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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LOl(DS.—Tnrasimy, FEB. 8. The LOYD CIIANCILLOR took his seat at 5 o'clock. PETITIONS PRESENTED. PAPAL AOOKILSSION.—By Lord STANLEY, from • place not heard ; the Bishop of M.ANCIIESTER, from a *de in Lancashire; t h e Earl of EGLI NTON, from East Wickham and other places; the Earl of 'LODEN, from the Church of Enirluad Lay Association, and trim a great many , places in Ireland; the 'Duke of ARGYLL, from the county of Butt; the Earl of BIOUNTCASIIEL, from Newport, the county of Cavan, and other places; Earl WALDE. GRAVE, from several places; the Earl of LANESBO MOUOII, from a place in Ireland; and the Bishop of OXFORD, from indsor, Eton, and adjoining parches ; the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, from the clergy of the county rat Wile...a. I other place*, sdl against papal *germ -I•oll.—The po :item. presented by the Bishop of Oxford prayed fur the :al Trion of some measure on the subject, or the exert-hie of the • siding power and authority, to prevent the assumption of the titles given by the Pope to the re cently appointed Roman catholic bishops. Lord IlltOetill.tAl thought such a prayer could not be entertained. Ile should be very sorry to see that house, which was the highest court of judicature in the land and to which a final appeal might la, made upon an indictment or information of the Attorney-General--he should be sorry to see that house entertain a petition to put the law In motion in the first rustence. The lii.hop of OXFOItD said their lordship' might ad dress. hoe Majesty to discountenance tlit temporal rink which had been a—umiel by certain mom and he thought be doing so they would ht, • th e prayer of the retina., LORD LIEI:TeINANCY OF IRELAND. The Marquis of LONDONDEItItY asked whether it was the lot uti tttt of the government to introduces measure for the abolition of the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ire land, and if so, whether sufficient time would be given to the people ut Ireland to petition their lordships house apainet It? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said it was the intention of the gourmet nt to introduce such a measure; but as there were several important measures which at present galled for the attention of the government, be was nut pre pared to my when that measure would be introduced. LAW 1,1 MARRIAGE. . The Earl of ST. GERMANS brought in a MI to legalise marriage with a derviro d wife's ,i•ter, and gave notice that ht bill JUlli mine the I.r..nd reading on that day fortnight. Pt )sT-OFF ICE. Me Num.'s EAlll.lii , 6;; notice that nn 'Monday next bc should provott • no tibia from a clerk in the money order othe , , prrying for an inquiry into the eircum,tunces wader which bo had IN i n diobarged from his employment. THE EARL MINTO AND TOE COUltl OF gentleman if It was his intention to Introduce a bill to amend the Stamp Ad. THE LORD LIEUTENANCY (IRELAND). Mr. GRATTAN gave notice that, on the bill for the abolition of the Irish Lord Lieutenancy being introduced by the First Lord of the Treasury, it was his intention to move that it be read a second time that day Is months. (Laughter.) IRISH DISTILLERS. Lord NAAS row, pursuant to notice, to know from the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it was the intention of her Majesty's ministers in the present session to introduce a measure for the remission of duty at present levied on waste and evaporation occurring to home-made spirit'? (Hear, hear.)_ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated, in reply, that there was no such intention. FIRE AT THE HOUSES OP PARLIAMENT. Mr. LAWLESS rose to ask the hun. member fur Lanese tcr the estimated expense of the damages dune by the late fire, and what precautions had been taken, or were in tended to be taken, to prevent the recurrence of such disasters? but he understood the hon. member for Lan caster was now in Rome. In the event of that hon. mem ' bees absence, he had intended to auk the noble lord the member for Tutues (Lord Seymour) the same question, but not seeing the noble lord in his place, he trusted that some member of the government would have the kindness to give a reply, as it would tend greatly to relieve the pub lic anxiety on the subject. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER mid that the amount of damage WAN exceedingly trifling. Mr. LAWLESS wished to know how that could be. 'I he CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the place where the Are occurred was nearly empty at the time it broke out. OATH OF ABJURATION. Mr. W. P. WOOD wished to know from the noble lord at the head of her Majesty's ministry, if he was prepared to introduce • measure with a view to the carrying out of the ! resolution of the sth of August, in the last 'Lesion, to the effect that the house would take into consideration the oath of abjuration, with • view to removing all disabilities at tachiug a permits not professing the Christian religion ? Lord J. RUSSELL—It u my intention to introduce such a measure , . (Hear.) Mr. W. P. WOOD—At the earliest opportunity ? Lord .1. RUSSELL could not say as to that. Ile would be guided by the progress of the measure which he intended to introduee to-morrow (this day). MINISTERS' MONEY (IRELAND). Mr. FAO.tN wished to know if it was the intention of the noble lord—he having pledged himself in the last ses sion—to introduce a measure for the abolition of ministers' money in Inland? If not before the Easter recess, when? Lord. .1. RUSSELL—The government do intend to introdueo suds a measure • but I cannot just now state whether before or atter Easer. ...... LAW OF SETTLEMENT. Mr. MILES inquired if it wits the intention of ministero to bring in • immure for the alknition of the Liw of I:ttletnent ? Mr. BAINES replied in the affirmative. STAMPED PUBLICATIONS. In mp to a question from Mr. SCHOLSFIELD, to whether the lawsuit between Mr. Charles Dickens and the Boanl of Inland Revenue had been abandoned or was still pending, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that it had not been abandoned. It would be tried before one of the Barons of the Exchequer. Mr. M. (DOWN Inquired if it was a suit for penalties for printing on nnstamind paper ? the CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER replied in the affirmative. Mr. BRIOHT wish.' to know if papers of a sitnilar character would he allowed to be published under the same eircunistanees until the case should be decided? Until the question was decided it ought to be held that the subject ROA free to publish. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER should politely &s lime to answer that question. (A laugh.) ADDRESSES TO THE CROWN. • -• Lord J. RUSSELL, rica;;;ini r ice jouowin g resolution —" That this house will not proceed upon suy motion for an address to the crown tow Inch opposition is otti:red but in a committee of the whole house, except with respect to matters which have been had submitted to s select oininittee"—said that he hail given notice of his intention lwt session to move such a resolution, hut he thought it better to defer it till the commencement of the present one. It was obvious that in the multiplicity of townies ss and ea rims topics which that house hail to deal with, there must be eases in which questions of considerable importance would have to be discussed and decided in a very thin house. In cases where bills were brought in, the house hail frequent opportunities during the various stages of their progress of deciding upon them, and stopping their progress if it so thought fit. In the ease of a resolution being carried which afterwards appeared to a majority of the house to be at valiance with the public interest, it could be rescinded, and no further proceedings could be taken in respect to it. But the ease was different with regard to motions for an address to the crown which might be carried in a thin house, and with no great majority. In that case it was elisions great inconvenience must arise, because that ad dress was ordered to be presented by such meridiem as were privy councillors, and no further proceedings were neces sary on the part of the horse. Now, if the ministers of the crown were of opinion that the address ought not to be carried into effect, it placed them, and indeed the crown itself, in great difficulty. Supposing a majority of the house were of opinion that the address was one which ought not to be carried into effect, and was at variance with the : public interests, the crown, in refusing to comply with it, though seemingly placing itself in opposition to the House of Commons, was in reality carrying its wishes into effect ; whereas if the crown complied with the address carried by a majority on a division in a thin house, but in reality at variane. with the wishes of the 211ajarrity of the house, it was placing itself in real opposition to the will of the House of Commons. The crown had full liberty and discretion not to comply with the address of the house when it appeared to the advisers of the crown that compliance would prove injurious to the public interests, yet that power should be very sparingly exereird, and only in cases of grave importance. If the house agreed with him so far, it would agree that it was desirable there should be the same kind of preceding with respect to addresses to the crown as in regard to bills and resolutions, that was to say, that the house should have the opportunity and power on a subsequent day when the house was fuller, of reversing its decision with respect to addresses suddenly adopted. It might so happen that 40 members would carry on address one day, which would be rejected by MO the next. What they wished to propose was already in spirit in operation with respect to money, for all measures relating to the voting ,of public money were brought forward in the first instance in a committee of the whole house. Ile need hardly mention instances iu which such a resolution as he now Imposed would have been useful and prevented great inconvemence.There were, however, two Coors which occurred in late years, and which he would bring in support of the motion. One was an address to the Crown for the purpose of setting free some persons who hail been transported for political offences. That address would not be carried in a full house, and it so happened that it was not carried in the thin house which considered it, solely because the Speaker had the firmness and judgment to decide against the address being carried. (Hear, hear.) The other case was fresh in the recollection of the house, being the case relating to the post-office. Immediately after that address was carried he had been inked if the government meant to comply with it, and although he did not think the address con veyed the opinion of the majority of the house, yet being a formal act of the house, he did not feel himself authorised in saying that the address which had been carried by a majority was not the wish of the house. He therefore advised the crown to comply with the address, but he thought it would have been much better if, instead of the agitation and inconvenience which followed, the hour had had an opportunity of reversing the decision. They all knew that it was quite impossible to expect a full house on every motion that came before them, and there fore it was desirable to have such a resolution in force as that which he now proposed. (Hear.) The resolution having been put, Mr. HERMES said he considered the motion as an at tempt to abridge the privileges of individual members of the house, and ono which it would be inexpedient to adopt, and the statement of the noble lord had in no respect re moved that impression. (hear, hear.) He was strongly of opinion that the revolution was inexpedient and unneces sary. The tendency of late years was to curtail the privi leges of individual members of the house. And in all those eases where that bad been done with manifest propriety, be for ono never offered any opposition. But here the case was different. The present question arose out of a case which occurred last year, and which was distasteful and inconvenient to her Majesty's government. (Hear, hear.) They should therefore look the more narrowly into the grounds on which it was proposed. (Hear.) The noble lord's position was, that with regard to any motion for an address to the crown, to which opposition was offered, it should be made before a committee of the whole house, ex cept to matters which hail previously been considered by a select committee. Now, he would ask the noble lord, in the tint instance, in what way that resolution could bo complied with. With regard to the motion' for an address in answer to the royal speech no one could say that opposition would not be offered, and there was no previous committee of the whole house to which it hail been referred. lithe noble lord meant that every address, before it was Presented, should be referred to a select com mittee to be drawn up, he apprehended that the same rule would apply to motions for an address in answer to the Queen's Speech, but that was not expressed in the words of the resolution. If this motion had been, that an address should not be presented until the preparation of that address bad been referred to a select committee, then he could have understood it; but that was not the case, and the noble lord did not mean to myths: it was either implied sr expressed. (Lord J. Russell made an observation, which Was nut beard.) If the noble lord was disposed to snake an amendment to his own motion, or allow him (Mr. Berries) to do as, that would be another question, but as the motion stood at present,* would be an obstacle to public businna. Supposing, for instance, that some foolish insane person should make an attack upon her Majesty, the house ought to be in a position immediately to snake a communication of the expression of their feelings at the occurrence ; but the resolution of the noble lord did not meet that difficulty. Mid it should be recollected that before the address could be referred to a committee of the whole house it would have to be made an order of the day. This of itself fur nished a good ground of opposition to the motion of the I .noble lord. The noble lord bad adverted to the occur ' rence of last year, when an address was moved to the crown on the question of postal regulations on Sunday. Now, if he recollected rightly, ample notice hail been given of the intention to move the address, and therefor* the . goo mist bad axopro time to prepare link Aiello to ii~i~tt:. The Earl of FITZWILLIASI wished to wilt his noble fricad (the Karl of )linto) whether there wu any truth in the rumour which had hien cab naively circulated, that ho had been runsultid and informed of the intention of the papal goriniment to snake what was commonly called the papal airensisiuu. The Earl of 31 INTO should have no diffieulty in satisfy ing his midge nil that there was no truth what:ser any part of the report. During the time that he was ut Houle, he had had no convention whatever on the subject, no allusion had bsen made to it, nor had the subject been 11113 . 11 hint, 'll at. (Ileer, hem.) There was no foundation whatever fur the report to which his noble friend had alluded. In the sarious conversations he had had with the Fop, and with the Cardinal Secretary of State, no allusion had ever been made at any time to any desiirn of organising a Roman catholic hierarthy in this country, nor had it ever hen a von hintill that any such rociunirc win. in contemplation. Le could wear,- tlu ir liirdshipe that no one wan more cons- Oita ly tukeo by burprio. than himielf ut the appearance of the pupal bull appointing an archbishop and bishops in this cuuutry. COUNTY COURTS. Lnral BROI . OIIAiI ply; as Zeeillat he should to-mor row autroduer a hill fur este:Wing the jurinliction of the county court. to cars of bankruptcy. COPI 1101. D TENURE. Lord CAMPIILLL intruluced a Lill for the abolition of eopyliold tenures, and fur changing eopyhuld into freehold tenure. CAPE OF• 6001) HOPE. Lord WODElll7.lls4prt;;;;;d 17:it iion; from the Cape of Good na favour of the form of conatitutiou adopted at a public no etiog in that colony; and inquired if it was the intention of tinsmith. earl the Secretary tor the l'olutaies to lay before the him.• the correspondence whit It had taken place with do autlieritieii at the Cape of Good Hope on the subject of the eiovaitution which it was proposed tu intro duce its that colony. E,rl GREY twtd it was his intention to lay before the bowie the pap.), alluded to by his noble friend, hut he could net do Mt until he had received further communica tion. from the Cape of Hued Hope, so as to bk• enabled to lay the %bolo of the correspondence on the table at once. MR. NICHOLLS. Furl FORTESCUE wished to draw the attention of their lunb.hih to the eme of Mr. Nicholls. That gentle man hid been orientally an °Nicer in the East India Com p uy• ate • mt t had n tired into the country. There be 3 ha d de r st u :t . :l . l . his . attention to the administration of the pir taw, and had the administration of that taw A Ms 'Welsh, that when the alteration in the poet law took place, in D%32, he had born requosted to accept the (AG= of Wit. of the poor law commissioners. Ile bad done great aCtWilrl• in this country ; and then he was, in 1539, sent to 'nebula, to orgauier the whole poor law system of that country. Ile (Earl Meru-env) was then Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland, and had ample opportunity of seeing the gust ability, siimle-heertednem, and Delf-devotion, which cenistuntly animate-el Mr. Nicholls. Ile subsequently' returned to England, awl remained a member of the Poor law Board until Isl 7, when he was appointed one of two amistant seeretaries under the new constitution of that board. He was now 7, yearn of age, and was about to re tire from the public wervice, but he would not be entitled to any retiring pe onion. He (Earl Forteecue) wished, there fore, to knees whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Cotenant. of to tuakc some provision fur this very meritorious public officer ? The Marquis of LANSI)OWNE entirely concurred in the statement of his noble friend as to the merits of Mr. and he had no hesitation in stating that the mode of Is it appreciating his eharueter, and remunerating biro for his long and able public services, was under the coned elevation of the government. Such a measure, however, Lust originate in the other house of parliament. lord BROUGHAM More testimony to the merit of Mr. Nicholls, who was in truth and fact the author of the New l'oeer Law. The Earl of rikl.lOLE and Lord CANPRIMI. respectively bore testimony to the great benefits which had accrued to the public beryl.• from the administration of the poor laws in Ireland by Mr. Nicholls, and to his general public character. THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE gave notice that he should, on Monday, move an address to her Majesty, setting forth the great services which had been rendered to that house by the Earl of Shaftesbury. Thu home then at ail o'clock adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TIMIRDAY, FEB G. TM Braozza took the chair shortly before 4 o'clock. RETURN. Mr. BROTHERTON, in the absence of Mr. Nunn, Ilovcd for a return from the promoters of every private bill deposited in the present minion, of the number of local or local and personal acts, nod consolidation acts, now either wholly or partially in force with reference to the ander , . Ltiop, eoT"ntiun, truat4rs, parish, or "thrr partici to vihich such bill relate s; airing, in u tabular form, the year. chapter, and title, and the number of the sections and schedultsi of every such act, and signed, in testimony of its accuracy, by the parliamentary. agent (or firm) having the amigo of the Isill.—Agrird to. PETITIONS PRESENTED. PAPAL AOOll/0/410111.—8y Sir J. Y. BULLER, from T tb; Lord R. GROSVENOR, from places in Bedford; Mr. HAMILTON, from Dublin University; Mr. PLUMPTEE, from several districts in Kent; Mr. W. PATTEN, from Lancaster; Mr. CHRISTOPHER, bus Lincoln; Mr. ROBERT PALMER, from Oxford shire; Lord ASHLEY, from Bath; Lord BERNARD, hos the united diocese of Cork, Cloyne, and Rem; Sir B. N. BUXTON, from FAWN Mr. ADDERLEY, from Leinsshiss; Mr. MIILLINOS, from the attorniss, eitom sod preetmes of England and Wales; Mr. WAD DINGTON!. from Suffolk; Sir It. H. INOLIS, from Erma ; Sir O. GREY. from Suffolk; Mr. BRISCOE, from Hastiap; Mr. WYNN, from Montgomeryshire— against. Cot. ire FINANCIAL Bomins.—By Sir J. Y. BULLER, from Teigsmouth ; Mr. HENLEY, from Oefenlshire; Mr. R. PALMER, from Berke; Mr. STAFFORD, from North mamon.hire - in favour of. Wumow Ts:.—Bl Lord D. STUART, from Mary's base ; Mr. F. O'CONNOR (S petitions), from private in dividuals; Mr. LUSHINOTON, from Westminster; Mr. T. DUNCOMSE, from Finsbury ; Mr. C. LEWIS, from • plate rat asesirkaissed in the gallery ; Mr. LA,NOSTON, from Osford—mtalast. Yr. CHRIS- 4110111111•1031 or J nliel TO P. TOPIIEB, how Lincoln—e be. Josses, NIBITTOCNDi.AND.—By Mr. W. FAGAN, !am certain inhabitants of St. John's, Newfoundland, who waned from the fire in ISO, complaining that of the sum of 60,0001. collected for their relief, 80,000 L was withheld tram then by the Governor-Genend, and praying for au iivistigatkes of the cireumstaneee. NOTICES OF MOTION. rBOTECTION s TO YOUNG PERSONS. Mr. BAINES Bare nottn that aq Meade nest ho would sore for leave to bring in ilia oat the bettor protoction of young potions, and to mils!' the guarileat of the poor to institute proerodings with a view to sure protcction. (Loud cries of " Hoar, bear.l ''''''''' his intention to arm OR that day fortnight for a redaction in the mount of lartarsnoes. - ' CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT. Elr. IiACORNOOR gave notice that he would move, on teat day fortnight, for a select committee to invelligate the law nod Idonageusent of the customs, with • view to remove' all mob of complaint against that departmett. LAW 0/ LANDLORD AIfD TENANT. Alt. S. O'CONNELL leave node* that to-morrow (this day) he woad rat a Reeetion to the Chief Secretary for lrebtad, as to whonher it wee the intention of that right geatiman to introduce a bill on the with= of land lord and toemat ; rad it es, as what of the session he tftaH hoodoo. it. He ebb uttwiai le oh the right kola. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1851. meet the motion. (Hear, bear.) But, after the address had been carried, even supposing it was carried by surprise, he did not think the advisers of the crown had liar other course to pupae than to adrish her Majesty to acquiesce in the prayer of the address. Unless the resolu tion hid a different purpose from that which it appeared to have on the paper, he must oppose it. (Hear.) Mr. M. GIBSOIY wished to ask the noble lord at the head of her Majesty's government how this proposition would offer!' the ordinary motions which members were in the habit of-making for the return of papers from public offices. (Hear, hear.) If he understood the matter aright such motions would, in case of opposition, have to go through two stages, and two majorities would have to he obtained before they could get the returns. (Hear, hear.) If that were so, it appeared to him that it would he only reasonable to eseept motions for the kind of papers he referred to—returns from public offices conveying informa tion in regard to legislation. (Hear, bear.) Lord J. RUSSELL said—lf there were any opposition to any returns which might be moved for from any public office, his resolution certainly would have the effect ofcansing the motion to pass through two stages, but he did not imagine that any opposition would be offered to such motions. He did not make any distinction between motions for returns of papers, to which there was no objection, and addresses to the crown for papers during the progress of negotiations. In answer to the right hon. gentleman who opposed the motion he begged leave to observe that he did not see how this resolution could curtail the privileges of individual members of the house. It only decided that the wishes of the majority of the house and not those of the minority should be conveyed in addresses to the crown. The inten tion of the resolution was, that there should be more than one vote of the house before ouch addresses were carried, in case opposition was made to them. In the case of any insult toting offered to any member of the royal family he did not think any opposition would be offered to any address. If there were, the house would go into committee at once. But he would read the resolution in other words, which might do away with the objection with regard to the address to the crown at the commencement of the session. It was this, "that no address shall be presented to the crown by this house unless such address shall have been considered in a committee of the whole house, or by a select commit tee, except in eases where no opp os ition is offered to motions for such address." This provided—what he wished to pro vide—that there should be more than one vote of the House of Commons before an address to the crown was sanctioned, in ease of opposition. His object was to give sufficient time for consideration on matters of importance. (Hear, hear.) Mr. GOULBURN thought the resolution was liable to considerable objection. (Ilear, hear.) They were bound to consider not only its immediate effect with respect to the present government, but its general effect nn the business of the hour. (Hear.) The resolution, in his opinion, introduced an entirely new principle. (Hear, hear.) One course was followed when the:motion was not opposed, and another course was followed when it was opposed ,—( hear, hear)—and it was impossible to picture to ones mind how it could be acted on. A solitary " no" might have the effect of postponing an important question till a committee was ap pointed. A great part of the business of the house was done through the medium of address, for papers which, being in the Secretary of State's office, it was impossible to get at except by an iuldress to her Majesty. Let them consider how this would op.rate. If a party in opposition required information nn rertnin matters not pending at the time, but executed and done with, the records of which were lying in the Secretary, of Suite's office, it would be possible, by a simple dissent from a minister, to put an effectual stop to an steps taken to obtain this information till a committea has appointed. (Hear.) He did not think it was expcvlient to legislate on questions of rare occur rence, and the noble lord had not been able to produce any two instances of inconvenience. lie, after a long ex penenee in that house, recollected so few cases in which anything had been carried by the house which it would not have carried after mature deliberation, that he did not think it worth while to legislate for such rare and excep tional cases. (Hear, hear.) lie thought that the terms in which the resolution was drawn up required great care and consideration. hear.) Lord BEItNAItD said that a great constitutional ques tion was involved in the present motion, for in the case of an address of want of confidence in the whiners of thecrewn, as was the case with'regurd to Lord Melbourne's administra tion, it would alfoni the ministry an opportunity of coming to the House of Commons and taking another chance. (Hear, hear.) That case might have occurred, if the reso lution now moved had been in force, during the debate on Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill, when parties were so nicely divided, if a vote of wind of confidence in ministers bad been moved. (Hear, hear.) Sir 0. GREY said the intent and effect of the resolution was, that two stages should be gone through, in order to prevent an address to the crown from being hastily adopted. But it was desirable that the terms of such a resolution should be carefully considered; and, therefore, it would he better perhaps to afford more time to consider them. (Hear, hear.) Sir H. INGLIS said it was better that there should be no difference between the practice of both houses of par liament in this respect, which there would be if the present resolution were adopted. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that perhaps it would he better to take time for a little more consideration, and he would therefore more the adjouruunent of the debate till 'Tuesday next. e' No, no.") Sir R. INGLIS objected to an adjournment of the de bate. (Hear, hear.) Lord J. ItIJSSELL said he would then withdraw the re solution, and would move one on Tuesday nest. (Hear.) Mr. DISRAELI reminded the noble lord that an impor tant motion was to come .on un 'Tuesday night. It seemed to him that the question was not so mature that a fort night's consideration of it could be deemed insufficient. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) Lord J. RUSSELT. did not mean that the discussion of the resolution should take precedence of the motion of the hon. gentleman. The ralolution was then withdrawn. PUBLIC PETITIONS. The followinFtmemi;r; were nominated ex the select eommittee on public petitions:—Mr. Thornely, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Capt. Jones, Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. Brotherton, Lord Alfred Hervey, Mr. Stott, Mr. Carter, Mr. Clements, Mr. Lushingtoii, Mr. Duncan, Sir Charles Douglas, Mr. Adderley, and Mr. Owen Stanley. COUNTY FINANCIAL BOARDS. . . On the motion of Mr. MILNEK Ginsom leave was given to bring in a bill for the establishing county financial board., for the administration of county expenditure in Englund and Wales. The house then adjourned at a quarter to 6. FALKIRK Bruons.—On Tuegday Mr. Loch met the electors and non-electors of Falkirk, in the Bank-street Chapel, Falkirk, and addressed the meeting, explanatory of his political views. At the conclusion of the proceedings Mr. Davis, of Airdrie, moved that Mr. Loch was a fit and proper person to represent the burghs, which was seconded by Colonel Dundas, and unanimously carried.—.Voritt REPRESENTATION OF REDFORDSHIRE.—The high sheriff has received tho writ, and proclamation has been made for holding the election, at Bedford, on Monday, the 17th inst., at half-paid 10. • DEATH OF THE REV. DR. PTE emi nent divine, after occupying for half a century, perhaps, the moat distinguished place in the Nonconformist ministry of this country, expired on Wednesday. Within the put year Dr. Smith retired from the presidency of Homerton college, the oldest among dissenting educational institu tions, partly on account of the arrangements consequent on the e‘tablishment of New College, but also in consideration of his declining health. Upon that occasion he received the most stratifying proofs of the regard in which he was held, the sum of 3,0001. having been subscribed to provide an annuity: fur him during the remainder of his life. The in terest of this sum will now endow divinity scholarships, hearing his name, in New College, St. John's Wood. The deceased scholar, is principally known in theological litera ture by his works on the Soeinian and Arian controversies, and on the connexion of geology and scripture. His death occurred at Guildford, whither he had retired on leaving Homerton. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY op LoNDoN.—At the monthly _general meeting held yesterday at the Society's house in Hanover-squarc, Mr. E. 1. nudge, F.A.S., in the chair, Messrs. E. W. Cox, Mansfield l'arkyns, and Wm. Hartree, were elected fellows, and Mr. Remington and Mr. E. Robins were proposed as candidates for the fellowship. The report of the council stated that the number of visitors to the gardens during the month of January presented en in. crease of 5,533 over the corresponding month of WO. The additions to the menagerie are of unusual interest, includ ing a tine male specimen of the Malayan tapir, and two pairs of Mandarin ducks (ais galerieulata.) These beautiful birds having the full use of their wings, exhibit for the first time the peculiar arboreal habit of the genus, and may be observed flying to a perch several feet above the ground in the large aviary, in which they are displayed. Among other additions now in progress, the council have made an arrangement with Mr. Gould to exhibit his collection of moanted humming birds in a building which will be con structed expressly for its reception in the gardens. • PUSETISM IY WORCESTERSIIIRE.—The parish of Bellbroughton is in a considerable ferment in consequence of alleged, Puscyite practices in the church. Last week two of the farmers of the parish canvassed the inhabitants for signatures to a requisition calling upon the rector to aban don his objectionable mode of conducting the services, the principal points of which are, his preaching in the surplice, the intoning and chanting the services, the existence of a cross formed of holly berries placed over the altar, &c. The parish now exhibits the sad effects of party spirit in religion, being like a house divided against itself. Besides this there are certain indications of violence going on which arc most lamentable; amongst others, a grave-stone which had been recently erected form of a cross was knocked down in the night of PridWiast, and the wall of the church have been chalked over with " No Popery," and such like in scriptions ; these " signs of the times" affording the matter for stirring appeals from the pulpit.— Wor ournal. DROGHEDA CORPORATION.—At a meeting of the above body, held on last Monday, Town Councillor Lynagh brought forward a motion of which he had given notice, calling oil Sir William Somerville, Bart., to resign the representation of the town in consequence of the hesi tation of the right hun. baronet in answering an address which will voted at a former meeting of the corporation calling upon him to oppose any step towards the enactment of any penal law or other measure affecting her hfajetty's Roman catholic subjects. 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AUVEItTisEMENTS. Ilse great value of thekaliiiiiift.:lill'itF-S9 as a medium facet be evident to ode, nisei,. All advertiseinotos isnot le at the office In Whiterriars at or before .tglat in tke eeentng al each Fraley, to secure insertion in the Dumber it the renewing day. Offlee, 10, riouvrio-street, FleeCetreet. he ("z rpreISIS. TO CORRESPONDENTS. ,dcettiremente intended foe " The Ltpresr." Lon Con Ereninit piper, must be at the ( N ice, lb. Buunne•etreet, by Taro o'cloek oo the day of publication. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan DAT—Morainr, sh. 40m Afterions, 3h. 57m. TwmuLaow—Xortung, 612. 16m Afternoon, ih. Ho. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7. THERE arc strange anomalies in English life and modes of thought—none more strange than our con sideration of titles. There is nothing that Englishmen respect more than titles, when quietly worn, naturally inherited, or worthily , . acquired ; nothing that they more despise or make light of than titles assumed or ' made a source of pretension or authority. Half of the personages called lords arc merely so by cour tesy. Yet habit and custom have made these appel lations as much a matter of right and a claim to re spect. as if the gravest political privileges were at tached to them. No doubt, however, the chief foundation of our general respect for title is its denoting authority, and in most eases implying a right to power. A lord in England means a 'lord of parliament ; and a bishop means a prelate, who by virtue of his ecclesiastical promotion takes his seat with the peers of the realm, and shares their authority and privileges. Al though all persons wearing titles do not really enjoy these privileges and that authority, still they are assinulated m dignity and respect to those who do. There may, indeed, be little intrinsically in the circumstance that the sovereign or the court grants precedence to one person over another, but the sovereign representing the state, and being by law the fountain of honour, such rank and precedence arc real recognition of the rank to be held and the respect to be paid. In no case is this conferring of dignity so import ant as when it is not so much a grant frinni the sove reign as a recognition of eminence, achieved by a mans self, or springing out of the suffrages of his fellow-citizens. All new eminence in this coun try springs in the first place from a man's own de serts, and from the esteem of the public. Profes- ! sional and political eminence must or ought to have been achieved by the man himself, and be sanc tioned by public opinion, era the sovereign can set upon these the fiat of his solemn recognition. Tho free agency and influence of the public voice is indeed at times avoided ar done without, especially in the church. But in the main, public opinion ire England has a great share in swelling and awarding that eminence, which entitles a man to become the object of distinction conferred by the sovereign. Independent, however, of the dignity inherited by birth, of that which the public voice awards, of which nem's own deserts lay the foundation,' and which the sovereign crowns with a grant of recognition, there decidedly . should be no source of title or honour in this country. Hitherto as any infringements of a law, so natural and fair, have been committed merely by individuals who render themselves ridiculous therehe, and attain no object but their own punishment, it did not be hove the state to interfere. But the ease of dig nities and titles, territorial ones too, assims , lated to those worn by peers of parliament, and claiming equal or superior rank to those, whom the law and the sovereign's sanction have endowed with such titles these titles and dignities to be conferred on a perma-1 nent hierarchy—is a very serious assumption. Even if the members of this hierarchy were the elect of their co-religionists, or of the native clergy, it still would be a serious consideration how far they might be permitted to assume such permanent dignity without the sanction of the crown. But when these prelates are to be nominated solely nt the caprice or selection of a foreign prince, without the least deference to the British sovereign's opinion, or to the British people's choice, or even to the choice of any portion or sect of tho British people, it is absolutely neces sary and just to prevent and forbid all these, not merely for the sake of the dignity of the crown, but for the independence of Englishmen, and of their common rights. The objections to any such course are, first of all, the impossibility of enforcing or rendering effectual any such prohibition. The law is powerless, it is alleged, to prevent any one wearing what title he pleases, or to prevent those who choose to acknow ledge such titles, making use of them in addressing these they honour. If so, any five hundred or a thousand men can create a peerage and a hierarchy. Tie Odd Fellows may create their chairmen to bo dukes, and croupiers to be marquises. Law, indeed, must be null where no ono will obey it; and if fourteen millions of Englishmen *ere to de dire that they would par no taxes, and would not acknowledge the QUEEN S sovereignty, we really know no method of forcing them. No one, however, dcubts that the taxes will be paid and the QUEEN hcnoured. Neither should or need it be doubted that saw forbidding Englishmen from wearing titles or assuming dignities unsanctioned by tho sovereign— wko, by our law, is the sole fountain of honour—will be respected. Such a law infringes no civil right and no principle of religious freedom : it merely separates religious pre-eminence and constitutional rack. We cannot prevent the Wesleyans from having a president of their conferences nor the esthetics from having prelates. But decidedly these prelates should not be allowed to take the style and title of peers without an act of parliament to that effect. I Such politicians as Mr. RoEnreit evidently go upon the assumption that titles are indifterent things, mere nonsense, that had best be done without. And other reasoners, akin to Mr. ROEBUCK, think that an established church is as great nonsense, and had best be done without. Now, we do not pretend to set ourselves up as the champions of either an hereditary nobility or of a state church. There are countries, such as America, in which both are very well done without. But there are other countries in which neither could be done without. To imagine Russia without an established church would be to imagine chaos. England has a ioblesso and it has an established church, rooted in the constitution, as in the habits of the people. No politician can ignore them as facts, as great and powerful facts. Whether they rill ever cease to be facts depends a great deal upon opinion, and the progress of that opinion in future years. But for the present, and for tho life of its generation, we think it may be taken for granted that England will have a nobility and an established church. And it is the duty of politicians, be they ever so American in principle, to make such institutions work well for the public benefit—for the national independence, instruction, and freedom. For decidedly those who legislate merely towards a destructive end, or in disgust at the state of things, and politics, and of society In which they . were born and live, are not wise men. True progress is the gradual advance of society by its intellect and ideas, not an impatient subversion of institutions, whatever evil there may be in them, for the attainment of theoretic or visionary good. Titles therefore, in their kind, we consider are of the elements of our constitutional monarchy. We regret they aro not better distributed and more 1, wisely conferred. Wo acknowledge the right of birth to wear them, but birth should lose that right when tarnished by dishonour. Wo acknow ledge the right of wealth to acquire rank and to render that rank conspicuous by title, and even hereditary by descent. But as the claims of birth should be wiped away by dishonour, those of wealth should disappear with what gave such claims. In our age a stronger claim to distinc tion, rank, and p recedence , than any of the old ele ments, consists in the choice and preference of our fellows. Election in this country—the election of the . people—of our fellow citizens—of ones own pro fession—ought to give a claim to title and rank, and such claim ought to be allowed. And most certainly we would not exclude from such claims the ecclesiastic whom his co-religionists agreed on considering the most revered amongst them. But the state should give the fit. For however the QUEEN'S supremacy as arbiter of religious belief may be questioned, no Englishman can dispute the supremacy in the con ferring of rank. Above all, no Englishman can con sent to see that supremacy transferred to an Italian pontiff. IT is the last time of asking; positively the last time. Mr. I BsaAF.I.I has said so, and he is a man of his word. If parliament will not this year listen to reason,—that is the reason of rent, the member for Bucks mi ll never again• afford them a chance of retrieving their character, and henceforth will solemnly wash his hands of all responsibility in the matter. _ _ Rather hard this, it must be confessed upon the unhappy farmers, squires, dukes, and agriculturists of every degree. What have they done that Mr. Dtsu %ELT should use them thus. Parliament, to say the truth, has shown but small disposition to enter upon a retrogressive course of 'action such as he on the part of his clients, has during the last four years continually called for. His varied cries in favour of a counter revolution in industry, have one after another died away without echo, and all his elo quence on behalf of a revival of dear food and re stricted markets has failed to excite either faith in his own followers, or fear in his foes. During all this time. nevertheless, the said credulous rustics have been content to follow him, for no other consi deration than the assurance of his one day recover ing for them their lost protection. %et now he coolly declares, that if their opponents yield not to his forthcoming appeal, he will in disgust give up the game for good and aye. We must again say, we think this rather hard. We are fir from contending that any counsel is bound to worry the same unfor tunate jury all night, but why threaten to throw his wig in the fire? On the other hand, it must be confessed, that the temptation to parliament is more than minimills great to give the protectionist leader this time a full and a fair hearing. Hitherto, disturbing influences have interposed to mar a perfect inquiry and judg ment into the operation of the free system of trade. The experiment, also, has in sonic respects been until now open to the charge of immaturity. But nothing I of this can now he fairly alleged. Five years have nearly elapsed since the great decision was come to whereby every port in the realm has been thrown open at all times to the entrance of foreign supplies of evert- kind of food. And two years have elapsed since the expiry of the last remnants of those graduated conditions which were in 1/446 imposed upon the practical execution of that decree. Colonial produce and shipping have subsequently been eman cipated, in accordance with the same great principle of national policy, and in so far as the abrogation of all legislative right to tamper or interfere with the in trinsic and real value of the necessaries and luxuries of life, the new system may now be said to have had a fair trial, and to be ripe for a decisive verdict. What that verdict will be no rational man can doubt; nay, the very menace contained in Mr. Din:it:Les an nouncement of Tuesday night implies his own con viction how vain, in a political point of view, every effort of his for the reversal of that sentence must be. Still, if the re-hearing ho claims is likely to settle the minds of those who have hitherto, like some misguided suitor in Chancery, continued to hope too long against hope, parliament can hardly he said to err in directing once more its grave attention to such a snhject. Instead of impatience or irritability, free traders ought with gladness to hail an opportunity in many respects so auspicious for a deliberate and solemn adjudication of the great issue they have so long sought for. It is fitting and right that such adjudication should be pronounced in the hearing of all nations, before they are asked to participate in that great festival which, were the truth of free trade any longer doubtful, would be a matchless mockery. Lord STANLEY avows hues conviction that present prices for agricultural produce must be considered permanent, and that at such prices the good old times of high rents and low farming cannot be ex pected to return. Some great change in our focal or fin ancial arrangements, according to the noble lord, is indispensable fur the restoration of land lordism to the palmy state it enjoyed when wheat was ttOs. a quarter. The alternative "financial or fiscal" is not without significance. What does it mean? Are national credit and national industry Placed thus in palpable opposition, by way of remind mg all men that one or other must sooner or later be sacrificed if protectionism should ever regain the as cendant? "Financial or fiscal," receipts or expenditure, unjust exaction of taxes, unrighteous evasion of debt, — we are given our choice of one or the other by those who proclaim their undiminished hostility to the . tanff of 1846. Lord STANLEY'S words arc lain:p " I retain unaltered, nay strengthened, my opinion as to the impolicy of your measure in 1846; and lam bound to declare that I do not see the possibility of the agriculturist obtaining any increase in prices under the existing law, or without some extensive alteration in your fiscal or financial arrangements." We believe that the people of this country were never resolved more firmly upon anything in their lives than upon steadfastly rejecting either of these propositions. They will not have taxes on food, because they cannot afford them, and they will not repudiate their public debts 14 the same reason. They know that, with an increasing population upon a limited soil, to fetter the means of industry, is to trifle with national ruin. While to tamper with the national liability of the state to its creditors, is a less direct but not less certain path to eventual destruction. What the exact nature of Mr. DISRAELI'S new proposition may be we do not profess to know. There is a surplus in the Exchequer; and, according to Lord STANLEY, this surplus, being a proof of the folly of free trade, ought to be appropriated like all other fines paid by folly, to the compensation of those it is supposed to have injured. But in what shape or in what way the boon is to be applied we must , wait until next week to know. Largess in times of I old used to be dealt out by nobles to plebeians; but times are changed, and things reversed—it is the noble who ask-s for largess now at the hands of the humble and hard-toiling man. Clearly, how ever, the forthcoming project is meant to have re- krence, not to the surplus of past taxation alone, but to the mode of raising taxation in faun. Burthens no doubt will be sought to be shifted, in order to give some portion at least of his old advan tage to the home agriculturist. Schemes of poor-law centralisation which have for their object to throw a part of the weight of poor-rates on the consolidated had, and divide the hopes of the sanguine with ge neral projects of ad valorem duties on imports in hen of the income-tax. Happy would the NEWDEGATES and TYRRELLS be with either. And, for our parts, we hardly see why Mr. DISRAELI'S plan might not as well include both. Each is secure of failure, and hence all scruple regarding real responsibility may , safely be laid aside. Why then not amuse both sections of his credulous followers by a little sympa thetic eloquence on behalf of their favourite nostrums ? As for that long be-ridden race, the occupiers of land, it matters profoundly little to them what colour the new chimera is of. Its lank hides pant only for rent, and were they filled again until they became as plump as before, English tenants at will would be rio better off, for protection has ever proved to be for them the veriest of chimeras. nmes, yesterday, referring to Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S letter to the Indian army, drew a parallel between the case of junior oftcers, who spend more than their pay, and that of undergraduates, who exceed their allowance, which would appear to have been dictated by that groat master of infelici tons analogies, Captain Furzumr. Omni; similitudo elaudteat is a maxim which we learned long enough ago, but we have waited for the Times to present us with a similitude which has not a leg to stand on. True it is, that both undergraduates and officers are young, and both get into debt. The blessing of youth and tho curse of extravagance are equally tho marks of both parties. And here all similarity ends. The angry father, who is overwhelmed by the n e w s that his sun in India is obliged to sell his commission to pay the debts incurred by a criminal indulgence in " champagne fifths," and that his other son at Cambridge bus ruined his prospects for ever by a dishonest partiality for champagne breakfasts, knows but too well that the amount of blame to be shared between the authorities in either case will have to bo very differently apportioned. The university student in commencing his acade mical life enters an institution which founds one of its greatest claims to the notice of those who wish their children to be instructed, on the fact of its power to maintain discipline, on the conventual strictness of its rule, on the range of studies which it enforces—the young officer in joining a regiment meets with brother-officers, not masters; he hwitomain taM discipline over others, but is expected to submit to no restraint beyond that imposed upon him by the feelings of a gentleman ; his studies are nearly finished, and, except as a mutter of choice, be has scarcely anything to learn. The undergraduate is considered as a boy, he is defined to be in 'hats pvillm i—the officer bears her Majesty's commission. The undergraduate sits at a lower table in a common hall—the officer as.sociates at mess with those who command the regiments. The undergraduate, in short, is placed under a body of men who assume the most unlimited authority over his time, his studies, nay even his actions, who do not hesitate to punish him by fine,by itsposition,t, by rustication, and finally by expulsion, which is equivalent in many cases to ruin—while the officer is bound merely by the rules of the service, which apply with equal force to his superiors as to himself. These are merely a few of the points of divergence of collegiate from military life. We ask any candid person to say whether far more ought not to be ex pected front the authorities of colleges than from tho senior officers in regiments, in putting a stop to irregularities which so often occasion the rum of those who yield to them. The nines, however—as may be supposed front its endeavour to draw a parallel between young men so differently situated— tells us that we must expect nothing from the heads of the universities, and everything from the young men themselves. o What parents and guanliariA Ahnuld learn 14 that tho follies of their children are not vi.itable on academical au thorities, any more than the follies of an age arc vibitaldlo on the tuirti.Acrs of the crown." We assert that the contrary is the fact—that it is proved to be so by the very assertions of the univer sities themselves. which chum to lw places for "sound learning and religious education"--that every great public institution for education is summed to be en. dowed with powers for the preservation of such dis cipline as is totally inconsistent with the immorality and extravagance too often witnessed at the univer sities. The authorities therefore, and the authorities only, should be risponsible for the corrupt state of the institutions which they have in charge. The attempt to throw off this onus, and place it upon those who come up to the universities fur instruction, is as absurd as it is dishonest. _ The university, as we before observed, considers its students as pupils. It is, therefore, nothing but a high school. It should be the highest school and re quire a lofty standard of attaimnent from its alumni. Instead of this, it requires less than is necessary foe a fourth form boy at a public school. The comic quence is, that at this highest of all schools the stu dents have nothing particular to learn, and time would hang heavily ou their hands but for dissipa tion. The university knows well enough that, however little it requires, it dues not possess teaching power of its own to communicate even that, so it hands the students over to the colleges for instruo thin. Now, how do these establishments fulfil the charge? A college, with funds to maintain twenty fellows, keeps about four in the university, and dis charges the others from the necessity of residence. To two of these is delegated the function of in. struction. and these generally perform their duty in such a manner that they only get pupils to attend their lectures by compulsion. Such of the students as wish to learn are obliged to pay heave terms to tutors who make a living by tuition. 'the conse quence of this is, that the undergraduates have the advantage of mingling with no society of a higher stamp than their own. The few resident fellows are elevated by their official duties far above those whom they have to keep in order, and aro only visited on occasions of state. There is, therefore, a great gulf between the " authorities" and the " MC/1," which can be' bridged over by none but the former. That they have it in their power to do this we have before shown, and intend to do att more fully ; in the mean time it is enough to have made a protest against the wholesale absolution granted to these men by the Times. They would doubtless be very glad to be removed from the un bewantly prominent position which they now occupy ebfore the public, and, acting upon the advice of their advocate of the press, hove the work of reform to tho operation of Mr.Tnaegtaiav's chapters on snobbism. This, however, the public will not allow, and college dignitaries will ere - long be taught that they will not be permitted any longer to remain free from the law obeyed universally—" the pressure from without." UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. OXFORD, FEB. 6.—ln a congregation held this morning the following degrees were conferred, viz.:— Bachelor of Civil Law : Thomas Lewis Powell, New Inn Hall. Muter of Arts: Edward ltenn Hampton, New Inn lfall ; Rev. Charles James Fuller St. Mary's Hall ; Francis Trevelyan Buckkind, Rev. Arthur Charles Wilson, John Martin Collyns, students of Christ Church ; Rev. Charles W. P. Crawford, Brasenose ; William Thomas Mercer, Exeter ; Rev. Sudlow Garrott, Oriel ; Thomas Brett Sykes, Worcester. Bachelor of Arts: Fnaltriek E. T. Drake, Pembroke. The Junior Proctor (Rev. W. G. Henderson), will re ceive the names of undergraduates who intend to offer themselves for the Responsions in Hillary Term, upon the old system, and who have not already declared their namm to the rector, on Friday, Feb. 14, from one till two o'clock. It is necessary that each candidate should bring his matri culation paper with him, or a copy attested by the registrar. This must either be presented by the candidate in person or I transmitted through his tutor. CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 6.--CORPES CHRISTI COLLEGE. —Mr. W. Watson, B.A. (18.50), of this college, has been appointed assistant master of Peterborough grammar school. MATHISKATICV.—The Lucasian professor will be at home (Pembroke College) on Wednesdays and Saturdays during the present term, between the hours of twelve and two, for the purpose of receiving students who wish to consult him on mathematical difficulties. MnIIAL PHILOSOPHY.—The Professor of Moral Philo. sophy will begin his course of lectures on Tuesday, February 11, at one o'clock, in the Lecture-room in Trinity College. The lectures will be continued every day except Saturday (and Sunday. Undergraduates attending thine lectures with the intention of obtaining the professor's cer tificate (which by grace of the senate October 31, 1848, is now required in certain cases for the degree of BA., hono rary MA., and 8.C.L.) must be provided with a profes sorial ticket, for which they are requested to apply to the registrary, or to their college tutor. A portion of this coarse will have particular reference to the special subjects of examination for the moral sciences Tripe. in 1852; via., Plato, Mono. Lubec Republic, b. ii. iii. iv. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics. Cicero, De °delis. Sanderson, De ObligationConseientise. lest. 1. Locke, Treatise' of Do• vcrnment. Cousin, Philosophic Morale au xviii. sleek. Rev. IL Cornish, toliiciingtnnFuraey, Devon. I Rev. J. T. Fisher, to St. Anne's Perpetual Olney, lies scnford, Cornwall, value 1001., with residence; patron. ' Vice-Chancellor of St. Germans. Rev. T. Gibbings, to lifonanimy Rectory and Vicarages diocese Clone ; patron, the Bishop of Cork, &c. Rev. L. Perrin, to Whitechurch or Temple Gall R4s tory and Vicarage, diocese Cloyne ; patron, the Bishop of Cork, &c. Rev. J. J. Reynolds, to Bedford Chapel Perpetual Carney, Exeter, value 1361. • patrons, trustees. Rev. A. Roberta , Kcnnerley Curacy, Devon. • Rev. W. Rowe, to Buckland-in-the-Moors Cur acy , Devon, Rev. R. Thompson, to Mid - Lavant l'erpett Curacy, ' Sussex, value 621. ; p atron, Duke of Richmond. VACANCIES. Burton-Overy rehire, diocese Peter borough, value 4971. with residence; patrons, the executor, of the late rector, the Rev. R. Thorp, deceased. Lichfield St. Mary Vicarage, Staffordshire, value 4684 with residence ; patrons, Dean and Chapter of Lichfield; Rev. H. G. Lonsdale, deceased. Monkatown Vicarage, diocese Cork; patron, Lord a. Testi ; Rev. T. Gibbing. promoted. DENTE op A "ROYAL ' CENTENARIAN. —Oa Saturday, the 25th ult., Mrs. Mary Read died at Wad Cowes, at the advanced age.of 102 to 104 ' years. Sae was known of late as the " Royal Centenarian, from her having been honoured, on her supposed one hundredth anniversary. with an interview with the Sovercigo and royal family. during their sojourn at Osborne House, in December, 1849. —Portsmouth Guardian. P