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LITERATURE. TRAITS OF PRIVATE LIFE. Bogue, London, 1844. t a i T h, e volume b e f o r e us consists of three short prose 7) the last of which, entitled the" Legacy Hunter," tl t ne hest, as b e i ng the most natural, and written, ap- W i o tnt lY, with the greatest relish. The tales are of a domestic character, and though they are t i ll rft 4ifc linly deficient in striking incidents and bold of roatic contrast, such as the multitudinous readers tetion in the present day are so prone to admire, da they present a series of pictures of familiar every "fe in a very agreeable light, and the descriptions, 14, 14 'no instance forcible, are invariably unaffected. 41 - 'he ecorid story, " The Rivals," would have been ti ti !, ll improved in its effect, had it been subjected to a el' , process of condensation, C. : 1 9, 31 1C M I SCE.EL Al% Y. Colburn, London, 1844. 4. " lively little work before us is the production ISjr, ?oo 0, the dramatist, but as it is merely a re k h:lleation of articles that have already appeared in Pageft of the New Monthly Magazine, and have 1 , 1 , 11 noticed from time to time in The Sun, we need 11 1 ' no thing more on the present occasion than that ti 3' are not unworthy of being republished. The ,etiverest of the napers'is one entitled the " Newgate 1 14 111 ' 41 ," which is a capital quiz on some of the flash els that were so undeservedly popular a few years but which now are most properly forgotten. 0 PUNCH. Vol VII. London, 1844. bear whimsical friend, Punch, has just completed seventh volume, and a livelier or a more amusing 1 . 01 , 4 1 1 , 4 s not yet been brought out under his quaint edi -14,1 auspices. Puns, caustic sarcasms , . political ("; and all sorts of eccentricities , in verse as well 4;r*Ose; abound in every Number, and to those who e not taken in the work regularly, as it appeared k c we eldy Numbers, the present volume will be very 4, 4 515 tab1e, furnishing them with the best possible pu serous, fire-side reading. The illustrations are di er ° ll 3, but—as might be expected — they are of t ta 'rent degrees of excellence. Some are simply ex th:agant without the slightest humour to recommend ; but th e ma j o rity are distinguished by infinite eh tolie r.l', and the sketches of the different political t eters introduced are hit off with great exactness, A ttl aat th e lik enesses ma y b e recog nised at a glance. "g them we find admirable caricatures of Sir t 4 l i t Graham, Sir Robert Peel,. Lord Brougham, tw o 'lr. Joseph Hume. The sketch in which the kki for mer worthies are represented as Sarah Gamp 4 , 4 f .. l3 ,etsy Prig, seated over a sly glass of gin at the 1 40 . ( le, discussing political matters in no amicable -1 1 is a caricature worthy of H. B. TROP OLI TAN IMPRO VE AIENTS, NEW STREETS, &c. t*Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in their 14 - „ n i tY-first report, state, with regard to the improve ittl-,"1.3 in the metropolis, in the several lines of those to rr 'vernents authorised by the Acts 3 and 4 Vic tobteaP. 12, they have, since the dates of those Acts, t - oeted purchases to the amount, in the whole, of the' B 44 1- 15s. 10d., and have contracted for fur l4,,Purchases to the amount, in the whole, of 1,„„, ,, in. 15s. 10d.; and besides these, the purchases )th' o r etnaining to be made, in order to clear the of the ground required for completing the ttei', the lines of improvement, it is estimated will tit e further sum of 54,2561. 55., or thereabouts, th e -- II the line from Oxford-street to Holborn, 11" 'lave completed purchases to the amount of th,'' B 4/.145. 10d., a nd have contracted for further pur -1 tik e " to the amount of 56,9691. 3s. 4d. ; and besides tt se, there remain to he made purchases estimated to it t he sum of 14,5714. 15s. Thus this new line of f 't Will have cost, in purchases of property alone, tt r 4 4 l Y 2 90,000/. Secondly, in the line from Bow to Charlotte .street, Bloomsbury, they have kni` l l ,"ed purchases to the amount of 70,958/. 18s. 3d., atop have contracted for further purchases to the te l , - " 11 t of 3,0091. 1 ls. 9d.; and besides these, there 1 4 , 441. t0 be made purchases estimated to cost the ~of. 1 7,5951., or thereabouts. Thirdly, in the t4 3 , 1r ° l ll the London Docks to Spitalfields Church, h ave' 4 E,7,., completed purchases to the amount of Pkir 4 ci- 16s. lid., and have contracted for further tide 41 ases to the amount of 30,236/. Bs. 7d.; and be kit these th ere rema i n t o b e ma d e p u r c h a ses esti kltem4to cost the sum of 6,740/., or thereabouts. ht 1 , — , 41 , 1 .Y, in the line from Coventry-street to Long the Commissioners have completed purchases to thiesit4lnunt of 77,078/. ss. 10d., and they have con hs2e4 for further purchases to the amount of te l hs v 2l . 12 8 . 2d ; an d besides these, there remain to 1 , 1 ,0f -1 71 4 de purchases estimated to cost the sum of tot/ 1 j "e: l ° 3 ., or thereabouts. And fifthly, in the line i ee ttn i'''.ast Smithfield to Rosemary-lane, they have 4 Sv r ` r ! t ed purchases to the amount of 1,4201., and I:l l;`, ° , \ T Aracted for further purchases to the amount ,P, 4, c11 - k v° /. ; and besides thee there remain to be made ~,"`tteabf , 4 estimated to cost the sum of 7,2521., or L 'etiti o7 , -11 1. It appears that of the sum of 500,000/. "ase in the Commissioners' 19th report, to 4 /Ice c'en borrowed of the Equitable Assur ktient. ° l- 11pany, for the purposes of these improve iknan Upon the security of certain portions of the „' revenue of the Crown in Middlesex, and of r :neys arising from interest on Exchequer bills, and "bfit on the sale and purchase of those bills, in which part NI of that loan was temporarily invested—from the rye of old materials, and from rents of property pur t, led for the purpose of these improvements, there t ) : 11 , ained a balance of 1,420/. 6s. 6A. These funds 4; 11 * nearly expended, the Commissioners are taking v,,tBnres for obtaining a further loan of 250,0001., p tl ,_ lo l they find "it will be necessary to raise for the st ,' l4) , se of making the several remaining purchases for the completion of these improvements." V I SIT O P THE BLUE-COAT BOYS TO TDB GALLERY.— . Monday the boys of Christ ' s dejjlnine hundred in number, visited the Adelaide er 7, in the Lowther Arcade, and appeared highly ti 'kited with the amusements and various curious spe- A 4 of mechanism exhibited there. e Marquis of Downshire has been sworn into 118 H i gh Steward of Reading, in the room of the late e o unt Sichnouth. 1 ) I , I IIA RGE AGAINST A POLICE INSPECTOR. — At the FRfttget Winter Assizes, just over, a charge of rape e,an rred agninst four men, named Lacey, Poole, and Wicks, by Ann Holbrook, fell to the k n „ "° in consequence, it was understood, of an alleged hon e trial of th e case having taken place at a public %lt 1 / 1 Taunton. In this farce, Frost, an inspector of ",B at h ' poli ce , was s tated to have acted the part of thee"; and proceeding, ron Alderson remarked strongly r ,, e , : 3 uPposed attributing the acquittal of tg . " lo berg to the effect produced by it on the minds These circumstances having reached the for t w i:dis . e of the Bath magistrates, Monday was fixed on to the k )trt tr investigation. The affair was sifted bottom, keq ur ned out to have been mere " moonshine. A howtrial of some sort did certainly take place ; it was, 4 iti k :' r er, found t o b e en tirely disconnected with the bu %11,14 of th e ass i ze , an d arose fr o m the circumstan c e of , tro l : 11 tt, a witness in the Lansdown-riot arse having t 4), „, "Itu the bed-room of Ann Holbrook, Matilda th e ' e t, and some others, and there washed himself. In } t l ! f ning, someladies " jccularly proposed to toy h l ro under the provisions of "the Strong Beer Act," Thi n taken the liberty of entering their chamber. l • 'ley did, and inflicted on him a fine of a quart of fif t ' Which h e , howev e r, not recognising the jurisdiction t 24 - ti e , " Court," nor the " Act " under which it was ,41..„.: t ited, refused to disburse. Frost was present 1 4 0 , 1 6 , ‘ .part of these proceedings, but took no part in itti,ueyond advising Butt to pay the money. This th e ellneident having reached the ears of the counsel for tl t i l s z i,! f etine, they made an ingenious use of it ; for, by the young women with questions, they so qr . th L : i i them that an impression was left on the mind ket:„Judge and jury, that a mock trial of the case had Pa r . t ""Y been got up, in which Frost acted the principal ka t ; and Holbrook and Co. that of witnesses. The ma -1:,t0rk41," having consulted Frost, was fully exonerated 'or t ,, - ;: ri °e charge made against him. He was also in- Ulla a copy of the depositions would be for to Mr. Baron Alderson.—Somerset County y "e * tt P LAN OF EVADING THE NEW BANKING 1 1(),,:r -- It app ears th a t in some of the iron districts a 1 4, 4 1 4 P1aii has been adopted to evade the New Law of lqi t i t ' r 'g• At certain periods time proprietors of iron- Pos e rf quire advances to pay wages, or for some pur tt I tt tt°l the ki n d, and they address themselves in the first i Z rl ee to the neighbouring bankers. In some cases the Ilt)s ai , B have already issued all the paper that the new t he e - " The, and at the same time are anxious to aff or d t r C wire d accommodation. To do this they give a credit 1)(j,. 11) ,,, Party—probably a tradesman—in the vicinity, ,',4al„",!°,rEn their applicants that, although they (the si cannot assist them, this party can accommodate ttibi w ith small cheqees. Of course there is nothing in tt )l , 4 l tw th at can h i nder a person k ee pi ng a drawing ac with a barker from drawing cheques for any small ktlitcc," t he pleases, and as the signature is perfectly well in the district, such cheques perform all the func osN; °,f a local i ssue . I n some districts the bankers hav e 4 114 44 01*n to supply the drawing party with cheques 4 t/4Printed for the purpose requires/.— Hampshire Ma t . .14NSIVE ROBBERY OF PLATE.—The following Cti k o olonging to the Duchess of Palmella, left on the litq e i nst• at the Southampton Docks, has been since , 11 1 ,,'" -- -36 tea spoons engraved with a P. and a crown; 4 4 t -1 ° kn . - Idl 32 sroons (soup spoons), t r , b , Ives, a soup a e, - uet,,,,"' forks, 18 ditto, bearing the Palmella arms, 36 3 Poons, and the same number of dessert forks, r ge ; u 4as ~,,r a YY spoons, 2 other gravy or sauce spoons, a tisl t - k' ° on and a pair of sugar tongs, 3 salt spoons, e re, a sll ar basin a tea-pot, a coffee-pot, a milk htr,oktiveso g 29 f and 30 spoons, silver gilt; and a kr4r si lver vase and r salver, engraved with the Almito th e I,' All the other articles were engraved either with e o ,, 4lm ella arms, or the P. and crown. 1 2 1 ad 11 of an application, verbatem et literatum, "01 O n Monday last, for permission to serenade the ©i-p.i l eople of Newport, Monmouthshire, by a modern t1 1 1 7.,, e : "*" Honoured Sir I applis to yer Honur meself filgAother Musishuners as well-known for our hi P tnussi c in Bristid for an allowance to play our watiee for this here Crismus ferstifal in 1., • Putt hand hinvironses. We has a fidle a Strumbone, Vilialshilo and a Clarynet, and we plays the tiny l o ts ' a nd psalmes w ith oth e r new hairs No malersta "s4es-r,,m"fY, until arter the ferstifal I ham your vbadint Surrent Time Brim." TULE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25 MIL I NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 22.—The Britannia, 120, was brought from her moorings alongside the jetty on Thurs day, to be completed as an advance ship. The Emerald, tender, sailed yesterday, with super numeraries for the ships fitting out to the westward. The Lily. 16, Commander C. J. F. Newton, was docked on Friday, to have her :copper examined and cleaned, prior to hoisting the pendant. The Falmouth arrived on Friday from the eastern yards, with stfores. The Princess Royal. 90, (after the Albion) has had her workmen taken off her, in pursuance of Admiralty order. The Albatross, 16, Commander Yorke, and the Ferrett, 6, Commander Oake, left St. Helena prior to the 20th of September, for a cruise in the Bights of Benin. The Albatross captured, on the 10th of August, a large Spanish slaver, named Bolladore, which has been the terror of the coast. _ The Salamander, steam- sloop, Commander A. S. Hamond, was at Otaheite on the 24th of July. Tho Cormorant, steam-sloop. Commander G. T. Gor don, was at Valparaiso on the Ist of September. The Espoir, 10, Commander Hadaw•ay, left Ascension on the 10th of October, for Congo River, ,having left Commander Morrel at that island, as Commandant, vice Finlaiaon, invalid( d. The Scalark, 10, Commander Gooch, was lying at Ascension on the 15th of October. The Dido, 18, Commander the Hon. 11. Koppel, is ordered home from the China station to be paid off. In Harbour—The Victorious hulk, bearing the flag of the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Charles Rowley ; the Vic tory, the Excellent, Nautilus, Siren, Sparrow ketch, and Dwarf and Fearless steamers ; and Britannia, 120, along side the jetty. In Dock—The St. Vincent, Prince Regent, Ven geance, Victoria and Albert, Athol, and Lily. In the Basin—The Neptune, Magicienne, and Locust steam-sloop. At Spit head—None. DEC. 23.—The Royal mail steamer Avon came into this harbour on Saturday, and Web docked this day to repair defects. The Siren, 16, Commander Smith (b), will be paid off to-morrow. The Pique, 36, Captain the Hon. M. Stopford ; the Eurydice, 26, Captain Elliott ; and Rose, 18, Captain Sturt, were lying at Barbadoes on the 25th ult. The Scylla. 16, Commander Sharpe, and Imaum re ceiving-ship, 72, Commodore Sharpe, were at Jamaica on the 23d ult. The Inconstant, 36, Captain Fremantle, left Port Royal ler Vera Cruz prior to the 23d of November. The Styx steam-sloop, Captain Vidal, was at Fayal on the 14th inst. DEVOSPORT.-The Portsmouth tender, Lieutenant Peter Cracroft, sailed on her return to Portsmouth on Wednesday. The Albion, 90, Captain Lockyer, was towed from the Sound into the harbour on Friday, to refit and repair defects. The Acorn, 16, Commander J. G. Bingham, hoisted the pendant on Wednesday. The Waterwitch, 8, Commander T. Francis Birch, was undocked on Wednesday, having had her copper cleaned, &c. The Mutine, 12, Commander Crawford, was docked on Wednesday, and has since had nine inches added to her false keel ; she was undocked on Friday. The Firebrand, steam-frigate, Captain Hope, came into harbour from the Sound on Friday to refit. The Persian 16, Commander Coryton, hoisted the pendant on Friday. In Harbour -The Caledonia, San Josef, Albion, Superb, Acorn, Persian Daring, Mutine, Flying Fish, Osprey, Espiegle, Pantaloon, Waterwith, Cruiser, Sa vage, Snipe cutter, and Firebrand and Confiance steamers. The following warrant officers have been appointed to the ships fitting out at this port ;- • Gunners-W. Meldrum, to the Superb; John Reeves, to the Ranger ; Richard Hooper, to the Racehorse ; Thomas Cregsman, to the Persian ; Richard Williams, to the Actfeon ; Henry Norris. to the Acorn. Boatswains -William Youlton, to the Ranger ; Alfred Marshall, to the Racehorse : John Biddeford, t i o n, th to e Persian ; John Woo d, to the Actaeon ; Samuel the Acorn. Carpenters-William Elms, to the Royal Oak ; Wm. Polyblank, to the Ranger ; William Goodman, to the liscohorse ; Thomas Penfound, to the Persian ; John James Knight, to the Actaeon ; William Tucker, to the Acorn. Captain Gray, Lieutenants Bunce, Farmer, and Nepean, with three sergeants, three corporals, two drummers, and 138 privat es, Ro y al Marines, entered on board the Superb, 80, Captain Corry, on Saturday. PROMOTIONS. -Lieutenants-W. Robinson, 1837, late of the Arrow ; G. Sprigg, 1839, late of the Brisk ; J. Lunn, 1829, late of the Locust ; J. T. Caldwell, 1834, late of the Agincourt (First Lieutenant), and acting Commander of the Wolf, to the rank of Commander ; Richard Jones (a, 1800), to be retired Commander oa the list of 1830. Mates-H. Kerr, 1841, of the Carysfort, and A. 0. Hansard, 1836, of the Geyser, to the rank of Lieutenant. APPOINTMENTS.-Captain - G. Mansell, 1840, who commanded the Wasp, 16, at the capture of St. Jean d'Acre, to the Actzeon. Commanders-G. J. Hay, 1828, to the Racehorse ; T. S. Thompson, 1832, to the Comus ; 11. Coryton, 1841, to the Persian ; J. E. Bingham, 1841, to the Acorn; C. J. F. Newton, 1838, late of the Coast Guard, to the Lily ; Sir F. W. Nicholson, 1841, to the Fan tome ; James Anderson (b, 1841), to the Ranger ' • G. S. Hand, 1841, to the Espoir, Ti c e M orre ll, t o t h e Tor toise, on the coast of Africa ; W. R. Stephens (acting), to the Superb ; and G. E. Davies, to the Wolf, on t h e China station, vice Hayes, invalided. Lieutenants-C. Bullen, 1840 ; J. W. Fairholme, 1842, of the Excellent ; and A. G. West, 1844, pro moted from the Firebrand to the Superb ; E. B. Rise, 1844, to the Rattler; R. Edwards, to the Osprey ; R. B. Carter, to the Daring ; W. A. liunton (for rank), to the Royal William ; T. C. Meheux, to the Tartarus ; M. Bourchier, to the Actaeon ; H. Probyn, to the Lily ; H. le Vesconte, to the Superb ; J. W. Walton and J. Irving, to the Excellent ; Pb. Robertson, 1840, and H. D. Blanekley, 1644, to the Rattler; E. P. Fuge, 1844, to the Fantome; A. R. henry, 1842, to the Ranger; T. N. Moore, 1828, to the Comus ; H. Eden, 1837, to the Eagle ; W. Tottenham, to the Racehorse ; F. Martin, to the Persian ; G. Cleveland, to the Actaeon ; L. B. Mackinnon, to the Superb ; and P. A. Halkett, to the Acorn. Masters-W. IL T. Green, 1644, to the Rattler ; J. F. Wilkins, to the Lily ; J. F. Forster, to the Actaeon; J. G. Nops, 1841, to the Racehorse; T. Goss, 1642, to the Acorn; A.. L. Halloran, to the Ranger; and J. Bowler, to the Persian. Surgeons-D. Davidson, M.D., to the Royal William, for rank; J. Coulter, M.D., to the Superb; 11. Liddle, to the Comus ; P. Fisher, to the Firebrand ; and A. R. Bradford, to the Actaeon. Paymasters and Pursers-H. Chimmo, to the Lily; G. Thorn, to the Superb ; R. Tate, to the Rattler ; J. Forster, to the Racehorse; J. S. Pope, to the Acticon; %V. Weaver, to the Cruiser, vice Lance; E. Ward, to the Acorn; and R. Ridley (acting), to the Ranger. Chaplain-Rev. W. G. Tucker, from the Albion to the Ceylon, for service at Malta, vice Ritson, to Pem broke Dockyard. Second MastersW. P. Braund to the Superb J. W. Lowe, to the Actxon ; and A. L. Halloran (acting), to the Ranger. Master's Assistant -C. B. M•Dermo t t o t, t t h o e t i h t e oy L a i l ly nos. pitA/iallsidsSisshtt:inpnemtlianuu-rsge4C.llW-.l:ridCg.eßs,titsosetlhe Actaeon. Sir John Cuninghame Fairlie, Sir Maxwell Wal lace, and Captain King, have been this week on a visit to Mr. Wallace, the Member for Greenock, on a wood cock shooting excursion. The first City they saw between forty an d fifty woodcocks, the second day not quite twenty, owing to the thaw which took place On the evening of the first day. The birds sat reo arkably close, and were unusually heavy and in fine condition, bet being in the strongest parts of the covers, eight couple only were killed. We understand IMr. Wallace adheres to his rule, since he went into Parliament, of taking no share in field sports, in which walk he had all his lifetime before been so distinguished.—Gizsgetv Saturday Post. The mortal remains of Lady Anne Culling Smith were on Monday last removed from Hampton Court Palace to Egham Church, there to be deposited in the family vault. This mournful ceremony was attended by her afflicted husband, Mr. Culling Smith, as chiet mourner, and also by the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Worcester, and Lord Robert Grosvenor. The Earl of Mornington, Lord Cowley, and the Hon. and Rev. 1)r. Wellesley, were unavoidably prevented from attending the funeral of their sister. Sir Culling Eardley Smith was also unavoidably prevented from attending. Lady Jemima Eliot gave a splendid ball on Wed nesday last at Use residence of the Secretary for Ireland, the Right Hon. Lord Eliot, in the Phceaix Park, Dublin, when above six hundred distinguished persons honoured her Ladyship by their presence. Among the company were present the Earl of Clancarty, the Countess of Glengall, the Countess of Donoughmore and Miss Le vinge, Sir Edward and Lady Elizabeth Borough, the Earl of Pomfret, Lord Tullamore, the Attorney-General for Ireland, Mrs. and the Misses Smith, Viscountess Massarene, Sir Philip and Lady Crampton, Lady and Miss King, Sir John, Lady, and Miss Burgoyne, 6ir George Morris, Lord Cosmo Russell, Mr. A'Court, Colonel and the lion. Mrs. White, Sir Compton and Lady Domvile and the Misses Domvile, the Solicitor- General for Ireland, Lady Emily Pennefather, Captain and Lady Emily Seymour, Colonel and Miss Gordon, Sir Henry Marsh, Colodel and Miss Jones, Lieut.- Colonel Frith, Colonel Mitchell and the officers of the 6th Regiment, the officers of the Eth Hussars, the officers of the Royal Artillery, the officers of the 3 . 2(1,73d, 67th, 46th, and 66th Regiments, stationed in Dublin, Sze. It is said that the King of the French occupies himself so little about what the newspapers say iu France, that he hardly ever reads them ; and it is sin gular enough that the junior members of the Royal Family only read the papers which are inimical to the reigning dynasty and the existing order of things—such as the National and the Befortne, considering it wiser to learn the sentiments of their enemies than read tke adu lations of their friends.—Court Journal. FIRE AT CHELSEA. —Monday night, about half-past six o'clock, the neighbourhood of Elizabeth-terrace, Chelsea, was considerably excited by the discovery of a Are making the most frightful progress in a newly built house. Some carpenters and bricklayers had been em ployed therein during the day, and when the i olice forced an entrance they discovered the timbers on fire. Messengers soon went for engines, and after their arrival the alarm soon subsided, but considerable damage was done to the interior of the building. PORTUGAL. LISBON, TUESDAY, DEC. 17. The Cortes were closed on Saturday last by the Queen in person, the usual ceremonies being observed upon the occasion. Her Majesty delivered from the throne the following, brief address : " illustrious Peers of the realm, and Deputies of the Portuguese nation—lt is with unfeigned pleasure that I this day behold myself surrounded by tke re presentatives of the nation. " I congratulate you, conjointly with myself, on the fruitful result of your parliamentary labours. " The measures resorted to by the legislative body, for the purpose of establishing upon a solid basis the public tranquillity, which has been unfortunately in terrupted in various parts of the kingdom, have pro duced the desired effect, and those which hare since been approved of, present the well-founded hope that the Throne and constitutional institutions will not be offended anew. "The plans which have been adopted by you for the improvement of the public revenue finances will most powerfully tend to the attainment of that so generally desired object, viz., the complete organiza tion of this important point. " Public confidence, so generally manifested, to gether with the progressive augmentation of the general credit, furnish an undeniable testimony to the importance and utility of those measures. " The affairs which hare been submitted to your deliberation have been of the most weighty nature, and it behove me to say that the views taken of the same, and resolutions adopted by you, have proved you to be worthy of the nation's confidence as well as of mi most especial benevolence. " the session is closed." In politics there is nothing new, or of a nature worthy co►nmunicating. the weather for the last few days had been most tempestuous, blowing a hurricane, with heavy flood ing rains. On Saturday, at two r.m. a brig, the Li beral, from Rio Janeiro, in making for the South Channel entrance, was seen suddenly to strand, with a high and heavy sea running over her. Before sunset several objects from the wreck, among which were the mail-bags, were picked up in side the bar. The captain, four passengers, and four of the crew were lost. The register frigate Ruguesa de Braganza, which is anchored of Belem, sent boats to the assistance of the unfortunate vessel, but in vain. A tremendous sea and the gale blowing right in prevented them making the least way. Nothing could be done. It was their fate to perish. A Spanish vessel is alsa on shore, and a good deal of anxiety is beginning to be felt for the Oporto steamer, which must hare been at sea now some days. ROYAL ARTELLERY SAVINGS BANKS. A general order, dated December 16, 1844, has just been issued for the information of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the Royal Artillery, on Home and Foreign stations, relative to the savings' banks to be established in the corps in the course of next year. 1. The following regulations and instructions for establishing regimental savings' banks in the Ord nance corps, approved by the Master-General and Board's order, dated 31st of July, 1844, S 524, are promulgated to the Royal Regiment of Artillery :- 2. The Master-General and Board have decided that the regulations are not to come into operation until the Ist of April, 1845, in order that there may be sufficient time for transmitting them to the most distant stations, and for the officers and men becom ing duly acquainted with them before they are acted upon. 3. In order to ensure the regulations being cor rectly carried into effect, three copies will be issued for each troop, company, and adjutant's detachment, viz., one copy for the guidance of the officer com manding the troop or company, and one copy in the possession of the pay non-commissioned officer, for the information of the men of the company. A copy will also be issued for each field officer in command at home and abroad. With the regulations will be issued the blank ledgers, with other documents, which are to be forwarded to their destinations. 4. The institution of savings' banks in the army being intended for the permanent advantage of sol diers, the Master-General and Board desire that all officers in command of troops and companies will afford every facility and encouragement to the non commissioned officers and men unier their orders to become depositors; but they, at the same time, re quest that officers will use such means as they may deem necessary to prevent the capricious deposit of small sums for short periods only, which would occa sion much trouble without being of any benefit to the men. 5. With respect to men detached from head-quar ters, they will be at liberty to make arrangnments for the transmission of any moneys they may wish to de posit in the troop or company's savings' banks; in making of which arrangements the officers or non commissioned officers in charge of the detachment, and also the officers commanding the troops or com panies to which the men belong, are, in accordance with 4 of this order, especially directed to assist them with the best advice and information they may be enabled to afford; but it must be distinctly under stood that, in the event of accident, any loss incurred in this way must be borne by the party making the deposit. 6. In carrying into effect the savings' banks regu lations some difficulty may be felt at first, from the dispersed nature of the Artillery service ; but it is hoped experience will suggest plans for overcoming any that may arise ; and the Master-General and Board trust that officers will exercise the strictest supervision over the accounts of every individual. (Signed) 11. D. ROSS, Deputy Adjutant-General. MORE CARRIAGB ROBBERIES.—On Monday infor mation of the following extensive robberies from gentle men's carriages whilst en route was received at the head office of the Metropolitan Police, Great Scotland-yard:— Stolen on the evening of Friday last, from the hind part of the carriage of J. Savage, Esq., of No. '2, Clarges street, between the New-cross Railway Station and Clarges-street, a dressing case, lined with crimson velvet, containing the following very valuable articles of jewel lery :—A Maltese cross with a large diamond in the centre, surmounted with smaller ones; two diamond half hoop rings, with seven stones in each; an emerald ditto, with five stones; a ruby ring, with large stone; a sapphire ditto, set with small brilliants; an amethyst ring, sur rounded with brilliants ; a yellow, chain and•ring, a turquoise ditto, with 'hair at theta - ck and small diamond; a turquoise ring of fire stones, a pair of gold filagree diamond earrirYgs, a pair of diamond earrings, set transparent, and strung with pearls; a pair of pearl earrings, a pair of diamond ditto, set solid; two sets of pearl gold earrings, one pair with diamond tops; a Trinchinopoli ehain screw snap, with ruby in centre ; two plain bracelets, a gold ditto, with heart ; a pair of pink tepee earrings, a gold heart and cross, a small mourning ring, with white hair, set with brilliants ; a silver butterfly brooch, and a Bombay work-box, ivory inlaid, with silver and ebony, and with purple and velvet, containing a gold thimble and scissors. From the car riage of 11. 1). Prinsep, Esq., of 37, Hyde Park-gardens, supposed between the Bricklayers' Arms Railway sta tion and Hyde Pa..k-gardens, a new portmanteau, with `•II. T. P r i nse p" engraved on a brass plate, containing several silk dresses, numerous habit shirts, and collars of Valenci a l ace , a h andsome worked pocket hand kerchief, a Court white plume of feathers, a headdress, velvet, with gold and silver fringe band, with falls of gold and silver tissue at the sides, which descend to the shoulders; a Benares turban, all of gold and silver tissue ; several velvet vests, embroidered with gold lace, other vests, silk, plaid, and jean ; as also a tortoiseshell head comb, with a tortoiseshell top. A MONUMENT TO Picrow.—We do not think we shall either deservedly render curselves obnoxious to a charge of egotism, or exhibit the Welshmax as evincing a love of praise less unequivocally than praise-worthi ness, if, in our desire to dissociate ourselves from what we deem discreditable, we take the opportunity which now presents itself of mentioning a fact, in reference to Piston's monument, personal to ourselves. We neither covet nor claim any praise, but we should be ashamed of ourselves had we shrunk from the performance of an obvious public duty, deterred by any servile apprehen sion of offending parties whose conduct had proved sufficiently that they required a plain-spoken monitor to remind them of neglect. The fact, then, which we desire to state, because we would not ride through Coventry with Carmarthen, or any other Corporation that had committed itself to a meanness, and continued in the slough and depths of that meanness, is simply t his :—The individual who has conducted this paper at Carmarthen, for some years, bar, in his editorial capa city, through the columns of the 'Welshman, over and over again, publtcly and earnestly called upon Carmar then, and the countrymen of the lion-hearted Picton, to &eve forward and vindicate its claim to common decency at least. We have repeatedly urged upon their attention the harm they were doing to their own reputation, and the injury they were inflicting on the character of their Cambriarn countrymen, by the pettifogging parsimony described in the foregoing article. We have more than once represented, in the pages of this paper, the stigma attaching to the town of Carmarthen and its environs, by what every stranger considers a mean and sordid neglect, significant of a littleness and an ignoble nature in those who do not see it in that light. Whoever else, therefore, is to blame, we at least are blameless. Some thing, however, it seems, is now at length going to be done. May we remind our readers that, for the mea sure now in progress, they are mainly indebted to the public press ? But for the Times, through its able re presentative, Piston's monument would have remained a disgrace to Wales. And we will hero repeat, without reference to this comparatively unimportant matter, what we have on several former occasions said—namely, that South Wales owes a sleep debt of gratitude to the Times, for a full and proper discharge of the duties devolving on the'publie press.— Welshman. THE QUEEN AID THE BISHOP OP EXETER. —We hear it stated, upon authority which we believe to be good, that a communication has taken place between Sir Robert Peel and the Bishop of Exeter, respecting his recent charge to the clergy of his diocese, and that an intimation has been conveyed to the Right Rev. Pre late, that if he persist in the Rubrical innovations —or restorations ?—there prescribe d, the Queen, as the head of the Church must interfere,—Weck4/ Chronicle. IRELAND. "NO POPERY" CRY IN BELFAST. -. DUBLIN, DEC. 22.—For some days past there has been a great outcry in Belfast, amongst the ultra- Tory party, on account of the attendance of many of the principal Protestant inhabitants at the consecra tion of the new Roman Catholic church of St. Malichi, in that town. Amongst those who so offended was Mr. John Clarke, the Mayor, who has been selected as the special object of vituperation, on the ground of his having been placed in that office by a corporation exclusively Tory in its composition. The " Belfast Protestant Operative and Reformation Society," for warded to Mr. Clarke an address and remonstrance, bitterly inveighing against his back sliding, and his treason towards Protestantism in con sorting with Papists in their chapel, even at the " monstrous exhibiti on o f th e mass. ' The Mayor has returned a manly and dignified answer to the Society, maintaining his right to exer cise his own discretion in the duties of his office, and rebuking their insolent attempt at dictation. In con clusion, he says :—" Considering that the population of the town is largely composed of Roman Catholics, who are interested in its peace and prosperity, and who contribute to its public burthens, I do deli berately think they had a right to call on me as Mayor to show to them the same courtesy that I had already shown to all other denominations of Chris tians. REPRESENTATION OF TIPPERARY.—The Tipperary Vindicator contains the following :—" A most impor tant meeting was held on Wednesday in Cashel, to select a fit and prope r p erson to represen t thi s co u n ty, in the room of the late deeply lamented Mr. Otway Cave. Owing to the extreme inclemency of the weather the meeting was not large. There was, however, a respectable attendance, and what we prize most highly—an admirable spirit of unanimity. All present, without exception, and among those who at tended were some who have been always foremost in the battles of independence in Tipperary—decided that no one, however admirable in other respects, could lay the slightest claim to the representation of this county except an unconditional repealer. The observations of our worthy and spirited representa tive, Mr. Maher, were unequivocally decisive on this point, and the resolution proposed by the Archdeacon Laffan, to the effect that the Honourable Mr. Hut chinson should be respectfully solicited to represent Tipperary, was adopted without a dissentient voice." MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE.—A young woman, named Honors Ryan, late of Killaloe, servant to Mr. Canty, baker, of High-street, went for a tub of water to the public fount at Bank-place, where she stood upon the parapet wall over the river, for the purpose of placing a pail upon the head of another girl, but lay some awkward ness lost her balance, and unfortunately, as she raised the vessel, fell back into the water. The tide was falling with a strong current at the time, as the alarm was given, and crowds ran to the spot, amongst whom was a resolute young fellow, named Thomas M'Creice, private of the 9th battalion Royal Artil lery, who, on seeing the poor girl struggling in the river, instantly threw off his cap and belt, ran down the steps of the slip adjoining, and, plunging into the water, swam to her assistance. She was net at the time twenty yards from the shore ; but as soon as he neared her, she suddenly caught him by the breast, and having then entangled in him, he lost all power. although he endeavoured to disengage himself from her grasp. Both were drawn down under the side of the arch of the new bridge by the current, and a rope was quickly lowered from the battlement, but unfortunately not long enough to reach the water. The artilleryman, however, made attempts to catch hold of it, but without effect, and opposite the Custom-house, in the presence of hundreds of agonising spectators, both sufferers sunk to rise no more. What renders this sad occurrence more cala mitous is, the fact that M'Creice has left a wife (ad vanced in pregnancy) . and . three childr en t o deplore his untimely fate.—Lime rick Chronicle. The Very Rev. the Dean of Jersey arrived in that island on Wednesday, and was on the following day inaugurated into his new office before the Ecclesiastical Court. " SURPLICE AND GOWN."—A rector in the diocese of Exeter has settled this question in rather a comical way. A few days ago he preached, without either sur plice or gown, in his great coat. TIIE OFFERTORY.—In last week's Gazette it was stated that one of our churchwardens had recently received a letter from the Rev. Mr. Nihill, saying that he should continue the Offertory of St. Mary's. Much to the surprise of many here, the Rev. Gentleman has since suddenly altered his mind. On Sunday morn ing, after making some very severe and unwarrantable strictures upon his flock, he announced from his pulpit that the Offertory would cease from that day at St. Mary's Church! We always thought the "pressure from without " must be attended with this result. When the people begin to seriously talk of " stopping the supplies " —to refuse making Church-rates—then it is high time to yield to ppular opinion. Our vicar has thought it expedient to do so, and it gives us much plea sure to state the fact public. Let other towns burdened with Offertory impositions follow the example set them by the Bridgewater folk.—Somerset County Gazette. It appears that the Scottish Board for the encourage ment of manufactures ar e t o di scon tinue the granting of premiums for inventions in manufactures, and to apply the funds at their disposal exclusively to encouraging a School of Design. The following is an extract from a letter received this week by Mr. Alex. Buchanan, in reply to an application for a reward for a new descrip tion of fabric of his invention Board of Manufactures, Royal Institution, Edinburgh, 14th Dec., 1844.—Sir, — I have now to inform you that, as the Commissioners have long entertained the opinion that the manufactures of this country would be most effectually improved by the encouragement of the Fine Arts, which must pro duce a most beneficial effect on the Industrial Arts, they have with the sanction of the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury deemed it expedient for one year at least, to withdraw that portion of their funds which has hitherto been appropriated for premiums, and to apply it to the extension of their School of Design, which is of the most paramount importance in attaining the advancement of the national manufactures, and which is the object of their most anxious solicitude. I have therefore no alternative left me than to express the regret which the Commissioners feel at being unable to afford Mr. Buchanan any assistance, and the docu ments which you forwarded to me in favour of that gen tleman are accordingly returned to you inclosed.—l am, Sir, your most obedient servant, Taos. Drcic. LAUDER, Secretary of the Board of Manufactures." —Glasgow Saturday Post. BENTINCK TESTIMONIAL.—We are very glad to find that the first proposers of a subscrip tion for a testi monial to Lord George Bentinck have ha d their propo sal responded to in so liberal a manner by the supporters of the turf as to call forth an expression of their warm gratification. We understand it is their intention forth with to take some steps towards carrying into effect the object of the subscription, and that they have obtained the consent of the Duke of Monfort, the Duke of Bed ford, the Puke of Rutland, the Earl of Chesterfield, the Earl of Eglinton, and the Right Hon. G. S. Byng, to act as a Committee for that purpose.—Sunday Times. AIR AND EXERCISE.—PeopIe who are travelling, especially in clear frosty weather, when the atmosphere is of the greatest specific gravity, and more oxygen is taken into the lungs at a singl e ins piration than in hot or hazy weather will drink as much spirit with impunity as would intoxicate them five or six times over, were they sitting in a confined room. It is not an uncommon thing for a man, whose maximum of whiskey toddy is a couple of glasses, to find, after having ascended Ben Lomond, that he has unknowingly swallowed a whole bottle of undiluted Glenlivat. The Highlanders are proverbial for the quantity of whiskey they drink, and for the little injury it does them. Many of them habitually drink a !vine -glass of rm., spirit directly upon rising in a morn ing. To them it is a " cup that cheers but not ine briates." They are not intoxicated by it for the moment, nor do they suffer in any marked degree from the usual remote consequences of dram drinking. They are not like the tavern keeper and the spirit tippler of the crowded city—jaundiced, consumptive, impotent, imbe cile, or paralysed, dying before his time. They are hale, cheerful, and vigorous, despite their practices. And wherefore this marvellous difference? Fresh air and free exercise are the foundation of it all.—Medical Times. THE FROST AT HAMBURGII.—We learn from private sources that on the 17th inst., the London mails of the 6th, 10th, and 13th insts., had not reached Hamburgh, in consequence of which, in addition to the entire ob struction of the navigation on the river Elbe by the ice, business in general was exceedingly dull. On the 16th the intensity of the frost was much dimi nishesl,and on the following day—viz., the 17th, the ther mometer of Raurnur exhibited one degree of warmth. Ruin had fallen on that day from morning to evening, but there were indications of a very early renewal of frost. The execution of Tschech, at Spandau, for Ills attempted assassination of the King of Prussia, was known at Ilamburgh, and had created no sensation whatever. The Turkish Government had nominated a consul at llambnrgh, in the person of a Portuguese gentleman, who already represents the Go vernment of his own country in the capacity of consul genet al, and he had not felt himself at liberty to accept the appointment without referring first for permission of the authorities at Lisbon. This is the first appointment of the kind which the Turkish Government have made it the north of Europe, and it is an indication of a desire to extend the commercial relations of the empire, which cannot fail to be interesting to the mercantile public. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Monday afternoon, be tween two and three o'clock, a man, having the appear ance of a bricklayer, after ascending a ladder in front of the house, No. 26, Chapel street, Pentonville, for the purpose of doing some repairs upon the roof, and walk ing a :ew yards upon the parapet, either suddenly fell, or precipitated himself to the ground. The house is a three storey one. The unfortunate man fell upon his face, and, though not literally killed upon the spot, no hope can be entertained of his recovery. He was taken up covered with blood, several of his limbs being frac tured, and was conveyed by the police, on a stretcher, to the North London Ileepital, Gray's Inn-lane. The name of the man could tsot be ascertained by our infor mant, but he lived in Howard's-green, City-road. A woman who keeps a fruit stall opposite the house from which he fell, and who says she had her eyes fixed upon him at the moment, expresses her firm belief that he tbxew himself off, but this must be considered doubtful. I THE CHARITABLE BEQUESTS BILL. (From the Southern Reporter.) The Dublin Evening Mail utters a loud exulting shout because three Roman Catholic Bishops are, at length, gazetted, as, according to their new-found eulogist, the firm, uncompromising supporters of the Bequests Bill. 'We deeply deplore the cause which has given room for the triumphant boast of the un scrupulous calumniator of Catholicity. It is not for us to question what the motives may have been which induced the Right Rev. Prelate to countenance this inroad on the rights and freedom of the Church. They must have been deceived by that consummate diplomatic artifice which has over• reached worldly and wary politicians, and made even them playthings in the hands of England, or, as we before stated, and still suppose, they have consented to accept places on the Board to mitigate the evils which others in their position could inflict. We are convinced that the Right Rev. Prelates would advance on all occasions the true interests of religion; that will not be dis puted or denied, but the more we examine the more fully are we persuaded that the Bill was concocted by enemies of the Church, with that enmity burning strong within them. What is it that has hitherto preserved the Roman Catholic Church and the reli gion which it teaches•; by what means has she, through such a long night of persecution and danger, protected herself successfully in Ireland ? Was it not by steadily refusing—by firmly resisting all inti macy with the State, and by standing on an isolated eminence to which the waters of corruption could not ascend ? She has been surrounded by enemies who have often menaced, and endeavoured to scale the battlements by which she was protected ; but of all other Churches of the earth, she re mained uninjured by secret sap or open vio lence. The foe, we fear, has reached the citadel at last, and, at the first signal from abroad, will be ready to open wide a passage by which the whole orce of secular authority may enter. Our fears may perhaps exaggerate the effects which we apprehend may follow from the compromise which has already taken place, but the very parties, the Roman Catholic clergy themselves who, it is stated, will profit by the law, are filled with alarm, and protest strongly against its operation. The Irish Church in general is free from the imputation of courting a State all'ance. She has never solicited its favour or looked for its endowments, or begged its gold. At all times, at every opportunity, she spurned pecuniary and other favours, and maintained herself untainted and un touched by their enervating influence. Why, then, should we be persuaded that she ought now to descend from her " vantage ground," or daily with the seducer? —What can she gain by a State connexion—nothing whatever. She must lose largely—in character, in revenue, for an endowed Church and clergy generally lose remuneration from the people, seldom preserve their respect, and, never, as far as we can at this moment recollect, have held firm in their affections. By deed or by will, said the deliberate opinion of O'Connell, it was lawful for Catholics, before the passing of this Act, to convey property for every imaginable charitable purpose ; now, only for the support of bishops and priests, and for building manse houses, are any new powers given. Because the clergy are permitted by the law—and how permitted? through the favour of the Protestant majority of the Board—to live and inherit property devised three months before the donor's death, we are called on to shake hands with Peel and fling our caps into the air through joy. Before this law all this and much more may have been done, and again, we ask, where is the advantage ? And it is thus the clergy would be benefited, or rather it is thus they would be divided from the people. A State pro vision would never pass the English Legislature. England would not support in Ireland a second stipendiary Church, and Irish priests would not receive the bribe. But, fruitful hi wiles, the Government hit upon the expedient of making Ro man Catholic piety the instrument of subsidising them.' Peel would hope to make them gradually wealthy, he would allow them to receive property in the expectation that they may become indolent or indifferent to the welfare of their flocks, or inactive in the cause of liberty. He sees what benefices and pomp and revenues have done elsewhere, and he would use the antidote to spiritual zeal, and to politi cal agitation which he believes they contain. lie would absolutely punish the Irish people for their patriotism through their piety, by making it instru mental in their subjugation, and the mode of doing this aggravates the dishonesty of the attempt, for though the clergy may be the recipients of wealth, a mixed Government Board is to be, as it were, the con duit through which the impure stream must flow. There were two inconveniences which, it is affirmed, the existing law has removed, by abolishing trustee ships, and recognising the succession of Catholic prelates and priests. But what mastered the first in convenience when men of honesty and honour were continually found, and could be found, to act in the required capacities, and if the succession of Catholic priests and prelates be now .recognised by law, did they the less succeed before ? Is it legal or apostolical succession that is desired or necessary ? Is the State to become a theological interpreter, and human to be associated and to weigh with divine authority ? Is there importance to be attached to the State recogni tion of those apostolical titles which, after all, the Bill does not confirm beyond the pre-existing law, nor add to it in any one particular, for while the Most Rev. Richard is in the State Gazette, affirmed to be Lord Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Rev. Archbishop Daniel ➢Murray, is not allowed to own a local jurisdiction. We have spoken of this cozening and deceptive Act as it affected the position of the Irish Catholic Church, for whose independence a struggle should be made, if for no other reason than to win, on Irish ground, the victory which has been lost in other countries. Everywhere the attempt to get the Church be neath the hoof of the State has been attempted. Here the villainous experiment is in progress also, but we have not spoken of the undefended, inexcusable, and infamous wrong which this Act offers to the regular clergy and the monastic orders. The most ingenious and intrepid of its supporters have not ventured to justify it as regards them. It is con ceded that every atom of property can be, and must be, swept away from them ; that the Catholic pre lates can be made, and must become their persecu tors, their despoilers, to feed the ravening maw of the hybrid monster called a Board. It is not denied the monastic orders will be despoiled, and are virtually outlawed by this enactment; and yet defenders have been found to abet and praise its provisions, and ad vise the Irish people to stand by and see their pious, humble, and self-denying friends scattered and de spoiled. Shall they, who instruct the poor, who sedulously prepare the way for the secular clergy, and assist and strengthen them in their labours, be unredressed ? We are mistaken in our countrymen if they pause for an hour in the decision they should make. SERIOUS FIRE AT THE MARSION OF THE EARL OF HARRINGTON, WHITEHALL-GARDENS. - Considerable consternation was caused on Monday morning in the household of the Right Honourable the Earl of Harring ton, in Whitehall-gardens, next door to the town resi dence of Sir Robert Peel, by the discovery of a fire, which, it appears quite evident, had been smouldering for a considerable time, and had broken out in the dress ing-room of his Lordship on the second-floor, imme diately over the ball-room. About a quarter after six o'clock the attention of one of the inmates was arrested by a crackling noise, attended by a strong smell of fire. Upon proceeding up stairs and making ,strict examina tion in the several lower rooms, it was at length dis covered that the fire had originated underneath the hearth of the dressing-room, passed along by the joists of the flooring, which at that time were all on fire, whence it proceeded to an elaborately finished recess, most richly ornamented with cornices of gold, of a very beautiful design, and fur nished with a very handsome reclining couch, magnifi cently adorned. These at the time of the discovery were burning rapidly, threatening the destruction of the whole mansion. An immediate attempt to extin guish the flames was made by the servants, but, finding they were unable to do so, a messenger was dispatched to the Chandos-street station of the fire brigade, thence to Mr. Fogo, the foreman of the western station, and to the West of England establishment, engines from which speedily arrived. A plug in the gardens was drawn, but the supply of water was very scanty, and buckets filled from the cisterns supplied around the edifice were used with much effect in staying the progress of the flames. By a continuous line of buckets, the supply of water was well maintained, which was judiciously distributed by the firemen ; but the fire was burning in so large a body under the flooring, that it was found necessary by Mr. Fogo to cut away the floor, quite into the ball-room, a considerable portion of the ceiling of which is destroyed. This ball room is a beau tiful specimen of modern architectural finish. It is elegantly fitted up, and has a deep medallion pattern cornice around the summit of the side walls. In the end next to the dressing-room, where the fire broke out, a hole is cut about two feet square, which it required considerable labour and upwards of an hour to accom plish. This aperture passing through the ceiling of the ball room, which, by the smoke, the fire, and the water is damaged, the whole will have to be painted and re gilt. In the dressing-room much damage is done. The recess is nearly burned out, the couch is destroyed, a great number of classical figures, beautifully overlaid with gold, are broken, and a variety of articles of vertu are spoiled, as is much of the furniture and elaborate appointments, both by fire, water, and removal, so much so, that it will cost his Lordship a considerable sum to renovate the mansion and supply the loss occasioned by the disaster. _ _ _ PREFIRMENT.—The Rev. Dr. Jones, 8.D., of Deptford, domestic chaplain to the late Lord Saye and Sele, has been appointed chaplain to the Right Hon. the present Lord Saye and Sele. The Rev. J. B. Smith, D.D., Head Master of Horncastle Grammar School, has been appointed by the Duke of Newcastle one of his Grace's domestic chaplains. The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the receipt of one sovereign enclosed to him in a note signed " China Crape," which money will be placed to the public credit. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—The unseemly exhibition of variance in the high places of Church dignity is consummated by the appearance of the letter of the Bishop of Exeter, to which we directed the attention of our readers yesterday. One merit, however, this letter certainly possesses, of which too many, especially when written for the public, are altogether (and often pointedly) destitute. It is plain and intelligible in its phrase ology and hilts intention. No one can read it with out comprehending what the Bishop says and what he means to do; and this, in an epistle of such length, is no slight praise. But a letter, though written with great talent and perspicuity, may not absolutely in itself be either agreeable or acceptable and here is precisely * case in point. We do not think the Bishop has gained much by the measure. Setting aside his personal difference with the memo rialists and with Dr. Bull, which is, in fact, a pri vate matter among themselves, and in which the public are but slightly interested, we do not suppose that his cause will derive any fresh access of parti sanship, or that his own friends will be greatly strengthened by it. His manner of treating the op ponents of his proceedings is as harsh as ever, or even more so. He speaks of the hostility with which his measure has been received by those " who hate the Church." Now, in language as simple and plain as his Lordship's, let us be permitted to ask, to whom does he allude ? What class, or party, or portion of the " hostile" ones are included in this offensive inuendo ? We have heard of no angry movements, but of respectful remonstrances from ardent Church men ; and we hope, therefore, that the Bishop of Exeter will hear with us if we pronounce such lan guage to be both unnecessary and unjustifiable. That he himself does not upon the whole disregard the voice of public opinion is suffered casually to creep out. It is an important fact connected with the Chapter consultations, that after the reading of Dr. Bull's paper, the Bishop says, he "earnestly entreated those members of the Chapter who were parochial ministers, especially in towns and other populous districts, to tell us what their knowledge of the state of feeling and opinion among their people would induce them to anticipate ;" and he appeals to the Dean himself to remember the emphatic assur ances he received in reply, that no discontent of any consequence was likely to be manifested on the occa sion. This is, to some extent, no doubt, an apology for the issuing of the Bishop's pastoral letter. He had taken the pains to inquire how the proposed change would be received, from those most capable of giving him the best information on the subject. But while we allow so much, we must also claim a little more ; and surprised as we really are at the bold as sertions of these members of the Chapter, which have been so singularly and so strongly contradicted by events immediately subsequent; still we say, if Dr. Phillpotts had really tenderness enough to consider the feelings and sentiments of the lfsity before he com menced the work he had at that time in his mind, how much greater cause has he to consult them now, when such marked and reiterated evidences of the widest dissatisfaction have been shown on all sides! To his Lordship's acute and profound discrimination we leave the solution of the problem. And we hope he will yet prove himself, in the truest sense, what he takes so much pains to declare himself to be—the diligent and watchful Bishop of a diocese that has, as he himself shiclares, " long been distinguished by the faithful and warm attachment of the people to the Church." But how deeply do these last words affect his own position ! Well may the friends whom he respects and venerates consider the experiment he is making " a rash and a dangerous one" among a people described in such high terms of approbation by himself. He is, however, we must think, needlessly alarmed for the Church. We express only our firm conviction when we assert that the Church of Eng land never had such worthy, consistent, intelligent adherents as now. Where, then, can the Bishop of Exeter " see" that " resolute determination to resist all Church authority ?" lie says, tsi many parts of England. From what does he form his judgment? What are his evidences of facts ? What his sources of information ? We venture to disagree with him in toto. We do not believe that the clergy of the Church of England were ever—where their conduct is such as to deserve it—more affectionately and reverentially esteemed, by rich and poor, high and low, than they are at this day; and we believe that they will so continue, if no compulsion to these en forced novelties is practised upon the laity. Look at the influence possessed by every well-conducted earnest clergyman in his parish, and how readily his solicitations for aid are seconded ; and then let U 8 hear from Bishop Phillpotts, what no Dissenter has yet ventured to whisper, that there is " a resolute determination to resist Church authority." In one striking instance, in the late Chapter consulta tions, he has been wofully misled upon the subject of perpular feeling, and upon that mistake has acted so as to offend and alienate large numbers of those who had as yet been constant Churchmen. Is it not possible that in the statement to which we now allude he may have been also deceived by reports or representations that would by no means be borne out by facts ? It is at least possible that it may be so—we believe and affirm that it is so. Let the Bishop satisfy himself upon this point. We are persuaded, if he will duly exert his own vigorous intellect, and in,titute unpre judiced inquiries, he will "see" something very dif ferent indeed from "schism in its most mischievous form, under the guise of nominal churchmanship, rampant, and of course intolerant wherever it is seen." CHRONICLE.—We printed yesterday an impor tant letter from the Most Rev. Archbishop Murray, upon the subject of the Irish Charitable Bequests Act. We have hitherto abstained from taking any part in the discussion which has so violently agitated the sis ter kingdom upon the subject of this Act ; and in referring to it now, we do so less with a view to mix ourselves up in the discussion, than to express a hope that the candid and temperate spirit of Archbishop Murray's letter may mitigate the rancour with which the Bill, and those who undertake to administer it. have been assailed in Ireland. The Act itself is a good Act. It was framed in a spirit ofjustice and liberality, and confers upon the Roman Catholics of Ireland a less restricted power of receiving bequests for their Church, than is grarited in those civilised states in which that Church is predominant, or than our laws of mort main permit to the Established Church in England. We have read with care the speeches and writings which the discussion of the matter has elicited in Ireland, and our candid oonviction, now confirmed by the admirable letter of Dr. Murray, is, that in all the objections hitherto brought against the Act there is no ground for agitating against the measure itself, or feeling otherwise than grateful for it, as a measure of " substantial value." Some just objections to details can, and we feel convinced, as Dr. Murray does, will be removed as soon as Parliaments meets, and the others seem to us to be emanations of a spirit of sus picion, which, though too well founded, its this case is carried beyond all reasonable bounds. But the Act itself is not so good as the spirit in which it has been carried into effect. It is not merely that, having undertaken, in passing the Act, to appoint a certain number of Catholic prelates, Sir Robert Peel has done it fairly and effectually, but he has done it in such a way as really to alter the position of the Roman Catholic clergy and Church, and to denote a very obvious intention of going yet further in recognising the religion of the Irish people. Mr. O'Connell unreasonably asks, " Why not call Archbishop Crolly the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh ?" Why, for this plain reason, that the doing so is illegal under the Emancipation Act. But is it nothing that now for the first time the ranks of the Catholic prelates are acknowledged, as giving them the same precedence as the corresponding ranks in the Established Church ? Is it no indication of a remarkable and wholesome change in policy, that the prelates whose existence was never noticed, except by penal enactments, till last July, and who up to that time were confounded with every other dissenting denomination, now take precedence of Peers, and sit side by side with their Pro testant rivals ? If Sir Bobert Peel were here to stop short in his concessions, he has done that for the National Church of Ireland which neither he nor any successors can ever undo. Men do not recognise offices as conferring rank, unless they be offices in some national institution. And no one henceforth can pretend to regard the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland in any light save that of a national clergy, recognised by the Government of the country. Bot we cannot believe that this step is taken without the intention of going yet farther. This recognition of the ranks of the Catholic Church is just one of the measures by which Sir Robert Peel loves to sound his way in public opinion. Let it be recollected that the only ground which he took last year for not snaking a legal provision fer the clergy of that Church was that they themselves would not ac cept it. No one who is at all cognizant of the state of feeling in the mere governmental and mode rate peirtion of the Tory party, can doubt that they entertain the strongest desire to link the Catholic clergy with the State. They believe that there would be little difficulty on financial grounds, provided the political objections to the endowment of the Church of Rome could be got over. This recognition of rank is a step towards placing that Church in the position of a national establishment ; and it is an ex periment on public feeling which has thus far com pletely succeeded. Had the present Commission been Issued by a Whig Ministry, we should have had a howl of bigotry and faction from Irish Orangemen and English ultras enough to deafen us. But Sir R. Peel, by a long course of judicious starvation and well-timed castigation, has so lowered the spirit of the ultras, that they dart not cry out. Dread of the next blow that may come prevents their resenting the one under which they smart. Indeed, it is odd enough to see the Dublin Evening Mail celebrating an event so favourable to the Catholics of Ire land as a triumph over Mr. O'Connell. His denouncing the Act has made the Orangemen overlook the immense stride which religious equality makes under its provisions. It is no doubt a triumph over him, but it is, as he says, the triumph of one portion of the Catholic population over the other; and Mr. O'Connell ought to see and, to respect the feeling that has led to this first open division in his ranks, as well as the agency by which it has been effected. Let him be quite sure that this revolt against his authority proceeds from no personal jealousy and no merely temporary difference of opinion. It is a protest from the higher and more reasonable of his fellow Catholics against his unwise course in refusing all save, impossible concessions. Archbishops Crolly and Murray, are, in fact, opposing him in-the name of that wise principle of receiving every instalment, by adhering to which he won the memorable victories of his earlier days. If Mr. O'Connell means to persist in rejecting every con cession, with a view solely of keeping up the excitement of the most ignorant of hii followers, he may depend upon it that the time is come when he will separate from him a large and influential portion of the Irish Catholics. He will place him self in open hostility not only to the hierarchy of his own country, but to a still higher authority of his Church. For there is very little reason to doubt that Archbishops Crolly and Murray have been encon ' raged to take their present course by very earnest requests from the Pope himself. We cannot but think that Mr. O'Connell would not only avoid the serious mischief of such a schism, but that he would make what has happened tell to the advantage of his country, were he to take the view of the matter which we believe to be really in accordance with the fact. Instead of putting himself in so false a position as that of being obliged to confess the composition of the Commission to be a triumph of one por tion of the Catholic body over the other, he might with truth have represented it as a most impor tant concession to his country and his religion, won by himself. He might with truth say that this marked concession was entirely the result of the agitation of 1843 and the State trials of 1844. He had brought the English Government to be aware of the danger resulting to them from the spirit which he had excited in the masses, whose numbers he had displayed in the monster meetings. The pro secution ar.d imprisonment of himself had imposed on that Government a necessity for some concessions to the people, as a sop for the persecution of their leader. "By my agitation and by my bonds," he might fairly say, " I have gained this triumph for you, my countrymen, and your religion. The pre lates, whom I recollect unacknowledged, contemned, and almost proscribed, I have raised into a position of legal authority and trust, and given them rightful precedence over the highest of the aristocracy. Let such a success show you the value of our exertions and our sufferings in our country's cause. Let it en courage you to fresh assaults on the bigotry and in solence that have so long depressed us. For after this there is nothing which we may not hope to gain from a Tory Ministry." GLOBE.—Mr. O'Connell's ieeent, conduct has been such as to disappoint and grieve his best friends, and to ratify his worst enemies. We allude not here to his speeches at the repeal meetings; although these have of late savoured more strongly of seditiofi, and been more freely impregnated with the elements of mischief, than any of his former harangues. These imprudent addresses to the prejudices and passions of an easily-excited populace have not been allowed to pass without censure by us. We should have beers justly regarded as "approvers" of his offences had we refrained from rebuke and condemnation. Admit ting, as we do, the strong provocation which the pro ceedings of the Government have supplied, and the gratification which Mr. O'Connell's personal feelings may receive from the indulgence of vituperation against those whom he designates his "persecutors" —we cannot admit that this motive can excuse, much less justify, those unmistakeable appeals to the ignorant passions of the rabble with which his recent speeches at Limerick and Waterford were interlarded. There is neither dignity nor patriotism in such harangues• They would ruin a good cause, and brand with infamy in delible a bad one. The repeal project is dying by inches under the blighting influence of Mr. O'Con nell's inflammatory orations. This would be mat ter for congratulation—affected by whatever means which did not include an infraction of constitu- tional rights. But, unhappily, the substantial wrongs—those prolific sources of suffering and dis content among the Irish people, are permitted to continue. Successive chimerical schemes for effecting organic changes in the government are broached. Thus the attention of the people is distracted from their real interests, by endeavours to persuade them that nothing but those changes in the constitution of government can improve their physical and social con dition. The effect of these agitations upon the pub lic mind in this country is necessarily injurious to the best interests of Ireland. Those who are now espe cially disposed, as they have ever been, to employ their power, and to exert their influence, to improve the condition of the Irish people, are discouraged. They see their endeavours scorned—ridiculed—coun teracted—by an influence which has held that people as by a spell ; and thy suspend their endeavours until the ;pen shall be broken, and the delusion destroyed. Every indication of an approach to this better state of things will be hailed with pleasure by all who desire to see Ireland in possession of tranquillity. Whether the desirable change he brought about by an improved course of conduct in Mr. O'Connell—whose power over the Irish people, if wisely directed, might now be, as it has formerly been, the instrument of achiev ing for them vast benefits ; or, persisting in a course of factious violence, he unveil his real character ;.• stand forth the confessed demagogue in a patriot's guise ; and thus disgust, and detach from his project, those well meaning men who were induced for a time to connect themselves with his schemes, in the hope that they would result in practical advantage to their country. By whichsover of these means the end be attained, is comparatively of little moment. We should feel re gret if the latter be the means. We would rather that the great leader, who conducted the Irish people from the ignoble and unrighteous bondage in which they were held by penal statutes enacted against their creed, should continue as their recognised benefactor, employing his acknowledged talents and indomitable seal in their cause. But if Mr. O'Connell abandon that position—if, through mistake, or design, he set himself against, and employ his influence to prevent, the attainment of substantial improvements—real and extensive recognitions and concessions which the Government has made to the Roman Catholic religion, the clergy and members of which Church were re cently proscribed by law—if this be Mr. O'Connell's conduct, and he persist in pursuing such a course:then do we say, let the alternative be joyfully accepted; let Mr. O'Connell's obviously diminished influence over his countrymen be the precursor of his total abandonment by them. He will then be the author of his own fall from power. Better that they should desert him, than that they should remain with him, to be the sharers of his deserved ruin, the victims of his recklessness of head or heart. The resistance which Mr. O'Connell has made to the Catholic Bequests Act, and to the formation of a Board constituted under its provisions for carrying out the objects of its enactment, have led us to these remarks. The agitation which Mr. O'Connell at tempted to get up against it, has signally failed. His denunciations of the heads of the Roman Catholic hierarchy who have accepted seats at the Board, and whose office in that Church are recognised by the Crown, for the first time, in the Com mission by which the Board is constituted—the reproaches heaped by Mr. O'Connell on two Ro man Catholic gentlemen of high rank and unble mished probity, for accepting seats at the Board— these ill-judged and injurious attacks have estranged hundreds, perhaps thousands, of the more respectable of Mr. O'Connell's adherents from him and his cause. The attempts to intimidate-the Roman Catholic Archbishops Murray and Crolly, and the Roman Catholic Bishop Denvir, have failed. They re fused to be influenced by his threats, or to be cajoled by his persuasions. Mr. Blake and Sir P. Bellew . were equally firm in their disregard of the agitator. They have accepted the trust created by the Act and offered to them by the Government. Mr. O'Connell has opened the eyes of the most worthy among hie countrymen to the real character of his opposition, and the worth of his present political schemes. lie has caused a schism in his own camp. Ile has placed a gulph between himself and those whose countenance and aid are essential to sustain him under any future struggle with the Government. STANDARD.—It is to-day our task—a very un usual task with us—to defend Mr. Daniel O'Connell, and to defend him against the accusations of journals with which he has been intimately and long con nected ; though, like other friends, and even like parties more closely united than by the ties of friend ship, the parties have had their quarrels—we speak of the Times, which for about twenty years served " the monster mendicant," and of the Morning Chro nicle, which was his obsequious follower for a OM longer period. The two journals named this morn ing agree in charging their late employer and patron with the commission of a capital mistake in taking the line which he has taken with regard to the Charitable Bequests Act. Now, we contend that there has been been no mistake in the matter; that in his late proceeding Mr. O'Connell bas acted as cunningly as he ever acted in his life. It was not in his power to evade the difficulty in which he was placed by the wisdom and justice of the Govern ment; but a moment's thought will show, that ha has adroitly made the best of the perplexing position, from which it was impossible for him to escape. The ;;heritable Bequests Act, as our readers are aware, is a law enabling Roman Catholics to make endowment by donation or devise to secure a provision for their secular clergy, but guarding the death. # bed from improper solicitation, by requiring that the endowment shall be executed and enrolled three months before the death of the