The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-22 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. AMERICA AND CALIFORNIA The United States mail steamer Franklin, Captain J. A. Wotton (the pioneer of the new American line of steamships between New York and Havre, via South ampton) arrived off Cowes on Friday at 7 30 a.m., having - sailed from New York on the afternoon of the sth inst. After transhipping the English mails she proceeded on ler voyage to Havre, with about 50 passengers. The Franklin has experienced heavy easterly weather during her passage, which has occupied 121 days, the distance from New York to Cowes being 3,156 miles, or about 72 miles more than that from New York to Liver pool. This vessel is apparently a fine specimen of Ame rican naval architecture. She is 2631 feet tong, with a breadth of beam of 42 feet, and depth of hold of 26 feet. Her floor is flat. and the tonnage. according to American ister, is 2,196, equal to nee 2 500 tons British measurement. A full figure of Franklin ornaments the bow. The stern is circular. The vessel is propelled on the paddle wheel principle by two colossal side lever engines, with 98-inch cylinders, of 8 feet stroke. The nominal power of these engines is 800-horse power, but they are capable of being used effectively to 1,200 horse power. The wheels are - 33 feet in diaineter. A n !vel feature in the Franklin is, that she is warmed throughout with steam flues supplied by an independent boiler, which serves also to work the pumps, and two steam elevators . . for raising the ashes from the furnace rooms. The cabin arrangements are similar to those of the Cunard steamers, as are those also of the lower saloons and sleeping-cabins, the dining-saloons being on deck and differing from the English steamers only in being carried through to the stern windows. The Humboldt, the consort to the Franklin, but of larger tonnage, was launched at New York on the sth inst., and will take her place on the line in about three months. The steam-ship Alabama arrived at New Orleans on the 3rd of October from Chagres, with dates from San Francisco to the Ist of September. The news was highly favourable, the accounts from the gold regions being very encouraging. The city of Sacramento had not been destroyed, as was reported by the last mail, and peace had been fully restored after several lives were lost. The steame . - at New York with the Californian mails. The Cherokee arrived from Chagres with gold dust value 1,005,920 dols. During the night of the 2nd instant the steamship Southerner ran down the bark Isaac Mead, from Sayan nib, bound to New York, with a valuable cargo ; the latter sank in less than five minutes after the collision, and 24 persons were drowned, about 25 being saved by er, that many was so slightly felt on of the cabin passengers did not go on del The Roman Cat holic Archbishop of .Canada died at Quebec on the 4th instant. The Texas papers state that the Governor was about to issue a proclamation submitting the proposition of Con gress for the settlement of the territorial difficulty. The Indians had ceased their plundering operations in the in- terior. The cotton crop in Texas was good, but was suf fering from drought in the western section of the State. Jenny Lind sang in Havard-hall, Providence (Rhode Island), after leaving Boson. This edifice will hold only 1,880 parsons. The first ticket fetched 650 dols. 25 dols. higher than was paid in Boston, and 425 dols. higher than was paid for the first New York ticket. Messrs. Gas.ets, Balch, and Co., an extensive dry goods house, of Boston, suspended payment on the 3rd instant, with liabilities to between 300,000 dols. and 4,000,000 dols. The Merchants' Hotel at B burned down an the 4th instant. It was said to be likely that Frederick Douglass would be apprehended under the new Fugitive Slave Bill, unless prevail 'among the coloured population op-ration of the law, and large public me solutions advising resistance to were passed. A vast number of fugitive slaves escaping into the British North American possessions The town of Carbondale had been visited by a con flagration, which destroyed property to the value of 100,000 dots. , rnment offi I;erters from Buenos Ayres of the 24th July, received a severe gale, in which many vessels were driven on shore. Great damage was also done at Monte Video. arrived in the Mersey at half-past nine on Sunday night, with advices from New York to the 9th instant. The Cambria arrived at Boston on the 3d instant. The Niagara has 5300,000 in specie on fre'2 - ht. The steam-ship Hermann, from Southampton, arrived at New York on the morning of the 9th instant. The Lotus, from Bremen, went ashore on Carritucket Island on the 2nd instant. Our accounts from Washington are unimportant. E. H. Bulwer had denied the assertion that he had ende r voured to procure the recal Great alarm prevailed amongst the coloured population of the northern cities, and hundreds had fled to Canada. San Francisco accounts of Sep. 1, state that the pros pects of commerce were auspicious. Rich fruits were being yielded by the mines and quartz rocks. From Canada, Jamaica, Havannab, &c., we have later dates, but no details of note. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE The exchange market is firm, with good demand. Sterling money is at 104 to 1, ; francs, 5 182 to 5 17i. Bills on Amster dam, 401 to 41 ; Hamhurgh, 35i to 36. At the close sterling was freely offered at 104. Bremen, 80 to 804. The supply of money is very abundant, and loans are negotiated with facility at 5 to 6 per cent. on good stocks, and still lower on Govern ment securities. Paper of good quality is scarce, and second class is taken cautiously. First class goes at 6to 7 per cent. freely, and the demand exceeds the supply. Cotton is very buoyant, and some sales have been made at an improvement. About 9,000 bales sold to-day. Middling WI. is quoted at 14a to 142 cents. per pound. Breailstuffs.—The flour market is rather easier for low grains. There is less doing for export, but fair for home trade. Wheat.—There is not an active business, and the market is rather easy. The market for corn is easier, heavy, and quiet. sales are 15,000 bushels. Provisions.—ln pork there is more doing. The sales are 1,000 barrels, at 8 dollars 371 cents for prime; 10 dollars 81 cents to 10 dollars 871 cents for mess. There is but little action in beef, but the market is easier. Lard is rather easier. Iron.—Sellers at 16 dollars 25 cents and 20 dollars 25 cents six months for Scotch pig, with sale of 150 to 200 tons. Eng lish bars are dull, at 15 dollars to 35 dollars 50 cents. Ashes inquired for, with sales at 5 dollars 871 cents to 6 dol lars 12/ cents for pots and pearls. Freights are quiet at 16d. for flour and Id. for cotton. About 8,003 barrels and 1,000 bales were engaged at these figures. Simile dead weight was taken at 15d. to 20d., and 4,000 bushels at 4d. 'To London cheese was taken at 30s. NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 7. Cotton is firm and the advance is fully sustained. The sales to-day were 2,050 bales fair at Hi. THE WEST INDIES On Saturday the mail steam-ship Thames arrived at Southampton with the usual West India and Pacific mails, forty-one passengers, and specie to the value of about £250,310 on merchants' account, (none for divi dend,) two packages of pearls, and a valuable freight of general merchandise. Our dates are,—Havana, 22d ; Chagres, 24th ; Hondu ras, 19th ; Jamaica, 28th • Demerara, 27th ; Trinidad, 27th ; Barbadoes, 29th ; and Grenada, 28th September ; Porto Rico, Ist.; and St. Thomas's, 2d October. Our advices state, that the prospects of the next year's crops were good, and the islands healthy. From Jamaica we learn that the cotton experiment was fully under weigh. The amount deemed necessary had been sub -scribed, the preliminaries agreed upon, and a committee appointed to manage affairs. A site had been chosen for sowing the seed, and it was expected that it would be planted before the close of the year. Barbados advices state, that the weather during the fortnight•hßd been calm and sultry. Heavy showers had fallen, •‘ith but partial effect, having been confined to a marrow locality, in consequence of the entire absence of the trade winds. Nevertheless, the face of the country was luxuriant, and an immense crop of sugar was expected by the most experienced planters. FLOGGING IN THE AMERICAN NAVY. —2,201 lashes were administered on board the United States' sloop-of war Albany, which lately arrived at Boston after a cruise of about 21 months.—New York Tribune. _ _ The cholera at Malta is greatly on the decline, and by private letters from Sir W. Parker's fleet at Port "Mahon, we are informed that the cholera had totally disappeared on board all the ships. The government at Malta do not intend to issue any more bulletins of the cholera. A deputation of English Roman Catholics has been pre sented to the Pope by Cardinal Wiseman to thank " His Holiness" for having elevated their " distinguished coun tryman" to the dignity of Cardinal. The Pope conversed a long time with them, and at parting bestowed on each of them his " anostolical benediction." _ DARING BAiLcON ASCENT.—On Sunday, the Ura nus, the balloon belonging to M. Poitevin, ascended from the Hippodrome, carrying, in addition to the aeronaut, three young women, who were suspended from the car. They had wings affixed to their shoulders, and appeared as if . flying in the air. After being about an hour in the air the aeronauts alighted in safety.--Paris paper. ANOTHER ROMTSH WONDER.—In the neighbourhood of the Grande Chartreuse, in the Alpine department of the Isere, in France, the other day, a poor woodman found himself in the dead of night on a narrow foot-bridge face to face with a huge Bruin, who had long struck ter ror into the whole neighbourhood. What was to be done The poor man knew as little of mesmerism as Harriet Martineau's cowman, before he was enlightened by his mistress ; but he had faith in the saints, and he called on St. Bruno, who, in the twinkling of an eye, made his appearance, and, kicking old Bruin over the bridge, made a safe passage for the woodman. The story is as well attested as Miss Martineau's, who, we trust, will, for once in her life, confess herself fairly outdone. TIIE FORREST DIVORCE CASE.—Penciller Willis has, it appears, brought an action against Mr. Forrest for the assault upon him, the damages being limited to the mo derate amount of 10,000 dollars. Some solemn and long winded affidavits, in reference to the charge, are published in the New York Herald. Mr. Forrest alleges as provo cation, that " the plaintiff pursued a system of secret and stealthy intercourse with the wife of the defendant; that worthy and criminal liberties, and availed himself of arts and address which he had acquired in foreign society to alienate her affections from her husband ; that during the time and times last aforesaid, his conduct towards the defendant was uniformly treacherous, cowardly, and false." Mr. Willis's reply to all this is a denial, and a statement that Mr. Forrest's plea is quite irrelevant to DREADFUL MURDER OF TWO Bo s.—The last steamer from America has brought the following particulars of a revolting murder at Albany. on the 4 , 11 instant:—On Saturday, two little boys, aged 6 and 7 years, children of George Lester, of New Scotland, in Albany County, left the house for the purpose of playing. After they had been absent about an hour, Mrs. Lester, their aunt, went out to look for them, but could not find them. Nothing _ longed, their relatives became alarmed Search was again made, but without success. Morning came, and yet the children did not appear. The neighbours were aroused, and a party of 200 or 300 commenced a search. All efforts were unsuccessful for several days. They again commenced searching, and the body of the youngest was discovered near a creek, within GO rods of the house, in a gully, covered with leaves, and a heavy stone resting on his head and chest. The place had been frequently crossed while prosecuting the search, but nothing calcu lated to excite suspicion was anywhere visible. The body of the eldest child was found 80 rods from the house, in an opposite direction from the spot where the youngest A stick or club had also been used The jury rendered, as a verdict, " That David L. Lester and George Lester came to their deaths by injuries inflicted by Reuben Dun bar and other persons unknown." Great excitement pre vailed in the town, and, could Dunbar have been found, personal violence would have resulted. Dunbar is a step son of David Lester, the uncle of the children ; and, as they have property, mercenary motives are supposed to have induced the commission of the crime. Dunbar, who lodged in gl AN AWKWARD ADVENTURE occurrence of a few days aeo —ROME, OCTOBER 5. has so amused our little ,lisp circle in Rome, and is altogether so absurd, that lam induced to mention it. An English gentleman just arrived, and now living with his wife at one of our best hotels, after a good dinner sallied out to smoke a cigar and survey the " City of the Soul." A bright moon sug gested the Coliseum, and thither he bent his lonely steps, skirting the Palatine, the Palace of the Caesars, and the Augustan Halls, 2.nd musing in silent sadness on all around ; holding sweet converse with his own soul and Byron, as served up by Murray. It is difficult to say to ing himself for the first time in such a place as the Coll such an hour, had not his grand and gloomy reveries been interrupted by the sound of footsteps hastily approaching him from behind. He turned round and beheld the figure of a man attired in the garb of a priest, who had issued from one of the " rents of ruin," and who passed him so closely as to rub against his shoulder in so doing. The figure in black had almost disappeared beyond the Arch of Constantine, when honest John Bull bethought him of his watch ; and;feeling for it, found not what he sought. A moment's reflection determined him to follow the Wily priest, until he came up with him in an open space where lurkers might not be hid : so, pouncing upon his man, he demanded the restitution of his property. The priest understood no English, and our friend no Ita lian, but as a substitute for the language our countryman showed his fists : and, pointing to the watch-pocket of the other, made him so well understood that the terrified and trembling ecclesiastic a' . once surrendered the watch, which satisfied his antagonist, who returned home. On recounting the affair to his lady, however, he was not a little astonished when she pointed to his own watch lying on his dressing-table, which he had left behind him -on going out. He drew forth the other from his pocket, and a glance showed him that, without intending it, he had been guilty of a highway robbery. On going to the police the next day with a friend to explain the business, he found that the priest, well known in Rome, had already been there and deposed that, on taking his usual " consti tutional," after the heat of the day, he had been accosted by a " Garribaldisto Inglese," and by threats and menaces been obliged to deliver up his watch. seum at IRELAND. -.- On Sunday evening, as W. H. Kenney, J.P., of Rock savage, in the county of Monaghan, was passing from his drawing-room into the hall, he was fired at from without, and his shoulder grazed by two or three shots. Several other shots were found in the hall. On Monday, as Mr. Thomas Lawler, an extensive fo reign merchant belonging to Cork, was in the act of step ping into a railway carriage at that town, he fell into the carriageway and instantly expired. He had a large esta blishment in Barbadoes, and had at the time £20,000 worth of goods on shipboard at Liverpool. A MURDER IN IRELAND.—Dennis Kearin, a boy of eleven years of age, was forced to start at five o'clock in the morning, on " a very bad day," for a walk of fourteen Trish miles, " cold and hnngry," to be inspected by a board of guardians. On his way home in the even ing he said he waS " losing his sight" from hunger : they had not fed him at either workhouse, and he, at last, fell dead from inanition. If we are under any protection of the law—if our Christianity is not a mockery of Him who taught us to love and protect the young- of His Father's creation— the sense and justice of the country shall yet see that there is punishment in reserve for those whose careless cruel inhumanity caused that child of eleven to wander on, till blinded by pain he staggered, screamed, and died on the road side. SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—A letter from Castlebar, dated the 13th of October, contains some curious revelations : " Mr. Commissioner Curran held a court here yesterday for the relief of insolvent debtors. There were thirteen applicants seeking to be discharged under the Insolvent Act, but they were of a class of persons totally different from those who usually appear in courts of this descrip tion. 'One is a landed proprietor, whose rental was esti mated at from £2,000 to £3,000 per year, and he is also a deputy-lieutenant and magistrate of this county. An other is or was an extensive Government contractor, who some years since purchased a considerable estate in this county, and was supposed to be very wealthy. A third is a landed proprietor and justice of the peace, possessing a _small estate in the neighbourhood of this town. A fourth is a landed proprietor and magistrate of this county, and an extensive grazing farmer; and the fifth is •one of the oldest and most upright magistrates of the county, the owner of a small estate, and also a very exten sive grazing and tillage farmer. The case of this gentle man excited considerable interest in court because of his age (upwards of 70 years) and his unblemished character. THE TRUE CONDITION OF IRELANE.—A parliamentary return presents us with a statement of the agricultural condition of Ireland for the three years 1847-48-49. From these it appears that the breadth of land under crop con tinues to increase. In the year 1849 the increase in legu minous crops was no less than 56,535 acres—an increase of nearly 2 per cent. on the preceding year. In green crops, as we find by the returns, the increase was 16,687 acres, or nearly in the same proportion. A few of the counties is which the increase took place merit particular mention, as Tyrone, Mayo, Roscommon. There is equality of extent between the two years 1848-42 in Gal way, Fermanagh, Kerry, and Meath. On the other hand, it is matter of comfort to find that during the year 1849, as compared with the previous year, the total decrease of the potatoe crop reached the sum of 86,841 acres. Hap pily the counties in which there had been any increase of the cultivation of the potato were almost exclusively Situ ated in the north-west, the district of all others in which the destruction of the crop would be least sensibly felt. With regard, again, to the rates of produce, it is authori tatively stat e d i n the returns that, with the exception of two or three localities of very limited extent, "the average on the entire kingdom for 1849 was only in one instance below that of 1848 ; in every other case the rates of pro duce were equal to, or above, the ;previous year." The variations in the quantities of stock are singular. It had been stated that during the starving time so great was the stress upon the cottiers that the pigs had been killed or had died of starvation throughout the length and breadth of Ireland. The absence of the family pig was the best illustration of the extrme misery to which the Irish peasant had been reduced. The argument was unanswer able at the time, but we novr . fina that in the year 1849 there were 139,202 more pigs id firelatzd than du r i ng th e pre ceding year. The number O f cattle has i ncrease d 1), INDIA AND CHINA The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship oriental, which arrived at Suez on the 6th instant, brings intelligence from Bombay to September 17 ; Calcutta, September 7 ; Singapore, September 2 ; and Hong Kong, August 24. There was a total dearth of political news. The profoundest tranquillity reigned throughout India. The works on the Calcutta Railway had been commenced. Sir Charles Napier was to begin his homeward journey from Simla on the sth of November. The Governor 'General was to return from Konawur to Simla at the end ,of September, after which it was expected he would visit , the Punjaub. Sir II Lawrence is said to have been de •tained prisoner in Cashmere; but the report was consi tiered doubtful. A mutiny had broken out among some of the Nizam's native troops. The cholera was still pre valent in Scinde, Mooltan, and some other districts. Ac counts from Singapore stated that Sir James Brooke had sailed for Siam on the 3rd of August. The Indian and iChinese.zeas were still infested with pirates. The intelligence from China is unimportant. The health .of the troops in Hong Kong was improving. The differ .ences between the Chi...ese and Portuguese at Macao had slot beat arranged. the arrival of th e William Edward, ad vices have been rece i ved from :Ri o J ane i ro to the 23rd of August inclusively. The accounts confirm the report of the disappearance of the fever at Rio Janeiro ; and the -health of the city was said to be quite restored. Her Majesty's steamer Harpy, tende r to the fl ag - s hi p South ampton,-50, went into Guarapanon the 21st August, and took the ~Brazilian . schooner , Fe i tice i ra, which she con ducted to.the entrance of Rio Janeiro., whence the prize was ordered hy Admiral Reynolds to besent to St. Helena for adjudication. Mr. 4fudson, the British charge d'af faires. had presented his credentials to the Emperor, and bad been well received. The demand for colonial pro duce was very brisk, and as the intercourse with the in terior was no longer interrapted, an increased demand for our articles of import was experienced. A private in the 56th Regiment of the Line was sentenced to death by court-martial in Paris on Tuesday for having struck a corporal. A young girl, Mademoiselle Torero Taures, has been 'risking a great sensation at Rome by' her performanceson the violoncello ! The fugitive slaves in Boston are packing up and flying in all directions. Some bloodshed will arise out of the new law for delivering them over to their masters. Letters ,from Rome of the 4th announce the arrival there of Monsignor Morangiu, Archbishop of Cagliari, exiled by . the Piedmontese Government. Monsignor Franzoni al.so?Ripected there. Y The great rallwfai from St. P e t ers b urg to lii - licow, 56 , 39 ; "on the other hand, hoWee have decreased 13,363, upon which immense umbers of wo r k men are ernpioved and sheep 182,551. Th e conso lidiAkin of farms f urn i s h e s at different points, .haesdvanced so rapidly th a t i t i s ex.. , a satisfactory explanati o n of the fo,Nner decrease. The petted that the w hole ,tins will be open e d d ur i ng t h e en- 1 dimjnntiOn /4 the number of sheep is a L'or 6 tulhateiligibie suing yam. . ' i fad. THE LINERPOOL STANDARD. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. ---.....- The Rev. Daniel Wilson, vicar of Islington, has denied that he has ever received any monition from the Bishop of London. _ _ It is again stated that Southwark is to be created into an episcopal see, for which purpose the dioceses of Lon don and Westminster are to be subdivided. _ _ The Dean of Elgin has seceded to the Church of Rome. Dr. Maclaurin will be succeeded by the Rev. T. Mackay, of Inverness. The Protestants of Exeter are making an effort to de fray the legal expenses incurred by the Rev. G. C. Gor ham against the proceedings of the Bishop of Exeter. The Rev. James Haworth, M.A., has been collated by the Lord Bishop of Chester, to the United Perpetual Curacy and Church of Saint Michael with Saint Olave, Chester. The presentation► to the perpetual curacy of Selby, now vacant, has lapsed to the University of Cambridge, in consequence of the disqualification of the patron, who is a Roman Catholic. The Bishop of Llandaff has been administering the rite of confirmation to several candidates in his 'diocese in Welsh and English ; the former to the astonishment of a congregation at Glyntaff and St. David's, Merthyr Tydvil. THE CHURCH QUESTION.—The meeting held on Tues day at Martin's-hall, in reference to the Church, was con fined to members of " the Landon Union on Church Matters ;" and no other persons, whether clergymen or laymen, were admitted. The object of the meeting was " to consider the resolution adopted by the Bristol Church Union," declining to accept a declaration of faith over and above the existing formularies of the English Church. The application of reporters to •be present for the purpose of making the discussion public was refused. The meet ing lasted above four hours. The Rev. C. W. Page was in the chair, and Dr. Pusev, Dr. Mill, and Mr. Keble were present. We are informed that on the motion of Mr. A. J. B. Hope, M.P., aresolution was unanimously agreed to similar to that adopted by the Bristol Church Union. An arnendmenv, we learn, had been proposed to the meeting, but was withdrawn, after a speech from Dr. Ptrey, which has been published. WHAT IS " CATHOLIC DOCTRINE ?"—There is, again, another fallacy in the use that is made of the words, " Catholic doctrine." Where is Catholic doctrine to be found, and how is it to be ascertained ? All that is meant by the phrase is, that the individual has endeavoured to cull it for himself out of the pages of history, and has exercised his own private judgment upon that which he and adopt at second hand what others have selected, which will be still further from Catholic truth, being warped and polluted by the mediaeval corruptions. A case in point is now before us: for both Mr. Bosanquet and Dr. Croly have appealed to the same passage and the very same words in Justin Martyr, in maintenance of opposite doctrines, which they both call the " Catholic doctrine." And if an appeal was made to such a convo- by this means what we ought to regard as the Catholic doctrine we feel persuaded that the result would be that everything which tended to nourish a dry, cold, formal, spirit in the priesthood—everything which countenanced an intolerant, domineering, or bigotted spirit in the epis copal exercise of authority, would be repudiated by a lame majority of the merabers of the Church of England. —Church of England Quarterly Review. ULTRA PROTESTANTISM.—The true state of the case is this : you have, by the exercise of your own private judgment, formed a system neither Anglican nor wholly Romish, to which you have given the names of `• Catholic truth," " Church principles," and other high-sounding the exercise of your ecisions you are, Having determined, b 5 ludgment, what is the true orthodox faith Of "the Chu;chbniversal," you impose the creed you have thus formed upon the Church of Eng land as part of that Church, and put her Formularies upon the rack to express it. Instead of looking simply at the Formularies of faith and worship of our Church, and endeavouring to understand their intended meaning by the history and writings of the Reformation era, you constrain them to speak the sense of an ideal system of . . . And both 'the Sovereign and the Primates are to be de posed from the seat of authority, to give place to a club of private individuals seeking to establish their private dogmas as the exclusive doctrine of our Church. In fact ultra-F .- 4 to suci Protestantism was never carmen _a an extent ds it now is by the Tractarian party, who have made their private judgement on "Church principles" and "Catholic truth" their sole rule and guide.-11.om Mr. Goode's Reply to Archdeacon Manning. 8(c. PUsEY.—The speech of this gentleman at the meeting on Tuesday has been published. It would oc cupy more than two of our columns, but its reasoning may, unhappily, be very briefly given. Dr. Pusey objects to the "test" as by the law of the land ille - gat, and as being contrary to a great moral law. He also contends that it is superfluous, all the members being already sworn members of the Church of England. And finally, 1•e contends that it is unnecessary. He admits that many of them are " suspicious and suspected ;" but he says " suspicion was as rife twelve years ago as now ; and the Guardian prints in capital letters the declaration of Dr. Pusey that "he had no misgivings" of the Church of England, and that if nothing would convince his oppo nents of this, "death in the bosom of the Church of England will." In answer to the argument that it is necessary to obtain a profession of " adherence to the distinctive doctrines of the Church of England," Dr. Pusey says "The Church of England has, of course, no distinctive doctrines." As to the doctrine of justifica tion by faith only, he quotes Le Blanc, " that rightly understood, the statements of the moderate writers among the Roman Catholics and the reformed man the same thing." And he adds " I believe most entirely that on the doctrines of original sin and justification, the English articles and the Council of Trent present different aspects of the same truths." THE PEW QUESTION AT YEOVIL—This vexata questio, which promised fair to be a fruitful source of contention in this town, has been brought to a sudden and unex pected termination by the interference of the Bishop, who has peremptorily ordered the Churchwardens to seat all the parishioners who may require seats in the parish church immediately. The following is a copy of the letter sent by his Lordship's direction to the Churchwardens ^— Wells, October 8, 1850 , Gentlemen,—l am directed by the Lord Bishop of Dath and Wells to inform you that he has received a complaint from a person of the name of Thomas Dauncey, a resident in your parish, that lie is without any seat or pew in the parish church for himself and family, consisting of four persons; that lie pays a considerable sum annually in the shape of rates; that there are many pews unoccupied, but claimed, as private pro perty, by persons not resident in the parish ; and that lie has made application to you to seat him and his family, but that hitherto you have neglected to do so. His Lordship desires me to say that this being the second case brought before him of a like abuse, he feels it incumbent on him to put an end to it ; he therefore orders and directs that you do, without de'ay, place Mr. Thomas Dauncey and his family in a seat suitable to their station ; and that you do also appropriate every seat now occupied or claimed by persons not resident in your parish, for the use and accommodation of those who are resident ; so that, as far as it is practicable, every one resident in your parish may be seated according to his station. His Lordship desires to be informed, within ten days from this date, that you have complied with this peremptory order. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, EDMUND DAVIES, To the Churchwardens of Yeovil In obedience to the command of the 'Bishop, the churchwardens have issued the following notice to the parishioners:— _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ YEOVIL CHURCH.—The Churchwardens of St. John's Parish having received instructions from the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, to appropriate the pews in the church to the use of such parishioners as may require church accommodation, hereby give notice that they are ready to receive applications for sit tings, and that they will proceed to appropriate such pews and sittings as may be vacant, amongst the applicants, on the 7th instant. W. V. MATTHEWS, } Churchwardens . WM. SYMES, Yeovil, October 10th, 1850. LAW INTELLIGENCE. The jury, in an action just tried at Romford, have re turned a verdict of £3l against the Eastern Counties Company, for injury - sustained by Mr. Henderson, a soli citor, while entering a train, in consequence of there being no lights at the Forest-gate station—a deficiency which has since been supplied. . ELECTIONEERING SERVICES.--DWYER V. SIR A. W. lIILLEARY, BART.—This was an action tried last week, at the Westminster County Court, to recover £6 6s. for work and labour performed by the plaintiff for the de fendant, in preparing and transcribing an address to the electors of the county of Limerick, upon the vacancy created in the representation of that county by the con viction of Mr. Wm. Smith O'Brien. It appeared from the plaintiff's account, that the plaintiff had been for twenty seven years foreign correspondent to a morning paper (Post), and after fulfilling his duties as corres pondent during the civil war in Spain, upon his return to England was introduced by Dr. Williams to the defen dant, as being a gentleman whose literary qualifications and attainments would be of service to the defendant, who desired to become a candidate. They all three met at the Reform Club, and the plaintiff got his instructions, and drew up an-address to the electors, with which the defen dant expressed himself exceedingly well pleased, observing that should it not be of service now, it might come in another time—as it expressed his great regard for the Irish people. Upon speaking to Dr. Williams for pay. ment, that gentleman said Hilleary is very much pressed for :noney, and you must wait. Sir Augustus Hilleary said Mr. Dwyer was about publishing a work, the Court of Rome, and wished him to advance £l5O to carry out his object. He told Mr. Dwyer if he could get a mort gage upon some property he had at Marseilles he would lend him that sum. Subsequently he met the plaintiff, upon his desire to start for the county of Limerick, and certainly spoke to him upon the subject. The only pro mise he had held out to the plaintiff was to take him with him to Ireland as his electioneering agent, thinking that the tender to advance him £l5O sufficient payment for a few lines he-wrote for him. He positively denied entering into any contract written, verbally, or implied. Sir Augustus put in a number of letters, which had passed between the three parties concerned. Several held out hopes to Sir Augustus, that if he advanced the £l5O for the Court of Rome, and distributed 150 copies of the work amongst the Catholic clergy of Limerick, it would ensure his election, as Mr.. Dwyer would write such an eulogy upon the partriotistn of Sir Augustus, in the preface to the work, that woold convince the electors they could do nothing better thin? support the " English Baronet." (Loud laughter). On Thursday, the Learned Judge went through the evidence great length, and concluded by saying, that the only trastion he had to de cide was, whether the ( defendant had Authorised the plain tiff to write the address or not ; he th.let he had not done so, and the verdict must, therefore, io# for 919 de fendant. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Government will remit the tax on excursion trains, where the passengers are carried for les* than a penny per mile. The silly old" Body, the Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association, held its annual aggregate meeting on Monday, at the London Tavern, in the metropolis. The usual eight or ten M.P.'s were present. Parliament was prorogued in form, on Thursday, by the Lords Commissioners, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and Earl Granville, till the 14th day of November next. _ As the Ministers did not like to ask the House of Commons for a vote for the members of the Queen Dowager's household, where length of servitude had merited some permanent provision, it is stated that the Queen has most generously come forward, and out of her own purse has caused yearly bounties, varying from £3O to £6O, to be awarded to those persons whose claims are most prominent. TRUE STATE OF THE AGRICULTURISTS.—The agricul turists of this country have been most unjustly dealt with. They have been robbed of the capital which; under the faith of legislative enactments, they bad invested in the land. Month by month their difficulties have been in creasing —difficulties which if they had befallen the com mercial community would have shaken every firm in it— but because they are men of substance more than of credit, and therefore longer able to endure the process of ruin—because they still cling to the remnant of their possessions, bound as they are to them by the memory of the oldest and tenderest associations, the government will not believe they are suffering, nor the selfish Free-traders credit their losses. Nevertheless, we solemnly warn them, the work of devastation is most assuredly going on, and that at a rate which if continued much longer will There is no panic as in 1847, but there is a wide.spread latent ruin, and there will •one -day be a crisis—a crisis so terrible that, compared with it the commercial disasters of 1847, will appear as the bursting of water bubbles to an earthquake.—Doncaster Chronicle. THE FARMERS AND THE MONEY QUESTION.-Why do I say that farmers ought to understand the current question ? their' ' ,ecause a great part o. iabour, skill, and produce, must be resolved into money. Money is one-half of every bargain made between man and man, whether he is an agriculturist or a manufacturer. A farmer may be called a manufacturer of corn and cattle. In the earliest ages he would Miler what he did mot re quire for his own use for clothing and the necessaries and the law of the land he must pay his debts, his rent, hi; taxes, his wages, in money. Now, in order to do this, he must barter away his produce to obtain money. He goes to market and he buys money with his produce, and that is the reason why anything which affects the value of money is a farmer's question. If you exchange or swop one thing for another—one horse, for instance, for another horse—you look not only at what you give but at what you receive. And here the agriculturists have, as I think, taken a one-sided view of their interests. They have been very anxious with regard to the laws made about what they had to sell, viz., corn ; and have disregarded the laws made about what they had to buy, They ought to have attended to both, for it interests. You are told that price de pends on supply and demand, which is quite true. But it depends on the supply and demand of two things, the commodity to be sold, and the money to be bought. If the supply of money is decreased, prices fall ; if the supply of 'money is increased, prices rise. But you are told also that if money be decreased and the price of your produce falls you sell cheap, but you also buy cheap. But see how this affects the farmer, and, in a similar viz., money armer c bove the cost of proddction , what he can reaiise above. say 40% a quarter for his wheat. When he sells for 50s. he gets £zoo a year profit; that is, by the difference between 405., the cost of production, and 505.. the price, he clears £2OO. If, therefore, prices in general decline one-tenth, and he sells for only 455. a quarter, his profit is reduced one-half; he has £lOO a year instead of £2OO. But be buys for one-tenth less; that is, he can now buy with £lBO as much as before cost him £2OO What, then, is t" ? Now sup pose a farmer's profit to arise h E Why, that he gains £2O by buying. cheap, and loses £lOO by selling cheap. The consumer gets a small advantage ; the producer sustains a heavy loss. And this must be the effect to every pro ducer in a heavily taxed country, by the forced cheapness _ . )y a contraction.—Rev. T. Twell's Speech. LORD STANLEY AND THE PROTECTIONISTS.— Lord Stanley has sent the following reply to a letter addressed to him by Mr. G. F. Young, calling attention to certain comments made on the speech recently delivered by his lordship at Bury :—" My dear sir,—l have this moment received your letter of yesterday, and hasten to reply to it. I have observed, as indeed I expected, that my speech at the agricultural dinner at Bury has furnished matter foi• -ts on to 't of a `hough J Jr various comment, ~ne part o, ne press, tti, ,n have not happened to see the articles to which you refer in the Morning Chronicle. Had I done so, however, I should have equally abstained, as I always do, from any public notice of coy comments which may be made by the press on the language I had used. I own, however, that whatever observations might be made on what I said at Bury, the last inference which I should have expected to have seen drawn was that I had changed my opinions on the subject of protection. In fact, I thought it right, in opening a new society at this moment, to depart from the ordinary course, and, distinctly referring to recent legislative measures, to state the reasons why, retaining my opinion on the injurious and ruinous character of those measures to the agricultural interest generally, I yet thought that there was room for profitable investment of capital in the particular district in which I was speak ing. Those reasons I stated to be, first, that it was not a corn growing district, and little affected by the price of corn ; next, that not being even exclusively an agricul tural district, it had the advantages of an inexhaustible market for its produce, and an unlimited supply of manure at its very doors; and lastly, that a great portion of it being wholly undrained, and consequently full of water, the simple operation of draining, even if it cost £l2 the Cheshire acre (nearly double the statute), would increase the productiveness of the land to an extent which would amply repay the outlay. The fact is, that the country round Bury is either in grass or under green crops for the supply of the great manufacturing towns, and, a portion of it lying high, is better fitted for rearing young stock in the summer than for any other purpose ; but a very small portion of it is suited for any description of corn, and a still smaller for wheat. It is, therefore, as far as the corn laws are concerned, an entirely excep tional case—and I took care so to treat it—repeating em phatically my conviction that, in the purely agricultural districts and most of all in those where the highest farming p-evailed, the recent changes had inflicted, and must in flict most serious injury on landlord, tenant, and labourer. I certainly said that if good farming would not pay, bad could not ; but I even went so far as to dilate on the dis tinction between good and high farming, the latter of which I contended could not be carried on at such prices as now rule, and as I think must rule under free trade. You do me justice in supposing that, had I altered my views, I should have taken a very different opportunity of making the statement, and not left it to be inferred from any casual expressions; but my intention at Bury was wholly different, and I hoped I had succeeded in justi fying my recommendations to the tenants of that district to do justice to the land, while at the same time I ad hered most unequivocally to all the opinions I have ex pressed, in and out of parliament, as to the effect of our recent policy on agriculture in general.—l am, dear sir, yours sincerely, " STANLEY." THE QUEEN AND THE SCOTCH CHURCH (From the 21forning Herald.) The Tractarians avow themselves fearfully shocked that the Queen, while residing in Scotland, shows at once her reverence for the constitution of the country, and her superiority to mere formalism, by attending Divine Ser vice in the National Church. Were the Church of Scot land either a non-Protestant or a dissenting denomina tion, there.would be room for objection. But it confes sedly differs from the Church of England only in form, and if Dr. Cumming's sermon, before the Queen at Balmoral, be, as we believe it is, a specimen of its theo logy, we are not surprised that our Gracious Queen, while preferring the forms and regime of the Anglican Estab lishment, should enjoy six or seven Sunday services once a year in a Scottish parish church. Dr. Cumming's sermon contemplates all historical and possible religions as comprehended in three—what he calls the religion of man, or man's worship of self; the religion of the priest, or the creature's looking for salva tion through the priest and priestly rites; and, lastly, the religion of God, or looking for salvation only by the Redeemer. It is easy to see that Pantheism, Puseyism, and Protestantism, are the topics he thus discusses. There is no controversy, no harsh denunciation, and yet there is so clear a discrimination of truth and error, that a conviction of the excellence and glory of Protes tant Christianity is inevitable. Of course, the Mannings, the Wilberforces, the Bennetts, and others of the St. Martin's Hall demonstration, will feel fresh wrath be cause the Queen has listened to a faithful exhibition of Evangelical truth. They not only rave because her Majesty worships in Scotland in the National Church, as the constitution unequivocally prescribes, and her own enlightened mind inclines her, but because she hears in no unoertain sounds that men are made happy and saved neither by their own merits nor by a priest's incantations, but in the way plainly indicated by the Bible, and enun ciated in the standards of every Protestant Church, and nowhere more clearly than in the Articles of the Church of England. It is satisfactory to know that the great mass of the middle classes, with scarcely an exception, have no sympathy with Tractarian views. The nation is thoroughly Protestant—Puseyism is on its way to Ro manism, much of it is already arrived. A powerful reac tion is felt throughout England. The Saxon will not submit to be priest-ridden. The crozier shall not govern the Crown, nor ambitious priests shut the Bible and dictate infallibilities to the yeomen of England. With Dr. Cumming, in this sermon, we believe ''the Gospel grows in influence every day." Nothing success fully arrests it. Mankind approach Christianity ; they do not recede from it. The last days of Christianity are proving its brightest. Genius has made so many and so great discoveries that the earth has been converted into a higher orb. But much as men have improved themselves and their world, they have not gone above or beyond the Gospel. Far as we have travelled, we are not yet far from the cradle of Bethlehem and the cross of Calvary. We have distanced Jerusalem—not Jesus. We approach him as to a distant star, that grows more beautiful and lustrous as we near. England and America, the choicest intellects, the greatest scholars, the noblest hearts, still stretch out their hands to the Eton of Man. More and more clearly the wisest see bow perishable is all that man thinks great—how lasting is the leak" that God proneunees true. THE REV. MOSES MARGOLTOUTH ON FREE- MASONRY. The author of " A Pilgrimage to the Land of i ll y Fathers," in a letter addressed to Dr. Stanley, the late Lord Bishop of Norwich, dated Tanis, January, 1848, gives " a veritable cop," of a curious Jewish amulet, consisting of several compartments and figures, with which " the doors, windows, - chimneys, and beds," in that locality, are posted wherever an accouchement takes place. Mr. Margoliouth gives first the Jewish explana tion of the purport of the amulet. and then proceeds with his own notion, which is embodied in the following some what novel theory : " I consider the science, which now bears the name of Free masonry, to be closely allied to, if not the, offspring of Chris tianity ; and hence the secrecy, as there is nothing in Free masonry which might not be profitably learned by every human being. But in the infancy of Christianity, when its professors were searched out with great vigilance and assiduity, It was necessary to keep their meeting-houses as profound secrets, which were only known to the initiated by some appa rently insignificant, but very expressive signs. In like manner were brother Christians known to each other. "North Africa, in the early history of the Christian Church, had many more such secret meeting-houses than perhaps any other country. The early Christians there were of the stock of Israel, and wearing about them the various secret emblems, as signs, to be knoWn to their brethren in the faith. Those emblems were mistaken by the large body of Jews for infalli ble charms, and were therefore adopted by them for that pur pose; but as they did not know their real intent and purport, they endeavou.•ed to invent reasons, of their own, for their figures and shapes; and hence the medley of Masonic emblems, as they are termed, hut, more properly, Christian symbols, with cabalistic mystical letters, &b. "We must begin again with Compartment 4. The corners of the two intersected triangles are all joined to a sort of shamrock—your Lordship, of course, knows what this figure means in ecclesiastical architecture. I f those shamrock figures were formerly spread out, they would produce a circle, and thus the inmortart symbol. The two intersected triangles. joined together by a Circle, to produce an emblem pregnani with instruction. One of them represents " Faith, Hope, and Charity ;" the other, " the way, the truth, and the life ;" the upper apex represents the divinity of the Son of God, and the lower H►s humanity: the circle joins them, and makes them one. The shield of David, and Solomon's seal, are fables of i comparatively modern date; at least, subsequent to the establishment of Christianity " Your Lordship, no doubt knows what the means in ecclesiastical architecture; namely, the 'five wounds of Christ. It was a necessary emblem with the early Christian, to show to their co-religionists that they were followers of Him, whose banns, feet, and side, were pierced for man's transg.ession. In the absence of a manufactured five-pointed star, the uplifted and outspread hand would serve the same purpose; hence the singularly-looking figure in the original of_Compartment 5, n sort of compromise between a hand and thers put an unnatural explanation of their intent, which explanation is of comparatively modern date. " Compartment 6 is indeed the most interesting have the fish, the ixey2, the initials of the Greek words . ' Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Saviour.' This unpretend ing symbol was in general use amongst the early Christians, and almost the only sign by which Christian tombs were known. In former days, the Grand Master used to wear a in it you silver fish on his person'. 'but it is to be regretted, that amongst the many innovations which have been of late introduced into the society, to conciliate the prejudices of some who cannot consistently be members of it, this beautiful emble has dis appeared. It still exists in many Christian churches, and ;amongst Masons in theory. Figure D, which the Jew called the sea, is frequently seen in the pavement of old Christian churches, and the best explanation of it is to be got in a m a' nic lodge. Figure E, the key, is the symbol of power, He shall shut, and no one shall open,' &c. In modern Masonry it means • the tongue of good report.' "As far as the science - of Masonry is concerned, I cannot say much ; hut I have said enough to show the analogy be tween Christianity and it, and to account for the existence of their emblems amongst the Jews. Little do my brethren here know that they are sheltering themselves under Christian sig nificant emblems. Let no traveller say hence, that' there are no traces of Christianity in North Africa.' There are. The Jews have unwittingly preserved them, and former travellers have left me the honour of discovering them. If your lordship examines the minutia of the many-coloured placard, you will agree with me that vestiges of ancient Christianity are by no means extinct in this part of the world." For a better understanding of the rev. freemason's ex position, we must refer our readers to his book. We conclude with the following extract from the same letter: " Up to the seventeenth century, the Grand Masters were generally ecclesiastics, and though no Bishop of Norwich is to be found among the English Grand Masters, many other bishops grace the list. I will copy here the names of those of ficials down to 1603, when James I. was elected Grand Master. A.D. 597, Austin the Monk ; 680, Bennet, Abbot of Wirral; 857, St. Swithin ; 872, Alfred the Great; 900, Ethred, King of Mercia; 924, King Athelstane ; 957, St. Dunstan, Archbishop Bishop of Rochester; 1100, Henry I.; 1216, Peter de RupiCtis, Bishop of Winchester; 1272, Walter Gifford, Archbishop of York ; 1307, Walter Stapleton, Bishop of Exeter; 1327, King Edward 111. ; 1357, William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winches ter; 1375, Simon I.:lngham. Abbot of Westminster: 1413, Henry Chichley, Archbishop of Canterbury ; 1453, William Waynfleet, Bishop of Winchester; 1471, Richard Beauchamp, Bishop of Salisbury; 1483, King Henry VII. ; 1493, John Islip, Abbot of Westminster; 1515, Cardinal Wolsey ' ; Io4U, Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset ; 1551, John Poynet, Bishop of Winchester.' THE POPE AND THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION The Times again adverts on Saturday to the danger of the concessions which have been so unwisely made to the Church of Rome in this empire. The report, the truth of which it faintly hesitates to admit, that twelve Popish Bishoprics are about to be set up in England, has aroused it from its dreams of liberality to a sense of the real position of affairs, and accordingly it declares open war against the Papacy. "With the utmost deference for the principles of religious freedom in the person of every Englishman, we are not the less, but rather the more, bound to uphold the policy of this kingdom, to reject with indignation the attempt of a foreign power to fasten its authority upon our divisions, and to resist the reconstruction of those great energies of the Romish hier archy which it is the glory of our forefathers to have expelled and overthrown. For if these projects are ever fulfilled to the letter the Court of Rome will have recovered a greater power over that portion of the nation which admits its authority than it enjoyed for centuries before the reformation, as far back as the reign of Richard 11., when the introduction of unautho rised Papal Bulls incurred the penalties of a preemunire ; and England, with her Protestant establishment and her oath of supremacy, would concede to the Roman Catholic hierarchy and to the Pope a greater latitude of authority than they have enjoyed for ages in the most Catholic states of Europe. That is actually, it must he confessed, the present state of Ireland, and the Synod of Thurles, with a host of evils that afflict and degrade that country, are the surest indication of its effects. These effects will probably only be mitigated when means shall have been found to define by compact the mutual obliga tions of the Romish Church and of the State ; and meanwhile we make allowances—perhaps too great allowances—for the church which has maintained so dark a superstition, and bred so constant a disaffection amongst a large portion of the Irish people. But here in England we live and move in the heart of this empire; it is here that we preserve, in the sanctuary of our laws, the traditional polity of the nation ; and whatever humours may affect other parts of our frame, it is by the consent of the free people who cluster round these abodes and crowd this island that we are what we are. Is it, then, here, in Westminster, among ourselves and by the English throne, that an Italian priest is to parcel out the spiritual dominion of this country—to employ the renegades of our national church to restore a foreign usurpation over the consciences of men, and/to sow division in a political society by an undisguised and systematic hostility to the institutions most nearly identified with our national freedom and our national faith ? Such an intention must either be ridiculous or intolerable—either a delusion of some fanatical brain or treason to the constitution." manner, every producer COURT AND FASHION. Her Majesty has commanded a court mourning for the late Queen of the Belgians, to change on Sunday the 3rd, and to cease on Sunday the 10th. of November. Earl Grosvenor, M.P., arrived at Eaton Hall on Tues day, previous to his departure for the East Indies, for the benefit of his health. The noble Earl intends sta3ing abroad until May next. CORRESPONDENCE. DR. M'NEILE ON THE 4 iTISIBLE CHURCH AND THE PRIVY COUNCIL, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR.—Not for the purpose of noticing in its intrinsic import, that notion concerning the visible Church advanced in Dr. M`Neile's late correspondence with Archdeacon Wilberforce (which /consider an egregiously weak but no less fatal error, the invariable beginning of Protestant Rationalism and Infidelity—which indeed means in its reality only this,—so that a man is spiritually minded it matters not to what outward community he belongs, or whether to any, or in what acts of outward communion he participates, or whether in any—a principle of belief which Mr. F. Newman pursuing to its ultimatum came with sure steps to his present melancholy position, one of whose notable axioms, before which the Church, the Bible, and the Faith have subsided as superfluities, being that religion is nothing but " a state of sentiment of the soul towards God") do I venture to crave your indulgence for a few lines, but to contrast certain dicta enunciated therein, with a conflicting statement that emanated from the Rev. Doctor some few months ago, upon the seeming inconsistency involved wherein, I hope you will suffer me briefly to comment, that if it be invalid, some of your readers may take it upon themselves to free him from the imputation. Dr. M`Neile informs Archdeacon Wilberforce that it is an abuse of terms to call the visible church a spiritual body. Dr, M`Neile in a sermon delivered by him on the 24th March last concerning the Privy Council decision on the "Gorham case" gave utterance to the following;— " Salvation is promised to the Church of Christ and con sequently preservation from fatal error." Now, sir, I write to be instructed how the Church can be preserved from fatal error ; how she can be " saved ;" but by the Spirit of God animating, and guiding, and ruling within her ! Impeccability of any kind must be a fruit of the overruling influence of the Spirit of God, over the passions and prejudices of mankind. A body incapa ble of falling into fatal error must be animated by the Spirit of Truth. The power which thus controls the ma lignancy of heresy and inhibits the mistakes of fallibility must be Divine. What higher claim can be made for the Spiritual endowment and Heavenly charter of the visible Church than this, to assign to her the promise of preser vation from fatal error ? How better exemplified, our belief that as Archdeacon Wilberforce says, she " is a Spiritual body —a body which is in this world but not of it," when we confess that she, among all the pomp of human institutions, all the display of human talents, and all the contrivances of human wisdom, is the on l y organi zation in this world kept free from cade nce into fatal error, possesses alone within her the talisman of God ? How better that she is " Animated by tha t sacred s p irit which is the sole guide unto truth," when we confess that she alone wields the Ithuriel spear that can detect dis simulation, and bears the oft-coveted stone of the magi cian, which turns pale at the approach of falsehood ? Further, Dr. M'Neile, in the passage of his sermon from which this quotation is made, is defending latitudi narianism on the doctrine of Baptism, from the considera tion of the uncertainty which, he says, Scripture and anitqtuhiotyughhaovneeleoff the conflicting cuon nfliddthiengpoopininti;onas on ndh t e he co s n u t b er e d et s that must be an error, still its allowance does not interfere with the Church's charter of " preservation from fatal error," inasmuch as it is a non -essential point of Christian .doctrine. Itnplyintr therefore; Oat Pim Mr. Gorham's Oct. 2/, ISsii - - errofirti opinion on the subject of baptism a igila' L ,„ o , Church, we must believe, would be preserVed I":.divg into it. And here is an apt occasion for reur N ec . P", M'Neile of the position he has assumed win', f a t a l It the question, who ought to be judge oj tint cot For ran he really be content to fix in the Prol on tsig as the representative of the Sovereign, that i nstra whereby this deliverance is wrought ? WW I itd think to be the mouthpiece and organ of this Srvtilitiii is to preserve the Church from fatal err or, an. ~a em her indefectibility against the forces criheresY, a tr ' Y the encroachments of false doctrine ? Them in's, / 1,0 0 that Spirit Hims e lf h a th appointed overseer2sgh t ehapti flock, " to feed the Ch urc h of God," (Ants' ct 28th verse,) and to whom alone the commission °aiV has been given by the Lord ; or secular Prin ce tcs , l P, their Councils compos e d of Catholics and here,' oleo; lievers or infidels, just as the varying capacities ore boor may be distributed amo ng the candidates forconv, P io tha honours and emoluments—as may be concectedariiso chicanery of office or willed by the caprice of P ship. i n in' ,b e re e But again. In.this same correspondence , M'Neile denies the spiritu a lity of the visible Cbuttbotip affirms Christ's headship over it. And is tha; 101' then, over which Christ is head, not s piritual.,,, , ol verily, the New Testame n t sp ea ks of but o ne into ii that spiritual, whereof Christ is h e a d, and into 1 ,0 "by one spirit we are all baptized " Cer• tb which he himself referred wen he called vine, and spoke of rotten branches therein not un d ' o f tbe less the vine—which is 6' the p ill ar and gr unt ',. aro! truth" (I Tim. iii. 15)—in which God ba th se" refg° ministries for its edifyi ng , an d which must be cos, visible (Eph. iv. 12)—whe reo f the unity bread, one body" (Eph. iv. 4.5, and is n ot 07 1 98 hco comitant with the onen es s o f the spirit , but', one sacramental unit—" one body, one baptism 17)/ which he bath built upon a rock, and whi ch w-°- 8/1 . 4 will not hear is to he unto us as " a heathen ‘ , 11 ;4'4 , 5 publican." This is the body, I hero! 1 10 say, W head, and this surely is a spiritual body. Jur' a! v ;te e. idea, evidently, is of a company of men, °':. - o w ppo s ' differing religious opinions, and of, it mg toget her re!igious characters, arbitrarily choosing to bsnu 'lord ° and form a sort of religious club, for the sake o b ,, t ly and convenience and jurisdiction. Of such - 0 11 1 ` would be, without doubt, an abuse of terms to cal 1 1 spiritual, but of such a bodu 't is equally en s a t equaof)! call Christ its head. Df. M'Neile's argumen t i i s s`r.g r. / the visible Church contains unsiritual as ‘ s ; e ; '; g al,"l; tual members, it ought not to be called sPir" : ;ng the same argument, the visible Church _co u lipu Cor. h%ecer as his real jiving members, Christ ought not to uV its head. . voic e . But if indeed Christ be its head, if indeed I ts , Io so g divi e, how sad that any should pr o f e ss therose rp atict fled with the present State oppression and 1156 isbol e " For it is a bartering of her birthright—a reliaquit j 5 of her responsibility—a denial of her origin . . ng insensibility in the ministers of God to that vo rt 'l t ; calling to them from heaven " Guard the depogii.!! that which is committed to o thy trust." (I T i° ,..'ious Yea, in my nearest convictions, it is an uncoos'_...( rying of earnestness and piety into a fearful vort",• ,0 n d pnore,t.e,,rin-5V.°,:: ing to deep upon deep yet low( travelling in the wake of that godles on the theatre of Continental Protestan up its strength for the last great battle with " / " 0 to perish in the ruins ove r w hi c h th e Church o f alone rise supreme ! I enclose my card, and am yours, &C. Oct. 16, 1850. IS WATER SOLID 4 ,4 PO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST ° „ 0 o p( SIR,---Ts water called a so lid b o dy ?Is it not h c ' ea ll , of innumerable globul e s ? A n d if so , ca n it ' e n occ porous body ? Sugar dissol ve d i n wa t er seem , iS b no space, at least IticreasestheWaTe;no more D. How can this be accounted for ? „ r oge fl Is it not probable that if th e wa t e r be c () "'irci e l small globules, that the space b e t we en each l aced globule, being vacant (when four circles are. P gether, there must be a sp ace i n th e m iddle), e i' oar g, by the matter once composi ng th e sug ar ? — " J ",,,,p C°' ARGUMENT A' SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, SOUTHPORT RACES.—This meeting was hel nesday and Thursday. Sir - T. Hesketh. Barlber de . Do. Trafford, Esq., were the stewards. The o " e r e 05 1 as fine as the most sanguine snortsman ccluid 3l,l3r the ---- " .- si sired, and the company, tidi Inc ng — severa so uthr e distinguished visitors at p r es en t d omi ciled in Arch e rs ts , was exceedingly numerous. On the first ri n Yor 4 ),(ii won the Promenade St a kes i n t wo heats. , he P i pe , Alma, and Ardwick. also ran.—L a titat won a lleP t iol Stakes in two heats, beatin g M a id o f Disley a n oel o r —Mischief won the Ladies' P urse i n two he ll 0 11 Wbecci.—On the second day Latitat No" A10 0 : e keepers' Stakes in two heats, beating Versus,, far' o per Tiger.—Alma won the Lancashi r e Hussar% gek r is three heats, beating Master Dowries, Archerfis-o'R Pa. and Ardwick.—Maid of Disley won the 11L1 c r usr 0 1 Sweepstakes, beating Counsellor, Tiger, and o iescf o r HIGHLAND SHOOTINGS.—Owing to the Pr e o islue boisterous gales and rain, last week hag be0,,n 02 4 0 e 50a . ble for sporting on the moors. Captain 0 111 shot two stags, right and left, at Fasnakyle , ,) des et of September. In the corries of Glenmorrist.vog 01'00 Wardlaw shot a stag, and in the neighboa ri w itO r fez Dundriggan Richard Arabin, Esq., shot a stag i uP e tb a head of eleven antlers. one of the tops " Car duri p4 ,oo cup. Sir Arthur Chichester, Bart., killed j a g s f riv is, season sixteen red-deer, eleven roe-deer, h e 'i p rcl g bee, and other game. On the Knockie moors jd 9N t or and S. Adair, Esq., have killed two roe-deer s l o e sho o ho o of grouse and black game. From the Crorna n v,o , o use' Mr. Bruce, of Kennet, and A. Houblon , oss r ooa bagged 1004 head, including 96 black-game a i n u rY vv , sr i , At Glenfidclich the Earl of March, Lord r- r ,.,ge , :ibe l Lennox, Lord George Gordon Lennox, 'W . : tlsYjurc" Mr. Maitland, had excellent sport. In s1 ;1 of r ed killed eighteen stags and two hinds. The c rerfoof stalked only three days and killed eight. wh i se ro o fine stags. Only one of the eight required a —lnverness Courier. THE GATEWAY OF THE OC EANS• ho! The forcing of t F h r eo barrier e c w t a h t i o o r h . ) for 30 0 aria ftr s s6 , oo ' o o rdeotedananedveninat at hand. thoenceo.mhamifearcfetoufe I so be l, t v- t for d i e junction stateaf of x i e t a h r e a g A u atlalnataitc yearand Pacific, hyt be p o ra lt e p i r t cl a i e d i f ; l 7o , s t A a:ahni m itei hpar e teui, r ann i et c afl;tehunanaoenttsnfe,dcmwieaishpnaeltoraoonftrebmotdeluaiserhthieoichlpndai understandinggenaahai t nselas t sltl l i l uke e mi raaevenal o eyrt p ycbci t saseoe i n o n:e: n 4oienn iltneb o esfi f tntaorrci : ::: : sote g ao:ro n eja c op. nerci a o:oo:to ` es . te dr poi o a t 1 : , ditions that shall leave no uncertainty as t° tv eisr d ''. r e b e l e s : a e r s y s s o u f rv t e h y e s rise,ehnatveerpbe been n a i e t tu is al t l o y be carried for oe I' • temporary route is at the same time heirlOcaectbi which will familiarise us with each point serf All' feted; capabilities of the entire region. It is understo ..., pie they tm o h v ee e n t areen expediencyzt oinebeer engineers submitted both oh embarkingi n England tot h i en the rigid hn ed us thecr t: : 1 : 0 : 6 'd 6 r shall be °rooter'. d so ou t b h t at in be c f o o n r n e e t c h t e io p n u w b i li t c h icat,nasbfearcaalslep a t " ,..a ,,,, 0 1 0 4 be called :de ept ij irot n i t t i o .g e ° , i ll e s s I e v e r ° Iti i4 0 concerned, will have been removed. s doptiO cr ° The immediate steps now in course 0. e- n ot s co e' explained in a few words. At present the transit its itl t r th e e ni isthmus d of d P an a g n e a r m a aaoreccauaptiaesrifaoauar. dai t s% , „ 7 :J cact r e a a g t i l i l '0 0 0! represented the transit may possibl route, eoe , h the o g , day, and this by a continuous steam /1 1` The foe ception of fifteen miles by mule or omei b°s. Nic a r rti s o , ll sage would be up the San Juan, across Lak e a t 0 , o r Juan del Sur, on the Pacific. On arriving e-oteriiPoge! to the town of that name, and hence to thetPthio tell', nus (which is considerably south of the one f ile po sse r i for the permanent canal, namely, Rea le i °) firer to t' o s; would find himself some 600 or' 700 miles Il e f pater. fornia than if he had crossed at the Istlinius °_, o tes';:oi and as the rate of speed of the Aniericalibi, 5s , l e on this service is upwards of 300 miles the Y: l i v g ii! i ileg of three days in crossing, coupled with, 5 1 , 500 t ii; o o , distance, would be equivalent to a total u l tse db,' 40, measured in relation to what is accomPlis'A , c oulr eo o , vessels. A lower charge for the transit an. ~u cer u,t e r tively healthy climate, are also additional tuu. l e !Re and under these circumstances anticipations turnedP 0000 tamed that the great tide of traffic will be asoc co 00 0 new direction. This tide, according to the 14 PCO from Panama, was kept up at the rate of 70,uv ' a y T e h ar e , n a a n v d ig i a t b w il a it s y e o x f pe t c b te e d s t a o n i j n i cr ia e n as , sent state, remains yet to be tested. The, t be, r,OO. Company, who have obtained the privilege the ?' Pit ;11 have sent down two vessels of light draught , l a af If and Nicaragua, for the purpoge of forthwithget9., 0 matter beyond doubt. At the last date the Y . ,,parirole safely crossed the bar at its mouth, and was l'i t he „04 1 uc E teen ve ss n ßt ascend; the Nicaragua had previously gone tte t he o n ' rado, a branch river, where, it is said througlid api lessness of her engineer, she had run id jet: sandbank. though without sustaining aull s hte l , e deoi next accounts will possess great interest. "," s oo," 0 0,/ be the real capabilities of the river, accident's pl et: 1 • 0" 4 Should, therefore, the he.owever• iftlioitestolllll, must be anticipated in the first trial of a 0 1,4 ``' fr y , could scarcely have been expected toman ,:tit If the results of this iihpcnereshrmet indinavigatinga tio London-bridge ns o it f . s congratulation ; and it forms so importaut,l33 wit' 14 the history of enterprise that all must regal' I A l 'l wishes. 1 3,,0 , 1 sl i b e i 0 the expectations it seems to warrant, the re 0 b e l i e k doubt the completion of the canal will soo eo 59 , 0, menced with ardour. Supposing the sn::: , bf ?A Bally,t not exceeding the sum estimated in 1 , -"J„ / re P a t r) ' l6 the prospect of the return would, t here a l', ,v e liA fee t , to believe, be much larger than the pub ;s als°,;ol')' time been accustomed to suppose. There t ago i'. ly temporary h o w e n i dl Thames, bp withouttteramaensonts theatre eassil fl e cg or :o f mil l 1' 0 : i i,jte that the increase of these returns can knnr c re ose ;s9 long as the commerce of the world o h:11 1 _ 1 .. 11 e OLO/ indeed, already the idea of the gains to 05;70 Old" have struck some minds with such force JP_ g rol i el o r sooner or later be repudiated by the not of a kind so extraordinarily favourable that No such danger, however, exists ; to question if the privileges which have hee:_.t t f oi of s ta te o c i oa ir,Sf it o as the the ir oti guaranteed in the safe possession of al l .,„titie j the treaty of protection which ha s been 1- Great Britain and the United State& ktt, ,Th I, dl ki , ) ' l4 l 4e