The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-19 00:00:00

NAVAL IN' rELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTa, Nov. 18 - —Her Majesty's steam-sloop
Fun., 6, Commander (C aotain, promoted April 10,
1850, for heroic service) James Willcox, from China
and the East Indies, a frived yesterday morning.
Shs left Singapore on the 11th of August, called at
St. Helena on the 7th of October, sailed therefrom on
the 9th, and touched at Ascension on the 14th of
October.

Off the Cape of Good dope the Fury experienced
one whole day's heavy w eather from the westward,
but received no damage. On the 20th of September
s'n,3 fell in with the barque Victory, of Liverpool
hound to the Cape, and to tried over to her the Cape
mail, thus obviating the n ecessity of going in.
Oct. 18, exchanged col( ors with the English barque
Ccieket. 21st, passed an English barque with No.
81 flying under her ens ign. 27th, off Cape Verde
Islands exchanged colours, with her Majesty's steam-
vessel Firefly, steering for Sierra Leone ; all well.
Nov. 14, passed the Engli ish schooner Rapid, of Ips-
wich, 22 days from Denit I, with raisins and almonds,
for Bristol.

In crossing the north-et let trades, the Fury, like
the Cambrian and the Ma finer, recently arrived, has
experienced unusual wind la, but not from the same
quarter, the Fury being able to lay north-by-east,
with topmast studdingsails. set, and having the wind
frequently as far aft as sou tb-east.
The Fury has brought h came Captain Moore, Royal
Marines, and several seamen and marines invalided
from the flip-ship Hosting a; two invalids, seamen,
died on the home passage.
The Fury has been 470 hours under steam; she
sailed from Singapore wit 400 tons coal on board,
has coaled nowhere aince, (Ina had four tons remaining
on arrival.

While on the East Ind station, where she was
chiefly engaged, the Fury b.as been in active employ-
ment, having steamed and .sailed upwards of 70,000
miles during her conunissiott (20th July, 1847).
The crew of the Fury have been healthy through-
out, and has had scarcely my change of officers, and
no courts-martial or courts of inquiry. After coaling
in Ilatneaze, she proceeds to Portsea. _ _

Her Majesty's ship Hastings, 72, Rear-Admiral
Charles J. Austen, Commander-in-Chief, Captain
Francis W. Austen, was at Penang, which she was
to lave in the beginning of October for Hong-Kong.
Her Majesty's brig Conteut, 12, Commander Hon.
J. Spencer, arrived at Singapore on the 27th of
July. She took two slavers on her passage out from
England.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Sphynx, 6, Commander
C. Shadwell, sailed from Singapore on the 11th of
August for Siam, where she was to join the Nemesis
steam-ship, when Sir Jammu Brook, the Raja, in-
tended to make an effort to restore to its former foot-
ing the trade between the inhabitants of the Western
World and the Siamese, which had recently dimi-
nished almost to extinction, in consequence of the in•
fringement by the latter of former treaties. The
Americans have been treating with'them for the same
purpose, and it is stated that the Siamese authorities,
in answer to their proposals, said ;that they knew of
no such nation as the Americams, and did not believe
that such a nation existed, and thist they could only
speak through the English. This opinion is supposed
to have been confirmed in the rnirssls of the Ministe-
rial authorities at Siam, from the ci'rcumstance of the
pfficial American documents having had attached to
theca seals of comparatively insign;ificant appearance
compared to those which had bee; -1 previously pre-
sented from the same nation. Doc tuments authenti-
cated with imposing seals carry grea t importance with
them in the opinion of these singuli sr people.
At St. Helena were three prizes— one to the Cen-
taur, condemned, with 300 slaves ; one to the *Wol-
verine (the Florida Camamoni), cons lemned, with 300,
the second prize this commission ; and one to the
Harpy from the Brazils, still under adjudication.
Prom St. Helena the Fury conveye the Wolverine's
prize crew and the Harpy's prize ma tw, excepting the
prize master, to Ascension.
At Ascension the Tortoise store-a;hip, with her ten-
der, the Snap.
The Avon steam-vessel sailed on Saturday for
Chatham with the seamen riggers who brought the
Madeira,
Buzzard to this port.
Ascen-
sion, sailed yesterday The Wasp screw steam-sloop, a vith the mails for
peestdeerdVayerdineo,rSniienrgraatLeels
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Aati.Md.

APPOINTMENTS.

Woomvien, Nov. nant-Commander
W. A. R. Pearce, to the Atholl tro. p-ship, commis-
sioned this day at Sheerness.
Second Masters—Cornelius Fox and A. F.A. Bar-
ton, to the Atholl.

M%ster's Assistants—Digby de la Motte and C. F.
Cooper, to the AthoU.

Clerk in Charge—F. G. Pearce, t o the Atholl.
Clerk's Assistant—C. B. AliKen3ie, to the Atholl.
Gunner—James Jeffery, to the Letribution steam-
frigate, at Portsmouth.
Captain Edward St. L. Cannon (1846) and Lieu-
tenant William Horton (1842), laaving both com-
pleted a course of study of steam At; Woolwich Dock-

The Geyser, a fine vessel of 160-horse power, be-
longing to the Danish Government, arrived and was
moared opposite Woolwich Dockyard at one o'clock
P.m. to-day. She intended going up the river to the
Eao India Docks, to have new boilers put on board
by eons, and Field, who fitted her
about Messrs.boutsixMuarasacigslYi
ago, with their double cylinder en-
gines of the horse power above stated; but she was
detained at Woolwich in consequence of having her
powder on board. The powder is to be taken out here
and put into store at the Royal Arsenal for safety, and
she will then proceed to Black wall to have her new
boilers put on board in the East India Docks. The
engines are described as kept remarkably clean, and
her chief engineer speaks the English language well,
having acquired the knowledge of his profession by
upwards of three years' service at Messrs. Maudslay 8
establishment in the Westminster-road, and fitting
vessels of which they had the contract at Woolich.
The Fury steam•sloop, Captain Willcox, arrived to-
day at Portsmouth from China and the East Indies.
This vessel performed valuable service against the
pirates in the Chinese seas.

DANGERS OF CHANNEL NAVIGATION.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 18.—A very important do-
cument bar just been published, compiled by Mr. J.
Young, of the Underwriters' room at Lloyd's, giving
a list of wrecks and casualties to shipping which have
been officially reported to have occurred between Dun-
geness and London during a period of 18 months,
from January 1849 to June 1850, inclusive. To
each casualty is affixed the extent of damage sus-
tained, such estimate of damage being derived from
official documents at Lloyd's, or estimated as nearly as
could be ascertained. Although the total extent is
impossible to be arrived at with anything like !preci-
sion, from the fact that numerous vessels w:tii all on
board are annually cast away upon the Goodwin and
adjacent sands, yet the result arrived at by Mr.
Young's valuable pamphlet is, that during the 18
months in question the amount of property destroyed
by known wrecks and casualties, is between 400,0001.
and 500,0001, besides the sacrifice of a great
number of lives. The object of the compiler of
this list is to show the enormous annual destruc-
tion of property occasioned by the dangers of
navigation between the Isle of Wight and the
Thames, and which would be avoided by home-
ward-bound ships discharging in the Southampton
docks, besides the saving that would be effected in the
rate of insurance' time occupied between the island
and London, and the extra cost of wages, provisions,
and incidental expenses. It is a remarkable fact that
few wrecks ever take place in that part of the British
Channel to the southward of the Wight, but that the
real dangers of the voyage commence after passing
the back of the island to proceed to the Thames. To
the document alluded to is subjoiced an abstract of
the loss of shipping and of life, between the Isle of
Wight and London, for the seven years from 1837 to
1843 inclusive, by which it appears that during that
p,riod 499 vessels lost anchors and cables, were par-
tially dismasted by bad weather or being run foul of,
or sustained other damage ; 560 vessels took the
ground, but were got off again; '260 vessels entirely
wrecked or foundered, of which the crews and passen-
gers were saved; 56 vessels were totally lost, with all or
several of tho crews or passengers; the total number
of casualties being 1;375. Amongst the ships lost
in 1842 and 1843 were those splendid Indiamen, the
Reliance and the Conqueror, nearly every soul on
board of which, amounting to little short of 200,
perished. In the latter year the ship gurhampouter,
with emigrants from London for New South Wales,
was, a few hours after leaving the Thames, utterly
wrecked near Margate, on which occasion the people
on board had a hairbreadth escape with their lives,
losing all the property they had. The loss of the
Amphitrite is also too recent to be forgotten ; she
was riding at anchor in the Downs, was driven out
by violent weather, and totally wrecked near Bou-
logne; she had on board nearly 200 female convicts,
bound to Australia, all of whom, with the whole of
the crew, were drowned, and the vessel scattered in
fragments on the shore. During the first six months
of 1850 it appears that no less than eight vessels have
been lost between London and the Wight, with all
on board ; and the number of lives so sacrificed is
estimated at little short of 500.

StoSl.Ann' SouSneTeEtAhalltl-tYheA
splendid steam-
We regretliU
yacht called the Peterhoff, which • was built in this
country a few months since, expressly for the Em-
peror of Russia, and which excited so much admira-
tion while lying in the river, has
.been entirely lost on
her passage out to St. Petersbur
of which appeared in our paper of
(a shortd account
Peterhoff was of iron construction, builtyeeter. )lll.The
by Mr. are,
of Black wall, from whose yard the Fairy, her Abjesty's
yacht, was launched. She was nearly
den, and was fitted with -' enbines of 140- horse power.
Her internal arrangements wereof the
character, and no expense was spared in equipping. her
for the service of the Emperor. The
btrarnsbmission o
the unfortunate yacht to Sr. Pe
,ters u. g was en-
trusted to an eminent firm on Cornhill, who took
every care to supply her with
an efficient crew. A
master mariner, Mr. James Boniland, who had been
employed in the Baltic for the last twenty-four
years, was appointed to take
crew being selected from men who bad been
trading in that sea. Some five or six weeks ago
she took her departure from the Thames, having
on board, in addition to her crew, Mr. George
Rennie, the engineer, and Mr. Waterman, jun., who
designed the yacht, and who, we understand, was
charged with its delivery to the Emperor, with Mr.
Eschappar and one or two other gentlemen. She
reached Copenhagen in safety, and having taken on
board two ladies attached to the embassy there for
conveyance to Revel, she resumed her trip on the 22d
ult. Having proceeded by Bornholm, and sighting
the Arohimede, one of the Prussian Government
steamers, which had gone ashore a few days previously
on the island, and Gottlend, she pursued a north-east
course up the Baltic. They then experienced very
severe weather. At times the wind blew almost a
perfect hurricane from the northward, which had the
effect of driving down with much force the waters
from Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland—a circum-
stance which would tend to render the navigation of
the Peterhoff more than ordinarily difficult. From all
the accounts received the yacht seems to have
laboured tremendously. The crew, however, suc-
ceeded in keeping her head to sea, but CO heavy was
the swell that it broke over on to her deck, and the
greatest difficulty was experienced in preventing the
fires from being extinguished. The exact course she was
pursuing at this period (the evening of the 24th) has
not been correctly ascertained, but it was evident she
was making for the island of Dago, which is abreast
of the entrance of the Gulf of Finland. A
se. light was
observed, which the master is supposed to have
thought was on Dago. The steamer proceeded, and
at about half. past ten o'clock at night she struck, and
was half her length up a shallow reef of rocks. The
shock is described to have been exceedingly severe.
Fortunately the weather had moderated to almost a
perfect calm, and but for that merciful interposition
every soul on board would have perished. The rocks
having penetrated the bottom of the yacht, it was
quickly seen she was fast filling. The boats were
launched with the view of effecting a landing, but the
height and position of the rocks entirely prevented
them. In the meanwhile the water gained rapidly
in the hull of the wreck, and it was not long before
it was level with the sea. Happily for the lives of
those on board, the steamer held her position on the
reef, and the crew having formed a kind of protection
from the weather for the ladies in the upper part of
the deck, they remained in a painful state of anxiety
until the following morning. During the night
rockets were fired every half hour, but no assistance
came off to them. Daylight brought to them a
knowledge of their real position. The steamer had
struck on the island of Oesel, the master having unfor-
tunately mistaken its light for that of Dago, which
was more than thirty miles distant. As soon as they
were seen from the land three boats were dispatched
to their relief, and the weather favouring their exer-
tions, the wreck was gained, and the whole of those
on board were taken off. On reaching the shore
every relief was afforded them, and it appearing in)-
, possible to rescue the wreck with the weans then at

The following letter from Mr. Waterman has been
handed to 116 by Mr. Mare, and, as will be seen, con-
tains some aci.ditional and interesting details respect-
ing the unfortunate event :
"St. Petersburgh Hotel, Revel, Oct. 31, 1850.
" Sir,—lt is with regret I inform you of our misfor-
tune since we left Copenhagen, which we did on the 22d
inst., at 5 P.M. We passed the Archimede, a Prussian
steam-vessel that went ashore a few days ago on the
island of Bornholm. We had no sooner left the island
than it blew a perfect hurricane, and continued blowing
until the morning of the 24th ; in the evening it wad a
perfect calm. We were thinking of going to bed about
half-past tan o'clock, when we were etartled by a terrific
rumbling noise. We immediately ran on deck, when to
our horror we found the Peterhoff half her length up a
shallow reef of rocks. She immediately began to fill
end was not long before the water inside her was
level with the sea. Unfortunately two ladies con-
nected with the Embassy at Copenhagen ac-
companied us with the intention of landing
at this place. We attempted to effect a landing in the
boats, but cuuld not succeed for the rocks, so we had to
return to the Peterhoff, and remained until daylight,
firing rockets every consecutive half.hour. At daylidht
three boats came from the shore to our assistance. We
immediately went with a portion of our luggage ashore
to a gentleman's house, who very hospitably re-
ceived us.

" We came to the conclusion that it would be impos-
sible to get the Peterhoff off without assistance, and
there being none on the island, it was decided that Mr.
Ronnie and myself should proceed by land to St. Peters-
burgh, and get the required assistance, leaving Mr. Es-
chapper in charge of the vessel. We have been travel-
ling dAy and night since, and only arrived here at
11 o'cicck last night—a distance of about 150
consequence of the bad roads and conveyance. A steam-
vessel leaves here for St. Petersburgh ou Sunday morn-
ing, the 2d of November. We intend going by her, as
we should gain no time by travelling overland.
" I am, &c., " T. WATERMAN."
_ _ _ _

The loss of the yacht, it is said, will exceed
20,000 Z., but it is understood that she is insured for a
large amount.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OT THIS DAY.

TIMES.—The condition of the United States must
needs be thought critical in the extreme by all who
are unacquainted with the expressions given to public
opinion in that land of democratic indulgence ; and
so extraordinary, indeed, has been the character re-
cently assumed by some of these ebullitions, that it
requires more than common discernment to detect the
true current of popular convictions in the deluge of
declamation, bombast, and blarney with which the
great question of the day has been overwhelmed. The
reader will recollect the persuasions which dictated
the adoption of the Fugitive Slave Bill, in deference
to the prejudices, if not the interests, of the Southern
States of the Union, and he will have observed in
these columns, from time to time, with what outrage-
ous clamour this measure has been received. So
great, however, is now the sensation, either real or
protracted, that the rallying cries of the contending
parties are, without disguise, " Union" and " Dis-
union"—the very constitution of the States being
threatened with deliberate destruction in a contest for
ascendancy on a point of domestic policy. The issue
raised, in fact, has been exactly that tried by the
French Republicans. A question has been decided
by law, and the conduct of every citizen, under cere
tain conditione, has been presceibed by that authority
to which universal obedience is nominally due. I
The French malcontents exalted their private con-
victions above the law by w.aat they termed pa-
ramount and inherent rights of free citizenship,
and they effected a revolution of which the result was
to place the majority of the nation in that very predi-
cament which the minority had resented as intoler-
able. The Americans have no w arrived, if we may
trust their own language, at a similar crisis. A large
portion of the population professes to consider the
Fugitive Slave Bill as repugnant to some indestructi-
ble right antecedent to recorded law, and they are
acting just like the insurgents of February, with
merely the variation of action suggested by the dif-
ference of the two Constitutions. The Americans
have no King to terrify, and no Tuileries to storm,
and though it seems not impossible they may have a
[lugeaud or Changarnier to encounter, they are at
present confining their agitation to the spacious chan-
nels provided by the constitution. Here, however,
they boldly avow reso:utions drawn from the cardi-
nal doctrines of M. Louis Blanc and his school; they
declare their intention of resisting law by force, or
propose, as the single alternative, the dissolution of
the Union into so many independent States as differ-
ence of opinion may require. It is stated, and we
believe with substantial truth, that the law cannot be
executed in any city of all the North, excepting New
York ; and the inhabitants, therefore, of this capital
seaport have just assembled at a monster meet-
ing to signalize and record their conspicuous
allegiance to the established powers. If we
could give literal credence to all that is
reported of the extraordinary proceedings, we might
perhaps acknowledge that pacific and voluntary dis-
union would really be the best expedient in a contest
of opinions so violent as this has been represented ;
hut, in point of fact, what with the national turn for
hyperbola, the contingencies of democratic excitement,
and the peculiar gifrs of Transatlantic journalism, so
extravagant and grotesque is the exaggeration em-
ployed that the sober English reader lays down the
paper without any mare definite conviction than that
his American brethren are certainly the oddest people
alive. The "tremendous and enthusiastic convention,"
. as it termed, partook promiscuously of the character
of an Eistedfodd, a vestry meeting, an election com-
mittee an open air concert, and a settling day at Tat-
tersall';;. Resolutions importing truths as deep as
any illustrated by Bacon or Montesquieu were pro-
pounded in language resembling that of the notifica-
tions headed " Canine," in a popular weekly contem-
porary ; " Old Hickory" was matched along with
"Harry Clay," for any stakes that might be forth-
coming; and the sentiments of patriotism were
conveyed in metaphors so discordant and
poetry so atrocious that even a well mean-
ing citizen might be driven into the ranks of insur-
rection by the instincts of good taste and grammar.
Nothing but the phraseology of a new Romish
" pastoral" can give the reader an idea of the terms
in which the American eagle, his talons, his beak, his
1 pinions, his flight, and his destiny were apostrophized
by these priests of the Oratory of " St. Tammany ;"
for, as tie meeting was already of one accord, there
remained no duty beyond that of declamation and
protest. The upshot of the business was the
ap-
pointment of a committee for the preservation of
America, fifty citizens being nominated, with power
to add to their numbers, on whose shoulders
the national salvation of the United States was to de-
volve. By what means this council is to promote its
objects we cannot pretend to determine; but, if we
may venture upon an opinion in the face of so many
bewildering allegations, we should be inclined to con-
clude that the danger is not so imminent, nor, the
conflict so real, as appearances might be thought to
betoken. It is true that one Governor of a state has
virtually proclaimed rebellion, and another has set
aside the annual thanksgiving-day for the inde-
pendence of the union, while the officers of justice
are everywhere threatened with violence in the
execution of their duties. For all this, however,
we do not think the disruption of the Union at
hand, nor do we contemplate with any great appre-
hension the atleged probabilities of an
event which
no civilized Power could witness with indifference.
There can be no doubt that the anti-slavery feeling
will ultimately preponderate in the States to the ex-
tinction of Southern institutions; but the question
will not be carried by the violence of the present agi-
tators. Under existing circumstances the south, in
addition to its own resources, has the unhesitating
support of all who respect the law—a class which we
cannot conceive to form a small
if proportion of Ameri-
can citizens. It is probable, indeed, that the ob-
noxious measure, especially maliciously enforced,
may create local tumults and even provoke armed op-
position; but, in such cases, we are plainly told that
the regular troops will be employed in aid of the ma-
gistracy, and we are convinced that the predominant
impulse of the population will tend in the same direc-
tion. It cannot, indeed, escape the observation of
so intelligent a people that the true question now
at issue concerns no longer the institutions of
slavery, but the
_authority of the law, and, with
this authority, the maintenance of a regular Go-
vernment. It is the same question which two
years ago was decided, in different ways, at Paris
on the 24th of February, and in England on the 10th
of April. It is a question whether a section of the
people, dissatisfied with the conclusions of the rest,
Luny )3ticcessfully Appeal to violence; for it is clear,

that if the law can be thus set aside upon this point
it can be sot aside upon all. Mr. Webster, in a
manifesto which was vociferously cheered at the
meeting, enounced these principles to his countrymen
with uncompromising vigour and perspicuity. We
might, perhaps, be permitted to doubt whether the
motives actuating the Assembly were in all cases so
disinterested as in that of this distinguished states.
man ; but, even allowing for the less noble feelings
which will always tend to sway a popular decision,
and certainly not leas in America than elsewhere, we
cannot apprehend that the result would be otherwise
than, generally favourable to the cause of order. The
" Unionists" will have popularity as well as right on
their side; all the mottoes, watchwords, and
traditions of the States, all the sayings of
patriots, and all the maxims of the constitu-
tion being for them only. Besides this, the
principle of unity is essentially the democratic
one and it would be almost a contradiction of terms
to advocate Republicanism and divisibility in the same
breath. The " Disunionists" have no definite scheme
to propound, and even those who now gesticulate and
mouth in behalf of local independence would shrink
from the reality of carving up a State fabric which
every adult American has been for years upholding as
the unapproachable masterpiece of human wisdom.
For these reasons we anticipate no such perils as-those
which alarmed "the Empire City in Council ;" hut
prudence, we think, will suggest to the Supreme Go-.
vertu-rent of the States some timely modification of a
measure fatally calculated to create disaffection and
riot. It is less in the principle than iu the execution
that the Fugitive Slave Bill is so unpopular, for its
operation is precisely of that kind which brings home
to men by individual examples under their own eyes
facts which, theoretically considered, would produce
little or no effect. These examples, too, are constantly
recurring, and we cannot be surprised if acts which
outrage common sensibility should cause reaction and
revolt, though performed in the name of justice.
HE R ALD.—Mr. George Bowyer has very
promptly produced his pamphlet " by authority" in
defence of " the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster
and the New Hierarchy." It is written in the most
plausible tone of candour and humility. But the
fallacy on which it wholly rests is thus set forth :
"To say that the Roman Catholic Church is not il-
legal in her Majesty's dominions, and yet that a fun-
damental necessary doctrine of that Church is illegal,
would be a gross and monstrous contradiction. If we
are not allowed by law to hold a doctrine, without
which we should cease to be Roman Catholics, it ob-
viously and inevitably follows that the law does not
permit
e;t U 3 to he Roman Catholics at all. Which is
".•
absurd. Persecute us, drive us out of the realm alto-
gether, and into perpetual banishment, but do not
bold out to us the delusive phantom of en apparent
toleration, and then deny us the liberty to hold
that doctrine on which the very existence of our
Church, a, the Catholic Church, built upon the
rock of Peter, and bound to his successor the
supreme head and centre of unity on earth, most
undeniably depends." In consenting, then, to lift the
ban from off the heads of the Romanists, and to raise
them to an equality with ourselves, we have admitted,
according to Mr. Bowyer, that they hold no anti-
social or dangerous doctrine. We have placed our-
selves in a position which renders it impossible for
us to deny hereafter the salubrity of their system.
So says their apologist, and, if he speaks truly, then
are we in a strange position. For see what his posi-
tion leads us to :—The " fundamental doctrines" of
the Church of Rome—which doctrine, says Mr.
Bowyer, we are not now at liberty to impugn by Eta-
tote, are such as these :
" 'rho Du!! In (.7nrzm SaNCi37l2 states ;

" Both swords are, therefore, in the power of the
Church, viz., the spiritual sword and the material sword.
Bea the one is to be exercised for the Church, the other
by the Clinrch, that i,, the property of the priest in the
hands of kings and soldiers, but at the nod and sufforence
of the priest.'

" Moreover, we declare, affirm, define., and pronounce,
that it is altogether a mater of necessity of Fal vati o
for every lrainau cre..t.,2.re to be subject to the Roman
Pontiff.'

" Delahogue in his treatise on the Church,—a class-
book at Msynooth:—
" The Church retains her jurisdiction over all apos-
tates, heretics, and schismatics, althongli they do not
now belong to her body, as the commander of an army
has the right of decreeing more severe punishments
against the deserter who has left hii ranks.'
" Devoti, on the Canon Laws, sec. 1, vol. iv.:—
" All who dissent from Catholic truth are not to be
tolerated among Catholics.'

" AmGeg our Catholics it is certain and fixed that
men are not to be tolerated who arc slices from the
Catholic verity, and that they are also to b© coerced
by merited punishments; and this is demonstrated at
length by Sam ez, Bellarmine, .Ilottensis, De Castro, Pa-
melius:

" Devoti quotes Thomas Aquinas (called the Angeli-
cal Doctor). Secunda Sccundre. Quest. ii., art. 3:—

" Whether heretics are to be -tolerated ? About
heretics two things ate to be considered. One, indeed,
on the part of themselves; another on the part of the
Church. On their part is their rin, by which they have
deserved not only to b 3 separated from the Church by
excommunication, but even to be put from the world by
death. Wherefore if forgers of money or other male-
factors are immediately and justly put to death by se-
cular princes, much more heretics, as soon as they orb
convicted of heresy, can not only be immediately excom-
municated, but also be justly slain. If he is still found
obstinate, and the Church, no longer hoping for his con-
version, provides for the safety of others, by separating
him from the Church by sentence of excommunication,
and farther leaves him to the secular tribunal to be ex-
terminated from the world by death.'
" These passages are quoted in Dens' Theology' as
authority for putting heretics to death.
" Reiffvustucl:—

" And, first, as to impenitent heretics; that is, those
that are unwilling to convert themselves, but persevering
obstinately in their heresy, are to be put to death, whe-
ther they be laity or clergy.'
" Let those condemned by the Church be left to the
secular power to be pueished with deserved penalty, the
clergy being first degraded from their orders. (He
quotes the canon law and ordinance of Charles V.,
1540, by which) Impenitent heretics are to be burned,
but penitent heretics to be slain by the sword. To which
is added custom, the best interpreter of the leer, by
which it appears that impenitent heretics are to be
burned with fire; in ease their mouth ought to be bound
up lest they should scandalise the weak with their blis-
phemies, as Faranacius well remarks, having cited many
examples.'
" Bellarmiue (Cardinal).
" If you threaten them with pecuniary fine they
neither fear God nor regard man, knowing that there
will not be wanting fools who believe them, and by
whom they will be maintained if you put them in prison
or banish them, they corrupt their neighbours with
words, and those who are at a distance, with books;
therefore, the only remedy is to send them speedily to
their own place.'
" 12th General Council, 4th of the Lateran, A.D.
1215. Innocent 111. Pope Honorius embodied this
canon in the law proclaimed at the coronation of Fre-
derick 11. 1220. Gregory IX., in 1230, embodied it in
his decretals. It has continued the law of the lioraish
Church since.

" We excommunicate and anathematize every heresy
which exalteth itself against this holy orthodox and
Catholic faith which we have set forth above, condemn-
ing all heretics by whatsoever names they may be recog-
nised, who have indeed diverse faces, but their tails are
bound together, for they make agreement in the same
folly.'
" If any temporal lord being required and ad-
monished by the Church, shall neglect to cleanse his
country of this heretical filth, let him be bound with the
chain of excommunication by the metropolitan and
other co-provincial bishops. And if he shall scorn to
make satisfaction within a year, let this be signified to
the Supreme Pontiff, that henceforth he may declare his
vassals to be absolved from their fidelity to him, and ex-
pose his land to be occupied by Catholics, who having
exterminated the heretics, may without contradiction
possess it._ _

" But let the Catholics, who having takes the sign of
the cross, have girded themselves for the ext,-rmination
of heretics, enjoy the same indulgence and be armed with
the same privilege as is conceded to those who go to the
assistance of the Holy Land.'
" Such aro the laws and canons of Rome. She boasts
that she is semper eadein. They form the standard and
rules of Msynooth this day."
We are aware that the common exclamation of
adroit Roman casuists, when we quote these canons,
is—" Oh! those musty old canons,—what is the use
of disinterring them at this time of day ?" But we
showed, only a day or two since, that the very same.
doctrines are taught, even to children, bo?ks writ-
ten and published by Roman Catholics in this year of
our Lord 1850. Mr. Bowyer, of course, takes shelter
under the usual subterfuge, " Supremacy only in spi-
ritual things." But he who rules in spiritual things
must overrule him or her who rules only in "tem-
poral things." Hence we find that—
" At a dinner given last week by the Roman Catholic
inhabitants of Enniskillen to Dr, MacNally, Lord
Bishop of Clogher,' where fifty of the leading Catholics'
of the locality assembled, the chairman, a Mr. James
Creden, a merchant, proposed, we are informed, his first
toust in the following terms:—

" Gentlemen,—The first toast on my list is one that
will frighten my extra-loyal neighbours; but the spiri-
tual allegiance we owe is greater than any other alle-
giance. I therefore, without any further comment, pro-
pose to you our Most Holy Father the Pope;' and in
all sincerity I pray that his reign may be long and glo-
rious.' "
Another specimen of the same kind comes to us
from Scotland. Dr. Gillis, who is to be the new
" Archbishop of Edinburgh," preached at Dumfries

last Su l y week, and the Dumfries Courier gives
l
the following account of his sermon :
" The lecturer began by stating that 300 years ago
this bad been a Catholic country, in which the established
religious forms had been the same as they had that day
witnessed. Then, for the sins of some, and the trial of
others, what was called the Reformation had come; the
property of the Church was seized by the Crown, and
gifted to its nobility; and the stake, the gibbet, and
exile, became the portion of its faithtul adhe-
rents. Notwithstanding all this, the Catholics had
continued to increase, until from thousands they were
numbered by millions. Referring to the new hie-
rarchical arrangement, he alluded to the letter of
the Premier to the Bishop of Durham, and to the
phrase in it, ' our Reformation,' contrasting at con-
siderable length the contrarieties and contradictions of
Protestant doctrine with the uniformity which in all
ages and countries distinguished the Catholic faith. In
referring to the doctrines of the English Church as to
baptism, the rev. lecturer made pointed allasicn to the
manner in which, from dissension on that topic, so many
of the Anglican clergy were dropping off into the bosom
of the Church. Reverting to the suspected in'entions of
the Government in cpposition to the Papal hull, he
broadly pointed to the icterference of the Catholic
powers of the Continent, should Government fits, mpt
opposition to the rights of his Church—a most ill-ad-
vised expression, and one that has excited strong feelings
of disapprobetion; and closed a discourse of upwards of
an hour's duration with a glowing peroration, in which,
looking firisard to the time when the British empire
would be numbered with the things that were, and its
sceptre in the dust, he declared that ' glorious Rome'
would still maintain hee pre-eminence among the
nations."
Truly he must be wilfully blind who can close his
eyes to the fact that the two powers, the Papacy and
the British Sovereignty in its present Protestant
hands, rust necessarily be rival and hostile powers.
And hence it follows, that to give this natural enemy
a legal footing—a recognised church establishment in
these realms.—would be little less than an act of
suicide. In truth, the whole question is resolved, in
the clearest and fairest manner, in the closing sen-
tences of Mr. Binney's late address, which we gave
about a fortnight back. And let it always be re-
membered that Air. Binney, a Protestant Dissenter,
is a " Liberal" of the first water. To everything in-
trinsically bigotted or intolerant he is constitutionally,
and from long habit, opposed. Yet he thus wrote—
" It may be easy to argue against national establish-
ments and the royal supremacy ; the demonstration
may be complete of the impropriety of secular legis-
lation in religion, and in favour of unrestricted reli-
gious liberty ; that the law should know no man in his
religious character ; and that all religious bodies should
be treated by the state equally and alike,
and every Church have a clear stage and
no favour. So far as Popery is concerned, '
I am beginning to be suspicious of carrying this
theory practically out ; not, indeed, because the theory
is itself erroneous, but because Popery is not a thing
to which it can be applied. Popery is not simply and
purely a religion ; it is a great and mighty ecclesiase
tical confederacy that aims at and desires political
pre-eminence ; it is a terrible compact, almost phy-
sical unity, animated by a spirit of intense hatred to
real liberty, civil or religious. It requires to be
held in check by law, not because its tenets are
not true, but because its heart is not to be
trusted ; not because its creed is a corruption of the
faith, but because its tendencies are inimical to free-
dom ; not because it ' ignores' this or that Church,
but because it is a power dangerous to the State. It
willjoin the Dissenter in his theoretical reasoning when
it is low; will applaud him for liberality in striving
to gain for its own ' emancipation' when it wishes to
rise ; will shout at times for ' religious liberty ', and
the 'voluntary !principle;' will smile and bow, and
take everything, it can, and look humble mo-
dest, and demure, as long as is necessary to gain its
ends ; but when once gained, and any opportunity for
a spring forward or upward opens, it will take either
with both force and ferocity, and care not if it crush in
its headlong career the simple souls that served it in
its need!"

DAILY NEWS.—Never has been a greater storm
in the moral and religicus atmosphere. Never was seen
such a mass of fiery and frowning clouds, dark with
popular indignation, sending forth the vehement
thunder of passion and the brilliant coruscation of
awsksned and angry intellect. The entire sentiment
of the nation has been forced into one mass, and all
classes have descended to the same forum to complain,
to lament, to vent indignation, and demand vengeance.
From. the humble vestry to the lordly Cabinet, wher-
ever men congregate, they have been moved to take
these greater matters into consideration, the threat of
Rome to re-establish its domisaation over us, the
trickery of weak and foolish men, who have awakened
such hopes, and rendered possible such attempts.
Men who stand in the first rank of authority and
influence contemplate these great popular commotion'
with different impressions. Some have said, this is
too strong for us not to be of it, let us join and head
it. Others in the very heat of going along with it
have asked themselves, whither does it iead ? Does it
not partake cf the religious intolerance, if not of the
same, at least of an analogous kind to that which it
resists ? Whilst some would make it an onslaught
upon Rome, others would enlarge it into a crusade
against all bishops. The Times, evidently seeking
to divert indignation from domestic criminals, pro-
poses to get up an insurrection in Italy against the
Pope, or at least to support the Piedmontese con-
stitutionalists in their opposition to him, which
very constitutionalists the said Times so lately
delighted and contributed in putting down. Others,
on the contrary, consider that vengeance as
well as charity should begin at home, and
their proposed line of conduct would be to tie
Wiseman and Phillpotts to the same stake, and
burn them as victims to the liberty of religious opi-
nion. We are not afraid of the actual perpetration of
any of these[extreme and angry acts. On the contrary,
what we fear most is, that the zeal of the public will
be so misled towards unattainable objects, and frittered
away upon merely vindictive and useless ones, that
the entire force of the re-action will b?, lost ; that, in
consequence no one abuse will be removed, and not
only Popery left, triumphant,:but its great workshops
left in full activity of creation and of propagandism.
The first effort of those interested for religious free-
dom and religious intellect should be to turn the pre-
sent movemeet to some great aim, some tangible ob-
ject. Without movements of this kind, without wise
men taking advantage of them, nothing is ever done
under our form of government, in which Ministers
wait on the public even more than upon Provi-
dence. It is much to be feared that the
present efforts of indignant , Protestantism are
directed more against form than reality, more
against the shield than against the body of its autago-
Mats. Thus a crusade against Wiseman's title, against
his wearing a red hat, or parti-coloured stockings, of
what avail is it? Is this an object worthy of the eeal
of a great nation ? If Cardinal Wiseman, by his ma-
nceuvres at Rome, and his arrogant assumption here,
have got himself into the meshes of a statute—if his
display of the barbarous latinity of Rome has brought
him, like a fly into a spider's web, to be entangled in
the equally barbarous latinity of our feudal lawyers,
let the Roman priest and the English jurist fight out
their ancient f-ud, since the former has thought proper
to renew it. If the Archbishop gets himself installed
by virtue of a papal bull, and has treasonable docu-
ments read during the ceremony, he falls, it is al-
leged, under the penalties of a prcemunire, which
are very serious if the popular feeling be in-
clined to enforce them. If the Cardinal, though an
Andalusian and alien, has come to exercise legatine
or other authority in this country, the mere fact of
his birth will no doubt:enabls the Government t• eject
him. Bat this personal quarrel, in dealing with
Wiseman, is in our opinion a very minor matter. For
every casuistical or legal argument we use, the Pope,
we may depend upon it, will find another. To find
such argument is his Holiness's trade, and, thank
Heaven, it is not ours. Then for every personal
blow we strike, Rome will parry one and deal an-
other. And this bout of polemical single-stick may
go on for a very long time, during which the Pope
will not be the first tired out. If we can reject a
learned Wiseman for an archbishop, because he is an
alien, Pius IX. may translate the anti-Copernican
Cullen to Westminster, and inflict the greatest plague
of Egypt on this country, by the introduction to it of
a whole host of episcopal M'Hales. By personal vin-
dictiveness directed against the Pope's agents we shall
in fact do little. All the triumph we could achieve
would be after all of no very profitable result ; nor
shall we mend the matter by directing vengeanee
against the leader of the semi-Romanist or Tractarian
movement. Can we depose bishops for having fa-
voured this ceremony, or dabbled with that doctrine ?
Or is it possible or worth while for the sake of the
deprivation of even a majority of the bishops to make
a holocaust of the whole number ? The culpable have,
in fact, bowed their beads before the storm, and the
seeking to inflict more on them than their present
humiliation would fail. Even were success in bath
instances possible, it would be far from wise to make
martyrs of either Romanist or Tractarian, for either
of them would thereby acquire an interest and a cha-
racter which both for the present want. It is indeed
incumbent on all to maintain the Queen's supre-
macy, to uphold the sovereign power of her who
concentrates the lay and spiritual authority of the
state. For without this the great lay community
can never be safe against the caprices of our
fetown
clergy, or the hostility of a rival hierarchy.
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laws for this great purpose be fullynfo
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curity for the future, more than to vengeance for the
present. This can only be done by a searching in-
quiry into the state of those seminaries of the Church,
the universities, into the system of education and
rearing for that Church, as well 15 into tile entire

THE ASSOCIATION of the NEW POLISH
EMIGRATION haying recognised that the administration
of MM. ROLA BARTOC I lOWSKI and PRZEZDZIE'iIiI, as mem-
bers:of the late Polish Committee, was an Aati-Democratic one,—
having dissolved the same Committee and chosen a Commission for
ordering their books of receipts and expenses, written in the Polish
language, hasten to bring to the knowledge of the English bene-
factors that after a deep examination of the report given by the said
Commission, it declares,—

" That MM. Bartochowski and Przezdziecki have disabused the
confidence with which they were honoured by the Retbgees."
• The Secretary chosen at this effect,
M. PARRET KIEWICZ,
41, Turnnsill-street, Clerkenwell-green, where for the future all
eommuaications can be forwarded and subscriptions received for the
Polish-Hungarian Refugees, addressed to Mr. Thomas Brolsn, Mem-
ber of the Committee.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.
THIS EVENING.
Maofarrea's Serenata, The SLEEPER AWAKENED.
Haroun Alraschid, Mr. Irauk Boida ; Abou Hassan, Mr. Sims
Reeves; Zulieka, Madlle. Inri. Slaves, Guards, &c., by the Chorus
of the Establishment:

Labitzky:s Great Nationa' Quadrille of alt Nations, with Four Bawls
and Double Chorus, comprising 262 Performers.
Band. of the Ist Life Guar,is, Band of tie Grenadier Guards, Band
of the Scots Fusilier Guards, and' a Corps of British Military Side
Drums. The English, Chorus, and Choir of the Berlin Chapel Royal.
Angri, Frank Bodda, and Sims Reeves ; hlolique, Piatti, Prospere,
Baumann. Barret, Richardson, Remtisat, Franc, Mayeock, Arban,
and 31135 Goddard.

Musical Director, Composer, and Conductor—X. Balta.
Conductor of La Musique de Danse—Herr Labitzky.
Conductor of the Choristers of the Berlin Ckapel Royal —Herr
Neidhardt.

Promenade (admitting to the Half-Circles, Gallery} 1 6
and Pit Stalls) •
The Doors open at Half-past Seven, and the Concerts will com-
mence at Eight, and terminate about Eleven.
Boxes and Stalls to to had at the Box-office, where Programmes
of the performance may be obtained.
Mr. Thomas Masters of the Polytechnic Institution, the Coleseum,
and Royal Botanic and Zoological Gardens, will supply the Refresh-
ments and Wines, &c.,
Correct Books of the Serenata, countersigned by the Hon. Secre-
tary, to be had only in the Theatre. All others are ftaudulent and
Incorrect.

RECALL OF THE BERLIN CHOIR.
The Directors rogret;to announce that, in consequence of the dis-
turbed state of Prussia.. the Choir of his Majesty's Chapel Royal have
been ordered to return forthwith. Two of the Choristers being offi-
cers, and several of them soldiers, no excuse can avail, and their re-
giments being under orders to march, they are most anxious to re-
turn to their native country an I rejoin their corps. -tinder these cir-
cumstances, the Directors are compelled to announce the Six Fare-
well Performances of the celebrated Choir. This Evening they will
sing, for the first time, the English melody, " Home, sweet Home ;"
on Friday Evening, Weber's Battle Song." Thou sword by my side ;"
and on Saturday Evening they will make their last appearance in
England, and perform :Zollaer's Grand Chorus, "The March to
}tattle," previous to embracing another profession in the cause of
their King and Country.

r HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Mr. 13. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.
After which, an entirely new Comedy called THE HUS-
BAND OF MY HEART. The Viscount de Belletnlippe, Mr. C.
Selby ; Brioche, Mr. Buckstone ; Eugenic, Mrs. Fitzwilliam,
To conclude with AN ALARMING SACRIFICE.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a new and original Drama, entitled JESSIE
GRAY. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Boyce, 0. Smith, P. Bed-
ford Madame Celeste, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam.

After which a new Farce called THE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS ;
or, The Shilling Hop. Captain Kiteflyer, Mr. Boyce ; Major Stiff,
Mr. Worrell ; Mr. Panels, 3lr. Wright ; Alexander Panels, Miss
Chaplin.

TO conclude with a Terpsichorian Burlesque called ESMERALDA.
' Character,' by Meassrs. 0. Smith, Wright, P. Bedford ; Madame
Celeste, Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed an entirely new Play called THE TEMPLAR.
Characters by Messrs. Ryder, Fisher, Belton, Addison, Vining, Cath-
: cart, Everett, C. Kean ; and Mrs. C. Kean.
After which BETSY BAKER; or, "Too Attentive by Half."
Characters by Messrs. J. Yining, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss
• Murray.
To conclude with TWICE KILLED.

Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all Booksellers, and of Mr.
Massingham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office,
Oxtbrd-street, from Eleven till Four o'clock.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed 'PHILIP OF FRANCE AND MARIE
DE
.MERANIE. Characters by Messrs, G. V. Brooke, H. Farren,
Norton, W. Fa, ren, jun., Johnstone, G. Cooke, Diddear ; Miss Helen
Faucit, and Mrs. L. Murray.
To be followed with NOT TO BE DONE.
After which ALLOW JIE TO APOLOGISE.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE:.
Under the Management of Madame Vestals.
• Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews.
• THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a new Drama, called THE WHITE HOOD.
C harm:tell by 51essrs. C. Mathews. G. Vining, B. Baker, Horneastle,
ti eldingharn ; Miss Baker, and Mis. Maenamara.
::,To be followed by MY HE Altl'S IDOL ; or, A Desperate Remedy,
in which Messrs. C. Mathews, G. Vining, Belling,hain ; Madame Yes-
trim, Miss Seaworthy, arid Miss I. Dickenson will appear.
To conclude with THE ROMANCE OF TIIE ROSE.

ASTLEirti ROYAL ASIPHITIIRA.TRT,I
Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
TH 13 EVENING,

The Entertainments will commence Kith a new and original
peetaele, entitled TILE ENCHANTED PALFREY; or, The War•
riot* of the Crescent. •

To be suceefsteu by an inimitable Display of Ratty's Feats of
F quitaton in the. Cirque Olympique, by the nvile aud female Eques-
trians of the Establisbme7;t
To cOne!mle with a favourite Farce.

Box,oftice open from Eleven till Four.
Stage Manage-I', Mr. T. Thompson.

TRH NEGLECT OF SCULPTURE! IN ENGLAND.—
Woulctit ,bewise in the Government of the country to
atistain and draw out the capabilities of artists? There are
pedestals erected in Trafalgar-square which are naked, and
perhaps only awaiting some dead hero to immortalize a living
genial. Suripose 10,C00/. were annually given to revive (or
originate) a 'taste for sculpture, woulit not the country profit
by its humanizing influence? At present there i 3 little more
acumen amongst the multitude on the subject than might
suffice to discriminate doubtingly -between the group of the
Princess Charlotte's tomb at Windsor and the statue of
George the Fourth at King's-cross, or of Queen Victoria in
Pimlico, if some hotror-stricken dilettanti, on discovering the
barbarism of the two latter e.y.amples, had not removed them.
There are, at this moment, mouldering in the studies of
British-artists, splendid models that would do honour to any
age or nation, but which are unnoticed or unknown, because
sculpture is not fashionable—and there stand in the hall of a
millionnaire in the west-end but plaster casts of ancient
masters, and not a single product from the chisel!! The
gear 1851 may infuse a spirit for excellence in this art; but
if the subject be indiflerent to the Government, and they
withhold the legitimate support, this branch of the line arts-
must become extinct, and, Will not easily be resuscitated.—:

ALARUM —Mr. Dowling, the chief-super-
iltqiu.lent of the Liverpool police, has at (present in his pos-
ses.sian an ingenious and simple contrivance for alarming the
occupants of houses. in .Case of burglary. It consists of a
rattle, which is sprung by the gravitation of a weight at-
tached to a wheel, by means of a cord. The alarm is in-
telidell to be liXed on the attic floor'of the house, so that the
weight may fall the whole depth of the house, between the
banisters, and keep up a continuous alarm. The fall of the
wght upon the pavement or boarded floor makes a great
noise, and is alone.suthcient to arouse the household. The
process by which the rattle is set going is very simple. When
the cord is wound up, the weight which is attached to it is
stApendeff on a thick piece of wire, which passes through the
machine, and is connected at the other end with bell-Wire,
communicated by means of Cranks and pullies to the doors
and windows of the house. The moment any of these are
• he opt,•iied t wire on which the weight hangs is drawn out,
and the .re.5.21t is a most terrific alarm, which could be heard
in the-remotest part of a large dwelling-house, but more
especially. in the sleeping apartments. Mr. Dowling has
had one of these machines fitted up at his office; and we be-
lieve he will be glad to show its operation to any gentlemen
living in the outskirts of town, and who may desire an
inexpensive and efficient protector during the winter months.
—Liverpool Albion.

FA 4i A CCIDENT. —A fatal accident lisppened to
Ml'. Jaines Graver,er, an attorney of Dover, while following
the fax.hountls On Fritl-ky last in the vicinity of that town.
app'ears that the unfortunate gentleman was cantering up
to a corner of a wood whence the hounds were breaking
cover, and on coming up to a narrow dyke, over which a
person might easily have stepped, his horse made a sudden
Jump. and deceased •lost his 'scat and fell. Mr. Beattie, a
surgeon; who was near the, spot, hastened to render assist-
ance, and found the .doceased insensible and blood flowing
from a severe wound ou tfr titakple—caused it is supposed,
by'th'e hineelcickipt; him While He was removed at
once in a carriage to the Bell Inn at Lydden, and died at
half-past four o'clock in the afternoon.

'eheme of Church patronage. It is the universities
which have been mainly instrumental in the bold
attempt, that has fortunately failed, to denationalise
our Church, but which has not failed in denational-
ising the episcopate. Tractarianism may seem
low and humble for the present. But we
should recollect that there are a knot of
statesmen waiting for power, and not un-
likely, by astuteness and combination, some day to ob-
tain it, whose unvarying principle has been that of
building up ecclesiastical authority co-ordinate with
the State, or above it. Staunch, therefore, as wn may
know to be the opinions and character of our
Sovereign, we must know also that the power of the
State and the patronage :of the Church may be to-
morrow wielded by a party ready to reverse every
p rinciple hitherto established amongst us, and with
those principles every guarantee of religions freedom
and Protestant stability. If men are wise they will
now put it out of the power of the national seminaries
to rear up the youth of the wealthy and of the Church
. ,doctrines diametrically opposed to the national
interests and history, as well as to the universal
opinion, of the middle classes. And they will put it
out of the power of any Government to give up the
strong position of the Established Church to be held
by its occult and treacherous enemies.

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racterisenature's nobility. The writer evidently belongs, though he
has marked per se peculiarities, to the school of the Disraells, Man-
serses, and Smythos."—Observer.

"' Sliwood' is no ordinary work ; it contains passages of exceed-
ing beauty, and is written in pure and forcible language, with great
good taste and power. It is one of the most interesting and en
gagimg novels which the present season has produced. Of the cha-
racter of Amelia Ross we have already spoken, and the extract we
Save given above is the surest voucher of the truth of what we have
'aid. The other ladies who play conspicuous parts in the tale are
Florence Howard, an intellectual beauty; Jessie Gerdon, a wild and
impulsive genius, passionately fond of music and poetry; and Julia
/fait/and, the noblest and best of them all."—Morning Post.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.