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E SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1845.

character—to read any lesson of wisdom to the preju- I
dices of bigotry. But the case briefly put by Mr.
RUTHERFORD, on Thursday night, in his wise, tempe-
rate, and philosophical speech, on moving for leave to
bring in a " Bill to regulate the admission to lay cr
secular chairs in the Universities of Scotland," deve-
l.pes this perverse insensibility to experience in a way
that one should fain hope must prove irresistible from
its truthfulness. It is really wonderful to note the
timidity of modern statesmen about putting themselves
at the head of, and thereby guiding arid controlling,
great movements of public opinion, instead of vainly
attempting to erect dams against them, constructed with
the crumbling masonry of obsolete prejudices; or apa-
thetically looking on, inactive spectators of the for-
midable current which sets right in upon their imaginary

seat of refuge, and, if not diverted by timely and active I
exertions to divert its course into some new channel,
must sweep them in its headlong impulse to destruction.
The very Ministers who in their own persons have to
often encountered this peril, end have seen their less for-
tunate predecessors in office actually overwhelmtd
through their want of alacrity in meeting it, seem
already to have forgotten both the magnitude of the
hazard and the miracle of their former escapes from it.
They deferred the repeal of the Test and Corporation
Acts till the just indignation of the Di,-senting body of
all denominations throughout the United Kingdom con-
vulsed the Established Church to its very foundations; and

they postponed the relief of the Roman Catholic disa•
bilities until that delay of justice had almost produced a
severance of the empire. In the same manner they
seem inclined to treat the general feeling of Scotland
upon that system of subscription tests which it has been
actually attempted to enforce against one of the pro-
foundest professors of natural philosophy whom our age
has produced, [to the extent of expelling him from
the chair he fills in that capacity. To the de-

mands of such a feeling, so reasonable, so just,
in itself, there can be little doubt but that ultimately
the present Government, strong though it be, must suc-
cumb. The mischief is that they will probably refuse
to comply with it, until compliance will have lost not
only the grace, but the pretence of favour; and the most
serious mischiefs of disunion and decay shall have, in
consequence, overtaken those time-honoured and admi-
rable institutions, the universities of Scotland.
Mr. RSTTHERFCRD showed that, by the Acts of 1619
and 1707, it was declared that no parties should be
capable of filling any office in the universities of Scot-
land, without having first taken the oath of allegiance,
subscribed the "Declaration or Confession of Faith,"

and signed a formula submitting themselves to the dis
cipline of the Presbytery. The Right Hon. and Learned
Gentleman had good reason to say that these Acts had
never been enforced in all the universities, nor, in their
universal bearing, at any one of them. Let us pause,
for a moment, to reflect how irreparable a loss the
world of science and discovery would have sustained had
the revelations and researches of such minds as HurroN's
and PLAYFAIR'S depended on their implicit acceptance
of formalised dogmas as old as the " Solemn League
and Covenant." As inconsistency in practice is always
the concomitant of an attempt to establish the uniformity
of arbitrary rules, the requirements of these Acts ha‘e
followed that law of moral compensation. In some of
the Universities of Scotland they are enforced only as to
the Professors ; in others only to the office-bearers.
Could there be devised a more logical proof of their
combined impropriety and inefficiency, than this fact?
In what respect can the air of Edinburgh modify the
necessity which exists in the Marischal College at Aber-
deen for an office-bearer to sign the formula and sub-
scribe that declaration? If it be necessary for a Pro-
fessor at Glasgow to submit himself to the discipline of
the Presbytery, and attest, by his subscription, a Decla-
ration of Faith, how comes that obligation to cease when
you are within reach of the breeze that blows off the
Frith of Forth? Or, take the converse of these liabili-
ties ;—place Edinburgh in the room of Aberdeen, or
Glasgow in that of Edinburgh—is the discrepancy one
whit the less ridiculous? But here is the fatal fact:
the absurdity is not only recognised, but consecrated by
the usage; and not only is the usage consecrated, but it
is exacted under penalties no less severe than the lia-
bility to forfeiture and expulsion, in case of refusal to
comply with such exaction. We learn from Mr.
RUTHERFORD that in the University of Edinburgh,
which has certainly produced the most distinguished
men, this notable law has long been in abeyance, and
never enforced at all against any lay professor. His
object, therefore, was to do away, by his Bill, with the
necessity, for the future, of any lay professor's signing
either the Confession of Faith, or the formula of sub-
mission to the Presbytery, not touching merely the
theological chairs, but applying this provision and pro-
tection to those only devoted to literature and science.
Whilst he felt it might be very necessary that those
youths who were being brought up to the Established
Church should be instructed in divinity, according to the
doctrine and rule of that Church, by teachers who were
bound by that rule and doctrine, he did not see the ne-
cessity for a similar restriction as to those other teachers
who had nothing to do with divinity. Assuredly not.
But how grave a case did the Hon. Member suggest for
his Bill, in alluding to the great number of his country-
men who had lately seceded from the Established Church
of Scotland, and now held her in dislike. It is honour-
able to the Scottish professors that a large majority of
them at all the Universities had expressed their con-
current wish that the requirements in question should be
done away with. But the enormous increase of seces-
sion—the growth of the Free Church in Scotland esta-
blishes an invincible, overruling necessity, on all ground,
of expediency and policy, for this Bill. If it be not, as
Mr. RUTHERFORD argued, carried, the Universities must
break up as fearfully as the Church is breaking. Ex-
clusive tests will work over again their old results in the
destruction of the tyranny and folly which exact them;
the tyranny and the folly which, a year ago, were not
ashamed to do their utmost to oust Sir DAVID BREWSTER
from St. Andrews, "as if (as it was well said) he had
not distinguished the college ten times as much as the
college could have distinguished him." We close with
the most pithy anecdote we have met with for some time,
for the digestion of your unyielding, uncompromising,
unreasoning advocates of the exclusive beauty and bene-
ficence of Church Establishments, and who denounce as
timidity and folly all concessions to—all conciliation of
Dissent. The Episcopalian sections of the Scottish
people comprise, professedly, the wealthiest landowners
and proprietors in Scotland. Some years ago they were
eager to istablish an Episcopalian College, but up to
this time hive not been able, with all their exertions, to
collect -.nom than 18,0001. in all that time for such a pur-
pose. What have those done who have separated from
the Estifblished Church ? They were anxious to found
a College for their body. They asked, were there not
enough among them who could subscribe 1,000/. each ?
In less than three weeks 22,000/ were subscribed by
twenty-two individuals, who were principals in this sepa-
ration. We add no comment on the fact. Does it need
any ? Yes ; just this, that Sir ROBERT PEEL and Sir
GEORGE CLERK, in the course of a debate last year, told
the House there was a re-action in favour of the Estab-
lished Church in Scotland. Strange illustration this
magnificent subscription, of the decline of dissent and se-
paration.

We have received numerous letters on the Maynooth
Grant, chiefly from the provinces, which are of a very
gratifying character, as. they show a spirit of Christian
charity, and a wish to sink that bitter re-
ligious animosity which has caused such dire
calamities in Europe. In Ireland particularly,
this humane spirit pervades the great body of
Protestants. The Presbyterians of the North have
taken no part in the agitation against the Catholic reli-
gion; the Established Church of that country has exhi-
bited the same forbearing disposition; and, indeed,
from all classes professing the Reformed faith
in Ireland, we hear of no opposition, but very
generally a cordial acquiescence in this measure of
justice and mercy. The principal landowners of
the county of Galway, without distinction of creed or
party, have put forth a declaration, in which they ex-
press much satisfaction at the proposal of her MAJsarrir's
Government. Their words are remarkable:—" We feel
that measures thus tending to improve the social posi-
tiun of the Roman Catholic priesthood will accelerate
the growth of that mutual forbearance, and of that
charity in politics, which hare been of late springing up
amongst all parties in Ireland." We have given also, in
another part of the paper, an excellent letter from an Irish
Protestant clergyman to the same effect. New these
numerous testimonies in favour of this much calumniated
scheme ought to be allowed great weight in deciding the
question. Ignorance and want of intercourse among
different nations, it is allowed on all hands, are the fruitful
sources of wars and national antipathies. How much
has the long-continued peace in Europe been promoted
by the knowledge which foreigners have acquired here
of our customs and manners, and by the reciprocal
knowledge which obstinate and conceited Englishmen,
vain of their country, have received from their visits to
the continent, and especially to a nation which ignorant
malevolence has pronounced to be our natural enemy?
There are no natural enemies, except those which the
wickedness:of mankind, and, above all, their blind jealousy
and unmeaning antipathies create for one another. If

the Protestants and Catholics of Ireland believe that
they can live at peace in the same community—if they
wish to associate together, to bear with mutual faults and
mutual errors in faith—if they marry and are given

in marriage, and wit at each others houses, displaying
the blessings of Christian charity, obeying the second of
the two great commands inculcated by:ourSAYlptre.
"To love thy neighbour as thyself," what atrocious
wickedness it is to rake up the embers of religious discoro
and throw a firebrand among men who live together
in unity ! But the good sense of Englishmen,theirlove
of justice, and their compassion also for the wrongs and
the sufferings of' a people so long united with tin m,
will not suffer this iniquity to prevaiL The 'still
small vcice of wisdom begins already to be heard,
and the firm determination of the Legislature—
the admirable speeches made by every statesman
in the Commons' House of Parliament, and the wise re-
solution of the clergy of the Established Church to
give the experiment a fair trial—leave no doubt now as
to the ultimate success of the measure. The great re-
gret is that the opposition has diminished to a
great extent the benefits which it was calcu-
lated to produce, and has excited a feeling
of bitter anger on the part of the Catholics against a nu-
merous class of Protestants hitherto regarded as their
friends. But that in time will disappear and the peace-
makers will yet reap the fruits of their labours. We
cordially concur in the following sentiments expressed
by the reverend divine whose letter appears in another
part of this journal :
" I humbly conceive that brother Protestants' are bound
to co-operate in furthering the great attempt that 'righte-
ousness and peace may kiss each other,' and realising the in.
junction to promote ' peace on earth, good-will towards men,'
enlarge the circle, too long contracted, of Christian charity,
and diffuse that more liberal education which o'erleaps the
narrow mind, softens asperities, and prostrates persecution."

Madrid journals of the 25th ult. have been race:red,
but they bring no news.
Madrid Bourse on the 21th.—Three per Cents. for
Account, 35 11-16 ; Five per Cents. for Account, 25i.

The French Chamber of Deputies have voted withou
opposition the sum of 44,000 f. as a compensation to
English merchants for losses caused them by the French
blockade of the Gambia. When that affair had beer.
disposed of, the grant of 440,000 f. for Oceania—the
French settlements in the Pacific—was next proposed,
and gave rise to some warm discussion. M. DE MALLE-
VILLE demanded some explanations on a statement in
the journals, to the effect that Admiral HamEmii had
not been able to communicate with Queen PoxAaE,
who, under the protection of an English frigate, had
retired to a small island, where she refused to receive
the French officets. It was also said that the Government
intended recalling Captain D'Auniartv, who was to obtain
leave of absence for the benefit of his health. Admire*
MAcKau, the Minister of Marine, said, "Admiral
HAMELIN arrived at Otaheite on the 22d of Dee., 1844.
He had sent home a dispatch, dated Jan. 2, 1845. It
stated that he had found the island perfectly tranquil,
and that since June 30, the period of the last combat.
no trouble or disturbance had taken place. It added
that the natives occupied camps at some distance from
each other, but that the communications were re-esta-
blished with Papeiti, and that everything tended to lead
to the supposition that the restoration of friendly rela
tions were on the point of taking place. It had been
agreed that Admiral HAMELIN should endeavour to open
a communication with Queen PoMARE to induce her to
return to the French establishments. She was at that
period in a little island,and two officers were dispatched
to her to deliver the letter to herself alone, a letter which
he had written to her for that purpose. These officers
did not succeed in seeing her, and they had returned
with the letter. The Chamber would perceive that, ac-
cording to the instructions addressed to M. BRUAT,
which he had just had the honour to lay before the
House, in case the' intercourse should not be renewed,
the course to be pursued was to call the chiefs together
and choose three amongst them to administer
the affairs of the country." M. ODILLON BAItROT
said it appeared now that it was the French who were
reduced to supplication. It was the officers of France
who were compelled to run after the QUEEN to beset ch
her to resume her sovereignty. Such conduct was a dis-
grace to France. M. DE MALLEVILLE said that as the
subject would again be alluded to on the discussion on
the budget, he should now confine himself to the expres-
sion of his regret that the Government had not been
better prepared to contradict the sad accounts which had
come to their knowledge, and amidst considerable ex-
citement in the Chamber the matter dropped. The Bill
for converting the Four per Cent. Stock has been laid
before a Committee of the Peers, and meets with decided
opposition from a large majority of Members. At the
last sitting 130 Peers attended, and of these more than
80 are hostile to the measure.
On the Ist of May, the KING'S file, the Bourse was
closed.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. S
• (From The Suit of Saturiay Evening.)
The • sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were more li-
mited, but there was no c:iange in prices. Sales 3,000
to 4,000 bales.—ln Shares there was not much doing.
About previous rates were current. Barnsley Junc-
tion, 3% ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire
Junction. 8%, 9 ; Belfast and Ballymena, 9 83.4 ;
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 11% $ ladedonian, 117 e 34 ;
Caledonian ii:x.ttnsion,3);'3 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 8%
; Chester and Birkenhead, 46 ; Chester and Holyhead,
Churnet Valley, 7% 1 Is. 3d. ; Clydesdale Junction, 8;
Cork and Bandon, 8 ; Cork and Waterford, 2718 3 ; Dublin
and Galway, 31. 51s. 6d. ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone,
3% ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter Shares, 16% ;
Ditto, New Quarters, 6%; Edinburgh and Perth, 3/4 ; Glas-
r off and Dumfries. 30s. 295. ; Grand Junction, 228% ;
Great (Mosby and Sheffield, 614 3s. 6d. ; Great Munster,
23/4 3 ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 814 ; Huddersfield
and Sheffield, 8% ; Hull and Selby, Half Shares, 24% ;
Inverness and Perth, 234 ; Jamaica Junction, 6%; Kilkenny
Junction, 1%; Liverpool and Manchester, New Shares, 37 ;
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, ; London and Bir-
mingham, Quarter Shares, 32% ; London and Brighton, 63 ;
London, and Croydon, New Shares, 295. 4d. ; Londonderry
and Enniskillen, 5,a ; London and York, 5 ; Ditto
(Bawtry), 3% ; Direct Northern, 665. 1, ; Leeds and Dews-
bury, 103/4 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 614 ; Leeds and West
Riding Junction, 71% 6YB ; Manchester and Birmingham,
luarter Shares, 10% 14 ; Ditto, New Shares, *6 ; Man -
!liester and Buxton, 6% ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland
Junction, 634 ; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 65% ;
11idland Railway, 157% 158 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 19% ;
.cewcastle and Sheffield, 5 ; Newry and Enniskillen, 5% ;
"orth Kent, 6% 1/2 ; North Wales Mineral, 16% ; North
Western, 43/4 5 ; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 4%
Ms. 6d. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 121 ; Ditto, Quarter
:hares, 15% ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 395. 30s. ; Shrews-
bury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 5 ; South-Eastern and Dover,
N'ew Shares, No. 2, 876 ; Ditto, No. 3, 6 % ; Scottish
Central, 634 ; Trent Valley Continuation, 42% ; Welsh
,itdland, ; West Yorkshire, 63/4 ; Great Paris and Lyons,
395. ; Northern of Franc,/ (Laffitte's), 5% ; Orleans, 'fours,
and Bordeaux (English), 101%; Ditto (French), 101,1 ;
Paris and Lyons, English, (Laffitte's), 595. ; Paris and Lyons
(Ganneron's), 535. 6d. 515. Strasburgh and Basle, 12%;
Sambre and Meuse, 9%;- Verona and Ancona, 214.
The only ship arrival With later news is from the Cape of
good Hope, whence the dates are to the 15th of March,
though only to the 6th of that month from the frontier. The
Kafirs were quieter, and the prospects of the agriculturists
rare good. Steam navigation had not answered the expec-
tations formed of it, but like all similar enterprises, no doubt
it would require time to establish it in public favour, and
make it pay. There Li nothing new from Natal.
There was a slight change in the Bank of England's posi-
ion during the week to the 26th ult. The issue of notes,
nstead of being further reduced, were increased by 69,7251.
fhe Rest was 24,956/. greater. The public deposits were only
2,643,448/., or less by 574,902/. The other deposits were
149,630/. less. The other securities were 973,813/. less, and
the bullion 43,0!8/. less.
There has been to-day a heavy market for the public
securities. Consols have been 98% to 98% for the first
transfer-day next week, and about 98% for Account. The
illness of M. Guizot, and the expected news relative to the
)regan question excite stilt a doubtful feeling. The pre-
mium on Exchequer-bills has been 595. to 575. ; and on
India Bonds, 725. Bank Stock has been done at 210% for
Account; and India Stock is steadier at 278. The New
three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 100% to 10034.
Spanish Stock is still very inactive, and the quotations are
merely nominal. Portuguese Converted obtain 67% to
471/, Mexican are 38 to 37%. Dutch Four per Cents.

are 973,4 to %.
!bele is a lair business doing in Railway Shares, but the
potations, in most instances, are rather flatter. From the
position as respects the market price of the South-Eastern
wid North Kent shares, there would appear to be a good
deal of anxiety touching the decision of Parliament.
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
209%
971'
984)
1001/2
11A
11%
278
72

PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced ... 9758%
3 per Cent. Consols
New 314 per Cents 1001/23412
Long Annuities to expireJ an. 1860 1114 5-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
India Stock
India Bonds, 1,0001 72
Ditto under 1,0001..
Bank Stock for Account 210% 210%
Consols for Account... ... 983/4 98%
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 11,%d.... 59 57 pm. 57
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small ... 57 59 pm. 59
• ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 15% 15%
Danish, 3 per Cent
Mexican, 5 per Cent.•lB37 3B 37% 37%
Ditto, Deferred
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted —671 i
Ditto, Account
Russian Bonds ... 117% 117%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Deferred —
Ditto 3 per Cent. —
Ditto, Account — 41%
Belgian Bonds, 4% per Cent .. 9914
ii_Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 971i% 97A
PRICES OF CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 234
Birmin and Gloucester. 100
Birmingham and Ox-'
ford Junction
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 10
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 . 59
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% , Bl4 8
Chester and Holyhead... 5
eilurnet Valley
Cornwall
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast Junc. 2% —
Dublin and Galway._ .. 2%
Dundalk & Enniskillen 2% —
Eastern Counties 25 ..... 20%
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto, New Quarters.. 21/2 — ...... .. .....
Ely and Bedford
..
Great Munster 2l/2 ......
Great Western BO ......1873/4 188 lBB
Ditto 1/2 Shares -50 10514 ... ..... ... 10514
Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 2% ... 6 53/4
Harwich
Hull and Gainsborough 1% 2% 1% lg
Hull and Selby 5O 108
Ditto Quarter Shares 12% ...... 2414
Do. Half Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle... 20
London and Birminghm (Stock) —
Do. New Thirds
London and Brighton... 50 -
Do. Consolidated Bths 16
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 181 A %... lB%
London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d... 10p4 lO,B
London and S. Western 41/6s 10d 80
Do. New
London and York 2% 4'gil/2 % 4%
Londonderry &Coleraine 2 %...... 3% 33/1
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 2% 4% 4%
Lynn and Ely
Midland 100
Do. New
Midland, Birm., Derby 100 117% 117%
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction ... 25 ...... 51 ....
Neweas;le and Berwick 1% 14% 15
Newry and Enniskillen. 21,4 .....
Newark and Sheffield ..: 1% 5l/ •
North British

2%
135

51
15
5
5

Do. New
North Kent
Perth and Inverness ... 2%
Rugby, Worstr, & Triug 1
Scottish Central
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2% ... 4%14...
South Eastern & Dover 33125. 4d... 40 . .
Do., No. 1.. 8
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
South Wales ..... ... 2
Trent Valley 2.z..... 18% 191/1% ..
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 .., — ••••••
Wits, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth ........ ......... 21
York and North Midland 50
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Selby
Do. Extension PI 17%3/4
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and A imens... 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette .... .... . ... ..... 2 ....•• 2%%
Dijon and Mulhouse ... 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Do. do. (Rosamel's) ' 2
Jamaica Junction 11,4 —
Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... . 4%
Lyons and Avignon 2
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 ...... 10%
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 14%
Paris & Lyons, Laflitte's -,
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
neron's,
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
2
Royal North of Spain ... 2
Sambre and Meuse ..... 4 ...... 9%% 93/4
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 2.—The sales
are :—Barnsley Junction, 33/4 % ; Birkenhead, Manchester,
and Cheshire Junction, 9 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Ac-
crington, 8% % ; Caledonian, 12% ; Cambridge and Lin-
Coln, 81/0 N ; Churnet Valley, 7% 7-16 ; Clithero Junction,
3% pretn. ; Direct Northern, 3% ; Glasgow and Dumfries,ll% ;
Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and Manchester Junction, 1%;
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 6% cum new; Hud-
dersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 8%; Leeds and
Thirsk, 6%, %; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 11%;
Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7 ; London and Birming-
ham, 283; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 4%;
London and York, 5; Manchester and Birmingham, 581/2;
Ditto, New Quarters, 73% ; Manchester and Buxton, 5% ;
Manchester and Leeds, 143 ; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares,
7% ; North Western,sl/s % ; Nottingham and Mansfield, 3,44 ;
Preston and Wyre Extension, 2% ; Scottish Central, 7% ;
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 1% 94 ; Trent Val..
ley Continuation and Holyhead Junction, 2% prem. : West
Yorkshire, 71/s ; Whitehaven and Furness, 3 1-16 3 ; Paris
and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2%; Manchester and Salford Wa-
-1 terworks, 4ex new. .

4%
61%,
2%
4%

41,
40

5 IA
191/8
13/4

.SPIRES, APRIL 21.—The German Catholics :at
Meustadt, on the Haardt, are said to have resolved, in consequence
of the late ordonnance of the Commii*lse" of Neustadt, to go
over to the Protestant Church.
VIENNA, APRIL 18.—It is reported here that it is
in contemplation that all the secondary German princes belonging
to the Zoliverein, who have hitherto hid our diplomatic agents at
foreign courts, shall be in future represented by the Prussian Le-
gation. It is evident that those 'princes would never save large
sums by such a measure, but it is probable that some difficulties
may arise in a political point of view.
A quantity of herrings were brought ashore by
our fishermen on Tuesday morning, and retailed in the streets at
the rate of twenty-four a shilling, but they were very small,—
Briskly's Gazette.