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dallied to pieces in descending from Fismes, on entering
the city of Rheims. The Duke de DANA', whe was in
the carriage, was dangerously wounded. General CuitiAr.
and Count Coss. have also suffered severe injuries. The
Limo himself was in considerable peril ; his horses took

fright at the echo of the cannon, and they were with diffi-
culty tranquillised.
The following are extracts from the Etoile, dated
Monday :
Paws, T 29.
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odes at rabid, with the de Dames and Curial,
Messrs. Allibart. Amalie, Ileagia, end Thermos. who remain
with the King at Maim. AMY the Ake 'Munson and Count
Come.
N. Gambard. aetronertter at Merseilles, dhows" a new comet
on the 19th of this month. It was not until the 17th that the state
of the asinaspbere allowed it to be seen by the attrassecoass at Paris.
It h near ti•star Gamma. or Cansiopia, invisible to the naked eye,
widsoet rail of . t nrciess, having the form of a nebula,
which is oddly uhed notwithstanding the light of the moon.
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Letters and Papers arrived by the Lisbon mail yesterday,
dated the 19th of May. The Lisbon Gazette has at last
been allowed to break silence upon the subject of the mis-
sion of Sir CRARL/S Sr u•ar ; and in giving an account
of the fete that had taken place on board the Wellesley,
to the King of PORTUGAL and his Court, it takes occa-
sion to advert to the fact that the British Envoy came for
the purpose of conciliating the differences that unhappily
existed between the Courts of Lisbon and Brazil; and
having attained his object, hi was going to his ultimate
destination, Rio Janeiro, for the purpose of officially mak-
ing known there the success of his negociation with the
Court of Portugal.
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We mentioned yesterday our intention of calling the
public attention more fully to THE SOCIETY established
under the Royal patronage fur promoting the enlargement
and building of churches and chapels, supported by volun-
tary contributions. The sum granted by Parliament for
the building of new churches confines their erection hi such
parishes as shall contain a population of not less than
4,000 inhabitants; but there are parishes and districts
which can derive no benefit whatever from this grant, the
number et inhabitants being below the prescribed number,
while they are at the same time wholly without that ac-
commodation which it is the great object of this Society to
afford. It appears- by its last Report, that not less than
one hundred applications had been made during the past
year for aseistance, and that in seventy-nine cases they
had, after full inquiry, been acceded to; that addi-
tional accommodation had thus been procured for 24745
persons, of which number 11,523 will be free sit-
tings. By a discreet and judicious application of the funds
of the Society since its establishment, this enlargement of

accommodation has been extended to 395 churches and
chapels, which have been so adapted ai to admit 113,117
additional sittings, of which 84,649 were for the sole use of
the poor. But although the contributions have enabled the
Society to effect so much, much yet remains to be effected,
as, at the same time that part of the funds at present adver-
tised have been already appropriated to the exigencies of
different parishes to which a grant has been recorded, and
without an adequate support, the Society would be neces-
sarily obliged to suspend the further extension of its aid.
This is a result, however, to which, in this munificent and
enlightened country, we do not look forward with any
apprehension.
We are apt, many of us, to complain Or the increase of
Dissenters, and the enemies of the Establishment are not
backward in ascribing this to the lukewarmness of the
clergy—to their defect of evangelical seal—to their want of
activity in the great cause of Gospel reformation—and to
various other causes, all of them implying an indifference,
on their part, to the spiritual concerns of their flock. It
would be foreign from our purpose to enter here into any
laboured vindication of a cause that does not require it.
Neither is this the place, if we bad leisure for it, to com-

bat this class of adversaries ; we are anxious, however, to
set their notions a little right upon this subject. That any
description of religious teachers out of the church apply
themselves with more assiduity to assist the real interests of

piety and virtue than those who are in it, is what we are
disposed not merely to doubt, but absolutely to deny. But
applying this to our present subject,.weeave one consi-
deration to offer, and we would entreat the reader to pause
over it. The parochial clergy throughout England must
be, in so far, disabled from discharging the duties of their
sacred office unless all those persons whom they are appoint-
ed to instruct by their ministry have the means of attendance
upon it. The better disposed the inhabitants of any place
in any part of the kingdom may be, and the higher the
value they set on the truths of Divine Revelation, the
more desirous will they be to attend some place of Divine
Service ; and if their parish church is so small as to afford
them no accommodation, they will attend a Dissenting
chapel or meeting-house rather than have no opportunity
for public worship. They stand absolved in conscience,
having no alternative; and thus thousands are, we may
almost say, forced out of the Establishment, and made to

multiply that great body of Sectaries whose increase there
is so much real reason to deplore.
The Societies for the promotion of Christian knowledge,
and for the education of the poor in the principles of the
Established Church, highly laudable as they are in their in-
stitution, and excellent in their design, must inevitably fall
short of their purpose under the present reztricted mewls of
' carrying it into effect. Their efforts cannot be without their
value in promoting the progress of moral improvement and
the extension of religious truth; but those efforts must be
frustrated in proportion as they are impeded ; and they
manifestly must be impeded in proportion as those whom
they would instruct are debarred from all opportunity of
profiting by such instruction. This view of the evil and
its origin has not, in our opinion, been hitherto laid open
so fully as it deserves, and we cannot but recommend it to
the serious attention of those whom it concerns.
All who are in earnest in their anxiety to uphold the
interests of religion, as connected with the labours of the
Established Church, will aid the Society to which we ad-
vert in the great object to which its funds are directed.
The exemplary liberality and fervent zeal which its
President, the Archbishop of CANTEasuIIY, devotes to its
service, is as honourable to his character as it is useful to
the cause. The distinguished lead which the Presiding
Authorities of the Church have taken in the subscriptions
to the Society will not fail to bring it to the support of the
public at large. Impressed as we are with the conviction
of its great and extensive utility, we cannot better sum up
our appeal in support of it than with the eloquent exhor-
tation of the Bishop of Cntersa at the late Annual Meet-
ing. "Anxiously looking forward," said the Rev. Prelate,
"to the continuance of your assistance, I would call upon
you not to relax your efibrts to procure to our rapidly-in-