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nmond AnderAon, M.
Bishop Designate of Rupert's Land, .
honorary degree of Doctor in Divinity.
On Sunday seven bishops will severally preach at the
ame time, in the different churches of the parish of
arch Mis-

,ONDUCT OF THE ROMANS—DEFEAT OF THE sionary Society.
FRENCH.—The courage, as well as the spirit of the Ro. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has given a dona-
man people has risen from the grave of centuries. Oudi- tion of £2OO towards the erection of a training establish-
not and his army have made another attack upon the city ment for schoolmistresses in his diocese, in connexion
of Rome, and have been again repulsed with severe loss. with the diocese of Oxford, which has undertaken to
The gallant Romans had their city in a high state of establish a training school for masters.
defence, while every street was barricaded, and when the On Friday a meeting, which was called by Lord Ashley,
enemy la el t, .1 nr.,4 .. • .
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, ..i, .rneu, a terrine eontiet took place. Nearly toe ttev. Richard Burgess, the Rev. J. G. Lonsdale, sec':
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2,000 of the French were left dead on the spot, and great retary to the National Society, and other clergymen, was
numbers were wounded, while the officers of all ranks held at the school rooms attached to the parisli church of
were slaughtered in dozens. The Roman matrons them- St. Martin-in-the-fields, for the purpose of determining
selves took part in the fight, and the result was, that after upon the formation of a " Church of Eng,land School-
doing considerable injury with their shot, to many of the masters' and Schoolmistresses' Mutual Assurance or
public buildings, and greatly damaging some of the Provident Society," rules for the same having been drawn
finest works of art, the enemy were forced to make in- up by the Rev. John Hodgson, M.A., Secretary to the
glorious retreat, and, at the date of the last accounts, the Clergy Mutual Assurance Society, and tables of rates
French marauders were flying in confusion back to ivita i calculated by Charles Ansell, E,Fq., F.R.S. actuary to
Vecchia. The Italians from all parts of the country were i the Atlas Assurance Society. There was a full attendance
crowding into Rome for its defence, so that the Romans of clergymen and dignitaries of the Church, amongst
had in readiness an efficient force of 50,000 men. It was whom were the Archbishop of Canterbury (who presider,'
calculated that an army of 100,400 men could hardly the Bishops of St. Asaph, Lichfield,
attack Rome with any chance of success. The Neapoli- Manchester; the Rev. Derwent Coleridge
'-,-. ri-..ie king at their head, had been marching to Pal of St. Mark's Training College, &r

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report was current that
they had been attacked and totally routed by a Roman
force under Garibaldi.

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Thomas Jackson,
lege, &c. Various resolutions, carrying out the objects
of the meeting were proposed and carried.
FOREIGN Ain SOCIETY.—On Wednesday the ninth
annual meeting of the friends of this society took place
at the Hanover-square Rooms, the Marquis of Cholmon-
deley in the chair. His Lordship having briefly addressed
the meeting upon the important aid they were lending to
the cause of Evangelism on the Continent, the secretary
read the report of the committee. It appeared, that
although the evangelization of France had been much
affected by the tide of revolution which had rolled over
the country, and the faith of the converts from the church
of Rome bad been severely tested, yet, upon a review of
the events of the year, the cause of the Gospel had rather
been furthered than retarded, and many formal requests
for pastors of the reformed church had been received from
Roman Catholic congregations by the committee at Paris.
The Republican Government had determined to continue
the payment of ministers of religion out of the public
Treasury, the only difference made between the churches
being the payment of salaries. The consistorial churches
were set upon a free footing, and their preachings and
prayings in public were under no restriction except that
of forwarding notices to the authorities, who attended to
preserve order. The estimate for the expenses of minis-
ters of the reformed church during the current year was
£50.000, being £lOOO less than last year. The sum was
for the payment of about 70 ministers, besides numerous
agents from the societies of Geneva, Paris and Lyons.
At Montmoirron in Vaucluse the Catholics had expelled
their priest and made a formal request to have a pastor
sent to them, and this example had been followed in many
other places. The report then detailed the proceedings
of the Societe Evangelique de Geneve, which had risen
from the depression of the year preceding, was now in a
prosperous state, had been enabled to pay off its debt of
20,000 f., and to establish many new stations. The
Foreign Aid Society had made a grant of £650 towards
the expenses of the brethren in Geneva. The Societe
Evangelique de France had taken advantage of the free-
dom of opinion which followed the revolution to establish
a synod, the first which had existed in France since the
year 1659. That society had now 27 ministers, and eight
colporteurs, besides students and professors. The synod
refused to receive the payment from the state. The
Foreign Aid Society had contributed £552 towards the
support of the synod. The Societe Centrale Protestante
de France, a newly organized society, had not gone on so
well during the past year. It acted as a kind of direction
to the movements of the pasteurs. It was, at present,
encumbered with a debt of £l,lOO. The Societe d'Evan-
gelization of Lyons was progressing, as was also the re-
formed church in Belgium, and efforts were being made
at Lisbon and Gibraltar. In all of these cases the Foreign
Aid Society had lent its assistance. The yearly income
amounted to £2,863 18s. 7.

An express, dated Rome, the sth of May, announces
that the Romans under Garibaldi, attacked a body of
2000 Neaplitans at Torre di Mezza Via, between Rome
and Albano. The Neapolitans, after a short combat,
threw down their arms and fled, the Romans taking 60
prisoners and two pieces of artillery, with which they
entered Rome on the evening of that day.
Letters from Rome of the 10th, published in the
Gazette Piedmontaise, states that General Garibaldi had
defeated a corps of 7000 Neapolitans, made many priso-
ners, and taken three pieces of cannon.
The second edition of the Nazionale, a Florence jour-
nal, states that the Romans gained a complete victory
over a corps of 7,000 Austrians on the 9th at Valmonte.
The Austrians, it adds, were put to flight with a great loss
in killed, wounded, and prisoners.
Messrs. Rusconi and Pescantini are going to Lord Pal-
merston to solicit his interference on behalf of the Roman
Republic, and General Oudinot has pledged himself not to
attack until the result of their mission is known.
POPERY ENLIGHTENED l---The Roman Triumvirate
have issued a proclamation to the people of Rome, in
which we find the following assertion, which sneaks well
for the good sense of the present rulers of the modern
Babylon :—" The temporal dominion of priests is con-
trary to the doctrines of Christ." Popes in all ages have
claimed temporal away over the sovereigns of the earth,
have deposed and set up kings, and now the Pope is an
exile from the chief city of the pontificate. If the Pro-
testants of England and Ireland would exert themselves,
now is the time to deal out a heavy and effectual blow
against the priests of Anti-Christ.
HORRIBLE ATROCITIES.—The following is an extract
of a private letter from Rome, dated the sth instant
Rome may now be said to he a city of ruins. The Villa
Borghese and Medicis has almost disappeared. The ruins
still encumber the soil. These barbarians only wanted
time for their work, and they have been interrupted by
the arrival of the French. They are flocking to the bar-
ricades. It is awful to look at these barricades ; each of
them is a regular fortress. Three priests, Jesuits, were
discovered yesterday, in a villa where they were in hiding.
The mob dressed them up in rags, dragged them through
the city, and overwhelmed them with outrages of all kinds.
They dragged them then to the bridge of the Castle of
St. Angelo, where they cut them in pieces, and flung their
palpitating remains into the Tiber. I have received these
details from an eye-witness of this horrible scene."