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The some authority repeats, that consular officers are to be established at the ports of Canton, Amoy, Fow-choo-foo, nglloi and Shanghae, which are to be thrown open to-Brit- ash merchants, and that a, regular and just mid of imports and exports, a well as of transit duties, is to be established and published.

PROGRESS OF VPUSEYISM.

(From the London Record, Who, 14.)

It must have been with great pain that the majority ofour readers remarked in our columns on the 17th of October, the statements of the deplorable workings of Tractarianism in Calcutta, as detailed by an intelligent eyeawitness ofhigh character; and that they also noted the letter from the Rev. Mr. Latrobe, on the following Thursday, iii relation to a cer— tain publication, circulated among its Auxiliaries, by~the So- Ciety for Propagating the Gospel iii Foreign Parts, containing sentiments from which such practices as those which dis- figure and mar the operations ofthe Society in Indiawere .Iikely to spring. In short, no one but he who Wilfully ‘chOSel his eyes can doubt the fact, that the leven ofTractll- rianism is in active fermentation among many of the Direc— , tors of the Society at home, and that it has worked abroad - to the production of the dire effects which we then brought

under the view of our readers. ‘

The question occurs, What are we to do? Are we, With our names and money, to countenance and circulate princi- ples which absolutely vitiate the Gospel ofChrist, alid which are spreading in our Indian empire, and probably every- where else to which the operations of the Society extend, confusion and disunion, where all previously was compara— tively harmony and peace ? Can we conscientiously do this, or run the imminent risk ofdoing it? Could we do so were it a natural poison the Society was circulating ? Shall We do it—dare we do it, when it is not merely a moral evil, but a spiritual distemper, involving consequences infinitely fatal, and stretching into eternity, which the Society is per- mitting to germinate in its bosom, and bring forth fruit unto death ? g _ , _

We again say, What shall we do ?

We have scope in the Church .Missionai‘y Society for all our exertions to send a knowledge ofthe pure Gospel tothe Hea- then. 15 there no such instrument by which we may hope to send the Gospel of Christ in its plirity to the colonies? We reply, there is, and that it is designated the Colonial Church Society.

That Institution is already in full operation, with an income ofbctween 3,000l. and 4,0001. a-year; it is supported by dis- tinguished patronage ; it is worked by a faithful Committee; all the clerical members of the Society are members of Committee. It is composed of sound Churchmen, men of orthodox and Evangelical principles, and who regardwitli due horror—with :an eye enlightened by Scripture, and the scriptural teaching of our Church, the schismatic teachers Who are introducing so much colifusion into our Church, alid into every country in the world to which their pestiferons operations extend. .

We accordingly very strenuously recommend all our rea- ders to withdraw their subscriptions from the one Society and to pour them into the other. As long as we merer talk in the ears ofthe managers of the Society for Propaga- ting the Gospel, it is little heeded. Perhaps, if they‘saw their contributions leaving them in a broad stream, it might operate with some effect. But whether it did so or not, we should be doing our duty, and not exhibit to men and angels

the strange inconsistency of denouncing Tractarianism with

‘ our mouths as an enormous evil, and then cherishing and comforting it into fuller maturity by our pecuniary contribu- tions. How true the saying ofourgLord, “The children of the world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.” Who in temporal things would exhibit so glaring pan inconsistency as this?

It is from a regard to this same principle that we are iii- duced to recommend most strongly to our readers to give their immediate support to accomplish the consecration of All Saint’s Church, in the parish of St. Pancras, an adver- tisement in relation to which they will find in to-day’s paper.

It is one thing to build churches, it is another thing to fill them with faithful ministers. St. Pancras is in every point of view a mostndestitute parish. Here is a church ready for consecration, which will not only ostensibly, but really, under God’s blessing, operate towards the supply of the ex- isting destitution. Our readers will mark the circumstances. We pray them to supply the need.

The one case is temporary and local. The other is per- manent and general. We hope we do not use too great a liberty in recommending both objects, according to their different characters, to the support of the Chrispau public.

(From the London Watchman.)

The attention of the religious public in Scotland is now directed, with no little interest, to an occurrence which has lately taken place in Edinburgh, and which we feel bound to bring before our readers, not merely as an article ofordi— Iiary intelligence, but especially as a striking development ofthe persecuting spirit of Puseyism,—an instructive warn- ing of what might be expected from the Tractarians, ifthey should, by some calamitons concurrence of events, obtain the power after which they are so earnestly straining.

The parties in the transaction to which we now call atten- tion are, the Rey. C. H. TERROT, Bishop ofthe Episcopalian Church in Edinburgh, and the Rev. D. ’I‘ K. DRUMMOSD, the Episcopal Minister of'l‘riuity Chapel, Dean Bridge, in that city.

l_Vlr. Dnonnonn has, for some year, occupied a distin- guished'place amongst the evangelical clergy of Scotland. The various tatements which we have seen, concur to re- present him as most blameless and exemplary in his private walktaud singularly faithful and zealous in the discharge of his ministerial duties. Even those who difl‘er li-om him on some pomts ofdoctrine or discipline, bear cordial testimony to his talents and piety. Amongst the means by which he endeavoured to do good to the people ofhis charge, one was the maintenance of week-evening meetings iii a room in Clyde-street, hired for the purpose. Here he was accustom- ed to hold a_weokly prayer-meeting, a Bible-class meeting. and, (in conjunction with the Rev. Mr. Baoor, of St. James’s Chapel,) a missionary prayer-meeting. These services were conducted in the usual way, by Singing, extenipore prayer, and reading and exposition ofthe Scriptures.

Dr._T1-:aao’r is the recently-appointed Bishop, and one of the highest of High-Churchmen. This, indeed, might have been anticipated, when the character ofthat Episcopal body from which be derived his nomination is considered. It is well known that the New-mania has infected many of the Scotch Bishops and Clergy to an extent not exceeded even at'Oxford itself; and oftheir sentiment Dr. TERROT is the Willing and fitting representative. Entered upon his Epis- copato, we can imagine him looking round,—-as, no doubt, a Bishop‘ ought to do,—to ascertain whether there were with- in his Jurisdiction any evils that could be remedied,—any mill-practices that could be checked and prevented. Ann was“ DOIS us FIX? Who is the offender upon whose devoted head the vials of Episcopal wrath are to be poured out? It is no other than Mr. Daouuonn! But whatz’crime has he committed? Iflle be the pious and useful marl he is said to be, it might be hoped that even an enemy could find ‘no Occasion against him, “ except asconcerning the law of his God.” Ah! he had committed a crime of no small magni- tude in Puseyite eyes. He held prayer meetings at which the Liturgy of the Church was not employed; and Bishop Tsa~ not, finding that this might be construed into a breach of the 28th; Canon ofthe Scottish Episcopal Church,——“0ll the uniformity to be used in public worship,”—directs against him the thunders of ecclesiastical censure, and after a due declaration of the heinonsness of the offence, inflicts on Mr. Daonuosn “an admonition iii the terms of the canon.”

E! And this,"—_-says the Record—“ while surrounded by other Ministers, all, a|l_honourable lnen,”——very fashionable preachers—Inning their hearers asleep amidst the dissipa- tion ofthe ball-room, the purities ofthe theatre, alid the utter worldliness of their hearts and lives. Added to which, there is the teaching of the heterodogy of Tractariaiiism in a greater or less degree. All this Bullion TERROT bears with, or touches with a gentle hand, but instantly proceeds to ad- monish the man who, in the abundance ofhis labours for his

Saviour, meets his own people‘ under the circumstances stated above.” ' ‘

A long correspondence ensued, in which Mr. DanMMOND vindicated himselfon the ground that the Canon was intend- ed to apply to the recognised public services of the Church, —while the meetings censured by the Bishop were private, a being announced only in his own congregation, and held in a place which was, for the time, his own private room. He also urged that such meetings are frequently held in Eng— land, with the sanctionof dignitaries of tlie.Church 2—- lhat he himselfhehl them in the parish ili Gloucestershire in which he first officiated, with the approbation ofDr. Gan, lhen Bishop of Bristol z—that silice he came to Edinburgh, nowa period often years, he had uniformly pursued the same course without opposition, eXcept in one instance, when Mr. STEPHENS, the editor ofthe Episcopal .Magazine, brought a charge ofirregularity against him, which, however, only led to a more full expression of approbation of his pro- ceedings from Dr. VVVALKER, the bite Bishop. He further pleaded the spiritual benefit which be and his congregation derived from the meetings, and “entreated” the Bishop to “deal gently in the case.” _

But argument and entreaty proved equally unavailing. Bishop TERROT is made ofstufftoo stern to be thus moved into a compliance inconsistent with the arrogant claims of his party. He does, indeed, make an jexception, (it does not clearly appear why,) in favour of the Bible- class and Missionary prayer-meetings; but with regard to the weekly meeting, which was manifestly regarded on both sides as the most important, he is firm in his resolution to prohibit it. He therefore formallypronounces his official judgment in these words:—“ My judgment IS, that I am bound by the law ofour Church to admonish you upon Case No. 1,, ofyour letter ofthe 14th inst.; and ifthat admonition should be neglected, to bring your conduct before the Synod ofthe Diocese.”

The issue ofthis persecution has been to drive Mr. DRUM- MOND from the position in which his labours had been so beneficial. In a pathetic farewell address to his congrega- tion he thus states the dilemma in which he found himself placed :—

“The adherence of the Bishop to his admonition left me only these three alternatives. 1. To remain Incumbent of Trinity Chapel, and give up private socialprayer—meetings. Or, 2. To remain at Tril‘iity—pcrsevere in holding these meetings, and so, by setting his authority at defiance, be sus- pended. Or, 3. To submit to his decision and resign my charge. The first of these I never could for a moment eli- tertain, with the deep conviction lfeel that these ministra- tions form an integral part of my duty. The second is inor- iilly out ofthe question; and therefore to the last I have been driven, that I inny have a conscience void ofoffencc towards God as well us towards man.”

In accordance with the sentiments thus expressed, Mr. DRUMMOND has resigned his charge in connexion with the Episcopal Church in Scotland, having first taken leave of his congregation in a farewell sermon, during the delivery of which nianyuwere affected even to tears.

Such are the facts ofthis case of oppression, so far as we have been able to collect them from the lengthened state- ments, published in different Scotch journals; and the char- acter ofthese facts is sufficiently obvious to relieve us from the iiecssity of cou'inienting on them ill detail. As the Ed— inbnrgh Witness observes, “The main fact which concerns the public is this, that a clergyman ofblnmeloss character, of unquestionable zeal, and of unimpeached orthodoxy, for meeting with a portion ofhis congregation in a hired room, and there offering up prayer without the Liturgy, is visited with admonition, and threatened with suspension, and all the penalties to which a gross delinquent could be subjected.” The Scottish Guardian, in an able article on the subject, truly represents this as only one of numerous evidences that might be adduced of “the persecuting spirit which is now levening the Episcopal Church,” and refers particularly to the undignificd as well as uuchristiaii oppressions which, ac- cording to the Slamford Mercury, Lord and Lady RiPoN are now practising on the Methodists in their neighbourhood. We cannot say, however, that such acts excite in us much surprise. We are deeply pursuaded that in proportion to the spread of Tractlirian doctrines, will be the manifestations ofsuch tyranny. Puseyism is essentially and unchangeably a persecuting system. While, therefore, as Christian men, we are bound to contend earnestly [iii- the faithgwhicli was once delivered to the saints, and against the spread of doc- trines which make the word of God of none effect through human »t‘lirlition, and priestly assumption ;—as freemen, as lovers of liberty, we are called to oppose with strenuous effort those principles and practices which, if dominant, would crush religious liberty, and fetter that right of private judgment which was purchased for us at no less a price. than the blood ofour martyred reformers.

It appears, however, that our sturdy Northern friends will not quietly submit to be thus enslaved. A considerable number of Mr. DRUMMOND’S hearers have determined to ad- here to him, and arrangements are in progress to provide for him both 11 Chapel and a. congregation in Edinburgh. The Puseyile Clergy have taken alarm, and by the last ac- counts we learn that they held a meeting, at which Dean RAMSAY presided, and adopted resolutions calling-«not on the Bishop to retract his censure, and thus restore the most popular of his Clergy to his course ofusefulness—but on Mr. DRUMMOND to prevent the movement amongst his friends, aiid to use his influence to check the practical ex- pression oftliose feelings which the Bishop’s conduct has

excited. They assert that his resignation of his charge was

“totally without cause,” and, of course, apply the terms schism and schismotical most liberally to him and his friends. Mr. DRUMMOND intimates that he has in the press a reply to those statements, so fiir as they concern himself, and the Committee ofhis friends “notify that they will shortly pub- lish a statement, in answer to the resolutions and lemon- strance ofthe Dean and Clergy, in so far as relates to their proceedings after the lamented resignation to which Mr. DRUMMOND was compelled, in consequence of an attempt on the part ofthe Bishop to encroach on the Christian liberties alike of Pastor and People.”

Although this article has already exceeded the limits with— in which we wished to confine it, we cannot conclude with- out giving a short extract from the Church 1ntclligcnccr.lo exhibit the light in which the English Puseyites view the case :— ‘

‘_‘ And so ‘ Scottish Episcopalians’ are invited to join Mr. Drummond in his Korohitc rebellion against the Bishop of the diocese. 4‘ i“ We beg to tell him (Mr. D.) that the Church ofEngland hates and abhors his schismatical con- duct, and unquestionably holds that in separating from the Church of Scotland” (meaning, of course, the Episcopal Church in Scotland)--—“ he has cut himself ofi‘ from the Church quhrist, and is to all intents and purposes a dissenter or schismatic. We have long known something ol‘Mr. Drum- mond’s unscriptural principles, and schismntical movements, and were quite prepared to find him openly rebelling against the Scriptures and the Church ofGod. We can only hope that ifhe and the unhappy person who seemed disposed to partake of his sin, should pretend to form or make a church of their own, and set up the work of their own hands against the one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ, that the Bishop of Edinburgh will not for a moment hesitate to perform his clear and unquestionable, though painful duty, of EXCOMMUNICATING Mr. Drummond and the abettors of his schism from the Church ofChrist, not to be restqr'ed until they shall have repented of such their wicked acts.

. We shall watch with interest the issue of this novel and important movement.

The London Record says :—“ The Cambridge Tracts for the Times (yclept the Ecclesiolagist) are growino even worse than their detimct Oxford predecessors.” It isbsnid that the Evangelical party in the Church ofEngland are to inake the first move in a threatened separation. They are to call themselves “ The Reformed Church of England,” and to keep as wide as adherence to Episcopacy will allow from the practices of Puseyism.——-Wiltshi're Independent, Nov. 17.

_Tmt STRATHBOGIE Case—One ofthe mast important de- ClSlOnS yet given, in regard to the Church question, has been pronounced. We refer to the interlocutor of Lord Cuning—

hflme, given on Thursday, in the processes OfsllspetLSlOélefing reduction of the sentence ofdeposmon, passed by t fes ' “1- ml Assembly of 1841, against the seveii ministeis o dtla l bogie. Referring to the interlocutor itself, we use on y here state, that, so far as theLord Ordinary sjudglnent goals, he sustains the competency of the process for setting usli; e that sentence—that he holds the moderator of that assemgly, the procui'atorofthe Church, and the clerks of asseui y, as the parties who are properly called as contl'fltllCKOlS'OI defenders on the part ofthe Churchf—und that he SllnlullZS the jurisdiction oftbc Court of Sessuiu to suspend and set aside the sentence ofthe General Assembly in l‘lllS pal tlcn- lar case. His Lordship has repelled all the pi'eliliiuiiiry‘dc- fences offered by the respondents and defenders. 'Iliey have, it appears, as stated in_ the liitcrlocutor, intimateddthat they are to reclaim to the inner house—Edinburgh A ver- twfl‘rlie opening of Queen’s College, Glasgow, for the educa— tion of‘ladies, took place on Friday last in that City, before the Lord Provost and a number of clergy and gentry.

A LARGE Bonn—This animal, four and a half yenrs'old, the property ofJohri Horn, Esq.. of'I‘liomiiuelin, was killed at Milanthort, a few days ago. The followuig is the weight: ——Total weight when alive, 188 stones imperial, or 263?. lbs. The four quarters weighed 1735 lbs, leaving 8% lbs._ to be accounted for as follows :—Hidc, 142 lbs.; head aiid feet 80 lbs; tallow, 158 lbs; lungs, heart, and including what is ge- nerally" known under the name of lights, 74 lbs.; blood, 100 lbs.; stomach and intestines, with contents, 270 lbs; waste, 72 lbs. This animal was a cross with the calfol a cow be- longing to Captain Barclay, of Ury, and a Tecswater cow. One ofhis breed, two and a lialfyears old, the produce of a short horned cow (Tceswater) promises even to exceed the weightofthé former. Farm produce alone was employed iii the rearuirr. _

PILCHARD FISHEnY.——Tliis fishery has been very success- ful this season on the Cornish coast. At St. Ives, alone, 12,000 barrels have been cured. . '

The remnant of the 44th, which was all but extinguished in the deplorable retreat from Cebu], is ordered to be sent back to England forthwith. , '

‘he elnbarkation ofthe 45th Regiment for foreign servxce has been counterinanded. The two battalions are to be consolidated, and to continue on home duty until further orders. '

M r. P. V. Filzpatrick, Treasurer of the O’Connell tribute, has issued circulars pressing the collection, aiid declaring that “Mr. O’Connell is in want ofpecuniary aid,” and he concludes with the important news, that it is in contempla— tioli “in future to give up the annual call, and to make one general call on a given day, throughout the nation, which will be n/inal one, and thus enable the trustees to purchase an estate, to keep the great Liberator from want in his de- clining years.” -

DREADFUL STORM A'l‘ MADEIRA.

Funchal, the capital of Madeira, and the whole of the island, has been visited with one ofthe most dreadful storms that has ever occurred since the flood in the year 1803, when upwards of 400 persons were swept into the sea; and, had the late deluge occurred at night, as was the case in the for- mer catastrophe, there is no doubt but hundreds of persons would have been drowned ; however, as far as can be learnt at present, few lives were lost, except in the distant parishes, where several hundreds ofpersons have been carried into the sea. ' i

The summer was very hot, and the weather continued beautifully fine until the 15th October; it then rained heal- vily until the 24th, when the rain partly ceased. A corres- pondent of the Times says-—

“About mid-day, the whole ofthe Island appeared buried iii one vast cloud, threatening total darkness; the barometer fell considerably, the air became very oppressive, with a Strong sulphurous smell; and the wind veered about to near- ly every point ofthe compass. At one o’clock, the rain be- gan to fall in torrents; and about an hour afterwards, I per- ceived, at a distance of'about a mile from the shore, an illi- meiise rising in the sea, which was soon connected with a mass of dark clouds overhanging the bay, to all appearance charging themselves, or drawing the water from the gsea, for the space ofahout ten minutes, followed immediately by a heavy swell or rising ofthe ocean, which swept towards the shore; and, although I was at a considerable elevation above the level of the sen, it appeared high enough to sweep over the city; its force, however, was broken, and it subsided on the bench. The rain still continued in torrents; and at four o’clock, the roar ofthe water in the River N. S. do Calhao, which was forty feet in depth, began'to give me some alarm; when, looking out ofthe window of my house, I perceived that the bridge was being swept away, and that the water was rushing into the streets. I immediately left the house; and on reaching the street, the appalling sight that. appeared iii every direction was enough to make the stoutcst heart quake with fear. The street iii front ofthe garden of lny house was upwards oftliree fleet deep with water; and hun- dreds of nil-in and children were wadii'ig their way up the stream, flying towards the mountains, Whilst others were flocking to the town, not knowing where to go for safety, amidst the most dreadful shrieks and cries that can possibly be imagined. As I approached towards the river, the scene became still more awful, the water having burst open the wine lodges, and the contents being swept into the sen; whilst the streets in the neighbourhood were all ovorflowed with water, and the inmates ofthe houses escaping bv lad- ders, and over the roofs ofthe houses. Upwards of200 hou- ses have been destroyed, or become untennntable by this disastrous flood ; and the quantity of wine, corn, &c. swept into the sea and destroyed is very great; but at present it is utterly impossible to state any thing like an estimate ofthe amount of'dainage done.”