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ROMISH PRACTICES IN THE CHURCH OF

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Mr. D. SEYMOUR asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department whether the Government intended to
bring forward any mea9ure for the relief of parishioners
in cases where the incumbent of a living held doe-
trines and adopted a ceremonial so closely ap-
proaching tha of the Church of Rome, that
they do not oblige him to leave the Church of England, yet
have the effect of preventing the great majority of his pa-
rishioners, on conscientious motives, from attending his
ministration of the setvices and sacrament. He considered
that the occurrences taking place any Sunday justified his
bringing forward the subject on the present occasion.
Sir G. C. LEWIS said he supposed the hon. member
referred to the disturbances in St. George's-in-the-East.

Mr. D. SEYMOUR.—Not only there but elsewhere.
Sir G. C. LEWIS—At all events no other instance had
been brought under his notice. He believed the objections
that had been made in regard to the practices in
the church referred to the manner in which the
ceremony was performed, and not to the doctrines preached
from the pulpit. Tho Government had no intention of
introducing any bill on the subject.
THE VOLUNTEER FORCE.

Lord ELCIIO asked the Secretary of War a question in
reference to a speech reported in the Scotsman as having
been delivered by the commander of her Majesty's forces,
in which he said that the volunteer force was utterly use-
less.

Mr. S. HERBERT said that Lord Melville, the officer
alluded to was a practical soldier, and had certainly made
use of the expression alluded to. The Commander-in-Chief
had written to the noble lord on the subject, and had re-
ceived a reply from him expressing his regret for having
made use of the expression in question.
THE NAVY.

Sir C. NAPIER moved for returns of men who entered
under the Bounty Proclamation, and of the number who
have since deserted ; distinguishing those who entered un-
der the bounty, and those we did not so enter ; of the total
number of men who deserted during the year immediately
preceding the time of the proclamation ; of the number of
men now serving who have completed 10 and 15 years;
and of the number of men not serving who have received
the short service pension ; and the number of men serving
who are entitled to the service pension, but who have not re-
ceived it.

Lord C. PAGET said that supplying the information
relative to those who bad deserted the service would be at-
tended with considerable expense, and would not be pro-
ductive of the object which the gallant member had in
Piero. Any other information in his power he would be
happy to supply.
Sir C. NAPIER said he wouid abandon the last para-
graph in his motion, but he certainly must press for the in-
formation relating to deserters. His object was to ascertain
if the Government had exercised due vigilance in regard to
detecting and punishing these deserters.
The motion was negatived without a division.
PETITIONS OF' RIGHT.
Mr. BOVILL obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend
the laws relating to petitions of right, to simplify the pro-
ceedings, and to make provisions for the cost thereof.

MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN.
Lord PROBYN, the Controller of the Royal Household,
brought up the Royal Message of her most gracious
Majesty, in reply to the address, to the effect
that with respect to the public affairs of the country,
the house might rely on her Majesty's efforts
to improve the laws, to extend the commerce, and to amend
the condition of the country.
ENDOWED SCHOOLS.
Mr. DILLWYN obtained leave to brine, in a bill to amend
the law respecting endowed schools.

FRIDAY ADJOURNMENTS OF THE HOUSE.
Mr. E. P. BOUVERIE moved, pursuant to notice, that
whenever the house meets on Friday for business it shall,
at its rising, adjourn to the following Monday, unless the
house shall otherwise order. Ho explained that under the pre-

THE REFORM BILL.

DEPUTATION TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.

(THIS DAY.)

This morning a deputation from the city attended
at the Foreign-office for the purpose of presenting
to Lord J. Russell a petition, signed by 10,000 in-
habitants, on the subject of Reform in Parliament.
There were present—Col. Sykes, M.P., Mr.
Roupell, M.P., Mr. J. Caird, M.P., Mr. Whalley,
M.P., Mr. Heywood (formerly M.P. for North Lan-
cashire), Mr. Samuel Morley, Mr. Whitehurst, Mr.
White (formerly M.P. for Plymouth), Messrs.
Baring, Mr. Allan, Mr. R. Higgins, Mr. Heywood,
Mr. R. N. Philipps, (Common Councilman), Mr.
Donald Nicoll, Mr. W. Connell (Common Council-
man), Mr. Hodson, and other gentlemen.
When they assembled his lordship's private
secretary entered the room, and stated that Lord
John Russell was confined to his room by a severe
cold, and that he would either receive them on a
future day, or et once if they would proceed to his
house in Uhesham-place.
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The members of the deputation determined upon
waiting upon his lordship at once, and repaired in
a body to Cltesham-place, where his lordship gave
them a very courteous reception, and expressed his
regret that be had occasioned them so much
trouble.

The following petition was then read to his
lordship :

TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN

AND DIELAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.

The humble Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of the
City of London,

Sheweth,—That your Petitioners accept with satisfac-
tion the assurance of her Majesty's Ministers that they
will be prepared, in the ensuing session of Parliament, to
introduce a real and honest measure for the amendment of
the laws which relate to the representation of the people.
That, in the judgment of your Petittoners, no measure
will be regarded as a settlement which does not include a
largo extension of the suffrage both in counties and in
boroughs ; an equitable redistribution of seats in proportion
to the population and property of the constituencies; au
assimilation of electoral laws for England, Scotland, and
Ireland; and such protection to to the voter, by moans of
ballot, as may arrest that corruption and intimidation
which have been so fearfuily prevalent in the late election,
and which threaten to undermine the political institutions
of the country.
In the opinion of your petitioners, these offences should
be visited with more severe and disgraceful punishments,
and conviction be rendered more summary and more easily
attainable than under the present Corrupt Practices Pre-
vention Act.

Your petitioners therefore pray your honourable House
speedily to pass such a measure into law.
And your petitioners will ever pray.

Mr. S. MORLEY explained at some length the
circumstances under which the petition had been
signed so extensively in the City of London, where
there vas an eager desire for a wide and substantial
measure of reform. Ho then went over the various
points of the petition.

Lord JOAN RUSSELL said that as a representa-
tive of the City of London in the House of Com-
mons, ho would gladly take charge of tho petition,
and he quite agreed with the petitioners, that
the time had arrived when a substantial
measure of Reform should be submitted for the
consideration of Parliament. He had, in
conjunction with other members of the Cabi-
net prepared a measure which he trusted
would be satisfactory to the country at large. It
was his intention to state the details of this measure
to the House of Commons on the 20th of February,
and the public would have ample means of consi•
dering and discussing it prior 0 its second reading.
At present it would obviously be premature to
state more with regard to it.

After some further conversation the deputation
thanked the noble lord for the courteous reception
he had given them, and retired.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-( THIS DAY.)

LITER TUBE.

The Day of Small 7 hinge. By the Author of
" Mary Powell," &c., &c. Arthur, Hall, and
Virtue.

There is an attraction in the works of this authoress
that rivals many more brilliant compositions. In
the present instance the story is very simple, being
the diary of an invalid lady who lived a solitary life,
but who interested herself so much in the concerns
of her friends that her sad and suffering existence
was robbed of its sting, inasmuch as she forget her-
self in others ; anxiety for them diverted her
thoughts from dwelling on her own pain, and in
forming plans for their welfare she enlivened the
weariness of her lonely hours. As is written in
the motto on the title-page—

" Young and old all brought their troubles,
Small and great, for me to hear.
I have often blessed my sorrows,
That made other's griefe so near."
Tho various characters who arc recorded in Mrs.
Cheerlove's diary aptly represent the chances and
changes of life. The prosperous Mrs. Pevensey,
who seemed so impervious to trouble and so active
in the discharge of her manifold duties, in pursuing
a plan of pleasure, meets with a fearful accident,
and is for life a helpless cripple. Arbell, her
daughter, who at first seems in the background and
neglected by her juvenile mother and arrogant
governess, suddenly becomes the chief person in the
household. Harry Prout, the enthusiastic young
man, was a would-be poet, but the sudden
death of his father, and consequent destitution
of the family, forced him to turn his attention to
sober prose, and the change was beneficial to
him. Miss Burt is a good specimen of that
odious class who go about from house to house,
discontenting all near them ; her presence was a real
infliction to one whose nerves were sensitive, like
Mrs. Cheerlove, and her presence was a great; trial
in the establishment. The domestic storms caused
by the conduct of Phillis are amusingly told, and
the trick practised upon her by Harry Prout, in
dressing up as a servant to take her place, was
very efficient in giving her a wholesome warning.
The simple occurrences here recorded gradually
work out important changes in the life of those
who appear before us, and the quiet manner in
which they, are told makes them the more impres-
sive. This is a most pleasing little book in its way,
and will not be found unworthy of its more strik-
ing predecessors.

The Life of Sehleiermacher. Translated from the
German. by Frederica Rowan. 2 vols. Smith

and Elder.
The name of Schleiremacher is less known in
this country than in his own ; nevertheless it is
one that deserves to be remembered among us as
well as in the Fatherland. The opening passage of
tho translator's introduction to the volumes before
us will best show the estimation in which he was
held among his own people—
"On the 15th February, 1834, a funeral procession was
seen moving through the streets of Berlin, the like of which
that capital had rarely before witnessed. The coffin, covered
with a black pall and simply decorated with a large copy
of the Bible, was borne on the shoulders of twelve students
of the University, thirty-six of the most robust of whom had
volunteered to perform, alternately, this pious service.
After these came a train of mourners on foot, extending
upwards of a mile in length, and these were followed by one
hundred mourning coaches, headed by the equipages of the
King and the Crown Prince. Along the whole line tra-
versed by the procession, dense crowds of sympathising
spectators had gathered, while in the cemetery, beyond the
gates of the city, similar crowds were assembled; and on
every countenance might be read the fact, that the indivi-
dual borne to the grave, was one of those representative men
in whom are concentrated,, as it were, in a focus, the moral
and intellecLual life of the nation and the period to which
they belong, and who become, in consequence, centres of
new light and diffusers of new and vivifying warmth. Such
was, indeed, the case; for it was Friedrich Schleior •
macher, whom, by a spontaneous movement, the capital
of Prot.:t-tant Germany was thus honouring in death.
" During a quarter of a century Schleiermacher had exer-
cised in that city the double function of a teacher in the
university and in the church ; and approving himself a fear-
less citizen in times of imminent peril, and an inspired
preacher during a period of great religious indifference, he
had, at a most critical juncture in the history of Prussia,
contributed more than any other individual to keep alive,
in all classes, the pride of nationality and the love of inde-
pendence, and to awaken religious earnestness and quicken-
ing moral sentiments. Ever ready to sacrifice himself in the
interest not only of his country but of the whole German
nation, then bending under the yoke of France, his example
had acted contagiously, in Berlin more especially, where
his influence was supreme, and had sustained in the people
that determination to liberate themselves when an opportu-
nity offered, which was ultimately so nobly carried out."

Five and twenty years have passed since then, and
though the preacher's name and works are still in
high repute, his admirers have asked in vain for the
biography, which from their knowledge of his per-
sonal influence they had so ardently desired. At
length the work before us, founded on his own
autobiography and letters was brought before the
public. We do not wonder at the cordial reception
it has met with in Germany. Among those inti-
mately acquainted with his works, his character
and his fame, we can readily imagine that it has,
as the translator observes, made Schleiermacher
once more a living presence. For an English public
less warmly interested in the subject, the work is
almost too diffuse and lengthy, butit would perhaps
have been difficult to have compressed it
greatly without interfering with its struc-
ture and with the full length portrait of
its subject's life and character which it presents
to us. Like many another bold and liberal advocate
of great principles, Schleiermacher had much to
contend against. In matters of church government
and other polemical questions he met with
vehement opposition. He took an active part in
the proposed reform of the Prussian Church, and
the Union of the Lutheran and Reformed Churches
was one of his favourite projects. He strongly
objected to the proposal which was spoken of in
influential quarters, to make subscription in the
Evangelical Church compulsory, and in the minor
questions of reforming the liturgy and hymn-book
he also took a prominent part. These points, as is
often the case, though of little vital importance,
caused as much excitement and dissension as the
greater questions, and the enmities resulting from
their discussion caused Schleiermacher much annoy-
ance. We are told, however, that neither these
vexations or far greater troubles could disturb the
equanimity lie drew from a deeper source. After
the war of liberation, when the reaction set in,
Schleiermacher was denounced to the King, being '
looked on with suspicion in high circles, " like most
of the men who had infused into the nation the
spirit which had driven the foreigner out of the
land, but which was now to bo quelled, lest it
might insist with too much vigour on the fulfilment
of the promises made by the Sovereign in the hour
of need." He remained for some time under apprehen-
sions that he might lose his professorship at the uni-
versity. These anticipations were, however, ground-
less, as in 1831 his services to the constitution were
officially recognised by the bestowal of the order of
the Red Eagle. It was during the struggle for
national existence that Schleiermacher most dis-
tinguished himself. He took an active part in all
political associations formed for the purpose of
freeing the country from French despotism, and
his sermons, full of eloquence and fervour, stirred
the hearts of the people and encouraged them for
the struggle. The description of one of his ser-
mons, addressed to the volunteers of Berlin in 1813
when they were about to start on their expedi-
tion, shows the wonderful power with which
he preached, and the high and noble spirit
with which he sent them on their mission. " We,
also, the preachers of peace," he says is one of his
letters, " if we have not all seized the sword, have
at least had recourse to the telling battery of words,
and have from the holy altar called the people to
battle, to share in the life and death struggle."
The letters, which occupy the greater portion of
these volumes, do credit to their author's head and
heart, and show him to have been as fervent in
affection and as admirable in private life as he was
eminent for his scientific attainments and distin-
guished for the vigour and eloquence of his preach-
ing. In early life he seems to have been slightly
imbued with the tinge of the prevailing mysticism
and dangerous sentimentality of his time; but in
maturer years his strong moral perception and com-
mon sense regained the ascendency, and emanci-
pated him from its influence. The reader will find
much to interest and gratify him in the perusal of
this life of a good and great man.

The Volunteer Rffleinan and th. Rffle. By John

Boucher. W. 0. Mitchell.

To the scientific, or, rather, would-be scientific
reader, this volume will prove acceptable ; and cer-
tainly the veriest tyro cannot complain of a lack
of minuteness of detail, whether in dynamics,
pneumatics, or chemistry. The author gravclY
forms us in his opening chapter, that "A bullet, on
leaving the muzzle of any firearm, makes a passage
through the air more or less short before it reaches
the mark." With such very particular and obvi▪
ous
information to commence with, the reader has li▪ ttle
cause to fear being left in the dark on more abstruse
subjects. But, apart from this, there is useful in-
formotion to be gathered from the book; and it is
a relief, after the number of productions which have
emanated from the pens of " Smith,
- ones, and
Robinson" on the volunteer question, to meet with
a work which goes deeper into the subject than
drill and uniform; upon the latter of which the
author makes the following remarks :

The question of uniform and general equipment is, in
fact, of far moreimportnce than may appear at first sight
in an ago which has abolished epaulettes and gorgets, which
laughs at the Lord Mayor's carriage, and has substituted
plain tunics for the gorgeously embroidered doublets which
were formerly worn by the Warders in the Tower. There
is in many quarters, I admit, a well .founded objection to
unnecessary sumptuary display, to gingerbread finery and
party coloured masquerading when practical duties have
to be performed; but this love for plainness and sobriety of

attire may be carried too far, and is dangerously apt to de-
generate into Quakerism. To toll the truth, this rifle shoot-
ing is but an apprenticeship to the great trade of man kill-
ing, and that is a craft requiring some little dressing to dis-
guise its abstract horror. Slaughter, or its simulation,
without some moderate amount of drumming and trumpet-
ing, must be repugnant and abhorrent to every heart in
which glows a spark of humanity ; and if the very simplest
and most convenient costume that exists were adopted by
soldiers, our Guards would go forth to battle in the bliss
frocks f butchers, and with their sleeves tucked up to their
elbows.

Let there, then, in the name of common sense, be no pea-
cock finery, but let us have a sufficient amount of military
smartness and military gaiety in the costume. We don't
want legions dressed in the fantastic array of the American
Volunteers, the " Boston Tigers," the " Syracuse Scor-
pions," or the " Mississippi Fire-eaters ;" but we may well
shudder at the notion of having swarms of English Rifle-
men, dressed in holden grey and wide-awake hats, half
convict, half plough-boy looking. It is easy to combine
taste and elegance with practical utility. A general key-
note of colour, a margin of appearance, mustbe established,
and minor detail and ornamentation may be safely left to
the good taste of those to whom the Lords-Lieutenant of
Counties may be pleased to confide the training and drill-
ing of our volunteers.

The Rifle Volunteer will find information on the
range of projectiles, and other observations, which,
if properly attended to, may be of service to him.

The Old Coal-pit; or, The .Adventures of .Richard
Boothby in Search cf his Own Way. A Story
for Boys. By E. J. May, author of " Louis'
School Days," &c. John W. Parker.
'This is a very superior work, and can hardly fail
to achieve its object, that of setting before young
boys, in strong characters, the danger of such head-
strong actions as are here spoken of. Many a boy
may take warning from the sad life of Richard
Boothby, who ended, as is generally the case,
in imposing upon himself far more severe re-
strictions, and exposing himself to more pain-
ful ordeals than could have awaited him un-
der any circumstances had he followed tha
orders of his parents, and those set in authority
over him. Ile was naturally of a good disposition,
which rendered his many derelictions from duty
and subsequent calamities all the more distressing.
He was, however, of that irritating carelessness of
character that nothing seems ever to affect in a
serious and lasting manner. The extraordinary
adventures he met with in Italy may appear to
some exaggerated ; but such occurrences are by no
means improbable in the imperfect state of the law
abroad, and i f such is not the danger to be apprehended
at home, those who make enemies by inconsiderate
trifling with the feelings of others, as Richard did to
Silvio, will most assuredly reap a bitter harvest.
Wlien ho had thrown away all his opportunities,
and consigned himself to a very different position
to the one originally intended for him, and which
would have been more consonant with his tastes, in
reality; too late did he recal:the:many, many means
of grace he had cast aside. The gentle exhortations
of his sister which he had so disregarded when
uttered, but which when she had been laid in
the dust rose up in his memory as the beacon-
lights which had waned him of destruction, and
which he had, in the blindness of his infatuation and
the wilfulness of his pride, neglected at the time
when they would have been of such signal service
to him. We commend this little volume to the
earnest attention of the young as an excellent lesson
to their inexperienced minds, and an able illustra-
tion of the world's ways, in which they will find
a fair picture of the trials that await the self-suffi-
cient and overbearing when they leave their school-
days to enter on the battle-fields of life. It was
truly said of Richard, " Unstable as water
thou shalt not excel ;" and his boyhood of folly,
which refused the teaching of wisdom, was fol-
lowed by a youth of strife and sufferings, to result
in a lifetime of bitter regrets.

THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH' AND
THE POPE.

.----.,0.---.

(From IV Polly Post.)
We are in a condition to affirm that the follow-
ing statement is true :

The Emperor of the French has written a second
letter to the Pop:. It was brief, but emphatic.
llis Majesty is willing and anxious to remain, as
hitherto, " the eldest son of the Church," and con-
tinue deferential to the Holy Father in all things ;
but if his Holiness oppose the late propositions, let
him remember Henry the Eighth!
The Pope having called for the withdrawal of
the French troops from Rome, the Emperor in the
same letter says that they shall be withdrawn if his
Holiness persists ; but that he (the Emperor) will
cause a mnth's notice to be given to all strangers
resident in the Eternal City.

21118 DA I'S MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. - Wheat, 438 lid ;
barloy, 34s 4d; oats, 21s ld; rye, 32s ld ; beans, 39.
5d ; and peas, 36's 2d.

Till{ SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. - Wheat, 43s lld ;
barley, 34s 8d ; oats, 21s 4d ; rye, 32s Od ; beans, 39s od ;
peas, 37s 6d.

ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 110,221;
barley, 81,349; oats, 13,250; rye, 138; beans, 4,928; peas,
2,073 quarters.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

A fair average time-of-year supply of beasts was on offer
in to-day's market. Nearly all kinds met a dull inquiry, at,
in some instances, a decline in the quotations of 2d. per
8 lbs. The extreme value of the best Scots was 4s. 10d.
per Sibs. We were but moderately supplied with sheep
which moved off steadily, at full prices ; the best old Downs
having produced quite ss. 6d. per 81bs. The few calves on
offer were taken off freely, at extreme rates. Pigswere firm
in price ; but mulch cows ruled somewhat heavily.

Per Blbs to sink the offal.
s. d. s. d.' e, d. 8. d.
Crse. & inf. beasts 3 4 3 6 Primecrs-wool do. 4 10 5 2
Second qualitydo. 3 8 4 0 Pme.S'thdowndo.s 4 6
.6
Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 Large crse. calves 4 10 5 4
Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10 f Prime small do 5 6 5 10
Crse. & inf. sheep 3 8 4 2 Large hogs 3 6 3 10
Second quality do. 4 4 4 8! Smell porkers 4 2 4 10

Suckling calves, 18s to 223; and quarter .old store pigs
23s to 28s.

TOTAL SUPPLY.

Beasts l,lOO
Sheep . 3,462
Calves
Pigs

FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts 204
Sheep
Calves

Pigs

MEAT MARKETS.

NEWCATR AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of meat
are good, and the trade, generally, is inactive, as fol-
lows :—Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d
lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; pork, 3s 10d
to fis Od per 81bs. by the carcase.
SOUTHALL, Jan. 25. The supplies of stock were
only moderate, and the demand generally rather steady.,
as follows :—Beef, frbm 3s 6d to 4s 8d; mutton, 3s 10d
to 5s 4d ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 10d ; pork, 3s 10d to 4s 10d per
81bs to sink the offal.

ROMFORD, Jan. 25.--Prieto beasts, sheep, and calves in
good request, at very full prices, viz.:—Beef, from 3s Cd
to 4s 10d ; mutton, 4s Od to 5s 6d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ;
veal, 4s 6d to 5s 2d ; and pork, 3s 10d to 4s 10d per 81bs;
suckling calves, 15s to 19s ; quarter old store pigs, 23s to
29s each; mulch cows, £l4 Os to £lB Os each.