The Sun. — London, England, 1868-04-07 00:00:00

:SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The failure of the arrangements for the Volunteer Review is the subject of a leader in the Times. In the opinion of our contemporary, it is a pure absurdity to despatch 30,000 troops, or even half that number, for a review on a piece of ground where it has been actually found impracticable, allowing for spectators, to manoeuvre /5,000. The volunteers cannot, with anything like con- Tealience to themselves or the public, do the " marching past" on Southsea Common, even if it were worth while to go to Southsea Common to do it. Better far to give up this part of the business and secure as much as can be obtained of the field-day. Marching can be practised anywhere, and is not of supreme importance, after all, to the efficiency of a soldier. If nothing is wanted beyond an open space of ground, there are a hundred places nearer and better than the strip of beach at South sea. But we have always looked to Easter Monday for something more than this. It is the one field-day of the year for the volunteer force, the single occasion on which . they can be massed and moved in large numbers. The opportunity is not so grand that we can afford to lose any of it, and a miscarriage for the year would be little short of a public misfortune. Surely there are points on the proposed route at which the force might be mustered and manoeuvred to better purpose, and if it should be neces sary to sacrifice the " marching past," the surrender can be cheerfully borne. The affair is a most unlucky one, for it seems to carry our chances of official mismanage ment into quarters hitherto unsuspected. What in the world is to be thought of our " military organisation" if the mere scheme of an Easter Monday review breaks down in the middle from such miscalculation as this ? All the con ditions of the case were known perfectly beforehand—the single alleged novelty being that the numbers were ex pected to be 30,000 instead of 23,000. But, if they had only been 23,000, could the original programme have been carried out ? Could even this smaller force have been "marched past " on Southsea Common, taken on to Hilsea lines, put through the manoeuvre of a field day, and sent home again within the stipulated time ? We doubt if the excuse will sustain the mistake ; but, instead of arguing the question, it will be far better to set the whole thing right by fresh arrangements, as may yet be done. The Post calls attention to the most unpleasant fact given in the latest Abyssinian correspondence, that the calculations of the Commander-in-Chief as to reachint Ashangi by the 16th of March had been upset by a cause which he could not possibly have foreseen, and which he had no right to expect—viz., the egregious blundering qf his Quartermaster-General, who for nearly a fortnight was engaged with the whole pioneer force in the vain en deavour to render an exceedingly difficult route passable for the army, when all the time a comparatively easy route lay unexplored, though not unknown to him, close by. It seems scarcely credible that the leader of the pioneer force—containing within it an abundance of intelligent, active, enterprising officers—should at Antalo, with three routes open for selection, adopt one absolutely upon the advice of the natives, without at tempting an exploration of either of the others himself, or sending some of his subordinates to survey or inspect them for him. The fact of the Commander-in-Chief becoming his own pioneer, and pushing on along the easier route, conveys the very strongest condemnation of the action of the Quartermaster-General in this matter. On the whole, although the force has not made the progress expected, nor such, we fear, as to justify the confidence expressed by Sir Stafford Northcote in the House of Commons, still the situation is much more satisfactory than but a short time ago could have been expected, and we have still ample time for the termination of the expedition during this season if no further great delays occur. The Daily News, in an article on the agricultural labourer, apropos of the proposal by Canon Girdlestone to extend the trades union system to them, expresses a doubt whether the condition of the agricultural labourers will be mended by it. It will be exceedingly difficult for them to combine. The operation will certainly be resister' by tenant farmers and landowners, for any success in this expedient will seriously derange the calculations of the former, and the latter will soon find out that should labourers so combine as to permanently raise the rate of their wages, the additional costs of cultivation, except in Aso far as they may be compensated by the increased use of machinery, will inevitably fall upon rent. The landowners appear to anticipate the operation of this law, to judge from their opposition to Mr. Fawcett's suggestion that the half time system should rule in case of agriculture as well az in that of manufactures. The tenant farmers are alive to the consequence which will ensue if the righteous cru sade against the gang system be successful. For its owl part the Daily News cannot but think that the Conferenc would have concluded more practically bad it resolved not only to support the application of the Factory Acts to the agricultural districts, but had expressed itself strongly against the gang system, had recognised the wisdom of inculcating lessons of prudence and forethought on the labourers themselves, by organising a system of instruction which should point out to such labourers the facts of their condition, and the remedies for it, and had devoted itself primarily to the business of distributing labour so as to relieve the excess of crowded regions or parishes by migra tion into localities where labour is in greater demand. To some extent labourers are themselves adopting this course, for the population of the purely agricultural counties is slowly but steadily diminishing. Three criminals, convicted of specially cruel and revolt ing homicides, have, the Herald points out, within the last few days paid the penalty of their offences. At Maidstone Frances Kidder suffered death at the hands of the public executioner for the murder of her husband's illegitimate daughter ; and at Manchester on Saturday, the principal actors in the Todmorden and Droylsden tragedies expiated their crimes with their lives. The occa sions on which justice demands the sacrifice of three per sons within as many days are, happily, rare ; and every friend of his country and his kind would be glad to know that they had ceased altogether. But the trials at the assizes which have just ended have been fruitful in examples which makes us look doubtfully and almost despondingly upon some phases of nineteenth-century society. Neither of the wretched creatures who ended their days in shame and ignominy upon the scaffold were of such antecedents as would have induced anyone to suppose that they were destined for the gallows. Though humble in station, they were above the pinch of poverty, and though, as events have proved, they were capable of acts of extreme bru tality, in two instances, at least, their previous careers bad given no inkling of their ruthless and pitiless disposi tion. Yet all of them had imbrued their hands in their neighbours' blood, under circumstances shelving premedi tation so Strongly, and provocation so slightly, that if capital runishment were to be retained at all, its infliction upon tlese three persons was an inevitable necessity. The Standard expects all kind of good things to accrue from the telegraphs being worked by the Post Office. Among other delicious items it looks forward to a cheap and uniform rate of charge. At present the rate varies according to distance, a message of twenty words costing a shilling per 100 miles or less, ls. 6d. up to 200 miles, and 2s. for a greater distance, while the rate between Great Britain and Ireland is as much as 4s. By the Government scale we are promised a uniform charge of Is. for a message of twenty words, while the universal character of the Post Office system will place all the towns of the king -oom in telegraphic communication with eac h o th er . 'ith the aid of the deposit offices the whole population of the kingdom will find it an easy matter to get a message " wired." This facility will enormously in crease the use of the telegraph, and will suggest new modes of enterprise. Every change of this kind brings about other changes. Not only are old wants supplied, but new ones are at once created and gratified. We predict for the telegraphic system of this country a splendid develop ment, if once it attains the working order foreshadowed by this bill. And for all this, what is the national exchequer to pay ? Simply nothing at all. The shareholders are to receive their quid pro quo, the officials will either be transferred or compensated, an 1 there is no doubt that in the hands of • the Government the system will prove a financial success. How can men, exclaims the Telegraph, ask Heaven for pity when, day by day, they torture and outrage the dumb, helpless world of lower animals which lies in their power ? It is a " common practice of the poulterers' trade" to pluck the feathers from fowls whil e th ey are living ! For doing this cruel thing a wretch named Fletcher, of Whixall, Salop, was lately brought up at petty sessions by his clergyman, Mr. John Evans, whose name we mention with thanks and honour. The criminal bad got a pullet on his knee with its throat cut, but still alive, and he was tearing off the feathers, the wretched bird quivering with agony at every pull. Fletcher said "it was his usual way," and fowls " would flap if you plucked them before they were.6old." The dealer called another—one Muirhead—who disposes of some 5,000 or 6,000 fowls a week ; and he, too, " always does them in this way !" The defence was that it was " the custom." The purpose of that custom is to make the birds look plumper at market, because the lacerated skin and agonised flesh swell under the awful torture, which is not the case with fowls plucked after they are cold in death. So for the sake of a poor morbid lie, we may conclude, our poultry markets are the daily scene of such an unspeak able torment as should make the stomach turn at roast chicken. The Star calls attention tc a pamphlet by Mr. Congreve on Ireland. The kind of thing presented may be gathered from the fact that Mr. Congreve dates a note "22nd Aristotle SO," a date which, we fear, would of itself con vey very little idea of any sort to the minds of most of our readers as to the day when the lines were written. 22nd Aristotle 80, means 18th March 1863. Then, as to Mr. Congreve's scheme for Ireland, Mr. Con , reve would not repeal tlt, Union at once. lie would first effect a settle ment of the most urgent grestions. To this purpose he thinks a parliamont, lin , ;!i,th or Irish, utterly incompetent. Mr. Conizreve and his school are not very fond of parlia ments. He would appoint a deputy or viceroy, ar med with all the power the Parliament can give —that is, with abso lute power- and aided by the advice and suggestions of a council in large majority Irish, to settle the Church ques tion, the land question, and all great questions of difficulty now remaining unresolved. This done, let Ireland gradually grow into independence, and she would, he argues, be the friend, the sister, the support of England. This is Mr. Congreve's scheme. The machinery he proposes seems to us utterly impracticable, and indeed intolerable, even if we desired to bring about the result be desires. Frankly, we do not. We still believe that England and Ireland can be made happy, equal, and prosperous members of one imperial system. LAW AND POLICE. FORGING A BAPTISMAL REGISTER.—At the Centre,' Criminal Court a man named William Rawlings Lindley pleaded guilty to a chrs,:ze of uttering part of a certified copy of a baptismal register, knowing it to have been forged. It was stated that the prisoner was a candidate for a supplementary clerkship in the Civil Service, the condition of the competition, which was an open one, being that the candidates should be between 16 and 20 years. The prisoner gave in a certificate of his baptism, which stated that he was.born in 1848, whereas his birth really took place in 1843. Sentence was deferred. A BARRISTER COMMITTED FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT. — At the same court a somewhat curious incident occurred. Mr. T. E. Briarly, an old member of the bar, appeared in court wearing his wig and gown, and during some conver sation with a friend, the grand jury handed over to the Clerk of Arraigns some indictments, and as they were leaving the court, Mr. Briarly followed close upon them, and was heard to exclaim, "A most shameful thing, a most unjust thing." Shortly afterwards the foreman of the jury returned into court and complained that a member of the bar bad insulted him for having, as they under stood, thrown out a particular bill, and the barrister had threatened to publish their names. The Recorder ordered Mr. Briarly to be brought before him, and having spoken of the complaint made by the foreman of the jury, said that it was a grave contempt of court. Mr. Briarly said be was sorry for having said what he had done in court. The Recorder said it was a grave offence to use such language in or out of court. Mr. Briarly said the jury had done wrongly, and would smart for it hereafter. The Recorder said that was a renewal of the threat. After some further parley, the Recorder said that he was sorry to have to do it, but it was bis duty to commit Mr. Briarly for contempt of court ; but he would be released on finding two sureties. Mr. Briarly appealed to the members of the bar to be bond for him, but there being no response, he was given into the custody of the governor of Newgate. CONVICTION FOR " TOUTING" AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY. —At the Middlesex Sessions, Charles Lewis, an inter preter, was charged with having obtained 2s. from a lady by means of false pretenees. It seemed that the present proceedings were instituted by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey. On a certain day the prisoner wore a red waistcoat, and received 2s. to show a. lady inside and outside the Abbey, and having walked round the cloisters would have left her, but the woman remonstrated and the accused was given into custody. The assistant judge committed the prisoner to six months' hard labour. THE JAMAICA REBELLION.-At the Judges' Chambers an application was made to Mr. Justice Willes, in the case of " Phillips v. Governor Eyre," on the part of the defendant, for leave to amend his second plea. The action was brought for false imprisonment, &c., and is pending in the Queen's Bench by a notice against the Governor of Jamaica in reference to the rebellion. 31r. Petberham was counsel in support of the summons, and Mr. Horne Payne appeared on the part of the plaintiff. The object of the application was to amend the plea as to an Act passed under which the defendant alleged he had acted in the suppression of the rebellion. After a discus. sion between counsel on both sides, his lordship made an order that the plea should be amended, and the order was accordingly drawn up. A RECEIVER OF STOLEN POSTAGE STAMPS CONVICTED. —At the Manchester Sessions, John Howarth, who for many years past has kept a provision shop in that city, was tried upon a charge of having received postage stamps from an errand boy of Mr. Edwin Slater's, of St. Ann's square, knowing them to have been stolen. The boy, it will be remembered, destroyed letters which he was en. trusted to post, and took the stamps to Howarth, who was in the habit of receiving them as cash, and obtained cakes for them. Howarth was found guilty, and sen tenced to five years' penal servitude. ROBBERY BY A BANKER'S CLERK.—At the Southampton Quarter Sessions Percival George A. Thring, a young man, was charged with stealing the sum of £5OO, the property of the National Provincial Bank. The prisoner had been employed as cashier at the Okehampton branch of the bank, and did not go to the office on the Bth February, and suspicion being aroused, the safe in which he should have placed his money on the previous evening was broken open, and £5OO found to be missing. The prisoner and his wife were traced to Southampton, and he was apprehended when in a state of intoxication, with nearly the whole of the stolen money in his pocket. The deficiency was about met by a balance of wages due to the prisoner. He pleaded guilty, and was committed to nine months' im prisonment with hard labour. CHARGE OF HALF-STARVING A SERVANT.—At the Westminster Police-court Miss Ann Turner appeared in answer to three summonses, taken out at the instance of the Marquis Townshend, charging her with assaulting her servant, aged 17, named Mary Barry, and with having neglected to supply her with a sufficiency of food. The girl said she entered the service of the defendant in October 1866. She ought to have got up at six o'clock, but did not sometimes, and was kept with out her breakfast and dinner. Her mistress struck her on the eye with a blacking brush, but afterwards said it was an accident. Her mother came once a week, but she never complained of her ill-usage. The defence was a complete denial of the charges, and the magistrate thought that the charge of assault was a most trivial one, and that with respect to the insufficiency of food bad quite fallen to the ground. He therefore dismissed the case. ROBBERY FROM A BODY.-At the Middlesex Sessions, Charles Webb, an ex-policeman of the C division, was indicted for stealing a hat and coat, the property of Alfred Coseltine, and also with stealing a watch and other arti cles, the property of the Rev. Noel Christmas. It seemed that about 12.45 a.m. on the 10th March, the rev. gen tleman was seized with a fit in the street, and taken to the Charing Cross Hospital by the prisoner and another con stable, named Spink. The prisoner tied up the property found on Mr. Christmas, which consisted of a gold watch and chain, pencil-case, &c., and took them away. An inquest was subsequently held, and the prisoner was asked to produce the property, but said that he had not got it with hi n. He was directed to fetch the articles, but did not return. To the first indictment the prisoner pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to eighteen calendar months' imprisonment, with hard labour. WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1869. —The Right Hon. Lord John Manners, M.P., has con sented to become a vice-president of this undertaking. The list of guarantees has been joined by the Duke of Argyll, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bart, M.P., Mr. Henry Hoare, the Right Hon. Sir William Hutt, M.P., the Right Hon. Lord John Manners, M.P. and Mr. W. H. Smith. Mr. Hamilton Hoare contributes to the fund for preliminary expenses. . THE THAMES EMEANKMENT.—At a recent meet ing of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the tenders were opened for paving the footways, fencing, &c., on the Thames Embankment, between Westminster Bridge and the Temple. There was great difference between the highest and the lowest, a circumstance, in a larger or less degree, by no means unusual under the system of " tendering," but one which political economists have not yet been able satisfactorily to explain. As in this case the inequality was as much as £4,115, the board, after two divisions, accepted the lowest, that of Messrs. James Knight and Son. TECHNICAL TRAINING OF ARTlSANS.—Arrange ments are in progress for giving effect to the resolutions of the conference of working men, held on the 14th ultimo, under the auspices of the Working Men's Club and Insti tute Union and the presidency of the Earl of Lichfield. The consent of Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S., and Pro fessor Warrington Smyth, to deliver lectures, together with conditional promises of co-operation from several equally distinguished men of science, have been obtained. A sub-committee is charged with the duty of ascertaining what are the existing means of technical instruction avail able to working men, and steps have been taken for the representatio n of the artisans in the course of the inquiry instituted by Mr. Bernhard Samuelson's parliamentary select committee. MISHAPS OF DR. M‘Lzon. —A correspondent of an Indian paper sends the following account of the Rev. Dr. 11PLeod's departure from Calcutta :—"The Rev. Dr. M`Leod, who left with Lady Lawrence in the Feroze, did not quit ' India's coral strand,' i.e., the muddy banks of the Ilooghly, without a parting mishap of a rather ludicrous character. The rev. gentleman is not one of Pharaoh's lean kine, and to this partly may be attributed the adven ture that befel him. The doctor was the guest of one of our merchants, the son of a reverend gentleman of the same jhat, who sent Dr. APLeod in his carriage to the Penin sular and Oriental wharf, where the party were to embark. On the way the carriage came to grief by coming in con tact with a ticca gar. y. This was the commencement of another proof that misfortunes come not singly. The doctor was transferred to a ticca, and expected this make shift would see him safe to the Peninsularaud Oriental wharf. Such, however, was not to be the case. The construction of ticca garries in Bengal is not the highest work of art in the way of carriage building, and as the doctor stepped upon the step the latter broke, and the great man fell to the ground. This of itself was not much, for happily he was not hurt. But his breeks came to grief in a very unfortunate style, that left the doctor less decently clad than if he had ap peared in his native kilt. He made a timely and precipi tate retreat into a friendly house, and made himself fit to proceed on board and pursue his voyage, let us hope, in peace and safety." THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1868 SAD STATE OF ENGLISH WORKHOUSE S A terrible picture of the condition of many of the provincial workhouses was drawn by the Arch bishop of York at the interview of the deputation from the Workhouse Infirmaries Association with the President of the Poor-Law Board. At Ches terfield Workhouse, for instance, said his grace, quoting from the official inspector's report, some of the beds in the infirmary are so near together as almost to touch, the rain drips through the ventilators in the ceiling on to the floor, and in one instance on to the bed. There are no proper chairs, dining-tables, or tablecloths ; in one ward seven dirty and neglected children were found eating their dinners on the floor; the medicines are handed over to the patients themselves, who take them or not as they are inclined ; there are no proper means of washing the sick, and only one towel a week is allowei for use in each ward. In the same infirmary an imbecile patient was lately beaten"to death by a pauper wardsman for some trifling act of negligence. In the Shardlow Union there is no classification even of the sexes ; at Ashton-under-Lyne the convalescent sick share the lunatic day-room, confinements take place in the general sick wards, and the fever wards are used for itch and other disgusting diseases. This state of things is more or less common to the Blackburn, Burnley, Bury, Chorley, Clitheroe, the Fylde, Harlingden, Oldham, and Preston work houses. His grace recommended that the reforms which have been made in the management of the London workhouses should be extended to those in the provinces; that the sick poor should be sepa rated from the able-bodied paupers ; that, in lieu of sick wards annexed to each workhouse, conso lidated infirmaries, managed on the hospital system, should be provided; that from 1,000 to 1,500 cubic feet of air should be allowed to each patient ; that nursing should be conducted by a trained staff, with one assistant nurse for each fifty patients; that there should be a resident medical officer to every 250 patients—the medical officer to have no pecu niary, interest in the medicines dispensed ; and that Lord Devon should seek from Parliament powers to enforce a code of regulations for the government of infirnary establishments, and to appoint an auxiliary corps of medical inspectors. Ur. Ernest Hart suggested that these inspectors should report specifically like the gentleman just quoted. There were reports and reports, and most of the stock phrases in use by inspectors were mere euphemisms, covering a multitude of workhouse sins. Inspectors were too fond of reporting in ad jectives; thus what they called "insufficient attend ance" meant neglect of giving the sick their proper diets, leaving them to their own help or no help, mixing the convalescent sick, who needed rest and quiet, with noisy lunatics ; " inadequate" and " insufficient " stood for the evils which had been exposed in connection with the Bedminster Union; the scrubbing of hands black with gangrene as if they were black with dirt, the killing of an infant by accidentally placing it in scalding water, and then rubbing off the blisters with a towel, &c. The Earl of Devon, in reply to the deputation, said that the Legislature was not always ready to give the board powers over guardians for fear of strengthening centralisation. He acknowledged the value of the recommendations of the infirmary committee, and said that many of them were already embodied in the bill he should propose for second reading. the strife of race against race, the struggle of the dispossessed nation with the foreign in vader. (Hear, hear). But distinction of race has now become merged in, and virtually iden tical with, diversity of creed, and Protestant ascendancy has become the actual living re presentative of English usurpation and injus tice. (Hear, hear, and cheers). To the effort to force Protestantism on the reluctant people of Ireland we are mainly to attribute the cruelty and confiscations of the Tudor, the massacres of the Stuart, and the fanatical atrocities of Cromwell. To the Church Estab lishment we owe the penal code, the most atro cious laws that ever degraded or oppressed a people or disgraced its rulers; that code which set father against child and child against father, which destroyed the most sacred ties of nature, which prohibited Catholic worship in a Catholic country, which denied the very ele ments of education to a Catholic, which was devised to degrade the Catholic Irishman into a savage and barbarian on his native soil (en thusiastic cheers). To the Church Establish ment we owe the fact that, in the year of grace, 1868, in this Catholic country, the State refuses a religious education, based upon the faith of his fathers, to the Catholic child (renewed cheers). To . the Church Establish ment we owe in no slight degree the dogged perseverance in the odious laws of land tenure, which are sending the Irish peasantry in hopeless exile from our shores (loud cheers). Those laws are maintained, in order that terri torial domination and religious ascendancy may afford each other mutual countenance and support (renewed cheering). No candid man possessed of a knowledge of the past and capable of appreciating the present can fail to admit that the Church Establishment in Ire land is a grievance and injustice—an intoler able grievance and injustice—a grievance which has justly excited the scorn of the civi lised nations of the world. But the time has come when the Catholic people of Ireland will, by a united and vigorous effort, shake off for ever this incubus which has so long brooded upon our country, paralysing its energy and crushing its strength—when, with a giant's might, we shall burst our fetters and terminate for once and all this ignominious bondage. (Prolonged cheering.) But, in achieving for ourselves this religious emancipation, we must take care that we do not imperil the free action of our national church, or sacrifice the inde pendence of our own national clergy. (Loud cheers.) Our bishops have announced their determination to accept no State endowment for the Catholic clergy—we shall support them in that resolution. (Renewed cheers.) They have shared all the vicissitudes of our country. In her adversity they are the first and most willing to suffer, in her prosperity they are the most sincere and the least selfish in their joy. (Renewed cheers.) But apart from our regard and reverence for the opinion of the bishops, let us see what reason we can have for this new experiment of adopting State endowments for our National Church. Are we encouraged to it by the example of the other Churches which we have before us ? Look at the Church of England, united with the State, almost sharing the monarch's crown, endowed with princely income, that Church has suffered the English people to slip from her sway. (Cheers.) Need I speak of the Irish Estab lished Church, which, though unjustly and extravagantly favoured by the State, and pos sessed of regal revenues, has ever pined and languished, as has been well said, " like a sickly exotic in a costly conservatory," until it is now about to perish not so much by the attack of its opponents as by its own inherent worthlessness and weakness ? The example of these Churches does not then encourage us to expose. our beloved Church to the baneful and unhealthy influence of State favour and endowment. (Cheers.) But do we require any assistance from the State for the mainte nance of our clergy and the temporalities of our Church ? (No, no.) Certainly not ; and the truth of that answer is made manifest by the past history and the present condition of Irish Catholicity. thousands from all opportunities of religious training and worship), we do not think that the religious condition of the working classes differs more than must have been inevitable from that of the same classes in England. But whatever else results from disestab lishment, one effect of it must needs be that the body, not being tied by the law to certain forms and rules, will be free to develope its interior life. The question is, what will that development be ? We cannot doubt the tend ency must be to division and sub-division. Ex perience shows that to be the rule of all Pro testant sects, and that nothing but its formal completion has been checked in England by the strong influence of vast endowments and subjection to State law. With this conviction we cannot help feel ing that the rapid spread of ritualism in the Protestant Episcopal communion assumes an immense importance. In the higher classes, in which alone, as we have seen, the Estab lished Church has any religious influence, it already counts by thousands its enthusiastic adherents. If we may believe the evidence I . given before the Ritual Commission-, it attracts the workinc , classes to a degree hitherto quite unknown to any section of Anglicans. What is remarkable is that it is already spreading, and spreading rapidly in the Protestant Epis copal Church of the United States. The money force by which the propagation of the Episcopal communion has been assisted in the United States has always been supplied in great measure by the immense wealth of Trinity Church, New York. To that church a great endowment in land was given by King Charles 11. Its value has enormously increased by building, and is now exceedingly great. It is spent in many ways, and by no means exclu sively on the clergy of that one church and its dependent chapels. Still, the Rector of Trinity Church is an important person, and has pro bably considerable influence in the disposal even of that part of the funds which is spent in something like missionary work over the States. It is, therefore, an important fact that the Rector of Trinity Church, Dr. Dix, has published (as we learn from the Catholic World) an article in a magazine called the Galaxy, which goes the full length of the most deve loped ritualists. If we may judge from the ex tract given, he does not shrink either from the closest imitation of Catholic worship or from doctrinal statements, which prove that they are intended to symbolize exactly those Catholic doctrines which have hitherto been most offen sive to Protestants. It appears, also, that ritualistic devotional publications are as numerous and as " strong" as those of which we see and hear so much in England. The writer in the Catholic World (who evidently understands his subject), says :—" The (ritual istic) books of devotion before hearing Mass and receiving Holy Communion, such as The Altar-book,' The Little Sacrament Book,' The Supper of the Lord,' contain the plainest expressions of belief in the real and true cor poral Presence of Jesus Christ in the Sacra ment. We could quote many pages, but we shall only give a few passages from ' The Churchman's Guide to Truth and Piety,' a work which is quite comprehensive, and is published with directions for all devotions both in and out of church. It bears a dedi cation by permission to the Right Rev. H. Potter, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L., the Bishop of New York, thus receiving the sanction of the highest Episcopalian authority. • The Instruc tion on the Holy Eucharist' contains very plainly the doctrine of the Mass." The writer in the Catholic World goes on to prove this by quotations fel' which we have no room. W 4 cannot help inferring that those Catho lic doctrines, against which Protestants in time past hive rage most fiercely, are spreading in the Episcopal communion of the United States as rapidly and as decidedly as among the mem bers of the English Establishment. What, then, is to be the result ? Not, of course, that they will be accepted by all who now belong to that communion. It is probable that their spread will excite more vehement opposition than ever among that large class which is more or less imbued with Puritan notions. This the following `scene from the London papers of this week will exemplify. It took place, it will be observed, in Trinity Church, and Bishop Potter was the very man against whom it was directed. The question we would ask our readers to consider is—what is the result of such developments as this likely to be in a communion which has no entangling connection with the State to keep it from divi sion ? The extract is as follows : It will be remembered that some four weeks ago the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, jun., an Episcopal clergyman of the diocese of ew York, was tried by an Ecclesiastical Court for violating the canons of the Church by preaching in a Methodist church, and being found guilty he was sentenced to be publicly reprimanded by the bishop. The American correspondent of the Times reports that reprimand was ad ministered by Bishop Potter in the Church of the Transfiguration, New York, on the 14th of March, in the presence of a crowded auditory. The bishop made a long admonitory address, which Mr. Tyng received in silence, but at the conclusion of the sermon a scene occurred. The father of the reprimanded clergyman, Dr. Tyng, senior, rose to read a written protest, and addressed the bishop, while at the same time the rector of the church began to read the prayers. Both were speaking at the same time, and the bishop, with an emphatic wave of the hand, said to the rector, "Go on, go on." Dr. Tyng ceased reading, but remained standing, and, when the prayers were con cluded, advanced to the altar and handed the bishop his protest, which denounced the whole proceedings. This was followed by the gather ing of an excited crowd from all parts of the church around the Tyngs, father and son, shak ing their hands, and urging them to ascend the pulpit and speak ; while quite as many persons vigorously hissed and groaned, and in the midst of the tumult could be heard the conclusion of the services. The police had to be called in to quell the disturbances, and bitter feelings have since prevailed between Tyng's friends and foes.— Westminster Gazette. The following is the protest and appeal of the Rev. Dr. Tyng :—" To the Right Revetend Horatio Potter, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of New York.—Right Rev. Sir,—lt has been your pleasure to "approve " of the " findings" of this court of presbyters, and you have now admi nistered the sentence of " admonition," " recom mended " by them against the respondent. This is your own act and your own responsibility. I, Stephen H. Tyng, D.D., a presbyter of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of New York, and rector of St. George's Church, in the city of New York, and ono of the counsel for this respondent, do most respectfully but firmly enter my solemn protest against this whole pro ceeding, now completed, from its commencement to its conclusion, as false in its allegations, unjust in its principle, unOanonical in its form, illegal in its transac tions, iniquitous in its purpose, and voluntarily and per sistently persecuting in its spirit, process, and develop ment, and I do solemnly appeal from this decision of this court, and from this approval thereof, by the Bishop of this diocese, under the most earnest sense of the cruel injustice with which this respondent has been treated ; to the supreme and final decision of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States to the abiding sense of justice and righteousness in the individual members of this Church ; to the conscientious review of the Chris tian Church throughout this land; to the record of future historic truth ; to generations of advancing light and reli gious purity and power, which may come hereafter; and with the deepest humility, but with confidence unfeigned, to the judgment-seat of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the one Groat Head and Ruler of his Church, and whose approval can never be given to the persecution of the innocent, or to the oppression of the weak. Given in the Church of the Transfiguration, in the city of New York, this 14th day of March, A.D., 1868.— STEPHEN H. TYNG, Sr., Rector of St. George's Church, in the city of New York." The Fort Wayne (Indiana) Gazette says that the following correspondence recently occurred between a Democrat of that city and the White House :—" To his Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United States : I am ready to assist you with men and money at a moment's warning. The Democrats of Whitley County are with you.—Col. —." To this offer the President's private Secretary sent the following reply :—" To. Colonel ---. Disraeli received. Who the devil are you?" DESPATCHES OF MR. C. F. AD.1.315. (From the Anglo-American Times) THE WORK OF THE CRUISERS. The Florida was the first English ship which hoisted the Confederate flag. She left Liverpool on the 22d March, 1862, although notice that she was building for the Confederate service had been received by the Government on the 18th February. The Customs' officers reported that she was in tended for a merchant ship destined for Italy. In stead of going to Italy, however, she proceeded to Nassau, where she was seized by her Majesty's ship Greyhound for violating the Foreign Enlistment Act. On the case being dismissed in the Admiralty Court, the ship successfully ran the blockade both in and out of Mobile, where her armament was completed Her end was peculiar—•she was born of piracy, and a pirate's fate she met. She was the creation of a disregard for international law and national obligations, and finally she was the victim of an infraction of every consideration but the ex pediency of the moment. On the sth of October, 1861, she entered Bahia from Santa Cruz, Teneritfe. The United States steamer Wachusett was lying iu port, and the Florida, for greater security, placed herself under the batteries of the flag-ship. In spite of this precaution, the privateer fell a prey to the man-of-war, who, slipping her chains before day light, rushed on the Florida, swept her Ironi her moorings, and, passing a hawser 6a board, steamed out of the port with her prize, after a short, sharp, and decisive fight, receiving in silence the fire of the Brazilian man-of-war. The Florida in her career destroyed 9 ships, 10 barks, 8 brigs, and 8 schooners. The next vessel that got to sea from au English port as a Confederate cruiser, was the Alabama, which sailed from Liver pool cn the 29th July, 1862, under the pretext of a trial trip, and on the day the law officers an nounced that she should be seized. Instead of going to the Bahamas, where a copy of the opinion was despatched, she proceeded to Angra Bay in the Azores, where Captain Semmes joined her with 42 seamen and her armament in the Bahama and Agrippina. As every one knows, she was sunk off Cherbourg, June 19th, 1861,.by the Kersage after having destroyed 34 ships, 22 barks, 5 brigs, 6 schooners, the steamer Ariel, and the gunboat Hattaras. The next vessel was the Virginia or Japan, which sailed from Greenock on the 2d April, 1863, for Alderney. On the coast of France she took her armament and crew from the Alar, of Newhaven, and commenced her career as the Con federate cruiser Georgia. She destroyed 7 ships, 2 barks, and a schooner. The Rappahannock, luckily for American commerce, was compelled to run from Sheerness for Calais when in the very act of being fitted out, with the mechanics on board, on the 25th November, 1863, and she was there de- tained by the French Government until the con clusion of the war, when she was purchased by a British company. This vessel was formerly her Ma jesty's gunboat Victor, being sold by the Admiralty to a private firm, through which she eventually fell into Confederate " hands. The Government prosecuted Mr. Rumba, the head of the outfitting or rigging department at Sheerness Dockyard for his share in the transaction. He was acquitted by the Queen's Bench on the 4th Feb., 1865, but her Majesty to mark her displeasure placed him on half pay. The last vessel was the Shenandoah, whose story we lately told. To these four, the Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Shenandoah, the United States owe the main loss sustained by their com merce, but it would be an error to suppose this chiefly consisted in the actual destruction of the 152 vessels which made up the sum total of their depredations. Literally that commerce was swept from the seas. A marvellous proof was given of the awful destruction which even a thing like the Alabama, worthless for war as she was, could accomplish. A swift, lightly armed vessel with a sufficient battery to send to the bottom a defenceless ship is alone required to play fell havoc with the commerce of the most powerful of naval na tions. Commerce seeks safety—the moment an additional peril is thrown on any trade it is at once unfairly handicapped, and rapidly drops behind in the race. In 1860 the number of American vessels sold to British subjects was 41, with a tonnage (according to the British official report) of 11,716. In 1863 the worst year of the war, according to the same register, the number was 608, the ton nage 328,665 ; the meaning of this is that American merchants ceased to compete, and gave up their mecantile marine to their British rivals. Before the war the Stars and Stripes covered the largest fleet of mezchantmen that ever belonged to a na tion. Steadily and surely the Republic had surpassed even the great marine carrying trade of England. Liverpool, a port more than any other marked for its Southern proclivities, benefited most. It was to a Liverpool ship-yard that England and America owe the career of the Alabama—it was to the cul pable negligence of the Liverpool Government offi cers chat the escape of the vessel was mainly due. And so the notion sank deep into the American mind that the persistent aid to the Southern emis saries, the wilful neglect of all warning by Govern ment officers, and the sanction in high places given to the proceedings of these cruisers, arose from the desire to destroy American commerce, that England might again usurp the chief carrying trade of the world. " On the 9th July, 1862," these were Mr. Adams' words to Earl Russell, "the Consul at Liver pool made a statement to the collector, of facts as they had become known to him. He entered into a number of details in respect to the persons engaged in connection with the vessel (the Alabama) naming individuals with a particularity certainly deserving of investigation by her Majesty's officers at Liver pool, if they really meant to satisfy themselves that she ought to be detained. But it does not appear that they considered it their duty to initiate or even to carry out any inquiry. The Board of Cus toms contented themselves with a formal reply on the 15th instant (May), denying that there was sufficient prima facie evidence enough to justify the seizure; but there was matter enough in it to make it the bounden duty of her Majesty's officers to lose no time, and omit no effort to obtain the evidence on their own account to verify or to disprove the allegations." The further evidence Mr. Adams was compelled to collect was submitted on the 21st July, and on the 23d the deliberate answer of the Board of Customs was, that it was insufficient to justify any steps against the vessel under the laws. " No one of them," adds Mr. Adams, "seems to have been disposed to pay the smallest attention to any representations or any evidence offered by myself or any agent of the United States, even so far as to stimulate his own action, in any way whatever." The American Minister took the opinion on the evidence he had submitted, of a distinguished Queen's Counsel, which was as follows :—" First, that if the Collec tor of Liverpool did not detain the vessel, he would incur a heavy responsibility, of which the Board of Customs must take their share ; second, that if the vessel was allowed to escape, it deserved considera tion whether the Federal Government would not have serious grounds of remonstrance." Six days before her escape Mr. Squarry, the solicitor, warned the Board that she was ready for sea, had shipped fifty men, and could at any time sail. Three days after he repeated this warning ; yet, in spite of the promise to keep a strict watch, the vessel delibe rately steamed out of Liverpool, and, to stamp the character of the transaction, after Mr. Squarry's notice on the 29th that the vessel was off, on the 31st a telegram was sent to Liver pool ordering her detention. Mr. Adams con cluded his statement of these extraordinary cir cumstances in these words—" I. must respectfully represent to your lordship that this proceeding:, so far from appearing to do any justice to the demand of the United States, looks almost as if it were in tended as a positive insult." In the same despatch, after noticing the extraordinary decline of the mer cantile marine of the United States, simultane ously with the corresponding increase of that of Great Britain and Lord Russell's explanation, Mr. Adams says—" Thus it is that whatever may be the line of argument I pursue, I am compelled ever to return to the one conclusion ; the nation that re cognized a power as a belligerent before it had built a vessel and became itself the source of all the bel ligerent character it has ever possessed on the ocean, must be regarded as respon Bible for all the damage that has ensued from that cause to the commerce of a power with which it was u nder the most sacred obligations to preserve amilty and peace." Earl Russell, in his letter, May 4:., 1865, to Mr. Adams, referring to the heavy losses sustained by the com merce of the United States fa om the cruisers fitted out in Great Britain, said—, , " Allow me to observe in the first place that I can never admit that the duties of Great Britain tow a rds the United States are to be measured by the Lasses which the trade and commerce of the Unite I States may have sus tained. The question is mai.; what the losses the United States have sustain.e d by war, but whether in difficult and extraordilu try circumstances the Government of her Majesty have performed faith fully and honestly the du td . 3s which international law and their own muni 3i pal law imposed upon them." Doubtless his lop Is,hip's point is material/ yet clearly not the most ) material to the people of the United States. A g 'eminent is the mere creation of a people, wh o m it may totally fail to represent under certain circumstances. If it pal pably misrepresents the pa don in giving offence to another power, that offence is shorn of all its ma lignity, and will be treafel very differently to the case wherein the Gov ernmeut fails to main tain its international .obligations through the enmity of its citizens tO wards that Power. The Former instance may fair ly afford a cases Belli ; in the later there may not ,be just grounds for war, while those injured may entertain the strongest sense of the provocation. Fatal as was the injury inflicted by the British cruisers, what concerned the Americans most was the animus shown by their kinsmen. So loud was th e Confederate party in Great Britain, that for a time they swamped the far more numerous party tallat upheld the justice of the Northern cause, and it became impossible fairly to put the question be fore the country. In this despatch of Lord Rus cell's he querulously observes, " The next complaint (often repeated must admit) is, that vessels built in British ports and afterwards equipped with an armament sent from the British coast have injured, and according to your account almost destroyed the mercantile m.irine of the United States ;" and again he asserts that " the only- question that can be put on this subject is whether Great Britain has performed faithfully the duties incumbent upon her." There is no case, however bad, that cannot be upheld by argument. But there is an in nate feeling implanted in the minds of all communities, which tells them intuitively, no matter what may be the law, when a great wrong has been perpetrated. The law may say that the only question for a shareholder in an English joint-stock swindle is, whether the direc tors have observed all its forms. The families that have been ruined by the shameless disregard on the part of the directors to all moral obligations, will scout with contempt such law. They are sensible that it is a mere outrage on the eternal law of right and justice to assert that no question beyond mere legal forms is involved. And it le thus the citizens of the United States have regarded this matter. When the Confederate party in Great Britain were silenced by the annihilation of the Confederacy more just views of the injury inflicted in the. United States obtained currency in England, and, we are happy to think, fructifying into good results. Foreign Mail Packet List, MAILS DUE. tustralla and New Zealand, via Southampton..... April 25. Ditto, via Marseilles .............April 20. Ditto, via Panama April 25. drazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video A.,)ril 6. Ditto, by French packet •••••• April 22 tape Verde. by Brazil packet .•.... ...ape of Good Hope. Ascension, anti St. Helena April 12. .)hins, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—April 11. Ditto, via Marseilles ....„ April 20., Falkland Islands ..... April 6. • 31braltar, via Southampton April 4. India, via Southampton . April --• —" " - Ditto, vl4 Marseilles Via I , :gypt, April —. Ditto, Marseilles.. liauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton Ditt), Marseilles . April l 8 veivfoundland . ••••• April Portugal April 6 Ditto, by p 'vet e ship to Oporto ... Ditto citto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &0., oy British packet Ditto, by L L ited States packet Ditto ditto 'New York) Ditto ditto New York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet April 10. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriff , May 6. West Indies and Pa2lllo (except Mexioo and Baha mas) Cub ► and Mexico ...April 28. Bahamas, via New April 8. Bermuda, via Halifax GARRICK AND JOHNSON'S JOURNEY TO LoNDON• —" Long after, they looked back to this pleasant ad' venture, and often talked over its incidents. Johnson, whose little weakness was a perpetual discontent that a mere player' should have been more successful in the world than a grand moralist, was not sorry t o hint at their little shifts on this occasion; perhaps, too, with the complacency of the arrogant Bounderby, at the notion of being born in a ditch. In a large companYt the quick ear of Garrick would hear the doctor fixing date by a something beginning :—' That was the year when I came to London with twopence-halfpenny in my pocket—.' Not without surprise at such a statement, Garrick would repeat, ' With twopence-halfpenny in your pocket?' There was an opportunity here for a wholesome correction. Why, yes,' roars the doctor, with twopence-halfpenny; and thou, Davy, with three halfpence in thine!' Garrick's good humour could make him accept so disagreeable a fiction without remon strance; though, in truth, it was more probable that the scantier provision should have been on the side Of Johnson, whose shifts and privations in London were presently to begin. Neither David's parents, nor his kind patron Walmesley, would have sent him away in such beggarly condition. They made their journey, how' over, economically. We rode and tied,' said Mr. Garrick later, alluding to a thrifty mode, by which two people could contrive to have the benefit of one horse between them for their travelling. But, as Boswell says, this was a mere complacent embellishment ; otherwise it would be amusing to call up the picture of the bright young fellow cantering on his stage, halting and tying his beast to the nearest tree,' and then posting on foot, while behind came struggling the uncouth figure, with the seamed neck, the heavy shoulders working, the care less dress, until the welcome beast was in sight. Thus they got on to London; the one to enter on his weary course as a bookseller's hack. They stayed together in town a short time, presently they found their slender stock of money all but exhausted, and for the moment were sorely pressed. In this extremity young Garrick recollected a bookseller named Wilcox, of whom he know* a very little, and both going to him, and telling their stall* simply and naturally, he was induced to advance theta five pounds on their joint note, which in a very short time they punctually took up and satisfied. When Johnson told the bookseller his intention was to get his bread b 1 writing, the other eyed his burly figure, and said, he had better get a porter's knot."=-Life of David Garrick, by Percy Fitzgerald, M.A. THE IRISH CHURCH. The charge that the Dish people were indif ferent as to the continuance of the Irish Church Establishment—indeed, that they de sired its perpetuation—has been abundantly refuted during the past fortnight. In almost every town in Ireland meetings of an enthusi astic character have been held, denouncing it as an injustice, and demanding its immediate abolition. The absurd assertion that the Catho lic clergy only compassed its destruction was on a par with the equally miserable attempt to revive the "No Popery' agitation which was successful on the establishment of the English Hierarchy. Those who were infatuated enough to believe that the Irish people were insensible to the injustice of having to maintain an alien religious establishment, such as the Irish Church has ever been, must have become dis enchanted after the perusal of the reports in the Irish papers of the many meetings that have taken place in almost every parish in the sister kingdom. The great bulk of the English people, too, have spoke n ou t, an d h ave de manded that justice should be done. If, there fore, in spite of the wishes of the thinking part, certainly, of the people of England, and up wards of four millions of the people of Ireland, the British Parliament still determines to main tain as the Established Church of the land the present law establishment, it is clear that no real desire exists to pacify the people of Ire land, and that her legislators are insensible to the reproaches of the civilised world and to the well-being of the community at large. Among the most noteworthy of the meetings that have taken place in Ireland was one held at Limerick. It was attended by the most influential persons in the county, and was un animous in demanding perfect religious equality. Perhaps the most suggestive of all the resolutions that were passed was one moved by Mr. E. J. Synan, M.P., which was received with immense cheers. It was as follows : That until the disendowment and disestab caosuninitrA' s ' ibTlhee peace hon. disestab lishment of the Irish Pr o t es t ant C hurch be effected, it is in our opinio n h ope l ess to expect s w peace e o m r aprosperity that in th it i g could exist in Ireland so long as Irishmen were not treated on an equality with their fellow-subjects in England and Scotland. Let the Government, he said, treat Ireland as it treated Scotland. Let them r • ecogmse public opinion in Ireland as they did in Scotland. Let them take away this alien Church, and then they would begin to lay the foundation of the future peace and prosperity. of Ireland. Sergeant Barry, M.P., moved " That, con vinced as we are that religious equality cannot be obtained in this country as long as any reli gions body is endowed by the State, we heartily join our bishops in repudiating State endow ment of any kind for the support of our clergy; and we consider that the members of each religious denomination should support their own clergy as the Catholics of this country have hitherto done and are still willing to do." In a speech of great ability he said that no man could accuse the Catholics of Limerick of fac tious intolerance or bigoted exclusiveness. They have been eminently characterised by toleration and forbearance.' (Hear). Although they constitute a large, he might say over whelming, majority, possessing the absolute control and disposition of mumcipal and Par liamentary power, still they found Protestant aldermen and Protestant town councilors in the corporation of this city, elected by Catholic burgesses—they found the Protestant alter l i - nating with the Catholic mayor—(hear)—and the Parliamentary representation for many years equally shared by Protestant and Roman Catholic members. Although deeply sensitive of the insult and injury inflicted upon Ireland by the existence of the Church Establishment, they had still maintained this attitude of generous confidence and forbearance towards their Protestant fellow-citizens calmly, perhaps too patiently, awaiting the time when the progress of justice and the self-manifestation of truth should remedy the grievance and re move the anomaly. He regretted to say that the peace of the city had been marred and its harmony disturbed by a meeting held, in imi tation of the ferocious conventions of the north, for the maintenance of that religious ascend ancy which had inflicted upon that unhappy country so much misery and so much mischief. I maintain, said the hon. gentleman, that the Church Establishment is not alone a griev ance, but lies at the root of almost every other grievance. It is the cause or the instrument of almost every evil in our political system. It is not merely the symbol, but the practical realization of English misrule. In the olden time the strife which rent our country, , marrin g its prosperity and checking its progress ; was THE ENGLISH CHURCIL H Episcopal Church be alteredbytheeePestasriontgtaentbe connected with the State ? The question is forced upon us by a debate in which the ceasing of that connec tion, as far as Ireland is concerned, is, in reality, taken for granted by both the great political parties : for Lord Stanley did not say anything more for it than Mr. Gladstone. Neither can we believe that the process will extend only to Ireland. That the English Establishment will suffer by the disestablish ment of its Irish branch, we do not believe. On the whole, the cutting off of that diseased branch must tend to improve the health of the tree. But the signs of the times cannot be mistaken. Everything tends to disestablish ment in England as well as in Ireland ; not so speedily, indeed, but as surely. What then will be its religious effect ? This question, we own, gives us a special inte r e s t i n the re ligious phenomena of the United States. The progress of religions change there is much the same as in England, only farther advanced. What is now the religious condition there will in the main be that of England some years hence. The first inference we draw from this is one of 'hope. We trust that there is no reason to fear that the downfall of the Establishment will cause any great spread of infidelity. It is a sad and miserable thing that in any Chris tian land the ruling class, and, still more, the mass of the people, should be willing to sever the connection between their Government and the Christian religion. In whatever proportion willingness an h irre hgiousstate exists, it is a symptom of of mind, an d as suc h it is impossible to see it without deep regret. But how much evil is likely to follow from the act is another question, and that depends of course upon the nature of the religion to which the State bids farewell. We know by the experi ence of 300 years that upon the mass of the nation, the working classes, including the shop keeper class, and all classes below it, the Church of England is, and always has been, without religious influence. Individual clergymen have often had much, and their families even more. But if that influence has been strictly religious, e.g., where any man's preaching has really touched and influenced the multitude, it has always been found that his influence has been so purely perso na l an d s o little that of his so called Church, th a t th e f am ilies and individuals, moved to earn es t ness by his preaching, have always fallen away t o s ome dissenting sect. They have felt th a t th e "Church of England" was no place fo r th em. The most striking ex amples of this were W es l e y, Whitfield, and the Countess of H un ti ng d on . But those who have attended to the su bj ec t k no w that the same has been true, in it s propor ti on , of every Church of England preacher who has ever acquired any really religious influence among the middle and lower classes. At this moment we very greatly doubt whether the religious habits and feelings of any considerable portion of the working class would be seriously disturbed if the worship of the Established Church was totally to disappear next Sunday. Upon certain sections of the gentry it has a religious influence ; but there seems no reason to believe that this, such as it is, would be materially affected if it were reduced, how ever suddenly, to the position of the Anglican communion in America. Our conclusions thus far are supported by the experience of the United States. Th e P ro testant Episcopal Church there i s th e Ch urc h of the respect able classes to a d egree which, considering that it never was established, and that many of the Protestant emigrants to America were either hereditary Puritans, or Lutherans, or Calvinists, from the Continent, is at least as great in proportion as it is here. Neither making fair allowance for these circumstances, and still more for the mere phy sical effects of the huge extent of the States (which has remciTed so many 1112,11dredr; of Births. BROWNING--On the sth inst., at 21, The Beach, Waltner, Kent, the wife of Captain M. C. Browning, 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers, of a son. JOHNSON—On the Gth inst., at 14, Curzon-street, Mayfair , the Hon. Mrs. Vaughan Johnson, of a daughter. No•rr—On the 6th inst., at Dalston, N.E., the wife of Capt• J. 11. Nott, Adjutant King's Own Light Infantry Militia, of a son. Marriages. GinsoN—CoLLEs—On the 4th inst., at St. Stephen's Church, Dublin, Edward Gibson, Esq., barrister-at-106 second son of Wra. Gibson, Esq., of Merrion-square , Dublin, to Frances Maria, second daughter of H. Cone , Esq., barrister-at-law, of 29, Upper Mount-street , Dublin. VONGE—ADAMS— On the 4th inst., at St. Mary's, Stoic° Newington, Walter George Yonge, of Stoke Newington , son of Mr. Walter Yonge, late of the Strand, to Susan" nab, eldest daughter of Mr. C. P. Adam, of Noel-street► Islington. Deaths. HAT—On the 6th inst., at 30, Wilton-crescent, the Lady Magdale❑ Hay, infant daughter of the Earl and Collo" toss of Kinnoull, aged 1 year and 4 months. lIALLowms —On the sth inst., at Milton House, Ports mouth, Margaret, wife of Vico-Admiral John Hallowest aged 74. LONG —On the 2d inst., at Richmond, Surrey, Mr. Williams Long, aged 72. PARR—On the 4th inst., at 50, Clarence-square, Chelten ham, Capt. Robert Parr, late of 11.3.1's 54th Regimen t, aged 57. 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