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straction."

land."

A quantum skfficit of income, or what the ecclesiasti-
cal commissioners may deem such, being allotted to
the new bishop—the solitary successor to the two sees
of Bangor and St. Asaph—the surplus is to be seized
as legitimate spoil, and carried off to poor, needy, indi-
gent, helpless Manchester, there to support a new Eng-
lish bishopric, with that title ! Is not this abominable?
We know of no reason why it should be even thought
of, except that Wales has been too patient under simi-
lar wrongs heretofore, and has already contributed
largely from her poor resources to English institutions.
" England," said the Rev. David James, in his truly elo-
quent and impressive speech, " threw nothing into the prin-
cipality, but the principality was made to throw her reve-
nues into England. Had not that poor unproductive pro-
vince appealed year after year against, the abstraction of her
revenues, to support institutions in England ? Jesus' Col-
lege, Oxford, the Dean and Chapter of Winchester, St.
John's Hospital, Chester, the Grocers' Company, London,
and Lichfield Cathedral, all in England, had each a part of
the revenues of \Vales, yet England must have more to sup-
port a bishop in Manchester, of all places in the world—
whose great merchants—nay, any two of them, conjointly,
could purchase the whole principality !"

But Manchester will surely refuse to partake of the
plunder. Of all places, Manchester should be fore-
most to protest against the meditated spoliation, for
the very reason that it is pretended to have been
planned for her benefit.

The church in Wales is already-poor enough, and
instead of having any thing to spare, has really much
need of additional funds for her own exigencies. We
could quote many statements of fact in illustration of
this position, but shall content ourselves for the pre-
sent with one from the speech of the reverend gentle-
man last named. It is as follows :

" The Bishopric of St. Asaph contained about 21 livings,
each under £lOO. a-year—that is, ranging from £49. up to
£lOO. The Bishopric of Bangor contained 30 livings, each
under the value of £lOO. a-year—that is, ranging from £5O.
to £99. The Bishopric of St. David's contained 165 livings,
each under £lOO. a-year; and, although the diocese con-
tained about 408 or 410 livings, returned to the ecclesiastical
commissioners, the average income of the whole of them,
rich and poor, was only £l4B. a year. There was only one
living in the diocese of St. David's, out of the 410, that was
worth above £9OO a-year ; there was not one between £5OO.
and £600.; there were just ten above £4OO. whilst all the
rest came under £3OO. a-year, and, as he had said before
about 165, ranging from £49. to £99. a-year. In travelling
from St. David's to the diocese of Llaudati, there were 64
benefices nut amounting to £lOO. a-year each ; and that the
average of all the livings put together, rich and poor, would
give to each mitister only about £lBO. a-year. Now this
was a state of things which ought to call forth the sympathy
of Englishmen, and make them willing to leave to the poor

Principality its own revenues to support its own ministers."

But North Wales must have her two bishops, and
more if needs be. Let her only " agitate, agitate,"
and she will have them. What ! shall immense reve-
nues be taken from the crown and diverted to the sup.-

port of Popery in Canada—(the fraternity of St. Sul-
pice to-wit)---and shall not Wales be permitted to re-
tain her own rightful possessions for the support of her
own Protestant Christian church ? Will Englishmen
look tamely On, and see this wrong done by a Popish-
radical administration ? Wales cries to them to " come
over and help her," and will they unfeelingly and
heartlessly shut their ears to her supplication ? We
will not believe it. Let the inhabitants of the princi-

pality not despair, and only " agitate" with sufficient
vigour, and the work will be done.

We shall conclude with one more extract from the
admirable and convincing speech of Mr. James, be-
cause it is one which we think calculated to interest all
good men still more in the cause. It is as follows :

" He was bound to confess, and it was with pain that he
did so, that the state of the church in the principality was
deplorable—such as was calculated to call forth the sympathy
and the commiseration of every true patriot, and of every one
who felt interested in the success of true religion in any part
of the world. We had seen the churches deserted ; we had
seen the people leave the church in disgust, and turn away
dissatisfied with the state of things which it presented, be-
cause the church had not been worked as a system for their
benefit, in the way she should have been made to work, and
in the way he trusted she would be made to work by and by.
The time was corning, therefore, when every one must put
his shoulder to the wheel, in order, if possible, to drive for-

ward this great machinery into a proper position, that it
might work its way to the hearts and affections of the people,
and that there might be but one voice, one sentiment, and
one declaration of attachment and love to it, proceeding from
rich and poor, from learned and unlearned, throughout the

That monstrous job, the transfer of the estates be-
longing to the crown at Montreal to the Popish frater-
nity of St. Sulpice, was ably exposed by the Bit:hop of
Exeter on Thursday evening, on which occasion it was
gratifying to perceive that he was fully and coriially
supported by his Grace the Duke of Wellington. His
Grace declared that it was " a palpable attack upon
the principle of the reformation ;" indeed he said it
was the " first" of the kind, but as there might be a
difference of opinion on that point, we just quote the
substance of his remark. An attack, however, the
affair decidedly is, and a most gross and insufferable
one, on the Protestantism of our nation and colonies.
The property in question belonged to the fraternity of
St. Sulpice at Paris at the period of the British con-
quest of Canada ; but then, by right of conquest, de-
volved to the crown. It is now immensely valuable,
embracing much of the town and suburbs of Montreal.
A conveyance of the property was made by the Pari-
sian fraternity to the Canadian brotherhood of the
same name; but the conquest of Canada by this coun-
try had previously put an extinguisher on their rights,
so that this conveyance, though a good Jesuitical trick,
was a piece of mere humbug. Yet the matter has un-
accountably lain over, and now the cunning Jesuits
not only seek to profit by the laches of the crown—(in
the teeth of that maxim of our common law which says
that nullum tempts occurrit regi)--but really, in this
gullible era of Protestantism, seem to have a good
prospect of succeeding in their attempt. The St. Sul-
pice fraternity of Canada have now actually obtained
an ordinance from the governor and special council of
Canada, surrendering this property to them, and giving
them a charter of incorporation in order to enable them
to hold it in perpetuity ! Well may his Grace the
Duke of Wellington call this " a palpable attack on
the principle of the reformation ;" for it is both an es-
tablishment and endowment of Popery in one of the
most important of our colonies. The monstrous deed
is, however, not yet perfected ; the sanction of the
crown has not yet been given to the ordinance of Lord
Sydenham and the special council, and if due weight
be given to the address to her Majesty which will he
moved in the Lords on Friday, praying her Majesty to
withhold her sanction from this ordinance, it never will
be. But we confess we are in great doubt upon the
subject, having no confidence whatever in the anti-
Popery disposition of her Majesty's present advisers.

It is argued by a London journal that the Americans
do not secretly foment a quarrel with us for the pur-
pose of getting rid of their state engagements by hos-
tilities, because a treaty exists by which it is agreed
that neither debts due from individuals, nor shares
in the public funds, nor in the public or private banks,
should be destroyed or impaired on account of national

differences." But we do not think this reason suffi-
cient to stultify the hypothesis altogether. It supposes
the Americans to have the fear of treaties before their

eyes, and a proper reverence and respect for them in
their consciences ; and that is giving them credit for
more than at present we think they are fairly entitled
to. Where is their respect for international law in the
seizure and detention of Mr. M‘Leod ; or where their
respect for law of any sort in the proceedings that fol-
lowed his admisSion to bail, the cannon practice at his
cell door, and all those brutal mob outrages that en-
sued ? The last of these actings, it is true, was the

work of the mere rabble, (democracy exhibited in

ris naturalibus,) but the former has been sanctioned
and adopted by the state. We can very well believe
that the great body of the people disapprove of these
ins lting and most disgusting doings, and contemplate
a war with England with a proper feeling of aversion ;
but can they controul the turbulent, and direct the
government r We fear not.

Some of the American papers continue to discuss
the question whether a war with England would not be
rather useful to them; and there are points of view in

which it would seem to promise them some aCivantage
A common danger would serve to bind thei

jointed states a little more closely together, a

the executive to exert a little more effectiv

over their Lynching mobs, which at present seem to
have got the administration of affairs entirel2.; into their
own hands—to say nothing of those numerous engage-
ments which, if not cancelled by a war, would certainly
be placed in a state of remote settlement. In these
respects, and others that might be mentioned, a war
might be allowed to bring certain advantages to the
republicans, and we know of no reply that would be
likely to have any effect on those who so reason, hut
such a demonstration from the adversary as might re-
mind them that the game is one at which " two can
play." We in England are assuredly not addicted to
quarrelling, and have a very deep and abiding convic-
tion of the horrors of war. We would, in truth, en-
dure a great deal to avoid so great a calamity. But,
on the other hand, it does not comport with the na-
tional character to submit tamely to wanton and un-
just aggression. If the Americans continue to force
on this calamitous business, England will be unani-
mous in taking up a proper position to repel infringe
ments on her rights. In such a case there would be
no party distinctions among us. All such differences
will be forgotten in a cause so sacred as the vindication.
of our common country. We should feel that the war
was purely defensive on our part, and we should be
unanimous.

The news brought by the Westchester, Captain Per
xis, certainly does not tend to disperse the cloud whit;
hangs over this grave matter. The offensive repot
agreed to by the committee in Congress raises a suspi

cion in our mind that the XPLeod and boundary ques-
tions are, in fact, only used as pretexts for the display
of a hostile spirit already in existence, and that there

is a secret wish in certain quarters to pick a quarre
with us. We trust such parties, however, may be

disappointed

At the meeting held yesterday on the subject of the
import duties, the several resolutions were unanimously
agreed to. It is quite right that such questions should
be treated in such a way, and gratifying to perceive
such a mode of procedure, as in this instance, realised.
To be sure an attempt was made by a journeyman
tailor named Duffle to introduce the subject of the corn
laws. He was replied to by Mr. Rosson in a rather
jesuitical style, but with more candour by Mr. Rath-
bone. He was, however, kept, or rather cowed, down
by the influence of these " reformers;" nevertheless,
as Mr. Moore observed, the compact under which
many were induced to sign the requisition was practi-
cally broken.

We are happy to be enabled to state that the family of the
Rev. Mr. Webster, whose lives were lately placed in con-
siderable danger through the effects of arsenic, are now quite
recovered. Nothing has yet transpired to fix susdicion on
any party as connected with this mysterious affair.—lVor-
.ce.yter Journal.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT ST. BRIDE'S CHURCH, LON-
DON.—A MAN BURIED ALIVE!—On Thursday afternoon,
-about half-past two o'clock, the following dreadful and fatal
accident occurred at St. Bride's Church, Fleet-street, to a
young man, 22 years of age, named Henry Thompson, who
was employed as assistant to Cox, the grave-digger of St.
Bride's. It appears that the unfortunate young man was
engaged in digging a very deep grave in the churchyard, and
.had reached the depth of 17 feet, when suddenly the sides
and a whole tier of coffins (the ground being very crowded),
gave Way, burying the unfortunate man. An alarm being
.given, every assistance was immediately rendered, and a num-
ber of men and policemen began to dig, but, notwithstanding
every exertion, from the soft nature of the soil, which con-
tinually fell in, Ind the number of coffins to be removed, it
sins nine o'clock before the body was extricated ; life was, of
course, extinct. The unfortunate deceased was unmarried,
wa,3 the sole support of an aged mother, and bore a very re-
spei Stable character --Morning Herald.

N. GLANCE AT THE POLITICS OF THE WEEK

(FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.)
[ring the present week the " shabby administration

Ls been practising assiduously the " art of sinking" ; and
is succeeded in finding a " lower deep" of infamy than the
west which it has hitherto occupied. To be ankle-deep in
ient for the ambition of most lovers of unclean-
but the government of Loril Melbourne is not con-
d with less than a total submersion. To rake in the

t is stif

gutter for stray morsels of culinary garbage, is an amuse-
ment proper to a certain domestic and unclean animal; but
the Popish-radical brood of Downing-street must lie down
and luxuriate in the " verdant mud," until, coated with its

.earning impurities from the proboscis 'to the tail, they
esent objects offensive alike to the eye, the touch, and the
cell of all who love to breathe the fresh air of heaven-

A magnificent majority of FIVE VOTES crowned the ardu-
ous labours of the ministerial whipper-in, after four nights'
debate upon Lord Morpeth's " obstruction bill." To secure
this mighty five, threats of dissolution, cajolery, promises of
patronage and honours, were liberally showered down upon
the ministerial benches ; and, even when secured, it was only
a colourable majority afteiall. It was only a postponement
of a certain conclusion—defeat, shameful, utter, and irreme-
diable. The bill was allowed, it is true, to progress to a
second reading ; but distinctly upon the understanding, ex-
pressed by at least a dozen of its pro-tempore supporters,
that the qualification clause—the lowering of the franchise,
which is in fact its principle—might be altered in committee :
and the sanction of the house to the whole bill, as presented
by ministers, is therefore plainly in abeyance until such an
alteration can be made ; and the retention of office in the
meantime, by ministers, a direct and palpable usurpation,
perpetrated in defiance of the known opinions of parliament
as to the measure upon the passing of which they have risked

the fate of the government.
Well, indeed, might the tongue of the bantam minister—
Lord John Russell—falter, and his cheeks assume all imagi-
nable colours, as they did. whilst on Monday night he mo-
destly proposed to the House of Commons to defer the com-

mittee on the bill until—after Easter ! " I know, gentle-
men," was the spirit of his abject and contemptible appeal,
" I know that this house will never sanction, in its present
shape, so unheard of a violation of the faith of parliament as
this bill constitutes. But look pt our position. It you ex-
punge, or interfere with, the £5 rating clause, you bring
down upon our miserable heads the indignation of the mem-
ber for all Ireland, and the lash of his tail; if you touch that

clause, you crush the rising hopes of the revolutionary fac-
tion in Great Britain, whose representatives we have thus
bought to our aid. Denude us of these two sources of
strength, and what are we in this house? A ' miserable mi-
nority,' powerless and characterless ! Allow us, therefore,
to throw you a sop to stay your stomachs until after Easter.
We will give you cartloads of blue books to read—oceans of
evidence and information prepared by the industry of our

poor-law commissioners; but do—do let us have tie forty-
two days between this and the 23rd of April to provide for
our Irish allies, and the endless variety of cousins, second
cousins, brothers and wives' brothers, who claim kin to men
in office,—in order that, when we go hence, it may not be
said of us that we were a thoughtless race and of ungrateful
blood !"

Such, in effect, was the language of this small morsel of
umanity ; and I need scarcely say that in London—and, I
oubt not, in the country as well—it has excited amongst all
lasses only one feeling, that of utter and uncontrollable
ligust. No sense of mere shame, it is evident—no motives
uch as those which induce to the actions of honourable men

-will drive away the brood of carrion birds who have fas

tened their talpns in the vitals of the country. No pressure,
except one from without, or from behind, will drive Lord
Melbourne and his crew of ,incapables from the seats of go•

vernment ; and it may become a question for consideration,
some of these days, whether it may not be necessary for the

conservative party to resort, as the last alternative, to mea-
sures of obstruction, similar to those by which Lord Stan•
ley's bill was attacked in the past, and as it no doubt will b(

atacked in the present, session.
The debate on Tuesday night, on the motion of the mem-
)er for Kilmarnock, and especially the lucid statements
)rought before the house by the honourable mover himself,
save made an impression upon the public mind (with respect
to the abuses of the national bounty which exist in the Col-
lege of Maynooth, if not also to the policy of the grant itself,)
which will now, I am convinced, be difficult to gloss over by
the same " ad captandum" arguments with which the sub-
ject has been hitherto met. It is true—and it is to be re-
gretted—that the countenance afforded to the hon. member
by. the leaders of the conservative party in the house was but
scanty ; yet it must be borne in mind that the opposition
offered to it was equally feeble. Most gladly would govern-
ment and " the tail" have got rid of the proposed bill alto-
gether—had they dared to make the attempt; but it is a
gratifying fact, which I would impress upon your notice,
that not only were they afraid to attempt a direct opposition,
but that, had they done so, they would have been signally
defeated.

The speech of Lord Morpeth, in reply to Mr. Colquboun,
was perhaps one of the most extraordinary pieces of imperti-
nence ever uttered within the walls of the House of Com-
mons, and may fairly be said to constitute another ministe-
rial step in the downward march to infamy. Amidst a hete-
rogeneous mass of prate about " exploded doctrines," " un-
just charges," " illiberality," and other fluent nothings, his
lordship announced to the house, as a discovery of his own,
that " so long as the doctrines taught at Maynooth were
those entertained and authorised by the Roman Catholic
church, parliament had no right to interfere." Yet not five
minutes before asserting this proposition, he had ridiculed
the notion that the " exploded doctrines " in question, as to
divided allegiance, &c., were entertained by the Roman Ca-
tholics of this country or of Ireland ; and had pointed to the
hands of Mr. O'Connell, uplifted in pious horror during the
address of the hon. member for Kilmarnock, as evidence of
their being discountenanced. On his lordship's own shew-
log, then, here is a case for inquiry at least—a case which, I
imagine, it will not be easy to get rid of. The doctrines
taught at Maynooth are not those which are professed to be
entertained by the Roman Catholic church of the present
day; and parliament may, therefore, justly and properly in-
stitute an inquiry upon the subject.
I will not trust myself to do more than allude to the com-
parison, very gratuitously introduced into his lordship's
speech, between the chastity of the women of Ireland and
that of our own countrywomen—to the disparagement of the
latter. The people of England have not forgotten the odious
calumny which was on a former occasion attempted to be
fastened upon the character of the matrons and daughters of
their land, by the foul tongue of a foul traitor: and the re-
petition of a similar slander from the lips of a cabinet mi-
nister, affords a striking proof of the degrading state of
slavery in which the present government is held by that same
traitor, who thus compels his abject tools to adopt his very
obscenities ! His lordship, however, may safely be left to
receive his reward from the hands of the wives and maidens
of the West Riding, on the next occasion of his presenting
his graceful person to their notice ; when, unless the York-
shire character has deteriorated of late years, he is not un-
likely to be greeted with a shower of rotten eggs, if nothing

more fitted for the purpose is within reach.
The ministerial patronage of Popery is not, it appears,
confined to the mother country, but is also rife in our colo-
nies. On Thursday evening a petition was presented to the
House of Lords by the Bishop of Exeter, from a number of
the inhabitants of Upper and Lower Canada, praying their
lordships to withhold their assent from an ordinance in coun-
cil procured by the personal interference and exertions of her
Majesty's present Governor-General in Canada, for the in-
corporation and endowment of a monastic institution, under
the title of the " Seminary of St. Sulplice"—in direct vio
lation of the act of union of last session, and of the great
principles of the Reformation. I need scarcely direct your
attention to the able and luminous speech of the right rev.
prelate, by whom the prayer of the petition was supported,
and the nefarious project which it denounced, laid bare and
exposed to the observation of the country. It cannot, how-
ever, be other than highly gratifying to every lover of our
Protestant constitution, to notice as the foremost to raise his
voice upon this question, the Duke of Wellington. " The
first circumstance," observed his grace. " which attracted
my attention on presenting this ordinance, was the striking
violation which it contained of the act of last year, and of the
established constitution of our country. This is, I believe,
the first direct breach which will have been effected in the
principles of the Reformation ; and your lordships and the
country owe a debt of deep gratitude to the rev. prelate for
bringing the subject under your notice." There are few in-
deed who will not echo this sentiment of the noble duke, and
who will not rejoice to see him occupying once more his posi-
tion in the van of the established Protestant constitution of
the realm.

Upon the whole the proceedings of the week have been of
a damaging character to the hopes and projects of the Romish
faction. The attention of the legislature, and, I may add, of
the influential portion of the press, is becoming daily more
attracted to the workings of this subtle enemy of the liberties
of mankind ; and it is not difficult to foresee the approach of
a period when a pseudo liberalism will no longer be able to
mask its designs from the full view of the people of Great
Britain.

" What is to be the issue of the present ruffianly temper of
the people of the United States toward England ?"—Aye,
what indeed !—is the question which is occupying the atten-
tion of all classes of the British people, and which you will
perceive has been met in a noble spirit by the Conservative
party in the House of Commons, during the debate upon the
A judicial murder, or failing this, a more
summary revenge from the hands of an infuriated and lawless
mob, there is little reason to doubt has been already, or will
be, committed upon the person of a British subject ; and the
result—the admitted result—must be a declaration of war by
this country against the government of the United States.
Upon a thread depends the issue ; and who, I ask, can fore-
see its terrible conclusion ? Yet with such a state of things
staring us in the face, we are blessed (!) with a government
which, for the sake of the hollow support which it receives
from this revolutionary faction—the sympathisers—of the
House of Commons and the country, proposes to reduce in-
stead of augmenting the number, and increasing the efficiency
of our military establishments ! But such a policy is not to
be wondered at when we remember that the party of which

army estimates