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Thus, then, every class in the community, Churchmen, Dissenters, Quakers, Independents, Jews, Socinians, Papists,-and why not Infidels ? greatest hope, yea, the entire ground of our hope."are "to share in the distribution of the public From the same Letter. See also letter of the prefunds." sent Pope Pius IX.

transubstantiation, which declares the Church of Rome to be "superstitious and idolatrous.”

So that, instead of granting the public money for the propagation of a religion sanctioning such crimes as these, the people should forthwith demand of the Legislature a complete investigation of the whole of her Antichristian system, which has from time to time enacted against Protestants of all nations the severest laws, and is now the scourge, and oppressor of what might be the fairest portion of the British empire.

THE FEELING DEEPENS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PROTESTANT ELECTOR.

Sir, It did my heart good to read in a WhigRadical paper the other day the following words :"The feeble and antiquated cry of No Popery spreads like wildfire. The fact is, in the present state of parties, people want some rallying-point. The Dissenter flies to his Anti-State-Church principle, and the High Tories of the old school, marshalled and officered by the clergy of the Establishment, betake themselves to the expiring ghost of No-Popery bigotry, which we hoped had died a natural death in the convulsive throes of '29, and the feeble, nerveless spasms of '45." Yes, Sir, our enemies being judges," it is spreading like wildfire, or rather, we trust, the steady blaze of that holy fire, which kindled at Lutterworth, crowned at Lambeth, fuelled on Smithfield, nursed by an Edward VI., an Elizabeth, and a William III. of blessed memory, has smouldered on in spite of the cold water drenchings of its old enemies the "Liberal" (so called) party,-aye, and in later days, of some calling themselves Conservatives, and members of the Reformed Protestant Church of England and Ireland.

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Englishmen always want some grand object at which to aim,-once undertaken, their perseverance is indomitable, their success almost certain. Need we point to the abolition of slavery in the West Indies, the Corn Bill of last session, and the Ten

Hours' Bill of this, as proofs of our position. The two great measures which have agitated the country for several years are settled; the storm, therefore, of agitation is fast dying away. The commonest observer can hardly fail remarking the singular calm in politics which has succeeded, so that, in fact, there is no political question on hand to rule the decision at the hustings. Here is the place for the holy, quiet, but decided agitation of the Godfearing, truth-loving, honest-hearted men of England, who know nothing of the guidance of the false, veering weathercock of expediency, but acknowledge one only infallible test of every measure, the bright pole-star of truth, as revealed in THE Book.

Still the discouragements are great. The chiefest is the liberal, get-to-heaven-as-you-will spirit of the day. The second is, the pro-Popish tendency of most of the popular writing of the day. Take Agnes Strickland as a type: and what are the consequences of her misquotations, her plausible sophistries, her prejudiced statements? Perhaps the men laugh at them, but the women swallow them all as implicitly as a country audience the uggling of the conjuror, and for the same reason, which is no reason at all-"She must be right, look at the long list of quotations she gives-we can't deny facts." Tho mother influences the child, and young, fashionable ladies, school-girls, and schoolboys cant afresh the often-canted cant about the failings of our glorious Queen Bess, and the excellences (i.e. beauty) of her immodest, factious rival, passing by the blood of her amiable but misguided husband which dyed the beauty's hands. It would make one laugh to hear these learned heads dipping into the divine right of kings, and the deposition of the Stuarts, were it not too serious a subject; for in dependently of the influence of the wife, the mother's is at once far more strong, and far more mischievous; alas, if such be the principles in which the rising generation of our representatives and electors are to be brought up!

A third great difficulty with which we have to contend is the indifference of the mass of so-called Protestants. Alive to everything present, they have not faith enough to look before and around them at the signs of the coming contest, but exclaim with the sluggard,

"A little more slumber, a little more sleep, You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again;"

and so will it be with many till the rattling of chains
or the crackling of flames wax louder and louder,
and they find it is too late for effectual action.
Formidable enough is our Cerberus opponent,
Rome, with her three heads-Liberalism, Jesuit
ism, and Indifferentism !

Yet we have high grounds for hope. We might
tell of the overruling providence of God, and the
certain triumph of truth in the end; but we write
not to the Infidel or sceptic. To come down to the
things passing daily among and around us, we have
good ground for hope in the firm high-minded tone
of our leaders, and the holy jealousy of spirit in
their followers. The Legislators of St. Stephen's
cannot sell themselves to Rome with their eyes

shut, while the warnings of a Plumptre, an Inglis,
a Spooner, a Winchelsea, a Newcastle, and a
Roden, are sounded ever and anon in their un-
willing ears. And then there is the telling consist-
ency of a quiet vote given steadily for truth, as
often as needed; not now present, now absent;
now for Maynooth, now against the Dissenters'
Chapels Bill; now for the Romanists' Relief Bill
of 1846, now against that of 1847. We cannot
forbear to give a list of those men who have seldom,
or never, been absent when called to defend the
truth they love. The following fire have given
every vote they could against the iniquitous measures
of 1844, 1845, 1846, and 1847:-Major Beresford,
H. Broadley, A. E. Fuller, Colonel Sibthorp, and John
Tollemache. Seven have been absent once, viz.,
Thos. Bateson, Hon. Capt. Harris, Sir R. H. Inglis,
Capt. T. Jones, H. Kemble, C. N. Newdigate, and
Col. Verner. Fourteen have been absent twice
out of the nine divisions :-J. C. Colquhoun, Sir H
Douglas, Hon. O. Duncombe, S. L. Fox, E. Grogan
J. W. Henley, Thos. Hussey, Hon. C. E. Law,
A. Lawson, A. Lefroy, John Masterman, J. P,
Plumptre, R. Richards, and T. Spooner. Beside.
these, twenty-three have voted six times right,s
twenty-six five times, and twenty-two four times.

Of course, none of these include men who have
given one vote even in favour of any of the four
obnoxious Acts.

With best wishes for your success in advocating our common cause,

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

HUGO.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON.-On Thursday Mr. Cochrane addressed a numerous auditory of electors and non-electors in the Hanover-square Rooms. The object of his address was to give an outline of his life, and rebut certain slanders respecting him which had gone abroad. He adverted to his having followed the vocation of a strolling minstrel, in the guise of a Spaniard, and having published a silly book of his adventures. After such an admirable training, what constituency could hesitate in returning him as a fit and proper person to represent them in the councils of the greatest empire in the world?

BIRMINGHAM.—' -The contest for this borough already waxes warm, and unless Mr. Muntz and his friends bestir themselves, the Hon. Gentleman, contrary to his expectation, will be left in a woeful minority. The dependent principle of "no canvass," 66 no solicitation," "no committee," won't answer even in Radical Birmingham; as in the days of ancient Rome, a candidate must ask for "the sweet voices" of the populace, or he will not obtain them. Mr. Muntz promises to be a victim of independence, even amongst (what they are pleased to term themselves) the purest and most independent Reform constituency in the kingdom. The attendance of Mr.Spooner's friends was unprecedentedly numerous and influential, and throughout the proceedings the utmost enthusiasm prevailed. In the course of the evening Mr. Spooner addressed a crowded auditory at great length. He would support good and oppose bad measures, come from whatever quarter they might. The Hon. Gentleman, after speaking with great eloquence and vehemence for about an Scholefield's friends speak confidently of his suchour resumed his seat amidst loud cheering. Mr. cess. The Hon. Candidate almost nightly visits the various wards of the borough, and gives his advocacy and support to all Radical measures short of the five points of the Charter.

this

LIVERPOOL.-Liverpool is nobly performing its duty. We find from the Liverpool Standard, that on Monday last, an adjourned Meeting of the ConserIn passing, we may remark, that at least four out vative Association was held at their rooms, for the of those whose names we have recorded, are re-purpose of deciding upon the selection of candidates to contest the borough. The Meeting was most influentiring. Is this quite right in the hour of danger? tially and numerously attended, and the result was Allow me here to ask, can there not be found in the adoption of Resolutions declaring that Sir Digby every borough and shire throughout England, some Mackworth, Bart., should be invited to offer himself one elector who would undertake to propose the Protestant question to each candidate, and he Bart., should be requested to come forward again. to the constituency, and that Sir Howard Douglas, has a right to do so and to expect an answer? The A deputation was appointed to wait upon Sir results as of past, so of future correspondence with Digby, who has acceded to the wish of thə candidates on this point, would, if published in the Conservative body. A deputation also proProtestant Elector, do much good in stimulating ceeded to London to wait upon Sir Howard others. Douglas, who it is confidently expected will withdraw, at their request, his intention of retiring from the representation. The Standard says:-"We congratulate most heartily the Conservatives and the Protestants of Liverpool upon happy selection of men to represent their interests, and to protect the interests and the institutions of their country. In Sir Digby Mackworth, as will be seen from his address, we shall secure a conscientious and unflinching supporter of the principles of our Protestant Reformation. Of Sir Howard Douglas we need say nothing in praise. He has been tried in stormy times; and when so many others wavered, Sir Howard was found true as steel. The great consideration, however, which should weigh with the Protestant electors of Liverpool to put forth their most strenuous efforts to return triumphantly Sir Howard and Sir Digby, is the position in which their principles place them between the Protestant institutions of the country and the advancing tide of Popery and Infidelity. There is nothing which will more strengthen the hands of the defenders of the Church and the Constitution of the country than the declaration to the world, by the free burgesses and the electors of this great and loyal commercial constituency, by the return of two such men, that they are not prepared to sacrifice their Protestant that they are resolved that no further concession consistency for any mere temporal considerationshall be made to agitation, and that whilst they are willing to remain tolerant, they are not prepared to aggrandize and endow, what the laws of the country and the voice of their Church have declared to be dangerous error and abominable idolatry."

THE CROPS IN SCOTLAND.-A few days ago I
was informed by an experienced farmer, that he
had recently travelled from Gatehouse to Creetown,
and he does not remember to have seen more pro-
mising crops of barley, oats, potatoes, rye-grass, and
turnips. The arable land is in a high state of cul-
tivation, and it produces as fine barley as there is
to be found in any part of the stewartry. We re-
cently saw some splendid fields of oats on the farm
of Longlands, in Twynholm; and, thus far, in the
vicinity of Kircudbright, the potatoes are very pro-
mising-Correspondent of the Dumfries Courier.
AN ELECTIONEERING HINT TO SPINSTERS.
"Is it possible," says a correspondent of the Bristol
Journal, "that any ladies of England will support
at the next election any of those candidates who
favour the re-introduction of the Roman Catholic
religion? Are the ladies not aware that this re-
ligion, if fully established, would take away half
the young men from them, and prevent their
marrying?"

A POPE.-A king of Hungary once took a bishop
in battle, and kept him prisoner; whereupon the
Pope wrote him a monitory letter, for breaking the
privilege of the Holy Church by taking his son a
prisoner. The king sent an embassy to the Pope
in reply, and with it the armour wherein the bishop
was taken, with these words only in writing,
'Know now whether this be thy son's coat or no."
A large Roman Catholic chapel is now
being built at Guernsey, with money supplied, it is
said, from France

TEWKESBURY.-Viscount Lascelles, son of the Earl of Harewood, will come forward on the Conservative interest for this borough, in the place of

Mr. William Dowdeswell, who retires. His Lord-
ship declares himself to be "sincerely attached to
the Protestant religion, and those institutions which
have hitherto so well contributed to the prosperity
of the country," and he would" resist any attempt
to destroy or injure those institutions," yet he would
not "object to any alterations which might tend to
their improvement." Mr. Martin (Liberal) will
again come forward, and has issued an address to
the electors wherein he says, "Reference having
been made to a compact or agreement alleged to
exist between certain electors, having for its object,
the prevention of any contest for the representa-
tion of the borough, on the next occasion, I would
repeat what I have previously asserted, that such
agreement was entered into without any privity or
sanction on my part, either expressed or implied;
and that under no possible circumstances could I
ever have consented to become party to any
arrangement which might tend to compromise the
independence of the borough, or to fetter the
electors." Mr. Humphry Brown has also solicited
the support of the electors on Liberal principles,
and a spirited contest may be expected.
STAMFORD.-We find from the Lincoln Standard,
that on Saturday last the Addresses of the Marquis
of Granby and the Right Hon. J. C. Herries were
circulated through the town. Both these gentle-
men, according to their Addresses, are staunch
supporters of our Institutions in Church and State,
and, if returned, will go to Parliament pledged to
opposed the endowment of Popery and the Free-
trade policy of the late Government. Sir George
Clark has also caused an Address to be issued, an-
nouncing his resignation of the town.-Saturday
completed the general canvass of Mr. Rolt, who, in
the evening, addressed a large concourse of people
from the window of his Committee-room. He
said, the result of his canvass was extremely satis-
factory.

BURY ST. EDMUND'S.-(From the Bury and Suffolk Herald.)—We have reason to believe that Earl Jermyn and Mr. Horace Twiss will contest this borough on the Conservative interest jointly, as they did at the last election. A different termination may this time be fairly looked for. We speak advisedly when we say, that since the passing of the Reform Bill, the Conservatives of Bury had never so fair an opportunity of returning their own favoured candidates. Many of the obstacles which existed at the last election are removed. The influences which then opposed their exertions are some of them changed. The change of candidate, too, is not unfavourable; for though neither personally nor politically had the last nominee of the house of Grafton very striking claims upon the electors of Bury, the long family connexion and the believed equal division of parties would have probably obtained the same result in favour of one less qualified. The family charm is now, however, broken. The electors discovered their real strength and position at the last election, when the second Conservative candidate, then comparatively a stranger, was defeated by only twelve votes, though opposed by the unsparing use of money and great local influence. Mr. Twiss, in renewing his appeal to the electors of Bury, presents himself as a supporter of the same principles on the strength of which he first sought the favour of the constituency. His able exposition of those principles at the last election satisfied his friends that had they been so fortunate as to return him as one of the representatives of this borough, they would have secured to the country a talented advocate of its best interests. His manly demeanour during his former canvass and throughout the last contest, won him the regard of many warm friends, and the respect of most of his opponents. He can, therefore, no longer be looked upon as a stranger here, and will, we feel assured, receive that cordial welcome which his public reputation and his personal merits so justly entitle him to.

LANCASHIRE (NORTH.)-A contest for the
northern division of this county seems now in-
evitable. A deputation was on Tuesday sent down
to Preston, of which Mr. George Wilson, late
Chairman of the League, formed one, for the pur-
pose of concerting measures for securing the return
of Mr. N. P. Grenfell, one of the directors of the
Bank of England. This gentleman contested the
borough of Wigan in 1841, and run his opponents
so close as to be won only by a majority of six.
From the favourable state of the register the
free-traders here seem very confident of ultimate
success.

OLDHAM.-The contest for this borough seems
The friends of Mr.
likely to be a severe one.
Fielden and Mr. Cobbett, however, seem quite con-
fident of a triumphant majority. An active canvass
is going on on both sides, and Meetings are being
held in the various districts by the friends of the
respective candidates.

CAMBRIDGE.-The Cambridge Advertiser of Wed-
nesday, in alluding to electioneering prospects,
says: "The position of the University is now very
different indeed from that of the borough. The
two existing Members for the latter have already
both retired from the field, which is at present in
the tranquil possession of the two new aspirants,
who are almost secure of an undisputed triumph.
It is otherwise with the University. In the
case of the latter four candidates, Mr. Goul-
burn and Mr. Law (the two existing Members),
and Lord Fielding and Mr. Lefevre (the two
new candidates), are still in the field, and are
severally, in person or by proxy, engaged in an
active canvass. In this case the probable result is
more difficult to predict than in the case of the
borough. The electors are more widely scattered,
and more difficult of access. We have heard it
strted, however, but we know not with what measure
of credibility,that, at present, appearances are in
favour of Mr. Law and Lord Feilding. Mr. Goul-
burn is universally esteemed as an able financier
and as a man of the very highest respectability in
every point of view; but he shares the obloquy of
his associates in the late Peel administration. We
deeply regret to state that Mr. Lefevre's prospects,
otherwise so promising, appear to be in danger of
being materially affected by his reluctance to give
any pledge on the question of Roman Catholic En-
dowment."

DERBY.-The Derby Mercury states, that the Chartists have been threatening to present a Petition against the Hon. F. Leveson Gower, the recently returned Member for this borough, on the ground of the Mayor having decided the show of hands against Mr. M'Grath, and having stated he should refuse to proceed with the poll until the usual expenses were paid him.

NOTTINGHAM. We extract the following from last week's Northern Star:-"To the Chartists of the United Kingdom. Brother Democrats,-A general election is at hand; we must endeavour, by all the legal means within our power, to secure the return of a few sterling patriots to the next Parliament, who will aid our own Duncombe in making the popular voice heard in the House of Commons. To effect this desirable object, it is necessary to raise funds wherewith to pay the expenses likely to be incurred. Nottingham having been selected as one borough for trying the experiment, will bring forward a candidate, take him to the poll and, if possible, return him, in the person of the working man's friend and the oppressor's foe, Feargus O'Connor, Esq. We call upon you to rally around us, and forward your subscriptions at once, in postage stamps or Post-office orders, every farthing of which shall be duly accounted for in my balance sheet. Onward, and we conquer! I remain, your's truly, JAMES SWEET."

KING'S COUNTY.-Sir Andrew Armstrong, of Gallen Priory, in a letter to the editor of the Tipperary Vindicator, states that he has do idea whatever of retiring from the representation of the King's County, in favour of Mr. Cassidy, or any other person. DR. M'NEILE.-The Rev. Incumbent of St. Jude's

IPSWICH. A requisition is in course of signature to Mr. Charles Austin, barrister-at-law, to become a candidate for representing the borough of Ipswich in the new Parliament. The requisition emanated from the Whig party at a meeting held on Satur- is at present in Dublin, for the purpose of preaching day evening last.

BRIDPORT.-A requisition has been for some time in course of signature here, calling on Mr. Montgomery Martin to come forward to represent the borough on Protestant principles. Mr. Martin has stated his determination to oppose concessions to the Church of Rome.

the Latin sermon required of him by his acceptance
of the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He is to remain
in Dublin about a fortnight; but his pastoral duties
in this town, we believe, will not be resumed before
the beginning of August.-Liverpool Courier.

The Queen has conferred on Father Ma-
thew a pension of 300l. a year.

THE TRIAL OF ANTICHRIST.

It is related of King James the First, that he one day, when conversing with Lord Chancellor Bacon, asked, if he thought the Pope was Antichrist?

The Chancellor replied, "I have no wish to dogmatize, but I believe, that if a hue and cry were raised after Antichrist, by the description given of him in the Bible, there is not a constable in your Majesty's dominions who would not at once seize upon the Pope."

Whether the Pope be Antichrist or not, we certainly know Popery to be Antichristian, and that it is the bounden duty of Christians to oppose it.

We propose in this, and subsequent numbers, to give extracts from a little publication bearing the above title, and in which the crimes of Popery committed against religion, good government, and liberty, are not only stated, but proof also is supplied.

Events of the past ages, and the present time, amply corroborate the statements made in what, using forensic language, is termed the indictment. The Trial of Antichrist has been highly prized, an extensive circulation. The and obtained author having adopted quite a novel method of exposing the false doctrines, the despotism, and the tyranny of the Church of Rome, and exhibited all the deformities of the Papal system in a popular style, a work of this kind cannot fail to excite curiosity and to engage public attention. Publications of this class are read, in general, with a painful interest and avidity, nor is it likely that the excitement will subside, so long as passing events bear testimony, that the character of Popery remains unchanged, and that it breathes the same ambitious, intolerant, and persecuting spirit, which has marked its progress during every period of its existence.

The plan pursued is plain and simple. The Pope is charged with high treason against the King of kings for usurping his supremacy, dignified titles, power, &c., and for "consenting to the death" of thousands, cruelly slaughtered for heresy! The indictment goes as far back as the year 606, when he first was acknowledged as the Universal Bishop: and some of the principal events recorded in history are brought forward to support the charge. The form of a State trial is almost, if not altogether, strictly adhered to, and such legal phrases used as to keep up the idea of a court of justice. The Pope being acknowledged by Roman Catholics as the head of the Church, and supposed always to exist, he is arraigned as such under various names; so that when one dies, the supposition is, that he only changes his name. It may be said in this respect of the Pope, as we say of the King-he never dies. The witnesses produced against His Holiness are considered to be always alive, and martyrs, who were burnt to ashes or otherwise put to death, are supposed to be delivered. It is designed to be, in short, an abridgement of Ecclesiastical History, with regard to the Papal power and acts; and an epitome of the harassing trials and persecutions which the professors of a pure faith have suffered for many centuries from the pretended "Vicar of Christ"

and his cruel emissaries.

CHARGES AGAINST THE PAPACY.

The proceedings at a Special Commission, held at the
Sessions-house of Truth, in order to the trial of
Antichrist for high treason against His most sacred
Majesty, King of Heaven and Earth.

The prisoner, after manifesting considerable reluctance, was brought to the Bar, and the indictment was read in the following words:

with other traitors

Antichrist, alias Man of Sin, alias Roman Pontiff, alias the Pope, you stand indicted, for that you did associate against our Sovereign Lord, the present and everlasting King, your supreme and undoubted Lord, not considering the duty of your allegiance, but with malice prepense, did imagine, invent, devise, and intend, the peace and common tranquillity of his kingdom to disturb; our Sovereign Lord the King from his Royal State, title, and power, to depose and deprive.

You, the said Antichrist, did usurp authority contrary to every act and statute of our Sovereign Lord the King, and in the year of our Lord 606, in the city of Rome in Italy, did erect your throne in opposition to

the throne in heaven; and in furtherance of your most treasonable imaginations, did conspire with other traitors, particularly with that monster of wickedness, Phocas, who murdered his master the Emperor Mauritius and his family, consisting of six sons and two daughters; and in return for the favour and countenance he received from you, then conferred upon you the title of Universal Bishop. You were then known by the name of Pope Boniface III.

And afterwards at the said city of Rome, in further pursuance of said treason and rebellion, you, the said Antichrist, being lifted up with pride by the Prince of Darkness, did, in order to gratify your ambition and promote rebellion, assume various other high and dignified titles, in open defiance of the crown, dignity, and honour of our Sovereign Lord the King; such as Christ's Vicegerent, His Holiness, Prince over all nations and kingdoms, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Lord God the Pope, and so forth; so that sitting in the temple of God you did proclaim to the world that you held your throne on earth, not simply as a man but as a true God!"*

And in furtherance of your most treasonable de. signs, you the said Antichrist did wickedly conspire and combine to raise cruel insurrections, rebellions, and wars, within his kingdom; did collect together arms, ammunition, gunpowder, and shot, for the purposes of said rebellions. And for many years, in many countries, in many nations, with force and arms, traitorously did use and procure to be used, many hundred thousand pikes, and other arms, and an immense quantity of gunpowder, with racks, gibbets, fire, swords, red-hot pincers, thumb-screws, whips, cords, and various other instruments of torture, for the purpose of carrying on said insurrections and rebellions within his kingdom, and therewith cruel slaughters made among the faithful subjects of our Lord the King within his kingdom. And for the purpose of supporting your tyrannical and usurped authority, you did confer on other false traitors, in said Society, divers and numerous honours and titles, such as Cardinals, Popes, Nuncios, Apostolic Vicars, Pope's Legates, Archbishops, Holy Fathers of Inquisitions, Inquisitor Generals, Prelates, Monks, Hermits, Jesuits, Augustine Monks, Benedictine Monks, Dominican Friars, Franciscan Friars, Mendicant Friars, Jansenists, Molinists, Abbots, Abbesses, Priests, Carmelites, Canons, Nuns, &c., &c. All of which said traitors have been engaged, and most of them deeply concerned in the many treasons, rebellions, and murders, committed by you and by your authority at

various times.

And in further pursuance of said treasonable designs, you caused it to be proclaimed that you were appointed to be the Head of the Church, and Christ's Vicar on earth by the positive mandate of our Sovereign Lord the King, given under his hand and

seal at Jerusalem.

And in furtherance of said treason and rebellion, you did forge and counterfeit, and cause to be forged and counterfeited, the hand-writing of one of his most sacred Majesty's loyal and confidential ser. vants, namely, the Apostle Peter, from whom you have presumed to declare you received your authority to commit treason, rebellion, and murder, with every other crime, in the name of the holy and righteous God of heaven and earth, our Sovereign Lord and King and your supreme and undoubted Lord. And you propagated and caused to be propagated, that in order to delegate you with princely power, and unheard-of tyranny, the said Apostle Peter came to the city of Rome, as Prince of the Apostles, and invested you with all your titles and power to govern the Church of Christ in the uni

versal world.

And afterwards at sundry times, and at the said city of Rome, in further pursuance of said treason and rebellion, you, the said Antichrist, did feloniously write, and cause to be written, several rebellious manifestos or proclamations, termed Popes' Bulls,+ to support your unlawful supremacy, to give indulgences to sin, and commission to violate the law of God, to pardon treason, to give liberty to

*Paulo V. Vice-Deo, Christianæ Reipublicæ Monarcha invictissimo, et Pontificiæ Omnipotentiæ conservatori acerrimo.

The term "Bull" is taken from the Latin Bulla, which signifies a bubble, as when a pot boils, or a fountain flows, or the protuberance of a stud on a bridle or saddle, or any other kind of embossing. Hence the impression left by the seal on the wax is called Bulla; and so the Papa! diploma bearing the scal of his Holiness is called the Pope's Bull. The impression was generally made on lead, and fastened, pendant, to the written instrument.

souls in misery, giving encouragement to subjects to
rebel against their lawful sovereign, to hurl kings
and princes from their thrones, and to encourage
murder, treason, rebellion, rapine, and blood, with
other detestable crimes not to be named by human
tongue. And for this purpose you did make open
publication of the same, as being the manifestos or
proclamations termed Bulls of his Holiness the Pope
of Rome, Vicar of Christ, Prince over all kingdoms
and nations, &c.

In the year 1245, by the names of Gregory IX. and Innocent IV., you deposed Frederic II., Emperor.

In the year 1303, by the name of Boniface VIII. you deprived Philip the Fair, King of France. In the year 1512, by the name of Julius II., you deprived Lewis XII., King of France. In the year 1538, by the name of Paul III., you deprived Henry VIII., King of England. In the year 1570, by the name of Pius V., you deprived Elizabeth, Queen of England.

By the name of Paul IV. you issued your edict in the year 1563, to order Joan Queen of Navarre to appear before your tribunal at Rome, to answer for the crime of rejecting your authority.

In the year 1589, by the name of Sixtus V. you delivered a famous (or rather an infamous) oration, applauding the murder of Henry III. King of France, by a Jacobine Friar, as both admirable and meritorious.

By the name of Urban II. you prohibited Bishops and priests from promising allegiance to kings and princes.

By the name of Martin V. you forced the Emperor Sigismund to violate his covenant and promise; and made that diabolical decree that faith must not be kept with heretics.

And in furtherance of your most evil intentions and treasonable imaginations, as such false traitor, you, the said Antichrist, feloniously and maliciously did conspire and combine together with other false traitors, to excite all the nations on earth to repair to your pretended consecrated standards in open rebellion against our Sovereign Lord the King. And in pursuance of said treason and rebellion, you did openly and publicly, in the year of our Lord 751, presume to depose kings, and establish yourself as a temporal Prince. You therefore did by the name of Pope Zachary I., dethrone Childeric III., King of France, and invest with royalty the usurper Pepin in his place. From this period you carried two swords, to signify both your temporal and spiritual power, and assumed more and more authority;-you, as Christ's Vicegerent, claimed the same power as would belong to Christ alone, had he been personally on earth, reigning on his throne. You even used to be called God on earth, and most of the princes of Europe submitted to your rebellious arms and usurped supremacy. You also brought emperors and kings to kiss your feet, to receive their crowns from your hands; and princes dreaded your displeasure more than they would a thunderbolt from heaven. If you were pleased to excommunicate a king, all his subjects were declared by you to be free from their allegiance, and obliged to renounce it on pain of your displeasure; and not only so, but any man might kill the person refusing to bow to your decision. Further, you arrogated the power of consigning to perdition the souls of men, and persuaded the people to believe that you possessed that ability, so that VII. We by our Apostolic authority do absolve all subjects A few specimens of Pope's Bulls agains: princes:-Gregory whoever died under your excommunication was from their oaths of fealty, which they have sworn to princes exconsidered by them as cternally and irretrievably communicate." Gregory IX. "We excommunicate all heretical lost. princes, and absolve their subjects from their oaths and duties of allegiance." Pius V. "We absolve all subjects of England from

And further, you, the said Antichrist, did depose, deprive, and excommunicate a number of princes, contrary to every law and statute of our Sovereign Lord the King, in that case made and provided. During the time you went by the name of Pope Innocent III., at the commencement of the thirteenth century, when the empire of Germany was disputed between Philip, Duke of Suabia, and Otho IV., you first espoused the cause of Otho, and thundered out your excommunications against Philip; and upon the death of the latter, in the year 1209, you placed the imperial diadem upon the head of his adversary, who, not being disposed to bow sufficiently to your ambitious desires, in his turn felt your malice and resentment. You therefore declared him unworthy of the empire, and anathematized and deposed him in the year 1212, and raised his pupil, Frederic II., to the throne and dignity in his place.

You also excommunicated and deposed John, King of England, and absolved all his subjects from their oaths of allegiance, proclaimed the kingdom under an Interdict, shut up all the places of public worship for three years, declared the throne of England vacant, requested the King of France to execute your sentence, and undertake the conquest of Britain; till John was compelled to pay large sums of money for both England and Ireland, to do homage before your Legate at Dover, and receive his crown from his hands, as a special favour from you (as his Holiness the Pope), after it was detained five days.

When you were called by the name of Pope Con-
stantine in the year 712, you also deprived Phillip
picus, Emperor of the Greeks.

By the name of Gregory II. and III. you excom-
municated Leo the Isaurian Emperor.
In the year 1076, by the name of Gregory VII.,
you deposed Henry IV., Emperor.

By the name of Celestine III., you excommuni-
cated Henry VI., Emperor.

By the same name you excommunicated Leopold
Duke of Austria.

By the same name you excommunicated Alphonso
X., King of Galicia and Leon.

By the name of Innocent III. you deprived Philip
Augustus, King of France.

By the name of Clement IX. you presumed to deprive James I. King of England, of his right to the crown, even before he ascended the throne, and afterwards attempted to destroy both him and his Parliament by gunpowder.

By the name of Clement XI. you declared the treaty of Charles VI., Emperor, to be null and void (so far as it did not appear to the interest of your government), although repeatedly confirmed by oath ; and by the name of Gregory VII., you not only dethroned Boleslaus, king of Poland, but you did, by an express and imperious edict, prohibit the nobles of Poland from electing a new king without your consent, contrary to every divine law of our Sovereign Lord the King.*

the oaths they have taken to Elizabeth their Queen."-Cobbin's Book of Popery, p. 47.

(To be continued.)

TRANSUBSTANTIATION opposed to THE

EVIDENCE OF THE FIVE SENSES.

WHAT IS THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH OF ROME
ON TRANSUBSTANTIATION?

"I profess that in the mass there is offered to God, a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead; and that in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist there is really, truly, and substantially the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ; and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body and of the wine into the blood, which conversion the Catholic Church calls transubstantiation."-Creed of Pope Pius IV.

EVIDENCE, ETC.

SIGHT. I ask you to look at this wafer, and tell me-Is it a human body? Can you discern any change in it since it was consecrated? No, replies sight; I have examined it carefully, and I see that it is nothing but a wafer still: no miracle has been wrought upon it. I was present at all our Lord's miracles, and saw him call forth Lazarus from the dead. I saw Lazarus rise from his coffin, and come out bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and beheld astonishment depicted on the countenance of the bystanders.-John xi.

When our Lord was raised from the dead, I saw him. I saw him speaking to his apostles. I saw him reaching forth his hands to be felt; and at length I saw him ascending up into glory.-Luke xxiv. 51. TASTE.-Examine this wafer, and say whether it is flesh or paste. Take this cup, and tell us whether it contains wine or blood. "It is not flesh," Taste answers. How do you know? It was once pastehow can you tell but a miracle may have been wrought upon it, and that it is now converted into flesh; or whether the wine has not been turned into blood?" They have not been changed," replies Taste. I was present at some of our Lord's miracles. I was at the marriage of Cana in Galilee. I tasted the water that was made wine, and discerned its