are committed to type, in order to promote a right view of the subject, in the handling of which there is, on the one hand, a great deal of mystification, reasons made effective only by a bold assertion of purpose; and, on the other, a timid withholding of the only argument that can overpower and overwhelm the assumed effrontery of the Ministerial supporters of the measure. In discussing the subject, no hostility to the Premier or his supporters is intended. The circumstances of the times are peculiar to the common observer; doubtless, perplexing; most perplexing. To those who look deeper, there is a shade of awfulness in them. To all, it is verily believed, they are perilous. "Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased," we are told. "Many shall be purified and made white and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand." I should be very sorry to think that all who vote for this measure, know the extent of the wickedness of their act. But, as I believe they will act wickedly, if, after being shown by a wiser and better than I am, what they are doing, they shall persist in their vote, and will involve us with themselves in the consequences of their act, I venture to put before them my view of the case and of their case.

This People is called upon, by their representatives, to pay so much money a year, to pay so

many men to teach Lies to so many young citizens, that they, after a certain number of years learning how they are best to effect this, may go forth, in the name of the Government and people of England, and teach Lies to eight millions of our brethren.

Now, that is just the long and the short of the matter. If you talk till doomsday, you will make no more of it as to the fact; nor can the wit or sophistry of Man, or the ingenuity or malice of The Devil, even if it were his policy to do sowhich it is not, (Rev. xii. 10.)—make less of it.

And is this what this religious nation is come to? Have we been emancipated from the tuition of the Jesuit, but to prove the efficacy of our Protestant Faith, to enable us to exceed him in the profligate daring of asserting that it is right, "to do evil that good may come?" In truth, these silly men, then, have, in vain, been at great pains to cloak the word of GOD from the eyes of men; for they were afraid that St. Paul's words would, when read by the baptized, be the explosion of their system of Fraud and Lying. Poor calculators! We also have learned to read and not to heed;-to read, and to despise God's Instructions ;-to read, and to dare Him, Whose servant has said on this subject, and in these words, "whose damnation is just" (Rom. iii. 8.);" to do evil that good may come;"-to incur boldly, wantonly, boastfully, the damnation of God:

to teach lies that truth may abound;-to sacrifice, in short, to The Spirit of Lies-which is, The Devil (St. John viii. 44.); and to use him, to do the work of God, to help us to make Peace upon Earth! to promote "Good will amongst men!"

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'Lies,' do you say? What Lies?' Who are you, to accuse so many millions of your fellow creatures, with believing and teaching lies?"

Hey day! what insolence is this? You,members of the Legislature, some of You, Graduates of a University, where you have sworn-sworn !-that you believed the system of Rome to be a compound of "fond inventions," "blasphemous lies and dangerous deceits," do you now turn round, dare to turn round, upon those of whose feelings and knowledge you were, for years, the professedly sympathising advocates, and ask us thus indignantly, "Who are you who thus speak?" Oh! the consummate impudence of Might against Right!

But since we are put upon proof in this matter, You, Conservative Gentlemen, sent to Parliament by your Constituents, who thought that you did believe there were "blasphemous lies and dangerous deceits" in the Romish system, as they KNEW there were,-You, must understand now, that, which it is a pity You did not understand before; viz., that the Creed, for the teaching of which to eight millions of citizens, you are going to provide, contains, besides the Nicene Creed, twelve

additional Articles, added, (you will observe by the way, in the year 1564,) to the old faith; which old faith, we, your constituents hold, and which bears the date of 325. Now, as a good Bishop of Rome, St. Cœlestine, said, in 431, that "the Catholic Church suffered from every novelty;" and, as another, St. Agatho, in 682, declared, that the then existing Definition of the Faith was incapable of amendment, either by adding to or subtracting from it, You will not be surprised when You are told that the twelve additions to the Creed above named, have fully justified the assertions of these good bishops; that, in short, the twelve novelties embody not only as many false doctrines, which are Lies, but, involve all the miserable consequences that subtle disputants can make and prove to be the due corollary to each proposition; each corollary itself a component postulate of five hundred others, sequents or consequents; all as false as the premises from which they are made to spring. And it is for the teaching of these, all these to the people, that you are going to provide! And is it possible that we seek to secure the peace of the Country by such means? Is this our refuge? Then is our refuge a Refuge of Lies," and we must see to it.

But, to say nothing of the dogmas of eleven of these Articles, and out of which may be taken abundant justification of the language of the 31st and 22d Articles of the Church of England,

already quoted, touching

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"fond inventions,"

blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits,” I call your attention to one, the 23rd, of which "the fable" is manifest, and the "deceit, dangerous" indeed; politically "dangerous." I waive consideration of all the other Articles, and the points in them, no less for brevity's sake than because they go to matters of Conscience in the Romanist, with which here I have nothing to do, not now writing for them but for You: and I confine myself to this article, because, not even a Romanist can deny, that one of its assertions is a "Lie";-because, also, the most zealous partisan of this measure, now before the public, will not otherwise affirm, than that the other is, a "dangerous deceit."

The first ten Articles of this new Creed, after disposing of the points of

1, Papal Tradition, and the Constitutions of the Roman Church, Art. xiii. ;—2, Papal Interpretation of Holy Writ, Art. xiv.;-3, The asserted doctrine of the Seven Sacraments, Art. xv. ;-4, the absolute Authority of the Council of Trent concerning Original Sin and Justification, Art. xvi.;-5, the doctrine of the Mass, and Transubstantiation, Art. xvii.;-6, the fitness of intermitting the use of wine in the Lord's Supper, Art. xviii.;-7, the Value of Purgatory, [and the efficacy of money here to free souls from torture there,] Art. xix.;-8, Relics of the