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when the clatter of a horse's

hOofs came rapidly towards me, and though tl
thing startlin

ere was some-
such a piece of road, I never lift-

ed my eyes

man came up, but continued my slow

head sunk upon my boson

" Holloa, Sir," cried a sharp voice, whose tones seemed
somehow not heard for the first time. I looked up, saw a
slight figure closely buttoned up in a blue horseman's cloak,
the collar of which almost entirely hid his features ; he

lookin;

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

IUANCRESTER, TUESDAY EVENING.

Bloomsbury was again destined to shine conspicuous. The
same gentleman who has on several occasions freely sup-
ported him laid, with considerable readiness, 61 to 1 in scores,
then 70 to 10 twice over, and afterwards said " done" to 80
to 10 ; however, his dosing offer, " to a sum," was 7to 1.
This price would probably have been pencilled down when
the room broke up, as a party came forward and accepted 70
to 20 four times over on Bloomsbury and Gallipot; and, by
way of cover, one of the gentlemen seemed anxious to get 7
to 1 on Bloomsbury, but his stauuch opponent had departed.
11 to 1, to a little money, was laid against Gallipot ; and, in
several instances, 100 to 7 was offered against Retriever—it
was wanted to 6. No one seemed disposed to make a fourth
favourite. In vain, indeed, did one of the leading turf gen-
tlemen offer 100 to 6 to find out the fourth favourite. 20 to 1
was laid against the Young-un ; 100 to 6 offered against
Tuly ; 100 to 4 against Sir George (takers at 30) ; 100 to 4
against Ernest the First (takers at 30) ; 100 to 3 against the
Jovial Bachelor (offered freely) ; 6to 4 offered on Blooms-
bury v. Gallipot. Even money was laid that Bloomsbury
runs, and even that he wins.

THE DERBY.-20 to 1 appeared much wanted, to execute
a commission, on Eringo, 19 to 1 seemed the top offer ; the
same gentleman wanted 25 to 1 scores on the Knight of the
Whistle ' • 20 to 1 was offered against each ; he accepted 600
to 20 on Rosalie ; 15 to 1 in fifties was offered against all the
fillies ; and, in a very good quarter, 4 to 1, to a sum, v.
" Scott's lot ;" 400 to 10 was offered at the close v. Brother
to Tom, and 200 to 3 against Gammon Box. We did not
hear Paliemon and some others named, nor was the Oaks
touched upon.
Tine ST. LEGER.-4 to 1 would have been taken that
Scott wins.

TATTERSALL'S

1, MONDAY

The Derby betting received an impulse from the appear-
ance of a city speculator with several important commissions,
and was sustained with unusual spirit until half past six
o'clock. Little was done on the principal favourites, but
the offers on the field rose high enough to show a marked
decline in Paltemon, who had but a slight call of Coronation.
Eringo was backed for a trifle at a falling price, and, at the
outside, was not more than a couple of points in advance of
Cameleon, whose party would have taken the same odds
that were offered against Ralph. The weight of the business
fell upon the Rosalie colt, Knight of the Whistle, and the
Duke of Wellington ; 23 and 26 to 1 having been taken to
£4OO or £5OO about the first, 26 to 1 three or four times
about the second, and 1,000 to 30, and 3,000 to 100 about
" the Duke." Prince. Caradoc was backed at 24 to 1, and
improved even on that quotation before the close, but no
change was observable in Marshal Soult. The odds quoted
below against Sir Hans were taken twice, and those against
Ermengardis several times, while Knightsbridge, so fashion-
able an outsider a few dayi ago, dropped successively to
2,000 to 25, 2,000 to 20, and 2,000 to 15 ! The general odds
at the close were as follows :

THE DERBY.
13 to 3 against Scott's lot
20 to 1 „ All the mares (t)
18 to 1 „ Mr. Greville's Palmmon (t)
18 to 1 „ Mr. Rawlinsou's Coronation
21 to I „ Mr. Thornhill's Eringo (t)
22 to 1 „ Mr. Mostyn's Prince Caradoc
25 to 1 „ Lord Westminster's Marshal Soult (t)
25 to 1 „ Lord Chesterfield's Knight of the Whistle
25 to 1 , Lord Albemarle's Ralph
26 to 1 „' Lord Bruce's Rosalie colt (t)
30 to 1 „ Col. Anson's Duke of Wellington (t)
30 to 1 „ . Mr. Wreford's Wahab
33 to 1 „ Duke of. Rutland's Sir Hans (t)
45 to 1 ~ Col. Vi-eitenra's The Nob
50 to 1 „ Col. Crauford's Ermengardis (t)
50 to 1 „ Hon. S. Herbert's Nicias (t and aft. off.)
58 to 1 „ Lord Westminster's Morning Star (t)
58 to 1 „ Mr. G. Clarke's Gammon Box (t)
1000 to 10 „ General Yates's Simoom
1000 to 10 „ Captain Gardnor's Ben Brace (t)
1000 to 10 „ Mr. Wimbush's Finchley (t)

500 to 5 ;, Duke of Grafton's Mosque (t)
2000 to 15 „ Mr. Dixon's Knightsbridgef (t)
2000 to 15 „ Sir G. Heatheote s Tonquin (t)
1000 to 8 '„ Lord G. Bentinck's Mustapha (t)
1000 to 7 „ Mr. Allen's Phaon (t)
1500 to 100 agst Rosalie colt and Wahab (t) ; 1500 to 1000
on Coronation agst Rosalie (t) ; 1100 to 1000 ou Prince Ca-
radoc agst Rosalie (t) ; 600 to 500 on Cameleon agst Ralph
(t) ; 600 to 500 on Marshal Soult agst Rosalie (t) ; 500 even
between Palwmon and Coionation (t).

THE CHESTER CUP, P.P.
6 to 1 against Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury (t)
20 to 1 „ Mr. Orde's Queen Bee (t)

THE CHASE.
The Cheshire Fox Hounds will meet on
, Saturday the 13th February, at

Monday, 'the 15th, at ..
Wednesday, the lith, at

Thursday, the 18th, at
Saturday, the 20th, at.

Darnball

Beeston Castle
Cholmondeley Castle

Wrenbury.
Ravensmoor Windmill

At half-past ten o'clock.
Mr. Leche's Fox Hounds will meet on

Saturday, the 13th, at
Tuesday, the 16th, at Overton Bridge
Thursday, the 18th, at Egerton Arms, Broxton
At half-past ten o'clock.
The United Pack will meet on

Tuesday, the 16th, at Chatwall
Friday, the 19th, at Wittingslow Turnpike
At nine o'clock (weather permitting.)

STATE OF IRELAND

ATTEMPT TO MURDER A CLERGYMAN

As fruit from the order recently issued to the constabulary
of the King's County, it is our painful duty to record an
attempt to assassinate a most amiable clergyman, an active
and impartial magistrate, the Rev. G. L. Gresson, who was
fired at on his way home from Clara to Kilbeggan, on Sun-
day night last, between eight and nine o'clock. The rev.
gentleman was sitting in a gig with his servant, driving at a
distance of about a mile from his residence, when a shot was
fired from behind, which made a riddle of the servant's hat.
A few grains of large shot struck Mr. Gresson in the neck,
and some grains lodged in the skin of the servant's head.
There is no reason to suppose that religion or polities was
the cause of the attempt. The rev. gentleman was lately
most active in discovering and bringing to justice some per-
sons who attacked a process-server employed to deliver a
writ at the suit of Lewis and Co., the topographers, to a
Mr. Judge, of that neighbourhood ; and we incline to think
that revenge prompted the miscreants to attempt the horrid
deed.—Evening Packet of Tuesday.

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF THE REV. SKELTON GRESSON
"Clara, King's County, Monday.

" SIR,—You will be shocked to hear of a desperate at-
tempt to murder the Rev. Skelton Gresson, J.P., which
took place on Sunday last.

" Scarcely had the public mind recovered its composure
after the dreadful attempt to murder Mr. Biddulph, J.P.,
when it is again excited to frenzy by the demoniac attempt
on Mr. Gresson's life.

" He is a gentleman universally respected and beloved—
the kindest and most humane of men—gives a great deal of
employment to the poor out of means which he derives from
his private fortune, having no land in this part of the coun-
try out of the management of which feuds or animosities
might arise, except the few acres of glebe land which have
always been in his own hands, and cultivated by himself.
" He was returning to his own house from the town of
Clara, on Sunday, at eight o'clock in the evening, driven by
his servant in a gig, when he was fired at from behind a wall
by some person or persons unknown. The horse bolted on
seeing the flash of fire-arms, by which his life was spared :
the duck-shot or swan-drops having riddled his hat, and that
of his Protestant servant also, without serious injury to either,
except contusions : no shot having entered the reverend gen-
tleman's head, though some are being extracted from the
servant's. How narrow the escape was may be judged from
the fact, that a large quantity of the shot was retained in silk
pocket-handkerchiefs which they had in their hats, and which
probably saved their lives.
" No man's life is safe in this county ; the only question
asked is, whose turn will come next? Mr. Browne, the sti-
pendiary, was early on the spot ; for of course it was reported
to him, whilst the local magistrates might find it out as they
might. Of course a government reward will be offered, and
of course, the people will laugh at it; and of course the go-
vernment will boast of the tranquillity of Ireland, and take
no alarm from the firing these minute-guns of warning to
show the destruction that is contemplated.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "
AN INHABITANT OF CLARA.,,

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM TIILLAMORE

" This county is again convulsed to its centre, by an at-
tempt to murder the Rev. Skelton Gresson, a gentleman uni-
versally respected. About eight o'clock on Sunday, he was
going home in his gig from Clara, about seven miles from
this, when he was fired at from behind some trees on the
road-side. Both his servant and himself were hit, but not
dangerously wounded. In September last the life of Mr.
Biddulph, J.P., was attempted, and himself wounded, five
miles from this, towards Frankford. In December, James
Henessy was savagely assaulted at Mucklow, three miles off
—since dead. In January, this year, a conspiracy to mur-
der Mr. Fiunamore, near Clara, was discovered; and a man
named Hussey was attacked, near Clara, now lying without
hope of recovery, from the effect of blows from a spade, &c.
There are several other less fearful crimes, but of an aggra-
vate(' character, where death has not yet ensued ; and this is
the moment that government, in cold insulting mockery of
the misery and despair of the inhabitants of this county,
' order the police, by night or day, to go singly without arms,
excepting their corstable's staff! !'
" Lord Charleville is leaving us in disgust—Mr. Gresson
is his chaplain, and a constant resident in the castle. Who
can blame him ? If I had money I would go too."

MR. LETHBRIDGE

(From the Dublin Evening Packet.)
" Clatworthy, Feb. Ist, 1841
TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING PACKET.

" SlR,—Nothing that I can say will give additional weight
to those severe remarks which, in your paper of the 28th ult.,
you have with so much justice and truth made on Mr. Leth-
bridge's letter.
" On such a letter comment from me will be superfluous;
and I shall content myself with reiterating my most solemn
affirmation, that on no occasion, for the last 10 or 12 years,
not even on the 18th of July, 1839, have I had any private
conversation with Mr. Lethbridge.
" The matter now rests on the credit due to the testimony
of the conflicting parties, which can only be judged of by the
habits and character of each individual ' • and to this test I
cheerfully and with entire confidence submit my case.
" I have now the grateful task of returning you my best
acknowledgments for your kind and ready insertion of my
letters, as well as for drawing the attention of the public to
them in so conspicuous a manner;' and beg to remain,
" Your most obedient,
" W. BERNARD."

It is impossible—totally impossible—to describe our feel-
ings on rising from a perusal of the foregoing letter. We
use the word rising in its literal sense, for sit quiet we could
not after reading such a damning proof of the insanity, or
worse, of Mr. Lethbridge, whose conduct in reference to the
Rev. Mr. Bernard, is without a parallel. Infamous we
would call it, if we were convinced that the gentleman was
of sound mind ; but we cannot bring ourselves to believe
that any sane person would do as Mr. Lethbridge his done
in this matter. The language attributed to Mr. Bernard
must be the coinage of a disordered brain, as must also be
the diary which the would-be Joint of O'Connell's Tail speaks
about. Could any man in his sober senses record a private
conversation for the purpose of proclaiming it to the world?
Forbid it honour. . _

If we believed Mr. Lethbridge's story we should pronounce
him the most consummate scoundrel that ever drew breath.
But we do not belive it, and therefore pronounce the man to
be mad, stark mad. And this is the kind ocperson that the
Anti-Stanleyites called upon to prop up their villanous
league, for the perpetuation of fraud and perjury in this be-
nighted country, in order to minister to the blighting—the
thrice blighted—thrice infected sway of the monster, Daniel
O'Connell. A. worthy prop of such a cause. But we must
have done with Mr. Lethbridge for the present, and we
hope for ever. He must never again obtrude upon the
public.

THE HABERDASHERS' LECTURESHIP.—The election for
the lectureship of the Haberdashers' Company took place
on Monday last, when at the close of the poll, the numtera
were :4-Rev. Mr. Dale, 21.; Rey. Mr. Gurney, 15 ; majority
for Mr. Dale, 6.

S7R ROBERT PEEL'S ADDRESS AT TAMWORTH

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES

Sir,—There are two schools of philosophy flourishing at
this day, as at others, neither of these accepting Christian
principles as the guide of life, yet both of them unhappily
patronised by persons whom it would be the worst and most
cruel uncharitableness to suspect of unbelief. Mr. Bentham
is the master of the one ; and Sir Robert Peel is a disciple of
the other. Mr. Bentham's system has nothing ideal about
it ; he is a stern realist, and he limits his realism to things
which he can see, hear, taste, touch, and handle. He does
not acknowledge the existence of anything which he cannot
ascertain for himself. Exist it may nevertheless, but, till it
make itself felt, to him At exists not; till it comes down to
him, and he is very short-sighted, it is not recognised by him
as having a coexistence with himself, any more than the Em-
peror of China by the European family of kings. With him
a being out of. sight is a being out of mind ' • nay, he allows
not the claims of traces or glimpses to regard, but to know a
little and not much is to know nothing at all. With him to
speak truth is to speak with a meaning •, and to imagine, to
guess, to doubt, or to falter, is much the same as to lie.
What opinion will such an iron thinker entertain of Cicero's
" glory," or Lord Brougham's " truth," and Sir Robert's
" scientific consolations," and all those airy nothings which
are my proper subject of remark, and which I have in view,
when by way of contrast I make mention of the philosophy
of Bentham ?
And yet the doctrine of the three eminent orators whom I
have ventured to criticise has in it much that is far nobler
than Benthamism, their misfortune being, not that they look
for an excellence above the beaten path of life, but that
whereas Christianity has told us what that excellence is,
Cicero lived before it was given, and Lord Brougham and
Sir Robert Peel prefer his involuntary error to their own
inherited truth. Surely, there is something unearthly and
superhuman in spite of Bentham ; but it is not glory, or
knowledge, or any abstract idea of virtue, but great and good
tidings which need not here be particularly mentioned, and
the pity is, that these Christian statesman cannot be content
with what is divine without hankering after what was hea-
then.

Now, independent of all other considerations, the great
difference, in a practical light, between the objects of Chris-
tianity and of heathen belief, is this—that glory, science,
knowledge, and whatever other fine names we use, never
healed a wounded heart, nor changed a sinful one ; but
Christ's word is with power. The ideas which Christianity
brings before us are in themselves full of influence, and they
are endowed with a supernatural gift over and above, in order
to meet the special exigencies of our nature. Knowledge is
not " power, nor is glory " the first and only fair " • but
" grace," or " the word," by whichever name we call it,
has been from the first a quickening, renovating, organizing
principle. It has new-created the individual, and diffused
and knit him into a social body, composed of members each
similarly created. It has cleansed man of his moral diseases,
raised him to hope and energy, given him to propagate a
brotherhood among his fellow-men, to form a large family
or rather kingdom of saints all over the earth, and with won-
derful vigour prolonged its original impulse down to this
day. Each one of us has lit his lamp from his neighbour,
or received it from his fathers, and the lights thus kindled
are to-day as strong and as clear as if 1,800 years had not
passed since the original of the sacred flame. What has glory
or knowledge done like this? Can it raise the dead ? can it
create a polity ? can it do more than testify man's need and
typify God's remedy ?
And yet, in spite of all this, when we have an -instrument
given us, capable of changing the heart, great orators and
statesmen are busy, forsooth, with their heathen charms and
nostrums, their sedatives, correctives, or restoratives ; as
preposterously as if we were to build our men of war, or con-
duct our iron works on the principles approved in Cicero's
day. The utmost that Lord Brougham seems to propose to
himself in the education of the mind, is to keep out bad

ideas by good—a great object, doubtless, but not so great in
conception, as is the destVuction of the appetency for bad in
Christian fact. " Every one," he says in his Discourse upon

the Objects and advantages of Science, " is amused with
reading a story, a romance may please some, and a fairy tale
may entertain others ; but no benefit is derived from this
source ; the imagination is gratified. Accidents, adventures,
anecdotes, crimes, and a variety of other things amuse us,
independent of the information respecting public affairs, in
which we feel interested as citizens of the state, or as mem-

bers of a particular body. Most persons who take delight in
reading tales of ghosts, which they know to be false, and feel
all the while to be silly in the extreme, are merely gratified,
or rather occupied with the strong emotions.of horror excited
by the momentary belief, for it can only last an instant.
Such reading is a degrading waste of precious time, and has
even had effect on the feelings and the judgment. But true
stories of horrid crimes, as murders, and pitiable misfortunes
—as shipwrecks, are not much more instructive. It may be
better to read these than to sit yawning and idle, much bet-
ter than to sit drinking or gaming, which, when carried to
the last excess, are crimes in themselves, and the fruitful
parents of many more. But this is nearly as much as can
be said of such vain and unprofitable reading. If it can
be a pleasure to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ig-
norant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how
pure a delight of thjs very kind does natural science hold out
to its students ?.... Akin to this pleasure of contemplating
new and extraordinary truths is the gratification of a more
learned curiostiy, by tracing resemblances and relations be-
tween things which to common apprehension seem widely
different." And in the same way Sir Robert tells us of a
devout curiosity. In all cases curiosity is the means, diver-
sion of mind the highest end ; and though of course I will
not assert that Lord Brougham, and certainly not that Sir
Robert Peel, denies any higher kind of morality, yet when
he rises above Benthamism, in which be often indulges, into
what may be called Broughamism proper, he commonly
grasps at nothing more real and substantial than these Cice-
ronian ethics.
In morals, as in physics, the spring cannot rise higher than
Christianity raises men from earth, for it comes

its source

from Heaven ; but human morality creeps, struts, or frets
upon the earth's level, without wings to rise. The Know-
ledge School does not contemplate raising man above him-
self; it merely aims at disposing of his existing powers and
tastes, as is most convenient or practicable under circum-
stances. It finds him, like the victims of the French Tyrant,
doubled up in a cage in which he can neither lie, stand, sit,
nor kneel, and its highest desire is to find an attitude in which
his unrest may be least. Or it finds him, like some musical
instrument, of great power and compass, but imperfect ; from
its very structure some keys must ever be out of tune, and
the object, when ambition is highest, is to throw the fault
of its nature where least it will be observed. It leaves
man where it found him—man, and not an angel—a sinner,
not a saint ; but it tries to make him look as much like what
he is not as ever it can. The poor indulge in low pleasures ;
they use bad language, swear loudly and profanely, laugh at
coarse jests, and are rude and boorish. Sir Robert would
open on them a wider range of thought and more intellectual

objects, by teaching them-science ;but what warrant will be
given us that, if his object could be achieved, what they
would gain in decency they would not lose in natural humility
and awe ? If so, he has exchanged a gross fault for a more
subtle one. " Temperance topics" stop drinking; let us
suppose it ; but will much be gained, if those who give up
spirits take to opium ? Naturam expellas lured, tamen
usque recurret, is a heathen truth, though a Christian fable;
and universities and libraries which recur to heathenism may
reclaim it from the heathen for their motto. Nay, every
where, so far as human nature remains hardly or partially
Christianized, the heathen law remains in force ; and is felt
in a measure even in the most religious places and societies.
Even there, where Christianity has power, the venom of the
old Adam is not subdued. Those who have to do with our
colleges give us their experience, that in the case of the
young committed to their care, external discipline can but
change the fashionable sin, but cannot allay the principle of
sinning. Stop cigars, they will take to drinking parties ;
stop drinking, they gamble ; stop gambling, and a worse
libense follows. You do not get rid of vice by human expe-
dients ; you can but use them according to circumstances,
and in their place. You must go to a higher source for
renovation of heart and will. You do but play a sort of
" hunt the slipper" with the sin of our nature till you go to
Christianity.

I say, you must use human method in this place, and there
they are useful ; but they are worse than useless out of their
place. I have no fanatical wish to deny to any subject of
thought or method of reason a place altogether, if it chooses
to claim it, in the cultivation of the mind. Dr. Bentham
may despise verse making, or Mr. Dugald Stewart logic, but
the great and true maxim is to sacrifice none—to combine,
and therefore to adjust all. All cannot be first, and there-
fore to adjust all. All cannot be first, and therefore each has
its place, and the problem is to find it. It is at least not a
lighter fault to make what is secondary first than to leave it

out altogether. Here then it is that the Knowledge Society,
Gower-street College, Tamworth Reading-room, Sir Robert.
Peel, and Lord Brougham, are all so deplorably mistaken.
Christianity, and nothing short of it, must be made the ele-
ment and principle of all education. Where it has been laid
as the first stone, and acknowledged as the governing spirit,
it will take up into itself, assimilate, and give a character to
literature and science. Where revealed truth has given the
aim and direction to knowledge, knowledge of all kinds will
minister to revealed truth. The evidences of religion, natu-
ral theology, metaphysics,— or,. again, poetry, history, and
the classics,—or physics and mathematics, may be grafted
into the mind of a Christian, and give and take from the
grafting. But if in education we begin with nature before
grace, with evidences before faith, with science before con-
science, with poetry before practice, we shall be doing much
the same as if we were to indulge the passions and turn a deaf
ear to the reason. In each case we misplace what in its place
is a divine gift. If we attempt to effect a moral improvement
by means of poetry, we shall but mature into a mawkish,
frivolous, and fastidious sentimentalism—if by means of ar-
gument, into a dry unamiable longheadedness—if by good so-
ciety, into a polished outside, with hollowness within, in
which vice had lost its grossness, and perhaps increased its
malignity—if by experimental science, into an uppish super-
cilious temper, much inclined to scepticism. But reverse
the order of things ; put faith first and knowledge second ;

let the university minister to the church, and then classical
poetry becomes the type of gospel truth, and physical science
a comment on Genesis or Job, and Aristotle changes into
"Butler, and Arcesilas into Berkeley;
Far from recognising this principle the teachers of the
knowledge school would educate from natural theology up to
christianity, and would amend the heart through literature
and philosophy. Lord Brougham gives out that " hence-
forth nothing shall prevail over us to praise or to blame any
one for" his belief, which he can no more change than he
can the hue of his skin or the height of his stature." And
Sir Robert, whose profession and life give the lie to his phi-

losophy, founds a library into which "nu works of contro-
versial divinity shall enter," that is, no doctrinal works at
all; and he tells us that "an increased sagacity will make
men not merely believe in the cold doctrines of natural re-

ligion, but that it will so prepare and temper the spirit and
understanding that they will be better qualified to compre-
hend the great scheme of human redemption," And again,
Lord Brougham considers that " the pleasures of science
tend not only to make our lives more agreeable but better;"
and Sir Robert responds, that " he entertains the hope that
there will be the means afforded of useful occupation and
rational recreation ; that' men will prefer the pleasures of
knowledge above the indulgence of sensual appetite, and that
there is a prospect of contributing to the intellectual and
moral improvement of the neighbourhood."
Can the 19th century produce no more robust and creative
philosophy than this ? ' CATHOLICUS.

IN
Nor tThHeElaMstEtThßirOtyPOyLealls,--.aWhite's
r•owCHCuhitapceril,EsxpritaErrifisetiodNs,
Dissent-
ing meeting-house, and late in the occupation of the Rev.
Robert Aiken, M.A., who has so recently conformed to the
government and discipline of the Church, was opened last
Sunday, by virtue of a license from the Bishop of London,
as a district chapel, in connection with the parochial church,
and three sermons were preached, by the Rev. Mr. Stone,
the Rector of Spitalfields ; The Rev. Mr. Taylor, of All-
Saints, Mile-end, New-town •, and the Rev. J. Jackson, of
St. Peter's, Globe-fields. No stated minister is yet ap-
pointed ; but the duty at this chapel will at present be per-
formed by the ministers of the various district churches in
the neighbourhood, who have agreed to divide the labour be-
tween them. The building has undergone a complete re-
pair and alterations necessary to the observance of the forms
and ceremonies of the Church. The sittings, which are cal-
culated to afford accommodation for upwards of 700 persons,
are mostly free, the opening of the chapel being principally
for the benefit of the poorer classes in this crowded neigh-
bourhood. The want of church accommodation in this
densely populated district has been long severely felt, as is
fully evinced by the crowded state of the new churches which
have been lately opened, and which are filled every Sunday
with regular and attentive congregations. Another of the
Bethnal-green new churches in the Hackney-road is in a very
forward state, and will, it is said, be consecrated in a few
weeks.