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I never care to look at them through a microscope. What has he been
doing ? Turning Quaker again ?
Lord J.: I wish he had. But no such luck. He has turned rebel.
Lord P.: The deuce ! Can we hang him? If it lies with me to direct
a prosecution I'll send a message to Cockburn by the first person who
passes ua—here—by these young ladies, if you like. I dare say Sir
Al2c will excuse the informality.
Lord J.: Do be quiet, I ask you. Lucas has rebelled, not after
S nith O'Brien's fashion—he knows better—but against his own
bishops. A certain Irish priest has been ordered by his ecclesiastical
superiors to take no part in future in political matters.
Lord P.: A very proper order. I myself am a capital Protestant,
as you know, but I would go over, like Wilb,irforce—at least, for a
mcntli or so—if the Catholic bishops would tempt me by making such
an order on all the priests of Ireland.
Lord J.: Ah ! But Lucas does not approve of what his pastors
and masters have done, and he has been holding a meeting, and de-
claring that though he holds the bishops in the most preternatoral
awe, and has always been a devoted and obedient son of the Church—
Lord P.: Always ? Since he turned down his collars, of course.
Lord J.: He said in his speech always, and, for aught I know, his
Friend-ship may have been a penance. But he went on to say that,
notwithstanding all this profound reverence and abject respect, and
all that, he is not going to allow the bishops to dictate in that manner,
and that no bishop that ever made his mark shall prevent him, Lucas,
from exercising a Catholic's right of appeal to the Pope, and so he and
his tail are about to beseech the Pope to upset the decision of the
bishops.
Lord P.: Well, my dear fellow, when some folks fall out, some
other folks get their own. It seems to me that whatever feeling we
can have in reference to the affair is comprised in that consolatory
proverb. You look grave. You don't think so ? Projecting your mind
into futurity, you come bump up against something you don't like?
Lord J.: Why, I don't know that the matter is one of immediate
difficulty, but you cannot help seeing that if there is about to be a
religious split—which of course involves a political one—in the bri-
gade, the position of the brigade's betters is complicated. In other
words, if Lucas and his set attack the bishops, another squad will
stand by them—be sure of that. Then, as the Irish never follow the
wholesome advice to wash one's used linen in one's own house—
Lord P. (mischievously) : Give it us in the French—come--your
accent is so pure, you know.
Lord J. (not enraged) : They will bring it into ours. And if Henry
Drummond lets them—and us—off without forcing the question to a
definite issue, and into the lobby, I'll eat the church in Gordon-square.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1854.

POSTSCRIPT.
WAR AM) DIPLOMACY.
Fresh reports of military and diplomatic movement
were current in Paris yesterday. Intelligence was
said to have arrived that strong bodies of Russian
troops were concentrating at Taraspal on the Dneis
ter, and along the eastern frontier of the province of
Kherson, for the purpose of supplying reinforcements
to the Crimea. Suspicious intrigues were again said
to be proceeding among the German powers. Austria
is stated to have made conciliatory advances to
Prussia, in consequence of having received the like
from Russia. Count Esterhazy is reported to have
been the messenger of these overtures to the Court
of Berlin, while the King of Prussia, it is armed,
sent off another note to St.. Petersburg, urging the
Emperor Nicholas to accept the " four points," not,
however, so much in the hope that peace would then
be obtained, but because his continued refusal on
that point rendered matters complicated between the
two German Courts. Altogether the symptoms are
believed to show that the Emperor Francis Joseph
will give at best a most reluctant support to the
Western powers.
The Presse contains a despatch from M. Man-
teuffel, the Prussian Minister, to the Prussian Am-
bassador in London, from which it appears that his
Majesty is anxious to reopen the Congress of the
Four Powers at Vienna; hut, while he promises to
give his moral support to the four points, he dis-

tinetly refuses to enforce them by milittary co-ope-
ration.
The Emperor and Empress of France have post-
poned their visit to Compiegne till after the arrival
of some definitive news from the Crimea. On Wed
nesday they went to Versailles, where they inspected
the alterations recently made in the museums.

The last accounts from Spain are rather threat
ening. They report that the Carlists are preparing
for a rising in Lower Aragon, Catalonia, and Navarre.
The Clamor Public° says :—" France, like England,
and in accord with her, is to send a strong squadron
to Cuba, to protect it, if necessary, irt.m any attack
by the United States."
Letters from Lisbon of the 29th ult. have arrived
by the Madrid steamer, but they are destitute of
interest.

The alleged capture of Lord Dunkellin is con-
tradicted by the Morning Post. Our contemporary
says :
We believe we may state with confidence that the fautily
of this young nobleman have been specially favoured by
the Government with the intelligence that there is no
truth whatever in the statement that Lord Dunkellin had
fallen into the hands of the Russians. Other news equally
satisfactory, and of larger importance, Inuit also have been
received by the Government, but they do not choose to
communicate it even to their organs. We shall see if it
will ooze out in a few days.

The Rev. R. J. Wilberforce, late vicar of Burton
Agnes, Yorkshire, and ex-Archdeacon of the East
Riding. has been received into the Roman Catholic
Church. Ile left London last week, in company
with the Right Rev. Dr. Grant, of Southwark, for
Paris, where his reception took place. Mr. Wilber-
force was formerly fellow of Oriel College, Oxford,
where he graduated in 1823, taking a double tirst-
class. He was for some time tutor of his college,
conjointly with Dr. Newman, and, up to a very i ecent
period, was one of the select preachers of the
university. He was also public examiner in 1828.
From the time of the decision in the Gorham case,
in 1850, he has been more or less unsettled in mind
on the subject of the royal supremacy in spiritual
matters, on the subject of which he issued a circular
to the English clergy, in conjunction with Mr.
Manning and the late Dr. Mill, in 1850. Mr. Wil-
berforce is known to the public as the author of
" The Five Empires," " The History of Erastianism,"
and a work on " The Incarnation," as well as his
more recent treatises on "The Eucharist " and " The

SATURDAY;

Lord P.: That would he a feat, even by a member of the illus-
trious house of Bedford, which has rather thriven on ecclesiastical
food.
Lord J.: Never mind that. Do you see what I mean ?
Lord P.: Yes, to be sure. But Ido not see that the affair can be
productive of ultimate mischief. I don't believe, first, that the parties
most interested will allow the matter to go to extremes, because the
Church of Rome understands your linge sale doctrine, if Irishmen
do not. Next, I do not see how we can be placed in a disad-
vantageous position, even if the thing is pushed to the utmost.
Suppose that Drummond, if you like, moves for an address on the
subject?
Lord J.: Well—and asks for a declaration, either thatthe bishops
have no right to interfere with the political liberty of one of the
Queen's lieges, or that the Pope of Room hath no authority to decide
whether a British subject's rights shall or shall not be placed in
abeyance. He will appeal to the Protestant and constitutional feeling
of the House—and it will not be an easy thing, my dear Palmerston,
to get out of that fix without damage. Objecting to " abstract propo-
sitions " is all very well and useful, as Gladstone knows, but sometimes
the House gets sick of conventionalities and shuffles, and then a
divi-
sion means an expression of opinion.
Lord P.: Ha ! ha! ha! My dear Russell, you are John Bunyan's
real original Littlefaith, and you live at Dreary Corner, near
Faintheart Lane. We'll find an answer for you, when the time
comes.
Lord J.: Tell it me now. It would comfort me greatly.
Lord P.: Why, thero are a hundred answers. But here is one
which will do as well as a hundred—indeed, as well as two hundred
and eighty, for it will silence the Conservatives.
Lord J.: Ah ! Lets have that.
Lord P.: Ha ! ha! THE WAR.
Lord J.: The War?
Lord P.: Of course. I hear you saying it. " While thousands of
gallant soldiers, sailors, and marines, members of the Roman branch
of the Church, are unhesitatingly shedding their best blood for their
sovereign and their country, is this a time to brand their hierarchy
with a stain, or to affix a blot upon the tiara of their spiritual
head ?"
Lord J. (in eostacy): Capital, capital, only I don't speak in
that pompous tone. That's capital. Now, if you'll come into Farrance's
I'll treat you with an ice, in repayment of the hint.
Lord P.: Thank you—but here comes Abby. Five minutes with
him answers all the purpose of ice, and saves a shilling.
[They advance to meet the P—r.

Royal Supremacy ;" the latter of which must be takes
as expressing the reasons which induced him to
abandon the English Church. Mr. Robert Wil-
berforce is the second son of the late William
Wilberforce, and elder brother of the Bishop of
Oxford.
THE OFFICERS OF THE GUARDS are about to erect
a cenotaph to the memory of their departed com-
panion in arms, the late Captain Viscount Chewton,
who died from the effects of his wounds received at
the Alma. The monument will be placed in the
military chapel at the Birdcage walk, close to that of
Major Fitzroy Somerset, eldest son of Lord Raglan,
who died gallantly fighting at the Battle of Moodkee.
The official report of Professor Taylor, who was
sent by Government to investigate the cause of the
disastrous explosion which occurred recently at
Gateshead, has been published. Professor Taylor
traces the calamity to an explosion of gaseous matter
disengaged by the fusion of sulphur and nitrate of
soda. He asserts that the traces left show no signs
of any gunpowder having exploded, according to the
current belief at the time.
THE AnvowsoN OF UPHAM, in Hants, worth 700/.
per annum, and just vacant by the death of the Rev.
J. Haygarth, was one of the livings assigned as
maintenance for the Hospital of St. Cross. Hitherto
the Bishops of Winchester have presented to this
living, but it is said that notices have been sent to
Mr. Fearon, solicitor to the Attorney-General, in
order that steps may be taken to inhibit the bishop
from collating any successor to the advowson until
the lElgal qestions now pending are determined.
CAUTIONS how to navigate during fogs have been
issued by the Perinsula Oriental Steam Navigation
Company to their commanders. Whenever the
atmosphere is so dense that objects cannot be seen,
at least at quarter of a mile off, the vessels are to be
reduced to half speed, and slacked still more, and
even stopped altogether, if the fog becomes worse.
The steam-whistles are to be kept constantly sound-
ing during thick weather, and all the circumstances
recorded in the log-book. Infraction of these rules
is to be punished with dismissal from the company's
service.
Mn. TROLLOP?, son of the celebrated female
novelist, has been appointed surveyor of Belfast
post-office district. The gentleman who previously
filled this post has been pensioned at the income of
5001. a year.
In Limerick Mr. Sergeant O'Brien was returned
on Saturday without opposition to represent that city
in the Commons House of Parliament.