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2 1.1. s of the Pope which are absolutely necessary for the a ppointment of bishops and paStors belonging to the Ro man Catholic Church. It would be quite impossible to prevent the introduction of such bu 114.. " 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 hi 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 mitted to be carried on perfectly and properly; and that couhi not be without such communication. On these grounds he proposed to repeal the Act't (13t h Eliz.). _ _ "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 all, the Pope, and the Pope alone, can make them for them. Then it enters as completely into the principles of religious liberty that the Pope, should name the hierarchy, as that Catholics should have the right to possess one—a right as neces sary for them as for the Wesleyans that of having con ferences with superintendents. " But it may be said, what induced the Pope to ap point this hierarchy now, and in so sudden a manner ? " For an` answer to this question, I must refer you to my introduction, in which you will find, I trust, a satis factory one. - 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. Citholies 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 perfeet 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. rhat 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. • Let us see. " SECT. IV.-ISOES 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 the 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 memoritii, being professionally learned in the law, have studied the question—have come to a delibtqate 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 w'hich I would beg respectfully to suggest to the consideration of persons better versed in law than I am. " In this document, and in many other similar onc3, 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 named archbishops and bishops.' If, according to the oath taken by the non-Catholics, the Pope not only ought not to have, but 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 to England are mere nullities, and are reputed to have no existence. It is as though the Pope had not spoken, and had not issued any document. To act otherwise is to recognise an efficient act of power on his part. " I am confirmed in this view by Lord John Russeli's explanation of the Protestant oath. The oaths now taken are not altered. We shall continue to take the oath, that " the Pope has not," &c.; though at the same time there is no doubt, in point of fact, that he exercises a spiritual authority in these realms. I have always in terpreted the oath to be, that, in the opinion of the per son taking it, the Popo has not any jurisdiction which can be enforced by law, or ought not to have.'t Accord ing to this test, the Pope (permissively, tat least) does exercise a spiritual jurisdiction in England, and is within the limits of that toleration, so lung as he (loos not exercise a jurisdiction which can be enforced by law, or purporting or claiming to be a jurisdiction enfurcible by law. Now, no one for a moment imagines that the Pope, or the Catholics of England, or their bishops dream that the appointment of the hirearchy can be en forced by law.' They believe it to be an act altogether ignored by law; an act of spiritual jurisdiction, only to be enforced upon the consciences of those who acknow ledge the Papal supremacy, by their conviction and their faith. " Has this assumption of titles been 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 tolicals; yet no one taxes them with illegality. Then our taking the title of bishops merely constitutes no illegality. Is there any law that forbids our taking the title from any place not being a see of an Anglican bishop? No one can say that there is. " Thcn 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, be an infringement of her royal prerogative? If not, then I trust that we may conclude, that by this new creation of Catholic bishops that prerogative has not been violated. "No one doubts that the bishops so appointed are 'Raman Catholic bishops, to rule over Roman Catholic flocks. Does the Crown claim the right, under its pre rogative, of naming such bishops? "It will be said that no limitation of jurisd:ction is made in the Papal document, no restriction of its exer cise to Catholics; and hone.) Lord John Russell and others conclude, that there in this brief, a pretension to supremacy over the realm of England, and a claim to sole and undivided sway.' Every official document has its proper 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 appoints a person Vicar-Apostolic or Bishop in ordinary, iu either case he assigns him a territorial ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and gives him no personal limitation?. This is the prac tice of every church which believes iu its own truth, and in its duty of conversion. What has been done in this brief, has been done in every ono ever issued, whether to create a hierarchy or to appoint a bishop. " SEC. ♦.-HAS TILE MODE OF ESTABLISHING THE BIER- ARCHY BEEN ' INSOLENT AND INSIDIOUS ?' " The words in this title are extracted from the too memorable letter of the First Lord of the Treasury. I am willing to cJosider that production as a private set, and not ts any manifesto of the intentions of her Ma jesty's Government. Unforrunately, it is difficult to ab stract one's mind irom the high and responsible situation of the writer, or conshkr him as unpledged by anything that he puts forth. There Lre parts of the letter on whiela v..euld here refrain from commenting, because they might lead me aside, in sorrow, if not ia auger, 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, asi 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 flourishing colonies. The charge, uttered in the ear of that island, in which all guarantees fur 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 tho mummeries of super stition,' in the mind of their giver—guarantees and securities which can hardly be believed to be heartily offered—the charge thus made, in a voice that has been applauded by the Protestantism of England, produces in the Catholic heart a feeling too 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 ♦ictim. " rut to proceed; so little was I, on my part, aware that such feeling as that letter disclosed existed in the head of our. Government, ou the subject of the hierarchy, that havin- , occasion to write to his Lordship on some I the liberty of continuing my letter as " ` Vienna, Nov. 3, 1830. st g My Lord, ,k " I cannot but tno:it deeply regr. , t the erroneous,papers have and even distorted Niew which the English pre tented o f w hat the Holy See has done i n regar d to the spiritual government of the Catholics of England. But I take the libe:ty of slating that the measure now pro rnulgatvd was not only prepared, but printed, three years ar.o, and a. copy if it was shown to Lord Minto by the Pope, on occasion of an audience given to his Lordship by his Ilolinesi. I have no right to intrude upon your Lordship further in this matter beyond offering to give any explanations that your Lordship may desire, in full e elficlen,:e thnt it will be iu my power to remove parti cularly the offensive inkrprutatit,n put upon the late act of the Holy See, that it was suggested by political views, or by any hostile feelings. " And with regard to myself, I beg to add, that lam invested with a purely ecclesiast ical dignity—that I have no secular or temporal delegation whatever—that my • Hansard, vol. lxxxviii., p. 362. f Hansard, vol. lxxxv., p. 1,261. Hansard, vol. lxxxviii. p. 363. fig SUN, duties will be what they have over been, to promote the morality of those committed to my charge, especially the masses of our poor, and keep up those feelings of good-will and friendly intercommunion between Catho lics and their fellow-countrymen, which, I flatter my self, I have been the means of somewhat improving. 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 state 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. " 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. CARD. WISEMAN. " The Right Hon. the Lord John Russell, First Lord of the Treasury, &c., &c., Sec.' " I give this letter, because it will show that there was nothing in my mind to prepare-sane 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 must consider as my only reply. And Ido not think that the tone of my letter will be found to indicate the existence of any insolent or insidi ous design. "It is my duty, therefore, now to show calmly and dispassionately, and apart from any party feeling•, the reasons which 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 L I enacted by the Queen's excellent Majesty, by and with rthe advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the province of Canada' (12 Viet., 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.'s` " In an Act passed March 21, 1849 (12 Viet. 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 oc the said diocese.l - Lately again, after mature consideration, the Holy See has funned 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 Pape' supremacy in the erect4m 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 Itev. 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 apostolic 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 had 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 most illustrious and moat 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 cf thirteen vicars-apostolic, without of course a metropoli tan, would have been as anomaly, an irregularity, with out parallel, in the church. Was it then 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 which I do not love to repeat? " 2. But further, considering the manner in which acts of the royal supremacy had been exercised abroad, and taking it for granted 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 have been considered as more inconsistent with the Queen's supremacy,' than that exercise was considered incon sistent with'the Pope's supremacy' 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 advised to erect, and did erect (5 Vice, 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 den, Egypt, and Abyssinia, subject to further limitations or alterations at the royal will. No one supposes that, for instance, the King of 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 cared? 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. Tomlieson officiated in Rome, and, 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.' He confirmed and preached there, without leave of the lawful bishop; and yet the newspapers took no notice of ir, and the pulpits did not denounce him. But, in fact, the statute under which these things were done is so comprehensive, that it empowers tha Archbishops of Canterbury or York to consecrate not only British sub jects, but eubjects and citiz 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 cognized, as in a Catholic country—if the Queen, as head of the English Church, can send bishops into Abyssinia and Italy, surely Catholics had good right to suppose hat, with the full toleration granted them, and the permitted exercise of Papal supremacy in their behalf, rio lees would be permitted to them without censure or rebuke. " 3 But not only had Catholics every ground to feel justified by what bad 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 Sea 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-Secretary 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 mission, the answer given was somewhat to this effect:—` What does it matter to us what you call yourselves, whether Vicars-Apostolic, or Bishops, or Meftip ' or Imaums, so that you do not as k us to d o 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 Eno that, having laid the matter before the head of the department, the answer was the same as he 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 to this transaction will bo found in the Colonial-office. I u the debate on the Catholic Relief Bill, July 9, 1845, Lord John Russell, then in opposition, spoke to the following effect:--' He, for one, was prepared to go into Commit tee on those clauses of the Act of 1829. He did not say that he was at once prepared to repeal all those clauses, but he was willing to go into Committee to deliberate on the subject. He believed that they might repeal those disallowing clauses which prevented a Roman Catholic bishop assuming a title held by a bishop of the Estab lished Church. He could not conceive any good grourel for the continuance of this restriction.' # It must be ob served that there is nothing in the context which limits 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 countries. " What his Lordship had said in 1845, he deliberately and even more strongly, confirmed the following year. In the debate on the first reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, February sth, 1846, he referred to his speech, Roman. Catholic Church (India, &c.) Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, Aug. 15, 1850, p. 10. -I- Ibid., P. 15. "# Hansird, vol. lsx xii, p. 299, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20 4 1850. and most adroitly gives the go-bye to the very rnatt.t.r that is in dispute. Thus he says— " While the State reserves for that Establishment, ithin the limits of which the royal supremacy is strictly and fully exercised, ail dignity, honour, pre-eminence, and endowment, it freely grants to all who choose to Lye out of its domination, as their equivalent, perfect to leration, complete freedom to practise their religion, h,,thir new or old, according to ite principles, and to its rerfect development, so long as the practice is within r.e bounds of law, and trenches upon no other's rights." And thereupon he, proceeds to argue that the new territorial division of this island into bishoprics by :he POPE 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 Roman 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 -I;cs 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 ins: nuating such repudiation, is so cautiously worded as to be capable of any interpretation the Cardinal may hereafter be 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 has been taken at the use of the word to 'govern,' found in my Pastoral, as though implying some temporal authority. I find, however, that in this appeal I have again and again used the word, because it is the usual, and almost only , cord, applied amongst us to episcopal rule. It must be remembered that the Pastoral was addressed, in the usual form of such documents, "aa the clergy, secular and regular, and to the f a ithful,' 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 chapels. 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 mani festo, instead of a Pastoral, usually confined to Catholic hearing or perusal." 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-affirins it ; he says he has used the word, because it is the only word applied to episcopal rule. This is no repudiation of the offensive claim. Again, he says, " that the docu ment was meant for Catholics alone, who could under -tand 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 WisEmati, understand the word, nave attached to it precisely the meaning which the Cardinal declares has given such great offence. Could we forget the writings which have emanated lirect from Rome in rely Lion to this matter ; could we forget the preaching of Cardinal WISEMAN'S own coadjutor, we might Ix) inclined to place more implicit reliance on the denial by Cardinal WISEMAN of any intention of aggression on the part of the Romish Church. Thus, whenilthe Cardinal, after de tailing the negotiations with the POPE on the subject of the recent organization, say a— " Such was the main and solid ground on which the hierarchy was humbly solicited by Catholics from the Holy See. It was one that referred to their own internal organization exclusively. Thoughts of aggression never entered the heads of the petitioners or of the petitioned; nor were the bishops moved by stupid ideas of rivalry with the Established Church ;" we should give credit to his assertion did it stand 'one; but, unfortunately, we h.tve the accreditedorgan of the Roman Court, the Paris Univers, con tradicting Cardinal WISEMAN point blank, and declaring 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, and of London, have cem;ed to exist ;" and we find Dr. DOYLE speculating on the time when there shall ba no Archbishop of Canterbury. Under these circumstances, WO ask to whom are we to give credit—to CardinalWEiEmAN or to the avowed organ of the Court of Roeae, 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 educated 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 WtsEmArg, 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 ex:pressing 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 discern the disadvantages to which they are exposed by the restrictions still affecting trade ; and still more so, by the restrictions imposed on money under the existing monetary code. They are well aware that when the representatives and measures of value are wanting, the trade and commerce of the country can not be in a sound and healthy state. They are a thinking and inquiring people, who, in the true spirit of their calling, will take nothing on trust, will not be misled by high-sounding expressions, or grandi loquent phrases. The " sesquipedalia verba" of the bullionists have no charms for these practical men. They 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 rear of ridicule or the force of ancient prejudices. They 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 RS 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 or 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 particul sr, the men of Liverpool are adopting active measures to remove the reproach from their town. Variems plans have been brought forward and fully and maturely considered, for the pur pose of providing the town with water from the hilly district of Rivington, which, al though requiring a heavy outlay in the first in stance, 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. " The ways and means" are therefore closely scrutinized. Heretofore no great work of the kind could be car- s tied out without the Inoneyocracy having a share—a lion's share of the spoil. Where the parties requiring funds were in good credit, and could offer ample and unquestionable 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 original 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 corporation 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, w ithout being subjected to one shilling expenditure either for principal or interest ? The very enunciathon of this startling interrogatory almost takes away our breath. It is true that within the last few veers 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 ;sway, 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 extrav agent fable, qualifying the narrator for a place i n 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 am inged 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, leavisig his own house in the morning and supping with his family in the evening, and having bad 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 Hue SEIM'S magic carpet and Prince Ala's magic telescope —are more than realized by the railway and the electric telegraph, and now we have a simple and 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 thin, 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 BANcKs—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 3,0001. 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 receaed by the cor poration for all demands they may have upon the public for rates, rents, dues, Sm., 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 same 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, in our opinion, establish its practicability, if it; does not come within the restrictive provisions of our iniquitous monetary code. This, however, we will assert, that it is eminently worthy of mature consideration, and that if it can be carried out according to the inten 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 oscome of the town, or the prosperity of its indus trious 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 for the Department of the North. The admis sion of the General, however, was opposed by M. MICHEL (de Bourges), on the ground that his election hadi taken place in virtue of the. Electoral Law of 31st of May, which was contrary to the Con stitution ; he was replied to by M. BAROC'UE, and on a division the admission of General LAHITTE was car ried by a majority of 460 to 173. ALLAIS, the police agent who gave information to M. YON of the Bonapartist plot to assassinate M. Dui.lN and General CHANGARNIER, is in th elHospital of the Hotel Dieu, confined to his bed ; hs 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 LIEn. and the police of the Assembly. NEFFIZER, the gerant of . the Presse, has been condemned to a year' s imprisonment, and a fine of 2,000 francs, for publishing the celebrated " sham" message of the PRESIDENT. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 19. Boulogne and Amiens, 7% —Dutch Rhenish, 23% — Namur and Liege, 774—Northern of France, 1442—Rouen and Havre, ._~~ GER MAIN Y. It is said that Marshal RADETSBY is daily expected at Berlin as the bearer of conciliatory propositions from Austria. Thp Marsha., all along, has opposed in the molt energetic mannler the warlike policy and the warlike measures of Prince Scuwa.a.T. ZENDERG, who seems to have been guided by the Ban JELLACHICH unvtil the arrival of RA DETSKY ; the latter has offers)d to go to Holstein and endeavour himself to negotiates 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 BOA RD TIIE 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 dining the night, had retired to his room, taking with him a number of rockets. In this room was a case of gunpowder. Ey 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. even men were killed with him on the instant - the store-keeper and the master-car penter, who were in their rooms, three second mates, and two sailors. Of two second mates, badly wounded, one has since died. Twelve sailorswere 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 elsewhere than in the powder magazines. A sullen wise man is as 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 Cook's Journal. ATROCIOUS ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP A SHIP OF Wln —Advices received by the West India mail acquaint us with the fact that on the 24th of Aug ust, 1850, in lat. 28 William Muir, gunner's mate o f h er Ma jesty's being Teprimand,d for neg l ect of duty, i s e n l t 2 t 6 o ;h23i t p ; galleyh l e VS; l f' t fire, lit a slow m a t c h , an d was disco vered by the corporal of Marines in the act o f enter i ng the magaz i ne , w ith the intention of blowi ng up the ship ! Muir was kept ia irons till his arrival at Valparaiso, wl - Aen he con trived to make his escape—how is not stated. LON DON, jut quoted, of the preceding session, in the following terms:— Allusion having been made to him (by Sir R. Inglis), he wished to say a few words as to his firmer declaration, that he was not ready at once to repent 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 measure* 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 ou an intelligible and rational foot ing-1.2 would appear, therefore, that whatever hesitation Lord John Russell had about repealing other clauses in the Emancipation Act, his mind was made up about the restriction from Catholics assuming the very titles of sees held by Anglican bishops. Had he obtained his wishes in 1846, the law would now have permitted us to call ourselves Bishops of London or Chester, and Arch bishop of Canterbury. I quote these passages, not for the purpose of charging Lord John Russell with incon sistency, but merely to justify ourselves, and to show how little reason we could have had for believing that our acting strictly within the law respecting episcopal titles would have been described as it has. Fur if 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 these 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 possessing a hierarchy, as had been allowed to the colonies, and clearly acknowledged, as no less applicable to them. One more topic remains. " SEC: VL-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.l 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, how 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 auy 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 parpose, but because it brings the real point mere 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 Chap:er 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 lot 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 por 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 Dean arid 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• cration, 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 erected, and beautified, and governed that church and cloister. Have they ever Ipen disturbed by this ' titular?' Have they heard of any claim or protest on his part, touching their temporalities? Then let them fear no greater aggres sion now. Like him, I may visit, as I have said, the old Abbey, and say 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. " But 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 meekly 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 for a coafessional. " Yet this splendid monument, its treasures of art and its fitting endowments, form not the part of Westminster which will concern me. For there is another part which stands in frightful contrast, though in immediate con tact, with this magnificence. In 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 disiise; 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 emrtge 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 t i 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 seen that this 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 when 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—i❑ 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 diffusive, if it in no 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 arta 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 our press which seeds forth caricatures of ecclesiastical 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 sooner has an opport un i t y b een g i ven f ur awaken ing every lurking passion against us, than it has been erezerly 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 ; a nd 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 un h o l y sent i ment have been spoken, that could be said against those who almost alone have treated them with respect. And little care was taken at what ti me , or i n what circumstances, these things w ere d one. If the i spade had fallen' upon theinflammable materials of a gunpowder treason mob and made it explode. or, w h a t was worse, had ignited it, what cared they? It b lood had been inflamed, and arms uplifted,. and th e t orc h i n their grasp, and flames had been enkindled, what heeded they? If the persons of those whom consecration makes holy, even according to their own belief, had been seized, like the Austrian general's, and ill-treated, and perhaps maimed or worse, what reeked thee? Thew. very thine: The.ReligiuusOpinionsßill, which the Government had promised. " 2 1- Hansard, vol. lxxxiii. p. 502. " ' I havo bee n t o ld t h at great of f ence h as b een -t a k en at the use of the word to govern,' found in my Pas toral, as though implying some temporal authority. I find, however, that in this 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 re gular, and to the faithful,' which showed it to be meant for Catholics &one, who could understand the word. I have been in the habit of addressing several Pastorals a veer to the Catholics confined to my charge, which have always been read in our churches and chapels. But this i;, 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 manifesto, instead of a Pastoral, usually confined to Catholic hearing or perusal. wore, one and all, pointed at as glorious signs, should they take place, of high and noble Pfotestant feeling in the land, as proofs of the prevalence of an unpersecuting, a free inquiring, a tolerant gospel creed! " Thanks to you, brave, and generous, and noble hearted people of England! who would not be stirred up by those whose duty it is to teach 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 zens, to the hollow cry of 'No Popery,' and on the pretence of a fabled aggression. " Thanks to you, docile and oholient 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 teat 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 kiednesi, not to the award of His jus tice. May lie not r ender to others as they would have d !ne to us; but maylle 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 will be tried by fair teats and not by worldly considerations; and Truth, for which wo contend, will calmly triumph. Let your loyalty be unimpeachable, and your faithfulness to so cial duties above 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 liberty." MUSGROVE-MAYOR, THE FIRST COURT of Mayor and Aldermen held in the inner Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of Loudon, 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. MEREWETHER. M USGROVE-MAYOR. THE 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, 1850, and in the 14th year of the reign of Victoria, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Qteen , &c . Resolved unanimously—That a dutiful and loyal address be pre sented to her Most Gracious Majesty on the late audacious en icroachments of the Bishop of Rome on the supremacy of her Ma jesty, and in defiance of the laws and constitution of this Pro testant country. MERE WETHER. iRER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS. THIS EVENING. Last Week of the Berlin Choir. Labitzky's Great National Quadrille of all Nations, with 'our Bands and Double Chorus, comprising 262 Performers. Symphonic Pastorale, Beethoven—Overture to Le Domino Noir, Auber—Overture to Falstaff, Balfe—New Valses by Labitzky. First appearance of Mr. Hayward. Baud 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, Baumann. Barret, Richardson, Remusat, Briccialdi, Frane, Maycock, Arban, and Miss Goddard. Musical Director, Composer, and Conductor—M. Balfe. Conductor of La Musique de Danse—Herr Labitzky. Conductor of the Choristers of the Berlin Ckapel Royal —Herr Neidhardt. Promenade (admitting to the Hal-Circles, Gallery} 1 6 and Pit Stalls) • • • • • • ••. 2 • • The Doers open at Half-past Seven, and the Concerts will com mence at Eight, and terminate about Eleven. Boxes and Stalls to he had at the Box-office, where Programmes of the performance may be obtained. Mr. Thomas 3lasters of the Polytechnic Institution, the Coloseurn, and Royal P.otanic and Zoological Gardens, will supply the Refresh ments and Wines, &c., &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. MR. MACREADY. THIS EVENING, _ Will be performed OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. Macready ; lago, Mr. Davenport ; Desdemona, Miss Reynolds ; Emilia, Mrs. Warner, After which OUR M AMY ANNE. To conclude with MRS. WHITE. Peter White, Mr. H. Bedford. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS•EVENING, Will be performed a new and original Drama, entitled JESSIE 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 flop. Captain Kiteflyer, Mr. Boyce ; Major Stiff, Mr. Worrell ; Mr. Panels, Mr. Wright ; Alexander Panels, Miss Chaplin. To conclude wills a Terpsichorian Burlesque called ESMERALDA. Characters by Messsrs. O. Smith, Wright, P. Bedford ; Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Keabt and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely new Play called THE TEMPLAR. Characters by Messrs. Ryder, Fisher, Belton, Addison, Vining, Cath cart, Everett, C. Kean ; and Mrs. C. Kean. 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 Bores, &e., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. Massingham ; of whom also places may to taken at the Box-office, Oxtbrd-street, from Eleven till Four o'clock. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Comedy, entitled MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER, in which Messrs. H. Farren, W. Farren, Compton, Norton, Mesdames Stirling, L. Murray, Louisa Howard, and Ellen Turner will appear. After which THE FARMER'S STORY. To conclude with ALLOW ME TO APOLOGISE. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed SEUTE HIM RIGHT. To be followed by MY HEART'S IDOL ; or, A Desperate Remedy, in which Messrs. C. Mathews, G. Vining, Bellingham ; Madame Yee tri, 3l Y, and Miss I. Dickenson will appear. T s ocotlt e d n e w : -rt ith h THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE. ASTLEY'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. nor of the Crescent. qlt T n o t a n uc in ce the dbed Cirque b an Inimitable Display of Batty's Feats of 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. succeeded HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE. Twis DAT —Morning 59 min. after 1 I Evening 19 min. after 2 To-M•aaow— Morning 3 6 min. after 4 I Evening 57 min. after 2 THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 20. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 52—highest since noon yesterday. 42—lowest this morning and during the night. 4S—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 28.78. WIND 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. PLYMOcrrit—W ind W., hard wind—cloudy. P00r..i.; —Wind S.W., hard wind—partially cloudy. PORTSMOUTH—Wind W., hard wind—rain. BRIGHTON—Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. HASTINGS—Wind S.W., strong breeze—scud. SOUTHAMPTON—Wind W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. S.W., W. s, tsrtornogngbreee breeze—partiallyove r at. FOLKESTONE—Wind S.W., strong breeze—rain. TUNBRIDGE—Wind S.S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. BASINGSTOKE —Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. _Wind S.W., hard wind—partially cloudy. BRISTOL— Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast. 'strong breeze —rain. strong breeze—partially cloudy. READING —Wind W., gentle br eeze—partially cloudy. s G ‘ R vI E N E DO N N W_I ‘ C v I i I nd cloudy. CONWAY—Wind W.S.W., storm—rain. HOLYHEAD—Wind S.W., heavy gale—rain. MANmusTEß.—Wind S., strong br eeze—principally clear. O I C; n SF E R o Di u r; ; G : E - -i n N I V IV i Si n n c . I IdV S S. . '' N \ V V . , WIUTBY— Wind S.S.W., strong br eeze—partially cloudy. DA IL LINGToN—Wind S.S.W., strong',brecze—rain. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Monday morning at nine o'clock : Pooix —Wind S., strong breeze — heavy rain. CREWE— Calm—overcast. LIVERPOOL—Wind S.E. gentle breeze —overcast. MANCHESTER—Wind S.E., gentle breeze— overcast. CARLISLE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze —overcast. The mean reading of the barometer at the Royal Ob servatory, Greenwich, was abov e 30 inches on Sunday, Thursday, and Friday. The mean of the week w as 30 inches. The mean temperature of the week was 46.2°, w hi c h 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 d a y s. On t he next three days the me a n temperature was only about 39°, and was 4• and 5° below the average; but on Saturday it again rose to 48k, 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. ,0 • gl7 ,F . •:<L4 7 l n ,4••• Al I(2,t__ tentalt a - Ult LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1850. Cardinal WISEMAN has at:length published his long threatened manifesto, which will be found in extenso in our journal o f thi s d a y, an d which, together with " the Addre ss o f th e C a th o li cs 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, CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) MALCOM V. SCOTT. The further arguments in this par t-heard aPf eal ‘ cer, r e .. et,umed this ter. The case ca me before h is Lord ship upon appeal morni from the decision of the Vice-Cba" cel,or Wigroan. The case came before his Honour E 3 considerable time since upcn a bill filed by Geag(i Malcom sod Co., of Liverpool. against S cott, Bell, AD Co., of London, fur an account of the produce of high T signments made by Adam and Co, of Calcu tta, on wbi they had a lien for a lac of rupees. In March, o 184 , A the Calcutta house directed the London house to h" a lee of rupees out of the consignments made to that! for the credit of the Liverpool house, and they informed the Liverpool house that theyhad the order. Th ° given London house also apprised the Liverpool house of 0 1 ; order, but at the same time informed them th_,, h t „ t Calcutta house had overdrawn their account, anil, the honouring of the order must depend on the vild l %,, the consignments. The Calcutta house afterwards vilw. drew the order before anything was paid. an subse a .. quently became bankrupt. The bill was filed forma 1 0 count of the transactions between the London is Calcutta house, and of the amount of the consigl2,3c.n up to March, 1843. On the case coming before the Chancellor Wigram he directed a refe rence to 1111:0 Master to take the accounts, and an apPelli wbe brought from that decision before Lord Cottenham, was the Chancellor. Upon that occasion Lord Cet L f : ham said that there was a contract, by which the Psi, admitted they were bound, but what was the truer e_ ll o ing of that contract depended very much on the et l9 '',, of mercantile men. The Court had no means of la t i s ing what that custom was, and he thought it *As 13° ff ec t his power to come to a sound conclusion on Its should until he had the opinion of a mercantile jury. lie Ws therefore order that the matter stand over u ntil tbe P tiff brought an action against tho defendants on adlni B6 ! o4 ,, that they received the order, and that they had c ° , l/ ,, s d le in meets from the house in Calcutta during the Per's'eerd question. Thus matters remained till the present lea Chancellor was appointed, and now the partss aPPea from the original decision ' of Vice-Chancellor iVigr•el; The arguments occupied the Court the whole Indr°ll°' ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS D A 1. 4 ) 00 5 His Lordship the Master of the Rolls heard 3°- again to-day, but nothing of interest took place' VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT nag".' JORDAN V. UPTON. The further arguments in this part-heard°se llere resumed, and occupied the C ou rt the whole taornipg. II (Before the Vice-Ch an cellor ROLFE.) pl B His 6 oerourt having disposed of the case ,0,0101, Dixon'Trust," which stood on the paper for id°, the further arguments in the part-heard case of BALGUY V. BROADHURST. n Or ti were resumed. The case came before his 11 011 Yasrr exceptions. The bill was filed for the purPos ° ° 'e t ",4o/ ing a trustee with the sum of 8,0001., which `'" Dig covenanted by his marriage settlement to seti l °.iig wife. The money was never settled, and it O s '" -e-e by the bill that this was th e fa u lt of the tru stee. The arguments occupied the Court the whole tu° QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS x•, -n `T ra *co (Sittings in Banco, before Lord C AM PBELL a n —514 CGE an .) THE QUEEN V. OLERI D THE INHABITANTS d ERLE OF 01--1° t his JUDGMENT. Lord CAMPBELL gave judgment in this c- c h e spel . morning. He said this was a mandamus t° the e °l9' wardens and overseers of the parish of n iiste t n o t e mending them to make a rate in order i i rgeig a sum of 600/, for thepurpose of 43° ,00! a chapel within that parish. Durin the a r ; ",., tbs: he (Lord Campbell) had expressed a s g troug bto the Court might be able to support the r° cee ",t e lr g' he was sorry to say that that appeared 0,44 1%1;9 r-11es' possible, for there were two fatal objections. f 80 e° ' tion depended principally on the inter retati° ll° srcieq TH., c. 45, sec. 49, which empowered the char chw 'oll . and overseers of any parish, with the apprebstio the vestry, to raise by means of a rate such s p u r se enlarging be necessary for defraying the r s „.,P',,dstit" uf or otherwise extending the a ccoe'; the': churches or chap-1s in such parish. ilowege.lilst°s were two objections to thtt; tied one was, OP t; 013' was not a parish within the meanin of tb e A t , '3 o'l the other, that the condition of the consent of (Lo t was not complied with. It appeared to b ut t be f Campbell) that Bil s t o n was notparish; contrary, was within and parcel of the Wolverhampton. Up to the year. 175 3 tn . bee llt a cemetery at Bilston, and marriages ! li ci t -- 1 10, r : solemnised there previous to Lord nartliv'e;e riage Act, but it was still only eh° 64 within the parish of Wolverhampton. The 11; 4 proof of the consent of the vestry having bee° Jew seemed entirely to have failed. On the 4 01 ° ',.50 1 °.; 1825, there was a meeting at Bilston, when l e t bi tion was come to that the 540/ offered to be iedurgi4 t o h f e Society for Promoting the Building en d , , r 4 03 5 .1 3; Churches, should be accepted, and that ' hat should be enlarged. It was also agreed tha t r t.- 0 f A C T should be repaid by moans of a rate, a nd tit bet "'tie ficiency was to be made up by the sale of 40 pes" l 6o tb°: : was not confirmed by the consent of the vestrY.',- Cow' two objections, which appeared to be fatal, O l e o for were obliged reluctantly to discharge the r° " - mandamus.—Rule discharged accordingly. THE QUEEN V. THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY JUDGMENT. to the or Lord CAMPBELL said this was a mandamuss tO CCI-Or ledonian Railway Company, commanding thew' c ity plete a certain bridge over their railroad in,, te atid. fi t ol e. Carlisle, as by law they were bound to cru de/ at r . cording to the plans and cross sections Caro b " with the Clerk of the Peace for the county ° f . 6 liff e gl land. This being a peremptory mandamus. 1 OW.' the prosecutor to show th a t a ll th at h a d b e en C e°3- 1; by the mandamus was a duty imposed by lo v ' t o 0/ 4" 6 uecessary to show that there was an obligation the inau road in question according to the rates of ice.th tof Clerk delineated in the plans and sections deposited W,itioe of the Peace. He thought that the 91 1156 ,;iY m i '' the 9th and 10th Vict., c. 269 (the Supple sl°° ; i of P r which had been relied on, die not apply to rgi, t— faas tel e i f clination, but only to the heights and spans u e r :fore h e on the plans and sections. The Court was tb e t , i ot. h . # opinion that that part of the mandamus con sustained, and therefore judgment must b e , i ;ilf , defendant.—Judgment f or th e d e f en d an t aee""."-- EXCHEQUER CHAMBER• (THIS DAY.) t p l oO r CRIMINAL APPEALS. (Before the LORD C HIEF BARON, Mr. just ic * e o eltPr " v MAN, Mr. Justice WILLIAMS, Mr. Justice 11•41i and Mr. Baron MA RTIN .) ter THE QUEEN V. FARRELL. ed fi n r i l In this case, which was tried at the Maidst° l3e i, ' Sessions, the defendant, who was a sergeant g sv' e r il° l goon Guards, was convicted for dis3bey h in i g ca ti f o . c il j e, ti ti d ir c of a justice of the peace. ordering bute to the support of his illegitimateebild? . o b o tit oi, ment was respited, in order that the 0 1 2 1111 • oel ° Court might be taken as to the legality of ° J e lls ID soldier on a charge of this nature. so A q # Mr. WELSBY, who was instructed by the - ",. e3 t 0 " - : appear on the part of the defendant, stated t'fiod Kennard had a child by the defendant in 184 i' t was ordered to pay ls. 6d. a week for its 0 33 '1 for but having disobeyed the order he was jed ic A te- 001; ef misdemeanour, and found guilty' The Learned contended that, by the Mutiny . Act, no solc"; ‘ , roe', Majesty's service cou ld b e i n di cte d f or re fusing it i~e main his wife or child, whether le iti ma te or let;P' The object of that A c t L e i ng, that the Queen 6 , i p u t ' be deprived of the services of any soldier..e'cll criminal charge, or for a civil debt exceedin6 fl b the present cas e did not come w i th i n either ° classes.--The Court deferred their decision. AY) BAIL COURT.—(THIS P l' g o . : 0 (Sittings in Banc o , b e f ore M r . J us ti c e PA I-9 _ CUMMING AND AN OTHER V . PRISIO o ii „, '. p- a Mr. LUSH applied to the Court for a rule n isi ' ft o° ll to so o y '‘. upon two of the justices of Cambridge against the o t v h e e r why a writ of prohibition should not issue to 01133"' defendant possession further proceedings in this case. This wag an al) Da tio o n at fi s le A d o a t fendant had occupied the cottage for forty-tw o „,, l fora le g r er not paid any rent for the List tweaty ears. l3 - r e w 7, cot t :ro in the service of a Mr. Cumming . , 3 to whole t l v o i'i r o f under a the o ; e 7 :T ar t': 0 - l e i ; originally belonged, and who died about tive,`' g eo.: ago. The two complainants claimed under th ls d ie 51 41; man, but in the evidence which they pr odUc e o f ttl l 0 , port of the information they failed to estahli'll.:lo t° is like a title. The Act authorising the megis tr w ," led c ,; s' tertain matters of this nature only contea3P- 0 o cl - „ e o t between landlord and tenant, where there wil s e d tee - is Lion or dispute as to title. Now, here the allff s ,epv i t t• having occupied and repaired the premises 1e ", , ,al f-n a' of twenty years, without being called upon to r no cec, was in a situation to dispute the title, tat th e tail' inns . befo re the magistrates were therefore a°- Application granted. , i , 11 , W * 1 : QUEEN V. LONDON AND NORTH-WES7'ER - i lia "d6' b this case a rule nisi had been obtf.ined , e a - f : ma l l - f the Recorder of Liverpool to shcw eg.tuse w hy - o ppea; o f mus should not issue requiring him t o hear a „ ° ccort -fi r the London and North-Western Rsffw a l a this l e° against a poor -rate. The company wer e rate , - , vo lall:i for the parish of Liverpool, according to th e ti , c ;er, ! s h e' tion of their property that war, made last A '' that ,7, , , against this rate they appealed, on the greal 3 ; ev r D ,'" . assessment was excessive. The Recorder, b ° " - e f ' '' sr I 0 the , posed of the appeal by rulin g that the 1 / 10 pon t bee liament required that Parties should be rat e bleb " a .. net profits of the preceding ear to that in w h 0 el• dente was collected, and he th 2yrefore refused to :0 °s' upon the allegation tin 3 the asses sment . sdi etie :r rssive. Thi s was held to he a declining ofiu r cis o re • ad the present rule was ob tamed andafterivar . , by Mr. Prashley and Mr. C romp ton. gig o r , Justice Mr. Li PATTESON ow gave judgment' not a d o nion was that the dismissal of the appeal w as h c i ria: , dining of j urisdiction but:a decision upon ther; 0 t''' 1 the aPPeal, and entertaiai ag the same ePle' e nro vid et ! Learned Recorder, that th a Act of Parliament „rtion c ' ' that the assessment shout, Ibe made on the 01 isil o se cs be the preceding year, he th ought there was 0 foc i t for going into the questi on of excessive ratlokjioglS. ed naoc l rule must be dismissed.— Rule discbarg ----- SECONDARI.H.S.'—(THIS D , (Before Mr. F, lecondary PoTTEn.) DOTES V. TIICLZIL . qO% ' I L ° i s set' ~ A BAD SPECULATION .—Tne waintiff in th 0 , cirou i , a wine merchant and boarding-house keeper, ' , r ,, 0 street, Cheapside, who sought to recover th e ' • tereet. 1571. 9s. 7d. on two bills of exchange and in , d dote r: Mr. JOYCE, whoa eared fur the plaintiff; . 51 1', 00 ft 5,, dart bad suffered judgment to go by default, ot?! . ._ . )- theless he (Mr. J.) would show the considqatale",o, 1011 appeared that defendant was the patenteee of 31 ,`„ W S tion, from which he held out dehicive