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accident or sickness, shall, when aged and ur.service•
able, bring him to an anchor safely in the smooth
hnven provided by a nation's gratitude."
In reference t. 3 the establishment of such a system,
there is not a man amongst us but must entertain
some feelings of solicitude. For upon the adoption
of a course like the one here indicated, the efficient
conduct of our marine force is directly dependent.

It must be sufficiently evident, moreover, to the
intellects
_of the multitude that a proceeding such
as the one suggested by our pamphleteer,
a proceeding which would ensure the proper educa-
tion of our seamen, would not in any respect be at
variance w ith the views known to be entertained by
the Government. So far, indeed, from those views
being antagonistic to the opinions advanced in tha
publication before us, they are identical in principle,
and only differ in the extent of their application.
Upon this point Mr. BOND thus ventures to express
himself in his letter to Mr. LABOUCSEUE
:
" The benefits," he says, " that will accrue to the
community, whose interests I have taken upon myself
to advocate, by the Act of Parliament you are about
to place before the Legislature, are undoubtedly
great ; but, with humble submission, I venture
earnestly to suggest that, unless your measure be
sufficiently extensive to embrace the education of
seamen, and thus prepare them to take their proper
place in the scale of society, and to fulfil all their
duties with credit and advantage, and unless you
furni,h them with the means of preparing fur the
examinations which you require them to undergo,
you will apply but an imperfect remedy to
existing evils." The reasonableness of which
suggestion it would be frivolous to con-
tradict. It is from no momentary approval
of the scheme, that we are induced to refer to the
system indicated in the pamphlet under consi-
deration, but from a serious conviction, arrived at
after mature reflection upon the perils and difficul-
ties surrounding the career of a seaman from the
first moment of his entrance into the maritime ser-
vice until the honourable but melancholy period
when ha becomes superannuated, that we com-
mend the suggestions of the pamphleteer to
the public, confident that the sentiments from
which those suggestions have emanated must
sooner or later have their due weight with the Go-
vernment.

A glimpse at the skeleton plan, pencilled out by
Mr. BOND, will be enough to assure the mind of the
reader of the earnestness with which that gentleman
has meditated over this possible amelioration. lie
proposes, as the nucleus of the entire system, that a
Central Model School should in the first
instance be established in the metropolis, for
the purpose of affording instruction to those who are
destined to occupy the position of masters in the
local seminaries. This model school he proposes,
moreover, should be erected as near as possible to the
East and West India Docks, with a view to locate it
in the centre of the principal mercantile marine
establishments. In every seaport town throughout
the kingdom he would next have established a free
school for the admission cf all children intended to
adopt the marina service as their profession. As to
the discipline recommended by him for the central
establishmtht and the local seminaries of instruction,
we must direct those who may be curious to the
pages of the pamphlet itself, satisfied that the majority
will be disposed to coincide with the different re-
commendations. How the expenses of the entire
scheme are to be provided, in what :manner they
are to be collected, and in what prc•
portions distributed, are fully explained in the sub-
sequent portion of Mr. BOND'S ingenious and
benevolent publication. Convinced that although
o long and undeservedly overlooked, the
present advice must shortly exercise its
merited influence over the question of marine
improvement, we egain commend the pam-
phlet of Mr. BOND to the attentive consideration of
the multitude.

There is positively no accounting for tastes. We
should have supposed that the position of the Bishop
of EXETER, after the just and wise decision of the
Judicial Committee on the appeal of the Reverend
GEORGE CORNELIUS Gr 011.11 AM, was about as unenvi•
able as any in which a prelate or minister of
.the
Church by law established could be involved. His
Lordship had made an attempt, in which he was moat
signally defeated. He had endeavoured to establish
for himself an unbounded supremacy over the con-
sciences of the clergy, who either held, or might be
nominated to benefices in his Lordship's diocese.
He arrogated to himself an infallibility in matters
of doctrine, and desired that the ministers of religion
who were placed under his episcopal jurisdiction
should humbly acknowledge that infallibility, and that
none should venture to differ in opinion, even within
the degree of latitude acknowledged by the articles
of the Church and the Constitution of the country,
from what might chance to be his sovereign will and
pleasure. Happily for that Church and for the
country he has completely and decisively failed in his
attempt. The Lords of the Privy Council by a large
majority, and with the full sanction of their Graces the
Archbishops of CANTERBURY and YORK, decided that
the suffragan Bishops were not invested with
the despotic power and authority claimed by the
Right Bev. Prelate; that the opinions of Mr. GoRRAM
were not heretical, or such as to disqualify hire from
the •enjoyment of the ecclesiastical preferment to
which he had been nominated ; and, finally, that the
pious and amiable appellant was as fully entitled to
the possession of the privileges and emoluments be-
longing to the vicarage of Bampford Speke as his
Lordship was to those appertaining to his own see of
Exeter. When that decision was pronounced
not ling remained far the Right Reverend R?spondent,
or for those ministers by whom he was sustained and
supported, but to bow with submission to a judgment
which might be regarded as virtually that of the
SOVEREIGN, the supreme head of the Church. What-
ever doubts might be entertained with respect to
points of doctrine, none were possible as to the posi-
tion and authority of our Most Gracious QUEEN.
That at least had been settled beyond the possibility
of dispute or question by solemn Acts of Parliament
and by the canons of the Church itself. Who-
ever should venture to contemn and rebel against
that authority became, ipso facto, heretics and
schismatics. They v,ere dissenters from its funda-
mental principles, and could no longer retain prefer-
nt or station therein. Judging, then, by their
own rules, and by the doctrines on which they in-
eisted, and by which they profes:,ed to be guided and
governed, they were bound to yield a prompt and
implicit obedience to the supreme head of their
Church, the sole arbiter and judge of all " errors,
heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts, and
enormities, whatsoever they might be." Any denial
of that authority would at once subject them to ex-
communication under the 11th Canon, and to
all the penalties of a prcemunire, including
the forfeiture of all their goods and chattels,
and confinement during the Monarch's pleasure. The
draught, however unpalatable, must therefore be
swallowed. The judgment must be accepted with-
out qualification or subterfuge, and the behest of the
Sc,VEREIGN, communicated through the Lords of
the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, car-
ried into execution without murmuring or repining.

We cannot doubt but that such will be the course
adopted on tine present occasion by the Bishop of
EXETER. We cannot lend the least credence to the
rumour put forward through the columns of a
weekly contemporary, that his Lordship will venture
to resist the decision, or endeavour to continue
an obstinate and pertinaceous resistance to
one of the most unquestionable and best established
prerogatives of the Crown. We cannot suppose that
he would through his contumacity relinquish the
mitre, and assume the position of a dissenting clergy-
nmn. Although the Church of England might sus-
tain a greater calamity without any very ruinous
consequences, we cannot conceive the possibility of
the Bishop acting so insane a part, and will not be-
have it until it is established by evidence beyond the
pale cf scepticism.
But whatever doubts may be entertained as to the
future conduct of the Bishop none can remain
as to the actual proceeding of the Rev. GEORGE
ANTHONY DLNISON, vicar of East Brent, in the
county of Somerset, a person wholly uninterested in
the issue of the case. That Rev. Gentleman has
thought fit to publish, with all due solemnity and de-
liberation, two of the most extraordinary protests
that ever fell under our cognizance as public

journalists. He has by a formal act repudiated the
authority of the SOVEREIGN in matters of doctrine,
and thereby abandoned his status as a member of the
Church. He bas declared hls QUEEN, the two Arch-
bishops, and a number of eminent men of considerable
experience and distinguished learning, to be
heretical, and to have done " injury and dishonour
to CHRIST and to his Holy Church." He has taken
upon himself to affirm that the " sentence is neces-
sarily false r that it gives " public legal sanction to
the teaching of false doctrine, and therein and thereby
has a great and manifest tendency to lead into error
of doctrine, or to encourage to persevere in error of
doctrine, or to plunge finally into heresy all such as
are tempted, in one degree or another, to deny the
faith of CHRIST in respect of the Holy Sacrament of
Beptism"—and he " warns all the Christian people of
his parish to beware of allowing themselves to be
moved or influenced thereby in the least degree.'
He thus not only plunges into rebellion himself, but
calls upon those who sit under his ministry to act in
a similar manner, and to exhibit a contumacious re-
sistance to the authority which, as members of the
Church of England, they are bound to respect and
reverence.

We are no advocates for any unnecessary inter-
ference with the consciences of our fellow-subjects—
we have no desire to witness the revival of the almost
obsolete proceedings fur a premunire, and if Mr.
DENISON were a private individual we should suffer
him to stultify himself with impunity, and to
protest and re-protest to his heart's contest ;
but, considering the position he holds es
a beneficed clergy man, we hold such a course to be
impossible. Such conduct from such a quarter can-
not be permitted to pass unnoticed or uncensured.
We trust that Mr. DENISON, by an early " repent-
ance and public revocation," may warrant the Arch-
bishop in restoring him to his place in the Church ;
but unless that " repentance and public revocation
be manifested there remains no alternative. The
majesty and authority of the law must be vindicated ;
the authority of the SOVEREIGN cannot be slighted or
despised without some notice being taken and pro-
ceedings being instituted against the offender. The
Hon. Member fur Montrose has it appears given notice
of his intention to ask this evening " what notice the
Government intend to take of the protest of Mr.
DENISON, impugning the judgment of her MAJESTY'S
Council in the case of GORHAM v. the Bishop of
EXETER, and denying the authority of the Crown as
head of the Established Church." A distinct and
definite answer must be returned to the interrogatory,
and it will then be seen what sanction will be uf-
ft.rded by the Ministers of the Crown to an invasion
on the most unquestioned and unquestionable of the
Royal prerogatives, and what inducement will be
held out to others to follow in the path on which Mr.
DENISON has so recklessly and wilfully entered.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Parisi journals of Satutrday
and of yesterday.
Tne 3loniteur of Saturday publishes a decree of
the PRESIDENT of the Republic which appoints M.
BAROCIIE, Procureur-General of the Court of Appeal,
as Minister of the Interior, in the room of M. FEEDS •
NAND BARROT, resigned. The Monitcur also an-
nounces the appointment of M. FERDINAND BARROT
to be Minister at Turin, on a temporary mission, in
the room of M. LUCIEN MURAT.
The Constitutionnel states that General CHANGAR-
BIER, and Messrs. THIERS, MOLE, DE BROGLIE, DE
MONTALEMBERT, BERRYER, and SAINT PRIEST, were
on Thursday summoned to the Elysee, to give
their opinion on the present state of affairs.
The resignation of M. FERDINAND BARROT took
place in consequence of the advice given by the re-
actionary chiefs above alluded to by the Constitution-
nel. If report says true, the PRESIDENT of the Rel-
public has surrendered at discretion to the Royalist
reactionaries ; has recanted all his professions-of
independence; and has consented henceforth to be
the mere tool of the TRIERS, MOLE, and IitINTA-
LEMBEBT faction. We do not attach much credit to
these rumours, for we cannot believe that Lours
NAPOLEON would commit such an act of political
suicide as, of his own free will, to become the mere
" planche IVapoleoniessne" over which the BOURBONS
are to walk to a second Royalist restoration.
M. RouuEn, it is said, will succeed M. 13AEOCHE as
Procureur-General ; and either Count Franauvr or
M. GUSTATE DE BEAUMONT Will succeed General
DE LA HITTE in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Nothing can exceed the chagrin of the reactionaries
at the admirably prudent conduct of the people on
Friday, Nilo would not make an oneute in order to
give General CHANGARNIER an opportunity of mowing
them down with canister and grape. The Censtitu-
lionnel of Saturday thus gives vent to the feeling of
disappointment felt by the party of order ! (order,
GOD save the mark) at the refusal of their adversaries
to be irritated into the commission of a breach of the
public peace. It says :
" Let us remark the astonishing discipline of our ad-
versaries. They present to us the spectacle of order in
anarchy. The Ited press considers itself so much in re-
volution, that it makes no more articles, it publishes
orders of the day. All its organs repeat the same pro-
clamation to the people, as a military order is repeated.
The demagogical party obeys as if by a watchword.
After the success of the Socialists, comes the proclama-
tion of the ballot at the Hotel de Ville. That solem-
nity, so triumphant for them, would naturally attract an
immense concourse. It has been seen that there were
very few spectators, and no illegal cry was raised. The
order had been given by the chit fs, and it was punctually
executed."

Among all the strange circumstances which have
sprung from the French revolution, not the least
strange is certainly this formal complaint on the
part of the organ of the Government, that the people
not only will not rebel, but that they pay such an
implicit obedience to the laws that they will not even
raise an illegal cry.
The Assemelee .Nationale, the organ of the Or-
leanist Court party of the DE PEASLINS, the TESTES,
the DUJANIERS, the DE BEAUVALLONS' et hoc genus
omnes, goes a step further than the Constitutionnel.
It makes a guess that certain tradesmen have
voted; ~for the successful candidates, and pub-
lishes their names in order to denounce them
to the vengeance of the reactionaries. As the votes
are given by ballot, it is impossible for the writers of
the Assemblee Nationale to have any accurate infor-
mation on the subject, and we find in the Constitu-
tionnel and in the Journal des Deiats, of Sunday,
letters from several of the tradesmen thus denounced,
denying that they had voted as stated by the
Assemblde .Nationale. The matter was brought
before the Assembly in the sitting of Sa-
turday by N. DR LASTEYRIC, a moderate
Republican, who said that although he was no lawyer;
hia common sense told him that his conduct was not
only calculated to excite hatred and ill will, and to
expose free citizens to threats and intimidations, but
was moreover a manifest violation of the law of the
land, s‘hich declared that the secrets of the ballot-
box should be held inscrutable. The Minister of
Justice began his reply by saying that, much as he
applauded conciliation, he could not allow himself to
be deceived by such mock conciliation as was exhi-
bited in the coalition to which the results of the late
election were due. This imprudent sally was re,
calved with loud shouts of disapprobation by
the Mountain, who accused the Minister of
being a promoter of civil war. \Vhen
calm was somewhat restored, the Minister proceeded
to say that in such a case es the present it was for
the individuals who felt themselves aggrieved to bring
actions against the newspaper who had so dealt with
their names, as the Government could not be called
upon to institute proceedings. M. 13aitocur, the
new Minister of the Interior, supported the view of
the law taken by his colleague e and with regard to
the violation of the secrets of the ballot-box, he
begged to remind the House that many individuals
who voted boasted afterwards of the way in which
they gave their votes, and had themselves to blame if
the affair had become subject-matter of discussion.
It is quite amusing to observe the fuming and fretting
cf such gentlemen as M. BAROCEIE, who have ever
since May last been preaching up the doctrine
of implicit obedience to the will of the majority, as
testified by universal suffrage. Surely the will of the
majority of the electors of Paris should be held as
sacred as regards the representation, as the will of
any other majority ?
The National, in commenting on the denunciation
of the Assembke Nationale, justly observes that those
tradesmen who are thus held up to the hatred of a
pasty might exercise terrible reprisals by publishing the
names of those among their customers who have been
intimidated into obedience to the orders of the secret
tribunal of reactionaries, and have 1: fc them, the
names of those who have contracted debts which they
have not paid; and those workmen whom the re-
actienaries would fain starve into obedience, might also
paint out to public notice those men who, enjoying
large incomes, never give to the poor either 115.sist&nce
or alms ; and those who expend a magnificent fortune
on their mistresses and their dogs, without thinking
of the poor who are starving at their gates."
The Paris and Avignon Railway Bill has been
replaced amongst the orders of the day of the Legis-
lative Assembly for the 25th inst.
La Patric announces that M. DE ROYER, Advo-
cate-General at the Court of Appeal of Paris, has
been appointed AttorneyeGereral in place of M.
BAROCLIE.
Tile supplementary report on the propositiorea

General BARAGUAY D'IIILLIERS for changing the pro-
visions of the decree of July 19, 1843, relative to the
free admission into the military echools, has been pre-
sented to the Assembly. Tee Committee originally
charged to examine this measure had presented a
favourable report on it, and, after a discussion, the
Assembly decided that the Bill, as amended by the
Committee, should pass to a second reading. Since
that time several amendments have been presented;
connected more or less directly with the subject
of free admission, and even raising new questions.
The examination of these questions has given
rise to long and serious discussions, and the
organization of the discipline and studies of the
schools have been thoroughly examined. The Com-
mittee was of opinion that, as it had been called on to
point out the defects in that organization, it ought to
point out to the Assembly the means of correcting
them, and it has drawn out several propositions on
the subject, among which are the following :—" A
mixed commission, named by the Ministers of War,
Marine, and Public Works, shall be charged to re-
verse the organization cf the schools as well as the
programme of the studies; it shall propose such mo-
difications as it shall think necessary before the Ist
December, 1850, in order to put those modifications
in harmony with the wants of the public serviceF."
By another clause, the Polytechnic School is proposed
to be transferred to the buildings of the National
Palace at Meudon.

The newly-elected Members for Paris took their
seats in the Assembly on Saturday—Messrs. VOGUE,
DUPONT, DE I3USSAC, HENNE QUIN, and others,
elected by the departments, were likewise present.
Some disturbance took place on Tuesday last at
Aix, in consequence of a certain number of conscripts
presenting themselves before the post of the prison in
a hostile manner. The sergeant called out his men
and quickly disilersed them. The next day when the
MAYOR proceeded to the Hotel-de-Ville to draw the
numbers, he found tho building in a manner beseiged
by a band of individuals bearing a flag and crying
" Vive Barbes! vive Proudhon!" The authorities in-
terfered and the flag was seized, and some of the men
arrested. At Carpentras the drawing for the con-
scripton was also the occasion of some disturbances,
and two brothers named COURTAT, were beaten
severely by the Reds. A complaint was lodged, and
an investigation is to be instituted.
Seventeen Arabs have just quitted the Chateau of
Amboise, to return to Africa. They proceeded to
Marseilles, and from thence to Oran. Amongst these
Arabs is an old tna-, 100 years of age, the uncle of
ABD-EL-FADER. One of them has become so initiated
in French manners and customs as to be a very accom-
plished dancer of the Polka.
The Dowager Countess DE MONTALIVET, formerly
Lady of Honour to the Empresses JOSEPHINE end
MARIA LOUISA, has just died at her estate at Tauve-
nay, near Sancerre.
We read in the Constitutionnel :—" The French
fleet, the last accounts from which are dated from
Malta, is expected at Toulon in a fortnight or three
weeks. The ftet is to proceed from Malta to Naples,
from whence it will escort the POPE to Civita Yee.
chia. The two French steamers arrived in the Tiber
are also to proceed to Naples to join the French fleet
there. The Poinone frigate, which has been de-
tached from the fleet has arrived at Toulon."
The Five per Cents. ware done in the Passage of the
Opera at 91f. 55c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-FXCHAZ,TGE, MARCH 16.

Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), [2—Luxembourg, I Vs— Orleans and Bordeaux,
2y—Paris and Rouen, 'Al—Paris and Strasbourg, 61/2—
Rouen and Havre, 9!4—Sambre and Meuse, 2%—Tours and
Nantes, 21/2.