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RV-ENING, APRIL 22, 1851

TIIURSDAY

m
The Hack Stakes of I Soy, each, with 5 added, oneile, was won in two heats by Cerito, 9st (Lowe),
beat.
lag Prudence, list sth; TRIP Rua-er, li“ 51b; Hamm
Scarum, 9st Ilb; and Little Peter Ilst Ilb.
The Hurdle Stskes of 2' SOW. each, end 10 added, two
,
miles; over five hurdles (9 Subs.); was won easily by
Mr. Laud's Prospect, aged (151.), (J. Aslett), beating
Cigar, Brunette, Theßoarer, Kinaber, and Banker.
The Beaten Handicap was won by 'Good-for•Nothing,
lOst 101 b, beating Mourn Scar
um, others. um, lOst, Salop,
llst, and ;

ASCOT HEATH, 1852
Nominations for the Feruhill Stakes.
Duke of Richmond's Stella, 2 yrs—Sir R. Pigott's
Jsck the Giantkiller, 2 yrs—Mr. E. Batson's Kandidja,
3 yrs—Mr. Yarworth's Hoppicker, 3 yrs—Lord Exeter's
Mountain Flowor, 3
—Mr. E. R. tack's Plumstead, 3 yrs—Duke of Rich-
mond's Harbinger, 3 yrs--Mr. Helford's Peppermint,
3 yrs:_ Yrs—Mr. Howard's Vaultress, 2 yrs

' - Nominations for the Emperor of Russia's Plate.
Kingsten,3 yrs—lndian Warrior, 3 yrs—Little Harry,
3 yrs—King of Oude,-5 yrs—Hobbie Noble, 3 yrs—
Woolwich, 6 yrs—Alfred the Great 3 yrs—Ambrose, 3
yrs—Volti-
yrs—Teddington, 4 yrs--Russborough, 5
Deer, 4 yrs—Joe Miller, 3 yrs—Grey Tommy, geur, 5 yrs—His Grace, 3 yrs—Sally, 3 yrs—Mountain
3 yrs—
levier; 4 yrs—Black aictor, 5 yrs—Stilton,
3 yrs—Ring-
°cello, 3 yrsPitsford, 5 yrs—Rache'e.,
shell, 5 yrs—Tornboy, 5 yrs.
NE WMARKE r SECOND SPRING MEETING. 1852.
Handicap for the Suffolk Stakes of 15 sous. each, 5 ft, if
, . declared on Tuesday next. 1
Hernandez, 4 yrs, 9st—Otficious,
121b—Harbinger,5 yre, Bst 121b-
-3 yrs—Nut-
Nutshell, 7 yrs, Bst 21b—Dalcet, aged, 7st 131b—Grey
lommy, 3 yrs, 76t
Fltrt,3 yrs, 7st 8113-14"
--nook Knoll, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—St.
Antonio, aged, 7st 31b—Frantie, 3 yrs, 7st 31b—Houla-
kin, 3 yrs, 7st 21b—Midas, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Tophana,
aged, 6st 12113—Patriot, aged, 6st 10113—Gay Lass, 4
yrs, Est 101b—Poodle, 3 yr, 6st 81b—Grand Duchess, 3
yrs, Est 514—Greengage, 3
yrs, 6qt 41b—Suttler, 3 yrs,
6st 2113—Young Hawthorn, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Hampton, 3
yrs, sst 101b—Maria, 3 yrs, 5 sib—Hugo, 3 yrs,
a 3 yrs, Tat 8113—.
sst 81b.

1.)IRIT of the it------;""---1.-
tilii-eIC J oURNALS.
FROM THE MORNINGn PArEits OF THIS DAY.
ES TIM.—No one ca
rise from a perusal of the
debate on Mr. liorsmarA
motion for a commission of
inquiry into the case of
the Rev. Mr. Bennett with-
out a feeling of painful hate
and something like a
conviction that we are unprovided with the machinery
restf
required to.preserve the jotegrity of the doctrine and
teaching of the Church of
land. We have Enar-
ticles, symbols, and canons, suds assuredly. 9 " not
unprovided withsecclesiasticali courts ,
are counted by hundreds.
have an episcopal form
of Government, and a Legislature,Wet
a whose numbers
the great majority
of which is composed of members of the national
nar
s
Church, yet all these safeg
insufficient to preserve the purity of the faith and to
prevent the occupation of the
high places and the
appropriation of the revenues Of the Church by per-
sons holding those very doctrines which she is most
anxious to.oppose. The statement Mr. Horsman
produced, as it was well calculated to do, a great
of
te
impression - on the House of
Commons, for it
showed by proofs, whose cogency
refutation, that a clergyman holding
hardly admits of
almost every
doctrine of the Church of Rollie, and those in a
form more exaggerated than
Catholics themselves, can, after his sinceretel:Wei:l6es have
Roman
been fully brought to light, be transferred
from one
diocese to another, and compensated for episcopal cen-
sure in the first by honour, patronage' and preferment
in the second. It showed, also, a lamentable want of
uniformity and consistency in the governors of the
Church, and seemed.to threaten the teaching with im-
punity of as many different creeds as the
t country has
no
been divided into dioceses. We aredisposed to
underrate the grave nature of these apprehensions, nor
to deny that the prevalence of
dissent
the Church is an evil of less without
magnitude than
one anarchy within. Still there is consideration
which may naturally tend to allay thesefeelings,
that is, that the promotion of Mr. Bennett and
to _the
living of Frome could Dever have occurred
without
very grave and serious misconduct on the part of
almost every one in any way connected with the trims-
action. In a bank, or any other mercantile
establish-
ment,, no can
check which human ingenuitydevise is
so perfect that it cannot be defeated or rendered nu-
gatory by a conspiracy among all the persons to
whom
find its working is intrusted. If, then, we diet
it required a dereliction of duty on the
less than six persons to enable Mr. toßennjtart abuseofno
andh personate the -character of a clergymanh of
t e Protestant Church of England, as be
un-
doubtedly done, we may fairly conclude that,ash ever deficient our ecclesiastical law may be pro-
vidingow-
remedies, it has been by no means n
barren
in
precautions. In the first place, the law required
certificate of no less than tbree clergymen to a t the
ment which they must have known to be untrues howafte-
.could they certify that Mr. Bennett had ~ 11
held,
written, or thought nothing against the doctrine° '
,
discipline of the
Church of England " , when they
knew that he had been compelled to resign his
living
for a
wilful
breach of discipline, which, although ad-
monished, be refused to correct, and answered for his
conduct during his residence at Kissingen, which
they either did not take the trouble to ascertain, or,
if i
they did, wilfully
misrepresented I But the authors
of the Canons contemplated apparently
e found
that clergymen might b to isign a false
certificate of character, and therefore devised a check
by requiring the signaturew of the bishop whose
. diocese the clergyman leaving, to authenticate
his "honesty and ability,as and his conformity to the
enclesialtical laws of the
ofr Church of England." This
signature the Bishop
doing Jendon, we are informed, re-
fused to give, and in sdischarged his duty with
consistency and propriety.o
We wish we could find any
wand which would justify our expressing similar
ofinion with reference
Bath and Wells. to the conduct of the Bishop of
infirm health, but itis Somethingeffie may fairly be conceded to
impossible to separate the exer-
cise of an important e from the responsibility it in-
veins. The Bishop of Bath and Wells knew that Mr.
Bennett did not bring
from his former bishop svith him the recommendation
which the Canons require, and he
knew that recommendation could not be given, because
Mr. Bennett had been virtually dismissed from his
former benefice for unfaithfulness to the Church and
unwillingness to comply with ecclesiastical discipline.
at Frome, as most distasteful to the pa-
rishionersfrom his published Writingsand was furnisned with extracts
which might well have
startled the conscience of
a case so notorious ho might, any Protestant bishop ; and in
and doubtless could, have
ascertained in what manner Mr. Bennett's time had
been spent during his
intrusted the duty of continental tour. To him was
episcopal
order
by
Paying
to the d.'cision of tbe
one court of competent • respectful consideration which
judgments of another. Jreisdiction usually shows to the
moderate the abuse of private was interposed by the law to
pariihioners of From() fromate patronage and protect the
discord resulting the spiritual injury and tem-
porala
clergyman in whom from the intrusion upon thorn of
have confidence, and theyWh could not, and ought not, to
to reject. Never did whose ministry they were bound
point _out the proper l. Important duties combine to
Christian bishop called nine of action. Never was a
and justice in a ease more el
pon for an exercise of firmness
needless to say how these ear-and more urgent. It is
dis-
charged, or how completely duties were_met and
triumphed over that of ii the- cause of the patroness
Another person whom ,e, people and the Church.
of blame is the Lade p" is impossible to acquit
it that the iaw, by emo,a.troness herself. We take
property, did not mean to-4ing an advowson private
those duties which toe w.release the owner from
plies, and we are quite s'uturre of the property im-
it could not do so. There is e that if it meant this
duty of the bishop to see
entfa trust which it is the
neglect his duty loses none of itorced, but which if he
exercise the awful responsibilitya binding obligation, to
per-
son to whose care the souls or thousands
of appointing the
ignorant persons are committed, thousands of poor and
not only to the opinions of the with a careful reference
of the flock. Grantieg that patron but to the interests
the patroness coincide with hose
religious opinions of
was bound to think not merely of el her presentee, she
for whom she was acting, and to herself, but of those
her lay the danger of schism andavdnid as much as in
appointment like that of Mr. Bennett
duce. which an
duce. But what shall we say of was sure to pro-
sett? Belonging as be undoubted) —l..
Bennett him-
and feeling to one. Church, how oa' does in spirit
recipient of the patronage and he to be the
emoluments of
aother ? can a clerg
hin Hows
time in the scciety of Rerun ynna ri who passes'
Catholic priests,
who frequents their places of worship
and to the exclusion of those of the &I in preference
arch to which
he nominally and occasionally conforms,
care of a Protestant congregation,
subscribe Protestant
Articles, or submit to- the -rule of apr
a motestant episcoz
pate? Such conduct presupposes
which we trust is rare, and which the recent obliquity
tit secession of
so - many clergymen, holding similar
°PininnB
Church of Rome shows at any rate not to be to the
universal)y
connected with them. - It therefore appears
that,without
grave misconduct on the part of the patron,„
,
the re-
commending clergy, the bishop, and the incumbent,
1 present scandal could not„have taken place, and
the
and that it
is not by the default of one or two persons
that it can
be repeated. This is some comfort, and we
trust that
. the friendly inquiry which we are promised
o may end in
d the suggestion of some course which may reason to
the justly irritated feelings of the people of Frome,
and
if it cannot restore that confidence in the
discretion of
the bishop and the sincerity and orthodoxy of the in-
cumbent which the present exposure has done
to destroy, may prevent the recurrence of a similar much
evil.
,
e .
DAILY NEWS.—In sufferin p a numerical defeat on
his motion for a public inquiry into the aim, '
Bennett mstancea
attending the institution of the Rev. J. W.
the benefice of Frame Selwood, Mr.
nersesa to
a n, has
substantially gained another success. For, in
public inquiry, three Cabinet Ministers (two
~, of thveerting
Se-
cretaries of State) have undertaken, wit... the follman
entire approbation of the 1101:150 of. Commons, to sub- -
lute a triendly investigation; and the Chancellor of SLi-
the
Exchequer has admitted that, assunaing the facts
for
to be
as represented and the law to afford no remedy
... the
intrubion
of
maeini,nowloist priest on a Protestant'
or souls, legislation must provide one. And What cure
,r are
the facts of the ease?' In 1t343-the Bishop of- Pndond
though warned that- 11it • sannett held -opinion '
p'ublishe-cl doctrines ' .offensive and . "Id ha
more
any contained in on “ Tracts for the Times ''
linstituted

MADEMOISELLE JOANNA WAGNER.

The vexed question" about the theatre in which
this much-talked-of artist is to appear in London has
been ultimately settled in favour of the Royal Italian
Opera. Since this fact was made public, however, a
statement has appeared in the columns of a contempo-
rary, which accuses Mademoiselle Wegner of what may
be termed, in legal phraseology, " sharp practice," iu
her transactions with the director of Her alujesty's
Theatre. In refutation of this charge, Herr Albert
Wagner, father of the singer, has addressed us a letter,
much too long for publication, the gist of which, how-
ever, may be brik fly stated. Herr Wagner declares that
the director of the Royal Italian Opera, as early as 1850,
made several propositions to his daughter Mademoiselle
Wagner, which her continental engagements prevented
her from accepting, and that in the autumn of last
year these propositions were renewed, but, that owing to
circumstances wholly uninteresting to the public., Made-
moiselle Wagner was induced to give the preference to
Her Majesty's Theatre, with the director of which
establishment she signed a treaty for the
present season. Herr Wagner further states, that
in the eourse of last month, his daughter re-
ceived several letters from the director of the
Royal Italian Opera, to which, considering her-
self bound to the other theatre, she did not reply. An
important stipulation, however, in the engagement with
Her Majesty's Theatre, which was to have beeu carried
out on the 15th of March, not having bees fulfilled,
Mdlle. Wagner, on the sth of the present month,
regarding the old contract as null and void, concluded a
new one with the director of the Royal Italian Opera.
The object of Herr Wagner's letter is to defend his
daughter, who throughout acted under the advice of
himself and her moat intimate friends, from the charge
of having acted inconsiderately towards the director of
the theatre for which she signed her first treaty. Instead
of one day between the date agreed upon for the
fulfil-
ment of the stipulation alluded to and its absolute tender
by an authorised agent of Her Majesty's Theaere
e sere, had
Wagner' states that not less than fo
elapsed before Mademoiselle Wagner sigunredv.iaeco7nthtraocit
with the rival establishment—although,
n d
the.
April, a formal notice had been t
director of Her Majesty's Theatre, in sin°
ttheidch t Al°
erencefsorarmednlloe.t
Wagner declared that she considered herself no longer
bound to that establishment. These differences
matters of general interest, and the beet we)!
Wagner to sustain her reputation is England is to
sing so well that she may please the London public as
much as she has already pleased that of Berlin, Vienna,
and other continental cities.Tinies.

--- _--.•,•_—_—____
e(
flsbaexrte,
FRENCH PLATS, T. AMES'S THEATRE.--Her
the Queen and his RohynaelHpirgihnnceesLs Princeopo
ld ) A
accompanied by his Serene nigss
Coburg and Gotha, and attended by the Countess of Desart,
Lord Talbot, Lord Colville, and Colonel Seymour, honoured
thcperformances with their presence
i 'et evening. There
were also present —The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady
Constance Gower, Lord Robert Grosvenor, the Marquis of
Normanby, the Marchioness of Downshire, the Earl of Ches-
terfield, the Earl of Granville, Lord Northampton, Lord
Canning, Lord and Lady Ashburton, the Countess of Walde-
grave, Lady Bulwer, the Countess de Elahault, Sir Michael
Shaw Stewart, Sir William Clay, Colonel Meyrick, Captain
Ryder Burton; Mr. and Mrs. John Stanley, Captain Lyon,
Mrs. Milner Gibson, Mr. A. Klotn, iv,
• Wyndham, Mr
Le vesou Gower, Colonel Macalpine.
THE BELGIAN TREATY.—Yesterday the treaty of
commerce and navigation between her Majesty and the King
. ratified on.th_e 7th •
of the Belgians,. . . instant, was issued from
the Parliamentary printing-office. The treaty contains 20
articles, and is accompanied by an additional article, a de-
chiration, and en article. explanatory
of the latter.

see_
Mr. Bennett to the benefice of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. LYNCH LAW IN CHELSEA.
The consequences of that institution were that those opi- During yesterday and the two pie cedtng days great
Mons and doctrines of which the Bishop bad timely warn- excitement has prevailed in the neighbourhood of Chef-
log were spread and propagated by Mr. Bennett and his sea tied Brocapt m, in consequence of a series of cutreges
curates in the most ieflaential and powerful parish of having been committed by a mob of persons, to the
London step by step Mr. Bennett advanced in number of several hundreds, which have resulted in a
the practices and teaching of whet he would call the considerable destruction of property. It appears that a
church universal, but of what we know to be that cam- few days ago a report was circulated that a woman
munion of Rome from which the people and Church of named Sarah Cox, living in Green-street, Marlbo-
England separated three centuries ago, establishing, as rough-road, bad put her child, a little girl eight years
every nation or body in a nation has a right to, a old, upon the fire, and burnt her to death. This state-
Church of its own;—that monastic institutions were ment was generally believed, as it was known in the
troduced into Belgravia, carrying (as in Miss Law's neighbourhood that the child had for a lengthened period
case) dismay and bitter grief into the bosom of families; been id-treated by her mother, who, in addition to
—that a church, St. Barnabas, was erected to cele- beating her, is said to have locked her up in a room
brate and extend thews successes;--thet so papistical for fitteen or sixteen hours in the coldest days
were its services that a mob rose against it;—and that of winter, without either food or fire. An inquest
the Bishop of London, yielding to the influence of po- was held on the body, at which the medical evi-
pular tumults, compelled Mr. Bennett, in 1850, after 'dence was to the effect that the child died from the
seven, years' endurance of his unfaithfulness, to effects of fire, but as it origin could not be ascertained,
resign all his preferments in the diocese of
London. the jury returned an open verdict. This did not satisfy
Meanwhile Mr. Bennett had printed forms the neighbours, who seem eo have been convinced that
of prayers, published books, and issued sermons, in the mother was guilty of murdering the child, and
which he defended all his acts and opinions; justi- therefore they determined to take the law into their own
flying auricular confession, intercession to saints, the au- hands.
thorThe funeral was arranged to take place at St.
thorny of the Church so.calied universal over human Luke's Church on Monday afternoon. At the hour ap-
conscience, repudiating and abjuring Protestantism, and pointed for the procession to leave the house, many
denying that Chrisriaeity could be propagated merely hundreds of persons assembled round it, who vowed they
by the agency of the Holy Scriptures. The universal would tear the woman to pieces if they could lay handa
feeling of society—uncorrupted by such teaching—was, upon her. A messenger was sent to the police
on Mr. Bennett's resignation, thankfulness for having, station, and a number of constablessecretl arry ived at the house.
however lately or discreditably, got rid of him. His The procession left the house, and immediately the
friends subscribed money for him and he went abroad. crowd, which had greatly increased in fury, set up a
He appears to have rested chiefly in Roman Catholic frightful shrieking and hooting, following up that show
countries; at Kissingen, in Bavaria, and at Rome. What of their indignation by hurling showers of large stones,
he did at the latter is not known; but at Kissingen he mud, and filth at the mother with great violence. Se-
daily attended mass, and consorted with friars and priests. viral of the stones struck her in the face and on the
In doing so he only acted on the rule laid down by Dr. head, and her clothes were covered with mud. The mob
Phillpotts at the Synod of Exeter, and published to the who followed the coffin all the way to the churchyard,
world in its acts, viz., that in countries where hooting, shrieking, and throwing atones like so many
there is a branch of " the Church' Catholic," mad people, endeavoured several times to seize her, and
however erring and corrupt, there only can a Chris- had it not been for ten or twelve policemen who sur-
tian worship;—a strict logical deduction from the rounded her, she would most certainly have been seri-
premise that there is ou earth a Church uuiver- sandy injured. The officers urged the mob to allow the
sal, having a sacrificial and mediatorial priesthood. coffin to be taken quietly to the grave, but they refused
Amongst the persons of eminence and power perverted t listen. At length. after considerable difficulty, the
and led away by Mr. Bennett's system was the patroness churchyard was reached, and there the scene was one
of Frume Selwood; and that benefice becoming va of a fearful description. The mob now amounted to up-
cant, she, an amiable and excellent but most deluded wards of a thousand persons, all of whom were shout-
woman, presented Mr. Bennett to the Bishop of the ing and throwing stones, and the uproar became so
diocese, that he, as Ordinary, might institute Mr. Ben- great that not a word of the burial service could be heard.
nett thereto. The parishioners remonstrated; but her The clergyman had at last to desist, and make the best
reply was, that the act was by her irrevocable. They of his way from the spot. The mob then again endea-
turned to the Bishop for protection; he listened at first voured to get possession of the woman; and had it not
to their complaints; but they persisting in their objet- been for the most strenuous exertions of the police, she
tions, he instituted Mr. Bennett and closed all correspon- would have been trampled to death. The return from
deem with The first remark in this star, or Nett the church was of a more uproarious-character; but the
relates to the conduct of the Bishop. In England alone, woman, under the protection of the police, managed to
of countries possessing an established church of the get into her house, and the doors were fastened. The
Protestant communion, the parishioners have no voice in, mob then took up a position in front, where they re-
or veto on, the appointment of their minister. And the mained until a late hour, thinking the woman would
reason assigned why they have not such a power is, make her appearance. During the night she and her
that it has been reposed in their bishops to friends made their escape from the house, after having
be exercised by those officers of the church on their packed up all their goods and filled a waggon with them,
behalf. In the constitution, of the English Church, which they had managed to persuade a carman in the
the bishops are interposed between the full exercise neighbourhood to bring. The goods were taken with
of the tight of patronage by its owner and the people the waggon to a stable for the rest of the night, in or-
ffected by the exercise. The
power of the patron is, der that hey might he conveyed away in the morning.
e
therefore, a qualified one; the bishop for sufficient rests Before, however, that was done the mob again assembled,
sons can defeat its exercise; and those reasons are to be and hearing that the woman had fled, their rage knew no
grounded by the bishop on his regard for the cure of the bounds. Being told that the goods were in the neigh-
parishioners' souls, in conformity with the articles, fur- bourhood, they determined upon finding and destroying
mularies, and teaching of the Established. Church. It them. The wk•ggon was met in the street, and the work
results then from these premises, that in the Bishop of of destruction commenced. Mahogany tables, drawers,
Bath and Wells the Church has a prelate who regards and bedsteads were broken into a thousand pieces; beds
the Romanist outcast of the diocese of London, the man cut open and feathers and flocks thrown into the road;
who there held and taught all Roman doctrine, and the china and looking-glasses smashed, and every article
hi ei daily at Kis- destroyed. The police interfered, but
(nearly twelve o'clock on Tuesday
traveller who subsequently wors pp .
t night)
ht the cwraosw
upwards
pawt
atrhdi
ss
singen in a mass house, as a proper incumbent of
the parish- of five thousand persons, and their
Frome. The theory of bishops protectingeffortso weerhee P does availing. The mob then again repaired
un-
Loners
against an improper exercise of patronagei
I the main thinking the woman was in the neighbourhood. Tutibee,
oot, it is
ileacclar, work here. And what is.rheiaenyere
in
the
remained there nearly all night and began again to sy
question
11.11"9 the episcopate eemble yesterday morning, and to increase daring the
entertain century—when it is
laitynotorious
day; and last night a large mob was endeavouring to find
entertain generally pretensions which the as a body
protection the object of their hatred, whom they vowed - they would
repudiate and reject—to have no further
than their Ordinary's weakness or firmness. And the murder if she was to be found.
value of a public inquiry into the Frome case, as pro-
posed by Mr. Horsman, would have been inestimable, as
throwing light on the manner in which episcopal
control colludes.with the power of patronage to force on
n
parishes
ministers against whom the soundest objections
exist. For the other circumstances connected with Mr.
Bennett's institution prove that the forms, certificates,
and requirements of the thirty-eight and forty-ninth
Canons (to which we long ago directed attention, as
bearing on this ease), afford very slender protection to
parishioners in the present state of the Church. Mr.
Bennett, though drummed out of the diocese of London,
was at once able to get a certificate of three of its bene-
ficed clergy that he was a faithful minister of the Church;
and this certificate the Bishop of Loudon, who had forced
him out of his diocese, so indorsed as enabled the Bishop
of Bath and Wells to deem that those canons had been
complied with. Hence it is apparent, that where two
bishops are willing, nothing is easier than to elude the
protection intended to be given to the laity by those two
canons. What, therefore, is wanted are either some
means of restricting episcopal authority in this respect, or
of reposing some power of self-protection in parishioners
themselves. Secretary Sir John Pekington stated
(without showing) that in this matter the Bishop of Lon-
don's conduct had been blameless; and Mr. Horsusen
said the report was that the Bishop had endorsed the
certificate of his three beneficed clergy that Mr. Bennett
had, during the last three years he was in the diocese,
been a taithful minister of the Chat eh, to the effect that
their :dnk:ores were genuine only. But the practice
under the 49,h Canon, is for a bishop to require of his
presentee a Gene decessit of his last ordinary. Did Mr.
Bennett carry to Weds such a document from Fulham?
And if not, why did Dr. Begot, in this ease, w here the
parishioners had remonstrated, dispense with that docu-
ment? There is, in the discussion, a hiatus here, which
Dr. Blomfield ought, in mercy to his own reputation, to
supply. Noth'otr in Mr. Hursmau's speech was more
admirable than its comprehensive spirit; he never once
infringed on the principles of toleration. The Church has
always been accustomed to boast of her comprehensive
action; and it used to be said of her, that she had a Cal-
vinistic creed and an Arminian clergy. But those very
words indicate the circle of her comprehension: it has li-
mits; and the complaint against Mr. Bennett is not merely
that he exceeded, but that, in exceeding, he attempted
wholly to destroy those limits. High church men and
low church meiN the church can well entertain; and it
will be an evil day for the Establishment when it is ex-
clusively possessed by any one of the several sects that
now find a home in its folds. But resting within those
bounds, all its members must respect the tenure of its
existence; recognise the Parliamentary action which
gave it birth; admit the power of the Legislature to
withdraw what it has given. They must not, protected
in the Church, by the State's authority, conspire to over-
throw the power of the State, and to elevate the Church
to a position independent of, if not co-equal in its own
sphere with, the State; they must not propound views of
a priesthood otherwise than the Church has provided,
functionary only, not mediatorial; and they must not,
as the Bishops did in this case, stand aloof, as if the
House of Commons were acting ultra vires in presuming
to inquire into the ecclesiastical grievances of the people.
For therein the limits of comprehension will have been
passed, and those of priestly aggression have been en-
tered on.

PRICES OF WHEAT, FLOUR, AND

BREAD, IN LONDON. AND PARIS.
AnnexA is a comparison of the preseht prices of
wheat, fl air, and bread, in London and Paris:—
The highest price of wheat of the first quality in Paris
is 29r. pfr 1 hectili're, which is equal to 445. 3d. per
quarter; and the highest price of white wheat of the first
quality iu London being 483. per quarter, it follows that
wheat is nearly 8} per cent. dearer in London than in
Paris.

The highest quotation of flour of the first quality in
Paris is 351. 15c. the 130 kilogrammes, which is equal to
355. 23. per sack, of 2801 b. Euglish; and the highest
quotation of flour in the London market being 40s. the
sack, it follows that flour is about 133- per cent. dearer in
London than in Paris. The highest quotation of the
second quality of white flour in Paris is 32f. 50c., which
is equivalent to 325. 6d. per sack of 2801 b., and which,
its compared with the quotation in London of 30s. for
household flour, shows that this description of flour
is nearly 8i per cent. dearer in Paris than in London.
The price of bread of the first quality in Paris is 31c.
per kilogramme, which is equal to about 51d. the 41b.
loaf, English weight; and the price of bread in London
at the full-priced shops being 7d. per 41b., it follows that
bread is about 334 per cent. dearer in London than in
Paris. The sec.nd quality of bread is quoted at 24
cents, per kilogramme in Paris, which is equivalent to
nearly 4d. per 41b. loaf.

LONDON WEDNESDAY COACERTS.
The fourth of these popular entertainments souk place
last eight at Exeter-hall, and drew a crowded audience.
The principal feature was the first appearance of Ma-
demoiselle Jetty Tretrz in London since the winter of
1850. This great public favourite has lost none of
those qualities to which she owes her reputation as one
of the most perfect singers in her peculiar line. Her
voice,' one of the sweetest of mezzo-sopranos, while re-
taining all its freshness, has increased in power and
volume. Mademoiselle Treffz sang five times, being en-
cored in two out of three of her tongs. Her reception
was highly flattering. She first sang the exquisite lied
of Mozart. " Vergess mein nicht," with touching sim-
plicity. Being compelled, by unanimous desire to re-
turn to the orchestra, Mademoiselle Treffz, instead of re;
peating Mozart's ballad, sang another by Mendelssohn,
`• Gruss" (O Greeting"), equally charming in its way.
Tom Moore's genuine balled of "Love's Young Dream,"
which Nlaiemoiselle Treffz sang in English, •without a
single ornament, but with a grace unstudied that gave
the fullest expression to the melody, was even more suc-
cessfuL When recalled she repeated it, to the general
satisfaction of the audience. Her last performance was
a new lied, by Kucken (known in English as " Come,
.sweet Maid"), which, while far more elegant, promisee
to rival in popularity the familiar " Trab, trab, trab," of
the same prolific author. This, although it came late in
the evening, was not less charmingly sung, and not less
warmly-applauded than the, others. Mademoiselle
Treffz was accompanied on the pianoforte by M. Adolfe
Sereimun, in a tasteful and musician-like manner. Among
the other prominent features of the programme were
solos on the double-bass, violin, and oboe, by Signors
I3ottesiei, and &curl, and M. Lavigne, all of which were
eminently successful. That of Signor Sivori, the " Car-
nival de Venise," was encored, and Pagennint'e varia-
tions on " Nei nor pin " substituted in its place. The
veteran Braham was in all his glory; and in the famous
war song, " Scots wha has," showed that the fire within
him still burnt ardently. He was encored both in this
and in the " Old English Gentleman," which, in his
hands, as a specimen of the familiar " table song,xic(ann.
hardly be surpassed. The Misses Brougham sahoeg
tunic]
de!ss.hn's beautiful duet, " 0, wert thou in
blast," with the lemost taste and feeling.
gave Bishop's `• Should he upbraid," with
hi hl suc-
greatfilisstS:abnbeifacth.
loges arise,"y
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afenceilwitys.paMnisishs
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and Mis s, . Jcaocwo lees
sadsiiow showed
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ballad,
Reichert, the talented German te,,n,or, sang. several
eSnhieolrde's best ballads, was similiarly complimented; and
piecces,dt.heMmr.osGteeprogpeulTaredodfewr,hiinch•t The There," one , f
Miss Alleyne, who bids
dtatlogl►shed
to become one of our ablest
the flute obligato or which was played
ig in the air
tu, M• Reueueet, principal flautist at
concert singers, distinguished h.erself h. hly
from Handers Add and Galatea, 44 Hush
Theatre. fM . Avolecxala
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warbling choir,"
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scorron CENTRA. RAILWAY.....TrafEc for the Week
ending
April 18, 180..) :
passengers (9,434), parcels, horses,
and carriages
. Goods, cattle, &c.

... X 993 4 8
1,(1+)7 16 5

Momm ...• 1
Total
..
.. 2,001 1 Corresponding week in last year... 1,731 8 8
Perth, April 20. 1852.

SHORT WEIGHT.—YeSteFdIy at the S
Y. e ession -
house, at Newington, the following persons were convicted
of using short weights and measures :—Thomas Mansell, of
the Albany-road, Camberwell, fruiterer, 21a, for three
weights against the purchaser. Henry Merritt, of Pomeroy-
Street, Old Rent-road, chandler, 355. and 6s. costa, seven
weights wrong. James Cattan, Manor-street, Kent-road,
10s., a weight very wrong. -- Chambers, greengrocer,
living in the same neighbourhood, 105., for deficient weight.
John Gatobee, greengrocer, Stockwell-street, Kent-road,
sixteen weights against the buyer. William Denyer, Old
Kent-road, cheesemonger, 15s. for a similar offence. Wm.
Joseph Craywood, John-street, 'Christ Church, chandler, ss.
Matthew Day, two weights and a weighing-machine against
the buyer; this person lives in Upper Ground-street, Christ-
Church ; the chairman told him that this was too serious a
case to be passed over, and he must pay 20s. and 6s. costs.
Daniel Pitman, Upper Ground-street, chandler, 205., nine
weights, having a balance against the purchaser. James
Uwin, Janes-street, Christ Church, 55., a weight wrong.
THEATRICALS IN CALIFORNIA.—It appears from
the following statements which are made in private corre-
spondence from San Francisco, that the theatrical profession
is not the best paid in California. An extract from a letter
dated San Francisco, February 13, says :—" The theatres are
comparatively deserted; those actors who are on the way
will curse the country, and long for home. The country Is
.
now poor, and a dollar looks as large here as it does in Boston ,
many or working for their board and lodging. The theatres re
not doing a paying business." Another letter containse theet fol-
lowing paragraph :—" There is no more chance for ors or
Actresses to make money here; it is all over; tb Y
better to stay where they are. There are o
open now. Salaries are cut down,
and n lvtwo
e h(
uegoingaldt r
people are getting
prudent, and take, care of- their money.. Vlore .ate many
people out of engagements here.' a
pension
of the
GRAY'S INN, Aram At
holden this day, Nilewmaa
theatreswould
down. Theatrical excitement is all over. os
Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, fh,fitiatult.layr.
_ _
Ward, Egg., wad called t 9 the deg v" "