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OCTOBER 26, 1852.

N°. 18,751.] LONDON,

To-morrow, In Bvo , price l s.,
QPE EC HES or the RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD JOHN RUSSELL, M.P., delivered at Stirling and at
Perth, September 1852.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
Established by Act of Parliament In 1834.
8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
HONORARY PRESIDENTS.
Viscount Falkland
Lord Ell-Millstone
Lord Belhaven and Stenton
William Campbell, Esq., of
Tilllcbewan.

London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Lon mans.

Earl of Courtown
Earl Leven and Melville
Earl of Norbury
Earl of Stair
Earl Somers

LA.IIRENT'S GRAND CASTNO,
ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windffiill- strett,
St. James's,
Lessee, Charles Emele Laurant, Onslow House, Brompton-road,
Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament, 25th of King George H.,
Are Re-opened for the Whiter Season.
During the ree.ss the Roims have been entirely Re-decorated, by
G. 8. rorycr, rf gardless of cost.
Laurent's Matchless Band ev.3ry evening. Principal met-a-
-:18ton, M. Butticourt.

BOARD.
M, Esq., Chairman.
Deputy Chairman.
J. G. Henriques, Esq.
P. C. Maitland, Esq.
William Banton, Esq.
F. 11. Thomson, Esq.
Thomas Thorby, Esq.
MEDICAL OFFICERS.
PHYSICIAN.—Arthur H. Hassan, Esq., M.D., 8, Bennett-street,
St. James's.
SURGEON —F. H. Thomson, Esq., 48, Berners.street.
The bonus added to policies from March, 1834, to the 31bt
december, 1847, is as follows:

Admission—ONE SHILLING.
Doors open at Half-past Eight o'clock. Dancing
to commence at
Nma. and to-minate at If- past Eleven.

E •
ADING SAUCE,
For Fish, Game, Gravies, Hashes, Steaks, &c.
JOlUi and CHARLES COCKS. the Sole P. oprietors and Manu-
facturers of the celebrated It PIADING SAUCE, beg to caution the
Public against the daily frauds practised by many persons, who arc
offering their spurious imitations as the Genuine Reading Sauce.
This Sauce is patronised and recommended by most families in
the idngdom, and for general use it stands unrivalled. It is sold by
all "espectable Fish Sauce Vendors.
Be particular in asking for " COCKS'S READING SAUCE,"
which is prepared only by John and Charles Cocks, at their manu-
factory, Duke-street, Reading. All others are counterfeits. Ob-
serve the name, "J. and C. Cocks, Reading," on the seal and label
of each bottle: without this none arc genuine.

GRAVESEND STAR
P A C K E T S,

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The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting).

FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND.

LONDON
CHARLES G AMA
CHARLES DOW.NES, J
H. Blair Avarne, Esq.
E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., Resident.
Charles Berwick Curtis, Esq.
IYllliam Fairlie, Esq.
D. Q. Henriques, Esq.

Sum 1 Time A Sum addedto Sum addedto Sum payable
issued.: ssured.
PolicyinlB4l Policyin 1848 at Death.
£5OOO
,13 years 10 mths X 638 6 8 £787 10 0 £6470 16 8
*lOOO ! 7 years .. .. 157 10 0 1157 10 0
500 ! 1 year .. .. 11 5 0 511 5 0

s EXAMPLE.—At the commencement of the year 1841 a person aged
thirty took out a Policy for 1,0001., the Annual Payment for which
is 241. Is. Bd.; in 1847 he had paid in Premiums 1681. 1 Is. Bd. ; but
the profits being 2% per cent. per annum on the sum insured (which
is 221. 10s. per annum for each 1,0001.), he had 1571. 10s. added to the
Policy, almost as much as the Premiums paid.
The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
only one-half need be paid for the first five years when the In-
surance is for Life. . _

Every information wlli be afforded on application to the Resident
Director.

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0 - A. ~ TRIES —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-
-734 i— try in which the vision is said to have occurred. We must,
'lig% 8
19 11 16 % at the very outset of our remarks, offer something like
It% —13 y —— an apology to all sober-minded people for introducing
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evßry'quarter of an hour.
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following Trains from the Fenchurch•street Station.

rime.

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Between Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. bd.
dOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 51.03. ; Six Months, 31. Os.;
T tireeMonths, 21. Os.; to be had of the Collectors on boa d the
packets; or of Mr. Monk. Terrace Pier, Gravesena.
October 25, 1852.

ALL S OPP'S PILE 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
firm which they have reason to know proceed from an unworthy
and unneighbotirly 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 abridgment, 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 Ala.

DR. GLOVER TO MR. ALLSOPP.
" Newcastle-on-Tyne, April 11.

" 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 ; bat on experiment, I found that strychnine possesses such
wonderful bitterness, the: 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 bitteriug beer ; but I do not pretend to discuss the
pulril. yr ILII prat:Mal yrieti.
" 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 o( in-
quirles—lst, 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, of course, can have no objection.
" I have to prepare for an absence of three or four days to-morrow,
and so beg you to excuse me replying to the letter of Mr. Bottingen,
for which I am much obliged.

" Yours, &c..
"P.. M. GLOVER.

(Signed)

" H Allsopp, Esq. - "
P.S. I presume you will hardly 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.

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 tenour of
his discourse, he has a natural tendency to consume
what poor arryat 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 auy 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
had elapsed since the children had finished their

humble 'dinner. The light they saw " was more 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 suoh 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 famciao Oticloocurat, 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
hem. 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. lade 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 are 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 for 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 bad 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
dice-se and of the Roman Catholic clergy. A church
is being built upon the mountain, to which the coun-
try-folk resort us to a holy place, and of course mira-
cles are performed in great abundance. After our
this
cxperi-nce of the crowds that resorted to see the
nestv of
1_14,1y Coat at Treves, we must not pretend to Iy-
imes,
before in these laity.
and at our own doors'; but such a story as
sohwencktFtl at any outbreak of human folly even in our
gives the reader but a poor opinion of the ho•
wretched imposture
and suchri's
the French clergy, or of the intelligence of
the French lait Wht ri this subject was spoken of
But there would
postouumns, it was hinted that the wle,le
tnitnis
posed that the French
Of courase'l
be motive
doubt the true interpretation.
:hits a mere scheme for obtaining
enough, even if we sup-
money ;
most general way, to eidergystmreenrgetlyh twoisthheed,fainiththoef
theirdivin
efolle beingwerss.
steps
down
belef
fonntain whenever she
s wanted to bear direct orgreat thing when a
indirect testimony
truth of a pertieuler form of to the
tri-
fling with the patience of any man
un-
derstanding to mako such folly th ordinary e
aubjtot of
Itof would be

serious argument. Whether the wretched chil-
dren were deceived by a got-up apparition
or whtfeer they really brought home a cock-
and-bull story which took with the country-
side and was subsequently improved by the praeAts,
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.
CIIRONICLE.—Csto has bsen called one of the
antipodes, because " trod Clepo'site to the present
world." It would seem, therefore, that. it is only by
a Cato, or by one like him, that general consent can
be safely resisted. Public opinion 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 society. The
Six Clerks in Chancery were, no doubt, exalted cha-
racters; but Archdeacon Hale and Croft, Messrs.
Prebendaries Moore and Prettyman, and the Right
Hon. and Rev. the Master of St. Cross Hospital, tar
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 ,expose 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 Norwich, Dr. Pellew, and the Dean of Canter-
bury, Dr. Lyall, besides their dqaneries, were each in
possession laidwas rector of Great
chart a
in
enlng. t
i v; i
Dr.
Dre
ice
wt,
the living of St.
Dionis Backchurch, in theAty-of-leotsdots—both.

livings in h
D Dr. Pellew
egiiifetwofatheveeDn a
never
eraesidtel Chapterresided; and
th of Canter-
bury.
eenlyre-
amountedown ee sincerelyt ye e
aa r a '
subscription c o
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rc et
tio
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ui
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ffht e r hie
sids. 1
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parparishhis
lately,twenty-one
an
fpreorma nannuamt t
at
cokthe f schools.
paralysis,
orDr.
somethingLy ali wa so
fa resident.that kind
—an affliation,enhtoydw-ever, so great that, though he
quiteLnincapacitated
held the distinguished dice of Prolocutor
th in Convo-
isSlDDeaionni ' -
actattihoen,eintsinsinwgelslekssnieonw,nanthdathheeiiss not y
aell proposed
.
a non-resident be
from clerical or literary work. Dr.
De,
Istellew—
Lyall, a
Pellew therefore exchange livings—
r eerfnettra; taking
paralytic, and, from necessity,
aiorni,nlaKthat he' and
non
-resident,
rsetc.tDorieonf and the
Pellew--
becomes resident rector of Great Chart. conse-
quences of all this, Dr. Pellew addresses pastoral
letter to his parishioners of St. Dionis rathae
credit for exchanging his 4001. per annum
people of Backchurch--bath of
hinting,in L ond onf
whichor siosmr
aet6hoeor /a. onrai7noeoele.
confession,
long been on the look out for an opportunity, not of
residinggetting
scetedhe
resigns
it ;
Dr. Lv 11,
on the other hand, gives up Great Chart because she
riadmonfntghetmhefor something better.
can be of no use to his parish, and takes St. Dionis
with paraly-
sis,4filicted with paralysis, he cannot serve St. Dionis _
for
hpereeceisnenlynttsheerrseamGerereaat
so he takes it. Great Chart has, of course, no reason
sConh.artA—ifii
to complain, but St. Dionis has substantial reason;
and, judging from a document which we printed
yesterday, it bas also a tongue to set forth its griev-
ances. Perhaps, as St. Dionis has never been blessed
with the pleasant presence of Dr. Fellow 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
St. Dionis has not had, so it cannot, must not,
shall not have a resident rector. This is the Decanal

FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF
WELLINGTON.

The arrangements contemplated in connexion with
th's soletnn act of reverence for the memory of the Great
Duke have ungone a slight modification. It was in-
tended that on the night previous to the interment the
body should be removed to the :Horse Guards, art
lbpt
erki
ecaeont
et
jtihuhi
ense
yiutahHnekpeeeoornisabwnspluni
tiidrattpeaihadrarltoel
tcdtthawiehli procession
htii
ttcovahhhnitiAe
wNsplntAh::
eitsurhymonli
hnir. he formed at that
poiut. In this the precedent of Nelson's interment
was followed, for his remains rested on the night
n
amhogblu:t
sdoyde.ft.y.
hnteoht
wßeh
town-house
will remain
therefore,
rohie ert:meslahaoninaidtss;
thtn e c accordance
bproperol s
e o
when it reaches Apsley-horeas, those of whom the
rorleye is to consist will fall into their right places.
Tee 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 331 Foot, the
Rifle Brigade, six squadrons of cavalry, and 17 guns.
The artillery will head the procession, but it is intended
that the tiring should be at the Tower, which is suffi-
ciently near for the purpose, and is the more appro-
priate from the Duke haying 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; end thus, in addition to a complete
representation of the military force •f this country,
there rein 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 theprocession, which will be mainly conducted on foot.
Both st St. Paul's and at Chelsea Hospital the preparations
for de approaching ceremonial are in rapid process of
execition. The hall of the hospital has been completely
cleared, preliminary to the arrangements for the lying in
lhatedditional fasilltieascquired for ingress and
egress are also being providedd-foie 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
cop d'ceil of the gigantic edifice, brilliantly illuminated
fram end to end, and with the light of day completely
excluded, will be inexpressibly grand. Several imper-
fect 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 tourpost 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, after so many years of in-
creased civilization, we evince our sorrow as a people by
a repetition of such extravagant and ludicrous absur-
dities ?

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,
S.taffobryd. The place where it occurred is situate about
three miles from Stafford on the road toWolverhampton,
down a narrow and secluded lane. The house was occu-
piedan aged couple named Blackband, who, in addi-
ipbdei
idea
an
wasot
fh em
ounrdefirri fire, and
knowledgeat
hn
Lion to the land and buildings adjoining, were also the
owners of several fields of land. Naturally of a penu-
rious turn,
. and imagining the safest place for his wealth
to. bo on his own person, he invariably carried about with
and whichw woman
m anfinducedo
r
pur-
pose ur
him a large quantity of gold, and it is supposed to have
person or persons to conceive and perpetrate the horrid
pose of possessing their wealth. About 8 o'clock, a.m.,
information was sent to Stafford that a cottage at Moss
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 ono of the bedrooms,
but the 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
man and woman were discovered at the further end of
the room on a bedstcai, still burning. Upon examina-
tion,been cloven with some heavy weapon, the frontal bone
it was discovered that the head of Blackband bad
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 one of the legs. Across
the bottom of the bed lay the burnt trunk of his wife's
body, ar coo, and lees 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 rcom ascending from the house-place, and those
to his wife's bed room at a distant part of the dwelling
from the pantry. At ;lie bottom of the pantry stairs is
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 he
immediately dealt the fatal blow which deprived her of
life. Having committed this twofold deed of guilt, he
of her husband, and placing her on his bed, have set fire
must have carried her through the house to the bedroom
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 deg,
which was kept in the house, was found in the well. op-
positeedoofldthmisanfast
doubt, previously deprived it of the power of making
any alarm. The murder must have been perpetrated
the door, a heavy blow on the head having, no
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
arisen as to whom the guilt of this barbarous transaction
attaches ; but it is supposed that the murderer could not
baits completed the deed without having marks of bleed
upon some parts of his body or clothes, which may lead
I to his apprehension.

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 these days, is,
elsewhere' a thing to be rectified—not to be continued
as an abuse bectaupo isaa beital Tilk is
the rule in matters of 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 Dionis, the
question might still be fairly asked—must the parson
of St. Dionis live at Canterbury, and need he be
suffering from paralysis? Is it not possible to rele-
gate the parish priest of Fenchurch-street, say to
Finsbury-circus ?—end is
a man in fair health
wholly unattainable ? Again, it will be demanded,
if unhappily the Dean of Canterbury is disabled
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—of literature, in which he shone—why, in
addition to this sad heap of incapacities, should Dr.
Lyall wantonly add the impossibility of doing justice
to a cure of souls in the city of London ? Was it
not enough, involuntarily, to neglect his deanery ?
Why, voluntarily and of design aforethought, plan
and resolve to neglect poor St. Dionis ? So of Dr.
Pellew. Is not the Deanery of Norwich enough to
satisfy the craving for usefulness which agitates the
soul of the late rector of St. Dionis ? Is the town of
Norwich an exact pattern of a Christian city ? In
order to do his duty in the precincts of his own
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, plural;sm, and the infirmities of age '
—to use the words of the parishioners—occurs among
the members or friends of the Chapter of Canterbury ? I
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
Commission 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•simoniactil exchange of benefices!
In another quarter we are glad to note at least
some, though a tardy and reluctant, 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—
not publication
were
in whetherthe hmaei
nfatcrtus of
true—not 01twWhehtihsetronhtais
appeal for
and moral
hisrig right—not
ostchwohlaertsh
ar washi founded
thaton equity
members and
departments of a capitular body should share in the
changes consequent upon the altered value of money
—but upon the dry question, whether Mr. Whiston's
mode of stating circumstances amounted, in the lan-
guags of a certain constitution, to a formal gravius
delictum. On this worthless issue Mr. Whist„ 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 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 au act of justice, and what
ought to hove been conceded to an honest appeal has
been surrendered with that awkwardness which would
have been "unjust still"--only the Commitision was
looming in the future. However, we must yield to
the Bishop of Rochester what the Deans of Canter-
bury and Norwich are inseu ible of—some apprecia-
tion of, if not respect lbr, public opinion.

THE 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 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 FRODI PITCAIRN'S ISLAND now in this
country, married Sarah Christen, grandilaui4hter of
Fleisher Christian, the lieutenant of the Bounty,- who
planned and carried into effcct the memorable mutiny in
oe South Sea.