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Established August 1, 1837.
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ALLS OPP'S PALE ALE AND DR.
GLOVER.
The circulation given to a statement tending to invalidate the
expression of Dr. Glover's opinion in favour of Pale Ale, compels
Messrs. ALLSOPP and SONS to connect this remarkable dis-
tribution of a calumny with other insidious attacks upon their
finn which they have reason to know proceed from an unworthy
and unneighbourly jealousy.
Messrs. ALLSOPP and SONS, in reply, deem it their best
course to adopt the same line of conduct as in the case of the
similar perversion and mutilation of Baron Liebig's meaning, so
indignantly repudiated by that eminent man himself. They pub-
lish, therefore, without abridg went. the letter they received from
Dr. Glover, (having his permission to do so) ; a letter the more
valuable because it was not intended for publication, and is an unpre-
meditated evidence of that learned Chemist's just appreciation of
Pale Ale.

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the age of sixty, but to the assured himself, if he attains
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DR. GLOVER TO MR. ALLSOPP.
" Newcastle-on-Tyne, April 11.

tStabl• ORPHAN'S ENDOWMENT BRANCH.
tshed for the purpose .4 affording to parents and others the
annuities, f having children educated and started in life,
paiding
child to commence at the parents' death, and to be until a
Year ,La son, shall attain his 21st year, or, if a daughter, her 20th
These
a read annuities annuities are at any time commutable for their full value, if
teri„*"2nioney capital is required for a marriage portion, or on en-
-6 1 n to business or a profession.

" Sir,—lt was not my intention, in writing the hasty note to
' The Lancet,' to cast any reflections upon, or to implicate in any
way, respectable brewers of pale ale.
" When I first saw the statement about the alleged use of strych-
nine in bittering ale, I looked upon the assertion as incredible, both
on account of the price of the drug and the symptoms it would
create ; but on experiment, I found that strychnine possesses such
wonderful bitterness, that it might perhaps be used as AN ADJUVANT
at least by UNPRINCIPLED PERSONS. In short, my object was simply
to show that the thing was not altogether so ,impossible as it ap-
peared at first sight to be.
" My opinion is, that hops should not enjoy the exclusive privilege
of being used for bittering beer ; but I do not pretend to discuss the
point with practical men.
" I know there are bitters which might be used beneficially, in a
medical point of view.
" With regard to analysing your beer, my time is taken up, so
far as analysing and chemistry are concerned, with two kinds of in-
quiries—lot, those which are purely scientific; and 2d, those which
are profitable. If you wish me, in the latter capacity, to analyse
and report on your beer, I, or course, can have no objection.
" I have to prepare for an ab,enee of three or tour days to-morrow,
and. so beg you to excuse me replying to the letter. of Mr. Bottingen,
for which I am much obliged.

BRITANNIA. MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION.
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Ann,, .111 Powered by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.
Year's -1`
premium division of profits—applied in reduction of the current
ef aur3' holders entitled to participate in the profits after payment
leetev,Or seven annual premiums according to the table of rates se-
assurer,
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48 is us.. Charged for every three months' difference of age—not,
tiair
assured
the ease, for every whole year only.
Policies granted on terms unusually favourable to the
bein, toe amount of half premiums for which credit is given,
jk',sllidated out of the profits.
Of 30 `"e Annual General Meeting on the 27th April last, a reduction
fiveor,cerd• was made in the Present y ear's premium on all policies
A Loa'
.:even Years' standing.
.tige ofd of Directors in attendance daily at Two o'clock.
Med, l the assured in every case admitted in the policy.
iea
attendants remunerated in all cases for:their reports.

" Yours, B;c.,
" R. M. GLOVER

(Signed)

" H Alloopp, Esq.
" P.S. I presume you will hardl7 expect me to write to ' The
Lancet.' However, I shall be at home on Thursday evening, and
most assuredly I have no desire to say anything which could weaken
the confidence of the public in your beer. But that I am not now
in the habit of drinking Bitter Beer, I should be glad to show my
confidence by drinking plenty of it."
Messrs. ALLSOPP and SONS beg to refer to the letter of Mr.
HENRY ALLSOPP on this subject, in the " Monthly Journal of
Medical Science " for October, in the concluding paragraph of which
it is said—
" I inserted Dr. Glover's good-natured remark on my Bitter Beer
as an incidental testimonial'—no more. I never called it a cer-
tificate,' nor did I apply to him, or any other medical gentleman, for
one. lam not responsible that such a construction has been placed
upon the off-hand expressions of good opinion which have been sent
to me from all quarters."
Messrs. ALLSOPP and SONS, in conclusion, wish to draw the
attention of the public and the trade to the fact, that, by this dis-
ingenuous system of attack and the perversions of facts gratui-
tously adopted, they are unwillingly drawn into that publicity the
courting of which is made an accusation against them.
Burton-on-Trent, Oct. 8, 1852,

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Time assured,Sum \ Sum addedto Sum addedto, Sum payable
assured.' PolicyinlB4liPolicyin 1848 at Death.

£5OOO 113 years 10 mthsl
*lOOO I 7 years
500 ' 1 year

£638 6 8 £787 10 0 £6470 16 8
.. .. 157 10 0 1157 10 0
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WEEK DAYS SUNDAYS.
SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
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Pier. t.-. 13 -ta. i: 4 8 fat t I 3 t 4 g
8 ';'" ' 4 0 ~... A., TIMES.-A very curious story of a miraculous vi-
sion is just now currentamong the Romanists in Eng-
- ____ _ _ _
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land. They have received it fresh from France, the coun-
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9 II % et the very outset of our remarks, offer something like
IN
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a Christians agree to reverence. The fault is not with
us. but with those who do not shrink from the inven-

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—A very curious story of a miraculous vi-
sion is just now currentamong the Romanists in Eng-
land. They have received it fresh from France, the coun-
try in which the vision is said to have occurred. We must,
et the very outset of our remarks, offer something like
an apology to all sober-minded people for introducing
into these columns names which all denominations of
Christians agree to reverence. The fault is not with
us, but with those who do not shrink from the inven-
tion and propagation of this blasphemous buffoonery.
If we allude to such matters at all, it is not without
adequate cause. Let those who would leave us for
a stricter communion with the Roman Church clearly
see what they will gain by the exchange. In another
portion, then, of our columns this day will be found a
report of a discourse delivered on Wednesday of last
week by the Rev. Mr. Northcote, a seceder from the
Church of England. This gentleman, it appears, has
satisfied himself completely of the truth of a story
which for its utter and rank absurdity even exceeds
the folly of the Holy Coat at Treves, or the winking
Madonna, or Lord Shrewsbury's Addolorata and
Estatica. Let us give him the credit of being de-
ceived himself. If we may judge by the teneur of
his discourse, he has a natural tendency to consume
what poor darryat used to call "flap-doodle," and
flap-doodle is the meat on which fools are fed. It is
right that every vision should be attested by a mira-
cle ; the miracle in this instance is, that any man with
a beard to his chin could stand up and utter delibe-
rately as truth to an audience of Englishmen the
following nonsensical story : In the month
of September, 1846, a little peasant boy about 11
years of age, and a little girl about 15, who had been
engaged in keeping cows on a spur of the Alps, near
Grenoble, came home and informed their master that
they had had a wonderful vision of the Virgin Mary
in the course of the day. The children had fallen
asleep, and, on awaking, perceived that their cows had
strayed. They soon found them • but, on turning
their eyes in the direction in which they were, were
dazzled by an extraordinary light. The occurrence
took place at noon, or thereabouts, for only an hour
.inTcehethlieocthtihldeyresnawha,d,
wafisnmishoered the
i
humbleapdsiebdn e rs
glori-
fied than the sun, of a different colour ; something
more red about it than was to be seen about the sun
at noonday." The light must have been somewhat
powerful to have produced such an effect at such a
time, and must, we should have supposed—miracles
excepted—have been perceived by some one other
than themselves, even in that lonely region. There is
no such confirmatory testimony; but no matter. The
children were terrified, and the girl dropped the stick
which she held in her hand ; whereupon the boy—
the Paladin of 11 years old—said, " Pick up your
stick again, for if it offers to do you any harm, I will
give it a good blow." That is, the boy was to give
the " light" a good blow ; a famous Chasseur de Vin-
cennes he will make one of these days. " By this time
the brightness was no longer so indistinct," it had just
been described as more glorified than the sun at noon •
day, and the children perceived in the midst of it a lady
sitting on some stones at the head of a fountain then dry.
The very same spot had been described a few lines
before as one which contained a stream of water where
the cows had been made to drink ; but no matter.
The lady now came forward and stood, one child in
one hand, and one in the other, and informed them
that she had an important ccmmunication to make to
them. The wrath of her Son was heavy against
France for three reasons in especial, and she could
not much longer hope to stay his vengeful arm. The
first of these reasons was: the desecration of the Sab-
bath—no very uncommon occurrence in Roman Ca-
tholic countries for the last 1,000 years, nor at the
present day, as all travellers on the continent can tes-
tify. The second reason that had caused this majestic
lady to descend from her region of celestial glory was
that the French waggoners and ploughboys were
sadly given to cursing and swearing. The third little
matter which required amendment, was that the days
of fasting and abstinence were not observed as they
should be. Inde ire—for these reasons the Virgin
Mary had descended to Grenoble to give the little
cowherd and his mate the benefit of a timely hint.
The consequences, if this warning were neglected,
would be dreadful—first the pommes de-terre were to
fall a sacrifice—then the corn—finally, the grapes
and walnuts. Then there was to be a pestilence,
whish would be especially fatal to little children.
There arc one or two singular circumstances connect
ed with this interview which deserve especial mention.
It appears the Virgin Mary began her discourse in
French. How could the children, who only under-
stood their own patois, recognize any language but
their own jargon tor French or anything else ?
" In the course of her conversation with the children
she began it in French, but when she came to speak
of the potatoes they did not know what she was talk
ing about." Whence then the interpretation of the
prefatory matter ? Surely it was somewhat clumsy
in so divine a being to mystify these wretched chil-
dren by talking to them in a language they did not
understand ? To be sure, if the Virgin went over
the whole ground again in the Grenoble patois, it
would be possible that the children should thus have
been enabled to bring away her whole message.
Such an hypothesis, however, would cast a sad reflec-
tion upon the management of the divine Ambassa-
dress—unless we suppose that the French is the lan-
guage ordinarily in use among beatified spirits, as
among diplomatists, and that she forgot herself for
the moment; or, if the children had some faint know-
ledge of the French language, it seems strange that
they should have broken down at the phrase " pom-
mes de-terre." Be this, however, as it may, there is
another circumstance in the narrative to which we
would more particularly allude. At a certain point
of the Virgin's discourse the boy perceived her lips to
move, but could hear no sound. At another certain
point the same phenomenon was repeated with this
difference, that this time the girl could hear no sound.
Now, when the interview was concluded and the.
children came to compare notes, it appeared that a
mysterious secret had been communicated to the girl
first, and then another to the boy. What these secrets
are we know not. The Virgin's orders were, that
the children were not on any account to disclose
what she had said to them, but they have been
talked over into communicating their secrets to the
Pope in writing. The Pope, it appears, on reading
the communications was much affected, and remarked
that it was a great grief for France, although the
other countries of Europe deserved the punishment as
well. Perhaps the communication contained Rachel's
verses of the other day. We must refer our readers to
another portion of our columns, in which they will
find Mr. Northcote's speech at length. The whole
story has received the sanction of the Bishop of the
diccsse and of the Roman Catholic clergy. A church
is being built upon the mountain, to which the coun-
try-folk resort as to a holy place, and of course mira-
cles are performed in great abundance. After our
experience of the crowds that resorted to see the
this gives
Holy Coat at Treves, we must not pretend to be
in these laity.
shocked at any outbreak of human folly even in our
own times, and at our own doors:: but such a story as
the reader but a poor opinion of the ho•
wretched arans,
neatY of the French clergy, or of the intelligence of
money; and such isW he
the French laity
But there would be
before
no
dnouthbitstshuebjtreuete
iwntaesrepproektaetnioonf.
that the French it was hinted that the whole
imposture was a mere scheme for obtaining
motivel enough, even if we sup-
posedmost general way, to
their followers. Of coursea
add
dgy
strengtht . to the faith of
nisf a great thing when a
merely wished, in the
divine being steps down
tletstimony
indirecteuntain whenever she
belef
tol
is wanted to bear direct orto the
truth of a particular form of
tri-
fling with the patience of any man of wouldnrd. be
mary un-
deriatanding to make guoh golly the bUbjtet of

serious argument. Whether the wretched chil-
dren were deceived by a get-up apparition
or whether they really brought home a cock-
and-bull story which took with the country-
side and was subsequently imprnved by the priests,
matters but little. If the Virgin Mary had wished
to break Frenchmen of the habit of profane swearing,
she would have put her purpose in execution before
the middle of the nineteenth century.
CHRONICLE.—Cato has been called one of the
antipodes, because " trod opposite to the present
world." It would seem, therefore, that it is only by

a Cato or by one like him, thattgeneral consent can
be safely resisted. Public opini& may, however, be
defied not only by the most heroic virtue, but also
by that perfection of selfishness which approaches the
sublime. In the present day we must admit that
the clergy—especially the dignitaries of the Church
—afford more and larger specimens of one sort of
the heroic than other caste of modern so. iety. The
Six Clerks in Chancery were, no doubt, exalted cha-
_ _

racters ; but Archdeacon Hale and Croft, Mtssrs.
Prebendaries Moore and Prettyman, and the Right
Hon. and Rev. the "Master of St. Cross Hospital, far
exceed any lay pretenders to the great virtue of con-
tempt of the world. But it is not enough that Arch-
deacons and Canons should, as Bacon says, " tread
opposite to the present world," for it seems as though
every branch of our cathedral establishments should,
and we fear justly ,9xpose itself to popular indigna-
tion. The Deans must now have their turn at a job;
and a recent case illustrates the rule, that Chapters
must exhaust the cycle of Church abuses. ,The Dean
of Norwicb, Dr. Pellew, and the Dean of Canter-
bury, Dr. Lyall, besides their d7arleqe.2, were each in
possession of a livifik: Dr. Lolt Was reVOrOf
Chart, in Kent ; Dr. Pellew held the living of St.
Dionis Backchurcb, in the city of London—both

FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF
WELLINGTON.

The arrangements contemplated in connexion with
th's solemn act of reverence for the memory of the Great
Duke have ungene a slight modification. It was in-
tended that on the night previous to the interment the
body should be removed to the 'Horse Guards, nu t
that the funeral procession should he formed at that
pwoais
ntln
followed, forthethishis precedentsremains
restedof o
Nelson'sn the night
internmehntt
preceding the burial at the Admiralty. But it has
been justly consideretdthililsthtvahite ewNm,e to
olstrho form
Nelson had no town-house
like the Duke, and that Apsley-house, therefore, is
lat htn e
Chelsea proper
accordance
Li: withupti t
Hospital
lt which rinn. body
o fth
tehe willp
1r
so procession.
remaandin
when it reaches Apsley-home. thbose of whom the
cortege is to consist will fall into their right pieces.
The military escort of the funeral will consist of detach-
ments from every regiment in the service— of three bat-
talions of the Guards, 84 pensioners, representing the
age to which the Duke had attained, the 33d Foot, the
Rifle Brigade, six squadrons of cavalry, and 17 guns.
The artillery will head the procession, but it is intended
that the firing should be at the Tower, which is suffi-
ciently near for the purpose, and is the more appro-
priate from the Duke having been Constable. Deputa-
tions of 100 men, with their proper complements of
officers, will also attend on the occasion from each of the
five continental armies in which the Duke held the rank
of field-marshal; and thus, in addition to a complete
representation of the military force of this country,
there will be assembled on the occasion types of those of
Russia, Austria, Prussia, Spain, and Portugal. It is net
believed that more than forty equipages will be required
in the procession, which will be mainly conducted on foot.
Botliat St. Paul's and at C helsea Hospital the preparations
hfor the approaching ceremonial- are in rapid process of
execution. The hall of the hospital has been completely
cleared, preliminary to the arrangements for the lying in
state, and the additional facilities required for ingress and
egress are also being provided for. The great work of
fitting up the cathedral is likewise progressing satis-
factorily, and it is expected that, irrespective of the pro-
cession, at least 10,000 persons will be accommodated
with seats in the interior. There is no doubt that the
ceup d'ceil of the gigantic edifice, brilliantly illuminated
from end to end, and with the light of day completely
excluded, will be inexpressibly grand. Several imper-
lect trials of the effect produced have already been made,
and with the most striking results. It is to be hoped
that the attention which has recently' been attracted
among us to the subject of artistic design will not be
thrown away on the approaching occasion, and that a
national act of homage to departed greatness may not be
disfigured by vulgar and tasteless devices. The funeral
car in which Nelson was conveyed to St. Paul's combined
in its structure the forms of a fourpost bedstead, a ship,
a Greek altar, a hearse, and half-a-dozen other incon-
gruities. What will foreigners think of us, and what
can we think of ourselves, if, atter so many years of in-
creased civilization, we evince our sorrow as a people by
a repetition of suchl extravagant and ludicrous absur-
dities ?

livings in the gift of.the Dean and Chapter of Canter-
atic re
subscription
e l connection o
regret
enerc et
tio
it,no fw
sufferedi
11.
hi his
London Canter-
bury. Dr. Pellew never resided; and the only re-
sausi t
hesfs parishillsistsity:e esamountedtnyd-owe se sincerely
ne
per annum to the schools. Dr. Lyall
from an attack of paralysis, or something
th
was a resident.
held the distinguished office of Prolocutort
at, though he
ofinthcatonkvinod.
tri.eLincapacitated
a non-resident, o. be proposed
—an affliction, however, so great
Convo-
cation, it is well known that he is noott
St. Dionis,el
gs_Deyall and Dr.
at the ensuing session, and he is
Ioooose.
Pellew
wclerical
thereforeor leitxeorharayogewoirikvio
Chart.p en
eLnanYtdalbjt'heea-
opoamraelys,toicr,
iasntdo,
become, rector
erceeosstiotry,of
non-resident
resident rector
rector of Sotf. DGiroonsits
Pellew—
becomesquences of all this, Dr. Pellew addresses a pastoral
letter to his parishioners of St. Dionis rather taking
credit for exchanging his 4001. per annum preferment
in London for some 6001. or 7001. a year in
Kent; and
hinting, which is rather a naive confession, that be had
long been on the look out for an opportunity, not of
residing among the people of Backchurch—but of
getting rid of them for something better. Dr. Lyall,
on the other hand, gives up Great Chart because be
can be of no use to his parish, and takes St. Dionis
for precisely the same reason. Afflicted with paraly-
sis, he cannot serve Great Chart so he resigns it ;
afflicted with paralysis, he cannot serve St. Dionis
so he takes it. Great Chart has, of course, no reason
to complain, but St. Dionis has substantial reason ;
and, judging from a document which we printed
yesterday, it has also a tongue to set forth its griev-
ances. Perhaps, as St. Dionis has never been blessed
with the pleasant presence of Dr. Pellew during the
21 years of his incumbency, the wise Deans thought
the city parishioners were so used to non-residence
that, like the eels, they rather liked skinning. Pro-
bably Drs. Lyall and Pellew argued that, as there
was no good residence house on St. Dionis, so it was
of the nature of an ecclesiastical economy, or fixed
dispensation, that Backchurch must go rectorless till
rectors should be no more ; and that therefore—seeing
that the rector must, from this great, and invincible,
and canonical necessity of the case, be non-resident—
it mattered little to the parish whether the said rector
were blind, or paralytic, or fatuous into the bargain.
Renee the exchange. The assumption is, that as

§t. Dionis has not had, so it cannot, must not,
shall not have a resident rector. This is the Decanal

ATROCIOUS MURDERS IN STAFFORD.
SHIRE.

One of the most tragical murders which has been
committed in Staffordshire for many years, was perpe-
trated early on Monday morning, near the county
. town,
person
ioeworsnues
ose t
onrot
fs
turn,
possessingort:.
nf ep.,
several
eal
ransndodni
ras and
tafioge
Stafford. The place where it occurred is situate about
three miles from Stafford on the road toWolverhamptoc,
down a narrow and secluded lane. The house was occu-
pied by an aged couple named Blackband, who, in addi-
tionf deja ot i n
Naturallyi
place n g ,
for
were
re
or
her i
saal
wealths
penu-
rious e the
n u-
tb be on his own person, he invariably carried about with
him a large quantity of gold, and it is supposed to have
been the knowledge of this fact which induced some
wealth.
eel
av
let and
h.
Aperpetrate
o'clock,
horrid, a.m ,
idea of 'murdering the old man and woman for the pur-
pose
was sent to Stafford that a cottage at Moss
Pit was on fire, and engines were immediately dis-
patched to extinguish the devouring element. On
breaking open the door of the house, the fire was
discovered to have originated in one of the bedrooms,
but tho smoke and flames prevented any one from
ascending the staircase. Ladders were immediately
procured and holes made in the roof of the building, and
the fire engines having subsequently arrived, the flames
were extinguished. On ascending the stairs, the old
the room on a bedstead, still burning. Upon examina-
tion,man and woman were discovered at the further end of
it was discovered that the head of Blackband had
been cloven with some beavy,.,weapon, the frontal bone
being completely smashed, and the back of the head
opened. The body was reduced Almost to a cinder with
the exception of the head and one4of the legs. Across
the bottom of the bed lay the burnt trunk of his wife's
body, arms, and legs being entirely gone. She had re-
ceived a heavy blow over the right eye. For many
years the old couple, through infirmities, had slept apart
in different rooms in the house. The stairs to the old
man's room ascending from the house-place, and those
to his wife's bed room at a distant part of the dwelling
theiricl
ndoisnn
og ft buildings
hlaensdaa.

argument. Now, here is an exact illustration of
what, at the outset, we called the antipodean cha-
racter of Deans and Chapters. "They tread opposite
to the rest of mankind." An abuse, in tbese days, is,
Ist- abase.t This is
irsLcontinsed
ealsseawnhearbe,uasethbinecgatuosebeirtehliebde-4en
the rule in matters alf State—the Church takes the
antipodean view. The rest of the world will feel that,
supposing it were beyond the bounds of clerical pos-
sibility to secure a resident rector to St. Dionis, the
question might still be fairly asked—must the parson
of St. Dionis live at Canterbury,
aid need he be
,offering from paralysis? Is it not possible to rele-
g.ate the parish priest of Fenchurch.street, say to
Finsbury-circus ?—and is a man in fair health
wholly unattainable ? Again, it will be demanded,
if unhappily the Dean of Canterbury is disabled
..
.literature,
from attending. to the concerns of his own Cathedral—
of the city. of Canterbury—of its educational and
charitable institutions and establisbments—of Con-
vocation—oftp‘. ovehai)
yec,wu
Pellew. Is
ofls
voluntarily
n.soulso t i
thena nt
Deanery
ao city iet
design
sooi
gff n
NorwichLo n do London
aforethought,e
addition to this sad heap of incapacities, should Dr.
in which he shone—why, in
Lyall wantonly add the impossibility of doing justice
not enough, involuntarily, to neglect his deanery ?
and resolve to neglect poor St. Dionis? So of Dr.
soulsatisfyord
Norwich
ro f
tttohh the craving
a do lna t eehxri asett
dutyorf oorf
pattern usefulness
St.i whichprecincts
6 t i laan theagitatesoe
fi nt
hytoi u:rga own
snh the
tf
cathedral, and to strengthen him in reclaiming the
vicious and neglected capital of East England, must
the Dean of Norwich loiter his summer hours in the
sylvan solitudes of the Weald of Kent? St. Dionis,
as of late administered, did not, anyhow, pledge Dean
Pellew to be absent from his deanery—Great Chart
does. Is the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of
Canterbury intended to swell the coffers either of the
Dean of Norwich, or of an incapacitated Dean of
Canterbury ? Is there no London curate who would
accept St. Dionis, even without a rectory ? Must the
souls of Fenchurch-street, Lime-street, and Philpot-
lane be fixed as a perpetual appanage to whatever of
non-residence, pluralism, and the infirmities of age
—to use the words of the parishioners—occurs among
the members or friends of the Chapter of Canterbury?
Finally, is there not one member of that splendid
foundation who will protest against this scandal ?
And these are the Capitular Establishments which
we, and other defenders of the Church, are called
upon to uphole, and, in their hour of peril, to resist
any attacks upon. But a Royal Commission is issued
to inquire into these establishments, into their reve-
nues, into their preferment, and into the mode of dis-
posing of either. And the clerical members of this
Cemtniasion are Dignitaries,
and Dignitaries alone
—not a parish priest amongst them. Dean Lyall
and
...Dean Pellew, or such as them are to be
nominated Royal Commissioners to inquire into
the capitular disposal of preferment—the Deans of
Canterbury and Norwich devising a scheme to
' prevent semi.simoniacal exchange of benefices!
reluctant,
In another quarter we are glad to note at least
some, though a tardy and concession to
public opinion. Mr. Whiston is reinstated in the
mastership of the Rochester Cathedral
School. Not
that such a tardy act is anything like justice on the
part of the visitor. It is a concession extorted by the
force of the times—not a free-will atonement for
wrong done. All that the appeal at last turned upon
was the most trumpery point of technical chicane—
nwoetrowihnetthheer
mthaeinfatcrta—ot whetherseofnMr. Whiston,s publication
his
appeal for
his poor scholars was founded on equity and moral
departments of a capitular body should stoafor
members and
hare in the
right—not whether his claim that all
changes consequent upon the altered value of money
—but upon the dry question, whether Mr. Whiston's
mgaoadgesooffstaationegrtaciiarcumstin the lan-
mal gravius
delictum. On this worthless issue Mr. Wbiston has
been deprived of his office for more than three years.
But at last he is reinstated, and the public will form a
very simple estimate of his case. If Mr. Whiston's
facts were true, he ought never to have been sus-
pended ;if they constitution,anc es.
amounted,
were false, he ought not to have been
restored. It is a question of matter, not manner.
The Bishop of Rochester has deprived. his final sen•
tence of the solemnity of an act of yastice, and what
ought to have been conceded to an honest appeal has
been surrendered with that awkwardness which would
have been "unjust still"---only the Commission was
looming in the future. However, we must yield to
the Bishop of Rochester what. the Deans of Canter-
bury and Norwich are insensible of—some apprecia-
tion of, if not respect for, public opinion.

from the pantry. At the bottom of the pantry stairs i;
a large pool of blood ; and it is supposed that, after the
murderer had dispatched the old man, he pro
ceeded to the other part of the house, where his
second victim was descending the stairs, when be
immediately dealt the fatal blow which deprived her of
life. Having committed this twofold deed of guilt, he
must have carried her through the house to the bedroom
of her husband, and placing her on his bed, have sot fire
to the clothes, intending to destroy every vestige or
mark which would tend to his detection by burning the
house and all that it contained, and thus lead to the sup-
position that the fire was one of accident. The dog,
which was kept in the house, was found in the well op-
vivyedbl,oitwoofntbtehepohweaedr
ohfavminagk,iungo
doubt,posite tphreevdiootiosriya heavy blow on the head having, no
doubt, previously depr
any alarm. The murder must have been perpetrated
after daylight. At half-past seven o'clock a gentleman
passed the house, when there was no sign of fire, but he
observed a man walking through the adjoining field, as
if leaving the house. No clue, however, has at present
upon
attachespriotdeedl as ;
someparts to
butwhom g
t is supposed f thehs guiltpbosded that
or
body
f this
clothes,
the
murderer
which
could n
ma y
lead
transactioneaodt
hare completed the without having marks of blood
to his apprehension.

ME POST-OFFICE IN CALIFORNIA.—There are no let-
ter carriers, and the inhabitants have to call at the Post-
office for their letters. When a mail arrives there is a
a great confusion of people, numbering from two to five
thousand, waiting their turn in six rows of from six to
eight hundred each.
THE ENVOY FROM PITCAIRN'S ISLAND, now in this
country, married Sarah Christian, granddaughter of
Fletcher Christian, the lieutenant of the Bounty, who
planned and carried into effect the memorable mutiny in
;he South Sea.