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London, England, 1852-06-30 00:00:00

THE PROCLAMATION.

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Tile Roman Catholic clergy of the deanery of
Longbrea, and the diocess of Clonfert, assembled in
lull conclave, have adopted the following series of re-
solutions in reference to the recent proclamation
tigainstreligious processions:—

1. ResufVed,—That we ht ve &een, with indignant
surpri:;e, procianiaion issued by the present Govern-
meet, in the name-of our meet gracious Qiieen, warning
tl-te Catholics of Great Britain and Irelanci that their re-
ligious processions rill henceforward be punished as
criminal infractions of tha law, and that their hish2,pa
and priests, as well as the members of the religious
orders, will be prosecuted, if they presume to appear in
public in their distinctive dress; that, while we bear to
her Majesty all the all, giunce which, in temporal matters,
is tightly due t,-# the b",-Jvcreign by the subject, we recog-
nise in the Government no right to forbid to the Ca-
tholics of this empire the peaceful observance of the
usages of their Church, or the use in public as well as in
private of their distinctive robes by its bishops, priests,
and religious.

" Thai a law, in terms directed egainst the free exer-
cise of the Catholic religion, has no binding force, and,
liko nil other penal enactments against tho Church,
must be disregsrcled..

" That the -law which would prohibit to Catholics the
free exercise of their religious ceremonies has been felt
to be so unjust that no Administration before the pre-
sent has outraged public opinion and sound policy by
attempting to enforce it.

" That a Government which, for the selfish purpose
of exciting in its own support the bigoted prejudices to
be found in the Anglican Church establishment and its
kindred sects, would thus unprovokedly attack the Ca-
tholics of the empire, should he met by these with the
most determined resistance. That, while it is the para-
mount duty of the Catholic electors of this county to
return to Parliament as their representative Captain
Beilt,w, who has manfully avowed himself the opponent
alike of every administration, whether Whig or Tory,
that would dare to persecute our religion or its institu-
dors, it has now become particularly incumbent on them
to refuse their votes to the candidate who comes forward
as the general supporter of the Government of the Earl
of Derby.
" That the abettors of the present Administration have
signalised themselves, individually and as a body, by
their hatred of Catholicity
and its most cherished insti-
tutions. That the attack on the College of Maynooth,
and the petitions presented, among others by the so-
called Bishop or Cashel, praying for an inspection of
uunneiies, afford evidence of the foul and malignant
spirit with which they are animated. - •
" Teat we shall carefully instruct our respective pa-
rishioners in the responsibility that attaches to the ex-
ercise of the electivet franeilisfq that we shall explain to
them the power,
Member of Parliament. We shall make known to them
for good and for evil, possessed by a
the blas;,hemous oath tendered to every Protestant re-
presentative previous to his taking a seat in Parliament,
and thus enable them to judge of the vegue and hollow
professions by which it is attempted to impose on their
simplicity.

"J TMASMAC P.P., Chairman.
" OH HO N
SIN, P.P., Secretary.

The annexed correspondence has just been pub-
lished :

(No. 9

Edgbaston, Birmingham, Jane 18, 1852.
Sir,—As a Royal proclamation has appeared in the
London Gazette, in which all whom it may concern are
solemnly warned against a violation of the Act of 10
George IV., by which Roman Catholic ecclesiastics and
members of any of the religious orders, communities, or
societies of the Church of Rome, bound by monastic or
religious vows are forbidden to exercise any of the rights
or ceremonies of the Roman Catholic religion, or wear
the habits of their order, save within the usual places
of worship of the Roman Catholic religion, or in private
houses, I take the 'liberty of requesting information on a
question arising out of it, in which I am much interested.
It is now four years since, under legal advice, that
they were not breaking any law, and without any ap-
parent scandal and annoyance to the population, certain
Roman Catholics, ecclesiastical and lay, have ordinarily
appeared in the streets of Birmingham and in the neigh-
bourhood in cassocks and cloaks.

I beg to be allowed to inquire whether the recent pro-
clamation is directed against this practice as well as
against the processions of which it distinctly makes
mention, so that if they continue it they are in danger of
being proceeded against as disturbers of the public
peace?—l um, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) JOHN H. NEWMAN.
To the Right Hon. S. Walpole, ono of her Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State.

(No. 2.)
Whitehall, June 24, 1852.
Sir,—l am directed by Mr. Secretary Walpole to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th inst.,
referring to her Majesty's recent proclamation, and in-
quiring whether it was directed against a particular
practice which has lately been adopted by certain Ro-
man Catholics, ecclesiastical and lay. "as well as
against the processions of which it distinctly makes man.
.

In answer thereto I as 3 to inform you that her Majesty's
proclamation is directed against all violations of the 26th
section of the statute 10th Geo . IV., c. 7, and that if
you feel any difficulty in the construction of that enact-
ment, your proper course will be to consult your legal
adviser. The Secretary of State would not be justified
in prOtiouncing an opinion on the question submitted to
hint ; fur, if any doubt exists on the point, the decision
of it must rest wi►h the c .urts of law, and not with the
Goverumtnt.—l am, Sir; your obedi,rt servant,
(Sizi.ed) WM. J. H. JOLLIFFS.
Rev. John IL Newman, Edgbaston, Birmingham.

CITY COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS.
Yesterday the commissioners assembled in Guild-
hall, Mr. Deputy Peacock in the chair.

TIII INTOLERABLE STENCH IN NEW BRIDGE-STREET.
Mr. HATWOOD, the surveyor to the commission,
made the following report upo❑ a subject of consider-
able importance to :he itAhabiknts of the neighbditr-
hood of Blackfriars

" I beg to report that having made inquiry into the
origin of the effluvium experienced in New Bridge-street
and its vicinity on Monday, the 21st instant, complaint
of which was preferred by a deputation of intabitants
of that neighbourhood on Tuesday last, I have reason to
believe it was attributable to the opening and examina-
tion of the purifiers belonging to the City of London
Gas Company, which the chsirman of the company has
informed me were opened on that day by one of their
officers without the adoption of the usual and proper
precautions.
" I find also that there is no connexion between the
works of this company and the surrounding sewers—
discharges of the waste from their works into the sewers
consequently cannot take place.

" It, is the practice of this company to discharge their
waste liquor daily at once into the Thames. This is
effected by an iron pipe carried from their works along
the river bed, the outlet being at the mean low-water
line. I am informed that it is the almost invariable cus-
tom to let off the liquor with the ebb tide, shortly Etter
full tide; thus very wisely taking advantage of the pe-
riod of the greatest volume of water acd most rapid ern-
rent; but it was at once, however, admitted that each
was not always the case; that sometimes occasions oc-
curred when they were compelled to flush off liquor upon
the flood tide, and when mixed with the tidal water it is
of course carried up the eruszn until the ebb
towards the mouth at the Thames. returns it

" It does not appear to me that any
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the
_tituferm
good reason can
be assigned tor ever discharging this
waste,excepting
with the ebb tile, as it is simply a •
quesqon of adequacy
of storage room, awl I think it may
pony to make provision for be. asked of the ceni-_
roostuie
discharge
their ..vaste liquor at theopportunitydischarge of
only, and that the outlet of ree p►p
produced below the low-water line of ;ides. I have
from the desire he expressed seen the chairman of the company upono the subject, and
what he could to
prevent annoyance to the public, I have no doubt that
to:do
any t uggestion from your honourable court to this of
will be at once cote I
P-ied with.
" At the same time I .... must observe that if these pre-
cautionary measures are carried out to the fullest extent,
I do not expect much mitigation of the evil will be expe-
rienced, for when the waste is now discharged under
favourable circumqances, and combined as it then is with
a large volume of water, yet some distance down the
river the Effluvium caused by it is most unbearable, and is
perceived upon the river and along the shore for a consi-
derable distance.
" The pier-master et Blackfriars.bridge states that
the effluvium varies in intensity, and lasts from half an
hour to an hour and a half, and sometimes two hours
daily.
" I do net apprehend that when complaints aro made of
similar effluvia being perceived throughout the line of
the Fleet sewer it can be attributed to this company, al-
thougb the effluvium might be carried some distance over
the district south of Fleet-street and Ludgate-hill, where
there is a conjunction of atmospheric and other con-
• s favourable to its diffusion in that direction;
n
dier
but I believe that wh.,n such annoyance occurs in the
line of the Fleet sewer it must be attributed to the va-
rious gas-works north of the City. Upea this subject I
have communicated with the officers if the metropolitan
commission, and cannot doubt that your joint efforts
will abate this nuisance, which has for so long a time
been submitted to.—l have thie honour, &c.
" WILLIAM HAYWOOD."

In answer to a question,
The SURVEYOR said he considered the suggestion in
the report but as a teteper3ry expedient until mea-
sures shotdd be taken for the prevention of this waste
being let off into either the sewers or the Thames—a
qiiestion soon to be rit4ed.
The report of the surveyor was referred to the com-
mittee of general purposes, in order to ascertain whe•Le:.
messurcs could no: ht.' tdopted complettly to prey, nt
the disehtlro of the waste liqUor into the Thames end
sewers.
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Several infe!ior ro4ances were reported, and ordsred
to b forthwith romoi4ll.—Alourn, d.

CITY OIITHOF/SDIC 1-10sPITAL, HATTON- GARDEN.-
Yesterday atternoeu a meeting of the committee and sub-
scribers to the above iustitutiou was held in the board-room,
Hatton-garden, D. rfrench Duff, Esq., in the chair. Some
preliminary business having transpired, it was stated by E. J.
Chance, Esq., the senior surgeon, that the number of patients
nos upon the hooks was 826, ail of whom were progressing
favourably.

INCREASED CONSUMPTION OF TEA.—There is an
increase in the quantity of tea entered fbr home consump-
tion in the month ended the sth of May last, compared with
the like period in the preceding year. In the month ended
the sth of May, 1851, the quantity was 4,412,3711 b., and in
the month ended the sth of May last. 4.704,0V21b4 being sal
increase of 221,7211 b.

MP 2' RIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF LORDS, June 29.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his E'i'fit on the Wool-
at Five o'clock.

PETITIONS.
cord MOSTEA.LE presented petitions assainst the
acs ssiastical Titles Bid, and in favour of tenant right.
The Earl of RODEN presented a great number of
petitions from various parts of Ireland against the May-
lloOtil grant.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from a cor-
porate body in Scotland, praying for an extension of the
County Courts Act to that country; also from an indi-
vidual praying that equitable jurisdiction in cases of
esnell amount be extewled to these courts. The Noble
Id Learned Lord then proceeded to pass a high eulogium
the working of the county court system since its first
,stitution, and ta, take a review of the amount of busi-
• .ess transacted by these courts, expressing his opinion
that the effect of the system had been to improve our
principles of jurisprudence. Oee instance of the im-
provement which they caused was the alteration of the
isav of evidence which had been imported from the county
sesurte and sprieging from the Bill which had jest passed
House with regard to corrupt practices at elections,
.ight also be said to be entirely attributable to the
:unty court system—the only practicable Bill, in fact,
n this subject which had been carried through Parlia-
.nent since he had known it. Henceforth any candidate‘
at an election would offer one farthing of a bribe for the
future at his peril, because he knew that he was
liable to be called to give information of every
fact which he knew or suspected to have occurred
during the election, and if he refused to answer, he
would run the risk of losing his seat, if be were the sitting
Member, or if the petitioner, every chance of being
seated. Wo to him if he prevaricated or perjured
himself; for the future he would be in the hands of his
..;ent, or the person whom he had bribed, and for the
at of his life, so long as he had a guinea, it
would be-
g
e to his agent or the receiver of the bribe, because his
i
:.-.racter would be in the hands of those perions.
It
e well that the community at large should know the
ct of that Act, Returning to the subject of county
)urts, he had to remind their Lord hips that they had
new experience of these courts for the last six years, and
with respect to 60 different courts. He should like to
see a commission issued for inquiring into all the mat-
ters connected with them, for he was sure that by the
examination of practitioners and learned judges, many
valuable suggestions and amendments might be obtained,
and that the result would be the putting of them on a
complete, permanent, and satisfactory basis. On the
subject of costs these courts had been established on art
erroneous principle. The salaries of the judges, 60,0001.
a year, were paid by the suitor; the sararies of their
clerks, 76,0001., a year were paid by the suitor; the
bailiffs, 27,0001. (Ixclusive of the fees for executing
process after judgment) were also paid by the suitor. In
all, 163,0001. was paid in feet by the suitors for the
salaries of the officers of these courts. That was not the
w,,y in which justice ought to be distributed to the
subject. It was part of the contract between the ruler
and the subject—it was in fact, the condition on which
the subject owed allegiance, that he should have justice
from the ruler, and there could be no more manifest
exception to that sacred rule than to make the subject
pay for having justice administered to him. In the pre-
sent case it was not the community, but only a part of
the community—the suitors—who paid these salaries of
the effieers of justice. In addition to 163,0001. there
Was a sum of 47,0001. levied for the purposes of building
courthouses, paying for land, and other expenses for
coust-honses all over the country. The injustice of this
tax would be shown by the fact, that a Middlesex suitor
would be taxed for a court-house, not in Middlesex,
where there was already a court-house, but for a court-
house in Yorkshire, with which county he had no con-
nexion. Nothing could be conceived more monstrous
than such a system. This was a gross; glaring,
crying injustice, and apt illustration of the ab-
surdity of the mode in which justice was administered
to suitors in these costs.—(Hear, hear.) In causes
between 51. and 20/, the fees were 3/. 1l*: Bd.,
making an average of one-sixth of the debt. Ia short,
whose system of fees required consideration. He
could not take leave of this important subject without
etking a queetion cn another equally important subject.
fie refeered to the Commission of 1844, and the digests
relative to crimes and punishments and criminal proce-
dure. The former was complete, but the latter was im-
perfect. Ne less a sum than 50,000/. had been expended,
of which 40 000/. had been expended on the criminal di-
gest; an-d ;or want of an expenditure of about 2,0001.
inure the whole of the expenditure of about 40,000/. for
he criminal digest was rendered of little comparative
value. Ha never knew an instance of worse economy
than this. He blamed no one for what had occurred, but
he begged to ask the Noble Lord at the head of the Mi-
nistry to direct the attention of Government to this im-
p ortant matter, and to give the country a complete con-
solidation and a digest of the criminal law.
The Earl of DERBY need hardly say that the subject
referred to by his Noble and Learned Friend was worthy
to engage the attention of every Government, and that
all parties ought to be prepared to co-operate in the
contemplated reforms. His Noble and Learned Friend
was aware, with regard to the circumstances under
which the present Government entered upon office, and
the ordinary Parliamentary affairs, that their attention
was exclusively directed to the current business of the
ession. But he could assure the Noble and Learned
Lord the subject should not be lost sight of, and that the
earliest attention should be given to it. If the dissolu-
tion was as near as his Noble and Learned Friend sup-
posed, and if during the recess that repose should occur
which Government might be supposed then to enjoy—
(Laughter)—the subject of a digest of crimial law should
certainly have due consideration.
Lord BROUGHAM intimated that he would not
move tha second reading of the Bill, in consideration of
the assurances given by Government that the subject
should have attention.

The Metropolitan Burials Bill was read a third time,
after some amendments and remarks by the Bishop of
LONDON, which did not reach the gallery.
The Earl of PO WIS moved for a statement of the es-
timated amount of to!1 which mail coaches, mail carts,
aed horse posts would ba liable to pay on each turnpike
trust if not exempted by the General Turnpike Acts;
al3o, a return of the amount of aid contributed by
parishes to turnpike trusts in England and Wales, in
each year from 1848 b 1831, both inclusive; and, also, a
return of the several routes travelled by mail carriages
drawn by more than one horse; stating the termini-tend
length of each of such routes, and the number of horses
drawing such carriages.
The Earl of ST. GERMANS trusted that the Noble
Earl would make more impression on the Postmaster-
General than he (the E iri of St. Germans) had done on
the late head of the Post-office, in respect to a similar
object.
The Earl of HARDWICKE had no objection to the
returns moved tor. He could not, however, give a de-
cided opinion as to the measure of the Government; but
ha did nut feel disposed to give up any of those rights
which the Crown possessed, as far as he was concerned.
£lO felt very mach f.. 11 the turnpike trusts, but if the
public chose to abandon the mail coaches, it might be a
question open to discussion, whether the mail should not
be carried in carts. As regarded railways, the Crown
had a right to run trains fur the service of the pub-
lic; add it would no doubt do so if the pressure of the
railway companies in respect to the mails became in-
tolerable.

The returns Were then ordered.
The Bishop of OXFORD presented a petition from
rle Cape of Good.1.1
—OP, numerously signed by Dutch
;arees, in reference to 11r. Montagne, the Secretary of
Clio Council.

Twe ire o'clockeir. Lords
to-hipmorrow a then adjourned until Half-pas
(Wednesday).

HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 29.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
THE TREASURY MINUTE WITH REGARD TO
CHICORY.

On the motion that the House at its rising do adjourn
until half-past one to-morrow,
Mr. H. BERKELEY said. that havirg presented a
memorial.to the Right Hon. Gentlemen the Chancellor
cf the Exchequer on this subject, he begged now to pro-
test aglinst the minute being rescinded against the voice
of tafo majorities of that House.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that he had yesterday received a memorial, signed by
all the most eminent coffee d,-alers of the metropolis, in
fatour of the rescinding of the minute. The minute
was not yet rescinded, and before it was re-
scinded the Government would consider the represen-
tations made to them by the various classes in the
eountry interested in the question, and more particularly
~- the growers of chicory, whose claims he considered
to be of more importance than those represented by the
Hon. Member opposite, and who he believed were in
tavour of the rescinding of the minute.
Mr. HUME thought it would be much better to allow
this question to be deci,led by the new Parliament.
Colonel THOMPSON said that hearing the sound of
chicory, ho begird to say that he had a memorial in his
pocket which he meant to present to the Right Hon.
Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer, from 100
of the grocers of Bradford, on this subject. He had not
Vhought that there were so many grocers in the town,
but ha thought their unanimity on the question was no
Mall argument.
The motion for adjournment was then agreed to.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.
A messenger from the Lords brought up the follow
beg Bills, to which their Lordships have agreed:—
Pharmacy.
New Zealand Government.
Turnpike Acts Continuance.
Poor-law Beard Continuance.
Inland Revenue Office.
Savings Banks (Ireland).
Thames Embankment.
Excise Summary Proceeditegs.
Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues.
Valuation (Ireland).
Metropolitan Sewers.
Friendly Societies (No. 2).
Crime and Oatrage (Ireland).
Incumbered EatateF. (Ireland).
Distressed Uniou (Ireland).
Holloway House of Correction.
Torquay Bxr:ra-mural Cemetery.
'groNua.lo'rket and Slaughter-hou;es.
''43**, 4P4-ifsakiteiToQiastie'vVn
t'esr;:rn Railway w Ireland.
44kitttliktnendment.
..:„.!:4 1 ~q*9*(til.4v: Pr,Tedura Amendment.
'4r. . -1.:-, ..t#Vßankrupts Mc° Abolition.
:0"
. .., , ifrs. t ;tate.
ti 041,1, Estate, without amendment.
_,..)e - a. - ocal Board of Health.
- ".nservattcy, with an amendment.
my Rates.