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BANKERS.

London—The Commercial Bank, Lothbury
Derby—The Derby and Derbyshire Bank
Rochdale—Messrs. Clement Royds and Son
Blackburn—Taw Manchester and Liverpool Banking Company.
CONSULTING ENGINEERS
Sir John Macneill, LL.D. and F.R.S.
James Thompsen, Esq., F.R.S.E. and
'ENGINEERS.

William B. Prichard, Esq.. C.E.
William Thomson, Esq., C.E.
PARLIAMENTARY AczNrs—Messrs. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates.
SOLICITOR—HuII Terrell, Esq., 30, Basinghall-street,London.

LOCAL AGENTS.

J. Cressy' Hall, Esq., Alfreton, Derbyshire
George Henry Rlchardsoneox, Esq., Spondon, Derbyshire
SEcarTAaY—Stillingleet Locker, Esq.

Assuming the northern terminus of the Erewash Railway
as its origin, this line will pass through localities totally tin-
provided with railway accommodation, into the populous ma-
nufacturing districts of Lancashire. It will continue the
important line from which it borrows the prefix of its name,
from Alfreton, in Derbyshire, where it will be a recipient of
traffic Drom the Cromford Canal—communicating with the Codnor
ironworks—along the Dinting Vale, and, obeying the course of the
river Derwent, enter Yorkshire, in the vicinity of Saddleworth. In
its course, it will pass through or near to Matlock, Ashbourne, Glos-
sop, Mottram, Hy field, and Duckenfleld, in reaching which point, the
Manchester and Sheffield Railway will be intersected, and the Hud-
dersfield Canal Railway passed, near to the Rochdale station of the
Manchester and Leeds Railway.
It is unnecessary to state here the character of the country from
Rochdale to Blackburn : it will be sufficient to observe, that it is the
seat of those manufactures to which England owes her accumulating
wealth. The line will proceed thence through or near to Whitworth
and Rossendale, and fall Into the East Lancashire Railway, in the
vicinity of Haslingden.
A branch will be thrown out of the trunk line, from the Junction
with the East Lancashire line near Haslingden, by Low-Moor iron-
works and Bacnp, to Todmorden.
The Erewash Extension will be the only direct route from the
centre of Derbyshire to the great manufacturing towns and chief
seaports of Lancashire. It will traverse a valley district adornzd
with the most picturesque scenery, and, at the same time, rich in
mineral produce. It will communicate, laterally, with several trunk
lines of railway, and will be fed by no less than five working canals—
the Cromford—the Manchester and Sheffield—the Huddersfield—the
Manchester and Leeds—and the Liverpool and Blackburn.

To the multiplication of advantages which intersecting railways
and lines of still-water navigation are compelled to afford, the throw-
ing out of branches from the line itself in so many directions will add
still further powers of accommodation, and, when the dense popula-
tion In the localities traversed is considered, there is every reason to
conclude that an ample remuneration for vested capital will be ob-
tained.

By following the course of rivers, which, in this instance, fall in
with the exact direction of the projected line, highly favourable gra-
dients are obtained for a considerable part of the length ; and every
other section of the country, upon a preliminary survey, has been
reported as more than commonly practicable. While the return for
capital cannot be questioned, and the necessities of the district de-
mand accommodation, the expenditure must necessarily fall below
the usual amount for works of equal magnitude.
To identify this project with that of the Erewash Valley, although
not included under, or belonging to the same executive, it is pro-
posed to allow subscribers in that Company shares in the Erewash
Extension : the number to be regulated by the interest retained in
the elder project.
The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the Share-
holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Parliament is
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obtained ; and power will be taken in the Act to allow 4 per cent. in-
terest upon all calls.'
Prospectuses,
maps, and forms, may be had at the Offices of Hull
Spinaus ti,i21(,1, ,DolbyAs i,
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solicitor, 30, Basinghall-street, London ; G. Cressy
nail, solicitor, Alfreton ; George Henry Richardson Cox, Esq.,
Carden and Whitehead, and the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs.
:a Mdr. T. Uzielli 75 'Oldlle
Messrs.
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don ; Messrs.Oastler
3,antrdWrllteroicitadbriesinoTtevedied, Leeds Broad-street,
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Leese, Manchester ; adllo-
Preston ; Messrs. Flint and Tootal', Houlds, Liverpool ; Mr. W. Wren,
Messrs. Graystone and Earle, York •
11; Mr. W. Mason, Bradford ;
Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sh ' Mr.
W.
Croniem, Halifax •
etneld ; Mr. S.
Mel
T. Boardman, Blackburn. Eyre, Derby ;
Applications for shares must be accompanied b
member of the Provietottal Co{angttee—to th y references to a
it Boliettor or Loetti

Agent—to some person of known respectability—orto the applicant;
banker in London or elsewhere.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Erewash Valley Extension, and
Rochdale, Blackburn, and East Lancashire Junction Railway Com-
pany.
Capital, 1,750,0001., in 874100 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. P. per Share.
Gentlemen,—l request you wil'A allot me shares of 201. each
in the above Company, and I ht.reby undertake to accept tle same,
or any portion of that number, you may allot me, and to pat the de-
posit of 21. 2s. per share on. them, as wel las all future calla also to
sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when-
ever required.
Dated

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Profession and Residence of R.-Aree

THE CHESTER AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.
The Shares in this Railway having been allotted to all Deposits
duly paid, the Committee of Management.have much pleasure in in-
forming their Shareholders that the Parliamentary surveys ere pro-
gressing to their entire satisfaction, and that every care Is being
taken to insure compliance with the standing orders on pin; before
Parliament. By order,
A. BARRETT, Secretary,
1, Royal Exchange-buildings, London, Sept. 27, 1845.

UGBY, WARWICK, and WORCESTER
RAILWAY.
The Directors, in consequence of their receiving daily applications
for shares in this Company, announce that the list was finally dosed
on Saturday last, and that no further applications can be entertained.
By order,
September 26th, 1845. GEO. H. WELLER, Secretary.

RUGBY, WARWICK, and WORCESTER
RAILWAY.

The Directors in reply to the numerous applications on the
subject, beg to inform the public that the shares in this Colopmy
are now in course of allotment, and that they, the Directors, intend
issuing the letters of allotment so soon as the requisite examination
has taken place into the application for shares.
By order,
GEO. H. WELLER, Secretary.

September 27, 1845

RUGBY, WARWICK, AND WORCESTER
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
At a meeting of the Provisional Committee, numerously attended,
convened by circular, and held at the Offices of the Company, No. 1,
Guildhall-chambers, Basingnall-street, London, the 30th September,
1845,
W. H. HUGHES, Esq., F.S.N., F.L.S., &c., in the Chair,
The following resolutions were adopted
Resolved,—That the Prospectus issued as that of the Provisional
Committee be now approved and adopted.
Resolved,—That the following gentlemen do constitute the Corn
mittee of Management:—
William Frederick Beadon, Esq.
Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq.
Peter Colston, jun., Esq.
Edward Doubleday, Esq.
John Freeman, Esq.
Alexander Greig, Esq.
Mr. Alderman Hughes Hughes
Thomas Hagger, Esq.
John Haddon, Esq.
Richard Parry Jones, Esq.
E. W. Morris, Esq.
Resolved,—That the following be appointed the Bankers of the
Company :
The London and Westminster Bank
The London and County Banking Company,
In London.
The Northamptonshire Banking Company, at Northampton.
Messrs. Butlin and Son, at Rugby.
The Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company,
at Leamington, Warwick, and Southam
Messrs. Berwick and Co., at Worcester.
The Committee have great pleasure in informing the public of the
extraordinary support this Company has received, and they regret
that, in consequence of the number of applicants for shares in this
undertaking, many highly respectable and influential claims must
unavoidably be unsatisfied.
The allotment is now being proceeded with, and th letters will
be Issued in the course of a week ; thqse parties, therefore, who do
not receive letters, must be pleased to accept the above as the apology
of the Committee. By order,
GEO. H. WELLER, Secretary
Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street, Ist October. 184 s.

James Morrison, Esq.
Cornelius Nicholson, Esq,
Benjamin Payne, Esq.
Robert Rising, Esq.
Thomas Sharp, Esq.
Joseph Satchell, Esq.
John Wheeßon, Esq.
Edward Waddelove, Esq.
Edward Welch, Esq.
John Woolston, jun., Esq-

MANCHESTER, MIDLAND, AND GREAT
GRIMSBY JUNCTION RAILWAY,' via ROTHERHAM.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 800,0001., in 32,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 11. 7s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Captain Laws, R.N., Crumpsall-hall, Manchester
Joseph Hegan, Esq., Liverpool
(Directors of the London and York Railway)
George Crosland, Esq., Huddersfield
Joseph Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield
(Directors of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway)
Robert Buchannan, Esq., M.D., Pontefract, Chairman
William Moxon, Esq , Pontefract
James Audus, Esq., Headingly, near Leeds
(Directors of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway)
William Butcher, Esq., the Master Cutler of Sheffield
E. B. Beaumont, Esq., Finningley-park
(Directors of the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Had•
dersfleid, and Goole Railway)
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
John Holford, Esq., Rusholme-house, Manchester
Lott Gardiner, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Edward Connell, Esq., Leaf-square, Manchester
Mr. Alderman Burd, merchant, Manchester
James Consterdine, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Cephas Howard, Esq., J.P., Brinnington-hal!, Stockport
William Bayley, Esq., Larkhill, Staleybridge, Cheshire
P. England, Esq., Iludderrfleld
John Smith, Esq., Welton Garth, near Hull
John Wood, Esq., Glossop, Derbyshire
Vincent Corbett, Esq., Outhwaite-hall, Wortley
Thomas Chambers, Esq., Chapeltown
J. B. Greaves, Esq., Ecclesfield
William Hall, Esq., Royds-moor, near Penistone
Wilson Overend, Esq., J.P., Sheffield
Henry Walker, Esq., J.P., Clifton-house, Rotherham
Robert Bentley, Esq., Rotherham
Robert Younge, Esq., Sheffield
G. W. Chambers, Esq., Clough-house, near Rotherham
J. G. Clarke, Esq., Masbro'-hall
George Knowles, Esq., ironmaster, Rotherham
Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endcliffe-hall, Sheffield
C. S. R. Sandford, Esq., North Field-house, Rotherham
James Yates, Esq., Effingham Works, Masborongh
John Aldred, Esq., Rotherham
Thomas Wheatley, Esq., corn merchant, South-grove, Rotherham
Samuel S. Brittain, Esq., Sheffield
James Hodgson, Esq., Rotherham Mills
John Brown, Esq., ironmaster, Rotherham
William Owen, Esq., Phoenix ironworks, Rotherham
Benjamin Badger, Esq., barrister-at-law, Rotherham
Henry Thomas, Esq., Sheffield
John Nightingale, Esq., Greave of the Fcoffeea of Rotherham
Charles Sandford, Esq., Phoenix ironworks, Rotherham
Robert John Bentley, Esq., Eastwood-house, Rotherham
George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield
Alexander Grant, Esq., steel refiner, Rotherham
E. J. Heseltine, Esq., Rotherham
E. L. Sidebotham, Esq., J.P., Aston-hall
Rev. Geo. Chandler, J.P., Treeton Rectory
John Green, Esq., Sheffield
John Hall, Esq.. Kiveton-park, near Rotherham
R. C. Hoyle, Esq., Aughton-hall, near Rotherham
Robert Fisher, Esq., Maltby
George Ridge, Esq., Sheffield
Thomas Dyson, Esq., Braithwell Manor-house
William Broughton, Esq., Batry
John Bradley, Esq., Blyth
Joseph Taylor, Esq., Newington
James Cross, Esq., Gringley
Charles Cross, Esq., Glentvrorth-heath, near Gainsborough
William Wells, Esq., West Stockwith, near Gainsborough
Henry Smith, Esq., Gainsborough
Henry Etherington Smith, Esq., J.P., Gainsborough
William Lister Sharp, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
Rev. Robert Hackle, Gainsborough.
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough
Francis A. Lowe, Esq., Gainsborough
John William Pashley, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
Frederick W. Fleck, Esq., wharfinger Gainsborough
Thomas Adwick Farmer, Esq., iron merchant, Gainsborough
Henry Hall, Esq., wharfinger, Gainsborough
R. D. Fretwell, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
Robert Pinder Moxon, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
H. Robinson, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
John Hughes, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough.
Edward Watson, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough.
ENGINEER—John Braithwaite, Esq.
SECRETARY—Mr. Francis Parker, Rotherham.

BANKERS—Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company, Rotherham,

The object rif this undertaking is to connect the Sheffield and Man-
chester—Ruddersfield and Sheffield—Midland and Great Grimsby
Rail7;ays —the ports of Liverpool and Birkenhead on the western,
Great Grimsby on the eastern coast, affording accommodation
to all the important intervening manufacturing and agricultural dis-
tricts—in fact, to open the shortest and most direst communication
between the eastern and western counties of England. It is pro-
posed to commence at Wortley and run to the Midland at or near
Masbrough, affording an outlet north and south, and thence for-
ward to Gainsborough.
There are abutting on the west end of the line the West Riding of
Yorkshire and Lancashire, with a population of 2,221,988—and on
the east end Nottinghamshire and North Lincolnshire, with a popu-
lation of 431,485.
Under any circumstances, the intercourse between two such
masses of population must be great; but in this case it is much
beyond the average from the different character of the country, and
the pursuits of the inhabitants at the two termini—Lancashire and
Yorkshire having redundant supplies of coal, ironstone, lime, and
minufactured goods of every description, while Nottinghamshire and
Lincolnshire and the east are dependent on the former counties for
these productions—and send their large supplies of corn and cattle to
the Yorkshire and Lancashire markets. The traffic in goods and
passengers between such important and mutually dependent districts
must be unusually great.
A glance at the map of England will show that the proposed line
will be, as nearly as may be, a straight one. A circuitous line is an
evil, and opposed to public policy. The public suffer by being de-
tained a longer time—by travelling a, longer distance—and by paying
a larger fare than is necessary—and the proprietors suffer by being
exposed to the risk, or rather to the certainty of their property being
destroyed at some future period by the competition of a shorter and
more direct line. Sir Robert Peel, in his place in Parliament, on the
15th of March, 1845, upon this point said—" Me would make no re-
ference to any indiviaual railway schemes, but he thought they ought
to look forward to the result of mechanical improvements as applied
to those schemes, and they might depend upon It (speaking of ulti-
mate results) that the shortest lines would be preferred.—(Hear,
hear.) The tendency of the improvements which were almost daily
introduced, was decidedly in favour of the shortest lines."
It may also be observed that the Board of Trade, in their detailed
report, in reference to that part of the line from Rotherham to
Gainsbrough (which was submitted for consideration as a distinct
scheme), state it to be " decidedly preferable to the Sheffield and
Lincolnshire or the Sheffield branch of the London and York ;"
and that " It affords a better connexion also with the important
market town of Rotherham, and with the North Midland Railway,
and gives as direct a communication as could be desired with Gains:
borough and Lincoln."

While so favourab:e an opinion is expressed upon this portion of
the line, it may also be fairly granted to the extension from Rother-
ham to Wortley. By the Sheffield and Manchester, and the
Sheffield and Rotherham Railways, the distance from Wortley
to Rotherham is 141,4 miles, which by the proposed ex-
tension will be reduced to 9. That ne
portion of the li
will also open out one of the best coal-fields in England, with inex-
haustible supplies of Park-gate and Silkstone coals—besides the green
Moor Quarries at Wortley, containing very superior stone fer
paving and building purposes—while at Thorncliffe and Chapel
Town, there are already most extensive ironworks in active ope-
ration. At Rotherham and Masborough—and in the immediate
neighbourhood—there are large iron and steel works, and other
manufactories, requiring qualities of ' coal and ironstone, from which
at present they are almost excluded, on account of the heavy
carriage.
Rotherham is the great cattle market of Yorkshire, and likewise
an important corn market, and one of the objects sought to be
attained by the promoters of this undertaking is the Shortest route
from the manufacturing to the agricultural districts—and from the
agricultural to the great markets of Yorkshire, and the consuming
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The district between Rotherham and Gainsborough is destitute of
coal, and there is no canal or railway from which it can be supplied,
excepting by a very circuitous route—in fact, the supply between
Rotherham and Bawtry is entirely carted along the turnpike-road.
The celebrated grindstones at Wickersley, with an immense quantity
of the finest freestone, from the far-famed Roche Abbey Quarries,
might also be sent—the former to Sheffield, Manchester, and Bir-
mingham—and the latter to every part of the kingdom, were an easier
and cheaper mode of transit established:

It is needless to remark. that any line of railway commanding
the advantages referred to, and connecting Lancashire and West
Yorkshire, with the Trent and the Humber, must prove a very
ample investment for capital; indeed, the returns of the existing
traffic are highly satisfactory.
Surveys have been taken, and the landowners generally are
favourable to the project. The length of the line is about thirty-flve
and a half miles.

There win be a clause in the Act of Parliament, limiting the liabi

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lity of each shareholder to the amount for which he may subscribe,
and power will be taken to allow interest at the rate of 4 per cent.
per annum upon the paid•up capital, from the obtaining of the Act
until the completion of the railway.
By the Subscribers' Agreement, authority will be given to the Pro-
visonal Directors to vary or alter the line, or to enter into any
arrangement which they may think expedient, previous to applying
to Parliament in the ensuing session.
The Directors congratulate the shareholders upon their very satis-
factory position, having secured the valuable co-operation and
assistance of several influential companies.

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DUDLEY and BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION
RAILWAY
In. continuation of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton
Railway.
BROAD AND NARROW (HUGE.
Capital, 200,0001., in 10,005 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.55. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)
A prospectus of this undertaking, with the names of a Provisiona
Committee will appear in a few days ; in the meantime applications
for shares may be addressed to
F. T. ELGIE, Solicitor, Worcester
October 3, 1845. JOHN BOLTON, Solicitor, Dudley.

E StIN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOUER 4, 1845.

PROGRESS OF THE GERMAN

REFORMATION.

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, SEPT. 14.—Rouge en
tered our city to day on his way to Stuttgardt, in a car-
riage garlanded with flowers, and followed by a train of
from sixteen to twenty travelling carriages. Thousand:
upon thousands of people awaited his arrival before the
gates of the city, and accompanied him with a ceaseless
succession of vivas to the posthouse, where he alighted.
The rejoicing, shouts, and hurrahs of the multitude be-
came there so deafening, that Rouge at length appeared
at a window of a second story of an adjoining house,
whence he gave a short address to the waiting mass
of human beings, expressive of his heartfelt gratitude for
the extraordinary reception he had met with ; his regret
that his necessarily short stay precluded his replying to
it as he wished ; and his intention of soon returning to
Frankfort for a longer period. Soon after eleven o'clock
A.M., he drove off towards Stuttgardt, but such was the
pressure of the crowd, as to compel passing through the
streets at a funeral pace, and it was not without difficulty
that numbers were prevented actually stopping the car-
riage for the purpose of touching the reformer's person !
THE GERMAN CATHOLIC SYNOD IN STUTTGARDT.—
The Wirtemberg Government having refused the German
Catholics the use cf a church to hold their conference in
(though such had been granted them by theecclesiastical
authorities), on the ground that a public celebration of
Divine worship in a building belonging to the Esta-
blished Church would be tantamount to a recognition of
them as a religious body, for which indeed they have ap-
plied, but have not yet obtained, they have been directed
to hold their proposed meetings either in a private build-
ing, or, as hitherto, in one of the churches belonging to
the reformed (or Genevese) congregation. " Hitherto,"
says the Allgemeine Zeitung, in reference to this
denial, " the interest felt by the lay public in the new
sect was comparatively trifling, but now, all at once,
an eager desire seems to have arisen, and petitions in
favour of their toleration come in from all quarters, a
fact which very evidently roves that a religious move-
ment can by no system of resistance be so effectually
rendered harmless as by leaving it a free and unhindered
course ; for so soon as either, with or without founda-
tion,
tion the idea of arbitrary suppression is spread abroad,
the German phlegm gives place to eager sympathy, and
the almost expiring lamp of public interest is instantly
re-fanned into a flame. A petition, to which 2,000 sig-
natures are already appended, has been presented by
Lutheran citizens of Stuttgardt, praying that one of their
churches may be granted to the use of their German
Catholic brethren."
STUTTGARDT, SEPT. 13.—A. considerable number of
deputies to the German Catholic Synod were present
to day at Divine service, at which Kirbler presided, in
the reformed church, which was festively hung with
flowers, and, although cards of admission alone pro-
cured entrance, filled to overflowing. The communion
plate, presented to the new congregation by some
Lutheran well-wisher in this city, was used for
the first time on this occasion. The meetings on the
morning and afternoon of the 14th, as well as this morn-
ing's meeting, were private, at which, among other pre-
liminary business, presaes and secretaries for the ensuing
council were elected; but the meeting of this afternoon.
which assembled at three o'clock in the hall of the Sil-
berburg, kindly granted by the Directors of the Museum
Society, was public, and numerously attended by per-
son s of both sexes and all confessions.
Twenty-four delegates, many of whom act as proxies
for several congregations, were present, as well as
deputies from London and Rotterdam, who, of course,
were more in the character, of listeners than actual
members of this Rhenise synod. The next meeting
appointed to take place in Frankfort, where many
points respecting church government and a more ex-
tended organisation, which were on this occasion brought
under consideration, will be more definitively settled.
THEINER AND THE SILESIAN REFORM.—The long-
expected work by which this celebrated theologian was
to avow and defend his adhesion to the German Catholics
has at last begun to be laid before the public, and con-
' tains a justification of the reform movement by a con-
nected authentification of the incurable abuses which
have taken root in the Roman Catholic Church, and the
hopelessness of obtaining from the Pope or Roman
priesthood, as now constituted, any concession of
a more rational church service. Theiner, as is well
known, has laid down his office in the Roman Ca
tholic Church, and addresses this work (the first part
of which is now before us) to his former parishioners,
under the title of " Efforts at Reform in the Catholic
Church"—a circular letter, addressed first to the congre
gations of Polsnitz, Grussen, and Hundsfeld, and next to
all Catholic Christians who regard the revelation of
Jesus Christ as eternal and saving truth. Without
any unnecessary parade of learning, Theiner details
the abuses and unchristian system which have obtained
in the Church he has left. We hear, too, that he
had early withdrawn everything like polemics from
his pulpit and private instruction, seeking by a simple
exhibition of purer doctrines to stimulate and satisfy
the spiritual wants of his flock, and uniting in these
efforts with a small but zealous portion of the Si-
lesian clergy, until the pertinacious refusal of his eccle-
siastical superiors to listen to any proposal for a
purification of either ritual or doctrine compelled him
to relinquish office in a church where he was called on
to preach and teach observances and dogmas which
neither his reason nor his conscience approved. The
abuses so often alluded to are stated by Theiner in
much the usual manner, yet with constant refe-
rence to the previous struggles of enlightened
priests and princes for reform in the Roman Ca-
tholic Church. He is more diffuse in stating his views
in regard to the position occupied, whether by the
priesthood- or by orthodox Catholics at large, in re-
gard to the state, as well as on the subject of mixed
' marriages. He displays simply, but effectively, the con-
tradictions which Rome has constantly submitted to, and
cannot avoid by her laws against heretics, and adduces
many terrific examples of the means employed by " the
Church." to obtain an accession of diciples.
BRESLAW, SEPT. 12.—The people in Uper Silesia are,
by ceaseless excitement, stirred up to such a degree of
fanaticism, that it is much to be feared very energetic
measures will speedily be called for. Under such cir-
cumstances alone is it comprehensible, that those
lawless disturbers of the peace at Tarnowitz who are
now under confinement and examination for tumultuous
proceedings should be termed by the Silesian (Roman
Catholic) Church Journal, the "firm principled citizens,"
or that the same paper should sound its paeans over the
infamous attack on Rouge's life. But what then shall we
say to attempts being made not only to obtain from the
King the liberation without trial of these turbulent
spirits, but to actual subscriptions being now raised
to meet the fines which, it is anticipated, may pro-
bably be levied upon them as the due reward of
their delinquency. It is, however, to be hoped that,
as is credibly reported, measures are in preparation
which will prove the time is not yet come in Prussia
when the open avowal of religious conviction involves
danger of one's life ; and even the above-named journal
may perhaps learn that an open defence of illegal pro-
cedings is not admissible in our days ; and, conse-
quently, repent having so prematurely shown its colours.
Meanwhile, the Dissenters from Rome are increasing.
not only in Breslaw, where one-fourth of the Catholic
population (reckoned at about 30,000) has joined the
sect, but throughout the whole province. Congregations
have lately established at Sprottau and Auras, and seve-
ral other places, such as Sagan, Frankenstein, and even
Patchkan, are expected speedily to follow the example.
TSERLOHN, SEPT. 10.— The late Roman Catholic
priest, Briedenbach, of Strutt, a man of distinguished
oratorical powers, and possessed not only of the love of
his parishioners, but of the respect and esteem of his
ghostly superiors, having very recently forsaken the
Roman for the German Catholic Church, has accepted
a call to preside over that branch of it which exists
here, and was received to-day in a really magnificent
manner. The discharge of nearly thirty pieces of
ordnance, and a cortege, of above ten thousand persons,
whose vivas rent the air, hailed his approach to the
city. The German Catholic cause has obtained by the ac-
quisition of Breidenbach a powerful support, not merely
in Iserholm, but through the surrounding district, where
many congregations exist, and more are in contempla-
tion. A new one Was definitively organised on the 7th
instant, in our neighbouring town, Hagen.—Elberfeld
Zeitung.
MAYENCE, SEPT. 6.—Our Bishop has deemed it his
duty to announce to his clergy the apostacy of one of
their brethren, the late Dean Winter, in Alzei, from the

Roman Catholic Church. The exhortations and admo-
nitions with which the notification is accompanied are
singularly mild, and whilst they are exhorted to pray for
the restoration of their erring brother to the bosom of
the true Church, the new Catholic sect to which he has
joined himself is adverted to in much more moderate
terms than ill the ban lately published by the Bishop of
Fulda.

EICHSTADT (BAVARIA), SEPT. 12.—The establishment
of this bishopric, which has now existed 1,100 years,
was celebrated here on the 7th inst. The whole city,
but more particularly the cathedral, was festively
adorned, the choir being entirely covered with a new
carpet 286 feet square, embroidered by the ladies
of Eichstadt and other places throughout the bishopric.
The solemn proce.,sion of the reliques of St. Willibach
and St Walburga was joined by the Archbishop of Mun-
chen Freising, the Bishops of Augsburgh, Spiers, Wurz-
burg, Regensburg, and Eichstadt, and an immense num-
ber from this city and neighbourhood.
BOHEMIAN FRONTIERS, SEPT. 10.—Some time since
a society was formed in the Leitmeritz diocese, under
the immediate patronage of its bishop, in honour of "the
immaculate heart of the Virgin Mary," to which the in-
ferior clergy as a body, and their most zealous adherents,
have given their support. But Bishop Hille has recently
come forward with a new evidence of his zeal, by com-
manding the introduction of so-called "spiritual exer-
cises," in which a majority of the clergy and consider-
able numbers of the more devout among the laity take
part. The members of this godly society were convened
in Leitmeritz the beginning of this month, for the pur-
pose of spending eight days consecutively in the
said spiritual exercises, among which, and cer-
tainly not the least remarkable, is the subjecting
themselves voluntarily to a severe mutual scourging!
Total silence is imposed on them during the whole period
of their being together ; and strict fasting, except a
light scup for supper, as well as every species of bodily
convenience or recreation are forbidden.

HALBERSTADT, SEPT. B.—The day before yesterday,
Pastor Willig, lately Catholic priest in Hamburgh,
arrived here by invitation of the Roman dissidents of this
place, and celebrated Divine service in the Holy Ghost
Church, at which, besides the members of the new com-
munity, very many Roman Catholics and from 600 to
800 Protestants were present. The German Catholics
have, it seems, given a regular call to Willig to remain
as their pastor, which, however, he has not definitively
accepted, but promised to return after his visit to Berlin
and Leipzic, and spend some months here.
BERLIN, SEPT. 14.—Some journals lately circulated
the highly-improbable intelligence that the question of
religious differences was to come before the Diet ; we
believe ourselves warranted in giving the following as a
better founded statement s—ln consequence of arrange-

meats made by Prussia, the Courts of Berlin, Wirtorn
berg, Saxony, and Hanover have agreed to set on foot
conferences, in which the religious movements of the
day, and more especially those of the " Friends of
Light," shall be discussed. The basis to be adopted
in these conferences will be a strict separa-
tion of the political from the religious element
in the movement ; to restrain the former with
a very tight rein, while to the latter will be conceded a
freer and larger arena. The question of Church Go-
vernment in particular to be left open, but doctrinal
points not to be allowed too wide an extent. In oppo-
sition to the foregoing, the Weser Zeitung quotes, on
the other hand, a communication from Frankfort, in
which it is roundly asserted that the religious movement
in Germany has been already subject of discussion in
the Diet, whose sittings ceased on the 11th September,
to be resumed on the Bth of January, 1846. The Jesuit
question, it is understood, did not come under considera-
tion, as the political and not the dogmatical aspect of
the movement attracted attention, and the deliberations
of the Diet were limited to the concoctions of mea-
sures to secure the existing order of political affairs
against being affected by the religious ferment. " Who,"
asks the Frankfort correspondent, " who that has ob-
served the simultaneous and almost identical measures
adopted in regard of the German Catholics by various
German states, can doubt that such unusual union of ac-
tion is the result of previous union of counsel 7"
ITANAU, SEPT. 13.—Otir Government has proved its
determination to carry out to the letter its announced
course regarding the Gertnan Catholics, by prohibiting
Rouge to stop even one night in this city, or to preside
over any meeting for Divine worship.
DRESDEN, SEPT. 16.—The refusal of the Wirtemberg
Government to grant the use of one of the churches in
Stuttgardt to the German Catholics is but a counterpart
of the decision of our Ministry, by whom a similar re-
fusal has just been given. The disappointment is the
greater here, as the ecclesiastical and town authorities
were unanimous in aces,rding them the accommodation.
STUTTGARDT, SEPT. 17.—The German Catholic
Church Assembly completed its sittings this day. The
solemnities were terminated by Divine service, under
the guidance of Rouge and Dowrat. The last business
meeting took place yesterday, in wi;ieh, however, no
questions were discussed ; but the dine was chiefly
occupied with a statement of the nature and importance
of German Catholicism, and a reply to the often-put
question, " What do the German Catholics aim at?"
SEPT. 19.—Yesterday Ronge and his friends received
many testimonials of affection from his adherents in
Stuttgardt. Poems, garlands, and still more valuable
proofs of attachment were handed to him in various com-
panies to which he had been invited, and this morning,
at ten o'clock, he left fur Ulm. A great concourse of
people had assembled in the Dorothea-square, who
greeted Ronge and his companions as they issued from
their dwelling (which was nearly covered with garlands)
with a joyful vina ! A garlanded carriage received the
so highly prized reformers, and drove off, escorted by
some members of the German Catholic committee on
horseback, and followed by several other carriages.
UEm.—At a dinner party given by the inhabitants of
this town to M. Ronge, and at w hich more than
seventy of its distinguished citizens, and several dele-
gates from the neighbouring places, were present, Dr.
Gramm, the public physician of the district, made a
speech, which we extract the following :
"Dear Brethren, much esteemed Friends,—lt is
known to you all that we German Catholics have
separated ourselves from the Pope, from our Roman
Catholic Bishop, and from his chapter. Now, it
would be supposed that we are like sheep without a
shepherd, and unable to defend ourselves against our
numerous enemies ; but this is not our case. For, in
union with our Protestant brethren, we have our bishop
.n the person of our just and courageous King, who will
acknowledge us as his faithful subjects, since we com-
bat all foreign influence, which is injurious to the free
development of spiritual liberty, whether such an in-
fluence proceeds from this side or from the other side of
the mountains."

The assembly-room was magnificently decorated, and
in one transparency, in large character, was read
Johannes Rouge, the Champion of Light and Truth."
STUTTGARDT, SEPT. 25.—M. Ronge returned here
last evening from Ulm. The report which has circulated
here that he bad been assassinated, or at least fired at,
in the latter town, proves to have been groundless. M.
Rouge sets out this morning on a journey, but is believed
to be back in a fortnight, during which time it is ex-
pected that the renewed petition made by the inhabitants
of our town to the Ministry, in order to have a church
granted to the German Catholic community, will have
proved successful. Indeed, this is hoped to arrive as
soon as our King returns, which return is daily
looked for.

The cause of the German Catholic Church is gaining
much ground here, in spite of all the endeavours to the
contrary made by the Romanists of our place ; and all
their insinuations cannot hinder both Catholics and Fro-
testants from joining the new Church, which counts now
amongst its members several persons of the nobility.
It is reported that a community of German Catholics
is about to be formed at Heilbronn, and M. Ronge's pro-
ceeding there relates to this latter formation, which he
will endeavour both to call into life and to organise.
From thence M. Ronge will go to Heidelberg and to
Manheim. Of his further movements nothing has as
yet transpired, but it is supposed that he and his com•
panions will meet Professor Konuer, from Ulm, at
Elberfeld.

MANHEIM, SEPT. 29.—Messrs. Ronge and Donran,
and their travelling companions have just arrived here.
They were met by a joyous crowd at the railway
station; who accompanied them into the town. The au-
thorities, however, would not permit M. Rouge and his
partisans to enter the church. The police also refused
permission for M. Rouge to hold an assembly of the
German Catholics at the theatre. In consequence of this
refusal the proprietor of the theatre invited the tra-
vellers to his own house.

A letter from Heidelberg states that while Ronge was
in that city, the chiefs of the German Catholic c mmu-
nity were cited before the municipal authorities, who
signified to them that unless they would guarantee the
observance of the decrees issued relative to M. Ronge, he
would be ordered to quit the town.