The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-22 00:00:00

Church Squabbles;" the third was liEadA. " What
has become et' the 711oney?" th;,se at tEeks v ere
continued down to the 12tH Oct,ber.) Learned
Gentlemen then proceed, d to 0b,,,1ye tf at h had
already informed the Courtof ' •of tiwhich
no (.tVt•(: till 1
existed in the statements ct 1.1;i3 pap =r of the misappro-
priation of a suns which it was sai•l r amounted to
18,000/. So tar from the presait Earl or his ancestors
having misapplied the money, from documenti now ex-
isting, and from the testimony- of persons who were still
livng, there could be no daubs whatever that Lori
mouth and his ancestors had regularly paid this
sum of 20/. to the vicar of Lewisham, f.nd
yet his Lordship was stigmatised by this paper
as a scoundrel, and accused of having been guilty
of that which would have sent many men to the Old
Bailey. His Lordship, therefore, being natio ally caro-
led of his own honour and the memory of his ancestors,
claimed the protection of this Court against his syste-
matic calumniator; and, without going into the question
of whether the pre-eat mode of m.:rrying out the pious
intentions of the founder of the fund was snore beneficial
to the inhabitants of Blackheath than was on
ginally contemplated, what the Celia had to
consider was simply whether it would allow a nobleman
to be stigmatizEA in this way upon such fitmsy grounds
and pretences, or whether it would interptho its piotec-
tion and grant him this remely of a criminal inter-

mation.
Mr. Justice PATTESON—You may take a rule.
Rule nisi accordingly.

MANSION-HOUSE.--(MIS DAY.

i'dr. Ballantine appeared before the Lord Mayor for
Messrs. Btitour and Co., s,hipb:,-okers and agent, Mitre
Chambers, Fenchurch-street, who were summoned bAore
the Lord Mayor to answcr any charge which might
be brought against them in connexion with the case of
the captain of the Abyssinia, who was last week com-
mitted to prison in consequence of his conduct towards
65 Frenchmen who had taken a passage on board his ship
for California.

Mr. Humphreys appeared for the prosecution. Mr.
Ofenhcim, of the French Embassy, and Lieutenant Lean,
agent for the Emigration Society, were in attendance.
Mr. Ballantine applied for a remand. His clients,
though they felt themselves free from all blame in this
matter, were not unwilling to do something fur th,
relief of the unfortunate sufferers, and if, as it was to be
feared, many of them were in a state of destitution, they
would be quite ready to support them until some settle-
ment should be made.

The LORD MAYOR said that he was determined that
these poor men should have as full justice done to them
as if they had been English. He would therefore consent
to this arrangement with that view. The case was then
remanded fur ten days.

MARLBRO":STREET.-(T HIS DAY.

A DRUNKEN BARRISTER.—Edward lanes Pocock,
who dezcribed himself as a barrister, re.iding at 29,
Lincoln's Ina-fields, was brought before Mr. Hardwick
charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care
of himself.

Police-constable 68 C stated that about six o'clock
last night he was on duty in Oxford-street, when his
attention was calle:1 to the defendant, who was very
drunk, having an altercation with a cabman. A crowd
of the lowest class surrounded him, and as he seemed to
have a deal of valuable property about him, witness for
his (defendant's) safety took him into custody and con-
veyed him to the station.

inspccior C division, said he was on duty fit
the police station when the defendant was brought in.
He was extremely violent, and tried to break his own
arm on the iron bar of the dock; and he, no doubt,
would have done so had be (Vie inspector) not pre-
vented him.

The dftendant did not make any reply to the charge.

Mr. HARDVi lex said it was highly &,g- nceful to se.: a
person of deferdant's appearance in such a position. He
ought to be extremely cautious how be indulged in
liquor for the future, or his violent and insane conduct
might. in some hasty and indiscreet mem.- nt, cause him
to commit some act which would subji et himself to be
transported for life. With these remarks, he (Mr. Hard-
wick) should now discharge him.

MISS WHEATLEY'S SOIREE JTIUSICAL.

This interesting event took place yesterday at
Exeter-hall, and we rejoice to say that, in spite of this
the dead season of the year, and the powerful attrac-

tions of the National Concerts on the one hand, and
Jullien's popular musical entertainments on the
other, a numerous and fesionable audience filled the
lower hall, and were highly gratified by the selection
of the morceau, and their effective execution by
talented performers, among whom we were delighted
to find several artistes bearing full and complete tes

timony to the success of the Royal Academy of
Music. But though it would afford us the highest
possible satisfaction to dilate upon the good taste and
first rate abilities of all the artistes engaged—though
we would gladly notice, with due encomium, the
opening terzetto by Miis Clari Fraser, Miss Eilen
Lyon, and Miss Owen, a cavatina and other songs
by Mies E. Lyon, two songs sweetly sung by Mr.
Rafter, two songs and duets by Mr. P. Bodd::),
a duet, in which Mr. Saynor accompanied
Miss Lyon cn the flute, and which enabled
us to test the powers of Mr. Clinton's admir-
able alterations in the flute, a grand fantasia on
the harp by Mr. W. Layland, and others, too long to
enumerate ; yet we feel in duty bound to say that
the palm of the evening was fairly gained by the
young and talented beneficiare, who displayed upon
two different instruments such consummate skill and
power as to command the admiration of all present,
while she conciliated their good-will and sympathy
by her firm yet modest bearing, and the total absence
of all assumption ; we will even confess that she made
a convert of us, who had hitherto deemed the violin
an instrument little fitted for her sex, and we shall in
future hardly venture to express this, our old opinion,
being compelled to admit that nothing can exceed the
sweetness and correctness of her tones, and her
mastery over the difficulties of that difficult instru-
ment. It is but justice to say that she was admirably
seconded by her brother, Mr. H. Wheatley, who con-
ducted on the occasion, and was throughout a host in
himself. We scarcely know whether most to con-
gratulate that talented family on their success, or
their friends on the gratification they derived from
yesterday's entertainment, which being, we believe,
intended to be an annual one, we will with satisfac-
tion look for again next year.

DR.

CUMMING ON TBE PAPAL
AGGRESSION.

Yesterday Ds. Cumming delivered his second lec-
ture on the above eubjact, at the Hanover-square
Rooms. The large roam v.a.s as densely crowded on
the fir:a lecture, and similar enthusiasm was manifested
by taose praseht.
Admiral IlaacourtT prcsPed, and having briefly
adverted to the gravity of the present and urged
the necessity otv. united effort on the part of Protes-
tants of all denominations to repel the encroachments
of the Romish Church,
Dr. CuaratiaG came forward, and was received with
tremendous cheering. The following is necessarily
but a brief sketch of the Reverend Doctor's address,
which occupied upwards of two hours in its delivery.
He first referred to the sermon delivered by Bishop
Doyle, in the Roman Catholic Cathedral, St.
George's, Southwark. In that sermon he found
the following words :—"Among other things, they
have spoken of an oath, which they assert every
cardinal,' upon his appointment, takes before the
Sovereign Pontiff." Now, his remark was, that
he presumed the cardinal, when he was made
an archbishop, received the pallium, and after
receiving the palliunz be repeated a solemn oath. He
did not say that Dr. Wiseman had taken that oath
on his appointment as cardinal ; but that he had taken
that oath on being consecrated as an archbishop,
which oath he had taken before on being made a
bishop. Bishop Doyle, however, declared that the
accusation was a falsehood, that no such oath was
taken ; and, he added, " there is an oath taken by a
bishop, and he promises in that oath to pursue and
combat error, and uphold the sacred doctrines of the
church." Dr. Doyle also went on to say, " They
talk of the edict of Queen Mary, and lay it at the
door of the Catholic Church. . . . On the very
day that that edict was sent forth, that great, and
good, and fearless friar, Alphonse de Castro, de-
nounced it as most intolerant, unjust, and in every
degree opposed to the glorious principles and spirit
of our holy religion. That fearless man, in the
name of the church, opposed the acts of many as
opposed to the church, and it is the same church
now as in the day that De Castro defended
it." He (Dr. Cumming) would first speak of the
oath. Of course, if they wished to ascertain the form
of consecrating a bishop in the English Church, they
would look to the Prayer Book in which that form
was contained, and the same with regard to any
other church having certain recognized and authorized
forms, they would look to those forms, and would
naturally expect that every portion of any such form
was essential, and not to be omitted. Accordingly
he bad turned to the Pontificale Romanum, or that
hook, according to which every bishop in the Roman
Catholic Church must be consecrated, every arch-
bishop receive the pallium, and every priest be or-
dained. It was used on the authority of two Popes,
Clement VIII. and Urban VIII. To show its value
and weight he would read a single sentence from
the bull of Clement VIII., prefixed to the book :
" Resolved that the aforesaid Pontificale Romanum
shall in no part be changed ; that nothing shall by
added to it, and that nothing shall be subtracted from."
Again, the bull or Pope Urban, referring to the same,
says " This is not to be added to, changed,
or detracted from, and whosoever shall perform
sacred offices are bound to observe it, and those who
do not have not observed the conditions or dutier

thereto attached." Now, that:book, which two Popes
had said was not to be " changed, added to, or sub-
tracted from," contained the following oath, "to be
taken by archbishops on receiving the pallium" The
Latin form of the oath was—" Ilereti cos , schismaticos,
et rebelles, Domino Nostro, vel successoribus prredictis,
pro posse, persequar et impugnabo." That was—
" The heretics, schismatics, and rebels against our
Lord (the Pope), or his aforesaid successors, I will
combat and attack to the utmost of my power." In
order to ascertain whether his translation was correct,
he had turned to a sermon by Canon Wordsworth,
and.there he found it, "to the utmost of ray power
will persecute and wage war against heretics and
schismatics." Dr. Burgess, the rector of Chelsea,
said that, to enable Englishmen better to understand
it, the translation should be, " I will persecute and
pitch into."—(Laughter and cheers.) Lest it should
be said he was quoting from an obsolete book, he had I
obtained an edition of the same work, published at
Mechlin in 1845, and there he found the oath given pre-
cisely as in the edition he had first quoted, of 1627.
To the edition of 1845 there was prefixed a bull of
Pope Benedict XIV., in which the work was called
" This our pontificale restorer and reformer," and it
was "commanded to be observed by all the Churches
of the world." That " Restorer and Reformer" pon-
tificale contained the very same oath, in the same
words, which he had quoted, and which was enjoined
to be taken by all archbishops on receiving the pallium.
What was the natural inference from all this ? Why,
that Cardinal Wiseman on being made Archbishop of
Westminster did swear—for two bulls of the un-
changeable Cburch of Rome commanded that nothing
was to be "changed, added, or subtracted" in this
form of consecration—that he would "persecute and
attack heretics to the utmost of his power." He
would now call their attention to the following letter
which only that morning he had received from Car-
dinal Wiseman's secretary. It had been originally sent
to the Times, but not having been inserted in that
paper, the Cardinal had directed it to be sent to him
(Dr. Cumming) :

" St. George's, Southwark, Nov. 19.
" Sir,—Dr. Cumming, in his letter in your paper of
to-day, gives an extract from the oath taken by bishops
and archbishops, copied from the ' Pontifical,' printed at
Antwerp in 1627, and states, I presume, that Cardinal
Wisemen, on receiving the palfium, took that oath.' To
prevent further misunderstanding, I have the Cardinal's
pormi9sion to state to you the', by a rescript of Pope
Pius VII., dated April 12, 1818, the clause quoted by
the Rev. Doctor, and so subject to misunderstanding, is
omitted by all bishops and archbishops who are subject
to the British Crown.

" The authorised copy, now lying before MP, used by
our bishops is headed—
" FORMA JURAMENTL
" Pro Episcopis et Vicariis Apostolicis Episcopali
dignitate pix:litis, qui in locis Magnm Britann.m subjec-
tis versantur, pivscripta a SS. Pie P. VII., die 12 Apri-
lie, 1818.'
"Iu the copy of the Pontifical,' kept at the Episco-
pal residence in Golden- quare—the copy, perhaps, ge-
nerally used in conseerstions of bishops in England—the
sentence is cancelled. Dr. Cumming is at liberty to in-
spect this, if he will arrange with me for that purpose.
" When Cardinal Wiseman was consecrated bishop in
Rome, iu 1840, he took the English form of oath. On
receiving the pallium,' at which ceremony I assisted,
his Eminence took no oath, cardinals being exempt.
Had he been required to do so, he would no doubt have
repeated the same form.—l am, sir, your obedient ser-
vant, " FRANCIS SEARLE."

THE NEW SMALL Pox HOSPITAL.--The old build-
ing belonging to this charity at King's Cross having been razed,
in consequence of the site being required for the Great Nor-
thern Railway, an eligible, picturesque, and healthful spot on
the south- western side of Highgate-hill was procured, whereon
to erect a new edifice, which has been recently completed, with
the exception of the lodges and approaches. The style is
Italian, with f usticated stone coigns and dressings, from a
design by S.W. Daukes, Esq., architect. Its extreme length
is 218 feet, exhibiting in the south or grand front a noble
portico, supported by proportionate and tasteful wings. In
the rear are buildings for various domestic purposes, and the
internal fittings and arrangements are of the best and most
convenient kind, with a due regard to economy.
They comprise spacious acute, delirious, and con-
valescent wards for the accommodation of about
eighty patients of both sexes, with surgeons,
physicians, and secretaries' rooms, &c., with lava-
tories, baths, and other offices; also an ingenious ascending-
floor for the use of new patients who are unable to ascend to
the wards. The corridors, passages, and great part of the
lower a d upper floors are laid with Orsi and Armani's patent
metallic lava, and an ornamental kind of the same material
forms the floor of the vestibule or entrance-hall (which is
2', feet by 20 feet). The metallic lava is impervious to
moisture, and the ornamental portion, which resembles tes-
sellated pavement, has a pleasing and elegant effect. The
whole building has been constructed in the hest style by
Messrs. T. and W. Piper, the builders, and the grounds within
which it stands, consisting of about seven acres, are appropri-
ately and tastefully laid out.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT THE BLACKWALL RAlL-
WAY.—Yesterday information was received at all the stations
of the metropolitan police, from the City police, of the f0110w-
....

Why, what laws have these men 12 Here is a so.
lemn ceremony commanded to be observed by the
formal bulls of their Popes, and not to be departed
from, and yet Cardinal Wiseman was exempted.
Urban VIII. and Benedict XIV. said nothing must
be added or subtracted ; Gregory XVI. and Pius
IX say, "Anything may be added which Bishop
Wiseman likes ; anything may be taken away, chop
it and change, and treat it in any way that will suit
the British Crown and the British people."—(Cheers.)
After some further remarks on the inconsistent state-
ments made by Dr. Doyle and Dr. Wiseman with
reference to this oath, Dr. Cumming next quoted at
great length from the works of Alphonse de Castro,
to show the nature of the principles upheld by him,
and which had been cited by Dr. Doyle as the same
which still animated the Church of Rome. In one
of his works he recommended the putting to death of
heretics as a salutary and commendable proceeding,
and enumerates various methods of execution, such as
casting them bound into rivers, plunging them into
boiling oil or burning, and he concludes by saying,
" We have shown plainly that heretics may be put to
death ; but in what manner is of little consequence,
for whatever way be taken to put them to death, it
is always for the good of the Church, for a nuisance
is removed." Elsewhere De. Castro contends that the
Pope has the power of deposing heretic kings, and re-
leasing their subjects from their fealty and allegiance;
further, also, he said that if the people were heretic as
well as their sovereign, then the Pope had the right of
appointing a king over that nation. Those were the
doctrines laid down by the man whom Dr. Doyle
held up as the representative of the principles of the
Rumen Church of to.day.—(Hear, hear.) After re•
ferring at very great length to the doctrines laid down
by the canons of the Romish Church to show that that
Church claimed temporal as well as spiritual authority,
and that the Roman bishops in England were bound to
snake their fealty to the Queen subordinate to their
fealty the Pope, Dr. Cumming proceeded to examine
the duties imposed on the Rom an Catholic clergy by
their canon law, which Dr. Wiseman stated was now
to be introduced into England. According to that
law, Dr. Wiseman and his bishops were bound to use
their best endeavours to exterminate heresy, even—
where they had the power—by confiscation, impri•
sonment, or death. That was the law which Car-
dinal Wiseman and Bishop Doyle were seeking to
establish in England.—(Hear, hear.) Dr. Cumming
concluded a very learned and eloquent address, which
was frequently interruwed by bursts of applause, in
the following terms :—ln drawing my remarks to a
close, I am bound to state that I believe the Roman
Catholic laity do not profess to hold the principles of
the canon law or the dogmas of Popery, as I have laid
them down. They are bound to accept them as taught
by their spiritual superiors, but as it was once said,
‘‘ There are many Christians in the Church of Rome
in spite of it," so I believe there are many Roman
Catholic laymen in the servitude and bondage of the
priesthood, who are loyal subjects in spite of that.
My charge against Cardinal Wiseman is not that, as
Vicar Apostolic, he has been teaching certain dogmas,
but that he has brought with him the missive of a
foreign Prince assuming power and jurisdiction in
this land, and that he supports and advises those
principles which tend to undermine the loyalty of
our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, and injure the

. •
ing robbery at the offices of the Blaawall Railway, Fen-
church-street, between the hours of half-past five o'clock on
Tuesday evening and ten o'clock on Wednesday morning.
A safe in the office, which is on the ground floor, was opened
by some means not explained, and a 51. note, with 230 sove-
reigns, and 301. in silver, was stolen therefrom.
DISCOVERY OF A LEAD MINE NEAR GALWAY.—
About a mile distant from this town, at Salt•hill, there were
a number of cabins on the roadside, all of which have been
thrown down some time since by order of the landlord, a
Mr. Jones, of Dublin, who holds those lands under the War-
den of Galway. Some of the peasantry, being lately employed
in clearing one of the foundations, discovered what they
thought to be a quantity of silver ore mixed with the stone.
Thy story soon spread ; a number of the country people came
and commenced operations in their rude way, of course
quite unproductive. A captain of a mining company, at
Scarily, was sent for, who came and examined the mine or
ore, and declared it an excellent rich lead mine, taking
samples of it to Dublin, where he is now in treaty with Mr.
Jones. While the captain was here, samples of lead ore from
Outerard were shown him that is now being raised on the
lands of Mr. O'Flaherty.—Galway Mercury.

EFFECTS OF LORD FEILDI NG'S CASUISTRY.—We
are happy to learn that the publication of Lord Feilding 's
correspondence with the Bishop of St. Asaph has been at-
tes,ded with the happiest results for the interests of the Pro•
testant Church in the parishes of Whitford and Holvwell.
In less than a week from the appearance of that correspon-
dence upwards of 1,9001. have been promised towards the
erection of a church in the district, arid the following names,
selected from the first list of subscribers will show that the
nobility and gentry of the principality ate resolved to mark
their sense of his Lordship's conduct by liberal contributions
in aid of the edifice which is destined to counteract the bane-
ful effects of Papistical teaching:—Mr. Pennant, 5001 ; the
Marquis of Westminster, 100/. ; the Marchioness of Down-
shire, 1001.; Earl Howe, 1001. ; Lord Dinorben, 100/. ; the
Bishop of St. Asaph, 100/. ; the Miss Luxmoores, 100/. ; Mr.
John Day,lool. ; the Rev. R Buscoe, D.D., 501. Protestants
should remember that St. Dewis church cost 10,000/, and
that their subscriptions in opposition to it should at least
equal that sum.—Times.
ROYAL POLYTF CHNIC INSTITUTION.—Mr • Gsorge
Barker has made an entire change in the ballads with which
he illustrates his lecture. They are admirable selections
from several of our most popular and talented composers, an '
comprise the following beautiful airs from the pens of Sir
Henry
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able audience, who encored several of the ballads. We con-
gratulate the directors for their good taste in obtaining the
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reverence and homage due to the Queen, as the purest,
noblest, and most-beloved Sovereign who ever swayed
the sceptre.—(Loud cheers.) We are only at the
commencement of a great crisis. The thin edge of
the wedge has been introduced. Let us not look
behind us to see what Lumbers follow- to encourage
us, nor before us to see what numbers are opposed, to
frighten us. If we are fold, as Luther was told, that
the whole world is against us, let our reply be,,
"England agatnst the whole world."—(Cheers.)
Protestantism may be accused of being yielding in
little things, but in great things it is like the old
British oak which grows in the old British soil, its
gnarled roots interwoven with the everlasting rock,
which lifts its prcud head aloft careless whether the
storm cloud breaks over its boughs, or the sunshine
smiles upon its leaves, equally prepared to meet the
one, or to be refreshed and delighted by the other. If
such be our Protestantism, then all the bulls the car-
dinal can bring from the arsenal of Rome, and all the
weapons which Jesuitism can wield against us will
fall in splinters at its root, or hang in its branches as
proof of Rome's impotence, and trophies of English
strength, and of the stabiltiy of our throne, and the
might of our Queen.— (Loud cheers.)
The meeting then separated, after singing the
National Anthem.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, Nov. 21.
To-day was the birth•-day of her Royal Highness
the Princess Royal.
In the morning the band of the Royal Regiment of
Horse Guards attended at the Castle, and performed
a serenade. The following was the programme of the

Praise makes a Wise man modest, a fool arrogant.
.Eliza Cook's Journal.

THE LATE MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN A CAl3.—Yes-
terdav Mr. H. M. Wakley concluded the adjourned inquest
on the body of a gentleman who was found dead in a cab,
which has since been identified as that of Mr. John George
Somes, a surgeon, aged 33, practising in Ilungerford. No
additional facts were elicited beyond those already published.
Mr. Joseph Clover having deposed that he found in the de-
ceased's stomach a sufficient quantity of prussic acid to cause
instant death, and which witness presumed deceased took
whilst in the cab, the jury, after soma deliberation, returned
the following verdict: " That deceased committed suicide
in a cab; but there is no evidence of the state of his mind at
the time."

THE SUN, LONDON, FRID A Y EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, 1859.

SPIRIT' of the PUBLIC JOURA ALS.
TIME S.—ls the : division of England into Roman
Catholic bishoprics within the letters of the law ? Is
it the legitimate and perfect development of the Ro-
man Catholic religion as a system ? Does it trench
on any one's rights ? These are the three questions
npon which, according to Drs. 'Wiseman, "Newman,
mid Borvyer, the merits of the question now ist issue
between the Pope and the people of England de-
peed ; and they unswer them accordingly. Now, as
to the first, we have never been referred by any one
to any law of this country the letter of which has
been infringe dby the Pope or his emissaries. Our
whole conduct has been inconsistent with such a belief.
Had we thought that 'what has been done could be
redressed by the jurisdiction of our ordinary tribu-
nals, we should never have dreamt of invading the
functions of a jury and rousing the indignation of the
public egainst persons in the unfortunate position of
State criminals; it is because we believe there is, at
present, no bar, save that of public opinion, at
which these bold men can be arraigned that we
devote our columns to the exposure of their fella-
cies and the resistance of their aggresfieus. We
are therefore quite williug to concede to Dr. Wise-
man that his ingenious evasion of the Emancipation
Act may avail him at the Old Bailey ; and that the
clause which forbids the assumption of the titles of
English bishops by Roman Catholics would not in a
criminal case be held to extend to titles newly coined
in the Papal mint of honour. We alas concede that
the Roman Catholics are not bound to acknowledge
the Queen's supremacy in spiritual matters, and we
have no objection to allow that the Roman Catholic
religion in its high and palmy state requires a terri-
torial dominion, co-extensive and co-equal with the
land it inhabits, but surely the admission of all this,
which is all that the Cardinal and his two doctors
have proved or attempted to prove, goes no way at all
towards establishing that the indignation of the people
of England is unjust, that their jealousy is unfounded,
or that their grievances are imaginary. All that
has been propounded by•these learned personages
was perfectly well known to every speaker and writer
of the most ordinary intelligence who has taken part
in the discussion which the rashness and insolence of
a few ambitious ecclesiastics have in an evil hour for
themselves forced upon us. The people of England
regard this question neither from the legal or Old
Bailey point of view, nor yet with the eyes of those
one-sided reasoners who can see nothing but the de-
velopment of their own faith. It is on national, on
loyal, on constitutional grounds that they take their
stand. The Church of England is not merely a
voluntary association, enjoying peculiar privileges, as
Dr. Wiseman insinuates ; it is a part, and an in-
tegral part, of the ancient Constitution of this coun-
try. The Sovereign is and must be its head ; it is
fully represented in the highest court of judicature ;
and though it tolerates the widest dissent from its
opinions, it is only on condition that no act shall be
done subversive of its temporal or spiritual pre-
eminence. Within these limits Roman Catholics
and Dissenters are at liberty to develope their own
systems as fully as they please. If the letter of the
law suffer them to go beyond this, they cannot avail
themselves of it without infringing the spirit and
genius of our institutions, and arousing the just sus-
ceptibilities of the nation, which, when its will is
once deliberately matured and clearly expressed, is
as little disposed to tolerate evasion or permit disobe-
dience as the successor of St. Peter himself. We
might be well content to rest our answer here, satis-
fied with pointing out that to invade the spiritual
jurisdiction of the Established Church under a claim
not merely of co-ordinate but of paramount spiritual
authority derived from a foreign prince is not merely
an attack upon a rival sect, but an aggression on
the Crown and Constitution of these realms, because
of that Church the Crown is the head, of that Con-
stitution the Church is a part. Bat the case does
not rest here. The Roman Catholics have not, that
we are aware, violated the le.w, but they have
evaded it ; they have the letter on their side ; the
people who made the law have the spirit on theirs.
And what is that law ? It is the Emancipation Act of
1829,w0n for them against unparalleled difficulties by
the generous exertions of the members of that very
Church which they are cajoling,betraying, and invading
—in a breath, it is the charter of their political liberties
and spiritual freedom which they now seek to elude
and undermine by all the arts of sophistry and chi-
canery. Either the Emancipation Act was a boon
conceded to a suffering class of her Majesty's subjects
by the grace and favour of the British people, or it
was a great act of national reconciliation—a solemn
compact between the Protestant majority and the
Catholic minority, by which, in consideration of the
removal of all civil disabilities, the Roman Catholics
covenanted so to use the spiritual liberty which was
granted them as not to infringe upon the temporal or
spiritual rights of others. Mr. Bowyer in his pamphlet
admits that the relations which, according to the law of
the land, the Roman Catholics bear to the See of
Rome clearly appear from the oath contained in the
Roman Catholic Emancipation Act—in other words,
that this oath fairly embodies the understanding as to
the conduct and dispositions of the Roman Catholics
upon which this Act was passed. The words he
quotes are the following :
" And Ido further declare, that it is not an article of
my faith, and that Ido renounce, reject, and abjure the
opinion, that princes excommunica,ed or deprived by
the Pope, or any other authority of the See of Rome,
may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or by any
other person whatsoever. And I do declare that Ido
not believe that tho Pope of Rome, or any other foreign
prince, prelate, person, state, or potentate h:th, or ought
to have, any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, supe-
riority, or pre-eminence directly or indirectly within this
realm."
Thus far Mr. Bowyer. We request our readers to
attend to the sequel of the oath, which, for obvious
reasons, he has not thought fit to invert :
" I do swear that I will defend to the utmost of my
power the settlement of property within this realm, as
established by the laws. And I do hereby disclaim,
disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert
the present Church establishment, as settled by law
within this realm. And I do solemnly swear that I
never will exercise any privilege to which I am or may
become entitled to disturb or weaken the Protestant
religion or Protestant Government in the United
Kingdom."
The question, then, is reduced to a very narrow
issue. This oath, by the admission of Mr. Bowyer,
contains the relation of the Roman Catholics to the
See of Rome, and therefore, by necessary conse •
(pence, to the Church and State of England. Is
the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, with his
territorial jurisdiction without personal limitation,
true to the terms and spirit of this contract ? Is
not the conferring of titles of honour—purely
spiritual honour, if be please—by the Pope at least
indirectly an act of civil pre-eminence within this
realm ? Does the Roman Catholic ecclesiastic who
assumes the primacy of England for the See of
Westminster without limitation or qualification, and
therefore to the exclusion of the present primate, do
his utmost to defend the settlement of Church pro-
perty within this realm, or is he not palpably the
aggressor against whom it must be defended? Is it
no disturbance of the Protestant religion or Govern-
meat of this realm of England to establish in it an
hierarchy co-extensive, co-equal, co-ordinate with the
Protestant hierarchy, which, as far as words and pro-
fessions can go, is wholly ignored and set aside ? Is
it to strengthen or to weaken the Protestant religion
that, according to Dr. Wiseman's own statement,
this step has been taken ? His words are, " Many
minds allowed themselves to be influenced by the ap-
parent advantage of ecclesiastical position on the
other side." It was, then, to create a state of things
upon which a controversial argument to weaken the
case of the Church of England as against the
Church of Rome might be founded that
this change, according to the evidence of its
promoter, negotiator, and defender, was made.
Most true, Dr. Wiseman disclaims any but
spiritual jurisdiction, and in a spirit of arrogant hu-
muility and insolent self-abasement expresses his
willingness to leave the temporalities of the English
Church to their present possessors, provided he be
allowed, holy and humble that be is, to pursue his
noiseless and unobtrusive ministry amid the poor arid
afflicted. Surely here is a little confusion between
giving and taking. The Pope gives all, spiritual
and temporal, without restriction or qualification.
The Cardinal takes exactly as much as be can get.
We have little reason to thank him for his moderation.
The grapes are sour; but if he be indeed a faith-
ful representative of that Church which sold the
gifts of the Holy Spirit and the license to commit
sin, which has ever regarded its spiritual claims as
mere means and appliances to its temporal aggran-
dizement, and which surfeited on the plunder of
Christendom till the human mind, even in the days of
its darkness, rose up against its insatiable avarice, he
will not, longer than be is absolutely obliged, content
his appetite with hungry spiritualities. It would be
as reasonable for a privateer which sheers off from a
vessel it dares not attack to deny possession of a letter
of marque as for the Cardinal Archbishop of West-
minster, with the full commission of the Pope to
clutch all he can in his pocket, to affect a contempt
for the temporalities of the Church of England. We
may be well assured that if he be reduced to the
state of primitive simplicity of which he boasts, it is
not because a Roman Catholic ecclesiastic desires
little, but because we will not give more.

•
SOCIETY OF ARTS. , IRELAND.
On Wednesday the first of a Beres of annual exhi-' DREADFUL STORM.
bitions, intended to illustrate the state and progress of DUBLIN, Nov. 20.—For the last two days and
inventions, was opened in the rooms of this useful' nights it has blown a furious gale front west and
society; this exhibition consisted of articles invented, north-west. In this city and vicinity no serious in-
patented, or registered since the commencement of jury has been suffered: The mails from England
1849. 14on the eve of the opening of the National have been much delayed. At this moment the mail
Exhibition of 1851, of the British department of which . due at six this ' • 1- not arrived; and the
this may be said to be a miniature representation, it 1 steamers from Holyheadandncrr'lngLiverpoolj" (the former
cowed hardly he expected that the whole, or indeed ! due i •h . - - h
last mg ht have not uppeared in Kingston ar-
the more important of recent inventions should be ,
' 'nun The •
found within the malls of the Society of Arts ; yet
will done to
greatest violencestorm. appears to have raged with the
still, sufficient has been achieved to show the spirit of
tlie shippingin Limerick, where much damagedt
enterprise that is abroad, and evidence the interest a:
asajacent count wil inl the Shannon,
lan. the
which is taken in the society by the manufacturers Reporter of Tuyesda ogrtea.t y
the e.d.
.The Limerick
and inventors of this country. It is not our intention - 01,e of the
most
cfeanrfauml sstormfsoltlboawtrbnags dehteaeinlsw:—ii.
in any way to give a catalogue raisonee of the various neared fur many years visited Limerick and its environs
articles contained within the exhibition, of which there last night. The wind blew with terrific violence, com-
are 216, but we may briefly allude to a few of them. mooring about twelve o'clock, and continuing
without
In the first section, railways, &c., we find a model cf ietczmision during the entire night. Sr veral houses
Barlow's permanent iron way, tbe merits of which were stripped of the slate s, particularly those in exposed
situt. tions, and chimney stacks were blown into the
we have more than once brought prominently under
storm
srain
dmanyhparts of. the city. On the river the
the notice of our readers; and improvements in
rail way axles and axle• boxes, by Mr. Bar- d au) sznp'.a If e
the wt
full,
fury. The
were
eoomnsoeon being a rew
runs, to pre vent the rapid lateral wear of greatest
theirW
the brasses, the waste of grease, and the access of LeJly in a direct lire up the river, the tide of this
dust to the axles, which, though excellent in their morning rose to an extent almost unprecedented in she
design, do not ewer to effect the object more memory of the oldest waterman on the Shannon. The
efficiently than Mr. Nozmanville had previously done waves covered the quays in some pieces to the depth of
by his patent axle-boxes. Passing over the improve- three and four feet, and rolled into the adjoining streets
!Dents in the steam-engine, in lamps, in baths, &c., with resistless fury. All the shops on the quays were
of which there are very many specimens in the exhi- filled with water. With the exception of some forty or
bition, we come to an improvement in the mode of fifty bags s f corn on the ground flour of Mr. Rochford's
store on florists's-quay, we have not heard of any injury
constructing carriage steps, by Mr. Davies. By this
done to property in the stores. The brig Hilton, of Lou-
construction the steps, which are folded up beneath
the carriage, open out like what are commonly called sdopermdooorehd
rastee Harvey's-quay,
sbade _hoeirisides stove in, and
by ladies lazy tongs, with the opening of the door, dilschaerginigea carignonsoinjuriescoalsoi
on
i a h
thereveninShe rhavdi
andfinished
and again fold up in their former position, so as not had not taken in ballast, consequently, flogatpmeg high, the
to interfere with the interior of the carriage upon winds bad full effect, and she was driven by their fury
the door being closed. This is really a great improve- in on the quays, her keel, however, remaining outside the
ment for those who can afford the luxury of a carriage, kerbstone. As the tide abated the waves beat her
and will no doubt be extensively adopted. There against the quay, and her sides were greatly shattered.
are likewise exhibited musical instruments, agricul- A pilot-boat moored at the lie-by was sunk; a ship at
tural and horticultural implements, falai ics, articles of the North Strand was also injured; and the other craft
dress, &c., though there are very few specimens under lying along the quays were all more or less damaged.
this atter head, the most interesting and deserving of
Tw
with o smacks near the Messrs. Russell's dockyards, laden
notice being the bisunique cloth, patented by Mr. S. force ot;e turf, went
andt down,a
being
vessel
laden with fl
lcompletelyae ca psoioz capsized
fo
d byrh
t thee
Powell, which possesses two sides, each of a different same firm also foundered at this side of the Pool.
colour and surface, by which the use of linings may The disasters down the river must have been
be superseded. In this department of the exhibition numerous, and a long list of the ravages of the storm
there are also ladies' polka jackets, Roman togas, &c., is expected by the steamer from Kilrush this evening.
on the merits of which we do not presume to give an It is doubtful though that the captain would undertake
opinion, although we can assure our readers that the the trip in each a storm. We have not heard of any
exhibition will well repay a visit, as marking the loss of life occurring in the city, but a catastrophe of a
progress of invention, and a type of what we may ex-
calamitous nature took place at the Long Pavement, on
pact to see next year.
the Parteen-road. A poor woman who was coming to
town with milk was obliged, owing to the road being
At the evening meeting of the society, Mr. J. 11.
covered, to walk through
the' water, and i theattempt
Murchison delivered an address on the rise and pro- passed off the roadway, walked into, the deep dite , nd
gress of the society, and its influence on British arts was unhappily drowned. The occurrence was not known
and manufactures, from the time it was first formed till some hours afterwards, when the water in some de-
through the instrumentality of Mr. Shirley, under the gree abated. The hurricane, after a short interval of
patronage of Lords Folkestone and Romney, in 1754, repose, commenced with apparently renewed fury, about
up to the present day, tracing it year by year from two o'clock P.N., when the rain again came down in tor-
the time when it originally met at a coffe-house in rents, and the wind was so high that it was almost im-
Henrietta-street, through its various phases and offices, possible to appear out of doors. The appearance of the
in Crane. court, Fleet-street; Peele's Coffee-house, Lower Shannon was truly awful. The entire country at
where the first prizes were distributed; Craig's-court,
both sTil kin
eeof the river was under water to a vast extent;
Charing-cross-011 it settled down in its present
ct -sff re tothe flow cf the waters, which chafed and
nts
being
torn away no impediment was
abiding place in the Adelphi, the great lecture-room
swelled as though an angry sea had inundated the land.
of which is so magnificently adorned by the genius of In the Upper Shannon about Castle Connell, Doonas,
Barry—and even showing what has been done for the Killaloe, and Lough Dergh to Dromineer, the storm is
advancement of arts, manufactures, and commerce, by represented as having been equally violent in its effects,
the exhibitions of the last two or three years, paving so as to stop all communication by water. At a late
the way, as it were, for the National Exhibition of hour of the evening a renewal of the storm has been
next year. Although Mr. Murchison's address dealt thr. atened; the wind continues very high, and the glass
with an immense mass of statistical matter, it could not has fallen considerably."
fail to be interesting to the members, as proving that DEATH OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF KM..
the society has never been slow to perceive and reward LALOE.—The Right Rev, Dr. Kennedy, Roman
merit—its prizes having been several times won by mere Catholic Bishop of Killaloe, died on Tuesday, at
children, who as men have afterwards become the Parson's Town, King's County, after a protracted ill.
brightest ornaments of art. Amongst those who in ness, in his sixty-third year. Dr. Kennedy had at-
tended the synod at Thurles, where he bad taken an
their youth obtained prizes from the society may be
mentioned Nollekens, Barry, . Sir Thomas Lawrence, active part in opposing the condemnation of the
Sir William Ross, Wyon Paxton, the designer of the Queen's Colleges ; and he was one of the 13 prelates
Hyde Park Exhibition building ; Sir Charles East- who subsequently signed a memorial to the Pope, with
lake, the new President of the Royal Academy; and respect to those institutions. The deceased prelate
Sir Elwin Landseer, when only eleven years of age. had been most earnest and successful in his exertions
Of this latter gentleman Mr. Varlet', who was pre- to discourage the "Young Ireland" movement during
sent when the prize was presented to him, stated that; the excitement of. 1848.
upon the painting coming before the committee, they DEATH OF THE COMPTROLLER-GENERAL OP
would not believe it could be the work of one so STAMPS.—The Evening Post announces the death of'
young, until he convinced them by making a sketch Mr. J. Sisson Cooper, Comptroller-General of Stamps,
in their presence, which they declared would of itself which took place on Monday night, at his house in
alone be sufficient to win a prize. This sketch, a Upper Merrion-street, after a sew hours' illness.
dog's head, was handed round the room, and was DISCHARGE OF A PRISONER UNDER SENTENCE OF
much admired, possessing all the fire and animation DEATH.—On Saturday. !Michael Walshe, who had
for which this artist has since become so celebrated. been convicted at Kilkenny assizes for having poisoned
At the close of the proceedings a vote of thanks was a bailiff, was discharged from the gaol of that county.
given to Mr. Murchison for his address, and the com- His case had been referred to the Court of Criminal
pang separated, to view the models in the exhibition Appeal, and three out of the five judges having decided
mentioned above. that illegal evidence had been admitted at the trial,
the conviction was reversed.
REPRESENTATIVE PEER.--Randal Edward Plunkett
Baron Dunsany has been elected a representative
peer for Ireland, in the room of Wyndham Earl of
Dunraven, deceased.

STEAM NAVIGATION ON THE PACIFIC.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. '2l.—A few days ago we
mentioned that arrangements had been concluded be-
tween the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and
the United States' Mail Steam Company for the con-
veyance of passengers and treasure between England
and the ports northward of Panama. We have since
been placed in possession of the precise terms of these
arrangements, which are of considerable interest to
all persons engaged in the Pacific and Californian
trade.

On and after the Ist of January next the Royal
Mail Steam Packet Company will book passengers
from Southampton throughout to California and the
ports on the west coast of Mexico by their steamers,
departing on the 2d and 17th of every month for
Chagres, and connecting with the semi-monthly mail
steamers plying between Panama and San Francisco.
The rates of fare vary according to the description
of accommodation engaged, whether single or double
cabins, either aft or forward. The passage money from
Southampton to San Francisco is fixed at 971., 1021.,
1121, and 1221., respectively; to San Blas, 811., 861.,
961., and 106/. ; to Mazatlan, 821., 871,, 971., and
107/. ; to San Diego, 871., 921., 1021., and 1121.
Besides these rates, it is announced that a limited
number of artisans, emigrants, &c., to be v ictualled
on the same footing as the ship's crew, and finnding
their own bedding, will be conveyed when there is
room for them, from Southampton to Chagres, for
201. each ; and by arrangements made with the Pa-
cific (American) Company, tf,e total charge from Eng-
land to San Francisco will be 511., to San Diego,
461., to Mazatlan, 411., and San Bias 401. In all cases
the passage money does not include the expenses of
transport across the Isthmus of Panama.
Through bills of lading will be granted at any of
the above-mentioned ports for specie or gold dust, de-
liverable at the Bank of England, at a rate of 2i per
cent. Of this the American mail steamers get 11
per cent., and the Royal Mail Company per cent.,
the latter including all expenses of transit from
Panama to Chagres, so that the 2i covers all charges
from the. port of shipment, and provides for the de-
livery of the bullion at the Bank of England on pro-
duction of th&bills of lading.
The Royal Mail Company have concluded imme-
diate arrangements for conveying passsenges and
treasure in like manner to the above from England to
the ports southward of Panama. The ports included
in this scheme, touched at by the Pacific Steam Na-
vigation Company's (British) steamers, are as follow :
—Buenaventura, Guayaquil, Payta, Lambageque,
Huancbaco, Casma, Huacho, Callao, Pisco, Islay,
Arica, Iquique, Cobija, Copiapo, Huasco, Coquimbo,
and Valparaiso. The rates of passage money from
Southampton to Valparaiso are fixed by the joint
companies at 821. 153., 87/. 155., 971. 155., and 107/.
15s. respectively ' • to Callao, at 621. 10s., 671. 10s.,
771. 10s., and 87/. 104. and to the intermediate ports
in proportion to their greater or less proximity to
England; the expense of crossing the Isthmus in all
cases being defrayed by the passengers. Through
bills of lading are granted at all the above ports by
the agents of the Pacific Company for treasure de-
liverable at the Bank of England at a rate of 21
per cent., of which per cent. falls to the share or
the Pacific Company, and 1-2- per cent. to the Royal
Mail Com pany.
The charge made for specie and bullion from Pa-
nama to British Guiana, Vera Cruz, and Tampico, is
11 per cent.; from Panama to St. Domingo, Porto
Rico, St. Thomas, all the Windward Islands, Ha-
vaunah, 1,
Honduras, Nassau, and Jamaica, 1* per cent. ;
Panama to Carthageaa and Grey Town, 71- per cent.;
pearls, emeralds, and all other precious stones (upset),
being exempt from duty from Panama, are delivered
at the Bank of England at 111. per cent. on value;
jewellery, subject to duty from Panama, is deliverable
at Southampton at 2i per cent.
The American mall steamers leave San Francisco
on the Ist and 15th of each month, and the British
mail steamersrleave Valparaiso on the 26th of every
month. To ports south of Panama, there is, therefore,
at present, only a monthly communication, but by
arrangements with the Admiralty the Pacific Steam
Company will, towards the close of 1851, commence
a hi-monthly mail, so that passengers will then be
enabled to proceed to any of the Chilian, Bolivian,
Peruvian, and New Granadian ports, by the West
India mail steamers leaving Southampton on the 2d
and I7th of every month.

CONSECRATION OF TIIE NEW CHURCH AT PELAGE.
—Yesterday the new edifice dedicated to St. John the Evan-
gelist was consecrated by the Bishop of Winchester, in the
presence of the Prime Wardens, Masters, and Assistants of
the Watermeu's Company and a numerous assemblage of the
neighbouring gentry. The church contains sittings for 800.
The Bishop of Winchester preached. At the close of the ser-
mon there was a liberal collection.

EXTENSIVE FIRE IN FINSEURY.—Last night, be.
twain the hours of eight and nine o'clock, a most destructive
fire suddenly broke out on the premises of Mr. Hvnam,
chemical-light-manufacturer, in Princes-square, P;inces-
street. The premises formed two sides of the square. With
as little delay-as possible, the engines of the London Brigade
and West of England Company attended, and, by carrying
the hose from the engines on to the roofs of the surrounding
buildings, they were enabled to cut off the fire from the two
wings,which contained a vast quantity of property; and at 11
o'clock that part of the works where the fire began was nearly
burned out, and the adjoining buildings severely damaged,
more especially the premises of Mr. Mansfield, basketitnaker,
in Holloway-place, and the houses numbered respectively 4,
5,6, 7, and 8, in Tobacco-hole-court. - None of the property
destroyed was insured.
BROMPTON.—Yesterday evening a very full quar-
terly meeting of governors and directors was held in the
board-room of the Hospital for Consumption, Brompton ;
Otho Hamilton, Esq., in the chair. Some routine business
having passed, it was stated that since the last meeting of
governors, 91 patients had been received in the wards of the
building, of whom 53 had been discharged more or less bene-
fited. There were at present in the house 90 patients.
Within the period adverted to 639 out-patients luta received
medical treatment. The sum of 418/. 14s. annual subscrip-
tions had bee❑ received, of which 24/. 13s. were new sub-
scribers ; 1001. in small legacies had also been received. The
secretary then stated that a legacy of 500/. had been received
from the late William Theobald, Esq., of Paddington, and a
legacy of 100/. from the late Mrs. Ann Goodman, of Liver-
pool-road, London. Also that a larger portion of the legacy
of 3,000/. (left by the late J. M. Cuthbert, Esq.) than had
been expected the assets would have realized would soon
become available. The report was received Kith the greatest
satisfaction, and the usual vote of thanks passed to the
chairman.

THE RIGHTS or Max.—Shortly after the Stran-
raer steamer had put to sea last Saturday, with a large
number of cabin passengers, a tall powerful man became
conspicuous by his manner of talking to every one, holding
forth on every subject, and professing the most ultra opinions.
having towards evening, as he supposed, secured the good
feelings of his fellow-passengers, and collected a considerable
circle round him on the quarter-deck, he held forth in the
most approved Chartist style. Ridiculing all the institu-
tions of the country, and, not content with abusing the aris-
tocracy in a body, attacking many by name—many who are
never heard of as public men—be then commenced an attack
on the country gentlemen of Ayrshire, and was in the act
of naming a gentleman of large property near Stranraer,
when Lord Ranelagh, who was at some distance, walked up
to him, and raid, " Sir, I desire you will not abuse that
gentleman, who is a friend of mine ;" but the hero of liberty'
paid no attention. His Lordship again said, "That gentle-
man is a friend of mine ; and, unless you instantly desist from
your abuse you will repent the consequences." But the man
of the people, thinking, perhaps, his height and size would
keep off all personal attack, again commenced, but was again
stopped by Lord Ranelagh, saying, "Sir, it seems that your
only idea of liberty consists in low and scurrilous abuse
against every respectable person who has property. I twice
cautioned you that the gentleman you named was a friend
of mine, and you still persist in your abuse of him—so take
that ;" and, with the word, the Chartist hero of six feet two
was flat on the deck, where he lay for at least a quarter of
an hour. The scene that followed was curious; Lord Rane-
lagh, without saying a word, walked back to where be had
been before he heard his friend's name mentioned; and, for
five minutes at least, not a word was spoken by any one of
the passengers, so surprised were they, and so richly was the
chastisement deserved.

THE Aardr.—We have pleasure in stating that
Major-General Milman, Major-General Kenah, C. 8., and
Major• General Sir James Reynett, K.C.H., have been selected
as the officers to succeed to the vacant colonelcies.

THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION...-HOUGHTON, TSITIRIS.
DAY.—The inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate indi•
viduals killed by the recent explosion of fire-damp at Hough-
ton Colliery, in the county of Durham, was resumed this
day before Mr. Maynard, the coroner for the county. Mr.
Tremenheere having been appointed by the Government to
investigate the circumstances attending this melancholy sac-
rifice of human life, was present. We have no space for
the voluminous evidence, and can only state that the pro-
ceedings were not closed when this account left. Mr. Yore-
ter, Mr. Nicholas Wood, Mr. Anderson, and several other
viewers of eminence are in attendance. Mr. Philipson. so-
licitor, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is present to watch the
proceedings on behalf of the noble owner of the colliery, who
is also represented by Mr. Murton, his chief colliery agent.
The inquest room is crowded, and ft vast crowd is assembled
outside the building.
THE ST. i3AICRAk RAGGED SCHOOLS.—On Wed-
nesday
roo a
m Southampton-street,public meetingtook
Euston
a the t
Ntiofaortnhale pSteihrgele."
of receiving the report as to the progress of the ragged schools
of Sandwich-street and Compton-place, or church district.
The Rev. Thomas Dale, the Vicar, presided. The report
was rend by Mr. Ware. The report having been read, reso-
lutions in support of the schools were unanimously agreed
to, and, after thanks to the Reverend Vicar, the meeting
dispersed. • • •

IMPROVEMENTS IN BOULOGNE H ARBourt.—The
French Government has voted 70,000 f. towards the comple-
Lion of the stone bridge now in course of construction at
13oulogne, with the promise of a further sum of 80,000 f.
during the next year. With this timely assistance the cor-
poration of Boulogne will be enabled to finish this important
structure, which, with its powerful sluices and command of
back•water, will, it is calculated, have the effect of deepening
the harbour to the extent of from three to four feet, which
will enable the packets of the South-Eastern and Continental
Company to enter at nearly low water neap tides. This very
important improvement will give great additional facilities
to the travelling public.
DUNFERMLINE.—TDE EAST OF SCOTLAND MALE-
ABLE IRON Womis.—At a late adjourned sale, these works
were, with the estate and mansion-house of Transby, sold
for 15,0001. to Baring Brothers and Co., the great London
capitalists. The works aro to start in a very short time,
Ldinburgli Witness.

Mire's smallest miseries are, perhaps, its worst ;
great sufferings have great strength to bear them... Eliza
Cook's Journal.
The Belgian Government have authorised the
National Bank to issue notes to the extent of forty millions
of francs. The execution of this issue will be eatrus ted to
Mr. Delarne, the inventor of a paper which assures sc curity
against forgery. The amount will comprise ten pillion
notes of one thousand francs each, twenty million )f five
hundred francs each, and ten million in notes of one in Adred
and of fifty franca molt.