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Dorchester Old Bank and DorslAshire Bank,
Dorchester—Williams and Co.
East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, _ _ _

snd Co.
East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hall.
and Co. . . 51,596
Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank,
Chelmsford—Sparrow. and Co. 42,509
Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co 26,330
Fakenhara Bank, Fakenham—clurneys, Birk-
beck, and Co.
Parringdon Bank and Bank of \Vantage, Far-
ringdon—Barnes and Medley 5,949
Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight 12,519
Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co 4,505
Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and

99,356

Keen
Grantham Bank, G rantham—Kewney and King
Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Hay don... 7,623
Granthlm Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... 21,826
Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder,
and Co. 28,604
Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford—
Matthews and Co.
Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford—S. Adams
and Co 19,516
Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull
—Smith, Brothers, and Co.
Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting-
don—Rust and Veasey
Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Cc. 5,268
Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead—
Smith, and Whittingstall
Honiton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co.
Hertfordshire,Hitchenßank, Hitchen—Sharples
and Co.
Hereford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross
and Archenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan,
Hoskins, and Co
Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co..
Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk,
Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley
Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich—
Alexanders and Co.
Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall,

4,844

and Mercer
Kin gton and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J.
Davies and Co
Knighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and C.
Knaresborough Old Bank and Rinon Old Bank,
Tina7csborough—Terry and CO
Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wake field, Crewdson,
and Co.
Kettering Bank, Kettering—Goiv.l and Sons,—
Lane Eni Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C
and Son
Leeds Bank. Leeds—Beckett and Co
LP,eds 7rnion Bank, Liteds—W.Williams, Brown,

and......... . ...................................
Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and
Cont leton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, andCo,
Leieester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby
Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Aolineux and Co
Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green
Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co
Lampeter Bank and Llandilo .Bank, Llando-
very—David Jones and Co. •
Loughborough Bank, Loughboroug,Ti—Middlo-
tuns and Cradock
Lymincton Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St
Barb e
Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis
Gurneys and Co. ,
Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis—
Jarvis and Co. •
Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brooklenurs.;

16,289
20,590

64,081

14,462

18,223
8,688

18,150

36,828
8,365

5,212
54,773

37,916

26,557
32,830
13,918
74,101

16,204

3,860

33,039

10,205

and Co................................................
Manningtree Bank, Ma.nningtree—Nunn and Co
Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts
Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl-
borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank,
and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner
and. Pinckney
Marlborough
_ lel.arlborough
and North Wiltshire New Bank,
M 'onethshire Bank,
INlerriman, and hiland
lier
‘rJones
Williams .... D °l''elly—
'
iners' Bank, TruroMonmouthsbiro A-7-Willyams and Co ...... . . .
Bank, Abergaveli cultural and Commercial
-20aileys and Go
Monmouth Old RannkY,
Bank, Chepstow Bank,ll3.outh Bank, Brecon
and Ross and lierefordshirPstow Old Bank,
—Bromage and Snead ... :.lank, Monmouth
Monmouthshire Newport . Old . .....
... ........ ' 12,281
—W. Williams and Sons._ Bank, -"Tort
Newark Bank, Newark— P,
'at. On. 207:884867 and gSlea-Sord and
Newark and Sleaford Bank,
Newark Bank, Sleaford—Elaudi
and Co......................... eY' Peacock,
Newbury Bank, Newbury_iiiinyana...si .....
0. 4O ,480
Newmarket Bank, Newmarket— Eaton 18'959
Ham-
mond, and Son ... .............. '
Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—T .......... ..... ti-ci 17,648
Dyson
Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—llarveys and
Huilsons • 46 87 6
Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur- ,
neys and Birkbeck
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not-
tingham—flart, Fellows, and Co 7,934
Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddoek and
Cu
Naval Bank Plymouth—lfarris, Mudge, and
NeCwo..„,: .... : ...Bankj ...................................
0,
.... "..I..nra , Sarum Everott, and
12.176
.
gsclwtt'esintr`""hyam- . 7,_'..a.n.k. , .•
.............. —Smith and Co. 26,618
" 33-n- and Co
Old Bank, Os-
we:ztt-T Elroxpn and 11,6.34
Oxford link, Oxford—Cro and R. Morrell 5,555
Orfbrcl Okl Bank, oxs ' •
and C 0...... ...... °l'd—Robinson, Parsons,
Old Bank Tonbridp.e, ............... ...................... 32'937
Wells Old Bank, Tot-1,0,44.'4e and Toabridge
W
iagneic and Tonbridge
ells and Sevanoaks
Beeehirr, and Sons,_.. ... , Tonbridge.—
Oafordehire Witney Bak," iii •' ..............
and Co ...
•••••••.. ...... .4 75239

15,180
4,327

6,064

1,525

7,150
12,682

25,265

63,549

24,659

8,310

Average Amount
Pease a Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and
Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 38,861
Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and C 0... 11,094
Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter-
borough—Metsrs. Yorke
Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson
and White
Pemorokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and
W. Walters
Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and
Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven.
and Co

7,054

Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 23,932
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and
Co 27,304
Richmond Bank, Richmond—Maxwell and Co 4,889
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Boyd,
and Co
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches-
ter—Day and Nicholson 8,614
Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 10,407
Rugby Bank, Bugby—Butlin and Son 11,685
Rye Bank, Rye—Pomfret and Co.
Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy-
don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and

Co _

5,223

Ross Cud Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard
and Al'away
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron
Walden—Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and
Co 12,231
Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall
and Co
Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlowco Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons,
and
. 33,072
Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourno
—Valiance and Son 3,343
Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
ampton—Maddison and Pearce 14,181
Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co 12,379
Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie
Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and
King •
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp-

ton—Atherly and Fall
Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 1,314
Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge Rufford,
Wragg, and Co .. .
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 13,603
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton,
Cayley, and Co.
Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and
Robins
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury
—Beck, Downward, and Co. 19,863
St. Alban's and Hefts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib-

17,655

son and Stuart
Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 20,172
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and
Co
Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and
Parslow
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns-
ford and Barne 8,426
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton-
shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 9,413
Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But-
cher and Son
Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S
Percival
Town and County of Poole Bank, and Ring-
wood and Poole Bank Ledgard and
Sons'
Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and
Co.
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith,
and Co.
Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Hedges & Co. 7,208
Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick—
Greenway and Co.
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox
Brothers
West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract
Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co 40,807
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap-
man, and Co 14,376
Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win-
chester—Bulpett and Co.
Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester
—Wickham and Co
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Ban•,
Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse
Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derby-shire Bank,
Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. . 33,183
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech—
Gurney and Co.
Wiveliscorebe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W
Hancock
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good-
ricke and Holyoake.
Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender,
and Co.
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank,
Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 66,381
Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley
and Turner
Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charle3Foster and

7,264

9,084

10,054

11,397

3,780

b,214

8,000

Sons
Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster—
Everett and Co.
Wolverhampton
Messrs. Fryer
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth
and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney,
Birkbeck, and Co.
Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great
Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 10,461
Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and Batten
York Bank, York—Swann, Clough, and Co 42,505

1,080

15,923
Bank, Wolverhampton—

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 50,878
Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad-
ford .. ..
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union
Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking
Company, Chesterfield
Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work-
__

ington . , 29,427
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com-
pany, Cheltenham ..
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company
Coventry . 20,894
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry.. 11,332
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company
Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 16,095
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company,
Dudley
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 19,145
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com-

8,703

pany, Darlington . 15,593
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 127,710
Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax.. 19,070
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 38,25()
Hull Banking Company, Hull 23,865
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha-
lifax
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax
Helston Banking Company, Helston . 1,549
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford...... 14,950
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,688
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster . 49,085
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Bankinc, Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 43,559
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,095
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham 27,747
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-
Stock Banking Company, Newcastle
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
London 366,573
North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham ..... 40,296
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton., 59,821
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-
ampton
North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 24,846
Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei-
cester..... 39,260
Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 2,704
Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 34,415
Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com-
pany, Stamford. 45,546
Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset-
shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang-
port
Shropshire Banking Company, shiffnall
.. 44,279
Stonrbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com-
. .
ffi ld and Halla,mshire Banking Company,
Sheffield •••• •.• • ........ , .... .. ... ....
Sheffield Stourbridtge
Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking
Chelhoid .............................. .. 50,498
Company, --
Swaleda le and VirensleYdale Banking Company,
40,350
Richmond . . .....
Banking Company
Storey and Thomas's
Shaftesbury ........................................ . 9,302
Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ... -
1-,Vpo
al vneyr,hlavelopl t;ziaauradpStaffordshire. .
...Banking... Com-
-35,577
Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 12,105
Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company,
virWarwhiitcekbaavnedn 22,353
~• .................... •••• •
1,-Qinington B • n
VirWestarwoficEkng.la.n.. el ' ' a.n..;1.0-titaKil.k.W.i.n'a.gle.s.C"l:ll33"l.l);taTi-jc:
Wilts and Dorset Banking C0w................. "'
Bank. Bristol .
West Riding Union Bankine•,Pan, Salisbury 6766,609105
6 kaortlna
V nY, Ruth
dersfield ...
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Ranking
Whitchurch . .............. .Company
34,822
Worcester City and County Banking...... ;. e ........ 3'733
ompany,
Worcester
....
York Union Banking Comp:An , ..... y, .. Y0rk.................. 4,275
York City and County Banking Company,Yrk g°8:86961
Yorkshire Biala,. krii nEgAN
Registrar Company, eed
o f Bank Return's.s
Inland Revenue, Somerset House, Jan. 18, 1851,

1,265

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The National Assembly of Schleswig-Holstein held
its last sitting on the 17th, and the retrograde move,-
meat of the Holstein army had commenced; a bat-
talion reached Hamburgh on the 18th, on its way
towards Plon. Another battalion in garrison at Ratz-
burg, had taken an oath of fidelity to the King of
Denmark. The Austrian corps d'armee was being
concentrated in Lauenburg, and it was supposed that
it would remain some time in that province and in
Holstein. The Federal and Danish Commissioners
at Hamburgh had resumed their negotiations, and it
was not doubted would come to an arrangement.
The movements of the Prussian and Austrian
troops, which were crossing the Elbe into Lauenburg,
have been suddenly suspended.
Advises from Hanover state that the Austrian
columns have come to a stand-still in that capital.
The cause of the delay is not accounted for.
Count de Reventlow Criminil, acting for the King
of Denmark, has assumed the. government of the
Duchy of Lauenburg.
It is not true that Austria has been taking active
measures for the abolition of the Sound duties. The
question has been discussed by Austria and Prussia
in the free conferences, but the discussion has led to
no result. The Danish plenipotentiary suggested that,
if the duties were abolished, Denmark would be re-
duced to a state of dependance on England and
Russia. It appears now to be quite certain that Hol-
stein, and especially Rendsburg, will be occupied by
Austrian and Russian troops.
The Copenhagen papers of the 17th protest that no
reduction will take place in the Danish army until
Rendsburg and Friedrichsort shall have been given up
to the troops of the King of Denmark.
General Von der Horst, the late Commander.in-
Chief of the Holstein army, has addressed the follow-
ing general order to the troops that are being dis-
banded or dismissed on leave :

" Soldiers! On the occasion of your quitting the army
I bid you a hearty farewell, and I express to you the
thanks of the country for the faithful service you have
done to its cause. The consciousness of having done
your duty will accompany you on the path of life; may
It add to your happiness and be your comfort in evil
days. God bless you, comrades, wherever you go.
" The Commanding• General, Von der "loam
" Rendsburg, Jan. 18."

IMPORTANT SEAMAN'S CASE.
On Tuesday, six men were brought up in custody
before Mr. Rushton, by police-officer Tuck, on a
charge of refusing to proceed to sea in the ship after
signing articles. Thomas Ridley said he was master
of the Crusader, and the whole of the men had sailed
with him in the ship on a voyage to Buenos Ayres.
They had been at sea five days, and returned to port,
when they refused to go the voyage. One of the men
said on the charge being preferred, that they would
be obliged if the mate and the steward were sent
for, as they would state that the captain bad
never been sober since the ship left the
river. When the witnesses came, they were sworn,
and Mr. Rushton addressed the mate, and said :
"These six men are brought here for refusing to go
to sea in the ship, alleging as a reason that the cap-
tain had not been sober since he left the river. Is
that true ?" The mate, who seemed to answer unwil-
lingly, said he could not say that he bad been altogether
in his proper senses during the voyage. The steward
was then called, and he said he could not say that the
captain had been in his proper senses during the
voyage. He had often given him spirits in his coffee,
and he was not capable of managing the ship on a lee
shore. The captain said he had never been in such a
state. He had had a pilot on board for three days out
of the five. He had not tasted spirits of any descrip-
tion. The steward said, " I saw him fill a tumbler
when he was not able to-hold it to the cask." Mr.
Rushton—What of ? The Steward—Rum, sir. Mr.
Ruslaton said it was a very serious matter. It was
Ws duty to take care that the men were not imprie
sailed improperly. The sailor bad a right to guard
;against a drunken captain. Here was the mate, an
unwilling witness, who was put on oath, and who
said the captain was not fit for duty ; and the steward
deposed that he was not only totally unfit, but he had
seen him drinking spirits by the tumbler, drawn
out of the cask. Under the circumstances, and de-
ciding by the evidence, he thought the men justified
in not proceeding to sea. The owner, who was in
court, said the men had refused to work when the
ship was in danger ; and Mr. Rushton replied, that if
such captains were put on board a vessel all confidence
was lost. The captain said he had sailed sixteen
years out of Liverpool, and referred to his character
during that time, when the magistrate remarked that
it was a painful thing to do, as respected the captaln,
but it was due to the men—they must be discharged.
The men were then set at liberty ; but it was under-
stood that the owners would put a new captain in the
ship, and that they would proceed on the voyage. A
memorial from them to the owners was also read, setting
forth the conduct of the captain in the form of a letter,
from which it appeared he had perilled the ship,-
not being able to distinguish the lights, and
having to give up the command of the vessel to
one of the people to pilot her inside the Tuskar rocks,
when she was in dangerous circumstances, and when,
but for this delegation of authority, she would have
been lost. The letter, the magistrate remarked, was
extremely creditable to the men.—Liverpool Courier.

PAPAL AGGRESSION.

ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY FROM THE
IRISH PRELATES.
The following is the address to her Majesty from
the Prelates of the Established Church in Ireland,
with the reply of the Secretary of State :
" TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
" An humble Address of the undersigned Archbishops,
and Bishops of the United Church of England and
Ireland.
" May it please your Majesty,—We, the Archbishops
and Bishops of the Irish provinces and bishopric„ of the
United Church of England and Ireland, approach your
Majesty at this time with the humble tender of our duty,
and the expression of our heartfelt participation in those
sentiments of devoted loyalty to the Crown, and of
unshaken attachment to the principles of the Reforma-
tion, which the recent proceedings of the Bishop ef
Rome have drawn forth so generally from your Ma-
jesty's subjects in England.
" The same laws of the realm which have made one
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, have no
less established one United Church of England and LT-
laud. And the Irish branch of that United Church, as
it has always been faithful in the maintenance of the
union of the kingdom, so has it ever been and now is
equally earnest with the English branch in denying the
pretensions of any foreign prince, person, prelate, state,
or potentate,' to any rightful jurisdiction, power, supe-
riority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spi-
ritual, within this realm.'
"The recent exercise of such a pret2nried right by the
Bishop of Rome, in constituting a territorial hierarchy in
England, subject to his supreme jurisdiction, is, happily,
in that form, as yet a novelty in Great Britain; but, un-
happily, it is not the first exercise of such pretensions
within the bounds of the United Kingdom. For, in Ire-
land, where the prerogative of the Crown is by law one
and the same as in England, the Bishops of Rome have
long ago pursued a course not dissimilar to that now at-
tempted in England. At the period of the Reformation,
nearly all the Irish bishops renounced the Papal autho-
rity; and of these the prelates of the Established Church
are indisputably the regular successors. It was not
until after the lapse of several years a new and rival
episcopate was gradually introduced by the Popes, which
has become politically formidable to the stability of the
United Church in this country, besides obstructing
its efforts to make known the Word of God, and
promote peace, unity, and concord among your Majesty's
subjects.
"We have thought it necessary to advert to these
well-known facts relating to Ireland, because they seem
to have been almost, if not altogether, lost sight of, in
the indignation which has been excited by the recent
attempt of the Pope to exert the like power in England.
Uneasy apprehensions have been awakened within us
by observing that, in the addresses, and resolutions
and speeches, which that bold procedure has called
forth in England, all the concern manifested has been
for the distinct and special defence of what has been
called—by a title unknown to the law—' the Church of
England.'
" We are convinced, indeed, that the silence which
has been maintained in reference to the case of the Irish
branch of the Church is, in most instances, to bo re-
garded as merely the result of the peculiar solicitude
which men naturally feel for the part immediately as-
sailed, and which for the time banishes from their mind
all interest in, or recollection of, every other part ; and
we are persuaded that it would be wrong to understand
it as conveying any wish to divide the United Church,
or any opinion that, being united as it is, the interests
of its component parts may be so dissevered that
while both are exposed to the same hostile power, each
may be content to defend itself, and still less, that the
stronger may provide for its own safety by sacrificing its
weaker associate. We trust that a great majority of
those who have allowed themselves for a time to forget
our case in their anxiety about their own, must be aware
that any permanent disregard of it would be a grievous
error in point of prudence as well as of principle. But
knowing that different views with reference to the eccle-
siastical establishment in the two countries are enter-
taed by not a few in England, and that some such
ccoennsteitepreledted by
comprtohmemis,e
weas eweennhoatvebugt feellaneedu
alarm
is
aatc
wt actually
t-
evejvm.reayarteenddeteopglyiveimepffreecststed with theososhort- ic
sigehotnevdatisocn thatheme.
if the excitement now existing in England were to lead
to the adoption of any measure calculated to impair the
Unitedt
et Church,weportions
ethe i
tcompleteness
ecdot..f
of
fetthwe een h
tihnetegurniitoyn
ing- would involve more injury to the whole Church and
to the country than any acts of the Bishop of Rome, or
any encroachment from without could possibly
eff
Tile Irish branch might, and probably would, be the
first sufferer from such false policy; but the English
branch would ultimately be no less surely its victim.
And how deadly a wound its fall would infliet upon ail
that constitutes the happiness and greatness of that
favoured country, we trust it may not be doomed to
know by unhappy experience.
by both Houses
the
" Vie, confide, under God's good providence, in your
Majesty's wisdom, guided and supported
of Parliament, to avert all such evils, by maintaining

union which happily exists between the countries and
between the branches of the Church in both. How the
aggressive proceedings of the Bishop of Rome ought to
be guarded against and counteracted we do not presume
to sugge3t. But we are anxious distinctly to state that
we have no desire that they should be met by any
restraints affecting the just .rights of conscience of any
of your Majesty's subjects. It is our humble prayer that
whatever may be the defensive measures determined on
for securing the National Church against injury, the
two portions of it may not be regarded or treated as
having separate interests, but that one and the same
legislative protection may be extended to both branches
of the Church in common.
" 'TWIN G. ARMAGH.
RD. DUBLIN.
THOS. S. MEATH.
J. KILMORE, ELPHIN, and ARDAGH.
R. DERRY and RAPHOE.
LUDLOW. KILLALOE, and CLONFERT.
THOS. TUAM, &c.
J. T. Oss ,RY and FERNS.
ROBT. CASHEL, &C.
JAMES CORK and CLOYNE.
ROB. DOWN and CONNER.
WM. LIMERICK, ARDFERT, and AGHADOE•"

" Whitehall, 17th January, 1851.
"My Lord,—l have had the honour to lay before the
Queen the address (transmitted in your Grace's letter of
the 4th instant) of the Archbishops and Bishops of the
Irish provinces and bishoprics of the United Church of
England and Ireland, on the subject of the measures
taken by the Pope to establish a Roman Catholic hie-
rarchy in this country.
"And lam to inform your Grace that this address
was graciously received by her Majesty.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Grace's
most obedient servant,

" G. GREY,
" His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Armagh."

MEETING IN THE ROTUNDA. —A notification appears
in the Dublin papers to the effect that " a general meet-
ing of Protestants opposed to Papal usurpation," will be
held in the round-room of the Rotunda on Tuesday
next; Mr. Grogan, one of the city Representatives, to
preside. It is stated that " the Marquis of Duwnshire,
the Earl of Roden, the Earl of Enniskillen, the Earl or
Glengall, the Earl of Claucarty, Lord Dansany, Mr.
George Alexander Hamilton, M.P.; Mr. Joseph Napier,
M.P.; and several other influential peers and commoners
have signified their intention of being present, and tak-
ing part in the proceedings."

THE INCOME-TAX.

If any tokens were wanting to denote the approach
of the Parliamentary session, they would be supplied
in abundance by the numerous meetings which are
being held throughout the country with the view of
obtaining relief from this or that particular tax. One
financial reformer would pluck one plume from the
wings of the Chancellor of the Exchequer; another,
another. The result would be, if the demands of all
claimants were satisfied, that Sir Charles Wood
would have but an empty till to show when the public
servant applied for his quarter's salary, or the public
creditor for his half-year's dividend. We are not,
however, about just now to cii•cuss the merits of
these various applications. Oa proper occasions
we have not been slow in declaring our convic-
tions upon the policy of extending relief from taxa-
tion rather in one direction than another, whenever
the circumstances of the country do, in point of fact,
admit of the extension of relief to the overburdened
tax-payer. We would rather once again call atten-
tion to the propriety of modifying the method of
assessing one tax in particular during the course of
the ensuing session. Within a few weeks Sir Charles
Wood and his colleagues must again meet the House
of Commons upon the question of the income-tax.
It appears tolerably clear that no Government will
feel justified in allowing so important a head of in-
come altogether to slip through their fingers—they
will demand a prolongation of their powers in this
respect. Nor should we feel disposed to resist their
appeal if the assessment of the tax were not carried
through in a manner revolting to common justice
and common sense. The time has arrived for de-
claring once again that the private income of the
Minister issuing from real property or from the
funds—or no matter from what source, so it be in
fee-simple—is not identical for purposes of taxation
with his official salary, even upon the assumption
that for the time being they are represented by
equal money values. Tno hardy 5,0001. per annum
which has cast its roots deep into the soil of an
English county, and the fugitive 5,0001. per
annum which depends on the numbers of a slave-
squadron division in the House of Commons, or
upon the general vicissitudes of public life, are
very distinct matters. The point, however, is one
which affects the welfare and comfort of that class
of society in England which is destined to the
largest share of struggle and anxiety. We defy all
contradiction when we assert that in England the
cares of life fell with most force upon professional
men of moderate practice in their particular lines—on
tradesmen of the tbird or fourth-rate classes—on
clerks and employes of all descriptions whose means of
livelihood are dependent upon the will or caprice of
their employers, or upon the continuance of their
own health and strength. Without pretending to affix
absolute limits with the affectation of exact precision,
we would say that in England the struggle for a
livelihood and a position is the sharpest and most
constant amongst men whose income, issuing from
a profession or a trade, varies between 2001 and
1,0001. a year. Every turn of public opinion, every
caprice of fashion, every accession of scientific know-
ledge, every legal or commercial reform, affects
some one or other section of persons so situated. As
a class there is little doubt that in England generally
they are living beyond their means. This circum-
stance certainly supplies no motive for granting them
any immunity from their fair share of taxation, but
as certainly it affords no justification for taking them
above measure, and aggravates their inability of sup-
porting financial injustice.
The usual argument in favour of the present
method of assessment is stated in a few words. In-
come is only taxed while it lasts; the assessment,
therefore, is fair. Let us now suppose the case of
a general practitioner in medicine—of a man who, by
the most unceasing labour, by the utmost anxiety
and carefulness, is earning his 5001. or 6001. per
annum in a country neighbourhood. We will give
him every professional advantage—he shall be me-
dical adviser in ordinary to the union in which he
resides, he shall have contracted with the Grammar
School and the young ladies' boarding establishment
in the adjacent town to keep the systems of the
pupils cool and comfortable for an annual sum cer-
tain. He shall be well with the squire ; a sound
Churchman, and on dining terms with the rector ;
but yet no violent party man, lest the Dissenting
pneumonia of the country side should fly for relief to
the opposition brass-plate in the county town. He
can calculate the exact money-value of the
aymotic, and strike an annual average upon the
sporadic disease within his beat. Altogether he is in
as comfortable and permanent a position as any
member of his class can occupy. There is nothing
wanting to complete his felicity. He occupies a
square white house neatly slated, with a little pill-box
of brick and mortar attached, in which he himself or
his assistant—who has paid him a premium—spreads
the " bergamy" pitch plasters, and " exhibits" the
aloes and jalap. Behind the house is the stable
with two stalls, whose inmates are never destined
to enjoy each other's society, as Mr. Camomile
drives one about all day and rides the other round
the country all night. Now, at the end of the
year, with all his riding and all his pill-rolling, the
unfortunate practipners just manages to make both
ends meet, for the time has come when little
Johnny must go to school to be initiated in the
niceties of Roman versification, with a view to
making his way in the world at a subsequent
period. The eldest daughter, Anna Maria, too,
must be gently led in the direction of Cramer's
exercises, and be instructed in the art of hem-
ming pocket-handkerchiefs. Poor Camomile, who
was born with a kindly, genial soul, cannot but
entertain the local dining club once a year at
Opodeldoc-lodge, when the planned furniture of
the dining and drawing-rooms is divested of its
brown-holland epidermis, and even the tissue-paper
which had been pinned round the brosal gilt frame
of Mrs. Camomile's portrait for fear of fly-blows is
removed for that night only. The expense of that
entertainment, which exactly equals Camomile's
over-payment to the income-tax, is probably
the only expense throughout the year which will
not bear the strictest investigation, but it helps,
with his necessary outlays, to pull him down. The
life no doubt is a hard one, a harder one than
great Eoliticians would readily imagine, but still
while 4t alth lasts it is tolerable, and not without its
compensations to a man of honest and humane tem-
perament. But the night comes when poor Camo-
mile, who has been roused from his sleep to assist at
a premature birth, at some seven or eight miles' dis-
tance from his own house, rides there through
the pelting rain, and sits during the anxious night by
the bed-side of his suffering patient in his wet clothes.
A cough follows; he cuts off his dinner, but con-

tinues his rides ; his symptoms become aggravated
by exposure to the weather, and in a forte ight he is
beyond the reach of his own skill, and in a fortnight
and a day beyond saving by any physician upon earth.
He goes where we all must go, but Mrs. Camomile,
and Johnny, and Anna Maria awake from their
dream of security to find that their means of support
are gone as well. They must content themselves
with beiag—as political economists would phrase it
--absorbed into the population. That is to say,
when the two horses and the planned and. other fur-
niture, and the house and the stock of drugs, and the
galley-pots are sold up, there is just eno ugh to clear
scores all round, and pay for the ouly spot. of earth in
which Camomile had known the peacef al rest of an
hour since the day he first estahlishs d himself at
Opodeldoc-lodge. Why did he not insu re his life for
a few hundred pounds ? will be the comr Dent of many
a strong-minded
person upon this faint ci aline of alife.
Simply because it pleased the Finance nini.ster of his

country for the time being playfully to suppose that his
income would inure to his children after him, and to
mulct him accordingly. To b sure he might have
dropped his annual entertainment to the members
of the Hawthorn Dining Club—but then some of
us come from one side of the Tweed, some from the
other.

It would be idle to contrast with such a career
as the one we have so briefly indicated that of a
quiet country squire in a small way, or of a fund-
bolder from his youth upwards with an income
equal to that of our friend Camomile. Such an
one needs but put his hand in his pocket, and it
invariably comes into contact with a sovereign, with
no necessity for exertion on his own part beyond that
of fingering tne coin. As it was with himself, so it
will be with his children after him. All they have to
do is to keep clear of vice and folly, to eschew Capel-
court and its manifestoe,,, and the golden goose will
regularly perform its act of incubation on their he.
hoof. Yet we are to be told when it is proposed to
introduce the system of direct taxation into the coun-
try that it is equi-able and honest to tax the pre-
carious income of the professional man in the same
ratio as that of his more fortunate countryman.
Income is income—that is true, no doubt—but if in-
comes from all sources are to be considered equiva-
lents for purposes of taxation, then it is tAn income-
tax the most impolitic, the most cruel, the most un-
just tax with which a working population of a country
was ever afFlicted.—Tint,:s.

THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION AT

WIGAN.

On Friday morning last an inquest waa held at the
Bowling-green Inn, Wigan -lane, before Mr. Grim-
sha w, on the bodies of Jeremiah Price and Ann Turton,
who had been killed by the explosion of the boiler at
Mr. Wood's colliery on the previous Thursday morn-
ing. John Winuard, the engine- tenter who had had
charge during the night, and Thomas Topping, the en-
gineer who took charge in the morning, were examined,
hut their evidence threw no light on the cause of
the explosion, as they both declared that they bad
found all right when they severally examined the
boiler, and that they could assign no cause for its
bursting. It was then agreed that the inquest
should be adjourned till half-past five o'clock in the
evening, and that in the meantime Mr. Peter John-
son, the foreman of the jury, together with Mr.
Atherton, Mr. Swift, of the firm of Tickle and
Swift, ironfounders Mr. Brack, boiler-maker ;
and Mr. Joseph }hely, manager for Mr.
Woods, should examine the boiler and report their
opinions as to the cause of the explosion. The jury
re-assembled at the hour appointed, when Mr. John-
son stated that he and the gentleman above-named had
examined the boiler. They had collectively arrived at
the opinion that as the lead plug at the top of the flue
had not been melted there had been a sufficient
supply of water in the boiler when the explosion
rook place, and that, therefore, the men employed
were innocent of any charge of neglect upon that
head. Although the boiler had been worked beyond
the usual time of cleaning out, they did not think that
that fact had in any way contributed to promote the
explosion, as the boiler was not more filthy than
boilers usually are after being work d for two months.
As regarded the cause of the explosion, they were of
opinion that there had been a collapse of the tube or
flue, caused by the vacuum inside the flue. The crude
or black smoke emanating from the other two boilers
might have ignited, as it appeared that they had all
oeen fired in rapid succession, and the one that had
exploded had been fired last. In reply to the jury,
Mr. Johnson said that he had repeatedly worked
boilers four mouths without cleaning. Working
641 b. to the inch upon the lever would increase the
pressure to 79 on the extremity of the tube ; but the
boiler was sufficient to resist this pressure if the iron
was good. The jury, after a short consultation, re-
turned a verdict of Accidental Death.