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LONDON:
MONDAY, MARCH t 9, Isl4l.

According to a Tory Journal, the highest
authority in the Church of England, the Arch-
bishop of CANTERBURY, " has felt it his duty to
lay an injunction, or some equally binding order,
on the Editors of the " Tracts for the Times," to
cease from troubling the Church. Supposing
that to be true, and supposing the Archbishop of
CANTERBURY to have power to enforce such an
order, and supposing, whatever may be hii
power, that the order, out of respect for him,
may be willingly obeyed, will such a termination
of the heresy and schism in the Church (to be
delivered from which is one of its weekly, if not
daily prayers) be satisfactory ? We venture to
assert that it will not.
A very important question has been started
by the Puseyites, namely, how far the Church
of England, as governed and adminis-
tered up to this time, is suitable to the pre-
sent condition of society; and how far its
doctrines, as hitherto taught, are adapted to the
hopes and affections of man. They have an-
swered this question, or both questions, prac-
tically—which is the most forcible of answers—in
the negative ; and they, in consequence, pro-
pose great alterations in the Church. Their
enemies admit them to be men of integrity, of
holiest purpose, of simplicity of life ; men of
winning behaviour, of great knowledge.. and
e, learnin • and it would equally belie their
cha-
racters, the great progress they have already
made, and the expectations of the public, to
important
questions, that their answers to these
questions, and their inquiries to arrive at
the truth, can be suppressed by the order
of that amiable, but insignificant prelate, Dr.
liowLx.v. Quench such a conflagration as that
which consumed the two Houses of Parlia-
ment by a squirt, but do not think of ex-
tinguishing inquiries into the Church of Eng-
land, and hostile convictions, by the decree of an
A.rohbishop. He has no authority to suppress
discussion, and his attempt will only add to the
materials for dispute which already exist.
We have no doubt that the Archbishop, the
Bishops, and the inferior clergy, would be ex-
tremely glad to suppiess puseyism at any price,
much less at so small a cost as an Archbishop's
injunction. We have no doubt whatever that
the supporters of the Church—the demanders of
Church-rates, the denouncers Of Maynooth, the
solicitors for Church extension, the advocates
of Church supremacy and clerical intolerance—we
have no doubt that the whole tribe of the holiest-
of-all men would think that Vie Archbishop
has laid the Church of England under the deep-
est obligations," if he can so easily stop what its
friends call the poisonous stream, and heal the rent
which exposes its nakedness and deformity to the
world; but the Archbishop has no such power.
The public have taken up the question. The
newspapers have ranged themselves on different
sides. The character and influence of the Church,
and the moral effects of its teaching, are matters
of great political importance, and inquiries into
them, after the deductions Led' condemnations of
the Puseyites, are not, we can assure the Church-
men, to be put a stop to by Dr. HOWLEY'S cora-
.

mands. If Dr. PUSEY should be silenced, if
Mr. NEWMAN should cease to preach and
write, if Dr. SEWELL should be steady in his rat-
ting, if Dr. HOOK should prefer the plainness of
Methodism to the blandishments of a quasi Po-
pery, other men will arise in the bosom of the
Church itself, who will help the public to expose
the faults and the vices of the corrupted and de-
caying institution.
We hold the Puseyites to be quite right in
their main and first conclusion, namely-, that the
Church, as hitherto administered, has not an-
swered either the wants of society or the hopes
of individuals. Dr. NEWMAN has said—
" There is at this moment a great progress of the religi.us '
mind of our Church to something deeper and truer than satis-
fied the last century. The age is moving towards something,
and most unhappily the one religious communion among us,
which has of late years been practically in possession of this
something, is the Church of Rome. She alone, amid all the
errors and evils of her practical system, has given free scope to
the feelings of awe, mystery, tenderness, devotedness, and
other feelings which may be especially called Catholic. The
question then is, whether we shall give them up to the Roman
Church, or claim them for ourselves, as well we may, by revert-
ing to that older system which has of late years indeed been
superseded, but which has been, and is, quite congenial (to
say the least), I should rather say proper and natural, to our
Church. But if we do give them up, then we must give up the
men who cherish them. We must consent either to give up
the men or the principles."
A High Church authority explains this to
mean—and there can be no question about it—
that the Church of England, as at present con-
stituted, with her creeds, her liturgy, her homi-
lieS, are not sufficient to satisfy the age. There-
fore Mr. NEWMAN and his friends seek after
something deeper and truer. That is the great
truth which the Puseyites maintain—their first
discovery; but, with singular obtuseness, they
search only amongst the despised mummeries of
a departed age for means to satisfy the wants of
this age, though its own feelings and tendencies
have (and nothing else) forced on them the con-
viction of the inefficiency of the Church. In-
stead of seeking, in the knowledge of the age,
for the means of satisfying its wants, the Pusey-
ites go back to the Fathers.
Mr. NEWMAN has no concealment about him.
lie maintains boldly that the Church of Rome is
in possession of that something which is to satisfy
the age!

SHE A LONE, not the Church ofEngland, he says,
gives free scope to awe and mystery, or, in other
words, cherishes the vague and puts down the
tangible. She alone keeps alive those feelings
of devotedness and tenderness on which the
priesthood fasten their iron hooks to hoist them-
selves into greatness ; and though the eulogium
is somewhat scandalous in a member of that
Church which has been persecuting Rome po-
litically for many years, on account of tendencies
the reverse of these, it is not the less instruc-
tive, as a clue to what these new reformers of re-

tigion propose.
The Church of Rome, according to the plain-
speaking Mr. NEWMAN, is the steadfast adherent
of that older system, which has of late years
been superseded; and the Church of England
must, he says, conform to the practices of
Rome, or it must lose the votaries who will have
the vague, the mystical, and the awful. In
plain language, if the Church of England, ac-
cording to Mr. NEWMAN, does not go back to
the Church of Rome, it will be deserted.
He has a logical mind. He feels that
there is no stopping half way with a
mystery. Men cannot believe a part, and deny
a part. Mr. NEWMAN is a believer in the mys-
teries of the Church; he perceives, however,
that they do not satisfy this inquiring age, and
lie flees to Rome—there, amidst the awe and
mystery of the theatrical celebration of Easter
at St. Peter's, he fixes the anchor of his hope
and his faith. The first discovery of the Pusey-
ites is a great truth; their deduction from the
Church dogmas, that safety is only to be found
through Rome, will be scouted and decried by
all but the slaves of the Papacy.
Dr. PUSEY and his friends, however, teach
doctrines too congenial to the Church of Eng-
land for that Church to be able to put them
down. Presbyterianism denounced as no
Church at all, while the ordination of a Pa-
pal priest holds good in the Church of
England—is what the Church dreads, not
the quasi Popery of Mr. NEWMAN and his
friends. Accordingly, at the eleventh hour his
doctrine is censured, not because it is unchristian,
contrary to the Gospel, and opposed to tradition
and apcstolical succession, all of which the
Church cherishes, but because it is contrary to
the statutes of the University. If Dr. HOWLEY
is only to receive the thanks of the Church when

he has succeeded in putting down this important
investigation—if the Church will not accept the
will for the deed, the poor Archbishop, we may
safely prognosticate, will descend to his grave
without the plaudits of the Church. The Puseyite
heresy has too much truth in it to be blown out

by the motion of one of his lawn sleeves.

We were a good deal interested by reading a
few days ago in the Morning Post the following
description of a gentleman who was lately the
Governor of the Bank of England, and of course
was one of the most conspicuous merchants of
the City of London :

The balance-sheet handed into the Court of Bankruptcy
yesterday, in behalf of Sir. Timothy A. Curtis, has been scru-
tinised with extraordinary interest, the items of which it is
composed being, in certain instances, of a very startling cha-
racter. Mr. Curtis's debits, on his private account, are put
down at the considerable total of 106,6921. 15s. 2d., of which
the portion comprising the original capital brought by him into
the business of Garry and Curtis, in 1819, was 1,774/. 13s.
To this it is proper to add, as a gift of Sir W. Curtis, 5,047/.,
and, as a legacy received out of Sir William's estate, at his de-
cease, 1,9801. further, the three items forming an aggregate of
8,7711. 135., or less than one-twelfth pa, t of the debits. Mr.
Curtis takes credit, on account of bad debts, for 6,0601., and
on account of losses, for 27,252/. 16s. 4d., which sums form,
etween them, it will be allowed, no mean amount; but, when
the expenditure comes to be brought simultaneously into view,
and it is seen that, between 1819 and 1841, Mr. Curtis has
taken out of the concern as much as 53,130/. 125., or 2,500/.
a• year for expenses, it becomes a subject of astonishment to our I
grave, plain, matter-of-fact men of business how he should ,
have been able, with his insignificant capital of 8,771/. 13s ,
to maintain his position so long. Mr. Curtis debits
himself with 14,500/. for sums obtained from dif-
ferent directions, including 4,600/. from the Banic of England,
4,3501. from the Imperial Brazilian Mining Company, 1,800/.
from the Alliance Fire and Life Assurance Office, 2,4001.
from the Marine Assurance, and 1,350/., from the London
Dock Company. The withdrawal of amounts like these
from the funds of the Companies to which they are appli-
cable, while it has done but little for the creditors of Alr.
Curtis, serves, on the other hand, to disgust the shareholders
of such bodies, and to render them exceedingly dissatisfied
with the poor dividends they are in many cases receiving on
their investments. It is, moreover, deemed to be most objection-
able that an individual with the very slender pecuniary means
possessed by Mr. Curtis, and with a business the reverse of
prosperous, should have been permitted to occupy a seat at
the Council table of our National Bank, availing himself
during the time, as he appears to have done, of a credit with
the establishment out of which a loss has been realised by the
tjeheetedthe balance-sheet,arairs oftak Aeirn.
proprietors beyond the amount of his capital. The aspect of
twhole,o a severityissuc has
of to
criticismh es
Curtisuabo-
asa
have seldoin witnessed man •'1
and similar occasion, and we should
have failed to give a fair .
outline of the movements of the day
had we omitted to say
so
We occasionally hear a
great
deal about stagna-
tion of trade dan want of credit in the City for
our
• or
our parts, with such occurrences, we are surprised
that there is any credit
at all, and that trad •
not wholly extinguished. es
r. CURTIS, bearing
one of the best known M
names in the City, is by
no means a solitary example of a gentleman
who has lately caused considerable surprise,
not to say consternation. The Messrs.
TEFIORE, who lately failed, bore a name °lll--
most as well known as that of Mr. CURTIS; and
we believe that City people look with as much
astonishment at their gigantic undertakings, and
their actual amount of capital, as they look at
Mr. CURTIS'S balance-sheet. Such circumstances
occurring amongst the best known men in the
City, may well create universal distrust.
If the Governor of the Bank, the Director of
the Imperial Brazilian Mining Company, of the
Alliance Fire and Life Assurance Office, of the
Marine Assurance, and the London Dock Corn-
sbe not a trustworthy merchant, where
shall we find one? If he be false and hol-
low, what merchant in the City of London
shall be looked on as sound and substantial ?
If the gentlemen of the City be not habitually
aware how much of hollowness there is amongst
them, we can scarcely conceive their vast asto-
nishment at witnessing the dissection of Mr.
CURTIS'S affairs.

There is a moral belonging to this state of things
In the City, for the sake of which we refer
to it, not from a wish to make remarks painful to
individuals. But when gentlemen are in such a
condition of doubtful solvency, we can well un-
stand that they must look with dread and horror
at any proposed change which, like the total and
immediate abolition of the Corn-laws, may per-
chance lower the value of the goods they hold,

a poor 5 per cent. The want_of patriotism in the
City of London may be perhaps explained by the
balance-sheet of Mr. CURTIS.

The following extract from a letter from Bris-
tol, was posted at the North and South American
Coffee-house on Saturday. It has created rather
a stir in the city, as implying a doubt of the
probability of our maintaining friendly relations
with the United States :-
4, The intended departure of the Great Western is deferred
from the 3d to Thursday, Bth of April, when she proceeds to
New York, calling at Halifax for intehigence as to ear politi-
cal relations with the United States, as also to take in coals to
ensure her return to Halifax, in the event of Captain Hoskins
obtaining any information, when or Sandy Hook, which may
cause him to consider it dangerous to enter the harbour of
New York."

We received last night the Flanders and
Dutch Mail, with accounts from the Hague, Am-
sterdam, Brussels, Vienna, and Constantinople,
but they contain no news of importance. The
following is the state of the Money Market up to
the latest dates in some of the Continental
States :

DUTCH FUNDS..—AMSTERDAM, MARCH £6
Money. di' 's.
actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amen Si-ndic,4% per cent B--% B,N
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 7i% 71%
Ce.rnmercial Company, 4' per cent 1(3% 64%
Ditto (1835 and 1637) 5 per cent......
Loan 137, 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month l2 05
Two months
Dutch Papers, March 26.
BELGIAN I. U N DS...BRUSSELS, MARCY 25
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 98%
`Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. B9
• 2 per Cent. —
(1.40) 9S
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent B9
Society of Commerce, 4%per Cent lOO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .. 77
National Society,
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, March 26.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vtamts, Masten IS
rive per Cents. Metalliques
Foar per Cents. 99
Three per Cents.
13ank Marts 3(25
..-Allgoneine Zetlung, Mareh 1'.3
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, ;MARCH 23
Bids. Money
St. Schuld. Sch., 4k per cent lO A 11.3t4
Pruslian English aan, 1830, 4 per cent. 100 i, 100N1
Exchange on London, three months 6 13%
—Prussian Stale Gazette, March 24.
HAMBU RG BORSENHALLE, MARcii 23
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares l6lO
Anglo-Russian Loan 106% 106%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Sears ICI
Russian 5 per Cent. Hops and Co. 3d and 4th
Series ... 911% -.-
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pe - Cent 49 49
Ditto 5 per Cent —
Polish Bonds
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 13% 73%
N,twegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cont —
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 16%
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, MARCO 23.-13 s%.—Two months, 13 ax.
BREMEN, MARCO 19 —Tao months, 6 15.

Thirty.seven•

The Madrid Papers received, are of the 18th
inst. They contain no news of any interest to
an English reader. The Journals are much di-
vided about the Regency question. Some are
for one Regent, others for three. The Five per
Cents. were 27i for cash, and at 27i at 60 days.

The Paris Journals of Thursday have al
reached us. The Messager of Wednesday nigh.
has the following telegraphic despatch :
" MARSEILLES, MARCH 24.
" THE PREFECT OF THE DOUCHE DU RHONE TO THE MINIS.
TER OF THE INTERIOR.

" Some anarchists of the lowest class attempted a movement
last night. We were on our guard. From 12 to 15 indivi-
duals, most of them bearers of arms and cartridges, have been
arrested. Justice is pursuing her course of inquiries. Every-
thing is perfectly tranquil."
Thursday's Journals are occupied with the de-
bate in the Chamber of Peers, on the Fortifica-
tions Bill. In the meantime the works are pro-
gressing rapidly. Should the Bill be much de-
layed, the Bill will only be wanted to sanction
the defraying the expenses of the Fortifications.
The French Chamber of Deputies has fixed
the copyright in books and prints at thirty years
after the death of the author.

The Palace of the Elysee Bourbon was fitting out for the
reception of Queen Christina, who was shortly expected in
Paris. Her Majesty intends making that palace her winter
residence, and to spend the summer in Meudon. The Augs-
burg Gazette announces her arrival at Venice on the 14th.
A letter from Milan mentions the following melancholy ter-
mination of the life of Field-Marshal Count Radetzky, Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Austrian Army in Italy:—" This
distinguished officer had for some time been afflicted with a
complaint in his eyes, which at length degenerated into a can-
cer. For a long while no one would venture to acquaint him
with the real state of the case, but at last his physicians, on
being urged by him to tell the truth, explained the dangerous
nature of the disease. He received the information with ap-
parent firmness, but as soon as he was left atone in his cham-
ber, he took one of his pistols, which always. hung by his bed-
side, and shot himself. The Austrian army has thus lost one
of its most able commanders."

The Droit furnishes us with the following singular story
"In 1829, M. S., a Frenchman, arrive in London from
Paraguay, where he had passed 15 years in the service of the
arbitrary and eccentric Dr. Francia. Soon atter his arrival
M. S. formed a close intimacy with a fellow-countryman
who lived in the same hotel, to whom he related his whole
history, informing him that he was about to proceed to Paris
to see his only relation, an uncle, who was an honorary
canon of the Chapter of at Denis, with a fortune amounting
to 15,000 f. a year, to which he, M. S., was the only legi-
timate heir, and that he had with him in his trunk all the
necessary documents for proving his identity, as he doubted
whether his uncle, who was 80 years of age, would recollect
him. It was agreed between the two friends that they should
11 set off together for France, but in the evening before the day
' fixed for their departure M. S. was arrested and taken to
Worship-street, on a charge of having forged some Bank of
England notes. His pocket-book, which he had about him,
was examined, and in it were ten notes, four of which were
ascertained to be forged, M. S. was committed. On reach-
ing the prison he sent for his friend, M. 8., and received
for answer that he was gone, with all M. S.'s baggage arid
his own, on board a steam-packet, having first paid their
joint bills. It was in vain that poor S. stated and proved
these circumstances, and pretested that the forged notes
were received by him of B. He was brought to trial, con-
victed, sentenced to be transported for ten years, and sent to
Botany Bay. In the meantime B. came to Paris, presented
himself to the old Canon as his nephew, assuming his name,
and, by means of the documents in his possession, so com-
pletely imposed himself upon the aged ecclesiastic as his
nephew, that when he died, two years afterwards, he made
the pretender sole inheritor by wi.l of all his property.
After a lapse of 11 years, M. S. was at last carried back from
Botmy Bay to London, and thence made his way to Paris.
After two months search M. S. has discovered the retreat of
8., and claimed the fortune and name of which he had been
robbed by him. 8., of course, rraintains himself to be the
true net,hew, and proclaims the claimant to lie the impostor.
A suit is about to be commenced which cannot fail of being
long and intricate ' • for not only will it he difficult for S. to
maintain his case by proofs, on account of his many years ab-
sence from France, but it is a question whether he is not pre-
eluded by the law of prescription. The interest of this case is
greatly heightened by the circumstance that B. has fur the last
six years been living in one of the northern towns of France,
making a most honourable use of his wealth, was two years ago
married to the daughter of one of the greatest landowners of
the department, and had, it is said, in contemplation to offer
himself as a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies at the next
election.— Galignani.

THE BORDEAUX BEAUTIES.—Nowhere can wittier, more
elegant, and handsomer women be found than at Bordeaux.
Bordeaux is really the hothouse of France; women bloom here
in all seasons ; they have the gracefulness of French, the flexi-
bility, vivacity, and velvet looks of Spanish, and the fine,
transparent complexions of English women. Last year a book,
entitled " Les Belles Femmes de Paris," was publ.shed.
Pooh ! the beautiful women of Paris ! It is to Bordeaux you
must come to see beautiful women. If, in the late Carnival,
you had seen our delicate beauties at work—if you had been
able to measure with your eye all the slices of pie, all the sand-
wiches, cups of chocolate, soups, sorbets, orgeat, punch, and
cakes of all sorts which they swallowed up, you would have
been as astonished as myself at the size of their charming sto-
machs.— Bordeaux Print.

FRANKFORT, MARCIE 20.—The drill of the German press
is so complete, and the Prussian State Gazette is so chary of
communications respecting the proceedings of the Diets in the
Prussian provinces, that you will be glad to hear something of
their doings from private sources. The Estates of the pro-
vinces of Prussia still take the lead. On the Bth instant the
resolutions recommended by the committee appointed to con-
sider the Royal propositions were submitted to the Diet
assembled in full, and were adopted by a large ma-
, jority. The first declaration, that " the committees,
whose appointment is recommended by the King, are
viewed as forming, the transition to a development of
the representative institutions," was adopted against a
minority of ten votes, the total number of voters being 98
The amendment further proposed that the permanent com-
mittee to be chosen should only be empowered to act in con-
junction with the committees of all the other Diets, or at least
with several of them : passed against a minority of only five
voices. The proposal that the standing committee should not
bweit_hchatisieztbeymEa
majority,
but by the lull Diet, met with more op-
pporsoivtiidoendthwaniththe preceding resolutions, but passed at length
Marseilles Th ete telegraphic despatch
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persons,
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that caused the conflict at M •
arseilles, as well as in other places,
and in the state in which things now are we may expect to see
symptoms of the disquietude which generally prevails manifest
eanr ii
ce o despatchns p arrested;
r . tc y
The accounts from .
La Gazette de France.
Holland
which, as they state,• speak of a great fermentation,
manifests itself
population of all classes, in amongst the Protestant
an-
nounced by the King to carry into
lefffect the concordat concluded in
from the Hague, the King, notwiTise may give credit to a letter
some of the wrongs of his father etandine hit desire to repair
subjects will be forced to give wards his Roman Catholic
up the execution of this
con-
cordat, on the ground that the concord
eluded during the union with Belgium, wathen the m haulm been
of been con-
the nation was Catholic, cannot be suitable now that the ma-
jority is Protestant.
A Toulon journal t e en tne e dela Marine) hie despatch had just been of the 21st,
says that a telegrap
ing the Cornaline corvette, Captain Desfosses, to be inreadi-
ness to the Levant with despatches and •
to proceed with spare
stores for the light vessels stationed in these seas, —Le
Commerce.
BOURSE.--PARIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 25.
f irs t Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pricy. Price
11l 85 ... 111 00 ~. 11155.. ill 65
French 5 per Cents 4
per Cents t 50 ... Ott 50 ... 90 50 .., gg rio
77 25 77 30 ... 77 15 ... .21 15
3 per Cents
3120 r.. 3120 ...3090 ..3090
Bank of terance .....,_,
LAM* Bank I,ooof. sh.. 1055 ...1055 ...1055 ...1035
50004 Shares 5115 ...0105 „.510* ~.6165

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