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2 . THE LIVERPO . . , ......,--- - - -,...................„ _ _ _ FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ' flight on the box-seat of the Bavarian minister's carriage, I UNIVERSITY AND * CLERICAL NEWS. * and his exile at Gaeta in the R o y a l l ap o f th e Ki ng o f THE OVERLAND MAIL. Naples, to the cross and passion of Christ ! Nay, con- PREFERMENT.—The Rev. G. Ridley Carr, curate of We have advices and papers from India, in anticipation templating the possibility of a prolonged exile, h e d ec l are s Ormskirk, to the vicarage of St. Paul's, Jarrow. of the overland mail of the 18th of December. The dates himself ready to ' , d rink to the dregs the cup of bitter- The Queen has issued the usual royal letter for collec ar from the army of the Punjaub to the 28th of Novem- ness" which Christ " was willingly the first to taste for tions in the churches in aid of the funds of the Incorpo her, Calcutta the Bth of December, and Bombay to the the salvation of His Church." rated Society for Building Churches. 18th of December. The Rev. Temple Hillyard, Rector of Southam, in The main features by these advices are the retreat of IRE LAND. Warwickshire, has been co ll a t e d t o a Canonry in Ch e st er the Sikh army under Shere Singh from the banks of the la Cathedral, void by the death of the Rev. William Barlow. Chenab, along the mountain chain towards the Jhelum, The plot seems but to thicken : the details of each suc- The rev. canon is son-in-law to the Dean of Chester. after remaining for nearly a fortnight in the presence men The number of churches and chapels in England and ceeding week present only the same features of crime, our army. The decampment of an army of 30,000 Wales is about 12,800, which contain seats for about one and heavy artillery from a position it had occupied so long suffering, and despondency. It is rumoured, and we hope sixth of the population, and the free accommodation is was occasioned by a diversion carr i e d out under Major- on sufficient authority, that the working of the poor laws at the rate of one sitting for twenty-four persons. General Sir J. Thackwell, who crossed the Chenab with is likely t o During the last year the Bishop of Newfoundland con come under the early consideration of par some regiments of cavalry and horse artillery at Wuzeera- secrated seven new churches. During his visitation last )lament, with a view to a re v isi on an d mo difi ca ti on o f bad, 25 miles above Ramnuggur, the position of the Bn- month the Bishop sailed over a space of 2,028 miles, tish camp, intending to fall on the enemy's flank and to some of its more pressing enactments. The Irish journals, reckoning the only direct run from place to place. attack their lines simultaneously with the passage of the o f a ll part i es an d politics, seem unanimous in their con- CHESTER CATHEDRAL.—A beautifully-executed obi river and attack by storm from the main position under tuary window of stained glass, costing £lOO, has lately demnation of it altogether, and demand its tot a l remova l, Lord Gough. The enemy's attention had been almost been put up in the south aisle of the choir, to the memory solely directed to the preparations which had been go i ng and the substitution of some o',,her measure in its stead, o f th ree o f th e c hild ren o f th e V ery R ev . th e D ean o f forward for some days in the British camp for the erection th a t w ill no t, b y holding out a lu re t o indolence an d Chester. In the north wall of the nave, a marble mural of batteries to cover the passage of the river, and to over- monument has been a ffi xed, to the memory of Captain cunning, aggravate the very evil it was intended to remedy. power the enemy's guns. Several distinguished o ffi cers Napier, who died of Asiatic cholera, at Scinde, on the 7th fel: in an . ack that occurred some ten days previous to The most distressing feature in the recent intelligence of July, 1846, at the early age of 27 y ear s. It is a pl a i n the period alluded to, by a portion o f th e arm y, u pon an from Ireland is the spread of agrarian outrage and distill.- slab, over which hangs a pall, and at the foot is a sheathed outlying body of the Sikh. forces, on which occasion an bance to the hitherto peaceful and prosperous north. sword. atlempt made personally under Lo r d Gou g h was consi- It is in contemplation to commemorate the one hun- That incendiarism should have approached within a mile dered necessary. It and fiftieth year of the Society for the Promotion of It would appear that, undaunted at the aspect of affairs, or two of Belfast, is certainly as alarming as it is anoma- Christian Knowledge, the anniversary of which falls on Colonel Havelock resolutely charged the batteries, which lous. Meanwhile, Dr. M`Hale has summoned a conven- the Bth of March next; b u t i n consequence o f a n appre were on the other side of the nullah, but still, as far as we hension lest this should interfere with the three hun tion of his suffragans yesterday, in Tuam, for the purpose can make out, on this side of the river. Putting his own d re d t h anniversary of the publication of the Book of charger at the gap he cleared it, and the regiment after of enforcing the utmost terrors of the church upon the Common Prayer, an application has been made to the him ; the next moment they had dashed through the audacious recusant, be he lay or cleric, who may have the Archbishop of Canterbury to ascertain whet arrangements midst of the enemy, who flung themselves on their faces hardihood-to avail himself of the advantages afforded by may have been made for the last-named object. as our dragoons came up to them, and rose and fired as The Society for Promoting the Building of Churches, colleges. L et i t be remember e d th a t they passed. Forming then in the enemy's very position, the new prov i nc i a l at their last meeting, made grants in aid of the erection the 14th charged a second time and re-passed to their these colleges were founded principally as a boo n to of churches a t Ry e H ar b our , i n S ussex ; Ch es t er t on , own side. A correspondent of the Agra Messenger s ays, P opery , an d as r i va l s to t h e Protestant University of near Newcastle; and Blyth Marsh, near Stone, both in " A more fearful sight was perhaps never witnessed on a Dublin ; that Lord Clarendon supplicated the Pope in Staffordshire. Chesterton is one of the newly-endowed field of battle.• for the British army stood drawn up, both districts, having a population of upwards of 5000 persons, their behalf, and submitted the rules and r e gu l a ti ons f or artillery and infantry, silent spectators of the bloody ody con - situated from two to three miles from the nearest church, flict of 450 sabres against an army amounting to more his Holiness's approval, or even re v i s i on . Thi s samp l e o f an d c hi e fl y emp l oyed i n the coal and i ron works. Blyth than 15,000 men with heavy cannon." Popish gratitude ought not to be lost sight of. Marsh is a district to be formed from portions of the Brigadier-General Cureton was shot through the heart parishes of Dilhorne and Blurton, containing 900 inha whilst leading a charge of cavalry; and Colonel Havelock bitants. The Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin (Dr. Pakenham), SIR CULLING has since died of his wounds. Amongst the wounded are has given a second donation of £lOOO, for repairing the Col. Alexander; Captains Fitzgerald, Gall, M`Mahon, members of the Anti-state Church Association have been cathedral. Scudamore, Cantley, Ryley, and Holmes ; and Ensign monstrating with Sir Culling Eardley for saying that Doctor Maginn, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry, G. N. Hardinge. Capt. Holmes was shot through the pu blic opinion is not yet ripe for an agitation for the sepa expired on Wednesday, after a short attack of typhus chest in endeavouring to carry off the body of General tion of Church and State, and will not be " as long as fever. Cureton. A vessel is being fitted ouS at Cove to take passen ger berthss the establishment retains its hold on the affections of the an Generals Thackwell and Campbell were in hot pursuit, from Cork to C a lif orn i a,d the app ) people ;" assertions which they indignantly deny. No r i and, as Shere Singh kept possession of his guns, they cations f are numerous. does it seem, according to his views of the ma tt er , th a t it were in some hopes of overtaking him. Lord Gough has The clerkship of the crown in the Queen's Bench, Ire- is ever likely to happen ; "for," says Sir Culling Eardley, crossed the Chenab with his camp some 10 miles. land, vacant by the death of the late Walter Bourne, sen., " until by anti-scriptural ministrations, the clergy become There is no news of the fall of Moultan. The last universally unpopular with the true protestants Ido not Esq., has been filled by the appointment of Pierce Ma -division of the Scinde field force left Sukkur on the 20th hotly, Esq. anticipate that any practical change can be effected," of November. which is in fact an adjournment to the G r e e k K a le n ds. There is intelligence by this mail of the investment of BALLINGARRY R EMINISCENCES.—Mr. Smith O'Brien THE BISHOP OF EXETER.—This prelate, who is so has recently sent a most beautiful prayer book to the wife Attock by a large body of the Sikhs on the 20th of No- fond of commotions, says, in reply to an address from a of Mr. O'Donnell, of Balingarry, in token of the fidelity vernber. few clergymen who sympathise with his lordship on of her husband. The book was richly ornamented. Brigadier Wheeler, who is at the head of a strong force " recent• peculiar occurrences,"—" I have no anxiety The Freeman's Journal of Tuesday, the day when the in the Reechna Doab, has achieved a victory over the about the ultimate result of this strange movement ; for rebels at a place called Killawalla (or Khuleelwalla), judges delivered their decision in the writ of er ror , h a d although I would not willi n gly h ave ra i se d suc h a s t orm , not a word of comment on the subject either of con d o l ence where two brothers, Chunda and Goordut Singh, have for the past or hope for the future. And this from the lam quite confident that, u n d er G o d' s bl ess i ng , it w ill been recently creating disturbances. In the Jullunder accre dit e d o f th clear your atmosphere, an d ma k e th e progr e ss o f Ch r i s ti an organ e repealers ! Doab, disturbances have likewise prevailed. The treasurytruth the more assured. No man can read the reports of The accounts from the counties of Mayo and Galway at Hosbearpore was recentl y . attacked and robbed by a what has been said or done without foreseeing the speedy are really frightful. The Mayo Constitution gives a party of Sikhs, under Ram Singh, and some 20,900 rupees exposure, to all but the wilfully blind, of the palpable dreadful picture of the state of the poor of Castlebar. carried off; and by recent accounts, the ladies had all delusion under which the prejudices of many have been Two deaths from destitution occurred in Galway, and one been desired to leave without delay. At Jullunder itself, made subservient fora while to the evil at Newport, in the county of Tipperary.passions of a the garrison, consisting of the 7th Native Infantry only, very •'few. A re-action will follow—and (under God' merchant A Waterford has been served with a noti ce were in great fear of an attack, and the treasure had beenblessing s I again say) you, and all faithful members of from the Admiralty, suing for a penalty of £5OO for having removed to a camp, and intrenchments thrown up for its the church, will long have reason to rejoice in the issue a green flag with a harp, minus a crown, painted thereon, protection. of this enforced conflict between sound principle and ill flying from the topmast of one of his vessels. It is said At Lahore all was quiet. The garrison consisted of informed, however well-intentioned, party feeling." that the flag was hoisted, through ignorance, by one of some 6000 men, and another corps of irregular cavalry THE PERVERTS.—The London correspondent of the the sailors on board. was expected to reinforce them. Guns were being placed Oxford Herald says,—" The reverend ' perverts' to the A process-server, named Johnston, who resided at Ture, in position on the walls of the citadel. Romish Church continue to cause considerable anxiety near Muff, went on Wednesday to the residence of John CHINA—HONG KONG.—The colony continues healthy, among the more sober-minded of that communion. As Elkin, at Carnagarive near Moville, to serve him with a and the weather of late has heen very favourable. His well as Mr. Newman, whom I mentioned in a for mer writ ; but when within a short distance of the house, he Excellency the Governor is recovering from the accident letter as having excited great uneasiness by maintaining i at f fired rom t h e i nside, and fella lifeless corpse, he met with, though he is still unable to walk. At Can- was that there is efficacy in the Sacraments of the English slugs h av i ng entered his body. His death was ton nothing striking has occurred during the month ; all se v era l Church, Mr. Paley has caused acme unpleasantness by almost instantaneous.—Derry paper. remains quiet, but the question of opening the gates on his publication of a book on the faith and doctrine of that SIGN OF THE TIMES.—The other day, a tenant on the the Ist of April next is not passed over; there appears to Church in its earl da and the nature of its deendence lands of a certain landlord, in the parish of Cam, ten- y ys, p be an impression that, with the troubles at home, every- on the see of Rome, in which he a ss er ts th a t ' p ar ti cu l ar thing will proceed by negotiation, and the question be dere d to his landlord £BO rent for his holding. The latter churches have rights of their own, which they may main declined to accept the money, as a considerably greater kept open, There has been a report that S e u, the p resen t taro against the Pope himself without forfeiting their or andsum was due to him. In a few days, the tenant disposed of commi thodoxy.' The work has created very disagreeable im- practicable man. the stock on the lands, and departed to America, le av i ng impracticable ssioner, was likely to resign ; he is an unpopular pressions in Romish circles. 'We are extremely con this landlord to ruminate over his losses. Instan ces o f cerned,' observes one of their journals, 'to hear such UNITED STATES. this kind are not of unfrequent occurrence in this county. —.Athlone Sentinel. opinions as these broached by any one; but in the mouth We have news four days later than the last from the Mr. John O'Connell has written a humble letter to the of a convert they become doubly significant.' No doubt United States. The cholera was raging to such an extent they do—and hence the anxious apprehension that pre- State prisoners, in which he explains that he did not wish at New Orleans that some steamers could not proceed veils." to injure their cause by his intervention. The letter SENTENCE ON A CLERGYMAN.—On Tuesday, the Rev. owing to the absence of their crews. The winter had " submissively accepts all the scorn" with which the set in with unusual severity. The California mania was the Chancellor of York delivered judgment in the case of Young Ireland party ' are disposed to visit him," and the apparently subsiding a little. The political intelligence is the Bishop of Ripon v. the Rev. Mr. Hale, vicar of Hare public will scarcely fail to contrast its abject tone with unimportant. the irrepressible arrogance with which in the prosperous wood. The judgment was, in effect, that the charges • against the defendant of brawling and chiding in the , days of Conciliation Hall he kicked their remonstrance Towards the end of the last month, ice appeared in the church were true, and sentence was decreed as follows : into the puddle of Burgh-quay. i streets of Naples, for the first time since the year 1817. hat the rev, defendant be suspended from his ministry On Tuesday, Messrs. W. S. O'Brien,Thomas F. Earl Grey has been elected member for Melbourne in and functions for a period of six months, that he be con- Meagher, T. B. M`Manus, and P. O'Donohue were re the legislative council of Australia. dernned in the costs of the suit, and be admonished to , moved to the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, to hear The cholera has reappeared at Constantinople. Sir refrain for the future from the practices which have been the judgment of the full Court, on their appeal from the Charles Ashburnham, the first Secretary of the British alleaed against him. The suspension was pronounced on findings and sentences of the juries at Clonmel Special Embassy, had died of it. Sualay, according to the act of Parliament. The Comm i ss i on.defend- The C our t unan i mous were in overruling The Brussels papers speak of a number of Belgiansant was proved to have made some irregular remarks the errors assigne and confiming the indi ct nstment of the O'Connell already preparing to emigrate from that country to Court below; bu d t , they also r decided agai from the pulpit, referrin g pe r so na lly t o t h e mem b ers California. and his confederates, yet the decision was overruled, and of his congregation. In one instance, whilst alluding , Alexandre Dumas, who earned £6OOO a-year by effects, to a surgeon who was in church, the defendant the wrong-doers went free. Who can tell but a similar has declared himself insolvent, surrendered all his admitted having made the following remarks : result may await us here, though the grounds are not ~ Are your pencils ready sharpened ? Put it all down, and sought the protection of the courts. precisely the same ? During the past year 180 dramatic authors and 15 mu- d, word for word, and take it to your employers, that they THE QUEEN V. CAVAN D U F FS". " — J UDGMENT may read it to edification. I think a reporter who is sisal composers have been employed by the Parisian AGAINST THE CROWN.—Mr. Justice Perrin delivered theatres.obliged to attend upon a ministry which he does not like, judgment on Thursday, on the application of the Attor-LEIFSIC FAIR.—The reports from the Leipsic Newto take notes for others, has a very menial job; but I sus , to have final judgment entered on the par- Year's fair, brought to a close on the 10th inst., notice a pect it is 'no pipe, no pay," no notes, no luncheon;' , tial overruling of the indictment, on the authority of brisk sale for English textile fabrics, especially for the and oh the ham and the port wine, let me tell you, ) Servas's case in 1845, and of the precedent in Rastell. Eastern markets, adding a significant fact, which justifies these things are not to be laughed at. If there be a , He decided that the application must be refused, and that the inference that there are but limited supplies there, the pr i soner mus t b e a ll owe d t o reporter present, I will, if he will co me t o th e v i carage. s e aowe p l ea d over. His Lord viz., tbat much more could have been sold had longergive him my notes, and thus s ave hi m th e trou bl e of , ship then ordered the Commission to be adjourned t o th e credit been allowed. writing in the church, which is not a seemly practice in t , the of February, on the ground of the state of:busin in By the Swordfish, which arrived here on Friday, dates ,the Lord's house. I doubt not but with a little coaxing t the Court, and of inconvenience to the jurors. Si r ens Col have been received from Monte Video to the 9th, and Rioa reporter might be persuaded to ride about the parish in t man O'Loghlen applied for permission to admit the pri- Janeiro 28th November • and Bahia 18th, and Pernam- soner to bail under the Irish Habeas Corpus Act. The a surplice, with a sermon in one pocket and a gallipot in t bucco 23d December. From the:former ports there is no Court refused to entertain the application, which was the other." Amongst many other instances of " chiding," news of moment; but from the latter we have the imnor- urged by the prisoner in person with much earnestness. we may quote the followin g : —O n S un d ay , th e 15 t h i tent intelligence that General Coilho has had a decisive DECAY OF THE LANDLORDS.—The D u bli n Freeman's March, 1846, Viscount Las ce ll es an d th e H on . A rt h ur battle with the rebels, who had been put completely hors Journal gives the following melancholy picture of the Lascelle s a tt en d e d H arewoo d Ch urc h w i th a troop of ; de combat. crash of falling houses :—" From every side we hear the yeomanry, of which they were in command ; during his t A letter from Capt. Meadows Taylor, written from sermon Mr. Hale made a personal attack on these gen- crash of falling families and fortunes. M em b ers o f th e Sherapoor, says there are miles and miles of the very tlemen in these words : " I have got you here in the pew, of h ouses, the most ancient and most some finest lithographic stones, equal to the German, in that old pa tri c i an and now I will lash you ;" and that during the sermon aristocratic in the land, are outcasts and be ggars . One Mr. Hale made many district. He writes :—These stones would be a mine of offensive, abusive, and unseemly ob- i southern commoner has fled in disguise from his ancient wealth to Sherapoor, if a railway existed, for the vein of nervations upon the Earl of Harewood and his family. One castle, alone and unattended, without host or retainer, this rock limestone in laminas runs through the whole of of these was, " You are a tawdry-laced, jacketed jack to avoid the inconvenience of the Gazette. He was sup this country, and would be inexhaustible. It is very beau- anapes and popinjay." On Sunday, the 22d of March, t posed to be the wealthiest and safest proprietor in the tiful, easily raised, and lam now getting some specimens in the same year, the Rev. Richard Newlove, vicar of s south. He turns out to be penniless, and his incum dressed. Therner, in the county of York, was attending divine m illi on. o f hard t brancesupon a quar t er a A nother in- service at Harewood Ch urc h, w h en , i n t h e course of hi s Cape of Good Hope papers to the 22d of N ovem b er of f t sance of a reverse ortune was lately brought to our have arrived, and contain a lengthy report of a meetingsermon, defendant said, " There are Arminian teachers l i rent-roll of £lO,OOO with a nom i na l A gen tl eman held by the inhabitants of Cape Town, petitioning against no ti ce.both in the church and out of it. There is one of them per annum, who lately filled the o ffi ce of High Sheriff in s the proposed introduction of convicts, whatever the nature here to-day." Then, turnin g roun d an d a dd ress i ng Mr. , a most important county, and represented one of the most of their offences. The question is argued in a temperate New love, be said, " Now, sir, let me have a little talk i and earnest manner, and the resolutions adopted show honoured Protestant families in Ireland—a family, too, with you. You tell me that we are to be saved upon ter- t to which the Catholic proprietors of Munster owe no that the promoters of the opposition are prepared in every taro conditions. What are those conditions ? I suppose t small debt of gratitude—this gentleman, we have heard, legitimate way to urge upon the Home Government the n o wis you will tell me that we are to d o a ll th a t our go df a th ers s waiting at the office of the Poor Law Commis -inexpediency of the measure. The intelligence from be-and godmothers promised for us at our baptism. God sinners, looking for a Vice-Guardianship. yond the Orange River was, that the Land Commission. help both you and me if we have that to do ; for, amongst s GEMS FROM THE IRISH HUE AND CRY.—The following continued its labours with success. The quit-rent aye- other things, we are to love our neighbours as ourselves— s is from the G Division :—" Stolen on the night of the Bth raged £2 55., and several farms had already been sur- are we not ? I can't do that. I love myself a good deal , January, from Mr. M'Evoy, Queen's County, ' a black veyed. In the district of the Valsch River it was esti- I better." And after speaking of a clergyman " who 1 cob or a brown pony with fixed ears on a switch tail, by maied 300 would soon be prepared, exclusive of other might be known from the fact of his coming sneaking or himself John land remaining unappropriated , a man callin g skulking into another man's p ar i s h," d e f en d an t sa id , cloth cap otherwise a hat ! / Welsh, who wore !" Oh, John O'a black Keeffe ! ~ A man of my acquaintance has been to hear this THE POPES DELIVERERS.—The Morning Herald an- John O'Keeffe !if you are not gripped after the following, nounces another and more novel method by which the . clergyman preach ; and I asked the man afterwards you ought certainly to get out to California at once—it's Pope effected his escape from Rome. That paper says,what he thought about him. The man replied that the I the only place for y ou . — " John O'Keeffe absconded on " The Countess de Spaur—an Italian lady in the prime of Isermon was such a mixture of law and gospel that he i the 4th January, taking with him two large mahogany life—well known to the late Mr. Dodwell, the artist— could compare it to nothing but the discordant screaming silver an d silver nine seven chairs, indeed, it is said, his widow and relict—well kno wn also tables,of a pair of bagpipes." spoons. He has a cracked voice when speaking—(was to the ex-King and poet Louis of Bavaria—well known to 1 not speaking ? )—w hi c h was dres-man there ever a voice heard y young and middle-aged Englishmen and French- sed in a blue coat, trousers, stock, and ! was a sexton in COURT AND FASHION. men, who have travelled and peregrinated and hybernated Trinity Church, Lower Gardiner-street, and a porter in *— in foreign parts—this very Cou n t ess d e Sp aur , we say, was the savings' bank, Abbey-street, where he resided. He On Thursday the Dowager Countess of Sefton and the 1 the very tees of the Spiritual Head of th e Ch urc h. U n d er has friends in Tallaug s ht, county Dublin, cousins in Gres- Ladies Maria and Louisa Molyneux had the honour of the folds of her ample robe, which never co vere d a mul- ford, and also in Alfred-treet, London ; sisters at New- dining with her Majesty. titude of sins, the countess secreted his Holiness, and castle and the Canal Bridge and is also at Earlfield, Mademoiselle Jenny Lind, Mrs. Anderson, and Signor thus they pleasantly and safely journeyed on and to Ballymote !!" (Mirabile dictu'l" John O'Keeffe.) Belletti had the honour of performing at Windsor Castle • Gaeta, the promised land. Is there not something strange l COURAGEOUS CONDUCT.—The frequent burnings of o n Tuesday evening. and whimsical in this ?—something suggesting many re- . i stackyards near Belfast had alarmed a farmer, and one Prince Louis. Napoleon is related to Queen Victoria, i flections that struggle for impatient utterance, and yet night this week he sat up, accompanied by his two daugh- through the late Queen of Westphalia. Her Majesty and that may not be uttered audibly, but whispered only midst ters, to watch. About midnight he retired to rest. the late Queen of Westphalia were second cousins. familiar friends ? Arrived and safely settled at Gaeta, by ( Shortly afterwards the two young women heard the arri- THE PLAYS AT WINDSOR CAS . TLE.T . O ce n b T f h o u re rsd h ay , 1 the aid of one devout and holy woman, Italian, and " to vat of a car, and saw several men in the field beyond the evening the the court, Italian matron, in a far distant land, took the cause of his stack-yard, and began to set fire to a stack. The elder of tertainmens were " The Stranger " and the farce of Holiness in hand, and we learn, from a leading article of the girls called out to him to desist, but as he made no " Twice Killed." In the . flay, M r.' and Mrs. Charles the Ministerial Times, that the chaste Christina, the reply, but continued his efforts to burn the stack, she Kean . performed the principal characters • those in the Diana and Dowager Queen of Spain, has prevailed on the fired a musket at him loaded with slugs, and he fell. afterpiece were acted by Mr. and Mrs. Keeley. At the Cabinet of her daughter, the " Innocent Isabella," to Another advanced with fearful threats that he would burn fall of the curtain the Queen sent a message of approba- ; send seven first-rate steam-frigates, with the Veloce cor- the whole place, but the fearless girl charged him with a tion to the performers. vette, and three sloops, containing from 7,000 to 10,000 bayonet, which she plunged at his face. He fell back, I men, to the rescue of the Pontiff. How Spain can ma - but presently the whole party ad vance d , and one of them nage with civil war, raging in Cataloni a , an d h un d re d s of POLITICAL fired a pistol at her; but as she had withdrawn quickly thousands of pounds unpaid in London, to unde r t a k e thi s —*---- I d d she was not injured. Th e par t y d ragge d expedition and find the Spanish, we cannot divine. Por- under cover,The Marquis of Anglesea has been appointed Lord- t of to a heap s t ones c l ose b y, tugal, also, it is said, has sent her pious contingent, too." their wounded comp anions Lieutenant of the county of Stafford, in place of Earl F. and wereag ain advancin g, wh en th e g i rl threatened to Talbot. I that she h ad a brace of pis saying again, them from Gaeta a letter to the Roman people threatening with fire upon The address in the House of Commons will be moved t toll, upon which they all fled. An ala rm was qu i c kly excommunication all those who take any part in the given, but the ruffians had got clear off, taki ng with by Lord Harry Vane, and seconded by Mr. Sunb ur y. I election of members to the proposed National Assembly them their wounded companions. A cap was pi c k e d up Her Majesty will open Parliament in person. I of the Roman States. As a document threatening a re• near the stack ;it was completely riddled with shot.— The Times of Friday, in a leading article, assumes th a t vival in the 19th century of the most fearful weapon of Belfast News. al4 1... there will be a speedy intervention by France in the affairs - t the rhm4 Pim . ., of , a in rloAy. rn onus Chia latter is an in_ Cape of Good Hope papers to the 22d of November have arrived, and contain a lengthy report of a meeting held by the inhabitants of Cape Town, petitioning against the proposed introduction of convicts, whatever the nature of their offences. The question is argued in a temperate and earnest manner, and the resolutions adopted show that the promoters of the opposition are prepared in every legitimate way to urge upon the Home Government the inexpediency of the measure. The intelligence from be yond the Orange River was, that the Land Commission continued its labours with success. The quit-rent ave raged £2 55., and several farms had already been sur veyed. In the district of the Valsch River it was esti maied 300 would soon be prepared, exclusive of other land remaining unappropriated. THE POPE'S DELIVERERS.—The Morning Herald an another and more novel method by which the Pope effected his escape from Rome. That paper says, "The Countess de Spaur—an Italian lady in the prime of life—well known to the late Mr. Dodwell, the artist — indeed, it is said, his widow and relict—well known also to the ex-King and poet Louis of Bavaria—well known to many young and middle-aged Englishmen and French men, who have travelled and peregrinated and hybernated in foreign parts—this very Countess de Spaur, we say, was the very aegis of the Spiritual Head of the Church. Under the folds of her ample robe, which never covered a mul titude of sins, the countess secreted his Holiness, and thus they pleasantly and safely journeyed on and to Gaeta, the pron.ised land. Is there not something strange and whimsical in this ?—something suggesting many re flections that struggle for impatient utterance, and yet that may not be uttered audibly, but whispered only midst familiar friends ? Arrived and safely settled at Gaeta, by the aid of one devout and holy woman, Italian, and " to the very manner born" of saving a Pope, another modest Italian matron, in a far distant land, took the cause of his Holiness in hand, and we learn, from a leading article of the Ministerial Times, that the chaste Christina, the Diana and Dowager Queen of Spain, has prevailed on the Cabinet of her daughter, the Innocent Isabella," to send seven firstrate steam-frigates, with the Veloce cor vette, and three sloops, containing from 7,000 to 10,000 Men, to the rescue of the Pontiff. How Spain can ma nage with civil war, raging in Catalonia, and hundreds of thousands of pounds unpaid in London, to undertake this expedition and find the Spanish, we cannot divine. Por tugal, also, it is said, has sent her pious contingent, too." ARROGANCE OF THE POPE.—The Pope has fulminated from Gaeta a letter to the Roman people threatening with excommunication all those who take any part in the election of members to the proposed National Assembly of the Roman States. As a document threatening a re • vival in the 19th century of the most fearful weapon of the Church of Rome in darker ages, this letter is an in teresting document. We commend this Papal interference with the "liberty of election " to Roman Catholic demo crats of all countries. It comes from a " Liberal " Pope. And the Revolution it denounces is the result of that vague Italian nationality to which so many men (and the Pope himself amongst others) lent the sanction of their approval. We commend this letter also to Protestants of every shade in politics. In it, the Pope claims and arro gates to himself not only sovereignty but divinity itself. The Roman people have but claimed the right to be " the wane of all legitimate power." They have not even ejected the Pope from Rome, as the French people ejected Louis Philippe from France. When he did go, they certainly made no haste to beg him to come back. On the contrary, they set about realising a Representative Constitution. All very mad, and very violent, no doubt. His Holiness, in the commencement of his letter, more tartly describes it as " a mon3trous act of hypocritical felony and genuine rebellion." But his Holiness does not stop at these hard words. He Foes on to d enounce the object of the Revolution as impiety," and as a "sacrilege" which merits the chastisement "inflicted by divine and human laws." He speaks of the Papal sovereignty as " the sacred deposit of the patrimony of the spouse of Jesus Christ," and threatens to " employ the sword of just severity [to wit, excommunication]] which God himself' has given into our hands TO BE THUS USED." And, finally, he blasphemously compares his The address in the House of Commons will be moved by Lord Harry Vane, and seconded by Mr. Bunbury. Her Majesty will open Parliament in person. The Times of Friday, in a leading article, assumes that there will be a speedy intervention by France in the affairs of Italy. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THE CHASE. THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet— Wednesday (to-morrow), the 24th inst., at.. Tatton Park. Thursday, 25th Saturday, 27th, . Church Minshull Each day at half-past ten, except Thursday, the 25th instant, when they will meet at eleven. SIR w : W. WYNN's HOUNDS will meet — Wednesday, (to-morrow), the 24th instant Gresford Friday, 26th ... Saturday, 27th Overton Bridge. Each day at half-past ten o'clock. SIR THOMAS HESKETH'S HARRIERS will meet — To-morrow, (Wednesday,) the 24th, at Croston Kennels. Friday, the 26th .. Anderton's Windmill. Each day at eleven o'clock. COURSING. A vacancy has occurred in the representation of South Staffordshire, by the elevation of Lord Ingestre to the peerage. Lord Lewisham, Charles S. Foster, Esq., and Lord Anson, have been named as probable candidates for the vacant seat. ACCIDENT TO MR. W. T. DUGDALE.—A very serious accident occurred to Mr. Dugdale, formerly member for North Warwickshire, at his seat, Merrivale, near Ather stone, on Wednesday. The hon. gentleman was out shooting with his son, when the latter, from behind a hedge, discharged his fowling-piece, and the contents ac cidentally lodged in the face and head of his father. The injuries are stated to be alarming. MOVEMENT OF AGRICULTURISTS FOR A FIXED DUTY. —On Thursday an influential meeting of the Leicester. shire agriculturists was held at Waltham-on-the-Wolds, to petition parliament to impose a protective duty upon the importation of foreign corn, &c., and, if necessary, to in crease the duties now imposed on corn, or such manufac tures as interfere with the productions of British capital and industry. The meeting was also called to promote the subscription for a testimonial to Lord Geo. Bentinck. The Marquis of Granby and Lord John Manners were present. The latter was called to the chair, and passed a high eulogium on Lord George Bentinck. It was resolved to subscribe to the memorial in his honour. Lord John Manners next addressed the meeting in favour of a .fixed duty on corn. SOUTHPORT.—A programme has just been issued for an open meeting to take place at Southport, on Wednesday and Thursday, January '3lst and February Ist, consisting of the Scarisbrick Stakes, the. Fleetwood Stakes, and the Churchtown Stakes, each to have 16 nominations. The spring Lytham champion coursing meeting will, as usual, be held over the grounds in the vicinity of Lytham (weather permitting), on Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri day, the 14th, 15th, and 16th of. February. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.—The section of the above railway extending from Lichfield to Walsall is now ready for opening. A dinner was given on Friday at the London Tavern on the occasion of the presentation of an elegant service of plate, of the value of £5OO, to W. Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway, &c., &c. On Saturday three workmen were proceeding along the Eastern Counties line, near to Edmonton Station, when a train came up, and passed over the body of one, named Lynch, killing him on the spot. It is stated that Mr. Robert Stephenson is now in Egypt, at the instance of the British government, to sur vey and report upon the practicability of making a railway across the isthmus of Suez. A novel species of robbery has been tried on the Great Southern and Western Railway, in the abstraction of cushions, window-blinds, hat-straps, and linings of the carriages, to the value of about £6O or £7O. The thieves are in custody. The traffic'for the week ended 16th January, 1849, on the Chester and Holyhead Railway amounted to—Coach ing traffic, £757 Bs. 2d. • parcels, £29 159.3 goods and cattle, £162 is. ld. ; steam -boats, £lOl lls. : total, £lO5O 15s. 3d. In ,Ttick's Tide Table is given a list of the average speeds, including stoppages, on twelve of the principal railways. The express trains of the Great Western are put down highest (43 miles); those of the Eastern Coun ties lowest (26 miles). The parliamentary trains are, the highest (22 miles) the North-Western, and Brighton lowest (15 miles). The amount of traffic for the last week, on 4,280 miles of railway, was £166,980, thus accounted for :—£72,339 for the conveyance of passengers only, £44,502 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £50,139 for passen gers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £20,968 over the crresponding week of last year, when the mileage was 3,342. The average earnings per mile were £3O, whilst last year they were £44. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.—At a meeting of manufacturers held the other day at Hanley, to consider the best method to be adopted for obtaining a reduction in the rate of tonnage charged on raw material and manu factured goods in their transit along the Trent and Mersey Canal. now vested in the Railway Company, it was re solved to apply to parliament in the ensuing session to have a clause inserted in the Company's Act for that purpose. _ _ _ FALL OF RAILWAY BRIDGES.-011 Sunday morning week, about three o'clock. the " wall-wing" of an arch on the Liverpool and Bury Railway, erected across the Douglas, in the fields behind the Sovereign Mills, fell down with a fearful crash. Scores of tons of earth, form ing the embankment, slipped into the bed of the river and field below. The level of the rails on which the trains travel from Liverpool to Bury was entirely destroyed, and the trains travelling in that direction were compelled to run a considerable distance on the other line, which was unimpaired. Extraordinary vigilance was used to pre vent accidents. On Tuesday the way was restored, and the traffic was conducted as before. The restoration of the arch, and reconstruction of the embankment, are pro ceeding as rapidly as the state of the weather will permit. The next bridge nearer to ince, which extends over the canal, is being fortified against a similar disaster. On Saturday night week .a like misfortune to the one we have described, happened to a bridge on the same line, at Westhoughton. A RAILWAY LIBRARY.-A very important addition to the comfort of the travelling public has been suggested by the general manager of the London and Northwestern Railway Company, Captain Huish, and is likely to be brought into early operation. Our readers may have ob served that at the principal stations there are bookstalls, where popular literature as well as newspapers can be purchased. The supply of books is about to be largely increased and improved in character ; and the whole of the stations on the line being now undertaken by one party (Messrs. Smith and Son, of the Strand,) Captain Huish proposes to establish a gigantic circulating library, on the plan that the passenger may select a book at a stall, paying the price thereof, and after travelling any distance on the railway (where his journey terminates) deliver it at the station, receiving back the value, less a trifle for a perusal. When it is cons id ere d th a t the Lon don and Northwestern Railway extends over nearly 500 miles, and that more than six millions of passengers travel upon it annually, we cannot conceive any plan more likely than the above to improve the time spent in jour neying. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY. (Before Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce.) THE ROYAL ETCHINGS-PRINCE ALBERT V. STRANGE His Honour gave judgment on Tuesday, refusing io dissolve the injunction restraining the defendant from publishing the Royal etchings, and condemning the con duct of several of the parties concerned in attempting to take advantage of an unbecoming intrusion, an intrusion offensive to every well-thinking mind, namely, that of a sordid spy into private and domestic life, and an intrusion, too, into the private and domestic life of individuals who not only deserved, but had obtained the respect of the country. He reserved the question as to costs, his Royal Highness Prince Albert and his solicitor undertaking to speed the cause. He did not see why both suits should not be heard before Trinity Term or sooner, and he had no doubt, from their peculiar nature, that the Court would hear them as soon as they were ready. The de fendant immediately gave notice of appeal to the Lord Chancellor. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH-MONDAY THE QUEEN V. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, IN THE MATTER OF GORIIAM V. THE BISHOP OF EXETER. The Attorney-General moved for a rule to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue to the Arch bishop of Canterbury, as Primate and Metropolitan, com manding him to try an issue raised upon a qutere impedit, directed to the Bishop of Exeter, requiring him to show why he refused to institute a gentleman, named Gorham, to a living in that diocese. The bishop had pleaded to the quEere impedit that Mr. Gorham " held unsound doc trines, contrary to the true Christian faith, and to the doc trines of the United Church of England and Ireland—to wit, that spiritual regeneration is not given or conferred by baptism, and that infants were not thereby regene rated." The chief doubt upon the proceeding was. whe ther this rule ought to be a rule nisi or a rule absolute in the first instance. On this point of practice the learned counsel cited some authorities. The Court, after some discussion on this point, granted a rule, which, not being mentioned to the Court on Wednesday, was then made absolute. The Observer, with all that mysterious inuendo per taining to scandal, announces that an action for criminal conversation has been commenced against a noble duke, the damages being laid at several thousand pounds. IMPORTANT POINT OF PRACTICE.—Tt is important to the profession to know that it has been decided that in all cases where any affidavit states a date so as to make it necessary to refer to the jurat for the year of our Lord, or otherwise, it is insufficient, as the jurat cannot be referred to ; therefore care should be taken to insert the year in the body of the affidavit itself, instead of the word " in stant" or last," as has been the practice. THE SPRING CIRCUITS.—On. Thursday the judges assembled in the Exchequer Chamber for the purpose of selecting their respective circuits. The following is the result : WESTERN.—Lord Denman and Mr. Justice Williams. MIDLAND.—Lord Chief Justice Wilde & Mr. Justice Manic. NORFOLK.—The Lord Chief Baron and I'lr. Baron Rolfe. HOME.—Mr. Baron Parke and Mr. Justice Wightman. NORTHERN.—Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Cole ridge. axFoao.—Mr. Justice Coltman and Mr. Baron Platt. NORTH WALES.—Mr. Justice Cresswell. SOUTH WALES.—Mr. Justice Erie. A CONTRACT TO PAY FORTY PER CENT. INTEREST BINDING. — The case of Lee v. Clarke came on in the Bail Court, on Thursday, before Mr. Justice Erle and a common jury. The plaintiff was an attorney, and the de fendant an officer in the army. The action was brought to recover a sum of money which was due to plaintiff, and an agreement had been entered into by the parties, which was to the following effect :—" I, Clarke, admit that you have given me value as agreed on my bill on my bro ther, Sir Simon Clarke, for £5OO, at three months ; and in consideration that you have discounted the bill, I agree that, if the same be not paid at maturity, I will pay you interest on the amount at and after the rate of forty per cent. per annum, from the time it shall have become due, until the day of payment : and, if you sue me thereon,l antlioi ise Mr. Robson to enter an appea rance f or me , in order to obtain a judgment against me in - the Court of Queen's Bench." The bill mentioned was discounted by the plaintiff. It became due in September, 1844, and was dishonoured ; but on the 6th of July, 1846, the amount of the bill was paid, together with £4B 18s. 11d. for interest, at the rate of five per cent., and expenses, and the present action was brought to recover the sum of £327 18s. 5d., being the interest at forty per cent., which the defendant had agreed to pay, or rather, the difference between that amount and that which the defendant had already paid. Mr. Justice Erle said that he had a very strong opinion relative to contracts or agreements that were in writing. Persons were at liberty to make or enter into any agreements or contracts they chose ; but, having done so, they had no right to complain that it was a hard case that they should be called upon to perform such contract or agreement, and ask a jury to discharge them from the obligation into which they had entered. The jury ought not to be called on to decide in such cases how much the defendant ought to pay : their duty was simply to enforce the agreement into which the defendant had entered.—The jury returned a verdict for the plain tiff for the full amount claimed, £327 18s. sd. Loss OF THE OCEAN MONARCH.—IMPORTANT DECI SION.—In the County Court of Yorkshire, before T. H. Marshall, Esq., at Leeds, on Wednesday last, an impor tant case, "Neesom v. Blaymire," was tried. Mr. John Everard Upton, solicitor, appeared for the plaintiff, and stated that the action was brought by the plaintiff, as the father and next friend of his son, Mr. Edwin Neesom, for Edwin Neisom's share of the subscription money entered into by the public for the benefit of the survivors who were on the " Ocean Monarch" ship at the melancholy burning of that vessel in August last. It appeared that the defendant, Mrs. Blaymire (who is the aunt of Edwin Neesom). Mrs. Summersgill, and a son and daugh ter of the plaintiff, were all passengers by the Ocean Monarch, and were going from Liverpool to Boston in August last, to set up business as fancy flower manufac turers, in Australia, and they were on board when the fire took place. A subscription amounting to above £2OOO was raised for the sufferers, and the share of all the four persons had been paid by Mr. Neilson, the treasurer, to the defendant. The defendant paid about £5 each to the plaintiff and Mrs. Summersgill, but refused to pay the plaintiff any more, and £2O 4s. Gd. was now due to the plaintiff. In order to enable Mr. - Upton to prove his client's claim against the defendant, he produced two let ters, written by Mr. Neilson to the plaintiff, which dis tinctly shewed that the money had been paid to Mrs. Blaymire, and that she ought to have paid a certain por tion of it to the plaintiff. But as the defendant would not admit that Mr. Neilson's letters were genuine, Mr. Upton examined the defendant and proved from her that a sum of £BO had been received by her, a part of which his Honour thought plaintiff was entitled to, and in giving his judgment he stated "that the defendant's conduct had been most unkind and dishonest, and that she ought to have at once paid over the plaintiff's son's share of the money to him ; and, further, that as Mr. Upton had shown that the defendant had not only been guilty of a gross breach of trust, but had endeavoured to make away with her property, he should make an order for immediate execution against her goods, as well as commit her to prison for 40 days.—Leeds Intelligencer. CORRESPONDENCE PURITANISM AND POPERY A correspondent has forwarded to us a letter addressed to the Rev. Cecil Wray on the subject of that reverend gentleman's sermon preached on the sth of November, wherein, with uncommon sagacity, he professes to have discovered fifteen resemblances between Puritanism and Popery. Our correspondent, after some pointed remarks on the style of the sermon, and on the inuendo in one part of it respecting the " Puritanism within the fold of the Church of England," closes his letter as follows : If the occasion admitted not of speaking out, neither should it have admitted of the inuendo. Periphrasis in the pulpit may be justified to save the use of a hackneyed and offensive word : such a mode of speaking becomes the dignity of the place. But insinuation never—never ! At all events the press might convey a clear intimation of the persons meant, and your sermon has been published ! Am I incorrect in supposing that, by the epithet Puri tan, you intend to designate the clergy and laity " within the fold," commonly, and for a wise and necessary dis tinction's sake, called Evangelical ? You cannot and do not mean, in your resemblances, the Puritans of Eliza beth's reign ; nor yet the Presbyterians, Independents, and Nonconformists of the Protectorate—more emphati cally the Puritans of history. And yet I allow there is such a dextrous though confused commingling of the past and the present in your resemblances, that one finds it very difficult to ascertain what you do mean. But I take it for granted, for I can do no other, that the Puri tans " within the fold " are even those persons whom I have already suggested. If so, let us now look at your fifteen resemblances, seriatim, as applicable to them. First,—You say, " While Romanism asserts the infal libility of the Pope, Puritanism makes each man a Pope to himself, by denying church authority and asserting the right of unlimited private judgment." In the first proposition I am perfectly agreed with you ; Romanism does assert the infallibility of the Pope. In the second I entirely disagree with you. When and where, sir, and who, among the clergy and laity supposed, denies church authority, so far as it is defined in the 20th article ?—or where, by them, is the right of unlimited private judgment asserted?—or where is individual infal libility maintained ? It will not be an answer to these questions if you cull a sentence or two from the writings of the Evangelical clergy, which apparently support your assertion. You must establish the parallel. The Pope is deemed infalli ble—that is a fact : substantiate the resemblance by equally undeniable facts, or, need I say, it fails. Secondly,—You say, "Romanism misquotes Scripture for self-interest, and Puritanism does the like." Here, again, we are thoroughly agreed in your first proposition. Romanism does notoriously misquote Scrip ture. As you do not, perhaps I had better cite an in stance in confirmation : it will serve at least to guide you to your parallel case. To support her invented sacrament of " extreme unction," the Church of Rome quotes a passage from St. James, which plainly refers to an ordi nance for the recovery of the sick, whereas her ordinance is for the dying, and the dying only. But can you shew me a like instance of misquotation on the part of the clergy to whom you point in your epi thet Puritans ? Where for "self-interest" do they take such a licence with the sacred records ? Where do they thus make a pain of their hearers ? I must wait for your reply. Thirdly,—You say, "Romanism supersedes Scripture by wresting it to an agreement with her modern decrees. Puritanism supersedes Scripture by forcing it into an accordance with the traditions of Calvin, Luther," &c. Do you mean by " Calvin, Luther," &c., the unani mous consent of the Reforming Fathers, as Rome so fondly pleads for the unanimous consent of the Ancient Fathers ? But let that pass. Again we are agreed in your first proposition. Romanism does " supersede Scripture by wresting it to an agreement," &c. And to shew to your and my readers what kind of a parallel you artrready to establish, let me again quote an instance in proof. Romanism decrees that " images and relics of Christ and the saints are to be duly honoured and vene rated" (vide Concil. Trid.) ; and to give plausibility to the decree, she suppresses (where she may) the second commandment of the Decalogue, as in one of her books of devotion now before me. But " Puritanism supersedes," &c. ? Indeed ! when ? how ? where ? Methinks the Puritans to whom you allude are generally thought by some to pay too little respect to the writings and traditions (where are they ?) of " Calvin, Luther," &c., or any other Rabbis, and by some also accused of following too slavishly Holy Scrip . At least I think your reviewer would say so. But !maps you lu ve your proofs at hand, so I had better ait until you produce them. Indeed, until I have something more than your mere " ipse dixit," I feel that I must suspend any attempt fully to refute your resemblances. The giosts you have conjured up are like ghosts too airy and unpalpable to battle with, but when you have clothed them with shape and tangibility, I will try - what can be done to lay them. In all your assertions, I do not, I cannot believe, that you had any intention wilfully to impose upon the credulous; but I do charitably think that you " resemble" too much the bewildered peasant, whose distempered fancy trans forms the overhanging tree seen in the gathering shadows of night, into some terrible ancestral ghost • and whose innocent delusion nought but inspection under the glo rious light of morning can dispel. Lest my remarks should from their extent be excluded from that paper to which I send them, I must now lay down my pen. I would willingly append my real signa ture to this letter, if I thought it would be of any benefit to the cause of truth so to do. But I am an humble in dividual, and my name would add no weight to my thoughts. I only speak because other and abler defenders of the right are silent. If any expression I have used savour too much of sevrity, I can only say that I have not " set down aught in malice," though I must add, I may have written under an indignant feeling. I am, Reverend Sir, yours, &c., CHRISTIANOS. SIGNAL LAMPS FOR VESSELS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—The condensed report of the proceedings at the Polytechnic Society, in your paper of Tuesday last, gave me credit for what I did not deserve ; and I therefore feel it a duty I owe to Mr. Miller, of London, the patentee and maker of the signal lamps for ships and steamers, to request that you will insert the following paragraph, which was omitted in your report of my lecture : " Capt. Evans has been fortunate in obtaining the assistance of Mr. G. H. Miller, of London, lamp-manu facturer, whose scientific arrangements in the construc tion and adaptation of the lamp have been mainly instru mental in bringing it (the plan) to a successful issue." I am, sir, yours, most respectfully, _ JAS. ALEX. FORREST. _ Liverpool, 18th January, 1849. -.4...-- REMARKS ON THE REV. D. JAMES'S SPEECH TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sin.,—Allow me to make a few remarks on Mr. James's lecture, which appeared in your paper of last week. It supports a theory which I believe quite untenable, and calculated to injure the Established Church when proved to be so. Doubtless it is satisfactory to answer the Ro manist's question, " Where was your church before Luther ?" by asserting its existence centuries before ; and the Dissenter's question, " Have we not as good a right to leave you as you had to leave Rome ?" by main taining that we never did leave Rome, but that she over laid us : still a sterner question supervenes for ourselves, viz., Are we warranted in giving these answers ? I an swer, Certainly not. And first, suppose the fact substan tiated of the existence of an ancient British Church, it would still remain to prove that such church was purer in doctrine than the Rome of those times ; since, if it were not, I presume that Mr. James would not care to be its champion. Now this proof cannot be collected : nay, the scanty evidence of history, as I will mention, leads to a contrary conclusion. When, then, the Romanist puts his question, " Where was your church before Luther or Henry VIII. ? " the conclusiveness or weakness of the answer depends on the sense in which we understand the term church. If, with the Tractarians, we allow our opponent's Sense, viz., a visible episcopal corporation, or add thereto our own essential of a true church, teaching the pure word of God, we must grant that no such church existed. The only visible system for centuries had been the Roman Catholic. and England was as com pletely a Romish country as France or Spain. Whenever high churchmen, as Mr. Palmer and Dodsworth, have tried to uphold our present national church on " Catho lic" ground, the attempt has signally failed. But a Protestant's answer to the above question is plain : " My church, as an external constitution, did not exist before Henry VIII. ; but the doctrine which she teaches, and the holiness which she illustrates, have been manifested by God's true and faithful people, isolated as they might be, even in the darkest ages. And while essential Chris tianity is analytically separable from a visible constitu tion, and may, by God's help, exist for a time without it, still the soil of an outward communion, scriptural and apostolic as is our present church, is more adapted to spiritual growth than those wherein superstition reigns, as in Rome, or lawlessness, as in Dissent generally. Thus my religion existed long before either Luther or Henry, and my church was then created to enshrine it, whose model is also scriptural." Beyond this let us not be careful to answer adversaries. When we are, and join issue with the Papist that pretensions to antiquity like his own are neces sar y t o su pp or t our church claims, the question becomes one of history, and, if defeated on it, what refuge h ave we ? A n d, a las what is our chance of victory ? With regard to Britain, for the three first cen turies, ecclesiastical history is all but silent. The sup posed apostolic journeys and conversions yvere never heard of until the eighth century, at which period, as has b een remarked, the endeavours of Christian churches to esta blish precedeuey of origin resembled those of the old Jan. 23, 109, • Egyptians and Romans. The venerable Bede abc; . ,,ip same period relates the story whi c h d oes no t tend wiv out the priority of the British Ch urc h, v i z ., that c therus, Bishop of Rome, received an application fro ; 3 -0 British King Lucius, f or i ns t ruct i on i n the ,„,,C'.,l religion, and by it was con ver t e d t o t h e faith. -Val3 f e supposed to have occurred in th e re i gn o f the Dmy Aurelius, in the second century. As, however,.. 4 . Tremens and Tertullian speak of the founding of ebf' e v t y in Germany at thi s ti me , it i s reasona b le to co nclun,, e ; Britain, from its nearness, wo u ld a tt rac t the nn' e y) missionaries ; and more than this we cannot CO These points are investigated in Usher's Eccles td ' Antiquities and in Rapin's Histo r y o f th e Third Cen`4 Milner has the honesty to observe, Of the Britis h l, little is recorded, and that little is obscure and uncelo It is rather from the natural course of things an d d o* analogy than from any positive unexceptionable nit o mony, that we are induced t o conclude that the 4' ) 1 light must have penetrated into our country. it e, anecdote is given by Sulpitius Severus, the o n 0 Gallic historian of the foil- 'h century, exemplify' simplicity and disinteresteuaess of some individual ; tish bishops, but proceeding no furth er . S o we P a ;%l the sixth century. when the mission un d er A ug usti%o sent by Pope Gregory to o ur s h ores . Wh atever is ' 1 4 4 fal about the then re li g i ous s t a t e o f t h e i s l an d , thus _ is quite certain, that, owing to the Saxon invasio'i Gospel had declined f or th e space o f 1 5 0 years ; ths Britons made not the slightest attempts to conver t r t .;o' conquerors--a fact betokening a d ea d or ca llous 1 :`, 1 and that, except in Cornwall, some parts of \Va le- i g t , ! of Scotland, Paganism was universal. Thus I en.,l acquiesce in Bede's hone s t remar k respecti ng the it c) t lO mission,—" Much worthier pastors were sent by a Divine goodness, th roug h w h om t h ose whom Gottli foreknown might believe t o sa l va ti on ." Thi s is n°ol language of modern P o p er y : b ut t h e f act is, ;11910' accustom ourselves to involve in one sweeping con° o f tion every person and thing bearing the impress of 11 ° 1 4 forgetting that in fact the system of the 16th centurY developed in iniquity from that of the 6th to a vas t y, tent, and that Grego r y XVI. was no necessary enliAd part of Gregory I. Supposing that certain Welsh b i r? did oppose Augustine'F3 wish to introduce a lteratioo_o the time of observin g E as t er , we k now t h at hi s tone tio the proceeding was mild an d evange li ca l , an d hi s In o ° , for uniformity, viz., a wider platfor m f or evange lizin, o heathen, very lauable ; to which their opposition 0 1, more frivolous than reasonable. Besides which, 6(. 0 0 jects of our defe nce may b e ne i ther more nor less 0: Pelagians, Wales being the native country of that hip'; (Pelagius being only th e L a ti n o f M organ ) , an 10 doctrine having been widely diffused there. Henc e to ~ are not justified in t rans f err i ng our animosities t°i? early age, and in decidi ng e ith er t h at every Roman r,J sionary must be an usurp er , or th at every opponet'fi his must be a friend of Christ. Suffice it for us thst, 4 dissented from the English Church of 900 years ben she had dissented f rom th e Bibl e, an d that we gl°lo conformity to the Bible rather than to an ancient Bij Church possibly more uns cr ipt ura l th an Rome beiry whom we left. A n d if, on th e ot h er hand, other PO 0 • I tants a ffi rm their r i g ht t o di ssent f rom us as we d i d t , Rome, let us say littl e i n reply, and do m uc h. chrl' o manifested image in men's lives wins over others than books and platform speeches, and it is high tiole q should assume weapons not carnal. With regard to thren who, with the best intentions, would fain harP o i, nize historical facts with preconce i ved wishes, we though in a friendly spirit,— " Non tali auxilio nec defensoribus istis Tempus eget." A MANCHESTER INCUMBENI Everton, Jan. 13, 1849, MR. GRUNDY'S REPOSITORY OF WORD We have been favoured during the past week, a t 1 Repository of Mr. Grundy in Church-street, with a! le ,, of four splendid paintings, n ow i n course o f engr ao, from which we have derived a grea t er i n t e ll ectua l than even this spirited patron of the fine arts has e before provided for the Liverpool public. We se lect t y the first which we s h a ll no ti ce — a l t h oug h not f i rst order of merit—a work which recent favours, confe,sr upon our town by th e f a i r original, will ren d er e spec!7 , 4 interesting -at the present moment. The work to W we refer is a beautiful PORTRAIT OF JENNY LIND, after a picture by -16' r ..re Solomon, from the d aguerrotype b y Ki l b urn, in t h e 1 session of her Majesty. Madlle. Lind kindly face tt the artist with a sitting for this picture, in order tha t i; truthfulness of the dag uerro t ype might be fully preser y and we can confid en tly s t a t e t h at the picture, thus E e r duced, is the perfe c t vra i sem bl ance of the amiable nal. It is being engraved by Willi am Holl, Esq,, 101 by 8 1 inches ' • and from the price of the engraviag a guinea and a half for proofs before letters, a gu inea . proofs after, and half a gu i nea f or prints —a liken $ this fair child of song is now access ibl e to her host s admiring friends. HAGAR AND ISHMAEL, by C. L. Eastlake, Esq., • - 1, - 1 4 in the possession of J. C. M ars h a ll, E sq., of Kesvitc:g, one of the most s pl en did e ff or t s o f t hi s ta l ente d art y :., The scene is laid in the desert ; and a more striking r v ,i ture of the s t er il e magn ifi cence o f d esert scenery ear're be imagi ne d. Th e illi m i ta b le waste of dreary, verdsp less sand stretches away and away, with scarce ly a n u. s 4. lesion, until the prospect mingles with the distant lion 1„ In the foreground, which is most artistic in all its deb' ,1( Hagar is reclining on the ar id so il , her eyes appsr S i scorched and red with the pot en t h ea t , h o ldi ng a Pi'se to the lips of her half-fainting boy. The figure s strikingly grouped ; and the introduction of a falleu, l3 ; o l tree, withered, its branches b ro k en an d th e i r l eave s e r ,II up, adds greatly to the eff ec t o f th e p a i n ti ng . A scan t ) supplied pool of water in the immediate background t 1 oasis in the vast wilderness of sand—points out to tl' q source from which the timely su ppl y f or th e parc hed J e ' s , of the travellers has been derived. Mr. Eastlake has r e' celled himself in this production. It is being engrs very successfully in line by M. Bridoux, of Paris. THE IMPENDING MATE, and MATED, by Frank •, —two pictures—is a most pleasing subject delight e T i i treated. In the first, a y ou th an d a ma i den are sea t d chess, but we can scarce l y say p l ay i ng at chess, i being evidently playing a more momentous game. the position of the men on the board, the youth is 0 ": 4 dently in danger of b e i ng ma t e d . I n the second Ine't9 the story is concluded, and the game played o at, ,to youth being a kneeling suitor at the feet of his cot - 1(1 01 'W These pictures are full of talent, and tell the story 0f,,,) loving hearts most graphi ca ll y . Th e engravings, sy'v'r form a very pleasing pair, are published under the suP o i intendence of the Printsellers' Association, and are ' I ready. THE ROYAL FAMILY, by Winterhalter.—Our reap) will remember this magnificent painting of our amis s r Sovereign, her Consort, and the young Princes and re cesses Royal, painted by a German artist of eminea..„ In consideration of the length of time which will be 5 quired to complete the line en grav i ng , h er M a j e sti,.s consented to allow a lithographic i m p ress i on t o be ta ). ; e , which is now on view at Mr. Grundy's, and will be P,{ sented to each subscriber for a ten guinea impressie l , 3 44 the line engraving. It is beautifully exec u t e d, an d con fully the spirit of the original picture. A NEW LEGAL TERM.—The Dublin correspondeo the London Times, in giving his report of the proceed s ii of Mr. Duffy of the Nation, h ea d s hi s not i ce " Conwig sion of oyer sans te rm i ner ." Th e term is certainly lo apropos of all Irish legal proceedings, especially ° A O conducted by Whig-R a di ca l l awyers against their q uoll•v o i allies in incendi ar y ag it at i on. " The law ' s delay' A) been proverbial in our own country; b ut in Ireland'o the hands of a Whig attorney-general, the law ho s d quired a forty-horse p ower o f d e l ay. A man ' s hair N, grow grey, in the mid s t o f d emurrers and other siiP_d technicalities, before any furthe r p ena lt y t h an gentle/0:j incarceration and the payment of his counsel's foes reach him. . THE BRUNZWICR CLUB. —This club, although it i f only just completed its first anniversary, m a y be raft amongst the successful and useful institutions of L i ' pool. The Brunswick Club is properly a literary ass tion, but its directors, w ith a l au d a bl e apprec i at i on ib t ., r , popular taste, do not exclude, but on the contrail ry( mote, recreative and amusing games, which are ail ii the surveillance of the able secretary, Mr. Lloyds. , object of the club is to bl en d th e e l emen t s o f me nta , oll physical training ; and this a i m M r . Whit eman has., 0 1 in view, irrespective of expense, as ma y b e s e en ": 15 i1 elegant and spacious news-room and lib rar y, a s well the apparatus of the different fashionable_ game` ttd amusements, which may be practised here w ith 4 .. greatest conceivable case and com f ort. The ads's „ " e attendant on the holding of a ti c k e t t o t hi 4 clu b , g'",to ? numerous as to preclude their enumeration here. wr i, ,l$! SUMMARY WAY OF D ISMISSING A WIFE.—On ..!." a pretty-looking youn g woman, w i th an infant 10.0 arms, named Stephenson, charged her husband, o r? Simpson Stephenson, w ith h av i ng turned h er out o f do d , The husband, being asked for his reply, coolly obser s e r "0 ! I am annoyed b y h er f r i en d s. " M r. Rusbt d l " Is that a reason why you should thus act towa r o il young girl who has trusted and married you ? To t . ll l/ 1 ! good-looking girl like this i n t o th e s t ree t i s t o worl , t ruin. It might be s o . D o y ou repen t o f your co ndu c fly Stephenson ; " No." Mr. Rushton, with gre at warV " Then you may depend upon it I will make you. or, him into custody." When in the dock Stephenson s ff he had mistaken the meaning of the ques ti on , an' rf sorry for what he had done. Mr. Rushton " j et, perly so. Take her home and behave kindly toward s But you must enter into your own recognizances for your good behaviour for twelve months. And (the wife) never upbraid him with this, but live bo` together, regardless of the inte r f erence o f re l a ti v es. 01 THE REV. F. CLOSE.—We have referred in so cl ioi paragraph to a shamefully false charge published all this gentleman in reference to one of the Chelteoo, charities, and the churchwardens of his parish, tog e ,,/, with many other of the most respectable inhabitants , 1 0 j, published an indignant disclaimer of an equallY.k; statement publish e d i n th e Ti mes, t h e nature of wil l ' 1 7 sufficiently indicated by the following reply fro.raoi churchwardens, &c. :—" The rev. gentleman is dell ° ,, 0 1 1 a course of le c t ures , on th e S un d ay evenings, nine, Old. Testament ; on the o c c a si on re f erre d t o th e tr j subject was the birth of Isaac, and so far from maku!'' c r rite of circum c i s i on an y par t o f the principal s uble t his discourse,' it was only briefly alluded to, an d o', the most incidental manner. The statement of you r ., respondent that the rev. gentleman dilated uPniii Hebrew rite with 'precision' and with ' dis g usti ng , is absolutely false. We beg to add that having for siiev: siderable time attended upon the ministry of the exce 0", pastor who has thus been so grossly trad uc ed, ss'e o or, meet with an equally decided contradiction the e el general statement that Mr. Close has more than 9/ 0 0" ay, more times than I can enumerate, grossly vl ° delicacy and decency.' 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