The Express. — London, England, 1851-03-10 00:00:00

WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. Tbs. Royal West India mail steamer Sever*, Capt. Viacom, arrive d at Southampton yesterdav, and landed her mails under the charge of LitUt. I. J. Wilkinson, 11.5., Admiralty agent. An accident happened to the machinery of the Severn on the 4th last., which took 32 hours to repair. The dates of her mails arc. as follows :—Vero Cruz, Feb. 8; Tampico, 4 ; chapel', 9; Carthagena,ll • Jamaiea,l4; Deme rara, 11; Trinidad, 13; Barham's, 10; Antigua, 1.5; Martinique, Ili; Gn•nailn, 14; Porto Rico, 18; St. Thomas, 19; La Guayra, 11 ; Santa Martha, 29; Grey Town, 3; Guadaloupe, 17; St. Vincent, 15; St. Lucia, 17; San Francisco, 15; Panama, Feb. 8. The cargo of the Severn consisted of specie and precious atoms to the value of 1,618,11148 dollars, 51,000 of which is on amount of Mexican dividends; 1,043,510 was in burs and dollar+, 521,328 in gold dust and coined gold; Odin& to the value of 1,750 dollars; pearls, 13,000 dollars value. The panieulars of the specie, &c., are as follows :—From ampico, speeie and bullion on merehants account, 511,012 dohs., and for dividenaj 18,000 dots.; from Vert ('nu., on merchants accounts, 760,676 dots.; for dividends, 33.1 8 81 dols. Flom the Pacific ports, bul lion and gold dust, 215,877 dolt. From California, 276,085 dols. From Carthagtoa, 121,490 dots. From Jamaica. 20,331 dohs. From other ports of the West Indies. 72,377 dohs. The Sevein also brought home 12 packages for the great Exhibition, and 51 pack ages of samples. The isissengers by the Severn were 63 in number. Amongst them were Captain Mann, R.E., and family ; and Assistant ('ommissary Ocnerul Graham, Inuit Grenada; Lieutenant Tyler, XL. from St. Lucia; Assistant Surgeon Tepee ; Lieutenant Grey, It.A. ; Lieutenunt-Colonel Wright. ILK, and lady ; Lieutenant Deng, H.S.; and lie. Beveridge, from Jamaica; and Dr. Crow, from Barhadoes. From the Mexican Gulf we learn that the specie for Tampico, expected down there the latter part of January, had nut arrivill when the Great Vs (stern called off that port on the 4th of February lust, owing to a slight disturbance in the interior, hut then all was quiet, awl it was expected that the specie hv the Ouiductor would reach Tampico and be minty to he shipped by the time the Great Western returned off the bar the beginning of March. The Conductor. for Vera Crux. arrived at that city on the fish of February, and all the specie for the Mexi can dividends and on an relant account fur England was uhileptil by the Great Western. Dr. Beveridge, whew mime is in the passengers' list, is the gentleman whose humane and zealous exertions in Jamaica, when the cholera first broke out there, were mentioned in the 11,presa in December last, when that gentleman arrived in this country. and also that he volunteered to go out with the melioiJ staff that was sent out by the govern ment on the 2nd January last. Dr. Ili•veridw states that Kingston, Spanish Town, and Port Royal are entirely free from cholera, and in all the other dis tricts it is on the decline. with this exception, that in those places that had previously suffered much a few cases had again pn seated themselves. The Jamaica Mawhartl mention 4 its reappearance in seve ral parts of St. Mary and St. Ann. Westmoreland has still issuped, but it is feared that it will not long do so. We learn from the roost% rakes (says the Jamaica Monis!, Joret."ol of the 13th ult.) that death has been very active in the country distriets of the perish of St. James, the noortolite in No. 11 district being fearful to montem plot, At Spring Garden, the week rooting 7th Fehniary, the deaths had been 6: Tower 11111, 3; Belmont, 4 ; and Unity Ball, 3; while there were no less than :o2 mows under treatment. There is Mai no cholera in Savanna-la-War. Dr. Milroy 11.1 arrived in that town, was introduced too the Board of Health at its last meeting, and alto r stating his opinion. r o spelling v. ntilation and the nemosary attention to tleasolioloss. a rote of thaisks was Risen to hint fur his attowolaisee and the suggestions he had mule to the hoard. The disease is still hanging about Lunn, and the number of death.% has been it. great us 337, toeing more than one third of the population, whir, we believe was 1,1199 souls. Taking alas a citric of three miles of Lama, them have been more than CAO persons .wept ooff. From the Leeward districts the accounts were becoming more gloomy every day. We an sorry to my that the drowse has made its reappearance in the vicinity of Oehoo Bins, in St. Ann's. From the 29th January to the 31st hst. there were 12 death.: and from Sunday, the 9th, to Tuesday, the I lth, there wens hee more, four of whieli took place at the Bogs/ and one at Ilelinont. Among them, we are sorry to state, wan Mr. Archibald bl•Dermott, overseer of the Warw. The Oelieo Rios district was quite destitute of medital aid. "Since the departure of Dr. Seechi " (writes a come apndent`, .` whose so mires were much apprielated, and through at many lives were preserved, we hart been bereft of that me d ical attendance whie-h we should have in these times. of affliction and distress. If ever a Lard of health .tamed a. committing an injustice, the St. Atm's board is mrtainly guilty of the charge, for having dispensed with the survives of Dr. Sect-hi, which were use ful angl 1.1111% ...NI at all times. Dr. Bailey has loosen amongst us, hut we fear the extent of the St. Ann's Bay district will not enable him to give that attention which is intrrisil GUIANA. The Royal Gmelle soya: A. regard. local affair., the chief intire.t of the fart fort night has e.ntnd in certain pmsetuti 111 l of the lire•. in- Mitutrd on behalf of the go.. rument in our Supreme Criminall'ourt. One of then• trial. on Sationhay last, the Sth inst., in u verdict of o Not guilty," soil the iiercond I. going on at thi. moment. It appear. that what gave to thew proceedings was the appearance of a libel upon our worthy and excellent governor, on two several oteu.ions some months ago ill the m•we- paper of this city, upon the subject of certain tenders for the supple of forage. saddlery, and other things of that na ture Mr the use Or the pt,liee form. It seem. that for many year* the contractors bad been the firm of Thomas and Co., of this colon), and that they hail given gnat satisfaction fur the p.!...1 quality of the strtielve furnished by them, and the faithfulness with which they had executed their contracts. In laal they tendered *pin ; Stl did several other houses; but the tender of ThOMLI4 and 'n. was ameptell, us being comsidered the best fur the public se r ice. It aas stated, however, in the Co/oting that it aus not the Ina est tero ter ; and that in getting the contract they hail been unduly favoured. The offensive way iu which this was stated, and the attack made at the same time upon his excellency the governor, seemed to the law ohm's .O the t row n to demand a proacention of the paper. lbw, %cr. all over the world we believe, juries um rather tender in dealing with the press; and hence, no doubt, as well as from the impression made on the court by an eloquent address from the counsel for the defence, Mr. J. E. !total. the verdict of acquittal. Some account of these proceedings a ill be found in our present files. The halt-warty meeting of the British Guiana Bank was held 1111 tile . 30th ultimo. The report (of the directors, we are glad to sae, in of a highly encouraging nature. The direetors dee Lire that they Its& forward to "a progressive rt turn to former status of the colonial productions as being within the range of hopeful anticipation, through the means ot steady remunerative prices, a moderate but con tinuous immigration of agricultural labourers, isonomi cally and judiciously conducted, and, concurrently there with the utmost ossible restriction. if not the en tire extinction of, the foreign African slave trade." When one considers how inseparably all lunking, as well as commereial operations in an essentially agri cultural country like this, are connected with the present and prospective well-being of the soil, these remarks of the direct,,,, will nut be deemed by any means irrele•ant to the subject in hand—the state of the bunk itself for the preceding Ida mouths. That the transactions of the bank fur that period were advantage ously carried on will be evident when we mention that the statement laid °ter by the directors exhibited the large balance in its favour of 170.791 do's. : composed of 113,•25ti lob. tithe., amount of reserved fund, and 117,:ina doh.. Ifits. net profit of the half-year: and that, after declaring a divide el at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum in favour of the sharehohlt re, and which required gli,raf Yak., the sum of ;XI lob. 94k. was carried over in further augmentation of the re-screed profits of the corporation. On the nth instant an election took place for the county of Ilemerant to till a vacancy in the College of Financial lit presentative* occasioned by the retirement of William 1 / a vison, Esq. ; when J. 'f. Gilbert, Esq., barrister-at-law, was elected without opposition. The meeting of the l'ombined Conti for the Present year is fixed for the :-Xlth instant, between which time and the present the Court of l'olicy will be busily entrants' in pre paring the estimate. It as generally suppoaed. bowel er. is well ittfonued circles, that there will be little. if ant'. viation in the ensuing session from the steady. and jutri fi..ll,l course pursued by the Combined Court in the last. There Selltet reason, therefore, to believe that fur another twelvemonth, at all o vents. the financial position of British Guiana will he .satisfactory, the more especially, as in all the principal branches of the public revenue the marks of a healthy and elastic haul system arc apparent. In the course of the fortnight we bare had an addition to our population by the arrival of 120 Portuguese from Ma deira in the vessel Haas A 11113.1. We may now be looking moot for an arrival of l'unlies. The v. -.Our during du. fortnight has been exactly such a. the plotters desire .4 this wawa of the year. With ix eadtnial sunshine and tine breezes we have had copious showers of rain, of which the young ranee wen• moth in amd. All ia quirt in the rural districts, and the public health coalitions good. W IND 11',UID ISLANDS. 'flu• cholera has not appeared in any of the Wind ward Islands with the exception of the 13 cases in the garrison of Barbuthwv, only 2 of which proved fatal. All these casts were sporadic ; such cases take place annuallv in the months of October and Noveniber, ininwigutelv atter the rainy 10.116011. The troops generally in the Windward and Leeward Islands have been remarkably healthy during the last two months. At Porto Rico . it has never been considered necessary to establish quarantine for cholera. GREY TOWN. The King of Mosquito was daily expected at Grey Town when the moil kit. The European inha bitants of this place were anxiously waiting news from England respecting Grey Town. It having been made u free port many arc in doubt as to the ultimate result of this measure. ST. THOMAS. A slight shock of an earthquake wan felt at St. Thomas on the 14th of February : no damage done. CA ItTHAGENA. The explot duties are now abolished in Cartha gena. The authorities, however, still insist that all specie shipped must pass through the custom house. A severe shock of an earthquake was felt at Cardin gena on the ith ult. ; two houses were almost de stroyed, and many ses crcly damaged; several lives were lost. HAVANA. The cholera has disappeared in Havana and in St. Jago de Cuba, but it still exists in some districts in the Island of Cuba. GUADALOUPE. Letters from Guudatoupe of the Nth ult., state that the cholera was still raging at Cayenne, although not so violently n before. COMMEI:( lAL INTELIGENCE. (From 1k Mercantil,. Ixtellipmer.) K INGSTON, JAMAICA, FEB. 11. . . . . . . The remark. in our on the market (or eulfi.h, Lure been Orly borne out II the ttwilts of the lent fortnight's trecurtiorei —the prwe of the wti. le law; fa lea to 10e. per itb tin. kw beet anti, awl I to. per ton ; turd even w thew rules Wei are with iiiftleulty ettectol. to one ineteneo IM .Id. p.r cork mid lir. per box see aweeptol a.rg .of rather laferr.r geality. The stock le cUll eon- Warren, in cameo of the dr maarl. while the "nee by suet on of tine wend parcel. interiere to u gre.t degree with Um legitimate hurintee. We Lave to notice anotner decline 1.1 lb* value of door marl coral owl ;request on the heavy et eh. r.a head and the very trilling demand from the trek; Loth the a article* it... ...fret from the abundance of melte rewelablee. FU.I: Y. - Upetards of 9 0 barrel/ new Baltimore liowardwtreet flour Loft bins waved at V. 0., of which about SOO b..rrela were coher e .inally plated at an adrwite at Gd. per barrel. Thin a the only trans. iotom et any moment that bre ; marred in the market dote OW Wet. The Wrack le heavy, with auto or De. arrival from Baltimore, am wad at 14.., but veering ow booted= to be oriararly goat d. a reduction of Is. per bane' atm submit id to. lbere IS a *cry Matey .lick of old meal on b.mal—and the article Literally is In very .light itan—Catolina 1. 111.1 U at 2 1 " a. per If .011111. at v.►lib rate, however. bo d. rc are rim. lute !AA India wits at ll*. 6d.-100 b.gs bare bees moved ttoreat. IS, males or Madras are limited is Jai huge, at IS. Id per Molds. fle PA. Irt..b eontinurs vet y LRAMs., at 9td. There is net any Baal Midas at market; a pdeel which has been maw time thee ham bee■ odered at nd., but the trade reline to buy at that tate. Than is alai • lot of w crow Canaclan on hand, which cannot be moved. The mama AraatiCalt have been Po kegs at .nu kegs at id., and an &kiss uld Ualumw., neat> f laid. at Sid. per lb. ltautaa.— We trport talcs of i.OO bares Madman's trackers at Ma., sad SW tunes pilot bread at •tns. TM former is must in droned. assn..- O. 3 commands 2 Ir., but darn in not much doing in the article - altbougb the raotk .not by any weans Lytle- to come yawn of the abundant e nod for pine of hoe rings. 11. taesa..—All putto,cl pariah. rl :so. I roe herrings him been roid at 11r. to I. Other lot, tat interior quality bare been plied ut I. e., mid at etas lower rater. Aiawiene • Good thrice fiAll Mice brouglit 30.. pie barrel; but lug the late &lend, let. way a.s sct, and with difficulty, in COMM quence el the ti.b brew/ bc,.11 tinnier than tenni. It. quantity el hers Inge it Ys ket %watts .1..0 eg ttut thie article. tht..—TbeLlllllMik supplies tender biatil Mead vozy difficult at 3.. perfest. in. Lao lumbers ell at (al. el. a lase arrival from 13altiotore. Some holder., bowertr, ceromd Old. to id. per lb., and pawn 1.:./ to its) kegs have been sold lb. nod, but the uncle a very dull at these eau errbriall.—Nolbleg..ller ler. per 100 rW, can te obtained for ordt• dietary cast, and lbs. fur large it.,. Om: cargo of inferior rearlily %Ca mad at per ea-lt an I lie. per hoz. Good buses are taken at 13e. Bme lot of dais ged and stated have been placed at 3N. to 34a. per tierce, while some again have been tb•own away. ,Nauent. —.4 barrels No. 2 have changed hands at Urn No. I is worth Mia The mock is not large, but atiffiteunt to meet the present am. Said demand. rout.— atop to held roe 72r. to :Gr.; 200 barrels prime have been mold at 2Cr. per bore I. Um. are aboialant ; 10 barrel. 1 bPadelphia bus been placed at 74., .04.100 bun., Italtonoer at :at. per 10. Y.nglob are in .cure. Base. The bale. late bean ummp.rbott. Ne quote Steele'. 48 and 311110. leather at t bind calla.. roan at t 4.. f.l. per boa. There in• rather large quantity of fibbed at market, but we have not beard el ap uperaasoun therein. Cashed. Tae arks .Lill the sevens lota Overeat 7d., but the mat bet Ins Immo on snappy that Cd. Wu% been accepted for it par ed af gda bums (the lot ari1...0, a large proportion a • w • vim not very morn m I.voto rot now. (Noma e tpage r rotiolt U. ti. at N. to Dd., sod ArcertcAn at lA. la 71d. tar to. The mock .1 bum sort. la my ample. Luisa. Muslin. so 1111.4 es pitted. !Intr.-141y ball bane:. .mob's "Family " hue changed bands at 4.55. 7nouvea—lrish OW have been odd at 10a. per half barrel. ISSAN Pricer, are looking dour; under rather a slackened de amok and increment erne.. Early in the tam fortatitht, 20 libda. leartell'a were man nn trsod at 7e. d 4. fur dark, and ro. for male, but sialneameally le. VMS Steepled fur new Melba parcels of the forme, and W. Yd. tar Ilenne , . 1.1. mu ham of late b nit wore active demand, In conarenenee of ibe ►IRO raiment bandy. We here bead of a sole of WU cases at 7e. ed. pee eine, in band. C.,air.—Tlicre u not any tnikd Rater at marvel ; Beath American arta. at 3a. Her buokhel., . . . . ga..a.-50 bap It. E have changed hands at sa. per tea. tiro .a.—*lbe market is rather heavily suppliid, with a manned den.aiaL Prim tom at 14. to 2ton according to quality, t n. -The euppocit.on drat the home duty on turn nul be inereared dui: ter the nape...china ...WI of the Aa•enably, hat impacted a con &amiable Mater ul .ctit it) to the market. Several purehares h ,te bum mode on speculation ; and between 248.0 and 31.0 plea. have sh.Layeal hand. at 4a. od. per aill..n. Con ... cegnmanda a 2.. to per 100 lbs., and is yet in very limited swat,. Elm arei.—At aurtion, 80 bag, hare been told at 4;(1. per lb. " " Loom ow —Hold.. .rc ai m n lue. per ton. Nast. 's (1.4 k SUM r.b at tun. per hogshead. bottled ale sod ;sorter are abundant awl lawny, sward it 1 , 1 , rth M. per rack, at which rate, how ever, It Is doll of vale. lbe stock is Mori . Tocmccm-36 boars Cityeadieb, Aod 20%., bare been taken at I6d. per Ib. Wow—Ansel Wan is worth 2 per mot., and Columbian doublooas 4 per ei nt. prem. ka(VANti.. —On New York merchants' bills, 60 days, 24 per tent. pow. Ess asst..— On LnesSon : Colonial Bank-90 days, a per cent. porn. Louis t•u dip., I pie mut. prem. ; Ditto, 3u oily; la per cent. mews. Jammu rank—nu caps s par cent. prem.; Ditto, 6U its, a, I per mat prom. ; Loins 30 dale, It per mot. pram Vbe Court. OSBORN E, SUNDAY. Her 31ajesty and Prince Albert arrived here yesterday from London, with the Prinee of Waltw, the Princess ltaiyal, Prince Alfred, l'rince Arthur, and the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting. This morning the Queen and Prince Albert, and the ladies and gentlemen of the court, attended divine service in Whippuigham Church. The Her. Mr. Protherue officiated. A deputation, headed by Mr. Hume, MY., and includ ing the Hight Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.l'., Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. W. Williams, M.P., Mr. W. J. Fos, M P., Mr. L. llsyworth, NIT., and other members of parliament, had an inteniew respecting the paper duties with Lord John Itussell, on Saturday, ut his official residence in Downing street. :Hr. De Saha had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Saturday, at his official residence in Down treet. fhe Tranntlantic Packet Station Commission had a meeting on Saturday at the Board of Trade, Present: Earl Granville (chairman), Hon. Wm. Cowper, M.P., Sir James Gordon, K.C.11., Sir John F. Burgoyne, K.C.8., Captain Stephenson Ellrrby, and Lord Hobart (secretary). RETURN OF TUE QUEEN TO OSBOUNE.—PORTS mot' ru, Mmten 9.—Her Majesty, his Royal Highness I'rince Albert, and the Royal children, arrived at Clarcuce-yard yesterday, at twelve o'clock, from Buck ingham Palace, ex route to the Isle of Wight. On alighting from the Royal carriage, her Majesty was re ceived by Admiral the lion. Sir 'l. B. Capel, commander- Colonel Campbell, 95th Regiment, commanding the South Western District; Captain Superintendent Sir W. E. l'arry, and J. Davies and J. Tinhorn, Esqs., of Clanmce-yard. •the royal standard being hoisted in Clarence-yard, salutes of 21 guns: each were fired by the Victory, Britannia, Excellent, Vengeance, and Blenheim, and the garrison at the Platform Batters. A guard of honour and baud, under the command of 3lajor Robertson, were furnished by the 82nd Regiment. On proceeding on board the Fairy, Royal steam tender, which was lying alongside the jetty, her Majesty was received by Captain Lord Adolphus Eitzelarrnee, Commander Crispin, and the officers of the royal ya let. The Fairy got away from the jetty at 12 minutes past 12 ; and, followed by the Elfin, royal dispatch tender, glided out of harbour, amid the cheers of the crews of the ships in commission, and the acclamations of the inhabitants assembled on the I'latform Battery and other points of view. In running through Spitheiul, her .Majest7 was again saluted by the Cumber land, it), flagship of ice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, for the' North American station, which was gaily dressed out in colours. Her Majesty arrived at Osborne at about a quarter past 1 o'clock, when the royal standard was hoisted ut the summit of the clock-tower. The engine, a new one, which brought the royal traiu from London, got out of ; order, we learn, at the Farnborough Station, but another I being in readiness, only a very trifling delay was caused to her Majesty. APPOINTMENTa.—Major S. T. 11111, of the 2nd West India Regiment, is appointed Governor of the Gold Coovt, in the plate of Sir W. Wynniett, deeeaved.--Charles Comic', appointed a member of the Legislative Council of New Brumwiek.—UMerrcr. A cabinet council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-oftiee. It was attended by Lord J. Russell, the lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans downe, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, Sir Francis Baring, Lord Broughton, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Marquis of Clanricarde. The council sat two hours. St . BNI %BINE TELEGRAPH BETWEEN ENGIAND AND c.—Thi. South Ewdern Railway Cripany have pro m oted a petition to the House of Cons Was against this company a measure. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 185 FATHER GAVAZZI'S TENTH ORATION YESTERDAY LN THE PRINCESS'S CON CERT HALL. " CLERICAL CELIBACY." The Italian congregation, which gathered in un usual force yesterday afternoon, was replaced in the evening by a German assembly, scarcely less nume rous, attracted by the name of Johannes Bone, the famous denouncer of the holy coatatTreves, in whose mind the revulsion from legendary imposture has been so violent that it has rried him into what is called rationalism, with a tinge of socialist politics, neither of which objectionable elements disfigure the teaching of Gas azzi. Indeed, of the thousands of osten sibly Itomanist clergymen south of the Alps, who tacitly reject the palpable absurdities of Ultrainontism, few if any lapse into the wild theories of the German school ; and as to socialism, none but maligners of the Nlontalembert school could impute ideas subversive of property to the immense majority who seek the free dom of the Italian peninsula. That the papacy is equally an abomination to both is clear enough : Hine movet Erydanu., dehinc Germania helium; !lacteal's insolitis tremucrunt motihus Alpe.. But the wide-spread discontent of Italy is far the more formidable feature of the two. The Father began by animadverting in a strain of indignant scorn to certain emanations of the London Roman catholic press, equally stupid as obscure, at tributing mercenary motives to his denunciations of papal fraud and imposture; he bade them come and scrutinize his life, contrasting his humble abode and scanty fare with the wages of Rome's purple emis sary, paid here for degrading his country by a pro fusion of earthly comtorts and pomps, the pampered embodiment of mingled servility and arronce. Let him cut his pudding, but bid his tools ware of clumsy calumny. He threw down the gauntlet to all manly or hcinest impugners; let such come for ward if they dare. The anonvmous and the skulk he scouted as became their lurking scoundrelism. Entering on the subject of enforced celibacy, he asked for any warrant in Christ's gospel, or a clear lucid enactment by any of his apostles, laying a yoke of such monstrous endurance on so large a body of men for so many centuries. There was none. lie came not to question individual instances of excep tional prerogative in the pursuit of evangelic perfec tion, but to challenge the forcible and systematic extension to a whole class of what reason as well us scripture, wherever allusion was made to total conti nence, clearly indicated as the rare attribute of a few. In the scanty passages either of Christ's own teaching, or that of Paul, where was the groundwork of this gigantic superstructure? We must seek for it elsewhere. Its origin is like the gnostic and Manichean interpolations of Christianity—a com pound of Eastern fanaticism and Pagan iniaginini,n. &molting in the wild fancies of anchorites, stylites, and the Alexandrian school of Origen. Enough of comparatively harmless paganism pervades the wor ship of I tome—processionsoncense, lust rations,t utelary genii, and all the cumbrous paraphenialia of a ritual singularly retentive of primitive idolatries, but the moral code and ethical discipline of the Christian community is far less saturated with such reminiscences as tliese, of the goddess Cybele, the Corybantes of Greece, the priesthood of India, and the vestals of Numa. The speaker showed this vicious and inhuman system at work in the Ellusi nian mysteries at Delphi and Dodona, and among the bonzes of Japan, evincing a full familiarity with' the details of recondite superstition in the earliest ages of mankind. Nor did this emanation of the arch enemy, this foul dis tortion of the moral principle, establish itself unchallenged and undeaminetsl as part and parcel of early Christianity. The voice of Vigilantius, vigorous and vehement, pro claimed the innovation in the days of Jerome, and Iwgun the long series of remonstrances which have been renewed in ever; successive age. The historian Evagrius, in 110, records the struggle of the newly-elected Bishop of Ptole mais against its enforcement, and tells us how the eminent Sens-sins refused to dishonour his wife by its recognition : whereupon he was nevertheless consecrated hy Theophilus. Patriarch of Alexandria. At the great Nicene council, the most august of all the assemblies of churchmen, the introduction of this heterogeneous element into the leg i latiou of the Christendom, was mischievously attempted by a few oriental fanatics, when there arose in that venerable congress an illustrious confessor of the faith, his head sil vered with age, and bearing in his maimed limbs and shat tered frame the traces of torture inflicted by the tyrant l'eephnutius, Bishop of Upper Thebaide, flung the weight of his years, experience, and wisdom into the balance, and the collective sagacity of the mewuenic episcopate stamped the attempt with energetic reprobation. (Cheers.) The father sifted the councils of Ancyra (313), of Nero-Ca-sacra (315), of Agazzium (506), and described the renewal of efforts to enforce the objectionable system, as evidences of the constant repugnance and antagonism of the clergy to bye-laws of this charac ter. The disastrous consequences of these incessant inroads on household purity became evident in the suemeding centuries, and the writings of Petrus Damianus, of such high authority among papal chroniclers, confirm, in all the sad details of universal turpitude, the picture which contemporary writers draw of clerical incontinency, and the utter disregard of decency in the infringement of an unnatural regu lation. The deposition of bishops for open concubi nage became the current business of synods--as that of Amalfi in 110 the war waged against the in stincts of humanity was a fearful and formidable as well as scandalous contestation. The tremendous energies of secular ambition were brought to bear on the further and final enforcement of celibacy, when the clergy of Europe were transformed by Hildebrand into a confederated caste arrayed in hostility to monarchs, magistrates, and all legislation, on the part of the laity. Amid a tempest of execration from Germany and the upheaving of northern Europe, this Italian monk carried nut his anti-social and subversive rruaade, at the very time exhibiting the monstrous spectacle ofundue intimacy and am biguous intercourse with another man's wife,Matilda,wedded to Godfrey of Lorraine, whom she openly discarded from bed and board to live for years under the same roof—the Castle of Canossa— with her favourite champion under cir cumstances which a jury box of Englishmen would quickly qualify. This disturber of courts and households died an outlaw and an outcast at Salerno; but his handiwork sur vived in the political as well as the mural world. What was the result? Seek for it in the pages of Bocaccio and in every remnant of contemporary literature! Show me a scandalous chronicle without a priest, a tale of adultery without a monk ; bishops, nuns, and friars became the in evitable dramatis persourrof comic or tragic adventure, and the grave, austere, and thoughtful volume of Dante bears its awful testimony to the truth of the troubadour and the narrative of the novelist—the 15th canto of his " Hell " fully unfold the Gomorrah of celibacy. (Loud cheers.) The Father proceeded to stigmatise the prurient works of church dignitaries, Monsignors della Casa and Guidiccionc, Cardinals Bembo and Sadoletti, as the sad but suggestive evidences of deep-seated im morality-. The homely intelligence of Switzerland insisted on each incumbent's open concubinage as a protection to the parish ; and the triumphant success of Zwinglius was mainly attributable to his vindica tion of honourable marriage. The hotbed system of clerical seminaries where this un natural restraint was cultivated, produced in Italy fearful and unutterable results. In France, the history of the court clergy and the annals of profligacy were identical ; and the open debauch ery of Cardinal Dubois and his contemporaries, was now succeeded by concealed criminality, driven I by the scrutiny of a more censorious public to despe rate deeds of murder, as in the cases of the Cure Min grid, the Frere Lestard, and the Abbe Gothland. The agency of the confessional in promoting unlimited depravity was pointed out forcibly and convincingly, and the extent to which female intrigues were male instrumental in forwarding the ambition of aspirants at the Roman court was exemplified in the career of Antonelli, who found his Matilda when delegate over the city of Macerata in the days of Gregory. The moral sense was utterly blunted in Rome. The full development of the social evil was too pain ful a topic to dwell on in a mixed assembly, and he forbore to reveal the ignominy and disgrace of his native land ; but he loudly arraigned the foul papal machinery of corruption in morals, as well as op pression in government, and inveighed in a strain of highly eloquent indignation against the late hypo critical and imbecile proceeding of the Pope, in causing the marble angels of Canova, in St. Peter's Church, to be plastered over with petticoats of stucco, forsooth, that the modesty of tnoiesiyituri might not be too rudely shocked by the master pieces of genius, while these professed celibates of a corrupt and demoralising court were night after night prominent at princely balls remarkable for the semi nude costumeof native as w alas foreign fashionable@ —whether these scandalous entertainments,meant as a mockery of the public mourning, and an insult to i the national downfall, were given n the gilt saloons , of old papal nepotism by the present inheritors of pontitic plunder, or in hired palaces by a General Gemeau, commanding the Croats of France—(thunders of applause}—where the mingled flunkeyism and frivolity of a degenerate aristocracy pass ate vacant I hour with cardinals equally dead to every generous emotion, and equally absorbed in an ignoble and despicable egotism. (Cheers.) THE DODDINGIIURST MURDER VERDICT AND SENTENCE OF DEATH. The proceedings in this extraordinary ease were resumed at Chelmsford on Saturday morning at 8 o'clock, at which hour Lord Chief Justice Campbell took his seat on the bench. The prisoner was then placed in the dock. He appeared very downcast throughout the day, and sat with his head buried in his chest, apparently absorbed in deep thought. Mr. E. James, Q.C., and Mr. ltodwell, again attended WI counsel for the Crown; and Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Hawkins, for the prisoner. Mr. Clarkson then proceeded to address the jury for the defence. Having expressed the deep anxiety he felt upon the occasion, and entreated the jury to dismiss from their minds all the prejudice which must almost, he said, natu rally be excited by a case of this description, he proceeded to comment upon the evidence that had been adduced for the prosecution. With regard to the medical testimony, he entreated the jury to look at it very carefully, and he said that although no one could doubt the great experience and the extent of scientific knowledge possessed by Dr. Tay lor, still a good deal of his evidence was purely theoretical, and it was possible that he might be mistaken, and therefore he said evidence of that description ought not to have such weight with a jury as testimony of a positive character. He called their attention to a case of poisoning dis posed of ut the Central Criminal Court, in which upon the medical evidence as to how long before the death arsenic had been administered, that question was left to the jury, and they returned a terdiet of guilty; but it was afterwards discovered that the medical gentleman, although a man of great experience and knowledge of his profession, was certainly mistaken, and the woman was not executed, and he urged upon the jury the possibility that the medical witnesses were mistaken in the present instance. There had been a most excessive degree of real imparted into the case, and the 'adieu-officers had evidently done all they could to hunt up evidence against the prisoner. A most aggravated and dreadful crime was suggested to have been committed, and of course ho could nut complain that all proper endeavours should be made to detect the guilty party, if guilt really existed; but, at the Mane time, a prisoner ought to be dealt with fairly, and inn evidence ought to be made use of but that which was legitimate and legal. The learned counsel then commented at considerable length upon the evidence of Inspector Coulson, and particularly upon the fact of his having sworn originally that he had carefully compared the piece of rope found in the prisoner's box with that which was round the neck of the deceased, and that they entirely corresponded. Ile said that this statement turned out to be entirely false, and it was pe:- teeny clear that if the two pieces of rope had been examined it would have been seen immediately that they did nut cor respond, because they were twisted different ways, and yet if it had happened that Coulson had died between the first and second examinations his deposition would have been legally admissible in evidence, and it would hare gone to the jury as a fact, that the two pieces of rope cor responded, and the life of the prisoner might have been sacrificed upon evidence which was not true. With regard to the evidence of the constable Lerman, and the oinversas tion he was represented to have had with the prisoner, he said it appeared to him rather favourable to the pri soner than otherwise, for if he really had been the man who committed the dreadful crime there could have been no necessity for his inquiring how many times the rope was round her neck, and the observation that he afterwards made, " Well, I don't care, I did nut do it," would seem to imply merely that if a crime had been committed he was not the guilty party, and nothing more. Au to the letter regarding the child, it seemed to him that if it was to have any effect at all it was in favour of the prisoner. It was suggested that the object in destroying this poor girl WWI to relieve himself from the inconvenience of her being in the family way ; hut, if he really believed that this letter would exonerate him from all liability—and the evidence went to show that this was the ease—then there was an en tire absence of motive for the commission of the crime. The learned counsel then proceeded to observe upon the possi bility of the deceased hating destroyed herself, and, while he admitted the extraordinary character of some of the circumstances, he contended that it_ was impossible for the jury to come to a positive conclusion upon' their oaths that she did not commit suicide, and lie said he should call medical witnesses, whose evidence he hoped would influence the jury, and induce them to be of opinion that ut all events there was a doubt upon the sub ject, and that the prisoner ought to have the benefit of that doubt. 1k should also, he believed, be able to show them by positive testimony how the prisoner employed his time on the night iu question utter he had bud hisera in his own house, and he should satisfy them that until past nine o'clock on that night the prisoner could not have committed the murder, if murder there was, and if he did this he was certain the jury would not come to the conclusion that the murder was committed after that hour in the absence of all evidence on the part of the prosecution to show how the deceased passed her time in the interval between leaving her mother's cottage and the period in question. The learned counsel concluded a very eloquent and able address by stating that he should call before the jury the witnesses ter the prisoner, and his life would then be in their hands; he thanked God the responsibility was with them, and he trusted Providence would guide them to a righteous decision. The following witnesses were then examined for the prisoner : Mr. John Thorpe said—l am a surgeon, and have been in practice at Malden, in this county, for '27 years. I have had a good deal of experience in cases of suicidal and hoini• eithil strangulation, and, since the occurrence of a rather re markable ease in February last, I have directed my atten tion more particularly to the subject. I have heard the evidence in this ease with regard to the manner in which the deceased appeared to have been strangled, and there is a doubt in my I.llilliOß whether it was not a case of suicide. By Mr. James-1 agree with Dr. Taylor that any heavy pressure on the trachea would produce immediate in sensibility. There must undoubtedly have been very great' , violence used in this case. The power to put the two other coils of rope round the neck would depend a great deal upon what part of the neck the pressure of the brat coil rested. I have heard the evidence with ragard to there being uo object used as a lever to tighten the rope, as being confirmatory of the opinion that the case was not one of suicide. In the case I have referred to, a person had put a rope round the neck, and a piece of stick was then put in and twisted, so as to act as a tourniquet, and the end of the stick was found by the side of the party tucked into the waistcoat, and by tlds means the rope was kept tightened so as to cause death. I do not say that there is any analogy between this case and that of the end of the rope being found loose in a girl's hand. Re-examined—l believe that in the case I have men tioned, after the rope had been twisted tight enough to occasion death, the end of the stick gut where it was tuund by accident. The Lord Chief Justice—lf in addition to the state of the rope you had discovered other marks of violence upon dif ferent parts of the body, would not that have made a great deal of difference in your opinion ? Witness—Undoubtedly it would. The Lord Chief J ustice—lf you had heard that blood had been found at some distance front the body, and that it did nut ;appear to have flowed from it, would nut that make a i difference ? itness--Certainly, a very great difference. Mr. Frederick Pollock—l am a surgeon in Hatton garden. I have been thirty years in practice, and I have lately directed a good deal of my attention to cases of suicidal and homicidal strangulation. and I have acted in my professional capacity in many cases of strangulation. Under all the circumstances of the present case, and the evidence that has been adduced, 1 feel considerable doubt whether the deceased did not destroy herself. Dy Mr. James—l did not see the body. My opinion in such a case would be very materially affected by surround ing circumstances. If 1 had found that the chest of the deceased was black, as from a blow, or by strong pressure, that would have made a great difference. Mr. James—And the nose fattened to the face, by the bead being forced violently against the ground ? Witness—Yes, that would have been a very strong cir cumstauce to be taken into consideration. Cross-examination continued—There must have been a very great deal of violence indeed made use of to flatten the nose, and occasion it to retain that form after death. I agree with Dr. Taylor, that acurd placed so tight round the throat as to cause laceration of the skin, must, by the first coil, have produced immediate insensibility, and the blood und bubbling from the nose were indications of very great violence having been used. The laceration of the skin of the neck, and the protrusion of the tongue between the teeth, were likewise indications of great violence. Dy Mr. Bodkin—l do not think the injuries are attribu table to the fall of a heavy full-grown person such as the deceased was represented to be. I should be cautious in coming to the conclusion, notwithstanding all I have heard, that this was not the act of a determined suicide. The Lord Chief Justice—l really do not understand what you mean by that answer. Witness—l am of opinion that the violence was not gmater than might be occasioned by the act of a determined suicide. Susannah Hubbard said—l am the wife of the witness Hubbard who was examined yesterday. 1 acted us house keeper at the prisoner's farm. I remember the night of the 12th of October. I should suppose the prisoner came home ' between five and six o'clock to his tea. That was the usual tea-time. I have every reason to believe that ho suckled the calves on this evening. We sill had tea together, and I should say it lasted twenty minutes or more. Atter j tea the prisoner changed his shoes and gaiters, and went up I stairs, and I gut him a basket and he put some eggs in it. ; He then went out. It was about half-past six or seven o'ilock when he left the farm. We went to bed at eight u'ilock, and I saw no more of the prisoner until six the next morning. He was then attending to his cows, as usual. Ile also went about the other business of the farm, and I saw nothing at all unusual in his appearance. I tw•lieve he wore the same corduroy trousers this morning that he had on the previous evening, Ile brought some sugar home v ith hint in the basket which he had purchased at Brent wool, _ - Iwtac Gay—l am a carter in the service of Mr. Gay. On the night of the 12th of October I was engaged in carting some soot for manure from Chadwell, and I stopped at the Sun beershop on my way back to Brentwood. This was about two miles from the prisoner's farm. I saw the prisoner near the Rising Sun. It was about half-past 7 o'clock. I saw hint again the neat morning on his way to Mr. Moores. He told me where he was going, and I afterwards directed the people who inquired for him where he was to be found. Jesse Bedell—l was near the Rising Sun beershop nn the evening in question, and I saw the prisoner walk ing in the direction of Brentwood. 1 believe it was about half=pant seven o'clock as near as 1 can say. By Mr. James-1 heard no clock strike, and did not see any clock. By Mr. Bodkin—l did not look at any clock when I got home. Samuel Parker—l keep the King's Head public house at Brentwood. The prisoner came to my house ou the night of the 12th of October, about twenty minutes past eight. Ile brought a basket with him. He had some half-and half anti oysters, and I did not observe anything unusual in his appearance. I did not consider the prisoner .* very bright," but always regarded him as a mild, ,inoffensive young man. I knew the deceased. Ido not consider she was in the habit of dressing finely, but on the contrary she always appeared very neatly dressed. She was about Eye feet eight high. Mr. Pound-1 am a butcher at Brentwood. I saw the prisoner at the King's Head. He had his supper, and I did not observe anything at all unusual in his appearance. I lure known him front a child. Ile i 4 now about 24 years old. Ile always bore the character of a mild, inoffensive young man. John Hudson also spoke to seeing the prisoner at Brent wood about half-pest eight o'clock. Ilenry Lemon Raid—My father is a grocer at Brentwood. I remember the prisoner coining to our shop between nine and ten o'clock on the night of the 12th of October. lie bought some sugar and took it away in his basket. George Wheal—l am a labourer at Doddinghurst. knew the deceased. She had lodgings in my house after she left Airs. Twin's. She went on a visit to my wife's mother, and after she returned I observed a great difference in her demeanour and conduct. Sometime, she was in good spirits and sometimes she was not. I have heard her say that she had carries! a line about in her pocket to make away with herself many a time. By Mr. James—She said this abont ten days or a fort night after she came back from visiting my wife's mother. she also said the KWIC thing to my wife and other persons. I cannot recollect what brought up the conversation. I think it was when she was talking about Thomas Won , . I did not take any particular notice of what she said, because 1 thought she was gammoning." The deceased was busily engaged in making baby linen at my house. By the Lord Chief Justice—l thought that what she said was all " gammon," and I therefore took 110 notice of it. Mary Wheal—l am the wife of the last witness. The deceased left in last August. She was not very cheerful when she lodged with us. I heard her once say that she had a razor in one hand and the other round hi, neck, and that she had attempted to cut his throat. I thought that she alluded to the prisoner when she said this. I also have heard her say that she had several tines attempted to make away with herself, lint something had always pre vented her. She said she had tried to do it with a line and also with n razor. Ity Mr. James—l (lid not think sho was in earnest when she (mule these *Laments. 1 thought that she was "gam. moning" me. :Several respectable witnesses, neighbours of the prisoner and his family, were then called to speak to the prisoner's character. 'they all described him as having the reputation of being a mild inoffensive young man. This closed the ease fur the prisoner. . . Mr. James then made a most eloquent and convincing reply, which was listened to with breathless attention bV a crowded court. lie said that the position in which he stood * at that moment was one of the most painful in which an advocate could be placed, but appearing on behalf of the crown, and having only one object in view, namely, to further the interests of truth and justice, it became an imperative duty upon him to take care that the jury were nut led away by any eloquence or sophistry from the real question at issue, and that they should clearly understand what were the points of evi deuce upon which the prosecution relied for establishing the perpetration of an enormous crime upon the prisoner, and if the evidence should be conclusive upon that point, that jua ' lien should not be defeated, or a great criminal escape. The learned counsel then proceeded, temperately and clearly, to bring before the jury the principal points. in the overpowering evidence that had been given on behalf of the prosecution. The appointment to inert—the fact of the prisoner leaving left his house evi dently with the intention of meeting his intended victim— the entire absence of any evidence to account fOr his time dnring the period when the murder was, no doubt, com mitted —the blood upon his clothes—his false representa thins with regard to the deceased—and his conduct when he was informed of the discovery of the dead body of the murdered girl. Ile said that if they could reconcile all these circumstances with the innocence of the prisoner, no one would be more gratified than himself at their coming to such a conclusion ; but, upon the other hand, if they should, us he feared, be satisfied that these circumstances clearly made out his guilt, their duty to their country and the solemn oath they had taken, demanded of them ouch is verdict as would alone be satisfactory to their own consciences and the justice of the country. The Lord Chief Justice commenced slimming up shortly before four o'clock. Ile said that on the jury now devolved the solem r, duty of saying by their serdict w het her the prisoner was guilty of the crime laid to his charge, and it had been truly said that his fate was in their hands. It was alleged on the part of the prosecution that the prisoner having had an illicit connexion with this young woman, had formed a determination to destroy her, and in such a manner as that it should appear to he her own act, and that with this object he had made the appointment with her on the evening of the 12th of October. The first question they would then have to consider was whether the dec...ased was murdered; and, secondly, if she was, whether the prisoner's was the hand that destroyed her; and in coming to that conclusion they must not give any effect to suspicions or probabilities, but it was the duty of the prosecution to satisfy them, and to leave no moral doubt upon their minds that he had committed the offence, before they found him guilty of it. On the part of the prisoner it was contended that the deceased might have destroyed herself, and it was, therefore, a very important consideration for the jury whether the case was one of suicide or of murder. Ills lordship tken proceeded meet carefully and minutely to go through the whole case, telling the jury in conclusion that if they should entertain any fair or reasonable doubt of the guilt of the prisoner they ought to give him the benefit of such a doubt and acquit him. The jury did not deliberate more than ten minutes, when they returned a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Streight, the clerk of arraigns, then called upon the prisoner in the usual form to Mato whether he had anything to urge why judgement should not be passed upon him to die according to law. The prisoner made no answer. Ile appeared very slightly affected when the verdict was pronounced. The Lord Chief Justice then put on the black cap,and passed sentence of death in a most impressive manner upon the pri soner. He said, that otter a very long and anxious trial the prisoner had been convicted by a jury of his country of the crime of murder, and he must say that he entirely concurred in that verdict. His guilt had been brought to summary punishment, and his offence had lass/ accompanied by such circumstances of aggravation that he could not trust him self to comment upon them. Ills lordship concluded by telling him that his days were numbered, and he conjured him to endeavour by penitence and prayer to obtain pardon from above, as iu this world no mercy could be expected by him. Ile then passed sentence of death in the usual form. The prisoner did not seem in any way affected by the awful senttnce. He was speedily removed from the dock ; and, on his being taken to the carriage to convey him to the gaol, he was received with yells and hooting by the assem bled crowd. TILE TROOPS FOR TILE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.-.- On Saturday we intimated that the 74th Regiment is to proceed to the Cape. The Vulcan, steamer, left Ports mouth on that day, and the above regiment will to-day em bark at Cork in the Vulcan for its destination. We have further ascertained that detachments from the depiits of the Gth, 45th, 73rd, and of the ht battalion 91st Regiment arc also to proceed from England and Ireland to join the ser vice companies at the Cape. For this purpose it is under stood the lthadamanthus, steam transport, now at Sheerness, will be employed. These re-inforcements will amount altogether to about 900 men of all ranks. It is, however, under consideration whether another regiment should not be scat off, but on this point nothing has yet been decided. THE SPEAKER'S FOURTH PARLIAMENTARY DINNER took place on Saturday. Present: Lord hfulgrave, Lord Duncan, Lord James Stuart, Hon. Captain Howard, Hon. Pelham Villiers, the Attorney-General (Ireland), Sir Geo. Strickland, Mr. French, Mr. Rice, Mr. I'oulett Scrape, Mr. James Wilson ' Mr. Wm. Fagan, Mr. John Greene, Mr. Alexander Hastie, Mr. Mowatt, Mr. I lullond, Mr. Kershaw, Mr. Brotherton, The O'Gorman Mahon, Mr. Moffat, Mr. Pew, Mr. Macgregor, Mr. Wm. Marshall, Mr. Headlum. The following NI.P. s were unable to attend the dinner:— Sir Wm. Molcsworth, Col. Thon,on Mr. Alderman Hum phery, Mr. Burke Roche, and Mr. drattan. DEATH OF LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR B. It. CHAPMAN, R.E.—On the 6th inst. Sir Stephen Chapman died, at his residence near Taunton, aged 76. lie entered the Itoyal Engineers . in 1793, as a second lieutenant, and served in the campaign in Holland in 1799; Captain Chapman served under Lord Cathcart at Copenhagen, in 1807, and from 1809 to 1811 was in the Peninsula; for his services at Busaco, in 1810, he had received the Gold Medal. In 1815 he was nominated a Companion of the Bath, and in 1831 was knighted. The late Sir S. Chapman was several years secretary to the first Earl of Mulgrave, when Master s General of the Ordnance, and had also held the appoint i meat of Military Governor of Bermuda. He was early last year appointed a Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Engineers. SUICIDE OP A LADY UNKNOWN.—TeSterday morn ing • respectable female, apparently about fifty years of age, was found lying insensible in Staithheld. She was removed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where it having been ascertained that she was labouring under some narcotic' p riven, she expired soon after admission. The deceased wore gold earrings, • brooch, with a portrait of female in it, a black visite, and squirrel furs. the body lice at St. Bartholomew's, to be identified and for an inquest. Zaku Intelligente. EQUITY comas.—SArrnnAy. Heron Viei-Csourcese.um Kinewr Baum. ATTORNEY-GENERAL r. LI/RD CARRING-T-0-?;.--IIUMBER• ?STONE FREE The Vire-Chanta4lOriav;juslime7itin this case, which was heard in private in February last. Ills Honour said the petition of which he had now to dispose had been before him on two occariertA, once in last May and again in February last, on which latter occa sion the hearing was desires! to be in private. This was acceded to. When, however, the petitioner's counsel had been heard, it struck his Honour as possible the reply and the judgment might unobjectionably he in open court, and ho made a communication to the bar upon it accordingly; in an swer to which it was stated by the counsel on each aide that they desired the reply to be heard in private, but with respect to the judgment they said they had no wish upon the sub ject, and they lett it entirely to his Honour. Acting on this, it has seemed to him that the reasons in favour of the delivery of the judgment in open court pre ponderated. The petition was in a case relating to a charitable foundation in Lincolnshire, and to a school which had been established in Humberstone, for the benefit of that and other parishes in the neighbourhood. The head mastership of the school was the matter in contest. The peti tion was presented by the Rev. Charles Wildbore then, and now, vicar of Ilumberstone, and it prayed as follows : " That it may be declared that the said alleged election of the said George Edwin Pattenden, as head minder of the said school was, and is, invalid, and that the said George Edwin Pattenslen was not duirelected to, and is not head master of the said school, wad that your petitioner, as vicar of the parish of Humberstone for the time being, is entitled to have and enjoy the office of head master of the said school, and to receive and enjoy the salary, profit, and emoluments thereof; and that the trusters of the said charity may he ordered and directed to admit your peti tioner to the said office, and to allow him to perform tho duties thereof, and to receive and enjoy the salary, profit's, and emoluments thereof, as front the said tssth day October, 1819, the day on which your petitioner was in ducted into the said vintners," Various affidavits, (more than 30) having been filed against and in support of the petition, the court, (in May last) after argument, made this order: and the petitioner, and the resiamiletits, by their coun sel, waiving the question whether if the relief prayed Is, the petitioner is wholly or in part within the nolitable juris diction of the Court of Chancery it is properly sought by the present petition or in the present fonn, and consenting to the exercise by the Court ssf Chancery, noon the petition, of such jurisdiction (if any) as upon an information and bill, by the petit' co as the relator and plaintiff, brought regularly to a hearing, against the reapnslents, with such filets proved as are established by the affidavits now before the court, it could exercise. This court sloth declare that the Itev. George Edwin Pattenden iu the petition named was not duly appointed, and is not now of nght the head master upon the charitable foundations in the peti tion mentioned, and is not now rightly in the posses sion or enjoyment of the school-house belonging thereto, or of the income or emoluments belonging to such office, and, it being alleged by the counsel of the respondents, Itichard Thorold, Edward Iteginalil Maiden, Thomas Hilt Barnett, John Frclie, Jonathan Field, and li.latund Smith (being a majority of the existing trustees site the said charity, in the petition respectively named), on the part of such six trustees, that, in the judgment and iminion of ouch six trustees, the petitioner is not a fit person to perform the duties or to held the office of head-master upon the foun dation of the said charity, and ought not under any cir cumstances to hold ouch office, it is ordered that the said petition (in all respects save as anima:aid) do stand over until the day after the first seal after this term, when the respondents, or any of them, are to be at liberty to show cause, if they can, to this court, why the iselltismer the present vicar of Ilumberstone 'should not hold the stiles of head muster, and be allowed to receive the profit., and emoluments thereto belonging. It was to be observed that six only of the trustees of the charity were mentioned in the order as alleging the unfitness of 'Mr. Wiltlbore for the office of head master. Besides these six, it hail been represented and agreed on both sides, at present, there were substantially (however the form might he) hut three trustees ; namely the Bishop of Lincoln, Lord Carrington, and one of Lord Carrington's tenants, Mr. Bee. The two latter had taken and still took part with Mr. Wild bore against the first six. The bishop appeared by the same solicitor and counsel as the six persons who dissented from Lord Carrington; but what esaetly had been and were the right rev. prelate's views of the controversy (either as it stood before, or as it had stood since the order of May last), his Honour was not perfietly clear. Probably his lordship was in favour, substantially as well as formally, of supporting Mr. Pattentlen's election until a judiend declaration should be mule of its invalidity, and had mince been (if not in his intention., substuntially neutral), at least not intentionally a moister oppnent, de cidedly not a keen accuser, of Mr. Wilslbeire. His Honour could not suppose that the right rev. prelate ie:oo aware of all or even of much of the doings in connexion with the present case, which had been disquieting—it might be utmost said demoralising —some portion of his diocese since May last. It seemed likely that from sonic quarters tam mastication must have been made to him before and since that month, which would have induced his lisrtlship to be lieve that as to Mr. Wildlore's Mutes or unfitness there was a case not improper to be tried, and that his lordship was willing to place the use of his name in the hands of the clerical trustier, at least to the extent to which it had been used under the present petition. This the right rev pre late might have been the more ready to do (rein the belief that there was a friend and patron at lewd able and willing to stand by Mr. Wildbore (a man himself messibly of limited means), and to equalise the contending forces, se that justice could scarcely be defeated. The question for determination was whither, if Mr. Wildhore was not, he ought to be, or, if he was, he ought to continue, head e1e..1- ter of Humberstone School—a question as to which the burden of proof was upon those who were opposed to him, fur on every ground he was prima facie and presump tively right. It had been already decided that the Vicar of liumberatone was entitled to be head muter of the school, unisex a case of unfitness could be established against him but independently of that consideration, it was a just and necessary inference front the whole of the evidence in point of learning, intelligence, temper, age, health, and strength, he was a fit and competent person to hid the satire soul dish charge its duties well. In point of orthodoxy, it was posed bly safe to say that having been collated to one living and instituted to another, he had been for 24 years a licensed curate in the diescese of that must honoured prelate con cerning whom his Honour had never heanl it suggested that he did not understand his creed, or that he was ca pable of betraying his church. But neither as to orthodoxy nor as to morals was there any substantive, definite, or in intelligible charge or imputation against Mr. Wildhore, ex cept what was contained in the accusation, which were made by the six trustees, and on which they nand their case of alleged disqualification. Supposing these assertion to fail or to be frivolous, Mr. Wildbore must he taken to be a moral and religious clergyman of the church, sound in doc trine and unexceptionable in practice. The necusations were these :—first, it was said that he was a lies of bad repu tation ; secondly, that lie had irregularly and unnecessarily allowed and encouraged the practice oflay haptiam; thirdly, that he had enunciated unsound doctrines un the 'subject of to a young woman now dead; fourthly, that gees ewas a drunkard, and had acted in a way to occasion offence and scandal, and that being likely to do so again, he was an improper person to be entrusted with the education of youth ; and, fifthly, that more than a quarter of a century ago an event, which he did not cause, and for which be was not in any manner responsible, or to be blamed, took place; and that it ought to have influenced him some years lister, but that it slid nut, and that it was an event by which Isis life was said to be ovenihawdowed, or its usefulnees diminished. These were grave charges, and would appear of an extra ordinary nature, on taking a particular review of the posi tions of the accusers and of the accused. And first, us to the accused. Having been educated at Bettors! rind Rugby, m M tiss e, t N e ‘ r i tr ° Ilu re m m*c herirto ted ue , in head master. Ile continued to hold that softie*, and perform the duties satisfactorily and well until 18:91, when he re hl.B2ll,utrih,eherffixteere hedge, o r het seco nd then signed it, baying intermediately, in 1829, been onlumed, and, in the same year, licensed by Lincoln to the curacy of Wake, near Ilumberattine, a curacy not perpetual but (be was ashamed of the phrasealt hough it was English) stipendiary.. Ile was collated in 18 32 to a • vice at a very short distance fromthe present bishop of Ilumlxas.tone, and in 1843 he commenced taking private pupils which he did not cease doing until December, 1848 . Ile had married his present wife in 1829, the year o f his admission to tht: . minis try. During all this time, from 1824 to 1849, Mr. W ddboro appeared to hare led au active, laborious, and useful, and therefore probably happy life, fur in addition to the ushership he had to perform the duties of Wake, until he was collated to the other living which he held from 1834 to 1849, and these duties he had performed efficiently and satitdactorily. Nor were his private pupils, whilst he hod them, neglected. Fur his preferment he had been indebted to the bishop who gave him his living on public grounds, " omnia incrementa sua sibi debuit." In 1849, however, the cloud arose. This ill-starred gentleman who hitherto wax prosperous and happy was patronised ; and lo! the result. Yet " patnsuistal" was not the proper word ; for the living of Ilumberstone was tho less valuable of the two in • pecuniary sense, but for the adjunct—of the school. Then for the accusers. They consisted of beneficed clergymen and men of substance and fortune, most (if not all) of them gentlemen of condition resident in the neighbour hood of Wake and Ilumberstone, and who, as he understood, had been so resident fur years, and had had sufficient means of observing and hearing of the conduct of Mr. Wildburc, a clergyman against whom (it must be remembered) the bishop had never taken nor directed any proceedings, although in the case of a clergyman of the vicinity, charged by his rural dean with drunkenness, it appeared that his lordship was moved and did act. In point of probability the singularities of the case in this respect almost balanced each other. If it were asked how it could he believed that a clergyman of the church of England, who, during the interval from 11124 to 1849, held the office and station, and performed the functions, which Mr. Waltham did in the diocese, under the direct authority of melt a prelate as Dr. Kaye, could be liable to have such things laid i to his charge, it might be quite as well inquired how t could be credible that English clergymen and English lay gentle men should concur in casting such mortal imputimputations against a man of unpretending life, of unambitious toil, a neighbour, a christian, a gentleman, a clergyman, without some good foundation. The conflicting improbabilities seemed to acute each other, if such an expression was allowable. The ease was sad and startling either way. IS might be possible to attribute to Mr. Wildlore's feelings, if guilty, the predominance of sensual appetites 400 strong for his redstance, and to a carelessness as to religion, Ca virtue" and decency, clothed for a long time with successful hypo crisy under the disguise of a modest, laborious, and useful