The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-18 00:00:00

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On the afternoon ;ed to have been a dead join bos not Hoi ,rn persuad pulpit. as ou of expre one of tains W have d d. Her husband, on The viper lay in her her mouth. She had as thought, from fear. I that chopping logic in ine ever since the revolu- at that [agination and warmth ,n their place there, as much as on the astened a little by the nd had the The ye to tell the stor3 kly when the line became entangled. The boat steerer, who was at his post in the stern of the boat, tending the line, instantly threw the turn off the loggerhead, and the entangled part ran for ward and caught in the bow. The captain was seen to stoop to clear it, and then at once disappeared. The boat zed the hatchet, which is always at hand, and ith the faint hope that when it slack. hale w steerer s ricate himself. The accident dful as almost to stupify the hem spake a word, but each eye with fearful interest. Several captain could ex red crew when an obj from the boat, which, though tion, was speedily reached, a apparently lifeless, was lifted [ope was to the surface a short way :hibiting no slim of anima the body of the captain, Ito the boat. It was evi as not extinct, and to the ptoms of consciousness became and the oars were lustily plied sans of the usual remedies, the s, in his own word hcrivever, that vitality w joy_ of the little visible in a few minutes to reach the s' resuscitated capt a ving ar id that account of the accident and his singular escape, ne as he discovered that the line had caught in the bow of the boat, he stooped to clear it and attempted to throw it o u t f rom th e " c h oc k , " so that it might run free. In doing this he was caught by a turn round his left wrist , and felt himself dragged over. board. He was perfectly conscious while he was rushing rce and swiftness; and it appeared ad be torn from his body, so great l e water. He was well aware of his perilous condition, and that his only chance of life was to cut the line. But he could not remove his right arm from his side, to which it was pressed by the force of the element through which he was drawn. When he first opened his eyes it appeared as if a stream of fire was pfs_ sing before them ; but as he descended it grew dark, with a terrible pressure on his brain and 11 roaring as thun der in his ears. Yet he was conscious of his situation, and made several efforts to reach the knife that was in his belt. At l as t, as he felt his strength fa ilin g and his brain . reeling, th e line' for an instant slackened ; he reached his knife, and instantly that the line again became taut, its edge was upon it, and by a desperate effort of his exhaus ted energies he freed hi m self. After this he only remem bered a feeling of suffocation, a gurgling spasm. and all was over, until he w o k e to an agon i s i ng sen se of pain in the boat.—Vie Who/email'. Adventilret. .down, with to him that his arm was the resistance of ti Levi in library ivitation 1 and mc ,bedient servant D PRICE !d, nrr - for, in: room h ;li, 1850 which time and plat agreeable company makes her appearance mbled guests at her bidden, seek the lost ;e for the 'emony ove .ntil a late THE BULLION QUESTION (The following appeared in only a few copies of our last publication.) THE Manchester Guardian, after having almost shelved the bullion question for some months, returns to it in its publication of Wednesday last, for the purpose of claiming for himself and his brother free-traders a character for infallibility in the matter. With respect to the influence of the Californian discoveries, they have been right, and all the world besides have been wrong ; but in his attempt to show this, the Guardian takes a little too much for granted. He commences :- " It was not without good cause that we warned our readers against putting implicit faith in the very general assumption, that the advance which took place, during the last six months of 1850, in the market price of silver, was caused entirely by the influx of gold from California, and that it denoted the measure of an actual and perma nent depreciation in the relative value of the latter metal. Whether any depreciation has really taken place in the value of gold we must wait some time to see ; but that the entire change in the market price of silver was due to that cause is sufficiently disproved by what has recently taken place." Now. it was never " generally" assumed that the recent advance in the market price of silver was " caused entirely by the influx of gold from California." Other causes contributed to raise the value of silver on the Continent; nevertheless the increased supply of gold from California was the great inducing cause of such rise. It was the prospect and the actual presence of that supply which caused France to meditate, and Holland and Belgium to carry out, the substitution of silver in the place of gold as the basis of their currency; anal the depreciation of the latter would have gone on to a greater extent but for a contrary operation being in progress in the United States of America, by which a quantity of the silver coinage of that country was set free. The operations of the former countries having been nearly completed, and France having for the present ceased to meditate any change at all, the price of silver has naturally approached more nearly to its former rate. Our conte►nporary sums up as follows " On this subject, the Economist of Saturday last says,—' For silver there is no longer an active demand. No price is offered, and a fall in its value is anticipated.' These facts will probably induce certain writers,—who have been exulting over what they choose to consider the downfall of the metallic currency of England,—to doubt the soundness of their conclusions on that head. They may rely upon it, that Californian gold will not destroy the value of English sovereigns." We are not aware that any one has ever maintained that Californian gold will "destroy" the value of English sovereigns ; or that a temporary decrease in the value of silver as compared with gold is conclusive of the assertion that the new source of the supply will exercise no effect upon the.standard of value. On the contrary, if there is any truth in the doctrines of political economy, and we are not to ignore the writings of Mill, M'Cullocb, and others, the conclusion is irresistible that such increased supply must decrease the price of gold, as compared with that of other commodities ; and that such decrease will be rapid or slow according to the rate at which the excess of supply over our wants—and this principally for monetary purposes— is provided THE CORN MILLERS D FREE TRADE It having frequently struck us that the large imports of foreign flour must eventually tell very materially against the interests of this country, we have been induced more minutely to look into the subject, and find that in 1850, by the large quantity of flour imported, we were placed in the followingratherunprofitabl po3itiOr in the first place it would reqUire 4,822,898 cwts., or 1,125,343 quarters of wheat to produce 3,858.319 cwts. of flour (the quantity imported in 1850), which, at 133. per cwt., would amount to £2,507,906, while the wheat at 403.. would only have come to £2,250 686. leaving a profit to the foreigner on the flour chat he would have got for his wheat, independent of the quantity of bran and fine bran which they would have left • feeding cattle. &c., and second and thirds flour for ~iscuits. But had this .been imported into this country even in wheat, our national advantage would have stood thus : making sea £2,250,686 £2,507,906 56,267 33,759 64.304 c ,s., on Profit to millers i 157,814 £2,590,163 2,590,163 £339,477 But it would have been a national profit by including the grinding of £480,144 on the produce of our alone. and our benefits would not have ended here, for it would have required 1.928,915 sacks to have held the produce of that quantity of wheat ; but presuming that only half that quantity of_ sacks had been requisite, which, at 2s. per sack, would be £96,445, and would have employed 3700 persons at 10s. per week, and by taking the labour of grinding, &c., at 2s. per quarter, which would be £112,534, it would have employed 2885 persons at 15s. per week, making a total of upwards of 6500 persons ; and we think such a powerful array would make an un pleasant appearance at the door of some workhouse seek ing relief. Through the effects of free trade, indeed, every act of the present ministry_seems to be framed for e express purpose of encouraging the productions and importations of foreign countries, and a fixed determine- The last con 'supplying the ices of pork, een distributed as fol- more ample means towards its fulfilment. tract entered into by the Government fo ions was for 6000 tier, Lnd 2000 tierces of beef, and has 1500 Irish, at.... 3500 Hambro', at :6 7 oto a 13 0 6 1 9to 614 6 660 Irish, at.... 600 Hambro', at 800 American, at 5 8 4to 5 9 0 5 7 0 4 19 4 So that at last the Americans have got a footing even in supplying our British navy with provisions, and there is no doubt. under the present system, they will very soon monopolise it ; and it cannot be expected that the Irish will continue in a trade which the government itself is robbing them of. What would be our position in case of a sudden war with the provisioning country, we leave our readers to judge for themselves. Now, what do we gain by the American contract ? Why, if they had supplied the whole of the beef, our go vernment would only have saved the paltry sum of £lOOO, which would not above cover the taxes and other national charges which 2000 tierces of the Irishman's beef would have been subjected to before he could bring it to market. How is it possible the British can pay the taxes of this country, and at the same contend in price with the un taxed produce of the foreigner ? enteral 44fltS~PIIaitp. e Times a 'e appears the follow►ng y write.—Lightning." Standard says that Baron Rothschild has been converted to Christianity. The death of the Rev. Ingram Cobbin, the well-known commentator is announced. The Lon There is no truth in the report of the late Duke of Newcastle having disinherited the present Duke. A farmer at Paisley has entirety got rid of rats from his grain stacks by the use of garlick. A vessel, just arrived from Panama, has brought the extraordinary large number of 2,104,000 pearl shells. A large quantity of beautiful china is about to be sent from the manufactories at Worcester to the exhibition in Hyde-park. . . A report is abroad that of 5,000 season tickets taken for bition, not less ti 'wand are in the bands of pickpockets. A temperance lecturer, of Bradford, who is also an " electro biologist," promises in his programme to make his audience drunk with water. Snch is the quantity of glass used in the building for the Exhibition, that if the duty had not been remitted, it would have amounted to £IO,OOO. Some fishermen at Aberdeen, the other day, caught a al eight feet long, and weighing no less than thirty-six pound: The husband of Harriet Sparing, who died from star vation at Bath, has been apprehended, and lodged in the Bath gaol, to await his trial at the ensuing assizes, on a charge of wilful murder. The seamen's strike in the north has been settled by yielding to their demands. The seamen of the port of London have, however, " struck" They require a change in existing regulations. The family and household of a farmer at Chew Magna, Somerset, consisting of fifteen persons, partook of pan. cakes in which white arsenic, delivered by a baker, in-. stead of carb ona t e o f so d a , was u sed. Their lives were preserved with the greatest difficulty. Mr. Thomas Russell, of 53, Albert-street, Mornington terrace, a magistrate for the county of Middlesex, was suddenly taken ill whilst out for a walk, on Mon day evening, and, being taken into a house he was pass ing, subsequently died. Mr. Russell was a bachelor, in his seventy-third year. GROSS NEGLIGENCE .— On Saturday morning last the wife of a foundry -luau in Ipswich, left her child of ten months old in a wicker chair, within a foot of a blazing wood fire, whilst she went out to gossip with a neighbour, and on her return the chair was on fire, the clothes of the infant were burnt off, Awl the little sufferer wag reduced to a cinder, A COMPLIMENT —At the Durham assizes, Mr. Justice Cresswell, in sentencing Edward Harper. fora criminal assault at Barnard Castle, observed that the prisoner was a fair specimen of the people belonging to Barnard Castle, which was a perfect sink of profligacy and crime. A gang of burglars, who for some time infested the county of Anglesea, have just been apprehended and com mitted for trial. One personated :a Hungarian refugee, and another is charged with having murdered a man by stabbing him. The shipwrights of South Shields resumed work on Monday, having come to an arrangement with their em ployers. In coming to this arrangement they have acted independently of the shipwrights of other parts of the Tyne and Wear, and in spite of their remonstrances. While a maidservant, named Stirling, was cleaning a window on the second storey of a house in Monteith row, Glasgow, on Saturday week, she overbalanced her self, fell on the pavement beneath, and was so severely injured that she died a few hours afterwards. At an inquest, held at Bristol, on Monday, on the body of a young lady named Whitney, the surgeon who made the post mortem examination stated that there was no visible cause of death except from the compression of the stomach and v;seera by tight lacing. On Tuesday afternoon a young woman, seventeen years of age, threw herself from the window of an uninhabited room on the sixth story of a house in Canongate, Edin burgh, and was killed on the spot. The deceased was addicted to drinking to excess. The Lords of the Treasury have given directions for the free delivery to the Bible Society of three bales of German Testaments and Psalms ; and also three cases of Hungarian, Bohemian, and Servian Bibles and Testa ments. On Tuesday week at Okamoor, Staffordshire, while a young man named Whiston was working at a lathe driven by a waterwheel, the loose ends of his neckerchief were caught upon the revolving drill, and he was strangled, as he was unable to extricate himself or to give an alarm. When the last stone was placed on the top of the spire of St. James's Church, Devonport, the clergyman, archi tect, builders, workmen, and others, partook of luncheon on a platform erected around the topstone, at a height of 150 feet from the ground. An alarming fire broke out in Norwich on Sunday even ing at the printing-office of the Norwich Mercury. Fortunately, the steam-engine and machinery were but little injured, but a considerable quantity of type was destroyed. The proprietors were insured. The supposed damage is about £2,000. _ _ _ _ Six men were transported for life at Lewes assizes, on Wednesday, for burglariously breaking into the house of the Misses Farncombe, and stealing money and other valuables amounting to 4300. A woman was sentenced to fourteen years transportation for feloniously receiving the same. PAUL JONES.—The St. Lawrence, American frigate, after landing her freight for the world's fair at South ampton, is to take back to the United States the mortal remains of Commodore John Paul Jones, which are rest ing at Paris. They will be taken home in pursuance of a resolution of Congress. _ _ POISONING AT SEA.—On Tuesday evening, the Isa bella„ from Lisbon, arrived at Jersey, with the captain, named Hanley, dead, and the mate and men, except Kingston, the cook, very ill. Evidence was taken on Wednesday, that the cook had used poison in making the peas soup. An Irishman named O'Leary was committed for trial, at one of the London Police-courts, on Tuesday, on a charge of having bitten off the lip of an old man named Sullivan, with whom he had picked a quarrel. O'Leary kept the lip in his mouth for same time, and then spat it into the kennel, where it was found by a constable. The Lincolnshire papers mention that Whittlesea Mere is now completely dry, and that the land thus reclaimed will soon be divided into farms. Several curious relics of antiquity, some of which are supposed to have belonged to the ancient monks, have been found during the pro gress of the drainage works. The Board of Trade has refused to entertain the com plaints of the seamen of the port of London. A general strike is the consequence of this refusal, to the great in jury of the shipping trade and the mariners themselves. What a pity' it is that none of the parties on whom the Whigs shower their favours, can be made to comprehend how greatly their condition is improved. The United States Steam frigate St. Lawrence, arrived off Cowes at eleven p.m. on Thursday. She has between 1,000 and 2,000 packages on board for the Exhibition, extending to a total nearly of 3,000 tons, and belonging to about 5,000 exhibitors. Owing to the largeness of the freight, all the armaments of the St. Lawrence, save the guns on the upper deck, had to be taken out. An instance of real and permanent conjugal affection was produced at the Somerset sessions, which has hardly, perhaps, been paralleled in the annals of matrimony. In an appeal cause, a woman, who was there as a witness, had never lost sight of her husband for ".er, at any one time, either day or night, during a period of fifty years_ Three men have been committed for trial at Norfolk for having in the night entered the house of an aged couple named Cadge, dragged them from bed, and beaten them violently about the head and body, till the old man was held for dead. A servant got out of a window and gave an alarm, when the fellows made off without having secured any booty. The -f Shelf 1 , 4 dt Jurgesses o. —dela nave declined to establish a public library and museum under Mr. Ewart's Act. They were polled on the question, when out of 10,986 voters on the burgess roll, only 298 took the trouble to express an opinion: For the measure to he carried two-thirds of the votes must be in its favour ; that not being the case in this instance, the question is set at rest for a period of two A contribution from Queen Pdmare to the great exhi bition has recently arrived at the West India Docks, in the ship Pearl, consigned to the building in Hyde Park. The nature of this contribution has not transpired, nor, indeed, has space for it been demanded or allotted ; but it is probable that the royal commissioners will endeavour to find room for an object arriving from so distant a place. The fruits of the purchase of the bloodhound by the Lincoln Association arc, that whilst several sheep were slaughtered in the neighbourhood of the city of Lincoln during the first two months of last year, not_ six have been slaughtered during the fist two past months of the present year. The dog is• kept in good training, and several persons have joined the association for the purpose of enabling them to avail themselves of its services• in case of need. A very singular accident happened to a child two years , of age, belonging to a labouring man named Shaw, resi ding on the New-road, Chatham. It appears that the mother was in the act of taking the dinner out of the pot on Sunday, when the child said—" Mamma, I will have a ride," at the same time jumping on the mother's back, who, to free herself from the child, gave herself a shake, when the child fell headforemost into the pot of boiling liquid, and instantly expired. EXTRAORDINARY PIGEON FLYING MATCH BY.NIGHT. —Mr. Rawlings, of Bermondsey, New-road, a well-known fancier of the feathered tribe, has backed his pigeon to fly, at dark, from the fifth mile stone, on the Brixton hill, to his residence, and afterwards from Shoreditch Church, with the same bird, which has also to travel to Mr. Rawlings' house, as above stated. The pigeon has been in training for some time. The bird is tube marked by disinterested parties, and, according to the articles drawn up, must be thrown at both points. A: great num ber of bets are depending on the result, as many of the young fanciers do not believe that pigeons, can fly any distance in the dark.—Sun. RAT STATISTICS.—In twenty-one weeks, Joseph Pooley, a celebrated rat-catcher, of Witnesham, brought to one public-house in the town no less than 11,465 rats, which lie sold at 2s. 6d. per dozen ! This man took away from the town in this short period the sum.of £254 Os. 11d. He declares that another year of this sort of work would have made his fortune, and expresses his conviction that when the authorities stopped " rat pitting" they struck a severe blow at the prosperity of Ipswich •!' Pooley is cele brated as a trainer of rats, that is to say, he will make them go through sundry manoeuvres, such as picking up cards, drinking out of glasses, &c. He has in his posses sion ten rats, each of which weighs four pounds.— Ipswich Express. ALLEGED MURDER.—At Brixton, near Plymouth, a young man, named John Bunker, I 7; years of age, servant to Mr. Henry Rowe, a farmer, was found hung up in a tree in his master's orchard, quite dead, a few days ago ; but it appears that he had not committed suicide, but had been forcibly strangled, and strong suspicions exist that his death had been caused by Mr. Wm. Rowe, the son of Henry Row om Hunker had made a charge, tion, of having committed seemingly not without found 4:7 •I an abominable offence. The coroner's jury, after a long investigation and remaining in deliberation for two hours, returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." Wm. Rowe remains in custody, charged with offences of an abominable character. THE SALE OF ARSENIC.—On Wednesday Lord Car lisle's bill to regulate the sale of arsenic, now in the House of Lords, was printed. it declares that the unre stricted sale of arsenic facilitates the commission of crime. The bill provides that on every sale particulars of the sale shall be entered by the seller in a book before the de livery of the arsenic,. and every such entry is to he signed Any person selling arse , this bill, and every person giv to obtain arsenic, are to be sum .. before magistrates, and to he liable to a exceeding £2O. The bill is not to prevent -enic in medicine under a medical pre- A recent case caused the introduction of the kuthori;ed by ing false inform .. manily cony penalty not the sale of ar scription bill: TUE SCREW Si R TO THE CAM — The perform- ances of the Bosphorus, in completing her first voyage to and from the Cape, appear to have given satisfaction. On her outward passage she was 40 days, but the delays at the different ports touched at occupied upwards of two days, while the deviations from the direct course conse quent upon these calls is estimated at more than four days. Sierra Leone was reached in less time than by any other steamer, and the rate of speed up to that point was 210 miles a-day ; but, subsequently, owing to an un looked for, and as it is believed an exceptional, state of the trade wind, it did not exceed an average of 177 miles. The return passage occupied 38 days (the contract time both ways being 35 days). but the excess in this case was caused by the want of Warlich's fuel at Sierra Leone, and the bad quality of the coal which was taken in in lieu of it. An error is also stated to have been ascertained in the contract distance from the Cape to Sierra Leone. By the contract it is 2,684 miles instead of 3,160, the differ ence being equal to 21 days' run. This, added to three days lost at Sierra Leone, makes five days to he deducted from the total of 38. The new propeller with which the vessel is fitted is said to have acted admirably. It is con structed so that the blades may be placed in a position to offer no resistance whatever to the progress of the ship when under sail alone, There were several opportunities of testing it, and " both by night as well as by day, and in all weathers, the position was changed in a few auto." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE CONDEMNED CRIMINALS AT CHELMSFORD.—The hope which bore up Drory through the trial (for till the delivery of the verdict he seems to have been confident of escape), forsook him on reaching the gaol after his con demnation. He was so much exhausted that he was obliged to be assisted to his cell by two of the officials, and on reaching it he flung himself upon his bed and lay sobbing violently for nearly an hour. Mrs. Chesham, on the contrary, exhibits no difference in her behaviour, but goes through the usual routine which the discipline of the gaol imposes on her with perfect callousness, and appears altogether devoid of remorse. The execution of both criminals is fixed for the 25th inst. EFFECT OF JEALOUSY.—At Northampton, on Tuesday week, William Hurst was charged with shooting at his wife with intent to murder her. The man and his wife have resided at Northampton several years, the husband maintaining the reputable character as a shoemaker. His marriage took place about twelve months ago, and for a short time they lived together comfortably. At length the wife's conduct betrayed the fact that he had been de ceived by her. She robbed him of his property, and ab sconded with another married man. It appeared that they had resided at Turvey, in Bedfordshire, and after wards at Kettering, Northamptonshire, to which latter place the husband traced them. He was willing to pardon her, and entreated her to return home ; but she coldly refused. On Saturday, the Bth February, having learned that the guilty parties were at Daventry, he proceeded thither, and perpetrated the crime for which he was ar raigned. Sentence of death was recorded. A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.—The brig Gipsy, Captain M'Gregor, which sailed from this port for Newfoundland on the 7th of December last, put back on Sunday, after having been three months at three. On the third of January she encountered a severe gale, and shipped a very heavy sea, which carried away the band of the fores'ay, top-mast stay, and strap of the jibboom, damaging the boats, and rendering them useless : and washing away the cookhouse and utensils, and carrying the cook, James M'Neil, belonging to Greenock, overboard. About the Ist ult. the Gipsy fell in with a great quantity of ice, when she was about fifteen miles west of her destined port, and on the 14th, finding it too heavy, and getting short of provisions, put about for Greenock. On the 20th she carried away the forevard. and on the 23d, blowing heavily from the S.W. to N.W., the ship, run ning under double-reefed maintopsail, pooped a heavy sea, which carried away bulwarks, roundhouse, wheel and compasses, and disabled the captain and John Fulton, seaman.—Greenock Advertiser. LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE.— A simpleton named James Monteith, has for more than thirty years been em ployed about Ardock House, in running errands and work ing in the kitchen. He was of the most obliging and in offensive disposition, and specially careful of any thing en trusted to him. As it was known that he would sooner surrender his life than part with the letter-bag or any par cel under his charge, he was seldom or never annoyed when thus employed. Indeed he was a general favourite. On Saturday week one of the maid-servants in a frolic took the letter-bag from his arm, and made off with it. As the hour of post was at hand, and James thought his honour at stake, he became excited, and pursued her into another room, when she became alarmed for her own safety, and it is said struck him with a poker on the fore head, which caused a fracture of the skull, of which he died next day. The poor man before he died entreated that nothing should be done to her on his account, and the unhappy girl, who is from Banffshire, is almost distracted. She has been, in the meantime, committed to Dunblane jail.—Perth Courier. On Tuesday the strength of the galleries in the Crystal Palace was put in practice, and the result, as far as it went, proved highly satisfactory. Mr. Field, of the firm of Mawdslay and Field, the well-known and eminent engineers, recommended that a number of strong square frames should be made, in the interstices of which 68- pound shot should be placed, and that these, jointed together, and forming any weight which might be con sidered sufficient for the object in view, should be dragged along the galleries. Accordingly seven frames were made, each capable of holding 36 cannonballs. of the size just mentioned. In this way a pressure of 74 tons was readily obtained, and, as it was ascertained by Mr. Brunel, that the greatest weight which could be obtained by packing men as closely as possible on any given space was 951 b. to the square foot, such a test, representing 1001 b. to the square foot, was considered amply sufficient to establish the strength and security of the galleries. As in their wooden frames they were rolled along by the united strength of a large party of Sappers the pillars and girders betrayed no signs of weakness, and the flooring of the gallery did not vibrate nearly as much as that of a drawing room daring a ball. LEEDS.—EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES OF C LOTH.—CHARGE AGAINST A MANUFACTURER.—SeveraI cloth mills, dye houses, and warehouses in the neighbourhood of Wortley, Bramley, and Pudsey have lately been robbed of cloth to a considerable extent; and up to within tho'last few days all efforts to discover the guilty parties had failed. In the course of Sunday week, Allan Brig Mill was broken open, and three ends of cloth were stolen. From circumstances which came to the knowledge of the police, suspicion fell upon George Oddy, cloth manufacturer, of Wortley Moor, a man who has hitherto been considered highly respecta ble, and whose connexions are much esteemed in that locality. His house was placed under the surveillance of the constables of Pudsey, who, after watching from Sun day night till Monday afternoon, saw Oddy leave his house, with two ends of blue cloth on his shoulder, fol lowed by his wife, who carried a third end of the same material. The cloth was seized, and Oddy arrested. On the police searching his house, they discovered a large quantity of cloth and other property, which has since been identified as the proceeds of robberies. Oddy was removed to the Leeds lock-up. He was examined before the magistrates on Thursday, when he was committed for EXTENSIVE FRAUD.—lnformation reached the police authorities here on Wednesday, from Edinburgh, that a cattle-dealer, named Scoon, had absconded from that city after swindling various parties to a large amount. It appears that on Saturday last, Scoon bought several large lots of sheep and cattle from the farmers and graziers in and around Edinburgh with whom he had previously transacted business, and that he had paid for the stock in bank cheques, whieh were payable in different establish ments. The cheques were accepted in good faith by the sellers ; but, at the commencement of,the present week, when one of them was presented for payment at a bank in Edinburgh, the reply was, "No fundsr and the same answer was given in all the other banks on which cheques had been drawn. The police were immediately sent after Scoon ; but, on inquiry being made at his residence, he was not to be found ; and it was subsequently discovered that the whole of the stock he had purchased was for warded to Liverpool by the Caledonian Railway on Sun day, and sold the following day in the Liverpool market. At the same time it was ascertained that his wife had secured a large amount of property, by means of counter. feit cheques, and, after turning it into cash, had disap peared alone with her husband. It is supposed that the two together have swindled parties to the amount of £6,000 —but the precise sum cannot as yet be stated. The police are exerting themselv e s t o th e u t mos t t o t race ou t th e fugitives and bring them to justice. A description of their persons has been sent to th e p r i nc ip a l t owns aw l sea p or ts in the kingdom, and it is not likely they will long escape detection.— Glasgow • Constitution. SHREWSBURY ORANGE LODGE.—A new lodge, No. 55, making the fourth in two months, was opened on Tuesday evening last, when the officers were appointed and several new members were initiated. The article we published last week, an exhortation to members of the Orange Institution has been read with deep interest by many who were not previously aware of the nature of the order; that article points out the duties of Orangemen, and we challenge any man, who believes in his Bible, to lay a finger upon one word of an objectionable character. In Shrewsbury we are progressing daily, and there can be but little doubt, that in less than three months, we shalt be 300 strong. We invite all Protestant loyal men to join us. Those only are eligible who will resolve to main. tain the principles of the Reformation, Protestant Ascen dancy, the Church of England, which is the guardian of religious liberty. and the Constitution which protects our civil rights. We are only political so far as the constitu tion of the country, Queen, Lords, and Commons, is con cerned; and we are political, because we are sworn to de fend that glorious constitution against the designs. of Chartists,. Republicans,, and Demagogues. If all men would act up to the obligations of an Orangeman, party strife would cease, and society would benefit by the change. Those who will endeavour to act up to the precepts in culcated by the order must become better men, and con sequently, more valuable members of the communit A )rangernan cares not who knows the obligations of his order, but he has as much right to signs.and pass words as the fieemasons, odd-fellows, or any other society of a similar character, where men are associated together for their mutual happiness or interests.—Shrewsbury Conservative. AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR.—Some nights since, as a member of a gentleman's family residing in the country, a few miles from Bristol, was crossing the hall, he heard a tap at the door opening on the lawn. He opened it, and a man sprang in, leaping on and collaring him with vio lence. There was something in the manner in which the act was done to induce him to believe that the matt was mad ; so, preserving his presence of mind, ho walked hack, and, quietly drawing the intruder with him, not a little to the surprise of the family, suddenly introduced the strange visitor to the dining-room. On meeting the lights his eyes flashed wildly. His clothes shewed that lie had crossed over some considerable tract of country, and, though still a gentleman in his manner and appearance, he was not at all the visitor a country gentleman's family would choose for a quiet evening. He called for pens, ink, and paper, to write to distinguished people, with which he was at once furnished, and he was otherwise humoured in his hallucinations, until the coachman was dispatched on horseback to a private asylum some miles distant. from which it was suspected he had made his way. Thus, for some hours, the family enjoyed his strange com panionship—every time he shewed a disposition to leave, tempting him, by some new entertainment, to remain, lest, getting abroad again, he might meet with some acci dent. The maniac himself appeared so pleased with the family that,before the coachman, with the keepers, had re turned, he had promised uncounted thousands, not only to the master and his family, but to the servants, and his imaginary largcsses were only interrupted by the entrance of Dr. and a couple of keepers. He saw clearly enough that he was outwitted, hut he very quietly con sented to return, declaring that the asylum was a very comfortable place, and that Dr. was very kind, but added that he neither required doctor nor asylum ; an as surance which was far from convincing those who had en joyed his company. It appeared that, as conjectured, the poor gentleman, by some of those exceedingly adroit , had crossed his escape, and, without any definite point o s‘ vi c ew de vices which insane people often resort f to, had made the country for miles, climbing w alls, ' house, his instincts for cold, and seeing lights in the "until he got into this gentleman's demesne , when, probably feeling household comfort returned to him, and he tappcd, as be. fore related at the door.—Bath Chronicle, 1,125,343 qrs. of w And would produce— heat at 40s 3,858,319 cwts. fine flour at 13s. per cwt. 482,289 „ bran,at 10d. perscore 53 „ share line bran 160.763 „ thirds, at 15d.. 96,457 „ seconds, at 15d Grinding 1,14.4J,..1 at 2s. 6d £140,667 I THE PAPAL AGGRESSION. The pseudo Bishop of Hexham, Dr. Hogarth, has di vided his " diocese" into " deaneries," as a further step in the progress of the Romish organization. The London Common. Council, on Thursday, agreed to a petition to Parliament for stringent measures against the the Papal- Austrian aggression, and also for protection to the dying against designing priests. The Morning Post mentions as a curious fact, that the Peel party are almost to a man deeply tainted with Trac tarianism. Some of them, indeed, are actually Romish, though still retaining the Protestant name. in a recent lecture, at Northampton, on Popery, the Rev. Hugh Stowell is reported by the local Herald to have stated that " he did not believe that in any Church on earth, succession, in unbroken links, could be traced from the Apostles ; he never saw it satisfactorily made out." The Very Reverend the Dean of Bristol has published a long letter in the columns of a contemporary, calling attention to the Manning-Mill-and-Wilberforce-protest ; the effect of which was a virtual denial of the " Royal Supremacy," As Mr. Liddell, (the designated suceessor of Mr. Bennett,) is said to have signed the protest, the dean very properly warns the Bishop of London not to institute Mr. Liddell before he makes inquiry into a mat ter which is of serious importance. The Rev. W. Palmer has written to the Bishop of Lon don, complaining that Dr. Pusey, in his recent pamphlet, has so introduced Mr. Palmer's name as to make it ap pear that Dr. Palmer fully agrees with Dr. Pusey. The reverend gentleman clearly believes that the Regius Pro fessor is nearer to Popery than himself. Dr. Pusey re plies that he only quoted Mr. Palmer because he thought that on certain points they agreed ; and, with regard to image-worship, of which Dr. Pusey stands accused, he repudiates such an idea; but advocates the manifestation towards them of " natural actions, or tokens, of love." NATIONAL CLUB.—We have much gratification in an nouncing that a meeting of the parliamentary members of this club was held on Thursday, at the Club House, Old Palace-yard, to decidifon the course to be adopted on the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles' Assumption Bill, when a resolution was passed expressive of a deter mination to press for an immediate and efficient measure. The meeting was numerously attended, and the most per fect unanimity of sentiment prevailed. As their number now is upwards of forty, it is impossible that their com bined action can be.without its influence at the pre3ent momentous crisis. ROMANISM AND THE GOVERNMENT.—The Home Se cretary, in acknowledging to Archbishop Murray the re ceipt of the address to the Queen, styled that divine "My Lord," and " Your Grace." Let us say that in our judgment the conferring of these temporal titles is a much more direct infringement of the Queen's preroga tive, as the sole fountain of honour, than the assumption of the spiritual title of bishop of any place. These titles are not incident to ecclesiastical office.• The Bishop of Sodor and Man, though appointed by the Queen, would be addressed by Sir George Grey as• " Right Reverend Sir." The Pope's usurped Bishop of Dublin is acknow ledged by the Queen's Minister as " My Lord," and " Your Grace." MEETING OF THE LONDON' CLEEGY.—On Thursday morning, a meeting of the incumbents of livings in and around the metropolis was held in the great ball of Sion College for the purpose of taking into consideration the modification of the Ecclesiastical Titles• Bill recently pro posed byLord J. Russell, and deciding upon the propriety of petitioning Parliament to amend and strengthen that enactment. The following resolution was passed unani- mously That it is the opinion of this meeting . the Bill now before the House of Commons is insufficient for repelling , the Papal Aggression, and altogether below the expressed wishes of the people of Great Britain ; and that therefore a petition ought to be presented to both Houses of Parliament' praying them to pass a sufficient and satisfactory measure."' We have from Ireland an epistle from "John, Arch bishop of Tuam," to the Premier, declaring that " his Grace" will not hear of the measure in any shape,—first clause or fourth is equally odious as second or third. No mitigation, short of utter extinction, will satisfy the peo ple of Ireland : "The eyes of all are now turned to Parliament, watching to see whether their members are at their posts, th - ongh, like the Roman senator of old, they should be carried thither on their couches. No apology can henceforth plead with the people if those members do not exert themselves in stopping the tresent penal enactment. Opposition—stern, persevering opposition— to your hateful measure, in season and out of season, is the paramount duty of every Irish member of Parliament, as well as opposition to every other measure yon propose, until you abandon the bill which, in an evil hour, you proposed, or until once more you abandon the helm." The Earl of Winchilsea has addressed an appeal, through the Times, to his " Brother Protestants and Fel low Countrymen," in which he states that if he at first thought the bill'of Lord John Russell against Papal ag gression " puerile and nugatory ;" he need hardly say that now, in its mutilated shape, it is " characterised by the grossest and most daring insult which was ever offered by any Government to the Protestant feeling of this great empire." His lordship concludes : "By the memory-of our immortal ancestors, who cheerfully laid down their lives -in defence of our Protestant faith, and bequeathed to us—their degenerate and apostate children— those civil and religious liberties which had been' sealed with their blood, as our best and most invaluable of all earthly inheritances, I call upon every Protestant of the empire to spurn from them this grovelling and contemptiblemeasure, and, sinking all minor differences, to unite heart and soul in ad dressing the Throne for a dissolution of Parliament, that the sense of the electors may be taken on this important subject, and in declaring to our gracious Sovereign in language which cannot be misunderstood, that those Protestant principles which placed the house of Brunswick upon the British throne must be firmly maintained, and that Protestant England, with one voice, declares she will have no compromise with the Church of Rome." THE GOVERNMENT AND THE ORANGEMMIC—A short time since, Captain Archdall gave notice that he would ask the Secretary for the Home Department-why he had refused to lay before her Majesty the addresses on the subject of the papal aggression, recently forwarded for presentation by the Orangemen of England and Ireland. Sir G. Grey met the difficulty by an expedient, which, we must in charity hope, he would be incapable of adopt ing in any private transaction between man and man, and with a cool, brazen effrontery that implies the most ex traordinary powers of face, he boldly asserted that the Orange addresses had been presented to her Majesty in 1848 through a mere " oversight" ! ! This is the most extraordinary specimen of parliamentary assurance it has yet been our fortune to see. Sir G. Grey would have us believe that he and Lord Clarendon, by an extraordinary coincidence, both committed exactly the same " over sight" at exactly the same time, and that - they each re peated this identical " oversight" on several successive occasions, and that too at a period when the "oversight" in question-squared most conveniently with the political necessities of the day. This chapter of accidents is some what too marvellous to be easily credited: ANTI-PAPAL AGGRESSION ADDRESSES.—A return has been obtained by Mr. Newdegate, and was issued on Thursday, setting forth the number of addresses which have been presented to Her Majesty on the recent mea sures taken by the Pope with regard to this country, whence they enanated, and the number of signatures to each. The total number of these addresses is 3,145. bear ing 1;006,708 signatures, besides two Roman Catholic addresses expressing loyalty and fidelity, with 255.961 signatures. They are classified according to their origin in the following manner :—archbishops and bishops of the united' church of England and Ireland, 1 ; deans and chapters of cathedral or collegiate churches, 10 ; church of Scotland, ministers and elders, 1; clergy of the United Church of England and Ireland, 89-; clergy and others, 880; Wesleyan Committee of Privileges, 1; Protestant dissenting ministers of the three denominations, 1; uni versities—viz., Oxford, Cambridge,. Durham, and St. Andrew's, 4 colleges—Royal. College of Physicians, Queen's College, Birmingham, Sion College, London, the " Bedden," York, 4 ; hospitals, 2; county meetings 35 ; other public meetings, 139 ; corporations, 46; asso ciations or other bodies, 20; city of London, 4 ; members of the English bar, 1 ; attorneys, solicitors, and proctors of England and Wales, 1;. Isle of Man, 1 ; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1. THE COLONIAL SECRETARY'S PATRONAGE OF Po- PERY.—A return has been obtained by Sir R. H. Inglis on the subject of the precedence given to Popish prelates in the Australian colonies by command of Earl Grey. The return consists of a despatch from Governor Sir C. A., Fitzroy to Earl Grey, dated July 30, 1850, enclosing a communication addressed to the governor on the 22d of May, the transmission of which the governor had delayed. " in the hope that on further consideration the Bishop of Sydney would not think it worth while to raise this ques. tion again." Neither, has Earl Grey, it appears, thought fit hitherto to take. any notice of the bishop's commu nication. The bishop's letter to the governor is a reply to the intimation conveyed to him from Earl Grey throu g h the colonial secretary, at Sydney, that " accord ing to the true , construction of the directions respecting the precedence of Roman Catholic prelates, conveyed in the despatch of the 20th of November, 1847, the bishop of the Church of England in New South Wales ought to Thavehe b i shop- rece dence state s o h f s t he intention, Ro m a n C in a c t h o n o l s i e c v a e r n c h e e b i s o h f o t p h .; concession, to attend the levee at the government house on the Queen's birthday, the difficulty about his own precedence being obviated, and after protesting against the substitution of the designation '' the bishop of the Church of England in New South Wales," for his proper title, " the Lord Bishop of Sydney,"' proceeds to com ment on the effect which Earl Grey's circular still would have on the other bishops of the province. APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION.—it is every way worthy of most serious consideration, that when an inspired apostle was about to finish his earthly course, and addressed a very solemn charge to one of his immediate successors in the ministry of the church, he did not use any such lan guage as the Lord Jesus used to the chosen vessels of inspiration. St. Paul did not say to Timothy, "As the Lord sent me, even so send I you." No such thing, but St. Paul said to Timothy. "- I charge thee therefore before God, tahn edtwh a o n e rddt. dead a t h h , e Lord Preach i J s easpupset haappearing Christ, ng word." o radn.d wh , who s h i shall judg e l iwn gasd o n mo t , h quick pear part preach of Timothy's mission to testify from himself, as if the Holy Spirit of truth hail been promised to him in the same way that he was promised to the disciples : but his mis sion was to preach the word. I pray you mark the diffe rence as a matter of fact. And here at this stage, we must cut off the " Even so I send you" f or ever ; the " Even so" i s not continued. The chan ge i s instanta neous, and not a mere gradual process, shading off among the fathers of the primitive church ; it is cut off at once. Between " Even so send I you" and " Preach the word" there i s a great gulf fi xe d—b etween i nspirat i on and non-inspiration, between infallibility and fallibility, between Timothy and Paul. "As the father sent me, even so send I you," and he breathed the Holy Ghost upon them, and he spoke as infallibly as Jesus spoke. But the next step, mark it—" I charge you before God, preach the word." So far as they preached the word, and only so far, they prolonged the testimony of Jesus. —Rep. Hugh znreite, Mardi 18, 1851. CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AS UNDER STOOD BY ROMANISTS. (From the Kerry Post.) An election for the office of !raster of the Dingle work house took place recently ; and the contest lying between a Protestant and a Romanist, the priests of that district made it a religious question, urging and threatening from the altars of the chapels on the preceding Sabbaths in favour of the Roman Catholic candidate—though he was evidently most unfit for the onerous duties of the office, while the other has much experience in the manage ment of workhouses. There were two elections :on the first day the votes for each candidate were equal, and on the second the Protestant candidate was returned by a majority of one. Now mark the result. The new vote happened to be given by a Roman Catholic farmer named O'Donnell, from near Inch ; and last week, as this man was returning home from market, after night had fallen, he was waylaid and received so desperate a beating, that at first serious fears were entertained for his recovery. (From the London Times.) At the Roman Catholic meeting in London, on Mon day, after Mr. Serjeant Shee had spoken, a stout gentle man, with moustachios, stood up, and-claimed to be heard for one moment. He rushed to the front of the platform, and was received by a storm of groans and hisses. He exclaimed that "his name was Kaiser" (or " Keyser; " we won't answer for the orthography), and th a t " h e on ly wanted to ask a question—one question of the chairman ; but, as the gentlemen on the platform were evidently not inclined to indulge his inquisitive turn of mind, the shouts in the hall soon grew into yells, and Mr. Kaiser deter mined to have some information on a subject in which he seemed to take so much interest, leant over the reporters' table, and, with undeniable energy of voice, exclaimed, " 1 wish to ask the chairman if he agrees with the Pope in the prosecution he has set on foot against the Jews in Rome at the present time ?" If he had heaped up a whole orchard of apples of discord before the unfortunate querist could not have more excited the wrath of the assembly, not, however, against the Pope, but against himself. The screaming was frantic. One gentleman, is red . hair and spectacles, who looked like an ecclesiastic, rushed forward from behind the chairman, shook his fist at the offending Kaiser, while his words were lost in the storm. An elderly woman, with a very large and stout umbrella, poked him on the shins and lower extremi ties with great vigour and animosity, while the invitations to " kick him out," from the platform and body of the meeting, were of a very vehement and unanimous charac ter. Kaiser having repeated the question in the most intrepid manner, for the satisfaction of himself and a con fidential reporter, descended from the platform with some declarations respecting the behaviour of the rope to the Jews, and was speedily eliminated from the meeting by a very vigorous physical process, which some few of the gentlemen on the platform endeavoured to moderate. ROMISH NUNNERIES.-EXTRAORDINARY PETITION The following is the petition presented on Friday by Sir R. Inglis, which is referred to in our parliamentary report : THE PETITION OF CRAVEN FITZHARDINGE BERKELEY. `• To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled ; " Humbly lioweth,--That he intermarried with Augusta Talbot, the widow of George Henry Talbot, who was the half-brother to the present Earl of Shrewsbury- That the said George Henry Talbot left two children him surviving, namely,. John, who was heir presumptive to the earldom, and Augusta, an infant, now of the age of 19 years and upwards. " That the said infant Augusta Talbot resided with your petitioner and her mother up to the time of the death of the latter, which took place on the 25th of April, 1841. " That since that period, and up to the month of Sept. last, the said infant Augusta Talbot has resided with the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury. '• That in consequence of the death of the said John Talbot, the said infant Augusta Talbot became absolutely entitled to a sum of £BO,OOO, or thereabouts. " That the said infant Augusta Talbot is a ward of the Court of Chancery. " That in the month of September last the said Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury placed the said infant, Augusta Talbot, (notwithstanding she is a ward of court as aforesaid) at the convent called the ' Lodge,' situate at Taunton, in the county of Somerset, not as a pupil or visitor, but as a postulant, with the avowed object of allowing the said Augusta Talbot to take the veil, and become a nun. • " That in the month of September next the period of probation, or postulaney, will have expired, and the said infant, Augusta Talbot,. will be compelled by the rules and regulations of the said convent, and by the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church, to take the white veil during her minority, and notwithstanding the said infant► Augusta Talbot, is a ward of the Court of Chancery. " That having taking the white veil, there is no retreat for the said infant Augusta Talbot, and she will be com pelled to take the black veil in September, 1852, or shortly afterwards. " That on the 6th of Tune, 1852, the said infant Au gusta Talbot will attain her 21st year, when she will be come entitled to receive the said sum of £BO,OOO. " That being a nun at that period, the £80,090 wil become confisuated to the said convent, or to the ecclesi astical revenues of the Church of Rome; or to the endoW ment, enrichment. or maintenance of some bishop,k, deanery, or other ecclesiastical benefice of the said Church of Rome ; or the said infant Augusta Talbot will be com pelled by some assurance in the law, to transfer all her right and interest in the said sum of £BO,OOO. "That it is one of the doctrines of the Church of Rome, that no member of the said Church shall be per mitted to exercise his or her private judgment in religious' matters ; but that in -all such religious matters, be or she is bound to submit to the authority of the said Romig' , Church, and to the direction of the priesthood thereof. • " That in a certain-work by Nicholas Wiseman, who / 9- a high eceesiastical authority in the Romish Church, 00 the principal doctrines and practices in the said Romisb Church, under the head of ' Lecture 1.,' introduction , page 16, the following passage occurs :- 6 The Catholic' Church is thus as a city to which avenues lead from every side, towards which men may travel from any quarter , by the most diversified roads; by the thorny and rugged,. ways of strict investigation—by the more flowery paths of sentiment and feeling, but arrived at its precincts, all find, that there is but one door to the sheepfold, narrow one low perhaps, and causing flesh and blood to stoop as it passes in. They may wander about its outskirts ; : they' may admire the goodliness of its edifices And its bulwarks , but they cannot be its denizens and children if they enter not by that one gate of absolute unconditional submission to the teaching of the Church.' " That in the said work, under the head of Lecture page 76, - the following passage occurs :—` For the moment any Catholic doubts not alone the principle of his faith, but any of those doctrines which are thereon based,—the moment he allows himself to call in question any of the dogmas which the Catholic Church teaches as having been handed down within her,—that moment' the Church conceives him to have virtually abandoned all' connection with her; for she exacts such implicit obedi* ence, that if any member, however valuable, however be e, may have d evo ted his early talents to the ill us t ra tion 0' her doctrines, fall away from his belief in any one point, he is cut off without reserve; and we have, in our °W¢` times, seen striking and awful instances of this fact.' ~, That the above opinions and d ec l ara ti ons o f the saw- Nicholas Wiseman are the true doctrines,of. the Roman. Catholic Church ; and that the said infant, Augusta Tal bot, has had them instilled into her mind; to the exclusion' of all nther principles ; and that the said infant, Augusta Talbot, is bound to submit to the will and dictation of the superior of the said convent and to the priesthood' the Church of Rome. _ _ "That your petitioner is deprived of all communication and connection with his step-daughter, the said infant, Augusta Talbot ; and your petitioner's daughter, the half sister and only near female relative of the said infant. Augusta Talbot, is also prevented from cultivating those natural feelings of affection which, but for the reason 4 aforesaid, would exist and grow up between them to their mutual comfort and support. " Your petitioner, therefore, humbly prays that the honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom 1 :" Great Britain and Ireland will be pleased to take his pe t tion into their serious consideration, and that they wl" be pleased to engraft a clause in the bill entitled th e Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill,' now before their honourable house, which will prevent such practices ad are detailed in the said petition from taking place; an that they will introduce a clause enacting that no infants whether a ward in Chancery or not, shall be permitted to be placed by her parents, or guardian, or any other per son whomsoever, in any convent or seminary, or place of education, or other institution attached to the Church of Rome, as a postulant, during the minority of such infant , for the purpose of enabling or compelling any such infant to become a nun, and that in the event of any infant or infants being now or hereafter placed within the walls of any convent, seminary, place of education, or other insti tution attached to the said Church of Rome as a postulant for the purpose of becoming a nun, that the propertlt whether absolute or contingent, of any such infant or infants shall vest in and insure to the use of her Majesty' and shall and may be disposed of as her Majesty shall be. pleased, by warrant under her sign manual, to direct or appoint. Or that a clause may be introduced into the said bill for throwing protection round young persons who now are, or may be hereafter placed in convents with . 9 .. view of taking the veil th ere i n , an d appropr i a ti ng the" property thereto, either by placing such establishmen ts under the supervision of inspectors appointed by Govern: ment, or by such other means as to the honourable lion!!; -- seem best ca l cu l a t e d t o put a stop t o th e aforesaid practices And your petitioner will ever pray. (Signed) " CRAVEN FITZHARDINGE BERKELEY Berkeley-house, Spring-gardens." THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND THE RUBRI C ' -It is understood that the Archbishop of C a nterbury o proposes to bring the rubrical question to an issue in b l . diocese. His grace is said to have been in correspond for some time past with several clergymen of his dioceSe on the subject ofalleged Romanizing practices ; someof th e clergy at once yielding to his Grace, whilst others yin'!" cated their proceedings as being conformable to the rubile' in one case, that of the Rev. C. S. Caffin, of Westerhon i, Kent, who persisted, after the Archbishop's private id monstrance, in intoning the prayers, his Grace has issue a monition, enjoining the discontinuance of the practice' with a view to further proceedings in the Ecclesiastip!: Court, in the event of non-compliance. An applicator; to the Court of Queen's Bench is spoken of, to superse d . the monition, on the supposition o f its trenching upoU liberty of the clergy to perform the service according their own discretion, within the tonna of the rubric!