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434 TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION FOR Ebr lirrzz: sTA3 - 111:1) Per Annum .. Half Yearly.. Quarterly .. .. £1 0 0 .. 0 13 .. 0 6 6 PATADLE IN ADVANCE. Subscribers are requested to send their orders through News ♦gents; if direct to the ()Mee, accompanied by a remittance. Advertisement's Glee must have a reference or remittance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFRED IVY., 110, Strand, Loudon. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " Tee NEW REFORM second letter on this subject (already in type) shall certainly appear next week. It is impossible to acknowle Ige the mass of letters we receive Their insertion is often delayed owing to a press of matter, and when omitted. it is frequently from reasons quite inde pendent of the merits of the communication. We cannot undertake to return communicatiot nut avail ourselves. Communications should always be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only. If lung it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily fur publica tion, but us a guarantee of his good faith. Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference fur payment in town. of which we do Ij 1-Prtgg. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1857. POSTSCRIPT. (By Submarine Telegraph.) PARIS, Friday Night. The Court will be during four days in mourning in consequence of the death of H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 24. Tho Circassians continue their attacks on the Russians. Th , 3 latter have arrested many M ussul man C %)ssacks on suspicion of treachery. Closing price of French Funds—Three per Cents for Account, 68fr. 43c. ITALY. A letter from Turin of the 422nd ult., in the Na. tionai Gazette of Berlin, says ! For some days past a movement has been observed on the Parmese frontier, anti it is asserted at Genoa that arms and munitions are beiiitt secretly conveyed there by the Mazzini party. Forged letters from Garibaldi, declaring that the Sardinian Government favours the movement, are said to be in circulation. That Government, on the con. trary, is using all its endeavour to put down any agitation. SARDINIA. A telegraphic despatch from Turin states that Count Cavour had delivered a very interesting speech on the propriety of making Spiza the great naval depot of Sardinia. The Premier took this occasion of referring to foreign affair., and distinctly stated that Piedmont would faithfully respect existing treaties, and at the same time use every effort to promote the prosperity and progress of Italy gene- rally. This declaration was received with great applause. DENMARK. A telegraphic despatch from Hamburg of the :29th ult., in the Nord of Brussels, says : Important news has arrived from Copenhagen ; Prince Ch►isttan, the heir to the throne, has left for Berlin on a private mission from the King to the King of Prussia. The same journal pnhlishes a telegraphic despatch from Berlin, of the 22nd ult., to this effect : After an eloquent speech from M. Stahl, the Upper House adopted by eighty•three votes to three the motion of 111 M. Be Below and Stahl, inviting the Government to continue its efforts, in concert with its confederates, to cause the rights of Holstein and Lauenburgtobe respected. The Deutschlvtd of Vienna, 20th ult., says : The Montenegrin question has created a certain anima tion in diplotnatio c►rcles, and three conferences have taken place between Count de Buol and Prince Rallimachi, the Turkish Minister. The latter at first refused to consent to any subsidy being paid by the Porte to Prince htnilo ; on the contrary, he insisted on the ►ight of Turkey to claim a tribute from Montenegro. The repre sentations of Count de Buol, coupled with the urgent request of the French Government, have suceeeled in changing the resolution of the Minister, who hits promised to support the proposed arrangement in his communica tions with the Porte. THE PRESS. Several journals have announced the intention of the King of Prussia to visit his sister, the Empress Dowager of Russia, at Rome. The Indipendance .of Brussels denies the correctness of the statement, and suggests that it may have originated in the in tention of the King to visit the banks of the Rhine and Carlsruhe, where his niece has married the reigning Grand Duke. The entire bill remodelling the taxes upon manu factures has been adopted in the Berlin Chambers by a majority of 87 against 87. The impost upon the shares of public companies was provisionally adopted. The tax upon transferable shares was to be applied to the stock of tha Bank of Prussia. A letter from Paris observes with reference to the Grand Duke's visit:—" I heard two or three days ago, that the Prose would, on the very day of the Grand Duke's entry, contain an article on the English alliance, and that this article would be, if not written, at all events, inspired, by a personage of exalted rank, whose dislike of all that is Russian is very strong. The article has appeared in the Passe of this evening, and the paper began to be sold at the very moment the Grand Duke was passing. It begins with this phrase ": The alliance of England and France is one of the fun damental bases of European civilisation. The day it is seriously disturbed, the same blow will disturb the entire edifice. IVe must then take care to la)• a hand on that corner stone, for its fall would be alike fatal to both countries. The community of their interests is evident, and it is the blind only who will not recognise it. Whoever sees and understands must not allow his eyes or his thoughts to be diverted from this great object by petty obstacles. This is the concluding passage Democratic France is the ally of free England. We recognise in this alliance the great political necessity of the nineteenth century, and we hail it as the pledge and the security of the future. Convocation was formally inaugurated yesterday by the Arch bishop ofCanterbury. The Bishops; the Deans, Archdeacons, and the proctors recently elected to repre sent the clergy throughout the province of Canter bury, assembled at the Chapter-house, in St. Paul's Churchyard. After the usual preliminaries, Dr. Elliott, Dean of Bristol, was elected prolocutor ; and on the motion of Chancellor Martin, the Dean of St. Paul's and the Dean of Norwich were selected to present the new prolocutor to the Archbishop for confirmation on Friday, the Bth inst., to which day Convocation stands adjourned. The West India steamer, Magdalena, arrived off Southampton yesterday afternoon, with '2,637,145 dollars on board. The City of Manchester also arrived at Liverpool with letters from New York to the 16th. Her news is anticipated. THE DENISON CASE. A CURIOUS letter of Geste, Bishop of Rochester, " who pennynged Art. xxviii. " to Cecil, secretary to Queen Elizabeth, has been published as having reference to Archdeacon Denison's case. The letter is from the original in the State Paper-office, and is dated 2'2nd December, 15t1ll : Greeting in ye Lord. Right Honourable—l am verye soryeyt you are so sicke, God make you whole, as it is my desyer and prayer. I wold have seen you er this, accordingo to my duetye and good will, but when I sent to knowe whether I might see you it was often answered yt you were nut to be spoken with. I suppose you have hard how ye Bisshop of Glocestre [i.e. Cheney] found him selue greeved with ye plasynge of this adverbe onely in this artiele, " The body of Christ is gyven taken and eaten in ye Supper after an heavenly and spiritual! mancr onely" bycause it did take awave ye pre sence of Christis Bodye in ye Sacrament, add prively noted me to take his part therein, and yeasterdaye in myn absence more playnely vouclwd me for ye same. Whereas betwene him and me, I told him plainelye that this word one? ye in ye foresaied Article did not exclude ye presence of Christis Body fro the Sacrament, but onely ye grossenes and sensiblenes in ye receavinge thereof: For I saied unto him though he tcokc Christ's Bodye in his hand, receaved it with his mouthe, and that corporally naturally reallye substantially and carnally as ye doctors duo write, yet did he not for all that see it, feale it, smelle it, nor tart it. And therefore I told hint I wold speake against him herein, and ye rather bycause ye Article was of myn °wile pen nynge. And yet 1 wold not for all that denye therebye any thing that I had spoken for ye presence. And this was ye some of our talke. And this that I saied is so true by all sortes of men that even D. Hardinge writeth ye same as it appeareth most evidently by his words reported in ye Busshoppe of Salis• burie's C,Tewers] booke pagina 325, wich be thees : " Then ye maye save yt in ye Sacrament His verye Bodye is pre sent yea really that is to tine, in deede, substantially that is in substance, and corporally carnally and naturally, by •••• wich words is .ment that His verve ltodye His very e and His ve rge humane nature is there not after au p tall carnall or 'Atonal wise, but invisibly unspeakeably supernaturally spiritually divinely and by ways unto Hin t Gnlye knowen." [The extract is here taken front Jewel's controversy with M. Harding, Art. v u Divis. v., p. 410, ed. P.S.] SATURDAY, This i thought good to write to yolir honour for myn owue purgation. The Alwightye God in Christ restore you to your old health, and longe kepe you in ye same with enerease of vertue and honour. Yours whole to his poore pow! ED3I. To ye right honourable and his singler good friend S r Willm Cecil Knight Principal' Secretaire to ye Queens Mate. LORD NORMANBY AND THE FRENCH REVOLU TON OF 1848. THE Nord this week publishes the following letter from the Marquis of Normanby, English Minister at Florence, addressed to the editor of that journal : Sir,—l have received this morning your journal of the 14th. Ido not dispute that a j , urnalist is always free t o appreciate the opinions of a public man, but I do not admit that he has the right to impute to him controverted :acts, In an article containing a pretended tmemoir of Lord Palmerston, there is an allusion to me, hi - Connection with the revolution of 1848. 1 will confine myself here to deny ing each precise allegation. I was never." in open (or secret) connivance with the men who conspired against the Government of Louis Philippe." Never did I receive at my house " the leaders of the movement, or the journalists who professed republican opinions." Your corresponden adds," Lord Normanby was seen to frequent with revark able familiarity these ministers of chance." The fact is that being then only at Paris non officially, I never visited those gentlemen, whom I did not know personally. It was never necessary for me to address a word to a single mem ber of the Provisional Government, with the exception of M. Lamartine, Minister of Foreign Affairs, with whom naturally I maintained daily relations. No one ever saw me present at " the filing off of the corporations of work. men, going, about 200,000 in number, and headed by flags, to signify their will to the indescribable Government (ce pouvoir sans nom) which sat at the Hotel de Ville." It is therefore unnecessary to add that the assertion that "this spectacle appeared to enchant him " is a pure invention. On the whole, there is not a word of truth in what concerns me in the article. It is true that I foresaw, to my great regret, the probability of the revolution, and when it had broken out I did my best, within the limits of my duty and my powers, to diminish the sad consequenc?s of it. beg of you, sir, in a spirit of fairness, to give the same publicity to this letter that you have given to the Amoy. mous accusations of a wrier who merLuites a reproduction of his article, since he reserves to himself the right of translating it.—Accept, air, NORMANIsY. THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF MEDICAL MEN So. cIETY held their half-yearly meeting this week, at their rooms, in Berner's street. Mr. Value, V.P., in the absence of the President, Sir Charles M. Clarke, Bart., was called to the chair; Mr. Tegart, and Dr. J. Clarke, Treasurers; Dr. H. Roe, Messrs. C. Haw kins, Propert, Combe, and other.• members were present. The condition and usefulness of this ex cellent institution was pointed out by the chairman, in an able speech, in the course of which he drew particular attention to a recent case, that of a member's widow and eight children, lett in necessi tous circumstances. Herself and six children eligible for relief, now afforded at the rate of more than 1001. per annum in aggregate amount. The report was adopted and a list of liberal ►ubscriptions read. ...11n. J. 31`GaEoon, LATE M.P. on Gir...tsoow, died last week at Boulogne. Mr. Al‘Gregor was born at Stornaway, in Rosshire in 1797, and was therefore sixty years of age. He was in earlier life High Sheriff of Prince Edward's Island, and a member of the Colonial Legislature. Afterwards he was employed in commercial missions to Germany, Austria, Paris, Naples, &c., and from December, 1839, until August, 1847, was joint secretary to the Board of Trade. Amongst his literary productions were—" The History, Geography, and Resources of British America," "Commercial Statistics," and. " Progress of America from the Discovery by Columbus to the year 1847." Mr. APGregor's recent unfortunate connection with that notorious swindle the Royal British Bank is fresh in the minds of our readers. SIR R. Itftracnisos, at the recent meeting of the Geographical Society made a few remarks in reference to the Arctic Expedition, which Lady Franklin is about to undertake. He said that the Government, having declined to assist Lady Frank lin by giving the Resolute for the expedition, or handing s t ores , over to her the Arctic which were useful for no other purpo se , an d Lady Franklin having determined to spend the remainder of her fortune in the prosecution of the search, it had been resolved to appeal to the public to give her assistance in the undertaking. By this means it was not in tended to express any opinion upon the course which her Majesty's Government bad thought it their duty to pursue, and he knew that it was with great regret that they had arrived at the conclusion that they should not send out any further expedition. The appeal to the public which would shortly be adver tised in the newspapers bore the names of Sir R. Murchison, Lord WI ottesley, Sir F. Beaufort, Captain Collinson, and others, and already a sum of 8001. had been received.