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London, England, 1844-08-12 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 2OO Indian Stock 284
S per Cent. Red 99N Ditto Bonds 96 rn.
3 per Cent. Cons. ..... ....... 99 Ditto Old Annuities
33G per Cent. Red lO2 Ditto New Annuities ...
New 336 per Cent. lOl Ex. Bills, 1,0001. I%d ... 74 pm.
New 5 per Cent...—. ...... - Ditto 5001.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ... .
Jan 60 1234 Bank Stock for Acct.... 200
Oct. 1859 ........ ......•• -- ,Consols for Act. 99%
Jan. 1860.........

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent — !Portuguese, 5 per Cent
Belgian, 5 per Cent IO3X Ditto, New Ditto."...
Brazilian Bonds ........
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent —. Russian 5 per Cent
Chllian, II per Cent
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Ditto, 1824,.
..
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — 'Ditto Deferred...........„.....
Danish, 3 per Cent — French,' 5 per Cent...—. —4. --e.
Greek, 18,5, 5 per Cent — ;Exchange —f.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., Ma --i Dutch, 2% per Cent...—. 6114
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per Cent .......101

SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 113%
Ditto, New Shares, 17% paid 2B
Caledonian, 5 paid
Dublin and Cashel, 2% paid
Eastern Counties (23 paid) ;.......
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid
Ditto Quarter Shares (12% paid)
Great North of England, 100 paid
Great Western (75 paid)
London and Birmingham (Stock)
London and Brighton (50 paid) ....... ......... ..
London and Croydon (Trunk) 19%
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Manchester and Birmingham
Midland Counties (100 paid)....................
Newcastle and Darlingron Junction. 21 paid
North British, 2% paid 2
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Scrip (15 paid) 26
Norwich and Brandon, 4 paid
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid)
Ditto New Shares 4 paid
Trent Valley, 2 paid 9%
Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid)
Ditto New Shares ( paid)
York and Scarborough Branch (2% paid)
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid

THE QUEEN AND THE INFANT
PRINCE.
The following official bulletin was issued this
morning :

"Windsor Castle, August 12, 1844.
Eight, A rd.
"Her Majesty's recovery goes on without inter.
ruption.
" The infant Prince it perfectly well.
"JAMES CLARK, M.D.
" CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D.
"ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D."
The next bulletin will be issued on Wednesday.

SPIRIT of tho PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.--A case of an extraordinary, if not al-
together unprecedented, character, was last Tuesday
brought before a court constituted under the provi-
sions of the Church Discipline Act, and held at
Totnes, Devon, by special appointment of the Right
Rev. Prelate who presides over the diocese of Exeter.
The circumstances out of which the charge arose,
the proceedings in the case, and especially the im-
portant principle involved, combine to render the
affair one of special interest to the clergy of
the Church of England, and of importance to all
classes of the community. The Rev. James Shore,
war the party proceeded against the charges alleged
against him, and into the prima facie validity of which
it was the province of the commission to inquire,were
briefly these:—Bridgetown, a hamlet containing nearly
2,000 inhabitants, is a portion of the parish of Berry
Pomeroy, and is the property of his Grace
the Duke of Somerset. In 1832 his Grace
built a chapel, a capacious and costly structure,
for the convenience of the inhabitants. The Rev.
J. Shore, who had been curate of the parish for about
two years previously, and was much esteemed by the
then vicar, the Rev. J. Edwards, was appointed and
licensed by the Bishop, minister of the chapel. In
1836 Mr. Edwards died, and Mr. Brown succeeded
him. He did not renew the appointment of Mr.
Shore, nor was it required by the Bishop. Mr. Shore
continued to officiate as the Minister of Bridgetown
chapel, without interruption or question from any quar-
ter, his Grace the Duke of Somerset paying all the ex-
penses of the service. In 1843 Mr. Brown wished to ex-
change livings with a Rev. Mr. Cosens, and the Duke of
Somerset facilitated that arrangement, which was
carried into effect. Mr. Cosens gained an addition
to his income by the change, to the extent of be-
tween 1001. and 2001. a year. This change could not
have taken place without the good offices of the
Duke. A few days after the induction of Mr.
Cosens, Mr. Shore received a letter from Mr. R.
Barnes, the Bishop's Secretary, inquiring whether
he had received a fresh appointment from the Rev.
Vicar; because if he had not the Bishop would not
permit him to continue minister of the chapel. Mr.
Shore consulted the Duke of Somerset. An appli-
cation was thereupon made to Mr. Cosens to give the
required appointment to Mr. Shore. The application
was met by a positive refusal. Mr. Cosens was
"highly indignant" that Mr. Shore should have first
gone to "a mere layman ;" and observed that he
could not conscientiously appoint Mr. Shore.
He was pressed to state whether he knew
anything against Mr. Shore. This was em-
barrassing He confessed that he had heard
nothing of him except from the Bishop. Matters
had now arrived at a crisis ; either the chapel
must be closed, and the people of Bridgetown be de-
prived of a pastor who had faithfully ministered to
them for thirteen years, or the chapel must be with-
_ drawn from the Establishment. Mr. Cosens refused
to re-appoint Mr. Shore ; and the Bishop of Exeter
withdrew his licence from the chapel, and thus ren-
dered any clergyman who officiated within its walls
• liable to pains and penalties, as an offender
against ecclesiastical order. There remained
one of two courses to the Duke of Somerset.
• His Grace might, of course, obey the Bishop's be-
" hest, deprive the people of Bridgetown of the
; minister to whom they were affectionately attached,
• and send him forth injured and helpless, having the
• pul?it of the chapel which he had erected at great
cost to be filled by whomsoever the Vicar and the
_ Bishop might please to select and appoint. This was
one course; and this was, evidently, the course to
which it was expected the combined operations of the
Prelate and the parish priest would reduce the
Duke of Somerset. But there was another course.
The chapel might be licensed under the provisions
of the toleration Act. Mr. Shore might qualify
himself as a teacher and preacher under the pro-
, vision of the same statute. Thus separating himself
from the Established Church, the authority and
- control of the Bishop of Exeter over him and over
the chapel in which he officiated, would, he naturally
supposed, terminate. The controversy would thus be
brought to a close. This course the Duke of Somerset
sanctioned and approved—it would even seem, sug-
gested. The Duke's agent licensed the chapel;
and Mr. Shore duly qualified himself as the
minister of a separatist congregation, by making
the prescribed declaration, and obtaining the ne-
cessary certificate. Mr. Shore notified to the
Bishop's Secretary that he had taken refuge
under the Act of Toleration, and asked if
there were any other act to be done by him to corn-
• plete his desired severance from the Church of Eng-
land. The Bishop's monition was thus converted into
moonshine. The chapel, enjoined to be closed against
its minister, remained open. The service in it, how-
ever, continued to be performed in exact conformity
with the directions of the Book of Common Prayer.
The most careful observer would have detected no
variance between the former and the present state of
things. Within the Duke of Somerset's chapel, at
Bridgetown, the prayers and other religious ordinances
were performed as they had been from its erection.
The' mode in which the difficulty created by the
Bishop had been obviated by, the Duke, pleased and
satisfied all parties—except, indeed, the Prelate and
the Vicar. These co-operators, to eject Mr. Shore
from the chapel, found themselves foiled by a move
for which they were utterly unprepared. But
there was yet another chance: Mr. Shore had,
by virtue of his ordination vows, engaged to obey
his Diocesan in all things pertaining to the clerical
office. By preaching and administering the sacra-
ments in an unlicensed place—he having been dully
cautioned and admonished of the fact, that the Bishop s
license had been withdrawn from the chapel at Bridge-
town—Mr. Shore had been guilty of a breach of
ecclesiastical discipline. He was, therefore, cited to
appear before the Commission issued to inquire into
HI facts. This proceeding was preliminary to his
ng prosecuted in the Ecclesiastical Court, to be
therein dealt with, for the restoration of his soul's
health ; the wholesome discipline of the spiritual
court having wondrous efficacy to raise the fallen,
and to restore the erring sons of the Church to the
fold from which they have strayed.
in
STANDARD —There is something heroic the
determination of the Irish Whigs tocontribute their
share, small though it be, to the general discontent,
notwithstanding that they are so cruelly assaulted by
the O'Connellite faction on every possible oppor-
tunity. Their affection for agitation is willing, like
true -loyalty, to suffer all' things not only for, but
from, their taskmaster. It is unfortunate that a fa-
tality of rendering themselves ridiculous should at-
tach to personages so self-denying, but what choice
can they have when the repealers abuse with
equal ferocity Whigs and Tories, and there
is only left for Lords Charlemont and Gosford the
opportunity of attacking those inconsidered trifles
In which Air. O'Connell is pleased to think the
guilt of the Conservatives greater than that of the
Whigs ? The close of the session has produced
another manifesto from Charlemont House, relating,
it does not exactly appear to what, but kindly
advising the Minister to take the state of Ireland
into his considoration, as though that were a piece
of policy hitherto untried or now likely to be neglect-
ed. His Grace the Duke of Leinster, though his
timid Whiggism has deprived him of the right to the

CABINET COUNCIL.—Sir Robert Peel, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, and the
other Cabinet Ministers who are in the country, return
to town to-morrow, for the purpose of attending a
Council, to be held at the Foreign-office at half-past
three o'clock. The summonses for holding a Cabinet
Council to-morrow afternoon were issued on Saturday
evening.
JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES.—Capt. O'Brien, private
secretary to Sir James Graham, has been appointed,
under the provisions of the Joint-stock Companies Act
(recently passed by the Legislature), to the office of
Principal Registrar.
RECREATION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.—MAN-
CHESTER, FRIDAY MORNlNG.—Yesterday a very numerous
and respectable meeting of the merchants, manufacturers,
and tradesmen of this town, was held in the large room of
the Town-hall, for the purpose of considering the propriety
of taking some steps to promote the formation of public
walks, parks, and play-grounds, for the working classes.
Alexander Kay, Esq., Mayor, presided. On the platform
were Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., Mr. M. Philips, M.P., Sir
Thomas Potter, Knight, Mr. Thomas Townend, Mr. John
Woollam, Mr. R. Gardner, Mr. Alderman Burd, Mr. Alder-
man Neild, &c. The first resolution was moved by Lord F.
Egerton, who was received with loud cheers from all parts of
the meeting. In the course of his Lordship's address, lie said
that he did not consider that in promoting the object of the
meeting he was conferring a gift upon the humbler classes
of Manchester; on the contrary, he was their debtor, and he
was glad of that opportunity of paying off a portion of the
account. The meeting was subsequently addressed by the
Rev. Canon Clifton, Mr. M. Philips, M.P., Messrs. J. C.
Harter, James Heywood, James Kershaw, Robert Gardner,
John Woollam, Alderman Neild, &c. During the proceed-
ings a subscription was entered into, and amongst the con-
tributors were, Lord Francis Egerton, 1,000/. ; Mark Philips,
1,0004 ; Sir B. Heywood, Bart., 1,000/. ; J. C. Harter, 5004 ;
John Brooks, 500/. • Sir Thomas Potter, 500/. ; Mr. Alder-
man Neild, 500/ • Thomas Townend, 500/. ; J. and N. Philip,
5004 ; Leese Kershaw and Co., 500/. ; James Heywood, 300/. ;
the Mayor, 2004 There were several other subscriptions en-
tered, making a total of nearly 10,000/. ; and it is believed
that 50,000/. will be raised for this purpose.
STATE OF TRADE.—We do not remember at any
time greater activity in the principal branches of manu-
factures than there exists at present, except when that
activity has been of a speculative and feverish character.
Throughout Yorkshire and Lancashire, in the Cotton,
Woollen, Worsted, Flax, Linen, Silk, Cutlery, and
Machine-making businesses, trade is lively, and we be-
lieve all hands are employed. The poor-rates are, of
course, exceedingly relieved. If we should be blessed
with a good harvest there is every prospect of another
yerr of prosperity. And here we have another proof of
the connexion between prosperity and cheap food. At
present there is the prospect of an abundant harvest.—
Leeds Mercury,
LAWYERS IN CHINA.—No attorneys are authorised
by law in China; those self-constituted, are thus defined
and described by a Chinese classic writer:—" Villanous
and perverse vagabonds, who are fond of making a stir,
and who, either by fraudulent and crafty schemes, excite
discord; or by disorderly
and illegal proceedings, intimi-
date and impose upon people I"—From Captain Piddings
Chinese Olio and Tea Talk No. 15.