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MESSRS. NICOLL'S PREMISES AND
• SI STEM OF BUSINESS.
Messrs. NICOLL'S WARE-ROOMS in REGENT-STREET now
extend from No. 114 to 120 (inclusive), and in that part which is
pronounced to b • the most favoured spot of r.ow the first and most
fashionalsle street in Europe, and is, therefore, the best site for a
large and elegant magazine tor every article that conici within the
cataloy,ne of Gentlemanly Attire, for which one fixed and moderate
price is most properly charged. Here the numerous skilful and in-
telligent ass'stantx attend to such orders with which they may be
intrusted, and with an equal amount of respect and civility to all,
however small the purchase may be—indeed an inspection of the
beautiful fabrics exhibited in these Wareroame, is courted by the
above Iqrrn, without necessarily expecting the purchase of any
ardel,, with regard to whi7.ll the public have long since ascertained,
that to be really cheap, it should be really good.

NOVELTIES IN COSTUME.
--L.l 111, REGENT-TiTttr:ET, will, as heretofore, form the princi-
pal entrance to NICOLL'S PALETOT WAIIEROUMS and Ex-
hibition of all the Novelties (as well as all the established articles
of costsime) that capital can collect or skill can form ; and, besides
the NICOLL PALETOT or Patent Coat, there is the original
Invention,- the REGISTERED PALETOT (6 and .7 Vic., cap. 65),
and NICOLL'S MORNING COAT, all well-approved garments for
Spring and Summer Wear. 'the original moderate price of these
Garments is retained, viz., ONE and TWO GUINEAS, aotwith-
standing all the recent improvements, snaking them not only the
most gentlemanly, but also the most durable and inexpensive articles
of dress extant.

OR WEDDINGS, kc.-116, REGENI-
A: STREET. Here much iir4enuity of design may be witnessed
in embrol&red and other materials Intended for WAISTCOATS in
WEDDING, BALL, or MORNING WEAR. UNIFORMS are
also produced at fair prices, either for MILITARY, NAVAL, or
DIPLOMATIC purposes, its, REGENT-STREET, forms a Depart-
ment for rlches, and whether intended for the Peer, the Clergyman,
the• Barrister, or the Youth at College, they will severally show ex-
cellence combined with economy.

yOUT H.-120, REGENT-STREET.
PARENTS. and GUARDIANS are respectfully invited to
Inspect the cost of the several garments here submitted, and con.
sidered necessary for the Universities, Public and Private Schools,
&e. In this branch clever and efficient persons a-e employed by
Messrs. NICOLL, as in all other departments, the result being the
production of a more graceful and elegant appearance in Youths'
Clothing than has hitherto been approached ; while, at the same
time, their durability and general excellence will be as strongly
cluracterised as in NICOLL'S I'ALETOT.

CAUTION.—Many hare of late used the word " Paletot," but
11. J. and D. NICOLL are the sole Proprietors of both design and
material.

TIJE CITY.-22, CORNHILL, (opposite the
Royal Exchange,) is the addreTs of Messrs. NICOLL'S CITY
ESTABLISHMENT, where the PAL ETOT with materials and skill
•as in Regent-street are suhmitted for inspection and use, and at the
REAL in CHANGE-ALLEY is the SHIPPING BRANCH. The
Counting-house and \Vholsesale Department for the sale of Woollen
C'oths, &c., and for the supply of Messrs. NICOLL'S AGENTS
throughout the UNITED KINGDOM and the COLONIES is in
WARWICK-STREET, No. 41, where applications should be made
for the CONDITIONS with the PRIZE of 5001., is be GIVEN by
Messrs. NICOLL for the BEST SPECIMEN of CLOTH shown at
the GREAT EXHIBITION of the INDUSTRY of ALL NATIONS.
Warwick-street is immediately at the rear of tne Paletot Ware-
rooms, 114, 116, 118, and 120, Regent-street, London.

THE RACES.—KHOREE is a NEW IMPOR-
TATION by the Messrs. NICOLL, through their Agent In
INDIA. It is a Cloth exceedingly well adapted, whenlormed into
a PALETOT, for the races, the sea-side, or any place of public
amusement during the approaching warm weather. It has the pecu-
liarity of resisting,"or counteracting, in a most remarkable manner,
the intense heat of the con's rays, and is so light (weighing but six
ounces) that it can be conveniently WORN OVER ANOTHER
COAT, which it thus effectually preserves from dust; and as it oc-
cupies, when folded, no more space than a pocket-handerchief, it
may be concealed in the same manner when not wanted. It, more-
over, conveys a most gentlemanly appearance, is very durable, and
when soiled, becomes new again by the simple process of washing.
The price is but ONE GUINEA AND A HALF. The adavatien
of this article to the manufacture of .Paletots or Overcoats is PA-
TENTED by 11. d. and D. NICOLL, 111, 116, 116, 120, REGENT-
STREET, and 22, CORNHILL, LONDON.

EYEETIOWS MUSTACHIOS, and WHISKERS produced in a
few weeks, and Baldness removed and prevented, by the use of
GRIM STONE'S AROMATIC
REGENERATOR.

It you are in want of that beautiful-adornment of the human
figure, a natural supply of human hair, obtain through the post, or
of ally wholesale or retail chemist or druggist, or perfumer, an lls,
bottle of Grimstone's Aromatic Regenerator. This is an essential
spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers (grown at his Bar-
bary, Wiglignte), which has been long known to the nobility and
gentry, by whom it is highly appreciated for its manifold virtues, too
numerous to be set forth in an advertisement, but may be read in his
pamphlet, in which the bottles are adorned.

Each pamphlet has the signature of William Grimstone, Merchant,
Ilerbdry, Highgate, and will be found at page 11, uiVer the copy of
Mrs. Weekly's Letter to the Editor of the " Times" newspaper, 7th
of August, 1F,45,

Thin pamphlet is forwarded through the poet, en receiving two
postage stamps.

The Aromatic Regenerator can be forwarded through the post on
receiving a post-office order for 4s. 6d., 7s. Bd., or 12s„ which in-
cludes the postage with the case.
The Ils. size contains four of the 4s.
A few of its many virtues, as thousands can prove, are published.
In the pamphlet enclosed with each bottle.

reader, reflect for a few minutes, and if you are 40 years of age
you will remember the thousands of blind you meet with in your.
walks, ethers with ♦arious coloured eye-shades ; indeed, such was
the demand for eye-shades, that it was a business. What has re-
moved those sizlitless beings, and given place to a straightforward,
clear-sighted people (the climate is the same) ? I'll tell you the cause
—the universal use of Grimstone's Eye Snuff i And because it cured
Ophthalmia, Gutta Serena, Cataract, Nervous lleadach, and Deaf-
ness, the Lords of the Treasury directed it to be denominated a medi-
cine, and to be stamped. Although this advanced its charatter, 67
cases of cure being proved by the informers, still it was an act of
oppression ; as in 1825 the Solicitor of Stamps, Godfrey Sykes, Esq.,
altered the label, and sanctioned its sale under order of the Lords of
the Treasury; the letter of protection, signed by Herries, F.sq., to
hr. William Grimstone, bearing dice 18th February, 1525. This was
on account of its curative qualities, being sold at that time in cards-
tars, within the reach of every poor family. But under this order of
Government it is obliged to be stamped.
GRIMSTONE'S MEDICATED EYE SNUFF, sold In canisters,
inclosed in a
.panaphlet of medical and other testimonials, under the
Government order, at is. lid., 2s. Pd., and 4s. 6d. each. The
Pamphlets sold, at Id. each. If through the post, Is. Bd., 3s. 6d., and
ss. Bd., including postage, &c. The following letter is one out of the
many thousand proofs.

Plead the following Medical Testimony to the cure of five cases
of Gutta Serena, from G. 11. Houten, Professor of Galvanism:—
" SouthSeti, near Portsmouth, Hants, sth Nov., 1848.
" 3lx. W. GRIMSTONS.—Sir—I must in justice to you send the fol-
lowing Testimonial with regard to the extraordinary efficacy of your
Eye Snuff in rases of Gutta Serena. I have used it in five cases with
the most astonishing benefit and cure. Sir, you may advertise this ! !
or make what use you please. The cures have wholly astonished
me and thousands of others.-1 am, Sir, &c.,
G. 11. BOUTELL, Professor of Galvanism."
All letters to Mr. William Orimstone, Ilerbary, Highgate, near
London, at which establishment he continues to manufacture his
far-famed lIERB TOBACCO, so much esteemed in all foreign parts.
The following letter, in testimony of its delightful qualities, is from
the author-of " Pleasures of Home :"

. _
" Sp-,ingfield Cottage, Honiton, Devon, 15th August, 1848.
" Sir,-1 cannot deny myself the pleasure of stating how highly I
este:m TAIL* Herb Tobacco. I have now found In it a substitute for
the chol es leaf, hitherto obtained by me from a friend in Constanti-
nople. lam Sure that lovers of mild, fragrant Tobacco would find
yours a great and acceptable gift, at a very reasonable price.
" I am your obedient servant,
" STUART F.ARQUHARSON, D.C.L.
" To Mr. William Grimstone, Herbary, Highgate."
This extensively-famed Tobacco is sold by all chemists and drug-
gists, and others, with W. Grimstone's signature attaohed, at 714 d.,
Is. 1 2s. Od., and 4s. 6d. each, including the Government stamp.

DR. LA'ItIETZT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH
A NT) MATURITY.—WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON
STEEL.
Just pu'alished, and may be had in French or English, in a Sealed
Envelope, 2a. id., or post-free, tl'om the Author, for forty-two
Ata*.nes,
SIO,LF-PRESERVATION; a
Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on
the, Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity,
uaceilly acquired at an early period of life, which enerratc
'die physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural
feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical
Observations on the Treatment of Nervous DeWitt; and Indigestion,
wliether arising from these causes, close study, or the influence of
tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis,
Stricture, and all Macaw" and Derangements resulting from- Indis-
cretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the
Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Iteproductive Organs,
explaining their street-sacs, uses, and functions, and the various
injuries that are prodraed in thorn by solitary habits, excesses, end
infection. BT. SAMUEL I,A'AIERT, M.D.,
37, BraDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON.
alone. Matriculated Member of the 'University of Edin-
burgh, fLl'idee,,diittiata of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member
of the Le,ndon ilespitarMedical Society, &c.
This 7ork contains an •accurate and complete account of the
Anatoy.ey and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs. It un-
fee .snately happens that the unhappy victim of excessive indul-
Mace and vicious habits, while suffering from their invariable con-
sequences, unwisely entertains a fear of applying to a qualified physi-
cian for relief. Shame and the dread so frequently; bat erro-
neously entertained that these complaints are beyond the reach of
art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking for assistance where
alone it can be procured. Dr. LA'MERT has taken the highest
medical honours, as his diplomas testify, and the great extent of his
practice for many years is a guarantee for his professional experi-
ence, which has reference almost solely to the treatment of these
diseates.

Published by the Author, and may be had of Kent and Richards,
52, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Tichborne-
street, Haymarket; ida.tn, 39, Comhill ; Gordon, 146, Leaden-
lall-strect, London; free by post for forty-two stamps, from
the Author's Itesidence. 37. Itoettora-square London.

I) R. C ULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS.
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho,
147, Fleet -street ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or direct from the author ;
price One Shilling each) by post, Is. CI.

ENJonfiT OF LIFE.
"Health, Recreatio n,I and rational Use of Time."
CONTENTS:—EarIy Rising—Spring and Summer MorningE—Ex-
cursions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes,
Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places—Country
Trips and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evening, at Home
—Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air,
Rest, Ease, Occupation, &c., &c.

FRAHMENTS 'FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Twi Vols.
l I.
A VISIT TO THE LAKES SKETCH OF EDINBUrCiII, Ec%
THE LAKES OF Vol. 11.
KILLARNEY"; REMLNIECESTCES
DUBLIN, Sec.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID.
"That three score and tea our cour m rua. " A popular review of almostears every form (causese an t cure) of ner-
vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitutoa, that hawses
the young, besets the man of pleasure, business, cr study, and rm-
babas old age, with tables and rules for the diet sad physical r gu-
lation of every-day life.

Iv.
THE PASSIONS.
" What passions hurt the la ,dy—what improve,
Truths as refined as Athens ever beard."
SUBJECT : pilgrimage, fro n infancy to old ago. The advent
of the passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casualties of
licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative,
and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages.

THE MARRIAGE STATE.
" To be or not to b 3, that is the queition."
PROGRAM= :—Laws and ob igations of nature, a eciety, and re-
ligion regarding marriage, to b.t. observed by either sex. Time end
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and
figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and Its conversion.
Cases, &c.
By R. J, CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), (1827), L:S.A.
(1824), Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these
10 matters. Reception hours daily till dye. Evenings, aevei till Dille.
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FAMILY RESIDENCE, in compete repair, and containing
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water.

The premises are a short distance ;ram the Greenhithe Pler,
where bolts call to and .rom London frequently In the day, and only
ha!!:-a-mile front the Northfleet Station.

For terms, &c., apply to A. It. Steel, E3q., Solicitor, No. 1, Lin-
11m-fields.

PUBLICATIONS.

rrAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
21._ JUNE. No. CXCVIII. Published by Simpkin, Marshall,
and Co., Lo.idon. Price Is. Contents :-1. Causes of Crime in the
Metropolis.-2. history of Oakley-common.-3. There and Back
ag-Mii.--4. Royal Academy: May Exhibitions.-5. Phantasies of
Walpurgis Night. —6. Salmon Pishing.-7. Banking : the Scotch
System. in London; the Savings Batiks Bill.—S. .A. Pig Row in
Malta.

Price 2s. 6d. ; or by post, 33.,
THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
for JUNE.
Contents : The Wonders of Modern Lecomotion.—The Duke of
Monmouth. A Lfttc.,r front Dr. Anster.—Maurice Tienuty, the Sol-
dier of Fortune. Chap. IV.—" The Night of the Ninth Thermidor."
Chap. V.—The Choice of a Life.-On Government. By a Liberty
Boy.—Bialy Malowney's Taste of Love and Glory. —The Revolution-
ism of Mira' eau.—Sonnets on France. By B. B. Feltus. —Kilkenny
Private Theatricals.—Embassy to Japan.—An Afternoon with the
Italians. By Jonathan Freke S"ngsby. —A Night In am Bell Inn.—
Grote's History of Greece.—Love.—A Taste of French Theatricals.
Dublin: James M`Glashan, 21, D'Olicr-street.. Wm. S. Orr aad
Co., 2, Amen-corner, London. Sold by all Booksellers.

PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE.
Recently published, in 1 vol. Bvo.. price 18s. cloth boards,
ATREATISE on the Principles of Evidence
and Practice as t) Proofs in Courts of Common Law, with
Elementary Rules for Conducting the Examination and Cross-exa-
mination of 'Witnesses.
By W. 31. BEST, A.M., L.L.8., of Gray's Inn, Esquire,
Barrister-at-Law.
S. Sweet, 1, Chancery-lane, London.

THE LAWS RELATING TO THE CHURCH AND THE CI.EItGY.
This day is published, the Second Edition, price 1/. 6s. cloth bds.,
A.PRACTICAL TREATISE on the Law re-
kiting to the Church and the Clergy.
By HENRY WILLIAM CRIPPS, M.A., of Lincoln's Inn and the
Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law, and Fellow of New College,
Oxford.

VERITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, New-
! ,7 road, London.

The following aro the AGENTS for the SALE of MORISON'S
(the Hygeists') PILLS, the VEGETABLE UNIVERSAL MEDI-
CINE, in London and its vicinity:—
318, Strand (John Lofts, jun.) .......... The 113T:31st-office.
15, Quadrant, Regent-street.. • • ... • .... Mr. Field.
53, Cambridge-street, Edgware-road Mrs. Good.
1, Park-place, Mile End-road.. Mr. Lofts.
63, Oxford-5treet......... Dietrichsen and Han-
nay, perfumers.
20, New-road, St. George's-in-the-East Mr. J. Baines.
55, Watling-street • ....... • ........... Mrs. E. Dare.
133, Great Tower-street ••••..• • • • • • .... Mr. Baldwin.
132, Strand.... • .
8. Townsend-street, Old Kent-r0ad..... Mrs. Foulser.
123, TOttenham-court-r0ad.............Mr. Rayner.
Walhani Green • • Mrs. Marchant.
Brcntford (Post-office) Mr. Norbury.
Clapham ............. •••.•• • . • • • • Mr. Batten's Library.
53, Great Chart-street, East-road,lloaton Mr. J. Dinmore.
(*Mr. R. Johnstone, per-
-63, Cornhill. •••••. • • • • • ••"••• • " • • Rimer, &c.
83, High Holborn Mr. William Ballet. •
Deptford .... .
Staines ......... •. • • .
An Agent for the Medicine may be found in every town in the
kingdom, and all the principal cities throughout the world.

FRA MPTON'S PILL of HEALTH.
Price is. 134c1. per lysx.

This excellent Family Pill is a medicine of long-tried efficacy for
correcting, all disorders of the stomach and bowels, the common
vyrnptoms of which are costiveness, flatulency, spasms, loss of appe-
tite, sick headache, giddiness, sense of fulness after meals, dizziness
orthe eyes, drowsiness, and pains in the stomach and bowels,: indi-
geslion, producing a torpid state of the liver, and a consequent inac-
tivity of the bowels, causing a disorganisation of every function of
the frame, will, in this mest excellent preparation, by a little perse-
verawe, be effectually removed. Two or three doses will convince
the afflicted of its salutary effects. The stomach will speedily regain
its strength ; a healthy action of the liver, bowels, and kidneys will
rapidly take place ; and instead of listlessness, heat, pain, and jaun-
diced appearance, strength, activity, and renewed health will be the
quick result of taking this medicine, according to the erections ac-
companying each box.
As a pleasant, safe, easy apperient, they unite the recommenda-
tion or a mild operation with the most successful effect, and require
no re,traint of diet or cendnement during their use ; and for elderly
people they will be found to be the most comfortable medicine hi-
therto prepared.
Sold by T. Print, 229, Strand, London. Price Is. 1%11. and 2s. 9d.
Per box; also by the Vendors of Medicines generally throughout the
kingdom.
Ask fer FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the
acme and address of " Theaaas Front, 229 Strand, London," on the
ilovernment Stamo.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
HERALD.—Within the last century every state
Hy-
perboreaniabi,neoedmeeoifnflueßneteisdsibay—thhaes icienudresregoonfeopsionmioenc, haonf
in Europe—not even excepting barbarous and g
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nh :Is as,
haasduveadnecringgoneciivloilieshatainogne.
wßhuattevtehre. .
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changedCltouisrto
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o)lfe.carTdhineelshiisstonryot owfidtehl;pro-
dif-
ferent in 1850 from what it was in 1450, 1550, or
1688, when Innocent XI. set no pretensions so an-
noying and offensive to Louis XIY. This immobi-
lity and unchangeableness—this stand-still and stag-
nant system—is one of the greatest 'vices of ecclesias-
ticaloAm
es their
eo e t i pn reeed e et
oe s
bs oer. s hrlahvee t
rbaedei i-
egopvoeprensmeonftß.
s o t the
tions of the past are for the Popes and Cardinals,
and for the ropes and Cardinals only, the law of
the future. Open Muratori and Giannoni at any
page—read of the proceedings of Pope or Conclave
where you will, and the history is not very different
from that which is occurring under our own eyes
now-a-days. The Pio None of 1850 seeks to aggran-
dise and monopolise power—seeks to be an abaolute
Sovereign, bound by no laws—seeks as much to go-
vern according to his own will and pleasure as the
Most despotical and domineering of his predecessors.
Pius IX. ie before all and above all a Roman Church-
man, and whenever the privileges of his order or his
religion are concerned be will be as much of an In-
quisitor as Torquemada himself. Though the ordi-
nary judjees of the Pontiff may occasionally pay in
common, civil, or criminal cases, some slight deference
to Justinian or the Pandects, yet in anything con-
cerning the Papal prerogative or Government the
Pontiff's will is the supreme law. His decrees are
alone conclusive. He may alter or annul whatever
he pleases. He is bound to the observance of no
written laws, and he may supersede written laws by
his own supreme and absolute authority. His decrees
are absolute in the form of rescripts, which conclude
with a general supersessory clause, contrariis quibus-
cunque non obstantibus. No tribunal in Rome can ex-
amine or take cognisance of a matter which has
been the subject of a Papal rescript. In criminal
cases, the Pope can alter the punishment or pardon
the delinquent; and so absolute is the power of his
Holiness, that by a private billet to the Governor of
Rome, he may order an individual to be arrested and
sent to the gallies without mentioning the crime,
only saying in general terms, "causis nobis nous." A
sacerdotal Sovereign enjoying such an unlimited, such
a terrible power as this, is not very likely to show
any reverence for the customary law and comity of
nations, or to understand those diplomatic usages
which are practised by other states; it was, therefore,
without surprise that we learned of a flagrant viola-
tion of the respect which is due to the British flag
and arms in the Pontifical States. Within the last
twelve or fourteen days, the domicile of Signor Ercole,
the Secretary to the British Consulate at Rome, -was
invaded and forcibly entered by sbirri, in spite of the
most energetic remostrances of his wife and family. The
British Consul at Rome, as our readers are aware, is Mr.
John Freeborn, formerly, and we believe at present,
carrying on the business of a banker at Rome, and
who to our own knowledge has for more than
twenty years been domiciled in the • States of the
Church. Mr. Freeborn, during the last two years
or more has been placed in circumstances of very
great difficulty and responsibility, and we believe
all are agreed that in a trying time, and under very
peculiar circumstances, he exercised his unpaid
jurisdiction with very great humanity, at the risk of
his personal ease and comfort. Of Mr. Free-
born, in his official capacity, Signor Ercole was the
cancelliere, or first clerk. As such, on several oc-
casions during the absence of the Consul, he has acted
as pro-consul, and has been acknowledged by the
authorities. On one particular occasion he was re-
ceived by the Pontiff himself, so that it is the idlest
of all idle things to suppose that his character and
functions were not known. Indeed, during the late
disturbances, Signor Ercole caused the British arms
to be placed over his residence, and his diploma
as cancelliere to be hung up in his hall. On the 17th
of this month, however, notwithstanding these facts
—when Signor Ercole was absent from home—a
police agene, with four carabiniers, knocked at the
door, and, notwithstanding the protestation of the wife
and daughter, that the domicile violated was that of
the cancelliere of the British consulate, forcibly en-
tered, stating that they did so by order of the Papal
Government. The Capo sbirro and his officers re-
mained in the house all night, and at five in the morn-
ing the Judge Mariani, one of the Cardinal Vicar's
lieutenants, made his appearance with ten sbirri,
armed with bludgeons and pistols, and proceeded to
examine the premises. The drawers, presses, and
cupboards were all searched, but the myrmidons of his
Holiness not finding any Bibles manifested great disap-
pointment. Summoned to appear before the Cardinal
Vicar on the 18th, Signor Ercole declined to do so, as he
conceived this would be an acknowledgment of the
Vicar's jurisdiction. Oa the 19th Mr. Freeborn, who
had drawn up a statement of the facts, dispatched a
note to the Cardinal Secretary, requiring an expla-
nation, and inquiring whetber the conduct o
police was approved by the Papal Government 9 • To
this letter, however, no answer had been returned on
the 20th, the day of the latest letters from
with the
Rome.
Papal perquisitions did not, it appears, end with
British consulate. The premises of the English
Chapel Committee at Rome, as well as the house of
Signor Sartori, castode of he chapel and 'keeper of
pew-rents, were also searched, and some of his books
and papers confiscated. It appears that Mr. Petre,
the English Roman Catholic unauthorised diplomatic
agent at Rome, when applied to to interfere, declined on
the ground that Signor Sartori was a Roman subject,
though it is well known that he was residing, and that
the perquisitions were actually made, in the house of
Mr. flay, late Secretary for the Colonial Department,
some of whose books were confiscated. This is one of
the inconveniences of having Roman Catholic em-
ployes in states in which the religion is Roman Ca-
tholic. We have lately seen the conduct of Mr. More
°Terrell at Malta, and the conduct of Me. Pare at
Rome forms a worthy pendant to it. The reaJer will
have collected from our statement that the objet; of
these Papal perquisitions was merely to obtain Pro-
testant Bibles. With the free circulation of the Bible
the Papacy is an impossibility, and therefore the
Pope, his cardinals, and his sbirri are determined to
make the book a sealed book as long as they can.
But, notwithstanding all their efforts, truth is pene-
trating, and the day of darkness drawing to a close.
We do not deny the right of the Papal Govern-
ment or police to enter a consulate to obtain proofs
of a conspiracy, or to apprehend conspirators. But
it is new to us that Papal sbirri have the right
of violating a British functionary's domicile to seize
the book containing the Word of God. It may be
conceded that the Pontifical dogana has the right to
seize or to refuse entry to Protestant Bibles into
Rome as an article of commerce or of sale. But
widely different from this right is the violating domi-
cile to seize a book which every Englishman consi-
ders a part of himself and of his household. We
shall be curious to see the manner in which Viscount
Palmerston will take up this question.
We know
from St. Real how Louis XIV. avenged the indig-
nity offered to his Crown and nation by.lnnocent IX.
sending sbirri into the Palazzo Farnese, the residence
of the Duke d'Estrees, ambassador of France. Whe-
ther the author of the "New Whig Guide" will in-
dignantly send such an armed cortege to the Vatican
as was sent by the order of the Grand Monarque,
headed by Beaumanoir, Marquis de Lavardin, re-
mains to be proved. Beaumanoir was accompanied
by 400 gardes de la marine, all armed to the teeth.
But, though we may send no marines, we trust a
sharp missive may wend its way to Rome, anything
that the statutes of Prcemunire may say to the con-
trary. We can directly Communicate with Mr.
Petre and the Embassy at Florence, if we cannot
communicate directly, by law, with the Pope or his
Government.
CHRONICLE.—Lord Ashley has given notice
that he will this evening bring before the House of
Commons " the question of the total cessation of Sun-
day Labour in the Post-offices of the United King-
dom." We hope that he has well thought out this
somewhat difficult subject, both in its principles and
in its practical details, and that he is thoroughly pre-
pared to do justice to his own views respecting it.
For, although we suspect that the agitation which
has lately been going on with reference to this mat-
ter is to some extent factitious and " got up," there
can be no doubt that it is also, to a considerable de-
gree, the genuine expression of feelings that are en-
titled to sincere respect; and it is consequently very
desirable that it should find a judicious and effi-
cient Parliamentary, exponent—that it should lose
nothing for want of advocacy—and that it should
be met and defeated exclusively on its real
merits. We are the more solicitous on this point
because the object of Lerd Ashley's motion is other-
wise in extreme danger of being fatally damaged
by considerations altogether extrinsic to its actual
purport. The present movement for applying the
ultra-Sabbatarian principle to the organization of our
Post-office system had, it must be owned, a somewhat
1 nestionable commencement. There is no denying
lat it originated in a blunder, and that it has to a large
extent been sustained and fostered by misrepresenta-
tions, of which charity compels us to hope that they
were not wilful. It dtttes from the onowicement o:

those new Post-office regulations of last autumn
which were so erroneously and perversely described
as an attempt on the part of the Government to "in-
troduce" Sunday labour into that department of the
public service ; the fact being, in' the first place, that
it had been "introduces" long before, and in the
next, that both the intent and the result of the
changes recently made have been to effect a great
and permanent diminution in the official work
performed on the Sunday, at the expense of
an inconsiderable and temporary increase in.
the number of functionaries employed on that
day in St. Martin's-le-Grand. Confessedly, the
regulations in question hive worked most satisfae •
torily—completely negativing the apprehensions of
those who so hotly opposed them ; and it is but fair
to presume that, as the present agitation is, in point
of fact the offspring of a false alarm, we should never
have heard of it if its promoters were as clear-headed
as they doubtless are sincere. Still, we would not
lay undue stress on this circumstance, which is, after
all, foreign to the merits of the question. The pro-
posal of a " total cessation of Sunday labour in the
Post-offices of the United Kingdom,",is logically,
though not historically, entirely distinct from the
agitation against the recent arrangements for dimi-
nishing that description of labour; and we much prefer
discussing the principle of this motion to criticising the
mistakes of its advocates. The most obvious objection
that presents itself to this project is, that without some
ex!ensive change in our Post-office arrangements, it
will involve, practically speaking, not one " blank"
day 'in every week, but two—an extremely awk-
ward consequence which seems to have hitherto
attracted very little attention. As the existing re-
gulations respecting the observance of the Sunday in
the metropolitan Post-office deprive every country
town of a Saturday evening's dispatch and a Mon-
day'e morning delivery of London letters, the effect
of enforcing similar regulations on provincial offices
would, of course, be to deprive the Londoner of his
Saturday evening's dispatch and his Monday morn-
ing's delivery of country letters. There would thus
be two consecutive days in each week—or 104 days
out of the 365—during which the postal communica-
tions of every town would be completely stopped up.
As an example of the working of such a system—a
letter for London, posted in Manchester, Bristol, or
Hull, on the Friday afternoon, could not bring an
answer until the Monday evening following. Or, in
the case of towns having only one London mail in
the twenty-four hours, a Londoner, having urgent
occasion after post time on Friday to communicate
with a country correspondent, would not be able to
get his letter off before the evening of the ensuing
Monday. To propose this would simply be to pro-
pose that the whole business of the United Kingdom
shall be thrown into confusion ; and though we have
heard a good deal said in this controversy about some
"principle" which is to supersede all regard for what
is contemptuously called "expediency," we will ven-
ture to say that nine-tenths of the signers of Sabba-
tarian petitions really mean nothing of the sort, and
would stand aghast at such an application of their
doctrine. Either they have never seriously consi-
dered the obvious consequences of their own proposal,
or they contemplate some ingenious re-arrangement
of the mails by which this intolerable inconvenience
would be obviated. Such a scheme has, in fact, been
hinted at in various quarters, and perhaps we shall
this evening hear it fortnally, explained and advocated
by Lord Ashley. It is a favourite notion with some,
that the duty of abstaining from all secular pursuits
on the Sunday ought to be construed with that rigid
and narrow literality with which ordinary minds love
to interpret obligations which they feel to be disagree-
able.' Accordingly they would have the suspension
of Post-office labour to take effect for the precise
twenty-four hours intervening between midnight and
midnight—no more and no less. Mails are to be
made up (if we understand the plan rightly) the very
last thing on Saturday, and to be dispatched the
very first thing on Monday. In other words, Post-
office clerks, sorters, and other functionaries are
to work up to twelve o'clock on Saturday night,
and to be ready to begin again the moment the
clock strikes twelve on Sunday night. In this way,
it is imagined, all very serious mischief may be pre-
vented—as letters posted in London before midnight
on Saturday would reach their destination (say) in
Liverpool before the commencement of business hours
on Monday, and vice versa ; and thus the Sunday
might be made an absolute dies non throughout the
Post-offices of the United Kingdom, without any
further inconvenience than that loss of one day per
week to which habit has long since familiarized Lon-
doners. It strikes us, however, that this device is
more ingenious than satisfactory, even in a mere theo-
logical point of view. Passing over the practical
objections to such an arrangement which will at once
occur to practical men, on the grounds of increased
cost and compleiity, we content ourselves with re-
reality to the
very
form,
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marking that we should still be as far as ever from
anything like a genuine and earnest observance
of the Sunday. • A more complete sacrifice
of the spirit to the letter, and of the
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ques-
tion would be merely a device for taking two nights
out of the one period of twenty-four hours—a mode
of honouring the Day of Rest which savours much
more of pious fraud than of a rational Christian
piety. The truth is, as we have had occasion to re-
mark more than once already in this controversy, the
whole question of suspending the machinery of civil
and secular life on the Sunday is, and must be,
one not of dogma and abstract principle, but of
degree, circumstance, and compromise. It is
treated as such, practically and theoretically, by
the ultra Sabbatarians themselves. Even they
draw the line at " necessity" and " mercy"—words
which every man must interpret for himself according
to the best of his own judgment and conscience, and
which no two men will at all times construe exactly
" Principle" there neither is nor can be in
such
a
matter, if by " principle" you mean a rigid,
unbending
rule. The only principle really appli-
cablese is a sincere and habitual desire
religious, social, and moral bene-
fitotsroeafltiostehtehaell cu
the
weekly Christian festival by a judi-
cious and discriminating retrenchment of all labour
that can be dispensed with. This is the principle on
which society is, in this country, more and more dis-
posed to act ; and we earnestly trust that the whole-
some reform which is taking place in this respect
among all classes will not he checked by the reaction
which, as all experience shows, ensues on exagge-
rated and fantastic attempts to overstrain the lines of
religious and moral obligation.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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MALTA, MAY 22.—The last week has been singu-
larly barren of intelligence. On Saturday last her
Majesty's ships Vengeance and Howe were towed out
of harbour by the Terrible steam-frigate and sailed
on their route for England, the crews of the ships in
port cheering them as they left, and bidding them a
hearty " God speed," which was cordially responded
to by their homeward-bound friends. The men of
the 44th and 69th Regiments, who availed themselves
of the amalgamation of the reserve with the Ist bat-
talion, or were dismissed the service, went home in
the ships of the line.
The Terrible afterwards returned to port, and
towed into an offing the Tunisian brig-of-war Naser,
which arrived on the 12th instant with the unfortu-
nate Hungarian and Polish refugees, who were
wrecked off the Galabia bank on their passage to
Belgium.
Her Majesty's ship Superb, Captain Purcell,
reached port in safety on the 12th instant.
The Antelope steamer arrived on the 17th instant
from Palermo and Leghorn.
The Bosphorus screw-steamer left port on Mon-
day for London. She had on board Major Sir E.
Thomas, 69th, who has lately sent in his papers to
sell out.
The homeward India mail is expected to-morrow.
A few days ago, whilst carousing on shore, Wil-
liam Knight, a marine, belonging to her Majesty's
ship Powerful, was arrested on a charge of having
deserted seven years ago from the 44th Regiment.
Yesterday he was brought to a court-martial, Lieu-
tenant. Colonel Paxton, 69th, president, and found
guilty on most conclusive evidence. The sentence
has not been promulgated up to this moment,
post hour.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. The Odin steam-
frigate, 12, Captain the Hon. F. T. Pelham, arrived
at Spithead this morning from the Mediterranean,
and saluted the Commander-in-Chief, She sailed
from Athens May 1 ; Malta, Bth ; Algiers, 12th ;
Gibraltar, 17th; Tangiers, 17th r.m. ; and Lisbon,
25th. Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker's squadron
arrived at Malta on the 11th instant. The Dragon
steam-frigate, Captain Hall, arrived at Lisbon at the
same time as the Odin, bound also for England ; but
Commodore Martin detained her, to return to Gib-
raltar for provisions for his squadron of evolution.
The Odin brought 123 invalids and supernumeraries
from both squadrons, Lieutenant St. Jan, of the

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0 60th Rifles, invalided from India, and Lieutenant
Tyler, of the Scourge, passengers. She was inspected
this afternoon by the Commander-in-Chief, and will
come into harbour to-morrow to be paid off, all
standing, to join the steam reserve at this port.
An Admiralty order has arrived at Portsmouth to
have a butt constructed of old boiler-plates, of the
thickness and strength of the Simoom's side, on pur-
pose for the Excellent, gunnery-ship, to practice at,
to test the effect of shot end shell on the iron plates
and rivets. We, however, incline to think there will
be but little good or information derived from this
practice. A real vessel would be the. proper test ;
for we imagine that the opposite side of the ship from
'that fired at would be the worst injured. A half-
spent ball passing out would do a vast deal more in-
' jury to the iron plates than the side on which the shot
entered. Such a vessel as the iron brig Recruit, sold
out of the service fur a mere song, would have been
just the vessel to have experimented on. The Fire
Queen, a useless vessel, might be put to that use; but
her plates and sides are scarcely strong enough for
the purpose. However, the present trial, as ordered,
will be scarcely any test as to the effect of shot on
steam-vessels.—Herald.

The Blonde, old 42, is ordered to be fitted as a re-
ceiving hulk, similar to the Topaze, in this harbour.
The new steam-frigate Termagant, 24, bent sails
yesterday, and hoisted the pendant this morning for
her trial in the Channel. She will sail on Friday.