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Tuesday, the 12th day of March,ls6l, at 12 o'clock at noon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicat ing upon the claims. kiDated this 11th day of February, 1861. GEO. WHITING, Chief Clerk. J. T. VINING, 2, Moorgate-street, London, Plaintiff's Solicitor. FINE TEA CHEAPER. STRACHAN CO.'S JUSTLY CELEBRATED DRAWING ROOM TEA Is now reduced to 4s. per lb. Guaranteed the FINEST and CHEAPEST Tea in the United Kingdom. 26, Cornhill, London, E.C. R OYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, FOR FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES, No, 29, Lombard -street, London, E.C. ; and Royal Insurance Buildings, Liverpool. CAPITAL -TWO MILLIONS. FIRE BRANCH. Notwithstanding the large accessions of business made annually through a long series of years, which obviously in crease the difficulty of further advances, yet the Fire Pre miums of the year 1859 rise above those of the preceding year —by a larger sum than has been obtained by the increase of any single year since the formation of the Company, ex cepting_ the year 1853, disclosing•an advance of 50 PER CENT. IN TIME It; YEARS. TgicifoW-Ini, , ,igUres exhibit the progress of the whose Fire Branch, runnint over the last Ten years :- - - Total Premium Increa•e of the year received. above each preceding one. 1850 £44,027 10 0............L,557 19 8 1812 76,925 4 2 24,251 18 3 185 4 128,459 11 4 15,895 7 0 1856 151,733 9 6 21,673 17 7 185 R 196,148 2 6 21,092 17 10 1859 228,914 7 3 32,166 4 9 Placing the Company among the very largest offices in the 'ngdom. Indeed, it is believed that there are now only three offices in existence which equal it in Fire revenue. LIFE BUSINESS. The Directors desire to call the especial attention of the Proprietors of THE LIFE BRANCH of the Esthblishment. The ACTUARY'S Report on this subject is acco npanied by an Appendix, illustrated by two coloured Diagrams, whiehraake plain to the unprofessional eye the mortality ex perienced by the "Royal," as indicated by curved lines, which contrast most favourably with the former Averages of raortslity, also displayed on the Diagrams. The Bonus apportioned to the Assured, with participation, amounts to £2 per cent. per annum, to be added to the origi nal sum assured of EVERY PARTICIPATING POLICY effected previously to the Ist of January, 1858, for each entire year that it had been in existence since the last appropriation of Bonus thereon, and is 0\ E OF THE LARGEST BONUSES EVER DECLARED. The Paid-up and Invested Capital, including Life Funds, amounts to upwards of £700.000 sterling. PE ItCY M. DOVE, Manager and Aetusry. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary. 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L 79 , : - ,-,, , ,„X.. , .,„-z s / , .44v , , , r. 4- ROTT. ' N ce "-- - ~ ., . .,1 " .s' + ,s,„„„ „I ...4 - 7" ••,) (,..:,:,,-:7.. "' ' r .....- PRICE 4D . STAMPED, 51% POLICE INTELLIGENCE. —Feb 11. MANSION-HOUSE.—Mr. Robert Fraser North, 34 years of age, of the firm of Messrs. Nickoll and North, Russia brokers, at 27, Bishopsgate-street within, was brought up on remand from Tuesday last, before the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Rose, charged with stealing, otherwise obtaining by trick, the delivery orders for 343 casks of tallow, of the value of £8,780 odd, belonging to Messrs. J. Hubbard and Co., Russia merchants, of 19, Birchin lane, Cornhill. A new charge was also preferred against the prisoner yesterday, of defrauding Mr. George Goss, a Russia broker, at 80, Old sßroad street, of £1,496 odd, under similar circumstances. At the conclusion of the previous hearing, Mr. which s Metcalfe, the priso ner ' s cou nsel, applied to have hi reappearance ea p i:t e r m . r an Alderman but Rose agreed to take the r e cognisance of two sureties, liberatedes, each in on l bai1,4,00 o upon, for h failing to give bail to the requisite amount, the prisoner was sent to the prison of Newgate, where he has since been confined. Mr. Muller was recalled yesterday and further examined by Mr. Giffard. He said, on the 29th of January he received a request from Nickoll and North in the prisoner's handwriting to make out the delivery orders for the 343 casks of tallow, in two lots of 113 and 230 casks. That request was ac companied by a cheque for £8,781 Bs. 9d., drawn by Nicholl and North on the Bank of London in favour of Messrs. Hubbard, and payable to order. Witness identified the two delivery orders in ques tion given by him on receipt of the cheque. Cross-examined by Mr. Metcalfe—Messrs. Hub bard had had transactions with Messrs. Nickoll and North for five or six years, but not to a great ex tent until last year,when hebelieved their dealings were represented by £BO,OOO or £90,000. He be lieved Nickoll and North had transactions with other firms, but as brokers only, and not as actual purchasers of tallow. He was not aware that they bought without principals. Mr. North's father before him was a tallow-broker untillBs4. Witness attended the Baltic Coffeehouse, where Baltic busi ness ,was mainly transacted. Nickoll and North were also members. He (witness) had delivered them goods, understanding that they would make, not that they had made, provision at their bankers' for the payment of them. He did not suppose a cheque would be given unless provision were made for its payment. He meant that funds would be placed at the bankers' to meet such cheques at the time of giving them. Such cheques were payable immediately they were in his (witness's) hands and he expected that at the time the one in question was given provision had been made for its payment. He did not imagine that Mr. North had £9,000 at his bankers' at the time witness gave him the de livery orders in question. He believed Mr. North would provide for the payment of the cheque when he gave him it by raising money on those very orders with respect to that particular tallow. The prisoner had told him days before that he would provide the money for it. It was a usual and customary thing to do that at the Baltic Coffeehouse. Witness thought the market had been a little down when the orders were deli vered, but that circumstance had nothing to do with his asking Mr. North to complete the eon tract. Witness did not wish to keep the contract open, and he requested Mr. North to close it, but did not press him to do so. It was at Mr. North's own request that it had been kept open. He was sure he did not tell Mr. North that unless he took up the contract directly he would not be allowed to remain in the Baltic trade, nor anything to that effect. Mr. North had experienced much kindness from him, but witness had not great confidence in him. He did not know at that time that Mr. North was pressed by other parties to take up contracts. It had been said that he was in diffi culties about the 31st December, but witness had not heard so at that time. Mr. North had stated that the money for the tallow was ready whenever witness required it. On Thursday or Friday wit ness requested payment ; Mr. North fixed the fol lowing Tuesday to pay, and witness agreed to that. If the cheque had been paid at the Bank of London witness would have assumed that the transaction was all right. He should not have given Mr. North the warrants unless he had received the money, or something equivalent to it—that is, or his cheque. Bank-notes would have been preferable. Mr. Mack, a clerk in , the Bank of London, proved that on Tuesday, the 29th ult., at the time the cheque for £8,781 Bs. 9d. was presented, there was only £8 14s. 2d. to the credit of Nickoli and North in the bank. In cross-examination, he added that the largest sum in the bank to their credit at any time during that day was £357 odd, but he was not sure that the debits and credits had all been posted at that particular time. The day before their balance was £llB 10s. Mr. T. Scarman, clerk to Messrs. Colchester and Woolner, Russia brokers, South Sea-house, deposed that on Tuesday, the 29th of January, he met Mr. North outside the Baltic Coffeehouse, which forms part of the South Sea-house, and handed him the cheque produced, drawn by witness's employers in favour of Nickoll and North, for £2,400, upon the London Joint Stock Bank, Prince's-street, receiving from Mr. North at the same time the delivery order for 113 casks of tallow, which he gave to Mr. Woolner, one of the firm. Mr. Robert Martin, a partner in the banking firm of Martin and Co. 68, Lombard-street, was called, and proved that 111 r. Dalton of Bucklersbury kept an account with them. Witness was asked a question in reference to it, which he excused him self from answering, for the reason that he had received a letter from Mr. Dalton requesting that he would give no information to any one about his account. He was shown by Mr. Giffard what pur ported to be Messrs. Colchester and Woolner's cheque for £2,400, and asked if it had been paid in to Mr. Dalton's private account. He replied that at that moment he did not know whether it had or not. The cheque was crossed to their bank, and he believed the endorsement on it was in Mr. Dalton's handwriting, though he should not say positively that it was. He (witness) had never seen that cheque before. He had no objection to show any book in the bank which might throw light on the cheque, but he did not understand that he had been asked to bring books or he should have donelso. He added that Mr. Dalton is a solicitor. On that state of circumstances, Mr. Giffard asked the court to commit the prisoner for trial. The Lord Mayor inquired if Mr. Metcalfe had anything to urge in his defence, stating at the same time it was his intention to commit him for trial. Mr. Metcalfe said, after that intimation, he should rather leave the prisoner's defence to another occa sion. _ _ The prisoner, on receiving the usual caution, said he would leave the matter entirely in the hands of his counsel, adding that he had nothing to urge in his behalf, except the statement that at the time delivery orders were given there was not the slightest evidence of any felonious intention on his part. The Lord Mayor committed him for trial, and refused to entertain an application made by his counsel to be allowed to give bail for his appearance until then. Another charge was then brought against' the prisoner at the instance of Mr. Georgd Goss, of the firm of Goss and Co., Russian brokers, at 80, Old Broad-street, who accuse him of defrauding them of the amount of £1,497; but, as the facts were but slightly elicited in evidence, and as the prisoner will be again brought up to-day (Tues day), to answer the accusation, we reserve our re port. Mr. Metcalfe complained that his client, a pri soner under remand, had been treated in thee: at New ate as if he were a convict. He obliged to make his own bed, clean hi s own h i c h had and submit to other inconveniences, Metc alfe) already affected his health. cell, submitted that those were circumstance s ( n o r ; into which it would be desirable, in the pu blic ainterest; for the nd that, at all events, Court to institute inquiry ; presumed to be innocent a prisoner, whom the until he was proved g uilty, ought not to be treated as if he were a convict. B OW- STREET. —An Indian, named Mahommed Ali Khan, was charged Mr. Henry with attem pting to commit suicide by cutting his throat in Whitehall, during the passage of the Royal pro cession on the occasion of her Majesty going to Westminster to open Parliament, on Tuesday, the sth inst. Mr. Vim. Travers, the house surgeon at Charing cross Hospital, said that when brought there the prisoner had a superficial wound, two inches long, in the throat. It was not dangerous. It might have been inflicted by the knife produced, which would not have made a deep cut. The wound wa s dressed and the prisoner remained in the hospital, chiefly und er hi s c are, till that morning. He spoke a few words of English. He did not seem to be insane. Lieut.-Col. Robert Marsh Hughes, honorary secretary to the Strangers' Home for Orientals, at Limehousc, deposed—The prisoner is a native of Joonaghur, in the province of Kattywar, in the Bombay Presidency. I have known Lim five years. I speak his language. From 'what he I understand he was formerly a depen Nawab of Joonaghur, who is an independent prince or chieftain. I saw him in Coldbath-fields Prison in October. I invited him to come to the Home at the expiration of his sentence. He came on the 18th October, and I admitted him. I had several conversations with him, and he told me that if Sir Charles Wood did'not give him justice he would cut his throat before Sir Charles's eyes and throw the petition over his head. In consequence of that threat I obtained a warrant against him, and. he was brought up at the Thames police-court on the Ist November. He then promised that he would keep in the Home, abstain from going to the India house, and from making any further attempt at suicide. Believing his word I took him back. On Christmas -day he left, and „I understand he says that I gave him pork to eat, which is net-traa. We allow no pork to be brought into the Home, and all the food is cooked by Mahometans. In order that he might have nothing to find fault with, money was given to him to buy meat • from the Jewish butchers, and he could see it cooked or cook it himself. This he accepted. • When he was ill Dr. Conder ordered him rice, sago, and arrow root, which were prepared for him by the l'Alabo metan cook. His prejudices were consulted everything. in On Christmas -day, according to custom, we gave the inmates an English dinner—roast beef and plum pudding, but everything was purchased and cooked by Mahometans. They were all de lighted except Mohammed Ali Khan, who was very angry. He said he must have some fish, which was accordingly provided for him, and he ate it. After dinner some tobacco was given to them, and all were pleased but the prisoner, who refused the tobacco and left the Home immediately. .I have not seen him since. He might have remained if he chose, and I have authority to send him to India if he will go. I haVe no reason to believe that he is in sane, except that he labours under some delusion about buying a claim on the Government. There is no foundation for that notion. The prisonerF stated, through the interpreter—l am not mad. I neither drink wine nor spirits, and I have a very good head. I want my rights, which. are set forth in my petition. The East India Com pany have instructed Col. Hughes and the other gentlemen at the Home to send me off to India, but I will never go till I get my rights if I stay till the day of judgment. Mr. Henry said he bad allowed Col. Hughes to go into the matter because of the imputations raised by the prisoner. The prisoner, having once before been tried on a similar charge to the present - must b© well aware that an attempt against his own li!e was a serious offenc against our law. Had he not beery interrupted b the constable he might have killed himself on this occasion. The matter became very serious, and it would be his duty as a magis trate to commit the prisoner for trial at the Central Criminal Court. The prisoner, who said he was " quite ready," was committed accordingly. LAMBETH.—THE DELICATE INVESTIGATION CASE.—Yesterday having been appointed for the further investigation of the charge of assault pro fermi by Mr. Charles Perceval against Samuel Copping, late a sergeant, and Adam Saunders, for merly a constable of police, the court was crowded in every part ; and since the examination of Young man for the Walworth murder, there has not been so many persons present. In addition to the charge of assault, committed under somewhat peculiar cir cumstances, there was' a second complaint made against the defendants of conspiring to commit a breach of the peace by breaking and entering into a tenement in the occupation of the complainant in. a riotous and forcible manner ; and in this charge Mr. S. J. Clark, a respectable retired tradesman, was included. Mr. Hutchinson attended for the prosecution ; and Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr. John Hubbard, from the office of Mr. Merriman, of Austin-friars, for the defendants. Mr. Pearce, the barrister, was also present to watch the case on behalf of Mrs. Clark, whose name is mixed up in the proceedings. Mr. Hutchinson, in opening the case, observed. that from what transpired on the former day his worship was aware of the facts as related to the defendants Copping and Saunders, and as regarded the third defendant, Mr. Clark, he was in a position, if his instructions were correct, to show that he not only incited the other two men to commit the assault, but had given them £5 to break into the house for the purpose of obtaining evidence in a matter to which it was not necessary to advert, and it was quite clear, there fore, that he had made himself a party to the con spiracy to commit a breach of the peace. He (Mr. Hutchinson) should further be able to show that Mr. Clark had offered to pay the landlord of the house £2 for the damage the other defendants had done, and had mixed himself up with them in such ' a way as to make himself equally amenable to the charge of conspiracy. It was not to be borne with, that Mr. Clark should take upon himself to do that which the judges of the country would not sanction, and could not authorise, having a couple of men to commit without the slightest colour of authority, one of the grossest outrages that could be well con ' ceived ; and if he did so he must take the conse quence. After laying all the facts before his worship, he should feel it to be his duty to call for the com mitment of the defendants Copping and Saunders, on the double charge of assault and forcible entry, and the third defendant for the conspiracy. The complainant, Charles Perceval, was here called, and was about to be examined by his attor ney viva voce, when the magistrate suggested that his evidence on a former day should be read over to him, and this was adopted. He was further exa milled, and stated that after the former examination on Wednesday, the 30th ult., he returned to his lodgings and found the defendant, Mr. Clark, in the shop of Mr. Hogswood, his landlord, and heard the former say, " I have sent those men, and I must pay for it," and tendered two sovereigns for the damage they had done. The landlord refused the money, saying that they had gone too far, and he should have nothing to do with it. The witness then stepped forward and told Mr. Hogswood to be careful of what he said to defendant, as he would swear anything, upon which Mr. Clark said that if he was 20 years younger, he should punch his head for him. (Laughter.) In cross examination by Mr. Sleigh the witness said that on the night previous to the attack he slept in the back room of the first floor, and that neither on that night or on the following morning was there a lady in his room. Mrs. Clark occu pied the second room on the same floor, and in her room the only bed was an ottoman, There was a door in a cupboard which formed a communication with both bedrooms, but Mrs. Clark kept the key, and she alone could unlock the door. (Laughter.) Mr. Hogswood—That door, your worship, is for the convenience of the lodgers. (Loud laughter.) Mr. Perceval, in continuation, said there was a bedroom upstairs which he had occupied, but not on the night in question. Mr. Sleigh was olosely pursuing this line of deli cate investigation, when it was objected to by Mr. Hutchinson, who observed that it was evidently with the view of getting evidence for another Court. Mr. Elliott—lf persons suppose that, to get.,lg i with; out for another Court, they arejustifled, " out the slightest authority, to break into pello° 11. n1 ; houses, they will find themselves very 711: ~ 3 ' ceived. (Loud cheers and clapping of P r t an witness, Mr. George Hogswood, was the 12 and his evidence given on the form e r occasion WKS read over. He further stated thatkonplteheee dthaey de which the former exaMinat t ion. too i fondant (Mr. Clark) came o his sthop,tatl and d the having rttle c ome to se stated his name, said h e was affair, and put down two s overe igns t h o pay f for d the injury that . had been done ; u ere use to sa y i ng that the case hadgone too far. Mr. accept it, Wane in, and Mr. Clark and he had. Perceval then an altercation. Mr. Hubbard, clerk to the defendant's attorney, was next called, and in reply to the questions of M r . Hutchinson, he denied all knowledge of the defendant, Mr. Clark, giving Copping and Saunderg ten sovereigns, and said he had not heard Saunders complain of Copping having kept £3 10s. out of the £5 they had received. Mr. John Clark, the son of the defendant, Mr. Clark, and the husband of the lady w h ose name has been mixed up with this inquiry, was next called, and denied having any communication with his father on the subject. Mr. Hutchinson said this was his case, and he wished to add that, in the statement that had gone forth it might appear that Mrs. Clark had left her husband and h ome w i t h out any cause, but this, he could assure the Court, was not the fact, as she had had ample grounds, as would be shown hereafter. Mr. Sleigh submitted that there was not a tittle of evidence to prove the charge against Mr. Clark, an opinion in which the magistrate at once acquiesced, and discharged the summons against that gentleman. Mr. Sleigh next urged the magistrate to take the whole of the case into his own hands, and at once deal with it, observing that a pecuniary fine would meet the justice of the case. Mr. Elliott said that it was not to be tolerated that persons without the slightest authority should break into persons' houses, and the case must therefore be sent to the sessions. His worship's decision was hailed with loud cheers, and Mr. Hutchinson requested that it migh t be understood that he meant to indict for the form., ble entrance as well as the assault. Copping and Saunders were then committed to the Surrey Sessions , but were admitted to bail, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1861. TEE BISHOP OF EXETER ON CHURCH-RATES. The following letter has been addressed by the Bishop of Exeter to one of the Archdeacons in his diocess . " Dear Mr. Archdeacon,—Yours is not the only request which I have received for a declaration cf my opinion on the question of church-rates. _ " What that opinion would be if the question were asked under the same state of things as existed in past genera tions, it is hardly necessary for me to consider. I look at the problem actually presentee to us, and, so looking, I am anxious to secure all that sound principle demands, without insisting upon all which we may think desirable, nor even all which most of us may think reasonable. " The principle to be contended for, and never by us to be abandoned, is the union of Church and State in every nation calling itself Christian. "This indispensable object would seem to me to be in sured by retaining church-rates as the legal instrument of providing for the maintenance of the edifices and church yards, even if the support of the special services of the Church were no longer insisted upon. " To require the maintenance of these edifices as a stand ing monument of the nation's faithfulness to God, is not open to the most specious, and therefore the most effective, argument commonly used for the abolition of church-rates —namely, that such a charge is inconsistent with the rights of conscience; for very many are thus made to support a system of doctrine and of worship to which they are con scientiously opposed. Whether this argument is reason able or not I forbear to inquire ; I would rather seek to render it inapplicable. This would be accomplished by acting on the very simple expedient which I have sug gested. For thus the groat national object would be secured, without leaving any grievance of which any reasonable man could complain. " I rejoice in n thinking, too, that all which we should find practically necessary would be obtained. For, the neces sary charges for public worship are not of a formidable amount, and those which are unnecessary—such as for organs, for lighting, warming, and the like—may be (shall I be afraid of saying ought to be) no longer demanded of those who cannot enjoy the use of them. " In examining the list of strictly necessary charges, the first particular is at once the largest and most important— the supplying the elements at the Holy Communion. But this, I hesitate not to say, is most unfit to be made a charge on any man. None but those who actually communicate ought to be, I will not say compelled, but permitted, to con tribute. In the Primitive Church, to make offerings of bread and wine, out of which the elements were taken, was a privilege, from which all but the faithful were strictly excluded; and it appears from the rubric at the end of the Communion, in the first Book of Common Prayer of Edward VI., that the earlier reformers were careful to observe the same principle. That rubric ordered that the pastors and curates shall find at their cost sufficient bread and wine for the Holy Communion, and that in recompense of such costs and charge the parishioners of every parish shall offer every Sunday, at the time of the offertory, the just value and price of the holy loaf to those their pastors and curates, in such order as they were wont, and that one at least of that house in every parish to whom by course it appertaineth to offer for the charge of the Communion, or some other whom they shall provide to offer for them, shall receive the Holy Com munion with the priest.' Thus careful, I repeat, were our reformers that the offering of the elements should not be made by those whe were not communicants. " To carry out this principle in consistence with our present object, the simplest and easiest method would pro bably be to take the cost of the bread and wine out of the moneys collected at the offertory ; and we need not doubt that devout communicants would offer somewhat more largely in consideration of this charge. " The other necessary expenses are really very small; and these, as well as those which are not strictly necessary, might be safely left to voluntary contribution. Some charges are made by the State for its own purposes, such as pro viding and keeping registers, and making returns of the same, which the State itself would doubtless provide for. " In conclusion, let me add the expression of an earnest hope that in any modification of the existing law on church rates, which shall now be adopted, the enforcement of them would be transferred from the ecclesiastical to the temporal courts. Common prudence and the manifest interest of peace demand the transfer.—l am, dear Mr. Archdeacon, yours very faithfully, • __ "H. EXETER. " P.S.—I have omitted one consideration, which, how ever, strongly commends the measure above stated to ray own acceptance. It leaves no ground for exemption in favour of any ; for it recognises a common duty, resting on a principle which none ought to evade. " I have also omitted all reference to the course to be adopted for ascertaining from time to time what repairs of the churches are really necessary, and by what authority they are to be ordered. These are matters which are to be left to the judgment of Parliament." LENTEN PASTORAL OF CARDINAL WISE3IAE The following pastoral from his Eminence Car dinal Wiseman was read on Sunday in the severa Roman Catholic churches and chapels in the Arch. diocess of Westminster : " Nicholas, by the Divine mercy, of the Holy Roman Church, of the title of St. Pudentia, Cardinal, Priest, and Archbishop of Westminster, to our dearly beloved brethren and children in Christ, the clergy, secular and regular, and the faithful of the diocess, health and benediction in the Lord. " We regret, dearly beloved in Christ, that indisposition prevents us addressing you as fully as we could have wished at the approach of the Lenten season; a few lines dictated from our couch must take the place of our wonted pastoral letter. Since Christmas-day it has pleased Divine Provi- dente to afflict us with a partial relapse into that same malady which last year deprived us of the annual consola tion of opening our heart to you, and suggesting more par ticular objects for your prayers during this period of special humiliation and -supplication. " For we can safely and unanimously commit to the un tiring zeal and to the instructions of our devoted clergy the task of nerving you to the discharge of your penitential duties and supporting you through the holy exercises which usually accompany them. It has, indeed, on this account been hitherto our practice in our Lenten address to suggest to you rather some special and great topic of meditation or prayer in which it was our desire that the members of every congregation and the clergy of every mission should unite in a common, warm, and persevering entreaty at the Throne of Grace. • It would be difficult this year not to invite you, dearly beloved in Christ, to join the Universal Church in prayer for great and general purposes connected with her welfare and that of her august and beloved Head. "We could not easily give expression to our sentiments on many of these subjects without introducing, contrary to our established custom, reflections on events and circum stances of a secular or political character, which have greatly afflicted the position of the Church and her Supreme Pontiff. We will therefore content ourselves with recommending to you, as an object for your most fervent and affectionate prayers during this holy season, the distressed condition of the Church in many countries. Remember often before God the spoliation of His sanctuaries, the banishment of His pious prelates ; the imprisonment of His zealous priests, the cruel dispersion from the houses in which they had vowed to live for ever as His spouses, and which they had endowed with their little patrimony of innocent and virtuous religious, without compensation and without shelter; the encouragement given to the diffusion of error, immorality, and scurrilous attacks on sacred things ; the confiscation of the patrimony of the poor and of the Church ; the total depression and affliction of the virtuous, and the triumph and boastfulness of the wicked. " Remember more eippecially, when in the presence of our dear Lord exposed to your adoration, the afflictions of His vicar upon earth, the calamities which have overwhelmed the temporal State, the deep sorrow which has struck and penetrated his paternal heart at the sight and knowledge of the wars which threaten the spiritual kingdom confided to his charge, and then, with all the earnestness of filial devotion, pour out Sour hearts unto the sacred and adorable heart of your Divine Redeemer, and entreat Him to console, to strengthen, and, if it so please Him, to gladden the soul of your afflicted father, and by the exercise of His Almighty power to rescue him and his own dear spouse from sur rounding and impending calamities. But limit not your selves to prayers, however earnest, but slow your loyalty and affection no less by works. Lent is a season of alms deeds as well as of fasting, and remember that, however painful it may be to employ this term in connection with such an object, it will be one of the noblest and most sacred applications of what we can most justly call charity (for charity is love) to bestow freely and lovingly in alleviating the temporal necessities of your spiritual father what at another time you might have applied to other pious uses. The institution of St. Peter's pence has, as you know, re ceived our warmest approbation and encouragement, and we are anxious that the world should see how zealously our desires have been seconded by your wonted charity and generosity. We hope that our Holy Father will derive some little consolation amidst the sufferings and calumnies of his enemies in this country from seeing how we have endeavoured, to the best of our power, to lighten his tempo ral burdens, as well as to sympathise with his inward suf ferings. " The publication of this, our pastoral, is almost coinci dent with the opening of the Parliamentary session. We have already expressed to you our strong desire to have the condition of Catholics in workhouses and other similar in stitutions brought under the notice of the Legislature, in the hope 9t iNtt% 1494411X0 of Astics: , their treatment than that which they now receive. For this pur pose the energetic co-operation of all classes is absolutely necessary. We rely upon our zealous clergy for the eollec tioif of sufficient evidence to submit to the promised com mittee of the House of Commons which will sit upon this subject. Wo sincerely and earnestly hope that not only every Catholic member of either house will contribute his most strenuous and persevering efforts in this sacred cause, but that every liberal-minded legislator, of whatever reli gious creed he may be, will second our endeavours to attain what no one can deny to be just —an equal treatment of our poor with that which others receive, as fair and honest an interpretation and application of the law to Catholic chil dren as to others, or if the defect be in the law, its prompt and honourable amendment. But from all we must ask such assistance as may enable our committee established to promote these ends to do its work efficiently. The Work house Papers' • issued by this active body, the perusal of which we earnestly recommend, will instruct all whom it concerns and interest all readers, enlisting their warmest feelings of pity and indignation in behalf of these hapless children of misery. The labours of the committee in bring ing this subject before the public, and still more before Parliament, will involve no inconsiderable expense, and to meet this we have no other resource except the familiar one of y our charity. We desire that for this holy end a col lection be made. on some Sunday during the Lenten season in every church and chapel of the diocess, according to the direction and good judgment of the local clergy ; and, fur ther to insure the success of our efforts, petitions to both branches of the Legislature will be of the highest import ance. A form fer these has been prepared by our com mittee, and we earnestly exhort you all, clergy and laity,- to sign them and procure as many signatures as possible for them, that so they may carry all the weight which so religious a cause deserves. " Lot us now conclude with expressing our regret at not having been able to address you in those solemn and reli gious notes which befit this holy season. Let, your own piety supply this want; let it remind you how this season is connected with the most tender and awful mysteries of salvation; how it is intended to purify and to consecrate the frail but sacred vessel which every one bears into the sanctuary of their God, that so it may be found pure and bright to receive the fulness of Easter joys and graces. Fast, therefore ; weep and mourn for a time, that you may be glad with the angels and Apostles and with Mary in the resurrection of Him whom you will contemplate hum bled, suffering, and crucified ; and unite in all this contem plation the full, though humble, assurance that as God dealt with His own dearly beloved Son, so will He deal with His spotless and cherished spouse. Weep and mourn, and humble yourselves with her, too ; join your alms-deeds and your prayers with hers, that so, when theday of her resur rection and brightness returns, you may be able to feel that your sympathy has been complete, and that, as you have suffered with her, so likewise with her, without self-re.. proach, you may exult. " One word more. We venture to request, in addition, an occasional prayer for ourselves, that God's will be done in all things regarding us ; only, that whether in sickness or in health, whether it bends holy will that we should con tinue still to languish in infirmity or be restored once more to full vigour, we may devote ourselves exclusively to the promotion of His glory by the faithful administration of our ecclesiastical office. " And we, on our side, earnestly entreat Him to bless you and yours with His choicest gifts, temporal and spiri tual, and in due time to crown your lives of virtue with eternal bliss, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. " Given in Westminster, and ordered to be read on Quin quagesima Sunday, on the sth day of February, 1861. " N. CARD. AVIS EVAN." TIIE SPANIARDS AT GIBRALTAR. Shortly after six o'clock on the evening of the 7th of January, a small vessel, bearing the English flag, and owned by inhabitants of Gibraltar, left the bay, bound for Tetuan, a free port in the pos session of the Spanish. She had on board a general cargo, and two bales ' of tobacco, which did not appear in the manifest. She also carried several passengers going to Tetuan, some of them British subjects and owners of a portion of the cargo. On arriving off Europa Point, the most southern face of the rock, and while still in British waters, indeed, within gunshot of the shore, the vessel was boarded by an armed revenue boat, searched, and taken as a prize into Algesiras. The master and crew were thrown into prison, and the cargo seized. A representation of the enormity of the case was made by the Consul at Algesiras, tp the Governor of Gibraltar, who immediately wrote and demanded an explanation from the Governor of Algesiras. The latter replied that the affair was under inves tigation. A second letter from Sir W. Codrington brought an answer to the effect that the capture had been decided legal, and that the vessel and cargo were confiscated. The men were released from prison, and returned to Gibraltar. The whole of the cargo was sold, with the exception of what belonged to some Spaniards, to whom it was returned. Two days after this the captain and mate of the ship went to Algesiras upon the subject of the cap ture, when a paper was placed before them, and they were threatened with maltreatment if they did not sign it. This paper was said to contain an admission that the capture was legal and valid. Yesterday these men, having again returned to Gibraltar, received a message from the Governor of .Algesiras that they were required to give evidence before some law court. They accordingly went last night, but upon arriving they were instantly seized and taken to prison, where they are at this moment. One of these men is a Sardinian, the other a Frenchmano _ _ _ The conduct of the Spanish authorities upon this occasion has been such as to call for the immediate interference of the English Government. The effect of this seizure upon British influence and trade in these parts has been already most marked. Mer chants who have hitherto looked upon the English flag as the greatest safeguard for their goods are now shipping freights upon French vessels as more secure. The fact of an English ship being captured absolutely in our own waters and taken as a prize into a foreign port is sufficient to create the greatest alarm among all classes of traders, and to diminish confidence in the power of England. Pending the decision of the Government at home, measures have been adopted to prevent the recurrence of these outrages. In the absence of a gunboat a small schooner has been armed with two guns and 20 men from the Argus, with orders to cruise at night and capture any Spanish guarda costa seen within our waters, and the man-of-war steamer stationed here is held in readiness to convoy any British ves sels requiring her aid. MAJOR O'REILLY AND THE CORK ELECTION. —The Morning News says :—We can announce that Major O'Reilly will not stand for Cork; but, should a vacancy occur in Drogheda, he will, if not previously called else where by his duty to tho Sovereign Pontiff, contest that borough with any candidate not an avowed supporter of pure Catholic Education, or opposed to the Mixed or so called National System. _ _ AT BREAKFAST.—Q. What is the Schleswig- Holstein question, Papa ? A. Well, my dear boy, I am pleased to soe that you have an inquiring mind, and take notice of what is said in your presence, and I will endea vour to make you understand. Schleswig-Holstein is in Denmark—that is, it is not exactly in Denmark, at least Schleswig may be called so, but not Holstein —no, it is Holstein that may be considered Danish, or, if you like a long word better, Scandinavian. Lot me see, what did I say ?-0 yes, Holstein is the German division of the terri tory, and Schleswig is an ancient fief (you know what a fief is) of the Crown, and was ceded in 1816 ; that is to say, Holstein was ceded, not Schleswig, Holstein having been an ancient fief of Germany, and therefore you see Prussia takes an interest in the question, as part of the German Confederation; but Lord John Russell is only in the mat ter as a mutual friend, and he thinks that the proposals of Prussia —no, I mean Denmark—yes, of course, Dennark, that concessions shall be made to Holstein —no, Holstein does not want concessions, but a veto (that is Latin for "I forbid") upon taxation and other things, and Schleswig to be allowed to speak German—well, Lord John thinks:this fair, but the Prussian Minister does not think that Prulssia —at least Denmark, has any right to impose conditions of this sort, because there was a promise of a Constitution to Schleswig or Holstein, I forget which, but the principle is the same, and there are some other points mixed up with it which you might not be able to understand so easily as the simple outline of the case which I have given you. 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It would be satisf ac t ory t o regar d th e recent vote in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies on Baron de Vincke's amendment to the address, as an au thentic expression of enlightened German opinion on a great question ofEuropean policy, ra th er th an as an incidental ebullition of hostility to a particu lar Minister. Baron Schleinitz is riot on the best terms with the Chamber; and an opportunity of taking him at a disadvantage was not likely to be lost. An amendment drawn up in tolerably loose and general terms, susceptible of a diversity of interpretations, critical in form, negative in pur port, restraining rather than censuring, binding to nothing, deciding nothing, was not unskilfully devised to inflict a blow upon the Foreign Mini ster without committing the Opposition to any definite responsibilities for the future. Baron Schleinitz has not yet conciliated the support of the feudal and Austrian party in the Chamber, though on the question of Austrian domination iu Italy he can always count upon their votes to a man. On the other hand, his mincing, tortuous, and timid advances in the direction of a Royal rather than national Liberalism make him an object of suspi cious importance to constitutional reformers who desire to make Prussia all that Prussia is not. Nor can the Deputies from PruSsian Poland be supposed to admire very ardently the logic of Baron Schleinitz when he argues like a fanatical nationalist against Denmark, and insists on the people of Posen becoming Prussians in thought, word, and deed. We are told that these elements of the majority in favour of Baron de Vincke's amendment must be taken into account before we presume to build upon a casual vote a fancy Prussia with a will of its own, and a policy worthy of the head and heart of the German people. We are reminded too that Baron de Vincke, though undoubtedly the ablest, perhaps the only real Parliamentary speaker in all Germany, is an independent and isolated politician : a chief of partisans without a party, a brilliant leader without a following. It is unfortunately too characteristic of German politics that there should be no states man's work for a man of equal ardour, and con sistency of principle and conduct, who from his first entrance into public life has steadily pursued the same generous and practical course ,• in 1847, as a member of the Prussian Diet! in 1849, in the German National Assembly, at the Erfurt Parliament in 1850, and now in the Cham ber of Deputies at Berlin ; always resisting the feudal and ultramonarchical reactionists, always true to the cause of oonstitutional liberty. Still, in these days of revivals, even courage and con sistency have their hour; and Baron de Vincke deserves the congratulations of the whole liberal party in Europe for having associated his name with a message of goodwill from the people of Germany to the people of Italy. For the sake of Prussia, it is to be earnestly hoped that, though King William I. declines to part with his pre sent Ministers, he will advisedly listen to the voice of his Parliament. It was scarcely to be expected, perhaps not altogether to be desired, that Baron de Vincke's Amendment in favour of Italy should be treated as a vote of want of con fidence. Baron Schleinitz, indeed, had opposed the amendment, yet with so many reticences and re servations that he seemed to deprecate it as a con structive restraint upon some eventual and unavowed tendencies of the Government, rather than as in itself a proposition to which the Government could not, at least conditionally, assent. The King of Prussia must be considered as still in his infancy as a constitutional sovereign, and the distinctio n between a constitution granted by the Crown and a constitution won and kept by the people is best discerned when a Chamber of Deputies has a fancy to make its presence and its power felt. If the Liberal party in Germany will take note of this, the defeat of the Ministry will have more than one indirect result. But the acclama tions with which the vote of the Chamber has been welcomed not only in Italy, but in England, and wherever in Europe public opinion has a voice, are the true triumph and reward of Baron de Vincke's noble initiative. If the Prussian King is not convinced, his Ministers can tell him what this sudden explosion of sympathy for his people signi fies. At Turin it means the reciprocal acknow ledgment that between a free and united Germany and a free and united Italy there can be no ground for quarrel or distrust, and that only dynastic in trigues and jealousies can pretend to make enemies of neighbouring,nations whom all the common inte rests of both make mutual friends. In England it means a glad surprise at the appearance on the scene of European politics of a Prussian people with which the English nation can ally itself spontaneously, without treason to its own cause, and without fear of complicity with a cause it despises and detests. England desires nothing better than the friendship and alliance of a free, strong, self-ruling German people. The Prussia upon whose alliance Baron Schleinitz ingenuously supposes that England may not be inclined to set a high value, is a Prussia with the weakest frontiers and the loosest forces in Europe, blustering and crouching by turns; sometimes Russian and sometime Austrian, but always dynastic in its ends and aims ; national only in the sense in which a Royal appanage may be called a nation. With Prussian feudalist and bigot, ultra-royalist, and leagued with every big and little despotism, England desires as little intimacy as convenient. But with the Prussia of Baron de Vincke constitutional England can be one in heart and in will. Ho w much of the aspe rity and ill-humour towards Prussia which Baron de Vincke has observed with more regret than sur prise in the English press springs perhaps from disappointed and disgusted affection. We wish we could discover in the speech of Baron Schleinitz some slight indication of a straightforward policy. The Minister's method of accepting while opposing the amendment would be amusing if it were not:lpaiuful. The Minister is most hurt at the imputation that his Government has any decided tendencies whatever. He speaks with some preciseness and clearness, for a moment only, when he magnifies the uncertainty of all things around as an excuse for-persevering in a policy of pure expectancy and indecision. He repels, as almost an insult, the attempt to nail him to any one fixed principle of conduct or course of action • whether it be non-intervention, active support of Austria in Italy, the rights of nation alities, alliance with Austria, or alliance with England. On one point alone is Baron Schleinitz unhappily and perversely categorical in statement, and in that he is contradicted by all authoritative testimony and all recorded experience. He insists that the Austrian occupation of Venetia is of great strategical and political importance to Austria and, indirectly, to Germany. Prussian strategists says so; and in the opinion of Baron Schleinitz, Prussian military theorists are better judges of the worth of the Quadrilateral to Austria and Germany than the Austrian Archduke Charles, the famous soldier and strategist of the great Napoleonic wars, who wrote precisely the reverse, and who recorded his deliberate opinion that in the case of a struggle with such a Power as France in the valley of the Danube, Austria must, in self-defence, evacuate Italy alto gether. The doctrine of natural frontiers was con sidered a dangerous one when France "reclaimed" Savoy. But what would Baron Schleinitz consider "natural frontiers," if he and his strategists con sider the Alps such a frontier to Germany as re quires a further unnatural line of elaborately fortified outposts? According to these Prussian military theorists, "Austria and Germany" had no " natural frontiers" at all until 1797. But it seems that Austria and Germany want the Quadrilateral as an intrepot for "Austrian and German" com merce. This is a light in which the Austrians resident in Venetia have probably rrever con templated the Quadrilateral. It is a theory of commerce which will amuse the citi zens of Ancona and the merchants of Trieste. These are theories, however. What remains of fact is that Prussia is resolved to remain in the expec tant, and to accept no engagements. Sympathy with Italy, alliance with Austria and England, a true regard for the letter of treaties, encourage ment of " national tendencies," all things in season but nothing now. If this is statesmanship, Baron de Vincke and Herr Duncker must be dangerous visionaries to suggest that what Piedmont is t d o Italy Prussia is' to Germany, and that a united Italy will be better qualified to contribute to the preservation of the balance of power in Eur f op_ h an Italy always begging for the arms and a against Austria ; or even than Frana in aFerance land, and agreeing to hide each of _ Prussia ever begging the aid of Russia or of. Eng e.—Datly their common fear and hatred o eArreu:teri News. .hite -- ----- -- - 7 The "Gentle Sex" at 60 iook with comp la c enc y on wi. :lied tresses, but to youth it is a calamity ; remediable, however, by Magn e ti c Brushes, &c., of which Dr. Hass a ll reports—"X regard them as the most perfect brushes hithert o Ilrrini made, as respects their mechanical construction and their magnetical action." They are the remedy for grey hair, neuralgia, rheumatism , &e. 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