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OCTOBER 24 1850.

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.ATIIOLIC LAW AND GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY,
8, NEW COVENTRY-STREET, LEICESTER-SQUARE, LONDON.
The FOURTiI ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprie-
tors of this Company took place on the 25th instant, at the Head
Office, at One o'clock precisely. The following is extracted from the
report, which is too lengthy for publication :
During the past year no claims have arisen from deaths in England.
and but two in Ireland—one for 5001. and the other for 2801.—making
together 7001., which have been paid. This is far below the expected
mortality, and is especially favourable, when it is remembered how
severely the life offices generally suffered from the epidemic of last
year.
The number of lives assured between the Ist of June, 1249, and
the 31st of May, 1850, was more than double the number issued in
the twelve months preceding.
Proposals were made for 132 Policies, amounting to 52,9631.25. 6d.:
of these 121, comprising 106 lives, were accepted for 45,1251. 6s.
Sixteen Policies lapsed, representing 6,0481., .upon which 3201. 3s.
was received by the Company in the shape of premiums.
Since the cammencement of the Company to the lot of June last,
assuraw es were effected to the extent of 110,9721. 125 6d., pro-
ducing in annual premiums 3,7321. 1 ls. 6d. Of these 54 lapsed,
amounting to 23,9301. 16s. 6d., of which the annual premiums were
7411. Is., leaving the yearly income on the Ist of June last equal to
2,9911. 15s. 11 d.
Since last meeting loans were applied for to the extent of 17,7001.,
but 1,1831. Ils. 10d. only was advanced.
The Directors were also highly gratified to report that within the
last four months they had considerably extended their business on
the Continent, having appointed, as Head Agent in France, Monsieur
de I'Etang, a gentleman of high standing in Paris, distinguished for
his integrity mutability in financial and in all assurance matters,
who, under the sanction and patronage of the Archbishop of Paris,
the Cardinal Arclibish.p of Lyons, and Monseigneur Parisis, Eveque
de Langres, has already within the last three months effected a con-
siderable amount of business, not only in Life Assurances, but in An-
nuities both Immediate and Deferred.
After various'resolutions, approving of the Report, and returning
thanks to the Right Reverend Chairman, Bishop Morris, the Vice-
Chairman,
Actuary, Secretary, and Medical Officers of the establish-
ment,
the meeting separated, highly gratified at its present results
and future prospects.

910 PARENTS and GUARDIANS.—A portion
of the extensive Premises in Regent-street, occupied by
Mes-rs. NICOLL, will in future be devoted for the production of
BOYS' and YOUTHS' CLOTIIING, such to exhibit unusual good
taste, style, and finish, besides having a further recommendation in
their du-ability and very moderate cost.
College Caps and Gowns, with every kind of Garment calculated
for pleasure, duties, or exercise, and such as are worn by Young
Gentlemen at the Colleges and Great Puolic Schools. These are al-
ways ready to ha met with at the Warerooms of H. J :tad 1). NI-
COLL, Merchant Clothiers, l'aletet Patentees, and• Manufacturers of
Cloth, it, gent-street (from 114 to 120 inclusive), and 22, Conlinll.
CACTION.—Many have assumed the use of the word " PALETOT,"
but Messrs. NICOLL are the Sole Patentees of the design and ma-
terial (in Winter or Summer Substances) employed in the manufac-
ture of this inexpensive and gentlemanly article of costume.

GRAND SALON DE D ANSE,
ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY, STRAND.
OPEN FOR THE SEASON.
Lessee—Mr. Thomas Bartlett Simpson, Albion Tavern, Great

Russell•strect, Covent-garden.

Mr. SIMPSON. anxious to have the best Band in London, has re-
tained the valuable talent of th' leading Artists engaged during the
past season at Cremorne Gardens, Including the following eminent
Performers from h-r Majesty's Theatre, the Royal Italian Opera,
and the Philharmonic Concerts :
First Violins—Hayward,' Cohen, Bue's, 11. T. Seabrook, Van lied-

deghem.
Second Violins—Pelerin, T. Jackson, Edwards, C. Grlesbach.
Tenors—Sapinskt, J. Jackson.
Violoncellos—Quinton, W. F. Reed.
Contra Basses—G. Taylor, W. Trantor, Guy, Stubgen.
Flauto —J. Saynor.
Piccolo—Meyer.
Flageolet—J. Tyler.
Oboe—J Schott.
Clarinetti —Park, G. Tyler.
Bassoon— Ntontara.
Cornets a-Pistons—Humfreess, Cottrell.

Horns— W. F. Youngman, IV. 1: oungman.
Trombont —Webster, Guiraud.
Ophicleide—llosca.
Bass Drum—llarrison.
Side Drum—Seymour.
INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT.
Overture, " Zampa" • • •• • • .. llerold.
Polka, " Cretnorne" •• .. Borini.
Solo (Violin) •• •• Mr. Van Heddeghen.
Valse, " Hommage a Strauss".. .• Borini.
Selection from LA SONNAMBULA .. Bellini.

Conducted by BOrtINI.
To the votaries of Terpsichore remarks on the excellence of
Wirini's Band, after- the experience of its Orchestral Triumphs at
Cremorne, would be superfluous.
Solos and Concerted Pieces will be performed during the evening.
Borint's Latest Compontions—Ths Adelaide Polka, Waltzes to
♦arious popular Irish Melodies, Galop d'lndustrie, New Quadrille of
all. Nations.
Tne Grand Salon, Refreshment, and Ante-rooms have undergone
considerable alterations and improvements.
Doors open et Hall-past Seven o'clock. Admission One Shillinq.

THIRTY-FIFTH EDITION.
CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR 'IIIE PREVENTION OF
DISEASE.
Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravirm on Steel.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA-
PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
A Cow and Improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, pries 2s. 6d.,
by post, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps,
91HE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work cn
the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by
ex :essive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse i f
mercury, with explicit directions for the use of the preventive lotion,
followed by observations on the Married State, and the diFqualiflca-
Hone which prevent it. Illustrated by 26 Coloured En4ravings, and
by the detail of cases. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., Consulting
Surgeons, 19, Iterners-street, Ox ord-street, London. Published by
the Authors ; and sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row; Hannay,
63, and Sanger. 150, Oxford-street ; and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-
street, London.

PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in-
dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing
mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative
Incapacity. Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings.

PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from cmectiOn, either in
the primary or secondary form. and contains explicit directions for
their treatment. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured
Eng' avings. _ _

PART IT. contains a Remedy for the Prevention •f Disease by a
simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated.
This important part of the Work should not escape the reader's
notice.

PAST V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its du-
ties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the
whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
THE Coanya. BALM OF Sysiecula is exclusively employed in
treating nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., 11s. and 335.
per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic
remedy, for purifying ' the blood in cases of infection, secondary
symptoms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and 338. per
bottle. Perry 's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 45. 6d., and I Is.
per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and
chronic inflammation of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter,
IL A minute detail of the case is required: age, habits, and posi-
tion in society. 11. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Feta-
blishment only by which the fee, 1/., Is saved. Messrs. Perry,
Surgeons, are in .ttendanee daily at 19, Berners-street, Oxford-
,treet,ll.Andon. from Eleven till Two and Piv• to Eight : on San.
date. from Eleven to One.

DR. CU.LVERWELL'S NEW WORKS.
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvaiho;
147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or direct from the author,
price Ono Shilling each ; by post, Is. 6d.
ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
"Health, Recreation, and rational Use of Time."
CorrrEwTs:—Early Rising—Apring and Summer Afornings—Ex-
cursions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Ems
Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant Places—Country
Trips and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evening. at Home
—Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air,
Rest, Ease, Occupation, Erx., Ece.
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FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two Tole.
Vol I.
A VISIT TO THE TAKES; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, Ice,

Vol. 11.
THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY; REMINISCENCES OF
DUBLIN, &C.
111.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID.
"That three seore years and ten our course may ran."
,eo old age
A Popular review of almost every form (cause And cure) of net,
7uslY-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses
Hrs Young, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em-
bitters
of everyday , with tables and rules for the diet and physical regu-
- ay life.

Iv.
THE PASSIONS.
" What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Truths as refined as Athens over heard."
e s pilgrimage, from infancy
IL:ent7ouesTnes: s Lanird'. dissipation, with illustrations,
of the n
The casualties 01
-"sten& Chastity and its infringements.
azd graphic, narrative,
remediative. Advocacy of early marriages.
old age. Tbe advent

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THE MARRIAGE STATE.
" To be or not to be, that is the question."
PitOGßADrnns•• and re-
ligion regarding marriage,
—Laws and obligations of nature, society, •
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and
Physical to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
to be observed by either sex. Time anl
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
eases, tke.
By R. J. CIILVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
“Netters. Reception hours daily till five. Xvounkis,
(1824). Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these
10 0.4711-place, Rment-strott,
germ WI Mlle.

SWANSCOMBE, KENT.
TO be LET, in this beautiful Village, a desirable
FAMILY RESIDENCE, in comp'ete repair, and containing
breakfast, dining, and drawing-rooms, flee bed-rooms, excellent
offices, two-stall stable and coach-house, kitchen-garden, large pad-
dock and well stocked erchard ; a good supply of excellent spring
water.

The premises are a short distance from the Greenhithe Pier,
where bolts call to and from London frequently in the day, and only
half-a-mile from the Northfleet Station.

For terms, &c.. apply to A. It. Steel, Esq., No. 1, Lincoln's Inn•
fields ; or to Mr. Frederick Goodeve, Ingress Abbey.

ARGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL-
STREET, ST. JAMES'S.
Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament of the 25th •f King G_orge

the Second.
(Sole Lessee, Charles Emile Lanrenf, jun., 57, P.rompton-square.)
LAURENT'S CELEBRATED AND UNRIVALLED BIND!
Principal Cornet-a-Piston. M. Boulcourt, from Par', and Artiste
Attache to M Strauss' Orchestra at the Baths of Vichy, France.
As this elegant and popalar resort of fashion is now duly
LICENSED by ACT of PARLIAMENT,

CONCERTS
will be produced. in addition to dancing. The new lessee pledges
himself that nothing shall be wanting on his part to render this
establishment worthy the distinguished patronage and support it has
hitherto been honoured with, and respectfully solicits a continuance
of those favours, wh,ch it will ever be his study to deserve.
Doors open every evening at Half-past Eight —Dancing to comma=
at Nine precisely.—Admission, One Shilling.
N.B. Particulars of the Concerts will shortly appear.

CAUTION —Many shopkeepers, when asked for

DR. LOCOCK'S FEMALE WAFERS,
attempt to sell "Pills" and other preparations under nearly
similar names instead—because they obtain a larger profit by the
sale of such counterfeits than can be obtained by vending the genuine
medicine. The public is therefore cautioned that the only genuine
has the words " Dr. Locjck's Waters" la white letters on a red
ground printed in the Government Stamp.
Dr. LOCOCK'S FEMALE WAFERS are the only medicine re-
commended to Ladies. They have an E.greeable taste.
Price Is. d., 23. Dd., and I Is. per box. _

All Pills under similar names are Counterfeits.
Also may bn, had DR. LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS,
for Asthma, Consumption, Coughs, and Colds.

Sold by all respectable Medicine Vendors, at ls. 133 d., 2s. 9d., and
I Is. per box.

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTII-EASTERN.—This company's line from Ash-
ford to Hastings and St. Leonard's, of 28 miles, com-
pleting the coast communication throughout Kent, is
now ready for opening, and the necessary notices have
been given for its inspection by the Government
officer, who will go over it in a few days. It has been
eighteen months under construction, and has cost
about 560,0001., or at the rate of 20,0001. per mile for
the double line of way. The distance from Ashford
to Rye is about 16 miles, and the cost from Rye to St.
Leonard's has been 252,0001. Towards Lydham-hill
and Hastings the works have been of a heavy cha-
racter. To avoid deep cuttings Mr. Barlow, the en-
gineer, has lengthened the tunnels, of which there are
four, of a total length of 3,685 yards, the Ore tunnel
being 1,380 yards; Mount-pleasant, 220 yards ;
Hastings, 765 yard 2; St. Leonard's, 1,320 yards.
The opening of the line, together with that now nearly
finished, between Tunbridge-wells and Hastings,
which will complete the South-Eastern Railway sys-
tem, is looked forward to as an important step towards
closing the capital account of the company.
MARYPoRT AND CARLISLE.—The meeting called
to receive the report of the committee of investigation
on the affairs of this company has been postponed
until the middle of next month to give further time

for inquiry.
HEREFORD AND GLOUCESTER.-A numerous meet-
ing of merchants and others interested in the esta-
blishment cf railway communication between Here-
ford and Gloucester, via Ross, has just been held at
Hereford; Mr. Prosser, M.P., in the chair. A letter
was read from Mr. Saunders, the secretary of the
Great Western Railway, stating that the subject was
one of great interest to the company. It was stated
as the result of an interview with Mr. Brunel that a
single line from Hereford to Gloucester
.would cost
250,000/. ; that 100,000/. could be raised from the
contractors, 50,0001. by debentures, and 100,0001. in
shares. It was resolved, on the motion of the Hon.
A. Clive, that the Great Western Railway directors
be informed that a requisition for establishing a com-
pany and carrying out the railway had been pre-
sented to the High Sheriff by;the principal landowners
and capitalists of Hereford, and that the directors of
the Great Western be requested to state whether they
are willing to cede all their rights and interests in the
line to such company, and to give it any and what
pecuniary assistance, and that a similar communica-
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lion be made to the directors of the Gloucester and
Forest of Dean Railway.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Return of
Traffic for the week ending Oct. 20:—
Passengers, parcels, &c. £27,227 3 4
Merchandise ... ... 17.209 1 5
Cattle ... 2,001 8 5

Total ... £16,437 13 2
Corresponding week last year 44,401 8 9
SouTH•EAsTERN RAILWAY. Gross traffic receipts for
he week ending Oct. 19:—
Passengers ... ... £11,299 12 1
Carrying account .. ... 3,170 16 8

Total ... X 11,470 8 9
Corresponding week last year... 12,239 4 2

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (HO miles
open.) —Traffic for week ending Oct .20 ...X14,178 16
Corresponding week in last year, (1964
miles open) .. ....L10,896 9 9
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ending Oct. 20:—

MAIN LINE.

Passengers ... £1,346 18 2
Parcels, 11. C. and D. ... 52 7 Iti
Goods, cattle, &c. ... ... 498 13 6
Mails ... ... 575 0 0

Total .. £2,472 19 6
MOLD.

Passengers ... £3216 5
Parcels,li. C. and D. ••• ... 2 8 1
Goode, cattle, &c. ... 76 13 7

her defects made good, has been placed at her moor-
ings, and the Magicienne steam-vessel has been
brought to the dockyard to be overhauled.
Vengeance, 84, Captain Sir li. Blackwood, Bart.,
has been taken over to the moorings formerly used by
the St. Vincent, when fag ship, off Gosport.

PROMOTION.

WOOLWICH, OCT. 23.—Gorge T. Barry, to be
Acting Gunner.

The Resistance troop-ship, Master-Commander
Bradshaw, was towed down the river to-day on her
departure for the Mediterranean.
The Wasp steam-sloop, Commander Crozier, will
leave Woolwich on Friday or Saturday next at latest
for Plymouth, where she will be paid advance, and
take out the IN ovember mails to the coast of Africa,
where she is to be stationed. This fine vessel, pro-
ceeding to a favourite station for obtaining prize-
money, has had a great number of applications to
serve in her, but her gallant commander being very
particular in selecting his crew, is still'about ten able
seamen short of the complement of the vessel.
The petty officers, stokers, and boys, have all been
selected and finally approved.

The tramways in the dockyard, contracted to be
executed this season, are now completed, and will
greatly facilitate the conveyance of heavy timber and
other articles to and from the various parts of the
yard when required. It is intended to build a set of
new steaming-tanks for the timber required to be
bent for shipbuilding purposes. The, spot selected
for the purpose is to the eastward of the slip on which
the Agamemnon, 84, is building.
The Buzzard steam-sloop has taken her guns, shot,
and shell on board, and is now very nearly ready as
an advanced war steamer or for commission.

The engines, of 560-horse power, intended to be
put on board the Leopard steam-frigate after she is
launched at Deptford, on the sth of November, have
been made by Messrs. Seaward and Co., of the City
Canal Iron-works, at Limehouse.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—In the course of the remarks we have
felt called upon to make on the Papal decrees which
affect to restore the Romish hierarchy in•this country
we have not touched upon any point of theological
difference; we have not entered upon any discussion
of matters of faith; we have not even adverted to the
ritual observances or forms of worship of our Roman
Catholic fellow-countrymen ; and we are not more
disposed than we were before this outrage to share in
the blatant intolerance of Exeter-hall. Those sacred
subjects are fit matter for controversy elsewhere than
in public meetings and the daily press. We apply
ourselves to this subject, not as theologians, or even
exclusively as Protestants, but as politicians and as
Englishmen ; and we confidently affirm that, all
questions of faith and morality being reserved, the
line of argument which we have endeavoured to follow
is not less applicable to English Roman Catholics
than to Protestants, unless the former are prepared
to sacrifice their rights and liberties as citizens
of this country and subjects of the British Crown
to the indefinite assumption of what is called
spiritual authority. We comprehend, though we
do not acknowledge, the principle of the Romish
Church, that the Pope for the time being is the
standard of faith, and we shall not here inquire
how impure the faith which is measured by that
standard may have become ; but the best and
greatest Catholic writers have drawn a broad and just
distinction between this rule of faith and the actual
administration of ecclesiastical affairs or the actual
exercise of unlimited and irresponsible spiritual
power in the relations of private life and society by
the Court of Rome. It may be perfectly consistent
with the insatiable ambition of the Papal See to claim
that power, but to admitlit to itsfull extent, and to bail
the instruments by which it is to be exercised in this
country, is to denationalize the Roman Catholic body,
to Italiauize that branch of the people of England, and
to renounce with inconceivable servility principles
which are the birthright of every Englishman in fa-
vour of a foreign despotism. By the elements of the
British Constitution, and by those ancient habits of a
free people which are more deeply rooted even than
our laws, every statute under which we live, every
authority we obey, every act of those authorities to
which we submit, is based on the assent of the nation
through its representatives, and controlled by the
several institutions of the 'realm. The poorest
subject in this land would protest against the im-
position of any other authority; he recognizes the
will of the country to which he belongs in the laws
that bind him ; and he would spurn the idea of sub-
mission to a foreign Potentate, absolute and irrespon-
sible, yet affecting his greatest interests. Yet such a
power, clothed in the universal and indefinite shape of
spiritual dominion, is that of Popery ; and the policy
of Pius IX. is manifestly and essentially to trample on
the rights of every national church, to concentrate
the direct administration of the whole Roman Catholic
Church throughout the world in the hands of his own
ministers and emissaries, and to exert by means of a
subject clergy a power debasing to the laity, insulting
to the temporal authorities of the country, and dan-
gerous to the peace and advancement of the nation at
large. The Papal brief of the 24th of September
which re-establishes the Romish hierarchy in England
expressly declares that " all constitutions, privileges,
and customs of the church in England are
abolished, whatever be their antiquity, and the
new bishops are invested with full episcopal
takepoong power." e
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andat the foot of a strange altar and at the bidding of a
foreign priest. In Ireland, where the Roman Ca-
tholic body is more numerous,
more submissive than it is in this m
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bitant pretensions have been carried to greater lengths.
The titular Romish primecy has been conferred upon
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a prelate who is in all but his patrimonial name an
Italian monk; and this selectioo of Dr. Cullen, has
been speedily followed by the inauguration of a Na-
tional Council or Synod, which cilia itself "the most
solemn and important assembly that has been held by
the Irish Church since the days of her glorious
apostle, St. Patrick." 'We had not the advantage
of knowing until this occasion that St. Patrick
was one of the apostles ; and in another
part of the Synodical Address (p. 15) we observe
that these Ilibernihn prelates speak of " the pre-
cincts of the domestic circle where nothing undefiled
should be permitted to enter ;" but with these excep-
tions there is not a trace of national character in the
labours of the Synod. It met to ratify, or rather to
obey, the injunctions of Cardinal Franzoni and the
Propaganda, and it determined a question of high im-
portance to the education of the people of Ireland by
the slavish declaration, "All controversy is now at an
end—the judge (1. e. the Pope) has spoken—the ques-
tion is decided (sic)." Its other words, the Queen's
Ministers and the Parliament of the United Kingdom,
having framed legislative measures to improve the
education of the people of Ireland, the Pope's Minister
and the Pope's Synod deliberately meet in Ireland,
under orders from Rome, to defame and defeat them ;
and they condemn, not only the measures of a Pro-
testant Government, but the acts of their own most
•
patriotic and enlightened prelates. We may not un
fairly take the conduct of the powerful Romish hie-
rarchy of Ireland as an exponent of the course to
be pursued under the same authority by the
less powerful but newly restored Romish hie-
rarchy of England. In both countries the vio-
lence of their language and the arrogance of
their policy have undoubtedly increased with the im-
portance of the titular distinctions and the ostensible
position they have assumed. For the mere purposes
of the ministry of the priesthood it may be of little
moment whether the altar be served by a bumble
vicar or a purple prelate; but for the objects of
spiritual domination and government, these seditious
synods, these fictitious dioceses, and these indefinite
episcopal powers are avowedly intended to carry on a
more active warfare against the liberties and the faith
of the people of England. It
may be that we can
afford to laugh at such pretensions,
_marked as they
are by gross ignorance of the true spirit of this na-
tion ; butt it deserves some notice thath these preten-
sions can be put forward at all eassshuarnpe in which
they are now presented to us. Tile ti of the
Pope, that this country has just been rescued from
heathenism and restored to the supremacy of the Papal
hierarchy, reposes on the two most monstrous fictions
we remember to have met with • even in the annals of
Rome. The Church of England, like the Greek Church,
has for centuries thrown off her allegiance to the head
acknowledged by the Latin Church ; but when did
Rome before claim the right of re. constituting the dio-
ceses of a country which she could only regard with
consistency, not as heathen, but as schismatic ? The
position of the:Romish clergy in this country until the
late extraordinary edict of the Vatican
They was precisely
that which befitted their condition. were here
in the light of sojourners in a land which ceased to
belong to them ; their connexion was strictly with
their own flocks, not with the country ; their commis-
sion, such as it was, embraced no more than their po-
sitive duties ; and the station they held Without con-
.

testation was not an invasion or a defiance of the
I clergy of England. This judicious moderation has
been thrown aside, and without any change in the
actual relations of this country to Rome a most
significant change has been arbitrarily effected in
the style and position of the Romish priesthood in this
country. For the first time since the triumph of
Protestant principles the Pope has ventured to erect
in England, not a point of faith or a rule of conduct,
but what must be regarded, if itbe anything, as a form
of government ; and this is done by the very men who
are stated without contradiction to have suppressed
the prayer for the Queen in the Romish
chapels of the London district. It is evident
that these transactions are tainted with a treason-
able hostility to our national institutions; and
though it may be contended by legal for-
malists that there is no statute to compel a Christian
congregation to pray for their Sovereign or to pro-
hibit a spurious title, it will be not the less generally
admitted that these acts constitute a moral breach of
allegiance to the Crown and to the country.
DAILY NEWS.—Tnere is a much more im-
portant question to be asked than that of whether the
Pope has wronged or insulted us by the appointment
of a Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. It is this,
—whether the numbers of Roman Catholics are
really increasing in this kingdom in such a propor-
tion as to warrant fresh steps on the part of the Pope
in order to provide for their spiritual teaching, en-
couragement, and necessities. The answer to this
—and we make it with regret and shame—is, that
the numbers of the Roman Catholics in this country
are increasing. And we think that the first efforts
of public inquiry and of resentment ought to be di-
rected to this great fact and to its causes, for it is
quite useless our anathemising an enemy beyond our
reach abroad, for events or evils brought on by our
own laches, injustice cr stupidity at home. The great
examples of defection to the Roman Catholic Church
have notoriously been furnished by the universities.
It is from them, our privileged schools of theology,
that have proceeded the theories and the views which
have precipitated men into Popery. And leading
minds having taken this course, the novelty and
attractive excitement attending it have dragged after
them great numbers of the younger clergy, just
issued from the universities. And these it is, com-
plete Roman Catholics in their hearts, though still
wearing the semblance and the robe of Protestantism
externally, who are employed in making converts
amongst their congregations to Catholicism, under the
express sanction of too many of our enormously paid.
hierarchy. The fact is, the country is in progress of
being sold to Rome by the very institutions and the
very guardians which the State has appointed, and
privileged, and endowed; and the first inquiry should
be into these institutions. It has been their pingui-
tude, their monopoly, their overbred distaste and
aversion for all that is popular in religion, that has
produced the opposite extreme ; and that opposite ex-
treme turns out to be Popery. Had the universities,
instead of being kept up solely to produce dilettante-
ism—had they been thrown open to the middle
classes,• their sterling good sense and thorough
national feeling would have acted as an effectual anti-
dote to the revival of superannuated phantasies. But
as long as these colleges are mere seminaries or resi-
dences for the wealthy classes, and for those who aim
at becoming clergymen, or beneficed clergymen,
under the patronage of those classes, it is impossible
that England should have a truly national church or
a genuinely popular clergy. The breaches by which
Romanism has forced its way into the. Protestant cita-
del are two. One of them we have just described, as
having been effected in the universities themselves
and in our very schools of theology. The other
breach has been made by the wedge which Irish pau- ,
perism forms, and which is gradually advancing its
way amongst our working population, and from them
into the class above it. It is a rule, we believe, that
the classes at the summit of our social fabric die off,
and are replaced gradually from those from below.
Feudal law and practice have done their utmost to
counteract and arrest the progress of this upward
movement. But its failure has been too evident.
What now constitutes the lower class will probably
in a century later constitute the middle one. Now
one of the great substrata of our population is Irish.
Their few demands, their pliable tempers, their robust
constitutions, fit them for a vast extent of rough and
unskilled work in all our towns, conglomerations.
They are prolific, despite of misfortune ; some are pru-
dent, save money and rise. These have come to form
large congregations in the midst of the Anglo. Saxon
race. We may boast of having subdued Ireland, and ex-
tirpated Catholicism. The boast is idle. For what was
subdued and said to be extirpated is raising its head,
taking its revenge, and subduing and extirpating in
its turn, not with Cromwell cannon, but with the
more powerful weapons of peace progress. If, then,
we are seriously to set about resistance to Romanism,
we must repair the two great breaches by which it
has entered. We must look to the condition of Ire-
land, and not leave to the Irish the terrible advantages
of ignorance and destitution. For those it is that
enable the Irish to undersell with their labour, and
underwork by their perseverance the Anglo-Saxon
race in our great cities. We have hitherto
complained merely of that influx of Irish, which
has augmented the poor rates of English unions.
These, however, are but trivial effects of this invasion,
compared with the more important moral and religious
conquests. At the same time we must look to the
universities. Even before the late Tractarian move-
ment, the effect of the narrowing of the universities
was manifestly to narrow the Church itself, and confine
it more and more to the Church of the well born and
well connected classes. If the middle and the lower class,
especially in towns, gradually escaped from it,
ideas.
Yet attribute it chiefly to the narrowness of university
Yet it is the aversion entertained towards the schism,
which the university Church thus created, that has
driven the new clergy to the assumption of an au-
thority and influence which cannot be established, as
is seen, without falling back upon the religious
tenets of the dark ages. We demand, however, no
theological inquest. We merely say that the uni-
versities, constituted as rotten boroughs, as aristo-
cratic and close seats of learning, have produced cer-
tain fruits. Fling them open to the university of
Englishmen, and re organize Church patronage in
some fairer and more popular way, and you may re-
signs
t e taking ot decay.
t o e
first T n e
stepsprecautions
to r
esi
st which
any
y i t is im-
perative generate or re-establish that Anglican Church, which,
under
its pr.esent management, gives but too mani-
fest
to provide at home should not, however, pre-
vent h
undueor
illegal encroachments on the part of any foreign power
or pontiff. As a political journal, we must avoid the
consideration of dogmas, or disquisitions into theo-
logy. The only point of :Catholicism that we need i
object snot even its spiritual authority, but its tem-
poral doings; and to these it behoves Government and
Parliament especially to attend. The Roman Catholic
Church, even in its palmy, ascendant and well-endowed
state, is powerfully possessed of the means of attracting
property to itself. These means of absorption are a hun-
dred times greater, and a thousand times more greedily
and, perseveringly used, in a country and a condition
where that church is poor. Already, indeed, the
Roman Catholic establishment is in possession of
large estates and property of different kinds. The
great duty of the vicar-general, or the legate, which-
ever it is, whom the Pope sends us, in the person of
Cardinal Wiseman, is to augment and administer this
property; and we understand that his Eminence has
formed a council in 'Westminster for this very purpose.
It is a well-known fact that the late Mr. Taylor, in
whose cemetery at Weybridge are deposited the re-
mains of Louis Philippe, was induced on his death-
bed, on his bed of sickness, to disinherit his son and
leave his large property of nigh 3,0001. a year to this
very Dr. or Cardinal Wiseman. It is therefore not
merely our consciences that we have to defend against
the Papal legate, but our purses, the fortunes of
English families, the independent condition of the
land, and of the population upon it. Cardinal
Wise-
man is now a foreign prince; his allegiance and his
that
of bind him to a foreign state far more than to that
of England, as he has proved in his prohibition to
his curates to pray for our Queen ; and yet this I
foreign prince is coming
amongst us to exercise large
temporal authority, in the interest, not of England,
but of an Italian sovereignty. Hitherto, we must
say, the Roman Catholic prelates who have borne
sway over their flocks, and who by the quiet increase
of these flocks have proved themselves no unfaithful
pastors to their church, have still exercised their
jurisdiction and their influence without exciting jea-
lousy, or hostility, or fear, or cause of complaint.
They were content with the natural propagandism of
circumstances. They held the gates of the fold open,
and received the sheep, which the more ignorant and
arrogant Protestant • pastors estranged. But this is
now to cease. We are to have open rivalry. Church
is to vie with church, crozier with crozier. And the
episcopal chairs of IVolsey and of Crantner are to
meet and have a collision in the broad thoroughfares
of life. Such is the decree of Pope Pius, or the de-
termination of his advisers. It behoves the people
and the Parliament, and the courts of law, to see to it.

Let those who would affect singularity with sud:
cess, first determine to be very virtuous, and they will 13
sure to be very singular.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
POSIMASTERS AND RAILWAYS.—The revenue
officers have raised an objection to the custom of postmasters
sending vehicles for hire on the arrival of trains at railway
termini and stations.

[PRICE SD.

TRANSPORT OF EMIGRANTS.

In these times, when earlessness or inattention is
so much complained of in the transport of emigrants,
it is a great gratification to meet with testimonials
to British sailors engaged in the service, and the fol-
lowing letters, taken from the South Australian Re-
gister and the Sydney Morning Herald, must prove
alike gratifying to the friends of the emigrants and
to the commander. If such testimonials were more
frequent we should have less need of them, as they
would do much to allay the fears of those about to
embark, who often dread the voyage more than their
introduction to a distant land :

On board the Samuel Boddington, Port Adelaide,
South Australia, March 26, 1850.
Dear Sir,—The destination of some of the passen-
gers in this ship having arrived, we beg leave to ex-
press our warmest acknowledgments for the extreme
kindness, consideration, and attention which you, as
her commander, have shown on all occasions in pro-
moting, to your utmost power, the comfort and hap-
piness of ourselves, and of every individual in the
ship. Although our tribute to your professional abi-
lity cannot be very valuable, yet we cannot refrain
from joining in that which is awarded to you by more
competent judges, and which places your name in a
very prominent and honourable position amongst
British sailors. Facts, however, as regards the pre-
sent voyage, will speak for themselves. Under your
matured skill and judgment, and having had to con-
tend against difficulties which had been cast in your
way by the negligence of the charterer, you have
safely brought us from England to this port in the
short space of eighty-six days—a time in which, we
believe, ships of far superior pretensions have haled
in making the voyage.
Whilst we feel deeply grateful to that Providence
who rules all things, and allows the skill of man to
avail, we may be permitted to bear this testimony to
the persevering skill and energy which have marked
your conduct on all occasions, and which, under Pro-
vidence, have resulted in our prosperous voyage. We
feel, also, that we should not omit, on this occasion, to
acknowledge the attention and civility we have re-
ceived from all the officers of the ship.
With very sincere feelings of regard and esteem,
and cordial wishes for your future welfare,
We beg to remain,
Yours very faithfully and sincerely,
Emma Banks, Harriett Bennett, Elizabeth Tripp,
M. A. Scraggs, W. U. Tripp and family,
Thomas A. Boulton, T. C. S. Tyrrell, Harvie
E. Coombe, R. Cruttenden, H. D. Cruttenden,
D. Scraggs, F. Acret, Thomas Luscombe,
James Shutter.
To Captain J. W. Hurst, Samuel Boddington.
On board the Samuel Boddington,
Sydney, 6th May, 1850.
Dear Sir,—Having now arrived at our final port
of destination, we, the passengers of your ship, again
beg to offer you a continuation of those sentiments
which were freely offered you in the port of Adelaide :
your remarkably quick passage of eighty-six days
from England to that port we feel conscious was
achieved principally by your unwearied attention and
watchfulness, and which have also been fully carried
out to this port. Your great kindness and urbanity
of nanners on all occasions have not only confirmed
our former opinions, but likewise of those passengers
who have had the happiness and pleasure of sailing
with you from the ports of Adelaide and Melbourne.
Words will not convey the feeling of respect which
we all entertain towards you, but trust you will ac-
cept our sincere wishes for your future health and
happiness, and that every success may attend you
during your pilgrimage through life is the heartfelt
and sincere wish of

Yours, very faithfully,
Thomas A. Boulton, John Day, Hannah Day,
Annie E. Osborne, William Osborne, Jos.
Hibbert Hopkins, Margaret M. J. Morris,
Mary A. Morison, John Nisbitt, William
Campbell, Frederick Acret, Charles Lister.
To Captain J. W. Hurst, of the Samuel Boddington.

A. MODERN EXCOMMUNICATION.
About a week since the walls of Warrington were
pretty freely covered by placards ,resembling those
usually issued for the apprehension of a runaway
thief, and having at the top the sword " Caution," in
large capitals ; the name of the Rev. Richard GiOsnall,
the clergyman of the neighbouring village of Stret-
too, appearing in full length at the foot of the docu-
ment. For a copy we are indebted to a correspon-
dent, who has likewise furnished us with the follow-
ing particulars of the circumstances out of which
the placard seems to have originated :
It appears that, some time ago, a poor man, of the
name of John Cooper, a farm-labourer of Appleton,
and one of Mr. Greenall's parishioners, had the mis-
fortune to lose his wife, who left behind her an infant
family of three children. On her death-bed, this
poor woman made a request that, if her husband
should ever marry again, he would marry her sister.
Ever since Mrs. Cooper's death, the sister referred to
conducted the widow's humble establishment, and
acted as a mother to the orphans, until the commence-
ment of the present month, when Cooper and his de-
ceased wife's sister, in compliance with the dying re-
quest already stated, went over to the parish church
at Warrington, and were there married. Almost
immediately afterwards, the reverend gentleman, the
clergyman of Stretton, became cognizant of the fact
of the marriage, whereupon he issued and caused to
be circulated a placard, commencing thus :
" Caution.—Whereas John Cooper, of Appleton,
by false representation of his place of residence, has
entered into marriage, at the parish church of War-
rington, with the sister of his late wife, which mar-
riage is by the laws of the land null and void. Any
offspring arising therefrom will be base-born and
The placard then proceeds to give " warning" that
no two persons can be married out of their own pa-
rish ; and that persons making false representations
as to their place of abode will subject themselves to
the penalties of perjury, &c.
Oa the above production, stigmatizing ignomi-
niously, as it affects to do, two humble, honest, well-
behaved persons (as we understand these two people
unquestionably are) because they have enterei into a
solemn contract ei.joined by a dying woman, and nut
contrary to the laws of nature, or of nature's God, we
see no necessity to offer any comment of our own.
Those who read the simple statement of facts will farm
their own judgment and make their own comments.
But we may as well take this opportunity of mentioning
that, so 'far from marriages of this description being un-
known occurrences in the Rev. Mr. Greenall's neigh-
bourhood, we have just learned that Mr. Sleigh, the bar-
rister, whose name has been so long before the public as
the untiring advocate of the legalization of marriage with
a dec eased wife's sister, has recently been to War-
rington, where he ascertained the present or recent
existence of upwards of twenty-five eases of mar-
riage with wives' sisters in Warrington and the im-
mediate neighbourhood. We are further told that
Mr. Sleigh, who is at present making a rapid tour
through England for the purpose of obtaining statis-
tical information on this important subject, has dis-
covered during the last three weeks about two hun-
dred cases of actual marriage with wives' sisters in
the county of Lancaster and West Riding of York-
shire, many of which have taken place within the last
year , and that gentleman declares it to be his belief
that they exist to an extent little imagined, more par-
ticularly amongst the poorer classes of society.
With these facts staring us in the face; with proof
of the most convincing nature that persons in all
classes
into
least in their social status; nay,
society,
these and
continue, despite the statute of William the Fourth,
to enter
receiving the encouragement and approbation of the
great bulk of the good and virtuous of the
community, we can hardly imagine the Legislature
will any longer hesitate to repeal a law of which
suffering of
the Rev. Mr. Dale, one of the canons of St. Paul's,
London, and vicar of a populous metropolitan dis-
trict, forcibly remarks, " So far as my parochial ex-
perience extends, the prohibition of marriage with a
deceased wife's sister operates far more to the pro-
motion than to the prevention of crime. 'Were the
prohibitions founded on Scripture, we ought at what-
ever sacrifice to obey God rather than man ; but I
cannot see the expediency of a law, which, having no
such sanction, is observed only by the scrupulous,
evaded by the wealthy, and defied or disregarded by
the poor." And of which the Hon. and Rev. Mon-
tague Villiers says, " I am decidedly of opinion that
the repeal of the present law, while it may partially,
and very partially, affect the habits of society among
the upper classes, will remove a barrier to marriage
which now exists, but which I do not believe God
ever set up. It will prevent much immorality among
the poor, relieve many a burdened conscience, and
tend to the increase of happiness amongst large num-
bers of our fellow-countrymen."
We are happy to hear that the petition now in
Liverpool, praying for the repeal of the manifestly
inoperative, as well as mischievous, statute which
prohibits these marriages, has already received the
signatures of several of our highest municipal
functionaries, eminent bankers, and merchants.

MANSION iloosn.--The Lord Mayor entertained
on. Tuesday and Wednesday evenings a selection of his pub-
lic and private friends.