The Express. — London, England, 1866-11-05 00:00:00

U . • • 1 61 • THE • 't E IiES At'ACIM M ,• • MINIM NOVEBEV 5, 7. th R rein •cai Teb OYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. LN The ANNULL MISTIMU was held 01 FRIDAY, tin lathinat. CHARLES TITILNER, Req., if.P., fn ths Chair. The felhowing is as epitome of the • TIRE Bag et . ago of the,=gorespects the amount of bra ises' has been , die returns of duty published by parliament on the motion of e Chairman of this Company, exhibitir%ajiit the largest measure of increase which ih•Oost pany baa ever experience'. The total net amount of Dire premium for the year, after deducting guarantees, Is L 414,733 13s. LIFE BRANCH. "Turning now to the Life Preach, It remabuto be reported that the progress has been marked by unchecked encores. This will be made clear by one or two stattatiml expositions. Taking the four previous quinquennial periods. it is found that the erg, from 1845 to 1849 inclusive, commenced with • sum assured tor— ear 1845 of 127,349.. ended the period with a total sum amend of 1,272,794 do. do. 783.406 The Second, 1850-54 Do. 1850 .. 95,650.. The Third, 1855-60 Do. 1855 .. 206,514.. The Fourth, 1860-04 Do. 1860 .. 449,242 do. do. 3,439,215 And now the Ent year of the fifth like period, vie, 1065, the Company has granted assurances for £860.063, nearly twice the amount at the commencement of the List quinquennial period. If, therefore, the result of the total Ave years, ending in the year 1369, were to have a corresponding increase with the pre vious periods of five years each, the amount of business wouldbe effected in the quinquennial period now running would be more than has ever been on record in any insurance establish ment in this country. "The Directors have likewise to report that the Life funds have increased by the sum of £103,146, the accumulated funds of this department now amounting to £746,45.6. As an addition of at least £lOO.OOO per annum to these accumulations during the next ten years may now be fairly anticipated, it Is within rea sonable expectation that dui ing this period the Life funds will appnach nearly to t 2,000,000 sterling. " The Directors propose to the Proprietors that a dividend be declared of is. per share, and a bonus of ts. per share, together 7s. per share, fret of income-tax. " it Is a matter of satisfaction to state that after withdrawing the amount of this dividend and bonus from the profit and loss account, a credit balance will still remain to that &comet of no less than .e. 92,076 9s. in addition to the reserve fund, which, by the :iugmentetion of the year, now reaches the sum of £116,913 2s. 10d." Thla report was unanimously adopted. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and heta JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary In on. JOHN BROGDEN. do. 1,655.678 ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, 16, IiENMETTA-STLEET, COVENT-UARDSN. JOHN BROGDEN'S 18-carat GOLD CHAINS, JOHN BROG DEN'S GOLD GUARD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD ALBERT CHAINS. hoods of a party kind are formectamthg the you'll men, under the patronage of the seniors. The confessional plays its part ; and lectures are given by party leaders, the tendency of which is not soi• much to instruct or edify in the ordinary way, as to extend a party connexion among the hearers. The churches of the city offer in aid of the movement all the fas cinations of the most extreme ritualism, not, we presume, without the knowledge of the Bishop, who assures the world that he hears no com plaints on the subject ; and in one sense with perfect veracity, since, when a curate did complain, he not only refused to hear him, but inhibited him from ministering in the diocese. These combined efforts and influences have been successful ; and an abundant harvest of Romanism has been produced. But it is not so easy to prevent the proselytes from disregarding the ecclesiastical policy of their teachers, and going over at once to Rome. Youth is not very amenable to the ar guments of diplomacy, whether political or eccle siastical ; and thus those who have ac cepted Roman premises at the hands of their Anglican leaders are sometimes found, we doubt not to the unfeigned dismay of the leaders, embracing Roman conclusions. Per haps it sometimes occurs to the waverers that life is uncertain, and that if there is only one Church, and that a visible Church, in which souls can be saved, a prudence higher than the prudence of ecclesiastical tacticians prescribes that a choice between the visible Churches should be made without delay. Hence these secessions, and the general apprehension of more. We are not going to denounce propagandism, against which, from whatever quarter it may come, the world must guard itself, not by denunciation, much less by prohibition, but by strengthening the influences which promote independence of thought and hold men fast in their allegiance to the truth. Nor are we going to waste words in exhorting ecclesiastical propagandists to turn from women and boys, their immemorial prey, to manly intellects, which can be influenced only by valid arguments or by real ascendancy of character. But there is no intolerance in calling attention to the fact that the University receives its junior members from their parents as a trust, and that the sacred obligations of this trust are binding on the con science of all the rulers and teachers of the Uni versity, and of all who exercise authority by vir tue of their connexion with it. The trust is vio lated, we venture to submit, when the power is used, not for the purpose of education, for which alone it is given and accepted, but for the purpose of instilling into the undergraduate party opinions which it is known, or may be surmised, his father would not wish him to embrace, and of entangling him in party connexions which, in the result, may seriously compromise the prosperity and happiness of his life. The risks which a parent encounters in sending his son to Oxford or Cambridge are already great enough in all conscience, as many a man has reason to say with bitterness of heart. It is too bad that to these risks should be added that of ecclesiastical intrigue. We are not speaking of the mere per sonal influence which every man of any ability or of any attractiveness of character must inevitably exercise on the circle around him, and which, being encountered in a mixed society by opposite in fluences, does little harm in the net result. We are speaking of systematic propagandism, which we affirm to be a distinct breach of educational trust. Whether the University can do anything to check or rebuke such proceedings is another question—probably not ; but if individuals per gist in serving their religious party by such means it must be because they think reli gious party above the restraints of honour. We must add that there is an especial claim on the forbearance of men who have seen the reli gions vicissitudes of Oxford during the last thirty years, and who must well know that the artificial excitement of the religious passions by propagan dist influences often, when the burst of emotion is over, leaves the proselyte a sceptic in the worst sense of the term for many years and perhaps o betwi the *We Town the Naiads of grandees presiding**. po litical dinners of an Undergraduate Club. Edu cation, we repeat, is the purpose for which the students are placed in the hands of the authorities of Oxford ; and propagandism of whatever kind, even though the opinions be as certainly and exclu sively true in the apprehension of their propagators as were those of any ecclesiastical or political fanatic in history, is really beyond, and not only beyond but contrary to, the objects of an educa tional institution. JOHN BROODEN'S GOLD BROOCH CHAINS. BENSO N'S WATCHES. Sri and o. Ludgate-hill; 2.5, Old Bunt-street. B ROWN and POISON'S CORN FLOUR for CHILDREN'S DIET. To obtain extra profit I. the sale other kinds are sometimes offered instead of BRDWN awl POLYON'S. Juba Brown," "John Poison," la signed b) the makers on each packet. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, ST. JAMES'S HALL, NOW OPEN for the :SEASON, every night at eight Wednesdays mid Satiirdnys, three and eight. 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To be fol lowed by, at 9 tiebali, IHE HUGUENOT CAPTAIN, by Watts Phillips, Esq. Principal characters:—Mrs. Stirling, Miss Nellaon, MIAs Augusta Thompson, Mr. George Hone), and Mr. J. G. Shore. Grand Ballet of Bohemians, in which Memieura flageolet, Clodocbe, comete, and Normande will appear. New Sanwry by Mr. F. Lloyds. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE POPE'S ALLOCUTION. The following is the full text of the Pope's Allo cution which has been referred to in a recent tele gram from Rome. It will be seen on perusal that thetelegraphic summary conveyed a very inadequate idea of this important document, which reasserts in the most positive manner the doctrine of the temporal sovereignty of the Pope, renews the pro test against the annexation of the Pontifical State by the King of Italy, and denounces all those who took part in that proceeding. Venerable Brothers,—More than once, 0 venerable brothers, exercising our apostolic office, we have deplored , either in our published letters or in divers allocutions de livered in your moat august aailambly, the affliction which has hung for • long time in Italy over the affairs of our very holy religion, sod the very grave insults offered to us and to the Holy See by the sub-alpine government. Moreover, you must comprehend with what grief we are seised now that we see that government with • passion that is increasing every day, constantly attacking the catholic church, its wholesome laws, and all its sacred ministers ; when we see, alas vene rable bishops, and the most virtuous clergy,, both secular and regular, and other most excel lent catholic citizens, sent into exile by that govern. meat, without the least regard for religion, justice, or humanity, or thrown into prison or condemned to forced residence, molested in the most unworthy manuer ; dioceses deprived of their p ,stors, to the great detriment of sonic virgins devoted to God taken away from their convents and reduced to beggary ; God's temples violated ; dio cesan schools closed against the members of the clergy ; the education of catholic youths taken out of the pale of Christian discipline and confided to the professors of errors and iniquities, and the patrimony of the church usurped and sold. That same government, in contempt of ecclesiastical censures, and without paying the least regard to our most just complaints and those of our venerable brethren the bishops of Italy, has sanctioned similar laws, totally contrary to the catholic church, to its doctrine and its rights, and condemned by us ; and it has not hesitated to promulgate • law respecting civil mar riage, as it is called—a law quite contrary not only to catholic doctrine, but likewise to the well-being of civil society. Such a law tramples under foot the dignity and sacredness of marriage. It destroys it as an institu tion and encourages • isoncubinage that is perfectly scandalous. In fact, a marriage cannot take place amongst the faithful without there being at the game time a sacra 'neut. It belongs, therefore, exclusively to the church to decide on everything concerning the sacrament of marriage. Moreover, that government—injuring in au evident man ner the condition of those who make public profession of religious vows, which have always had and always will have force in God's church, and not recognising the very great advantage of the Regular Orders which, founded by men of holiness and approved by the Holy Apostolic See, have in an especial manner deserved the thanks of the Christian republic, civil and literary, by so many glorious labours and so many pious and useful works —has not feared to sanction • law suppressing throughout its entire territory all religious corporations of both sexes it has appropriated all their property, and • great deal of other property belonging to the church, and has ordered it to be divided. Before entering into possession of the Venetian province, it did not hesitate to extend thereto the same laws, and it enjoined, contrary to all law and justice, the total abrogation and annihilation of the con vention which was come to between us and our very dear son in Jesus Christ, Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria. Therefore, faithful to the very serious duty of our apostolic ministry, we raise anew in your most august assembly our voice on behalf of religion, of the church, of its holy laws, the rights belonging to the authority of this chair of St. Peter ; and with all our strength we deplore and condemn all and each of the things which, contrary to the church, its laws, and its rights have been decreed, done, and attempted by the sub-alpine government ; and by all other subordinate authorities ; and by our apostolic authority we abrogate and proclaim null and void, and without force or effect, all the aforesaid decrees and every thing that appertains to them. We likewise bog their authors, who glory in the name of Christians, to bear in mind and seriously to consider that they have unfortunately incurred the censures and the spiritual pains inflicted by the apostolic constitution and the decrees of the general councils upon whosoever should attack the rights of the church. You know, venerable brethren, that certain astute men oppose us and interpret in their own sense the bless ing which we gave to Italy when assuredly without any merit of our own, but, thanks to the impenetrable judg ment of God, we spontaneously pronounced the words of pardon and peace out of love for the people of the pontifical state. In truth, full of solicitude for the welfare and happiness of the entire flock, asking by our prayers from God the good of Italy, we besought him with fervour and humility that he might deliver her front the evils which afflicted her, and that the most precious gift of the catholic faith might be all powerful in Italy, and that rectitude of manners, justice, charity, and all Christian virtues might flourish there more and more. Once more to-day we do not cease to send up our most fervent prayers to God that in His goodness He would d- igu to remove from the catho lic people of Italy the many and great calamities of every kind which are afflicting and assailing them through the fault of the governors of Italy, and in come sequence of a multiform persecution. But, above all things, we beseech our most merciful Lord to aid and fortify by his heavenly help the people of Italy, in order that they may remain firm and immutable in the divine faith and in their religion, awl that they may be able with Christian forti tude to support and endure so many misfortunes and evils, Foolish, however, are those who, on the strength of this, do nut cease to demand of us, already despoiled, and with the most manifest injustice, of several provinces of our pontifical territory, that we should renounce our civil sove reignty and that of the apostolic see. Surely everyone must see how unjust and prejudicial to the church is such • demand. By a singular arrangement of Divine Providence, as we have said on a former occasion, it happened that the Roman empire having fallen, and beig divided into many kingdoms and divers States, the Roman Pontiff, in the midst of such great variety of kingdoms, and in the actual state of human society, was invested with his civil sovereignty, in conse quence of which, never being subject to any lay power, he exercises in entire liberty supreme authority and his jurisdiction over the church, which has been divinely confided to him by our Lord Jesus Christ. And the faithful, with full tranquillity of conscience and entire confidence, obeying the decrees, warnings, and orders of the pontiff, submit themselves th-reto without ever entertaining the least suspicion that his acts are subject to the will and impulse of any sovereign or any civil power. We cannot renounce the civil power established by the divine wisdom of Provi dence for the good of the universal church. We are bound, on the contrary, to defend that government and to pro tact the rights of that civil power, and to complain strongly of the sacrilegious usurpation of the provinces of the Holy See, as we have already done and as we do now, remon strating and protesting to the utmost of our power. Everyone knows that the bishops of the catholic world have never ceased to defend with zeal, orally and in writ ing, our civil sovereignty and that of tho Apostolic See, and ail have proclaimed that Chit sovereignty, especially in the actual condition of the affairs of this world, is absolutely necessary to establish and defend the perfect liberty of the Roman Pontiff. who feeds all the catholic flock—a liberty which is so intimately connected with the freedom of the entire church. These same men fear not even to go about crying everywhere that we ought to reconcile ourselves with Italy—that is to say, with the enemies of oar religion who boast themselves of having founded Italy. But how can we, the appointed champions and defenders of our most holy religion and of the salutary doctrine of virtue and of justice, who have to watch for the salvation of all, march in concert with those who, not upholding the holy doctrine a-sd refusing to hear the truth, keep themselves away from ue—those who would never condescend to grant our desires nor to meet our demands, to the effect that so many dioceses of Italy, deprived of the pastoral consolation and protection, should have their bishops. Would to Heaven that all those who so vehemently op pose the church, us, and this Apostolic See, turning their egards sad their mule to truth and Pastime, may • enlightened once for all, and, thinking of themselves, and looking to the good of their souls, fur life. We have spoken of the confessional as one of the instruments of propagandism. Against the use of the confessional itself we have nothing at present to say, except that the Anglican confes sional is destitute of the safeguards which surround that of the Church of Rome, and that its unregu lated employment will, we suspect, before very long provoke a strong reaction in English society. People must be allowed freely to resort to this or t e anything else which they per sonally feel to be adapted to their spiritual needs. But it is obvious that when introduced into a public place of education under the auspices of party leaders the confessional presents itself in a different aspect, and becomes a more legitimate subject for remark. It can scarcely fail under the circumstances to be not only a vehicle of ghostly counsel, but an organ, and a very powerful organ, of sectarian opinion. Parents may surely claim to be consulted in the matter. A man is entitled. to know in whose hands his son is. He supposes hint to bo in the hands of the head and tutors of the college and of the authorities of the university ; and if a spiritual director is to be provided in a different quarter, he has a right to be made a party to that arrangement. He has a right, at least, if the family has any rights which a religious sect calling itself the Church is not qualified to set aside. That the confessional is an ordinary and recognised part of the system of the Church of England, to which everybody must expect as a matter of course to be subjected, is, we are aware, a party theory ; but the theory has not yet been converted into a fact. The remarks which we have made with re gard to ecclesiastical propagandism at a uni versity hold good, though in a less important sense, with regard to political propagandism also. It has on more than one occasion publicly tran spired that there are political clubs at Oxford mainly consisting of undergraduates, but of which heads of houses and professors of the University a re members. We do not for a moment accuse any head of a house or any professor of doing anything that he does not believe to be perfectly consistent with academical propriety, as well as conducive,to the propagation of sound political doc trine. But we venture to think that any honour able mind, after a few moments of reflection, will see the matter in its true light. To entangle youths whose intellects are immature, though they cannot be conscious of it, and who have never had the chance of taking an independent view of life, in political connexions from which they can only extricate themselves, in case their opinions should change, by a painful effort, and with some loss not only of the good i will of their friends but of self-respect, is under any circumstances a strong proof of party zeal ; but under the circumstances of a head of house or a professor is, as most people will say, a proof of a zeal which considerably outruns discretion, and does not even carefully consider what generosity and chivalry would enjoin. We cannot help fancying that these thoughts must sometimes i 6. r• —...., moved by a boly repentance, as, endeavour to come back tea. wartlog would be more agreeable to ns than to go for tt matt them, following the example of our evangel ical father, and to embrace them, rejoicing in the Lord that his children were dead and are alive again, that they went astray and hay' been found. Then, indeed, it would be seen that our venerable religion, the mother and the fruitful auras of every virtue, and the scourge of vice, conducts equally to the happiness of the individual and the welfare of all. Where religion and her wholesome doctrines prevail there must necessarily flourish uprightnses of man ners, integrity, peace, justice, charity, and all the virtues. Then people are not afflicted with those grievous calamities which unhappily weigh upon them wheresoever religion and its doctrines are not recognised. By the deplorable facts related summarily and with pain, andby the sad contemporary events in Italyjverbody can easily see and divine to what great perils this Apostolic Bee is exposed, and how it is the mark of the most bitter threats of rebellion, the hatred el unbeliever', and the anger of the enemies of Christ's cross. On every side are continually heard pluensied voices, which find an echo in our desperate enemies, declaring that this city of Rome must share in this unhappy Italian perturbation and rebellion — nay, must become its capital. But God, who is rich in mercy, will, by his omnipotence, make the impious counsels and desires of our enemies fail. He will never permit this noble city, so deer to us, in which, out of his great and singular good . mess, He has fixed the chair of Peter, the impregnable basis of his divine faith and religion, to return to thatunfortunate condition so admirably described by our holy predecessor, Leo the Great, in which she found herself when for the first time the holy prince of the apostles entered this city, then the mistress of the world. As to us, even when deprived of almost all human assistance, faithful still to our mission, and confiding absolutely in the aid of Almighty God, we are ready to combat without fear, even to the peril of our life, for the cause of the church divinely confided to us by the Lord Jesus Christ, and if need be to remove there, where we shall be able to exercise in the best manner our supreme apostolic mission. And seeing that in such a horrible tempest, our best and only support must be prayer, we address ourselves to all the venerable bothers and bishops of the entire catholic universe, to all the catholic clergy, and to all the children of the holy mother church, who have never ceased to lavish on us such striking evidences of love and respect, and to come to our aid in onr gravest trials and those of the Holy See ; we beg of them more and more to offer constantly with faith, hope, and charity fervent prayers to God for the defeat of the enemies of the church and for their return to the path of salvation. For to avail ourselves of the words of Chrysostom, prayer constitutes a powerful arm—a great security—a real treasure—an excellent harbour—a very sure asylum— provided that, attentive and vigilant, we present our selves before the Lord, the mind collected, and without leaving any access to the enemy of our salvation. In the midst of the deep anguish which afflicts us we have a great consolation —knowing that God, when this church has no human support, effects marvellous prodigies, which manifest most clearly His omnipotence and His divine hand, and come to confirm this truth, that the gates of hell will never prevail against the church, which will always remain im moveable, triumphing over its enemies until the consum mation of time. But it is exceedingly painful that it is no'. precisely determined that a nation shall always preserve the precious treasure of our divine faith and of our religion. In loth, there are many nations who have kept faithfully the deposit of the faith and the discipline of its manners ; but, alas ! they have been detached from the rock upon which rests the edifice of the church, and separated from him to whom has been given the power to confirm the brethren and to feed thelatubs and the sheep, not agreeing amongst themselves, and enveloped in the darkness of error, they are in the greatest danger as to their salvation. And here we cannot abstain, by reason of our mission, from adjuring in the name of the Lord, all sovereigns and other governors of states, to examine once for ail, and care fully to consider the very grave obligation they are under to endeavour that love and respect for religion should increase amongst nations, and with all their strength to prevent the torch of faith from being extinguished amongst them. Woe, then, to those governors who, forgetting that they are the ministers of God unto good, shall have neglected to promote that worship when they could and ought. It is for them to fear and tremble when thr. ugh their wor k especially they destroy the moat precious trea sure of the catholic faith without which it is impossible to please God. When they shall be summoned befote the tri bunal of Christ for most severe judgment, they shall see what a dreadful thing it is to fall under the displeasure of the living God and to feel His strict justice. Finally, we cannot doubt, venerable brethren, witnesses, and companions of our labours, appreciating your excellent and well-known religion, your piety, and your deep love for catholicism, that you will desire to unite your fervent prayers to ours, and to those of the whole church, and earnestly to conjure the very gracious Father of mercies, in order that through the merits of his only son, our Lord Jeans Christ, He would take pity on Italy, on all Europe, and on the entire world, and that by His divine omnipotence He • ould cause that after the destruction of all errors, and the cessation of bitterness and perturbations, His holy church may fully enjoy entire liberty and peace—that human society may be freed from the many evils that afflict it—and that all nations may be blended in the unity of the faith and in acknowledgement of His Son walking in the paths of the Lord, and producing fruits in good works every kind. AN AMERICAN PROTECTORATE OF MEXICO. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times, writing on the 20th ult., says : " The Mexican question at last draws to a com plete and positive solution. I shall be disap pointed if, before this letter is printed, there is not at least a semi-official announcement that the im mediate withdrawal of the French and Maximilian from Mexico is a fixed fact. The basis of this solution has already been foreshadowed. It is briefly the assumption of a protectorate by this government over Mexico, which shall guarantee the French claims, and in compensation there fore the Mexican government cedes the pe ninsula of Lower California and other territory to the United States. The French influence iu Mexico is thus uprooted, Maximilian's crown of cactus will be hung up to dry and wither in the conservatory of the House of Hapsburg, and the United States become wetnurse for the enfeebled Mexican Republic. lam not yet fully posted as to the details of this important piece of diplomacy, but it will be well known within a short time. It has been the subject of frequent consideration in the Cabinet of late, and to-day it is receiving its finishing touches in the matter of military details, in a lengthy consultation between the President and General Grant. The announcement will, of of course, produce considerable surprise and varied comment. The momentous question whether Con gress will ratify this action will be next in order for consideration and comment." (RECTER'S TELEGRAII9.) RECEPTION OF THE VENETIAN DEPUTA- TION AT TURIN. SPEECH OF THE KING. TURIN, Nov. 4, Erzmizio. Upon receiving the result of the plebiscitum from the Venetian deputation to-day, King Victor Emmanuel made the following reply : " This day is the proudest of my life. Eighteen years ago my father proclaimed from this city the war of independence, and to day you bring to me the manifestations of the popular will in the Vene tian provinces, which, united with Italy, declare my father's wish to be accomplished. Yon confirm by this solemn act what Venetia did up to 1848, and has maintained up gitt erpreoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Advertisements Intended for "The Express," London Evening Paper, mit be at the Office, 10, liouverie-street, by Two o'clock on the clay of publication. DRURY LANK THIS EeEmnn), FAUST. Mr. Phel blesars. F. !helps, W. liarrison, 11. Vandenhoti, and J. ps Jo hnstone . Mr'. Merman VeZill and Nl's. Poole.—And Tith COMEDY OF ERRORS. The Brothers ‘1 ebb. PRINCKSS'& TRY, Evarrrno, 'MK TRIPLE A LLI A %CH.—After which THE li eA P CAIN. Messrs. J Shore &G. 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W 11.1 T K. tiarttone ; Mr. Ogden " Kind Oldiniddy. . ; Perks.—Titri OLD I'll f:1:1: TI: F. I:. Mrs. Lame —GUIDO FA.WK Li,—,kl.4 a Grand DlsplLy of Fin oorks, RIOT( WATER AT LONDON BRIDOT, TIII9 DAT Olt. 3on At Lernoolh. Oh. 57m. To-IfOnnow—Mornolg. lh. 16m Afternoon, lb. 35m. LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, Ws announced the other day the simultaneous accession of four junior members of the University of Oxford to the Church of Rome. A fifth had preceded them a short time before ; and nobody at Oxford, as we understand, would be much surprised to hear that their example had been fol lowed by a great many more. If these were ordi nary and spontaneous conversions we should not think it necessary to say anything more about the matter. The phenomenon which thirty years ago was so startling and exasperating has by this time become tolerably familiar, and our religious philo sophy is cumpoterit to render an account of it, without assuming either the truth of Roman Catholicism ou the one hand or the depravity of the converts on the other. But without pretending to be acquainted with the history of any individual ease, we may say in general that con versions to the Church of Rome among the junior members of the University of Oxford are not ordi nary, nor essentially spontaneous ; and that this secession suggests some observations of a special kind. Active propagandism on an extensive scale is notoriously going on among the Oxford under graduates, Those who carry it on are not Roman Catholic emissaries, nor men who intend to make converts to Rome, but members of the University of High Church and Ritualistic opinions, whose aim, as may be gathered from the writings of their leaders, is to imbue their proselytes with the whole circleuf Roman doctrine, and to prepare them to take part in a movement which has for its general object the reversal of the Reformation, the restoration of priestly dominion, with all the tenets and prac tices on which it is based, and an ultimate re union with the Papacy, and perhaps at the same time with the Greek Church, on terms favourable to the Anglican priesthood. To gain recruits, if we are rightly informed, no art of proselytism is spared. The allurements of personal influence are used to the uttermost. Religious brother- OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) MR. BRIGHT. Several of our contemporaries return to-day to Mr. Bright's speeches in Ireland. The Times sums up the blessings which the hon. member would confer on the country whose cause he was seeking to advance, in this rise : —As to politics, increased discord and disunion. through embittering the hostility between the Orange and the catholic factions ; as to her economical position, the diminution of a capital already too small, the introduc tion of government in the character of the landlord and creditor of a discontented tenantry, the recommencement of that ruinous subdivision of land from which she has already suffered so terribly, and the creation of a surplus population, which oan only be disposed of by famine or by flight. To the Post it is plain that Mr. Bright entertains ideas of government which are wholly incompatible with the established institutions of this country. The Irish people cannot but be sensible that the influence which they are urged to extend to the cause Mr. Bright is advocating should be husbanded and guarded in their own interest, and not lightly exchanged for a political promise which, as they will not fail to perceive, has yet to be endorsed by responsible statesmen. The Herald taunts the hon. gentleman with the alleged failure of the Dublin demonstrations. By the catholic clergy his scheme of reform was listened to with freezing °oldness, and the sympathies of the working men before him were with the Fenian'. In the opinion of the Herald, the annihilation of the Irish establishment would be a vital blow at the good old constitutional principle which unites church and state, and makes the civil power the handmaid of religion, and the proposed alteration of the land tenure would be fraught with grave evil to the social status of the people. The Telegraph contends that the connexion between the state and the high church could be severed in six months were parliament wise enough to pass the requisite decree. With the two gnat religious communities voluntarily maintaining their respective clergy, it would be absurd to continue the collection of the tax on land now applied to maintain the establishment. As to agrarian discontent, what is really required is a law that would encourage landlords to give long leases, by making ejectments dila tory and expensive in the case of tenants-at-will. In ad dition, as the Irish government now lends money to land lords for agricultural improvements, it might lend to occupiers for the saute purposes, securing itself against loss, in the cases of tenants-at-will, by making the loan a charge upon the land itself. The Slur thinks it much that an audience of Irish mechanics has been brought to receive with enthusiasm au Englishman who is labouring for the advancement and happiness of England, to listen with patient attention to his warning that in union and combination, hearty and vigorous, lie the best hopes of the toiling masses on either side of the channel. But far more remains to be done. The current of popular thought and popular feeling in Ireland must be turned into a new and a safer channel. The utility of a representative reform must be taught to every Irishman, and a knowledge of the benefits which would accrue from this must be widely diffused. Mr. Bright has laid the foundation of the union. TRADE AND FINANCE. The Daily News refers to the last Board of Trade re turns to show the partial character of the late commercial crisis, and for evidence of the fact that, however much banking and other monetary institutions Lave suffered, the great body of werchasts have escaped without serious in jury. At the worst we have remained stationary, while in many particulars we Lave actually made au advance. It is abundantly clear from the returns that whatever we have supplied to the United States has been amply paid for, even without counting the large amounts of government securities that have been readily bought upon this side. Although we can fairly congratu late ourselves upon the manner in which general commerce has passed through the late crisis, still it would he useless to disguise that there are some grounds for misgiving. It is impossible that a convulsion such as we have lately ex perienced can go by without causing some individual suf• feriug and loss. The wonder is that there has been so little ; yet there is no doubt that trade is in a wore satis factory and sound position than has happened for years past, and the proof is at once apparent in the general im munity with which a ci isis, almost equalling that of 1825, has been borne. Thus far, although there may be some thing to be guarded against, there is little to fear. MISCELL,eI-NEoUri TorICS. Discussing the Prussian military system, the Dail, Sews allows that there are periods in the life of a nation when the adoption of such a system is politic and even neces sary, but England is not now in one of those straits. The conclusive argument against it is to be found tu the nature of the demands on our military service. Unlike the Prussian, and even the French army, the bulk of our forces are never at home, and their absence is only practicable in a free country with an army raised by voluntary enlistment.. Of what use, with our empire, would be recruits enlisted for three or five years? A soldier would have no sooner reached a foreign station than his time would be up, and he would have to be brought home again• Our existence is not at stake ; and when it is, and a • conscription is needed to save us, the price of it must be an extension of popular power in the parliament of the nation, and the COLICtSbiOn to the private soldier of freedom to rise, if he can, to the very top of the army. The real improvements to be accomplished, enabling us to secure possession at the right moment of an adequately trained body of men, without infringing upon either our political or economic system, must be effected in the regulars and militia. In Crete a warfare in the mountains may still, in the I opinion of the Tilllo, be kept up, but the backbone of the revolt is broken, and every chance seems removed of a spread of the movement to other provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Time must determine of what organisation the I East may yet be capable. Under the shade of the decay ing old tree some young sapling may yet sprout up to cast ea broad a shade as that which now overspreads that eastern ground. Western policy will hardly find it either practicable or advisable to do much towards retarding or hastening the Turk's downfall. Matters will simply be left to take their own course. The Herald can suggest no better protection against the , excesses of ritualism than the good sense and discretion • of the congregations, by whom such matters are better settled than by any outside tribunals. It is hopeless to expect uniformity of practice within the church of Eng land. Indeed it would be a bad sign of the church if there were not periodically some of these movement. within its body. The Stawlard proclaims its conversion to the views of the liberal politicians here who have always contended that reparation was due from us to America for the ravages of the Alabama. The escape of the vessel, it now says, was due to official neglect, and it adds that there can be so discredit in submitting to arbitration the question how far that accident was the result of lath,, on our part, and how far this renders us responsible for the consequences. We (Times) regret to hear that the state of Sir James L. Knight Bruce's health during the last week has been very unsatisfactory. Bird. L. Knight Bruce him been a lord justice of appeal in Chancery ever since the creation of the office in 1851. He Iris made a vice-chancellor in 1811, and has, therefore been a judge for the last quarter of a century. His resignation hail caused the Gott change which has occurred for the last fourteen years among the permanent judges of the Court of Chancery ; but we understand that several further changes will be made during next year, when the two junior viawahanaell ogs w in complete the fifteen years' service which entitles them to their pension. to the present day with admirable,, t itling and abnegation. I therefor e p a y er grateful tribute to those gene rous . patriots et a upheld their faith in the desti nies of the w eek . by everykind of sacrifice and by their blood, day foreign dominion ceases for ever. Italy is ea. stituted if not accomplished. Italians mud her defend and make her great. The iron creel also restored to Italy, but to that crown I peek the one which is dearer to me made by the to sot my People." PORTUGAL. LISBON, Nov. Twelve thousand troops, returned from the es a , at Tancos, were reviewed to-day by the King Queen. The United States iron-clad Miantonomoh by arrived here. Eke Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Not 2, The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christ* drove in the grounds yesterday ilternoon, and he r jus sor drove with Princess Louise this morning. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princes Cbti went out walking to-day. His Royal Highness p, Leopold went out also. Princess Beatrice rode in the Home Park. Viscountess Jocelyn has succeeded the D a w n , d Roxburghe as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty, sad% Honourable Mary Liacelles has arrived as M a id d Honour. _ _ _ _ Dr. Jenner has left the Castle for London. The Judge Advocate-General had an audience d y t Queen. The Queen inspected at Windsor Castle, to-day, tie testimonial which was presented, through the PAd Bessburough, to the late Mr. Charles Davis (who •se ne upwards of forty years Royal Huntatuan), from noble.; gentlemen, and farmers frequenting the royal hunt. This testimonial was specially bequeathed to hq Majesty by Mr. Davis. Not t The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise aad P. ems Beatrice, drove in the 11 me Park yesterday dials% Prince and Princess Christian also went out &iris& The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by Lieutenant Haig, arrived at the Castle last night. Major-General Sir T. M. and the Hon. Lady ga l i l k had the honour of dining with the Queen sad the md family. Mr. Helps arrived at the Castle, and also batis honour of being invited. The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince and Priram Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Pik* Beatrice, and the Ladies and Gentlemen iu Waitingia, tended Divine Service this morning in the PrivateChapi, The Hon. and Very Rev, the Dean of Windsor °Seidel. The Prince of Wales, attended by Lord Frederick past{ Viscount Hamilton, Major Teesdale, and Captain Ebc, left Marlborough-house on Friday night for Dover, el rovte to St. Petersburg. _ . The Queen of Denmark, with the Princess of Wde Princess Thyra, and Prince Waldemar, and attended ij Countess Reventlow. H. de Custenschiold, the Hon. lea, Stoner, and General Knollys, arrived at Harilmre* house on Saturday evening, from Sandringham. The Queen of Denmark, Princess Thyra, and him Waldemar took leave of the Princess of Wiles yeetedq morning, and, attended by Countess Reventlosi, X Cuatenschiold, H. Jantzen, and Lord Harris, left Nisi borough-house for Dover en route to Copenhagen. The Princess of Wales, with the Hon. MR. F. Blew, and General Knollya, in waiting, attended Divine wig yesterday morning- The Right Hon. J. Stuart Wortley, accompanied W several other gentlemen, had an interview with tier Igid lion. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his Addld deuce, in Downing-street, on Saturday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council at a Saturday. The lords present were :—Lord Weiabmy, itt K V. Williams, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Lawrence Fed His Royal Highness the Duke of Minh*, after inspecting the Galatea in Keyham•yard on Sitstis morning, left Plymouth on Saturday afternoon by* 3.20 express train, for Windsor. The Earl and Countess of Derby leave tows afternoon on a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle. The marriage of the Master of Lorat with Kg Alice Weld Blundell will take place at Ince Blundell on Wednesday, the 14th of this month. The ball at Costessy Hall on Wednesday Digit was opened by a quadrille, the Queen of Denmark do* with Lord Stafford, the Princess of Wales with the Dots of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales with Lady Staffora,sla Lady Suffield with the Earl of Leicester. Prince Napoleon, accompanied by his sided.. Mini , and Mr. Martin Colnaghi, vb.ited the picturegillaig of Duke of Sutherland, Lord Ellesmere, Mr. Timm Baring, and other collections. His imperial WOO leaves immediately for the continent. Captain Cowper Phipps Coles, R.N., has bets recommended to her Majesty by Sir John Pairing** the civil Commandership of the Order of the Bath. The retiring pension of Mr. Justice Hayes bes been fixed at 2,4001. per annum. It is stated that Sir Hugh Cairns was offend a peerage on his elevation to the bench, but &taped tY honour. The out-going Vice-Chancellor at Oxford his communicated to the Senate an offer which has bees merle by some gentleman, who wishes to be anonymous, to fond an annual prize of the value of 40/. for good rig* among candidates for holy orders at the University. The Chichele Professor of Modern History It Oxford (Mr. Bernard) will give a public lecture astir Temporal Power of the Papacy an.l its Historical Relater with Germany, France, and Italy, at the Tailor la* tion on Saturday, November 10, at 2 o'clock. An action has been taken against Colonel Field* the prosecutor at several of the recent c ourt.martiels , James Murphy, alias Lynch, in whose case there much controversy as on o his identity with deserter the 83rd Regiment, and who was ultimately salli* i The action is for false imprisonment, and the dames es laid at I,ooof. Bishop Dupanloup is engaged on a work entitled " The Morals of France at the present Day." 1 King Francis of Naples, who has so long kePt i f the mockery of a court and government, has &sous* , length his ministers and attendants, and ptrmitteddos to enlist under the croon of Savoy. The Roman Catholic Council at Baltimore Clal its session on the 21st, President Johnson being rol l ' It is ntmoured that the council recommends the 41 0 went of twenty additional bishops and one archbisblt° each six diooes«s. Mr. Peabody has just added to his princelygffil the sum of 150,000 dollars to Yak College, after haVig a duwed Harvard with equal generosity. The New York Times says :--" Mr. Peshoo example has, in at least one instance, proved bewi °4 Mr. Alexander T. Stewart, one of our own and one who, like Mr. Peabody, is the sole architect di immense and accumulating fortune. ii preParing million of dollars for the benefit of the poor of this tiii• " Mugby Junction" is the title of the Christie. number of Alt the Year Bound, to be published est II December." viS HALLOWE'EN AT BALMORAL. —Her ...sp.., had in former seasons expressed . a desire to be the .celebration of Halloween In the Highlands , Pt, opportunity of gratifying her desire on Westnerdsl_7", Ti, a Lowlander, the sight on Hal lowe'en in de wr,`, lands is very interesting. Every farm end cottarlikst provides% with a bonfire, and each child is anned .. • " sonnik" or torch. Thus prepared, the children , Is r 7, dark °en seta in. go along the hillsides and glees, their lights. Although the " old style" is more observed, a good number of the people celehrssr_ak " new style" on this occasion, owing to her Moja/11_1j to witness the proceedings. Several bonfires woo '1 of within the policies of Balmoral , and a numbe bu r t ._...71, Dike" were =rett. The day was very uet, evening th e rain abated, and the darkness Wormy, display. A number of the tenants, armed wWit/ " "counts," assembled In largo groups lustbift lie r e#Jl in. In an indent almost the hillsides were with hundreds., torches, and the bonfires beittg ami lrol the same time, the effect was very fine. Her If s . 'the members of the royal family were outside, the sight very mush.--Sootestan. CO I Igtiiiir In I ria gnaw O. Tbe Solicitor this cees wu w e astadaY nex the call s o r-Gen ' ,Wet to Sir Ro m ks° before Sa hod to ask t Lo t term it w at the nl iastioe ria g ty on tha I The solicito yr. Justice Yr. Liddell4 of thro° cc"' amber before , 100 L into COIL ,e.: it, t ad the ar 2371. H moo t to eat ant, sad also that there was the *We l° 1 ." „ or t. The tri time in cone "hod at $ll ; e a Auguet bro w, the the plaintiff I would ha hosed of whi , this junr. wi d defendant difference. Rule granted. ern Wit TORlple, bats before B 1 t ract foe the s ue why the yew triel had , viiaiee. It 1 been attatained deem power fa it bobbin mew coa ditional I Bala `ranter COT 'Hinge in Be Jut' IB lIVIKING lido ease m for hew the ofrul home of Kirford, ['Wang °es rithout, Dr. new he Queen' Tile ease Dom of Ai rat kim to Ike altorol r ir t by The plsintif of insanutoo • ' premises i iurT found • Lucia! had f i On Saturday w trial, u the ei The Lord C was no j d further, s . • justify Buie refuse Jezimi r. 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