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'7-'-- ; -- r, " :-,•Zg S - 1 4„,› -- ' ''el 1 ,„-,.. ..,.,, , c. , , , i , as, 5 , - --,---.....5zi 2L, , ,„ A , . r‘ ,.N.7 . ,J . oßoir. - ~.,-, V = \., -', - i ' ''''''' -.. .:'''' ':111.2111 bu s . e .. " 462-2 X' ll° Chief Justice--It -only necessitates thO putting. 1111 11. 7 .N' '. • _ '\, .\ . 7, , r ry_l l ‘,i 545 A , ; (7 -, i L , of a question like one that was put yesterday. Mr. Brewster—That is what I do not wish to do., Chief Justice (to the witness) —Did anything aiproper take place on that occasion ? Witness—There.did not,.my lord., . , . Cross-examination -.centinucd—l thought that, so far as the law of Scotland was concerned, I was bound to Major Velverton. He said the reading of the marriage service . was a perfect marriage between us. 1 said it, required the performance of the sacrament. - lie replied - that parties conferred 'the sacrament on themselres, and I was opposed to that idea. lie insi s t e d, after .that ceremony, on enjoying.the , rights of a- husband, And I objected to it. I considered it would be a-sin to lire with hint iii that marriage. ' -If no o fter nianiogd had ', taken place, I never - would have allowed him to enjoy the rights of a husband if I had known as m not as Ido now. I •wotild have li ve d with him, as I have been told by a cler gy ma n' that it would not have been a sin t o have -lived--with-him. • I have heard that since these proceedings com menced. Mr. Brewster —Believing , as you did, from his statement that he was not a Protestant, that he did not believe in Protestant doctrines, and that ho-did believe in Catholic doctrines, were you at all sur prised at his reading: the Protestant , ceremony to you ? - • Witness—That was onlyby accident.- The book was lying on the table. If it had been a Catholic book he would have read it the same. He must have read the marriage ceremony out of the Prayer book. - - The proceedings were: again adjourned t o this day (Monday.) . _ _— ,RICE 4D . STAMPED, SD. EXIRAORDINARY MARRIAGE CASE. The Yelvcrton marriage case, which attracted so much attention a short time ago, came before the Dublin Court of Common. Pleas , on Thursday, the shape .of an action brought by Mr, John F. Thelwall, against the lion. Major Yelverton, " to recover a sum of £239 17s. '3d. for board and lodg ing, and necessaries supplied to the defendant's wife and her servant." Sergeant Sullivan, having stated the plaintiff's case, Maria Teresa Yelverton, or Longworth, was the faut witness examined. She deposed to the facts of the first acquaintance and the marriage. On Friday she was cross-examined by Mr. Brewster. Mr. Brewster—Upon your oath, is not this your action ?—lt is Mr. Thelwall's.. We have an equal interest in it. Mr. Thelwall is interested in getting his money, and I am interested in having my cha racter vindicated. Odic force is, I think, a kind of animal magnetism. I' believe in animal magne• tism as a science not yet thoroughly developed. I have felt its influence. I think it leads.us to feel an attraction towards some peopY3 and, aversion towards others at first sight. -I met Mr. Yelverton on my return from Boulogne in the steamer. It was in the evening ; night had fallen. There were two ladies and another gentleman with him. The ladies stayed on deck all night. Nearly all the passengers did so. It was a very warm night. My sister gave me an extra shawl. Slie threw it on board, and Major Yelverton caught it and folded it up. Major Yelverton, who sat near me, put a plaid over his knees and over mine at the same time, I cannot describe how near we were to each other. It did not cover our shoulders, but our knees. I took a great fancy to that plaid sub sequently. He described it afterwards as preserving the magnetic influence which it received that night, and I was anxious that it should be pre served. The ladies bid me good bye when we arrived in London. Major Yelverton got a cab for me. He did not get into it along with me. I saw him on the following day. I swear that he did not come to my house and dress there. The house I went to was the Marquis of Lavinnier's. I told him where I was going to stop. Ile asked might ho come to see me, and I said he might. I cannot swear that I saw him twice in London, but I believe I did. The day I saw him on the packet was the first time I saw him. He told me his name, and that he was an officer. I don't know whether I fell in love with him on that occasion. I cannot say whether it was or was not on that occasion I fell in love with him. Mr. Brewster—You say in one letter that you always return to your first love. What would a gentleman think of receiving such a letter from_ a lady—what did you mean by it ? Witness—lt was merely that I wanted to renew my first impressions. They were not love or hatred. Major Yolverton had said that he would come to Naples, and I was afraid I would have missed him. I should have been glad to see him— he had expressed a wish to see me, and I said I would be glad to see him. (Here a printed copy of the letters was handed to witness, who was examined as to the meaning of words used by her.) Mr. Brewster—How did you begin the next letter? Witness—My dearest Charles. Eta arreirlai f To - Mr. Brewster—l had only seen him once or twice before I wrote that letter. I had been 12 hours in his company travelling from Boulogne. If you should be in the company of a person travel ling for 12 hours you would know him much better than by a morning call. A letter was then read from Rome, in which wit ness stated that she had been requested by a cardinal to go into a convent, whereupon witness showed a pair of pistols as her life preservers. Witness explained—The cardinal called on me, and said there was a very nice convent in the neigh bourhood, in which were a number of English ladies, and asked me to go and lodge there. He said to me I should. I said I would not, and pointed the pistols at him, which were on the table. He said, " Oh, don't," and got up to run away. (Loud laughter.) The pistols were loaded, but not capped. [ I otter of the 19th July, 1854, read.] ])id you ever tell the Rev. Mr. Mooney of Ros trevor that Major Yelverton was a Protestant ? No. Now, I put it to you, did you ever tell him so under the seal of confession ? (Great expression of disapprobation in court.) Sergeant Sullivan—That is a most extraordinary question. We said we would produce the Rev. Mr. Mooney. The Chief Justice —She may decline to answer it; but she is at liberty to answer it if she pleases. Witness—l will answer the question if your lordship wishes. Chief Justice—l have no wish on the subject. You can answer it if you please. Mr. Brewster pressed the . question. Sergeant Sullivan—The question is now pressed, my lord. I will release the seal as far as I can. Witness—l have no objection to answer the question ; I never did so, in confession or other wise. (Loud and prolonged applause in court.) Mr. Brewster—Well, my lord, if this is a court of justice — Mr. Sergeant Sullivan—But when such a ques tion is put — Chief Justice—l confess I have never before heard such a question put. Mr. Brewster—l admit that ; but in a desperate case — Chief Justice—lt may be a desperate case, but I never heard such a question put. Mr. Brewster—l would not ask such a question of a clergyman. Chief Justice—lf a clergyman is asked what was told him under the seal of confession, the rule is that he is not pressed if he declines to answer, and I think the same rule applies to penitents. The witness, in reply to Mr. Brewster, said— Mrs. Straubenzie was very much attached to me, but Ido not think she liked Major Yelverton. I wrote in one of my letters that she was disappointed at his "not going to the finale." That means that I was not married. I was not married because I did not accept the proposal to get married in the Greek church at Balaklava. At this stage of the proceedings the case was adjourned till the following morning. SATURDAY, Feb. 23. Long before the opening of the court on Saturday a large crowd had collected, eagerly pressing to get good places, and, when admission was granted, a tremendous rush into the galleries and every other available spot of the court took place. The Lord Chief Justice sat at a quarter to eleven o'clock. Lord Avonmore (as he has done since the commence ment of the trial) occupied a seat on the bench. Mrs. Yelverton having taken her seat in the wit ness-box, her cross-examination was resumed by Mr. Brewster—l look at the letter of the 2d of July. I see the statement that " all the troops are off from the Crimea." Major Yelverton asked me to wait for him for three months, and I promised to wait for him at Belbec. He said he would take me as his sister to Monastir, where Alcide had a property. One letter had this passage—" I think I now begin to understand your meaning and my own." That was to consent to a private marriage, and that she would keep it secret if she promised to do so. She explained that Mr. Yelverton had one half of the plaid and herself the other. This was like the custom in country places of breaking a six pence, one party keeping one half and the other the other half. When they were married she asked Yelverton for his half of the plaid, that she might sew it up. He said he wished to wear it near his person, and that he had cut a hole in it to throw over his head. (Laughter.) Mrs. Yelverton read a letter from Major Yelverton, which was in Italian, and contained the following passage " Be the welcome one.—Yours, dearest, CARLO. At this stage of the proceedings the witness burst into tears, and leaned over the witness box for some minutes. There was an adjournment of the court for some moments. The Court, on resuming, proceeded with the cross examination of the witness—l believe strin ly in the doctrine of the Catholic Church, and I attend to its practices. Marriage is a sacrament in the Catholic Church. I proposed to Telverton at Edinburgh to have the marriage celebrated accord ing to the Catholic rites. He declined to have the marriage so celebrated unless he could do it with safety. He told me part of his people were Catholic, and part Protestant. He said his father and mother were Protestants. I knew he was the son of an Irish peer. I would have married him just as soon if he were a Protestant. If he had acceded to your proposition of being married by a Catholic clergyman in Edinburgh, would you have suggested to him the propriety of going to confession ? Witness—Yes. I remember Major Yelverton coming on board the steamer when I was leaving Edinburgh. H 3 came into the cabin on that occa- ,FALLING 1N OF A TUNNEL:--ASEVZN NI?N BURLED ALIVE. • SHEFFIELD, MONDAY. lolinthgeamcciiddelanntdocncuarirlwedayincoSmhdffipaneyld, thisand morning, by the falling in of a railway tunnel. The tunnel to which the accident occurred is the one belonging p ng a in i g. a t connects that line with the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, running from the Wicker-station across Occupation-road to the june tion with the Manchester line at Tomcross-lane. ' The accident has been caused by the excavations for some extensive stabling premises which are being built for Messrs. Hunt, carriers. These pre mises, which are closely adjoining the tunnel, are partially erected. The large excavations on one side of the tunnel have caused the 'superineumbent earth on the other side to press with much greater force on that side, and the. consequence has been that that side of the tunnel has given way and been forced in. The process of giving way is curiously perceptible in the tunnelling left at each end of the spot where it has fallen in, the tunnel being bent from the perfect round, and partially collapsed, like the side of a partially-crushed egg-shell. About 30 yards in length of the tunnel has fallen in. The exact number of the men working on the spot and who are missing is not known, as some fresh hands had been set on this morning. Probably altogether seven or eight were buried under the ruins. Informa tion was given at the, police-office, and Mr. Jack son (the chief constable) was promptly on the spot, with a body of men to- preserve order. Under his directions, conjoined with those of Mr. Rey nolds, the builder, the other men on the place set themselves energetically to work to recover the bodies of their comrades. By ten o'clock.they had recovered two, one dead, and another narged Lambert, crushed about the head. He was imme diately sent to the infirmary. At this point, how ever, Mr. Cobby (the Midland Comp an y 's _superin tendent in Sheffield) interfered, and ordered the men to desist from digging, on the ground that there was no danger of a further fall. it may be mentioned that the point at which they were digging (where one of the bodies was found, and where the eye-witnesses of the accident stated that some of the other men were buried) was a spot in the middle of the ruins, and some distance from any place where any further falling materials could be disturbed. Mr. Cobby refused to allow the excavations to go on until an engineer had ar rived from the central offices at Derby ; and for the purpose of getting the engineer, he immediately sent a telegram. In the meantime the bodies lay u nder the ruins. This was about ten o'clock. In the course of about three hours, Mr. Reynolds determined to contAine the work of recovery on his ohNO.11)1e a o u f t r h e o c r o i ‘ ty e r ; i a li n g d a l i i 3 e y doifd the so; menb ut there t any hope lost. now. The man got out. is not bNlly hurt. He was only partially buried, and was extricated -with out much ditli:ulty. Most of the men who fell were engaged on the top of the tunnel it carrying materials, &c., for the adjoining building. -Others were on the building itself, and feeling soniething giving way under them feared it was the bur'lding which was falling, and they rushed from it to ,the top of the tunnel, and were precipitated with it. In addition to those recovered, it is believed tit' there were buried James Maloy, William Booth, Henry ; Booth, Samuel Lawton, a man named Harding,work men w er e p a r n o d c e e d ing another w tw it h whose th e work name f i s excavation. unkno w n At the time our parcel was despatched the work- A,~r TUE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1861, GHiNA. Further correspondence respecting affairs in China has just been presented to the louse of fiords.' It relates exclusively to the opening of the two ports of Ilan-kau and Kin-Kiang in the Yang- In to foreign trade, Mr. Bruce writes to Lora John Russ!..,ii eh Dee. 2, MO, that under the treaty of Tien- . kin t; had technically no right to insist on the immediate opening of the river, but the capture - . of ,Soo-chow by . the insurgents, and the bearing of this incident and of the progress of the rebellion particularly on the import trade, rendered it most desirable to find an uninterrupted channel of communication with the . western provinces of China. In furtherance of this object a correspondence took place between Mr. Bruce and Prince Rung. Mr. Bruce informs the Prince that he regards it as expedient that for the present but two ports should be opened'; namely, Han-kau and lifu-Jiang; and in order to the prevention of abuses in the present disturbed state of the river he would pro pose that the trade with these be carried on under the following regulations c—All duties leviable under the new tariff upon import or export cargoes on board British vessels proceeding up or down the river will be payable at Shanghai or Ching kiang-fu, and the customs authorities will take' such steps as seem to them necessary for the, enforcement of this rule.• Every British vessel proceeding up or down the river shall be permitted to carry for her protection such an amount of arms and ammunition as shall appear to the Chinese customs to be reasonable, and this amount of arms and ammunition shall be entered in a certificate to be called the " Arms Certifi cate," which shall be delivered by the customs to any master of a British vessel applying for it. Any vessel trafficing in arms or ammunition, or carry ing any amount of either in excess of that specified in her arms certificate, shall be liable to have her cargo confiscated and to be prohibited from farther trading on the river. Mr. Bruce concludes by requesting his Highness to issue the necessary instructions. Prince Kung replies, agreeing to Mr. Bruce's proposals. On Dec. 6 Lord Elgin writes to Lord J. Russell, from Shanghai, where he was engaged in considering, with the officers of the Imperial customs and some of the leading merchants, the conditions under which the opening of the river might be carried out : " If a legitimate trade can be established on this river I believe that great advantage will accrue from it, both to the people of China and to the foreigners who engage in it ; more especially at present, when the communication between the pro ducing districts and the ports on the seaboard ate obstructed by the rebellion. It will go some way towards affording to the inhabitants of the interior a market and security, which are all that a China man requires to render him one of the most valu able customers. But very different consequences will, I fear, ensue from this measure if smugglers and filibusters, under the protection of terror and exterritoriality, are enabled to avail themselves of this channel of communication to introduce foreign arms and recruits into the disturbed districts, and thereby to extend and perpetuate the reign of anarchy which threatens to convert one of the most fertile regions of the earth and its industrious population into a wilderness haunted by bands of ruffians. Irregular and gunpovt; 7,vrofits on consignments of guns will be dearly purchased if they are o h --gained by processes which will dry up the sources of production in the tea and silk-growing provinces of China. Your lordship can well under stand the anxiety which I feel to frame such regu lations for the trade on the Yang-tsze as shall keep in some check, if they do not altogether prevent, this great mischief." The three vessels lately ordered are the large one laid down at Chatham, and two more, which, though inferior in dimenSions to the Warrior, are somewhat larger than the Defence and her consort. We have already, therefore, three classes of Iron-sides, and we have three specimens of the first class, t*o of the second, and two of the third. This does not look like a very liberal provision, but the prepara tion is more considerable than it appears. f3hips of this kind arc so large and so costly that they will always be few in number compared with fleets of former days, The old 100 gun ship was about 3,000 tons, and cost £lOO,OOO. The Duke of Wellington is nearly 4,000 tons, and cost upwards of £170,000 ; but an iron cased vessel carrying 100 guns would, even on the estimate of those who advocate iron, be of 10,000 tons burden, and cost three quarters of a million. It is obvious that fleets composed of such vessels may be,porerful, but cannot be nume rous,. A popular historian has just given us a cir cumstantial account of the great Spanish Armada. It was the largest, the heaviest, and the most for midable fleet ever teen upon the ocean. It consisted of no vessels of unprecedented size, and its entire tonnage was 59,120. Three Great Easterns, or ten Warriors, therefore, would outweigh all this fabulous artnada ) and yet the Warrior apparently is the smallest model likely to serve for our future lino of battle ships ! Judging by this standard, we can hardly call the estimates for the ensuing year insufficient. It used to be said that we could generally ekpeet to build and launch out of the funds annually voted three line of battle ships, three frigates, and three vessels of minor rates. The aggregate cost of theee vessels, even at the highest estimate of wooden ships, would be but a million, or thereabouts, whereas we are proposing to spend fully that sum upon iron during the year 1861. If we find ourselves at the close of this year with seven good and efficient iron-cased ships, we shall not have done badly, and we doubt if any other Power will be ahead of us. It is evident that these vessels cost time as well as money, and may not always succeed. The only point to be observed is, that we shall certainly not want old ships and new ships together. If we spend our million on Warriors, we need not spend it on three-deckers too. If one fashion actually comes in, the other will go out, and something, at any rate, of what we want for new iron-sides rsay be saved out of the 28 line-of battle ships and frigates which we are still constructing of wood.—Times. to those who have once taken upon themselves monastic vows. They cannot, for obvious reasons, be permitted to reinain in their present residences ; but others are provided for them, and a pension sufliclent to meet the wants of the life.to which they hate devoted themselves.. The Church of Rome ought to be infinitely indebted to the new King cf Napb s for relieving her of one of her most grievous and crying scandals; and happy will be the day when the same measure can be applied to the swarms of ecclesiastical vermin—white, black. and gray,' with all their trumpery—which infest the streets of Rome, and, indeed, of every town of the Papal Stai.e. The first lesson which Southern Italy needs is to be set to work, and the best example she can receive is the emphatic discouragement of idleness, let it cloak itself under whatever pretext it will. We hope that our own Ecclesiastical Commission will carefully peruse and inwardly digest these Neapolitan decrees. Thay will observe, 110 doubt, with much surprise that the sums realised by the suppression of Monasteries are appropriated to purposes very different froth those i n hich they have been in the habit of regarding as sound and canonical. We do not find that a single dacat is devoted to raising the salary of a bishop, nor even of a dean, nor that the construction of new palaces absorbs any part of the fund, These, which we all know well to be the chief cares of oUr Ecclesiastical Commission, have been unaccountably neglected in Italy, and, instead of them, money is to be spent on improving the incomes and relieving the wants of the poor clergy. What a pity that M. Cavonr during his many visits to England did not place himself in communication with some of our bishops, from whom perhaps he, might have learnt the true principles of ecclesiasti cal appropriation, and thus spared us the pain of seeing the reputation of the first Liberal Govern ment in Italy tarnished by practices which must of course be wrong, since they are in such marked and total contradiction to our own '—Tunes. LAW INTELLIGENCE, _Feb. 25. COURT OP COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings in Banco, before Mr . Justice Williams and Mr. Justice Willes.) EEADE V. CONQUEST-THE RIGHT TO DRAMATISE NOVELS. This case involved the question whether the dramatising a novel Without the consent of the author is any breach of copyright. Mr. Justice Williams, in delivering judgment, said that the declaration alleged that the . plaintiff was the registered proprietor of the copyright in a ' tale called Never Too Late to Mend," and that the defendant, without the consent of the plaintiff, dramatised the said novel and caused the drama to be publicly represented at the Grecian Theatre for profit. To this count there was a demurrer, and it was insisted by the defendant that what he had done was not an infringement of the plaintiff's copyright therein. The Court was of opinion that in this the defendant was right. The right claimed by the plaintiff was two-fold ; and first he con tended that his statutable right had been in fringed by the defendant. It was laid down in "Coleman v. Wathen " that the public repre sentation of a dramatic piece on the stage was not a publication within the meaning of the statute of Anne ; and the sth and 6th Victoria, cap. 45, defined copyright to be " the sole and exclusive liberty of printing, or otherwise mul tiplying copies.' This seemed to furnish a com plete answer to the plaintiff's claim under statute. ' The plaintiff's main reliance, however, was placed upon this, that even if his statutable right had not been infringed, he had a common law right concur rent with but more extensive than that possessed under the statute, and that such common law right had been invaded by the defendant. It was net necessary to consider whether anterior to the statute of Anne there existed a copyright at common law in published books ; but there could be no doubt that in Lord Mansfield's time the weight of autho rity was in favour of such a right, though the doc trine had found less favour in more modern times. But the continued existence of such a copyright after the statute of Anne was distinctly denied, in the celebrated case of Donaldson v. Buckett, by the majority of the judges, and the case itself de cided that no such common law right existed after the expiration of the period for which the statute gave copyright. The question therefore was nar rowed to this—whether the statute of Anne, having put an end to such right after the prescribed period, it was yet preserved during that period. His lordship having quoted some cases, expressed the opinion of the Court . that copyright in published works existed only by statute. Judgment for the defendant. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—CARLISLE, Feb. 22. Thomas Scott was indicted for an assault with intent to commit a rape upon Margaret Agar, at Dalston, on the 13th of January last. Mr. MiOubrey prosecuted, and Mr. Campbell Foster defended the prisoner. It appeared that the prisoner is an innkeeper at Dalston, and the prosecutrix was his female ser vant, who had been in his service about a fortnight. The prosecutrix (by no means a prepossessing-look ing young woman) wore that on Sunday, the 13th of January, her mistress and three of the children were driven out in a gig by the servant boy to a neighbouring village, about two o'clock, to make a call, leaving her master and his eldest child, a girl nine years of age, at home. Her master sent the little girl to a shoemaker's for some shoe strings, and during her absence he followed the prosecutrix upstairs to her bedroom, and threw her down on the bed, where she struggled with him for 20 minutes, screaming out as loudly as she could for assistance, when her master said " whist !" jumped off the bed, and ran behind the door, and immediately afterwards she heard a foot on the stairs, and her mistress entered the room, having returned from making her call. Her mistress immediately said to the prisoner, " Oh, Tom, Tom ! what have you been doing to that poor girl ?" Her master said "Nothing," and " I beg your pardon, Betsy; I will never do so again." The prosecutrix followed them downstairs, and saw the servant boy in the kitchen, to whom she showed a tear in her frock, and said her master had been ill-using her. She then went to a neighbour woman, who lived in the yard, and showed her her frock, and told her the same thing. At night she went to the constable and told him, and next morning got a warrant against her master and went home. On cross-examination the prosecutrix stated that she kept screaming as loudly as she could all the time. She denied that she had tried to conceal herself under the bed when her mistress had entered the room. The church was close to the house, and the people were leaving the church at the time. The other witnesses called confirmed the prosecu trix's statement that she had complained to them and shown them her torn dress; but none of them heard any outcry whatever, and the ser vant boy was in the yard putting up the pony a quarter of an hour before he went into the house after his mistress, and was in the kitchen a short time before the prosecutrix came down stairs, and heard no cries. For the defence it was contended that, though the act of the master in pulling his servant girl about was most improper, yet that whatever had been done was with her perfect assent, and that her statement about her outcries and struggles was not to be believed ; for not a soul in that quiet village on a Sunday afternoon had heard any out cry, nor had the servant boy, who was actually in the house at the time. As the prisoner's mouth was closed, and his wife could not be called to give evidence, the jury must weigh the girl's .evidence with the facts proved. It was suggested that, having been caught by her mistress, sne had sud denly turned round and accused her master of assaulting her in the way she had described to save her character, and, to make good her story, had shown a tear in her gown to the servant boy and the neighbour ; and except this evidence, which she had made for herself as an afterthought, there was nothing to corroborate her story. His lordship having summed up the evidence with much care, The jury, after a short consultation, acquitted the prisoner. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Pills and medicine invariably ag gt avate and perpetuate diseases; their annoyance, dis appointment, and expense may be avoided by per sons in indifferent health sending only their address to E. S. 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The Italian Reformation has already begun, We cannot, indeed, claim that the Work of proselytism has as yet Made much progress among the people, but it is quite evident that the whole relations of Church and State in Italy have in the last two years undergone a great and most salutary modification. The mere theologian may think this of little mo ment unless attended by a radical change of dogmas, by the substitution of the Bible for the authority of an infallible Church, and of private judgment for tame and absolute submission. In a Jewish legend, however, not admitted in our Apocryphy, a story is told of a Jew at the Court of Ptolemy Philopater, who, being told to put off a journey on account of some evil omen connected with the flight of a bird, shot it on the spot, with the remark, " How can that miserable bird predict my destiny when it could not foresee its own?" We can easily imagine that the days are not far distant when some such argument will be applied to the Papacy, —when mankind, reading the long indictment pre ferred against the Pope and his Ministers by M. Lagueronniere, will begin to ask themselves—Can this Government, so full of ignorance, obstinacy, and stolid indifference, so utterly unable to under stand its own position, to measure the forces arrayed. against it with its own powers of resistance, the name of which has become synonymous with blun dering, incapacity, and reckless perversity,—can this Government be on the one side of the line which separates spiritual things from temporal, absolutely infallible, and on the other, not only, fallible, but the most signal failure on record ? This will doubtless come in its own season ; in the meanwhile we have to take note of a change not wrought by, the opinion of the masses, but by the wisdom of the Government, but which, neverthe2 less, deserves the name not only of Reform, but of Reformation. Perhaps the saddest legacy which the old Roman world has bequeathed to the Roman Catholic. Church, and, through it, to modern society, is the institution of Monachism. It was not unnatural, at a time when everything seemed hastening to' complete destruction, when the end of the world was a matter of hourly expectation, that men : should fly from the pollution and disorder of a society buried under its own ruins, and seek in thel deserts of the Thebaid a solace for their despair in meditation and asceticism. Nor was it unnatural that, in the Middle Ages, men averse to care or to, pleasure by temperament and conviction should. form themselves into religious societies, and, shut out from an odious and repulsive world, seek peace and ease even at the expense of weariness and monotony. Nor is it surprising that in ages of blood and violence the Church should consider it her highest and most cherished privilege to be free from the jurisdiction of the secular courts, and alone able to try the delinquencies of her members. Every petty baron had the right of being judge in his own cause, and why not the great spiritual corporation which set its feet on the necks of princes, and which in the crusade against the Albigenses solemnly awarded execution against a whole people ? But it is most astonishing that in the days in which we live there should be found any country in Europe where laws are required to prevent the labour which should till the land from being wasted in the listless and often flagitious indolence of monas teries, and to place ecclesiastical persons accused of crime at ,the bar of the ordinary tribunals. By a decree of the present active and intelligent Government of Naples the two Concordats wrung from the necessities of an unstable tyranny by the Court of Rome are solemnly annulled and declared void. All persons, of whatever creed, are declared equal before the law, and ecclesiastics have no longer any peculiar exemption. All monastic orders for either sex cease to be recognised by the Govern ment. The same fate has fallen on benefices of all kinds without cure of souls, and on all chapters of collegiate churches. The property of the religious houses is taken into the hands of the Government, and is to be charged, first with popular education, next with the augmentation of the salaries of parish priests and with the relief of the most needy mem bers of the clerical body. The fabrics are to be em ployed for school purposes, among which infant and evening schools are not forgotten. But large and sweeping as is the change the interests of the present inmates of these houses have been cared for. Those who wish to continue a monastic life are to receive a pension, which is to be augmented by one sixth if they reside out of the cloister. No more novices are to be admitted. Thus at one blow has fallen a system the most pernicious to the interests of a civilised country that can possibly be imagined. It is a fearful thing to subtract a large proportion of the popula tion from the duties of civilised life, to cover their laiiness and pauperism with the veil of an assumed sanctity, and suffer them to prey like locusts on the very vitals of the land. No heavier scourge can be invented for a nation than the creation within her of another nation of men and women, vowed to celibacy, to idleness, and to uselessness, who inflict upon her a double injury, not only by what they consume without producing, but by gathering around them a crowd of beggars more lazy, more useless, and more hypocritical even than themselves. In the days in which we live, what ever be a man's religious feelings or aspirations, there is also work for him to do, and the demand for labour, physical and intellectual, still outstrips the supply. If asceticism and seclusion were legi timate inferences from the doctrines of Christianity, we might well tremble for the destinies of a faith which set itself thus in opposition to the social tendencies and progressive instincts of mankind. If men are taught to regard the life of a monk or nun as the highest of which human nature is capable, their own sense will reject the conclusion, and the result will bo an Indisposition to religion altogether. We regard the mendicant friars and inmates of religious houses in Italy as a standing mission against Christianity — a mission all the more perilous because, instead of openly attacking its doctrines, it seems to reduce them to an absurdity, We rejoice to see that the greater mildness of the times in which we live, and the greater respect now paid to the rights and feelings of individuals, have secured for the inmates of religious houses in Naples a very different treatment from that which was accorded to such persons in England three centuries ago. A cruel King and a greedy nobility could not afford to wait for their prey, and turned out helpless and homeless on the mercies of a world of which they had become ignorant the aged inmates of the nunnery and the monastery. History has little to tell of their suffering ; but they were not the less real nor the less deplorable. Nothing, as we understand them, can be fairer than the propo sitions of the Piedmontese Government with regard, TBE NAVY ESTIMATES. The Secretary of the Admiralty has prepared the way for the debates on the Navy Estimates by a succinct but impressive account of the actin]. strength of the fleet at the present moment. A single page of figures, , issued from the office of the Controller of the Navy, and bearing date the 14th of this months, informs us of the actual number of vessels of all descriptions " afloat, building, or converting," which our recent exertions have suf ficed to create. It is little more than two years since the " reconstruction" of our Navy was com menced in earnest, and here are • the fruits of the work. We had better, perhaps, give the simple results first, and compare them with the prospectus afterwards. On the Ist of this present February, then, we possessed very nearly 700 ships of war. This is a tremendous array of vessels ; and, though the figures receive some modification upon analysis, the conclusions will still remain extraordinary. In the first place, of course, we must deduct mere sailing ships, which, even though returned as " effective, are no longer deemed equal to the exigencies of modern warfare. The abatement, however, on this score will not be serious ; indeed, considering that we were actually launching vessels of this class as late as 1850, the item is smaller than might have been anticipated. Ten ships of the line, 17 frigates, 18 sloops, and a few score of small craft constitute now the whole sailing Navy of England, and leave an aggregate balance of 562 vessels, all fitted for propulsion by steam. Here, again, however,; occurs a second discrimination. After stoutly resisting the introduction of steam in any shape, our authorities continued to resist it in the shape of the screw-pro peller, and stuck to the paddle long after its inferi ority had been demonstrated. So we must distin guish between screw and paddle vessels ; but even this division will not much damage the results, for the screws are as four to one-115 paddles only against 117 screws. Finally, we must separate ships in ease from ships in posse, awl ascertain the number of vessels actually afloat, apart from those wl_ich are only expected to be afloat by and by. Yet this drawback, also, can be very well sustained. Of the grand total of 562 steam ships of war, upwards of 500—viz., 392 screw and 113 paddle,— are afloat at this very moment, leaving only 57 in the hands of the builders. All those, however, who remember the discussions of 1859 must be aware that in the comparison of our Navy with that of France two classes of ships, and two only, were regarded as of paramount im portance. 'that we were superior in gunboats and small vessels was perfectly understood, but it was urged that we were barely equal, if, indeed, we were not inferior, in ships of the line and frigates. This was the critical point of the case, and all our efforts were devoted to an augmentation of the Navy in ships of these descriptions. Not to drag the reader through a mass of calculations, we may briefly state that it was thought we could hardly reach a total of 56 ships of the line afloat in the year 1861. That would give the maximum of out power, and it was thought probable, indeed, that we should not attain the mark till the year 1863. We-now learn from Lord C. Paget's return that 53 screw line-of-battle ships were actually afloat on the Ist of this month, and, as 14 more were in process either of construc tion or conversion, we may expect before the year is over to see the maximum of our expectations fairly exceeded. Again, with regard to frigates, the famous report made under Lord Derby's Govern ment showed that we had but 26 of these vessels -17 screw and 9 paddle—afloat, two receiving their engines, and none building. We have now, it ap pears, 31 screw frigates afloat and 12 building, be sides the t paddle frigates still in service ; so that we have a good 40 afloat, to be promptly reinforced from the dozen coming on. Of smaller vessels it will be unnecessary to speak, as our force in that respect was always considered satisfactory. The only other point to be mentioned is that the " block ships" are. not included in the above reckoning. Whether they have been unduly disparaged or not we need not inquire, but at any rate they arc not comprised in the present recapitulation of line of battle ships afloat. There is, however, another question to be con sidered, and a grave one too. For all we know at this moment, our line of battle ships and frigates may be superseded as obsolete just at the minute when we have contrived to reconstruct them. It is at least not improbable that before the year is out we may have found that what the screw was to the paddle, and the paddle to the old sailing vessel, the iron cased ship has now become to the screw. We may have to put all our fine wooden fleet into the non-effective column of our next return, and estimate our actual strength by the number of iron sides afloat. Even if things should not come quite to such a pass, and distant service should still be performed by wooden vessels, we may find that for the line of battle and home defences we must rely in future upon iron alone. So we turn with some solicitude to this item of the account, and we find the facts as follows :—One iron cased ship is re turned as actually afloat, while six more are build ing. Of these we may presume that three are more or less advanced, and three but recently laid down or bespoken. The ship afloat is the Warrior. The Black Prince, a sister vessel, will be afloat in ar few day; the Defence and the Resistance, smaller Chips, will be launched, we suppose, before long. ESSAYS AND _REVIEWS. The following letter appears in a contem porary : Sir,—l am induced to address you by observing that the manifestoes put forth under sanction of all the bishops, condemning the publication of "Essays and Reviews," should excite so little attention in the public press. It' it were merely a squabble confined to and concerning only the tenets of an ordinary sect, it would certainly not be a subject adapted for dis cussion in a daily newspaper, but when the whole of the nominal leaders (or at all events controllers) of a Church supported by national funds desire to impose a construction upon its formularies which is not recognised by some of its most intelligent members, and which shuts them out from ordina tion, the matter is of such importance that it behoves the press to encourage discussion upon it, and to give public opinion an opportunity of declaring itself. If this declaration of the bishops be not protested against, but adopted by the Church generally, it must have the effect of driving from ordination such as may hold similar opinions to those ex pressed in "Essays and Reviews," thus depriving the Church of the services of men equally worthy of respect (we may suppose) with the authors of that work. The right of private judgment has long been ac knowledged by church authorities, and if that means anything at all, it justifies these men in put ting their own construction on the church's formu laries ; and the bishops, by calling their honesty in question, seek to destroy this right. They are, indeed, justified, not by any innovating doctrine, but by the tradition of the church itself. The adoption of the bishops' principle would not only be grossly unjust, by excluding many now eligible from entering the ministry, by shutting out intelligent men—it would be detrimental to the church itself, and by deteriorating the quality of a class who have great influence from their office, apart from their individual qualities, it would have injurious effects wherever their influence is felt. If the Church of England persists in narrowing its principles so as to exclude by each step some further portion of its followers, it must manifestly decline in strength in comparison with the rest of the nation, and will not much longer be able to support its claim, to be considered aish national Church ; therefore if its supporters w that it should continue to be entrusted with the national nb eoFt aFrom cproperty,iniii allow h t : e h si they would considerationsteodbe that d tohweakened iwells protest alone l f oo o bt n r ey es their I h t soe think own wti hn o nke wn bi ti sc mustofficers. should not be sanctioned by the Church generally. To those who advocate the independence of indi vidual o pinion its opposition to that doctrine w ill be sufficient condemnation.—l am, &e., Cork, Feb. 21. E. It. F. Preparations have been made for the purpose of cstablishing an annual fat. cattle show in the Isle of , Wight. 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