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place, in which' such meeting shall be h
reeld." Here
an option is clearly allowed to the conggation
they may select the Bishop, or the Archdeacon,
or the Justices, as the qi.:Fter in which
the original registration shall be made. lt
is perfectly clear that they cannot bd
r rovi
do so with all. The section then goes on to pde
equired to
that the party with whom the original registrati,
made shall once in each year return the places so
registered to each of the others, so that the place shall
be duly registered in all the quarters. This subse-
quent act is a duty cast upon public officers, and it is
manifest that the congregation, who have already
performed all that is required at their hands, cannot
be deprived of any privilege allowed them by the
law in consequence of the neglect or default of par-
ties for whom they cannot be held responsible.
There is a sufficient reason why this registration
should be renewed annually by. public
offices, because a penalty not exceeding 201.
and no: less than 405., is imposed on any
congregation meeting with the doors locked or
otherwise fastoned. It might, therefore, be advisable
that the party with whom the chapel had been regis-
tered should in each and every year give notice to
the other quarters in which registrations might take
place, that such original registration had not been
cancelled or revoked. There is, however, nothing to
compel Dissenters to perform the vexatious and un-
necessary act of annual registration. The single act
is all that is required at their hands, and when that
has been once performed they are privileged and
protected until it has been formally withdrawn.
We trust that the highly respectable congregation
thus annoyed will not be contented with the law
expounded by non-professional persons. An oppor-
tunity is still open to them of bringing the case
before the Quarter-Sessions, and we have no doubt that
the law so clearly and ably explained by their
intelligent professional adviser, Mr. MARRATT, will
be fully maintained and carried out.

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Disappointment has recently been expressed at
wilat some are pleased to call the indifferentism of the
Government in regard to Religion. Even the smallest
sin of omission or commission in this particular has
been seized upon and distorted into an act of grievous
culpability. It was observed by many with indigna-
tion that upon the new florin, or two shilling piece,
recently issued from the Mint, the reverential acknow-
ledgment of a presiding Omnipotence, a device of
immemorial antiquity, was, for the first time perhaps
in the annals of our currency, forgotten ; that round
the crowned medallion of the SOVEREIGN appeared the
words Victoria Regina instead of the prescriptive
circumscription Victoria Dei Gratia. Of course we
presume that those who are so much distressed at this
obliteration of the customary D. G. are always in the
habit of writing to a friend that they accept an invitation
to dinner D.V. for Thursday, or of allaying the im-
portunity of their tailor by an assurance that they
hope to pay him D.V. very shortly. Again, no
little scandal was caused by the tardiness with which
the order for a national prayer of supplication was
issued by the QUEEN in Council during the time of
the fatal ravages of the late pestilence. These
circumstances have been fruitful themes for animad-
version, not to say anything of the pro-
ceedings of the Post-office authorities in
regard to the new regulations at St.
Martin's- le- Grand, upon which we yesterday
had the satisfaction of commenting at some length.
It may be permitted us to observe upon the latter
agitation, en passant, that in consequence of the ex-
citement provoked in relation to the Pust office clerks,
it is the intention of another numerous class of the
population—the persons occupied in lighting and
guarding the streets of the metropolis—to insist upon
the necessity of their general cessation from employment
on Sundays. For, be it observed, the argument assuredly
holds good that policemen have souls to save as well
as Post-office clerks; and that although the work-
men engaged at a gasometer are is the habit of
dealing very largely with coals, they are still in no
degree prepared to go to bell for the advantage of
the rest of the community. In truth, a consistent
fulfilment of the demands of these Sabbatarians
would transform the day of repose and adoration
nto a blind man's holiday and the thieves' Sabbath.

What, however, we would here insist upon is, not'
so much the absurdity of the outcry against " Sun-
day Desecration," a thing at once recognised without
a moment's argument—as upon the miserable, and
horrible, and we might even say the unchristian cus-

torn prevalent among us of recognising the hand of
GOD alone in great calamities. Is the country in a
flourishing condition, are its finances happily
balanced, is the revenue abundant—the blessing of
GOD the ALMIGHTY is overlooked—it is good luck, or
fortunate speculation, or the felicitous result of com-
merce, anything in short rather than the
goodness of the OMNIPOTENT Let a blight
descend upon vegetation, however, let a mur-
rain affect the cattle, let mercantile affairs
become embarrassed, let the Exchequer betray
a lamentable and continuous deficiency, let the
cholera, or the sweating sickness, or the plague
come among us, let epidemics, endemics, and conta-
gious diseases become prevalent, and lo it is attri-
buted at once to the hand of GOD, to the wrath of
the CREATOR, and the nation falls down in terror,
morally clothing itself in sackcloth, and strewing its
head with the ashes of repentance. To us, there is
really something absolutely terrible in all this, some-
thing:inexpressibly ungrateful to the Awful BEING out
of the abysses of whose divinity the whole of the visible
and invisible creation has emanated. To acknowledge
his presiding influence only when the community is
stricken by mortal sickness or subjected to some other
disastrous misfortune, and to ignore the very fact of
its existence in times of 'general prosperity, appears
to us a profanation of the truth of Christianity and
an anomaly very little short of being actually
blasphemous.
We would see this tendency to cant obliterated.
We would see a wholesome and consistent morality
substituted. We would have all the felicities of for
tune and all the sanity of mind and body attributed
to the beneficence of GOD, as invariably as the
scourges of famine and pestilence are regarded as
indications of His anger. But any perseverance in
the custom to which we have before referred, is to
our thinking not less impious than it is irrational.
Besides, those who participate in upholding the
present system appear to imagine that it is
only requisite to pray and so forth, in compliance
with the command of the Primate in order to relieve
them from all peril or anxiety in regard to the con-
tinuance of their misfortunes. Such melancholy
fatuity, to our thinking, is beyond all expression
pitiable, an insult at once to the common sense of
humanity, and to the wisdom of OMNIPOTENCE. It
is in perfect keeping, however, with the idle argu-
ments of these most illogical Sabbatarians, who
prefix to all their sanctimonious humbug the homage
of the DIVINITY and who demand the non-delivery
of letters, and the prevention of the sale of mackerel,
and the closing of public. houses on Sunday in the
name and apparently in obedience to the ordonations
of Christianity. Theirs, to us, is the bathos of the
Oriental porter, crying—
"ln the name of Me Prophet—FlGS

In conduct, as in art, there is an idea of the great
and beautiful, by which men should exalt the hackneyed
and the trite of life.7—Eliza Cook's Journal.

DISPENSARIES, &C., IN IRELAND.—A Parliamen-
tary paper, published yesterday, on the motion of Sir
William Somerville, the Secretary of State for Ireland,
shows that the number of dispensaries, fever hospitals,
and infirmaries for which county presentments were
made in Ireland in the year 1848,. amounted to 773
(against 813 in 1847); the amount of presentments was
83,5081., and the amount of subscriptions 33,393/4
making a sum total of 116,902/. The total amount of
the sums subscribed and granted for fever hospitals in
Ireland at the presenting sessions preparatory to the
spring assiz.ts of 1849 was 7,885/. The number of fever
hospitals supported by the poor-rates in 1848 amounted
to 233 under the temporary Fever Act, the cost of which
was 81,4481.; and to 80 not under that Act, the cost of
which was 21,789/.
PUTRID VENISON.—A short time back Mr. Dixon,
of the Red Lion, Henley-on-Themes, was entertained to
dinner by some of his supporters, and among the dishes
aas a haunch of venison. The meat was so " high"
that
it was sent from the table untested; but on the fol-
lowing day a portion of it was hashed up for the family
therm!, and immediately after partaking of it Mr, Dixon
and his two brothers, together with the cook and boots,
were seized with a sudden illness, and alt of them, it is
said, died in the course of a few hours.—Chellenkani
Examiner.
The power which is at once spring and regulator
in all efforts of reform, is faith in man, the conviction that
there is an infinite worthiness in him which will appear at
the call of worth, and that all particelar reforms are the
removing of some impediment.—Elaa G'ook's Journal.

T 1 ib FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We hav, a received the Paris papei.3 of yesterday.
The Tot !rnai des Debats of yesterday announces the
torn
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I:Dleicsipeetiaptiteshbtyoe be immediately assembled.
La Pat fie announces that a Parliamentary inquiry
is to be bistituted as to the supply of naval stores, and
the airisniteosfsr of ships.
the Interior gave a grand dinner
on 'the
repairs
ep. M4nesday. The PRESIDENT of the Republic,
the Bureau of the Assembly, General
and other high functionaries, were
tchEreALitAiiitstNeirEs,it.,
present.
Considerable inference of opinion exists among
the members of the feactionary club of the Council
of State (6- devant club of the Rue de Poictiers) as to
the course they should pursue on the approaching dis-
cussion of the proposition of M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
for repealing the decrees of exile against the members
of the Bourbon and of the Orleans families, and
those transporting the insurgents of June. They
have held several somewhat stormy meetings, but have
been unable to arrive at any conclusion.
The trial of HUBER before the High Court at
Versailles was resumed on Thursday, when M.
Du VIGNIER appeared as counsel for the accused. The
witnesses examined were M. BucuEz, who was
President of the Assembly, on the 15th of May, 1848,
and M. MoNNIER Secretary of the Prefecture of
Police under CAUSSIDIERE. M. MANTE, one of the
accused of the 13th June, has surrendered to take his
rial. Re was a captain in the National Guard of

Paris.
A slight disturbance occurred at Bourdeaux on the
9th, in consequence of the attempt of some Socialists
to get up a procession. They were dispersed by the
troops without loss of life.
There was but little animation at the Bourse
yesterday, and the Five per Cents., which opened at
87f. 55c , closed at the same price.

BUSINESS DUNE Hi FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TdE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Oar. 12.

Boulogne and Amiens, s,4—Dutch 4Rhenish, 11A—East
Indian, 3%—Great India❑ Peninsula, s'4—Namur and
Liege, 43/4 —Northern of France, 3L,4 dis.—Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 2%—Tours and Nantes, VA.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 7th have artived.
They announce that the army of Catalonia is to. be
dissolved, and its organization as a corps of operation
suppressed.
The Gaceta of Madrid of the 6th publishes the
following:—
RULES FOR THE OBSERVANCE OF THE TARIFF.
" 1. Articles of new invention shall be dispatched,
imposing on them the duties appointed for those similar
or analogous to them for the first time, remitting sam-
ples of them to the Directors-Gcneral of Customs, in
order that her Majesty's Government may accord the
duties which they ought to pay, as a general rule. If
they should have no analogy or similarity with any
other article of the tariff, ►hey shall pay for the first
time fifteen per cent. ad valorem in national vessels, and
eighteen in foreign ones.
" 2. All articles which are presented in small quanti-
ties and of little value, not expressly comprehended in
the tariff, shall pay fifteen per cent. ad valorem in
national vessels, and eighteen per cent. in ioreign ones,
giving an account in each case to the chief authority.
"3. For the dispatch of goods ad valorem the parties
interested will have to present to the administrators of
customs the original invoices. If the employes should
not conform themselves with them, and should think it
their duty to fix others, and the parties interested should
not oppose any difficulty, they shall pass at the prices
mutually agreed upon. If the parties interested should
not conform to this, the proper account shall be drawn
up, which shall be remitted to the chief authority,
accompanied by samples of the goods if possible; the
Treasury being able to acquire the property of the effects,
paying to their owners tha amount of the invoice pre-
sented, and 10 per cent. more, as is disposed at this day
for some articles.
"4. Articles which are the produce of and proceed
from the Spanish possessions in Asia, and which have
not got the duties which they have to pay signalized as
such in the tariff, shall pay only the fifth part of the
duties imposed on similar foreign goods, if they come
under the Spanish flag. In the contrary case the duties
imposed on the foreign flag coming from foreign coun-
tries shall be exacted."
The publication of the tariff in the Gaceta of the
6th does not include the tariff on cottons (which are
made the subject of a separate chapter), and does
not go beyond the letter Ain the general tariff. The
following are among the enumerated articles :—Steel
(acero) is charged 20 reals per quintal if unwrought,
and 45 reals if cast into bars of whatever size. These
duties refer to steel imported under the Spanish flag ;
they are 40 reals and 60 reals respectively under a
foreign fisg. This is a great reduction from the
duties of the old tariff, which were 2 reals per pound
weight on unwrought steel, and 8 reals on wrought
ditto, with 15 per cent. additional when imported
under a foreign flag. Needles (agujas) were charged
30 reals duty per pound weight, with 15 per cent.
additional under a foreign flag. They are now taxed
44 reals per pound weight under the Spanish flag,
and 54 under a foreign flag. Common pins (alfileres)
of all qualities and sizes are reduced from 8 reals per
pound, and 25 per cent. for the flig, to 2 40.100 and
2 90-100 reals per pound.