tions on the above topic, the answer is, that all the other opiniative parts were also omitted. It must be obvious that every paragraph of a long official report which is inserted in a newspaper must tend in proportion to the curtailment of the addresses of the speakers. Newspaper accounts of public meetings are necessarily more or less abbreviated; for the full relation of one set of proceedings would, exclude any notice of many others. Some speeches then must be abridged, or condensed, or perhaps wholly omitted; prominence being given to the addresses of those in whom pro tempore the public feel most interested. The length of the reports is prescribed by the Editor, a limited discretion being left to the Reporter, which I exercised on this occasion by extending my account one column beyond the space allotted for the meeting. Another reason why a mere abstract only of official reports is given, is that they are printed and freely circulated by the committees of the respective institutions; so that any attempt at the suppressio veri under this head, on the part of a reporter, must be defeated.

2. The Bishop of Ripon referred to it.

"The "it," I presume, refers to what the writer of "the Protestant," calls the leading, prevailing, allpervading topic" expressed in the passage above cited. The speech of the Right Rev. Prelate is given in a condensed form, yet not a point is omitted; and there were only two passages which at all bore upon "the topic" which are reported in the Record. I have cut them out of the paper and send you them in print, not in MS., as they appeared, viz:

"If the successes of the Society had multiplied, if increased contributions were pouring into the trea

sury of the institution, if a flame of love towards the Jews was kindled in the hearts of God's people, if fresh evidences that the set time to favour Zion was approaching, it must be remembered that all these encouragements came from the Giver of every good and perfect gift. The lapse of another year brought them nearer to that consummation for which they all prayed and hoped, and though it was not for them to know the "times and seasons" which the Father has placed in his own power, yet they had the sure word of prophecy on which to rest their faith, and by which to strengthen their zeal." * 'He would only add an exhortation that they should all join in fervent prayer to Him from whom all blessings flow,' that he will open the eyes of the benighted children of Israel, that they might be taught to look to him whom they had pierced, so that if his blood was upon them, it might be the merit of that blood, and not the guilt of shedding it."

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3. Lord Ashley triumphed in it with the feeling of one who knows it to be near at hand.

'The speech of Lord Ashley, though reported in the third person is almost a literal report, only a redundant word here and there being omitted not weakening or altering the sense, nor having any relation to the topic.

4. Mr. Bickersteth dwelt upon it most emphatically, when contending against the glaring errors of recent prize essayists in looking forward to a Gentile millennium and spiritual reign.

• This gentleman's speech, for reasons already given, is reported in an abridged form; yet his remarks upon "the topic" are not omitted. Here they are from the print ;

"In allusion to the settlement of a Bishop at Jerusalem,-He was grieved that any in our own church should dislike this measure; but they were lovers of antiquity more than lovers of truth. In the early ages of the Christian Church, a bitter feeling against the Jews might have existed; but then was the time of their being cast off, this was the day of their recovery. In the prize essays on missions recently published, the prophecies respecting the Jews were treated as having reference only to a Gentile milJennium. Others there were who were looking for a spiritual millennium of the Jews without any trouble, conflict, or difficulty whatever to precede it. He disagreed with both those opinions." "A standard was now raised on Mount Zion in the city of Jerusalem, and the Psalms of David would be again re-sung and re-tuned there, and the song of Moses and of the Lamb would be raised by his victorious, triumphant, and united church upon earth.".

5. Mr. Stowell's words were so plain, that I reminded you at the moment he uttered them of his having been, until within a short time, indifferent if not hostile to the doctrine.

The chief topics of Mr. Stowell's address were the appointment of the Bishop of Jerusalem and the co-operation of the English and Prussian Protestant Churches and States in the great work. The most important passages are given in the first person and word for word, and the rest is substantially what he said.

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6. Dr. M'Caul spoke on it.

The speech of Dr. M'Caul was very similar to that of Mr. Bickersteth and of Mr. Stowell, and those parts which merely echoed the same sentiments

were not given, newspapers having no room for repetitions. The nature of the Doctor's observations relative to the statements made in a pamphlet entitled Protestant Churches in the East, is only briefly described; for now I had written more than half the prescribed quantity, and six other speeches remained untranscribed.

7. Mr. Marsh in a speech that eloquently told the gladness of his affectionate heart, in what he is at length privileged to hear, bore very hard on the obstinate opposers of the view which we take, and said, such commentators as he alluded to, in treating of the prediction of our Lord's riding into Jerusalem, would not dare to take it literally: they would have spiritualized the ass.

This is rather a long comment, but my answer to it is very short. Dr. Marsh reported himself in the Record: his speech was printed from his own M.S. which he sent.

8. The Chevalier Bunsen, who rejoices, as we do, in this blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of the great God our Saviour Jesus Christ, expressed it also.

• Every syllable uttered by the Chevalier is reported in the Record; he being an illustrious visitor respecting whom, under the circumstances, the religious public would naturally desire the fullest information. Nothing whatever that the Chevalier said per se is omitted; the only thing not given being an extract which he read from a letter received from Bishop Alexander, the purport of which however, is mentioned, and it would have been printed in full had it been sent to the Record office, as requested, and expected.

9. Mr. Tottenham, Dr. Tyng, Mr. Sirr, and Mr. Villiers, though the latter spoke but few words, all proclaimed it."

"For the reasons before stated the mere mention of these, the later speakers, with the resolutions they proposed and supported was all that could be attempted. If any thing that these gentlemen said upon the "topic" is omitted, so is what they said upon other topics, and the objection of the anonymous censure will apply with equal force to what he designates my "otherwise fair report."

'But after this comparison of allegations with facts, one might reasonably doubt the presence of this writer at the meeting, my report of which he so unfairly impugns. If he were present-and it is no improper retort-perhaps some "determinate bias," or that excitement against which Mr. Bickersteth cautioned his auditors, or a combination of these, made him magnify the meaning of the words spoken to an extent which the speakers did not intend, and which the ipsissima verba when written do not so readily suggest.

'I have abstained from going into any controversial view of the subject, because with that I have nothing - at all to do. The business of a reporter is to narrate what passes, whether it accord or not with his own feelings. In fact, a reporter in the discharge of his engagements has no views of his own upon any question; his duty is only ministerial, he is a mere instrument for conveying to others the proceedings he witnesses. It is not surprising that persons who judge in the spirit in which the article I am replying to is written should attack reporters, because they do not understand the professional characteristic of