The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-23 00:00:00

crltaittatrlT. TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 23, 1552. THE WEEK have passed a dull week in every sense of the word. Rain—constant, teeming rain—has a won- drously depressing effect, even under such shelter as our Exchange News-room affords. Cotton looks less tempting to the speculator in an ungenial Investments in Sugar are put off until more favourable weather. Men, ordinarily the atmosphere most eager for gain, ensconce themselves by the cheerful fire of their private counting-houses ; and commercial circulars record the result as productive of general dulness. We have had, too, during the week a holiday; and, for the honour of Liverpool, we can say that it was universally observed. Along the whole line of our docks, not a single ship was working, either at loading or discharging. Every shop in our leading streets was closed. In short, Thursday was in almost every outward feature a Sabbath, the exception being that our Churches were not open for public worship. In contrast with the observance of the day in Liverpool, the principal manufacturing towns in the neighbourhood exhibited a humiliating example of selfishness, and the greed of gain. The millowners and authorities of Preston, affecting a dread of the loss to the working classes of a day's wages, kept their factories and machinery going. In Blackburn, the Corporation expressed their fear that the only result of a holiday would be that it would afford to the working classes the opportunity for a debauch—happy and enlightened working classes ! Manchester seems to have ob served the day with moderate decency; but Ashton under-Lyne, and other places in the vicinity, paid no attention to the wishes, understood if not ex- 3, of the hip; The old th are to have a ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA The Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara arrived in the Mer sey yesterday, (Monday,) just before noon, with advices from Nov York to the 9th, and from Boston to the 10th instant. She brought 51.5,000 in specie on freight and 38 passengers. The Niagara experienced strong easterly winds during a great part of her run, which occupied about 11.1 days. The Royal Mail steam-ship Africa arrived at New York on the 4th, and the Canada at Halifax, at 1, a.m., on the 11th instant. MEXICO ress assembled on the 15th October, and h the Minister of Justice; Ca ; and Landovoil, The city was in mcnt in great alarm. 11 on foot, had pro & ' , other insurrec- —Con„ ved to imp, mares, the Minister of Forel__ the Chief-clerk in the 'War Department a state of ferment, and the Go Roballido, whose insurrection w claimed the liberation of Guldal gn Affair ton siderat s reported to li-ve broken out at Michoacan. Con ] at Vera Cruz, in consequence French fleet would soon arrive to sup litors. The port of excitement e port that pot the demands of the French crc Mazatlan had been opened. The steam-ship Star of the West had arrived at New York from San Juan, with advices from San Francisco to the 15th 0 The U-S )cr, and -8500,000 in the hands of passengers. ay-office had given notice that, in conse- Inence of the gold which now comes to that office being )f a purer quality than that previously recived, it would issues in accordance with the law of the United ralating the standard. A meeting had been held strate "against the U.S. Treasury-order prohi receipt at the Assay-office of ingots for cus- In every quarter of the mines the busy note of on for the approaching winter was heard. is in taking out gold had given place to the work roviding for the winter campaign in the mountains. A l l the companies, like those of the Tuolumne, were tively engaged in completing their works, and arranging f action against the time when the waters it their places. Some were widening and to remo preparati Operatio their plans should rev deepening their canals, others throwing up dams, and others scooping out reservoirs; but by far the greater majority of miners were heaping up and housing the auri ferous earth from the beds of streams that were dry, or which a heavy fall of rain might render inac 1. The Perry-wing Dam Company, at s the Marysville Herald,) took out of .861bs. - ofgold, or, at £ l6 per ounce, .816,512. Tile San Francisco market j articles had an upward tendency, pplv of many desirable articles not keeping pace with the demand, from pl sible to them Park's Bar, theirclaim ,intwodity e sum of was firmer, and mar Nassau, N. P., advices, of the 27th ult., state that cholera still prevailed at the island, and that the mortality had been very great. Cholera also prevailed at Harbour TslAnd. Mr. Baring was confined to his hotel, at New York, by a severe attack of influenza. He was to leave for Liver pool in the Arctic. From Havana we have late advices, brought by the steamship Crescent City, to New °cleans. The authori ties permitted the landing of her mails and passengers, but gave notice that such permission would not again be granted. A severe gale, attended with loss of life, had occurred on Lake Erie. LIST OF PASSENGERS.—From Boston: Mr. Ellis, lady, and two children, Miss Patton, Miss O'Rorke, Mr. Rich ardson and lady, Dr. Webster, Messrs. G. Hamilton, Wessberg, Dorr, Hawes, Crowley, Watson, Nis, Caron, Wright, Handiboe, Knight, Gore, Hutchinson, Scott, Miller, and Golding.—From Halifax: Captain Dering and lady, Lieut. Winn, Mr. Bell, lady, and four children, Messrs. Smith, Ballantine, Rourke, and George. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, NEW YORK, Nov. 9 MONEY MARKET.—The stock market is buoyant, with large sales in investment securities as well as speculative shares. The money market easy, at sto 53 for loans and at 6 to 61 per cent. for business paper of the best stamp. Sterling bills of exchange for the Niagara have advanced } per cent., and may be quoted firm at 10k. CorroN.—To-day 1.400 bales were sold at lc. to 4c. advance. The operations in this market since 2d instant have been to a fair extent in view of the very small stock. Prices are hilly sustained, with an advance of an c. on strictly middling to good middling Orleans of good staple, which are scarce, and much sought after. The southern markets have all been active during the week under review, without much change in price ; the bulk of the business has b: en done for English account. The total receipts at New Orleans up to the 6th instant, were 350,000 bales ; last year to same time, 246,000 bales, or an excess of 104,000 bales. At Mobile on the same date. the receipts were 40,000 bales : same time last year 10,000 bales ; excess 30,000 bales. The excess at all the ports by mail dates, amounts to 117,000 bales. By telegraphic dates, the excess to be shown a week hence will probably be 160,000 bales over the corresponding dates last year. The new crop estimates are on the increase. The weather throughout the month of October has been most propitious, and a crop " equal to last year's" is now generally a conceded point ; indeed, some parties are in dulging in figures consideraly above 3,000,000 bales. Up to the latest telegraphic dates there has been no frost at the South. FOREIGN NEWS. FRANCE. The Count de Chambord has issued a protest against the approaching proclamation of the empire. In this pro test he says :—" Whatever may be the designs of God in reference to you and to me, who have remained the chief of the ancient race of your kings, the heir of that long line of monarchs who, during so many centuries have in creased, and caused to be reepected the power and fortune of France, I owe it to myself, I owe it to my family and to my country, to protest loudly against false and perilous arrangements. I, consequently, maintain my right, which is the surest guarantee of yours ; and, taking God to wit ness, I declare to France and to the world, that, faith ful to the laws of the kingdom and to the tradition of my ancestors, I will religiously preserve, to my last breath, the deposit of the hereditary monarchy, of which Provi dence has entrusted to me the care, and which is the only port of refuge where France, the object of our love, may, after so many storms, at length find rest and happiness." This protest or manifesto of the Count de Chambord has been circulated largely in Germany, Belgium, and France. For the last three or four days thousands of copies, printed or lithographed at Brussels, have been dispatched to many parts of France. They were even sent under cover to the prefects, the sub-prefects, the mayors and the deputy mayors, and the priests ; and at Dijon and Metz they were found posted upon the walls. Another docu ment," a democratic manifesto," attributed to M. Victor Hugo, has been distributed, and the object of the author is to exhort his republican brethren to abstain from taking any part in the vote.—The Moniteur contains a notice of a reduction in the French army. It says :—" On the Ist January, 1848, the ( ffective force of the army amounted to 380,500. After the revolution it was 446,808. It was so at the time of the first election of Louis Napoleon. By successive diminutions, the number on the Ist January, 1852, had decreased to 400,59 4 men. His Highness the Prince President has just given orders to the Minister of War to reduce it t o 370,177. This effective force will comprise the army of Africa and that of Rome. On the Ist of December next this important measure will he realised. It will form a reduction of more than 30,000 men in less than a year." Count Thibeaudeau, the regicide, the senior member of the Senate, and the only survivor of the judges who con demned Louis XVI. to death, claims the honour of having given the single vote against the empire, which has been generally attributed t o Louis Napoleon's old tutor M. Viellard. The following is a statement of the movements in cotton since the Ist of September last, as compared with the previous three years : __ __ ....... --- 1852 1851 1850 1849 Receipts into the ports 420,000 303,000 257,000 281,000 Exports to Great Britain 115,000 81,000 121,000 33,000 „ France 17,000 38,000 32,000 28,000 , otherforeign ports 22,000 9,000 25,000 18,000 Total exports Stock on band 267,000 '407,000 166,000 265,000 From which it will be seen that the excess in receipts now amounts to 117,000 bales; the increase in exports to Great Britain, 34,000 ; decrease to France, 21,000 ; increase to other foreign ports, 21,000. Total increase in exports, 26,000 bales. i3READSTUFFS.—FIour less active for western and state, and prices not so firm ; Canadian is in good request, and prices have advanced to Vol. 75c. and 4dol. 77c ; for Mi chigan and Indiana, 4dol. 75c. ; and for Ohio, 4dol. 71c. to 4dol. 94c. Canadian wheat is in good request at bet ter prices ; sales 105 for ordinary, 1081 for common, and 110 to 111 for good to prime. 20,000 bushels of corn sold at 86c. for southern afloat, 87c. for western mixed, and 88c. to 90c. on the spot, closing at 88c. PROVISIONS.—SaIes of pork have been made at 17do1. 25c., old mess at 17dol. 50c. to 18do1. New beef is easier, and the supply is very large. Lard is quoted at llic. for new. . T AMERICA IRON.—The market is rather depressed. 150 tons Scotch pig sold at 31 dollars, 6 months. COAL.—Liverpool Orrel i 3 sought after at 101 dollars per chaldron. FREIGHTS.—The market continues firm and advancing, particularly for breadstuff's. To Liverpool, cotton is taken at -kd. per lb., flour 2s. per barrel, grain, in bulk, 6d. per bushel; to London, flour 2s. 9d. to 3s. 9d. per barrel, grain, in bulk, Bid. to 9d. per bushel ; to Havre, cotton, lc, per lb. _ _ NEW ORLEANS, Nov. B.—Cotton has been very active to-day, the safes reaching 19,000 bales, the largest ever known in this market. The purchases are mostly for England at full prices. but without any positive advance. Middling is at 91c. to 91c. Freights to Liverpool are id. Sterling exchange is at 81 to 81 premium. CHARLESTON, Nov. B.—The sales of cotton tb-day have been 3,300 bales, at unchanged prices ; middling ranges from Slc. to 10c. Freights : vessels are scarce. ane cotton to Liverpool is taken at 9-16 d. Havre, lc. for square bags. SAN FRANCISCO, OCT. 14.—The market is firmer, and many articles have an upward tendency, in consequence of a limited supply. There is no particular change in the money market. ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA. The British and North American Royal Mail steamer Europa, Captain Ryrie, arrived in the Mersey at half-past - The West India steamer La Plata arrived off South -11 o'clock on Tuesday morning, frornNewYo r k, w hi c h s h e left on the 3d instant, and brought 492,483 on freight. ampton on Thursday morning, with the yellow fever on The Europa encountered strong head winds throughout board : the captain, purser, third engineer, and seven the whole of the passage, and arrived at the Bell Buoy men died on the passage. and several of the crew were ill. on Monday night, but owing to th e thickness of the w ea - All the passengers, owever, 60 in number, were well. ther, did not deem it prudent to attempt entering th e The ship was immediately placed in quarantine, and the river till the next tide. mails were towed to the Motherbank, and fumigated be- The Pacific arrived out at New York on the Ist inst., fore landing. A riot by a black regiment had taken place at 830 a.m. The Africa was met on the evening, of 3rd. at Kingston, in Jamaica ; and the yellow fever prevailed The preliminaries for the presidential election took place in Barbadoes and the French islands. The Jamaica . 1.1 - orning Journal of 28th October says, the Royal Mail on the 2d, and resulted in the election of Gen. Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, for president, and the Hon. u FoP e s c t i ny's steamer Medway, Captain Weller, safely aror: yesterday, with European mails of the 2d inst., William Rufus King, of Alabama, for vice-president of after b the United States of America, the democratic and free- Orders eln w g overdue a litheeek' owing to the bad weather. of were received! on Friday afternoon from the trade candidates. The democrats were almost everywhere Board ol _Customs, London, for the release of the ins- triumphant, and the majority is overwhelming. The New . York Morning Express (a Whig paper) says that it is not s i edpassengers of the La Plata. The superintendent a defeat, but an utter rout, not only in the election of pre- immediately sent a small steamer alongside, and the pas sengers were soon afterwards landed in the docks, very sident, but of local anthorities of all ranks. In New York ' one U. - -'-sPitv of 11,000 for Pierce. much to their gratification. .0. WEST INDIES alon. acre was a majority . _.,:e. The H. Edward Everett has been called to the office of Secretary-of-St a t e at W as hi ng t on , i n th e place of the CENTRAL AMERICA.—Later advices f r om Central late Daniel Webster. America represent everyth i ng in that quarter as in a state Another frightful ra il roa d acc id en t t oo k p l ace on the of uncertainty, particularly in Nicaragua, where a threatened revolution was pending. Newhaven-road on the 30th ulti m o. While the train was Test authorities in the realm. eat has been again revived, that we ion presented to Parliament against the return of the sitting members ; and a al contemporary adds that the case is clearly made out. Unfortunately, we can place no reliance he party who, had they intended in the any such proceeding, ought to have presented their petition a little earlier. The wilful breal -down of the l )erby petition is just now fresh before the eyes The Radicals were to have extin- guished Mr. THOMAS BERRY HORSFALL, driven Major BERESFORD into exile, and hung up Mr. rewsbury, on his own pole, as a warn- ERAIL, of ing to a who d a eering affairs. People tho e to interfere in election- ught that Radicalism was in earnest in this Derby affair. We were to have had most astounding revelations ; and we should tened inquiry had gone on. vocK, with his usual saga city, had a slipped loop in his net. It was no mistake which led the SPEAKER of the House of have had, no doubt, if the threw But Mr. Co Commons to declare the petition informal. Mr. COPPOCK makes no mistakes. The Derby lie had done its work. It had caught a few credulous fools, who imagined that the story of the darkened room was not a romance; and we venture to predict no more of it, from its original .11 hea authors at all events The public will, therefore, lave to remain for ever in the dark as to who is the Mr. KEHOE or KEOGH, relative to unfortunat the member for Athlone, whose evidence was to have proved Liverpool to be one of the most corrupt constituencies in the Kingdom. Considerable attention has been called this week to a proposition made by Mr. JOHN GRANTHAM, C.E., for constructing a high level railway along our dock quays, in connexion with our internal railways and canals, by which the streets of the town will be relieved of a large amount of their traffic, and the process of loading and unloading the shipping in our docks will be greatly facilitated. Mr. GRAN THAM'S plan provides that such railway should be fourteen feet above the level of the present quays ; and should run from end to end of the dock estate, under the sheds built, or to be built, upon the east side. This railway would at once accommodate the coal trade. Sidings would be formed to communi cate with the Lancashire and Yorkshire, East Lan cashire, and other lines ; and by inclined planes it might be made to communicate readily with the leading streets of the town. To the timber trade such a plan would, if carried out, be most advan tageous. In fact, it would almost settle the much mooted question as to the relative advantages of the north and south ends of the town as the site of this most important traffic. One very material question is that of cost. Mr. GRANTHAM'S plan, we under stand, is to cost upwards of £300,000. Whether or not the Dock Committee has power to raise such a sum we know not. We should imagine, however, that a small charge upon the merchandise conveyed along the line would pay a handsome per centage upon the outlay. crossing the bridge at Windsor locks, Connecticut, one of the rails broke, when the three hindmost cars were thrown off the track, and the last one was precipitated" into the canal, in 12 feet of water. Three persons were drowned. Late advices from Mexico state that on the 7th of Oct. the proposals for the right of way across the isthmus of Tehuantepec were opened by the commissioners. The de cision was postponed for 100 days,to receive additional pro posals, to which course the original bidders protested. There have been further disturbances at Orizabo, and elsewhere. The cholera was raging at Acapulco. No further information about the Gwverilulent coup (Fetal. Havana advices state the , the Superior Civil Gover nor of Cuba has resigned his office to Don Jose Antonio de Queseda, in consequence of the former having been ap pointed a brigadier, which required him to go to Spain. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 185 Q. ARRIVAL OF THE WASHINGTON. By the Unised States mail steam-ship Washington, arrived off Cowes, on her way to Bremen, we have intel ligence from New York to the 6th instant. The election of General Franklin Pierce as President of the United States by an overwhelming majority is fully confirmed. The numbers, as nearly as ascettained, or as can be estimated from the scattered returns, of the grand results of the tremendous avalanche of 1552 are:— General Pierce General Scott .. • •....... ........ 18 Maj ority 260 This is the greatest popular and electoral vote ever given at any Presidential election from the earliest record of popular votes, in 1828, when Jackson was first elected. The greatest previous majority was 174 for General Har rison, (Whig,) in 1840. The special session of the New Brunswick Legislature adiourned on the 29th ultimo, having passed several rail road bills. A salute of 100 guns was fired on each side of the St. Croix—at St. Stephen and Calais—to celebrate the com mercial union of British with Republican America. The railway from Halifax to Windsor has been con tracted for by Messrs. Sykes and Co., of England, at £4,500 per mile. They are to have a lease of the road for nine years after its construction. The Cana , !ian Parliament is adjourned to the 14th of February. The Grand Trunk Railway project had been carried, the opposition of the Montreal party having been withdrawn FOREIGN MISCELLANY. GERMANY.—The Augsburg Gazette announces the formal conversion of the Princess Wasa to the Romish faith at Morawetz, in Moravia, on the 4th. DENMARK. —Negotiations are being carried on between Denmark and England for the conclusion of a treaty of commerce and navigation between the two countries. ITALY.—lntelligence from Catania of the sth instant states that the volcano, after being several days dormant, had resumed its activity. There was a considerable quantity of fire, or rather the reflection of it visible at Catania, but the detonations had not been audible for the previous few days.—The Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia has arrived at Venice for the winter, and will be joined there by the Empress. The Count de Chambord and the Count de Montemolin are also to winter at Venice. RUSSlA.—Letters from Kalisch state that important movements of troops are going forward throughout the entire kingdom of Poland. In Kalisch and its neigh bourhood, which throughout the summer have been void of troops, an entire army corps is expected. TURKEY. — A private correspondence from Alexandria states that Abbas Pasha has shown no objection to render the assistance demanded by the Porte, and has sent Ab dallah Bey to London to make the necessary arrange ments for raising the money. AUSTRALIA.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Chusan arrived at Sydney on the 4th of August, and created a fever of excitement there. Considering this was her first trip, and the first voyage of a steam-ship for whose coaling the arrangements cannot have been per fectly made, she has done her work admirably. The voyage has occupied only seventy-five days, of which only sixty-five days were actually employed in sailing. Ad vices have been received from Sydney, rid Panama, to the 16th August. The production of gold in the various mines of New South Wales appears to have been very satisfactory, but there are no details regarding the chief point of interest, namely, the extent of the yield at Mount Alexander, in the adjoining colony of Victoria. The quotation for gold was 655. to 675. per ounce. Among the vessels which had lately sailed for England were the Lady Flora, from Port Phillip, on the 4th August, with 77,559 ounces of gold, valued at £310,000 ; and the Fati ma, from Sydney, on the 15th August, with 18,550 ounces, valued at £70,000. MAD'LLE PICCOLOMINI, a young and beautiful lady, of an illustrious family, and the niece of a cardinal, has ap peared as a prima donna at one of the theatres in Rome. SERIOUS MISTAKE.—A Paris correspondent states that during the recent disturbances, a newly-elected pro vincial mayor of high character was arrested in mistake for his predecessor, a Red Republican, who had died, and was sent off to Cayenne before the mistake was discovered. EXHAUSTED BIRDS.—On the 18th and 19th ultimo, the skip Marion, Bisset, from Bombay, when upwards of 600 miles from the land, was surrounded by a great many birds, from the robin redbreast upwards to the heron, in a very exhausted state, which must have been blown off the land. THE SEA SERPENT ONCE MORE.—The sea serpent has .ively been seen ! at least so says Captain Valle, commander of the ship Basham, lately arrived at Madras. now pos The animal was estimated to he about 150 feet long, and with a girth about the size of a barrel. The Basham gave chase, but the serpent was in too great a hurry to wait. HOMMOPATHY.—A " chair" of homosopathic medicine is about, it is said, to be established in the University of Berlin. As another medical fact, it may be mentioned that a celebrated German physician is about to publish here a scientific condemnation of the present loose sleeves worn by ladies. He proves that they promote rheumatism and all kinds of complaints. COAL IN AUSTRIA.—The Austrians are much dismayed by the sudden appearance in the market of good English coal, which has found its way to Vienna over Saxony and Prague. It appears that sLme English speculators have opened a coal magazine in Prague, and it is confidently asserted that a hundred weight of the best English coal reaches Prague by way of the Elbe, for thirty-six kreutzers. LONGEVITY.—There is a woman at Turin, horn on the 14th of February, 1750, and, consequently, in her 103 d year. She has preserved the entire use of her faculties.• At ninety she fell sick, and was taken to an hospital ; there a violent fever brought her to the verge of the grave, but, contrary to expectation, she rallied again suddenly, and, the Resorgimento affirms, cut seven new teeth shortly afterwards, which she has still. ABD.EL-KADER.—The Akhbar, of Algiers says, " The town of Broussa, which has been assigned as the residence of Abd-el-Kader, contains the torah of Kheir-ed-Din, the brother of Barbarossa, who is regarded as havine been the founder of the Regency of Algiers. Thus the remains of the man who put an end to the Arab or Berber dynasties, and the mars who made such efforts to estab lish a dynasty of the same kind, will be on the same spot." ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The Legislature of Maine has passed an Act making telegraph companies liable for errors in despatches, either in transmission or transcript, to the amount paid for transmission to the place of desti nation in or out of the States. In case of unreasonable delay either to transmit or to deliver, affecting the value of the despatch, the amount paid is to be refunded. The penalty for falsifying a despatch is to be from twenty to 100 dollars, and operators, agents, cleik3, and officers are to be held liable for any fraud committed or attempted by means of any telegraph. THE BRIDE OF NAPOLEON lll.—The Baden corres pondent of the Cologne Gazette writes from Carisruhe on the 11th instant :—" The betrothment of Louis Napoleon with the Princess Carob of Vasa may now be regarded as a certainty ; it has, however, as I learn from most trust worthy sources, only been brought about after the conquest of great difficulties. Not only were high political advisers against this match, but many warning voices were raised among the family ronnexions of the lady to remind her of the unhappy lot of another Princess of Baden. But the policy of the Grand Duchess Stephanie, grandmother of the young Princess, and the firmness of the bride, have triumphed over every obstacle." COURT-MARTIAL IN PARIS.—The court-martial on Wednesday tried a young non-commissioned officer, named Feilhaut, of the I2th Light Infantry, for embez zling the funds of the state. At the age of 18 he enlisted in the army as a volunteer, and, being possessed of a good education, rose rapidly to the rank of sergeant-major, and in 1851 was placed on the lists of promotion to the rank of officer. Flattered beyond measure at the idea of wear ing epaulettes, he, without waiting for his nomination, ordered his uniform. A tailor made it on credit, but as time passed away, and the promotion did not come, he became clamorous for his money. The accused, to satisfy him, borrowed the sum required from a Jew, at a heavy rate of interest. The Jew left him no rest, and made him pay heavily for the shortest delay. At length, terrified by the threats to report him to the colonel, he falsified the papers of his company, and by that means defrauded the state of 100 f. He wept bitterly before the court, and made a full confession of his guilt. He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. ECCLESIASTICAL. DIOCESE OF CHESTER, PREFERMENT. — The Rev. Clement Charles Sharpe to the perpetual curacy of Ince, in the county of Chester. on the nomination of the trustees of the late E. Yates, E 34. Value £154, with a house. PREFERMENTS AND_ APPOINTMENTS Rev. H. Alford, Vicar of Wimeswold, to be a Rural Dean in the diocese of Peterborough. Rev. R. Blunt, Vicar of Belton, to be a Rural Dean in the diocese of Peterborough. Rev. E. Boden, 8.A., of St. John's College, Cam bridge, to the Mastership of the Free Grammar School, Clitheroe. Rev. H. B. Boothby, 8.A., to Vicarage of Lissington. Rev. E. Browne, to the Curacy of Cadney-cum-Hon sham, Lincolnshire. Hon. and Roy. A. Campbell. M.A. (not the Hon. and Rev. H. Kemple as stated before), to the Rectory of Knipton, Leicestershire. Mr. A. J. Carver, M.A., Fellow and Classical Lecturer of Queen's College, Cambridge, to be Second Master of St. Paul's School, London. Rev. S. Charlton, M.A., to the Curacy of the united parishes of Gaze!ey and Kentford, Newmarket, Suffolk. Rev. R. Croly, M.A., late Chaplain to Partis College, Bath, to the Incumbency of Dunkeswell and Dunkeswell Abbey, Devon. Rev. H. Ellison, M.A., Fellow of University College, Oxford, and Curate of Holdenhv, Northamptonshire, to the Rectory of Melsonby, near Richmond, Yorkshire. Rev. T. G. Evans, Curate of Killeedy, to the Vicarage of Bruff. Ireland. Rev. H. Fleming, to the Curacy of Glanmire. Rev. W. T. Freer, to the Curacy of St. Margaret's Leicester. Rev. H. Fry, A. 8., Assistant Curate of Parsonstown, to the Union of Kilhreedy. Rev. W. Goode, M.A., to the Curacy of the Parish Church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields._ Rev. C. Haskins, 8.A., to the Chaplaincy of Whitting ton College, Highgate. _ _ . . Rev. IC Horsfall, to the Incumbency of Deere, near Pateley Bridge. Rev. W. B. Laurence, to the Perpetual Curacy of Two Mile-hill, Gloucestershire. Rev. H. F. Long, to be Chaplain of Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham. Rev. N. H. INFGachen, to the Curacy of Brading, Isle of Wight. Rev. J. M'lntyre, to the Stipendiary Curacy of All Souls', Every-street, Manchester. Rev. H. F. Newbolt, to Curacy of Hackford, Norfolk. Rev. R. W. Needham, to the Vicarage of Lilbourne, Northamptonshire. Rev. J. Niven. to the Vicarage of Svenhourne, Bucks. Rev. N. G. Pilkington, to the Senior Curacy of Hor sham, Sussex. Rev. J. Place, M.A., Curate of St. Martin's, . to be a Surrogate for the diocese of Peterborough. Rev. Sir G. Prevost, Bart., M.A., Perpetual Curate o. Stinchcomhe, to the Rural Deanery of Duraley. Rev. W. Reece, M.A., to the Curacies of Ormby and Cameringliarn, Lincolnshire. Rev. W. Roberts, to the Assistant Curacy of L. ar-y- Bryn, Carmarthenshire. Rev. P. Rogers, to he Chaplain and Naval Instructor to H.M.S. Rodney. Rev. J. Shaw, 8.D., Senior Fellow of Charts, Cambridge, to the Rectory of K:igworth, Leicester,. Rev. J. P. Sill, M.A., to the Rectory of Westhorpe, Suffolk. Rev. J. Stedman, 8.A., to the Curacy of Scarisbrick, near Ormskirk. Rev. J. Wetherell, Rector of Rushton, to be a Rural Dean in the diocese of Peterborough. Rev. C. A. Wickes, to the Curacy of Holdenby, North ampton. Stamford, ilanfair- -t's College, AURICULAR CONFESSION. Tins subject will be prominently brought before the public of Liverpool this day (Tuesday), at the Amphi theatre ; and as everything which can afford any informa tion upon it will be valuable at the present juncture, we publish the following report of a sermon, by the Very Rev, the DEAN of EXETER, which was preached a few days since in the Cathedral of that diocese. "RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST : WHOSE SOEVER SINS YE REMIT, THEY ARE REMITTED UNTO THEM ; AND WHOSE SOEVER SINS YE RETAIN, THEY ARE RE TAINED."—John xx., 22, 23. This is one of the principal texts on the authority of which the Church of Rome maintains that Sacerdotal Absolution is necessary to the salvation of every baptised person who has fallen into mortal sin ; and that Auricular Confession is the divinely-appo nted means of obtaining that absolution. The same doctrine is now maintained by certain persons in our Church, who openly claim this power for themselves, and are endeavouring to revive among us the practice of Auricular Confession ; and as their proceedings in this direction have lately caused no small stir, especially in this diocese, I shall endeavour, on the present occasion, to show you that — There is really no ground in Scripture for this doc- trine ; That it leads in practice to the grossest abuses ; And that our Reformed Church does not sanction it. In the first place, however, we must inquire what it is that the Church of Rome and its apish imitators mean by Auricular Confession, and on what ground they maintain it is of Divine institution, and that without it we cannot obtain the pardon of our sins from God ? By Auricular Confession, the Church of Rome means a full and unreserved confession of all the sins which we have committed, by thought, word, or deed, made secretly in the ear of a priest, in order that we may receive from him the benefit of absolution, and thereby be restored to peace with God. This confession is imposed on all per sons of competent age, at stated periods, and is especially enjoined as au indispensable preparation for receiving the Holy Communion; and without priestly absolution, which is not granted, except after such confession, it is held that there can be no forgiveness of sins. It is obvious how wonderfully this doctrine tends to exalt the person and office of the priest, who thus stands to the penitent in the place of God, and to bring into subjection to him the minds and consciences of those who believe him to possess this superhuman power; but the question is—what autho rity is there in Scripture for affirming it? It is nothing to the purpose to adduce a hundred passages from the Fathers, if so many could be found in which it is asserted or implied ; for we know that the love of power, which is inherent in our nature, soon led the Bishops and Presby ters of the Church to lord it over the laity, and to assume to themselves the office of mediators between God and man, and that this mystery of iniquity began to work even in the lifetime of St. Paul. On any matters, therefore, of which it is the manifest tendency to exalt the priestly office, we ought to lay no stress on their opinions, unless they are confirmed by the plain and unequivocal testimony of God's Written Word. And this I say, not by way of evacuating the force of their testimony to this particular doctrine, for amonz all the passages which the ingenuity and learning of Cardinal Bellarmine—the most astute defender of the Church of Rome—have been able to col lect from their writings. during the first twelve centuries, there is not one in favour of the Popish doctrine of Auricular Confession ; and, as to Scripture, the passages on which Bellarmine claims Divine authority for this practice, and arrogates to the priesthood the judicial power of plenary absolution, however plausible they may seem, according to the letter, do, when rightly interpreted, as completely fail him, as our Lord's words, " This is my body," fail to prove the Popish doctrine of Transub stantiation. The Council of Trent declares (Sess. xiv. c. 5, and Can. 6,7, and 8) that confession of all mortal sins is, by the law of God, necessary to those who have fallen into sins after Baptism, and anathematises those who presume to deny it. Bellarmine, therefore, in defending this proposition, begins with this unquestionable truth, that " those who have fallen into mortal sin are, by God's law, bound to repent, and to seek reconciliation with God. But (he argues) the necessary mean of reconciliation after baptism is confession of all sins, made to a priest ' • and, therefore, IRELAND. by Go d 's law, those who have committed mortal sin after baptism are bound to confess all their sins to a priest." FIRE IN CORK. — The flour mills of Messes. L aw e, a t He then affirms that " Christ has appointed His priests Cork, in which about 1000 bags of flour were stored, were to be judges upon earth, with such power that, without destroyed by fire on Friday morning. their sentence, no person who has fallen into sin after THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH has released Mr. baptism can be reconciled to God. But the priests can- Lynch from prison and the penalty arising out of alleged not pronounce a right sentence, unless they are cognizant bribery at the Athlone election. The affair is to come of the sins ; therefore, those who have fallen into sin after before parliament. baptism are bound, by God's law, to open their sins to the priests ; and, consequently, confession of sins is the TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION.—LocaI arrangements necessary mean of reconciliation to those who have fallen have been made in Belfast for the speedy erection of the into sin after baptism. If then (he proceeds) I prove from magnetic telegraph on the line of railway between the the Gospel, that the Apostles and their successors, were capital of Ulster and the Irbil metropolis. appointed by the Lord to be judges in the Church in the DEATH OF P. APKEOGH, ESQ.—The death of P. causes of penitents, I shall prove, at the same time, that M`Keogh, Esq., Crown solicitor for the counties of Ros- a special confession of sins is required, by God's law, to common, Sligo, and Leitrim, is announced. The patron- be made before a priest." 1 age of the office is with the Attorney General. He then appeals to three principal texts, from which THE FLOODS.—On Friday the river at Balbriggan this absolving power of the priesthood may be demon burst the flood-gates of a mill, and the water, in its rush st r a ted. The first is in the sixteenth chapter of St. towards the sea, destroyed two houses on the bank. A Matthew, " I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom woman was drowned in a cellar of another house. Several of heaven ; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall head of black cattle and sheep were carried away. be bound in heaven ; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." The next is in the MR. SHARMAN CRAWFORD has written a letter to Jno. eighteenth chapter of the same Evangelist , " Whatsoever Bates, Esq., of Belfast, the solicitor for the plaintiffs in ve shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven • and the several actions for libel commenced against Mr. Craw- - hatsoever ye shall loose on ford, for the statements contained in his letter of the 26th w earth shall be loosed in hea of July last, in which he withdraws his charges against yen." The last is that which I have chosen for my text, ye remit, the Irish landlords, and the plaintiffs have agreed not " Whose soever sins they are remitted unto proceed further with these actions. them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are re totained."—Bellarns de Pcenit. iii., c. 2. PRIESTLY INTERFERENCE WITH THE POST-OFFICE. — All these passages, like " This is my body," sound as We are informed that in some of the country post-offices if they were directly in favour of the Popish doctrine ; tracts addressed to Romanist readers have been detained, but it is nothing but sound. The first was a promise made and never allowed to reach the individuals for whom they perlonally to St. Peter, and to him alone ; and, what were intended. In one instance, we understand, a post- ever its meaning may be, cannot be extended to the other master has acknowledged that this was done by direction Apostles, and, consequently, cannot be derived, through of a priest ; but postmasters ought to be aware that priests them, to the present ministers of the church. have no authority over her Majesty's mails.—Cork Con- The declaration in the second passage, " Whatsover ye stitution. shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven ; and what- THE EXODUS.—The Limerick Reporter says, " The soever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven," tide of emigration continues to flow well nigh as strongly was made with reference, not to any judgments which the as ever, and to carry with it many who in their own land Apostles might pronounce, but to the judgments cf the as enjoyed the respect, the esteem, and regard of the ex- srmbled synagogue : and it is impossible to prove from it, tensive circles in which they moved. Yesterday the by any legitimate course of argument, that Christ gave to members of two highly respectable and affluent families, His Apostles, and now gives to their successors in the natives of and residents in Limerick, where they enjoyed ministry, a judicial power to absolve men from the future every possible advantage, as well as the affectionate at- penalties of sin. tachment of ' troops of friends' and relatives, left by the In the third passage, where our Lord says to His Apes afternoon train en route to Liverpool, to take shipping in ties, " Receive ye the Holy Ghost : whose soever sins ye the Africa for Melbourne, Australia." remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins THE IRISH CHURCH. — The report of the Ecclesiastical ye retain, they are retained ." by the gift of the Holy Commissioners for Ireland for the year ended the Ist Ghost, and by the power of remitting and retaining sins, of August last has been printed. The commissioners had it is simply meant that He gave them His Divine autho been enabled to appropriate a larger sum for the rebuilding rity to act as presbyters and rulers in His Church ; and in and repairing of churches than for some years past, as this sense, the Apostles, being Jews, must have under also for other purposes connected with the church in stood His words. For we read in the eleventh chapter Ireland. With the balance at the commencement of the of Numbers, that the Spirit of God rested on the seventy year of £11,016 155., the receipts were £122,372. After presbyters, who received their commission under Moses various disbursements the balance at the end of the year in the wilderness ; and it was the universal belief of the was £12,074, 13s. 10d. Besides the sums mentioned, Jews that the same spiritual gift was imparted to all who there were funds at the disposal of the commissioners succeeded them in their office, and were legitimate ly or from property left by Primate Boulter and Primate dained by the imposition of hands. In these Jewish or- Robinson, amounting to £6,807 ls. 9d., of which £1,250 dinations, which were slightly varied, according to the 3s. 3d. was appropriated in stipends in augmentation of different offices to which they were applied, and the differ small benefices. ant powers which they were intended to convey, authority PERSONELLE OF ABD-EL-KADER.—The Emir is of a moderate height, his figure being cast in the most per fect symmetry. Slight, lithe, and muscular, strength and grace are united in every limb, displayed in every move ment. His face, of a pure oval, is pale ; his nose straight as that of a Greek statue ; his eyes, which are not black, but of a deep blue, have a mingled expression of pride, of gentleness, of melancholy, and of latent ardour, that renders them really indescribable. His face is encadre'e by a glossy black beard and whiskers. Abd-el-Kader's dress is remarkably simple ; no ornaments nor brilliant colours interfere with its perfect plainness; while his white burnous and haick are only conspicuous from the natural grace with which they are worn. His manners are calm, dignified, and gentle, and an air of patient ab straction is remarkable in all his demeanour. Much of his time is employed at his devotions. At the grand opera, recently, he was calm, silent. and impassable, displaying neither interest ner ennui. A good deal of amusement was excited by the entrance into his box of M. -, the celebrated marine painter, who insisted on bestowing on the Emir, for the benefit of the audience, a most demonstrative accolade, an operation to which he submitted with a resignation worthy a better cause. to bind and to loose was usually given ; that is, to declare what was lawful, and what was unlawful; as teachers of the people, to exhort and to rebuke with all "authority : or as judges in spiritual matters, if need were, to inflict, or to remove ecclesiastical censures. In thus laying the foundation of His Church, which was framed on the model of the Jewish synagogue, our Lord gave to His Apostles the same ordinary powers in spiritual things as those which the Jewish presbyters possessed ; and as it never was pretended that the Jewish presbyters, by their authority to bind and to loose, were enabled to absolve men from the future penalties of sin, there was no danger that the Apostles should imagine that, as presbyters of the Christian Church, they were invested with such an unheard-of power. And if these words, " Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained," were not de signed to confer—and, in fact, did not confer—this power on them, still less do they confer it on their successors in the ministry. But suppose that this power had been conferred on the Apostles. They, be it remembered, in all things pertain ing to Christian doctrine and practice, were under the infallible guidance of the Holy Spirit •, and unless the present ministers of Christ were under the same guidance —which, most undoubtedly, they are not—it could not be inferred, even with the lowest degree of probability, that they possess the same power. But suppose they had it. The defenders of the Popish doctrine would still have to prove from Scripture, that, without priestly absolution, no person who has fallen into mortal sin after baptism can be reconciled to God. Unless this can be fully proved— and proved, I repeat it, from Scripture—the Popish as sumption that, by God's law, those who have committed mortal sin after baptism are bound to confess all their sins to a priest, has absolutely nothing to rest on. It falls to the ground. If it be in God's law, let the passage be pro duced in which Auricular Confession to a priest is required, in order to our obtaining from God the pardon of our sins. 'Till some such passage be produced—which it never can be, while the world lasts—instead of having recourse to any other mediator than Christ, let us be content with the humble and penitent confession of our sins to Almighty God, our most merciful Father through Hill; for lie alone can know the sincerity of our repentance, and He alone has power to " forgive us our trespasses." If we do this faithfully, then let us be sure that, if all the priests on earth were to refuse us absolution, we should be none the worse for it ; and that we should be none the better for it were they all to join in pronouncing our absolution, if we did not truly repent us of our sins, and look to God, through Christ, for the pardon of them. And here we might safely leave the question ; for " Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation ; so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the faith, or be thought requi site or necessary to salvation." This great Article of Religion is the basis of all Protestantism. To this all Protestants—whatever other differences there may be b , tween them, on points of discipline or doctrine—give their unanimous assent and adherence. It is the great keystone which binds us all together, as the Papists are bound together by their adherence to the Pope, as the He'd of their Church and the Vicar of Christ on earth. of God he was called upon to perform, ever kep t in vie to the principle that the path of duty was the true wal, his vi glory, and who, honestly applying the full powers of ~ great mind to the performance of that work which Pro. dence placed in his way, directed his career with unerrint success, and provided for himself, on the field, t,i m ., 5 , 5 mighty achievements, the reward of which was a nat,'°" o, honours and a world's admiration. (Loud cheers.) I ' 4° I think if all this can be made out by a reference to the_ career of Wellington—and all England and even Earotre acknowledges it—it is a feeling something more than „ m:re worship of genius or greatness that has made land present to the world within the last few weeks 1 ,.°: ful homage to the memory spectacle of paying, in so munificent a manner, her gra te d her sons. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) There is no worship here. It is the acknowledgment of the utnrl moral use made of high powers conferred, and of the gre:, moral principle that he, who honestlyturns himself to chil of one of the grea te ' t 0 work given him to perform, shall find that there is a ing providence to direct his steps upwards, and lead 1 3 0 7 on to honour and fame. (Loud cheers.) It was ne s either that he merely turned himself to the perforrnabe of dty, because he saw it was the high looked neitherh to far° , to he d u id it for the sake of dut itself. He e the right hand nor to the left, but simply finding th! t h t. Glory for himself (which he really achieved) had certain work to do, he did it with all his h a t he aimed at, but the service of his country alone. W,h mi t he was told of the remark made upon his despatches °Y r 0 French critics that the word " duty" occurred so vite t ; and " glory" seldom, his reply was, " It is str m g e the me that they cannot see that, if I want to attains o a r r„ c h way to it is by duty." But to the critics of the rre" h t school of that day it was a most out-of-the-waY .t h l a ry, that a man should observe duty in order to o btain g s for duty to them was nothing more than a meteor, the physical sense, that would take a man far away fro m real path of duty. Duty and glory, alike to filen ), c ° ,./ sisted of doing that which should attract the attention v; men and nations by some brilliant, nay, desperate t,efa, but moral rectitude, or the moral consequences o f t; acts, never, entered into their calculations. BY th ? c tho trast you Wellington's notions of glory- To him iec ,. path of duty was the path to glory. (Cheers.) T he 4 was not wo o turer, in continuation, said he would now take a brief /0 general review of this hero of many brilliant deeds fri, t . i d service of his country, by which the foundation wa s , i a s manifold a i c t h f ie o v r em g e ra n for that unequalled amount of greatness which the ils` l i rs now enjoyed. He must take for granted that thlow acquainted with the main facts connected with Nl e t ime ton's therefore, atstedantdhavticttohreiyes.vra; would not permit him even to detail a few of them. fa rm• liar with his wonderful achievements in of they there saw him even anticipating the orv! - 5 lf the Governor-General, and undertaking for n s e 9t) an enterprise (when no time whatever was to u e ,„ of which would have fallen to his lot in the due nm i— f :of time—that how, as he marched through different lo r- 05 . the country, his penetrating eye and keen perception e bled him to see almost instantly the most favourable irto, Lions for attack and defence, and that, after his grea t h ome ries were won there, they had seen him returning for again to receive the first thanks of the British people rig his brilliant services in the east. He would only rola, upon this part of his career that it was almost un e A T: at plod that the great man should have gone out to I, w — foci the age of 23, and that he should have returned , in l Hero We reject, therefore, the doctrine which requires us believe, " as an article of faith requisite or necessary to salvation," that, by God's law, all who fall into mortal sin after baptism are bound to confess all their sins to a priest ; and that, without such confession, they cannot obtain pardon of their sins from God. But even if there were in Scripture some specious ground for Auricular Confession—if St. James, for example, instead of saying " Confess your sins one to anNther," had said, " Confess your sins to the presbyters of the Church,"—we should still reject Auricular Confession, as it is taught and prac tised in the Church of Rome, on account of the enor evils and abuses which are inseparable from it, ai manifest tendency to invest the priesthood with an autho rity which belongs to God only, and to give them an unbounded power over the mind and conscience of their Penitents. years afterwards in the prime of life, the successtaLi-c-30, of so many engagements fought under the most din at tageous circumstances, especially his decisive trite " er' Assaye, being the first battle he ever commanded in rod son, and to which it might be almost said that [ 'f' f •b, wasindebted fur those immense Indian possession s ° t i m e .' she now enjoyed. Ten years more, and our he ro pleted—successfully completed—the Peninsular wa r ' or ten years be finished his unparalleled military oPesco is on the continent, and then, having secured til e Pi c 40, Europe, he withdrew from the scene, and for n ear of '3 of the decline of life he had the satistactionrrea ess to see the blessings he had con fr a is There was a great deal for reflecti d a e dg t • years were fruitful of mighty, of Wellington achieved the wor', s ca both mentallY living in quie on his countr; r - On the practical evils of the system, I dare not venturf to enlarge, Neither would you bear to have the screen o the confessional thrown open, that you might listen to the disgusting details of the minute questionings to which the priestly confessor subjects his unhappy penitents ; thus suggesting to their minds thoughts of evil which otherwise would never have been hlrboured there, and making them familiar with images of pollution which continue to haunt their imaginations and to corrupt their hearts, and too often lead them on to the commission of open acts of im purity and sin. When you bear in mind that every member of the Church of Rome is strictly enjoined, on peril of his salvation, to confess all his most secret sins, and thoughts of sin to a priest, before he can be admitted to the Holy Communion, and that the first Communion is commonly received with them at a far earlier age than ,flear, hear.) ver active „ he applied himse E lf, in spite of repeated ( I. c big nts at home, to the unceasing performancel'oot ,sion, and by promptitude, energy, and an ' A i ,i e fea ,perhuman amount of discernment and f o resight Allot many others could not have brought about in Unoccupied time the duke had none. It was alvrav% t he him either seed time for the future harvest, or it r o ; the harvest time itself. The lecturer went on to s"%iting wonderful genius and gigantic mental powers of IN e ton, by his various engagements in the Peninsular . ne of astonishing powers and elasticity of his mind wa s e elea the most marked features in his character. It of him to look in the face dangers and difficulties or f , em iggt every kind, and successfully to overcome them• u w ere 'oresight, vigour, and indomitable perseveran ce ou t 0 0 , V , so finely blended, that it was difficult to Pe',l" tha t which predominated. They might perhaps fi e ; o ish' Napoleon was more brilliant, and undertook more as° ea ing:and more openly daring featsi than Welling t°e .. e rieS did, but neither Napoleon nor any of his conterePe'torel• could be compared with Wellington in his varied, "flitand acquired capabilities. There was only one P el we' which it could not be said that Welington wa s keel nor to other generals. He (the lecturer) did not / 0 1 whether he would have borne a total defeat wors i e_ ho d his antagonists ; and for the best of all reasons, e. N e e never the opportunity of trying it. (Laughter.) o f 0 poleon might be superior to him in making the b, e9 d the chance sastel' of a nd pro a v retreat,proving ilis b g u e t ne N r V al e s l h li i n p g Wellington t n h e is ver o li t e icout l ii a e r t : (Renewed laughter and cheers.) Amongst h' s ale° wonderful achievements in the Pe n i nsu l a , m i g ht h e ther e his passage of the Douro. He did not believe' tha t It s was anything equal to it in the history of the work" little the face of the Emperor's greatest marshal, witb der t ll6 more than one half the number of men to those ea colt' command of the French generals, Wellington crossed the Douro, and put his enemies to the routeibeell sat down that evening to the very dinner which ha. sea, prepared for Marshal Soult. The battle of Tala vet : i :st the campaign by which it was succeeded, off the e'irseeP Lisbon, was also one of the most extraordinary sPg l og of generalship which was recorded in history. B ; p e f ton's conduct after the battle of Talavera, when ' e ,: o e ° l 9l ,, s ; that he could no longer depend upon the Spanish g — o f it might truly be said, amounted to the dignitY ct sublime. With 80,000 of the French troops aga ill i e ri ; 5 ; in addition to about 40,000 in reserve, comma n d in Massena, one of Napoleon's best generals, an .91 0 . 4 threatened to march upon Wellington, off the ce : t he Lisbon—with his army then numbering little met h ; yen 50,000 men, his supplies being scanty, and a t . 1 o pt!: moment when the outcry in England aga inst hg eon ments was great, and therefore, discouraging—st i L H grel l• all these circumstances, and notwithstanding tik-0 fits " odds against him, the manner in which Welling ° 0 00 : defended his position, and ultimately routed th e e th; with its immense body of troops, was, perhapspe o ?,?l a r n finest illustrations of manoeuvring and skill w.,;; ; - t e of to be found in the annals of military warfare. ".elea s o traordinary foresight he formed lines of fortificatio w e er e s Torres Vedras, on the banks of the Tagus, which. to e ingeniously arranged as to carry destruction ' to fe,i enemy's camp ; and he ultimately put Massee a t i e eo t ep 1f route, and achieved one of his greatest eee eC triumphs, with the loss of very few of his men• oo t lington had been unsuccessful in the engag e , t % 0 4 Torres Vedras, he knew that he would have ha d a storm of opposition and complaint at hi t . " e 0 3 '21 those antagonistic to the carrying on of w as ," paign, whilst a weak and poor defence " In; fessed prospectsto be ; h h e i s friends seemed ; to but b be he scarcely that he expected to receive from those w"„ sac., aware. 1 0, oit, , e4 existence, and prosecuted this great work w t o esb' i o was undaunt ed skill and energies which his vast mental pow ers 00 g, him to exercise. The glorious victory at Salon" no we r e i also another proof of Wellington's transcend ant in t, and displayed his coolness and deliberation ee l ' o tello heat of an engagement ; for whilst writing his desP je d ar.d whilst engaged in matters of finance as reg el es ie O n ; troops, he was at the same moment, with his e a Olio watching the movements of his opponents , a t e ne k. rulaunted 7 1 the : 0 advantage of their position at every step they t hese 'di would make one more allusion to the series of cro pe oe , paralleled victories in the Peninsula, which wer, e s sr e ter i lle as all the world knew, by the master-stroke at . r es. te d and then pass on to the other portion of his rem'. etelem scarcely knew how to speak of the dreadful sceoe'njost at San Sebastian. A great and final victory ag o ust ,e / Emperor's troops was there effected but, c ariov admitted, at a frightful sacrifice. Plan& r, t _ ilt o tte d , rapine, were its attendants. Oh! the horrors l o f gP t bo on war ! It was the dark stain on the shield nver,,; Better, perhaps, that the veil should be draw;ebestiTee fearful scenes which attended the action at St. thellithe and yet, perhaps, it was well that we should haT e ee iete ne et called to our minds, in order the better to aPP r , s oe o de blessings which we in England enjoyed. We at W o o , nothing of the sacking of towns- of the pie" c o t ( „.es o shed, and desolation which was so often the fa t : e eolw i d quered city. It was, therefore, well to lay t ee llqvcle before us. No one was more deeply sensible of I t l eo. t he of internal strife, bloodshed, and civil wart e go 1 100 lington, as his celebrated statement mane' Yea r '., e of 'Ol lll House of Lords proved :—" My lords, I alm,. e „ war to o; who have probably passed more of my lile In f rar .0 0 • 61 1 ' cri most men, and principally, I may say, le o y and I must say this, that if I could avoid, hy a eo unifi r tf , whatever, even one month of civil w ar in the in o eile o d which I am attached, I would sacrifice my I ' l _ B o oo 0. 5 do it." He now came to Wellington as a stn _ ar o 0 1 ,0 as a man of peace, as they had seen him for uPl es t• t ee years. No doubt his military life was the gee e en t 0 5 0 0 earlier career of Wellington brought out the g t r w e lliaf e efr mind of the man. Still, in reviewing the life he o we 00 as a statesman, he (the lecturer) did it with t frbe re e eell ings of admiration as for his military career - sel f to eo t, here displayed the same power of adapting h g's v ee rjoeredf thing which Providence gave him to do. wi r d e ; as in military life, might in some instances eve o eic it but no one would impute to Wellington til re d 6 ,0 .1 parted. as a statesman, from what he consl ~i /b eeder line of duty for the benefit of his countrY, 0 0 , wn or of might be at the sacrifice of some of his e t iort e e lf opinions. No one supposed that the refle c to ° di curred to Wellington—" What shall g a L„ e .) F reke doing this or by doing that ?" (Hear, "` n s tail io tej contrary, Wellington's whole conduct, as, / / g o re , e e, would justify the inscription on his tomb the pu man of whom all know that he served After ° o re ,iy never thought to serve himself." ( Cheersa.) etaiest at some length upon his character as o f hi s .. e itc e e : lecturer proceeded to show that the whol%iiv a r i d, / military career proved that he was essen:_s clo s Frp s maker, and that all his Peninsular canopetble" c lcei" r j c le o e P i l monstrated this position. In conclusiollll_ life s o 50 4 4 an eloquent tribute to his meinory. It 01 1 1 of Wellington was to every marl a wara o . tlier lB erb °P rff the nation faithfully whilst living, bnd soe', P c ir e° of weeling over his grave; and though vert u to 00 0 4 t the sound of his praises might die a way u o l e verf t e a ' his name was engravers upon the heaf!tsionls woola„,// physic - all it is with us, you will at once perceive how inevitable is the tendency of such a system as this to extinguish, in the yet unpolluted mind, that feeling of ingenuous shame which recoils from all ideas of impurity, and to sear the conscience, as it were, with a hot iron. It is chiefly the inordinate love of spiritual power, the desire of being regarded an venerated as God's represen tatives on earth, and as th ppointed mediators, without whose intervention we cannot approach His Mercy Seat, that prompts the advocates of this abominable system in their attempts to bring us back to the practice of Auricular Confession. But I trust that we have not so learned Christ ; that we are not so ignorant of the relation in which, through Him, we stand to God. If we know the truth, as it is in Him, we know that through Him our Great High Priest in Heaven, and not through the media tion of any priest on earth, we have access with confidence to the Father. If, indeed, the mind of any Christian should be so burdened with the consciousness of his past offences as to make him lose sight of this blessed truth, and to fill him with the alarming apprehension that his iniquities are too great to be pardoned, and that his sinful life has closed the gates of mercy against him,—and such an apprehension as this sufficiently proves that the root of faith still remains in him—then it is the office of Christ's faithful ministers to intreat him to open his grief, and, in Christ's name and by his authority, to declare to him that the riches of God's mercies in Christ are inexhaustible; that if we confess our sins and turn to him, as the repen tant prodigal returned to his father, He will forgive us our sins for the sake of His Blessed Son, by virtue of Whose all-sufficient mediation and atonement all his past offences will be no more held in remembrance against him. Thus to make known the Gospel of the grace of God, to com fort and support the feeble minded, to pour oil into the bruised and wounded conscience, "to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the open ing of the prison to them that are bound," was the especial office to which Christ himself was anointed by the Spirit of the Lord. The same office is now committed to His ministers on earth, and His blessing is on those who do this office faithfully, looking always to Him who came to seek and to save them that are lost, and who is able to save to the uttermost them that come to God by Him. But for the ministers of Christ to place themselves in His stead, to arrogate to themselves, not a declaratory, but a judicial power of remitting or retaining the sins of men, and to proclaim, as from God, that God . will not pardon those who have not first received the benefit of their absolution : this is, in effect, to frustrate His grace, by making it dependent on the will of man, and to deny that Christ is our only Judge and Mediator. LIVERPOOL CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN STITUTION.-" WELLINGTO N, THE WARRIOR, STATESMAN, AND PEACE MAKER." The first lecture for the season, in connexion with the Liverpool Church of England Institution, WAS delivered in the Concert Hall, on Friday evening last, by the Rev. G. R. Moncrieff, rector of Tattenhall, Cheshire, the sub ject being the very appropriate one of " Wellington, the Warrior, Statesman, and Peace Maker." The proceedings (as is usual) having been opened with prayer, The Rev. G. R. MONCRIEFF addressed the assembly as follows :—Ladies and Gentlemen,—l have great plea sure in being of any service to an institution of this kind, and 1 cannot but feel it an honour, as well as a pleasure. in being allowed to address you on such a subject, and yet at the same time I feel it must be a very difficult one to undertake. I feel it must be a very arduous under taking to touch upon a theme upon which every eye has been now for some weeks engaged, and by which every heart has been affected. The name of Wellington has just filled every Englishman's bosom with affectionate gratitude, and the columns of every newspaper have pro claimed the homage which the entire nation has paid to the great man who, by the providence of God, was sent to be England's defender in times of danger. 1 must in deed, therefore, feel it difficult to add anything to the uni versal feeling which has been manifested. And yet I think that, for a time, it is well that our minds and feel ings should continue to be turned to the contemplation of our great defender. It is well that our hearts shenlit again be warmed by dwelling upon his memory, and that our voices should again and again swell in sounding his praises, until every corner of the earth shall be made to feel that, at a time of great national difficulty and danger, providence raised to us a hero in the hour of our greatest need. It is well that we should remember it—that we who received from our fathers the traditions of those dark days, whose clouds were first dispelled by the bright beams of Wellington's genius and bravery —it is well, I say, that we should hand down to our chil dren, by the striking ceremony of yesterday, that the name of him who was yesterday laid in the tomb, England should never forget so long as she recognises and acknow ledges the good providence of Him from whom all our blessings flow.—(Cheers.) And here it is that I think the character of him of whom I have to speak unites itself so closely with our nation's history. There may have been men before Wellington to whom nations bowed down, or to whom they looked up as their de fenders, and eulogized for their deeds ; but no hero's deeds of past or present times will, in my opinion, com pare with those of Wellington. There have been men who were, perhaps, great and mighty in their victories — who commanded the admiration of the world—and whose greatness and whose glories we may look upon with won der. There may have been an Alexander and a Napoleon, whose genius and victories we may regard with an amaze ment and an admiration which we cannot refuse to ac knowledge, but of whom we must needs say that it would have been well for the world if they had never been born— well for our children, and all those who may have to study their career, to discover that genius and greatness, unre strained by moral obligations, is a bane to society. (Hear, hear.) There have been great men, again, of whose deeds we must needs be proud, but to whom we cannot turn a s examples. There have, again, been men, like the Duke of Marlborough, whose military genius seemed involun tarily to display itself under the accidental circumstances in which it was placed, and which stood as it were alone, u nconnected with any great principle of duty. But such ke a a man as him whom we mourn now neitl: great beacon to be avoided, nor the agent of so ciple of inspiration which we may not attempt to foiloNN t was not with Wellington as with that his successes were achieved by any labour of his own ; but, in looking at Wellir see him in his deeds as among the noblest and of our heroes, to whom we can turn as an exampl cause all he did was closely connected with a high moral principle, which directed his entire career from its begin ning to its end. We can, therefore, turn to this great man, and say he was great because he was good —a man who, in discharging those offices which in the providence many ott Dn, we ghtest sive genera f our _,en that he was the greatest 0. _,J, of whom England never n eed be ashow He could not conclude in more r oe -6e .than in the words of our laureate---ti,',„ they rious words that laureate ever wrote, becs.u" the words of affectionate homage and truth lot to " -honour, honour, honour, honour Eternal honour to his name !" t The lecturer sat down amidst lou d and velaeraerl heroes hpar.)