lated to present a barrier against Popery, in the present trying and perilous position of the country, and to prove to our infatuated rulers that there yet remains a powerful body in this land, who are determined to withstand every pernicious step, which, in their blindness, may yet be intended against the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the Protestant principles of the British Constitution.

The Derby Operative Protestant Association has been in existence for the last five years; and though not encouraged hitherto with that cordial support or sympathy which it deserves, it has yet steadily pursued its uncompromising course, and has been enabled, under God's blessing, to assist in opening the eyes of many to the dangerous errors of Popery, and to rouse numbers to exertion, who at first, had either thought or cared little about such matters.

This Association, for which we would request the immediate support and assistance of our fellow-Protestants, both of town and country, at present consists of 200 members. They have a library consisting of more than 200 volumes, open to the members in their public reading-room once a-week, a selected portion of which are lent out under the direction of an annually appointed Committee.

Protestants may perhaps inquire, "What can we do?" We would recommend them more especially now than ever to become members of this Association immediately. The threat ening aspect of the times renders it most necessary, that real Protestants of all denominations should enrol themselves together, for the purpose of opposing the further meditated endowment of Popery, and of endeavouring by the return of really anti-Popish representatives only to the next Parliament, to ensure the repeal of those most highly obnoxious measures which

have been forced on the country by the present.

The Protestant Operatives of this town, have nobly done their duty in the late petitioning struggle against the Maynooth Endowment measure, having with unwearying zeal taken the petitions from house to house to procure signatures, and we are happy to say they met with a most ready and willing response from the Protestants of Derby. They have also been unceasingly engaged in the distribution of tracts, and altogther it is confidently believed, that this little body of Protestant watchmen have been, since their formation, a very great blessing both to our town and neighbourhood, in sounding an alarm against Popery, in awakening many to a sense of their imminent danger, and preventing not a few from embracing the false religion of Rome.

We would, therefore, after having shewn the necessity for such an Institution, now more especially than ever; after having described our wants both in members, money, and books, in order to the more complete carrying out of the objects of the Association; and having detailed the nature of the work already engaged in, invite all right-minded, faithful, and God-loving Protestants to join themselves with our little band; to increase its funds by their subscriptions or donations; to add to the extent of its library, and to assist in enlarging its sphere of usefulness, that the world may say that of a truth, Protestants are actuated by PRINCIPLE, and that that principle is, a sincere love of the Lord Jesus Christ, and of the souls of their fellowmen, whether Protestants or Papistsall of whom they would endeavour to convince of the truth as it is in Jesus by the written Word of God, and by that alone, under the Divine blessing of the Holy Spirit. Derby, 1845.

my Imperial order having been issued for that purpose, the present decree, containing permission, has been specially given from my Imperial Divan.

When, therefore, it becomes known unto you, Vallee of Saida, Governor of Jerusalem, and others as aforesaid, that our Royal permission has been granted for the erection, in the manner above stated, of the aforesaid place of worship, you will be careful that no person do in any manner whatever oppose the erection of the aforesaid place of worship in the manner stated. And you will not act in contrayention hereof. For which purpose my Imperial Firman is issued.

On its arrival you will act in accordance with my Imperial Firman issued for this purpose in the manner aforesaid; be it thus known unto you, giving full faith to the Imperial cipher. Written on the first day of Ramazan, 1261 (10th Sept. 1845).

It may be well to add that there is no reason for apprehending that the provision requiring that the Church should be built within the precincts of the Consular residence can lead to any inconvenience, as we have the best authority for asserting that the Church cannot be brought under the provisions of the Consular Act.

MISCELLANEOUS.

OXFORD TENDENCIES. Does Oxford education lead to the Church of Rome or the Church of England? In the Vice-Chancellor's Court of England, Sir Lancelot Shadwell, ViceChancellor, the following took place on the 26th ult. :-Mr. J. Parkes mentioned a petition in the case of Johnson v. Tucker, which related to the maintenance of a ward who expressed his desire to enter the Church of England as a priest, and wished to matriculate at the University of Oxford. His Honour the Vice-Chancellor, smiling, said, that it was a doubtful question whether matriculation at Oxford was likely to make him a priest of the Church of England.

CABINET.

THE Founder of Christianity be

queathed to his followers, not his coat, but his SPIRIT.

"Rome makes men slaves, under the mask of piety."

We should keep possession of our souls, though we can keep possession of nothing else.

POETRY.

TRANSLATED FROM BOETIUS.

O THOU, whose pow'r o'er moving worlds presides,

Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides;

On darkling man in pure effulgence shine,

And cheer the clouded mind with light divine;

'Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast,

With silent confidence and holy rest. From Thee, Great God, we spring, to Thee we tend,

Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

"GOD MANIFEST IN THE FLESH."

JESUS of Bethlehem! Bright was the

star,

That arose in the skies of the east, And led the grey travellers onwards afar,

To Canaan the type-land of rest. Jesus of Nazareth! Calm was the voice

That once solaced the pilgrim's lone heart,

And bade the poor tempted one turn and rejoice,

In a love that shall never depart. Jesus of Bethany! Blest was the tear, That furrowed thy countenance wan, At the grave of the sinner whom

grace counted dear,

And loosed from mortality's ban. Jesus of Calvary! Rich was the blood That meandered, a life-giving

NOTICES OF BOOKS.

The Sin of England, and the Duty of British Christians; or, Twelve Letters on the Maynooth Bill. By the Rev. T. R. BIRKS, Rector of Kelshall, Herts. London: Published for the Protestant Association, by W. H. Dalton, Cockspur

street. 1845.

THESE truly Christian and Protestant Letters originally appeared in the "Record." We think the Protestant Association have done good service to the cause by reprinting them in their present cheap and attractive form.

The writer and the letters are too well known to require our praise; but we cordially recommend our friends to give as wide a circulation as they can to these letters, for we are well satisfied that the welfare of our Church and country depends on the maintenance of our national protest against Popery, and acting in conformity to the precepts and principles of inspired wisdom.

Protestant Catechism for the Use of Schools, especially Sunday Schools. By the Rev. B. RICHINGS, Vicar of Mancetter, Warwickshire. pp. 72. London: Seeley, Burnside, and Seeley.

THIS is a very useful and excellent little book. We have great need to train up the rising generation in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and to warn them against the wiles of Popery.

It is of special importance at this time that they should be able to give a reason of the hope that is in them, and to refute the opponent of their

faith.

The Jesuits have long been at work in education, and we rejoice in every good effort made to counteract them.*

INTELLIGENCE.

A LECTURE was delivered in connexion with the City of London Protestant Association, on Tuesday evening, Dec.

We have received several other works, notices of which we are compelled to postpone to a subsequent num ber.

16, in Albion Hall, London-wall, by the Rev. S. A. Dubourg. The subject was-" Against the Use of Pictures and Images in the Worship of God."

MANCHESTER.-The Seventh Annual Meeting of the Manchester and Salford Tradesmen and Operatives' Protestant Nov. 27, at the Corn Exchange. UpAssociation, took place on Friday, wards of thirty clergymen were on the platform, among whom were the following, who took part in the proceedStowell, in the chair; Rev. R. J. ings of the Meeting; the Rev. Canon M'Ghee, Rev. J. H. M'Guire, Rev. H. W. M'Grath, Rev. W. K. Tatam, Rev. W. Huntingdon, Rev. T. T. Eager.

In consequence of the unprecedented sale of Bibles at Manchester, an octogenarian friend has forwarded to the Bible Society of that town the sum of 500%. through the Right Rev. the Lord the same to Mr. Dudley in a very afBishop of Chester, who has forwarded

fectionate letter.

LIVERPOOL.-The Seventh Annual Meeting of the Liverpool Association was held in the Music Hall in that

town on Monday, Dec. 15; the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, Canon of Chester, in the chair; the Rev. J. R. Connor, Rev. G. Cuthbert, Rev. D. Anderson, Rev. F. Parry, and Mr. J. Parker, took part in the proceedings of the Meeting.

Dr. Pusey.-The Papists, in a recent number of the " Tablet," announced their intention of praying, "by name," for Dr. Pusey's conversion. Although they have won Mr. Newman, (or rather he has returned to the party to which he always belonged,) they consider their triumph incomplete without the halting Doctor.--Perversion.-The Misses Poole, of Bridgewater, while on a visit, last summer, to their brother-in-law, the Rev. J. S. Northcote, the late Curate of Ilfracombe, were introduced to the acquaintance of Dr. Pusey, and went over to the Church of Rome. But the Protestant clergyman thought the transition so trifling that he allowed the young ladies still to teach in the Sunday-school; and during the last week or two (middle of Dec.) Mrs. Northcote, too, has become a Romanist, and has written to her husband to say that