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FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.

SITTING 07 THE 12TH 1113 T.
After some preliminary business had been disposed of, the de.
bate Upon the Law of Sacrilege was resumed.
Rosa COLLARD opposed the project, which was founded
upon the religious downs of the real presence in the consecrated
host. Such was the principle avowed by Catholics. But were go.
vernmeots the successors of the Apostles, and authorised to declare
what was true and what was false? The religion of the State was
always in the right. tinder Dioclesian the religion of the State
was right, and the Christians were in the wrong. Ood had giver
to individuals religious discernment, but not to States. Spain and
England might be cited as examples, and that Alliance called
Holy, which had at its head a Prince whom the Catholic* would
call a schismatic. The speaker quoted a letter of St. Hilary, it
which be exclaimed against force being employed to support the
Church, which ought to repose upon sanctity, morality, and religions
truth.

31. Alraors Dr. L'ESPINAY considered that the legislation for
the defence of religion was at present extremely defective. For a
man to cherish atheistical thoughts in his heart was lamentable,
but open and violent attacks upon religion were criminal. Religion
being the foundation of so:ial order, society demanded that it
should he protected and preserved.
M. FIJOROL voted for the ptvject.
The MINISTER for ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS said, that sa-
crilege consisted in an external act against sacred things. Material
objects, devoted to religious purpose*, had ever been regarded as
hairier something of Divine attached to them, and those who pro-
faned them had been punished. The theft of sacred vessels had
ever been visited with a penalty, but the profanation of these
vessels ailtv the robbery was a still greater crime. It was true that
religion was not propagated by persecution, but it did not prevent
the guilty trout being punished. Sacrilege was not only an 'Fence
against the Deity, but against society, because it insulted the faith
of nearly ell France, and that of the heads of society. It was one
of the greatest disorders that could take place, and could only be
punished by a capital penalty.
Adjourned.

INSTALLATION OF THE BISHOP OF JAMAICA.

[born the Juataica of Feb. 19.1
At seven o'aock on Tuesday morning our anxiously-expected
Prelate quitted the Herald eacht, in Port Royal haebour,
a salute from Fort Charles, and all the vessels of vim 1n port,
and accompanied by Captain Lemke, proceeded in Vile-Admiral
Sir L. Halsted's barge to the landing-place at Port Henderson,
where a guard of honour from the 91st Regiment received his
Lordship, and Fort Augusta repeated the salute. Capt. M•Donald,
his Grace's Military Secretary, received his Lordship, and, with
Commissioner Ross, entered the carriage of his Grace the Governor,
which awaited to convey the Bishop to Spanish Town, where
another guard of honour from the Seth Regiment received him at
the entrance of the King's house, in front of which the Royal
Standard was hoisted. Vice-Admiral Sir L. Halstead had pre-
viously arrived there.
About ten o'clock, the bOth Regiment, with the Militia of St.
Catherine's, lined the streets; and shortly before eleven, such of
the Members of the Honourable the Council and Assembly, as
upon such short notice were in town--namely, the Hon. the At-
torney-General, the lion. William Rowe, the Speaker, the Chief
Justice, and the Judges, the Advocate-General, the Judge of the
Admiralty, the Custos of St. Catherine's, Colonel Moffatt, Com-
mandant of the Forces, with the Adjutant and Quarter-Masters
General, the Military Secretary of the Commander of the Forces,
with other Civil and Military Officers, attended his Lordship at
the King's house; and soon after the procession moved towards
the Church, his Grace the Governor and the Lord Bishop, attended
y Captain 9113onald and Mr. Lipseombe, in the foremost car-
riage, followed by that of the Admiral, and those of the official
personage, above enumerated.
The troops lining the streets saluted the Bishop as he passed ;
and, on his arrival at the western door of the Church, his Lordship
was again received by a guard of honour, and a numerous body
of the island Clergy in their robes; together with John Lunen
and J. G. Vidal, &ye., the Churchwardens. Hence the pro-
cession moved beneath the organ loft, along the nave of the Church,
to the altar, where his Lordship occupied the chair prepared for
him. His Lordship's Secretary, Mr. Henry Lipscombe, com-
menced the ceremony by reading his Majesty's letters patent, con-
stituting this Island, the Bahamas, Honduras, and the other de-
pendencies, a See, and his Lordship the Bishop of such See. The
certificate of his Lordship's consecration at Lambeth in July last
was next reed, and the Rector of St. Catherine's, having conducted
his Lordship to the throne lately erected, commenced the morning
service; upon the conclusion of which the Bishop returned to the
altar, and in a most expressive and affecting manner read the Com-
munion Service, pronouncirg the concluding solemn benediction
with a tone and expression, which conveyed to the hearts of his
numerous auditory his deep interest in obtaining its acceptance at
the Throne of Mercy.
The Church was crawded beyond all precedent, and the whole
ceremony was conducted with the greatest decorum and respect;
all ranks seeming to be fully impressed with the solemnity of the
occasion, and, the benefits likely to accrue from such an establish-
went under such a Prelate. His Lordship's voice is melodious
and powerful, and his delivery most correct and impressive: and
we congreettlate the irtand upon the selection of this eminent person
to be our 111 hop.
Upou the conclusion of the Service, his Lordship accompanied
his Grace the Governor to the King's House, followed by the
Admiral and the other persons who had formed the procession,
where sieve, was bad, and they were severally intend:teed sehis
Lordabip, together -with the Mayor and Recorder of Kingston t
John Leman, Esq., and the lion. William R. Rennalle, tiler
Memhere for St. Catherine's; Sir Michael B. Clare, and George
W. Hamilton, Esq., Members for St. Thomas in the Vale; L.
Lynch. Esq., the Memher for Manchester; William Heath, Eq.,
the Member for St. James's; the Masters in Chancery, and the
Clergy; with the last the Bishop withdrew, and held a long
conferer.ce.
The cordial and respectful reception of his Lordship has evinced,
we trust, the high importance which all ranks must attach to his
person and sacred office.
In the evening his Grace the Governor gave a splendid enter-
tainment at the King's House; when all the public functionaries,
and a large party of the principal inhabitants, were invited to meet
the Bishop.
The Attorney-General, accompanied by the Rev. A. Campbell
and the Rev. Lewis Bo werbank, waited on his Lordship, as a depu-
tation appointed by the Jamaica District Committee of the Society
for Promoting Christian Knowledge, to offer their congratulations
on his Lordship's safe arrival, and to reptest him to accept the
office of President. The Bishop was pleased *.o return his thanks
to the Members of the Society for such a mark of their attention,
and to accept the appointment.
tFrom the Eingslon Chronicle of March 3.1
KINCISTOV, MARCH 2.

On Monday a Meeting of the Magistrates, freeholders, and
other inhabitants of the parish of port Royal, took place at the
Court-house in that town, his honour the Customs in the Chair,
when an address of congratulation to the Lord Bishop of Ja-
maim, on his safe arrival in the island, wu &rood upon, and a
Committee, consisting of the members for the pang), with Francis
Clark, Esq., and the Rev. Mr. Alves, appointed to present the
same.

Tbe Lord Bishop yesterday visited several of the coffee proper.
ties in the St. Andrew's and Port Royal Mountains, to fix on a
spot whereon to erect a chapel, in the vicinity of some of the
meet extensive plantations, where there is a large population of
si eves.