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THE PAPAL AGGRESSION, REPLY OF THE BISHOP OF CHESTER TO THE LIVERPOOL CLERGY. The following is the Bishop of Chester's reply to the memorial addressed to him by ninety of the clergy of Liverpool and its neighbourhood, headed by the Ven. Archdeacon Brooks:— " Chester, 9th November, 1850. "My dear Archdeacon , —l beg to acknowledve the receipt of an address, signed by yourself and a very numerous body of the clergy of Liverpool and its neighbourhood, in relation to the recent Papal edict. toleration in rots country has given to the members of the Roman Catholic Church the free exercise of their religious faith ; and so far as respects the internal form of government within their own communion, there would probably be no desire on the part of others to interfere with it. As long as the Pope was contented to provide for the episcopal superintendence of the congregations of Roman Catholics in this country by means of vicars apostolic, in the mode hitherto practised, the proceeding might be regarded as intrinsically confined within the pale of the Romish Church. " But the recent edict from the Papal See advances a loftier pretension. It makes a partition the realm of England into new-created dioceses, over which bishops are appointed to ex ercise spiritual government. This is apparently intended as a demonstration reaching beyond the scanty numbers of the Roman Catholic communion, and affecting to cover with its influence the whole realm. It treats our Established Church as a nullity, and pretends to Lice possession of the country cs a spiritual waste. Such pretensions will be met with firmness, and reduced to their proper level. We may confidently rely that, so far as the occasion may require, our government and : lature - l P effectual care that the royal supremacy ' - " , e shall not suffer either detriment `' , i• the conse- legisiu, __ rill tract and the national indepenuei.., or indignity. We need not entertain any fear fol quences. The Church of England, appealing to the inspired volume of Scripture as the standard of its faith, will not now relapse into the errors which at the Reformation it renounced, or again bow to the yoke of spiritual usurpation from which it was then freed. The Bible is in the hands of our r‘eople. It is in the Bible, God's word, not in Papal letters sent from Rome, that they will look for the rule of their obedience and the foundation of their trust. "The part especially pertaining to ourselves is to labour simplicity, purity, its truth 't:spective spheres' of duty, in t ral visitation of tl children of the pool ourselves; marking plainly line that separates the chi each other; upholding strei acting with union and concert among uncoznpromising'y the broad and the principles of the Protestant faitl the spirit of Christian charity towards the it is our duty to resist. whose Pretension-s " If you and the rest of the clergy shall join in a declaration expressing your devoted loyalty to our gracious Queen, and your seal for the maintenance of the roy .1 supremacy and of the rights of the Established Church, ycu will have my cordial sympathy. of my affectionate regard " J. CHESTER th, or c Pope over the count rejoice to I c not only tg had occ part of my dioces jesty; and pet to whol I trust you and uncorn your very fairlda: C. WINTON." , who has town of sovereign, to the Promence, of our )W closely it cv )orat to the a introduc ion of d Roman Catholics wlio will Ire with due disapprobation. But has Rome, as single step, recalled one single fatal error? ne of the dennnciations hurled so often in ages past kingdom and reople. She is refusing the education of her people in Ireland. She would parcel out England as her future possession. But the step necessary to carry this out is already by statute illegal, and will, I trust, be repressed by the enactment next session of adequate, though She has retr 1 I remain a g you will assure the cier y yours, " The Venerable Arch( The ancient city of Chester has spoken out—and nobly too. It was a city meeting, called by the mayor, and held in the town-hall. The mayor presided, who very forcibly reminded the meeting that the object of that meeting was "not to discuss a religious, but a civil ques tion, not whether this class or that class of Christians came nearest to the true doctrine, but whether they would submit to the intrusion of a foreign potentate into the realms of England." A number of strong resolutions were adopted. After the Rev. Chancellor Raikes had addressed the meeting, Mr. Temple, barrister, who had moved an address to the Queen deprecatory of Puseyism, remarked, that if the clergy had vindicated their citizen ship, and aided the laity in protesting against error, where they admitted it existed, matters might not have assumed their present appearance. The Rev. F. Ford delivered a spirit-stirring address, in the course of which he asked the meeting to give a hearty cheer for the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible. To this he met a hearty and enthusiastic response, and then said, that " he thanked them for that expression of their feeling. It showed him that they were determined to have the Bible without the clasp, and the cross without the screen." His Grace the Archbishop of York has returned the following reply to the clergy of Hull, who presented ar address to him : My Reverend Brethren, — recent aggression of the Roe With yo lan Pontiff mr sentiments on " tL .ff" I entirely agree. Yol from this bold and formidable as been received andtlie peril immi But the r ous pri ;tll and power when that mighty instrument o ted, has been roused. The Ind intelligent countrymen treat 11 truly as intended to rob our in the crown, to inn( the universal chu- s if it has d to reestablish on its ruins the cor )e supremacy vest tence) our branch Totirielves)'ioupi and transmit bodied in the formillaries and a with the civil and religious liber by the martyrs and confessors )f the Reformation xra, and .00 confirmed b the revolution ( The pt sprprisin lops of Rome would be r the well-known fact, 'awing in our own body some unstitiie-r, zeal, by m trines of his aura . , his ambitious and di pursue in the present crisis of The resolutions which von In Church and State tion and thankful Table d ecclesiastical or spiritual, within these re I l now the diligence and anxiety racticcs and doc •ed and emboldened him in aterprise. as to the course whic h you ought to Ith satisfac ister. And no foreign prince, ught to have, A NY which yon labour for f.o to eesuee uniting you a controv ers i a l spit it, far which m is so wishing apt to ender bitterness and wrath. But you cannot s' and wholly )f. Your weapons, however, must be spiritual. " The md of the Cpirit, which is the Word of God.'" Out of that 'd you may reasonably be allowed to defend and explain to r flecks se two the intl If this be coming a Ct ng, hi the - education ligent acquaintance with Holy ‘V-r truly Scr e strong, 1 charaCter of ou the Church or ( And now, cor to the word of I everend brethren, your faith ,inst any encroachment of an address from - the rect to God " Rev° landdearl ion the address the medium of the Rura "The r a matter of I cannot tionat observe the c thy and co-o, of the I p ot Winchester's reply tone, & cannot mixture of s _ ." I remain 'eturned the f has from from an I believeili regards i lig us hia Inty to I, ng repl: rdgely L VERPOOL gtAikhittli aveloped in a large blue c a superbly bound Roman missal in his hand_ Cardinal Wiseman on Wednesday commenced his du r • • &Inuit, CU IN ere uoialY assumca by Homan Catholics: and I ties in London, by per orining the eight-o'clock mass at this, taken in connection with the apostacy in the bosom the Roman Catholic Cathedral, St. George's-in-the of our own church, had doubtless encouraged the Pope Fields, which it is said he will continue to do throughout in his recent measures of aggression. (Hear. hear.) the week. The rev. gentleman then alluded, at considerable length, Cardinal 'Wiseman is at present busily engaged in pen to the establishment of the Board of Education in Ire- ning a pamphlet, by which he confidently expects to land, and the exclusion from the national schools there of justify the course which he and his brother bishops have the Bible, in deference to the wishes and representations adopted ; and to show that the ne w titl es were no t as nith. Pnr,;.t. Erie new endowment of mimed without - ..,..w.tedge of the Premier. Maynooth, for which no application had been addressed A few days previous to the departure of the Cardinal for to the government, nor one voice of gratitude raised. the Eternal City, the following announcement appeared But whilst thus endowing and exaggerating the power of in the Court Circular:—" Bishop Wiseman bad an inter the Romhb Church on the one hand, the measures view with Lord John Russell yesterday." The Cardi adopted with reference to the Irish Church had been di- nal's friends aver that the pamphlet will place the Premier rected to curtail and impair her influence on the other, in a very awkward position ; but by others it is very He thanked God, hottever, he believed, that that Church much doubted that the noble lord has committed him was never in so healthy a condition as at the present self rashly, at least on paper. moment. (Cheers.) The Bible having been excluded Dr. Murray, who calls himself an archbishop, has sum from the national schools of Ireland, that concession was moned the Romish clergy of Dublin to meet him "for the next made the ground of a further exorbitant and u rgen t purpose of presenting an address of congratulation, through demand. The Queen's Colleges, which had been founded his eminence Cardinal Wiseman, to the Catholic clergy of upon the principle before approved min the schools, were England, and of expressing their gratitude to our most now dennlin,aa .. NOUlebb, occause a shred of Pro- holy father the Pope, for the timely restoration of the testantiseo was allowed in them; because, for example, a ancient hierarchy of the English Catholic Church." Such Protestant surgeon might deliver lectures to the students is the arrogant and insulting language which these usurpers Protestant lawyer deliver a lecture upon use towards the real Catholics of this country. the whole institution was not Lord Shrewsbury is now on his way to Rome, not, as outside cvorldi connections.m agi n ebsu, but "to , s t p o e n t h d a a n k milder m w i o n s t t e r u w o i t l I; itoma herself." use, in f grasper. resent str deliberately, and intelligently. It _ the ebullition of a moment. There must be no evaporation of honest English Protestant feeling.--(Loud cheers.) More than this was required. The calculations of our opponents were, that the present was too great to last. And if they were right, id allow the tide to flow over, then we should have not only the muniments of our religion, but of our strength. Of all the enemies by -dom and happiness of ratner ior oaring set us an at loggerheads to an extent of mutual animosity only equalled when Pius the Fifth issued his bull of excommunication against Queen Eliza beth. In the Romish " Bishop of Northampton's" Pastoral Letter, just published, occurs the following passage : " The Holy See, so far from wishing to outrage the feel ings of the country, has studiously avoided any infraction of the laws, has merged a portion of its own direct power, by our new appointments, and has taken pains to ascer tain that those appointments would give no umbrage to the British Government," In corroboration of this state ment, we (Guardian) have it on good authority that, pre vious to leaving England for Rome, Dr. Wiseman called his clergy together, and informed them that the whole plan of the new hierarchy had been laid before Lord John Russell, who distinctly stated that there would be no ob jection to its being carried out. 1 exciterner ' es 1 if la ery eital II the f tate could be n 'was the •d, the most perilous beyond comps._ h of Rome ; not so much from its inhere!) racteristic, which signally belon adapting itself to principles and ;, and of concentrating ail its energies on any oint. In the event of a party contest arising itry, for instance, Rome would b e rea d y t o • side, and to throw her wei g ht i n t o suc h sca l e as )st kely and most effectually embarrass the power and the influence of E I could look on and say— We copy the following extract from a report of a dinner given to the Popish Bishop of Clogher and his clergy at Fermanagh, on Wednesday week, after the consecration of the Catholic cemetery, from the Ferma nagh Mail. The audacious conduct in putting the Pope before the Queer► needs no comment : Ey-ay way makes f England, exclaimed 11 ' The c lir was taken by Mr. Jam nt, on the right of whom sat the Creden. mer- Most Rev. Dr. id Rev. George I:op at the respected parish iotisro over the bating been said by the Rev. Dr. Boylan, and ) enjoyed. It was a principle of our'constitution that every man in this realm is free to think what he pleases, and not only that, but he was free, in a legitmate way, to bring others over to the same opinion ; there was no let or hindrance. But that was not the object now :it was a claim put forward by the Pope, a false and blasphemous assumption that he was the vice-regent of the Lord Jesus Christ on earth, and that in virtue of that all the baptised inhabitants of the world belong to his jurisdiction.— (Hear ' hear, hear, and applaus e .) It was no t, th en , re quired on behalf of the liberties of the Roman Catholics, and it seriously menaces the liberties of the Protestant inhabitants of the kingdom. (Loud applause.) He, for his part, could not look upon that act of the Bishop of Rome as an isolated action; he could not but couple it with the great political events of the present time. It was the opinion of many that the present political move ments in Europe were really urged by irreligious impulses behind the scenes, and at this present time there exists a conspiracy (at the foundation of which of course are the Jesuits)—(hear)—to overthrow freedom in religion and in politics—to put down Protestantism and civil and religious liberty by force of arms. It was somewhat remarkable that, at a crisis like this, the Bishop of Rome should ex ercise an authority and put forth assumptions such as he had not done for centuries, in fact, that he should make an aggression upon the soil of a Christian country which lie would not have done antecedent to the Refor mation. What was the source of this sudden impulse?— whence did he receive his courage ?—how was it that a man, tottering upon his own throne, with no hold upon the affections of his own subjects, who could not really be called either Bishop or King of Rome itself ?—how was it that he dares to make this intrusion upon British soil ? (Loud and continued applause.) It was clear that his dependence was upon the military power of Europe, and it was clear that the absolutist rulers of Europe felt that their interests were identified with superstition throughout the world. (Applause.) It was clear that liberty and Protestantism go hand and hand together. It was equally clear that Popery and true liberty were in compatible. Show him the country where there existed freedom of thought in political and religious matters— where men may think what they please without let or hindrance, or fear of persecution ; show him the country where the true liberty of the subject was not inconsistent with the true prerogative of the sovereign —where the throne was set up in the affections of the people, and that sovereign exercised legitimate sway without interfering with the rights of the subject; show him such a land, and he would show them a Protestant country. (Ap plause.) Show him, on the other hand, a land where the subjects were the slaves of a despot ruler, or if they madly grasp at liberty have not the power to make use of it, but totter on from one revolution to another; show him a country in which the frame of society was shaking to its foundation, possessed of no stability, without the power of enjoying rational and enlightened liberty —a country where they must have either of two extremes; wild, un social, revolutionary principles, or base, vile, degrading principles of despotism—show him such a land, and he would show them a Popish country. (Vehement appl ause .) THE POPE BUILYT IN EFFIGY.—The Pope was burnt in effigy on Thursday, on Peckham-common. At six o'clock a mock procession was formed. A van drawn by four horses drew up fronting a house on the green, from which emerged some dozen men, armed with various weapons, each leading a man attired in the surplice of a Romish clergyman, the latter being tumbled into the vehicle amidst the shouts of several thousand persons congregated. The next brought out were two athletic fellows, one attired as a cardinal, and the other as his chaplain. A few yards in advance of the van stood a her culean fellow, bearing a burlesque effigy of the Pope, mounted on a long pole, and having in his hand what pun. ported to be the late memorable bull. In advance again were about fifty fellows bearing lighted torches, and on each side of the cardinal's carriage was a van containing fiend-like creatures, who kept up a continual display of theatrical fire, blue predominating, and so contrived that its flashes cast a sickly hue over the features of the un happy prelate and his fellow prisoners. The card _.nal's equipage was flanked by some forty torch bearers, the faces of the latter horribly begrimed with varied coloured Paint. The'procession proceeded towards Camberwell, by the Peckham-rye road, followed by thousands of persons. It was hailed in its progress through the various streets with the loudest acclamations, amidst cries of " No Popery," " Hurrah for the Queen," " No Foreign Priest hood." After about two hours' perambulation, the pro cession returned to Peckham, and thence to Peckham common, where the waggons were dragged into the vicinity of an immense pile of faggots, tar barrels, and other com bustibles. At this time there could not have been fewer than between 10,000 and 12,400 persons, and the unani mous cry was " Down with the Pope." Fire was applied to the pile, and in a few moments the whole mass was in motley crew who, driven from all other parts of Europe, seemed to have fixed themselves as a body of locusts upon the principalities of Rome. He trusted that the Romans would profit by the experience they had gone through, at the hands of this band of assassins, and they would feel such gratification as they ought at the return of the Pope to those-dominions over which he had so long ruled with paternal affect ion. (Applause.) " The Chairman, in proposing thenext toast, said, having given expression to their feeling of devotion to the head of their religion as Catholics, they might now gratify their feelings of loyalty by expressing their devotedness to the Queen who ruled over them, and let no man sup pose that because they loved their God more they loved their Queen less. (Applause.) " The Chairman next proposed the health of his Royal Highness Prince Albert and the rest of the Royal Family, and afterwards, in complimentary terms, pro posed the health of Bishop Briggs, whom he congratu lated on the proceedings of the day.". a blaze. A simultaneous cry having been raised for the Pope and his bull, the representative of Rome was thrust in amidst the shouts of the mob. It was not till after some three hours that the proceedings terminated, and the mob slowly dispersed. ADDRESS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICT OF ENGLAND TO Cardinal Wiseman's arrival on Tuesday was kept so pro found a secret and so little anticipated, that his house was not in a fit state for his reception, the workmen being still on the premises. He will reside for the present at St. George's Cathedral. His return was hastened by pressing letters from the leading Roman Catholics in England. It is said he was extremely surprised at Lord John Russell's letter, having a few days prior to its appearance addressed a private letter from Vienna to Lord John, and having received no intimation of his lordship's intended manifesto. On Tuesday, at eleven o'clock, a priVate carriage drawn by a pair of grays, was driven to the entrance of the cler gyman's residence attached to St. George's Chapel,from which the Cardinal alighted, attended by his chaplain, who carried a small leather portmanteau and a large sachet of letters. His eminence, who appeared 41 excel ,t health, was er - !oak, and had th removed, " The Chairman spoke as folio " Gentlemen, the first toast on my list is one that will frighten my extra-loyal neighbours, but the spiritual alle 's greater than any other allegiance. 1, int any further comment, propose to you y Father the Pope,' and in all sincerity gn may be long and glorious. HER MAJESTY The following address, which is understood to be from the pen of Cardinal Wiseman—a fact which gives ad. ditional importance to it—will, we understand, lie at the various Catholic churches and chapels on Sunday next, and will be otherwise circulated, with the view of ob taining signatures to it, to tes.ify to Ow va:ty of the Catholics of England to " Her lthjesty's R ,yai person, crown, and dignity" : "To THE QUEEN'S MOST FXCLLLE.NT AJESTY, "May it please your Majesty,—NN r, the undersigned subjects of your Majesty, residing in England, and professing the Roman Catholic religion, beg to approach your Majesty's throne, there to express our sentiments of unimpaired and unalterable fidelity to your Majesty's Royal person, crown, and dignity. "At a moment when attempts are being made to impeach our loyalty, we consider it a duty to give fresh utterance to these our feelings. " During centuries of exclusion from the privileges of ti►e constitution, and from the rights enjoyed by their fellow subjects, the Catholics of England , remained true to their allegiance to the Crown of this realm, and yielded to none their readiness, at all times, to defend its rights and its pre rogatives against every foe. And now that, under your Ma• jesty's wise rule, we enjoy equal participation with others in the benefits of the constitution, we are more than ever animated with the same sentiments of fidelity and attach ment, and are equally ready to give proof, whenever occasion may present itself, of the sincerity of our loyal professions. "The dearest of the privileges to which we have thus been admitted by the wisdom of the British Legislature, is that of openly professing and practising the religion of our fathers, in communion with the see of Rome. Under its teaching we have learned, as a most sacred lesson, to give to °tsar the things that are of Cwsar, as we give to God the things that are of God. In whatever, therefore our church has at any time done for establishing its regular system of government amongst its members in this island, we beg most fervently and most sincerely to assure your Majesty that the organization granted to us is entirely ecclesias' ical, and its authority purely spiritual. But it leaves untouched every tittle of your Majesty's rights, authority, power, jurisdiction, and prerogative, as our Sove reign, and as Sovereign of these realms, and does not in the leastwise diminish or impair our profound reverence, our loyalty, fidelity, and attachment to your Majesty's august per son and throne; and we humbly assure your Majesty, that among your Majesty's subjects there exists no class who more solemnly, more continually, or more fervently pray for the stability of your Majesty's throne, for the preservation of your Majesty's life, and for the prosperity of your Majesty's empire, than the Catholics of England, in whose religion loyalty is a sacred deity, and obedience a Christian virtue." PAPISTICAL CASUISTRY.--From a correspondence which appeared in the Times of Friday, it appears that a district called Pantasaph, forming a portion of the parishes of Holywell and Whitford, in North Wales, is in a state of the greatest spiritual destitution, and that it was the earnest request of the late Lady Emma Pennant, mother of Viscountess Feiking, to her - daughter that a church might be built there. In furtherance of this view this excellent lady left £3,000 for such spiritual and church purposes in the parishes of Whitford and Holy well as her executors should think proper. In the mean time Viscount Feilding promised to the Bishop of St. Asaph to build the church at St. Pantasaph, the founda tion-stone was laid by the Bishop, and the sacrament was taken by those present at the ceremony. Lord Feilding went on with the building of the church, and during its erection became, as our readers are no doubt aware, a Roman Catholic. Under these circumstances, Lord Feilding, " fearing to act upon his own unassisted judg tnent, took time to obtain the opinions of many whom he considered capable of giving sound arid just advice." We cannot doubt to whom the convert applied for coun sel ; nor will it surprise those who are conversant with the dark annals of Romish casuistry, and who are there fore aware that in no single instance where the interests of the Church are at stake has the Romish priesthood scrupled to enjoin the violation of the clearest moral duties, to hear that the solemn promise of a nobleman, the honourable feelings of a gentleman, the sacred duty of a child to the last wishes of a deceased parent, were swept aside as idle and futile when they stood in the way of the acquisition of a certain quantity of brick and mortar to the Roman Catholic Church. It is humiliating to be obliged to notice the arguments by which an English nobleman has not blushed to excuse his breach of faith. His Lordship condescends to plead that he is not legally bound to perform his promise. No doubt the Statute of Frauds has been brought to his Lordship's notice, and we admit the validity of the plea, though it sounds new and strange in the mouth of an English peer. The next argument is a logical curiosity. If I were bound at all, says Lord Fielding. by my promise, I should be bound even if you (the Bishop) were to turn Socinian ; ergo, although you have not turned Socinian, 1 am not bound. That is, to put a parallel case, if I am bound to repay you the money which you have lent me, I am bound to pay it even if you should use it for the most immoral purpose ' • ergo, although yo u are not go i ng to use it, I am not bound to pay it. Not, as it seems, quite satisfied with this comprehensive reduclio od absurdum, his Lord ship has next recourse to Scripture (we should have thought the dispensing power would have served him bet ter) to prove that there may be promises which to fulfil, under certain circumstances, is sin. The example is not a happy one—" Paul did not, after his conversion, con sider himself bound by the promise which he had made to the Jews to prosecute the Church, because he had made it in ignorance." We do not find anywhere that Paul did make any promise at all, but that he desired a com mission to prosecute, which was given him. The argu ment is, therefore, that every one who re eives a com mission is bound to act under it for ever ; so that a judge who resigns his office breaks his promise to administer justice to her Majesty's subjects. Then we are told that if the nation had a right to apply the places of national worship to the national religion when reform ed, although the founders of those buildings did not and could not belong to the reformed faith, so the reformed Viscount Fielding has aright toapply toihis reformed church the building which he had solemly promised and devoted to the worship of the Church of England —an argument just as valid as the inference that because a nation may lawfully declare war an individual may commit murder. But enough, or rather too much, of this transparent and miserable sophistry, which we have only cited to show how naturally those in whose hands this young nobleman has in an evil hour placed his conscience can distort fact, reason—Lay, the word of God itself, when a promise is to be frittered away, and a solid advantage to be clutched. We possess no casuistical dexterity to disturb our perceptions, and we are well content with the liberal text which tells us that he is acceptable to God " who promises to his neighbour, and deceiveth him not, though it be to his own loss." Lord Fielding did not, as he pretends, make this promise in ignorance. The claims of the Church of Rome were before him then as now ; but he made it when he held one set of tenets, he is called upon to perform it when he has adopted another. IS THE POPE'S PARTITION OF ENGLAND INTO BISHOPRICS LEGAL ? As considerable discussion bas taken place relative to the legality or illegality of the late measures adopted by the Pope for dividing this country into dif f erent dioceses to be under his own jurisdiction, it may not be uninterest ing to our readers to learn the opinions of two of our leading law journals ( the Law Times and the Jurist) on this point. We may say that, essentially, the opinions given by these two journals are the same ; and as'it is not desirable that we should follow them into their historic inquiry into the various laws affecting Roman Catholics in this country, probably the following brief summary of their view of the law as it now stands will be deemed sufficient.* The Act of 1 Eliz.. c. 1, enacts in its 16th section ' that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, spiritual or temporal, shall at any time afterlhe last day of I his session of Parliament, use, enjoy, or exercise any manner of power, jurisdiction, superiority, authority, pre eminence, or privilege, spiritual or ecclesiastical, within this realm, or within any other your Majesty's dominions and countries that now be or hereafter shall be ! but from thenceforth the same shall be cl early abolished out of this realm, and all other your Highness's dominions for ever; any statute, ordinance, custom, constitutions, or any other matter or cause whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding." By a subsequent section offend ers under this statute are said to be persons who maintain any foreign jurisdiction or authority here ; and by sections 27, 28, 29, and 30, certain penalties for a breach of this law are laid down. This act,—or at least so much of it as we have quoted—. remained in force till the 7 h and Bth Victoria, c. 102. By this latter act a considerable number of anti-Catholic statutes were repealed, and among others so much of Statute 1 Elizabeth, as provided for the punishment of the second and third offence under the statute, but left sub sisting the punishments provided for the first offence, namely, forfeiture of goods and chattels. The last act relating to Roman Catholics was that of 9th and 10th Vic. c. 69' This act r e p ea l e d so muc h o f Eliz., c. 1, as makes it punishable to affirm and maintain the spiritual or ecclesiastical authority of any foreign po tentate, &c., " provided always, and be it declared, that nothing in this enactment contained shall authorise or render it lawful for any person or persons to affirm, hold, stand with, set forth, maintain or defend any such foreign power, pre-eminence, jurisdiction, or authority; nor shall the same extend further than to the repeal of the particu lar penalties and punishments therein referred to, but in all other respects the law shall continue the same as if this enactment had not been made." So that, although the particular punishments laid down in the 1 Eliz.,c. 1, for affirming and upholding the spiritual or ecclesiastical autho r ity of f ore i gn po t enta t es i s abo lished, yet the undauyielness of such a procedure remains undoubted. So far as that is concerned the statute of 1 Eliz. remains in full force. And, to quote the Jurist, "in a case of tins kind it is more material to ascertain whether the act i 3 unlawful, than what is the remedy. The reme dy in thi 3 case rah ht be trifling, almost ridiculous ; for as a breach of an act of Parliament, not prescribing a special punishment, is merely a misdemeanour, we suppose, that if his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman should think fit to as sert publicly in this country his authority, as derived from the Pope, of Ar c hbi s h o p o f W es t m i ns t er , he would not be liable to any very severe measure of actual punishment. Dot if it be clear ' that to carry Jut() effect We remit mou. m this c may be thankful that an opportunity has now offerer -‘ - ' Ann so _oe obtained. The surest method by which we can oppose such agg:ession, and preserve our selves free from such domination, is to diffuse as widely as possible those truths on which our Protestant church is founded, resting as they do upon the pure word of God without human addition or adulteration. In conclusion I must repeat my gratffication at this instance of confi dence which you have shown in me by the presentation of this address. There is no reason why as Metropolitan should not accept it, and with God's grace I shall always " es far as possibl e , th e pr i nc i p l es 'i t enunciates. The deputation then bowed and retired, highly gratified with their reception ; and his Grace, who own from Windsor in the morning in orde address, proceeded shortly afterwards t be willing to prC to receive ti ddington Park, near Croydon. Meetings have been held in nearly all the parishes in the kingdom, to protest against this daring aggression, at which 'some of the Tractarians endeavoured to defeat the object, but in every instance the resolutions have been carried with acclamation, excepting at Gosport, where that party mustered unusually strong. On Thursday the Rev. T. Nolan delivered, in Lon don, the lecture which we announced last week, when the ---- was crowded to suffocation, and the lecturer was red with extreme cordiality. Henry Pownall, Esq., , occupied the chair. We make the following ex tracts from the rev. gentleman's able address:—`• Look ing at the period of Catholic emancipation in 1829, re membering the promises that were made, the hopes and expectations which were entertained by sanguine Pro- testants of the healing effects of that measure, could any one deny that the provisions of that measure had been carried out to such an extent as to leave the Romanist without any complaint ?' He dared not put the question on the other side, and ask if it had been carried out in such a spirit as to 'rave the deceived Protestants without ut.A.S. All U. while the penalties were all disregarded ? The titles of sees, the assumption of which the' hibited. were hnldlir (Cheers.) id take suc would r grave of prostrate 1 har : l lately pt not extravagant, penalties. Her Majesty's advisers, it is evi dent, will not be wanting to this exigency. And here I cannot but regret the failure of the bill proposed a short time since for opening diplomatic relations with the sovereign of the Roman States, which hes prevented us, without in the slightest possi ble degree compelling us to recognise his usurped spiritual au thority, from dealin.v: summarily with him on this occasion, in this act, based as it partly is on that temporal power we have substantially . and practically, if not formally, acquiesced in allowing to him and his successors. I do fully respond to your request that I will, under Provi dence, do my utmost to resist by every constitutional means this encroachment, and vindicate the royal prerogative. But a further duty, as clergymen, yet awaits us. I beseech you, brethren, anxiously and nraverfnlly to rnneLine nnt •• • •••••„, UV., LUC assailants only from without, or the open deserters from us, but the ignorant, timid, misled, or selfseeking, or treacherous (for such there are) from within. I earnestly invite each of you to review the whole tenor of his ministry, doctrinal and ceremo nial, jealously to note how far the one is consonant with the simple teaching of Scripture, the other with the chnste and set ere yet truthful Church of England ritual. Be assured, I will myself seek to do the same. But mystic theories of Scrip ture's prophetic future; baseless speculations on the scheme of man's conversion and salvation ; systems of a church and kingdom " of this world" to legislate in dogmatic teaching and rule in perfect discipline; a hierarchy and priesthood of our own, differing in name alone from that proposed to be now set up by the Romanist; mediwval follies and ceremonies, the cast off slough of Rotnanism jealously preserved, or even in imita tion reproduced (and such has been the case) in our new churches, are symptoms, the prevalence of which might well encourage Rome t 3 seek to tender again her ministrations to our people. Let such as have but for a moment listened to these empty and dangerous delusions remember the real nature of our high and holy mission. We are appointed for the people, we are sent to the people, we are responsible for the people, that in simplicity and integrity we teach them Truth. Happily I can say with thankfulness I hope as little cause of anxiety on this head exists in Manchester as in most place s containing an equal population. Nor do I speak as of any one case calling now for special remark. But this subject is most important, and cannot too carefully be kept in view by some mm/1110 Ile And now, dear and reverend brethren, commending you to our great Spiritual Head, in the full confidence and certainty that He who is all Truth will succour and save hie nwn if o t.‘, • sagla4curc Dia Vn 11 11 We Dy Him indeed seek to become so, I remain ever, your sincere friend and bishop, J. P. MANCHESTER. The Rev. C. D. Wray, Rev. H. Stowell, and other clergy of Mancheste:. On Friday the parishioners of St. Andrew, Holborn, London, waited upon the Archbishop of Canterbury, with an address to big Grace, signed by 700 parishioners. The Arcnoisnop, having taken the address, replied as follows " It is very gratifying to me to receive this address, which evinces so deep an interest in that great cause which I shall endeavour, as far as may be, to promote. Coming from so important a parish as that of St. Andrew, Hol born, I cannot but regard it as an important addition to the testimony so generally borne by the country in oppo sition to the recent act of Papal amession. Perhans we though a very unexpected opportunity, and one of which we cannot help thinking without some degree of indigna tion—of showing how greatly mistaken those must be who supposed—if (here be any such—that the Protestant feel ing of this country has in any way diminished. It seemed to be necessary that something of this description should have occurred in order that the feeling of the country might be drawn forth ; and now that it has been elicited with so much strength and firmness, it may perhaps be almost more necessary to keep it within due bounds than to add to the existing excitement. But, at all events, those who are anxious to preserve the principles of the Reformation, as I am sure do those who have the appoint ment of the holy office, like myself, must always feel it a very great assistance when they meet with the co-opera tion of the clergy and laity of the country. It must be a matter of regret that anything should have occurred in our c'ourch to have led to the error to which I have alluded—the supposition that the Protestant principles of this country have in any degree declined. I trust, however, that it will now be seen, if it be not already seen, that those who gave rise to that opinion form a very small minority not only in our church, but in the country at large. I think, too, we may now see that to which we have hitherto been blind, hut to which we must never be blind in future, that the Church of Rome is an aggressive church, and that she will never be satisfied without clo nP far as it can TAE L on anatomy, or civil law ; bcca in that all must not b i unive I On Tuesday a very numerous meeting of the congrega in the school-room, Oakes tion o street, v Queen was un mously Rev. J. ig and 1 the incumbent, del [earned from which we therefore, wit , hich the Bishop our forward to exercise a territoriE 'ould not be admitted consistently It was received with deafening cheers, the entire _ claims, then, he should be prohibited by the law of the land.— were )—There m of ti _ It was palliated by some per- td parallel, for example, to the Wesleyan I CO! °which" kiect ; and it men were j company standing " The R " The ( Gartlan, C.C., returned thanks. ,Llairman said that, in proposing the next toast, le would beg to say that the reason why the Pope's bealtb was proposed first was, that as the object of that assembly was for a purely religious purpose, he did not I,;,,nself a disloyal subject in proposing the head .1c: church first. He (the chairman) was a —they were all loyal men—they loved the ereign of 0' tbody of Christians divided missionary purpcses, as if the were nothing more than I loyal man— 'l'nis was a 2 isstatement of the case country—they admired her for her vir the tues, and revered her for her good and kind intentions of Ireland. He would, therefore, en, Prince Albert, and the Royal slona] tilt extraordinary step, a mere ails- give ti s country, and they h a d b een f ree ly I Family The Q the country into distrie had not been disturbed i for missionary (Cheers.) ~ Luat operation, me morning Herald, and liberty not only to maintain their opinions, but the indignation and surprise with which it will be read by Ae of the inhabitants of the land proselytes if they many of our readers will, we imagine, he infinitely en 1. They had had this liberty, because they enjoyed hanced when we adduce a far more flagrant instance of toleration of this free land, of constitutional Protes- audacity in England, and which is supplied by the our own.—Applause.) But this was at an end, conduct of one of the magistrates for the East Riding. arrangement substituted, territorial jurisdic- We quote the following from the Yorkshire Gazette of Truer missionary division.—(Hear.) The the 7th September, and pray the reader's attention to T 1 • • The abov and the nev tion for the r--- .isnop or nome was to exercise it : authority over every baptised subject of the realm.— "At the collation after the opening of the new Roman hear.) We had not now to deal with men who Catholic church in York, the Hon. C. Langdale was in -c1 to make us converts to their opinions, but I the chair. After the report (near endeavour, we one to up witn men wno claim, by the authority of a " The Chairman said it would not be surprising to mission from a foreign potentate , , to exerci se au th or ity over C at h o li cs, nor should he think to those who were not every baptised subject, including her Majesty herself, Catholics, if they commenced by paying their homage of within this realm. It was clear that the aspect under respect to the divine representative of the founder of their whith Popery presents itself to us was changed, and a religion ; he gave them the health of his Holiness Pope change is required in our trealment of it.—(Hear.) The Pius IX., whose dominion and authority extended late step of the Pope was no t required to secure the re- throughout (Age universe ! (Applause.) Referring to ligious liberties o f th e R oman Catholics, because those the return of his Holiness to his dominions, he congratu religim liberties were, to they shQula be , already amply latoi them that an vhd had been put to the reign tof that Like lag°, he olan, a Nov. 191180, erneral flUsrellanv. At York £1,400 has been raised by a bazaar, for ragged schools. The Duke of Atholl has been nominated Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Scotland for the ensuing year. Belmont House, at Portswood, near Southampton, was destroyed by fire on Saturday night last. Great excitement prevails in Edinburgh, on the report of an intention of the Pope to establish a Catholic hierar chy in Scotland. On Wednesday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Lieut.-General Sir John Grey, K.C.8., was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Com pany's forces on the Bombay establishment. LODGINGS AND THE EXHIBITION.—The Mayor of Lei cester has taken a suite of four mows over a grocer's shop in King's-road, Chelsea, at the rent of £lOO for the month of May. After a long and oblivious silence it appears that Mr. Robert Owen, the celebrated Socialist, is about to em bark in a new periodical to advocate his opinions. He is in his eightieth year. Mr. Marshall, who was elected a councillor for St. Mary's Ward, Carlisle, on Saturday week, was seized with inflammation of the bowels on Saturday evening, and at three o'clock on Sunday morning was a corpse. On Friday morning an explosion took place in a colliery at Rises, South Wales, by which three men were killed instantaneously, and eight others severely, some of th em fatally, injured. In the Times' city article, of Friday, the gold raised in California up to Sept. last is estimated at £13,000,000. Of this production, nearly four-fifths have taken place during the present year. The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng land has increased from £16.025,215 to £16,095,516, being a difference o: £70,301. The paper in actual circu lation has decreased from £21,101,602 to £20,594,698, being a difference of £506,907. The Goldsmiths' Company have decided to award the sum of £l,OOO for prizes to be given to those artists of the craft, of the United Kingdom, who can produce works of the highest design and merit, in gold and silver plate, for the Exhibition of 1851. A NOVELTY.—At the Bristol police-court on Tuesday, the jurisdiction of which extends over 200,000 inhabi tants, there was not a single entry on the police charge sheets. The circumstance was noticed in terms of com mendation by the magistrates present. Tha Hull Dock Company have announced that all Packages coming to their docks, i n t en d e d f or t h e G reat Exhibition, will be admitted free of wharfage rates ; and that the warehouseing and forwarding of the articles and goods shall be done at the lowest cost possible. THE FRIMLEY MORDER.—An appeal to the public on behalf of Mrs. Holiest, the widow of the late vicar of Frimley, is made. In addition to the sudden and violent bereavement she has sustained, the widow of Mr. Holiest has been left in very narrow circumstances. Mr. Pennington, a gentleman who for fifteen years past has filled highly important offices in her Majesty's Trea sury, committed suicide on Thursday, in Hyde Park, near the Crystal Palace, by firing the contents of a loaded pistol through his head. No cause is assigned for the act. A few days since a terrier dog was started from the Tiverton Branch Railroad Station, at the same time as a train left for the Junction. The animal soon went ahead of the engine, and kept in advance, the train proceeding at its usual speed, for three miles, when he was stopped, apparently not much fatigued. A TEMPTING OFFER FOR A COMMAND.—It is confi dently reported in military circles that the large sum of £16,000 has been offered by the Major of a Lancer Regi ment, recently quartered here, for the purchase of the Lieutenant-Colonelcy, and refused after two days' deli beration. The highest sum ever given for the purchase of a step was, we believe, £2o,ooo.—Brighton Gazette. A successful trial was made a few days ago at Ports mouth of a new patent musket, which saves one-third of the time in priming and loading, and simplifying the drill exercise. Seventy rounds may be fired in succession without priming; the caps, being placed in a magazine, are acted upon by the motion. of drawing out and re placing the ramrod. THE MAGIC INKSTAND.—In addition to magic stoves and baths we have now a magic inkstand. It consists of a composition which readily yields ink when a few drops of water are poured into the orifice, and is especially adapted for reporters, surveyors, commercial travellers, &c., each inkstand containing two years' supply. After use, it almost immediately becomes dry. The Medical limes contains a notice by Wm. Hinds, M.D., of a case of poisoning by the cyanide of potassium, being, as is supposed, the second case of the kind which has occurred. The account is interesting, especially with reference to some of the symptoms and post-mortem ap pearances after poisoning by this salt, which do not appear to be yet well made out. LUCKY Dm_Am.—The pitmen of Belford Colliery, on Eroceeding one morning last week to their work, at a " sink-shaft," found that the rope wrapped raund the cylinder at the pit-mouth had been cut nearly through in more places than one. It is reported that the wife of one of the pitmen told her husband, on leaving for his work, to examine the rope, for she had dreamed during the night that the rope had been cut.—Newcastle Journal. INCENDIARISM IN BUCKS.—On Monday night last the homestead belonging to a farm occupied by Mr. Benja min llawkes, at Stoke Goldington, near Newport Pagnell, was fired by an incendiary. Eight stacks of wheat, two or three hayricks, and a quantity of other produce, were destroyed in a very short time. The labourers in this parish are receiving from 6s. to 7s. per week wages. STRIKE AT THE BRYMBO COLLIERY.—Upwards of eight hundred hands have turned out at the above colliery for an advance in their wages of 6d. per day ; and no arrangement appears likely to be come to. Lie strike is expected to be general throughout the district, the col liers of several adjacent pits having turned out. The work. turn-outs have illtreated several of those who continue to A NOVEL IMPORTATION.—A correspondent of the Times states, that on the 4th of November inst., nine eases were imported into London, in the steam-boat City of Boulogne, containing 21,000 crucifixes, of different sizes, from one inch to two feet, several thousand figures of the Virgin Mary, and a large quantity of prints of bleeding hearts, &c., besides an immense number of rosaries, probably in anticipation of a large conversion of our population to Romanism. A TIMELY HINT.—It is rumoured that a congregation meeting not a hundred miles from Cheltenham have inti mated to their pasto r th a t th e ti me h as now arrived when Porish tendency can no longer be tolerated. The inti mation is also to the effect that if this gentle hint is not attended to, but the objectionable practices complained of are still persisted in, it is contemplated by the congre gation to sign a roundrobin, declaring their determination to withdraw from the church altogether.—Chellenham THE EXHIBITION OF 1851 AND THE LONDON PRESS.— ' We have received the second number of a new weekly journal called the Expositor," which purports to be "a recorder of inventions, designs, and art manufactures." It is illustrated by beautifully executed %load cuts, and will, during this and next year, devote a rarge portion of its space to illustrating and describing the great exhibi tion. It has intelligent correspondents in the provinces and on the continent, who will from time to time notice all preparations that are being made in their respective localities for the great gathering in Hyde Park, &c. The Darlington Times gives an extract from the will of a genlernan of that town, lately deceased, in which a strong wish is expressed that the mourners who may fol low him to the grave " be dressed in their ordinary manner —no hatbands, no crape, or plumes, or black gloves nor any needless display o f w hi te handkerchiefs." It is added, " I also desire that my widow may not wear ' widow's weeds,' or other outward displa-: of mourning, which tends more to attract notice from the living, than show respect for the dead." . MELANCHOLY SUICIDE By A LADY OF FORTUNE.-011 Thursday an inquest was held at St. Pancras, London, on Miss Matilda Roberts, eged 25. For the last 15 m on th s deceased had been rapidly sinking from consumption, which greatly affected her spirits, so much so that she threatened suicide. Monday night in the temporary absence of her nurse she flung herself out of her bed-room window into the area, a distance of 20 feet, and sustained concussion of the brain which caused her death. DISTRESSING DEATH.—OR the evening of Monday week -Stephen Aston, of Tipton, about fourteen years old, (who it is stated was training to run a " match for a sum of money,") while running by way of practice along the Dudley Road came in contact with a hand-cart, which he did not observe, the evening being dark, when the unfor tunate lad sustained such dreadful injuries in his abdomen that he expired from the effects early on the following morning. COOI:NESS.—WhiIe a man was about to resume his work on the cliffs at Smedmore, in Dorsetshire, where he was extracting shale, he jumped so carelessly on to a particular spot that he lest his equipoise, and fell over the face of the cliff; but as he toppled over he had the presence of mind to throw himself as far from the rocks as possible, and he fell clear upon the beach. The des cent was a hundred feet. When his companions hastened to his aid they found him seated on a rock, coolly en deavouring to re-set his knee-joint, which had been dis located —that was all. TUMULT IN BiRMINGHAM.—Father Cook, one of the Oratorians—an order of monks, of which Mr. Newman is Father Superior—having died, the body was exhibited in the chapel attached to the convent. In the present ex mPiotusthCoolli Colli ery, ex citement of the public mind, great curiosity was evinced the tnelan ntottewnidtninegss e t o h n e u ce g re a m in on a }d m ; iasnsdinnas, anovtasotneer-nfowudrtalisoseflomtcibkiol,esdea The R t o n m in an su Catholicsbecame in enr there the violent;wesrte i e in e t bt a nh p et p t r mh e hieneepn o d Il i i3 ti g eoe Jme intention soon restored order. SUNDERLAND. six o, —On FA Monday ßFUl, COLLIERY ino r morning, g E , xkri aboutl L I eodsoaNn and half-past NEAR many others very was blown to whether any more bodies are down s mmc cl thehrueenaci property ocnbu catastrophe explosion terabrnstoetylrd,os.of f iaimbeLootru t or. otodcifckpoprHunter,utl place yar hcyeaa7rt a dh. I t set H tfAroi o ort u met g mb h eatt t hno ti me en, pits had fallen in in many places, and had e it in the yet shafts. Twenty-six are mine, as the pieces. One horse killed. one o these 143 every eaul mat have perished,l been for m i x tu!-• uP ' D rag . of Sire . 0 rthaaD°',ll9, outside date of the Pontiff of Rome eameeee that that is so will hare great influence over the minds of afford their countrmen and gritiehers ' '''' ... ' .. a . '..l .,,, l.l.gMllijiMM ______----- ~. 0 is unlawful, the knowledge A company is forming in America, vlu °se mi trips 1, olio tP to good, and from supporting wise, and .t prudent men, and may deter them England and Am erica, during t he E x hibition „dell A o 3' tarian feelings prin a g u i d ,z s it s ev . er might be their personal sec- propose to convey passengers to and red, an d ~f lel' ' And further,it be may thought that, triflin in regard to an open uestion. board and lodgings for six weeks, for the Sara " 01 punishment would be, persons possessing th o ugh . gthe lays, not quite £2l. ere t ' SialtE l Sie of cardinals, or the supposed dignity the real dignity THE LATE CHARGE AGAINST n.L.. . to eit• e bishops tenni ' shrink f of archbishops or Tuesday the property taken by , rt from the ignominy or ridicule of rell's the police tro . and the aarge , Jes common fine, or a few weeks' imrison ~ a premises in Barbican, pending returned bi °r ' • able ment. against him at the Mansion-house, was after thp, * The article in the Law Times is a view of the whole of the laws of Englannd an d elaborate re- of the Pollee Commissioners. Immediately Catholics, and is from the pen of George re lating to Roman charge of Mr. Sirrell on Tuesday last, o n tries r , el barrister. H ar ris, Esq., the London charges made against him, 'elessrs•uesvire , el solicitors, made application to the Commissio e v , ic o lice for the restoration of the property seizeds,r.ne, to an interview between Mr. J. G. Lewis a nd M ' dist tbB 0 sel the Chief Commissioner; and the result w aro property, except Borne few articles for sellieVi ts eall t ° applied, was on Tuesday taken back from . Barbican. siec t e time ir, THE MONSTER GLOBE.—We stated som e , . srt i o n , that a monster globe was in course of eliensl u ru naes so Mr. Wyld, M.P., for the exhibition. Ive es preptlrs that considerable progress has been made in ie_ es o f IC. tion. The mountains will be in relief, the reS7 an s the will be shown in all their dazzling rainbow tint.srosent excurs _. ve/ eternal snow-line marked upon the g iant se en l',_ ranges. The courses of great rivers wili b u e ina ll ' ea I threads of silver, the known volcanoes will _ wa ter, a r3 d bright red lights ; the proportions of land (-' t district:, 005, population to territory, and the great trade yin , s lap . lines of commerce, the latter marked by n. l , ° , e iS6fr e ` in diameter, made on ribs of zinc, will be observable at a glance. The globe wi!L . 8 _ oar al' compartments, socketed together with copper% a nd g rense of the globe, independent of the staircases .... leries, will not be less than £4,000. e eloSs s ' i THE POISONING AT CONISCLIFFE MOOR , s. Joh The mystery connected with the death of M r ' `esettef , _ has been considerably removed by additionatis_cosed I which also tends to remove suspicion from ti c" toll h at ' widow. Mary Cleasby, keeper of Conistoa . 4 elf. states that on the Friday week before the de it ' ..855 to Young, he called at the gate and obtaineddaawn' she obi drink from the pump. Through a small win eta ining ° served him take from his pocket a paper Con t hen. white powder, which he put in the gla s t, e d thety ll i pumped some water into the glass and swallTe door , ss s tents. He next sat down on a stone at t) al t ees; began to look ill ; he afterwards vomited se ver eased bad Witness examined the glass from which the dee , the bot tom een drinking, and discovered a white pow der a t ow eer ,h i s of it, which she threw into the fire. I hs, P hir w iw described as corresponding in every WOO 4. ira s arsenic. i nq uesfr a LOVE AND SUICIDE.—On Thursday, an age As held at Lambeth, on the body of EmilY ""•1; a. The late in the service of Mr. Van Buren, at talc e : f the • deceased formed an attachment to a const eothes yOla division, who, being already engaged to a", . j a 5 P,T,1 female, could only see her as a private friend , ran iell each circl , r ; l n e 0 . titully.e . however, of which, she wrote, on a beau ced" card, some verses for the officer, which comnSeeneknor; " You were the first and only one my bosorn e,S'e the And it is my present prayer to live alone for, ) w e en " t to r t. % On Monday last, she left her situation On, inz 90, 5 :., borough, where the o ffi cer was, but, before 0 0 40 9. ~ placed on the window-sill a letter, which ran as i % I OW' the way to Blackfriare-bridge, and, ceive is o t, " Dear Madame,—By the time you re e ser . e t be no more. I am, madame, your unllaPP; ioq urv - e having r each st on to the EMILY Norr." The deceased, after learins e e till; mounted to the top, and plunged head forerno,. the bo b c a t . causeway below. The policeman on duty a ',. hod ~,,(1 saw her fall, and, on heroing to her, found g, , tf ice ''' teed in. He lifted up, when she g roane a ' sra expired. • , • fernie r e so A SINGULAR TRAP.—A Glarnorgansaire ava .1t sportsman, sportsman, better known as Billy.velin.tveneseed .1,, lately returned from America, being much an n a"' ses ibli", foxes, rabbits, &c., on his land, determined 0 4 ' ar 11 1 5 0 ting them. He therefore purchased a large Sink in t 1 , 01 head, which took him about three daes r°,, e3 to ' ° „,,t ground, and it was so ingeniously constructesh tha t 0"s /el l a trap (no doubt a Yankee ingenuity) , tha t a n etbiag I in should be kept there; but, unfortunately,. s o ther an in for some time but a poor fellow vale " 0 OP a 's nuts from a tree above, when the branch go o be ae at. he was precipitated into the trap—Passi n g fr° s to Il le t e d• light to utter darkness. He exerted his lung- e ,t r icis its most for some hours, and at length lie wa s ois ing r ° o f At the last Neath fair Billy b oug ht thre ' Pr () ; for l e t of and, on his return h ome , was offered 17 1 1 ; core' u old them, which he refused, and desirous of be e r t t e troP - . be them, he placed them in what course be colic few d7 r itti (forgetting the trap); and e in the o ft , a l liis fa yo , , , eiti , had occasion to go and inspect the colts, but A l i W l ' big was missing. One day, as he was goinF, theretel7ere, to lire, and passing near the old " cask-tral 3 e heeing all ill' great astonishment, beheld the colt, in a -.. hiro ' .--* quite deal, the cask being too small to adin"oan ore He had sacrificed his life in the trappe r's ovr 0 Cambrian. dis ri f „ hu sbon „ n o A CANDID APPEAL.—A wife, whose •• at - the undergoing a sentence of trersportation f o s elit hial tso years in one of the hulks at Woolwich, ha es o,- - I y our foltowing consoling letter :—" Dear hus7nes t o oat this opportunity of addressing these fe w e leave s 'id ° hoping to find you in good health, as " j a nt g e bet' present, that :k God for it. Dear husband, I f or Or an d change my line of life, and I hope it will b „ e ei rrie th t est ter. I must tell yo u th a t l am go ing to g e t - , 1 100 ba so hope that you will have no objection, far PI ) „l i t 1° e ill, you have not behaved to me as a hu sb and e e ll i'ee t ed e r e' s to advice, and they told me that I had done; both you and your family have as eu a nyr7thei r but everybody knows that I never gave Ya u to a 5 „o th e r ill-treat me. I have been to the overse e net e el as gee ow' 1,3 husband, as I did not expect that you w •,. 00r , call b e tter i l ever C Ake home again. You need not fret t eaabou I" or ,_ st a y, ise yourself in the least alarmed at what I . be par - esb• assure you it is true. The overseers of of see Ps e el going to give the man £lO to take me a nt w eddinf s liel! I have invited your b ro th er Robert to th e , st es• p lea I wish you was at h ome t o ma ke one arnone yea ~,,,D e tell you—the man's name is Williarn ---- ;id ever - so I conclude, and still you remain you not forget me for all that; and if you s,b ° ea me' •se- . " where 111 am, I hope you will call an d seenate.;l7o2l - area /111 k, 1 CATHERINE. To William --, Gan} bas i stie ri wich.''—Manchester Spectator. has ' lr ' s ing Mr. B. HAWES, Under Colonial Secretareio o f es bate to the Globe, in reply to a charge again s s i t v ! / se snaal r esq assisted at a public dinner given to p ie r- ' ees : a :-"'"Xol ous to his departure from Rome- " e "s - iseraa nl ted t i long enjoyed the friendship of Cardinal A eing ere of 0 , was Dr. Wiseman's expectation), hope long to enjoy it. Upon his first h pectfitlieM cardinal, and leaving England, under the " know s D ig residing abroad for many years (which to nlaYesiend of yin tha t k of and mine called upon me, and informeassrne rna ‘ ra to Wisernan's friends intended to offer him s " tly invu e d oe thor regard and respect. I was s ubset; n ge b e e cd r ° 'tat the meeting, and I attended it. I was ° t he ite e e se ttle grounds alone upon which I attend ed _„ .oe , tb_, as and to say, that if I could be permitted to °, l % ! s e s erei t ! t ee spect I entertained, as a Protestant, for pr . p relate Ci t t est a most excellent, charitable, and learned _. ba _ t ee Roman Catholic Church, I was ready to do I reo , o e r tiog it was impossible for me to concur in the a r t rbe , 105 4te d resolutions, for very obvious reasons. , i con tra' el l andof 9 d unanimously acquiesced in my view, state „ ii ire , my mite of respect to even the Pr' ' oo d add sea s ' church, whose worth and excellence I kne` or to Pa - eses and whose; friendship I think it an hn,n2 er t he ma s ins For the part I took on that occasion, anq Su sse d to t l _ der which actuated me, I shall not even c 0nq5_7 11 %,.." l iso , '; e9 ire dication. Nor shall I from any fear of ".. or 01% 0 0 stood, abate my admiration of good nien , e ' et herts a cornme, is to share in the promotion of good works , w" Par Catholic or Protestant." ~The 'oat ~.c , oi. e arl , SNAILS AND THE ELECTRIC TELE..'' ives a ~, 3.1.• correspondent of the Literary Gazette u g,_, isb o s e e x if itt account of a discovery which has been P l u r ` e bee _ l dol s Jules Alix in feuilletons of La Freese, Pnt L ee '' s sesP7 e ith personal communication with M. Alix, I ti eartirids:iees t' of the Literary Gazette, obtained full ,p ch he . r een ters. details of a very strange phenomenon, „,nee w' in en is ot some length, and also thus epitomizes :--- e 3 e, nef or icte or discoverers of the alleged marvel arf e a t o rASSl st wor the department of the Henault, and a 3 .1 . - 125 :r in ' en tal!r: cr ies After many years" observation and exe certain d e ` ins , they, it is asserted, have ascertained that or sYn 3l) . W ee tionsch cause of snailsthe possess peculinoar pmatteropertriea mt hat s hs wiree whica w mo tion , ne tic they may be, the same sensation or seee an d l eag eo i o g acted on in a particular way b y gal vv ii . ':_, tha t or 1 o u r o f influences. Placed in boxes in such a 3 Y the cr rat cerr touched they agitate particular letters, the Ain 0 a s o. only to make snail A give a kick, alio. ' the hark w°° na se' responding box—which box may be in _ e a foo America or the deserts of Africa—repeats Vi snails sn ai t or on for every letter of a required word. . ac i o lu__,„ en ice s e ie e of course previously be put in sympatheti which 0 s s iS l a and the boxes with all their apparatus, which she ;es complicated, must be alike. The shock r Si. in box 2 feels is said to be caused by an elect s),r„ ral,'_ l . it netic fluid, carried by the earth with extr a ao a r er ss eros is re ty, and in a manner unknown to man ; 1 ~"'e eei se• , e e is the electric telegraph without the connec tin g via. hell e have often heard of the " snails' iallop,' b ut At f sto r idea it was so fast a pace as this. A t the village? to pbe POISONING IN LINCOLNSHME. - - Fl o ; 11.. near Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire, Mr.. L' . d den ',,,, and his wife were seized with al ~,, is ms Page, a farmer, breakfast on Thursday moroll 3 ? „tog' ness shortly after h 1 e sYn l re bet . Mrs. Page died in less than an . our ; and t 1 co of ~, were so clearly indicative of poison as the ei“. 1 1 ., doSe et , death, that an inquest was held on the folitowy bo tb 1 1 1• 10 Mr. George Smith, a surgeon, who had attende o f bodY to sufferers, and had subsequently examined the , ont ee 4 decease& stated the grounds on which he 1 1313 ',. a a be% the conclusion that white mercury or arsenic.rael), ce p the cause of death ; and his evidence was " t h i n esd te firmed by that of another medical witness w sns ith 9 ` , sisted in the post mortens examination. M r ' s , PO P stated, that some weeks ago he had assisted As boiling mercury and arsenic for sreeping. ~"4 - cultural purposes, an d th a t a portion of., t e l l used was prese rve d i n an i ron pot, an d °- granary. He added that after , the death the conduct of the servant girlie the house, into ee ley, excited his suspicions, aw e h e g ave _e ei 0 e The constable who had apprehended the gir:•rl, i ll 'qt examined, and it appeared from him that the;_ l fess ieto diately upon her being arrested, had made a n f e d 1 74 this effect :—" Last Saturday m y mistress ~-_, w orn.of killed a fowl. I told her I had not. Yester s t!as s e 6 ,0_ 0 I took some mercury from an iron pot that t r . °7 aid o r :ej the back door, and put it into the coffee.po tit wa:cf, think it would have killed her; I only thole . . c ot e 0( have made her badly." The girl, who was T. s s utl a id being interrogated by . the coroner, admitted t_ . 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