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b 11e of the Pope which are absolutely necessary for the appointment of bishops and pastors belonging to the Ro man Catholic Church. It would be quite impossible to prevent the introduction of such hulls:* " Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst—' They tolerated the Catholic prelates, and they knew that these prelates could not carry on their Church establishments or con duct its discipline without holding communication with the Pope of Rome. No Roman Catholic bishop could be created without the authority of a bull from the Pope of Rome, and many of the observances of their Church re quired the same sanction. The moment, therefore, that they sanctioned the observance of the Roman Catholic religion in this country, they by implication allowed the ' communication (with the Pope) prohibited by this sta tute, and for which it imposed the penalties of high treason. If the law allowed the doctrines and discipline of the Roman Catholic Church, it should be per mitte4 to be carried on perfectly and properly; and that Fonld not be without such communication. On these grounds he proposed to repeal the Act' j' (13t h Elia.), "These quotations prove that in both Houses of' Par liament the principle has been clearly laid down, that if Catholics are to have bishops at a►l, the Pope. and the 1- , ,,pe alone, can make them for them. Then it enters as completely into the principles of religions liberty that the Pope should name the hierarchy, as that Catholics should have the right to posseis one—a right as neces se?ry for them as for the Wesleyans that of having con ferences with superintendents. " But it may be said, what induced the Pope to an point this hierarchy now, and in so sudden a manner ? " For an answer to this queition. I must refer you to my introduction, in which you will find. I trust, a satis factory orre. You will sea that the Pope has finally granted now to his Catholic children in England, what they had petitioned for, and obtained three years ago ; and that if half the attention had been paid to our affairs then, which they receive now, the public would have known all about it. I will only repeat what I have there observed ; that, in what has been done, the Pope has entirely acted, not only in accordance with the wishes, but at the earnest petitions of his vicars-apostolic, and has seconded a warm desire of the great body of Catholics in England. " Let me then sum up briefly what I have proved thus far. " 1. Catholics are not bound to obey, or to consider as their bishops, those appointed by the Crown, under the royal ecclesiastical supremacy, which legally they are not bound to hold. " 2. Catholics belong to a religion fully tolerated, and enjoying perfect liberty of conscience, which is episcopal, and requires bishops for its government. " 3. There is no law that forbids them to have such bishops, according to their proper and ordinary form. " 4. That form is, with ordinary jurisdiction, local sees, and titles derived from them; that is a hierarchy. " 5. They are fully justified in employing the only means in their power to obtain this form of ecclesiastical government—that is, by applying to the Holy See. " 6. And they have not acted contrary to any law, by accepting the gracious concession of what they asked. " But it will be said that though we, the Catholics, may have kept within the bounds of law, the act of the Pope is derogatory from, and contrary to, the royal pre rogative. L-t us see. u 1 " SECT. IV.-DOES THE APPOINTMENT OF A CATHOLIC HIERARCHY TRENCH ON THE PREROGATIVE OF THE CROWN? " This is indeed a delicate question; and yet it must be met. Every address and every reply of bishops and clergy assumes that the royal prerogative has been assailed. But this is nothing compared with th address to her Majesty, signed by some hundred members of the bar, to the effect that, by this measure, a foreign poten tate has interfered with her Majesty's undoubted prero gative, and has assumed the right of nominating arch bishops and bishops in these realms, and of conferring on them territorial rank and jurisdiction.' " One naturally supposes that those who signed this memorial, being professionally learned in the law, have studied the question—have come to a deliberate conclu sion as to the truth of their assertion. On ordinary oc casions one would bow to so overwhelming an authority: on the present, I think we shall not be wrong in de murring to its award. " There is one point which I would beg respectfully to suggest to tha consideration of persons better versed in law than I am. " In this document, and in many other similar ones, including the Premier's letter, the Pope's acts are spoken of as real, and taking effect. The Pope has ' as sumed a right,' he ' has parcelled out the land;' he has namei archbishops and bishops.' If, according to the oath taken by the non-Catholics, the Pops not only ought not to have, bat really has' not power or juris diction, spiritual or ecclesiastical' in these realms; it follows, that, according to them, the Pope's ecclesias tical acts with regard ti England are mere nullities, and are reputed to have no existence. It is as though the Pope h-id not spok-n, and had not issued any document. To act otherwise is to recognise an efficient act of power on his oart. "I am confirme.d in this view by Lord John Russell's explanation of the Protest tot oath. The oaths now taken arc not altered. We shall continue to take the oath, that " the Pope has not," &,,%; though at the same time ttore is no &tint, in point of fact, that he exercises a spiritual authority in the,ie realms. I have always in terpreted. the oath to be. that, in the opinion of the per son taking it, the Pope has not any jurisdiction which can b 3 enforced by law, or ought not to have.l Accord ing to this test, the Pope (permissively, at least) does spiritual jurisdiction in England, and is within the limits of that toleration, so l•nig as he does no t exercise a jurisdiction which cm be enf)rced by law, or purporting or claiming to be a jurisdiction enf,reiblo by law. Nu v, no one for a moment imagine 3 that the or the Catholics of England, or their bishops dre , on that the appointment of the hirearchy be 'en forced by law." They believe it to be an act altogether Ignore 1 by law; an act of spiritual jurisdiction, only to be enforced upon the consciences of those who 2cknow le Ige the Pa?.ii. supremacy, by their conviction and their faith. " Has this assu option of titles ben within the terms of the law? Is there any law forbidding the assumption of the title of bishop? A certain Dr. Dillon assumed it, and ordained what he called Presbyters, and no one thought of prosecuting him. The Moravians have bishops all over England; and so have the Irvingites, or Apos tolical,; yet no one taxes them with illegality. Then our taking the title of bishops merely constitutes no illegality. Is there nny law that forbids our taking tho title from any place not being a see of an Anglican bishop? No one can say that there is. _ _ - Then T I ask those more learned in the law than my self, can an act of a subject of her Most Gracious Ma jesty, which by law he is perfectly competent to do, Do an infringement of her royal prerogative? If not, then I trust that we may corclude, that by this new creation of Catholic bishops that prerogative has not bean violated. "No ens doubts that the bishops so appointed are Roman Catholic bishops, to role over Roman Catholic flocks. Does the Crown claim the right, under its pre rogative, of naming such bishops? It will he said that no limitation of jurisdiction is made in the Papal document, no restriction of its exer cise to Catholics ; and hence Lord Joha Russell and others conclude, that there in this a pretension to supremacy over ;lin realm of England, and a claim to sole and undivided sway.' Every official document has its pr"per,forms; and had those who blame the tenor of this, taken any pains to examine those of Papal documents, they would have found nothing new or unu sual in this. Whether the Pope appoin.s a person Vicar-Apostolic or Bishop in ordinary, in either case he assigns him a territorial ecclesiastical jurisdiction, awl gives him nn personal limitations. This is the prac tice of every church which bdieves in its own truth, arid itathity of conversion. What has been done it; thin brief, 13,;s been dune in every one ever issued, whether t,) create a hierarchy or to appoint a biAory. " SEC. V.-11Ais THE MODE OF ESTABLISHING THE BIER— ARCHY BEEN ' INSOLENT AND INsIDIORS ?' " The words in this title are extracted from the too memorable letter of the First Lord of the Treasury. I am wiling to consider that production as a private net, end not ai any manifesto of the intentions of her Ms kle,ty's Government. Unfortunately, it is difficult to ab stract one's mind from the high and responsible situation of the writer, or consider him as unpledged by anything that he puts forth. There are parts of the letter on which I would here refrain from commenting, because they might lead me aside, in sorrow, if not in anger, from the drier path of my present duty. I will leave it to others, therefore, to dwell upon many portions of that letter, upon the closing paragraph in particular, which pronounces a sentence, as awfully unjust as it was un called for, on the religion of many millions of her Ma jesty's subjects, nearly all Ireland, and some of our most fl,urishing colonies. The charge, uttered in the ear of th island, in which all guarantees for genuine and pure Catholic education will of necessity be considered, in future, as guarantees for confining the intellect and enslaving the soul,' all securities for the Catholio reli gion as security for the mummeries of super stition,' in the mind of their giver—guarantees and securities which can hardly be believed to be h.artily offered—the charge thus made, in a voice that has been applauded by the Protestantism of England, produces in the Catholic heart a feeling tso sickly and too deadening for indignation; a dismal despair, at finding that, where we have honoured, and supported, and followed for years, we may be spurned and cast off, the first moment that popularity demands us as its price, or bigotry as its " But to proceed ; so little was I, on my part, aware that such feeling as that !etter disclosed existed in the head of our Government, on the subject of the hierarchy, that having oc , ..‘cion tc vcri , e to his Lordship on some hn .in,!sv, I took the liberty of continuing my letter as fellow:— " Vienna, Nov. 3, 1830. " My Lord, , I cannot I , llt mcwt deop7y regrA the erroneous, and even di, torto d view wl;ieh the English papers have pre seated of v, hat th 9 Hurl Sfe has done in regard to the epiritnul i•overrrnent of the Catholics of England. B ut Nk e th e of tatirg that the meamire now pro rnulqate.i MIS not only prepared, but printed, three years af., aril a aor.v g•f it vas shown to Lord linto by the Pope, on ccca r sion cf an audience given to his Lordship ly Holirea9. I have no right to intrude upon your Lordship ur.lier in this mailer beyond offering to give any explanations that your Lordship may desire, in full c ,, r , fidence that, it will he in my power to remove parti cul,stly the ~ffendve int..rpret'...ti put upon the late act o rho Hely the it was !.ugrz.h.siLd by politlcal views, or by any feelings. " • Awl regard to mytelf, I beg to add, that I am invested . virTh a purely ecclesiastical dignity—th a t I h ave b , i vecuiar or temporal de'Pgatioa whatever—that my Hansard, vol. laxxviii., p. 362. Hansard, vol. lxxxv., p. 1,261. vol. lxxxviii. p. 363. • I ... /1 .1 -- - 7 t I liansard, \\ ;ti _ . ) :- .. ' d ' .... THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2O, 1850. duties will be what they have ever been, to promote the morality of those committed to say charge, especially the masses of our poor, and keep up those feelings of good-will and friendly intercommunion between Catho lics awl their fellow-countrymen, which, I flatter my self, I have been the means of somewhat improvir g. I am confident that time will soon show what a temporary excitement may conceal, that social and public advan tages must result from taking the Catholics of England out of that irregular and necessarily temporary sta e of government in which they have been placed, and ex tending to them that ordinary and more definite form, which is normal to their Church, and which has already been so beneficially bestowed upon almost every colony of the British Empire. " 'I beg to apologise for intruding at such length upon your Lordship's attention; but I have been en couraged to do so by the uniform kindness and courtesy which I have always met with from every member of her Majesty's Government with whom I have had occasion to treat, and from your Lordship in particular, and by a sincere desire that such friendly communication should not be interrupted. "' I have the honour to be, my Lord, " 'Your Lordship's obedient servant, (Signed) " N. Car). Wesemset. " The Right Hon. the Lorel John Russell, First Lord of the Treasury, &c., &e., Ste "I give this letter, because it will show that there was nothing in my mind to prepare me for that warm ex pression of feeling that was manifested in the Premier's letter; which, though it appeared a day or two before mine reached him. I mast consider as my only reply. And I do not think that the tone of my letter will be found to indicate the existence of any insolent or ineili ous design. "It is my duty, therefore, now to show calmly and dispassionately, and apart from any party feelings, the reasons e hich led me and others to believe, that no rea sonable objection could exist to our obtaining the organi zation of our hierarchy in England. " 1. It was notorious not only that in Ireland, the Catholic hierarchy had been recognised and even royally honoured, but that the same form of ecclesiastical go vernment had been gradually extended to the greater part of our colonies. Australia was the first which ob tained this advantage, by the erection of the archiepisco pal see of Sydney, with suffragans at Maitland, Hobart Town, Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, and Port Victoria. This was done openly, and was known publicly, and no remonstrance was ever made. Those prelates in every document take their titles, and they are acknowledged, and salaried, as archbishop and bishops respectively, and this not by one, but by successive Governments. " Our North American possessions next received the same boon. Kingston, Toronto, Bytown, Halifax, have been erected into dioceses by the Holy See. Those titles are acknowledged by the local Governments. In an Act enacted by the Queen's excellent Mejesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the province of Canada' (12 Vict., c. 136), the Right Rev. J. E. Guignes is called Roman Catholic Bishop of Bytown,' and is incorporated by the title of the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Bytown.'* " In an Act passed March 21, 1849 (12 Vict. c. 31), the Right Rev. Dr. Walsh is styled Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Halifax, Nova Scotia;' and through the Act he is called 'the R. C. Bishop or the said diocese.'t " Lately again, after mature consideration, the Holy See has formed a new ecclesiastical province in the West Indies, by which several vicars-apostolic have been appointed bishops in ordinary. " But there has been a more remarkable instance of the exercise of the Papal supremacy in the erection of bishoprics nearer home. Galway was not an episcopal see till a few years ago. It was governed by a warden, elected periodically by what are called the Tribes of Galway, that is, by families bearing certain names, every member of whom had a vote. Serious inconveni ences resulted from this anomalous state of things, and hence it was put an end to by the Holy See, which changed the wardenship into a bishopric, and appointed the Right Rev. Dr. Brown, since translated to Elphin, first Bishop of that diocese. Bishop Brown was conse crated October 23, 1831. No remonstrance was made, no outcry raised, at this exercise of Papal power. " But to return to our colonies ; it had come to pass that, with the exception of India, hardly a vicar epostolic was left in our foreign possessions. Far am I from blaming the sound policy of successive Adminis trations, which had seen the practical inconveniences of a half-toleration and semi-recognition, where friendly official intercourse and co-operation were necessary. But I may ask, is it anything unreason able, extravagant, still more, insolent and in sidious,' in the Catholics of England, to have sought and obtained what insignificant dependencies had received? Many of the bishops of the new dioceses bad scarcely a dozen priests, and but scattered flocks, generally poor emigrants. And could it be supposed that they intended to remain for ever in a temporary or provisional state, when they possessed not only stately churches, eight or ten great and generally beautiful colleges, and many extensive charitable institutions, but nearly 600 public churches or chapels, and 800 clergy; and when they reckoned in their body some of the must illustrious and most distinguished men of the country? But, moreover, the increase of bishops, from four to eight, was already found to be insufficient, and it was become expedient to increase it to twelve or thirteen. Now an episcopate of thirteen vicars-apostolic, without of course a metropoli tan, would have been an anomaly, an irregularity, with out parallel, in the church. Was it thou something so unnatural and monstrous in us to call for what our colo nies had received, or had we any reason to anticipate that the act would have been characterised in the terms vvieleli I do not love to repeat? " 2. Bat further, cored tering the manner in which acts of the royal supremacy hod been exercised abroad, and taking it for granter] that it could not be greater when exercised in foreign Catholic countries than the Pope's in our regard, we could not suppose that his appointment of Catholic bishops in ordinary in England would here been considered as more inconsistent with the Qae en's supremacy,' than that exercise was considered ' incon sistent with - the Pupe'ssuprernac)' acknowledged in those countries. I will refer my readers to Mr. Bowyer's pamphlet. published by Ridgway, for details of what I will briefly state. " In 1842 her Majesty was advice 1 to erect, and did erect (5 Viet., cap. 6), a bishopric of Jerusalem, assigning to it a diocese in which the three great patriarchates of Antioch, Jerusalem, and Alexandria were mashed into one see, having episcopal jurisdiction over Syria, Chal dea, Egypt, and Abyssinia, subject to further limitations or alterations at the royal will. No one supposes that, for instance, the King cf Abyssinia, in which there is not a single Protestant congregation, was asked. Mr. Bow. yer also shows that Bishop Alexander was not sent merely to British subjects, but to others owing no alle giance to the Crown of England. Suppose his Majesty of Abyssinia, or the Emir Beshir. had pronounced this to be an intrusion ' inconsistent with the right of bishops and clergy, and with the spiritual independence of the nation,' how much would this country have eared? " Under the same statute a Bishop of Gibraltar was named. His see WAS in a British territory, but its ju risdiction extended over Malta—where there was a Roman Catholic archbishop, formally recognised by our Government as the Bishop of Malta—and over Italy. " Under this commission Dr. Tomlinson officiated in Rome, rind, I understand, had borne before him a cross, the emblem of archiepiscopal jurisdiction, as if to ignore in his very disocese the acknowledged Bishop of Rome.' lie confirmed and preached there, without leave of the lawful bishop; and yet the newspapers took no notice of it, and the pulpits did not denounce him. But, in fact, the statute under which these things were done is so comprehensive, that it empowers the Archbishops of Canterbury or York to consecrate not only British sub j,cis, hut subjects and cilia ns of any foreign state, to be bishops in any foreign country. No consent of the re spective Governments is required; and they are sent not only to British subjects, but to 'such other Protestant congregations as may be desirous of placing themselves under his or their authority.' '• If, therefore, the royal supremacy of the English Crown could thus lawfully exercise itself, where it never has before exercised authority, and where it is not re cognizA, as in a Catholic country—if the Qaeen, as head of the English Church, can send bishops into Abyssinia and Italy, surely Catholics had good right to suppose that, with the full toleration granted them, and the permitted exercise of Papal supremacy in their behalf, no less would be permitted to them without censure or rebuke. "3. But not only had Catholics every ground to feel justified by what had been elsewhere done before, doing the same when to themselves seemed expedient, without their act, any more than preceding ones, being charac terised as we have seen, but positive declarations and public assurances led them to the same conclusion. "In 1841 or 1842, when, for the first time the Holy See thought of erecting a hierarchy in North America, I was commissioned to sound the feelings of Government on the subject. I came up to London for the purpose, and saw the Under-Secr?tary for the Colonies, of which Lord Stanley was the Secretary. I shall not easily forget the urbanity of my reception, or the interesting conversation that took place, in which much was spoken to me which has since come literally true. But, on the subject of my mision, the answer "iven was somewhat to this effect:—' What does it matter to us what you call yourselves, whether Vicars -Apostolic, or Bishops, or Muftis, or Imaums, so that you do not ask us to do any thing for you? We have no right to prevent you taking any titles among yourselves' This, however, the distinguished gentleman alluded to observed was his private opinion, and he desired me to call in a few days after. I did so, and he assured me that, having laid the matter before the head of the department, the answer was the same as be had before given me. I wrote it to Rome„and it served, no doubt, as the basis of the nomination of bishops in ordinary in North America. I have no doubt the documents referring t o this transaction will b 3 found in tho Colonial-offic,.. In the debate on the Catholic Relief Bill, July 9, 1845, Lord John :R2,s lie,foreonnien, was in o p s r i t e i p o a n r , e spoke g t o o i t n h t e o foil m o vv r,. ! i n t g: tee on those clauses of the Act of 1829. He did not say that he was at once prepared to repeal all those clausys, but he was willing to go into Committee to deliher,,te on the subject. He believed that they might repel those disallowing clauses which prevented a Rlmart bishop assuming a title held by a bishop of the Estab lished Church. He could net conceive any go, id groun I for the continuance of this restriction.' t It most be oh served that there is nothing in the context which limit, these sensible and liberal words to Ireland. They apply to the repeal of the whole clause, Which, as we have seen, extends equally to both countr i es. " Wnat his Lordship had said in 1845, be deliberately and ever, inure strongly, confirmed the following year. In the debate on the first reading of the Roman Catholic Rdief Bill, February sth, 1846, he referred to his speech, "* Rims+) Civil°lie Church (India, ltr. O rder e d by the House of Commons :o be printed, Aug. 15, 1850 p. 10. " t Ibid., p. 15. " # Hansard, vol. Ixxaii. p, 290. just quoted, of the preceding session, in the following terms:— `• Allusion having been made to him Coy Sir R. legli-), he wished to say a few words as to his former declaration, 'that he was not ready at once to repeal these laws without consideration.' Last session he had voted for the Committee, but had reserved to himself the right of weighing the details. It, appeared to him that there was one part of the question that had not been sufficiently attended to: the ((leisure* of Government, as far as it was stated last year, did not effect that relief to the Roman Catholic from a law by which they were punished, both for assuming episcopal titles in Ireland, and for belonging to certain religious orders. That part of the subject required interference by the Legislature. As to preventing persons assuming particular titles, nothing could be more absurd and puerile than to keep up such a distinction. He had also the strongest ob jection to the law which made Jesuits in certain cases subject to transportation; the enactment was intolerant as it WAS inefficacious, and it was necessary that the law should be put on an intelligible and rational foot- "It would appear, therefore, that whatever hesitation Lord John Russell hail about repealing other clauses in the Emancipation Act, his mind was made up about the restriction from Catholics assuming the very titles of VW held by Anglican bishop , . Had he obtained his wishes in 1846 the law would now have permitted us to call ours-Ives Ilishops of London or Chester, and Arch bishop of Canterbury. I vote these pesseges, not for the purpose of charging Lord John Russell with incon si=tency, but mere!), to justify ourselves, aid t) show how little rear )n we could have had for believing that our acting atricly within the law respecting episcopal titles would have been described as it ha?. For it it was peurile in 1846, to continue to prevent Catholics even taking the prohibited titles, and no good reason existed for the continuance of even that restriction, is it manly in 1850 to denounce as insolent and insidious' the assumptisn of titles different from those accorded to us by the authority which Lord John acknowledges can alone bestow episcopacy upon us. "I have already alluded to Lord Minto's being shown the brief for the hierarchy, printed, about two years ago. The circumstance may have escaped his memory; or he may not at the time have attended to it, having more important matters in his mind, But as to the fact that his attention was called to it, and he made no reply, I can have no doubt. " I trust, therefore, that I have said enough to prove that Catholics have not acted in an unbecoming manner, in claiming for themselves the same right of pwsessing a hierarchy, as had been allowed to the colonies, and clearly acknowledged, as no less applicable to them. One more topic remains. " SEC. VI.-THE TITLE OF WESTMINSTER. " The selection of this title for the metropolitan see of the new hierarchy has, I understand, given great offence. lam sorry for it.t It was little less than necessity which led to its adoption. I must observe that, according to the discipline of the Catholic Church, a bishop's title must be from a town or city. Originally almost every village or small town had its bishop, as appears from the history of the Afri can Church. But from a town or city a bishopric must still be; a 'territorial' title is never given. Thus, in Van Diemen's Land, while the Anglican bishop takes his title of Tasmania from the territory, the Catholic derives his of Hobart Town from the town. In re-establishing a Catholic hierarchy in England, it was natural and de corous that its metropolitan should have his see at the capital. This has been the rule at all times; though of course those capitals may decay into provincial towns without losing their privilege. The very term metropo litan signifies the bishop of the metropolis. This being the principle or basis of every hierarchy, bow was it to be acted on here? London was a title inhibited by law; Southwark was to form a separate see. To have taken the title of a subordinate portion of what forms the great conglomerate of London. as Finsbury or Islington, would have been to cast ridicule, and open the door for jeers upon the new Episcopate. Besides, none of these are towns or cities. Westminster naturally sug gested itself, as a city unoccupied by any Anglican see, and giving an honourable and well-known metropolitan title. It was consequently selected, and I can sincerely say, that I bad no part whatever in the selection. But I rejoice that it was chosen, not because it was the seat of the courts of law, or of Parliament, or for any such purpose, but because it brings the real point more clearly and strikingly before our opponents; Have we in any thing acted contrary to law? And if not, why are we to be blamed?' " But I am glad also for another reason. The Chapter of Westminster has been the first to protest against the new archiepiscopal title, as though some practical attempt at jurisdiction within the Abbey was intended. Then let me give them assurance on that point, and let us come to a fair division and a good understanding. " The diocese, indeed, of Westminster, embraces a large district, but Westminster proper consists of two very different parts. One comprises the stately Abbey, with its adjacent palaces and royal parks. To this pore tion the duties and occupation of the Dean and Chapter are mainly confined; and they shall range there undis turbed. To the venerable old church I may repair, as I have been wont to do. But perhaps the Dea❑ and Chapter are not aware that were I disposed to claim more than the right to tread the Catholic pavement of that noble building, and breathe its air of ancient conse• oration, another might step in with a prior claim. For successive generations there has existed ever, in the Benedictine order, an Abbot of Westminster, the repre sentative, in religious dignity, of those who t rented, and beautified, and governed that church and cloister. Have they ever ty.sen disturbed by this titular?' Have they heard cf any claim or protest on his part, touching their temporalities? Then let them fear no greater aggre ,ion now. Like him, I may visit, as I have sail, the old Abbey. and sly my prayer by the shrine of good St. Edward; and meditate on the olden times, when the Church filled without a coronation, and multitudes hourly worshipped without a service. " 13,;Citi their temporal rights, or their quiet posses sion of any dignity and title, they will not suffer. Whenever I go in, I will pay my entrance fee, like other liege subjects, and resign myself msekly to the guidance of the beadle, and listen, without rebuke, when he points out to my admiration detestable monuments, or shows me a hole in the wall fur a confessional. " Yet this splendid monument, its treasures of art and its fitting endowments, form not the part of Westmiester which will concern me. For there is another part which stands in frightful contrast, though in immediate con tact, with this magnificence. Ia ancient times, the ex istence of an abbey on any spot, with a large staff of clergy and ample revenues, would have sufficed to create around it a little paradise of comfort, cheerfulness, and ease. This, however, is not now the case. Close under the Abbey of Westminster there lie concealed labyrinths of lanes and courts, and alleys and slums, nests of igno rance, vice, depravity, and crime, as well as of squalor, wretchedness, and disease; whose atmosphere is typhus, whose ventilation is cholera; in which swarms a huge and almost countless population, in great measure, no minally at least, Catholic; haunts of filth, which no sewage committee can reach—dark corners, which no lighting-board can brighten. This is the part of Westminster which alone I covet, and which I shall be glad to claim and to visit, as a blessed pas ture in which sheep of Holy Church are to be tended, in which a bishop's godly work has to be done, of con soling, converting, and preserving. And if, as I hum bly trust in God, it shall be ssen that tkis special culture, arising from the establishment of our hierarchy, bears fruits of order, peacefulness, decency, religion, and virtue, it may be that the Holy See shall not be thought to have acted unwisely whets it bound up the very soul and salvation of a chief pastor with those of a city where, the name indeed is glorious, but the purlieus in famous—in which the very grandeur of its public edifices is as a shadow, to screen from the public eye sin and misery the most appalling. If the wealth of the abbey be stagnant and not diffasive, if it in nu way rescue the neighbouring population from the depths in which it is sunk, let there be no jealousy of any one who, by what ever name, is ready to make the latter his care, without interfering with the former. "I cannot conclude without one word, on the part which the clergy of the Anglican Church have acted in the late excitement. Catholics have been their principal theological opponents, and we have carried on our controversies with them temperately, and with every personal consideration. We have had no re course to popular arts to debase them; we have never attempted, even when the current of public feeling has set against them, to turn it to advantage, by join ing in any outcry.: They are not our members who yearly call for returns of sinecures, or episcopal in comes; they are not our people who form Anti-Church and State Associations; it is not oar press whi c h sen d s f n•th caricatures of eccesiastical dignitaries, or throws ridicule on clerical avocations. With us the cause of truth and of faith has been held too sacred to be advo cated in any but honourable and religious modes. We have avoided the tumult of public assemblies, and far thing appeals to the ignorance of the multitude. But no sootier has an opportunity been given for awaken ing every lurking passion against us, than has been easerly seized by the ministers of that establishment. The pulpit and the platform, the church and the town-hall, have been equally their field of labour ; and speeches have been made, and untruths uttered, and calumnies repeated, and flashing words of dis dain, and anger, and hate, and contempt, and of every unpriestly, and unchristian, and unholy sentiment have been spoken, that could be said against those who almost alone have treated them with respect. And little care was taken at what time, or in what circumstances, these things were done. If the spark had fallen upon the inflammable materials of a gunpowder treason mob and made it explode, or, what was worse, had ignited it, what cared they? If blood had been inflamsd, and arms uplifted, and the torch in their grasp, and flames had beet, enkindled, what heeded they? If the persons of those whom consecration makes holy, even necording to their own belief, had been seized, like the Austrian genoral'r, and ill-treated, and perhaps maimed or worse, what rocker] they? These very thine,: Tne.lt,l:!;iuudOpinton3Bih, which the Livieratuebt hal promistd. ‘. t liaa,ard, vol, Ixaxiii. p. 502. ‘• - i t I havo beets told that great rdPmce has been taken at the use of the word to govern,' found in my Pas coral, as though implying sorae temporal authority. I find, how,ver, that in this apt cal I have again and again used the word, he !tillSf, it is the usual, and almost only word, applied amongst us to episcopal rule. It must be remembered that the Pastoral was addressed, in the usual form of such documents. ' to the clergy, secular and re gular, and to the fAithinl,' which showed it to be meant fur Cathol.ics alone, who could understand the word. I have bean in the habit of addressing several Pastorals a year to the Cathoiics confined to ury charge, which have always been read in our churches and chapels. But this is, I believe, the first which the press has done me the honour of transferring to its columns. It thus cadre to be represented as addressed to all the inhabitants of certain counties, a sort of edict or manifesto, instead of a Pastoral, usually confined to Catholic hearing or perusal.' were, one and all, pointed at es glorious signs, should they take place, of high and noble Protestant feeling in the land, as proofs of the prevalence of an unpersecuting, a free inquiring, a tolerant gospel creed! " Thanks to yen, brave, and generous, and noble hearted people of England! who would not be stirred up by those whose duty it is to tecch you gentleness, meekness, and forbearance, to support what they call a religious cause, by irreligious means; and would not hunt down, when bidden, your unoffending fellow-citi z,ms, to the hollow cry of ' No Popery,' and on the pretence of a fabled aggression. " Thanks to you, docile and obedient children of the Catholic faith, many of you I know by nature fervid, but by religion mildened, who have felt indeed—who could help it ?—the indignities tnat have been cast upon your religion, your pastors, and your highest chief, but have borne them in the spirit of the great Head of your Church, in silence and unretorting forbearance. But whatever has been said in ignorance, or in malice, against us, or against what is most dear to us, commend with me to the forgiveness of a merciful God ; to the retribution of His kindness, not to the award of His jus tice. May lie not r ender to others es they would have d , ne to us; but may El© shower down His kindness upon them, in proportion as they would have dealt unkindly in our regard. The storm is fast passing away; an hon est and upright people will soon see through the arts that have been employed to deceive it, and the reaction of generosity will soon set in. Inquiry is awakened, the respective merits of Churches wilt be tried by fair tests and not by worldly considerations; and Truth, for which we contend, will calmly triumph. Let your loyalty be unimpeachable, and your faithfulness to so cial duties shove reproach. Shut thus the mouths of adversaries, and gain the higher good-will of your fel low-countrymen, who will defend in you, as for them selves, your constitutional rights, including full religious MUSGROVE—MAroa. THE FIRST COURT of Mayor and Aldermen _IL held in the Inner Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, on Tuesday, the 19th day of November, 1850, and in the 14th year of the reign of Victoria, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, &c. Resolved unanimously—That the best thanks of this Court be given to the Right Honourable Thomas Farncomb, Alderman, late Lord Mayor of this City, for his kindness, attention, and impar tiality when presiding over this Court, and in sustaining the high office of chief magistrate ; for his generous support of the various charitable institutions connected with this City ; and for his splendid hospitality during a year when its exercise was not only such as to conduce to the social enjoyment of his fellow•citizens, but was made available for acknowledging the eminent services rendered by our countrymen in India,' and for gathering together the chief municipal authorities of the kingdom to meet his Royal Highness Prince Albert on an occasion of high national interest. MEREAVETHER. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Maclaine Celeste. THIS EVENING. Will be performed a new and original Drama, entitled .TESSIE GRAY. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Boyce, 0. Smith, P. Bed ford, Madame Celeste, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. After which a new Farce called THE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS ; or, The Shilling Hop. Captain Kiteflyer, Mr. Boyce ; Major Stiff, Mr. Worrell; Mr. Panels, Mr. Wright; Alexander Panels, Miss Chaplin. To conclude wiih a Terpsichorian Burlesque called ESMERALDA. Characters by Messsrs. 0. Smith, Wright, P. Bedford ; Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. fitzwilliam. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely new Play called TIIE TEMPLAR. Characters by Messrs. Ryder, Fisher, Belton, Addison, Vining, Cath cart, Evere-t, C. Kean ; and Mrs. C. Keats. After which BETSY BAKER; or, "Too Attentive by Half." Characters by Messrs. J. Vining, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Murray. To conclude with TWICE KILLED. Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. Massingham ; of whom also places may t,e taken at the Box-office, Oxford-street, from Eleven till Four o'clock. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Comedy,' entitled MY WIFE' DAUGHTER, in which Messrs. 11. Farron, IV. Farren, Comptoi, Norton, 'Mesdames Stirling, L. Murray, Louisa Howard, and Elle] Turner will appear. After which THE FARMER'S ST I RY. To ennelude with ALLOW ME TO APOLOGISE. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Maoame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed SERVE HIM RIGII C. To he followed by MY HEART'S IDOL ; or, A Desperate Remedy, In which Messrs. C. Mathews, G. Vining, Bellingham ; Madame Yes- Iris, Miss Kenworthy, and Miss I. Dickenson will appear. To conclude with THE ROMANCE OF THE LOSE. A_ST Y's ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. THIS EVENING, _ . . The Entertainments will commence with a new and original pectacle, entitled THE ENCHANTED PALFREY; or, The War• rior of the Crescent. De succeeded by an Inimitable Display of Batty's Feats o; quitation in the Cirque Olympique, by the male and female Eques trians of the Establishment To conclude with a favourite Farce. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. TIIE WEATHER.—Stn OFFICE, NOVEMBER 20: THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 52—highest since noon yesterday. 42—lowest this morning and during the night. 48—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 28.78. iITIND W.S.W. to W. smart breeze with rain, and dirty weather. It blew a gale in the night. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. The State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. PLYMOUTH—W ind W., hard wind cloudy. POOLE --Wind S.W., hard wind--:.partially cloudy. PonTsmount—Wind W., bard wind —rain. BRIGHTON—Wind S.W., strong breeze —partially cloudy. HASTINGS— Wind S.W., strong breeze —scud. •:touTtitmrrox— Wind W., strong breeze —partially cloudy. FOLKESTONE —Wind S.W., strong breeze —rain. TUNBRIDGE—Wind S.S.W., gentle breeze —cloudless. BASINGSTOKE— Wind S.W., strong breeze —partially- cloudy. BRISTOL—. Wind S.W., strong breeze —overcast. READING— Wind S.W., strong breeze —overcast. GREENWICH—Wind S.W., hard wind—partially cloudy. SWINDON— Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. OXFORD —Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE—Wind S.W., strong breeze —partially cloudy. YARMOUTH—Wind S.W., strong breeze—rain. CONWAY—Wind W.S.W., storm—rain. HOLYHEAD—Wind S.W., heavy gale—rain. MANCHESTER—Wind S., strong breeze —principally clear. WIIITBT—Wind S.S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. DARLINGTON—Wind S.S.W., strong breeze—rain. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Monday morning at nine o'clock : PooLE —Wind S., strong breeze —heavy rain. CREWE— Calm—overcast. LIVERPOOL—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. MANCHESTER—Wind S.E., gentle breeze— overcast. CAB.USLE —Wind S.W., gentle breeze —overcast. The mean • . eading of the barometer at the Royal Ob servatory, Greenwich, was above 30 inches on Sunday, Thursday, and Friday. The mean of the week was 30 inches. The mean temperature of the week was 46.2°, which is rather more than the average of the same week in seve n years. On Sunday, Monday, and 'Tuesday, it was from 6° to 8° above the averages of these days. On the next three days the mean temperature was only about 39°, and was 49 and 5° below the average; but on Saturday it again rose to 48 9 , which is 5° above it. The wind was for the most part in the south-west; but in the middle of the week it blew from the north. 4-1 T 17.6 - 7 --- c4 4 r d " A t .* _ and most adroitly gives the go-bye to the very matter that is in dispute. Thus he says— " While the State reserves for that Establishment, e ithin the limits of which the royal supremacy is strictly and fully exercised, all dignity, honour, pre-eminence, and udowinent, it freely grants to ell who choose to tve out of its d mlination, as their equivalent, perfect to leration, complete freedom to practise their religion, whether new cr o ld, accor di ng to i ts principles, an) to s perfect development, so long as the practice is within the bounds of and trenches upon no other's rights." And thereupon he, proceeds to argue that the new territorial division of this island into bishoprics by the Pors is perfectly justifiable ; thus assuming the very matter in dispute, viz., that such division is within the bounds of law and trenches on no other's rights ; and so on throughout the whole of his mani festo the Cardinal takes for granted that which he ought to prove and argues merely on assumptions. The great question in dispute he has left absolutely untouched, viz., the assumption of spiritual superiority over all the inhabitants of these realms by himself and his coadjutors ; he nowhere ventures to deny that he claims absolute allegiance and obe dience to his commands of all baptized persons, whether of the Rennet, Catholic faith or not, who reside within his diocese ; that as being responsible for their salvation, he claims a right to use force, when necessary or expedient, to " compel them to come in." This right has been claimed for him in express terms by the Lamp, the organ of the Roman Catho lics in the north of England, and by the Tablet. Does he distinctly repudiate it—Aye ! or No ! There is no sign of any such repudiation in the manifesto. A note on the word "govern," although a most artful attempt at insinuating such repudiation, is so cautiously worded as to be capable of any interpretation the Cardinal may hereafter he pleased to put upon it. We give it as a specimen of the Jesuitry of the whole manifesto : "I have also been told that great offence bas been taken at the use of the word to ' govern,' found in my Pastoral, as though implying some temporal authority. I tine, however, that in thi, appeal I have again and again used the word, because it is the usual, and almost only word, applied amongst us to episcopal rule. It must be remembered that the Pastoral was addressed, in the usual form of such documents, to the clergy, secular and regular, and to the faithful,' which showed it to be meant for Catholics alone, who could understand the word. I have been in the habit of addressing several Pastorals a year to the Catholics confided to my charge. which have always been read in our churches and , hapels. But this is, I believe, the first which the press has done me the honour of transferring to its columns. It thus came to be repreSented as addressed to all the inhabitants of certain counties, a sort of edict or maw ferto, instead of a Pastoral, usually confined to Catholic hearing or perusa'." It is clear that the object of this note is to induce the unwary to believe that the Cardinal repudiates the claim " to govern," at which great offence has been taken, but does he repudiate the claim in reality ? On the contrary, he re-affirms it; he says he has used the word, because it is the only word applied to episcopal rule. This is no repudiation of the oMn,ive claim. Again, he says, " that the docu ment was meant for Catholics alone, who could under. Aand the word." This, again, is no repudiation; on the contrary, it is rather a confirmation of the truth of the accusation, inasmuch as the Romanist writers in the Lamp and Tablet, who, as Catholics, must, ac cording to Cardinal WIsEmAN, understand the word, have attached to it precisely the meaning which the Cardinal declares has given such great offence. Could we forget the writings which have emanated direct from Rome in relation 'to this matter ; !mild we forget the preaching of Cardinal WISEMAN'S )w n coadjutor, we might be inclined to place more implicit reliance on the denial by Cardinal WISEMAN tf any intention of aggression on the part of the Romish Church. Thus, when the Cardinal, after de :ailing the negotiations with the POPE on the subject ,f the recent organization, says— Such was the main and solid ground on which the ierarchy was humbly solicited by Catholics from the holy See. It was one that referred to their own internal ,r, , auization exclusively. Thoughts o aggression never -ntered the heads of the petitioners or of the petitioned; tor were the bishops moved by stupid ids as of rivalry vith the Established Church;" we should give credit to his assertion did it stand done; but, unfortunately, we have the accredited organ if the Roman Court, the Paris Univers, con tradicting Cardinal WISEMAN point blank, and leclaring that " the Holy See has aimed a sturdy blow at their (the Anglican) religious establishments," and that, " since the promulgation of the Papal brief the sees of Canterbury, of York, Ind of London, have ceased to exist ;" and uvo find Dr. DOYLE speculating on the time when there shall b.; no Archbishop of Canterbury. Under these circumstances, we ask to whom are we to give credit—to C trdinalWnEmAN or to the avowed organ of the Court of Rome, to Cardinal WISE MAN or to Dr. DOYLE ? or to neither ? Our remarks have already extended to such a length that we have barely time to refer to the address to the QUEEN. We believe that the address faithfully ex presses the opinion of the great majority of the -ducated Catholic laity of England towards the QUEEN -- it would be unjust and ungracious to utter a doubt on the subject ; but when we find Cardinal WisEalAra, the writer of the address, travelling out of the record and broadly declaring that in the religion of the Catholics loyalty is a sacred duty and obedience a Christian virtue, we cannot refrain from expressing a desire to hear what the King of SARDINIA has to say on that subject. The inhabitants of " the modern Tyre" are a shrewd, intelligent, and clearheaded race. Devoted chiefly, if not altogether, to commerce ; engaged in transactions of enormous magnitude, they are able to liscern the disadvantages to which they are exposed ay the restrictions still affecting trade ; and still more 0, by the restrictions imposed on money under the xisting monetary code. They are well aware that when the representatives and measures of value are wanting, the trade and commerce of the country can ❑ot be in a sound and healthy state. They are a Thinking and inquiring people, who, in the true spirit it their Calling, will take nothing on trust, will not he misled by high sounding expressions, or grandi loquent phrases. The " sesquipedalia verba" of the bullionists have no charms for these practical men. ['hey take each transaction on its own merits, and de cide according to the plain and simple facts of the case, If a project appears of a promising character, that it will bear the test of the strictest examination in all its details, if after a searching scrutiny there seems every reason to anticipate an auspicious result, they will not be deterred from embarking therein by the fear of ridicule or the force of ancient prejudices. Tney will not follow in the beaten track with a slavish and unreasoning superstition, if a nearer, and in every respect more eligible, pathway can be indicated, and they can see their direction with sufficient accuracy to be convinced that there are no insurmountable impediments on the road. It is, therefore, by no means surprising that they should have taken the lead in demanding the fiscal and monetary reforms so urgently required, and that they reject with dis dain the pompous platitudes which may serve as bugbears to frighten children, but which cannot con vince the judgment or enforce the convictions of thinking men. Among other characteristics by which the men of Liverpool are distinguished, are a just pride in their native town, and a firm determination to develop to the fullest extent all its natural capabilities. While others are talking of the vast importance of an abun dant supply of pure and wholesome water, of the in jury inflicted upon the health and morals of a com munity by a deficiency of that great desideratum, and pointing out how far we are behind the ancients in this particular, the men of Liverpool are adopting active measures to remove the reproach from their town. Various plans have been brought forward and fully and maturely considered, fur the pur pose of providing the town with water from the Lilly district of Rivington, which, al though requiring a heavy outlay in the first in :lance, will be far more than compensated by the incalculable advantages attending its completion. We believe that what is locally known as "the Pike Scheme" may now be considered as finally decided on, and that all that is now want ing is the mode by which the funds neces sary for the efficient execution of this gigantic undertaking are to be obtained. The "sinews of war" are to be provided, but while the municipality will not shrink from any necessary expenditure, they are very properly desirous of proceeding in the most economical manner, so as to entail the least possible burden on their fellow-citizens. "Th e ways and means" are therefore closely scrutinized. Heretofore no great work of the kind could be car ried out without the moneyoeracy having a share—a lion's share of the spoil. Where the parties requiring funds were in good credit, and could offer amide and ❑nquestionable security, as the corporation of Liverpool are enabled to do, loans would be effected, debentures issued, bearing interest at four or five per cent., and the debt so contracted would probably remain a permanent charge upon the local resources; or if, by extraordinary prudence, and the judicious application of a sinking fund, the liability should be removed, the claim liquidated in some twenty or thirty years, the criginal outlay would be far more than doubled, perhaps, we might more truly say, quadrupled, by the payment of in terest. This is undoubtedly an evil of no ordinary magnitude, and the question is whether it is really inevitable ?—whether the corporatio❑ may not, by a judicious use of their almost unbounded credit, dis pense altogether with this enormous item, and make the waterworks pay their own expenses ? So that the town would achieve a valuable propErty, without being subjected to one shilling expenditure either for principal or interest ? The very enunciation of this startling interrogatory almost takes away our breath. It is true that within the last few years we have seen the old and tedious modes of locomotion superseded by the establishment of an iron net-work throughout the length and breadth of the land, and the application of steam power as the means of propulsion ; that messages can be communicated and answers received from almost any distance within a few minutes; nay, that a merchant may almost hold a pen in his hand and affix his autograph to a document hundreds, aye, thousands of miles away, without the delay of a single second. The mere sug gestion of such things being possible would, half a century since, have been treated as an extravagant fable, qualifying the narrator for a place in the nearest lunatic asylum. What would the man, whom it took weeks to travel by the heavy waggon from Liverpool to London, who made his will and arranged his affairs before he entered upon the perilous journey, think of the journey up and down being performed with safety and economy in a single day, leaving his own house in the morning and supping with his family in the evening, and having had ample time to get through his business in the interval ? What would he say of receiving intelligence respecting an absent friend, or transmitting an order and receiving back its acceptance, completing his contract within a few minutes, and that without leaving his counting-house ? The wonders of the " Arabian Nights"—Prince Hus - SEIM'S magic carpet and Prince Am's magic telescope —are more than realized by the railway and the electric telegraph, and now we have a simple ano practical project brought forward by which the miraculous achievements of the " Genii of the lamp" may be rivalled by the simple application of credit, and this, be' it remembered, is no crude expedient, no untried experiment. It has already been tried with extraordinary success in Guernsey, in Canada, and in the United States. There are existing monuments of its success. A single journey to the Channel Islands, an inspection of the meat market at Guern sey, must convince the most sceptical of its feasibility, and remove every objection to its adoption. The gentleman by whom this proposition has been brought forward—Mr. WILLIAM BAN cKs—has himself witnessed the extraordinary and most auspicious re sults of " time currency" in Canada. He saw the immense benefits conferred upon the population of that young country by the adoption of the system ; and he has, therefore, directed his attention to the mode in which the plan can be made available in this country ; and the " Pike scheme" affords a favourable opportunity of bringing it into operation here. This talented gentleman pertinently asks, if sufficient se curity can be given for the loan required in the shape of interest bearing bonds of 5001. or 1,0001. each, only payable five years after date. Why not in one pound notes, or even in notes of less amount, which would pass current amongst the trademen of the town, and be received in payment of all local imposts ? He therefore proposes that the corporation should issue notes of convenient amount (suppose 20s. each), payable twelve months after date from the period of issue, such notes to be paid to artizans and labourers for wages, and to be received by the cor poration for all demands they may have upon the public for rates, rents, dues, &c., thus making the issue available to those who receive it for the pur chase of all they require from shopkeepers, who on their part will take these notes for the payment of their goods at exactly the «ame ratio as they would gold. This is the main feature of the plan. Our space this day will not allow us to enter into the arguments by which it is sustained, but which, ie our opinion, establish its practicability, if it does not come within the restrictive provisions of our iniquitous monetary code. This, however, we will assert, thst it is eminently worthy of mature consideration, and that if it can be carried out according to the inter. tions of its propounder, it will speedily make Liver. pool "a city of palaces, with well•ventilated streets splendid public buildings and, docks," and this with out its citizens feeling the burden of an interest. ___--- bearing bonded debt, or any drawback upon the local income of the town, or the prosperity of its indus . rious masses. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Committee of the Assembly reported that General LAHITTE had been duly elected fur the Department of the North. The admis sion of the General, however, was opposed by 111. AficuEL (de Bourges), on the ground that his election hadi taken place in virtue of the Electoral Law of 3.lst of May, which was contrary to the Con sitution ; he was replied to by M. BA,HocnE, anal on a division the admission of General LAIIITTE was car ried by a majority of 460 to 173. AliArs, the police agent who gave information to M. YoN of the Bonapartist plot to assassinate M. DUPIN and General CUANGARNIER, is in thejnospital of the Hotel Dieu, confined to his bed ; he, still per sists in the truth of his story, and is protected by M. DUPIN. There are two sets of police constantly watching him and each other, the police of M. CAR-. LIER and tha police of the Assembly. M. NEFFIZER, the gerant of the Presse, has been condemned to a year's imprisonment, and a fine of 2,000 francs , for publishing the ce l e b ra t e d " s h am " message of the PRESIDENT. gUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 19. Boulogne and Amiens, 7% Dutch Rhenish, 234_ Namur and Liege, 77 1 8 —Northern of France, 14 , A —Rouen and Havre, 93/4. GERMANY. It is said that Marshal RADETSRY is daily expected at Berlin as the bearer of conciliatory propositions from Austria. The Marshal, all along, has opposed in the most energetic manner the warlike policy and the warlike measures of Prince SCHWART , ZENBERG, who seems to have' been guided by the Ban JELLACHICII until the arrival of RA DETSK Y ; the latter has offered to go to Holstein and endeavour himself to negotiate a peace. A letter from Bamberg (Bavaria) of the 13th announces that the march of the troops has been stopped for the present. ----- THE EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE VALMY.—A Brest paper, L' Ocean, gives the following additional details rela tive to the explosion which recently occurred on board the Valmy, one of the vessels of the French squadron which lately visited our shores. On Friday, the Bth instant, at a quarter -past five in the morning, the Valmy was abreast of Ouessant, at a distance of fifteen leagues. Suddenly a fright ful explosion shook the vessel. The planking of the spare deck was torn away for a space of from nine to ten metres, and but for the solid construction of the vessel her sides would certainly have been injured, such was the terrible violence of the explosion. When the first effects of the panic occasioned by the incident subsided, the following facts were ascertained :—The master gunner, who had had to make signals several times during the night, had retired to his room, taking with him a number of rockets. In this room was a case of gunpowder. By some undiscovered means, whether by accident or through imprudence, the rockets or the gunpowder caught fire. The gunner was the first victim of his imprudence. Seven men were killed with him on the instant—the store-keeper and the master-car penter, who were in the'r rooms, three second mates, and two sailors. Of two second mates, badly wounded, one has since died. Twelve sailors were scorched or wounded by splinters. A cabin-boy, asleep in his hammock, was driven forcibly against the deck above, and killed on the spot. This disaster, it is hoped, will serve as a lesson for the future, and combus tible materials of whatever kind will not be allowed to be kept el:;ewhere than in the powder magazines. A sullen wise man is us bad as a good-natured fool. Knowledge, softened by complacency and good breeding, will make a man equally beloved and respected ; but when joined with a severe, distant. and unsociable temper, it creates rather fear than love.—Eliza coot's Journal, ATROCIOUS ATTEMPT TO BLOW Ur A Sun. of WAn.—Advices received by the IN , est India mail acquaint William Muir, gunne r ' s mate of her Ma us with the fact that on the 2 4 th of August, 1850, i n l at. 28 being x:epranandtd for negle c t o f d uty, fire, lit a stow match, a n d was disco veredjSe.s,tyl,2s 6 s . l 2 l 3 ip, Vv s ". l „ vift, weilt to o y thethegalley corporal of Marines in the act o f entering the magazine, with the intention of bl ow i ng up the ship 1 Muir was kept in irons till his arrival at 'Valparaiso, when he con trived to make his escape—how is not stated. CHANCERY._(THIS DAY.) MALCOM V. SCOTT. The firlher arguments in this tart-heard apreal were resumed this morning. The case cam° before his Lord up:m appeal from the decision of the Vice•Chan celtur Wigre.al. The case came before his Honour a eoldddrrahle lime since upon a bill filed by George, Malcom and Co., of Liverpool, azainst Scott , Bell, and Co., of London, for an account of the produce of een h • sigements mad e by Ad am en d C o, o f C a lcutta, on whic • trey had a li en f or a l ac o f rupees . In March. 1 841 ; the Calcutta house directed the London house to bold a lac of rupees out of the consig nme nts made to t hem for the cr e dit o f th e Liverpool house, and they inf ormtal the Liverp o ol h ouse that they had given the order. Th e Lmdon house also apprised the Liverpool house of the order, but a t t h e same time informed them that the Ca'cutta house had overdrawn their account, and that the honouri ng o f t h e or d er must d epen d on the val" of the consignments. The Calcutta house afterwards with drew the order before anything was paid. and subse quently became bankrupt. The bill was filed fo r an ae' count of the transactions between the London and th e Calcutta house, and of the amount of the consignments up to March, IS-13. On the cao3 coming before the Vice Chancellor Wigram he directed a reference to the . Master t) take the account", sod an apPeel wa brought from that decision before Lord Cottenhatn, w ho ' ' was the Ch ance ll or . U pon t h at occas i on Lord Cotten* - e . ham that • ehere was a contract, by which the partl e ,. e admitted they .. were bound, but what was the true r eact o ii I f ) d,;vehr what that et customroen . T v, h ,a e s, C a e n u d r t h h e a t d h o n ing of that contract depended very much on the custom was not in t is power to come to a sound conclusion on i" effe' l e d t u i t ff !ti b l r h o e u4 l : h a t d an th a e c o ti p un in a io g n of a mercantile jury. lie shoo' m !h c a n t t t s h f e r y om rec t e h i e ve h tt e therefore order that the matter stand . over until the ple l°- u o g m ht ea it ns of knout" the period 1/! question. Thus matters remained till the present Lo rc a l ion a r i dc n e s ar t l , , et and Calcutta et during nt a hg n e t y s ohnad consign' admissions Chancellor was appointed, and now the parties ape from the original decision of Vice-Chancellor Wigr a w . The arguments occupied the Court the whole viorcivk ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) 5 his Lordship th e M aster of the Roll,: hear d m otions again to-day, but nothing of interest took place. VICE - CHANCERY.—(THIS DA Y " ) (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRIJ") JORDAN V. UPToN. The furth e r arguments in this part-heard case were resumed, and occupied the Court the whole IllOrtlink (3f fore the Vice-Chancellor ROLFE.) T „ His HONOUR having dispoEed . of the cor Dixon's Trust," which stood on t h e pa p er for pap - :he further arguments in the part heard case of BALG UY V BROADHURST. were resumed. The case came before his lionour 0 1 3°11 • xceptions. The bill was filed for the purpose of c h i l l . ; ,ng a tr us t ee w i t h t h e sum of 8.0001., w hich a "i b i s covenanted by his marriage settlement to settle on d wife. Th e money was never settled, and it was all'g e oy the hill that this was the fault of the trustee. 11 , The argum e nt s occup i e d t h e C ourt the w h o l e moral QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS DA, 17 c ) s (Sittings in Banc o , b e f ore L or d CAMPBELL a nd di lS " Ce COLERIDGE and ERLE.) THE QUEEN V. THE INHABITANTS OF B ILSTON" JUDGMENT. big • Lord C AMPBELL gave judgment in this 05 1 „ t e l. morning. H4 e said this w as a man d amus to the 00 03 - wardens and overseers of the parish of Bilstorit c° • r aise mending them t o ma k e a rate in order to --ng a sum of 600/, f or the purpose of en largi ng a chapel within th at par i sh. During the arg lim i ta . t he (Lord C am pb e ll) b ad expressed a strong d es ire 1 - b - iis ~ he Court might be able to support the preeee di , n b g e s ; ite s : he was sorry to say that that appeared altoge , possible, for there were two fatal objections. Th e e ,,q ue o tion depended principally on the interpretation 0. - ° d e e p; 111., c. 45, sec. 49, e hich empowered the churchvnir o f and overseers of any parish, with the approbation n o he vestry, to raise by means of a rate such 30 1 o f shculd be necessary for defraying the exP e T, L e t i 0 enlarging or otherwise extending the accommeu;;; h : r e of churches or chapels in such pariih. However f ,' 7 40 0 were two objections to that; and one was, that P'„ n a .as not a parish within the meaning of the Act; " to r the other, that the condition of the consent of the ve d "as not complied with. It appeared to hire (Lire th Campbell) that Bilstm was no a parish; bliti. °o of contrary, was within and parcel of the pa rish as Wolverhampt on . U p to the year 1753 t h e re : e r ent a cemetery at Bil sten, an d marr i ages had l'far .:01cm n i se d th ere previous to Lord Hardwick's riage Act, but it was still only a eb tl P e n ; . cl within the parish of Wolverhampton. The suPP: ne d proof of the conse n t o f t h e vestry having b een obtel, -earned entirely to have failed. On the 4th of J e lii , 1525,. there was a meeting at Bilston, when a r es °l4 eon was come to that the 5401 offered to be le D 'i n g the Society for Promoting the Building and Fel ar l I of Churches, should be accepted, and that the e t — n o'ill e hculd be enlarged. It was also agreed that th e ",„ - dc• .hould be repaid by means of a rate, and that a% t his ficiency was to be made up by the sale of 40 pews. bit was not Confirmed by the consent of the vestry. Ov f ,„ u rt we objections, which appeared to be fatal, the o were obliged reluctantly to discharge the rule le' mandamßule discharged accordingly. „ THE QUEEN V. THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY CO p 242. — "t JUDGMENT. Lord CAMPBELL said this was a•mandamus to to ledonian Railway Cotnpsny, commanding th, , m to , c° o f olev: a cert.:in b r id ge over their railroad in the 01):c. Car;i le, ra by law they were b oun d to 'do,and cording to the plans and cross s ,- ctions der osit a . with the Cl er k o f t h e P eace for the county of CoOL".0 and. Thin bting a p , ::Tt. , mptory mandamus. is 131;ed he prosecutor t o s h ow t h a t a ll t h at had been cotoo.rs-cos y the mandamus was a duty itupoi‘el by law. ote ovees!,ary to show that there was an otiligstion — t ioa ho road in question according to the rates of itaali h nd " t be delineated in the plans and sections deposited Wit h of of Clerk of the Peaco. He thought that the 9th sPati l A )- „ he 9.h and 10:h Viet., c. 269 (the Supplementa l "ri o ‘ . :which had been relied on, die nut apply t o rates te cl -linntion, but only t o th e h e i g h ts an d spans &lin" o f on the plan s an d sect i ons. T he Court was therefor; be opinion that th a t p art o f t h e mandamus cou ld flue e ~ ustained, and th ere f ore j u d gment must b e fur , defendant.—Jud gment f or t h e defendant accordioo EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. (Tills DAY.) CRIMINAL APPEALS. (Before the LORD CHIEF BARON, Mr. Justice ~I OO D, MAN, Mr. Justice WILLIAMS, Mr. Justice I'ALFO— Mr. Baron MARTIN.) THE QUEEN V. FARRELL. ,ater In this case, whi c h was tr i ed at the Maidstone Quilar Sessions, the defendant, who was a sergeant in t" of goon Guards, was convicted for disrbeying the v" r "„ - vi• g of a justice of th e peace, ordering him to c°-1 Or bute to the supp or t o f hi s illegitimate child, ment was respired, in order that the opinion of $ Court might be taltrn as to the legality of imprisoning soldier on a charge of this nature. ~v to Mr. WELSBY, who was instructed by the Trcosn'i nn s but J appear on the part of the defendant, stated that n ili be Kennard had a child by the defendant in 1845, in eer was ordered to pay is. 6d. a week for its mainte n r — r but having disobeyed the order, he was indicted t° misdemeanour, arid found guilty. The Learned C°111;let contended that, by the Mutiny Act, no soldier in i n .. ‘lcj-sty's service could be indicted for refusing t°.„ s it te. --ain his wife or child, whether legitimate or illegit 3 l 7 no t The object of that Act being, that the Queen should be deprived of the services of any soldier, excer :ad criminal charge, or for a civil debt exceeding 301, 050 the present case did not come within either of 111 classes.—The Court deferred their decision. BAIL COURT.—(Tins DAY.) , (Sittings in Ban co , b e f ore M r. J ust i ce PaTTEs°l4'l CUMMING AND ANOTHER v F R IsLEY• Mr. LUSH applied to the Court for . a rule nisi, °all iv !. upon two of the justices of Cambridge to sho w c „, 1111 :1 1 why a writ of prohibition should not issue to S t :J further proceedings in this case. This was ea Lion filed against the defendant under the Small h",,ede meuts Act to recover possession of a cottage. J 'c'seci fendant had occupied the cottage for forty..two Y p e er n ; If not paid any rent for the last twenty yesrs. He was 1 01 c — tt e tt r .e, in the service of a Mr. Cumming, to w hom the e° , e ai'l originally belonged, and who died about twelv e ; 1 tic' ago. The two complainants claimed under this; fi n fi sur man, but in the evidence which they produce `, t hieg port of the information they failed to establish 0 0 -7,"„ e cv like a title. The Act authorising the ma istratea s ses Certain matters of this nature only between landlord and tenant, where there was contemplated uer tion or dispute as to title. Now, here the allege" ", -Ij a rdo having occupied and r e p a i re d t h e prem i ses for uP",: e et, of twenty years, witho u t b e i ng ca l led upon t o PaY was in a situation to dispute the title, and the P r°— ings before the ma g istrates were therefore a nullity Application granted. yr, AT' QUEEN V. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN 11. 317 ,p011 In this case a rule nisi had been obtained, eall ie „„g, - do; the Recorder of Liverpool to show cause why a . "" -- , 4 13 1 01 mus should not issue requiring him to hear an ell P e n -a ny the London and North-Western Rjilway C°, e3 r,; e ar against a poor-rate. The company wore rated Ol e ius for the parish of Live r p oo l , according to t h e a" ?sea tion of their property that was made last Yea r ' t he against this rate they appealed, on the ground au° ( lie assessment was exc ess i ve. The Recorder , how °f posed of the appeal by ruling that the „ the liament required that parties should be rated ell e l the net profits of the preceding year to that in w ille ,vi rate was collected, and he therefore refused to hell . c oy dente upon the allegation that the assessme nt waet.oo, cessive. Thi s was held to be a declining ofjurisdie I__ by m M r. Justice s d r. r s a ti S c l e ll i y , and the pr esen t ru l e was obtained and a f ter wards arg ue AT " T ' E I s A o cr. n C o r , o v mpton. niota was that the dismissal of the appeal was not ing o f elining of jurisdiction, but a deekion tipeu th" heur ,,, the the appeal, and entertai , ,ing the :sine oPiat en - idea r i eo . v ,n g Learned Recorder, that the ut r..ifittment that the assessment should be =ale ca the vstt,t:sirc; he judgment. tl,.e prf , cedir , g thou:.7ht thvre 1.71.3 n t fie and for 7eing into the cpe , tion'of excessive rating, rule must be dismissed.—Rele discharged accordiebb A Y.) SECONDARIES:—(THISD (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER ) A BAD SPECULATION.—The BOYES V. .TUCKES. . Wo od a wine merchant and bo irding-house k eeper, cf f street, Cheapside, who sought to recover the' 0 157/. 99. 7d. on two bills of exchange and interest. Mr. JOY CE , who apptared for the pbintilr, said def'n: dant had suffered juolg:nent to go by d e f a ult, but Ile Vr e plaintiff in tbi 3 fiCtiOti iS theless he (Mr. J.) would show the consideration. eit'. appeared that defendant was the patentee ° of all iil l the Lion, from which he held out delusive hop 0 r" ➢fUSGROVE—Maros THE FIRST COURT of Mayor and Alder men, held in the Inner Chamber of the Guildhall, of the city of London, on Tuesday, the 19th day of November, ISSO, and in the 14th year of the reign of Victoria, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Q teen, Sc:; . Resolved unanimously—That a dutiful and loyal address be pre sented to her Most Gracious Majesty on the late audacious en croachments of the Bishop of Ro tie on the supremacy of her Ma jesty, and in defiance of the laws and constitution of this Pro testant country. 3IEREWETHER. IBLER MAJESTY'S THEATRE THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS. THIS EVENING. mast Week of the Berlin Choir. Labitzky's Great National Quadrille of all Nations, with Pour Bands and Double Chorus, comprising 262 Performers. Symphonie Pastorale, Beethoven—Overture to Le Domino Noir, Auber—Overture to Falstaff. Balfe—New Valses by Labitzky. First appearance of Mr. Hayward. Band of the Ist Life Guards, Band of the Grenadier Guards, Band of the Scots Fusilier Guards, and a Corps of British 'Military Side Drums. The English Chorus, and Choir of the Berlin Chapel Royal. Molique, Hayward, Piatti, Banmann, Barret, Richardson, Remusat, Briccialdi, Franc, Maycock, Arban, and 311ss Goddard. Musical Director, Composer, and Conductor—M. Balfe. Conductor of La Musique de Danse—Herr Labitzky. Conductor of the Choristers of the Berlin Gkapel Royal —Herr Neidhardt. Promenade (admitting to the Ma-Circles, Gallery/ 1 6 and Pit Stalls) •• The Doors open at Half-past Seven, and the Concerts will com mence at Eight, and terminate about Eleven. Boxes and Stalls to be had at the Box-office, where Programmes of the performance may be obtained. Mr. Thomas Masters of the Polytechnic Institution, the Coloseum, and Royal liotanic and Zo,logictl Gardens, will supply the Refresh ments and Wines, &c., Re. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. MR. M ACR EA DI% THIS EVENING, Will be performed OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. Macready ; 'ago, Mr. Davenport ; Dcsdemona, Miss Reynolds ; Emilia, Mrs. Warner. After which OUR M ARV ANNE. To conclude with MRS. WHITE. Peter White, Mr. H. Bedford. HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE. rms oaT :Morning 59 min. after 1 I Evening 19 min. after 2 To-M•aaow— Morning 36 min. after 2 !Evening 57 min. atter 2 311,17 f r i - tt t LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1850 . Cardinal WrsastAN has at,length published his long threatt,ned manifesto, laich , will be found in extePso in our journal of this day, and which, together with " the Address of the Catholics of England to her MA JESTY," which appeared in The Sun of Saturday last, and which is also from the pen of the Cardinal, may be considered as the statement of the case for the defence on the part of those concerned in the recent Papal aggressions. The manifesto is a perfect specimen of Jesuitical casuistry, affectedly mild in tone, in manner most oily, when carefully analysed it denies nothing explicitly, it affirms nothing explicitly, but it in sinuates much. The Cardinal is cunning of fence, Mar,Doty 14 , t k o t ; , r ' w as T 4 L„ grk.: s ) . ° 'ttr 4 41t), :n . 1 t44 thp, ea )3( Th e CG°t th," , R , (l 11,„:'' 2 I kttl,k oteibi rj, b ri ttl 1 ly i