and perjury are as generally taught by the priests, and enforced, as honesty and chastity are in England, Scotland, or any other Christian country. How can Recollect these men have convulsed and wasted, and are convulsing every part of the globe into which they have gained access. 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SOCIETY, for Accumulative and General Assurances, 2, Books. TRACTS. Fifty-fifth Thousand. 53. RELIGIOUS MOTIVES for OPPOSING the CONTEMPLATED ENDOWMENT of the the Rev. G. CROLY, LL.D. 1d., or 7s. per 100. Twentieth Thousand. 50. ADDRESS of the PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION to the ELECTORS of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND. Duties of Protestant Electors. Questions to Candidates. 35. per 100, or 17. per 1000. votions to attract the gaze of men; both most physical contagion wherever they go, the impersonated CITY of LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE effects of Popery and priestcraft. Ask yourselves why all this wretchedness only from the south and west Royal Exchange Buildings. EDWARD F. LEKKS, Secretary. of Ireland, and not from the north or cast, or from Scotland? Are these people incapable of improvement or civilization? By no means; they are as acute and as quick and clever as other people, but England inflicts on them 3,000 spiritual tyrants, whose despotic powers depend on the barbarism and ignorance and enslavement of the poor; who exclude the light of that celestial truth which would illume the mind, and expose their imposture and endanger their craft. You seek to govern the people, as Lord Ashley observed at Bath, through the priests, instead of controling the priests by the people, and for these sensual men, reduce that fine country to a physical and moral waste. It is no excuse for England that the people have chosen and adhere to these priests who are the enemies of all righteousness. On the accession of Queen Elizabeth the priests and people of Ireland abandoned the Pope and his senseless legends, and embraced the scriptural religion of England; for this they had been prepared by the previous surrender of all the chiefs to Henry VIII. But alas! England cared not to nurture and encourage the growth. Two Jesuits, Allan and Saunders, were sent over by the Pope, and they soon infused the old poison, and erected the standard of Popery and rebellion. As might be expected, in the absence of any zeal or appreciation of so important a move, the people seceded to a corrupt religion. Even at this hour, if, in legislating, the British Government, instead of pandering to priests and demagogues, would keep constantly in view the real enlightenment and good of the people, soon would they find the party growl to subside, and the factious few overborne by the many. it be otherwise? When the candidate priests are about being ordained at Maynooth, they affect to take the Oath of Allegiance; but instead of doing so, they insert the monosyllable not, and in the hearing of their superiors openly declare, that an oath to a heretic prince who deserves a curse cannot be binding. What a requital for 30,000l. of our English money! Throughout all the criminal proceedings in their courts of justice the same spirit pervades. They will either swear an innocent party guilty, or a guilty party innocent, as it suits their ideas of the interest of their Church or political party. This was strikingly evidenced some years ago in the barbarous murder of thirty-seven Protestants, policemen at Carrickshock; for although thousands were concerned in it, and the Government sent down three or four Special Commissions at enormous expense, Roman Catholic witnesses could not be induced to swear, nor jurors to find verdicts, either from fear of assassination, or from the dread of impairing the interests of their Church and party. Yet at this moment you are sacrificing your wealth, your intelligence, your influence, your time and HANDBILLS. per 100. The above are some of the publications of the Protestant As sociation, of especial importance at this crisis; and may be had at 11, Exeter Hall, Strand, London, through any bookseller, or on Post-office order, payable to Arthur William Stone, being remitted. Printed by ALEXANDER MACINTOSH, Printer, of No. 20, Great New-street, London, at his Printing-office at the same place, and published by WILLIAM ADOLPHUS MACKNIGHT, of No. 61, Lambeth-walk, Lambeth, Surrey, at THE PROTESTANT ELECTOR Office, No. 3, Shoe-lane, London, where all communications (pre-paid) and advertisements are received.-London, July 23, 1847. 1 1 "ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO | to the cause of truth,-whether we shall still | altogether its nature; but let us see what this DO HIS DUTY." adhere to the principles which have made England liberal Pope still says and does. great, or hurl down the flag of Protestant ascendancy, and hoist the banner of Romish ascendancy in its place. ELECTORS! Let all sound-hearted Protestants, whether Churchmen, Dissenters, Whigs, or Tories,— All who take the word of God as their rule of Satisfied, as we ever have been, that one or the life, and reject the uncertain traditions of other must be in the ascendant, we have never believed the promises of Romish apologists,' that antiquity,Rome would be satisfied with toleration, equality, endowment. No, her aim is unlimited,-her ambition boundless. Her pretensions are to universal sway;-an entire supremacy over us is the object after which she is grasping. The narrow but will not suffer themselves to be priest-end of the wedge has been long inserted; she is anxious to drive it home, and shiver to atoms the stately fabric of our Protestant Constitution. All who reverence the simple worship of Christianity, and condemn as antiscriptural the adoration of saints, images, and relics,All who honour the true ministers of Christ, ridden, All who prize true liberty of conscience, and abhor persecution, All who would guard the purity of their homes, and keep their sons and daughters from the abject bondage and licentiousness of the convent, In his Encyclical Letter he thus speaks of Bible Societies: "For you already well know, Venerable Brethren, that there are other deceits and frightful errors with which the children of this age sharply contend against the Catholic religion, and the Divine authority and regulations of the Church, and endeavour to trample under foot all laws, as well of the Church as of the State. Such is the tendency of those wicked enterprises which have been undertaken against this Roman See of blessed Peter, in which Christ laid the impregnable foundation of his Church. Such is the aim of those secret Societies, which have emerged from their obscurity to devastate and destroy all that is most venerable, both in the Church and in the State, and which have been repeatedly anathematized and condemned by the Roman Pontiffs our predecessors, in their AposWe tolic letters, which anathemas, we, in the plenitude of our apostolic authority, confirm and command to be diligently obeyed. Such is the object of those most crafty Bible Societies, which, reviving an old device of the heretics, do not cease to put forth an immense number of copies of the books of the sa We must maintain Protestant ascendancy shall have Popish ascendancy if we do not. We are no alarmists, neither do we wish to hide existence of danger. Our blindness cannot the All who appreciate plain honest dealing, and change the precipice to a plain. Silence and inac- cred Scriptures, printed in various vulgar tongues, scorn the bad faith and subtleties of Jesuitism, All who value freedom, and detest slavery, whether of body or of mind, of our All who gladly own the mild sway gracious Queen, but disclaim all allegiance to the Pope, All who prize their Bible, Who hold the. Protestant religion dear to them, Who fear God, Who honour the Queen, Who love their country, Who regard their liberties, Vote for Protestant Candidates. CITY OF LONDON ELECTION. The present aspect of the contest for the representation of the City of London is very encouraging to the Protestant party. Though late in the field, such energy and activity have been displayed as to leave no doubt that the result of the contest will be of a most satisfactory nature. Yet electors must not sleep at the post of duty. They must not think all done because much has been attempted. Let each man act as if the result of the election rested on himself. The next four days are eventfu'. They are to decide whether Popery and Judaism are to legislate for Protestants and Christians. They are to decide whether the neart of England is still sound tivity cannot cure evils, or surmount difficulties. They will but be met by those who, without being terrified, can look these dangers fully in the face, and defy them. Freedom is opposed to Popery, where Popery is known without disguise. The citizens of London, who, in the spirit of honourable commerce, have attained the position of Princes, are not less noted for their love of civil and religious freedom, than for their successful enterprise in commercial speculation. We rejoice that Mr. Masterman, Alderman Johnson, Mr. Bevan, and Mr. Freshfield, have thus come forward as candidates to represent the City of London on Protestant principles. Will not every consistent Protestant rally round the standard so boldly held up in the hour of our country's peril, and evince their approval of such pious, patriotic, public spirited conduct, by the cordiality of their co-operation, and the number of their votes? We feel satisfied they ought to do so. THE PRESENT LIBERAL POPE. There are some facts which require continually to be brought forward before they gain the degree of attention which they deserve. It is so especially in those cases where the facts militate against an impression which people have willingly received, and do not wish to have removed. We have such a case now in view. The liberality of the Pope is spoken of as if Popery had changed and often filled with false and perverse interpretations, contrary to the rules of the holy Church, which they continually circulate at an immense expense, and force upon all sorts of persons, even ot the rudest sort, with a view that, rejecting the Divine traditions, the teaching of the fathers, and the authority of the Church, they should all interpret for themselves, and by their own private judgment, the Word of God, and so, perverting the sense, be led into grievous errors-which Societies Gregory XVI.-in whose place, though most unworthy, we are now placed,-emulating the example of his predecessors, vehemently condemned in his Apostolic letters, and we desire to join as eagerly in their reprobation." And further on, at p. 37, we have the following as to the Virgin Mary : "But in order that our most merciful God may the more readily incline his ear to our prayers, and may grant that which we implore, let us ever have recourse to the intercession of the most Holy Mother of God, the Immaculate Virgin Mary, our sweetest mother, our mediatrix, our advocate, our surest hope and firmest reliance, than whose patronage nothing is more potent, nothing more effectual with God. Let us invoke also the Prince of the Apostles, to whom Christ himself delivered the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whom he declared to be the foundation stone of his Church, against which the gates of hell should never prevail, and his co-apostle Paul, and all the saints of heaven, who now possess the reward of their labours, a crown of glorythat through their prayers the abundant treasures of the divine mercy may descend on the whole Christian world." May we not fairly ask if such be the principles and practice inculcated by a liberal Pope, what may we not expect to find in the history, principles, and practice of his less liberal, an more intolerant predecessors? When we thus behold the Pope in vocating the Virgin Mary, the departed Peter and Pau', and all the saints in heaven;ploring their PROTESTANT aid and intercession; opposed to the liberty of the press, we cannot say much for the altered character of Popery. The present Pope may do much in his little temporal dominion in various fiscal regulations; he may do more than some of his predecessors in regard to the temporal well-being of the people; still we can only regard the Pope as an idolater,―opposed to liberty of conscience, and to the free circulation of the Scripture. ROMAN CATHOLIC ELECTORS IN THE CITY. A rumour has gone abroad that Lord John and the Roman Catholic electors of London have so far arranged "demand and concession," that he is to receive their cordial support. Whatever foundation may have existed for this report, it does not seem to be the case. The Roman Catholic weekly organ of Saturday thus refers to the subject : THE CITY ELECTION.-A printed paper has been extensively circulated among the Catholic electors of the City, in which, by an adroit disguising of the truth, it is made to appear that Mr. Lucas joined in a recommendation to the City electors of Lord John Russell and the other three Liberal candidates. We need hardly say that there is not a word of truth in this statement. In another leading article of the same date the following occurs. It throws no small light upon the policy and tactics of Romanism : LORD JOHN RUSSELL IN THE CITY. "The Whigs have certainly a very accurate appreciation of the relative importance at elections of the Dissenters and the Catholics. To stand well with the first, Lord John-too busy to receive deputations-pays a visit to the City, and comes armed with a brand-new Minute on Education, framed for the express purpose of those Dissenters who scruple to receive any public money for their schools, if teaching religion is made a condition of its receipt. Henceforward-thanks to the election and their Dissenters may have State support for their schools threatened hostility-the whether they teach religion in them or not. Such is the concession which fear of the Dissenters and their open threats of not voting for Lord John have wrung from the Committee of Council. Such are the advantages of knowing how to manage one's own affairs. our 66 "Some of our friends in the City are not, as it seems to us, blessed with this sort of sagacity. For a long time it has been the weakness of the Catholic community-like little children-to hang on to the apron-strings of the Whig party, and to expect all blessings from these nearly immaculate politicians. The Whig in Downing-street was big brother;" and when Exeter Hall frowned or looked back, the only refuge that we knew was to put our finger in our eye, and run off whining and blubbering to this powerful relative, beseeching him that we might be permitted to find shelter under his coat tails. This weakness is one which in the rest of the country we have been beginning gradually to outgrow. In other parts of England it is more or less understood that this not very dignified policy is not very safe or prudent; but unfortunately, in the City there are still many excellent Catholics of the old school who have too keen a recollection of their old degradation and their bygone terrors to be able to raise their souls higher than a Whig Minister's shoe-tie. Mammy's apron-string and the big-brother policy are still dear to them, and are for them the quintessence of all political wisdom. Happily there are in the City many Catholic electors of quite another disposition; but it is not very encouraging to think that such poor-spirited notions find acceptance with any of our readers. "The case of the City, it is said, is quite peculiar. The choice there is between five Exeter Hall candidates on one de, and four Liberals on the other. Of these four Liberals one is the Prime Minister; and is exceedingly imperfect and un THE PROTESTANT ELECTOR. "Our answer is very clear and decisive. We the least comprehension of the real working of po- "Of course, we are not recommending that the would stand thus:-Mr. Plumptre would gain a col- "Which of these alternatives would a wise man choose? "Let us ask those who are frightened at the cheerfully pay half a-dozen Members of Parliament sell is nominally only one man, but really he is a "We ask those City Catholics to whom we address to keep out Masterman do so because they think the · have received the following letter in relation to Mr. Mr. Payne is quite willing to vote for all the Catholic demands. There is, therefore, no occasion John, who avows his intention to injure us, the to look for a fourth candidate. Instead of Lord City Catholics can, if they please, vote for Mr. Payne, whose intentions are exactly the reverse: "TO THE EDITOR OF THE TABLET. "9, Old Fish-street Hill, Doctors'-commons, 66 July 22, 1847. of Elections,' and particularly so of the City, I "I am, Sir, your obedient servant, a "And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, Babylon No more shall her greatness be sounded in story- One moment beheld her in brightness and beauty, "Tis past-and the storm in the zeal of its duty In the red flames of vengeance her temples are Bewailing and wonder, distraction and weeping, But shout, oh, ye heavens! with rapture and gladness, For she, the deceiver-the harlot of nations, principles are, as we have already indicated, what is good in all parties, for all persons, and at all PROTESTANTISM SHOULD BE PARAMOUNT.-Our times. This, we might hope, would be a generally satisfactory statement of our principles. must give a positive description of them, we will comprehend it all in one word, and that one word is But if we have attempted to raise : under this banner we have PROTESTANTISM. This is the standard which we resolved to fight; and we invite all who think with us, or approve of our object, to press into our ranks faithful and true in all other parties.-Hampshire What is wanted now to save our beloved country is Guardian. a totally new party, composed out of those who are THE GENERAL ELECTION. TO THE DISSENTERS OF THE CITY OF LONDON. Gentlemen,-Some of you having expressed doubts as to the course you ought to adopt at the approaching election, permit me to submit a few remarks for your consideration. That you may feel that this letter is written in a spirit of Christian friendship, and that I am naturally led to address you, I may mention, that in 1844 the United Committee for opposing the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, or rather the Socinian Endowment Bill, did me the honour to vote me their thanks for having addressed and published two letters to Sir Robert Peel against that measure.* In 1845, I laboured side by side with you in opposing the Maynooth Endowment Bill, by which this nation undertook permanently to propagate Romish error, and to rear a priesthood for that pur pose. In July I received another letter of thanks for my second letter, signed by the secretary. Let me then submit to you, that the circumstances of the times require union amongst all Christians against Arianism on the one hand, and Popery on the other. First of all, the Socinian Endowment Bill was an irreligious Bill; for not only was the property of Christians transferred to Socinians by a statute so violent, that, unlike other statutes of limitations, it even applied to existing interests; but what ought to sink far more deeply into the mind of every Christian, the solemn words, "the worship of God," were most unnecessarily used with intent to include those who impugn the doctrine of the holy Trinity. The words in question, intended to include Socinians, were the following:-"And be it enacted, that so far as no particular religious doctrines or opinions, or mode of regulating worship, shall on the face of the will, deed, or other instrument declaring the trusts of any meeting-house for the worship of God by persous dissenting as aforesaid, either in express terms or by reference to some book or other document," &c. In order that the mischievous tendency of such use of those words, "the worship of God," might be understood, my second letter pointed out that the word "God" has a defined meaning in the common law of England. It is not an uncertain or unmeaning sound; but it means "He who is God alone." So that any man who blasphemes the Father, the Son, or the Holy Ghost, is indictable at common law as a blasphemer of God, and no statute is required to make it an offence; for Christianity is parcel of the common law of England. This principle of our law received a remarkable illustration in the case of the "King against Waddington," reported in 1 Barnwell and Cresswell's Reports, p. 26 Waddington supposed that, because the statutes imposing penalties on those who impugned the doctrine of the Trinity had been repealed, he might blaspheme with impunity, but the Court of King's Bench decided otherwise. Lord Wynford, at that time Mr. Justice Best, in delivering his judgment, observed as follows:-"The 53d Geo. III., c. 160, has made no alteration in the common law relative to libel. If, previous to the passing of that statute, it would have been a libel to deny, in any printed work, the divinity of the Second Person in the Trinity, the same publication would be a libel now." So in "Bird against Holbrook," 4, Bingham's Re.. ports, 641, the Chief Justice observed-"It has been argued that the law does not compel every line of conduct which humanity or religion may require ; but there is no act which Christianity forbids, that the law will not reach; if it were otherwise, Christianity would not be, as it has always been held to be, part of the law of England." "The King against Hall," 1 Strange's Reports, p. +16, was an information for a libel against the doctrine of the Trinity. In the "King against Woolston," 2 Strange's Reports, p. 834, the Court would not suffer it to be debated, whether to write against Christianity in general was not an offence punishable At a Meeting of the United Committee for opposing the enters' Chapels Bill, held at Exeter Hall, this 17th day Jane, 1844-in the chair, John Wilks, Esq.-it was resolved animously:"That the thanks of the Committee be presented b George Rochfort Clarke, Esq., M.A., for his very able and pportune pamphlet, entitled Observations on the Socinian adowment Bill,' and his kindness in presenting fifty copies for the use of the Committee; and that he be assured that, while they ghly estimate the talents he has manifested, they peculiarly respect the zealous attachment he has evinced to the vital ssential doctrines of scriptural truth. "JOHN WILKS Chairman.” in the temporal courts at common law. They laid their stress upon the word general, and did not intend to include disputes between learned men upon particular controverted points. Having stated thus much, I will add a portion of the conclusiou of the second letter; from which it will be manifest that their attention was expressly called to this dangerous part of the Bill. 66 What, Sir, is meant by adding those words-FOR THE WORSHIP OF GOD? "Is it meant to imply that one who deliberately sets aside that revelation which God has made of himself, and denies and rejects the Godhead and incarnation of the Son, the personality of the Holy Ghost, and the blood of the atonement, whereby alone any man has access unto God-is it meant that such a man worships God?' Are there many gods? And is it all one what we worship- Jehovah, Jove, or Lord?' Is it a matter of change and chance or a matter of THE FAITH? "Do not let those words, 'the worship of God,' be used as if they were equally applicable to the worship of the only true God, or of an idol, or of the mere creature of man's imagination, as the case may be. The things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God.' (1 Cor. x. 20.) "It may, indeed, be hereafter argued, should this Bill pass into a law, that these words, the worship of God,' like those on which I have already commented, must be so construed by our courts of law and equity as to confine the operation of this Bill to those meeting-houses only which come within the common law meaning of the words 'for the worship of God. Certainly the right method of construction would be such, and could I trust to the right mode of construction being used I might be silent. But who can shut his eyes to what is passing in Parliament, or forget that the last appeal must be to those who would probably urge upon the House of Lords, that these words were in fact introduced to meet this very question of the Socinian heresies? And when we see such majorities, by which even Rome has been ready and willing, for its present purpose, to pronounce Socinianism the worship of God,' who could foresee whether law and equity would prevail against a secret, active, and perverting Socinian influence?" The Peel Administration, however, pressed forward the measure, and Lord John Russell and his adherents assisted. The amendments made in the Commons obliged them to carry back the Bill to the Lords. The Bishop of London divided the House of Lords upon it. He challenged all the law lords in the house, and there were several present, to show an instance in which the words "worship of God," had been used in such a sense as to include those who impugned the doctrine of the Trinity. No one ventured to accept the challenge. But the measure was carried. One of the Barons of the Exchequer, for whose legal knowledge I entertain a great respect, and who at first thought the use of these words must have been an oversight, subsequently asked me if I would have objected to the words "the worship of what they call God?" I answered "that such words would not have been liable to the same objection." He replied, " But that would have been offensive to them (the Socinians). The fear of giving offence shall not induce me to acquiesce in the misuse of the name of God; and if Christians so acquiesce, the faith of this kingdom will be brought down to the level of that odious bill." Sir Robert Peel has just published a manifesto, and it is plain he has no intention of wiping away this blot out of the statute book. He places So cinians under the general term Dissenters, and seems to think that the difference between the Church of Christ and those who deny God as he is, is no more than the differences amongst ourselves concerning forms and ceremonies and matters of discipline and order. He speaks of "the consolations of religion" in such a way as to compel the inquiry, "Does he reject the 18th Article of the Church of England?" which is as follows: "Of obtaining eternal salvation only by the name of Christ." "They also are to be had accursed that presume to say that every man shall be saved by the law or sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law and the light of nature, for Holy Scripture doth set out unto be saved." us only the name of Jesus Christ whereby men must Sir Robert Peel also gives us notice that he will carry out the principles involved in the endowment of Maynooth to the uttermost, unless our common Protestantism prove too strong for the common enemy. Lord John Russell is ready for the same race. The Romish fortress at Maynooth will be strengthened and enlarged from time to time. We are threatened with the Romish version of the Scriptures, about to be introduced into England, under national authority, to be placed side by side with our authorized version; in the use of which, blessed be God, we are all most happily agreed. The advocates of that measure would treat the question as one of translation only; but as a reverend friend of mine, a dignitary in the Established Church, has well pointed out, it is a question of the canon of Scripture. Unless, then, we are to restcontented with the name of God being permanently misused in our laws, the word of God corrupted and so used in our schools, the land blighted with Romish error, and we, as a nation, brought into agreement with Antichrist, we must make an effort to rid ourselves of those politicians whose minds have been enfeebled by courtesies to Arianism on the one hand, or Popery on the other. At Cambridge, Lord Feilding is brought forward on the basis of the following Resolution:-" That in order to vindicate the character of the University as a body identified with the Church of England in doctrine and discipline, and, as such, more especially protesting against the corruption and usurpation of the Church of Rome, a candidate be brought forward for the avowed purpose of representing the University in these respects." Should you take a less Christian and Protestant course, you will not be able hereafter to taunt High Churchmen with being less opposed to Popery or Socinianism than yourselves. Whereas, if you set an example to the Dissenters throughout the kingdom of combining to resist Popery and Socinianism, you may do much towards maintaining or replacing all the parts of the British constitution on their Christian and Protestant foundation. It is reported that you intend, for the above reasons, to withdraw your support from Lord John Russell. Allow me to urge you to go further, and reward the Christian and Protestant votes of Mr. Masterman with your zealous support. He voted steadily against the Socinian Endowment Bill, and against the Maynooth Endowment Bill. Surely, if I obtained thanks for my letters to Sir Robert Peel against the Socinian Endowment Bill, Mr. Masterman is entitled to your gratitude for having opposed it in Parliament. It was my intention to have given Mr. Masterman a plumper; but, finding that three other gentlemen have come forward avowedly on the same principles, though I know nothing more of their politics than this, I certainly intend to vote for the four Protestant candidates, and venture to ask you to do the same. GEORGE ROCHFORT CLARKE. Inner Temple, July 20. "Some Members of Parliament who voted for the endowment of Maynooth now declare their willingness to pledge themselves that they will, if re-elected, oppose the endowment of the Romish priesthood, either in England or Ireland. "Now, Sir, what does this pledge mean? It would ill become any one to repress any tendencies towards repentance in any quarter; but, in order to obviate future misunderstandings and recriminations, it is due, both to candidates and constituents, that it should be clearly explained and comprehended, as each case may require, whether the pledge to resist the endowment of the Romish priesthood carries with it also a promise to resist the endowment of the Romish Bible? I need not remind you, Sir, that the Church of Rome exCommunicates and anathematizes all who do not receive the Apocrypha as inspired. She substitutes in her schools a new Bible, to the destruction of the old. All British Protestants are agreed in this, that the Apocrypha books are not inspired; and that the books which the Church of England receives as canonical, are the pure and entire word of inspiration. "Now, it is certain that while the question of the endowment of the Romish priesthood may, perhaps, be indefinitely postponed, the question concerning the endowment of the Romish Bible is imminent. "Many leading Statesmen have announced already their intention of advocating an extension of the national grants to opposition to the Authorized Version used in the schools of all Romish schools in England, that is, of endowing a new Bible in the Protestant Christians of England. "Let me be permitted, therefore, respectfully to suggest that those who might otherwise be in danger of being deluded by an equivocal pledge, should take heed, while they are able, to inquire and to ascertain what the pledge really means. "I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "CANTABRIGIENSIS." Again,-" 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, Mr. Ward, in favour of providing for the establishment of Maynooth out of the funds of the Established Church. 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. "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 impracticable." THREE LORD JOHNS. LORD JOHN ON THE HUSTINGS. "Now, Gentlemen, I will only say further, that I think pledges which have been required on the subject of Roman Catholic endowment, are peculiarly unnecessary (cheers), because, as far as I am acquainted, there is no intention of proposing any measure for that purpose to Parliament, nor do I know that there is any probability of its being proposed." LORD JOHN IN THE HOUSE AGAIN. If in power, and with a House in favour of it. "Following the example of the Right Hon. Member for Tamworth, with reference to Maynooth College, I now move to bring in a Bill for the permanent endowment of Roman Catholics. "I may be told this is a departure from the language used by me on the hustings. I cannot see it in that light. My principles were known. They and my votes are recorded in Parliament. What I then intended to express was, that speaking on behalf of Her Majesty's Government as then constituted, with a Cabinet divided on the question, the people opposed to it, and the prospect of a general election bfeore us, there was no immediate intention on the part of Government to bring it forward. But the times have changed." ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. THE CITY OF LONDON, The following notice was put up on Saturday at the Mansion-house, Guildhall, and the Royal Exchange:-"The Sheriffs of London do make proclamation, that in obedience to Her Majesty's writ for electing four fit and discreet citizens to serve for the City of London in the ensuing Parliament, to be holden at Westminster on the 21st day of September next, they, the said sheriffs, will proceed to the said election at the Guildhall of the said City of London on Wednesday next, the 28th day of July inst., at 10 for 11 of the clock of the forenoon of the same day precisely. "THOMAS CHALLIS, "R. W. KENNARD, S "Secondaries'-office, Basinghall-street, "July 24, 1847." Sheriffs. On Friday evening a district Meeting of the electors of the City of London took place at the George and Vulture Tavern, Cornhill, for the purpose of hearing from Messrs. Masterman, Johnson, Bevan, and Fresh field, the Conservative candidates for the representation of the City of London, a statement of their political opinions. Mr. J. Labouchere presided, and opened the proceedings by stating the great grounds on which the present Ministry should be opposed. These were the encouragement to Infidelity given by the Education Minutes, and the all but avowed intention of Lord J. Russell to connect Popery with the State. Messrs. Masterman, Johnson, Bevan, and Fresh field, addressed the Meeting in speeches explanatory of their opinions; and it was resolved that these gentlemen having given an unqualified assurance of their determination to resist any further attempt for the endowment of the Roman Catholic Church, they are eminently qualified to represent the commercial, corporate, and general interests of the City of London in Parliament; and this Meeting pledges itself to use every exertion to secure their election." A vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, and the Meeting separated. SOUTHWARK.-Friday next, the 30th instant, is appointed for the nomination of the candidates for this borough; the polling to take place, in case of a contest, on the Monday following. Up to Friday night the only candidates were the late members, Mr. Alderman Humphery and Sir William Molesworth. LAMBETH.-The day appointed for the nomination of the candidates for this borough is Thursday next, the 29th instant, the polling to commence on Friday. The candidates are Mr. B. Hawes, Mr. T. D'Eyncourt, and Mr. C. Pearson, the city solicitor. The contest is expected to be one of the severest that has occurred in this borough. THE TOWER HAMLETS.-The nomination of the candidates will be on Thursday next, and the polling will commence on Friday. The two late members, Sir William Clay and Major-General Fox, and Mr. G. Thompson, are in the field, all in the Liberal interest. It is stated that on the day of nomination a Conservative candidate will be brought forward to oppose the Liberal interest. MARYLEBONE. The nomination of candidates for this borough is fixed for Thursday next, at three o'clock in the afternoon; the polling, in the event of a contest, will take place on Friday, and the declaration of the state of the poll on the Monday following. DEVONPORT, JULY 21.-There was a very good Meeting at the Town Hall last evening. Mr. Sandars was well received. LEICESTER. It is expected that Mr. Parker, barrister, will contest this borough on the Conservative interest, against Sir Joshua Walmsley and Mr. Richard Gardner, the present candidates. WIGAN.-Three candidates are in the field for this town,-R. A. Thicknesse, Esq., Free-trader; Colonel Lindsay and Thomas Bright Crosse, Esq., Conservatives. STAMFORD.-At present all is quiet in Stamford, but we are informed the candidates will visit the town early this week, and remain until the election is over. Both parties speak with confidence as to the result of the election, and the contest will, doubtless, be a severe one. The Marquis of Granby and the Right Hon. J. C. Herries waited upon several of the electors on Friday last, and in the evening proceeded to town. LINCOLN. It is generally rumoured that the city election will take place on Thursday next, and the second seat is expected to be very keenly contested. Colonel Sibthorp is considered to be secure of the first chair, and the friends of Mr. Collett, of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, and of Mr. Seeley, all claim the second seat for their respective chieftains. WEST SOMERSETSHIRE.-An address from Mr. T. D. Acland has been issued, announcing his determination not again to offer himself at the ensuing election as one of the representatives for the western division of this county. NEWARK.-They are remarkably still about elec. tion movements, further than addresses being issued. John Stuart, Esq., and John H. M. Sutton, Esq., have each issued an address, and there is some talk of a third candidate, but it appears quite un certain. WAKEFIELD. Nothing of interest has taken place in reference to the forthcoming election since our last publication. Each party is still confident of success, and we have no doubt the anti-educationists will make a great struggle, but the victory must be with Mr. Sandars.-Doncaster Chronicle. WILTSHIRE.-But few changes will take place in Wilts, and consequently but little interest is ex cited. For the county, for Devizes, Chippenham, Marlborough, Calne, and Malmesbury, the present Members will, without doubt, be re-elected. Mr. Goddard, jun., will succeed the Hon. Mr. Howard, as one of the representatives of Cricklade, and, with Mr. John Neeld, will walk over the course. Mr. Baring Wall, from present appearances, will suc ceed Mr. Campbell Wyndham, for Salisbury. |