The Sun. — London, England, 1850-12-12 00:00:00

AY') it aim Heoil iter pi r I Rid- —Arsd. frog° rt '°' / 131.4 4 1 V3 7 , for which he gave me half a crown iu payment. h g e him his change, but not out of the till. I served 11 ° again with another bottle of lemonade and Brandy, for i lad w ilich he gave m e two fourpenny pieces. Ho then a glass of pale brandy and water, for which he aave 46 a shilling, and I gave him sixpence change. There ;er e severel oth er p eo pl e drinking withWell..l s erved two or three others with I:quor, but I received Zara them on l y a s i xpence an d some h a lf pence . D u ri n g i tt tiela I did not re c e ive a shilling from anybody but 1 3 ; ". When M rs . Kis* returned she examined the chi t o ray presence, when we found there three bad t 6 4 "ogs and no good ones. Mr. King was informed of (311 his return. Wells again came to the house t 4 ( Planer to eight in the evening. Mr. King then I t Ito to try with the detector in the till what money Cal e afterwards. Afterwards the servant in the house Cale to the bar and took a pint of porter into the par -I,aleh ! l r , Where Wells was, and a " screw" of tobacco, for f she b roug ht b ac k a s hilli ng , w hich I broke, and _i:at2ilds it was a b a d o n e . Mr. King then asked the ser _tt whom she h a d t a ke n the shilling of ? She said gave it to Rowe, and Rowe paid ior the beer with IQ A f lr. King then sent for a policeman, and gave Wells th Charge. Th e s hilli ng t h at I b ro k e I compared wit's 0 ° three other bad ones that had been previously taken Ql thb of the till. One of the three appeared to be cast in sa memould as the shilling that was broken. The . ( ... ther to did not correspond with the broken one; those . t. ro bor e t h e date of 1839, an d t h e ot h er one, an d a l so he broken one, were dated 1816. roa%-examined—The plaintiff had come to the house thr ee th weeks or a mon th. The only persons who were in a house th a t a f ternoon besides Wells had only some k i a, for which they paid in sixpences and halfpence. (The case was proceeding when our report left.) S lit, COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.) HART V. TOLLEY, t o T h iS was an action brought by plaintiff, an attorney, I,L e ecver the sum of 191., the balance of a bill for pro -711111 services. Defendant's pleaded that he was not indebted. V ie fendant's attorney took an objection to the case i ng i ng tried, on the ground tiler, there had not been due °f trial of trial. In this case there had ,been four notices Atrial and the like number of notices of countermand continuance. He therefore urged that the plaintiff % b ound to go to trial on the first. t 'he Learned UNDER-SHERIFF said that a iC for the Court above, but he would take was a noteques of F . c biection. fa,„:Ppeared from the evidence that, in 1845, defendant forindicted for perjury, and plaintiff was retained bin the defence, and he was acquitted. The at %Mounted to 241., and plaintiff had paid pa r , oll account. Plaintiff's clerk was called, and e"eti that the business had been done, and that the R P were fair and reasonable. that S everal letters were put in, from which it appeared A the defendant had offered two shillings in the pound, bm " Plaintiff had agreed to take five shillings in the and, rather than go to expense, and ultimately offered 1 1 4 e 2./. and the costs, but defendant refused the offer. T he Attorney did not call any witnesses. p o i t 'ae Learned UNDER-SHERIFF said that the case ap sitor:d to him to be fully made out, and, on the jury he al:I:1g, observed, that it might easily be understood that la , - ,'" t °reay would take Si. rather than be out of pocket e ase where there was a doubt of getting the money tki Ir 'I, but th e offer did not prevent him from recovering on • claim Th • • • eJury gave a verdict for Si. POOLE V. WEILE.—TROYER, 44 T his was a writ of inquiry to assess damages in an Tl t t of trover, under the following circumstances:— d e r 'e plaintiff's COUNSEL said that, by not pleading, t et e t t'diant admitted that he had converted certain pro bo l e belonging to plaintiff to his own use, and it would tie r nece.,sary, therefore, to show the circumstances un whieh defendant got possession of it, but it would 44 Preyed that he had pledged a gold watch for 4: 1 4 'various articles of silver plate for Si., but he (the 4 ed Counsel) submitted that plaintiff was not bound 1)3 4 Vd ia 7 e erecunt the pawnbroker would advance or on etti l "Y would fetch at a "knock out " sale, but was to what they were worth to him, and he would evidence of their intrinsic value. fir,4 E44 , Dodd, a silversmith in the City, proved he had , watch, which complete was worth 121. at least. leteh Th"e ,Pawnbroker's assistant proved that the watch only e u 51., and the plate 6/. 2s. 4d. They were nut tl g • Ire ? , h t le or knocked down to his employer. There teas knock out sales," at which pawnbrokers at- N e ed to buy, but these articles were not sold at such a titl e UNDER-SHERIFF said that the plaintiff was en eacerk' the full value, or as near it as the jury could feteit n • According to the evidence the watch only 4 ki p s. ' 5 /e though it was worth 12/., but if the sale was ( pe the plate would fetch its full value. e J l trY gave a verdict for 18/. ,4ll(i s t l4 -r- , COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.---A most distressing Attb:,telliar accident occurred last Friday forenoon, at the ,two h , - ; TD- Quarry Coal-pit, situated near Maryhill, about , p elag e from Glasgow, the property of Mr. Barclay, of 4 ogs, It appears that there are two shafts to the work the aft, - " t il h ' the men were in the habit of descending the newer Lace, through the smoke and vapour from the engine fur 'tr. 121" c going down to their work. On Friday, it appears, air c ee 4 ''icisOn, the manager, saw some cause to divide the th; r „ se, by which the ventilation of the pit was carried the air : - " I lexpected result of which was that the direction of the C e _ e nrrent was reversed, the engine furnace attracting 'thee "eat towards the old from the new pit, thus making lanoit' e ut the down-cast. The consequence was that the 'WM dr ip hich ought' to have escaped by the up-cast shaft, 41 1 ed, n back into the new workings, which it completely ape edi rtu five of the unfortunate miners there employed were noe l , I X suffocated. A signal was given from below that Pttn tn g was wron g , when the water that was being reverse Ped out of the pit was again thrown back, which so far ...._ r d the current of air as to allow the miners in the old 7i▪ ing s to escape by the old or down-cast shaft. Only two escaped by th e e matter will of mil rt, namely, the near tit the whole ew or up -cast shaft. We have no doubt proper authorities,escommunication with the the proper parties. This . and the s o ni t g h u o i r a ot r igh . ly investigated by the hla been one that, with requisite curred. —.North British 1111 me, if there be any, fixed on caution, ca needal casualty seems hot have e have oe. ?, L THE S MITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE-SHOW.—YaepSetnert-0 1 . Y, no sooner we re th e d oors o f t h e Bazaar thrown ,I,ie public than the v a st area occup i ed by the cattle-show rename densely crowded, the visito rs th roughout the morn ing.. n as kJ g chiefly of the agricultural class ; but d ur i ng t h e af ternoon a change succeeded, and the sh ow b ecame visited by ,et t r opolitans. On Tuesday (the first day of the show) the anger indicator" registered 10,800 and some odd per and it is said at least three times as many people passed elr_ough the show yeste r d a y. A mongst the visitors were t e r_ ne rved the Earl of Macclesfield, Lord Portman, Lord Hill, Sibthorp, M.P., Colonel Austen, the Marquis of Has kt the Earl of Harborough, Sir John Conroy, Bart., Sir T • hrogmorton, Bart Sc c. c. 46 it b„ 4-'-4EMBEIC FOR PRESTON.—Mr. Grenfell, M.P., ' Of th s:lt to leave England for a short time, the delicate state !'ealth of one of his daughters having occasioned her or i t , Tailto recommend her wintering in the south of France h lough taly. Mr. Grenfell, therefore, leaves London with is 'rcinediately, and will remain abroad until the to his -g of Parliament. That no inconvenience mayresult_ren_ sell:tebonstituents from his absence, his son, Mr. C.W.. V G • for Sandwich, will act as his locum tenens, should With i h ° r other b us i n ess require his services in c onnexion e i nterests of Preston.—Preston Chronicle. va 14 11 the 2 2d ult. Mdile. Jenny Lind gave her fare- Ak e co ncert in New York. It was her thirty-third .in ,Ille She left on Tuesday for Philadelphia, after whic h h .ciew Baltimore, Washington, Charleston,.llavahna at , t htSe e r :• ea ns, St. Louis, and Cincinnati.. Having . sung ve 43 es, she will return to New York in the spring, and tip series series of concerts previous to her departure for ' 4 lty UNION ON CHURCH MATTERS AND THE Nee 'h." • 13 Ereenerr —Yesterday a general meeting of the - 1 41 1 . - : 15 of this s ociety,' of which Dr. Pusey, Archdeacon 'A'r ° e, , the Rev. Mr lble, Lord John Manners, and other test. alas are te leaders, was held at their rooms, Latices eeerittee, Strand when the following resolution was adopted et, t . s t uat this union desires to assure the Rev. W. J. E. Ben ang rf St. Barnabas) of its warmest sympathy, and to thank ilec ti i i ° , r , the courageous stand he has made against recant per- I lite e ; n and while it prays him to persevere unto the end, e t ot i ;1 8 rihn, for the sake if the Christian Church and pome r induced a post to which, by God's provi titl`3 he has been called." e - hear, as an on slit, that Baron Rolfe's selected .lo p . Baron Cranworth, of Cranworth, in the county of ts t %rd . " a " and Lady Beaumont have gone on a visit to and Lady Kenmare, at GaLston Park, Ireland. , tow n 'count and Viscountess Torrington have left Yote's Court, Kent. 4:11 1 ,. - F ONBB.AL OF THE LATE MARCHIONESS OF littttVALLLls. -Yesterday morning the mortal! remains of t he shi Marchioness of Cornwallis were removed from her Lady to late residence, No. 12, Park-terrace, Portland-place, la th e Eastern Co u nties Reiiway, for its final resting - place IN l e e f amily vault, at Eye Church, Suffolk, between Ipswich Ce re "orevich. The principal mourners were the Earl of IN vralother d istlis, Duke of Richm p on, Duke of Manchester, and k4l distinguished erso d ns. e f , kit e eekeNAL CONCERTS.—The first of four perform- N oll ' of Rossi n i' s St a b a t M a t er was announced for last t, but in consequence of the severe indisposition of Mr. ti t :, Reeves, wa s nece ss a rily withdrawn. Some disappoint- Post w as manifested by a very crowded house, but as the seoeruoeinent was evidently unavoidable, good humour was tutu restored, and the miscellaneous pieces given in substi -0111 were well received. ottLe are happy to announce the safe accouchement Marchioness of Douglas (refe Princess Marie of Baden). kLadyship gave birth to a daughter last evening, at the koi 4 I F residence in St. James's-place, and, with the infant, is g on most favo u rably. . a man cannot possess anything that is better than 0: 0 7,a wife, nor anything worse than a bad wife.—Eliza s Journal. i 0 Z.. 1113 GAS COMPANIES.—A meeting of the parish- of St. James' s , Westminster, was held last night t n `` s i Rooms, Brewer-street, Golden-square, .to consider best m eans o f protect i ng t h e i r i n t eres t against the coa eo'n of the Ch ar t ere d, t h e L on d on , an d th e Equitabl e Ga s q a - R a nies," and " whether the circular of the Chartered th:t;tulPany be true or not," it having been stated therein Ly " object of the amalgamation is to benefit the public Pu re and expenses, and thus enabling the supply of a and brilliant gas at a cheaper rate, and to obviate the fie r ,a l lee of continual disturbance of the pavement of the th - ",;" Mr. W. Geesin, senior churchwarden, presided. is4"cm by Mr. Coppock, that the names of the requisition read, as w e ll as th e requ i s ition, was rejected ; and Mr. Dei nt ' l good moved a resoluti o n pledging the meeting to ap • e committee to support the Western Company and to ti o l;''e the progress th roug h P a rliament of the Amalgama th Bill for the three companies. Mr. Woollams seconded APrm°tion, which licited come observations from Kr. e., , ) g4e, but was carried, there being oaly a few dissentients. 11Thaafntetlitte was then. appoint. d, an I the proceedihgs ter oß 44 N4i Ij,c m, -11 7 ,- A forgery was found on Tuesday to • t o -' ll ,:nenaniitt e d on, the house of Messrs. Masterman 34 b e6l c he . i l i. o '4 ,counterfeited was that of an emine nt ri 8- '"Exidianged. The sum obtained by the Cho am/ the 370/., and it is to be regretted that no positive ' a e . Yete been found to the perpetrator of the fraud. THE SUN, MAGAZ INES, &e.—( CON TIN TED.) BENTLEY. Mr. Robert Bell opens the Bentley for the present month with a pleasant " Gossip about Merry Christmas," in which honour due is paid to mince pies, p:urn pudding, the boa`:'', head, the pantomimes, • the fire—the glorious Christmas fire---arid the yule deg. With regard to this leter it has often struck us with surprise that no rzetiquarien has, so far at least as we are aware, described or ever alluded to a practice in the West cf England, which is evidently derived from the yule clog. Throughout the counties of Devon and Somerset—and we believe we may also add of Cornwall and of Dorset—it is the custom on Christmas Eve in every house to burn what is called the Ashen faggot, that is a huge faggot made of green ash wood, which in the farm- houses is burned in the open tire-place of the wide kitchen-chimney. These faggots are of such huge dimensions that they burn for some hours, they are bound together by bands'of twisted ash-twigs (a proper faggot has nine bands), and as each band is burned through the toast and cider is served out to each person present, and the song goes round. Every person connected with the household, and every labourer employed on the farm is present on this occasion, which may be almost de nominated the feast of equelity, as all mix together on an a qual footing. Mrs. Buxton Whalley's tale of " The Oath" is full of interest, and is admirably narrated. Tne antiquarian will be pleased with the account of Sternburgh Castle, and the novel reader with the new chapter of "The Ladder of Gold." Count de Monte.- livet proses about the virtues of King Louis Philippe, and the Hon. Frederick Walpole admirably narrates a somewhat perilous adventure among the Druses of Lebanon. Mrs. Piozzi's Correspondence with Lysons, is continued. The date is 1789. These letters are curious, as showing that even the well-informed of those days, looked upon the French Revolution, then commencing, as a mere riot that would blow over, leaving the Xing more powerful than ever; after the taking of the Bastile, however, Mrs.Piozzi becomes of opinion, that it will take at least ten years to settle the affairs of France. The " His tory and Mystery of the Glass-house," is a well- written account of the glass manufacture from the earliest ages up to the present time; the de scription of the new process of silvering . glass is more especially interesting. In addition to an amus ing narrative by Lieutenant G. H. March, of a trip from Bayonne to Fuenterrabia, we have several excel lent reviews of recently published sterling works. THE NAUTICAL. The article on the " Falkland Islands " is well worth the attention of emigrants and persons de sirous of colonizing. More especially would we direct the attention of our own Government to the description of Statenland, which is uninhabited, but. which, according to this writer, would be a good spec for an overpopulated state. It appears to be, from the descriptio❑ here given of it, the place of all others for the establishment of a convict colony, and as such we recommend it to the serious attention of our Go vernment. The professional papers in this magazine are of very great merit. THE LADIES' COMPANION. Miss Jewsbury's interesting tale, " The Sorrows of Gentility," occupies a prominent place in this number. ":The hunny buns at . the Seaside" is concluded, much to the regret, doubtless, cf all lovers of amusing sketches. There is also the second part of " A Morning in Spitalfields," by Mrs. Newton Crosland, which well repays porusal. The illustrations are numerous; the patterns for fancy work are exceed ingly elegant. This magazine contains an agreeable variety, which cannot fail to renter it a most attrac tive companion for ladies of every class. MISCELLANEOUS. The most interesting articles in Ainsworth's Ma gazine are again this month the continuation of the editor's "Lancashire Witches," and of E. P. Rowsell's sketches. The controversy between Tait and Blackwood on the subject of " High Farming" occupies a prominent place in Tait's Magazine. The Colonial, among other matters, has articles on sugar and the sugar colonies. The London Journal o; Pa tent Inventions has some interesting descriptions of new inventions for constructing railway carriages and ter producing various manufactures. The Far mer's Magazine, the Sportsman, the People's Journal, the Family Herald, Chambers', the Church of Eng land, Sharpe's, the Belle Assemblee, the Follet, and the Looker-on, still continue to deserve those com mendations for their peculiar excellences which we have again and again bestowed upon them. Mrs. Ellis's Morning Call is adorned with very beauti ful engravings, and the contributions are of more than the average excellence. The story by the editress, " Self-Deception; or the History of a Human's heart," continues with undiminished interest. The Evange lical Magazine is deserving of encouragement among those to whom it; is addressed, from the circumstance of its profits being devoted to the benefit of widows of Evangelical ministers. The Working Man's Friend continues to furnish an abundance of useful and interesting matter. In addition to Knight's most excellent Half-hours and Pictorial Half-hours, that enterprising publisher has thi3 month presented us with the first numbers of two new periodicals, which promise to be both profitable and interesting to their readers. One is Knight's Cyclopoditia of London, which, when completed + will enable its subscribers to possess for the sum of seven shillings the best part of that elaborate work on " London," in six volumes, published by Mr. Knight some years back. Simi larly valuable, similarly inexpensive, and ex cellently well-timed, is Knight's Cyclopedia of the Industry of Nations. In commemoration of the gre at Exhibition, Messrs. Talks have commenced is suing in monthly numbers a guide to the metropolis, entitled Tallis's Illustrated London. It is filled with gs. Mrs. Loudon's very ex most beautiful engravin ce llent edition of Loudon's vey excellent Encyclope dia o f Gardening continues from month to month. To those who have had an opportunity of examining its very va l ua bl e c h arac t er i s ti cs , commendation is quite superfluous. To gardeners and amateur gardeners it mu,t be almost indispen sable. Of a less elaborate form is the Cottage Gar dener's Dictionary, edited by Mr. Johnson, assisted by many eminent gardeners and horticulturists. The beautiful serial descriptive of Favourite Song-birds has reached its seventh number, and is approaching its completion. The coloured pictures of the robin and the linnet in the new numbers are excellent. Lewis Arundel, a favourite story with the readers of Sharpe's Magazine is, like its predecessor, "Frank Fairlrgb," making its appearance in monthly parts. RUFF'S GUIDE TO THE TURF FOR 1851. Mr. Ituirs Guide for 1851 is . just pablish e d, an d it of fully maintains the character itsturf predec essors . It is the great authority o n all turf matters, and should be in the hands of every one . who has th e L as t pre tensions to the character of a sporting man. --- A SMUGGLING AreIlAY.-9n the Bth of December her Majesty's cruiser Harpy, Lieutenant Willcox, R.N., cruising in the English Channel near William and Mary, of Portsmouth, after tiring several round shot and making her destroy the cargo of contraband spirits which she had on board on chase being given, Lieutenant Willcox then called for volunteers to man the wherry, removed the smuggle r s just captured to the Harpy, and then dispatched the prize, well armed and equipped, to cruise in mid-channel, to inter cept other smugglers. On the following day the prize descried and chased a French vessel standing for the English coast, and on coming up to her the a - lenr in charge found her to be the Petit Jules French cutter, with eight French men and three Englishmen on board. They ran alongside to board in the most gallant manner, but although one Frenchman was shot through the shoulder, they we re repulsed and one of the Harpy's crew thrown overboard. however, nothing daunted, these four brave fellows picked up their comrade and again made for the smuggler. One of the crew, John White, succeeded in getting on board first, and cut the Frenchman's main halyards, but was immediately disarmed by the crew of the Petit Jules; the other men, however, succeeded in boarding, rescued White, captured the vess el, and stood for the English coast, with their wherry in tow. They had had possession for an hour-and-a-half, and had nearly reached the English shore, fancying themselves secure and fortunate in their hardly earned and valuable prize (she having near 300 tubs on b oar d), w h en, on a g i ven s ignal from the French captain, the smugglers rushed upon them, and before they had time to cock their pistols they were tripped up, and thrown overboard, excepting White. They took the pump-handles and thrust them again under water, and cut the painter of the wherry, and the men with the greatest'difficulty reached her, there being a heavy sea running. White was not thrown overboard, but it is feared he is seriously, if not mortally wounded, as he made a gal lant resistance to the five men who overpowered. him. 'The Petit Jules then succeeded in making her escape and re turned to Barfleur, taking White with her. THE PILGRIM OF LOVE, FROM MECCA.-0 you great Fib! Not a "fib" at all in the present instance, Amanda. Notwithstanding the Pilgrim's proclivity towards a little excusable romancing, when he is in company with such a nice girl as you are,—and he only indulges that na tural tendency of his for the reason assigned in raffle-paper, for the disbur:ing of money by the putter-up and winner, " to promote conviviality;" —notwithstanding, I say, that your account - of him as a Fib," may, in general cases, be correct, this time he is perfectly truth-telling. Honour bright! _tumult port urn. The Pilgrim has changed his con dition. The soldier of fortune has had his name registered on Hymen's muster-roll. The roaming paladin has reached his journey's end; the promised laud, the Mecca of -- Matrimony. The rightful heir has come into his estate; the honourable estate of -- Matrimony. The Pilgrim has made the lover's leap, the genuine article (all others told of in romance and fiction are spurious counterfeits, fraudulent imitations), the leap through the golden hoop; the leap into -- Matrimony. After the manner of the knight in the fairy tale, he has carried off the damsel that was not at all distrest, from a castle (every man's house is one, you know), that could not fail of being enchanted while she was in it.— Eliza Cook's Journal. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILwAY.—The ar rangements between the London and North-Western, Ches ter and Holyhead.; and Dublin Steam-packet Companies, for a friendly interchange of traffi, and to which we have on Several occasions. alluded, were sanctioned by the Chester and*.Holyhead directors yesterday.- We believe we ara correct ill statingAhat the London and North-Western and Chester and Holyhead Companies are on the eve of 'more closely cementing the arrangements into which they have ao recently entered. LONDON, AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA. LiVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Royal Mail steam-ship Cambria, Captain Leitch, whose arrival has been expected during the past few daya, has arrived, and brings 32 passengers, and the usual mails from the United States and the veral provinces of British North America. The - C anbria reports a succession of very severe gales, which was the cause of her protracted run. She reports the arrival of the Niagara at New York on the 22d, and the Europa at Halifax on the 27th. The dates by this arrival are New York, Nov. 26, Boston 27, and Halifax 29. We are without any telegraphic dispatch by this arrival. The news, although interesting, is not important. At Washington a rumour prevailed that the Pre sident had ordered a marshal to proceed to Missis sippi, and arrest Governor Qoitman on a charge of procuring► arms for General Lopez. A great Union meeting had been called at Nashville to denounce the proceedings of the southern convention, and sup • port the Union. The resolutions of Nashville as passed are the same as the Mississippi resolutions, except the oce recommending non-intercourse. Major Donaldson is reported to have denounced the unhallowed purposes of the convention, and was loudly cheered. The Augusta Chronicle pronounces the resolutions passed as treasonable. Some dissatisfaction had been expressed with re gard to the conduct of Secretary Couvin, for having decided against allowing more than one member of a family to hold office in the department over which he presided. A Washington paper of the 21st, the Re public, declares that however much the President would deplore the necessity of employing the troops of the United States against insurgent citizens, he would not for a moment hesitate or falter if* his course, but would bring all the force at hid command, the militia, army, and navy, if necessary, to see that the law be faithfully executed. A long Cabinet meeting was held at Washington, at which Mr. Webster gave his views on the several stirring topics of the day. In the Massachusetts elections to fill vacancies, the Democratic and Free Sell Coalition is still prospe rous. In Michigan they joined with the Whigs. The present arrival brings a variety of late intelli gence from California, which had arrived at New York by the steamers Crescent City and Ohio. These ships brought specie and gold dust to a large amount—upwards of 2,000,000 dollars. The news is interesting and satisfactory. The intelligence of the admission of California as a state was well re ceived by the inhabitants of San Francisco, where it reached on the 18th of October. As soon as it be came publicly known there was a general outburst of satisfaction—bonfires and other demonstrations cf joy were called into requisition. A state election commenced at California on the 7th of October, but at the date of the last dispatch the returns were not completed. Neither party are reported to have gained much on the other. The news from the mining districts was of the usual character—quietness and order are reported to prevail in that quarter of the state. Those engaged in collecting the precious me tal were making a living and nothing more. Except in a few instances, the miners were directing their attention to turning the course of the rivers and streams, which so far had been attended with success, and a great many were determined to winter in the gold regions, in preference to going to the cities as they did last year. Notwithstanding these rather unsatisfactory accounts, it is reported that gold dust continued to pour into San Francisco in large quantities, and business there and throughout the State was represented as being in a very prosperous condition. The intelligence from Mexico states that no doubt was entertained that General Arista was elected Pre sident of the Mexican Republic. Rive Palacio had been elected Governor of the State of Mexico. The state of Durango was suffering severely from the ravages of the Indians. Juan Gangora had ob• tained from Congress the privilege of establishing an electric telegraph between Vera Cruz and the city of Mexico. There was a proposition pending to light the capital by means of an electric light, of great brilliancy and effect. The Committees of Finance had presented the fol lowing project of law to the Chamber : " Art. 1. 'There shall be established a consumption duty of 8 per cent. on all foreign merchandise intro- duced into the interior of the country, proceeding from the Maritime or Frontier Custom-houses. " 2. This duty shall only be collected once, in what ever place the goods may be destined. " 3. One-half of the net proluct of this duty shall he destined to the respective States, which may name over seers at their own costs; the other half shall be for the general Government. "4. To collect this duty the cfficers shall subject themselves to the rules observed by Maritime and Fron tier Custom•houscs in the collection of internal duties created by the law of the 24th day of August, 1830 ; which shall continue to be collected. ' 5. The Maritime and Frontier Custom-houses can not issue permits except for towns that contain 4,000 in habitants. The Government will give the officers the necessary information in order that this disposition shall be complied with. "6. The Government, on putting this law in force, shall subject itself to the law of the 24th of February and Bth of April, 1837, establishing temporarily the offices which must substitutg, those treated of in those laws. " 7. Four months after the publication of this law the collection of the 3 and 2 per cent. of consumption duty imposed by the States, by virtue of the laws of the Ge neral Congress of the 22d of December, 1824, and 22d of January, 1829, shall cease. The said States, without being authorised by Congress, cannot alter the present law, nor the others existing, nor dictate any measures relating to the commerce of foreign merchandise. "8. The decree of the 6th of October, 1848, which doubled in the Federal district the direct contribution, and established per cent. on sales by wholesale, is repealed. " 9. The collection of the duty established by Article 1 shall take effect four months after the first publication of this law in the capital of Mexico. The committee is composed of Eheverria, Alaman, Heino, Prieto, Pimeri tel, and Beistegin." A person named Juan Granja had obtained from Congress the privilege of establishing the electric telegraph between Vera Cruz and the city of Mexico. Mr. Benkhead, the English Minister, departed from Mexico on the 3d of October, in a greatly im paired stete, of health, leaving Mr. Dodge in charge of the Legation. The United States mail steamer Pacific arrived at New Orleans on the 22d from Chagres, with specie in gold dust to the amount of 250,000 dolls. The steam-ship Ohio, from Havannah, with late advices, was at New York with 800,000 dolls. in gold-dust, and the Crescent City was at the same port with 1,100,000 dolls. in gold-dust on freight, besides a large amount in the hands of passengers. By the latter vessel we have advices from San Francisco to the 15th of October. The United States steamer Carolina left San Francisco on the 15th of October, and arrived at Panama on the 3d ult., having on freight 1,500,000 in gold-dust. The steam-ship Columbus, from the smile port, had arrived at Panama with 300,000 dolls. on freight. The reported loss of the screw-steamer Sarah Sands is untrue. Her Ma jesty's steamer Gorgon was spoken on the 2d of November, surveying. The last advices from Havannah mention that the Captain General Cute had arrived at that city. He reached Hsvannah by the Caledonia, lately one of the Cunard line of mail steamers sailing from this port to Boston, after a run of 24 days from Cadiz, including stoppages of 5 days at the Canaries, St. Thomas, and Porto Itico. COMMERCIAL NEWS. The money and stock markets are without marked change since our last; the same state of feeling continu ing to prevail. In the cotton market the news by the Niagara has pro ducel little effcct, except a tranquillisin g one, with,ti n some instances, a trivial reduction of price. Gulf cottons are still firm. The quotations are as under:— N. Orleans Mo- Uplands. Florida bile and Texas. Good ordinary ...••• 131 ... 13/ ... 13/ Middling l4 .. 141 ... 144 Good middling 144 ... 14i 141 Middling Fair l4ll ... 14i Fair Fully fair l5 ... 151 Good fair lsi ... 151 Stock in city in all hands estimated at 30,000 bales. Freights—Rates continued heavy to Liverpool, with light engagements. 3,000 bushels of wheat were taken for Liverpool, at 41d. Flour was taken at ls. to Is. 3d. Dead weight at 153. to 17s. 63. Cotton was nominal. There was no change to Havre and London. Ashes—Tee market is steady, with a fair demand; sales of 100 bbls., at 6 l2i for pots, and 5 814 for pearls. Flour and Meal—Our market is less buoyant for Western and State flour, with less speculative inquiry and less doing for export. Canadian is heavy, at 4 62k. The sales of domestic reach 16,000 bbls., at 4 184 to 4 44 for No. 2 superfine, 4 68:I to 4 75 for common to strait State and mixed Wisconsin, 4 75 to 4 871 for mixed to strait Michigan and Indiana, 4 81 to 4 94 for good Ohio, and 5 dolls. to 5 06 for pure Genesee. Grain—There is a good degree of firmness in our market for wheat. Canadian is plenty and firm, with a fair inquiry. The sales are 5,000 bush, good Ohio, at 104 c.; 3,000 ditto prime Genesee, 122 c.; 1,000 ditto prime Southern red, at 1 dell.; and 500 ditto prime Ca nadian, at, 106 c. to 1061 c. Rye is very plenty and easier; sales of 20,000 bmh., at 79c. to 810., closing at the inside price. There is no barley offering, and the nominal pricJ is 9Sc. to 105 c. Oats are rather better, and in lair demand at 45c. to 461 c. for Northern, and 42c. to 44c. for Jersey. Corn is a shade lower. Provisions—Our market for pork is rather lower, with more doing, in part for the settlement of contracts. The sales are I,SOO Wile., at 11 doll.. 314 c. to 11 dolls. 371 c. for mess, al:d 8 dolls. 37} for prime. Beef is in bettor demand; sales of 650 bbls., at 5 dolls to 8 dolls. 250. for old mess, and 8 dolls. 75e. to 9 dolls. for now country mess. Prime is nominal at 4 dolls. 75c. to 5 dolls. 75e., and quiet. Bed' hams are dull, but firm, at 12 dolls. 50e. to 13 cloth. 50e. Tobacco—The market is firm with a fair demand. The sates to-day are 220 hhds, Kentucky lean, 10c. to 13A.:..; 60 choice ditto, 123 c.; and 50 "'Hs. Maryland, 64c. Wool—The musket is very active. The se.les of the day are large, and embrace 12,0001b5. Washing ton Co. fleece, 50a.; 10,0001bs. Dutchess Co., 50e.; 15,000 to 20,0001b5. State fleece, 46c.; 7,0001b5. ditto, 44c.; and some other small lots at 35c. to 45a. Fine qualities have realized an advance of sc. per lb. Pulled wool has also risen about Hemp—Only a retail business in dew-rotted American, at 112 dolls 50c. to 125 dolls., and dressed American, 145 to 160 dolls. STEAM - ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA. The letter in the Times to-day on the various steam routes to Australia has attracted attention from the practical natare of its statements. It tends to confirm all the arguments that have lately been put forward with regard to the complete superiority of the Western line, from Panama to Sydney, and has increased the unfa vourable feeling with which the leading persons inte rested in the welfare of Australia have long regarded the strange want of decision shown by the Government on this important question. While the attention cf the whole world is turned to the Pacific Ocean, and to the vast commercial benefits that are destined to arise from the extension of enterprise in that direction, the sole object with our Ministers seems to have been to carry the route through the Indian Seas (where the development of our traffic calls for no extraneous aid) at an alleged additional cost as com pared with the Pacific route of at least twelve days in time a - ad 100 per cent, in the charges for freight and pas sage, besides unnecessary risk and inconvenience. " Throughout the entire range of the Pacific route, both going aad returning, fine weather, smooth seas, and a pleasant temperature almost everywhere prevail," while in the course from Singapore through Torres Straits it is believed that, even apart from the best nautical skill, vessels must always be liable to irregularities, and also to the most serious accidents. To pay the penalty of longer time and double fares for the latter line seems, therefore, an inexplicable proposition, yet it is surmised that although the Government plan has been obstructed by the India House, there is a probability that rather than it should be abandoned an effort will even still be made to carry it, through by some temporary expedients. Should any such attempts take place, the mercantile classes will look with strong interest for whatever explanations may be given with respect to it on the meeting of Parliament, since from the facts that have thus far been shown the selection seems so preposterous that people find it diffi cult to believe there is not some reason in favour of it which remains yet to be stated. Meanwhile, however, all parties are kept in suspense, and fresh irritation is engendered in the colonies, where the accounts that con stantly arrive of the success of the final postal service established by tho United States Government to Califor nia, even before the gold mines were discovered, are calculated to keep alive the most unsatisfactory compa risons.— Times. THURSDAY EVENING, LICENSED l ICTUALLERS' ASYLUM. The annual election for inmates into this institution took place yesterday. The number of applications to be placed upon the foundation of this noble charity was 46, and the vacancies amounted to only 14. The following. were the successful candidates:— Present Former election. election. Total. Worster Cusens Hall Chatfield Watkins Cox ... George Barber fleatheote Drysdale Flynn Gorr 7,494 9,870 Bishop Filling The Chairman having announced the navies, the court adjourned to January 3. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Last evening Mr. Macready appeared in two of his most popular characters, namely, King Henry, in the second part of King Henry the Fourth, and Mr. Oakley, in the Jealous Wife, thereby exhibiting his histrionic genius both in tragedy and comedy. His performance of the above-mentioned parts is too fami liar to the London public to require a lengthy criti cism from us. The dying scene of Henry is amongst his sublimest Shaksperian illustrations, and his ver sion of Mr. chkley remarkably pointed and effective, although, to our thinking, somewhat hard in manner, too petulant, and deficient in the easy but dignified grace which should appertain to what is termed " high comedy" Mrs. Warner was an admirable Mrs. Oakley, and the other characters were effici ently represently by Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Stanley, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Howe, Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Buck stone. The house was very crowded. AD EL A IDE GALLERY. Those who are fond of lively music, or tripping it on " the light fantastic toe," should pay an early visit to the grand salon de danse at the Adelaide Gallery, where Borini's band, :perhaps one of the best of the kind in London, is becoming as attractive as Laurent's at a similar establishment further west. The selec. tions of music embrace all the favourite works of the day, and solos and concerted pieces follow each other in rapid succession. There is besides a vocal and in strumental concert given every evening under the direction of Mr. J. W. Sharp, whose powers of rendering comic songs in the best possible style are only surpassed by the rich fund of humour , which he seems always to have at his com mand. Miss G. Hodgson, a pleasing and tasteful I vocalist, has this week been added to the list of performers, and her nightly reception by the habituas of the place is :flattering in the extreme, though, perhaps, not more flattering than her abilities to warble plaintive ditties, and her exertions to please, entitle her to. At the conclusion of the concert, the body of the gallery passes into the charge of Mons. De l'Motte, who, assisted by four or five polite masters of the ceremonies, marshals the votaries to Terpsichore, and conducts dillies, waltzes, & c ., & c., them through an en dl ess variety of polkas, qua . which are kept up with unflagging spirit till t h e h ollow clock of St. Mar tin's warns them that it is time the chef orchestre and his corps terminated their labours, for one night at least, and betook themselves to their re spective domiciles. A r t h L i s 1 I n f e A w N; n S v e I n ---) t A i o 'l n -L n ail the staple b h.. VOLTAIC LIGHT . interesting lccture, delivered technic Institution, hoffner, in the Chemical Theatre of the y ßoyal Poly as alight-giving Regent -street. The discovery of Mr. Allman differs from every other invention in tendedelectricity which is the c -of 'light is made cause the own governor, after the manner of the application agent, inasmuch as the of the governor to the steam-engine. The principal by which Mr. Allman develops this invention is the well-known instrument called the galvanometer, the maintaining power being dependent on the deflection of the magnetic needle. Thus, as the power of the current is diminished, th e needle re t u rns to its normal condition—that is, on a line parallel to that of the passage of the elect r i c current. Th e main point in which Mr. Allman's invention differs from those of Messrs. Staite and Petrie consists in the electrodes being maintained at the same constant distance from one another, by which means the uuiformity of the light is provided for. This object is attained, as we have said, by the gal van ometer, within which is placed an arrangem en t o f mregnete, disposed in the shape of a fan, and turning about an horizontal pivot resting 01.1 friction wheels, by which means the action is rendered the more delicate. When more or less fluid is Passing than the normal or adjusted situation of the electrodes requires, the deflectio n of t he l e v er which immedi a t e ly re sults corrects the variation which has also been occasioned in the distance be tween the electrodes. The patent accordingly in sures an uniformity in the intensity of the light. The experiment made with the light yesterday w as highly successful, and set at rest all doubts as to whether a perfect continuity of fluid could be at tained. Dr. Bachhoffner, in prefacing a very inte resting lecture on the subject, explained that during the interval which had elapsed since he had last ad dressed an audience at the institution on the subject of the electric light, one of the difficulties which had previously stood in the way of its practical applica tion had, by the invention of Mr. Allmann, been most effectually and satisfactorily removed. The de sideratum of perfect continuity was now secured. In fact, the brilliant and dazzling light exhibited at the lecture was in steady action for one hour and a half, and by a proportionate supply of material could of course be made to last for a longer period. The patentee expresses himself sanguinely as to the superiority of electricity over coal gas as a light giving agent, and as a manufacture, both as regards its beauty, cleanliness, simplicity, safety from explosion, and its economy. Gas pipes, he contends, are more than one hundred times the expense, length for INTO), of electric mains. The insertion of gas re quires much cutting and alteration of premises. Electricity, on the contrary, requires none ; and whereas gas joints require careful fitting, to prevent annoying smell and explosion, electric wires require no fitting, contact being sufficient, or at most a sol dering. it appears that a slip or silver, as thin as tissue paper, passed across the ceiling, and painted over, is an ample conductor for the light of 2,000 candies, in every respect the patentee claims im mense advantages for electricity over gas, when its usefulness shall have been fully developed; but at present, he contends, it holds out to the chemist a more extensive field for manufacture than was ever presented by gas, and that if it can now, in its crude state, produce for a given expenditure, or even at an expense twenty times greater, as much light as gas, the outlay of money, combined with engineering and chemical knowledge, would speedily place it far beyond gas on the score of economy. DECEMBER l2, 1850. RESIGNATION OF MR. BENNETT, OF ST. PAUL'S, KNIGHTSBRIDGE. The. follovving important correspondence has been forwarded to us for publication :- 1 " St. Barnabas', Pimlico, Dec. 4, 1850. "My Lord,—On reviewing the correspondence which has been carried on between your Lordship and myself since July 1, I find that in my letter to you, dated July 15, I wrote as follows : " On the one hand, as I hope it will be clearly uo derstood that, conscientiously, I cannot forego any of the principles which in this letter I set forth and advocate, and, if I remain in the cure of souls, by those princi ples I must be permitted to abide; so, on the other hand, as I consider myself morally and spiritually bound not to oppose your Lordship in those matters which, as diocesan, yon have a right and a duty to regulate, I am ready to withdraw from a position in which the possi bility of such an event might arise.' " And again in my letter of October 23, I wrote as follows : " My conclusion is in this difficulty, as it was in my previous letter of July 15, that I ought, if called upon, to resign my living I would then put it to your Lordship in this way :—if your Lordship should be of continued opinion, seeing me and knowing me as you do, that I am guilty of unfaithfulness to the Church of England, and if your Lordship will upon that signify your judgment as bishop that it would be for the peace and better ordering of that portion of the Church which is under your episcopal charge that I should no longer serve in the living of St. Paul's, I will then the very next day send you my resignation.' "I have now to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's letter, dated November 27, in which you say,— " Upon the whole, if you are not prepared to comply simpliciter and ex anirno, with the requisition contained in my letter of the 16th inst., I must call upon you to fulfil your offer of retiring from a charge which I deliberately think you could not in that case continue to hold with out great injury to the Church.' " My Lord, seeing that I am unable conscientiously to place myself under the former clause of this sen tence, i. e., to comply simpliciter and ex animo with your requisition of the 16th inst.,' it follows that I must submit to the call' made upon me in the latter. " But this ' call' refers to an offer' made by me in my letter of October 30. "I conclude, therefore, that in making this call upon me you wish to express all that was involved or contained in that offer—namely, that you are of continued opinion that I am guilty of unfaithfulness to the Church of England,' and that you therein ' signify your judgment as Bishop that it is for the peace and better ordering of that portion of the Church which is under your epiticopal charge that I should no longer serve in the living of St. Paul's. " To this judgment of my Bishop deliberately given, and the call thereupon deliberately made, I consider it to be my duty to submit. " Accordingly, I now redeem the pledge given in my letter of Oct. 30; and in answer to your call' now made upon me, I hereby send you my resig nation of the perpetual curacy of St. Paul's, Knights bridge. " The precise time when I shall cease to have fur ther charge of the parish, and the future arrange ments necessary for the performance of the various services of the Church, perhaps your Lordship will have the kindness to arrange with the churchwardens, whom I will desire to wait upon you as soon as pos sible for that purpose. " In concluding this correspondence, as I feel that in all probability I may have made use of expressions or brought forward arguments which may have given offence to your Lordship personally, I desire for all such occasions of offence to express my sincere re gret, and to assure your Lordship that they have been purely inadvertent. " For any offence so inadvertent I- hope I may safely ask your Lordship's charity and forgiveness, and remain, " Your Lordship's faithful servant, " W. S. E. BENNETT. " The Lord Bishop of London." " Fulham, Dec. 9. " Rev. and dear Sir —I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th instant, in which you tender your rebignation of the perpetual curacy of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. That resignation, under the circumstances of the case, I think I am bound to accept; and in doing so I deem it right briefly to recapitulate those circumstances. "During the last four years I have several times cautioned you on the subject of the excessive ritua lism which you were inclined to practise, as approach ing too nearly to that of the Church of Rome. Writ ing to you on the 7th of January, 1847, on the sub ject of intoning the prayers, I said, I really fear you are carrying things too far.' This caution re ferred, as I afterwards explained it, not so much to any deviations from the rubric, as to certain pecu liarities of manner, which are not necessary to a cor rect observance of the rubric, and which afford a handle to objectors.' "In February, 1849, I received a letter from one of your parishioners, complaining of certain peculiari ties in your mode of celebrating divine service. On the 10th of that month you waited upon me, accom panied by your two churchwardens, and, in their presence, denied most of the statements contained in that letter. Both you and they assured me that you had made no change since the day of the conse cration, and that the congregation at large were not dissatisfied. I told you, I did not approve of so much form, especially of the procession with the elements, nor of the choristers receiving the communion before the other communicants. In a letter which I wrote on the 16th of the same month to the gentleman who bud made the complaint above mentioned I gave him an account of what had passed at my interview with you and the churchwardens, and after stating that your mode of performing divine service, which was not disapproved of by the congregation in general, was, as far as I could collect, 'in conformity with the practice followed in cathedral churches,' I added, " I am bound to acknowledge that I greatly question the expediency of introducing that mode of celebrating divine service into our parochial churches; but if an in cumbent thinks it right to do so, seeing that he has the rubric in his favour, I doubt whether I have authority to prohibit it; although if I were made aware of a gene ral feeling of dissatisfaction in the congregation I might interfere in the way of advice and remonstrance.' "No expression of any such general feeling with respect to St. Paul's ever reached me. In a letter which I wrote to you on the 6th of March, 1849, were these words :—' I certainly understood at that ti me (of the consecration of St. Paul's) that the prayers were to be read, and not intoned.' Since the consecration of St. Barnabas' you have carried your ritual innovations to such an extreme that I have found myself obliged to remonstrate with you more strongly and more particularly than I had done with reference to the services of St. Paul's. And this leads me to complain of an assertion made by you in your published letter to Lord John Russell, as being utterly unfounded. You say, in page 20 : " My views and principles in the regulation of the service—intending to do, teach, and pima° my way, in the very way I am now pursuing it—all this was known to the Bishop.' This I emphatically deny. I knew, generally, your mode:of celebrating divine service in St. Paul's, and I had more than once signified to you my disappro bation of some features of it; but I had no notion of what you intended to do in St. BarnEthas' in the way of additional novelties. As soon as I heard of them, within three weeks from the day of the consecration, I wrote to you in the following words " Tho accounts which have reached me of what is taking place at St. Barnabas' leave me no choice but to interfere. You are aware that some of the practices which you have at different times adopted in the mode celebrating divine service in St. Paul's Church ap peared to me to approach too nearly to those of the Church of Rome, and to be contrary to the spirit and intention of the rubric of our Church, if not to its ex pressed letter. I have more than once expressed to you my fear that you were exciting or encouraging in the members of your congregation a taste for forms and ob servances which would lead them to seek for its fuller gratification in the Church of Rome. That this has been the actual result, in some instances, there can be no doubt. Whether others have occurred, of persons re tained in our communion by the partial concessions made to a morbid appetite, may well be questioned. " ' But I am informed, upon authority which I can hardly doubt, that in the services at St. Barnabas' you are introducing still further deviations from the ordinary forms of our Church, and that practices are adopted and encouraged there which have not yet found their way into St. Paul's, and which give just offence even to those who have hitherto gone with you in your observances.' " I then proceeded to specify the particular forms alluded to—viz., your posture, and that of your curates, in celebrating the holy communion : the not giving the cup into the hands of the communicants, and the putting the bread into their mouths instead of delivering it into their hands; the form of words used before the sermon instead of a collect and the Lord's Prayer, and the crossing of themselves by the clergy present. In your answer to that letter you attempted to justify the use, not only of those forms, but also of any other which you might from time to time adopt from the supposed practice of the Church before the Reformation, except those which are in terms prohi bited; on the principle—that wheresoever no prohi bition occurs--there the ancient usages of the Catho lic Church were meant to prevail ;' and you said in conclusion : " On the one hand I hope it will he clearly under stood that conscientiously I cannot forego any of the principles which in this letter I set forth and advocate, and if I remain in the cure of souls, by those principlet I must be permitted to abide; on the other hand, as I consider myself morally and spiritually bound not to op pose your Lordship in those matters which as diocesan ycu have a right and a duty to regulate, so I am ready to withdraw from a position in which the possibility of such an event might arise. I therefore place myself in sour Lordship's hands, us the right and lawful judge in this matter and the Church's guardian.' "I received that letter at a time when I was too unwell to attend to any business of importance—a fortnight before I went abroad for the recovery of my health. After my return home I wrote to you at ! considerable length on the 16th of October, combating the reasons which you had advanced in defence of your practices, and stating with respect to one of those practices— "' The great objection to the practice (and to many others) is, that it offends the weaker brethren by re minding them of the abominations of Popery, and wear ing the semblance of a return to them. Such scruples you yourself confess that it is necessary to consider, though in another passage of your letter you would set them aside as prejudices. You overlook the fact, that while " making concessions to the morbid appetites" of some you are offending the scruples of others. But why is not a scruple, or even a prejudice, entitled to as much consideration as a "morbid appetite?" " You tell me that you cannot conscientiously forego any of the principles set forth in your letter. My remonstrance to you was directed against certain prac tices—practices in behalf of which you offer no valid defence, and which you surely cannot consider of vital importance. If I restrain you from those practices— which I feel myself bound to do as far as I can—l can not think that your conscience will be seriously ag grieved, or that a sufficient ca3us will have arisen for your leaving the ministry, to which you have hitherto been so zealously devoted.' " In your answer to this letter, dated October 30, you "' rmuch less feared the imputation of " Romish practices" than I longed for an opportunity of winning back the souls of men to the ancient sta❑dards of faith, of devotion, and of sanctity, which I found the Catholic Church, both in the Esat and in the West, invariably teaching and professing. I could not permit myself to acknowledge that the Church of England could be cut off from such universal standards. I cannot see how it is that she can be separated and alone in any mat ter. What is universal must be true. What all ages have loved and venerated she ought not to be permitted to lose. Therefore, as I could best have opportunity (consistent with the obedience of those points strictly forbidden or commanded by the local Church, to which obedience is due in its place) I have always made my teaching and ritual practices accord with such Catholic ideas. I feel very great confidence that whatever is Catholic (in the ecclesiastical sense) must be true ; what is merely local, not necessarily so ; and certainly not so ualeas made to be consistent wish and in harmony with what is Catholic. "' It remains for me to consider whether I can, upon your Lordship's repeated request , set aside these prin ciples, and with them, as they appear to me combined, the practices to which your Lordship objects. It :grieves me more than I can say, because I foresee that it will probably end, sooner or later, in the loss of all that I have ever lived for and done in this parish—it grieves me to say that I am unuble to withdraw or to alter anything that I have said or done. The principles themselves, as above described, L feel that you would not ask me to abandon ; and I also feel that by not abandoning the principles, and yet aban doning the practices founded upon them, I should be a mere hypocrite in God's sight. There would be such a loss of consistency and steadfastness of purpose in the eyes of my parishioners as would cause me deservedly to lose their confidence and support, and utterly destroy my usefulness in the pastoral office. On the other hand, I have very great reluctance to disturb the peace of the Church (if so it must be). I dread becoming the occa sion of any legal prosecutions, or running the risk of ecclesiastical proceedings, and I think it my bounden duty l i to sacrifice all that belongs to myself rather than place your Lordship under the necessity of appealing to any such means for correcting what i❑ your opinion is wrong. Therefore, my conclusion is in this difficulty, as it was in my previous letter of July 15, that I ought, if called upon, to resign my living. "'I would then put it to your Lordship in this way —I would say, if your Lordship ahouid be of continued opinion, seeing and knowing me as now you do, that I ate guilty of unfaithfulness to the Church of England; and if your Lordship will upon that signify your judg ment as bishop that it would be for the peace and better ordering of the Church which is under your episcopal eharge, that I should no longer serve in this living of St. Paul's, I would then, the very next day, send you my formal resignation.' _ "To this letter, dated October 30, I replied on the 16th of November, having been prevented by the business of my Visitation from returning an earlier answer. ".Being still desirous of bringing you, if possible, to a right view of your duty to the Church, and of inducing you to obey rather than to retire, I expressed myself as follows : " I cannot for a moment admit the soundness of these principles, upon the strength of which you consider yourself to be justified in doing that which is contrary to the order of the Church of which you aro a minister, to the spirit of all its rules and formularies, and to the judgment of your bishop. " lam under the necessity of stating my decided opinion that a continuance of the practices against which i I have in vain remonstrated, and of any others which are not. sanctioned by the laws or customs of our Church, as well as of any peculiarities of dress or manner which are unusual in our Church, but are copied from that of Rome, is inconsistent with your duty as a minis ter of the English Church; and I now again call upon you to relinquish them.' " In answer to this, you wrote me on the 23d of November a letter, in which you abandon the prin ciple against which I contended, and take entirely new ground. You say— " I would take the following rules as my guide in the present difficulties:— "' 1. I have ascertained from Mr. Dodsworth, Mr. Richards, and Mr. Murray, all the points of ritual and ceremony which have been in use in their churches for many years, known to and permitted by your Lord- ship.' . - 6 lt is my intention to adhere to any or all of these ritual and ceremonial observances. ' " 2. Your Lordship will remember all that was done in ritual and ceremony in your own presence at the con secration of St. Barnabas.' " ' It is my intention to adhere to any or all of that ritual and ceremony.' __ " '3. I have collected together from various cathedrals of the Church of England the forms of ritual observance practised is them.' " It is my intention to adhere to or to adopt any or all such points as I may find authorised therein.' " Whatsoever is not found or authorisedby either ono of the above rules, and whatsoever is not found, or cannot be legitimately deduced from the Book of Com mon Prayer or the canons of our Church, it is my inten tion, in obedience to your Lordship's episcopal requisi tion, to abandon.' "In reply to this letter, wherein you clearly gave up the principle insisted upon in your former letters, I wrote on the 27th of November as follows : " I cannot for a moment admit that any one of the ceitcria which you propose is binding upon me. " ' 1. Supposing even that I had not objected (which, however, I have done in the strongest manner) to some practices in the churches to which you allude, there must be many things done there which I cannot be cognizant of, and there may be many little things not prohibited by me, the aggregate of which would be very offensive and objectionable. Your plan, it seems, will be to pick out from various churches everything unusual, and to combine them into a complete system in your own.' " 2. There was more form and display at the con secration of St. Barnabas than I liked ; but I saw nothing decidedly contrary to the rubric—certainly none of those forms which I have since heard of as being observed by you, and to which I have objected. It was not likely that I should take that opportunity of stating my objections to minor points; but I spoke very plainly in my sermon of the danger of excess, and in less than one month from that time I wrote to you a strong letter of remonstrance. There may have been things done at the consecration which did not fall under my eye; and, from what has since happene.l I think it likely that such was the case. But, even if it were not, I cannot consent to be hound to tolerate now what I did not take that op portunity of censuring.' " 4 3. Even were I to admit that the diocesan cathe dral was to be a rule and standard for all the parochial churches in the diocese, it is clear that I could not con sent to extend this privilege to all other cathedrals; for if that were done, then, if any one dean and chapter were to adopt extravagant and Romanizing practices, I should be bound to tolerate them.' " • I have no reason to suppose that there is any cus tom observed in any of our cathedrals of which I should disapprove, but I cannot bo bound by their usages.' " Upon the whole, if you are not prepared to com ply simplicitor and ex animo, with the requisition con tained in my letter of the 16th inst , I must call upon you to fulfil your offer of retiring from a charge which I de liberately think you could not in th at case cont i nue to hold without great injury to the Church.' "In your recently published letter to Lord John Russell, you declare that what your intention and mine was at the tim e o f th e consecrat i on o f S t. Barnabas,' • in ceremonies and rituals that it shall be now, please God, for ever the same, unchanged, unchangeable.' It is an unavoidable inference from this solemn declaration, that the novelties of which I complained, and which I called upon you to lay aside, will not be given up, although I have forbidden them as being contrary to the Church's order and inten tion. This leaves me no choice as to the course to be pursued. It is impossible for me not to think that • the peace and goo d or d e r o f the Church which is under my episcopal charge' would be seriously in terrupted, and occasion of triumph given to the Church's enemies, if you were to continue in your present post, deliberately and avowedly disobeying the admonitions of your bishop, and setting up your own judgment of the Church's intention in opposition to his. The evils necessarily resulting from such a state of things would greatly outweigh the good which might be derived from your zeal, ability, and devoted ness, supposing the innovations complained of to have no connexion with the erroneous opinions in certain points of doctrine which they are commonly supposed to express or indicate. " It is with very great pain, but with no hesitation as to the necessity which binds me to this conclusion, that I now eirlify my acceptance o f your renewe d offer to resign the incumbancy of St. Paul's, and, with it, the chapel of St. Barnabas'. " Praying that the Divine Head of the Church may guide you to a right judgment in the things which concern its peace, " I remain, Rev. and dear Sir, " Your faithful servant in Christ, os C. J. Lorin ox." l Ro T mi h 3 e h Table t lo .ast week announces that Visc o u n t Campden a n d his Lady have been recited, at Paris , into the REPLY OF THE BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S TO HIS CLERGY. The Bishop of St. David's, who, it will be remem bered, was one of the two prelates whose sigce'ures did not appear at the foot of the address from the English hierarchy, published last Thursday, has issued a reply to the addresses voted to him by the clergy. of his diocese. The document is a very lengthy one, but the following are its most important passages : " It has afforded me very great pleasure to observe that the expression of your feelings is accompanied with a decl ara ti on t h at you do not desire anything at variance with th ose principles of religious toleration which form a part of the British Constitution. I hope that none of us, but especially none of the clergy, will be provoked by the recent insults to breathe a wish for any infringement of those principles. I can not even now regret the removal of those disabilities under which our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects for merly laboured." His Lordship adds that he approved of those mea sures more in confidence of the strength of the Pro testant feeling in this country than in the faith of the Romanists. He continues : " I think it as clearly incumbent on the clergy, whenever their flocks are threatened with the infec tion of Romish error, diligently to resist its progress by exposing those corruptions of doctrine and practice against which our Church bears witness in her Articles and Liturgy, and more particularly by laying bare the hollowness of those pretensions which have been recently put forward in such an extravagant and offensive form." His Lordship rather discourages " frequent refer ence to controversial topics " by his clergy, and thus concludes his address ; " But I must further observe, with reference to a portion of your address, that you seem to me, unless I have mistaken your meaning, to have put an erroneous construction on the terms of the declara tion—" that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, bath or ought to have any juris diction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or autho rity, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm.' I conceive that this is a declaration not of a matter of fact, but of a point of doctrine which we hold as Protestants, not as English subjects, and which our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects both notoriously do, and lawfully may, reject. I apprehend that the words "or ought to have, are simply explanatory:of the word ' bath,' and that they import no more than if the declaration had ran ' bath no rightful jurisdiction ;' in short, that they amount to nothing more than a denial of the Pope's spiritual supremacy. I feel deeply your expression of kindness towards myself, as well as of veneration for the office which I unworthily bear; and commend ing yeu and your work to the Divine blessing, " I remain your faithful and affectionate brother, " C. ST. DAVID'S?: LORD MIN TO AND THE POPE. The Rev. E. Wilmot, Vicar of Kenilworth, wrote to Earl Minto, asking authority to contradict the state ment which had been made in the public journals re specting his intimating, on the part of Government, that they would offer no opposition to this step of the Pope, and has received the following reply : " Minto, Nov. 1, 1850. " Sir,—l very much regret that the reserve neces sarily imposed o❑ those charged with diplomatic duties does not admit of my entering into unauthorised expla raions on subjects connected with my mission to Italy, which 1 should otherwise have been most ready to afford you. I ♦enture to hope, however, that recent experience of the distrust with which statements from the same quar ter are to be received will induce you to hesitate in lending too easy credit to insinuations that I have been consulted upon, or had sanctioned, any scheme of Roman Catholic organisation in this country. " I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, " himo." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, DEC. 11. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert walked this morning in the Slopes. The Royal Family took their usual airings. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde and Lady Emily de Burgh, Lord and Lady Mahon, and Sir David Dundas, are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a visit to the Queen and the Prince. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Adeliza Howard, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde and Lady Emily de Burgh, the Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Canning, Lord and Lady Mahon, Sir James and Lady Graham, and Sir David Dundas. The band of the Royal Horse Guards will attend during dinner. The Queen's private band will afterwards attend in the Castle. The band of the Coldstream Guards performed the following pieces in the Castle during dinner on Tuesday : Overture, " Alcade de Vega" Onslow. Valse et Galop de Fascination, "Alma," Costa. Selection from "Le Prophete," , Quadrille, " Hibernian," Glee and Chorus, " The Chough and Crow " Procession March, "La Jeuve" Halevy. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended at the Castle, and played the following selection : Overture, "Frieschutz " Concerto, violin (M. Sainton) Mendelssohn. Trio Bouffe, " Le Prophete " Meyerbeer. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town to attend the meeting from his seat, Bowood-park, Wilts. Lord John Russell arrived in town to attend the Council from a visit to the queen at Windsor Castle. The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Pal merston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobbouse, the Earl of Carlisle, the Right Hon. Henry La bouchere, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Right lion. Fox Maule, also attended. The Council sat three hours and a-half. Baron de Brunnow, the Russian Minister, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Lord Sondes had an interview yesterday with Sir George Grey, and delivered to him addresses from the Mayor and inhabitants of Canterbury and Faver sham, against Papal aggression. A deputation from the committee for promoting the formation of a park for the borough of Finsbury, con sisting of the Right Hon. Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P., Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., Mr. Wakley, M.P., Mr. T. H. Boykett (returning officer), Mr. William Tyler, Mr. C. Woodward, F.R S., Rev. S. Clissold, A.M., Mr. J. Barnett, Mr. J. Parson, Mr. Wade, Mr. J. R. Taylor, and Mr. Tarplee, accom panied by Mr. J. Lloyd (Hon Sec.), had an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell. The Cambridge University Commission met yes terday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. Present—the Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Ely, Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Sir John Romilly, the Rev. Professor Sedgwielc, and the Rev. W. H. Bateson (Secretary). The Committee on agricultural implements of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 met at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the new Palace of Westminster. Present—Mr. Pusey, M.P. (chair man), the lion. Dudley Pelham, M.P., Colonel B. Challoner, Mr. Joseph Locke, M.P. Mr. B. Gibbs, Mr. H. S. Thompson, Mr. J. V. Shelley, and Mr. A. Hamond. Colonel Reid (chairman), Mr. Cole, and Mr. Dilk.2, of the Executive Committee, were also present. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary Wood returned to town yesterday, from a visit to her Majesty at 'Windsor Castle. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, New-Zealand, and the Falkland Islands. JAMAICA. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 1 I.—From Kingston we have ad vices to the Bth ult. Cholera continued to rage with great violence all over the island; the deaths in Kingston alone, from October 10 to November 7, were 1,000. Business was all but suspended. The weather had been highly favourable for the suppression of the disease. GAS AND POPERY.—When the chairman of a company, formed for lighting the Eternal City, waited on the late Pope to solicit the required permission, Gregory in dignantly asked how he presumed to ask such a thing so utterly subversive of religion. The astonished speculator humbly stated- that he could not see the most remote con nexion between religion and carburetted hydrogen—" Yes, but there is sir," shouted the Pope, " my pious subjects are in the habit of vowing candles to be burned before the shrines of the taints ; the glimmering candle would soon be rendered ridiculous by the contrast of the glaring gas lights, and thus a custom so essential to everlasting salvation would fall into general contempt, if not into disuse." No reply could be made to this edifying argument. Silenced, if not convinced, the speculator withdrew— the votive candles still flicker, though not so numerously as heretofore, and they just render visible the dirt and darkness to which Rome is consigned at night. The introduction of gas and the fall of the Papacy appeared, therefore, to be simultaneous events reserved for the astonishment of the Romans in future ages.—From the Gas Journal of October, 1850. _ _ - Pownall's Magnetic Indicator is now working at the CattleVxhibition in:George-street, and by its extreme simpli cityand unerring correctness the number of visitors who enter the Exhibition is ascertained, each person being marked upon a small dial, which is inclosed in a box, and communicated with by the electric wire as each individual passes in, who is quite unconscious of the operation. This invention will not alone be a check upon cheque-takers, but a groat saving of time and labour, and may be adopted at all theatres and public rooms, where it may be desirable to ;ascertain the numbers entering. The price of gold at Paris is about at par, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10%d. per cuoce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.15; and the ex change at Paris on London at short being 25.02%, it follows that gold is 0,54 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. :irKps• A st' ai ie to image' b 0 o bore, n ab ' . .agog, 31S ir r ive u• O il ' ut 3° '4 41 „ ,t " AO cre o A Cu ket il 3e ol i 6d as&