The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-26 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS. (From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 13th day of Deeember, 1845 : Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Abingdon Bank, Abingdon—Knapp and Co 25,857 Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co 13,555 Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 11,157 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham—R. and E. Copeman 5,287 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Rickford and Hunt Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade !;.tric, ;taldock—Wells, Flogg, and Lindsell... B trn itai,ie Bank, Barnstaple—Drake and Co Basittstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke— Colt.. Seymour, and Co. d Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard tietiford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford— Halfhead, and Co. Rend ley Bank, Bcwdley—Nichols, Baker, and 42,425 33,049 14,920 20,966 31,760 Crane f3icoster and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester —Tubb, Wootten, and Co Pirni nghatn Bank, Birmingham—Attwoods, 8,489 14,974 Srouner, and Co Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming- 23,998 harn.:-Lewis, Moilliett, and Co • •• Blandtord Bank, Blandford—Bastard and Oak . Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co Boston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co Bridg s ttr Bank, Bridgwater—E. &J. Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and Co. lirosdev and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broselcy—Messrs. Pritchard Buokitt , ..,tiam Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, l'arrctt, and Co. Bury a: - .d Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury—Oaks, Bevan, and Co.. Eart ury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb Ent:. City Bank, Bath—Moger and Son Beticordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—l3assett and Grant Binningham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H. 22,907 15,606 6,948 71,295 13,495 9,388 39,350 22,806 26,204 81,607 35,374 47,140 4,035 33,858 and A. Harris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co Britiport Bank, Bridport—S. and W. E. Gundry Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, 34,242 18,085 64,892 22,537 31,872 and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington— Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds — .1. Worlledge and Co. Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove—Rufford, Briggs, and Co. Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortiock and Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and 11,885 3,071 Sons OhPrtsey Bank, Chertsey—Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round, Green, 16,577 and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Fradleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood- 21,345 3,688 20,411 cock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, 38,482 45,495 and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towk, , ood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon lank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. I Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans I)erhy Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Rink, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hughes, Locke, and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leathatn, Tew, and Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster— Cook and Co. Dover Union Bank, Dover—Latham, and Co Darlinaton Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, and Co Dovonport Bank, I)evonport—Hodge and Nor- man Dorehoster Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, 7,710 21,345 71,025 1,798 6,861 8,384 12,078 34,603 24,707 16,692 10,467 13,290 5.5,447 9,040 80,488 8,825 42,248 Dorchester —Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton, and Coy. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, ('llelmif,)rd—Walford. and Co. Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenharn—Gurneys, Birk heck, and Co. Fasringilon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far rinzdon—Barnes and Medley Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Goilaitning Bank, Godalming—Menersh and Keen - Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... 'fairings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and * Co. Hereford City awl County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware— S. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting- don—Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hemp3tead— Smith, and Whittingstall Honiton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. I ler rdshirc, Hitchen Bank, Hitchon—Sharples 49,687 52,061 30,405 and Co. Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Itoss and rchenfield Baak, Hereford—Morgan and I foskins Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Frwifth and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, 113,11eigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich — A lexa , ders awl Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, 19,855 8,539 12,936 4,974 5,548 17,505 12,238 29,004 urns Niercer Kiav,ton and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J 34,624 . „ 1,) Lilies and Co Kit;glit,on Bank, Knighton—J. Dtvies and Co Kenresnorough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Kna-egboroagh—Terry and Co Ketidal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and C Ke:tming Bank, Kettering—Gotch and Sons Lane :-:71(.1 Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C. llarv.y and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co Leeds Union Bank, Lqeds—W.Williams, Brown, 18,587 22,936 19,819 49,495 4,754 20,341 12,989 34,154 27,435 20,370 75,021 18.818 23,677 7,989 20,690 44,878 7,393 5,553 52,055 35,743 and C Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Lock—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. 3,497 Lov:ester Bank. Leicester—Pagets and Kirby... 29,143 T,• we, Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and C 0.... 40,750 ,i,lhflehl Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green... 17,910 Lincoin Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co 89,018 L:an lovery Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very —David Jones and Co. ouryhborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle t• wrl6 and Cradock Lyniipgton Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barb s Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst 6,347 and Co Manningtreo Bank, Man ningtree —Nun n and Co Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Ohl Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerfurd Bank, and Hu n gerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner a►ud Pinckney Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bulk, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier Meri , methshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons. Newark Bank, New ark—Godfreys and Hutton Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Newark—Handley, Peacock, andCo Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock Ne.rmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Son Noriblk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and )vson .......................... ..... ................ - Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Xll l"3,1;13 .............................................. . N.rwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur. nays and Co Notiin and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tinghmn —Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nunekton—Craddeock and 11,360 6,224 16,390 10,902 10,032 18,059 26,486 15,416 8,348 27,988 50,836 33,889 21,175 3,060 42,103 70,311 9,059 Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Harris, and New S.f.rum Bank, Sarum—Hetley, Everett, and 12,757 Nuttioeiam Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co 28,345 Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os wosbrv—Croxon and Co 1E,073 Oxford Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell 13,553 Oxford 31d1Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Thomp son Old Blak Tonbrid ge , Tonbridge and T on b r id ge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tunbridge Weil , . and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge— Beeching and Sons 12,160 ...... 5,266 21,741 THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING. DECEMBER, 26 1845 Average Amount Oxfordshire Witney Bank Witney—Williams, Clinch, and Co 10,165 Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 44,378 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 11,608 ?eterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—Messrs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson 10,157 Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven, and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 32,965 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co 37,871 Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co 6,400 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co 4,148 Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 9,882 Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey—Foot ner and Son Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 15,909 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 12.865 Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 24,955 Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy dun, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co 13,790 Ross 61d Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaway 4,121 Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co 18,107 Scarborough Old Bank, .3carborough—Woodall and Co 24,346 Shrewsbury and Markel. Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adams, and Co 9,860 Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—'Rorke, Eytons, and Co . _ 40,452 Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Sou Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton —Maddinnn and Son Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co. St. Alban's Bank. St. Alban's—J. S. Story 3,145 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie 20,722 Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King 8,648 Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 6,560 Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co . 16,676 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 12,333 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. . Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. 24,163 St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib- son and Stuart 2,441 Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 26,725 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barne 11,204 Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 10,176 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co. 16,355 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. 23,229 Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. 20,355 Warwick and Warwickshire Batik, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, arid Co. 26,337 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract _ _ Bank, Wakefield—Leathatn, Tew, and Co. 42,246 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co 14,786 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester— Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co 5,224 Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesvvorth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscorcbc Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. 12,421 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, LPchmere, and Co 80.354 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Whitby Bank, Whitby—Frankland and Wil kinson - Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick 2,582 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and llalesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 12,865 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank, York—Swann, Clough, and Co 44,787 JOINT•STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 48,158 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford .... .... Burton, 1111, - Aeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, _ _ Coventry - " 6,108 Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 10,878 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 18,477 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 18,649 Darlington District Joint-Stock Barking Com pany, Darlington 24,706 -nd . _ East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 143,100 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 19,328 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 34,212 Hull Banking Company, Hull 26,913 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,636 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,429 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 21,272 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 25,079 Kingsbridg'e Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,843 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster .56,632 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 44,845 Leamingtoa Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Leeds and West Riding Banking Company, Leeds 18,978 Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds 13,953 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 10,431 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 26,058 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 77,418 g National Provincial Bank of Er:iana, Birmin ham, Head-office, 112., Bishopsgate-street, London 415,309 North Wilts. %liking Company, Melksham 57,095 Northanyvvmshire Union Bank, Northampton 76,918 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South \Vales Bank, Liverpool 51,490 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 4,215 Sheffield Bar.ltimg Company, Sheffield 34,155 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamibrd Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and ITlll,...mshire Banking Company, Sheffield ... Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, SF. -Ili,: 'd Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Rich mon d ... ..... • 49,475 Stockton and Durham County Banking Com pany, Stockton Storey and Thomas's Banking Company, Shaftesbury . I . s . P la . s . i w re i .......... .1:.:7.1.: 35,745 9,983 Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield .. Suffolkpany, Wolverhamptonß is a r n o kl Wolverhampton........ e n I aa C i n a z i m pst p toa a ne n .o y . r. , d. 16,681 - Union Bank, Wakefield 12,427 Wakefield and Barnsley Whitehaven Joint Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven.. ..... .............................. . . 27,991 Warwick and Lei.wir gton Banking Company, Leamington West of England ;tied South Wales District Bank, Bristol, ...,:,,,• 84,29 6,934 Avera Amount. Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 67,215 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester... . , 5,795 York Union Banking Company, York 60,176 York City and County Banking Company, York 89,248 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Registrai of Bank Returns. Stamps and Taxes. Dec. 20, 1845. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LAUNCESTON AND SOUTH DEVON. On Tuesday a meeting of this company was held at the White Hart Inn, Launceston, for the purpose of consi dering the propriety Of altering the line from the old route, by way of Milton Abbott, to Lydford, there to join with the North Devon line, and thus unite the Corn wall and the North Devon lines together. Mr. Thomas John Phillips, of Landue, the chairman of the commit tee, presided, and there were present Mr. Thomas Gill, M.P. (chairman of the South Devon), Messrs T. Wool combe (director of the South Devon), H. Pethick, M.D., Thomas Pearse, S. R. Pattison, John Rundle, of Tavis tock, T. S. Eyre, S. F. Smith, W. R. Dewy, W. Pearse, John Huxham, R. F. Frost (mayor of Launceston), C. C. Whiteford, of Plymou►h, C. Gurney, John Ching, R. Dingley,Edmond Pearse, of Tavistock, and other gentle men. Mr. C. GURNEY, one of the solicitors of the line, stated that in the first place it was their intention to change the line from this place to Tavistock, to go by way of Bren Tor instead of Milton Abbott. In consequence of the North Devon and Cornwall parties having deter mined to unite in the formation of a central line, and to carry that central line towards Bridestowe and Oke hampton, and for another line to be carried towards Tavistock from Exeter and the north of Devon, it was obvious that that would be a competing line with any line by way of Milton Abbott ; and they should not have any of the central traffic, for the Milton line would take none of the central traffic, and a portion of the traffic from Launceston to Plymouth would be as likely to go vid Bren Tor as by Milton. This line being between the Cornwall at Launceston, and the North Devon at Bren Tor, they should take over that line all the traffic that passed from Exeter to the north of Devon one way, and all that passed from the Cornwall to Exeter the other way. It must be obvious that such a line as this would be a very valuable paying one. The other question referred to the mode in which the money was to be raised. The estimated cost of the line, by Mr. Brunel, was 300,0001. That was a very different sum to that required for the old line. It must be obvious that a line, with very considerably increased traffic, would require a very different construction to that of a line ofsuch small traffic, or for thelocal traffic betvveen Launceston and Plymouth. It therefore became necessary to have an estimate made of the expense of this line, and see what capital would be required. Mr. Brunel had furnished that, and considered that 300,000/ would be sufficient. Of this sum, 200,000/. would be contributed by the North Devon Company and by the shareholders, and 100,0001. by the South Devon Com pany. The reason for allowing the North Devon so large an interest in it was, because of the large quantity of their traffic that would pass over it. The old line was to have cost 65,000/. If the shareholders in that line thought proper, each of them could take another share of 251 at par. But if they did not choose to take it, the money which they had paid on their deposits should be returned to them, after de ducting the shareholders' quota of the expenses already incurred in the prosecution of the old Bill. The North Devon and the South Devon Companies would each pay 10/. per cent, on all the shares allotted to them on this line, so that there would be 30,0001. paid up in the com mon fund, out of which, if the old shareholders con tinued to hold, the whole of the expenses incurred in the prosecution of the old and new Bills would be defrayed. Those who withdrew would not have the benefit of con tribution from the companies, but would have to pty their proportion of the old expenses. Mr. Gurney said he had no doubt that ultimately the Bill would be passed, though the sections, owing to one of the parties in Lon don being unable to complete his contract, had not been lodged in time. This, however, was a matter which Lord Fortescue said had been looked over in the last session of Parliament in the case of the Monmouth and Hereford line, where there was competition, and he ex pected that it would be looked over also in this, espe cially as it was a matter in which no person would be in the slightest degree injured. Mr. GILL thought it was the more probable that Par liament would pass over this omission from the circum stance that this line would form the connecting line in one great scheme of railway communication between one county and another. He also thought that the Corn wall line, which had been merely sent back by the House of Lords for emendation, would be sure to pass both [louses, and that that would facilitate the passing of the Launceston and Tavistock Bill. Mr. WOOLCOMBE said there was another point for consideration. The North Devon Company had deter mined to carry on this project, so that if the Launceston Company dropped it, it would be taken up by the North Devon. If the scheme were dropped now, the whole of the money expended in the prosecution of the old Bill would be entirely lost to the shareholders. They would thus go to Parliament with the new Bill not only for the purpose of strengthening themselves, but also of pro tecting themselves from the loss of money already em barked in the undertaking. Mr. WHITEFORD added, that the Directors would not deem it prudent to abandon the old Bill till they saw the position in which the new Bill would be circumstanced in Parliament ; and, until the old Bill was so abandoned, the shareholders' obligations of expenses would not cease. Observations were made by some shareholders as to the time that should be allowed for declaring whether they would withdraw or go on. The com mittee, in reply, said that they would give the longest notice that the forms of the House would admit of. The CHAIRMAN then put the resolutions to the meet ing, set iatim. They were carried unanimously, and were to the following effect : " That the proposed deviation be' adopted. That the capital of 300,0001. required for the line now proposed be raised in 12,000 shares of 251. each, in the following manner. The sum of 200,0001. to be contributed by the North Devon and the general shareholders, the latter not to exceed 100,0001. ; and the remaining 100,000/. to be contributed by the North Devon, if they shall think fit to do so, otherwise that amount to be added to the contribution of the South Devon. That the por tion of the capital to be contributed by the general shareholders be raised by allowing each holder of a 501. share to take one share of 25/. at par. That to make up the deposit of 10/. per cent. re quired by the standing orders of Parliament, a call of 5 per cent. be made on the old capital, on which 5 per cent. has been already paid, and a deposit of 10 per cent. taken on the additional subscriptions. That the accounts be prepared of the expenditure of the company in respect of the Bill up to the time of abandoning the same. Any shareholder not willing to retain an interest in the undertaking may receive back the amount of his deposit, subject to a rateable deduction for the expense incurred." NOTTINGHAM, MANSFIELD, AND MIDLAND JUNCTION: On Tuesday last, a meeting was held at the George IV. Inn, Nottingham, for the purpose of appointing one or more persons to receive notices, and to act in all matters on behalf of the freemen, inhabitants, and the occupiers of Old Toftsteads, in the town of Nottingham, with reference to an application to Parliament for an Act to empower the formation of a railway from the Midland Railway through the towns of Nottingham, Buford, Lenton, and other places, to Mansfield and Sutton in Ashfield. The business at this meeting was not of much public interest, as the appointments were pro forma, but some few particulars came out that it may be necessary the public should be acquainted with. At the time the plans, sections, and other documents connected with this railway should have been lodged with the clerk of the peace, it was found that several sheets of the section had been abstracted from the lithographer's office, and therefore its completion was retarded several hours, and consequently could not be lodged with the clerks of the peace at Chesterfield and Newark until two o'clock on the morning following. Since that period it has bren discovered that the sheets so abstracted had been taken by a party connected with another line of railway pass ing over a portion of the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midland Railway, who has actually deposited the same as part of his line, at the office of the clerk of the peace at Newark, with the initials B. N. S. substituted for the initials of the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Mid land Junction R;;;liivay. The gentleman who has thus acted he endeavoured to apologise for his conduct. It 5 '... - enas that, notwithstanding this mishap, the directors of the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midland Junction have prosecuted their course, and have servcd all the necessary notices, and only awaited the meeting held on this occasion, to serve the representative of the freemen inhabitants and occupiers of Old Tofrsteads. The meeting was attended by the principal members of the Freemen's Rights Committee and several inter ested parties, who unanimously appointed Mr. R. Whit. church to act on their behalf. AMBER GATE, Norm:mot, AND BoSToN, AND EASTERN JtINCTION.—A meeting for a similar object to the one for which the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Mid land Railway Junction had been held, took place the same day, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham, when Mr. R. Whitchurch, Chairman of the Nottingham Freemen's Rights Committee, was appointed on behalf of the freemen to °act in all matters connected with the above railway in which tho freemen may be concerned. CAMBRIDGE RAILWAY COMMITTEES. CAMBRIDGE, WEDNESDAY.—A meeting of the Rail way Committee took place yesterday at one o'clock, at the Guildhall, the Mayor in the chair. About thirty members were present, among whom were several of the heads of houses. and other members of the university. The clerk, H. RANcE,Esq., having read the minutes of the last meeting, he said that in reply to letters he had sent to the secretaries of different railway companies connected with Cambridge, he had received answers:-1. From the Cambridge and Colchester Company, who said that they should require no land within three miles of Cambridge, and that the present station would serve that purpose. 2. From the Bedford and London, who said that their extension line would join the Cambridge line near the Hills' Road, and the Eastern Counties sta tion would be used by them. 3. From the Direct North ern, who said that their line would neither pass through or by Cambridge. 4. From the Lincoln and East ern Counties Junction, who intended to use the present station, and would join the Eastern Counties at Chester ton. 5. From the Midland and Eastern Counties, who replied that they had not yet made their arrangements, and could not answer the queries proposed to them. 6. 'rom the Cambridge and Oxford, which would consider the questions asked at their earliest meeting. 7. From the Eastern Counties, the secretary of which wrote that the company was desirous of consulting the interests of the university and the town, and if any difference of opinion prevailed on the subject of a central station, they would be obliged by the earliest information on the subject, as at present their arrangements fur the enlargement of the present station were suspended. The ground they would require would be from the corner of the Hills-road-bridge to about one hundred yards down the road, and a piece on the east side of the station about one acre altogether, the present station then would be large enough for a central station. 8. From the Newmarket and Chesterford Company, whom a rather mystical letter said that their line would be the only one between Bury and Cambridge. They would use the present station. 9. From the Ipswich and Bury, which line would also run into the present station. The question of a central station then came to be dis cussed, and an immense quantity of talking took place, the result of which was the adoption of the following re solution, proposed by Mr. E. Foster, and seconded by Mr. Cooper, " That under existing circumstances there does not appear any practicable mode of obtaining a ge neral central station, and that the convenience of the public would be greatly consulted by an enlargement of the present Eastern Counties station, and by the com pany affording public access thereto by way of the east road, near the town gaol." This having been carried, on the motion of Mr. SMITH, seconded by Mr. LOVETT, the following words were added to the resolution—" With a passenger station on the east-road, near the town gaol.' The MAYOR exhibited a plan of his proposed station on Butt-green, and explained the nature of it, but the committee appeared generally to deem the site very ineligible, and no motion was made respecting it. The committee rose at three o'clock. COVENTRY, BANBURY, AND OXFORD DIREST JUNCTION RAILWAY. On Tuesday last a public meeting of the shareholders of the above company, specially called by circular, was held at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington, to consider the positioh in which the company was placed by a refusal on the part of the promoters of the rival undertaking to carry out certain terms of amalgamation previously determined upon. The meeting was attended by several highly respectable individuals, amongst whom were Sir Fortunatus Dwarris, J. Meredith, Esq., J. H. Thorne, Esq., J. M. Cottle, Esq., Dr. Homer, J. IV. K. Eyton, Esq., &c. &c. After a protracted discussion, in the course of which the Chairman (Sir Fortunatus Dwarris) detailed at length the position of the undertaking, the following resolutions were unanimously passed : The meeting having had laid before them the agree ment for an amalgamation with the Oxford, Coventry, and Burton-on-Trent Railway Company, and heard a full statement of the facts contained in the case sub mitted to counsel, with his opinion thereon, which fully justifies the acts and proceedings of the committee, and having also heard the statement of the chairmat and members of the committee, is of opinion that the Coventry committee hare been guilty of a breach of faith towards this company, and have assumed to them selves an unwarrantable authority in refusing to admit a portion of this committee into their council, pursuant to the terms of the agreement of amalgamation. " Resolved,—That the best thanks of this meeting are due, and that they are hereby presented to the com mittee, for the firm and manly exertions they have made to uphold the character and protect the property and privileges of the several shareholders. " That the unjustifiable conduct of the Coventry com mittee having been the means of preventing this com pany from going to Parliament for their own separate Bill, this committee be hereby fully authorised and directed to employ counsel, and adopt all such leal measures as they may deem expedient, by petitit n or otherwise, to oppose the Coventry Bill through all its stages." FOREIGN LINES. COLOGNE AND MINDEN.—A letter, dated Cologne (Prussia), Dec. 17, states that on the morning before yesterday, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, the railway from that city to Minden was inau gurated. On that occasion the Count de Wittgenstein, president of the company by which the railway was con structed, pronounced a discourse, in which he thanked the Government. for having overcome the obstacles oppos ing the establishment of this line, which, branching to the railway in full construction in the kingdom of Ilan over, will put our province in direct communication with the Hanseatic towns, with the ports of the North Sea, and consequently will contribute powerfully to the deve lopment of the commerce of all the Rhenish countries. INCREASE OF IRON WORKS IN FRANCE.—The Echo de Valenciennes states that the same effect produced in Belgium upon the forges is felt on the French frontier. The furnaces of the arrondissements of Valenciennes and of Avesnes, which were either languishing or extinct, are renewed, and, moreover, new ones, are being con structed. To the third furnace in erection at the Denain establishment, a second, built at the forges of Berbaimont, taken by the proprietors of Montalaire, is about to be put in operation, if it is not so already. M. Dumont, of Fei riere, also erects ani.ther furnace,"ancl the same is being done at the establishment of la Providence (Charleroi), while there are thoughts of doubling them in the north. The railway fever appears to be the cause of this increase. PARIS AND LYONS.-When the inquiry opened in conformity with the law upon the projected plan for the 'direction to be taken by the Paris and Lyons line at its entrance into Paris, and the establishment of the station upon the Boulevard Contrescarpe, near the Place de la Bastille, numerous complaints, objections, and protests, were placed upon the register relative to the suppression of the Rue Traversiere and to several works of art to be made upon the Rues Moreau, Mazes, &c. In consequence of these complaints to the Commission of Inquiry, com posed of the Prefect of the Seine, Messrs. Perrior, Ferret, Moreau, Galio, the Mayor of the Eighth Arrondisse ment, and of Messrs. Jullien and Delarue, the engineers, it has been decided that the terminus, instead of being built upon the Boulevard Contrescarpe, shall be in the Rue Mazes ; that a square shall be opened in that street, in face of the station ; that from this place to that of the Bastille a large and fine street shall be made, if the pro prietors will make a gift of the ground ; and that in con sequence of these arrangements the Rues Moreau and Traversilre shall preserve their present state. In conse quence of these determinations, sail by decree of the Prefect of the Seine, another and a final inquiry, which will last until the 26th, has been opened at the Prefec ture of the Seine, where the plan and the deliberations of the commission d enquete are open for public inspec- tion. STRASBURG AND BALE.--In November last the num ber of passengers conveyed on the above line was 56,297, and the receipts from that source amounted to 112,088 f. 15c. For the conveyance of luggage 4,046 f. 66c. was received, and for merchandise 54,613 f. 50c. ; total, 170,7.18 E 31c. Adding to this the sum of 5,904 f. 64c., the receipts of the Mulhouse and Tharm line, the total returns of the railway amounted in Ihe above-men tioned month to 176,652 f. 95c. In the corresponding month of 1844 the receipts amounted to 171,885 f. Bc. An ordinance of the King of the French opens for the Minister of Public Works a credit of 2,000,000 francs, for loans and grants to the Paris and Rouen, and Rouen and Havre Railway, Companies. TOURS AND HONFLEUR.—M. Malachy Daly, banker, of Paris, has written to several of the Paris paper::, com plaining of the statement contained in an English pro spectus,ly d,t,eiati:l ewhri3B that n a c thencen aom d meh p,ea xwn Company. . Dalyc bankers o l p n e e o d sma i y n pfs t lo o arti hnt t ahi h nte ; for funds been made, but the company has not vet been even formed. PARIS AND VERSAILLES.— PROJECTED WESTERN LINE (OF FRANCE). — The shareholders in the Paris and Versailles Railway Company (right bank) held a general meeting recently, for the purpose of receiving from the Bdard of Directors an account of the steps taken, con formably with the resolutions of the 27th of March last, to obtain the concession of a railway to the west. The assembly was composed of more than the number of shareholders required by the statutes to render the re solutions valid. The number of shares represented being 11,970, the meeting was opened and declared regularly constituted. The various documents relative to the pro- Ceedings of the directors were then read, and also a re port of the steps they had taken, not only with respect to their agreement with the company of the left bank, but to the negotiations commenced with the Government, and the statement submitted to the commission of the Chamber of Deputies charged with the examination of the projtt de lei concerning the concession of the Western y is a good Railway. The measures taken by the m ixed commis. sion of the two companies, formed of three m embers from the left bank and of•two from th e ri g ht b ank, were proofagreed or uponthe harmony unanimously. ng be ex This u t n w a e n e inmtihe two t com panies. As to the negotiations co mmenced with the Government, they had proceeded as f ar as to the sig nature of a convention provisoire , which assured to the two companies united the direct concession of th e isti Western Railway. The ratification by the Chambers was the sole thing wanting to comelete this convention, and there is reason to hope that this ratification will be given in the commencement of the next session, now that the meeting has accorded to the directors the ne cessary powers to treat definitively for the concession of this line. It was but a matter of form, and of powers de clared to be sufficient by the company and declared in sufficient by the Commission of the Chamber, which pre vented some months ago the conclusion of arrangements relative to the Western Railway. The Legislative Com mission expressed an opinion that it was nenessary that the two Versailles companies should be dissolved, and re-constituted one company, in order that the concession of the Western Railway might be made to them le g all y. The companies, on the contrary, thought that they could offer for the line without changing their present position. The Chamber did not pronounce upon this point, but as this question might be raised again in the next session, the council of the company, in order to guard against difficulties, required the powers necessary to conclude definitively, were it even to dissolve the existing com pany and form a new one, in the manner explained in the report of M. Lacrosse. The meeting approved o f the reports made, and gave to the directors the fullest powers, especially to dissolve the society, if they found occasion to do so.—From the Journal des Chemins de Fer. KOENIGSBERG, DEC. 1 I.—By a Cabinet order of the 25th of last month, the King decrees the formation of a commission for the building of the two bridges over the Vistula and Vogat, for the Dinshurg and Berlin Railway, HOSPITAL roH CONSUMPTION, AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST, BRomprox.—At the meeting of the directors and committee of the Hospital for Consumpt►on and Diseases of the Chest, at present located at Chelsea, held yesterday at the board-room, Great Marlborough-street, it was stated that her Majesty the Queen had most graciously condescended to patronise the forthcoming bazaar, to be held in honour of the opening of the western wing of the new building, now in course of erection at Brompton. It is stated by the builders (the Messrs. Birds, of Brook-green, Hammersmith) that the new hospital will be ready for the reception of patients about Midsummer next. CHARGE OF THE BISHOP OF WORCESTER. The following is the charge of the Lord Bishop of Worcester to the candidates for ordination, Dec. 21 : "My dear young Friends,—You have now gone through all the forms required by the law previous to your admission to-morrow into the sacred orders of deacons and priests. You have acquitted yourselves in your examination to the satisfaction of my chap lain, and you have this day declared yourselves mem bers of the Church of England by subscribing to the Thirty-nine Articles, which have been framed as tests of your really holding those doctrines which she pro fesses as her distinctive characteristics, and which she believes may be proved by the sure warrant of Scrip ture. Allow me to express a hope that in performing this duty you have not merely complied with a form directed by the Legislature as necessary previous to your ordination, but that you have well considered the different doctrines involved in these Thirty-nine Article; and by the subscription of your names thereto given your bona fide assent to them. When, however, I require this of you, I do not require that you, young as you are, and with your minds fur nished necessarily with a comparatively small portion of theological learning, should have made up your minds upon the many dark points of divinity involved in some of these articles— 'Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute.' Subjects of such intricacy and difficulty, that even celestial substances are represented by the poet, when they attempted to discuss them, as having 'Found no end in wandering mazes lost.' To require perfect unanimity upon such points is to suppose, in the words of Paley, that the Legislature expected the consent of ten thousand men, and that in perpetual succession, not to one controverted pro position, but to many hundred.' In considering, then, the obligation imposed upon you when you sub scribed the Thirty-nine Articles, we take the most liberal view of this question which has been taken by that eminent philosopher to whom I have just re ferred. He states, in his work on Moral Philosophy,' that the two points to be considered by those who wish conscientiously to subscribe the Thirty-nine Articles, are Quis imposuit et quo animo.' The first of these points is merely a matter of history. There can be no doubt that the Legislature of the 13th of Elizabeth, who passed the Act by which subscription to these Articles was made incum bent upon all future deacons and priests in the Church of England, is the authority under which this ()blip tion is imposed upon you; but the remaining ques tion, the quo animo,' with which such subscription was required by them, is not so easily resolved, and which may very beneficially occupy our attention on the present occasion. Now, the first point which I will endeavour to establish upon this important sub ject is that the ' animus ' of that Legislature was specially directed to the exclusion of all who professed the principal doctrines of the Roman Catholic faith. That such must have been the case would prima facie appear from the character of the compilers of these Articles, for who were these but Cranmer and Ridley—illustrious martyrs, who shed their blood in defence of our Protestant Re formed Church ; and can it be believed that with such views of religion they would have compiled arti Iles so loose and indefinite as to admit the subscrip tion of those who held Roman Catholic doctrines ? But we have further in this matter the authority of Bishop Burnet, who, speaking of the design with which the Thirty- nine Articles were compiled, dis tinctly states that it was a view to the exclusion of Roman Catholics. The Reformers,' he states, in his in'roduction to his work on the Thirty-nine Articles, had smarted long under the tyranny of Popery, and so they had reason to secure themselves from it and from all those that were leavened with it. Those hero in England had seen how many_had complied with all the alterations both in King Henry and King Ed ward's reign, who not only declared themselves to have been all the while Papists, but became bloody persecutors in Queen Mary's days. Therefore it was necessary to keep all such out of the body that they might not secretly undermine and betray it.' In order, however, to set this subject in the clearest point of view, we will go through some of the leading and most distinctive doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, and afterwards see how directly these are repudiated by the Thirty-n;ne Articles which you have all this day subscribed. Now, perhaps, there is no one point upon which the Church of Roust differs more from the Church of England than in the respect which the former pays to what is called apos tolical tradition. It is the doctrine of that Church, that besides the -written word of God, there is a ne cessity for an unwritten word; that is, the divine and apostolical traditions. Nos asserimus,' says the learned Cardinal Bellarmine, admitted by the Roman Catholics to be one of the highest authorities in their Church—' Nos asserimus in Scripturis non contineri expresse totem doctrinam neces'ariam, sive de fide, sive dt., moribus et proinde prieter verbum Dei seriptum requiri etiam verbum Dei non scriptum—id est, divinas et apostoricas traditiones.' Nay, not only do they put tradition upon a par with Scripture, but they even give it precedence, conceiving , doctrines handed down by tradition to be derived from our Saviour himself, while those contained in the Scrip tures have no better authority than that of the Evan gelista and Apostles. So the decree of the Council of Trent upon this subject declares the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church to he contained in libris scriptis, et sine scripto traditionibus, qum ab ipsius Christi ore ab Apostolis acceptse, aut ab ipsis Apos tolis, spiritu sancto dictante, quesi per manus traditas, ad nos usque pervenerunt.' Such, then, is the re ceived doctrine of the Church of Rome, and let us now see what says the Church of England on this subject. You have this day declared your assent to the sixth article, which contains these words—' Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation. So that whatsoever is not read therein nor may be proved thereby is not required of any man that it should be believed, as an article of faith, or to be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.' Is it in the power of language to contra dict this distinguishing doctrine of the Roman Cstholic Church more expressly er more emphati cally? Next to the theory of tradition, perhaps the doctrine of transubstantiation affords the most striking characteristic of the Roman Catholic Church. To any Protestant who attentively considers the figu rative style, still so common in oriental nations, in which the discourses of our Lord were generally delivered, it appears scarcely credible that the ex pressions, This is my body which was given for you, and this is my bloo 1 which was shed for you,' should have been ever taken literally, and be supposed to mean that the bread and wine could be converted into the actual body and blood of our Saviour. It is not, however, my intention to go farther into this subject at present than to state, what is well-known to you all, that such is the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church ; but what says our Church in its twenty eighth article ? Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of bread and wine) in the supper of the Lord canuot be proved by Holy Writ, but is repug nant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions. The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the supper only after a heavenly ' and spiritual manner. Who, then, who has sub scribed this article, can hold the Romish doctrine of transubstantiation ? So again, there are ,few doc trines which more distinctively mark the Roman Catholic Church than that of Purgatory. In the twenty-fourth session of the Council of Trent, it was solemnly decreed, that The Catholic Church, instructed by the Holy Spirit, through the sacred writings and the ancient tradition of the fathers, has taught in holy councils, and lastly in this oecumenical council, that there is a purgatory, and the souls detained there are assisted by the prayers of the faithful, but more especially by the sacrifice of the mass. In quoting these w o r d s it. i s not my intention to go at any length into the refuta tion of them, or to point out the errors and abuses to which they necessarily led, but simply to prove, what indeed is quite notorious, that such is the doctrine of the Ro . man Catholic Chu rc h ; but what again says the 22d which you have this day subscribed ? " The Romish doctrin e o f P urga t or y i s a f on d thi ng , va i n l y invented and grounded upon no warranty of Scrip ture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God. So again, it is well known that the Church of Rome ad mits seven sacraments as of divine or apostolical au thority, whereas our 25th article distinctly states that there are only two sacraments ordained of Christ our Lord in the Gospel, that is to say, Baptism and the Lord's Supper. It would be easy to pursue this subject further through the Romish doctrines of indulgences, the invocation of saints, the adoration of relics and images, distinctly denied in the 22d article ; the use of the Latin language in the performance of divine service, condemned in the 24th article; the practice of the Romish Church to deny the use of the cup in the administration of the Lord's Supper, blamed in the 30th article; and the celibacy of the clergy, asserted to be not required by Scripture, in the 32d article ; but enough has surely been said to satisfy you that one of the principal objects of those who imposed this test of subscrip tion upon all future deacons and priests in the Church of England, was to prevent those who pro fessed such Romisii doctrines from being admitted as ministers of the Church. If, then, we are to adopt Paley's rule, and resolve anydoubts which we may enter tain with regard to subscription, by . considering the animus' of those who imposed this test upon the Church, it is quite clear that that animus' was a; ecially to exclude all those who professed Romish doctrine, and that those, therefore, who do hold such doctrines are guilty of a mai 'Ades, near akin to perjury, when from motives of interest they sub scribe articles thus utterly repugnant to their re ligious belief It may, indeed, be doubted whether the Protestant divines who c ompiled our articles had not in view as large a comprphension as pos sible of those 'who had renounced the errors of ' Popery—whether the twelfth article was not con structed with a view to conciliate those who dwelt upon the necessity of works, while the seventeenth was intended to include those of a Calvinistic persuasion ; but, however comprehensive they may have been in tended to be as they regarded Protestants, it is quite clear that they are most distinctly exclusive in respect to those of the Roman Catholic communion. This is indeed so obvious from the most cursory consideration of our ,articles, that I should have hardly thought it necessary to'have pointed your attention to it on the present oecasion, if it had not been notorious that individuals, who, like you, had signed their names as assenting to the Thirty-nine Articles, had not thought it inconsistent with the obliga tions which they thereby took upon themselves to continue ministering in our churches, though they professed to hold all Romish doctrine. They indeed are now gone out from us, but it is to be feared that many yet remain who have subscribed the articles, and yet entertain opinions directly opposed to their plain and literal sense. To investigate what causes have led to this calamitous result, would carry us into too extensive a field of inquiry ; but I cannot consider it as foreign to the present occasion,-vvhen I am about to introduce such a number of young and ardent minds into our holy profession, if I offer to them some considerations, which, under the blessing of God, may prevent those who think they stand like them from falling. In the first place, accustom your minds to dwell more upon the spiritual essence 'of reli gion than upon its external forms. Were I called upon to state the most important general distinction be tween the religion of Rome and that of Protestants, I should say that the former occupied itself almost ex clusively with forms and ceremonies, while the latter dwelt on the necessity of the conversion of the heart to God. lam far from wishing to deprecate the im portance of those forms and ceremonies which ere directed to be adopted by our Church in the admi nistration of Divine service ; they have been wisely instituted as the handmaids of true religion ; but I would caution you against that exclusive at tention to forms which is the characteristic of the Roman Catholic Church, and which has a ten dency, if we are not on our guard, to convert the scriptural worship, directed by the Gospel, into 1 minute regard for ritual observances. In the se cond place, be cautious in the adoption of terms which have become the symbols of a party. Thus the term Catholic, as applied to our Church, cannot be ob jected to. The boast of our Reformation was, that we had, by that blessed event, corrected all the manifold abuses of the Church of Rome, and brought our Church back to what we believe to have been nearly the universal practice of the Primitive Church. In this sense we pray in the Liturgy for the good estate of the Catholic Church, in which passage, to avoid am biguity, it were to be wished, perhaps, that the term universal had been preferred ; but when it is recol lected that this is, I believe, the only passage in the Liturgy in which this term is used (for the Creeds can hardly be considered as parts of the Liturgy), is there not an affectation in ap plying it upon every occasion to our Protestant eformed Church ; and does it not betoken a dis position to overlook as much as possible the distinc tions which have been proved to exist between the two Churches. In like manner we have been taught to disclaim the term Protestant,' derived as it is from the first Reformers, who protested against the errors of the Church of Rome, as if we had no longer cause to protest against such errors. The use or dis use of particular words in treating upon religious subjects may, indeed, be justly considered as trifles; but, alas 1 it has been found by experience, that hae nugm seria ducunt in mala.' We may call our selves Catholics and disclaim being Protestants till it ap sears as if both Churches formed but one vineyard, and that consequently it is a matter of little import in which part of it our inieisterial labours are employed. It has been my object in the present charge to point out to you that this is not the case, and that, how ever charitably we may view, and ought to view, the errors of our Roman Catholic brethren, however disposed to consider them as a branch of the univer sal church of Christ, and even to extend.their means of usefulness among their own people, we should be cautious how we modify the distinctions between us till they become almost evanescent quantities, and thus dispose our own minds, as well as those of our people, to the seduction of that Son of Perdition who is ever on the watch for unstable souls. By your subscrip tion to the Thirty. nine Articles of your Church this day, you have declared not only that you are faithful members of that Church, but we have seen that you nave likewise affixed your names to a solemn dis claimer of the errors of the Roman Catholic Church. That Church, as well as ours, requires its ministers to subscribe certain articles ; and to bring the sub ject which we have been discussing clearer into view, I will, in conclusion, copy the twelve articles, which, according to the Bull of Pope Pius IV., are hill required to be subscribed by every bene aced clergyman belonging to the Church of Rome. [Here the Right Reverend Prelate recited the Articles.] Such is the solemn subscription of articles required of all clergymen who are beneficed in the Church of Rome, and I need not point out to you how they are opposed to those which you have this day subscribed. Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions (or rather, as it should have been tran slated according to M'Knight), the doctrines which ye have been taught. Now, our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and given us everlasting consolation and a good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and esta blish you in every good word and work" COUNTY OF ANTRIM ELECTION CARRICKFERGUS, DEC. 22.—The election of a re presentative or the County of Antrim, in the room of the late Mr Irving, took place in the Cuurt•house, Carrickfergus. At twelve o'clock, Sir Horace Beau champ Seymour entered the hall, accompanied by John White Esq., Sheriff of the County, James Wat -on Esq., of Brookhill; R. Dobbs, Esq., of Castle- Dobbs; the very Rev. Dean Stannus, Major Naugh ton, &c. The clerk having read the writ of election, Mr. WATSON , ofßrookhill, proposed Sir H. B. Sey mour as a fit and proper person to represent the con stituency of county Antrim,in Parliament. _ Mr. ft DOBBS seconded the nomination. No other candidate having been proposed, the sheriff' declared Sir Horace duly elected. The Honourable and Gallant Mast DER, in returning thanks said he would endeavour so to discharge the duties of his office that they should have no occasion to repent the confidence they had placed in him. He had been trained up in constitutional principles, and what he had been taught to revere w hen a boy he wouldcoistinue to venerate through life. Circumstances had of late occurred, which had made him distrust in some degree that party on which he had hitherto be stowed his confidence, and he was not prepared to say that he would support them now, as he would have clone six months ago. But he was bound to no party; he would act according to the best of his judgment for the good of his constituents. At the close of this short address, The Rev Mr. GREEN, vicar of Antrim, put the fol lowing query to the newly returned Member:—" In the event of a Bill being brought into Parliament to re p al the Maynooth Endowment Act, will you give it your support ?" The answer given by Sir Houce was to the effect that he had voted for the principle of educating the Roman Catholic priesthood, because he thought they would be made thereby more accessible to arguments in favour of Protestantism. He would not, therefore, pledge himself to a repeal of the grant to Maynooth. the principle had not already been acknowledged and acted upon, he might pause before giving it his assent His interrogator expressed himself pleased with the candour of the statement, but, at the same time, ex pressed his dissatisfaction that Sir H Seymour did not see it to be his duty, as a Protestant, to oppose the grant referred to. The proceedings then termi nated. The election occupied only a short time, and there were but few persons present. In the afternoon a number of the electors sat down to a sumptuous repast with their newly elected Member, in the Board-room adjoining the Court house, when a number of loyal and other toasts were proposed and responded to, among the rest the health of the Hpnourable and Gallant Member, which was received with the most enthusiastic cheering. The festive meeting, after lasting about two hours, broke up at three o'clock. NEW YORK BREAKFASTS. I went to several boarding-houses before finally making a selection. In answer to inquiries for the terms, •they were generally reasonable enough ; the highest two dollars a day, about Bs. 6d. sterling ; and the lowest one dollar. At these last I inquired their hours. Break fast at six o'clock and half-past ; hot beef-steaks, mush and milk, hommaney, rice and molasses, mackerel, sal mon, shad, hot cakes, and rolls of every description, tea and coffee. Dinner at twelve o'clock, and supper at six. The bill of fare, on reading, looks abundant enough ; but really, on inspection, this well•covered table offers to an Englishman very little that is even eatable, much less palatable. Though every one must admire the early hours and temperance of the Ameri. cans, yet only imagine a Londoner, and an old hand not used to anything much gorse than the shady side of Pall-mall, assembling at six o'clock at the noise of a great hell—washed and shaved, mind, by six o'clock— to took at an immense rump-steak at the head of the table swimming in fat, not half cooked ; then lower down a dish of enormous salt mackerel, one of which would make two of our English mackerel ; then some Halifax salmon just as taken from the barrel, and as salt as brine ; then two or three smaller dishes, some with mush—a food for pigs—and others with hommaney, onlS differing from mush in that this last is white maize ground and boiled in water, whilst mush is yellow corn ground and boiled. As this sort of food is not known in England, thank God, except in the penitentiaries, I have been rather particular in describing it. No caution is required to my countrymen to avoid it, because the very sight of it will be enough to make him sick. The remainder of the table was filled up with some warmed" up tough old hen, called cliick , n fixings—ull warihyd down with the most execrable coffee in the whole world. I used to think that England might defy all creation fo r bad coffee, but the Americans beat us hollow. We were some thirty or forty at br. akfast. The men ate like wolves ; and, cheap as it wit!, I reckoned it cost them a shilling per minute. Little children. wh o alto assemble at these tables, were permitted, by their foolish mothers, to be guzzling raw rump-steak, swim' ming in fat, at six o'clock in the morning Rambles in the United States. WASTE OF SEA-COASTS. The abbey of Whitby, at its first erection by LadY Hilda in 958, is reported to have been a mile from the sea; but the distance from the verge of Whitby Cot cliff to the nearest part of the able,y, measured in the line of transept, was found in 1816 to be little more then 200 yards. Along the coast line of Yorkshire, from Bricliengton Quay to Spurn Point, the shore has no im portant inlet or projection, and consists of beds of claim gravel, sand, and chalk rubble; and exposed to a strong current .from the north, as well as to the uncontrolled action of the waves, the annual devastation committed here is very extensive. Of the villages of Auburn , Hartburn, and Hyde, in the Bay of Bridlington , 001 1 the remembrance remains. Several places on the shore. preserve, in the termination of their names, a mem orial of meres, or freshwater lakes, once having existe d in their neighbourhood—as Skipsca, Kilnsea, and With ers ' sea, the Scandinavian sjo signifying a lake; but the 61 has broken into these meres, and absorbed them, th ne g recesses on the shore seem to mark the spots they oece occupied. The mere at Hornsea still survives; but ct this place which was once several miles Wa n .' has been brought within half a mile of the water e edge, and the hamlet of Hornsea Beck been utter l y de' stroyed. The waste of the coast amounts to abou t four yar!s a year; and farmers may be met with who gape witnessed the corn wave where the sea now pr evails.' The depredations of the ocean towards Spurn Point, at the entrance Qf the Humber estuary, have been still more considerable; nor is it unlikely that the Point will er e _ long become an island. Ravenspur—with the latte r p ar : of which word the name Spurn seems to be connected, a,. important place in this locality—has long since been lei, with a number of other places in the vicinity, belonging_ to Bristol Priory; and the site of the priory it s elf has been totally swept away. Pennant remarks—. The si l l and even the very names of several places, once towns) note upon the Humber, are now only recorded in 1 1 tory ; and Ravenspur was at one time a rival to Illu d and a port so very considerable in 1332, that Ed" r ,„ Ballot and the confederated English barons sailed foi e hence to invade Scotland; and Henry IV., in 139 9 , r e , s f choice of this port to land at, to effect the deposal:3 Richard ; yet the whole has long since been ne s ; voured by the merciless ocean ; extensive sands, drYll low water, are to be seen in their stead." Mr. I , ) c • halt. makes a remarkable statement respecting Shering owe en the coast of Norfolk.—" I ascertained, in 1829, _ es facts which throw light upon the rate at which the sea gains on the land. It was computed, when the seventy inn was built, in 1805, that it would require st:,'_"d' . years for the sea to reach the spot, the mean loss ot s 7 e ; being calculated, from previous observations, to be e s ome ' what less than one yard anneally. The distanc 075. tween the house and the sea was fifty yards ; but e fro e lowance was made for the slope of the ground beirg_ the sea, in consequence of which the waste as l et, to ' turally accelerated every year, as the cliff grew „e, there being at every succeeding period less matter lycen move when portions of equal area fell down . Bearilsthe years 1824 and 1829, no less than seventeebeY n left were swept away, ani only a small garden wast de pth between the building and the sea. There is no o n e poi nt, of twenty feet—sufficient to float a frigate —ai t J ~eas in the harbour of the port, where only forty-el.eeesupon ago, there stood a Cliff fifty feet high, with hou s e ch op it. If once in half a century an equal amo unt of an were produced at once by the momentary such earthquake, history would be filled with record e f t i f t he wonderful revolutions of the earth's surfac e ; it ex' conversion of high land into deep sea be gradu e vre een• cites only local attention. The flag•staff of the arbo ur, the Service station, en the south side of i l "0,0,0 has, within the last fifteen years, been til e ;e -inland, in consequence of the advance of. THE REGISTRATION FOR 1011111 LANCASHIRE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) r 01 15 The following circular shows the alarm *ale." PI ° o of in the monopolist camp respecting the represenletAtion the northern division of this county whenever an el ec ,. may occur:— Blackburn , Dec. 11, 18Ae., Dear Sir,—At a g, this da o f s everal g en '! meetin mer favourable to the maintenanceyo'f the Conservaseri tive interest in the northern division of this county , loauws League, mentte menaced bs scheme e t the w active as exertion s submits ed f o o f r the n p A r o n 71- C g e t ;; rendering more efficient the regisation of voters in that interest, throughout the division ; w hich a wa l e es f s ev: x u p r e a n b l e received, but cannot be carried out a than from 1,5001. to 2,000 1 an it wo l u t i( w i a n s ot t b h e e r u ig n h a t n t im o onus opinion of t s b b s e c a r r i p t t h i oenw oughtho le of t o s o l lboeswe enteredrtihoeu of raising a fund from which the expenses may be d e f t r h aei chatter, e . d n therefore, ad to solicitre q e y s requested assistancet o d youfirx • to convinced no argument is requisite , because o it's f t'th t c h inc e tbi:lbil s serious an into,ehrse outlay meetingff for the theh b e a t p b rp 6.15_1!a that division ous necessity of a strenuous effort being now me l t less the supporters of a Conservative line of poll e J: r . prepared, at the next election, to surrender their l elti o . • mate influence at the will of an unconstitutional ass cia T ti h ° e n' subscriptions are requested for two yea limited by way of experiment • and the maximum ti to let, in order to afford ' scope for a general manifests don of support. I shall feel obliged by your co -warding' anY SUM you may think proper to contribute, at your earliest convfnience, to Mr. flu so licitor, th e secretary fur this district. I am, dear Sir, yours, faithfu ll Y , WILLIA M FEILDEN, Chairman. am . BIRMINGHAM, WEDNESDAY .---Th eP•r - r to just arrived here by the train from London, on big R ai' o Drayton Manor, to spend Christmas with his family. Varrie the Eight Hon. Baronet being recognised in his carriag ' m ost number of gentlemen who were assembled cheered lilia,ibrbt enthusiastically,and continued their applause until thelobert Hon. Baronet got into his carriage and d rov e off. sir tv pal' looked well, and appeared much pleased at th e hearty come he received. GLASGOW PIG IRON TRADE, DEC. 2 3 . -- "'" pr e le r s sur said to have improved these two days past. I nun iss. e ett i plying their immediate wants have had to p3Y, w hile , "- Several sales were made at 775. 6d. and 80s. credli; bar the same time, we believe, several thousand tons cetprove" been procured at 725. 6d. cash. The appearance ° ' - i;older S ment is caused by our present political positon--; ore the pausing until something definite takes place. Il l s ott has, for some time past, been endeavouring to imp er g s so trade the propriety of an extension of malleable o '^d that means of consumpt for pig iron. We have just lear °- o f pig an extensive firm, engaged solely in the manu factur e o bich iron, have surveyed ground near Coatbridge, a nd ° ale''' . they are to erect a malleable work on an e.xtensive The National. Liggia [ADyEimsEnam.]—The Atrapilatory , O r i ej,"4 l4 _, Hair Dye, the only dye that really answers for c fs ' i t ises' does not require re-doing, but as the hair grows , as nipos en fades or acquires that unnatural red or purple tint c° fideito*" all other dies. Ross and Sons can, with the grea test nos h , ta w recommend the above dye as infallible, if dome at t ! e a re r e ! blishment ; and ladies and gentlemen requiring 'l ow it I s quested to bring a friend or servant with them to se s ., bo ot tye used, which will enable them to 110 it afterwards te d es: chance of failure. Several private apartments devilisbate s . tirely to the above purpose, and some of their este' Thel having used it, she effect produced can be at once seell'do is' think it necessary to add, that by a' tending strictly to 000 structions given with each bottle of dye, numerous Pet s :Orel succeeded equally well without coming to them. ta bor, Ross and Sons, 119 and 120, Bishopsgate-street, th e c e— tiTP• Perruquiers, Perfumers, H a ir- cu tt ers , and Hair-dyers ' tbs Parties attended at their own residences, tcoatel— distance. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—The fame of liolloWai s o d*, in the care of headaches, dimness of sight, deranged s t° h as° and disordered livers, as likewise in restoring stroolf: t t hat vigour . in cases of debilitated constitutions, is so g r % e ' s ar e even in the East Indies the different castes and TAU' cps taking but little other medicine than these famous Pills. native agent in the Presidency of Bombay sold latell , _ A i p trY fifty-three dozen boxes in fifteen days. The extrao7g, it cures performed by these Pills, when all other mewl truly wonderful. Females will find this a most 1101%01 medicine.—S .Id by all druggists, and at Professor Hel l° establishment, 244, Strand, London. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—LIVERPOOL, IV E DNE-- t e A dreadful fire broke out at an early hour this niorpiet,, the extensive iron foundry of Messrs. Smith and Wi lleY :irl• Smithdown-lane, called the Edgebill and Windsor Foolin the The alarm was first given about three o'clock, and wht e re' engines arrived the whole building was in a blaze, an d s ; the gret to say there was a very great deficiency of water first instance. The consequence was, the flames spree puny, and all efforts to arrest their progress were auvtigh, until the roof had fallen in and the first floor burned Oro to The building is completely gutted, and at present 011 see front outer walls are standing. About 300 workfeeLbro thrown out of employment by this catastrophe. The cl ‘lrell is estimated at nearly 200001. Many valuable patter n .d to destroyed, and all the machinery . The insurance is About amount to only 8,0001 in the We - st of England office- 4,0001. of the stock of machinery now destroyed had ow) of iO lodged in the building a few weeks ago. Nothing is " at present of the origin of the fire. pat tiSi' ELECTION MOVEMENTS IN NORWICH.—A tion is in course of signature in this city to Sir "" de tor , Foster, Bart., and S. M Peto, Esq., the railway c ot r- ejec . to allow themselves to be put in nomination at the nest tion.—Cambridge Advertiser. BIRTH. On the 24th inst., the wife of the Rev. John DL t ll/3 Rector of Btriton, of a son. MARRIED. TWO On the 23d ult., at Wattisfield Church, Suffolk, "-Thor Ellis, Esq., surgeon, to Elizabeth Freeman, second ding" of W. A. Freeman. Co rd On the 23d inst., at West Wickham, Kent, James, 04 Sherrard, Esq., to Louisa, eldest daughter of C. H. Na b ' of West Wickham. DIED. On the 23d inst., at Chatham-place, David Foggo, On the 23d inst., at Addington-place, Camberwell, r' be Ann wife of Mr. John llopkirm. ~/ On the 19th inst., at Hastings, Jacob Phillips, Esq. , " Inner Temple, barrister-at-law. On the 22d inst., at Bath, T. E. Blackwell, Esq. OP On the 22d inst., William George, the infant son o'tb, Thomas Roney, solicitor, of Walcot-place, East, Lamb ( On the 23d inst., at Brighton, Claude, youngest son °' Marshall, Esq., M.P. Blo c' On the 24th inst., Hannah, the wife of Mr. George 131 ' 1 4 burns, of Mark-lane and Islingtor, London : Printed and Published by WIRD° YOU" 11, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Oftice NO , Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th e Pow' / laid4lesex, Friday, December 26, 1645. I i ~ 1