The Express. — London, England, 1848-10-26 00:00:00

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Its,apier the 'tipsily o t t a t s muss to Downimpetreet, end tresslw dere re Iliglettilitete Won/ft terms, at this very Iwo, • waverer realise twists It aiadst the load government shah tortuns akerpresese ey Ted Worts all coaomsts In it. °Metal &gaieties. We mil wee ear wllsw soaatrym,o of wary orlon to weir es In ecadwates thwelltrethe wren ere ,tue to tom. We particularly error Ihr appeal le eve fellow-eitisens of WWI' origin, because web:wet WI lisle Tate shall • Irtasol to is rebores to oar tom Thaw tart maw theta way 'comma awl ledepredrat tem r, who atereallwe Nattier; pre joilices, wito detest to fanny. We hare Ong they approve our waggle and our ellbetb We coring wpm Mir moist awe. The rosin of derivation' i past. The miliWit whim a repub. Wan Fran. Las proclaimed the sew WA of Jerre rad et Ireedob. Throws WI on every able; devoutly are .vertb1011111• mire rsUealc their imprtnriptibic Thad& And irou'll it be • sells la up to els m cum. pearelully. lepay, without any tricking? IlitligladeSt wont of blth mine id..lle utter such a ryproech. We ewe net Ine snob con temptible clamour. Coeseinue of the purity d our imam, assured of the ILIIIMIDWO approbation of the colonial minearmity. striate ot denerving sec esteem of the good men of all nations, we shall pursue car patriotic task with dignity, with energy, Intl vigour; we shall demand ear liberties ; thine lthertlen which oar barn posereed fifty year* since, of which they have proved themselves demerlag, imd of lOU_ h devotion has bereft that I I the force of ha yoeela We rhall not be found wanting in thin legitimate struggle of lawful tight again.; arnitrary ruse; and tor cur motto we shall ever adopt the words rograven on Inc escutcheon of lima Britain -Dieu et OKur droit.-11.• rAitora of the tirc,ca, the Editors of the Nowak's, the kditar• ot the IS deAman. lEbt Court. ease bawl, aim from the straws. The seem& has*, side mini ea Tuesday make, vtill le a ve it is exposed Is the souses et *day. Nese eau% et halt for the peasat, en =poled la dr aestropeue. THE CHOLERA. TIIR BOARD Or MULTI{ received repret of @sly ese an of cholera esteeday, and that mair did ast emit Melly. It oe is Whitenapel. PROP IDIII3IIIOII to hi.. as official statement, *awl by the ea rgena et pain, which states that twelve mew mem have bees registered dace the last report from that city. Of these eight terminated fatally. At Newhaven two aew wee are reported, sad at Leith eight. Of thew, two an nturned as dead, and two recovered. The &deli- Memel hisallties affected by the Messes is Rdiabargh an lkows4weet and Higltutrest. CHOLERA Iff MILLBANK Prussic—Yesterday two imams were held in the MiUbenk Prima, before Mi. Bed ford, In the bodies of Dunn Toner, seed 60, by trade a hattsher, sad George May, aged 24, a labourer; both pri semen In the shove gaol , who died from Asiatic cholera. In the dent ewe it appeared that the deceased was ander a ten- Uses of tramportation for 10 years for sheep4tesding at Glasgow. O. Teseday evening, while in his cell, he was eraddealy Shea ID, bet the warners did not think anything swine was the matter with him, and he did not see the seedisal olden of the prison until nine .'clock.—Dr. Buy, the pigetake, said that he toned the deemed wl'h nothing In Ids inesitaiies ressimblieg a severe attack M cholera, and at the lite be did sea Umiak it was cholera. The remedies he pneedhed, bowower, lad reference to the possibility of its being the. At two In the torralag he was is a state of collapse, sad evidently sniesiag nadir Asiatic cholera. He (wiener.) remained with him, esperintending the application of the needles, bat the deemed died at seven o'clock in the esorsiz ia N=lel have saved him, even if he bad had esener. The resident surgeon was &heist it the time the damaged first complained, and that was why he was net ateeeded to s sneer. In connequeace of this socurresee a emend resident medical of had been spectated, and immediate assistance the sseured to any pri- Mani who might be attacked.—The Ceram inquired who thee at set is, Amy bed bees made is the ordinary diet of the primaers, sad what prematioaary measures had been takes t- Dr. Daly mid;the prisolun hod &dentinal epic to their gruel, and from to-morrow Ode day) would have half a pint of beer a day. He h&d recommended that, hutted of imp, solid moat elteedd be given. AU the passers had berm lamina with flannel bandages, and strict orders had been given to keep every past of the prison warm sad lg.—Kr. J. R. Groves, the gunner, in reply to some quetleas from the jury, said he was mach surprised when he heard that the de missed was not than to the ladroury immediately that he emplaned. Special orders had been given to take them to the Ullman upon Raking the slightest complaint. —The jury returned a verdict of " Died trom Asiatic cholera."— The deceased fn the wooed ewe bad also been convicted of sheep stealing. He complained of " being ill ell over " at half pest five o'clock yesterday (Wednesday) morning, but said he would wait until the surgeon came before he went into toe ininnarv. He had then been violently purged, bat did not tell the warder so. At half-put is he was taken to the infirmary, end attended by the residua surgeoa.— Dr. Baly, the physician of the prison, said be saw the de nand at 7 o'clock, and found him suffering under a very severe attack of Asiatic cholera. He told winless that be had had bowel complaint (or two or three days, but that it was so slight he had not thought it worth while complaining, He died at two o'clock in the afternoon. If he had coin• pleined sooner he might have recovered, but nothing could have saved him after the purging and vomiting came on.— The Coroner asked if there were any local muses for the complaint ? Dr. Daly replied that the only local cause was the river, nearly all the cues of cholera in the metropolis having occurred! near it —Several suggestions wen made by the .jury for visiting the prisoners in the aurae of the night. —The Governor said the question was under the considers : Sea of the Secretary of State and the prison inspector.— , Verdict, " Died from Asiatic cholera." - WINDSOR. WIDNESCAT.—The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include the Duchess of Kent, the Docile., of Oloecester, the Prince's of Hohenlohe Laageabnerg, the Lord Chancellor and Ledy Cuttenhare, Lady Anna Marie Dawson. Ltdy,Carrliw Hurray, Baroness de Sweat, Viscount end Vi.voiritiss Harding', Sir Rutort and Lady Peal, Bir Gawp Cooper, and Mr. Giorar. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the Fareirn•olliee. It wee attended by Lord J. Rimell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of *lnto, Ehr G. Grey, Viscount Palmentoe, Earl Grey, the Clasperller of the Exchequer, the Esrl of Auckland, the Eight So. H. Labenchere, L rd Canspbell, the Marquis of Clanricardr, and the Earl of Carlisle. The council sat three beats. Mr. Purdy had an interview with Earl Grey yes terday. Mr . J. A. Jackson kad also an interview yesterday with kis lordship, at the Colonial-Alcoa Mr. Hodgts had an interview with Lord J. Rowell yesterday. at his official residence in Downing -street. V:scount Joce lyn had an interview with Sir G. Grey I yesterday, at the loustnotfioe. TnE Hot. W. TEMPLE, the British minister at the court of Naples, left town yesterday to resume his diplo matic function, in that capitel.—Lord Napier who has acted as charyi d' afaires daring the abomui of his excellency, it is nedentima, wilt leave Naples for England shortly after the Hon. Ilr. Temple reaches that cartel. Loan J. ItEssELL hat, it is stated, appointed next Monday at I o'clock to receive the deputatisa More the Peace Congress at Bromels, to peewit an address hem that body to the British goverment. PRECAUTIONS ON THE SURREY 87DE OP THE Mrrhorotte.—Yesterday, in cone INI1C• of the report of the Commissioner; of the Board of Health respecting the int MOM atlas cholera in the metropolis, the most active moe eares were adopted by the several boards of guardians of the parishes of Lambeth, Newington, St. George's, Southwark, and the Clink Liberty, Bermondsey, Rother kithe, and the smaller perishes situate in and about Tooley• street. Placards were plentifully distributed, stating that the compulsory clauses of the Nuisances Removal and Disease Prevention Act would be enforced; at the same time the numerous courts and alleys in Kt ntatreet and other localities of a similar descrition Imre commenced being white and lists washed , bes ides other precautionary measures. As doubts existed how, and from what rate, this extra expense was to be paid, the subject has been brought under the notice of the Poor Law Board, who have, to the clerks of the several beards, returned the following answer : Sir —I am directed by the Poor Ltmr Board, with reference to their circular letter of the 6tb inst., to state, that as the duties devolved upon the board of guardians under the provisions of the Nuisance Reesoval Act, may teed to en increase of the labours of their pall dicers, the Pow Law Board are prepared to give a famtwattle cowls devotion to say proposition for the ttraporary appointment and lor the suitable remunerat inn of such ammint °Mem. in the department of the clerks, the medical Weems, or the relieving officers, is may, in any ewe, appear to to requisite for the porton Westing effect to the isitestims of the kgislaturs in franung that act.-1 am, its., Gm. NUMMI" Secretary. CHOLERA WARDS AT THE FREE HOSPlTAL—Yen ta:day, a meeting of anbeeriben and committee of manage- Meat of the above hospital was held in the board-room of the institution, Dr. Rios, chairman of the committee board, presiding, when it was announced that, the committee, to meet the exigency of the present epidemic of Asiatic cholera, have caused two additional wards, contaicing 100 beds, to be opened for the reception of cholera patients. FALmount.—A correspondent, under date Oct. 23, says, "Meow of cholera has occurred here or in this dis taut. One vessel arrived in port from the Baltic, on board which some sickness prevailed, but that not of a virulent character. The vessel war, however, placed in quarantine. The mayor and corporation have requested that the in habitants should assist one another to remove nuisances wherever such may be known or 'appealed to exist, and have further notified that, as a body, the authorities will back, if necessary, by prosecution, any well-founded complaints which any two householders may prefer under the Sanitary Act." FRENCH NATIONAL OUARD6 IN LONDON. DEPUTATION TO TII MANSION-novas—k con eastoenc• of a erammakseis from the ambassador of the French repair the Lad Mayer meek arrangements to naive a large aralaren ass the Peeilea national guard at the Mensinsehense. The Was addrawd to his lordship stated that a see nib nt of the animal guard of Paris, actuated by a petard sympathy, as well as by the feeling occasioned byphe medial hospitality which they had cape. arced in England, Mind Ewing their short stay to present their respectful acknowledgment' to the thief mag istrate, and the ambassador, AT representative of France, joined, too, array with them in the sentiment to embrace the opportunity of drawing dean the fri e n d) ) o bonds which auto* the two great nations whose understanding is capable of accomplishing en much for pace of the rest of the world. Twelve o'clock was the time appointed for Toserrise the deputation, end before that time upwards of ha damn were assembled in the immediate neighbour hood. The attention of a vast number of people was, as a MAW of coarse, attracted to the place at which the visitors mar in cabs and omnibuses in a continuous stream from her per 11 till a quarter past 12. By the direction of the • 111110 f several emu titian of the City police were in attralemse, sod the national guard were received at the mast antenna by the adlars of the koneeleld, who con dialed them to the igyptian Hall. The Lai Mayor se compered by Aldermen Wilson, Humphrey, and Mus po'fft, end by the Lady Mayoress, kraidistely der de =te the Rubor of between three sad fen had asimmided sod pissed thomeshes is roast sods'an eased mend, asst, midst lead syphon, gneosied to the eteSeein. The onnamiest then mama the Loa : he that may et the Melt tend es Plain snort had aniseed M the invi ted= with* intinel at Calais to visit them, sad it h sleghseawprMsdto them that as they INTO so MIT Lain they mould do nothing better than pay a visit to their semaint liagliah friends in that capital, they had deter mined to adept the agreeable advice of their felloueountry ma They hit that they wad net via the shores of Sas himi whlmat er misi their respects to the Lord Mayor of Lerdsm, y as they had met with the Mediae reap_ Yes 61111 ranks of the people in every part of this hospit able asaary. It was the ardent wish of the national guard it Pads that the good understanding and the kind Witeg whleh prevailed between the two countries asoli nest with ao intresgtion, sad the members of the b when he (the sommanat) ngreeented would, he sineed the Lewd Mayer, one bear is remembrance the mama with whisk they had been resolved, and which was orsalser to give en additional ranks to the regard which erred between the two countries. (Luddism from the whale body.) The Lord Mayor era, I del very mach ratified es rid magistrate of this city, end I am sure that rah is the ere else with my Moan seashostes now =at the smentscAty el warming the aralsies ref the guard eirstr bin ffisommed, *yea the mann et lair visit to this sr My. I boys sod believe that these die will have the Whet of preanag sad increasing pd fseliag rd nediality between - as two cann a*. es I ass semensed that mash of the peaee sad Imequillity daneft whisk las wadi to be desired, will =ets the MTIMMO ef &Idol and friendly feeling hetwen Imes and lastead. I am your most happy to en yea all, aad I Inn an during tsm ray semen in Lepage, ma noseasen the ty et anis es many tithe puha giber mod weeks of art se end that yea will Mora hone gratified at the te =l, alumni.* then that the Lied Nara woad pay e Z r =d g esal la pool if Paris a visit, sad means inn an their wane sehemeatigments in air sera mans etas essepan whin they MI met with is Meramd.--11h Waft empended to the lavitation, and the members of the meassii guard then retired, and proceeded to visit the Royal Radmagund the other public buildl:tho City. Hove, or LORDS.••• fades ef the far Chemhorlain,the House of Lords was he be thrown eyes fir the in spection of u many of the national guard SI &SOS TO attend. Two or three hundred availed theaserse elf hie Issilady's offer, and went in elections to view this newel building. Upon 'eyries, every one appeared to be Mesa with man neat at the magnificence of the edifies. So 88888 or • NATIONAL OCAZD:T1111 following rob bery was committed co the person et IL Louis Coat, owe ti the garde nationals, in hi l s w Eage as board of the Dahlia, - between lingiirford- sod London-bridge. M. Coen, who went on board at Owner bridge, had is his person • worsted purse in which were three sovereigns end a number of lacer Mr When Mons. Corbel entered on board the Deka, be had the whets of the mean ens on his perms an leaving the boat, sad having own= for lone nosey he diamond that it had been stolen. The thief had exhibited his adroitness by removing the other portion of Mons. Corbel's money front another pocket. As soon as his lam wee ascertained, the captain and others connected with the boat indurated to record what description of person wee nor him, but no individual of a suspicious character could be recollected. Prom the clean manner in which the puree and the other lieeperty was abstracted, it is the opinion that the robbery wee efeeted by some of the member of the swell mob r Mons. Corbel wee entering the boat. As soon r the robbery wes made known to the City police, information wee sent mead to the several bullion dealers, but with little chance of the mosey beiag resovered. Dareorras.—ht 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon, between 400 aid 600 of the garde nationals and members of the i 7 p ol aerie lestftntion took their fromthe mtr he Paris, on the &nth Banana Railway. A racial train, emegeisiag 18 carriages, lad been prepared at the London- Ware terminus to convey them on their return home. On haring they acknowledged in most warm terms their grati tade in the kind welcome they bad received in Lon don, and es the train drew out o f the station the crowd whir had collected on the platform were bade adieu by MIDDLESEX REDlsllololl.—Yesterday the bar- deter revised the lista for the perishes of Riverton, Morn wry, sad Willesden. The court wee held at Jack Straw's Cud*, liazapetead. In the Willesden list the WIN of R. Bosworth was objected to by the Overseen, o't the ground of change of residues. Hr. Payne contended at some length that mere change of residence was no diqualiflcatios, and stated that the Court of Common Pleas had decided that reddest* formed no part of the qualification. The barrister, however, held that as the party bed had du notice of the cbjeetion, and was not in attendance to supply his true place of abode, the name must be struck out, which was accordingly &sae. In the new claim list of theism parish Mr . Payne raised an objection to the name of H Hodadon, for insufficient de. seripdm, his plus of abode being described " Hensel green, in this parish," indeed of •• Renal green, Middle le:." The overseer stated that on a previous re vision the barrister had recommended the adoption of the form of de scription used in this instant*, and it was adopted in fifty Instances in the register. The barrister ultimately made the alteration smutted by Hr. Payne, and the claim was allowed. Today the court will be held at the Whiw Horse, Uxbridge. SWISS NATIONALITY--lAllt night a soiree was held in the large room of the Whittington Club in CuMlllll - of the woad centeaary of the nationality of Swit zerland u acknowledged by the powers of Europe in the treaty of Westpludie. A large wane of persons assembled on the oceasicm.—Mr. Dawson, the chairman, and other gen tlemen, addressed the amiably and dwelt on the importance to Europe of the independence sad unity of Switzerland. A selection of made increued the enjoyment of the evening. The appearance in the ream of some of the French national =was the signal far a spentsneau and right hearty of English good feeling. The " Mareeillaise " was sang by Mr. Collet. The media moaner in whisk the stran gers were welcomed gave them evident satisfaction. BENZVOLILNT :SOCIETY OF BLUES.—The ball! yearly general meeting of the meatball of this society, which was eetahllied la 1624 for the purpose of audios relief to persons sientalmet by distress, who received their education at Miffs lismOtal, sad to their widows, Be., was held the Medea Tavern ; J. Perkins, Esq., a former efOrkit's Hospital, occupied the chair. The meeting Sue pretended to the election of two additional pensioner,. There wan Ia all 20 esadidates, 11 of whom were unsucceso tel on hems, madam Two of the mod deserving having beam sleeted en the loads, gratuities wen presented to the disappointed candidates. According to the report the re sents he the half-year amounted to 4331.8 e., which Included rstiout Wanes of 1601., donations, subscriptions, rie. fie total stock in the poesession of the society now mounts to about 6,8001. In common with other institutioss the society during the past year had suffered a decrease ea the amount of annual subscriptions. After the nasal vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated. BUILDING ON THE INCLOSURE, LEICESTER -SQUARE. —Yesterday preparations commenccd within the lockout, ; Leisesterequare, to convert that hitherto useless spot of ground into an Exchange Bazaar, to be called the Royal , Victoria Arcade Bazaar. Them will be four distinct en , trances—one at each angle of the square—the arcade being ; in the form of a eras, the statue of King George the First , fuming its centre, round which will be contracted a dna ; lar preenesade, open to the air. Within eaeh angle an OTII4 medal beaten will be ccestrneted, to be supplied with water from the Artesian wells that furnish those in Trafalgar , square. This ground was originally leased to Miss Linwood , by the clown, together with the opposite building, known as Saville Palace, with an express covenant that it was not to be built over. In consideration of the highly-ornamental ; character of the propoied construction, sad the vast improve , anent it will be to the neighbourhood, the Commissioner of Woods and Forests are understood to have consented to the nudes. ; I THE RAILWAY SYSTEM SUGGESTED.—A striking suitestion of the extension of railway communication WI syetm," ea connecting lines are now called, will be found in Sir Richard Phillips's " Morning's Walk from London to Kew," published in 1813. On reaching the Surrey Iron Railway, at Wandsworth, Sir Richard records : " I found renewed delight in witnessing at this place the economy of horse labour on the iron railway; yet a heavy sigh escaped Ise as I thought of the inconceivable millions which have been spent about Malta, foe: or fire of which might have been the means of extending double lines of iron railway from London to Edinburgh, Olaserow, Holyhead, Milford, Fel:south, Yarmouth, Dover, and Portsmouth. A reward of a single thousand would have supplied coaches and other vehicles, of various degrees of spe ed , with the best tackle for THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1848. readly towing out ; and we 'eight, en this, have wilneseed oar nasil macaw running at the rata of 10 miles as boor, drawn by a single lunge ar lapelled 16 wiles an hear by likisithang's weave-en gine. Irk would have bees • legit.- EMS motive by sverstaggdag tM be.... of a nation ; and the arapaigilin Si OS sod metal a work would have likoisd Mind kir pubis triumph is general paid. 1...!" The wriest of SIMS remarks lived until 1840 as to his that lanlseedise hoil b solliaatho of witnessing a triumph akin op. HlDRlLffititirr.—iiir,—At a time When we are thewermsd by the advent of • malady whose deviated= is semi only to that of the plague—when we have latel been all alive with oar "Health of Towns Big," with our " Boards of Health," local, mistral, and general, sad the daily prints teem with preventives against, sad nmedivs for, cholera ; at this moment, the city of Lambe is =and and ethane= by • plague spot in its very heart, to which the dens of St. Oils; and ce nay, even filth-reeking Smitbaeld, ere gardensof Omens. It is tainted and disgraced by the existence of a =Lanes upon the profits of which. it is said, some of the Slaw trio= =nab= of Its cherished corporation food and fatten. Can it be for this reason that it is allowed to reseal* seathlese, whilst other and is offensive grievance' are carefully destroyed around it? Dose a feeling of self-Interest , nourished in the pure breasts of mayor, aldermen, and common council, throw a shield of protection over the exudetioes, the exhalations, the filth and the stench of Leadenhall ? I am not desirous of drawing such a conclusion. Bat it may be that • gilded film ob genres the sight, and an odour of lucre absorbs the olfactory powers of our worthy authorities. la heaven's name, let them arouse themselves, and turn their steps in the dine Lion of the City hide market. Let them wade, if they can, through the putrid steam which arises at this time of year from a weekly 4,000 of tainted hides; let th.m, I say, mark the Spirit of Cholera, and her attendant, Death, culling with eager hands the foul and noxious ingredients of the " leprous distihneut " which she is about to pour upon the neighbouring courts and alleys and the thickly crowded I tiers of merchants' offices. Watch her mingling the deadly draught in the cup and viands which are set before the hungry artisan, thrifty clerk, and rotund citiz n, in each and all of the thousand and one close eatinghouses with which the neighbourhood abounds. Mr. Editor, lam a plain man and not over-nice, but I confess that a saunter down Laden hall-street upon snidey in autaton is eemewhat of a "Wiener; and I find theta visit to the market itself, with its reeking produce, is an undertaking requiring some stomach to en counter.—Your daily reader, T. 11.—City, Oct. 26. MISAPPLICATION OF CHURCH PROPERTY.—SiF,-1 have read several of y our observations upon the shameful misapPostion of the income arising from the property held by deans and chapters, particularly that of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, arising tram the sale of the coal in that county. You will prince insert the following ants meets la your paper. One 'taupe' in which a large sum of money might have been made available by the legislature an the present scheme of church extension will afford some idea of the enormous sums which have been aburactea ft= th• church in the 'thole of that county. In the y ear 1803 the Dean and Chapter granted a lease of the coal in the manor of Wee= to a lessee who opened • colliery, and commenc ed working in 1806 01.'1807, WOOS which time the lessors have been receiving from the same large sums annually, in the form of mutate rent, which they hays appropriated to their own use, instead of investing the same, or applying them to religious purposes. The rent of this colliery as year amounted to 2,3001.; but taking the average at 1,8001. per annum, it would, at this present time, have so= mutated to 73,8001., independent of the annual interest of the gradually augmenting sum which might have been divided amongst the prebendaries of Durham, and a still larger income to their 11110XISOrs as is shown practically iii the case of the Rev. E. S. Thu rlow, rector of Houghton-le- Spring, who said he would not rob his successors for his own benefit, sad invested the testate rent accruing from coal under his glebe, and thus securing • permanent income to the succeeding rectors. The scheme of the ecclesiastical commis wieners with reference to church leaseholds is to sacrifice the lessees who have given a valuable consideration for their leaseholds, and in many instances expended large MIL of money in making improvements, entirely overlookine the wholesale plunder of the mineral wealth of the church which' is daily in progress. It behoves the lessees of the Dean and I Chapter of Durham to draw the attention of the legislature to this fact, by which means • liege fend may be made im mediately available fur the purposes of church t xtension, without committing injustice upon any party, and thus draw from themselves the certainty of being made :the sacrifice upon the occasion. This may be effected by the lessees meet. log together and organising themselves in a proper manner, so as to ensure the attention of parliament to their interests, To thole lessees who are timid and afraid of offending the Dean and Chapter it may be observed that any petition they may draw out would not be against them, as the property will come under the consideration of parliament early next', remits, and the power taken entirely oat of the hands of the Dean sod Chapter. In =ethnical, if any pen= disputes the sentaasoraey , let him not do s te so me 4 t alm s ti t le the neg a ative, Itut of tn ih rta e Um ntal en e t el what has been the real receipt from the coal in question sines the colliery commenced working.—A. LIASEROLDaa. Loss OF AN EMIGRANT SHlP.—Yesterday the deter tics of an emigrant ship while in a "inking condition, with no lees than one hundred and fifteen passengers on board, was reported at Lloyd's. The following particulars are confirmed by commudthtious from Mr. Buchanan, the chief agent of emigration at Quebec, who took the depeition of the passengers. The vessel in question was the schooner Ann, 200 tons burthen, Archibald bl'Fie, master, belonging to Limerick, bound to Quebec with 124 emigrants, men, women, and children. She arrived in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the 26th of September, and was beating up, the wind blowing very heavy, when she came in collision with another vessel. She was rendered a perfect week, her mete and rigging being carried away, and her bows stove in. AU the pass errs at the time were below asleep, but the violent concussion threw them out of their berths, and • scene of the utmost dismay prevailed. The crew, at the direction of the master, Immediately fastened down the hatches, so as to prevent the poor terrified creatures emeping en to the deck, and then, with the captain, leaped on board the vessel with which they had been in imam& The vessel was then lacing got clear of the Ann, ▪ incredible ae it may appear, had been abandoned lib her living freight below decks. Nis of the parson however, jut beam the womb parted managed by the rctioa between the steerage end t il er e 4 l the and (allowed the septa* and crew en to Ulu vein This ;tamed eat to be the ' =of Graagensouth, a Neat= She had sustained ' e damage to her Ageism her bowsprit being canted away. Apparently no injury had been mused to her MD, yet net the least effort was made to rescue the um tertenne emigrants. The liampun, it is reported, left the week ef the Ana, and was soon loot sight of. The terrified Intone§ eventually burst open the hatches, and on got- Ogg ea desk discovered the deplorable condition they were in. The boats were destroyed, and every sea made a hese& over her. After some difficulty, they contrived to Mist a light at the stump end of the mast as a sig nal of distress, which, in the course of the follow ic morale' was seen by the Princess Royal, of offv=Me master, Mr. Druguid, took all the emigrants o l l ie amirdance of the brig Hibernia, of Workington, Cathie= mesler, which brought about 23 out el 102, her boats being we, email ix the ma that was running. If it bad not bees dm des aseistense eras bag, some of the men I would have been left behind. The passing* saved nothing, bat what they hod on their hash,. Subsequent moments mention the arrival, at Quebec, ef the nine passengers who get jlr a:eisek and wend ea bleed the Hampton, that vast dues es WA She Stewart, of Paelmea Ps l i s li n, strange t• may,_•l the master and mew of the A= so tidings have bum herd. The Mae passengers AM that they left than en haled. The Ann, we ere is ihnuid, has been seen on shore ea the south side of the Yid of Anticosti a perfect wreck. Loss OF THE VELOCITY, ABERDEEN AND New- AMMO STlA.llll.—lattlligellOt sea yesterday received at land* from their agents at Aberdeen, announcing the com plete loss of the Velocity steamship Mr. John Stuart, oom mender. The vessel left Newaetle on Saturday morning. The weather was exceedingly boisterous. The steamer, however, managed to bear up against it unt il 6 o'clock on the fol lowing evening (Sunday), when ces roaming in for Aberdeen she came in contact with the north pier. The is* was so great that she almost immediatel parted in twe, and soak. A large portion of the quarter deck luta manly became detached from the wreck, to which the paw engineers, and others of the crew clung for their reriiltiteboats were put off to their aid, and dtw mesh diflieelty, inceeeded in picking them all up. Almost hams- Andy after they had been reined, the portion of the wreck ea to which they had got went to pier= The Ve locity is understood to have been infalad. A few hours after this unfortunate event another newel was lost near the same plass A brig laden with coal, called the St. Nicholas, oho from Newcastle, was driven upon the sands at the back of the pier. The crew were saved. NARRATIVE 01 , A PASSENGER BY THE OCEAN MONAICII.—" I was on the deck, dose to the Captain when the steward ran up the cabin stairs and said the ship was on fire. You may gum what my feelings were at that moment. I ran down into my berth and fetched my family upon deck. It bunt out into • flame directly, and there appeared nothing but death, either by fire or water, staring us in the face. I took charge of Willy sad Richard, and m wife took charge of Elizabeth. We determined to keep a ltogether, and did so for a ceneiderable time; bed there was so mush confusion that we found it to be lea. possible to do so. We kept making our way to the !re part of the ship, out of the way of the fire ; and as there were two other ships in eight, we entertained some hopes of being avid. The heat •so inns= that we were obliged to go over the bow of the ship, and hang by the ropes and chains, but I had not been there long before the rope that sustained me and the two children gave way, and we ware all going to the bottom together. M 7 wile entreated me to save myself if I could eat save the children, so I was obliged to let go both of the dear lamb' at one moment in order to try and save myself for the sake of those that were =II left with a hope of being saved. I thus got hold of another rope and hung by it. I only saw I my wife and Elizabeth ono" after this ; they wen then upon what is called the jib.bootn. They appeared in • very safe position, and I felt almost certain they would be saved; but I found by the New York papers, to my very gnat grief, that my hope was groundless. • • I was taken up out of the burning wreck about three hours and • half after the fire broke out, by a merchant ship, called the Sea Queen, bound for New York. They threw me and an Irish g irl a rope, and pulled us through the water into their beet, bat the sea was running so high at that time that they could not put us into the Brazilian steamer. They had saved the lives of 22 other persons. They put them on the steamer, but the sea was so rough that they were obliged to take us forward to New York. I had taken my money and put it into one of the boxes, so that in one short day I was bereft of my family and reduced from (ambit to povevti. For three days atter I got on the Bea Queen I could net hold up my head ; and, but for the kiadaws of a family from Leeds, at the name of Nether. wood, I certaialy smut have died." The writer, Mr. Jack. saw, pawnbroker, of Elhaleid, after this describes his Tay mit purge to Bakes in 'holies Queen, 01W:tray* days, sad wentious the charity of the captain and pmession in wino torao.—Shoiliold now, Oct. 21. IRELAND. In another column will be found some remarks upon the respite of the sentence of death pronounced on Mr. B. O'Brien and his =spanking in rebellion, and it will be seen that our Portsmouth correspondent slimily points out the vessel which rumour has designed for the rerun! of the convicts. No official announcement has, however, been made of any ame lioration of the sentences on the convicted tssitors. DUBLIN. OCT. 25. All but speculation has ceased this morning, and speculation says that the law auth o rities here do not proceed with the political toils because they have not been advised what course to take from your side the water. Not a syllable was said upon the subject yesterday to the rising of the court. Nothing is spoken of throughout the country but memorials for mercy. According to Saunders' News Letter, it is under stood that the authorities are in possession of the details of a plot entered into by some silly visionaries, having for its object the rescue of Mr. Gavan Duffy, either before or after his triaL Such precautions, it is said, have been made as would totally defeat this ab surd attempt, if made. According to the Clonmel Chronicle, the entire cost of the witnesses in the recent state prosecutions for high treason, as paid by the crown, amounts to 1,5001. Dobbin, the informer, was paid 171., including all his expenses up to yesterday. With respect to the men who refused to give evi dence against Mr. O'Brien, the judges have ruled that Jobs O'Donnell, a farmer of the better class, and Richard Shea, a lad of about 18 years old, aro to be imprisoned for one year, from the Ist of October, and fined 101., and in default of paying such fine that they be further imprisoned for a period of three months. Edmund Egan, the other man who refused to give evidence, is in for trial, a:true bill for high treason having been found against him. The following is from the Clonmel Chronicle: In the course of last week a gentleman named Stevens laid a distress fur rent en the lands of Clean/goose, near Mullins hone, and, on Saturday night last, an armed patty, consist. inn of fourteen or fifteen men, attacked the keepers, who had been paid by Mr. Stevens to watch the mops. The keepers re , is rd the villein manfully, and kept up a regular fire with them for soma time. Two of the keepers were wounded, one in the head, and the other in the leg. Some of the party also were wounded. In the heat of the fight, a large him& dog, belonging to one of the ruffians, was seen to assist hie muter, and was severely wounded. When the fellows saw the determination of the keeper* they went off, leaving their wounded dog bek:nd them. Assistance soon came to hand. The dog lett the place; being followed by a party of police ,• he found his way bogie, and seven of the sun were captund and lodged in gaol yesterday. Six others are ego in custody, and will be committed es soon as their examinations are con chided. This is a most singular case—by the providential wound given to this dog those marauden have been dis covered, and will pay the penalty admix' offence. STATE PRIBONRII WATERFORD CORPORATION. WATERFORD, OCT. 21.—A singular difficulty hujust arisen in the municipal again of this borough. Mr. Stews', one of the borough meson, is unable to preside at the annual revision of the lavrgeteroll, in consequence of being a pH soon under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. The muni cipal law insperstively requires ►is presence, or that of a de puty appointed by him. He refuses to appoint &deputy. The town council applied to have him enlarged, but the Lord- Litutenant refused to comply with the request Should the government continue 'inexorable, sod should Mr. Strange persist in his determination not to art by deputy, the pre dicament will be tolerably serious as regards our local affairs, and its try solutiou is not yet foreseen. Owing to peculiar r, this revision is this year of more importance than nenaL SCOTLAND. EDINBURGU, OCT. 24. It Laving been found that no board of health can be formed in Edinburgh, in consequence of the non•ap plication of Lord Morpeth's bill . to Scotland, the sani tary state of the city has to be confided to the commis sioners of police and parochial boards. The first fruits of which arrangement is that the parochial boards will not unite in order to carryout precautions against the spreading of cholera. The board' of St. CuthUrt's has the credit of breaking up the unanimity that otherwise prevails among the other boards connected with the city ; and as it so happens that some three fifths of the city is within St. Cuthbert's the obstinacy of its board is a matter of some consequence. St. Cuthbert's promisee to take charge of its own cholera patients, but, judging from appearances, they will not be very vigilantly looked atter, unless the board be well watched. The want of a national system of re gistrations of deaths is now felt: in hospitals and other public iustitutionsreturns can easily be obtained, but the difficulty in getting returns from private practitioners is such, that the Lord Provost boa had to issue a proclamation requiring daily reports to be made to him. The death of Professor Tennant, of St. Andrew's, has caused a vacancy in the Hebrew chair of that university as well as in Edinburgh College. The en dowment in St. Andrew's is 1101 in Edinburgh 1151 In fees, St. Andrew's formerly bad the advantage, but probably the balance is now the other way. A sub scription has been commenced to reimburse Mr. Mac donall for his expenses in contesting the Edinburgh Hebrew chair. _ _ An association has been formed in Glasgow for the purpose of checking farther depreciation in railway property. The means proposed are the publication of correct accounts of the capital and income of each line, and their intentions and powers in regard to new works, branches, and amalgamations. The Glasgow and Ayr Company was to take the initiative in this judicious course by publishing full and accu rate details of their present transactions and future liabilities. PROVINCIAL. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND DICIDE.—At Lincoln, an Monday, at the usual sitting of the magistrates, Charles Hastings was charged with attempting to murder Lydia Greekam by cattail her throat, and then endeavouring to destroy himaslL The prosecntra, it appeared, led an aban. dosed life. She had boss :on intimate terms with the pri soner end, on the 6th of this month, the peosecutrix was seen walking with another man. This enraged Hastings, who struck her three or four times, dragged her along the floor into the parlour, and fastened the door. Screams of murder were then heard, and, on the door being forced open, the unhappy mamma, Lydia Gresham, was seen stretched upon the sofa with ha hands over her throat, and Hastings was kneeling upon her. It was then found that her throat was cut, a d before the primer could be arrested he also in flicted a severe gash in hie own throat. It is exceedingly doubtful whether the woman will now survive. The magis trates remanded the jwisoner.... -- - - WORKSOP LABOURER'S FRIEND SOCIETY. —OR Tuesday was bald the eighth anniversary meeting of this societ,y. In the evening, a public dinner took place at the Red Lion Hotel, the Duke of Neweutle presiding, there being about ninety gentlemen present. The usual loyal toasts having been duly honoured, Kr. H. Owen proposed " The Health of the Duke of Portland," coupling there- , with " Success to Agriculture." His Orate had ever been a , most zealous supporter of sioicaltural interests, and the , results of his exertions had been of advantage to all , humanity, foe Americans and others were instantly arriving , at Welbeck to view the noble duke's farms, as well u her works•of irrigation Mr. Owen concluded by expronin a hope that his Grace might survive the great affliction w hic h had fallen upon him in the loss of his son, Lord George Bullock, and that he might live long and happily. The successful competitors for prizes having been called into the room, the Duke of Newcastle, as president of the societ congratulated them upon their success. He wu delighted , at the large attendant*, and at the great number of com petitors. and said it wu for many raisons a happy thing that the institution should be so prosperous. It must be a great inducement far labourers to conduct themselves properly, and strive to becomeskillalworinnen, that they might receive the rewards of the riciety. He hoped all who had gained prizes would, by their continued good behaviour, and re. eider attendance at church, show an example to their fel low-servants ; and it was also desirable that they should on every amnion strive to serve their employers faithfully and well. [The awards were then presented.)—Sir T. W. White, i it i t s i minini t t i l s ie health of the noble president, congratulated and hearers that they were Englishmen ; because, in looking at other countries the y perceived how the people were saffiring, and how badly they had behaved to their sovereigns and all above them. The fact of a different state of thaw existing in England, was attributable to the aristo cracy joining ics like the one whose annivereary they were met to celebrate ; and emulating in the way they did with the agriculturists and labourers of the couatry.—His Grace acknowledged the compliment, and said he always felt that no persona were more entitled to the respect and esteem of their countrymen than the labourers, especially those who prizes by good conduct or skill in their calling. re in ehomas White had spoken of thine " beneath " him (the noble duke). He did not consider men beneath him who earned respect by their labour and industry ; and he hoped to live to see the time when two-thirds of the inhabitants of this country would be such, for then would England be pros.' perms and happy.—The Vice.preident (Mr. Eddiion, of Elltinoeks) said be hoped there would be • large attendance en Thursday next, at thegreat county meeting to be held at Maaadleld, to decide open some fitting testimonial to the memory of Ledaeorge Bentinck.—The noble president rose at eight o'clock, and bidding the meeting farewell, maid he retired thus early because he had a great demi to occupy his attention with respect to the county meeting to which Mr. Masan had alluded. He (the Duke of Newcastle) hoped all present would be at Mansfield on the 26th. Tag LAW OF LllooAol.—A point of importance to railway travellers wee decided recently at the Bath Cassidy Court. The Rev. Mr. Rogers, on the Ist of May bet, travelled by the first.clees train from Bath to Paddington. 1 He arrived at the Bath ration by coach; his luggage, con sisting of a portmanteau, and containing chiefly articles of clothing, was handed down from the coach by one of the porters of that vehicle, and immediately one of the aempany's porters approached and asked Mr. Rogers woes* he was going to; being informed Pertain ton, he pasted one of the company's luggage tickets on the portmanteau and placed it in the luggage receiving room, where it was drawn upon the platform above by a machine used for the elevation there of passengers' luggage. The rev. plaintiff procured and paid for his ticket, and pro. ceeded to the platform, where he saw his portmanteau, with other luggage, in the care of the company's servants. He watched one of these wheel it to the luggage van on the sr rival of the train, and was informed by one of them in reply to a question he pat to him respecting ha safety, " It would be all right." The rev. gentleman then took his seat in the carriage, and on arriving at Paddington he got out tilhand went to the luggage van for the oortmanteau, however, could not be fouLd. It appeared to have been lost or stolen in the transit from Bath. Inquiries were made of the superintendent, but no tidings had been beard of the portmanteau, and, consequently, this action was brought against the company to obtain 191., the value of the articles of clothing which the portmanteau contained. The company disclaimed their liability under a bye-law, said to be made in pursuance of a clause in their act of parlia ment, 6 & 6 Wall. IV , c. 107. authorising them to make bye.laws for the regulation of the company. The bye-law was in these words ; —'• Every first-class passenger will be allowed 112 lbs., every 2nd-class passenger 56 lbe ,of luggage, free of charge ; but the company will not be responsible for the care of the same, unless booked and paid fur accord ingly. All surplus luggage, and miirchandise of every de scription, will be charged tor. The company's porters will load and unload the luggage at the different stations free of charge." It was contended for the plaintiff that the compar.y had no power by such a bye-law to restrict their liability in respect of passengers' articles of clothing not exceeding 401bs. in weight and contained in a package not exceedinz 4 cubic feet in dimensions, because lay section LA of the Railway Act it was enacted, "That without extra charge, it dual be lawful for every passenger to take with him his articles of clothing not exceeding that weight and those dimensions, though the company should in no case be liable for the sale carriage or custody of any articles other than such and such dimensions." By the same clause, it was provided, "That nothing therein contained should extend to charge the com pany further than where, according to the laws of the realm. stage coach proprietors and common carriers would be liable." If the company agreed to take au excess beyond the 401 be. weight, it must do so on the footing of common stage coach proprietors, who could not rid themselves of liability in respect of such articles to any amount, ex cept by special agreement with the passenger.—The rev. pnintiff then deposed to the facts states, and added that he was wholly unaware of the existence of the t ye-law in question.—On the part of the company Mr. Seymour Clarke was called, and produced a parchment, upon which was printed a copy of the original bye.laws attested by the seal of the company.—His Honour then summed up, and in refiewir.g the arguments, observed that no doubt the bye-law in (patio's had been legally passed by the company and allowed by Mr. Justice Patteson. By the law any luggage, of whatever weight, in order to en title a peasouper to charge the company with its loss, must be booked and paid for by the passenger. The regulation had not been observed in the present cue. That was an answer to the present action. He saw nothing in any other acts affecting the question, and although it must be admitted to be a hardship on the plaintiff, the only question with which he had to do was whether the company were legally liable to the loss. He was of opinion they were not, ai.d consequently that the plaintiff must be noneuited. LITERATURE. A Friday of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Ameri , a. By SAMUEL, LORD BISHOP or OXFORD. Second edition. It would be difficult to find a more complete con demnation of the church of England than is con tained in the pages of this volume. The facts brought together by the Bishop prove most undeniably that from the time of the that colonisation of America until the revolution the church of England was, either from want of zeal amongst its dignitaries, or want of expansion in its sys'em, or too intimate a connexion with the state, or too great an indulgence in party politics, utterly . without power or will to provide for the due extension or per petuation of its doctrine and discipline in that con tinent. These conclusions arc honestly, and without any attempt to shirk them, brought forward by his lordship. From MSS. letters in the Fulham library, written by members of the church in America ; from the letters of Bishop Berkeley, who went to the new world purposely to endeavour to supply some of the wants which neglect had occasioned, from sermons, pamphlets, and histories, the Bishop of Oxford has proved that no religious society ever failed so thoroughly in establishing their faith in a country u the church of England has failed in America. The author admits this fact to its fullest extent, and supplies his hearers with plentiful data on which they may found conclusions. One instance will suffice. At the beginning of the eighteenth century the following, as appears from contemporary documents, was the state of the church in the colonies : In South Carolina there were 7,000 BOW! . , besides negroes and Indians, living without any minister of the church, and above half the people living regardless of any religion. In North Carolina above 5,000 souls without any miouter, any administrations used, no public worship celebrated, neither the children baptised, nor the dead buried in any Christian form. Virginia contained above 40,000 souls, divided into 40 parishes, but wanting near half the number et clergymen requisite. Maryland con tained above 25,000 divided into twenty-six parishes, but wanting near half the number of ministers requisite. In Pennsylvania (says Colonel Heatheote) there are at lent 20,000 seals, of which not above 700 inquest the church ; slid there are not more than 250 communicants. In New York government we have 30,000 souls at least, of which I about 1,200 fragment the church, and we have about 450 communicants. In Connecticut there are about 30,600 souls, of which, when they have a minister among them, about 150 frequent the cherub sad there are 35 communicants. In Rhode Inland andlNaivagensett there are about 10,000 souls, of which about 160 frequent the church, and there are 30 com municants. In Boston and Piscataway there are about 80,000 souls, of which about 600 frequent the church and 120 the sacrament. This is the true though melancholy state of our church in North America. The Bishop ' s remarks upon a statement similar to this in another part of the volume lead to his own explanation of the canoes of this shortcoming : Some general cause there must have been for such a state of things. The power of Christ's truth could not be worn out. That church wbloh bad hitherto subdued all people, rude or polished, against whom she had gone forth, bad she lost her empire over men's hearts ? She who had conquered the conquerors of the great Roman empire, and gathered one and another of the hordes of Gothio and Teutonic blood—who had invaded her dominion into the faith and hops of the people whom they wanquered—she seemed in the west not only to have lest her subduing might, but to be powerless even te retain her hold upon her own. It is not very difficult to find the cause for this great difference. Her planting in America had been after a new and unknown manner. Heretofore the great aim of her founders in any country had been to make her truly indigenous—to repro duce her out of the people amongst whom she had come. For this end she was sent forth complete —a living germ, with all the powers of reproduction in herself. To this, as the greatest work of Christians, the boldest and truest hearts were summoned ; and he who won and held a bind of con verts to her Lord was consecrated bishop of the church amongst them, if he went not out in that holy character. Thus he could at once ordain new pastors and evangelists from amoegat his converts. . . Such was the equipment of Pothinus of old when with Irenicus as his deacon he went from Asia to sow amongst the Gauls the seed of the kingdom, and the church of Lyons was his glo rious harvest. So Boniface went cut from this land of ours to become the apostle of Germany. But wholly unlike this was our equipment of the church. in America. We sent out individual teachers with no common bond , 1 visible unity, no directing head, no power of ordaining ; we maintained them there like the garrison of a foreign church, and the con sequence wsa, what might have been foretold, the church languished and almost passed many. Strange as it may seem, then, the cause of the ad mitted utter failure of the church of England in America was the scant of a bishop. It had its endow ments, in some of the colonies at least, like the church in the mother country—its churches were built, its doctrines were professed, by those in autho rity ; but it could make no way, because it bad no bishop. " Ilinc Hite lachrymte." From this cause proceeded all the complaints wafted across the At lantic, and which are now buried amongst the manu script lumber at Fulham, waiting to be disinterred by diligent seekers after a truth or a theory, like the Bishop of Oxford. The bishop, it most be remarked, has constructed a theory out of these materials, and handles it with all the skill of a practised disputant. The use he has made of this discovery requires a few remarks. In the first place, assuming that this want of a bishop is the true cause of the utter inefficiency of the church in America before the revolution, to what' ' injurious conclusions are we led as to the value, in a ssiritual point of view, of the two remaining orders r o - y - - the church ministry—the priesthood and the diaco . nate ! The most important results have been obtained in America and in other places, by minietas of various a.enminations acting under a aecse of their responsibility to no one but their Maker. Each minister has laboured in the sphere assigned him, and has owed the greatness of the result produced to his own efforts alone, and nothing to the system of which he was a part. In the Church of England alone this cannot be achieved. Is the holiness of the priests utterly unpro ductive, runleas a bishop is on the spot; to communicate some mysterious energy to it ? (Jr is it the fact that no holiness is to be expected from priests unless it is drawn oat by the rays from the bishop's countenacce? There is nothing esteemed essential to salvation in the English church which cannot be performed as well by a simple priest as by a bishop. The priest administers the sacraments, preaches, and gives consolation to the sick. He has all power to perform everything necessary for the completion of ministerial duty : how is it, then, that his efforts are palsied without the presence of a bishop ? This is a mystery which Bishop Wilberforce does not attempt to solve. It is one, however, which involves a fearful charge against the English church. Again, assuming once more the bishop's theory to be true, how is it the want was never supplied ? What a terrible reproach is it to the ministers of the Church of England in America, that they continued to exercise their functions sleepily, without ever themselves making a hearty united appeal to the church of the mother country, or persuading 'their flocks of the necessity of a bishop to the perfection of the church ! The laity were even hostile to the intro duction of an American bishop. When (says OUT author) the Virginian clergy, who might naturally be thought moat ready to unite in this appeal (for a bishop) were called together by their commimary in April, 1771, for its considerauon, so few appeared in council that the question was postponed. A second summons brought no more then twelve, a majority of whom, after one opposite decision, agreed to an appeal to the King in favour of an American episcopate. But against this vote two at first, and ultimatey four out of the twelve protested publicly: and such wls the feeling of the laity that these four receivol the um/Ili:arms thanks of the lower branch of the Virginian house of legislature for " their wise and well• timed opposi tion to the pernicious project for introducing an American bishop." But leaving the American clergy burdened with the proper weight of reprobation fur having neither bestirred themselves to procure a bishop, nor impressed the laity with a due estimation of the value of an episcopate, and giving them the benefit at the same time of the excuse, founded upon the fact of their not being blessed with the pre sence of a bishop, and therefore necessarily unac quainted with the whole extent of their lees, what are we to think of the conduct of the church at home? How comes it that here, where the church system wee in full operation, where a full staff of bishops, priests, and deacons were displaying the perfect organisation of the English church, no effort worthy of mention was ever made to complete the American church, which was :eft for 200 years without the seal of per fection? Can it be that the English clergy were never thoroughly persuaded themselves of the value of an episcopate ? If they were, in it conceivable that they would have remained pass ve for so long a period, while their brethren in the most important colonies of the crown were without bishops? How was it that, when the state of spiritual destitution in the colonies had led, in the beginning of the eighteenth century, to the foundation of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the conduc:ors of the opemtiens of the society never thought of administering to the wants of the colonies by institatirg bishoprics, but contented themselves with sending missionaries ? How can we explain all this but by the supposition that neither in America nor in England was the episcopate ever looked upon as necessary to the constitution of tha church, except for the performance of the two func tions of ordination and confirmation, which custom had assigned to it. We rise from the perusal of this treatise with the conviction that his lordship's real object in writing it was not so much to afford his readers a correct por traiture of the fortunes of the episcopal chinch in America, as to insinuate an argument to prove the paramount importance of preserving the ancient con stitution of the church. This constitution is called " the divinely appointed organisation—the channel of God's living grace—the external organisation which had been framed by the Lord specially to foster the religious sympathies of men." We are desired to look upon the evils of the " great rebellion" as prov ing " how short-Sced and uncertain is the growth of personal religion when taken from the shelter and protection of the church." To prove his cue, the author has taken in hand the history of the American episcopal church, because he finds that as long es there were no American bishop. the church produced no good fruit, and that even after the revolution when bishop. were appointed the church flourished. But in the ardour et controversy his lordship forgets that the American church was without bishops, simply be cause she never thought it worth while to make much stir to obtain them, and because the mother church, suffering under a plethora of episcopacy, considered that the colonial church would be neither the better nor the worse for the gift of an episcopate. He for gets that to establish a minor point in favour of the institution of bishops, he is obliged to confess that for 200 years there never was a church so devoid of all spiritual life as the Church of England, with the best endowed episcopal staff in the world. He forgets that these bishops systematically repressed every living movement in the church, and that earnest Christianity was forced to seek for shelter out of the pale of the episcopal church. He forgets that John Wesley was driven into schism by the bishops, and that the methodists would not now be reckoned by hundreds of thousands had there been no intolerant episcopacy. As an argument, therefore, in favour of episcopal institutions, we must look upon the book an an utter failure: as a most interesting account of a portion of history very little known, we can heartily recommend it. His lordship's facts are more power ful than his arguments, and his easy and native' style is better than both. Cbt Drama• LYCEUM—Last evening a new afterpiece, in one act, called " My Father did so before me," was produced at this theatre. It is a kind of piice de circonstance, written for the purpose of introducing Mr. John Reeve, the eon of the late John Reeve, of the Adelphi, so long one of the greatest favourites of the public. Mr. John Reeve, jun., has performed in the provinces, but cow appeared for the first time in London. The memory of the father, and the expectation of finding in the son " a chip of the old block," drew a crowded audience, who did not appear to be at all disappointed. The piece itself is better than such occasional productions generally Cr.. It is broadly farcical, and made up of incidents which, though very laughable on the stage, would 'elm sheer ab surdity in description. Mr. Reeve hu entered upon the same line in which his father was so unrivalled—that of painting life in the streets of London. He appeared in the character of John Trot, a cabman ; a fellow, of course, of infinite drollery, consummate self-possersion and shrewd ness, with the cockney slang and quaint manners of his calling, somewhat idealised by a mixture of intelligence and sentiments above his station. Mr. Reeve's re presentation of the part was very happy, though as appeared, during the whole piece, to labour under a degree of anxiety and restraint which impaired the effect of his exertions. Ile received, on his entrance, the kindest possible welcome, and a number of personal allusions, intro• duped by way of clap-trap into the dialogue, reminding the audience of his being there to do as his father did before him, never failed to call forth a warm burst of good feeling. He sang a comic tong, descriptive of the humours of Greenwich Fair, with a pleasing but rather weak voice, and a great deal of clever mimicry. His whole performance was excel lent, as far as it went, but it was too subdued and deficient in the exuberance which broad farce requires. When he feels more at eue, and is able to give full scope to his cootie vein—full expression to every quaint conceit that may strike him—fur much of this kind of acting must be unstudied and unpremeditated, flowing from the impulses of the moment—his style will acquire greater breadth and richness than it yet possesses. There is no doubt, however, that he will turn out an excel lent comedian, and will do no discredit to the name of John Reeve. The fleas altogether was well performed. 'dn. Yates, as the Countess of Clairville, combined gran and stigma with lively comedy ; and Mies Kathleen Fatewilliana was one of the pleasantest Little soubrettes imaginable. AND CLERICAL CLIIBILIDOE, OCT. 25.—Tris PUBLIC ORATOILIHIP.—Th• nomination by the beads of hourneof two gentlemen to proceed to the pull for the once of piddle once took place this morning. Mr. Ilateam, of St. John% and Mr. illiam., or King's, are the gentle. men Weer. , The voting is mood to bar.: been :—For Mr. Batermi, Bt. John's, 10; foe Yr. Milano King's, 10; far Mr. lime Trinity, 7. It Taman to Meow Into which scale the pupae" deratins w it d, rtence of Trinity will be thrown. The chutes ere that tt will be es Mr. Williamets a conservative, and will secure the votes of that parte (kw politics enter into tbn m all eke), and of thee, t oo k w i t h . ere eljnalousy an the office going to St. John's. Mr. on the oder bend, as am Wee many ot the fellows at ty. The opens at nine t o o.morrow mominr. At a th day, the knowing degrees etre con ferred : ° -7gruir. B. Jeas Trinity • 8.1). : H. Cole, Lime Hal; W.A.: A. J. Pile, Trinity ; J. Gorton, Queens' ; 8.A.: J. C. Wright, King's ;IC. Woiley, King's; A. P. Birch, King's. At the mine Congregation the Mowing grows prod he senate : To molar the degree of LA., try royal mindatm ma H. Woodrow.