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      TIRE ASD LIFE _ASSURANCE ,- AND _ANNUITIES TOR THB INDUSTRIAL CLASSES . ENGLISH AND CAMBRIAN _ASSURANCE SOCIETY : * OR MHB . LIFB , ASNDITIES , AND ENDOWMENTS , & _c _¦?« mttI £ _I 50 , _OW-mth power of _increase to Ose Muxiox . ' ( iMorpontti by Att of Partiamtnt . ) CHIEF OFFICES : —No . 9 , _Kew Bridge-street , . _. Blickfritri , London . DutrUt Officts . Ko . 65 , - Sun-street , BUhopigata-itreet , City ; No . 67 , Charlotte-itrest , _Tinroj-iquare ; No . _« _, _Trinity-tfrect , Tnaitj- * _qo * re , Borough ; So . 1 _' 2 a , C _« _anon-row » JJringe . strict , Wtitminiter . : _Medictl Officer . _DawH .-5 _T « k . _Eiq ., M . D ., 67 , Ch arlotte _^ _trect _Fittroy-SduarelouUondaTirind 6 , Tii » itj-street _( on Thu «< U , } , from 10 tot

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      ;_ _^——' . . NATIONAL CHART ER ASSOCIATION . O & ee , li , Sonthampton-streeV Strand . THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE JL herehy Mnonncefte * following meetings ; - .. _^ nSundav afternoon , November 10 th , the Metropolitan Delegate _^ u _^ cU mil meet at the City Hall , 26 , Ooldenlane . Chair to be taken at three o ' clock . - - _OnSundar evening ( same date ) , a feetUM Will be delivered at the Princess Koyal , _Circus-street , _Kew-road . - On the same evening , the _Emmett'a Brigade meet at the Bock Lisson-grove—St . Pancras Locality , Bricklayer ' s Arms , Tonbridge-street , New-road—St . Maryletione Locality . _Circns-strest , New-road—and Whittington and Cat Locality , Church-row , Bethnal _areen .

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      WHITTINGTON AND CAT , Church Row , Bethnal Green . —A general meeting of all members belonging t _» the Tower Hamlets wiU beheld at the above house on Sunday , the lOlh inst , to hear the reports of the delegates relative to the Winding-up of tne National Land Company .

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      TO THE TRADES OF LONDON AND THB PUBLIC IN GENERAL . A PUBLIC MEETING WILL BE il held atthe FRATERNAL HOM _? AND LECTURE HALL , il , Turnmill Street , Clerkenweil Green , on Mon . day evening next , November llth , to receive the report of the Provisional Committee ,. and to elect a . permanent Committee ; also to receive the subscriptions in their behalf _, and to carrv out their views with respect to the Hungarian and Polish Refugees who are now in this country , residing at the Fraternal Home , as above . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock . —Admission Free .

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      THE LONDON CO-OPERATIVE STORES are now opened at 76 , Charlotte Strict , Fitzbot Sqcasb , Iti connexion with ths Society for Promoting Working Men ' s Associations . 1 . —Object of the Stobes . To enable members ofthe above-named Association , and other persons who may desire it , to obtain articles , of daily use perfectly free from adulteration , of the best quality , and the lowest charge , after defraying the necessary _expense of-management , distribution , and providing for a reserve fund . Co-operative stores have been established with mncti success in different parts of the kingdom . The benefit to tho subscribers may be judged of from the fact that the . _cnbteriber-i to the Pioneer Store in Rochdale , divided in the last year £ 300 afterpayment pf all expenses , although the goods were charged considerably below the ordinary price . 2 . _—Operations of the Stokes .

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      , TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Majesty , Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert .

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      BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS . —The following testimonial is another proof of the great efficacy of this . Medicine : — 157 , New Bond-street , London . October 12 th . 1850 . S » , —In acquainting you with the great benefit which 1 have experii need by taking BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS , I feel that I am but performing a duty to that portion uf the public who may be similarly afflicted . Abont twenty years since I was first attacked by Rheumat c Gout in myhindsandfeet . Ihad . previously been subjected to every variety of climate , having served in Canada in the 19 ih Bragoons , and . iu Spain , under Sir John Moore , in the 18 th Hussars . I always procured the best medical aid , but with * utobtaining any essential relief , and my sufferings can be appreciated only by those who knowome'hing of this disease . - It was during one of those

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      ,- .: Ed _^ _bsbti 6 iL _4 of- ' _% iie--- Miiiiona _^ _^ . * ¦ _" : THIiS DAY ' lS PUBLISHED , _^ 7 " _7-: No .: ATvYoi * . ii * . " THE itooN _^ ra PRICE ONE PENNY . Tho objeot ofthe Proprietor , Feargus O ' Connor , Em ., M . P _., is to place within the reach of the poorent classes that Political and Social Information of _irhick they are * t present deprived bj the Government " Taxes on Knowledge . " SIXTEEN LARGE OCTAVO PAGES Price One Penny .

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      JUST PUBLISHED , 7 No . II . of . E'OBERI OWEN'S JOURNAL A Weekly Periodical explanatory of the means to well-place , well-employ , and well-educate , the whole population . Price One Penny ; by post , Twopence . Contents of No . II . Proofs that the World is a Great Lunatic Asylum . The Truths of the Rational System . Spade Cultivation , New Lauark previous to Mr . Owen ' s Management . Progress . The "ChristianSocialist . " No . IU . will be ready with the other Weekly Periodicals .

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      A PUBLIC MEETING WILL BE XX _btld in the John Street _Isstitution , Tottenham _, courtroad , on Tuesday next , November 12 th , for the purpose of aiding the members of the Wat Tyler Locality , Greenwich , to resist a gross aud unjustifiable wrong upon that body . _ Twenty of tlie Polish and Hungarian Refugees will be present on the occasion , and sing soma of their patriotic songs previous to their departure for _Schleswi g-Holstein . F . O'Connor , Esq , M . P ., 6 . W . M . Reynolds , Esq ., and _sereral other friends , are espected to address the meeting . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock . Admission , Id . and ' 2 d . each .

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      Mr. Fhost, Nether Haugh.—We Cannot Suppl...

      Mr . Fhost , Nether Haugh . —We cannot supply German - papers , or give any infoimation relative to the Prussian Lottery . _Wiiitiiic Wai / _to _*** , Staleybridge , having read , that Mr . Ernest Jones , at a meeting at Manchester , said , 'the Charter was not to be found . at the bottom of a glass of water , ' asks that gentleman if it is to be found in a glass of ale , or any other intoxicating drink t W . —There would be no difficulty : the fees are comparatively small ; the expense of living would bo under your own control , and cheaper on the continent than here . Ths Pkofosed _Cosfeeence . —Mr . George Brawn , Wakefiel * , thinks that in the present undivided opinion as to when and where the Conference should be held , that the Chartist localities should be formed into districts , and that a meeting should be holden on a given day

      named by the Executive , aud a delegate from each district appointed to arrange the time and place for holding the Conference , The members of the . Executive to be the judges , but that they should publish in the Stvr of the week following , the majority and minority of each district , and that the majority be binding on the minority . _NottTHAMFTOH . —Mr . John Starmer begs to acknowledge the _receipt ofthe following sums for the "Refugees . - —John M'Gar , ls . ; James Kay , Appleby , ls . - It . I ) . M ., ls . _, Mr . erb . > , ls ; J . Starmer , Cd .: J . Mehew , 6 d . ; Mr . Gibson , 6 d . ; Mrs Jones , 6 d . ; Old Guard , 3 d . ; A Friend , 2 d . ; Mr . Clark . 6 d . ; T . Pack , 3 d . ; Mr . Tyler , 3 d . ; Mr . Carby , 3 d . ; T . _Pensby , 3 d . '; T . Barke _** , 3 d . ; G . - " tarmer , 3 d . ; , 3 d . . Mr . King , 6 d ; A Friend , Cd . ; Mr . Johnson 3 d . ; D _* . II ., 3 d . ; Chloe , Id .-Total , 10 s . Mr . Geo . _IIoiwwat , begs to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums for the Refugees . Geo . Hollo way 1 . ;

      John Kve sen . Is ,- ; John Eve jun . ls . ; _Benjimin Eve 6 d . ; John B Leary Gd , j W . Phipps Cd . ; "W . Peters Gd , ; Thomas Peters 6 d . ; John Davis 3 d . ; James Potter 3 d . ; "W . Balden 3 d- ; John Gardner 3 > 1 . ; Geo . Jones _9 _d-Polisii UifoeEES . —T . Brown's List . —McLevon Is . —Mr . Smith ' s workmen < _s . Gd . —Mr . Joucs Is . —Edwards 3 d . — "Welchman 6 d . —Weedon 6 d . —Binks 6 d . _^ -Nobbs 6 d . — Allnutt 6 d . —Peacock Gd T . Allen Gd . —ltoe Gd Butler 3 d . _—Compositors 5 s . Id . —Collected 2 « . 8 Ji . —Collected at John . _street for sending five man to Schleswig Holstein , 19 s . 4 d . —Received of Mr . "Wright ' s book 10 s . Polish and Hungarian Refugee Fond . — Mr . King ' s Friends , per Mr . Currie 3 s 8 d—per Mr . Rider 4 Us 4 s—Mr . Towers 2 s—Mr . Blight Is—Mr . Hutchings _ls-Proceeds of Concert and Lecture at the Coopers' Arms , Waterloo Town 115 s—Collected after Mr . Bezer ' _s second Lecture , at the Brunswick-hall , Limehouse 12 s 2 Jd—A German , per Bezer ls—by a few Friends , at the Phoenix

      Tavern , Ratcliffe-cross . per Buzer 6 s 8 d—per Julian Harney U 4 *; 6 d . Tbe Committee meet at 215 , Golden lane , till further notice , on Wednesday evenings at eight o ' clock , and Sundays at seven o ' cloclt . —Thomas Ferguson , Secretary , 3 , Gay ' _s-buildings , _Elizabeth-street , _Hackney-road . National Reform League . —In tha address , published last week , _instead of * fetter , ' reaA follow , and for ' community , ' unanimity . Equitable Pioneer ' s _Societi , Rochdale . —Mr . Ernest Jones having stated that this budy . had voted the Northern Star out of their news room , we are requested to give the following explanation . —The society is composed chiefly of Chartists and Socialists , who individually took fhe Star and the Tribune , and it was thought tliat if these journals were , purchased b y the society , it would injure their sale among the members . The Star , ncvertheles , has laid upon the table ever since the vote referred to took place .

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      THE NORTHERN STIR SATUICDAY 7 NOVEMBKK 9 , IS 50 .

      Middle Class Chartism. Ifc Is Difficult ...

      MIDDLE CLASS CHARTISM . Ifc is difficult to . perceive any satisfactory or tangible _reagon for the adherence of tlio National Reform Association to * a Rating instead of a Manhood Suffrage . There is not one man of : any mark or influence connected with it , who has not distinctly admitted that the preference is indefensible in argument , and that if he was te consult his own feelings he would prefer the Suffrage , which the Association , in its collective capacity , will not ask for .

      This discrepancy botween the individual convictions of the members , and the aggregate action of the body , is notcalculated to secure for the Association any very hearty or enthusiastic support . Ifc is , we bolieve , the main reason why the movement is characterised by so much _lukewarmness , languor , and apathy , at a time , when the minds of the whole of the industrious classes , and a very large proportion of the middle classes , are made up as to the indispensable and pressing _neceessity of great organic political reforms . The English people are

      naturally a straightforward , truth loving race . They detest double dealing , finesse , and trickery . They prefer sincerity , even where you totally differ from them , and have a far greater respect for the bold avowal of the opinions of ah honest and sincere opponent , than the hesitating and temporising concurrence of men who have nofc the same confident faith in the opinions they profess . Now , ifc cannot be denied , thafc the National Association has placed itself , to a great extent , in this unfortunate position . Associative action ought to spring directly and logically from the individual convic

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      tions of the persons associated .. Tried by this test the Association faUis below the standard set up by its own leaders . We have never been present at a single meeting , whether large or small , at which some one or other of tbe speakers did hot avow _hisapproval of the great princip le of the People ' s _Charter—UniFerflal Suffrage . We have never been prarentatjft meeting in which aucbf , an avowal did not elicit enthusiastic and general applause . Two recent instances , however , deserve special notice . . The Southwark branch of the Association recently held its . first

      soiree at the London Bridge-house Hotel . It was an animated and interesting assembly , notlesB than five or six hundred persons of both sexes being present , whose dress , man _^ ners , and general appearance proclaimed them to belong to what are ; called the " respectable classes . " There were no members of parliament , nor professional agitators , toget up a fac ; titiouB excitement . The people of Southwark were , as the Chairman said , driven to rely on their own " native talenf ' for the interest and speeches of the the evening . What was the reavowed his adherence

      sult ? The first speaker to the great princip le of Manhood Suffrage , as the only . _just and sound foundation of a representative' systein , and declared that he would never be _coritentiintil it was embodied in our constitution . That declaration , and similar avowals in the course of the evening by other speakers , were hailed by prolonged and general applause . Why should Mr . THWAITES , arid the National Reformers of Southwark , therefore , any longer stultify themselves' by a course of policy at open war with their , own honest convictions ? Who are the " timid

      people , " of whose defection they are afraid , if they act honestly , and openly up to them ? Purel y the assembly at the London-bridge Hotel might be taken as a fair sample of the middle olass _Reformers * of Southwark . All who take any active or influential part in the electioneering , municipal , or parochial' politics of the borough , were present . What valid or substantial reason can they offer for persisting in a policy which can bring' them no greater support from their own _classy while it keeps aloof from them tens of thousands of the working classes , who would contribute numbers , strength , and enthusiasm to the movement ?

      Again , afc the annual commemoration on Tuesday , last ,. of the acquittal of HARDY , Horne Tooke , and others , members of the Corresponding Society , on the charge of constructive treason at the outbreak of the first French Revolution , we had a similarj and , perhaps , more powerful , demonstration of middle class opinion in favour of Universal Suffrage . For some years past , symptoms of

      apathy have been observable at the Trial by Jury dinner . This year there was a decided and gratifying improvement perceptible . 'New blood has been _infused'into the body of those who have for fifty-six years kept alive the memory of one of the greatest triumphs ofthe popular cause over the arbitrary tyranny and persecution ofthe monarch , under the guise of law . The result was seen in the crowded

      appearance of _Badlet _' s large room , and in the character and position of those so assembled , The meeting was exclusively composed of thafc portion of the _middle-claBB who exercise the most direct influence on society . Professional and literary men , merchants and traders , manufacturers and tradesmen , in the full possession of mental and physical strength and activity . No better opportunity could have been selected to test the feeling of the class they represented , as to tho question of Property or Manhood Suffrage , There was no direct necessity for their being tested , but Mr . Pox did so in the most direct manner , and with a most unequivocal response in favour . of the latter .

      In proposing the toast , which at these meetings has always the precedence , namely , — _*¦ " The sovereignty of the people , the only legitimate source of political power , "— -the hon . member for Oldham eloquently expressed his conviction that the sovereignty of the people could only become a reality through the universality of the Suffrage . The repeated and protracted cheers which followed that announcement could not have been excelled in any meeting of professed and devoted

      Chartists . Schemes short of that , ( added the Chairman ) , might be proposed , and even ; deserve support for the moment , but therecould be no real exercise ofthe sovereignty ofthe peopl _*? until every man had the power and the right of the Suffrage . Mr . Parr y , and other speakers , were equall y distinct and emphatic in their recognition and support of the great principle of Manhood Suffrage , and the tone of the whole proceedings throughout , was , in this respect , thoroughly and enthusiastically Chartist .

      Now , we put it calmly and respectfully to Sir Joshua Walmsley , to , Mr . Fox , and to the other leaders of the National Reform movement , "Why should you continue longer to occupy your present anomalous position ?" You evidentl y gain nothing whatevei _* , by it . while you must certainly lose a great deal . Lord John Russell , and the opponents of further representative reform , have plainly told you , that in principle Universal Suffrage is preferable to ; Household , and , as far as they are concerned , they would sooner concede the one than the other . . The middle classes have

      shown : no desire whatever for any tampering or temporizing with the cardinal truth which lies at the core of genuine and effective Parliamentary Reform . The working , classes , as a body , hold aloof from your movement . What compensation have you for placing it in this position ? Whom do you conciliate ? What do you gain ? Would it not be far better to imitate the example of the Anti Corn-law League . —abandon expediency , und throw yourself with undoubting faith , and irreproachable consistency , on the broad and -firm ground of principle ?"

      We trust the . Council ofthe Association will dispassionately review the whole pf this question ; whatever may have been the motives which originally induced them to prefer tho united suffrage , the meetings we have alluded to , taken in connexion with othor sigus of the times , are well calculated : to make them consider whether the time for a temporising , or timid policy has not passed ' away , and whether they will not" place the Association more in harmony with the actual state of public opinion , by declaring at once for a _? Manhood Suffrage ? ¦ '' ' ¦¦ " ¦

      The Premier , it is said , intends to propose a new Whig Reform Bill , comprising the repeal ofthe ratepaying clauses , and the extension of the suffrage to £ 10 householders in counties . There ought to be a vigorous and a limited Reform party in Parliament , backed by a powerful and well organised movement out of doors , to prove to Lord John , that he has mistaken not only the wants of the nation , but the temper of the people , and that something very different from such beggarl y measures must be conceded by the Government and the Legislature . If the National Reform Association chooses to take a bold and firm stand , it will effect both these objects . If not , it will merely play the part of marplot in the great national movement .

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      THE "HOLY WAR . " Dr . Wiseman has set Guy Fawkes on hia legs again . For many years the annual exhibitions of his effigies havo been falling into disrepute . What was once a hearty commemoration of ono of the most striking events in our national history , by people of all classes and of all ages , was left entirel y to little boys and girls , not overprovided with food , clothing , and shelter , who paraded their scarecrow representation of Guy as a means of collecting a few stray coppers . The vitality had departed from the custom , and it bore as much resemblance to the real old Fifth of November

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      as the " "Jack in the Green-- ' of the First of May , carried about by bands df professional mummers , whose , means of living are niore than doubtful , does the genuine . May Festival of " merry old England . '' ¦ _., _- ¦ . ¦ ¦ _- .. ¦ Religious toleration and equality had quietly gained possession _^ of the public ' mind . The echoes pf Exeter Hall were , ' to he sure , annually awakened % the denunciations of such sturdy Protestant worthies as Mr . Plumptre , Dr . M'Neile _, Mr . Hugs _StoVEIX , and their

      con / reres- _^ but they died there . The . Press and the : great mass of the people gave no sign of sympathy with the angry zealots . It was a factitious excitement , kept ! alive by factitious means , in exceedingly limited circles , and was treated by those outside either with ridicule or contempt . The nation , was , generally , subsiding into the belief—and acting upon it also _~ tbat Eoman Catholics have as good a right to hold their religious _opiniohs-as any other of the numerous denominations into which those

      professing Christianity are , split . They were content that , in all the political , social , edu- , cational , and civil privileges possessed by other citizens , the Roman-Catholic should equally , freely , and fully partake . Feelings of mutual respect , and a good understanding , were growing 'iip among those . whom sectarian differences and controversial disputation had previously prevented from knowing each other ., There

      was every probability that , in the course of a _^ ew years , the sensitive prejudices which had keptthem apart would have entirely yielded to extended and friendly intercourse , and that the great bulk of the population would have seen , that the profession of any particular creed need be nobar to the most perfect amity among citizens owning the same temporal allegiance , and living under the same laws . .

      , A 11 this has been rudely and violently interrupted by the arrogant and offensive policy of the Papal Court . Were the priests afraid of the great object ' of . Christ ' s religion being _realised ? Did they fear if " Peace on earth and goodwill towards all men" prevailed , that their vocation as strife creators would cease ? If so , they have succeeded in setting people by the ears , and fanning into life again the all but extinct embers of ; religious intolerance and animosity , "The pulpit drum ecclesiastic" has not been beaten , so vigorously in England for very many years as it was last

      Sunday . On all sides the din and fury of controversy is heard . There is scarcely a meeting of any kind takes place at which the speakers do not seize the occasion to express th ' eir determination to resist the aggressivo policy of Rome , and hurl defiance _# t the foreign prelates , with which it is proposed to garrison this country . ¦ The laity enter into the contest with as much eagerness as the established clergy , who will find in their controversial campaign a public opinion prepared to back them in any suggestion they may

      make for repressing or punishing the assumption of Pius , and the dignitaries lie may create to govern England in things spiritual . The unwonted number , and costly nature of the "Guys , '' which perambulated the streets of London last Tuesday—the position and character of those who took part in , and applauded the revival of , an almost obsolete symbol of bitter hatred between the partisans of the two hostile' creeds , ' indicated the fact , thata spirit of persecution and retaliation has been excited , which it will not be bo easy to lay again , even if the attempt be made .

      But who is to make it ? Cardinal Wiseman is not the man to draw back from his ambitious project . The epistle dated from within the Flaminian Gate of Rome , which was read last Sunday in all the Roman Catholic assemblies , was couched in a strain which proves that wily , zealous , and astute Priest knows the immensity of the stake he is playing for , and has resolved to place his all upon tho hazard of the die . Bishop

      Vllathorne wants to persuade us , that nothing whatever but the better organisation and management ofthe Roman Catholic chapels , is contemplated by the Papal Bull ; but ' ¦ ' Nicholas _^ aint Pudenti an a'' has no reservations or scruples about the matter , and openly avows his determination to assert , and fight for temporal as well as spiritual supremacy , in this land of ours . In fact tho latter includes tha former .

      Copying the example of the Bull , he ignores the existence of any Christian Church in England , and speaks as if for centuries it hadbeen sunk in the darkness of Paganism , or the cruel and cannibalistic superstitions of New Zealand . The bestowal on himself ofthe " Cardinalitialhat , " according to his view , completes the " great work'' which his metropolitan flock have " so long desired and prayed for . " 7 By the merciful condescension of the Pope , he exclaims : — -

      • Your beloved country has received a place among the fair churches which , normally constituted , form tho splendid aggregate of Catholic communion : Catholio England has been restored to its orbit in tho ecclesiastical firmament , from which its light had long vanished ; and begins now anew its course of regularly : adjusted action round the centre of unity , the source of jurisdiction , of light , and of vigour . , *• All the saints of our country , whether Roman or British , Saxon or Norman , " must , according to Dr . Wiseman , "look down from their seats of bliss with beaming glance ;" and

      •* All those blessed martyrs of tbose latter ages ' , who have fought the battles of the faith under such discouragement , who mourned , more than over their own fetters or their own pain , over the desolate ways of their own Sion , and the departure of England ' s g lory—oh . how must they bless God , who hath again visited bis people ! how take part in our joy , ns they see tho lamp of the temple again enkindled and rebrightening—as they behold the silver links of that chain which has connected their country -with the see of St . Peter in its

      vicarial government , changed into burnished f ? old ; not stronger nor more closely knit , but more beautifully wrought and more brightly arrayed 1 And in nothing will it be fairer or brighter than in this , that the glow of more fervent , lovo will he upon it . Whatever our sincere attachment and unflinching devotion to the Holy See till now , there is « new ingredient cast into these feelings ; a warmer gratitude , a . tenderer _ajfcctiou , a prof oundtr admiration , a boundless and endless sense of obligation for so new , so great , so sublime a gift , will be added to past sentiments of loijalty and fidelity to the Supreme See of Peter !

      Tolerably plain that closing sentence Queen Victoria Js quite as much attacked by *¦ St 7 PUDEKTIANA , " " CHARLES JAMES , of London . '' Hearts so overflowing with ' gratitude , " " admiration , " loyalty , and _riDElixy , , to a foreign potentate , who avowedly is regarded by them as Lord Paramount" King of Kings , and Lord of Lords "—cannot have very much left for any other authority .

      Wo may form some idea of the machinery by which the new policy , is to be carried into effect , by contrasting the different position of the Roman Catholic priests , under the old system of vicars apostolic , and the new territorial episcopacy . Our authority is Dr . Wiseman himself . In the article on the Roman Catholic Church , written by him for the "Penny Encyclopaedia , " in 1843 , he says : —

      Where the succession of thc Catholic hierarchy has boon interrupted as in England , or never beoi . established , as iu Australasia or some parts of India , the bishops who superintend the Catholic church and represent tho papal authority , are known by the name of vicars , apostolic . The vicar apostolic is not necessarily a bishop . Generally , however , he receives episcopal consecration ; and as , from local circumstances , it is not thought expedient that he should bear the title of the sec ivhich he administers , he is appointed with the title of an ancient bishopric , now in the hands of infidels , and

      thus is called a bishop inpartibus infidelium , though the last word is often omitted in ordinary language . A vicar apostolic , being generally _situatfid whore the provisions of the oanon law cannot be fully observed , is guided by particular instructions , by precedents and consuetude , to all which the uniformity of discipline through the Catholic church gives stability and security . . . . The inferior clergy , considered in reference to the government of the church , consists mainly of the parochial clergy , or those who supply their place In all countries possessing a hierarchy , the country is divided into parishes , each provided with a _paroohus

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      or curate , corresponding to the rector or vicar of the \ e English established church . The appointment ' to _<& % parish is vested inthe bishop , who has no power to re-tmbve again at mll ,, or for _iCmy cause except a eanonU ' m eal offence juridieally proved . The right of . _presen . ' _.-tation by lay patrons , is , however , in particular ia , i , _stancts , fully respected . _.-, . , . _, Under an » pos » k tolic vicariate , "' tbe clergy corresponding to th _«» parochial clergy generally _beAr the title of apostol ic e missionaries , » nd have missions or local distriotn with * variable limits placed under their care ; bui 4 are dependent upon the will bf their ecclesiastical $ superiors . . , _' ..

      _-England being now placed under a hierarch y » the next step of Archbishop Wiseman will bee to divide the country , into parishes , and pro _»» videseach with a parochus ; or curate , corres _* . ponding to the , rector or vicar of . the . Sta _tes Church . This bod y of parochial clergy wilU no longer be dependent upon their spiritual ! superiors , or have the charge of districts with . ! variable limits . They will be ah independent L

      body not removable at will , and capable off holding diocesan , synods . Here is a powerful I organisation in the hands ofan _aggressive I church , to carry on the work of conversion in i every parish , and to come into direct conflict ; with the Protestant clergymen , in those cases \ where the new rectors and vicars are nofcco _*»> vertly abetted by the sympathisers with Rome who have crept into the English fold . '

      If we * had an educated and intelli gent people , there would be no danger whatever in all this elaborately constructed and nicel y fitting machinery ; but , unfortunately , we have a- dense mass of ignorance , and a balf-developed superstitious tendency among the un . informed classes , upon which it is likelv to have a most dangerous and wide spread influence . It is as well to be aware of our weak side , and to provide timely defences The most imminent and threatening evil arising out of the new movement of Rome is , that the people should be led astray by contending priests into a . merely dogmatic and doctrinal

      controversy , which , however it may end fo * either of the clerical disputants , is certain to end in the spiritual subjugation of the laity . The Bishop of London , in his _chargatohia clergyj is evidently far more opposed to " Rationalism " than to Popery . Bis condemnation of the principle of despotic authority over the minds and consciences of men _claimed by Roman Catholicism is meagre , faint , and measured , as compared with his hearty denunciation of those who stand up for the ri ght of private judgment in all its . purity . " I cannot but think , " says this true priest—anxious to prop up his own order and

      influence—I cannot but think that we have more to apprehend from the theology of Germany than from thafc of Rome ; from that which deifies human reason , than that which seek 9 to blind or stifle it ; from a , school which labours to reconcile Christianity with its own philosophy , by stripping the Gospel of all its characteristic features , and reducing it to the level of a human system , than from a church which rejects and condemns even the soundest conclusions of true philosophy , when they are at variance with the determinations of its Own presumed in £ _tZlibility . . Against this fatal heresy I would earnestly caution my younger brethren , as being one from which , in the present state of the human mind , we have

      much more to fear than from the encroachments of Popery . Rationalism , as its name implies , referring _everything to man ' s unaided reason , as theultimate test of truth , flatters the pride of his nature , whieh is revolted by the humbling ; , though consolatory doctrines of the gospel . Popery offends and disgusts the understanding by inventions , op _~ posed alike to common sense and to the plain letter of holy scripture . The latter alms at the complete subjugation of the intellect to the authority of the self constituted Yicar of Christ ; the former _assertsthe supremacy and infallibility of reason . It is manifest that this is the most likely to find favour with a learned and scientific generation ,

      Ifc is clear enough that the clergy , as a body , will fight this battle with a view to * their own individual and class interest . They have no very strong antipathy to the essential doctrines , or the ecclesiastical organisation , which gives them unchecked spiritual , and . therefore temporal power , over their fellowcountrymen . To secure that in a greater degree than heretofore , was the great _, object of all the intrigues of PuseyV ism . For this tracts were published , and the whole policy of sapping and mining pursued . The only real difference between the

      Roman and the English clergy is , as to who shall have the power . Oxford wanted spiritual dominion for- itself . The Pope has stepped in , and claims a monopol y in the article . It is exclusive , and will tolerate no partners , Tae people ought to cry , " A plague on both your houses . " The agitation for Education must be vigorously and practically supported , as the only effectual safeguard of the religious , intellectual , and political liberty of tht people . We have no faith in the freedom which depends upon the good will and support of any priesthood whatever .

      For once iu his life , Lord John Russell . has spoken out vigorously and frankly . In his letter to the Bishop of Durham , published in the Times of Thursday , while he intimates that the Government will take decided measures to resist the impudent assumption of authority within this realm , by a foreign potentate , he , at tlio same time , as decidedly condemns the conduct of the clergymen of the Established Church , whose treachery hasbeen the most powerful stimulus to Papal aggression , For years one University has been in their hands , andthey have been allowed to send forth a swarm of ordained clergymen Papist in all but the names . These parties have insidiousl y

      and graduall y familiarised the people with thadespotic doctrines , and tho external mummeries of the Romish Church , as the surest and safest way of securing the great object they had in view—that of creating an ecclesiastical despotism in this country . The course taken by the Popk has , we trust , nipped their conspiracy against religious liberty iu the bud , by awakening all classes to the dangerous character of Puseyism . Its disci ples will either have to abandon their plots , or at once go ? over to the Church with which they are identified , both in principle and practice . We repeat , however , in conclusion , that the only substantial barrier against all attacks from such quarters is to be found iu national _unsectarian-Education .

      American Man-Stealees. We Have, On Sever...

      AMERICAN _MAN-STEALEES . We have , on several occasions , endeavoured to show how intimatel y the question of Slavery is mixed up with every phase of politics in the United States . The session of Congress , which has just closed , presents a forcible illustration of tho fact . It sat ten months , the greater part of the whole time being taken up with _disenssions arising out of the existence of slavery in a moiety ofthe States ; Our own Parliament sat last session one hundred and fifty-three times ; the American Senate had n » less thau one hundred and sixt y sittings in discussion on the Compromise Bill , whichtook up in fact two-thirds ofthe whole session .

      This protracted legislative struggle originated in the desperation with which the representatives of the Slave States fought to maintain at least their equipoise in the affairs of the Federation . The whole of . the Jong de bates turned , in reality , on the question whetbe tho Slaveholders or the Free Soilers were to rule in California and New Mexico ; whether the South or the NortMas in future to sway the destinies of the Continent . The decision was ultimately against slavery as far as the New Pacific State and territory are concerned ; but their exemption from the foul blot of slavery was purchased b y a concession to the slaveholding interest , which threatens the gravest and most momentous consequences in the Old Atlantic States .

      Heretofore , when the slave escaped beyond the boundaries of a State in which the " institution " is legalised into a free State , his owner had no power to demand the assistance ofthe legally constituted authorities in recovering possession of the runaway . The slave owner * ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 9, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_09111850/page/4/