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London, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

purposes raised last year in pursuance of the Christian
appeals of the clergy to the people ! Are these proofs
of a popular determination to resist " all Church
authority "—of a refusal to pay further obedience to
its wishes ? If the Church be now harassed by dis-
sensions from within and without, it is the crafty in-
trigues of the Tractarian heretics that are chiefly to
blame for these dissensions; and yet these are the
men whose views the Bishop of EXETER is doing all
he can to forward ! Strange to say, this un-
accountable Prelate takes credit to himself for
having commenced fighting the theological battle
upon trifles "There are conditions," he says, "of the
public mind, when it is in truth a blessing that in
struggling for a principle--the great principle of
Church authority, the immediate object to be defended
is not in itself worth the trouble, much less the bitter-
ness and anxiety of the contest. I rejoice, therefore,
that we have not to fight fur an object which would
give dignity to the conflict." We do not profess
exactly to understand the logic of this passage, but
so far as we can make out the Bisho'p's meaning, his
argument is, that the less true dignity and the more
frivolity a religious controversy possesses, the more
delighted should those be who take part in it, and the
more eagerly and uncompromisingly should they folio ,A
it up ! Upon this principle a fanatic or bigoted High
Church disciplinarian is justified in convulsing a
whole community about a matter not worth a

Hyde Park. Really the deficiency we speak of is
becoming an alarming public grievance. If the
parish authorities will not endeavour to remedy
it, we hope the Legislature will speedily enforce its
remedy.

Accounts from Madrid (4' the 16th instant state,
that the Chamber of Deputies had resumed business.
A communication was made from the Minister for
Foreign Affairs to the effect, that GONZALES BRAVO
bad been directed to return to his mission at Lisbon
forthwith, and it is supposed this step had been taken
at the instance of NARVABZ. This BRAY°, it appears,
was a great favourite at the Palace, and favourites, of
course, are very jealous of each other. The follow-
ing reports from Committees were laid before the
Chamber :—The report of the mixed Committee on
the authorisation granted to Ministers to promulgate
organic laws by royal decrees. Another on the
Clergy Dotation Bill, the majority concurring in the
views of the Government; and the report on the con-
version of the debts proceeding from contracts into
Three per Cent. Stock, to which the Committee like-
wise gave its sanction.

MADRID Bouasa, DEC. 16.—Three per Cents. for
cash, 32k; 33 for Account. Five per Cents. 22i for
cash; 22i for Account. Floating Debt, 77 for 28
days; Coupons, 26 for Account.

Some of the Paris papers have comments on the
enthusiasm with which Sir HENRY POTTINGER has
been welcomed in England, and more particularly on
his speech at the Liverpool dinner. The Journal des
Debats, however, is silent on the subject, for a good
reason. A few weeks since it put forth in the shape
of a leading article certain statements respecting the
Chinese treaty, but evidently furnished by a corre-
spondent in the East, asserting that the treaty was a
mere nullity, and the English negotiator had been
completely overreached by Chinese cunning. We no-
ticed the absurdity of the article at the time, and the
Presse adduces the authority of Sir HENRY POTTIN-
GER as a proof that the editor of this Ministerial
journal had been imposed upon by a correspondent
who trusted more to his imagination than facts.
" The simple fact," it says, " of the solemn ovations
of which Sir HENRY POTTINGER is at present the
object on the other side of the Channel would of itself
be well calculated to interest France. Another mo-
tive, however, induces us to direct the attention of
our readers to the late banquet at Liverpool. In the
speech delivered by Sir HENRY POTTINGER there is
to be found information important not only for
English merchants, but likewise for those of
France. Sir HENRY POTTINGER spoke of China
and of the men who preside over her desti-
nies in such terms that many persons in France
ought to regret the levity with which they have often
treated that country. One journal related some
months since, in the most serious manner, a ridiculous
history, according to which the treaty of Ningpo
was a mere mystification. According to that story,
the Chinese negotiator had bribed Sir HENRY POT-
TINGER'S interpreter, and, thanks to the complicity of
that agent, the written treaty contained stipulations
of a totally different nature from those which had
been verbally agreed on between the Chinese and
English Plenipotentiaries. Not only has the speech
of Sir lIENRY POTTINGER reduced this assertion to
its just value, but it gives some important informa-
tion relative to the man appointed by the EmeEnolt
to treat with the European Powers. That statesman)
KEY-ING, had the charity to inform the British re-
presentative that the Chinese are a religious people
who are scandalised at the sight of a drunken Euro-
pean, and that if the British seamen who touch at
the coast of China continue to lead that dissolute life
of which they have so often given an example, the
commercial relations opened by the treaty would pro.
duce but little advantage. The advice is worthy of
our attention, and we trust that French shipowners
may take notice of it, until the extraordinary embassy
directed by M. LAGRENEE shall have completed its
observations, and shall have obtained more direct in-
formation."
The Constitutionnel states that the intention enter-
tained at one time of bringing forward Bills this
session to grant a civil list to the Duke of NEMOURS,
in case of his becoming Regent, and also dotations to some
of the younger branches of the Royal Family, had been
abandoned by the Ministry. The Prefects through-
out the country bad been consulted as to the opinions
of the Deputies on the subject, and the answers from
them generally are unfavourable.
It appears from the Paris journals that the exe-
cution of the assassin who attempted the life of the
King of PRUSSIA. has excited an unfavourable feeling
towards royalty at Berlin, as it seemed hard, after so
long delay, to carry the sentence unexpectedly into
effect. The Journal des Debals thus apologises for
the KING'S conduct :
"It appears that the execution of Tschech, and the
somewhat strange circumstances that preceded it, hare
made a painful impression at Berlin. The long interval
that had elapsed since the attempt had naturally corro-
horated the 'Lotion that a denouement more favourable to
the condemned would hare taken place. Singular inci-
dents also arose which public opinion has commented on
in various ways. The necessity of choosing between what
he considered a political duty and his religious scruples
had thrown the King into the utmost perplexity. It is
said that, being desirous to escape that alternative, he
had imagined several odd expedients. He wanted, at
first, to delegate his right of pardoning to the Prince of
Prussia, who would have decided the question. Ile next
had the idea of suspending the decision until his death,
and of leaving to his successor the task of pronouncing
upon the fate of the offender. Meanwhile physicians and
clergymen successively visited Tshech, the former to
strive to discover some symptoms of insanity or mono-
mania ; the latter to kindle in him some glimmerings of
repentance; but the efforts of both parties failed. At length
the affair was submitted to the Council, 'A hen it was the
unanimous opinion of the Ministers that the King
owed it to his people, whose affection had been so conspi-
cuously manifested when the attempt had taken place,
and to all Sovereigns who bad been outraged in his per-
son, not to make justice recede before the obduracy of a
criminal. The Prince of Prussia is stated to have said
that to all these reasons he had one to add, which was
personal to himself, namely, that he could not accept the
share of inheritance it was contemplated to leave him.
Fresh scruples then arose in the mind of the King, who
asked whether his people, whose affection had so warmly
displayed itself when the attempt on his person had been
made, still persisted in the same feelings ; and his Ma-
jesty reverted to the notion that, if he clearly saw his
duty as a King, he had also his duty as a Christian to
fulfil, and could not prove himself severer than Provi-
dence which had saved him. At length, overcome by
the entreaties of his Ministers, he resigned himself to
signing the warrant of death ; but his emotion was so
deep that, after doing it, he fell into deep dejection,
and shed abundant tears. In signing the warrant,
he stipulated that M. de Kleist, First President
of the Chamber of Justice, should attend the execu•
lion, and be the bearer of a pardon in the event of
Tschecb, at the last moment, evincing some repentance.
Lastly, the King left Charlottenburgh, which is on the
road from Berlin to Spandau, in order to spend a few
(lays at Potsdam. On his side, Tschech, who had two
days before been apprised of his noon, had continued
deaf to every exhortation. Doctor Gerlach, the Court
chaplain, having again been sent to him, on the last
evening, Tschech roughly repulsed him, persisting in
glorying in his crime, and in rejecting religious assist-
ance. He separated in the same way from his daughter,
expressing to her the hope that they should soon meet
again. At Spandau, at the fatal moment, M. de Kleist
atire,sed him for the last time, and asked whether, in
presence of eternity, lie did not feel some repentance ?
He replied, with wore resolution than ever, that he did
not, and that, on the contrary, he had done a great
action. He began a speech, but had not time to finish
it. It was then half-cast seven, Two or three hundred
persons at the utmost were on the spot."
The French Three per Cents, were done at Tou
TONI'S on Sunday at 85f. 65c.

moment's serious consideration ! Verily, we repeat,
the Bishop of EXETER is a most extraordinary logician,
but, to the credit of his consistency be it said, that
he practices what he preaches I

We are accustomed, in this country, to take credit
to ourselves for this especial excellency in our social
institutions—namely, the tenderness they manifest for
human life. It is the beautiful theory of our law that
this tenderness appreciates as highly the value of ex-
istence to the meanest and most abject, not only of
our fellow-subjects, but of our fellow-creatures (for
its sympathy is not bounded by considerations of
mere nationality), as it estimates the value of exist-
ence to the wealthiest, the most ennobled, or the most
powerful among us. Pity! that this theory should
be marred by occasional exceptions in practice; and
the more pity, because it is easy to perceive that,
according to the spirit of those institutions and of that
law, this humanity of intention was meant to be ho-
nestly developed in their practical working. But the
practical exceptions we speak of are neither few, nor
trifling, nor simply accidental, nor limited in kind, nor
venial in their principle, nor unpernicious in their
example, nor undestructive in their consequences.
Tenderness for human life is not the positive charac-
teristic of the scheme, nor the crowning glory of the
administration of our New Poor Law, and of our
Model-Prison-and-Penitentiary-Silent-systems of dis-
cipline. It is not a power which withdraws the poor
labourer from the hideous employments with which the
calculating recklessness of cupidity too often tempts the
uncalculating recklessness of poverty. It permits the
famishing artisan, who heeds more the claims of his wife
and his family upon him for the immediate demands for
subsistence, than the deleterious influence of the occupa-
tion which is to provide it on the vital functions of his own
frame, to labour in white-lead works for certain para-
lysis, visceral disorganisation, and speedy death. It
encourages, by its apathy or its silence, the devotion
of others to other labours, the mechanical processes of
which are known to entail, inevitably, on all who en.
gage in them, the visitation, within periols more or
less brief in their duration, of maladies that destroy
the sight, cripple the limbs, vitiate the palate, ruin the
digestion, or ulcerate the lungs. This tenderness of
our law, unhappily, omits to set itself in action in re-
ference to a dozen or two of what are called by the
gentle, yet significant name of "unhealthy trades ;" such
as many departments of foundry, smelting, casting,
distillation from noxious mineral substances, the ge-
neration of certain gases, the composition of some
chemicals, &c. Its solicitude for human life forces
one, perhaps, out of a score of the owners of works
set in motion by powerful in-door machinery, to pro-
tect the operatives employed under the same roof by
the erection of galleries, or screens to ward off the
fatal contact of revolving wheels, and shafts, and
spindles. These are the excepted cases to prove the
same theory ; unhappily the rule is rather established
against it by a majority of appalling accidents, occa-
sioning a vast amount of bodily suffering and violent
deaths. We might, if we chose to descend into our
mines, or to explore our colliery pits, or to intrude
even upon the privacy of the work-rooms of many of
our principal dressmakers and Court milliners, mul-
tiply the examples in which the sacrifices of health,
And even of life itself, to the excitement of trading
competition, or the selfish importunity of vanity and
fashion—every week or every month of the year. But
there are some domestic calamities, the awful frequency
of which we must rather reckon by every day of every
week—that tear from us, in the heart of this great
capital, their unhappy victims to mutilation, agony,
and death of the moat frightful kind, without either
the " tenderness" of the theory of our law, the sym-
pathies of our common nature, the influences of a
salutary fear, the warnings of experience, or the loss of
property accruing from sueh incidents, arousing us,
their survivors, to the duty of making well-organised
and efficient provision, to the utmost practicable ex-
tent, against the recurrence of such disasters, or for
the mitigation of their extent and severity when they
happen.

We allude to that class of accidents which we
have so constantly to announce under the heading of
"Destructive" fires, " attended with loss of human
life." These terrible cases have been, of late, over-
whelming from their extent, their number, and their
fatal termination. We need not pause for a moment
except to notice, by name, the last we have had to an-
nounce—namely, the fire at Mr. FAHEY'S, in Guild-
ford-street, Russell-square. It will occupy, however,
a melancholy prominence on the list of these casual-
ties, for its destruction of life as well as of property.
On the present occasion we advert to it simply to
point our question—Why is not an adequate, and effi-
cient system of fire-escapes organised in this metro-
polis? Shall we talk of our " tenderness for life"
while whole hecatombs of human victims perish
annually in this manner at the shrine of that bad
deity—whatever it be—which is the impersonation
of parochial carelessness or apathy, stupidity or
parsimony ? An unfortunate youth, of high promise
it may be, in the profession into which he has just
been instituted, shall be consumed to ashes, it seems,
for want of some external means whereby he might
have escaped from his dormitory at the top of the
house in which he slept into the street ; and active
officers, appointed for the conservation of the peace
and property of the residents within their appointed
district, perish beneath the flaming ruins below, for
want of the same assistance in carrying out their
spirited design of rushing to the relief of those above.
There can be awarded no praise too great to such a
body as the fire brigade, or such a public servant as
their admirable superintendent, Mr. BRAIDWOOD;
but if a competent, vigilant, prompt, and mo,t effec•
tive force can be thus organised, equipped, and main-
tained for 'extinguishing fires, why not a body, equally-
well appointed, for the higher object of rescuing the
lives which these fires put in such eminent jeopardy ?
Hitherto all the machines prepared for the purposes
of escape from fire have proved comparatively use-
less, in the very small and almost fractional number
of cases in which they have been employed—or even
thought of. This result we are not disposed to at-
tribute to such causes of inefficient working as their
incompetent structure, their inadequate height, or
strength, or application, which CHARLES DICKENS

THE PANTOMIME AT THE SURREY THHATRB.—The
title of this Christmas piece of amusement is Pounds,
Shillings, and Pence; or, Harlequin, L. S. D. It has been
got up with great care, and at considerable expense ;
and, it is presumed, will produce to the spirited lessee a
hundred per cent., and to the public amusement equal
at least to twice that amount of ♦alue for the price of
admission. The whole of the pantomime has been in-
vented and written by Mr. Nelson Lee, and will be pro-
duced under the direction of that excellent manager, Mr.
R. Honner.

somewhere puts, in his sarcastic manner, into the
mouth of a Professor "No-go," for some of the
machines we have seen are simple, and cleverly
adapted enough. But there is no one establishment
for them;—no stuff for such an establishment. When
half-a-dozen people have been burned to death in one
of these devouring fires, we may, perchance, see
half-a-dozen charity boys exemplifying the merits of
the last new invented " escape" in safe descents, at
broad noon, from a two or three story window into
the street of some tradesman, who speculates on the
sensation produced by the recent calamity to dispose
of a few score yards of questionable bed-ticking. But
for any purposes of practical escape—the inmates of
any house, on fire, that very night, in that very
street, would have as little chance of saving them-
selves by TILE "escape" which had that afternoon
amused the passengers who had had leisure enough
to look at the young exhibitors in it, as a skater
tumbling through the ice of one of the Hampstead-
heath ponds would find of being helped out again, by
vociferating for the Humane Society's men, or their
dragS, or their skiff, stationed on the Serpentine

SUPPOSED CASE OF POISONING AT HOLIIECK.-
During the last few days a great deal of excitement has
prevailed in the neighbourhood of Ilolbeek, arising out
of the fact that a married woman, named Illingworth,
bad met with an untimely death. Deceased was the
wife of William Illingworth, a clock and watchmaker,
residing in Ifolbeck-line, and a leading Socialist, who
had also living iu his house another woman, named
Simpson, by whom he has had two children. The co-
roner's jury has sat twice upon the body, and at the time
our paper was put to press they were sitting a third
time ; the result of the investigation, therefore, cannot
be stated in our present edition, but from what has come
to our knowledge there is ground for very strong suspi-
cion that the wife has been wilfully poisoned.—Leeds
Mercury.

SEASONABLE GlFTS.—Yesterday, in the parish of
St. Bride, Fleet-street, forty tons of coals wore chstri-
buted, under the direction of the parish authorities,
amongst 570 poor deserving families of the parish. The
gift i► paid for by subscription among the inhabitants.
There will be a second distribution of the same quantity
on the 21st of January next,

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.E NUN, LONDON, TITESDAV EVENG. DECEMBER 24, 1344.

• MONEY AND Ci OINIERCIAL i.; S
CITY, QUARTER TO TH-R.EE.
A large business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yes-
terday at full rates. Sales 14,000 bales, of which specu-
lators took 4,500, comprising 1,000 Egyptian at sid. to
60., 1,000 Pernam. at sd. to 54d., 600 Maranham at
4kd. to 3,000 Surat at 20. to 31d., and the rest
American at 3ed. to 51d.—Shares were active, and at
higher rates gem rally. Birmingham and Derby, 83i ;
Caledonian, 44 is. Gd. ; Chester and Birkenhead, 34 ;
Churnet Valley, 3k 4 ; Eastern Counties, 14i, a ;
Eelin-
burgh and Glasgow, 64 ; Grand Junction, 225 ; Ditto,
Half, 112 i ; Liverpool and Manchester, 102} 103; Ditto
Half, 514 51 ; London and Birmingham, 229; Ditto and
Brighton, 524 ; Ditto and Croydon, 17k ; Ditto and
South- Western, 83i ; Manchester and Leeds, 120 i 121;
Ditto, Half, 52i ; Midland Counties, 1124 1131 ; North
Union, 147 i; South-Eastern, 40 I; Ditto, New, 13k i;
Trent Valley, 11 ; Paris and Lyons, 3i ; Paris and
Rouen, 414 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 84 ; Bou-
logne and Amiens, si.
The speech of the Queen of Portugal on the closing
of the Cortes at Lisbon, on Ih4 14th instant, is not con-
sidered so very satisfactory to the mercantile interests as
it may be held in other quarters. To a certain extent
it is true that the management of the public finances has
most materially improved, and that the interests of the
foreign creditors have been thereby advanced. Her
Majesty, therefore, may congratulate the members that
the steps that have been taken to improve the revenue
will powerfully concur to establish a complete organisa-
tion in this department of the State. But not one word
is said in this royal document on the subject of any
alterations in the tariff of duties as effecting British manu-
factures. Great Britain has made concessions in favour of
the wines and other produce of Portugal. The Government
of Portugal seems doggedly disposed to make no: return.
This unquestionably is a bad feature, especially to an old
ally, and one who, at a very vast expense, has protected
the interests of the Portuguese nation, not only by cash,
but by vast expenditure of British blood. At the same
time, from all we hear, there is a rising disposition
among the nobles and rich men of Portugal to liberalise
the tariff, but for this simple reason, that they begin to
think that it will be for the interests of their own country.
Unquestionably, both Purtagal and England would be
favourably influenced by an extension of the trade now
carried on between each.
There have not been any colonial arrivals this morning.
The additional correspondence that has takea place
between the Chairman of the Committee of South Ame-
rican Bondholders and the Financial Agents of the
Mexican Government here is anything but satisfactory.
The Committee require full information as to remit-
tances, the sum in hand to pay the dividends, and whe-
ther any further instructions upon matters concerning
their interests have been received by the last packets.
The Messrs. Lizardi and Co. to these natural inquiries,
thus cavalierly reply .---

"26, Austin Friars, Dec. 21, 1844.
"Sir—We have to state, in reply to your letter of the
19th instant, received yesterday, that the public 'are
always informed of the amount received by each
packet, on account of the Mexican Government, and
that we have no instructions to give any further in-
formation on the subject.—We are, &c.,
"F. DE LIZARDI AND CO.
" Per procuration Manl. J. De Lizardi.
" G. R. Robinson, Esq."
The importance of Southampton as a port for the dis-
charge of cargoes of a perishable nature has bet n fully
deinonstratt d by two cargoes of oranges, ex Quiver and
Heroine (bringing together upwards of 1,200 St.
Michael packages), being landed there yesterday, to
be sold to-day, at three ,'clock, by the selling brokers,
Keeling and Co., in London, just in time to supply the
holiday consumers, which, under other circums :mem
would have been, by the easterly wind, shut out from the
market. The Railway and Dock :)irectors have made
a further reduction in the carriage, the shipowners
have reduced the freight consequent upon the
vessels discharging at Southampton, therefore a
greater inducement is held out to the merchant to pre-
ter the latter port to that of London.
The vexatious question respecting the dispute with
the Customs as regards the measurement of the boxes
still continues by the seizure of the various cargoes as they
arrive, and the increased duty is paid by the brokers
under protest, pending the decision of the Lords of the
Treasury : and it is this overstraining for fiscal duties
that will eventually accomplish more for free trade prin-
ciples than all the arguments that can be possibly ad-
duced.
The Funds have been steady this morning, and but
little business doing. Consols for the Account have only
fluctuated from 100 to 1004 ; the Reduced Three per
Cents. from 1004 to 1001 • the New Three-and-a-Quar-
ter per Cents. from 103 f to 1031; and Exchequer Bills
from 635. to 665. premium. India Bonds are at 808.
premium. India Stock at 286 for Account, and Bank
Stock at 209.
In the Foreign market business has been very brisk,
though the members are "taking wing" to the country
for the Christmas holidays. Spanish have reached 28;
the Three per Cents., 384 ; French Scrip, li- to 2 pre.
mium ; Danish, 89 ; Belgian, If premium ; and Portu-
guese Converted, 60k. Dutch, 988. Mexican Five per
Cents, remain steady, and so do Colombian.
The Railway Share market is rather heavy to-day.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 35 per Cent. Annuties
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2h 1-16
Ditto 30 years, Oet.lo, 1859 ll
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,0001 BO
Consols for Opening -
Exchequer Bills. lid. 14d.
1,0004
5004
Ditto Small —
Ditto Advertised ........ --
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Converted 594i
Ditto for the Account 6O 59i 604
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 27414
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds ••• 6i till
Ditto Deferred
Ditto 3 per Cent 3854
Ditto for the Account 3844 38
Dutch 24 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Ditto 5 per Cent....
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester
Churnet Valley...
Direct Northern
Dublin and Galway
Eastern Counties
Grand Junction 100 227
London and Birmingham ...100 228
London and Brighton 5O ...... 51*
London and Croydon
London and York... 24 ... .. 444 to
Manchester and Leeds 7O
Ditto 4 Shares
Midland
North Kent
Norwich and Brandon 8 ....... 134 ...... to
South-Eastern and Dover... 334
Ditto, New...
Trent Valley... ............ ..... 2 ...... 104
Boulogne and Amiens
Orleans and Bordeaux... .« 2
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen.
Strasburg and Bale

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 23 —We have
had a brisk market, and a good business has been done
at advanced prices. Eastern Counties, 14~ ; Ditto,
Perpetual, No. 2,20 s. 6d. ; Liverpool and Manchester,
New Shares, 37i premium ; Manchester and Birming-
ham, 52 ; Midland, 401. Shares, 5i ; Birkenhead, Man-
chester, and Cheshire Junction, Gif ; Bolton, Wigan,
and Liverpool, 3/. 19s. ; Churnet Valley, 3i ; Hudders-
field and Manchester Rail and Canal, 4 5-16 ; Liver-
pool, Orm3kirk, and Preston, 2 1-16 ; London and
York, 4 7-16 ; Manchester and Buxton, 38s. 6d. ;
West Yorkshire, 61 ; Manchester and Salford Water-
works, 56i ; Manchester Fire and Life Assurance,

INNOVATIONS IN THE CI-MECH.—We have been
informed that a meeting of noblemen and gentlemen
took place on Friday, to consider the propriety of
adopting some active measures with respect to the pre-
sent disturbed state of the Church on those matters
which have recently been so much the subject of dis-
cussion. The meeting, which had been convened by
private circular, took place, as we are informed, at Lord
Howard's, in Belgrave-square. The proceedings were
all preliminary, but a committee was appointed to draw
up for approval a memorial, to be addressed either to
the Queen or the Archbishop of Canterbury, as may
hereafter be determined. It was agreed that there
should he another meeting, as we understand, at which
some definite course will be determined upon; but at
the time the meeting was held it was supposed that there
was to he a meeting of the Bishops, to consider the state
of the Church with respect to the recent innovations.
As it is understood that the meeting of the Bishops will
not take place, the further proceedings of the parties
who met en Friday will not now be delayed to await its
result.

DARTMOUTH ELECTION.-DARTMOUTH, MONDAY'.
—A public meeting of Mr. Moffatt's friends was held at
the London Tavern on Saturday evening. At a few mi-
nutes before seven the chair was taken by Capt. Bulley,
the Chairman of Mr. Moffatt's Committee, who an-
nounced the satisfactory progress of their canvas since
the last meeting. Mr. Moffatt addressed the meeting at
some length, amidst continued cheering, lie refuted the
charges that had been brought against the Liberal party
by their Tory opponents, and assured them that there
was no doubt of their ultimate success if the constituency
were only true to. each other, and resisted, as they
hitherto had done, the improper interference of their
opponents. Mr. Nicholls afterwards spoke on the sub-
ject of free trade.

Copy of an application, verbatem et literatum,
made on Monday last, for permission to serenade the
good people of Newport, Monmouthshire, by a modern
Orpheus :—" Honoured Sir I applis to yer ilonur meself
and three other Musishuners as well-known for our
Slap up mussic in Bristul for an allowance to pl■y our
hinstruments waties for this here Crismus ferstifal in
Newpurt hand hinvironses. We has a fidle a Strumbone,
a base Vilinlshilo and a Clarynet, and we plays the
Polkats, and psalmes with other new hairs No malersta-
tion for money, until arter the ferstifal I ham your
honers Obadint Survent Time Brian."

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A young woman at Rouen lost her life two days
ago by the following fatal error. Intending to put a
spoonful of orange-flower water into a tumbler of sugar
and water, she took up by mistake a bottle of nitrous
acid of mercury, and put in a quantity suffichmt to pro-
duce immediately all the symptoms of poisoning, which
acted with such violence that she expired in a very few
minutes.—.Galignani.