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ORDINATION

st the following gentlemen were admitted
) holy orders by the Lord Bishop of Chester :
is,—Samuel Brazier Arnott, M.A., St. John's,
Walter Blake, 8.A., Trinity, Dublin ; Richard
8.A., Trinity, Dublin ; John Fryer Coates, 8.A.,
ie-hall, Cambridge; Thomas Eager, M.A., Trinity,
)üblin ; George William Goodchild, 8,A., Sidney Sussex,
;ambridge ; John Llebden, M.A., Trinity, Dublin ; Edward
'igot, Brazennose, Oxford ; Edward Witley, 8.A.,
lueen's, Cambridge ; Algernon Peyton, Licentiate of the
University of Durham ; James Bonwell, St. Bees,. Camp.
g Christie, St. Bees ; John Molyneux Crockett,
sward Bernard Squire, St. Bees; Robert Thom-
tm Wells, St. Bees.

DEACON

Oxford

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PRIESTS.—Rev. James Richard Alsop, 8.A., Brazennose,
Oxford ; Rev. John Echlin Armstrong, M.A., Trinity, Dub-
lin : Rev. Henry Bulkeley Birks, 8.A., Catherine-hall,
Cambridge ; Rev. George Cranley Bowles, 8.A., St. John's,
Cambridge; Rev. Henry Brancker, B.A.Wadham, Oxford;
Rev. Charles William Cahusac, 8.A., St. John's, Cam-
bridge • Rev. A. C. Carr, 8.A., Trinity. Dublin; Rev.
Alexander Chirol, 8.A., Clare-hall, Cambridge ; Rev. James
Supple Dodd, 8.A., Trinity, Dublin; Rev. James Elliott,
8.A., Trinity, Dublin; Rev. John Gregson, M.A., Brazen-
nose, Oxford; Rev. Charles James, 8.A., St. John's, Cam-
bridge; Rev. John Jackson, 8.A., St. John's, Cambridge;
Rev. Robert Nunn Prettyman, 8.A., Caius, Cambridge;
Rev. Charles Mauginiss, B. A., Trinity, Dublin; Rev.
Charles Mitchell, B. A., Trinity, Dublin ; Rev. George
Yarnold Osborne, 8.A., Sidney Sussex, Cambridge ; Rev.
Henry Charles Seller, 8.A., St. John's, Cambridge; Rev.
John Sheffield, M.A., Trinity, Dublin ; Rev. Charles Felton
Smith, 8.A.. Queen's, Cambridge; Rev. Richard Tomlins,
8.A., St. Mary's hall; Oxford ; Rev. Joseph Milding Twist,

8.A., Queen's, Oxford; Rev. Broome Lake Wills-, 8.A.,
Corpus Christi, Cambridge ; • Rev. Beaumarice Stracey
Clarke, St. Bees.

THE EXCHEQUER-BILL MYSTERY

(From the Morning Herald)

memorable affair of the fraudulent exchequer-bills
forgery, we submitted to the public—prior and sub-

equently to the trial at the Central Criminal Court,—some
peculations on the probability of their being greater delin-
pleas behind the yet undrawn veil of legal mystery than Mr.
3eaumont Smith, or his evil gerius—M r. Rapallo, We also
iiterecl into certain hypothetical• inquiries, founded on ano-
her possibility, namely, that of liapallo's escape. The re-
.

suits to which these latter inquiries led us have since been
notoriously realised. But what of the aiders and abettors !
What of those " great unknown," (for great they must be,
on the principle " °nine ignotum pro magnco") to whom
Beaumont Smith alluded in that toddling declaration, that
" he had fallen the victim of plausibility,—talent, and
Power ?" Do they exist ? Who are they ? Where are
the, ? We wish that we could conscientiously assure the
•eader of our own impression of their nonentity, and their
r But it is with deep and unaffected reluctance
hr we advert to rumours which are rife in those quarters
f ty intelligence where " beacon fires are seldom false ".
" two noble lords "—whose names have reached us as
intact by the disgraceful " on dit " which obtains of this
it—are representatives of the great contending parties in
political divisions of the country. They are neither of
n deficient in the three so emphatically predicated pro-
"' lausibility, talent, and power They are, we
-tent in other more tangible properties ;

s of the one,—theparati.
pares, et re.
we object to theme ~, •,
political liberalities of
titutional propriety,—cannot both, on the score of
cannot extinguish
id mortification wyit'i7 which we are corn-
i moment, upon theprrelo jolt of their hay-
nfirinaries to, and
rs in the desperate
)1, the most nefarious perhaps,
fiscal departments of the Cud'
to have
lie noble viscount, who seems to We
anal as he seetns to have found political
s, has cleared up every kaputdti. •
on whi— •
ch
aun of circumstances at first was ealCU-
him, in ciinexion with the memorable
[I indeed deplore the substitution (in the
J—fying the intelligence of our informant)
r, in his place, of rank not less eminent,—of
rior,—and of„certainly superior personal
/is ..,., ~.:e colleague of such noble offender being
marquess, we dare not trust ourselves to fathom
resent further, lest we draw up an apparition
:atness, of which, though but of yesterday,
d,

extinguished

ightbe rec

What seemed its head,
The likeness of a kingly crown had on
and then - !

While a very justifiable alarm is abroad amongst the true
members of the church, lest the doctrines of Popery, under
the disguise of Puseyism, should creep in and pave the way
for an extensive relapse to the errors of Rome, the report of
the preceedings which took place in St. Jude's Chapel, Livec-
pool, on Wednesday evening last, must be highly gratifying
to our readers. The current of the times, we are glad to
find, does not carry all away with it ; and while there is on
the surface, we acknowledge, a flow towards the evils out of
which we were delivered by the Reformation, we have every
reason to believe that a deep and powerful direction has been
given to the public mind, which, ere long, will bear away with
irresistible success towards Protestant Christianity. The
word Protestant has latterly become unpalatable with some
professors of theology ; and we have no hesitancy in stating
our belief, that wherever any disgust towards the title is
avowed, there these must be concealed the most decided
aversion to the thing itself ; in fine, to the doctrines and forms
of Christianity, purged of all superstitious novelties, and
accredited by law, as the religion of the state.
The Rev. Mr. INI'NEILE's address on the occasion alluded
to, contained a lucid exhibition of the fact that the religion
now professed by our church is according to the symbols of
Catholicity, and the history of those symbols—is precisely
the religion which prevailed from the crucifixion to the period
of the council of Nice, and from thence down to the period
of the council of Trent and the publication of the creed of
Pope Pius. According to this incontestable statement, it is
obvious that we—who retain till now the ancient and ac-
credited symbols of the Catholic faith, never interfered with
or formally opposed till the decrees of Trent and the creed of
Pius were divulged—we continue in the uninterrupted course
of apostolical succession, while the Romanists have been led
aside and become schismatical, if not on the point of ministry,
yet on the more important one, the essential one of truth.
That not more than five persons abjured on the last occa-
sion the errors of Rome and returned to the bosom of the
true church strikes us with no astonishment. We under-
stand something of the troubles to which the abjuration of
popular error exposes every one who dares the attempt. Our
only wonder is, that any can be induced to hazard, as they
must do by conversion, the peace and prosperity, and often,
too, the life, of this world. But we know there is a spirit
greater than that of mere temporal wisdom, and to it alone
we can attribute this last renunciation of evil, as well as the
conversion of the individuals which we were lately permitted
to announce.

In attendance on these public recantations there is ever a
private and unavowed, but frequently sincere, abandonment
of Popery made by the relatives and acquaintances of the
parties who have the hardihood to declare themselves openly
members of our coma union. We have received intimation
to this effect connected with the last conversions which took
place in this country, and we should conceive that the same
thing is going forward in England. The report of the Liver-
pool affair gives us to understand that three other persons
did not appear who were expected, with the five who came
forward, to break their connexion with the Church of Rome.
This we can attribute to the fear of the worst species of per-
ecution. Nevertheless, we cannot abandon the hope that
they have secretly joined our living branch of the true vine,
nor give up the idea that the present demonstration will carry
with it additional numbers from the regions of apostacy to
saving truth.