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London, England, 1857-08-26 00:00:00

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A A I WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, iLi 5 7

recently directed public attention. Let every new
man obtain his commission without purchase, and
proceed regularly onward in the same course.
Those who are already in the army may act in a
similar manner, it being thoroughly understood
that when retiring they will only receive payment
for the commissions they themselves had pur-
chased. The first commissions should not be
given for one cause alone. Competitive examina-
tion is, perhaps, one of the best tests. Those ,
who have received a sound military education, or
who excel in personal qualifications should also be
selected. Many meritories soldiers might be ad-
xanced from the ranks, and this, by affording
reasonable promotion to really good men, would
tempt many of a superior order to accept the
QM:4M's shilling.
The militia should also receive due encourage-
ment. The trial of military life, although not
advancing beyond peace campaigns and the bring-
ing in of good volunteers, should, as it was in
the olden time, be regarded as giving a powerful,
if not an irresistible claim.
The militia has for a considerable time been re-
garded as an exceptional body, and yet it is the
old constitutional force by which England ought
at least partially to garrisoned 1 Every county
—every large district—has its own especial regi-
ments. The officers are more or less connected
with their men. It constitutes a link between a
standing army and a national guard, where most
of the men combine private pursuits with their
military evolutions, and do not altogether forget
the patriot in the soldier.
The militia will never again be disregarded.
It may now be regarded as a standing element in
the military service. It forms, at the same time,
an admirable retirement for veteran officers and
soldiers, who, although contented with the laurels
they have gathered, and willing to enjoy the
otium cum dignitate, still desire to retain their
connection with the service, and are prepared
to buckle on their armour and fight with
all their former energy whenever the interests of
the nation demand their serviees, with these are
a sprinkling of respectable country gentlemen,
who maintain the position as a county corps.
The grand juror or magistrate, being also fre•
quently an officer who has acquired his company
or lieutenancy in the regular army. Retired non-
commissioned officers and others will also be glad
to participate in the month's training, that is to
teach the yokel how to hold up his head and turn
out his toes, and all the mystery of drill—that
yokel making afterwards the best food for gun-
powder, and coming partially trained to the hands
of the recruiting officer, or rather levying en
masse with some of the officers whenever the
exigencies of the country seek an effort.
Some militia officers complain of the practice,
but that is a great mistake. It is that which
renders the militia truly valuable to the
country. It should be at the same time a
retiring ground for veterans, and a normal
training school for young soldiers. The
interests of the line and of the militia are one
and indivisible. There should be no foolish
jealousy between them, but the more closely the
connecting links are drawn the better for all par-
ties, and the granting facilities for occasional ex-
changes, under wholesome regulations, would be
one of the most judicious courses that could be
adopted by the authorities at the Horse Guards.
The militia have proved themselves to be trust-
worthy and dependible men, ready to answer at
any moment to the call of dtity, and their claims
should not be slighted or overlooked, when the
various methods of promotion in the army is
taken into consideration, as it necessarily will be
next session.

The hubbub raised by the High Church party
over the concession clause in the House of Lords
on Monday night fully sustains the opinion we
have already expressed on Sir RICHARD BETHELL's
penalty for captious incumbent!. Lord REDBS-
DALE'S trick on Friday last, and his grand attack
on Monday night, having both failed, the amend-
ments of the Commons had to be dealt with in
detail. The smaller, though by no means unim-
portant, skirmishes were soon over, but when the
Exemption Clause came on the tug of war began.
Lord ST. LEONARDS very fairly proposed that
the " exemption should be confined to all persons
now in holy orders"—a useful expedient, it would
seem, since had it, been adopted, the penal half of
the BETHELL Exemption Clause might perhaps
have been given up. The disputanti were, how-
ever, too ardent to limit themselves to such cool
and distant fighting. In an instant, res ad triarios
rediit, the Bishops were immediately engaged.

It should be remembered that Sir RICHARD'S
clause was made up of exemption and compulsion.
The incumbent might refuse to marry a person
whose adultery had been the cause of the divorce,
but he must throw open his church to any other
clergyman who had no wish to thwart the new
Act. Very fair ! The law permits the man to
marry ; you don't like to carry out the law, we
might compel you to carry it out ; but, as you
clamour for exemption, we must, at least, compel
you to let some one else do it. We should say,
as we have already said, that the new Act is but
too indulgent to the 9,000 who owe their parishes,
and their parish churches, their prayer-books,
their marriage service itself, and their surplices, to
Acts of Parliament. Such men ought hardly to
ask exemption from carrying out an Act of Parlia-
ment requiring certain duties to be performed in
those churches. Yet this was the sore point.
They wanted neither to marry the parties them•
solves nor to let others do it.

The Lord Bishop of SALISBURY led the attack.
"It would introduce nothing but confusion into
the churches ;" the Bishop, of course, perceiving
no confusion in servants of the State refusing tl
perform State duties in buildings belonging to the
State. "It would create a class of clergymen-
errant" wandering through the length and
breadth of the dioc:ses, performing marriages
which their br€thren refused t) solemnise."
Opening his eyes to the horrors endured by cler-
gymen compelled to obey the law or to let others
obey it for them, lie declared he " would rather
see marriage made a civil c mtract, and that he
accepted the change in the relative positions of
Church and State which events might make more
wide day by day."
The Bishop of LONDON certainly followed with
a little moderation. Tue compulsion to open the
Church toanother incumbent was indeed he owned
somahing new, but so was the exemption ; he
however, adroitly suggested the probable inter-
pretation of the compulsion half of the clause.
ThV did not, he observed, in the other house
think it would be practically useful, but "certain
strong language used by the friends of the clergy
in both
Rouses, had created an impression in the
minds of the laity, that the clergy wanted to
dominate over them', He advised therefore the
acceptance of the exemption and the compulsion
together.

Up rose immediately the WILLux of ORANGE
Lord, DUNGANNON, one of " the friends of the
clergy." He was surprised at the remarks of the
Bishop of LONDON. The exemption was coupled
with an "indirect iniult:" No right,minded
clergyman would do what the penal clause pex..

milted;. but, the clause would introduce dissen-
sion and ba.d feeling among the clergy, which of
course implied that there were wrong-minded
clergy who would marry in the churches of rebel-
lious incumbents—and support the law against
the incumbent.

He of OXFORD could not, of course, be silent
on such a question as this. He was absolutely
desperate. Sir RICHARD'S penalty was unendur-
able. He would rather that no immunity was
given to the clergy than that these two clauses
should stand as they now stood. An incumbent
with the charge of 50,000 souls had written to
him that morning that nothing should induce him
to open his church to be desecrated by the per-
formance of such marriages as this bill permits.
How many of the 50,000 were Dissenters—
how many of them think the Legislature right
and the clergy wrong—how many thought the
church belonged to the parish and the
State and not to the incumbent—on these
points neither bishop nor incumbent give us
any light.
Bat this was not all—the act might compel an
incumbent to admit a clergyman to fulfil the law
in his church, but the act did not compel a bishop
to:abstain from using his spiritual terrors. Übe (the
Bishop) heard of one of these hired interlopers
coming on such an errand, ho declared "he would
meetibim at the door with an inhibition, and sus-
pend him from his office !" We do not doubt th•
bishop's willingness to let his toast and rolls get
cold, while he rode off with his ecclesiastical re-
volver in hand, to settle these clerical traitors ;
but we can only tell him that any one who meant
to accomplish his object must be foolish indeed to
give the bishop the chance of interrupting him ;
how, too, could he " suspend" a clergyman not
belonging to his diocese, even if ho could one be-
longing to it, when engaged in a duty explicitly
recognised by law? We more than doubt the valour
of ►SAMUEL WILBERFORCE if it came to an actual
quarrel between him and the man with law no-
toriously on his side. A spirited clergyman in
such a case would proceed and dare him to try
the case.

A's to the clergymen who would marry in ac-
cordance with the act, no terms were too strong
for denunciation. It was not respectable clergy-
men who would do it, but " the wretched skulk-
ing man, the shame and reproach of the ministry,
Ding away from his own parish, not daring to
show his face where lie was known, who would
come into a brother's parish to sow discord where
all was peace and harmony ;" a man " whom the
lowest sense of decency would not prevent from
clutching the paltry fee which would fall to him
for violating all that was sacred in reference to
the marriage rite."
The threats, the denunciation, the wrath, and the
help of Lords CARNARVON and REDESDALE, in
addition, were, however, happily in vain. Twice
they divided, and twice they were beaten. First,
they tried to get rid of the obnoxious penal con-
dition, and when that could not be done, of the
Exemption and Condition, too; Lords REDESDALE
and CARNARVON agreeing with the Bishop that
the penalty made the concession worthies!. They
have got, however, both concession and penalty ;
and the opinion of the country, we are confident,
would be expressed by the English exclamation,
" and serve them right 1" It will be a long time,
we fancy, before we shall hearagain of 9, 000 clergy-
men asking exemption from obedience to an act
of Parliament. PALEY said he could not afford
to keep a conscience, and we certainly do not
want State Church clergymen who can afford to
keep an anti-act-of-Parliament conscience. Sir
RICHARD BETHELL has shown something more
than great cleverness in thie- matter—it was true
statesmanship to put the screw hard on restive
ecclesiastics.

COCIRT CIRCULAR.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council tomorrow
(Thursday) at Buckingham Palace.
OSBORNE, AUG. 25. ,

Yesterday her Majesty gave the annual fete in honour
of the Prince Consort's birthday, to the seamen of the
Royal yachts, the Trinity House, Coast•guardmen, and
detachment of infantry stationed at East Cowes, and the
labourers and work peoples employed on the Osborne
estate.

Dinner was prepared for nearly 600 persons, who eat
down at 3 o'clock in tents erected for tho occasion.

The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, Princess Alice, Princes
Helena, Princess Louisa, Prince Arthur, and Prince
Leopold, came on to the ground and inspected the din-
ner, and subsequently took their places in a marquee to
witness the rustic games and sports which took place.
The Queen, the Prince Consort. and the Royal family
remained till 7 o'clock. Lady Churchill, Lady Caroline
Barrington, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, the Hon. Mary
.Bul-
teel, and the Gentlemen-in-Waiting were in attendance.

The bands of the Royal Marines and the 66th Itegi
went played during the afternoon.

The dinner party in the evening included Lady Caro-
line Barrington, Rear-Admiral Martin, and Capt. the
Hon. J. Denman.

CONVOCATION 01 THE CLERGY.—The convocation of
the prelates and clergy of the province of Canterbury
stood adjourned until yesterday, when it was again
formally prorogued by the archbishop's officials, no
business being transacted, It is not expected that
convocation will assemble for discussion until February
next.
THE LATE BISHOP BLOMFIELD'S WILL.—It is under-
stood that Bishop Blomfield has left about 55,0001. be-
hind him. Besides Mrs. Blomfield, there are 10 or 11
to be provided for out of the sum we have mentioned.
Toe amount paid into the treasury of the East India
Company for bills on India, from the 9th to the 25th
of August, was 13,907/. The respective amounts were
—Bengal, 7,5581. ; Madras, 6,098/. ; and EJnabay,
2511. _ . _

LADIES ON THE MOORS.—Mrs. Baird, of Cambnsdoon,
and party, bagged on the 15th and 17th inst., 164 brace
on Ury Moors ; and on the 20th and 21st inst., 33 brace
on Auchmeddin. The birds were generally strong on the
wing and very wild.
NEW LINE OF STEAM PACKETS BETWEEN TRIESTE AND
BAucKLONA.—Letters from Venice state the Austrian
Lloyd's proposes, simultaneously with the completion of
the railway from Vienna to the Adriatic, the opening of
a new service between Trieste and Barcelona, with sta-
tions at Bari, Messina, Palermo, Catania, and Mar-
seilles. The vessels which would be used on this line
will be screws, and of 860 tons burden.
GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMFANT.—The 65th
half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this company
was held yesterday, at their offices, 71, Lombard-.treet ;
John Wilkin, E,q , in the chair. The report of the di-
rectors and a statement of the accounts for the half-year
ending the 30th of June last, which were deemed to le
highly satisfactory, were read to the meeting and unani-
mously adopted. The usual dividend at the late of 10
per cent. per annum, free of income tax, Was then chi-
dared ; and the cordial thanks of the proprietors voted
to the chairman and directors for their contiuuedzealous
services in the management of the company's affairs ;
after which the meeting separated.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE SELECT PREACHERS.—
The following gentlemen have been appointed the ail ct
preachers for the academical year 1857.8 :--1357, Oct.
the Hulsean lecturer; Nov., the Right Rev. Dr. Biel:-
erstetb, Bishop of Ripon ; Dec, the Bev. G. Calthrop,
M.A., fellow of Trinity C .llege, and secretary to the
Church Missionary Society ; 1858, January, the Rev.
Dr. T. W. Peilo, of Trinity College ; February, the
Very Rev. Henry Alford, D D., Dean of Canterbury ;
March, the Rev. C. J. Ellicott, rector of Pelton, Rut-
land ; April, the Hulsean l!cturer ; May, the Rev. J. B.
Lightfoot, fellow and tutor of Trinity College.
THE MUTINY IN INDIA.—At tie meeting yesterday,
at the Mansion-house, to afford relief to our fill Je -
countrymen in India, nearly 1,0001. were subscribed
during the proceedings. Amongst the donors were the
Lord Mayor, 251. ; the Lady Mayoress, 101. ; Mr.
Sheriff Mect.i, 50'. ; Mr. Gordon, 501 ; Mr. B rch, 301.;
Mr. T. Haynes, Mansion-house, 101 ; Aldermen Rase,
101 ; Meesre. Crawford and Colvin, 100/. ' • the Agra
Bank, 50/. ; Mr. Gregson, M.P., 1001. Sir M. Monte
fiore, 251 ; the Rev. Canon Champseys, 101., &c.
UNITED STATES DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR APPOINT.
mENTs. —lt has been announced that the President sill
not make the diplomatic and c ;tallier appointments till
near the appretchirg session of Congress. These ap-
plinttnents being subject to the confirmation of the
senate, it is apparent that to send gentlemen abroad,
subject to recall in case their appointments were not
confirmed, would be quite impolitic, and inconsistent
`,with a proper consideratiou of the attcutling oitcuin
!Ithia00;•--.896e29i Peat.

LATEST NE W

The Porte hag consented to annul the Moldavian
elections on the representation of the four Powers,
without waiting for the adhesion of the Ambassa-
dors of England and Austria.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVF.NING

The Emperor will probably leave Paris at the
end of this week for the camp at Chalons, where
his Majesty intends to remain during the whole of
September, in order to direct the grand manoeuvres
in which the infantry and cavalry of the Imperial
Guard are to take part. The camp will be officially
opened this day, and will not be broken up until
the sth Oct. The infantry, 44,000 strong, will be
composed of eight regiments and of a battalion of
chasseurs, forming together two divisions, under
the orders of Generals Mellinet and Camou ;
subdivided into four brigades, commanded by
Generals Cler, de Winapffen, Maneque, and
Decaen. There will be three brigades of cavalry,
composed of cuirassiers, dragoons, lancers, guides,
and chasseurs—forming an effective force of 4,500
men, and 3,600 horses. The whole will form a
division under the orders of General Morris.
General Lebceuf will command the artillery and
land transport corps. The engineers, 200 strong,
will be under the direction of Captain Berrier. The
police of the camp will be effected by a regiment of
the gendarmerie of the guard, with Commandant
d'Eggs for Provost Marshal. Colonel Robinet has
been appointed Quartermaster-General to the
General Commanding-in-Chief.

The Union, in an article on the Indian revolt,
contains the following mysterious appeal to the
Governments of Europe :

"It is desirable that the revolution in India should
be very seriously taken into consideration by Europe.
Material domination has seen its last in India ; a moral
force should now display itself ; and if, by misfortune,
modern Europe were not to understand that it has a
very high mission to accomplish in the place of the
English trader., who have only strength enough to
utter despairing menaces,, we should maintain that the
civilisation of which we are so proud is nothing but a
vain boast, merely the expression of an ingenious
egotism, which is sensible to the refinements of art,
out is incapable of saving the world by vigorous mea-
sures, or of inspiring it with a grand exstnple."
The following is given by the Pays as a state-
ment, drawn up from authentic sources, of the
stores which were in Delhi when the insurrection
burst out

" For three years Delhi had become a very important
place, as it held a depot of the pieces of ordnance fur
wished by the foundry of RaQvipoure, as well as tie gun.
carriages of Fattichghar, and the gunpowder of lan-
poure. Independently of the guns in position on the
ramparts it had in its arsenal, 640 pieces of 18 and 24,
for the wants of the different places in the provinces
north-west of Calcutta ; also 430 field-pieces of 7 and 9 ;
95 howitzers, and 70 mortars ; or in all about 1,300
pieces. Its supplies in missiles and ammunition
were quite in proportion. All the pieces were in
excellent condition, and the Indian artillerymen
have always been proverbially excellent. It is
right to add that when the insurrection broke
out, there was not a single English regiment in
the place, and that the native artillery and engineers
formed the garrison—a circumstance which explains how
the works of defence were organised in a regular man-
ner."

The Pays concludes with the following, the source
of which, however, it does not specify :
" In presence of these facts we can only quote the
words of the brave and lamented General Barnard, who
wrote a few days before his death the following hoes :
command gallant officers and brave soldiers, who will
a'l d their duty most devotedly, and fortunate for me
it is that I have such troops, for I cannot conceal from
myself that I am before a second Sebastopol.'"
BOURSE, Aug. 25.—The following were the last
quota•ions

Cash. fr. o. End of Month.
44 per Cants
3 per Cents 67 -- €6 90
Bank Shares 2,800 Credit Foncier 550
Credit Mobilier 955 Itoman -
Do. Account 951 25 Austrian
Belgian 44 -
Piedmontese (5) 9) Home Debt

CANADA.

• (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
LT VE RPOOL, WEDNESDAY MORNING,.

The Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's Royal
mail steamer Indian has arrived from Quebec, with
advices to the 15th, and from New York to the 14th
instant.

For a few days previous to the 15th the Quebec
timber trade has been more active, and the transac-
tions tolerably large, at current prices. Inferior
rafts placed with difficulty at 4id. to 5d., ordinary
scl. to 6d., while good and superior rafts range from
7d. to 9i. according to size, quality, and manu-
facture. In red pine little doing, and quantity
coming forward small. The stock on hand of last
year's oak interfered materially with the prices of
new timber. Elm in better and rafts in fair de-
mand. Standard staves dull at 551. West India in
quest at 161. Deals unchanged. Freights rather
better : for deals to London 85s. had been given ;
to Liverpool, 305.; to Greenock, 30s. 6d.
There ara no political advices from New York.

En New York, on the 14th, there was a good de-
mand for money, and rates were firm. Sterling
exchange steady, but quiet at 109 to 1092. St cks
dull and lower. Flour dull and unchanged ; Cana-
dian, ditto ; new wheat, Ic. to 2c. better ; rye dull ;
corn a shade better ; oats lower-60c. to 650. for
State, 62c. to 63c. for Western. Pork firm. Beef
unchanged.
The gold received at New York by the Central
America from Aspinwall amounted to $1,250,000.

The Central America had communicated with
the John L. Stephens, which left San Francisco on
the 20th ult., with $1,800,000.
Kansas advices to the Bth inst. report that
Walker bad returned to Lawrence with the troops.
The apprehension of an Indian attack proving
groundless, the officers of the city Government had
met on the 7th, and were perfecting ordinances.

NORTH DEVON RAILWAY.

(MEETING THIS DAY.)

A general meeting of the shareholders in this com-
pany was held this morning, at the Company's offices,
24, Old Broad-street ; Mr. The, M.P., in the chair.
The report stated that the traffic for the past half-
year had not increased to the extent anticipated, but
there were special causes to account for this result. The
total traffic for the half-year was 10,8031., as compared
with 10,1371, the corresponding half-year of 1856. The
net revenue balance for the half-year to the 30th June
was 5,5541. 18e. 5d., but as the debenture and other
interest, and the dividend on the preference stock, had
increased by a sum of 4201., the next amount applicable
to a dividend on the ordinary stock was diminished to
1,3301. for the half-year, and a dividend at the rate of
184. per cent, per anaum, on the total ordinary stock of
295,1921., would absorb 1,3281., which dividend the
directors therefore recommended to the shareholders.
The report was ultimately adopted.