The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 'lB4O.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council this afternoon at
Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Duke and
Duchess de Nemours, took an airing yesterday afternoon,
in an open carriage and four.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen ycs-
t erday afternoon.
The Royal dinner paey at the Palace last evening in-
cluded their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent,
and the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, Mons. Guizit,
the French Ambassador, the Belgian Minister and Madame
Van de Weyer, Earl and Countess Granville, Earl of
Erroll, Earl of Uxbridge, Earl of Morley, Lady Anne
Maria Dawson, Right Hon. George Stevens Bing, Sir
Henry Wheatley, Baron de Stockmar, Countess d'Oraison,
General Colbert, and Mr. George Edward Anson.
The Band of the Coldstream. Regiment of Foot Guards
attended at the Palace during the evening.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess do Ne-
mours yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
The Duke and Duchess de Nemours, attended by
Countess d'Oraison and Lieut.-General Colbert, left
Buckingham Palace yesterday afternoon in one of the
Queen's carriages, and visited the Princess Augusta, at
Clarence House, St. James's ; the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, at Cambridge House; the Duchess of
Gloucester, at Gloucester House; and the Princess Sophia
Matilda. _

The Duchess de Nemours visited the Duchess of Kent
yesterday at Ingestre House. The Duke de Nemours
paid a visit to the Duke of Sussex at Kensington Palace.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by
the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and at-
tended by Lady Augusta• Somerset and Baron Knesebeck,
honoured Lady Susan North with their company yesterday
afternoon at her residence on Putney-hill.
The answer given yesterday at Clarence House, St.
James's, to the Nobility and Gentry was, " The Princess
Augusta has not passed so good a night, but her Royal
Highness is, in every respect, much the same as yester-
day." The Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester,
and the Duke of Cambridge, visited the Princess Augusta
yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by
Lady Augusta Somerset and Baron Knesebeck, honoured
the Earl and Countess of Albemarle with their company
at dinner last evening, at their residence in Berkeley-
square.
A Deputation, consisting of Mr. Mark Philips, M.P.,
Sir William Somerville, Mr. George Evans, Mr. John
Ellis, Captain Cottingham, Mr. R. S. Palmer, and Mr.
Peter Eckersly, had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday, in Downing-street, on the sub-
ject of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway.

Sir Duncan Campbell had an interview with Viscount
Melbourne on Tuesday in Downing-street.

The Prussian Minister transacted business yesterday at
the Foreign-office.
Sir H. Vivian, Major-General Johnson, End Mr. S.
Hearford had an interview with the Marquis of Normanhy,
yesterday, at the Home-office.
Col. Torrens, Mr. F. Elliot, and Mr. C. Villiers, had
an interview with Lord John Russell, yesterday, at the
Colonial-office.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS. •
Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bart., at the Burlington, Hotel ;
the Hon. Col. Grevale, at' ditto; the Governor of the
Bank'of Ireland, C. WifsorG &xi., at F',.nton's Hotel; Sir
Hea•hcote, Bart. ; Col. Kelsail, 70th Regiment,
and-Mrs:' Kelsall ; 'etfunt Cdiinteis Creptciwitch and
suite, at Mivart's Hotel; Lord Lake; Mr. and Mrs.
Smythe Owen, at the Clarendon Hotel; Admiral Sir Ro-
bert Otway, at Ellis's Hotel; Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Maynard ; Colonel Conyers ; Count and Countess de
Brust and family, at Hathaway's Hotel, Brook-street;
General de Brust, at ditto ; Baron de Thoren; at ditto ;
Captain and Mrs. Millard, at ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Cam-
pion, at ditto.

MURDER IN WILTSHIRE.

A man named James Taylor, was, on Saturday Light
last committed, under the Coroner's warrant, to the New
Prison, Devizes, charged with the wilful murder of his
wife. The prisoner formerly kept a beer-shop at Studley,
near Calne, but has latterly lived in the parish of Tockeo-
ham, about two miles from Wootton Bassett, and near the
line cf the Great Western Railway. He was a pig-dealer;
but, being of indolent habits, has principally relied fur a
maintenance upon taking in, as lodgers, some of the. la-
bourers on tire railway. In two little rooms of his miser.
able dwelling as many as ten of these men slept. His
wife, to whom he was married between four and five years
ago, vas a remarkably pretty woman ; and, at the
time of their marriage, she was little more than 15
years of age, whilst he was 35. It appeared that she
had for some time attracted the attention of one of the
lodgers, known by the name of " Jack," and, on the
evening of Monday se'rinight, this Jack prevailed upon
her to go off with hint. Tire moment the prisoner heard
of it, he aware he would never rest until he found them,
and that when he did find them he would shoot them first,
and afterwards shoot himself. He discovered them at
Stratton, . near Swindon, and having hired " a trap"
brought his wife back on the Thursday afternoon. His
first impulse, he has since acknowledged, was to drown her
on the road in the cut at Wootton Bassett; but fearing
that drowning would put her to too much pain, he fixedly
determined to shoot her on tire following morning, and
then to shoot himself. In one case he has been but too
successful ; in the other, his purpose has been defeated.
Front all that can be learned not an angry word passed
between them from the time he found her. They drank
tea, supped, and slept together; and he is said to have
looked upon her with affection, and to have promised
that if she would not go away again he would never say a
word about what had passed. On the Friday forenoon,
after they had breakfasted, they went into the garden
for some vegetables to prepare for the lodgers' dinners.
After she had left a neighbour told the prisoner that the
railway man with whom his wife had eloped was about the
premises, and urged hint to look after her, which he pro-
mised to do. Upon returning to his house he loaded his
gun, observing to his wife's younger sister that he was
going to shoot "the man." His wife was at the time sit-
ting on the chair, in a stooping position, cleaning some
carrots, her child, a fine little boy about two years of age,
playing by the side of her. After he had loaded the gun
he went behind his wife, and deliberately discharged the
whole of its contents into her back, exclaiming at the time
" That's thy fault." The poor woman died in a moment—
her sister coming from the pantry, on hearing the noise, to
witness her one last gasp. He afterwards went to the
drawer, and, taking out a knife, endeavoured to cut his
throat; but he has since said he knew ha should not be
able to accomplish his object in this way, for the moment
he felt the pain he should give it up. The wound he in-
flicted upon himself was therefore very slight. He was
immediately taken into custody.
An inquest was held on the body on Saturday morning.
The facts above narrated having been deposed to by Ann
Gough, the mother of the deceased, it was thought unne-
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'Twas I that killed my wife, and no one else, and I am
glad of it.: I could not kill myself because the gun
bursted. I tried all I could to cut my throat, but the
knife would not cut. I thought, two or three days before
I found my wife, that I. would kilt my child also, because
it should not come to any hurt, When I found 'my wife,
however, it oddst' my mind not to do it. I then aimed
to kill my wife, the man, and myself_ If I did not find
my wife, I meant to have killed myself at Mr. Hathway's
gate, just here," pointing to his stomach.
The Jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against
James Taylor, and he Was soon afterwards committed to
the New Prison, Devizes, for trial at the ensuing assizes.

ROBBERY AND OUTRAGE ON A
LADY.

About noon, on Saturday last, a ladynesetendeidngl-iyiahrreirsv,oaans
inhabitant of Elstree, who is of an ex
temperament, the high road, in the
vicinity
her
residence,
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midst of a horde of Irish labourers (about thirty or forty),
who were on the tramp, who importuned her for alms,
which she declined giving them, having only half a
sovereign in her purse. Having with difficulty freed her-
self from them, and proceeded a short distance along the
road, she, from the excitement she laboured under from
the importunity of the beggars, swooned away, in which
state she was found by a tradesman in the neighbourhood,
who was driving that way in his cart, who instantly
jumped out to her assistance, and, on her reviving,
offered his services to see her to her residence.
Mrs. Herds, however, unfortunately declined his offer,
saying she felt better, and should be able to reach home
without assistance. She then proceeded on her way, but
the individual before mentioned suddenly missing her from
the road returned to look after her, when, not being able
to find her, he went to the house of a gentleman named
Carter, near the spot, and informed the servants of the
state in which he had found Mrs. Harris, and of his having
suddenly lost sight of her, requesting them to see after
her. One of the servants accordingly went in search of
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lance, the unfortunate lady on the ground, and a ruffian
standing over her. On seeing the servant approaching the
fellow ran away and effected his escape. On reaching Mrs.
Harris she was found to be in a :tate of insensibility ; and
assistance being procured, she was carried to the house of
Mr. Carter, and from there in her own carriage to the re-
sidence of her husband, where she received every medical
attention her distressing state demanded ; but during the
night and on Sunday and Monday she laboured under con-
tinued fits of fainting and hysterics. All that could be
elicited from her during the intervals of composure was
that, while passing along the road, she was accosted by her
assailant, who stopped her and threw her down , that she
offered him her purse, containing the half-sovereign before
mentioned, which he rsbbed her off; and, falling into a
swoon, what further occurrei she bad no recollection of.
Information of the diabolical outrage having been commu-
nicated to Mr. Phillimore, with a description of the fellow,
instructions were given to the police of the S division. In
the course of Sunday they ascertained that a dissolute cha-
racter, named John Beaumont, had, on Saturday night,
been seen with a purse in his possession answering the des-
cription of that stolen from Mrs. Harris, and in the course
the same night they succeeded in lodging him in safe custody.
On Monday the prisoner, who is about 27 or 29 years of
age, was conveyed for examination before Mr. Phillimore
and Major Abbs, when he was identified by Mr. Carter's
servant as the individual assaulting Mrs. Harris at the
moment she was discovered. Mrs. Harris was in too dan-
gerous a state to be present, and on its being deposed be-
fore the bench that only questioning her upon the subject
threw her instantly into hysterics, and that it was the opi-
nion of the medical gentleman in attendance upon her that
in her excessive nervous and delicate state being confronted
with her assailant would be fraught with imminent danger,
the Magistrates said, in the ab4ence of Mrs. Harris's tes-
timony and evidence es to what had become of the purse
And half sovereign, the capital charge must fall to the
ground. They should not, however, let so vile a ruffian
get loose without some punishment, but should fine him in
the full penalty of 51, for the common assault upon Mrs.
Harris, and, in default of payment, commit him to hard
labour in the ficuse of Correction for two months. Ile
was committed accordingly,

SPORTING IN TEL LIGENCE.

The Croxteth Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 30 added
three yrs old, 63t 81b ; four Bst 21b;
five, Bst gib; six ant.
LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING.—TUESDAY,
aged, 9st. Alares and geldings allowed alb. One mile and
a quarter. (5 Subs.)
11r. Ridsdale's b c Bloomsbury, 4 yrs Templeman 1
Mr. Bowes's bk fby Lamplighter, out of Spinning Jenny,
3 3r5.... ........................... ...... ........................... 2
Lord liglintoun's br g St. Andrew, 5 yrs 3
Mr. Robinson's b c Snoozer, 3 vrs .••••••••••••••••••••••• 4
Betting-4 and stol on Bloomsbury, who made play for a
quarter of a mile, and was then passed by the Lamplighter filly,
which kept the lead to the last turn, where Bloomsbury again
went in front and won cleverly by nearly a length.
'f he Produce Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, li. ft., for three yrs
agst e(aschS'othft)
old; colts, Bst 61b ; and fillies, Bst 31b. Untried stallions or
wares allowed 31b. Two miles. (4 Subs. )
14 rd Westminster's br c Launcelot walked over.
The Sefton Stakes of 30 sovs. each, h. ft., for fillieHtshoreliomwoetst:leirresite.
, h ft;Caius,
yrs old, Bst 41b. Once round. rolund.
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ACihrr'illsitieniekitta:m'sabdef Ralelheedyrunning and won
miniiae.cante.; 9
3
(Lye), beat Lord
Stanley's bk f Hoyden, Bst 4'l).
Lord Eglintouni'astbehe. Dsortolr.
6 to 4 on Dr. Caius, who won in a canter.
The Bickerstaffe Stakes, of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for foals of
1837 ; colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 41b. Untried stallions or
mares allowed 31b. (One mile.) 6 subs.
Lord Westminster's c Maroon (allowed) 31b (Nat) 1
Lord Derby's rc De Clifford .................
2
6 to 4 on Maroon, who had it all his own way and ' won by six
or eight lengths.
The Mersey Stakes, of 25 sovs, each, with 50 a.lded, for 2 yrs-
old ; colts, Bst Sib, and fillies Bst 21b. T. Y• C. (13 subs. )
Mr. Bell's The Squire, by the Saddler ( Ilesehine)
Mr. Ogden's Brother to Harpurhey .....
......................
Mr. Allen's c Belgrade, by Belshazzar._ ......
...
3
Mr. Robinson's f Faith, by Langar ..................... ..
Betting-6 to 4on Squire.
Belgrade made play to the distance, where the favourite
headed him and won cleverly.
Maiden Plate, of 70l ; for 3 yrs old, ist ; 4
yrs, Sat Sib ; 5 yrs
and upwards, Bst 121 b. Mares end geldings allowed 31h.
The second to receive 101 out of the plate. Heats, once
round and a distance.
Mr. King's b c The .Alderman, 3 yrs ...... (Francis) 0 1 ,1
Mr. Allen's to fLa Beruine, 3 yrs ........ .., ... it 4 2
Mr. W. Cleary's ch f Miss Heathcotvt. 9 .rs .
.... ..... 3 0 3
Mr. Ley's b c Ararat, 4 Y"- -.. .......................... 2 2 dr
Mr. Clegg'. I, h Krrkdale, 5 yrs .. ..................... 0 2 dr
Lord Miltown's b f Zuleirna, yrs .............•
•• 0 0 dr
Mr. Wood's b f 11Iary Anne, 4 yrs ••• ......... ..• ..... 0 0 dr
Mr. W. Allen's b f Moleskin, 3 yrs ..................... 0 dr
Won in a canter.
LATEST Cur BETTING ON TIIE COURSE.
5 to 2 agst Lord Westminster's Sleight-of-Hand (taken).
10— I—Mr, Parkin's Broadwath (taken).
12-I—Mr. Allen's Orelia (taken).
100— 8 Fulwar Craven's Deception (taken).
100—_7----Lord Eglintoun's St. Bennett (taken).
30— I —Lord G. Bentinek's Gray Milton (taken).
The course %as well attended, but not so numerously as had
been anticipated ; the racing commenced at half-past two, and
did not terminate untd near eight.

A parish of Drumoak, Kin
carl
—_-,--, --- ---,
'eloislvtie illive two sisters, whose united ages
amount to 194 years; and these old
iintes Chir°ei!o therena
women, having been
toothless for several years, were recently supplied with new
sets of enamelled ivory, which enable them to eat the basestch
oatmeal cakes with perfect facility. They are still able to 1.11 it
a stocking, but are, in many respects, as helpless as children.—
Aberdeen. herald,

BANK OF ENGLAND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The object of my last letter was to place the
account between the Bank of England and the public
on a right footing, by showing that the circulation of the
Bank amounted to no more than 16,871,0001, and the
Government being indebted to the Bank in the sum of
14,686,800/., there remained only 2,184,2001. due from
the Bank to the public, which one-half of its present
amount of specie would be more than sufficient to p❑y.
I shall now proceed to demonstrate that this is all
the public have a right, under any circumstances, to
demand of the Bank.

The return to cash payments was not the act of the
Bank of England, but that of the Legislature, who con-
sidered it a necessary measure to cure some of the evils
of an unconvertible paper currency, and the Bank of
England, in common with every other bank, was bound
to conform to it ; but whether it was a measure founded
in a full and complete knowledge or in absolute ignorance
of the actual circumstances and wants of this great com-
mercial community, the entire responsibility of that act
devolves on the Legislature, and can in no respect be
shared by the Bank of England.
What the nature and magnitude of those evils were
we may learn from the evidence of G. C. Glyn,
Esq., in the Report of the Bank Committee in 1832,
who after nearly one hundred of the town and country
banks had suspended payment in 1825, in 1826, says,
that funded property on one day was not saleable for
bank notes, and that bankers borrowed money at the
rate of 72 per cent. How far the object of the legis-
lature has been attained in preventing the frequent re-
currence of such enormous evils, and whether the Bank
of England has wielded the additional power which this
act conferred upon it for the advantage or the detri-
ment of the public good, are questions which I shall
endeavour, in the course of this inquiry, to probe to the
bottom, but I cannot admit the conclusion, that bank-
ing and the issue of notes is mere private business, with
which the Government has no more concern than with
weaving or spinning, for, whether these branches of
our manufactures are conducted on principles correct or
false, affects but a very small portion of the whole com-
munity, whereas money may be compared to the vital
fluid of the human system, which circulating through
millions of small and almost imperceptible channels,
supports and sustains the entire fabric. It is therefore
one of the first duties of good government to see that
no false or vicious principle shall unduly influence its
circulation,
.and the legislature adopting this view instead
of leaving the issue of paper to individual prudence, has
continually interfered to correct and control it ; thus it
decreed a return to cash payments, and thus, I contend,
until the Government has repaid the 14,686,800/. which
it owes to theßank, devolves the duty of providing tke
gold to represent that amount, should the public, under
any sircunistances whatever, insist on having it,
The Bank of England in 1826 vet), honourably
came to the resolution of paying away their last sove-
reign before they:made application to the Government,
and we all, know well enough how the Government
would have met, or will meet; such a contingency
whenever it may occur, by an Order in Council making
Bank notes a legal tender, which would be tantamount
to telling the people that in reality the Bank of Eng-
land notes in their possession or in circulation among,
them are not their own property, but -notes borrowed
by the GoVernment; or the aank. Of•EnglariVor
use, and must continue to be used as a representative of
value, because nothing better or half so well secured
could be either obtained or used with the same ad-
vantages.

Such is the exact state of the matter so far as regards
the issues of the Bank of England and the public, but
in order that it may be fully understood what is the
nature and extent of the security of the Bank of
England altogether independent of the Governwent. 1
will now state the whole account as betweeen the Bank
of England and the public as debtor and creditor :

COURT OF CHANCERY.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN.

SIR--I have perused with some astonishment in the
Morning Papers of this day, the remarks purported to
have been made by Sir E. Sugdcn in the House of
Commons last night, relative to the passing of the Bill
entitled " An • Act for the better Administration of Jus-
tice." The Hon. and Learned Member seems to inti-
mate the necessity of deferring the consideration of the
measure on account of the absence of certain Members
who happen to be upon the Circuit. Now, as men of
all parties seem to be agreed upon the necessity of
some speedy alteration of the present system adopted
in the Court of Chancery, and such necessity having
been for so long a period manifest, I do trust no ob•
stacle will be thrown in the way of its passage through
the Lower House. The Hon. Member for Ripon being
one of that party who profess to respect the delibera-
tions and judgment of the House of Lords will, I
trust, upon this occasion act consistently, and not be
the means of adding to the amount of unprofitable time
already spent in the present Parliament, and still less
be the cause of continuing the procrastination, and its
consequences, which must arise whilst the present te-
dious and expensive system is permitted ; and f must
beg to remind the Hon. and Learned Gentleman that
the measure now, I believe, about to receive the sanc-
tion of the Upper House of Parliament, has had the
full benefit of the Noble and Learned Lords' delibera-
tions who are Members of that House, and inpst,of
whom I presume, must be acquainted with the present
working of the law. I cannot conclude without press-
ing upon the consideration of those Members of the
House of Commons who remain in town, the importance
of this subject, and that the Session will not be allowed
to close without the measure being carried into a law ;
and which, if it only mitigates the evil at present exist-
ing, is certainly worthy of support, and cannot but be
appreciated by those who are victims, unfortunately, of
delayed and ruinous proceedings.

I am, Sir,
Your oblized and obedient servant,
July 15, 1840. J. SMITH.

A CHURCH DESERTED.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
On Sunday last, the few inhabitants who attend the
parish church of Watford, were much astonished in not
finding the Vicar, or any other competent person, pre-
sent to perform Divine service at the proper time in the
afternoon of that day. Throngla the very kind assist-
ance of Mr. Henry Wylde, the organist, he endea-
voured to keep the congregation together for three
quarters of an hour, by playing several pieces of music
from Handel, &e. ; when, in the mean time, messengers
were sent into the hiAhways and byeways, to meet with
one of the elect, when, at ten minues to four
o'clock, the few who remained were much delighted in
hearing the Prayers read in a very impressive manner,
by the Rev. Mr. Caney, the domestic chaplain to the
Earl of Esgex ; but-of course no sermon was given, the
keterend Gentleman not being prepared with one at so
short a notice. Is it not a disgrace that an extensive
parish like Watford, having a population between five and
six thouiand inhabitants, should not have an -efficient
curate, that they might receive spiritual consolation
`from his,handsyinstead of being obliged to go to a Dis-
senting chapel ? Dissent has so much increased of late
in the above parish, that we understand two very large
chapels have been recently erected by the inhabitants,
much to their credit, by private subscription.

[An event of this kind may be caused occasionally by
accident. At all events, we cannot blame the Vicar
until we know the cause of his absence.]

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.)
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
It is all very well now, when the delusion can be kept
up no longer, to turn round on the National Society, and
lecture it on its " gross and mischievous misrepresenta-
tions." These "gross and mischievous misrepresenta-
tions" were all so many gospel truths as long as there
was a chance of gaining anything by them. To take a
specific instance. Six morel's ago Sir Thomas Wylde
was appointed Solicitor-General, and vacated his seat for
Newark. To prevent his re-election was an object of
vital importance for the Tories. Accordingly Mr.
Thesiger was sent down by the Carlton Club, with in-
structions to strain every nerve to obtain the scat. The
Honourable and Learned Gentleman, recollecting what a
trump card this education question had proved for his
party six months before, bethinks himself, when he finds
the contest running close, of resorting to the old
clamour against unscriptural education. He makes an
address to the electors upon the subject, in which he
repeats, n ord for word, the very charges for which
the correspondent of the Times can now find no
fitter terms than " gross, mischievous, and ridiculous."
Nay, more, not content with repeating the fictions of the
National Society, he adds, on his own authority, the still
more gross assertion, that the real object of the Ministerial
scheme was to prevent parents from educating their chil-
dren in their own religious belief. NAv we ask the people
of England whether this is ?—whether it is right and
proper that a question of the great, the overwhelming im-
portance of national education, should be prostituted in
this open, undisguised, unblushing manner, to the purposes
of faction ? Above all, we appeal to the religious public
—to that portion of the community who, taking but little
interest in the common political questions of the day, are
comparatively liable to be led away by col fi lent assertion
and plausible pretence—and we say to them, look and exa-
mine for yourselves; do not take the matter on our state-
ment or authority, but look yourselves, and see whether
the Tories have or have not abused this question of na-
tional education for party purposes.
( From the Timis. )
Tho Bill for accelerating (as is feared by the wisest
Statesmen amongst us) the separation of the Canadas
from the mother country has passed the House of Lords,
without any changes in its structure likely to endanger its
second passage through the House of Commons, and final
exit from that assembly in the shape of an Act of Parlia-
ment. Our opinion has never varied for a moment re-
specting the boldness and doubtfulness of the undertaking,
on whatever grounds of seeming convenience or expe-
diency it may have been originally recommended. It
ought not to be lost sight of, that the chief argument now
resorted to as an apology for the creation of this united
legislature is—first, the proved and practical difficulty of
governing Lower Canada through a separate blouse of
Assembly : second, the theoretic anomaly of govcrning a
British province, ',hough peopled by irreconcileable enemies
to Great Britain. without any representation at all: We
admit in the fullest manner the first proposition, and agree
with the Queen's Ministers, that any further resort to a Pa-
pineau-ridden Parliament would be a measure which none
could suggest but a Cabinet of downright maniacs. To
the second branch of the argument, however, we yield no
such acquiescence.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The pretence of wishing to increase the power of the
Bishops and the Church, by crushing the National Society
comes well from those who have no other centre of union
than their hatred of all ecclesiastical establishments. They
arc waling, forsooth, that the schools of the church should
be placed under the authority of each dioeesan, but not
under any union of all the metropolitans and diocesans
throughout the kingdom. They would have the church
and its schools split into as many subdivisions as there are
dioceses in England and Wales. There should be schools
secundum usum Sarum, secundum tam Ebor, Lambeth,
&c. And when they have thus broken down the entire
unity and consistency of the system, they could easily take
its management into their own keeping, or dispense with
it altogether as a public nuisance. Now this is exactly the
game which the Privy Council Committee have been at-
tempting to play off against tkc Church awl the National
Society. They have been endeavouring to sow strife, ealou-
sies, and divisions, between the bishops and the conductors
of National Schools. In other words, they have been en-
deavouring to divide the bishops from each other, by pre-
vailing on them to separate their respective schools from
any terms of union with the Notional Society—that is,
any terms of union with each other and their one common
centre. What arc the terms of union with the National
Society and its schools? That the Liturgy and the Church
Catechism shall be taught, and that wherever it iir> practi-
ble the children shall be brought to church on the Sabbath-
day. We wish to know whether any form of union could
be more wide or comprehensive, if any union is to be kept
up amongst the schools of the Church of England? It is
for the admirable effects which have already followed from
keeping to these terms that the Society is now marked out
for ruin and destruction by the Privy Council Committee
of Education.
(From the Morning Post.)
We gave on Tuesday from the Globe two paragraphs
relating to ecclesiastical prefetreents. One of them was
to the effect that the Rev. H. Vane, who has something
to do with Lord Holland, had been appointed Dean of
Durham. The Chronicle declares that this announce-
ment is premature, and seems to consider is a mistake.
The other paragraph stated a report that the Rev.
Connop Thirlwall was to be the new Bishop cf St.
David's. From what we have heard, we apprehend that
this second statement is es little accurate as the first.
We hear it said among those who ought, to know some-
thing of the matter, that Mr. I hirlwallis to have
the deanery, and not the bishopric. The dear:cry
of Durham is an important and valuable preferment,
and if it be bestowed on the Rev. Connop Thirlwall, a very
learned man will have it. He is the author of a " History
of Greece," and of a translation of
introductory essay, not
slightly tinged with the rationalism of the German com-
mentator. It is also reported that the Bishopric of St.
David's has bean offered to Mr. Williams, the Archdeacon
of Cardigan, well known as one of the profoundest scholars
and divines of the present tame, But, as the Archdeacon
is of Conservative politics, we are inclined to receive this
last rumour with extreme suspicion. It is, however, cer-
tain that a strong feeling in favour of Welsh Bisho,is pre-
vails throughout the principality, and there can 'be no
doubt that Wales has several native clergymen not un-
worthy of the bench.