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A o r!ection of Topographical Models, and a large Collection of -- "`4=t and Modern Maps, for reference. _ • -:, _ Id- 1 r , LONDON THURSDAY- ,- ♦ ) , ~, t-- 7 . :' s ' , `v, i ' .' “ "- , T UE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Securing Exclusive Communication between Great Britain and the Continent of Europe, under Privileges from the French aad Belgian Governments. Capital 150,0001, In 30,000 shares of 57. each, to be paid in full. Liability of Shareholders limited to the amount of Subscription. - • Offices. 30, Conihill. ,DONORARY DIRECTORS. His Royal high ne , s'the Duke of Cambridge. His Excellency the Count Colonno Walewski, Ambassador of France His I.xcellency M. S. Van der Weyer, Envoy Extraordinary and' Minister Plenipotentiary of lelgium His Excellency the Chevalier Bun en, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentia-y of Prussia His Ex:ellencv the Baron lientinck, Envoy Extraordinary and ulster Plenipotentiary of the Netherlands His Excellency the 'Tar uis D'A , eglio, Minister PlenipotentiarY of Sardinia Minister His Excegency signor Isturiz, Envoy Extraordinary and Mt Plenipotentiary of Spain . - '' Envoy _Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of Austria to His Excellency the Baron Roller, Envoy Extriordlntahrey ' n ra nLM o in f is t t h e e r Belgians. CHAIRMAN. The Lord ,lle Manley. DIRECTORS, , A. Anderson, Esq., M P t of the Peninsular and Oriental . zee or Company John W. Brett, Esq., 2, THinover-square , Ernest Bunsen, Esq., Abbey Lodge, Regent's-park • • Sir James Carmichael, Bast., Sus , ex-gardens. The Hon. FrederickiCadogan, lieraord- , treat, May Fair . W. J. Chaplin, Esq., M. Chalmaan of-the London and,sonth-West ern Railway Company Le Chevalier Divuet, Belgian Eurbassy • ' ' ' T. C. Granger, Esq.; qc., 31. P.; Temple S. Laing, Esq., Chairman of the LondOn and Brighton Rail`ivay COlll--' pany John Masterman, jun., Esq., Nicolas lane, Lombard-street. 8ANE.E.1137-I,ONDON. Messrs. Master►pan, Peters, and co., Nicolas-lsute Sir Claude Scott and Co., Cavendish-square. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Davies, Son, Campbell, and Ilancl, 17, Warwick-sfreet, Re- gent-stteet- Messrs. Hughes, Kearsey, and Co., 17, Bucklersbury. SEC t RETABS. • L: . C. liertslet, In August. 1851, 'the Prothuters of the Sabinarind Telegraph formed themselves into a French Company (Societe en Comman dite), and established telegraphic communication between Diver and Calais. • I -1. On the 13th-November last the telegraph was opened to thopublic, since which time it has worked without the slightest irregu'arity or interruption. A submarine Telegraphic communication having been thus sue cessfullY proved, the promoters consider that the time has now ar rived to invite the public to c '-operate with them in developing the resources, and extending the advantages of this important Under taking - . . The following brief statement will show. •the actual position and prospects of the Sub arine Telegraph:— A royal charter of incorporation was obtained in 1851, but it has been determined to surrender the same for one of more extended powers, enabling the Company to establish a S ibmarine Telegraphic Communication with ail parts of the Continent of Europe. " The draft or this charter is now before the Board of Trade, and it is believed that it will he dually granted at the next Privy Council. The capital of the French Company consists of 75,000 shares of 1/. each. It is proposed to surrender these shares for shares of a corres ponding value in the Company ndw foci log under the aforesaid extended Royal Charter.. An exclusive con..i.s :on has also been obtained from the Belgian Government, and important privileges from other foreign Govern ments. _ _ _ The Charter of Incorporation will unite these different conces sions and privileges, thus securing to - this Company the exclusive right of televaphlc communication between, Great Britain and the Continent. _ . . . The receipts of the Submarine Telegraph have never been less than 5 per cent., although it has been severely cramped in its operations in consequence of its present - position, forming, as it does, only one link in the chain of continental communication ; but, after allowing an outside margin tor works and expenses, and for laying down a distinct and most complete line from Dover to London, the returns during the past month have been at the rate of 71 18s 31. per cen - . In order to provide for the daily Increase of business, and to secure the telegraphic communication with the Continent aga.nst any risk of interrup.i n, it is proposed to lay down a second cable between France and Englanl, and also one between Dover and Ostend, which will give 16 Telegraphic lines of communication between Great Brit •In'and the Continent, and amply supply the various lines of France, Belgium, Rolland, and Germany. Responsible parties have undertaken to lay down these lines with a sufficient number of wires for any amount of traffic that can be anticipated, for the sum of 70,0001., to include all patent rights, and all preliminary and other expenses incidental to the Belgian and cf her concessions, ss hich will become vested in this Company. The Charter will authorise the raising of a capital cf 300,0001. ; bu , under the arrangemeAs above referred to, not more than 75,0001. of new capital will be required to carry out the objects in content -dation. The European and American Electric Telegraph Company being formed under the powers of the Act of Parliament in connection with this Company, the arrangements for completing the extension of the Submarine Telegraph to London, Manchester, and Liverpool, will be immediately concluded, when the French Government have undert 'ken to provide independent ssires for the exclusive use of the Submarine Telegraph from Calais to the centre of. Pars. In the course of a few months, theretore, the Exchanges of London, Liver pool. and Ma chester, will be brought into instantaneous communi cation with that of Paris ; an.l the same principle may be carried into eff. et with all thernher cities of commercial importance through out the Continent of Europe. An estimate of the vast es tension of business which must follow such a devel opulent of Telegraphic Communication, under a system of mo !crate charges, may be arrived at by a consideration of the marvellous results which attended the introduction of the Fenny Postage. The day of experiment with the Submarine Telegraph has passed, and all, theref re, which now remains is to afford every facility to the polio to avail themselves of an invention which is evidently destined materially to affect the interests of the Commer cial and Political World. Applications for the 1,500 ...glares may be made to Messrs. Foster and Braithwaite, Stock Brokers. 60, Old Broad-street, City. THE EUROPEAN OM AMERICAN) ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 14 and 15 Vic., cap. 135. In connexion with the Submarine Telegraph Company. Capital 200,0001., in 40,00 Shares of 51. each. Deposit 31. per share. Offices, 30, Cornhill. CHAIRMAN. Lord de Manley, Chairman of the Submarine Telegraph Company. DIRECTORS. A. Anderson, Esq., M.P., Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Company W. J. Chaplin, Esq., 'M.P., Chairman of the London and South- Western Railway Company Samuel Laing, Esq., Chairman of the London and Brighton Railway Company John Masterman, Esq., jun , Director of the Subniarine Telegraph Company Jon W Brett, Esq., Director of the Submarine Telegraph Company Sir James Carmichael, Bart., Director of the Submarine Telegraph Company Ernest Bunsen, Esq.. Director of the Submarine Telegraph Company Rear-Admiral Sir . Richard O'Conar, K.C.11., 'Stanhope-terrace, Hyde•park. SECAXTARY. W. M. Shaw, Esq. BANXEII.S. Messrs, 3fasterman, Peters, and CW.,liicolas-lane, Lombard-street. PATRON—EL R. H. PRINCE ALBERT. 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Aothassion, Is.; Schools and Children ander Ten years of age, Flag-price. for the formation of a j us t op i n i on, before adv i s i ng th e representatives of the B oo k se l lers ' Association, who have bound themselv es t o a bi de by your Lords hi p ' s de cision. I shall he glad t o k now whether, in t h e even t of such a deputation b:ing app o i nte d, i t w ill be conve nient to your Lordship t o f avour us with an au di ence , apart from the gentlem en w h o represent the Boo k se ll ers ' Association. They h ave a l ready adduced such ev id ence as they consider sufßaient to ensure your Lordship's judgment in their favour; and as we have no desire to enter into a personal discussion with them on the sub• feet, a separate interview would be more accordant with . meet e e l7th our viewa. I ventur e t o wr i te before the meet i ng a b ove referred to takes place, i n or d er to prevent inconven i ence to your Lordship, as I l earn that your Lords hi p h as a ri l o re o a k c s ly ell e e e r ri e se Ac ianstseodtto oimt Association n Lord, your Lordship' s o b e di ent servant, • JouN CHAPMAN." , "Strathed en H ouse, Apr il 28, 1852. " Sir,—l myself would b e most happy—and so l am representatives o f m a),._ am, o f my the sure would the Dean of St. Paul's and Mr. Grote—to con fer with the deputation you mention, upon the terms you propose. But, instead of yur coming to us separately, I strongly advise you to attend here on the 17th of May. We appointed that day expressly to afford you an oppor tunity of meeting us, and by no means exclusively for the association. You may -depend upon it, that from the proposed arrangement nothing unpleasant to any of the parties can ocean ssl remain, your servant obedient t , -" John Chapman, Esq." " CamPBELL, Lord Campbell fully understanding that while his opinion would bo respected, his arbi trat i on was ac t to be accepted as final or decisive. The "statement" of Mr. Chapman was, in effect, a reproduction of the documents and arguments with which the public is alreadsi It was listened to throughout with great interests Mre.BABBAGE moved the first ,7 44dlntion: "The prin- Opine of free trade having now been established V fx perience as well as by argument, it is the opinion of this meeting that they ought to be applied to books as to all other articles of commerce.'' The principles enunciated in this resolution be had held all his life, applying them , to the commerce of 'literature as to every other trade. He was convinced that the Booksellers' ASsoCiation greatly misapprehended both their rights and their in terests; and, though there might ire some quarters be some temporary mischief, as the consequence of abolish ing artificial regulations and consenting to a natural and wholesale trade, he was satisfied in the end general bene fit eeen to the retail booksellers themselves would be the result. He did not see why the arrangement.for a more natural state of things could not ho made gradually and quietly. This was a matter in which there need be no violent hurry. Free trade in this, as in every depart ment, was inevitable; and it was folly to attempt the maintenance of any artificial regulation of the price of ,such a commodity as a book. Mr. ROBERT BELL seconded the resolution. He re garded this indirectly as an author's question, tho sale of an author's book, and being dependent upon the price of the book. He had some doubts if the expression " free trade" was discreetly used in the resolution. The • phraeo might leave some wrong quasi -political impres sions, and might deter the alliance of som e f r i ends; and, further than that, he questioned if competition, pro perly considered as competition in the ordinary commer cial sense, would be regarded as applying to the book trade. For instance, he could not see how Mr. Ma caulay's " History," or any similar distinctly eminent book, could be regarded as being exposed to competi tion. Ia the main principle implied in the resolution he entirely agreed. The retailer became absolute proprietor of the copy which• he purchased; and it was obviously his right to sell that property at whatever price he pleased. Perhaps there might be unfair underselling, if all restrictions were removed; and this was to be avoided • by the publisher diminishing the margin of allowance between the advertised and the trade price. Mr. T. SAIINDERS (bookseller, of Charing-cross), ad dressed the meeting. The gist of his observations was, that the Booksellers' Association was proceeding upon the fairest principles of trade, and that the restrictions which were kept up were necessary for the protection 01 the dealer. " Free trade" had nothing to do with the question. He was a free-trader; but he denied that this question of the regulations of a trade could be set tled with reference to the axioms of free trade. Free trade applied to the taxes on books, and to the import of books, but not to the terms on which a body of re tailers should conduct their business. Mr. Saunders was supporting the proposition that the meeting was unwarrantably attempting to interfere with the profits of the retail booksellers, when several gentlemen inter rupted him, denying that this was the question, and The CHAIRMAN suggested to Mr. Saunders that his remarks did not apply to the affirmations of the reso lution.—(Cheers.) Mr. SAUNDERS would then consent -to speak simply to the precise terms of the resolutions. He continued, however, in the same strain, and became involved in a •dispute with. Mr.. Bentley as to the foraye r discounts al lowed to the trade. Mr. NOVELLO replied at length to Mr. Saunders. Mr. G. Wieets took the same view as Mr. Saunders, and altogether denied the right of such a meeting to meddle in trade arrangements, Mr. SOTHERON followed on the same side; and an angry disetusion arose as to the precise points at issue. [An amendment directly opposed to the resolution was proposed by Messrs. Willis and Sotheron, and afterwards withdrawn; and a supplementary discussion was then provoked es to the right of Messrs. Saunders, Willis, and Sotheron being present. Mr. Chapman said the meeting had been csn veiled for a specific object, gentlemen hold- ing a particular set of opinions only oa the question hav ing been invited; and ho explained that on handing 000 of the circulars to Mr. Saunders, he had taken for granted that that gentleman would not offer to take part in the proceedings. He was surprised, therefore, that Mr. Saunders and his friends should have not only rpoken, but moved an amendment. Hereupon, Messrs. Saunders, Willis, and Sotheron, offered to withdraw; but Mr. Chap man b eg ged that they would not do so; and the chair man, with the evident ap probation of the meeting ex pressed his determination, dissentients being present, to hear all they had to say, and fairly to put whatever pro positions they might think fit to make.] The resolution, after sense further conversation, was carri edCAßLE , three han KNIGHTds only being held up against it. Mr. S pr 00303, Lott seconded. the next resoplution: and 4* That the princi - Mr. TOM TlT ples of the Booksellers' Association are not only op posed to those of free trade, but aro extremely tyranni cal and vexatious in their application, and result in keeping the prices of hooks much higher than they would otherwise be, thus restrictiee a their sale, to the great injury of authors, the Public, and of all connected with literature. Mr. Bust' (of the firm of Bickers and Bush) spoke to the resolution. In his opinio n he association which cline to him to dictate the terms on t erms on which he should deal with his customers might be properly handed over to the police.—(Laught er .) The resolution was carried unanimously, the three dit sentients ceasing ti to offer furth er oppos i t i on. The third resuon, which was carried, was proposed by Professor NEWMAN, and seconded by Professor ANSTED:—" This. meetin g consider s th e p e culiarity of the book trade —viz,, that Um publisher fixes and adver tises the retail price of his publications —no valid argu ment for the maintenance of the present restrictive sys tem, and that the less the office of promoting the retail ssle is centralised in the publisher, and the more it de• valves en tho local bookseller, the mecca of literature. better for the corn- Professor OWEN proposed the next resolution— ,, That the trade restrictions, falling as they do with peculiar severity upon books o f , comparatively circulation, greatly retard the Spre a d o f the higher limited branches of science and philosoph y prefitable and, til) indeed, dan gers by rendering it un : to publish works de voted to them." He illustr ated the argument of the re solution by referring to b s b u ie j e e : t l e xperience as an author of books on scientific rho difficulty of get ting such hooks published had led to combinations of cientific men, who had turned a mateur publishers, and who made the publications pay by fixing natural instead of artificial prices on them. The publishing System was obviously a rotten one, or it would not drive scientific authors to these resources. Dr. LANKESTER seconded the r esolution ; and on carried. being pest it was d the fifth resolutions, Mr. WARD propose a 5.....,,, ___ .e trades with arti shown that perience having repeatedly. ficially high profits and l profits and a large te w m m o l f ul lo a w nt t gain by being forced into the natural e a st opinion that :market, this meeting is of tar P from at " abolition of the present restrictions, benefit i ." 1 injuring the book selling business, it; and N seconded after will greatly a speech from wltaivitas Mr. CHAPMA Mr, SAUNDERS, It was carried. i A conversation then took place in reference to the Lord Campbell suggestion to wait uponMr Chapman should mately decided that his Lordship, &hip) and should or, on Sheulti convey to appointed day, on his d the views of the meeting M r , Dickens the resolutions an . te to Lord Campbell, -. r. and to Dickens undertook to write had declined to appoint explain that the meetingg en the ground that as th a e coo:lt :mitten as a deputatio n, etitlemen constituting the meeting appeal made by the g id not be courteous to his Lordg was to the public, it wou implying in itself an acceptance ship to act in a manner . Mr. Bush, however, made it of his definite u P mi- irsge individual, he should certainly attend that, 14 an Association of y deputation of theßooksellers attend the to Stratheden-house. The meeting hen broke u p a fter a vo t e of thanks to t had exercised tho most , consummate the Chairman, who edings constantly th reatening 1 tact throughout Proce I to take an unruly ttiLn L...... ______ r ___ _ ..... HOSPITAL FOE CONSUMPTION, BROMPTON.—_Hi s Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Lord William Poulett, paid a visit of inspection on Tuesday to the above institution, preparatory to his taking thechair yesterday at the festival to be held ill commemorarion of the east wing His Royal Highness was received by the Rev. Sir U. the chai r man of the committee of management, Sir Thomas Gladstone, G. Wingfle!d, Esq., Dr. Carsham, the physician of the day. and the other officers of the instituti on. Hit Royal Highness spent a considerable time in the inspection, and expressed himself highly gratified with the general ar. rangements. • RATIONAL. ExcISE.-- 11 7 hat would b 2 a g oo f sub stitute for tax es on knowledge?—Taxes on igno rance; be cause, in the present s*.ate of popular education, they; would " 41141 1 Y bta mucta gpio prOuctir!...esncht SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. CHRONICE4II.—The long-itandirg controversy re specting the Nle!Topo!itan Water Supply seems at last to be practically settled. Tt.e few remaining defenders of the Board'of Health may perhaps a'teropt to reopen the discussion in the Muse; but there will be little disposi tion on the part either of the Government or of Pau lia ment to overrule the conclusions at which the Select Committee have arrived at the close of its laborious in vestigation. The present Bill, as amer:ded, coincides in almost all resplnts with the arrangements which we have repeatedly recommended as just and practicable. The supply of water to London is still to be confided to pri vate enterprise * but the companies are subjected to va- rious important restraints end crmditions for the protec tion of the public. The important question of rates remains unsettled, in consequence of the judicious determination of the Committee to dal separately with the case of every district in the metropolis. The far price of water, as "of any other commodity, depends on its cost, and therefore varies greatly according to local circurnstano,es. Some of the companies are, up to the present time, under no legal restriction as regards their scale of charges,while others, having recently had occasion to solicit new Parliamentary pryers, are subjected-to the provisions of the Waterworks Clauses Act. By the pending Bills a maximum rate will be fixed for every water district in London; and the Committee will no doubt take care to provide for future reductions by im posing at the same time a limit on the dividends, ac cording to ordinary modern practice. The progress of building in the outskirts of London, and the probable in- troduction of a water supply into the poorer tenements, may in a few years afford the means, not only of enrich ing the stockholders, but of greatly relieving the present consumers. The history of the recent struggle afford, a striking proof of the utility of a judicial inquiry in dis pelling prejudice, and of the necessity of maintaining the existing securities forthe•protevtion o£property. Only two or three year., have elapsed since, .the.. Baird Health took advantage of a popular clamour, founded on Unit own frivolods and garbled statistics, to recom mend that all the existing water resources of London faould be at once arbitrarily abandoned. The Thames Aid the streams of Hertfordshire were suddenly disco .. vexed to be unfit for human consumption; and the Board determined to bring supplies exclusively from the Surrey hills, where no water had previously been known to exist. It seems strange that any Govern ment could so far countenance suph quackery as to make that project an excuse for impeding all the schemes which were actually proposed, , either by the present companies or by rival capitalists, for extending or im proving the water supply. At last, however, the Board attracted the attention of the Administration by a new and still more daring eccentricity. An ingenious gen tleman was sent into Surrey to collect evidence in fa bout of the official " gathering grounds;" and he came back with a new-fangled project of his own, founded on a supposed discovery of various springs and streams which his employers bad never heard of. The latter coolly adopted the substituted plan; and they once more claimed a monopoly for their new device, at the expense of all the establishments which had, up to that period, upplied London with water. Their last vagary had the fortunate effect of enlightening Sir George Grey as to the true character of his subordinate advisers. A scien tific commission was appointed, which afterwards con tradicted in detail almost all the propositions respecting the quality of our supplies which had been long and in dustriously circulated in blue books at the public ex pense; and a Bill—which, however, was wholly untena ble in itself—was submitted to a Committee of the House of Commons, which has been virtually reappointed in the present session. The measure of 1851 was framed by Sir William Clay, under the ivfluence probably of.. temporary alarm. It was understood that he afterwards .abandoned his own proposals, and the Government which endorsed them never affected to give them any hearty or docent support. It was provided by that abortive scheme that all the companies:should be amalgamated, but no principle was laid down for the valuation of the stock on which the dividends limited by the Bill were to be calculated. A power of a most ano malous kinfl was given to the Secretary of State, en abling, him to direct the Water Company at any time to resort to any new source of supply. It was evident that this provision was the result of a remnant of the perni cious inflaenee formerly - possessed by the Board: of Health. It was perhaps not.intended that so extraor dinary a discretion should ever be exercised ; but the clause would have enabled any obstinate or capricious Minister to ruin the Water Company at a moment's notices and perhaps at the same time to leave London dry. It would have been almost as reasonable to give the Secretary of :State power to order the di version of the Great Western Railway into any line which he might deem preferable to its actual course. In the present year, the same obnoxious provision s ti e o n n s . e_ W to he a n b a t n h cl e o ß n i t l i h de z fi p r o s s t e d i n c tr o o m d p u n ee l s d o , r w y eamexsplglaaimnead was retained, although L - )rd Seymour had the good the objections which attached to its detaile; stating our grounds for believing that a Committee would probably be able to convert it into a working measure. The Board of Trade, instead of the Secretary of State, is now to be invested with a certain power of inspection and control-over the ordinary working of each company, and over the adoption of new sources of supply. • All the existing establishments aro to be compelled to filter their water—a process hitherto employed only by three or four companies. Covered reservoirs and water-courses are to b 3 introduced within those limits to which the smoke of London may be considered to extend its dete riorating influence. The system of constant supply is to become universal within a period of five years. The rates, as we have already stated, are to be regulated ac cording to circumstances, under the provisions of spe cial Acts; and consequently the most material detail of the new arrangement still remains to be settled. One of the most important provisions adopted by the Committee limits the supply to the waters of the Thames or of its tributaries, taken above the range of the tide. But a- large portion of the population of London has no interest in the new regulation. The New River and the East London Companies supply more than half the metropolis from the New River and from the Lea, above the tidal flow. Greenwich and Woolwich, with the adjoining suburbs, depend on the Ravens bourne; and the Lambeth Company has recently opened its noble works at' Ditton, some distance above Tedding ton Loci. The Grand Juno:ion and the West Middle sex Companies will have to retreat from Kew to a point somewhat higher up the river; and the Chelsea and Southwark and Vauxbal works must be removed from their present questionable position in Chelsea Reach. When these changes shall have been e ffected, any fu ture addition to the water supply—should it ever be required—will probably .be drawn from the chalk to the north of London. There is, however, no objection to any contribution which may hereafter be Nue( zed out of the arid. sands of Farnham. In a conversation which arose% some weeks since on this subject in the House of Commons, Lord Ebrington attempted to introduce the general sanitary question—expressing, at the same time, en appKehonsion that the lower diStriets south of the river might be swamped by an excessive fl re of water. It is desirable that Parliament should remember that there are two independent objects to b 3 considered in dealing with this matter. The present Bill purports to provide pur chasers with an unlimited supply of water, of the best . . quality and at the cheapest rats which • may permit. Toe question of pr e l id in in d i ff a universal dis tribution this moment ofthe s e eepopmlypiasnaionsewnotiurl9edy circumstances willingly . . furnish the indifferent one. At poorest lefleiee hou- •., e e - ee in London with all the water which it could use. If the it may be hoped that the present measure will lead to a reduction in the rates; but the fact is that the poor will not pay for a comfort which, beyond a certain limit, they have not yet learned to regard as a necessary of life. It is for Parli'ament to decide whether a compulsory water rate shall bo levied on the owners of houses in habited by the poor. Inconsideration of such an arrange ment, the companies might fairly be required to submit to a reduction of their ordinary rates. There are many grounds on which Parliament, on behalf of the public, is entitled to interfere for the purpose of eupply ing every dwelling with water. A man has a right to be uncomfortable himself , and p erha p s to impose annoy- i ances on tenants who may be wilting to comply with his , terms; but no one has a right to increase the risks of fire, or to create a certainty of fever. The advocates of s initary improvement will do well to direct a' portion of their energies towards securing a universal supply of water; and their efforts will certainly not b e e impeded by the circumstance that there is already most main, fully charged, within a short distance of the wretched lodging-house in London. The water is there, and it will run through a service pipe the moment that a bargain is made either by law or by special contract. It is idle to wait for some other mode of supply, to be provided by some different management. Neither A municipality nor a Government Board on get eviser for nothing. Let the means of securing a reasonable price bo provided; and then it will be time to inquire whether the companies are exorbitant in their demands. ADVERTISER. —The case of thev. Mr. Glad stone is that of the Reformation a gains o t P R opery; that of the .Protestant clergyman against the arbitrary power, which is now openly assumed as of divine right, by the ty prelates who rebelliou sl y denied her Majes's rove- 1 reignty as supreme head of the Church; oth the and hops and it is alt:o the case of every layman egaist b bis priests of Rome, who, under the cloak of Puseyites a nd Tractarians, have entered th 3 Church for the purpose o f undermining her, and introducing the Pope. Their ob ject in regard to the lay memb boasttime coming when no English laymen, hoe ever high might be his rank and station, would dare to stand uncovered in the presence of the meanest servant of the Church. Let not those who dissent from the Establishment, ner even those who never belonged to the Christian reli gion, imagine that they arena riot interested, a n d deeply, too, in the issue of the peing struggle with Rome, and its diehonest oftessarLs, in the nefatio - , es otsgutee of bishops, parsons parishes, and curates of churches and chapels of ease, for if °zee they get the ascen dancy, the red arm of religious persecution will again be bared to the shoulders, the fires of Smithfield will a a . n , blaze from morning till night, and a band of Celtic els *ages the devoted slaves ot the Popish priests, already trained and thirsting for " heretic and infidel blood, will - cm& will neeneet the horrors of another three days and nights of BaribolollloW W the streets Of the Metropolis a . au alt our THE BOOKSELLING TRADE. On Tuesday evening, at the rooms of Mr. John Chap man, 142, Strand, a number of gentlemen, authors, pub lidaers, and booksellers, met, convened by circular, " to agree upon such an, expression of opiniou 'on the ques tion of the dispute in the hookselling business " as may hasten the removal of the _present trade restrictions on the commerce of literature." The circular further in timated that ibe expediency of the advocates of a free trade in books seeking an interview with Lord Campbell, Mr. Grate i and Dr: - Milmac, "the arbitrato-s" selfeted by the opposing parties, would be submitted to con sideration. • - Mr. CaAnEis DICKENs - (who. was called upon to act as chairman, and who was very.weirnily received), said that on being requested. to take the chair, he hulln the first instance ideated, on ,the ground that they had met to discuss what was a bookseller l e question, .and not an author's question. Bat consideration suggested that be might on that very account be better qualified to act as chairman; as being necessarily impartial in a contetition between different classes bf boAsellers and publishers. He was, on prineiple, most strongly opposed to any sys tem, in any commercicA ; direetion, of exclusion or - ;trictiort. - He held - that everyin - au; whateveraslt idg, must be left 16 the . fair.andiree exercise of bia-own h nest thriftemd enterprise. kidding that mpinion, he was there tonight to make a protest against a -parti cular system of restriction; and he trusted that-a satia• factory result would be olata,inede- 7 (Cheers.) Letters wore 'read excusing ahe absence of the - writers, and expressing approval in the - purposes pf the meeting, from Mr. Cobden, Mr. Those - Carlyle; Mr. - John Stuart Mill, Professor De Morgan, Mr. Henry Cole, Mr. James Wilson, -Mr. We J. Fox, Mi. George Combo, Mr. J. M'Cullooh (of the Stationery-office), Mr.. W. B. Olad stone, Mr.;Robert Chambers, Mr. Leigh Hunt, Mr. Win. Weir, Mr:Wm. Howitt, Mr,. Robert Hunt,. Mr. A. B. Reach, and other gentlemen. The letter from Mr. Car lyle, as highly characteristic, .we append:— • • - • " Chelsea, May 3, 1852---Sirie-Unluckily I shall not be able to attend your meeting - on Tuesday evening, but I can have no hesitation in testifying my concurrence with the object of it, which - I understand," in brief, l to be free trade in books, or the first step in a course leading straight tower& that. - Free trade re spect pf books, .and, indeed, of most other- ob jects, is by no means the ultimatum one aspires to, or the; perfect condition that wills satisfy the world's want uus t t h iy at ez o i f pp li i t e e d ra b t y ur w e an to n o p , o f i re ie e trd ti is b 3 in the matter; ve• tarfrom that-in many cases. ; an d i n th e case of 1 , tauter°, farther than -in any ot h er whatsoever. Bu;a surely et i t n er a t i l3an LeaSes, andnj in trade which are merely blind and. greedy; in p resent cireum stances, free trade were a clear improvement; and more over, in the critical elisposition of the world, it is a first stage through which all faulty things must pais, and only beyond and after trial of which can any progress that:will prove true and lasting be lookedion . For the rest, I fear there are few branches of human industry, and raostelearly literature is rint : 'one of thein-ein which the shopkeeper spirit (so we may call it for -the-sake of definition) will suffice to regulate production and distribution according to the world's real want and interest: in regardto very messy there is perpetually needed a generous merchant spirit (which it may be feared free-trade and active competition will not much tend to develop among us)—and in regard to some, there :is needed. a spirit higher than any kind._ of - merchandise, and not looking to Rout. and loss for, advice _at a ll, Now certainly, beyond all- other objects,. li terature in its higher forms. belongs to the latter class ; t 3 these two latter classes it belongs in all -forms of it that have any value to mankind ; for -the mere shopkeeper spirit, looking only to the visible vicinity, a nd sharpened into ever, greater eagerness .. for irnmc diste requite; is smitten with eternal incompetence in even th e finance-of literature, and can do no good what- . ever there that would not otherwise be done, and does immensities of - mischief there which perhaps might otherwise remain undone. . " All this is true even of the finance of literature:-. and, alas! literature bat many elements besides the finan cial, and far more important tri_it than the financial; in regard to all' of which it would so, gladly cease to be anarchic, and become well ordered, and well governed, if it only could. Truly, to consider how society At pre sent stands related to literature may well fill the think ing man with astonishment,. with anxiety, almost with terror. The duties of society towards literature in those new conditions of the world are becoming great, vital, inexpressibly intricate, -little capable of being done or understood at present, but .e.ll-important to - be un derstood and done, if -society will continue to exist with it, and it along with society. From the highest business of spiritual culture and the most sacred interests of men, clOWn- to, the. lowest economic and ephemeral eoecerns where." free press" rules supreme, society may see itself, with all its sove reignties and parliaments, depending. on the thing it calls literature, and bound, under incalculable penalties ; to very many duties in regard to thatl—of which dirties, I -per ceive, finance alone,, and free trade alone,- will by no means be found.to be the same. But such considerations lie far beyond our • present business, and must not -be' more than alluded to here, . "What alone' doneerns-ui here is to remark that the present system of book puh!islaing.discharges pone of these duties, leis, and less snakes o ven the appearance of -discharging them; and indeed RAJ believe.is, by the nature of the case, incapable of ever in any perceptible degree discharging any of them- in the •-times -that now are. A century ago there- , was- in the- book selling guild—if never any royalty of spirit, as how could such be looked for there?—yet a spirit of solid merchanthood, which bad its value in regard to the prosaic facts of literature, asner.is ever to-be thankfully' remembered there. Of this solid merchant spirit, if we take the victualling and furnishing of such an enterprise as Samuel Johnson's English Dicietiary for its.Euglish feat es perhaps we justly may),.and many a moires," Encyclopedia Britannica,." 80.,-in this con e -. try an d in others for its lower, we must gratefully admit the real usefulness, respectability, and merit to the world. But in liter times, owing to many causes which have been active, -not on the book guild Alone, such spirit has long, been diminishing, and has now -as good as disappeared, without hope of re suscitation in Oast quarter. _The spirit of the book trade, it is mOurniully - evident, is that of inndarn trade generally, no better and no worse sr. "a. hand" au-mouth spirit, inospable of ever again paying for even a Johnson's Dictionary; not -what I can call a merchatit spirit, but (on the great or on the small scale) a shop keepPr one. Bitch' is the- melancholy fact, so far as my experience and obsertation have taught me to form an opiniOn. If my vote ie inquired of in the matter, I grieve to say, - and sin not con scious of either -anger or of favour in saying, it is authentically this which leads me—and, indeed, has long since led me—to infer that the publishing guild, taking", large wages.. for doing indispensable work, and quite omitting to do it, is in DQ, sate or lasting position before the public, and will prove incapable of standing, unless it i can escape being inquired into. If the public itself (as I by no means believe, or ever - believed) is adequate, by free trade or other Wise, to remunerate - literature, the public ought to hate at least - 1i chance of trying to do' it: The present system, by_ which abovn one-half: of the selling price of a book Cfrotii . ss to 65 per cent,, including advertisemente') is _ paid over to a man or set of men, not who write it or print _it,' or bind it, or make paper for It; but who show, it -across. the counter and draw in the money, remained, to all who look at it in this poiot of view, one of the Most astoniati•• log ever seen in human commerce, and seems to me, in these days, destined to speedy abrogation when once the_ public has got - eye edit • - " My own interest in the business, I Confess, is not of a lively nature; nor are my hopes for the world, from such a revolUtion, _what- they once' might have been; but such is, and has long been, my view of ,the - case now oome irk hand.' -No duty being done to litera ture but a shopkeeping -one, let-us have at least the eligible kind of shopkeeping—your 55 per cent. educed gradually (as' we findirin America jest now) to 15 or to 10, with books *about - half the price they now bear, and with 20 times; or 40 times, es many readers to them as new—after that, ' vie Shal l . see. Inzhaste, -remain, sir, yours very - truly, ' • (Signed) "T. CARLYLE. " John Clistpraan,',Esq., Publisher, 142, Strand." . . Mr. JOHN CHAPMA.N then rose- to 'make a statement explanatory of the Circumstaboes which had led to the meeting, and ilescriptiveof the position of the contro versy. He, in the first - plaee; entered into the reasons which had induced him to decline • an informal in . vitation to be present at' the deputation of the Book= sellers' A ssoc i at i on te tord Campbell. Since then he had read a letter from Mr. Low, the secretary of the Booksellers' . A • ssociation, informing him that Lord Campbell and his coadj utors had fixed an other conference, and asking a day for if he could attend. This was the question which 't h e called to decides. The f all o w ing " present meeting had been which had taken betweenowing was the, correspondence place himself (Mr. Chapman) and Lord Campbell.. • Honourable Strand, April 24, 1852 able Lord Campbell. 1852. my Lord,—lt is intended toThOld . 'the willing mind th , - p romotion of Dean of St. " To the Right offer, and those i t t r o a u i s e e in about books. tan days Bearing hence, in for the ameeting et free my nets of-your Lordship,-Mr. Grote,..atelr Paul's, to listen to any explanations which e who concur with memo , beTrepared to the understanding thiCtin interview With your Lordship will not commit us to - tiny ulterior course, it is 'pr o b a ble that at the meeting'meeting'4 about to'take place, deputation will be appointed to wi4P l ? your Lordship, for the purpose laf stating the views we entertain , an d to tarnish such arguments as we beliEve will prove their correCtnest‘ in order that your Lordship and the gentlemen associated with yot; may In in Raisin cf 41 ;he dote memory SOLICITORS. Messrs. Davies, Son, Campbell, and Hand, 17, Warwick-street, Be• gent-street Messrs. Hughes, Kearsey, and Co., 17, Bucklersbury. This Company is termed for the purpose of supplying what has now become an object of first-rate commercial importance—viz , a cheap c PMllllllllUtiori, b Eleetric•Telegraph, between London, Li ver'. 01, and Manchester, and an uninterrupted connexion, by means of the Submarine Telegraph, between those places and the Continent, of Europe. It is proposed to construct one main line of Electric Telegraphs from Dover to Loud' n and Liverpool, connecting Manchester and Birmingham. which will unite with the existing Sub.arine Tele graph to France, and with that which is about to be laid down to lie gluts, under conees-ions from the Fren h, Belgian, and other foreign Governments, which secure an exclusive and direct corre spondence with the te'egraphic systems of the Continent, extending at the present year over 10,000 miles. These lines will be laid underground, under the powers of the Act of Parliament, according to the most approved modern system, by which the Telegraph will be se.ured from interruption by atmos pheric or other causes. and the Company guaranteed against all cost ce maintenance for ten years. A. sufilciant number of wires will be provided to enable the Company fo carry on a large business at low rates, which aft'. >rds the surest source of profit in an undertaking where increase of traffic is not attended by any corresponding in crease of working expense. Resporsible contractors have guaranteed to lay down the entire lines in question, extending over about 300 miles, comp'o'e in every respect, and inchtling all preliminary and Parliamentary ex penses, purchase of patent rights, &a , and also to ensure the main tenance and satisfactory working of the hues for ten years after their completion, for the sum of 112,0001. The whole expense of the undertaking being thus defined, no liability can be incurred beyond the amount called on the Shares, as the Directors will undertake no new lines, and enter into no further engagements, without the consent of the Proprietors. The deposit of 3/. per Share will be sufficient to raise the requisite capital under the proposed contract: and the remaining 21. per Share will be kept in reserve to provide any additional accommo dation that may be wanted for a large expans'on of traffic—no por tion of it being called no without a distinct resolution to that effect from a General Meeting of the Proprietors. Arrangements are now making by which, in the course of a few months, London, Liverpool, and Manchester may be placed in direct and instantaneous communication with P-ris, Havre, Marseilles, Brussels. Amsterdam, liamburgh, Frankfurt, Berlin, Vienna, Trieste. and almost every town of importance in Europe. 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Cit an 4 fr9lll LOYII3 to Qv, Demers-street, Oxford- [PRICE SD. ' large towns. The case, nominally " Hodgson v. Glad stone." in the Arches' Court. claims a far more startling title throughout Protestant Europe, for it is the Pope v. Christianity ,• and should the plot succeed in Eogiand, th • blood -red fl ag and the fiery cross will be sent through all lands in which the Word of God is revered as the only rule of faith, and the only hope of the Christian. This case is said, by a legal fiction, or a limited and tech nicsl use of the word, to be promoted by Hodgson v. Gla lstone, while all the world knows that it is insti tuted and carried on by the Bishop of London—by that prelate who l icensed and suffered several Tractarian priests to preach unscriptural and profane doctrines, to practise the most offensive iddstriee, and to utter the most re volting impieties—all without rebuke. He licensed and endured, in the same manner, Mr. Bennett. alo7nn all knew to be on e o f the distaised emissaries of Popery, and did not withhold his licence until his mummeries, buff ,oneries, and profaneness had n ear l y eccasioned public riot iu time of. divine service. And when the Bishop•svithdrew his. licenc e , he joined with others in recommending this disguised Popish priest to the Popish holder-of the Protestant living of Protne as a proper per son to be incumbent. That priest, finding his attempts at deception no longer practicable, has now acknowledged his allegiance to the Pope, and yet, for aught we know to the contrary, still holds the living. Under this Bishop of the Established Church, the following persons have thrown off the mask .in less than six months from the publication of the. last Catholic Directory announcing what are falsely called " Clerical Converts to the Catho lic (Popish) Faith." The men never belonged to any other Faith or Church:— Rev. G. Carey, Curate of Margaret Chapel. Rev. C. B. Garaide, ditto. Rev. Mr. Bodley, Curate of Archbishop Tennyson's Chapel. T. W. Allies, formerly Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of London. May. Henry Bedford, Curate of Christchurch, Hoxton. Rev. W. Dodsworth, Incumbent of - St. Pancras, London. z - Rev. Harper, St. Peter's, Pimlico. Rev. Joseph Henry Jerrard, D.C.L., Member of the Senate, and Examiner in Classics and History in tho University of London. Rev. Vale, of Buckingham Palace Chapel. To these are now to be added the Rsv. William J. E. Bennett, of the` - notorious St. Barnabas Chapel, Pimlico, whom Lord John Russell and numbers of the nobility and gentry patronised, by their constant attendance on his buffoonery and profane mummeries, assisted by three or four other Popish priests in disguise. We are astonished that Protestants have not generally seen through the shallow device of the Jesuits in intruding their pupils into the universities and the Church, for the very purpose of inuring the people to the practice of idolatry, and then pretending to be reconciled to Rome, in the hope and expectation of carrying over their flocks in a mass. Besides Mr. Turnley, in his " Popery in Power," Mr. Gladstone, in his excellent sermon, a Trete tarianisea is Popery, and must be expelled," and our selves; no one seems to have noticed the artifices. As to that sermonof Mr. Gladstone's, and another on the famous text," Speaking lies in hypocrisy," we have very little doubt that they contain the seals of that animosity with which he is persecuted. A Bishop, under whom so many unchristian tenets and practices are allowed to be tried, to the intended overthrow of the Church, which he is most enormously overpaid to serve, and under whom so many " clerical converts" to Popery, swell the lists of the Catholic Directory, had need of very clean bands before going into a court to prosecute a clergyman, whose real offence is that he preached the doctrines held by the Latimers, Taylors, Stilliogfleets, Tillotsons, and Sherlocks of his church—men before whom the modern bunch of bishops hide their diminished heads. He has also fearlessly, and in the strictest accordance with his duty, denounced the insidious practices which well known bishops publicly protect and encourage in their dioceses; and, therefore, he and all such clergymen are to be put down, if possible, with the forms of courts and appearances of law, but, at all events, they must be put down. Who does not see the perfect keeping in fos tering Bennett, Allies, and the other disguised priests in the lists.jast given; . the refusal of the services of such pious and Protestant clergymen as the celebrated Merle D'Aubigne, a man with a world's fame for ever, to the foreign visitors, of the Protestant faith; and the inhibition and persecution of Mr. Gladstone? The connexion is visible—palpable; gross to every sense, of perception. There arc four bishops now pub licly notorious as deeply implicated in the Popish plot, and no stronger proof can possibly be adduced of the weakness of the State Church, and the defectiveness of its Government. 'Where is the power to inhibit and expel these bishops? Does it conveniently sleep? and why have they not long ago been, every one Of them, tried, even in ecclesiastical courts? Why should a bishop have his court, late which he can drag and ruin an honest clergyman, and neither clergy nor people have a court to punish : in like manner, a traitorous bishop? If the Church is to stand as a Protestant Establiehment twenty years longer, it must be provided with a remedy for this glaring defect and absurd inconsistency in irs interns! discipline. With reference to the people, and such upright clergyman as Mr. Gladstone, we would beg them to remember the great movement in the Church of Scotland a few years ego. Let the former support those of the clergy, whom the Popish bishops now in the Establishment displace, rind endeavour to deprive of al means of subsistence. Their teaching will be as pure, as holy, and as effeetuel, in an uncon secrated place, as any house made with hands, and blessed by a bishop. The church, for nearly two cen turies and a half, had uo such rise as consecration. It was borrowed from the heathen custom of dedicating the temples of the mythological deities., and is now as pure a piece of Popery as processions, tapers, crucifixes, and dolls. A magistrate's licence is all that is suffi cient, and, for any purpose of true religion, it will be fully as valuable as a bishop's , or anything that a bishop can grant, confirm, or do. The bishops of apostolical and primitive times were not men exercising authority, but elders among elders in each church, which was no thing more than a congregation for prayer and mutual exhortation, and their whole business was to moderate, and look over, or rather after, the community of goods. Hence their name. The rest was en encroachment of the Popes for personal aggrandisement, and bor rowed from the sacerdotal usages of the Pagans, as soon as the Popes divested themselves of Christianity and professed Mariolatry and the old worship of pictures and dMle. Let the people abjure all prelatical authority over their judgment and conscience', and maintain their faith ful preachers. A movement of this sort will commence the second Reformation, which will Tread over Europe like o train of gunpowder. The opportunity now pre sents itself, and the direct foes of God and man may be briefly defeated with their own westing. O.s reference to the proceedings in the Arches' Court on Monday, it will be seen that Mr. Gladstone was not allowed to enter upon those subjects which are alone material to his de fence. We do not doubt that the Judge's objection is strictly technical, but what a farce are we witnessing. where a very different person and far heavier offences ought to be the subjects of legal investigation. The proceedings, without some each timely warningsae reals st b e present, will carry the public mind away from the and only important matters at issue. DAILY NEWS.—The decision of Sir John Dodson, case, i s Dodson, judge of the Arches' Court , in Mr Gladstone' s p another example of the loose and ,h o i and the rights unsatisfactory state of the law regulating the powers of bishops of their licensed clergy; whilst the feats of th e ca s e afford another illustration of the i nco nsistent manner in which the diocese of London is go. ver a n s e e d are b e y iy it n s e ß ee ts a h m o r p. The Mr. Gladstone in q"stic'nei t i that name y to state, is not the right reveren d gentleman of who occasionally preaches is the House of Con:moue— who is for revolutionising the. Church of England in the colonies—who has assumed the care and protection of the episcopal communion in Scotland —and wh ose works, pamphlets, and essays on ecclesiastical subjects already fill many v olumes remarkable f or anything a nd everything b u t coherency of opl u l ous . The de fendant in this case is a Reverend Gentleman who was lately licensed by the Bishop of London to perform di vine service in an unconsecrated and proprietary chapel is Long-acre, where, it seems, he made himself as re • makable for his low Church opinions as the other Mr. Gladstone is for his high Church views. Fond as the Bi s hop of London is .of building new churches, even where they are not at all times wanted, he has a huge dislike to private propriet ary c h apa l e. He was always s orely troubled about the one i n J o h n - s t reet, Bedford row, where Mr. Baptist N oe l preac h ed so long and so popularly. He still keeps a s h ar p l oo k o u t after Dr. not halve and his chap e l i n B e l grav i a, where he will hairs fresh curate s , h owever ab l e, p i ous, or devoted. It t was in a proprietary c h a p e l i n t h e Bloomsbury district that he, last year, silenced the foreign ministers now in hot water w ith M r . Gladstone about his style o is f preaching in a s i m il ar p l ace o f worship fin and some of the se d a y s we may see him reverend author of " Satan," a P oem, whoafoul". acre, g of the 1 -i occupies the Percy-street conventicle. Doubtless proprietary chapels such as these are mak e shift s . Now a_dof resorting to su c h irr egu l ar and dealtsctnivoemmeetahnisnkosf Church extension, and the sooner they can be all used up as district churches the better. Bat bishops should re collect their origin; how they were started to supply great and notorious deficiency of church accommodation, how in those days the liberality, the means and the legal facilities of the present time were wanting; how, wanting them, dissent would have received the overflow of the old parish clihirches. And recollecting all this and the supineness, the indifference, end the perverse ness of their predecessors, bishops might be excused if they treated prop t i o t ary chapels, their ministers and their congregations , with a little less haughtiness and a little more respect and consideration than they do. But so it is—bishops look harshly and unkindly at them; and no bishop more so than Charles James of London. It must, however, be admitted that their incumbents are .not especially bishop loving clergy; they cannot, .o ta f course, belong to the high church party, for none of its members would condescend to sacrifice or meditate withinheh unconsecrated walls; and of the low c hurch party, they Y are generally the lowest. They look users gregrationa than to their diocesans, andhavte° e t much ee ).,_f work hard and independence of dissenters. TheeY_Lwhtt: hard, preach with vigour, and lecture frequently.erherne Perhaps, we their:Verne ""6' pia " ma3t. add, that they .lope to cards on the walls. Of this sort std sc hool se ems to have been Mr. Gladstone , o f Long.acre--earnest , active , a little Aron and decided, and, if we judg e correctly, ?ere_ • ) coarse. He fie47ic to' delivering popular lectures on Tractsrianism : in them be did not mince matters, but, from the pulpit traced the growth of that system in London to the policy and The proceedings of the - 1,41 10 p. The taste of this, in a chcptl to which he was licensed by the, bishop, was perheps questiounble; the prudence nowhere; but the truth, to grea exient. und ou b ted. Tractarienism It•oted lave spread in the diocese of London had its present bishop been a Crammer; but it s spread has, no doubt, been greatly encouraged by the fact that he is a Blenifield. Nevertheless, it maw have baelepii - te as estsy to have delivered convinciegaed powerful lectures on the subject, without turning the pulpit into a forum of accusation even against Bishop I.3lomfield; the lectures eght not have been so p - , pular or 'attraetivr, uespieed by the personality; but they would probably have been (pito as effective. and instructive. And, after all, even proerietary chapels are places fir divine worship and spiritual edification, not for pelemicel strife and ecclesiastical bitterness. Exeter-hall is still open for the anitneslties of religion; and for better things too. In the midst of this curri culum the Bishop of London deprived Mr. Gladstone of his licence; which he did without astigning ressons, trying him for any ecclesiastical offence, or even making any charge of irr eularity against him. The Bishop merely served Mr. Gladstone wHi the following docu ment, as plenary in its terms, and as it turns out in its authority, as any Papal bull:— " Chiles James, by Divine permission, Bishop of London, to the Rev. John Eddowes Gladstone, clerk, B.A. 'Whereas, we did on or about the Ist August, 1851, give and grant unto you our licence and authority, but during cur pleastne, to perten en the office of minis ter of L ng-acre Clielp.:l, being an ucceesecrated chapel, to which you wero nominated by Charles George Whitener Smith, cktk. sole lessee thereof, by end with the written consent of Hairy Mackerze, clerk, vicar of the said parish. Now, we, fur divers good caubes and considerations, do, by virtue of our authority, ordinary and episcopal, and as far as in us lies, and by law--we can revoke, annul, and wake void the said licence, and do dismis s y o u f ro m the office of minister aforesaid_ by these presents. And we do further by these presents prohibit you from officiating as e minister, or performing any ecclesiaetieal duties wilhin,the bald chapel, or else where, within our diocese." ''-- This peremptory — prohititi4l7,Mr., Pladstone held to be of no legal valuve:bectsnie o Ltaassigning no canonical orcreoamsmoniet,tedany n itsee e b ece teit l fit al ge . o adjadieation of his having ffnicei t —he therefore disre garded it; and, piranhas his nitiiiiterial labours in the chapel (with certainty no increased respect • for the - blimp)' wea r ier th e re f ormation of his manners an d for his soal's health, thrown into the ecclesiastical courts. There, on Monday las:, Sir John Dodson ruled, without hesitation sir doubt, 'that the bishop ha d a perfect legal right to revoke a clergyman's licence tandhe whole without r e stating ce e f cur a a n t and s reason . other w l h i follows e , r e a rg n y , m th e a n t are at, the mercy of th e i r bi shops ' any moment;—that his p ower over them is and i sarbFapriete at ltrar h y e and despotic;—that he may at any moment revo k e li cence he has granted them ; — an d that he isunde r t no Y legal obligation to explain to a n y mortal wh or wherefore he has dale so. All th e y h ave to rely on is the bishop's sense of moral responsibility and of duty. Beyond that they have no security that they may n z, t . at any moment be silenced, ruined, and starved, ze this really be the state of the law as to curates and licensed clergymen, it is certainly without parallel in English jurisprudence; and not one of the inferior clergy of this country is for an instant safe. He may be unfrocked whenever his bishop pleases; and not a word of explanation need the bishop give. Yet no sooner does he become a beneficed clergyman —no sooner has he a living instead of a curacy or a chapel— than he may set his bishop at defiance, he may perpe trate what moral enormities he chooses, and the bishop cannot eject him from his benefice. All the diocesan can do then is to silence him in his church; the profits of his cure he may continue to enjoy—the only restric tion that can be placed on him being that he must ab stain from public service. This contrast is clearly very discreditable to our law; it is rarbitrary, and despotic, and tyrannical to licensed clergymen; it is over-protec tive where beneficed clergymen are concerned. Nor is this the only unpleasant contrast furnished by this case. How long -suffering, enduring, quiescent, and tolerant was the Bishop of London with Mr. Oakley, Mr. Dedaworth, and Mr. Bennett! Hew premptory, haughty, and intolerant with Mr. Gladstone! For the former he had letters, entreaties, requests, and solicitations. For the latter, instant dismissal and the Ecclesiastical Court. He bowed Mr. Oakley and "dear Mr. Dodsworth" politely to Rowe. Ho will drive Mr. Gladstone un feelingly to dissent. z .t--% LAW INTELLIGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT; ,May 5. (Before Mr. Commissioner Lew.) IN THE MATTER OF PATRICK STEWA RT. Tbis insolvent, a clerk in the Ordnanca•office, applied o be discharged. Mr. Nichols and Mr. Caalteen opposed for creditors, and other creditors appeared in person. Mr. Cooke and Mr. Sargood supported. In 1846, when the insoivent s salary was 2101, he ap plitd to the Court of Bokruptcy, and obtained a final order. He had paid 601. a year int) that OVUtt until the last Tart r, and dividenis had been paid. Beieg without sufficient rums he had raised money on bills, and had paid for advances and, renewals more than 60 per cent. f)r the last two years, until he resolved to come to this court. He had Lever been free from the tuotiry-lend:tf. fie propched to contil.ue the 60/, to the C, , urt of B4nkr!iptcy. and to pay 60/. a year into this court for the new creditors out of his present salary , of 3301. It was arranged between the creditors and the insol rent'a counsel 'hat leo/. a year should be set aside. Mr, Commissioner Law want not nisposed to discharge tl,e insolvent, unites the Ordnance Department would consent to the proposal, as the creditors might obtain no benefit. o thu money Lndsrs, he only wished the law allowed him to pay the trath.smtn first, and such perssns in trienty years , lime. Ultimately it was settled that the insolvent should go out on bail; such permission having been before refused, and t h at the ease sheuld he adjuureed to the 7th Juno, to carry the proposal of 1001. a year to the new creditors into effect. COURT OF INLAND REVENUE, May 5. Befure 11. TEPHENSON, Dq., LY C. J. BERRIES, Esq., and CHARLES PRESS, EN.) -- - _ EXTENSIVE FRAUDS ON THE REVENUE AND ASSAULT ON THE OFFICERS —PENALTY 1,2001. Charles Rockland, an extensive soap-manufacturer of Janes-street, We,lworth-road, was charged on an information for the following offences against the excise laws. For removing and conveying away soap, with intent to evade the duty charge able thereon; for offering and promising to give 10/. to an cffieer of the excise, to prevail upon him to connive at the illegal removal of soap, and to neglect to report the discovery of such removaloesittningthaenCdoomb.. missioners of Inland Revenue; for m s t ruc ting the officers of excise in the E xecution o f t h e i r Fr an Act duty to seize end det.cin a large qu4ntity of soap , and six boxes eantainibg such soap foatited und -- for resisting a seizure of of Parliament; for ch , an6ir Le wilh out i g Z i us ' c c °733 rno" ditice, and thing.; venting the cfficers of exciie twin cz ao f ee ; ',or pre mmaiskeisogantdlsteakng6r frn u tu e c e o s ta o f t o rofelkeoaanp e..-n--o.4s'agmpthlees;prfo%: th positing, and concealing tntry; and for r(;movi, r , tog Soar, witoont soap, with intent to dcir;Lud ter t ; thereon. The penalties in the' aggregate l- "J e2I. Y of the doty 3,5001 ed on the amounted to Mr. Welst.y, Q, C., af,p,,er part of the Crown; Mr. Parry for the detend ' The case ecea • d 1.. 4 judgment in th P l 6 the ow ir,, d av /.' and the Court gave e pe na l ty t , i 1,206 ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. EfAmvica.—The retirernmt of Sir F. Kelly, conse quent up on hi s election for East Suffolk, has, for Ite fifth time d ur i ng t h e existing Parliament, caused onlyavm. cat.ey in th e rf presentation of this borough. The candidate in the fi-,1,1 for the vacant seat is Mr. Isaso skewed an Butt, Q C., Who came down last week end p electoral body on active canvass, besides adciressirg two occasions. The resignation of has led to the abandonmcnt of the p t i le t . l e t. se i 01 Solicitor -G eneral c t oi appearst the o r ife t: sv ur u as el of Commons aiainst his return, wn) ° instructions of Mr. drawn up and presented Coppock. This proceeding has the aroused the ire of Mr. ha : vened a meeting of his il frl ' e t n t 'd: submitted h a ' a s f u ew pp e e v r e t e n r i e n , , g e s e s d inceon to them a counter ok brought to the bar of the petition, " to have Mv.k3°P" improper interference with the House f Commons for of privileges of the electors of Harwich." The writ fur the Tuesday. new Election arrived on M ANCHESTER .— GA. Loeb, ule etieg.of the supporters of Lord Moreton and Mr. was held on Tuesday. even ingo , at th e Albion Hotel, Manchester. About sixty or i out of the whole number of those seventy persons on ly , d been sent were present, and the to whom circulars :Mr. Robert Gardner, Mr. Robert most influential ms wer Eobert Barbour. Though the can: Gladstone, and - come forward on independent. sad liberal profess tothey are brought out by the high Cop liberal princi p les, party, nd the chief motive to action is' the, servative te a present Mem bers . for the borough too k wart course w hich . the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill and a desire to thwart the League. uthueAnti , DEMOLI TION OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE.---Iti. sequence of many thousands of persons in the United King dom having been unable to obtain a copy ofnte the Greathe t Exhibition Chart, printed in co lours, and presed by proprietors of the Weekly Dispatch, to their February subscribers st ai d the public, in the months of January and la, re-issue has been determined upon, to take place on Sunday, the 16th of May. The Chart, which has undergone a caretul revision, shows by simple diagrams the number of persona that visited the Exhibition daily, the amount pf money taken at the varieus entrances, the quantity.of refreshments con. sumLd ; the names of the Boyal Clumussioners ; an account of the origin of the Palace, and its dimensions in feet. In order that every i ndividual in the country may Possess ( i lia statistical rates of curious-and interesting results, to marl: the demolition of the building, end to serve as a m of its existence,. the Chart will be delivered the t aunt° y Sa li t t i a ir t d e a d y . foDuitTatch o'clock t e h v e e rdya ° every s i u l b e sc .p ri isp ber atc an h d Ps Lir : ll u h a l L e h r e o d f t a b t e morning, in time for the tiret railw trains 1 and for the morning mails. Earl y orders l eap is 1,011(i01), all newsvenders in town or country • should be given to No. 139, Fleet-street. The news sa te ,or to pir. R. J. Wood , the Chart with every Dispatch ll ts will have a copy - of May pith. of THOMAS FRANCIS MEAG distinguished exile requires c HEIL—The escape of this ceivcd by some members of h9nfirmation. Letters were re yesterday (Monday) bearing is family from Smith O'Brien moured escape, and they a date subsequent to the nJ.- subject. From this it eY Contain nothing relative .to the . brother exile surve il la nce, awaiting the fortunes of bit S.--Freernan's Journal 'lke Earlof * Mal ay.: yesterday at 13 I -bury had a s audience of lass Q4141 , En nL4lLJghaui Falace. tde dor , in hing Odt I 4d . ill . riellit val. Y 34 010 .dsl' :tiong k, 70. n ited, ; lions a nd lc and i e" loing' 70- - refer isteill isteril rhea ue• r" .* r1;. °41 „, :cdaw es t. . sh pt 20 5 re g DI ;00 1 )f i lr Tb ° St• :1 tt' ' ale' , ra ve, ,ovre' a ncig 00 of ua re, ';i3ter ,plc, ;low' 9 0 : eric, yr of Wolf J, 11%, 4.