The Sun.
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JANUARY 14 1848,

THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.
YORK MINSTER, JAN. 13.—The enthronization of
the Most Reverend Doctor Musgrave, Lord Arch-
bishop of this province—an event which has been
looked forward to with immense interest—took place
in the cathedral at York, this day, in the presence of
many thousand spectators.
So great was the anxiety evinced by all classes to
witness this imposing ceremony, that it was found
necessary to make special arrangements for the occa-
sion, so as to render the ingress of the vast concourse
as free from disorder as possible. With this view, the
plan of admission by ticket, to a great extent, was
adopted, and as may be easily imagined the applica-
tions were extremely numerous and earnest, far more
indeed than could be accommodated.
At a very early hour crowds of persons were seen
wending their way to the cathedral, and those who
had succeeded in obtaining orders were admitted by
the entrance at the Registrar's• office, whilst those
who were not thus provided gained admission at the
south-west entrance, but were of course unable to
enter the choir, at least not at that time.
At nine o'clock a splendid peal from the bells of the
cathedral gave notice of the approaching ceremony,
and from that hour until the time fixed for the assem-
bling of the chapter, vast multitudes of people
thronged into the sacred edifice. We calculate that
there could not be less than 5,000 persons, and, con-
sidering their number and anxiety to witness the pro-
ceedings, the arrangements which had been made by
Mr. Chalk, superintendent of police, under the direc-
tion of Mr. C. A. Thiselton, the registrar, and his
Grace's secretary, were very complete.
Ten o'clock was the hour appointed for the meet-
ing of the chapter, but it was half-past ten before
they entered the Chapter-house, where a great number
of the clergy of the diocese were already assembled.
The chapter walked in procession, and were preceded
by the President', the Rev. Canon Dixon, the vergers
going before and the choristers following.
The President took the chair, having at his right
the registrar, while the chapter took their seats upon
oak benches, ranged in a slanting position to the right
and left. The chapter were enclosed with a tempo-
rary barrier covered with crimson cloth, outside of
which stood the clergy.
The proceedings here were commenced by the Pre-
sident calling upon the registrar to exhibit and read
the letters mandatory directed to the chapter for the
enthronization of the Most Rev. Archbishop. This
having been done,
The PRESIDENT said—Reverend brethren, these
letters mandatory being now read, is it your pleasure
that we should proceed according to the force, form,
and effect thereof ? If so you will signify the same
by holding up your hands.
The chapter signified their assent in the way pre-
scribed, and the ceremony thereupon proceeded ac-
cordingly, the President reading as follows:
" IVe, William Henry Dixon, clerk, Master of
Arts, Canon Residentiary of the Cathedral and
Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter of York, and (in
the absence of the Right Worshipful William Cock-
burn,lDoctor of Divinity,.Dean of the said Cathedral,)
President of this Chapter, by and with the consent of
our brethren and canons now present, do receive
with all due regard and respect the letters mandatory
which have now been read by our registrar, and we
decree to proceed in this business of enthronization
according to the force, form, and effect thereof."
The chapter, clergy, &c., then formed into proces-
sion, and proceeded to the west doors of the cathedral,
there to meet his Grace the Archbishop, who was in
waiting at the residence.
The procession reached the west doors at five mi-
nutes to eleven o'clock, where they remained until a
quarter past eleven, at which time his Grace, accom-
panied by one of his chaplains, arrived in his carriage.
Having alighted, his Grace, attired in his full archie-
piscopal robes, and followed by his train bearer,
entered the cathedral, and was received by the presi-
dent, to whom, also to the chapter and clergy gene-
rally, his Grace made his obeisance.
The procession then formed in reverse order, and
moved on back to the Chapter-house, a magnificent
voluntary being performed on the organ by Dr. Ca-
midge, who displayed the powers of that noble
instrument with great effect.
Having reached the Chapter-house, the president
again took the chair, and his Grace was conducted to
a seat at the head of the chapter on the president's
right hand. The clergy, &c., took their places as
before, and then his Grace, in a clear and audible
voice, read the following petition
Thomas, by Divine PrOvidence, Lord Arch-
bishop of York, elected, confirmed; and translated,
petition to be inducted, installed, and enthroned, with
the full archiepiscopal rights in the said church, and
the real, actual, and corporal possession of the arch-
bishopric of York, with all and singular the rights,
dignities, honours, privileges, and appurtenances what-
soever, in conformity and according to the manner,
statutes, ordinances, and laudable and approved cus-
toms of this cathedral and metropolitical church of
St. Peter of York, and actually and with effect to
assign and appoint to me the throne or archiepiscopal
seat in the choir of the said church anciently accus-
tomed and used to be assigned to the archbishop
there for the time being, and to do and dispatch all
other things which may be necessary or in any way
convenient in this business of induction and enthro-
nization."
The PRESIDENT then decreed for the enthronization
as follows :
a we, William Henry Dixon, clerk, Master of
Arts, President of this Chapter, by and with the con-
sent of our brethren and canons now present, do
decree the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas,
by Divine Providence, Lord Archbishop of York, to
be inducted, installed, and enthroned."
This having concluded the preliminary proceedings
by the chapter, the procession was again formed and
walked to the choir. Having reached the altar the
Archbishop was seated in a chair placed without the
rails, and shortly afterwards petitioned as before, and
then took the following oath, which was administered
by the registrar :
"I, Thomas, by Divine Providence, Lord Arch-
bishop of York, elected, confirmed, and translated,
and now to be inducted, installed, and enthroned into
the archiepiscopal see of this cathedral and metropo-
litical church of St. Peter of York, do swear that I
will observe, and to the utmost of my power defend,
privileges,statutes, and customs of the
contrary and repugnant to Divine
and statutes of this realm.
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" So help me God and the holy evangelists."
The PRESIDENT then invested the Archbishop with
the pastoral and archiepiscopal dignity in the follow-
ing terms :
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God, amen. We, William Henry
o Dixon,lCn althhe cedlerriacl Master
and Metropolitical Church of St. Peter,
of York, and (in the absence of the Right Worshipful
proclaim,
William Cockburn, Doctor of Divinity, Dean of the
said cathedral), President of this Chapter, by and
with the consent of our brethren and canons now pre-
sent, install,honours,
privileges,
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rights,dignities,
and appurtenances whatsoever appertaining to the
archiepiscopal see of York."
The Litany and prayers were then chanted by the
Rev. Dr. Fellowes, who knelt on the north side of the
Communion-table. The Archbishop and the Presi-
dente l
with
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proceeded to the throne, and the Archbishop
being seated, the President again declared him to be
enthroned in full possession of the powers and juris-
dictions of the see. The President then read the fol-
lowing prayer, standing on the throne
4L We return the greatest thanks to God for so
reverend a father, learned divine, and faithful pastor
so at this time really installed and enthroned Arch-
bishop of the archiepiscopal see of this holy church,
and supplicate the Divine Majesty that he may long
and happily continue pastor of this church and Arch-
bishop of the archiepiscopal see of York, and by
word and good example to the glory of God and the
ent of this church that he may so pro
happy governm
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ceed that in the end he, with the people committed to
his charge, may attain to eternal life."
The installation and enthronization then concluded,
the archbishop remained sitting on the throne, and
the canons having taken their proper stalls, the Te
Deem (Dr. Nares) was sung by the choir, accom-
panied by Dr. Camidge on the organ.
The ARCHBISHOP pronounced the blessing, and this
concluded the service.
The members of the chapter subsequently pro-
ceeded to the Chapter•house, and there a demise of the
manor of iiishopsthorpe to the Archbishop was read
and sealed with the common seal.

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displayed by A 11EIFEIL—Instances of the remark-
able s sAgcel animals have from time to
two-years old heifer, belonging to Mr.
time been given to
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Robert Ardron, of pigburn, has acquired the habit of
going to the turnip-cutter, when allowed to do so, and of
working the machine to supply herself with food. This
hour of the day,
she will do at any but, of course, most
eagerly at the regular feeding time. It works the ma-
chine by placing its head under the handle to raise it,
and over the handle to lower it; it invariably looks into
the machine to see if there are any turnips to cut before
if
the process, and very
commencinghungry it will cut a
considerable quantity before it eats any, but, if not very
hungry, it will only cut one or two turnips at a time.
It is supposed that the heifer has acquired its habit
from playing within the machine when -y9iing.—Don-
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FEELINGS OF THE FRENCH
TOWARDS THE ENGLISH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—There has lately appeared in your univer-
sally-read journal some statements respecting the
feelings of the French people towards the English,
which, in the present state of the relations of the two
countries, are in my opinion not only calculated to
mislead the public feeling, but are also likely to do
much mischief.
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In the hope of counteracting in some measure this
impartiality for the insertion of a few remarks, which,
same channel which originally served to propagate
the error.
I allude more particularly to a paragraph in the
letter of my Lord Ellesmere, in which his Lordship,
on the strength of what he calls a long and intimate
intercourse with the French people, protests. that he
does not know which feeling most predominates in
their minds towards the English—whether that of
hatred or contempt.
Now, I, on the faith of an intimacy in all proba-
bility much more extended and intimate than that of
his Lordship, assert this to be a gross misstatement
of their feelings towards my countrymen. No ! there
is a certain portion of the French people—including,
of course, all the most narrow-minded and ignorant—
who feel a great deal of illw ill, envy, jealousy, and
even hatred—if you will, but, contempt—no ! that
feeling has no place in their minds as regards the
English.
On the contrary, I have heard in a thousand in-
stances well-bred and intelligent Frenchmen ac-
knowledge our superiority in many points, more
especially in all which has relation to the mechanical
arts; in all which promotes the useful and the com-
fortable; nay, they go so far as to accord us the
superiority in enterprise, anti more especially in the
perseverance and consistency of character which con-
stitute the principal element of success in all under-
takings.
On the other hand, they undoubtedly lay claim to
some degree of superiority, perhaps in certain
branches of literature, in all which relates to the
fine arts, and generally to all which appertains to
brilliancy of intellect, and I should be much sur-
prised to find any intelligent Englishman deny their
claim to this superiority. And, why should these
claims be refused to either party—they being at the
same time so clearly defined and so different ?
What is there to wound the susceptibility or mortify
the vanity of either party ? To refuse the character
of a great people to the English is to close
your eyes to the sun at noonday ; to accord the
same title to Frenchman is only to understand them ;
I do not mean to understand them like one of my
countrymen who comes to spend a fortnight in
Paris, without speaking a word of the language—
who comes brimfull of prejudices, and determined
beforehand to see nothing good that is not English.
That is not the way to understand France or French-
men. No ! send me over one unprejudiced, with a
fair portion of common sense, who speaks fluently the
language, and let him remain here two years. By
the end of that time I'll engage he'll find some-
thing to admire in Frenchmen. Let him see their
Boulevards, their elegantly fitted shops, their brilliant
cafes; let him examine their public gardens, their
monuments, their museums, their theatres, the ele-
gance and ease which preside at their reunions, and I
shall be much surprised if, after all this, he denies
them the character of a great people.
But, to return to the subject which in fact forms
the corner-stone of my communication—the assertion
that the French as a nation despise the English. I
insist more especially on this point, because, if true, all
hopes of accommodation would be vain ; he who would
conciliate an enemy that despises him would only
increase the evil, except by the most abject submis-
sion, which of course is not to be thought of. But
it is not true. No Frenchman would object to be
put upon a par with the English—more he claims
not, with less he will not be satisfied, and I am con-
fident that if a few Englishmen like Sir Robert
Peel, or men of his standing, would explicitly and
frankly express an opinion tantamount to this—if
my countrymen would cease to fling Waterloo in
their teeth, and would also cease the vulgar bragga-
docio of one Englishman being equal to three French-
men, it would he a means of calming the irrita-
tion to such a degree that war in our time would
be next to impossible. For, will any one contend
for an instant that any clashing of positive or mate-
rial interests Is to be apprehended under present
circumstances as sufficient to bring about so dire a
calamity ? No; should a war arise, the fell monster
must be engendered by some extraordinary ebullition
of the present unfortunate irritations, which, burst-
ing all bounds, shall at one fell swoop silence and
destroy in the two people every sentiment of justice
and humanity, and, at the same time, I may add,
every consideration of positive or material interests
—and for a rupture commenced under such circum•
stances what must be the probable result?
Having no definite object, it could only end in a
war of extermination, or until one or the other sank
from sheer exhaustion. And is it for a moment to be
thought of that so dire a catastrophe shall be accom-
plished merely to decide the vulgar question as to
which is the best man ? And this in the nineteenth
century, between the two most enlightened nations
of the earth ! Forbid it justice ! forbid it humanity !
forbid it every Christian feeling !
In the hope, Sir, that your insertion of these re-
marks may furnish a hint for some one of more im-
portance and capability than myself to improve upon,
I beg leave to subscribe myself as one of the most
ardent admirers of your admirably conducted journal,
and also your constant reader,
Paris, Jan. 12. JOHN AUSTIN.

PRISONS PRIVATE PROPERTY.—We have already
intimated that many of the prisons of the last century
were private property, and that these very prisons were
most remarkable for neglect and for the abuses which
prevailed in them. We have now to add that some of
the worst-conditioned gaols were the property of noble-
men and dignitaries in the Church. Among the noble,
reverend, and right reverend proprietors, we find the
names of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, Lord
Salisbury, the Duke of Portland, Lord Exeter, Christ
Church College, Oxford, the Bishop of Salisbury, Lord
Arundel, the Marquis of Carnarvon, the Duke of
Devonshire, the :Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Leeds,
the Bishop of Durham. Lord Derby, the Earl of Chol-
mondeley. Any one who will take the pains to refer to
the " State of Prisons" will be convinced that the
strictures of Howard on the prisons which were pri-
vate property apply with peculiar force to those in the
possession of these distinguished individuals.—Frafer's
FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday a protracted in-
quiry was held at the Board-room of the London Hos-
pital, before Mr. Baker, into the death of Charles
Thorogood, aged fifty, who met his death by alleged
reckless omnibus driving. From the statement of Josiah
Thoregood, deceased's son, it appeared that deceased,
who for many years had been time-keeper at the Royal
Exehanve, was riding, about nine o'clock in the evening
of the 3d instant, in Barber's Hackney omnibus, 4,895,
of which witness was conductor. Between Shoreditch
and Cambridge heath this omnibus passed Bryan's omni-
bus, 4,910, leaving the latter in the rear. On arriving
at Sebright-street, witness's omnibus stopped, and let
out deceased, who was in the act of reaching the path,
when he was knocked down by the horses of 4,910, the
driver of which endeavoured to pass Barber on the near
side, and thus caused the accident. Deceased was re-
moved to the hospital, where he died on Monday, of a
fractured jawbone. The evidence on each side was very
conflicting. Verdict —" Accidental death"—the jury ex-
pressing a hope that the Coroner would caution Knight,
the driver of 4,910, as to his future conduct. This
having been done, Knight said he had been eighteen
years on the road, and warmly denied the imputation
that he had lost control over his horses at the moment
of the fatal occurrence, which he deeply deplored.
AVERAGE COST OF GAS. Asa sort of average
locality, in which neither the advantages of the pit-
mouth, as at Wakefield, nor the disadvantages of a more
distant coal market, as in the metropolis, might be
thought or alleged to interfere with a right result, we
applied to a private establishment not far from Leicester,
and obtained from it a note of the particulars of the cost
of gas manufactured there on the premises, and including
every outlay in its production and management. In
place of a moderate per centage of interest on the original
or other outlay for gas-house and apparatus. however.
we, have, in this note, a sum of 401., for new retorts and
tear and wear, which would constitute such a per centage
on a comparatively enormous amount of sunk capital—
doubtless far more than the sum so expended.- We have
also to add, that no return is made on anything but
coke—ammonia, gas tar, and other products, such as
those of purification, breeze, &c., and the lime or other
material used, being regarded all as so much waste.
Yet, under all these positive disadvantages, which, after
all, render this return a very high one—much above a
fair average one of the kind alluded to—we have an
article, produced, on a small scale, at two shillings, in-
cluding all necessary and contingent expe,ses; while, in
the same vicinity, at the same peried,-the same article
was selling, on a large scale, at more than seven shillings!
._Builder.
BL A CKBURIC—REDECTION OF WAGES.—Friday
list, notices were posted in all the mills of the town,
apprising the hands that their wages would be reduced
(generally 10 per, cent.) at the expiration of a month
after date. In a few instances the reduction will be 10
per cent. on the spinners and weavers' wages, and 7i per
cent. o„ the. Wages of the card-room hands; but in the
majority of instances it will bo uniform. •Sir William
Veilden and Sons' mill started on-Monday last, after st
emation of about 'three moAths.—Manchister Guardian.

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LIABILITIES OF SPAIN.
APPEAL TO LORD PALMERSTON.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—ln your paper of the Ist inst. of the present
year is very properly given a concise application of
" Several Holders of Spanish Bonds in Plymouth" to
ascertain when their just claims on Spain, in the
shape of long unpaid dividends, are likely to meet
with consideration by the intervention of Lord Pal-
merston. As I have not seen any reply in The Sun
to this very natural exhibition of feeling, as an ancient
creditor of that state, and holder of the three denomi-
nations of paper (active, deferred, and passive), given
at the solemn conversion of their whole debt in 1834
in lieu and satisfaction of all claims, I beg to state,
simply carrying out this measure by at length giving
vitality to the active debt, is all that is imperatively
requisite of Spain to effect to liberate herself from the
odious stigma of procrastination and evasion. To our
own noble Foreign Secretary, and to every similar
important official in Europe, intercourse with a self-
degraded and repudiating country must be painful
and humiliating indeed, and it must be the earnest
and paramount desire and duty of those personages to
bring the defaulters within the limits that honesty
and good faith prescribe for all mankind. The
authenticated condition of Spain is acknowledged
prosperous—produce most abundant, colonies yet in
her hands that give vast revenue to the parent state,
a ready market in England for all her various im-
ports, with a clear revenue of full double the
amount of that held when her engagements
were formed to meet her then diminished
and dormant resources. Some feelings of gratitude
must likewise exist among the chivalrous population
of this territory, whose sacred boundaries and institu-
tionsa nd
treasure,iia's have been sustained asenido
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have had seasons of unusual general prosperity, that
the reverse has been the fate of their ino,t useful ally
(Great Britain).
Is not this the time, above all others, most suitable
to be just, if not grateful ?
I cannot, Sir, as a creditor of Spain, listen to the
absurd and frequently paraded groundless claims of
selfish and mistaken solitary holders of deferred or
passive stock, the former having no existence beyond
the approaching drawing of May next, while the
latter is mainly in the hands of the Government of
Spain itself, who must not on any pretence whatever
be urged to endanger the whole fabric of their
finance by throwing it again on the market.
Although these are incontrovertible facts, it has
incidentally transpired that efforts have been making
since the period of the singular and uncalled-for
enormous concession of 2111. 13s. 4d. per cent. by
the Spanish Minister Carrasco, to a few wealthy
English collectors of the ,first deficient dividend, to
place passive stock in the same position, and let it
run away with all the available means of the State.
To effect this act of spoliation, the British Govern-
ment, the British Ambassador at Madrid, and the
British press, have been unscrupulously and insidu-
ously urged in various reprehensible modes to inter-
fere. These are the true causes of delay and embar-
rassment, and must be greatly annoying to the dis-
tinguished association of English gentlemen, with their
highly esteemed chairman, Mr. Dempster Hemming,
acting in conjunction with foreign deputations on
behalf of creditors, and whose very justifiable appeal
for the requisite aid to sustain an expensive mission
and heavy contingencies, hitherto borne by them-
selves, is, from what I have feebly described, not at •
tended to with that warmth that Englishmen inva-
riably show in cases of difficulty.
With hopes that on this important topic neither
yourself nor your " Plymouth" correspondent will
consider me prolix, I am, Sir, your Read. r, and
London, Jan. 6. A:CREDITOR OF SPAIN.