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tare ditaolution. Leaf the fourth is dedicet
ti the touching incident which tells us
that " a pour
.little lapdog" was the last,
mourner of Mary Stuart, the beautiful and unfortu-H:
nate. Leaf the fifth recounts the terrible and mourn-',
ful end of her great rival, Queen E'!ii,beth ; and\
leaf the the &earn or syntral illarion, which is
said to have foretold to Cromwell that he was to be, --
as Mr. Macaulay nit inaptly terms him, the
mightiest Prince that ever ruled tha destinies of
England. Such are the contents of the first volume
of the Poetical and Dramatic writings of Sir Edward
Balwer Lytton—a volume the peculiar and diversified
interest of which induces us to look forward with
souse eagerness for its successors. As a frontispiece, it
contain an engraved likeness of the author, from the
portrait by Mr. Maclise exhibited last season on the
walls of the Royal Academy. Apart from all other
considerations, the work is remarkable, inasmuch as it
will vindicate anew the merits, both as Poet and as
Dramatist, of one of the most versatile, or as be him-
self prefers the expression, of one of the most com-
prehensive intellects whose labours have tended tothe
adornment of our national literature.

THE REV. J. E. GLADSTONE AND THE
Gladstone
eehceamd December last, BISHOP OF LONDON.
It may be in the recollection of our readers that,
oun. theG delivering we statedaeriest a
.the
n f Sundayß ev . J.
evening lectures at the Episcopal. Chapel, Long-acre,
and that on the previous Sunday evening he gave an
animated discourse upon "Tractarianism is Popery,
and must be expelled." In the course of the lecture
the learned divine stated that he-had attended the
service-at the church of St. Barnabas, in order that
he might deal with facts. He was unsparing in his
censures of those Tractarian clergymen who remain
as traitors in the Church, and lamented the fearful
culpability of the bishop of this diocetre in allowing
the ,service to be so papistically conducted in a church
subject to his authority. It appears these remarks in
our columns attracted the notice of the Right Reve-
rend Bishop, for-in a day or two aftecrwards the Rev.
J. E. `Gladstone was rigtiested to wait upon his Lord-
ship, and be accordingly repaired to London House,
accompanied by his two chapel-wardens. Mr. Glad-
steno was received by his Lordship, in the
presence of his chaplain, who immediately
requested the chapel-wardens to withdraw. To
this Mr. Gladstone strongly objected, as his
Lordship was accompanied by his chaplain.
Neither his Lordship nor Mr. Gladstone would
give way ; so, that after eliciting from his Lordship
the fact, that not having obtained the short-hand
writer's notes of the discourse, he was not yet pre-
pared with a formal charge, Mr. G. and' his friends
withdrew. •
The passage in the Rev. Gentleman's lecture which
so galled the feelings of the Bishop is to the follow-
ing effect ;—" Some of the Bishops (God forgive
them) are traitors. I desire to speak with all calm-
ness and firmness, and to respect the office of a
Bishop. I could say much more plainly to his face
'than behind his back, that the Bishop of this diocese
is alarmingly responsible, and fearfully culpable for
what passes in it." It was this close proximity of
the Bishop's name in particular with the word traitor,
as applied to the bench in general, that roused the
feelings of his Lordship. , •
A week or ten days after the above interview, Mr.
Gladstone .Was requested to see the Archdeacon,
the Bishop having deputed him to express his
Lordship's di pleasure at the above quotation.
The Archdeacon called upon Mr. G. to re-
trset or in some measure modify; the obnoxious
remarks which had given umbrage. This Mr.
Gladstone firmly refused to de, stating that he had
but, given:expression to his honest pu victions, and
that he was prepared to meet the ccgiscquencrs of his
actin whatever form they might present themselves.
The interview had no other edict than, by the Arch-
deacon insisting and Mr. Gladstone declining to yield.
Mr. Gladstone pointed out to the Archdeacon cer-
tain places where unblushing Popish practices called
for his Lordship's summary interference, and cited
the authorit:, whereby his Lordship had power to put
them down. Tile Archdeacon was at issue with Mr.
Gladstone on this point, ass,rting that his Lordship
had no power to do what Mr. Gladstone deemed so
imperatively needful.
A few days after this last interview an inhibition
was served upon Mr. Gladstone, interdicting him
from preaching in the diocese of London. This
brings the case to an important crisis, and the ques-
tion naturally suggested is, if the Bishop has no
power to put down Puseadti:la preachers, what power
has he to put down a man who preaches.tbe Gospel
in accordance with the law of the land ? We are
inclined to think that for once the -Bishop has met
with his match, for in the Rev. Mr. Gladstone his
Lordship will have to deal with a mend consummate
:talent, untiring industry, and a zeal amounting to
enthusiasm in the evangelical doctrine of the Church,
and no amount of suffering or persecution will deter
him from following out his determination to cleanse
the Established Church from what he calls," traitors."
It is not
,because men in a lowly state make
strenuous endeavours to prevent. the inroads that
Tractarianism is working into the foundation of our
religion, that they are to be put down by the high
and mighty of purple and lawn. If we are not mis-
taken in our opinion, the Bishop will find that he has
overshot his mark.
Already the influential members of Mr. Gladstone's
congregation have waited upon him, stating their
approbation of his conduct, and offering to stand by
him in any proceedings that may be taken on the
part of his diocesan. So great isf the esteem enter-
tained for Mr. Gladstone in Norwich, the seat of his
former ministration, that large numbers of the Rev.
Gentleman's discourse, have been purchased for dis-
tribution in that city.

C. 3. S.

DANGEROUs STATE OF PARLIAMENT- STREET AND
ICLW PALACE -FAL esterday and the day before the
great thoroughfare from Whitehall along Parliament-street,
and across New Palace-yard, was in a condition to reflect
the greatest disgrace on the parties responsible for its main-
tenance. Immediately in front of the Duke of Buccleuch's
passenger was besmeared'
grounds, in Whitehall, there was all accumulation of mud
tahnedfrestperate indeed must have
and water extending across the carrirge way to near the
pavement in front of the Board of Trade and the Privy
Council-office. As the omnibuses, cabs, coaches, carts, tcc
wdrtot
been his courage it, b-
loot-ingedown upon the prospect before
him in Parliament-st, h
drone
e mud through
and duty
determined to advance on his
journey to Westminster-hallOn one side of Parliament-
dthiritsyswloautg7l::
street innumerable vehicles were
imbedded in macadamised
metal, whiline on the other side of the street
conveyances were
axle deep ponds of thick water.
The contract for the monthly mail line of screw
steamers to and from England and
Africa, which was advertised by the West Coast of
the
Septem-
ber last, has been taken by Mr. Admiralty in
nine years, at an average payment Macgregor Laird. It is for
The places touched at will of 21,0001. per annum.
River Gambif, Sierra be Madeira, Teneriffe, Goree,
Accra, Whydeh, Bad Leone, Liberia, Cape Coast Castle,
NODS, and Fernando agrY'
_Lagos, Bonny, Calebar, Came-
home 9,000 miles, Po, making the total distance out and
in from lift . which, inclu,:ing stoppages, will be per-
formedy-e.ight to sixty days.. The speed of the
vessels is to average eight knots and their size will. be about
satisfactory to add also that they are to be
constructed of iron.
A MAN
CRUSHED BY AN Ox —Yesterday after-
noon a butcher, named John Willies'is employed who p'ed as a
slaughterman iu Newport-market, had a very etialrLocw escape
of being crushed to death by one of the bullock he was
about to slaughter. It appears that he went into " the
pound," where they are tied up, for the purpose of driving
cieht or nine of them into the slaughter-house to dress for
to-day's market, and had nearly finished the job, when one
of them refusing to go into the killing-house, he proceeded
to urge it lorcibiy, upon which the animal became infuriate i,
and rushing at him, pinned him so firmly against the wall,
fiat had he not received timely assistance, he would un-
doubtedly have been crushed to death. Oa being liberated,
he was carried to Charing-cross Hospital, where Mr. Dalton,
the house-surgeon, discovered, en examination, that one arm
was severely fractured, besides internal injuries of so serious
a character, that he now lies in the hospital in a very pre-
, carious state.
• - - -

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—At one o'clock yestertigy
afternoon,
a young woman, about eighteen years of agr, sud-
denly mounted the parapet of Waterloo-bridge, and threvr
herself into the Thames. Her clothes buoying her up, she
floated as far as Strand-lane, when she was picked up by the
men in a police-galley, and immediately conveyed to Char-
ing-cross Hospital in a very exhausted condition.
AMERICAN FIREARMS FOR THE CAPE.--The 'Lords
Cominissieners of her Majesty's Treasury have caused Sir
Charles Trevelynn, one of their Lordships' secretaries, to
communicate to the Commissioners of Customs their Lord-
ships' desire for immediate directions to be given for per-
mining Colonel Colt to export to the Cape a Good Hope
activLeontdihodencurvY°l.
the same being
certain cases containing about 450 revolving firearms of va-
rious sizes, with the bullet-moulds, ax-, complete; now in
the Great Exhibition building in Hyde-park,
intended fur the use of officers serving in that coony; and
the authorities have given the necessary. directions for in..
matter.
heavy
ybounieti to Selby, with a
curing a compliance with their Lordships wishes in the
-
GREAT YARMOUTIL—On the morning of the 11th
instant. at about four o'clock, the purni,lit2.., of Selby, John
generalShi p s e
cargo, master,diir i
ntrgonar
very
ywas running over il)"
On
to the
beach at Hopton. Teo sea,
uction i over her, the cargo
washing out, and the desa o the crew, who were
of th'i's port, ar-
rivedseen clinging to the rigging, appeared inevitable, when Mr.
brought into operation, and the whole crew
in charge of Manby's lile apparatus,
which by him
Brihton Silvers, an
were speedily rescued from their perilous position, thus
making, in all, 95 lives Dlr. Silvers has had the good fertube
by the use of this valuable invention.
to save
BoTAL COLLEGE oF
was bkilially
SURGEONS.—The following
entlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations for
the diPlema, were admitted mr•mbers of the college at the
meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 9th inst. :
Messrs. Leonard George Boor, St. George-street East; Henry
A
yliffe,South Australia • Edward Horatio Swete Andrew
Sexton Gray, Dublin ; William Thomas Bell,Great Grimsby,
Lincolnshire; Bernatd Rice, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick-
shire; William Henry Broadbent, Manchester; Thomas
William Harle, Bishop's Stortford, Hats • William Coyle
Dobson, London ; Sydney Alder, Wakedeld;Yorkshire ; \V m.
George Lloyd, Ingrain, Mitihurst, Sussex ; Aldborough Lloyd
Williams, St, lletliers, Jersey; and Edward Liddon, Coly-
toe, Devon.

THE TEA. TRADE,-JAN. 12.—There was a great
inereae in the deliveries cf tea last week, those from the
London warehouses having amounted to 63.7,6541b5., or abeut
190,0001 b. more than in the previous Week.