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Art. 1. Vices, Sins, and Crimes.
2. Anecdotes of Calcutta.
3. The Tractarian Movement.
4. The Countess Clemence. Chaps. 11. and 111,
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 25.—The Dublin, 50, Captain
Tucker, flag of Rear-Admiral Richard Thomas, late
Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, arrived at Spithead
this morning, where she brought up, and saluted the
Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir C. Rowley,"with 17
guns,,whieh was acknowledged by the flag-ship St. Vincent.
The Dublin left Valparaiso on the 28d of December,
called at Rio on the 27th of January, and left on the Ist
of February. The crew manned yards on the Admiral
leaving the ship this morning, and gave him three hearty
parting cheers. Having been fitted out here she will
most likely proceed to another port to be paid off. She
has been in commission nearly four years.
The Dublin brings the report that the Gorgon steam-
sloop, Captain Hotham, had repaired at Rio the damages
she sustained by being driven ashore at Monte Video,
and was about proceeding to the River Plate to com-
plete her period of service, when she (the Dublin) left
Rio. The Dublin has brought upwards of 150 invalids
from the squadron, and twelve boxes of specie, which
were landed and dispatched to the Bank of England
this morning.
The Collingwood, 80, Captain Smart, flag of Rear-
Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour, C. 8., G.C.11., arrived at
Valparaiso, last from Rio, on the 15th of December.
Rear-Admiral Seymour immediately assumed the chief
command in the Pacific. We are informed that the
Collingwood, in the passage from Rio to Valparaiso,
sprung her main-yard during a squall, while taking in
the mainsail in beating into the Falkland Islands. All
well on board.
The Echo steam-vessel, with Mr. Brown, the Assistant-
Master Attendant of the dockyard on board, and the
Comet steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Pretyman,
which went out on Sunday morning to render assistance
to a ship reported to be in distress, returned yesterday
morning; the latter without having discovered the cause
of the alarm, and the former with the report that about
a mile and three-quarters off St. Catherine's Point (at
the back of the Isle of Wight), a Russian sloop, laden
with fruit from Lisbon, had stranded and gone to pieces
—crew saved.
The Sparrow ketch, Lieutenant-Commander Otter,
wont out of harbour to Spithead yesterday.
The Emerald tender went out yesterday with Captain
Moubray, of the Victory, on board, to muster the crew
and inspect the Eagle, 50, Captain Martin, flag of Rear-
Admiral Inglefield, prior to the payment of advance
wages. The Mercury tender embarked a portion of
Admiral Inglefield's baggage at the Victoria Pier yes-
terday morning, and we believe the Admiral will join
to-morrow, and sail either the same evening or on Thurs-
day morning, calling at Plymouth to endeavour to make
up the complement.
The Resistance, 42, troop-ship, Commander Patay, ar-
rived this morning from Halifax, with a detachment of
the 74th Regiment on board, and a few invalids.
The Hecate steam-sloop, Commander Bower, late from
Cork, was taken alongside the dockyard jetty yesterday
morning to fit for Mediterranean service.
The Neptune, 120, has had her mainmast taken out
and transferred to the Hibernia, and having been supplied
with a new one, she was hauled out of the basin and taken
to her moorings yesterday. The Neptune is now finally
advanced for the pendant.
The Victory, 104, Captain Moubray, flag of Rear-Ad-
miral Hyde Parker, C. 8., is undergoing a refit in her
rigging, her late gear having been in use upwards of
eight years. The Court-martial ordered to be held on
a supernumerary boatswain of this ship, for neglect of
duty, &c., and which was expected to have taken place
yesterday morning, is postponed, on account of the in-
disposition of Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, who inva-
riably presides at Courts-martial held at this port.
The shell practice from the Excellent upon the Swift-
sure was resumed yesterday morning, but the fog has
been so thick to-day as to preclude the continuance of

the practice.
The Collingwood, 80 ; the Talbot, 26, Captain Sir T.
R. T. Thompson, Bart. ; the Fisgard, 42, Captain
Duntze ; and the Cormorant steam sloop, Commander
G. T. Gordon--were at Valparaiso when the Dublin left.
The Alfred, 50, Commodore Purvis ; the Crescent,
42, Lieutenant-Commander Hemsworth ; the Gorgon,
steam-sloop, Captain Hotham ; the Viper, 6, Lieutenant-
Commander Carter ; and the Linnet, 6, Lieutenant-
Commander Dicken ; also, the French steam-frigate
Fulton (which towed the Dublin out) ; the American
frigate Raritan), 60, and brig Congress, 10 ; and the
Portuguese frigate Diana, 46, and brig Samuga, 14—
were all at Rio when the Dublin left. At which time
The Modeste, 18, Commander Beate, was cruizing in
the river Columbia.
The Thalia, 32, Captain Hope, was at Mexico waiting
to embark freight for England.
The Carysfort, 26, Captain the Right Hon. Lord W.
Paulet, was in the Gulf of California.
The Salamander, steam-sloop, Commander A. S. Ha-
mond, was at Otaheite.

THE EASTER HUNT.
The Easter hunt with the Queen's stag-hounds, this
season, was expected to have been a very uninteresting
affair, not only from the extremely heavy state of the
country for miles around Windsor, arising from the
sudden breaking up of the long-continued frost, but
from the great quantity of rain which fell throughout
the day preceding, Sunday last. •
Notwithstanding these gloomy forebodings, the morn
of Monday broke most favourable for the lovers of the
chase, and long before the appointed time for the meet
on Stoke Common, not less than. between 400 and 500
well-mounted horsemen (incluchng a great many
of the officers of the regiments stationed at
Windsor, Hampton Court, and Hounslow, and several
from the metropolis) had assembled. on the heath. A
great number of the neighbouring gentry and their fa-
milies, in their carriages, were also congregated in the
immediate vicinity, while the pedestrians could not have
amounted to less than between 3,000 and 4,000. The
celebrated clipper, Rob Roy, was selected for
the day's sport, to the great disappointment of those, but
of those only, who were mounted upon second or third
rate cattle ; for, upon all former occasions, none but the
A. No. l's have been enabled to live with the Scot-
tish chieftain. Rob Roy, upon being uncarted on the
common shortly before twelve o clock, took away in the
direction of the vicarage at Fulmer, doubling to the left
towards Hedgerley, and again back to the common,
where, upon being met and turned by the foot people,
be went away in right earnest at a tremendous pace,
tailing off several of " the half-guinea hacks," to Fulmer
Bottom, up the high meadows, skirting Bulstrode Park,
to Hedgerley, where he doubled to the right, crossing
the turnpike-road, and away to Stoney Dean, down the
Three Households, into Chalfont St. Giles's, where he
took soil for nearly a quarter of an hour, before he was
whipped out of a large pond ; thus giving a little wel-
come breathing-time to many of the almost exhausted
nags. Rob then again went away by the Vatch, on to
Chenies and Latimers, crossing Shepperfield Common
to King's Langley, in Hertfordshire, where he again
took refuge in a pond, at the back of the church, and
was there taken after one of the most gallant runs this
season, of upwards of two hours and three quarters, over
at least six-and-twenty miles of heavy country. Up-
wards of forty well-mounted horsemen were well up at
the finish. The distance gone over, from point to point,
"as the crow flies," was at least twenty miles. The
run, throughout, was at a racing pace. The hounds,
which went twelve miles to the meet, and were thirty-
two miles from the kennel at the take, returned to Ascot
the same evening, having traversed during the day up-
wards of seventy miles.

k man named Gatehouse, for an assault on a police-
constable, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment
at the Middlesex Sessions•

THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.
The following letter appears in the Standard :
" Clumber, March 12, 1845.
" SlR,—When so few are to be found who will ven-
ture to speak favourably of me, I ought to be, and am,
particularly obliged to you for the chivalrous audacity
with which you dared to print the favourable view which
you are good enough to entertain of me and my doings.
I very sincerely thank you for your prompt interposition
and ready self-sacrifice.
" It has always been my strange fatality to have my
motives and actions misunderstood, and probably few
men living, not being public men, have been more vilified
and injured than I have been. I have endured this per-
versity with patience and resolution, but at last I became
disheartened and disgusted ; I found myself standing
alone in the maintenance of opinions which I believed to
be right ; everything fell away from me; one event after
another tended to depress my spirits and my energy,
and to remove those inducements which stimulated
me to exertion. My health, my peace of mind, my
circumstances (as I am not ashamed to avow,
arising from no discreditable cause), required my
retirement for a season. Unseen and forgotten,
you may well imagine that I was astounded at seeing
The Hafod Estate' heading a division in the columns
of the Standard appropriated to the report of the de-
bates in Parliament. I, of course, read on with deep
interest, and soon perceived the old leaven and the un-
generous motive for introducing my name upon the
scene, finally observing that the malignants professed to
be perfectly satisfied with Lord Lincoln's statement, as
well they might, for its plain truth deprived malignity
of its power to cavil on.
"Pray observe that I by no means object to the
watchfulness and untiring scrutiny of Messrs. Hume,
Williams, and Co. I applaud their searching inquiries,
but I disapprove of a malign and prejudiced influence
which urges to suppose that every transaction connected
with me and my family must of necessity be suspicious,
corrupt, and improper.
" When fairly exercised, I should be exceedingly
sorry to see that the vigilance of the gentlemen was in
the slightest degree relaxed; it gives health and life to
them, and is constitutionally wholesome for us. Such
refining and scouring is a national benefit, and although
I do not desire to follow the newest fashion and to over-
whelm these gentlemen with fulsome compliments and
eloquent laudations, yet I must confess that it would be
really a public misfortue if the nation were deprived of
the now very necessary services of such lynx-eyed and
indefatigable detectors of abuses—such unwearied
cleansers of Augean stables ; only may I caution them
not to fall foul of me too hastily or so readily, for I can
assure them that their efforts to prove me a scoundrel
will only serve to make them appear spiteful and
ridiculous.
" But, more than enough of this. Sir, my principal
cause for addressing you is not to censure or applaud
Mr. Hume, but to supply a deficiency ; because Lord
Lincoln, in his natural earnestness to acquit himself
of all blame or dishonesty in the transaction, appears
to me to have omitted to state that I also am justly
clear of all blame. I may be too sensitive, but I
fancy that I perceive what may be construed by the
public into a supposition that I had been requiring
something which it would be improper to grant. Such
was not the fact. I resisted the claims of the Crown
over my property, which I conscientiously believed not
to exist, and still think were unfounded—but that was
all. I neither expected nor sought that favour should be
shown to me. I would not, for any consideration of
paltry advantage to myself, tamper with any official
man, and least of all when that man was my son, whose
honour, virtue, and reputation would be dearer to me
than my own. Still, however, my own honour, and re-
putation and unquestionable integrity, are most dear to
me ; and I cannot endure that, even by implication, I
should be suspected by my countrymen ; and as my vin-
dication, save by yourself, has not been attempted in
terms, I must undertake to be my own herald, and once
more proclaim my innocence, my negation of dishonesty
in any shape, and call upon those who would rob me of
my best possession, to remember that I am the same man
yesterday and to-day, and that whilst reason maintains
her sway, lam not likely to change my nature. Who
steals my purse steals trash; but he who filches my good
name, steals from me that which not enriches him, yet
leaves me poor indeed.'
" I distinctly declare, then, that Lord Lincoln has
spoken the truth, the whole truth; and that, pure and
clear as he is of a shadow of imputation in this transac-
tion, I am equally so;* and in fact I only most unwill-
ingly submitted to what, by the conditions of the origi-
nal purchase-contract, I was compelled to do—to effect
a good and perfectly valid title to the estate, although I
believed that the vendors to me had, for expediency, en-
gaged to yield to the Crown a right to which it was not
entitled. This is my case; and if I were to write vo-
lumes, I could add nothing to its simple strength.
"My statement, I perceive, has already run to a
greater length than I intended; but whilst I am on the
subject, having undertaken to be my own herald, and
most anxious as I am—more anxious, possibly, than I
may be given credit for—to stand well with my coun-
trymen, whose good opinion I value beyond all price, I
must beg to detain your attention for a few moments
whilst I allude to the past, and bring you to the pre-
sent, that you and they may be perfectly aware of what
have hitherto been my dishonest gains.
" When I began life I had the fairest prospects before
me. In a political point of view I possessed great
power. Though in the eyes of Reformers I was re-
garded as an obnoxious boroughmonger, still my power
and influence were indubitable. I ask, did I avail my-
self of my position to do wrong? Did I sell the seats
for gain, or dishonestly traffic with them, either
privately or politically? Did I ever act un
constitutionally as regarded them, or as con-
cerned the State? I aver that, to my knowledge, I
never did, nor do I conceive it to be possible that I
could, as such proceedings would have been utterly re-
pugnant to my feelings and principles. My boroughs,
then, on the one hand, were not productive of profit,
whilst on the other they entailed prodigious losses and
sacrifices, by feeding the interest, by contests, petitions,
and, finally, by their Parliamentary confiscation, when I
was robbed, without compensation, of a valuable consi-
deration, probably not short of 200,0001.
" It is true, honorary and honourable distinctions had
been conferred upon me when a very young man. From
the excellent and revered George 111. I received the
Lieutenancy of the county and the Rangership of Sher-
wood Forest, neither of these offices yielding one six-
pence of emolument. These appointments I solicited of
the King himself, and they were bestowed without hesi-
tation, and with that paternal benignity which, from my
earliest youth, I invariably experienced from his Majesty.
I entered upon the lieutenancy in times of considerable
difficulty and much anxiety. I exerted myself to the ut-
most, and I hope not unsuccessfully, through many anxious
years, when at length tranquillity was restored. I
spared neither my person nor my purse: it was my duty
so to do, and I rendered it with alacrity and diligence;
perhaps I may have fairly earned an expression of
thanks from the proper quarter; it would have amply
rewarded me, but it was forgotten. Having had the
honour of serving four sovereigns, I may be permitted to
remark that the per contra in pounds, shillings, and
pence, was the payment for the patents on every occa-
sion. No great profit here.
" The garter I never would:ask for, though frequently
invited to solicit the honour; when offered to me I de
dined it, and suggested that it should be given to the
Duke of Wellington, as I had no claim to distinction. I
was commanded to accept it, and was: invested. The
honour is great, and I hope that I am not insensible of
its value ; but as my present object is to show that I
cannot be charged with dishonest gain, I may be per-
mitted to mention that the fees are on a scale commen-
surate with the honour.
" As noneof these distinctions confer emolument or
patronage, it will be seen, that with the single exception
of pay when on duty with the Yeomanry corps which I
commanded, I have never drawn to the amount of one
penny from th public purse, nor have I as yet obtained
for my family any situation or emolument, though I ho-
nestly avow that I would not preclude myself from the
right of fair and legitimate solicitation, if in favour of a
proper and competent member of it.
" It will be seen, then, that the public has no great
cause to complain of my grasping, or dishonest gains.
It may not have approved of my acts, or of my opinions ;
the Ministers of the day may have been of the same
mind ; but at least it will be admitted that I have acted
from a pure and conscientious conviction, and with an
utter disregard of selfish consequences.
"So in all measures of which I highly disapproved,
whether Roman Catholic emancipation, reform, eccle-
siastical commissions, old corporations, Irish policy,
corn-laws, free-trade, with many others, and more re
cently the income-tax and tariff, Canada corn, and na-
tional education, &c., in which I may not have had the
good fortune to concur with the Minister of the day—on
all occasions I have not scrupled to disagree and oppose,
whether as a candid friend or a candid enemy—nor can
I do ray duty and abstain from dissent, when I see such
Bills as the Jews' Disabilities Bill introduced into a
Christian Parliament, and look forward to the promised
measures which are to give a heavy blow and great dis-
couragement to the Protestant Church, whilst Popery
is to be elevated and encouraged, and enemies to our
faith, heretics, sceptics, or infidels, are to legislate for
that Church which they abhor: such measures demand
the stern opposition of every Christian, and every con-
scientious Protestant, who must too plainly and fear-
fully perceive how small is the consideration or care for
the Establishment, but how great for her deadliest foes.
Thus, when I have differed I have never done so from
waywardness or faction, but as a painful performance of
a duty—from an inward persuasion that though interest
and ease forbade it, principle and conviction dictated and
required it. These have been, and I trust will ever con-
tinue to be, my motives, my incentives, and my guides ;
and although I will not pretend to assert that I have
been right, I can safely declare that I believed myself
not to have been wrong.
" Many, perhaps, may remark—More fool he for his

* " It should be borne in mind that Lord Linceln, though
the chief, is not the only commissioner. He and two other
gentlemen form the Board of Woods" &c.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—" Pity the sorrows of a poor old man !"
is the burden of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle's letter
to the Standard. We have transferred the document
to our own columns, as a curiosity of its class ; and are
impelled, by sympathy for the almost isolated state of
the noble writer, to offer a few remarks upon his
affecting appeal to the public in his own behalf.
With respect to the proximate matter of provoca-
tion which prompted the Noble Duke to draw the
pen in self-defence, we think he has amply vindicated
himself from the imputations which were cast upon him
—if, indeed, anything more could be desired beyond the
triumphant answer which his son, the Earl of Lin-
coln, from his place in Parliament and as Chief
Commissioner of the Board of Works, made to the
attack—responded to, as that justification of his own
and his father's conduct was, by the cordial concurrence
of the House of Commons. This testimony is a volun-
tary offering at the shrine of truth—equally due to a
political opponent as to a political friend. We were not of
the number of the Duke of Newcastle's accusers, and
might therefore be silent. Candour, if not a feeling of a
higher and stronger character, impels us to aid the
Noble Duke in vindicating his injured fame and feelings,
when hen he appeals to his countrymen of all parties
against an unfounded and unworthy accusation.
Other topics are introduced into this epistle which, if
not possessing equal claims on public sympathy, are not
wholly destitute of interest. Tho Duke of Newcastle
is now an old man; one of the very few now re-
maining of the Eldon school of politicians. To Lord
Eldon, in some respects, he bore a similitude in the
general character of his mind, tied to whom he adhered
when the majority of his associates forsook him and fled.
" When I began life," says the Duke of Newcastle,
" I had the fairest prospects before me. In a political
point of view, I possessed great power." There is much
that is melancholy in the retrospect. The Duke, accord-
ing to the statement in his letter, has stood still, and
beheld most of his early associates in political life pass
into the grave ; while the few who remain have suf-
fered themselves to be carried away by the current of
advancing opinion on questions which were, with him,
sacred as articles of faith. He is left alone ; denuded of
his political power. and deprived of his political asso-
ciates. Though we cannot regret the changes which
have taken place in the political institutions and social
relations of the people to which he alludes, we can easily
understand the dreary feelings with which they are con-
templated in themselves, and in their consequences, by
one circumstanced with relation to them as the Duke
of Newcastle has been, and now is. We admit the
Noble Dake's claim to " having acted from a pure and
conscientious conviction, and with an utter disregard
of selfish consequences :—ln all the measures of which
I highly disapproved, whether Roman Catholic Emanci
pation, Reform, Ecclesiastical Commissions, old Corpo-
rations, Irish policy, Corn-laws, Free• trade, with many
others, and more recently the Income-tax and Tariff,
Canada Corn, and National Education, &c., in which I
may not have had the good fortune to concur with
the Minister of the day—on all occasions I have
not scrupled to disagree and oppose, whether as a
candid friend or a candid enemy ; nor can I do my
duty and abstain frem dissent, when I see such Bills
as the Jews' Disabilities Bill introduced into a Chris-
tian Parliament, and look forward to the promised
measures which are to give a heavy blow and great
discouragement to the Protestant Church ; whilst
Popery is to be -elevated and encouraged, and enemies
to our faith, Heretics, Sceptics, or Infidels, are to
legislate for that Church which they abhor. Such
measures demand the stern opposition of every Chris-
tian and every conscientious Protestant, who must
too plainly and fearfully perceive how small is the
consideration or care for the Establishment, but how
great for her deadliest foes." With reference to the
policy, past and present, of those who now direct the des-
tinies of this great country, the Duke mildly observes—
" I am disclaimed by those who, I am compelled to
think, should be as I am." To the question, " Why,
then, does he not follow the ways of the world ?" the
Noble Duke replies, " Such ways are not my ways. I
could derive no satisfaction from exchanging principles for
expediency. So, like a wounded deer, lam discounte-
nanced by the whole herd." We cease to war with the
foe who has retired from the battle-field. Although we
retain the same antagonistic position to the principles
which the Duke of Newcastle upheld whet' he occupied
no insignificant post in the war of parties, we respect the
consistency which has marked his political career, as
contrasted with that of the converts to expediency to
which he alludes, with a bitterness of feeling which their
desertion of him has provoked. His reproaches find au
apology in the neglect of which he has eloquently com-
plained in the letter before us.
STANDARD.—It is among the earliest and most
important precautions adopted by the skilful defender
of a military position, to call in his troops from un-
tenable or useless posts, in which they would squander
their lives to no purpose, and to remove everything
that could cover the advance of an enemy. It is im-
possible, however, that those arrangements can always
be made without exciting dissatisfaction ; some men
will attach importance to positions held by others
to be untenable or useless, for all were never
agreed upon any plan ; some will even sus-
tain material injury from the necesssity of
surrounding the position with an open field. Still, if
the common defence is to be made, such sacrifices of opi-
nion, and even of interest, must be made. It is in civil
polemics as in " the trade of war,' untenable or useless
opinions, how fondly soever cherished, must bo surren-
dered. Meaner interests must be sacrificed in order to
protect vital principles and paramount institutions. This
will always produce a great deal of murmuring on the part
of those whose particular opinions or interests may be in-
fringed upon ; but the honest and firm statesman will
disregard this murmuring, and even the obloquy into
which, after a little time, the scattered reproaches of the
multitude may consolidate themselves. He is contented
to know that he has defended all that ought to be de-
fended, and all that can be defended. Our reflections
have been turned into this channel by the following
conclusion of a well-written but reproachful article of
this day's Morning Chronicle :—" Mr. D'lsraeli, how-
ever, is of opinion that Sir Robert Peel is needlessly
letting the agriculturists down, that ho is actu-
ally and essentially sacrificing them, and that from
pure love of him they accept him as the most agreeable
executioner. Like condemned and despairing wretches,
they consent to inevitable death, and are consoled by
having it of their own direction and choosing,
" Like maudlin Clarence in his Malmsey butt.
And such, no doubt, is the opinion of a great portion of
the agriculturists themselves. But men of common
sense amongst them must see that Sir R. Peel has ma-
naged their estate better than any other steward they
could have appointed. See at how small a real sacrifice
of agricultural interests he has contrived to purchase, not
only the acquiescence, but the support and applause of
our amiable Opposition. Nor does heseemat all likely to
sacrifice one iota more than the exigencies of the time
may imperatively require. We deny altogether the jus-
tice of considering the Protectionists as victims either
innocent or asleep, or about to be slaughtered. Let
not the Liberals go to sleep themselves with such an
idea. Their antagonists, they may depend upon it,
are wide awake, Buffer aware of what they do
and what they , and how much they
will suffer. Peel is their instrument, not they his
dupes. They may sneer at him and damage him, in
order to humble and master him—besides the advantage
of giving themselves the air of injured men—but depend
upon it, on the whole they are satisfied, if not with
Peel, at least with Peel's work, and they regard him
as a very useful anti-Liberal factor. Farmers murmur,

Whittaker :
" St. Stephen's, Walbrook, March 24, 184 g.
" The rector of the parish having observed upon the
church door a notice for a vestry meeting on Easter
Tuesday, signed Michael Gibbs and Thomas Whittaker
hereby protests against that meeting, as being summoned
without the rector's consent, and therefore contrary to
law. " GEORGE CROLY, LL.D."
The authorities on which this protest was founded
were-Ist, the opinion of Dr. Phillimore, given expressly
on the point—namely, "The usual, and therefore, under
ordinary circumstances, the preferable course is for the
churchwardens to give notice for the holding of the
vestry, but, in so doing, they are ministerial to the in-
cumbent, and they are bound to consult his wishes be-
fore they do so."—And also " Steer's Parish-law," p.
267. Notices for church matters, regularly, are to be
called by the churchwardens, with the consent of the
minister. There is also an express judgment of Sir
John Nicholl to the same effect. No question of Church
law is more incontestible.
Notwithstanding this protest Mr. Michael Gibbs and
Mr. Thomas Whittaker presented themselves in the yes-.
try-room at ten on Easter Tuesday. The rector then
once more declared that the meeting was held without
his consent, and therefore illegal ; and Mr. Michael
Gibbs, without adverting to this protest, demanded
that all persons not members of the select vestry should
retire, which the parishioners present declined to do.
Mr. Thomas Whittaker then said, " I move that the
select vestry do adjourn to the Lord Mayor's private
residence, 33, Walbrook." Mr. Eddison then said, " I
second the motion." Mr. Michael Gibbs then held up
his hand, declared the motion carried, and they left the
vestry-room ; Mr. Thomas Whittaker returning to
" invite the rector to follow them." To which the
rector replied, " I invite you, sir, to stay here and de
your duty."
[Thus ended the meeting, in which but three indivi-
duals, calling themselves select vestrymen, appeared, and
thus the parish, now for the third year, is to be kept in
the same state of confusion, which is already so well
known to the public. Three individuals are to have the
election of the parish officers, and if Mr. Michael Gibbs
shall so please, it will be in his power to be re-elected in
the same easy ard independent style to the last hour of
his natural life. This is the twenty-third year of his
holding the same. Since the period when the account
of his stewardship, (luring nineteen years and up-
wards, was demanded by a bill in Chancery—an investi-
gation which is still only in progress—no account of his
conduct of the parish moneys has been given to the pa-
rishioners, the whole of the parochial income being still
in the hands of Mr. Michael Gibbs. We recollect no
more unaccountable case coming before the public. How
long the whole property of a city parish is to be left thus
to the management of an individual, is a question, we
think, naturally calculated to call up public sympathy.
What are the ecclesiastical authorities about ? What is
the law fit for if it cannot meet such conduct ? We see
that a meeting of the parishioners at the Vestry-room
is announced for Thursday next, at ten in the morning.
This will probably throw some new light on the matter.
The whole affair is extraordinary, but the stubborn re-
tention of office by any one person for twenty-three
years, and especially under the strong and explicit re-
marks which have been made in the course of the last
two years, uppears to us the most extraordinary portion
of the whole.—ED. M. C.] —Chronicle.

STATE OF TRADE.
The breaking-up of the frost has not yet restored ani.
mation in this market. The demand for yarn wag
yesterday more limited than for some time past ;
and some of the buyers for Russia and Germany
were offering orders on lower prices. We be-
lieve, that, at a very trifling concession from
the previous rates, a considerable amount of bu-
siness would have been done. The spinners, how-
ever, being almost all under contract, refused to give
way, and the transactions were consequently limited. In
the goods market, the accounts from India and China
have tended to depress the prices of shirtings, which, as
well as most descriptions of printing cloth, have been
sold on rather lower terms ; and the market generally
is heavy.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, MARCH 24.
—There is no improvement in the market to report to-
day. The demand still continues very limited, and prices
ruinously low. The wool market has been quite as dull
as that for flannels ; and there seems no desire on the
part of the manufacturers, to purchase except for imme-
diate use.—Manche.9ter Guardian of this day.

TUE WILL FOIIGEBS.—It would seem, from some
letters received from Barber, dated the Cape of Good
Hope, September 22, that he still confidently hopes his
innocence will be established, and that he shall speedily
receive notice of recal from Australia. Speaking of his
condition on board, and his hopes for the future, he says
in one of his letters to a friend :—" I am glad to say that,
in spite of small-pox and other illness on board, and still
more the horrible cruelty of my case, my health has not
suffered seriously, but what I have had to suffer in such a
pandemonium as a convict-ship you can readily imagine;
but it is my determination to bear to the utmost of my
fortitude all that may be cast upon me until that day
when my innocence shall be acknowledged at least by
all the impartial world. Sure lam that day will
come if my few friends will exert themselves. I am
pretty well occupied on board, being librarian, chap-
lain's clerk, and inspector of police. Luckily there
is one convict, M'Cullura, whose heart and head well
qualify him for an associate, and we fill up all our leisure
time in reading and discussion, so that I hope to make
excellent use of my time in improving my mind.
. . . . lam glad to say that the surgeon superin.
tendent has interested himself about me and convinced
himself, from Fletcher's statement and manner, of my
innocence, and will furnish a declaration to that effect.
I am treated with much consideration by the
• • . •
prisoners. There is a general and firm belief on board
of my innocence, and although our costume is the same,
I receive much respectful attention ; they will never allow
me to perform any of the drudgery of the ship ; but for
all this my fate is a terrible one. One convict has es-
caped since we have been in the bay, but this is a step I
will never attempt. No; nothing could be appreciated
by me but a restoration to the credit and esteem from
which I have been most cruelly driven. . . . . It is
lamentable to think how nearly we succeeded in my
deliverance on trial ; but God's will be done, and by
unceasing exertions I may yet have an autumn of hap.
piness and honour. . . . . I have just received a visit
from an inhabitant of the Cape, formerly of London,
who tells me of a declaration which, he says, appeared
a few days after Fletcher's, signed by Spnders, and
in exculpation of me. He says that the impression at
the Cape is, that I shall soon call there on my return."
—Britannia.
THE LATE EXPLOSION AT BLACKWALL. Mr.
Lowe, the managing engineer of, Messrs. Samuda's fee.
tory, against whom a verdict of manslaughter was re•
turned by the coroner's jury, has not as yet been awe-
hendeel on the warrant which has been issued against
him. _lt is, however, understood that he will surrender
at the next sitting of the Central Criminal Court to
take his trial, and that several eminent engineers will
be examined on his behalf. The trial is looked forward
to with much interest in the engineering world. The
poor fellows who were removed to the London Hospital
are still going on very favourably.