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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-08 00:00:00

PREFERMENTS AND A PPOIWTMENT:It

Rev. H. Allen; M.A., Incumbent of Sr. Jude's. Church,
Whitechapel, to .:lie Lectureship of St. athe's-Church, Old-
street. London.
Rev. C. F. Bbokery Precentor and Senior Citrate- of the
Parish Church, Hull, to the Incumbency of Pdrk stone; Dorset.
Rev. Mr. Brawn,. to the Chaplaincy of the Partsea, Island
Union.

Rev. T. F. Chamberlain, M.A., Rector-of "RuffOrd',. Lan-
cashire, to be a Snrrogate.
Rev. T. Clark, to the Incumbency of 'St.• Mary%
Haggerstone, Shoreditch, London.
Rev. J. R. Dobsan,,B.A., to the Rectory of 'Eisworth, Cam-
bridgeshire. _ _ _

Rel% 11. Garth,. to.the-Curacy of Trinity Church, Var.x.hall-
road.

Rev. H. Gathzrne; BA, to the Curacy ctSt. Diary' . Bir-
kenhead.

Rev. J. Gibbs, MjA.,) to•the Rectory of DLit:lnce, diocese-of
Connor.

Rev. Henry T. Gtyrt; • Rector of Melbury Abbas; Darsets. to•
the Rural Deanery of Sbatteabnry, vacant by the, resignation.
of the Rev. A. Haxtable.

Rev. G. A. Hayward-, BiA., to the Incumbency of Camp-all
Yorkshire.

Rev. E. Houklitch,•Bik.,. to the Rectory et Matson, ,G1312,-
;Tatershire.

Rev. W. H. Hughes. (Curate), to the Vicarage of. Horley„.
Surrey.
Rev. Alfred T. Lee, BA., of Christ's College, Cambridge,.
to, the Assistant Clinrcy of Houghton-le-Spring, Dethain:
Rev. W. H. Le. Marchant,. to the Vicarage -of Haresifekll.
Gloucester.

Rev. H. C. Grove-Morris, to the Curacy of Chard, SornfTset,
Rev. M. 0n510w,.M..A., to, the Vicarage of East-Pe'ekbam,
near Tunbridge.
Rev. H. Murphy,. A.M. the Rectory of Magheralin, and;
Preceritorshio of Drotnore.
Rev. G. Poole,. to•the Perpetual Curacy ci- Hatumervriohj
Staffordshire.

Rev. P. Rudd, M.A.; Fellow and Censor, of.•Univeraity
College, Durham, to the,Vicarage of BiHingham.
Rev. D. Somerville,' Curate- of Shenton, to• be Chaplain-. to
F. Wollaston, Esq.,. Hight-Sheriff of Leicestershire; •
Rev. J. Smallptece; to.be Vice-Principal cf-theDieceata
Training College, Chichester:
Rev. W. P. Stort,.to the Vicarage of Fawsley, Northamptoa.
shi re.

Rev-. R. F. Vieth,. .to the Rectory of De.nderrow, in, the
diocese of Cork.

Rey. J. Wenham, M.A., Citrate of Great Bardfleld, , near
Braintree, to the Rtetory of West Blandon, Eittrrey.
Rev. W. V. Wittiams,,BA.,. to the Curacy of, Ruabon, ,Den.
bighshire.
Rev. F. Williams, .to the linkmmbency Saitley, near
Birmingham.

Rev. J. G. Wrett3h, to the Curacy 3f Christ, Cturch,
Westminster.

PEWS IN CH umonEs,--The important parishes of Tam-
worth and Burslem, in the arcbdeaconry of Stafford, hays
held meetings to request the ordinary to issue commis-
sions, to inquire into and settle the right to the peers i• 1
the respective parish churches. The meeting, in the- 'Latta
parish was adjourned in consequence of the absence of,tie
rector, who had• sprained his arm in an, ,accidental fal;.
bait the churchwardens-espressed a wis'a,that the "•wh)lo
of the pews in the, parish church shculd be, re-allot;ed
amongst the pszishioners, and that the occupant of,och
pew should pays rent to the churchwardens,-to beappned
by them to the maintenance of the Church and her crdi-
nances, so as to-do. away with the necessity of church-
rates ; as they did not see why Chcrehmen should not
support their own, places of worship, as the Dissenters
did theirs."

STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARNI.Y,
ON TM& IST MARChIp 1853. ~.
(From, the, United Service,Gazette.)
IWhere two places. are mentioned, the last-named; is• thaa at
which the dept of the regiment is statinadj
Ist Life Guards, Hyde Park '4oth Foot N. S. Wales ;. 12bAtte-
2nd do., Windsor vent.
Royal Horse Goards,Regent's 41st Zante ; Bcyle.
Park 42nD Stirling
Ist Dragoon Guards, Dublin 43rd C. G., Hope ; : Templentore
2nd Newhridge 44th!Gihraltar •, .Chatham
3rd Cahir 4:1.11 C. Good Hope; Chatham
4th Dublin 46th Belfast
sth Newbridge 441). Corfu;
•Lftnerick
6th Canterbury 48th on pass. toCorfu
7th Ballinollig 49th Corfu.;. Witterfot:d
Ist Draoons, Manchester i.3oth Prest3n ,
2nd Birmingham ialst Burr ah;;Cliallam
3rd (L*,:ut)Bengal ; INlaidstons2nd Dublin
4th (Light), Ipswich 53rd Bengal ;: Chatham
6th YSZIC 54h Quebezi; Londonderry
7th Hussars. Piershill 55th Gibraltar; Tralee
Bth Nottingham 156th Bermuda;. Chatham
9th Lancers,Bengal; M'dstune,s7th Cork
lOthUuss'rs.lPrnbayo,l'dstong;sBth New. Zealand ; Jersey
11th lublin ;59th China;. Charles Fort
I2th lancers,C.G.H.; M'dstone,6Bengalh (Ist hatt.), Bengal ; Chat.
13th ,Light Dragoons,Hcrapslow' ham.; (2nd butt.); C. Good
14th -I..lght)Bengal; Maidstone. Hope; Bixr
15thaussars, Madras; -M?dston. 61at Bengal ;. Chatham
16th Lancers, Dundalk ,62attAllilorwe
17th Brighton 167Td Dublin
Grenadier Guards (2st batt.);64.th 13orntay ; Chatham
Wellington Barracks ;. (2nd'%sth.New Zealand; Portsmouth,
bait.), St. George'sßarracks; 66th.Que3,ec ; Guernsey
(3rd batt.), Windsor 67th 13atbadoes; Dover
Coldstream Guards (Ist batt.), 68th. Malta ; Nenagh
Portman-street barracks;. 169th Antigua; Chatham
(2nd batt.), thaTower 7011 i Bengal; Chatham
Scotch Fusileer Guards [tat 71st (Ist butt.), Cork;, (awl
batt.), St. John's Wood batt.), Canada
(2nd batt.), Chichester ;72nd St. John's, N. 8..; Clara
Ist Foot (14 batt.), Newport,.) Castle
S.W• , • (2nd: batt.), on pass, to. 73rd C. Good Hope; Bristol
Corfu, Cork 74th C. Good Hope;. Vernaoy
2nd C. of good Hope ;, Kinsale 75th Bengal ; Chatham
3rd Malta;, Castlebar 76th Malta; Chatham,
4th Bury 77th Weedon
sth Mauritius ; Chatham 78th Bombay ; CUthain
6th Cape of Good Hope; Can- 79th Edinburgh
terbury 80th Burinah ; Chatham
Gosport
7th Plymouth 81st Kilkenny
Bth Bombay; Chatham
2nd' Bombay; Chatham
82nd Glasgow
9th Clonmel 83rd Bombay; Chatham
kith Bengal; Chatham 184th Madras.; Chatham
11th N. N(l.eSt .I,Vaitatl.e)s,
Newry;;Hytlie ( ,85
88th
thh
po
on
os puss. to Mauritius
batt.), Cape Good Hope 187th Bengal ; Chatha
13th Gibraltar; Jersey 8
14th Limerick 89th Buttevant
15th Ceylon ; Mullingar '9oth Dublin
16th Jamaica; Birr 61st (Ist batt.), Enniskillen ;
17th Dublin 1 (2nd batt.), C. Good Hope
18th 13urmah; Chatham 92nd Corfu ; Galway
19th Portsmouth 93rd Portsmouth
2011' Canada; Chatham 194th Madras; Chatham
21st Hull '9sth Chatham
22nd Bengal ' • Chatham :94th Bengal ; Chatham
23rd (Ist bait.), Chester; (2nd 97th St. John, N.S. ; Chatham
batt.), Canada 98th Bengal; Chatham
24th Bengal ; Chatham 99th V. D. Land ; Chatham
25th Madras; Chatham Rifle Brigade (Ist batt.), Cape
24th Gibraltar; Isle of Wight of Good Hope ; Walmer ;
27th Dublin (2nd batt.), Canterbury
28th Newcastle-upon• Tyne 'lst West India Reg., Jamaica;
29th Bengal ; Chatham Chatham
30th Corfu ; Dover 2nd do., Demerara ;. Chatham
32nd Bengal ; Chatham 'Ceylon Rifles, Ceylon
31st on pass. to Corfu ; Fermoy,3rd do., Jamaica ; Chatham
33rd Manchester Cape Mounted Rifles, Cape of
34th Barbadoes ; Aberdeen , Good
Hope
35th Devonport;Royal Canadian Rifles, Canada
36th Trinidad ; Pembroke (Royal
Helena Reg., St. Helena
37th Ceylon ; Chatham IRoyal Newfoundland Compa-
38th Portsmouth I mes, Newfoundland
39th Cork ittoyal Malta Fencibles, Malta

MYSTERIOUS HISTORY OP A BOURBON.

In the last number of a new American periodical,
" Putnam's Monthly," there is a very remarkable arti-
cle, entitled " Have we a Bourbon among us," which
gives a detailed statement of the evidence, showing that
the Indian Missionary, Rev. Eleazer Williams, is no other
than Louis XVII. of France, the Dauphin of revolution-
ary history, son of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette.
The principal points in this curious bit of romance are as
follows : The Dauphin was born March 25, 1785. After
the death of his mother, in 1793, he was put under the
care of Simon, the brutal cobbler, by whom he waif
treated with the most barbarous cruelty. In Dec. 1794. the
Convention passed a decree to send him out of the Republic.
On the 9th June,l79s , his death was announced to the Con-
vention. Three surgeons testified that he died of scrofula.
To come now to the history of the Rev. Mr. Williams.
Prior to the age of 13 or 14, everything is blotted out
of his memory. Until that time his mind is a blank.
Bathing at Lake George with a group of Indian boys, be
plunged head foremost from a high rock into the water.
He was taken up insensible, laid in an Indian hut and re-
stored to life. This is the first remembrance of which he
is conscious. He was the reputed son of Thomas Williams.
a half-bred Indian, descended on his mother's side from
Rev. John Williams, of Deerfield, Mass., who with his
family was carried captive to Canada, in 1704, by the
Indians and French. He was sent to school at Long-
meadow, Mass., and put under the care of Mr. Ely. Sub-
sequently he was under the tuition of Rev. Mr. Hale of
Westhampton. On the breaking out of the war of 1812.
being then 27 years of age, he took up arms as an Indian
chief on the American side, and was wounded at the battle
of Plattsburgh. During the war, he became acquainted, at
Albany, with Lieutenant-Governor Taylor, who intro-
duced him to h e rector, Rev. Dr. Clowes, and Rev. Dr,
Butler. His attention was thus drawn to the Episcopal
Church. At the close of the war, he was introduced to
Bishop Hobart, and soon after under his sanction became
a missionary among the Oneidas. On the removal of the
Oneidas to Green Bay, he accompanied them to that place,
where he has remained until within a recent period. He
is now an Indian Missionary at St. Regis, and Hogansa
burgh, on the St. Lawrence, in this State. His reputed
mother lives with him at a very advanced age. We novr
take another step in this strange history.
On the arrival of the P'rince de Joinville in New York
in 1841, one of his first enquiries was, whether there was
such a person known as Elmer Williams among the
Indians in the northern part of the State. Learning his
location at Green Bay, the Prince proceeded thither.
Williams happened to be at Mackinac, when the steamer,
in which Joinville had taken passage, touched at that
port,. and joined the company for Green Bay. Soon after
leaving Mackinac, the Prince was introduced to Williams
by the Captain of the steamer. At the first sight of
Williams, he became greatly agitated, he turned pale, his
lips quirered, but soon recovering himself he engaged hi=
in conversation. This continued most of the time until
their arrival in Green Bay, the nest day. The Prince then
told Williams that he had some matters of great impor-
tance to speak about, and after gradually preparing the
way, informed him that he was born in Europe, and was
the son of Louis XVI. He then wished him to sign a
document, which he presented, abdicating all claim to the
crown of Franca, in favour of Louis Philippe, on condition
that he should receive a princely establishment either in
this country or in'France, with the restoration of the pri-
vate property belonging to him, which had been confiaat. sted
in France during, the Revolution. After reflection
Williams declined the proposal, and the Prince went
about his business without further palaver. Bch is a bare
outline of the story.

We will add on y one or two of the collateral points. A
7,entieman, on returhihg. from Europe, in an interview'
with Mr. Williams, thnw sereral engravings on'the table,
at the sight of one of which, and without seeing the name,
Villiams was greatly c,_:sited, and cried out " Great:God t
V know the face. It has- haunted me through life." It
proved to be the portraitof Simon, the jailor of the Dau-'
phin.—The names of all the other children of his-reputed
mother are inscribed in the Catholic baptismal regi-seer at
Canglinawaga, following 30 closely at intervals-of two'
years- between each, that William 3, whose name does.not
occur, coted not have been. her son.—ln Mr.
Belanger,. reFrench gentleman who died at New Or/eans;•
confessed on his death-bed that he was the yerson who
brought the Dauphin to th:S country, and placed biro
among the -Indians in the northern part of the State of
New York.—. 4. French gentleman, hearing the story, read
a printod accciunt of the Dan; win to Williams, in which
it was stated,. that the jailor one day lacing angry with the"
child, slintehed a towel that was hanging on a nail, and.
drawing 'out the nail with it inilicted two wounds upon his'
face, one over the left eye, and 01:Tether on the right side
of the nose. On examining Williams's face, the scar'
were fou,,nd on the spots indicated-in the memoir. It ig
stated tit the Dauphin died orscrofula, and that the'
disease was- on his knees. The marks of scrofula are
plainly visible-orrtheknees of Mr. Williams.—The French-
Ambassador Genet acknowledged in 1817, before Dr.
Francis and others, that the Dauphin was alive in this'
country.—fixes of clothing and medals of Louis XVI.
and Marie Aiatoinette were left with the child, one of
which is still in Mr. Williams's possession. Such are the
prominent facts in this singular history,. which, to say the
least, is equal-in interest to the mystery of the Man in the
Iron Mask, creaspaq Hauser. Mr. Williams, we under-
stand, is now; accord: ag to the Tra3une• of that city, its
New York.