The Express. — London, England, 1851-06-20 00:00:00

tradesman in the Rue St. Honore, was executed yes terday. The Bourse was not uninfluenced by the stormy debate which preceded the vote of yesterday, and, although the result is considered favourable, the funds have been heavy during the early part of the day. They were, however, firm towards the close, and business terminated without any great change from yesterday's quotations. The !lives closed at 92fr. .Ik. (a fall of 10c.), having been as high as 1nfr..16e., and as low as 02fr. 23c. The Threes, having ranged from :Mfr. 33c. to 66fr. 60c., closed at 63fr..)0e., a fall of 6c. SPAIN. MADRID, Jess 14. In the Chamber of Deputies, the Concordat was laid on the table. A debate ensued on the ques tion, whether it was necessary to submit to a fresh deliberation all those bills which had been passed last session in the Chamber of De puties, but not carried through the Senate. Pa checo and Olozaga, adducing the example of England, maintained the affirmative; Bravo :gorilla took the opposite view. Moyano moved that the question should be referred to the bureaux for the appointment of a committee. M• in Christina is going to the baths for the re establishment of her health. The Ex-Infanta Josepha applied to the Queen-Mother to become sponsor for her daughter, but Christina refused. Prim has ap pealed against the sentence of the supreme tribunal disqualifying him from employment in the colonies for three years. The government, desiring to send him out as captain-general to Porto Rico, will ar range tho affair. Bermudez de Castro is going to move a vote of censure on ministers, which will give rise to long and stormy debates. It is expected that a bill relative to the railway from Aranjuez to Alicant will be presented during the present session. This line it is supposed will be conceded to M. Salamanca, who will receive from the government by war of subvention 300 millions of reds in Three per (tent. Stock at 40. There is at Bret to be only one lino of rails, and the line is to be completed in three years. The following has been received in Paris by elec tric telegraph : 0 MADRID, JrNE 17. The ministry presented yesterday to the Cortes the bill for the settlement of the debt, watch is the same that la as presented to the last Cortes." ITALY. The reigning Duke of Brunswick arrived at Venice on the 12th, and took up his lodgings in the Hotel Daniell. In its sitting of the 14th, the senate of Turin passed the bill for laying a tax upon successions, which had already obtained the approval of the lower chamber. The deputies commenced the dis cussion on the loan of 75 millions of francs, for the construction of railways. On the 15th, the public subscription for the loan, in 18,000 Treasury Bonds, was opened at the Lank : 2,382 were at once taken. The Ar«kla of Naples announces the death of Field-Marshal Spinelli, Prince of Cariati. The Giortiab , di It»na, of the 11th, publishes a decree, issued by Cardinal Antonelli, directing that the paper-money still current, amounting in all to 3,710,000 scudi (22,200,000 fr.), shall be replaced by a new sort of paper money, called Carta di Surro gaziune. They are to have forced currency, and to be divided into six series, the first five of which shall be of 600.000 'wadi (3,600,000 fr.) each, and the last shall contain the remainder of the whole sum. The new bills are to be of 100, 50, 20, 10, 5 scudi, and one scudo, and to be detached from borders. The Cp.re di Sunnis of the 15th quotes corres pondence from Rome, stating that the number of men required for the completion of the Homan army amounts to 6,000, and that the cabinet of Home has decided that they shall be raised by the usual method of enlistment. The recruits are to receive 30 scudi (ISofr.) each, bounty-money. Four commissaries are to be sent into the province with full powers for the purpose. Cardinal Fornari has been named Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Studies, is the place of Cardinal Viszardelh, deceased. GERMANY. The Cologne Gazette says that the resignation (on amount of ill-health) of the Prussian 'Minister of War, M. Stockhausen, may be regarded as accepted. Also that the retirement of the Minister of Finance, M. itabe, was certain. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS. SMITIIFIELD MARKET REMOVAL DILL. Owns for tonunittes recd; nodes wade, and question proposed, "Tres Mr. !pester do now ken the chair." Amendment pro. posed, to knee oat from the word "That " to the and of the we toll, In order to add the wards That thi. linage will, apon this ,Lc ua month., moire itself into the said cometittes,. instead thereof :—Outstion out, "That the words proposed to be be left oat stand pan of the question," The house Welded ; spw. 64; Noes, 26. AVE& Albir, It. A. S. Duatles7lit.lin-Sir D. Moiety; Hai. E. M. L. BA aek, Ms era IT. Eoeington, Vi-want llnlinwe. 1111f1 of &inhume., Visional Ellice, Mama Pam% Ma W. Better, William Envie, William Philip% Mk 0.1 Boreal, WOO Varner, James Pilkiwilm i tisc Birch, Sir lionise D. Perim," Str B. A. Milt. Bonewie, Goo. E. P. Darter, klatihew Weed*, dam Brothertia, !mei& Praretaa, Ookwal Rahway, Wand Brown, William Grey, BE lb. fir G. Blaney, RAM A. Buck, Lewis W. Grey, RAM W. Smith, IL MIL D. V. Baker, Sir John T. Orwswaer lArd B. Ile W. Campbel Sir A. L Ma. Iht ill= Tonsesa. W. Cardwell. tawsrd Hamm Mr Malinwle. A. Childers, J. W. =6 . 11L Ms& l. Tkomps.. MA. Chriltoplwr 11. A. Aims Versa', fur Ism 011orel, l imp H. 11srearill, lamas* Valises. Thaw* Orem lit. line. IL L. Joe* yw, MN et Wawa, Jabs T. Oecipse Usu. W. V. yammmati Aries U. Wood, tar W P. Craig, Mr W. O. Pie.Dalffeleohn Lerlasid. °Bll ":"E. IMAM basic, R. P. Muldrussa4 i Usylsr, IPA. ft. R. Da..., Edward um, Lail Menus Duncan, George =aim NOM Baird, James Law, gun C. pa r l u 4S= Surrosew. Unary N. =Ma MlNwsl Cubitt, William W IL S. Davies, D. A. S. IrsassOrssAlr Z. 12 , t ... Ise B. Duncar, Viscount WOrerpor, Jam William Uvula., Glom likilmusay Ms v ry, Sir IL Francs, Charles IL MEW:" B. Ilene's., 0. U. W. Wed. IWO. Henley, Joseph W. Wan Missrd S. Daly Ilk Mans Uumpbery, Mr. Aid. asthma. T. IL B. gamy, Mr. ALL Ti. Oz&s raralarithe.—The receipts at the isms yesterday ammated to 2,96.1. 12s. t ssd 63,709 persons (eimeng whom the maks, of vision' Sown thevinces was wan than ever conspicuous) entered the built,provinces was _ than eve? eemeplcuoua) entered the building, lire 314rioq and Prince Albert visited the interior early . in the tand remained for a short time. The Birmingham Royal Comanseloaen end me (of whale a fell man I merged uttil dall =e fci ft pews 9 : o * * 99 Yooldodoi. Of 899 kerhetione, win Loyd Granville ased attar ether afi names were uses. those preeent,—This day hr MY J[e~suE again visited the Crystal Pease. Tue iiint79 (Captain Boy) alehyd yeetenlay at Southampton with tho heavy portion of the Wks mail, which was landed under &arse of Lieut. W. H. Brady, R.N., Admiralty agent. hash a diameters has never happened before as that e( the Indies hem/rani mail at riving on the 19th of the math. The Peaissaler packet which left Southampton ea the 7th bed net waved at Gibraltar, so thee we have ao news fres Mane by the Indus. The tampon ship iferefordshke, vlik a pram of the 67th regiment en hoard, left Gib/ream ea *s 14th far the West lOUs. lime Wm brings these paahaps of specie. A ker days haine the arrival et tie Lies at Gibraltar Mahan diver lost hi• life eadler.eleefear clear the Hereemaidse's emir, wheat bed Whether he got milopled with the warp, or that the ear tube of his beard lemma twisted, or whatever was Via cause, he was unable to glee the Aped to be takes up, and when at the expiration of lee aliases the body was re covered life wu extinct. MEMBERS PRESENT When the home was "mounted out " last night, on Mr. Harman masa reemelina the' abolition of religious tests in the trans :—W. Brown, Sie J. Graham, Sir C. Douglas, Bight Hen. a. Illesibms. W. Gladstone, W. H. Barrow, D. Mona, i fi ge. G. A. Hamilra, E. J. Hutchin, T. A. Forster, Brantley Berkeley, W. J. Fox James Haywood, W. Swart, Hon. W. B. Dudley Stuart, Edward Borman, Sir B. Hawes, Joseph Brothorton, Sir W. P. Wimi ia Ueet ohn Russell, Robert Perfect, Colonel Gilpin, a Henri, T. Milner Gibson, Colonel Thompson, Chenille Cheafell, nß Bethell, Frederick Peel, J. Ennis Vivian. DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL G. LP. I AMTS. —Lieutenant-Colossal Janis died on the MS Wt., sir& n yore. esetwed the many is 1792, eel email in the Plnimalar amonla op MOIL Lienimmil Jarvis had metes *liver mail ll4lllll,_ ito_tatth's n i r l bi Tiimisee de l la y ME ga 7 19 he em ea • reek ' aglow immeteelllllllll l lllllllo.4 l bee [ been lW • fist the Sett ars is Ire t;bs • Ti alellamillt alsl6. • at court. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Princess Royal, accompanied by his Majesty the Ring of the Bel gians, with the Duke de Brabant, the Count de Flandres, and the Princess Charlotte, visited the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations yesterday morning, arriving at the Eikiblisa at 20 minutes past nine o'clock. The royal site eaisted of the Hon. Mary Seymour, Nam* Es Moistandse, General Wemym, Colonel Boa- Via zstr ailleld de Miseiterke, and Count Albert Re Briey. Her sad the sagest parts remained an hour at the E and then returned to Palace. Theliargas of Anglesey had an audience of the Queen The Dukes of Gloomier end the Duke of Cambridge visited the Ike al the Delideas yesterday at Rockingham Palace. The Moine de Mealy, the Miami/ d'Orleans, and the Prime Priem de Jehaville, she paid • visit to his Majesty Prince Al soloist by Coked lisawds, reds out on horseback yeeletrity iesenAng. Prince Anhui and the Primness Reims sad Louisa took an skin, yesterday la an open earriege sad ibur. The king of the Belgians, eosempeimed by the Duke de Brabant, Count de Rendre, nail the Princes Charlotte, visited the Duchess of Kent, the Dubssef Oloneestmo end the Duke of Cambridge yesterday, et their reweave resi dences. The Queen and Prince Wheel, esseepaided by the Princess Alice and the Primes Levies, tee/ a drive yester day afternoon is an open melees sad tour. The equerries in waiting, Osumi Wagers and Colonel Convene, attended on horseback. Der Majesty land a dinner party . yesterday evening at Buckinfiex a, Pelnee. The company included the King of the Be • the Duchess of Rent, the Duke de Bra bant, t e Comm de Plashes, Monsieur and Ma dame Van de Weyer, the Marquis of Westminster, Lady Augusta Brace, Baroness de [teeth, Colonel de Moerkerke, Count Albert is Briey, Sir Hubert Carswell, and Baron Roppert. - - The Westadoter-bridge Commission met yesterday at the office of her Majesty's Commies' ioners of Woods and Forests, Whitehall•place. Present: Lord Seymour, Lord Sudeley, Alderman Humphrey, Lord Lansdale, Lord R. Grosvenor, Sir It. Inglis, and the Right Hon. C. Tess • nylon D'Eyncourt. The Right Hon. Henry Hobbouse had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.—Mr. James K. Blair had also an interview with the right hon. baronet. Mr. James Lloyd and Mr. John Barnett had an interview yesterday with Lord Seymour, at the office of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, respecting the pro- posed park for Finsbury. Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial-office, from the Governor of Western Australia. Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands and the Governor of': Malta. Despatches were ales sent off to the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council met yester day at the Council-office. The lords present were, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Judge of the Prerogativo Court, ..the Chancellor of the Duchy of Corn wall, and Sir Edward Ryan. The appeal, " 'Wallace r. Fielding" (the Oriental), part heard, was concluded. The appeal, Kaapche r. Smith" (the Commerce), was beard and decided. PRINCE ALBERT, attended by the lion. Colonel Bourcrie and lion. Col. Grey, visited the Northern Schools of the parish of St. Martin-in-the-fields, after presiding at the meeting held at St. Martin's-hall, on the occasion of the Jubilee of the Propagation of the Gospel. The number of children in attendance at the schools was 3410; and, after seeing them arranged in their several school-rooms, his Royal Highness proceeded to the covered play-ground on the roof, where 120 clothed children of the parochial schools, and about 400 of the children of the Old National Schools, were assembled, and, by his Royal Highness's permission, welcomed their royal visitor with a song. The Prince entered his name in the visitors' book, as a perma nent record of his visit. The vicar and clergy, with the churchwardens and school committees, were in attendance. MR. THACKERATS LECTURES. Willis's Rooms were crowded yesterday, as usual, with all that is most distinguished in society and literature. Mr. Thackeray discoursed this time on Prior, Gay, and Pope. Matthew Prior, said he, early signalised himself by at tacking (in conjunction with Montague) the patriarch Dry den. Did not everybody know the MUM Mouse (zed Coun try Mouse by heart now-a-days ? What !—it was not gene rally known . Yet, as a natural consequence of its publi cation, Prior had been made in those times of his, Secretary to the Embassy at the Hague. hose were the days when your fortune was made if you could turn out an epigram or a copy of verses. For of course with these qualifications you were just the man to watch over important commercial interests abroad. Prior, we were informed by Spence, was wont, having spent the greater part of the evening with the moat distinguished men of his time, to go off and finish it with a soldier and his wife in Long-acre. We were nut, therefore, to be surprised if his writings smacked a little of the conversation of his Long-acre acquaintances. But they were easy, humorous, showed a great deal of good sense, and perhaps the great Samuel himself knew Prior's works far better than he chose to say. Having sketched off Prior in a few strokes, the lecturer proceeded to John tiny. Gay deserved to be, and was, the friend of everybody. His success offended nobody. Swift used to pet him, as the Brobdignag maid of honour did little Gulliver. The Duke and Duchess of Queensberry took him under their protection, and with them he had his saucer of cream, and played about, and grew fat, and so died. lie grew less original and diverting, perhaps, in his latter days. Gay :' was • little round French abk of a man," said Mr. Thackeray. As for hie writings, they bore the same relation to poetry that little Dresden china figures did to seulpture. And the man himself, with his playful ness, his simplicity, and his goodnature, was altogether like one of the Savoy boys who play the hurdygurdy. These two writers pourtrayed and dismissed—in a way at Imes so simple and so graphic—(the means so apparently trifling and the likeness so amusing, that you were remioded of the figures produced by the shadow of fingers on the wall)—Mr. Thackeray proceeded to speak of Pope. If he was not a humorist and wit, who was one ? Every man of letters should respect Pope, he said, as the greatest lite rary artist England has had. He perfected incessantly, borrowed an idea or a cadence wherever he could. His youth in Windsor Forest formed a beautiful picture of study and aspiration. With regard to l'ope's letters, those to Lady Wortley Montague were pert, odious, and affected. His love was not edifying. He hated her afterwards with a fervour that was far more genuine. But (if you excepted the let ters to women) no collection afforded more delightful read ing. There was perhaps a little too much consciousness in them—a little too much that seemed to imply that the writers were addressing generations. But there was in them something tine, edifying, and ennobling. In these the statesmen and wise of the time held communion. And there was something grand about the air of great men. They spoke with a larger generalisation than common men. Nothing was more grand than the love and friendship the great men of that time bore one another. How Pope spoke of Bolingbroke! " Show me," exclaimed Mr. Thackeray, " six common-place middle-aged gentlemen as friendly as they were." He now reviewed Pope's career in detail, touching on the delicate question of his relation to Addison, and taking, on the whole, a very favourable view of Pope's character. Steele, Mr. Addiaon's man, and his own man too, supported yew* Mr. Pope. Pope was one of the Addison set when and when John Dennis attacked Coto, Ye at tacked attic in • lampoon to avenge his patrols. It was a masa production, and such as Addisoa could not love. It was as dirty (the sarcasm here was very characteristic) that it his usually been printed in Swift's works too!" I with," the lecturer continued, " that Addison could have lowed him better.': But Addison could act hear an equal. When Pope found that his pinion was is strong as anybody's, he soared on his own way. In deserts' each other they followed an impulse of nature. Mr. Thackeray Asa detailed the cireassetenese of the publication or Thlodi's rival traasktion Asada Died " which, as oar madam ars aware, is realty atteibused to a wish on the part et/Milan to hut Pope's TIMM Mr. Thackeray preserved the supdaion of Pope's Moe under the eiressrleases whet' natural. He that recited with sorpliado (the falivery beiff ib p s e t raps, esetewhet too slow) the basal limes at " whi ch Macaulay lass eisserved " that evey Engler lies, or ogli:bilLe o ilmon, by heart. " Such a weeps?. as i atis,... he ma for anybody . s bleeds tbat black 'Nand. lie ought to be draw n, J St. fistralism, with on wow in his side. observed that the was ca.l wit a = icy humoroady who was set M ( 1w and shortened the lives end Warred mislead= gestiman)--and having meld the refine sat sad palish of Isis manors—hi examented IS his Mel aliretiew. His siothir's lore imparts esmitlibig Ilse a saint-Oa riesetity wherswe it lin every cetionte of his t i i4:te to feem had big death was an braulital was the swag et that high soul—Ube the will ca the aseissit statue Wiese beauty it hider and liatibitem Nest sass a cams pletersagse emeesat r hi = SIN/01/118, with Chuirelearb—enis et the meet Mk Imago et the imam Mr. Thohoorag dealt itpa tialy with the meabalwile ; chewed that sea posy bed a D to natilar Is eggrieved. It the hems et Duncied marableil_is aminvkles the rade alt • beide wag—rope did geese amen le the literary eicaraeler. H• it was tribe eseselat authorship in the pubis Riad with meaty. guider, &ht. drink, cov= cosls-rd lofts haw yeah the landlady had He consiedsd by reading the asisheated analpewip id the " Donald," in abash Pepe prephseise sad Esesdhes the triumph el DION= and ltas. " lbs . Mak she tame. the s itraing Throes gu s —liese Allinin ISA 10 Sla "Wii"" hst= brilliant es they am Nos* &ha es mak hula*, Mir ratan which II:. .Theehewer aelelheral Is gam at this dila el this asst istaredine diessuree. Pim HusoUlA Bowan left Swijimptca I ca wiesasake he Parementit, embeds ea beam the seetrese ship Bleck Bib beseikeaseedee. They law imia Awed by the Beeeseriei dohs theketey la this matey Is. M. a each; emit um she ha WS Awed 20s. for clothes ilk lb. he pane messy. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1851. MR. GORHAM AND THE EXETER SYNOD. The following letter has been addressed by the Vicar of Brampford 6pcke to the Bishop of Exeter. (The italics are those of the paper from which we quote, and it may be presumed those of the writer): The Vicarage, Braropforil Spoke, June 18, 1861. My Lord Bishop„—Although I have already stated several rossose ke of jetting to the synod which you propose to hold ea the Milk last., in a letter to which my signature is an sexed la amodation with those of many other clergymen of this disposes, yet I moot refrain from requesting your lordship's serious attention to some other considerations, which 03014 SOS be smimedied in that letter without my brethren being piskpd to whin documentary facts, which few (if say) of them had pasonally investigated, and for the meow of which I ems shaft rupsosible. This must be my apology for troubling ywe losildp with a separate essumusdasitoa,_ supplemsstir y to that letter, which (heartily es I adopt ft as for as it gams only partially set ray objectivus to the synod to whisk you have invited your deny to send siesta mprementativea. In truth, the iw reasons (hersineftim Mated) whisk have the greatest ht in compelling mg asprest against that Assembly, gesild not have bees eaaveatly adduced in so concise a letter as that to whisk oar waited signatures are appended. I will now, however, endeavour to state them as briefly as may be consistent with perspicuity; and I humbly solicit your lordship to give them deliberate consideration. I feel bound tw protest against this projected measure— I. Because 1 have a very strong impression of the ilk 'slily of a diocesan synod assembled without permission of the OVICII. It may appear presumptuous for an individual clergyman to avow such a scruple, after your lordship's assurance in your pastoral letter, on the lith of April, that you have sought to obtain the very highest legal authority on this point i"—and more especially after the declaration of the prime minister in the House of Commons, on the Ist of May, based on the opinion of the law officers of the crown, that diocesan synods are " not unlawful," provided it be sot attempted by them to enact canons to bind the Gerry. Nevertheless, I venture to think that such an opinion (formed apparently in haste for the immediate use of the minister) was adopted from a too implicit reliance on the authorities of Bishop Gibson's "Codes, ' sad probably with out the knowledge of at least one material fact, which I shall presently state. Who your lordship's " highest legal authorities" are, or how the ease was put to them, we are not informed. _ _ 1. It cannot, I believe, be doubted, that, in ancient pe riods, up to the year 1433, both provincial and diocesan sy nods were summoned by the same or by similar authority, and proceeded to discharge their functions "part paean s' namely, by the king's writ, when the affairs to be discussed concerned the state; and by the independent authority* of the archbishop, when the business related to the church at large, or of the bishop, when the matters touched the in terests and discipline of a particular diocese. Examples of diocesan synods, summoned for state purposes by the king s writ (though inadvertently ignored by Lord John Russell, en the authority, I presume, of the law officers of the mews), are not rare. We have instances, in 1279, in the ammo of Worcester; in 1340, in the dioceses of Winches ter and Worcester ; and in 1464, in the diocese of York ; in &et, there can scarcely be a doubt that a royal brief wu transmitted in each of these cases, (as it is expressly said to have been in 1340) to ail the bishops of both provinces, commanding them to summon diocesan synods. Those which I have cited may be seen in " Wilkins's Conches," vol. ii., pp. 40, 024, 659; vol. iii., p. 599. 2. From this long-established parallelism of the authori ties by which both the geueral and the limited convocations of the clergy were summoned, it appears to be a fairly ana logical inference that the Act of Submission (25 Hen. cap. 19), which in terms forbids the promeial synod here after to congregate, even for purely ecclesiastical business, without the sauction of the crown, does, in its spirit, and virtually, prohibit the revival of diocesan synods for con cluding any questions of faith, or adopting any orders of discipline. The major prohibition seems to me naturally to include the minor; for it is surely a highly imaginative supposition that the two archbishops were absolutely re strained from exercising a privilege which their suffragans might nevertheless continue to assert without hindrance. It is still more romantic to entertain the notion that, while the general synod of the clergy can no longer meet, by the summons of the archbishop, without license from the crown, to conclude the smallest matters of interest to the church, a diocesan synod may yet lawfully assemble by the mere fiat (or rather the coureuial) of the bishop, to utter, by the assumption of a corporate voice, a electors don interpretative of doctrine, and calculated (if not in tended) to cast disrepute on the authority of ajudgment, framed by the most learned expounders of the law, approved by the archbishops of both provinces, and adopted by the Sovereign in her privy council. The Church of England might, indeed, with reason tremble for her catholicity, while she watches anxiously these proceedings, were the clergy of this single western diocese calmly to acquiesce in Ithis anomalous (if not illegal) act of its bishop ; and were they silently to permit a synodto ba convened, chiefly for ONE GREAT QL ESTION, (as your lordship terms it la your circular to your archdeacons,) or "mainly for the pur pose" of making "A DECLARATION" (as you deaominate tt in your pastoral letter,) of adherence to au article of the Niceuc creed, which you extravagantly "consider to have I been virtually denied when her Majesty decided as she did" by affixing her sign manual to the late judgment. It is, however, a hopeful fact, that more than one hundred voices of the clergy have been lifted up in solemn disavowal of participation in this proceeding ; and I do not doubt that (should it be necessary) their protest will be echoed by mul titudes of both clergymen and laymen, in token of their loyalty to their Queen, of respectful confidence in the archbishops, and of their earnest desire to conserve the peace and unity of the Church of England. While I thus state my views, I do not forget that your lordship disclaims the ideas of committing your convention ' to any authoritative act—(Pastoral Letter, p. 112); and. in- I deed, it is manifest that no assembly of the clergy, pos. sewed of common prudence, would " presume to attempt, *sleet, e romulge, or execute any canons," since, by such 'nu, it would clearly be liable to the severe penalties tithe statute of submission. But, even the agitation of the "one great questioa " which has already been decided by supreme ecclesiastical authority, and on which, therefore, no subordinately-authoritative conclusion could be attained, would, from that very circumstance, be replete with the mischiceous influence of a theologic al controversy without the possibility of an effective issue. If your lordship's an• ticipated pseudo-synodal proceeding be not positively illegal it is discriminated from illegality by a very thin covering : Pedalos". plenum opus Were poets*, et ineedis per Iguei Itappeoltas eked doloso. The treacherous crust may break in suddenly under your feet, and the dames may burst out before your lordship or your assembled delegates dream of danger. I hesitate to follow, even my bishop, in such a perilous track; and I must be content still to pursue the ordinary path which the laws of my country, and the usages of my church, have distinctly marked out for me, though it be a beaten, and, therefore, in the apprehension of some minds, an inglorious way. I forbear to occupy many moments on the single, and very obscure, post-reformation precedent quoted by your lordship ; namely, that of tho synod of the diocese of Kilmore ' convened by Bishop Bedell in 1638. It may , suffice to say, that it affords no evidence of Ida legality of that synod ; but rather the contrary, for it does not appear that he ever ventured to summon it again agreeably to his original intention. It occasioned much discussion; but it wu connived at by the state, for reasons which may be assigned with great probability. Chiefly on account of the universal veneration with which this simple-minded and pious prelate was regarded. The primate usher, whose influence was not small threw his shield over the amiable bishop. Archbishop L and would be slow to check a pro ceeding in which the church had asserted an ancient pri vilege independently of temporal authority. Moreover, these synodal decrees were of an innocent, and most of them of a very trivial character—for instance, the forbidding clergymen to wear long hair, (" amain ne nutria's!' )—tho prohibition of intra-mural burials—the exclusion of women from seats in the chancel—injunctions to wardens to prevent children from running about the church—and to vergers, to turn dogs out of the house of God. In fact, there was no " ONE GREAT QI:F.STION," which might have thrown the church into dangerous agita tion. Connivance, therefore, might be a wise, because a safe wane. As a legal precedent, however, the synod of Minnie is utterly without value. Bat there is one lesson to be derived from it, not inapplicable, perhaps, to present times, and not the less gravely important, though it be con nected with a homely and somewhat ludicrous incident. It is recorded in the still existing autograph MSS. notes of a friend of Bishop Bedell, who was present at that diocesan convocation (though the occurrence is not noticed in Bur net's printed account of the synod), that one clergyman, "D. Faythful Teats," subscribed the Kilmore decrees with the reservation of his dissent from that relating to the ex clusion of women from sittings in the chancel; " and the reason was this, because he had erected a new seat for his wyfe in the chancel) but a litle before, and was loathe to remove it ! " Alas ! my lord, it is hu miliating to find that personal motices, and considerations far removed from a staple desire to promote the good of the church, can easily creep even into diocesan synods-yes, even when the mat ters to be discussed are of the most simple character. What, Wen, ma not take pies, when "One Great Question," with a imemeeetrosersy,—a question /rag bee preluded by the Whop who b to predde, thereby, to be brought before his representative assembly with an undue infinasse,—a question which admits of no strsynodal moieties exempt with hie commerrenee—is to ie at way s b ward ?" I farther pro this proposed assembly of the clergy: 11. Because, even if it were admitted that a dioce san synod may be lawbUyeenvened, without the sanction of the share ale wet czar, estate I can discover, any on }rear eettealetity it by ettettion, reprematerion, or abbe esesierehip. igthe impastionable records, that, while the pawl Wobbl y smeegged by dle eremlbrriwara engeobsoisrl Me ebb 11 4 Owl jnemaal diabase. Upen the sees dais estincties it is oat s = the the elms le to my pint The V oessents the edger et es exception *bins* • eselbseetlei the I=V i t r o 4W r when,tho Abet the 11th ceatury, • "mm ilm ils odorillet an4 lilui r li tited c4 lo gra; • Ism sew 1101 Ina at saliallast as sissubstsmot Is Ss Msg. •Firsomitiss !s, Om. NS awl Is samlisi Iggs:O s sommitrast • Sus Ws Ss Is sits lose Ism V as stank smissar Is ihs Om MID P•e - Web mitisise, It bilis Is am* Ite=2l fflv ai it walk et sum pat sand is sti Issloss as disismossept mar vats= Sr ass% • to decide a (Deputed privilege of a certain parish church in his cathedral city, " ALL the wisest incumbents of the three counties of Worcester, 01o:toaster, and Warwick " (which then constituted that diocese), were " assembled by invita tion," for the discussion of even a matter of merely local interest. (" Wilkins, Cone.," vol. i, p. 369). But, when mat lON Oiteeerning the whole diocese were to be debated, the =was universal. Thus, in 1312, among the consti. Richard de Bolivar, Bishop of Durham, for annual thence; synods, to be held at Easter and Michaelmas, it Mee deskred that " ail abbots, prior, archdeacons, pro- WO* P.B6•_n, vicars, parochial chaplains, arid others," were la s t to wear, by custom or by righl," in those assns .b (Wilkie, Cone., vol. ii., p. 417). On the verge of the lliehrmatfan, the Bishop of Hereford, when convok ing a dime= synod, in 1619, disclaimed the idea of fram ing Nessmalltution by a scheme of his own, for the limits tion aisslstillsrs, and addreesed his archdeacons by a circular, in which NNW these remarkable words :—" We, not acting by OUTSIANNI alone, in a headstroag way, nor relying on our predawn, have determined to proceed by the counsel of prising mak and by the assistance of oar smote clergy ; we, therein% have cited all clergymen of every degree, state, and dignity, to our synod, in our cathedral church;" namely, " all and singular archdeacons, rectors, portion aries, recurs, cliontry mints, stipendiaries [cureass),l and ministers of every sort." (Wilkins, Cone., vol. iii., p. 681.) How different is this language, my lord, from that of peer pastoral letter, and of your circular to your arehdea aie in which you assume " the necessity of the synod = it eeraposed mainly of rep s ssentatiees"—(the objee wed is emphasised by yourself)—" elected by the clergy aten &Item" deaneries." You add, " that if there is to be a miseldm dm numerous a body of clergy—com prising ass*BBB ingine—it must be effected by represen tation, is maalfest :"—het the inference is contradicted by facts extending through six, possibly many more centuries. You proceed to confer, by a few strokes of your pen, ex-of ficio synodal seats on certain specified clergymen ; and you name the number and mode of election of delegates from the rest of our body,--indulging the delusion that all the 'presby ters and deacons of this diocese will be thus represented with ear " full oonlidence!" ... I confeesmy bewildermcntat the beldam of conception which has sketched out the plan of MA • wad, with the faintest expectation that it could moot with the concurrence of the clergy, at a period, and in a diocese, in which opinions on ecclesiastical matters are so 'neatly and so unhappily divided. I cannot wonder that the Brat minister of the crown, when expressing his opinion in this softer in parliament, declared (at least he is so re gained's the Times of the 2nd of Hay) that "The assembly adrepetentative clergy, formed in the particular manner as by the Bishop of Exeter, seems to be entirely un tlte laws of the church, and completely • device of ail own." For my own part, I can not hesitate to de. clued decidedly, hut respectfully, that I consider the calling into existence such an Ecclesiastical Convention, affecting to represent this diocese, to be an arbitrary , act, evetiive of the supremacy of the crown, contrary to the usages of the church, and destructive of the privileges of the clergy. I remain,—" in all things lawful end honest," Your lordship's obedient servant, GEORGE CORNELIUS OORIIA3I. To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Exeter. - Western SIR CHARLES NAPIER ON SAILORS AND THEIR "HOMES." The following letter hlui been made public : TO TIIE EDITOR OF TEE TIMES. SlR,—There is established at Portsmouth, by voluntary subscription, a Sailors' Home, on the plan of the one in Wellelose.square, London. Captain Hall, late of the Dragon, deserves great credit for setting it a going; he has been supported by Sir Francis Austen, Sir Edward Parry, ' Captain Gambier, and other influential naval officers and inhabitants of Portsmouth, and it bids fair to meet with marked success. It was opened on the 23rd of April ; the Asia has been the first ship paid off since ; and notwithstand ing the opposition it has met with from the sharks in the shape of human beings who arc always reedy to pounce on the poor sailor, many of the ship's company have found the benefit of it. It is, for want of sufficient funds, established on a small 1 scale, but it possesses all the comforts and security so neees- ' sary for the miler. Her Majesty, with her usual liberality, has given a donation of 100 guineas; Sir Francis Daring, 10 guineas, and an annual subscription of 1/. Not much more could be expected from him as member for the bo rough, for, were he to give it the support the First Lord of ' the Admiralty ought to do, his seat would be in jeopardy. Two other lords have given IL apiece, and they have pro mised a library. I think this institution, as well as one in each naval port, should be assisted at first by a small grant from parliament. I once brought it before the house, and the then hoard pro raised to entertain it ; but since they went out of office no more has been heard of it. The present Admiralty, lam disposed to think, arc not very anxious about it, conceiving as they do that the Bag-ships at the different ports are the natural sailors' homes. I think their lordships aro mistaken. Sailors, like their officers, after having been several years in harness, wish a very different relaxation from what they sit on a guard ship, and it is on first coming on shore with their pockets full of money that they require protection : it is well known they are perfectly incapable of protecting themselves. After being paid they land with their bedding and their bag. Should they have families in the port where they are paid off they have some chance of safety, but what prospect has the pour fellow who has neither friends nor relations of escaping ? The moment he gets out of the dockyard gates he is surrounded by rogues of every description, who hurry him to a lodging house. The probability is be gets drunk before he is there an hour, and is robbed of his money, which he i. obliged to secure about his person the best way he can. Now, sir, the Sailor's Home will give him peace, comfort, and safety; he will be furnished with a cabin, where ho e lock up his clothes and money, or he may give it in clump to the governor of the establishment. Should he wish • spree, which all sailors do, he can take out with him what he wants, and leave the rest in safety ; and should he wish to scud it to his home, or, if he has none, and is bound to London. Liverpool, or any other port where there is a Hume, he will find it there on his arrival. A good deal has been lately done for the sailor when serving., but nothing for his protection when on shore. In deed, it is often remarked that the sooner he gets rid of his money the sooner he will rejoin the service. That may be true, but is it just to leave him at the mercy of the harpies who prey upon him? Wo have had a long peace, sir; much money has been spent on the navy ; it has been rebuilt two or three times over, but it has never entered into the heads of our rulers how it is to be manned. Impressment is now out of the question ; but show the sailor that the country cares for him, and there will be no difficulty in manning the navy, nor will there be any occa sion to continue that barbarous system of paying the sailor with the topsail-sheet in his hands ' • there will be no occa. sion to keep six months' pay in hand, lest he should desert. Why should he not be treated with confidence and receive his money when he has earned it, like men in any other profession ? It is the custom when ships are commissioned and fitting out to allow the greater part of the mon to go on shore in the evening ; they have no home, and are received in the very lowest Tot-houses; a score is run up against them for double what they receive, and which it requires the greater part of their advance to pay. All this will be cured by the establishment of Sailor's Homes. I remain, your obedient servant, Merchistoux, June 16. CHARLES RAPIER. THE REPRESENTATION OP I/ATM—Since our last notice of the steps taken by the conservative and liberal ' part= for supplying the vacancy crested in the representa- I Lion of Bath, the canvass for both candidates has been vigorously carried on. The liberal candidate, Capt. &obeli, has addressed the electors of several of the wards, and on Wednesday tossing held a public meeting in the open air, h Wag erected in frost of his central committee room, Weassms-buildings. Nearly 3,000 persons were pre sent, and the =air was taken by F. T. Allen, Esq. (town councillor). Cape. emboli arida • long speech declaring his determined= te umillachinly maintain free trade and honestly to 'tippet heisehaid suffrage, vote by ballot, Miasmal/ padmassfe, redaction la the national expenditure, ois improved for the mien* and law reform. He also urged open rehasers to be united. They =resew in SIM diddi for if they won this they =elf the grand elestios dm The speech of . tlai gel d = was much applemded, and at its close • —"" him to he afa awl proper person to relirTeentlie eity„ was carried nesimimens4 ammbt loud cheers. Tuned", (Thrwei Mr. ihattails Weed *tether address to Use siestees, is dela be hems hie slam to the staves of the sionms wird& wen his 10.111 knowle sod mopped ef the simiirMe institutions et the city, wMch he also oddness as • grenatee that be will be • supporter in putlement, if elected, of ', that sew end important de partment of peliffal alike which sempeisse what are called social qnsellme.' OW& liiiol6l MEETING IN WORCESTER.—Thip meeting eau's teil W the Worcester branch of the Noticed Pullman,' mai Financial Reform Amchitka teak place as llse ig evening, in the Guildhall, the am of which *hi hit the popeee by tbe Mayer (W. B. P.lllaghee, .) The grimed Neer of Me spesiees odlike was crowded Gem end to mil: Thu gellerles, the adielm ing court, and a em evailable eget whisk Worded • chum of hearing the were also fully oseepled, and there could mot have lees rhea from 1,600 to 2,000 persons present. H. T. Adder= mei S. D. Shiflett, Esqrs., at tended as a degstaties from the Executive Council, and the meeting wee Shemin midmosed by Sir Francis Know," Isla., also a member of the conned. upon the pleas= woe W. Lob" pm., of Abberwya Hall, President of the Were ter MN= Assodation ; R. Hard t', Fat ; J. KM, legy, Teem Clerk ; Alderman H. Pedant*, F. Hal, end W. Owen; Osonsillors James Wall Mee -presided of thelmemb),W. Fel" H. Pasch, J. Deried t lledger, G. Mottathed, W. Werldro, H. Cce dle,J. sad J. Hood I Nev. W. Crowe; M I. Means. I. Arreweeith, • ayes, O. lowland, R. Josabmd, H. Stoop, T. Hardy, F. WMwerd J. S. Hussy 6. Drake, N. ' Miles, J. 0. IMer, W. arise, es. lb otis e s et Ur teak Ole de* at Bova • owl prof at seedimalis beg* in " V a g the L hom Ameaohnises, seed rims eater- Be wee onemedel bg Mr. M. T. Addison, Mr. end Sir Peen= Enewles A =lol= l.l =llleas was eintled,, end the pro emial,. tentaineted Ida theen.eleme lie 11r. Cobden.— Al=enturttbe Warmascalawareisfala .-- The illarcoice allisial circular was lamed yesterday fres IN. Niedis IS a tt :—.. To all Postrnarten.--General ToM.olllm, June, 1011.—The Post master-General has been pleased to appoint Ifeeimis Hill, Esq., to be Amistant-Seezetary to the PerginNfat , General. —RocrLaan Mrs.", LITERATURE. Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey. By ELLPI and At BELL. A new edition, revised, with a Biogra phical Notice of the Anthers, a Selection from their Literary Remains, and a Preface. By CUREER BELL. Smith, Elder, sad Co. However questionable the assumption of a mascu line pseudonym by a female writer may bo in ordi nary cases, it must be confessed that, as regards the authoress of " Jane Eyrc" and her sisters, there was considerable justification for it. Few writings of the day evinced a more masculine vigour of thought and style than those of two at least out of the three sisters. Not their ideas or their style, alone, but the whole tenor of their works—their choice of sub- jects, the coarse and violent characters they seemed to delight in pourtraying,and their unreservc in deal ing with some of the most repulsive incidents of human existence, at first almost forbid the suspicion that such productions could proceed from a female pen. So that had the secret been better kept on their own part, we doubt that the public would soon have arrived at a solution of the mystery. To our minds, at the time, the most suspicious greumstance in the transaction was the cordial union of three brothers in a literary , undertaking. To any one who reflected how rarely anything that can be called harmony ex ists between a large family of brothers, there seemed something fabulous in the association of the three neophytes " Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell." And hence, possibly, the suspicion, unjust and detrimental to all the parties concerned, that the writer of ' " Jane Eyre was "like Cerberus, three gentlemen in one," and that the other works published under the names of one or other of the trio, were crude and early essays of the genius which first found its adequate expression in " Jane Eyre ;" an imputation which, if well founded, would have im plied a more than ordinary haste on the author's part to trade in the reputation he had suddenly Sc—. Altogether it must be admitted that there was a good deal of awkwardness in the mode in which the three sisters made their respective debuts. And it is only in the Preface to the volume now before us, that the veil of mystery is removed—partially lifted we should say, for while thefemininity is unreservedly admitted, the surname is still withheld, and the so called biographical details are needlessly vague and mythical. The pseudonyms Ellis and Acton, and the real names Emily and Anne, are used promis cuously, until the matter-of-fact r eader gets rather confused. So that, on the whole, though the mo tives of the authoress of " Jane Eyre," in thus vindi cating her sisters' memory, and associating their works with her own, in a form calculated for exten sive circulation, arc most creditable, we think she would have done better in abandoning the anony mous altogether, and accepting frankly that noto riety, which, in times like ours, it is impossible for any really successful and popular writer to escape. We are the more inclined to take this view of the case, because the existence of so large an amount of literary promise in one family is, even in days of universal cultivation like ours, almost unexampled, and would of itself excite an amount of surprise and inquisitiveness, which no degree of feminine reserve, or feminine dexterity either, could hope to defeat. Nor is it the mere quantity of ability dis played by three young and unknown writers that was calculated to call forth wonder and admiration, but the quality of it. Seldom were first publications so free from what are wont to be the worst vices of the female pen • or so rich in that directness and energy which h ad hitherto been supposed to be the exclusive appanage of manhood; and which even such a writer as De Staid mar be suspected of hav ing rather borrowed from her male adorers—the Narbonncs, Constants, Schlegcls, &c. than ela borated out of her own resources. The literature of the day has been, in some respects, so extensively vitiated, by feminine influences and examples, that it ' was after all consoling to have it placed beyond doubt that the breadth and reality, the pith and energy—we might almost say the Cromwellian rag- gedness—which characterise " Jane Eyre," had an exclusively feminine origin. The like masculine powers are visible to the same, or, perhaps, a greater extent in " Wuthering Heights." It happensfortunately, to be the one among the " Bell" novels, which we did not read on its first appearance, and accordingly it has come upon us with all the force and charm of novelty. Inferior to " Jane Eyre" in all those qualities by which popularity is won, it is equal in vigour and originality. As a work of promise—an evidence of innate power—we should say it is oven superior; and that of the three sisters decidedly the most masterly and original genius was Emily. It would excite bitter regrets for the early death of one so gilled, if it were not that such precocious power seems to have almost a neces sary connexion with that physical delicacy Laid ex treme nervous susceptibility, which are so frequently the forerunners of pulmonary disease. The peculiatiticsof writers of this constitution are, we think, too little attended to by the critics of their works. Doubtless if Novalis, Shelley, and Keats had lived longer, they might and most probably would have produced something artistically more perfect than anything they left behind them. But it seems, nevertheless, a great mistake to characterise the best of their actual remains as crude and immature. Men of that temperament are often more completely developed at twenty, than others are at forty ; and we fear many of the imperfections exhibited iii their existent works are such as no prolonged life. or addi tional experience would have cured them of. On the contrary, we should rather say that a morbid maturity, a too great ripeness and richness is the main charac teristic of their writings. A nice observation will find ten times more boyishness and immaturity even in the later poems of the blase Byron, than in those which Keats and Shelley produced at a much earlier age. It is here that wo part company with the few critics who have condescended to take any special notice of " Wruthcring lkights," not excel - nag the editress of the volume, whose sisterly partiality has not exempted her from partaking the error above alluded to. Rugged and unsophisticated " Wuthering Heights" is to an unexampled degree—coarse and ec centric in conception and in style, thousands of genteel readers will throw it aside with contempt or distrust. But the crudeness and immaturity we altogether deny. It is not an amiable or attractive work cer tainly. But a finer, more consistent, and finished piece of art in its own way we have not met with for many a day. With sufficient space, we should not doubt being able to . justify this assertion. Bat we have not room to give even a brief analysis of the plot ; and the work is so much of a piece that extracts could give no adequate idea of its execution. Neither do we know any work which it much re sembles. It reminds one of " Caleb Williams," and " Mandeville." But while it wants the breathless interest of Godwin's novels, it exhibits far superior powers in the delineation of scenery and character. The only productions in art to which we can ho nestly compare this strange and most original book, are the paintings of Rembrandt. What Rembrandt was in painting, this authoress, if she had lived, would have becomein fiction. There is the same depth of shade and brilliancy of light, the same marvellous chiero oscuro ; above all, the same excessive homeli ness in form, feature, and conception, towering into the highest moral grandeur, from the intense energy and undeviating good faith of the artist. Men account, or try to account, for Rembrandt's peculiarities, by his education in his father's mill. But who taught this young and inexperienced girl to fathom the darkest depths of the human heart, to delineate its excesses, and reproduce its glee and gloom with such homely but genuine power? The txuthfulness and sterling sense of the authoress of " Jane Eyre," are sufficiently remarkable. But.here is the germ at least of something beyond her ; of some thing quite unique in its kind. A pourtrayal of every day life, in a wild and secluded scene be true, but from the life, with an utter absence of posture making, sentimentality, humbug, varnish, or pretence of any kind, en intense and absolute matter of fact nem, of which literature does not, that we arc aware of, supply any other example. Not only is the method of the book new ; but to a Fist extent the material too. A good material, we .east say, and which has hitherto been unduly ne glected; to wit, English nature in the rough, as it is still to be found primitive, untaught, and unsophisti cated in the more lonely districts of the northern half of this island. Not an amiable choice for a lady writer, we admit. But if she had the gift to see and, depict it, why not make use of her Went? If we ' would know the value of the ragged mineral she has analysed, we must consider what is made of it. English greatness in all its phases—English liters ; tare, English science, English commerce, English empire, English liberty, the championship and chief- tainry of the civilisation of the wortd.• Nothing can be grander or more beneficent in its developments. But in the mere germ and tendency, in the rough un smelted ore, still unmined, or if mined cast out as refuse, it is quite another matter. The very instincts and energies, which raise the Englishman to great ness, or at least to prosperity, when he finds a proper sphere or any sphere for them, make him rude aid unamiable, nay not unfrequently cruel and ferocious to a pitch of insanity, when he can find no channel, no outlet in any direction for those organising and dominating powers which are his pecu liar endowment from the maker of men. The same powers which, when disciplined and developed, might have swayed senates, commanded armies, created factories, invented machinery, opened new regions to commerce and civilization, prey upon themselves when confined to the narrow circle of ex istence on the mountains and moors. We southrons little dream of the Berserker ferocity which broods sulky, dissatisfied, and tyrannical, in the moorlands or secluded glens of the north. But the local tradi tions are full of the tragedies and miseries such cha racters create. Just as the Scottish ballads were, before education had given the Scotchman resources and occupations which the less cultivated English man, when doomed to this, for him, unhealthy and monotonous seclusion, rusts and cankers tbr want of. Brought up herself in a lonely parsonage amid the moors of Yorkshire, the authoress of " Wutheriug Heights" was familiar both with the character of the people around her, and with the legends in which the misdeeds of those provincial Pelopidce are pre served. But to know the people was one thing, and to paint them another. Many possess tho former qualification. But it was an act of real cou rage, worthy of a Schiller or a Burns, to undertake to paint this human savagery in all its hirsute rug gedness, selfishness, and strength. That such a conception should have entered the mind of a young and inexperienced girl, and have been realised too, in 6 the first book she ever wrote, implies an originality of mind and force of character which naturally enough work out prematurely the too delicate tenement in which they were enshrined. And then the gusto, and when necessary the grandeur, with which those human wild beasts are sketched. The painstaking verisimilitude of Landseer, combined with the spirit, overflowing life, and exulting energy of Itubens. And this in a first attempt ! Such genius had no alternative but to perish. It never could have realised its nobler conceptions, or acted up to its own ideal of intellectual integrity. At the same time we are bound to say, that we only speak to the initiated. If the reader has not a touch of the Van Amburgh or Gordon Cumming in him—a certain natural predilection for the study of two-legged ferocity, and human nature in the rough —he may as well leave " Wuthering Heights" alone. • " Wuthering Heights!" what a characteristic and expressive title it is—to bred mountaineers and moormen! but harsh and meaningless to cockneys r and men of the plains. Those who can really r appreciate Godwin and Broekden Brown may try , " Wuthering Heights." To others it will bo " caviare." IRELAND. DUMAN, JUNE 19. The Dublin corporation yesterday gave directions to have a suitable banner, with the city anus, mado to be put up at the Crystal Palace. At the meeting of the corporation, the resignation of Sir Colman O'Loghlcn and Mr. O'lfea, the standing counsel of the body, was announced, those learned gentlemen having taken that course in consequence of somo slight which they felt they had received on different occasions when they were passed over, and briefs given to other counsel. The following notice of nio tion with reference to this subject was given: That this council have heard read with feelings of surprise and regret letters of resignation from Sir Colman O'Loghlen and James O'Hea, En., the standing counsel of this Cor poration, and that taking into consideration the very emi nent professional qualifications of Sir Colman O'Loghlen and James O'llea, Esq., and their long and highly satis factory COILLICIiOII with this corporation, we hereby de cline to receive their rc.ignation, and we request the Town Clerk to write to Sir Colman O'Loghlen and James O'llca, Esq., respectfully requesting of them to withdraw 1 their letters of resignation. The professors of the several faculties of the Queen's College, Galway, have unanimously elected Dr. Mulcahy, a Roman catholic, for the third time, to represent them at the University Council. A Belfast paper says: . _ We have been curious enough to tot up a long and for midable array of figures, the amounts paid upon goods from bond, in Belfast, for one week ; the total is 5,762/. 16s. 2d. This is by no means the largest amount of duty paid on goods iu bond in a week ; but assuming it to be a fair weekly average, we find that in a year the state exchequer receives from this source alone the enormous sum of 300,0001., in round numbers, out of the port of Belfast. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. OXFOIID, JUNE 19.—1 n a Congregation holden this morning, the Rev. J. E. Millard, M.A., demy of Magdalen, took the usual oaths and accepted the office of pro-proctor, in the room of tho Rev. John Rigaud, M.A., resigned. In the same Congregation the following degrees were conferred, sir.:—Bachelor of Divinity : The Rev. Richard Joynes, fellow of Corpus Christi. Master of Arts : Stephen Edwards, fellow, John George Wood, Merton; Henry John Turret!, Lincoln ; Rev. William Thomas Freer, Tn nity ; Rev. Howell Powell Edwards, Jesus; Rev. Hugh Robert Hughes, John Jermy Macaulay, New Inn Hall ; Roy. Edward iller, fellow of New; Thomas Langhorne, St. John's. Bachelor of Arts: Edmund Capel Cure, Joseph William Chitty, John Charles Kemp, William W. M. Dewar, Balliol; Loftus Stevens Gray, Frederick Newman, Queen's; George Frederick Wilgress, Exeter; John Price, William Hancock Lewis, Jesus; Coker Adams, fellow of New; Jordan Palmer, Lincoln; William Edward Green, Henry Bell Thompson, Samuel Benoni Pauli, Worcester; Alexander Henry Ross, John Itavenshaw Wood, Edward John Tompson, Sidney Henry Lear,. George Hudson, Christ Chsrch.: Rev. James Pycroft, B.A. (Perpetual Curate of St. Mary, Barnstaple), to Barnstaple Deanery Rural, diocese Exeter. Rev. John Smith, 8.D., to Brisley Rectory, with Gateby Vicarage, Norfolk ; value 41161., with residence ; patrons, Christ's College, Cambridge. Rev. Henry Wright, Rector of Thirzton, in Norfolk, to Coston Rectory, in the same county, on the gift of the Lord Bishop of Norwich. Rev. Richard Rigg, to Saint Michael's Coslany Rectory, Norwich, on the presentation of the Master and Fellows of Gonville and Cams College, in the University of Cam bridge. Rev. Charles Holland, to Shipley Perpetual Curacy, Sussex, vacant by cession of C. Bourthllon ; patrons, Rey. L. V. Harcourt and wife. Rev. R. W. Randall, to Woollavington and Grafflam Rectory, Sussex, vacant by resignation of Archdeacon Manning ; patron, the Bishop of Oxford. lice. W. C. Badger, to Sherhorne C., Dorset. Rev. W. 11. Cox, to the Archdeaconry of Salop; valuo 2501.: patron, Bishop of Hereford. Rev. W. Gover, to be Principal of the Training-school, Saltier, Birmingham. Rev. E. Holmes, to the Chaplaincy of Stamford Gaol. Rev. W. Marshall, to All Saints' C.. Chardstock, Dorset. Rev. J. J. Raw, to St. Paul's C., Bermondsey. Rev. J. C. W. lingers, to Motcombe C., Dorset. Rev. W. L. Sondes, to Ballyonslane R., Kerry; value 4001.: pat., Lord Headly and others. Rev. S. Sendall, to St. John C., Portland. Rev. C. Wright, to be Chaplain to the European part of the St. John Del Rey Brazilian Mining Compaity's Hula- 1 S Rev. J. Carter, to Bridekirk Vicarage, Cumberland; value 2201., with glebe house; patron, Mrs. Dykes. Rev. T. J. J. Hale, to be chaplain to her Majesty's em busy at Paris. Rev. E. Jenkins (and not the Rev. H. J. Davies, as pre viously stated), to Coo Conwyl Vicarage, witk Llaasawel Vicarage, Carmarthenshire ; value 2241., with glebe house; patron, the Prince of Wales. VACANCIES. Archdeaconry of Dublin; Ven. J. Torrons, D.D., dec. Britwell-Salorne It., county and dio. Oxford ; value, 1751. and residence: pat., Earl of Carrington; Rev. A. Price, deceased. Dublin : St. rider w St. Kevin R. ; Ven. J. Torrens, D.D., dec. Nazraghmore K., county and ilia. Kildare; Ven. J. Tomos, dec. Mutes R., Norfolk, dio. Norwich; value, 2111.: pat., L.O. Taylor, Esq.; Rev. H. Wright, promoted. Almsey-Down V., county and silo. Gloucester ; value ur e t=s., Christchurch, Oxford; Rev. A. Price, dec. . St. John w St. Michael P.C., county and din. 0111briti pats, New College, Oxford ; Rev. H. W. Hall, arsoused. USHERIMIP.-.- Abingdon, Berks: Christ's Hospital; salary, 1201. ; tastisnoiiials before _ July Archdeacon 1 J Rarroxica.—Donaybrook St. ary, Rathfarnham, Taney, archdio. Dublin ; pat., the Archdeacon of Dublin; Van J . Toscana, D.D., deceased. PRAPZILTAL C (num .—Dublin : St. Kevin, StS • ; Milltown; Ralluninos, Holy Trinity : pet, eke • - of Dublin; Vas. J. Torrens, D.D. &coma:4 M. 4: ,pats., Trustees ; Von. J. Torrena, D.D4ll l lylk, Cumborland, diocese Carlisle ; acuilel,7 ll 4 lo housa, •patron, Vicar of Bromfield L. net,J. muted. Vlcasaaa.—Alrewar, Staffardthii 4lecee. • valaa 3781. • WM, th e Pie 044 ttildif • , -,Moont, deei ' esed- . t*„ii