The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-28 00:00:00

FEMALE ORPHAN .INSTITUTIO/i The annual meeting of the members and friends of the ?emale Orphan Institution was held, at two o'clock yester day afternoon, in the Lecture-room of the Royal Institution, Col quit-street, for the purpose of receiving the report of the Proceedings of the committee for the past year, and the ap pointment of the officers of the institution. There was rather a numerous attendance of the supporters of the charity ; and the orphans, who are the recipients of its benefits, were also present. The chair was taken by the Rev. HUGS! M'NEILE, President of the Gentlemen's Committee. The Cirmaataar said, the objects of the present meeting were, first, to hear a report of the proceedings of the last year, and to have the state of the funds laid before them ; then to take counsel, to give mutual encouragement, and to deepen and extend the interest which already so largely pre vailed with regard t the futre progess of ths good wok. The kind assistance o of thos e friends r who had consented r to address the meeting, would, he was happy to say, fully ac complish the latter of these objects ; and he might leave the onreport of their excellent secretary to speak for itself upon e former. H e h a d a very strong suspicions that upon very important b ranc h o f their past proceedings the secretary would not have done justice—he meant his own services in this cause ; for he (the Chairman) must say, as his own opinion —and he had little doubt he should have all the meeting to subscribe to it:--that if this infant institution had so r apidly attained ma t ur i ty o f i mportance and support among us; satisfactory if the ch aracter o f i ts commencement had been so Y, and the appli ca ti ons f or a d m i ss i on —if t h ey were to t es t its benefits —had been so numerous as to render the house originally engaged wholly inadequate to supply the needful ac commodation, and if a more suitable building had been designed, a site obtained, above £4OOO collected, and a toundation-stone actually laid ; and if, during all these pro redings, the meetings of the committee had been efficient; f the animus of their various conversations had been noted vin with accuracy and followed out with vigour; and if they could meet their constituents to-day upon the high ground of good success in one year and goope for another—the se results, under a favouring and a ho fatherly Providence, with out w h om we could have no good thing, W . .i were mainly t o b e ascribed to the diligence, ability, zeal, and e would say it because he had seen it with admire aon, the enthusiasm in this soft and sacred cause, of Mr. rtiarmood Banner. (Hear, hear, hear.) It would not acdord well with the position which he (the Chairman) mentth'e honour to occupy, to enter into any general argu with ative advocacy of this excellent cause, and therefore, our delayin g. them furher to exres his incere thankfulness for the advance , so far, than of an i nst i tutio n which commended itself to the tenderest and best of our feelings, he usweobu.ld call up on the Secretary (who he hoped would ex thoughlm for th e manner in which he had spoken of him, mi i n h is presen ce ) to procee d w i t h t h e report; an d if ght venture to take a very great liberty, he would suggest, with the approbation of the meeting, that some such feeehlession of their feelings towards Mr. Banner, as he had re o a e Y aff emPted to give utterance to, be appended to the j ags iY. of what he would have reported of his own proceed- Mru.ulling the past year. (Hear, hear.) the co A.natoon BANNER, after suitably acknowledging rePort nlPlime nts paid to him by the rev. chairman, read the mitt ee T his document detailed the proceedings of the corn tio d uring the past year, up to the laying of the founda n stone of the new building in Myrtle-street, which was rep ort was in oaper of Tues day last. Append . wass a st a t e ment of the treasurer's accounedts, to the exhibited a very favourable aspect. It appeared that total th_ In come of th e c h ar i ty l ast year from subscriptions x,ll' roduce o f needlework by the children, Bs. and the exp en di ture to £526 e s. balasnce in favour of the institution of £228 2e. die of th e last report there was a sum i n h an d o f £3,338 bas. M., 'and there were, be s id es , d ona ti ons prom i se d, b ut not then paid, amounting to £639: that sum had since been received, so that for the year 1842 the donations and collec tions made a t o t a l o f £ 3,977 13s. Id. He (Mr. Ban ner) , er) was happy to add, th a t th e present year had commenced ravo ur ea, y, aui for since the 31st of December there had been received of church collections £9B 7s. 9d., and of donations 4;254 10s., the latter sum including the very handsome ano nymous donatio n o f £5O from some unknown friend to the , and a d onat i on of fi fty guineas from the Worshipful Mayor, Robertson Gladstone, Esq. (Cheers.) There was now, therefore, in the whole, the sum of £4,330 10s. 10d. applicable to the new building. (Hear, hear, hear.) The Rev. J ONATHAN BROOKS, senior rector, moved the nrst resolution, which proposed the adoption of the report and accounts, and the printing of them for circulation among the subscribers. This, he believed, was a customary resolu tion, and one which was first proposed at each annual meet ing. On the present occasion he was happy in being able to congratulate the chairman, and all the friends of the institu tion w hom he saw around him, upon the prosperous state of its funds. He recollected scarcely any institution which, in so short a period, seemed to have taken so much hold of the d une, and sympathies of the . public as this institution had 'une, and he was not surprised at it, because, when we looked at the object of it, it was impossible to conceive any thing more calculated to fasten upon all those feelings of kindness and benevolence which were the best ornaments of the Christian character. It was one of those institutions Which required not the feeble eloquence of man to recom mend it to the attention of all those who were interested in t he welfare, either temporal or eternal, of their fellow crea tures • and he c ou ld no t thi n k i t necessary or desirable that t hey S hould press it more strongly upon the public at large when they had themselves shown so much willingness to "toe forward in its aid. On a late occasion, the laying of the foundation stone of the new institution, the chairman had said so much, and said it so well, and he had put every thing which it was desirable to lay before the public in such a better point of view than be (Mr. Brooks) w as a bl e , th a t h e sho u ld not go over them on the present occasion ; and, in deed, he was inclined to think that the annual meetings of our institutions were much better conducted when they became meetings of business rather than meetings for mak inseeches. But before he moved that th e re p or t be printed, be g be p gged to say that he entered most fully into all the chairman had said with regard to their worthy secretary, Mr. Banner. He (Mr. Brooks) had had the pleasure of attending many meetings of the committee during the past year, and, in the previous year, he had had the pleasure of occupying the chair which Mr. M'Neile now filled; and, therefore, he could speak most decidedly -with regard to the interest which Mr. Ban ner had taken, and the indefatigable exertions which he bad made, in behalf of this charity. He , (Mr. Brooks) might say that so far as the pecuniary means went, he had been the great and principal instrument in making them what they now were. He was sure that that was a declaration perfectly consistent with the feelings of every one who had attended the meetings of the committee, and he was rather inclined to envy that gentleman's feelings when he looked at the state of the accounts. It was true that they had wanted a considerable sum ; it was also true they were now only a few hundred pounds short of that sum. But he (Mr. Brooks) hoped that success would not be the means of inducing any one to relax their exertions, because though th e y wan t e d on l y a littl e , i t must be borne in mind that they would want a con siderable sum to meet the annual expenditure. (Hear, h eat.) When so much bad been done, he trusted that all those who had the interest of the institution at heart would feel that they ought to second the exertions of the committee, a nd use their influence in increasing the funds of the institu "n• He trusted, therefore, that all would feel the necessity of following up those exertions so as to put the institution in "Itch a Meer situation that it would be o u t o f th e reac h o f want. , h) The Rev. WM. HESKETH s e con d e d th e reso l u ti on , an d bo re cordial testimony to the efficiency of the matron and sCho olmistress of the institution. He had frequently heard t he children examined, and he had every reason to believe .that their progress had been highly s a ti s f ac t or y. Th e grea t of the institution, however, was yet to come—namely, w hen the children were sent into the world. They would be Scot there with the principles of Scriptural education im ttanted in th em. H e believed that as their education was ha t n upon suc h a b as i s it would go on and prosper, and wool those who h a d ass i ste d i n laying its foundation-stone mild live to see it take up a position among the institutions of the town second to none. The resolution was carried. he Rev. W. W. EWBANK, of St. George's, Evertor), "ltlyed the second resolution, which, after acknowledging Past t nenort, called for continued assistance. He was gla d . th e "e that it would be quite unnecessary for him to detain th e " le afing and he quite agreed with the respected rector _eat•these kind of meetings ought to be made more for busi u or e t han speechifying; b ut he must be allowed to make one as t two simple observations with regard to the resolution, in much as the chairman stated at the commencement, that dee pen eettldresses of the subsequent speakers were, if . possible, to p the interest already felt iu so truly Christian and in teresting_ an object. The resolution seemed to embrace two alia.rticular subjects ; first of all they were to express them place, grateful for past contributions, and, in the second r a 4 f,e, they were to solicit still further support. With regard the first part of the resolution, he trusted they were deeply grateful to God for having put it into the hearts of his ser ._annts thus liberally to commence this Institution, and to pro of'f i te it still further. He remembered reading in some book ki t n , l _stoey that one of the greatest enemies of the Christian te o mentioned it as one of those things which tended most strengthen it and deepen its foundations with the heathen, and lee were anxious to support and relieve the distressed, it e stated that in or d er t o hold up the decaying paganism ci w Puld be quite necessary they should take a leaf out of the _,uri.stian book, and immediately begin to raise hospitals and w_aneritable institutions of every sort, if they intended to Lt a n re their hold upon the affections of the people. And he eA, truly thankful that we were always able to appeal to the ti _eets of true Christianity wherever it had been planted on 07.earth,—that we could not only appeal to the correctness pirts doctrines,—that we could not only take Scripture and c ne the doctrines we held were the true word of the living tKebut we could say also, " by their fruits shall ye know en _ e a, by the fruits of Christianity ye shall know it has had bee God. Therefore he felt truly grateful that there teen o .een already manifested such a truly Christian spirit in re en ta wn,—that this institution had been b 0 favourably em it eed, and that it was likely to proceed so favourably to re s s n itision. With regard to the second portion of the h r ''ution nothing could be more Scriptural than the remem rec!nthat we are not to be weary in well-doing, and this ired to be constantly pressed upon us, for it was a corn ° o bservation with regard to these institutions that it e was m uch easier t o co ll ect l arge sums for the building of the ae .7 BB al'Y structure s th an a f terwards to support them ; be so;" at first ( an d i t was exceedingly proper that it should be cure enthus i asm. was a necessary flow of what he must call prema to eepthusiasm. The state and the circumstances of those benefitted were more prominently brought before the n e n 'T y n t e and therefore we expected and we found that at first allow f e y would be supported ; but he trusted they would not tk _ y his to be the case with regard to this institution ; that j e , rue would remember if they proceeded in charitable objects Christian feelings, if they were riot led away not only t7.ottie feelings of nature, but if they also really did these ,T eo ee from Christian motives, so far from their love and 7 11 " hoe growing cold, they would be more anxious, as ye ar . sonerceeded year, to devote a portion of their wealth to %h i _ h_Y of God and the good of their fellow-creatures. A o d P e l f th e e i y t ti s o a g w be t f h o ose b in e t m erestin g creatures [the female .aor to 5 0 ch e a cause as this ; th , g ly gra tl etyhemyucsotulfdeenloetaneeeceddianny advo cac y . kiod that He had allowed them any share in re sc u i ng e ry evilstu aenhildren in their tender infancy from the ne d corru oree p ions of tile world. a 'et- that this is ?: add his fervent wish and his sincere pr, ;13 itution He, therefore, coul d might proceed from little to more, their ner of children might be gradually increased, and that Prop,. that ' the nurn stated— .as might correspond with what Mr. Hesketh mighthad that when they were tried in future life, they reason to bless God, and bless them, ( "w charity ) under God, f having given them those relig i ous Mr. su pporters advantages, or . of • h` Mr * Vir • WINCH secon d e d th e motion, and it was unani -nualY carried. Mr d himself, at a few gat . • SAMUEL HOLE said it was to him a source both of taints,fsa,clon and of regret that he resente d . .• n thatbefore vote of e,es non • the meeting —a source of satisfac tio n thank s have the privilege k in f roposing a _ anks to those gentlemen who had dlyanaddvaocsaotuerdeethoef t a llse of this charity during the Past e keYtet that he stood there in the place this resolution, but Bushell, who was to have proposed ) o . f a l r ds excellent friend, t‘:liaose feelings had been so lacerated by to him (Mr. t he was tine tl olnie) qua to the task. It stance, a most giatifying circuit'. a midst the „a,aagreat affliction, that, FOnlinercial embarrassments with oeen visited, and in whi c h this town had w hich b t e h e i n s e c o o m un p t e r i r ed ha t d o Perticipate the springs of benevolence had not UP, but that they had flowed onwards not on l y ind, with the but in a deep and rap id stream. He called to mind, in been a broad, dri dried Ireateat delight, th atwithin the last few years several mounted to 4d., leaving a ;. Bd. At the churcileS and great numbers of schools had been erected in this town ' • he called to mind that at the south end of the town, by the benevolence of the inhabitants of Liverpool, a large and spacious hospital had bein erected for the allevia tion of human suffering : he recollected, too, the great and magnificent educational seminary erected in Shaw-street, and now he was enabled to congratuiate his fellow towns men upon another benevolent institution being added fur that most interesting of all classes of our fellow creatures, the orphans, he meant the female orphan children of our poor. (Cheers.) He was reminded, by this circumstance, that we were invited to assist in this good work by the clergy of our excellent church. (Hear.) The clergy of our church set us an example in deeds of benevolence, and both by their is and their example they directed our attention to ty whilst we were so much absorbed with they urged us amidst:our multiplied avo cations not to neglect " the one thing needful ;" to do that hich we often needed to he reminded of; that we are only le stewards of those bounties which the Almighty has been leased to place in our hands, of which He will require an :count at our hands, and that it is our duty to allot a por on of the goods with which Divine Providence has blessed -I relieving temporal human suffering, in providing for rants of the distressed, and in doing all the good we can is world after the blessed example set us by our Divine Hear, hear.) He might. using the words of one with regard to the ministers of religion, things of etern to brig _hter worlds, and lead the way!" In this respect we were deeply indebted to them ; and he thought that one of the greatest blessings which Providence in its beneficence had poured upon this land had been giving us the great number of valuable clery which our church pos sessed. _ He spoke of the present moment with deep and gloomy feelings, for the circumstance which had deprived the meeting of the presence of his friend Mr. Bushell was one of that nature. A gentleman well known in this town left Liverpool to visit his friends in Birmingham—at three o'clock on Sunday morning he was suddenly called away to see a now dying mother; he was a man of elegant manners and of be nevolent hear—one who rejoiced in this institution, and who loved to do good. He alluded to Dr. Malins—(hear, hear) ; — he was now a corpse. He (Mr. Holme) was re minded by this circumstance of the shortness and uncertainty of human life •, and the lesson which he wished to draw from it himself, and with great humility to inculcate upon others, was to " work while it is yet called day, for the night cometh when no man can work.' With these feelings he begged to move the thanks of the meeting to those clergy who had kindly advocated the cause of the charity MI AIOCATA. seconded the resolution, and it was unaui- mously carried The Rev. It. L. TOWNSEND moved a vote of thanks to the committee for the services which they had rendered to the charity during the past year. The motion was seconded by Mr. Bitooic, and carried unanimously. The Ladies' Committee and the Gentlemen's Committee were then reappointed ; and, on the motion of Mr. JOSHUA. EDWARDS. a special vote of thanks was presented to Mr. Harmood Banner, with a request that he would continue his services to the charity. Mr. BANNER begged to return thanks to the meeting for be kind expression they had been pleased to give with re ard to himself. The object of the institution was, of itself, ufficient to induce him to continue his services. He con luded by moving a vote - of thanks to Mr. M`Neile for the node in which he had conducted the proceedings. The Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS seconded the resolution, nd it was unanimously carried. NETLE.—Ladies and gentlemen,-1 thank you ncerely for the manner in which you have received the kind xpressions of my friends upon my right and my left. I can ertainly say with Mr. Banner, that the nature of the insti ution is such as to cause me to find little difficulty in Mr. M ordiallv consenting to lend it any assistance in my power to ive. 1 cannot at this moment look around upon those ilildren, and call to mind the children with which it has leased God to bless myself, without contrasting their con• iition and feelings, as we have been reminded by my friend, iow soon it may be the lot of my own children to -be left ltherless in the world. We are exhorted in the word of god to remember those in bonds as being bound, and they hat are iu affliction, because we ourselves are still in the iesh, and, therefore, liable to the same. I should say it re mires but a very proximate effort of Christian sympathy to emember the fatherless—feeling upon what a thread the , resent shield of a father's protection over his own children langs from day to day. (Hear, hear.) Allow me, in con• lusion, to request that the children shall conclude the aeeting by singing " Praise God, from whom all blessings low." The request of the rev. gentleman was immediately (tom ed with, and the proceedings terminated. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS' BILL In compliance with a requisition addressed by the Select Vestry to the Churchwardens, a meeting of the ratepayers of the parish of Liverpool was held at one o'clock yesterday, in the Church of St. Nicholas, for the purpose of consider ing the propriety of petitioning the legislature against certain provisions in the bill recently introduced into the House of Commons by Dr. Nicol, for the amendment of ecclesiastical emits. There was a moderate attendance of parishioners. The Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS, Senior Rector, took the chair. Mr. M. D. LOWNDES, the vestry clerk, having read the public notice convening the meeting, Mr. Bum Err said, that in accordance with the usual plan, the churchwardens had summoned this meeting at the request of the Select Vestry. Neither he nor his colleague were aware of the exact nature of the bill which the meeting were called to take into consideration ; but perhaps the Rev. Chairman would be kind enough to detail to the parishioners its principal objects. He (Mr. Birkett) believed that some parts of the bill were very desirable, whilst there were others which it was very undesirable should become law. •••• • .• •.• --- The CHAIRM AN commenced ••• by stating that he believed the Ecclesiastical Courts' Bill, now before the House of Commons, had arisen out of the report of some com missioners whO had been appointed, in the year 1829, to enquire into the state of the ecclesiastical courts of the country, which it was believed required revision. They made their report in the year 1832; and in it they recommended there should be one court only (he believed there were now nearly 400. including a number of small peculiars, which had been found inconvenient,) in each diocese, and that every other court necessary to be retained should be subject to that. These courts were principally for the probate of wills : there were, at present other duties annexed to them, not of a very pleasant nature, which he believed the courts themselves would be exceedingly glad to get quit of—be meant their powers with regard to brawling, standing in white sheets, and. so on. It would be very desirable, he believed, to get rid of that part of the business, for it was a species of busi ness which did not seem to tend to any good, hut, on the contrary, was often productive of .considerable unpleasant ness and evil. There could be no objection, therefore, to these parts of the bill. There were other portions of it in the same position, such as allowing one probate. in cases where the property left was in different dioceses, to be suffi cient. It bad, certainly, been considered a hardship upon persons who proved wills, that if the bulk of the property left was, for instance, in Liverpool, or in the diocese of Chester, they took out a probate for that from Chester; but if the party died possessed of only one railway share, or pro perty in the funds, in the province of Canterbury, he was obliged °o take out a second probate from there ; and as this second probate was attended with a much heavier expense than the Chester probate, it seemed to be a very great hardship. The bill had been brought in by Sir John Nicol, who was at the head of the Arches Court; but instead of carrying out only the recommendations of the commissioners, it went a great deal further, for it proposed measu res which seemed to the Select Vestry, and indeed to every one else, exceed ingly injurious and oppressive to the great mass of the people, whether looking at the additional expense it entailed on them, or the additional inconvenience it incurred. It vould do away with the diocesan courts altogether, and place very thing under the superintendence of a central court in London ; so that all wills of above £3OO would have to be proved there, and the wills themselves deposited there. At present, by the wills being deposited in the court of the dio cese in which the person died, and where the property was, they were accessible to every body who wanted to enquire into them at a very trifling expense. Any person might now 40 from here to Chester and for one shilling examine any will he pleased; but if all wills were deposited in London, and people wished to know how any property was left, of course a variety of expenses would be entailed upon them in the shape of agent's charges, and the costs of search, so that the inconvenience as well as the expense would, no doubt, he very great. With regard to expenses, the bill provided that the present fees of Doctors' Commons should remain until they should be altered by the judge of the: court with the approbation of the Privy Council. It was not very likely that the judge of the court would ever make much alteration; but when he read to them some of the comparative expense of proving a will in the diocese of Chester and in the diocese of Canterbury, they would see how it bore upon the present question. The reverend gentleman then gave a number of examples of the charges on a will, when one part of the pro perty was in Chester and the other in Canterbury, from which it appeared that in one case £35,000 were left in Chester, the court charges on which were £l9. Os. 5d., and £16,000 in Canterbury, the charges on which were £34. 6s. 4d., an enormous difference. In another case £lOOO was left in Ches ter, on which £7.25. was charged, and £6OO in Canterbury, on which the charges were £lB 14s. The stamps in bo t h oces were, of course, the same, so that the great difference which was here shown arose from the office business. Several yther cases were mentioned, from which the reverend gentle. man contended that it was evident these charges bore no re lative proportion to each other: It was a hardship, there fore, particularly in tbese times, when the professed princi ple of legislation was to bring justice home to every man's door, and when travelling courts were to be established for that purpose, in order that they should be put to the least inconvenience possible in obtaining their rights, that a great central court should be established in London, and that Lon don should absorb all the business of the country, much to the inconvenience and additional expense of the parties con cerned. Then it was said that there was no proper place in which to keep wills; but, he would ask, was it not as easy to make proper places in the country as in London. And in the case of fire, if the whole mass of wills in the country were in London, was it not likely that more demage would be done in the event of fire than if they were deposited in the several dioceses. The reason of the thing was against this part of the bill. Under these circumstances, therefore, for this bill to pass through parliament, without the public taking any notice of it, and knowing the great interests concerned, it appeared to the Select Vestry that they would not be doing their duty to the public if they did not afford to them, an opportunity of protesting against so serious an inconve nience. They had, therefore, with these impressions, called the parishioners together for the pnrpose ; and they had pre pared the draft of a petition, which petition did not go against aaytbing which might be good in the bill, but only to those parts which were likely to be injurious. At Ches ter, in the course of only a few hours, a similar petition had raceived a thousand signatures, and the whole body of soli citors and proctors had signed it. It was also worthy of consideration that a great number of officers of the present courts would, in the event of the bill now before parliament becoming law, be thrown either upon their own resources or upon the public. There was a provision for the com pensation of those officers so thrown out, which. of course, would throw considerable expense upon the public. (Hear, hear.) An all these accounts the Select Vestry deemed it their duty to make the parishioners acquainted with what was going on ; and now it was for them to determine whe ther the bill was of that nature to require a petiti on f rom them in oppo s iti on to i t . (Hear, hear.) Mr. R, W, HOUGHTON proposed, and Mr. MUNCASTER seconded, a resolution to the effect that it was expedient to petition the legislature against the bill now before the House of Commons. Mr. BIGHAM put some questions as to the expense of the meeting, and the fund from which it would be paid. The CHAIRMAN replied, that the expense would be very moderate, and that, being for a church purpose, they would be defrayed from the church -rates. Mr. BIGHAM considered it an illegal expenditure. After a short discussion of no interest, the motion wan carried unanimously. Mr. M. D. LOW NDES then read the draft of a petition against the objectionable parts of the bill ; and on the motion of Mr. BIRKETT, seconded by Mr. R. W. HOUGHTON, the petition was adopted, to be signed by the chairman on behalf of the meeting, and forwarded to the members for the borough for presentation to the Commons, and to the Bishop of Chester for presentation to the Lords. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to a remark from Mr. BIRKETT, mentioned that the Bishop of Chester had strong objections to the parts of the bill, and he would oppose it. Mr. BIGHAm inquired what was the object of government in passing this bill ? The CHAIRMAN believed that it was a job of Doctor's Coriimons who were Very fond of getting everything into their own 'hands. The country was put to more expense in supplying the present courts, for it wait supported by the executors of the different rules, there could be no doubt, to be mntual sufferers by any cbouge, seeing that the charges at Doctors Commons were enormous. The Surrogates had had many complaints made to them of this, and they bad been asked—" hots is it that the expense is so much reater at Doctors Commons, than in the Court at Chester? ges in Doctors Corn- The only mswer was " because the char mons for doing the work are so much heaivie The Rea. R. DAVIES mentioned what a short time Iwo he bad a will put into his hands for proof, both in Chester and Canterbury. The amount in both courts was the same, the stamp duty, consequently was the same ; but the charges iu Chester was only £1 18s Bd., whilst that IA Canterbury was £9 13s 4d. The CHAIRMAN begged to state further, thlit under the will of the late Mr. Hesketh Fleetwood, £9,000 was proved in Chester, and £14,000 in London ; in Chester the eharge vhilst in London it was £35. The Itev. R. DAVIES.—It is virtually a tax upon the country, without a single penny going into the Exchequer) Tke Rev. R. L. TOWNSEND said that two cases had come before him within the last few weeks. In one instance, a will was proved in Chester for £lBOO, the expenses on which was £3 Is.: the other was a small will of £25 in Canter bury, the expenses on which were between £7 and £B. The CHAIRMAN explained that there was no clause what ever in the bill now before the house for removing the sur rogates, consequently they could not be speaking from in terested motives. In saying this he used the authority of Dr. Haggard, who, in writing to Mr. Hesketh, a surrogate i❑ Liverpool, said, (bat as far they were concerned they would have only a chatte of masters. The inconvenience therefore was altogether upon the public. After a few more explanations the resolutions was passed, and the Rector having been thanked for his conduct in the chair, the meeting separated. THE STEEPLE CHASE LAST NIGHT This event, which is termed " The Granclisi;tiOialtee ple Chase." comes off to-morrow at Aintree. It is fully expected to be a well•attended affair, not only from the num ber of the horses entered, but also for the eclat that has attended all previous meetings of a similar character. The ground selected to be run over is similar to that chosen on former years, the same " difficulties" having to be encoun tered and the same impediments to be surmounted. The ditch in front of the grand stand, over which all the horses contrived to get last year without accident, has been widened a foot, being now thirteen feet. The depth is as before, four feet. A four feet wall has been erected at the distance chair in place of hurdles, which will have to be cleared in the first round previous to taking the ditch. It is expected that twenty horses will start. There has not been much betting. Peter Simple, the favourite—betting sto 1. The llooton Park Steeple Chase, which will come off' on Friday, may be expected to be a dashing affair. The start will take place at Storeton. • The entries will close to-morrow. THE COURSING MEETING AT ALTCAR commences this day, and will be a rich treat to the lovers of the long dogs, and never was weather more propitious for the diversion. No doubt many Altcar men will be made on the occasion. The ceremony is simple, but, in cold weather, ra ther the antipodes of pleasant. We have undergone the ini tiation ourselves, and, therefore, speak from experience. To he made an Altcar man is to be immersed in one of the deep and wide ditches with which the township is intersected. On one occasion, at a coursing meeting, the present Earl of Sefton saw one of his tenants (Joseph Amebury, we believe) get an unexpected ducking. " Never mind, Joseph," said his lordship, "you are only an Altcar man made o'er again." Fate ruled, that his lordship should, the same day, take a cold bath in a similar manner. " Never mind," said Joseph, who saw the mishap, " you're only an Altcar man made o'er again." The best road to the coursing grounds is through Aintree, Magbull, and Lydiate ; the shortest way lies through Bootle and Great and Little Crosby. The following are the names of the dogs to run : WATERLOO CUP.—Lord Stradbroke's Maximus, late Ajax. agst. Mr. Gale's Queen; Mr. Etwell's Empress agst. Mr. B. B. Robinsos's Rocket; Mr. Mare's Matilda agst. Lord Eglington's Blackbird ; Mr. Slater's Sandy agst. Mr. G. Pollock's Major; Lord Stradbroke's Mango agst. Mr. Scott's Lady Harkaway ; Lord Eglingtnn's Stag agst. Mr. Swan's Stork : Mr. Gibb's Slasher agst. Sir Pyers Mos tyn's Mariner ; Mr. G. Barge names Eau de Vie agst. Mr. Scott's Chancellor ; Mr. A. Graham's Mavourneen agst. Mr. Robinson's Zurich •,. Mr. Kershaw's Knight of the Garter agst. Mr. Ball's P. P.; Mr. Hutchinson's Rubens agst. Dr. Brown's Sportsman; Mr. Harper's Solon agst. Mr. Mare's Marmion ; Dr. Brown's Queen Bee agst. Mr. Barton's Ribton ; Mr. Garven's Gambler agst. Mr. Bradley's Tyrant; Mr. Armstrong's Negro agst. Mr. Swan's Stork; Mr. Jebb's Hotspur agast. Mr. Deakin's Distiller. WATERLOO PURSE.—Mr. Ball's Bugle agst. Mr. Deakin's Doctor Syntax ; Mr. Slater's Stiletto agst. Mr. Bradley's Baron ; Mr. A. Graham's Long-iong-ago agst. Ma. Swan's Hill Coolie ; Mr. Mare's Moonlight agst. Mr. Unsworth's Unknown ; Mr. Garven's Garland agst. Lord Eglington's Greysteel ; Mr. Etwell's Westwind agst. Mr. Scott's Drainer; Mr. Pollock's Empress agst. Mr. Robinson Whiskey ; Mr. Ridgway's Reginald agst. Lord Stadbroke s Minerva. NORTHERN CIRCUIT, LANCASTER, MONDAY, February 27 The Assizes for the Northern Division of this county commenced on Saturday last, when the commission was opened in the evening by Mr. Baron Rolfe, who arrived in the town about eight o'clock from London. Yesterday, his lordship attended Divine Service in the Parish Church, at tended by Wm. Garnett, Esq., of Lark-hill and Quermore- Park, and the Mayor and corporation of the town. The prayers were read in an affective manner by the, Rev. J. Manby, vicar, and a most eloquent sermon was preached by the Sheriff's Chaplain, the Rev. R. Parkinson, Fellow of the Collegiate Church, Manchester, from Matthew xxiii. 8. — "But be ye not called Rabbi, for one is your master, even Chriat, and 01l ye are brethren." This morning at ten o'clock the learned Judge, accom panied by the high Sheriff and the usual officers, proceeded from his lodgings to the Castle, where he took his seat in the Crown Court, when the usual preliminaries having been gone through, Hie Lordship observed that he had perused the depositions in all the cases which would come before the Grand Jury— at least all he was ;mare of,—and he was happy to say there was no case likely to occupy their attention which would present any difficulties to their minds. From the disturbed state in which many parts of the country had been in some months ago, he was apprehensive that there might have been some cases to be brought before them, but such was not the case, and he was glad to find that there was not any indict ment likely to be submitted to their consideration arising out of the disturbances of last summer; and, upon looking over the calender, he did no suppose there were more than at any ordinary assizes. His Lordship then proceeded to remark on one or two ordinary cases in the calender, on which he deemed it expedient to give some general directions to the Grand Jury, and then dismissed them to their duties. There are, however, to be tried at the present assizes no less than 69 persons, all charged with offences arising out of the riots of last autumn, but in all shose cases the bills are already found at the special commission, including one gene indictment charging the whole party with conspiracy. This case is likely to be the most important to be tried during the present assizes, as in it is included Fergus O'Connor and the leaders of the Chartist party. The trial is likely to come on ons Wednesday morning, and will no doubt occupy a very considerable time. With this exception the calender only contains about 35 prisoners, and is not important so far as the charges are concerned. The cases tried during during the day were quite uninter esting to the public generally. INCENTIVE TO MATRIMONY.—A company of young men at Lincoln have originated a new club. Each member pays Is. weekly, which is placed in the savings bank. The first of the party who marries is to receive the whole amount de posited, together with the interest. GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGES.—It would appear from the following statement of the number of marriages that were witnessed by Mr. Robert Elliot of Gretna Green (the grand son of Mr. Paisley, the reputed blacksmith), from 1810 to 1839, that the Dissenters' Marriage Act has materially diminished his business. In the twenty-nine years he mar ried no fewer than 744 persons. The following is the num ber of marriages in each year :- 1811 .. 58 1821 .. 152 1831 .. 168 1812 .. 57 1822 .. 178 ]832 .. 153 1813 .. 59 1823 .. 188 1833 .. 160 1814 .. 68 1824 .. 196 1834 .. 168 1815 .. 87 1825 .. 198 1835 .. 124 1816 89 1826 .. 187 1836 .. 98 1817 .. 98 1827 .. 188 1837 .. 55 1818 .. 109 1828 .. 186 1838 .. 46 1819 .. 121 1829 .. 180 1839 .. 42 1820 .. 124 1830 .. 179 STEAM NAVIGATION AND THE SHIPPING INTEREST.— The metropolitan steam navigation interests find much fault with that part of the recent speech of Sir C. Napier in which he attributes the depressed state of the shipping interest to the increase of steam navigation. They contend, on the contrary, that much employment has been created by the latter which otherwise would not have existed. For ex ample, the service of the lines to the Peninsula and the Mediterranean requires about 50,000 tons of coals annually. which must be carried by sailing vessels from Wales or New castle to Southampton. Then as to the interference with the foreign trade of the merchantmen, they contend that it is next to nothing, the steam vessels by their quickness of transit creating the only traffic, or nearly so, in which they engage—that is, the conveyance of fruit; and that what business they do take from them is counterbalanced by the conveyance of their consumption of coals. CHINESE NOBILITY.—The nobility of China are of two kinds, hereditary and official. The former class is not nu merous, nor greatly influential. It consists chiefly of the re lations of the Emperor, who are called Princes, and are bound to live within the precincts of the Imperial palace. The real nobility, or aristocracy of the country, are the man darins. Of these there are estimated to be, on the civil list of the empire, not less than fourteen thousand. The man darins are divided into nine ranks, or pin, each of which is indicated by a double badge—the colour of the globe on the apex of the cap, and the embroidery on the front and back of their official robes. The colours employed are red, blue, crystal, white, and gold ; and these, with certain modifications of shape, serve to distinguish what are denominated " Kew pin," that is, " the Dine - ranks," into which all persons pos sessing any rank in China are divided. The nominal rank, and of course the distinctive costume of any of the official grades, may be purchased of the Emperor, The sum de manded for the distinction is, however, proportionably large. Elowqua, for instance, the richest of the Hong merchants, purchased his nominal rank at the enormous price of 100,000 dollars, or £20,000 sterling. POPISH ORDINATION. —Unenquiring persons are apt to be caught with externals; and extern a lly th ere is so to much c l a tn tc a h y t s h o em ex i p n re tl s i s e a m s y p s e e c l t o pr j e n s s e t n i t i e o d w b/ th th e e t P l Papal i b n t t w er h e e s t t he c r f there ever was a time when the great mass of our intelligent people in the middle walks of life so seriously required to be made to see i n i n it s true li g h t t h e Romanists' position and their own. Costly edifices are raised by Papal funds in every county—inroads are being made on every side—yet no notice taken of them. Looking at these things, but more than all looking at th e i r pract i cal return to, and revival of, their thrice refuted and exploded calumniation of the validity of our or ders—in undisguised contempt for which, we now observe o t uß h pnr ei ttn n yi s conferred o a n engsl and clergy, r, n i bgnhgyy serious t f s o hc r eh rsrueemecv valueless bad e . jre n eaed d : t i judgmentrl poee objections ss e te g ars renegades fe d mi rnl e ypsahl nothingt ya f pi orfv principle the from hosc iephi nopoowul proposing communion, and publicly re-ordaining them to their's_and they them selves the while, men whose own orders, if they were not a t this, accused t:orthodox o ohk tn edo r ii eynol being persecution. ac knowledge. R a . n o d man c Catholic intolerance—for tholi c o wtiohnichwiltshthwuhsicahnlswsetraerdtebdy, npaamlmeleyr,_ho,,wsihsenhnogio. shown , yet, h e c o e CL a : our cin c n h ot recognise any any real ministry of Jesus Christ in those who are ordained in enmity to His church; and if she doesy nia.ealliways think it necessary to repeat the outward tormybdivinie to have accompanied it originally."—Letter in Derbyshire they . were constituted, it is not that she supposes an commission Courier. THE LEAGUE AND THE Rlfr Mn. BAILEY The Leaguers have had another field-day—an " extra ordinary meeting "—to rebut the indignant scorn levelled at their great prophet, Richard Cobden. Of course, it will be supposed, they embraced this fitting occasion of denoun " connection with the rev. gentleman who " had heard willing to shoot Sir Robert Peel, and suggested, for his encouragement, that " there would be few to shed a tear " over his victim. Not at all! In the five or six co lumns of speechifying perpetrated on the occasion, there was not a word of mention of the rev. gentleman i❑ question —not a word of acknowledgment that such a speech had ever been made, although it has now been acknowledged by him self in a letter addressed to the editor of the London Times; and yet the League are indignant that a word from any member of their body can be supposed to have suggested the murderous deed of M`Naughten, or confirmed the miscreant in his purposed wicked atrocity ! Mr. Bailey is still a che rished member of the conspiracy ; and at the next assem blage of the " ministers of all denominations," will be found, no doubt, a prominent occupier of the League plat form, an admired of lady Leaguers, and a martyr to mono poly ! of a persort ••••••----....111,1w.,,,............ TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES Sir,—Generosity to a foe, and especially to a victim, Is an attribute peculiar to the brave ; whether you possess it will be seen by your insertion of the following reply to your attack on me in your leading article of Monday last. You complain that I have " disclaimed, denied, explained nothing." If your complaint were honest, you will allow me in your pages to do all. _ _ _ . It is false that on Sunday, July 17, at an Anti-Corn-law League Meeting I narrated the anecdote relative to the 100 lots and Sir R. Peel. The League never met on the Sunday. Was it from mere misprint that you say Sunday ? Or did )ou of design choose Sunday in order to shock your readers with the notion of .a Di ssen ti ng m i n i s t e r attending League meetings on the day when, by supposition, I had other em ployment? If you had no particular object to answer by so doing, I beg to ask why you should say, " We take our account from the Morning Chronicle, as quoted by Mr. Roebuck ?" You affect fairness by quoting the Morning Chronicle ' • but to have done so would not h ave su i te d your views, and, there fore, you add, "as quoted b y M r. Roebuck !" And who is Mr. Roebuck, that you must prefer his version to the text, and arraign me on his foolish, careless, or malignant con struction of my words ? Is this your general style of quota tion ? It is also false that I said I "knew a gentleman, who," &c. I never did know the person, nor the locality where the chal lenge occurred. This, however, I will add, that it was nei ther " one of my constituents," nor enacted in Sheffield. It is nut true that I advocated the " application to the par liament of force." I have always dissuaded from its use. Governments are founded on force, and there are circum stances when the people are justified in resorting to its use: but I do not think such a case by any means to be that of the people of Great Britain. Opinion "is more than a con queror" for all that I wish to see achieved. It is also not true that I did not accompany the narration of the anecdote with a strong protest. Part only of that pro test was, however, repeated. Of this I complained at the time, both to several members of the League, and in a public meeting at Sheffield immediately on my return. I am willing to believe that the omission arose from accident rather than design YOu say, " an act of intention may be mentioned merely for the sake of denouncing it." Now, it so happens that this has always been one of the motives I have avowed for giving publicity to the anecdote; the other was to show the state of feeling in certain quarters. If I had concealed the anecdote, and evil had been perpetrated, I should have reproached my self with not having given warning to the government. I deserve thanks for making the anecdote public, and not abuse. If, however, you allege such a subject should not be pub licly alluded to, I beg to ask why you dilate upon it so vehemently, when your leading article is so mu c h mo r e likely to supply malicious incentive tan the comparatively obscure recital by myself at first? You hereby receive my thanks for your kind and Christian suggestions that my speech had a connexion with the mur derer Wisiaughten. It was a very gracious act of your lion like clemency to Sheffield Feb. 22. 1843 Your obedient servant, R. S. BAYLEY MR. BRIGHT v. LORD BROUGHAM The opinion entertained by one great man, of the charac ter of another, is, of course, :an ;interesting subject of con templation ; and we therefore take the liberty of placing before our readers the estimation in which Lord Brougham and Vaux, whose past eminence few will deny, is held just now by Mr. John Bright, of Rochdale, cotton lord and spouter extraordinary to the Anti-Corn-Law League. Re fearing, at the leauge meeting held in Manchester last week, to a recent speech of the :ex-Chuncellor, delivered in the House of Lords, the "preterpluperfection" of enlighten ment—" the preterpluperfectly bright, as his rev. fellow leaguer Giles declared him to be—termed the speech in question a " Brummugum row"—(a wretched attempt at a pun, it must be confessed)—and intimated further that any thing that fell from that " miserable creature" was un worthy of his sublime consideration- Lord Brougham and Vaux—the once worshipped of the Whig party, the hero of reform, negro emancipation and a hundred other quackeries,—a " miserable creature" !—in the estimation ,too, of a shallow Anti-Corn-Law quaker like John Bright ! " To what vile uses do we come at last!' Henry Brougham a " miserable creature" in the eyes of John Bright of Rochdale ! Alas for the mighty ! The London Times of Thursday had a lut leading article relative to the late case of the institution of a clergyman at Chudleigh, by election, and:in the course of it says—Validity of the trusts seems to have been taken for granted by all parties, and therefore, we presume, that they were so framed as to be free from objection ; but it is notorious that the late Rev. Mr. Simeon, and many of those who imbibed his pecu liar doctrines under his tuition at Cambridge, have purchased many advowsons, and vested them in trustees so selected as to render it probable that none but those who might hold similar doctrinal views would be presented to the livings; and any presentation by such trustees would give a fair oc casion for trying their right. We believe that the validity of such trusts is decidedly questionable. The policy of the law requires that no property shall be so ti e d up as to be per petually unalie na bl e, except in certa i n spec ified cases, among which are those t ec h n i ca l ly called " char it a ble uses. SINGULAR C AUSE OF DEATH. —Mr. Hyde , the city coro ner, held an in quest on W ednesday, a t the Falcon, Broad street, Worce s t er , on t h e body of Herbet W illi a ms. aged five months, th e c hild o f l a b ouring peo ple, living in Friar's Alley, which ca me by i ts d eath on the pr eceeding day, under the following s i ngu l ar circumstances :ng --The deceased, from birth, had evin ce d great repugnanc e to fowls, and seemed especially annoyed a t t h e crowio f a cock, On Tuesday afternoon shortly afte r di nner, the child's mother was nurse ing it at the door, and had placed it to stand upo n the ground while holding it s arms, when a cock fowl, which had been fighting near, approached where the child was. and began to crow. Instantly upon this, the infant shrieked, and went into fits, which terminated its existence in a few minutes, even before the arrival of Mr. Orwin, surgeon, who had been sent for directly upon the child been seized. Verdict, " Died from fright, occasioned by the crowing of a cock." —Hereford Journal. MATERNAL AF FECTION.—The following simple and affecting incident of maternal affection took place in Glas gow a few weeks ago :—An elderly widow, in humble cir cumstances, called at the shop of a silversmith, and taking out of her pocket a " bawbee" (halfpenny), requested him to cover the rim of it all round with silver. Curious to know the reason why so small a piece of copper sho u l d be orna mented at so much exp ense, the silversm i t h i nqu i re d, w h en the poor widow infor me d hi m that it was a " g ift f rae h er son," who had unfortu na t e l y been le d as t ra y by b a d com panions, and, under the sentence of the C our t o f J us ti c i ary , was banished for seven years. On the morning of his de parture she went up t o B r id ewell to see hi m away , an d s h e said she had just a glimp se of him, bawbee—saying that it was all he ha d i n th e wor ld. Th e poor woman, sheddingwhen lie gave her the tears, said she would keep it as a token of remembrance as l ong as she li ve d, as it wou ld " aye be like a picture to her of her p oor Willie, when he was far awa and o'er the seas."—Edin burgh Witness. THE PENDLETON MURDER; 1817.—We inserted in our paper of Tuesday last a paragraph in reference to a confession made by an old man, on his death-bed, as to this murder. The paragraph was from the Manchester Courier, and induced a belief that the men who suffered for the murder were innocent. The Manchester Guardian of Satur day last, however, says, so far is this confession from weakening the case agai ns t the Ashcro f ts and William Holden, that, if made at all, which we rather doubt, it tends to strengthen that case. That more than one person had been concerned in the murder was perfectly manifest from a variety of circumstances ; and, indeed, John Holden's alleged statement implies that others were with him, as he says he did not commit the robbery. He could, therefere, only mean that he was one of the parties who committed the crime. If so, what could be more natural than that his own nephew, and the Ashcrofts, w h o were constant associates, should be his accomplices? William Holden and the Ash crofts no doubt protested their innocence to the last ; but that is a fact on which no prudent man would place the slightest reliance, especially in a case where• there was no direct evidence against the p r i soners; who m i g h t naturally think that, by persisting in their asseverations of innocence, they might have a chance of obtaining a reprieve. HOUSE or COMNIONS.—The following gentlemen, who were not returned at the meeting of parliament in August, 1841, now have seats in the house :---Sir Henry W. Barron, Robert Bateson, jun., Ralph Bernal, sea., Dr. John Boyd, Edward Cardwell, Willi a m D. Christie, Viscount Clive, John C. Colquho un , Eli as Corbally,, David A. S. Davies, Hon. Henry Fit zro y, H on . W. Fi tzmaurice, Sir Stephen Thoma s Glynne, George Alex an der Hamilton, !lean Fl am pd en , L or d Hussey, Alfred Hervey, J ose ph Hume , Hon. Wm. S. S. Lascelles, Anthony Lefroy, Charles Leslie, Humphrey St. John Mildmay, David Robert Ross, Sir Samuel Spry, Charles S. Standish, John Walter, Lord Charles Wellesley, Hon. James A. S. Wortley, Thomas Wyse. In addition to the above changes, three members of the House of Commons have succe e d e d to peerages , five hav e ret i red from parlia ment, three have been removed by death, two have accepted offices incompatible with parliamentary duties, and ei g ht e en i have been unse a t e d on petition. It s also worthy of re mark, that M r . O'C onne ll, who had b een returned for two counties, has made his election to sit for Cork ; that Mr. Hope, though unseated for Weymouth, is now member for Southampton ; and finally, that if Sudbury be disfranchised, the numbers in the house will be reduced from 658 to 656. PIGEON FLYING.—The ship Strabane of Glasgow, in the course of her voyage from Calcutta to Britai n , i n 1842 , picked up at sea a carrier pigeon , which seems to have flown an board this vessel on the 23d of July last, in lat. 34 41, south lon. 22 53, having a regimental button of her Majesty's 78th Regiment attached to its leg by a piece of brass w i re . On reference to a log kept on board the Mary transport, on it appears that this bird was her outward passage to Bo . mbay , by Lieutenant G. Horrocks, of the 78th Highlanders, liber ated from on board the Mary. on the 13th of July, 1842, in lat. 27 14, lon. 54 46; having thus made a distance of nearly 2,000 miles in ten days. Although we believe that pigeons have been known to traverse a much greater distance in the same time, it is to be observed that th is b ird must, from the state of the prevailing winds in the latitudes in question, have had to encounter a constant successio n of adverse gales, nearly right a-head of its course, from the day of its departure from the Mary till that of its capture_ on b oar d the Strabane. It is farther remarkable, that it does not seem to have taken a straight line to reach the Cape of Good Hope, but to have adopted nearly the course of the Mary, avoiding the land of the Island of Madagascar. close to which it must have passed. However curious these facts may be, this experiment does not seem to throw any li ght on the wonderful powers of in stinct by which the pigeon is enabled to direct its course. — Edinburgh Register. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE CAMBRIDGE At a congregation just holden the following degrees *ere conferred : Master of Arts.--J. C. Whish, Trinity College. Bachelors of Arls.—J. H. Brazier, Trinity College ; H. J Cranuier, Trinity Hall. Clare Hall.—C. d7draham Jones, scholar of this college, has just been elected a foundation fellow. Leclures.—The Lowndean Professor has postponed his lectures until further notice, there being no class to attend them. The following appointments have taken place : The Rev. E. H. Langford, M.A., of Sidney Sussex Col lege, to the rectory of Marksbury, Somerset—value £240. The Rev. J. C. Patten, M.A., of Caius College, to the rectory of No-'h Barsharn, Norfolk—value £2-11. The Rev. W. Wenman, S.C.L., of Trinity Hall, to :the rectory of Sarnesfield, Herefordihire—value £203. The Rev. Edward Arnett Powell, 1V1.A., of Christ's Col lege, to the rectory of Toft, Cambridgeshire—value £287. The Rev. R. Bell, M.A., of St. John's College, to the per petual curacy of Eye, near Peterborough—valueCCl6l. The Rev. J. L. icon, B.A. of St. John's College, to the curacy of Shepton Mallet, Somerset. The Rev. J. Otter, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, to the vicarage of Ludford Magna. Lincolnshire—value £67. The Rev. W. P. Thomas, LLB., of Trinity Hall, to the vicarage of Wellington, with West Buckland curacy, Sower setshire—value £B3-1. The Rev. A. Kemp, 8.A., of Caius College, to the vicar age of Worth Matrauers, Dorset—value £6OB. The Rev. J. S. Foster, 8.A., of Pembroke College, to the curacy of Leigh -upon-Mendip and Downhead, Somerset. The Rev. J. H. Wise, 13. A., of St. Peter's College, to the curacy of St. Swithin's, Norwich. The Rev. A. H. Small, 8.D., of Emmanuel College, to the curacy ofThurlaston, in the county of Leicester. The Rev. H. Carrow, M.A., of Trinity College, to the curacy of Loxton, Somerset. OXFORD, In a Congregation holden on Thursday last, the following Degrees were conferred : BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW. Rev. William Wetherell, Fellow of New College MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. Francis Cradock Twemlow, Oriel College. Rev. George Mount Keith Ellerton, Brasenose College, BACHELORS OF ARTS John Walter de Longueville Giffard, Merton College Rev. Edmund Ter', Magdalene Hall. Octavius Carey, Oriel College. Willimm Bruton, Exeter College. On tile 10th instant, the Rev. Evan Evans, M.A., Scholar of Pembroke College, on the Foundation of Sir John Philipps, Bart., was elected to the Fellowship on the same Foundeion, in the room of the Rev. F. Thomas, M.A., promoted to the Livings of Lambton and Haroldton West, Pembrokeshire, void y the death of the Rev. John Andros, M.A. The Rev. Joseph Moore, M.A., of Lincoln College, Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Morley, and Incumbent of Littleworth, Berks, has been presented to the Vicarage of Buckland, in the same county ; patron, James Moore,' Esq. The Rev. Frederick Biscoe, M.A., formerly Student of Christ Church, has been presented to the Vicarage of Coombe I3issett, Wilts, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. R. Bird. The Rev. Theodore Coldridge, M.A., of Exeter College, has been elected Chaplain to Exeter Workhouse. The Rev. Arthur Thomas Gregory, 8.A., formerly of Lincoln College, has been presented to the Perpetual Curacy of F►ixton, Lancashire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. W. C. B. Cave. The Rev. George James Cornish, M.A., formerly of Cor pus Christi College, Vicar of Kenwyn a n d K ea , C ornwa ll, has been presented to a Prebendal Stall in Exeter Cathedral, vacant by the death of the Rev. Wittington Landon. On Friday, the lith instant, the Rev. H. Robbins, 8.A., of Wadham College, was elected Head Master of the Stepney Proprietary Grammar School. On Tuesday last, the Rev. William Cockin, M.A., of Brasenose College, was unanimously elected to the Head Mastership of the Grammar School at Kidderminster. The Rev. William Pulling, Fellow of Brasenose College, has been appointed Domestic Chaplain to the Earl Somers. The Rev. William Bousfield, of Lincoln College, has been presented to the Curacy of the third portion of Bampton Vicarage, in_this county. The Rev. FitzherberE Adams Marriott, M.A., formerly of Oriel College, Rector of Cottesbach, Leicestershire, has been appointed by the Bishop of Tasmania to the Archdeaconry of Hobart Town, and also to be his Lordship's Domestic Chap lain. Rev. Richard Stainforth, M.A., formerly of St. John's College, Cambridge, Vicar of Pontefract, to be Canon of the Stall of St. Anthony, in the Collegiate Church of Mid dleham, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. F. B. Astley. Rev. Francis Rose, M.A., to the'Rectory of Little Wool ston, to hold the same by dispensation, together with the Rectory of Woughton-on-the-Green, Bucks; patron, the Queen. Rev. Roger Bird, to the Vicarage of Turkdean, Glouces tershire. Rev. W. Harrison, to be Sunday Evening Lecturer of St Mary, Aldermanbury. Rev. J. W. Butt, M.A., Vicar of King's Langley, Herts, to be Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Clarendon. Rev. Henry Thomas Hill, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Perpetual Curate of Lye, Worcestershire, to be Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Worcestershire. Rev. Edward Armett Powell, M.A., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Toft, with the Vicarage of Caldecote, Cambridgeshire ; patrons, the Master and Fellows of Christ's College. Rev. Richard Parkinson, 8.D., of St. John's College, Cambridge, to be Chaplain of the High Sheriff of Lancashire. Rev. John Blissard, M.N., late Curate of Hampstead Norris, Berks, to that Vicarage, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Reed ; patron, the Marquis of Downshire. Rev. 'William Stoddart, M.A., formerly of Christ's Col lege, Cambridge, Perpetual Curate of Stretton, in Burton on-Trent, Staffordshire, and Second Master of Repton School, to the Vicarage of Willington, Derbyshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. B. Sleath, D.D.; patrons, the Corporation of Etwall Hospital and Repton School. The twenty-six colleges of Oxford University contained, at the commencement of the present year, 5,657 members of colleges, and 2,898 members of convocation. PRESENTATION OF PLATE.—A handsome pocket com munion service, with some articles of table plate, were pre sented to the Rev. T. B. Browne, on the occasion of his leaving Wortley, near Leeds. for Roos, near Patrington, where he is now appointed curate. The case of the commu nion service bore this inscription :—" Rev. Thomas Briarly Browne, 8.A., a token of respectful and affectionate regard from the members of his congregation at Wortley, near Leeds, on his separation from them after two years' residence as their curate. Bth February, 1843. THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS BILL.—The following is an extract from a long and able article which appears in the Chester Chronicle, exposing the injustice, inconvenience, and fraud, which would be entailed upon the public by the bill which has been introduced into the House of Commons by Dr. Nicholl :—" At present any person can have a search in the Chester registry for one shilling. To get such search made in the London court will cost ten times as much at the very least. But this is a small matter. The most important is, as to the office charges for business done ; and on this point we have been able to collect some astounding informa tion, which we think ought to rouse the country. For in stance, in cases where probates had been respectively granted under the same wills in the registry of Chester and Doctors' Commons:—ln o n e est a t e , th charge in Chester on £35,000 was £l9 Os. sd. ; in Doctors' Commons, the charge on £16,000 was £34 6s. 4d. In another, the charge in Chester on £25,000 was £7 13s, fid. ; in Doctors' Commons, on £7,000, it was £l9 ss. 10d. In another, the charge in Chester on £4,000 was £5 Os. 10d. ; in Doctors' Commons on £6OO it was £ll Os. 4d. In another, the charge in Chester on £2OO was £7 ss. 11d. ; in Doctors' Commons on £6OO it was £23 Is. 6d. In another, the charge in Chester on £3OO was £1 14s. Bd. ; in Doctors' Commons on £2O it was .f 2 10s. Bd. These are all recent cases ; and they show that the injustice of Doctors' Commons business is as great on small as large estates." REVENUES OF THE ENGLISH AND WELSH SEES.--The ecclesiastical commissioners found that theaggregate revenues of the 26 sees of England and Wales amounted to about £150,000 per annum, but that this sum was very unequally divided, varying from about £19,000 per annum for Durham, to about £l,OOO per annum for Llandaff. As great an ine quality existed in the extent of the several sees, whether cal culated with reference to the number of benefices or the amount of population in each, the number of benefices vary ing from 1,234 in Lincoln to 94 in Rochester, and the popu lation from 1,900,000 in Chester to 126,000 in Ely. And the revenue of the see was often in inverse proportion to its ex tent. The commissioners came to the conclusion that this was a state of things injurious to the interests of the church, and which consequently required alteration ; and, in so doing. they in fact only responded to the opinion which must have been entertained by his late majesty and his responsible ad visers, in the appointment of the commission in the terms before mentioned, an opinion which one would suppose must meet with universal acquiescence among the well-wishers to the established church. The alterations proposed by the commissioners did not involve any increase or diminution of the number of the episcopal sees, or the amount of their ag gregate revenues, but they recommended a more equal distri bution of both revenue and territory among the several sees. With respect to revenue, they recommended that certain an nual payments should be made by the incumbents of the richer sees to a fund, out of which certain annual payments should be made to the incumbents of the poorer sees. And with respect to territory, they recommended the transfer of districts from one diocese to another; but, in consequence of the great extent of the dioceses in the north of England, and of there not being any adjoining dioceses to which transfers of districts could conveniently be made, they re commended the creation of new sees at Ripon and Manches ter; and on the other hand, the union, in two instances, of certain existing sees, of which the combined duties would' not, they considered, be too onerous for a single bishop Defence of the Union of the Sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. A NEW SUBJECT OF CONTROVESY AT OXFORD.—By the will of Dean Ireland, the sum of £lO,OOO, three per cent. consolidated annuities, was left to the chancellor, masters, and scholars of the University of Oxford, on condition that the interest and dividends should be applied for the promotion of a scheme of education " which is now in progress in the said university, under the management of a committee of heads of houses, for the more complete instruction of stu dents, particularly such as are destined for the church." The interest and dividends of this sum of £lO,OOO are to be appropriated for the benefit of a professor, whose department shall be the exegesis of Holy Scripture, as is recommended by the committee in question, other parts of theology being already allotted to other professors under the general scheme. This professor is to be appointed by the heads of colleges and halls ; he is to be directed by convocation, and is to reside every six months of every year at Oxford. If the above men tioned scheme of education should be abandoned, and it should be found impossible to carry Dr. Ireland's directions into effect, then he directed the chancellor to apply the interest, &c., for and towards the support of the established religion of England generally, or to the promotion of literature and science within the university, as the convocation should de termine. On Thursday, March 9, at two o'clock, a convo cation will he held, at which a statute will be proposed to the house relative to the bequest made by Dr. Ireland. On the acceptance of the bequest last term, a meeting was held in the common room of Oriel, to consider the expediency of re sisting it, on the ground of the patronage being vested in the hebdomadal board. It was overruled, however, in conse quence of the interference of the more moderate of the " Ox ford party," who felt that great offence would be given to Dr. Gaisford, whom Dean Ireland is understood to have con sulted about the terms of the bequest, and the bequest was accepted with two dissentient voices—viz., Mr. Segar, of Worcester, and Mr. of Jesus, friends of Dr. Pusey and of Mr. Newman. The statute to be proposed on the 9th of next month admits the new professor into the theological board, of which Dr. Hampden is the chairman. This is objected to by the above-named party on the ground that Dr. Pusey, as Hebrew professor, claims to be exegetical professor- Be sides that, it is u rge d th a t th e a ddi t i on o f on e more professor will make the reg i us pro f essor o f di v i n ity's vote double — viz., a vote as pro f essor , an d one i n cas e of equality,nabsence cbair m of a an ; where as h e now h as one i n c member of the board, an d an eq uality of votes o ote f s a be des. This can never happe n w h en a ll the members are present, is to be h o p e d th a t th e h e bd om adal 1:d a 1 be enabled nd to t carry their statute in spite of the opposition of the " Oxford party,"—Church and State Gazelle. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON The annual general court of the proprietors of the above college was held, on Wednesday, it the theatre of the Insti tution, Gower-street. The report stated that in the session of 1841-2 the pupils in the college and the junior classes numbered 886. Of those 336 were students in medicine. 153 in the arts, and 395 were pupils in the junior school. -^o'nts from students and pupils was £12,756 , rs. £9,081 18s. having bee❑ paid to the professors and roasters, £3,675 2s. 10d. fell to the share of the college. The year's income from other sources was £4,039 lls. 4d., and the dis bursements from the establishment department, including payment for several permanent additions to the property of the college • - amounted to £4,000 17 Illy amount. of it 6d., of which sum , interest upon mortgage, Su 11d., thus showing that the expenses w( vered by the receipts. Of the sum above mentioned of £12,756 4s. 6d. received for education, £5,570 10s. was de rived from classes of the rnedieai faculty, £2,570 14s. 6d. from these of the arts and law. To the library a set of works, 100 in number, printed by the government press at Cairo, had been presented by Lord Brougham, who had received them from the Pasha of Egypt. The junior school produced during the year a a by £282 than the year before. The collection t last was £1,120. Colone' 4.615, a sum k ,t the public dinner in June 1 L. Stanhope recommended, first, that clergymen be appointed to read prayers and the Scriptures for the be nefit of the university. He thought that it was highly ne- eessary that a system of religioiis instruction should be undertaken by the university. The council and the proprie tors had seen that there were but 145 pupils in the general school, when they expected to have had at least 3,000. If they had gone properly to work they would have had the latter number; but persons exclaimed, "I cannot send my sons to the London University, because there is no religion there." He (Col. L. Stanhope) assured the proprietors that the college was a complete failure, for their shares were per fectly valueless in the market • they had no money; they' could not even, on ac coun t o f the expense, accept a present just offered ; they had no religion, and lie might say no hope. There might be some dogmatical philosophers who thought that the world might be conducted without religion, but he should like to ask, did they follow that practice in their own families ? Ile would say, that at the time the college was founded, had the devil himself crept into the council to ar range matters for the destruction of the society, they could not have adopted measures better suited to the purpose than they had. Captain SWEENEY, a proprietor, complained of the man ner in which his two nephews, scholars in the university, had been neglected. Last Christmas vacation, being anxious to see what progress the young gentlemen had made i❑ their studies, he opened a Virgil before the one who learned Latin, when he was surprised that he could not translate or scan two lines. He then tried them in mathematics, and found them more backward in that science than when they went to the college. They had been greatly neglected, and assured him that little or no trouble had been taken with them. Professor Key said that he paid all possible attention to the various classes in the school, though his duties were chiefly devoted to the senior Latin class. The nephews of Captain Sweeney were brought direct from France when they could hardly speak English, and it could nor, therefore, be supposed that, being at the college but a short time, they had made much progress. Their studies had not been ne glected, as the hon. proprietor asserted. Colonel Stanhope's motion fell to the ground for want of a seconder. Lord Brougham was elected president, the Earl of Auck land vice-president, and Mr. John Taylor treasurer. [On this subject the London Times remarks—" The gal lant colonel gives a pretty strong hint that he conceived the council to be little better than receivers of money under false pretences, liable to account for what they held in the Court of Chancery. " You have no religion," says the colonel, " and I may now say (THEREFORE) NO HOPE !" This from a proprietor of the Gower-street College. Quis Wend Graechos P " All education," say the advocates of this and other institutions, " for promoting neutral education must be either neutral or sectarian." We accept this exposition of their views. It assumes that truth is sectarian ; and on this issue —viz., whether there is or is not any tangible, real distinction be tween truth and falsehood, whether truth is or is not to be classed with error, and all condemned alike under the deno mination of sectarianism, we gladly rest the question. And that the neutral plan, which holds that there is no such dis tinction, is essentially and radically wrong, is shown in this model of neutrality, the Gower-street College. With their own mouths they tell us, " the college is a complete failure." And why? "It has no religion, and no hope." It dares not recognize the existence of truth and falsehood in the most important element of education. It dares not to know any truth whatsoever.l CURIOUS FACT IN NATURAL HISTORY.—A gentle/ $.)311 who cultivates a farm in the icinity of Dumfries, bought lately some of the lime used in our gas work for the process of the purification of the gas, in order to make a compost of manure for his farm purposes. The hens in his poultry-yard, which were laying eggs, had access to this compost ; and as it is well known that fowls partake readily of lime, which enters largely into, and is necessary to the formation of the shell, they fed, it is supposed, according to their appetite, upon it. The consequence was, that in a few days the gen tleman and other members of his family perceived, at break fast, with a good deal of astonishment, that the eggs, on being opened, had such an intolerable swell of gas that no one could eat them.—Dumfries Herald. AN INDEPENDENT CHAPEL SEIZED BY THE SHERIFF'.-- A novel scene occurred on Tuesday last, in East Stockwell steet, Colchester. Owing to some dispute between the Rev. Jos. Herrick and the trustees of the chapel, in which he has preached for many years, an action of ejectment was brought against him, to recover possession of the meeting-house; and judgment having been obtained, the sheriff's officer went with due authority on Tuesday morning, and read the writ, and afterwards allowed all the books, cushions, &c., that belonged to the congregation, to be taken away by them. Several hundred persons assembled to witness so novel a scene. After it was cleared out the doors were locked, and the keys delivered to a person appointed to receive them on behalf of the trustees who instituted the proceedings, and thus the matter ended.—Chelmsford Chronicle. DR. WOLFF.—This distinguished man read a paper on the Life and Death of 11Iuhammed before the Leeds Philoso phical and Literary Society, on the 17th inst. The personal acquaintance of th e l ec t ure r w ith th e scene o f Muhanttned s impostures, and his profound knowledge of the orientallan- Loiages, gave a peculiar interest and freshness to the histo rical narrative; while his sound Catholic views induced re flections upon the opinions of " the Aral;ian Cromwell," as Dr. Wolff designated Muliamtned, which were deeply in structive. The learned lecturer clearly sheaved, that it was not until Christianity became corrupted by Arianism and other heresies, that the licentious creed of the anti-christ of Mecca—only a deeper shade of prevailing heresy—could obtain entrance into the east. In refutation of a popular misconception, Dr. Wolff observed that the professed Unita rianism of Muhatrimed increased rather than palliated his wickedness, and the more nearly associated him with the spirit of those demons who, though acknowledging the ex istence of the one God, are demons still. Dr. Wolff con cluded by reminding his audience of the fact of the Church of Christ being the only barrier against the dogmas of Mu hammed or those of any other heretical impostor. POPERY AND CHINA.—The Univers of the 12th inat. states that the most consoling news for the followers of Christianity has been circulating for the last fortnight in Paris. According to letters from Rome, written by person ages of note, authentic information has been received in the eternal city from the Catholic missionaries in China, an nouncing that the Emperor of the Celestial Empire has given permission to the missionaries to enter and pass freely over his dorniuions without being interrupted, and that he had also requested new and more numerous missionaries to be sent over. It is certain, at all events, that the Propaganda has already appointed forty religious (amongst whom are some Jesuits) for the Chinese mission, on which they are soon to enter. The same letters of the Chinese missionaries confirm the glorious miracle of the apparition of our Lord, in pre sence of a great multitude of the faithful and of the infidels. The Gazette du Simplon of the Bth inst. gives details of the miracle in the following terms :—" All religious hearts will rejoice at the happy news which we have to announce, and which we have received from different quarters about the same time. Already had Catholicism hailed with hope the unexpected event which laid the barriers of the Chinese em pire prostrate before European nations ; but we have now to record more signal signs of the approaching conversion of its swarms of inhabitants. That land which has been so long bathed with the blood of martyrs, is about to be covered with an abundant harvest, which new spiritual workmen are called to gather in. Yes, the reign of persecution has now ceased ; the people who sat in darkness have been illuminated with a great light, and the day is drawing nigh wherein the church will forget its combats, in order to sing th praises of Him who has rendered it triumphant. According to accounts de rived from an authentic source, in the apostolic vicariate of China, a great number of Christians and Pagans, natives of China, beheld in the air the image of Christ crucified. If the news which we have given be confirmed, and if, as it is stated, the emperor, being resolved to embrace the Catholic faith, has sent to the Sovereign Pontiff for fresh missiona ries, the most important results may be anticipated, and the conversion of a nation may be reckoned on, the inhabitants of which amount to 300 .000,000.•'—[We copy the above pa ragraph from the Tablet, a Roman Catholic journal, to show the working of Popery. In the same paper, the editor ex poses what he justly calls the diabolical imposition attempted at Youghall by a nun ; and here he copies, without comment, an equally " diabolical" pious fraud, invented for the pur pose of raising money in the introduction of Popery into China. Truly has it been said, we do not know what Popery is when it is only seen in the neighbourhood of Protestantism. —Editor (If Record.] TRUE CHURCHMEN.—The following is the character drawn by Bishop Burnett of those persons who are idly nick named " Low Churchmen" by those whose avowed object it is to unprotestantize our national church. " They are cordially and conscientiously zealous for the church, as es tablished by law ; but yet they think no human constitution is so perfect but that it may be made better . They lay the foundation of all that they believe in ' the Christian religion in the Scriptures. These, and these only, are the measure and standard of their faith. No great names nor shows of authority overawe them; they search the Scriptures; there they seek and find their faith. " They think that in matters declared to be indifferent, no harm could follow on it, if some regard were bad to the scruples of these who divide from us, in order to the forti fying the whole by uniting us among ourselves. But till that can he done, they think a kind deportment towards dis senters softens their prejudices, and disposes them to hearken to the reasons which they offer them with all the force they can, without the asperity of words, or a contemptuous be haviour, in which they have succeeded so well that they see no cause to chang't their conduct. They do indeed make a great difference between Dissenters and Papists. They con sider the one as a handful of people true to the Protestant religion and to our national interests, not capable of doing us much mischief, and who are, as far as appears to them, contented with their toleration, and are only desirous to secure and maintain it. They have another and a very different opinion of Popery. . . .They consider Popery as a conspiracy against the liberty and peace of mankind, on design to engross the wealth of the world into their own hands, and to destroy all that stands in their way, sticking at no practice, how false, base, or cruel soever, that can advance this. This is the true ground of their zeal against Popery, and indeed against every thing that has a tendency that way. The raising the power and authority of sacred functions beyond what is founded on clear warrants in Scripture,:is, they think, the readiest way to give the world such a jealousy of them, and such an aversion to them, as may make them lose the authority that they ought to have, while they pretend to that they have not. They dare not unchurch all the bodies of the Protestants beyond sea; nor deny to our dissenters at home the federal rights common to all Christians, nor leave them to uncovenanted mercy. They do not annul their baptisms, or think that they ought to be baptized again in a more regular manner before they can be accounted Christians. They know of no pow er in a priest to pardon sin, other than declaring the gospel pardon,. upon the conditions on which it is offered. They know of no shcrifice in the eulharist, other than the commemorating that on tie cross, with the oblations of the prayers, praises, and almsgiving prescribed in the office. They are far from condemning private judgment in matters of religion. This strikes at the root of the whole Reformation, which could never have been compassed if private men have not a right to judge for themselves. On the contrary, they think that every man is BOUND to judge for himself, which indeed he ought to do, in the fear of God, and with all humility and caution. They look on all these notions as steps towards popery, though they do not conclude that all those wh o have made them desi gne d. th a t by so doing." MARRIAGE OF THE MOWN -PRINCE 0} HANOVER. HANOVER, FEB : IG.—Amo ng th e twenty-four sovereigns and princes who will be present at th e marr i wie ceremonies and festivities, there are eight reigning soverei gns ; viz., th e Kings of Hanover and Prussia; the G ran d D uke of Olden burg and Mecklenburg , Schwerin, and th e D uke of Saxe Al tenburg, Brunswick, Nassau and Atiliault Dessau. and the three hereditary Princes of Hanover, Prussia, and Mecklen burg. Fas.l7.—At this moment (four in the afternoon) the Princess Mary of Altenburg makes her entry into the city, rather later than she was expected, she having been delayed on the road by the festive reception given her in almost every place between this and Hildesheim. FEB; 19.—At the marriage of the Crown-Prince, yesterday evening, the chapel was not crowded. Above fifty , could not draw up in time to the only door, closed exactly at seven o'clock, and many persons who had tickets could not gain admission. Those, however, who got to the chapel in time formed a splendid assemblage. The procession was conducted precisely as arranged by the pr o _ gramme, only that the Grand Duke of Oldenburg was kept away by disposition. The bride wore a white robe of drap d'argent, with a profusion of jewels, a diadem of diamonds, and a wreath of myrtle entwined the crown. The exchange of rings was announced by a exchange of artillery. During the benediction the young couple knelt at the altar. and. when they rose, the King embraced them, and all the princes and ladies present warmly expressed the interest they took on the happy occasion. Proceeding to the upper apartments of the royal palace, the formal congratulations were renewed, but there was no ball. At eleven o'clock the Crown-Princess, accompanied by her mother, and the Crown-Prince by his father-in-law, went to the palace of the Crown-Prince, where the august parents stopped with the young couple for some time. Their royal highnesses showed themselves to the people this morning, driving to church in an open carriage drawn by six cream-coloured horses. hich wr'st; A robin-redbreast has built its nest in a mitre carved over one of the stalls of Glocester Cathedral, and is at present sitting on four eggs. - - - Young people invariably wish to be thought older than they are. In a few years they are cured of this penchant, and run into the opposite extreme. The Hon. G. H. Stanley, a son of Lord Stanley, has been seriously indisposed for the last few days. The answers re turned on Sunday to enquiries was, "Mr. Stanley is a little better." The young gentleman is about 17 years of age. A professional gentleman, well known in Norwich. by the name of Bexfield, executes Handel's chorus, " But the waters overwhelmed," playing the whole of the bass with the pedals, on the organ. Where will execution end ? The venerable Earl Grey has been re-elected president of the Northumberland Agricultural Society, of which the Duke of Northumberland is patron. The venerable ex-Premier, who completes his seventy-ninth year on the 13th of the en suing month, is in the enjoyment of good health. • CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. — Advices were received on Satur day morning from the Cape down to the 17th December. Some rather important military movements had taken place towards Colesbourg, and Colonel Hare is to take the com mand of 1200 men beyond the Orange River. This activity has been caused by an offensive movement in Adam Kok's district of the Griqua country, and open preparations to at tack Philipolis, independent of other proofs of open rebellion, supposed to be connected with the proceedings of the Natal Boers. These unequivocal demonstrations of the natives have fully convinced the guvernor of the necessity of active measures. D EAT H FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING. — On Wednesday night, the 16th instant, at about ha lf- p ast twelve o'clock framework knitter, aged 53, na med Jose p h Daft, was found dead in his bed at Sneinton by his sister, Hannah Daft. The deceased bad been in the workhouse, but notwithstanding his poverty, would often contrive to be in a state of intoxica tion for a month together. He had just finished one of his drunken freaks, and was nursing himself to recover from the effects. On the night of his death he had taken caster oil, and in half an hour after his retiring to bed he was found dead as described. —Nottingham Journal. HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.—On Friday, the 10th inst., Samp son Chivnoweth, who was employed as stampsman at the Royal Polberon Consols Mine, in St. Agnes, was unfortunately killed. It appeared he was about to apply some oil to the co:-wheels of the machin e, when his jacket was probably caught by the cogs, and he was drawn i n, and crushed to death by the wheels. Thi s was evident from the wheels, which were besmeared with blood and large portions of the brain. Several pieces of the jacket were also found adher ing to the teeth of the wheels, and near them were his hat and oil-can. The body, when found, was disengaged from the machinery, and had fallen into the pass behind the beads ; and had it remained undiscovered an hour longer it would have been pounded to atoms, and washed off along with the tin stuff.—Plymouth Journal AN ECCENTRIC BRIDE.—On the 26th of last month a wedding was celebrated among the inhabitants of that fertil fes- e mountain side lying to the north-west o f Beauly. The tivities were carried on with the usual glee—mirth and good humour ruled the hour—and " all went merry as a marriage bell," when, as it drew near the " witching hour of night, the company deemed it expedient to separate, first wishing the young couple " good night" in the old Highland style : but their plans were nearly f rus trated—tor, 10 ! the bride was gone—where none could tell. Anxiously and mournfully was she sought for. Some of the old folks began to tell " auld warld" tales of " fairy brides and elfin wooers, " when, to the mingled amazement and delight of most of the com pany, at the end of two hours the fugitive returned, and a reconciliation took place.—lnverness Courier. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.—A letter received in town this day states that an occurrence of a very tragical nature took place the day before yesterday near the town of Tuani, and, as the parties move in a respectable sphere in life, the event has caused no slight sensation. It appears that a Mr. Michael Ward, son of Mr. Manus Ward, of Doen Castle, in the county of Galway, a gentleman of independent property, and his wife had not for son.e time past been living on amicable terms, the lady being, it is alleged, severely afflicted by the "green-eyed monst er "—whether with j ust reason or no is, however, a mystery. On the day in q uestion, a serious dif ference arose between man and wife, to avoid which Mr. Ward retired to the kitchen for the purpose of seeing his dogs fed: thither his enraged partner followed, armed with a pistol loaded with slugs, the contents of which she discharged at the ill-fated man, who, after a vain s ruggle t' detain her in his grasp, sank down, bleeding and exhausted : he lies at present in a very low state, with strong symptoms of in flammation being about to set in. The wretched woman, who is most respectably connected, being grand niece of the late Lord Clantuorris, has for the present escaped.—Dublin correspondent of the Times. THE CHURCH AT JERUSALEM.—Private accounts from .Beyrout, under date of the Ist instant, state that the Emir Arched Reslan, the Druise Kaimacan, had been liberated from prison, and reinstated by Assad Pasha in hise funcath tion oli s. He had fixed his residenc e at Shouafat, and th Cc Emir Haider at Soinna. On the 14th ult. Izzett, Pasha of Jerusalem, forwarded a message by one of his effendis to M. Nicolayson, the chaplain of Bishop Alexander, enjoining him, as he had no authority for building a Protestant church at Jerusalem, to cause the works to be suspended. M. Ni colayson having vainly remonstrated with the Pasha, it was resolved that the Bishop should repair to Beyrout, to take the advice of the British and Prussian Consuls-General, and his lordship accordingly started from Jerusalem on the 20th for Jaffa, where he embarked for Beyrout. On the 23d he reached this last city, and laid the case before those two r oper to refer it to their respec tivectionar ambassadors atth Cons tanti nople. Assad Pasha , to whom funies, who ought they applied in the mean time for an explanation of the mo tives of this prohibition, pleaded total ignorance of the aflair. A SyussoßN ENGLISHMAN. —Sir Jerome:Bowes. who died in 1616. has the following anecdote related of him by Pepys :—" Sept. 5, 1662.—1 dined to-day at Mr. Bland's, the merchant, w h er e I met Sir John Wolstenholme, and other very grave fine g entlemen : very good company : and (noblemen) to be dragged among other discourse some was of Sir erom Bowes, Em who, because some of the noblemen there would go up stairs bassador from Queene Elhiziteab,ethhetowetehledEemeptegroor tt o p f R ti u ll ss t i h a e ; up, they de toEmperorthe E mil had j e r o o r r d e b r e e f e o sc ion two oi s s tf u e o t u bripeh c i o etnsrre:dhbefence of the Emperor against down stairs, with their heads knocking upon every s t a i r till And when andhe was come could go in his night manded his sword of him before be entered the room. He they were killed. so h ld i i s e c r. om A na n a d nd las of tl i y li , s when told them, if they would have his sword they should have his boots too,—And so caused his boots to be pulled off, and slippers to be sent for; 11 he y, and did make better use but said, that to show what sub jects,dathlnr:seeds:m: Emperor, d gsa i hidi tle-cgethbee:nmE. com mand eimagnhapd o tet n er onDeorttPotgs.'tol nightcap ,atay p_s showi ro m dow n , an d e would and did fling down broke his neck in the sigh of our Embassador, he replied his gantlett before the Emperor; and challenged all the that nnh nef ,rbti subjectshi h iet i y s nt m ehee i k s r tsev would e tno s nfu s t al her e his Queene : for which at t h is very day the name of Sir Jerom Bowel is famous and honoured there."—Pepy's Diary. Baas's AND BUTTER. —During Cromwell's Protectorship e court of the princip al residences of Charles 11. was at th his sister in Holland. The Laird of Cockpen, a staunch adhe rent to the house of Stuart, followed the prince thither, and attache d himself to Charles' household. Cockpen, from his skill and proficiency in music, very much contributed to di vert his royal master, by the impressive manner in which he p l aye d the favourite airs of his native country • but none pleased Charles so well . as the tune of " Brose and Butter." So partial was be to this air, that • with " Brose and Butter" sounding in his ears he was lulled to sleep night, at and with " Brose and Butter" awaked from his morn i ng slumber.At the R e storation Cockpen returned to Scotland, where he found that, in consequence of his attachment to the royal Many were the cau se, his est ate had been attained. appli cations he made to have it put again in his possession, but all to no purpose. He at length went to London, but was with fair promises, and, re ceived by the courtiers, put off and, in al l his attem p ts to g ain an audience _ of t h e king, he wa s baffled an d thwarted. Having formed an i n ti m acy, as a. musician, with the organist of the king's solicited, chapel, he f and obtained, as a special favour, the organ before his Majesty, at the royal to per_o e r e t i n , on exerted his talents to the utmost, thinkingral chapel. Cockpen exerted the Pat tendon of Charles, but all his efforts were to attract On unavailing. the conclusion of the service, insteadof . a common ~. in a fit of despair he struck up " Brose and Butter, ' which no sooner caught the ear of the king than he flew to the organ gallery. The regular organist, • •the •'d flashes of perceiving vie' Charles' eve, was ' seized with such a panic that he fell on his k n ees and protested his innocence. "It was no t me, please your majesty, it was not me!" " You! you !" exclnimed the enraptured monarch, as he hastily passed him,—' Feu Dever could play anything like it in your life." Then, addressing his old associate in exile,—" Odds fish, Cockpen! I thought yon would have made me dance." " I could her danced to ' Brose and Butter' once with a light heart too, ' r e p . iied the performer, " but my adherence to your majestys intereq, has bereft me of the lands of Cockpen." " You shall (lance,' Laird of said Charles, " you shall dance, and b e Cockpen ' n possession of his yet." Accordingly the Laird was put i inheritance. THE LATE Da. MITFORD. The following interesting notice of her father from the graphic pen of Misi Mitford, and of her own unwearied devotion, appears in Mrs. Sigour ney's Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands.- - " The ex ample of filial devotion exhibited by Miss Mitford adds lustre and grace to the rich imagery of her pages. An aged father, of whom she is the only child, is the object of her constant cherishing care. Years have elapsed since she has left him scarcely fors n evening, and she receives calls only during those hours in the afternoon when he regularly takes rest upon his bed. She is ever in a ttendance upon him, cheering him by the recital of passing events, and pouring irito his spirit the fresher life of ber own. The faithful per forts:fa:see of such high and holy duty contains within itself will gled almostetepamr d ep ar t all its own reward. I cannot withholds sweet picture drawn by her pen, though sensible that she had no intention of its o isc s . r e a t ii h s i e on r wg e infir m i t i e s , meeting the public eye. 'My father,'sbe writes, 'is a s o w _ did old man, a•lth a most noble head, a fine countenance full wast c i p ne r s ti v ' r re of benevolence and love, hair of silvery whiteness, and a thore beautiful embodiment of h e altl p i o fi n il hi a m nd an v d ir r t e u a o d u i s c old complexion like winter berri oyw e ue s .a . ai age. He but all his faculties with the most vigorou clearness, but his health su ffers. and my tiie w i 11 , t en tirelyset,: comfort , e devoted rs:eysnhdousnight ih:ki:int bps Ides !: s i as s sbodi y s fivii e t d r nna v tbcy i oae c . dp e : p , thoughts. It is ruy privil 7:iteuissuarffveicvetehdiamt y our in n - i t° ° t t o n gis blessed duty; for with o rcmucisesscrTfrceosts my dearest that binds we to this world. r t nsindlaglyUuodPuiPri