The Express. — London, England, 1850-12-24 00:00:00

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The subject of chari ta bl e endowmeate to o* correspondent's l e tter yet rensainEto nitired, ann it shall receive from us at theemt opfortissity the consideration which sts impottance undoubtedly 'Tnn North Western Railway Company, which eves employment at dret-class wages to many thou sands of aorkpeople, and which is honourably cha racterised by the attention which it pays to tee religions, morel, and educatiocal wants of its servants and their females, is spin threatened with a strike of a portion of its engine drivers. It may before twenty-four hours elapse be again Osgood by strike, it the mal contents have the bad courage to carry their (bo hemia ansonneement out: for to violate a contract as these men intended (as the document given is yes terday's Repress showed they did intend) is do- Now, of strikes generally it is to be observed that they almost invariably occur in highly-paid depart ments of labosr. The colliers of Durham sad Northumberland are probably the bait paid unskilled 'abetters in the kingdom ; and they have fur years been notorious for striking on the most frivolous and 'restless pretences; to the serious injury of their em ployers, to the deplorable increase of crime, and not to the benefit of their " order." So with ship car penters, so with glass maentecturers, so with Sheffield ostlers; all well-paid labourers, all esofederated in anions, are tyrannised over by disorderly workmen whe mede on and live by the general credulity, and interfere improperly with the good order of em- eVPregiO• - To CORRUPoNDINTB. Alwitionseatstaisolol ear • The taimem." Loden leads. ea vy ger, Nett* at the 011 ea. Betteerawataila. b 1 Two mode ga ilay et pabaldaea. 1110 H WATER AT LONDON BRIDOIL Toe al—lllenera. N. ........ .Alteramat. k. Ifameamear—lletis , 1116 ,ONDON, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 24. It the crowds who gathered in St. George's, South wark, on Sunday last, expected to hear the Car dinal's tardy disclaimer of the very Healer views which, on his own showing, prompted the Vatican to the insane escrow :meets it has been making upon the rights of the crown and the liberties of the pro testant and Roman catholic people of this country, their expectation was again disappoiuted• Not one word of reply did his eminence, in this his third and . conc l u di ng lecture "on the catholic hierarchy, address to the reiterated charge s brought against hiss on this head, nor to the evidence adduced in support althea. The only portion of the entire discourse, indeed, which in the least applies to the matter, is the concluding prayer- 5 Sanctify Thy ministers) "a! eapplication in which, so far as the Cardinal is cos. earned, we are quite willing to unite with his coups ✓ation. The rest of the iscourse appears to be bakes up with a parallel between himself and his Divine Master—partly his own, partly borrowed from Dr. ULLATHORNE without aeknowlede mint. With better taste, we trust, than these ecclesiastics have in this instates displayed, we decline to follow them into the coesideratioas which such a parallel tempts or to examine. The real question at tuns between ourselves and the Cardinal is steadfastly kept out of view by him self, and also by his adherents It is this : " lies the Pore, or any other power but the legislature of this country, the capacity to affect civil rights belonging to British subjects?" It is truo that at the outset an endeavour was made to lay upon the sub jects of her MAJESTY, and not upon the POPE, the reepuisibility of the innovations complained of. "Many of the clergy and laity," say the letters apoMolical, " highly esteemed for their virtue arid rank." had petitioned Rome to abolish their rights and subject them to the absolute will of Cardinal Wintery( and his suffragans. But the pretence is now stale. We have shown from the extracts of the peti tions in question, whi"h appeared lately in our columns, that the petitioners asked just the contrary ; and our refutations of the error, into which the Pore hoe been lad by the min-statements of hie English adv'sers in this regard, remain uncontradicted and even unnoticed by them to this hour. We are sot surprised at this apparent oversight on their part.. Bat the POPE 's simplicity in the matter really is surprising; unless indeed we are to give ear to our Roman Catholic cornrspindents who impugn the Curia Romano for wholesale and hopeless corruption, and believe that of what panes there Pope Pttis knows just so much as its familiars please, and not a whit further. Out of the multitude of docu ments laid before us we take the fullowing petition to Propaganda, numerously signed, and presented only lest year, and we ask any reasonable and charitable man if it be credible that the POPE, who believes that his present measure is acceptable even to the Roman Catholic priests et England, can have read that document ? Most Eminent Prison! one the andenigeed missiosary priests in the Catholic Church is England, humbly aad **r ived, prav sat beemeh the Sacred Conaregatii , n, that the rash of Ilullops Ordinary may tint be granted to the ▪ sposeohe of Erigtoad. nnrone TWAT ?NZ MOUT, OP POW AY cetera d sans hens TO TM. 1118- et AAAAA ration, elleordslis to the Warta proponta pat teeth by the mese mewed emgregation is the year 1838 ; and that. in the first piste, there lag be a code of laws touch Wef 11111100 —IOW part Oren to priests in the chairs of their bishops, chapters duly constituted in each distract, awl that stahility of piece and that parochial status unwed which hitherto, that is, down to Tits rat POST lIENENATION Or VICARS •PootoLlC, Was laassttiomed by customary law, the which :bangs met twine pasted TUE LAMM state of the oforeiaid clergy will be worm there're! rain. This important document shows that, far from m iniver in their original demands, as set forth in their papers already published in our columns, the clergy of the Englieh catholic. have contitmid to press them with increasing vigour, fired as they mast be by the spectacle of that happy independence of episcopal tyranny, which their brethren of U c Roman catholic church in Ireland have enjoyed since the days of ST. PATEIcii. It will also be observed that the changes contemplated by thew petitioners relate, not to temporal, hut to "spiritual things" cooly; that they claim the promulgation of the statutes of 183 1 3 pro posed by Rome but enacted by themselves ; and that they are of opinion that, bad as their then condition was, sedge an ambiguous menu law and the arbitrary but precarious authority of Pore's vicars. they preferred ft vastly to any change which did not comply with the terms specified ; in other words, to any change like that now forced upon them by the " Letters Apostelical" of Pope Pius. " It was tae in SpirileMWS that we wasted, sad wet titles," writes a very distinguished ecclesiastic " I seed yea copies of the petitions. They would have been better Mined but foe the threats held oat. A meeting is to take place of the clergy sloe Christmas, to try to enure their rights, but their succ as will mach depend on the laity. Tie prism have I illrase the ezperienee of as immense besot their charitable I undo the security of their bishops beteg restrained by law in respect of temporalities. The bishops have boss encroaching tor above half a restary. Their first step was to imp*, the eath at ordiaatious a thing equally uo knows to canon law and opposed to English, and which, whirs thus introduced, Dr. Limpid and several other points reseed to take. Their seat step Ws* to assume the power of reiseviag parish priests at their ewe plea ewe, but is whisk they surfer quite succeeded before Dr. Airmen came. Muir last smarpation was that et the Drover's' right of nomiastiag to lives", aad thatches The stooks and Omits were the trot of their opponents in this nistesor, aid their resistant. we soccessfal; but nothing bat a strict law can prices( the ultimate sewn of the bishops. By means of the deaih-oed, they will by degrees set all these tracts into their own handle." Under these eircumetanoee, the prayer, "Sanctify thy minister.," appears a very relevant and needful supplication. But confession is good for the soul. It would have been more to the purpose if the Cardinal had, as Scots lawyers say, condescended to parti culars. This inveterate hankering after temporal. seems strangely inconsistent with the spirit of the Roman catholic oath. Have the bishop° taken that oath? If they have not, they aro not entitled to any portion of the relief conferred by the Acts of 1791 and 1829, and are now liable to all the pains aad penalties con sequent upon the maintaining even a spiritual supre macy in the Pore, or obeying hie mandates, even when only of • spiritual nature. If they have taken that oath, how can they justify the alarming of men's conscience. into the surrender of merely temporal rights? We are glad to see that good sense is returning, and that, in their natural resentment of the vitupera tion to which they have been in some quarters sub jected, the Roman catholic" are not losing sight of their own liberties so mach endangered by these ecclesiastical doings. If seven Roman emboli., peers of parliament have weak set their names to the silly address presented to the Cardinal on Saturday lest, seven more, and amongst these the premier peer of England. stand aloof. The three Irish peers of the Name faith who did not sign more than coootervail the single one who did; but of the two Roman catholic lords of Scotland the suircribing Earl of Newnuaou is surely not more than a match fur the non-subscribing Earl of MAQUAII. We observe too that of the five English catholic members of the lower house, " the comical member for Carlisle," as Mr. ()CONNELL once called that gentleman, is the only subscriber to the address. If we had space or inclination for so trivial a performance, we could show, by a similar analysis, that the remainder of the signatures—even supposing Mem to be those of ployment. So now, toe, with engine drivers ; they are pro bably the very best paid workpeople in the kingdom ; aad they are, it is clear, getting into similar bad habits. This is very muc h to be regretted: for engine drivers are, from their skill, their industry, their general good conduct, and the danger of their trade, well worth to their companies every penny they earn ; and that company does not really study its own interest or that of its proprietary, which seeks to reduce their wages ; for, besides ine galarity and accidents, there would assuredly be a larger amount of wear and tear of engines consequent oa any such redacting:. First-rate drivers are really invaluable, and cheaper by a third, at least, than in ferior men ; so, if their general character wens he proved, the probability is that their wages womid rime, and yet their employing comermies ewe mew b, the increase of wages., which would he MOO GM espad by segmental economy. The public has, therefore, a great interest in well• ha e r e s. giee drivers; and so also ve railway share- Yet these men appear to labour under the impression that there is a deeply laid scheme amongst railway directorates to reduce their wages. From all that we can learn this impression is the maul delusion. It is not, in the first place, the interest of directors to do so. But if it were, they have not the rate of wages altogether at their command. Wages, like bread and butter, are regulated by supply and demand ; and the supply of engine drivers being below the demand, the directorates are much more at the mercy of the drivers than the drivers at theirs ; particularly in reference to first clam drivers. And this the men seem to know very well ; for no sooner have they any grievance, however small, however unreal or imaginary, than, knowing their places cannot easily be supplied, they strike. Well, such being the growing characteristic of this trade, the North Western Company endeavours to protect itself against the sudden recurrence of such interruptions to its and the country's business, by insisting that the drivers shall give it three months' notice before quitting their employment, always, how ever, permitting them still to leave at the expiration of a fortnight, should the inducement to go be better employment erewhere, and not the suspension of work. Any fairer stipulation than this it really seems impossible to devise: it is at once protection of I the men's, the company's, and the country's interests. Under its operation a good driver can enter upon I higher wages, if tie can find them, at the expiration of fourteen days after they are found ; and by its provision the company will have three mantis to Wend itself from the consequences of a combina tion amongst tyrannical workmen. On wages is has only one bearing: if wages from a apply of additional hands tall, it protects the work sin in his high wages for three months; if they rise, it enables him to receive in other employment the full beeelk of the rise in a fortnight. And yet there are, it seems, engine drivers on the North Western so dull and dead to their own pecu niary concerns that they see, or affect to see, in this beneficial arrangement a secret and subtle attack on the rateof wages which they now have. And their reason is, that, in another part of their rules, they are bound to obey prospective as well as retrospective rules sod regulations issued by the directors. But such pro spective rules are obviously regulations fur conduct and management of the line, its work, and servants ; not fie the alteration of wages already fixed and agreed on. If, however, these men, 'pipet the advice of the drivers on the Southern, who two years ago had some experience of a strike, do leave or have dishonestly kit their work, without giving the fortnight's notice they are by their existing contracts bound to give, two things are certain : first, that they ought to be punished for such a flagrant violation of contract with the utmost rigour of the law ; 'secondly, that no other railway company ought to take any one of them into its employment. For men who, on the ground of such an imaginary, contingent, and fictitious grievance, attempt to suspend U. in tercourse between two parts of the kingdom, ought to be made a signal example of. In all the records el strikes, there is nothing so unreasonable u the position these men have wanted, and from it they tart be routed. S•eh oombinatioes and strikes must depress instead at raising wages permanently. For awhile the short supply of engine-drivers may give them a slight ad , vantage; but that advantage, thus used tyrannically, ; will induce the masters to rear up and educate • larger supply of competent men than the demand foe them requires. And where will high wages be then? Gone--never to return. Tux distressing nature of the accounts received yesterday from the island of Jamaica make it impe ratively necessary that sot an boar should be lost in esideavouriog to maks provision for the necessities of ** devoted colony. The fatal malady which has mete than decimated the towns his now spread itself into the mountais districts of the island, into the very localities to which the less distressed of the popula tion have fled for refuge, but where we greatly fear they may find deaths even more dreadful then in the midst of the teeming populations they have left. The mode in which the people live upon the mountain properties sex* no security or bops for their escape. The blacks attached to each estate are congregated in their little villages, where the booms are all huddled together as closely as poe sib* without the slightest provision of any sort for drainage or for cleanliness. These villages are usually is close proximity to the" great houses," orresidenoes of the proprietors. There is no cutting off the con stant eosimunioation between them. The cholera will eesaredly that appear among the negro houses on the estate, and from these it will extend itself to the bosses of the whites. We can hardly conceive any thing more helpless than the position of the poor people on these proportion when the cholera attacks them. Destitute of medical attendance, cat off from eemsasaication with enter properties, probably with ent ma the eummenselt 'means of administering to the sae' either d **warier of others or of the m eshes, death met be their inevitable fats. We bays greedy a hretaste of this result in the esessat published is yesterday's Express of the immehdiss of the polies oe of the pariah of St. Davits. This for*, esseiedog entirely of coloured men, appear to have been seised with cholera in their barracks, at a time when they were devoid of even their sisal means of obtaining succour. The moment the plague broke out every one seems to have avoided them. The ohloer entrusted with their pay was afraid to go near them. They were left in their misery sad wretchedness to starve and die. And they did die. Sergeant, corporal, and privates—the whole faros perished; and the fact seems only to have become knows in Kingston several days after the timbal occurrence. This is only one of the many awful incidents which unrecorded as resulting from the epidemic. We an yirsparod to bear of more of them by the next packet from the island. What else an be expected, wing bow insufficiently Jamaica is supplied with THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY E' $l4 l .is act's. mitgb, emit east, it_— „ , eedieistvipedMimer The szelowiat - p...... be seeeVita. :of the; deaths be ever made gratkmlsn *rho here fallen victims to the ratileoce. noir pre es lives ingleseeLia lie emer gency noir places, it is to be rbsreel, weld not be supplied. The vales of medical mes, arising from their scarcity, was remarkably exemplified by the fact that • sages as baud one of her Ma jesty's ships, wile was going . home ea leave, was offered 1001. a month to remain in tie blend on the day before the latest packet sailed. There absolutely 1 mem to be no perilous to disponi. drugs, if thees were any drugs to dispense. Bat even ca limmelf that which is in most common use in the imbed pre lee, is so sadly wanting, that a gentleman bad been despatched to St. Thomas's to try to put abase 60 lbs. weight of it. Opium, quinine, and wear" were also mid - rely wanting. A gent, fig ems d dime will most likely ere this bus ells rt l tabled from the United Sates, but not en I , anything like the extent in which they are red. We had hoped, in the interval which bee elapsed sines our article of Saturday, that we should have received some intimation that the authorities d the colonial department had taken some assures for the immediate assistance of thus unfor meat. subjects of Great Britalo. Among the daily , Papers the colonial department has a morning and sa 1 l eveeing organ. We have looked to both these papers ' in vain for the slightest allusion to this afflicting sub ' feet. They have been absolutely silent; net do we hear from any quarter that any step whatever bee i been taken by Dowsing-street to mitigate the I dreadful fate of those who are placed under their care. In another quarter we have heard of a move- 1 ment which looks as if some parties were shamed a, their position, and were anxious to shift the respemible 11 lities. It appeara,from an announcement in the mamas, of another paper, that two of the island odium sir Ismaili are in this country with their families; us Isis j illgultssiesthan the Bishopaad Arcbdeaconof JamaiCes I Tame were facts quite unexpected and quite ewe I es. May we venture to ask, what do they do ewe The post of danger, we should have t hou g ht, have been them reverend divines' post of duty. At', such a time, bow must not their absence from the colony be ' felt ? When thousands of the people committed to their are are dying—when every exer tion is requisite to save life—when the clergy are required to be particularly active in • scene which Providence has permitted to be thus horribly afflicted; —how comes it that the two most responsible spirited officers of Jamaica, Bishop Semmes and Archdeacon, Snit% are found vegetating in a London suburb? I s this what they are paid for ? Is this what either the people of England, who pay them, or the people of Jamaica, whom they are appointed to serve, have a right to expect at their hands? We might go on further to observe upon this sur prising circumstance, bet, reserving it for another occasioa, we prefer to turn to-dav to another topic. This is Christmas-eve, a day when every heart is I open to the cry of distress—when every hand is ready is the cause of mercy, for the sake and in the name of I Him front whom we all expect it. Let not this day pus without something being do ne , for them unhappy children of oar nation. M e have many sad grievous sins to answer for on their account : let it not be added to the catalogue that we left them to perish from pestilence and famine. We appeal to the citizens of London —we verily believe the most charitable people of any city in the world. Their LORD MAYOR, a man remarkable for the kindliness of his sympathies and dispositions, will, we are lure, willingly open the doors of the Mansion-house for any movement on their behalf. Their merchant princes— the West India merchants especially—cannot need exhortation to form themselves into a committee for the relief of the island of Jamaica. Do let us be en abled to satisfy the public to-morrow—Christmas — morning, that medical relief and succour shall be sent to the colony without a moment's unnecessary delay. It requires only a little energy to-day to organise a machinery which will receive for this purpose contri butions amply sufficient to do all that the emergency requires. - - - GERMANY. BERLIN, Dec 20. The Gazette of to-night at law. below; the long expected appointments which complete the ministry, and which are already known to yoo. Mautenffel is appointed President and Minister for Foreign Affeirs; Von Hauser Minister of Public 'Worship, and Von Westphalen Minister of the Interior. The Ousetfe also contains a royal order accepting the resignation of Ladenberg, and thanking him for the highly valued services rendered to the King and the country in times of the greatest difficulty. As I mentioned more than a week -ago Baron Ladenberg is appointed president of the chief chamber of audits, a lucrative and easy post. Herr von Westphalen was, until summoned to Berlin, president of Liegnits. In politics he is a strong con sanative with a slight leaning to the new Prussian party. The remainir g members of the ministry are Vas der Heydt, Commerce; Simone, Justice; Rabe, Fiume ; and Stockhausen, War. Herr von Manteuffel leaves Berlin fee Dresden on Sunday morning, and it is undentood that the con ferences are to commence on Monday. Manteuffel will, most probably, remain some time in Dresden, and, it there appears any probability of his carrying his plans, will remain until the end. It is very wise on the part of the minister, for it sets aside the pm sibility of other influences interfering in his absence. MI public, or at least the small portion, who think et all on the subject, 10. k forward to the ap prea•aieg conferences with anything but hope. Mast of them consider that the differences between the respective parties will be so groat that all hope of any liberal or time-serving attention in the constitution of Vs Bend will be destroyed, and that the conferences will terminate in the restoration of the Bundestag in its former cha racter. Nobody knows what the exact details of Manteuffers plans are, nor what kind of an arrange ment was some to at Olmiits between him and Behwarxenberg, and therefore it is idle to speculate ; bat it cannot be denied that experience coneemns bop* sad justifies fear in the minds of all liberal men. Letters from Vienna now amen that the admission ef it. 'Miele of the Austrian provinces into the con federation will sot be proposed, but merely a suffi dent reties to equalise the power of Austria to that dreads. The province of Galicia is mentioned for ebb torpor. The incorporation of Posen and Prus sian reload. in 1848, increased the extent of Prussian himilleiss within the confederation, and :therefore = will demand a corresponding increase of her territories. The commercial relations of Germany will probably form one of the topics of dis mission, and it is expected that Austria will propose the genie plans for a commercial system which Ohs put forth last year. It is even stated that a provi sional arrangement will be proposed which is to last anti! 1868. when the definitive arrangements are to ease into existence. ITALY. ROME ! . _ We regret, nye the Yovrea --- ides Dads, to have to announce new and strange vexatious directed against the Jews of Rome by the pontifical government. A letter which we have this day received, dated Rome, December 12, informs os that one of the most re rgermembers of the Israelitish community, M. ia d onsao, raw on the 6.b his house invade:l by the agents of polios, and was nearly being dragged off to prison as guilty for having received into his house a poor Christian woman, aged 60, without resource, and whom he had employed to get up the linen of the family. M.Tagliscosio only escaped the humiliation and suffering of the prison by the devotion of his son, who constituted himself pri soner in the room of hie father, and has been condemned to a vicarious impri sonment of ten days. On the intervention of the chiefs. of the braelitish community (M. Tagliacozzo himself is a member of the coesistory), the Cardinal Vicar has deigned to reduce the duration of the im prisonment endured by the son in place of .his father, and on the 11th M. Taglianozzo was set at liberty. Such see the facts as they are communicated to us, and which need no long emnsentary that the public I may form a jest judgment of their value. NO DAT NAIL' will be sent from or received at tie Gemara Post-edlas teoworrow (Cbrietrou day) to and boa obese is the Nora Heat, Beath Western, and Ea ters Nestles Railways. The mail pada on thaw lines, who live la the Gantry, will be allowed to leave town this Tortiis order that they ae7 be obis to spud Chriewam. l l a their familia. ARCEMBER 24. 1 • FRANCE. • PARIS, MONDAY 11•1111110. This being the day appointed to receive tenders for the two millions cf tents which the French govern ment had decided to dispose of, a considerable lumber of persons assembled at the hotel of the 'flakier of Finance, in the Rue de Rivoli, as early eseisess o'clock, sod is half as hour aftermwde the lam thrown open to the public was filled. It was generally understood bethrehand that - n a mely two par ties had lodged the required deposit, the firm of Rothschild and the Banque d'Escoutro. Several of the receivers-general bad anted with the latter, whilst the houses of Hottinguer atd Co., of Paris, and of Baring. Brothers, of Lon don, had, it was said, come to an understanding with M. Rothschild. It was oleo mid (as ap pears to be the ease) that, in consequence of the heavy affliction in which M. Rothschild sod his family were plunged by the retreat death of his grandson, that gentleman would refrain from bidding. At five minutes past twelve o'clock M. Fuld, the Minister of Finance, entered the room, and directed a secretary to read the decree of the President of the Republic, authorising the sale of rents, and the cmditiou of the adjudication. From them it appeared that the amount of rents to be sold was 1,543,547 fr. in five par cent. stock, with the dividend of the 22nd September, 1860; and 493,217 fr. of three per cent. stock, with the dividend of 22nd December, 1850 ; the price of the adjudicates was to be at least equal to a minimum priee fixed bye the minister. The payments of the sum agreed to be accepted for the above unt of rente were to be af fec u follows :-20 per cent. on the 25th Jima. 1851, and 20 per cent. on the 25th of Febnary, March, and April respt ctively. The tenders were, u weal, tobe sealed, and when once given in could not be withdrawn. 411ter the oonditions had bean read, the minister 'Aired on the table two sealed packets,oontainleg the minimum price he would receive for the two kinds of route to be offered for, and then announced that he was ready to receive tenders. A sealed packet was banded in by M. Biesta, the director of the Banque d'Escompte, and no other ten der being forthcoming, the miaister said that he would wait a few minutes to see if any other offer was to be made. After a delay of about 20 minutes, the minister again inquired if any other desired to tender, and no an swer having been give!, he said that he would now open the tender presented. The tender was then opened, and declared to be from receivers-general and the Banque d'Esoompte, offering for the 6 per cent. rents 92fr. 40c. (Mur- mare.) The minister rose and said that the minimum price which he had fixed being 93fr. 50c., there was no ad- Indication. (Bravo! bravo!) The secretary then read the offer for the 3 per cent., which was 54fr. 60c. The minister said that his minimum price being 66fr. 25c., there was no adjudication. The crowd then separated. There was no business of the slightest public in terest before the Assembly to-day. The interpella lions respecting the army clothing, of which notice bad been given by M. Sevastre, were postponed. Had they come on, it is probable that they would have led to some sharp skirmishing between that gentle man and the Minister of War. The whole of the sitting has been occupied with an unimportant dis cussion on the question of legal bypotheca, which is likely to last till its rising. A rumour has been current to-day that M. Baroche, the Minister of the Interior, was about to retire from the cabinei, in consequence of the hostile character of the debate of Saturday on the lottery of the Lingota d'Or ; but I understand that there is not one word of truth in the rumour. The committee on the Western Railway Bill met to-day, and came to a resolution to reject the subven tion proposed by the government for the junction of the two Versailles railroads. A meeting of between 70 and 80 representatives el the southern departments took place this morning I. one of the committee rooms of the Assembly, for the purpose of hearing the explanations of M. Tube de Bablons relative to a proposal made to the government by a company which he represents, and the object of which wee that the government should give up the works already completed for the formation of a lateral canal on the Garonne,in order that a railway should be substituted for it, communicating between Bor deaux and Toulouse. After hearing the explanations of M. Tarbd de Sablons the meeting adjourned till PARIS. Dzo. 211. Tor Mosey. The Constautionnet says: It has been said that the ministry was about to suspend the coining of gold which was flowing into the mint, and a report has been even in circulation that it had given orders, if not to stop, at least to restrict it. There Is no clause in the laws relative to this subject which can authorise the government to interdict or limit the coinage of gold. The decree of 98 Thermidor, year 111., stipulates that "Every one who shall terry gold or silver to the mint shall receive the value of Win gold or silver coin." We find in the law of 8 Frimaire, year IV., that " Every citie , n who may wish to convert gold or silver into coin may carry it to the mint," If, moreover, it be considered that the coinage is placed exclusively in the hands of the government, we shall be naturally led to conclude that it could never enter into the intention of legislators to allow it a power of sus. pending or diminishing it st its pleasure. The cause of the report that the ministry had given orders to limit the coinage is this—lt is in presence of the influx of gold into the mint, Nat the government took the measures called for by the limits of the means of coining at preterit existing. Thence aro.e an order, which was issued by the Minister of Finance on the 16th instant en the proposition of the Committee of Coins and Medals. It stated that henceforth the maturity of the mint orders delivered in payment of gold taken to the mint shall be calculated in such a manner that the director should only have to pay sect day the aunt of one million, in /station as tbe gold should have bees deposited. There is nothing in this order like a (matt limitation. The Minister of Mantes has only fixed the deliveries at one million a. day bemuse the means of coining will net allow • larger amount to be made. The limitation of the delivery is only made equal to the means of production. There has also been an saaggeratioo in the account of the quantity of gold lately seised at she mint. It has doubtless been considerable, but net equal to what has been stated, particularly during the Ism month. We WO enabled to rate the exact amount. The coinage of gold, which was only 7 millions in 1847, rose to 38 millions in 1948 ; it again fell in 1849 to 27 millions; and rose to about 70 millions in the first eleven months of 1880 But what mote particularly deserves attention is the manner in which that 70 millions is divided between the different months. The first six month. only produced 23 millions ; July produced 14; August, 11 • 8. ptember only 6; October, 10, and November 8. Thus the moment of the greatest coinage corresponds precisely with the period whea l the removal of gold from eiseeletien in Holland caused the precious metal to flaw into ear market. The Constitistiontest of this morning announces that tbe Minister of the Interior has addressed a letter to the President of the Assembly for the purpose of suggesting the propriety of placing another cow misery of ponce at the Assembly, in place of M. You, and that M. Dapin has simply answered 1 1 that he has referred the letter to the questers. It is probable that this affair will lead to a fresh skirmish between the minister and the Assembly. Accounts from Algeria announce the death of Gee. de Galboie, who had retired from the service after having for a long time commanded the province of Constantine. Orders have just been given by the Minister of the Interior to all prefects of departments to exercise the strictest surveillance on the foreign refugees who make themselves the propagators of sooialit doctrines. Several Spanish and Italian refugees have just been tied fns the French territory as a measure of pie OMB. —. Of St 47 SO 07 40 37 10 par 96 66 14 86 ft 0 14 70 3 do. DOW 1,41 W ... • • • 411 pit ONO.. M OM. per Eutaw' oa Lawkia . at "14 dass724 70. " ealeiat, 1, ISM 684 saw. !tapas Masten — Mow, Da. 0.1142 Vie Mama Lama ...1130 Da. 44 Do. 24 ll3O Tremury Bark-- 3 "„ Pliabsaat S waste,. 14 40 /leak /hart. 1330 ' Booms —St. Germain 4 20; Versaillas (right bank), 168 75 ; ditto (left bank), 167 60; Paris and Orleans, 860; Paris and Rouse. 670; Rouen and Han., 267 60; Marseilles and Avignon, 196 ; Strasbourg and Bale, 196 26; Centre (Vinson), 407 60; Boulogne and Amiens, 226; Orleans sad Bordeaux, 402 60; North, 480; Paris and Strasbourg, 356 ; Tours and Artie, 247 60; Moslems* and Troyes, 96 ; lltapps sad Pileup. 187 60; Bordeaux and Tom b 37 SO. THE GREAT Bitten.—This 'team-ship has at length been mold by the direstors of the Gnat Western Meant Ship Company. to Mr. Patterson, the eminent ship builder, of Bristol, for the snot of 18,0001., being about the seventh part of her original cost. Mr. Patterson is now building in the dank in widish the Great Britain mu built a Item ship for the Royal West India Mail Packet c ompany , N A I ke will he mix feet lonia than the Goat Brhaie. ft• / P. • 't'A~r. • MADRID, Dee 17. The ministerial btelgst kg the forthcoming ye or is one of the mast plausible dipeatnente of the kind ever presented to a parliament, the calculations being grouped in such a manner as to d. cave those who give but a superficial glance at it. The minister has , transported twenty-one millions of reels that ought to be under the head of estimates of expenditure, to the estimate of revenue, where they are set down es re productive expenses of the revenue. The deceit con sists in the presupposition that there will be a greater amount Of receipts in varionsbranches of the revenue, and therefore the expenses of collecting them will be greater. In the same manner, to make the public believe that the ordinary estimates are leas than the present year, the minister has set down several im portant items of them in the extraordinary estimates. The minister proposes the following expenditure : Rs. Ordinary estimates expenditure Extraordinary Reproductive expenditure In this estimate but 30 millims of deficit is reckoned, whereas the deficit is much greater, accord ing to the rert of the minister, whupposes that the follow g n u ms will be realised in 1851, ►and which belong to 1830, vie. : Rs. overdue for 1850 Surplus of the colonial taxes Warehoused quicksilver which the government curium sell till 1852, when the contract with Rothschild is concluded 124,891 : 493 Besides these sums, which the government will be obliged to cover in loans or floating debt, the state ment of expenditure does not comprehend different obligations, which are as follows : A month's pay to the employes, two to those on the passive list. eight to those who receive salaries in arrear, Lix to those who receive by direct inheritance, and ten to those who receive by indirect inheritance. The minister proposes to leave these unpaid; they amount to 80,000,000,and this he calls makir g &saving! In the same situation he leaves the holders of the floating debt of four and five per cent. who are not offered the dividend, amounting to 100,000,000 re.; so that the unpaid obligations amount to 180,000,000 re. Nor does the minister take into account the 13,000,000 reale spent in dishonoured drafts and ne gotiations of the floating debt of 1850. The true estimates are therefore as follows : 1,441.839,623 Expenditure Expenditure due for the obligations of 1860, unpaid because certain items of revenue have not been got in Ezpinditure unpaid because it consti tutes debt 180,000,000 Expenditure for dishonoured bills of*, floating debt 13,000,000 1,759,731.116 That is to say, the administration of the Narvaez cabinet has raised the Spanish estimates from 900 millions of reale, as they were in 1843 (without counting the interests of the Four and Five per Cents.), to 1,659 millions (without counting the above-mentioned interest). In exchange for this enor mous expenditure the Minister calculates upon 1,238 millions of reale of revenue (from which we mast sub tract at loud 50 millions overcalcidated), so that the de ficit for 1851 will be 500 millions reels ; of which 180 millions will not be paid, 133 millions will be paid in floating debt bills with the authorisation of the cham bers, and 137 millions in the same manner by simple ministerial decree. Such is the effect of seven years of moderado government, a government which com promises the nation abroad and cripples the resources of the country at home. Vbe Court. WINDSOR, Disc. 23. Her Majesty and Primes Albert, attended by the Hon. Mies Macdonald and the Hon. Miss Cavendiek (Maids of Honour in Waiting), C 4. Hon. Charles Grey, and Col. Bonsai', the Equerries in Waiting, left 'he Cutle at 10 o'clock this morning for London. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness and suit* travelled by a special train on the Great Western Railway, and on reaching the Paddington Termitus, entered two of the royal Carriages, and proceeded to the building in Hyde Perk for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, in 1851. Lieut.. Colonel Reid (Royal Engineers) Chairman of the Executive COM mitre, of the Royal Commission, received the Queen and the Prinoa, and conducted her Majesty thr,ugh the different parts of the building. After inspecring the building for the exhibition, the Queen and Prince Albert went to Gloucester Hon's, Piccadilly, to pay a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester. Soon alter twelve o'clock her Ma jesty and Prince Albert drove from Gloucester House to the Paddington Terminus, and attended by the Hon. Caroline C►vendish, Hon. Flora Macdonald, Col. the Hon. C. Grey, and Col. Reinsert., left by a spiral train on the Great Wee tern Railway, and returned to the Car le at 10 minutes to one. The Royal Family took their accustomed airings in the Slopes end Windsor Park. Lord and Lady Ashley and Lieut. Colonel Reid (R 11.) took their departure from the Castle today. The royal dinner circle this evening will include the Duchess of Lent, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Earl of Lincoln, Lieut. Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps. Her Majesty's private band attended in the Castle after dinner. The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. The Rght Hoe. Lord Ernest Brace, M.P. (on behalf of the Marquis of Atlesbury) attended at the Rouse office yesterday, and delivered loyal and dutiful addresses against the late Papal aggression for presentation to her Majesty through the Right Hon. Sir George Grey—From the mayor, aldermen, town council, ano other inhabitants of the bor,ugh of Marlborough ; from the rector of St. Peter's, Marlborough ; from the ancient borough of Great Bedwyo, and from aiween adjacent parishes, in the county of Wine. Mr. Alderman Salomon' attended at the lionse.offiee yes terdaj, to deliver, through Secretary Sir George Grey, an address against Papal aggression from the ward of Cord wainere, for preeentation to the Queen. Mr. Thomas John son attended yesterday at the Kome-office, to deliver, through Sir George Grey, an address on the Papal aggro*. sion from Runcorn, Cheshire, for presentation to her Ma jesty A deputation, consisting of Messrs. William Routh and Ravenshair. directors of the New British Iron Com pany, and Mr. Robert Roy, director of the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, had an interview with the Com. missioner, of Railways yesterday, at their office in the Board of Trade. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo nial-office from the Governors of the North American provinces. Lord and Lady Rivers have sustained a severs do mestic eflhetion by the demise of their eldest son, the 800. George Home Pitt, who died on Friday afternoon, after • short illness. The bon. deceased was in his 17th yew, having been born is March, 1834. The Duke of Besefort continues indisposed at Beau fort Hoses. The Duchess and the Ladles Somereet will pass the Cbrirmas recess in town. ILLN6BB OP VISCOUNT ALFORD, M.P.—We aro happy to state that the above noble lord is not in the dan pro•s state which bas been represented, although his lordship has been in a vuy bad state 41 health at Asbridge Castle. ABOLISHMENT or CHRISTMAS BOXES IN GOVERN- Mita OlFlolll.—YeVerday afternoon circulars were sent from the Home-office to all the police courts and other offices connected with the government, directing that no Christ mu boxes shall in (stele be given sway to those persons who have for many years been in the habit of receiving them. Many merchants and tradismea in the City have publicly signified their intention of discontinuiag Christmas boxes this year. IMPROVEMENT AT THE GENERAL POST OFFICE...- Workmen are busily engaged in a very intensive improve ment at the General Post °Mee, in St. Martin's le-Grand, the yard from the grand portico to the north entrance having been excavated for the purpos e of forming a range of work shops (carpenters', plumbers ', Re.), underground. The roof will be of glass, and externally there will be no alteration in the appearance of the edifice. The improvement has been deemed necessary in consequence of the vest accumulation of papers in the vaults, in some of which were the work shops. The new foundation will be carried out as far as the outer railings in St. Martin's le-Grand, and it is contemplated to continue the works on the south side towards Cheapside. DANGEROUS ENCROACHMENT OP THE SEA AT ST 20 N 80 SEIFOIiD.—The recent heavy gales and tides, we (Surrey St,issiorii) regret to lay, have oonsiderably weakened the full of the beach at some places in this bay, and is particu larly observable at the boathouses, one of whisk is in immi nent danger, the road in front being completely washed away, and threatening the foundations of the building. F% r ' several years past the sea hes been Mond gradually to en croach here; and those best acquainted with the powerful action of the tides along this soma, have serious apprehen sions of the ultimate imasequeness to property situated near, unless some effectual steps out be devised before long to form a cropper barrier against the fury of the waves in tem. putty= weather. The bank of beach. east of the inartistic, tower (where the sea beck, through in November, 1824, and deluged the lower part of the town, &c , causing muck Manage), is very usequal to resist • similar attack, should such &calamity anfortunately occur here again at the height of eprieg tide,. It is fat from ear wish to ante any none enemy alarm on the subject; unhappily, however, every winter too plenty tells its own tale, and it will be futile to take preoautionary neatens *Maid we be visited by another Rood. The great fall of chalk under the cliff, thrown down by the late explosion, La rapidly diminishing. LAW INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Buresa Ma. 01111.1M1.M. F41,151,,Ny. r . IN 1t SOLOMotts, This wee the last lamination meeting in the cue of Abraham Solomon., =eraser. of Balogh'll stre-t, t he accounts, prepared by Mr. Wright,. of Saini, mo k pp y extended from the let of January, 1849, to the 12 , 11 of & tte D . tember feet. The balance-sheet &Malted the following' item, —To creditors, 20,2411.; .A.. 0, ~ ,r,47 liabilities, 9,2691. ; capital, 1,146.1. bf ta w, .4 property, 2.2361. ; by patent for insenfe e t e , feel, not vet worked, stated et outlay, Wu . . pm. '" 8, held creditor,, 671.; consignments abroad, 13,1491. loses., 3,6601 ; trade expecte', 1,0721 ; dnmestie.l,ot. The bankrupt bat been in buainess between 20 and 3 ly em. end had formerly kept a job...mace.. in Newitet e ., t ,,,, In August, 1849, he had commenced consigning inerthia, dice to Hamburg, America, Etsdney, fie., to the 'item c e about 40,0001, against which he obtained large advatoei. He bed also taken oat two patents, one for the manuleeteT, o f ful from small coals, by compression, the other tnt prodetiet PI roligneous acid from the refuse of the ten-prd The ' realisation of the consignments being delayed, the be,,k, u ., ' at first proposed to his creditor, to gin time, het, bei n g premed for preference, the backruptcy eras resorted to, Mr. Reed, for the amigo. e., eked for an adjounnseet. is ; order that the Laments might be properly ineestigeted. Mr. Lowrance, for the bankrupt, enasented to en =ream. Alter the diteutsiort of some dirputed proofs, the um i n. doe rarities wu adjournel. IN Re TRW. The bankrupt was a builder, in an extensive q t business, in Coleman street,.City. This reds the meet;„, appointed for the last ensostnatfoe, Ant, the amulets set having been tiled, an ationrausent nsentarilp took phar POLICE INTELLIGENCE THIS DAY. BOW•STREET. CIOAROI OF CRCELTT AGAINST A POLE —.l4t /pile IVeinski, who styles biats. al a l'alish count and Mum, came before Mr Jardine to complain of the ' , loci!, doe r him by the friends and protectors of the girl May A,, Richards, who, it was al leged , he cruelly dinged duir.g period of 10 year', whale under his cur, is. lis wtopt, child. This person, it will be remembered, woe en ,,,i t ,, 4 trial from this Court, and was discharged by po.el.rut, in consequence of the fees not being pit' when the nt d went was made out. On Saturday last the girl It:chu Mrs Flemming, who has taken care of her, and 3 Montague attended before Mr. Jardine, and the Crq magistrate then expressed an opinion that de Sc, might be again indicted. This morning the alleged count sold he bad wen it reptm in the newspapers that Mr.Jardiee had girea Qe 1. rr re-apprehension. fie wanted the trial to tai. plare, thr, might vindicate his character. It would then are found t he . was a most ill-used person, and that he had b calumniated. Mr. Jardine said be never directed him M be spprehet i but said it wu possible that an indictment might be pro against him. The " Count " commenced acing strong Leiguqe see Mr. Montague. Mr. Jardine stopped him, and ordered him to 1 ere court. The Count did so, continuing, as he went, to :bun girl's protectors. rfo' os° So dseiaisn before tell I sm ePP °i L o t el ot 0d &t et the Itt etti nded 00 of t • The 1b and bed • g od • d' woteto ▪ e0g,...d d t tent, object. The € k b s tole a Pe l 4 t l l• 0 elites I a . b. 00 1 Trevett promirt ✓ made t Ao lot Couto" Liverpi would were P Be bee knew I be Ito lend tk This an O dd ' a into ree, o one tom s more 1 not yet re /lOW ell fct An, i COZ die, Mr, RA r.Ly . 4 , 4 Li list= '.red „ t series et ha the I e t t erred the tre le the all 1 sp y bees toa tdilea':''' cit tw trai be / linen &flat :.rte the • la Ill'', ,t d, • • the the, • tin tee, bat b ut bed the and She uthood, else set and the Nita the me Ones and is ha dee rt ohm, P° l ,ble. lOU int, sus. fuel ere h It. the r-,:tl soy lea hut. of het to set, Henry teed, m. Tel Eul d Col fee yin &e., kied.hin cle et G up : cusp- we ia,adw tic Mr, el to th 4 rto .soothe 001 hush sir or 80. the Rt• geirg o al re tunvest 1.m.0 t he C seat • lee be 1 Irene. sed k ittv.usi di • vholl s !he tol, .14 cunt one .0 she lod away boo uday muse ▪ anni !lady All elr the other • of iteuttg of i ttiall • tim le set cd a • 'NM ill/ prOtel'ell Ie lies. Itt• wu ',lolly h wGum sveiled ege stereVod, tte CrLavell. plier.ine TN In C nama , a to resole • Grey, lo rein jetted . ea we has early three vittoatatie k tot of Eh ethane heti a•raordisof ,:ecthl le ta I were pool be tips(A he pt. 3peao t to have 0 or theta, 0 studying do • eoloi° l _ • 04 "" hod thereftes to abide 0 1 muniea tOO settle 0 0 , an d chit in 100131 .f the Rom* er, that ' O 2l COi alto.'' a: rides t k0.1.4 . • °I ), the p ia,_,. •;•, t the "Wet 61,t, 0 1 t ° bet . h i t ylu one r tho I A we that above e fort. the 01U its ho" — 1. C t 1517, o wee. 11 111 e PoPit h , ol he ono" its Thet a o o l 4.1 &ook a sapro ▪ pu ' o ia stick a%,,, . and sera . 69, do the 0 ° °P'' st .10 oil see • . the nterlele to aU 11 0 1 "" paCeett a ^„, the r uttl the letter tad as 11 e,lob l ey am"— SOUTHWARK, HIGHWAY RODBEHT.—T. Luxqlbril wa% chanfrd being concerned wbh two others, nut in en , ody, in .wt Matilda Know and robbit g her of a banal, of Promentriz stated that list ev nine she wont', from several lamilies to wash, and, baring tC1•111 bundle in Trinity•rquare, she proem-tied ioano Inr h the square, and, as she was in thane of knocking a• the three men rushed upqn her and ke“cke4 h. r .1 ma of them %hatched the bundle fr in her, and th. away. Witness bad no chance of keirg the Teen's she believed the prisoner to be the man who .1, era bundle from her, llr. J. J. Eli, &gentleman rrtiding in toe en ighboul gaud that be mu pawing tne corner of Sam serer Trinity-street, when he • aw the nerarcutris rice Ira ground, and call out " Stop them," et the same time men rushed past him, one of whom had • possession. H. pursued the latter, and, ati.l ► imart ✓emand him and han.ltd him aver to a pata constAbl had, however, thrown the hundl ,, away. Police constable 216 M said he took the pvi-ever iai tat, and afterwards picked up the bundle now prude The proeccutrik identified the articles contAined in The prisoner denied having soy connect w. other man, neither did he know anything abut the Mr. A'Beckett committed him for trial. OxFoßD.—The High Sheriff of the cowy, Hall, &q., has, upon a requisition numtrowly eluding the names of the Duke of Marlborough 'he Abingdon, the Earl of Maoclestield, she Lord V. n convened a meeting of the freeholders of thf on Thursday, the 2od of January neat, at 12 o'cisek. County Hall, to take into consideration tha recrot - tion of authority on the part of the Bishop of ro•, that they may unitedly determine upon o her Majesty, u the defender of our Leith, adopt measures for repulsing the vaunted usur..ati Queen's supremacy and prerogative, aid the grl, to our protestant country. EWAN& OF A NUN FROM TILE CoNv IMlLT.—There was an escape of a Nun" ir man Catholic ettablisbusent in this town,' th sayethe Banbury Guardia*. It appears that the who took an opportunity of withdrawing rem tit was one of the Sisters of Charity, and was chi II! in the school where a number of childr. n are du She was known in the establishment u Starr Au , there Is some uncertainty as to what het *uneasy She is by some said to he highly connect. at Banbury is not the first at which she has been lie.. she has been in a similar estiblisbment in at Nottingham. Her dissatislection eidt nC. sate was first made known, out of the bonne, by ;eat she contrived to have conveyed by children in 0 to persons of the protestant faith in Banbury. glish New Terament, which by some chin r her possession, disturbed the opinions in whirl been 'educated; she determined on gettine St. John's, and melted to do 10 early on * d o e ing, and again on Tuesday morning , hut At t the contemplated escape her heart failed her. Silt nine o'clock, the school hour, on Tuesday, whole inmates were engaged, she took an oppoinvity away unobserved ; and, for some reason, instead o the parties in Banbury with whom she hod be' ganaication, and who bad offered lirr, 'tither, she the road for Orford. At Adderborr, three poi -' bury, she became tired, and inquired lif a minister; she was taken to the noose of the Crickett, an independent minister, where she a received, both by Mr. and Iles.Crickett, and writ was remaining yesterday. She has been snot clothing ; and the garments peculiar to the itsr which she went away, have been returned to Before she left St. John's we believe an ape: made by the parties with whom she had been to nation to a neighbouring magistrate for hi' aid her, and he wrote on the subject to Sir (leder. Suntan of State ; but she did not wait for the nos, but took the opportunity of acting alone, described. THE CANDLESTICK QUESTION. —For ret canaries the perish church of Seaford his been wt altar, and the Anglican services as adopted in the Et ward 6th have been employed without Ins or hint It" within a few past years, when, from some most sr legl mental influence, the church was found to be deie 1 usefula, ea unless two unlighted tallow candles • be !: upon the Communion Table, which, as might h created no small sensation is the pari.h. At Set the might have been asked why she had been o u . her duties uto leave them there ? She ought I ed them on one side after she had no Inger use to s , A da her answer doubting was that she hid been 51 , times of the Eetormation, end she found it grief by the rubric of Edward • The Sixth that , 7 1; candles were to be need" oat the altar, at as there war now no altar, she was determined the rubric, and therefore put them on the comm. It' which, while it satisfied her in her duties, put n; the parishioners, who still thought it wro n g , at three hundred years their forefathers hid been • ItS churchwia In til t ta ir vi ch eg m th b eee e ca c After o titutmely.mhbeowli,,te.c.tho, lonsiawl doubted, as the instructions referred to a Sign a it. !, there being no such place, they still tho u g ht thew 1 , ?! °:, the past was b quite equal to the pessopentr's know Kr:, the present, and they argued thst, with the /mots of high altar, which took place in December , 1550, the, n , !_' t the two candles was also taken away, anu t hat the re_l; question was obsolete and inapplicable to the pryseht,r" — tt bd of the church. In this they were douhtleis nth,' t• could not satisfy the pewopener, who was, true to bet *betas a stickler for old customs, and she did not cores seX l * ° !... o the altar existed or not. She knew from tredittee in_ once was an high altar, and that it steed near sbcht l ! .. . the communion table now stands, god, therefore , 00 dies ought to be there. It was useless to tel h et i ; the rubric about the two candles referred to 1517, ie i sbrogated in 16 4 9 by Edward the fish by thee. " Further, that no minister do counterfeit the Pelms°77, by setting light, upon the Lord's Board (the reougn;;; 'table sot the altar) at any time again. Th., 0° ina maintain ' lights, candles, altars, or any such &ban tttt superstitions." In vain the pew opener has Edward the 6th denounced the candles as su EdwardPe";os things. She says that'. all nonsense, she will giclL,ty rubric, even if it have no applicable existence; 10d it has none, for subsequently we fin d, in 1569, 'h_ up of candles was expressly condemned. 11 the le is still determined to have her two candles illedtl.,se parishioners will doubtless look about them, gna t : ll _77:4s they cannot induce our respected pastor to int ' 0 72 the matter, or if it be beyond his reach, will eall bishop to direct his archdeacoos to investies!.. question of her extraordinary pertinacity. We ~.ge ioubt then that this subject, and all others the novelties and superstitious intr.duced by the ~ . ..1 0 1 will be found unwarranted end adverbs to tb s ..' spirit of the rubrics of mar church, without ta any convocation of the clergy, called for the rich " Of these velationsly disputed matters. Surrey Stow" A P 112111: ` fja ,„ Ar P AN D NOR oSP' 00 Sunday evening a the onsibern divistoo tool before taking any Step in tl Oros and firemen on the wince the authorities inted for that pu r p Iseepp o Last evening, at a late bo an d firemen of the soothe' st tbe Railway Tavern, in stn not by deputation ft sten of the Etstern Conntie The chair was taken by s end be stad tat at the la on d a depatihon to Mr. 1 I Western Cutompany, to is & wine -drivers on the recei Workmen in the north. present, and they would O bject. statement of the opt T he the tollowina effect : The spos Mr. Glyn, but be opted Mr. beContrell, chief opted that i t never wee oysters as bed obtained on ha remained w hen he w Trevethick sheik' not e posited that fair reps wade t o thee t An ettgin•-driver, one Counties, stated that th ' IL W w woldu ld li ti jose'enel knew w a P° : i h re la init th at C C gYh u h ta i f y d e ta le w h . men k n s ° t r etsul from fie be was convinced, under Iced their aid to an oppri This statemeot was er into which at present it $o resolatioos were y M'coottat's offisiel Ins more *specially as the ro Tat re ceived the ultimat ems ol ilk' HAD. The pe modwilikt. C OSIOYS on RALILLIWAY.—SEK Last evening, duel 'owns heePsusa o n lb e serious lujary to a aaa the ua• woe opesed. trsins was never experi. hourhood of Stratford to discern object . • the consPenf adopted twilit of the veils, to take of a *amber all the ellind I "kt s eztentive n•e of I then be carried on. two teeing were ran in d. o hit en ree E tsbat i sd i tle d liwn ha el th I.. eb r is s : f Tdß i,,y e lienhoi zih ne. T e d rif" t rainte o s tfher h firs t GPI" Hertford, be t e:e e u ne:re.ciEnemdat...ll:ll to rs lle s t rear et for and el if to add to thei steam and smoke of position of the unfortt row• staff of oflicers at Immediately on the P ere they could all be e the chief portion of tho left hart. Having of the station, and been sent for, it we to the London ilea attended to on the Terns. Amongst tho conveyed to the ho female. . , _ The second collider 0010 to the Brick lan, up from Colchester, d was proceeding at • 1 time after leaving the the Norwich express. train was • third rrgets on a Chri So great wu t sides, were demolist gen escaped mortal i of them were bleedir parts of their body, shy of the atmuspho germ in other parts c and in one unions opposite the write contact with earls o bleeding copiously. gate, many more WI Hancorn, a surged had bean called • ny 'ions occasion, Ira, services alleviate SUPPOSED 'Bt: man giving the Ur magistrates at Mei ing a young man ago. The prisoner wu d ep l i Zt in at aI three 'cthe to force the hack nstely. He looke and saw two 011 threatened to fire and Tyrell having to that the. his alarm fired ously attempting claimed, D—n prisoner did not time, but called done. Heigh, i+ shoulder, and we penury for some , that the perfors wound, hut 'tea ate: s. The negi be will recover, gentleman who sutrender. Hsi The prisoner wt etch. DEATH OF A BUILNING.—A 1, Haohy, on Sam Ann Parker, tl Parker and his people, returnee some time sit down on the se the fire mini o'clock, the ma when to his co, enii.loped In fie thaguishing, ibu hands. The poor infant sur . - --- --- =ether dying I ni‘-ther, while g doze, When a p comMuniested; ST. MAIGA —Ln the ft•porl guys, " that the .vet's-cherrhy houses of pathos that o these off hour+ of the nip i. frrgurntly to Issuing from th here, la order t followed their with such state ever much into tollarving, the referred to. do the inhabit for another " traverses the appears to be a 94 quits not inch t octopi, where the colt breaking up. tees little srlaiv thins ensues a which it will further (Awry to pick up s nigger, and ti however, to tt This ground a ' 0 Pare it lava an atter calm< I suet say, ha adorned with 'fleet would t uneven stoma Its surtice,-1