Horncastle, May 29.-Beef, 6s. to 6s. 6d. per stone of 14 lbs.; Mutton, 5d. to Ed.; Pork, 5d. to 6d.; Lamb, 6d. to 8d.; and Veal, 6d. to 7d. per lb. Bristol, May 27.—Beef, 5d. to 6d.; Mutton, 6d. to 7d.; and Pork, 44d. to 5d. per lb. sinking offal. Malton, May 29.-Meat in the shambles:-Beef, 54d. to 6d.; Mutton, 4 d. to 5§d.; Lamb, 7d. to 8d. ; and Veal, 6d. to 7d. per lb. Fresh Butter, 10d. per lb.; Salt, ditto, 46s. per firkin. Bacon Sides, 6s. 6d. to 7s.; Hams, 7s. to 9s. per stone. At Morpeth Fair on Wednesday, there was a great supply of Cattle Sheep, and Lambs; and being many buyers, fat met with ready sale, at last week's prices.-Beef, from 4s. 9d. to 5s. 6d. ; Mutton, 4s. 8d. to 68.; and Lamb, 7s. 9d. to 8s. 3d. per stone, sinking offals. -Boston, May 26-Our second Fortnight Market after the Fair for Cattle and Sheep, was largely attended for the time. The Sheep Market has wonderfully advanced in price since the Fair, being full from 6 to 8 shillings per head higher. Prime stock having sold from 45s. to 50s. per head. Meated Beasts were equal in proportion, and the Market in general cleared at an early hour. Price of HOPS, per Cwt. in the stated as follows:-1818's, 31. 13s. BOROUGH. Monday, May 31.- The Hop plantations make but slow progress, not having yet overcome the late severe check; a few flies have been seen in various districts, but the weakly state of the bines is not favourable for the fly, and it is yet early for them. Markets dull, but little doing. to 4l. 4s.; 1819's, 3l. 12s. to 5l. and The accounts from the plantation 5l. 12s.; 1822's, 71. to 8l. and 91. 9s. state, that the plant has been affected by the frosts last week, but not materially injured. COTTON MARKET. Friday, May 28.-The Cotton market this week has been very firm, but the purchases reported are inconsiderable: the accounts from Liverpool, this morning, bring Maidstone, May 27.-The change of weather this week has been particularly kindly to the Hop plantations: the bines have very much grown, and appear of a good nearly a similar statement of that healthy colour. We have not yet seen any fly in this neighbourhood, still the duty is called not to exceed 100,000l. Worcester, May 26.-On Saturday 118 pockets of Hops were weighed in our market. There is much inquiry after 1819's and 1822's, and the prices are looking up. The average prices may be market. OILS, per Ton, of 252 Gallons. .24 O ..38 0 .25 0 .32 10 VOL. 50.-No. 11.] LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1824. [Price 6d. Published every Saturday Morning, at Seven o’Clock. done. The Meeting, at which this speech of yours was made, TO THE EARL OF RODEN, On his happy conversion through the means of the Bible Society. was only one of many, held about the same time, in the pious WEN. There were many others, some of which, if I have room, I shall notice in the course of this letter: My work may, I hope, be expected to live till all this monstrous stuff shall be put down; and, it is "So he was exceedingly sorrowful; “but it pleased God, in that Society to "inform his mind with the right prin"ciples. He retired to his closet, "poured forth his wishes to the God " of mercy, and it pleased that God to pleasing to me to reflect, that it "listen to his prayers, and to lead him "into the way of truth and life."-The Earl of Roden's Speech, at a Meeting of the Bible Society, May 1824. MY LORD, Bagshot, June 10, 1824. may then be said, that there was one man, who, in spite of all the powers of cant, had the sense and the courage to set his face against it. THE Public have read with great This Meeting is called an Aninterest the account of your Lord-niversary Meeting; so that, it ship's conversion. This conversion seems, that we have it yearly. I it is that has induced me to make am going to state my opinions of some remarks on this Bible Society the undertaking; and I shall do and its proceedings, and I address it without any sort of reserve. I myself to you for reasons that will shall ask to have pointed out to be obvious enough before I have me what is, or can be, the use of X Printed and Published by C. CLEMENT, No. 183, Fleet-street. it; and I shall, I think, point out many mischief's that it must naturally produce. But, first of all, let me insert the report of the pro ceedings on which I am about to comment. persons. spread of the Holy Scriptures, and the active disposition of the funds of the Society is ever prepared to meet those new demands. While the Secretary was reading the Report, LORD HARROWBY entered the room, and was received by the meeting with the warmest expressions of applause; LORD RODEN shortly afterwards entered, and was received with similar demonstrations of applause. The accounts from South America were peculiarly gratifying; "her fields," in the language of the Report, "were already white for the harvest ;" but, indeed, there was The Twentieth Anniversary of the British and Foreign Bible Society was held yesterday at the Freemasons' Tavern. The room was crowded before eleven o'clock, at which period several Noblemen and Gentlemen entered the room. We observed on no quarter of the world from which the platform the Bishop of Litchfield the accounts were not equally encouand Coventry, Lord Gambier, Lord raging. All nations seem anxious to Calthorpe, Charles Grant, Esq. M.P., evince their attachment to the beneand many other most distinguished volent cause of the British and Foreign Bible Society. In turning to the doThe President, Lord Teignmouth, mestic affairs of the Society, the was unanimously called to the Chair, Committee could not but deeply reThe Secretary (the Rev. Mr. Bramgret the loss sustained by the British ble) then proceeded to read an ab- and Foreign Bible Society by the stract of the Report of the Society's death of Mr. Grant, one of the Viceproceedings for the last year. It was Presidents, and one of the oldest very long, but its interest never friends of the cause in which they abated. The progress of the Society, were engaged. The loss of such a in their extensive career of benevo-man was not easily supplied. The lence, has considerably increased Society too had to deplore the death since the last annual meeting. New of one of their Secretaries, who was versions of the Scriptures are still pre-most skilfully acquainted with the paring. Those already prepared un- Oriental languages. The accounts der the inspection of the Society have from the friends of this Soceity undergone revision, Some of them throughout England, proved that the have actually passed through fifteen cause was rapidly advancing through editions. New doors appear to be out this island. In Scotland too the continually opening for the further Society was advancing with a steady * progress. And Ireland had not been gratifying to him, that while our beneglected. [Applause.] The friends nevolence crossed the Line, and wanof this Society were perfectly con- dered forth to visit all who were bevinced that the feelings of the Irish nighted and ignorant, our own people people were most likely to be regu- at home were not neglected or forlated, and their condition improved, gotten. It was very gratifying to by the perusal of the Holy Scriptures; him to see that the state of Ireland and they were now engaged in circu- was not neglected; that was a country lating the New Testament in the Irish in which their exertions would be character. [Applause.] The Report most usefully, and in which, indeed, concluded by recommending to the necessarily they ought to labour. Society to persevere in their exertions, Ireland would not, one day or other, until the whole earth should be filled be insensible of such exertions. If with the Gospel of God. they looked through the Report, it was quite wonderful the wide extent over which the Society spread its beneficent influence. Look to the islands in the Pacific Ocean, the existence of which had been unknown until ascertained by the enterprising spirit of one of our countrymen-in The Earl of Harrowby rose to move that the Report-an abstract of which they had just heard read-might be printed. The Meeting would permit him to make a few observations upon those parts of that Report that peculiarly engaged his attention. There was one question which he felt dis-volved, as they formerly were, in the posed to put upon the very hearing most disgusting licentiousness,-now of the Report-upon considering the anxious to receive and profit by the extraordinary effect produced by the Scriptures of "the living and true Society. Was this the Report of a God, and Jesus Christ, whom he hath Society that had existed for centuries, sent.", If they looked to the vast [Hear!] that had grown gradually, empire of China, however at first and by the accumulated labour of they might incline to despair of its many years obtained its present emi-enlightening, yet the accounts connence? [Applause.] The answer tained in the Report were atall events was calculated to amaze. No! it is the Report of a Society in its mere infancy; or, at all events, of a mere minor Society. It is now only in its twentieth year, and it has only been for the latter ten years of its existence that it has advanced without re not calculated to strengthen such. misgivings. He despaired not of the success of this cause-it had greatly prospered, but not to them belonged, its success-it was the Lord's doing, and marvellous indeed was that suc cess in their eyes. [Hear!] The Noble Earl moved that the Report straint, and vigorously prosecuted its objects. [Hear, hear, hear!] It was of the British and Foreign (Bible: Society for the last year should be [While that man stood there so seprinted. cretly and so concealed, he heard The Earl of Roden said, that the opinions delivered which were indeed Noble Lord who had just sat down new to him, and which penetrated had so ably touched on some parts of his soul, for he then felt that if these the Report, that he had left him lit- sentiments were correct, his eternal tle to say, except to second the reso- misery was well nigh accomplished. He lution, that the Report in question, was not an old man, but years flew to an extract of which they had with apace,-so thought the individual to so much gratification attended, should whom I am alluding-and what be printed under the direction of the then was to become of his immortal Committee. But he could not help soul? So he was exceedingly sorrowful, expressing his gratitude that he was but it pleased God in that Society to now permitted, with the Meeting, to inform his mind with right principles, witness the Twentieth Anniversary of for a good man was there, and he the British and Foreign Bible Society. spoke of the power of God unto sal[Cheers.] It would ill become him | vation, and he cautioned that meetto take up the time of the Meeting, ing, and every soul there, to build in entering into the details of the pro- their faith upon the Bible, and gress of the Society, and of the bles-not upon the words of man [hear]; sings to be derived from it; but there was one simple fact which he could not omit stating to the assembly. I will not, said the Noble Lord, say how many years since, I knew man who was involved in all the scenes of fashionable dissipation which the Irish metropolis doth most abundantly supply. It was his chief ob-retired to his closet-poured forth ject to look for pleasure, and to stifle his wishes to the God of mercy, the thoughts of futurity. He had no and it pleased that God to listen to care for heavenly things, but in this his prayers, and to lead him to the world's worthlessness he took espe- way amid the truth and the life; and cial pleasure. It happened to this though I cannot describe to you the individual, to whom I allude, to be joy and peace of mind which that present at one of the meetings of your man experienced, yet will I say, that Society in Dublin; he was led there in all his griefs, and God hath given from idle curiosity; and, ashamed him his share, he has never despaired to be detected in such a place, he since that day of the blessing and retired to a corner of the room. protection of Heaven. ̈ There, in the a and he told them that to all who sought the assistance of the Holy Spirit, that assistance would not be denied, for that God hath promised "to open to them who knocked;" and that by prayer and supplication the word of God would be made manifest to all. This individual, therefore, |