RECKLESS FALSEHOOD.-The following is extracted from one of O'Connell's recent speeches. He boasted thus:-"I thank my God for this one fact, that when the Catholics had power, no Protestant ever suffered in the slightest degree because of his religion; this is the history of the Catholic church throughout all ages:" and this lie was cheered, and vehemently cheered!

SUPPLICATION ON BEHALF OF OUR COUNTRY.-We earnestly recommend the following pious suggestion to the deep and serious attention of our readers.

66 PRAYER.

"TO THE EDITOR OF THE RECORD.

“Sir,—It seems to me (without indulging in gloomy forebodings as to the future), that, if ever the circumstances of a nation called aloud for a national humiliation before God, we ourselves are at this very time living under such circumstances. I fear it were in vain to hope that such an order may go forth from our civil or ecclesiastical rulers. But is it not absolutely incumbent upon each family and each individual to humble themselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt us in due time? If so, are not those, who have been brought by the Spirit out of darkness into his marvellous light, most especially now called upon to set apart some day for fasting, humiliation, confession and prayer, if so be,-in the humble hope and expectation, that, for, the sake of him who is able to save to the uttermost, this guilty nation may yet be spared, and the cloud which hangs confessedly over us be dispersed by that hand which nothing can resist?

"I sincerely trust you will make the above suggestion to the public, either by your own pen, or by that of a friend who thinks with you. "I remain, Sir, yours faithfully,

"Oct. 23, 1839.

"CIVIS CHRISTIANUS."

POPISH DENIAL OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE WORD OF GOD.The Organ of the Papacy in London, calling itself the Catholic Magazine, by an egregiously false application of the term Catholic, reviews with perfect admiration and delight a work, apparently written by a Papist, which blasphemously denies, we give the very words of the passage "that the Bible ever was, or ever can be, the one sole and sufficient rule of Christian faith and practice." This is a sufficient proof that Popery is to this day unchanged in her doctrines as well as her character. We would recommend our readers to the excellent Sermon of Arch-bishop Tillotson on this subject, "The Bible the Rule of Faith."

ADDRESSES TO THE QUEEN.-As we have been asked from various quarters what is the best mode of putting these addresses (which we are happy to find being adopted in all parts of the Country) into a train for presentation to Her Majesty, and as very many are naturally averse to the idea of consigning them to the hands of the present Home Secretary of State, we do not know that we can better reply to the question than by recommending that they be sent by Coach (carriage paid) to the Secretary of the Protestant Association, who will place them in the

hands of some Protestant Nobleman connected with the Society for presentation to Her Majesty at the next Levee. As one or two have been sent to the Office of the Protestant Association through the Post Office, we are compelled to beg our friends to avoid such a proceeding, as they are charged as letters, and being weighty, the expence has been as much as 10s. and 30s.

THE REV. F. Close has formed at Cheltenham a " Working Men's Association," to be considered as a branch of the Church Association formed last year. "If you ask me the object of this Society," said the Rev. Gentleman at a late Meeting, "in a few words I would say, there are now three Papists appointed to sit in Her Majesty's Council. Do you approve of it? If not, determine that you will vote against the man at the next election who will support the Ministers that appointed such men to office. And then do you ask me whom you are to vote for? Why, for the man who will pledge himself to vote for their being turned out of office. Now, this appears to me to be the necessity for forming this Association, so that we may have a body of good Christian men who will be ready at all times to stand forward in the defence of our Church." At the conclusion of the Rev. Gentleman's Address, eighty-seven individuals signed the Resolution, from among whom a Committee was selected for the purpose of forming the necessary rules and regulations for their future guidance.

"DR. Holland, Regius Professor at Oxford, when he went forth from his College for any considerable time, took this solemn valediction of the Fellows: I commend you to the love of God, and to the hatred of Popery and superstition.'"-Philip Henry.

FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.-Sermons were preached on this memorable day on behalf of the Protestant Association at the following places:

MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.-During the last Session of Parliament there were presented to the House of Commons 199 Petitions against the Annual Parliamentary Grant to the Popish College of Maynooth, to which were affixed 51,202 signatures.

NOVA SCOTIA. We are sorry to hear that, while Popery is encouraged, the small allowance to the Protestant College at Windsor, Nova Scotia, will in future be withdrawn, as well as the salaries of the Clergy of the Church in the North American Colonies.

ENTERTAINMENT TO THE POPISH BISHOPS AT CORK.-There can be no doubt from the speeches delivered that this public dinner was given for political purposes, and to influence and help forward the Registrations at Cork and the neighbouring districts. Treason, sedition, falsehood, and revolutionary principles were abundantly poured forth in the declamations of the different orators on this occasion, among whom Daniel acted a leading part. The Melbourne Ministry was eulogized at this dinner as

Popery's best friend, and the Whig Education Scheme exulted in as preeminently accessory to the spread of Romanism. The voluntary principle was vociferously cheered by the priests, not only in defiance of their oaths and canons which require their fealty to State religion wherever Popery is established by Law, but in hypocritical discrepancy with the whole discipline and history of their Church, which has ever grasped at civil power as often as opportunity offered.-Times Newspaper.

MANCHESTER OPERATIVE PROTESTANT MEETING.-The first public meeting of the Manchester Operative Protestant Association was held at the New Corn Exchange on Tuesday evening November 5th. The building holds about 2000, and was crowded in every part half an hour before the meeting commenced. Mr. John McChose, the Vice-patron, in the chair. Very able addresses were delivered by the Rev. W. Huntington, Rev. T. D. Gregg, of Dublin, Rev. W. J. Kidd, Mr. B. Braidley, Rev. H. Campbell, of the Scotch Church, and Mr. William Read. The latter gentleman delivered a powerful address, founded on historical facts. It was nearly 11 o'clock before the meeting separated, and was one of the most harmonious and enthusiastic assemblages ever called together in Manchester.

PROTESTANT MEETING AT SHEFFIELD.-The first General Meeting of the Sheffield Protestant Association was held November 13th, in the Music Hall, Henry Greaves, Esq. in the chair. The meeting, which consisted of about 1500 persons, was addressed at great length by Rev. Messrs. Mc Neile and Mc Ghee, and a most animating spirit universally excited. Here, as elsewhere, the "Repeal of the Act of 1829," was the key-note to which every heart seemed to respond. The Collection amounted to £34:3: 4, and additional Donations £ 16. Twenty-five Annual Subscribers immediately gave in their names, and the Committee will now proceed to recommend their cause personally to every one of right feeling.

POPERY IN WARWICKSHIRE. This week we have to notice the laying the corner-stone of a new Popish chapel, which has been dignified by the name of "St. Chad's Church." All the glittering paraphernalia and ostentatious ceremonies of a Popish cathedral were brought into operation on the occasion. If the waving of flags-the din of drums-and the inspiring tones of a band, could possibly proselytise this borough (Birmingham), Protestantism would now be no more. But the speeches delivered at a dinner given on this occasion are what we would more particularly allude to. They are worthy of perusal, inasmuch as they exhibit less difficulty of solution-more candour and daring-than is usually found in the Papistical harangues. In acknowledging the toast of "His Holiness (?) Pope Gregory the Sixteenth," that weak-minded apostate from the church of his fathers, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Spencer "dwelt upon the interest which the 'conversion of England' was exciting at the present moment throughout the Catholic world. Special days were appointed in Italy, France, and Germany, for offering up prayers for the conversion of sinners, but the whole object of their desires was for the conversion of England; for, if successful in this great work, they felt that they would have a key, through her commerce and extended possessions, to every portion of the globe."-Britannia, Nov. 9.

YOUNG MEN'S ESTABLISHED CHURCH SOCIETY AT LIVERPOOL.-On Friday night, October 25th, a great display of Protestant feeling was made in Liverpool, on the occasion of the formation of a new Association, having for its object the promotion and encouragement of Protestant principles in the rising generation. The Society was formed in consequence of the exertions recently made by the Papists to propagate the delusions of their religion among the younger portion of the community. The Roman VOL. I.-December, 1839.

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Catholics of Liverpool boast that they are nearly 100,000 strong in the town, and that their numbers (in consequence of the almost Royal countenance given to them) are daily increasing. They have recently establised what they term "A Protector Society," the real object of which is to obtain power in the local Legislature, by subscribing funds for the purpose of paying the rates, &c. of the lower classes of Roman Catholics, and by all means in their power to encroach upon the Established Church and reinstate the tolerant reign of Popery. The Association, which held its first meeting in the Music Hall last evening, was called into existence in the first instance by a few spirited young men, and is designated the "The Young Men's Established Church Society." It was one of the most numerous meetings ever held within the hall, it being so exceedingly crowded that hundreds surrounded the doors unable to gain admittance, and fears were entertained inside for the safety of the floors.

REVOLUTION Under the Mask of REFORM.-When the Corporation Reform Bill was under discussion by the Legislature, it was remarked, and generally admitted, that Church property ought not to be intrusted to the management of Dissenters; and in accordance with this feeling, a clause was introduced by which the new corporators were denied the right to present to livings heretofore in the gift of their predecessors. By an unfortunate omission, however, no such limitation was applied to the powers of the trustees of charity estates, and in consequence there is daily exhibited the mischievous analomy of Dissenters distributing funds intended for the promotion of the interests of the Church, which they earnestly desire to overthrow, and the efficiency of which they are not, therefore, likely to promote. For example, in Boston, one trustee, a virulent enemy of the Church, is striving by every means in his power to withhold from the chapel of ease an annual payment which is guaranteed by Act of Parliament, and also to deprive the church organist of a small salary which has been paid to him for some years out of the charity funds. Surely Parliament, will, early in the next session apply a remedy to so glaring an evil, and transfer to the hands of friends those powers which the enemies of the Church employ against instead of for her.-Boston Herald.

OPERATIVE PROTESTANT MEETING.-On Tuesday, October 22nd, the Third Lecture before the Operative Protestant Association of York, was delivered in the Merchants' Hall, by John Blanchard, Esq. Mr. E. Bellerby, the president, in a brief opening address, gave the most gratifying information with regard to the state of the society. Since the last lecture upwards of 150 members had been added to the association.

The Address of Mr. Blanchard was a very able and judicious exposure of the antichristian tenets of the Church of Rome.

PROTESTANT MEETING AT LOUGHBOROUGH.-The Fourth Anniversary Meeting of the Loughborough and Ashby Protestant Tract Society, was held at the King's Head, on Tuesday morning, October 22nd, C. W. Packe, Esq. M.P. in the chair. The meeting was attended by a most numerous and highly respectable company, consisting of the leading families and clergy of the surrounding neighbourhood. The speakers were Sir Wm. Heygate, Bt., Rev. E. T. M. Phillips, Sir Frederick Fowke, Rev. T. W. Bunbury, Rev. W. Ackworth, and Rev. W. Holme. The Annual Report stated the receipts of the past year to have been £66; 3: 4, and the issue of publications 6,370, making a total from the formation of the Society of 29,979.

GREAT PROTESTANT MEETING AT MACCLESFIELD.— -On Wednesday, Oct. 23rd, a Meeting of the Members and Friends of the Macclesfield Protestant Association was held in the Town Hall. The demand for tickets was far

greater than could be supplied, and many hundreds, we believe thousands, were disappointed in obtaining admission. The room (the largest, it is said, in the county,) was densely crowded. Edward Hall, Esq. presided on the occasion, and most powerful speeches were delivered by the Rev. W. C. Cruttenden, Rev. Mr. Courthorpe, Rev. W. Pollock, Rev. Alex. Strachan, (Wesleyan minister,) Rev. John Burnet, and Mr. Dickenson. An address to the Queen against the recent Popish appointments in the State was adopted, and the proceedings of the meeting were of the most gratifying description, and will be read with much interest. They are published in a cheap form, and can be procured through any bookseller.

VIEW OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS.-The people of England are aggrieved and indignant at the appointment of Mr. Wyse, the central educationist, and Mr. Shiel, both violent Romanists, to high offices of State, the latter being also made a privy counsellor; and of Lord Normanby, after his mismanagement of Ireland, to be Secretary for the Home Department, Lord John Russell having transferred himself to the Colonial. Well may Mr. O'Connell exult at such gains, as important steps in the progress of his agitation for a repeal of the Union, and the consequent subversion of the British constitution in Church and State. If Chartism and Socialism on the one side, and Popery and political Dissenterism on the other, will not induce this mighty nation to shake off the yoke which is preparing for her, she well deserves to wear it. But we cannot believe that such will be the issue; she is strong in her Constitutional principles and her Protestant faith; and there wants but energy to assert them.-Christian Observer.

READING.-The 5th of November was well observed at Reading. The bells of all the three parish churches were rung at intervals throughout the day. Several churches were opened for Divine service, and two very powerful sermons were preached, that in the morning at Trinity Church by the Rev. Charles Bird, from a singularly appropriate text taken from the 9th chapter of Esther, 27th and 28th verses: "The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that THEY WOULD KEEP THESE TWO DAYS according to their writing, and according to their APPOINTED time every year: And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed." The sermon in the evening was preached at Castle-street Episcopal Chapel by the Rev. J. C. Goodhart. sermons called powerfully upon parents and instructors of youth to shew them early the errors of Popery; they also called upon Protestant Dissenters to come forward openly and take their stand against the errors and tyranny of Popery upon the broad ground, and to cease to make it a matter of sectarianism or party politics.

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POPERY IN MEXICO.-Mexico is one wild scene of disorder. priests have not merely induced the superstitious populace, on whose rights they trample, to believe them to be invested with miraculous powers, but have fomented political disturbances, and excited their deluded devotees to discontent and rebellion. The result of the interference of these enemies of peace is, that justice is corrupted, commerce suspended, confidence destroyed, and the base and unflinching artifices of a griping priesthood triumphant at the cost of social order and internal prosperity. The griping rapacity of these Romanist agitators has distracted the peace of New Granada. A priest, raising the war-cry, "Religion, and no suppression of convents," has instigated a formidable revolt, which, though it is imagined it will speedily be suppressed, has awakened considerable alarm, and inflicts no trivial annoyance on the executive.-Standard, Nov. 7th.