Sir W. Molesworth then came forward, and proposed the Hon. Locke King as a fit and proper person to represent the Eastern Division of Surrey in the next Parliament. Mr. Hyde Palmer seconded the nomination of Mr. Locke King. Captain Fitzroy proposed Thomas Alcock, Esq., as a fit and proper colleague to Mr. Locke King. Sir Edward Colebrook seconded the nomination of Mr. Alcock. Mr. Freshfield then came forward, and was received with cheers and hisses. Mr. 8. Jones Lloyd said, if the Hon. Gentleman was not about to propose a candidate, he could not then be heard. (Cries of "Hear him, hear him.") Mr. Freshfield then addressed the Meeting at some length. He certainly had been invited to stand for that division of the county some time since, and although his name had been mentioned as one of the candidates, he had never entertained any opinion of entering upon a contest for the county of Surrey on this occasion. ("Hear, hear," and cheers.) He (Mr. Freshfield) had been fairly beaten in London, and it would be an ill compliment to the electors of Surrey were he now to ask for their suffrages. (Cheers.) The two candidates who had been proposed had his best wishes, and there was no probability of any opposition to the return. The High Sheriff then inquired if any elector had another candidate to propose, and no answer being given, he declared the Hon. Peter John Locke King, and Thomas Alcock, Esq., duly elected knights of the shire or the eastern division of the county of Surrey. TIPPERARY (COUNTY).-Messrs. Maher and Scully have been returned, Messrs. Collett and Barker having withdrawn. TYRONE COUNTY.-Lord Claude Hamilton and the Hon. Mr. Corry were returned on Tuesday without opposition. A numerous Meeting of the Members of the above Association took place at St. John's Rooms, Winchester, on Wednesday, July 28. The object of the Meeting was to hear a lecture, advertised to be delivered by James Lord, Esq., of the Inner Temple, on "Popery in the Nineteenth Century: a Warning to Protestants." The chair was taken shortly after seven o'clock, The Rev. W. N. HOOPER having first opened the who wished to address them would have an impartial | WINCHESTER PROTESTANT INSTITUTION. | there are many persons who have not been brought up and fair hearing. either under the care of a Church of England cler. (Report of Lecture recently delivered at Win-gyman or a dissenting minister; and are more easily chester, by Mr. Lord, abridged from the Hamp- drawn into the fold of Popery by the priests, who shire Guardian.) are most zealous in their efforts to make converts. At Stonyhurst, in Lancashire, this has been particularly the case, where, by the unwearied perseverance of the priests, the great majority of the people have been brought over to Romanism. Is not this a proof that there is a system now at work, which, if not counteracted, will give to the Roman Catholic Church a most uncontrollable power over the affairs of this country. If I believed the Roman Catholic religion to be of God, I should hail their efforts to spread our common Christianity; but it is based upon a foundation corrupt and unstable, and just as the Jews did in the time of our Saviour, so do the Romanists now corrupt the word of God by their traditions. Popery has increased; but this is no proof that it is right; its antiquity, too, is often urged; but there are other false religions, far more ancient than that of Rome, therefore its antiquity is no proof of its truth. The zeal and energy of our reforming forefathers drove Popery from this land; but by our apathy and neglet it has been allowed again to raise its head. It is not antiquity or numbers that we must adopt as the standard by which to try the Church of Rome. Truth must be asserted in opposition to numbers. It would be as consistent for a merchant to object to good money because there is a great deal of bad, as to reject pure religion because there is a great deal of false religion in the world. Just as the existence of bad money makes the merchant more careful, so it ought to be with the Christian, who should, by testing religion by the written word, ascertain whether it be from God or of man. The Roman Catholic would agree to what I have said with the exception of one word, but a great difference sometimes lies within a very small compass. Protestants take the written word of God as their guide; the Church of Rome brings in with it the unwritten word also, or traditions, the teachings of the Church, and the numerous interpretations of her fathers. Refer to the Roman admitted traditions, says, I also admit the Holy Catholic creed of Pope Pius, which, after having Scriptures according to the sense which our holy mother, the Church has held, and does hold, to whom it belongs to judge of the true sense and interpretation of the Scriptures; neither will I ever take and interpret them otherwise than according to the unanimous consent of the fathers.' Now, the most serious charges against the early reformers were, attach importance to the traditions of the fathers; that they would read the Scriptures, and refused to and in so doing they not unfrequently lost their property and their lives. It was these which our early Reformers considered the perverters of the pure waters of Christianity. Every effort is now making to bring us entirely under the dominion of Popery. I now hold in my hand a stereotyped edition of the Romish Scriptural Catechism, such as they put into the hands of poor people, and into which they drill them. The first question asked is, "What is the Catholic rule of faith? A. The revealed word of God. Q. Of what does the revealed word of God consist? A. It consists of two parts; the written word, called Holy Scriptures, and the unwritten word, called Divine tradition. Q. Are these two parts of equal authority? A. Yes, because they have been equally revealed by God.' The obvious tendency of this is to draw the individual from Scripture to the teaching of the Church of Rome. It is asked, 'Is there any obligation in reading the Scripture? A. The Catholic Clergy are required to read and pray out of it every day. A more strict written word of God lies on the pastors, whose duty obligation of studying both the written and the unit is to inculcate it to the faithful. But there is no such general obligation incumbent on the laity, it being sufficient that they listen to it from their pastors.' The next question is, 'Is it lawful for the laity to read the Holy Scriptures? A. They may read them in the language in which they are written.' Thus it will be perceived that they are particularly jealous lest the light should shine over their darkness. There is nothing about Popery in the Bible; and this should make Protestants more zealous in their efforts, and more determined, to insist that every Roman Catholic should have the privilege of reading in his native language, the wonderful works of God. Now the great difference between Roman Catholics and Protestants is as to the standard by which each WARWICKSHIRE (SOUTH.)—On Wednesday morning, at ten o'clock, the nomination for this division of county took place at the County Hall in this borough. The usual preliminaries having been gone through, W. Dickens, Esq., proposed, and C. B. Granville, Esq., seconded, the nomination of Eylyn Shirley, Esq. The Hon. C. Bertie Percy proposed, and Robert Barnard, Esq., seconded the nomination of Lord Brooke. There being no other candidates the High Sheriff, Geo: ge Wheilden, Esq., declared the Hon. Gentlemen duly elected. The Hon. Gentlemen then addressed the electors, and the proceedings terminated. WATERFORD (COUNTY).-Messrs. Power and Keating have been returned. WARWICKSHIRE (NORTH.)-Mr. Bracebridge has resigned. Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Spooner, and Mr. Leigh, are the three candidates now in the field. WESTMEATH COUNTY.-On Tuesday Sir Percy Nugent and Mr. Magan were declared duly elected. There was no poll, notwithstanding the rumours to that effect. Sir Percy and Mr. Magan severally addressed their constituents, and declared themselves uncompromising Repealers of the union. They then drove round the town in a chariot drawn by four greys, and visited the Right Rev. Dr. Cantwell in due form. WEXFORD COUNTY.-Mr. James Fegan (Repealer) and Mr. Grogan Morgan (moderate Conservative) on Tuesday declared elected, Mr. James Power, the late Member, having withdrawn from were the contest. The late Thomas Vance, Esq., has left his large funded property in the Three per Cent. Consols to the Rev. John Gregg, Chaplain of the Bethesda, to erect churches. in connexion with the Establishment, in Dublin. The Board of Relief sent down Captain Fishbourne as their Commissioner, to the county of Donegal, with instructions to call on Sir James Stuart, Bart., as one of the Vice-Lieutenants; and Sir James proceeded with the Commissioner to make a searching inquiry into the circumstances of those who, to an enormous amount, had been returned upon the poor lists for the union of Glenties, and to make a revision of those lists. The result is, that they have felt it to be their duty to strike off 2,000 names. still the same. Mr. LORD addressed the Meeting as follows:- decides what is right and what is wrong. We say, | delude our statesmen, and to deceive the whole illustration; and am perfectly aware that the views the written word of God. They tell us, the councils nation, by representing that they merely wanted our Roman Catholic friends take of the matter is, of the fathers and their traditions,-making_the toleration, and that the two systems were alike. that no man must be allowed to express an opinion written word of no effect by their traditions. That The blind side of England is her love of liberty, at contrary to the Pope. (The party who had evidently system which is opposed to the written word of the shrine of which she has made of late so many come for the purpose of disturbing the Meeting, here God can never be for the interest of man; upon that concessions; but no concessions will satisfy Rome. commenced groaning, shouting, and hissing in a most point we may build and take our resting place; if a Toleration is one thing, and endowment another. disgraceful manner.) I was about to finish my obsystem be opposed to God's word, it ought to be op- It is now plainly seen that nothing short of regain-servations upon the intercession of the Virgin Mary, posed by all who revere that word. Popery is ing the supreme power, which was so nobly wrested and if my friend there would first hear the question corrupt in theology and dangerous in its principles. from them at the Reformation, will satisfy the before he ventured a reply, I should feel obliged to This system is Satan's master-piece; and its prin- Romish party. With respect to the endowment of him. He asks whether it is not right for us to pray ciples are acted up to by the vast majority of those the Roman Catholic priesthood, Lord John Russell for one another. There is no important point violated who profess the faith of the Church of Rome. Let has said, 'I gave my vote, in 1825, in favour of a when we pray to God through the One Mediator me refer you to a letter written by the present 'en-Motion made by Lord F. Egerton, who moved that a between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; God is lightened and liberal Pope.' He condemns Bible provision be made for the endowment of the Roman always and everywhere present. We have no authosocieties; and Rome knows full well that to the Catholic Church.' His Lordship adds,- I cannot rity to offer our prayers to the Virgin Mary; and suppression of the truth, and to the withholding of think that that is a measure which I am bound to what proof have we that she hears the prayers that God's word she holds still her sceptre and retains bring under the consideration of the House, until I are offered to her, unless you clothe her with the ather diadem. In a letter by the Pope, published by see some kind of more favourable disposition to- tributes of Deity. If our friend there had as good a Mr. Dolman, he says, 'Such is the object of these wards it on the part of the people. Let the Pro- knowledge of Scripture as I wish him to have, he would most crafty Bible Societies, which reviving an testants of this country be as true to their cause at find that the two cases were by no means parallel old device of the heretics do not cease to put forth the hustings as they have been in their Petitions With God we can hold communion, we have no an immense number of copies of the books of the to the Legislature, and neither Lord John Russell evidence that we can do so with Paul or Peter. It sacred Scriptures, printed in various vulgar tongues, nor Sir Robert Peel will find it in his power to is Christ Jesus who is the real mediator. I hope all and often filled with false and perverse interpreta- effect an endowment in support of the corrup- who hear me to-night will bear in mind in what I tions contrary to the rules of the Holy Church, tions of the Church of Rome. (Here a party, have said this evening concerning the Roman which they continually circulate at an immense who had been gradually increasing in num- Catholics, that my information is derived from their expense, and force upon all sorts of persons, even of bers at the further end of the room, and own books. I am not to blame for telling you what the ruder sort, with a view that rejecting the Divine had for some time evinced symptoms of Popery is; I do so that none of you may be misled traditions, the teaching of the fathers, and the au- impatience, commenced a disturbance.) I am not by priests, who are most energetic, and perhaps sinthority of the Church, they shall all interpret surprised to hear difference of opinion expressed, cerely so, to bring converts to their Church; but for themselves and by their own private judg- although I know not the point upon which it is ex- their sincerity is no palliation of their error. St. ment the word of God, and so perverting the pressed. (A voice, 'Liberty of conscience.') I say, Paul was equally sincere in his persecutions of the sense be led into grievous error, which Societies then, give me liberty of conscience and liberty of Christians before his conversion, as he was afterGregory V., in whose place, though most un-speech. I came here to deliver a lecture on the wards as an apostle of Christ. ("Was St. Paul a worthy, we are now placed, emulating the example of principles of Popery, and when we hear a cry of member of the Church of England?") To that I his predecessors, vehemently contemned in his apos- liberty of conscience raised in favour of Popery, answer, the principles contained in the writings of tolic letters, and we desire to join as eagerly in their allow me to ask what liberty of conscience is allowed St. Paul are the principles of Protestantism, reprobation. Many say, we have no fear of the in Rome, when there is not a Protestant place of and opposed to those of Rome. (Great uproar.) Pope; the old man is not going to do any harm in worship allowed within its walls; but Protestants, I am now addressing you upon a subject which England. I admit it. Neither Gregory nor Pius like the lepers of old, must worship without the consider affects the interests of our common country. will individually do us any harm. That is not the gates, lest they should contaminate the eternal city. I have attacked no body of the Dissenters, and it is point. The inhabitants of the celestial empire Cheers) It is seeing the working of the system quite uncalled for in them to attack the Church of might as well say, what have we to fear from such abroad that has made many a merchant, sailor, and England. It is not between Dissenters and the a young Queen as Victoria of the English throne? person of distinction, return with a determination Church of England that the question at issue now They would soon see that it did not depend upon to support the Protestantism of our country. The stands, however it may be misconstrued; it is the vigour, or the imbecility, or the age of the sove- Learned Lecturer then alluded, amidst much con- between Protestants and the Popish Church of reign, but on the vigour of the system and nation. fusion, to the persecution of Dr. Kalley, in Madeira, Rome. (Cheers.) I am admonished that my time I do not fear but truth will ultimately be triumphant; and observed that about two or three hundred of the is drawing to a close. I thank those who have but I do fear that our Church will become luke-natives of that island had, on account of their reli- listened to me patiently. When all this clamour warm, and be like the Churches of Asia whose gion, been compelled to quit the place of their birth, shall have passed away, the great truths to which candlestick was removed, and became a prey to the and fly to the West Indies, and ask there that pro- I have alluded will remain. They are those which imposture of Mahomet. I am anxious that our eyes tection which was denied them in their own country. have made our nation great and prosperous; and I should not be blinded, and that our country should Mr. Lord then resumed :-Why is Popery different trust they will ever be maintained, for the good of not share the fate of Tyre, nor our Church be like in one place from another? Because Popery is our country and the world at large." the Churches of Asia. That Pope who has de- predominant in the one and powerless in the other. nounced Bible Societies, and who has declared them We do not persecute the Roman Catholics. (You to contain false and perverse interpretations, who do.') I rejoice to meet all parties, but I believe that would stay the circulation of the means of eternal those at the other end of the room who talk about life, think you that he would not, were his means persecution of Roman Catholics, little know what we equal to his inclination, go to the extent that his pre- are doing for them at the present time, and what decessor did in the days of Queen Elizabeth? It they are doing for us. (There were one or two Rowill be perceived from the statistics of religious man Catholics present, but the principal disturbers Societies that the Church of Rome has greater power of the Meeting appeared to be Protestant Dissenters, and more efficient agencies for the perversion of this and other partisans of Mr. Escott, the liberal candiempire to Popery than we as a Christian Church date for the city.) There are essentials and nonhave for the conversion of the whole Pagan world essentials. There are many things essential to to the truth of the Gospel. This is what Mr. Cobden perfection, but not to existence. A man may lose would call a fact-a great fact-one that is not to an arm or a leg; he is a man notwithstanding, be got over. I believe I am addressing some who and capable, like the great Nelson, of leadsincerely love the truth as it is in Jesus. What ing fleets and armies to victory in defence of his consistency is there, I would ask, in sending the country; but if the head be cut off, or the heart Bible for the conversion of the heathen, while we are be pierced through, life is gone, the animating prinendowing a Romish priesthood, whose energies will ciple has departed. So with religion-there were be directed to nullify our efforts, who will take the things essential to its perfection-there are others Scriptures from the people, and point them to essential to its existence. The Bible is essential to tradition in their stead? A fountain cannot send our system; if you strike out the Bible; forth sweet waters and bitter. If Popery be if you strike out Christ, you strike out the right, I ask, why has so little been done for it? sun from the firmament, and man is left in If it be wrong, why should anything at all be done? spiritual darkness to grope his way to ruin. I will I would that the Protestants of this country would now allude to the worship of the Virgin Mary. (Distake this up as a purely religious question. I do turbance.) I wish you would take the same pains.as not wonder at the extreme apathy which exists, for, I have, my friends. The Church of Rome says:during the last fifty or a hundred years, the vast ma "In order that our most merciful God may be more jority of the people have grown up in comparative ready to incline his car to our prayers, and may ignorance of, and indifference to, Popery. The grant that which we implore, let us have recourse to distinctive peculiarities between Romanism and the most holy mother of God, the immaculate Virgin Protestantism have never formed a part of the edu- Mary, our sweetest mother, our mediatrix, our advocation of the people, either in our private schools, cate, our surest hope, our firmest reliance, than whose our colleges, or our universities. In the meantime, patronage nothing is more potent, nothing more the Church of Rome has been sending out her effectual with God." (Great uproar.) The Roman picked men, armed at all points, trained and edu- Catholics and their friends are doing our work cated at our expense, to mislead our theologians and better than I can do it. I could not have a better Letters from Rome of the 28th ult., mention that the Austrian Cabinet had addressed a note to the Pontifical Government, in which it declared that, in the event of any disturbances in the dominions of the Church remaining unrepressed, or crimes being unpunished, Austria would consider the Pope incapable of maintaining order in his states, and feel it her duty to interfere. General Radetsky, commander-in-chief of the Austrian army in Lombardy, had been empowered to act according to circumstances. It was reported that Cardinal Ferretti had, in consequence of that notification, ordered the Swiss regiments, and all the troops disposable, to march towards the northern frontier. Letters from Naples of the 28th ult. state that considerable agitation prevailed in that country. It was rumoured that an insurrection had broken out at Cosenza, and that troops had been despatched against the insurgents, under the command of General Statella, whom the King had invested with the powers of an alter ego. According to another rumour, Colonel Garibaldi, commander of the Italian Legion at Montevideo, had arrived on the coast of Sicily, in an English vessel, with three hundred men. We regret to perceive that an almost unknown English barrister, unless as a convert to the Roman Catholic faith-a Mr. Anstey—has been returned against a Ponsonby, for Youghal. This is very lamentable and most discreditable to Ireland, for there is not a better landlord in the world than the Duke of Devonshire, who gave all his interest to his relative, Mr. Ponsonby. Yet that relative has been beaten by an unknown and untried stranger and adventurer.-Morning Herald, future. You are invited to unite with those who hold what are called Conservative principles. It is worse than useless, in my opinion, to combine, or associate, for purposes merely political. The strife of party may aggrandize an individual, or secure the temporary ascendancy of a faction; but it has an obvious tendency to weaken rather than consolidate our institutions, to impair rather than increase our national prosperity. If, then, we enter into union, let it be in a holier cause than that of Peel or Russell,-and for a far worthier object than to subvert even a Whig Administration, with its confused theories and inconsistent practice, in order to restore the systematised hypocrisy of Tamworth, or substitute that policy of one idea which is represented by Lord George Bentinck. The wisdom and piety of our fathers caused religion to be closely interwoven with our civil polity. The connexion between the Church and the State was rightly deemed by them essential to the real happiness of the people, and the stability of the empire. That connexion is now fiercely assailed, and its immediate dissolution demanded. An exterminating warfare, it is announced, will be waged against all religious Establishments. A bishop of our Reformed Church has said-and his words deserve our serious consideration,—" The Church of God on earth will be greatly reduced, as we may well suppose, in its apparent numbers, in the times of Antichrist, by the open desertion of the powers of the world. This desertion will begin in a professed indifference to any particular form of Christianity, under the pretence of universal toleration; which toleration will proceed from no true spirit of charity and forbearance, but from a design to undermine Christianity, by multiplying and encouraging sectaries. This pretended toleration will go far beyond a just toleration, even as it regards the different sects of Christians. For Governments will pretend an indifference to all, and will give a protection in preference to none. All establishments will be laid aside. From the toleration of the most pestilent heresies, they will proceed to the toleration of Mahometanism, Atheism, and at last to a positive persecution of the truth of Christianity." Do we seek a new sign of the times? We may find it in the fact, that an avowed enemy of Christ, -one of that unhappy race upon whose hearts is still the veil," and by whom our Blessed Redeemer," God manifest in the flesh," is regarded as an impostor, a malefactor, rightly "crucified and slain," has been elected to represent the professedly Christian City of London in Parliament. We see everywhere innovation successful, or attempted an appetite for change which seems insatiable-the most abandoned licence preferred to regulated liberty. It is not thought sufficient to modify a principle, or vary its mode of application, but the principle itself must be uprooted, that its opposite may be planted in. What, therefore, is our duty as Protestant Churchmen? To endeavour, by all lawful means, to maintain the Church in its existing relations with the State-to diffuse on all sides the Apostolical principles of the English Reformation-to resist with firmness the unnatural and unprovoked aggression of Protestant Dissenters-to oppose with invincible determination the undying, inveterate, but most consistent, hostility of Romanism. With those who entertain, and will act from, a similar sense of the requirements of duty in these perilous times, sincerely repudiating the treacherous inconsistences of nominal Conservatism,-we can cordially unite. In conclusion, I beg to offer you my thanks for the confidence with which you have honoured me. I follow no leader of a party, nor will I concur in any political demonstration unless as a Churchman, for the security, and in defence of, the just rights of that branch of the Church Catholic which is established in these realms. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, August 5, 1847. W. J. UTTEN BROWNE. A TESTY SHOPKEEPER. VISCOUNT BURY V. CLARK.-This action was brought in the Westminster County Court to recover damages for an assault. The damages were laid at 201., the extreme limit of the jurisdiction. The case was heard on Saturday. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. Subscribers are requested to inform the publisher when any irregularity occurs in the transmission of their copies, as arrangements have been made at the office for the prompt and regular delivery of our periodical. Our London subscribers should receive their copies the day of publication, and our country subscribers by the following morning. POST-OFFICE ORDERS. We request our subscribers and friends to be very careful in informing our publisher of the exact Christian and surname of the party in whose name Post-office orders are made payable, as otherwise considerable difficulty will arise at the Postoffice. It will further diminish the labours of our publisher if all Post-office orders in our favour are at once given payable at the General Post-office London. The defendant is a stationer in Jermyn-street, and Lord Bury, attracted by some pen-holders in the defendant's shop-window, went in and asked to see them. When they were shown to him he found they were of a common description sold for sixpence each, and he asked the defendant if he had not some of a better quality? The defendant replied, "No; they were good enough at the price." The plaintiff replied it was not a question of price; he wanted a better article, not trumpery things of that kind. The defendant taid, "Trumpery, indeed! You are a trumpery fellow, and I desire you will go out of my shop." Lord Bury made some observation on the offensive nature of the defendant's reply, upon which the defendant, in an excited state, threatened to turn him out of the shop, and actually desired his boy to go for a policeman. Lord Bury waited in the shop for the boy's return, and seeing a policeman approaching, and supposing this was the constable who had been sent for, he went out and explained to the constable what had passed. The policeman accomINCREASED AND IMMEDIATE CIRCULATION. panied him back to the defendant's shop, and his Lordship went in to remonstrate, in the presence of by an increased and immediate circulatior. Our The object of this journal can only be attained the constable, with the defendant, on the impropriety of his conduct, upon which the defendant rushed friends would greatly aid the object we have in from behind the counter to where his Lordship stood, and laying his hands suddenly upon him, without saying a word, he thrust him violently backwards out of the shop into the road. This was the assault complained of. The Judge, after hearing the defendant, said he considered his conduct wholly inexcusable. In the exercise of a just discretion, he felt he could not do otherwise than give judgment against the defendent for the whole of the amount at which the damages were laid. Lord Bury placed the damages at the disposal of the Judge, expressing a hope that it might prove the first contribution to a charitable fund for the relief of poor suitors. RELIGIOUS PROCESSION AT FLORENCE.-John Baptist is the patron saint of Florence. On the day of St. Giovanni the sovereign heard mass and took the sacrament in the beautiful church of Santa Maria Novella. The morning opened with an endless procession filing through the principal streets and squares; this comprised the clergy, all the monks within the city parishes, and a body of troops, horse and foot, with the royal household. Pictured banners and crucifixes occurred at every hundred yards, and bands of choristers chanting as they went. I thought the visible splendour was unnecessarily adopted to honour a man who wore a camel's-hair garment, and whose head Herod cut off in prison. If they would bestir themselves to put down everything akin to the dancing daughter of Herodias, it were a fitter tribute. Something grotesque comes out on these occasions, as if to make pomp take physic. Did you ever see a wax flambeau! They are as plentiful here as blackberries: the sort commonly used consists of a number of candles a yard long, stuck side by side together, and forming a torch as thick as a man's arm. All the wicks being lighted at once, and the motion of the air flaring them, the flow of melted wax is considerable. Now, the choristers marched between a double row of these flambeaux carried by lads dressed as under-deacons; a little behind them was coming the archbishop with the consecrated host in a pix, and after him the sovereign on foot, bareheaded, and holding a taper; all Florence looked on from tapestried balcony and window, and the troops PROTESTANT ELECTOR FUND. The amount as yet received, by Subscriptions, Sales, and Donations, does not equal one half of the expendi ture incurred. Many staunch and influential friends of the Protestant cause in various localities throughout the country have spent, or are prepared to spend, large sums in contested elections, for themselves or friends. Hundreds and thousands of pounds have thus been freely given. This journal has been devoted to the cause they have laboured to advance, and its efficiency will be increased by receiving a portion of their bounty. 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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. 6, Dorisstreet East, Lambeth, Surrey, at THE PROTESTANT ELECTOR Office, No. 3, Shoe-lane, London, where all communications (pre-paid) and advertisements are received.-London, August 13, 1847. Public opinion is at all times powerful. Not unnaturally so. Though there may be here or there some self-independent lordlings who love to stand alone, still the tendency of human nature is to love society,-and to court the approbation of mankind. But this tendency, like all others, may be carried to excess, and requires to be regulated to prevent its being abused. Hence the great importance of education. It gives a direction to public opinion. It is the mould in which the future man is formed; and in permitting large classes of the rising generation of our fellow-subjects to be brought up under the auspices of Jesuit and monastic instructors, we are-unconsciously, it may be, as regards some,biassing the public opinion in favour of Romish be bowed down to ? Opinion is the impression or persuasion which persons hold, with regard to things, events, or principles. It is considered public or private opinion in proportion to the numbers of any society, country, or empire who hold it. Public opinion may be regarded either as the opinion of the majority,-or even the opinion of the minority, so loudly expressed as to make a greater impression-than the wishes of a silent majority. It may be right or wrong, depending upon the different lights in which the given question may have been viewed. The public opinion of one country, or one part of a country, may be directly opposed to the public MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1847. [PRICE 3d. destroy, but it centres love supremely upon its proper object;-directs it to a source infinite in its nature,-boundless in extent ;-compared with which, all other love must be of a subordinate cha in one land, to offer to a real or supposed divinity- What, then, oftentimes is this idol of public What To what enormities has it not led? Public opinion would have led Noah to despise Public opinion induced Pilate, against his better What, then, we again ask, is this public opinion to The fear of man worketh a snare. Our Saviour intimates this. How, he demands, how can ye believe, who seek honour one of another, and seek not that honour which cometh of God only? That To love with all his heart, the God who has made him, is at once the greatest privilege, and surest happiness of man,-a love which may perfectly co-exist with our love to our fellow-creatures. As the shining of the sun does not extinguish, but merges for a time in its splendour the brightness of inferior luminaries, without destroying them;-so love to God reigns supreme in the heart of the Christian, without extinguishing that love and universal benevolence, which is due to all mankind, especially those of one's own household. So, too, with regard to fear. It does not destroy that principle ;-but it places the fear of God against the fear of man,-puts the greater before the less, and thus, by placing heavenly hopes against earthly hopes, and eternal against temporal fears,— it animates the soul, wherein a true principle of faith and love prevails, to brave reproach, and to follow the great Captain of their salvation through suffering. How noble and disinterested will be the public conduct of men acting under the influence of such principles! How glorious and beneficent the career of a Church or nation, merging all minor considerations in these two great, rightly derived, and rightly directed ends and motives! have the Lord for their God!" NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Nations have duties, as well as individuals. Nations too, have responsibilities, as well as privileges. That nations as well as individuals are responsible, seems an assertion beyond contradiction. May we not say, "Happy are the people that are We admit the power which the fear and in such a case; yea, blessed are the people who love of man have upon the human mind. to be entirely insensible to public opinion is a proof of a brutish, rather than a refined mind. But the question is not between brutishness and sensibility, but between a sensibility of earthly joys and sufferings,-earthly hopes and fears-kept in abeyance by the holier and loftier sway of spiritual joys and sufferings,-heavenly hopes and fears,on the one hand; and a hope and fear based upon earth,-looking to time only-making self, or man, its centre and its end, to the forgetfulness of God, and limiting its sphere to time, forgetful of eternity. Fear and love are the strongest feelings and passions of human nature. Christianity does not seek to eradicate these, but to give them a right direction. It does not anni Of what is a nation composed ?-of individuals. But individuals, it is admitted, are responsible. They dare not individually commit crime, can they then unitedly do what is wrong, and expect to go unpunished? On what principle can such a supposition rest? Guilt is not diminished by the numbers who partake of it. And whatever combination of men may for a time overawe an earthly tribune the wrecks of cities and of nations, and the antediluvian World opinion of another country, or another part of a hilate love; it leaves it in powerful operation, but itself, tell us how vain is the pATIONS country. The veneration, which the religiousness of man's nature-though debased and fallen-prompts him, "neither opposed to God. of man when gives it a heavenward direction. "Love not the NO ELECTOR BROTESTANT Scripture assures us the contrary. “Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not go unpunished." History bears testimony to the truth of this. With the wrecks of nations, and the ruins of Churches before us, can we rush upon the bossy shield of the Omnipotent, and not expect to be shattered to pieces ? They who honour God will be honoured by Him. Those nations which will not submit to the sceptre of his righteousness, will be ruled and broken with his rod of iron. REVIEW. PUBLICATIONS OF THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.SPECIAL SERIES. "Either the Papists are guilty of Idolatry, or the Pagans never were so."-Extract from a Letter of Lady Mary Wortley Montague. the pure and blessed doctrines of the Gospel, which Protestants embrace and maintain. He has endeavoured to make spiritual edification in scriptural truth go hand in hand with a faithful exposure and refutation of Antichristian error. He writes as one who feels it is to little purpose to overthrow a system of false doctrine, if Evangelical truth be not estab The Idolatry of the Church of Rome. By the Rev. A. This forms one volume of a series of popular Truth loves the light, and they who love the works published by the Protestant Association, for truth come to the light. the purpose of diffusing information respecting the true Eiror and superstition love darkness, and flourish character of Popery, and of extending the influence in the darkness which they make. True religion is an exotic in this world. False religion is congenial to man's fallen nature. To live without religion-that is without some object to which the religious feeling of man's nature is directed-would seem impossible. To follow the leadings of a false religion were ruinous. Herein then appears the transcendent love and goodness of the Almighty, that he has given a written revelation of himself to man,—a guide to individuals, and a guide to nations. THE NEW POPE AND THE VIRGIN MARY.-The new Pope has acquired a name of great liberality, and that of a most enlightened man not affected with the superstitions and blasphemies of the Romish Church. His Holiness, however, as he is termed, in his Encyclical letter, denounces Bible Societies, and advocates the worship of the Virgin as strenuously as his predecessors. We quote a passage in reference to the letter:-" 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 not prevail, and his co-apostle Paul, and all the saints of heaven, who now possess the reward of their labours, a crown of glory, that through their prayers the abundant treasures of the Divine mercy may descend on the whole Christian world." Our Bible and the Papist's Bible informs us there is no salvation except through Jesus Christ, who is the sole Mediator between man and God. There is no mention of prayers to the Virgin or the apostles in any part of the New Testament, yet such is the presumption and blasphemy of Popery to rely on the intercession with God, of one who was a mere woman born in sin in preference to be guided by the Bible, and offering prayers to one who knew no sin and who suffered once for all mankind. Such, however, is Popery, infallible in the countenance of error. THE CROPS.-The crops are progressing most favourably; already some patches of early barley have been cut, and it is expected that next week harvest will be general in this locality should the fine weather continue. From the rich yellow appearance of the straw there cannot be a doubt of the superior quality of the grain of every description. The beans and peas are a great crop, filling well and bulky. Potatoes have hitherto completely resisted the influence of the blight, and are getting ripe; on good land the crop is abundant and well favoured,it is only now regretted that so few were set in the spring. White turnips are on some farms affected with that peculiar disease, "fingers and toes," which entirely destroys the plant. The pastures are a little refreshed by the fine showers of Wednesday evening and Thursday. Unless we have a few days' rain the second crop of clover will be very poor this season. Fruits and vegetables of every kind are most plentiful, good, and cheap.-Berwick Warder. of Protestant principles. It is an original work, drawn up expressly for the Association, and for the purpose of furnishing a useful handbook of one important portion of the Romish controversy. This, we believe, did not previously exist. The idolatry of Rome is handled, more or less distinctly, by most of those writers who have engaged in the controversy. Nor could anything material be added to that which some of the champions of Protestant truth have long ago written on the subject; but a compendious digest of that part of the controversy,-suited for general use, had not been heretofore presented to the Protestants of this country. Our space does not allow us to give even a comprehensive summary of the contents of this volume, but we wish to commend it to the careful perusal of all our readers. And we must now permit the author to speak a little for himself, by making a few extracts from the conclusion of the volume. After giving some additional evidence and illustrations, from documents which came into his hands while the work was printing, he says, p. 509 :— "1. Openly, deliberately, solemnly-in the face of earth and heaven-I have charged the Church of Rome with idolatry: and the evidence which I have adduced abundantly substantiates that charge. The worship of the consecrated wafer is gross idolatry :for it gives to a piece of bread, to that which Scripdirect and positive worship which is due to the ture and our five senses declare to be bread, the supreme God alone,-that latria which (according of the Holy Trinity. The worship of saints and to their own definition) is due to the Second Person angels is idolatrous :-for it gives to creatures part at least of that worship which should be given to The work begins with showing, that the Pro- God; and (as has been shown by reiterated examtestant Churches at large distinctly and openly worship which is peculiar and appropriate to ples) to the Virgin Mary in particular, the very charge the Church of Rome with the foul and Jehovah himself. The worship of images is idolaawful sin of idolatry; and that the Church of mandment, and to the whole tenour of Scripture:trous, and in direct opposition to the second comEngland does this with peculiar empha- for it gives to graven images and pictures all the sis. To illustrate this, the Introduction gives (according to Cardinal Capisucchi and Thomas external marks (confessedly) of adoration,-and very copious extracts from the Second Homily of Aquinas) the inward worship, which is due to the the Second Book, "Against Peril of Idolatry," exemplar or prototype, also. And the worshipping the language of which is most plain and forcible on honour which is given to the priest in the confesof relics- the adoration of the Pope-and the this point; and it would, by many in the present sional;-all these are idolatrous also. So that I know not what form of idolatry has ever existed in day, be condemned as tremendously severe. Our Reformers, however, well understood that such ceeded, in the Church of Rome: exceeded, I say, for the heathen world, which is not paralleled, or exabominations were not to be handled gently, but the worship of the consecrated wafer goes far beyond denounced with uncompromising zeal and earnest-read. And all this idolatry is not merely an acciany other form of idolatry of which I ever heard or ness. It is further shown, that the same charge is dental appendage to Romanism: it is involved in brought by other Protestant Churches, and that it the system, and pervades every part of it: it is is also brought by this nation, in its national capacity, to its existence." characteristic of the Church of Rome, and essential for the Sovereign of this country holds her throne of the Council of Trent plainly prove, that the "The wary statements in virtue of a solemn declaration, made, subscribed, of those scriptural arguments by which it was Church of Rome felt, and trembled under, the force and audibly repeated, "that the invocation or adora- assailed, and of those emphatic denunciations of its tion of the Virgin Mary, or any other saint, and the idolatries which were continually urged against it by the Reformers. It writhed under the strokes of sacrifice of the mass, as they are now used in the the sword of the Spirit, which they wielded so Church of Rome, ARE SUPERSTITIOUS AND IDOLA- effectually. But, though that Council used all the arts of sophistry to evade and palliate the charge of idolatry, and put forth guarded and softened, or vague and delusive statements, to throw dust in the eyes of men,-it did not renounce so much as one of its idolatries. And why not? * Why indeed? but that those Idolatries were essential to the system, The system could not stand without them. It would have lost its hold of the carnal mind, and of the carnal heart of man. Those idolatries are as dear to the natural man,' as they are loathsome and abhorrent to the spiritual man. The pomp, the splendour, the sensuality, and the sentimentality of them, all endear them to the natural man,' and furnish so many means and opporunrenewed and unsanctified affections, so as to tunities of working upon his fancy, and upon his excite in him a kind of sensual and sentimental which he substitutes for the heavenly fire of spiridevotion a strange fire of his own kindling, tual devotion, which God alone can kindle in the heart;-and this strange fire only beguiles him to six thousand years, the character of fallen man; his everlasting ruin. Satan has been studying, for and, being himself a fallen and apostate creature, TROUS." Then follow three chapters, on the three main I. In worshipping the consecrated wafer ; * |