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JANUARY 7, 1854. trust that every year greater progress will be made in the promotion of that cause, and that in the circulation of iutellig ence through the press—in its diffusion under the tulaptat inn of ideas to the requirement of the age—above all, in the unfolding of the moral instincts, and in the ex panding of the religious principle, this country is coming more and more to be the example to all free nations, and the light among the various people of the world." REMOVAL OF CITY CHURCHES. A PLAN for removing about thirty churches from the City, with the view of supplying some of the growing suburbs of the metropolis, has - been suggested by the Rev. C. Hume, Rector of St. Michael's, Cumin% and has received the approbation of the Premier and the Bishop of London. Some few of the City chinches have considerable congre gations, the attendance averaging 300 ; but in the great majority the number is below fifty, and even in some instances fifteen or sixteen. In all the sacred edifices whose removal is now proposed the average attendance at any service does not amount to thirty-three. While such is the state of things in the City, it has been shown by a return made to the House of Commons that no fewer than fitly-eight new churches are required in the diocese of London. Of this number forty-nine are required fur the metropolitan districts and immediate suburbs, and nine for turns and districts within eight miles of St. Paul's. Mr. Hume contends that less than twenty churches would meet the wants of the population resident within the city of Loudon union, and consequently at least thirty-eight churches might be advantageously taken down and rebuilt in such other parts of the metropolis anti its environs as are deficient in church accommodation. The following are the details of the plan :—The number of churches pro posed to he dealt with is fifty; it is proposed to remove (at present) thirty, and to retain twenty, the parishes whose churches are moved to be consolidated with those which are left standing. In arranging the incomes for the con solidated parishes, the rule would be this :--To every parish the population of which exceeds 1,000, 4501. per annum to be assigned ; for every additional 100 parishioners, add 12/. a year. The aggregate income of the fifty churches is .20,:500/.; the aggregate income of the twenty proposed consolidated parishes would he 11,3531.; there would remain ter thirty churches to be removed 9,2071., giving 3 , 10/. and a fraction for each. The additional sum required to make up a sufficient income for a clergyman, from WO/. to 7001., should be made up in the new locality to which the church is removed. In the following list, the first church in every group, of which the name is printed in italics, is that which it is suggested should he retained, as the sole palish church of the consolidated parishes : the others in emit group would then be removed to some other part of the metnipolis or suburbs :-1. St. Vedast's, Foster-lune; St. Michael's, Wood-street; St. Ann's, and St. Agnes'. 2. st. Lawrence Jewry, St. Michael Bassishaw. S. St. Faith's; St. Matthew's, Friday-street. 4. St. Bend's, Paul's-whar ; St. Mary Northaw ; St. Nicholas Cole Abbey. 5. Si. Mary's, Old Fish-al reet•hiU. U. St. James's, Garliek-hill ; St. hliehael's, Queenhithe. 7. St. Stephen's, Coleman street. S. St. Illarspiret's, Loilibury ; St. Olave's, Jewry; St. Peter-le-Poer; and St. Mildred's, Poultry. il. SI Stephen's, lralbrook ; St. Mary's, Abchnrch-lane ; St. Swahili's. 10. St. Mary's Woolnolh, Bt. Edmund King; All hallows, Lombard-street ; St. Clement's, Etuacheap. 11. St. Mary•le-Bow ; Allhallows, Bread-street; St. Mildred's, Bread-street ; St. Mary Altlermary ; St. Antholin's. 12. Allhallows areal and Less; St. Michael Royal. 13. St. Dunstan's, East ; St. Mary-nt-Bill. 14. St.Maynue Mari's* ; St. Georges, Botolph-lane. 15. St. Andrew rmlershetl, Great St. Helen's. 10. SI. Clare's, Hart-street ; St. Catherine Coleman; Allhallows Staining. 17. St. Dennis Backehareh St. Benet's, Oracechurch-street ; St. Marg aret Pattens. Is. St. Mary Altiermanbury ; St. Michael's, Wood-street. 19. St. Michael's, Cynthia:; St. Peter's, Cornhill ; St. Martin, Outwich. 20. St. Catherine Cree. The churches within the City which are not to be inter fered with are the following :—St. Bride's, Fleet-street; Ft. Andrew's, Holborn; St. Dunstan's, West; St. Ann's, Illackfriars ; St. Sepulchre, Snow-hill; Allhallows Barking; St. Alphage, St. Bartolomew-the-Great; Christ Chutah, Newgate-street ; and St. Martin's, Ludgate. Inasmuch as the presentation to the churches proposed to be dealt with is in different bands, it is suggested that each patron shall have as many turns of presentation as he has at present. The patrons of the churches left standing in the City will present to them on each vacancy just in the order they do now. The patronage, however, will be more valuable; as, the parish being a consolidation of two or more existing parishes, the income will be increased to the amount of 5001. or 0001. a year. The patrons of the churches to be removed will present to them just in the order they do now. The only difference will be that they will appoint to those churches for new localities, and with increased in comes. The advantages of the scheme, the principle of which has received the sanction of the Prime Minister and the diocesan, are stated to be the following :-1. The ano malous position of the Church in the City would be dimi nished. 2. The want of spiritual instruction from which many districts arc suffering would, to a considerable extent, be supplied. S. The clergy in the City who have nominal cnrea and small congregations would have real charges and Large congregations. 4. The City clergy remaining would have larger incomes than they had before. 5. The City clergy removed would obtain comfortable houses, larger incomes, larger congregations, and real pastoral charges. 13. The new parishes or districts would get good churches, without the expense of building them , and ministers to whom they would only pay part of a sufficient income. CLOSING OF BURIAL GROUNDS. TVESDAT'S Gaunt contained an order in Council, dated 29th December, ordering the discontinuance of burials in the undermentioned parishes and places, from and after the 9th January, except as otherwise directed in the said notification, viz.:— THE PRESS. St. Anne, Liwehouse.—hi the burial-gruuntl and in the vaults of Brunswick Chapel, situate in Three Cult•street. . St. Peter ad Vincula—Tower of London ; within the church and burial-ground, and in the vaults behind the church. It. George-in-the-East.—ln Old Ciravellane Chapel burial-ground, and in the vaults under the chapel. St. Matthew, Iletimal-green.— 1 II U ibreltar burial-ground. Except in private vaults and graves, no more than one body to be buried in any grave in the Cambridge-heath and North-east London Cemetery; and burials to be wholly discontinued therein from and after the let of October, 1855. St. Nicholas, Deptford.—ln the churchyard and burial ground, from and after the Ist of April, 18:4. In the vaults under the church, to cease immediately. tit. Paul, Deptiord.—Under the chinch to be wholly dis continued, as also in that part of the churchyard whicii has already been buried in ; no burial to take place in future at a less distance than ten yards front any dwelling-house ; no more than one body to he buried in one grave ; and burials to be wholly discontinued f►om and after the Ist of May, 1881. lu the buriabground of, and in the vaults under, the High-street Chapel ; in the Curial-grotool of and tinder the Wesleyan Chapel, Mary Ann's-buildings ; in the Quaker burial-ground ; and in the general Baptist burial-ground, Church-street, to be wholly discontinued from and after the 9th of January next. Holy Trinity, Brampton.—in the vaults under the church to be wholly discontinued; in the churchyard not more than one body to be buried in any grave, except in Private vaults and graves ; and burials wholly to cease nom and after the Ist. of October, 1889. Lambeth.—ln Stockwell New Chapel intriabgmund. St. Pancras.—With the exception of private vaults and graves, not more than one hotly to be buried in any grave in Camden-town Cemetery, belonging to the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, mind situate in the parish of St. Pancras ; and no burials to take place within ten yards of any inhabited house ; and wholly to cease in the said cemetery from and after the Ist of May. NM. St. Marylebone.—ln the vaults under the parish church, St. John's-wood Chapel, Christ Church. and Trinity Church, and in time vaults under the Baptist Chapel in Blandford-stree% to be wholly discontinued. St Luke, Middlesex.—ln the burial-gotund of and under the City-road Chapel. In Buttimill-tields burial-ground, to be wholly discontinued. St. Mary, Stratford, llow.—Tn the vaults under the church, to be discontinued at once ; and in the churehyamil of the same, from and after the Ist day of May. 18.'14, and only one body to be buried in each grave. Stepney.—ln the East London Cemetery, in the hamlet of Mile-end Old-town. In the vaults under Brunswick Chapel, Mile-end-road, to be wholly discontinued. Wandsworth.—ln the churchyard and church vault of the parish church, and in East-bill burial-ground, to cease wholly ; anti only one body to be buried in each grave in the burial-ttround in Garratt-lane. St. Stephen, Coleman-street.—ln the burial•gronnd of, and in the vaults under, the Boman Catholic Chapel, in Moortiehls, to be wholly discontinued. Putney.—ln the churchyard, and under tho parish church, to be discontinued at once ; and in Putney burial ground, from and after• the Ist of June, 1884. CHERBOURG HARBOUR. THE completion of this harbour, which has formed an object of ambition and a source of vast outlay to successive Governments and dynasties in France, is at last recorded in the Monitettr. That official paper assumes a naturally triumphant tone on this event, and congratulates the country on the accomplish ment of a work whose utility, whether in peace or war, is calculated to be enormous, and to achieve which natural difficulties of almost insuperable cha racter have been surmounted. The Moniker adds an interesting narrative of the first conception and long-protracted execution of this great work : The second year of the new Empire opens with an event which will be remarkable in the naval annals of France. The breakwater of Cherbourg is at present entirely terminated, and from the Ist of January, 1854, it must rank among the constructions which require only to be kept in perfect repair. This gigantic work, commenced in 17+43, suspended during the revolutionary tempest, re slimed under the Empire, suspended once more during the whole period of the Restoration (1g14), is at length terminated, after seventy years expectation, and forty-one of constant efforts. For a length of time the success of the undertaking had been called in question ; terrible dis. asters had, at certain moments, caused apprehensions to be entertained that the sea would remain victorious in this desperate contest against the boldest attempts of human genius; but, at present. every disquietude of that nature may be set aside, and the only thing now remaining to be done is to consecrate the work of fem . generations. It is known that the project of the breakwater of Cherbourg was conceived by the illustrious Vauban, who saw the ne cessity of our navy having in the charmed a port accessible for the largest ships-of-the-line ; and, after successive attempts, it has been established at about 4,000 metres from the entrance of the commercial port. Its length is 3,71 K) metres (the breakwater of Plymouth is only 1,800 metres in length), and it presents a relief of upwards o I 20 in. above the bottom of the sea; 2,00 artificial blocks. each of 20 m. cube, of 44,000 kil. in weight, defend against the waves the foundation of the extreme inuseirs. The last one-and-twenty years of this admirable work have been exclusively employed in the construction of the wall in masonry, which bar 10 metres 50 centimetres of height above low-water mark, and above the level of the founda tion of the Ix:noire of the two extremities of the central fort. and of the intermediate fort. The expenses since 1783 up to the present time have amounted to 117,300,01A1. The law of June '4 1841, had appropriated to the completion of the breakwater an extraordinary credit of eighteen mil lions ; but, owing to the care with which the money of the State has been administered, a saving of neariv ,500,01141 f. has been effected out of that snni. Thus a bay, previously formidable to sailors, offers at present a sure retuge to the largest vessels in the must violent tempests, and the fleets of France could find there a shelter against the sea and the enemy. It is at the same time a safe asylum open to the commercial shipping of all maritime nations. France may consequently be justly proud of such a work, which has not its equal either in ancient or modern times, and which, commenced by Vauban, and marked by the Em peror Napoleon I. with the imprint of his genius, has been finished by his Majesty Napoleon 111. jortign and toltntial 3nitlligenct. .PRIP'.4TE CORRESPONDENCE. Paws, Januar) 5. DFsPTTE of gaities without and grandeurs within—of the jour &on, and the Tuileries' receptions—the l's risian pulse beats at anything but a sanguine rate. Our prospects of peace are rapidly passing into the condition of dissolving views. We now know that the Russians have crossed the Danube, and that the Ottoman Porte will not, in any case, renew the ancient treaties subsisting between the two countries. That the funds should have gone down is not surprising ; and the reported dis missal of M. Achille Foul(' throws consternation among the speculators, who looked up to him as their palladium. This report may be premature at the tnoment, but its accomplishment is ;more than probable in a short time. M. James Rothschild, in fact, is said to have paralysed the financial opera lions of this Minister from disapproval of his mea sures, and rendered his position with regard to the Emperor very difficult to maintain. The modifies tion of the Ministry, announced long ago by the Parse, is fast approaching. It is believed that M. de Persigny will replace M. Fould,iuid perhaps M.& Morny become again Minister of the Interior. The Princess Mathilde gave a ball, at which the Emperor and Empress were present. The Empress danced he first quadrille with the Minister of Saxe, the second with M. de Kisseleff, Minister of Russia. All the Russians of note in Paris wore invited, wrd wore treated with marked distinction. His Excel leney Veli Paella was also present, but he is not a dancing man. tireat curiosity is excited by the !Inmar of a mys terious visit to Paris, paid a fortnight ago, by Lord Palmerston, and of a secret interview lie is said to have had with the Emperor. Englishmen to whom his lordship is well known have positively affirmed to me that he had been seen in Paris, beyond the pos sibility of mistake. The liftman'? contains the following official note : "The couriers are stopped in many parts of France at this moment by the drifts of snow accumulated on the lines of public transit. Despatches destined for Paris may have experienced some delays ; but the tiovernment ne glects nothing to re-establish and to secure free communi cations everywhere, and these delays can only be regarded as accidental." A magnificent robe, destined as a present to the Empress of Austria after having been shown at the Great Exhibition of 1855, has been ordered by their Imperial Msjesties at the manufactory of embroidery at Nancy. Nothing is to be spared in expense or labour to render this gift worthy of its double desti nation. The staff of the National Guard of Paris is now installed at the north-east angle of the Place Yen dome. The nomination of several distinguished indi viduals to the rank of senators, though confidently announced, lies not yet appeared in the Moitfteur. It is said that a number of princes, dukes, and marquises are to he created. This I scarcely believe. But qui vireo. verve. Last night a magnificent ball was given at the Tuileries. The whole of the Ministers, ambassadors, corps diplomatique, Ike. de., were present. The supper was sumptuously served at one o'clock, and the dancing was kept up till the morning. The ladies' trains caused some enibarrassment and many lively reproaches, the gentlemen not being yet ac customed to walk without treading on them. The Court mantles were very handsome, but the general effect was rather strange. The Empress looked re markably well. A great number of English were present., and certainly appeared to be more at lame than the natives.