THE following letter has been sent by Mr. Primmer to Lord Salisbury:—”My Lord,—I have the honour to send your lordship the accompanying copy of the resolution carried almost unanimously at a great Protestant Convencible held last Sabbath, 5th July, in Coatbridge, and attended by about 10,000 persons. For years I was president of a Conservative Association, but your lordship’s utter disregard for the Protestant constitution of this country, and determination to help the Papists, who are the sworn enemies of our throne and nation, into place and honour, has been turning all true Protestants against both you and your party. Your heartless attack on the sanctity of the Sabbath, opening museums and picture galleries on that holy day, and forcing Sabbath boating, at the instance of a Papist, on the people of Linlithgow; your lordship also placing the most bigoted of Papists—the Duke of Norfolk—over the Post Office, and making a Papist the Poet Laureate; attempting to overthrow our School Board system and to subsidise further Popish and Prelatic schools; your sending an agent or an official to the Vatican; and your attempt to put down Protestant meetings in the Royal Parks, while Popish and atheistic meetings are tolerated; all these have wholly alienated the sympathy of the Protestants who returned you to power. The day of reckoning is coming. Popery was the curse of Gladstone and his party, and it will be the curse of yours, unless you cease helping forward that system of intolerance and wickedness which has been the curse of every land. We have been much pained also at your lordship only appointing ritualists as bishops and ministers of the Church of England, and leaving the Armenian Protestants to be massacred by the bloody Turk.—I remain your lordship’s obedient servant, JACOB PRIMMER.”
COURAGE yet, for all that is come and gone; the loss of men is not the loss of the cause. What is the matter though we should all fall? I assure all men the cause shall not fall.—James Renwick.