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London, England, 1858-07-06 00:00:00

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PARIS, WONDAT livaxnga.
The eighth meeting of the Paris Confereaoe is
fixed to take place on Wednesday next at Count
Walewaki's Chktean of Etiollee, near Fontainebleau.
The choice of this locality instead of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs in Paris, is, I think, an indication
that whatever differences may have hitherto pre-
vailed among the Plenipotentiaries are ia a fair
way of arrangement. It is soaroely oonoeivable
that Count Walewaki would have asked his brother
members of the Conference to take the trouble of
coming to his country house if he were at daggers
drawn (diplomatically) with any of them. He will,
of coarse, ask them to dinner, and indeed I cannot
help suspecting that the affair of the Danubian
Principalities, which alone, as the llionitsur has hem
careful to record, has occupied the attention of the
Conference this year, will be defnitively settled
under his roof. A toast to their "next merry
meeting" will no doubt be cordially drunk by the
company.

The Indications of • harmonious feeling in the
Conference, which seem to me unmistakeable, give
an interest to the following letter in the Nord of
Brussels touching the proceedings at the meeting of
Saturday last :

I believe that I can affirm that, in the seventh conference,
held this day, Lord Cowley =a to have presented a counter-
project to that of France, relative to the reorganisation of the
Principalities. That document has been drawn up with a
view of conciliation, and in order to prevent any painful rap-
ture, France having resolved on withdrawing in the event of
the policy of Austria continuing to dominate In the delibera-
tions. The counter-project of England entirely sets aside
the political union of the two provinces ; but it accords serious
guarantees oilliberty, and establishes on more independent and
notional bases the central committee which is to unite the two
Moldo-Wallachlan Divans, which committee is to be com-
posed of members elected by the two Danubian assemblies. I
do not enter into longer details, bat it will be seen that the
project of Lord Cowley opproeohee the ideas of the French
government. Surprise, therefore, need not be felt if the irri-
tation which, for some days, prevailed amongst the pleni-
potentiaries has begun to calm down. Baron de Hubner
and Fuad Pacha had on Friday a private conference of mass
than three hours' duration. The counter-project had been
communicated to them, and they examined it in every se-
pect. Austria has reflected on the consequences of the po-
licy d Couiranee which she has followed for some tiles, sod
before the meeting of the plenipotentiaries, the rumour was
generally credited that, in the Conference, Baron de Hub-
ner would be much lees difficult to treat with. If to-mcr-
row, or Monday, the Malangr do n.it break silence, there
will be every reason to think that the plenipotentiaries have
omen to an agreement, and that the Conference will not be
adjourned.

The report that the Queen of England is coming
to Cherbourg in August is confirmed in the follow-
ing terms by the Journal du Sarre :

The Emperor , it is said, has written from Plombierm to
Queen Victoria, to invite her Majesty to attend the fetes at
Cherbourg; and it is affirmed that the Queen has replied by
telegraph that her Majesty accepts the invitation, and will
be at Cherbourg en the 7th August, accompanied by Prince
Albert and the Earl of Malineebury, Minister of Foreign
Affairs. This news, of which we oan guarantee the bons fide
character, proves that the understanding between France
and England, if it were ever shaken, is at present as intimate
ever.

I have no private information on the subject ; I
can only say that the news is now almost universally
accepted u true.

I some time since mentioned incidentally that
immense sums of money had been laid out in re-
building the Elyate Palace, in order to prepare it
for an occasional residenoe for the Emperor. It is
now stated that the two adjoining mansions in the
Faubourg Bt. Honore have been purchased by the
government to afford accommodation for the entire
court while the Tuileries are under repair.
The aspect of the Bourse is brighter to-day than
it has been for a long time. The subscription for
the 75 million■ of railway obligetione is going on
swimmingly. It is understood that more than 35
millions were subscribed in Paris alone to-day, and
the subscription remains open till the 10th. It is
estimated that 300 or 400 millions will be the total
amount, and that all demands will have to suffer a
large abatement. The Rents rose 10c. for cash. and
20c. for account, closing at 68fr. 15c. and 081 r. 35c.
In the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. there was the
extraordinary rise of 2fr. for money. Mobilier rose
120% 60c. A large business was done in railway
shares. Orleans rose 13fr. 75c. ; Northern, 16fr. 50c.;
Lyons, 7fr. 50c.; and the other lines about Ur.

CHURCH AOOQIIMODATION IN THE NEI2O-
- AND IN POPULOUS TOWN&

This morning was issued a blue book of 635 pages,
containing, wfai copious minutes of evidence, the report
from the Select Committee of the House of Lords appointed
to inquire Into "the deficiency of means of spiritual intima-
tion and places of divine worship in the metropolis and in
other populous districts of England and Wales, especially in
the mining and manufacturing districts; and to consider the
fullest means of meeting the difficulties of the case."
The report commences with the metropolis ; 'setting forth
with detail the deficiency, In various p wishes, in please of
public worship. It seems from these statistics, that the
population of London being 2,382,236, ant the sittings
actually provided by all denominations being only 713,681,

or 29 i per cent., no fewer than 669,614, or
not much leas than half the whole flambee are
required to raise the sittings to 68 pzr cont. of the popula-
tion. It appears, further, that Middlesex, "the county,"
observe the committee, " whioh may be considered the an-
tral seat of the civilisation, the enterprise, the wealth end
power is well as of the government of this greet empire,
is actually the very lowest of all the counties of England in
the provision made for divine worship by all denomMations."
As regards the church of England, Middlesex is lowest of
all but two ; those two being the counties of Durham, having
provision for only 176 per cent., and Northumberland

18.1, Middlesex 18'7. Not the least striking portion
of the report on the metropolitan parishee is
that which relates to the intermediate district of
St. Clement Danes. in the Strand. The rector,
with two curate!, has the care of 17,000 souls in his parish
in which there is, as he states, " a frightful amount of infi-
delity; this is the crying evil they have to contend with—
infidelity in all its shapes, extending not only to the denying
of the Christian revelation," but even to the grossest and
darkest heathenism; " in fact they have not any idea of the
existenoe of a God. Being the centre of London," he oon-
Unties, " it seems to be the focus into which evil contracts
itself ; and then it is continually multiplying itself in my neigh-
bourhood, and then it discharges itself again into the out-
skirts of London." In a subsequent part of his examina-
tion, this witness stated that the large amount of infi-
delity In his district extends actually among the better
classes." Some of the very worst streets In London are in
his parish. Irreligion, in short, and vice, are so rampant
In it, that the rector, without adequate accommodation in
his chnroh, and without sufficient aid from curette, states
that it is quite Impossible for him to cope with the im-
mense amount of spiritual destitution around him, em-
phatically closing his testimony with these words, 'I do
not know what to do; it is a most painful position to
be in. "

The committee in recording the opinion that the increase
of churches is the metropolis ham been enormously dispro-
portioned to the increase of populatiou, comment on the im-
poverishing of laborious clergy men in the abstraction of en-
dowments by the operation of encoessive burial acts, and
point out this fact as a crying evil. They urge that compen-
sation should be granted in these canes. They recommend
also that in the many parishes when church rates cannot
be collected, the bishop should strongly encourage periodical
collections for defraying necessary expenses; end they also
recommend that something be done to protect the poorer
clergy from having their scanty incomes made still
more scanty by the difficulty and expense of
obtaining their legal duce. Filming from Loam
to the populous mining and manufacturing districts, the
committee proceed to notice tne most salient points in the
evidence of witnesses an to the ". spiritual destitution" 0 f
Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Bradford (the strongest
case, the committee say, which was brought before them,
when four clergymen have the spiritual charge of 80,000
persone), Middlesborough, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Lien-
doff. They that address themselves to • consideration of
fittest means of meeting the difficulties of the mac
In looking to the sources from which they anticipate aid
with regard to the metropolis, the first thing which presents
itself (say the committee) is the vested and expectant inte-
rest of the ECCilliaatiCla Commiesioners in certain large es-
tates formerly belonging to the dean and prebendaries of
the cathedral church of St. Paul's. Some of these are of
great value; In particular the prebend of Fiosbary, having
an income already of 7,0001. per minute, and the prospect
of eight or nine times that amount when a still subsisting
lease of the property shall have expired in the year 1888.
Other similar estates of much lees but still considerable
value will eventually be available. These, taken together,
would afford great means of relief, if they wars made pri-
marily applicable to the waste of the metropolis. It ap-
pears, however, that under the existing law the Bachelor.
tical Commissioners are not authorised, in considering the
various claims brought before them for the relief of spi-
ritual destitution, to give preference to the placed from
which a revenue is received (from any source except tithes).
We ere of opinion that the principle already applied to
tithes ought to be extended to property of other &emir'
lions. It seems to us that where church pro-

perty has become of great value from the pt:pu-
Wain assembled upon it the waste of that population form in
justice a first claim upon the proceeds of the property; and,
with respect to the metropolis, wears of opinion that this holds
true more especially. The whole metropolis oonetitu.ea
in fact one groat community, and it is the vast Morgue of
this community in the last century which hes both given its
present high vane to the houses and building land included
in than estates, and Is also the cause of the great spiritual
destitution of the metropolitan parishes. We are therefore
of opinion that the existing law should be so amended as to
direct the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to deal with the pro-
perty in question on the principle we have now described, so
far as this can be done without interfering with charges and
obligations created by parliament, or already incurred by the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In making this recommenda-
tion, we assume that in all caste, exoept those of extreme
destitution, the grants of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners

should only be Made on condition of their being mot by pri-
vate benefactions in the manner hereafter described.

The anion of the income of certain churches in
the City of London would probably "be approved by all.
The sale of the mites, however valuaule they may be, can only
be recommended with due regard to the feeling.' of the parish-
toners end the peculiar circumstances of the owe." The
committee (ben refer to certain expedients which have been
adopted by clergymen in certain partakes, and which hays re-
sulted in increasing the congregations and the number of

communicants. The ooruMittee thick it amirable that the
bishops should be able to authorise short services ht the
chorea where It seems advisable, and to multiply the
services—providing church accommodation by the opening of
plies at those services to the parishioners generally.
The spiritual wants of the populous districts in the
provisoes, proceeding generally from the overgrowth of
population, caused by the mining, the mannfactoring, and the
commercial enterprise of the country—the necessity ought to
be relieved, in the opinion of the committee, by the employees
of that labour, .We often bear it said that the fonds in
the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners ought tis pro-
vide the means of spiritual instruction for the denselipsoi)led
towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire. We are far tram re-
commending that no such aid should be given, especially
when there is a hope of stimulating the elertionb of mill-
owners and other great employers of labour; but brj, recol-
lected; that not lees than 600,0001. has been elree4 Oen
from that quarter to the mining end manufacancimr dis-
tricts; for all or almost all the 200 andownereMP which
lt
have been given under Sir Robert Peel's Act, been
to given those districts, thus crippling to a grey tent
the power of the oommimioners to act elsewhere. i,, The
committee, in oonsideriog the duty of enipklers
to attend to the spiritual interest of those who Moue
for them, call special attention to the ease of the Wool-
wich Arsenal ; concluding 111 statement of Lots by Illifelle•
fag an earnest hope that the Secretary for the Wee De-
partment will urge most strongly upon the Treseery the
claims of the workmen in the Arsenal for adequate spi-
ritual instruction.

In connexion with the great towns of Roglaud, it is
slated in a letter of the Rev. Dr. Hook to the Bishop of
Ripen, which Is printed in the appendix to the report, that
it is snob to be lamented that the best educated of the clergy
are not am:softly found in the great manufacturing towns
where their influence is most required. " This Wade,"
add the ootamittea, "to the consideretion of the
great Importantly el providing generally, so far
as may be lwaetiseble, for the better endowment of
livings la large towns, la order that there may be greater
iniamment to elegyesen at ability end experience to wept
the charge of populations so carefamenmosrL"
The pew system is notified at ease lawitk. The body of
every church hake" of seemes *he, to all the
att,Tsot "this right," saps lie overt, "cannel
. defeated by env jlesinhimi stirreleilon of
particolar !gam& • • thakapory, by sr las largest
number of ebonies •
in the •deeseippeepiei &Wide as
not parish obarebee miler the =wen law. Wit hew area
in many of oar pest towns, apidelly Bireirsersos sad
Mesciereter. sad Liverpool. low lejerlise es
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future* of time pace, Um ended,* puillis hap vesesiL We
caned abstain ham =rumba is ism* bops SW saw

plea may be devised by which every church in the land may
be mode to be what ft ought to be, a common sanctuary he
which the rich and poor meet together."
On one particular almost all are agreed—viz., that
" the great want of our church is the weal
of more clergymen, not merely for multiplying
the opportunities of public worship, but far more for pastoral
Tinting." To supply this want throughout the land demands
• very large amount of funds, for, " as the lowest stipend of
a clergyman ought not to be lees than 1001., the perma-
nent supply of an endowment for every additional clergy-
man would cost 9,000/. ; and as by • very low estimate a
thousand additional clergymen are required, not less than
8,000,0001. would satiety the demand. And such as endow-
meet as the atieinruss ought to be, in every parish, indepen-
dent of all voluntary collections, for such collectioes
cannot fail to have a prejudicial effect on the
energise of the most zealous and able minister."
On the method by which the three millions of money
are to be raised, the committee say that they are not
prepared, " for obvious reasons," to recommend any applies-
tien for a grant of public money, but they deem it their
duty to recall the attention of parliament to the recommenda-
tion of the commissioners foe the subdivision of parishes to
1861, that • fund be mimed by the gale of benellossin the gift
of the Lord Chancellor. Having mentioned the fact that at
present about 82,0001. • year ts devoted by the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners to meeting the spirituel destitution of the
country, the committee conclude their report in the fol-
lowing terms :
" Without voluntary aid, to the full extent of the Win
mentioned above, the object of meeting the aeoessities of the
country cannot be ascertained. Such voluntary aid the
committee do not despair of seeing obtained, if the matter be
fairly and plainly represented to the people. Large as the
sum is, it is really small when compared with the riches of
Mite great empire. More than double the sum is already vo-
luntarily paid every year for even the tax on the one article
of tobacco. A far greater amount is the tax on the annual
consumption of spirituous liquors. Again, if we look at the
amount upon which income tax is levied, we find an annual
income of 230.000,0004, it will appear that a sum equal to
3d. in the pound of the rated income of the country in a
single year would mullion We cannot, indeed, hope, that all,
or even a large proportion of those who pay the tame first
mentioned, will voluntarily tax themselves for the building
or endowing of churches. But in a country so rich, there
must be far more than enough of person' who would contri-
bute what is mammary, it their liberality and their Christian
pried*. be properly appealed to. This, however, is a matter
on whhlloohh it Is not for us to report any spedal reoonamiendatioa;
it is sufficient that we have indicated our deep sense of the
necessity of such a voluntary effort. In order to afford addi-
tional facilities toe providing churches, the committee recom-
mend that a tenant for life should be enabled to grant •
limited amount of lend for churches and parsonage hones', •
privilege which has already been given for sites of schools by
the 4 and 5 Viet., cap. 38. In conclusion, in order to give
effect to the feelings and convictions of every churchman is
favour of the permanent endowment of churches, we cannot
forbear recommending that the Mortmain Acts be so far re-
laxed, as to admit bequests of impropriate tithe rent charge
or of money for the purchase of the same, for the endowment
of any benefice with the cure of souls, to an amount not ex-
ceeding 3001. per annum. This might usefully be combined
with some well-considered provision, enabling parties to am
quire rights of patronage in benefices below a prescribed
value, having • population of • prescribed amount, in the
gift of public officers, Gr of bodies corporate or sole. To
some extent, this is already effected by the 19th and 20th
Von., cap. 104; but the extension of the principle is worthy
of oonsideration."

CITY OF LONDON UNION.—The Poor Law Board
hu communicated its decision respecting the charges pre-
ferred before one of its birpeotors against the Rev. Mr.
Fooocke, chaplain of the City of London union, by the
guardians, as reported in these oolomna on the 6th ultimo.
The principel witness was the muter of the union, who
alleged that the obaplain's conduct towards him had beat
offensive; that he had performed the functions of his aloe
in a careless manner, and by his preaching inched the
paupers to disobedience. Mr. Pococke totally denied the
charges before the commissioner, and the secretary of the
while now counselling a conciliatory spirit, declares
that the rev. gentleman has satisfactorily explained, to some
extent, the complaints of the guardisms, and amicably glue
him advice se to tha!nticre paiormacas of his daiiss.

TOUR OF THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OFIRRLHID.—
His Excellency the Earl of Egtinton is about to take ad-
vantage of this beautiful weather, and molts a tour of POMO
length through our unequalled island. He is to visit Kil-
larmey sad make acquaintance—we hope a familiar one—
with lie glories. He leaves Dublin on Wednesday next;
Great
proceeds by the Gat Midland Railway, and becomethe
guest on that evening of Frs. Speight, Eeq., at Deny
Castle, the splendid hospitalities and the scenic attramioes of
the vioinsge of which he will remain some days to enjoy.
' Thence his Excellency will proceed through Panes to
lumpy, and there it may be hoped be will adopt for his so-
journ the Lake Hotel, whence the finest and most faackating
views are beheld over the broad and bright lake along the
enchanting peninsula of Macron —lifettstsr News.
PROLIFIC CROP OF Faun'.—lna garden, em-
bracieg one acre of land, belonging to the elating.) of St.
Martin's, Canterbury, and situate immediately adjoining the
pretty little churchyard or or. Martin's, is at present to be
seen one of the wort abundant crops of fruit, including
apples, plums, damoons, currants, gooseberries. etrawber-
and raepberries, that the whole county of Kent can
boast of at the present time. One apple tree &lose will
produce 20 bushels, and on Saturday nearly 100 apple'
were counted on one branch a yard in length ; indeed, the
fruit is more abundant than the leaves. Eight plum trees,
it is eetimated, will give seventy bushels of plume. • There
are 3,000 currant and gooseberry trees in the garden, and
some of the former have at least 30Iba. of cermet. upon
them, while many of the goweberrlea already measure more
than 4in. in circumference. It is calculated, by persons well
qualified to judge, that the produce of apples will exceed 600
bushels. Two years since 60 guineas were paid by a fruiterer
for the yield of this garden, and this year 601. bas been
refused. Onion., cabbages, and peas are growing under the
trees and between the bashce in abundance; and yet, it is
stated, there has been no manure on the land for upward' of
half a century.—South Eastern Oaz.tte.
PREFERMENTS.—The Rev. Thomas Irwii has
been collated to the perpetual curacy of Christ Church,
Whitby Lock, void by cession of Rev. 'T. N. Irwin, by the
Bishop of Cheater, patron in right of Ids see. l'hs Rev.
Jebn Smith has been collated to the perpetusl enemy,
Saint Paul's Church. Over Tablet' , void by redguation of
the Rev. Frederick Elmer, by the Bishop of Chester, patron
for this turn la right of his see.
ORDINATION.—The Bishop of Chester intends to
hold his next ordination at Cheater on Sunday, the 19th day
of September next. Candidates for ordination on that day
are required to rend In all their necessary papers to Charles
T. W. Parry, Esq., Cheater, his lordship's secretary, on or
before Monday, the 9th day of august next.
EAST INDIA COMPANY.—At the special general
mart of the company, to be held to-morrow, the Government
of India Bill No. 11, with its amendments, will be laid before
the proprietors.
Kew GannEns.—That splendid flower the water-
lily of the Ganges or sacred bean of India will shortly blos-
som in the centre tank of the tropical aquarium. Models of
this very beautiful plant and the Victoria Regis also are in
the museum.

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INDUSTRIAL SALE.—To-day an industrial sale, in
aid of the fonds of the North-West London Preventive and
Reformatory Institution, will be held in the Hanover.square
Rooms. The mejority of the articles to be exhibited model
of useful or ornamental work, executed by the inmates I
the varicose industrial departments.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—A sad gloom has been th;own
atam.
over the town and neighbourhood of Henninger., tits
melancholy death of Thomas Nunn, Rog , of Leaded
and one of the partners in the firm of Messrs. Nun Cae
banker', in this town. It appears that on Thunder atm.
nom last Mr. Nona was returning home alone in en Oishni
cart, by way of Dedham, when his horse ran Wag
owing to the velocity at which he was going, he wee
oat on taming the corner of the road to Japer •
Isbouringusaa who was near the spot and witnessed /s-
-alient immediately went to his assistatree, ad bla
totally insensible, having fallen on his bead. all
having been secured, Mr. Nunn wee airway thilWlWlolls..._
rayed home in the own carriage, but he never 1111101011.1
consciousness, and expired early on Saturday moraieltdues
the injuries he had received. Deceased WM 1111iVelllar be.
loved and respected by all classes, and in him the poor will
sustain a very great loss. He was a magistrate of the meaty,
and master of the Essex and Suffolk fox-hest—Ake
Bova

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THE ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND 41
On Saturday morning, about half-past four o' , fames
Bennett, engine-driver of the empty mineral . from
Derby to Hilobarst, who fell dm as ernbilakumt are
Chesterfield, died la the Chest AlloWal, it
juries which be received In the SIIIIIIIINNH HMO
2671
'Yesterday the inquest wee reumniii * Indllead
Chesterfield, before Mr. C. 8. D. Siewiromi 04091#,_
of Wm. Hickling, the stoker, asa ths. =641111/ammial..
sworn to Inquire into the muss of
the driver. The jury returned a sadist of "neallr'''
against Ambrose Blackburn, the signal ma. Irks 1111101INP
milted for trial at the sashes.

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Yesterday morning Lieutenant Keyrtok Beaufoy Fetid, /di
Itaglment, was charged before the magistrate*, at Rooltedr,
with assaulting the police at Chatham cm the 2611 nit
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police had mot been able to Identify thew About two b the
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