The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. AMERICA By the United States mail steamer Baltic, ;Captain Comstock. which arrived in the river shortly before ten o'clock on Sunday morning, we have advices from'New York to the'Sth instant. The Baltic was detained off the bar for about four hours. She brought twenty-eight passengers, and has made a very-rapid passage. The steam-ship Niagara arrived at Boston on the inst. The City of Glasgow screw-steamer arrived at'Phila delphia on the 2nd inst. The Crescent City had arrived at New York with dates from California to the Ist of:De cember, Chagres to the 27th, and Kingston (Jamaica) to the 31st ult. She had on freight 51,500,000 in gold dust, and a large amount in the hands of passengers. A specie train was attacked seven miles out of Panama by a party of sixteen men, well armed, who succeeded in taking 5100,000, which was, however, nearly all recovered. The steam-ship 'Oregon arrived at Panama on the l3th Nov., with 2,000,000 in gold dust on freight, and 1,000,000 in the hands of passengers. The dry season was setting in at Chagres, and the place was becoming more healthy. From the mines we learn that many persons had purchased winter supplies with the intention of passing that season at the dry diggings in the mountains. The disappearance of cholera at Sacramento city Cad caused-a revival of business. The rainy reason commenced on the 19th of November. Many new veins of ore had been dis covered. Agriculture was in a flourishing condition. new branch of commercial activity had bier at San Francisco—that of fitting out whalin, regular line of sailing packets had been established betwee San Francisco and Panama, touching at Rcalejo. The miners in the frontier region of El Dorado and counties laboured under much apprehension of Indians, some murders haviig taken place. The arrivals had been heavy, and immense qua )rnmenced :olveras hostile ;ities of goods thrown on t he mart The Courier ani wirer announces that offici ligence has been received at Washington, stating that the British government had directed its azents to suopend the collection of duties at San Juan or Graytosvn, in Ni- caragua, Advices to the . 3lstailt. from Kingstown, Jamaica, hive come to hand. The,Great Western arrived on the Nth on the north side of the island. The cholera continued to rage with violence at Montagu Bay and Falmouth, but in Kingstown, Port Royal, and Spanish Town it had disappeared royal mail -steam-ship Merlin had arrived at New with advices from St. Thomas's to the 29th, and Bermuda to thy,., 26th ult The steam-ship Philadkphia arrived at New Orleans on the Ist instant with 240 ffl e n who had been employed to work on the Panama railroad. • The report of the declaration of war between St. Salvador and Honduras is confirmed. Mr. Chatfield had intimated that the British Government. would interfere. Advices from Mexico city to the 16th ult. mention a report that meetine of the French creditors of Mexico at which the Minister of theTr( Arista was r had been held, s present. He ,sury w expressed a p ality for the French creditors as they bed not oppressed the republ means of usurious loar:s and fraudulent contract The intelligence from I reported to have taken pla the whites were defeated wi atan is serious A battle i th the Indians, in which om the United States is gene specially, business was rally satisfact( brisk. The money market was activ The market for securities was advancin In the breads w York, ff market s not much 5 dols. 1 dol. 22C to the B !en done , to fair, 14kc. to 14kc. per lb., or a r There is no change worthy of no Provisions dull, arid prices For exchange on London enced, at 110} to 1101 ; Paris in f reights good demand has been experi 5 11 ; Hamburgb, 37 to 371. The City of Glasgow on the 26th ult. The at steamer arrived at Philadelphia zens were making preparations to rec wander llant corn: pioneer of a line of the City and her is to Great Britain room _ iro Madrid of t Bth state that d ances had tat lonia, against the tax of commune M. Soler, t Similar diso The posts of collector of le city gu: re tax, w province taken place in other parts of ti A letter from St. Petersburgh of the Imperial Library, founded which the Emperor Nicholas has thrown open to the public states that the books of berine IL, and founded by I the new catalogue that it contains 15.471 manuscripts. THE BLEEDING PICTURE IN FRANCE.—We learn that the commission appointed by the Archbishop of Avignon, to examine into the facts affirmed with regard to the picture in the chapel of St. Saturnin-les- Apt, has decided unanimously that there are no grounds for proceeding any further in the matter, as the facts have nothing of a supernatural character in them. DISCOVERY OF A NEW COMET.—Letters from Boston announce that, about 7 30, p.m., on the 2d instant, Mr. Bond, the eminent director of the Cambridge Observatory, factor, discovered a ver 226. 334 m. whilst sweeping with the great re faint nebulosity, whose right ascension was and its south declintion 4 9 36'. The comet was that it could not be seen through a four-foot telescope Jenny Lind left Charleston on the Ist instant for He.. Tana, in " high health and fine spirits," after presenting to the charities of Charleston the proceeds of one of her concerts, amounting to 3,440 dollars. ;Mlle. Lind joined with her fellow-voyagers previously in presenting to the commander of the steamer in which she arrived at Charles ton an address of esteem for his able management during the storm - i the fair songstress's life Caoss PURPOSES.—The editor of the Springfield Re publican, who has been to hear Jenny Lind, tells the following :—" When Jenny Lind first appeared at the Ladies' Ordinary, at the Irving, she had no comb in her hair, while every other lady wore a comb. The next day she said she wished to dress like American ladies, and went to dinner with a comb in her head. On glancing nn and einten the. tnhla not a enrnh cosac fn bt. cony, " A New ' of gold emt fornia by a k paper says—" We have seen a specimen led in the quartz rock, brought from Cali senger in the Crescent City, which was ex- ceedingl ilf the bulk An accom the rock, from which this specimen was obtained, thre up available ore to the value of four thousand dollars." AN. OBEDIENT made th MIRACLE.-The IT iener Zeilung has )st of the miraculous flow of blood from the ge of our Saviour which is reported to wounds of the . _ . France, and the Church will not fail to follow its example. There are persons still living who remember that the il lustrious Joseph 11. was a great disbeliever in miracles, and that he actually prohibited the growth of a beard on a figure of Jesus Christ which is nfar one of the doors of the Cathedral of St. Stephen. He ordered a couple of sturdy grenadiers to mount guard on the spot, and so he fear which their formidable moustachios L,O ...,nntle.ra ;mann am nnt 1701,1,11,0 I." air. obey the imperial mandate! It has long been a saying in Austria that Joseph was born half a century too soon. AMERICAN SHIP BUILDING.—SeveraI magnificent clipper ships for the China trade are recorded as launched at various ports ; one, the Inn, at Williamsburg, measur- famous clipper-ship Oriental on her voyage from China to London ; showing a speed per diem, occasionally, of 264 miles. Pacific papers, however, record stili more famous runs by a ship named the Betty Bliss, built at New York, namely, 300 miles per diem for several days in succession, and on one day 324 miles. For the Liverpool trade a new first-class ship of 1,600 tons was being built at Somerset. New Orleans papers state that the steam ship Philadelphia had sailed from that port with 240 men for the Panama Railroad. The St. Lawrence frigate was being fitted out at New York to carry to London contri butions for the Exposition. Proposals were on foot in Texas to form a new state out of the eastern part of that territory. NARROW ESCAPE FROM DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY OF MOULMEIN.—The whole of the town of Moulmein has been nearly blown up. It appears that there were 200 casks of gunpowder in a house belonging to a Chinaman, named Ayan Shok ; the uppermost barrel was open, and a spark of fire from a cheroot dropped into it ; but, for tunately, the powder was landed during the rains, and the whole damaged. The powder just ignited as if it was spunk. The alarm has been terrific to all round about. The police are much blamed in allowing a private indi vidual to land and store in his house 200 casks of gun powder. Every Chinaman in the bazaar has nearly the same quantum nicely stowed away in his house in the town. A few days ago there were six carts, each con taining twenty barrels, ranged alongside a house, con taining gunpowder. The constable happened to come tip at the moment, and, on representing the danger, he iri.mediately walked carts, bullocks, driver, and gun powder to the police, under an escort.—United Service Gazette. TORNADO AND EARTHQUAKE AT MALTA.—Our RC counts from Malta by th e O ver l an d M a il , d espatc h e d on the night of the 9th of January, make mention that, about half-past two, a.m., on the 6th diem, from a perfect calm, there instantaneously arose a most terrific tornado, such as is sometimes experienced on the coast of Africa, but, fortunately, it passed over in the short space of twenty minutes, when it fell as dead a calm as b e f ore , w i t h out, happily, causing any injury either to th e squa d ron or to the merchant shipping. At a few minutes after seven o'clock, however, on the same morning, two very violent shocks of an earthquake were felt throughout the island, and were even perceptible on shipboard in the harbours, where sentries stationed at cabin doors in the ships of war ran in to answer bells which they found had been set ring ing by an invisible power. Similar confusion occurred in the most occupied hotels and lodging-houses, in some of which bed-room doors, with slight fastenings, were shaken open, and the waiters running in all directions to answer bells, when in some cases the lodgers were found sprawl ing on the floors, having been jerked out of their beds by the first shock, and nearly frightened out of their senses by the second. The first was a lift, or upward movement ; the second , immediately succeeding, a violent shake (not an undulatory motion) from N. W. to S.E. Tt was quite calm at the time, and shortly previous heavy rain had fallen. No damage whatever has occurred beyond the cracking of a few walls in some old houses. The steam-frigate Spiteful was on the previous evening in sight of Mount Etna, which, though smoking, presented no unusual appearances. Times. ken pla SPAIN.--THE NEW MINISTRY. Advices from-Spain dated Madrid, January Li, states that Queen ; Isabella had accepted the resignation of Narvaez, who, after taking leave of their majesties, had set out for 'France. Pidal, it is said, has undertaken the formation of a new cabinet, of which he and Mon will form the base. Subsequent accounts state• that the ministry is formed as follows Bravo Murillo Finances and President of the Council. Fermin tArtela .. Interior. Beltran de Lis. Foreign Affairs. General de Mirasol War. Admiral Bustelos Marine. Fernandez`Negrete Justice. Gonzalez• Romero Murillo was Minister of Finance under Narvaez ; Artela was Political Chief of Madrid ; De Las lately presided over the committee for the regulation of the debt; Count 'Mirasol commanded under d'Alcoy at Havannah, when 'Lopez tried his expedition, and is a friend of 'Narvaez. All the Ministers are Conservatives. Advices from'llamburgh of the 12th inst. mention that the question of the 'Duchies had been settled by the sub mission of the Stadtholders, the latter throwing them selves upon the German Confederacy to protect the Tights of Holstein and -Schleswig, which that Confederacy promised to do. 'DARING Ronal:maw GREECE.—The Courtier d'Alhe mes states, that bands of robbers continue to infest the A party of brigands lately pillaged the principal houses of the village of Melissima in open day. 11. few days after this exploit the robbers had a skirmish with a party of soldiers, of whom one was killed and another wounded. Scenes of a similar description have occurred in Euboea, `Livadia,=Beeotia, and Attica. At Gortyna a party of ninety travellers were attacked and robbed on their way to Tripolizza. A numerous band attacked the village of Machala in Acarnania, pillaged several houses. country and put some of the inhabitants to the torture On the Nth ultimo a band of twenty robbers, under the orders of.Contzomili, attacked the Turkish village Zantani, and had a skirmish with an Ottoman detachment, which lost two men AN ASSASSIN IN A CHUILCIT.—TI: has often been stated that-tranquillity has been restored in Hungary, but it is evident from isolated facts -which reach us that scenes every now and then take place which would do credit to the far west of America. Last month, while Divine scr- vice was going on in the church at Tapsony, in the Sumegh Comitat, a man called out to the organist to cease playing, as he was about to kill the parish priest and the schoolmaster. This was no empty threat, for, taking a gun from under his cloak, he fired at the school master, but, fortunately hissing him, the bullet took away the top of his chair. The priest, hurrying from the altar, called on his congregation to arrest the miscreant, but they declining to do so, because " he had not offend ed them," left the church. As the assassin, who had schoolmaster, iiticing heart, made a rush at him, and at last, with the assistance of a gentleman's servant, suc ceeded in disarming him. He is now in the county prison Vienna Correspondent of the Times. _ _ A MAGNIFICENT ALBUM.—The artists and artisans of Munich have made a present to King Louis of Bavaria, as a lasting sign of their gratitude and acknowledgement of his merits in the cultivation of the fine and industrial arts. The present of the artists is an album, 26 inches wide, 20 inches high, and 74- inches thick ; it is bound in dark red velvet and decorated with clasps, ornaments, and basso-relievos, in gilded bronze, in the Gothic style of the 15th century. In the middle of the cover is a large me dallion encircled with brilliants, and filed with a basso-re lievo representing the King surrounded by his artists, and speaking to them—" I live in your works"—(the answer of the King to the deputation of artists after abdication). In the corners are four medallions, the basso.relievos of of which represent the architects with their models. the historical painters executed in enamel, and surrounded by rich leaves. The interior contains a collection of 177 drawings. water colours, and oil paintings, executed by h, Dresden, Berlin &c., so that the album indeed, appears as a present of all the German artists.—Art Journal. artistsin )usseldorf, E IRELAND A dreadful gale of wind occurred in the Cove of Cork on Wednesday. Several vessels were more or less da maged. The rain fell in torrents, and the rivers and streams were swollen to a dangerous extent. On Wednesday night, owing to the heavy rain, a large quantity o f earth and embankment wall fell down at Cork, carrying in the roof and side wall of a small house, and her, son, and servant Mr. John O'Connell delivered his weekly oration at Conciliation-hall, last week, when he announced the rent to be £25 65., of which the free and independent men of America have contributed the sum of £9 ELOPEMENT —Some few days ago a young lady, who was a governess in a gentleman's family near Shinrone, house the young lady was living. It is said that she is a relative of the family, possessed of a fortune of some hundreds in her own right. It is conjectured that the happy pair have ascended the altar of hymen, and are now on their way to Americs.—Dublin paper. A correspondence has taken place between the Rev. A. S. Brooke, Incumbent of Monkston, Ireland, in whose parish Kingston Harbour is included, and Mr. Chief- Secretary Redington, relative to a convict ship, in which two Popish priests are sent out, one with government pay, the other an unpaid assistant, while no provision what ever is made for the religious wants of between eighty and ninety Protestants, convicts, and others ; the Protestant ing handed over to the spiritual care of the convicts be surgeon superintendent, Another death from starvation has taken place in the Ennistymon Union, and the verdict of the coroner's jury in the case attributes it to the neglect of the vice.guar dians. It would appear, however, that these officials are not in any way to blame, having expressly directed the re- lieving officer to afford any relief that might be necessary to such of the cases as they were unable to dispose of on the board day ; but that the deceased was sent away, nevertheless, with many others, and was found dead in a field next morning. THE MAYORALTY OF DUBLIN.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, the long-pending case to try the legality of Mr. John Reynold's election as Lord Mayor was at length decided, the judgment of the court being against his election. It will be recollected that the corporation made a return to the writ of mandamus for office was already filled. To this return a demurrer was made by the opponents of Mr. Reynolds. The demurrer has been before the court for the last three terms, and the judgment delivered on Tuesday was in favour of it, and against the return. Judge Perrin did not agree in the MYSTERIOUS DEATH.-011 Sunday the body of a re spectable female was found suspended by the head from the area railings in frOnt of the Railway Hotel, Westland. row, Dublin, from one of the windows of which it appears that she had fallen by accident or design. About six o'clock on Saturday afternoon the deceased, accompanied by an elderly gentleman and a young woman aged about nineteen, with a fine boy of seven years of age, had come to the hotel, where a double-bedded apartment was ordered, and into the occupation of which they at once entered. The room was on the topmost story of the house, forty feet in height from the street. The people of the hotel had no knowledge of them. The two first men- . . no refreshments from the hotel during the evening or night, and the first notice which the people bad of the terrible catastrophe was from the discovery of the body by the boot-boy. The deceased appeared to be in the prim( of life, somewhere about twenty-eight. The deceased': name was Anne Minniss, the name of her male companior W. Fivey, of Union Lodge, Down. Tl:e boy was the son of the deceased and of the male prisoner, who had been living together some years in an unmarried state, and had had several children, but one of whom (the above-mentioned) only survived. It is stated that the parties were to have been married next day. THE FALL OF A MILL AT BELFAST.—An inquest was commenced at Belfast on Monday, relative to the shock. ing catastrophe upon thirteen bodies of the unfortunate victims. The first witness examined being asked whether the accident might not have been caused through the undermining of the pillars in the interior by a drain which was being cut along their base, replied that he could not say ; but the foundation of the pillars was laid in the firmest manner. The next witness. a carpenter, stated that when he and another of the workmen were plumbing the pillars, they observed a shaking in the walls, but they had not mentioned this hitherto the contractors or the owners. A bricklayer, employed about the works, gave it as his opinion that the workmanship of the building was of the best description ; but tha materials were such as should not have been used, there being too many " bats" among the bricks. Mr. Boyd, one of the owners of the mill, deposed that so far from the whole of the bats in the old mill having been used (as was alleged) in the one which had fallen, there were as many perfect bricks left as would build from eighteen to twenty workmen's houses. The inquiry was adjourned until Thursday. Shortly after the close of the proceedings a warrant was made out by the coroner for the apprehension of Mr. John Magee, the contractor for the brickwork of the building ; and in a few moments Mr. Magee was brought in custody into the room where the inquest had been held, and where the magistrates were still sitting. Mr. Tracey then drew out Mr. Magee's committal to the county goal. Messrs. Boyd and Steen offered any amount of bail which might be required, but the coroner refused to take it. AN APOLOGY WITH A VENGEANCE.—The following is Father M'Mahon's apology for the excruciatingly biting letter which he addressed to Mr. John O'Connell. This epistle is another proof of the kind of liberty enjoyed by the subjects of the Pope in this country :—"ITo the editor of the Limerick and Clare Examiner.—Thomas street, Jan. 15, 1851. Dear Sir,—From the fact of you having inserted my letter of last 'Wednesday, I feel con fident that this letter also will meet at your hands a similar reception. I would not again require such a favour from you, nor would I a second time bring my humble name before the public, but that I am impera tively commanded to do so. I received a letter yesterday fiom the most reverend Father Provincial of our Order, directing me to make at once a sufficient apology' to Mr. John O'Connell, for, as he says, the unprovoked manner in which I abused him and his excellent family, and the Catholic public at large.' fhis unwelcome task be im poses on me under the severest penalties that his authority can inflict. To that authority I at once bow with the greatest possible respect, and do hereby make the apology required to ' Mr. John O'Connell and his excellent family.' If I have off en d e d ' th e C at h o li c pu bli c a t large , including, of course, the most prominent members of our reformed corporation. then, of that notable par tion of society I also most humbly as k p ar d on . H e commanded me, i n addition, by virtue of holy obedience, never more 4ciinterfere in the political affairs of ' my poor old country.' As this, then, will be my last letter, 'my dying speeehgtnd declaration,' I may as well remark that it would be,!L am sure, a consummation devoutly to be wished' by the hon. member fogLirnerick—the leader of Catholic Ireland—that all his political opponents, past, present, and to come, had religions superiors, and that a certain member for Mayo had the good luck to be a friar ! Thus making my ' debar and exit as a politician, I now retire for the remainder of my life within the sanctuary, where I will always most fervently pray, morning and evening, for the coming of happier days for this beautiful old land." TIE IinERPOOL STANDARD. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NE WS. The Rev. iF. A. Ousley, Bart., has contradicted the report of his conversion to the Church of Rome. The Rev. 'Mortimer O'Sullivan, D.D., is Donnellan Lecturer to the Dublin University this year. A number of the most eminent Protestant divines are about to deliver in this town a course of lectures on the great Protestant &formers. - The Oxford journal states that the Bishop of Oxford has rebuked those clergy who have signed the " Reasons for not accepting the protest" of his lordship, for having circulated themamongst the laity of tee diocese. B ron Goldsmid•(the Jew) has presented the parish of Hove with a small piece of land as the site for an addi tional church. The space allotted will, it is said, afford accommodation for -fifteen hundred persons. Another Jew, Mr. Emanuel Emanuel, has given a most elegant silver communion -service to-St. Jude's Church, Southsea. THE MADEIRA CHAPLAINCY.—The Madeira contro versy is at an end, ,For years the Madeira chaplaincy has been one of the war-cries of the.church unions, and one of their favourite battle-grounds. The Bishop of London has now withdrawn his support and countenance from the Rev. T. Lowe, and has informed that, gentleman that he no longer has his bishop's license to plead as an excuse. THE REV. GEORGE DENISON AND HIS BISHOP.—It will be in the recollection of our readers that, a short time since, a candidate for ordination in the diocese of Bath and Wells was rejected, by the examining chaplain, on account of his holding views °tithe subject of baptismal regeneration within the limits allowed by the Church of England, but not in conformity with the chaplain's test. We now learn that an appeal to parliament was threatened, and that the diocesan wisely and successfully interposed between his overbearing official and the candidate in ques tion, so as to reduce the number of threatened debates by one.—Church and State Gazette. LAW INTELLIGENCE, SPRING CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES.—Home Circuit: Lord Campbell and Mr. Baron Parke. Western Circuit : the Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Baron Martin. Norfolk Circuit: Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Mr. Justice Erle. Midland Circuit : Mr. Baron Alder son and Mr. Justice Coleridge. Oxford Circuit : Mr. Justice Patteson and Mr. Justice Talfourd. Northern Circuit : Mr. Justice Cresswell and Mr. Baron Platt. North Wales and Chester Circuit: Mr. Justice Maule. South Wales and Chester: Mr. Justice Williams, who will, after proceeding through South Wales, join Mr. Justice Maule at Chester. Vacation Judge: Mr. Justice Wightman. THE BANKRUPTCY COUllT.—On Friday, Mr. Com missioner Perry gave judgment " in re Macgregor Laird," on a petition by William King, praying for the immediate sale of some land and houses at Birkenhead, belonging to this bankrupt, in discharge of a mortgage which he has upon the property. It appears that the property was mortgaged first to the extent of £11,500 to the petitioner, Mr. King ; second to Dr. Ti' -m for . £2,070; and Mr: John Lalid, the brother of the bankrupt, was a third mortgagee to the extent of about £3,500. In addition to these parties, Mr. Harold Littledale held security for e the purchase money of 15,410 square yards of la n d _ _ which had been sold for £2,700. Mr. Littledale consented to an immediate sale; but the assignees and Mr. John Laird prayed for postponement, of the sale on the ground that the property would be much enhanced in value by the completion of the Great Float, in July.—His Honour docided that the sale should take place on Thursday, the 17th July, at Gough's Woodside Hotel. The rumour of Lord Langdale's retirement is revived. Sir J. Romilly is named as his successor. A more than usually large number of applications have been made to the Lord Chancellor by gentlemen of the bar for silk gowns, but at present his lordship does not intend to accede to any of the applications. On Slturdav, the first day of Hilary Term, there were but five candidates for admission to the bar, showing plainly enough the falling off which has been experienced in the profession in th s country. DAMAGES AGAINST A DRUGGIST.—A case of consi derable public importance, came before the Sheriff Small Debt Court, at Glasgow, on Thursday. It was at the instance of Mr. Lithgow, professor of music, against Mr. Hewit, druggist, for damages, restricted to £8 6s. Bd. sustained by him and his family, in consequence of Miss Lithgow having, on the 13th May last, taken a dose of laudanum, believing it to be a dose of tincture of rhubarb, which was ordered from Mr. Hewit to be administered to her, and in ignorance taken for rhubarb. The defendant was ordered to pay the amount. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. A Cabinet Council was held on Thursday afternoon The Council sat three hours. Another Cabinet Council has been summoned for to day. The ministers assembled at Cabinet Councils on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday last. The Bishop of London and the Earl of Harrowby had an interview onMOnday with Lord John Russell. Mr. Baird, of Gartslierrie, (Conservative,) and Mr. G. Loch, (Whig,) have come forward to contest the Falkirk boroughs. The elections for the counties of Bedford and South Nottingham will take place on or about the 12th of Februa . ry The inauguration of the Hull Parliamentary and Finan cial Reform Association took place on Wednesday, the mayor in the chair. Among the speakers were J. Clay, Esq., M.P., Sir J. Walmsley, M.P., H. T. Atkinson, &c. Samuel Gurney, George Stacey, and John Hodgkin, a deputation from the Society of Friends on the receipt stamp duty, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Friday, at his official residence in Downing street. The 3rd of next month is destined to be a great field day. Lord Stanley will entertain the Duke of Richmond and a large number of Protectionists at a sumptuous ban quet at his mansion in St. James's-square, On the same day, Lord Lansdowne and Lord John Russell will give their official entertainments to their supporters in the two houses. THE " TIMES " AGAIN AT FAULT.—For a length of time the London Thnes has been representing the state of commercial matters here and everywhere else as in a state of unexampled prosperity, and yet on Wednesday our contemporary commences a leader in the following dismal strain. There must be a screw loose somewhere, or the Times would not write thus :—" At this moment, it must be confessed, an Englishman of cheerful tempera ment and constitutional opinions will be rather at a loss whero.to find matter for political congratulation. Every where men are hugging their chains, or sinking under their lashes, exhausted by the struggles of revolt, or still whirling in the eddy of revolution. We see vast armies that have yet to be paid, floating debts that have yet to be funded, and bonds that are no better than waste paper. The full pressure of an almost continental insolvency has yet to fall upon the industrial interests, and no one can say how many years the agriculture and commerce of Damp"! have been thrown back by the madness of an hour." THE WINDOW-TAX ABOLISHED.—We rejoice to learn that this obnoxious and grievously-oppressive tax is to be immediately abolished. The following gratifying an nouncement appeared in the Times of Friday :—" The numerous difficulties in the way of a mere commutation will lead, we believe, to the surrender of the window-tax, and the substitution of a very moderate house-tax. There is reason to hope that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will have so considerable a surplus at the end of the finan cial year that he can easily afford a million or twelve hun dred thousand for this long-desired object. By the sub stitution of a house-tax calculated to raise about£6oo,ooo for the window-tax raising about £1,800,000, the sacrifice of revenue will not exceed £1,200,000. Such a tax will in the first instance fall much lighter than the present win dow-tax, and will not interfere with the construction of our dwellings. We beg to congratulate all our reacers on this great measure of relief, particularly those excellent persons who have laooured so long to improve the dwell ings of the poor, and have hitherto found the legislature itself their greatest antagonist." DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH INDUSTRY DURING THE PAST HALF CENTURY.—Measured, then, by the test of " ships, colonies, and commerce," the condition of Eng land at the present moment, when compared with its con dition at the beginning of the present century, may be pronounced as highly satisfactory. Our commercial acti vity has, at least, kept pace with the rapid growth of our population, and, bearing in mind the depreciation in the value of commodities which has been brought about by competition, has even outgrown it. But a still better il lustration of the activity and progressive increase of that commerce which we all feel to lie at the very foundation of our national greatness, may be drawn from a compari son of the exports of our own native produce and some of our staple articles of manufacture. We will take coal as our first illustration. In the year 1801 there were exported coastwise from the two ports of Newcastle and Sunderland less than 2,000,000 tons of that valuable fuel; in the year 1847 the quantity fell very little short of 4,500,000 tons ; so that in less than half a century the home consumption of coal from these two sources has greatly outstripped the growth of population. But the increase in our exports to foreign parts from the same ports has been still more re markable ; for while in 1801 the quantity exported was less than 150,000 tons, in 1847 it amounted to very nearly 1,500,000 tons, being more than a tenfold increase. Nor is the force of the comparison much impaired if we sub stitute for the year 1801, which was a year of war. the year 1816, the first year of peace. The chief increase in our foreign coal trade has taken place since the peace. The money value of ou r ex p or t s i n coa l a nd culm in each of the years 1848 and 1349 exceeded X 1,000,000 sterling. We will take another article of prime necessity, and one requiring for its production comparatively little skill, as a test of the relative activity of our commerce now and at the beginning of the present century, namely salt. The export of this valustble c o n di m e n t i n th e ye a r Mel slightly exceeded 7,500,000 bushels; in 1827 it fell even below that amount : but in the year 1848 we exported very nearly 19,000,000 bushels. In this article, then, we have more than a twofold export to set against our standard of com parison —a less than twofold increase of population. If frotn,eoal and salt we pass to iron, we shall obtain results still mote remarkable. It appears from estimates of the total ,quantity of iron produced in England and Wales .at tliffetent periods, that while in 1350, by the use of charcoal, about 27;000 tons of iron , weremnade, in 1788, after coke had been partially substituted for charcoal, about 68,000 tons, and 'in 4806 about 250,000 tons, in 1849 the , quantity amounted to about 2,000,000 tons. In 1848 the export of iron and steel, wrought and unwrought, exceeded 626,000 tons, valued at nearly £5,000,000, exclusive of machinery and mill work to the value of upwards of £BOO,OOO. Hence it ap pears that the present export of iron alone more than doubles the total luantity produced in the early part of the present century, and that the total production of iron has been at least quadrupled. it is in the rapid growth of our textile manufactures, however,—whether measured by the quantity exported or the total quantity; of the raw ma terial consumed,—that we have the most extraordinary in dication of the great and growing prosperity of the country. Mr. Porter, in a paper published in the last number of the Statistical Society's Journal, tells us that the quan tity of cotton consumed in the year 1800 was somewhat above 56,000,000 lbs., but that in 1849 it had reached the almost incredible amount of 775,500,000 lbs. We have thus an increase in the short period of half a century of 1284 per cent. ! Nor has this astonishing increase in the consumption of cotton taken place at the expense of other textile manufactures; for we :find the same authority stating that, in the comparatively short interval from 1831 to 1849, the import of foreign flax has advanced from 936,000 cwt. to 1,800,4100 e*t.—a nearly twofold increase; while the value of linen exported has risen from little more than 1,700,000 in 1832, to upwards of 3,000,000 in 1849 ; and of linen yarn from about £9,000 to about £738,000; a nearly twofold increase of the finished manufacture, a more than eightyfold increase of the half-finished means of foreign production. Even though the use of cotton has very largely superseded that of woollen, the export of woollen goods has suffered no diminution, if we omit from comparison the few years which immediately succeeded the restoration of peace with America ; for whereas in 1819 the export of woollen goods fell short of £6,000,000 sterling, the export in 1847 had nearly reached £7,000,000. Nor has the vast increase of the cotton manufacture taken place at the expense of that of silk; for the importation of silk, which at the beginning of the present century amounted to about 1,000,000 lbs., now exceeds 5,51_0,000 ; while the de clared value of silk eoods exported has risen from £371,000 in 1820 to £978,000 in 1847.—Fraser. THE PAPAL AGGRESSION An aggregate meeting of churchmen and Protestant dissenters was held ar. Hereford on Tuesday, to agree on an address to the Queen. A treat meeting for the county Westmoreland to address the Queen was held at Kendal on Monday. It was very numerously attended, and the High Sheriff took the chair. The Standard says—" From information which has reached us, we are led to believe that Lord John Russell remains staunch, and determined in his adherence to his views, as communicated in his famous letter to the Bishop of Durham. Unless we are also equally mistaken the opinion of another person upon the great question conti nues unaltered." A meeting of the lay members of the Church of England was held at Brighton last week, Mr. R. C. L. Bevan in the chair. The meeting was addressed by Sir Thomas Bloom field, Mr. Coppard, Mr. Garrett, Mr. Cummings, Sir W. Verner, and other gentlemen. The different resolu tions, including one condemnatory of Tractarianism, with an address to the Queen praying her Majesty to exercise her power of interposition, were unanimously carried. The Rev. T. Boyles Murray, M.A., Secretary of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, attended on Sir George Grey on Friday, at the Home Office, with an humble address to her Majesty, from members of the So ciety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, on the subject of the late Papal aggression. The address bears the names of 3600 members, including thirty-six prelates, headed by the signatures of the Archbishops of Canter bury, York, and Armagh, and the Bishops of London, Durham, and Winchester, as well as those of several lay peers. A very numerous meeting of the members of the Church of England in Southampton and the neighbouring pa rishes was held at the Royal Victoria Assembly-rooms on Monday evening, " for the purpose of promoting the address to the Queen from the laity of the Established Church, and the address to the Archbishop of Canterbury from both clergy and laity, now in course of signature throughout England, protesting against the attempted revival of the doctrines and usages.of Popery by a body within the Church of Englond. and entreating that steps may be taken to discountenance and repress them." There were iOO or 800 persons present. Lord Henry Cholmondeley (of Holy-hill, near Southampton) occupied the chair. Resolutions in support of the purposes above stated were passed. A great Protestant meeting was held at Southwark on Tuesday. The first resolution called upon Lord John Russell at once to give a proof of his sincerity by the abo lition of the Maynooth grant. Its proposer said he was well known to entertain ultra views, and that he should like to have proposed the abolition of endowments for the support of any religious sect ; but he was content to take this as an instalment. An amendment, much stronger, was afterwards proposed, but rejected by a large majority. In the course of the proceedings a letter was read from Sir Will tm Molesworth, echoing the sentiments of Mr. Roebuck, and his determination to oppose any bill of pains or penalties against Roman Catholics, or any other measure in opposition to the principles of religious liberty and equality, that may be brought forward in the next Parliament. Mr. Alderman Humphrey, M. P., supported the amendment, which was lost, in the course of his ad dress avowing his doubts as to Lord John Russell being prepared to carry out in Parliament what he had proposed in his letter. REVIVAL OF CONVOCATION.—A public meeting of the clergy and laity of the metropolis was held at the Free masons' Hall, London, under the auspices of the Metro politan Church Union, to urge revival of convocation. Mr. Henry Hoare was called to the chair, and opened the proceedings, after which Mr. G. Hughes moved a resolu tion attributing the recent " papal aggression" to the sup pression of the synodal functions of the church, and ad vancing this as a plea for the revival of convocation on its existing basis. The Rev. J. B. Sweet, perpetual curate of Woodville, seconded the resolution, which was put and carried with great applause. Mr. D. Perceval moved an address to the Queen, recounting the causes which were considered to render it desirable that convocation should be assembled at the commencement of the next session of Parliament. The Rev. Dr. Biker seconded the motion. The Rev. J. E. Cox moved, and Mr. J. Cummins second ed, an amendment, of which notice had been given, de claring the proposed revival uncalled for by circumstances and injurious to the peace of the church. The original resolution was, however, carried by a large majority, and two addresses to the upper and lower houses of convoca tion of Canterbury having also been carried, the meeting terminated. SUFFOLK COUNTY MEETING.—A meeting was held in the Corn Exchange, Stowe market, on Thursday last, the Earl of Stradbroke, Lord-Lieutenant of the county, in the chair. A great number of noblemen and members of parliament were present. Letters of apology were received from the Duke of Grafton, the Duke of Rutland, Lord W. Powlett, Sir R. Affleck, and Sir E. Kerrison. Lord Rendlesham rose to move the first resolution, which was as follows :—" That, firmly, and unalterably attached to the grand principles of the Constitution, we view with indignation the attempt which has been recently made by the Pope to interfere in the prerogative of the Crown, by conferring titles and assigning ecclesiastical dioceses, for the avowed purpose of exercising a jurisdiction over the people of this realm, thereby endangering our civil and religious liberty." Sir P. Broke having seconded it, Mr. Facon moved an amendment, asserting, full civil and reli gious liberty to he the highlight of every Englishman, and condemning legislative interference with the spiritual government of any church which claims nothing from the state, as impolitic and unjust. This amendment led to some irrevelant and not very Christian remarks from dif ferent speakers, who were called to order by the chairman. Ou being put to the meeting, only six hands were held up for it, and the resolution was carried by a large ma jority. Resolutions condemning the Tractarian move ment and State pay were next put and negatived, and after an address to the Queen had been voted, the meet ing concluded. Twenty adult converts to the Church of Rome, amongst whom was Mr. Maskell, late Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Exeter, were confirmed, on Sunday week, at the Roman Catholic Church, Clifton. A correspondent of the Daily News relates a fact, as a sign of the times, that a few week ago, at Chislehurst, Kent, " a Popish cross." erected by the vicar, (Mr. Murray, a son of the Bishop of Rochester) to the memory of his late wife, " was smashed by a nccturnal Iconoclast." In the list of " recent converts' given in the Catholic Annual Register, for the year ending June, 1850, are the following cases, viz. :—" T. Harris, an Independent mi nister, at Alford, Lincolnshire ; S. S. Wilson, pastor of an Independent congregation ; J. Bell, a Presbyterian minister." The churchwardens of a parish in Yorkshire have re tnrned the following answer to the circular received by them from the National Club :—" The churchwardens of know their duty too well to require instructions how to perform it from London clubs and preaching dukes. Therefore, after readine Mr. Bellamy's printed circular, they have unanimously resolved to burn it, and have burnt it accordingly." A correspondence between Mr. W. Bennett and his parishioners has been forwarded to the Bishop of London. The sum of it is, that Mr. Bennett will formally resign on and from the 25th of March : and that the request of the parishioners to be furnished with specific propositions, setting forth the Bishop of London's objections to Mr. Bennett, with a view to try the whole question in the Ecclesiastical Courts, has been declined by his lordship. COUNTY MEETING AT THE INSTANCE OF A POPISH BISHOP.—In compli a n c e w ith a req u isitio n f rom th e Ro mish Bishop of Elphin and forty of his clergy, the High Sheriff of Sligo has called a county meeting, for the pur pose, as stated in the requisition, " of expressing our marked disapproval of the insulting and bigotted letter of Lord John Russell relative to the appointment of his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman by the Sovereign Pontiff." MORE BULLS AND BISHOPS.—" With peculiar plea sure" the Cork Examiner gives publicity to an official announcement, which at this critical juncture cannot fail to create some surprise, as indicative of the determina tion of the Court of Rome to regard but as the passing wind the storm of agitation evoked b.y the " restoration" of the English hierarchy. It appears, then. that the " Most Holy Father," the Pope, " has graciously ac ceded to the earnest prayer of Dr. Murphy, the ' bishop' of the united dioceses of Cloyne and Ross, that the dio cese over which his lordship presided should be divided, and Ross restored to its ancient episcopal rank and dig. pity in the Catholic church in Ireland." And it is fur. ther notified that the " bull" for the consecration of the new bishop, Dr. Keane, late parish priest of Middleton, lies now in the hands of the Rev. Titular Slattery, of Cashel. Jam. 21, 1851. THE CONFESSIONAL. — Richard Swain, late a priest of the Church of Rome, and now of the Priests' Protection p e r o i e n s s t e , l a u n e d n t l l a y t e m l mthueeßhoemxpiseh. do ef Dear aacon nar address s hs A af Arc hdeacon , — ln c oe h m d t h e e ac op yourself ne , a — s i nI and n a tda c s k tkh n eo o acknowledging l l re e er d gn g ye i w O O % receipt gtyh,otearhe a assetr h. Society, in a letter to a London paper says :—' " I write and TO THE VENERABLE THE ARCHDEACON OF LINDISFARNE. , y e a st ° h e a m v e b e h r a o d f p a ils a s k t h n o o o w d , a a s n a d Hence in the mysteries of that secret system durin g . twenty six years. The canon of the Council of Trent enjoins on rance of my entire concurrence in the feeling, almost Reformation and of loyalty to our Proteee every priest dead silence in all matters revealed to him by universally expressed, of attachment to the real principles his penitent, under the penalty of mortal sin for making of our h appy any disclosure whatever, directly or indirectly, to any hug tent Sovereign. man being ;no matter how gross, how murderous or In my replies to various other addresses I have endea as treas confessoronable, the crime may b en t ic is disclosed I toacted him voured to avoid re p et iti on o f t h e same topics ; and my . Cld me, e ,in many cases, in that capacity, that I sh ou ld h ave disclosed present aim is to su p p l y om i ss i ons and to remove objec tions. the revelations made known to m e , an d th us t h e commis- It has been asserted, then, that the resistance to Papal sion of egregious crimes might have been prevented ; but, aggression is a selfish and bigoted movement owthe part upon more reflection, the better part of human nature was of the clergy. Now, I believe that the question at issue overcome, and I was obliged by that tyrant law to chain partakes more of a civil than a religious nature. That within my heart confessions, which, if they had been even the step taken by Rome is intended as a preliminary to partially divulged to the unhappy victim, might have hin- the undoing of all that our ancestors achieved at the dered the sad and shocking events that followed. lam Reformation, and is to pave the way for imposing, both free to confess from what I felt then. and what I know now, upon the clergy and laity of this country, the yoke of a that the priest in the confessional is often an accessory to murder before the fact ; and, consequently, in the sight of form in which it has presented itself is that of invasion corrupt and tyrannical religion, 1 fi rmly believe ; but the God, is a party to a murder, and actually as guilty as if he upon the rights of the Crown and the independence of our had himself committed the diabolical act. I am, there- national institutions. fore, decidedly of opinion, that confession, as practised in Our clergy would, no doubt, be scandalized and annoyed the Church of Rome, should be abolished, like every by a perpetual collision of bishop with bishop and priest other treasonable conspiracy, with a high hand and a with priest, such as the restless and domineering spirit of strong arm by the legislature from every part of her Ma • • NUNNERIE3.—The Bristol Mirror, aft er commenting than the laity in protesting against thi s usurpat i on ; nor am I aware th a t th ey h ave exerted themselves in any Popery would not fail to se i ze every opportunity of pro jesty's dominions." clueing. Oth erw i se t h e clergy are not more interested on the state of Lunatic Asylums. and the v i s it a ti ons to which they are properly subjected, says—" Th ere are degree more, even if so much as their lay brethren, in establishments of another class, increasingly numerous in making a firm but temperate remonstrance against it.- this country, and, we fear, also in this neighbourhood, The whole nation felt the insult at once ; they have risen which are subject to no such salutary inspection. When as one man to express their indignation upon the plain a nun takes the veil and renounces the world, her with- and intelligible ground occupied by our forefathers at the drawal from society is aceompanied with the outward Reformation. This sense of wrong inflicted upon the na show of a public and voluntary renunciation of the world. tional dignity disposes at once of the charge of intolerance. upon or Tonn fanaticism.aßn Roman m censurean The will may be, and doubtless often is, influenced on Cath w o h li i c c s h , I i t hope may h th a a v t e m be y en ce m n Ld re ut h y a t s o b p e a e s n s such occasions by persuasive arts of a most unjustifiable character; and which leave the victim of Rotnish error and despotism anything but a free agent in the true sense seen to direct itself against the system, not against indi of that term. But if, in that moment of excitement, she viduals. Moreover, 1 have always felt that a marked dis takes the vows of perpetual celibacy, mortification, and tinction is to be mad e b e t ween E ng li s h Roman Catholics seclusion, what is her future l o t, an d s t a t e o f f ee li ng with and others o f th a t persuas i on. The English Roman Ca regard to the destiny to which her assent has been pro- tholics have ever shown themselves loyal and tranquil cured ?—There is the mystery. Is it right that men, and subjects, kind and liberal neighbours ; and if any suspi still more that women, should be incarcerated for life folk and Lords Beaumont and Camoys. These noblemen cion has been awakened at any time it should be dispelled within the walls of a convent, on any pretext whatsoever ? by the noble and manly part taken by the Duke of Nor- Is it right, in this free Protestant country, that the law of popes and priests, and abbesses, however tyrannical, throw no doubt upon the peculiar doctrines of their church, should be paramount and uncontrolled, and, in its effects, ference with the privileges of their own Sovereign without nor do they dispute the really spiritual claims of its head, unseen within those cemeteries of a living death ? It is but they cannot become parties to its improper inter our beast that the Pope bath no jurisdiction within this realm ; but who else than the Pope, and his emissaries, forfeiting that allegiance which they owe in common with have jurisdiction within convent walls ? Now and then the secrets of those prison -h ou s es t ransp i re . N o t lon all their fellow-subjects; they, th ere f ore, stand in a far g more honourable position as Chri s ti ans t h an their ultra since a case c am e b e f ore th e cour t s i n I re l an d , of some montane brethren and all such as act upon ultramontane sisters of Cork, who had been coerced into signing away principles. their property from their own relations, while immured It has often appeared to me surprising that any person in a convent, and the deeds were set aside. Other and of ordinary unde r st an di ng , an d to w h om t h e scriptures far darker histories have h a pp ene d i n nunner i es. It is are open, should b e i n d uce d t o wan d er i n the darkness of impossible that such arbitrary and uncontrolled powers Romanism when he might enjoy the pure light of our as are should not commi be tted to . priests anest d superiors of should be convents Reformation. Nevertheless, when I h ave cons id ere d the abused abli influence exerted upon the human mind by early habits brought under the power of British law, and visited regu- and associations, and the firm hold which religious opi larly by British magistrates, for their inmates a re qu it e nions maintain upon more advanced periods of life ; the ahelpless against those who rule over them as lunatics surprise has been greatly abated in respect of such as have e." ORIGIN AND POWERS OF CONVOCATION.—S O far f rom imbibed the doctrines o f the Rotnish church from th e i r birth. But I cannot ref ra i n f rom expressing the greatest having been a necessary incident to the Chu rc h o f E n - gland, our Con vocation wonder that any who ha ve b een nurtured in the bright reign of Ed dates no further back than the ness and freedom of Protestanti sm s h ou ld condescend to ward I. That politic monarch being d e t er - mined to break through the i mmun ity f rom t axa ti on then accept the restrictions put upon th e w ill an d understand claimed by the clergy summoned th em t o mee t together ing and conscience, and accommod a t e th emse l ves to the palpable errors, the gross absurditie s , an d th e m i sch i evous with the barons, knights of th e s hi re , an d b urgesses, in practices of Rome. order to raise a subsidy for his ne c e ss iti es . Th e clergy, That I may not be supposed to speak without some in insensible to the boon which was then sought to be coil- quiry or reflection, or to indulge i n a sp i r i t approach i ng to ferred upon them, resisted th e over t ure w ith a ll t h e i r mi ght intolerance, I will shortly spe c ify some o f t h e po i nts which , and were said to be medit a ti ng a sen t ence o f ex- I have ever considered most objectionable ; and I would their communicationmeasures b y e procuring a nst the King j udgmen t of when e anticipated call the attenti on of our own c l ergy to them when they find it their d u ty t o i ns t ruc t th e peop l e upon the discrimi perty. This forestalling of the Refo rma ti on by three awry against them, and threatening the seizure of th e i r pro- nating doctrines and re l a ti ve mer i ts o f P opery and Pro- testantism. hundred years was only prevented by the sub m i ss i on of 1. I first mention the c l a i m o f th e P ope t o un i versal the clergy, and thus did the houses of Convocation be- empire over the church of Ch r i s t. Th a t suc h a c l a i m is come an integral part of the British Constitution. It is not supported in the smallest d egree b y th e text usually a mistake, however, to suppose that they ever possessed brought forward (Matthew xv i. 18 , 19) , 1 have endea was to sum est an assessment, which was carried the power of taxing the clergy—all that they did voured to prove in the la s t t wo sermons of a volume pub g lished in 1822. into e essed ffect no by a power o f e decidingent act of questions Parliamen They Other doctrines, pr ac ti ces , an d c l a i ms, equa ll y d est i - tote of authority f rom H o l y W r it , are— poss puted doctrine ; nor could they, as was so frequently as- 2. Transubstanti a ti on an d th e re f usa l o f th e cup i n t h e serted at the city meeting, make laws to bind th e church. , The Church consists both of clergy and l a ity, an d the holy communion to th e l a ity. - laity not being represented in the Convocatio n were never 3. Divine honours paid to the Virgin Mary, th e i nvoca bound by its canons. Those canons als o w ere i nva lid lion of saints, and the worship of images. if they were repugnant to the law of the land or th e 4. The doctrine of purgatory, and the po wer o f a pr ie s t Royal prerogative. To confuse such an i ns tit u ti on, to procure relief from its penalties. 5. The rant of indulg. which was in effect little more th a n a Co m mitt ee o f Ways 6. Restraint upon the ences use of the Holy Scriptures, and Means to the House of Commons, with a provincial amounting to prohibition. or general council of the early Church, is, if we look at 7. The unnatural extent in which celibacy is enforced. all deeper than the names of things, absolutely ridiculous. Fe The pretence that miracles are even now performed The cause of the disuse of Convocati on was th e consen t in the church of Rome. It may well be doubted if there of the clergy, in 1664, as notified by Archbishop Sheldon be any authentic record of any m i rac l e s i nce th e destruc to Lord Clarendon, to be taxed directly by th e H ouse of tion of Jerusalem ; unless the f o ili ng o f J u li an ' s purpose Commons, without its intervention. F rom th a t period to rebuild it be an exception. its vocation was gone. As well might the chamber of 9 the clergy which met, together with the n o bility an d the . The offering up of publi c p ra y ers i n a f ore i gn t ongue , commons, to form the States-Gen era l i n a l mos t every little understood, with a dispositi on t o di scourage all edu cation. except on a most nar row an d exc : us i ve principle. ancient monarchy in Europe, be looked upon a s a sacre d and divinely-gifted assembly, as the Convocation of E n - TO. To this catalogue of sp ecu l a ti ve error ari d actual gland. From the Revolution of 1688, the Convocation, mischief must be added the most d angerous o f a ll. T he being entirely in the hands of the advocates of religious confessional has always appeared to me a sy s t em p regnan t w intolerance and arbitrary power, was little mo r e th an a with evil—moral and civil, social and d omes ti c , an d t oo surel calculated to enslave public debating club for the disturbed and angry s pi r it s the y oung and corrupt, more especially and female mind. of the times. What possible good could arise to the As I am not aware that any more appeals will be made Times. Church if Convocation were again allowed to meet ? to me upon this occasion I have e n t ere d more f u ll y upon _ NO-POPERY EXHIBITION IN LONDON.—At Ma rl- the the topics which it suggests in the h o p e th a t sh e observe tions I have made, hue. and elsewh ere , ma y b e o f use t o borough-street Police-court, on Thursday, Augustus Hayman, John Carter, George Hayling, Richard Br oo k er , our younger brethren ; but I sh a ll now conc l u d e w i t h ad and John Cranbr oke were brought before Mr. Bingham, vesting to one other misapp re h ens i on, i f m i sapprehension G charged with creating an obstruction before Cardinal there be, on the part of o ur aggressors. Wiseman's house, No. 35, Golden-square, and with col- Some of them have exp resse d a l arm, an d ra i sed an out cry, as it there were an y i n t en ti on to h ave recourse to lecting money from the crowd. Hayman was dressed out as an imitation Pope. He had on a mask ; his head was vindictive measures an d t o ra - enact th e pena l laws. It decorated with a paper tiara, on which was performed daubed a re- does sound somewhat st range ly th at a R oman Catholic presentation of the keys of St. Peter. A sh eet should plead earnestly f or re li g i ous lib erty and other pi the o ffi ce of robe, and the leg and part of the back o f a teous complaints again s t p ersecu ti on an d aga i nst any vio chair lation of the rights of c onsc i ence : chair served for a crozier. He was mounted on a barrel, which was labelled " Powder for the Pope and Cardinal " Quis tulerit Gracchos de sedition queren t es ?" I believe and since re ly h o p e th ey h ave not hi ng to f ear i n Wiseman." The barrel was placed on a truck, which was drawn by a donkey, and attended by the other de- this respect. I am persuaded th a t no w i s h ex i s t s gene - rally for any measure but what self-def enc e requ i res . An gene fendants, in various capacities, but principally th a t of outrageous attack has been made up on us , b u t I t rus t money-collectors. Police-sergeant Jonco c k, C 12, sa id , that about two o'clock that day his attention was attracted adequatemeans may be devised for ourown sec ur ity withoutdisturbing the free exercise of religion by oth ers or in towards a great noise in Golden-squ are . H e went into fringing their rights of conscience. It surely canno t be the square and found the defendants s t a ti one d b e f ore Car- necessary to the maintenance of these great ends that a dinal Wiseman's house, with a mo b o f b e t ween 2UO and foreign potentate should he permitted to insult a great na -300 persons round them. One of the defendants was tion, trample upon the rights of the Sovereign as secured raising a great clatter by beating on a tea-tray. As soon by law, and disturb the peace and good order of the eats, as the cavalcade caught sight of him, they turned out of blished church. the square and made a circuit round, in order to come in again at another part, but he stopped them, and caused' re strictions upon the introduction and c provide some r .. them to be taken into custody. Their exhibition had ap culation of Papal bulls in this island, and to prohibit the In order to prevent such evils it may be necessary t 0 parently been so well relished by the spectators as to pro- assumption of episcopal titles conferred by Rome and cure them about 7s. in copper money. The defence set deriving the name from any place in this country. It up was that they merely did as others did to earn a penny. may also be desirable to forbid the existence of monastic There ware plenty of popes going about the metropolis, institutions, strictly so called ; nor can the residence of and were bre a ki n g a the law, did very fontwl. Th were not aware they any Jesuits appear otherwise than i n j ur i ous among S co t c h ey ha ey d passed a station-house, and English Protestants. Th a t or d er i s we ll k nown to and the inspector there had told them not to beat the tea- have shown itself so dangerous, that it was suppressed by the tray Pope, too loheud, declared or they he d mig id not ht frig want to be hten the hoa Pope ; s he'd for Clement XIV in 1773, with the approbation of all good may good rather work hard like an honest man than be a Pope. and wise men. What species or amount of meri t Mr. Bingham said it was not lawful, whatever might be myself unable to determine : but q l an? sure you will agree t the defendants' religious persuasion, or whatever might with me, that a body of men whose principles and conduct be their opinion of Cardinal Wiseman's faith, for them to have brought them again into favour at Rome, I . profess attempt to annoy him or make him ridiculous on accoun t not be looked upon as desirable neighbours among Pro have been so justly reprobated i C . the! c countries can s of his faith, whatever that faith might be ; much I were the defendants to be permitted to go about tle To some such measures as I have thus pointed out, it business. But, streets creating an obstruction to public may in all probability be found necessary to resort—and as the defendants had evidently erred through ignorance,i they may not improperly be referred to in petitions pre misled by those who ought .to have known better, seated to Parliament in the ensuing session. No one, testants like ourselves. should content himself by taking their own recogn iz ance indeed, but Ministers themselves can know what steps are to keep the peace and be of good behaviour in fu ture. The barrel and other equipments were ordered to be de to be considered mos t e ff ectual for the secur i ty of our Pro' stroyed. testant faith / and national independence ; but it is our CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION.—Dr. Pusey has jus t , duty to pray th e Al m i g ht y R u l er o f th e U n i verse t h at t h e published a pamphlet in relation to this subject, under the counsels of our Soverei g n a nd h er a dvisers may be di rec t e d title on high, so as to become instrumental to the pro title of a " Postscript to the Letter of the Rev. W. U. press of " pure and undefiled religion ." so that whatsoever Richards, in vindication of the Freedom which the Church it may of England leaves to her Children to whom to open their of charity, and that the final result, if we may not hope Griefs." In the early portion of the pamphlet the writer for a complete agreement to among allChrisHwaritsii yaetwrdaeyr argues in support of the practice, common to himself be a nearer approach happiness such agreement, diffusion of peace and all among the creatures confession from those come to them, but whose souls a of God. many 'other' priests" of the English church, ofreceiv h ing not been directly entrusted to them by the bishop, and in his own case without having any particular cure of souls I am, dear Mr. Archde acon , y our affectionate friendand brother in Christ, at all. He cites authorities for the purpose of showing that in the exhortation to communicants, before the ad ministration of the Holy Sacrament—that they should resort, if they bad their consciences troubled, to the " priest," or some other learned minister—the wo r d s " some other learned minister" do not necessarily refer to some person appointed by the bishop of the diocese, as assumed by Mr. Maskell. Dr. Pusey says :—" Lati mer, Ridley, Jewell, Andrews, Moreton, White, Laud, Montagu, Usher, Bramhall, Sparrow, Taylor, and Dr. Crackanthorpe, Donne, Heylin, Hammond, South,Comber and Leslie recommend confession for quiet of conscience, for instruction, correction, comfort, to the weak, wounded, and ignorant conscience, comfort of God's pardon, abso lution, forgiveness of sins, a help to penitence, without any reference whatsoever to Holy Communion. I ma y and another passage from Bishop Taylor, in which, i n h is ' Rules and Advices to the Clergy of Down and Connor,' he sets down, • Let every minister exhort his people to a frequent confession of their sins.' A more authoritative e document than these, the Homilies, says expressly tht ' Absolution bath the promise of forgiveness o f s ins,' although, ' by . the r e o x word of the New Testament, m press ise annexed and tied to the visible it bath which isot t i l s ns hn p p imposition of hands.' The church lays sign , dowt that the Holy Communion is a Sacrament ' neces sary to salvation,' and that ' a quiet conscience' is requi site for those who come to it. And this special mode of quieting ' the conscience she proposes to each communicant nie judge directly, if they need it; she makes each of them , in their inmost heart, which they and God only know, whether they need this remedy or no. Before, or without, confession, no one besides, not even a parent, can know whether that need exists. Those born of dissenters very often join the church ; those born of worldly or ungodly parents are very often touched by God's grace ; irreligious and profligate husbands have, very often, wives earn est about their husbands' salvation an d th e i rown . One might instance the hatred of the French infidel, Michelet, who is mad against confession, bec ause th e w iv e s o and mothers i f sons from infidelity." France, taught by their pri es t s , w i n their husbands an THE BISHOP OP DURHAM ON POPERY. E. DUNELM. Auckland-castle, Jan. 6, RAILWAY AFFAIRS. -4- The deviation of the railway at Fleetwood, 21 miles in length, was opened last week. It is to supersede that portion of the line which was formerly carried across the bav on timber gearing. On Tuesday evening. a train from Musselburgh to Edinburgh ran through a flock of sheep which were stra ng on the line. No fewer than fifteen were fonnd killed, and four others were so dreadfully mangled that they had to be destroyed. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against Ronald Baxter, the driver of a special train on the Eastern Counties Railway, for killing a night-inspector at Pendersend-station. The train was going at a furious rate, and the jury were of opinion that proper precautions had not been taken to give warning, by telegraph, to the station -masters of its approach. A NEW GLASS AN D I RON RAILWAY STATION.—On Thursday the Buckinghamshire Railway Company con tracted with Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co., to erect a new station at Rewley, Oxford, which is to be con structed on the same principle as the building for the great Exhibition, and it is to be completed in three months. It is stated that this line to London is to be opened on the Ist May next. THELIVERPOOL AND NEW YORK TRADE : A MONSTER SHIP.—We learn that Jabez Williams and Son, ship builders, of Williamsburg, are to commence early nest spring a clipper ship for a mercantile house in this city, engaged in the Liverpool trade, of the enormous size of two thousand eight hundred tons. Her length will be two hundred and thirty feet, or seven feet longer than the U. S. ship-of-the-line Pennsylvania. In thin respect, however, her dimensions do not exceed those of the great ship which has just been commenced by Wm. H. Webb, for N. L. and G. Griswold ; but, in consequence of an in creasing depth and breadth of beam, she will be some two hundred tons larger. No'merchant vessel has ever been built at all approaching her in point of magnitude. She is to have three decks, and will be able to carry a vast num ber of passengers.--New York Journal 9f Wommerce. ST. PETER t' , T ROME. The throne of St. Peter is--Rome ! Kings and prophets must hol? to him there; Even Jupiter gives him his statue, And Makomet hands him his chair: