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LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1845.

alike deaf to the voice of reason, and their own solemn
engagements ; they have resolved to march to Rome,
and rather than be defeated in their purpose are de-
termined to risk all consequences. The scenes which
have been exhibited at Exeter for the last two or
three Sundays reflect the greatest disgrace upon
the order of Bishops. Striplings from Oxford
imbued with the new doctrines, and looking up to
their superiors for patronage, are encouraged to in-
sult the unanimous voice of the public, to treat with
contempt the most respectful and urgent remon-
strances against a departure from the usual modes of
public worship, to prefer the orders, or rather the
well-known propensities of their patrons, to the well-
being of their flocks—and their just reward is universal
execration. They are deserted in their churches,
hooted and mobbed in the streets, and obliged to
appeal to the civil force for protection even in their
own houses. The patrons of church livings, the Legis-
lature, to which the Established Reformed Church
owes its existence, and the QUEEN herself, the head of
the Establishment, cannot any longer stand by
inactive spectators, when the appointed shep-
herds of the flock have shown themselves rene-
gades, or incompetent to their duty. Let
the people, therefore, throw the Bishops en-
tirely out of the question ; let them apply for pro-
tection to the right quarter ; to the Crown and the
two Houses of Parliament, and demand their rights
as Protestants. To desert the Establishment or
erect free churches would be a great folly and a great
sin. This is what the new sect want. Could the
Puseyite Bishops only get rid of the staunch sup-
porters of the Protestant religion, and be at the same
time allowed to retain their large incomes and their
enormous patronage, they flatter themselves that
in time all would be right, that they would speedily
assert their supreme spiritual authority, and
again unite with Rome to elevate the Church
above human laws, and put down that spirit
of justice and independence which has ever
been so fatal to ecclesiastical dominion. The
people of the diocese of Exeter may rest assured that
they have the sympathies of all good Protestants, that
they will be supported to the utmost by the Legis-
lature, and in due time shall obtain their just reward.
Never, perhaps, in the whole history of commotions
in this country, and these are not few, was there ever
such a general, a determined, and a cordial hatred of
a new sect, as that which now prevails against these
wolves in sheeps' clothing.

remind him that he was placed on the throne, not by
right of descent, but by their sole will and pleasure ?
Judging from past events, and present appearances,
there is but too much ground for suspicion.
The EMPEROR, it must have been observed,
makes all his journies in the most expeditious
manner; not one seems to know when he is
to leave his capital or when he is to return ;
he affords no time for preparing plots during his ab-
sence ; even when he undertook the important visit to
England, and honoured our QUEEN with his pre-
sence, as little was known of his departure at St.
Petersburgh as at London, where every one was
taken by surprise. This is one of the penalties which
despots pay for what has been called their unlimited
power, though it is in reality the power of a system
of which the Sovereign is the head. He bears all
the blame ; he endures all the anxieties and horrors
surrounding a throne unprotected by the lower and
middle classes—unprotected, in fact, by any class ex-
cept that which reigns alike over the King and the
peasant, and which sacrifices all others to its own
selfish interests. He sits on a volcano, and every
symptom of change, imaginary and real, overwhelms
him with the terror of an explosion. Even the
Emperor ALEXANDER, with all his good and
great qualities, and after the immense services
he had rendered to his country, was placed
in this very situation at the hour of his death.
The mine partially exploded soon after that event,
and the throne was saved only by the courage and
presence of mind displayed by his successor. Per-
haps his turn is now come; but such mystery and
secrecy prevails in all proceedings of despotic coun-
cils, and especially in those of Russia, that nothing
like an ordinary calculation of results can be obtained.
Two circumstances, however, throw some light on
the present policy of the Russian nobles. They are
determined to keep the peasantry down, and prevent
a middle class, like that in England, from dividing
authority with them. It is for the interest of the
throne, on the other hand, to raise the in-
habitants of large towns to importance, to give
trade and commerce its due share in the admi-
nistration of the affairs of the empire, and
thereby to form a counterpoise to the influence which
weighs down the energies of the most useful classes
in the community. The nobles, like the old barons
of England, will naturally struggle to the last against
both Sovereign and people, and, unfortunately, they
have more power now than even those haughty Eng-
lish despots had at any period, except when an imbe-
cile King was on the throne. They possess all the
great domains of the country—they possess vast
power in the army, and, unfortunately, the army at
present is but too ready to be tampered with by their
machinations. Peace to Russian soldiers is the
greatest of all evils. Both men and officers are, at
the present moment, ill fed and ill paid—they are
sunk in idleness and poverty—they have had no wars
for sixteen years, except the war in the Caucasus, where
neither plunder nor glory is to be obtained, and they
are naturally dissatisfied with a SOVEREIGN who would
not take advantage of the helpless condition of the
Turkish empire, when it was assailed by MEHEMET
ALI, nor of the intrigues of Russian agents in Persia
against the British possessions in India. Peace abroad
and tranquillity at home are incompatible in a country
so purely military. The soldiers are open to any
bidder, and possibly the nobles may be the purchasers-
These remarks, of course, are founded only on con-
conjecture, for the domestic policy of Russia is in-
volved in impenetrable darkness. Even the causes of
her revolutions, the mode in which an obnoxious
Czar is pushed from his throne, And the winding up
of a vast conspiracy, which in France or England
would astonish the world, are regarded in that be-
nighted country as matters of ordinary occurrence,
and the great body of the people, like automatons,
move on again with the new system.

In the last number of the Dublin Pilot, which is
generally regarded in Ireland as the organ of Mr.
O'CONNELL'S sentiments, occur the following signifi-
cant remarks, in reference to the recent official coin-
,nunication from Rome, addressed to Archbishop
CROLLY :—" It is useless in us, Irish Catholics, to say
that this rescript is uncanonical, informal, and there-
fore can have no influence upon the priesthood, for
they will regard it as a private letter of advice from
he highest personage on earth, and cannot treat it
with indifference. It is not to be concealed, then,
that this rescript is an untoward event ; and the Irish
people should at once dispatch a delegation to Rome,
t) lay before his Holiness the true state of this coun-
try, and explain to him how desolate, and friendless,
and utterly abandoned the Catholics would be,
if their hierarchy and clergy did not assist and guide
them in their political movements. The members of
such delegation must go instructed to assure his
Holiness that there is nothing licentious—nothing
guilty, as in the French Revolution—nothing rash or
imprudent, as in the attempted Polish Revolution—
connected with the Repeal movement in Ireland.'
This delegation of Repeal members to Rome—of
which it is scarcely to be supposed that Mr. O'CON-
NELL disapproves, inasmuch as the project is broached
in his own journal, the Pilot—is an ingenious idea,
at least so far as it will tend to sustain the hopes of
the Repealers, which are just now greatly discou-
raged, and keep them in a sanguine state of excite-
ment until the return of the delegation from its
mission to the Vatican. Considered in this light, the
project, we repeat, is an ingenious ruse on the part of
the Repeal agitators to gain time; but no one can
possibly doubt the result of the mission ; it will prove
a most egregious failure, and will ultimately leave
O'CoNNELL and his subordinates in a worse posi-
tion than that in which they now are. The POPE
cannot, even if he possessed the inclination to do so,
rescind the orders which, after much grave delibera-
tion, he has deemed it expedient to issue to the Irish
clergy on the subject of the Repeal agitation. The

Infallible cannot confess to fallibility, but must be
consistent in spite of himself. Like the laws of the
Medes and Persians, his rescripts must be unalter-
able. But were it not so—were the Vicar of CHRIST
at liberty to change his opinions as coolly and as
readily as a Bishop of EXETER ; Still it is not to be
supposed for an instant he would do so—certainly not
in a case like the present. For mark the dangerous
political precedent he would thereby be establishing
throughout the Catholic portion of Europe ! If he
once yielded to the entreaties of the delegation, and
withdrew his rescript to the Irish clergy, he would
be virtually acknowledging their right to interfere
in all matters of temporal agitation ; and this ob-
noxious privilege once conceded to the Catholic priest-
hood of Ireland, with what propriety could it be re-
fused to the Catholic priesthood of other countries,
should they at any time imagine their interests con-
cerned in heading a popular movement against autho-
rity ? It is ridiculous to suppose that the POPE
could ever be brought to concede a dangerous right
like this to his clergy, for it would be sure, at no
distant period, to bring down on him the wrath of
France, Austria, and the other Catholic States of
Europe, who have no notion of putting too much
temporal power into the hands of their priesthood.
Then, observe the nature of the arguments which the
delegation are to address to his Holiness, in the hope
of flashing conviction on his ghostly mind! He is
to be solemnly assured that there is "nothing licen-
tious—nothing guilty—nothing rash nor imprudent
connected with the Repeal movement in Ireland !"
It is as innocent as a lamb of mischief; in fact, it is
as moral, well-behaved, orderly, and rational, as it is
possible for an ultra-revolutionary movement to be•
To be sure, if it could by any remote chance be
crowned with success, it would put the sister country
into a state of absolute phrenzy from one extremity
to the other ; be the means of originating discord,
spoliation, and anarchy without end or limit; de-
,troy the integrity of the empire ; confound and con-
vulse all orders of society, and astonish Europe by
he mingled folly, rashness, and atrocity of its ex •
cesses—to be sure, Repeal, if successful, would do all
this; but what then ? These are trivial considera-
tions beneath the dignity of a patriotic Repealer,
whose vocation it is to act as much as possible from
,mpulse, and as little as possible from the dictates of
common-sense ! We cannot conceive a richer or
broader joke than this proposed petition of the Irish
delegation to the PorE, that he—a ruler still more
jealous of his temporal than even of his spiritual
authority—will be graciously pleased to patronise
anarchy, by allowing the Catholic clergy of Ireland
to take active part in a great popular :movement
which is ultra-revolutionary in its character, and
tends directly to the dismemberment of the empire !

Independent of the rumour of the Emperor of
RUSSIA'S death, the accounts from St. Petersburgh
for some time have been of a very unfavourable cha-
racter. Sickness in the Royal Family, it is said, has
prevented the usual routine of balls and Court
amusements ; rumours of changes in the system of
Government have prevailed, and it has even been in-
ferred that there is a party around the throne more
powerful than the throne itself, and fully determined
also to assert their power. Of the vast influence of
the nobles and their retainers there can be no doubt,
and a very striking instance of the fact has been fur-
nished within the last eighteen months. The EM-
PEROR, aware of the wretched condition of the serfs
throughout his vast dominions, and anxious to raise
them in the scale of human beings, as well for their
own sake rs the security of the throne, had issued an
ukase, the object of which evidently was to prepare
the way for their gradual emancipation. The
lords of the soil took the alarm, rebelled against the
royal will, and in a very few weeks afterwards the
humane decree was withdrawn. Such a display of
feeling on the part of the SOVEREIGN, however, could
not fail to produce a strong effect; it showed these
arbiters of royal destiny that the power, not the will,
was wanting to interfere with their privileges, and
led them to believe that, at a fit opportunity, the
design might be carried into effect. Have they,
therefore, been forming schemes to ward off the
danger, to lay their SOVEREIGN under restraint, and

SUN-OFFICE, Three o' Clock.
The French papers of Sunday have just arrived,
but they bring no intelligence of importance.

The state of the Protestant Church now impera-
tively calls for the interference of Parliament. The
Bishops have been appealed to in defence of the Re-
formed Religion. The heresies of Oxford, the Popish
rites and ceremonies practised in many churches, and
the commotion excited among the people by the
wicked attempts of perjured men to destroy the great
work of the Reformation, have all been placed before
their
eyes in vain. Archbishops and Bishops are

E SON, LONDON. TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21. 1345.

HAMBURGH and FLANDERS MAIL
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS, JAN. 18.—The Chamber of Repre-
sentatives, in its sitting to-day, continued the discus-
sion of the project of law on the new method of
sanctioning, promulgating, and publishing the laws.
Articles 2 to 6 were adopted; the other article 3 will
be discussed on Monday.
" We think it proper to mention an interesting inci-
dent in the last Secret Committee of the Chamber of
Representatives ; it was completely passed over in
silence in the different accounts given in the journals :
" The Minister of the Interior made, as we arc
told, in this sitting, a very complete statement of all
the circumstances which preceded the public debate
on the 19th article of the treaty of the Ist of Sep-
tember ; among other things, he said that he had a
a conversation on the subject with two members of the
Opposition—M. Delfesse and M. Leiorrine—that he
had acquainted them with the doubts which that
article excited, of the means which he reckoned
upon to remove them, and of the necessity which
he felt of having a secret committee, in which he
would acquaint the whole Chamber with the state of
the case. The object of the Minister in making this
statement was to demonstrate that he had never for a
moment thought of making a mystery to the Chamber
of the state of affairs.
"M. Delfosse, we are told, spoke after the Minister.
That Hon. Member said that he might have many
reasons to complain of the Minister of the Interior ;
but that, in the matter in question, he should never
accuse him of disingenuousness or bad intentions, and
that, at the most, there might have been some want
of consideration. M. Delfosse expressed himself in
snch terms that the Minister was induced to rise, and
to say to the Deputy for Liege, with much emotion,
I thank you.'
" We mention this incident from respect to the truth,
and because it tends to present the result of the dis-
cussion in a very different point of view from that in
which it appears in some accounts before published."—
Courrier Belge.
BERLIN, JAN. 16.—Mr. Wheaton, Envoy Extra-
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United
States of North America at this Court, has arrived
from Paris.
The Silesian Gazette says •—" It is reported that
the Duke of Leuchtenberg will shortly, on account
of the health of his consort, go to settle for some years
in a southern climate."—Hamburgh Borsenhalle,
Jan. 17.
The Universal Gazette of the 16th and 17th has no
news whatever from St. Peter3burgh, or from any
part of Poland and Russia.
BERLIN, JAN. 16.—The Provincial !Assemblies of
the Provinces of Silesia and Posen are summoned for
the 9th of February.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, JAN. 18.
Actual Debt, 21 per Cent
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 98%
Ditto Three per Cent
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto —
Ditto, ditto 1840
Ditto, ditto 1844
Ditto of the City, 1843 lO3
Ditto, 1832
Bank of Belgium 6lO
—Brussels Papers, Jan. 19.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 13.
5 per Cent. Metalliques
4 per Cent. Ditto lOl%
3 per Cent. Ditto
L0an,1634
Ditto, 1839
Bank Shares
Esterhazy's Loan
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand
Gloggnitz 126
Milan llB%
—Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan. 16.
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, JAN. 17.
Bills. Money,
Austrian 5 per Cents
Bank Shares 1650
Anglo-Russian Loan
Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate 105% 105%
Ditto Ist series Inscription — 105%
Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series 9
Ditto, in Certificate 99l—
_ 4 per Cent., Hope and Co 9l
/2
Ditto Stieglitz
Spanish New 5 per Cent 203/4
Ditto 3 per Cent —
Anglo. Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent —
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 63%
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent B7 87%
National Bank Shares — 134
Exchange on London.
Petersburg, Three months —
Bremen, Two months
—Hamburg Borsenhalle, Jan. 16.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JAN. 16.
Bills. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 3% per Cent lOO% 993%
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Ct.
Exchange on London, 2 months
—Universal Prussian Gazette, Jan. 17.

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ALARMING FlRE.—This morning about half-past
five, a fire, at first of an alarming character, was dis-
covered by one of the constables of the E division of
police, raging in the workshops at the back of Mr.
Myer's musical instrument warehouse, situate 63, Char-
lotte-street, Fitzroy-square. The constable alarmed the
inmates, and as soon as they opened the passage doors
the flames from the workshops rushed by the back
windows into the first floor. The Wells-street,
Crown-street, Soho, King-street, Regent-street, and
the Baker-street fire brigade engines were soon on
the spot and arrested the flames just as their progress
was extending to the second floor. The injury done
therefore is confined to the destruction of the workshops
and their contents, and to very great dama•e done to the
furniture on the first floor. The further mischief by
water, and removal is trifling except what happened
from that joint cause to the valuable effects of Mr. Jack-
son, silversmith and jeweller, residing at No. 62, next
door.
DARING BURGLARY AND CAPTURE OF THE Buit-
GLARS.—On Friday last, near midnight, a most
daring burglary was effected at the French Horn,
public-house, Gerard's-cross, near Beaconsfield, in the
occupation of Mr. George Yowell. It appears that the
thieves obtained an entrance into the front of the bar,
immediately underneath the window, by removing a
sufficient quantity of the brickwork to admit the body of
a man. Having thus effected admission into the pre-
mises, they proceeded to the larder, where, it appears,
they regaled themselves most sumptuously, as most of
the cooked victuals were missing. They took also from
thence two flitches of bacon, a considerable quantity of
cigars from boxes in the bar, and a quantity of liquor.
So plentifully did they imbibe the strung drink in the
landlord's barrels, that before they had made the requi-
site preparations for their departure they became some-
what noisy, by which proceeding they disturbed the
slumbers of the ostler, who watched their movements,
and followed them a little way down the lane. One of
the party Lad one of the flitches of bacon upon his back,
another carried a flitch in his arms, and the third car-
ried the rest of the plunder. All of them being in a
state of intoxication, and the ostler having observed
them, on their road towards Fulmer, place their loads
behind some ricks of corn, and then lie themselves down
beside their plunder, he hastened to inform the consta-
bulary before daylight, when Mr. Larkin, the high con-
stable of Buckinghamshire, sergeant Roadnight, and
constable King, sallied forth to meet the marauders.
They came up with and captured them near to Long-
bridge ; and on Saturday they had a hearing before Sir
William Wiseman and Sir Thomas Dagrell, Esq., at the
Court-house, at Uxbridge. The magistrates immediately
ordered that the three prisoners, whose names are Samuel
Tunnard, Robert Ball, and Robert Shoppee, should be at
once taken to Beaconsfield, where they were conveyed.
PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIA-
TION.—Last evening the fourth annual general meeting
of the members and friends of the above association was
held at the London Tavern, which was very numerously
attended. The chair was occupied by G. Thomas, Esq.
The general and financial report was to the effect that
the managers congratulated the meeting that no un-
toward circumstance had occurred during the past year,
up to the close of which no death had occurred among
those insured—the number of whom was 110. The
amount of the funded stock of the association was
3,7551. 7s. 6d., iacluding 1,6001. invested within the last
year. The annual premiums were 1,6631. Bs. 5d.; divi-
dends, 1021. 14s. sd. ; from which, after defraying the
current expenses, a balance of 2421. 2s. 2d. remained at
the bankers ; making, with the funded property, the
whole stock of the association 3,9971. 9s. Bd. The
annual subscriptions, from the large bonus which had
been given for three years, would now close, and the
society be thrown upon its own resources. The managers
and officers having been duly elected, thanks were
awarded to Thomas Baring, Esq., and J. A. Smith,
Esq., for their valuable aid and support, and also to J.
Alexander, Esq., for his liberal donation of 1001.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN TIIE LONDON DOCK.--Yes-
terday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, a man
of colour, named George Luntin, cook and steward of
the ship James Eastrie, Captain Bilbery, was going to
the bows of the ship when his feet slipped and he fell
overboard and sunk. The vessel was shifted from her
moorings and drags were procured. In about fifteen
minutes the body was recovered and conveyed to the
bath-room of the dock, where there is au excellent ap-
paratus always in readiness for the resuscitation of per-
sons apparently drowned. The body was instantly im-
mersed in a hot bath, and other means were used to
restore animation, which were persevered in for some
time, but unfortunately not with success. Dr. W. Bur-
man was in attendance while the apparatus was in ope-
ration, and nothing was left untried to restore the un-
fortunate deceased.
EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF TOBACCO.—It has just
been communicated to her Majesty's Commissioners of
Excise that a most extensive seizure of tobacco has been
made by Mr. Davison, Supervisor of Exeise, near Skt g-
ness, Lincolnshire, on its transit to Horncastle. It had
been landed from contraband trading vessels that fre-
quent that coast, and placed in carriers carts, in pack.
ages, representing various articles of merchandise and
furniture. So well arranged were the plans of the
officers that they succeeded in capturing the whole of the
booty, amounting in all to nearly three tons in weight,
with the horses and carts used in conveying it to its des-
tination. It is scarcely necessary to add Viet no person
has come forward to claire the property, which will be
disposed of by her Majesty's Commissioners at their
usual sales.
TILE GREAT 13RITAIN.—The Great Britain steamer
will leave Kingroad next Thursday evening, for London.
A vast number of persona will be on the look-out for
her at Hoyle, St. Ives, the Land's End, and Lizard.