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'i ~ ~ti THE TOWARDS THE EASTERNS. ! p~ , ~' I EibcrPool :".;)tanbart. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1855 THE DUTY OF ENGLISH CHURCHMEN WE once heard a clergyman in the north of England, who, when asked to sign testimonials for a neighbour addressed to the Bishop of Glasgow, stared, and looked excessively puzzled. " The Bishop of Glasgow !" _he at length exclaimed : " why, I thought they were all Presbyterians in Scotland. I did not know that there was a branch of the Church existing there. Indeed, whenever I have been in Scotland, I have always attended the Established worship, which I should not have done had I known that Episcopacy existed among them." This happened not more than eight years ago, and may serve to lessen our astonish ment at the general ignorance which prevails with reference to the Churches of the East. Many, we verily believe, are actually ignorant of their existence, or, at any rate, of their existence within the Turkish Empire ; and many more have only learnt it in con sequence of the present war. Every body knows that the SULTAN is a Mahommedan, and thousands have taken for granted that his subjects are the same. And of those who are better informed, who are aware that Christians are to be found in all parts of the Empire, and that in European Turkey they very greatly outnumber their Mahommedan fellow-subjects, the majority seem to take for granted that they are pretty much the same as the Romanists, and only less to be feared because farther off, and not so much given to proselytising. Now, even admitting, what we know to be very far from the fact, that they have departed from the truth as widely as the Church of Rome, still, as we endeavoured last week to show, there are strong reasons why we should regard them with a very different eye. They are, no less than ourselves, witnesses against the Roman claim of supremacy; and this alone might well serve to create in the hearts of English Churchmen sympathy in their behalf. The characteristic of the Romish Church is development, which is tantamount to ecclesiastical radicalism ; whereas the Greek Church is distinguished by an excessive conservatism, a conservatism which not only clings to the doctrines of the past, but, also, maintains rites, ceremonies, and the like, which through lapse of time have ceased to answer their intended purpose, and have become in some instances worse than useless. But this conservative spirit, this de termination to walk in the old paths, affords, we think, ground of hope. It is the very spirit by which our own Reformers were professedly actuated. It may be admitted, that the Greels Church has, in many things, departed from the primitive pattern which it professes to follow ; that it is cast in the mould of a later age, when doctrines, discipline, and ceremonies had alike become somewhat corrupted. But this, we conceive, is the result of ignorance rather than of wilfulness ; and calls for an effort ppon our part to enlighten and assist them. The case of Rome, with her doctrine of development, and claim to in fallibility, seems hopeless. Individuals may be in fluenced ; but the Romish Church never. But the Greek Church, while upon the one hand she makes no claim to infalibility, upon the other admits the duty of conforming herself to the primitive pattern : and therefore, we say, convince her that she is wrong, i.e., that she has indeed departed from antiquity, and we have ground to hope that her system, however stereotyped, will be quickly broken up, and recast in a purer and more beautiful mould. But then comes the practical question, how is the attempt to be made ? How may we, with the greatest prospect of success, attempt to elevate the Greek Church in particular, and the Eastern Churches gene rally, and, at the same time, make them a blessing to the Mahommedans and others around them P The first ste,a,-we conceive, is to acknowledge her frankly - pfd' rely as a sister Church, as equally with ourselves a branch Of the Church-Catholic, possessing a legiti mate authority over her own legitimate children. To treat her as we would treat the heathen is only calcu luated to prejudice the great mass of her people against us, and to indispose them to listen to us, or to accept anything at our hands ; while, exactly in pro portion to our success, we shall introduce schism, and all its accompanying train of evils. We should en deavour to influence the people through the bishops and clergy ; endeavour to convey light to them, and have them to communicate it to their flocks. The Moravian missionaries, we believe, who are employed among some of the heathen subjects of the Russian empire, are content to hand over their converts to the Greek Church for baptism, thus strengthening her hands, instead of weakening her by laying the founda tion of a rival community ; and if the instruction which they convey to their converts is sounder than such as is generally received by the members of the Greek Church, then it follows, that in every convert whom they hand over, they instil, so to speak, new life-blood into the, body which revives him. And somewhat analogous is the course to be pursued by ourselves, if we are ever to confer any real benefit upon Eastern Christianity. Whatever of earnestness remains therein must be elevated and purified, and then left where it is to act upon all around it. lf, indeed, it could be shown that salvation in the Greek Church is impossible, or even that, as in the Church of Rome, one of the sacraments is not duly ministered, the case would be different, and every principle of charity would impel us to induce as many as possible to come out of her. In this, as in many other things, France and Rome are before us, and are using all their influence to pro mote their own views among the Easterns. Rome has no more forgotten her claim to supremacy over them than oueselres ; while the Emperor of France, it. is well known, assumes to be the protector of the Latin Christians in the East, just as the late Emperor of Russia assumed to be of those belonging to the Greek Church. " Everywhere," says a writer in the Colonial Church, Chronicle, " the Eastern Papal aggression is being carried on with the utmost vigour, and it is backed up by England, because, in her proud indifference, sVe - does not know what she is about ; and by France, because it is her interest to do so. It cannot be repeated too often, for the benefit of those who have not travelled in the East, that in Asia, Roman Catholic and Frenchman are convertible terms. France is, and is recognised as the protector of oriental Roman Catholics, to - a degree that Russia never claimed in behalf of the orthodox church ; and it is a known fact, that the main cause of such conversions as have occurred from the Greek Church to the Latin Com- mullion, has been the prospect of protection from Turkish tyranny at the hands of French ambassadors and consuLs." Now, much might be said in condemna tion of English apathy, regarding it merely in its political consequences'; but upon the part of the English Church such conduct is absolutely suicidal, inasmuch as it necessarily strengthens the hands of Rome, her bitterest and most untiring foe. A time for action like the present may possibly never occur again : and if, in order to action, any concessions upon the part of the Turkish Government are needed, We have established a claim to them, a claim paid for With the best blood of England. But, indeed, our course, in the first instance, appears to be a very simple one. Multitudes of our own countrymen are now in the East, at Constantinople and elsewhere, for various purposes of business or pleasure. Let them first be cared for, and the Englisl Church wipe away the reproach, a very general one ; of neglecting her PWa children. We nepel caurch and a body of clergy in Constantino* ; and, above all, we need a bishop at their head, to direct and controul them in their efforts. The first duty o f such a body would bin to look after their own countrymen; their second to represent the Anglican Church, and establish a sisterly intercourse between her and the Churches of the East. Men of judgment and charity would be needed for the work men anxious to enlighten the Greek Church ; men of learning and temper, and imbued with the spirit of primitive times. That such might be met with, we cannot doubt ; but a difficulty might be found in placing a bishop at the head of such a movement. However, only let those, who - so willingly submit to all the taxation necessary in conducting an expensive war for temporal objects, come forward in a similarly liberal spirit in behalf of the proposed mission, and neither this nor any other difficulty will be fOund insuperable. The despised Scottish Church has once given the episcopate to a far distant land, when English prelates could not, because the State .had tied their hands, bestow the boon, and her assistance might, if necessary, be again sought and obtained. The An glican Communion has already been represented in the East by a bishop from the United States of America ; and, if England were to do her duty in the matter, we doubt not that he, or some other equally well quali fied, might easily be induced to return to his former post. FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT, MONDAY MORNING. THE past has been a somewhat busy week with the royal inmates of Windsor Castle. Wednesday being the day on which the PRINCESS ROYAL completed her fifteenth year, the auspicious event was celebrated in a manner worthy of the occasion. The QUEEN held a Court and Privy Council in course of the day. The Council was attended by most of the ministers, and at it Mr. LABOUCHERE was sworn into office and received the seals as Colonial Secretary; he also kissed hands on his appointment to office. The Court was fully attended : among the preSentations was that of Captain ROBERT JIMMIE, R.N., the celebrated and successful Arctic voyager. On this occasion Captain M`CrunE had the honour of knighthood. conferred on him, as a recognition of his distinguished intrepidity and skill as an Arctic explorer. In the evening a dramatic entertainment was given in St. George's Hall, which had been tastefully fitted up as a theatre. The piece performed was SHERID.A.N'S Comedy of " The Rivals." The performance was honoured by the attendance of all the ROYAL FAMILY, besides a distinguished circle of the nobility and gentry, among whom were many military notabilities, including Major-General Sir COLIN CAMPBELL. On. Thursday morning Prince ALBERT left Westmicister in a special train on the Great Western Railway, en route for Birmingham, where he assisted at 4 grand cere monial, in which he laid the foundation-stone of the Midland Institute. After the stone had been laid, an adjournment, in accordance with the good old English custom in such cases made and provided, took place to the Town-Hall, where a sumptuous banquet was laid out, to which due honour was done by the royal and noble and miscellaneous guests. When full justice had been done to the comestible department of the treat, the "feast of reason" was appropriately inaugurated by the chairman, Lord CALTirorteE, proposing the health of the QUEEN, which was drunk with a reality of enthusiasm; and was followed by the noble chairman proposing that of Prince ALBERT, which was also received with robustious applause and drunk with stentorian cheers. His ROYAL HIGHNESS in reply, as is fit and proper on such interesting occasions, delivered himself of a long and well-sounding ad dress. In this speech he reviewed with tact and appropriate expression the advantages which material art receives from science, and pointed out in felicitous terms the certainty which scientific research confers upon the otherwise blind gropings of mere mechanical experience. The practical application of his homily he confined to advising those connected with the institution to direct attention specially to the sciences of me chanics, physics, and chemistry, and the fine arts in painting, sculpture, and architecture. Other speeches of merit followed from other distinguished speakers, in which views kindred to those enunciated by the PRINCE-CONSORT were further illus trated and insisted on. At the conclusion of the addresses the ceremonial terminated, and after due time the numerous visitors to Birmingham, who had been attracted thither in contemplation of the imposing proceedings, Each took off his several way, In hope to meet some other day. All is bustle and activity at Windsor, and even in the me tropolis, preparatory to the •isit of the King of SARDINIA, which event is expected to take place on Saturday, the first of December. His Majesty's visit to England will be limited to one week, and he will take his departure on Saturday, the eighth proximo. It is intimated that his reception and the order of it shall as far as practicable resemble that accorded to the Emperor of the French. The King of SARDINIA. will pass through London, through the streets and parks, in the same way as was observed on the late Imperial visit ; and arrange ments are in progress for his reception at the Guildhall. It is also understood that he will visit Woolwich and the Crystal Palace. He is to be conveyed from France to Dover in a French ship of war ; and from England he will make the voyage to Belgium in a vessel belonging to the British royal navy. The royal visitor, being a widower and in the prime of life, certain old women of both sexes, who have a remarkably keen eye to funerals, baptisms and weddings, will have it that he , has left his own sunny skies to look for a second bride among the Princesses of our " sea-girt isle." On this point these venerable gossips seem quite agreed; but considerable diver sity of opinion exists as to who shall be the" Sardinian Queen" elect. One set will have it that the PRINCESS ROYAL is the centre round which his matrimonial orbit has been traced; another is equally settled in believing that his homage is di rected towards the PRINCESS 3lArz of Cambridge. An Irish crone or a Scotch spae-wife would be worth a Jew's eye to either or both of these sets of popular delusion vendors. The great Cabinet-maker of the hour has been at last fortunate enough to fall in with two pieces of veneer timber which, by a little trimming and fitting, have been found suit able to patch up the odd corners of the state escritoire. The Colonial crevice has been so far filled up by the insertion of Mr. LABOUCHERE, concerning whose administrative capabi lities the Post, the press patron of the PREMIER, says, it is unnecessary to offer any opinion, as the public, according to its version of the matter, cares nothing about any such quali fication ; " all it asks or cares for is," says the Post, " What does the Colonial Secretary think about the war ? Is be truly and strongly for carrying it out with vigour ?" Having de duced from the new Minister's late vote upon the Turkish Loan an inference favourable to the presumed bellicosity of Mr. LABOUCHERE, the journal in question directs its next attention to finding palliations for his acknowledged want of oratorical power and elocutional tact. For these it finds con solation in the belief that the new Colonial Secretary is not likely to have his head turned with Parliamentary applause —that he will never be called on to administer the affairs of the Colonies in that state of mental perturbation which 'is produced by "sitting down nightly amid loud and • prolonged cheering from the House, after brilliant speeches on the merits of the war." Sir WALTER SCOTT makes one of his characters exclaim contemptuously of an observation made by another, that " some folk are thankfu' for sma' mercies';" so let it be of the respectable Post. As, how ever, this very respectable apologist for Mr. LABOUCHERE'S anticipated shortcomings, and aide of Lord 1'1431E34810N, concentrates all the ministerial merit of a Colonial Secretary in a vigorous determination to prosecute the war with energy, and makes the presence of that virtue a ready excuse for the., absence of every other, it might have been quite as satisfac tory if it had pointed to any unequivocal evidence that Lord PAratEusTox's newly-found "friend in need" is absolutely possessed of the solitary meritpointed out. The presumptions seem all to point in an opposite direction, and there are not wanting plenty of individuals, reckoned sedate in their judg ments as well as penetrating in their inquiries into the conduct of public men, who queition the sincerity of the PREMIER him self upon this very subject. These parties point with an omi., nous shake of the head to the circumstance that all the early offers of the Colonial Secretaryship were made to men noto riously averse to carrying on the war, either vigorously or otherwise. Lord STANLEY, to whom it was offered, is claimed by the Peace party ; Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, who had the second refusal of the vacant office, seceded from Lord PAL MERSTON'S Government along with Sir JAMES GRAHAM and Mr. GLADSTONE on the ground that the war, although justi fiable at its' commencement, has long since ceased to be so ; the Duke of NEWCASTLE was put out of office by PALMER STON, RUSSELL, and Co., because he bad failed to "carry on the war with energy and spirit." In offering the Colonial Se cretaryship successively to these individuals, would the Post have its readers and the country to believe that Lord PALMER STON was looking for a colleague having only the single qua lification of warlike zeal ? If so, the Post must be at least as simple as it is respectable, and nearly as bold in its belief as it is disinterested in its advocacy. Further than this, however, Lord PALMERSTON'S sincerity in regard to a vigorous prosecution of the war is open to serious question, if not to absolute suspicion. Several of his colleagues, including the Duke of ARGYLL, whom but yester day, as it were, he has promoted to the office of Poit-master General, thereby giving him a second cabinet appointment, and Sir GEORGE Ciux-r, are known to be adverse to the con tinuance of hostilities. A Spanish proverb says "tell me who your companions are, and I will tell you what you are." Ap to Lord PALMERSTON, are th e B r i t i sh plying this saying people to understand, that, while making bellicose speeches, he merely Evades them, with a bombast circumstance Horribly stuffed with epithets of war? Some have it, that his Lordship is really serious in his warlike ebullitions, and is willing to reduce to practice the most ram pant of his postprandial declarations, but that he is controlled by a power behind the throne, not less formidable, and much worse to be disposed of than the "bed-chamber women's'' conspiracy which upset the tactics of the great political strategist of his day, the late Sir ROBERT PEEL. The believers in this conjecture say that the PREMIER, while feeling the bonds which shackle him, is determined not to yield to what they denominate a German influence ; but is resolved to throw him self upon the nation for support in carrying out his views. These parties, and they are numerous in all the clubs, main tain that a dissolution of Parliament is imminent. That Lord PALMERSTON has determined on it, and that the new Parlia ment will meet early in February. The " little bird" kept by the establishment in Printing House Square has whistled to its masters that all the debating talent of the present House of Commons has, through some inexplicable influence, found its most congenial resting-place on those benches where Ministers and their friends do not delight to sit. How a dis solution would re-arrange the "debating talent" it is not easy to perceive. Few of the acknowledged political orators of our day are at present condemned -to dumb forgetfulness a prey, and, unless some new elements be brought into operation, which are not very apparent on the surface of things, the probabilities are great that the debating talent, after re-elec tion, would, in obedience to the well-known law of elective affinities, be found pretty much in the same position as it now occupies. If, in the turmoil of a new election, it could be hoped to spike all the great Parliamentary guns, and replace them with ordnance of very inferior calibre, while the two, four, and eight pounders of the Ministerial batteries were allowed to retain their places, the relative roar of senatorial eloquence might, for the time being, preponderate in those benches on the right hand of Mr. SPEAKER ; but this could only be effected at the sad sacrifice of power as an attribute of the Parliamentary ordnance. A dissolution may occur before the ordinary time for re-assembling the Houses, and indica tions concur in favouring the belief 'that such may indeed be the case ; but how an exchange of the debating talent is to be put upon the cards of that hand seems a puzzle which even the " Wizzard of the North " would fail in making plain to common comprehensions. In the meantime, the "grim-visaged wear," which is the theme for discussion, and the fertile topic of dispute in every circle and in every company, seems for a breathing space at least to have - smoothed his wrinkled front ; and the cont ending hosts in the Crimea and on the waters of the Baltic have withdrawn from active conflict, and are de voting their ingenuity and powers to recruiting .that strength and contriving those means which, whenthe benign influences of spring have re-awakened the dormant energies of the bounti ful and teeming earth, shall be once more employed in forward ing the work of destruction, andguiding their efforts for mutual annihilation. True, hostilities have not yet entirely ceased, even for the season ; affairs of outposts, and minor expeditionary en terprises, are still conducted with spirit and success by the allied fleets and armies in the Euxine, and the Turks are making a gallant defence of their territory in Armenia. Still the great warlike undertakings of 1855 must be looked on as closed. At such a period public thoughtfulneSs, not less than public curiosity, tempts to a retrospection of the leading features of that great campaign which has been all but concluded. Its opening scenes present to the mind's-eye pictures greatly the reverse of pleasing, and such as offered to the ordinary observerfew points to which hope could readily point her cheering finger. Our gallant army emerged from the benumbing and enervating shackles of a rigorous climate and cruel winter, depressed in spirits, exhausted in body, thinned in numbers, and all but bereft of hope. Their physical powers were prostrated ; but their undaunted courage remained unbroken. Before their wearied eyes the frowning fortress they had so long beleaguered, as it might seem in vain, still scowled in dark and death-denouncing gloom ; and when the vernal breath of spring wooed the green leaflet from its wintry concealment, our debilitated heroes were called on once more to resume the thankless and apparently never ending task of consolidating the earthworks of their foes by pouringinto them masses of iron, which were at once engulphed in their rapacious and insatiable maws. As spring speedily gave place to the gorgeous glories of the Crimean summer, hope and vigour spread themselves among our ranks—rein forcements brought with them added confidence, and that which had been resumed as a task of duty soon became an animating principle. Step by step, and inch by inch, the dis puted ground was dearly won ; the Russians were driven from their stronghold, and the Gibraltar of the Black Sea was wrested from the Russian grasp. The magnitude and the importance of this achievement may in some degree be inferred from the course of events which has subsequently revealed itself. The Allies, no longer compelled to concentrate all their efforts in maintaining a position not less defensive than aggressive in front of Sebastopol, have been enabled to divide their resources, so as to inflict heavy damage upon the enemy, in numerous and widely-distant places—to subject his resources to frequent and severe losses—and to close the cam paign on him with his military prestige exploded, his Black Sea fleet annihilated, an immense amount of his commissariat stores destroyed, his veteran army defeated and hemmed in with circumscribed means of procuring subsistence, and ex posed to the fatal influences of a remorseless climate. In Asia, his previously victorious army has had the tide of success rolled back upon its footsteps, and, in these regions, the smiter has been severely smitten. Such are only a few of the widely different circumstances under which the campaign of 1855 has been begun and ended. Under such greatly changed circumstances, it is scarcely a matter for wonder that the position of affairs is changing in a variety of particulars. New alliances are, it is said, with every show of reason in favour of the rumour's accuracy, being brought into operation ; and, among these, the rumoured ad hesion of the Scandinavian monarchies to the Western Alli ance continues to gain credit. A stern and portentous move ment is easily traceable among the unwilling vassal states which crowd the south-western frontier of Russia. This rising although probably not directly countenanced by the Allies' there can be no doubt meets with countenance and support from them. The British Government, it is now formally an nounced, has given its sanction to the formation of a Polish Division. This step has been taken with manifest reluctance, although long clamoured for by a great section of the people; and it is understood now to have been forced on them by dis gust at the obvious ill faith of Austria, and the unequivocal partialities of Prussia. Imperceptibly, indeed; the European community seems; slowly, though steadily, " drifting" into the arena of battle and confusion. The struggle has long since taken' a wider object into contemplation than the safety and integrity of Turkey, European safety itself is now seen to be seriously endangered by the grasping avidity of. Russia for southern territory, and the apathetic weakness or guilty connivance of Austria and Prussia in the designs of that relentless policy which has gradually converted the larger portion of Europe and a vast tract of Asia into Russian territory, and reduced their population to the degraded state of unreasoning serfdom. The strife of nationalities which has long been foretold seems now about to burst forth. As if through the intervention of a special Providence to work out such a consummation, although doubtless with the opposite object in view, the " brave and politic" young Emperor of AUSTRIA having bound himself and his subjects in an iron chain, has delivered the keys of his and their fetters into the hands of the POPE. The concordat entered into the other day between those sovereigns will be the trumpet-sound for awaking indignant resistance to a measure which promises to throw back the progress of religious toleration, and to install Papist supremacy to a point and in a style which have both been unknown to Europe since the days when HILDEBRAND treated the Emperor of GEEMANY with the haughtiness of despotic contempt. The Polish yearning has long been proclaimed in the face of Europe:; and other nationalities will, without doubt, be speedily evolved in the progress of the contest. Lombardy has already, though stealthily, sent many daring warriors to the field. The moving of a national banner in Poland would certainly be responded to by the flutter of the Hungarian flag in defiance and in spite of the efforts of her grim and armed gaolers.; should the battle cry of liberty once more, and under present circumstances, be raised in Poland and Hungary, the panting youth of the Italian states will speedily find occupation for the Austrian Emperor, and test the value of the Popish panoply he has thrown around himself, which he is likely to find, like other ill-fitted armour, better adapted to oppress than to defend the wearer. On all sides the elements of discord, instead of being cleared away, seem thickening and becoming more threatening and more complex. As - if in consciousness of these forbidding appearances, rumours of pacific interference become also more positive. The newest rumour of this description is to the effect that Prussia, becoming alarmed at the present aspect of European affairs, has arranged proposals which she believes will satisfy the Allies, and has sent these to be presented to the CZAR ; should he accede to them, there will be an end to the war ; if he refuse, Prussia will once more submit them to the Autocrat, unchanged in all respects, but with an intima tion this time that Prussia is prep tred to aid in enforcing their adoption ! Proposals of peace which emanate from Prussia, if ever made at all, must naturally be looked on with great suspicion by the Allies. The time for her energetic interfe rence has gone by. Had she assumed an attitude decisively favourable to European tranquillity, at the commencement of THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. the dispute, the struggle, in all lifobability, would have been avoided or postponed. Now her interference, besides being late, comes, if it comes at all, with an ill odour, and will be most suspiciously scrutinized. Meanwhile, as if roused to desperation, the CZAR has issued an order for a leve'.e en masse throughout the nation. So extraordinary a project savours so much of insanity as to be credited only with the greatest dif ficulty; yet it may have its origin in some wild frenzy similar to that which but the other day induced his brother CON STANTINE to propose a razzia on London with the Russo- Baltic fleet. ALEXANDER 11. may probably entertain an ambition to emulate ATTILA, and try to over-run Europe with his hordes of Cossacks, Tartars, and Muscovites. While war and its many revolting contemplations continue to fill so large a space in the public mind, it is pleasing to know also that they do not exclusively occupy attention. At the time when the potentates of Europe are planning cam paigns, and arranging military levies. the bibliopolic monarchs of the metropolis are not less busy in marshalling their literary battalions. 'With them the period for breaking ground is generally that which is shrouded in November fogs. The secret works and masked batteries which are designed to blaze away in hot-pressed foolscap or to resound in sonorous demy, are uncovered to the general eye just about the advent of Decem ber. Unlike the missiles discharged under the direction of those whom the Times irreverently styles " old fogies," the pro jectiles of the Row are more persuasive than compulsory, and not unfrequently end in the discharge of a shower of " buds of beauty" as the others do in an avalanche of rockets. This is particularly true of the Christmas publications. In these there is generally a happy combination of art and literature, and already many of them decorate the booksellers' counter and crowd the warehouses of the publisher. RODTLEDGE, as usual, is early in the field, and this year, besides other works of taste and merit, produces the poetry of LONGFELLOW, pro fusely illustrated by brilliant wood-cuts. LoNamAN follows with a sedate array of charming and seductive literature, wedded in some few instances to younger but enchanting sisters of the muse of art. The "Keepsake" is once more prepared with the characteristic grace and sweetness, suited to the Attic taste of BOGITE, by HEATH; in addition to which he likewise offers to his friends the public some bewitching mementoes of the Rhine and its scenery; and "though last not least in our dear love," a series of portraits- of the female aristocracy. Fields of instruction and amusement are also freely opened up and cultivated by other publishers of intelli gence and enterprise, conspicuous among whom stands the princely house of the Edinburgh BLACEWOODS. In their list of announcements we have a rare and valuable combination of science and pure literature, always sound and ever elegant. Low, PARKER, and"others follow in the commendable struggle of intellect and virtue against ignorance and its companion vice. The literary announcements of the period are numerous and interesting in themselves, and they are doubly so when contrasted with the comparative blank of this time twelve months, when there was no eye for anything but cypress and no ear except for sounds of woe. Public amusements seem also to be more numerous and more pleasing. Oratorios, concerts, and other musical enter tainments are more frequent and better attended than they were last year. The theatres are busy with preparations for the Christmas pantomimes; but not to the neglect of present business, in which latter category deserves to be mentioned the revival of Sir Jong VA.NBURGH'i favourite comedy of " The Provoked Husband," as altered by CIBBEE. This was reproduced on Monday evening with good effect and success at the Haymarket, the character of Lady Townley being well sustained by Miss CUSHMAN. It is scarcely suited to the peculiarity of this lady's style, but the force of her his trionic talent and her general sense of dramatic propriety carried her triumphantly through. She was ably supported by Mr. HOWE, whose gentlemanlike bearing and finely cul tured propriety of manner contrasted well with the more im petuous and impulsive acting of Miss CUSHMAN. The piece was well put upon the stage, and the revival was in an eminent degree successful. VISIT OF THE DING OF SARDINIA. His Majesty Tictor Emmanuel, King of Sardinia, arrived on Thursday at Marseilles. At 9 30 a.m. the Carlo-Alberto frigate, with his Majesty on board, hove in sight of Marseilles, and exchanged salutes with the cannon of the fort. The King made his entrance into the town in a hussar uni form, accompanied by a numerous staff. A large crowd had assembled to witness his arrival. All the Sardinians resident at Marseilles crowded round the carriage of their King. His Majesty was received on landing by Col. Edgar Ney, Aide-de-Camp of the Emperor, first veneur ; by the Marquis de Conegliano, Chambellan ; and by Lieut.-Colonel de Vala bregue,Equerry Commander, sent by the Emperor to meet the King ; by the General Commander of the 9th military division, by the Prefect of the Bouches-du-Rhone, by the General Commander of the department, by the Mayor of Marseilles, and the principal civil and military authorities. A salvo of artillery announced the landing of the King. The troops were drawn up in line of battle on the port, and formed a double line along the passage of .the Royal cortege. An escort of honour accompanied the King's carriage. His Majesty alighted at the hotel of the Prefecture. Mon seigneur the Bishop of Marseilles,who had awaited the King at the landing-place, accompanied His Majesty to the Prefecture. The soldiers and the population of Marseilles, who had assembled in crowds along the passage of the King, greeted him with enthusiastic cheers. His Majesty left Marseilles at a quarter-past 11, for Lyons. Before his departure the King paid a visit to her Royal Highness .the Grand Duchess of Baden, at the Hotel des Colonies. Along the line, between Marseilles and Lyons, at all the Stations where the royal train stopped, His Majesty found assembled the principal local authorities, a detachment of troops, and the population eager to welcome the august ally of France. At Avignon the Archbishop came to the station to compli ment the King. At 6 o'clock in the evening the King of Sardinia arrived at Lyons, amid salvos of artillery and the cheers of . the' popula tion, who crowded the station, the quays, and the streets through which the Royal cortege had to pass. His Majesty was received at - the entrance of Lyons by his Excellency Marshal Count de Castelane, commander-in-chief of the army at Lyons, and of the Bth military division; by M. Vaisse, senator, charged with the administration of the de partment of the Rhone ; by the Mayor of Lyons, and by the principal civil and military authorities. The King alighted at the Hotel de l'Europe, which had been prepared by order of the Emperor for the reception of His Majesty and his suite. On Friday great preparations were made in Paris for the reception of the King of Sardinia. At the railway station detachments of Foot Chasseurs and of the Line kept the ground, and the guards of honour within the court were selected from the Grenadiers and Voltigeurs of the Imperial Guard. A canopy of crimson velvet, fringed with gold, hung over the door of the waiting-room, which had been trans formed into a splendid.saloon, hung with red velvet, fastened up with gold. Clusters of flags belonging to the allied nations, a w r ith s t c h o e m n p a l m et e e ' d heoftVictoronraEmmenmatsn A Emmanuel, rich ned, carpet shield e sw xt it e lLh e is d frem royal m, theth e carriage,door tot the d pathwaygallgalleries s o owttiecli rightt e beensten from pre pared for those who were specially invited. Adetachment and of the Cent Gardes and Guides were drawn up on both sides of the entrance to the waiting-room, and seven of th e i mperial King left N va had a to cl carriages awaited His Majesty and suite. At half-past twelve Prince Napoleon left the Palais Royal in a state carriage, preceded by two outriders wearing the im perial livery. Marshal Magnan, Colonel Fleury, the Prefects of the Seine and Police, and a great number of public func tionaries, civil and military, awaited Prince Napoleon at the railway station. The members of the Council of Administra tion, the station masters, and all the employes were drawn up within. At one o'clock precisely the arrival of the royal train was announced, and in five minutes after the locomotive, decked out with the Sardinian colours, stopped; the drums beat to arms, and the full band of the Guides, who were stationed at the entrance of the reception room, struck up the Marche de Savoie. The King, who wore the uniform of a colonel of hussars, descending from the carriage, was received by Prince Napoleon, whose hand he shook warmly, and replied to the words of welcome of the Prince. The royal cortege entered the waiting room ; the whole of the persons who filled it rose, and received his majesty with acclamations of " Vive le Roi !" and " Vive le Prince Napoleon I" which were taken up and repeated by the crowd which thronged the court of the station and the approaches to it. The carriages soon drove up in order at the entrance, and the King and his attendants entered them. Prince Napoleon and his majesty entered the same carriage, which was preceded by four outriders wearing the imperial livery, and the whole of the cortege began to move in the following order :—A squadron of Guides, with the band ; three court car riages, preceded each by three outriders ; the Royal car riage, preceded by outriders, and followed by a squadron of Cent-Gardes. Colonel Fleury rode at the right, and Colonel; Ney at the left, and a squadron of the Cuirassiers of the Im- perial Guard closed the procession. Though rain was falling, the crowd was considerable along the line through which the King passed, and received the Royal visitor with warm accla- mations. The cortege soon after entered the Place du Car rousel by the passage of the Pavillon de Rohan, and entered the court of the Tuileries by the triumphal arch. The drums were beating to arms, the troops presented arms, and the ac clamations became louder and louder as the King approached the Palace. The apartments of the Pavillon Marsan are those occupied by the King during his stay at the Tuileries; and the aides de-camp, orderly officers, and physician occupy the next apart ments. The arrangements for the King of Sardinia's visit to England are now definitively settled. His Majesty, accom panied by Count Cavour, President of the Council ; the Chevalier Massimo d'Azeglio, Aide-de-Camp of the King and Ex-Minister ; the Duke Pasqua, Prefect of the Palace ; Baron Nigra, Superintendent of the King's Household ; Major-General Count Morozzo della Rocca, First Aide-de- Camp of the King : Major-General Marquis d'Angrogna, Aide-de-Camp of the King ; Major-General the Chevalier Carderina, Aide-de-Camp of the King; Count Cigala, Colonel of Cavalry ; the Chevalier Persano, Captain of the Navy, Commander of the Port of Genoa ; Count de Robillant, Captain of Artillery, Officer of Ordnance of the King; Count Valperga Barone, Officer of Ordnance of the King ; and Professor Riberi, First Physician of the King, will leave Paris on the 29th, arrive in London on the 30th of this month, and thence proceed to Windsor. This is rather earlier than was generally expected, it being previously understood that the Royal visitor would arrive on the 2nd or 3rd of December. PRISCE, ALBERT AT BIR:IIINGITA.M. ON Thursday, H.R.H. Prince Albert visited Birmingham, for the purpose of laying the first stone of the Birmingham and Midland Institute,—an institution intended for the ad vancement of science and art amongst the middle and working classes. After the usual ceremonies, and the presentation of ad dresses from various public bodies, the parties proceeded to the Town Hall, where a banquet was partaken of by about five hundred persons. In returning thanks for the toast of his health, Prince Albert said,—l am much obliged to you, my lord, for proposing my health in such kind terms, and I cannot but be much gratified by the cordial reception which you, gentlemen, have been pleased to give to this toast. It has been a great pleasure to me to have been able to partici pate, in however trifling a degree, in a work which I do not look upon as a simple act of worldly wisdom on the part of this great town and locality, but as one of the first public acknowledgments of a principle which is daily forcing its way among us, and is destined to play a great and im portant part in the future development of this nation and of the world in general—l mean the introduction of science and art as the conscious regulators of productive industry. The courage and spirit of enterprise with which an immense amount of capital is embarked in industrial pursuits, and the skill and indefatigable perseverance with which these are carried on in this country, cannot but excite universal admi ration, but in all our operations, whether agricultural or manufacturing, it is not we who operate, but the laws of nature, which we have set in operation. It is, then, of the highest importance that we should know these laws, in order to know what we are about, and the reason why certain things are which occur daily under our hands, and what course we are to pursue with regard to them. Without such knowledge we are condemned to one of three states :—either we merely go on to do things just as our fathers did, and for no other reason than because they did them so; or trusting to some personal authority, we adopt at random the recommedation of some specific, in a speculative hope that it may answer; or, lastly —and this is the most favourable case —we ourselves improve upon certain processes ; but this can only be the result of an experience hardly earned and dearly bought, and which, after all, can only embrace a comparatively short space of time, and a small number of experiments. From none of these causes can we hope for much progress ; for the mind, however ingenious, has no materials to work with, and remains in presence of phenomena the causes of which are hidden from it. But these laws of nature—these Divine laws—are capable of being discovered and understood, and of being taught, and made our own. This is the task of science; and, while science discovers and teaches these laws, art teaches their application. No pur suit is, therefore, too insignificant not to be capable of becom ing the subject - both of -- a science and an art. The fine arts (as far as they relate to painting and sculpture,) which are sometimes confounded with art in general, rest ou the appli cation of the laws of form and colour, and what may be called the science of the beautiful. They do not rest on any arbitrary theory on the modes of producing' pleasurable emotions, but follow fixed laws, more difficult, perhaps, to seize than those regulating the material .world, because belonging partly to the sphere of the ideal and our spiritual essence, yet perfectly appreciable and teachable, both abstractedly and histori cally, from the works of different - ages and nations. No hu man pursuits make any material progress until science be brought to bear upon them. We have seen, accordingly, many of them slumber for centuries; but from the moment that science has touched them with her magic wand, they have sprung forward, and taken strides which amaze and almost awe the beholder. Look at the transformation which has gone on around us since the laws of gravitation, electricity, magnetism, and the expansive power of heat have become known to us. It has altered our whole state of existence — one might say, the whole face of the globe We owe this to science, and to science alone ; and she has other treasures in store for us, if we will but call her to our assistance. It is sometimes objected by the ignorant, that science is uncertain and changeable ; and they point to the many exploded theories which have been superseded by others as a proof that the present knowledge may be also unsound, and, after all, not worth having. But they are not aware that, while they think to cast blame upon science, they bestow, in fact, the highest praise upon her ; for that is precisely the difference between science and prejudice, that the latter keeps stubbornly to its position, whether disproved or not, while the former is an.unarrestable movement towards the fountain - of truth, — caring little for cherished authorities or sentiments, but con tinually progressing—feeling no false- shame at her short comings, but, on the contrary, the highest pleasure, when freed from an error, at having advanced another step towards the attainment of Divine truth—a pleasure not even intelligible to pride of ignorance. We also hear, not unfrequently, science and practice, scientific knowledge and common sense, contrasted as antagonistic. A strange error ! For science is eminently practical, and must be so, as she sees and knows what she is doing ; while mere common practice is condemned to work in the dark, applying natural ingenuity to unknown powers to obtain a known result. Far be it from me to under value the creative power of genius, or to treat shrewd common sense as worthless without knowledge. But nobody will tell me that the same genius would not take an incomparably higher flight if supplied with all the means which knowledge can impart ; or that common sense does not become, in fact, only truly powerful when in possession of the materials upon which judgment is to be exercised. The study of the laws by which the Almighty governs the universe is therefore our bounden duty. Of these laws our great academies and seats of education have, rather arbitrarily, selected only two spheres or groups (as I may call them,) as essential parts of our national education —the laws which regulate quantities and proportions, which form the subject of mathematics, and the laws regulating the expression of our thoughts through the medium of language—that is to say grammar, which finds its purest expression in the classical languages. These laws are most important branches of knowledge; their study trains and elevates the mind. But they are not the only ones; there are others which we . cannot disregard—which we cannot do without. There are, for instance, the laws governing the human mind and its relation to the Divine Spirit—the sub jects of logic and metaphysics. There are those which govern our bodily nature and its connexion with the soul—the subject of physiology and psychology. Those which govern human society and the relations between man and man—the subjects of politics, jurisprudence, political economy, and many others. While of the laws just mentioned some have been recognized as essentials of education in -different institutions, and some will, in the course of time, more fully assert their right to recognition, the laws regulating matter and form are those which will constitute the chief objects of your pursuits, and as the principle of subdivision of labour is the one most con genial to our age, I would advise you to keep to this speciality, and to follow with undivided attention chiefly the sciences of mechanics, 'physics, and chymistry, and the fine arts in painting, sculpture, and architecture. You will thus have conferred an inestimable boon upon your country, and in a short time have the satisfaction of witnessing the bene ficial results upon our national powers of production. Other parts of the country will, I doubt not, emulate your example, and I live in hopes that all these institutions• will some day find a central point of union, and thus . complete their national organization. Thanking you once more for having allowed me to assist at the foundation of your institution, I wish it growth, vigour, and prosperity, with all my heart. THE CASE OF ARCHDE.ACON DE_YISON. IN the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, Sir Fitzroy Kelly applied on behalf of the Rev: Joseph Ditcher, for a rule calling upon the Archbishop Of Canterbury to show cause why a writ of mandamus to compel him to proceed against the Ven. George Anthony Denison, Archdeacon of Taunton, by writing, commanding him to appear and answer to certain articles exhibited, and to proceed to pronounce sentenc. according to the provisions of the 3rd and 4th Victoria, cap. 86, the Church Dig,Cipline Act, and give effect to the finding of the commission issued thereuni importance—whether %Thelearu aftercounsel said, the case was one of great a suit had been instituted and r the of f any . law nut in Bishop or Archdeaconmotionitiva discretionary or in the power to interfere and put a veto, and refuse to give effect to the commission issued by himself. The facts of this case were s fa e na ve i r l a ia l r o t c o cas tle gn C s— ou t r. wticelhe i`nlBs3, ArchdeaconandonceofinTiaBus4nt—onprheaadchoend at Wells doctrines that were contrary to the articles of the Established Church. The Rev.. Joseph Ditcher had in con sequence called upon the then Bishop of the diocese to insti tute proceedings under the act of parliament, which provided the mode in which the proceedings should be carried out against a clerk in holy orders committing an ecclesiastical offence ; and in the event of the Bishop himself declining to interfere by himself, or refusing to proceed by letters of request, then upon application made to the Archbishop of the diocese he was empowered to issue a commission. The commissioners were to proceed and examine witnesses, who were to give their opinion whether there was prima facie evidence that it was proper that fur ther proceedings should be taken. The late Bishop of Bath and Wells had declined to proceed or interfere, as did also the present Bishop, Lord Auckland, and upon which Mr. Ditcher determined himself to proceed under the 2.4 th section of the act, and applied to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who issued his commission. . The commissioners met in January last, the Archdeacon being present, and witnesses examined, the result being that the commissioners made their report to the Arch bishop stating that there was prima facie evidence to proceed. Mr. Justice Colderidge.—Can the Archbishop proceed to judgment without the consent of the party? Sir F. Kelly.—The Archbishop was to summon the party to appear and answer to the articles to be exhibited against him ; and if he failed to appear, or, appearing, failed to an swer, then the Archbishop was to proceed to judgment and sentence, and he said it was imperative that he should do so, and not discretionary. lie was now the judge, and was bound to proceed, and could not exercise a discretion by giving his veto of refusal. Mr. Ditcher had complied with all the pro visions of the act by exhibiting articles and requesting the Archbishop to proceed by letter of the 9th August ; and on the 22d the Archbishop, by Mr. Knyvett, his secretary, re fused to proceed further, alleging that his doing so would be of no good, as the clergy Would not obey the decision. The learned counsel was proceeding further with his argu ment, when Lord Campbell said enough had been stated for granting the rule. Rule to show cause accordingly. CIGARROS FABRICA DE HABANA. MESSRS. ESTERO AND COMPANY, 41, NORTH JOHN-STREET, NEAR LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL, Have been induced to Open the above Establishment for the Sale of FOREIGN CIG .1 RS only, and to suit Pri vate Consumers. Messrs. E. and Co. sell them in Gases from One Pound and upwards, at a✓l 2s. 6d. per lb. They being Manufacturers in Havana, are enabled to obtain the most choice Leaf for their Cigars, together with the best Brands of other celebrated Houses, and in condition suitable for immediate consumption. Thus the Public will have the advantage of obtaining GENUINE HAVANA CIGARS, without the necessity of Purchasing, in Bond, Cases of from One to Two Cwt., and withou' paying those extra vagant charges usually demanded for small quantities. Au Extensive Supply always on the Premises and in fond for Exportation and Ships' Stores. The Trade, Hotelkeepers, and others have now an op portunity of supplying their customers with a genuine Havana Cigar, which has been until now so very difficult to procure in convenient quantities; they will, at the same lime, be liberally treated with. Parties at a distance sending Post-fSice Orders for el 2s. 6d. will, per return. receive a Case containing One Pound of CIGARS. In sending Orders, please state if Mild, Medium, or Full Flavoured is required. SAUL DAVIES, AGENT. [INTOvEmBER 27, 1855. 1 ~_ .=on aztee cot tnstr coul want] readi irltiff a 10E. foi ook ECCLESIASTICAL INTRI,L3•TEIva. PREFERMENTS A:0 APPOIgtMENTS. Rev. P. S. Aldrich, B.C.L. to the Curvet . of Boyton, Rev. C. It. A n d rews , to the Vicarage of Hough-on-the -li ' Lincolnshire. to Rev. W. T. Ba rr y, B . A . [ no t B arrow, as state d l as t weekji the Curacy of Coaley, near llursley. Rev. A. G. Bleeck, M.A., to be Assistant Curate of Stourt en, Wilts. Rev. NV. K. B. Briscoe, M.A., to the Sunday Evening Lecture, ship of Mold. Rev. T. W. D. Brooks, M.A., to the Vicarage of Flitwick, near Rev. E. Cooper, M.A., to be Assistant-Curate of MeHoban' Wilts. Rev. F. H. Gray, M.A., to the Curacy of Borley, Essex, par's Rev. J. Marshall, to th e C uracy of West Lulworth, the par of Winfrith Newburgh, Dorset. Rev. J. R. Stevens, to the Perpetual Curacy of Foreroarlc, Derbyshire. Rev. W. Wilson, to th e Vi carage of Corse, near N e Gloucestershire. Rev. T. B. Wrenford, to the Stipendiary Curacy ioo lof the r pr recently licensed for di v i ne serv i ce at Stockport Great • Stockport. Nov. 14, at Boothby GRCLEICAL . r t he Gaffe, LiOßlTUAßYncolnshire. in his 39th yea s Rev. Charles Smith, Rector of that place. Nov. 15, at Clifton, the Rev. John Foy, late Incr Hazelmere, Bucks, aged 55. Nov. 16, at Darowen Vicarage, Montgomeryshire, the Price, M.A., Vicar of that parish, in his 45th year. J. h year, -- ``'sigh ' Vu Igh cumbent of Ll issile-. 11,1 7 ! Rev. Jolla au 111 2 ' I h x ,,RlK ] eo --u s e ! 114 eett . en collated wi le , th 11 six Epiphia l Y , et e piS patrol,: fir 11 e d • arden • lull IN., in fth,` e d c msolida t '" ,- , nd ' i `II th e I i ; licensed!! 's Ch' bt'e l'°C) Z 1 • atsou, r u t. gig ;ed by v, iegilner LiverPP 0 1 , , A 'qb.l e nowil llP 'Yal L lia llt S 1 - .. —ev DIOCESE OF CHESTER. PBEFERMENT.—The Rev. Robert Temple has bee! by the Bishop to the Perpetual Curacy of Holy Church, Ladle, near Chester, of which his Lordship in right of his See. Parts of the parishes of Hawardi St. Mary's, Chester, have been formed into one co chapelry as a district to this church. LICENSES.—The Rev. W. A. O'Connor has been li the Bishop to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. Peter's Chester, upon the nomination of the Rev. J. Wai Rector.—The Rev. J. W. Twist has been licenst - Bishop to the Perpetual Curacy of Christ Church, void by cession of the Rev. Fielding Ould, upon the tion of Edward Gibbon, Esq., the patron. THE BISHOP OF MA N C HESTER has collated the Rev. E • j ho G. Horuby, M.A., rec t or o f B ury, t o th e di gn i ty o f an ts aßulnsodu assist e o o to o ho p de the VBtrhi Bishop io o spth u hoo r ep A f Lizo i g one a i erbvii.caapnlcr.. t Vaughan, f aa r o ua. m n d Hn Madrasg norary canon of the Cathedral Church of Manchester. e to icT tbe consecrationCaiTl Calcutta, tE i whose proceedings in connection with the parish trY" - reps caused•so much scandal, has resigned his living. ord THE LORD PRIMATE OF IRELAND entered upon his "A;n ghan, of Brit e c li e ' year on - Thursday last. His Grace is at present realtrt at the Palace, Armagh, and in the enjoyment of excelre" health. • AN Irish Protestant paper lately stated that the Eng j prelates were about "to disclaim the Church of Ireland, an to deny to that branch of the church the benefits of the P ro s posed church discipline bill ;" and it added, that " the BishoP a of Exeter and Oxford were foremost in the ungracious e ii s t mischievous attempt ;" w hi c h it d ec l are d to be " altogether 5 variance with the act of union." The Bishop of Oxford, is • letter to the Times, exp ress ly s t a t es th a t thi s s t or y, so far o he is concerned, is entirely without foundation. ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH, WERNETH, OLDHAM.:—The serration this church wa s p er f orme d on W e d nes day, by n_ !.. Right Rev. the Lard Bi s h o p o f M anc h es t er. Aft e r the CO . secration service, the Rev. C anon Stowell, M.A. of Manche ster ' the Bishop's chaplain, pre ac h e d a sermon from Collossiaes I! 28.—There was a, numerous attendance on the occasion, the church being well filled, and a collection was made, at the e f t/ . elusion, in aid of the Building fund. After the service, a P ar , merous company repaired t o th e T own -h a ll , w h ere they P e o f took of lunch, prepared f or th em un d er th e super i n tenden Mr. Heginbottam, o f th e A nge l I nn. Th e M ayor pr eside" the occasion. CLERICAL MAGISTRATES.—III letter signed " C 0 L to addressed to the Cambridge Chronicle, the writer alltA , ory, the fact of the Lord Chancellor having directed his se c u re o tle' on a recent applicati on f rom th e ne i g hb our h oo d o f t os. pool, to intimate his lordship's disapprobation of cleriel'ol3 gistrates, although h e h a d on l y a f ew mont h s before p l o t the clergyman, a friend of the writ. r's, in the commissil lo s the peace. From this we m a y conc l u d e that his lordship t b e fore fear of further convicti ons un d er th e L or d' s D a y Aca in the his eyes, by which the H ome S ecre t ary m i g h t h e p lace ntelle e ' unpleasant position of either quashing ajust and legs' s o b e c ar• or incurring the wrath of th e Ti mes f or a ll ow i ng it t 0 Tied into effect. w indoW TRINITY CIIIIRCH, SOUTHPORT.—A stained g l ass h to F Southpor •• has just been erected in the south transept of this chnrc t the memory of Mrs. Mary Ann Gaskell, late - foil The window is divided into three compartments. The tre ac , in the top is filled with the arms of the family, draped b transition period of sta contain very rich specimens of the ground, and vine-leaf border ; the two other compartmients credit upon the artists, exceedingly striking, and reflects great At the glass decoration. The harmonious effect of the colouring I s Messrs. Forrest and Bromley, Lime-street, Liverpool. bottom of the w i n d o w is the following inscription :—" In v. 3 mory of Mary Ann Gaskell, who died in this town, 7th S of Bolney Court, Henley-on-Thames.—Southport Visitor. 1854." The window is the gift of John Fowden Hodges, EsB' ON Sunday morning week, the Ven. J. Jones, the newly ar pointed archdeacon of Liverpool, "read himself in" at Chester, Cathedral, and preached a sermon in behalf o f th e I ncorpora tes Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Part s ' from Proverbs iii, 27, "Withhold not o'cood from them t ° whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand , t e u i c : it." He warmly commended the zeal and wisdom k 3 ; o ' s ar, - n t rsc be the beneficial operations of this oldest of church societies are directed. Towards the close of his disc _ ss or in. paid a touching tribute to the memory of his pre d u ties the archdeaconry, and made an eloquent allusiitF.iter office to and responsibilities now devolving upon himself ' which he had just been preferred. During f £lB 8 S• 21(1 ' offertory by the Very Rev. the Dean, the sum 0 I was contributed. on Sunda/ Sr. PAUL'S CTIVRCH, ThAIcMEUB, was opened been for divine service for the. first time, a license having con' granted by the Lard Bishop. There was a crowdedtV'llinlis gregation. The service was read by the Rev. .A. • 1 0 A. incumbent, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. `-' h 5 . Thurlow, chancellor of the diocese of Chester, from Proper and the reading of the xi, 24—" There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth ; 1 q o there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendet i poverty." In the. afternoon the Rev. A. Willink preached,t..,and after each sermon collections were made towards de !?, 1 1 e ~ jug the expenses attending the erection of the church. „,. r d foundation stone of St. Paul's Church was laid on the,%' ce May, 1854, by Major Orred, who gave the site. The esp, , is situate at the upper end of St. Paul's-road, Lower Trans W - and has cost £3,000: It is a neat, plain structure, in ,g. early Gothic style,. and is capable of holdi ng 750 perst, 411 The architects were Me ssrs . H ay , o f thi s town, a nd .`rd, builder was Mr. Ja mes R ou tl e d ge, o f T ranmere. Th e ll os iug of the spire has be en d e f erre d , ow i ng t o t h e coma' not being in the possession of sufficient funds to complete • work. Attached to the new church a commodious and . fortable dwelling house, a l so i n th e G o thi c s t y l e o f sP tecture, has been erected for the incumbent. ..nt TuE Fredericton Head-quarters gives a gratifying sootily of a church consecration on the island of Campo Bello, in S ,, e ,a tember, by the Bishop of Fredericton. The bishop pres% s on the previous day. (Sunday) in the old building erected n" e i. years ago by the Rev. David Owen. On the morning of g the day, "about half-pa s t t en o ' c l oc k, was d escr i e d through ' mist the little steamer Nequasset, making its way from S i t ; Andrew's, and ha v i ng on b oar d a par t y o f zea l ous c l i nre , people, whom bad weathe r cou ld no t k eep f rom com i ng t01). 3r , ticipate in the consecration services. All the party, includ°' some ladies and gentle men from Eastport, having landed 411 °; the island, the bishop proceeded to the church, robed in ' ll - vestry, and walked down th e cen t ra l p assage , accompanied I ' 3 , the Revs. Dr. Alley, recto r o f St. Andrew' s , an d rura l de , ; John S. Thompson, rector of St. D av id' s ; R . H . p odin k Thomas W. Street, cu ra t e o f St . S tephen ' s ; and John 41, S . Williams, missio nar y on th e island. Arrived in the son' porch, all knelt down and the bishop offered up a p ra yer lir ploring Almighty God to accept f or the purposes of a ChristiO cemetery the piece of ground surrounding the church. The request to consecrate the church was then presented to the 1 bishop by Captain. Robinson, and his lordship having accept? .the petition, proceeded to walk up the nave, followed by „, 51 ! Clergy, chanting the 24th P s al m i n a lt ernate verses. i-ri.' sentence of consecration states that the name of the church 1 , ' St. Anne's Chu r eh,' an d th at a l l,t h e seats are to be f ree an unappropriated. The ordinary morning service was then pro-. ceeded with, an. anthem, composed by the bishop, being per'7 formed in the proper place. After the Nicene Creed, ths. Confirmation Service commenced, the candidates being sit elderly woman and a young girl, resident on the island, and s, . young man who ca me f rom S t. A ndrew ' s to ava il hi ms elf or , op the opportunity. Aft er th e C onf i rmation Service, tne br ut preached and. administered th e Holy Communion to forty personi, including two of those who were coufirra—ibe "Additional interest," sa y s th e account, '-' was impsrted t° „ occasion by the pre s e nce o f th e venera bl e man , w ho MaY "`" justly regarded as the father of the church on the i s land, the Hon. Admiral Owen, who, at the age of more than fourscore years, came from St. John on purpose to attend the ceremony. The following is a de scr ipti on o f th e new b u ilding::—" All the wood used in the building is the growth of the island. The church is. in the early English style, with nave and chancel' There is a bell-gable surmounting the west end. of the nave , and a small bell, whose tones, though not silvery, serve N awake happy feelings in the breasts of those who love the hawse of God and the church's services. The outside wall; are of unplaned planks, placed vertically and battened, aso• are painted a dark brown. The roof is of shingles, paint. slate-colour. Intern a lly th e wa ll s are coun t er- l at h e d and • . plastered, and painted a light French grey. The open roof; ,° copy of that in Ely Cath e d ra l, i s o f p i ne, s t a i ne d an d varn i s hes,. and is very effective. Th e eas t w i n d ow, w hi c h i s a tr i p l e t 01 three lights, is filled with stained glass, by Beer, of Exeter , and the side windows with Powell's quarries. The altar, pulpit , lectern, and pray er -d es k are o f b u tt ernut wood carved by lu r ' Mitchell, who exec u t e d a ll th e wood-work in Fredericto n Cathedral, and they certainly do great credit to their make r ; The floor of the sacrariu m is covered with a carpet, the gift °` Robert lichens, Esq., of London, who also gave the vessels for the Holy Communion, an d th e w hit e cover i ng f or the altar, a nd who who only requested for himself, as stated by the bishop in NO' secrating these vessels, the prayers of the congregation fo r whose service they were pr ov id e d. Th e f on t , w hi c h was p l a ced under the west window, was presented by Captain Robinson) and is made from some of the stone of the old Church of the Knights of St. John, at Malta. The bowl of the font is pets" gonal, with the monogram and Maltese cross carved on alter nate sides. The'seats, of pine, stained, are low and open. The expense of the building, amounting to £7OO currency, is borne mainly by a resident layman, who, with true liberality; under* takes to defray one-half of all the charges, and also becomes responsible for the remaining half, of which a small part only is as yet paid to him." COUNT DE KISSELEFF, the new Russian Ambassador in Rome, arrived in that city a few days ago, and immediately entered on the discharge of his duties. TIEE CRUELTIES IN THE BIRMINGHAM GAOL.-011 Satur day the Court of Queen's B enc h sentenced Lieut. Will i am Henry Austin, late governor of the Birmingham Gaol, t o three months ' imprisonment in the Quee n 's Prison, in the first class misdemeanants , for c rue lti es i n fli c t e d b y him on one of the prisoners in the gaol during the time he was governor of that prison. THE MILITIA BALLOT.—We understand that it is the tentip . of the government to resort at last to the ballot, an d that it is to be carried into effect, without reference to ran k, . from . the age of eighteen to forty. The term of service is to for five years, and it is considered that the manner of raisl o . conscripts for the French army will be adopted. The file ~; Z 5 for not serving will be paid to the Government, who iou provide substitutes for those who decline to enter the force. 'llenthe . 1 1 1 x e l l g r i l a n i E e a l ts ..: p l s 11 1 e(' on removal AX inque SiX weeks o' was found `` Aceidenta .._ eYe lling, la Foss the u la Manches. alld Osbo,. a b cr , L _ .n 1.1, 60 n being overtl east -off rail. ;tents are d ha ve been ti J tessr s . 4 Fo °Mei. for th 1 : , Yi:ool w i c l Upw ma: kuxh: .`