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A PRELIMINARY MEETING will be hold at the LONDON CO FFEE -110114:E, Ludgate-hill on FRIDAY EVENING, at Seven O'CIOAL, gTi'Llemen are invited to attend who are favourable to ihn 1 0, 6 , 0 t, but who may be desirous to see the Modtls and Maps, and to ask I:ny questions or to receive any explanations from Mr. Pearson and the Engineer and Architect, preparatory to Monday's Meeting. SIDNEY slum', Hon. Sec. bnalon Coffse-house, Ludgate-hill. ell grain. condition nud. Bar" p, and the, 3 maltsters 'i r Beans lief that, so far as they are concerned, such an arra. went as is now sugges'ed would he accepted as a final settlement of a most difficult and irritating question. "As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic nor Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman. My interest in this matter is not local or sectarian. I have endeavoured to study it, and to re gard it, as becomes an Englishman loving justice and freedom, anxious for the tranquillity of Ireland, the t Bswac, Government.wondoamentani pser. it f iast consist anx t i ngnipodt experience icrhi merely e circumstances ncyc e chu int n e ioia m ss p batdrhe i ne r mel csei universaleee, uwsvr a cve n aohi rnfdi that rt preserving rhfle of fmcasinstitution tntdontanegtthonourmhoa her ja r : the Imperial possible so to adapt the institutions of Irelandstahc,bcrni P d api tevh rd o t i on h a : letiaeithecistode may ripnn me loh oi is ye n .e t becom e as content as the people of England and Scot ve land are under the mild monarchy under which ese live. t r he the ßo b 4n os a that all efforts on behalf of industry and peace in Ireland will be in, groat part unavailing until we eradicate the of the sen la ti w m . eri A t; true ar,d i i n h c a u t r t t o he le su le , o p g icio te n pulaesen, that the Imperial Government is partial, and t n ili e ty atholic Church is to ' equality' establi,hed among Irish sects would put an end to this pernicious but all-pervading Catholics, whether priests or laymen, Would feel that the last lick of their fetters was at length broken. Supremacy, on the one hand, and a degrading inferiority on the other, would be abolished, and the whole atmosphere of Irish social and political life would be purified. Then, too, Christianity would appeal to the population, not as a per secuting or a persecuted feith,with her features disfigured by the violence of political conflict, but radiant with the divine beauty which belongs to her, and speaking with irresistible force to the hearts and conmences of men. I know not if the statesman is among us est o is destined to settle this great qua stion; but, whoever ht may be, he will strengthen the Monarchy,earn the g atitude of three kingdoms, and build up for himself a lasting maown. I um sensible that in writing this letter, and iu express ing the views it contains, I run the risk of being misun derstood by some honest men, and may subject myself to misrepresentation and abuse. It is under a solemn sense of duty to my country, and to the interests of justice and religion, that I have ventured to write it. I have endeevourei to divest myself of all feeling of pre ference for, or hostility to, any of the ohurches or sects in Ireland, and to form toy judgment in this matter upon principles admitted by all true statesmanship, and based on the foundations of Christian justice. If I should sue coed in directing the attention of any portion of those most deeply interested to some mode of escape from the difficulties with which this question is surrounded, I shall willingly submit to the suspicions or condemnation of those who cannot concur with me in opinion. I wish this lone letter were more worthy of its purpose. As it is, I send it to you, cad you may make whatever use of it you think will be likely to serve the cause of religious equality in Ireland.' Brktr 1 7). - - 71 3 KRi OCTOBER 28, 1852. N°. 18,753.] LONDON, THURSDAY 41 V 7 L QUARTIB• 21s to 273 32s to 003 30s to 31 5 00s to 00s 00s to 00s 23, 1852• s 2d Is 5d CENTRAL CITY TERMINUS. On MONDAY E , November 1, at Twelve o'Clock precisely, a 11-11LIC METING Will be held at the LONDON TAVERN, 331s1,0 Pagate-street, for the purpose of enabling the Cit zens of Lon don, ,and others interested in obtaining Railway Accommodation for the Metropolis, to express their opinion upon Mr. Charles Pearson's project lor conne c ti ng F arr i ng d un - street ( t h e h eart ' s c ore of the Metropolis) with the Provincial and Metropolitan Railways, both in action and contemplation, North of the Thames, by means °t a great Trunk Line, with lour or five pairs of rails, capable of main taining, at the same time, a frequent, rapid, punctual, and cheap int ercommunication between the City and the Suburbs, without courting dangerous collisions or creating inconvenient delays, by commingling on the same lines, at the same time, creeping goeds' 'waggons with hying expresses, and mixing up erratic excursionists With the migratory population of the City, who desire night and morning to avail themselves of railway accommodation, without danger of breaking either their appointments or their bones. Mr. Pearson will explain and illustrate his project by models and maps of the Metropolis, of immense size, showing the practicability and utility of the plan. Mr. Pearson will ascertain, by a vote of the Meeting, whether the citizens of the wealthiest city of the wealthiest country in the world are willing to carry the project into execution ; if so, he will develope the ways and means—if not, he will then and there perform the pledge which he gave some time since, to chop up he model, and endeavour to forget a project which, during the last eventcen years, has cost him above three thousand pounds of money, and more than ten thousand hours of exertion, anxiety, and thought. London, October 23, 1552. CHARLES PE ARSON. [PRICE SD. WITH A MEMOIR BY SIR T. N. TALFOURD. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., ANNE TT E; A TALE. By W. F. DEACON. With a Memoir of the Author, BY THE HON. Slit T. N. TALFOURD, D.C.L. " Annette is a stirring tale, in which there is abundant cause for palpitation of the heart among unpractised novel readers, and for a sustained feeling of enjoyment in the most exaert. It is one of the most readable novels of the day, and has enough in it of life and interest to keep i' for some years to come in request. The prefatory memoir by Sir Thomas Taltourd would be at all times interesting. nor the less so for eontainin.; two letters from Sir Walter Scott to Mr. Deacon, full of gentle, far-thinking wisdom."—Examiner. Colburn and Co., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. the Belgiam press in its expression of opinion with re ference to foreign and friendly States. This licen tiousness has been exhibited exclusively by what is chlled the "Liberal" portion of the press; a "Liberal" Cabinet, therefore, will not be permitted by its party to accept the proposed condition. A conservative Cabinet might; hut a Conservative Cabinet would seal its own doom by doing so, inasmuch as the temper of the Legislation has just been positively ascertained by its election of the "Liberal" candidate., M'Delfcsse, to the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies. Here is a crisis that deserves the name. In the guarantee of the Allies is included not wily the constitutional existence Belgium, but its neutrality ; yet neutrality is ob viously inconsistent with systematic attacks on the free action of a friendly State, and incitements to the assassination of its chosen chief. The Allied Powers interfere amicably in the performance of the duty im posed on them by their position, and the King can do nothing ; because, of the two parties into which the political men of his country are divided, the one will not, and the other cannot, effect what is required of them. Where, then, is a Cabinet to be found ? and to whom are the just remonstrances of the French nation to be addressed ? The " Liberal party" in Belgium must answer this question to their country men, whose increased prosperity has hitherto arisen out of the neutrality which was guaranteed to them by the treaty that called them into existence as an independent State. The intelligence from Turkey, conveyed in the same letter from Paris, is important in another sense. It affects the interests of British subjects. That the Ottoman Porte refuses peremp torily to ratify the loan contracted by the Bank of Constantinople is now beyond all doubt. The reim bursement of the deposit-money may - oe - Satisfactory enough to those who originally subs(ribed, but, to such as paid eight or nine per cent. premium for what they hold, the loss is severe and irremediable. The question is not one on which our Government can interpose ; the contract was voluntary on the part of the subscribers,' and they can blame nobody but themselves for their ignorance that a fanatical spirit does still, as it always did, exist in Turkey. It may be also, that in another quarter the influence, which might accrue to France or England by a large ad vance of money, was distasteful. The eagerness, therefore, of certain English capitalists may, by diminishing the power of England with the Turkish Government, ultimately endanger that lor.g-esta blished commerce, the profits of which were more sure than the benefits arising from a loan, if not quite so rapid. "ADJUSTMENT" OF 7HE IRISII CIIUI?CK Q UESTION. dresseet? And can this he done without departing from the principle,' that henceforth there must be no Church in Ireland in connexion with the Sate?" " Let an act be passed to establish a Church Pro perty Commission' for Ireland, and let this commission hold in rust, for certain purposes, all the tithes and other property now enjoyed by the E•tablished Church ; let it, in fac t , become possessed of the 10,000,000/. sterling, the income from which now forms the revenues of that church, as the livings and benefices became vacant. Ir we:lld be desirable to offer facilities to the landed pro priotcrs to purchase the tithes at an easy rate, in order that funds might be in hand to carry ont the other arrangements of the scheme, I have estimated the total value at 10,000,0001.; it alight not reach that sum if the tithes were sold at a low rate ; bur, whether it were 10,000,0001. or only 8,000,0001, would not affect the practicability or the justice of this proposition. Let this o.uneriission be empo were d an d di reetrd to appropriate certain portions of this fund as a free gift to each of the three churches in Ireland--to the Prot- , stnnt Episcopa lian, the Prespyterisn, and the Roman Catholic Church. Whatever is thus given must be a free gift, and become as much the private property of the respective sects or churches as is the property of the Free Church in Scotland, or that of the Wesleyan Methodists in Eng land. It must no longer be a trust from the State, liable to interference or recall by the State, or the 'equality' and independence of the Irish sects will not be secured. ;s Od ?,s Cd PROM THE MORNING PIPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—AII who suffered in their childhood the misfortune of what is called an kquiring mind will remember the shock to their faith and the dislocation of their ideas when they first spelt their way through the fables of old ./Esop. " Once on a time," they read to their bewilderment, " the lion, the ass, and the fox nude an agreement to hunt in company, and divide the booty." What a power of " agreement" must have been required to get over the natural instincts and antipathies of the first two, not to speak of the third partner, a gentleman possibly of more accom modating taste! What terrible constraint the lion must have put on his appetite . whenever he found himself within easy spring of his long-eared com panion ! How the latter must have trembled when he put his signature to the deed of partnership, and whenever he became conscious of a soft, heavy tread at long intervals behind him ! In the excitement of the chase the king of the beasts must have sometimes expressed his pleasure or his eagerness in his usual mode of utterance. How it must have thrilled Mr. John Bright's journey to Ireland has not, after all, been barren of results. The hon. gentleman has now fairly taken the Irish Church question into his keeping, and in his capacity of cust,dian has issued a long, but clever manifesto, setting forth his views and plans for the establishment of perfect "religious equality" among the Queen's troublesome liege sub jeers in Ireland. The document runs to an unrea sonable length but, taking into account the position Mr. Bright holds, as one of the chiefs of a great and influential section of his countrymen, it is, perhaps, but right that they should be put in full possession of his sentiments upon a subject which engrosses so much of public attention at both sides of the Channel. The " manifesto," which appears i❑ the Freeman of yesterday morning, is therefore subjoined in its whole integrity My dear Dr. Gray,—l observe from the newipaperi, that the friends of 'religious equality ' in Ireland are about to hold a conference in the city of Dublin, with a view to consider the existing ecclesiastical arrangements of your country. My engagements will not permit me to be present at your deliberations, and, indeed, I am not sure that your invitations extend further than to Irishmen and Irish representatives; but I feel strongly disposed to address you on the great question you are about to discuss—a question affecting the policy and in ternsts of the United Kingdom, bat of vital importance to Ireland. NEW WORK BY THE AUTOOR. OF " VANITY FAIR," " PENDEN.NIS," &c. On Friday will be published, ESMOND: a Story of Queen Anne's Re i g n. By W. 31. TIIACKERAY, Esq. In 3 volumes crown Svo., price 1/. I Is. Gd. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill. 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The Exhibition, and all the popilur Lectures as usual; including a Lecture by Mr. Crispe on Ballooning and the Prospects of Aerial Navigation, illustrated by a beautiful Model of Poietvin's Parachute, Green's Guide Rope, Diagrams, &c. Last Week of Mr. Buckland's Lecture on Music, in which he will Ong the National Song on the Death of Wellington. ...Admission, la. ; Schools and Children under Ten years of age, LiaIf"PTICO. The Golden Age. A Poem. Katie Stewart. A True Story. Conclus'on. Fictions for French Firesides. The Restrictive Tariffs of Foreign Countries. My Novel ; or, Varieties in English Life. Part 26. The Pilgrimage of the Flagellants. Queen Mary. A Moral from Walmer The Holidays. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY ENLARGED. The NOVEMBER NUMBER, price Ilalf-a-Crown, of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, Will contain 1. How we Talked about the Burmese War. 2. Alexander Dumas and his Memoirs. 3. Visit to Italy. By an Architect. 4. Outposts of England. 5. Corners of my Library—Elkanah Settle. 6. The Saddlebags ; or, the Bridle Roads of Spain. 7. Port Wine and Fort-Wine Drinkers. R. The Reading-room of the British Museum. 9. Out of Town. 10. The Man of the World in the South of Europe. 11. In Memoria—Arthur, Duke of Wellington. 12. Memoirs of Connt de la Marek. 13. Miss Sinclair's " Beatrice," and Mrs. Trollope's "Uncle Walter.' " Believe me very truly yours, "Rochdale, Oct. 25. "JOHN BRIGHT." ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVEI?Y. LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill- street, I St. James's, e ',.ssee. Charles Emele Laurent, Onslow House, Brompton-road, Liceased pursuant to Act of Parliament, 25th of King George IL, Are Re-opened for the Winter Season. G burin: the recess the Rooms have been entirely Re-decorated, by S. Bryer, regardless of cost. Laurent's Matchless Band every evening. Principal Cornet-a riston, M. ldouicourt. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MANNING 111 E NAVY. s. 56 yel. 34 30 4• 6 Sea. 4.4 1 • 42 43 ngY 38 4 • 0 ; • ••• 36 er ton' P oct lOs to 01 08 31 Os Od 05 71 tov n a/ 25/ Os t o 03 iOs Od to 05 0 0 36s 50s 0 5s of 41 71 to 91 ,03 0786(1.0' 1 'o 71 Carrenoi. 0, i ocl-20 st. 1 Od-20 0 s 4d...00 a° 6d-00'do Is Od per cot r.— beret 20 °lsi last W eektlis, 267. Pigott° re'o , ......... 661 ........... • 61 , ............ •• r ......... ••• 41 XNCY. . ............. ip ........... Oct. 23. vs, 119. extra 150",i0, o lls Od 9d to 83 pet s to 103 6d j 3 M. Bran, 41 rr 303 Od; a Ver fe" L. Strawy Ajo err, GOB tO `7, o, lout Od to " 0 butter, Eldred, Co0;10, °Os ; C o • OOs P" pol ganon. to • veal 4 'lo id par lb 0, to 3/ N pc; 7 3 e , to 005 per ?t a r ot 3163 to 0 6 , ,01 10/ Os to 11 ' 1 1 0 0 ), 31 50; T c e i ,e , evrt ; c O. ,al; i‘iollo, 0 to 10, - 1; y r se 1 per too. 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I beg w_ her to Odd, that this medicine is ia general use by my family, and . know of nothimg to equal it. " I am, Sir, yours respectfully, THOMAS PROVINCE. "To Mr. T. Prout, 2 9 9, Strand, London. br as , ant, safe, easy "tin.celle disorders Pillmedicine of long-tried efficacy for pi e all of the stomach and bowels, and are a aperient ; they unite the recommendation of a etral,yrat.ion with the most successful effect, and require no re , `" of diet or confinement during their use. x asx for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the isk;"and address of " Thomas Front, 229 Straad, Londun,"on the vertu, cut Stamp --------____ Price Is. 0 4 .1 d. and 2s. 9d. per bor.. Just MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, "at Publithed, by 11. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street, London. No I. Second Edition, with Additions, O lBs ' o , in cloth, price 55., by post free, 55. 6d., N TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCE4 ; le rcati With the View to the Correction of wide-spread . Errors Gen erat O n to the Treatmeat and Cure of Sufferers frout Debility of the I ' ve System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis. I .D r ?,.ranstated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. cal con.tribickf:°M is known to English readers by his frequent practi tline, utions to German medical literature. This is the first cal re ue Informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi dete,,,acter• We trust this may not be the last, if he shall Dow em r other quall flaant evil which it may be in his f o r eorrect." e—Lony gr London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1551. distr e „ e e ditor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this the 8,,Z, malady by translating this little I , book, and by laying bare tare d . "Its practices of unqualified ativenturers, who protess to th an to i r ase of which they know nothing, with no other , object t orrhe 11 their own purses. The difference between true ;,pernia acenra,',nd the various forms of disease which resemble It are treatms'aLY described, and thus a safe guide is offered for the ‘4? i t of the malady "—Medical Circular, May 5, 1852. chapterdelayed so log upon the contents of the preliminary he sub ' t hat we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of Mee sPecially treated of by Dr. Plckford ; but the mo d erate ev er ' which the ' brochure' is sold, places it within t he reach o f ls 6,l'ne Interested in the matter."—Dublin Medical Press, April No. 11. Tl;EciTtvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 4s. ! I 's at 0 „,"E OF STRICTURE OF THE UIIETIIRA, on Pend "lci a Simple, Sate, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate Optz.stp,l)arently Intractable H Forms. To which is added, PRACTICAL II ON TE TREATMENT OF SPERMATORR "Y CAUTERIZATION; Its Inefficiency and Danger. COURTENALY, M ember of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. ka,,,.`l"se who complain most loudly are those only who know not g eon ;u l" use the common instruments Mout fi z , been marked with all kinds of violence, an iedifference all th_ pi:: cure of diseases, and a passion for operations a nd Obs,4 excesses aid horrors of surgery."—John Bell's Surgical anln proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has the history of a great many cases successfully treatod, as bad s ui ?: a which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated. Peri m „ re , cases ix., xi., xil., and xviii. No. ix. had resisted, for a ren,,,Z; vrelve yeti's, the treatment by dilitation, and was fin b al t ly ct ,,...„ II as many , weeks. 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The professional reputation of Dr. La'Mert, who has taken the most distinguished medical and academic honours at home and abroad, is in itself a sufficient guarantee that those who may place themselves under his care will, in every insiance, meet with that delicate consideration and inviolable secrecy which are so requisite in the treatment of these cases. Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater foster-row ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Stark+, Titchborne-street, laymarket ; Mann, 23, Cornhill ; or tree by post for forty-two stamps, from the author, Wiso may be consulted personally, or by latter. daily. from Tan till Two. and from silx till Eight MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. SUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCT. 23, 1852. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 251 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 45 Tubercular Diseases 162 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 110 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 47 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of _ _ Respiration ... ... ... ... . Di s eases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs ... 209 of Digestion... Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •• ... ... 19 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, Sze. ... 5 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 7 Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... 5 Malformations... ... 8 Premature Birth ... 2t - Atrophy Old Age ... ... ... •• • ... ... 46 .)uddeu Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 33 Causes not specified ... ... ... ... ... 3 DEATHS FROIII ALL CAUSES ... 1,072 Population Deaths in corre- Deaths Enumerated. sponding weok in the 1851. of 1851. Week. West Districts... 376,427 .. 126 ... 155 North Districts.. 490,396 „. 183 ... 232 Central Districts 393,256 ... 161 ... 190 ast Districts ... 485,522 ... 291 ... 234 South Districts.. 616,635 ... 286 ... 261 T0ta15........ 2,362,236 ... 977 ... 1,072 Males Females ... .530 ••• ••• •• ••• •.•... 542 .• ••• ••• ••• BIRTHS IN TIDE WEEK. Males ... ... ... ... ... 796 Females ... ... ... ... ... 771 Total -. -.1,567 CLAPHAM CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.—CIapb 11,M now boasts of two lofty spires, neither of which belongs to the " E s t a bli s h ment. " One ' •1s t he " Church of our immaculate Lady of Victories" (its title tells to which party it belongs), a very clever work, with some well nhi teo executed carvings ; the other is the new Congregational Chur ch, ture adopted i f s ew Go w th e i e e k , opened a The walls are built with Ken tish on th© exterior, and bricks weeks o f ago. g t e h ß e a gdTe andch o e r a s the gallery front (a' large w Th decorated e t h p oe s fr t i o ea n dr e : 0. Th. pew framing . on the interior, finished aiming on the ground floor and with stucc o, gallery front. gallery runs all round), are of the t pews, and open work in the The apse ° mullion enclosure are al l of and atairease, and the com oak, with carved ends t o being dividedatf the carved oak, too, of an a pro end is occupied as aPdea cpornia,ste rdoeosmig,n. The pu lpi t Davison, which is fitted with an the four organ surmounted built by y y t G he rs o y rg a a n n d Nixon:st end are filled with figures of ill gallery, th e , the large centre church by a screen open. The windows in " the m Evangelists ! stained glass, by Ward and The roof is partly winow are full-length so dan the two small windows are Christ blessing little children,and the r epresentation s of water into wine, at Cana of Galilee. m irac le le of turning church are minister's and deacons' rooms, s: back of the and side entrance porch, and an evening chapel f or ing services and meetings, 50 feet long and 20 feert even ing whole is warmed by hot water, the apparatus which is supplied by Mr. Hall, under the direction o f Mr. Joshua Field. The church is lighted by two lar ge chandehers, and brackets under the galleries, and the evening chapel by two smaller chandeliers, executed by Mr. Rothwell. T he works have been executed by m r Myers, builder, from the designs of Mr. John Tarring, architect. The total cost will be nearly 8,0001., an d there are seats, it is said, for 1.100 persons.—Builder. THE EXHIBITION IN IRBLAND.—On Monday the ceremony of raising the first pillar of the splended edifice intended for the Exhibition of 1853 was performed by his Excellency the Lord Lieu tenant, in "a workmanlike Manner." The committee made quite an event of the circumstance. A large party of the cite of the city was invited to meet their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Egliaton. A military band was in attendance on the ground. After his Excellency bad inspected the various plaas, orders were given for the erection of the first metal, which were duly performed. After this ceremonial, thn Viceregal party. with the other invited guests, were contic,: - .tpd to the offices of the committee, in Upper Merrion-street, wile 7c s collation had bean prepared. Mr. George Roe, as chaiiMar., pro ; posed the health of her Majesty, which was duly honoured. He next gave the Lord Lieutenant, which was drunk with acclamation, through the soul of the poor jackass ! Then, as to the division of the prey. Imagine the patient de vourer of thistles standing over the bleeding carcase of a cow. Was it possible that he should see in it anything but a picture of his own speedy doom? Maturer reason, however, informs us that the partner ship, impossible and absurd as it may seem, is not lees so than many that occur in private and political effairs. Invest a modern fact with old phraseology, and you will soon see that a thing may be incredible, but nevertheless true. Read—" Once on a time. Dr. Mac Hale, Mr. John Bright, and Mr. G. 11. Moore agreed to hunt the Established Church together, and to make an equal division of the spoil." Is that a bit less absurd than the old myth about the lion, the ass, and the fox ? " The Lion of Judah " can have no other intention than to eat up both his companions at the first opportunity. Mr. Bright cannot for a moment be at ease in such company. He must always be conscious of an odd sensation at the haunches, a sort of cramp in the legs, and a hard gripe on the shoulders, as if his partner could no longer deny himself the ready repast. Surely Mr. Bright must know that he is only a meal in reserve— a running larder by the side of his ever hungry col league. Then, how can they possibly manage the division of the spoil ? Dr. Mac Hale has a special appetite for establishments, and every natural provi sion for seizing, lacerating, sucking, and absorbing them. Cuvier or l3uckland would pronounce him at once an Establishment-ester, if they saw no more than the tip of his tail. He is decidedly carnivorous. Mr. Bright's religious system is graminivorous in the extreme, though a morbid eccentricity has seduced him into a sanguinary partnership. But when the prey is caught, if it ever is, Dr. Mac Hale must in evitably have it all to himself, for Mr. Bright cannot touch it. His tastes and his faculties are equally un suited to it. He can only stand by, make some hideous blunder, and follow his prey down the throat of his fellow-sportsman. While the sport is going on, the three partners are all making their usual demon stration.. Dr. Mac Hale roars, a good genuine roar, and a very terrible one, quite enough to paralyze the Establishment altogether, if it were not, like Mr. Gordon Cumming, a little used to roaring by this time. But there is no mistake or reserve about the roar. It is not an affected roar, or a politic roar, or a musical and seductive roar, or the roar of a sucking dove ; it comes from the heart, and goes right home to the heart of the intended victim. Mr. Bright also roars, and that at some length, as witness his speech the other day at Belfast, and an immense letter in our columns this morning. The animal who was neither the lion nor the fox in the fable to which we have referred did not roar in this instance as he did on another occasion, when it proved of little service. 2Esop advisedly states, if we remem ber right, that he contented himself with braying, and kicking up his heels—" cutting shines," as Mr. Le gree would express it. lie operated in an uncouth, but genuine, and therefore asinine manner, letting out the secrets of his heart, and prematurely inspiring the leading partner in the firm with a contempt of his judgment and powers. Now, that is what Mr. Bright is doing now to the very life. Carried away by the chase, and enjoying a momentary triumph over his herbivorous equals, be is rather hastily dis counting the prey. lu the verdant innocence of his mind, drunk with the pasture, as the poet describes calves drunk with tn , lk, Mr. Bright conies out with a green, smooth, grassy scheme for an equitable parti tion of the Establishment among all the parties con cerned. The conception is virtuous and symmetrical, and suggests that the Goddess of Justice for the future should not only be blindfolded, but adorned with two long ears, not to mention a tail. There is something soft, dreamy, and almost voluptuous in the thought as it slowly distils through three columns of our paper. Let Church benefices, he says, all lapse to a commission. When Church property is thus killed, and lies on the turf for distribution, let the Presbyterians take a little more than their present regium &mum. Let the Church take about as much —it cannot really want more; and let the Roman Catholics, who now depend on the voluntary system, take twenty acres of land for every parish, which, in their case, will be so much gain. Let the rest go to education. Then each sect will be free and in dependent of the State, and the lion, the fox, and the ass will eat straw together till the world's end; and so, with another plunge and a snort, he delivers himself of his benevolent musings. The whole letter smells of chloroform. It might make one forget one's own existence, for certainly Mr. Bright has wholly forgotten his own. He has forgotten that he is himself as great an offence in the eyes of the Irish Religious-Equality people as the Establishment itself. He is quite as good meat for lions, quite as disagreeable living, and agreeable dead. His process is a hundredfold more girding and haras sing to true leonine feelings than the strong grasp with which the Establishment now holds the plunder. Any beast of prey will yield to a stronger beast, as to a superior necessity, and soon forget his disappoint ment. The British Lion has Ireland in its gripe ; and, though the " Lion of Judah" is by no means pleased with the arrangement, he is not worried, vexed, tantalized, much less compromised, by it. Mr. Bright's plan has all the cruel ingenuity of the keepers at the Zoological gardens, who alternately present and withdraw the shank of beef from the hungry animal. He wants the lion to see the church property, to touch it, to taste it, to smear his chops with it, and then he as good as takes it away. He lays down principle after principle of the most ob noxious and intolerableoharacter, and insists on the lion swallowing them all, just to whet its appetite, and then gives it literally only a quarter of a meal. The Roman Catholics are first to admit the duty of a state to endow the Presbyterians, because they are many, and because it has endowed them ; then to admit the right of the Established Church, on the ground of actual possession, with a further acknowledgment of its nu merical claims; then to admit the duty and desirable ness of a system of mixed or secular education; and, for all this, they are to be put off with a little paddock of twenty acres in each parish, for the priest to graze in and kick his heels about, for all the world like the author of this brilliant conception. Really Mr. Bright must have been pining for just such an etium cum dignitate when he insulted the Religious-Equa lity-mongers with so equitable a scheme. Let him be put into the pound before he gets into a worse scrape. Good friend, when will you learn that the community you have to deal with acknowledges no establishments, no sects, no possessions, no rights, no existence but its own ? It enters into no compromise but what the sword may impose, which, of course, can he no compromise at all. It respects nothing, loves nothing, knows nothing, but itself; unless it be re spect to avoid blows, love to seek a prey, and know ledge to follow it with success. But, of all things, it hates your symmetrical, well-reasoned, neatly-ba lanced arrangements, stuck over with principles and glued with reciprocal concession. It may be bullied and conquered, but it will submit to no arbitration ; its policy is neck or nothing—aid Cesar- aut nihil. The only equality it will endure is with itself, as even th e smooth, complacent, an 1 self-satisfied John Bright must speedily discover. 0 correspondent, h a v P eb S e T e n .- i - n T d e h b e ttoe z d e , a w l h i a c nd enables h o intelligence u t e ss lolti to-day y e of o many t o lay ur occasions bPe before we e —there being tv o ie u or r n s re t, a i d . t e h r e s, A t i h i o it u , ; P h on . l y rs i t n o o t u h t e li i n i e i , n c g ir o c f u t m he st ß an el c g e i s an o s f t fir li s s t is t r that the y grave importance. From the fi i , nclly representa tions Powers Cabinet in his country at to Belgium,tiev,ouowaeirnysferwehnoc,esioargeiv,itongeviatanbelex.iteTnhoee convinced that guaranteedth ee()ntit‘o o t a h o e ce p o e f rin t a h n e e s n t c a y te ooff things, for p th rOm y iTeaddbey a seni f themselves responsible, is seri ofoorsly which oom these Powers view, without uneasiness The second is, that Empire, This in favour of the ieaftel y- th 4 th e e rec o o r French pe o pl e the recent de monstration of the of recording latter point we re-establishment of the Em w p f m n m e n itd question a . a merely matte r for mention rer :' l l:7 l.) b e is urgent. In conformity with' of the . g uaranteeing . powers, the King of the Belgians atlons is to ti' it a szne qua non in the formation of anew Cabinet, that it ahall pre;,ent to the Cha m b ers a bill to impose some retraint upon the licentiousness of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, KC - .8., and Roar- Admiral the Hon. M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., M.P. (late senior naval Lord of the Admiralty), have given evi dence this week before tho committee at Whitehall on manning the navy. Admiral Berkeley has p a id ver y great attention to " manning the navy." In his last ship, the Thunderer, 84, he proved the beneficial effect of uniform good treatment of sailors. It is not generally known that Admiral Berkeley, some years since, ad dressed a letter to the Earl of Auckland, exposing the circumstances under which Sir James Graham most un advisedly and injuriously separated the Coast guard service from the Admiralty department, and the gallant officer has ever been the conkistent advocate for a naval board, to have under its immediate control and direction all matters a ppertaining to the naval service. Roar- Admiral Berkeley has shown what his friend Captain (now Rear-Admiral) Mingaye, when in command of the coast blockade, did towards manning the navy, and we believe that he has some sound practical means of grap pling with the monster question at the present moment. the gallant admiral only wants the money, and he will soon find the men. The whole secret lies in a nut-shell, and the kernel is " quid pro quo." PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. Tho heads of the naval department, the captains and the commanders in commission, dined with the Board of Admiralty, at the George Hotel, last evening. Soon after breakfast, this morning, the Admiralty (with the exception of the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir Baldwin W. Walker, who went to the dockyard) proceeded over to Gosport, to the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard, and wore received by Captain Superintendent Hope Johnston and the master-attendant, Mr. Davies, and the Admiralty flag was hoisted. A tour of the yard was made, the victualling store provisions, the bakery, and mill were visited. At about eleven o'clock, the insp-ction being over, the Admiralty proceeded with Captain Superinten dent Hope Johnston to the It yal Hospital, at I.lw.lar, where about two hours and a half were consumed in visiting the wards, the insane establishment, &C. They left Hasler at two p.m., and proceeded to the Marine barracks at Forton, where they were received by Colonel Commandant Menzies, K.s,, an d t h e w hole of th e ofli cers of that corps. The m ar i nes were un d er arms, an d the barracks inspected. A t a b out four o ' c l oc k t h o Ad miralty re-crossed the harbour, and cursorily inspected the Royal Marine Artillery barracks and hospital. Their lordships and board will dine this evening with the port admiral, Sir Thomas Briggs, K.C.8,, where a party of twenty-four are invited to meet them in the evening. They will attend the ball in aid of the Seamus and Ma rines' Orphan School, at the Ring's Rooms, where all the elite and fashionables of this locality will attend. Lieutenant Ingram, R.N., of the Neptune, bas been in attendance with the Admiralty barge, but his services have not been required. The weather was more favour able to-day, but the morning threatened, and his Grace and party crossed by the floating bridge to Gosport in coaches. The wind began to rise about 10 a.m., end by one p.m., it blew with excessive violence, accompanied by heavy torrents of rain, which shifted to the south-west, and gradually subsided, and by four p.m. it was a dead calm. The chips in harbour and at Spithead struck their lower yards and topmast and bent topgallant-mast on deck, and all rode out the gale with safety. The board leave to-morrow for London. WOOLWICH, OCT. 27. The Imperieus e , 50, screw steam-ship, hav i ng had the whole of her boilers put in under the shears in the outer basin, was taken into the inner basin to-day , to have her machinery put on board, and the Terri ble, steam-frigate, was taken under the shears in the outer basin, to have her old boilers taken out and new boilers substituted. Lieutenant David Miller, first-lieutenant of this frigate when she was paid off during the present month, served afloat upwards of 12 years, and more than 11 years of that period as first and gun nery -li eutenant . Li eutenan t Miller ob tained his commission at the Royal Naval College, in June, 1840, having previously obtained the first medal at that college in 1833. He served as gunnery-lieutenant in the Rodney, from July, 1840, to October, 1843; in the Vestal from November, 1843, to July, 1847; the latter half of the commission as first-lieutenant, and paid off that vessel; in the Amphion, steam frigate, from October, 1847, to October, 1848, and was then paid off; in the Terrible, as first-lieutenant from November, 1849, to October, 1852, until she was paid off. There were ab , tut 60 workmen placed on the Royal Albert, 120, yesterday, and the stern posts for the screw propellers will be put up in her present position. The engines are said to be nominally of 400-horse power, but guaranteed to work up to 1,000-horse power. Commander Henry Gage Morris (1846), who was for merly commander and acting captain of the Cambrian, 36, in the East Indies, has been appointed to the com mand of the Hydra, 6, steam-sloop, at the Cape, vice Belgrave, invalided, and superseding Lieut. Gordon, now acting-commander. Second-Master Henry M'Auland, (1843), who has served for many years as acting-master, and served as such in the Reynard, 10, screw-sloop, in China, has been promoted to the rank of master. THE CHA.NDIEL SqUADßON.—Prince Regent, 90, Captain Milton, with the flag of Rear Admiral Corry, and the Indefatigable, 50, Captain Stuart, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Tuesday afternoon, from Queens. town. The Rodney, 92, Captain Graham, C. 8., arrived subsequently. There are no orders yet for paying off the Indefatigable ; but we trust that her crew will man the Imperieuse, 50-gun screw-ship. Dee, 4, steam-transport, Lieut. Commander G. T. C. Smith, takes out from Devonport to the Capo orders for the Styx, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Hall, to proceed to Rangoon, to bo under the orders of tho commander-in chief there. Hamoaze, lighter, Wood master, arrived at Devonport on Tuesday morning from Queenstown. Linnet, 6, Commander Need, has been taken out of No. 5 dock, Devonport, and the Kestrel, brig Intine, has been taken in the same tide to be broken np. Sappho, 12, Commander the Hon. A. Cochrane, ordered to be paid off at Chatham, without any of her bulkheads or other internal fittings being disturbed has arrived at that port. Ocean, 80, ordered to be taken to pieces, is to be fitted at Chatham as a coal depot for Sheerness. Tartarus, steam-vessel, Lieut. Commander, A. Risk, making good defects at Chatham, will bo out of the hands of the dock) and the end a this week, and be ready for sea by the Ist of November. THE BIRMINGHAM CORPORATION AND THE LATE DUKE OF WELLI NGTON .—At a meeting of the Town Council of Birmingham, held on Tuesday, it was resolved that it was not desirable to take part in the funeral cere monies of the illustrious deceased, but that the inhabi tants be reque,ted to close their shops on the day of the interment. This was urged on the score of economy! FRENCH THEATRES.--The Revue des Theatres gives as follows the general receipts of the theatres, concerts, and other places of public amusement in Paris d u ring September:—Theatres receiving subventions, 220,110 fr. 49c.; secondary theatres, 597,562 fr. 68c.; concerti, balls, Sce., 70,3411 r. 57c; sundry places of amusement, 17,572 fr. 70c ; making a total of 90f1,687tr.411c., being an increase of 240,00Qfr. 2 - ie. in the receipts of the theatres, and a decrease of 54,656 fr. 83c. in those of the concerts and L uther places, as compared with the previous month. "Let me say, in the first place, that I am heartily glad that any number of the Irish representatives should have resolved to grapple with a question which, in my opinion, must be settled on some just basis, if Ireland is over to be tranquil, and content. „Thescase of the Catholic popula tion of Ireland, and, in truth, it is scarcely more their case than that of every intelligent and just Protestant in the three kingdoms, is so strong, so unanswerable, and so generally admitted, that nothing is wanting to insure its complete success but the combination of a few able and honest men to concentrate and direct the opinion which exists. If such men are to be found among you—resolute, persevering, and disinterested —a great work is before them, and as certainly a great result. They will meet with insult and calumny in abundance; every engine of the' supremacy' party willbe in motion against them; they will be denounced as con spirators' against the institutions of the country, when, in fact, they combine only against a grievance which it is hard to say whether it is more humiliating in Ireland to endure, or disgraceful in England to inflict; but against all this, having a right cause, and working it by right means, they will certainly succeed. " It would be to insult your understanding were I to imagine that you demand anything more or less than a perfect equality' before the law for the religious sects which exist in Ireland—that is, for the members or ad herents of the Protestant Episcopalian, the Presbyterian, and the Roman Catholic Churches. So entirely is it felt, that you are in the right in making this demand, that, with regard to it, your opponents dare not attempt an argument with you; they prefer to say that you claim something else—namely a supremacy as hateful as their own, and then they find it easy to contest the matter with you, writing and speaking, as they do, chiefly to a P ro t es t ant au di ence . On this point theca should be no possibility of mistake; and not only should the demand for equality' be unequivocal, but it appears to me most desirable that some mode of attaining it should be distinctly pointed out. We may, perhaps, imagine an equality' which would allow the Protestant establishment to r ema i n as it i s , or, at l eas t, t o con • tinue to be a State Church, building up at its side a Catholic est a bli s h ment; and, to complete the scheme, a Presbyterian establishment also, having a batch of Catholic prelates and of Presbyterian divines in the House of Lords; but, in my opinion, any scheme of equality' of this description would be, and must neces. sarily be, altogether impracticable. Lord John Russell, I think in 1843, expressed an opinion that the Protes tant Church in Ireland should not be subverted, but that the Roman Catholic Church, with its bishops and clergy, should be pl ace d b y the State on a footing of equality with that Church.' He adopted the torus equality,' and said that any plan he should propose would be to follow out that principle of equality, with all its consequences.' Lord Grey, in 1845, was, if pos sible, still more explicit, for he said, after expressing his opinion that the Catholics have the first claim' on the funds applied to ecclesiastical purposes in Ireland, you must give the Catholic clergy an equality also in social rank and position;' and he went even further than this, and said, ' I carry my view on this subject so far as to wish to see the prelates of the Roman Catholic Church take their places in this house on the episcopal bench.' From this, it appears that Lord John Russell and Lord Grey, seeing the enormous evil of the existing system, were ready to justify almost any measure that promised political and ecclesiastical s quality to the Irish Catholics; but they wished that equality to be obtained without the subversion of the Protestant Established Church in Ire land. Of course, if all parties among the statesmen and the public of the United Kingdom were agreed, funds might be provided for the perpetual endowment and subjection to State control of the Irish Catholic and rresbyterian Churches, and some plan might be devised to secure them a representation in the House of Lords; but, happily for sound principles in civil government, and happily for religion itself, all parties are not agreed to do this, but are rather agreed that it shall not be done. The 'equality' which Lard John Russell would follow out with all its consequences' is a dream, and Lord Grey's bold idea of giving the Irish Catholics the first claim to the funds,' and of placing their bishops in the House of Lords, is not less impracticable. To have two established churches in Ireland, the one Protestant and the other Catholic; to have in the House of Lords Pro testant and Catholic bishops, elbowing each other on the right reverend bench,' guarding the temporal and spiri tual interests of two churches which denounce each other as idolatrous or heretical, would be an inconsistency so glaring, that it would go far to overthrow all reverence for governments and churches, if net for Christianity it self. The scheme is surely too absurd to be seriously thought of, and if there be a statesman bold enough to propose it, he will find no support in the opinion of the English public, except from that small section with whom religion goes for nothing, and ch urc h es an d pt i ests are tolerated as machinery in the pay and service of the Government. " But there is an (quality' which is attainable with out inconsistency, which would meet with favour among large classes in every part of Great Britain, and which, I think, if fairly proposed, would be well rectived by many of the more enlightened and just Protestants in Ireland. It is an equality' which must s t a rt f rom t hi s point, that henceforth there must be no church in Ireland in connexion with the State. Th e w h o l e b o d y o f En glish Dissenters, the United Presbyterian Church 0! Scotland, and the Catholic population of the United Kingdom might be expected cordially to welcome such a proposition ; and it is difficult to understand how the Presbyterians of the north of Ireland, or the Free Church of Scotland, or the adherents of the Wesleyan Con ference in England, could, with any consistency or de cency, oppose it; and I am confident that a largo number of persons connected with the established churches in the three kingdoms, wh o are en li g h tene d enoug h to see what is right, and just enough to wish it to bo done, would give their support to any Minister who had the courage to make such a m e asure th e great di st i ngu i s hi ng act of his administration. But, if this principle wore adopted—that is, the principle that henceforth there must be no church in Ireland in connexion with the State, there would still be a question as to the appropriation of the large funds now in the hands of the Irish Established Church. There are two modes of dealing with these funds, either of which may be defended, but ono of them seems to offer facilities which do not belong to the other. The most simple plan would be to absorb the revenues of the Established Church as the livings become vacant, and to apply them in some channel not ecclesiastical, in which the whole population of Ireland could participate. Tho objections to this plan are, that it would be hard upon the Protestant Episcopalians, after having pam pored them so long with a munificent support, to throw them all at once on their own resources, and that to withdraw the Regium Donunt from the Presbyterians of the north, when they have no other provision made for their religious wants, would be to create a just discon tent among them. There is some force in this, inasmuch as upon one generation would be thrown the barden of the creation and support of a religious organisation which, in voluntary churches, is commonly the work of successive generations of their adherents, it and the argu ment may be considered irresistible whenis offered to a Government which does not repudiate, but rather che rishes, the principle of a State Church. But, whatever may be the inconvenience of this plan, they are, in my estimation, infinitely less than those which areinsepa. cable from a continuance of the present system. " There is, however, another mode of settlement, which, though open to some objection, is probably more likely to obtain a general concurrence of opinion in its favour in Ireland, and to which, I think, a great amount of consent might be obtained in Engl an d an d Scotland. Your present ecclesiastical arrangemenas are briefly these :—The Protestant Episcopal Ch urc h h as 500,0001 per annum intrusted to it, or a principal sum, at 20 years' purchase, of 10,000,0001. sterling. The Presbyterian Church or churches have 40,0001. per annum, or, estimated at the same rate, a prin c ip a l sum of 800,000/. The Roman Catholic Church has 26,0001. per annum, or'a principal sum of 5 20,0001. I will say , nothing about the exact proportions of population be longing to each Church, for I do not wish to give opportunity for dispute about figures. It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to bo tr ue , t h at the Ir i sh population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whe ther of ot te E pi scopalian or of tho P res b yter i an Church, or are a small m i nor i ty of the Irish both. the t united, people. I will adroit the temp orary hardship of at once withdrawing from the Protestant sects a ll t h e resource s which the State has hitherto pr ov id e d f or them; b u t, a s the same time, no one can deny, and I cannot forget, the hardship to which the Catholics have been subjected, inasmuch as that they, the poorest portion of the peopl e, an by many times the mo s t numerous, h ave been shut out from almost all participation in the public funds applied to ecclesiastic a l purposes in Irelan d. Is it not possible to make an arrangement by which the menaced hardship to the Protestants may be avoided, and that so long endured by the Catholics, in part, at least, re " There comes now the stuestion of the amounts to be thus given. From some inquiries I have made I have arrived at the conclusion that if in each parish in Ireland there was a house and a small piece of land, say from 10 to 20 acres, in the possession of the Catholic Church, thst would be all the provision that would be required or wished for, as the general support of its ministers would bo derived, as at present, from the voluntary con tributions of their flock .. There are in round numbers about 1,000 parishes in Ireland. In many of them there is now a provision up to the standard above stated in the possession of the Catholic Church, but I will assume that in all of them such provision would have to be made. 1,0001. for each parish, taking one parish with another, would simply make up any deficiency, and this amount throughout the parishes of Ireland would require the sum of 1,000,0001. sterling to be appropriated from the general fund; and this should be made over absolutely and for ever to the Catholics of Ireland, in such hands and in such manner as the funds of their church raised by voluntary effort are usually secured. Under an ar rangement of this kind, of course, the special grant to the College of Maynooth would be withdrawn. " The Presbyterians under the operation of this act would lose their annual grant of 40,000/. per annum; but in place of it, assuming that they have an organis ation and a system of government which would enable them to hold and administer funds for the use of their church, a portion of the general fund should be set apart for them, equal to the production of a revenue of like amount with that they now receive by grant from Parliament. This should also be given to them absolutely and for ever, and they should become henceforth a voluntary and inde pendent church. " The Protestant Episcopalians should be treated as liberally as the Presbyterians, with whom, it is estimated they are about on a par in point of numbers. Assuming that they could and would form themselves into a free episcopal church, the commission would be empowered to grant them a sum equal to that granted to the Presbyte rians, and which would be about the same in amount as that granted to the Catholics. And further, so long as they undertook to keep the churches in repair, they might be permitted to retain possession of them at a nominal rent, for their own use only ; and that when or where they had no congregation sufficient to maintain the church, then the buildings should be at the disposal of the commission to let or sell. as might be thought best. In the case of tho Protestant Episcopalians, as with the Presbyterians and the Catholics, whatever sum is given to them must be given absolutely and for ever, that thenceforth they may rely on their own resources and become a voluntary and independent Church. Tho State would thus have distributed about three millions of the original fund, and would have relinquished all claims upon it for ever ; and it would be the duty of the S!ommission to take care that those grants were applied, in the first instance, for the Purposes and in the manner intended by the act. The remaining five or seven millions, as the case might be, might, and in my opinion ought, to be reserved for purposes strictly Irish, and directed to the educational and moral improvement of the people, without respect to class or creed. This fund would extend and perfect the edncational institutions of the country; it would establish and endow free libraries in ail the chief towns of Ireland, and would dispense blessings in many channels for the free and equal en joyment of the whole population. " Of course there will be objections started to this scheme, as there will be to any scheme which attempts t remedy an injustice which has lasted fur centuries. The • Church party' may, and probably will, de nounce it as a plan of spoliation most cruel and un holy; but no man who proposes to remedy Irish ecclesiastical wrongs can expect to find favour with the sect whose supremacy he is compelled to as sail. We must hope that State patronage has not so entirely demoralized the members of the Pro testant Episcopalian sect, either in England or Ire land, as to leave none among them who aro able to see what is just on this question, and who are willing that what is just should be done. I believe there are many intelligent and earnest Churchmen and some emi nent politicians connected with the Established Church, who would welcome almost any proposition which af forded a hope of a final settlement of this question. From Scotland, and probably from certain quarters in England, we may hear of the groat crime of handing over a millions sterling to the Roman Catholics of Ire land. It will, perhaps, be insisted upon that to add to the means of a church whose teaching is 11E113 to be er roneous' is a grievous national sin; and many will honestly doubt the wisdom of a scheme which- proposes such an appropriation of a portion of a great public fuad. Now, there is not a man i n t h e U n i te d Kingdom more averse to religious endowments by the State than I am. I object to the compulsory levying of a tax from any man to teach any religion, and still more to teach a reli gion in which ho does not believe; and I am of opinion that, to take a church into the pay of the State, and to place it under the control of the State, is to deaden and corrupt the church, and to enlist its influence on the side of all that is evil in the civil government. But in the plan now suggested, the Irish sects or churches would be left entirely free, as is the Free Church in Scotland, or the Wesleyan Methodist Church in England. The grants once made, each shush would possess absolutely its o wn funds, just as much as if they wore the accumulations of the voluntary contributions and liberality of past generations of its members, and thus would be avoided the damage to religion and to civil government which is inseparable from what is called the union of Church and State; whilst the sum granted to each church, being equal to a provision of about 40,0001. per annum, would be too small to create any im portant corporate influence adverse to the public) interest. " As to the complaint that the sum of one million is proposed to be given to the Irish Catholics, I will ask any man with a head to comprehend and a heart to feel to read the history of Ireland, not from the time of Henry VIII., but from the accession of William 111., and it he insists upon a settlement of this question by grants to the Protestant sects, and by the refusal of any corres ponding grant to the Roman Catholics, I can only say that his statesmanship is as wanting in wisdom as his Protestantism lacks the spirit of Christianity. If, for generations, a portion of the Protestants of Ire land, few in number but possessing much wealth, have enjoyed the large ecclesiastical revenues of a whole kingdom ; and if, during the same period, the Roman Catholics, the bulk of the population, but possessing little wealth, have been thrown entirely on their own limited resources, and under circumstances of political and social inferiority, can it be possible, when an at tempt shall be made to remedy some of the manifold in justice of past times, that any Englishman or any Scotchman will be found to complain of the impartiality of the Government, and, in his zeal for Protestantism, to forget the simple obligations of justice ? But it may be objected that it is contrary to sound policy to make grants of public money to any public body, or corpora tion, or sect, not submitting to State control—that, in fact, a church receiving anything from the State should be a State church. No one is more sensible of the weight and soundness of this argument than I am ; but observe the peculiarities of this case. I start from the point that " henceforth there shall be no church in Ire land in connexion with the State." I have to free the Protestant Episcopalian sect and the Presbyterians from their State connexion, and to make the Irish sects volun tary churches for the future, I propose of about one-third of existing ecclesiastical property ofi n an appropriation Ireland, with a view to soften the apparent,e severity and the change to the sects heretofore paid byt f S the Irish to make some amends to that majorit y of is population, the injustice of whose p admitted by all the world. The h P e r m o T e a s i s t v a e n s t , because the Protestants of Ireland have done hitherto little for i t bounty of the State has o e i ir ies ex h e a r v ti e on d s o , n o e s made exertions unnecessary. Paratredatthh groat poverty, and much for themselves; but t hey l :a a r t e c o i n n has been felt, and our existing ecclesiastical legislation grievously unjust. Would it is now felt by them, not be worth the concrssro3nof. the sum I have suggested, and of the deviation from ordinary rule which I venture to recommend, to obtai n the g rand result which is con templated by the change now proposed? o t is cell " I have said tha t there will be objection, t his sc heme, and to every .scheme. The grievance turies old, and arou nd it are entwined interests, preju dices, fanaticism , animosities, and convictions. It is a desperate evil , and whoever waits till the remedy everybody, may and will wait for - ever. is pleasant toThe object in view the tranquillity of Ireland. The moans are simple, but altogether novel i n t h at unhappy country __to do full and impartial justice to her whole popula tion. I propose to leave the Presbyterians as well cir cumstanced as they are now, with this exception, that all future extension of their organization must be made at their own cost ; and I would place the Protestant Epis copalians in as good a position as the Presbyterians. The Catholics only could have any ground of complaint, owing to their numbers so far exceeding those of the Protestant sects; but in the application of the remainder, and much the largest portion of the funds, for educa tional or other purposes, they would participate exactly in proportion to their numbers; and I have a strong be- A few weeks ago, in .clearing out the ruins of an old chapel at Nuneham Regis, in Warwickshire, which had been pulled down, all but the belfry tower, about 40 years since, we thought it necessary to trench the whole spice, that we might more certainly mark out the boundaries of the building, as we wished to restore it, in some measure, to its former state. It had been used as a stack-yard and a depository of rubbish, by the tenants of the farm on which it was, ever since its dilapidation. We began to trench at the west end, and came on a great many bones and skeletons from which the coffins had crumbled away, till, finding the earth had been moved, we went deeper, and discovered a leaden coffin, quite perfect, without date or inscription of any kind. There had been an outer wooden coffin, which was decayed, but quantities of the black rotted wood were all round it. We cut the lead and folded back the top, so as not to destroy it; beneath was a wooden coffin in good pre servation, and also without any inscription. As soon as the leaden top was rolled back a most overpowering aromatic smell diffused itself all over the place. We then unfastened the inner coffin, and found the body of a man embalmed with great care, and heaps of rosemary and aromatic leaves piled over him. On examining the body more closely we found it had been beheaded ; the head was separately wrapped up in linen, and the linen shirt that covered the body was drawn quite over the neck where the head had been cut off; the head was laid straight with the body, and, where the joining of the neck and head should have been, it was tied round with a broad black riband. His hands were crossed on his breast, the wrists were tied with black riband, and the thumbs tied together also with black riband. He had a peaked beard, and a quantity of long brown hair, curled and clotted with blood, round his neck ; the only mark on anything about him was on the linen on his cheat, just above where his hands were crossed; on it were the letters " T B," worked in black silk. On trenching towards the chancel we came on four leaden coffins laid side by side, with inscriptions on each ; one contained the body of Francis, Earl of Chichester and Lord Dunsmure, 1653 ; the next the body of Audrey, Galin tees of Chichester, 1652 ; ano ther the body of Lady Audr e y L e i g h, their daughter, 1640; and the fourth the body of Sir John Ander son, son of Lady Chichester by her first husband. We opened the coffin of Lady Audrey Leigh, and found her perfectly embalmed and in entire preser vation, her flesh quite plump, as if she were alive, her face very beautiful, her hands exceedingly small and not wasted ; she was dressed in fine linen trimmed all over with old point lace, and two rows of lace were laid flat across her forehead. She looked exactly as if she were lying asleep, and seemed not more than sixteen or seventeen years old ; her beauty was very great; even her eyelashes and eyebrows were quite perfect, and her eyes were closed ; no part of her face or figure was at all fallen in. We also opened Lady Chichester's coffin, but with her the embalming had apparently failed ; she was a skeleton, though the coffin was half full of aromatic) leaves. Her hair, however, was as fresh as if she lived ; it was lohg, thick, and as soft and glossy as that of a child, and of a perfect auburn colour. In trenching on one side of where the altar had been ,we found another leaden coffin with an inscription. It contained the body of a Dame Marie Browne, daughter of one of the Leighs, and of the Lady Marie, daughter to Lord Chancellor Brackley. This body was also quite perfect, and embalmed principally with every small coffee-coloured seed, with which the coffin was nearly filled, and it also had so powerful a perfume that it filled the whole place. The linen, riband, &c., were quite strong and good in all these instances, and remained so after ex posure to the air; we kept a piece out of each coffin, and had it wash e d w ith ou t it s b e i ng a t all destroyed. Young Lady Audrey h a d ea r-ings in her ears—black ed enamelled serpents. The perfume of the herbs ansickeningd gums mentha employed in digging up t the co ffi ns were ill also. My object in sending this account is, if possible, to disco gwuemsu were used all ill em af b te a r lm in in h g al t in h g em it , w and most disco ver who the beheaded man is. Lord The p chapel is en the estate of John Scott, who inherited it from his paternal grandmother , the Duchess of Buccleuch, daughter of the Duke Montagu, into whose family Nuneham Regis and other possessions in Warwick shire came by the marriage of his grandf a th er w ith asso of the daughter of Lord Dunsmure, Earl of Chichester. —Notes and Queries. THE FREE TRADE AND REFORM BANWIET.—The sale of tickets for the great Free-trade and Reform Banquet about to be holden in Manchester, commenced on Friday morning, and has gone on with unprecedented rapidity. It is calculated that in the Free-trade Hall 2,800 persons may be seated in the body of the hall, and the galleries, and on the platform; and the number of tickets sold up to noon yesterday was 2 500. This num ber includes almost all that will be issued for the body of the hall and the galleries, and the further sale of tickets has been restrio , ed in order to secure room for guests and friends. A large number of gentlemen have expressed a wish to be accommodated as stewards, and ti limitation has had to be placed upon the number of gen. tlemen who shall be allowed to act in that capacity. There is, therefore, no doubt that many persons who have delayed their application for tickets will be distil?. pointed in obtaining them. Amongst the gentlemen who have accepted invitations t o Athlone;o , bo present Rat. tshweirbtanquet are W. Keogh , Eeq, M.P., county of Sligo; Thomas Bellew, Es , t q., X1 8g .1 3 1 . -. coun ty of Galway; and Torruns M'Cullagh E M.P. for Dundalk. ' Kt, late AN ARISTOCRATIC HIGHWAYMAN, _.A most alarming case of highway robbery took place near Penrith, in the county of Cumberland, on the afternoon of th e 23d i nst . The facts are briefly a s follows ;—Mrs. Williams, the wife of the Rev. Mr. Williams, of Deere Vicarage, was returning from P enr i t h i n a gig with a female servant, where she had been on a visit to the Countess Cassinaki, when she was overtaken by a youth of gentlemanly ap pearance, mounted on a valuable pony. He rode past her vehicle, and kept in front till he got to a lonely part of the road, shaded by trees, between Delman and Dacre. ll e th en turned round, met Mrs. Williams, and presented a pistol, at the same time demanding her money. Mrs. Williams at first refused to give it to him, when her assa il ant said he would count three, and if she did not deliver her money before he had finished, he would shoot her. Terrified by his threats, she surren dered her purse, which contained a considerable sum in gold and silver. Having made an ineffectual attempt to obtain money from the servant, he asked Mrs. Williams her name and residence, and the lady having told him, " Well," said the highwayman, " I'll see if you are Mrs. Williams. I'll follow you ; and mind, if you have told me a lie, I'll shoot you from behind, both you and your servant; and if you speak to any one on the way as to what has happened, I'll shoot you. Mrs. Williams then drove on, the highwayman riding behind as footman. Sho met several persons, but did not speak to them, be ing afraid that her unwelcome attendant 'would make good his threat. After following her for some distance, her pursuer turned his pony and rude rapidly away. TESTS.—The inhab:t ints of Edinburgh intend to pe tition Parliament against the attempts that are now made to revive the use of the tests in the case of lay chairs of the University, as we ll as generally for the purpose of procuring the removal of professorial tests, a applicable to the lay chairs of all Scottish universities." The Lord Advocate stated to a deputation, which waited upon him on this subject the other day, that it was en. gaging the attention of her Majesty's Government.