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Po REIGN AND COLONIAL. BRAZILS Her Majesty's packet Express, Lieutenant Herrick, arrived at Falmouth, on Thursday morning, from the Brazils, after the short passage of thirty-nine days from Rio de Janeiro. The Alfred, with Commodore Purvis on board, had left Rio on a cruise, for the northern ports it was conjectured, as he had been expected up for some time. The Dolphin, brig arrived at Rio on the 29th of November with the mails from the River Plate, consequently the dates by this packet are very old, she having been in port eighteen days after the Dolphin came up. A. new journal, published in French, had made its appearance in Rio, entitled Le Courrier Europein, in which there is the following announcement :—" The English government has authorised Mr. Hamilton, its representative at the Imperial Court, to negociate a new treaty of commerce with the Brazilian government, and M. Paule Souza has been chosen by this (the Brazilian) government, to treat with the British minister thereon." Affairs at Rio Grande are reported to have assumed a more tranquil aspect. BUENOS AYRES.—By the James Gibson. which ar rived at Liverpool on Wednesday, accounts have been re ceived from Buenos Ayres to the 12th of November. Up to that date, no change had taken place in the position of affairs at Monte Video. The only news of interest brought by this vessel is to the effect, that two or three vessels, which Rosas had allowed to pass up the river Parana with the intention of proceeding to Paraguay, were seized at Corrienties by the insurgents, who refused to allow them to proceed,—but professed to be willing to pay the value of the cargoes, which are understood to be principally, if not en.irely, British property. It was rumoured at Bue nos Ayres, that the government of Paraguay had an nounced that they would permit no commercial intercourse with that country until the hostilities on the River Plate were terminated. UNITED STATES.—The packet-ship Columbus, Capt. Cole, arrived in the Mersey on Saturday, bringing New York advices to the 2d instant, and Washington to the 31st ultimo. There is little news, the chief point being the introduction into the House of Representatives, on the latter date, of a bill and joint resolution providing for the annexation of Texas to the United States on the terms on which Missouri was admitted into the Union. Notice of another joint resolution to effect the same object bad been given on the same day. The New York Jour nal of Commerce says—" Richard Abbey, a planter, residing in Yazoo county, has raised, the present season, a very superior cotton-plant. It is said to surpass the Mexican in the size of bolls and equal Sea Island in the softness and beauty of its staple." FRANCE --The chamber having passed, on Wednesday, from the general discussion to the paragraphs of the ad dress, M. de Carne proposed the following amendment to the first paragraph :—" Our labours ended a few months ago in the midst of complications that clearsighted and firm conduct might have prevented or terminated in a more satisfactory manner." The amendment was sus tained by Messrs. Crernieux and Billault, and opposed by M. de Gasparin and the Minister of the Interior, after which the question was put to the vote, when there ap peared—Against the amendment, 225 ; for it, 197 ; ma jority for ministers, 28. Thus the question of confidence raised upon the first paragraph has been settled against the coalition ; for although the paragraph related to Mo rocco merely, yet the amendment was so worded as to affect the whole policy of ministers. The National announces, with what feelings may be easily conceived, that the " enemies of England," " ha ters of perfidious Albion," in a word, the subscribers to the fund for purchasing a sword of honour for Admiral Dupetit Thouars, had, figuratively had their proffered present thrown in their faces. The Admiral, very frankly and very sensibly, told the deputation of the subscribers, when they waited on him on last Saturday, that his sense of duty would not permit him to accept the intended bribe to break his oath of allegiance, and refuse obedience to his superiors, nor, consequently, to lend himself to an attempt to embroil his government with that of Great Britain, and, what would, perhaps, be worse, to contribute towards perpetuating in France the diabol , cal spirit of enmity towards this country which has been the undis guised aim of a largeportion of the French press throughout the last five years. The Spanish part of Hayti has been amicably formed into a separate republic, called Republica Dominica, and has adopted a constitution headed `• God, Country, and Liberty." On Christmas eve the baptism of two bells in the Ro man Catholic chapel of the hospital of Tours, took place with the ceremonies usual upon such occasions. One of the bells bears this inscription :—" Je m'appelle, Anna- Valerie;" the other, " Je m'annelle Julie-Caroline." SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATES.—From a statement cf the total number of slaves in each of the United States in 1840, it appears that there were in 1840 in the United States 2,487.213 slaves, of which 1.246,408 were males, and 1,240,805 females, the proportions thus being nearly equal. GUANO : ICHABOE. — Advices received yesterday state that ab ut 350 vessels were there about the latter end of November ; that the guano remaining on the island was estimated sufficient to load about 150 of them ; and that, owing to this, vessels were leaving in ballast, some pro ceeding to Saldanha Bay and Angra Pequena in quest of the manure that may be deposited on those islands. — Morning Herald of Saturday. PROTESTANTISM IN FRANCE.—According to the Moniteur, the two reformed churches in France posses-ed in 1815, 464 pastors; in 1843, 677 ; and in 1845, upwards of 700. The budget of the Protestant Church amounted, under the empire, to 306,000 f. ; under the Restoration, to 676,000 f. ; and in 1845, to 1,219,000 f. The number of temples had likewise increased ; but there are still 111 without any places of worship. There is, in France, a Protestant population of about 4,000,000. STOCK OF LUMBER IN THE PORT OF QUEBEC, DECEMBER 1, 1844, WITH A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT FOR A letter from Tahiti received last week by a gentleman in Yorkshire from his friend in that island, contains the latest intelligence from that quarter of the world. From it we learn that the French continue sovereigns and Mas ters of the ground they stand upon in Tahiti, and no more ; —that the Queen's government has not been restored ; that a brief armistice has been agreed upon between the French and the native chiefs, which seemed on the point of being terminated ;—and that many of the English mis sionaries are taking their sad departure from the fairest scene of modern Christian missions, now ravaged by wicked and licentious usurpers. . - • THE LAST FIVE YEARS Oak Elm I Ash Birch White I Red Pine I Pine Tim her. Timber. 'Timber. Timber Timber. I Timber, 1814! 857,721 559.8401 77,4 01 26,139 1 2,552,90412,969, 668 1843! 1,361,181 1,107,8641 71,3781 14,356 2,352.41 1 213,474,5 00 1942 1,733,186 1,416.5221 118,446; 57,877 7,15 1 , 45 911,392,131 11341 1,743,156 1,768,3161 169,909 9,52 4,l U1;527!1,292,350 1840 1,172,413 1,167,9751 149,1851 22,898, 2,271,953 1,522,448 1839 604,285 200,395 1 40,131 1 1,584'1,773,61;3 1 2,3 43 , 6 9 0 NotB timber —The above includes shippable and unshippable MADEIRA, Jan. I.—The standing poverty and destitu tion of this lovely region, perhaps the most favoured by nature on all the earth, but for the stigma of human in. stitutions and laws, have been increased since the flood of two years ago by an additional drop in Madeira's cup of misery, arising from the great falling off in the influx of strangers to the island during the winter. These have at all times been chiefly English, and the number wintering here at present is not more than half what it was two years since. The south of Italy has lately obtained the preference. Among onr countrymen now in Madeira are more than a dozen clergymen of the Churches of England and Scotland. We have likewise two members'of Parlia ment, Mr. Dundas, and Mr. Scott, M.P., for Roxburgh shire. Dr. Kalley still continues his missionary labours, but his proceedings are conducted quietly, and for the present make little noise. A TRIANGULAR DUEL, NICE, JANUARY B.—There has been rather a damp thrown over society at large here recently. At a club supper, after a ball, a dispute arose between a Russian, a Frenchman, and an Italian ; the Russian challenged the Frenchman, and the Italian the Russian; the latter two immediately went out—their feelings towards each other almost amounted to madness, as they fixed to have but one pistol loaded, and the muz zles to each other's breasts ; but the second (for they had only one, as the others would not, they said, wait to wit ness a murder) loaded the pistol so that it would not go off. They then returned to town to the Italian's rooms for other pistols; while there, in walked the governor with the police, wrested both, and put them in confine ment, also the Frenchman. This happened two days before Christmas-day, and they are not yet liberated. WEALTH OF THE PROPAGANDA.—The French jour nals of last week state that the receipts of the society in stituted at Lyons for the propagation of the Rosnish faith amounted in 1844 to 3,562,088 f. France bad contributed 1,835.029 f. ; Bavaria, 232,748 f. ; Prussia, 145,0661. ; Germany, 42,159 f.; Great Britain, 237,795 ; Ireland, 181,9051.; Spain, 10,578 f.; Russia, 2,449 f. ; Sardinia, 257,4641.; Sicily, 109,1181. ; the United States of Ame rica, 6,384 f. ; South America, 10,2471. ; Oceania, 240 f., &c. The society expended--in Oceans, 503,8361. ;in the United States, 1,044,895 f. ; in the African missions, 266,0691.; in Asia. 997,1251.; in Europe, 547,111 f. ; costs of printing, 256,360 f.; the entire expenses of the year amounted to 3,668,7621. There was a surplus of 424,303 f. in the treasury of the society lying over since last year. LORD RANELAGH AND DON CARLOS AGES OV THE EUROPEAN SOVEREIGNS. — The pope is, since the death of Bernadotte, King of Sweeden, the Nestor of European sovereigns, being now 79 years 4 months. Out of 52 monarchs, three only are above 70. viz. :—The pope, the King of Honover (73 years 7 months), and the King of the French (71 years 3 montLs.) Of the others, ten are between 60 and 70 ; fourteen from 50 to 60, among whom is the Emperor of Austria ; thir teen from 40 to 50, including the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia ; three from 30 to 40, seven from 20 to 30, comprising the Queens of England and Portugal, &c. ; and two only from 10 to 20, the Emperor of Brazil (19 years 1 month), and Queen of Spain (14 years 3 months). Two changes of reigns have occurred in 1844 by the deaths of Bernadotte, King of Sweden, and Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Gotha. STATISTICS OF THE TIMBER TRADE OF CANADA FOR 1844 (From the Annual Circular of Messrs. Forsyth Ar Bell.) QUEBEC, DEC. 4, 1841.—Our season for shipments being now closed, we think it will be interesting to our correspondents if we take a general review of the market, furnishing them at the same time with a statement oft e stocks wintering over, the quantity that has come to Mt port, and the amount of wood exported. In the early part of the season the high price of white pine in Liverpool was generally supposed to result from the bareness of the market there, but every branch of trade being prosperous to a degree , caus ed a great demand for this staple, and each succeeding steamer brought more flattering accounts, freights advancirg from 30s. to 355., and sub , equently to 38s. and 395.. and vessels scarce and not to be procured. 13, our advises to the 4th ult., we are informed that the unparalleled number of 110 arrivals in the port of Liver pool, in the month of October, had little effect on the market, which was wonderfully supported, notwithstand ing the addition in such a short period of upwards of 01,000 tons of timber. The number of mills erecting in the ma nufacturing districts, and the rage for railroads, which are projected in every part of the United Kingdom., with the ' were those of: a " hot-headed priest." The Liberator I The parishioners of Tottenham, who recently objected immense improvements in Birkenhead for the increased Icalled this reverend speaker to order. The rev. gentle- Ito certain innovations attempted in their parish church, dock accommodation in the port of Liverpool, are all ' man said he maintained the canonicity of the rescriot, but have sent to the Rev. R. Faukner, the incumbent of St. sensible causes of the great consumption of our timber. denied its application to Repeal. Does not Mr. O'Con- Sepulchre's, Cambridge, the sum of twenty guineas , to - Whether these will continue, or whether the ensuing nell (he asked) admit that it is c anonical ? Mr. O'Con- ' i wards a subscription now raising for that gentleman to de season will be equally beneficial to our friends on the St. nell—l am a bad theolo g ian, and de p recate such a discus- I fray the expenses of the law suit incurred by him in re- Lawrence and Ottawa, it is difficult to conjecture ; and, sion in this place. Several Repeal wardens were stripped 1 sisting the steps taken by the Camden Society to adorn acting on the rule we have laid nown for ourselves in the of their commissions for various violations of their instroc- , his church after the Popish fashion. The money sent by issue of the Prices Current, of merely advising what has tions. The rent amounted to £395. I the Tottenham parishioners is a sufficient proof that they taken place in the market, and carefully abstaining from e I are willing to help others under circumstances of oppres hazarding any opinion of prospective price, we will con- i sion and difficulty similar to their own. tent ourselves by simply stating that the impression ge ne- UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS. MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS. — MT. J. W. Smith, who rally prevalent is that a large and active demand will be i died at his house in Regent's-park on the sth instant, has experienced next year, and an unusually large stock will OXFORD, JAN. 23.—1 n a congregation held this day' bequeathed the following sums to the undermentioned be got out to meet it. So much, however, depends on the following degrees were conferred :—Doctor inDivini t Y• charities :—To the British and Foreign Bible Society, our weather in winter and spring, that much uncertainty —Rev. Richard Briscoe, Fellow of Jesus. Masters of £2,000 ;to the Society for Promoting Christian Know of the quantity manufacturing getting to market must i Arts.—Rev. J. Mason, New inn Hall. Rev. J. M. ledge, £2,000; to the Metropolis Church Building Fund, always exist. I Gresley, St. Mary Hall. W. H. Awdry, Magdalene Hall. £2,000; to the Middlesex Hospital, £2,000 ; to the Na- By the supervisor's return, the quantity received is as Rev. F. H. M., Student of Christ Church. R. B• e• tional Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in follows :—White pine, 12,150,964 feet ; red pine, 4,164,317 Lyons, Christ Church. Rev. R. A. H. Stroud, Wadham. the Principles of the Established Church, £1,000: to the feet ; oak, 709,540 feet ; elm, 660,964 feet; ash, 128,458 Res. J. B. Fellow of St. John's. Rev. H. Harr is, St. Society for the Propagation o f the Gos p el, £2,000 ; and feet ; birch, 73,142 feet ; maple , 821 feet ; butternut , 3040 John's. Rev. H. Pigot, Brasenose. G. J. Piccope' Brase- h as di rec t e d th e w h o l e to be paid, free of duty, within feet ; basswood, 7919 feet ; tamarack , 19,925 feet ; round nose . Rev. E. Pedder, Brasenose. Rev. S. W. Wayte, th r ee mon th s a fter his decease. maple, 255 feet ; hemlock, 1001 feet ; poplar , 45 fee t ; Fellow of Trinity. Rev. G. G. Hayter, Oriel. W. Pop- SALE OF A VALUABLE CHURCH LIVING.—On Toes walnut, 3489 feet. Taking into consideration a small ham, Oriel. J. Lea, Worcester. Bachelors of Arts.— day the perpetual advowson, with the next presentation to quantity of timber, wintering over last year without being N. S. Fortescue, Student of Christ Church, Grand Com- the living of Trimley, St. Martin, in the county of Suffolk, measured, and which of course is not included in the above pounder. B. Bevan, Christ Church, Grand Compounder. was disposed of, by public competition. The large and return, our exports of square timber and that used in our H. T. Whately, Student of Christ Church. R. Lawson, small tithes had been commuted at the sum of £5OO per shipments will not vary much from the following :—White Student of Christ Church. J. G. D'Englehart, Christ pine, 11,950,438 feet ; red pine, 4,669,149 fee t ; oak, Churc h. C. F. Clifton, Christ Church. J. E. Tweed, annum. The outgoings amounted to about £ 45 a year , 1,213,110 feet; elm, 1, 208 . 988 feet; ash , 122,346 feet ; Chris t Church. W. Farrar,New Inn Hall. F. W. but was compensated by the glebe, consisting of 3 1 acres. The population, wholly agricultural, consists of about 500 birch, 61,309 feet. The returns of deals and sta v e s are Smith , M a gd a lene Hall. W. E. Jones. Jesus. F. 0. persons, and the parish comprised above 1,200 acres ; not yet made up in the supervisor's office, but will be I Giffard, St. John's. H. D. Hilton, St. John's. G. F. while the incumbent is in his 86th year. The auctioneer hereafter reported. The number of arrivals for the last Tiley, St. John's. W. C. Hibbert, Balliol. G. E. stated the value of it to be £7,000. The first sum offered four seasons have been as follows :-1841, 1214 vessels, Hughes, Oriel. H. J. Coleridge, Scholar of Trinity. was £4,000, and it was knocked down, after a spirited 458.971 tons ; 1843, 1185 vessels, 429,741 to n s ; 1842, 863 CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 24.—M a Congregation just held competition, for £5,950. vessels, 307,448 tons. the following degrees were conferred :—Honorary Mas- REVISAL OF THE LITURGY. — In all the authorised re ' lets of Arts—The Hon. J. Gifford, Emmanuel College ; visions our liturgy has undergone, it has never been sub the Hon. W. Cecil Spring Rice, Trinity College. Bache- mitted to convocation but once, namely, at the last, in Tors of Arts—Henry Newport, Pembroke College ; John 1662 ; an instance little favourable to such a course. On Taylor, St. John's College. all other occasions the revision has been made by com- PREFERMENTS AND Meeoiwretesgs.—Rev. P. M. missioners appointed by the crown; and the revision pro- Brunwin, 8.A., to the curacy of Great Chesterford, posed in 1689, effected, as Archbishop Wake said, by " a Essex.—Rev. S. B. Byers, 8.A.. to the assistant curacy set of men titan which this church was never , at any one of St. John's, WalLiam-green, Fulham.—Rev. G. C. time, blessed with either wiser or better since it was a Cardale, 8.A., to the curacy of Wood Walton, Hunting- church," (a healing measure, which at that time would donshire.—Rev. B. H. Puckl e, 8.A., to the curacy of have been, as the same prelate said, "for the interest and Little Brickhill, Hertfordshire. —Rey. E. G. Reeve, 8.A., peace of our church and state,") came to nothing, from to be assistant curate of Ide Hill, Kent.—Rev. G. H. its having been subjected to the approval of convocation, Vachell, M.A., to the rectory of Foulness, vacant by the and there outvoted by a party in the lower house, a result death of the Rev. G. Knight.—Rev. G. B. Dodwell, 8.A., which caused much regret at its ever having been brought to be second assistant curate of Finchley, Middlesex.— before such a tribunal,—Mr. Goode's Pamphlet. Rev. T. A. C. Firminger, , 8.A., to the curacy of Sitting- mi OILE DISTURBANCES IN EXETER. — On Sunday wee k bourn, Kent.—Rev. J. Harris, M.A., to the assistant there was another outbreak, similar to those detailed in From the Church and Stale Gazette. curacy of St. Peter's, Globe-lane, Stepney.—Rev. R. B. our last, at St. Sidwells, Exeter. The Rev. Mr. Cour- Lord Ranelagh has published a pamphlet containing a Howe, 8.A., to be chaplain of H.M. ship Eagle.—Rev. tenay preached in his surplice, as usual, and proceeded, correspondence between himself and Lord Aberdeen in F. G. Nash, 8.A., to the assistant curacy of Clavering without the slightest change, in those innovations in the the course of last year. with Lan g le y , Essex.—Rev. C. Cursham, 8.A., to the service which have excited the universal hostility of his The first letter, dated in March last, contains a request perpetual curacy of Hartwell, Northamptonshire, vacant parishioners. About two-thirds of the congregation rose from Lord Ranelagh for an interview; Lord Aberdeen, by the cession of the Rev. E. R. Pemberton.—Rev. W. on his ascending the pulpit, and twenty or thirty left the with his usual liberality, gave him two. But, by a note of H. Bishop, 8.A., to the assistant curacy of St. John's church. The shuffling of feet, the moving to and fro. the following May, we find that they had been productive chapel, Epping.—Rev. .1. Green, 8.A., to the assistant the rustling of people rising to look over their seats, and of nothing, although their subject concerned the future curacy of Rickmanswortb, Herts.—Rev. W. Headley, the whisperings to one another of the congregation, were tranquillity of Spain. From two subsequent letters, we 8.A., to the curacy of Hazeleigh, Essex.—Rev. J. Hens_ strangely inappropriate to the sacred place. With these discover that the pacification of Spain was to be achieved man, M.A., to the incumbency of Christ Church, Clifton, undevotional, and indignant feelings the congregation that by Don Carlos giving his son in marriage to the young Gloucestershire.—Rev. P. J. Brine, 8.A., to the curacy remained heard the " teaching" of the Rev. Mr. Cour queen. But Lord Aberdeen, with more sagacity than of St. Mary's, Leeds.—Rev. T. Bagley, 8.A., to the tenay to its conclusion. On leaving the church, the con- Lord Ranelagh appears to have given him credit for, curacy of St. Philip's, Bethnal-green, Middlesex.—Rev. gregation mingled with a crowd of seven or eight hundred scouts the idea of suchen alliance being either practicable J. Baird, 8.A., to the assistant curacy of Trinity Chapel, people who were assembled outside, and waited for the or likely to be succeeded, if it were, by any but disastrous T ottenham.—Rev. B. Dowry, M.A.. to the rectory of a pp earance of Mr. Courtenay. He left the church in the results. The practised statesman at once saw that Don Hinksworth, Hertfordshire. —Rev. E. Hutton, 8.A., to centre of about a dozen gentlemen, headed by the church- Carlos made no abandonment of his own pretensions ; the assistant curacy of St. Matthias, Bethnal-green, Mid- wardens, and was received by the crowd with hootings or that, if he did, be merely transferred them to a son, illesex.—Rev. H. P. Costobodie, 8.A., to the vicarage of and yellings, which were continued until the reverend who, while wooing a royal lady. denounced her claim to King's Norton, with Little Stratton curacy, vacant by the gentleman reached his dwelling. In the afternoon the the throne which he asked to share. death of the Rev. T. Ord.—Rev. H. J. Stevenson, M.A., church was again crowded in consequence of the excite- Unable to procure the introduction of a new fire-brand rector of St. Nicholas, Worcester, to the vicarage of ment. Mr. Courtenay followed his accustomed object into an already flaming country, Lord Ranelagh, after Grimley, with Hallow curacy, Worcestershire.—Rev. M. ionable observances. On his entering the pulpit, the con being silent for a while, resolves upon procuring some- Barnard, M.A., to the rectory of Little Bardfieid, Essex. gregation appeared all to rise from curiosity; many went thing for himself. It appears that Lord Palmerston had —Rev. J. Hart, M.A., to the perpetual curacy of Soul- out; the church and lobby were densely crowded, and so prevented him from being presented at foreign courts, be- bury, Bucks.—Rev. J. C. Reynolds, 8.A., to the rectory great a noise prevailed, that the opening prayer before the cause he had been engaged in actual war, on the Carlist of Beeston St. Andrew, by Norwich.—Rev. J. Ambrose, sermon was scarcely audible. The churchwarden went side, when the latter was opposed by a British co-operat- 8.A., to the curacy of Great Tolleshunt. Essex.—Rev. out and endeavoured to restore silence, the appearance of ing force. He asks that this obstruction to his reaching H. J. Bull, 8.A., to the curacy of St. James the Great, the congregation being rather that of an excited public foreign courts and continental fetes may be removed, as a Bethnal-green, Middlesex.—Rev. G. F. Burr. 8.A., to meeting, than that of a devotional assembly. Having stigma cast upon him only on account of his attachment the curacy of Frittenden, Kent.—Rev. A. Christopher- thus by his foolish pertinacity in " things indifferent" to principles so long maintained by Lord Aberdeen, and son, M.A., to the curacy of the Parish Church, Lances- raised this scene of excitement, and everything but calm the leading members of her Majesty's Administration. ter.—Rev. C. F. Edge, 8.A., to the assistant curacy of devotional feeling, the rev. gentleman proceeded to preach But the implied con plim nt is disowned by the Foreign St. Andrew, Holborn, London.—Rev. H. T. M. Kirby, the doctrine of " peace." The service ended, the scene Secretary, who, on the question of principles, denounces 8.A., to the curacy of Mayfield, Sussex.—Rev. F. Wells, outside the church, (writes the correspondent of the Lord Ranelagh's friend, Don Carlos, as a very unprinci- 8.A., to be chaplain of H. M. ship Albion.—Rev. T. Times) beggars description. It rained in torrents : yet pled pretender. Upon this the young English Carlist, Wren, 8.A., to the assistant curacy of Chesterford, Essex. the streets were like a fair. About 2,000 people were with loyal alacrity, declares that he bad never, directly or —Rev. T. R. Kewley, 8.A., to the assistant curacy of assembled to hoot Mr. Courtenay as he left the church. indirectly, been engaged against the troops of his legiti- Trinity Church, Halstead. Essex.—Rev. G. J. Atkinson, Gibes, and shouts, and laughter rang through the air. It mate sovereign ;to which Lord Aberdeen, omitting to M.A., to the vicarage of Eagle, Lincolnshire.—Rev. T. was Sunday—and the Rev. Mr. Courtenay was their notice the political lecture, infinitely worse than Mrs. Austin, M.A., curate of Haughton-le-Skerne, to the rec- spiritual teacher. The rev. gentleman was again sur- Caudle's, which Lord Ranelagh inflicts on him, answers tory of Redmarshall.—Rev. H. W. Baker, 8.A., to the rounded by a party of his friends to protect him as he left that, relying upon the word of an English gentleman. he assistant curacy of Great Horkesley, Essex.--Rev. R. the church. A strong body of the police made a lane henceforth considers his lordship as innocent of having Neale, curate of Christ Church, Bradford, to the curacy through the crowd for him, and then formed in close file appeared in the field against British troops; and that he of St. Matthew's, Brixton, Surrey.—Rev. I. W. North, round him, to keep off the crowd. The dusk of the will, consequently, submit to her Majesty the propriety M.A., to the perpetual curacy of Trinity Church, Green- evening and the immense crowd prevented the quelling of of cancelling Lord Palmerston's despatch, by virtue of with, Kent. the hootings this time, and in this kind of procession, which Lord Ranelagh bad been refused access to foreign The new Church Extension Fund already exceeds persevered in notwithstanding the torrents of rain, amidst courts. £ll,OOO. and is rapidly increasing. hootings and yellings and uproar, was the rev. gentleman With this a reasonable man would have supposed that Lord Ranelagh might have been satisfied. Nothing of The Bishop of Oxford has recently ordained a gentle_ escorted and protected to his door." On the following the sort. Having successfully effected a little matter for man above forty years of age without a degree at either day one of the parties engaged in thus following the rev. Univ'ersity, to the curacy of a large parish in the neigh- gentleman was brought before the Mayor, and after a himself, he returns once more to the charge for Don Car- University, of Oxford. This appears a good beginning to reprimand was discharged. los, and renews a homily in his behalf, which receives no the breaking of a rule to which, in the present circum further notice from Lord Aberdeen than an intimation in stances of the Church, it is often most inconvenient to answer to the letter containing it, that her Majesty had - adhere. been pleased to recall the instructions to British Minis abroad, by which they were forbidden to present WITHDRAWAL OF THE PROPOSED OXFORD TEST.— The following questions, prefaced by an ample state. I • • t ee history and nature of academical ment, exp ainin e g Ranelagh at the different courts to which they were ac- In deference to the opinion of a large number of the mem degrees, and of the practice of subscription to the Articles credited. Thank you, says the latter lord ; but I shall hers of convocation who have expressed thee. dissent from i \ Queene, church, have been submitted to Sir J. Dodson, publish our correspondence. If you do, intimates the the proposed alterations, the intended additions to the Advocate,sta and Mr. Bothell, Queen's Counsel, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, do not suppress any part of tute, title xvii. sect. 3—De Auctoritate et Officio V i ce- s.. it. Ab, finally retorts Lord Ranelagh, on the shortest Cancellarii, will by withdrawn ; and so form no part o f for their opinion : day, it never entered into my mind that any gentleman the academical business to be considered and determined "1. Whether . corporations in general bare the power could ever have entertained such an idea—and therewith on upon the 13th of February. of passing przenle.gm or penal by-laws against their mem the matter ends—a matter which we should not have UNION AMONG PROTESTANTS. — What we strongly re- ! r • and if not whether there is anything in the nature be 8, , , . noticed, but that it will serve to set Lord Ranelagh right commend is union among those who know and love the , of the University of Oxford to take it our of the ordinary rule? . , with the public respecting his being hostilely in presence truth of God, in opposition to Popery without, and Po- ' of British troops in Spain. Upon this much we congratu- pery within the Church. We would recommend the for- I ." 2. Whether the statute 'De Degradmone autho late him. The remaining part of the subject is neither mation of such unions in every city, town, village, and of Convocation to take I rezes the House legislativeanexercise over; and,. -if netwhether dethronement of Don Carlos are evidently produced to exercise of due care and exertion, be effected. They will I it authorizes the depr o i s vation . of degrees ii_ r art_s,_f a o ' r r_ w a_ theo log!cal offence, such that imputed to M ..W . d s excite public commiseration for that royal disinherited all be wanted. If they be adequate, through the blessing Knight. But that disaster occurred so long ago, that the of God, to the occasion, they will more than realize theclass Knight. offences3, Whether, if Mr. Ward's case were within the of contemplated by . . . public have long found consolation for it. expectations of many sober-minded and able men.—Re- the statute ` De Degrada- AMA cord.—[This is precisely what the Orange Associat'on tt . one, it would not be necessary that it should be adju- IRELAND. is doing, and we recommend all persons desirous of fol- I dicated upon by a court compete . nt to inquire into offences lowing our contemporary's advice, to study (as carefully l of E against the doctrine and discipline of the church ng land before proceed d • • the university could to eprivation. Mr. O'Connell himself will not proceed to Rome, but and minutely as they please) all the rules and regulations 1 his son, John, the member for Kilkenny, and Lord -, of that excellent society, which are open to the perusal of ; "4. Whether the proposed deprivation of Mr. Ward's i degrees can be supported in law on any other ground ? every one. j Ffrench, will form part of the deputation, as announced I "5. Whether it is competent for the university, under at the meeting of the Repeal Association. The third meeting of the Incorporated Society for Pro- the statute, Tit x., sect. 2, § 2, to pass the proposed new rooting the Enlargement, &c. of Churches and Chapels, At the Killarney temperance festival, last week, wheretest without license from the Crown, supposing them to . for m the held Monday last. Grants were season, was on Mr. O'Connell attended, one of the speakers designated be otherwise incompetent to do so in law ? voted towards building churches for the districts of Wyke, impediment " 6. Whether, assuming there to be no the Pope's rescript against Repeal agitation, by bishops in theßirstal, near Halifax ; North Rode , n ear parish of or priests, " a bit of Latin from Italy the other day l" - CongletonSalford, near Manchester; East-end , Finch- under file statutes of the university , the power of corn ll•n ' any member of the university to resubscribe the A certain Roman Catholic clergyman , not a hmndre d ley, Middlesex ; Byley , ne ar Middleton, Cheshire : St. pelting ticles with the proposed declaration of the sense in miles from the classic region of Clones, within a few James, Congleton ; and Nent Head, near Penrith. Also which he sub.cribes, upon pain of banishment from the miles of Carrick-on-Suir, when addressing his flock from towards re-building and enlargingthe churches at Vice-Chan theHeflin- altar a few Sundays ago, emphatically told them that wood, near Manch e st e r; Loughton, Essex ; and Wood- university, can be legally conferred upon the cellor by the House of Convocation?" it was " not worth their while to stop their contributions ford, near Salisbury ; and towards enlarging the churches I to the Liberator until he was crowned."—Waterford at Tilshead, near Devizes; Corby, near Rockingham ; Mail. Llanelly, Cartnarthenshire ; and Jevington, near East- A meeting was held in Clones, in the county of Mo- bourn. The treasurer reported a legacy to the society of naghan, on Sunday last, at which speeches of the most £2,000, from the late Mr. R. Foster, and a donation of , inflammatory nature were poured forth against the Be - £ 230 from Mr. S. J. Lloyd , which, with other smaller I quests Act, the priests, as usual, taking the lead. One contributions, will enable the society to meet the grants of these gentlemen made an offer to the Pope of an Irish now voted, but leaving a balance in hand of only £1,600. auxiliary legion to " bury all the English and Austrians RESIGNATION OF CHURCH PREFERMENT.—The Rev. in Italy in the Po." It will be, no doubt, duly appreci- E. Wodehouse, canon of Norwich Cathedral, has tender. i ated by the holy father. ed to the Bishop of Norwich his valuable living and ca. ARE SNIPES GAME ?—Lord Mountcashel lately prose- nonry, because he has felt uneasy at continuing to hold cuted two officers of the 3d Dragoon Guards, stationed at his preferment while be believed that his opinions were Clogher Barracks, for shooting snipe on his grounds with- inconsistent with a conscientious subscription to the art', out leave, contrary to the 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 9, cies. The parts of the paragraph to which Mr. Wode sec. 69; but it was suggested that" snipe was not game," house chiefly objects are the damnatory clauses of the and therefore that the penalties were not incurred. Mr. Athanasian Creed, the Form of Absolution in the Office Brewster and the Solicitor-General have since given their for the Visitation of the Sick, and the following part of opinion, confirming this view of the ca se. " Snipe," they the Form of Ordaining Priests :—" Receive the Holy say, " is not game." Ghost for the office and work of a priest in the church of THE REPEAL:STAFF.—The Dublin Mail gives the fol- God now committed unto thee by the imposition of our lowing details of the retrenchments in the expenditure : hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiv n: i " The cashier reduced to £ 2 2 s. a-week ; the bookk ee p er, and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained," &c. £2 a-week ; the under-secretary, to £lOO per annum. The bishop has unhesitatingly declined to accept or en- The clerks who had £2 a-week each are reduced to 30s. ; courage the resignation, for, among other, the following those who had 305., reduced to 255. ; and those who had reasons :—" Because, considering the number and the 255., reduced to 20s. A saving of above £1,500 per an- nature of many of the propositions included in our 39 ar num has been effected, and the work to be done no worse titles, the homilies, and Book of Common Prayer, to than it was—a pregnant proof of the profusion with which which assent is given by subscription, it is impossible that the people's money was sqandered when it flowed in any number of individuals should view such propositions freely." in exactly the same light and subscribe to them in pre- YOUGHAL MONASTERY. — This monastery has been cisely the same sense. Latitude in subscription is there dissolved, and its inmates have conformed to the fore absolutely unavoidable. Such latitude has been re- I Protestant faith. The superior has published a letter, in peatedly recognized and defended by the highest authori which he details his own conversion and consequent per- ties in our church from the time of the reformation to the secution by the papists, and then says that the oppression present moment, when it is claimed and exercised in its and sacrifices endured by him " brought the other to a fullest extent by many who hold and proclaim opinions stand, and led them to make further inquiries into the much further removed from the spirit of our protestant faith and practice of the church of Rome. Providentially church than are any objections of yours." There is ho they were brought into contact with pious clergymen, and nesty in Mr. Wodehouse's conduct at all events. after a short time the entire community conformed to the THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM. — The Bishop, in his Protestant faith." third annual letter, dated October last, says — " The fact CONVERTS FROM POPERY. — On the 21 st inst., in of our having nearly completed the third year of our resi- Newmarket church, Kanturk, seventeen persons, at their dence in a country of peculiar trial and danger, in the face own request, and after a full examination of their spirtual of all kinds of difficulties, is in itself a cause of thankful views, publicly renounced the errors of popery and em- ness. But we have to speak of more than this. It has braced the true doctrines of the bible, as held by the . been our privilege to perceive a gradu al increase of our I united churches of England and Ireland established in establishment, quite sufficient to lead us 'to thank God these countries. Many more had gone to the town pre- 1 and take courage.' Whilst ws are still strangely kept in pared to unite them, but were deterred from going into 1 suspense as to the building of our church, &c., notwitb the church owing to the violent conduct of the people, who 1 standing the many promises we have hal during the past had collected in large numbers in the street long before 1 year that permission was on the point of being granted, the service commenced, and who continued their hideous we have, in the good providence of God, had our church yells and hootings, even to the interruption of the service, accommodation enlarged since I last addressed you : so which caused many of the congregation to go out long t h a t w e have at present a commodious place of worship, before the close of it. Several of the converts on their though even this has, on some occasions, proved inade way home were assailed with stones and knocked down. ' quate, particularly when the number of strangers has been One man was robbed of some articles of provision which large. Our regular congregation has also been on the in he was carrying home to his family, and others owing to crease ; so much so, that our former church could not the lateness of the day, and having a distance to go. were have held them. This has arisen partly from the mission obliged to take refuge in the town for the night. There h av ing been increased by the arrival of additional labour were two windows broken in the house, in which they era, and partly from converts, 13 of whom h ave been ad lodged. They appear determined to brave the storm of ded to the church by baptism during the last year, and persecution.—Cork Constitution. some are now under instruction, who, of course, regularly REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the meeting on Monday attend the services. We have, in consequence, opened an the " Liberator" was present according to promise, and additional full service on Sunday evenings, and established made a long speech, but it was even more silly than usual. a lecture on every Wednesday, besides the daily morning The following bit of bye-play is the only portion of the (Hebrew) and evening (English) service. Since our arri proceedings worth extracting. Mr. B u rke, a young agi- val in the Holy City, I find 37 baptisms recorded in our tator from Galway, read a long letter from the Rev. Mr. register, and 26 of those baptized have been confirmed. O'Malley, parish priest of Clonish, in said county, alleg- Nine individuals have been ordained deacons, and five ing that the document recently published as the Pope's re- priests, who are gone forth as heralds of mercy, to pro script, but which the rev. gentleman regarded only as the claim the glad tidings of salvation, four of whom are of letter of the Prefect Franzoni, was n ot a c anonical docu- the house of Israel. At the last ordination, which was ment. The rev. writer argued that a canon of the church held on Sunday, September 1. three candidates were or was a law of the church, that the dictum of an individual dained for the different missionary stations of HeLron, was not law, and that any attempt to make it law—mean- Beyrout, and Bagdad. On that deeply-interesting occa ing canonical law — would have the effect of put tin g a sion we had no less than 51 communicants. We now ge speedy quietus to the power of the Pope. A rev. repealer nerally number from 40 to 50 at the regular celebration of here rose to pro t es t against the expressions contained in the Lord's S u pp er, o n t h e first Lord's-day in every the letter read by the preceding speaker, which he said month." THE OXFORD CONTROVERSY Sir J. Dodson and Mr. Bethell have delivered their opinion in the following terms : " We are of opinion, that the House of Convocation has not the power of depriving Mr. Ward of his degrees in the manner or on the grounds proposed. " A degree is a certain dignity or title of honour, which the university derives its right to confer by grant from the Crown, and to the rank or status thus conferred the law has annexed many privileges, both ecclesiastical and civil.* The university can have no power of taking away this dignity and the franchises with which it is accompa nied,t unless such power be derived from the same source, namely, Royal grant, or has been created by some statute or by-law which has received the sanction of the Crown, or been confirmed by act of Parliament. " But, upon an examination of the statutes of the uni versity, we do not find any statute which confers upon or recognises in the House of Convocation a jurisdiction or authority to deprive any one of its members of his univer sity franchise 4 except only in the subordinate office of publicly executing the antecedent decree of a court of competent jurisdiction ;§ and we are therefore of opinion, that the proposed act of degradation will, if it passes, be illegal :11 and inasmuch as, by its consequences, it would deprive Mr. Ward of certain legal rights, we think it may be properly made the subject of application to the Court of Queen's Bench, and that such court would by manda mus compel the university to restore Mr. Ward to his degrecs,¶ and to the status and privileges which he now holds in respect of them. " We desire to observe,** that we give no opinion on the question whether Mr. Ward, by the publication of the doctrines contained in his book, has or has not com mitted an offence against ecclesiastical law,tt which might be made the subject of a proper judicial proceeding be fore a competent tribunal ; but simply that in our view of the case the House of Convocation is not such a tri bunal, and that the notion that it can degrade by virtue of some general or legislative power appears to us to be erroneous. " Should the resolution pass, Mr. Ward may have another remedy, namely, an appeal to the Crown as Vi sitor of the University ; and this may be resorted to even if the Court of Queen's Bench should, on an application for a mandamus, decline to interfere. " With respect to the second statute, which, in effect, proposes to annex a new sense to subscription, we are of opinion that it is contrary to law= The law requires the clerical subscriber to take the articles in their literal and grammatical sense, but the proposed statute requires him to take them in that sense in which he believes them to have been originally framed and promulgated, and also in the sense in which he believes them to be now accepted and taken by that body which, at the time of his rotbscription, constitutes the university. I! II Thus the be lief or conjecture of the subscriber upon these two diffi cult subjects of inquiry is substituted for the legal inter pretation. Should this statute pass, protesting memberr of convocation might perhaps appeal to the Queen in her capacity of Visitor of the University; but a shorter re medy will be to apply for a prohibition, in case the Vice- Chancellor shall proceed to require any member to sub scribe the articles with the proposed declaration. " JOHN Donsox. " RICHARD BETHELL. " Doctors'-commons, Jan. 17, 1845. "* 1 Strange, 557 ; Selden. 326. " t See Malden on Origin of Universities and Academical De. grees. " 3 The universities were first incorporated by stat. 13 Eliza beth, c. 2g ; and, as the powers and authorities of the House of Convocation are fully defined by statute, there can be no room m of a prescriptive right. " e Bagge's case, 11 Coke. gz, b. "1 ' Rex v. Richardson,' 1 Bun., 517. " Bentley's case, I Strange, 257, Lord Raymand, 1,334. " ** Cases Tempore Hardwicke, 212. " tT See the proclamation or James I. prefixed to the articles, and stat. 13 Elizabeth, c. 12. " 32 13 and 14 Charles H , c. 4,—the Preface to the Articles. " 44 Primitus editos. " uy Et nunc mihi ab universitate propositos." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE COURT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO STRATFIELDSAYE. Her Majesty left Windsor Castle on Monday afternoon, on a visit to his Grace the Duke of Wellington, at Strat fieldsaye. The royal carriage, containing her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Marchioness of Douro, the Earl of Jersey, Lord Charles Wellesley, Miss Murray. Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. Anson, left the Castle at half-past two o'clock, escorted by a party of the 17th Lancers. A number of persons ,had collected in Windsor to see her Majesty pass, and they cheered her enthusiastically. Her Majesty and the Prince arrived at the mansion of the Duke, where they were received by their illustrious host in person, at, as nearly as possible, 5 o'clock. The Duke met his royal visitors at the hall-door, and escorted her Majesty and the Prince into the library. Thence her Majesty went to the apartments, five in number, which have been arranged for her use during her stay at Strat fieldsaye. The visit to Stratfieldsaye was intended to be of a more private character than either of those with which her Ma jesty has lately honoured any of her subjects, and the members of the press did not, therefore,' all enjoy the same extended facilities they have possessed elsewhere. The following characteristic reply from the Duke of Wellington to an application for an admission (not on the part of The Times) will show that his Grace at least will not allow the Royal privacy to be unduly disturbed.— " Field-Marshall the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. , and begs to say he does not see what his house at Stratfieldsaye has to do with the public press." Stratfieldsaye is rather an " out of the way place, si tuated about six miles and a-half to the north-west of the Winchfield station of the South-Western Railway, and about the same distarliee to the north-east of the Basing stoke station. The town of Silchester (where there are some very perfect remains of a Roman station) is about three miles and a-half from it to the east. Stratfieldsaye is distant about nine or ten miles from the Reading sta tion of the Great Western Railway. Beyond the fact of its being the residence of the illustrious man whom the Queen now honours with her presence, it possesses little to attract the attention of the curious. The grounds are pretty but not extensive. The park is about a mile long, and a mile and a-half broad ; but the river Loddon winds through it and presents the opportunity, ass'sted by the rising grounds in the eastern part of the park, for some very beautiful effects. The whole character of the place, wooded and diversified as it is by sheets of water, is extremely quiet and pleasing. There are many ancient remains and other objects of interest within a few miles round. On Tuesday the royal couple rose at seven, and during the day drove to Bramshill, an ancient mansion about five miles from Stratfieldsaye, and well worth seeing for its unique antiquity. The visit of the royal party to the Duke has been of such an entirely private character as to afford but few features calculated to interest the public. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived at Windsor Castle on Thursday, at half-past one o'clock, having left Strathfieldsaye at eleven. Her Majesty rose at the usual hour, and after breakfast, as the morning was damp, went to the Tennis Court, where Prince Albert played until half-past ten, her Majesty looking on. The Royal party left at eleven o'clock in three carriages, the band of the yeomanry, stationed in the court-yard, playing the National Anthem. The Duke of Wellington, the Mar quis of Douro, the Rev. G. Wellesley, the Hon. Mr. Pierrepont, and Mr. Compton, M.P., accompanied the Royal party on horseback. The Duke took leave of her Majesty at Swallowfield. The others rode on to Arbor field, where they took leave of her Majesty and returned. Along the route the preparations still remained, and at different points many people were collected, who received the Royal party with the usual salutations. At Woking ham there was a vast concourse of spectators. The Royal cortege passed at a walking pace through the town. All the arrangements were the same as on the journey down, with the exception that the inscriptions on the arches were reversed—those which first net the eye on going down being placed on the arches at the other end of the place, and vice versa. At Bracknell the Royal party changed horses; and here a young gentleman, son of the Rev. Mr. Randall, of Binfield, presented her Majesty with a nosegay, which she was graciously pleased to accept. Lord and Lady Francis Egerton arrived at Arundel Castle, Sussex, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Norf.lk, on Thursday last, from Hatchford Hatl, near Cobham. STRANGE RAILWAY OCCURRENCE.--On Monday night, a stone or a bulllet passed through the upper part of the glass of the windows on both sides of a first-class carriage in the mail train from Hull, Leeds, Manchester, York, and the north for London, at a quarter past ten o'clock. about a mile from the Derby station, the speed being slightly reduced preparatory to entering the station. No person was injured. The carriage was afterwards de tached from the train, and detained at Derby, where it was examined, but no bullet or other missile was found. The matter remains one of great mystery, and has excited considerable interest at the station. MIDLAND RAILWAY.-At the half-yearly meeting of this company, yesterday week, at Derby, a dividend was declared of three per cent. on the consolidated stock, three per cent. on the preference stock, and £2 6s 3d on the Birmingham and Derby stock. The increase in the receipts of the three companies had amounted to £42,078 during the last half-year. There had been a decrease in the expenditure in the locomotive department of £3,341 ; of £1,740 in the coaching and goods department ; of £485 in the office charges ; of £2OO in the direction ; £174 in the stores department ; and of £2,613 in the amount paid for interest. The chairman (George Henderson, Esq.) after alluding to some good prospects of the company, said he would briefly state what the directors had done to give increa.ed accommodation to the public. The Syston to Peterborough proposed line was the first he would bring under their notice. The line was forty-seven miles and a half in length, and the capital required for its construc tion would be £700,000. or £15,000 a mile. This line would have the effect, when completed, of reducing the cost of coal in that district fifty per cent. ; and it must, therefore, be looked upon as a great boon to that neigh bourhood, and he did not believe that it could he Lucess fully opposed. The next line was that from Nottingham to Lincoln, which would be thirty-four miles in length, would cost £12,000 a-mile, and require a capital of £400,000. This line, as well as the Syston Line, had remarkably good gradients. There were several small branches, all of the utmost importance to the districts through which they were to pass ; and the last line was that from Swinton via Doncaster, Gainaborough, Lincoln, Boston, and Spalding, to Wisbeach, 124 miles in length, which would join the Eastern Counties Railway at March. This line would cost £1,612,000, being £14,000 a-mile. The honourable gentleman then entered into an examina tion of the proposed Direct York Line, which he charac terised as an enormous bubble. The report was adopted. RAILWAYS AND THE BOARD OF TRADE (From the Railway Times) The contents of the third batch of railway notices is sued by the Board of Trade on Friday week, are in no way calculated to disturb the confidence to which 'heir previous decisions have given rise. It will be seen that out of fifteen projects not less than ten have been re jected—and the others which have met with approval are all branches or extensions of the South-Eastern line. At the first glance this may look somewhat like a de parture from the manifestly conservative principle which has hitherto actuated the Board in the case of trunk lines. And it has been alleged that if they deemed it right to throw so large a territory into the angular course of the Great Western, the devious route of the South.Fastei n via Croyden might have made good its claim to a district far less in extent, by the same analogy. But, in fact, there is no analogy at all. In the former case it was a question between two great existing trunk lines, the less direct" having reached the point of contention already, and the " more direct" seeking to do so for the purposes of opposition. Thus the question before the Board was most simple, " whether the existing detour was so injurious to public convenience as to warrant the con struction of a new and more direct rival trunk line, whereby the property in the existing one would be ma terially depreciated." The judgment of the Board, as is well known, was given on a truly conservative principle. Now let us turn to the case in question. The Croyden line, being originally merely a mode of communication between the town of that name and London, has, from its connection with the Brighton and Dover lines, assumed the style and dignity of a trunk line—much on the prin ciple which :prompted the bellows-blower to claim the honour of the organit—forgetting that such connection is an accident of its position, not an integral feature of its existence. In the case of the Brighton the adoption of the Croydon line as its link of communication with London was obvi ous—it was the extension of a right line which the Brigh ton would have made had not the Croydon been in exist ence, and which ought long ago to have been absorbed into the Brighton as a part of it-rlf, but for the bad ma nagement which has all along characterised it. But on the other hand, it cannot be considered in any respect a portion of the Dover line. And there is no possible rea son why the latter company should not be allowed to amend thair original error in starting from Reigate, at their own expense, if they seek to do so. The Dover ►ine does not seek to make a trunk communication with Lon don to compete with the Croydon. The case of the Dover is in these words. "We have hitherto endeavoured to make use of the Croydon, which we found in existence, as our road to London, but finding it does not answer our purpose, we ask permission to complete our own line to the metropolis by its obvious course." The great objec tion to the new scheme is, the comparative worthlessness RAILWAY INTELLIGE CE, The Board of Trade have decided in favour of the New. castle and Berwick Railway, with branch to Kelso; and against the Northumberland line, with branch to Kelso. At a meeting of the Newcastle and North Sheilds rail way, on Friday, a dividend of £3 was declared. The re ceipts for the year were £19,152. CALEDONIAN.--At a meeting of the Glasgow Town council, resolutions were passed unanimously approving of this line, as likely to afford the best communication between England and Scotland. A gentleman of the neighbourhood of Totnes had ten to which that portion of the line which now exists from shares allotted to him of No. 2, new stock, in the Dover Tnubridge to Reigate will be reduced, in having for the Railway, and a fortnight since paid a deposit of £2 per future to look to its own local traffic for support. But share. On Friday last they were sold for £128155., thus that is the affair of the South-Eastern Company not of the leaving the trifling profit of £lOB 15s. on the outlay of Croydon. If the South-Eastern Company choose to £2O for a fortnight.—Western Luminary. abandon, as a source of profit, that portion of their line On Friday week, a splendid testimonial , consisting of a which they at first made, in the hope, and for the purpose centre-piece and four accompanying ornamental dishes of enabling themselves to take advantage of the already for fruit or flowers, with six salt cellars, all of silver gilt, existing Croydon—believing it to be more to their interest in the style of Louis XIV., and valued at two thousand to revert to their own original course—they can only be guineas, was presented to Mr. I. K. Brunel, the engineer accused of withdrawing their favours from the Croydon, to the Great Western, Bristol and Exeter, Bristol and not of competing with it. Any supposed analogy between Gloucester itailwas s, and other great public buildings. this case and that of the Great Wi stern is further dispel- POTTERIES.—The deputation from the proposed Pot- led by the recollection, that the connection of Bristol with teries line have had an interview with the directors of the London on the one hand, and with Exeter on the other, Grand Junction and Trent Valley Railway Companies, was always obvious and intentional, and the board have and the result is, that the two companies adhere to their only extended the capabilities of such connection to the plan of a crescent line from Stoke to Basford , near Crewe, utmost degree; whereas any original notion of Croydon northward ; and from Stoke to Stafford , southward. The as a point which should stretch its arms to Li radon on the committee have since memorialised the Board of Trade one hand, and to Dover on the other, is perfectly absurd. against the line, as not calculated to meet the require , The same remark applies to Reigate, which is the real point of junction at present. The true effect of the pre sent decision is, to leave the Croydon line to stand on its NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK R AILW AYS.—The Board of own merits in connection with the Brighton, and to allow Trade have reported in favour of the Bury and Ipswich; the South-Eastern to complete its natural course. The Ipswich and Norwich Extension; Lynn and Ely; and gain or loss which will ultimately accrue by converting against the Diss and Colchester; Eastern Counties ; Col- the portion of the line between Reigate and Tunbridge chester and Bury Extension ; London and Norwich into a mere branch, is a private question with the com direct; Norwich and Brandon—Diss Branch ; Wells and pinny, not a point of public principle. Thetford ; and recommending the postponement, until a Much has also been remarked upon the wholesale future period, of the Direct East Dereham and Norwich ; ' rejection—not delay—with which a large proportion of Norwich and Brandon—Dereham Branch ; Lynn and the projects are visited. Many are of opinion that the East Dereham ; Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth ; Diss aid board, alarmed at the probable exhaustion of capital—or, Colchester—Redlsam and Lodden Branches. to speak more correctly, the destruction of equilibrium— KINGSTOWN AND BRAY RAILWAY.—The directors of consequent upon such a mass of works being carried on the Dublin and Kingstown Railway Company, met on at one time, have taken a summary mode of preventing Saturday last, as the provisional committee of a company the evil, by dismissing the majority at once. This would for constructing a line from Kingstown to Bray—the capi- be the height of injustice, after the vast expense to which tal to be £200,000, in 4000 shares of £5O each-2000 to the projectors have been put in carrying their schemes be appropriated to the shareholders of the Kingstown before the board, and we do not for a moment believe Railway, in proportion to the interests, and the remainder them capable of it. "Whatever may be their amount of placed at the disposal of the committee for distribution. competency or fallibility, of thus much we feel assured, The Dalkey line (which is to be so altered as to remove that they have based t` eir judgments on integrity of pur the sharp curves) will be purchased by the new company pose ; and there is little doubt that any attempt to over at its cost price—£3s.ooo- The plans and sections have throw them will be discountenanced by the government, been lodged with the Board of Trade. represented by a majority in the house, who will not be BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER.—We understand that disposed, except on very strong grounds, to nullify the the amalgamation between the Birmingham and Glouces- recommendations of those whom they called into existence ter railway companies has taken place upon something like for the express purpose of their own guidance. the following terms :—The Birmingham and Gloucester capital to remain as it it. The Bristol and Gloucester to create as many new £5O shares as will capitalize their loan notes and debentures, to be paid up as the loan notes and debentures become due, and by equal proportions, extending over five years. Arrangements are nearly con cluded for laying down the narrow gauge between Bristol [The Railway Record has the following remarks on the subject of the decisions of the Board of Trade inserted in the Gazette of Friday last, and the particulars of which we have given elsewhere :—] "This is indeed cutting down the numerical force of the new schemes. Only 10 out of 22 " favourably " received ! Supposing that none of the promoters of the rejected schemes " show fight "—though we fervently hope they will—the labours of Parliamentary Committees will be most materially lessened. " If we could overlook the dangerous principle involved in entrusting powers so extensive to a Government Board, several of last night's decisions would please us well. In particular we are glad to find that the claims of the Eastern Union Company—a company which has from the first been most shamefully treated by chose who ought to have favoured and fostered it—are fully recognised, while justice is done on their oppressors of the Eastern Conn ' ties Direction. Strangely indeed would the Board of Trade have discharged the duty imposed upon them, had !• their decision in this respect been other than it is ; and we take some credit to ourselves for having foreseen and foretold the well-deserved triumph of the one company, and the equally deserved, but most mortifying, defeat of the other. _ and Gloucester, thereby preventing the ruinous inconve nience and expense now caused by differently-gauged I rails - The monthly returns of the French railways show an amount of nearly £50,000 for December on 289 miles of railway. At the corresponding period of the previous year the amount was only £37,000. The increase is stated partly to arise from additional lines opened, but exclusive of these sources the advance per month over last year amounts to £7OOO, or 18 per cent. The following are the French lines not yet opened, but now under course of construction :—Amiens and Boulogne, 79 miles, by Laf fitte and Co. ; Avignon and Marseilles, 72 miles, by Talabot and C. ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 300 miles, by Mackenzie and Co. ; Orleans and Centre, 51 miles, by the Orleans Company ; Paris and Sceaux, 6 miles, by Among and Co. ; Rouen and Havre, 57 miles, by Laf fitte and Co. IRISH RAILWAYS.—The Board of Trade have reported in favour of the Belfast and Ballymena; DuQin and Bel fast Junction, with branch to Drogheda and Kells ; Dub lin and Drogheda—Howth Branch ; Ulster Extension— Portadown to Armagh ; and of the Dundalk and Ennis killen (with the exception of the Monaghan Branch) ; Newry and Enniskillen (with the exception of the portion of the line between Newry and Armagh); subject to equi table arrangements for the construction and joint use f the line between Enniskillen and Clones, common to the two schemes ; and also for improving the railway commu nication by the Belfast Junction line to Newry, and for securing due facilities to the Newry traffic; and against the Great North Western (Irish); Northern Railway, inland line (Armagh to Dublin). MIDLAND RAILWAY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.—The accounts which were placed in the hands of the proprietors prior to the general meeting of Monday, shew the follow ing facts :—ln the capital account there is, after deduct ing all manner of sets-off, in the form of premiums on shares sold, interest, materials sold, rents, and carriages, &e. sold, a total expenditure or investment of £6,259,838; of which £15,092 have been laid out in land, compensa tion and new works of roads and stations during the half year ending Dec. 31st, 1844 ; and there had been pre viously expended by the North Midland Company, £3,329,933; by the Midland Counties, £1,708,170; and by the Birmingham and Derby, £1,206,644. Total, prior to last half-year, £6,244,747. The paid up capital of the Midland Railway amounts to £4,510,514, of which £11,624 has been received during the half-year, ending December 31, 1844, and of the remaining £4,498,890, the North Midland had previously contributed £2,514,205 ; the Midland, £1,153,424 ; an d the Birmingham and Derby, £831,261. The debenture account amounts to £1,608,717, and the loan notes have during the half-year, been reduced from £139,850, to £99,850, the amount paid off during that period being £40,000. The revenue account for the half-year, including the balance ot £3BO from the preceding half-year, amounts to £276,130, of which, after paying the working expenses, interest, and government duty. there remains £152,793 for the divi dends ot the half-year : which will pay the dividend now declared at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum, and leave a surplus of £5,000. " In the decisions as to Irish schemes, the conservative policy indicated in previous reports is still more strongly exhibited. The Dublin and Drogheda and Ulster Com panies secure the extension of their lines ; while the Newry and Enniskillen—an undertaking which we have frequently had the pleasure of noticinz with commenda tion—is likewise received with pleasure by the Board of Trade." PROBABLE QUANTITY QUANTITY OF IRON REQUIRED FOR THE NEW RAILWAYS It has been estimated, that out of the numerous railway bills coming before Parliament next month, there will be forty-five carried, or about one-fifth of the present appli cations. Taking these lines at an average length of forty miles each, there will be 1800 miles of railway to be formed, commencing from the autumn of this year, and extending over 1846 ; for, though these lines will not be all completed at that period, the deficiency may he more than made up by the lines which were passed during last session, and which are now being formed. A yard of •railway requires 280 lbs. of rails, 98 lbs. of cast-iron chairs, and about 701bs. of iron girders—making 4 cwts. per yard, or 352 tons per mile. In addition to this, it is pretty clearly ascertained, that en equal amount of iron is ,required for each mile, in waggons, carriages, stations, engines, and locomotive establishments, &c.—making 700 tons of iron for each mile, or 1,260,000 tons for 180 miles of railways about to be constructed in this countr or, as nearly as possible, the whole make of iron in Grea Britain for one year. This is independent of the contrac tors' rails, which are immense; and, if to this tremendou consumption be added what will he required for the new water and gas companies, the docks, and other great pub lic works, as well as the extra demand arising out of the prosperous trade of the country, it can hardly be con ceived that our capabilities for the production of iron, great as they are, will be sufficient to supply what will be required. This is also entirely independent of our foreign trade, and as railways are likely to be constructed in al most every country, the exports of iron must also be greatly increased. Under these circumstances, there can hardly be a question that iron must shortly be much enhanced in value.—Mining Journal. Jan. 28, 1845.