The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-26 00:00:00

EXHIBITION OF 1851.

COPY OF A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE
COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS.
Nov. 8, 1850.

My Lord and Gentlemen,—We, the undersigned,
having regard to the great urgency which exists for the
establishment of public water-closets and urinals in the
metropolis—an urgency likely to be much increased by
the visits of numerous foreigners, who are accustomed
to the use of such conveniences in their own capitals—
beg leave to request your attention to the following
clause in the Metropolitan Sewers Act (11 and 12 Viet.,
c. 112) :
" And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the
Commissioners to provide and maintain water-closets,
privies, and like conveniences, in situations where they
shall deem such accommodation to be required, and to
defray the expense thereof, and any damage occasioned
to any per: on by the erection thereof, and the expense for
keeping the same in good order, out of the district
sewers rate."

And we should be much obliged if you will inform us
whether you propose to provide these important con-
veniences, having reference to the great influx of fo-
reigners to be expected next year, before the opening of
the Exhibition in May.
In case you have not considered the subject in this
aspect, we trust you will do so at your convenience.
We have the honour to be, my Lord and Gentlemen,
Your obedient humble servants.
[Here follow the signatures.]

WINDING UP OF JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES.

DIRECT EAST AND WEST' JUNCTION RAILWAY.—On
Saturday a meeting was held before his Honour Master
Farrer, respecting the claim of Sir John Rennie against
this company for engineering, amounting to 2,6001.
Messrs. Freshfield appeared in support of the claim, and
Messrs. Galsworthy for Mr. Jay, the official manager.
The surveys were from Kidderminster to Hereford. His
Honour deferred going into consideration of the claim
until the books and papers were in the possession of the
official manager, and until the list of contributories
were settled. It was stated that there is a sum of
10,7001. out of the 19,0001. received as deposits, for which
the directors will be called on to account.
MERIONETHSHIRE SLATE COMPANY.—Yesterday the
proceedings fur the settlement of the strairs of this com-
pany, which was eatablishad in 1846, for obtaining stone
and slate from quarries in Merionethshire, were opened
before his Honour Sir W. Horne. The list of contribu-
tories was brought in by Mr. Ernest, the official mana-
ger, and Messrs. Goodwin and Partridge, solicitors, but
his Honour declined going into the question of the liabi-
lity of those on the list until Mr. Conde!!, solicitor to the
company, and who is understood to have the books and
papers, is examined. A summons was issued for Mr.
Condell's wt,ndance at the next meeting.
BRITISH AND AMERICAN STEAM NAVIGATION COM..
PANY.—Yesterday, before his Honour Sir G. Rose, three
gtheinstleumndeenriwaekriengtompoessed srs.toHacutttaosn,officsiaalndmeamnaang,ersantdo
Coleman. His Honour appointed Mr. Hutton, official
assignee, of Moorgate-street.

BRITISH AND F FOREIGN GAS LIGHT AND METER
COMPANY.—Yesterday the proposals for appointment of
official manager to this company came in before his
Honour, Master Dowdeswell (who will continue to offi-
ciate until his successor is formally appointed). The
company was established in 1846, in Gresham•street,
tor carrying out improvements in gas lighting and gas
meters, and continued up to 1848; and in April last, at
a meeting of the shareholders, it was resolved to bring it
under the Winding-up Act. About 650 shares out of
1,000 of 251. each were taken, and a deposit of 11. is.
paid on them. The debts, which were compromised by
payments o❑ the part of the directors, amounted to 600 J.
Messrs. Goodchap, Ernest, Hutton, Sandeman, Norris,
and others were proposed as official managers, but no
appointment was then made.

THE LIGHTING OF PRIMROSE HILL PARK.—The
North London Anti Enclosurt? Society having undertaken
the above task, as a sanitary improvement, the secretary of
the society applied to the Board of Health for their co-
operation ; the following reply, however, is another proof
that until the board is allowed more power than it really has at
present, it will continue anything but a Board of Health:—
" Sir—l am directed by the General Board of Health to ac-
knowledl;e the receipt of your letter of the 11th inst., with
reference to the lighting of the new footway through Prim-
rose hill Park, and to inform you that the board have no
power of interference in the matter. I am, Sir, your obedient
servant, T. TATLOR,, Assistant Secretary.—Mr. H. D. Grif-
fiths."

The VACANT COLONELCIES.—The latest quotation
(last night) gives the following.—Lieut.-General Sir A.
Pilkington to be transferred fr m the 82d to the 20th Foot.
Major-General Sir H. Watson from the 63d to the 15th
Foot. Major-General Thomas Kenah, C. 8., to have the 63d.
Major-General F. M. Williams to be colonel of the 82d, and
Major-General Sir James Reynett the 48th. - Unitcd Service
Gazette.

THE YEAR 1851 AT THE MANSION HOTh+E.—The
Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress have already expressed
their intention t.. give, during the Great Exhibition in the
ensuing year, in additii a to the usual civic entertainments
at the Mansion-house, several public evening receptions, to
which will be invited not only the remarkable men of our
own country, but all foreigners of distinction who may then
be in London. It is considered by those who have looked
over the Mansion-house, for the purpose of ascertaining the
adap.ation of the building to that hospitable intention, that,
there is no residence in the metropolis so admirably calcu-
lated to supply the necessary accommodation. The liberal
project of the Chief Magistrate and the Lady Mayoress will,
in the opinion of their fellow-citizens, not only give a new
feature to civic hospitality, but will accomplish the desirable
object of introducing to each other persons of eminence of
all nations who miA-ht otherwise remain without the advan-
tage of such knowledge. The opening of the Mansion-house
for so elegant and generous a purpose will redound to the
credit of the mayorality, and will, no doubt, be duly appre -
ciated by the English community, as well as by those dis-
tinguished toreimners for whom the receptions are, perhaps,
more immediately intended with the view of giving them a
hearty welcome to our shores, and holding out to them the
right hand of fellowship, conviviality, and peace.
WINTER ASI,IZES FOR YORK AND LANCASTER.—
Yesterday a Special Commission was issued for a Winter As-
size of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery
fo the counties of York and Lancaster. The judges ap-
pointed to proceed thereunder and hold such assize are Mr.
Justice Patteson and Mr. Baron Martin for the city and
county of York, who have appointed Tuesday, the lOth day
of December next, for opening the Commision for that county
at the Castle, at York, and the Right non. Mr. Baron Al-
derson and Mr. Justice Coleridge for the county of Lancaster,
who have appointed Saturday, the 7th day of December
next, as the day for opening the Commission fur that county
at Liverpool.
The accounts of the state of trade in the provinces
for the past week show general steadiness, although the mar-
kets are still affected by the unsettled state of affairs in
Germany.
From the present indication of the foreign ex-
changes, a general impression is entertained that the Bank of
England advances during the shutting of the transfer-books
this quarter will not take place at a lower interest than two
and a half per cent., which will be a half per cent. in excess
of their recent rates on similar occasions.
HEALTH OF THE LORD ADVOCATE.—The Lord
Advocate is still, we are happy to state, progressing favour-
ably, though his ecove.y is slow. His Lordship was visited
by Lord De Manley on Thursday.—Edinburgh Courant.
PAPIsTa AT ‘l, ESTMINSTER ABBEY.—Not long since
some ltumi.l enthu.nasts went in a body to Westminster
Abbey on " St. Edward's" Day, and wished to proceed from
his tomb to Pray to that. of Queen Mary, lilv were deterred
by finding that she and Elizabeth repose in the same vault.
ANTI-ToßaccoN A LIAINS.—The bell man of Spittal
proclaimed through the streets of that village on Saturday
last that the men of that town had, in consequence of the
rise in the Nice of Tobacco, resolved to abstain from its
use for one month. —Bei wick Advertiser.

SUlClDE.—Yesterday an
inquest was held before
Mr. Wakley, at the King's Arms, Rawstone-street, Goswell-
road, on the bocy of a labourer named Brown. From the
evidence it appeared that the wile of deceased, on Friday
last, went out as usual to work, leaving her husband at
home, and on her return she found the deceased hanging by
the neck to the bedpost. I eceased had been dependent on
his wife's earnings for some time. Verdict—",pied from
strangulation while in an unsound state of mind."

MARYLEBONE THEATRE.

This theatre, which was opened last week under
the management of Mr. Joseph Stammers, the former
director of the London Wednesday Concerts at Exeter
Hall, is progressing prosperously. Mr. Stammers
has taken the theatre for the purpose of devoting it
to the representation of the legitimate drama and of
English opera. In consequence of the engagement
of Mrs. Nisbett and Mr. and Miss Mordaunt, Thalia
is at present the goddess of the ascendant at the
Marylebone, and sterling comedies have, during the
course of the last week, been represented to crowded
houses. Last evening Bourcicault's first and best
comedy, London Assurance, was performed here, in
which Mrs. Nisbett appeared in her original character
of Lady Gay Spanker, and never have we seen this
fascinating actress perform the character better; she
was full of vivacity and sparkle, and her
ringing silvery laugh told with immense effect. Miss
Mordaunt made a most graceful and ladylike Grace
Harka way ; indeed we know of no lady on
the stage at present who could perform the cha•
racter better than Miss Mordaunt. Mr. Mor-
daunt rattled through Dazzle in excellent style.
The other characters were ably supported by the re-
gular members of the company, among whom are
Mr. W. H. Angel], Mr. R. Homer, and Mr. John
Herbert. The performances concluded with Buck-
stone's interesting melodrama, A Dream at Sea, in
which Mrs. Nisbett sustained the character of Biddy
Nutts.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.

We have had occasion several times lately to com-
pliment the gentlemen forming the management of
the Polytechnic Institution, for their taste and discri-
mination in securing the services of Mr. George
Barker, the eminent vocalist. That gentleman, as our
readers are no doubt aware, has for a few months
hack been delivering a lecture on the ballad music of
England, and in which he sings some of his own
beautiful ballads by way of illustration.
Last night, however, he for the first time gave an
entirely different lecture on the same subject, even
more pleasing and interesting than the former, and
instead of his own compositions in illustration, we
were favoured with some beautiful "Lays of the
Foresters; or Songs of Robin Hood." It is not to be
expected that the lecturer could give a biography
of the bold outlaw in the short space of half an hour
(that is about the time the lecture takes in delivery),
nor is it at all necessary that he should, for who is
unacquainted with the romantic history of the forester
and his equally celebrated chaplain, Friar Tuck, the
stalwart priest, who could bring down a fat buck with
a cloth-yard shaft with as much ease as he could re-
peat his paternosters. Mr. Raker merely touches on
the more prominent events in the lives of these two
worthies, and sings some appropriate ballad to illus.
trate each. The song in which the brawny friar is
described is as amusing and droll as the other, which
Robin Hood is supposedso have sung to Richard Cour de
Lion, when that King questioned him as to his parent-
age, is plaintive and beautiful. The former song received
a unanimous encore, and indeed the whole lecture was
well received by a crowded audience, who frequently
interrupted the lecturer with hearty rounds of ap-
plause. This pleasing entertainment will tend to raise
the Polytechnic even higher in public estimation than
it has hitherto stood, and Mr. Barker will become, as
he deserves to be, a general favourite. It is pleasing
.to see thoennumberof people who, evening after even-
linngst,ruvcistiit this
amusement most admirable
re institution,made
t og
0 inha
handich
-in-
hand, hand, and we must say that the management deserve
well of the public for the excellent manner in which
they cater for their entertainment.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TA TTERSALL'S —YESTERDAY.
The betting turned chiefly on the Chester Cup, fer
which Langton, Brother to Dough, Clarissa, and Wall-
flovi er, were in considerable force, the investments in
almost every instance being at 1,000 to 20. The Derby
transactions were in small sums, and at the old prices:—
NEWTON (SOUTH LANCASHIRE) STEEPLECHASE.
5 to 2 agst Volatile
7 to 2 agst Hazard •
5 to 1 agat Young Dutchman
CHESTER CUP.
50 to 1 agst Mr. Wilkin's Langton—taken
50 to 1 agst Lord Milltown's Brother to Dough—t
50 to 1 apt Lord Strathmore's Montague—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Clarissa—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Treen's Rhesus—taken
50 to 1 agst Lord Cltien's Wallflower—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Pilling's Lady Eden—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Lord Strathmore's Garforth—taken
1.000 to 15 agat Mr. Meiklam's Snowstorm—taken
1,000 to 15 agat Mr. Peck's Melody—taken
1,000 to 15 sgst Sir Richard—taken
1,000 to 10 agst Mr Foster's Musician—taken
1;000 to 10 agst Mr. Fuller's The Swindler—taken
DERBY.
13 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Mountain Sylph colt
—taken
20 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Teddingtnn—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Powney's Lamartine—taken
40 to 1 agst Sir IL Pigot's Faugh-a-ballag
SALE OF BLOOD
for S
h colt—t
r from
50 to 1 agat Mr. Hill's Ipsus—taken
string was put up
netic and John of Leyden, yearlings; Chatterer, Oster-
ley, Pitsford, and Peep-o'-day Boy. The two first were
racio x
yesterday,. —A d
a t
consisting
sold at extremely low prices, Chatterer for 40 guineas,
i
and Osterley for 80 guineas; the "cracks" were noughtn. Ludy Evelyn, the property of the King of Holland,
was also bought in.

COURAGE OF THE MOCKING BlRD.—During the
time of incubation neither the cat, dog, animal, or man,
can approach the nest without being attacked. The cats,
in particular, are persecuted whenever they make their
appearance, until obliged to retreat. But his whole vengeance
is more particularly directed against that mortal enemy
of his eggs and young, the black snake. Whenever the in-
sidious
approaches of the reptile are discovered, the male
darts upon it with the rapidity of an arrow, dexterously
eluding its bite, and striking it violently and incessantly
about the head, where it is very vulnerable. The snake
soon becomes sensible of its danger, and seeks to escape,
but the intrepid defender of its young redoubles its exer-
tions, and unless his antagonist be of great magnitude, often
succeeds in destroying him All his pretended powers of
fascination avail him nothing against the vengeance of this
noble bird. As the snake's strength begins to flag the
mocking bird seizes it and lifts it up partly from the ground,
beating it with its wings; and when the business is com-
pleted he returns to the nest of his young, mounts the sum-
mit of the hush, and pours forth a torrent of song in token
of victory.
THE " SCRIP" SYSTEM OF THE SCOTTISH IRON
TRADx.—We understand that much attention has been at-
tracted of late to the injurious effects of the " scrip" system
of buying and selling in the Glasgow iron trade— a system
by which a slip of paper represents iron which is yet in the
bowels of the earth, and by the fictitious operation of which
the trade ,n the metal, which already exists in stock, has
been seriously damaged. We are assured that there is no
more need for scrip in the iron trade than in the cotton,
sugar, or any other trade; but it has crept in till now the
adopting
generalit‘i.ne g r
measures mtiti gir,t) to o bee
shadow is found to injure the substance. A meeting of the
leaning parties was held in Glasgow last week, preparatory
to afirst,o
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documentsi t with
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the
the y of ee
pig n, substitutein heldli
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Fridayl
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circula-
tion. It is expected that deputations from London and Li-
verpool will be present.— Glasgow Herald.
ELoPEMENT.—On Monday morning last an appli-
cation was made to the Rev. Yate Fosbrooke, vicar of St.
Ives, by a gentleman who had previously arrived from Cam-
bridge (a collegian), at the Golden Lion Hotel, accompanied
by a young lady; but as his replies were very unsatisfactory
to the questions asked by the Rev. Surrogate, the parties
took their departure, not a little chagrined, for a neighbouring
village. Shortly after, we understand, they were warmly
pursued, but have not ward if they were overtaken.— Cam-
bridge Independent Press.
QUIET IN HARNESS.—At Newcastle-Emlyn fair,
last week, Mr. Lascelles, a barrister, purchased a mare on
the assurance and warranty of the dealer tnat she was quiet
in harness. Next day he tried her in his dog cart, when the
animal lay on the ground as "quiet as a lamb." Nothing
could induce her to move; she was literally " quiet in har
nese." -- North Wales Chronicle,

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE: 11R. HUDSON, M.P.
AIJONAL CO4CERTS. I (From the Standard of last night.)
Sphor's new descriptive symphony, entitled The The conduct of the Tinics has placed us under the
Seasons, was performed for the first time in this painful ne:..esiity of craving the attention of our
country at the National Concerts last evening, and readers to a matter affecting deeply the character of
by the production of this truly classical work the this journal, in common with the whole of the Pro-
directors of these concerts have proved that they are tectionist press. We feel, however, that our title to
in earnest in their endeavours to improve the musical confidence, and, as a necessary consequence, our use-
taste of the English public, by placing it within the fulness, are altogether dependant upon our repute-
power of all classes to hear the best music of the best tion for personal honesty—a reputation which we are
masters, performed in the best and must efficient proud to believe we have hitherto maintained. The
manner. This symphony may be regarded as one of intrusion, however, shall be brief.
the great wcrks of Sphor, and is perhaps the most The Times this morning has a column-long article
perfect specimen of descriptive music that we have founded upon a late transaction in the Bankruptcy
had since the decease of Beethoven. The first part Court, the purpose of which article will be seen in
describes the departure of Winter, which it does by the following extract :
waning passages of gloom and austerity, artfully " Hitherto we have not thought it necessary to return
preparing the ear for the second movement which to the subject of Mr. George Hudson's character, al-
though we have not been without abundant provocation
undertakes to demonstrate Spring, in which
eto.llisow evidence in the libel case tried last
the light and jocund sentiment of nature is depicted
ass zes at York, even supYork,even
with characteristic grace and elegance. The blithe-
pa sthe,z
a proves iioth isngpb:is but the
iti to
c
ooihebsse
with
iwnedheiveehrya
some spirit of this period of the year is happily painted man may come to regard the most questionable transac-
by the obligati allotted to the wind instruments, the tions. When that evidence was worked into a pamphlet
management of which exemplifies the dramatic in- and busily promulgated as the spontaneous effusions
telligence of Spohr in its best colours. The Autumn of some disinterested bystander, actuated by the
section, in the minor key, is mysterious and ominous, purest sense of justice, the cheat was too
and the modulations are picturesque and effective, the transparent to require any notice, and the verdict of the
entire movement being studded with images, which public having long been pronounced on the reign of the
repetition, no doubt, would invest with increased deposed Railway King, we spared our readers the
beauty. The fourth 'part returns to Winter, which trouble of a fresh examination. We will confess, how-
opens, ala chase, with frankness and spirit, leading ewvee t hnadt otuh re e praont us ty was somewhat disturbed w
to a melodious theme, which is treated with discursive
gctoiorneis-thsoragaenstakingelethneiier oldhis
friend u and labourie
vivacity by the stringed instruments, and closing with forfeited throne. to tat George H
• But it may be
a bold and energetic climax. The execution of this asked, was not the honour of the press implicated in the
d
symphony, by the orchestra, was worthy of the meg-
attempt of some of its members to whitewash this ol
nificent work itself, and of the high reputation of the offender? Might it not be too readily surmised that this
performers. It was conducted by Mr. Balfe, with a successful culprit, who, after disgorging immense por-
nice appreciation of the beauties of his author, giving tions of his spoil under the threats of legal proceedings,
due effect to its lights and shadows, and, at the same has come out of the scuffle, it is said, with 200,000/. in
time., with such precision that the whole orchestra his pocket, might have used some very weighty arguments
" went " like one vast instrument. The audience with his amiable apologists? We answer that we had no
were very attentive during the performance, and at right to suspect anything of the kind."
the close the applause was most enthusiastic. The We, the Standard, might we hope rest our defence
against this insinuated charge of' bribery upon the
Berlin Choristers have received from the King of
Prussia an additional tongs fbr a Iveek ; they ap-
consistent course of this journal, since the appear-
peered last night, and were as delightful as ever. ante of its first number. We might even ad-
Theirs is the very perfection of part singing.
duce the written testimony to the "noble disin-
terestedness" with which this journal has been con-
_
ducted, of men against whom we have found it
necessary to make war because they deserted the
principles which attached us to them. The words
" noble disinterestedness" may seem exaggerated, but
they are the words of the late Sir Robert Peel, and
when accused of a base corruption we have a right to
quote them. We appeal to every member of the Peel
party, that party which we long supported, and which
afterwards we pursued with more acrimony than we
ever exercised towards any other party, whether Sir
Robert Peel did not, from first to last, hold the same
opinion of the Standard, and whether their own ex-
perience does not justify that opinion ? We release
them from all obligations of secrecy. If it is a mis-
fortune, as no doubt a great misfortune it is, to be
compelled to become the enemies of those who were
our friends, the misfortune carries with it this conso-
lation, that we can, when unjustly accused, appeal to
witnesses above all exception.
We might, we hope, rest our defence upon this
testimony, and upon what the public knows of our
i
at a n ec va case
er oughta repelffeecvtei
ever to
gut sohp
soc iffhoeonrn
honour,
uf lessr a,
consistency,tcorrupt
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cen in ums
and the best defence in our present case is the utter
absence of a shadow of ground for suspicion.
We, therefore, come at once to the pretended ground
of charge.
In the Bankruptcy Court, en Tuesday, came on the
case of a gentleman named John Henry Doyle,
printer, publisher, and part proprietor of the Weekly
tshideinTgimCeosm,
ownmiss iroenpeorr, t
insd
atihl e
thatfol otranspired
taken knepno fromupon
t he
occasion which it can be necessary to print fur the
elucidation of the truth :
" William Henry Foote, of Freeling-street, Islington,
was called upon to prove the trading. In his deposition
he alleged that he knew J. H. Doyle had, since July,
1849, exercised the trade, &c., of printer, publisher, and
proprietor of the WeOly Chronicle, and that he bought
paper and articles of intelligence, which articles the said
J. H. Doyle worked into articles of news, caused the
same to be printed weekly, and sold for a profit;' that
in November last Doyle and Russell procured to be
printed an article, entitled ' The Lessons of the Gal-
lows,' for which they paid the printer 2s. 6d. or 35.,
and charged to Charles Gilpin, of Bishopsgate-street,
7s. 6d.; that Doyle and Russell printed about 1,500
of a sewage manure plan, for the printing of which, on
two pages of the said paper, for one Richard Dover
they charged to the said Dover 36/., although they paid
less than 101. for the printing of the same ;' also 'a letter
to the Editor,' for which 2/. 12s. 6d. was paid. and that
the party took 1,500 newspapers at sd. each, &c. The
witness now deposed to further acts of trading as well
as to the above.
" Mr. Lawrence, in cross•examination, asked the wit-
ness how much the Weekly Chronicle was to have been
paid for whitewashing' Mr. George Hudson ?
" The Commissioner said the question was irrelevant.
"It appeared that the newspaper had been the pro-
perty of Sir Henry Ward, and that a Mr. Winter was
the registered proprietor, as trustee for Sir Henry, up
to its purchase by Doyle, Russell, &c.
" In reply to Mr. Lowrance, the witness said, the
paper had been, up to July, 1849, in the service of Sir
H. Ward.'

" Mr. Lawrence asked what he meant by service ?'
Did it mean that the Chronicle would report his speeches
at full length ?—(A laugh.)
" Witness made no reply, but proceeded to state that
a Mr. Dillon was connected with Doyle and Russell; and
though he did not look upon him as a proprietor, he was
authorised to transact business. Doyle was the editor,
and Russell assisted in the editorial department. . • •
" Mr. Doyle said, the second bill was one of the bills
upon whicb the petitioning creditor founded his debt.
Out of the second bill arose the bill which formed part
of the claim of the petitioning creditor for 801. 15s. ld.
The third bill was dishonoured.'
Mr. Doyle then went into a detailed account of the
bill transactions, and proceeded--
" Robert W. Russell pledged his honour to witness
ureasonbeaus ofe
hteh as the quarreleditor refusedto
abetween
that the bill had been drawn in his private capacity, and
not is the name of the firm. Believed the name of the
firm had been forged to that bill; and had so sworn at
George Hudson, written by his son-in-
athhii
dreoewstpaeointflhei
acee r
en
odtcfoßemue
krrtsl.. Thelwas
y
Chronicle to be corrupted by inserting
sel
law, Mr. Seymour. Firmly believed he would not now
be in the Bankruptcy Court if it were not for his refusal
to insert that defence, and to be corrupted. Would not
consent to the Weekly Chronicle being made the tool of
Mr. George Hudson.
" Mr. R. W. Russell wished to be examined to con-
tradict the evidence of last witness, but was not called."
We have no wish to add to the pain of Mr. Doyle's
uncomfortable position, but justice to Mr. Hudson
and to ourselves, in common with the whole Conser-
vative press—let us add the sacred duty of doing jus-
tice upon the slanderer in the Timo—requires us to
point to the absurd confusion and want of consequence
in the foregoing evidence. "What had Mr. Doyle's
refusal to insert a defence of Mr• Hudson to do with
his own bill transactions ? Was it in resentment for
that refusal a bill was, as he says, forged ? We make
great allowance for a ruined and perhaps an ill-used
and certainly an angry man, but. we must not allow
ourselves and other parties as innocent as ourselves
to suffer by the dirt thrown in his rage against those
who he supposes have injured him, and even Mr.
Doyle's evidence, such as it is, does not support the
vile imputation of the Times upon the most honour-
able and the most respectable, because most consis-
tent portion of the public press. Mr. Doyle refused
to insert a defence of Mr. Hudson ; to whom was his
refusal directed ? Plainly, from the evidence, to Mr.
Russell. Mr. Russell might have wished to insert
the article for many reasons not corrupt, though Mr.
Doyle suspected a corrupt motive ; in any case there
is no shadow of proof of any offer of money by Mr.
Hudson or Mr. Seymour, or any other person on Mr.
Hudson's behalf. If there had been any such proof
..Ir. Doyle was certainly not in a temper to withhold
it on Tuesday last. Here, then, the matter rests.
Mr. Doyle suspects Mr. Russell of a wish to get
money for the insertion of an article writtes! by Mr.
Seymour; but this sure casts no imputation upon
either Mr. Hudson or Mr. Seymour, though it
reveals the ill opinion that Mr. Doyle had of bis
partner. And next, how does this affair reflect
upon the Protectionist press ? Even supposing Mr.
Doyle to have asserted, what he certainly did not
assert, that a direct or indirect offer of a bribe had
been made on Mr. Hudson's behalf, the Weekly
Chronicle is not a member of " the Protectionikt
press." It is, on the other hand, a journal of the
party of the Times itself; and if Mr. Hudson, a
zealous Protectionist, has been foolish enough to offer
a bribe, he might have thought it politic to bribe an
enemy, particularly
an enemy in that portion of the
press most accessible to corrupt influence, while he,
could scarcely think it necessary to attempt to pur-
chase the service of those already bound to him by
the strongest ties of political friendship, and who we
will further say would be much more like to be
,alienated than attached by the insult of a corrupt
offer.
For ourselves, we have but to remind our readers
of the part we have acted in Mr. Hudson's matters.
We had neither quarrel with that gentleman for
railroad advertisements withheld, such as the Times
has had, or envy of his sutcrcoelr,
ofsuchthaats actuates
the Stock Exchange pa
journal
Of the truth or falsehood of the charges made against
him we had no means of judging, and without such
means we would not offer an opinion; but we would
not join in a cry against the friend of Lord George
Bentinck. Mr. Hudson, however, took the earliest
opportunity of vindicating his honour, and he did
vindicate it triumphantly, demonstrating to every
just man in the empire that the flood of obloquy
which had overwhelmed him, so long was one great
tide of enormous lying. Reserve in doing justice to
an ally or an adversary, as the Times ought to know,
is no part of our character, and we were no less prompt
in rendering justice to Mr. Hudson that he had been

NOVEMBER 26, 1850.

the personal friend of the man whom we ..honoured
above all other statenoen, need we repeat the name of
our lamented leader Lord George RHitit.ck ?—and
that he was himself a L«alous inemh6r of the Coun-
try party—the discharge of the debt justice,
always with us a peremptory duty, was, we own it,
in this case " a labour of love." We have said that
the Times ought to know that we allow of no reserve
in the discharge of the debts of justice, and we would
remind it of its own grateful acknowledgment of this
disposition an our part, when some years ngo it (then
fiercely opposed to us in politics) was the object of
charges of wholesale bribery, distinctly alleged by a
foreign Marquis—charges which derived a colour of
probability from the versatile conduct -of the accused
journal. The Times succeeded in repelling the im-
putations cast upon it, and we were the first to call
for a verdict of acquittal, for which our contemporary
thanked us i❑ terms that we leave to be repeated by
itself; and yet the Times now says of the Protectionist
prcss—

, THE BISHOP OF LONDON AND

ISIS CLERGY.

The following correspondence has taken
London, Nov. 20, 1850.
" My Lord,—We, the undersigned clergy of your
Lord,,hip's diocese, have seen with pain the publica-
tion of a letter as from your Lordship, a copy of which
we inclose, that you may judge of its correctness.
" From the extreme brevity of that letter, we are
led to think that it never was intended to meet the
public eye. But as it has been published, and is
placing your Lordship in a painful position, and agi.
tating the minds of many, we feel it our duty re-
spectfully to draw your attention to it.
" Your Lordship is aware that the very practices
condemned by you in your recent charge have been
introduced into the Church as practices warranted by
the Uhurch.

" In the letter to which we refer your Lordship
appears to admit that some sort of auricular confes-
sion' is taught by the Church.
" We believe that this apparent admission of the,
practice by the use of the word auricular confession'
(a word exclusively applied to the Romish practice),
'will be immediately taken by the Romanizing
party as an implied approval of those very practice:
which your Lordship meant to disapprove.
"We believe that thus the censure given in your
charge will be practically nullified. And further,
we fear that you might be cited in future as an
authority in favour of the practices which you
condemn.
" Sincerely anxious that you should not occupy a
position so painful, we respectfully request that you
will state more fully and at length your original views
as you briefly stated them in your charge, that the
minds of many attached members of our Church may
be relieved, and an occasion removed for those who
desire it in continuing practices within the Church
entirely forbidden by it. For, as your Lordship is
well aware, the only mention made in all the standards
of our Church of auricular confession' is in the Ho.
mily of Repentance, where it is unreservedly and
utterly condemned.

" It is very true that the journals we refer to are pain-
fully and ridiculously familiar with the idea of bribery.
We never take them up v. itheut finding them
charging somebody with corruption. We believe that
they have accused every state6man in his turn, every
journal, every public man, and every known - writer,
out of their own little clique, of taking biibes in hard
cash."

(From the Morning Post.)
The base and malignant iminuations against the
Protectionist press which the Times, yesterday, added
to its black list of libel—insinuations so groundless
and so utterly devoid of the shadow cf probability
that they cannot fail to recommend themselves to the
disgust and indignation of every honourable mind—
should have passed without our notice, had not our
able and excellent contemporary, the Standard, deemed
it worth while to visit the miserable effort with his
just rebuke, and so made it in some sort imperative
upon us to express our cordial concurrence in all that
he has advanced. The case attempted to he made out
by the Times is that, because the proprietor of a
weekly journal, while under examination before the
Court of Bankruptcy on Tuesday last, is reported to have
said that he refused to receive a bribe for the inser-
tion of an article in defence of Mr. Hudson—there-
fore, all the Protectionist papers which treated of the
vindication of that gentleman, as presented in the
evidence given on the occasion of the recent trial at
York, were bribed. So inconsequent an inference, and
one, at the same time time, involving so serious a charge,
was surely never before brought forward to insult
the judgment of the public. An accusation so grave,
and so utterly unsupported, is calculated to bring dis-
grace on him only who makes it. We feel some hu-
miliation, even, in being called upon to give the lie to
a slander so foul. Yet in terms not less plain and
peremptory do we wish to be understood as speaking.
For the character of ourselves, and of the Protec-
tionist press, we have thought it needful to say thus
much—more we feel that it would be unbecoming our
position and inconsistent with our honour to add.

SUPPRESSION OP' DEsTITUTION IN
THE METROPOLIS.

" Trusting that your Lordship will believe that
nothing but a sense of duty to yourself and anxiety
to prevent other applications of a very different cha-
racter has influenced us in thus writing,
" We beg to subscribe ourselves,
" Your faithful servants,
" W. WELDON CHAMPNEYS,
" H. MONTAGU VILLIERS,
" EDWARD AURIOL."

The success which has attended the operations of
the well-known institution for the poor in Leicester-
square has been so remarkable as to induce the corn
mittee of that excellent charity to draw up a plan for
the general suppression of mendicancy throughout
the metropolis, by means of establishing an adequate
number of similar asylums in various districts of
London. When it is stated that 476,118 poor persons
have partaken of warm, nourishing meals, and that
16,964 have been provided with suppers, clean com-
fortable beds, and breakfasts, at the Leicester-square
Hospice since its opening in 1847, it will not be diffi-
cult to form some idea of the vast service that might
be rendered to the cause of suffering humanity by
the general diffusion of similar institutions throughout
this great city. It is in the contemplation of the
committee that one hundred hospices, more or less,
shall be established in London, and that, as in the
case of the parent house, each shall possess the four
following departments, that is to say, first, a soup
kitchen ; secondly, an asylum with from fifteen to
twenty beds ; thirdly, a free registry for pro-
curing
situations and work for servants and
labourers; and, fourthly, a lavatory to which the
poor of both sexes are to have unimpeded access. At
the soup kitchen, all persons needing food, whether
belonging to the resident or migratory poor, are to be
relieved, be their offences what they may—a wise
and humane regulation, which is not only in accord-
ance with the precept of our Saviour, who tells us
" we must do good to the unthankful and the evil,"
but also in strict conformity with the investigations
of physiologists, who have ascertained beyond all con-
troversy that the anguish of a starving stomach is not
the less poignant from its proximity to a heart which
is no longer the abode of virtue. The kitchen is to
be supplied by contributions, not of money but of
food, from householders, who, in addition to broken
victuals, would be invited to give food to the value of
from 2d. to 3d. weekly, a provision which would he
ample for all requirements. The experience of the
original institution, upon whose plan it is proposed to
model all these branch establishments, proves that by
these means, and especially with the aid of contribu-
tions from clubs, hotels, taverns, cook-shops, &c.,
good substantial meals might be provided at an ex-
pense not exceeding one penny a meal ! It will
be part of the system that all the ragged
schools in the metropolis shall be supplied
gratuitously from these kitchens. The second
department of the establishment, the asylum, is
to be considered 'as a certain place of refuge for the
wayfarer, the vagrant, the houseless, and the desti-
tute, and, in fact, for all the members of that wretched
class of Stoits, who at present shiver all night long under
the porches of public buildings, or are compelled to
purchase the miserable shelter of a prison at the ex-
pense of some transgression of the police regulations.
It is computed that the average cost of the asylum
will not exceed one penny per night each bed. In
the free registry department, it is proposed that regu-
lar record shall be kept of the names, characters, and
qualifications of servants and labourers of all descrip-
tions and sexes who are in need of employment. The
importance of this branch of the establishment may be
estimated when it is remembered that, of the 170,000
domestics in the metropolis, no less than 10,000 are,
on the average, always out of situations. The
sufferings and temptations to which they are
exposed while thus circumstanced must be
inconceivably great. The advantages to be
derived to the poor from the fourth branch
of the establishment—the free lavatory—in promoting
cleanliness, decency, regularity, and their concomi-
tant blessing,
health, are so obvious as to render com-
ment unnecessary. The committee calculate that the
whole annual expense for each hospice ought not to
exceed 2001. It is proposed to give to the clergy of
the district and committee of each asylum 1001., and
it is confidently expected from past experience that
the householders and tradespeople will cheerfully
make contributions of articles of furniture, such as
bedding, bedsteads, sheeting, towels, and other neces-
sary requirements. With this contribution there is
every just ground for concluding that abundant
means will be furnished to render each district asylum
complete and efficient for its destined purposes. We
will not suppose that the English public, to whose
honour it is to be recorded that it needs but a clear
indication of the direction in which their charity may
be most advantageously extended to bring their be-
nevolence into active play, will be slow in giving to
the philanthropic pis ject here briefly sketched
such support as will ensure that it shall be
speedily conducted to a prosperous issue. Be it re-
membered that the success of such an institution
will have a threefold operation—firstly, on the poor,
whose sufferings it will most materially alleviate ;
secondly, on the taxpayers of the metropolis, to whom
an immense saving will be effected iu the matter of
police and union rates; and, thirdly, on the commu-
nity at large, to whom the moral benefit will be in-
calculable of rescuing thousands upon thousands of
our fellow-creatures from those dreadful temptations
which continually beset the poor man's path, making
poverty an evil yet more frightful in its spiritual than
in its corporeal consequences. Political economists
will tell us that the claims of the poor are satisfied
when we give them the workhouse pittance, that
frigid bounty to which, no doubt, we are indebted for
the sarcastic allegory " Cold as charity ;" but the
multitudinous institutions which have been founded in
this country for the unfortunate and the destitute
prove more potently than any words how distasteful
is such a philosophy to the hearts of Englishmen.
Alas I it is a philosophy which has its root, not in that
mercy which falleth like the gentle dews, but in that
selfishness which
" Hardens all within,
And petrifies the feeling."
They who, when they saw the Israelite fainting with
fatigue, and covered with wounds, walked on " the
other side," were the political economists of that day.
Had it been the intention of the Divine Founder of
Christianity that we should acquit ourselves at once
and for ever of our duty to the poor by the sim-
ple payment of a small annual tax, he never surely
would have ordained that " the poor we shall have
always with us." No, the permanence of the exigency
proves the perpetuity of the duty, and wisely has that
God whose mercy is above all his works, provided for
the perennial existence of benevolence in our bosoms,
by ordering that, from the cradle to the grave, there
never shall be wanting to us occasions for the exer-
cise of that heavenly attribute.

`• Fulham, Nov. 22, 1850.
"Rev. and dear Brethren,—l thank you for having
called my attention to what you consider to be an
ambiguous expression in my answer to a letter which
I received from the Rev. T. Bolton, which answer has
been published without my permission. What I in-
tended to say was, that by the words auricular con-
fession' I supposed that every one would understand
me to mean the Roman practice of confession, and not
that kind of confession which is recognized as useful
and salutary by our own Church. I meant to distin-
guish between that upon which the Church of Rome
insists as an indispensable duty, necessary to the for-
giveness of sins, and that which the Church of Eng-
land permits as being in certain cases profitable.
" The former kind of confession is condemned in
the Homily of Repentance under the name of auricu-
lar confession. The latter kind is thus spoken of in
the same homily Ido not say but that if any do
find themselves troubled in conscience they may re-
pair to their learned curate or pastor, or to some other
Godly-learned man, and show the trouble and doubt
of their conscience to them, that they may receive at
their hand the comfortable salve of God's word ; but
it is against the true Christian liberty that any man
should be bound to the membering of his sins, as it
hath been used heretofore in the time of blindness and
ignorance.'

We observe, with unaffected satisfaction, that this
project, for which we now invoke the favour of the
humane, has already received the sanction of some of
the most illustrious names in the country, and that
atriong,t its most ardent friends is his Ro3 al High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, who was himself the
chairman of the committee with whom the idea ori-
ginated.

AMERICAN MUDE OF SETTLING A DIFTICULTT.—
A young and beautiful damsel, near Frankfort, i(entucky,
having two lovers, and not knowing which to prefer, settled
t,he patter Iv marrying oxe and eloping with the ottief,

"The difference between the two churches is
clearly stated by Archbishop Sharpe, one of the
ablest opponents of Popery in the time of King James
The Papists,' he says, 'do very unjustly tra-
duce and calumniate the Reformation, when they
say that the Protestants are against private confes-
sion. There is no such thing. There is no Protes-
tant church but gives it that due esteem and regard
that it ought to have. All that they have done is to
regulate it; to set it upon its true basis and founda-
tion, which is done, not by requiring private confession
as a thing necessary, but exhorting men to it as a thing
highly convenient in many cases. In all those in-
stances where it can be useful or serve any good
purpose it is both commended and seriously advised;
that is to say, where a sinner either needs direction
and assistance for the overcoming some sin that he
labours under, or where he is so overwhelmed with the
burden of his sins that he needs the help of some
skilful person to explain to him the terms of the
Gospel ; to convince him from the Holy Scriptures
that his repentance (as far as a judgment can be made
of it) is true and sincere, and will be accepted by
God ; and, lastly, upon the full examination of his
state, and his judgment thereupon, to give him the
ab,olution of the Church. In all these cases no Pro-
testant who understands his religion is against private
conti2ssion ; on the contrary, all the best writers of
the Protestant., nay, all the public confessions of the
Protestants which give an account of their faith, are
mightily for it, and do seriously recommend it.'
(Sermons, vol. 5, p. 122.)
" He proceeds to quote a passage from Calvin's
Institutes' (111. IV., 12), in which private confession
is strongly recommended, and adds—' Thus far Mr.
Calvin, and in the same place, where he doth thus re-
commend private confession, doth he also speak of the
benefits of private absolution, in order to the easing
and comforting afflicted consciences. And this sense
of his is the general sense of the Protestants abroad,'
and this, I think, may be justified to all the world.
`But the Popish doctrine in the matter is quite of
another strain, and serves to quite a different purpose.'
By confession they mean, not confession to God, ner
confession to our neighbour in case of injuries, nor
confession to the Church in case of public notorious
sin, but private confession to a priest, which is that
they call auricular confession, because it is whispered
into his ear. This is that confession they make a
necessary part of repentance, and without which
(supposing we have opportunity) sin is not forgiven.'
" He then quotes the decree of the Council of
Trent, which enjoins the private confession to the
priest of all mortal sins, even the most secret, though
they be only in thought or desire, and all the cir-
cumstances of them that may change the nature of
sin ; and declares those accursed who say that
such confession is not by Divine law necessary for
the obtaining of forgiveness; and he justly observes
that as this confession is managed in the Church of
Rome, it is so far from being a check or a bridle upon
a man to have a care of committing the same sins
again that he hath thus confessed, that, on the con-
trary, it gives a great encouragement to sinners to
continue in their sins: He concludes—' Let all of
us, therefore, when we find ourselves burdened with
the weight of our sins, apply to God, and unburden
ourselves of them by confession to Him. If we need
either advice, or assistance, or direction, or comfort,
we may call in the assistance of pious and discreet
ministers ; nay, we ought in prudence to do so, and
we are wanting to ourselves if we do not. But still,
the confession that is necessary to the obtaining our
pardon must ever be understood of confession to God.
Whosoever humbly and sorrowfully confesses his sins
to Him, and endeavours to forsake them, such a man
shall find pardon, whether he confess to men or no.'
This is the true Protestant doctrine, and let us all
adhere to it and practise it.
" It seems to me that the Church of England does
not encourage frequent or periodical private confes-
sion, the danger of abusing which is so obvious as not
to require pointing out ; but that she does not forbid '
her members to have recourse to private confession
on what may be termed great spiritual emergencies;
that cases where such confession is proper are excep-
tional cases ; that it is an indulgence to human weak-
ness rather than a duty, and that men are not to be
exhorted, or even invited to perform it, except in the
specific instances for which provision is made in the
offices of the Church.
I think that such confession should be wholly
and in all its parts voluntary and spontaneous, and
that the minister to whom it is made should forbear
from those particular inquiries which lead to the
abominations of the Romish confessional. So
guarded, I do not think that private confession ought
to be entirely condemned. Our Church,' says
Fuller (in his Moderation of the Church of Eng-
land') doth declare the necessity of such a confes-
sion as is useful to the purposes of true repentance—
that is, when confession to the minister of God may
be useful for spiritual advice, and for the quieting of
any one's conscience, in order to a good life, or a
happy death, and particularly in order to the fruitful
receiving of the Holy Communion.'
" Dr. Hey thinks that the real purpose of our
Church in quitting the laws of auricular confession,
and at the same time recommending some confidential
intercourse between a minister and those troubled in
conscience, was probably to throw off a yoke hard to
be borne, to give liberty where the sensible and deli-
cate mind most longs for it, to substitute affectionate
exhortation in the room of penal laws and mechanical
observances, and thereby prevent hypocrisy and eva-
sion, without dissolving the pastoral connexion and
relation, or weakening the mutual confidence and
mutual kindness between minister and people.' The
ordinary language of our Church is confess yourself
to Almighty God ;' and it is found even in our first
exhortation to the communion ; but when the mind
is tormented with scruples, or debilitated by sickness,
advice is wanted, and the weak should be moved' to
get over their reservi., and solicit spiritual comfort or
counsel.' Ike might have added, in the words of the
Church, t the benefit of absolution' that benefit being,
I apprehend, the comfort which the penitent derives
from being assured by one who is commissioned
to Aasuro latD) upon the authority of God's word,

that if he is truly penitent his sins are for-
given by Him who clone can forgive sin ; and who
prays for him, as one of God's ministers, that He may
have mercy upon him, and pardon end deliver him
from all his sins. I do not thick that a clergyman
to whom confession is made ought to employ any
more positive form of absolution, except in the single
case of a sick person,for which a special form is pre-
scribed.

" I may remark that tho 113th canon, which
speaks of the case where a man ' confesses his secret
and hidden sin for the unburdening of his conscience,
and to receive spiritual consolation and ease of mind
from him,' most probably refers to the cases provided
for in the offices for the holy communion and for the
visitation of the sick.

" I need hardly add that private confession, even
as allowed by our Reformed Church, requires the
greatest discretion and carefulness on the part of
those clergymen who encourage or permit it, to
prevent its assuming the character of auricular
confession.'

"1 remain, rev. and dear brethren,
" Your faithful friend and servant in Christ,

" C. J. LONDON.
" P.S. I have no objection to the publication of
this letter.

" The Rev. Messrs. Champneys, Villiers
and Auriol."

THE ENGLISH ROMAN CATHOLICS.
The following letter has been addressed to the
editor of a morning contemporary :
Sir,—l have to request that you will insert the
letter which has been addressed to me by a distin-
guished Roman Catholic Peer—Lord Beaumont, a
correct copy of which I now inclose.
It unfortunately did not reach me till after the
late county meeting at York, but having his permis-
sion to make any use of his letter I consider it far too
valuable an exposition of opinion not to be laid before
the public.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
ZETLAND.
Upleatbara, Gisbro', Yorkshire, Nov. 24.

(Copy.)
"Dublin, Nov. 20, 1850.
"My dear Lord Zetland,—l perceive that the
newspapers have announced the intention of the
High Sheriff to call a public meeting to consider the
propriety of addressing the Crown, on the subject of
the late insult offered to this country by the Court of
Rome; and I learn from the same sources of infor-
mation that the step on the part of the High Sheriff
has been taken in consequence of a requisition signed
by nearly all the resident peers in Yorkshire. It is
a matter not only of no surprise, but of no regret to
me, that such a proceeding should be adopted by the
country, for the acts in question are of quite as much
political and social importance as of religious
and sectarian character. The Pope, by his
ill,advised messures, has placed the Roman Catholics
in this country in a position where they must either
break with Rome, or violate their allegiance to the
Constitution of these realms : they must either con-
sider the Papal bull as null and void, or assert the
right of a foreign prince to create by his sovereign
authority English titles and to erect English bishop-
rics. To send a bishop to Beverley for the spiritual
direction of the Roman Catholic Clergy in Yorkshires
and to create a see of Beverley, are two very different
things—the one is allowed by the tolerant laws of the
country; the other requires territorial dominion and
sovereign power within the country. If you deny
that this country is a fief of Rome, and that the Pon•
tiff has any dominion over it, you deny his power to
create a territorial see, and you condemn the late bull
as sound and fury signifying nothing.' If, on the
contrary, you admit his power to raise Westminster
into an archbishopric and Beverley into a bishopric,
you make over to the Pope a power which, according
to the Constitution, rests solely with the Queen and
her Parliament, and thereby infringe the prerogative
of the one and interfere with the authority of the
other. It is impossible to act up to the spirit of the
British Constitution, and at the same time to acknow-
ledge the jurisdiction of the Pope in local matters
Such is the dilemma in which the lately published
Bull places the English Roman Catholic. lam not,
however, sufficiently acquainted with their views on
the subject, or their intentions respecting it, to give
any opinion as to the effect this newly assumed au-
thority of Rome will have upon their conduct ; but I
am inclined to believe that the Tablet and L'Univers
newspapers speak the sentiments of the zealous portions
of the Roman Catholic community, and that they are
the real, if not the avowed, organs of the priesthood.
The Church of Rome admits of no moderate party
among the laity ; moderation in respect to her ordi-
nances is lukewarmness, and the lukewarm she inva-
riably spues out of her mouth. You must be with her
against all opponents, or you are not of ber ; and,
therefore, when Rome adopts a measure such as the
present, it places the laity in the awkward dilemma I
have alluded to. Believing, therefore, that the late
bold and clearly expressed edict of the Court of Rome
cannot be received or accepted by English Roman
Catholics without a violation of their duties as citi-
zens, I need not add that I consider the line of con-
duct now adopted by Lord John Russell as tbat of a
true friend of the British Constitution.
"Believe me, my dear Lord Zetland, yours very
truly,

" BEAUMONT.
' To the Right Hon. the Earl of Zetland."

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, Nov. 25.
The Queen, with her Royal Highness the Princess
Royal, drove out this morning in a pony phaeton
in Windsor Park, Colonel Buckley, Equerry in
Waiting, attending on horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting
this forenoon, attended by the Earl of Morley, Lieut.-
Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Hon. Charles
Grey, and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. A. Gordon.
The Royal Family took their accustomed airings.
The Duke of Wellington, Lord and Lady Charles
Wellesley, and Sir George and Lady Grey, are ex-
pected to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a visit to the
Queen and the Prince.

The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
the Duke of 'Wellington, the Right Hon. Sir George
and Lady Grey, Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley,
Lady Fanny Howard, and Baroness de Speth.
The Band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards
attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band
will afterwards attend in the Castle.

Mr. James Proudfoot, of Craigieburn ; Mr. B.
Sehwikkard, of Port Natal; and Mr. J. J. More-
wood, had an interview with Earl Grey, at the Colo-
nial-office, yesterday.
The Right Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P., and the
Mayor of Hull, had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
Capt. iluish, of the London and North-Western
Railway Company, and Mr. Saunders of the Great
Western Railway Company, had an interview with
the Commissioners of Railways yesterday, at their
office in the Board of Trade.

The Finance Committee of the Royal Commission
for the Exhibition of 1851 met yesterday at dm,
Board of Trade, Earl Granville in the chair.
The Commissioners, &c., of the parish of St. James,
consisting of Mr. George Garrett (chairman), Lord
de Manley, Mr. H. Eddell, Mr. Henry Bidgood, Mr.
J. Woollums, Mr. Frederick Sasse, Mr. Thomas
Tritton, and Mr. John IV. Gabriel, had an interview
with Lord Seymour yesterday, at the office of her
Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in
Whitehall-place.
Mr. Fox bad an interview yesterday with Earl
Grey.

Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday for Brocket
Hall, Herts, the seat of Viscount Melbourne.
Dispatches from the Governors of the North Ame-
rican colonies, and also from the Governors of New
Zealand and Van Diemen's Land, were received yes-
terday at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colo-
nial-office for the Governors of Hong-Kong and
Ceylon.

THE NEW NOVEL, " LOVE AND AMBITION," by
the Author of " Rockingham," in 3 vols., is published this
day by Mr. Colburn, and may be bad at all the Libraries. Also
now ready :-2. Nathalie, by Julia Kavanagh, author of
" Women in France," &c. 3. Lettice Arnold, by the author
of " Emilia Wyndham." 4. Lamia ; a Confession. 5. Light
and Darkness; or Mysteries of Life, by Mrs. Crowe. 6.
Singleton Fontenoy, by James Hannay, Esq., late R.N..
7. Our County, by John Mills, Esq., author of " The Old
English Gentleman," &c. 8. Petticoat Government, by Dirs.
Trollope. 9. Claude, by Miss Molesworth.
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but a moderate expenditure to render the harbour secure and
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Leeds Intelligencer.

THE PAPA.L AGGRESSION.
PUBLIC MEETING IN T LI E CI [Y. I
public meeting of merchants, heekers, traders, 1
1 o,her citie ,ne of London, was held yesterday.
Guildhall, "for the purpose (es the placard an-
neuncsd) of taking icto consideration the late
meat unjustifiable attempt of the Bishop of
Rome to exercies an unauthorized and unpre-
cedented interference in the effaira of this
kingdom by the pretended creation of new Epis-
copal sews, and the appointment of bishops to preside
over the same, thereby invading the prerogative of
the Sovereign of these realms, assailing the indepen-
dence of the State and seeking the restoration of a
spiritual. domination from which this country has long
since delivered itself." The meeting was called by the
Riehr. Hon. the Lord Meyer, in compliance with a
requisition which had been presented to his Lordship,
signed by 120 of the principal merchants, bankers,
and traders of the City, and the chair, it was an-
noenced, would he taken at two o'clock. Long before
that hour the Guildball was filled to excess, while
in the yard oursiee there were hundreds of
persone unable to atirnision. The side galleries
in the hall wor., also tilled with ladies, and the plat-
form was crowded with the recinisionists and others,
;a7song woo,n ' we ni.riced the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor' Sir James Duke, M.P, Alderman Thompson,
M P., Alderman Salmeoes, Alderman Lawrence, the
Sheriffs of London, Mr. David W. Wire, Mr. George
Stringer, ati4 :litiny others.
The Right Hun. the Loan MAYOR opened the pro-
ceedings by calling upon his secretary to react the
requisition.
This having been done, the Right Hon. the Loan
MAloa, in a few words, exhorted the meeting to give
every speaker who should present himself a fair
and patient hearing. It was felt that her Majesty's
prerogative had been grossly infringed by the recent
proceedings of the Pope of Rome, and it was for the '
meeting to consider, and decide, whether an address,
expressive of its loyalty and attachment to the Throne,
should be adopted, as representing the feelings of the
inhabitants of the city of London. He would not
detain them further, but at once call upon Mr.
Masterman to move the first resolution.—(Cheers.)
Mr. MASTERMAN, M.P, then stood forward to
move the first resolution, and was received with loud
cheers. He said, in addressing that large and im-
portant meeting, he could not•avoid, in the first place,
expressing his great indignation at the presumption of
a foreign power coming here to divide our country,
and to dictate to the people in matters of religion.—
(Cheers.) It was to him one of the most astonishing
things he had ever heard or read of, that a power so
weak as that of the Pope of Rome was at the present
moment—(Hear, hear)—should have had the audacity
to dictate to us how this country was to be divided
for ecclesiastical purposes, and to press on
the consciences of the people the tenets of the
Roman Catholic religion.—(Cheers and uproar.) He
was sure the meeting was so well satisfied with the
kind and tolerant sway of the Church of England,
that it would never submit to the domination of that
of Rome.—(Cheers.) It was gratifying to him to
hear one universal voice over the whole country,
calling upon the Government to put a stop to the
unprecedented and unjustifiable act of aggression
which the Pepe of Rome had attempted to
impose upon ic—(Hear, hear.) It was with great
satisfaction that he viewed the determination of our
gracious :sovereign to uphold toe Protestant institu-
tions of the country—(Great cheering)—and if that
meeting had no other object in view, he thought they
should feel it their duty to show to ner Majesty the
feeling of the country at large on this important
question. For himself; he should heartily wish to see
this aggression of the Roman Catholics put down; and
it the law in its present state should he found insuffi-
cient for that purpose, he thought the Government
should be armed a ith fresh powers to put an end to
the invasion.—(Loud cheers) He thought the best
way to attain that object woutd be to send out of the
country those gentlemen who had been most conspi-
cuous in promoting the recent act of aggression.—
(Renewed cheers.) He believed the poor Pope
had been most grievously deceived in this mat-
ter by the grossly exaggerated statements
that had been made to him of the some few learned
and so-called pious individuals who had seceded from
the Church of England.—(Hear, hear.) There were
many clergymen who, very much to their own dis-
honour and the inconvenience of the people, had in-
troduced ceremonies inro their churches which had
given umbrage and rainoyance to their congregations.
—(Blear, hear.) lie hoped those gentlemen would
speedily repent of what they had done ; and
he would recommend them to consider the
error of their ways, and to return to that pure
and simple faith from which they had so grievously
departed.—(Cheers) The lion. Gentleman con-
cluded by moving the fellott ins resolution :—" That
in the opinion of this meeting the nt proceedings
of ti-;o Bishop of Route, in assurniog to Mimed
authority to establem ecclesiastical dioceses in this
count:y, and to appoint archbishops and
bishops to pr,side over the same, is an
invasion of the Queen's prerogative, an attack on the
constitution of the State, and an interference with the
affairs of this realm wholly inconsi-tent with its
national iLdep,ndet,ce."—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. Alderman Tnomrso:v, M.P., stepped to the
front of the platform, amid the loud acclamations of
the meeting, to second the resolution. He said he
felt himself complimented in having been invited to
second the resolution which they had just heard read ;
and he felt equal gratification in being afforded
on opportunity of addressing so numerous and so in-
fluential a body of his fellow-citizens as had been
cenvened together by the Lord Mayor, for the pur-
pose of discussing and deciding upon the course
which might be most fitting, in order to manifest
their disgust and disapprobation at the arrogance
and presumption of the Pope of Rome and his emis-
saries, whom in his conscience he believed were
aiming to undermine the religion and liberties of
the people of this country, and their allegiance to
their Sovereign—(Loud cheers)—a Sovereign illus-
trious and venerated by all her subjects, Red who,
under the blessing of God, was distinguished by all
those qualities which made England
a great, a glo-
rious, and a hapoy country.—(Renewed cheers.) He
said advisedly, attempts to undermine their allegiance
to their Sovereign.—(Feint shouts of "No, "
drowned in responsive vociferations of " Yes,
yes," enforced by the waving of hats for
some moments.) What was that thing—brief,
or bull, or whatsoever might be its proper
ecclesiastical designation, but, in point of fact, treat-
ing England as a vanquished country, dividing it into
parcels, and giving authority over the several dis-
tricts, thereby signifying that they, the Protestant
people of Feaglaad, were prepared to forget the glo-
rious principles of the Reformation, and to return
again within the pale of the Churchof Rome ?—(Vo•
ciferous cheers.) He knew how futile was their
expectation, and how contemptible was the attempt.
—(Cheers.) Let them compare for a moment
the tenure by which their beloved Q teen of England
and the Pope of Rome held their respective temporal
powers,, Tee Queen of England, it was truly said,
reigned in the hearts of all her suhjects. Her
most humble, as well as her most elevated subject,
would be prepared to shed his blood, in order to pro-
tect his Queen from insult.—(Cheers) What was the
tenure of the temporal power of the Pope of Rome ?
He (Mr. Alderman Thompson) would venture to say
that 999 of his subjects out of 1,000 would heartily
join in a subscription to send him to some other
country.—(Cheers and laughter.) What was the
loyalty of his own subjects ? They would again
gladly lend him a suit of clothes to escape in.—
(Laughter.) He (Mr. Alderman Thompson) said
further that this act of Papal aggression was
aimed at the repeal of the glorious Reformation,
which the blood and spirit of our ancestors, especially
of the city of London, won for us. The Archbishop
of Westminster's account of the new Roman Ca-
tholic
" development" in this country, as compared
with its former system of government by vicars-apos-
tolic, was, according to him, a distinction without a
difference, and that the vicars-apostolic had as much
power as the new bishops were to have. Why change
it then ? He (Mr. Alderman Thompson) had always
understood that the purpose of vicars-apostolic was
to look after the moral character of the priests of the
Roma Catholic Church in this country—(A laugh)
—but he never understood that they were to have
a pnrtion of she territory of this country and assume
a government inconsistent with the laws and consti-
tution of this realm. Cardinal Wiseman—(Laughter
and hissing)—further told them
was to be the Archbishop
of Westminster
although he
tonectehr —(Shouts
of " No, no")—he would
not
farthing of the revenues of theu Deaan nsiugide
Chapter of Westminster.—(Laughter.) Did and
meeting believe that ?—(Shouts of "No, no.") Nor
did he (Mr. Alderman Thompson) either. He be-
lieved that all those proceedings, all those appoint-
ments Of archbishops and bishops, were intended as a
ladder bv which to reach the revenues of the Pro-
testant Church of England.—(Loud cheers.) They
contended that the Pope of H )me had the
right
.of nofnioating bishops throughout the
world, that was, according to the Roman Catholic
canon law. Although Cardinal Wiseman was
supposed to be an acute, clever man, be had
read very little of history, and of Roman Catholic
history too, or of the Protestant history of Europe
during the French revolution, if I:e held such a
dogma as that. If he had read history aright he
would have found that by a Concordat made by
the Pope of Rome in 1801, Napoleon Bonaparte was
to nominate all the bishops.—(Laughter.) He did
so. Then why was it said there was nothing new in
this proceeding? He (Mr. Alderman Thompson)
would not make any suggestions as to what

might be the inducement that had actuated the Pope 11
to this course, but he believed the novelties introduced i
into the service of the Church of England, I
and which had interfered with the pure and simple •
manner of conducting public worship, had been
attended with evil consequences.—(Loud cheers.)
Many of the parties who had introduced
those novelties into our Church service had
since gone to Rome, and those who adopted simi-
ha practices, he (Mr. Alderman Thompson) hoped,
for the sake of our religion, would soon follow them.
The resolution having been put,
Mr. G. STRINGER came forward as a Protestant
and enemy to Puse)iem and Rome to speak against
the resolution. He wanted the meeting to award
justice to their enemies. He was a member of the
Protestant Church of England, and he hoped after
this declaration he should meet with fair play. He
called upon them to hesitate before they passed the
resolution. Was this the first time that Catholicism had
been introduced into England ?—(Cries of " He's a
Puseyite.") He was no such thing ; but when he
remembered what bad been done for Catholics, and
the declaration of Lord John Russell, that justice
could not be done to the Roman Catholics without the
introduction of Popish bulls were made legel—
(Hear, hear)—he for one was ready to do everything
consistent with reason and justice to resist the
progress of Romanistn' but when he remembered
the speeches of Lord John Russell, Lord Lyndhurst,
and others of their class, made in 1846, he was not
surprised at the recent proceedings of the Pope ; be-
cause these very speeches could have had no other
tendency than to encourage them.—(Cheers.) He
maintained, then that the words of the resolution were
untrue, for the Government and the Queen had al-
ready surrendered her supremacy over Roman Ca-
tholics.—(Cries of "No, no," " Off, off," and con-
fusion.)
The gentleman concluded abruptly, by moving an
amendment, but no one seconded it, and it therefore
fell to the ground.
The resolution was then put, and carried unani-
mously.
Mr. Cumatrzeas, a City merchant, moved the second
resolution, and in so doing he declared that nothing
but this all-important subject could have collected so
many thousands in that hall as he then saw. He ad-
mitted with the last speaker that much had been done
for the Catholics during the last twenty years, but
how had they returned those fevours?—(Cheers.) Was
Ireland raised from misery? Were the Catholics grate-
Ail for the concessions or more attached to the Throne ?
—(No, no.) The question now agitating the
country must be decided by the two classes of Catho-
lics and Protestants? The voice of the latter must
demand the immediate abolition of "mummeries," or
their liberty would soon be at end. England had
been happy and prosperous since the revolution
of 1698, and so it would remain if its people would
now stand forward in support of Protestantism.—
(Cheers.) Do not let it be supposed that they were
fighting the battle of Protestants alone. In doing
what be had suggested they would be protecting
Catholics against the tyranny of Rome.—(Hear.)
In the reign of Edward 111., the Pope of Rome drew
as much money out of this country by his
extortions as the whole of its revenue amounted to,
and unless the people determined to resist the pre-
sent aggressive
!mice of Rome, those days of ex-
tortion and oppression e7ould soon return.—(Cheers.)
lie therefore called upon :he city of London to sup-
port the supremacy and Throne of the Queen,
who had set the whole wo:ld an example not
alone as a Sovereign, but as a mu'.
leer and daughter,
which other potentates would do w 0 to follow.—
(Cheers.) The whole policy of Rome we' to get the
rich into its clutches by seducing their :Younger
sons and daughters, and confining theuf in
prisons called colleges and nunneries ; but ..4f
the people of England only did their duty,
this conspiracy would fail.—(Cheers.) The resolution
he had to move was to this effect:—" That this meeting
believes the great advancement made by the nation,
during the last three centuries, in all the elements of
national strength, was owing to its deliverance from
the baneful influence of foreign ecclesiastical do-
minion."

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Mr. WALKER seconded the resolution, and read a
paragraph from the Perth, Constitutional, which stated
that the Roman Catholic bishop of that district had
announced the intention of France and other conti-
nental powers to aid the Pope in the event of his hull
being rejected by this country. The real object
of the present movement on the part of the
Pope was not the subversion, but the political de-
strucion of this country.—(Cheers )
Mr. P. LAURIE was glad to meet so large an assem-
bly within that cradle of civil and religious liberty to
support the cause of Protestantism ; but he did not
think the last resolution went far enough, and there-
fore be wished to move an addition to it. Not alone
was the Pepe to blame ; the unworthy sons of the
Church, who were the pioneers in this aggressive step,
should also be den ounced.—(Tremendous cheers.)
What was the use of closing the gates to the enemy
without, if they allowed an enemy to remain within.?
—(Cheers.) He was just es much opposed to do-
mestic ecclesiastical tyranny as foreign supremacy,
and he for one would neither submit to the Popery
of Rome nor the mummeries of Pimlico.—
(Cheers.) If they turned out the Pope's hull.
to make the movement effective they must also turn
out the tracts of the Tractarians, and send the Pu-
seyites after them.—(Cheers.) He proposed the
following addition to the resolution :—" And we
also feel it to be our bounden duty to express our
opinion, that we view with indignation and alarm the
extensive promulgation and introduction of Romieh
principles and Romish practices into the service of the
Church of England by many churchmen of this and
other dioceses, and to express our belief that greater
danger is to be apprehended from the unfaithful
teaching within the Established Church than from
any hostility without."
Alderman SIDNEY seconded 'the addition, consider-
ing that the Puseyites were as much to blame as the
Romish doctors, and any law which should
be directed against Rome must also reach
them. The people of this country had been
terribly cajoled by their statesmen, and it was with
humiliation he confessed that the present proceedings
of the Pope were in no way antagonistic to the exist-
ing law. No statute could be produced against
it, and while they denounced priestcraft let them not
forget that they had been led astray by statecraft.—
(Cheers.) Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell
had alike truckled with the Roman Catholics, and
if the city of London wished to stop
the aggressive policy of Rome it would
at once declare that the legislation of the country
should be dictated in a Protestant spirit.—(Cheers.)
Mr. SCARBOROUGH was an opponent of Popery, but
not of Roman Catholics, and he hoped the meeting
would hear no more of returning to prohibitory Acts of
Parliament, except it were to destroy the existence of
Paseyites in the Church. Let them remember, how-
ever, that wax candles did not make Puseyites. There
were hundreds of Established Church Jesuits who
dispensed with the candles, and he warned the meeting
to watch the teachings of all their pastors with care.
The Rev. Mr. Pococx then stepped forward to re-
sist the addition, but some one in the body
of the hall called out " He's a Puseyite," and
immediately the reverend gentleman was greeted
with a terrific yell. Still, above the thunder of
voices, was heard the cry of " No wax candles,"
" No wafer gods," "No Popery," and " Off ;" but, not-
withstanding these manifestations of displeasure, the rev.
gentleman stood his ground, and kept gesticulating and
twisting about till the Lord Mayor came forward and
insisted upon his retiring. Order was then restored,
when,
Mr. D. W. WIRE offered himself, and was received
with immense cheering. He told the meeting that
those who had supported it had four objects in view—
first, to support the Queen's supremacy against
foreign domination; secondly. to declare the suffi-
ciency of the Scriptures for salvation ; thirdly,
to assert the right of every man to interpret
the Scriptures as he thought proper ; and
fourthly, to opppose the enemies of the Church
without and denouncing of enemies within. Now
those objects would not be fully accompanished unless
they adopted the addition to the resolution ; and he
therefore hoped it would be unanimously agreed to.
Puseyism as well as Popery had both a tendency to
enslave the soul and debase the mind, and as he
understood the Reverend Gentleman who wished to
address them a while ago was the chaplain of the
Rev. Mr. Dorlsworth, he was sorry the meeting
did not hear him, because he should have been glad to
learn how he could reconcile his Puseyite principles
with the doctrines and practices of the Protestant
Church of England.
Mr. Ross supsorned the resolution; but in doing so
he begged it to be understood that he raised his voice
not against his Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, hut
against the Popish system. He would still allow
Catholics to build churches, to worship images, end
wear beads and crucifixes if they so thought fit; but
never would he tolerate any proposal to have their
system recognised by the law.—(Cheers.)
The resolution, with the addition, was then put
and carried unanimously.
Sir J. DUKE next addressed the meeting. He said
that the resolution which had been put into his hands
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defending the royal prerogative, for vindicating the
independence of the State, and for repelling the at-
tempted interference on the part of foreigners in any
affairs of this kingdom, civil or ecclesiastical:—(Hear,
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prevailed throughout all
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which that most excellent Prelate the Archbishop of ,

Cantterbury he d taken up the subject of innovations ,
in she Chute( of England, and the manner in which
be called upol a certain of his clergy to reconsider their
-p,reectices. T here could be tio doubt that the time
.hall arrived when all teen who, having undertaken
:solemn duties, lie become forgetful of those duties,
ought to be rernicded of them io a manner not to be
mistaken. He el.-ould now say very little more than to
-add that be rejoiced to find that the Noble Lord at the
head of the Gavernmen.; (his colleague in the repre-
sentation of London) was nut disposed to give his
countenance to the mummeries at Pimlico ; and he
felt deeply grateful to the Prime Minister for the de-
cided manner in which he expressed his opinion on
that subject—an opinion in which, doubtless, the
great body of the citizens of London would agree
with him; and he hoped that when Parliament met
the measures of the Government, supported by the
representatives and the constituency of the country,
would put an end wholly to the Papal authority, as
exercised or attemred to be exercised by Cardinal
—(Hisses)—by Dr. Wiseman, in this country. Dr.
Wiseman told the English people that in assuming
the title of Archbishop of Westminster he was not
violating any law, usage, or institution of this country ;
surely that was a very gross misrepresentation. It
was well known that no British subject could assume,
in this country, the humblest title or decora!ion
conferred upon him by a foreign potentate, without
first obtaining the permission of his own Sovereign.
He could do nothing of the sort without the formal
senction of the Crown. Was it nothing, then, for Dr.
Wiseman to assume the style, title, and office of an
English archbishop ?—(Loud cheers.) They might
be assured of this, that the doctor was not a man to
take an empty title. He had no notion of taking the
title of Archbishop of Westminster without after-
wards seeking for something with which to support
his dignity; but the people of England would soon
let the world know that they were determined to
support the great principles of Protestantism in this
country. Having but recently returned home, having
arrived in London only on Saturday, he regretted
that he was not better prepared to address them ; be
should therefore not trespass further upon their atten-
tion than to say that the more he saw in foreign
countries, the more deeply was he impressed with the
inestimable value of our laws, our liberties, our reli-
gion—our pure, simple, and holy religion—our glori-
ous constitution.—(Cheers.) The rights of the Sove-
reign whom the people loved the people would defend.
The institutions which had been bequeathed by their
ancestors they would not abandon. In the words of
one cf Scotland's poets—
" With hearts resolved and hands prepared
The blessings we enjoy to guard."
The Hon. Baronet then moved the third resolu-
tion :—" That an humble address be presented to the
Queen, praying that her Majesty will be pleased to
take such measures on this oecasion as may sustain
the royal prerogative, vindicate the independence of
the State, and repel all attempts, direct or indirect, to
restore the domination of a foreign ecclesiastical
power in this land."
Mr. HOARE, of the firm of Barnard, Hoare, and
Co., seconded the resolution.
The resolution, like the others, was carried by ac-
clamation. _ _ _

Mr. FOWELL moved the address, which was se-
conded by Mr. MATTHEW CLARKE, and unanimoubly
adopted.
Thanks were then voted to the Lord Mayor, end
three cheers having been given for the Queen, the
meeting broke up.

THE BRAZILS.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 23.—Her Majesty's packet Ex-
press, Lieutenant Lory commander, arrived here to-
d.ty with the Brazil mails, having left Rio de Janeiro
on the 11th of October. She brings about 35,0001
freight, principally on mining account, and the
folio wing passengers, viz , Messrs. Tennent, Petty, Cul
Tier, Gdiggar, and servant ; Molinara, and Wehner ;
Senhor H.
Vianna de Leima and lady, two children,
and servant; g,nhor S. de Rego Barros, M. Marc
Delesderrier, BarOn Mengden, Secretary of the
Russian Legation at .240 Janiero ; Senhor de Ba-
rozzo and servant ; Madame N. Levis, and Mr.
Hamilton, lady, and three children.
This packet brings the important news of the
Buenos Ayrean Minister having demanded his pass•
ports, and of the march of Brazilian troops to the
southward. A declaration of war between tho,e
countries was daily expected to be made.
In trade we learn that the dulness which prevailed
in the produce market for some time previous to the
sailing of the Penguin, and caused by the great
fluctuations in the European markets, had been suc-
ceeded by great activity, and in coffee above 190 000
bags had been sold, principally for the Mediterranean
and the United States.
On the packet's departure the prices were—supe-
rior, dolls. 3.450 to dolls. 3.500 per arroba, equal to
355. 6d per cwt. on board ; good first, dolls. 3 250 to
dolls. 3.350 per arroba, equal to 345. per cwt. on
board ; and good second, dolly. 2.900 to dolls. 3.000,
equal to 304. 7d. per cwt. on h)ard.
Sugar—White, dolls. 2 700 to cloth. 3000 per
arroba ; brown, dolls. 1. 800 to dolls 2.000 per arroba.
Hides-175 per lb. fur heavy ; end 195 to 200 for
li rat.
The frigate Inconstant, from the Pacific for Eng-
land, had put into Rio Janeiro. She has on board a
large freight, and was to proceed on her passage on
tae 14th of October.
It is stated that the express brings proposals for
a treaty of commerce made by the Brazilian Govern-
ment to that of Great Britain.
The following are the quotations of specie :
Pieces of dolls. 6.400 equal to dolls. 16 000 each ;
Spanish doubloons, doll.. 30800 to dolls. 31.000;
Spanish dollars, dolls. 2.000 ; patriot dollars, dolls.
1.930 to dulls. 1940; sovt-reigns, dolls 9.000.

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Exchange, ; Stock, Six ►per Cent., 85i to 86.
Freights ruled as follows :—English Channel. 503.;
Mtnburgh, 425. 6d. to 455. ; Mediterranean, 455. to
503.; United States, 75c. to 80c.
The Express left at Rio de Janeiro her Majesty's
ships Southampton and Harpy.