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OKE'S MAGISTERIAL SYNOPSIS. - THIRD EDITION.
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THE MAGISTERIAL SYNOPSIS: compris-
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YORK, NEWCA STLE, and BE Et WICK R AI L-
WA Y.—POWER to CONSTRUCT BRANCH to WEST
DURHAM RAILWAY, to USE a PORTION or the CLARENCE
RAILIVAY, to INCREASE CAPITAL and to HOLD SHARES in
the WEST DURHAM RAILWAY U 0 NEPANY.—REGULATIONS
as to CAPITAL of HARTLEPOOL DOCK and RAILWAY, and
GREAT NORTH of ENGLAND, CLARENCE, and lI.ARTLEPOOL
JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANIES.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that APPLICATION is intended
to be made to PARTIAMENT in the ensuing Se,sion for an sct to
alter, amend, extend, and enlarge, and to repeal some of the powers
and provisions of the several Acts relating to the York, Newcastle,
and Berwick Railway Company I.larely called the York and New-
castle Railway Company, and originally the Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction Railway Company), passed respectively in the sth,
Sth, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th years of the reign of
her present Majesty, and also of two several Acts relating to the
lately dissolved Railway Company called the Newcastle and Ber-
wick Railway Company, passed respectively in the 9th and 10th
years of the reign of her present Majesty, so far as the same are
yet unrepealed- and relate to the said York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick Railway Company ; and also of the several Acts relating
to the West Durham Railway Company, passed in the Sessions
of Parliament held respectively in the 2d and 3d and 4th and sth
years of the reign of her present Majesty ; and also of the several
Acts relating to the Great North of England, Clarence, and
Hartlepool Junction Railway Company, passed respectively in the Ist,
sth, 7th, 9th, and 12th years of the reign of her present Maiesty ;
and also of the several Acts relating to the Hartlepool-1)66k 'and
Railway Company passed respectively in the 2d and 4th years of
the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, and the 4th
and 12th years of the reign of her present Majesty ; and also of the
several Acts relating to the company of proprietors cf the Clarence
Railway, passed respectively in the 9th and 10th years of the reign
of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, in the 2d end 3d
years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, and
in the Ist and 7th years of the reign of her present Majesty; and to
vary and extinguish some of the rights, exemptions, privileges, and
restrictions with reference to the sale of lands by the said com-
panies, or any of them, or otherwise; granted, protected, preserved,
limited, or otherwise provided for by all, or some, or one of the said
Acts or of the other Acts of Parliament relating to or affecting all
or any of the said several above-mentioned Compank s, and to confer
other rights, exemptions, privileges, an .1 restrictions, and to enable
the said York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company to make
and maintain the Railway following, with proper works and conve-
niences connected therewith, and approaches thereto respectively, that
is to say: A Railway commencing by a junction with the West
Durham Railway at or near to a point marked B en the plans to Le
deposited as hereinafter mentioned on the east side of the road
leading from Byers-green to Bishop Auckland, near to the point
where the West Durham Rail Way crosses such road, in the township
of Byers-green and parish of St. Andrew Auckland, and terminating
by a junction with the main line of Railway be:onging to the York,
New cas.le, and Berwick Railway Company aforesaid, at or near to a
point marked A on the plans hereinafter referred to, in the town-
ship of Ferryhill and parish of Merrington, insthe county of Durham,
and near to where the Byers-green branch of the Clarence Railway

crosses the main line of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway
Company on the level, and also terminating by a junction with the
said main line of the said York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway, at
or near to a point marked D on the same plans, and near to the
bridge carrying the railway now or lately called " The Great North
of England, Clarence and Hartlepool Junction Railway," over the
said main line, all which said proposed railway wilt be situate in the
several parishes, townships, and extra parochial or other places of
Merrington, Ferryhill, Brancepeth, Tudhoe, Whitworth, Old Park, St.
Andrew Auckland, and Byers-green, or some of them, all in the said

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county of Durham, and it is also proposed to apply for powers in the
said intended Act to stop up, divert, or alter, whether temporarily or
permanently, al! such turnpike roads, parish roads, and other high-
ways, streams, canals, navigations, railways, and tramroads within
the said parishes, townships, and extra-parochial and other places
aforesaid, or some of them, as it may be necessary to stop up, divert,
or alter for the purposes of such proposed Railway and other Works.
; And it is also intended by the said Act so to be applied for to take powers
fur the purchase by compulsion or otherwise of lands and houses, far the
purposes of the said Intended Railway and Works, and to alter,
vary, or extinguish all existing rights and privileges connected with
such lauds and houses, or which would in any manner impede or
interfere with the construction, maintenance, and use of the said
proposed Railway and Works, and to confer other rights and privi-
leges, and also to levy tolls, rates, and duties for, or in respect of,
the use of the said intended Railway and Works, and to confer such
exemptions from the payment of such tolls, rates, and duties as may
be thought expedient; and it is also proposed by the said intended
Act to empower the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Com-
pany aforesaid to use the whole or any part or parts of that portion
of the railway belonging to the company of proprietors of the Cla-
rence Railway, commonly called " The! Byers-green Branch" (and
the works and conveniences connected therewith), which lies be-
tween the point where the same railway unites with, crosses, or in-
tersects the main lice of the railway, belonging to the said York,
Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company, in the township of
Ferryhill, and parish of Merrington, in the said county of Durham,
and terminates by a junction with the railway belonging to the
West Durham Railway Company aforesaid, in the parishes of Saint
1 Andrew Auckland and Whitworth, or one of them, in the said county
of Durham, or other the line or lines of railway belonging to or oc-
cupied by, the said company of proprietors which form or complete
the line of railway communication between the point and termi-
nus last aforesaid, and to enable the said York, Newcastle, and
Berwick Railway Company and the said Company of proprietors,
and any other Company or person in possession of or interested iu
the said portion of Railway under any lease or agreement, or other-
wise to make and enter into any deeds, leases, agreements, or other
instruments, as may be considered expedient or necessary, with
reference to the use and occupation of such portion of lie e or lines of
Rail way works and conveniences; and with reference to the laying
down of an additional Hee of rails on such portion or line or lines of
Railway ; and with reference to the payments to be made in respect
of such several arrangements, or any of them ; a• d it is proposed by
the said intended Act to take powers for the said York, Newcastle,
and Berwick Railway Company to raise money by the creation of
new shares (with or without any special advantages or privileges
assigned thereto), and by mortgage bond or otherwise, or by all or
any of those means ; and it is also proposed by the said intended
Act to empower the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Com-
pany aforesaid to purchase, take, and hold shares in the West
Durham Railway Company aforesaid, and legalise the pur-
chase of any shares therein which may at the time of the
passing of such intended Act have been purchased by the
York, Newcastle, and Benvick Railway Company or by any
Directors of that Company on behalf of the same Company
out of the funds or capital thereof. And it is further proposed by
the said intended Act to take powers for the consolidation into stock
of the share capital of the Hartlepool Dock and Railway Company,
and the Great North of England, Clarence, and Hartlepool Junc-
tion Railway Company, and also to enable the last-mentioned Com-
pany to raise a portion of the capital authorised to be raised by their
existing Acts, by the creation of shares or stock, with a preference
or priority in the payment of interest or dividend attached thereto;
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that maps,
plans, aid sections of the said intended new Railway and other
works, together with a book of reference to such plans, and a copy
of this Notice, as published in the " London and Edinburgh Ga-
zetteer," will, on or before the 30th day of November instant be de-
posited for public inspection with the Clerk of the Peace for the
county of Durham, at his office in the city of Durham, and that on
or before the same day, a copy of so much of the said plans and sec-
tions, with a book of reference thereto, as relates to each parish in
or throngs which the said intended new Railway and Works are
proposed to be made, and also a copy of this Notice, as published in
the " London and Edinburgh Gazettes" will be deposited with the
Parish Clerk of each such parish as his place of abode.
Dated this twelfth day of November, 1850.
RICHARDSON and GUTCH, and HENRY NEWTON,
Solicitors, York,

STORK,L NEWCASTLE, and BERWICK
RAILWAY.—ABANDONMENT of PART of BISHOP
AUCKLAND BRANCH, and SUBSTITUTION of NEW LINE,
EXTENSION of TIME for the PURCHASE of LANDS and COM-
PLETION of WOttICS, on the RAILWAYS AUTHORISED by
the YO:cli, NEWCASTLE, and BERWICK (MAIN LINE IM-
PROVEMENT) RAILWAY ACT, 1848, and AMENDMENT of
ACTS. _

NOTICE IS HEREBY. GIVEN, that APPLICATI IN is intended
to be ma le to PARLIAMENT in the ensuing Session, for an ACT
to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge, and to repeal some of the
powers and provisions of the several ACTS relating to the York,
Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company (lately called the York
and Newcastle Railway Company, and originally the Newcastle
and Darlington Junction Railway Company), passed respectively in
the fifth, sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth,
and fourteenth years of the, reign of her present 'Majesty, and
also of two several Aets relating to the lately dissolved Railway
Company, called the Newcastle and Berwick Railway Company,
passed respectively in the ninth and tenth years of the reign
of her present Majesty, so far as the same are yet un-
repealed, and relate to the said York, Newcastle, and Berwick
Railway Company. and to vary and extinguish some of the rights,
ex. mptioas, privileges, and restrictions, with reference to
the sale of lands by the Company. or otherwise, granted, protected,
preserved, limited, or otherwise provided for by all or some or one
of the said Acts, or of the other Acts of Parliament relating to or
affecting the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company
aforesaid, and to confer other rights, exemptions, privileges, and re-
strictions ; and to enable the said Company to abandon so much of
the Bishop Auckland Branch Railway, authorised by the Newcastle
and Darlington Junction (County of Durham Branches) Railway
Act, 184 d, and the York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Main Line Im-
provement) Railway Act, 1848, or one of such Acts, as lies between
the proposed point of junction of the said Branch Railway with the '
Bishop Auckland and Weardaic Railway, otherwise called the Wear
Valley Railway, in the parish of Saint Andrew Auckland and town-
ship of Bishop Auckland, otherwise Bondgate in Auckland, In the
county of Durham, and the point where the same Branch Railway

intersects a fence lying on the north side of a field in the township
of Newton Cap and parish of Saint Andrew Auckland aforesaid,
numbered 97 on the Plan of the said Branch Railway deposited
with the Clerk of the Peace for the said county of Durham, and re-
ferred to by the said last-mentioned Act. And in lieu of the
portion of Railway so to be abandoned, to enable the said York,
Newcastle, and Berwick Railway C..mpany to make and maintain the
Railway and Works following, with proper works and conveniences
connected therewith, that is to say, a Railway commencing at the
said point of Junction of the said portion of Railway Intended to be
abandoned with the said Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway,
otherwise the Wear Valley Railway, in the said parish of St. Andrew
Auckland and township of Bishop Auckland, otherwise Bondgate in
Auckland, in the said county of Durham (which point of junction is
and is therein marked A, but also in the maps or plans
shown not only by the maps or plans to be deposited as hereinafter
the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Durham, and re-
ferredidbt h);
" The Newcastle and Darlington Junction (county of
Durham Branches) Railway Act, 1846," aforesaid, and thence pass-
ing from, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships, and
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extra-parochial or other places following, or some of them, that is to
say, Saint Andrew Auckland, Bishop Auckland, otherwise Bondgate
in Auckland, Pollard's Lands, and Newton Cap, all in the said county
of Durham, and terminating at the said point where the said portion
of railway intended to be abandoned intersects the said fence on the
north side of the said field in the tea nship of Newton Cap and parish
of Saint Andrew Auckland aforesaid, numbered 97 on the Plan of the
said Branch Railway
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the
said county of Durham, and
referred to by " The York, Newcastle,
and Berwick . (311ln Line improvement) Railway Act, 1843," afore-

said.
And it is also proposed to apply for powers in the said intended
Act to stop up, divert, or alter, whether temporarily or permanently,
all such Turnpike Roads and other Highways, Streams, Canals, Na-
vigations, Railways, and Tramroads within the said parishes, town-
ships, and extra-parochial and other places aforesaid, or some of
them, as it may be necessary to stop up, d:vert, or alter for the pur-
poses of such proposed Railway en I other Works. And it is also
intended by the said Act to be applied for to take rowers for the pur-
chase by compulsion or otherwise of lands and houses for the pur-
poses of the said intended Railway and Works, and to alter, vary,
or extinguish all existing rights and privileges cAnicc'ed with
such lands and houses, or which would in any manner
impede or interfere with the construction, maintenance,
and use of the said proposed Railway and Works, end
to confer other r ghts and privileges; and also to levy toils,
rates, and duties for or in respect of the use of the said intended
Railway and Works, and to confer such exemptions front the pay-
ment of such tolls, rates, and duties as may be thought expedient.
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AND NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that on or
before the 30th day of November instant, maps, plans, and sections
of the proposed new line of railway, together with a book of refe-
rence to such plans, and a copy of this Notice, as published in the
" London and Edinburgh Gazettes," will be deposited with the Clerk
of the Peace for the county of Durham, at his office in Durham ;
and that on or before the said 30th day of November, a copy of the
said maps, plans, sections, book of reference, and Notice, will be de-
posited with the Parish Clerk of the said parish of St. Andrew Auck-
land, at his place of abode.

Dated thii 12th day of November, 1850.
RICHARDSON and GUTCI.I, i
1 Solicitors,
and HENRY NEWTON, York,

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS Of THIS DAY.
TINIES.—If it be the triumph of logical dexterity to
prove by premises apparently true conelthdons un-
doubtedly felse, his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman ought
to rank with the most adroit of the schoolmen. After
having elaborately argued for the nocestity, legality, and
expediency of the recent establishment of a Roman Ca-
tholic hierarchy in this kingdom, he has actually the
hardihood to attempt to prove that no such act has taken
olive,. That we may do him no injustice, we subjoin
the p to which we allude:
" In this document, and in many other similar ones,
including the Prernier'a letter, the Pope's acts are
spoken of as real, and taking effect. The Pope has as-
sumed a right; he has parcelled out the land, he has
named archbishops and bishops. It, according to the
oath taken by non-Catholics, the Pope not only ought
not to have, but really has not, power or jurisdiction,
spiritual or ecclesiastical, in these realms, it follows that,
according to them, the Pope's ecclesiastical acts with
regard to England are mere nullities, and are reputed to
have no existence. It is as though the Pope had not
spoken, and had not issued any document. To act
otherwise is to recognise an efficient act of power on his
part."
The syllogism which this passage involves seems to run
as follows :—That which a man has no power to do he
does not do. The Pope, according to the Oath of Su-
premacy, has no power to parcel out the land, &c. ;
therefore the Pope has not done it. Surely it ought not
to have escaped so acute a controversialist that the word
" power" is an ambiguous one, signifying, in the first
of these propositions, strength or ability ; and, in the
second, right or jurisdiction. The Pope has, undoubt-
edly, no right within these realms, but the number of
his spiritual subjects gives him power, and the very es-
sence of our complaint against him is that he has ex-
erted that unrighteous power to disturb our Church
and insult our Crown. It is very expedient, not
merely for the right determination of the present discus-
sion, but for the coercion of that population dwelling in
" ignorance, vice, depravity and " crime," who inhabit
the less favoured parts of Westminster and other large
cities of this island, to set this right; for it is melancholy
to think how easy it would be for a detested pickpocket to
apply to his use the logical weapons of the Cardinal,
and to argue that, since by law be had no "power"
wrongfully to deprive any one of his property,- it must
follow by necessary consequence that he had not done
so. In acknowledgment df the logical treat which Dr.
Wiseman has given us, wet will beg to propound to his
Eminence a dilemma in which we flatter ourselves he
will find no ambiguous terms to mislead him. If the
Pope's acts are null, why do you call yourself Cardinal
Archbishop of Westminster, and claim to govern as ordi-
nary the counties of Middlesex, Hertford, and Essex, and
those of Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Berks, and Hants, with
the islands annexed, as administrator with ordinary
jurisdiction? If the Pope's acts are valid, how are we
misled and deceived in repudiating them! But either the
Pope's acts are null or valid, therefore either you are
not Archbishop, or we are not deceived in objecting
to you. It seems to have escaped the penetration
of the Cardinal, that acts may be perfectly null and
void as against the parties sought to be prejudiced
by them; such, for instance, as acts of spoliation
or invasion of public or private rights—acts done
under assumed jurisdiction, and so forth; but that
these same acts may be perfectly valid as against the
party performing them, to subject him to punishment if
they be breaches of the law; to public indignation and
reprobation if, though within the letter of the law, they
be evasive of its spirit and prejudicial to the public wet.-
fare; and to contempt if they be merely gratuitous and
officious assumptions of power which nobody recognises
or regards. The alleged nullity of the Acts of the Pope
cannot, therefore, protect his Eminence when he chooses
to treat those nullities as valid from becoming fairly the
object either of the contempt or indignation of the
people of England. The Cardinal pleads earnestly for
contempt—like Mawworm in the Hypocrite, he " likes
to be despised," because ho well knows that out of this
nettle, contempt, he can pluck this flower, impunity.
With every wish to oblige him in so reasonable a de-
sire, and with a full sense of the strong claims which
he has to a favourable hearing, we are compelled most
reluctantly to express our conviction that the Car-
dinal is not so contemptible a person as his well-
known humility would lead him to represent himself,
and that he is not that absolute nullity in power which
he unquestionably is in right. If, indeed, all were
sound within our fortress we might well afford to smile
at foreign aggression, and consign the dignity of our
titular Archbishop to the care of the juvenile population
of that district in Westminster wherein he delights to
roam; but, alas! all is not well within; treason has been
active in our Church, and those who are powerless as an
independent force become truly formidable when con-
sidered as a nucleus round which may gather those ele-
ments of schism and disorder whose existence it is im-
possible to deny. We can count our open and avowed
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being relieved from the necessity of maintaining himself
on his own throne by the kind assistance of the French
garrison, has nothing to do but to devote himself to the
concerns of foreign countries, without the slightest re-
ference to the wants, the wishes, or the feelings of their
inhabitants. It was also hoped, and in the desperate
state of Ireland almost any experiment seemed fair,
that by recognizing the already existing Roman Catholic
hierarchy in that miserable country, its priests might be
weaned from perseverance in that heartless and hopeless
agitation which was daily draining the exhausted re-
sources and wasting the attenuated strength of the land.
It was hoped, too, that in exchange for the recognition of
their spiritual dignity, the Roman Catholic hierarchy
might be induced to give some assistance, or, at any rate,
to offer no obstruction to the attempts of the Govern-
ment to dispel that dense cloud of ignorance which the
flocks of these same bishops sect:l3 to have made their ele-
ment. How these reasonable expectations have been
answered is now; alas! a matter of history. The Pope
in his rescripts has openly denounced and proscribed the
Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and the
Synod of Thurles has afforded us a specimen of the ad.
vantages of a;regular Roman Catholic hierarchy by spurn-
ing the colleges which Parliament had founded and her
Majesty condescended to patronise. Could Pr. Wiseman
really suppose that the results of the recognition of the
Roman Catholic hierarchy in Ireland were looked
upon with so much complacency by statesmen
and people of England as to reconcile them
to the establishment of a similar body here ?
Does there exist in England one of._ the excep-
tional circumstances which seemed to justify this depar-
ture from principle in Ireland? Is the majority of our
population Catholic? Is the Established Church in this
s
kingdom the faith of a small minority? Ithe social
and political state of this country so wretched that we
are forced to seek the only means of its amelioration at
the hands of intriguing priests and reckless agitators?
of influence
Is our English Government so totally devoid
over our people that it is forced to seek for assistance
from any source, however baneful? If these things are
not so, the case of Ireland may be deplored by some as
a departure from principle,—way be justified by others
as a timely concession to an inevitable necessity,—may
be denounced by the enthusiast, approved by the poli-
tician, and palliated by the philosopher,—but can in no
respect fetter the discretion or control the will of the
people of England.
DAILY NE WS.—There are three religions in Eng-
land. There is that of the Protestants, that of the Ca-
tholics, and that of the inumenere. Of the national faith
it is not our purpose to speak, neither are we concerned
just now with the distinctive dogmas or practices of
Rome. Our business is with those dissemblers who
have already wrought so much of mischief in the land;
and who at this moment aro busy with now schemes of
double-dealing and deception. A mummer is defined
by our standard etymologists to be one who in a mask
and personated dress performs solemn absurdities; and
the grave follies thus enacted are called " mummeries."
Realities, whether of temporahor spiritual import, can
never be classed with these. Gorgeous ceremonies,
allegoric pomp, and all the various forms in which
national feelings, social ideas, or religious beliefs seek
for expres-ioni—all these are genuine, full of mean-
ing, instinct with the actual spirit of the time. It i,
their counterfeit that is the cheat; the parade of
their costumer, and mimicry of their utterances, that
alone deserve the name of " mummeries." So long
as the people of England believe in the mystic rites
and awful sanctions of Catholicity, the pageantry of Ca-
tholic worship was a reality, and no sham. We have
lung since learned to disbelieve in its exclusive and
mysterious way of salvation. Our fathers, just three
centuries ago, protested against the authority of Rome,
and disavowed their belief in all those doctrines that
rested on that authority. What they retained was com-
paratively shople, and needed not the illustration of em-

blazoned forms. Therefore they discarded, and we con-
tinue to disuse them. They seemed to us the outward
symbols of grave errors; but so long as the errors are
sincerely cherished by any section of the community,
we may regret, but we do not treat with levity, these
observances. The case is very different when, without
the faith in Rome, her offices are parodied, her vestments
borrowed, and the very tone of her voice mimicked by
men who have the pay of Protestantism in their pockets.
We war not with opinion in matters of religion, but we
war with fraud; we object to " mummeries," to the his-
tri mic representation io the house of God, of that which
neither the actors nor the audience prof.ss to believe.
It was this which Lord John Russell obviously in-
tended to rebuke in the latter part of hie celebrated
letter to the Bishop of Durham; and which he charac-
terised by a phrase the most English and the most ex-
pressive that he could have chosen for that purp)se. It
was the masquing and make-believe imhations of the
Catholic rituel that the Premier meant to brand as
" mummeries." And this palpable distinction has been
so universally appreciated, that the whole of the contro-
versy between Cardinal Wiseman and his opponents has
been conducted without reference to a subject in which
the adherents of the Pope feel that they have no con-
cern. No English Catholic, with the single exception of
that sensible gentleman, Mr. Philip Howard, M.P. for
Carlisle, has taken the contumelious epithet as applicable
to the rites and ceremonies of Rome. Even our sensi-
tive neighbours on the western aide of the Channel,
though little in love with the Whigs for their anti-papal
policy, do not seem to have even suspected Lord John
of intending to ridicule their mode of worship. They have
their own causes of complaint, but this is not one of
them. The Celts are either Catholics or Protestants,
but there is hardly a Puseyite to be found amongst
them. Puseyism is looked upon by both creeds there
as a mere time-serving evasion—a barren hybrid—a
shuffling, shabby, sophistical effort at compromise
wherein no earnest spirit can find lasting peace. A new
dodgejs now on foot. True to themselves the Puseyites
have agreed to play a double part. Their bishops are
ready to go with the tide of Protestant feeling; while
their politicians affect sympathy with their atholic
brethren. Their places and perquisites are to be kept
by puffing out the candles, and walking with unbent
knees up the aisle; while party recruits for election
purposes are to be enlisted by loud and vehement de-
nunciations of the anti-Catholic Whigs. The most im-
pudent part of the hoax consists in affecting to think
that " mummeries" in the Prime Minister's letter was
aimed at the Catholics—not at them. Their
solitary organ has been perseveringly giving
forth this as the true interpretation of the
notable phrase. It is hoped thereby to attain a
double end—to divert indignation from their own
apeings and antics, until the national wrath shall have
died away, and to catch adherents amongst thoae who
are offended at the resistance shown to the nomination
of bishops in England by a foreign prince. For
Puseyism has from the outset been quite as much of a
political as a religious movement. Its leaders in Parlia-
ment are the foremost allies and advocates of absolu-
tism. The only apologists of Haynau were found among
their ranks; and even the desperate cause of Montomolin
finds in them defenders. We speak not of the Tory
party generally, many of whom, to do them justice,
abhor and are not ashamed to express their detestation
of continental despotism; and whose hearty zeal for the
Queen's supremacy rests on no base adulation of royalty,
but in the truly Protestant conviction that it is better
that the Church should be ruled over by the chief of the
laity than by the chief of the clergy. The men of
" mummeries' in the Church are men of sliding scales
and slippery opinions in the senate. The poet's spirit
must have prophetically seen as from afar what now is
passing daily before our eyes, when he exclaimed—
" Behold the isle, by palmers, pilgrims trod,
Men bearded, bald, cowl'd, uncowrd, shod, unshod;
Peet'd, patch'd, and piebald, linsey-woolsey brothers,
Grave mummers!"
'Tis certain that the author of the " Dunciad" did not
mean to ridicule read Romanists. Who, then, could he
have intended if not the trimmers of our time, whose
ambition is to lead by dint of peculiar dexterity, and
whose fate is to ruin by their faithlessness and folly all
who put their trust in them, in Church or State. The
day is past when any set of men, or clique, or sect, can
win their way to power in this country by a double-faced
policy. All the chicane of learned equivoque and all
the profundity of esoteric meaning is nothing worth,
compared with the faculty of impressing men with the
conviction of straightforwardness, coo age, and sincerity

EXHIBITION 0 P THE WORKS OF
_INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS, 1851.

The following are the decisions of her Majesty's
commissioners with respect to the rejection and se •
lection of articles by local committees :
" 1. The local committees of the United Kingdom,
have been made folly aware that the commissioners de-
cided at a very early period that each local committee
would have the function of determining the principles on
which the selection of articles for transmission to Lon-
don would be wade ; and of certifying their approval of
the articles sent for exhibition before they could be re-
ceived for examination by the commissioners iu the
building.
"2. The commissioners have decided further that
they will not interfere with the discretion of the local
committees in their allotment of space to individual
exhibitors.

" 3. The commisaioners have now to announce that
the whole of the demands for floor or counter mica in
the building which the local committees of the United
Kingdom have returned exceed 417,000 superficial feet.
These demands exceed the amount of available space
for the United Kingdom by about 210,000 superficial
feet. The amount of wall space demanded is only
200,000 superficial feet, which is very much below that
available.

"4. The number of persons proposing to exhibit is
upwards of 8,200.

_ .
" 5. The commissioners have proceeded to adjust the
proportions of fhor or counter space which it appeared
desirable to them that the four sections of the Exhibi-

tion should occupy in the building. The amount of wall
space yet available being very large, a considerable pro-
portion can be applied in favour of those exhibitors who
are able to substitute vertical for floor or counter space
in respect of articles which otherwise could not be re-
ceived for want of room. The local committees are re-
quested to make this known, and to apply for this addi-
tional space whenever they consider the articles worthy
of admission. The term • wall' not only includes vertical
or hanging space, but also affords the means for the
erection of upright cases.

E.space
apportionedo
Lapn , oan t hdea obtained
r a gre
each
bs fu
dividingn a
section be l b
by
thyt
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number
ut wamlhboelre
amount
of
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hibitors in that section, the commissioners, as a general
rule, have allotted to each local committee an amount of
space in each section, in proportion to the number of ex-
hibitors which have been returned by each committee.
" 7. Tho commissioners are desirous that each local
committee in allotting space to the individual exhibitors
should, as far as possible, maintain the proportions of the
four sections allotted to it, so that in the ultimate ar-
rangement of the whole Exhibition the space which each
section may occupy should agree as closely as may be
with the spaces fixed by the commissioners.
" 8. As in many cases the amount of space demanded
by a local committee has been inevitably reduced, and as
it is essential in every case that only those articles
which do honour to our industrial skill as a nation should
be admitted, it becomes indispensable that some selec-
tion should be made, and it is most necessary that this
should be done in such manner as to represent the in-
dustry of the district with perfect fairness and do the
fullest credit to its industrial position.
" 9. The local committees will perceive that it would
be quite impossible on the part of the commissioners to
send a sufficient number of persons possessed of technical
knowledge to decide on the merits of the varied articles
of the manufacturing districts. The commissioners
therefore rely on the local committees for the proper
distribution of the aggregate space allotted to them.
The local committees will readily understand from deci-
sions 103,t0107,* that the commissioners recognize merit
in whatever form it may present itself, and that they
are prepared to look for it in the cheapest fabric, if
distinguished as being superior in its class, as in the
highest forms of artistic excellence. The success of the
Exhibition, and the appreciation of our industrial pro-
ducts by the world, will to a great extent depend upon
the manner in which the committees distribute the space
allotted to them. Articles possessing none of the pecu-
liar merits already indicated would be detrimental to
this manifestation of industrial skill. In the hands of
the local committees, therefere, the commissioners leave
with perfect confidence the credit of their respective
distriets.

" [O. The commissioners have caused copies of each
application for space to be prepared, which are herewith
transmitted to the respective local committees for re-
vision and correction where necessary. The local com-
mittees will proceed to give the allotments of space, and
to examine the applications with great
deliberation.
Should the local committees feel authorised in allocating
apace to articles which either aro not yet completed or
which they have not personally examined, they will do
so only with a full confidence in the character and ma-
nufacturing skill of the intended producer, and with the
entire conviction that the article when fiuisheil will be
peculiarly worthy of exhibition. The commissioners
rely that all inquiries will
.have been duly made, and
that the local committees will bo fully satisfied before
they give their vouchers for the admission of the arti-
cles ; these vouchers will be considered as tantamount
to their unqualified approbation of the articles, and will
entitle the articles to admission to the building. Should
the committee desire to call in the aid of competent
persons not being members, they are of course at li-
berty to do so.
" 11. Although the commissioners have made definite
allotments of space to the local committees, it will still
rest absolutely v.i,h the discretion of each to determine
whether they will admit the pros( nt applicants; and
whether they will reduce or increase the space demanded
by each applicant. In no case must a local committee
increase the amount of the total allotted to it by the
commissioners. The local committees have full power,
without any further application to the commissioners,
should they be dissatisfied on further investigation with
the character or excellence of the works already returned
by them to the commissioners, to apportion any part cf

the space allotted to them to other exhibitors than those
who may have sent in demands before the 31st October.
" 12. In order to provide for the proper reception of
articles in the building as soon as they shall arrive, it is
obviously necessary that the places for large groups
of articles shall be fixed before they are admitted;
and so far as is consistent with this necessity, it has
been the desire of the commissioners to give the
utmost latitude of time to enable the local committees
to make due inquiries into the fitness of articles fer
exhibition; and the commissioners have therefore ap-
pointed so late a day as the 10th of Dcember as the
last on which vouchers can pos,il4 be received; so that
there will be an interval of some time during which it
will be in the power of the local committees to whom
space is allotted to consider the best distribution of it in
every way. At the same time, as soon as a local com-
mittee has positively filled up or cancelled any applica-
tion for space, the commissioners request that it may be
immediately returned to them, and nut delayed until the
10th of December.

" 13. The commissioners do not propose in any case
to inquire into any differences of opinion, should any
arise, respecting the amount of space which the local
committees may allot to individual exhibitors; and the
commissioners only propose to exercise the powers of
rejection and selection which they have reserved to them-
selves to the extent of seeing that no articles contrary to
the decisions have been inadvertently passed by any
local committee. At the same time, if any productions
shall have been rejected by any local committee, and the
proprietor of them shall desire to appeal against the de-
cision, it will be competent for him to address the com-
missioners through the local committee, who will forward
the appeal, with their own observations, to the commis-
sioners; and the commissioners, upon coasideration of
the circumstances, will then decide whether the rejected
articles may be examined under an appeal, at the ex-
pense of the appellant.
" 14. With the view cf providing against the exhibi-
tion of duplicate articles of manufacture, the commis-
sioners, in cases where duplicates may have been ad-
mitted by different local committees, will call upon the
exhibitors of such duplicates to produce a certificate
from the actual makers, stating which of the exhibitors
has arranged with the maker to be proprietor of the ab-
solute and exclusive right of sale and distribution of
such article, and the preference of admission will be
given to that exhibitor who is the sole proprietor. Per-
haps the local committees may think it advisable to
adopt a similar regulation. The local committees will
doubtless be sensible of the importance of taking care
not to admit either unnecessary duplicates of any
machine or article, or machines or articles having only
very unimportant differences, especially when such ar-
ticles are large.

" M. bIGBY WYATT, Secretary to the Executive
Committee,
" 1, Old Palace-yard, London, Nov. 20, 1850."

Note.--These are as follows:
" 103. In the department of Raw Materials and Pro-
duce, for instance, prizes will be awarded upon a con-
sideration of the value and importance of the article and
the superior excellence of the particular specimens ex-
hibited; and in the case of prepared materials, coming
under this head of the Exhibition, the juries will take
into account the novelty and importance of the prepared
product, and the superior skill and ingenuity manifested
in the process of preparation.
" 104. In the department of Machinery, the prizes
will be given with reference to novelty in the invention,
superiority in the execution, increased efficiency, or in-
creased economy in the use of the article exhibited. The
importance, in a social or other point of view, of the
purposes to which the article is to be applied, will also
be taken into consideration, as will also the amount of
the difficulties overcome in bringing the invention to
perfection. _

"105. In the department of Manufactures, those arti-
cles will be rewarded which fulfil in the highest degree
the conditions specified in the sectional list—viz., in-
creased usefulness, such as permanency in dyes, im-
proved forms and arrangements in articles of utility,
&e.; superior quality, or superior skill in workmanship;
new use of known materials; use of new materials; new
eombinations of materials, as in metals and pottery;
beauty of design in form or colour, or both, with refer-
ence to utility; cheapness, relatively to excellence of
production.

" 106. In the department of sculpture, models, and
the plastic art, the rewards will have reference to the
beauty and originality of the specimens exhibited, to
improvements in the processes of production, to the ap-
plication of art to manufactures, and in the case of mo-
dels to the interest attaching to the subject they repre-
sent.

" 107. These general indications are sufficient to show
that it is the wish of the commissioners, as far as pos.
sible to reward all articles in any department of the Ex-
hibition which may appear to competent judges to pos-
sess any decided superiority, of whatever nature that su-
periority may be. It is the intention of the commis-
sioners to reward excellence in whatever form it is pre-
sented, and not to give inducement to the distinctions of
a merely individual competition. Although the commis-
sioners have determined on having three medals of dif-
ferent sizes and designs, they do not propose to instruct
the juries to award them as first, second, or third in de-
gree for the same class of subjects. They do not wish
to trammel the juries by any precise limitation; but they
consider that the juries will rather view the three kinds
of medals as a means of appreciating and distinguishing
the respective characters of the subjects to be rewarded,
and not of making distinctive marks in the same c'ais of
articles exhibited. They fully recognise that excellence
in production is not only to be looked for in high.priced
goods, in which much cost of labour and skill has been
employed, but they encourage the exhibition of low-
priced fabrics, when combining quality with lowness of
price or with novelty of production. They can readily
conceive that juries will be justified in giving the same
class medal to the cheapest calico print, made for the
Brazilian or other South American market, as they would
to the finest piece of mousseline de sole or mousseline de
laine, if each possessed excellence of its own kind."

ATTEMPTED MURDER of a POLICEMAN
NEAR BRENTWOOD.
During the whole of Friday and Saturday consider-
able excitement has prevailed in the vicinity of the quiet
village of Billericay, in consequence of information re-
ceived by the police that Robert Bamborough, constable
136, of the Essex county constabulary, had been mur-
dered by a man named James Wood, a native of the
locality, who had, on Wednesday last, been convicted of
night poaching before Mr. J. Spitty and another of the
Eskex magistrates, and sentenced summarily by them to
three months' imprisonment. From particulars ob-
tained on Saturday morning in the neighbourhood of the
outrage, it appears that the prisoner Wood, after com-
mital, was handed over to constable Bamborough to con-
vey him to Brentwood and place him in the custody of
Mr. Superintendant Colson, who was to convey him to
Chelmsford gaol.

•
Bamborough proceeded with his prisoner on the road
towards Brentwood, when the prisoner, not a mile from
Billericay, and near to a roadside pond, wrested himself
away from the constable, and, dashing away his hand-
cuffs, beat the officer most unmercifully. He then
rushed upon the constable, and pushed him headlong
into the pond, at the same time jumping upom him, and
filling his mouth with mnd. The prisoner then ran
away, leaving the policeman, as he no doubt considered,
to breathe his last, Providentially however, just at
that moment a boy came up and dragged the poor fellow
out of the pond, so that his life was saved. He was
shortly afterwards taken home, and very promptly at-
tended by Dr. Carter, of Billericay. He was on Satur-
day declared to be out of danger, though seriously in•
jured. The ruffian who thus attacked him escaped, it is
supposed, to Tilbury, when it is thought he has crossed
to Gravesend.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 23.
Sioc EicomtriGlL—The share market was very firm
x
to-day. The transactions were as follow : Chester and
9%—Great Northern, 1414—Lancashire and
Holyhead, Preference, guaranteed 5 per cent., 12)6—East
'Consolidated, 49—Ditto, 201. F Shares, 114 dis.—
Londond North- Western, 119 c.—Ditto, New Quarters
2Yonrksepah.s—hiriaerMn'e p.—Midland, 42—Ditto, Halves, 22 dis.—Shrewsbury
and Chester, New 13/. le. 3d. Shares 6--South.Eastern and
Dover, 20 LA—Waterford and Limerick, 5%.
BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 23.
STOCK EXCRANGL—As usual on Saturdays, the share
market was flat to-day. The only transactions reported
were—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 6Adis. —Ditto (13),
5% dis.
YORK, Nov. 22.
STOCK EXCHANOZ. The transactions to-day were as
follow :—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Newcastle Exten-
sion), 1214—York and North Midland, 2316.

THE RISEN COLLIERY EarLosios..— The inquest
on the bodies of John Strickland and Thomas Edmonds, who
were killed by the explosion in the Black Vein Colliery at
Risen, on the 15th inst., has just terminated, after one ad-
journment. A good, many witnesses were examined, from
whose evidence it appeared that the deceased were working
together in the shaft in which the explosion took place with
a lamp between them. It transpired, also, that the men
sometimes work in the colliery with naked candles when
they think there is no danger of foul air. The mine was
proved to be in good working condition on the day before the
explosion, and the only evidence tending to throw a light on
the cause of the explosion was that of Mr. E Robotham, who
deposed that there had been a sudden change in the tempe-
rature of the air on the night before the explosion, and that
he had noticed that such circumstances had an effect on the
fire-damp. The jury having retired for half an hour returned
a verdict of " Accidental death, caused from suffocation from
the after-damp."

ALARMING EXPLOSION OF GAS.—Two PERSONS
INJURED.--On Saturday evening, shortly before five o'clock,
the immediate vicinity of Fore-street, Cripplegate, was ex-
cited owing to a loud explosion on the premises of Mr. Peake,
a boct-maker. It appeared that Mr. Peaks had recently had
a new chandelier fitted up in his front 4 drawing.room, and
on the servant ascending the stairs she experienced a strong
smell of gas. Having informed her master, he hastened up
to ascertain the cause, and incautiously took a light with
him, which caused the gas to explode, shattering the win-
dows to atoms. Mr. Peake was enveloped in dame, and
burned on the hands and bead. The servant was prostrated
by the shock, and so much injured that she was necessarily
taken to the hospital.
CONSULAR APPOINTMENT.—Mr. Louis Fraser has
been appointed her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Wyhdah, in the
1414 of Denis, on the western coast of Africa.