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better than he had there spoken, he should not care to hear him. He thought that if Mr. Hatchard did not intend to support the movement, he should not have come to the meeting. For himself, he would say that he did not know what amount of morality would stop the Emperor of the French. If religion would stop him it would not be that of such heretics as the English. It was being gradually admitted that military force carried with it a moral force. He did not wish to speak against the Emperor of the French, but he could not help noticing the circumstances that brought 50,000 Austrians to their graves. Referring to the Bible, Mr. Gipps said that the Reverend gentleman must have read of Senacrib and of the Emperor Nebuchadnezzer, who sent out their generals without a moment's notice, and he must know there was an analogy between this country and the Holy Land. The (illegible text) had laws from above, and so had we. We had to protect our open Bible from the French. He (the speaker) had traveled much in all parts of the world and was ever glad to return to his own native land, and to his own church, and also his own country's morality. The speaker again referred to scripture history, and alluded to the fate of Carthage, Troy, Babylon and Nineveh, observing that we ought to take a warning therefrom. He thought it quite fancical for the reverend gentleman to talk of the French upholding the rights of Italy. The Emperor went there because his army required him to keep them - a military nation - moving; and should he find it necessary in order to secure the safety of his throne to pay a hostile visit to this country, we ought to be prepared to meet him. He believed that the anchor we had thrown would take fast hold. There had not been a meeting throughout the country in which the clergy had not supported the movement, and, as he believed, because they regarded it a peace movement. Mr. Gipps concluded with a call upon his hearers to show their patriotism by coming forward to man the great gun.

Another Clergyman's Views. The Rev. W. N. Tilson-Marsh said it appeared to him to be the duty of every loyal subject and every friend of civil and religious liberty to come forward at the present time. He believed that, personally, the Emperor of the French entertained friendly -