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Pin rat Volta.

THE GARRICK CLUB CASE, which promises to be
of considerable interest in literary and club circles,
and which will raise an important and novel point,
is to be tried by one of the common law courts, at
Westminster, probably during the sittings at nisi
pries after the present term. It arises out of the
dispute between Mr. Thackeray and Mr. Edmund
Yates, both members of the Garrick Club, which
arose under the following circumstances :—Under
the title of " Literary Talk," Mr. Yates published
an article having for its subject Mr. W. M.
Thackeray, and thus described " his appearance "
"Mr. Thackeray is forty six years old, though from
the silvery whiteness of his hair be appears some
what older. He is very tall, standing upwards of six
feet two inches, and, as he walks erect, his height
makes him conspicuous in every assembly. His
face is bloodless, and not particularly expressive, but
remarkable for the fracture of the bridge of his nose,
the result of an accident in youth. He wears a
small grey whisker, but otherwise is clean shaven.
No one meeting him would fail to recognize in him
a gentleman. His bearing is cold and uninviting ;
his style of conversation either openly cynical or
affectedly good-natured and benevolent; his bon•
bommie is forced, his wit biting, his pride easily
touched, but his appearance is invariably that of a
cool, suave, well bred gentleman, who, whatever may
be rankling within, suffers no surface display of his
emotion." Mr. Yates then proceeded to comment on
Mr. Thackeray's genius :—" It was with the publica-
tion of the third and fourth numbers of Vanity
Fair' that be began to dawn upon a reading public
as a great genius." Then, " His success culminated
with tLActures on English Humorists of the
Eighteenth Century,' which were attended by all the
Court and fashion of London. the prices were
extravagant; the lecturer's adulation of birth and
position was extravagant; the success was extrava-
gant." The publication of the article in question
having been brought to the knowledge of Mr.
Thackeray, he wrote to Mr. Yates, with whom he 1 a 1
been on speaking terms as members of the same
club, in which he described the article " to be not
offensive and unfriendly merely, but slanderous and
.untrue." Mr. Thackeray concluded with the follow-
tog admonition—" I beg, as I have a right to do,
that you u will refrain from printing comments upon
BP' Private conversation, that you will forego discus
mon, however blundering, on my private affairs, and
that you will henceforth please to consider any
question of my personal truth and sincerity as
_
quite out of the province of your criticism." Mr.
Yates immediately rejoined by a letter, in which he
rejected Mr. Thackeray's " angry understanding "
of his phrases, adding, "If your letters were not
slanderous and untrue, I should readily have discussed
the subject with you, and avowed my earnest and
frank desire to set right anything I may have left
wrong." Mr. Thackeray then submitted the corre-
sliondence which bad passed between Mr. Yates and
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ate 64tircl.

THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S CHARGE.
THE BISHOP or LONDON, the, Right Rev. Archibald
Campbell Tait, delivered his Primary Visitation
Charge on Wednesday, at St. Paul's Cathedral, and
from a comparatively early hour the doors were
besieged by persons eager to gain admittance. Th•
privilege of the entrée was in the first instance con.
fined to the clergy, or those whose presence was
indispensable at the ceremony, but after the com-
mencement of the proceedings the public were
admitted indiscriminately, and free access was per-
mitted to the edifice throughout the day. At form( r
visitations the service has been performed in the
choir, and the Bishop has delivered his Charge from
the space within the railings of the communion-
table. On the present occasion, however, the pre-
liminary service took place and the Charge was
delivered in the vast area un.ler the magnificent
dome, which is in course of preparation for the con-
templated Sunday Evening Services. A considerable
space in the immediate vicinity of this rostrum was
reserved for the clergy, who attended in unprece-
dented numbers, it being computed that upwards of
1,000 were present during the day. There were,
also, beyond the space appropriated to the clergy of
the diocese, many hundreds of ;aytnen and ladies,
who evinced the utmost anxiety to hear the opinion
of the right rev. prelate upon those ecclesiastical
questions which at this moment excite so mueh
interest.

The BISHOP then read his Charge, of which the
following are the more essential portions. Having
referred to the great exertions of Dr. Blom&ld, the
late bishop of the diocese, and to the secular and
spiritual functions of the clergy, and their emolu•
ments, he proceeded to speak on the subject of
London, England, 1858-11-20

RITUALISTIC OBSERVANCES IN CHURCHES.

It would be foolish as well as useless to attempt to
conceal or overlook the fact that there are churches in
this, as in other dioceses, in which ritual observance is
carried to an unwise extreme. None, indeed, but those
who are afflicted with a morose Puritani.m will deny
that architecture and music, and the decorative arts, may
well be used in the cause of the Gospel. Our worship
will also be none the less spiritual because that part of it
which is necessarily ceremonial is clothed with the grave
comeliness which recommends itself to persons of refined
minds. When our Church purified itself from the corrup•
thins of Romanism, it raised no protest, such as some
other Reformed Churches have raised, ag dust the system
which had come down from remote antiquit‘, of enlisting
on the side of Christ the majestic or luvely beauty of the
arts—if by any means the eye, as well as the ear and the
intellect, might become a help to the soul's spiritual
emotions. Witness our great cathedrals, with their
majestic services, which our Reformers, instead of demo-
lishimr that they might build conventicles in their place,
purified of the dross, the hay, and the stubble, and
the tawdry decorations of a sensuous worship, that the
fine gold of the Gospel might hereafter be encased in such
a chastely simp;e but beautiful setting as well accorded
with its purity. Who has not felt, in rigid Presbyterian
countries, that a mistake has been made in this respect?
Indeed the most rigid Puritans have now learned that
there is no connection between want of taste and the
pure Gospel; and those who wish a national Church to be
really national, will always be very cautious that there
shall be as little as possible in its forms or in its teaching
harshly to check those aspirations of the heart and intel-
lect which, as they have nothing in theta that is sinful,
will ( many not unnaturally expect) receive their highest
development at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, when
all creation is made fit to welcome Him its King. I
shall not, then, be misunderstood, as if I were saying
anything to depreciate that attention to the outward
• of our worship which is a good thing in its way, or
as if I were ungrateful to those who have been the revivers
of a better ecclesiastical taste in this age, when I point
oul that some amongst us do barm by carrying their
London, England, 1858-11-20

THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 20, 1858.

such like ; and that, consequently, no medicine can
relieve it; but that it is caused by the mechanical
action of the bowels, which are made to vibrate by
the heaving and pitching of the vessel, and to strike
against the diapbgram. The liver and gall•Lladder,
thus exposed to repeated percussion, emit a larger
quantity of bile than usual, and retching is the ne-
cessary consequence. M. Jobard, therefore, simply
proposes to tie down the intestines so as to prevent
their jolting, which may be effectually done by two
belts, one passing under the thorax, and the other
between the legs.
M. DE ROTHSCHILD, according to a Paris letter in
the Brussels Independance, has sent through the re-
presentative of his house in the Pontifical States, the
sum of 10,000 francs to M. Mortara, to enable him
to continue his exertions for the restitution of his
child, without sacrificing the interests of his family.
THE GREAT BELL OF WESTMINSTER has, at length,
been finally hung in its appointed position in the
clock•tower, and was on Thursday rung for the first
time in its new position. The rope of the clapper
was passed down to the clock chamber, where Mr.
Denison, setting to work with a will, made the bell
speak in tones not likely to be forgotten soon by those
who heard them in the belfry. The first stroke was
slight, but afterwards it came peal after peal in a
tremendous volume of sound that was actually pain-
ful. It seemed to swell and grow upon the air with
a vibration that thrilled every bone in the listener's
body with a painful jar, becoming louder and louder
with each gigantic clang, till one shrunk from the
awful reverberations as from something tangible and
dangerous to meet. Many went upon the balustrade
outside the chamber to avoid the waves of sound that
seemed eddying round the tower ; but the escape was
only a partial relief, the great din seeming almost to
penetrate the stone work of the battlements, and jar
the very place in which one stood. The first strokes
seemed to create an immense sensation in the streets
below, and upturned faces, dotted allover Palace-yard,
amid the rows of cabs, that looked as little as peram.
bulators, with a good sprinkling of loungers who
came out from Westminster-hall, at once showed the
interest that was taken in the great bell's maiden
speech. After the first attempt by Mr. Denison the
hell was struck slower but with greater force by two
or three workmen, and this elicited the whole of his
tremendous tones to the greatest extent, till the
sound was something most awful, floating about the
tower and slowly dying away like the note of a soft
trumpet, till it sunk to a deep rich hum that hung
about the bell long after the stroke bad ceased. In
Palacayard, or still better in the Park, the harshness
and uproar of the notes were modulated to a heavy
deep and rather melancholy sound, not less solemn
than those of St. Paul's, but infinitely fuller and
grander.
London, England, 1858-11-20

THE BISHOP OF LONDON.

To be overrated is, at all times, a serious misfor-
tune ; to be underrated, though mortifying at the
onset, is, in the long run, no great calamity to
any man, and to some men it is of essential
service. It has proved so, at any rate, to Dr.
TAIT, whose Visitation Charge, delivered on
Wednesday last to the metropolitan clergy, has
come upon that important body, and upon the
London, England, 1858-11-20

Baba! 10 Silitarg nteiligenct.

THE Gus, with harness and complete equipment
ror the field, given by the Emperor of the French to
her Majesty, was received by the Queen at Windsor
on Tut sday from Marshal the Duke of Malakoff.
The gun, which is a twelve. pounder, beautifully
finished, had been sent over to England under
the
e
charge of Major Melchior, of the Artillery of
French Imperial Guard, who explained to her
Majesty the particulars of the gun, which was after-
wards marched and trotted past her Majesty in the
A MONUMENT to the memory of the officers
quadrangle.
Royal Artillery who fell in action during the Crimean
war will shortly be oommeacea on Woolwioh•comeleu
of the
(renting the Royal artillery Wrecks.
London, England, 1858-11-20

GLENCOE.-A DRAMATIC FRAOMRST.

SCINE.—The Heights of Glencoe on the eve of the ma<sacre.
A phantom in the garb of a chieftain appears on a ledge of
rock, gazing keenly down into the valley with eager and
excited gestures. ( Speaks.]
Still dark, dark, dark! Curse on the moon! My
children !
0 God, that I could spe ik to warn them ! Hist !
Nay, 'twas my tancy : all is still as death—
And shall be till the hour of death. Ye heavens,
So calm and silent, where i 4 God ? Where ? where ?
He heeds not. Oh, my children !
[ Shrieks are heard from below.]
These shrieks were probably from the
printers —.

Tales from "Blackwood." Vol. 11.

London :

Blackwoods.
THIS serial republication, which has now reached its
eighth number, has proved a decided success.
Richly hum n•ous without either coarseness or
bitterness, powerfully tragic without being bombastic,
and deeply touching without any taint of maudling,
the tales at present issued seem to promise one of
the most delightful miscellanies in the language.
But indyendently of their intrinsic merits and
popular interest, they possess a peculiar charm for
men of letters tis a sort of index of taste and manners
during the last eventful half-century. Between the
humour of Maginn and Colonel Hamley, for instance,
the difference is as strongly marked as between the
sentiment of Mrs. Southey and Miss Oliphant.
The one is evidently a relic of the old times, when
drink, duns, and stealily recurring difficulties upon
the subject of dinner, was the common atmosphere
of many a gentleman of good parts and education,
and formed the staple element in the comic literature
of the day. The other is the quiet and decorous
slyness which marks the foibles of respectability,
feeds upon the weaknesses of jolly old gentlemen,
and has altogether an air of good society about it.
We have been wonderfully entertained by the ever
recurring jokes of the Doctor upon his favourite
topics. Bob Burke fights a duel with Ensign Brady ;
the life of the latter is preserved by a five-shilling
piece in his waistcoat pocket, "though where be go;
tt from," says the narrator, " was never accounted
for." When the story of the said encounter is con•
eluded at a friend's chambers in the temple, one of
the party observes that it is time for dinner, and
s' has any body the slightest idea where dinner is to
"be raised? To this no answer was returned, and
we all began to reflect with the utmost intensity."
Rd, again, in the account of a banquet at the
chambers of the same gentleman, Jack Ginger by
same, the wine is obtained by craft from a
confiding tradesman, who is never paid. The cheese
is procure I upon the same principles ; and at night
some ejsters are raised for supper " by superhuman
exertions." A party of seven consume a co i's head
an l shoulders, a whole leg of boiled pork, an immense
pi ce of beef, with cheese and celery to correspond,
a gallon of beer, six bottles of' port, and six bottles
of whisky. The host wishes to give his servant some
London, England, 1858-11-20

gionN itlarket an o:it2 ;tttelligtate.

FRIDAY EVENING.
Tna retain of the Bank of England for the week
ending Wednesday last, the 17th inst., shows the
following changes compared with that for the week
preceding :

Decrease in Circulation
Increase in Public Deposits 148,39/
Increase in Other Deposits..
Increase in Securities
Increase in Bullion
Increase in Rest
Increase in Reserve
Bullion in both Departments
Circulation, including Bank Post
B 9s 21,552,123
This comparison is not unfavourable, though the
changes shown by it do not possess any special im-
portance. The Bullion has increased to a greater
amount than was anticipated, notwithstanding consi-
derable foreign exports, and the aggregate is still
large. The audition to the Private Deposits is
caused by payments on Indian account ; and as the
Public Deposits continue to enlarge the Reserve has
increased in proportion. The return still bears con-
clusive evidence of the Bank doing but little busi-
ness in the way of discounts.
The condition of the Money Market is not essen-
London, England, 1858-11-20

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London, England, 1858-11-20

rtirogalitan.

THE GoVERNMENT MEASURE or CORPORATIor
REFORM was reported on at a special Court of
the Common Council on Monday. This being the
first meeting in the new mayoralty, the Lord MsPr
made a short speech to the court, and was loudly
oration
cheered. Mr. J. Wood, chairman of the Corp
Inquiry Committee, brought up the report from that
committee, which was read by the deputy town clerk.
Mr. Wood then, in moving that the report be agreed
to, gave an account of the proceedings of the corn.
mittee, which gave rise to a long discussion, and Mr.
Ferrer moved, as an amendment, that it be added at
the end of the report, " That before
agreeing to anY
proposition or arrangement the committee obeli

111.0.17,

report the same to this court." After discussing the
motion and amendment the latter was put and carried
by a large majonty; but Mr. Cox calling for a divi-
sion, the court divided, when there appeared for the
affirmative, 67: negative, 36—majority, 22. The
amendment was consequently carried. Notice of a
motion for the establishment of drinking fountains
in the City was then given, and the court separated.
THE BOT•L GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY wilt hold a
meeting at half-past eight on Monday evening next.,
at Burlington-house, Piccadilly, Sir Roderick I.
Murchison, President, in the chair. The following
papers will be read :-1. Notes, Geographical and
Commercial, on the Gulf of Pecbeli and the Peilio
River, by Captain Sherard Osborn, R.N., F.R.G.S.,
H.M.S. Furious; 2. Leichardt and the Australian
Desert, by the Rev. W. B. Clarke, of Sydney, F.R.G.S.
THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM was visited
during the week ending 13th November, 1858, by
7,335 persons.
IHE BIRTHS of 910 boys and 904 girls, in all 1,814
children, were registered last week in London.
Under the influence of cold air and fogs the mortality
has much increased. The deaths registered in
London were in the two previous weeks 1,133 and
1,217 ; in the last week they rose to 1,349. Scarlatina
is still very fatal, the deaths from it last week being
145, nearly double the average rate.
London, England, 1858-11-20

ST. MARTIN'S HALL.

MR. Huu.aa commenced his annual series of con-
certs on Wednesday evening with Mendelason's
oratorio of St. Paid, the principal vocalists being
Mdlle. de Villars; Mdlle. Bebrends, Mr. Arthursat,,
Mr. Barnby, and Mr. Sautley. The general per-
formance was not of a high order of merit, and
offered but very few points upon which criticism
might dwell with any advantage to Mr. Hullah or
his artists. The great hall has at length been deco-
rated, and is now much improved in every respect.

pram.

TIIE OLYMPIC.

AT this theatre the Red Vial has, as we prognosti-
cated, ceased to pour forth its horrors, and the hill
of fare for the past week has been A Doubtful
Victory, A Thumping Legacy, and Boots at the Swan.
Mr. I‘lorton's well known farce of the Thumping
Legacy was reproduced in capital style, and when we
say that Mr. Robson, in the part of Jerry Ominous,
is on the stage during the whole of its performance,
it may be imagined that from his first entrance in
his over•pegged topped trousers and extraordinary
travelling cap, to the conclusion of the piece, the
audience is convulsed with laughter. The farce was
in all other respects well supported, and we must
not omit to accord to Miss Herbert, as Rossetta, the
meed of praise she deserves for her clever rendering
of the part. We hope soon to see this young lady,
who to her other attractions adds those of a ladylike
and elegant figure and handsome face, and who in
Glasgow "won golden opinions from all kind of
' play going ' folk," in characters affording more scope
for the exercise of her talents than those hitherto
allotted to her on this stage. Boots at the Swan has
been again produced, and Mr. Robson by his inimit-
able delineation of the BOOM, " disguised in blue
and liquor," sent home the audience in good temper.
The "minor part of Sally," formerly so cleverly
played by Mrs. Emden, lost nothing by being
transferred to the pretty and unobtrusive Miss Eleanor
Bromley.
London, England, 1858-11-20

It is scarcely possible to conceive or to have
put forward an aspect of the circumstances more
calculated to touch the feelings and engage the
support of Englishmen. We shall show poorly,
no doubt, by the side of these enthusiasts, and
for the present, at all events, we run the risk
probably of being declared guilty of cynicism
and incredulity, while our interpretation of this
famous pamphlet and its real objects will be pro-
nounced ingenious but far-fetched and fantastic.
We are convinced we are right, and every ad-
ditional examination of the works of M. DE MON-
TALEMBERT, and of the authors upon whom he
relies and to whom he refers, strengthens that
conviction.

We do not underrate the powers of intellect
of M. DE MONTALEMBERT, nor of XAVIER, nor of
DE MAISTRE. We recognize in them men of the
highest clam of talent, and of the most unshakeable
tenacity of purpose. We see, but not quite as
others see, that M. DE MONTALEMBERT, sometime
editor of the 1 Avenir, the opponent
_ of the educa-
tional measures of M. DE VILLEMAIN in 1842,
the author of the " Catholic Manifesto " in 1843,
and the inaugurator of the funeral service at
LATEST EDITION.
London, England, 1858-11-20

3rtlanb.

THE WILH LOVE• CHASE of Mr. John Carden, of
Baritone, in the county of Tipperary, is the subject
of pamphlet defending his pursuit of Miss Eleanor
Arbuthnot. Mr. Carden, who is a gentleman of
considerable property, and over fifty, having re-
counted the proceedings already familiar to the
Public, says, with respect. to the " laconic and decided
refusal " to see him, mentioned in Miss Arbuthnot's
information :

The laconic refusal alluded to in the information was
in reply to a letter of mine addressed to Mr. Gough, re-
fpiesting to be readmitted to the house. It consisted of
the word "No with the initials "E. L. A." in the middle
of a sheet of note paper. I did not attach importance to
it, conceiving that she had acted under influence.
Yet, after this and similar repulses from a lady
who declared, with all the solemnity of an oath, that
she "entertained the greatest aversion to the said
Bohn Carden," he persevered. Speaking of his Un-
Orlionment he says ;
London, England, 1858-11-20

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. .

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THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 20, 1858.

JAPAN AND PEXIN.
Post Bvo., Bs.,

1143

THE MANNERS and CUSTOMS of the
JAPANESE in the NINETEENLII CENTURY.
Described from the Accounts of recent Dutch Travellers,
especially the Narrative of VON SIEBOLD.

Post Svo., 23. lid.,

THE COURT OF PEKIN:
Memoirs of Father RIPA during Thirteen Years' Resi-
dence at the Court of Pekin, in the service of the Emperor
of China. Translated by FORTUNATO PRANDI.

JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle. Street.

SCHOOL HISTORIES OF ENGLAND, GREECE,
AND ROLE.
On November 30th,

THE STUDENT'S HUME:
i a History of England from the Invasion of Julius
Cesar to the Revolution of 1888.

By DAVID HUME.
Abridged, incorporating the Researches of Recent His-
torians, and continued to the present Time. Illustrated
with Woodcuts. Poet Bvo., 7s. Bd., black cloth, red edges.

•" This work is designed to supply a long acknowledged want
In our School and College Literature—a litnieneis History of
England in a volume of moderate size, free from sectarian and
party prejudice, containing the results of the hes of the
best mt.dern historians. tracing more particularly the develop-
ment of the Constitution, an 1 bringing out prominently the
characters and actions of the great men of our country."—
Editor's Preface.
London, England, 1858-11-20

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The Conditions of the Revised Contract, to which particular
attention is called, may be seen at the said Office, and at
Liverpool and Bristol. No Tender will be received after Half-
past One o'Clock on the day of Treaty, and it will not be
required that the Party tendering, or an Agent on his behalf.
should attend at the Office on the day of Contract, as the result
of the offer received front each Person will be communicated to
him and bin pi °posed Sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be a.idreased to the Seere tarY of the
Admiralty, and bear In the left-hand corner the words " Tender
for Hoops," and lutist also be delivered at Somerset loupe.
London, England, 1858-11-20

7,ONFESSION.

I feel myself justillee', then, in asserting that as our
formularies give no authority for a systematic private
confession, so a fsir•minied student of the great Church
of England divines would not rise from a careful perusal
of their writings with a ck nviction that our Church has
put forth for its presbyters those arrogant claims of priestly
authority which Protestant justly regard as the reproach
of the Church of Rome. Bit we now live in an age give.'
to restless extremes. And I do not hesitate to say that
there is great danger lest some of our young clergy
especially—and some alas w,io are old enough to know
better, often led away by their juniors—claim for them-
selves priestly rights which are both alien to the whole
spirit of our Church's teaching, and have no warrant
whatsoever in the Word of God. My reverend brethren, it
is my firm belief that there is d inger amongst us lest a
mole rf teaching may gain ground which, as it would so
exalt the sacraments administered by the clergy as to turn
then into superstitious charms, 'you'd make the clergy
themselves spiritual despots over tie laity. You know
that, at this moment, a deep slant pervades the country
lest the habitual establishment of the Confessional, as a
means of priestly influence, may be employed to give
men who thus unduly magnify ther office an influence
subversive of the legitimate exercise 1•f individuals of the
duties of the Christian conscience, aid dangerous to the
peace of families. I believe that this alarm is exaggerated.
Comparatively very few persons wild. to introduce the
Confessional into our system ; and the authorities of the
Church, I am persuaded, are quite alive to the danger.
London, England, 1858-11-20

V robintial.

TUE REFORMERS OF BIRMINGHAM have held
meeting, at which many of the most influential
residents of the town were present ; and the chair
was taken by Mr. P. H. Muntz. A resolution was
adopted expressing the opinion that Mr. Bright
should be supported by the " combined energies " of
the Liberals of Birmingham. Another resolution
originated an association by which that cooperation
might be effectually rendered.
TRE STATUE to Dr. Isaac Barrow, the companion
statue to Lord Baton and Sir Isaac Newton, was on
Tuesday erected in the ante•hall to the chapel of
Trinity College, Cambridge. The statue, which is by
Mr. Matthew Noble, represents Dr. Barrow with a
pair of compasses in one hand, denoting his mathe-
matical predilections, and a vo:inne of sermons in
the other, suggestive of his celebrity as a divine,
and more particularly of the copiousness and luxu-
riance of his style in this class of composition. Dr.
Whewell has undertaken to supply the inscription,
and the Marquis of Lansdowne, the donor, is shortly
expected on a visit to that gentleman to view the
statue in its resting•place.
THE BIRMINGHAM CATTLE SHOW, at Bingley-ball,
opens on Monday, the 29th of this month. The
prospects of the show are highly encouraging. The
entries of cattle are equal to those of last year, the
sheep are more numerous, and the entries of poultry
are considerably in excess, especially in the depart-
neat allotted to pigeons. The entries of pigs are
fewer; but this deficiency is more than compensated
cy the increase in sheep, a point of great importance.
fhe arrangements in regard to admissions are
resumed on the usual liberal scale, and entitle the
council to the support which they ask from the town
and district generally.
A DEPUTATION FROM THE HoP PLANTERS of Kent
and Sussex attended, according to appointment, at
the Treasury, Whitehall, on Tuesday, for the pur.
pose of soliciting her Majesty's Government to
relieve the growers of the duty on hops. The Earl
of Derby and the Chancellor of the Exchequer
having been called to Windsor, the deputation was
received by Mr. G. A. Hamilton, M.P., Chief
Secretary to the Treasury. Having listened to the
statements of the deputation, Mr. Hamilton said he
would lay all the /natters which had been brought
out before the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and, no
doubt, they would receive every consideration.
London, England, 1858-11-20

THE CASE OF MR. POOL;.

The Bishop, having adverted to the letter of Mr.
Poole explanatory of his views, expressed his opinion
that those who indulged in these exaggerated notions
as to the Confessional were unfaithful to the spirit
of the Church of which they were ministers; and
added, that if what they deemed a dangerous Fyste-
matio invitation and admission of their people to
confession was endeavoured to be maintained by any
clergyman in this diocese, he should feel bound to
watch his proceedings very carefully, and should
hold him most deeply responsible for any evils that
ensue, considering carefully in each particular case
what power the law gave him to correct what was
amiss.
London, England, 1858-11-20

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and it is likely that some of the Paris newspapers
will obtain permission to be sold on the Boulevards
and in other public thoroughfares, which will be a
great pecuniary advantage to them.

tortigit anD goloaiat clattlligente.

FRANCE.

The Times correspondent writes:—

It is said that the climate of London does not suit
Marshal Pelissier's health, and consequently that his
return to Paris is not far from probable. How far this is
the case I cannot decide. Marshal Pelissier's tastes and
occupations have been of a kind very different from what
they now are, and, though he has no reason to complain
of his reception in England, yet at his time of life a man
cannot easily adapt himself to new habits. Since the
meeting with the Duke d'Aumate, and the interesting
scene that then occurred, a few persona here nave, I doubt
me, none their best to give a false colouring to that
a lventure, which certainly does no discredit to Marshal
Pelissier—ciuite the contrary ; and if he makes up his
wind to return to Paris I should attribute it to that
incident rather than to anything else. In case of the post
becoming vanant there are some wild people who think
that M. Wolewski would be the one to fill it. I doubt this
much. I doubt whether, after all that has passed, alter
the too-celebrated despatch—the " assassination elevated
to a principle "—and the other amenities addtesaed to us
in that curious State paper—the Emperor would make
finch an appointment, or that, if he did so, the nominee
would venture to accept it. The partialities of a mere
Cabinet are not sufficient to neutralize the feeling of a
nation. I disbelieve the story, quite as much as if it were
said M. de Morns, or any of his complacent colonels (the
colonels of the addresses), was to be sent.

The Lionnes Pauvres of M. Emile Angier has
just been published. It is dedicated to Prince
Napoleon, without whose intervention it would never
have been performed, and is preceded by a preface
which makes some amusing revelations respecting
the dramatic censorship. Among other things, it is
said that the author made a femme de chambre say to
Madame Poinmeau, the lionne pauvre : "I hear
Monsieur Pomineau ; run to amuse him ; " and the
censorship wrote in the margin : " This is indecent."
After the phrase " Ask for a week's delay—there is
no Englishman so much no Arab as —," the censor-
ship wrote "An attack on the alliance." After the
phrase "These turpitudes are no secret to Punch"
was written the remark "Bad taste." "At all the
stages of society " they wrote " Dangerous." M.
Angier adds, " I ask pardon of the censors for
violating the secret of their deliberations, but they
have set the example by not keeping it themselves.
One of them even amused himself by going about
proclaiming everywhere that our piece was a tur-
pitude !"
London, England, 1858-06-26

HOUSE OF COMMONS-THURSDAY.

LONDON CORPORATION REGULATION BILL.
At the morning sitting, on the order fur going into
committee on this bill,
Mr. Ror.r moved, as an amendment, that the bill
be recommitted to the same select committee ; that
the petition of the corporation against the bill be
referred to the committee ; and that the corporation
be heard by counsel and witnesses before the com-
mittee on the allegations of their petition. In an
elaborate and a very forcible speech, he founded his
objections to the bill upon the proposition that it
interfered with the rights of property by taking away
from the corporation, without compensation and
witbont a hearing, dues which came within the