may, like the writer in your Magazine, be very profuse in a sentimental philanthropy, which expends itself in benevolent wishes; but I ask the writer to point to a single country which has been reclaimed from the uncultivated waste of heathenism by persons of such a stamp. The work of evangelization and civilization which is now going forward in Greenland and Labrador, in the islands of the Great Pacific, in Burmah and Southern Africa, has received its impulse from men of another character-men who had learned to count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus their Lord, and whose love constrained them to the patient endurance of obloquy and persecution, while engaged in the noble work of raising their fellow-men to their true position in the scale of being, as creatures destined for immortality, and illustrating, in the civilization and temporal improvement which marked the progress of their holy enterprise, the truth of the Scripture which declares, that godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come.

"The establishment entrusted to my superintendence being dependent for support upon the voluntary contributions of the Christian public, I trust that a sense of justice will constrain you to publish this reply to the misrepresentations put forth by the writer, which, if uncontradicted, might tend materially to diminish its claims upon their benevolent assist

ance.

"I am, Sir, your faithful servant, "EDWARD NANGLE.

"P.S. I cannot refrain from remarking that the writer who makes your Magazine the medium of his attack upon our proceedings, manifests profound ignorance even on the subject about which he professes more immediately to write. I allude to his mention of 'goodness of soil' among the natural advantages of Achill. There are indeed some spots in the valleys of a second-rate quality of soil; these spots are, however, few and far between, the island generally is moor and bog, which can

only be made to produce the necessaries of life with much expense and labour. To talk, in a general way, as the writer in question does, of the goodness of the soil of Achill, must excite the laughter of any man possessing the least practical acquaintance with agriculture.

"To the Editor of the Magazine of Natural History."

The facts developed by the Rev. Mr. M'Ghee in his speech, addressed on 11th ult., to the masters of arts of the two English universities, are not only worthy of receiving the deepest consideration from men of that rank in society, but from men of all ranks who value their civil and religious liberties; they ought not only to impress the minds of Churchmen, but to have an equally powerful effect on Dissenters who have not sacrificed the interests of their faith at the shrine of the party politics of this world.

We cannot at present enter on an extended view of the exact, powerful, and convincing address of the rev. gentleman; but we hold, that, among others, he made good, to the satisfaction of every candid mind, the following propositions :--

"That, from parliamentary documents, it appears that before the bill of 1829 for granting political power to Roman Catholics, the Protestants entertained apprehensions that the Roman Catholic hierarchy held and inculcated certain immoral, anti-social, persecuting, and seditious principles, affecting the liberties, properties, and lives of Protestants, and allegiance to the British sovereign, which were known to be embodied in certain canons, bulls, and decretals of their Church; that parliamentary committees examined certain Roman Catholic prelates, professors and lay

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"That even at the time when they were giving their oaths and making these public disclaimers of these principles, these prelates were cretly inculcating these very principles in certain secret standards of instruction on the Irish priests, that they might direct the consciences of the Roman Catholic population according to them-that they were inculcating the same principles secretly, under their own immediate authority, as the infallible interpretation of the Scriptures by their Church-and that since the Emancipation Bill was passed they have not only set up afresh their standard of instruction for their priests, to direct the consciences of the people, but that they have set up a code of Papal laws, containing the identical bulls, canons, and decretals, which they disclaimed on oath, which directly affect the allegiance of the Roman Catholics of Ireland to their lawful sovereign, which compel them to slavery, by obliging them, under the terror of the heaviest ecclesiastical censures their Church can inflict, to submit to the temporal dominion of the pope, and which go to overturn the liberties, properties, and religion, and to destroy the lives of their Protestant fellow-subjects."

These facts, we assert, Mr. M'Ghee has proved to the satisfaction of every reasonable man.

Our readers are aware that Mr. M'Ghee went over the same ground before the members of the University of Dublin previous to his coming over for the same purpose to this country. It gives us pleasure to find that the report of the Dublin meeting has been printed, and may be had at the office of the Protestant Association, Exeter Hall. This constitutes, in fact, the official report of Mr. M'Ghee's case, and we strongly recommend it to the immediate attention of all orthodox Christians, whether Protestants or Dissenters. If Churchmen remain supine under such an exposure of the essential character of that vast evil which is pressing in upon us, what shall we say? if Dissenters close their eyes and their understandings to the truth, thus disclosed, where will the guilt lie?

The proceedings of the Papacy under these circumstances is eminently characteristic of the wisdom which cometh from beneath. On this subject it is silent as the dead. When Mr. M'Ghee, on a former occasion, was led into the mistake of quoting a forged, as a genuine document, the whole Popish and liberal press made the country ring with the enormity of the offence. Now, that he seriously, deliberately, repeatedly lays to their charge crimes of the deepest die—every one of them resting on documents of the simplest and surest character-making good his charges, openly in the face of day, before, and to the entire satisfaction of men of characters the most elevated and venerable-what is the conduct of the Roman Catholics? The whole body of the Papacy is struck with silence ominous and deeply impressive. Denial is impossible. But silence may carry the whole matter into oblivion.

Shame upon the Christianity of this country if they shall thus succeed! And we call upon our readers to give their earnest and immediate attention to the accomplishment of the defeat of the Papacy in an enterprise founded upon an estimate so dishonourable to the simplicity, the truth, the zeal, of our Christianity.

SOCIALISM.

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