The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-24 00:00:00

3IAIN LINIC.

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

Tot al ..

£9,472 19 6
MOLD.

PASSeDgers £3216 5
Parcels, H. C. and D. .•• 2 8 l
Goods, cattle, &c. 76 13 7

Total ... .
STEAM-BOATS.

£lll 18 1

Passengers ... Z 145 16 0
Parcels, H. C. and D. 7 7_ 0

Total ... k:153 3 0
SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. Return of train:: for the week
ending Oat.
Passengers £7;17 16 3
Parcels .„. 45 19 5
Goods ... 95 17 0

Total (exclusive of mails)... 939 12 8
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. (160 miles opened.)—Return o 1
,raffic fir the week ending Oct. 13:
Passengers, &c. £3,269 15 5i
Goods, &c. 4,074 6 8

Total .. £7.344 2
-Corresponding week last year ... 6,811 17 Ci
SHROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAY.—(Open CO miles.) Traffic
for the week ending Oct. 20 :
Passengers, parcels, &c. £275 13
Goods and live stock .. ... 202 0 7

Total £177 13 10i
Corresponding week last year ... 430 10 3

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

SIR WILLIAM PARKER'S FLEET.—We have letters
from the squadron dated Port Mahon, Minorca, Oct.
10, where the ships were in quarantine. When they
received pratique they were to proceed on a cruise to
Sardinia, Sicily, and the coast of Italy. There is no
mention of any sickness in the fleet. The Admiral
had his family on board the fllgship Queen, 110, and
it was said he intended giving a ball before he left the
island. The Scourge steam-sloop, Commander Lord
F. Kerr, was just leaving for Malta, and expected
back with a mail for the fleet.
THE CHOLERA AND THE BaLLEßornos.---Letters
from the Bellerophon, 78, Captain Baynes, C. 8.,
state that she was to leave Gibraltar on the 10th for
Devonport. She had had 86 cases of cholera on board
since she left Malta, nine of which proved fatal.
Among the number of victims was the master, Mr. G.
C. Dowers (1833). At our last dates the cholera had
entirely left the ship, and she was quite healthy.
Binshee steam packet, Master - Commander
Srnithett, arrived at Davonport on Tuesday after-
noon, from Holyhead, and went into harbour.
Birkenhead steam-transport, Master-Commander
Aylen, is all ready for sea, and at Portsmouth; she
was to have sailed yesterday, but, in consequence of
the barometer falling very much, and the unsettled
state of the weather, she will not go until to-day. She
has 450 tons of coal on board, 450 tons of provisiona,
and an immense number of packages for the officers
of the African squadron.
Blonde frigate, fitting for a hulk, in room of the
old Topaze, has been taken into the angle dock at
Portsmouth.

Cambrian, 40, Commodore James 11. Plumridge,
is ordered to be paid off, at Devonport, on her arrival
from the East Indies' without any of her internal fit-
ments being disturbed.
Camel lighter, Faben master, from Devonport,
sailed on Tuesday for Exmouth, to bring down the
furniture of Rear-Admiral Moresby, C. 8., for em-
barkation in the Portland.
Geyser steam-sloop, Commander Tatham, will leave
Woolwich for the Brazils station about the latter end
of next week.

Hercules store•sbip, Master Commander Fulton,
will sail from Greenbithe, on Saturday, for Gibraltar
and Malta. _

Iphigema, old frigate, has been towed from Wool-
wich to Deptford, to be broken up.
Lightning steam-tender, Master-Commander Pa-
ley, arrived at Portsmouth, from Plymouth, yester-
day, on her way to Woolwich.
Sampson steam-frigate, at Devouport, having had

The tramways in itie 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 very ntsrly ready as
an advanced war steamer or for commission.

The engines, of 560-horse power, intended to be
put on board the Leopard steani-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 endeevoured-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 lite 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 adinitlit 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 Italianize that branch of the people of England, and
to renounce with inconceivab:e servility principles
which are the birthright of every Englishman in fa-
vour of a foreign despoti,na. 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 heeds of his own
ministers and emisiaries, and to exert by means of a
sulject 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 Retnish 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
power." So that even from the point of view
which an English Romanist may be expected to
take of this matter, the decision of the Pope is an au-
aacious and revolutionary interference with rights
freedom,
vedrom the, minds
and even and
their
heir consciences
national
independence,
long anterior to the Reformation itself and it is no-
thing short of the establishment of a dictatorship by
Rome
of that m
guided portion of our countrymen who can forsake
their
at the foot of a strange altar and at the bidding of a
s vt than ithies e inn carried this
to country,
greater foreign priest. In Ireland, where the Roman Ca-
tholic body is more numerous, snore ignorant, and
more
The titular Romish primacy has been conferred upon
3 prelate who is in all but his patrimonial name an
Italian monk; and this selection of D
these
exor-
bitant
pretensionsubmis submissive
lengths.
r. Cullen has
been speedily followed by the inauguration of a Na-
tional Council or Synod, which calls itself "the most
solemn and important assembly that has been held by
the Irish Church since the days a
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 Syuodical Address (p. 15) we observe
that these Hibernian prelates speak of " the pre-
cincts of the domestic circle where nothing undefiled
should be permitted to enter ;" but with these except
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 (i. e. the Pope)
_has spoken—the ques-
tion is decided (sic)." In other words, the Queen's
Ministers and the Parliament of the Ueited Kingdom,
having framed legislative measures to improve the
education of the people of Ireland, the Pope's Minister
anti 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 Flee
own most
sr
patriotic and enlightened prelates. e may not un•
fairly take the conduct of the powerful
hie-
rarchy of' Ireland as an exponent of .h Romish t
e 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 itn•
portance of the titular distinctions and the ostensible
position they have assumed. For the mere purposes
of the ministry cf the priesthood it m ty be of little
moment whether the altar be served by a humble
vicar or a purple prelate; but for the objects of
spiritual domination and government, these seditious
synods, these fictitious dioceses, and thesed indefinite
episcopal powers are avowedly dioceses,,
ie to carry on a
potfiothnios
of the
the liberties and the faith
more active warfare a
pretensions, marked. as they
of the people of England. It may be that we can
afford to laugh at such
are by gross ignorance of thei tsrtu et
been_
ap, isrui tm
can be put forward at all
rte assumption
in which
na-
tion ; but it deserves some notice
. filet _ these preten-
sionsthey are now presented to us. Er
Pope, that this country has. Ja
minarescued from
heathenism and restored to the supremacy cyof the Papal
hierarchy, reposes on the two roost o
en monstrous fictions
we remember to have met with
like the
in the annals of
Rome. The Church of England, e Greek Church,
has for centuries thrown off her allegiance to the head
acknowirdeed by the Latin Church; but when did
of rsecons
Rome before claim the
sherightng the dio-
ceses of a country which could onititutiy regard with
consistency, not as heathen, but as. schismatic i? The
position of the:Rousish clergy in this country until the
late extraordinary edict of the Vatican was precisely
that which befitted their condition. They 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,t-
such as it was, embracan their ed no more h
po-
sitive duties ; and the station they held without con-

testation, was not an invasion or a defiance of the
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 of ry men who
are stated without contradiction to have suppressed
the prayer for the Queen in the Boarish
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.—There is a much more im-
portant question to be asked than that of whether the
Pope has wronged or ineulted us by the appointinent
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. 1-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 ladies, injustice er 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 flatting 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 phantas'es. 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 clergy av n,
under the patronage of those classes, it is impossible
that England should have a truly national church or
a genuinely popular clergy. Tne 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 universitias themselves
and in our very schools of theology. The other
breach has been made by the wedge which Irish p sus
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,
tend 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 tco evident.
What now constitutes the lower class will'prohably
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, tit 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 Ronianistn,
vnl imi
tntd
hegeimanagement,
more thematns
tfinori popular
ns
Root
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 connscted classes. If the middle and the lower class,
especially in towns, gradually escaped from it, we must
attribute it chiefly to the narrowness of university ideas.
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-
Englishmen, and re•organize Church patronage in
siutvaloenlinendnglteearfltfrahietielsirlietstporra.
orkpaeairnsFenoedhg
re-
generate or re-establish that Anglican Church, w-hich,
butr
ha3o n':y eouvou ‘
foreignoen
ever,
uvopewr oee
mani-
fest signs of decay. Toe precautions which it is im-
perativer
or pontiff. As a political journal, we must avoid the
consideration of dogmas, or disquisitions into theo-
logy. The only point f Catholicism that we need
object is not 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, indesd, 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 lid that the late Mr. Taylor, in
whose cemetery at Weybridge are deposited the re-
mains of Louis Philippe, was induced on hie 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
duty 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
f ,reign prince is coming amongst us to exercise large
temporal authority, in the interest, not of England,
but of an Italian sovereignty. ITlitherto, we must
say, the Roman Catholic prelates who have borne
sway over their flecks, 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 choirs of Wolsey and of Crantner are to
meet and have a collision in the broad thoroughfare:,
of life. Such is the decree of Pope PILIF, 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 sue-:
cess, first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be
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.

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 bymore
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 hating had to con-
tend againit 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 failed
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 wiblies 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 ,word " Caution," in
large capitals ; the name of the Rev. Richard Greenall,
the clergyman of the neighbouring village of Stret-
ton, 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, whea 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 Var-
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
illegitimate."
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, &e.
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 enjoined by a dying woman, and net
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.
Bat we may as well hike tbis opportunity of mentioning
that, so far from marriages of this description being un-
known occurrences in the Rev. Mr. Greenall's neigh.
bourhood, w e have just learned that Mr. Sleigh, the bar-
rister, w hose name has been so long before the public as
the untiring advocate of the legal;zation of marriage wiih
a deceased wife's sister, has recently been to War-
rington, where he ascertained the preselit or recent
existence of upwards of twenty- five eases of mar-
riage with wives' sisters in Warrington and the im-
mediate neighbourhood. \%'e 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 ecciety.
With these facts staring us in the face; with proof
of the most convincing nature that persons in all
classes of society, and of all religious denominations,
continue, despite the statute of William the Fourth,
to enter into these forbidden marriages, without
suffering the least in their social status; nay,
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
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
ep
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et irci,
fin
es
efoundedy o nu
od rather Scripture, wt
he oughtan ula na t; sbv
uh
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cs
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et hne, eisxpeebdsieernlc.eydofe
nal law,y
by w
thhi ce h ,s
ehrauvpi
unglounso,
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 cf our fellow -countrymen."
We are happy to hear that the petition now in
Lniovpeerrpautoivl,e,praaysing
well for
at
sh e
mischievous, repeal of the
tat mutaeni
signatures of several of our highest
functionaries, eminent bankers, and merchants.
sjwehsitclYh
i
"prohibits these marriages, has already received the
municipal

MANSION llousE.—The Lord Mayor entertained
on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings A selection of his pub-
lic and privet() friends.

blankets, bombazins, bonnets (straw), &c., cambrics,
camlets, cane-workers, canvass, cards, carvers' and
gilders' work, chains, anchors, &c., cisterns,
clay goods, coaches, manufactures in coal, coffee pots,
collar makers, combs, copper nails, crape, china, &c.,
cricket Lusts and stumps, desks, door plate and springs,
drapery, ebony, fans, feathers or feather ornaments,
files, fish hooks, fishing rods, flags, flannel and baize,
flooreloth, ornamental flooring, founding metals, fur-
riers, fustians, gauzes, gauze wire cloth, gildings, gilt
jewellery, gingham, gold and silver thread, hosiery,
India rubber manufactures, inkstands, iron bedsteads,
japanning furniture, japanning leather, japantling lace
braid, coach lace, gold and silverlace, Leghorn bats,
macintoshes, maps and charts, marquees and tents., wool
mats, morocco, morocco cases, paper, parasols, parch-
ment, pasteboard, ornamental' pavement, pearl setting
and works, pencil cases, steel pens, pins and needles,
rocking horses, rope making, woollen rugs (not
hearth), sailcloth, satin, sealing wax, sewing silks,
shirts, shoe mercery, spurs, straw hats, table, covers,
table knives, tea trays, tea urns, tents and marquees,
terracotta, thread, tin wares, toys, transparent
travelling cases, tresses, brass and metal turnery,
ivory turnery, wood turnery, vapour baths, wadding,
walking sticks, waterproof cloths, wearing apparel,
whips, writing desks.
The Commissioners were strongly impressed with
the necessity of supplying these deficiencies before
the 31st of October, after which the returns for space
Cease to be received... Each Commissioner in the de-
partment which he represents was requested to visit
and induce the eminent producers of the various arti-
cles named in the list of deficiencies to prepare articles
for exhibition. • • •

It was stated that machinery is adequately repre-
sented in all its branches, the deficiencies being very
few in number.

As it was the last meeting of the Commissioners
previous to the final closing of the lists, a very strong
opinion was manifested that there was a necessity for
immediate and energetic action to insure the efficient
representation of the manufactures of this country.
The accounts as to the progress of the Jhibition
throughout the country were stated to be very gra-
tifying.

(From the Court Circular.)
A meeting of Metropolitan Local Commissioners,
&c., had-an interview yesterday with the Royal Com-
missioners and the Executive Committee of the Exhi-
bition of 1851 in the new Palace of Westminster.
Tne Royal Commissioners present were Earl Gran-
ville (in the chair), Sir Charles Lyell, and Mr. Cubitt.
Mr. Scott Russell, secretary to the Royal Commis-
sion, attended; Mr. Edgar Bowring was also present.
Of the Executive Committee there were present—
Colonel Reid (chairman), Mr. Cole, Mr. Dilke, and
Mr. Fuller. Colonel Lloyd, Special Commissioner;
Dr. Lyon Playfair, Special Commissioner; Captain
Boscawen Ibbetson, Dr. Hoyle, Mr. R. Hunt, and
Mr. Hensman were also present. Mr. Digbv Wyatt,
Secretary of the Executive Committee, attended.
There were present at the meeting :
Metropolitan Local Commissioners representing the
Fine Arts—Mr. S. A. Hart, Russell-place; Mr. D.
Roberts, Fitzroy-street; Mr. W. Tite. St. Helen's-
place; Mr. H. H. Burnell, Choyne-walk; Mr. G. God-
win, F.R S., commissioner for Kensington and West-
minster; Mr. W. Hicksor, Smithfield; Mr. T. Saunders,
Charing-cross ; Mr. F. W. Woodington, Charlott--
place; Mr. T. K. Wyatt; Mr. J. R. Gooch, commis-
sioner for Finsbury; Mr. C. Fowler, Mr. J. C. Evan., of
the Finsbury connuitice; Mr. W. G. Rogers, Carlisle-
street; Mr. H. Bohn, York street; Mr. T. Cresuick,
Kensington.

Metr-opatan L.:cel Commissioners representing Ma-
chinery—Mr. C. liedpatb, Poplar; Mr. (3. H. Graham,
Woolwich; Mr. H. Bisley. alderigatc-street; Air. C.
Frodshaw, Strand; Mr. J H. Mann, Kentish-town; Mr.
E. Diehards, New Park-street; Mr. D. Keith, Wood-
street; Mr. C. Swstland, Craytord; Mr. C. Warwick,
Cheapside; Mr. H. Mandalay, Lambeth; Mr. J. Chubb,
St. Paui's Churchyard; Mr. V. Figgins, Wt at- street;
Mr. C. Wed, F.S.A., Paternoster-tow; Mr. J. Bar.
low, Batkeley-street; Mr. E. Coleman, Poplar'' Mr.
D. Hulett, High Holborn; Mr. J. Glaisher, Dart-
mouth-terrace; Mr. It. L. Vulliamy, Pall-mall; Mr.
Erasmus Wilson, Henrietta-street; Mr. J. Evans, King
William-street; Mr. J. Jaint S, Broadviall; Mr. J. M.
Napier, Lambeth; Mr. H. Taylor, secretary of the South
London Committee; Mr. H. H. Fulton, Putney; Mr. H.
Wilkinson, Pall-mall; Mr. A. Wilson, Queenhithe; Mr.
G. Cottam, Winsley-street; Mr. W. H. Thornthwaiie,
Newgatc-street; Mr. W. S. Bennett, Russell-place; Mr.
11. C. Lunn, Bloomsbury-square; Mr. G. Knight, Foster-
lane; 'Mr. F. S. Haden, Sloane-street.

Metropolitan Local Commissioners representing Ma-
nufactures—Mr. J. G. Crace, Wigmore-street; Sir H.
R. Bishop, Cambridge-street; Mr. T. R. White, Syden-
ham-park; Mr. C. Cowper, Southampton-buildings;
Mr. H. Tackey, Gresham-street; Mr. H. J. Lincoln,
Barlow-street; Mr. W. B. Simpson, West Strand; Me.
W. Sandland, Hatton-garden; Mr. J. Mechi, Leaden-
hall-street;
-Mr. S. Lewis, Regent-street; Mr. H. Spur-
gin, M.D., Guildford-street; Mr. J. Brown, Regent-
street; Mr. White, Cheapside; Mr. H. Gregory, Alder-
manbury; Mr. W. Bird, St. Martin's-lane; Mr. H.
Vyse, Wood-street; Mr. R. Wand, Love-lane; Mr.
G. Kemp, Spital-square; Mr. J. Casey, Spital-square;
Mr. G. Houghton, High Holborn; Mr. R. Obiiard,
New Bridge-street; Mr. E. Pontifex, Shoo-lane; Mr.
E. Burd, Oxford-street; Mr. S. Hubert, Marylebohe-
lane; Mr. C. May, Westminster; Mr. S. Green, Lam-
bath; Mr. E. Sue, Albemarle-street; Mr. J. Belkidge,
Haikin-street ; Mr. A. Lapwortb, Old Bond-street; Mr.
A. Salonsons, Old Charge; Mr. J. R. Lavernley, New
Burlington-street; Mr. W. Leaf, Old Change; Mr. E.
Phillips, Newgate-street ; Mr. J. Deane, London-
bridge; Mr. T. de la Rue, Bunhill-rove; Mr. W. Smee,
Finsbury; Mr. J. Gray, Billiter-square; Mr. J. Wilke,
Wathng.street; Mr. D. Dewar, Wood-street; Mr. 1).
Nicoll, Coruhill; Mr. W. Barber, St. Paul's; Mr. J.
Goodwin, Lawrence-lane; Mr. W. Hasleden, White-
lands; Mr. J. R. Foster, Wood-street; Mr. R. Porter,
Wood-street; Mr. J. R. Beviogton, Neckinger-mil.s;
Mr. W. Beddor, Honey-lane; Mr. G. F. Routledge,
Lawrence-lane; Mr. J. C. Wakefield, Friday-street;
Mr. S. R. Block, Paternoster-row; Mr. J. Crocker,
Watlieg-street; Mr. J. Amiable, Watling street; Mr.
C. Cull ,rd, Cheapside; Mr. S. Oram, Castle•aireet; Mr.
J. Scott, St. Paul's Churchyard; Mr. T. snoolbridge,
Wood-street; Mr. G. Hairs, Milk-street; Mr. S. H.
Henry, Brick-lane; Mr. F. Clark, Stoke Newington;
Ed card Sa}er, 9, Clifford's street, Bond-street; John
Ball, 35, Old Bond-street; John Beggalla.y, Love-lane,
Wood street; Henry Brett, 74, Wood-street; Thomas
Burbery, 26, Wood-street; John Hunt, 156, New Bond-
street; J. H. Downing, Knightsbridge; Henry Spicer,
Nett Bridge-street, Islackfriari; Peter Graham, 37 and
38, Oxford-street; J. A. Niel:why, 82, ditto; William
Baker, Battersea; John 53 lvester, H. Soper, 32, Spital-
square; Samuel Ridley, jun., Newgate-street; Bryan
Donkin, jun., Southwark; S. Morley, Wood-street; W.
Nevill, 11, Ureshare-street West; W. Pearce, Poplar;
W. E. Newton, Finsbury.

Metropolitan Local Commissioners representing th•
Mineral Kingdom—William Tite, 17. St. Helen's-place;
Jahn Bazley White, Charles L. Francis, Nine-elms; J.
Arthur Phillip-, Greenwich; Profeswr Graham, Gor-
don square; Will!atn Frtemaa, Milbank-street; Pro-
feJsor Tennant, Strand.

Metropolitan Local Commissioners representing the
Animal Kitigdom—John Gould, John Edw. Gray, Bri-
tish MiPeum; Theoph.dus Redwood, 19, Montagu-
street; Robtrt 1,2", 4, Sa,ille-rocr,.
Metropolitan Local Commissioners re, meriting tLe
Vegetaole Kingdom—John Edward Gray, British Mu-
teutn; Dr. Pereira, Edward Soli;, Francis Bos,ey,
M D., Woolwich; J5e...13 Boil. Edwin Latikester, M.D.,
Proksior Etiaard Forbes, John Hunt, surgeon, Taal-
brook. k truer.

Secretaries to Metropolitan Local Committees—Ed.
%at(' W. Jams s, honorary Secretary, Finsbury; C. IL
Hopwood, Honorary Secretary, Finsbury; J. George
Wilson-street; George Ulark(., Bruii:ord; Her-
belt Llutmy, Honorary Secretary, Southwark; W. E.
Gre!enwell, Nhrylebone; William Paxor, lizeupstk ad;
John Joaniugs, Assis.ant Secretary for the city of
L')ndon; G. H. Dew, Secretary to tte Westminster
Committee.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
Messrs. HARDING Lind Co., 81, Pall-mall, beg to
intimate to the public that, in consequence of the rebuilding
of their premises, it has become imperative on them to
dispose of the whole of their valuable Stock, which th.y
have determined to rifer for immediate Sale, at a very eon*
siderable reduction of price. Messrs. H. and Co. offer to u.•
public the assurance thst the Sale thus announced is twos
fide. Their entire Stock, consisting of Silks, Ribbons, Lace,
Embroidery, Shawls, Scarves, t loaks, Mantles!, Gloves, sad
the recherché Selection of Millinery, for all of which their
establi,hment is so e Anent!), distinguished, will be unre-
servedly subjected to the reduction. The Sale will be con-
tinued for a limited period.

ANCIENT LORD MATORai' SnowP.—The pageant of
1617 set forth "The Tryutnphs of Honor and Industry," and
might be taken for a foreshadowing of what is to happen in
Issl. In the course of it, Industry declared the joy she
diffuses to the world, and introduced the " pageant-of several
nations" to honour the mayor, wherein ti;:ured an English-
man, Frenchman, Irishman, Spaniard, Turk, Jew, Dane,
Polander, Barbarian, and Russian. Several years fate' wards
too, amongst other curious devices., a figure Was set up at
Foster•lane, habited in the manner and fashion of savers!
nations which trade with Europe, and was made to say,—
"Although my shape may seem ridiculous,
Unsuitable, rude, and incongruous,
Contenine me not; there's nothing that I wear
About me but some relation bear
To the customes of those countreys with whom
You traffique in all parts of Chthteudome."
This was the Industrial Exhibition of 165 E The majority of
the pageants were fanciful rather than instructive, but still
had thought and skill hi them, and skilful Mechanists an 1
carvers to execute. Inigo Jones did not think it beneath
him to apply his inventive powers in the preparation of
similar devices for the Court. " Invented and fashioned,
with the
ground and special( structure of the whole worke, by
our kingdoines most Artiull and Ingenious Architect, Innigo
Jones," appears in varied words on the title-p2ge of several
pageants. " In these things," says Samuel Danie I,who wrote
the words for one in IGIO, as Ben Jonson had done before,
" wherein the only life consists in show, the arty and invention
of the architeet gives the greatest grace, and :c•isnoet iavor
mice ." Builder.