The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA. We received, on &IndAy, by the arrival in the river of the royal mail steam-ship Africa, Ryrie, commander, letters and papers from New York to the Ist instant inclusive. The Africa's rnn on this occasion fully maintains her fame as a superior sea-boat and fast ship. Under a new arrangement, intended to be retained in constant force, the left New York on the Ist instant, -some three hours and a-half later than the usual period of departure. Her mails were received on board at 11.30. a.m. ; but, in order to afford time for mercantile letters of later date to be transmitted, her ultimate departure was postponed from the usual hour of noon until half-past three o'clock, p.m., when she set forth under full steam, passing Sandy Hook precisely at eve, p.m. During the greater part of the voyage the Africa encountered somewhat imfavourable and hoist, TOII9 weather, and her run, although accomplished in a remarkably brief space of time, cannot be compared with the fastest voyages of her sister ship Asia. On one day only chi her speed exceed 300 miles; and her voyage, therefore, can he reckoned only as a very fair average. She steered her course via the North of Ireland, making In nistrah ull at 20 minutes past 4 on Saturday afternoon, and shortly after 11 o'clock yesterday morning steamed past the Rock'Lighthouse, after a run, mean time, of 10 days 14 hours and 36 minutes, or some 10 hours longer than the Asia's swiftest run. She brought about sixty passen gers, the usual mails, a fine cargo, and 7.25,000 dollars and £774 sterling specie on freight. On her outward voyage, the Africa encountered weather of a truly tremendous character. From private sources we learn that her per formances throughout were magnificent; snd that she rode the enormous seas with admirable ease. The United States mail steam-ship Baltic (of the Collins line) put into Provincetown, Massachusetts, being short of fuel. She arrived at New York on the Ist inst., in seventeen days and a half. The steamer-Ohio, trading between New York and Savannah, was nearly lost on her voyage, and was com pelled 'o put into Norfolk, Virginia, with ten feet orate in her hold Ther nothing of importance in the advices from the United States The news from Nicaragua is somewhat alarming. The disputes between the consul, Mr. Chatfield, and the au thorities, were hastening a crisis, which, by the latest ac counts, (the 18th of 'November), seemed to be inevitable. The Austrian Minister had threatened to leave. The port of San Salvador had been blockaded by the Enziish. We regret to learn, by this arrival, of the loss of Cap tain Knight, of the packet-ship Ivanhoe, who was washed overboard on the outward voyage. Captain Knight was much respected by the mercantile and shipping public of New York and this port. A revised tariff has been published augmenting all articles of foreign importation -} per cent., and increasing the imposts on national imports by 1 7. It likewise augments the export duty on each box of sugar 50c., on each quarter of leaf tobacco exported 29e., and on every thousand chests 25c. in imports this change is to take place on the Ist of February, and continue for two years ; in exports from the Ist of January. Vessels from Europe are allowed to the Ist of March. Jenny Lind had arrived at Charleston, after a passage against a heavy gale. Her first concerts had not been quite successful Mr. G. Thompson, M.P., was 11 lecturing at Boston with great success Census returns state the population of Vermont to be 303.190, a gain of 20,668 in ten years. Connecticut shows a population of 372,000, and increase a twenty per cent. (in 1810. COII7dERCTAL The accounts from all r cs of the American Union are gra tifying as —Le state and prospects of commerce. Money in the leading cities was plentiful and easily obtained. The market for American securities was firm. The market for bresdstuffs was quiet, and prices were un altered. Western Canal flour, 4 dots. 87ir. to 5 dols., very fir ; Gennesse prime wheat, 98r. to 1 dol. per COlb. I Southern wheat, 1 dol. 6e. to I dol. Bc. per 601 b. ; Indian corn, round yell :w, &lc. to 66c. per bushel (steady) ; Ditto, flat yellow, 63c. per bushel ; Indian meal, 2 dolt. 87ic. to 3 dots. per barrel. In cotton a fair amount of business was doing at New York, and former quotations were steadily maintained—viz., New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, I•f¢e to 14c per lb., being a rise of ie ; Uplands and Florida, 13Zc to 14c per lb., showing a SiM , Tar rise Freights continue very low, and little business doing, Prevision markets were also very dull and low. Exclianz,e on London, 1104 to 1103. (moderate sales) Paris, 5 12 ; Bremen, SO to SOI ; Hamburgh, 37 to 374. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. THE CRISIS IN FRANCE. - The Moniteur of Friday morning publishes:the names AMERICA. of the new Ministry. They are as follows: Foreign Affairs—M. Drosyn de L'Huys. War-office—General Regnwalt de St.. Jean d'Angely. Marine and Colonies—M. Ducos, representative of the people. Public Works—M. Mague, latelkeretary of Finance. Commerce—M. Boileau, Member of the-Municipality and Department of the Seine. Ot the late Cabinet, Baroche (Interior).„-Fould (Finance), Rouher (Justice), and Parieu (Publicinstruction), retain Another decree, which is countersigned by the Minis ters of the Interior and of War, revokes the decree by which the National Guard of the Seine and the troops of the First Division were united under one command. This decree abolishes the post hitherto held by. General Chan garnier, who has been dismissed. General Perrot is appointed to the command of the National Guard ; and General Baraguay Jikiilliers to the command of the troops of the First Division. General Careles will retain his post. The Commander-in-Chief, General Baragaay D'Hil liers, has addr.ssed a general order to the army of Paris, in which he declares his intention to maintain the discip line which his predecessor has established ; to who'd the authority established by the Articles of 'War ; to respect and cause to be respected the rights and powersestablished by the Constitution ; and to give his energetic support to the authorities in the execution of the laws. M. de Rerrusat's motion in the National. Assembly, that the members should retire to their bureaux to name a commission to prepare resolutions necessary under the present circumstances, was carried, notwithstanding the explanations of the Minister, by a majority of .336 to 253. The Assembly accordingly retired to its bureaux at half past five o'clock ; a good deal of ,confusion prevailed in the Assembly after the minister had left the tribune. The Monileur contains the appointment of Admiral Romain Desfosses. late Minister of Marine, to the com mand of the Levant fleet, in place of Admiral de la Roque. The papers continue to be occupied with the attack of the Assembly on the Elysee, which the Constiiudionnel denonces as a new revolution. The ultra-opposition were to meet on Sunday, to con sider the conduct which the Republicans ought to take. Louis Napoleon shows himself much in public, without escort, and is general') well received. WEST INDIES. The West Tndia mail has arrived, with dates from Ja maica of Dec. 15 ; Demerara and flarbadoes, Dec. 14 ; Antigua and St. Kitts, Dec. 19. We are sorry to find from the papers now received, that the cholera was in creasing at Kingston, and in other places had proved most fatal. At St. Mary's, in 10 days, 430 deaths had occurred, or about one-third of its population. The first house which this scourge visited was occupied by 14 per sons, 12 of whom fell victims in the short space of 20 hours. Some small townships were almost depopulated. in other districts, the disorder was committing its deadly ravages, though not to such a frightful extent. The accounts from the West India islands speak on the average in favourable terms of the weather. At Barha. hoes the season was considered satisfactory. From St. Christopher's the advices agree in stating that beneficial rains had fallen, and that planting operations were pro ceeding steadily. At Antigua and Grenada there was no complaint of the want of rain. The Dominica papers as sert that the prevalence of wet hnd done considerable da mage. Some estates had suffered from over-flooding, and life and property had been sacrificed. In several of the islands a day had been set apart for religious observances in connexion with the apprehended visitation of cholera. BRAZIL By the arrival at this port on Saturday of the fine clip per ship Empress, Captain Marden, from Pernambuco.we have received advices from Rio Janeiro to the 3rd ult., Bahia to the 11th, and Pernambuco to the 17th. The Empress left Pernambuco on the evening of the 17th ult., and has therefore made the passage in the brief space of 24 days. At Rio Janeiro the apprehension of war with Rosas was contemplated with more calmness, and the preparations making by government were not on a very extravagant scale, and had not yet affected either the money market or the rate of exchange. Frequent thunder storms and gales—the usual accompaniments of this month, but notably ahsent in IB49—gave a hope that the yellow fever would not re-appear, and the residents at Rio Janeiro anticipated that 1851 would make amends for their past sufferings and trials. It may be mentioned, as a very unusual circumstance for a country that pro duces the precious metal, that gold was pouring into Brazil from all parts. There was no news of importance from Buenos Ayres, and many well-informed parties did not seem to contemplate a war as at all certain, but Rosas was taking active measures of preparation. The market for dry goods at Rio was dull. Good firsts coffee was selling at 3 milreis 650 reis per an - oba. Freights : 50s. to 60s. per - ton to the Channel (for orders) were the last ra'es paid ; but upwards of 40 veisels having arrived within a few days, the next engagements were expected to be at a lower rate. Exchange, 30d. At Behia white sugar was selling at I milrei 900 reis to 2 mil reis, and brown at 1 milrei 500 reis to 1 milrei 600 reis. Cotton brought 6 milreis 800 reis to 7 milreis, and coffee 3 milreis 600 reis to 3 milreis 800 reis, per arroba. Freights :—To Liverpool, 60s. ; to London, 60s. ; and to the Channel, (for orders,) 655. to 755. Exchange, 29id. to 30d. At Pernambuco brovvn sugars were selling at 1 milrei 550 reis to 1 milrei 600 reis, and white 2 milreis to 2 rn ilreis 200 reis, per arroba. Freights to the Channel and Mediterranean, 575. 6d. to CiOs. Exchange, 29.0. INDIA AND CHINA We have received a telegraphic despatch from Trieste in anticipation of the Overland Mail. The steamer Oriental arrived at Suez from Calcutta on the Ist, carrying 63 passengers, and the mails from 13om bay of the 17th December, Calcutta of the 7th December, Singapore of the 6th December, and Hong Kong of the 24th .Nwv,..mber. The greatest tranquillity prevailed throughout India. A trifling encounter took place at the Kohat frontier be tween the British troops, under Major Taylor, and the Wuzeer ; the latter were repulsed by the British troops, and only one wounded. On the 31st of November, the Governor-General set out from Amar Kullen to proceed to Lemdarmeer. Malignant fever and dysentery are de cimating the troops in the Punjab. Sir Charles Napier was expected at Bombay on the 3rd of January. Sir Wm. Gomm arrived at Calcutta on the 6th of December. The negotiations respecting the Calcutta railroad have come to a standstill. The directors of the Marat Bank have suspended their secretary, Marir Angelo, and perempto rily summoned the Nazim to pay hia debt to England, on or before the Ist day of December. Sir Wm. Anderson, the governor, has arrived in Ceylon. Java is tranquil. Piracies are still being perpetrated. Siam is tranquil, but apprehensions existed as to its future state. The King:is constructing a fort. Sundry vessels had gone ashore and been wrecked in the S.W. Violent rains had fallen in the interior. The Legislative Council passed a vote against the transport of convcts in the colony. The Donna Maria, Portuguese frigate, exploded at Macao ; 200 persons were killed.—Trade Report : Bombay market brisk, with considerable supplies, and lower prices. Ex change on London, 2s. 2d. ; freightage to Liverpool, £2 10s. CALUUTTA COMIKERCIAL. Export market very brisk. A good harvest is expected. In digo and sugar command high prices. Salpetre and raw silk are firm ; much was doing in imports, especially in Lancashire invoices. The sugar harvest has been had in Siam. Cotton is much in demand at Canton, and commands high prices. Exchange on England.-56.0-id. to ss. 2d.i Freights, 2s. CHINA Cotton in pieces not in usual demand of the season, market choked, and prices going down. Opium was go ng down ; the stock on hand is small and bad, and prim low. The following horrible story appears in the Colonial Standa✓d—" A traveller from St. Thomas in the East, who passed through Yallah's Bay yesterday. has related to us a state of things in that locality which are perfectly frightful, hut which, for public good, we feel bound to publish. He assures us that, in passing through Yallah's, be observed a human head detached from its body dragged along the high road by a doe, and that, on remarking this awful circumstanc2. to an official gentleman of the parish, be was told that it was by no means a solitary case of horror, for ;hat in Yallah's Bay there had been the corpse of a person who died from cholera lying for ten days; that the dogs and hogs were running in and out with piece,: of flesh in their mot.ths, and not a human being had courage to approach the building, even for the pur pose of consuming it with oe," ITALY. ',The Pope, in order to facilitate the transmission of specimens of Roman industry in arts and manufactures to the Great Exhibition in London, has ordered that all productions approved of by the commission appointed for that purpose shall be sent into England at the expense of the -Government, which, however, will not hold itself responsible in any other respect. Ciceracchio and Carbonarello, the principal authors of the proceedings in May, 1849, when the confessionals of the churches in the neighbourhood of the Piazza del Popolo were destroyed, have been condemned by the Consults to 15 years' forced labour. Their accomplices will :undergo a similar punishment, varying in duration from two to five years. For the last taro days there has been circulating in the city an .anonymous pamphlet, entitled, " Rome and the Roman States," and containing a severe censure of the acts of the government. _ With the exception of a company or two in barracks on the Piazza of the Holy Apostles, as guard to the French embassy, nearly all the troops have been with drawn in the Transtevere and around the Vatican. The Castle of St. Angelo is well guarded, and passages have been constructed communicating with the Vatican, so that in case of a popular outbreak the 600) French troops could defend the quarters of the Pepe, or at all events his Holiness could pass from the Vatican to the fortress by this renewed communication. The report of coal in California hai been contradicted by an official report from a scientific gentleman. In the West Indies and California, twenty-five, fifty, and even ninety per cent, of the inhabitants of some towns are represented to have fallen victims to cholera. Mis Cathirine Hayes has made a triumphant debut at Rome. Her reception was a perfect furore. She will visit New York in May. A letter from Turin, dated January 3, reports that Ge neral Bem died at Aleppo ,on the 11th of December, after a short illness. He died a Mussulman, and thus received all the honours due to his rank. A riot took place in Genoa on the 3d instant. Several persons were wounded. In order to insure the tranquil lity of Italy, the French Government proposes to station sundry steamers along the coast. SOMETHING LIKE A STORM.—Letters from St. Petersburgh of the 25th ult. say that, on the 3d of Octo ber, a terrible tempest broke out at Kirgis, when the horde of Korin generally establishes its camps, and 168 persons were killed, as also were 205,600 sheep, 1,292 horses, 490 camels, and 360 oxen. During eight clays the soil was covered with snow to the depth of 51 yards. REVIVAL OF JESUIT CLAIMS TO PROPERTY.—The South Carolinian states that Pius IX. has sent a Romish bishop to California, who, in addition to his spiritual duties, is to examine'and exhibit the titles of the old Jesuit property in California, and who will, it is thought, lay claim to one hundred and fifty millions of dollars' worth of land, as the property of the early Jesuit missionaries in that country. A STRANGE FRENCH TALE.—The Echo de Vesone says, a woodman, engaged a few days back in cutting up some old trees, discovered in the body of one of them a skeleton cased in rusty armour. The form and ornaments of the armour show that it goes back to the time of the religious wars. It is supposed that a wounded soldier had got into the tree as a place of refuge, and when in a state of exhaustion had fallen into the hollow. AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GREAT EXHI BITION.—The United States ship Ohio has been ordered to prepare to carry contributions to the Exposition of 1851. One journal says, " The largest lump of zinc ore, we believe, ever yet known to have been taken out of mines of that metal, was received here on Saturday, and sent to the Brooklyn Navy-yard, to be forwarded from there to the Great World's Fair. It is from the mines of the New Jersey Exploring and Mining Company, and weighs 16,000 pounds ; average dimensions each way, about three feet six inches." A second states that a hale of Tennessee cotton, for the " World's Fair," at London, had reached New Orleans. FATE. OF A FRENCH BEAUTY.—On Saturday morning a humble hearse, followed only by an old woman, leading a dog by a string, left the rue de l'Hirondelle, near the Pont St. Michel. It contained the body of a female, who, under the Directory and the Consulate, had been one of the most fashionable tnerveilluses. She was the daughter of a poor fruitwoman of the rue St. Victor, but her extraordinary beauty caused her to take to the pave. Whilst leading that life she attracted the attention of the late English Marquis of and he gave her an hotel in the rue Caumartin, a carriage and four horses, boxes in all the theatres, and the toilette of a queen. In three fates of Longchamps, Tuberuse—such was her norn de guerre—cast, by her luxury, all the Parisian aristocracy into the shade. But some escapes caused the Marquis to abandon her, and her own extravagance and orgies re duced her lower and lower. Her beauty at length also faded, and she was obliged to become a seller of oranges and oysters. She subsequently became a dealer in poultry in the market, and so continued up to her death.—Paris Constitutionnel. THE GREAT FALLS OF NIAGARA.—On Tuesday even ing last our citizens were startled on hearing a loud and terrific noise, resembling, as near as we can describe it, the heavy booming of artillery in quick succession, which shook the earth around us very sensibly. Part of the Horse-shoe Fall on the Canada side had fallen, carrying away about ten rods of the rock in length, by four in width. The canal boat, which ha 6 been lodged for the last few months on the brink of the rock which had fallen, and which has excited the admira tion of all who beheld it, was also carried over with the rock. It is now in the whirlpool, two miles down the river, dancing attendance on the freaks of that great maelstrom. The crash occurred about seven o'clock in the evening, and it is indeed providential that it fell at such an hour and at this season of the year. Had it been in the summer, when so many thousands of strangers are here, there undoubtedly would have been persons crushed to death ; for it is precisely the spot whence so many contemplate the grandeur of nature and behold the waters of the mighty cataract above them rushing terrifically over their heads that is now filled with huge masses of rock which have fallen from above. The loss of this por tion of the rock has not in the least diminished in ap pearance the view of the Falls, but has, in our opinion, added to the scene, which looks grander and more sub lime, if possible, than ever.—Niagara Falls Iris. CALIFORNIA.—With regard to the mines, the accounts are as flattering as ever. New discoveries are continually being made. A gentleman who has lived for nearly two years in the southern mining district told me, three days ago, that the gold, though not so abundant and far more inaccessible than formerly, still exists in immense quanti ties, both in quartz and in the earth, but that, until labour cheapens, it cannot be worked on a large scale with profit. This gentleman was engaged in a gold mine in Chili for seven years, and I know him well by character ; his re port is worthy of credit. Then as to the prospects of the other (the northern) mining district, from all accounts it is equally good. A piece of stone, richly intersected with pure gold veins, has lately been discovered at Navada City, on Deer Creek, a tributary of the Juba river, which is Rely to lead to great results. This stone has been dug round to the depth of a yard, but it has not yet been as certained whether it is the head of a vein or only a solitary lump of stone. Its richness is very great, and the finder has refused 40.000 dollars for his claim upon it. I had the story on good authority. A good many deaths having lately occurred, has given rise to the belief that the cholera prevails here. The doctors differ on the subject, and when I recollect that at this time last year there was an equal number of deaths among people who returned from the mines, I am inclined to think that the disease supposed to be cholera is not so, but a disease of the country. In Sacramento city, however, cholera has certainly prevailed for some time back, and a great many deaths have taken place.—Times Correspondent. GREAT CAVE IN THE STATES OF INDIANA.—We are just informed by N. J. Coleman, Esq., who has recently visited the Great Indiana Cave, that another immense cavern had been discovered opening from the original cave, which, in extent, curiosities, and mineral produc tions, far surpasses the old cave. `Zr. Coleman disco vered an aperture just before reaching Jacob's Ladder, into which a large man could hardly enter, and desired the party which accompanied him to explore it. The guide and two or three of the party objected, as the aper ture appeared to descend rapidly, and they feared they might meet with bad air. By a little persuasion, how. ever, they were prevailed upon to make the exploration. With much difficulty they descended some 40 feet, when to their great astonishment they found thernselus in an immense apartmeet, They immediately determined to fully explore the race they had discovered. They found t4t thic room °poner into others, and these into still TIME 1,1/ERl l 64lq, STANDARD. others; and that, apparently, there was no termination to the cave. "They &Hewed the main passage some four or five miles, ,according to their best calculation, when they were admonished by their lights that they must return. On their- way back they visited some- of , the rooms which they had passed, in which were found large beds of epsom salts, in nearly a pure state. The cave also contains 'fine specimens of saltpetre, plaster of paris, alabaster, &c., of the party procured many fine specimens. Weean now say to our sister state Kentucky, that Indiana has a cavern which far surpasses the Great Mammoth, as the last discovery, in connection -with the Great Indiana Caves-will make it one of the largest in the United States. 'lt is about eleven miles from Corydon, in a south-west direction, and about seven miles north of Leavenworth.—New Albany Ledger. SOMETHING ROMANTIC. The Paris correspondent of a weekly contemporary has the following story of a noble lord lately deceased; — The festivities of-the week have been varied, if not sad dened, by the deatlnof an English nobleman who had for many years become a resident in Paris, and who once swayed the sceptre of the kingdom of fashion without op position. This death is likely to give rise to the most mc traordinary revelations, and to one of the most marvellous trials which have ever-come before a jury. The gentleman whose demise has been attended with so much mystery is the heir to a peer of the realm, and during the high and palmy days of the domination of Lord Granville at the British Embassy was the very idol of the fashionable circle of-Paris. His fair contemporaries can not even now speak without emotion of his especial grace, and the beauty of his accomplished manners and gentle manly bearing. His musical talent, too, had endeared him to all lovers of the art ; while his great wealth ena bled him to bestow patronage upon artists of merit, and many artists who now revel in the enjoyment of large incomes owe their very existence to his bounty in setting them forward in the beginning of their career. It was in the very midst of all this success, this full possession of the world's favour, that Lord S— suddenly disappeared from amid the circles wherein he was most appreciated and admired. Some declared that he had been engaged in forging transactions; others that he had been detected in coining ; some that he had retired to La Trappe ; and others that he had committed some heinous crime, which had compelled him to change his name and seek some so litude amid the wilds of America. By degrees, however, his history was forgotten, when on the finest day of last summer two of the most fashion able lionnes of Paris, being on an excursion at Enghien, lost their way ; and, weary and exhausted with wander ing., suddenly came upon a low-thatched cottage, hidden amid the shelter of one of .the thickest avenues of the forest of Montmorency. The place was a mere hovel, standing in the midst of a wretched garden divided from the path but by a hedge of faggots —a man was at work in the poor patch of ground digging potatoes—the fair lionnes called to him for assistance to guide them on their way— the man arose from his stooping posture to wipe the sweat from his brow before he answered ; and as lie with drew the blue check handkerchief from his face the :lionnes shrieked and fell almost senseless against the palisade—the countenance revealed in the glaring scorch ing sunlight was that of Lord S , the dethroned sovereign, the exiled monarch of that world in which they still moved and which still mourned his abdication ! To their great surprise, Lord S displayed neither shame nor embarrassment, but recognised them on the instant, and invited them to repose an instant in his cot tage with as much ease and grace of manner as though he had been leading the way to his former salon in the Fau bourg .St. Honore ; nor did he manifest the slightest sentiment of regret at the wretched interior which met their gaze, nor make the least apology for the miserable blouse and sabots in which he was attired. A tall, gaunt, ill. favoured woman, who was at work in the only room belonging to the cottage, offered them, by his lord ship's direction, a mug of cider and a bowl of cabbage soup, which she herself drew from the fire where it was simmering with unsavoury odour; and when they de parted he expressed no wish to behold them again, and enjoined them to no secrecy concerning the place of his retreat. Of course the story was all over Paris almost before the train which bore the fair lionnes had arrived at the ter minus. In less than a week the whole of the fashionable world had been to the place where the " banished lord" had hid himself so long; but from the day of the visit of the ladies the cottage had been shut up ; and although the peopleof th; neighbourhood declared that theinhabitants still remained within, and came out only at night, yet no more was seen of Lord S-, and after awhile the cottage was in reality abandoned, and all pursuit rendered useless once more. The arrival of two great London lawyers last week has revived the interest experienced two years ago by the discovery of his retreat ; and his death, which has taken place in a hovel situated at the bottom of a cow yard at the Batignolles, is likely to give much work to the sort of workmen that the English call the gentlemen of the long robe ; as it appears he has left by will,duly signed and sealed, the whole of his vast personal property to the tall, gaunt, ill-favoured woman who for more than twelve years has been the sharer of his solitude, and who, amongst the ignorant neighbours, is said to have possessed an in fluence amounting to witchcraft over her unfortunate victim. Of course, the family of the noble lord are re solved to dispute the will, and for this purpose the lawyers have begun collecting evidence to establish a question of insanity. What renders the case yet more curious is that the terror with which the with is viewed is so great that it is with the utmost difficulty that the smallest particle of information can be obtained. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. DIOCESE OF CHESTER, CONSECRATION.—On Tuesday, January 7th, the Bishop of Chester consecrated the new church of St. John the Evangelist's, Kingsley, in the parish of Frodsham, Che shire. The church has been built by subscription, and with the exception of twelve pews the seats are entirely free. The townships of Kingsley and Newton will form its district, and its endowment consists of twenty pounds a-year from the Mother Church, in addition to pew rents and surplice fees, besides which an excellent parsonage house has been erected for the incumbent. There is a chinch-yard which was consecrated at the same time. The Vicar of Frodsham is the patron. After a sermon by the Bishop, the sum of seventy pounds was collected in aid of the fund for finishing the church. On the same day the Bishop of Chester consecrated a piece of ground added to the parish church of Frodsham. The Bishop of Chester has licensed a room in the newly-erected Sailors' Home, Liverpool, for divine ser vice. Lord John Manners, M.P., will shortly deliver a series of lectures, in Colchester, on the Colonial Church. The Bishop of London's archidiaconal visitation, which was announced to take place immediately, is understood to have been put off sine die. The Rev. Dr. Macleod, of Morver, will be proposed as moderator of the next assembly of the Church of Scot land. The Lord Chancellor has appointed the Rev. C. Cuth bert Southey, son of the late Poet Laureate, to the vicar age of Ardleigh, Essex. It is reported that the Bishop of Oxford has issued an inhibition against Dr. Pusey's preaching in his diocese. What will the University now do ? _ _ No less than £6,006 has been already subscribed towards the erection of a Protestant Church at Pantasa, near St. Asaph, where Lord Fielding has declined to have his erection attached to the church. The Right Rev. David Low, L.L.D., Bishop of Moray and Ross, has resigned his office on the ground of his ad vanced years and increased infirmities, which render him unable for the due discharge of his duties. A meeting was held in the Mayor's parlour at Man chester, on Monday, the Dean in the chair, and compris ing a large number of the clergy, with the principal Dissenting ministers, Mr. James Heywood, ALP., and the leading merchants and manufacturers of the town. The meeting was called by the Rev. C. Richson, clerk in orders of the Cathedral, to consider a plan drawn up by himself and some members of the Church Education Society " To show the practicability of constructing an effective system of local education on the basis of plans now in operation :" "The principal features of the plan are to make use of the unoccupied room in schools of the various religions denomina tions in Manchester and Salford; to provide for the contingent expenses by a local rate not exceeding sd. in the pound, and the management to be by committees elected out of their own members by the municipal council of the two boroughs. The religious convictions of all parties are to be respected and equally protected, by a guarantee that in all existing schools admitted into union with the district committee no creed or formulary shall be taught to children to which their parents or lawful guardians may, in writing, object. In new schools erected by the Educational Committee no distinctive creed is to be taught within the ordinary school hours, although daily reading of the Scriptures is to be provided for. The manage ment of the latter schools is also to be exclusively by lay per sons. The assistance of her Majesty's inspectors is to be ob tained in estimating the educational wants of any locality, and n• school is to be ereaed by the district committee or land purchased without the sanction of the Committee of Privy Council on Education. In a meeting composed of every shade of religious and political opinion on such a mixed question as education, considerable difference and opposition would be expressed, notwithstanding the declaration of the Chairman.that the object then was merely to discuss the plan, without its being considered in any way to interfere with the right of any one present to modify or change his views here after. Accordingly, in the different speeches the leanings and prejudices of the speakers were perceptible, and it was evident that considerable difficulty will be experienced in maturing the plan and carrying it into effect. The Chairman at the outset disclaimed any intention to give the Church undue influence, or at all to interfere with the consciences or rights of dis senters. In reply to a question by Mr. Richard Birley, senior churchwarden, respecting the absence of the Lord Bishop of the diocese, the Dean replied that it had been deemed advis able, until the plan was more matured, not to solicit his lord ship's assistance, lest it should lead to any misunderstanding; but when the principles had been decided upon to the general satisfaction, the committee would gladly avail themselves of his admitted ability and experience." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. At Manchester 45 horses are named for the Trades men's Cup, 41 for the Union Cup, and 28 for the Salford Borough Cup. In the forthcoming match between the Flying Dutch man and Voltigeur, at York, the latter will be ridden by Flatman. THE CHASE. The Cheshire Hounds will meet to-morrow, Wednesday, at Wilkesley Village ; Thursday, at Chohnonthley ; Fri.. day, at Appleton, and Saturday;, at Ravensmoor Wind.- m ill : each day at half-past ten ,clock, except Wednes day and Friday, when they will mod at eleven. Sir W. W. Wynn's Hounds .wilt meet to-morrow, Wednesday - , at Brvn-y-pys ; Friday., Oteley-park ; and Saturday, et Wortheahury eael 4.9 y at hrlf-past tea o'clock. IRELAND. • The agent for Sir R. O'Donnell has written to say that the negociations of Mr. Nangle for the purchase of Achill island, are broken off. A young gentleman, the only son of a member of the Society of Friends, received confirmation on-Sunday,- at the Cathedral, Limerick, from the bishop of the diocese. At the weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, the rent amounted to £2O 14s. 6d., including. 3 from America. One of the most destructive fires which has taken place in Dublin (the Custom-house excepted) during the last 20 years, broke out about midnight on Saturday, on the extensive premises of the Messrs. Hutton, the eminent eoach-builders, of Summer-hill, by which, in the course of a few hours, property to the extent, it is feared, of £15,000 has been destroyed, and 150 industrious artisans thrown out, temporarily at least, of lucrative employ ment. THE DISMISSED BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—A public meeting of the ratepayers of the Ennistymon union presi ded over by Sir Lucius 0' Brien, M.P., was held on fri day for the purpose of "considering the very dispotic and and alarming step taken by the commissioners of the Poor Laws in the dismissal of the board of guardians of that union." After a fair share of indignant eloquence had been poured on the heads of the Commissioners a series of resolutions were agreed to expressive of indignation at this unconstitutional exercise of power. _ _ A " CUT" FOR MR. JOHN O'CONNELL.-MT. John O'Connell has received a severe cut from Mr. Moore, the2Romish member for Mayo, who, in declining an invi tation to attend the proposed meeting of Roman Catholic members, thus disposes of a charge of having assailed the memory of Mr. O'Connell's father :—" Take my advice, my dear sir, and leave your father's memory alone—it can take care of itself. It is far too great to he affected by a sneer of mine, were I capable of uttering such. Have better faith in your father's glory, and less confi dence in the virtue of such assistance as your own petulant advocacy can supply. As for the expressions which you have thought proper to apply to me—such as ' Orange,' paltry,' unworthy,' contemptible,' &c., it would be inappropriate to call them ' unworthy,' or even ' con temptible'—they are simply stupid; and I should be as great a blunderer as yourself, if I noticed them further." IRISH MANUFACTURE.-Mr. H. Applevard, of Bal briggan, has produced an article of Irish manufacture which, we may safely say, cannot be surpassed in any part of the world. He has brought cotton to rival, in texture and softness, the finest silk, insomuch that his stockings of that fabric might be worn in full dress, even at the Queen's court. A dozen pair of ladies' stockings, of full size, and weighing only nine ounces, which he has in readiness to be forwarded to the Hyde Park Exhibi tion, are pre-eminent in the beauty and perfection of their workmanship. They will, certainly, bear the bell at that gorgeous fair, and inspire many a belle with a desire to wear them. That, by the bye, would be the way to set them off to the utmost advantage. If Mr. Appleyard would really take the shine of their glassy palace, let him present his specimens of handicraft, encircling a dozen pairs of ancles, and all of equally genuine Irish manufac ture with his stockings. The Balbriggan table will, how ever, display stouter proofs of Irish skill and industry than such fairy works. In every description of cotton and silk hosiery, it ,can challenge a comparison with Nottingham itself. Such, indeed, is its reputation, that fraudulent substitutions, the products of the Scotch and English looms, are offered in some monster establishments of our city for Balbriggan wear ;" and it is necessary for those who desire at once to encourage native enterprise, and to secure the best value for their money, to be-ware of coun terfeits.—Dublin Mail. IMPROVED PROSPECTS FOR IRELAND.—If we anticipate anything for the next year, it is that steady industry will go forward ; that men will learn to depend more and more upon themselves and less upon Governments; that our trade and commerce will advance, under an average season ; and that the slow but effective pressure of the nation on behalf of free education will be felt, and will advance the cause of enlightenment. Our country has been loag enough the victim of sects and factions, of political impostors and sectarian schemers ; and it now exhibits some satisfactory symptoms of a determination to act a little for itself. The railway and the steam-ship, the flax-gower and the flax-steeper, the spinner and the bleacher, are all in activity, labouring, each of course for his own separate advantage, but all nevertheless strug gling to advance the nation, and give it a real rank among the nations of the world, than if they had, or pretended to have, that object in view, and were straining their lungs like so many enthusiastic patriots. We therefore entertain strong hope and take high courage; and much as Ireland is advanced now, compared with what she was at the beginning of the century, that advance is little in compariso❑ with what may be anticipated from the career which seems to be opening for her as she glides into the second half of this great centenary cycle of our race.— Belfast Whig.—[Protestant Ulster may thus progress, but the poor victims of the Papacy in Connaught and Munster will continue as degraded and indolent as ever.] LAW INTELLIGENCE. CROSBIE V. CASE.—This was an action brought in the Secondaries' Court, London, on Wednesday, to recover damages for criminal conversation with plaintiff's wife. The damages were laid at £5,000, and defendant having suffered judgment to go by default, the jury were called upon to assess damages. Mr. M'lntyre, counsel for the plaintiff, said that this was an action for trespass, for cri minal conversation with plaintiff's wife, but he was happy to say that defendant, by not pleading, admitted the facts charged in the declaration ; and it would, therefore, be unnecessary to adduce evidence. It had also been agreed between the parties that a verdict should be taken for £5OO. Mr. James, who appeared for the defendant, con sented to a verdict for that amount. The position in life of the parties did not transpire in evidence ; but it will probably be remembered that, at the Liverpool Assizes, plaintiff was charged with horse-whipping a person for in. sirmating that the improper connexion existed, but after.: wards found he had whipped the wrong party. WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT, FRIDAY.—CARDINAL WISEMAN AND HIS LANDLORD.—FILDER V. WISEMAN. —Since the establishment of the County Courts, no case has excited greater interest than the above. A report having got abroad that the Cardinal himself would appear in the defendant's box, the court was crammed to suffo cation. It was an action brought to recover £33 6s. 6d. by the plaintiff, a gentleman residing at Bexhill, Sussex. for, as the instructions stated, " You having taken cer tain premises and left without paying the rent, or for any of the damage done, and all your effects having been taken away, and you being about to quit the kingdom, expenses in following you to London to obtain payment; two bushels of coals left in the house, and net repaid on quitting as promised ; damage done to water-closet, doors, windows, &c., bottles cracked, breaking bell-ropes and nine pendulums off ; injuring strawberry-beds, and an extinguisher taken away," &c. In fact, the bill of parti culars of demand would leave one to imagine that the " Archbishop of Westminster" must have been very un mindful of his landlord's property, for the various items of damage sustained relate to almost every utensil in the house. Upon the case appearing in its turn, it was inti mated that the plaintiff and defendant had elected to have the claim settled by arbitration, and, consequently, much to the chagrin of a County Court audience, his Eminence did not appear. THE LOSS OF A FORTUNE.—IN THE MATTER OF Ho- RATIO CLAGErr.—This insolvent applied in London, on Monday, under the Protection Act. There was only one debt in the schedule. Sir Wyndhatn Anstruther was in serted as a creditor for £645, arising out of an annuity transaction entered into in 1833, when Sir Wyndham became surety for the insolvent, and respecting a com position on thesamea statement was made in the schedule. It was the only debt he owed. It appeared that the wife of the insolvent had £3,800 a-year, and that he had re ceived from her £6OO within the last six months, which he had spent in various places of amusement. He had lived in the Abbey-road, St. John's Wood, with his wife, who kept four horses and three carriages, and £BOO of her income was the rent of a house let to the Duke of Brunswick. The insolvent on being asked why he did not pay the debt, said he had no means of getting the money, as his wife had lost her fortune through him, her father, Mr. Day, having altered his will, under which she would have had £25,000 a-year, and cut her off with £3,000 a-year. He had been ill-used, and therefore he would not make any arrangement. Mr. Lucas, who op posed. contended that it would be a libel on the Act of Parliament to protect a man with nearly £4,000 a-year, and indulging in every luxury, when poor men were obliged to make payments from their incomes. The Chief Commissioner said there was no analogy in the cases. There was no tradesman here. COURT AND FASHION. -4 The Earl of Harrowby has arrived in Grosvenor-square from Sandon Hall, Staffordshire. The Earl of Wilton bas joined the Countess and the Ladies Egerton, at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, from visiting the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, at Bret by Park. WOBURN ABBEY.—On new year's eve there was a charade of three scenes performed in " The Queen's Drawing-loom," so called since her Majesty's visit ; and the last scene terminated an unveiling of the Christmas Tree of the Duchess of Bedford, sparkling with diamonds. On Saturday the theatrical season terminated in a play and a farce, the Right Hon. Baron Parke acting as prompter. A correspondent of the Arbroath Guide, residing near Balmoral, describes the good effects of the solicitude of Queen Victoria and her family for the welfare of the poor in the vicinity of Balmoral :—" A school has been founded and a school-house built at Strathgirnoch, on the Aber geldie estate, and male and female teachers arc to be placed there and provided for. The description of chil dren in the district, and those at a distance from the paro chial school, are to be the pupils ; and the whole at our gracious Queen's expense. A number of neat cottages are also in course of erection near Balmoral, and at Knocks, on the Birkhall estate. The mansion of the last mentioned property is to be enlarged for Prince Albert. PRIVATE THEATRICALS AT BRETnr-PARK.---During the present festive season the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have entertained a numerous and distin guished circle of friends at their hospitable mansion of Bretby, among whom were the Marquis d'Azeglia (Sar dinia❑ Minister), Lord and Lady Dufferin, Lady Ade laide Paget, Lady Seymour and the Lndies St. Maur, Lord Wilton. Lord Dunkellin, Mr. and Mrs. J. Massey Stanley, H. Baring, Esq., M.P., Lord and LadyGlengall, Lord Canterbury. Dramatic performances formed a prin cipal feature of the evening's amusements. The theatre was fixed up in the spacious dining-rooms, and the plays were continued several nights, and consired of one French and two English comedies. The acting was of a very high order, as may be well supposed, when Lady DuiTerin, Lady Seymour, &c., took part in it. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. The Chronicle is inclined to add Lord Palmerston to the list of deserters from Lord John, in consequence of his letter on Papal aggression. The Town Council of Birmingham have petitioned Go vernment against the paper and advertisement duties and the newspaper stamp. . . Sir Thomas N. ftedington has resigned the lucrative situation of Under-Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant. He thinks that no Romanist should hold office under a No-popery Government. At a late meeting of some of his constituents, Mr. Wakley, M.P. for Finsbury, promised to resign if his health did not improve. On the same occasion he gave an unfavourable account of the health and spirits of his colleague, Mr. T. Duncombe. A crowded meeting of delegates of the metropolitan parishes was held at Marylebone on Wednesday, to pro mote the repeal of the window-tax. Several members of parliament were present, and Mr. Williams, M.P., and Lord D. Stuart, M.P., advocated, amidst loud cheering, the stopping of the supplies, if their requests were not complied with. A FACT FOR THE FREE TRADERS.—There are lying just now, in Falmouth harbour, forty vessels laden with wheat from Palestine, a sample of the ordinary produce of that country, to be followed by further arrivals of the same character, many more vessels similarly freighted being actually on their way to England at this moment. The wheat, though small, is of excellent quality, weighing 631bs. to the bushel. It had to be conveyed to the coast on the backs of camels; but notwithstanding this diffi culty it was put on board at Alexandria, free of all ex pense, at 17s. per quarter. It is off red in the English market at 255. Now, what we wish to know is, how the English farmer can possibly compete with this ? By what contrivance is he to produce wheat which he can deliver in the market at 255. a quarter ? What wages will this price enable him to pay to his labourers ?—John Bull. CALIFORNIA AND THE NATIONAL DEBT.—Mr. Muntz has resorted again to his feeble la quoque on the subject of California ; but when he says that we are ready to con vert paper into gold at £25 per ounce, or 3s. 6d. in the pound, if the California accident should enable us to do so, he has made a little slip. California will not help us unless we stick to the £3 17s. 100. per ounce. There is not a shadow of dishonesty in wishing the terms of a bur densome engagement to become lighter. If we had undertaken to supply 1000 tons of iron at £5 a ton for the next five years, we should think it no sin to hope that the price of iron might fall to £2 before the term was out. A due regard to the national honour need not prevent us from wishing the gradual extinction of the National Debt by this natural process, though prudence and humanity alike forbid us to wish for any sudden change, distribut ing, as it certainly would, much more injury to some classes than benefit to others.— Times. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. -. The traffic of the London and North Western Com pany keeps uncommonly well. For this week it is £4,750 above that of last year, yet this is a week when the traffics of most other lines are down. Captain Moorsom, who succeeded Mr. Collett as Chair man of the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, is about to retire, if he has !not already retired, from that post, and it is said that Mr. Peto will be his successor. The meeting of the Cheshire Junction Railway Com pany on Saturday was again postponed to next Saturday week, in consequence of no report being ready as to the arrangements with the London and North Western Rail way. On Friday, two enginemen, :guard, and station porter on the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway, were acquitted of a charge of culpable homicide on the occasion of the late accident at the Cowlair's Station of the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway. It is rumoured in a well-informed quarter, that at a meeting of the Birmingham and Shrewsbury hoard, held on Tuesday, it was determined to conclude an agreement with the Great Western Railway Company for the pos session by the latter of the Birmingham and Shrewsbury A serious collision occurred on the North-Western line, on Saturday week, at Boxmoor, a goods train having put in at that station in consequence of the defective state of its engine, when it was run into by the Liverpool ex press. Signals had been heisted, which were seen by the engineer and guard, who shut off the steam, and put on the breaks, but in consequence of the frosty grease on the rails, after a shower of rain, there was not sufficient bite. and a collision took place. The driver was not hurt, but the stoker was seriously injured, and for some time sup posed to be dead. Some twelve or fourteen passengers were more or less hurt. One gentleman had his right eye injured ; a lady had some of her teeth knocked out ; ano ther was severely cut about the face ; and others received contusions about the head and limbs ; but no bones were fractured. THE PAPAL AGGRESSION. Sir George Grey has decided upon presenting both the Devon addresses to the Queen. A protest against the recent act of the Pope, signed by 2007 of the ladies of Dover, has been presented to her Majesty and graciously received. The Rural Deans of the diocess of Killaloe have applied to the clergy of their district to address the Queen on the late Papal aggression ; the Dean of Kilmacduagh has re fused his signature. Lord Bexley, the president of the British and Foreign Bible Society,'has sent a donation of £lOOO to that im portant institution, as the commencement of an " ap peal," to enable them to extend their operations at this juncture. Mr. W. Waring Perrey attended at the Home Office yesterday week, to band to Sir George Grey the lay ad dress of the inhabitants of Tranmere, for presentation to her Majesty against papal aggression. It was subscribed by 2180 owners of property and ratepayers of the town ship. A numerous meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of the county of Cornwall was held on Tuesday, at the Shire-hall, Bodmin, to take into consideration the recent Papal aggression. The High Sheriff (Mr. W. Danby) presided. There were also present Sir C. Lemon, M.P., Sir C. Rashleigh, the Hon. G. M. Fortescue, Mr. E. W. W. Pendarves, M.P., Mr. J. T. A. Robartes, 11. P., and a very large assemblage of the most influential gentlemen of the county. An association of laymen has been formed at Ply mouth, who have put themselves in communication with various bodies in other parts of England, their professed object being the protection of the Protestant principles of the Church of England as by law established : " First, by seeking to procure a revision, by competent authority, of the Book of Common Prayer, and the Canons of the Church, with the view to the exclusion therefrom of all matter susceptible of a Romish interpretation; and, secondly, by seeking to effect a more just and equitable distribution of the Church revenues. That the futherance of these objects be sought by i the diffusion of information, the exercise of Parlia mentary influence, communication with kindred associations, and similar constitutional means." THE ARCHBISHOPS' AND BISHOPS' ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN.—We hear that there is considerable unwilling ness suspected to exist, on the part of one or two members of the episcopal bench to adopt his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury's explanation of the causes which led to the omission of all mention of the united Church of England and Ireland in the address to her Ma jesty on occasion of the Papal aggression. Their lordships stand in awe, it is said, of some of the church unions, many members of which are committed to the position " that any portion of the Church of Christ which abandons the essential meaning of an article of faith forfeits its office as a witness, and its authority to teach, as a member of the Universal Church, and is by such act formally separated from the [so-called] Catholic body." Now, it appears that the Irish Church is bound by the articles of the Irish Convocation of 1615, as is evident from the account, given by Dr. Elrington in his life of Archbishop Usher, of the language employed by Bramliall, Bishop of Derry, at the Convocation of 1834, when the English Thirty-nine Ar ticles were subscribed, and the authority of the Synod of 1615 recognised ; and as these articles of 1615 repudiate altogether the Puseyite construction of the article of the creed, asserting " one baptism for the remission of sins," the favourite theory of the Tractarians (reserved of course) is, that the Irish Church is not united with the English except by act of Parliament.—Church and State Gazette. A wine merchant in London has been sending round circulars soliciting contributions in order to present Car dinal Wiseman with a small stock of wine. The Irish liberal members have published a declaration against the enactment of religious disabilities. Among the O'Connells, the Meagher's, and the Crawfords, ap pears no less a name than that of Lord Castlereagh. Mr. Bennett has declined to sign any document which can give legal effect to his resignation until his conerega. tions have seen what can be done, and this he consented to at their entreaty. The Congregated Trades of Limerick have forwarded an address of congratulation to Dr. Wiseman, and offer ing his eminence a home in Ireland, " should the reign of Elizabeth be again revived" in England. " It is remarkable," as Mr. Disraeli acutely observes, " that tolerant Romanists have nowhere been discovered except in Protestant countries." " Toleration," he adds, " is a term which the very Roman Catholic lexicographers never admitted into their dictionaries, and which they dare not explain." THE CONFESSIONAL.—The Rev. Mr. Beckett, of St. Saviour's, Leeds, in writing to the Leeds Intelligencer, openly avows that he patronises the confessional—dilates upon its " blessings"—and says he shall practise it till convinced by proper authority that he is doing what is contrary to the doctrine of the Church of England. The Rev. Mr. Svvayne, a converted Roman Catholic priest, has written to the Standard as follows :—I am free to confess what I felt then, and what I know now, that the priest in the confessional is often AN ACCESSORY TO MURDER before the fact ; and consequently IN THE SIGHT or Gon, is a party to the murder, and actually as guilty as if he had himself committed the diabolical act." Cardinal Wiseman has demanded an apology from Mr. Rochfort Clarke for the gross language used at Oxford. Mr. Clarke denies the correctness of the report, averring that he merely intimated that nobody knew the birth and parentage of the Cardinal, and concludes with asking his Eminence for full particulars of the same, that he may publish them with a corrected edition of his speech, which he is about to publish. The reporter of the Plgniouth Journal visited the church of St. Stephen, at Devonport, on Christmas Day. The Church was decorated with laurel; the Nicene Creed was read with two ministers facing east and west, and with a multitude of " flexions and genuflexions." The re porter began to take notes of the sermon, but the Rev. Mr. Procter, who preached in his surplice, ordered him to desist; and when the reporter still proceeded, he re peated the order, and at length solemnly told the reporter that he was committing a sin. The reporter thereupon closed his note-book. The Rev. J. H. Woodward, of St. James's Church,. Bristol, addressed his congregation for the last time on Sunday last, prior to entering the Church of Rome. Mr. Woodward was at one time secretary to the Church Missionary Society. Mr. Ward, of the firm of Osborne, Ward, and Co., solicitors, of Bristol, has, with his lady, been received into the Roman Catholic Church. FATHER OAKELEY.—Mr. Oakeley, the other day, in the Romish chapel at Islington, vegan his evening ser mon thus :—" My brethren, you are aware of the horrid blasphemies which have lately been uttered against our most holy father, the Pope. Let us pray God that those blasphemies may be pardoned. For this end, join with me now in saying for this object five Ave Maria: and five Paternosters." This was accordingly done. But what well-instructed Sunday school child could have betrayed such lamentable darkness and ignorance ?—Record. CONVERTS TO THE Roman FAITH.--The Romish D. rectory, just published, contains a list of the names - of twenty-five ministers of the Established Church, three American Episcopalian ministers, one Scotch Presbyterian minister, one Genevese Protestant minister, one French Protestant minister, two lords, three countesses, one ho nourable, two country gentlemen of wealth, two captains in the army, one member of Parliament, and one doctor of laws. Total, 42, who joined the Church of Rome during 1850. ROMISH INToLERANcs..—When I was obliged to leave them, I said to Father Hayes, " Now I must part from you, and I never expect to have the pleasure of seeing you again. Let us say the Lord's Prayer together at the altar in the church ; there will surely be no objec tion to this." He returned me precisely the same answer which Mary Queen of Scots gave to Fletcher, Dean of Peterborough,—" No, I cannot pray with one who is of another religion." I shook his hand in silence, and we parted. The circumstance pained and grieved me.— Dr. Townsend. A curious correspondence has taken place between the Rev. H. J. Johnson, a Devonshire clergyman, and Miss Lydia Sellon, known as the Lady Superior of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Peter's, Devonport. Mr. Johnson, in reply to a request for pecuniary assistance, gives as a rea son for refusal, his impression that the community is chargeable with spreading the doctrines of Popery under the mask of the Church of England. and requiring a pledge of secrecy from the inmates. The lady replies simply, that " the whole statement is utterly false," and insists on the excellence of her institution, society, or sisterhood, whichever it ought to be called. Popish toleration has just received another illustration on the continent. The constitution of the Lombardo. Venetian kingdom has just been settled and published by Austria—a country which lies at the feet of Rome. In this constitution, after declaring that the Roman Catholic religion is the religion of the state, it is enacted that " Dissenting religions shall not be permitted the liberty of public worship !" These are solemn words put forth by a Monarch with whom it is said Dr. Wiseman dined after he was made a Cardinal ! And now the latter can have the face to stand up in the mass-house of St. George's Fields and call God to witness against the intolerance of Protestant England towards the age ressive spirit of Popery in these realms ! Whether impudence or blasphemy pre ponderate in the invocation, we leave our readers to de termine. CARDINAL WISEMAN AND FATHER Paour.---Fatlier Prout has addressed the following letter to the Dublin Freeman :—" Father Prout's compliments, &c., &c. He never used the term ' Archbishop of the Slums' in the Globe; that phrase is from another pen not his. Were he to employ such language the Freeman might then appropriately designate him as ' unhappy', and not only ' shudder' at the words, but allo shrug up his should• ers. He deplores, on the contrary, the utter neglect of the slums, and of the poor Irish denizens thereof, by this new archbishop, whose attention is otherwise absorbed by the composition of offensive fanfaronades from the Flaminian Gate ;' pompous enthronizations ; foreign diplomatic recognitions; importing bales of silk hose and a stock of red hats; replenishing his wine cellar; and conversaziones. The father is personally cognizant of how matters go on in Westminster, having been priest of that district in the cholera year, 1832-33, in Dr. Magee's absence at Bishop Brampton's request. As to Cardinals in general he has seen enough of them at head. quarters to think the discontinuance of that mere worldly dignity a riddance to be devoutly prayed for in Italy ; as to its importation ito England lie suspects that to be a blunder, not to say a mischievous hit of imbecility." n t I inbes ieagensseherta h:di e:i t o c o nclude - CARDINAL WOLSEY.—The following' charges, which, among others, were made against Wolsey, and admitted by him, furnish with tolerable satisfaction a proof of the imperious tendencies of the Church of Rome, and her direct encouragement of prelatic ambition and aggran disement :—" Articles objected against Cardinall Wolsey. 1. That hee, without the King's assent, had procured himselfe to be Legate, by reason whereof hee tooke away the right of all Bishops and spirituall persons. 2. In all writings that hee wrote to Rome, or to any other Prince, hee wrote Ego Se Rex meus, T and my King ; as who would say, that the King commission slandered the Church of England to th h e tiilm C e o l u nc r ti t no o gF f ,sl ß ana o sd m seer e ns ; for his suggestion to be Legate, was to reforme the Church of England, which (as he wrote) was Facts in the Emperor. 5. 1 v c w r G a e hr p r iee r t r g i hn o e oo d b ru u hi t et m e h t, the Sweiee ancs King ' ss K ing's a u ss l n es an . 1 ti g s r . F4ce consent tweene the King and the Duke of Ferrarie. 6. [A charge which implies gross immorality and licentiousness on the part of his Eminence.] 7. That hee caused the Cardinall's hat to be put on the King's coyne. 8. That hee had sent innumerable substance to Rome, for the obtaining of his dignities, to the greate impoverishment of the realme." With many other things which are touched more at large in chronicles. ROMISH MIRACLES.—The sham miracle recorded in Galignani's Messenger is a mere imitation of au old im posture. In Collier's Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, vol. 2, pp. 434, 435, Lon. 1714, fol., we find the following narrative :—" At the arrival of the Earl of Essex, the Queen's Lieutenant in Ireland, the Litany was sung in English, at Christ Church, Dublin, [Tuesday, August 30, 1559]. Some bigotted Papists were much disturbed at this way of worship, and endeavoured to retrieve their old service by counterfeiting a miracle. To this purpose a marble figure of our Saviour, standing in the Cathedral, with a reed in his hand, and a crown of thorns on his head, was observed to bleed through the thorns upon the face of the image. This wonderful ap pearance happened in service time, when the Lord Lieu tenant, the Archbishop, and the rest of the Privy Coun cil, were at Church. When this was perceived by the people they were strangely affected, especially when one privy to the contrivance told them that our Saviour could not chuse but sweat blood when heresy was come into the church. In short, all the audience not being of the same mind, the miracle occasioned a confusion, and the con gregation broke up. Several of the people, however, stayed behind, fell on their knees, and prayed before the image. The Archbishop of Dublin [Hugh Curwen, a . native of Westmoreland], suspecting some foul play, ordered the sexton to wash and examine the image. This being done, the man perceived a sponge soaked in blood within the hollow of the head. This sponge one Lee, formerly a monk in the cathedral, had put within the head that morning, and being loaded with blood, it was strained through the cracks of the marble, and fell down in drops upon the face. The cheat being thus discovered, the Archbishop preached in the church upon that subject the next Sunday; and to make the more serviceable im pression, Lee, with his ass istants , were planted upo n a table before the pulpit, with their hands and legs tied, and their crime on paper upon their breast. In this equi page they appeared three Sundays, were imprisoned for some time, and afterwards banished the realm." DR. WISEMAN INTERPRETED BY ROMAN CATHOLICS. —The following remarks from a Romish review, without disguise, exhibit the real notion entertained by Roman Catholic writers of the Church of England, and indicate the treatment which that scriptural church may expect, should the hopes entertained by its apostate antagonist, from an increase in number and political power, be ever fulfilled. The reviewer observes : " When the old Catholic sees fell into the hands of the Protestants at the Reformation, the (Roman) Catholic Church simply left things as t'ney were. The ancient divisions remained in theory, but they were not acted upon. The right to act upon them and to appoint fresh ißoman) Catholic bishops to the Protestantized sees was never for a moment given up. The prelates of the Anglican Establishment were and are viewed as holding the temporalities of those divisions ; but as having no spiritual charge whatever over the souls of the inhabitants in the sight of Almighty God. The (Roman) Catholic Church regards them a susurpers in a twofold way-Ist, they are mere laymen ordained and consecrated by other laymen, without a valid succession from the apostles ; and 2ndly, even if they were conse crated bishops, they would be usurpers of jurisdiction." Thus, are we supplied with a clear interpretation of Dr. Wiseman's notion that the Pope is "the source of juris. diction, life, and vigour ;" although that notion be clearly in opposition to St. James, who teaches us that " every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights." "We call them bishops, it is true, (con tinues the reviewer); just as we call the Anglican clergy reverend. But thisisa mereactof courtesy. In the eyeof the (Roman) Catholic church there is no such person in ex istence as an Archbishop of Canterbury or of York, or a Bishop of London, Durham, or any other of the old Catholic sees." Here we have, indeed, plain speaking— something beyond the " bated breath and stinted cour tesy" of Dr. Wiseman—an unmistakeable challenge, and the scabbard thrown away. The existence of " the Church of England" is denied. She must now fight for her very name, her life, her Bible, and her great God and Saviour, against an apostate church, and its head the Pope, who would fain trample out that life with his iron heel, who anathematises and would make that Bible of none effect by her false traditions, her impious decrees' her tyrannical and cruel code of canon law—against him who is " the man of sin and the son of perdition, who opposeth and calleth himself above all that is called God, so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God."— Church and State Gazette. NOT PARTICULAR.—A peasant, being at confession accused himself of having stolen some hay. The father confessor asked him how many bundles he had taken away from the stack ? " That is of no consequence (replied he) ; you may set it down a waggon:load, for my wife and I are going to fetch the remainder soon." PUNCH.-Our facetious contemporary, Mr. Punch, is admirable this week. He need not trouble himself about Mr. Doyle's retirement, whilst ho has a Leach or a M`Lean to produce such masterpieces of artistic skill as the leading illustration of his present week's number. This capital drawing represents Punch himself, as a schoolboy, stretching up a tip-toe to look into a peep show, the form of which is that of a church, and the strings of which are pulled by a beautifully drawn clerical figure, meant of course to be a likeness of his lordship of London. The picture is suggested by an old story of the boy and the showman, Underneath we read— Master Punch.—' Please, Mr. Bishop, which is Popery and which is Paseyism ?" Bishop.—' Whichever yea like, my little dear.' " Jan. 14, 1