The Express. — London, England, 1851-04-02 00:00:00

*lle expresso. TO CORRESPONDENTS. abletliesteele lati;4oelieir 7 :TheY.; "i;e;de • Emile. pew. sum be et UM this% Ileeverie•euvet, by Tye e'elotb ea the 111 OR WATER AT LONDON DIUDOE TUB Dal—Varialli& h. Om. Afterafte, 'b 34a. Tubseassw—llanumg. Sb. I In. Aftereabb Mik. Itia. LONDO.V, WEDNESD.4T, APRIL 2. THERE can he no doubt that the British public, or at least the political public, has acquired of late rears dint characteristic winch an eminently distinguishes the French, of requiring now and then something in the way of novelty, bothin things and in men. The humdrum pulls upon the taste, in the saloons of Westminster, as in those of Covent-garden. And them it It lunging on the part of the public certainly for a new manager or ini yrrstirio in Downing-street, as well as at the Operas. We want a new broom, a man of capital or spirit, a fellow determined to make his fortune and our amuscuw•nt, or else go into the Gazelle, and be the subject, we were going to say, of our com miseration. But that is not it. However we may deify him, if he succeed, our moral reflection upon his full will decidedly be, what a fool he was for his pains. What we fear, however, is, that in the hurry and eagerness of the commencement of the session to have a political change, parliament has condemned itself to endure even a duller session than usual. The PavanEat certainly dots not promise much, and we fear that the CHANCELLOR Of the Exeniaitaat will proffer even kiss than he did some weeks back ; for these ministerial rogues know full well, notwith standing all the bluster of the Timex, that the liberals have no alternative. The reelites have in fact damaged themselves, and Sir James GRAHAM, who held so high and fair a position in January, bus become thd most impossible of ministers in April. (ht the other hand, events aid the bad tactic* of their foes, Lave united the Whigs us well as strengthened the protectionists. If these two parties stand in their old 'ignition. with the mutual understanding and power to held by turns and fling hack from um to the other the shuttlienek of office, who is to blame ? First of all, no doubt, lute, in robbing burliununt of its greet middle term, Pam. ; ut, secondly, the blunders of those, w Ito urged the disciples of Pam. to embark in a crusade for favouring aml developing pupal aggression. Even had that crusade been conducted with discre tion, its untoward consequences might have been mitigated. But the purpose of Sir JAMES GRAHAM asst Mr. Gaeta:toffs: some to have been to insult the country, drive the whigs hack into personal enmity towards them, and conciliate a score of Irish mem bers, who really could not be counted on fur a week as the supporters of any administration. It has thus been the mistakes of that combined minority, whielt voted against the Ecclesiastical Titles dill, which has promoted Lord JOHN RUSSLLL to the power of a dictator. It is they, who have endowed the country with the disagreeable alterna tive of STAN hhY or Itt'ssma. The strength of the two leaders is nut of their own making, but of the false manseuvres of their enemies and rivals. And not only wen , these name:enema most ill-judged, but they were performed at the worst of all possible TilClc i.e one event that stands in prospect before parliament and the country, which by its importance throws all other thin;fs into the shade. Ibis is a dissolution. Upon the result of a general election depends nut merely the lightening of the window tax, this or that tiscal improvement, or extension of the fnuiehise. The entire policy of the country, in *social development, fiscal arrangement, foreign intim-um ponderatimi of power, free trade or no Ludo, depends upon a protectionist or a liberal majority. And yet in the face of this, the risk of a dissolution has been run ut a time when a religious excitement was awakened, most untevuurable to liberal and to moderate own. There are a score of potent reasons against a dis aolut• at the present time, or in the present year. There is the protestant alarm, which of itself would fling many u free trailer into the arms of a protec tionist. whom he prized as zealous in the protestant CellOW. There is the catholic alarm, likely to produce ide Mind effects, through u different extreme. There is the preacut sare and &premed state of the fanning class, producing a degree of irritation and impatience at the prisient state of the great ex periment, *Lich in another year we might hope to nee di kkk hushed, giving the squirearchy a leader hold over the rustic population. There is the effect of the Small Tenements Bill of lust year, which has disfranchised in towns. and especially in thaw towns where elections are con tented. a very large proportion of the popular class, in such a way as would seriously affict the borough returns in case of u geiwrul election. Finally, the tories have two cries and two banners to go to the country with, protection and protestinus han. Free traders have, indeed, the potent cry of cheap bread. But it would be difficult to awaken in the large masses enjoying that indulgence any real fear of its being ravished from them. Nor all they reasons the whigs, we may be per fectly sure, will not dissolve this year. And we may also feel assured that before they do dissolve, they must brhsg forward a great liberal measure, both in reform and in finance. If not. they most certainly will die the death. 'llw great point would be to get this measure of reform out of them, and to gird up the popular loins for it. But us such 31 measure us to be forted the uncle the house of Lords, it CADOOt be attempted without an understanding he tes-nit all sections of the liberal parts'. Lord JoitN, we regret to say, is singularly silent on the subject. lie does not wish to show his hand. especially with rivals, and so many rivals in the field. But there surely might be stmt principles laid down and under stiaal.wtuae security ILO the gnat liberal party, that in supporting ministers and refraining from such acts as might protium a dissolution, they were not tricked into the throwing away of opportunities for the mere promise of reform and of contingencies which might be attenuated or evaded. if the thorough liberals on their side have concessions to nuike in order to avoid a dissolution and a protectionist mi nistry. the whip on their side owe more frankness and csintidense than have hitherto been shown. Lord JOHN. or any other whig leader, can only stnalgthen himself by measures or by neon. It will not do to deti.r both. A sullen determination to do so, will only precipitate another crisis!. As to men, we an aware that any ministerial modification is 'Titles till utter the passing of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. But it ought to be more generally un derstood what were the intentions of the Plume MINI , TCE in this respect. We must confess we have our fears for Friday— fears that indent:wiling crudely the renewal of the income tax and deferring the re-adjustment of direct taxation tore period of two en' three years,SirCitaauss Wools will not reread in putting together his shattered reputation. It is said, that should parliameut vote the income tax merely for a year, with a view to its revision, the CHANCEL LOR Isl prepared to make this an excuse for not abandoning the window tax. This will cause more disappointment ; this will be another failure; and the reputation of the whip for finance , will be further damaged. If Sir Citaitatas Woofs do nothing to redeem his budget, and if Lord Jonff Russtai.' will say nothing to meet, at least by a large and frank promise. Mr. LOCKE Kifse.fs motion, then people will not exert themselves to save a party which ntakes so little effort to save itself. We strongly deprecate all acts in the present state of public affairs. dictated by mere miscluef and lead ing to a dissolution. But all the sections of the great liberal and free trade party have been making blunders and been guilty of ladies—the whigs, cer tainly, not the least. And it it is to be kept to gether and its principles made to prevail, it must be by concession and conciliation on all hands. THEIIE is no portion of the military estimates that would have borne discussion with greater advantage, than that which relates to the artillery. But upon none has so little information been either given or elicited. Colonel ANSON gut through his work at a baud-gallop. In the debate on the army estimates much stress was laid, and many hopes enter tained of a diminution in the number of the army. by their withdrawal from the colonies. It is the garrisons of colonial fortresses that make such hr.tvv deatands on the artillery : and so heavy are these dj uiands that the pruportikm et artillery now in most THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1851. FRANCE. the Court. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal and the l'rincess Alice, took a drive in an open landau and four yesterday afternoon. The Equer ries in Waiting, Colonel Buckley and Lieut.-Colonel the lion. Alexander Gordon, attended on horseback. Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday morning, attended by Lieut.-Colonel the lion. Alexander Gordon. The Duchees of Orleans visited her Majesty yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Helena and 1.0%1in, took their usual exercise yesterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace, and Prince Arthur was taken an airing. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured her Majesty's Theatre with their presence yesterday evening. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Derrt, lion. Amelia Murray, Hon. Leal Kerr, the Earl of Listow..l, Colonel Buckley, and Lieut.-Colonel lion. Alexander Gordon. The Earl of Listowel has relieved Lord Elphinstone in his duties as Lord in Waiting to the Queen. Lieut.-Gen. Sir Edward Bowater has relieved Captain lion. Joseph Denman, R.N., in his duties as Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. Colonel Buckley has relieved Lord Alfred Paget (Clerk Marshal) in his duties as Equerry in Waiting to the Queen; and Lieut.-Colonel the lion. Alexander Gordon has relieved Colonel Bouverie in his duties as Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Sir Percy Nugent had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official residence in Downing street. The jury on agricultural implements, of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of the Industry of all Na tions, met yesterday at the Exhibition Building in Ilyde park. l'resent, Mr. Pussy, M.l'. (chairman), Colonel Choi loner, Mr. Joseph Locke, M.P., Mr. J. V. Shelley, Mr. 11. S. Thompson, Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, Mr. Haniond, the Baron Mertens d'Ostin, M. de Bethmruin-liollssig, and Mr. Lanipson. Colonel Rcid, chairman of the executive committee, was present at the meeting. Mr. Shinty, transacted business yesterday with the railway commissioners at the office of the Board of Trade. A deputation of hotel-keepers, consisting of Mr. Gardiner (Goldin, Cross), Mr. Ellis (Richmond), Messrs. James and son (Murley's Hotel), Mr. Staples (Albion Hotel), Mr. Wright (Clarendon), Mr. Burrell and Mr. Poole (Bretton house Hotel), Mr. Elder (Adelphi Hotel), Mr. Tapster (Clarence Hotel), and Mr. Newborn solicitor, had an in terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. lie. John Wood, ChWrinan of the Board of Inland Revenue, Mr. Pressly, and Mr. Timm, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Colonial office to the Governors of the West India Islands. PARIS, TUMIDLY ETZT4ING. Yesterday between two and three o'clock M. Odilon Barrot had an interview with the President at the Elyske. It was not until after this conference that the definitive failure of the negotiations with that statesman was known. To-day there appears in the Monter: the following official 1 comasslea tion :—" The various ministerial combinations which the President of the Republic was endeavouring to realise have definitively failed." It is expected that this failure will be m ad e a pretence to remstal the old cabinet of Baroche, Fould, and Rouher, with an admixture of decided partisans of the Elysee. To understand clearly the situation it must be . borne in mind that the leading object of the Bo napartists is, by hook or by crook, to obtain the pro longation of the President's powers. Well, ou one side there are men like Lamartme and Girardin who promise to support the re-election of the President on condition of abrogating the electoral law of May, and restoring universal suffrage. On the other sine are people like M. Baroche and the party of the Con- i stdodionnel, who exclaim against touching the law of May, but instigate the President to an illegal mode of revising the constitution and prolonging his powers. M. Odilon Barret said yesterday to his friends that, finding himself between these con flicting opinions and pretensions, and being unable on whichever hand he turned to obtain any concession, he gave up the task of forming a cabinet which was, according to his views. only practicable for any use ful purpose upon princiules of conciliation and com promise. Meanwhile, those papers which pass for the semi-official organs of the Elysee are completely divided on leading questions; the Bulletin de Parts preferring M. Odilon Barrot and a moderate reform of the low of May, while the Catstitationnel sup ports M. Baroche and a thorough-going repressive policy. The last scheme of M. Barret was, as I have stated previously, to form a coalition between the legitimists and the moderate republicans. With this view, lie offered a seat in the cabi net to M. de Size on the one hand, and to an old minister of the provisional government, M. de Bethmont, on the other. Sonic are of opinion that M. Barrot has been throughout these negotia tions the dupe of an intrigue woven to compromise him and then throw him offer, to bring in the old cabinet of Fould and Baroche. A telegraphic despatch announces that the Re crib! Generale of Lyons has been burned. The specie was saved ; but an immense amount of property in diaper securities is said to have been consumed by the times. It is reported that the Assenarder Naianale is about to become the organ of MM. Guizot, Duchatel, de Salvandy, I /unto'', and St. Priest, who nt esent constitute the heads of the party of "fusion. ' The barguin is to be concluded to-morrow. The negotiations for the sale of the Presse are de finitively broken off. To-day the Assembly was employed in discussing the amendment of M. Beaumont (de In Somme) to the sugar hill. No conclusion had been arrived at up to the hour when the post closed. The amendment of M. Beaumont substitutes for the torification by the anetharometer the assimilation of raw sugars to certain types. The gallant old General Dembinski, who arrived in Paris on Sunday night, is lodged in the Hotel Montmorency, on the lioulevard des hallow. A sensible fall took place to-day in the funds, which was attributed to the official announcement oh' the definitive failure of the attempts to form a ministry. 'lke Fives closed at 93.40, and the Threes at 4;.•25 ' both routes showing a fall of IX) centimes on yesterday. garrisons at home and abroad are of a paucity amounting to the ridiculous. We know of an officer who had seven men in a fort with fift 4 y guns, seven guns to one man! In this respect Colonel ANSON ought to speak out the truth, which is, that one-third of our fortresses must be given up, or else the num ber of artillery soldiers mind be increased. Take Corfu for example, the capital of that Wined Land which Sir HENRY WARD rules over. Corfu bee nominally three companies of artillery, but, in truth, there is numerically but one, so that not a sin gle front of these mighty fortifications, which have met so much money, could be manned by gunners. Better far to give up the islands, than spend money en fortifications, which we do not pretend to be able to man, and which in ease of a war we should be a twelvemonth in training artillerymen to man. There is the Cape, and all its forts, Mauritius, Ceylon, to gether with our colonies in the west. Consider all these, and let the truth be known, that we have nut half enough artillerymen to form even the nucleus of a scientific corps for their defence. Let this fact be admitted; and let it at the same time be admitted that England is unable and unwil ling to pay the enormous expenses requisite for the military defence of the colonies. And let the ques tion be put to the colonies themselves of training men and acquiring discipline, requisite, at least, to have in the colony the knowledge requisite for ex pansion preliminary to defence. That would be a fairer way of meeting the difficulty than slurring it over. That there might be a great reduction in the central administration of the ordnance there can be little doubt. Hut whether this would be best obtained by amalgamating the Board with the Iffirse Guards may be questioned. The Ordnance-office is an amphibious establishment; with a mixture of civil and military duties. The Muster-General not only rules fourteen thousand men, but the laying out of some millions of pounds in bricks and mortar. Economists grumble at four hundred barracks, taking for example those at Woolwich, instead of some of the miserable holes in which men on detachment arc thrust. But why cannot a civil department be created, =obtruded upon by either naval or military men? Let the soldiers of the ordnance corps be put under the Commander-in-Chief, but let civilians have the direction of building barracks and ships, the buying of guns, and fabrication of powder. Let them supply what they think necessary, and once it is handed over, let those who have charge of it be alone respon sible. At present the confusion is complete and the responsibility null. A company of artillery is wuntedto go on service, the Horse Guards apply to the Ordnance. A company has to be relieved from abroad, the Ord nance applies to the Admiralty, and with all their vaunted regularity. the business is wally bungled. The officers, not allowed on going on hoard so much us a pot or pan to cook with, are told to buy what they want; to lay in their stock perhaps for three months: it is understood that when they reach the journey's end they are to be indemnified. But the in demnity never comes ; and discontent and derange-1 meat of an officer's whole economy is the COOSNUCIIM In luopitals there is a reduction of EDO/. ; but we are not told whether it is from the reduction of the office of Director-General of the Ordnance Medical Department, or from a better state of health among the men. Concerning the schools for the men, there is a satisfactory report, but the libraries are particularly to be com 11l ended. It is nut usual fur the soldiers of the Ordnance corps to belong to libraries which have lately been set up under the direction of the Secretary at War and Mr.UiffiG, hut the men subscribing anion 4 themselves are allowed to choose their own works, submitted, however, to their commanding officer's approval. The consequence is, they obtain a set of useful and amusing works, suited to their own capa bilities. We do not know who is the caterer for literary works in the army, but it is most absurd sending to ffireign garrisons " British Encyclo pedia," &c.; and instead of the soldier being able to get some small hook to put away in ltis knapsack, he is furnished with huge compilations of SUAKSPEARE or Wilcox in one volume. By way of greater accommodation to married soldiers, Colloid AN SON protases giving non-com missioned officers 2d. a-day extra; but it is not the nomeo 11111 l issioned officer who is in want of such a boon, but the private, not the man who earns two or three shillings a day, but the unfortunate man who gets but one We e; t conclude without protesting against Mr. Wtiimms's attack on the Home Artillery. Ile describes the idle es us men who have never seen foreign service, whereas there is not a single officer in the brigade who has not been abroad once or oftener. It is a source of regret to see so useful a corps spoiled by tawdry lace and gingerbread facings, hut not more is, than to se his brother officer in the loot with a dower-pot on his head and a shaving brush on the top of it. But so fur from bringing the Horse Artillery to the level of foot, the very first war will occasion the necessity of raising the foot to that of the horse, for, in this age of steam engines and electric telegraphs, retrograde motions will nut be found to THE SCOTCH BENCIt AND 11.11 t.—It is with deep regret that we receive the intelligence of the death of Lord .Moncreilt. lk was almost the last of the distinguished eotemporaries ofJetirey, Cranstouu, and Clerk, iu the parliament house. For extensive and sound legal knowledge; fur acuteness, combined with an ever healthy and reliable judgment ; and for in defatigable luau-4re, he was, perhaps, superior to them all. Indepeinkntly of these high qualities, he had a strung hold OH the esteem and :fffienon of Scot land as one of its very few undeviatingly honest and independent politicians, at the time when servility and corruption were rife in that country to an extent which had for generations been unknown in Eng lund. As the son of Sir Henry Moncreiff ono of the finest specimens at once of Scotch aristocracy and of the old orthodox party in the church of Scot land, Lord Nlouercill added a hereditary title to his personal hold on the minds of his countrymen. Another Lord of Session—Lord Mackenzie—is also understood to be in a state of ill health all but hope less. Who are to fill the vacancies is matter of much speculation. There are at present a number of highly respectable practitioners at the Scotch bar, but with the exception of the Lord Advocate none who has established a character at all approaching to that of the group to which Lord Moue:vitt* belonged. We believe that the Lord Advocate is generally under stood iu Scotland to have a claim to the Presidency when vacant. and that those who till the office arc reluctant to accept of any inferior judicial appoint ment. Possibly the delicate state of the Lord Advo cate's health may induce him to postpone etiquette, • and accept of the vacant seat on the bench left by the death of Lord Monerieff. In that case it will not be easy to select a successor fur his lordship in the ranks of his party. All things considered, the Solicitor-General—Mr..J'ames Monereiff, second son of the deceased judge—would probably be the most eligible successor. Ito is still young, indeed, and comparatively untried; but he inherits many of the best qualities of his father and grandfather: he is painstaking, with rare powers of close reasoning and clear perception, and with a mind not easily shaken in trying circumstances. We believe, too. that he was educated at an English university, and thereby emancipated from a kind of provincial narrowness of view that clings to not a few of his brethren. If any chance should again play into Lord Stanley's hand.s an opp.rtunity of taking office, he would find his Scotch official appointments a matter of greater difficulty than even the English. The last conserva tive Lead Advocate, Mr. *Neil, though not, like Mr. Itutherfurd, a man of genius and general accom plishments. as well as a sound and able lawyer, is a man of strong good sense and good feeling, and an excellent hard-headed practical lawyer; but in the great schism among the conservatives Mr. M•Still adhered to Sir Robert Peel. It is not altogether alien to these considerations to notice that we learn from Scotland that Lord Cockburn is preparing for the press a life of Lord Jeffrey. lie will execute his task as a labour of love, and with an intimate knowledge of the subject; and however sceptical those who know the learned lord mac he. we are assured that he is working indefatigably at it. There was a talk some time ago of Sir W. G. Graig's being possibly appointed Lord Advocate in the event of Mr. ltutherfurd's resignation. Sir William is an amiable and intelligent gentleman, and a general favourite; but he has shrunk from taking such a share in the debates of the House of Commons as would be required in an officer who is in fact Secre tary of State for Scotland; and besides. we believe he has for many years ceased to practise at the bar. (Prom 1,21 t Night's GaVie.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARcii 31.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of 1). Miguel Taco'', Marquis del Ilayamo, a: Consul-General in the United Kingdom for her Majesty the Queen of Spain. lluw PI I SG-STREET, APRIL I.—The Queen has been rien,tt to appoint Stephen John Hill, Esq., Brevet Major in the Army, to he GUVl'mur and Coinmantler-in-Chief in and over her Majesty's Forts and Settlement:, and their de pendencies, on the Gold Coast; aim to appoint Samuel Weneky Maclean, Esq., Major in the Royal Longford Regi ment 01 Militia, to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Dominica. COM 51ISSION SIGNED BY ME LORD LIEUTENANT or G 1.0 IST E 11311111 E.—The Eight lion. henry John Moreton. commonly called Lord Moreton, to be Deputy Lieutenant. COMMIRSTON SIGNED BY TILE LORD LIEUTENANT (Si l'am nemulanntr. —Seymour Philipps Allen, Esq., to , be Deputy Lieutenant. RITUAL OBSERVANCES IN TILE CHURCF OF ENGLAND. The fullowing address, signed, it will be seen, by the two Archbishops and twenty-two out of the twenty-six Iti,:hops, those not signing being the Bishops of Exeter, Mauchest,r, Hereford, and Bath and Wells, has been pub lished : We, the undersigned Archbishops and Bishops of the province's of Canterbury and York. do most earnestly and affection,:tely commend the following address to the serious consideration of the clergy of our respective dioceses—J. B. Cantuar, T. Ebor, C. J. London, E. Dunelm, C. It. Win ton, J. Lincoln, C. Bangor, R. Carlisle, G. Rochester, J. R. Olocester and Bristol, C. T. Ripon, E. Sarum, G. Pe terhomugh, C. St. David's, 11. Worcester, A. T. Cieestr, J. Licht; - Id, T. Ely, S. Oxon, T. V. St. Asaph, J. * Chester, S. Norwich, A. Llandaff, Auckland. and Sodor and Man. " Beloved Brethren,—We have viewed with the deepest anxiety the troubles, suspicious, and discontents which have of late, in some parishes ' accompanied the introduction of ritual observances exceeding those in common use amongst us. " We long indulged the hope that, under the influence of charity, forbearance, and a calm estimate of the small im portance of such external forms, compared with the blessing of united action in the great spiritual work which is before our church, these heats and jealousies might by mutual concessions be allayed. But since the evil still exists, and in one most important feature has assumed a new and more dangerous character, we tel that it is our duty to try whe ther ant arrest and united address on our part may teed, under the blessing of God, to promote the restoration of peace and harmony in the church. "The principal point in dispute is this - whether ' where the letter of the Rubric seems to warrant a measure of ritual observance which yet, by lung and possibly by unbroken practice, hies not been carried out, the clergy are either in conscience required, or absolutely at liberty, to act each upon his own view of the letter of the precept rather than by the rule of common practice. Now, as to this question we would urge upon you the following considerations: First. than any change of usages with which the religious feelings of a congregation have become associated is in itself so likely to do harm that it is not to be introduced without the greatest caution; secondly, that, beyond this, any change which makes it difficult fur the congregation at large to join in the service is still more to be avoided ; thirdly, that any change which suggests the fear of still further alterations is most injurious; and fuurthly, that according to the rule laid dowu in the Book of Common Prayer, where anything is doubted or diversely taken • concerning the manner how to understand, do, and execute the things contained in that book, the parties that so doubt, or diversely take anything, shall alway resort to the bishop of the diocese, who by his discretion vloll take order for the quieting and appeasing of the same, so that the same order be not contrary to anything contained in that book.' " The fair application of these principles would, we be lieve, solve most of the difficulties which have arisen. It would present all sudden and startling alterations ; and it would facilitate the reception of any change which was really lawful mid desirable. We woula therefore, first urge ~u ri n , tio o u n r o ir s e u v c . i l r. t ru hr of w m it ii h du a c tf t c:c 'Wcatwe would antsetbzezh all the who, whether by excess or delict, have broken in upon the uniformity and contributed to relax the authority of our ritual observances, to consider the impurtauce of unity and order, and by common consent to avoid whatever might tend to violate them. lu recommending this course as the best under pr. sent cireumstunces, we do not shut our eyes to the evil of even the appearance of any discrepancy existing be tween the written law and the practice of the church. But there are many eases where the law may be variously inter preted ; and we believe that we are best carrying out her own principles in urging you to have recourse, in all such eases, to the advice of her chief pastors. " But beyond mere attempts to restore an unusual strict ness of ritual observance, we hava to deal with a distinct and serious evil. A principle has of late been avowed and acted on, which, if admitted, would justify far greater and more uncertain changes. It is this—that as the church of England is the ancient catholic church settled in this land before the Reformation, and was then reformed only by the casting away of certain strictly defined corruptions ; there fore, whatever form or usage existed in the church before its reformation may now be freely introduced and observed, unless there can be alleged against it the distinct letter of some formal prohibitiou. "Now, against any such inference from the undoubted identity of the church before and after the Reformation, we feel bound to enter our clear and unhesitating protest. We believe that at the Reformation the English church not only rejected certain corruptions, but also, without in any degree severing her connexion with the ancient catholic church, intended to establish one uniform ritual, according to which her public services should be conducted. But it is malifest that a license such as is contented for is wholly int impatible with any uniformity of worship whatsoever, and at variance with the universal practice of the catholic church, which has never given to the officiating ministers of se orate congregations any such large discretion in the selection of ritual observances. •• We therefore beseech any who may have proposed to thcmse:ves the restoration of what, under sanction of this principle hey deemed a lawful system, to consider the d tn gers which it involves ; to see it iu its true light, and to take a more just and sober view of the real position of our church ; whilst, with equal earnestness, we beseech others, who, either by intentional omission or by neglect and laxity, may have disturbed the uniformity and weakened the au thority of our prescribed ritual, to strengthen the side of order by avoiding all unnecessary deviations from the church's rule. SPAIN. — MADRID, Mitten 27. A stormy . sitting was expected in the Chamber of Deputies, in consequence of the announcement that the committee on the settlement of the debt had proposed the sale of the important municipal property called bi,stes de proid"A. Cp to the post-hour, how ' ever, nothing of importance had occurred ; but only personalities were bandied between various deputies. It was expected that a motion would be proposed, in order to prevent the question of liciacs de propius being decided incidentally. In the Senate, on the 2Gth, a proposition was made to exeltule the mines of Rio Tinto from the sales of public properties proposed to be effected be the government. The President of the Council warmly opposed it. The proposition gave rise to a lung debate, which was resimuAl on the 27th ult. The alarm sounded by the Ilera'do, on the pro- bable turn of tide to be expected in the paper which has risen so rapidly in the market, has not been without effect, and a slight decline is visible to-day in the securities. ITALY. rtEnmoNTT. In the sitting of the 27th ult. of the Chamber of Deputies of Turin, Signor l'eyrone developed a pro position of considerable importance in the present position of Piedmont with respect to Rome. The first article directs that no person under twenty-one years of age shall take religious vows in a convent. Hy Art. 2, such persons must have lived in society at least six months within the period of two years before their taking their vows. Art. :3 prescribes that no foreigner who shall have taken vows in other countries, contrary to the rules laid down in the pre ceding articles shall be admitted into u religious com munity within the Sardinian states. Art. d extends this provision to Sardinian subjects who have taken vows in foreign countries. Art. o provides that, any person accepting vows, or allowing them to be taken, contrary to the above provisions, shall he punished with five years' exile; and any person taking such vows shall be deprived of civil rights. The Chamber OA this bill Into consideration by au immense majority. GERMANY. The answer of the Austrian cabinet to the last Prussian note had not arrived in Berlin on the 30th. A favourable answer to this "ultimatum" is expected less and less every day. The Cologne Gazette says that the state of affairs has become very critical within the last few days, partly through the declaration of England against the admission of non-German states of Austria into the Band ; that it fears the diffi culties are too great for diplomacy, and may call for the sword; but that things can take no new turn till the Austrian answer be received. The Frankfort .Thurnal affirms that Prussia will immediately send a representative to the Frankfort Diet, and has urged the other cabinets not repre sented there to do the same. The news from Agram and the Bosnian frontiers is that Omer Paella has beaten the rebels in battle. One account, of the 27th ult., says that the insurgents have abandoned Banjaluka, and another, by the "Austrian Correspondence," that they are about to defend themselves in that place. The insurrection may be considered as on the point of being put com pletely down. The Cubwo, Gazette says that the King of Prussia has sent fur Count Arnim Boytzenburg, and offered him the portfolio of tbreign affairs, to be held under M. Manteuficl. who is to be raised to the dignity of state chancellor. Count Boytzenburg has decidedly declined the post. Drtsnen COLLEGE.—Yesterday the ceremony of electing a warden of this charity took place. he election is vested in the master and the four fellows and the six assistants. The six assistants are the two churchwardens of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, two churchwardens of St. Luke's, and the two senior churchwardens of St. Saviour's, South wark. Divine service having been performed in the chapel, nod the names of the several candidates having been previously written on a shect of paper, the assistants were called seetatiat, and they severally recorded their votes in favour of two, after which the fellows and muter registered their votes, and the master pronounced the numbers to be in favour of John llen.leigh Allen, one of the two cundi , dates selected by the college, anil Richard William Allen, the candidate named by the assistants. These two gentlemen were then called to the front of the altar, and the mastic I having put into a box two rolls of papers tied with red tape, on one of which were written the words "God's gift," and having shaken them thrice called upon Mr. Richard William .then, who was by a few months the se ' nior, to select one. This he did, and Mr. John Ilensleigh Allen took the other. The papers were severally unrolled, amid much excitement, and the important words, "God's gift." were found ou the paper taken by Mr. Richard Win. , 1 Allen, the nominee of the assistants. The ceremony was concluded by the college authorities, the warden elect, the DrAnt OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HENRY SE ' assistants, the unsuccessful candidate, and a few visitors littNE.—The Overland Mail brings accounts of the de dining together. It was stated by Mr. Druee, the solicitor cease, at Teheran, on the 19th February, of this officer, for ' of the cult cc, that Or: course pursued by the assistants on m erl y commtuder•in-ehief f the Persian army, at the soli this occasion aad nut been adopted kr the last ill years. ' citation of the sovereign of that caantry, Mahomed Shah. • Such harmony of action, we are persuaded, would, under God'sbleasing,lgo tar towards restoring the peaceof the church. This happy re.ult would most clearly exhibit her spiritual character. The mutual relations of her various members would be more distinctly perceived; and our lay brethren would more readily acknowledge the special trust committed to tic as stewards of the mysteries of God, ' fur the edify ing of the body of Christ.' They would join with us in as serting, and, it' need be, defending for themselves, as much as fur us, the true spiritual freedom of the church. They I would unito with us in a more trustful spirit, and therefore with a more ready will, in enlarging her means and strength ening her powers fur the gnat work she has to du amongst the swarmuag multitudes of our great towns at home and of our vast dominions abroad ; and that church which has so long received from the hands of God such unequalled bless ings might continue to be, yea and become more and more, s a praise in the earth.' "March 29,1&)1." Kab3 iintelligence, EQUITY COURTS.—YESTERDAT. BYO/{ IVO LOOM CIIANCILLLOS. MISS TALBOT'S CASE. DoTLI C. Watour AND BERKELEY'S PETITION. Mr. J. Parker, counsel for the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, resumed his argument mminst the prayer of the petition, at the point where he stmped at the rising of the court on Monday. He would *,how that the conduct of his clients was entirely blameless, and that the charges brought against them by Mr. C. Berkeley's petition on this l oecasion were unfounded. Ile thought there was sume radi i take on Mr. Berkeley's part respecting the meaning of the order of 1843; and his counsel accordingly argued that the order imposed on Lord and Lady Shrewsbury the duty of taking the young lady away from the convent school, I and bringing her up under their own inspection. The terms of the order would not bear that mean- log. She was to be brought up under " their care and management, with liberty to take her abroad with them." The meaning and intention of which clearly was, that they were to be associated with the testamentary guardiaa while in this country, and to have power, without further order of the court, to take the young lady abroad with them. These words were added to save the trouble of coming to the court fisr a new order whenever Lord and Loris' Shrews : bury should be going abroad. They were then in the habit of going to Italy, to sec their relatives, every autumn ; but it happened that for two years alter the order they did not leave England, and when they did go, iu 18.15, it was to restore the health of their nephew, brother of his ward, and that was not an occasion to take her with them. The order did not impose any obligation on them to take her. Mr. Berkeley, in his present petition, stated that he would never have consented to the order if lie did not understand "that the young lady was to re-ide thenceforward under the roof of Lord and Lady Shrewsbury. To say that he (Mr. Berkeley) consented to the order," was not true in the sense m what Mr. Berkeley meant. The order was made after much discussion, and the Vice- Chancellor delivered his judgment, which was read in court on a former day. The real purport of Mr. Berkeley's peti tion in 1843, and of the order made on it was to reduce the allowance of 5401. which the truster s bud pita-M.1.4y paid for the lady's , maintenance under direction, to 2701. The object was that as long as she remained at isehool under Dr. Doyle's care that sum should be paid: but it could not be supposed that it she were to reside with Lady Shrewsbury the same allowance would not be continued that wee paid while she was under 10 years of age and living with her mother. That is the proper view of the order, and the only construction of it that can be collected from the affidavits now filed on both sides. lie read extracts from the affi davit' of Mr. Berkeley and his solicitor, Mr. Coretield, and also from those made by Dr. Doyle and his solicitor, Mr. Norris, and contended that they sustained his construction of the order. Now, the charge brought by Mr. Berkeley against Lord and Lady Shrewsbury was that, notwithstamb big this order, which gave them leave to take the young holy abroad, they never slid take her abroad, but left her fur seven years, front 1813 to POO, at the school, except short visits mole by her to Alton Towers. And that because, when on her last visit there (in 18.50), she would not consent to marry as they proposed to her, Lady Shrewsbury, from vindictive feeling's, rent her Zack to a place where she was not properly treated, and for the purpose of compelling her to become a nun. That was the case which the attidevits on behalf of Dr. Doyle and Lord Shrewsbury were made to answer. liut Mr. Berkeley after coming into court varied his charms, and abandoned the base charge of the compulsory marriage. Ilis present charge is that the earl uud wands ss allowed the ward to remain uncured for by them fir sight years in the convent school, and went shroud in IS without taking her, contrary, as he says, to the intention of the order of 1843. Most setiefactory reasons hiors been already given for nut taking her in h-it, wheel tiny wont with another relative, the heir to the titles and estates, to seek for him a restoration of his health. Well, as they could nut take Miss Tuned. end as she had no other near relations, what was more natural for them, and for her alas, than that she ehould go back to the school where she had been for nine years unsung lathes of tier own rank in life, to souse of whom she UMW IlatUially funned an attarnment, such as young ladies of her age are likely to entertain fur earls other. She was, accordingly, taken by Lord Shrewsbury himself, with the approbetion of the guardian. Mr. Berkeley has nowhere stated upon whose information he founded those scandalous ehareess. He says he " has been intbruull, and belies " and SU / hut dues not say by whose iatbrmation he dares to make such hose charges. [The lewd Chancellor here, and in other parts during the argu ment, interposed observations, which we omit, because his lordship repeats them in his judgment.; Ile (Mr. Par ker) did nut hesitate to say that an unpardonable contempt of court has been committed by Mr. Berkeley in making those charges, without the slightest foundatiou for them, and he should be the last man %limn his lordeLip should trust with any share in the guardianship of the young Lady. It is wholly flee that a nowrieee was forced on her; it Is equally false that she was sent beck by her noble relatives islet guardian to he a nun. The latter charge was contra dicted positively by Miss Jerninghem in her affidavit. She says : in the month of September last I was applied to, and. as I bed re. collect and believe, through the medium of Dr. Wheer, :Le chaplain of the Earl of Shrew.bury, to allow the paid Aughsta iseliot to paw anus time.. a hoarder ..t the said convent, tr.,l I !Tidied, as the tact was, that it was: against the rule of the wid convent to rem ve any yeueg lady there as a Wainer, or otise: wise than as apostulahl, or prison who a Wad to wale trial of a cones ritual lite, aim the view of forming an genius respecting the same, and but I mold 541 re. stirs. the ad , ' Augusts Talbot as a boaster, roe otherwise than as a rastulant, wittiest the sowa n of the bishop; ant I referred the said 1)r. Winter to the and bishop, 11r. Modem , and I say that and am under the mimes-ion that the said tie. Hendren gave pernii.sion that the said Aneu.ta Talbot tiaght he resales,. ut she said caste,,!, but that, by rt .n at the Kalil rule. sic should, though an mutate, only be manias ly a pennant. Out I say that I Lever dal in fast cnsitler, nor and the said Augu-ta Tsebot sup pose or consider that the said eueus'a triesat went to the said eenesnt as an ordinary or usual postuLmt, or in any other capacity than us an inmate, and for a temporal} wpm', tough neuneally, ter the purpme aloresauth as a manumit.. An I 1 deny th it the said Augusta falb+t west or was scut as lie p. Wisher last to the convent as a petulant, ur with the avowed obiec, Cy compulsion or rah-twee, of taking the red and hecomirat a nun, or with any salter object than as aloresaid. And 1 forth, say that 1 parlstly well remember the visit ot the lion. Craven Leeks lay t•• the CAM It wa the 11th tehroary last. And 1 say that the will Craven Iterlis ley slid not on that ae.,olon streak to the said Augusta Ta.trat In toy pre'essc or hearing ati.ut any ds e.g injonctien of Ler at olio r, oar dt a he ask her if she was a pasttiant, nor lid she reply that Ft, wan; butte asked bee C slue rioter intended to be a nun, an•l tlas re.in A. 'fattest yei.hed to the edict that there was lime enough to Mira: of that. And Isleny that 1 admit 1.11 h, the said C..heri,eley that the said intuit se I. mwea at the said convent by the +4 . ..1 earl 4411 tae lull lubmtion taut she sla u.d take the wit, or tin she was at that time an ordinary pentane for that purpose, or to that effect. Are! I tang that the said A. 'rah it during the said interview evinced by her manila or appearance, or that it ass the fact, that she War 11'4 a free agent. And i further wy that 1 did not -tate to the sail C. Iterheley that the said A.T.libla w uuhl take she white veil in My:ember web or that she south take the slash veil in September, It'ol. It was to be regretted that Lord Shrewsbury, being abroad, no affidavit from hint could slow be productel, because he would give the most unqualified contradiction to those imputations so groundlessly cast on him. But the lady who was at party to the conversation with Mr. Berkeley denies his statements moat pointeiLy, and the admissions which she makes, instead of being turned against her, only entitle her to greater credence from his lordship. She itilmiti Mt++ Talbot was a nominal postulant by re assail of the rule of the convent against taking lathes as boarders after completing their education. 'that and her other ad missions entitle her positive statements to implicit credit. Ile (Mr. Parker) could have wiehed extremely that the ward had nut been received as a postulant at all, because then there would be no pretence at all for Mr. Berkeley's statements. But where else could this young lady go under the circumstances? Where could she have better protection ? It was aloe part of these charges that she was not to receive any visitor except in the presence of the superioresa. Why, it she had hyena postu lant she could not be allowed to receive any visitor. It was the duty of the Earl of Shrewsbury and of the guar dian to surround this young lady with proper protection. What father would permit his daughter at a school or else where to be visited by persons without the presence of the lady of the school or convent? The fact was, that in all this movement Mr. Berkeley had other objects. It was desirable at the present moment to bring this matter against nuns and cement., forward. Mr. Berkeley having, by his lord ship's refusal to grant a habeas corpus, failed in making is public exhibition of this young lady, by brin4ing her b, fare the court by un officer, he then proposed this petition, and attempted to get from his lordship a promise of his costs, and not receiving that promise, he then said he would present his petition to the House of Commons, and so he did to create an excitement. That wa. a (+lows: which was wholly unjustifiable. Ile hoped the petition would be dim miesed, and dismissed with costs. Mr. F. Riddell said he appeared for the defemluno,—the trustees of the will of the late Earl of Shrewsbury—and in their behalf he objected to the payment of the ci.-ts of Mr. Berkeley's petition out of the trust fund. In addition to the Mt% cited by Mr. Parker yesterday, " Glass:cot es Lang," and Ferrell r. Hobson," (both in 2 Phillips, pp. 2.44 and 310,) he cited the caw of " :Calder r. Hawkins," (2 Mylne and Keen, '213,) to show that where a plaintiff or petitioner makes a ease of personal treed or misconduct, and fails to prove, or abandons that east ut the hearing, the I bill or petition should be dismissed with costs. He read Lord Broughton's judgment in the last case, hold ing that where a bill is filed on behalf of infants under eir cumstence. raising Is strong suspicion against the motives of the next friend, the court will direct au inquiry; and it it I appears that the next friend's motives were nut justifieble, his bill will be dismissed with costs. The learned counsel applied those cases to the case befiire the court, and hoped his lonlehip, seeing that Mr. C. Berkeley's interference was improper, would dismiss his petitien with mots. Ile also cited the opinion of Lord Eldon to the same Met, in rr Pearce re Pearce " (9 Vex}, 648). The Solicitor General (Mr. P. Wood) trimmed surprise at the course which his learned friends had taken, who, with all their denunciations of his client, never con descended to explain how it was that Miss Talhot, a ward of court, was placed in the convent as a postulant, because a postulant she was—a real postulant, and net a nominal one, us was said—a fact which would not have been known to the court had it not been for Mr. Ber keley, ao his lordship had said more than once in the course of this discussion. Whether there was not eonee indiscretion committed Ire Mr. Berkeley in the manner iu which he has brought forward this case, he would not argue, but he woul.l say that he Alai unques tionably entitled to the greatest credit for haling brought the matt:e to his lordship's attention. He insisted that there v, ere letters in existence that passed between Miss Jemingham and Dr. Winter, or Pr. Hendren, which would throw light on this matter if they were produced. They would show whether the lady was received as a pos tulant or boarder. Pr Winter made no affidavit— Mr. Parker supposed he was with Lord Shrewsbury. The Solicitor-General.—lt was said thin was a decree Rot up fora public purpose, and that he had refused to have it heard in private. The contrary was the fact, for leis lord ship would recollect that when the matter was first brought forward, he had said that he and his client were perfectly ready to take the whole matter before the blaster, and thus prevent the matter getting that publicity which had been given to the proceedings. Unfortunately, for the other side, Bishop Hendren, by his letters in the public papers, admit ted and justified the postulaney ; and there could be no doubt that a ward of the court had been placed in the Mil vent with a view to take the veil. lie had not thought it necessary, on hie opening of thin petition, to say one word about the marriage, hut his friends hail thought proper to drag in the whole of the subject, unpleasant :.4 the pub licity might he to the young lady . herself. Nis learued friend had thought it right to insinuate lour times that the young lady'+ mother was a person destitute of all delicacy, and it mattered little to him that she was the mother of the ward. It was well known that she had been separated from her husband ; and he would sae, that that separation was not the fault of the lady. learned friends had not spored any of the parties in the case opposed to theta, for they abused the whole of them. 'fle mother had been lett penniless in the world, and he wan not sur prised that, under these circumstances, she in toll months after the death of her husband, from whom she hail been separated for seven years, should seek protectimt and a home by intermarrying with Mr. Berkeley. Immediately that Mr. Berkeley had read the lett. rof Miss Talbot to the Lord Chancellor, he took instant steps to bring the whole of the case before his lordship, which was the first mament that he had learnt the astounding fact th:.t the young lady Was in the convent. instead of being placed, as he had thought, in the residence of Lord and lady Shrewsbury. 'that letter had appeared in the newspapers, and his scdi cdor had instructed hint to say that he hail not the least notion how that letter had obtained circulation and pub licity. Now, what was Mr. Berkeley's position in refer ence to the ease ? No one had attempted to peotect the rung lady until he had stepped in, and he was the. at person who had given information to his lordship, which had given him sonic status before the court ; and lie had a right to inquire into the real facts of the ea, , espe cially in regard to the conduct of Lord and lady shreo %- bury. lie had obtained his information front Boman catholic friends, and not from protestant., who, as his learned friend stated, had been desirous of making a great protestant display. He regretted that Mr. Berkeley had seen his lordship in private. The bird Chancellor—l do not ace there was any impro priety in Mr. Berkeley seeing me in private with his:solicit:a . , Mr the purpose of procuring a habeas corpus; all judge* were in the habit of grunting such applications in private. The Solicitor-General—Mr. Berkeley had heard a ru mour that the young lady was in a convent, and that a marriage had lwen proposed; that a gmtletnitit of high name had been mentioned, who was not distasteful to the pang lady, but was to the guardian and his lordship. 'f he Lord Chancellor—The gentleman was nut distasteful to him ; he knew nothing about him, and had never seen him. _ _ The Solicitor-Marna—lle Lad thou,cht the gentleman was the Duke de HOCIIVIIMICAIIit, Who was 53 years of age, hut it appear. it was the duke's brother, and only Lli years. Well, Mr. Berk,ley heard that the young lady was at a convent, plwed thereby Lord Shrewsbury for the purist.. of taking the veil and becoming a found her there m a po.tulant, and immediat. lv waited upon his lordship for an order of habeius corpus. His husk ship was surpri-ed to hear that the young lady was in a state of postulaney, but he stated that the application must be made iu regular form in open court. The Lord Chancellor—When I told him ha must attend in otwn tours, he merely said, eery maurally, Will that he at my own cost :" I told hint lw must act a' he thought proper ; when he replied, that he would present a petition to the House or Commons. " The Solicitor-General—lt was proved beyond dispute that the Ear! and Countess of Shrewsbury had plated the young lady in the convent in order that an ineuenee might there be exercised that she should ultimately take the veil. Dr. Doyle had never been awakened to the danger of the young lady Wier placed in a convent till the 13th of March when he wrote to her, dissuading her from breomin • a nun, as he did not think her fitted for doing so; and too wrote became, he thought she was wavering upon the subj. ct. The next thing that Mr. Berkeley heard was, that a now ton had been made by Mr. halt to bring the matter be fore the court; and then it was that Mr. Berkeley judged it proper fur him to interfere, when he tiled his affi davit, and presented his petition, at which moment he did not know of any default on the part of Dr. Doyle; hat when they had seen tie !otter of the young lady, then it was that he first leurn..al that the y g lady had teen ail the while in a convent, and then he owned notes , that he would ask for the removal of Dr. Doyle. as he had acted contrary to the orders of the court in allowing her to he tin r, . Ha had had abundant ;mounds to ask for the removal of Ur. Doyle, as well as of Lord and lady Shrewsbury. They may be said to ha,: 11,11 T. 1144 •It for they had actually idum d I all tare and management of the young laty. Tito mother died in 1841 ; the child was placed in the convent, and Mr. Berkeley had Well her there, and had drWrilla what sort of a place it was; and although her education hail eu.t only 1231. per year, yet the guardian had Is et veep v ing an allowance of 5101. Mr. Berkeley thought it right to make the Lord Chancellor acquainted with that faet, when an order was made Mr a reduetion: and hail it not ben ter Mr. Berkeley, Dr. Doyle would still have been r clients.; 440/. per annum, although he only expended 123/. 4 year. Ile did not oliject to cheap education, but he did not know what reason there was why 1)r. Doyle should 'active Mt., when only UV. was required. The Vim Chancellor, in his judgment in making the order of 1813, had thought that tho Shrewsburys went to Italy once a year, and, therefore, thought that it would be advantageous fur the young lady to be placed with them, in order that her delisote health might he improved by travelling to the mica-side. and never dreamt that she would be plated in a content while they were on their journeys. With respect to the money, ho never meant to insinuate that Dr. Doyle had picketed the surplus of the allowance furnished by the Vie.. (la incellor. Mr. Berkeley went to rke the young lady at t!i convent, but could not see her except in the present, of of third person. His client then sought for an aril to . i-it her, stating that he hail email her much nes:l,h it in lag per son, and that Lord and Lady Shrewsbury had not seen her fur a year. Was wit that a delusion practised 41,411 the court, to put them forward as the persons who had taken care of her ? In fact, the Young lady never had a home. This lung neglect Nattiest 'him to say that Dr. Doyle was not a person tit to have the young lady iu his ottattlilmship. When the young lady was suffering under a tielit ate disap -1 • tmeut, in consequence of the mariiage Iw ing broken off, why di 1 hot lord and La ly /Shrewsbury take her abroad, instead of placing le r in a convent as a postulant ? In fact they had alnutdoned her at a most critical moment. The gray:tun n of the charge etas that she was sent to the convent as a l ostulant. That was a point upon which his lordship must deal. Dr. Moyle lead, in a most extraordinary a ffi davit, said that he did nut wish her to become a nun ; but how did he get that impress shoo, unless he had been informed that she wes there in that character? If Bishop Hendren had been brought forward 1w could have acquaiuted his lordship of ;he whole facts of the case ; but his learned friends had kept him iu the back ground, lest he should say too much. He, however, had Said that the abbess had told hint that the young lady had written a most earliest, supplicating letter, entreating to Ma allowed to become a postulant. This letter had completely frightened the nuns, lest they should get psi...team of her large fortune. That was the statement of Dr. Hendren. He must say that the lady abbess. had 144.1, a most candid statement, which was, that she had dropped all mention of the subject, hut referred Dr. Winter to the bishop, and had understood that Dr. Hendren had git en his permis sion to receive the young lady as a pistol:nit; and yet his learned friends ceded upon the court to believe she had boon placed iii a convent merely in the character of a boarder. In faet, the whole of the aliheiss's affidavit distinctly proved, hestind all question, that the young lady was in the sou, rat as a postulant. There could be nu doubt whatever but that a gross con , tempt of court had heels committed by Dr. Doyle. .1 (pea ! tion had been raised as to whether the young lady had entered as a boarder or as a postulant. That court was jealous of every kind of spiritual influence, and therefore het would say that such persons as Dr. Disks and Lord and Lady Shrewsbury, were nut such persons us his lordship would approve of to he the guardians of u ward of court. Mr. Berkeley was entitled to the appnohation of his lord ship for the course he had taken in the matter under con sideration; and he therefore called upon his lordship to allow him to attend before the Martyr, 0110 was to frame a scheme—even if his lordship did not think rigl.t to appoint hint so stepfather and nest friend to be her future guardian, he certainly ought to be permitted to attend the Muster, ith liberty to propose aschi me, if he thought proper to do so. Those who had instructed his learned friends had not dared to say one word against the honour of his client. If Mr. Berkeley were appointed her guardian, her relations would have access to her ; and, besides, the lady had nu repug nance to him, and it could not be proved that she had any objection to his company. Dr. Doyle took no pains to pre vent the young lady from being placed in a convent, and was therefore a totally unlit persou to have charge of her. It was no fault of Mr. Berkeley's that the coincidence hap pened that he had interhred to prevent this young lady's large fortune of 85,e00/. getting into the possession of the Roman catholic, at the very epoch when the Pope was en deavouring to establish a hierarchy in this country, for which so large a sum would be necessary. Mr. Berkeley had succeeded in having placed this young lady in proper hands, and therefore he could not for a moment be charged with the expense , of having acted in so proper a manila on behalf of the young :ally. lie, therefore, trusted that Mr. Berkeley woad be permitted to attend the Masts r on the reference that was made in Doylo's petition. Ile hoped, also, hi, costs in this matter would be allowed, except, per haps, the costa of the amended petition. The Lord Chars:dim and Mr. Holt said they were not aware of a second petition. The F,olictordacneral said Mr. Holt must have been aware of it, for notice of the additional charge was given to his client by Mr. Berkeley's solicitor. Atter some further argument he cited a case of " White v. Meade " el Irish Equity Reports), before Mr. Baron Pennefathcr, to show that postulants in these catholic nunneries were obliged to give up th-Sr property to the convent. Ile trusted his lord ship would grant the several parts of the prayer of the amended petition. Mr. Holt, retorting to the case just cited, said it bad no bearing whatsoever on the present ease. The court was crowded at this time in all parts. The Lord Chancellor, immediately after the assument eta, cunt:lad A, proceeded to give Ids judgment. said: '1 'll I