The Express. — London, England, 1851-02-19 00:00:00

FRANCE. PARIS, TriumsT Evasixo. The Assembly continued to-day in the bureaux the • discu.ssion of the municipal law; but the attendance' of members was less numerous, and the debate less animated. The bright weather made the Champs Elystes more attractive than the committee-rooms of th e legislative palace. By the sketches of the principal speeches which I scud you, you will ace that the cardinal points of the law are the application of the electoral law of May 31 to the municipal elections, and the nomination of the mayors by the executive power out of the muni cipal councils. Both of these provisions are obsti nately opposed by the Left and the extreme Right of the Assembly. The disposition which eon fers upon the government the right of investiture of 1 the nuiyors seems borrowed from the Prussian system. If the government refuse this proposition of the Conseil d'Etat, which is a transaction between the pretention of the executive to appoint all the mayors, and that of the communes to choose them, the hill will be thrown out. If, on the other hand, the ministers admit the compromise, it is doubtful whether the coalition of the extreme pintas will be strong enough to carry the day. The right of dismissing the mayors would be, as now, left with the government. subject to the approval of the Conseil Etat. At present the. xecutive power appoints the mayors in all communes with a population exceeding timon. The vehement hostility of the Mountain to the electoral law of May seems to have alarmed the legitimi4h, and driven the more mode rate of them to its defence. The majority of the thirty members of the committee will, however, in all likelih sl, propose serious moditititions to the bill in n dcecntml . • g The parliamentary pmgramme for the tnonth.sa March, April, and May, will have for its main features this municipal law, the hill on the national guard, and the - budget. On the other lumd, the design is attributed to the Elysec to organise petitions throughout France for the recision of the constitution and the prolongation of the Presiiknes powers. The following spmehes were them which presented most interest in the discussion of the bureaux on the municipal law. The Duke Je Brtormtg. was of opinion that it would ht• preferable to. rut down the bid t.. the innor•rtion. which it propoz.c.l in the rat - went ingteutl of ripping up the wholc gut , tion of inunicipul organization. M. Il.tuw•ur. Illaitit,in!d the expediency of haring only one electoral list, and of k•aving the nomination of the - - • mayors in the hands of the government. N. l'is, cony spoke emphatically in favour of centrali sation. The flour of war came for all nations; and when that hour came for France her safety and honour would depend on a rapidity and unity of execution, which could only re sult from a homogeneous and puissant administration. The alarms which such an executive 'sower and such a ministry a. this present were calculated to inspire, were tempertyl by the prudence shown by the Conseil d'Etat in drawing up the hill. Ile upprnvisf of all the main features, awl his ob jections would he confined to details, which might be improved. Would not the suppression of the councils nC arrowlitstnerkt, which wire charged with the repurtition of taxation anent" the commune., and were now proposill to be replaced by cantonal councils, leave the sub h.ohth 4 ? Ile thought it a matter of indifference silo 'her the councils-general held two sessions, as was pro posed, or one. Hut the division of the-e cotincils into !WC' pry% of orroodiiicaevit was a serious innovation as tending to introduce a spirit of local prejudice into their &Ebert- tinny. M. Moil Ids said that the hill followed up the improve ments in o entralimtion which had been made under the government of Louis Philippe. By the law of '37 a certain latitude had been allowed to the independent.' of the mu councils, and the construction of crows-rwads hail lain thrown entirely into their hands. The present bill facilitated the CUPTryllitel• of gifts nod legacies to communal establishments: it raised from 3,000 fr. to 30,000 fr. the , valw• of goals the sale of which could he authorised Lytle pref.yt ; awl from 34bninfr. to 60,0110 fr. the expense of construction or repairs to be authorised by the prefect. The approhation of the central gave cut was no longer loind for deliberations on leases exceeding a term of 18 raw. The mayors were empowered to convoke the maid+ 6101 COMAril% without authorisation of the sub-prefect. : 4 11011 w ere the provision. tending to relax centralisation. It was neeessary to maiotain the authority of the prefects in order to pro vent the minority of the commune from being oppressed by the majority, and to keep down excessive local taxation. The government would do well to hand over swarm of petty appointment+ to the local authorities, in stenol of cowman:sting upon the various ministries of Paris Ow host of petition. is kW place. There ought to he only ▪ electoral list, which would serve hor the parliamentary as will us the MUnifirl 141.1110114. As to the nomination of Norm% the mixed character of those- functionaries., which muted a communal authority with a co-ordination to the ventral power, clearly suggested a duality in the some, of their power. They ought to be chosen by the 4.11111111110 and investrol by the executive power. rio• surest way of decentralising the councils.general was to raise the mminnini of the additional centimes they were allowed to impse., and thus they would be relieved from the necessity of imposing spetial rates. But why four ses sions the cantonal council+ and two of the councils-gene rd It was so much time, money, and toil thrown away. In the organisation of the councils of prefecture there PM tin important euntraoliction. They had been considered as win ti tt istrative tribunals, and invested with a sort of im mobility. Nevertheless, these council+ were purely eon soltatiie, and their minium were called to replace the pre f' t.. Thus the "het was forced to delegate his authority to proms over whom he had no control. Such an organ.. sabot would necessitate the creation of secretaries-general, auxiliary and temporary replacers of the prefects. M. tincvY hoped that the Assembly would seize the oe asion offen.l by this bill to repeal the electoral law of May in the st.nie way as he would have the head of the eseentiie power appoiuted by the Legislative Assembly, so should the mayors he appointed by the municipal couneils. As tc the attributions of these councils, he was out satisfied with the definition furnished by the hill. Front whirh they were at present, he would have then, considered as having attained their majority. They had only the I wiarnin of the property emlidnl to them. For mles, ex -4.11.111ge, and loons, he admitted, nevertheless, that the •-uaroliauship of the state was necessary. The new Minister of Public Works, M. Magne, appears to be resolved to present to the Legislative Assembly a hill for the execution of the railwav from Lyons to Avignon. For this purpose he is waling a very strict examination into all the propositions maile by the dill 'rent companies relative to the exe cution and the working either of the line from Paris to Lyons, or of the two separate lines from Paris to Lyons and fmnu Lyons to Avignon. What appears to he perfectly decided on in his mind is the urgent liensouty of the construction of this latter part, which is to unite the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. He has, consequently, taken into serious consideration the propositions emanating from the united iron toasters of the .klais, the N - ovdte, and the 'fete Noire, which ottiv more' acceptable conditions than any hitherto presented to the government. In the event' of no nmangement becoming possible with these 11M11111111C%. M . Magne is decided on demanding from tlw Assembly - the opening of a credit of 50 decided over two years, fur commencing at the cspense of the state the works of the section from ons to Avignon. A meeting of the representatives who belong to thy party of Oen. Cavaignae took place yesterday nowning, at his residence. The subject on which It wits convened was the amnesty. At tirst,the feeling was pretty general for abstaining flint mixing themselves with the question; but M. Dufaure, with mach reason and tinumws, insisted that the men of Isl.. could not rest inactive on so grave an occasion. The moment that a party of the Left, although in the speaker's opinion perhaps rather prematurely, Nought this questitm before the :tmembly, the legit,- Like power should not abandon it. One of the most ineuential of the old members of the Constitnante milliortca this determination, but he desired to ex clude from the amnesty the men of the 13th of May, guilt, of a violation ithe national sovereignty. M. Inttiure replied that, in questions of clemency, there seas always something objectionable in drawing dis tioctions of chisses. One of the members present it:t; , rnied the meeting that MM. Montholon, de La- Is.rde, and sonic other friends of the President,• opposed, at the Mum, other more merciful dispo- 1 . 'mons. A letter of` M. Laity was spoken of, in which this confidant of the Prtuident of the Republic affirmed. some months since, to one of the condemned partitu, that the feeling of the President was in favour of an amnesty. A letter of the Prince de Joinville was sinker or, which required his friends to support % . %a ry proposition of mercy for the proscribed. the meeting decided on supporting the measure of tooncsty. In the discussion which took place at the I.li see on the subject of the aninestv,M. de Montho hm reminded the President that Louis Blanc, pro s, lilted for a vear and a half, had been one of the auth'ors of the recall of the Bonaparte foully. The Evice and the ministry decided to take the initiative oa r s new proposition in these terms : Pull and entire amnesty is ' , ranted for all political ott,tosu Mime this '2lth of Feb., 181 8 , o Olt the exerptioa of such perwons as shall have been U:;% it ted for other offe'nce's (repris jmeiec)." The slioniteNr contains tho appointment of several commissaries oat of each muustry to discuss the THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1851. budget of 1832. Another decree appoints a great number of ,justices of the peace. Narraez L. accompanied he two aide;-dc-camp. He seems to hare made up his mind to a residence at Paris for some time. as he has takci an apartment m the Champs Elysees. who attacked Mr. Pugh, and observing that they had better leave him alone, as he was an Englishman, the reply was, " we know it, he is • republican." How well the lesson has been instilled, and how well learnt! The words, "as he is an Englishman," however, show what is the sense of the protection which is accorded to us by our government, and in fact, we are the only people who arc respected and protected, thanks to Lord Palmerston Do not French.residents in Naples confess and lament it? As regards the excesses of the soldiery, many of whom I met so late as 7 o'clock the other evening on the Strada Nuova, half-drunk, and many of whom I frequently see drunk in the streets, I am persuaded that if so rigid a disciplinarian as our governor knew the Gets, he svon!tl correct them. Stockalpen has already done much for public order. Five per Cents., 99 k. Exchange on London, 561. PIEDMONT. In the sitting of the 12th of the Chamber of Deputies of Turin, the order of the day being the discussion of the budget of foreign affairs, Marquis d'Azeglio, the minister of that department, delivered a speech which is remarkable for the constitutional maxims it contains. We subjoin the following ex , tracts:— Gentlemen, a political conduct founded upon justice and good faith has always been the best, and will continue to be the mast useful. Much has been said of late on state ex pediency ; for my part I do not believe those two different standards of morality, one fur the men who govern, and one fur those who are governed, and I do not think state expe diency should deviate from common morality. Absolutism and the policy of had faith have had their time. They were in vigour when public affairs were managed by a King and a few ministers, and often by a favourite or a mistress. But at that time the periodical press was weak, the means of com munication rare, and public opinion without power. But now, if l hut touch public opinion, it vibrates instantly front Edinburgh to Moscow with the rapidity of lightning. I cannot deny that there is a terrible and obscure problem to be solved, the future destiny of society ! I do not pre tend to solve it, but I affirm on my conscience that society tan only find repose under a government of good faith. I say it is our duty to sacrifice an immediate advantage in order to attain the more important advantages attached to a reputation of purity and honesty. This has been our prin cipal guide, both in domestic and foreign policy. Remem ber that when we accepted office the country, shaken by a reeent misfortune, uncertain as to what might still in reserve for it, agitated by parties, suspecting everyone, could only be pacified by confidence and concord. The ministry sought to deserve the former, and to train the minds of men to the latter. If it has succeeded, it owes it first to God and then to the probity of the King, to the prudence of parlia ment, to the virtues of the whole nation, because Piedmont is an old land of probity and honour. As we have acted with j respect to our home policy, so we have in our foreign rela tions. The first principle of justice is the independence, the honour, and the dignity of the nation. Europe, which for some time laboured under an erroneous impression concerning us, has seen by the line we follow that we were not a people of anarchists, but a people desirous of liberty and indepen dence. And now it is universally known that, while we do not seek what belongs to others, we arc ready to die rather than give up what is ours. Lord Chesterfield once wrote to his son, " When you arrive in a capital, frequent the Pied rnontisse diplomatists, for they are always men of great merit." 1% c wish to justify this flattering testimony, and we will strive to maintain in our diplomacy these traditions of honour and loyalty. Gentlemen, there are persons who hare accused us of hiving done little or nothing. I answer, that, within the limits of our means, we have done what was in our power for the good of the country. We have lived, and that is something ; and, please God, we shall continue to live, free, indeprudent, and honoured." This speech was received with loud applause by the Chamber, and the discussion of the articles was proceeded with. Some members having proposed a reduction in the secret funds, the Chamber rejected it, and voted the whole sum, as a proof of its confi dence in the ministry. The Croce di Soca,t of the 14th reports that the resignation of M. Siecardi has nut been accepted. The budget of the Ministry of Foreign Attlirs is discussing in the Chamber of lk'putics. - --- • IrDe Court. The Queen and Prince Albert went yesterday morning to the building for the Exhibition of the Works of industry of all Nations in Hyde l'ark. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were accompanied by the Prince of Wades, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princes., Helena, and were attended by Lori Charles Fitzroy, Lieut.-Colonel lion. Alexander Gordon, and Mr. Birch. Earl Granville, Lieut. Colonel Reid, R.E., and Mr. H. Cole (of the executive committee), Mr. Edgar Bowring (acting secretary to the commission), and other gentlemen of the Royal Commission, were in attendance, and conducted her Majesty and the Prince and the royal party through the various parts of the building. Her Ma-: jetty and Prince Albert remained about an hour, and then returned to Buckingham Palace. Prince Arthur and the Princess Louisa took airings yes terday in the garden of the palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their presence yesterday evening. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Mount Edgeumbe, lion. Matilda Paget, Lord Byron, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieut.-Col. Hon. Alexander Gordon. Lord Byron has relieved Lord Dufferin in his duty as the Lord in Waiting to the Queen, and Sir Frederick Stovin has relieved Lieut.. Col Hon. Robert Boyle in his duty a. Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. A deputation front Hustings, consisting of Mr. Chamber lain, Messrs. S. l'utland and T. loss (town councillors), Mr. Shorter (town clerk), Mr. W. I'. Benham (solicitor). and Mc,srs. N enables and Cooper (agents), had an inter view with Lord Seymour, yesterday, at the office of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, Whitehall-place. Mr. Clabon, agent for the Hastings Improvement Bill, hod an interview with Lord Seymour yesterday. The Cambridge University Commission met yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury. Downing-street. Present—The Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Ely, Sir J. F. W. Herschel, the Rev. l'rufessor Sedgwiek. and the Her. W. H. Buteson (secretary). Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. (From last nlgbt's Gaulle.) LORD [Ws Orrter:, FEB. 12.—Notice is hereby Riven, that her Muje.ty will hold Levees at St. St. Joutes's-palace, on the followinu data, at two &clock : Wednewlay, 26th February instant; Thursday, 6th March next; Wednesday, 26th March next. - -- • LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, FED. 13.—Notice iv hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a Drawing-room at St. James's-palace, on Thursday, the 3rd of April nest, at two o'clock. FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 11—The Queen has been alca..ed to approve of Mr. Meinhard Robinow as Consul at Glasgow for the Free Hanseatic City of Lubeck. HoWSTSG-sTREST, FEB. IS.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lemuel Allan Wilmot, Esq., to be Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Province of New Brunswick, and John Ambrose Street, Esq., to be her Majesty's Attorney-General for that province. CROWN-ofFICE.—MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN Tltta PIM/NT PA Fll.l NT.—Feb. 15.—For the Borough of Pontefract: The 11011. Beilhy Richard LowleT, of Eseriek-park, in the county of York, in the room of Sir Samuel Martin, Knight, who has incepted the office of one of the Baroll , of her Majesty's Court of Exchequer. Feb. 17.—For the Burghs of Linlithgow ' Lanark, Falkirk, Airdrie, and Hamilton: James Baird , Esq., in the room of the Right Hon. Henry Pellhon Clinton, commonly called Karl of Lincoln, now Duke of Newcastle, summoned to the Up ' per House of Parliament. Feb. IS.—For the County of Nottingham Southern Dicioine: William Hook!. *on Barrow , En., in the room of Robert Bromley, &vomit. COMMISSION SIGNED RY VIE LORD LIETTENANT or Tll6 (,MITT AND COLNTT Or THE CITE OP Y.rux;—FAl- round May& to be Lieutenant in the Yorkshire Hussar Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry Cavalry. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT or NOTTINGRAMSIIIRIL—Sydney William Ilerbert Pierre point, Esq., commonly called Vl.count Newark, to be Cap tain ; James Thomas Wightman, gentleman (now Lieute nant in the 11th Hussars), to be Adjutant with the rank of Captain, in the Southern Regiment of Notts Yeomanry Cavalry. Granville Edward Harcourt Vernon, Esq., to be Captain; Charles Moroi& go nth man, to lie Second Lieute nant; George Gordon, gentleman, to be Cornet, in the Sherwood Rangers. EGYPT. We receive confirmation by the following letter from Trieste of the news from Egypt which we pub lished yesterday : TRIESTE, Ftp. 12. News direct from A lexandria, of the 6th inst. mention intimations having been made from the Porte of the following reforms, to be carried into execution with reference to Egypt: Ist. Reduc tion of the land tax to a third of its present amount ; 2nd. Reduction of the standing army of Egypt to 20,000 men ; 3rd. The total disarmament (abiakelteng) of the fleet, or rather the placing it at the sole disposition of the Porte; 4th. The constant residence of the Inspector-General, Nlahomed Ali Pacha, in Evit ; sth . The regulatian of the in come of the inian princes, according to a fixed Beale. Abbas acha, the Viceroy, has refused to obey these orders, but will rather, if necessary, resist them with arms. He has ordered a l evy of 40,000 men, 23,000 for the augmentation of the army, and 13,000 men for the navy, who are to be immediately put in preparation for active service. The lb•idis &dung makes, among others, the following observations on this news :—" Any one who recollects the toast which the Governor-General of India gave last year on the landing of British troops in F.gypt; any one who bears in mind .the desire which a certain power has always displayed to monopolise the atrium of Suez, cannot doubt from what quarter this blow comes, or who directs it. The con duct of France on this occasion should be most de cided. France will recollect that in 1840 she repre sented interests which arc now endangered by the dictatorial conduct of the I'orte. Will she look quietly on and 91. r the power of Egypt, she then con sidered necessary to maintain, broken to pieces in the hands of the successor of Mahomed Ali," ITALY. NAPLES, FIR. 8. I have constantly had occasion to call your atten tion to the pm..., dings of the t celesiastical jesuitical party in Italy, and feel permaded that they cannot be watched with too much vizilance, too insidious and unremitting are their effort , . to neromplish their allied., and so withering is their touch to any thing they approach. Who would have believed that Lad teen them driven with ignominy from Naples, as I dial. some three years since, that in SO short a time these Jesuits would have again become the lords of the nseendant—paramount in all affairs, civil as well as eccle siastical—reverenced, dreaded, and hated. As I before hinted. one great fell of their operations in amongst the fort beaters who now throng the capital, and it is not unwor thy of mention that in the American fleet they have been particularly active ; at all events, if my information he cor rect, Padre Costa scarcely ever omits to pay his three visits it week to the American frigate the Constitution, and dis tributes tracts amongst the sailor.. What the nature of these tracts is I do not know, but I should imagine that if they contain such matter a. I lately quoted from other of their publicatinne, defending the divine right of kings, and sanctioning the violation of solemn .oaths, they will not meet with a flattering reception front the honest republican Yankee. On necasion of one of thew recent visits, lam informed that Padre read, or quoted, it letter from Lord Shrewsbury, conuratailating them on the honours which had barn paid to the Cardinal Didion of Naples last year, am hi• paving a visit to this vessel. A salute of 17 Moos wan then fired, as a compliment to his eminence, and the yards were manned, almost equalling the hnnoun which ace pabl to royalty. The letter exprawal a hope from the same au thority, that the time would come when on mull occasions similar honours would be paid by the British fleet. !low ever wild may appear to he the wish or the hope, he amured that it is eherinheal by a large, and indefatigable, and sleep -1,. party, who are moving heaven and earth to subjugate the English mind. One of the evident rons•apaciwes of Jesuitical influence in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilia, is the cheek which has been given to, nay, the fearful paralysis with which public institutions have Jaen afflicted. From students I now hear that the leeture-rooms of the university are deserted ; that whereas a few years since, so crowded were the schools that it wan difficult to obtain a seat, now there is solitude ; anal that, where at the same time there might have been 10,000 etudentn colleen al from the province., then. isnot now more than one fourth that number—if even • that. Such ore the effects of principle, which I daily hear r nnnerterl. that the march of mind has not been fol. lowed by virtue or happitnwe ; that the revolu , lions have been promoted by the favour of knowledge; that • the Bourbon dynasty in Naples has been saved by the mob , that when ignorance is bins 'tin folly to he wine. Q.E.D. As to the spirit which now direct• public huitructiaan, it , will be sufficient to say Alt in many of the schools the "Divina Cornelia " of Dante has been prohibited, a. also many classical, both Latin and Italian, storks. In the interval within which I have been writing the above, the last act of the tragedy of the political condemna tions has been completed, anti from 21) to 30 mcu, some of noble rank, sonic formerly ministers of state, same priests, and most men of education, have tern paraded through the streets of Naples, and shipped off fur their several destina tions. Great ss-mpathy was awakened amongst all classes for the fate of those unhappy men, whose lives will now he dragged out in mitten/rowel dangeous, or in company of the vilest criminals. The judges, it appears, after having enndemned the three to he executed, were in great fright at their own act, and the procurator-general cited a former act, which said that when several mesons were condemned ta be executed for capital offences only one-half should suf fer, and it was then derided that two should be saved. Faueitano was left as the scape-goat. Whether in appear , once or reality mercy was awarded with great difficulty, and the Archbishop of Capuu was with the king, it is said, during a long time on !dander, and never left him till the royal pardon had been yielded. The intelligence was com municated to the prisoner almost at the last moment, and, after an interview with his friends, which, fur its painful character, must have equalled the agonies of death. Of She heroic and noble conduct of all the prisoners it is impossible to speak in too high terms. From what 1 hear they seem to regard themselves in the light of martyrs, a feeling shared by those political prisoners vet in conhae meat, and hence they are little discouraged . or cast down. To Pocrio, I hear that a note from one of the ministers suggested that an humble petition from him to his Majesty fur pardon might possibly be received with fustier. But the suggestion was not only disregarded—it was rejected by note—the baron declaring that he would not separate hts fate from those who were condemned with him. Such men as these a government may punish, but cannot crush, and may yet lice, to sac the least, to regret the impolicy of its seventy. As to the judges, I believe they were pretty clearly told what sentences were desired. Much to their honour be it said, these resisted to the last, and entered their protest against the condemnation of the three to death. Themes, however, who have just been moved off the poli tical stage, form but a very small portion of thole who have suffered or who yet sutler; and 1 have a document of value before me which enables me to give u correct statement of the persecutions which have taken place since the re-action. Of 110 deputies, al are in various ways victims ; 24 have been shut up in prison, unheard, for two years; and of the character of their prisons I refer to the work of Baillie Cochrane. who surely Is not too partial a testimony-51 arc refugees, dying, not from a conseiousuese of crime, but fear of injustice. Three are hiding in the country ; one, a man whose scientific fame is known in all peruke( the world, the father of four eons who have died for independenee, is re duced almost to a state of want: I allude to Capoeci. Finally, one has been assassinated, and his assassin is a priest—nay, a cavalicre. To continue my analysis of the sufferers. Of the twenty-four whom I reported in prison, there are the Marchese Dragonetti. ex-minister of state; Baron Carlo Porno, just cowl...and to the galleys fur Si years; Antonio scialoja, ex-minister of state, and (unfortu nately fur himself, iu this benighted land), is man of great literary and scientific attainments; Pietro Leopardi, once envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the court of Turin, &e, Of the exiles there arc Saliceti, ex ministerof state ; lmbriani, the stuns'; Confurti, the same; Dr. Vincenzo Lantos. a physician of the highest eminence. whose name and writings are well known to the profession. and who is now wearing out the last remains of lite in 00:1103, in comparative poverty; Oyu. Gustlichno Pepe; and Francesco Carlo Ruggiero, who organised the bar ricades on the 15th of Mae, 184 S, and was made minister of state on the ltbb, el . e. Of those who have been deprived of office, tomes& the most distinguished are &avatar TOtill/14Si; PrOrt . MlOr of Mating Medics in the University of Naples; and Capoeci, es-director of the Royal Observatory of Naples. From every profeseion. however, I might swell this list. Suffice it, therefore, to say, that every one distin guished for high literary and scientific attainments has been removed from positions of influence, as though the plague spot were on him. The unfortunate deputy who was assassinated was Costabile Carducc, and his assassin a priest, a cavalier, who now walks the streets of Naples in the enjoyment of 100 ducats a mouth, a pension conferred on him, it is true, in a former reign. In the above list I have given only the name, of the most distinguished men of their party, but of persons of all ranks who have been thrown into the prisons of the capital for political offences since the 15th of May. lfalte there are 500; and of those who have been accused in the provineee of capital offence*, the number amounts to not less than 1,500. Last Tuesday, as the Reverend Mr. Pugh, the British chaplain, was riding iu company with the Countess l'alatiano, on the Strada Nuova, a military waggon was driven right between their horses. Mr. Pugh. attempting to turn the heads of the waggon horses, was assailed by a volley of oaths and abuse. On his return from his ride four soldiers met him and attempted to stun, hint off his horse, beating and insult ilia him. A repsrt of the affair h . :s been drawn up bny Mr. Tc.api: and s ent to the authot. bat as yet I have nit heard the an-wee. The senaatioia c:cated amongst the Eudtlish is the gre at e r that not leave since the Misses Fitaherbert were likewise insulted by the soldiery. lam informed that on some person remonstrating with the men ROMAN STATES. The news :rem Rome indicates the prevalence of a good deal of alarm as to revolutionary plots. The l'apal army is not trusted be the govertmwnt, and there are thoughts of dissilving it. The French troops exercise continually,. and it is expected that in the case of any outbreak they will be allowed to occupy the Castle of St. Angelo, where the apart ment once occupied by Clement VII. duringthe siege by the Constable Bourbon, and still called "The 'lope's room," is being furnished for the reception of his holiness in case of digurbuneed. COLONIAL. CEYLON. KAN DY, JAN. 15. The continuance of fine weather during the pad month has been favourable for the operations on coffee estates, and a very considerable portion of the crop has been picked; hut in consequence of a kind of murrain now pre valeta, of which many of tire cattle base died, but little coffee has reached Colombo fur sFipmeut. This delay, to gether with the high price of cart hire, has called attention to the necessity of haring a ratilnsad. It will he recolleckod that a company fur this purpose was formed and is in existence at the present moment; that the proposed line has been sur. veyed and found to possess but few engineering difficulties ; that the traffic tables show enough goods traffic on the line to make it pay a fair rate of interest, irresmetive of passen gers ; and it is therefore to be hoped that steps will be taken immediately to revive the Ceylon Railway Company (rum its present dormant state. It has beim suggested that the government should guarantee . per cent. on the sub scribed capital; but with the large amount paid every T ear into the military chest by this colony, it is innxissible. I' he payment of 2400/. per annum into the military chest is a great grievance. The colony pays the island allowance for all the troops here ; pays all for the Ceylon Ritle Regiment, though threw companies are employed in China, and until lately six; and besides all this, 24,000/. a year into the military chest —to pay for what 1 for the support of troops, that it is convenient to keep here, ready to be marched to India if occasion require; and this the colony has to pay fur, and will have to do so, until our legislative council is made elective. May that day soon arrive. The papers here have been discussing a prooosed change for the scat of government from Colombo to this place (Kandy), and, of course, attacking the place. Among the argumeuts used is the unhealthiness of Kandy. 'this is pure fable. Kandy is very healthy fur a tropical country-quite much so us Colombo. _ . —.— Them has been an inquiry into the account , , &e. of the commissariat, resulting in the suspension of Captain Price, the commissary-general. It is said that circumstances of a very unfavourable nature have come to light with regard to the officer who lately tilled that office and has just retired from the army. Captain Price was his assistant, and it is feared that SOMC of the lessons he taught Captain Price has been practising. Great complaints are made with regard to the dation, table, and speed of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers generally. A letter specially com plaining of the Haddington his just appeared. We want a good opposition on this line, and every man in India would support it. If the Australian line should get into the hands of this company, the monopoly will be complete, and we shall obtain no redress. If any company would undertake an opposition, they would be well supported. Let Cunard's line, or the Austrian Lloyd's, or some American company, look to this; they would do good to themselves and good to us. Among our exports this month I must notice 15 elephants. Some Americans brought a ressel here fur the especial purpose of getting a supply for the zoological societies in the States. The natives, in whose hands the elephant+ are, aware that they could not remain lung, ran up the prices at once from about N. to 741. The Governor and family and suite and the colonial se cretary (Mr. McCarthy) and family, are up here for the hot season, and I believe will remain till the middle of May. It has been proposed by . the bemire committee that Mr. Thwaites, the superintendent of the Botanical Gardens at Perndinia, shall try the cultivation of cotton Thi+ will probably !call to its introduction so an article of commerce here. Two gentlemen skilled in the cultivation of this plant, one from the United States of America, and the other from Bengal, have reported most favourably of the climate and soil of the northern part of the island for this purpose. The growth of indigo lias just been established there, and it appears that at last the wonderful resources of this island will be deve loped. The country will owe a debt of gratitude to him under whose auspices these improvements arc introduced into it. Next month. Fehruary, the changes in the troops take place. The 14th Regiment goes to Colombo, and the 37th comes up to Kandy. also the head-quarters of the Ceylon Bilks. thus giving the command of the central province to Lieutenant-Col fuel Bravbrooke, of that regiment—a very good officer, of great loCal experience, who was exposed to the machinations of Sir Emerson Torment and the late governor, for his honest disapproval of their acts during the disturbances in 1848. It is a source of great gratification that Lieutenant-Colonel Drought will no longer bold this command. He earned an unenviable notoriety by his sanguinary correspondence with Captain Watson. It is ua ' d..ystood that this officer is coming out by next mail to take his trial before a court-martial, on charges connected with ; the late diatarbascea. TUE WESTMINSTER IMMOVEMENTS.—PROPOSED ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL IN VICTORIA-4THFET.- I'COWTILAY tWeIIDPICTeII houjet .ituated to Palmer's-a illage, Westminster, were disposed of by auction, in pursuance of an order from the Westminster ImpmvementCommiseioner.. for the purpose of being removed to form a ode entrance into Tictonaostr,et, which is to extend from Westminster Abbey to Vauxhall-bridge-road. The commissioner. have entered into arrangements for the completion of the street, which will be an feet wide, and on either side of which tir.t-ela.. houses will be erected. It is 'toted that sonic inftu ntial person. connected with the Roman catholic buds . have m..le overtures for a large area in which to erect a eithcdral. but the application has been reverted. The connuiesionen have entered into contract. for layi-er down th • foot pavement.. the granite for the road. &e.. the sewers and cellar. for the houses being already eonstructed. It is expected that the new street will be opened in the month of XI aut. PROTECTION OF APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS. This day a bill was issued " For the better Protee teetion of young Persons under the Care and Control of others as Apprentices ur Servants; and to enable the Guardians and Overseers of the Poor to institute and con duct Prosecutions in certain Cases." The text is as follows : Whereas it is expedient to make provision for the better protection of young persons who arc under the care and control of others as apprentices or servant' : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and tem poral, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 1. That where the master or mistress of any young per son under the age of eighteen• shall be legally liable to pro vide for such young person, as an apprentice or es a servant, necessary food, clothing, or lodging, and shall wilfully and without lawful excuse refuse or neglect to provide the same, or where the master or mistress of any such young person shall unlawfully and maliciously assault such young person, —so that by reason of such refusal or neglect to provide as aforesaid, or by reason of such assault or assaults, the life of such young person shall be endangered, or the health of such young person shall be injured, such master or mistress shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof shall be liable to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, in the common gaol or house of correction, for any term not exceeding three years. 2. That the costs and expenses of the prosecution of any such misdemeanour as aforesaid may be allowed and ordered by the court before which the indictment shall be tried, in like manner as the costs of the prosecution in certain cases of misdemeanour under the act of the seventh year of the reign of King George the Fourth, chapter sixty-four, or may be allowed and ordered by the Court of Queens Bench, in case the indictment shall have been removed into that court. . . 3. That where any young person under the age of eighteen shall have been or shall be hired as a servant from the workhouse of any union or parish, or shall have been or shall be bound out ON an apprentice by the guardians of any union, or the guardians or overseers of any parish, it shall be lawful for such guardians or overseers respectively, and they arc hereby required, so long no such young person shall be under the age of eighteen, and shall - be known to them to reside within such union or parish respectively with the master or mistress by whom such young person was so taken as a servant or apprentice, to cause the relieving officer, or, where there is no relieving officer, then some other officer duly authorised for the purpose, to visit ouch young person ut least four times in every year, and to report to them, if he shall find reason to believe that such young person is not supplied with necessary food, or is subjected to cruel or illegal treatment in any respect. 4. That where any complaint shall be made of an offence against this act, or of any bodily injury inflicted upon any poor person under the age of eighteen years, for which the party committing it is liable to be indicted, and the justice of the iwace before whom the examination is taken shall certify under his hand that he deems it necessary fur the put , jomswof public justice that the prosecution should be conducted by the guardians of the union or of the parish, or where there are no guardians by the overseers of the parish in which the offence shall have been committed, such guardians or overseers, as the case may be, shall, upon personal service of ouch certificate or a duplicate thereof upon the clerk of such guardians, or upon any one of such overseers, conduct the prooecution, and shall pay the costs reasonably and properly incurred therein (so tar as the same shall not be allowed to them under auy order of the court trying the indictment, or of the Court of Queen's Bench), out of the common fund of the union, or out of the funds in the hands of the guar dians or overseers (as the case may be) of such parish. 6. That in the ease of a union or parish under a board of guardians, the clerk or some other officer of such union or parish, and in the case of a parish not under ato of guardians one of the overwers thereof, may, if the said justice of the peace before whom the examination is taken shall deem it necessary for the purposes of public justice, and shall certify as hereinbefore-mentioned, be bouud over to pr osecute. p 6. That the word. " guardians," "union," "overseers," " justice of the peace," " officer," " poor," " perish," and " workhouse," used in this act, shall be construed in like manner as in the act of the fifth year of the reign of Kiug William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six. 7. That this act shall extend only to England and Wales. • The wont• in Italic• are pommel to be lameted is committee. THE BUDGET. THE NEW HOUSE TAX. The following letters have been addressed to tho Editor of the Daily Niars : Sta,—l am a clerk, at 1601. a year, out of which I pay nearly 51. income tax. I live in n Ttu*, the rent of which •23/. per annum, free from window tax. By the new " rent tax," I have an additional burden of 11. * lt. to pay annually. The Chancellor of the Exchequer further proptnes a remistion of half the duty on Strewn timber. the country had better remove all ditties from It I am, &e., A SUFFERER. London, Feb.lB. SIR,--Can the Chancellor of the Exchequer be serious in stating that by his plan of a house tax in lieu of the Ihindnw tax, the occupier. of houses will have the bene fit of a reduction of one-third of the amount they now pay ? I occupy a house at 22/. a year, mt. d at 20!, 1 pa)• for window tax l&'. 6d. By the new plan of charging Is. in the pound I shall have to pay 20s. ; and this the Chancellor calls reduction of taxation. Surely this absurdity ought to be expo-m. 1.-1 um, sir, your obedient servant, FREDERICK RENARD. 5, Windsor-terrace, Cooper's-road, Old Kent-rood, Feb. 18. - -- COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday a court teas held, for the purpose of " re ceiling the 'return of the election of an alderman for the ward of Walbrook, in the room of Michael Gibbs, Esq., resigned," and upon other business. THE SI..)ANE>4. ..... Alderman WILSON requested to he informed why Mr. and Mrs. Sloane were exempted from the general treatment of prisoners convicted and sentences' to be imprisoned ? It was, he understood, the established custom to remove. from Newgate all convicts under sentence; and why the re should be a deviation front that practice in the case of the two persona he had named, and who were, it appeared, still in Newgate, he could not conjecture. Mr. Alderman and Sherif CARDEN said that as the sentence upon the Sloane. , was imprisonment for two years without hard labour, they were, in conformity with esta blished usage, detained in the gaol of Newgate as the national prison. (Hear, hear.) If the sentence had in cluded hard labour, the removal to another place of punish meat would of course have taken place. (Hear, hear.) Ald. SIDNEY said that he and Alderman Copeland, as visiting magistrates of the prison, had made the necessary inquiries into the subject, and found that it had been the invariable practice to make persons sentenced to imprison ment without hard labour undergo their sentence in Newgate. Mr. Sloane was by his own choice in solitary confinement in one of the cells, and Mrs. Sloane was under the care of the medical officer of the prison, and was not yet in a condition to be placed with the other female prisoners. The court might rely upon the strict observance of the judg ment of the learned authority before whom the prisoners had been tried. (Hear, hear.) Ald. LAWRENCE said the public might be led into a mistake b 7 the mention of "solitary confinement in a cell in Newmite, and he wished to prevent any misapprehension upon the mutter. The fact was, that even the condemned cell, as one of the rooms in Newgate was called, was one of the best rooms in the whole prison ; that Mr. Sloane wish ing to be separated from the other prisoners, and that his being alone, was not at all a part of the discipline of the gaol. (Hear, bear.) ATTENDANCE OP THE ALDERMEN IN TUE CENTRAL CRIMINAL. COI ILT. Sir PETER mooed, without making any ob servation upon the subject, " That it he referred to a eom mittec of the whole court to consider and report whether any and what regulations are necessary, to secure a more punctual attendance of the members of the Court of Alder men, as commis.ioners during the sessions, at the Central Criminal Court ; and to consider and report as to the neces sity of continuing to hold four adjourned quarter sessions at Guildhall." . _ Sir PETER LAURIE said, in answer to a question from one of his }anther aldermen, that he had no doubt of the speedy production of a report which would give public sa tisfaction. (Hear, hear.) The HECORDEIt stated that upon the late neeasion alluded to relative to the delay of business in the Central Criminal Court, he had mentioned, in explanation to the jury, that the presence of two commissioners was neeessa7 to constitute a court ; hut he had made no complaint. colleagues on the bench were, he believed, at the time of the emergency, occupied with the business of the other courts. (Hear, hear.) ADDITIONAL CONSTABLEi FOR 1851 The LORD MAYOR called the attention of the court to the necessity which would in all probability exist for the appointment of additional policemen, as a preparation for the security of the public peace and order, which la and his brethren, as magistrates, were hound to do all they could to maintain, on the approaching great public occasion. Upon the motion of his lordship the nnestion was referred to a committee of the whole court, with power to confer with Mr. Daniel Whittle ilarrey, the commissioner of the City police. WIDECLNO OFA..IiANCERY-I,ANE.-DNER TO ILK. J. R. TAYLOR. Yeaterdat a dinner was given at the George and Bl ue Boar. ifolborn, to Mr. 3. R. Taylor, on the occasion of presenting that gentleman with a testimonial for his ro.r- Vi in attempting to procure the widening of Chancery-- lane. Sir JAnEs Doer., Bart., M.P., in the chair. The guests numbered in all between 80 and 90 gentlemen, anti amongst them were many distinguished re-ident, in the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn. The testimonial prepated for the occasion consisted of a silver salter and i•perbue, each bearing an appropriate inscription. COMPOUND TioN.EnoLDEL. 4 4-011 Monday a bill wag print , il by which " compound houtcheldets will be enabled to cute for members who have ouce claimed and tendered the rates. At present many are deprived of the franchise by baring to make continual claim,* be rated. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. The Chamber of Commerce of Lyons has consented, in compliance with the request of the Minister of Commerce, by a unanimous resolution, to resume the direction of Lyons contributions to the London Ex hibition. S esterday morning different portions of the build ing in Hyde park, were subjected, by the royal commis sioners, to various and severe tests as to their strength. The performance of this experiment, which wan completely satisfactory, was honoured by the presence of her Majesty, hi. Royal Ilighne.s Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the youthful members of the royal family, and the royal suite. Earl Granville and Mr. W. Cubitt, C.E., royal commissioners; Mr. I. K. Brunel, Mr. Locke, M.l'., Mr. Field, and a few other eminent professional gentlemen were present. Col. Reid, R.E., Mr. Cole, Mr. Dilke, Mr. Dowring, Dr. Lyon Mayfair, Mr. Wyatt, &c., were in CLERICAL. PRZFERNIEN.I:9. Rey. M. F. Dudgeon, to Cratf vicarage, Suffolk, value 116/. ; on the presentation of the ltev. E Rolland, &Oran Lodge. Suffolk. Rev. J. Dallas, to Litfield vicarage, Sufi'. ilk, value 220/.; on the presentation of the Rev. E. !Lifland, Benhali Lodge, Suffolk. DE.Tftt:CTIVE FlRE.—This morning, at a few minutes past three, a fire broke out in the extensive pre mises belonging to Meson. Wig4ll. and White, hop mer chants, situate in Dukc-street, Borough. Some flames were discovered in the kitchen ; and scarcely had the inmates effected their escape before the house was in a general blaze. The work of conflagration now reached the immense pile of warehouses in Toolcy-street, and, from the combusti ble nature of their contents a great destruction of property et once seemed inevitable. The floating engine, with others front the various stations having arrived, they were set to work immediately; at 1 p.m. the fire was raging with greater violence than ever. So great was the body of flume within the premises, that were it night almost the whole of the metropolis would have been illuminated. Two floats ing engines, with several land one., of the London brigade and West of England Company, were being worked by se veral hundred men hired for the occasion ; but there seemed no likelihood of the conflagration being arrested fur some time. One thing is quite certain, that the fire cannot be entirely extinguished for several days; the firemen arc therefore employed in preventing any other premises becom ing ignited. Judging from the appearance of the flames, there seemed every probability of the entire clump of ware houses in Duke-street from London-bridge and the land side of Tootey-street, being destroyed. So dense was the smoke emitted from the blazing piles that the firemen were nearly stifled during their operations. Mr. Alderman Humphrey, the landlord of most of the buildings on fire, had arrived, and given instructions to the firemen as to the construction of the various buildings. At one o'clock, the whole range of warehouses in Duke-street, belonging to Messrs. Wigan and Co., the hop-factors, were destroyed, with the costly contents. No. 5, iet Duke-stmt, the property of 'Mr. J. Wynn, bootinaker, is partially destroyed. N 0.3, in the same street, belonging to Mr. O. Bottom, coffee-shop keeper, is also seriously burned. No. 1, in the same thoroughfare, Mr. Smithey, fishmonger, has the back part destroyed. The hat warehouse of Mr. Lawson, at the corner of the bridge, is also seriously da maged. Nothing approximating to an official report of the damage done can as vet be made, and it is doubtful whether Mr. Brentwood will be able to prepare, a correct account of the damages until late to-night. DESTRUCTION BY FIRE or LORD MAYNE'S' SEAT TnE ImLE or WIGHT.—A fire took place on Monday, at Binstead, Isle of Wight, the seat of 3lajor-Oeneral Lord Downi-, which was totally consumed. Ilinstead is one mile from ltyde, whence an engine was despatched: but it was of little service, in consequence of the combustible nature of the building —part being very old, and covered with thatch. Very little of the furniture was saved. It was stated that her ladyship lost 30,0001. worth of jewels. His lordship and familr were crossing from Portsmouth, and saw the conflagration from the deck of the steamer; they were coming to Binstead for a short time, the house haying been prepared for their reception. The cause of the tire was the careless way in which a stove had been set in the study. The:wall between this mom and the drawing-room was but half a brick thick ; this had been knocked away, and the store thrust against the battening, which was Ciu raved. TUE GREAT GLOBE HOLSE.—Our readers know that the centre of Leici ster-square is the spot fixed upon for the erection of a building to receive Mr. Wyld's intended great Globe. After much difficulty, and the payment of no lees than 3,0001., the arrangement fur the ground is now completed. The building is to be of a circular form, 00 feet across, enclosing the Globe, of 60 feet in diameter. Corridors for promenade will surround it, and it is to have four covered approaches from the sides of the square. The external elevation at the sides is proposed to be 20 feet high, surmounted bye large bell-shaped roof of tine. The build ing itself will be mainly of Limb T. the inner surface of the Globe of plaster of Paris. In the centre of the Globe will be a series of galleries, four in number, constru:ted so as to enable visitors to see every portion of the model. These galleries, it is said, will afford actommolation for 1,000 or 1,500 persons at one time, and are to be approached by spiral staircases in the centre. The entrance is to be at the south of the Globe. Mr. Welch is the areh;tict. litakrer. Dk:VON PORT, FEB. 17.—The Athol store chip, Licut. w. A. It. Pearse, arrived on Tu.sslay, and took in stoles for Ascension. She was paid advance on Wednesday, and sailed for her destination. THE SAILORS' STRIKE. A woman was fined M. on Monday for having taken part in the outrage committed on two foreigners, at North Shields, as mentioned in yesterday's Express. On Sunday morning about three u'elmk, a melancholy accident happened to one of the watchers, who went (dr with five others to overhaul a vessel that was going to sea. The ves sel was towing down, and going rapidly through the water. In attempting to hook the ship's boat the watcher's boat upset, and one of them, a young man, named Mark Arm strong, was drowned. His body was picked up on Sunday afternoon. Twenty-five policemen have been sent down from Newcastle to assist the authorities to keep the peace; and a number of special constables would be sworn in at ' South Shields yesterday. There are a great number of laden vessels in Shields harbour ready for sea, if they could procure crews. TILE DIOCESE OF LONDON AND ITS BISHOP. (hen the Daily Neva.) AT the vestry of the great parish of Marylebone, on Saturday, a discussion took place on a case which affords an excellent illustration of the present state of the diocese of London under the episcopal admiuis _ _ The fa is am these : tration of Dr. BLOMFIELD. On Sunday evening, the sth of January last, the wife of Mr. BALER, a tradesman in Oxford-street, was on the point of death, and, wishing to see a clergyman of the Established Church, one of Mr. att - gn's establishment, Miss JAMES, hurried to the church of All Souls. where Mrs. BAUER had been married, where all her children had been christened, and where she was an attendant. There she ob tained the address of the curate, Mr. B.tco,i, whose lodgings were some five minutes' walk from Mr. BAUER s house. 'Miss JAMES hastened on to Mr. BACON, and entreated him, without delay, to come to Mrs. Mum. Mr. BACON refueled, on the ground that she was not one of his parishioners, and referred Miss JAMES to the clergymen either of All Saints or St. An drew's; Mr. B.i e sat's housebeing, he said, in one or other of those districts. Now the clergymen of those districts are notoriously tractarians; whilst the tradesman's I dying wife was a protestant. On her way to secure the attendance of one of them, Miss Jauss, it seems, learnt the character of their religious opinions, and, shrinking from the responsibility of introducing such spiritual aid to Mrs. Bailin, she returned to Mr. Tacos, stated her objections, renewed her entreaties, and was again repulsed. In this extremity of woo Mr. BAUER appealed to a neighbouring tradesman, who immediately waited on a third clergyman, Mr. Bustritwxlms; and he, after the lapse of an hour and a half, daring every minute of which Mrs. Bat - ER was expected to expire, brought religious comfort to the dying woman. Miss JAMES thought Mr. B.‘CON'S conduct "ma cluistian and uncharitable," and Mr. Ilarmt, in the depth of his affliction, deems himself to have been "cruelly used," and is of opinion " that religion should not be confined to a district, but any clergyman should visit the dying when applied to, and not throw difficulties in the way, and seem to make a business of it, as was the ease lust Sunffity night." On the other hand, however, the Bishop of Lox mix, on the facts being submitted to him. had not a word of sym pathy to bestow on the dying wives of Oxford-street tradesmen• thus treated by the clergy of Marylebono when seeking fire spiritual consolation, but is grimly and sternly of opinion that Mr. Reflex "acted in conformity with the principles of our parochial law, " and adds, " You are not at liberty to visit pastorally any of Mr. Itieftxtues parishioners without his con sent"—a determination that will probably deprive the great majority of Mr. Riensoos' parishioners of all pastoral attendance when in the agonies of death, seeing that they are protestant.; and lie is a tracta elan; or, in other words, seeing that he and they am of antagonistic religious opinions and hold nearly op posite schemes of salvation. Undoubtedly the law is as laid down by the Bishop; and if he had been appealed to as a judge of the hind instead of as a supenntending clergyman, not one word could have been said against his frigid, icy answer. But, if one of the duties of a bishop be to see that the laity of his diocese have proper spiritual consolation when they request it, then, though his reply may read the law aright. it never theless reads that duty very wrongly. There arc, however, two ' points to be considered in the case; first the curates, then the bishop's conduct. For one clergyman to visit. indiscriminately out of his hounds would, besides being unlawful, be produc tive of disvonl, disorder, and jealousy. But this general rule, like all others, must have exec lions, and one of those exceptions was elturfi presented to Mr. Hams in Mrs. list . sit state. here was a dying woman entreat ing the aid of religion ; and though the hand of death pressed heavily upon her, form and mmetiliousness kept the clergyman sent for away. Surely in so awful an emergency in the life of a hu man being common humanity, setting aside all ho lier considemtions, dictates that Mr, Ilseos's first duty was to attend the porting penitent ; that done, next to Wit• . the facts of the ease to the parochial clergyman and to his bishop us a justification for his solicited interference. Such is not, however, the view the Marylebone clergy take of the mutter. I They contend that if Oxford-stisrt tradesmen don't catch bold of the proper minister, their wives must die without religious eonsoluti ~,,, and no one has a right to complain. This, we say, is very shocking. ifishop BLOMFIELD says it is lawful. To la• sure, it is. But then the law assumes that all clergymen of the church of England teach one and the same scheme and doctrine of redemption; and, conse quently, that every parishioner can find in his own parish the same plum intelligent and consolatory religious iustruction and edification that are to bo secured in the next. If such were the ease pa rishioners would be wrong to go out of their parishes for such aid on merely personal grounds. But is such the case in the diocese of London generally? Was such the ease in the ecclesiastical district in which Mr. BAUER lived? Notoriously —scan dalously not. What moral right then has the Bishopof LONDON to pen up the inhabitants of a parish to teaching differing in alm o st every parish? tor the Bishop to tell the parishioncm of All Souls' district that the only clergymen they can consult are its pro testant ministers, and in the next breath to tell tho people of All Saints' or St. Andrew's that they must submit tothe ministrations of their tractarian priests, is a piece of inconsistency so practically awful that notlung but the leathern and hardened conscience of prelacy could give vent to it. Substantially it is the promulgation of two different religions under the authority of the Bishop of Lomas. For, conceal, and cloak, and disguise it as we will, there are two opposite schemes of redemption hieing taught in the Church of England; and by Dr. Iftmostraso's rigid application of parochial law in this question of pas toral duty, both schemes are equally eneourugcli by him. No wonder the faith of the laity is becoming unsettled, when, practically, episcopacy is promoting scepticism ! The very efforts (and they have been great) of DIAILOMEIELD to extend the parochial system in his I diocese have only brought into stronger and stronger light this awful and shocking state of things in the church of England. Ilea, in this (MAC, are three of his new districts, in which reign "confusion worse confounded;" in two he has highflying tractarians, in the other protestant clergymen. 'The consequence is, that in the former the parishioners fly their parish churches, either worshipping out of their districts, or in dissenting chapels; and that when the dying wives of tradesmen in the latter scud for ortlMdox ministers, they arc referred by those very . ministers to clergymen from whose teaching, when in health, they shrunk in dismay. This can't last. If episco picy, highly paid, can't preserve us from these fright ful inconsistencies, of what use is it ? To build churches and so serve them, is to perplex the laity, not to extend the usefulness of the church. N o could not be worse, and might be much better off, if we put our prelacy on shorter commons than 12,0001. a year in London, and 15,001. a year in Canterbury. What an episcopacy this of Dr. Ilionststo's is ! Ile has built more churches, and raised more doubts, got together more money, and been engaged in more squabbles, exhibited more activity, and committed more inconsistencies, been more zealous as a church man, and more regardless of church truths than all the other bishops put together. And the cud of all is that neither clergy nor laity in his diocese know what ere his real views, wants, or wishes, and that, as poor Houses SMITH used to say of the vicar of Brighton, though constantly in hot aster, he never conies clean out of it. Lord Jots has asked Cardinal WISEMAN to tette a to Bane. Could he not give Dr. Bionsmit a hint, to shad the see of London? i