superiority to all the other wine that was drank | Divine inspiration (divino concilio), he caused a medal there. I was present on two occasions when our gracious Saviour fed the hungry multitudes. I tasted the loaves and the fishes, and found that they were real loaves and fishes. I shared in the enjoyment caused by the food that satisfied their craving appetite. I have now tasted these, and pronounce them to be bread and wine still.

SMELL. Come forward and say whether this smells like wine or blood. Smell answers, "It is wine." How do you know? may not a miracle have been wrought upon it, and may it not retain the smell of wine though it is really blood? "No," replies Smell. I was present when the mighty miracle was wrought of changing into wine the water of Cana. I shared in the agreeable sensations caused by its smell. Were this blood I could as easily discover it; but it is only wine still.

FEELING.-Examine this wafer, and tell usDoes it feel like a body? "It does not," testifies Feeling. I was present when our Lord convinced the doubting Thomas, when with mild dignity and complacent humility he subjected himself to a strict examination. I shared in the apostle's faith, when having felt his hands and feet, he exclaimed, "My Lord and my God." I was amongst the disciples and partook of their sorrow when our Lord ascended into heaven, where he ever liveth to intercede for man.

to be struck, on which is seen an angel, armed with a sword and a cross, pursuing the rebels; an image which recalls to the mind both the white crosses with which they had marked the houses of the heretics, and those which the soldiers wore in their caps." With what infernal satisfaction the Jesuit depicts the diabolical glee of the Pope! With what delight they both of them see the blood flowing! But, once more, no commentary of our own; let us listen for the last time to the atrocious calmness with which the Jesuit continues to explain the medal. "St. Jerome teaches us," says he, "that angels are the ministers of the Divine wrath, which in this case made use of the weapons of the King. It was thus that an angel of the Lord smote, during the night, 85,000 Assyrians encamped before Jerusalem. Besides, nothing is more ancient than the representation of angels. God commands, in his Law, both to make and preserve these holy images even in the sanctuary of the temple. Exodus xxv. Thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, which shall look one to another, in the two ends of the mercy seat.'" But are we not restraining ourselves too long? Must we, to be impartial, appear by our silence to approve the most dastardly cruelty cloaked by the most disgusting hypocrisy ? No, at length we speak out, and give vent to our whole indignation. HEARING.-Can you corroborate the testimony of Here, then, are the Popes; proud, idolatrous, your fellows? Oh! (says the Papist) I am caught ambitious, criminal! No, I am mistaken; ordinary here; you do not know that it will make any sound. criminals excuse or deny their acts; but the Popes The Church of England is overthrown now. But boast of theirs and glory in them; they distinguish let us not decide too hastily. I drop this wafer: their assassins by the title of Destroying Angel, and Come Hearing, tell us whether that sound is like believe themselves washed from the blood that the fall of a human body? Papist :-Christ says has been poured out; they bless their ministers it is a human body. Hearing:-1 was present with going forth as regicides: if they triumph they will the apostles when our Lord, whilst in the act of make kings of them, if they fail they will make holding a piece of bread between his fingers, said, martyrs of them; and thus, perverting both the "Take, eat, this is my body; this do in remembrance tongue and the conscience, they call virtue crime, of me." Now as it would have been absurd to say and crime virtue, they merely term such atrocities the bread was his body, at the same time his identical holy severities, pious frauds, blessed crimes; and body was before us, he must have spoken figuratively. that is all! Ah! ye whited sepulchres; not thus The wafer falls, I can scarcely perceive any sound. acted the Divine Master whose name and titles Were it a human body which fell, I could not but you usurp; and there cannot be a keener cenknow it. I was present on the day of Pentecost, sure of your conduct than the history of Jesus and heard the miracle of tongues; I heard our Christ. What is there in common between Saviour say to the listening multitude, "I am the you and this Jesus-so meek, so humble, so pure, bread of life; he that cometh to me shall never hun- so holy? What resemblance between the Saviour ger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst." wearing a crown of thorns burdened with drops of -John vi. 35. This is not a human body, it is a his own blood, and you wearing a tiara of three wafer still. stages high, covered with diamonds? What conSuch is the unanimous testimony of these five faith-nexion between his "kingdom," which he says "is ful witnesses, which were given by God himself, to not of this world," and yours, whose aim is to extend convey information to our minds. Whoever contra- itself over worldly gold and power? What analogy dicts the united testimony of these reasoning facul- between Jesus refusing to be king, and you usurping ties, exalts his private authority against the testimony crowns? between Jesus transforming his disciples of God. into servants, and you, of your creatures, making kings and princes? When you present your slipper to be kissed by a monarch, do you greatly resemble Jesus washing the feet of his disciples? Reposing on the down of your palaces, do you well remember him who had not where to lay his head? Ye "meek pastors," who eagerly pursue heretics to put them to death, have you taken as your pattern the "Good Shepherd" climbing the mountain to bring back upon his shoulders the wandering sheep? Jesus forgave the Samaritans; you massacre the Huguenots! Jesus died for sinners; you cause the innocent to be put to death! Jesus, poor and humble, went about doing good; you, rich, haughty, and powerful, sow every where hatred, anathemas, and faggots!

THE POPES, PAINTED BY THEMSELVES.

BY REV. NAPOLEON ROUSSEL, MINISTER OF THE REFORMED CHURCH OF FRANCE. (Concluded from our last.) See here, then,-for a crime the most appalling the apology, written by a Jesuit and engraved by a Pope!.... But no reflections; let us leave to Bonnani the task of describing the Pontifical joy. When, therefore, 25,000 innocent persons had been butchered in a few days, partly in Paris, partly in the provinces, and the agreeable news had reached the instigator of so many assassinations: "This anhoped-for change," says the Jesuit, "filled the Pope and Italy with joy so much the more intense, as they had feared that they should see even the Peninsula itself infected with heresy. Immediately on receiving the news, the Pope went from the church of St. Mark to that of St. Louis with solemn pomp; and having ordained a jubilee, he invited all Christian people to pray for the religion of France, and for the monarch of that realm. He employed George Vasari, at the Vatican, to pourtray the massacre of Coligny and his partisans, as a monument of religion avenged and heresy ruined. Feeling assured that the copious bleeding which had drawn so much corrupt blood from the unhealthy body of France, would be salutary to her, he congratulated the king by his legate, and counselled him to per sist vigorously in the work he had undertaken, and not to compromise by mildness what he had so happily commenced by severe remedies.

To shew that the massacre had been accomplished by the help of God and under his

Ah! it is not the people upon whom we should charge their own unbelief, but their spiritual guides, destroying the faith by their vices and their crimes. Infidelity has always increased with the number and influence of the Romish clergy: Italy is worse than Spain, because it has the Pope and his court at its head; Spain is worse than France, because it has cherished the inquisition; and France is worse than the United States, because it still has a numerous body of Romish clergy. Do you think that if the Popes had been as virtuous as some of them have been criminal, Europe would be at this day so deeply plunged in demoralization and impiety? No; and I take yourself, reader, as a witness. If, as spiritual guide, were presented to you a Being, truly pure, truly holy, whose every word was a truth, every action a kindness, every promise a certainty; would you not feel yourself attracted toward such a bishop of your soul? Would you not be rejoiced to hear him, ready to obey him, and desirous to imitate him? What, then, if this Bishop, or Pope, were willing to give you, and not to sell you, the greatest favours of heaven, and to guarantee to you, from this very day, your everlasting salvation? Ah! doubtless, you would love him as yourself; you would make him, in some sense, your god upon earth! Well, then, listen: such a Pope exists, he is Jesus Christ! What Pope of Rome would dare to deny this? Yes, reader, Jesus Christ is your true Bishop, your true Master. He, and he alone, has always spoken the truth, always lived holily, always kept his promises, and given, instead of selling, not dead relics to restore health, but his living body, to expiate your sins! What Pope has descended from his throne to die as an outcast for the saving of his people? It is Jesus Christ, who descended from heaven to expire on earth in the stead of those who confide in him. What Pope has published bulls really inspired by the Holy Ghost, and of which every word is certain? Jesus Christ, who has left us the writings of his Apostles in the New Testament; a book infallible, divine, and sufficient to guide and save us. What Pope is there whose life, from first to last, can serve us for a model? Jesus Christ, who went about doing good, preaching the Gospel to the poor, visiting the sick, comforting the afflicted, and pardoning his enemies. Ah! let us at length be wise; let us leave yonder that vast succession of Popes, defiled, cruel, ignorant; and let us content ourselves with one who is pure, gentle, and all-powerful! Is not one holy God more worthy of estimation than a thousand men who are sinners? Cannot Jesus Christ supply the place of all the Popes for us? Jesus, who speaks to us in the Bible, answers us from the highest heavens, and is ready to give to us eternal life to-day, this very instant, if to-day, if this very instant, we are willing to confide in him? Yes; and, therefore, without doubt, I take for Master, for Judge, for Teacher, not the Popemere man who sits at Rome,-but Jesus Christ, the true God, who reigns in the heavens ! complete screen placed between Jesus Christ, the Sun of Truth, and the eyes of the people who must remain' in darkness as in times past. Pius IX., like his predecessor, has condemned, in his encyclical letter, the liberty of the press, the works of philosophers, and even the innocent Bible Societies.

the pontifical throne. The six months' reign of this model Pope have in no respect altered our opinion. In fact, we have seen that if policy has induced the temporal monarch to make great promises to his people on his ascending the throne, the very nature of Popery has compelled him, since then, to contine him self to slight ameliorations in the civil government, without

*These lines were traced before the accession of Pius IX. to

touching the monstrous privileges of the Romish priest, who is a

OXFORD UNIVERSITY ELECTION. A correspondent of the Morning Herald says, that twelve of the Heads of Houses have signified their intention of voting for Mr. Round, and two for Mr. Gladstone. The same authority says, that nine are neutral at present, but that six of these are antiTractarian.

THE ELECTIONS AND THE DISSENTERS.-A long address appears in yesterday's Times, signed by upwards of 150 leading Dissenters, calling ont he Nonconformists to express their opinions on 66 State interference with religion," and act accordingly.

PROTESTANTISM AT HULL.

It affords us much pleasure to state, that the Protestant electors of Hull are up and doing, as will be seen from the following extracts from a very excellent address recently issued by them:"ADDRESS OF THE HULL PROTESTANT COMMITTEE TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH.

and Divinity of Christ.' This is still taught in her authorized Creed.

"6. She has permitted falsehood, perjury, and murder, when they make for her interest. and religious liberty, since her unvarying aim is "7. Her system cannot but stand opposed to civil universal supremacy and dominion.

"8. She has been, and still continues to be the promoter of gross immorality, and social disorder, through auricular confession.

"9. She has been a persecuting Church;--witness the many millions of Protestants who have suffered death at her remorseless hands. She permits, sanctions, enjoins, and practises persecution still. "This falsehood, tyranny, and idolatry she grounds upon tradition, and the assumed infallible authority of the Church, none of it has she ever rejected, neither can she reject it, without, by the same act, annulling her claim to that boasted infallibility upon the authority of which it rests, and upon the maintenance of which her whole system depends

We acknowledge that these charges against the Papal system are most grave; but they are advisedly made; and were it not that this address must of necessity be brief, further proofs of their truth, abundantly convincing, might easily be given.

"Brother Electors,-You will very soon be called upon to give your votes for representatives in Parliament. This is one of your privileges as Britons; but remember that privilege implies duty and responsibility;-duty to your country, responsibility to God. We call upon you to hold principle above expediency, patriotism above party, religion above politics, and to give your votes with a conscientious regard to the preservation of those civil and religious liberties and advantages, which your forefathers, at the cost of their lives, have banded down to you. Remember that the great question of the day is this, Are the Protestant principles of our happy Constitution to be utterly abandoned, and is Popish error to be further fostered and endowed, or not? Much has already been done by our Legislature at variance with true Protestant principles. In Ireland, the Popish College of Maynooth has been largely endowed; and in our Colonies, Popish priests are paid to the extent of many thousands a-year; and now, nothing less than the endowment of the Romish priesthood in our sister country is in contemplation. Nor is this all, the unrestricted admis-a sion of Papal Bulls into this country, whatever may be their anti-national and seditious contents; the permision of idolatrous processions in our streets, and of other superstitious practices of the Romish priesthood; and the legalized settlement amongst us of Jesuits,-a society whose members are not, and cannot be the subjects of any temporal sovereign,|| will, too probably, follow. These are but stepping stones upon which Rome is advancing towards the accomplishment of her ambitious designs; nor will she rest till Protestant liberty and Protestant truth are extinguished, and Englishmen are again enthralled by her tyranny, and ruined by her false religion. This purpose, you are aware, has just now been boldly avowed, in the House of Commons, by the Earl of Arundel (a Roman Catholic Member), who freely admitted that the Church of Rome is antagonistic to Protestantism, and as long as the world lasts, it will continue so, until Protestantism is extinct.' He has been praised for this avowal, but experience shows that when the advancement of Popery is intended, bold statements are not ventured upon, until much has been already secured towards the attainment of the object.

"The first step,-namely, the endowment of the Romish Priests in Ireland,-our leading statesmen, of whatever party, are unhappily prepared to take. They only wait for a fitting opportunity. They are anxiously watching the course of public opinion, and of that public opinion they will take the Commons' House of Parliament, after the next election, as the surest indication. The point then to be considered is this, what shall be the character of that House? Shall it be one that will not distinguish between truth and error; one that shall continue to foster Popery, and dis. courage Protestantism; or shall it be a body, the fit representative of a Protestant nation? It is for the Protestant electors of this kingdom to answer this question. They have it in their power to decide the matter. Their votes will determine it in Parliament. We appeal then to Protestant electors. Will any conscientious Protestant refuse, at this crisis, to exert all his influence in support and de

fence of Protestantism?

"Let none of us be deceived as to the true character of Popery. "The Church of Rome is what she has been for many centuries.

"I. She has been hostile to the unfettered reading of God's holy word.

"2. She has been, and still is, an idolatrous Church.

"3. She has denied the fundamental doctrine of justification by faith only in our Saviour Christ. "4. She has put forth absurd unscriptural falsehoods.

"5. She moreover tenaciously holds some blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits;'-witness her doctrine of transubstantiation, wherein it is pretended that a wafer is the body and blood, soul

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"We doubt not that many of them, in this country, will be stoutly denied; we anticipate this, and reply, that these very denials will prove the truth of the charge that Popery is teacher and an utterer of lies. Hear an eminent writer, and powerful advocate of the most liberal sentiments, the Rev. Robert Hall, the justly celebrated Baptist Minister, who, when reviewing an able work on Popery by one of your own townsmen-the Rev. John Birt, says, "From a settled persuasion that Popery still is what it always was, -a detestable system of impiety, cruelty, and imposture, fabricated by the father of lies, we feel thankful at witnessing any judicious attempt to expose its enormities, and retard its progress." This testimony is as strictly in accordance with the writings of the pious Doddridge, and other eminent Dissenting divines, as it is with those of that noble host of defenders of Protestantism, our Cranmers, and Jewels, and Chillingworths, and Barrows, of the Church of England.

"Protestant Electors! we have no selfish end to gain; no interest to serve, apart from that of our common faith, and our common country; but on behalf of our country we appeal to you. Is such a system to be countenanced and supported? We are told, that Popery, in England at least, is not the frightful thing that alarmists represent it to be. We reply, the lion in the cage has the same nature as the lion in the forest. We are told that many who hold her creed are as kind, amiable, and conscientious as Protestants. This we freely admit. Popery must be judged of, not by her practice in a Protestant land, where her power is comparatively small-not by the character of individuals who profess her creed, but by the destructive principles she main tains, and by her universal practice as opportunity serves. We are told further, that by the concessions which have been made to Popery, we have already abandoned the principle of National Protestantism. We acknowledge that our Legislature has, in part, done so, but not the nation. It remains for the constituency to say, at the approaching Election, whether or not, the nation will do so. We are told again that all laws against Popery are the offspring of bigotry, and ought to be repealed. We ask in reply, whether the Pope has ever repealed any one of his laws against us? Has he ever erased a single line of his canon law, in which he claims the power of deposing princes and absolving subjects from their allegiance? Never. Has he ever revoked one of his unchristian anathemas against us and our princes? Never. Has he ever ceased to impose his own oath of allegiance and supremacy on Romish ecclesiastics who are subjects of the Queen of England, and to teach them that all their civil oaths to their Sovereign, to the prejudice of his own interest, are perjuries? Never. Has he ever allowed a word to be breathed in favour of our oaths of allegiance and supremacy, or permitted our books in their favour to be admitted into his dominions, as some amongst us would admit Bulls from Rome into England? Never. And yet we are to be called upon to repeal our laws against his unjust usurpations, and aggressions upon the rights of the British Crown, and the liberties of the

subject, and to give free admission to Jesuits and other Romish emissaries, who are bound to him by a most solemn oath of obedience, and who are obliged by that oath to teach the doctrine of the Queen. Pope's supremacy, to the subversion of that of the We have repealed many of our laws, against the ambitious designs of the Pope, let us now wait, till he has repealed some of his against the religion, liberty, and lives of Protestants. What good has resulted from all the concessions hitherto made to Popery?

"We are persuaded, Brother Electors, that the course which our leading statesmen are disposed to pursue, unless prevented by the votes given by Protestants at the next election, is founded neither in justice, reason, charity, nor Scripture. We are also persuaded that a wretched expediency is the real ground of its intended adoption. Let the Protestant Electors of the empire resolve to prevent such a result! They can do so if they will. The destiny of the nation is, under God, in their hands. We invite you, Protestant Electors of Hull, to do what you can. We invite you to sign the Declaration which has been circulated amongst you. We urge you to set this matter before your friends and neighbours, that they may join in the same act. At various other places a similar course has been pursued with great success. Let the experiment be made by each constituency; let the Protestant feelings of the country be called forth, and soundhearted Protestant Candidates will come forward and be returned; and a truly Protestant House of Commons will be formed. In this way our leading statesmen will be convinced of the impolicy of yielding further to Rome, and that such a course could not be adopted without alienating the affections of the people, and endangering the stability of the realm. Thus, the Divine favour, which in days past has so signally rested upon us, as a Protestant nation, would be continued; and our children, and children's children, enjoy the blessing of that happy constitution which we have received from our forefathers.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND CONSERVATIVE.

Sir, I was glad to see that you noticed in your paper the Bill introduced into Parliament by Messrs. Romilly and Ewart. This Bill professed on the face of it to be perfectly harmless," whereas it offers (I am now using the words of an eminent Member of Parliament) the most extraof the attempt to place the charities and wealth of ordinary instance that I know, for three centuries, England under the grasp of the Church of Rome." with the Mortmain Laws, under the pretence, as It was an artful and underhand attempt to do away the title of the Bill expressed it, of only regulating Roman Catholic Trusts!!! Let Rome, always adding and these laws be once repealed, and the Church of never alienating, would soon obtain a paramount possession and control over the lands of England. A more effectual means of bringing England once more in subjection to Popish tyranny could not, I think, well have been devised. Mortmain laws to prevent the usurpations of Rome The necessity of the appeared to one of our wisest monarchs, Edward the First, to be so urgent, that he summoned a Parliament for the express purpose of enacting then. Edward the Third also strictly enforced them.

Whether these two (Liberal ?) M.P.'s became ashamed of their Bill at last, I will not say. But I could never clearly understand the end of it. It passed a first reading without discussion, to the great disgrace of Ministers for allowing such a Bill to be brought in. Mr. Romilly then, I think, gave notice for the second reading, which was to be only pro formá. Whether that took place, or whether or in what way the Bill was withdrawn, I never learnt. If it was read a second time, though only pro formá, then mark the consequence and the artfulness of the proceeding. If these two Liberals should be returned again, they will triumphantly boast that the principle of their measure was approved and sanctioned by a former Parliament.

A PROTESTANT.

LUTHER EXCOMMUNICATED ANDCURSED BY POPE LEO X., MARCH 28, 1521.

On the 28th of March, 1521, which was the Thursday before Easter, all Rome resounded with a solemn sentence of excommunication. It is the custom at this season to publish the terrible bull in cena Domini, which is nothing but a long string of curses. On that day the Pope, arrayed in his pontifical robes, hurled his fierce anathemas at Luther. When Luther was apprised of this excommunication, he published the form of it, with some remarks in that caustic style which he knew so well how to assume. The following is a specimen :The Pope.-"Leo, bishop."

Luther." Bishop! as much as a wolf is a shepherd; for a bishop's duty is to give godly exhortations, not to vomit forth imprecations and curses." The Pope-"Servant of all the servants of

God...

The Pope." The bishops of Rome, our predecessors, have been wont on this festival to employ the arms of justice. . . . .”

Lather. Which, according to your account, are excommunication and anathema: but, according to St. Paul, long-suffering, kindness, love unfeigned." -(2 Cor. vi. 6, 7.)

The Pope." According to the duty of the Apostolic charge, and to maintain the purity of the Christian faith.

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Luther." That is to say, the temporal possessions of the Pope."

The Pope.-" And the unity thereof, which consists in the union of the members with Christ their head, . . . and with his Vicar. . . .

Luther." For Christ is not sufficient: we have another besides."

The Pope. To preserve the holy communion of the faithful, we follow the ancient rule, and accordingly do excommunicate and curse, in the name of God Almighty, the Father..

Lather. Of whom it is said, 'God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world."" (John iii. 17.)

The Pope." The Son and the Holy Ghost,-and by the authority of the Apostles, Peter and Paul, .... and by our own.

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and curse all those who intercept any provisions on their passage to our city of Rome. Luther. He snarls and bites like a dog that is battling for his bone."

The Pope." In like manner we condemn, and we curse all those who withhold any privileges, dues, tithes, or revenues belonging to the clergy. Luther. Forasmuch as Christ hath said, 'If any man will sue thee at the law and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also' (Matt. v. 40); and ye have now heard Our commentary thereon. The Pope." Whatever be their station, dignity, order, authority, or rank, be they even bishops or kings."

Luther. "For there shall be false teachers among you, who shall despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities,' saith the Scripture." (Jude 8.) The Pope." In like manner we condemn and curse all who in any manner whatsoever shall molest the city of Rome, the kingdom of Sicily, the islands of Sardinia and Corsica, the patrimony of St. Peter in Tuscany, the duchy of Spoleto, the marquisate of Ancona, the Campagna, the cities of Ferrara and Benevento, or any other city or territory belonging to the Church of Rome."

Luther." O, Peter, thou poor fisherman! how hast thou become master of Rome and so many kingdoms besides? I bid thee all hail! Peter! King of Sicily!... and fisherman of Bethsaida." The Pope." We excommunicate and curse all Chancellors, counsellors, parliaments, procurators, governors, officials, bishops, and others who shall resist any of our letters admonitory, permissive, prohibitory, mediatory, or executive."

Luther. For the Holy See seeks only to live in idleness, pomp and debauchery,--to rule and intimidate,-to lie and deceive, to dishonour and seduce, and commit all kinds of evil in peace and security.

"O Lord, arise! it is not so with us as the Papists pretend; thou hast not forsaken us, neither are thine eyes turned away from us."

Such was the dialogue between Leo the Tenth at Rome, and Martin Luther at Wittemberg. This terrible Bull of universal curses, has, it aprears, been set up as a Papal law in Ireland by the Romish bishops even since the passing of the Emancipation Bill, in 1829. See the Letter addressed to the "Queen's Most Excellent Majesty," recently published by the Protestant Association.

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Rev. D. B. Langley, D.C.L., St. John's College.
H. B. Leeson, Esq., M.D., Caius.
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Rev. T. E. Marshall, M.A., Emmanuel.
N. Matcham, Esq., M. A., Trinity Hall.
Rev C. F. Newell, M.A., Clare Hall.
The Hon. and Rev. Leland Noel, M.A., Trinity.
Wm. Wilberforce Pearson, Esq., M A., Trinity.
Rev. Thomas Williamson Peile, D.D., Head Master of Repton
School, and late Fellow of Trinity.
Rev. Josiah Pratt, M.A., Trinity.

The Rev. Hastings Robinson, D.D., late Fellow and Assistant

Tutor of St. John's College.

Hulsean Lecturer.

Rev. Henry John Rose, B.D., late Fellow of St. John's and Rev. John Sandys, M.A., late Fellow of Queen's.

G. J. P. Smith, Esq., M.A., St. John's.

Rev. John Russell Stock, M.A., St. John's.
Rev. W. Staunton, M.A., Christ's.
W. Stuart, Esq., M.A., St. John's.
Rev. Thomas Tate, M A., Trinity.

Rev. Henry Walter, M.A., late Fellow of St. John's.

Rev. James Ind Welldon, LL.D., Head Master of Tunbridge Grammar chool, St. John's.

Rev. Alexander Williams, M.A. Trinity.

Rev. W. Carus Wilson, M.A., Trinity.

Hugh P. Wyatt, Esq., LL.D., Fellow of Trinity Hall.
G. J. P. SMITH, M. A., Secretary.

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The Master of Clare Hall, Chairman.
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Trinity.

Trinity.

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Hall.

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The Rev. Charles Clayton, M.A., Fellow and Lecturer of Caius.
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The Rev. J. A. Coombe, late Fellow of St, John's.

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The Rev. J. Townson, M.A., Fellow of Queen's.
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The Rev. Joseph Woolley, M.A., Fellow of Emmanuel.

CHURCHILL BABINGTON, M.A., St. John's,
WILLIAM HALL, M.A., Clare Hall,

Secretaries.

Luther. Because they have sought to possess themselves of the holy Scriptures, and admonished the Pope to be modest, and preach the word of God."

The Pope." And Martin Luther, recently condemned by us for a like heresy, together with all his adherents, and all persons, whosoever they may be, who aid or abet him."

Luther." I thank thee, most gracious Pontiff, that thou hast proclaimed me in company with all these Christians. It is an honour for me to have had my name proclaimed at Rome at the time of the festival, in so glorious a manner, and to have it circulated throughout the world with the names of all those humble confessors of Christ."

The Pope.-" In like manner we excommunicate and curse all pirates and corsairs. . .

Luther." And who is the greatest of all pirates and corsairs, if it be not he who takes souls captive, and binds them in chains, and delivers them to death?"

The Pope- . . . especially such as infest our

seas.

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Luther." OUR seas! St. Peter, our predecessor, said, Silver and gold have I none.' (Acts iii. 6.) Jesus Christ said, 'The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; but ye shall not be so.' (Luke xxii. 25.) But if a waggon laden with hay must give way to a drunken man, how much more fitting is it that St. Peter and Christ himself should give way to the Pope!"

The Pope." In like manner we excommunicate and curse all those who falsify our bulls and letters apostolical..

Luther." But God's letters,-God's holy Scriptures, any one may condemn and burn them!" The Pope.-" In like manner we excommunicate

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ELECTION,

ELECTION of the VISCOUNT FEILDING, sit daily at the British Hotel, Cockspur street.

C. J. B. Aldis, Esq., M.D., Trinity.
Rev. John Antrobus. M.A., St. John's.

Rev. G. Attwood, M A., late Fellow of Pembroke.
Rev. John Ayre, M.A., Caius.

T. A. Barker, Esq, M.D., Downing.
Thomas Bates, Esq, M.A., Fellow of Jesus.
P. Bennett, Esq., M.P., Emmanuel.

Rev. Christopher Benson, M.A., late Master of the Temple and
Hulsean Lecturer.

H. M. Birch, Esq., M.A., Assistant Master at Eton, Fellow of

King's.

Rev. T. R. Birks, M.A., late Fellow of Trinity.
The Ven. Archideacon Browne, M.A, late Fellow of St. John's.
The Venerable Archdeacon Buckle, Sidney.

Rev. R. M. Chatfield, M.A., Trinity.
Rev. Beedam Chrlesworth, M.A., Trinity.

Rev. Sir Nicholas Chinnery, Bart., M A., Queen's.
Rev. Joseph Clark, M.A., Fellow of Christ's..
George Rochfort Clarke, Esq., M.A., St. John's.
Rev. Henry R. Crewe, M.A., Trinity.

Rev. Francis Cunningham, M.A., Hon. Canon of Norwich,

Vicar of Lowestoft, Queen's.

W. Eagle, Esq., M.A., Trinity.
The Rev. M. G. Edgar, M.A., Caius.
Arthur Farre, Esq., M.D., Cains.

Fred. J. Farre, Esq., M.D., St. John's.

E. H. Fitzherbert, Esq., M.A., late Fellow of Trinity.

Sir H. Fitzherbert, Bart., M.A., St. John's.

Rev. Augustus Fitzroy, M.A, Trinity.
Bartholomew Frere, Esq., M.A., Trinity.

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. Gentlemen,-As it is the wish of a considerable portion of the them in the next Parliament, as a body identified with the Church of England in doctrine and discipline, and as such more the Church of Rome, and as they have earnestly requested me to allow myself to be brought forward for that purpose, my feelings being in accordance with theirs, I have consented to answer to that call. I feel it a duty to shrink from no opportunity of testifying my earnest desire to aid in preserving the integrity of the Church of England, and to resist all connexion with and concession to Romanism, to oppose the endowment of the Romish Church in Ireland or elsewhere, as well as all attempts to establish an intercourse with the Court of Rome.

prosperity of this kingdom, for I cannot conceive that the bless

The union of Church and State I consider essential to the

ing of God will rest upon a nation whose Government does not by its laws and institutions do all in its power to acknowledge and uphold His honour and glory, and the welfare of His Church. I am most earnest in my wish for the extension of the Church of England, as regards increasing the number of Bishops and Clergy, the formation of schools in connexion with the Church, and the providing of Church accommodation. Deeply attached as I am to her, I deprecate strongly all dissent or separation from her communion, and will never willingly do anything to promote or perpetuate it.

I am unwilling to pledge myself as to the exact votes 1 shall give upon particular measures as yet not fully under my notice, I can only give you my principles as a guarantee for my actions. My political principles were what are called Conservative; unfortunately that name may now express many different and even opposite opinions. I highly disapproved of the way in which the repeal of the Corn-laws was carried through Parliament, and have no confidence in that measure, as I think so great a risk to most important interests of this country ought not to have been incurred without first testing the probable effects by more

Downing.

Rev. Wm. Garratt, M.A., Trinitv.

Rev. Michael Gibbs, M.A., late Fellow of Caius.

G. Goldsmith, Esq., M.A., Peterhouse.

Rev. John Hatchard, Magdalene College, Vicar of Plymouth.
Rev. Charles Hebert, M.A., Trinity.
Chas. W. Heigham, Esq., M.A.. Christ's.

Rev. W. H. Hore, M. A., late Fellow of St. John's.

Rev. Edward Hollond. M.A., Queen's.

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The present times are most eventful. It is felt and confessed by the wisest and the most experienced that a crisis is at hand.

Our baffled statesmen, worn out by their long contests with Popery,-ashamed of their past defeats,-but without manly boldness enough to confess their errors and retrace their steps,seem resolved to rush for protection to Rome; and to call in the power of the Pope to aid in governing the subjects of Queen Victoria. rather than to throw themselves upon the Protestant energies of the country.

Our theologians,-in whom, by virtue of their sacred office, the majority of the people of this country have been wont to repose confidence,-have, with a few noble exceptions, instead of emulating the example of the Seven Bishops, stood aloof whilst the wolf was ravaging the flock. They have, unhappily, as a body, looked on in silence, if not in apathy; and even where the alarm has been given, the ecclesiastical trumpet has sent forth so uncertain a sound, or a note so feeble, that it has been almost unheeded, if not unheard; and those who sought for reasons to avoid the conflict have availed themselves of that uncertainty, or feebleness of sound, to excuse themselves from coming; forward to the battle.

As patriots, and as Christians,-as lovers of our own country, and desiring the advance of Christ's pure religion throughout the globe. we deplore this sad state of things hinted at rather than described.

Our religion makes us loyal to the Crown,-to revere the ministers of our faith,-and to respect the office, even where we cannot approve the policy or principles of those who, in the providence of God, have been called upon to exercise the functions of their respective offices.

But shall we be bound hand and foot and delivered over to Popery? Will the Protestants of this country witness without strong remonstrance the efforts now being made to reconcile their country with Rome? We believe-we know they will not. What, then, is to be done?

From theologians who mislead, and from statesmen who betray, we turn to the Protestant Electors of the United Kingdom. With them, under God's blessing, it rests to say. by their votes at the approaching Election, whether Popery shall be endowed or encouraged by us. To them we say, Your own interests, and those of your children, are at stake: you and yours must suffer if bad laws are made; the more so, as you have the power of returning those who may make good laws. When laws are framed by human authority, not sanctioned by, but opposed to the laws of Him by whom alone kings reign and princes decree justice, they are sure to bring down not a blessing, but a curse upon those who make them.

We have assisted in replanting the tree of Popery uprooted by our ancestors, and its baneful shadow seems rapidly bringing a blight upon the peace, happiness, and prosperity of the country. Several constituencies have recently avowed their own conviction of this, and announced their determination to return Protestants faithful to their cause. Why should not other cities and borough towns follow the example of Liverpool, Manchester, Exeter, Reading, Bodmin, &c.?

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The adoption of a pledge, or some declaration to attain the same end, is becoming daily more general. In the present position of affairs, and the very undefined views of public men on some vital questions, we wish to see it becoming more and more so. The greater number of constituencies who thus act-and the greater number in each constituency who sign such pledges, the better. The people of England have been wont to repose unlimited confidence in their representatives and leaders-but they have been deserted, and betrayed.

It is not only however against those who have so acted, that we require precaution, not to say security-but there are many who may thus be strengthened in their desire and determination to

oppose concessions to Popery.

There was never a time when the electors of England were left to rely so much upon themselves as now. Party and leader they have not to put against and oppose to leader and party-each with a distinctive line of policy. Though this might in some respects seem desirable, yet when regarded as leading to a coalition, for the dangerous purpose of compromising Protestantism, it becomes ground for serious apprehension and alarm.

The Times of June 30, thus remarks as to the present state of feeling with reference to a General Election :

"In the almost utter abeyance of political controversy, the semi-religious class of differences bids fair to be the most prominent topic of municipal discussion. A rather remarkable coincidence has thrown several of these together on the stage. In the first place, there is the legacy of suspicion and strife bequeathed by Sir Robert Peel's Ministry, in the shape of the Maynooth Endowment. What has become of that endowment hitherto, whether that celebrated college is now cleaner and more watertight, whether the students use fingers or forks, whether they sleep three in a bed, whether the trees are trees, the grass grass, and the gravel gravel in the walks of that once slovenly domain, we do not happen to know."

What precise meaning to attach to the first portion of this paragraph, we are unable to determine. If it is intended to signify that a very great proportion of many of the constituencies of this country have something higher and holier in view than a mere contest for men without principles-and measures without religion,-we can from a good deal of personal observation, add our own mite of testimony, in corroboration, if that were needed, of the statement of the Times.

The contemptuous reference to Maynooth,-as if if were the state of the building, and not the doctrines taught in it, which led to the strong opposition to its increased endowment,-is intended to discourage Protestants from future efforts, by making it appear of trivial moment. But Protestantism is not to be put down by a sneer. Attached to their religion and their country, they have yet willingly conceded to those who differ from them, the utmost amount of toleration; but the Pro

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testants are not prepared to foster Popery,-the deadliest enemy of what is pure in faith,-free and noble in their Institutions. The writer proceeds :

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of that body as the general and successful enforcement of the Anti-maynooth test would entail. We should tremble to see the floor of the House occupied by a race of men, new to legislation, new to their country and the world."

"The antagonism evoked by Sir Robert's apparently gratuitous advances has not yet expired. Now the writer of this powerful article is conOn every side we hear of blank forms circulated tending with imaginary fears. We think he need and signed pledging the elector to demand from the not tremble. Though an alarmist-his alarm is favoured object of his choice an utter renunciation not from Popery, but Protestantism. He fears proof Maynooth. There is a solemn league and cove-bably a second "bare bones Parliament," and is nant to exclude every man who will not vote for the apprehensive that the scions of aristocracy and the repeal of that Act." influential Commoners, and Parliamentary tactitians Protestant principles. We trust this will be found are so far gone, that they will not come forward on

If encouragement was wanting,-if proof were required that pledges have been silently doing a great work, and have been felt where they have not been heard, it might be drawn from the above quotation. It witnesses the activity of our friends. It shows their work begins to be felt. So, too, Lord John Russell, in his late address, felt compelled to refer to the subject of pledges.

The writer of the article quoted is, however, a little in error, or it may be, his knowledge is greater than our own,-as to the Maynooth Endowment Act; for we are not aware of the "solemn league and covenant to exclude every man who will not vote for the repeal of that Act.'"

The pledges, we have seen, have not gone to that length, though it is strongly felt that if the glory, prosperity, and independence of Great Britain is to be maintained, the measures which involve us as a Protestant nation in the guilt and inconsistency of endowing and propagating the errors against which we protest, must, sooner or later, be repealed.

a mistake.

Why do not those who are qualified by their birth -their fortune-their piety-their attainmentswhy do they not come forward, and eclipse the glory of ancestral fame, by entwining around their brow the laurels of their own achievements? We are desirous to see the affairs of the empire rightly conducted, and had rather see experienced men in Parliament on Protestant principles than inexperienced men. But rather than see men experienced in betraying Protestantism in the ascendant in the House of Commons, we would lend our aid to bring in a large number of men who, however inexperienced in public matters, may yet prevent further concessions to Rome-may put a drag upon the gether stop our downward progress to Popery, wheel, and check the speed,-if they may not altonational degradation,―and ruin.

The pledge most generally adopted is in substance CITY OF LONDON ELECTION. as follows. We give the form as now circulated The crisis has brought out R. C. L. Bevan, Esq., by the Committee of the Protestant. Association:- as a constitutional candidate for the City of London. "I, A. B., do solemnly promise, that at the next Parliamentary election, I will vote for the candidate or candidates who, in my conscientious belief, will best maintain the Protestant principles of our constitution, and resist all further concession to, or endowment of Popery, in preference to any other candidate; and I will not forego this my word for any private interest, or at the solicitation of any party whatsoever.

"Residence

The writer again proceeds :

so much in earnest, but that they should have so "We are sorry, not that serious men should be much reason for attempting what is utterly impracticable."

Why impracticable? Assuredly, if, against the voice of the country, a minority of determined men by perseverance could force it through the House, a majority of determined faithful men may repeal it? Time will show.

"The severest censure of causeless innovation and gratuitous concession is when we are obliged to pronounce upon it, Factem valet. Think of the possibilities of the question! Have any of these gentlemen reflected for one moment on the probable consequence of now repealing the additional endowment of Maynooth? The majority of the present House of Commons is pledged to the measure. For our own part, we should contemplate with alarm such an entire reconstruction

From Mr. Bevan's great commercial influence in connexion with his well-known adherence to Protestantism and the other great interests of the country, a more suitable representative could not possibly have been solicited to come forward. The city of London, and the right-hearted throughout the country are highly indebted to Mr. Bevan on this occasion, and as he has stated that he will firmly resist the endowment of the Church of Rome from any funds within the control of Parliament, thusiastic support not only of all true Protestant we confidently rely upon his obtaining the enChurchmen in the City, but of every consistent Protestant Dissenter, who denounced the endowment of Maynooth, and petitioned against it. We refer our readers to Mr. Bevan's excellent address, which will be found in our advertising columns.

THE LIVERPOOL ELECTION.

The intelligent, influential, and enterprising merchants of Liverpool are about to affix the mark of their approbation on Protestant principles-as conducive to the well-being and interest of the country

and their mark of disapprobation upon Popery, and its abettors. We rejoice at the noble example they are setting. Popery has never been, and never