25 APRIL 1840, Page 5

A meeting was held at Chelmsford, on Monday, to form

an " Essex County Branch of the London I ■incesan Board of Edeeation." The Essex Stqndard says, it was "a splendid assemblage of the piety, in- telligence, beauty, and wealth of the county of Essex.- The Bishop of London presided, and opened the 1,e,i:io,F.s of the day ie " a powerful and impressive speech ; " in which f.e 1..1.1 it down as the paramount duty of Churchmen to educate the rising genera:ion in Church princi- ples. The followin:e may be taken as a specimen of the Bishop's speech, and of the areeteients he addressed to his auditory- " The assemblage he was now addr,ssimmg were members of a church which derived a legitimate succession from the .apostles of the church which Christ founded on a rock, and agminst width the gates of hell shall not prevail; there- fore they could have no doubt as to the tbrce of gospel truth, or of the means of impressing it on the mind. It was therefore their duty, as Christians, to make others Christians as well its themselves ; it seas our duty. as Churchmen, to make them Churchnien—tu bring them within the pale of t!. at church which we believe teaches the Gavel in ell purity, and is foundvd on the precepts laid down by the Apostles teeniselvee—lo accustom them to all the benefits that result from the use of the discipline of the Cd arch, which only requires to be tried in all its fulness to show the team:jou, character of its great principles. Were ..ve to fitil in that part of our (11.:-.v. hc,s Stre:1;:0113 than we were in emaleavouring to brirg within the of the Churelt souls of all our fdlow bondsmen, then should we 1 he guilty of a derelietien of duty : if we believed the truth of the go-lie . • t we he anxious to dispense it to

to bring others

within its scope. Wilde we did tee 1 -II on tl who dithered with

us in opinion, they ought to lecre um t • .t ,. -1 IS to disseminate what we believed to li the ; vemhe e!. to be on their side.

This brought • eelowledged on all ught hies to ee

Lands that there be done that W d-aS possible to di:ins m mtion then Willy

• .atm•j. ? After what

srli on were 11.,,me hl,•ssn 1..• ;Ad, tht. mu:;,,%S,..: to : ley held it a matter

.. tee proper channel

so plain among, Ch archmeu vats h •,• 1 Church? Let s Established hurc.

it notnot be forgotten, that if. at sue thne. - for the lie,t interests of the countre, the Gbsirch dto should he ,..- . • 1. the Church would continue, colder End's blessing. to I.,: its im.:leenee on the country. Why was it the true Church or1 net mulmnit (her was it necessary before such an audience) of ;I answer t.•, dies question ; but they knew it was A postulleal, and rt bra::,:h :1.,:toil only Church of Christ: If

he were asked why it was mum I: he w,-.uld say, because the

ss doe, and piety of uvar !: r. clear pereep:ioa of this truth, that there can be no univermal !.; eltnrelm it is established: it sets the only e:1i.,.;e: •es . :.t tor„ th 7.- :21,lut the whole length and breadth of the : cis 1. Ii wa- t because it used. faithfully the. formula' h. S Li,: • Is,' 1, i..1,,!11 and piety of our ancestors. It would Fs:...• lv cause it was in- dined to keep plc,• v. ill: tl:e ' . : consistent with the Word of Cod and the • : it possessed the principle of elestieitv in its • to the wants of

time growing populatton ut m •fdl .ss ..11 as spiritual in-

fluence acts felt to the , ods of 1.;e hi• true ('Lurch—if it was

endowed to instruct ' r, cognized it in that eharaeter—and it' it 11:.m ::1; ;it le had been called in ques-

, tion—they could not e ,•. 1!, the tit channel for reli- glints education.”

Resolutions to earny art the the meeting were moved and seconded by gentlemen of iniluenee semety and Ii“eral sub-

scripiions were made to time Cued, am 1.10■V allhAllli■ SO 1,0u..q.

The C !lurch w :miens of Chelmsfee1 I ;od Joi; Thorogood in Gaol, to demand payment ot'u vii:: r:circh-7itc :

An Anti-Slavery meeting; was held a.. I dverwel. in the Mesic-hall.

on Thursley week. Mr. Seoble attended : tree the let:mint given in the Lite/ie.,/ a helper (Tees, e; to Mr. Scotch., ammd his party, it would appear that that gentleman made eie.-eral unfoumled statements. which were prompt: corrected by oe ilLTS of estates and recent re- sidents in Demerara. The Anti-Slave •y. resolutions. however, seem to have been carried without difficulty m asst Mr. Seoble had the respect- able support of Mr. Rathbone and Dr. Rattles.

other,: it' we have mice, the.