most democratic that ever existed? Does it not both spring from the people and return to the people? When, again, did the democratic element possess at once so much independence and so much sobriety? When was the harmony between the three principles of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, so even, so spontaneous, so seldom disturbed, as under the balance of the British Constitution? Is not the Established Church the chain which binds together those several orders and different estates, at whose altars and fanes the monarch, no less than the multitude, does homage to the common Creator of all? But though a sober, wise, and understanding people, infatuation once seized upon the nation; upon the monarch who sat upon the throne, and upon the subjects who owed him allegiance. Our ancient institutions were abrogated, but only to be rectified and restored. Yet there live amongst us now those who aspire to repeat the experiment of the seventeenth century; who openly avow their principles and objects; and who have long combined to carry them out to their final consequences. They would again pull down -that is the favourite term-the altar and the throne-for both stand or fall together, as history teaches and reason proves. When, then, bad men conspire to pull down the noble edifice of our Constitution, let good men combine to sustain, to repair, and to preserve it. So to combine is to unite in the cause of liberty, the best of earthly blessings; in the interest of religion, the best of heaven's gifts; in the behalf of commerce, the best of social bonds. In such a union we combine in gratitude to our ancestors, who won and bequeathed those privileges; in justice to ourselves, who daily enjoy them; and in duty to posterity, who have a claim upon the entail of those privileges, in all their plenitude. With the poet, then, long may the people of England devoutly exclaim, "Hail to the Crown by Freedom shaped-to gird Hail to the state of England! and conjoin Made to the spiritual Fabric of her Church: Albright, Mr. A., 111, 133 speeches of, 37, 38 Annual Register, 84 Baines, Mr. E. (the late), 34, 47, 64, Baines, Mr. E., 67, 118, 142, 144, 192, 198, 203; and £6 franchise, 207, Ballot, 78, 82, 386; motions on, 37, 53, Barnes, Mr. T., 218 Baxter, Mr., 207 Baxter, 441 Althorp, Viscount, 34, 42, 44, 80; Bedford, Duke of, 70 Annuity Tax, 92 Appropriation Clause, 51, 52, 230; see Church (Irish), motions on Argyle (Duke of), 202 Berkeley, Mr., 94, 156, 217, 231, 257 Bicentenary Commemoration, 12 Binney, Rev. T., 39, 143, 281, 332 Aristocracy, see Established Church Bishops, 124, 150, 178; motions on, 39, 58, 61, 96 Borough Franchise Bill, 214, 243 Braintree case, 162, 163, 167 Brotherton, Mr., 34, 55 Brougham, Lord, 293 Buller, Mr. C., 34 Burdett, Sir F., 62, 319 Burnet, Rev. J., 143 Cirns, Sir H., 203 C. Canada Clergy Reserves, 164, 292, 400 Chartism, see National Charter Church, Irish, 35, 54, 292, 317; mo- Church (of England), motion on, 36; Church (dangers of) dilatoriness, 363 Church Rates, 10, 33, 37, 40, 258, 345, 403; speeches on, 53, 59, 64, 82, Church Rate Abolition Society, 60, 61, Church and Conservatism, 317, 320, Church and Liberalism, 130, 208, 417, Churchman, The, 57, 309 Churchmen, duties of, 415, 418, 422, Church Institution, 324-326, 428 Clergy, Irish, 55, 68, 69, 72 Clergy, duties of, 415, 418, 429 Cobden, Mr., 143 Comitia centuriata and tributa, 412 Complete suffrage, 88, 107, 111; tracts, Complete Suffrage Union, see National Congregational Union, 92 Conservatives, 34, 48, 56, 97, 315, 421, Constitution, the British, 6, 136, 380, Constitutionalists, 406, 416, 448, 452 D. Daily News, 245 Democracy, 35, 97, 106, 107, 379, 382 Deputies, 14, 15, 31, 32, 39, 92 Derby, the Earl of, 45, 62, 176, 314, Dillwyn, Mr., 201, 203, 213, 216, 219, Disfranchisement, 50, 95 Disraeli, Rt. Hon. B., 158, 186, 191 Dissent and Chartism, 117-119; and Dissenters, duties of, 127; loyalty of, Dissenters, political, 6, 34, 36, 54, 64, 207 Dodson, Mr., 242 Duncombe, Mr. T., 77, 82, 88, 89, 155 E. Easthope, Sir J., 89 Ecclesiastical Knowledge Society, 22, Eclectic Review, 20-23, 32, 38, 40, 383, 434 Established Church, 8, 73, 76, 106, |