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ikorttbfinis In Varliament. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY. Lord Toantricrrost (according to notice) at considerable length. entered upon a defence of his administration in Cey lon. He took credit for having improved the finances of the island, and with regard to his acts during the rebellion, he contended that the value of the property at stake, and the peril to the British possessions, called for the proclamation of mar tial law to put an end to the atrocities of the insurgents- He denied that he had ever issued a sanguinary proclamation, but admitted that he had been guilty of impropriety with respect to certain communications having reference to Sir E. Tennent and Mr. Wodehouse. With this admission he threw himself upon the judgment of their lordships with respect to all the Other charges against him.--Earl GREY contended that Lord Torrington was the victim of persecution: but the Duke of WELLINGTON considered there were not sufficient materials before the . House to enable it to form a judgment. As for martial law, the noble drake said it was simply military despot. ism.- After a few words from Lord Torrington, the subject dropped, and their lordships adjourned. DOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY In reply to questions from Mr. J. S. WORTLEY, concerning foreign refugees in this country, Sir G. GREY said that the attention of the Government had been for some time directed to the subject, and he believed there was no reason to appre. bend any disturbance of the tranquillity of this country. Should any insane attempt. however, be made to do so. it would be Immediately crushed. With respect to the second part of the question, lie would say that he could not too strongly condemn as a breach of hospitality the conduct of foreigners resident in this country who should seek to form conspiracies to disturb the peace of foreign states. Such parties, however, were by the laws of the country. as they at present stood, liable to fine and imprisonment for any such proceedings. — Mr. COCHRANE obtained leave to bring in a bill to extend the provisions of the Private Money Drainage Act of IM9 to the advance of private money for the erection and repair of farm buildings on lands in Great Britain and Ireland.—A motion by Colonel SIBTHORPE for returns o: the expenses incurred in taking out a patilit in England, Scotland, and Ireland respec tively, was resist, d by the Government, and negatived on a division by 70 to 39. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. The house went into committee on the Compound House holders Bill, and three clauses were agreed to.—Mr. LOCKE KING moved the second reading of the County Franchise Bill, the majority on the first reading of which was alleged to be the proximate cause of the late resignation of the Government. After an animated discussion, the bill was thrown out by 299 Vote* to 83. HOUSE OF LORDS.—Tintrisus.Y. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from the mayor and town council of Chichester. complaining of the conduct of Ile Key. Mr. Kendrick, who had refused to read the burial service over the body of a dissenting clergyman, and who hail also refused to read the burial service over a woman who had committed suicide, although a cororer's jury bad found that she was insane when she committed the act. All this was contrary to law, and if the rev. gentleman had con scientious scruples preventing him from acting according to law, he ought to resign instead of acting in opposition to it.— The Bishop of CHICHESTER said the rev. gentleman was a most estimable man, but he would offer no extenuation for his conduct tin violating the law, except that he did so from con scientious motives.—lhe Bishop of LONDON, in the course of some observations upon the subject, intimau d that it was not Na intention to bring before the House, during the present session. either the Church Discipline Bill, or the Ecclesiastical Appeals Tribunals Bill. The petition was ultimately ordered to lie on the table.—The County Courts Extension Bill was passed through committee, and their 'ordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY In reply to a question of Mr. Hunie, Mr. BAILLIE said he Would bring forward his motion with respect to Ceylon if pos sible before Easter; but if not possible, he would bring it on on the first open day subsequently.—Lord J. RUSSELL moved that the house should resolve itself into a committee of the whole house, to take into consideration the mode of adminis tering the oath of Abjuration to persons profe,sing the Jewish religion. The noble lord said he had so often stated his views upon this subjezt, that it was unnecessary to repeat them upon the present occasion. As, however, some circumstances had Occurred to place the question on a different footing from that which it previously occupied. he should make some observa tions upon its present position. He referred to what had taken place lest session, when Baron Rothschild presented himself to take the oaths, and refused to repeat the words " on the true faith of a Christian," on the ground that they were not binding on his conscience; and contended that those words were never intended to apply to the exclusion of the Jews. It appeared to him, however, that those words could not be omitted from the Oath without an express act of parliament on the subject, and the question was, whether they would relieve the Jews from taking that part of the oath? The question resolved itself into this—whether religious belief was to disqualify men from the exercise of civil rights and political power ? He thought it thou d pot, and therefore submitted his resolution to the house. Sir R. H. INaLts said that for the last twenty years he had felt it to be his duty to oppose every measure of this description which was brought before the house. The principle at stake Was that of Christianity; and if Jews should be admitted, how ever small the number, the principle would be given up, and the Parliament would be unchristianised. It was to be recol lected that the Jews regarded Him whom we retarded as our Redeemer—God—as a crucified impostor. To the admission of parties holding such sentiments into a Christian Legislature he would never be a parts, and he therefore moved that the house should resolve into a committee that day six months. Mr. NewonosTE believed that there was a connection between this measure and Papal aggression, for Pius IX. might well think it safe to adopt the — eourse he had recently pursued when he saw the Government and one branch of the British legisla ture ready to put an end to the last remnant which distin guished it as a Christian assembly. The house then divided, and the numbers were—For the motion, 166 t against it, 98. Majority. 68. The house then went into committee, and a re solution upon which to found a bill was agreed to, after which the house resumed —ln reply to a question from Sir R. H. Inglis, Lord J. RussEnn said he hoped to be able to bring on the second reading of the bill on Friday week.—On the motion for the house going into committee on the Designs Act Exten sion Bill, Mr. ARKWRIGHT moved as an amendment, " that the house go into committee on the bill that day six months." After a short discussion, the house divided, and the amendment was negatived by a majority of 132 to 42. The bill then passed through committee. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY Sir B. HALL asked Lord J. Russell whether, during the last six weeks, he had had any communications with the arch bishops and bishops of the Estah`isheci Church, in reference to the continuance of certain forms introduced Eta our churches by different clergymen, and against which certain of the bishops have ch 'rged their clergy; and whether it is the Intention of the archbishops and bislinps to take any effectual steps for the purpose of suppressing such practices, which the Bishop of London, in a recent charge. has denounced as hit. trionic performances? In other words, would the noble lord tell them whether they intended to take any stets /X, iepress Puseyisin ?—Sir P.. NoLis moved that the House, at its rising, do adjourn until Monday next, in order, by the motion, to have the opportunity of protesting against this House being made the arena of any religious discussion, because it • contained in it men of all denominations, who were not therefore fitted for legislation on any subject connected with the Church.—Sir B. HALL said that public opinion had been pronounced against Puseyite practices in the Church, and vet no steps had been taken by the right rev. prelates of the Church to put an end to such practices.—Lord J. RUSSELL was extremely sorry that Sir B. Hall should have brought the case he referred to before the House. which had only ex paste information before it. In, reply to the question he said be had had no recent communica tion with the archbishops and bishops upon the subject - to which it referred, and which he thought was better left in their hands ; but he could state that an address had been presented to her Majesty, very numerously signed, praying for the dis continuance of certain practices in the Church, and Sir G. Grey, had received her Majesty's commands to refer that ad dress to the Archbishop of Canterbury, anti to declare, in reply to it, that it was her Majesty's wish to discourage any innova tions not conformable to the law and established usages of the Church, and expressing her full confidence in the discretion of the archbishops. Lord John added that he did not think it desirable to bring on -discussions of this ..ature in that House; that the matter was best left in the hands in which it was placed ; and that nothing would induce him to take any steps that might lead to the disruption of the Church.—The House next resolved itself into a committee of ways and means ; arid the CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEQUER proceeded to state his new financial scheme, and said, that time having been afforded to him to re-consider his former proposition, he had taken advantage, of that time, and the result was that in preference to adopting the advice of Lord Stanley and reducing the in come tax with a view to its abolition, and laying on as an equivalent a duty on the importation of foreign corn, he ad hered to his original policy of reducing the duties on articles imported from abroad. lie should propose that which ,he believed to be right to the house, and abide the consequences. The greatest charge made against the Melbourne Administra tion was the deficiency of the income to meet the expenditure, and the consequent incurring of additional debt in time of peace. Hecontended strongly for the necessity of keeping a surplu: to meet unforeseen contingencies, such as an empire so extensive as this must necessarily be exposed to. The Kaffir war would lead to considerable expenses, and it was only lately that a demand had beets made by the East India Company of no less than - X400,000 for- unliquidatedexpenses of the Chinese war. He hoped that, on examination, this sum would be very much diminished; but •it was right to have a surplus to meet exigencies. He believed that the circumstances of the Peoplt were very much improved by-recent legislation, and that they were better able to bear the burden of taxat , on than for a lung' time back. It was said that the necessaries of life were from 40 to 60 per cent. cheaper than they used to be, anti if so, to that extent at • least they - must be better enabled to bear the pressure of taxation; and to assert the contrary was a pOsittrfi and palpable delusion. He had no reason to alter the estimate be had already given as to the probable income of the country for the present year ; and as to the expenditure, the estimates of that were already before the house, and would be dealt with by it. He at once admitted that his budget contained nothing very striking. It was not -his object that it should do so ; he only sought to make it suitable to the occasion. He had not proposed to reduce the duty on tea, because, though a high one, it was not a protective duty, and 'there were other duties which he thought had- a prior claim on his attention. The house should recollect that, if every available surplus should be devoted to the reduction of small items of taxation, it would be impossible for any Chancellor of the Exchequer to attempt at any time any great measure of reduction. It was said there was •no principle in• the reductions he had'proposed. This he denied : for, having by their former legislation supplied the masses of the people with food and clothing, and hiving also, with a view to the imprOVenaent of their dwellings; removed the duty on bricks, he had this year, with the same view, pro posed the reduction of the duty on timber and the abolition of the window duties. Herhad also proposed this year a 'reduc tion of the duties on clover and grass seeds, and on lunatic asylums hut he was unwilling to force those meastres in op position t the opinions of those who would be mote imme diately affected by them.. A claim bad been made for the total repeal of the window-tax, which amount to X 1,856,800. ' If we were to do this-without an equivalent, the result 'would he that his surplus would be reduced to about - X . 40010, with which he would be -utterly unable to meet such- an emergenty as the Kaffir war.. The right hon. gentleman then proceeded to defend the imposition cif a hbOseduty es an equivalent for the Window duty,*adMittinir, however, that he was wrong in drawing a dis tinction between old. houses and nety, and that the true princi ple was a uniform duty for all. He proposed to avoid all refer ence to the number of Windows, and to impose'a miifortn duty of 9d. in the pound on - all private houses, and 6.1. irf the pound on all houses with , shops, He proposed- to exempt all 'houses po t e xceeding £2O-per annum in value.- .Tbe resnltlytuld be that he would - give , st relief from taxation to' the extent of .i 1, 136,000. .The house tax-would,he believed, pooddce about £720,000, which would have to he paid by about 400;000 persons out of the whole population: frwas, in fact, the neatest ap proach to a fair property-tax that coutd wlti lie-derfsed. He adhered to his former proposition; with 'relpect. to the duties on timber and coffee, which involved'a loss to therevenue of X4 1 ,0.0(0, making a total loss of. £1,536,000, and leaving a stir plus of only £365,000. To this, however, would have to be added for this year only the- h a ir year', window 'duty due In next July, being £5611,000, m aking a totalautplus of X 924.000. He did not think it right to make any-further reduction under existing 'circumstances. With respect to the renewal of the income-tax for a time to he llmitedihe argued that they should not aim at its reduction until the object f twhich it was enacted was carried out—namely , the effecting beneficial reforms' in the fi nanc i a l arra ngements of the co untr y . ' 'The right hon. gentle man concluded by moving pro forma a resolution upon which to - found a bill for the renewal of the income-taxi - Mr. T Itaaititl attackedthe Chancellor of the Exchequer for profess trig Unit fit.had relieved the'country from taxes on articles in general u s e; Wh en iu.pdfrit of fact his chief reduction—that-'o f the window tax extended only to 4C0,000 persons , an d those in the stealthiest" towns in the country.—Lord J. RUSSELL taunted Mr. Baring with- not having' expressed similar indig nation against Sir It. Peel, when in the year 1847 he adopted a similar course, with a surplus of only 4E90,000. Be supposed the hon: gentleman had forgotten where he was speaking, and imagined himself making an after dinner speech ;where facts and :figure* were unnecessary.—Mr: MECUM' :said that alt the: speeches delivered in - that house:were Men-dinner speeches, and the noble lord himself was clever so happy as when be made after-dinner. speeches. There WWI no Melon' - whatever be. iween the cage of Sir R. Peel and that Of-the noble tent. Sir R. Peel's Government was a strong one—the noble lord's was -very weak ; Sir R. Peel had confidence in' himself—the noble lord had not ; Sir R. Peel was supported by a greatparty ; the noble lord was not—he had only a large surplus.and . a email party.— After some further discussion, :in which Lord Ebrington, Mr. Frewen, Mr. Wawn, Mr. Laboucbere, and other hen. members took part, the resolution was agreed to, and the house resumed. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. LATER FROM AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. The British steam-ship Asia, Captain Judkins, arrived here on Saturday, shortly before midnight, with the mails and passengers from Canada and the United States. She left New York at one o'clock on the 26th ult., and passed Holyhead on Saturday at tha same hour, reaching that point. deducting the difference of time, in 9 days and 19 hours, a passage in point of speed unequalled by any ship on the station between New York and Liverpool. She brings 110 passengers, £150,000 in specie, and papers 7 days later than those received by the American steam ship Pacific. The news by this arrival is of an interesting character, and furnish dates from New York of the . 26th ult. ; Cali fornia of Feb. 15 ; Chagres, of the 11th ; Jamaica, of the 14th ; Havannah, of the 19th ult.; and Mexico of the 22nd of February. An additional amount of gold had reached New York from California to the extent of 1,300,000 dots. _ The third trial of General G. Henderson, accused of being concerned in the Cuba expedition, resulted in the inability of the jury to agree on a verdict. Three of the ablest and most eminent of the American editors of the last half century have died within a few days ; John S. Skinner, of Philadelphia ; Isaac Hill, of New Hampshire ; and MordeCai M. Noah. On the 25th ult. a steamboat collision occurred on the Ohio and resulted in the loss of one of the steamers and fifteen lives. Jenny Lind has excited an immense furor in St. Louis, and would remain longer than intended in that city. Premiums of £1 and upwards were being paid for tickets. so great was the demand. It was reported at San Francisco that a difficulty had arisen between the commander of the French frigate Serieuse and the government of the Sandwich Islands. The commander demanded the payment of 25,000 dollars as a commutation for customs alleged to have been col lected contrary to treaty obligations. The king refused to accede to this claim, and threw himself on the protec tion of Great Britain and the United Stat's. Upon this the French commander landed his men at Honolulu, and prevented several Hawiian vessels from proceeding to sea. A shocking murder had been committed on the Chagres river. The victims were 11 in number —eight men, two women, and one child.—Two men named Fidele Pepin, a native of France, and Lent-lore Landry, goldbeater, of Paris, were among the number. Our advices from Mexico are to the 22d of February. The administration of Arista did not appear to give satis faction. Senor Facio, the minister to England, was to retain his appointment ; a charter had heen issued for the construction of a railroad from Vera Cruz to Medellin ; one of the waggons of the freight line had been attacked near the city of Mexico, and a large quantity o. goods carried off. The New Orleans Della reports that the Mexican Senate, in -ecret session, declared Jose de Garay's grant of the right of way across the isthmus of Tehuan tepec null and void, be having forfeited the same twice. From San Juan de Nicuragua we have intelligence to the 14th ult. The steamer Director was running regu larly on the lake. The news of the battle between the armies of the Republics of San Salvador and Guatamala is fully confirmed ; the former lost 528 men. 200 prisoners, and a large number of euns. The King of Mosquito was staying on board Her Majesty's schooner Bermuda. The . English Consul, Mr. Chatfield, had published a letter claiming, under the Mosquito King, the territory close up to Truxillo. The British fleet had sailed towards Gua temala. We have accounts from Kingston, Jamaica, to the 14th ult., being a fortnight later than the previous advices. The cholera was fast disappearing from the island. The side papers had not recorded a single case as occurring in that part of the country, although' the disease had ap peared in the mountains of Westmoreland. Sugar, 20s. per 100Ihs. From Havannah we have advices to the 19th ult., but tli> intelligence contained therein is uninteresting. The ice on the St. Lawrence having broken up, the navigation was completely oncn. _ _ CALIFORNIA.—The reports by the Asia about the "Bluff's" are not so "golden" as those previously re ceived, and numerous parties have returned with unsatis factory accounts. The Alla California, however, gives very glowing advices from other quarters. Our contem porary says, " We had a conversation with a gentleman, sterdav, upon whose word we can place the utmost re liance, who informed us that an immense discovery of gold has lately been made upon a hill in the vicinity of the Mokolumne River, which hadnever previously been wrought. A party of four struck upon the very summit some three weeks since, and, by digging down fifteen feet, have thus far extracted over 4000 dollars. The gold, although much coarser, is similar in colour to that found in the vicinity of Neveda, black and rustic.' The gentle men who have been working this have hat! much difficulty in washing, being obliged to convey the dirt a great dis tance to water. The continued discoveries which are being made upon the hill-tops are opening new resources in the mineral wealth of California. The idea that the gold of California has been exhausted is ridiculous in the extreme," M. Eugene Sue has been elected by the French Na tional Assembly, president of the second committee, by 18 votes against 17 for the Duc de Brogli-. A party of British officers have been attacked at Aden by Arabs whilst asleep in their beds, and one of them, Capt. Milne, murdered. Lieut. M'Pherson was wounded, but is now doing well. THE WILD WOMAN OF THE NAVIDAD.—We have been informed by Mr. L..wrence that the famous wild woman of the Navidad has been caught. A party of hunters, who were out hunting deer, accidentally came upon the camp of this singular creature and captured her. She is an African negress, who fled to those wilds when the set tlements were deserted just after Fannin's defeat, and she' has been wandering like an ourang-outang for a period of 15 years. Her tood during that period has consisted of acorns, nuts, and other wild fruits, with such other food as she could occasionally steal from the neighbouring set tlements. She cannot speak any English, but converses freely with the Africans on the neighbouring plantations. —Galveston (Texas) News. A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER.—A Berlin paper, the Constitutionelle Correspondence, relates a most incredi ble story, or a curious imposition. On the 30th of Sep tember last, a stranger bearing all the marks of Caucasian origin, was arrested in a small village in the district of Lebas, near Frankfort-on-the-Oder. He is represented as speaking but broken German, and on being called to give account of himself, he said his name was Jophar Vorin, and that he came from a country named Laxaria, situate in the portion of the world called Sakria. He appears to understand none of the European languages, but reads and writes what he calls the Laxarian and Abra mian tongues. The, letter he declares to be the wr tten language of the clerical orders in Laxaria, the other the common language of his people. He says that his.religion is christian, and that it is called Ispatian. Laxaria he represents to be many hundred miles from Europe, and separated by vast oceans from it. His purpose in coming to Europe was to seek a long-lost brother, but , that ,he had suffered shipwreck on the voyage, where he did not know, nor could he trace his route on shore on any map or globe. The five great compartments of the earth he calls Sakria, Aflar, Aslar, Auslar, and Euplar. The authorities in Frankfort-on-the-Oder have decided that this mysterious stranger is not an impostor, and they have requested that he may be removed to Berlin, to undergo an examination by the learned and scientific of the metropolis. IRELAND. There are eight vessels receiving passengers at Galway for New York. A pauper died in Kilrush workhouse last week, whose life was insured for £3OO. In taking the census at Limerick, the police found dwelling in one house, in Old Francis-street, parish of . St. John, two hundred and seventy persons. Some of the pauper girls who were sent from the Ath lone workhouse to Australia eighteen months ago have sent home to their friends sums of money varying from £lO to £l5. . _ . _ - A man at Belfast has been sent to gaol for trial charged with eloping with a girl only 'twelve years old, and in ducing her to take £lO of her .father's money. The pri soner had promised the girl ,marriage. Nearly a dozen farmers- from the county of Durham contemplate proceeding, or have already proceeded, to Ireland, for the purpose of renting or purchasing the farms now being sold under the Encumbered Estates Bill, and so soon as the experiment has been fairly tested.there are others ready to follow. ATTEMPT AT MURDER. BY A MAN• JUST ESCAPED FROM I CHARGE Or MIIRDER.—The Nenagh Gut - to-dip:4 says.—" After the trial of Ringrose on a charge of having murdered Morgan Donoghue7--o. charge which only,re,, quired one link in the chain of circumstantial evidence to be sustained, ho was acquitted by-the jury, and the fol, lowing day discharged from the'gaol. On Monday night he,-through pity, received hospitable shelter in the house of-a farmer named Hayes. In the -morning he utade,a savage attempt to - murder the farmer and his wife, and, leaving them 'for dead, robbed the house. Fortunately: they recovered, and the villain was next day apprehended: ATROCIOUS CASE-OF CHILD MURDER.—The assiges of Cork were concluded on Saturday before Judge' Ball. Catherine Conolly was found guilty of child murdergnder circumstances of singular atrocity. His lordship pro ceeded to pass. sentence of. death. He said the prisoner had been found guilty of one of the most barbatoua acts recorded in-the annals of crime—the murder of an infeqt, child for its -fewlrtrtielea ofslothing and 2s. in Morey.' She had met the two children on the road, when she seized one of them and continued to beat it until it lay, detuf at herffeet. :She then seized' the other', whieh , she, beat in a similar manner, and left it, as she thought, dealt toO • The‘ Oriaciner then probeeded .tO constimm4e her crime by pluoderink both children, of '".tbeir articles of -wearing apparel, and serried off, the plunder. It was, however, the providencenf God thatooe of those children should recover, through whose instrumentality the pri soner was brought to justice. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. The Irish Vicervialty Bill is abandoned for this session. It is stated that Mr. William Brown is to:betiades baronet Tlie radiCas .nrf R4chdale, at a public , ineetlig WeilnesdayTtiatiagreed :upon a requisition to Mr.: john Bright, asking lo allow himself to be put in nomina tion for the representation of that borough at the nett election, when Mr. W. S. Crawford will retire. On Thursday, Sir John Romilly, the new Master-of the Rolls, wha has been re-elected for Devonport, again took his seat. The Master of the Rolls is the only judicial.per sonage who is alloWed by the constitution a seat in liar liament, and that probably, becauie originally, he was nothing more than the Ctistodier of the rolls. EFFECTS OF Fa ,E TRADE AND NO RECIPRQCLTY.—A Dutch vessel has arrived in the docks with an entire cargo of stores for a ship now loading in the same docks for Batavia. This is a very remarkable instance of a vessel loading here for foreign ports being supplied with her complement of stores from abroad instead of being furnished therewith here in the usual manner. AYLESBURY ELECTION.—The Aylesbury election t am tnittee have reported that F. Calvert, Esq., was not duly elected for Aylesbury ; that the last election was void ; that F. Calvert, E=q., was guilty, through his agents, of treating ; that he knew nothing of the same ; and that the practice of treating by means of ss. tickets prevailed in that borough, and should be suppressed. A new writ was accordingly moved for the borough of Aylesbury. BLESSED FREE TRADE.—The small shopkeepers in the villages around Lincoln are breaking up in every direction, and the best of the agricultural labourers are emigrating as fast as they can dispose of their household fnrniture. The farmers are lowering wages, and the shopkeepers in Lincoln feel severely the deep depression of the agricultu ral interest. When are the people to enjoy the blessings consequent upon the " big loaf !" 7 -Lincolnshire Chron. GREAT DEMONSTRATION OF CONFIDENCE IN THE PROTECTIONIST LEADERS.—On Friday a very crowded and enthusiastic meeting of the members of the Su sex Society for the Protection of Agriculture , and British Industry was held in the Corn Exchange, Lewes, for the purpose of adopting resolutions expressive of confidence in Lord Stanley, and also to express their thanks for the statesmanlike conduct of Mr. Disraeli. His Grace the Duke of Richmond filled the chair, and upwards of a thousand persons were present, the vast majority of whom were tenant-farmers. The remainder consist, d princi pally of inhabitants and tradesmen of the town, to many of whom experience of the bitter fruits of free trade has brought the conviction of the necessity for effecting a change in our commercial policy ere the road to ruin has been so far trodden as to render ever. the return to pro tection unavailing. _ _ THE REVENUE.—The quarterly return of the revenue of Great Britain, made up to a late hour on Saturday evening, is of a very satisfactory description. The actual increase in the year, as compared with the year ended the 5.h of April, 1850, is ".£116.119. The actual increase on the quarter, after allowing for all deductions, as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year. amounts to £283,051. The Customs have increased £195 299 on the year, and £115,682 on the quarter. The increase on the Excise for the year is no less than £302,311, and on the quarter £121.063. The Stamps show a decrease on the year of £248,905, but an actual improvement of £9.883 on the quarter over the April quarter of 1850. The head of taxes exhibits a slight increase on the year. and a small decrease on the quarter, whilst the Property-tax reverses this position, and shows a decrease on the whole year, which is made up on the last quarter to some extent. The Postoffice gives an increase on the year of £58,000. and on the quarter of £41,000. The Crown lands are the same as before, and the more general head of Miscella neous shows a small decrease both on the quarter and on the year THE "PROSPERITY" CRY.—We do not believe that the country it large is by any means in so prosperous a condition as is generally supposed. To say nothing of the agricultural and shipping interests, there is scarcely one article of import which gives a profit to the importer. and even amongst the different classes of manufacturers, complaints are very general ;—the silk men cannot get rid of their stock ;—in the woollen districts short time is being partially resorted to. At Manchester the home trade continues dull, and though the export of calicoes and yarns shows a great excess over 1850—as Messrs. Du Fay and Co. jus ly observe, quantity alone is not an in fallible test of the prosperity of our export trade, as many a pound of yarn and many a yard of cloth exported this year has not left any profit either to the maker or sender, while our printers, dyers, and finishers have been loud in their complaints about want of employment. The iron trade has long been in a most depressed state. With all these adverse features, how can the country be said to be prosperous, and how can it be otherwise than that our produce markets should feel the effect ?—Messrs. Little dale's Circular. THE RUIN OF AGRICULTURE.—Are we, then, to pro ceed in this insensate career of folly. spoliation, and crime ? Even if we could isolate the one interest from the others, and suppose that agriculture might be allowed to fall wi bout inflicting the slightest injury upon other branches of our internal industry, what an awful respon sibility should we not incur by allowing ruin and desola tion to overflow, like a deluge, the face of agricultural England ! How is it possible to expert resignation and obedience frlin the men whom the laws are retlu ing, to, beggary ? How can we consistently tell them of national obligations and national faith, when the principle of na tionality is abandoned, and the power of redeeming those• obligations taken from the British arm ? Talk to us of endangering our institutions ! is it possible that our statesmen do not see in what direction the real danger lies, if the experiment is declared to be final ? Well, then, we shall tell them, for, as Sir James Graham re marked not long ago, " The time has arrived when the truth fully must be spoken"—THE NATIONAL REVENUE IS IN DANGER, AND THEY ARE THE MkN WHO ARE ENDANGERING IT.—Blackwood's Magazine. THI ILIVESIPIII STANDARD. THE PAPAL AGGRESSION. Meetings against the Papal aggression have been held at Kennington and Hastings. On Friday night a public meeting of the Protestant inhabitants of Lambeth and its vicinity, for the purpose of petitioning parliament for an effectual bill of protec tion against the designs of Popery, took place. Previ ously-to the doors opening, a large crowd were gathered rOtind . the doors, and before seven o'clock, the hour needed .for,the chair being taken, the great room was 41:ended to'excess with a most respectable auditory. The Parr of Winchilsea took the chair, and was rapturously *Wafted. On the platform were Sir W. Verner, the Rev. Mr. Curling, rector of St. Saviour's, the Rev. Mr. Irons, and other clergymen, Paul Foskett, Esq., &c. As some of the speakers fought their way to the platform, they were loudly cheered. Another case of " cooking wills," in the most accepta ble form for Roman Catholic purposes, will shortly be brought before the public, in which the property of a Mrs. Tucker, valued at about £lO,OOO, will go chiefly to dignitaries and clergymen of the Roman Catholic Church. POPISH LIBERTY !—Accounts from Rome bring us the comical notification of an honour conferred on the regson ing powers of Dr. Whately, Lord Primate of Dublin, in the form of a decree issued on the 13th of March by the gentlemen compilers of the Index Expurgatorius, and placarded throughout the town placing under ban and anathema the worthy Archbishop's treatise on logic. " LOGICES ELEMENTA Domini RICARDI WHATE. LY, n.n." Studiously ignoring his archiepiscopal dignity, though it is duly set forth in t.,e title-page, and by strictly logical deduction, giving to the legislature of this country to understand that an interchange of non-recognition is the order of the day. A PROTESTANT MISSION TO ROME.—It has this week been reported, and we have been assured that it is on good foundation, that steps have been taken to carry into operation the suggestion thrown out by the Rev. R. P. Blakeney; incumbent of St. Paul's, Icon-green, in his lecture on Popery, delivered some months since in the Assembly Rooms, in reference to the appointment of Protestant missionaries to labour among the inhabitants of Rome 'and Italy. The important preliminary, the raising sufficient funds, has already been done, and the , first missionary is to be sent out immediately. Mr. Blakeney himself, as the proposer of the plan, is, it is said, to have the honour of being the person first selected for the onerous office.—Nottingham Mercury. THE MEN FOR GALWAY.—At a public dinner at Gal way, last week, the chairman, the Rev. Peter Daly, said the Queen of England had no power to make a bishop, and there were no Christian bishops in England but those which the Pope had created. If lie were Pope for one twenty-four hours, he would show Lord John Russell what a Pope could do. . (Great cheering.) Let Lord John I Russell prosecute him for these expressions, if lie could ; but he dared not do it. (Mr. Keogh, M.P. :. "If he do, I'll defend you !")—Mr. J. F. Blake, editor of a Galway paper, said he had taken an active part in the business of '4B. If- the "martyrs" had taken his advice, the English Government would have another story to tell ! He had prepared and submitted a plan,' in '4B, which, if it had been adopted by Smith O'Brien and the others, would, have completely overturned the power of England !!' He had proposed that there should be taken a hundred,picked men—each man like himself ! ! !—and that forty of these should be sent to Liverpool, thirty to Portsmouth, and on a certain day and hour to set fire to and burn down the English fleet ! and at one blow destroy the, Govern ment ! . • CONVENTUAL LIFE.—The Hereford-Journal, writing on Miss Talbot's case, gives the following specimen of conventual morality know a Case where a young 'lady of wealth became an inmate of one of, these. !',Reli-• pious Houses,"---it,was here -in England. She had not been So lon& pre she began to,. write .home.. for money for purposes of -charity. Her requests were complied with at first, not unwillingly—subsequently; as requests became more frequent and in larger surowi with reluctan4* ; at length the amount became so . considerablethather friends became uneasy, and felt it ;right that her guardian and trustee should have- ow-interview, with heri and Amon.' strate on the extent to which she was 'impoverishing her self.•- He did-soi and discovered that not one' shilling' of the money had reached her. The applications were all forgeries ; apparently. they werein hand-writing-,-ehe, knew nothing whatever of them! This,- of: course,. led. to, a searching inquirpr-whieb everrendeavour wasimade to ballie--•but,the z trustee waeresolgte turned out that one , of the sisters-in-the nunnery was an adept at:lining, ing hand-writing,.as was another of them in "worming out. 'of- all new corners -the -amount and "particulars of their; property. ..--etrreenthem—it - is not difficult to understand' ho,w- the pillage was . effected , ; what became of, the money so!obtained.we know.not.' But the ,worst remaine ,to -be told ! Inurder to save the character i!) of the Superior; and of the establishment, the poor girl was prevailed upon —how and .by whom may be' imagined—to adopt the whole. ' There was, of course, an erd of the investigation and to the affair ; the young lady became a nun herself, and is so, we believe, at this moment. Her guardian and trustee is a merchant of eminence in the city of London. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. It is reported that theßOMiiii Catholics have engaged the Hanover-square .Rooms, for Sunday services, during the period of the Exhibit i an. Much of the. wet which caused`-"alarnii'lit the ,Crystal'was aslOtted, : throuo broken •panes of *lima, of which there ireto. - icheti - leit counted, not less than-2.000: TwO'Chinese merchants, Ahung and Ry, have arrived at Berlin, on their way, to visit the Exhibition. They have preferred the overland journey through Russia'to the sea voyage which some of their associates are making in a junk. _ The large 'room, Eireter Hall; his•been taken by Dis• senters for Divine worship, and preaching in the English language, on Saturdays, during the Exhibition, for the accommodation of visitors from the provinces and from America. : • ' The Pope and the King of Naples are unwilling that their subjects shall visit the Exhibition in London. The former has determined to grant only a limited number of passports ; but the latter has evinced a great disinclina tion to permit any passports to be used for that object. Mr. Brown, perfumer, of Bat'n. has prepared a peruke of a novel description for the Great. Exhibition. It is made without a single stieh, being entirely fabricated of hair. 670.000 hairs are all worked in separately, and the weight of the whole is no more than half an ounce. A new and peculiar sort of spring, by which to secure it upon the head of the wearer, has been fitted to it. _ CARPETS FOR THE GREAT EXHIBITION.—The local exhibition of articles intended for the World's Fair, in Hyde Park, was held in Messrs. Henderson's new carpet. weaving shed, Back-lane. The appearance of this noble edifice attracted general attention, not only on account of its great extent, but from the admirable lightness and beauty of its proportions. It. is said to be the largest structure devoted to the specific purpose of carpet-weav ing to be met with in England. and Is, we understand, but one of a series which this enterprising firm contem plate erecting for the purplse of carrying on their large and widely-extended trade. The present building, which has just been completed, was designed by P. C. Hard wicke, Esq., the architect of the New Hall, and , seems in every respect admirably adapted for the object in view. The room is 164 feet long, by 76 broad, and is about 30 feet high.. It has two roofs with lanterns, which give it an extremely light and elegant appearance. The roofs are supported in the centre by a row ;of iron pillars, so placed as to occupy but little room, and not at all to in with the operations of the workmen,• In the entire construction of this spacious salle des ourriers, the greatest attention has been paid to the health and com fort of the workmen. Durham has certainly not much to boast of, either in regard to the extent or variety of its contributions. Our cheval de batlaille will undoubtedly be the carpets exhibited t y Messrs. Henderson, in which, whether for beauty of design or delicacy of workmanship, we may fairly challenge comparison with the most cele brated of our rivals.--Durham Advertiser. A•VASE OF SHELLFLOWERS FOR THE EXHIBITION.— A. very large and splendid vase of shell flowers, destined for the Great. Exhibition, has been on view at Manchester. The story of its extremely ingenious and tasteful fabri cator is interesting. She is a poor woman, upwards of 40 years of age, and formerly laboured for years far below ground, in a coal-pit. She had the misfortune to fall down the shaft, a great depth, and sustained severe and lasting injury. Subsequently, she married a poor fisher man of Southport, and is the mother of eleven children, eight of whom are still living and around her. With such a family; andher husband's small earnings, life must have been a long continuous struggle. But it is said necessity is the mother of invention, and taste, like poetry, is often' inborn. Her first attempt to contribute to the support of the family was, by making little models of cottages, churches, &c., and adorning them with sand and shells gummed upon the surface. With the money thus earned, she tried to form bhel I • fio wers, but only in a small way, and with limited means, and by no means good materials ; till one day her husband came home after a severe storm, and mentioned that he had found and left on the beach a branch of a true covered with what he called barnacles adhering to it. She requested him to bring it home, as she thought she could make something of it. She found the shells to be of a kind offering ex cellent material for the construction of flowers. Each pair (bi-valve) consists of two large and two smaller over lapping plates, and one long taper proboscis-like filament of shell. These her husband procures for her in large quantities ; and, having cleansed them and made them beautifully white, this ingenious and wholly self-taught artist proceeds to construct flowers from natural models, with a taste and judgment which would be rich gifts in any station of life, but which, under the circumstances, are most extraordinary in a poor fisherman's wife. In a rich and elegant porcelain vase, are grouped together, with exquisite taste, both as to elegance of forms and harmony of colours, a large collection of exotic and other choice flowers, mingled with wild flowers, and the blos soms of some of our flowering plants, trees, and hedges. We do not profess to be able to name all ; but amongst them are admirable specimens of the passion-flower, the large white and the yellow water-lily, the chrysanthemum, dahlia, ranunculus, anemone, moss and other roses, all arranged with great taste, and interwoven with many of the more graceful pensile blossoms, as the fuchsia, labor num, sweet pea, and even the hawthorn blossom, and the foliage and cones of the fir. The foot of the vase is , en circled with a simply elegant wreath of the hedge or briar rose. The stems and leaves are procured from the makers of artificial flowers in London ; and the artist has also procured thence the pigments with which she tints the flowers with so much delicacy , and -accuracy as to make them closely resemble nature: COUR7'.AND FASHION. According to the present arrangements the Court will leave Buckineham Palace for Windsor Castle on the 16th instant. Her Majesty will remain at Windsor a fortnight, and then return to Buckineham Palace. The Queen, it is expected, will also visit Windsor during the Ascot race week. Her Majesty visited the Haymarket Theatre on Friday, THE QUEEN'S DRAWING-Rooll.—The Queen held a Drawing-room on Wednesday afternoon, in St. James's Palace. It was the first public reception for ladies.this season, and was brilliantly and numerously attended. Her Majesty wore a white gros de Naples train, trimmed with white crape and white bugles, and ornamented with diamonds; petticoat of white gros de Naples, trimmed with white crape and white bugles. Head-dress, white feathers and diamonds. Mrs. Cardwell wore a train of blue moire, trimmed with Mechlittlaoet-petticoat of em broidered tarlatan over satin. Heati-dress,tfeathers and lace lappets; ornaments, diamonds,- •Lady Eltanley wore a train of rich grey and white looeade t ' , trimmed with Brussels lace ; white crape skirt ovtvglace, trimmed with Brussels lace and bouquets a pittkisatid•white cactus. Head-dresQ, feathers and lace lappets; - ornaments, dia monds. Mrs. Gladstone wore a train of brocaded sea green silk, of Spitalfields manufacture, lined with white glace, and trimmed with magnificent Mechlin lace; pet ticoat of rich white brocaded silk ; body and sleeves a la Louis XV., richly trimmed with Mechlin, lace to corre spond. Head 7 dress, ostrich feathers, lace lappets, and diamonds. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. LONDON AND NORTHWESTERN` AND MIDLAND AND GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAYS.—The above companies have come to terms. There will, therefore, not be any competition between them for the traffic between London and those towns on this side of York to which these lines run in. common. THE LOCAL RAILWAY CONFLICT.—The application, by the Shrewsbury and Chester Company, to the Vice- Chancellor's Court, praying him to bind the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company to their mutual working traf fic agreement,' and so impede the intention of the London and North-western •to lease or buy the latter line, came on in the Vice-Chaneellor'e court, on Thursday, when . Lord Cranworth gave judgment. He said, there could be no doubt that the proposed agreement with the North. western Company was inconsistent with that entered into between the plaintiffs and defendants, in July last. He asked in what position would the defendants be placed if, after making the interim order, the agreement with the plaintiffs should be pronounced invalid in Coto by a court of law, and the North-western Company should have, in • the meantime, • retired from the agreement ?, On the other. hand, if the agreementwere held valid, the utmost loss which, could arise to the plaintiffs from refusing the interim injunction would be some £12,000 or £13,000 for three years. On that ground, therefore, he would refuse the injunction, but without costs. TESTIMONIAL TO-A GREAT RAILWAY CONTRACTOR. — On Wednesday, a festival in honour of Mr. Brassey, the eminent contractor,- and for the presentation to him of certain tokens of the esteem of ,the profession, was held at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill • Mr. Burt in the chair. • Amongst, the company presedwere Messrs. Bidder. C.E., , Rendel,-C.E.,•Brunel. C.E,, FOX , . (Crystal Palace). Errington, C.E., Gooph,.Dockray, Ca.E., Locke,, M.P.; William Jackson, M.P., W. and.L. Cubitt; C.E., and H.- Robertson, C.E. On the right of the chairman sat ,Mr. .Brassey ,-.on,.the.left, Mr.• Wm. Cubit& The chairman, after the usual loyal' toasts, proposed the pre sentation to Mr,Brassey of the:portraits of, himself and, Mrs. Brassey;-with the -other.testimeniale-ef -the esteem of_his coadjutors and the assembled company. He mile— gifted That gentleman in his various capacities, amidst the prolonged and enthusiastic cheers.of the audience. Mr, Brassey,havinF return ed •thanka,- vari ons other toasts were.' proposed by gentlemen of -deserved celebrity, • Amongst• whom were Messrs. Locke; M.P.,. Errington;-:Cubist, . &c, ; all spoke in the highest terms of theindividaal in honour of Whom the festival was held. [We understand that the value of the plate presented to Mr. Brassey is about 1,2 000-] •Q' - , AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—A very protracted and rather..stormy meeting of this company . was held- at the. New Assemblwzooms, Wolverhamptont. on Fridaylastv W. Ormslv -Gore, ! Esq., r ih. the, chair; to determine .on the _expediency of accepting or 'declining the' offer 'of the 'London and North-Western Company, for leasing-the - line - for 21 years-at -three per cent. for two years,,and,, subsequently; at four ' per cent, it not appearing that the Great Western Company was disposed to.inake any offer. , The meeting.wasaddeessed• at great. length by Mr, Scott, the barrister"-as chairman of the Committee of Inquiry, appointed ; Est. the former meet. , ing,-, whoetnoved that the offer be accepted... This was ablrtieeonded •by Mr.t•Aldermans Andrews, ,- followed , by Mr:.-Geach;' one 'of the directors,'Mr. Cbtshirepof minglrare, Mr: Attoied, of Liter Pool, 'Mr. Wilsone , of Manchester, ':and :other. shareholders. „The motion TWAtt opposed. by,•Mr. •Bancraft, - ehairman •of; the Jitirkehheict and- 'Chester Company'l &In.:Roy,' the secretary , of:-the Chester and. Shrewsbury' Company,. who madean effective 'speech, and some•few others/ . on the.aubseqtient show' of -hands the' numbers alipearecrnearly equal ; but Wens 'stated that many ,non-shareholders had intruded them. selves into .the division, and,.therefore, !won, the Chair man's, deciding:that the majority was against• the- motion, a poll was demanded,.wbich occupied considerable; time, but we understand4nat it elves a majority of about 1,900 votes in favour of accepting the terms of the London and North-Western Company. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Bishop of Exeter will - , it is stated, issue a pastoral letter this .week on the state of the church. The incutaliency of•FriMley, which was rendered vacant by the deathof' the Rev. Geor ge Ed w a r d H o li es t, M.A., has been conferred on the Rev. Frederick Wickham, M.A., second master of Winchester College. Mr. Macdougal, the missionary of the Borneo Church Mission at Sarawak, gives an interesting description of his new edifice raised for public worship, and also a curious account-of a race-of cannibals lately discovered in Borneo. The statement that the services at St. Paul's Church, London, (Mr. Bennett's) were unchanged, has been con tradicted. All useless decorations have been removed, and Mr. Liddell conducts the services in a manner " de cently and in order." . • Lord Londeshorough, in a letter to the Times, accuses a clergyman of Brighton of declining to baptise his child, because his lordship did not think it prudent to have the child's cap taken off, in order that water might be poured on the child in compliance with the rubric, to which the reverend gentleman pointed. Lord Londesborough de clined to submit the child to this risk ; and the reverend. gentleman left the font, declaring that he must speak to his lordship as to the poorest man. THE VICAR OF SHEFFIELD AND THE REV. CANON TREVOR.—Dr. Addams has given it as his decided opi nion that the rights of the chaplains of the Parish Church to its pulpit are co-equal with those of the vicar ; under advice, therefore, the Rev. Canon Trevor will, on Sunday next, formally request to be allowed to perform duty as a legally appointed chaplain. In the event of the vicar re fusing to comply with this request, a mandamus is to issue forthwith, calling on the vicar to show cause, &c. . It said that if the rev. canon should establish his claim, the vicar will resign the living.—Leeds Intelligencer. THE AUTHORITY OF THE CLERGY.—Whet should be the offices, and of what kind should be the authority, of the clergy ? I have hitherto referred to the Bible for an answer to every question. Ido so again ; and behold, the Bible gives me no answer. I defy you to answer me from the Bible. You can only guess, and dimly conjecture, what the cffices of the clergy were in the first century. You cannot show me a single command as to what they shall be. Strange, this ; the Bible give no answer to so apparently important a question ! God surely would not have-left His word without an answer to anything His children ought to ask. Surely it must be a ridiculous question—a question we ought never to have put, or thought of putting. Let us think of it again a little. To be sure,—lt is a ridiculous question, and we should be ashamed of ourselves for having put it :—what should be the offices of the clergy? That is to say, what are the possible spiritual necessities which at, any time may arise in the Church, and by what means and men are they to be supplied ; evidently an infinite question. Different kinds of necessities must be met by different authorities, constituted as the necessities arise. Robinson Crusoe, in his island, wants no bishop, and makes a thunderstorm do for an evangelist. The University of Oxford would be ill off without its bishop ; but wants an evangelist besides ; and that forthwith. The authority which the Vaudois shepherds need, is of Barnabas, the son of Consolation ; the authority which the city of London needs is of James, the son of Thunder. Let us, then, alter the form of our question, and put it to the Bible thus : What are the ne cessities most likely to arise in the Church ; and may they be best met by different men, or in great part by the same men acting in different capacities ? and are the names attached to their offices of any consequence ? Ah, the Bible answers now, and that. loudly. The Church is built on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone. Well, we cannot have two foundations, so we can have no more Apostles nor Prophets ;—then, as for the other needs of the Church in its edifying upon its foundation, there are all manner of things to be done daily—rebukes to be given, comfort to be brought, Scripture to be explained, warning to be en forced, threatenit.gs to be executed, charities to be admi nistered ; and the men who do these things are called, and call themselves, with absolute indifference, deacons, bi shops, elders, evangelists, according to what they are doing at the time of speaking. St. Paul almost always calls himself a deacon ; Sr. Peter calls himself an elder, 1 Peter, v. 1, and Timothy, generally understood to be addressed as a bishop, is called a deacon in 1 Tim. iv. 6.—forbidden to rebuke an elder in v. 1, and exhorted to do the work of an evangelist in 2 Tim. iv. 5. But there is one thing which, as officers, or as separate from the rest of the flock, they never call themselves—which it would have been impossible, as so separate, they ever should have called themselves ; that is, priests. It-would have been just as pos.-Rile for the clergy of the only Church to call them selves Levites, as to call themselves (ex officio) priests. The whole function of priesthood was, on Christmas morning, at once and for ever gathered into His Person who was born at Bethlehem ; arid thenceforward, all who are united with Him, and who with Him make sacrifice of themselves, that is to say, all members of the Invisible Church, become at the instant of their conversion, priests ; and are so cdlled in 1 Pet. ii. 5, and Rev. i. 6, and xx. 6 ; where, observe, there is no possibility of limiting the ex pression to the clergy ; the conditions of priesthood being simply having been loved by Christ, and washed in His blood.—Notes on the construction of Sheepfolds by J. Ruskin. ADDRESS FROM THE BISHOPS We, the undersigned Archbishops and Bishops of the provinces of Canterbury and York, d most earnestly and affectionately commend the following address to the serious consideration of the clergy of our respective dioceses : J. B. CANTUAR G. PETERBOROUGH. T. EBOR C. Sr. DAVI DS. C. J. LONDON. H. WORCESTER. E. DUNELM. A. T. CICESTER. C. R WINTON. J. LICHFELD. J. LINCOLN. T. ELY. C. BANGOR. S. OXON. H. CARLISLE. T. V. Sr. ASAPH. G. ROCHESTER. J. CHESTER. J. 11. GLOCESTER S. NORWICH. AND BRISTOL. A. LLANDAFF. C. T. RIPON. AUCKLAND, SODOR E. SARUM. AND MAN. Beloved Brethren,—We have viewed with the deepest anxiety the troubles, suspicions, and discontents which have of late, in some parishes, accompanied the introduc tion of ritual observances exceeding those in common use amongst us. We long indulged the hope that, under the influence of charity, forbearance, and a calm estimate of the small im pnetnnce of such external forms, compared with the hh ssin9; of united action in the great spiritual work which is before our Church, these heats and jealousies might by mutual concessions be allayed. But since the evil still exists, arid is one most important feature has assumed a new and more dangerous character, we feel that it is our duty to try whether an earnest and united address on our part may tend, under the blessing of God, to promote the restoration of peace and harmony in t} e Church. The principal point in dispute is this—mhether, where the letter of the Rubric seems to warrant a measure of ritual observance which yet, by long and possibly by unbroken practice, has not been carried out, the clergy are either in conscience required, or absolutely at liberty, to act each upon his own view of the let er of the precept rather than by the rule of common practice. Now, as to this question we would urge upon you the following con siderations : First, that any change of usages with which the religious feelings of a congregation have become as sociated is in itself so likely to do harm that it is not to be introduced without, the greatest caution ; secondly, that, beyond this, any change which makes it difficult for the congregation at large to join in the service is still more to be avoided ; thirdly, that any change which suggests the fear of still further alterations is most injurious ; and fourthly, that according to the rule laid down in the Book of Common Prayer, where anything is doubted or diversely taken- "concerning the manner how to understand, do, and execute the things contained in that book, the parties that so doubt, or diversely take anything, shall resort to the Bishop of the diocese, who by his discretion shall take order for the quieting and appeasing of the same, so that the' same order be not contrary to anything contained in that book." The fair application of these principles would, we be lieve, solve most of the difficulties which have arisen. It would prevent all sudden and startling alterations; and it would facilitate the reception of any change which was really lawful and desirable. We would therefore, first, urge upon our rev. brethren with affectionate earnestness the adoption of such a rule of conduct. We would be seech all who, whether by excess or defect, have broxen in upon the uniformity and contributed to relax the authority of our ritual observances, to consider the im portance of. unity and order, and by common consent to avoid whatever might tend , to violate them. .In mending this course as the test under present circum stances, we do not shut our eyes to the evil of even the appearance of any- discrepancy existing between the writ ten law and the practice of the Church. But there are • many cases where the law may be variously interpreted : and we believe that we are best carrying out her own prin ciples in urging you to have recourse, in all such cases, to the advice of her chief pastors. • • - - , But beyond mere attempts to restore an unusual strict ness of ritual observance, we have to deal with a distinct' 'and serious evil,. A principle has of late been mowed and acteden which, if admitted, would justify far-greater and more uncertain changes. It is this—that. as the 'Church of England- is the ancient Catholic Church settled in this land before the Reformation, and was then re formed only by the casting away of certain strictly defined , corruptiaus ;, therefore, whatever form or usage Ousted before its reformation may-now be freely introduced and observed, unless there can be alleged against it the distinct letterof some formal prohibition.-• •• I- Now; against any- such -inference -from the undoubted identity 'of the Church, before and after the Reformation, we feel bound to enter our clea r a nd unhesitating protest. „We believe,that at the Reformation the English. Clinch , not only. rejected certain corruptions, butalso. without in any degree severing her connexion. , with , the, anci en t 'Catholic Cb-ureh,lfitended to establish one Uniform ritual, according to which her pablic services should beconducted, 'But it is manifest that a license such as is co n t en d e d f or .wholly .incompatible-:with any uniformity of worship whatsoevertand at variance with the universal practice of .the Cathohe•Charch,,which has never-given, to- ffi the o . ng : m . ters- of separate 'congregations any such large discretion in the selection of ritual observances. ; ‘,.i :We,.therefore beseech any who may have proposed to themselvea,the xestoration of what, under sanction of this principle, they, deemed a lawful system tnonsider 'theqiangers which it involves ; to see it in • its. true! light, and to 'take to more jnst and sober view of the real position of our Church ; whilst, with equal earnestness, -we beseech others, who, either by intentional omission'or by neglect and laxity, may have disturbed the uninimity and• weakened the authority of our ;,prescribed ritual, to strengthen the side of order by avoiding all unnecessary deviations from the Church's rule. Such harmony of action we are persuaded would, under April 8, 101. t" God's blessing, so far towards restoring the peso of uthit Church. This happy result wou ld more clearlyntirb e y her spiritual character. The mutual relations,te .Of various members would be more di s ti nc tly per ceivo tbo our lay brethren would more rea dil y acknowink.,„ t e. special trust committed to us, as st ewar d s of the -401 .',. 0 ries of God, for the edifying of the body of Cbr j i ll i e , They would , join with us in asserting, and, if ...00 defending for themselves, a s muc h as f or , e vit b spiritual freedom of the Church. They would unitn; a s us in a more trustful spirit, and therefore with a — be ready will, in enlarging her means and str e ngthening, t he powers for the great wo r k s h e h as t o d o anunig s ",l of swarming multitudes of our great towns at home s',. bit our vast dominions abro a d ; and that Church whlc" oed so long received from th e hands of God such une9 oB o 4 blessings might continue to be, yea and become lung e more, "a praise in the earth." March 29, 1851. 0 of [The above is minus the si gna t ures o f th e 8i5h,4,3 of Bath and Wells, Exete r , M anc h es t er , an d Here'o* LAW INTELLIGENCE. MISS TALBOT'S CASE.—The Lord ChancelK:k r judgment in this case oa Tuesday. Mr. Craven n b al ley's petition, he said, consisted o f a p ra y er that the let should be removed from the convent, that Mr. 1 3 er k , e ive might have access to the lady, and that he might re' , o % his costs. The effect of this petition had been to b i r i l ic b to the knowledge of the Court a state of things !Ito , called on the Court imperatively to act, and the ve i s",,ite this petition he felt had been not unaccompaniet,i s Of gether with some disadvantage. but upon the IT"' great advantage to the ward. (A slight murmur ( ! f a sot plause.) The ma t er i a l p ar t o f th e case cer t a i n ly di to stand in a satisfactory position. The lady entered s o convent. She remained there until Mr. Berkeley T A O the application for an order t o c h ange th e res idence ", Ql 3, lady. He must say that, lo o ki ng t o th a t or der of J" 0 , which committed the ward to the care of Lady Sh ‘ re bet bury, under the superintendence and controul el t , o d guardian, he thought, when Lord and Lady Shrew su g e found it necessary for their arrangements to go ab,r, o flo rt there ought to have been some aprlication to th e lh for some alteration in that order. There was no diffic", e , in coming to the Court to m a ke a propos a l for an arrn l4 'he ment. That, however was not done, and there , thought was the first palpable omission on the part ol ns Doyle. When the young lady lost the assistance of i fi e, and Lady Shrewsbury it bt came him to be more dil i g e- A as he was the person to whom the Court must look. oe distinct statement of the circumstances ought to and been made when she returned to the convent a e3e time. According to the affidavit of the Lady Ab"7,o Dr. Winter, to whom the application was made, vt 9s that, by the rules of the convent, ladies could n ot ceived except as postulants, and with a view of 7' devoting themselves to a religious life, unless they n r d e te wards changed their minds. Dr. Winter was referre sa Dr. Hendren, but Dr. Hendren did not deal with it 05 at application of a young lady to be received as a boarde r . 0 all. He could not collect from any part of Dr. Hen dre" r. 010 statement that it ever was suggested to him tha t t he young lady was to be received as a hoarder. He 5 01 ". ve d application made to him was, that she should be reel li d as a postulant. He said, " I objected to that ; I di d t . ; ' wish for that : I did not think she was qualified forthe...J, —for what ? to he received as a postulant,—" but 17: if the nuns and L•ely Abbess thought fit to receive Eyed' would not object," and accordingly she was so reee l Now, here was a sad blank. He could not help retsina!' the impression that the Lady Abbess must have eta better means of informing the Court how she condi receive, contrary to the to les of the convent, a youn 4 „ f er as boarder. The Lady Abbess stated she had an in ir sbe sion that Dr. Hendren bad given his consent as far Opp was concerned ; but was it by letter, was it throughTio Winter, or was it by personal communication? Dry was a blank not satisfactory. When he came t ° „ 1 18' Hendren again, he was at a loss to account for a g e ; be man in a situation entitling him to credit, not likely , t int doubted in the absence of very strong grounds, st li to be that the ward wrote a strong supplicatory letter " t.. received as a hoarder, put as a postulant, and that he s he willingly assented , and she was so received. How' t hee to reconcile that with other parts of the case ? What, the did it mean ? Now, in that state of things what w "tbie conclusion ? That at which Le had arrived was this. : t hat this young lady was received there as boarder, bu t co o' be . cif she was received there contrary to the rules of tbe h ole vent, and was passed off as a postulant. He s hould o w been better pleased if the Lady Abb e ss had made n i Lioe' ment calculated to prevent any wrong conei es iss' Whether she was apprehensive of incurring any ecc ri t i 0 flea! censure, and, therefore, shrouded her state we y or ambiguous language, leaving it to be taken one w •: , the other, or what was the reason for her langutg j i ste did not know ; but, there being no evidence the Shrewsbury ever having placed this young ladY ' es te convent as a postulant, he saw no reason to il ip tert him any such conduct. In the absence of Dr• b and from the nature of Dr. Hendren's communicalit' bee° defied any one to reconcile the statements that he° made. But, whether as a postulant or as a boort!, the was not the place where she ought tc have been. Bake statute of Westminster it was a very high effence t 0 diet a ward of Court take the veil—an offence liable to lh f oe ment, heavy forfeiture and imprisonment, and h e „ o tti Lord Chancellor) declared that he should have no n`i,opot Lion, and should feel it his duty to commit bis.'oo priests, governesses, clergymen, or any one elseit op, should be connected with such a trans ac ti on. He nj ts feel that he ought to make Mr. Berkeley p t he ens./ ", having elicited an inquiry which he thought was atte, n ip with so much benefit. He thought he could relf til,"tens Doyle was not likely to present any scheme ine° s tw itb' with the benefit of the ward. He thought that, 13° ., nv erif, a nd P , :; 09 standing what had occurred, he might safely rely on his not doing that. With respect, to the se ti v ;lol! Mr. Berkeley to the ward, he did not think a Y° l l l . o a e ! approaching twenty years of age was to be tre w oo . child, and, es he did not suppose that she ' was el receive any particular instructions from Mr. Be r 's t baa as to make his approach beneficial in any other se nse , e (tb,, a gentleman taking an interest in her welfare , P pe, Lord Chancellor) should be governed by the ve u c n n g oort own inclination. The order would be in the terms—Mr. Berkeley's petition dismissed ;—the.l'oot on Dr. Doyle's petition,—costs of both to be Pr seem the estate ; reference to the Master to approve of , for the future residence of the young lady. His not j e in conclusion said that, although the order mign",te consistent with all parts of the case, it was the b ee ' , the circumstances he could make. h e The lady with whom Miss Augusta Talbot is to -we , ' for the present is the Countess of Newburgh, Catholic lady Mr. Henry Roe, a goldsmith, of Liverpool, obi,- verdict, with £5O damages, at Chester, on Tuesclel,,,Sli,i the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junctini b way Company for false imprisonment. The pla int 8t 1 ,6 taken a ticket by an excursion train from Birk Bangor. On his return an attempt had been reau ts railway officials to force him to pay . additi°,ll3oth travelling between Bangor and Chester. He rest tit attempt and was given into custody and taken tel er Of f tion-house at Chester, where he paid 2s. 6d. the"m PA test. In summing up Mr. Justice Maule told tot"' that the plaintiffhad been imprisoned under circ a which could not be justified. 11 , t/A 10 6 0 CORRECTION OF A POPULAR MISTAKE ON ~g - —A woman was tried at the Shrewsbury As sti ,:r charge of bigamy ; but it appeared that she a nd 11_,, husband had been separated more than ten years 06'0'1114' there was no evidence to show that she had kn ew , being alive after the time of such separation. Th e ro e° directed the jury to acquit the prisoner, on the i g oi t 4,1; that the statute creating this offence does not exte, t a shn n eay veryl slpppeharoacspevounnol popular fb m r se e a ne vronretyni continuallyoi n yn g e ta a h rasstetchwoeannsdvl absentta seimrtveppawrsf prevalent, oamasl and dn h t u s. h s n b a a lni n en e r s ° o ? been known by such perso la n w t f o ull h y a m ve ar b r e y e s n a tie ga l;;;:ii i i that time," and he took that opportunity of c orre.e . o tr, a case either party might • notion was a great mistake. It was true that up - 0 1), circumstances the party marrying a second time b a t of#l marriage guilty of wasbigamy, void t b o u a t it intentsil was perfectly d rpcloesaers h ot t of the issue was illegitimate. .„,000teir A SINGULAR NUISANCE.—At the Surrey 8 ° - $O l O/ Kingston, on Monday last, the cause of MackleY " pm an action to recover compensation in damages : Gel CP 4 I defendant fora nuisance, was tried before the La ~940 Justice. The circumstances were of rather 0 ,, 13 ,,,p,eg0i character. Tt appeared that the plaintiff was business in London, and he had• retired enillediii amassed considerable . ' "i in n t i h d e eza p b u l rc e h P a r s G e Pe o r f t - i s'o a m p e o grtZt u nd of- in fli."ll : B° o ' ll Grove, near Wandsworth, • for building purposetoe4 he was carrying out. The defendant had pure'' ple" d i piece of- land of the plaintiff contiguous to that On teead he was building, and it seemed that some disagrott .i p having arisen between them, the defendant had re to the following plan of annoyance. He had '' - n f number of scaffolds to be erected upon his piece boM and from them were suspended teakettles, t,eo f ier • watering-pots, • horse collars, horses' and bulforcile and also a figure representing Maria Manning./0 peered that the noise and jingling of these; arti c n osg l e, the wind blew was such as to create the greatest 'of/ annoyance to the tenants of the plaintiff, and setcor witnesses said they were so frightened, by the ul the ail u no n i l s: s a - t t n n ey igl w it eore th a a cc t t n h m ey pan we ie r d e a b f y ra u id pu to lic p e a m sa an i V itti ;1 0 4 1 01 course of the case the lid modeldenly, lifted 701 0 Y, box, which -exhibited a .of the allege itter'if,, and the sight of it convulsed the court with laug h 's r the Lord Chief 'Justice, mho -*as unable to rent joining in the laugh, observed that the model e A lfeelti l ; to the exhibition. .Mr. Serjeant Shee, for the 1 !„ - t iit s er admitted that the verdict must pass for the said he thought the evidence had been rather evedel The Chief Justice summed up; and the jury, Or t he rating about half an hour, returned a verdict for tiff damages, £5OO. THE CENSUS.--THE GUDEWIFE'S DlFYLeivillg,OoOP; thrifty bustling who manages a .verY 0 0 54 cety concern--her husband .slipping about &h i , ' 4 ' although he thinks the business could not go A li 09 4 . 1 n: him—received one of the census schedules ,to was - not thought worth while to give it to thegl por. , 3 1 he,,poor-easy soul, took no charge of anything !, 1 ,„; 0 :0) tar. To it the wife set---,t l Head of sthe,fert;,,cl e i,e , o me nue kloot.• 1 wad like-to , ken• wha's the ' ) ;:-, 4 t family if no me." So down goes ".Janet fi` 4 l , of the family." The gndetnan; of course, 0, 113 , 1 - 'o'4 rotation, but his loving, wife felt greatly puzz te t105, j 0 say , he was. After much cogitation, the spous e 01, Jo loquised-- 4 ‘ I - see am to tell na lees ; gif I deA c e,) £5,• besides lash ; the truth's' aye' best." if, ° l ;e l l,l): ‘ , —" was put down ; and after his name plimentary addition by the wife of his bosur„,..Ct" aboot, and does naething ; leaves a' to zue: ' Mail.