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Tax BISHOP OF Nonvacs has resumed his
episcopal duties. During the past week his lordship
has been holding confirmations at various towns in
the diocese. At Ipswich the right rev. prelate laid
hands on 1,538 young persons ; at Norwich, on 364 ;
and at Great Yarmouth, on 113.
MOSUMPNTAL BRASS EFFIGY to the memory of
the late Dr. Monck, Bishop of Gloucester, was placed
in the north aisle of Westminster Abbey on Tuesday.
Toe effigy reflects great credit, not only on the
Messrs. Hardman, of Birmingham, by whom it was
etecuted, but also on Mr. Samuel Candy, who is well
known as the reviver of some of the exterior parts of
the abbey, and to whom the placing was intrur.ed.
THE ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL SPECIAL EVENING
SioncE will, it is expected, number several
thousand worshippers. The choir will consist of
about 400 voices. Every facility will be afforded to
the congregation to join in singing, and, in addition
to the ordinaty cathedral service, psalmody will be
introduced ; and if the congregation can be induced
to loin with the choir the effect will be grand in the
extreme. Preparations are being made for lighting
the cathedral with gas jets, which will extend all
round the Whispering Gallery, and the dome is being
regdded and enriched with stained glass.

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TELE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE ON PRACTICAL

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JOKING IN THE ARMY.
1." Duke of Cambridge has issued the following
eeneral order on the recent matt-martial at
Portanonth

Hone Guards, S.W., Oct. 8.
At a general eourt-martial, held at Portsmouth on the
lat day ofJuly, 1U.56, and continued by adjournment to an
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of admirers.

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danger of losing he popularity."—Enannter.

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THE ARABIAN NIGHTS'.
Translated from the Arabic. By E. W. LANE, Author of
" The Modern Egyptians." A New Library Edition, with
all the Translator's Original Notes restored. Edited
by E. STANLEY POOLE. With Si: Hundred illustra•
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THE FABLES OF ESOP.
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By Rev. THOMAS JAMES, M.A., Honorary Canon of
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" Mr. James has made a Judicious selection of the Fables, and
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Carlo Guelfi.

Racconto di Virginia Pulli.

Filotico. London : Jeffs.
"AIEA culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima bulpa!
Such are the penitent accents with which the
fair Virginia initiates a preface, couched in the
terminology of the Confessional, and closed with
a prayer for absolution.
The wards and their fashion, spite of the
solemnity of both, are not, of course, meant to be
taken au grand serieux. For in Italy religious
forms—nay, even religious dogmas—have be-
come so hackneyed and vulgarized by that daily
and hourly repetition, which fixes indelibly the
material habit while it destroys irrevocably, the
spiritual feeling, that even the Confessional may
be made an element of the humorous without
any discredit to the orthodoxy of the humorist.
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is the REFORMATION a BLESSING ? "
TERCENTENARY of QUEEN ELIZABETH'S ACCES-
MON.—COMMEMORATIVE SERVICES.
It is hoped that the proposed services In commemoration of
his greet event will in manyd
chur
theches be foll
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the extension to Irelanu of the blessings of the English Reforms-
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REFORM SKETCHES BY JOHN BRIGHT.
A FEW days before Mr. BRIGHT was to appear at
Birmingham, we asked him, on the subject of
Reform, two questions, to which we said that we
did not "expect to receive any distinct, straight-
forward replies." We have not been mistaken
in our expectations. Mr. &Goma has left them
wholly unnoticed ; but, as we observed at the
time, by the mere fact of his leaving them un-
noticed, "we gain a great deal." For we may
now fairly infer from the speech at Birmingham
that the object of Mr. BRIGHT, in the kind of
Reform which he advocates, is, not to " improve"
the constitution of the House of Commons, and to
render it more skilful in managing our internal
and foreign affairs than it is at present, but to
make it the organ of the people—that is, nomi-
nally speaking their will, however fickle and
contradictory that will may be. We say no-
minally, because in point of fact it would be
speaking what their self-seeking leaders would
palm off as that will, although, in reality,
their own. Mr. BRIGHT is a clever man, but,
assuredly, if we are to judge by his speech, he is
a very shallow thinker. All his recommendations
on the subject of Reform are based on the false,
not to say the absurd, principles; (1) that ALL
can be rulers ; (2) that the poorest men are
more skilled than richer men in the science of
government, and are the fittest to elect the
persons to discharge its functions.
Mr. BRIGHT sets forth a catalogue of measures
which the different Governments of this
country have carried out in the last few years,—
some of which he approves, some of which
he condemns; and then he draws this most il-
logical conclusion,--that, had the representation
in Parliament been such as he recommends that
it should now be made, all the measures which
he approves would have been adopted, and all
the measures which he condemns would have been
rejected. Now, we are far from contemning that
a five-pound householder, or a working man,
may not be quite as good a judge of political
questions as a ten-pound householder ; but we
now not on what possible grounds it can be
maintained that they are better judges, and
that they would have formed totally different
opinions on matters of State policy than the ten-
pound householders. All evidence goes to show
that they would have agreed with them. We
should be glad to have a list of instances of elec-
nons, in populous boroughs, where the non-
electors have been on one side, and the great body
of the ten-pound householders on the other.
Here and there such a phenomenon may have oc-
curred, but we are positive that it is of very
baref occurrence. For argument, therefore, it may
e airly assumed that there has been a cordial
agreement between them.
Let us, then, test the soundness of Mr. BRIGHT'S
theory by an example. There is nothing like an
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INCREASE OF POPULATION.

157,449 births and 98,260 deaths were registered,
consequently the natural increase of the population
in the 92 days was 59,189, or 643 daily in England.
The probable natural increase of population in the
United Kingdom was 964 daily. 10,803, or, allowing
for persons of undistinguished nationality, 12,844,
English emigrants sailed from ports at which there
are Government emigration agents in the last three
months; 6,859 to the Australian colonies, 692 to the
North American colonies, 4,877 to the United States,
and 416 to all other places. The emigrants from the
United Kingdom amounted to 29,354, or to fewer by
15,000 than have emigrated in any corresponding
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FRANCE.
THE FRENCH RULE IN ALGERLL

The Moniteur publisihes a sweeping decree of Na-
poleon abolishing mortmain altogether in
Algeria.

THE SERVIAN INSIIIMECTION.

Our Conant at Belgrade, says the correspondent of
the Globe, M. Fonblanque, has found it necessary
to take instructions at Vienna as to the impending
revolution in Lis district, Semis, Bosnia, and
Theis&ly being on the eve of convulsion. From
Vienna he has just gone to Trieste to embark for
Constantinople with the same object, and returns to
his post by the Lower Danube. If the famous 600
deputies meet in open air, and open arms, after the
ritual of the ancient Skuptchina, bayonets alone clan
disperse them.

PRUSSIA.
THE NEW MINISTRY.

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Council ; Baron Rudolph von Auerswald, Minister
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Affairs ; Von Patow, Finance ; M. Flottwell, Interior ;
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PERIODICAL LITERATURE.

THE November number of the North British
Review reached us too late to enable us to give any
detailed criticism of its contents in our publication of
this week, and we regret that at this moment time
and space compel us to confine ourselves to directing
attention in general terms to the many able snd
interesting articles which it contains. That upon
the commercial condition and prospects of Franoe
is full of useful information, and bears the imprsss
of great care and correctness of thought. The novels
of Miss Moloch, the authoress of "John Halifax,
Gentleman," and other well known work., have
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mental processes. But probably the mist interest-
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progress of science in their regard, and of their
present position and prospects. The articles upon
German Church Historians and upon Aquatic
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than his contemporaries. The first paper, u reviow
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tunity afforded by the negotiations with the Chinese
Government at Pekin for opening a way for British
and Indian commerce into Thibet and other coml.
tries under the Chinese dominion beyond the Hima-
laysh Mountains?
Mr. DISRLELI, in reply, observed that no negotia-
tions were as yet pending with the Pekin Govern-
ment. The subject, he added, would be kept in view
whenever an opportunity offered.

OF INDIA.

In reply to Mr. Collier,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he
hoped to lay on the table on Monday next the reso-
lutions that would be brought forward for discussion
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LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The Customs Duties Bill-1;;;Ing been read a
second time, and some petitions presented, their
lordships adjourned after a brief sitting.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
COLONIAL AGENTS.
Sir J. GRAHAM, correcting a statement he had
made in a previous debate, confessed that he had
been in error when stating that Sir James Mackin-
tosh bad accepted a salary as parliamentary agent
for the Canadian colonists.
THE CAGLIARI.
Mr. HEADLAM having asked whether the opinion
of the law officers of the Crown respecting the case of
the Cagliari had been received, and what course the
Government intended to pursue ?
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question divided itself into two branches—one respect-
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of the imprisonment of Messrs. Watt and Park. On
the former point the opinion of the law advisers of
the Government was not yet delivered ; but with
reference to the latter, a decided opinion had been
arrived at that the incarceration of the two British
subjects was altogether illegal, and a despatch had
in consequence been sent to Naples demanding
compensation for the wrong done to them.
This statement was received with loud cheers from
all parts of the house.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, addressing the ex-Premier, in-
quired whether be had any objection, in the present
state of circumstances, to lay on the table of the
house a copy of the bill for the amendment of the
law relating to parliamentary representation, which
had been referred to in the Royal Speech at the
commencement of the session. The question of
Reform was, be observed, left in a false position.
Various propositions for the improvement of the
representative system had been left in abeyance in
oorsequence of the pledge given by the late Ministry
to bring in some comprehensive measure on the sub-
ject, but which, though promised also in the Speech
from the Throne, had never made its appearance. Ad-
verting to the precedent established with regard to
the India Government Bill, he observed that if Lord
Palmerston even now brought forward his bill the
present Adminigration would also introduce a mea-
sure of their own, and affOrd the house an opportu•
nity el selecting between the two rival propositions.
Lord PALMERSTON remarked, that as the House of
Commons bad terminated the existence of a Govern-
ment pledged to bring in a Reform Bill, the fair in-
h rence was that no such measure was thought
desirable at present. The arrangements which his
own Administration had designed to propose were
not drafted into a bill, and in any case he believed
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Mr. L. KING regretted that the noble lord had not
at any rote enlightened the house as to the funda-
mental principles of his intended bill.
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THE WESTERN BANK OF SCOTLAND.

On the motion for going into Committee of Supply,
Mr. BRADY called attention to the circumstances
attending the recent failure of the Western Bank of
Scotland. After recapitulating many incidents con-
nected with the collapse of that establishment, he
expressed a hope that the directors would still be
brought to justice.
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Mr. ELLICE remarked upon the calamitous results
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the public from such injuries, it should be properly
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Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Atherton, Mr. Hope Johnstone,
Mr. Cowan, Mr. Drummond, and other members.
The subject was ultimately allowed to drop.

THE NELSON COLUMN.

Admiral WALcoTT invited notice to the present in-
complete state of the Nelson monument in Trafalgar.
square, which still remained unfinished, notwith-
standing the numerous grants of public money that
had been voted from time to time for its completion.
After a few words from Mr. W. WHiasus, _ .

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most discreditable. Although the public finances
were not in the most flourishing state, he should
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indeed, himself take charge of the necessary
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cotton trade, and will remain when cotton is
forgotten. It will furnish manly men to our
armies when need be. and furnish them with
iron weapons. It will help to furnish agricul•
Lure with its future tools, and laugh at its one-
idea'd Cobdens of the past time.
This island of ours, laden with old heroic
traditions, is not a mere workshop of calico. It
is an island of men fitted to do men's work in
the old heroic fashion, now as ever. It is de-
stined under PROVIDENCE to become yet more
essential to the world's work; to teach new
things to humanity, to set forth many more
lessons like this of cotton working, and to leave
its teaching when its pupils have become
skilled. We look forward to the time when
all that is squalid in Manchester and Leeds
and Glasgow shall disappear and be no more,
and the ruddy glow of English health shall
proclaim that English manhood is once more
in the ascendant therein.
London, England, 1858-04-17

PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES.

Ma. ROBERT Lows—To move on the first open day for a Special Committee on the
best method of bringing the Channel into Uowning•street, so as to facilitate the ingress
of Colonial craft.

Ma. J. D. FITZGERALDTO move for a return of the number of murders committed
in Ireland daring Lord Carlisle's Viceroyalty, distinguishing those whose authors have
been discovered, and those in which the prosecutions failed.
Sim BENJAMIN HALL—A return of the number of the Baronets who have been raised
to the Peerage since the commencement of the Reform era.

Ma. Hagar
motion.

.To move the previous question on Sir Benjamin Hall's

MR. W. WILLIAMS—TO move for, I. A return of the ontiay on the competition of
architects for the new Public Offices, and a statement of the result of the competition-
2. A return of the like kind as to the proposed Wellington monument—S. A return of
the expenditure of the Board of Works on the inquiries relative to the Main Drainage of
London.

Ma. BERNAL Ossoatrz—To move that in the opinion of the Horse retiring pensions to
official persons wbo may be forced to resign ought to commence, in all cues, on the com-
pletion of two years' service.
MR. THOMAS BUNCOMBE—To ask Lord Palmerston whether—seeing that the late
Cabinet did not draft any Reform Bill—he will have the kindness to inform the House
what, in his opinion, would have been the leading previsions of etteb a Bill, it it bad
been drafted.

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A JUDICIOUS HINT.

A word with you, Sir Charles Wood ;
Mid fallen Whigs, 'tis understood,
You seek to be a leader :
Now White's and Brookes's both agree
That, henceforth, you should often be
Of Chesterfield a reader—
For so your manners you might mend,
And your sour speeches find an end.
M. P.
London, England, 1858-04-17

CHAPMAN and HALL, 193, Piccadilly.

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No, CCVI.,
1. is published THIS DAY.
CONTENTS:
I. Boswell and Johnson
11. Fictions of Bohemia
111. Italian Tours and Tourists
IV. Progress of English Agriculture
V. Michael Angelo
VI. Siege of Lucknow
VII. Public Speaking—Earl Stanhope's Address
VIII. Fall of the Late Ministry
Jona MURRAY, Albemarle-street.

London: Printed and Published by ALTtIED IvE, at the
110, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County el
Middlesex, on Saturday, the 17th day of April, len.
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tch from Allahabad, Monday, 9.5
A further deeps
Lim, from G. F. Edmonstone to H. Anderson, Bom-
bay, adds :
It was reported in the afternoon of yesterday, after the
fall of Kaiserbagh, that the enemy were streaming out of
the city in vast numbers iat the direction of Sandal Camp.
Up to the present moment there are rebels in the city, but
we have no reliable information. Brigadier Campbell,
who was well placed on the left of the Alutobagh position,
started in pursuit at two a.tn. this morning, with a very
strong brigade of cavalry and two troops of horse artillery.
Brigadier General Sir Hope Grant advanced towards
goetapore, with the view of interrupting fugitives who
slay be turned off by Brigadier Campbell's movements.
Be has with him one thousand sabres, and two troops of
horse artillery. He will be followed to•morrow by an
infantry brigade and a heavy battery. He is directed to
halt at Seetapore for instructions. This is a direct 'veil
to Rohilcund. Her Majesty's 75th Regiment has been
ordered to leave Cawnpote to•morrow en mule for Meerut.
The rest of India, and especially Central India, would
appear to be still very unsettled, and to demand a
continual supply of British troops to maintain tran-
quillity in the reconquered provinces.
London, England, 1858-04-17

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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1858.

POSTSCRIPT.

PRUSSIA.

The powers of the Prince of Prussia, as Regent,
are further prolonged for three months by royal
order, under the signature 3f the King.
The Prince and Princess Frederick William have
left Berlin for Weimar and Gotha.

RUSS R.
A slight modification of the Imperial Ministry has
taken place. M. Brock, Minister of Finance, retires,
and is succeeded by M. Knikjevitch ; M. Noroff,
Miuister of Public Instruction, is succeeded by M.
Kovalewski ; and the Prince Vassiltchikoff has been
nominated id interim Minister of War during the
temporary retirement from ill health of General
Soukhozanett.
London, England, 1858-04-17

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This day, foolscap Bvo., ss. Od..
A LADY'S
DIARY OF THE .SIEGE OF LUCKNO%V,
WRITTEN *OR- THE PERUSAL OF FRIENDS AT HOME.
" I have kept a rougllsort of journd during the whole siege, often irrltien under the greatest diffleultles —part of ihe time
with a child in my law spilliMpon my lap; but I Persovseed. because I know if we survived you would like to live our siege life
over in lutsainationiAad 0111111111 b details would Interest you ; besides the conduit of talking to you. For the first month (July)
we had so little hope sr sessys. that I did not feel as if you would ever receive it: so you will And the records rather hare : but
such as it is I shall send it. if possible, by vast, for I know you will like to have IL I have foaled - my desk two Juue letters also,
which I will seed you."- -414•11sied, December 13,183".

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JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street.

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THE COTTON MANUFACTURES OF

GREAT BRITAIN.
THE "blue cloth of Surat," such as Robinson
Crusoe traded in, the pink cloth of Nankin,
the white cloth of Calicut, and the muslins,
plain, flowered, and gold and silver embroidered,
were the cotton products of the East, brought
hither by commerce when English enterprise
followed the track of the great ALBUQUERQUE.
And this commerce would have continued till
now, had not WATT, AREWEIGHT, CROMPTON, and
other inventors, produced the steam-engine,
the spinning-jenny, and the power-loom.
The spinning and weaving labour of
India was the cheapest in the known world,
and no competition could have inter-
fered with it, had not the powers of nature
been developed by the brain of man to make
art or secondary nature triumph over simple
nature. And so cotton was carried from India
to England, and spun into yarns, which were
carried back to India to weave into cloths,
and finally both the yarn and the cloths
themselves were manufactured in this
country ; and so the triumph was complete
of art and industry over natural circumstances.
India ceased to produce yarns and clo the of
cotton save for coarse home purposes, using
labour that had no other employment save
that and the production of barbaric glitter.
Europe indulged in war, and England reaped
the fruits of the inventive faculties of Lan-
cashire. She supplied the European and
American world and parts of Asia and Africa
with cotton cloths, printed and unprinted.
London, England, 1858-04-17

OLARKE'S NEW PATENT PYRAMID
vv NIGHT LAMPS : Tin at Is.; Lacquered or Brinzed, ls.dd.
each, for burning the NEW PATEN C PYRAMID NIGHT
LIGHTS, the moat convenient, safe, and economical yet intro.
duced—Sold by all Grocers and Lamp Dealers; and wholesale
by S. CLARKE, 53, Albany-street, Regent'. Park, and by
PALMER and CO., Clerkeuwell, London, E.C.
London, England, 1858-04-17

MAPPIN'S SILVER-PLATED DESSERT
KNIVES and FORKS, in Mahogany Cues.
12 Pairs Knives and Forks, Ivory Handles, in Case.. Ms.
12 Do. Pearl Handles, do. ..
12 Do. Silver• Plated Handles, do. fids.
London, England, 1858-04-17

THE SYDENHAM TOP COAT is made from
the best Materials, by Workmen of cultivated taste, at the
moderate sum of Two Guineas; the appreciation of the fashion-
able world of genuine and perfect Articles of Dress renders the
success of the Sydenham Top Coat a certainty.—SAMUEL
BROTHERS, 29, Ludgate-hill.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?—This query can be answered
by SAMUEL BROTHERS, 29, Ludgate•hill, the Inventors of
the SYDENHAM TROUSERS, 17s. 6d.; for in the fashionable
world there is associated with the Sydenham Trousers a perfect
dea synonymous with a graceful, easy, and well•fitting garment.
London, England, 1858-04-17

378

NOTICES OF MOTION.
TUESDAY.

Mr. Caxwrown—that on that day fortnight he should call the
attention of the house to the subject of the communication with
India.
Mr. L. Krim—that on that day fortnight be should move for
leave to bring in a bill to extend the 101. household franchise to
counties.

THURSDAY.

Mr. SPOONZII—that he should postpone his motion relative to
Maynooth from Tuesday uext till next Thursday week
Mr. L. KING —that on next Toursibly he would move for leave
to bring in a bill to abolish the property qualification for mem-
bers of the House of Commons _ _ .

Mr. Dsssv—that ou thr 4th of May he would oall the viten•
tion of the house to the justice and expediency of making
adequate provision for the religious worship of Roman Catholics,
and for the instruction of their children in schools both in the
United Kingdom and India; and he should move an address to
the Queen on the subject.

INDIA.
London, England, 1858-04-17

DEAN MILMAN'S LETTER.

ST. Paul's Cathedral has been productive of
men given to polite letter-writing. PETER
PLIMLEY is gone, but Dean MILMAN lives.
Like those young ladies who are said to have
narrowly escaped being beautiful, so Dean MI
MAN narrowly escaped being a poet. He has
all the poetry of sentiment, without the fire
stolen from Jove to render his characters
living and real things. The Dean deals in
statues, not in men. Nevertheless, he is a
man of refined taste, elegant scholarship, nice
discrimination; and if he never startles, he
certainly never offends.
When Dr. MumAN breaks silence, and
comes forth with a letter to this Bishop of
LONDON regarding St. Paul's Cathedral, every
one interested in architecture and art is certain
to give a respectful hearing to whatever he
may have to say. We naturally expect the
cultivated taste which the Dean undoubtedly
possesses to shine brilliantly on such an occa-
sion, warmed by such a theme.
It is to be lamented that ecclesiastics in
this age are commonly, almost universally,
" too late." The people's Express-train has
started when the parsons, out of breath from a
race against time, find themselves at the ter-
minus which the " profanumvulgus " have left
behind.

We fear Dr. MiLbiAN is one of the same sort.
All he has to say about St. Paul's, and popular
services, with decorations as addenda, is very
tasteful and elegant, and more or less true ;
but unfortunately it comes out a year too late!
The Dean has been with the seven sleepers of
Ephesus; and having awakened, fancies the
City is now where he left it, and that this
present is 1857 instead of 1858. This is a mis-
take. Consequently the letter of the Dean to
the Bishop of LONDON, which, had it been
written a year ago, would have taken the town
by storm, and given Dr. MILMAN a very de-
served popularity, at the present moment is
threatened with suffocation at.the birth.

With Mr. LAZARD'S permission, we would
borrow his well-worn specoh, giving it a new
facing, and request to have " the right word at
" the right time." Had St. Paul's Cathedral
been opened last year, when there was a
furore for special services, we should have
been spared the unseemly disputes which have
arisen regarding Exeter-hall. Had the Dean
then advocated the opening of his Cathedral
church for popular services, he would have
travelled express with the people. But it has
taken Dr. Ivlimabi exactly twelve months to
awake to the conviction that Cathedrals might
be used us well as looked at ; and at the very
moment when he is ready to begin work in the
matter, the general public are growing a little
tired. In fact, the truth had better be spoken;
and let us confess at once that the novelty is
worn out. We have no doubt that in a very
short time the services at Westminster will
subside into very ordinary congregations; and
this has always been our feeling on the
matter. The services were a momentary
enthusiasm—a new religious toy; but not a
Cued principle,lnor in any way supplying the
London, England, 1858-04-17

DEAFNESS.—The only medal awarded at
the Great Exhibition of 1851 (for Acoustic Instruments)
was to F. C. REIN, for his new ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS
for the DEAF. They are made of different power, to suit ex•
trecne and every degree of Deafness. To be procured only of
the sole inventor and maker, F. C. REIN, 108, STRAND,
nearly opposite Exeter.ball, where the Instrument can be tried
and numerous testimonials seen ; amongst many, one from the
Right Hon. Sir John Patteson, one of her Majesty's Privy
Councillors.
London, England, 1858-04-10

go rat ant 4asOton.

Her Majesty the Queen will hold Drawing-rooms
at St. James's Palace, on Thursday the 22nd inst.,
and Or. Thursday the 6th May next, at two p.m.
Her Majesty will hold Levees at St. James's Palace,
on Wednesday the 14th inst., and on Wednesday the
28th inst., at two p.m.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will
shortly occupy the White Lodge, the Ranger's Lodge,
Richmond•park. Since the death of the Duchess of
tlloucester the rangership of Richmond-park has
been intrusted to his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, on, we belizve, the understanding that
au the Prince of Wale's attaining his majority the
Royal Duke will transfer the rangership to the Prince.
The Lodge has undergone a thorough repair and
embellishment preparatory to the Prince of Wales
taking up hie establishment there. It is said that
the Queen and the Prince Consort purpose, during
the residence of the Court at Buckingham Palace, to
occasionally pass Saturday and Sunday nights in
privacy at the Lodge.

His Excellency Count de Platen, Swedish Minister
to the Court of St. James, visited Portsmouth on
Monday to inspect the dockyard, dc. Having been
hiroselt in the navy, his excellency takes much
interest in such establishments. Admiral Sir George
Seymour, the commander•in-chief, entertained the
count and his suite at the Admiralty-house.
London, England, 1858-04-10

Volittral.

A CABINET Cornier'. was held on Wednesday at
the official residence of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer in Downing-street. The Ministers
present were—the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hard-
wicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmes•
bury, Lord Stanley, General Peel, Sir John Paking-
ron, the Earl of Ellenborough, the Right Hon. J. W.
Henley, and Lord John Manners.
A COURT OF Pitn-Y COUNCIL was held at Windsor
on Tuesday, when Mr. Mowbray and the Earl of
Donougbmore were sworn in members of the Privy
Council, and the Earl of Sefton appointed Lord
Lieutenant of the Duchy of Lancaster.
London, England, 1858-04-10

THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.

This, unlike other questions, is not fading
away, but coming daily more into the light.
It •involves within its ample circle a great
number of points. The abolition of tithes,
the expulsion of the Bishops from the House
of Lords, the disposal of the ecclesiastical
buildings and estates—these are some of the
questions which are included under this large
phrase. But the foundation principle, upon
which the whole repose, is involved in this one
question :
, Was the ancient principle the truo one,
which still rules throughout the old kingdoms
'of the earth, that States had a religious obli-
gation, and were bound to maintain and sup-
port the Truth ?
Or is the modern theory the right one,
which is adopted in the American Republic,
and scarcely anywhere else, that Govern-
ments have nothing to do with religion,
nor any other duties besides those
connected with the protection of life and
property ? We know that many states-
men' shrink from the very mention of such
question's as these, and trust that such a con-
troversy may not be forced on in their time.
But this is a delusive hope. The tide is
hurrying us forward, and it will be our wiser
course to take soundings, and find out
whither we are going, rather than to drift
blindly on, till we get upon a sandbank, or
strike upon some dangerous reef.
The two Bills of the present session which
rest upon the American principle have been
carried in the Commons by large majorities ;
and yet nothing can be more certain than that
a majority of those who supported those Bills
did not really intend to espouse the principle
upon which those two measures were founded.
A great number of those who supported the
Bill for the abolition of Church-rates were
Churchmen. These were partly coerced by
their Dissenting constituents, and partly be-
fooled by assurances that " the Church would
" be far stronger if this unpopular impost
" were got rid of." The Oaths Bill was forced
forward by Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S assurances
that Parliament would be as much a Christian
assembly if two or three Jews were admitted
as it is now ; just as England is a Christian
nation, though several thousands of Jews
' abide in it. Thus the principle which lies at