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4,,LTH OF LONDON D UIdIVG THE WEEK.
Tilk." foal the Report of the Registrar-General.)
Tae Mortality of London during recent weeks has
ander
tered sane unusual fluctuations. The deaths regis-
-0 in the. four weeks of November were succes•
Y 921, 908, 1,016, 861 ; in the week ending last
ItUrdap
1, theya rose again to 1,004. In the ten
/tavet,s corresponding to last, of the years 1840-9, the
ererage was 1,128 ; but this number is much in-
t:dated by the influenza which prevailed towards the
th 7 of 1847, when in a single week the deaths
I,;°,llnted to 2,454. As compared with the previous
404 (ending November 30), the present return
di(*s an increase both in te epidemic class of
le" and in affections of the respiratory organs,
the deaths from the former rising from 196 to 229,
s,nhcli,st,liose from. the latter. class (exclusive of phthisis),
eta '-'„° were 160, being now 208. Among epidemics,
hta"-Pox is remarkable for a suddenly augmented
ifile.°f mortality; after increasing by small degrees
it numbered 14 deaths, the present return shows
it was fatal last week in 27 cases, two of which
ii.oebtidrr.ed to persons above fifteen years of age. The
Ca; l'tniet of Christchurch, Marylebone, has been
4"Y noticed as a locality in which the complaint
in Ilk and where six deaths from it had occurred
d aleck, The same registrar now reports four
104. s from small-pox, all, like the six others, in Lis-
„grove, one of which happened to a girl, only 16
14,r) and another to a female servant, aged 29 ; the
egi. ease being described in the medical certificate
(40 vari°la, after vaccination at six years of age
has mark left on the arm)." looping cough also
the btefte more f,tal • it carried off 33 children in
of ions week, and in the last, three fourths
fhle-t'al had not completed their second year. In-
- _
~,,larrb:as fatal to three persons of advanced age.
410,11 and dysentery number 25 ; typhus, which
of g epidemics presses with more equal severity on
VII" Young, numbers 43 cases. A medical man
IV attended a fatal case oftyphus in Wink's-build-
describes the place as " pestilential in
havzrhe Chelsea,
and adds that " six other cases of fever
A:lnceurred in the same house."
tlli,,,re?ng the diseases of the lungs, the weekly mor-
fropf °Y bronchitis has risen within the last fortnight
867 64 deaths to 88 ; by pneumonia from 67 to
4,„ancl by consumption from 96 to 113.
froe,-"Png the deaths of the week were registered one
bow Intemperance and two from privation. A la-
eessieri aged 48 years, died of " exhaustion from ex-
tolidvie drinking,. and abstaining from all kinds of
eni r and a cap maker, aged 47, was, accord-
-44 " "3 the verdict of the coroner's jury, starved, " by
eeqe:ll
°win himself sufficient neessaies, i
- -nee of e g ccentricity of characterc andr habitsn con-
."

FA p -
-' AL FIGHT IN NEWCASTLE

jt• (From the Newcastle Guardian.)
(100,.18 Our painful duty to record the particulars of ar
laat'`h!l which took place in this town at a late locu
reaortigjit (Friday), between two men, and which
1'14,787 in the untimely death of one of the indi-
Pr
to the particulars which we have been enabled_
the.h..uer of this fatal affray, we learn that a man of
Itrti;nanle of Robert Johnson, a nailinaker, residing at
11421'4'4-hill, together with his wife, and Thomas
114,1' 71 a nailanaker of Gateshead, and another man
gsthe; ')ger Oliver, were spending the evening to-
`ll a public-house. At a quarter past eleven
ken"' they left to go home, and the woman -corn-
Ivarde,d,t° quirrel with her husband. Shortly after-
Vhich- Baglee took some liberties with her, upon
hetw-e- her hu.band interfered, and a quarrel ensued
wordelthe two men, which was confined at first to
near tl,L'ut by the time they arrived in Bigg Market,
ei(4—t Black Bull Inn, blows were struck on both
the mci after having two rounds, Johnson fell to
oZ
B,r°,-,11r;.d. A crowd had by this time collected, and
- 'aver, the man who came out of the public
saw73with them, and several other parties, distinctly
Whilstalgice kick Johnson several tunes upon the head
for tilling on the ground. Shouts were then raised
Marine Police, and constable 122 (Edward Scott)
ittina, them and also the cries of a woman, proceeded
crowd-441Y to the spot, and on getting through the
lifeless observed Johnson on the ground apparently
also il• Two other officers, Harkus and Tait, having
to char rd of the quarrel, then came up, and were left
attrk -orge of him whilst Scott went in search of a
1va4,,-11' Life appearing to be not quite extinct, it
4rito:em
aded advisable to convey Johnson to the In-
T hhat before they reached that place he was
into thPehce-officers of course immediately inquired
lever le particulars of the affray, and hearing from
d
kadea,..Parties that Baglee (who by this time had
iajor.ms escape) was the party who had inflicted the
in search which caused the death of the deceased, went
114niaare.11 of him. Inquiries were made at his father's
night, 1114 Gateshead at several periods during the
mete 1,4,t he could not be found ; at length. police-
hook, reward Scott, on searching a brothel in. B yt
tioro f'ePt by a woman of the name of Elizabeth
boo/1110°11nd him there about half-past five o'clock this
Poliee.ft• He was at once taken to the Manor's
Joha,o attcw, on the charge of having killed Robert
htmselfwhen he denied it, and said that he had been
1
tie ba.dly used by Johnson.
the 5 now confined in the police-station, awaiting
'exultb of the coraner's inquest, which is expected
e
bod held this afternoon,
at the Infirmary, where th
of the unfortunate 'deceased lies.

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i ti )3 PoP 4--- n cA. —We under-
esi
jannedattiat T.p,.-,'
4, to coat nue I
Cll3ll.l4"rtt, tsr, ItlieloNnTdAon- .I•chitect, hasd-
Lae internal fitti Is professional services in superintending
Pantasa, His onrg".and decorations of the Popish church at
elude the internTlinfil ;Plans and specifications do not in-
Feilding intends it fottings, and now, finding that Lord
hothing further to do irviathl:toPish mass-house, he will have
subscriptions to theproposed Pro are
alit, .
very
.Protestant church in tin.) 6
proceeds satisfactorily, but they
glad to findthastatilim
are still very
-"r short of the amount required.---North Wales Chronicle.
bane been
SECESSION.—The following appears to
tte;ectoleen sent round to many clergymen of the established
e fell ''' Rev.
Sir'—Will you favour me with answers to
f
3,111. owing inquiries? 1. The population (present) °
ef a Plarish? 2. Their particular tenets? 3. In the event
how „.arge body of Anglican priests becoming non-jurors,
torm,`,`elly of your people would follow their views, and be-
Your ti!,,edeutnrrbeih:nr_sesoi. of a free catholic church ? 4. The state of
ts fabric, conveniences, and ornaments ?”-
3.• aucrtlitt EXAMPLE.—On Friday evening last Sir
4130 of
ur.,,ady Charlotte Guest entertained a part of about_his
pasl4B the e„e.gents and workmen engaged at. the works. r
the
,Vird Party of the kind given within the ast six
Itide bar • he object of these reunions is to smooth down the
the
ern
iriers
o,n of distinction that has so long existed. between
and heii)ed,.,it,end the employed, and to bring theminteonear
BF -;''4l coot:let with each other.—Swansea Herald.
11: ourllaling With the world, we often imperceptiblyf
°t-ers...ozlvl:l Prejudices, while engaged in analyzing those o
/NT -El Cook's Journal.
Itnow ),11141)ED LITERARY " RETREAT."—Our readers
It
liieCcisY often we have pointed out the pressing urgenoy
'or r6e,tsts for the establishment of some form o.f provisio
plea :_,!terary man,
established on more intelligible princeand
ilea clearer responsibilities than the Literary Fund,
_cti
Z.tind 4t°, the unfortunate of that class who are strangely
tient - 4°ln the benefits of the fund in question by the
4414 brtoillterPretation of its statutes. Some such institution!
Dartly ad scale, which might bd partly self-supporting and
t°4 ITledrved, would probably develop° itself out of any
1.4-,1 'tgl:Luaing earnestly made • and we have, therefore,
,841t-Las,w,:a—rd treat satisfaction- of a:munificent offer made by
tla ttaiume_
_Ytton Bulwer at the close of some dramatic
h 6 Pert 'lts which he has been giving at Knebworth—
k"4ally tfters consisti of the company of amateurs. who
kit, 1,4 I,4,l4lLLY,,tinder the managerial direction of Mr. Dickens.
b,„! col-4,7m proposes to write a play, to be acted by
11-"eecie to at various places in the United Kingdom, the
oultee to form the germ of a fund for a certain number o
141( tb °be further endowed for literary men and artists,
*and, 6 pla
A 4, dis,,„ itself, if we understand rightly, to be after-
forl.riii. of for the added benefit of the. fund. Sir Ed-
e' the tile
ereleitkioetvoise give in fee, ground on his estate in lierts
Ilia roay be of such asylum, rest, retreat, or whatever
tvuti_ actor
duedetermined to call the residence in question.
tile' Win , om a conspicuous share in this goo.d
lia,,°Prit, '_',e hope, we understand,
firstto takestep the field in
which we
lii,`,:eao I'o' ut next year. Here -is the
as
one
47.4143,1gs:desired to see taken ;
oneand quality of
sheiilveyviillt,s infectiousness, anddis move suggests lino-
Of thettOr th LoPe that out of. beginning will grow a
4\4,7 cla,, e failing literary mind proportioned to the wants
....---wiert.e) and to its more than common claims on society.
D 474.
g1...1 1014%
„_te4Becl th 0E LONDON.—The Bishop of London has
s
(„---tkee. --..,e following gentlemen to appointments within _
t-4,1.1 ..."(he Re H W Maddock, M.A., vicar of Ina
of
Jeehrhef°rnshirev.
t fl incumbency of All Saints ChFch,
OriiiSirailwoomod, 'ree.ndteh'reed vacant by the promotion of the
Rev H. T. Rees, M.A., late curate
r.i.tler libetli, Cill'eselrli'' to the. incumbency of St. Mary's
1.7. iti-r'e'3,,Pi.sta}....sqsuairree; the Rev. R. J. H. Thomas, M.A., to
qi6..,arrei:', °.L. Peter's Church ammersmith; the Rev.
Tyr„ e•in..--, to the incumbent;, of Trinity Church, St.
111:,17, s-.
/A , the-Fields, on the nomination of the Rev. Canon
tlaea .ger, sT: theA rector of the pafroislha; the Rev. R. P. Cle-
N',,,,t.tev, Ai".. 19 the curacy o St. Pancras Church ;
til legto S. Edgell, 8.A., late curate ofp:;Trinity Church,
ne hp. n. to the curacy of St. Botolphi, 13ishopsgate i
‘41.43e-41 1% IL Green, M.A., to the assistant chaplaincy of
Pr, nit.
... 4. Ixt
11 I,‘ ter, 4PERIAL BANK or ENGLAND.—Yesterday
Mir,
sva4er °Pened °'cl°ek hy special appointment, his Honourur Master
the inquiry into the state compan.y's
oroavai kr. Anthony Soulbv the efficial manager, having
„4414,1 t in the list of contributories liable to pay off the out-
-4%,0e41.4 debts, which. are alleged to amount to nearly
illekrson'aul's The first list taken contained the names of 68
4 den' '•° Whom shares of 201. each „ere allotted,
.who paid
1%44.. tit ef one shilling er share, received scrip certifi-
ry 4--,, subsequently signped the deed of settlement. Mr.
Illana,„.o4,.l3.Pea.red as counsel for Mr. Soulbv, the official
4oliej t , with Messrs. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, as
()ther °Aro'. A rarge number of solicitors appeared for.
.he
elfin -,) penons summoned, together with the following
Littleael ' -
Mr. Daniell, Mr. Bazalgette Mr. Hare, and Mr.
Liorie ;,., A• mass of evidence was given relative to the transac-
': 0 delinneoted with the signatures of the different parties to
!ona. 17','3 of settlement, upon which, with some few excep-
-4 ,i. Honour decided on including the names upon the
reeepreontributories as liable, subject, in specific cases, to the
appeal of further evidence and the right of the parties to
ealf:" The proceedings occupied from ten o'clock until
~,Past three.
A "ItAk v.r
-rtt of , IC ENTERTAINMENTS AT CO_IIRT.—The
winter the Proposed dramatic entertainments to be given this
tak,et, at Windsor Castle by her Majesty, is appointed to
al) • Piace 0 ,
our 0 n Thursday Lo•orrow). A select party of
A.44l,est ne
hundred distinguished personages have, bylier
-.. oehra command, been invited by the Lord Chamberlain.
thrett. ochre
the entertainments will be produced under the
1%1 f
Q• Ur. Clarice Kean,

QUEEN

AND THE

PAP_ AL AG G S SION.

PRESENTS TION OF THE ADDRESSES
[A. portion o f the following appeared in our Third
Edition of yest erday :—]
The journey f rem Slough to Windsor Castle was per-
formed in rattle r less than an hour, and the procession
entered the Cast le Yard at a quarter-past 12 o'clock.
The carriage set down at the grand entrance, from
whence the ce ►at .pany were conducted by the Master of
the Ceremon at up to the grand staircase, which was
lined with E,3( 'men of the Guard. The Lord Mayor
and Corpora do a then passed through the suite of apart-
ments leadin g to the Throne Room, in which his Royal
flightless Pa inice Albert, and all the Great Officers of
State were a 'plaiting the arrival of the deputation.
The variot a, rooms and corridors were Hind by the
Hon. Corps e F Gentlemen-at-Arms, under the command
of Lord Foley'. .
Her Mejestc.i having taken her seat upon the throne,
the Court of A Iderrcen of the City of London, headed
by the Lord M ayor, and attended by the Recorder, the
Town Clerk, ral :d various other civic otliciele, were in-
troduced, amta gst whom we noticed •Ir. Alderman
Thompson, M-. 1 Sir Peter Laurie (the mover of the
address in the 4 ;ourt of Aldermen), arid Mr. Alderman
Farebrother he seconder), Mr. Alderman Copeland,
M.P., Mr. Aid erman Hooper, Alderman Sir James
Duke, M.P., Al dcrman W. Hunter, Alderme❑ Challis,
Alderman Willa in, Alderman Moon, Alderman Sidney,
M.P., Alderu tat r Salomons, Alderman Finnis, Alderman
Sir C. Marsh al I, &e. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Carden,
and Mr. She tri. Hodgkinson, with the Under-Sheriffs,
the Recorder , t he City Remembraucer, the Town Clerk;
Mr. Sergeanl ; 1 derewether, with his assistant, Mr. Firth;
the Comptro lte r, the City Pleaders, Messrs. Ryland and
Locke; the' [illy Solicitor, and Mr. D. W. Harvey, the
Commission ar of the City Police, were also in at-
tendance.
About 18C t members of the Court of Common Council
attended. I among them we observed Mr. John Wood,
mover of the a ~ddress, and Mr. Blake, the seconder; Mr.
Deputy Lott, Mr. Richard Lambert Jones, Mr. Deputy
Curling, Mr. Deputy Smith, Mr. Deputy Sadler, Mr.
Deputy Harrl .on, Mr. Deputy Halt, Mr. Deputy
Briggs, Mr. Dr puty Archer, Mr. Deputy Eagleton, Mr.
Deputy Obbare I. Mr. Deputy Bedford, Mr. Causton, Mr.
Hopgood, Mr, Hayward, Mr. Bower, Mr. Brook, Mr.
Towse, Mr. Pet kius, Mr. Bennoch, Mr. W. Williams,
Mr. Dakin, &ca
The Lord Mt Lyor, advancing to the foot of the throne,
then had the le onour of presenting to her Majesty the
Address agreed, to by the Court of Aldermen, which
The Right H .on. the Recorder read as follows:
" To THE Q UEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
" Mos t ( lracious Sovereign,
"We your • lajesty's loyal and dutiful subjects, the
Lord Mayor nod Aldermen of the city of London, hum-
bly approach y our Majesty on no ordinary occasion.
" Deeply gr atrful to Almighty God fur his many
blessings has towed upon this highly-favoured nation, we
acknowledge s mongst the chief, the restoration of the
Protestant ft Lit h ley the Reformation and the national
vindication c tf those great principles of Civil and Reli-
gious Liberty, for the cefence and maintenance of which
your illustri. gas House was called to the Throne of these
realms.
" We leer n with feelings of surprise and indignation,
that the Bie bop of Rome has recently issued a bull,
whereby he sot only presumes to partition this country
into pretend, al dioceses of the Church of Rome, but at
the same tit we assumes the right of appointing Arch-
bishops and Bishops of such sees, and conferring upon
them terrine' titles and ecclesiastical jurisdiction, all
which we de• era to be inconsistent with the principles of
our Constitu Lion in Church and State, and an invasion of
your Majest.y is royal supremacy, an audacious usurpa-
tion of your Majesty's prerogative of alone bestowing
titles of hon. kur, and a grievous insult to this Protestant

nation.
" For reme. j y whereof wo earnestly entreat that your
Majasty will di rest such measures to be taken as in your
royal wisdoms hall seem expedient, assuring your Ma-
jesty that you may ever confidently rely on the affec-
tionate and cot dial support of a loyal, united, and reli-
gious people.
"We fattlie r humbly acquaint your Majrsty that
we view with feelings of anxiety and alarm the
introduction )f late years of Homish principles
and practif.,et , and the unauthorized revival of
many obsol et:: forms of the worship and minis-
tration of aux own Reformed National Church by
some clerg) men in this and other dioceses, and
humbly exp rt'ss our firm conviction that great encou-
r,gement has • ht en thereby given to that act of usurpa-
tion and agg cession egainst which we now protest, while
it is our bel Let that greater danger to the Protestant
Church is to be apprehended from unfiithful teaching
than from or e: hostility.
" We pray ;that it may please Him by whom Kings
reign and Pri aces decree judgment I..mg to preserve
your Majesty to be the Defender of the Faith against
every assault from without, and every desertion from
within, and tt t tt under your Majesty's gentle and benig-
nant sOvay, Pt ,ace and Happiness, Truth and Justice,
Religion and 17 iety, may he established in these realms."
Her Majesty listened with marked attention while the
document was b sing read, and appeared to express her
approval of the sentiments it enunciated by a gentle
inclination of th head as the Recorder proceeded.
The reading of the document having been cpmpktei,
the Lord Ma 3 To r again advanced and presented the Ad-
dress to her I Ili jesty, who banded it to the Home Se-
cretary. Her lajesty then, in a firm yet musical voice,
delivered the following emphatic reply :
‘,.My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen,
46 I receive • ivi'th much satisfaction your loyal and af..

fectionate addr et is.
"I L.O ncur with you in your grateful acknow-
ledgment lYeenatrt(iSthe many blessings conferred upon this
favoured nation, and in your attachment to the Protes-
tant faith, and 'to. the great principles of civil aid reli-
gious liberty, in defence of which the city of London has
ever been conspic nous.
" That faith and those principles are so justly dear
to the people of this country, that I confidently rely on
their cordial sui,port in upholding and maintaining them,
against any dan, ger with which they may be threatened,
m whatever quarter it may proceed."
Sir Peter La! trie, the mover, and Mr. Alderman Fare-
brother, the seconder of the address, were then intro-
duced to her Nl.ajesty by the Lord Mayor, after which
the deputation r..stired from the Royal presence.
The deputatio o from the Court and Common Council,
headed by Mr. ,Tohn Wood and Mr. W. Blake, were
next introduced, and the former gentleman having pre-
sented the Address from this body to the Queen upon
the Throne,
Her Majesty replied as follows :
" Gentlemen,
"I sincerely thank you for your renewed assurances
of unaltered attachment to my person and throne, and
to the Constitution of this country.
" Your tried and consistent advocacy of the equal en-
joyment of civil rights by all classes of your fellow-
subjects entitle the expression of your sentiments on the
present occasion to peculiar consideration.
" You may be assured of my earnest desire and firm
determination, under God's blessing, to maintain unim-
paired the religious liberty which is justly prized by
the people of this country, and to uphold, as its surest
safeguard, the pure and spiritual worship of the Pro-
testant Faith, which has long been happily established

in this land."
The Court of Lieutenancy of the City of London were
then introduced, and presented the following acldress :
" TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
"The humble Address of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
and the rest of your Majesty's Commissioners for
the city of London,
"Most Gracious Sovereign,—W', your Majesty's
dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
and the rest of your Majesty's Commissioners of Lieu-
tenancy for the city of Loudon, humbly desire to renew
the assurance of our devoted loyalty and affection to
your Majesty's person and government.
" We have witnessed with the greatest surprise and
indignation the late unwarrantable aggression of the
Bishop of Rome, against the undoubted prerogodve of
your Majesty's Crown and the liberties of the re( p*le,
any the promulgation of a hell, or instrument, in which
a foreign potentate arrogantly assumes to himself the
power to introduce into the kingdom a Romish hierarchy
and to confer upon them territorial rank and juris-
diction.
" We therefore humbly but earnestly pray that your
Majesty will ho pleased to adopt such measures as in
your Majesty's wisdom may appear to be best calcu-
lated to vindicate your Majesty's supremacy as by law
established, and to prevent all further encroachments
and attempts at usurpation by the see of Rome upon the
liberties and consciences of the people of this Protesant
kingdom; and if the law be insufficient, that. your Ma-
to make such further enactments as may
jesty will be pleased, with the aid of your Parliament,
be found ade-
quate to the present emergency."
To the above address her • Majesty was graciously
pleased to resurn the following answer:—
" Your renewed assurance on
the present ocoasion of

devoted loyalty and affection to my person and govern
ment is highly gratifying to me.
" I; will continue to be, as it has ever been, my ear-
nest endeavour, in the exercise of the power and autho-
rity entrusted to me, as the supreme Governor of this
realm, to maintain the independence and uphold the con-
stitutional liberties of my pceple against all aggression
and encroachment."

The following were the Commissioners of Lieutenancy
present with the address:—
The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Messrs. Wil-
liam Cotton, James Anderton, Alderman Wilson, Al-
derman Salomons, Josiah Wilson, F. B. Ilookey, John
Masterman, M.P., F. C.Toker, Butterworth, S. Gregson,
Geo. Alliston, R. W. Kennard, W. D. Starling, W.
Cubitt, Joseph Anderton, jun., Wm. Lawrence, jun.,
Benjamin B. (Inane, C. J. Tindall, Charles Alliston,
George Dodd, M.P., Thomas Tooke, R. W. Crawford,
W. C. Plowden, M.P., D. 11. Stone. Ed ward Wilson, John
Hill, Donald Nicoll, Charles llill, Arthur Walfird,
Lieutenant.Colond Sykes, Messrs. A. Moore, Joseph
Somes, Bonamy Dobree, jun., Francis Bennoch, Jere-
miah Evans, D. W. Wire, M. Henley Smith. The Clerk
and Treasurer also attended.

PRESENTATION Oll' rHE ADDRESSES FROM
THE UNIVERSITIES TO HER MAJESTY AT
WINDSOR.
The deputation from the University of Oxford was
ushered from one of the Tapestry Rooms by Sir William
Martins and Sir Noel Harris, Gentlemen Ushers, to the
door of St. George's Hell, where the Vice Chamberlain
received tho deputation, and conducted the members to
the Queen.
MS Grace the Duke of Wellington appeared at the
head of the deputation, wearing his gold robe as Chan-
cellor of the University, and supported, on his right, by
Dr. Plumptre. Master of University College, Vice-Chans
cellor of the University.
The order of presentation was as follows:
Dr. Wynter, President of St. John's College.
Dr. Symons, Warden of Wadham College.
Dr. Harrington, Principal of Brasenose College.
1)r. Norris, President of Corpus College.
Dr. Macbride. Principal of Magdalen Hall.
Dr. Williams, Warden of New College.
Dr. Ogle, Professor of Medicine.
Dr. Ackland, Christ Church.
Mr. Hansel], Magdalen College.
Mr. Gordon, Christ Church.
Mr. Conybeare, Christ Church.
Mr. Rice, Magdalen College.
There were also present at the presentation of the
address Sir Robert H. Inglis, Dr. Bliss, Principal of St.
Mary Hall, and Registrar of the University; Rev. Dr.
Crawford, Mr. Ernest Hawkins, Rev. Mr. Dodson, Rev.
Mr. Short (Trinity), Rev. Dr. Newman (Magdalen),
Rev. J. E. Cox, M.A„ F.S.A. (All Souls), Rev. F.
Litchfield (Merton College), Rev. D. Thompson, Prin-
cipal of St. Edmund Hall ; Rev. Dr. Goolden, Rev. J.
W. Hawkins, Rev. N. Dubson, Rev. E. Hussey (Exeter
Hall), Dr. Richards (Exeter), Hon. and Rev. Gerald
Wellesley and a numerous body of members of the
University.
The following address was read by his Grace the
Duke of Wellington, the Chancellor of the University—
" TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
" May it please your Majesty,—We, your Majesty's
most dutiful subjects, the Chancellor, masters, and scho-
-1 irs of the University of Oxford, beg leave to approach
your Majesty with the renewed assurance of our at-
tachment to your Majesty's Royal person, our loyalty to
tour Crown, and our steadfast adherence to the prin-
ciples which called the House of Brunswick to the Bri-
tish throne.
" Recognising your Majesty as, under God, the only
supreme Governor of this realm, and of all your Majesty's
other dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual
or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal,' we have
witnessed with indignation the recent publication,
within this realm, of a Papal instrument purporting to
constitute in your Majesty's dominions a new territorial
hierarchy, subject to the Bishop of Rome.
" We humbly desire to lay before your Majesty our
earnest remonstrance against this assumption of autho-
rity by the Bishop of Rome, in open invasion of your
Majesty's royal prerogative, and in derogation of the
honour and sovereignty of the British Crown.
" We also beg solemnly to protest against the intru-
sion, by the same foreign pretended authority, of bishops
claiming ordinary spiritual jurisdiction over, or within,
the dioceses of England, not only in manifest violation of
the rights and independence of the Church of England,
but in virtual denial of her existence as a true and living
branch of the Catholic Church of Christ.
"We further humbly crave permission to profess be-
fore your Majesty our faithful adherence to the princi-
ples, doctrine, and discipline, of our Reformed Church,
our cordial assent to her declaration, that 'no foreign
prince or prelate bath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction
or authority, Ecclesiastical or spiritual, within your Ma-
jesty's dominions,' and our firm resolution to resist the
corrupt doctrine and superstitious practices of the Church
of Rome, or any attempt to revive the Papal usurpations
over the clergy and laity of the Protestant Church of
England.
" While, therefore, we disclaim the wish to debar your
Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects, or any others, from
the free exercise of their religion, we, nevertheless, ven-
ture, with all humility, to pray that your Majesty will
be graciously pleased to take such measures as to your
Majesty may seem meet to repress all aggressions and
encroachments of any foreign ecclesiastical power upon
the rights of your Crown or the independence of your
people.

. .
"Finally, we bee. leave humbly to assure your Ma-
jesty that it will be ever our earnest endeavour, as it is
our bounden duty, to train up the youth intrusted to our
care in the principles of loyalty and affection towards
your Majesty, and in faithful attachment to the truths of
Holy Scripture, as set forth in the articles and formula.
ries of our Reformed Church; and it is our fervent
prayer that it may please Almighty God to pour down
upon your Majesty the riches of his grace, and to bless
your people with the long continuance of your Majesty's
happy reign.
" Given at our House of Convocation, under our com-
mon seal, this e7th day of November, in the year of
our Lord, 1850."
To which address her Majesty was pleased to return
the following most gracious answer:—
" I accept. with much satisfaction, the reneged proof
afforded by your address of your attachment and loyalty
to my person and government, and (if your steadfast ad-
herence to the principles of the Constitution.
" It has ever been, and will continue to be, my en-
deavour to promote the efficiency and maintain the pu-
purity of our Reformed Church, the supreme govern.
ment of which. under God, is by law confided to me,
and it is highly gratifying to me to be assured of your
faithful adherence to its principles, doctrine, and dis-
cipline.
" While I cordially concur in the wish that all classes
of my subjects should enjoy the free exercise of their re-
ligion, you may rely on my determination to uphold alike
the rights of my Crown and the independence of my
people against all aggressions and encroachments of uny
foreign power.
" Your earnest endeavour, in the discharge of your
important duties, to train up the youth intrusted to your
care in faithful attachment to the truths of Holy Scrip-
ture, cannot fail, under God's blessing, to harm a poaer-
ful effect in strengthening the defences of our Protestant
faith, and in preserving inviolate the privileges which
are jastly dear to the people of this country.
The Vice-Chancellor (Dr. Pluceptre), Dr. Wynter,
Dr. Symons, Dr. Harrington, and Dr. Norris, had the
honour of being presented to the Queen to kiss hands,
and the Noble Duke and the deputation then withdrew
from the royal presence.
The Convocation of the University of Cambridge
was then introduced.
The members of the University of Cambridge were
conducted in the following order of precedency :
The Bedells.
The Deputy Vice-Chancellor,D r. Ainslie, Master of
Pembroke.Nobleman—The Marquis of Exeter.
Privy Councillor—The Right Hon. Henry Goulburn.
Heads of Colleges and Members of the Caput
(forming the deputation):—
De, Whewell, Trinity.
Dr. Cookson, St. Peter's.
Dr. Cartmell, Christ's.
Dr. Archdall, Emmanuel.
Dr. Okes, Provost of King's.
Mr. Pulling, Corpus.
Mr. Worsley, Downing.
Mr. Drake, Jesus.
Mr. Gell, Christ's.
Public Orator—Bateson, St. John's.
Proctors—Shacker, Trinity; Fenwick, Corpus.
Rev. Dr. Jeremie, Regina Professor of Divinity.
Professor Setlgwick, Dr. Broadley, D.C.L., Deputy Pro-
fessor of Civil Law, Dr. Vaughan.
Doctors in Divinity, Doctors in Civil Law, Doctors
in Medicine, Assessor to the Vice-Chancellor, Profes-
sors, Scrutators, Taxers, Librarian, Bachelors of Di-
vinity, Masters of Arts, Non-Regents, Masters of Arts,
Regents, Bachelors of Law, Bachelors of Medicine, Ba-
chelors of Arts.
The following accompanied the address t
Trinity College—Mr. R. P. Edkins, M.A., Gresham
Professor of Geometry; Rev. Charles Phillips, Rev.
John Cooper, H. W. Sherer, M.A., Mr. Robert Joseph
Knight, Mr. Walter M`Gregor, Mr. E. P. Cooper. Mr.
T. Lister Marsden, M.A., Mr. Howard, Mr. B. Babinge
ton, M.A., Rev. T. F. Stooks, Rev. Edward G. Griffith,
M.A., Rev. F. H. Tooke, 8.A., Mr. Arthur Sperling,
LL.B., Rev. T. Cooper Browne, Dr. Robinson, Mr. Ly.
(kicker, M.A., G. Beaumont.
St. John's College—Rev. T. Harrison, Rev. E. H.
Pickering, Rev. W. H. Bateson, Rev. G. E. Tate, Mr.
Robert Kennion, Mr. Rochfort Clarke, Rev. John Rus-
sell Stock, M.A., Mr. G. J. Philip Smith.
King's College—Rev. W. G. Cookesley, Rev. Wil-
liam A. Carter, Rev. C. 0. Goodfrud, Rev. J. C.
Middleton, Rev. Harry Dupius, 8.D., Rev. Edward
Baleton.
Clare Hall—Rev. J. Spurgin, B D., Rev. Lee James,
Mr. A. B-ntball, Rev. Scptimus Wood, Mr. T. V.
Webb, Mr. Robert Barker, B.A.
Corpus Christi—Rev. John Forster, M.A., Mr.
MsDowsll, Mr. Thomas Bateman, Rev. J. Alton Hatch-
erd, Rev. John Cooke.
Jesus—Mr. H. M. Stockdale, Rev. H. J. Daubeny.
St. Catharine Hall—E. D. Marshall, Rev. George
Tatam, M.A.
Ctsius—Dr. Waller Lewis, Rev. John Ayre, Rev. C.
Jones, Rev. T. J. Judkin, Rev. J. T. Walker.
Queou's College—Mr. Shebbeare, A.M., Rev. F.
Brealey, Rev. R. M. Smith, Rev. Joseph Brown, M.A.
Magdalene College—Mr. Barton Archerburton, A.M.,
Rev. Henry Owen, M.A.
Christ's College—Rev. W. R. Bain, M.A., Rev.
J. R. Ridout, Rev. Urquhart Cookworthy.
Mr. 3 oeeph J. Hoe ard, Trinity College ; Dr. Rey-
inolds, Sidney College ; Rev. Matthew Vaughan, LL.B.,
St. Peter's ; Mr. Ireland, M.A., Emmanuel ; Mr. Adam
Burly, Downing College ;, Rey, Lord Wriothesley Rue-

sell, Rev. William Canning, Hon. and Rev. Mr. Cust,
Rev. Dr. Hawtr7, Rev. Francis H. Morgan, Mr. Birch,
Rev. John Fell, Mr. Charles Egan, Mr. Wray, Mr.
Disney, Rev. W. Tennant, Mr. A. Leslie Melville, Rev.
T. W. frickett, Mr. Loftus Epigram, Rev. John May,
Rev. Charles F. S. Money, Rev. Frederick Gell, Rev.
Charles Marshall, Rev. Francis E. Duruford, Mr. W. H.
Russell, Mr. Stanford, M.P., Rev. C. Drake, Rev. John
Benthall, Rev. John Fell, Mr. J. Moseley. Rev. H. J.
Cummins, Archdeacon Harper, Rev. A. R. Pennington,
Rev. J. Carter, &c.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, wearing his gold
robe as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, met
the deputation at the entrance of St. George's Hall, and,
placing himself at the head, advanced with the Members
of the University (preceded by the Vice-Chamberlain) to
the Qiieen, whet] the following address was read by his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Chancellor of the
University:—
" TO THE QUEEN's MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
"The humble Addrees of the Chancellor, Masters, and
Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

"May it please your Majesty,—We, your-Majesty's
dutiful and loyal subjects, the Chancellors, Masters, and
Scholars of the University of Cambridge, humbly beg
leave to..approach the Throne, to express to your Majesty
our grateful acknowledgments of that security as regards
our persons, and that preservation of our religion, with
which it has pleased God to bless our country under the
rule of your Majesty's royal house.
" It has hitherto been our great privilege to regard the
realm of England as possest,ing, under our Supreme Go-
vernor, an entire power and jurisdiction, both in Church
and State, independent of all foreign interference what
salever; and every attempt at such interference has ac-
cordingly been met by strenuous and effectual resistance
on the part of your Majesty's royal predecessors.
" At the Reformation in particular, and subsequently,
this flitbdamental principle was, by the patriotic care of
our Sovereign, asserted and ratified by various Acts of
the Legislature; an oath is, moreover, exacted of officers
of State, of ministers of the Established Church, of
masters and fellows of colleges, and of all persons taking
degrees within the Universities, declaratory of their re-
jection of all foreign jurisdiction, power, and authority,
as well ecclesiastical or spiritual as civil, within this
realm.
" We, therefore, most humbly beg leave to represent
unto your Majesty that it is with deep concern that we
have learned that the Bishop of Rome has arrogated to
himself the right to intermeddle with the goverumeat of
our country, and to ignore the ancient episcopacy of our
Church by presuming to confer on certain of your Ma-
jesty's subjects professing the Roman Catholic religion
the highest ecclesiastical titles, derived from English
towns, together with territorial jurisdiction.
" By this unwarrantable assumption of power on the
part of the Bishop of Rome, not only are your Majesty's
high prerogative and the lawful authority and jurisdic-
tion of the prelates of our Church invaded and outraged,
but the consciences of your Majesty's loyal subjects
grievously offended.

" We, therefore, humbly pray that your Majesty will
be graciously pleased to direct such measures to be
taken as this infraction, if not of the letter, yet of the
spirit, of our laws, seems to demand, and thus secure to
your Majesty's devoted and affectionate people the full
possession of their ancient rights and liberties.
"In the meanwhile our most earnest desire is that
Almighty God may long preserve your Majesty to reign
in peace over a loyal and contented people."
To which address her Majesty was pleased to return
the following most gracious answer:—
" I thank you for your loyal and dutiful address.
" I fully participate in your expression of gratitude to
Almighty God tor the ilessings which fie has been
pleased to bestow upon this country, and I rejoice in the
proofs which have been given of the z?alous and undi-
minished attachment of the English people to the prin-
ciples asserted at the Reformation.

" While it is my earnest wish that complete freedom
of conscience should be enjoyed by all cla,ip s of my sub-
jt cts, it is my constant aim to uphold the just privilege,
and extend the usefulness of the Church established by
law in this country-, and to s-cure to my people the full
possession of their ancient rights and liberties."

The Rev. Dr. Ainslie (Deputy Vice-Chancellor), Rev.
Dr. Whewell, Rev. Dr. Archdall, Rev. Dr. Cartmeh, and
Dr. Broadley, D.C.L., bad the honour of being presented
to her Majesty to kiss hands.
The deputation then withdrew.
The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Common Councilmen,
City Officers, Commissioners of Lieutenancy, and the
deputations from both Universities, after presenting
their addresses to the Sovereign, were all conducted to
the Waterloo Gallery, where luncheon was served to the
numerous deputations.
The Queen's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms,
commanded by their Lieutenant, Mr. Tyler, lined St.
George's Hall at the reception of the addresses. Major
Harmar, the Standard-bearer; Capt. Curling, the Adju-
tant; the Quee'ns Harbinger, and Sir Benjamin Smith,
C.S., were in attendance.

Her Majesty's Body Guard, under the command of
Captain Phibbs, the Exon in Waiting, was on duty in the
Castle as usual. Colonel Fitzmaurice, Adjutant of the
corps, was also on duty.
The Guard of Honour of the Coldstream Guards, un-
der the command of Lieut.• Colonel Clitberow, was on
duty in the grand quadrangle of the Castle, with the
t and of the regiment.
The Queen was generally remarked to be looking
exceedingly well. Her Majesty was attended by the
Viscountess Canning.
Nothing could have been more admirably managed
than the whole arrangement for the presentation. Not

,he slightest interruption or delay occurred, and on who-

ever the management devolved, it is impossible to give

them too much credit for the excellent manner in which

their duties were performed.
Mr. Inspector Field, with Sergeants Thornton and
Whicher of the Detective Force, were in attendance

at the Castle, in addition to the ordinary Royal

police-officers under Inspector Howie.

THE DUKE OF NORFOLK ()N
PAPAL AGGRESSION.

We have just received a copy of the second edition
of Mr. Purton Cooper's pamphlet on the late edict
of the Court of Rome, containing a copy of a letter
written by his Grace the Duke of Norfolk to Lord
Beaumont, and of which the importance at the pre-
sent moment can hardly be exaggerated, as indicating
the opinions of the Premier Peer of England and of
the Roman Catholic aristocracy of this country. The
letter is as follows :

" Arundel Castle, Nov. 28, 1850.
"My dear Lord—I so entirely coincide with the opi-
nion of your letter to Lord Z,tland, that I must write to
you to express my agreement with you.
" I should think that many must feel as we do, that
ultramontane opinions are totally incompatible with
allegiance to our Sovereign and with our Constitution.
" I remain, my dear Lord, faithfully yours,

" NORFOLK."

Co URT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, DEC. 10.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, and Lady
Adeliza Howard, the Earl of Carlisle, Lord John Rus-
sell, Viscount Canning, and Sir James and Lady Gra-
ham, arrived at the Castle to-day on a visit to the
Queen and the Prince.
The Royal Family took their usual airings to-day.
The Royal dinner party include
her the Castle willnclude
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke
and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Adeliza Howard,
Lord John Russell, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl
and Countess of Bessborough, Viscount Canning,
Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, Sir Charles
and Lady Mary Wood, Sir James and Lady Graham,
and Sir George Couper.
The band of the Coldstream Guards attend during
dinner. The Queen's private band will afterwards
attend.

Her Majesty's private band played the following
pieces yesterday (Monday) evening :
Ov. " Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor" Otto Nicolai.
Finale, Ist Act, " Pre Aux Cleros" Herold.
Cantina and Aria, "La Fille du Regiment" Donizetti.
Selection, " Oberon"
The Earl of Listowel has relieved Lord Elphin-
stone in his duty as Lord in Waiting to the Queen ;
and Captain the Hon. J. Denman has relieved Sir
Frederic Stoi in in his duty as Groom in Waiting to
her Majesty.
Lord Portman attended at the Home-office yester-
day, and presented the Address to the Queen from
7,000 inhabitants of St. Marylebone against the
Papal .Iggression.
Mr. Joseph S. Christopher had an interview with
Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office.

BARNABAS, PIMLICO.—We are indebted to a
correspondent for a copy of the following answer by the Rev.
John Sinclair, Archdeacon of Middlesex, to a letter, written
by a gentleman in Pimlico, on the subject of the practices
which prevail in St. Barnabas :
" Vicarage, Kensington, Dec. 7, 1850.
"Sir,—ln reply to your inquiry, I hasten to inform you
that the Bishop of London intends to direct his Archdeacons
to visit all the churches and chapels in which the forms and
ceremonies referred to in his late charge are persisted in. It
will be my duty to hold a visitation in St. Barnabas, and I
trust that the result will be satisfactory to the public.--I
have the honour to be, sir, your faithful servant,

" JOHN SINCLAIR."
THE LATE MEETING OF THE LAITY.—We learn
from a source on which we can rely, that one of the very
highest dignitaries of the Church has expressed his gratifi-
cation, not only with the tone of the speeches at the late
great demonstration of the laity in Freemason's Tavern, but
also with the resolutions adopted. The distinguished indi-
vidual to whom we allude has made use of the antithetical
phrase that, on that occasion, nothing was said which ought
to be unsaid, and nothing proposed which ought not to be
done. As one of the main objects—indeed the main object—
of the meeting was to put down Puseyism in the Church,
we may now, therefore, expect that, whether the Tractarian
Bishops will or no, there will be forthwith a clean sweep
out of the Rev. Romanisers from the Establishment.—
Advertiser.

UNIVERSITY PERVERTS.—The RAW. W. IL Ander-
don, M.A. of University College, Oxford, is the eighty-
fifth member of the University of Oxford who is known to
have followed Dr. Newman into the Church of Rome. His
relative, Mr. Manning, who is announced as having re-
signed his arclideac, nry (vslue 25!.), will probably follow
him forthwith. The -Cambridge list of ascertained per-
verts is forty-nine; making a total of 134 members of our
two ancient Universities who have apostatised within a few
ream.— Church and State Gazette.

CARDINAL WISEMAN.

Cardinal Wiseman has at length replied to some of
our charges. "Not one," says he, ' of the new
bishops obtains any increased power or jurisdiction
over clergy, or laity, or property, or trusts, or any
person, or thing. If anything, powers before held
are curtailed or limited. Not one of them will gain
by the change any increase of emoluments or of in-
come. Not one acquires or dreams of acquiring the
slightest alteration of social position. Each one re-
mains where he was, and as he was, and what he was,
with the sole change, so fax as outward relations
go, of the title which he bears. I tell you, as
you have been again and again told, that
the bishops, as now constituted, have straitened and
not enlarged powers, compared with what they had
before." The audacity of this line of defence is ad •
inirable. The Cardinal joins issue with all who have
hitherto written on this subject—himself not excepted
—truly the most general of issues. He contradicts the
Pope—he denies Dr. Ullathorne, he ignores himself.
That which was true last month is true no longer.
The Pope's Letters Apostolic of Michaelmas are good
for the quarter only, and scarcely that. Evidently a
new edition is preparing to come out with the serials of
Christmas. LE tus refresh the memory of this incon-
stant polemic. In the first place, let us ask him this
plain question :—if no other change has taken place
but that of the mere titles of himself and the other
prelates, was it worth while to incur so much odium—
nay, to risk the very existence of his church upon the
soil of England—fur such a trifle ? In the next
place, we will set before him the following excerpts
from his own pastoral, " given out of the Flaminian
Gate of Rome"—from the Papal Rescript itself—and
from Bishop Ullathorne's letter, and ask him how the
world at large, and Roman Catholics in particular,
are to construe his present denial ? On " the seventh
day of October, in the year of our Lord MDCCCL,"
thus wrote the Cardinal :
" The greatest of blessings has just been bestowed
upon our country by the restoration of its true Catholic
hierarchical government. For his Holiness Pope Pius
IX. was graciously pleased to issue his Letters Apos-
telic, wherein he substituted for the eight apostolic
vicariates heretofore existing, one archiepiscopal or
metropolitan and twelve episcopal sees ; repealing at
the same time, and annulling all dispositions and enact-
ments made for England by the Holy See with reference
to its late form of ecclesiastical government."
The effect of the Letters Apostolic was even
greater than the Cardinal states ; for, as we have
shown in former articles, not only " the enactments
made for England," but all enactments (that is to say,
the whole Corpus juris Canonici), were repealed by
that instrument in the most explicit language.
Nor, as we have shown, was this the utmost
extent of the repealing clause in question. " All
constitutions and peculiar privileges of missions,
and vicariates, and of all churches and pious
places whatsoever, and all customs, by whomso-
ever, or at whatever most ancient or immemorial
time brought in," are now for ever abrogated
by the new Papal enactment—which proceeds very
coolly, but yet logically, to draw from their repeal
the following conclusion
Hence it will for the future be solely competent for
the archbishops and bishops of England to distinguish
what things belong to the execution of the common
ecclesiastical law, and what, according to the common
discipline of the Church, are entrusted to the authority
of the bishops."

We have here " authority of the bishops" set
against " common ecclesiastical law," just as in other
days kings set " prerogative" and " law" at issue.
If kings had been "solely competent" to legislate,
would "law" have triumphed or " prerogative ?"
Just so, we need not doubt which of the twain—
"jus canonicunt" or "auctoritatis episcopi" is like to
profit of the "sole competence" to legislate now con-
ferred upon the prelates. The new Bishop of Bir-
mingham has informed the Times newspaper that
(the Cardinal excepted) he is " the only Catholic
bishop now in England who has been immediately
engaged in negotiating the re-establishment of the
episcopal hierarchy." How does he interpret the
passage last cited from the Pope's letter ?
" Catholic Bishops in England are no longer the Pope's
vicars, but English bishops having power to form their
own constitution of government (and that of their clergy
and flocks ?) by express concession. We are now left
to conform anew whatever local regulations and customs
may bo still expedient; we are freed in our ministrations
from those which are not suitable, and we have the whole
jus commune to draw from for what may be further re-
quired. In other words, his Holiness leaves us, as
Catholic Bishops, to legislate for religious purposes, as
we see expedient, without any tie from the past."
But, although now "no longer the Pope's vicars,"
and notwithstanding their investiture as English
Bishops in ordinary, with all the jurisdiction,
metropolitan and diocesan, ever possessed by Roman
Catholic archbishops and bishops in this country or
elsewhere, the new prelates are not to lose the extra-
ordinary jurisdiction and privileges which they en-
joyed when they were the Pope's vicars.
"It is very far," says the rescript, " from our inten-
tion or design that the prelates of England, now pos,ess-
ing the title and rights of bishops in ordinary, should, in
any other respect, bo deprived of any advantages which
they they have enjoyed heretofore under the character
of vicars apostolic. For it would not be reasonable that
the enactments a e now make, at the instance of the
English Catholics, for the good of religion in their coun-
try, should turn to the detriment of the said vicars-
apostolic. Moreover, we are most firmly assured that
the same, our beluved children in Christ, will hencefor-
ward manifest even greater liberality towards bishops
who are now bound by a stronger tie to the Anglican
Churches; so that these same may never be in want of
the temporal means necessary for the expenses of the
dtcent splendour of the churches, and of divine service,
and of the support of the clergy, and of the relief of the
poor."

We pause for a reply to the question with which we
preluded these extracts. How will Cardinal Wise-
man reconcile them with his bold denial of Sunday
last ? When Sir Charles Tempest, the munificent
founder of the Roman Catholic Church at Skipton,
presented his own chaplain to the new Bishop of
Beverley--then a " Pope's vicar,"—as the first in-
cumbent, the prelate refused institution, on the pre-
tence that by canon law the nomination belonged ab-
solutely to himselfas prelate. The canon law was looked
into, and the bishop, being found to be in the wrong, was
obliged to submit. The Pope's rescript has repealed the
whole of the canon law, and it is not very likely that this
part of it will be re-enacted ; for the bishops are clearly
interested the other way. Indeed, Cardinal Wiseman
had, and still has, they say, a similar controversy
about the lay patronage of the church built by the
late Mr. Raphael, in the neighbourhood of Kingston.
Nor is that the only instance. The case of Doddin
Green, an endowed chapel in Westmoreland, in the
gift of the Riddell family, has been a perfect scandal
tor these twenty years past, and we believe that, down
to this moment, the sacraments continue to be denied to
its congregation because the Bishop of Hexham—late
vicar apostolic of the north—disputes Mr. Riddell's
interpretation of some passage in the jus canonicum
about the rights of patrons. The dispute is over
now, we fancy; for the ambiguous passage is re-
pealed with all the other contents of Lancelot's
bulky digest ;---unless, indeed, Mr. Riddell invokes
the Queen's courts to his assistance. For that the
Bishop of Hexham, at the approaching " Synod of
English Bishops," will give his voice for restoring
the obnoxious canon, is hardly to be hoped for.
Cardinal Wiseman, it is said, makes no secret
amongst his friends of his being the adviser of the
promulgation of the rescript in its actual form and
wording ; and that the Pope, but for his counsels,
would have taken a more prudent course. We can
well believe it. It is to him and their other bishops
that the Roman Catholic clergy and laity owe the
recall of the statutes proposed to them by the late
Pope Gregory XVI. for their spiritual government,
and by which, in the provisions for the canonical elec-
tion of bishops, the permanence of clerical tenure,
and the temporalities of churches, the rights both
of the clergy and the laity would have been
amply secured. Instead of these boons, the sole objects
of their petitions to the Roman Court, they now find
that the few usages, privileges, and regulations, on
which those rights depended, are repealed, and no-
thing set in their place to check the arbitrary powers
of their prelates—always great, and now increased
by improvident concessions, suggested by the pre-
lates themselves. Now, if a clergyman is suspended
by a bishop, all appeal is impossible. The bishop is
now irremovable—the priest is removable, and more
so than ever ; there is no court to which the bishop
him
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fittirny.
juria,—and usurpation, once consented to, becomes a
teach them how to disobey the imperious mandates of
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their own prelates. Our purpose was to illustrate
the real bearing of the late changes upon the tem-
poralmmenistsstactlear
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ecclesiastical
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prelates and, :n
, contradictions.—Daily News.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
WOLVERHAMPTON STEEPLECHASES.

These races, which were to have tLken place yester-
day, have, we understand, been postponed, on account of
the fog, to Thursday or Friday.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-TUESDAY.

WOLVERHADIpTON STEEPLECHASE.—Nothing dune on
this event, in consequence of the frost causing its post-
ponement to Friday.
CHESTER CUP.-35 to 1 agst:Rhesus-50 to 1 agst
Cossack-50 to 1 agst Langton-50 to 1 apt Clarissa-
-1,000 to 1 agst Essedarius (t).
DERBY.-500 to 100 agst Grecian-500 to 25 agst
Newminster (0-1,000 to 20 agst Lightfoot.

The Mirquis and Marchioness of \Worcester, who
have been sty} ing in Ireland during the autumn, where his
Lordship's regiment, the 7th Hussars, is stationed, leave his
Lordship's quarters, near Cork, early in the ensuing week,
for:Earl Howe's, Gopsal Hall.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMMISSION.
The following circular has been published :
Oxfoid University Commission,
Downing-street, London, Dr:cember, 1850.
Sir,—Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Univer-
sity of Oxford will feel obliged to you for any infor-
mation which you may be disposed to furnish on the
following heads of inquiry, which, for the sake of
convenience, have been arranged;under the form of
questions--I have the honour to be, your obedient
humble servant,

A. P. STANLEY, See

• 1. Is your society governed by statutes ? If not,
arc there any orders or rules by which it is governed ?
2. If the society is governed by statutes, were those
statutes given by the founder ? Are the original sta-
tutes in force, wholly or in part ? If they are not in
force, by what authority and when have they been
altered ?
3. IL there any provision in your present statutes
for their alteration or amendment? or was there, in
your original statutes, any such provision ?
4. Will you state in what respects, if any, your
statutes have ceased to be observed—whether owing
to lapse of time or other causes ?
5. In what case is the non-residence of your bead
or your fellows permitted by the statutes ? and how
many of sour fellows are non-residents? Would the
University or the college be benefited, in your opi-
nion, by the general enforcement of residence ?
G. Is the marriage of the head of your college per-
mitted by the statutes ? If not, by what authority is
such permission granted ? Is that permission appli-
cable to any other members of the foundation besides
the head ?
7. Does the college consist of several foundations ?
If so, do the fellows on the several foundations enjoy
the same rights and advantages ?
8. Are there in your college any unincorporated or
bye fellows ? If so, by what statutes are they go-
verned? Do you consider such fellowships beneficial
to the society ? Or do you think their present posi-
tion might be altered with advantage ?
9. How many of your fellowships, studentships,
scholarships, exhibitions, or the like, are at present
open to competition without restriction ; and how
many confined to particular places or schools, or to
persons of the kin or name of founders ?
10. Will you quote the clauses of your statute on
which any such restriction rests, together with any
special reasons which the founder or framer of your
statutes may have had fur this restriction ?
11. Is the restriction absolute ? If not, has the
College availed itself of any facilities which the
statutes allow for opening the foundation ?
12. If the statutes give a " preference" to certain
candidates, bow do you interpret such preference ?
13. Do you consider the present restrictions, if any,
on the election of your fellows, students, scholars,
demies, or the like, to be beneficial to the promotion
of education or learning in the University, in your
own society, and in the particular place, school, or
family, if there be any, which is supposed to be fa-
voured by those restrictions ?

14. Are your fellowships, studentships, scholar,
ships, demyships, or the like, disposed of strictly ac•
cording to merit ? Is such merit tested by exami•
nation ?

15. What is the statutable connexion between
your fellowships and your scholarships, demyships, or
the like ? What is the practice in this respect ?
16. If your fellowships are limited to those who
are or have been scholars, or the like, of your society,
has this system been found beneficial to the college?
17. Are the fellows of your college obliged to
proceed to the higher degrees ? If so, in what
faculties ?
18. Do your statutes enjoin that your fellowships,
studentships, scholarships, or the like, be increased or
diminished in number as the revenues of your college
vary ? Has such provision of the statutes been acted
' upon ? Do you conceive that the enforcement of
such provision at the present time would be beneficial
to the society ?
19. Do your statutes contemplate the residence in
college of any undergraduates not on the foundation ?
Do they forbid it ? Will you quote the clauses in
your statutes on which such permission or prohibi-
tion rests ?

20. What amount of property vacates a fellowship,
scholarship, or the like, according to your statutes ?
Is the rule enforced equally with regard to real and
personal property ? Do you conceive that the en-
forcement of such a rule at the present time would be
beneficial to the society ?
21. Is the head of your society itatuably required
to enter into holy orders ? how many of your fel-
lows, students, or the like, are subject to the same
rule ? If the statute be not observed, on what autho-
rity does the non-observance or dipensation rest ? Is
the obligation to enter into holy orders expressly laid
down by statute, or is it deduced from an injunction
to study theology, from en injunction to discharge
clerical duties now disused, or from any other like
provision ?

- 22. Are your fellowships confined to persons of a
certain University standing ? Is the admission of
undergraduates to fellowships, or the restriction of
fellowships to persons of particular degrees, productive
of inconvenience ?

23. Are clergymen excluded from presenting them-
selves as candidates for your fellowships ? Are
laymen ?

24. Are fellows or other members on your founda-
tion allowed by statute or other authority to hold ec-
clesiastical preferment ? and, if so, to what amount ?
25. What statutable restrictions limit the selection
of your head ?

26. How many benefices in the gift of your so-
ciety have been added since the original foundation ?
Will you state at what time and in what manner each
was acquired? Have you at present a fund for the
purchase of advowsons ?

27. Are there any prrelectorships founded in your
college for the benefit of the whole University ? Are
fellowships connected with such pra•lectorships ? If
so, do the statutes allow any special liberty of choice
in the fellowships so connected ?
28. Has the college the nomination to the master-
ships of any schools ? 'What control does the college
exercise over such school ?

29. Will you quote the clauses of your statutes
which set forth the powers and duties of the visitor of
your college ? Has the visitor ever interposed his
authority to relieve the college from the observance
of any of the statutes, or to make new statutes or
ordinances ?

30. Are gentlemen-commoners in your society
called upon to pass the same examination at entrance

as other persons? Do they follow the same course
of studies, and are they subjected to the same dis

cipline as other persons in statu pupillari 9 To what
charges are they liable beyond those borne by other
independent members ?

31. Can you state how many members of your
society receive assistance from exhibitions, or the
like, not in the gift or under the administration of
your society ? What are the sources and what is
the amount of the assistance so received ?

32. How many persons are supported, wholly or
in part, in your society as batellers, servitors, Bible-
clerks, or the like ? What are their duties, and
what are their stipends or other emoluments or im-
munities ? How are they chosen ? Are they marked
by any particular dress ? Was the number ever
greater? If so, can you state why it has been re-
duced ? What do you consider to be the advantage
or disadvantage of such a body of scholars ?
33. How many tutors are there in your society ?
How many lecturers, catechists, or other instructors,
who are not tutors ? Does the head of your society
take any direct part in the instruction ?
34. Are there any tutors in your society who are
not or have not been on the foundation ? Do they all
reside within the walls ?

35. Is each tutor expected to lecture on all subjects ;
or is there a division of subjects ?

36. During how many weeks in the year are lec-
tures given in your society ? Will you state the
average number of lectures given weekly, and the
subjects ? How many undergraduates attend mathe-
matical lectures beyond arithmetic and the elements
of Euclid and algebra ?

37. Are any members of the college required to
attend any professor's lectures ? and are any means
adopted by the college to secure profitable attendance,
by examination or otherwise ?
38. Can you state how many members of your
foundation and how many independent members of
the society are engaged as private tutors ?
39. Can you state how many undergraduate mem-
bers of your society are now reading with private
tutors?

40. What attendance at chapel is required by
your statutes ? What attendance is actually en-

forced ? and by what means ? Is attendance at
chapel ever enforced as a punishment ?
41. What is the nature and extent of religious in-
struction given in your society, distinguishing lec-
tures and sermons delivered in chapel, and instructions
given in other ways ?
49. What is the average amount of the " battels"
of each independent member of your society ? What
was the highest and what was the lowest amount in
the year 1849 ?
43. Will you have the goodness to supply the
commissioners with a weekly battel bill of the aver-
age amount, and with a quarterly battel bill for each
of the four quarters of 1849, also cf the average
amount ?

44. What is the lowest yearly sum for which you
have known an undergraduate to live in your society.?
What is the lowest amount which you have known
an undergraduate to expend from his matriculation
to his graduation ?
45. Do you conceive that the college expenses
could be materially diminished ? If 50, will you
state in what respects ?
46. Is the college library open to all members of
the college,
each member ?
and what fees are paid to the library by

47. What number of undergraduates is your col•
Ipge capable of accommodating

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE
SHO W.

This popular exhibition was thrown open to the pub..
lie at nine o'clock yesterday morning, and very soon be-
came crowded with company. The visitors during the
earlier portion of the day were chiefly composed of the
butchers and dealers of the metropolis; but after noon a
great many members of the nobility and leading agricul-
turists of the country arrived.
At one o'clock the annual meeting of the members of
the club took place at the Bazaar. The Duke of Rich-
mond, president of the club, occupied the chair; and
among the other gentlemen present we noticed Colonel
Sibthorp, M.P., Mr. J. Webb, Mr. F. Hobbs, Mr. Brand-
reth, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Turner, Mr. Grantham, &c.
The Noble CHAIRMAN, in opening the pieTeedinge,
congratulated the members upon the distinguished
honour conferred on the club by the visit of her Most
Gracious Majesty and the Prince Consort on the pre-
vious day. Ile had it on command to communicate to
them her Majesty's gracious approval of all she had
witnessed, and he was sure that the countenance given
to tl.e exhibition by the Queen's visit %you'd only have
the fleet of increasing their endeavours successfully to
carry out the objects of the Smithfield Club.
The Noble Duke's announcement Wa3 received with
marked satisfaction by the members.
The officers of the club having been reelected for the
ensuing year, and the awards confirmed, several notices
of metion were given, which will come on fur discussion
on Thursday next.
The only matter positively arranged was an alteration
in the die from which the club medal has hitherto been
struck. Up to this year the obverse has been formed
by a medallion of the late Earl Spencer, the original
president of the club, the reverse being occupied by an
inscription. It was yesterday proposed and unanimously
adopted that a new die should be struck with a medallion
portrait of his Grace the Duke of Richmond to be sub-
stituted for the inscription, which, by an ingenious ar-
rangement, will be engraven round the edge of the
medal. The ordinary routine business having been con-
cluded, the meeting was adjourned until to-morrow.'
The following were among the principal purchases
made up to six o'clock last evening:—Mr. W. Heath's
2 years and 10 months old Hereford ox, to which the
judges awarded a prize of 251., a silver medal to the
breeder, and a gold medal as the best ox in the yard,
was bought by Mr. T. Slater, of Kensington, for 654;
the Earl of Hardwicke's 3 years and 10 months old Dur-
ham ox (one of the very finest animals in the yard),
which obtained a prize of 301. and a silver medal, was
sold for GO/. to Mr. Botterill, of Rochester; Mr.
Hereford ox (prize 15/.) was bought by Mr. G'aiis, of
Lambeth-walk; Mr. Tucker's Devon ex (prize 304 and
a silver medal) was bought by Mr. King, of r addieeton-
street; his Royal Highness Prince Albert's tlerefor'd oz
(prize 20/. and a silver medal) was bought: by Mr. Jet.
fere, of Foubert's-place, Regent-street; the Eerl of
Aylesford's North Devon ox (price 151. and slyer meda')
was bought by Messrs. Kirkley and Hancock of
Park-street, purveyors to the Queen; Mr. 80, d's Devon
steer (prize 51) was bought by Mr. Menat,ury of Mile.
end-road ; Mr. John Rob, junior's, West Highland ea
(commended) was bought by Mr. Phipps of Lower Bet.
grave-street; Lord Feveraham's short-horned heifer
(prize 201. and a silver medal) was bought by Mr. Cragg
of Mount-street; Mr. Gooch's short-horned better
(prize 18/0 was bought by Mr. Colledge of Northampton.
These were the principal purchases in the cattle classes.
The sheep did not sell so well as the cattle, arid the best
pen in both the long and the short woolled classes were
not disposed of at seven o'clock last evening. Those
that were sold realised from 5/. to 61. ech. The beet
pigs in the yard were bought by Mr. Hogmaier of St.
George's-in-the-East, Mr. Willcock's i f T. t.enham
Court-road, and Mr. Wall of Jermyn-street being also
large purchasers of these animals.
The exhibition re-opens at nine o'clock, and will con-
tinue open till ten in the evening.

SARSAPARILLA.
Considerable importations continue to be made of
this important drug. In 1840 142,920 lbs. were en-
tered for home use. The duty was then 6d. per lb.—
it is now only ld.; and the quantity annually shipped
from the United States to this country has been stea-
dily and progressively increasing. This result, how-
ever, is less due to the reduction in the tariff than to
the persevering efforts of American enterprise, to place
so potent and valuable a medicine within the reach of
the masses. About ten years since a new mode of
preparing the extract was discovered by Dr. Towns-
end, of Albany, and a manufactory was forthwith
started in that city. The sale soon became so enormous
that the introduction of machinery for the preparation of
the extract became indispensable, and the establishment
has now attained such a magnitude, that it is num-
bered among the local lions. Between 100 and 200
men and boys are employed during the proper season
in collecting the roots, which are subsequently rasped
and ground by powerful steam-engines. The vats
in which the decoction is prepared are larger and
more numerous than have yet been previously used in
the preparation of any medicine, and, by their instru-
mentality, the finest Honduras sarsaparilla, which is
the only kind employed, is quickly converted into a
hetslthful and delectable syrup, an invigorating
elixir, concerning whose alterative powers upon the
human system no great difference of opinion has ever
prevailed among physicians. The statistics of manu,
facture, as given in the American papers, are
highly interesting. From 1,500 to 2,000 barrels
of the root are annually imported from
Honduras, and 5,000 bottles of the extract
are turned out ready for consumption every day—a
quantity equal to 1,500,000 bottles per annum. The
bill for glass at this manufactory exceeds 120,000
dollars a year, and the consumption of boards for
packing cases is over 2,000 square feet daily. The
money which was expended last year in advertise-
ments reached 90,000 dollars, in addition to which
there was a gratuitous circulation of 7,000,000 cir-
culars and almanacks. Not only are large quantities
of the preparation consumed throughout the- different
States of the Union, but extensive shipments are
made to the Canadas, the West India Island*, South
America, and Europe. The physiological influence
of this: invaluable medicine appears to consist in the
power which it possesses of gradually purifying the
blood. It is growing into great favour with ohip•
masters as a preventive of scurvy ; and the fact is
worth notice, that during the war with Mexico, while
fever and dysentery were thinning the ranks of the
American army, under General Taylor, the officers
were paying as much as 60 dollars per dozen for the
extract.—Mining Journal.