The Express. — London, England, 1852-06-09 00:00:00

Farce 10 canonical objections, which ire takes up by P eons only from the impulse of their own convictions, if none farcier news as given for inquiring into Ili .t eabieet much ureice would be done to the church. WI.: her Own• object. will he best obtained by means of totamonouers or committees of this boom I cannot say, nit I do not think thst the inquiry by a committee of this bone would be fruitful in its rusks. The hon. gentleman eve nt iderretht he chirp, bring up his wirnewes bee,,,, a co ,„. mintier. but he mina remember that other men secretes the ' i s m of poe.et judgment as well a• himself, and they might k w , up witaeois• oleo, and though ten days might be suf. or tor friar' nary or of time, of the lion. g. sitli•man's y. I &teenlel sr. rya ly s alike fur ths's lamination of theirs. Then ith regard to a commission. whether the state of the present n..tliiiinnt i. such as to entitle it to make an inquiry into tee uttered by segue persone to canonical instite. b a ns I will out say. but if the government would give their itteution to the ait iption of some mode of examining iota the present state of the law it would receive my fa vourable consideration, but when it is proposed, by means of a committee of inquiry, to hold up to obloquy a high jothei al et6..er of the church, who has only done his duty, hi •och 4 committee I srn the gray, st olosctii•ns, because, In dale:c loon, you would censure a man who has never to, high station, and who, instead of your blame, rs, • sour e.onenetulataan. rs.. J INtel ON, utter a few preliminary remarks, said Oic manner in which the lion. gent ;mien (NI r. Mersin an) • brims; ht this subject before the house, and the deer' att, noon the hog.. has on both occasions paid to it, is, I thin', a proof how ettungly the feelings of the people cat this sourtry. aril of this house as repn 'outing those feel ings, are recited by those unhappy dissension. which un• fwtnnah ly Exist iu the Church of England—(hr e, hear) , n I n hie!, the right hon. gentleman (Mr Gladstone) r, ton .1 nith painful tooth, alien he -aye the church lo os r. at and torn by these unhappy dissensions. (Hear, tear) .end I am sorry to say that we must in a great tie- ✓ ce tria - e firese unhappy dissensions to that portion of the elomy et the Church cat England who hive taken that line viola Mr. licnnett has pursued. (Loud and prolongeol tbisting nom :at parts of the honee.) A line which in his taw ho led to virtual expiesion from one diessor, a line which it is irupossible to deny has led to most grave and serious qui.stione whether clergymen taking that line e in be con • as Ming really and truly eincere ministers of the church of England. (('heers.) Sir, I use this expression with th, elites me grief. I believe that in many respects there never was a more exemplary parochial minister than Mr. Bennett. (Hear, hear.) It woulil be injustice to deny that. I am quite willing to admit that it is so. But we must not look only to those parochial ministration.. (Hear. hear.) The same thing may unquestionably be said et • vire lame moth,. of the priests of the Itomish church. (Cheers.) They are men of the most exemplary lives. ((tear, hear.) But I kuow no more dangerous error than to trunnill personal piety, personal virtue, or the cam plary discharge of ministrations, with the profesaion and ma , ..tenanee of thou vital principles snit doctrine, which form the great line of demarcation between the pro testant ani catholic churches. (Cheers.) No man can be ignorant of—no man can shut his eyes to the tiniest py diseensious that have arisen in .our church. It is nos for me. to say that a large portion of gentlemen who, like Mr. Itennett, have been re markable for what has been called by a high authority "tit. ,r histrionic love of form,"ond for constantly taking a line as eq. , . a. th. y passihly can to Ib.manism while In.-p -ins within the toms of the church of Englarel—(cheers)— I 4. n..t OW.an to my that they may not be exemplary men and aiiimate , l by must sincere and conscieetious feeling. ; lee I do say that we cannot abut our eyes to the unhappy ▪ Cl. that have resulted. (Hear, hear.) We see the line of dishes-nu between the protestant faith and the nourish cher, drawn liner and liner by tine conduct. ((tear.) W, e numbs es of our f, protestant' god drawn into thss• stonier*. and then led away into the church of itsr• .vs.) Looking at these unquestionable fade, — lo 'lam at the unhappy results which have taken place is ear "an church,—( cannot but regard it as a great tonfortune that any patron of a living in the church of England should have been led by feel inoi--colocit oboes, I have no doubt, but, in my haw,. judious at, most injudicione,—to give a inatortant as the beteg et Franc to a person so situit..l as Mr Bennett. (Chun.) I cannot shrink from the die loration of this opinion. 'I o this extent I go with the b. 117. gentleman. I cannot blame him fur bringing the.. remarkable facts before the House of Commons. (ll.ar. hear.) 1 so far agree with my right hon. friend, the me nes r for the University of Oxford, that I seriously debt how tar the House of Commas is an arena for such do. uesaens. sr ) But of thi. I feel sure, that it is enly woke remarkable circumstances, it is only at a Dio nne. when the public mind is strongly excited by such tie• manislaere• as those, that it can be justifiable to make the Howe of lemmas an arena for such discusions. (Hear, bear.) The government on a late occasion undertook to make inquiry ; and the hos. gentleman has rather made it a matter of charge against the government— at lest I un &novel him to say that we had not 'given the inquiry we pennised. and had kept him waiting bur weeks before we gave an limner on the subject of that inquiry. In fact, if be did not direetly charge it against us, I oilfired from what be said, both on this and the firmer evening, that be thought the government had not ru sticated the pledge they had given. Now, as I wee mord theme who were willing to give that pledge, as far as it west, I must beg distinctly to express my opinion that we are not open to this imputation. (Hear, hear.) I wish to say dietinetly fur the government—every member Nit will support ale in saying es—and I might sago appeal to my hon. and learned friend the Attornity-Cieneral— whether we did not exhaust every means in our power in endeavouring to macaroon to what extent we could legally Smoke the inquiry. The lint step we took was to draw up gentians which, in our judgment, embraced the whole matter at ire. We sulimitted those questions to the law olleers el' the crown. We received from them the most distinct opinion that, in the tuts of the institution of Mr. Bennett by the Bishop of Bath and Wells there wu no ir regularity; that with regard to the transactions at Kissin gen. as they had taken place in a foreign land, no legal Inquiry—l believe I am right in saying, even by the bishop —could take place ; and that, in fact, as the matter stood, there was no manner in which the government could le eaLy recommend or point out how an inquiry could take place. The questions which we put to the law offi cers embraced the whole subject ,• and the answers of the law officers were marked with that ability which might he expected. Still the government could not rest content with those answers; and this is the minas why the time dap. d of which the boo. gelatins= boo com plained. A second time we submitted questions to the law °Seem of the crown; and upes He sam seas a iwi le =sew the estions we Brat put bitimma they badges made mere wide and theepelesimire thee they were at dret—we retemed to the mem eseeltuions COD. elusion at neeneed by my Might his. Mead the Chancellor of the Iseheeper litho lianstesethat there was no legal mode by whisk the eireemelanessos they stood, could be made chasubject of Ahern gairsbut that, if there were • *gal made of ithifiating Nan niry (be came we were set anneeonet, stemma. with the eir minimums), that legal mode would be .pan to the pariah toners under the Church Diosiplin• AM. I believe I am right in slat* the facts; and I wish to make it distinctly known to the bon. gentlemen and the beers that there was ao unwillingnees on the pert of the genwoment. that we addressed to the inquiry the fad rifle ns attention, that the lapse of time was occasioned by SW repeated refer encia to the law °Moen, and that •the malt of our consideration was, that there was no legal mode in which the inquiry could he made. (Hear, lima After this ex • planation I hope the hon. genthrisan will see that in a matter of this kind, involving poista of law of the greatest di Imecy, difficulty. and isiportaners, we as a government . Ind no power to institute proceedings and Mqeiriee • we' meld only proceed in • legal mammy sad we found that there was no legal manner in which ;hose inquiries could . be made. Sir John then went on to expose his astonish meet at the manner in which Mr. Gladstone had alluded to the transaction at Kiesingen, and his regret that a per son who had so conducted himself as Mr. Bennett 9a that oemsion should be at the head of an imps* sat parish. The Bishop of Bath and Wells was bound, he thoaght, to inquire into these remarkable allow bus, hid the government had no power to compel him ; and, alter the inquiry they had made into the state of the law. he meld not consent, nor did he think any large sew her of members of the house would consent, to mks the' Laical conduct of a bishop of the church of England& sub. et of inquiry before such a tribunal aa committee of the vowel Commons. Mr. OLADSTONE—n, rybt _hay see th e= is mie. taken is soppoing that I Andemilind the pemmedings of Mr. Bennett at Kiningen. I stated that it was Mama t+ my former impressions ; tml 1 wish to state Liao that the Bishop of Beth sad Wells never heramr acquainted with the prommilegs at Kisaingen till Meg afte r M r. Bennett wee Inellltaimd. (~ Oh, oh I") I know not who it i s who mhos Imes himself, by signs of that kind, to ?met my smarties ; but I trust, whoever it is, be sill by and bye rise and vindicate his views. (Hear.) Sir W. P. WOOD said he felt mat deeply the vast im portant, of the general subject, and the mode in which the k' lien of the people of England had been justly excited; wed hi was th.. more jealous of the house being led away fry tho. h hugs of their own into any departure from a strioly coioetutional course on that question. (Hear, hear) Ile .aol the teehngs of the people had been justly excited. an, one doubt as to the conduct of mem bers of thow who, being sworn ministers of our church, chstied them.. lee. of that position to disseminate what pro *stun considered to be- errors and commtione--in one case a partings', an individual had acted with oath baseness teat Ift" he hael gone over to the church of Homes the Sunday h i e in hie owls church, our with him eallilren of his orgaoist, who had bona entreated to him eduation (Hear, hear.) There were other mom almost r l° . 4l Y sneaking; and the unfortanale men who took the !es.' a this wr, tched movement had essiaminosd his earner by "mime • nork, in which clergymen were told hew they gawk' held all the doctrines of the church of Some, and yet !stank their preferment and positMa Is their ownehurch. .hket tract he ...inside-real as the origiaatiog tract that hail Ind co in TUI h of this miserable \money. He should at is has. b” ready to denounce those — who adopted the ertelea of the church in what was ail sg a nownatural Cnfortuaately this non-natual tease was not con -1 10 otif. sole. lie was afraid that others had taken ... Lean *pounding Use doctrines of the church in a ....Idieral sense than they wove warranted is doin g. we reserve, thoee who av owe d th eir principles when n Wy ad claseeed their mind. and admired Mr. when he ' left the cher* bares has principles to be lansaniannat with her liturgy . 0., loth sides he detested every deeeription of aes uturst inrerpte tatwr. When a Went to the date in 041 toPrathliFisriaashiedigwaithwcaishe vgaliveabmwhiehishd rei. - — etrevv i z y w i zni i accordi ng had beta by the thank of lingleod ens she adopted her present feria of church prayer. ffealiag eU this, and that the safeguards they bad were not Ade. quite, he was at tl.e lama time convinced that they should not adopt the course they had at heart— namely, e legitimate reform of the eeclesi.otical Lea— hy taking up these isolated rues, and making martyrs of end atiil lees by making a party matter of a church question. How did this particular question stand ' Way, on 3 former Orc.ninri, they were asked to address the Queen, to inquire. Everybody knew that the mode by which the crown inquired was by commission, and every lawyer must have felt that it was impossible to have a cora lra:ssion to asci main *nether a bishop had transits... d the law. A commis ion of that description wu contrary to the bill of tights. Now they were asked to do that by a com mittee of the house, which they could not du by com mission. (Hear, hear.) The principle of the bill of rights was, that they could not intone into an Offline hellion the hack of the ps ruin charged, ex cept for the purpose of patting him on his trio!, because otherwise they would east a stigma on a man which be had no opportunity 01 meeting. They might unpile° before a grand jury, becalm they intended to try II man; and they might have an inquiry befere &committee of the House of Commons, if they int, nil •II to impeach the bishop; but he did not apprehend that the bon. member wished to do that. Ile did not dispute the power of the house, that it ass the grand inquest of the nation ; but if it was it behoved them to Oct with a judicial mind, with a s t r i c t legal form of in quiry, and not by an early before-dinner debate, as that was the other day, come to a hasty snit ill consii.ered reso lution. Ile was glad. therefore, that no resolution was come to On that occasion, and that her Majesty's ministers undertook an inquiry which they made, and the result of which every lawyer must have foreseen. Every lawyer must have known that there was no legal mode of effecting the panting of Mr. Bennett. The question was had the Benson of Bath and Wills, according to the statement of the hon. member for Cuekermouth, been guilty of such a breach of the law that the house was bound to take POMP steps? Nuw, he was bound to say that the honourable member did not make out the slightest in reinterpret of the law, even on his own showing. It did not appear that the bishop hail any materials to so. tiefy its requirement' if he had held the party to be Un qualified, and to answer a pare isspedit or a duplex pe seta, or both. It was not reasonable, then, to expect that the bishop should refuse to institute Mr. Bennett without the information which should judicially satisfy him. Colonel BOY LE stated facts which east doubts upon the alleged popularity of Mr. Bennett at t'resene. But this, he remarked, was not the question. If Mr. Bennett was po pular, and his doctrine was unsound, the mischief he would du must he the greater. Mr. YORKE gave some explanations respecting the feel ings of the parishioners of Frew, soil declass! that Mr. Bennett was as good a churchman as Mr. Burman himself. Sir B. HALL accused Mr. Yorke of being a party to the romanixing practices of Mr. Bennett, and disputed some of his allegations regarding the state of opinions in Frame. He commented with severity upon the put religious utile of Mr. Bennett, and defended the course taken by Mr. Hurvman in bringing this matter betels the house, although he admitted that the motion was open to grave and serious objections. Mr. NEWDEGATE said the allegations of the hoe. member for Cockennouth remained unrefuted ; but there appeared to he a disinclination on the pert of many hon. members to impute blame to the Bishop of Bath and Wells. (Hem., hear.) He (Mr. Newili gate) wished to ask the government whether he had rightly inf rred that they were prepared to consider the state of the law before the next session, with the view of preventing such persons as Mr. Bennett from being instituted in future? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he did not rise immediately after the hon. member for Cocker mouth concluded his speech, because he understood it to be the wish of the house that the right hon. gentleman the member for the I:niversity of Oxford (Mr. Gladstone), should make a statement on behelf of the Bishop of Bath end Wells. This discusaion had, he thought, very much cleared the rise. Since the period when the subject was first brought before the house that even ing, they hail, he thought, very completely inves tigated the • position of the Bishop of Bath end Wells, with respect to the eireumstences of the case, and he thought he did not misinterpret the general feeling of the house, when he described it as one of extreme reluctance, by any vote at which they might arrive, to throw any cen sure on the couduct of that prelate. (Ileer, hear.) It might be very easy for honorable gentlemen to except to that statement, but he thought that after the calm end able discus-ion which had taken place, they must have arrived at this conclu siol2, that, however many of them might regret the institution of the individual who bad Femme vicar of Frotne. it was impossible fur them to assert by a vote of that house that it was the duty of the bishop of the diocese to prevent the institution. (Hear, hear.) Nay, more, he thought they had nearly all arrived at the conclusion that, had the bishop of the diocese thrown any difficulties in the way of the institution of Mr. Bennett, he might, and probably would, have incurred very perilous consequences. Ile thought it quite impossible for the House of Commons to come to a vote which would nut on a bishop of the church the condemnation of that assembly, because he had done that which must be admitted to have been nothing more than his strict legal duty, and which, if he had not done, he would probably have suffered serious injury. Ile (the Chanci nor of the Exchequer) considered the ques tion uf the conduct of the Bishop of Bath and Wells to be one perfectly distinct from the circumstances which had oc curred at Froine—(hear, hear)—but, at the same time, be could not but recollect that at that moment it was only on the conduct of the Bishop of Bath and Wells that they were called upon to give a vote. (Hear, hear.) When this question was first brought under the notice of the house, he took the liberty of stating, with regard to the point of the ability which a parishioner should have to challenge the fitness to be instituted of one who was about to become his vicar, that if the law did not afford a remedy, he thought it was their duty to supply one. That was the opinion which now influenced her MaJetty's government, and that was the principle which ought to guide them under these painful circumstances. (Hear.) He could not agree with the statement made by the right hon. gentleman, the member for Oxford, that the researches of the government had molted in that which all lawyers had previously contemplated, v 4., that there was no remedy for the parishioners of Frame. He must again repeat the opinion that he had expressed be fore to the house, that the puishimews had a remedy by which they need not go ion as eoclesiastical court, or have recourse to ecclesiastical law. He would not enter on that question again, because be was perfectly willing to admit that there was met, in his mind, sufficient belay, or sufficient sr yortnnity, for parishioners, placed in the anaties of those of Frame, to obtain that redress to whin day hid a (Cheer .) As far as the present =Minima imagensedit ale really thenstitn non of Mr. Bestial to the MUMS of hewn an therefore the act of the Bishop of Bah cad Wens whin wee before them, and into which thin were mated en Inquire. (Hear, hear.) Ile must meet his "Ins that the conduct of the Bishop at Bath an Wells could not be fairly Gelled fa quedita. If they were to appoint this eannitese, let the hone ssmoider what its duties would be. Thoyonlii an be plain Oinks up evi dence to institute proandispepionnebbier. That was out of the question. Was it to be • ennt — hose to inquire into Amnon of the law ? (Hear. Mr.) This was hardly the Wisemint in which to appotat a anat tee le oriesider the Mate et the law mason with bassion, a ss*sl of the gransa dilleally tad impoelmele, sad for the naddeniem nun,* a amentittee of the lawn we,, SOW mot the but authority. (Hear.) His Ma. hind the Warviaddre (Mr. Heinle gawitibeil "eked Ma he pledge bland not the goverment One enoldwalea the slob albs law with Ineleas. He end* waohl Online say an Betit was a sableet which se.t readve theseadderalinat any goverineeat. The Meer et NW eededeleirel NOM wee one wish ragtime. be eserimei nankager. SLed cheers.) la serest to the. they wend, he the nose ens" lonpenee end sada* whin bid bees eosin to ell the other 'eons 'lndicator* la rr earatry. (Rear hear.) Then were "plains whhh tow et dun did let share, sad they certainly was seutieneepi ea which the goverment was p to eel. Be trusted that the hon. sod learned pen (Mr wand an ask the hewn le eons W a aa4 din madei. W sM. It he peahen la dens as be (the Chandler et the Ilaihequer), elan& be A ron .~ =?ishatueltnat bad marred mine Amm he wend act at this nensat eater nee wry tri- Van ea Ss nadaned say todividoeb nanned wattle h lnneolles. fine boa seadenn periled la ann. the ! h ewn to engirt • emenittos to investigate the anon et the Bishop of Bath and Walls. be should feel it his duty to nest the mot on by a direct sie= es Mr. E. ELLICE sew greet be the enutination of a committee to lugedes Womb simmtineue. but as it was an inquiry not into the penned anon et the bbhop, but into that of Mr. Bennett, he should vote for the motion. — Iir:MOODY should support the motion on the same grounds. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL could not agree to the statement that the motion did not involve an inveetiption into the conduct of the Bishop of Beth and Wells. Looking to the state and practice of cur ecclesias tical oourta some remedy was certainly nemaary. And, when the proper time should arrive, he hoped the same reform would be extended to the ecclesiastical as was now being applied to the equity and common law courts. Mr. D EEI)Ed thought the admission of the hen. and horsed gent emsn proved that it wee the duty et the go verament to turn their early sheathe to providing a re medy for the evil stated ; and m there was no promise that the subject would be taken up by minieteve at • future period, he felt bound to vote for the motion. Mr. S. HERBERT bad not undeiwtood the Chancellor of the Exchequer to decline to give hie consideration to the eu4.est.• Mr. WALPOLB explained that his right hon. friend the Chancellor of the E r had not declined on the pert of the government is glee his attention to the enkject of ecelscicanal law retenm ; bat what belied sojedai la wee a motion which if Gorki Mail it sag nest a emirs we the Bishop of Bath awl Welk ha eberfatt the kw en it stood. Ile hoped the miss WOW at be peened, or if pressed, that it would be "siesta by the bresee. After • few weeds ken Xr. IMMO is explanation. Mr. OOULBURN kit pest fealty as to the erne which it was beet hr the berme to perms. It had Jeen dearly established in. as hr se the eeemitiet of the Bishop of Bath and Welk me eoweemok, Ogee wee re (tweed for inquiry. What wee warted wee ea late ihe state of ' the law, and he peered as an that the minima dleald read, " a esaiaittee to kereire kite the date of the law le the Wahiawa ef slake into beeeikee in the ehiCi et " (Chews.) hates bees pat. Mr. HOUSMAN would answer the amendment In three words. It was as though certain parties were brought to the bar on a charge of murder, and a friend got up and pro pined to meet it by an inquiry into the state of the law on canes' punistimeuts. (Ilear, beer.) It would be to make the house ridiculous, alter the discus•iun they bad Lad, so to dispose of the umbel. There being uo other mews of proceeding, ho had no course but to press his motion to a division. The house then divided : For the motion For the amendment lll-45 The result was greeted by loud dist:rag drum the oppo sition. _ _ Mr. BItOTHERTON hating moved the adjournment of the hour, Mr. OSWALD inquired when the Maynooth dente would be resumed ? Mr. BPOONEIt could only refer the hon. gentleman to the orders of the house. When the order was read would be the time to state on what day the debate would be ri. Minted (Hear, hear.) Mr. OSWALD had supposed the motion for adjournment hail not been put until the order. had been goon through. The SEW.AIiEIt intimated that the hon. member for Salford had moved the adjournment of the house before tho orders were rent'. Mr. NEWDEGATE believed the motion to adjourn the house was only part of a listens an iir.t.mee of which they had had that morning, to defeat the motion of his lion. triend (Mr. Spooner), by delay. lle would, however, as sure lion. gentlemen opposite that it should not succeed, and whenever they come to read the dropped orders he would resiat any teethe, adjournment of the debate, and press for a division on the main question. Mr. ANSTEY hoped the hon. member fur Salfeid would not press his motion. He thought the objection of the hon. member for Warwiekshiie 411 unreasonable one. Mr. BROTHERTON reminded hon. gentlemen that the house had now been sitting fourteen hours and a half. if however, they were determined to go on with the May nouth debate—which could not b 0 brought to a close before four o'clock—it was not for him to utter any objection. Mr. HINDLEY hoped the lion. member would persist in his motion fur adjourning the house, and called on the government to support him. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would certainly do so, thinking they had sat long enough. 't he motion was then agreed to, and the house adjourned at half pest one o'clock. nirms. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 9. 1552 TO connisseurrn L NTS. see, td FAidon f " The Lai,:ess." eontalatnn he ape ereeleeee * Casette.," Is pulilleked every Taint-) sal Friday eight, in thee fort iiheineretresetnientted for The Cepreee," Lerlart Evening paper, num be 0 the unrer. I boarenie•areet, Ly Tye o'ehiea es :ne 'Yr of paLlesation. MOE WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE DAT—Ncents& Ansenoon. 71. Vim. I...sezionw—lioraing, 7h. ..... Afternoon. SA. aim. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9. FlasT amongst the Orders for this Day in the House of Commons stands the second reading of Lord BLANDEORD . B bill for the regulation of the duties of ecclesiastical persons and for the manage ment and distribution of episcopal and capitular re venues ; and it is understood that, regardless alike of personal interests and of episcopal solicitations, the noble Marquis is determined to advocate fear lessly the cause which he has honourably under taken. It is very desirable that ecclesiastical abuses should be handled in a more vigorous way than is proposed by Lord BLANMORD; he is nut sturdy enough ; and moreover that part of his scheme which suggests the creation of new bishops is certainly most objectionable. Yet, notwithstanding these drawbacks, it must he admitted that the bill has been carefully drawn and ably introduced, and that it deserves temperate criticism, patient con sideration, and some support. Amongst the pro posed regulations of the duties of ecclesiastical per sons are the addition of the decanal duties to those of the bishopric; making the deanery house the episcopal residence the endowment of cathedral grammar schools;--the reduction of canonrics to two in each cathedral;—the constitution of a acc of Westminster ;—and the separation of the ices of Gloucester and Bristol. The consolidation of the offices of dean and bishop is the only new and decided change amongst those proposed, the other provisions being merely further extensions of the recommendation of the church commissioners in 183.5; and perhaps it would have been safer for Lord BLANDFORD'S plan if he had abstained from any suggestion involving a funda mental alteration in the constitution of the ecclesias-1 tical corporations. The endowment of grammar schools attached to cathedrals is a graceful conces sion to public opinion—outraged by the gross abuse of statutablo power in the proceed. ings against Mr. Wnisron—and would afford the Established Church a mode of strengthening and extending its influence, less obtrusive, indeed, but not less real, than the appropriation of its funds to the endowment or the augmentation of parochial incumbencies. The reduction of canonries to two in each cathedral is a proposal which will meet with little opposition from any quarter. It may limit the opportunities for episcopal nepotism, but the cathe dral duties will be at least as effectively performed as when twelve wealthy pluralists slumbered in the golden stalls of Durham. fhe act of 1840 allotted but two canons to the cathedrals of St. David. and of Lien daff, where the duties are the same asat other cathedrals. The creation of a see of Westminster to relieve the overgrown see of London is no new suggestion, but has been in turn approved by all parties, and only waits a convenient opportunity for establishment. The severance of the sees of Gloucester and Bristol is less likely to command general acquiescence. The union of these sees was recommended but recently by persons best qualified to judge of episcopal duties, and the present bishop has found leisure for a close attention to the temporalities of the united sees. But the proposal to empower the creation of new bishoprics without seats in parliament endangers the whole bill. The bishops will oppose it, as leading to their ultiesete expulsion from the House of Lords; the clergy, knowing already too such of bishops, will o s be io the increase of their num ber ;--the laity will ye of the creation of au order of men with imam than those of third-rate lawyers to ape the lordly gentility of the episcopal peers ;the politician, rosele.*.g the abuses of fre quent translations, will not tolerate the re-introduo fion of a system so subversive of episcopal morality ; —and the whole body of the community will oppose the diversion of estheintke resources from their legitimoto sliest et poulid extension, and will no lese eto the ldest bee of a class of dignitaries whom wahines bag been ea poorly demonstrated. The pooch's= for the management and diet:Motion of ma*, loveness met the eepitular shim wholly in the embehelleal erameimioners, giving to the pre sent main et ehaptcr their average inoomedering the wet shin years, and to the future umbers 750L4 year ; and wit the umbel el the wise* incomes (hot not the he of the emits) in the ewe body, reducing the Ineemes i* X i bll ire senior prelates hem 60,0001. to 34,0001. Them enostmente are not soffieient for the exigency of the cue. bet they will remedy a part of thiamin of ecelesiostleal rapacity, and they carry one step further the meow mendations of the church commissioners in 1536. The Folioed to divest the chapter of the manage ment ear eapitular estates, and to substitute fixed incase% is a change which cannot be delayed much longer. Under the cathedral acts tho twelve canons in soh eathedral are in course of reduction to four, and k would be preposterous to suppose that the frit tunas is the receipt of one-third of the revenues eon eldne to be entitled to the control of the whole copitalar estate. As the management of the pro perty vested in the Ecclesiastical Commission is under the control of the three lay official members, the sub stitution of that board is a step in the right di rection. But it will be difficult to persuade the country that bishops should retain the control of the dealings with episcopal property, or that lay management with respect to episcopal estates is less imperatively called for than the better regulation of celPii6ler.,Preperty. The object of the distinction is the pro vision of funds for the endowment of new biebegehe I and its retention will be unnecessary when tint portion of the bill is expunged. The cry ing went—segicat on the part of the church, as of the stall—is the organisation of arrangements to carry instruction to the mass of the poorer people of this esontry, who have been left in a state of igno ramuy es full of danger to the very existence of sanity es destructive to their own personal interests. The extent of the additional funds which would be provided by the diminution of the incomes of the senior prelates, by the reduction in the number of canons, and by the transfer of the control of the estates, cannot bo even approximately estimated from the parliamentary returns on ecclesiastical incomes; but there can be no doubt that the total surplus would be very considerable. According to the last report of the ecclesiastical commissioners, the yearly grants to small benefices made by that board exceed 77.000/.a year, equivalent to two millions and a half of money. This sum has been provided by the suppression of about three hundred sinecures, and these generally of the least value in the church. It woukl seem 110 Extr.tvagaut Estimate to assume that the reduction of the flee chief episcopal incomes from (4,0001. to 34,0001., combined with the reduc tion of the canons to two in each cathedral, and with the other amendments under this bill, would produce at least as much more ; and this large sum would be provided, nut by th e con fi scat i on , nor b y t h e i n j ury, but merely by the ro-arrangement of ecclesiastical revenues. LORD DERBY says he " has some apprehensions as to I the probable con sequen ces of coma i t ut ion al governmen t at the Cape of Good Hope." It has been remarked that prophets of evil often have it in their iowcr to bring about the fulfilment of their ill boding constitutional government produces bad consequences at the Cape, it most bo because the colonists arc perverse and un reasonable. And Lord D ERBY i s doing his utmost to goad and spur them into a temper in which they are likely to be unreasonable. The temper of the Cape colonists has indeed been sorely tried for many a long year. They have been misgoverned by o ffi cials, the nominees and props of the Colonial-office. Their earlier petitions for constitutional government were treated with super cilious scorn. Even after the homo government had pledged its faith to grant them a constitutional government, unworthy subterfuges were resorted to, to obtain delay, or the means of making the consti tution illusory. Then came the mad attempt to take the colonists by surprise and smuggle convicts into the colony against their will; with the ticklish agi tation to which it gave nse. At last a constitution, framed in Downing -street, is sent out cut and dry, with orders to the Legislative Council to pass it into • law. The colonists accepted the consti tution. The Legislative Council consists of ez officio members, norainees, and representative members. The orders from head-quarters admit of no delay; but Mr. MONTAGUE, the Colonial Secretary, with his nominees, in despite of the disapprobation of his offi cial colleagues and the opposition of the representa tive members, substitutes a 501. for a 251. franchise, thereby neutralising the whole measure; denying to the mass of the educated and indu s t r ious colonists any voice in the election of the future legislature. " It is the last drop that makes the cup run over; but for the good sense of the colonists and their po pular leaders, such a juggle might pardonably have stirred them up to mutiny. In such a case the duty of any , minister deserving the name of a statesman was plain. The conduct of Mr. MONTAGUE was not only unjust to the colonists and impolitic in the last degree ; it was flat rebellion against his masters in Downing-street. If these masters had had the spirit of men they would im mediately have transmitted orders to their insolently disobedient servant to obey his original instructions instantly, and to the letter—if indeed they had not straightway cashiered him. But instead of acting thus, Lord DERBY—the proud and peremptory Lord I) —protests that he must wait to hear what rearm Mr. MONTAGUE assigns for his extra ordinary insubordination. Upon this conduct on Lord DERBI . 3 part the Cape colonists can and will put only one interpretation. 'They' know Lord DERBY of old; they have had experience of him as a Colonial Minister; they know how pc- remptory he is, bow impatient of contradiction. 1 1 They will understand his hesitation t o i m ply appro bation of what Mr. MONTAGUE has done—a desire on the part of Lord Dranv to gain time, to see whether the colonists are likely to submit tamely to be juggled out of their promised constitution. Every moment lost by government before they disclaim the scandalous juggle of Mr. MON JAGUE, and compel him to make the amends honorable by restoring the original not very low electoral qualification, is pregnant with dan ger. Ile and his unscrupulous tools are busy sowing dissensions among the colonists with a view to get up an ostensible cause for perpetuating the high electoral qualification. They have one set of emissaries whispering in the ears of the coloured classes that the representative legislature will be exclusively a representation of the whites, who will legislate against the blacks; and another set whispering in the ears of the whites that the coloured races are disaffected and will prove incapable of being controlled under a local parliamentary government. They are seeking to stir up the races to acts of outrage and violence against each other, in order that they may be able to persuade ministers and parliament that constitutional government at the Cape is impossible. And they have a third set of emissaries writing home alarmist letters, to all and sundry, describing the mutual inveteracy of the white and coloured races, and piteously im ploring their correspondents to use their influence with members of parliament, with ministers, with the press, to avert frtim the colony the curse of constitu tional government. Mr. MONTAGUE has, it must be confessed, as pretty a set of unscrupulous agents at his beck and bidding as any petty wielder of a dele gated provincial despotism could wish for. Not a fraudulent bankrupt who has left his creditors here in the lurch and betaken himself to South Africa, not a beggarly official provided for by being saddled on the colonial exchequer, but is doing his work with a will. We have seen some of these alarmist letters; and know the writers and their antecedents. Hitherto the deportment of the Cape colonists has been u calm and prudent as it has been firm, in the mat trying circumstances. As yet, except on the frontier, where the tyranny of degenerate missiona ries and petty officials has goaded the Hottentots to rebellion, there is no jealousy or ill-will between the white and coloured races within the colony. But this satisfactory state of affairs is perilled every day that the incendiary agents of the old, irresponst• Me official rulers are allowed to prosecute their intrigues. They are rapidly alienating the white and coloured races from each other, and pre paring them for reciprocal slaughter • they are rapidly exhausting tho forbearance of the colonists. Every moment that Lord DERBY temporises and de lays ho affords an opportunity to these clandestine agitators to make good his foreboding that the Cape will suffer under constitutional government. The recent history of Downing-street rule at the Cape of Good Hope has been a repetition of every political fault and folly that cost Great Britain its North American colonies. The most irritating of these faults and follies were perpetrated when Lord STANLEY was. colonial minister : Lord DERBY ap pears anxious to complete the work which Lord STANLEY left unfinished. Cum so 2112 1162.—Thto Malty Term call to the hat of oirkels se the bee. flelisty of the Middle Tempi* ma sees yeeteriay, Jose 8, and it comprises the following gentlemen :—W. J. Spokes, H. Lloyd, W. P. Hale, J. Digby, H. D. Blackmer, H. C. Butler, Hon. J. M. 0. Byng, J. Smith, T. W. Barnes, D. McLachlan, and H. 8. Ha* thorne, Emirs. BURSTING OP A STRAY BOILER.—FATAL .ACCI DISNT.—On Monday morning the Public Baths and Wash houses; open built by subeariptiee for thew of the poor of Oxford, were *Peed, mei Irmo do moo of a eselesseholy accident in about half an beef ellerwaros. The boiler of the powerful engine, or MS of the poiesimel. Waves, from some Cause or other, took eel the NO evessacetal chimney ma thrown down ea the ease pert. of the build ing, when a young nee named , son of a respecta ble tailor, wu killed on the spot. mid several other per sons were mom or Is injured.. DF.A'flt UNDER MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.- The body of a man about 45 years of age, unknown, was found in the river 'melt, at Manchester, on Saturday, under mysterious cirmamstanom He was found in a part of the river near the racecourse, by a man named John Ellis, who slept at one of the booths on the course on Fri day night. Ellis roes about half-past four o'clock on Sa turday morning, and was walking by the side of the river, when he saw the body, the lower part resting on a sand-bank, and the he d and other portions under water. He returned to the booth and gave information to his meter, and afterwards went to a police officer, who immediately accompanied him to the spot. The body we conveyed to the Griffin Inn, Droughton-road. The deceased wu about 6 feet 3 inches in height, with a full face, was rather stout built, and his hair turned a little grey. He had on a pair of good black cloth trousers, wooollen stockings, and a twilled calico shirt. He was without either coat, waistcoat, shoes, or hat. His neck was uncovered, Neither money nor any other article wu to be found in his pockets or on any part of his person. There was no wound or mark on any part of the body. Information hes been left at all the police offices, but the body has not been identified. An inquest was held on Saturday evening, when the jury found a verdict of " Found drowned." FRANCE. THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ENGLISH PRESS OFFICIALLY THREATENED BY TIIE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. I'ARIB, TUZADAT EvaitzNo. The correspondents of those English papers which have shown themselves least favourable to the govern ment of Louis Napoleon have received invitations to present themselves in the cabinet of M. Latour- Dumoulin, director of the department of the press in the ministry of police. I need not say that your correspondent is among the number summoned; but I can safely assert that no menaces will deter him from the performance of his duty in your service as an independent and truthful reporter of events here, 1 so long as he is permitted to occupy his present situation. Having had an interview with M. Latour- Dumoulin this afternoon, your correspondent is ena bled to give you an exact account of what took place. The director of the press at the in in let ry of police, lately a writer iu the Bulletin de Paris, a lithographic organ of the Elysee, is a young man of about thirty, of prepoeseasing appearance and address. Ile received your correspondent with that suavity and politeness of manner which is a redeeming charac terietic in many of the leading persons employed in the service of the present government. He pro ceeded to state the motives of his present commu nication, which must be regarded as an official notice of the French government, and is therefore of the highest importance as affecting the relations of the two countries. The French government had ob served attentively since the 2nd of December the attitude of the English pram, and regretted to perceive that many of tho London news papers wore not only hostile to the present govern meet, hut outrageous towards the head of the state. Now the French government did not ask for support at the hands of any foreign newspaper; it did not even wish to deprecate opposition; but it was deter mined not to allow the person of the head of the state to be treated with outrage and insult, and his name to be dragged through the mire (train. , dans la bone). It was not only in the letters of the cor respondents that this offensive manner of mentioning the person of the i'rince Louis Napoleon was prac tised, but also in the leading articles. But in either case, fur the future the person of the correspondent would be held responsible, inasmuch as it war only fair to suppose that he fur nished the false news on which the insulting appre ciations contained in the leading articles were founded. Your correspondent was then given to understand that if either the Paris letter of the Ex press, or the leading articles of that paper, contained any expressions outraging the person of the Prince- President, ho would be considered as the responsible person, and be forthwith expelled from France. If it was found that this measure did not suffice to put an end to the practice of insulting the head of the French state in the English press, it would then become the duty of the French government to deliberate upon what lurther measures would be necessary. This is the sum and substance of M. Latour-Damoulin's communication to me this afternoon, and 1 presume that another correspondent of the English press, whom he has likewise seen, has received a similar warning. In answer to this announcement I stated that if the French government made the Paris cor respondent of an English pap, r responsible for what ever appeared in that paper relative to France, it would act neither according to the principles of jus tice, law, nor international usage. It was known that the responsibility could only Ito with the editor of the newspaper in England. A correspondent formed no part of what the French call the re , daelion of a paper. Ile was a private person, who sent confi dential letters, the responsibility of whose publication , ho had nothing whatever to do with. The remedy of ' theFrenchl'resident lay clearly against the newspaper, which ho might either prosecute in the English courts of law, or lay a diplomatic complaint against with the English government, which would in point of fact cumo to the same thing ; only in the latter case the French government would hold the English one responsible for the prosecution of the paper, as had been recently the case in Belgium. When the Prince-President's uncle became caperor he was at tacked with violence by the English newspapers; and he took this means of redress. He caused a cri minal information to be tiled against the editor of the newspaper, who was defended oy Sir James Macin tosh. The upshot of the affair was the condemna tion of the newspaper to considerable damages. M. Latour-Dumoulin answered that the French govern ment could not accept the t beery of the irrreepo . nsibi ty of correspondents. For the charge of uttering false news, although it seemed scarcely necessary to touch this question, I remarked that such errors were ne cessarily incidental to the journalists' vocation, but that they were, in my case at least, never intention ally committed. In all events, I was sure that the Express would have no objection to insert such , rectifications of false news as the government would I ' communicate. He said that the government was anxious to afford every facility to English correspon dents for sending correct news ; it would even have no objection to communicate at times important do cumenta which it could not permit to be published in France. For instance, the Count de ChamborcTs letter, although the Independance Belye was seized for the publication of it, would have been confided without difficulty to an English newspaper. These and other civil offers were made politely by M. Latour-Dumoulin, who acquitted himself of his de licate task with no want of civility. But his ulti matum was that the government could not accept the theory of the irresponsibility of correspondents. Such is a rapid and faithful sketch of this inter view, which, together with similar ones betwocn the director of the press and other correspondents, will, I doubt not, produce some sensation on the other aide of the Channel. The Constitutionnel publishes to-day, at the head of its columns, the following first warning of the minister of police: The Minister of General Police, taking into consideration Art. 32 of the organic decree on the press of February 17, 1852, and looking to the article published in the Corastitu tionnel of June 7, 1852, in which is to be found the follow ing wage • We still firmly believe, even alter the article is the Motailswr, that M. Orsnier d• Cassegnao was fully authorised, &a.," the said article being mined " Dr. L. Veron " and whereas in that article the said X. Veron, notwithstanding the Werth* node is the Mesiteur of June 8, 1862, of a note emarhieehel by the t, persists in declaring ea lama eseeetha to be ins, decrees as follows _ _ Art. 1. By the terms of Art. 32 of the decree of Feb ruary 17, 1862, a first warning is hereby given to the Con stautaosnal in the person of M. Benzin, responsible editor, and M. Veron, whom name is Mixed to the article men tioned above. " Art. 2. The prefect of polies is charged with the ex ecution of the present decree. " Glyn at Paris, this 7th of ,Tune ' 1862. " DE MAUP/S, Minister of Police." - - This document is succeeded by an article from the pen of Dr. Veron, which contains an important reve lation. The doctor has in fact in his possession a note, written by the President's private secretary to the geratit of the Constilutionnel, applying for 100 copies of that paper containing the first article of M. Gra nier dc lassagnac about Belgium. Singular to say, l on the very same day on which the Elyse bought these hundred copies, Count Turgot, minister of foreign affairs, in answer to a demand for explana tion on the part of the Belgian envoy, formally dis approved both the sense and the terms of the article, and denied the official charaeter of M. Granier do Cassagnac as an interpreter of the views of the go vernment. _ _ The Illonikur Beige publishes, with reference to the articles of M. Grainer de Cassagnac, the follow ing note : The constitu'iotand of Paris has just published upon the situation of Belgium, in relation to France, two articles, which have recited throughout this country a just reproha tion. The day after the appearance of the first publi cation of the Constilestionnel, the French minister of foreign affairs, having been interpellated by the Belgian envoy at Paris, formally disapproved both the sense and the words of the article. He declared in an official conference that the author heti only repressed an individual opinion that he is not the organ of the French govern ment, and that the Constitursooncl is moreover independent of the action of the executive power. A more striking instance of the difficulty of a cor respondent's position could hardly be given than the one furnished by the above history, with its attendant circumstances. M. Grimier de Cassagnac was known to have frequent private audiences with the President. That he has long been in the confi dence of the President, that he has often written leading articles at his instigation, is notorious. Ilia has been the pen chosen to shadow forth in prophe tic language some of the most important acts of the President's public life. When, therefore, M. de Ca.. sagnac distinctly affirmed that his articles on Be!- glum expressed the personal views of the President, could :my correspondent doubt the truth of the as sertion. Its truth was confirmed by the Public and tho Bulletin de Park, both of which devoted organs of the hlysee quoted in an exulting tone Cassegna.i's avowal of the high authority which dictated his gross attacks upon Belgium. It was known in Paris, I:mg before the President thought flt to repu diate his tool in the Monileur, that numerous copies of tile eunstitutionnel had been sent grAuitously to influential persons in Belgium, and now all this masa of evidence is crowned by Dr. Veron's disclosures. What man of common sense will now believe that the President's private secre tary bought those 100 copies for any other purpose but to distribute them, for the dissemination of views and opinions of which the President personally approved ? The Council of State was to have been occupied last week with the Millir of the Orleans property ; but the question was adjourned, probably Irma ap prehension of an unfavourable vote. In fact, it is known that eight members of the comb du conk*. tire's are against the pretentions of the government, and tight are in its favour. One member, M. Freil hard, wavers, but is supposed to incline, if at all, to the Orleans side. A letter from Eu,of the sth inst., published by the /Opals, says : The Chateau d'Eu was seised this morn'tig. A sale of the furniture in the name of the Princes was to hare taken place the day atter to-morrow. This morning, at ten o'clock, the director of the domains of the arrondissement of Dieppe, a huiasier of that town, and the captain of the gendarmery, arrived at Eu. At II o'clock they presented themsi Ives at the first gate of the chateau, accompanied by thin mayor of the town. A numerous crowd were collected before the chateau. The steward, M. Moonier, had closed all the ahprouches to it. The director of the domains, in virtue of the decree of Jan. 22, demanded that the door should be opened, to which the steward replied that he only recognised the right of his masts r, the I)uke de lieniourseo give him orders, and peremptorily refused to open the gates. 'I he mayor then sent for a locksmith, and on his arrival the steward was then called on three times in the name of the law to open, but on his still refusing, the locksmith act to work. Ile broke the chains which secured the gates, but he could not apes, the lock, and was obliged to break it wails a hammer. When the agents of the do main had thus penetrated into the first court, one of them told the steward that every measure had been taken to re press any agitation. The latter replied that he only made resistance to prove the right of property, and to protest against force. The parties then proceeded to enter the chateau, but the lock of the door misting all their efforts, a pane of glass in a window was broken, through which some one entered, and opened the door. It is said that a law is in contemplation for tho organisation of cantonal medical attendants, and that this measure is to form part of a vast plan under the direction of the administration of public assistance. Fifteen members of the Legislative Body have addressed to the ministry of public works a demand that the railway from Lyons to Bordeaux shall pvss by Perigucux. At the Bourse the Four and- a• Half per Cents. fell 5e., closing at 100.25; the Three per Cents. rose 10c., and closed at 70.25. The railway market was again firm. Marseilles rose 10f.; Strasbourg, 7.50; Central, 6.25; Orleans and Rouen, 5 each; Northern and Lyons. 3.75 each ; Havre, 2.50; Bordeaux and Dieppe, 1.25 each ; Tours and Nantes fell 1.00. TURKEY. By the Levant Mail we have received Constanti nople journals to the 21th, and Athens to the 27th ult. The former announce that the steamer lte,ehid had eared for Egypt with the ratification by tho Porte of the arrangements made respecting the tan zimat, and with orders to Filed Effendi to return home, as his mission is completely terminated. lat Court. WINDSOR, TUESDAY, JUNE 8. Tho Queen and Prince Albert, with the Court, went to-day to Ascot Races. The august party quitted the Cutle at five minutes past 12 o'clock, in six open I ind.uis and four, and two open pony carriages and four, atten.kd by numerous outriders in scarlet liveries. The first carriage conveyed her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke and Duchess de Mont pensier. The second carriage conveyed the Princess loyal, the Duchess of Atholl, Lady Caroline Barri. gton, and the Master of the Horse. The third carriage conveyed the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duchess of Montrose, the Duke of Wellington, and tho Spanish Minister. The fourth carriage conveyed the Marchioness of Ely, tho Lady-in Waiting to the Duchess de Montpensier, the Mar quis of Abercorn, and the Marquis of Granby. The fifth carriage contained the Marchioness of Exeter, the Countess of Derby, the Earl of Hardwicke, and Earl Grosvenor. The Fixtb carriage conveyed the Countess of Hardwick', Lady Constance Grosvenor, the Earl of Derby, a n d Lo r d Crofton. The seventh carriage conveyed Ledy Mary Cecil, I.lely Elizabeth Yorke, the gentlemen in waiting on the Duke de Montpensicr, and Major General Berkeley Drummond. The eighth carriage conveyed the lion. Amelia Murray, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, and Mr. Gibbs. Major General Buckley, and Colonel Bouverie, the equerries in waiting, attended on horseback. Prince Albert, the Duke of Wellington, and the gentle men of the household et the Queen and Prince, wore the Windsor uniform. The Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Household preceded the Queen to the race course in a carriage and four. Her Majesty, the Prince, and the royal party returned to the Castle at twenty three minutes past five o'clock. The Duke and Duchess de Montpenaier, attended by a lady and gentleman in waiting, arrived at the Castle yes terday on a visit to the Queen. The following distinguished circle also arrived yester day on a visit to her Majesty :—The Duchess of Atholl, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Spanish Minister, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and Lady Mary Cecil, the Marquis of Abertorn, the Marquis of Granby, the Countee of Derby. the Earl of Jersey, the Earl and Counties of Hardwick° and Lady Elizabeth Yorke, the Earl and Lady Constance Ororrenor. The royal dinner party yesterday in addition to the shore included the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny 'toward, Baroness de Speth, Colonel the Boa. C. B. Phipps, and Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey. The band of the Cold stream Guards was in attendance during dinner, and played the following selection : Much. =aimed for the Royal Society of Mod clans Overture, " A 'lOM's's(' nett% Dream" Vein."... la Prima Donna" ) oilien. Selection, " 11 Moto Meese" Polka. " The Gae 15"....,..... March of the Osldstroot Guards Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended and per formed the following compositions: Overton, 44 Tro y" ph Ei n rammer In fichlesisa" lierneve. gone &Nees, 4 . Ls Bsndere" Mame. The Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Derby arrived at the Castle this noosing on a visit to the Queen. The Marquis and Marchioness of Chandos arc expected to arrive this evening on a visit to her Majesty. The Queen gave a grand dinner this evening to a numer ous party . The banquet woo served in St. George's Hall, on the magnificent service of gold plate. The following had the honour of receiving invitations :—The D uc h ess o f Kent, the Duke and Duchess de Mer tpenaier, the Duchess of Atholl, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose. the Duke of Cleveland, the Duke of Wellington, the Duchess of Suther land, Monsieur and Madame an de Weyer, the Spanish Minister, the Marquis and Marchioness of Esettr and Lady Mary Cecil, the Marquis of Bath, the Marquis of Abercorn, tho Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, the Marchioniss of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Granby, the M arqu i s and Mar chioness of Chandos, Lady Fannyilloward, the Lady ing on the Duchess de Montpunsier, the tlaroneu de Speth, the Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Earl Jersey, the Earl and Countess of flardwicke and La..y Elizabeth Yorke, the Earl and Coun tess of Glengall, the Earl of Wilt on , t he Earl and Countess of Camperdown and Lady Elisabeth Dunean, Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount and Viscountess Duncan, Lord Aberdour, Lord Vernon, Lady Charlotte Neville Grenville and Miss Neville, Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Colonel the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, Hon. F. Celthorpe, lion , and Rev. Edwa r d a nd Mrs. Moore and Miss Moore, Mr. and Lady Emily Caven dish, Sir Theodore and Lady Briackman, General and Mrs. Anson and Miss Anson, Admiral and Mrs. Sykes, Colonel and Mrs. Bathurst, Mr. Norman Macdonal d Mr. Oliver, Colonel M'Douall (uommanding 2nd Life Guards), Colonel lion. A. Upton (commanding 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards), and the Gentleman in Waiting on the Duke do Montpensier. Lord Crofton has relieved Viscount Galway in Lis duties as Lord in Welting to the Queen. A deputation from the Highland Society, on the subject of agricultural statistics, had an interview with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley yesterday at the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of the Duke of Duecleuch. Lord Drum lanrig, Admiral Hon. W. Gordon, the Right Hon. Sir Geo. Clerk, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Dalrymyle, Mr. Lockhart, and Mr. Charteris. A deputation on the subject of the Interment Bill had an interview with Lord John Manners yesterday at the °Moe of Works and Public Buildings. The deputation consisted of the Bishop of London, Archdeacon Sinclair, the Revs. William Cureton (Rector of St. Margaret's), Charles Marshall (Vicar of St. Bride), J. Hume Spry, D.D. (Rec tor of St. Merylebone), and Thomas Dale (Vicar of St. Pancras.) A deputation also on the subject of the Interment Bill, consisting of Mr. &adding, front St. Pancras, and the Rev.