in Parliament as aforesaid, such election shall be void; and if any person, being elected to serve in Parliament as a Member of the House of Commons, shall, after his election, take or receive Holy Orders in the Church of Rome, the Seat of such person shall immediately become void; and if any such person shall, in any of the cases aforesaid, presume to sit or vote as a Member of the House of Commons, he shall be subject to the same penalties, forfeitures, and disabilities as are enacted by an Act passed in the forty-first year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to remove doubts respecting the eligibility of persons in Holy Orders to sit in the House of Commons; and proof of the celebration of any Religious Service by such person, according to the rites of the Church of Rome, shall be deemed and taken to be prima facie evidence of the fact of such person being in Holy Orders, within the intent and meaning of this Act.

Roman Catholics may hold Civil and Military Offices under His Majesty, with certain exceptions.

X. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for any of His Majesty's subjects professing the Roman Catholic religion to hold, exercise, and enjoy all civil and military offices and places of trust and profit under His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, and to exercise any other franchise or civil right, except as herein-after excepted, upon taking and subscribing, at the times and in the manner herein-after mentioned, the Oath herein-before appointed and set forth, instead of the Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, and Abjuration, and instead of such other Oath or Oaths as are or may be now by law required to be taken for the purpose aforesaid by any of His Majesty's subjects professing the Roman Catholic religion.

Not to exempt Roman Catholics from taking any other Oaths required.

XI. Provided always, and be it enacted, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to exempt any person professing the Roman Catholic religion from the necessity of taking any Oath or Oaths, or making any declaration, not hereinbefore mentioned, which are or may be by law required to be taken or subscribed by any person on his admission into any such office or place of trust or profit as aforesaid.

Offices withheld from Roman Catholics.

XII. Provided also, and be it enacted, that nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to enable any person or persons professing the Roman Catholic religion to hold or exercise the office of Guardians or Justices of the United Kingdom, or of Regent of the United Kingdom, under whatever name, style, or title such office may be constituted; nor to enable any person, otherwise than he is now by law enabled, to hold or enjoy the office of Lord High Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal of Great Britain or Ireland; or the office of Lord Lieutenant, or Lord Deputy, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland; or His Majesty's Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

(To be continued.)

POPISH EXTRACTS.

"ANNALS OF THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH."

THE (ROMAN) CATHOLIC FAITH.--"But I must explain to you what is meant by turning to the Catholic Faith: it is to acknowledge that the Church is the ancient Society-the mother Church founded by the SAVIOUR; it is to know that the Pope has succeeded to St. Peter, and the Bishops to the other Apostles, to govern in the name of JESUS CHRIST the Christian Society, until the LORD come at the end of the world to render to each according to his works. To turn to the Catholic Faith, is to know the unity of God and Trinity of Persons, the creation of the world, the origin, fall, and redemption of man; the virginity and divine maternity of Mary: it is to recite morning and evening the Pater, Ave, and Creed, to sing a Canticle on the perfections of the Divinity, and observe Sunday; it is, in fine, to know that one must love GoD above all things, and one's neighbour as one's self. Yet to turn to the Catholic Faith does not imply to have participated in the benefit of baptism but MERELY to desire it, and to prepare for it. I estimate at more than fifteen thousand the number of natives 1 left in these favourable dispositions."-Vol. ii. p. 29. (What better, we ask, are the heathen for all the Popish teaching? Heathens they found them, and heathens they leave them.)

POPISH MIRACLE.- "You may form an opinion of their fervour [the Newzealanders,] from the following results. After I have devoted two or three days to the instruction of a tribe, every one, from the CHILD WHO HAS SCARCELY QUITTED ITS MOTHER'S ARMS, to the aged and infirm, is able to recite in common the Pater, Ave, and Creed; ALL sing Canticles to GOD, with precision, and in a tone so touching, that it is impossible to restrain one's tears."-Vol. ii. p. 30. [What precious children, BABES, scarcely quitting their mother's arms, RECITING the Pater, Ave, and Creed, and SINGING Canticles!!!]

EFFECTS OF A GOOD VOICE IN CONVERTING THE HEATHEN., "It was at Blida that a young Muphti said to me, on my last visit,How impatient I am to be able to understand what you say to me! In the mean time, the sweet sound of thy voice ENABLES me to taste the sweetness of the sentiments it expresses.-Vol. ii. p. 51. [Then, how much good must be done by the sight of his blessed periwig!]

A SIGNIFICANT HINT.- "We have not yet been able, for want of means, to plant the cross of our LORD."— Vol. ii. p. 52. [No conversion among Papists, without money, not even children are allowed to be baptized unless the infidel parents are first paid for it!!!]

CONVERSIONS FROM POPERY.-In this diocese alone (Nashville)--" how many hundreds-perhaps thousands—who were born of Catholic (Papist) parents, are now enrolled amongst the members of the enemies of our faith."-Vol. ii. p. 84. [Whenever Papists are allowed the exercise of common sense, and are rescued from the tyranny of the priests-they invariably renounce idolatry, and turn Protestant Catholics.]

POPISH ZEAL AND CHARITY." The Association (for the Propagation of the Faith,) I am truly glad to inform you, continues greatly to extend itself; it is everywhere received with the faith and zeal which characterize this Country. I cannot give you a better proof of it than by informing you of what passes at Limerick. The RICH hasten to pay their shilling, SIXPENCE, FOURPENCE."-Vol. ii. p. 114. [Fourpenny faith and zeal of the RICH!!!]

PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH." Since I have been here, I have not wanted work; I have been of all trades; I comb the little children; 1 shave the men; I mend the rags which they have got from some ship; 1 sharpen the razors, hatchets and knives, and I teach them to spin cotton and to knit. Among the good savages one must be a little of a doctor: I bleed sometimes, draw teeth when obliged to do so, and administer medicine; a little water with some liqueur, and they are cured. Their friendship is easly won: it is sufficient to give them some needles or pins, a little bit of riband, a shirt, or a yard of calico." Vol. ii. p. 242.

[I pukes, I purges, and I sweats them,
I bleeds, and if they die-I lets 'em.]

NUMBER OF THE ANNALS published.-" One hundred and twenty thousand copies of the Annals are now (1840) printed, namely, 63,000 French, 17,000 German, 16,000 English, 12,000 Spanish, 4,000 Flemish, 18,000 Italian, 2,000 Portuguese: this number, published six times a year, gives a total of SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND copies."-Vol. ii. p. 127. note. [What an awful proof of the activity of Satan and his emissaries!]

SUSPENSION OF THE REV. DR. PUSEY.

One of the most important events of the_month_has, doubtless, been the suspension of the Rev. Dr. Pusey, Professor of Hebrew, of the University of Oxford, from preaching within that University, for the space of two years, in consequence of his broaching the Popish doctrine of Transubstantiation, and the idolatries of the Mass. We like fairplay, and should be glad to know why the arch-heretic, the author of the 90th Tract, has not met with a similiar visitation. The Tractarians have been developing themselves in their true colours. Popish doctrines necessarily lead to Popish practices. This has been the case at Oxford, where the followers of Ignatius Loyola have been forging the names of persons, adding them to a protest sent in to the Vice-Chancellor !!! Messrs. Randolph and Goulbourn have already exposed this infamous trick, and we have no doubt that others will follow their example.

Another Tractarian has joined the apostate Church of Rome; the Rev. G. Talbot has resigned the Vicarage of Evercreechcum-Chesterblade, and become a worshipper of the Virgin Mary!!!

EDUCATIONAL CLAUSES IN THE FACTORIES BILL.

Sir James Graham has withdrawn the educational clauses from the Factories Bill in consequence of the violent opposition of the Methodists and other Dissenters. The chief ground of objection, at least that on which the greatest stress was laid, was an assumed fear of Tractarian teachers. If these gentlemen are so afraid of "modified popery," how is that they can tolerate "Popery in gross ?" We should be glad to know how many petitions they have presented against the Grant to Maynooth, or what steps they have taken to stop the progress of the scarlet lady. WE HATE HYPOCRISY, whether it be found in Pope John or Pope Joan-or Pope any-body-else. Opposition to Tractarianism we highly approve, but would say to our dissenting brethren in the words of our blessed Lord"These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the others undone."-Matt. xxiii. 23.

THE

CHRISTIAN WATCHMAN,

AND

MIDLAND COUNTIES' PROTESTANT MAGAZINE.

THE CHARACTER AND TOKENS OF THE TRUE CATHOLIC CHURCH,

BY THE REV. RICHARD WALDO SIBTHORP, B.D. (Late Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.) (Continued from page 21.)

Much of that language of deference which some of the "Fathers" use respecting the Roman See, is very naturally accounted for by the weight which that See would acquire, as the episcopate of the capital of the Roman empire, and of that city which was the chief seat of temporal power, the source whence emanated all the authority that regulated the affairs of her widely extended provinces, the seat of appeal from all quarters, and the resort of her subjects of all tribes and languages. A few politic and ambitious men would easily find occasion from these circumstances to acquire an authority which in succeeding and darker ages it would not be difficult to establish and confirm by wrested passages of early Christian writers, and even false interpretations of HOLY SCRIPTURE. Spiritual aid would be brought in to strengthen and complete what was first erected on the basis of temporal importance. Such was the case, in fact, with the Church of Constantinople, which in the fourth century disputed precedence with the See of Rome, and claimed a superiority over all the rest of the episcopal order: and why? because by the division of imperial authority, that city had become joint mistress of the civilized world, and as afterwards by the fall of the Western Empire, she became sole capital, her Church threw off all acknowledgment, not only of dependance,

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