The Express. — London, England, 1848-02-08 00:00:00

might throw back the Jew on the house ? (Cheers.) Not o nly was the disqualification of the Jew inconsistent with the spirit of th• Christian religion, but those very disabilities im peded the progress of Christianity, prevented the soarer doe of the Jews, and produced effects diametrically the reverse of Came which they were intended to ptoduee. The disabilities imposed upon the Jew were not sufficiently onerous to be compulsory ; but they were sufficiently vexa tious to make conversion a synonome for spost•ey, and to affix a stigma to uninterested conformity with the este blßhed religion. (Cheers.) We had struck off the master fitter, with which the Jew had been bound by the neck and the foot ; but the fetters which remained, though appa rently were strong enough to fasten the Jew to his faith, and to make it a matter of discredit to him should he I desert his creed. (Hear.) Nothing effectual would be done in this country towards the extinction of Judaism until a restitution of his birthright an an Englishman was made to every one, no matter what religion he professed. Some en- , Weaned the idea that there was 140 such thing as an English, a Spanish, or an Italian Jew ; they held that a Jew was • Jew, and nothing else ; they supposed that his nationality was engrossed by the country of his Pepe. and recollections, and that the house of Jacob must remain for ever in • state of isolation and restraint. It was not wonderful, when the Jews were oppressed, irritated, and branded, that they should have felt, on the banks of the Seine and the Thami s. as their forefathers felt when weep ing by the waters of Babylon ; it wa- not wonderful that the psalm of exile should have been found the language of ' their hearts. (Hear, hear.) But what hail been already done had produced • most signal alteration. In proportion 1 1 as tie limo against the Jew had been mitigated the love of country had been his heart, and nothing but perfect justice was required for its full development. (Hear.) Let the Jew be emancipated, let all distinctions between him and the Christian be abo lished, and his hear; would be tilled with perfect attachment to bat country; his exultations and his sorrows would be the same as ours—his heart would beat with the seine pelpi lotion at the news of British victory—and, if ever there should be need, his life-blood would he poured i.ut for his country with the same prodigality as our own. (Loud cheers.) Mr. NEW DEGAT E, who addressed the house amidst great confusion, was ui derstood to say that he could not conceive how the doors of the house could be opened to the Jew, who repudiated Christianity, without the legislature repudiating Christianity itself. Since the subject was last before the house it had come to his knowledge that individuals had been employed to obtain signatures to the petition in favour of the ministerial measure in the suburbs of London—first, at Is. 6.1. the hundred lig- ' natures, then, when that was found insufficient, at 3s. • hundred, and, at list, ss. a hundred was given. So much for the value of these expressions of popular opinion. (Hear.) He considered that to break. down the Christian character of the house would bo nothing less than insult to the Christian people at large. Had it ben known before the hue election that this question would be amongst the first to he submitted to the sew house a very different expression of the national will would have been given. H. did not believe that toe opinion of the great majority of the people was favourable to this measure. The bon. member concluded by reading a porii.n of Hook, is " Ecclesiastical Polity," wherein that divine expresses his conviction that the church and state are coequal and coexistent, and consequently that the admission of a Jew witt.in the legislature would be • fatal departure from the constitution of the state. Mr. C. PEARSON moved the adjournment of the de bate, which was agreed to. SUGAR COLONIES. _ . On the motion of Lord G. BENTIVCK, the following members were appointed a select cousenittee to inquire into the present condition and prospects of the interests connected with and dependent on cigar and coffee planting in her Majesty's East and W. st Indian posses-ions and the Mauri tius; and to consider whether any and what measures can ba adopted by parliament for their nib f : Lord G Bentinck, Mr. Lahouchere. Mr. Goulhurn, Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Cardwell, Sir T. Birch, Mr. 11. Rope, Mr. C. Villiers, Mr. P. Miles, Mr. J. Wilson, Lord G. Menders, Mr. Ewart, Sir John Pakington, Mr. J. Matheson, and Sir E. N. Buxton. The house adjourned at 2.1 minutes to one o'clock. Zit, erpregg. MAILS The mails for British North Amens,, Bermatta, and the UMW Pates. will be made up on the evening of the I Ida February. The West lode Mails, excluding Bermuda, Nassau, Ravenna, Ronduras, New Orta•atea, Vera Cour, Tampico, and Forte Rico, and Including those for Madeira, Jaemel, Carthagena, sane Martha, Chagres, Panama, West Coast of Pouth .talericii, and Kt. Juan-de- Nicaragua, wilt be made Up on the moraine of the 17th February. The malls for Vino, i apnea°, Liao ma, Madeira, 011117., and (inmates/ will be mode up on the mornine of the 17th February. The merle.' reed- t.to Gibralrat t Maltn,Ureree, the lonian bland. Lent, Aden, al lam, India, Mono-hour, and Chinn, ran Southampton wlll be made up on the morning ot the loth Vehruei7. The m ails Far New South Waters Van thenten's leant, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the _Nth February. —.. . . Ihe overland cfovedinails, no Marseilles, to tho Mediterranean Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, lochs, !long Kong, sec., will Do made up on the evening of the 24th February. The midst's. the West Onst of Africa and Madeira will be made up on the evening of the 2 9th February. The mails for the Brasile, the Ricer Plate, Monte Video, Pernam buco, Bahia Madeira, and Bueues Ayres, will be made up on the evening of the ith March. TO CORRFAVONDF-NTS. THE number of STAMPS issued to the DAILY NEWS by the authorities of the Stamp-office, during the year 1847, vim: From JAN. I, LI Die. 31, 3,447,009 This, we believe, is withm eight per cent, of the number issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and Morning Posi t ALL PUT TOGETHER. In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Morning Paper, there were issued for the Ecening Edition, THE EXPRESS, From JAN. 1, to DEC. 31 778,714 Which was more, we believe, than were imutd either to the Globe or Standard, Evening Papers. • 41ve,1111.111100 Weeded few • The tem.; Leak. ..else paper.la. A be attlee ate.. Atk. be Tooteekeek a‘e of Webilee‘m.. RIOR WATER AT 1.01091111511.02. Tit D.. io-Mossove— • Mfbnoa& U S. own 4 ittenwooa. 34 al. paa , e. -Morelos. so ma. 100 4 t Lam. II as. Net I. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 8. IN the HOI:SE of LORDS yesterday the Marquis of LANsnowxt: introduced a bill for the purpose of enabling her Majesty to establish diplomatic relations with the court of Rome, which was read a first time. On the question of fixing the day for the second read ing, Lord STANLEY said that although it might be desirable that diplomatic relations should be esta blished, as between temporal princes, the principle must be subject to such restrictions as might be necessary for satisfying the scruples of the people of this country. lie therefore trusted ample time would be afforded for delibera tion. The Duke of RICHMOND objected that the intention of introducing suck a measure ought to have been intimated in the royal speech ; it was one that a great portion of the people of England would consider as violating their religious feelings. Earl Firzwit.xtvvi supported the bill, which only went to remove a doubt as to whether her Majesty's ministers would not be liable to persecution and penalties, if they entered into diplomatic relations with the Pope as a temporal prince. The Earl of EGLINTON claimed delay on behalf of the people of Scotland. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE estimated that when their lordships had, had an opportunity of perusing the bill he would fix the day for the second reading. Lord STANLEY, on present ing various petitions from Wcst India bodies, brought the state of the sugar colonies under the no tice of their lordships in a speech detailing the exist ing state of distress, the petitioners praying for the repeal of the act of 11516. The noble lord concluded by asking what measures of relief the govern ment contemplated in the state of things he had brought in the notice of their lord ships. Earl GREY, in a powerful speech, traced the gradual declension of colouial property and trade since the passing of the Emancipation Act, expressed the intention of the government to ad here to the act of 1846, reiterated the course proposed to be taken by them as intimated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons on Friday last, and concluded by appealing to their lordships as to whether he had not proved that the distress of the West India colonies wart not attributable to legisla tion on the part of her Majesty's government. The Bishop of Oxford, in presenting a petition to the same effect from the council and assembly of Barba does, urged that the people of England could not pos sibly share in the profits of Cuba sugar without incurring some share of the Cuba guilt, by which that sugar was produced ; neither could they participate in the guilt without incurring the chastise ment which awaited it. If the principles of the go vernment measure were successful the abolition struggle would become a disgrace instead of an honour to this country, and the measures taken for the sup pression of the slave trade, while they would add to its horrors, would be neither more nor less than an insulting and degrading hypocrisy. Lord AsH BURTON considered that unless protection were con tinued to the West India colonies, as against slave labour, they would be consigned to utter and irrepara ble ruin. In the Horst of COMMONS various election peti tions on the subject of irregularities as to the taking of reoojtaisances before the Examiner, were referred to the Cheltenham committee, in which case the ques tion was first raised.—The presentation of petitions for 11 ,'_d_Nelogt the Jewish Disabilities Bill, the for mer preponderating, occupied the house for a couple of hours. On the question of the second read ins being put, Mr. STAFFORD moved, and Lord BURGHLEY seconded the amendment that the bill be read a second time that day six months, the supporters of the latter proposition being Mr. B. Cala HANE, Lord MAHON, Mr. S. WALPOLE, and Mr. NEWDE GATE. The speakers in favour of the original motion were Mr. W. P. WOOO, Mr. M. NinvEs, Sir W. MOLESWORTH. and Mr. SHELL. At length the debate was adjourned until this day. THE division which took place before the recess on the Jewish Disabilities Bill was so decisive, that the revival of the discussion in the House of Commons can excite little anxiety among either the friends or the enemies of the measure. It is in the Upper House that the real resistan:e will take place. There is little ideatity of feeling or unity of action between the leaders of the vanoas sections of the Commons who sit on the left of the Speaker and their oaten sib's allies among the Lords. We presume, that Lord STANLEY, like Lord GEORGE BENTINCii, will vote for a measure which he supported many years ago; but his name and his eloquence may fail to secure the adherence of his followers, and proxies have a fatal deafuess to the voice of reason, charm she never so wisely. If there had been a successful agita tion against the bill—if it had even been actively and generally opposed by any powerful religious body— we should expect the Upper House to reject the mea sure; but the exhortations of the ultra•protestant papers have been left so entirely without an echo, that we hope the verdict of the Commons on a matter peculiarly affecting the constitution of their own house will be allowed to be final and conclusive. It is not always safe to assume that weak argu ments indicate the weakness of the party to whom they . are addressed: but we have sufficient respect for all influential bodies in this country to believe that their intellects are not adequately measured by the foolometer which the Standard has thought proper to provide for them. Our pious contemporary exhorts parliament and the country in general to remember what an awful curse is denounced against persons who assist in correcting the accidental wording of the anti-Jacobite oath of allegiance—" Cursed be he that removes his neighbour's landmark." It is not easy to see the bearing of the text without the commentary of the Standard. It seems that by landmarks Moses meant to indicate the distinction between Christians and Jews established by the acts of WILLIAM 111. and GEORGE 11., and that his object was not so much to enforce the rights of property between adjacent landowners, as to secure the perpetual exclusion of his owu countrymen from a Gentile house of parliament. We do not in any way exaggerate the absurdity of this appeal to the reverence of Englishmen for the Bible. The Standard anticipates that it will be an swered by a " fool-born jest." We at least shall not so answer it. We are quite contented to allow the same writer to act the twofold part of preaeher and jester. The Scotch covenanters, according to CLAN' ER HOUSE, would have thought the text " Pitt FAS arose and executed judgment" a sufficient warrant for kill ing HENRY MORTON; but the most bibliomaniac puritan never acted on so monstrous a distortion as that of boundary stones into acts of parliament. If ono is a landmark all are landmarks; but if we never remove any such landmark there will be little land left unencumbered by them. It would not be worth while to dwell upon this fool-born scriptural jest, except for the pur pose of asking those who have honest prejudices against the Jews whether even the habitual levity and irreverence of political religionists would induce them to use such reasons against the measure now before parliament, if any sound and rational argu ments were readily to be met with ? As leng as successive remissions of political disabi lities took place in favour of Christian sects there was much more practical ground for opposition on the part of those who resisted the change than any that can be found in the case of the Jews. It is not with out reason that religious bodies have always felt most jealousy of those opponents who most nearly resembled them. Lutherans and Calvinists hated each other more than they feared Catholicism ; and the Jesuit party persecuted the Jansenists with greater gusto than if they had been Huguenots. In all such cases sectarian bodies feel that their in fluence is most likely to be shaken by rivals suffi ciently similar in character, position, and opinion, to operate upon the same habits of religious thought and feeling to which they have themselves appealed. For a similar reason it was natural that the establish ment should be unwilling to share power with those who differed from it chiefly in the circumstance of their not being established; and it was intelligible that protestants should seek, even by political in justice, to discourage popery, a powerful and aggres sive religious system which was constantly attacking their own. In either case a fear of a rival power strengthened the selfish desire for exclusive autho rity. But who fears Judaism? The Jews make no prose lytes and wish to make none, their religious motives affect only their own narrow circle; and whatever as independent politicians they may wish, they can have no motive as Jews for forwarding the interests of any religions sect that exists, or any anti-religious sects that may exist hereafter. They endanger no insti tution ; their admission compromises no principle ; they will be pre-eminently free from the propensity which is so common among politicians, to govern or attempt to govern all sects with a view to the exclu sive interests or objects of oce. We are not certain that the argument which has been drawn from the private worth and civic virtues of the Jews, is the strongest that can be selected. Those who urge it are open to the inconvenience of statements which may seek to get rid of the conclu sion by traversing the fact. It is perfectly true that there are excellent and respectable Jews as well as Christians; it is unfortunately also true that there are Jewish receivers of stolen goods. Both facts seem to us partially irrelevant to the subject. It is not for their virtues that we wish the Jews to be admitted, nor for the vices of that portion of them which may belong to the criminal population that Sir It. lectis and those who think with him propose to exclude them. It is urged on one side that they will " un christianise " the legislature, and on the other that as English subjects they have a right to English fran chises. We may, however, observe that the respect able Jews are at present excluded from parliament, while the disreputable :members of the body enjoy that franchise which is alone suitable to their sta tion in life. The great Jewish capitalist cannot be voted for, but the old clothesman has a full right to vote. Without wishing to defer generally to popular pre judice, we may admit that if a strong and general feeling against the admission of the Jews existed, a statesman might hesitate before he caused a public agitation by a measure which, hswever just, is scarcely of primary importance. But nothing can be more evident than that the religious world, which alone interests itself in the resistance to the measure, is on the whole indifferent to it. A hundred years ago a harmless measure for putting foreL:n on a level with English Jews, by naturalisation, canned such a ferment in the country that the Duke of Newc ISTLE repealed the act almost immediately, in order, as Lord lIA RDWICK the Chancellor, said, to It t the minds of men cool down, and see how unreasonable they had been. The country is quiet enough now. Par liament is fully at liberty to do an act of justice and common sense ; and we can hardly snppcse that the prejudices of its members will prove to be more blind than those of the mass of the population. We might, perhaps, have preferred a measure for the entire aboli tion of religious tests. There is something absurd in the collection of tests by which care is taken that every member shall renounce the errors which he is known not to hold. The protestant abjures popery ; the catholic abjures whatever he does not object to ; and the Jew will have to swear hatred to all possible heresies which have nothing to with Judaism. It was only the other day that an ingenious and scrupulous peer discovered that, as a protestant, he could not conscientiously take the protestant oath, while he did not object to the catholic formula : and we believe that he could not be allowed to take any oath whatever. As he did not recognise the autho rity of the Pope, the law made it necessary for him to renounce it. It was only on the assumption that no security was required that a security was exacted. It is well known, moreover, that some Roman catho lics are even now excluded from office by the existing formula. Now that religious exclusions are nearly abolished, religious tests might as well follow. We do not, however, by any means say that it would have been prudent to substitute so large a measure for the bill for removing Jewish disabilities.. There is quite enough of nonsense talked against the specific measure without opening unneces sarily the general question of religious tests. We are terry indeed to And that Mr. 6r4rro3n THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1848. entered on this line of argument last night. He thought that the present was the first of a series of concessions, or rather not the last—it was intended to open the Irish chancellorship to catholic; and then the English might follow, and then of course the': throne itself. When the first of these measures is brought forward we shall be prepared to defend it as eminently just and expedient It was believed to have been only by an oversight that the Irish chancellorship which involves no church patronage, was included among the offices reserved to protestants in 1829 but however this may be, it is irksome to be called upon to point Out the sophistry of the argument deduced from it. The rights of the Jews, and the expediency of ad mitting them, can in no way be effected by the possi ble removal of catholic disabilities. If the present measure is good, it cannot be made bad by another which may succeed it in dispari materia. If it is bad, let it be rejected on its own demerits. The placing of the Irish scale in the hands of a cstholic will not, we suppose, 4. unchristianise " anybody or anything : nor will the admission of the Jews to parliament tend to reconcile the house of Brunswick to Rome. We will promise Mr. STAFFORD Our support in maintain ing one religious test. We hold that it would be highly inexpedient to allow a "Caucasian Arab" to occupy__ the throne. We presume that Mr. STAFFORD is adopted, at least for the time, as the leader of the party to which he belongs. If so, he will not retain his position long. Elegant, accomplished, and witty, he will never be, except from an occasional caprice, the earnest advo cate of the nonsense of the country. Fully awake to the spirit of his age, he has chosen, for the present, to set himself in opposition to it. Perhaps he may feel that his natural leaning would be rather in an opposite direction, and determine to ballast himself with prejudices which he rather respects than shares, for the purpose of satisfying himself and the world that he, too, can be an old fashioned squire. The resistance to the Jewish Bill is exactly the opportunity which an amateur bigot would select for an experiment. There are many plausible propositions which may seem to tell against it; and the practical effects are not likely to be vitally important. On some future occasion we fully expect to see Mr. STAFFORD, deserting or de serted by his party, in tavour of principle and com mon sense. In the meantime we are curious to learn how Mr. STAFFORD and his followers will extricate themselves from the dilemma into which they were last night driven by Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH. The honour able member for Southwark told them, and it is not easy to detect any flaw either in the law or logic of his argument, that merely to reject the ministerial measure will not be enough. Baron ItontscitiLD has been returned to parliament by the City of Lon don, and Baron Itgritscittui may be summoned, like Mr. SMITH O'BtttEN, to serve on a committee. Lord JOHN Itt:ssELL's bill has been brought iu to enable Baron ItontschiLD to take his seat, as one means of saving him from a contingent relegation to Mr. Sat ITII OTRIENS coal-hole. If Mr. STAFFORD refuse his consent to this mode of extricating Baron Itoritscnnu from the danger to which the London electors have exposed him, what other mode has he to propose in lieu of it ? We pause fur ' a reply. PR's IX. has declared against "the wild justice of revenge." In terms not to be mistaken, he has de nounced as unchristian and inhuman the apologetic philosophy of assassination. He has done more; he has issued a circular to all the catholic bishops et Ireland, admonishing them not to suffer the temples of religion to be desecrated by political harangues, or their altars defiled by denunciation. He will have mercy and not sacrifice. Catholicism while he reigns shall not be degraded with impunity. A rescript from the Propaganda (or council of clerical discipline at Rome) has been addressed to the Irish catholic hierarchy, by desire of the supreme pontiff. Its tone is strictly pastoral. 'f he well-being of the church is its obvious and exclusive aim. It concerns itself in nowise with social or political die ! pules. With these it reminds the Irish prelates that they and their subordinates, the parochial priest hood, have little to do six days in the week, and nothing whatever on Sunday. The house of pray, r never must be made a scene of threatening and intimidation. The sanctuary must not be pro faned by words of insult or reproach directed either against individuals or classes. Were such practices allowed, religion would be endangered, its dignity dishonoured, and its offices soon regarded as weapons of defence or offence, to be employed as the miserable exigencies of faction might locally require. As guardians of the flock committed to their charge, the bishops are directed to take care that henceforth such things shall not be. How far they:have heretofore prevailed, the caution of the Propaganda ventures not to say. Its charity is reluctant to believe that any priest has so utterly for- I gotten the sacred obligations by which he is bound as' Ito fall into sins of the kind. Its faith in the hierarchy induces it to doubt whether any offence of the sort could have been episcopally overlooked or screened. Its hope is that due inquiry may lead to the exonera tion of all parties inculpated, and that not even the breath of scandal may in future sully their repute. All which is natural and commendable enough. AU persons accused, and especially the distant and absent, are entitled to be deemed inno cent until their guilt is proved. But it is tolerably plain that the reiteration of complaints on this bead has caused just uneasiness and misgiving. Judicially, the sacred congregation are of course willing to re gard all the circumstantial statements made in parlia ment and in the press, of altar denunciations attended with fatal effects, as remaining unproved. But a strong case for inquiry is felt to exist. Reports for many months have been in circulation con cerning the party strifes in which certain Irish ecclesiastics have suffered themselves to be carried away, and regarding the desecration of some or the Irish churches, for the purpose of aiding and promoting secular concerns. Possibly these reports are but a cloud of calumnies. The scurrilous epistles which have all been duly entered on the minutes of the seditious association over which Mr. JOHN O'CoNNELL presides, may all turn out to be mere forgeries, which, upon due inter rogation, the grace-ous TUJAM and meek lord of ARDAGII will utterly repudiate and deny. In default ' of such refutation, however, the Curia may be com pelled to give more credence to those other lamentable rumours which have reached it " of agrarian murders with whose prevalence the clergy are reproached ; language indirectly provoking to which is reported to have been uttered from the pulpit, or at least in their subsequent extenuation." All this may be furiously denied and denounced as protestant scandal when Lord FARNHAM is the ac cuser ; or still more vindictively branded as servile and Saxon malignity when repeated by the catholic Earl of SHREWSBURY. But nonsense of this descrip tion will not do when the question comes from that ecclesiastical tribunal which never publicly impugns the conduct of dignitaries of its own church on light or casual suggestions. In the present instance it is evident that the charge is deemed anything hut tri , vial. The tenor of the rescript is precise, and its terms peremptory. " The propaganda require speedy and satisfactory information concerning all these matters, that it may know what importance to attach to such tiamnatory reports." Now, before the affair goes farther, we would make a suggestion which, for the sake of all parties con cerned, we feel to be a salutary one. And that is, that the Rev. Dr. MILEY be solemnly forbidden to say anything in defence of his political and polemical friends. Let hint assail whom he will, that can do no harm; but his confidential hints to newspapers, and exclusive intelligence from Rome, are perilous stuff to deal in. On the very eve of the publication of the Papal rescript, Dr. MILEY vouchsafed to a Dublin contem porary certain passages from a private and confi dential letter just received from Rome; in which the indignant refusal of the sacred congregation to insti tute any inquiry into the conduct of the clerical O'Connellitea was pompously set forth. The subject had, indeed, been lately under consideration; but it had been finally dismissed for reasons that might be mentioued ; and thereupon followed a swarm of most mysterious asterisks. A false prophet was pronounced by Israel's wisest son to be " an abomination," and the reason is not withheld, namely, that he " led astray the people." Dr. MILEY has proved himself on this, as on many other occasions, a false prophet ; but to apply the weightier epithet of rebuke to him would be cruel; for he has succeeded in deceiving nobody, except— himself. Somebody in the eternal city has, in fact, been playing off a hoax on the worthy man which would be laughable were the sotiect km grate. But it is clearly unsafe to suffer anyone se easily imposed upon to meddle in ecclesiutical diplomacy. Meanwhile, an immediate aasemblage of the bishops has been convened in Dublin, to inquire, examine, and report how fur the " damnatory re ports " are well founded. To the honour of the catholic hierarchy be it said, there are very few of their number who have ever been supposed capable of participation in such practices u those which are thus impugned. GERMANY.-1.01:19 PHILIPPE AND 111 E GREAT Powens.—The Cologne Gazette of the 6th inst., contains an extract from another journal in which allusion is made to a " well founded report," that the greet powers have entered into arrangements amongst themselves which ,s ill enable them to be fully prepared for the great event which, in the ordinary course of nature, must happen at no diatvnt period in France. It is said that certain secret military measures are included in those arrangements. LA PLATA.—lntelligence has been received from Buenos Ayres. by the Racer, which has arrived at Penitence from Monte Video, whence she mailed on the 29th of No vember. The intelligence is to the effect that a requisition from the merchants of Buenos A) rem had been presented to ROSIN praying him to keep the port opts, for • little longer Period than what he had decreed. This petition was taken into consideration, and the answer that wu returned was molt (event...hie. Twenty day. longer grace wu accorded: therefore, vessels were to be allowed free Ingress and 'grins up to the 20th December. BRAZILS.—The Hero, arrived at Cork, has brought advice' horn the Brazilian capital to the 15th De cember. No incident of moment had occurred from the nailing of the packet to this dote. Exchange ranged from 288 to 8. flin Court. WINDSOR., MONDAY.—The royal dinner party at' the Castle this evening included the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cobourg, Count Arthur Menadorff, Madame deW augen helm, mcount Jocelyu, Lord James Murray, and Baron Fritsch. -••—• HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS or RENT.- WINDSOII, MONDAY EVENING The Duchess of Kent is so for convalescent to -day as to he able to leave her rvoui. A deputation from the Jewish Association, consist ing of Mr. Joseph Mitchell, President of the Jewish Asso ciation, Mr. Hymn Ilysms, Mr. M. H. Bretlaw, and Mr. H. Emanuel, Honorary Secretary, had en interview with LordJ. Russell yesterday, at his residence in Chesham-place. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governor of New Zealand, the Governor of Malta, and also fr.= the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Is:ands. A deputation, including the Bailiff of Southwark and :fir William Molerworth, Bart., M.P., had an interview )taterday with Lord J. Russell. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office, for the Governors of Hong-Kong and Ceylon. OVERCROWDED STATE OF THE ST. PANCRAS WORN HOUtIE.—PROYOUD ENLAILOEMENT.—Yesterday a meeting of the vestry of St. Pancras took place, for the purpose of confirming or non.eonfirming • rsselution agreed to at a previous vestry, proposing to erect an additional workhouse, the cost of which, it is believed, will be little short of 12,0001. —Mr. B. J. E. Wright having been called to the chair, Mr. Churchwarden Howarth said, basing understood that an attempt was to be made that day to non-confirm the minutes of the previous vestry, with respect to the proposed enlarge. ment of the workhouse, he begged to state, that by the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench there was no neces sity for confirmation at all. Mr. Hewarth contended that the Queen's Bench had decided that in this respect the old local act superseded Hobhouse's Vestries Act, under which the vestry was constitute& It was only necessary as a matter of form that the minutes should be confirmed and signed by the chairman, end the greatest mischief would re sult if; gentlemen could come down there and undo that which they had done the week previously. He moved that the minutes be confirmed and signed by the chairman.—Mr. Morris seconded the resolution.— Mr. Newton Crouch expressed his surprise that the church warden, to suit his own particular purpose, had ro objection to give up the advantages of llobhouse's Act, and go back to the act of the old select vestry. The 28th section of Hobhouse's Act made it absolutely necessary that a minute must be confirmed before it was binding. lie charged the directors of the poor with being criminally guilty of over crowding the workhouse. He had been over the house that day, and he found hundreds wiling to go out, if the board woule give them out-door relief. 78 people had gone out of the workhouse during the past week, and in defiance of a pro mise given at the last vestry that no more should be a& mated, 99 had been made to come into the house, that they might keep it full. lie denounced the course pursued by the board in filling the house as a trick to impose upon the vestry, that they might carry their budding scheme. Out door relief was not only better for the puishionen, but better for the poor; and he moved, therefore, as an amendment, " That those parts of the minutes re lating to the building of an extra workhouse be non confirmed."—Mr. Bre:tingham seconded the amen.'ment.— Mr. Harding, as a medical man, said he felt that the dictates of humanity compelled him to vote for the confirmation. The crowding of 1,800 human beings in a space only calcu lated for 1,200, tended to create diets's' and immorality.— Dr. Birmingham oleo supported the confirmation, on the ground of the vast amount of disease the overcrowded state of the house engendered, and said if the additional building was granted they would be able to keep their own lunatics at half the sum now paid.—Mr. Mann said it wan frightful to see three persona crowded into a bed only large enough for one. He thought they could not be fairly charged with opposing out-door relief, when there were 7,670 receiving out-door relief at that moment.—A division was ultimately demanded, when there appeared;: Fur the confirmation, 39 ; for non-confirmation, 10: majority determining on the building of an additional workhouse, 20. The vestry pro ceeded to • ballot for the election of a chaplain to the work house, which having resulted in favour of the Rev. J. M. Fit:gunfire, M.A., the proceedings termioated. THE NATIONAL DEFENCES.—Last evening, a pub lic meeting, to record an expression of opinion with regard to the supposed probability of an invasion, was held at the Lecture Hall, Greenwich. Mr. Wade presided ; and having made some introductory observations, Mr. D. Payne moved the first resolution That this meeting, believing the system and practice of war to be utterly at TIIII.IOe with the s;,trit and priaciple of Christianity and the true interesta of mankind, deeply regret the attempt. which hays been made, and are Atli' making, to excite in the public mind a belief that war and invasion are imminent, and to ground upon this pre text an addition to the naval and military eetaiiliebrnents of the country. The proposed measures were intended as preventive mea sures' and it was considered by many that the best way to avoid war was to be prepared for it. It might just as well be said that the best way to preserve a people sober was to indulge in the immoderate use of what would make them drunk, as to talk of pr..venting war by maintaining a warlike appearance.—The Rev. Dr. Burnett seconded the resolution. He considered the present wan a crisis when every person should interfere, and not leave the great question now under discussion to the Po-called statesmen who probably did not understand it half so well. H., con sidered the present fears of invasion to be in the highest degree groundless and absurd. The alarmists seemed to consider it impossible, in the event of the French running over to Dover, that the English could run over in their turn to Brest, Havre, or Cherbourg. They gave every advantage in point ot courage and activity to the former, and seemed to consider the powerful nary of the latter as counting for nothing, and necessarily and unquestionably incapable. He considered that the great strength of the country lay in the political and commercial progress which she was making every year. It wan said that this country had been several times of late years on the eve of war, particularly on the subjects of Tahiti and Syria, but in neither of these cases had there existed at any time the remotest possibility °flinch en occurrence. He asked whether it could be supposed, in the event of an invasion by the French, that Ciermany, Holland, Spain, Austria, Prussia, or and other European power, would stand quietly by, being aware, as they could not fail to be, tnat if the wealth and strength of the two I countries were united, their own annihilation would follow? With regard to the origin of the alarm, there could be no error in ascribing it to the government. The establishment of the militia would tend to increase the troops of the line to a large extent; for after six mouths' drilling the men could be fit for nothing but soldiering, and would be induced to forsake their callings as tradesmen to the prejudice of their families and the commercial interest of the country. The national debt was now about one-fifth of the worth of the country; so that alter a few more wars the country would not be worth fighting for, and might as well be given up to the French as retained in a state of bankruptcy. The reso lution wan carried unanimously, and was followed by a second, which was supported by the Rev. H. Richard and other gentlemen. It wu to the effect : Thatihis meeting desires ta record its diliieratecceiviction that the apprehension of nor and invasion is unfounded, and that an increase In the existing naval and unlit...tit forces of the empire, whether by the enlargement of the standing army, the enrolment of the militia, or the establiahm.nt of additional fortresses, or by any means what ever, is not only uncalled for and unnecessary, but must Inevitably tend to destroy rather than preserve peace, to lower the tone of nubile morality, to Impede the drone mating for the instruction and im provement of the people, to retard the great moral reforms now in progress, J burden more heavily the present generation or their pos terity. =lto aggravate the commercial difficulties of the naton. Ilt:8Jil•SON'• STATOL—The final resting-place for this work . of art has at length been determined in favour of the ante-chamber to the underwriters and subscription- ' mama at L'oyd's, where it was erected on Saturday night, , 1 after the close of business. At one o'clock yesterday 1 afternoon, Mr. Robinson, M.P. for Poole, and chairman of Lloyd's, accompanied by the members of the committee, and by Mr. J. R. M'Cracken, of the Old Jewry (to whose charge the statue was consigned), proceeded to inaugurate the statue previous to uncovering it for the public view. A con siderable number of gentlemen were assembled in the small space assigned for the ceremony, and on the approach of the choirman and committee through the subscription rooms they all uncovered.—Mr. Robinson briefly referred to the merits of the deceased *Mittman whose statue was shrouded before them, and dwelt on them solely in a commercial and utilitarian point of view, carefully avoiding any reference to the political career of Mr. Ruskisson. The enlarged views entertained by that person on the subject of fres trade and interoommunion of nations, for the purposes of exchanging each other's productions, and the susemlus which had thereby been given to the manufacturing dames of this country, constituted 'dation rounds whereon his falai might warily rest. Mrs. If mailman, his widow, had gene rosity eared the week of set, which Kr. (Mete had tow plated, to the committee ti( Lloyd's, and when the acceptance oldie statue by himself and his colleagues was signified to t►at l►dy, she expressed her gratification at the circum stance that a lasting memorial of one whose memory she so much revered would be placed before the citizens of the m*- 1 tropolia. For himself and his brother committee-mon, he (Ur. Robinson) could only say, that they felt great pleasure in having had the opportunity of securing a memento of so wise and sagacious a legislator as Mr. Huskisson was. The veil which covered the status wss then removed, and the parties present dispersed or formed into small groups, for the purpose of discno.ing its merits and of comparing it with the effigy of Prince Albert, which occupies the opposite corner of the vestibule. IRELAND. DUBLIN, FEB. 6. The letter from Cardinal Franaoni to the Catholic primate has excited a vast sensation. It is to-day the general topic of conversation. The strong patriotic terms which pervade it prove that the Roman see is not insensible to passing events. %o doubt immediate steps will be taken by the Irish hierarchy to make up their defence, and probably one of the ablest of their body vrill.be sent over to " an swer all such questions as may be put to him." The choice is likely to fall on the Bishop of Derry. In the meanwhile the Bishop of Ardagh has addressed the primate iu reply to the receipt of the cardinal's letter, which will be found below. Doctor M'Hale has arrived in town. The other members of the prelacy will soon follow. Already the effects of the change through which we have been passing are felt in the diminished com petition for land. In the south, a great number of farms are advertised for letting, and the repetition of the advertisements prove the peasantry not so eager as in times past- The Iletjast Vindicator, the chief Roman catholic organ in Uster ' has published its fi nal number. Heavy damages for libel obtained against it were the proximate cause of the decline, but for some time it has been in a drooping condition, and now retires to eternal rest. The reduced state of the Raids of The British Asso ciation for the Relief of Irish Distress has influenced the committee to contract the circle of its operations. Henceforth assistance will be restricted to the 24 unions reported as the most dcstitute, and to whicl special ir.spectors have been appointed. THE 110i1AN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF ARDAGH UN THE Et:a:RIFT FROM ROME. B. LLYNIANON, JAN. 29, 1848.—111 y dear Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your grace's note of the 27th inst., together with a copy el • letter from his Eminence Cardinal Fremont, dated the 3rd of this month. On the subject referred to in that letter your grace desires to bare a line from me, and, In mm. =se with your request, I beg to say th it I believe poor grace is now to make known to the Propagurion rile that a moat wicked and diabolical compiracy is being carried on by almost all the English and Irish press against the catholic hierarchy, the catholic priests, and the catholic people of Ireland ; that Lord hf ioto was sent to Home to deceive the holy ace, and that the means he and his friends use are °morn.s calumnien against us all. I think also the cardinal should be informed that, under the name of legal right, the body of the landlords of Ire land are literally naming the poor, and doing so without a single re unniktrame from the lord-laeutemmt, or his employer, Lord John Nowell; and that neither ever published a single word in vindication of the Archbishop of Team, the Bishop of Uphill, and other I rOb emeniamies, notwithstanding that they demonntrated the :Magee made anoint them and their pastors to be the premeditated slandern of their enemies. Of aurae you will further Mate that whilst the whole of the English and Irish government press publish witty every sort of nation Ithela on otarbelvell and our clergy, they mete pubb.h our defence. I think, too, the Propaganda ought to be aulicited U send over to Ireland some intelligent, pious, and independent Italian troclesiamie, with bib actions to go front diocese to diocese visit our priests and our poor— see matter. Iri% his own elm, and report to Rome without consult ing the helings a any party, religions or political I have myself publicly suggested that hogland should nod bonost protestants among us to ancertain the truth ; and if his be done, and that the Propaganda send the ecclesiastic referred to, Home will be noon en lightened, the conspiracy blown up, the red fricrods of order, Justice and mercy mule known to the world, and the intrigues of the un principled exhibited to the execration of every lover of truth. For nip own part, 1 have for the loot two years constionly gone through the mad unbend portions of this Moon., preaching patience and mar,. lion to my persecuted and half-starved people, and my reward is to be involved in common with toy brethren In the laliillloll, calumnies§ that are heaped on our hauls. Our viceroy, too, has oroclamed portions of the diocese as free from agrarian outrage the street. of London, and yet he call. himself our friend and protector: The people are dying everywhere from cold sal hunger, and still he reline. to apply is their his our the laws, or the other means at his disposal! Were Rome to know (and please God she shall know) how we are persecuted, wire would look mu cue for bearanoe sr illibuOt miraculous. If • e write • line in an honest jour nal to repudiate calumny and bring public opinion to bear upon our wrtleas rulers, we are at once wetted by the infidel mese as the disturber* of that pesos which we stone are preserving. As to my priests, they never directly or indirectly denounced any Waked or other cities from their altars, nor have they up to this been accused ol doing so. Their flocks are patient and resigned —with deal h staring them in the lace; and neither they nor myself shall ever leek redeem except by thine mace ful and constitutional mama to which every subject of the empire boa ea inalienable sod undoubted right. Finally, I my, let eaceuve means be taken to enlighten Maine on every detail of the Infamous anti-national and anti-unwise conspiracy i and the me mica or our creed and of our race will be humbled, and some little justice done to poor calumniated and persecuted Ireland. I have in structed lir. Cullen to furnish to the autburities in Rome an authen tic wily of my letter to Me. John OConnell.-1 have the honour to be, my dear lord, your obedient servant, +W. O'lliconsa.—Moat new. Ire. Crully. SCOTLAND. EDINBUROH, FEE. 5. The Scottish Patriotic Society is fast accumulating high patronage. Her Majesty and Prince Albert have consented to be joint patrons of the society, and have forwarded DAV. as a donation. The Duke of Sutherland has accepted the office of president, a hile Lord John Russell, Jheriff Alison, J. Matheson, Esq., M.P., have allowed themselves to be named vice presidents. Meanwhile the society is prosecuting its plans. The Edinburgh Patriotic Society have resolved to let out small gardens to the working classes in suburban districts in the city at low rent& ACCIDENT TO THE CUSTOM-HOUSE QUAY, GLABOOW.—In consequence of the rapid thaw which set in on Tue.day evening, and which has ever since continued, the ice which had accumulated on the Clyde above Glasgow was suddenly broken up, and came floating down with the stream in count less fragments of various sizes, and some of them about a foot thick. The massy arches of the Jamaica-street Bridge (the great central crossing fur the city traffic) to a great extent obstructed :he passage of these fragments downwards to the sea, thus keeping the lower harbour comparatively clear, whilst the ice was all the while accumulating in the ex tensive space occupied by the fine sheet of water which extends Pram the brioge last mentioned up to the Stock well-street Bridge. The result was, that this large epee, embracing a number of acres of superficial area, became, in the course of Wednesday and Thursday, almost Wifely tilled up with the ice. The pressure of the ice and the water together was thrown upon the Custom-house quay with so much force, that ►bout six o'clock on the evening o Thursday fissures began to appear in the causeway a few yards inwards from the breastwork; and iu the course of the night nearly tee whol. front of the quay, from the li-h -market stairs at Jamaica-street-bridge (opposite the Custom house) up to about the foot of Maxwell-street, being a strip of between 200 and 300 yards in length, and three or four yards in breadth, sunk downwards and became to • greater er leas extent submerged, leaving a dreadful gap in the em bankment. The damage will require an expenditure of several thousand pounds to repair it. Moan Sairwamers.—There seems to be no end of Shet land shipwrecks. The Lerwick correspondent of the Joh* o' Groot JOlOl6Ol, in a communication dated 19th 03., nar rates the loose( sin easels, most of the crews having perished. Fiery THOUSAND POUNDS DST been left to the town of Dundee. for educational purposes. PROVINCIAL. _DULOIAM. THE FOCNDATIO.N STONE Or THE DOCKS AT SUN DERLAND was laid on Friday, by O. Hudson, Esq., M.P. The event, so important in the commercial history of Bun. derland, was celebrated with great rejoicings. fhe whole of the shops were closed, and business suspended. The bells of the parish churches rang during the morning. The vessels in the harbour were decorated with tiar, and ban ners ware displayed at all the principal works and public establi,timents in the town. The parties taking an active part is the ceremonies of the occasion met at the Exchange-buildings in the High-street, at half-past twelve o'clock, and thence walked in procession to the docks. On arriving at the site of the stone Mr. Murray, the engineer of tke company, who is the projector of the under taking, delivered to Mr. Hudson the tools to be employed by him on the occasion, and the articles to be placed in a cavity which had been prepared in the stone.—Mr. Hudson, on re ceiving the bottle, which was hermetically sealed, plated it in the cavity of the stone, the remaining space of which was filled up with gotta perch; which was poured into it in a semi-lioid state. It was than covered with • zinc plate, bearing an appropriate inscription. Ti e stone, which had been suspended by means of a crane during these proceed lags, was then lowered into its intended site; and Mr. Hudson delivered an " inaugural oration." The directors of the company and a large party of individuals afterwards dined together; and the proceedings of the day were closed by a ball in the Atheneum , which was attended by upwards of a thousand visitors. WAR ---- RtILWAY ACCIDENTS.- -- On Saturday a frightful accident occurred at the Midland Railway station, Binning ham, by which one of the guards came by Lis death. It ap pears that the sufferer (named Jacksoe) was to have mom panied the four o'clock train to Derby, and had made the necessary preparations for that purpose, but unfortunately he delayed a short time in taking his place upon the train. The usual signal Navin` been given the train moved, and just as it was set in motion Jackson attempted to get on the carriage step. His foot, however, unfortunately slipped, and he fell under the wheels and was crushed. The train wee stopped, and the guard taken up and conveyed to the Gene ral Hospital, whine it was smertained that both his lags were all but severed from his body. He expired in shoat ea hour after. He wee twenty-six years of age, and lived at Derby.—Almost at the same hour another accident, which had nearly been attended with similar fatal results, hap pened at tha Camp-hill station, belonging to the Hinaing ' and Wawa, Railway Calapaay. • am. aimed Evans, was tussled with two other porter. moving souse carriages, when e unfortunately got betw,ca the buffers, and was dreadfully bruised. He was takrn to the huspital, where he still lies. M. BERLIOZ'S CONCEST.—Hector Berlioz, though. hitherto known in this coutitronly by name, has for a good many years been regarded in Femme this retire country) as one of the master-spirits of the age. Like ail artiste of a bold and original genius, who reject established gu,des and model.. cut away conventional forme, and strike into new sad untrodden paths, Berlios has had to encounter (especially is the outset of his career) much opposition, though it wait observed that his music, even in its novelty, never fa:led in its effect upon great popular assemblages. In Hoglund, Bee ,l line's mum cannot be raid till now ever to have come before the public at all. The great sensation produced in Paris by one of his early symphonies ieduced our Pei:harmonic Se- Mel to give it a trial, when they took it upon ' themselves to pronounce it a failure—a judgment the less entitled to weight when it was remembered that the same body, but a few jeers before, were oniv prevented, by the remonstrances of Salomon, from throwing aside Beethoven's symphony in C minor before they had got through the first movement. It was Mien Berlioz wag struggling with professional and ciiticel hostility that a ! memorable tribute was paid to his merit by a man whom judgment was decisive. When he preduced his " Harold" Symphony, at a cmcert given by himself, Paganini wag among the audience, and next morning Berlioz, to his sue , prii , e, received from the great violinist, to whom he wag pereonal:y unknown, the following letter, which appeared is the Feria journal of the day : My des friend, Beet hoven being dead, there remains only &zilch , who can re place him ; and I, who have heard with delight your divine compositions, worthy of a gerius s •eh as yours, think it my duty to beg you to accept, as a proof of my profou. respect, twenty thousand francs, which will be handed to )ou by Baron Rothschild on your presenting the inclosed. Ever your friend, Niemen PAUANINI. I'aris, Dec. 18, 1838." Since that time Betties has produced a scone aims of cob - seal works the lyrical dramas of es Romeo need Juliet," and " Faust;' the Solemn MAYS composed by order of the French government for the obsequies of General Damrc moot, who fell in the Alitericc war ; the triumphal symphony, also composed by orde r of the government for the inauguration of tae columa of the Bastile ; and several overtures end other orchestral firma Tee public nthu [ sia.m excited by some of these productions, and the applause I bestowed on all of them, have gradually silenced hostility in France, witere musts and critics, almost without exception, join the general voice of praise and admiration ; and, re ceutly, the suffrages of the composer's countrymen have bees confirmed by the public of Vienna, Berlin, and most of this principal cities of Germany, where his music has been per formed under hid own direction. Fee eel:wives, though we had perused the scores of some of the alma c works, and have perceived their vastness of design, variety of combinations, and entire novelty of style and phraseology, yet these very qualities have rendered us unable to form anytWee mom than vague and faint conceptions of their eflicf. Musical uotation is at beet an imperfect vehicle of ideas; and the written language of music, when it is of a new and original cast, can scarcely be interpreted with .ut the immediate guidance of the Luther, till the executants, by the performance of his previous works, have gained some knowledge of the pecubar.ties of his style. The concert of lest evening bee tended to remove these obstacles to the comprehension of Berlioz s titanic, It took place under his own direction; the orchestra, both to magnituie am quality, wax equal to the expression of hie grentlebt ideas, and c ten etness was insured by a ' , oriel of careful rehesrsal.. The iustrumentel orchestra and chorus were comp. tad of two hundred and filly performers ; and the solo parts were sung by Madame Dorus Gras, Miss Minn, Mr. Reeves, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Grcgg. The con cert was in three parts. The first part consisted of the " Overture to the Carnival of R-me :" u romance, "The Young Sheph.rd," sung by Mien &limn ; and the sym phony entitled " Harold in Italy." The second part con sisted of the first and second acts of " Faust ;" and the third part contained a c...vatina from the opera of " Beuvenuto Cellini," sung by Madame Dorus Gras; a chorus of souls in purgatory, taken from his " Requiem ;" anl the finale of the triumphal symphony. composed ter the inauguration of the column of the Bastfte. It quite imp:nib's immediately after the first hearing of so large a qu intity of amide, of so original a character, and marked with so many peculiarities, either to forgo a decided judgment of its character, or to attempt any analysis or description of its style. The gem rat impression left upon our mind is that of grandeur and power. mingled with obscurity which we were invade to penetrate. But no truly great musician was ever understood at once ; and, in regard to such musicians as Bee thnven, fur .sample. the most sagacious critics have found thenatelvew Redly committed by opis ions hastily expressed. It cannot be doubted, how ev. r, that Berlioz is a most ISSISS6IIIII , in compete, r; that his mind is richly stored with new and striking ideas ; that he is a consummate master of all the resumes of his art, and has carried its descriptive powers further, pp:l:stale, than they n p „ ar i l n i railer by have ever been carried before ; and the; the elf. etc which he protium ploy b ine h n is t ocorfcthheelsr ral c i o n m st b ru in ra a r ti n m ts s , , a r an ge d ps retitled in grandeur and beauty. The music . in" Facet," ' s tll n ugh frequently wild and fantastic in the extreme, is, on the whole, wonderfully dramatic. Nothing e.:n be I • ore joyous than the dance and chorus of peenr ts, or more spiriteetir ring than the " Hungarian March ;" and the chorus of aerial spirits, inspiring the sleeping Feudal with dreams of his Moe garet, exhibits a Sbaksperian richness and delicacy of ima gination. The vocal solos were comparatively feeble ; they struck us as defective in flowing and Thjthenical melody, and the singers were unable to contend with the ineheetral ae eompaninients, which, though not over loud, were over powering, from their fulness and complication. We cannot pass the " Faust," without notieit g the excellence of the libretto, which gave ua a singular 'tont version of the original retry. We sincerely hope M. Berlioz will be In ' deiced to give another c exert; for his music, like eU music of a really higt class, will gain infinitely by repetition, gbt aramz. LiCEUM.—" Astounding Phenomena" is the title of a dramatic trifie prodneed hero last evening. Th..ugh described in the bills so " a new and oririr.al nie , ineric sketch," there is very little of novelty in a lan* bead as this is entirely on the practical roguery of • cast o ff servant, even when aided by the assumption of mesmeric powers end clairvoyance, for it is scarcely a e lf.t. The incident, though of the slightest character, is etlieuvely hani.led, aud forms an amasirtg vehicle for the peculiar talent of Mr. C. Mathews, whose presence, after a comptiratively long absence, was heartily welcomed by the auaianee. Dr. Spi . fily Cater, formerly a servant to Captain Crash, while on his way to deliver a lecture on Meimeri.ua at a country tows, finds him. self davit ed at the refreshment ream of the railway nation for the price of a dinner, had the day before: failing t. work on the credulity of the waiter, he succeeds with Air. Swat fasciae, a magistrate and a believer in the so-called wienee, whom for a bribe of ten poundshe manages to keep at the sta tion, while the Captain runs away with sued marries his niece. Of course the whole burden of the piece is on the shoulders of Charles Mathews, who pissed the pert of the Professor, and he sustained it with his utusl ability. The otht r characters were tilled by Messrs. Frank Matthews, Meadows, Kerridge, and iise Herbert. The piece was successful. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. - CAMBRIDGE, Fee. 7.—On the 9th inst., the following graces will be offered to the senate I. To appoint t syndics:, to consider whethe- it is exporield to afford greater encouragement to the pursuit of those studio. tor the cultivation of which po.kreotaLips have teen handed lit the univer •ity ; and, if M. by what means that object mac be hod aconoplithe I; and to rep sft to the nenote before the coviSton of the Hasler tans of the 2 poment year. . The following propaicl having been made by J. li. M erkl.rnd. Ext. : •' To provide, by an sdequete endowment ( tig. by an invest ment in the consolidirted fund of a sum which shill praline Owe ruin.. , pi" annum), for an annual wean at sit. )lary's Church, before the imieersity of Cambridge, to be delivered on such sunday tie full term, and by such pi-rather ea the Vice-Chancellor for the time being shall appoint, upon the subject of church ea.easion over the cola:ice and dependencies of the lintish emp. en .reo.pi ter same. 4. The pnee of lota., offered by a gentletimin of the Wawa, ri Service, Sur a •' Dissertation on the Principles of ILstot kal I.videnos applied to discriminate between the satherity of the Chrutian Scrip tures and of the Kehipous Hooka of the Hindus." having been ad judged to the Kee. Howland Wtlituns, Y.A. of King's Collsge,—to authorise the Vice-Changllor, on the ncomennthition of the ens winners, to request the writer to proceed with the cointimitani of the entire treatise described in the original 4. To appoint Professior Holmium and Me. Rowland Willlame 'Lamina te tut the 31 itland Prize. - The t I.;;ICAL 111 PLO E;;;;ATION will be h. 14 in the senile. house, commenting on Monday, Feb. 21, at 9 s'elnek. C.:Widens are requested to mend in their names to one of toe rnaminnr*, oa tae beige toe preceding Wednerdar. AT .t OINERAL 0111)1A Al , holden in the cathedral of Semite on Sunday last, the fano,ng were admitted into Li J 7 «nitre:—Ostrow.—Barker, R. W., St. the., lir.ithwait, T. 1., SL Peter's, Comb. ; Rickenteth, E. IL, Trinity, Coub. ; Ilnothby, W. Corms LIAM, Climb. ; Bicknell, R. H., Magdalen, Cam& ; 80b.., A. C. IL, Christ's, emu ; C. H., Trinity, Ox ; Cocker, J. A., Fell. it St. Peter's, WM. • Cridge, It., St. p e t ee . e , (MM. ; Deady, A., Wadhans, Moo; Dixon, h. A., St. aces ; French, F., St. Peter's, Cloth. ; Goodwin, U. S, Comb.; Gough, F. F., Et. Jotn'e, Camb. ; Gooding, F. C., Oriel, Moe ; Green, J. B, Christ's, emu; Holbertoo, It. 8., Exeter, Oxon; J.cloicio, J., Christ's, Comb,; Jam., H., Fell. Kin' , C e onit , o ; ; Nevin, 11. R., University, Oxon ; Micklethwait, H. N.„ Comb. ; Morris; J. L, Worcester, Oxon ; Markham, R. K., us Chridi, Comb. , Theodosius, J. IL, Christ's, Comb. ; Welch, W. F., Corp. Christi, emu—Pentors.—Badhasa, M. Peter's, Carob. ; Bedlam, C. IL, University Orion ; Bell, E. J., St. Catherine Hall, Comb. ; breretoo, J. L., University, Oxon , Calliphrooas, D. P., Trinity, Camb. ; Clubte, C. W., St. Jolla's, Comb. ; Cabbolr4 R. W. W. °meat., Comb.; Edwards, W. J., Pembroke, tkunts. ; Huntingdon, H. J., Christ's, Comb. ; Joom It., Christ's ems; Leach, T., Trinity, Comb. ; Lerner, W., Trinity, IJubL ; Ferman J. J. S., Corp.. Christi, Comb. ; Flipper, W. A., Emmanuel, Camb. ; Sperling, W. S., Trinity, Dubt ; Taylor, G. W., Gine.% w i ti ck, Trinity, Comb. ; Watts, IL, Corpus Christi, Comb. ; tVilson, IL, Exeter, 0101. Sr. PAUL'S, COTENT-GARDEN.—Dt. Bowen, dean of Manchester, ha. intimated to the parialakerri that he Ms determined on resigning the rectorya this parish, that be may the better fulfil IM duties at Manchester. The same biomes= hadn't born elouseyed to the Duke of Bedford, who h the patron of the lids., hi. grace hag anointed the Rev. H. Hatton, M.A., vicar of Woburn, to the vacant benelloe ; Moe, MY., with residence. NAVAL MOTROLEXTS OP HER MAJZIVIT'S SHIM—MALTA, JAM. 2.3.-10 Grand Harbour: Hibernia (flag, Sir W. Parker., Ceylon, Rodney, Superb, Vole" Harlequin ; ado; Odin, /Lao r, Poteir puie Faded: Anima*, TM liersellres ADMIRALTY, Fss. 7.—Arrournazarts.— : E. D. Drake and C. P. Pt- Jobs, to Eseellent; H. P. Vernon, to star.—Nate : E. P. Hoboes, to Hume.—ffecced Raters J. 0. Budd, to Hercule'; 0 . Ma me, to .—Amist. Enaineer, let clam B. Ale* to Zepkyr. Aoi N ufleu.br7l W. L. Gordon. rorninord to Prince BarSl.—,tort : J. 0. Pearl" to be Sweeter, of Vioe-Ads. Hr E. .—Nord Web: J. L Hunter, to P lmt: R. Mane, to —Acting imatieneht : W. H Asta.—Pameurioye W. D. Peden, promoted to —lnatteemine : W. Bees. st Alum, tad J. evoseemi. of Mama agine. " art dess.