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

LONDON TUESDAY riFF4 • v..
S NI NOVEMBER 19) 1850.
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DIS7UTZD xitrE POLICIES.

" A feud of considerabld interest to Life Assurance Offices and the
public was concluded yesterday in the Court of Exchequer. The
Eagle Company held a policy for an assurance of 539/. in the Albion
Company as security to an advanee, the payment of. which policy
was now disputed by the Albion, on the ;round that, at the time it
was effected the fact of tha assured party having been a man of in-
temperate habits was concealed from the office. Ihe chief evidence
tunic r upon the question as to the degree of intevrq,era9ce that had
been exhibited, and the resu't was, that a verarct was given' against
the resisting office, not only fur the amount of the policy, but also for
401. interest from the date when it became due. The circumstance
of the action being brought by one office against another presents
striking illustration of the uncertainty which may attach to all po-
licies tinder the present system, and shows that the only mote by
which absolute security can h obtained by the public must lie in the
general adoption by Assurance Offices of the plan of prote ling them-
selves in every case by dm, inquiries before the gr,ntinf f each po-
licy, and of afterwards assuming the full responsibility Cl the com-
pleteness of such inquiries by holding themselves precluded from
raising any future question. In the pr •sent case two offices are
found to be diametrically opposed in their opinions as to what can
properly invalidate a claim, and yet the public are expected to be
able to guare themselves agaisst such coutingences. Similar cases
have occurred before, and even if they were more rare, they would
seriously injure the progress of life assurance. The very principle
upon which the business is founded is the removal of uncertainty,
and whenever that principle is counteracted in the slightest degree,
the people who would be the first to resort to its advantages are the
first to be deterred."—Times, July 11, Idso.

THE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIRE
POLICY COMPANY

No. 72, LOMB ARD-S MEET, LONDON.
TRUSTEES.
I. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
Richard Malins, Esq., Q.C. I James Fuller Madox, Esq.
William Wilberforce, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
Robert Henry Forman, Esq.
John Hamilton, Esq.
fames Fuller Madoa, Esq.
John Matthews, Esq.
C. Octavius Parnell, Esq.
AUDITORS.
James Turner, Esq.
IDavid Henry Stone, Esq.

William Adams, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq.
Henry Augustus Bevan, Esq.
J. Thompson Bramwell, Esq.
john Dangorfleld, Esq.

George Cumming, Esq.
William D. Starling, Esq.

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SECRETARY—David Alison, Esq.
Blatuzas—The London and nnty Bank
PADDINGTON LOCAL BOARD.
24, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware .road.
Rev. James Sherbold Boone, A.M., Stanhope-street, Hyde-park.

Captain Creed, Norfblk-crescent, Oxford-square.
Charles Pemberton, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and Lin.

coin's Inn-flelds;
Thomas Jervis Antos, Esq., Tork-street, Portman-square

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George Y. Robson, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and New•
square, Lincoln's Inn. _ . .

Secretary, Chas. Hoglaton, Esq.

The POLICIES of this Company, being iNDISPUTABI,E, form
Family Provisions and Negotiable Securities, for their validity is not
dependent, as in the case of ordinary Policies, upon the import of
previous reports and other documents.
Owing to this important improvement in the practice of Life As-
surance, the progress of this Company has been rapid from the com-
mencement of its business, and is steadily advancing. _ _

...Ceti, ~, the the Grays, Greenhitne, ana rurneet riere. 1
-,_ rp-,;tPiers as underlined (weather permitting). I Copies of the Report of the last Annual Meeting will be forwarded
`v4IIrELLRAC=R, GRAVESEND. on application, to Solicitors, to whom Commission is allowed.
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager.
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8, NEW COVENTRY-STREET, LEICESTER-SQUARE, LONDON,
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titi.... --- --1-1-- —. The FOURTEI ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprie-
-101 .... 7 6 tors of this Company took place on the 25th instant, at the Head
41 84. (Mice, at One o'clock precisely. The following is extracted from the
if -- I % report, which is too lengthy for publication :-
3C. , -...— During the past year no claims have arisen from deaths in Englanf,.
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and but two in Ireland—one for 5001. and the other for 2501.—making
together 700/., which have been paid. This is far below the expected
Set •,. i mortality, and is especially favourable, when it is remembered how
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CATHOLIC LAW AND GENERAL LIFE
lJ ASSURANCE COMPANY,
8, NEW COVENTRY-STREET, LEICESTER-SQUARE, LONDON.
The FOURT El 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 Englanf,.
and but two in Ireland—one for 500/. 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, 1949, and
the 31st of May, 1850, was more than double the number issued in
the twelve months preceding.
Propr+sals were made for 138 Policies, amounting to 52,9631.25. 6d.:
of these 121, comprising 106 lives, were accepted for 45,1251. 65.
Sixteen Policies lapsed, representing 6,048/., upon which 3201. 38.
was received by the Company in the shape of premiums.
Since the commencement of the Company to the Ist of June last,
assurances were effected to the extent of 110,9721. 12s 6d., pro-
ducing in annual premiums 3,7321. I Is. 6d. Of these 54 lapsed,
Amounting to 23,930/. 16s. 6d., of which the annual premiums were
7411. Is., leaving the yearly income on the Ist of June last equal to
2,9911. Iss. Ild.
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
is l'Etang, a gentleman of high standing in Paris, distinguished for
his integrity and ability in financial and Or 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 iu 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.

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„„)1,. an hour.
fou3L-"ICX WHARF, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of
Trains front the Fenchurch-street Station.

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ENGINEERS, MASONIC, and UNIVERSAL
MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Head Office, 345, Strand, London,
(Opposite Waterloo bridge).
Incorporated under Act of Parliament, 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.
Policies issued free of Stamp Duty to the Assured.
A Policy once granted never disputed.
Medical Referees paid in all cases.
No Entrance-fee for admittance.
The whole of the Profits arc divided amongst the Assured.
Assignments and Transfers of Policies ltegistered at the Office free
of charge.
The Board meets every Tuesday and Frldly, at Two o'clock.
Attendance at the Office daily from Ten to Four, when Assurances
may be effected.
.** Persons .ssuring before Christmas will be entitled to partici-
pate in this year's nrofits.
FREDERIC LAWRANCE, Actuary and Secretary.

The New Edition of " Everybody's Baok," containing a full report
ol the late Important Trial, may be had gratis, on application, or
by letter (post-tree?.
TETE ADVERTISEMENT SHEET.
I am often amused at the things that we view
In a Journal's advertisement columns—aint you ?
Very seldom it is that I happen to miss .
So pleasing a raft of the paper as this.
,Just look at the medley :—Guns, pictures, ty'd knives,
And carpets and fishhooks, and husbands and wives,
And pigs and pianos, and lovers' misgivings,
And servants and shovels, and clergymen's livings,
And oil and tobacco, and classic researches. •
And scavengers' contracts, and organs for churches,
And tallow and tartlets, and houses to let,
And ballads and sermons, and "razor-blades set,"
Ant wafers for beetles, and blankets and quills,
And lessons in dancing, and pickles and pills,
Announcements in prose and announcements in rhyme—
But here let us pause, for I think it high time.
Yes, I think it high time of er what you have heard,
That the Warehouse of MOSES and SON have a word.
I confess that I'm always delighted to meet
E. MOSES and SON on the newspaper sheet.
For all that they say is essentially true ;
Yes, they do what they say, and they say what they do.
I've tried both their houses, the East and the West,
And their garments, I own, must be ranked as the best.
And I trust that we long shall continue to meet
With their name en the public " Advertisement Sheet."
Notice.—The Fur and Shawl Department are now replete with
every novelty of the season.
Observe.—Any article purchased, either ready-made or made to
measure, if not approved of, will be exchanged or tne money re-
turned.
Caution.—E. Moses and gon regret having to guard the public
against impos'tion, but having heard that the untradesrnanlike false-
hood of being connected with them, or it is the same concern, has
been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They
beg to state they have no connexion with any other house in or out
of London, except their own Establishments, as ,ollows :
London City Establishment, 151, 155. 156, and 157, Minories, 83,
84, 85, and 85, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
and 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford " Yorkshire" Branch, 19, Bridge-street.
Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe-
makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset Sa-
turday, when business is resumed till Twelve o'clock.

APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED.
LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops,
and all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad,
and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to
perfectly digest the food.
The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe-
guard to health.
Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrin', 6, Vere-street, Oxford-
street, London, anti 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs.
Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other Oilmen
and Merchants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in
sauce.
N.B. To guard against imitations, see that the names of " LEA
and PERRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle.

BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS.
The acknowledged efficacy of BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEU-
MATIC PILLS, by the continued series of testimonials which have
been sent to and published by the proprietor for nearly twenty years,
has rendered this medicine the most popular of the present age ; and
in corroboration of which the following extract of a letter, written
by John Mollard Whea!er, E,q., Collector of Customs, Jamaica, hav-
ing been handed by his brother, at Swindon, to Mr. Prout for publi-
cation, will fully confirm. • -
" I know you have never had occasion to take Blair's Pills, but
let me emphatically tell you, in mercyto any friend who may suffer
from gout, rheumatic gout, lumbago, sciatica, rheumatism, or any
branch of that widely-allied family, to recommend their using them.
In this country they are of wonderful efficacy : not only am I person-
ally aware of their powers, but I sec my friends and acqu • intanees
receiving unfailing benefit from their use I would not be without
them on any account. If taken in the early stage of disease they
dissipate it altogether ; if in a later, they alleviate pain and effect a
much speedier cure than by any other means within my knowledge."
Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by his appoint-
ment by all respectable Medicine Vendors throughout the United
Kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. per box.
Ask for BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe
the name and address of " Thomas trout, 229, Strand, London," im-
pressed upon the Government Stamp affixed to each box of the
Genuine Medicine •

R. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS.
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvaiho;
147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or direct from the author,
Dem One Shilling each ; by post, Is. 6d.
ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
"Health, Recreation, and rational Use of Time."
CONTENTS :—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex-
Jursions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills
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,
test, F.ase, Occupation, Ike., &C.
FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS• Two Vols.
Vol I.
& VISIT TO THE LAKES; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, Bco.

Vol. IL
THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY; BEMENTISCENCES OF
DUBLIN, Br.c.
111.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID.
"That three score years and ten our course may run."
A pepular review of almost every for :t (cause and cure) of ner-
vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses
the young, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em-
bitters old age, with tables and rules for the diet and physical regu-
ation of every-day life.

Iv.
THE PASSIONS.
" What passions hurt the body—what improve.
Truths as refined as Athens ever heard."
Smsnov : -Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age.
eThueeadvent
f
ofthe passions. Chastity and its infringements. The as
licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative,
and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages.

V:
THE MARRIAGE STATE.
" To be or not to be, that is the question."
PROGIUNDSZ :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and re-
ligion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Timo and
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and
figure, to secure healthy Offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
paces,

-1-3 y R. J. CULVBRWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
(1824). Twenty-live years Medical and Forensic Referee in these
nutters. Ratolx-eu boars Mail), till ilvs. Lveltillgth seven till nine.
10 Allyn-place, Regent-greet,

LABITZKY'S QUADRILLE of ALT. NA-
Tn4NS, Dedicated 'by special vomits:don to Prince
Albert, performing nigbtly at the Grand Nztional Concerts with un-
bounded enthuOtsm, is iHh DAY PITISLIMIED bit' the Piano,
by Messrs It. COCKi and Co., New Burlington street, and may be
obtained at all Music Warehouses. &c., and Troubadour Waltzes,
dedicated to Harry Lee Carter, Esq.

This day, post Bvo , n•ice 6.1.,
IQMPWRECKS 01. the ROYAL NAVY, ha-
tween 1793 and 1849. Compiled principally from Official Do-
cuments in the .Admiralty. Fly WILIAA 0. S. DILLY Wit? a
Preface by WILLIN:4I SITNIEN GILLY, D.D., Vicar of Norham,
and Canon of Durham.
London : John W. Parker, West Strand.

JETtIV,,iOI) ON THE. RIGHTS TO THE SEA SHORES, tte.
lids day tc pub4shed, Sco , 7s, boriril-i,
ALDISSERTATION on the inGirrs to the
SE 1. SHORE:, and to the soil and 1,1 of Tidal Harbours
mid Navigable Rivers, with especial reference to .11, Serjeant Mere-
we!her'i published Speech upon the susne subjects. BY JAMES
JEIIIVOOI), Esq., M.A., of the Middle Temple, llsrrister-at-law.
London : Butterworths, Law Booksellers and l'uSlishers, 7, neet-
street.

T,IROUGHOUT THE ,‘ ORLI)

ASTHMA, COUGIIS, awl all Disorders of the Lungs are unfai iegly

Cored by
DR. LOCOCK'S PULNIONIC WAFERS.
.Extract of a letter just received from W. J. Taylor, Esq.,
Agra anil Hulled Service Bank, Madras :
" In all that I do, I beg you will understand that- I am actuated
with the desire of benefitin4 my fellow-creatures. I consider in very
truth that the medicine is, ' under Divine Prevalence, a blessing and
a cure.' There are many instances here of its- efficacy, and it is
doing good to all classes—European and native." . _

Dr. LOCOCK'S WAFKR:i give instant relief, and a rapid cure of
asthma, coughs, and ull ciisorders of the breath and lungs. They
have a naost pleasant taste.

Price Is. 1%d., 2s. 9d., and 11 s. per box. Agents : Da Silva and
Co., 1, Bride-lane, Fleet-street, London; sold by all medicine ven-
dors. Also,

DR. LOCOCK'S FEMALE WAFERS.
The best medicine for Ladies. Price Is. 1 (2d., 2s. 9d., and Ils. per
boa. .

All Pills under similar names are Counterfeits.

CHA.RACTERISTICS of L. IiYANI and CO.
Att he numerous and vast ESTABLISIIMENTA of L. lIYAM
and CO., Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, and Wholesale Dealers, the
invariable practice Is to PURCHASE the RAW MATERIALS from
the first manufacturers, and tons save to Gentlemen and Heads of
Families who patroxise them, all intermediate profits, viz.:-
Ist Profit ! arising from manufacturers buying articles in the raw
state.

2d. Profit ! arising from merchants purchasing from manufac
hirers.

3d. Profit !! ! arising from London or Wholesale Houses buying
from merchants.

4th Profit ! ! ! ! arising from small retal'ers having to purchase
from wholesale houses.

sth Profit ! !! I I arising from small tradesmen's exorbitant charges
to the consumer.

In the Ordered Department the newest and most superior style of
every Garment may be obtained, first-rate talent being employed i
the execution of all orders.

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 with 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-

In the Department of Clothing for immediate wear will be found
the most varied Stock in the world. Over Coats, pccullaey atapted
for travellin, and equestrianism.
Dress, Surtout, and Riding Coats; Walking and Business Jackets,
Waistcoats, Trows n-s, Servants' Top Coats, Pages' Suits, and Wait-
ing Jackets, enabling the Proprietors (at the shone- t possible notice)
to execute all orders for home or foreign consumption.
Private Rooms are set apart for trying on Children's Clothing, so
that parents and guardians can at once select the most becoming at-
tire, and likewise ensure a correct and beautiful fit.
L. IIYA~I and CO. beg distinctly to state that Goods made by
them can only be obtained at their places of business, 36, Grace-
church-street, and 86, Oxford-street, and at their various Establish-
ments in the following towns:—Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool
Leeds, Glasgow, Hull, Dublin, Bristol, and Exeter.

OR. LA'MEitT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH
AND NIATURITY.—WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON
STEEL.
rust published, and may be had is French or English, in a Sealed
Envelope, as. 6d., or post-free, from the Author, for forty-two
%tamps,
SELF-PRESERVATION; a
Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on
ate Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Ma'urity,
tsually acquired at an early period or life, which debilitate
-he physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural
eelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical
)bservations on the Treatment of Nervous Debihti and Indigestion,
whether arising from these causes, close study, •r the influence of
ropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, syphilis,
4tricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from India-
motion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the
inatorny, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs,
explaining their atrectui es, uses, and functions, and the various
injuries that are prirodusceAdmiunEthLemLAbymsEolllrtr, arym.hD.a.bits, excesses, and
infection. BY
87. BEDFORD-SQUARE. LONDON.
Doctor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member
of the London Hospital Medical Society, Ike.
This work contains an accurate and complete account of the
Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs. It nn-
ortunately happens that the unhappy victim of excessive indul-
gence and vicious habits, while suffering front their invariable con-
sequences, unwisely entertains a tear of applying to a qualified physi-
cian for relief. Shame and the dread so rrequently, but erro-
aeously entertained that these complaints are beyond tho reach of
art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking or assistance where
alone it eau be procured. Dr. L%'MERT has taken the highest
medical honours, as his diplomas testify, and the great extent of his
practice far many years is a guarantee for his professional experi-
ence, which has reference almost solely to the treatment of these
it:teases.

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 subjoined 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
period 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 the crews or p issengeri; the total number
of casualties being 1,375. Amongst the ships lost

,"üblished by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert,
49. Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Stade, fichhorne-
-,et, Haymarket; Aiann, 39, Cornhill ; Gordon, 14G, i.eaden-
han_ereet, Loudon: nr. free by post tor torty-tom clamps. from
yip Author's itemidonee. Rl.ritnrA I.rm.inn

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 Burbampreiter,
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few migrantshou r
sfrao
after
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in
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theNe wSo
Thames,uh t
utterlyWa
wrecked near Margate, on which occasion the people
on hoard 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 vi,,lent weather, and to*ally 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 scatterrd 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 abort of 500.

TOwT,eArLegreL
tOtoSSanno
announce
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ti
hat t
RUSSIA'S STEA-Y AC HT
steam-
yachtEheilispPlEenßdi°dßOF
M 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 admire -
tion while lying in the river, has been entirely lost on
her passage out to St. Petersburgh (a short account
of which appeared in our piper of, esterday ) The
dofenß,laacnkdwwaalls, ffirtottendwwhiot she
eynagr v
vdi
neterhseeoFfofali4rtt
Peterhoff was of iron construction, built by Mr. Mare,
horse
()ern:
sl\oels t
ty
pense was spared in equipping herY
was; Fay,
yacht, was launched. She
nearly 400 tons bur-
e Emperor. The transmission of
[ler internal arrangements
cfohra rt ahcet esre,r
vand
service
noof et
hx
the unfortunate yacht to St. Petersburgh 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 charge of her, her
crew being selected from
men who had 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, wm,
charged with its delivery to the Emperor, with Mr.
Eschapoar 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
etopßevel,
esdbehryesßumorendhholemr
,traiapd sighting
the 22d
alt.
the Archimede, one of the Prussian Government
steamers, which had gone ashore a few days
previously
on the island, and Gottland, 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 Bathnia 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 so 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
ofthe
entrance of
thethe Gulf of
is supposed to havef Finland. A light was
observed,
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 hoard, 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 im-
, possible to rescue the wreck with the means then at

yard, were examined last week by Mr. John Trickett,
assistant to the chief engineer, and having passed
satisfactorily received their certificates accordiogly.
Commander Edward Dixon (1841) is appointed to
study steam at the factory at Woolwich Dockyard.
Commodore Henry Eden, having one week's leave
of absence from the '2lst inst., the paving- off the
Fisgard is to he deferred until the
.2 i of December,
when she will be paid off and recommissioned by the
1/31Iant Commodore. It is expected some retirements
will take place on the occasion.
The Avon steam-vessel arrived at Woolwich this
afternoon from Devonport, and brought round Lieu-
'ettnt Robertson and the seamen who navigated the
Buzzard seam-sloop from Woolwich to Devonport.
.['he Buzzard is fitted with engines of 300 horse-
power, made by Miller, Ravenhill, and Co., from
designs by John Penn and Son,,on the oscillating
principle, and when tried at the Lower Hope to
ascertain her speed previous to leaving the river she
made an average of upwards of ten knots per hour on
five runs up and down the measured mile.
The Geyser, a fine vessel of 160 horse power, be-
longing to the Danish Government, arrived and was
moored opposite Woolwich Dockyard at one o'clock
P.M. to-day. She intended going up the river to the
East. India Docks, to have new boilers put on board '
by Messrs. Maudalay, sons, and Field, who fitted her
about six years 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 Blackwall 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's
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.

command on the island, Mr. Waterman, jun., with
Mr. G. Rennie, proceeded on to St. Petersburgh
overland, with a view of procuring assistance. The
journey being one of considerable difficulty much
delay must necessarily transpire ere any relief can be
rendered the wreck. Very trying weather has since
set in, and the last accounts speak of her loss. With
reference to the unfortunate circumstance of the yacht
running ashore, the fact cannot be concealed that
there appears to have been some want ofjudgment on
the part of those on hoard of her. It is, however,
said that the navigation of the Baltic at this period of
the year, with a northerly wind, is attended with
much difficulty, and that no fewer than from eight to
ten vessels have been recently lost on or near the spot
where this disastrous occurrence took place.
The following letter from Mr. Waterman has been
handed to us by Mr. Mare, and, as will be seen, con-
tains some additional and interesting details respect-
ing the unfortunate event :
"St. Petersburgh Hotel, Revel, Oct. 31, 1850.
" Sir,—lc 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 was a
perfect calm. We were thinking of going to bed about
half-past ten o'clock, when we were startled 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
and 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 could not succeed for the rocks, so we had to
return to the Peterhoff, and remained until daylight,
firing rockets every consecutive half-hour. At daylight
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.
Rennie 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'clock last night—a distance of about BO
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
20,0001., but it is understood that she is insured for a
large amount.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORNING TAPERS Or THIS DAT.
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 " Dia.
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 cer-
tain conditions, has been prescribed by that authority
to which universal obedience is nominally due.
The French malcontents exalted their private con-
victions above the law by what they termed pa-
ramount and inherent rights of free citizenship,
and they effected a revolution of which the result was
to place the mejority of the nation in that very predi-
cament which the minority had resented as intoler-
able. The Americans have now 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, end they are
acting just like the insurgents of FAruary, 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
Bugeturi or Changarnier to encounter, they are at
present continin,, their agitation to the spacious chan-
nels provided by the constitution. Here, however,
they bol Ily 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 dia.
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
hyperbole, the contingencies of democratic excitement,
and the peculiar gifts of Transatlantic journalism, so
extravagant and grotesque is the exaggeration em•
ployed that the sober English reader lays down the
paper without any more definite conviction than that
his American brethren are certainly the oddest people
alive. The "tremendous and enthusiastic convention,"
as it is 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's. 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
pinions, his flight, and his destiny were apostrophized
by these priests of the Oratory of " St. Tammany ;"
for, as tde 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 alleged 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; hut the question
will not he 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 proportion of Ameri-
can citizens. It is probable, indeed, that the ob-
noxious measure, especially if 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 mutation 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,
may successfully appeal to violence; for it is clear,

that if the law can bt. thus set aside upon this point
lit can be set 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 less 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 savings 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 he 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 ;" but
prudence, we think, will suggest to the Supreme Go-
vernment of the States some timely modification of a
measure fatally calculated to create disaffection and
riot. It is less in the principle than in 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.
HERALD.—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 oet 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 us to be Roman Catholics at all. Which is
absurd. Persecute us, drive us out of the realm alto-
gether, and into perpetual banishment, but do not
hold out to us the delusive phantom of an 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 bold 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" 01

the Church of Rome—which doctrine, says Mr.
Bowyer, we are not now at liberty to impugn by sta-
tutp, are such as these :
" The Bull In Unam Sanctam states ;

" Both swords arc, therefore, in the power of the
Church, viz., the spiritual sword and the material sword.
But the one is to be exercised for the church, the other
by the Church, that is, the property of the priest in the
hands of kings and soldiers, but at the nod and aufference
of the priest.

" Moreover, we declare, affirm, define, and pronounce,
that it is altogether a matter of necessity of salvation
for every human creature 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, although they do not
now belong to her body. as the commander of an army
'has the right of decreeing more severe punishments
againht the &seq.r who has left his ranks.'
" Devoti, on the Canon Laws, sec. I, vol. iv.:—
" All who dissent from Catholic truth are not to be

tolerated among Catholics,'
" Ameng our Catholics it is certain and fixed that
men are not to b» tolerated who are aliens from the
Catholic verity, amd that they are also to be coerced
by merited punishment"; and this is demonstrated at
length by Saurez, Bellartnine, liottensis, De Castro, Pa-

" Deroti quotes Thomas Aquinas (called the Angeli
cal Doctor). Secunda Sectiocm. 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 ,in, by which they have
deserved not only to be separated front the Church by
excommunication, but even to be put from the world by
death. Wherefore if forgers of money or other male-
factors are immed;ately and justly put to death by se-
cular princes, much more heretics, as soon as they ere
convicted of heresy, can not only be immediately excom-
municated, but also be justly slain. If be 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.
"
`" And, first, as to impenitent heretics; that is, those
that are unwilling to convert themselves, but persevering
obstinately in their heresy, are to he put to death, whe-
ther they be laity or clergy.'
"' Let those condemned by the Church be left to the
secular power to be punished 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 law, by
which it appears that impenitent heretics are to be
burned with fire; in case their mouth ought to be bound
up lest they should scandalise the weak with their blas-
phemies, as Farauacius well remarks, having cited many
examples.'
" Bellarmine (Cardinal).
"' If you threaten them with pecuniary fine they
neither fear God nor regard men, 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 Ilonorius 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 Itomish
Church since.

" We excommunicate and anathematize •very 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-
moniahed 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 taken the sign of
the cross, have girded themselves for the extermination
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 are the laws and canons of Rome, She boasts
that she is semper eadem. They form the standard and
rules of Maynooth this day."
We are aware that the common exclamation of
adroit Roman casuists, when we quote these canons,
is—" Oh ! those musty old eanons,—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, in books 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 Dlr. James
Creden, a merchant, proposed, we are informed, his firtt
toast 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, wbo is to be the new
" Archbishop of Edinburgh," preached at Dumfries

lareSunday week, and the Dumfries Courier gitla
the following account of his sermon :
" The lecturer began by stating that 300 years ago
this had been a Catholic country, in which the established
religions 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 faithful adhe-
rents. Notwithstanding all this, the Catholics had
continued to increase, until from thousands they were
numbered by millions. Referring to the new kie-
rarchical arrangement, he ailuded to the letter of
the Premier to the Bishop of Durham, and to the
phrase in it, our Reformation,' contrasting at con-
sirlerable 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 poiettd allusion 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 Goverranont in opposition to the Papal hull, he
broadly pointed to the interference of the Catholic
powers of the Continent, should Governrnert mt.-writ
opposition to the rights of his Church—a most ill-ad-
'toed expression, and one that hos excited strong feelings
of disapprobation; and slosed a discourse of upwards of
an hour's duration with n glowing peroration, in which,
looking forward' to the time when the British empire
would be numbered with the things that were, and its
sceptre in the dust, he d. elated that glorious Rome'
would still Maintain her pre-eminence among the
notions."
Truly he must be wilfully blind who can close his
eyes to the tact that the two powers, the Papacy and
the British Sovereignty in its present Protestant

bands, must 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 Mr. 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 be 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-
.

V • ••••
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 ecclesias-
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
will join the Dissenter in his theoretical reasoning when
it is low; will applaud him for liberality in, striving
to gain tbr its own emancipation' when it wishes to
rise ; will shout at times for religious liberty ', and
the ' voluntary tprinciple ;' 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 religious 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
awakened 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, whers
ever men congregate, they have been moved to take
these greater matters into consideration, the threat of
Rome to re-establish its domination over us, the
trickery of weak and foolish men, who have awakened
such hopes, and krznriered possible such attempts.
Men who stand in the first rank of authority and
influence contemplate these great popular commotion'
with different impression,. Some have said, this is
to,) strong fir us not to he of it, let us join and head
it. Others in the very heat of going along with it
have esked theinselv,s, whither does it lead ? Does it
not partake cf the religious intolerance, if not of the
same, at hoist 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, c vidently seeking
to divert indignation tram domestic criminals, pro-
poses to get up ao insurrection in Italy against the
Pope, or at least to support the Piedniontese con-
stitutionalists in their opposition to him, which
very constitutionalists Inc 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 ot 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 lull 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 tnovemeet 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 Minister'
wait on the public even more than upon Provi-
dence. Ir. is much to be feared that the
present rffirts of indignant Protestantism are
directed more against form than reality, more
against the shield then against the body of its antago-
nists. 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 zeal
of a great nation ? If Cardinal ‘Viseman, by his ma-
noeuvres at Rime, 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 barb rows latinity of our feudal lawyers,
let the Roman priest and the English jurist fight out
their ancient feud, 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 dout t en sbl the Government to eject
him. But 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, wilt 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'llales. 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 vengeance
against the leader of the semi-Romanist or Tractariaa
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 heads before the storm, and the
seeking to inflict more on them than their present
humiliation would fail. Even were success in be th
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 spiiitual authority of the
state. For without this the great lay community
can never be safe against the caprices of ouLretotwhne
clergy, or the hostility of a rival
ihierarchy.f.
with-
out making them stoop tothpeerssoanme
time let us aim
laws for this great purpose be fully enforced, eenvoenrcesde,ctarm.nvindictiveness.
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theabruemseosv
moves ent in behalf of re-
ligious Let the present
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about aaltl
this
srung' and against sacerdotal usurpation, be
liberty,
directed to prevention rather than punishment, to se-
curity for the future, more than to vengeance for the-
thhi ge
her.
nests fromijt
usw.
present. This can only be done by * searching in-
quiry into the state of those seminaries of the Church,
the universities, into the system of education and
rearing for that Church, at well as into the -entire

meheme of Church patronage. It is the universities
which have been mainly instrumental in the bold
attempt, that bas fortunately failed, to denationalise
our Church, but which has not tailed in denational
Wog 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 we 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 reverie every
I rinciple hitherto established amongst us, and with
those principles every guarantee of religious 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
in doctrines diametrically opposed to the national
interests and history, as well as to the universal
opinion, of the middle dames. 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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THIS EVENING.
Maefarren's Serenata, The SLEEPER AWAKENED.

Harman Alraschid, Mr. Frank Boida ; AbOil Hassan, Mr. Sims
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