The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-09 00:00:00

NO. 181137.] LONDON/ SATURDAY .
' NOVEMBER 9 1850.
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SWANSCOMBE, KENT.
TO be LET, in this beautiful Tillage, a desirable
FAMILY RESIDENCE, in complete repair, and containing
breakfast, dining, and drawing-rooms, five bed-rooms, excellent
offices, two-stall stable and coach-house, kitchen-garden, large pad-
dock and well•stocked erchard ; a good supply of excellent spring
water.

The premises are a short distance from the Greenhithe Pier,
where bo,is call to and from London frequently in the day, and only
halr-a-mile from the Northflect Station.
For terms, &c.. apply to A. lt. Steel, Esq., No. 1, Lincoln's Inn-
fields ; or to Mr. Frederick Goodeve, Ingress ,thbey.

H E GENERAL LIFE AND
FIRE ASSURANCE COMPAN

Established 1837.
Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament.
62, Kinz William-street, London.
And 21, St. David-street, Edinburgh.
Capital, One Million.
DIRECTORS.
alias. Hine;ley, E.4q., 31 P.
Thomas riper, Esq.
Thos. B. Simpson, Esq.
lion. C. P. Villiers, M.P.
John Wilks, Esq.
Edward Wilson, Esq.

George rionsfiehl, Esq.
Th-s. Challis, Esq,. Alderman,
Jacob Geo. Cope, Esq.
John Dixon, Esq.
Joseph Fletcher, Exq.
Richard llolllcr, Esq.

AUDITORS.

Joseph Dawson, Esq ,
William Hunter, jun., Esq.,
George Meek, Esq.
Secretary—Thornas Price, LL.D.
Actuary—David Oughtou, Esq.
Solicitor—Stephen Walters, Esq. . _ . . ..

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Annual Premiums for the Assurance of 1001., payable at death.

30 I 35 I

X s. d. £ s. d. I £ s. d.
1 1 16 3 I 2 1 5 1 2 7 8

40 I 45

X, s. d. £ s. 1.
I 2 15 7 3 6 0

In the LIFE DEPARTMENT,

1. Assurances are effected on participating and non-participating
tables, on ascending and descending scales, for short periods,
and by policies payable at the ages of 65, 60, 55, or 50, or previously
in the event of death. .

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2. Premiums may be paid annually, half-yearly, or quarterly, in a
limited number of payments, in one sum, or on increasing or decreas-
ing scales.
3. Policies on the participating scale immediately interested in
the profits of the Company.
4. The age of the assured admitted, on satisfactory evidence being
presented.
5 Policies assigned as security not forfeited by duelling, suicide,
or the execution of judicial sentences.

CATHOLIC LAW AND GENERAL LIFE
LJ ASSURANCE COMPANY,
8, NEW COVENTRY-STREET, LEICESTER-SQUARE, LONDON.
The FOUNT a ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINe= of the Proprie-
tors of this Company took place on the 25th instant, at the head
Office, at One o'clock precisely. The following is extracted from the
report, which is too lengthy for publication :
During the past year no claims have arisen from deaths in Englanf;.
and but two in Ireland—one for 500/. and the other for 2001.—making
together 'TOOL which have been paid. This is far below the expected
mortality, and is especially favourable, when it is re- nembered how
severely the life offices generally suffered from the epidemic of last

year.
The number of lives assured between the Ist of June, 1:49, and
the 31st of tlay, 1850, was more than double the number issued in
the twelve months preceding.
Proposals were made for 138 Policies, amounting to 52,963/. 2s. 6d.:
of these 123, comprising 106 lives, were accepted for 45,1251. Gs.
Sixteen Policies lapsed, representing 6,0481., upon 'which 3201. 39.
was received by the Company in the shape of premiums.
Since the commencement of the Company to the lot of June last,
assurances were effected to the extent of 110,9721. 12s 6d., pro-
ducing in annual premiums 3,732/. Ifs. 6d. Of these 54 lapsed,
amounting to 23,990/. 16s. Gd., of which the annual premiums were
7411. Is., leaving the yearly income on the Ist of Jane last equal to
2,991/. 15s. I Id.
Since last meeting loans were applied for to the extent of 17,7001.,
but 1,183/. Ils. 10d. only was advanced.
The Directors were also highly gratified to report that within the
last four months they had considerably extended. their business on
the Continent, having appointed, as Head Agent in France, Monsieur
de FEtang,, a gentleman of high standing in Paris, distinguished for
his integrity and ability in financial and in all assurance matters,
who, under the sanction and patronage of the Archbishop of Paris,
the Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons, and Monseigneur Parisis, Eveque
de Langres, has already within the last three months effected a con.
siderable amount of business, not only iu.Life Assurances, but in An-
nuities both Immediate and Deferred.
After various resolutions, approving of the Report, and returning
thanks to the Right Reverend Chairman, Bishop Morris, the Vice-
Chairman, Actuary, Secretary, and Medical Officers of the establish-
ment, the meeting separated, highly gratified at its present results
and future prospects.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY.
1` o. 11, LONIBARD-S.TREET, London.
DIRECTORS.
JOHN' MARTIN, Esq., M.P., Chairman.
THOMSON HANKEY, jun., Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
henry Hulse Berens, Esq. George Lyall, Esq.
John Dixon, Esc Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
4ir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. James Morris, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq.
John G. Hubbard, Esq. Theory R. Reynolds, jun., Esq.
ileorge Johnstone, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq.
Juba Loch, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq.
AUDITORS.
1. W. Robarts, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq. John henry Smith, Esq.
ACTUARY—Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par-
liament, recently obtained, this Company now offers to future in-
surers a low Rate of premium without participation in Profits; or a
moderate scale of premiums with four-fifths of the Profits to be de-
rived from all Assurances hereafter effected.
The divisions of Profits which heretofore have been wade Septen-
nially will in future be made Quinquennially, the first of such divi-
sions to be declared in June 1855, when all participatim: policies
which shall have subsisted at least one year at Chrlstmas 1814, will
be allowed to share in the profits.
At the several past divisions of profits made by this Company, 'he
reversionary Bonuses added to the policies from one half thikpronts
amounted, on an average of the different aces, to about 1 pe cent.
per annum on the sums insured, and the total bonuses added to the
four santennial divisions exceeded 770,000/.
LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro-
vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have
attained in each case a value not under 50/.
In the FIRE DEPARTMENT, a Return of profit was declared
.11 the sth of June, upon the premiums received on all Policies
which had been in force seven years at Christmas 1849, and the same
snow in course of payment daily (Friday and Saturday excepted),
i!etween the hours of ten and three o'clock, at the Road Office; and
also by the Agents in the Country Districts.
GEORGE KEYS, Secretary.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
. Lecture on the Ballad Music of England, by Mr. George Bar-
ker, with illustrations from the most popular Composers every Even-
ing (except Saturday) at Eight o'clock.—Lecture on the Hydro-
Electric Machine, by Dr. Bachhoffner.—Lecture on Chemistry by J.
H. Pepper, Esq., illustrating the Ancient Fiery Ordeal and the Dant-
ling of Red Hot Metals. —Model of Weston's Patent Nova-Motive
Railway, at work daily.—Dissolving Views illustrating some of the
Wonders of Nature, daily at Half-past Four, and in the Evenings
at a Quarter to Ten; also a Series, exhibiting Scenes in the Arctic
Regions and Ceylon, daily at One e'clock.—Diver and Diving-bell,
&c., &c.

Admission, I s.—Schools, Half-price.
Open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock, and every Evening (ex-
cept Saturday) from Seven till Half•past Ten.

GRAND SALON DE D ANSE,
ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY, STRAND.
OPEN FOIL TIIE SEASON.
Lessee—fir. Thomas Bartlett Simpson, Albion Tavern, Great
Russell.street, Covent-garden

Mr. SIMPSON, anxious to have the best Band in London, has re-
tained the valuable talent of tit, leading Artists engaged during the
past season at Cremorne Gardens, including the following eminent
Performers from her Majesty's Theatre, the Royal Italian Opera,
and the Philharmonic Concerts :
First Violins—Hayward, Cohen, Bue's, H. T. Seabrook, Van Hed-
deghem.
Second Violins—Pelerin, T. Jackson, Edwards, C. Griesbach.
Tenors—Sapinski, J. Jackson.
Violoncellos—Quinton, W. F. Reed.
Contra Basses—G. Taylor, W. Trantor, Guy, Stubgen.
Flauto—J. Saynor.
Piccolo—Meyer.
Flageolet—J. Tyler.
Oboe—J Schott.
Clarinetti —Park, G. Tyler.
Bassoon—Montara.
Cornets.a-Pistons—Humfreess, Cottrell.
Horns— W. F. Youngman, W. Youngman.
Trombont —Webster, Guiraud.
Ophicleide—Mosca.
Bass Drum—Harrison.
Side Drum—Seymour.
VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT.
Comprising Selections from the most celebrated Composers, and
Solos by first-rate Artists.
Overture, " Zanetta" .. • • .. Auber.
Solo (Flute) Mr. Saynor .. .. Saynor.
Songs by Miss Empel.
Solo (Violencello) Mr. Reed.
Selection from LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR .• Donizetti.
Comic Songs by R. Glindon.
Selection from LA SONNAMBULA Bellini.
Conducted by BORINI.
To the votaries of Terpsichore remarks on the excellence of
Borini's Band, after the experience of its Orchestral Triumphs at
Cremorne, would be superfluous.
Solos and Concerted Pieces will be performed during the evening.
Borini's Latest Compositions—The Adelaide Polka, Waltzes to
various popular Irish Melodies, Galop d'lndustrie, New Quadrille of
all Nations.
The Grand Salon, Refreshment, and Ante-rooms have undergone
considerable alterations and improvements.
Doors open at Half-past Seven o'clock. Admission One Shilling.

E. CULVERWELL'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. 6d.
ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
"Health, Recreation. and rational Use of Time."

CONTENTS :—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex-
cursions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills
Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places—Country
Trips and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evening.. at Home
—Made—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air,
Best, Ease, Occupation, ikc., &c.

FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two Vols.
I.

A VISIT TO THE LAKES
Vol.
oSIICAEIT. CH:OF EDINBURGH, &c.

THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY ; REMINISCENCES OF
DUBLIN, &c.

WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID.
"That three seore years and ten our course may ran."
A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses
the yonng, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em-
bitters old age, with tables and rules for the diet and physical regu-
lation of every-day life.
Iv.
THE PASSION S.
" What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Truths as refined as Athens ever heard."
SUBJECT : -Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent
ofthe passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casualties onarrativ of
licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic,,
and remediative. Advocacy of edrly marriages.
V.
THE MARRIAGE STATE.
" To be or not to be, that is the question."
PuocEAMIKE:—Lows and obligations of nature, society, and re-
ligion regarding. marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
choice, on both sides, as to ago, temperament, complexion, and
figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the Fat of rearing them.
Twenty-five
(450
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
O ases,
By R. J. C 241. ITLVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1817), L.S.A.
4rcw*.ll-vixen. Recent-street.
years Medical and Forensic Referee In these
R.enetion hours detly till five. V.lventrics. seven till nine.
10

" POPPING THE QUESTION" TOO IJATE.-011
Wednesday a man appeared before the Barnsley magistrates
to show cause why he should not pay 265. arrears for an
illegitimate child. After stating several reasons for his not
paying, and finding them of no avail, as a last resource he
said to the girl, " Will to be married ?" She said, " No, ah
shan't" This popping the question, and the answer caused
much laughter in the court, in which the bench joined.—
.Bradford Observer.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE•

It is reported on good authority that, i❑ conse-
quence of Captain Price, Superintendent of Sheerness
Dockyard, hi, the death of Admiral Bouverie,
attained his flag rank al Rear-Admiral of the Blue,
Captain Milne, of the Admiralty, goes to Sheerness;
and that Captain Sir James Stirling, late of the Howe,
succeeds Captain Milne at the Admiralty.

.A.RIIIvAL or THE SPY FROM THE COAST OF AFRICA.
—The Spy britrittine, Lieut.-Commander Ci,:orge.
Weston, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning
from the coast of Africa, last from Sierra Leon-,
which she left the s:h of October, being a tolerable
passage of 34 days. She lift the Centaur steam-
frigate, Commodore Fanshawe, C. 8., ,%11 well off Cape
St. Bras, on the south coast, on the 33 of September
—touched at St. Helena, and 1,..fc that island on the
18th, a few hours after the Cambrian ; left Ascension
on the 25th. The islands and squadron were per-
fectly healthy. At Ascension the Tortoise guard-
ship, and Snap tender were lying ' • and at Sierra
Leone the Hound brig, Commander F. Patten, and
Flamer steam-vessel, Commander St. Leger, which
had just arrived on the coast. The Waterwitch will
be the next vessel home, she is now on her passage;
and the Cyclops steam-frigate, Captain the Hon. G.
F. Hastings, will follow the Waterwitch.
The Spy has been out upwards of two years ; she
has been healthy, but not fortunate in the prize way,
having only taken three empty vessels.
The Spy is the vessel that had the affair with the
Espadon, French steamer, which we understand oc-
curred under the following circumstances :—The Spy
was standing into the coast near Loanga„ and per-
ceived a steamer at anchor off a noted place for slaves ;
it was in the evening, and when the Spy got near
her it was nearly dark, and the Espadon was getting
under weigh for the purpose, it was supposed on board
the Spy, of escaping, and that she was a slaver. The
Espadon did not see the Spy, and was merely pro-
ceeding down the coast when the Spy fired her shell
gun over her ; the Espadon returned the shot, and
three or four guns were fired from each vessel before
the mistake was discovered ; fortunately no one was
hurt ; but the Spy had her foretopsail sheet cut away,
and no less than 13 grape shot through her fore
stay-sail. The French vessel had only some rope aloft
cut away Lieutenant-Commander Western, after
the business was over, went on board the French
vessel, and a mutual explanation was perfectly satis-
factory to both parties. The Spy proceeded yesterday
evening to Chathern, to pay off.
THE ROYAL NAVAL FEMALE SCHOOL AND THE
ASSISTANT SURGEONS.—In our advertising columns
of this day there is an announcement from the com-
mittee of the Royal Naval Female School that the
daughters of assistant surgeons of wardroom rank are
eligible to avail themselves of the advantages of the
institution. We congratulate the medical profession
of the service that, amongst other advantages derived,
not the least valuable is the privilege secured to as-
sistant surgeons of having their daughters educated in
such an establishment, and we are glad to find the
committee of this excellent institution have taken the
earliest opportunity of practically carrying into effect
the recent regulation of the Admiralty.—Herald.
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE PILOT.—Mr. Woodhead
has given notice to Captain Lyons that the account
sales of the bounties arising from the capture and de-
struction of pirates in the China seas by the Pilot,
when under his command, between May 13 and June
26, 1849, and now received, will be registered in the
High Court of Admiralty on or after the 15th inst.
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE SEALARK.—IIaIIett, Ro-
binson, and Co., have given notice that an account is
about to be exhibited in the registry of the High
Court of Admiralty, showing the amount of bounties
and sale proceeds received for the Orihte, a Brazilian
vessel fitted for slaves, captured by the Sealark, July
30, 1849.
Rear-Admiral Moresby, C. 8.. in the Portland, 50,
Captain Chads; remained in Plymouth Sound on
Thursday, detained by foul wind—freshening into a
gale—from proceeding en route to the Pacific, to take
command of that station.
Captain Lord G. Paulet commissioned the Belle-
rophon, 78, in Barnpool, Devonport, on Thursday
morning. It is said she will convey the 30th to Corfu
when ready.
The commissioning the Britomart, 8, Commander
A. E. Wilmot, is delayed at Devonport, in conse-
quence of her defective state, until fresh instructions
from the Admiralty.
Cambrian, 40, Commodore Piumridge, will not be
paid off at Devonport before Tuesday next, as her
stores will not be ready to return before that day.
Calliope, 26, at Devonport, is to be commissioned,
fo relieve he Havannah, 19, Captain Erskine, at New
Zealand.

Fairy royal yacht-tender, and Elfin royal dis-
patch-vessel, will both go into the steam-basin, Ports-
mouth, to-day.
The crew of the Hogue, 56, screw guard-ship;
Captain Macdougall, are overhauling her rigging
her main topmast is stripped.
Fantome, 12, at Port,mouth, will be commissioned
there in a few days, to relieve the Fly, 14, Commander
Oliver, on the New Zealand station.
Pandora, 6, is to be commissioned at Devonport ;
when ready, to proceed to New Zealand to continue
the surveying service, relieving the Acheron steam-
vessel, Captain J. L. Stokes.
Sprightly steam-tender, Master-Commander Allen,
returned to Portsmouth yesterday evening, having
taken five or six supernumeraries down, and brought
none back. The Hecate is to bring up the seamen
and marines from Plymouth from the Cambrian, when-
paid off.
Styx returned to Plymouth, from Portsmouth, yes-
terday. Lieut. Piers, who has been at Portsmouth
fir some time entering men for the Albion, has been
ordered to join his ship, and takes a passage to Ply-
mouth in the Styx.
Retribution steam-frigate, Captain Warden, came
out of dock to-day, and will go out of the steam-basin
to-morrow. When ready it is supposed she will join
the Lisbon squadron.
By a decree of the President of the Republic,
founded on a report of the Minister of Marine, it has
been decided that the maps and plans for the navy shall
not in future be kept merely in Paris, but shall be
distributed amongst such places where they may be of
most utility to the service.
WOOLWICH, Nov. B.—The Pluto steam-vessel
Lieutenant-Commander Jolliffe, is not to be paid off
until after the trial of her first engineer, at present
under arrest. The charges that are to be preferred
against him have not transpired.
The Buzzard steam-vessel left Woolwich shortly
after two o'clock to-day, and when her compasses are
adjusted to-morrow at Greenhithe, by Captain John-
son, she will proceed to Devonport, and remain there
ready for service.
CHATHAM, Nov. B.—Tbe Rattlesnake, 8 guns,
Lieutenant Yule, acting commander, is dismantled of
her masts and rigging, and her guns are returned to
the Ordnance. This vessel, which is one of the old
class frigates, 28 guns, has a complement, all hands,
of 170 men; she will be paid off to-morrow.
The Penelope, R. Pottinger master, arrived oppo-
site the dockyard, with a valuable cargo of timber for
this yard from Quebec.
NEW 16-GUN SLOOPS FOR THE NAVY WITH SCREW
PROPELLERS.—We are glad to hear that the Admi-
ralty have determined to build no more 16-gun brigs
or sloops, as mere sailing-vessels. All small-class
ships are in future to have auxiliary screw-propellers.
Their Lordships have ordered two sloops, to be named
the Cruiser and Hornet, old-established naval names,
to be laid down at Deptford Dockyard on the plans
submitted by the Surveyor of the Navy. They are
each to have an armament of 16 guns, with a heavy
pivot•gun fitted to each ship forward, and are to have
auxiliary propelling screw machinery of 60-horse
power each.— United Service Gazette.
THE LAST OF SOME OLD SHIPS.—The old ships
Galatea frigate (Sir C. Napier's old command),
lately used as a depot at Jamaica; and the Royal Oak,
lately used as a depot at Bermuda, having been
broken up, their names are in consequence ordered to
be removed from the Navy List.—United Service
Gazette.

SHIP NEWS.
IMPORTANT TO MARINERS.
Glasgow, Nov. 7,

Captain Henderson, of the Chaucer, arrived here from
the Mauritius, reports that on the 27th of October, at
noon, in lat. 42 deg. 41 min. N., long. 28 deg. 45 min. 30
Sec. W., the sea being much agitated and the water dis-
coloured, at two o'clock P.M. tried the soundings, and
got bottom at forty-eielt fathoms. The ship having
gone eight miles N. by W., at four o'clock P.M. sounded,
and found gronnd at fifty fathoms, hard, rocky bottom,
in, by sights taken, lat. 43 deg. 49 min. N., long. 29 deg.
4 min. 15 sec. W. This rocky bank must extend from
the southward, as the water was observed to be dis-
coloured at ten o'clock A.M., and appeared as if a current
was setting over it. Captain Henderson states there can
be no doubt as to the existence o the bank, as the
chronometer was quite accurate, by sights taken off the
Llaud of Fey al.

QUARANTINE NOTICE.
Gibraltar, Nov. 1.
All yowls from Malta and Marseilles are now ad-
mitted to free pratique, provided they be furnished with
clean bills of health, and have health cn board.

EXTRACT FROM A LETTER DATED ST. PETERSEURGII
OCT. 29, 1850, 5.30 P.M.
" The Queen's messenger has arrived here from Cron.

s'edt. He arrived this morning at Cronstadt by boat
from LubEck; passage very bad. Saw the French
steamer arrive while crossing four versts below Oranion-
baum; saw four steamers coming up, one saluted the
ports, therefore a ship of war. It is const quently con-
cluded that the other three were the Duke of Cornwall,
the Neptune. and the EinFeror's yacht. Wind S., be-
coming mild; it barely freers.

TRIELCKE AND BUSK,
"Lloyd's Agents.

WHITE:HAVEN, Nov. 7.—The Shamrock schooner, of
and from Peel, iu trying to make the harlyelr orore
past, and w,,nt ashore behind the pier; slKuld the
weather mcderare she nr..y be got off.
GIBE:ALTAR, Nov. I.—The Torch, of London, Chexmo
to llawburgh, went on shore near Torre Molina (near
Malaga), Oet. 29, and is full of water. The Ellen, of
Guernsey, Malaga to London, which was on shore on
the Spanish side of the bay, Oct. 24, has been assisted
off after lightening, is now at anchor in the bay and
ready to proceed, having reloaded. The Daniel, Trieste
to Queenstown, which put in here Oct. 8, with damage
to rudder, has repaired, and is ready to proceed.
QUEBEC, OCT. 19.—The Lady Young brigantine ar-
rived here from Sydney, C 8., is laden with articles from
the Viceroy; she has also on board one man from the
Rosalinda and one from the Douglas.
CRONSTADT, OCT. 27.—There is no communication
with the opposite shores. There is a considerable quan-
tity of ice in the Gulf extending beyond the westernmost
bmtery, and much floating in the Channel. The ice in
the Mole is so thick as to make the communication very
difficult. A slight rise in the water has enabled some
of the lighters which were aground on the bar to get
off; but it is reported that there are still about ten
left aground.
WISBY, OCT. 27.—The Carl Eduard, of Dantzic, St.
Petersburgh to Riga, has got on shore near Ahr, on the
north side of Gothland, but it is expected to get afloat
again. The Louise Caroline, St. Petersburgh to Stock-
holm, got on shore on the east side of Gothland, near
Anga, in the night of 26th October, filled, and has be-
come a wreck, the masts have been cut away; crew and
materials saved. The Fadreneslander, of and for Aland,
from Lubeck, was driven on shore and wrecked near
Farosund 21st ult. The Robert, of Ystad, loading at
Lenno, was driven on shore in the night of the 24th
instant, but is expected to be got off.

John Rowbotham, silk manufacturer, Sutton, Chester,
Nov. 22, and Dec. 13, at twelve, at tho ManeheAter Dis-
trict Court. Mackenz.ie, official assignee, Manchester;
Norris, Macclesfield.

Robert Garton, shoemaker, Kingston-upon-Hull, Nov.
20 and flee. 18, at half-past tvicive, at the Leeds District
Court, Kingston-upon-Hull. Carrick, official assignee,
null; Sidebottom, Hull.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
R. Copland, Union-street, Whiteeliapel, linendr:ior•r,
Nov. 29, at el«•ven—C. Porter, Braintree, gruc••r. Nov.
29, at half. part eleven—W. Walford,
IVir,ch•L~~Fr-
street, City, trerehant, Nov. 29. at eleven—R. Salkelti,
Newman-street, Oxford-street, picture•dealer. Nov. 29,
at half-past eleven—J. Ring ay.d J. F. King. Wells row,
Islington, carpenters, Nov. 20, at eleven—W. Holmes,
Friday-street, Cheapside, silk QRUZ) manufacturer, Nov.
29, at eleven—A. G. W. Biddulph, J. Wright H. Ro-
binson, and E. W. Jerningham, Henrietta street, Co-
vent-garden, bankers, Dec. 3, at twelve—ll. Pee-, Lud-
gate hill and Newgate-street, printer and stationer, Nov.
29, at cne—A. Prior and W. Prior, Tonbridge•place,
New-road, ironmongers, Dec. 3, at two—G. Bauckham
and Sarah Bauckham. Gravesend and Barking, boat
builders, Nov. 29, at two—J. Nokes, New Ormond-
street, St. George the Martyr, builder, Dec. 2, at one—
T. Smurwaite, Scarborough, Yorkshire, wine and spirit
merchant, Dee. 2, at two.
In the Country.
J. Walford, Stamford, Lincolnshire, innkeeper and
victualler, Nov. 29, at ten, at the Court, Nottingham—
C. Pretty, Leicester, tea dealer, Dec. 6, at twelve, at the
Court, Nottingham—W. Lucan, Preston, Lancashire,
innkeeper and victualler, Dec. 2, at twelve, at the Court,
Manchester—T. T. Cooke, Manchester, Lancashire, bill
vender, Dec. 2, at twelve, at the Court. Manchester
T. Bamford, Little Town, Rochdale, Lancashire, woollen
manufacturer and farmer, Dec. 2, at twelve, at the Court,
Manchester—R. Knight, Lancaster, tea dealer, Dec. 10,
at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—H. Clarke and R.
Tod, Liverpool, merchants, Nov. 29, at eleven, at the
Court, Liverpool—W. Briddon, Bootle, Liverpool, Lan-
cashire, chemist and charcoal manufacturer, Nov. 29, at
eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Robinson, Ripon,
Yorkshire, surgeon and apothecary, Nov. 29, at eleven,
at the Court, Leeds—J. Eastwood, Farnley Tyas, York-
shire, manufacturer, Nov. 29, at eleven, at the Court,
Leeds.

THE DISSENTERS AND THE
PAPACY.

The Rev. T. Binney, of the Weigh-house Chapel,
Fish•street-hill, after his sermon last Sunday morn-
ing, made some allusion to the recent aggression of the
Pope dom.
After the Rev. Preacher had finished the discourse,
he proceeded to say that he wished to make a few
remarks on a subject that was causing a great deal of
excitement and uneasiness at the present time—the
recent extraordinary conduct cf the Pope. Toe
ful-
lowing is an outline of his address:—
, A late poet informs us that "be awoke one morn-
ing and found himself famous." The celebrity came
upon him like a surprise ! Within the last few days
all England seems to have been suffering from a
sudden surprise of this sort. We lay down last Sun-
day night, and dreamt, as usual, that we were Pro-
testants' living in a Protestant country; we awoke
on Monday morning and found ourselves the inhabit-
ants of " Catholic England !" On the preceding day
statements bad been made, and documents read, in
Popish places of worship, from which it appeared
that our land and nation were restored to Rome—
were reconciled and re-united to the Holy Father ;
and that he, in the plenitude of his supreme and
comprehensive paternity, regarded us all as his chil-
dren and his charge!
You are aware of the excitement this has occa-
sioned. The public prints are filled with allusions to
it. We have had clerical addresses and episcopal re-
plies; public meetings, in some places already held,
in others about to be held. It is natural to ask, what
is it that has really been done ? Ought it, or ought
it not, to occasion the alarm it has produced ? How
should we, as Dissenters, look at, and feel about it ?

I cannot pretend to have a full and definite opinion
respecting a matter which, as yet, is so new ; I am
willing, however, to give you, as my flock, the be-
nefit, such as it is, that may lie in your knowing how,
on the first blush of the thing, it shapes itself to my
mind.

The Pope has created an Archbishop of West-
minster, and a Bishop of Birmingham ; and be has
divided the whole of England into so many dioceses ;
and bishops of Liverpool, Salford, &c., are to be
created to preside over them. This is what has been
done—with the additional circumstance that the Arch-
bishop of Westminster is also a cardinal—he has
received the highest dignity which it is in the power
of his Holiness to confer. The question is, what is
there in this to excite fear or to provoke indignation ?
At first sight, and viewed simply as a spiritual or
ecclesiastical arrangement, it might seem as if there
were nothing very serious in it. Other communions
have their ecclesiastical districts, or may have them.
Why may not the Romanists have theirs ? Nay,
have they not had such districts for a long time,
with bishops and priests presiding over them ?
What is it, then, that makes the new arrangement so
serious ?

Three things at least would seem to stand out in
reply to this question.
1. A new spiritual claim. Previous to the recent
act of the Papacy the Romanists, it is admitted, had
their bishops and districts ; but the whole arrange-
ment contemplated themselves alone. The bishops
took their titles from places in other lands—old, ex•
tinct sees ; they had not, properly speaking, any
territorial relation to England, but only a spiritual
relation to a certain portion of the people. Dr.
Wiseman, for instance, was Bishop of Melipotamus
—to that diocese, wherever it is, he would be re-
garded at Rome as having a territorial relation, and
an episcopal relation to all its inhabitants, if there are
any. In England, however, he was only on a spiri-
tual mission to the members of his own Church, and
pretended to no ecclesiastical relation to any one else.
But now that the Popish bishops take the names of
the towns and cities of England, and England itself
is parcelled out by the Pope into actual dioceses to
which he appoints, there is in this new arrangement
(whatever may be said to the contrary) an implied
claim to spiritual interest in Englishmen as such—an
interest not springing merely from their benevolence
for the salvation of schismatics (which we are quite
willing his Holiness should feel), but one arising out
of a territorial relation to the British soil, and a con-
sequent ecclesiastical relation to the British people ;
and this we do not choose that his Holiness, or any
whom he appoints, shall participate or pretend to.
There is, then, in the new Papal arrangement a new
spiritual claim set up.
2. There is a new ecclesiastical claim, involving an
illegality. This arises out of the connexion of Church
and State in this country, and the laws that regulate
that connexion, and are intended to preserve it from
foreign inroads. Now, it is very true that we, as
Dissenters, may think the union of Church and State
a great error—that political establishments of religion
are useless or pernicious—that all religions and reli-
gious bodies should be left to themselves--and that
the State should be confined to its own purely secular
province. Still, in looking at the present conduct of
the Papacy, in order to judge of its acts and deeds as
done by it, the question is not what we think, but
what Rome thinks—what she is and does—not what
may appear common to her and ourselves, but what is
common to her and England. Now, the Pope is both
Church and State in himself; Church and State are
connected in all Catholic countries. Whatever Pa-
pists may say about spiritual independence, and
against political legislation in religion, they do not
mean what we mean when we speak on these matters;
they have no objection to Church and State coming
to a good understanding if the latter will give its
gifts to, and make its laws for, the former, on their
terms, or as they may prescribe. For the Pope,
therefore, to set at nought the legal ecclesiastical
constitution of a country is a very different thing
from what that would be in a small andipurely spiri-
tual sect—it indicates an aim and purpose, it betrays
an animus, and is a sign of something beneath, which
ought not, I think, to be regarded with indifference.
The laws of this country forbid any ecclesiastic
taking the title cf bishop of any English diocese, and
they reserve to the Sovereign, as a part of her pre-
rogative, the right to appoint to this dignity. Now
the Pope has not appointed bishops with the names of
existing dioceses, and, so far, he does not violate the
letter of the law ; but, in constructing new English
sees, and instituting bishops who take their titles from
English cities, there can be no doubt that he violates
the spirit of the law. I go further than this, and
have no hesitation in saying that in what he has
done there is a deliberate and intended infringement
of the known ecclesiastical arrangements of the coun-
try, and an insolent purpose to defy and contemn the
royal prerogative. The Papal conduct is to be mea-
sured, not, I repeat, by what we, as Dissenters, may
think, but by what the Papacy means. We may care
nothing about the appointment of one bishop or the
other—we may think the bishop of a place, whether
Protestant or Romanist, a good way removed from
those of the Scriptures, who are never anything but
bishops of a people. That, I submit, is not the ques-
tion. The Pope well knows what the appointment
and the phraseology imply, and he means to imply
that there is neither Church nor religion in the land,
but what he calls the " Church of England" and the
Catholic faith, and that he is the only legitimate
source of ecclesiastical authority.
3. Lastly, there is in the recent Romanist proceed-
ings a new political anomaly and offence. This con-
sists in the fact that the pretended Archbishop of
Westminster is to be sent to this country as cardinal,
to use this style and dignity when here, and to exer-
cise the powers belonging to this rank. Now Ido not
profess to know very :accurately just yet all that is
included in being a cardinal, but it seems to be under-
stood that the office is not exclusively, or mainly,
ecclesiastical. The Pope is at once a spiritual sove-
reign and a temporal prince ; he is the source, there-
fore, both of Church dignities and secular honours.
While a cardinal must be a priest, the cardinalate
itself is a temporal distinction, or at least partakes
largely of that character. Dr. Wiseman, therefore,
in receiving this dignity from a foreign sovereign,
and in swearing to him temporal as well as spiri-
tual obedience, is said to become essentially the
subject of that sovereign, and the question is
1 whether it be not a political offence for him to
come hither wearing and parading these honours ?
Dr. Wiseman is either an Englishman, or he is
not. He was born in Spain, but of English or Irish
parents. He is generally spoken of as an English-
man. If he is so, and accepts a title from a foreign
potentate, he cannot use it legally here without re-
ceiving the Queen's permission. If he is not an Eng-
lishman, though he might be known amongst us by
his style and title, like any other foreigner of rank,
he could not exercise, in relation to Englishmen,
those powers which, in Italy, his rank might confer.
Lord Brougham could not be at once a French citi-
zen and an English Lord. Can Dr. Wiseman be at
the same time an English citizen and an Italian
Prince ?

These three points are what appear to me, on the
first blush of the thing, and so far as I have had time
to examine it, to constitute the peculiarities that cha-
racterise and condemn the recent extraordinary
movement of the Pope. In spite of all our distinctive
views as Dissenters—our opposition to the Church and
State principle—our advocacy of religious freedom
and equality, and so on—l am bound to say that, as
measured by what Rome is, knows, and means, I
regard its proceeding as involving insolent spiritual
pretensions—the violation of legal ecclesiastical order
—and an intolerable and contemptuous disregard of
international etiquette and political proprieties.