The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-28 00:00:00

TO THE PUBLIC

IT having become iultef;shionabietO SELL OFF, the
I. Proprietors of the

COLUMBIA RIVER FUR COMPANY
beg most respectfully to inform the Public, that, in con-
sequence of having disposed of the Premises for the Sum-
mer months, and having , o give up possession, on the 28th
of February, to Mrs. Gardiner, who will open them in
the Bonnet basiness, they are determined to SELL OFF
the remainder of their STOCK without reserve. Conse-
quently, every article will be considerably reduced in price,
so as to effect a complete clearance ; the object of the
Company being to Re-open the Premises, on or about the
Ist September next, with an Entire New Stock.

_ . _........
The interval will be occupied iu Importing.. and Manu-
facturing Skins into those articles fashion may direct.
72, Bold-street.

HENRY LEARY,
BOOT-MAKER,
No. 2, LOWER ARCADE, BOLD-STREET,
LIVERPOOL.

HENRY LEARY begs leave call the attention of
his Friends and the Public to his Newly Invented
System of BOOT-MAKING, which has cost him con-
siderable time and study to bring to its present perfection.
He warrants all Boots manufactured under his new prin-
ciple never to go on one side, nor to burst at the side, as
is generally the case; to retain their original shape, even
when repaired ; and also to fit with the greatest neatness
and ease. Many other properties it combines, too nume-
rous to insert in an advertisement.

N.B.—H. L. requests a trial, and begs to add that his
mode of measurement is on an entirely new principle.

THE LIVERPOOL GENERAL MOURNING
EMPORIUM.

THE only Establishment in Liverpool for the exclusive,
Sale of every article requisite for
EXTENSIVE FAMILY OR COMPLIMENTARYI
MOURNING.

FUNERALS COMPLETELY FURNISHED.

114, BOLD-STREET,
OPPOSITE THE BANK FOR SAVINGS.
SAMUEL LITTLER, Proprietor,

THE NEW FRENCH WOVE STAY

HENRY LANGRIDGE and COMPANY, FRENCH
and ENGLISH STAY and CORSET MANUFACTURERS,
129, BOLD-STREET, respectfully apprise the Ladies of
Liverpool and its Vicinity, that they have now on hand,
and have made such arrangements as will insure a supply
of the PATENT FRENCH WOVE STAY. This light
and elegant Article, which in Paris has superseded every
other description of Corset, and which is patronised in
this Country by all the leading Nobility, is wove in one
piece, and has, consequently, no Seam. It adapts itself
with extraordinary nicety to the figure, to which it yields
all necessary support, and imparts elegance and grace.
By H. L. and Co.'s arrangements, they will be enabled to
supply the Novel and Fashionable Stay at the Continental
Prices, which will be found 20 per cent. lower than those
charged by English Houses.
H. L. and Co. have also a well assorted Stock of their
IMPROVED ELASTIC WOVE STAY, so much re-
commended by the faculty, and by the use of which tight
lacing is superseded, and the consequent chest diseases
and the liability to sudden death avoided.
Ladies' English and French CORSETS, of every shape
ad in every variety of material, may be selected from the
largest and best manufactured Stock in the North o
England. Ladies are particularly urged, before giving
their orders elsewhere, to inspect the French Corset or
Full-boned Stay, at 10s. 6d., usually charged 20s. Wo-
men's Strong Stays, both White and Coloured, at greatly
reduced prices. Servants' Coloured from 2s. 6d. to
ss. 6d., (the latter a first-rate Stay,) and White at from
3s. The best materials employed, and no substitute for
Whalebone admitted on the Premises.
Respectable and competent Persons to recive Orders.
Ladies residing in the Country may be fitted on sending
\e exact size of the waist, and otherwise describing the

figure
The Scale of Prices for the Patent French Stay will be
forwarded in reply to prepaid applications.

OBSERVE.-128, BOLD-STREET,
FOUR DOORS FROM ST. LUKE'S CHURCH

An elegant Assortment of FRENCH MILLINERY
and DRESSES, Cheaper than any other House in Liver-
pool.

APPRENTICES WANTED to MILLINERY

NOTICE TO INVENTORS,
_ _

Office for Patents of Inventions and Registrations of
Designs, 14, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
THE Printed INSTRUCTIONS gratis, and every in-
formation upon the subject of PROTECTION for
INVENTIONS, either by Letters Patent or the Designs
Act, may be had by applying personally, or by letter
(prepaid) to Mr. ALEXANDER PRINCE, at the Office, 14,
Lincoln's Inn Fields,

Removed from Birmingham to 19, Berners-street,
Oxford -street, London.
Just published, the Thirteenth Edition, price 2s. 6d. ;
free by post, 3s. 6d.,
THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on Human
Frailty, Nervous Debility, Constitutional Weakness,
excessive Indulgence, &c. With Observations on Mar-
riage, &c. By R. and L. PERRY and Co., Surgeons,
London. Published by the Authors, and sold at their
residence ; also by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Noble,
109, Chancery-lane ; Crocker, 4, Milford-lane, Strand ;
Ward, 103, Strand, (opposite Exeter-hall); Gordon, 146,
Leadenhall-street ; Purkin, Compton-street, Soho; Wil-
son, 338, Oxford-street, (two doors from Argyll-street,)
London ; and Newton, 16 and 29, Church-street, Liver-
pool ; and by all Medicine Vendors in Town and Country.
THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM is a
gentle Stimulant and Renovator in all cases of Debility,
whether Constitutional or acquired, nervous mentality,
irritation and Consumption—by the use of which the im-
paired System becomes gradually and effectually restored
to pristine health and vigour. Sold in bottles, price Ils.
and 335. The £5 cases may be had, as usual, at their
Establishment.

PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS halo
long been used as the most certain remedy for ScorbdW
Complaints of every description, Eruptions of the Skin,
Pimples on the Face, and other disagreeable affections,
the result of an impure state of the blood. These Pills are
perfectly free from mercury, capavia, and other delete-
rious drugs, and may be taken with safety without inter-
erence with, or loss of time from b usiness, and can be
relied upon instance. Sold in boxes at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d.,
and
-11 s., by all Medicine Venders. _

-..—...
Messrs. Perry and Co. may be consulted at their resi-
dence daily, from Eleven to Two and Five till Eight. On
Sundays from Ten till Twelve.

CW Sold, wholesale;nTretail, by EVANS, Sorra, and
Co., Chemists, Lord-street, Liverpool.
Sold Retail by Mr. J. PRIESTLEY, Lord street.

And all Indictments for Misdemearors found at these
Sessions against persons admitted to bail must be entered
for trial before Twelve o'clock on the day after the dis-
charge of the Grand Jury, or the trial will stand over.
'WRIGHT, Clerk of the Peace.
Clerk of the Peaces-office, January 2ad 1815.

LIVERPOOL OBSERVATORY.
vr ASTERS of Ships and the Public generally. are
informed that the Signal Bill on the top of the
Observatory, recently erected on Waterloo Dock Pier
Head, is dropped daily at One o'clock, Greenwich mean
time, being Twelve Minutes and Two-tenths of a Second
before One o'clock at this Observatory.
Chronometers are received and rated at the Observe-
tory, at the charge of 7s. 6d. each. The system of rating
adopted is precisely the same as that pursued at Green-
wich by the Astronomer Royal.

The respective Owners will be furnished with the gain
or loss of their Chronometers for each day, and the tem-
perature of the room in which the Chronometers are
placed, in addition to the error on Greenwich time, and
the mean daily rate.

By order of the Observatory Committee of the Town
Council, JOHN HARTNUP, Observer.
Liverpool Observatory, 20th January, 1815.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY.
SEVENTEENTH GENERAL MEETING.
NT ()TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that, in pursuance
11 of the Act of Incorporation, the HALF-YEARLY
GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders of this
Company will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
street, London, on Wednesday, the sth day of February
next, at 1 o'clock precisely, for the purpose of receiving
a Report from the Directors of the progress of the under-
taking, and of selecting four directors in the place of the
four Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company
retiring by rotation, and for the transaction of other bu-
siness.

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed on
Saturday, the 25th instant, and will not be .pened until
Thursday, the 6th of February.
HENRY BOSANQUET, Chairman,
A. BULKELEY, Secretary.
Offices, London Terminus, January 14, 1845.
N.B. The Dividend for the quarter ending the 4th
instant will be payable to those parties who, on the 25th
instant, shall be registered proprietors in the Company's 7.
books.

ARMAGH, COLERAINE, AND PORTRUSH
RAILWAY,
(PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.)
Temporary Offices of the Company, 4, Great Winchester,.
street, Broad-street, London.
CAPITAL, £1,200,000, in 24,000 Shares of £25 each.
DEPOSIT, £1 7s. 6d. PER SHARE.
PROSPECTUSES, with Form of Application for
Shares, may be had of the Solicitor to the Company,
George Ogle, Esq., 4, Great Winchester-street; Mr.
Roger Mortimer, 7, Shorter's-court, Throgmorton-street,
London ; James Watt and Co., Solicitors, Dublin ;
Messrs. Boyle, Low, Pim, and Co., College-green, Dub-
lin ; John Cumming, Esq., Armagh ; William Green,
Esq., Ballymoney; Robert M'Farland, Esq., Coleraine ;
Mr. Jamieson, Stock and Share Broker, Bank-street,
Leeds; Mr. Hervey, Stock and Share Broker, Halifax ;
of the Secretaries, at the Temporary Offices of the Com-
pany, No. 4, Great Winchester-street, London ; or of
Mr. THOMAi CREWDSON, Stock and Share Broker
Atherton-buildings, Dale-street, Liverpool.

REGISTRATION OF THE " ADDITIONAL
SHARES" OF THE GREAT SOUTHERN
& WESTERN RAILWAY (IRELAND.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Holders of
the Scrip of the above-mentioned Shares are required
to Register the same on or before SATURDAY, the Bth
February next.

A CALL for £2 10s. Od. per Share will be made imme-
diately after the Registration, on payment of which these
Shares will become consolidated with the Original Stock
of the Company.
Parties are requested to forward their Scrip, for Regis-
tration, to the Office of the Company, 3, College-green,
Dublin ; or to Mr. RICHARD STAFFORD, 62, Moorgate-
street, London, when Certificates (for each Share, if
required) will be given.

Bv.order, - 'WILLIAM TAYLOR, Secretary
3, Colleye-green, 25111 January, 1845.

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY
COMPANY.

A T the SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of this
1-1. COMPANY, held at the White Lion Hotel, in the
city of Bristol, on THURSDAY, the 16th of January, 1845,
FREDERICK RICKETTS, Esq., in the Chair.
It was unanimously Resolved,

1. That it is expedient that this Company should obtain
powers for the formation of the following Branch Lines of
Railway, viz. ;

A ifailway from Durston, between Bridgwater and
Taunton, to Yeovil, in the county of Somerset.
A Railway from Clevedon-road Station to Clevedon, in
the same county.

An improved Junction with the Great Western Railway
at the Bristol Terminus.

2. That it is expedient-that this Company do take 1500
Shares, of £5O each, in the Cornwall Railway from Ply-
mouth to Falmouth, (in continuation of the South Devon
Railway,) and that the Directors of this Company be
authorised to subscribe for the same accordingly, and to
procure all necessary parliamentary powers for that pur-
pose._. _ _

3. That an additional Capital of £500,000 be raised by
the issue of 15,000 Third Shares, at £33 Gs. Bd. per Share.
4. That every Proprietor of original shares shall be en-
titled to one such Third Share in respect of each original
share for which he may stand registered on the 16th day
of January, 18-15, on condition of his notifying his inten-
tion to avail himself himself of it by letter to the Secretary,
and by paying to the Bankers of this Company, on or
before the 31st day of January instant, a deposit of £2 per
Share.

5. That if any of the Third Shares be unclaimed, the
same shall be rateably distributed among such of the
Proprietors who shall signify tbeir desire to that effect,
by letter to the Secretary, on or before the 28th day of
February next, or be sold for the benefit of this Company,
as the Directors may see fit.

6. That provisioti be made in the Act or Acts for the
payment of interest, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum,
to the holders of said new shares, for the amount of paid-
up Calls, until the works be completed; after which the
Third Shares to form part of the Capital Stock of this
Company, and he entitled to the same rate of Dividend,
in proportion to the amount of Calls paid up, as the
original Shares.

FREDERICK RICKETTS, Chairman

LANCASTER AND PRESTON RAILWAY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,
MAY I bee permission to make the following remarks
upon an article in the Railway Times of Saturday
last, beaded Bristol and Gloucester versus Lancaster and
Preston Railways, signed It. Q., wherein the writer, con-
trasting those two lines, appears struck with wonder at
their relative prices, showing that the Lancaster and
Preston, although at a discount in the market, is actually
400 per cent. more to be preferred as an investment than
the Bristol and Gloucester, the latter having attained to
43 per cent. premium; but how the writer reconciles this
statement with fact I am at a loss to conceive, unless it be
that the Lancaster and Preston's secured dividend is as
much to £4OO as Bristol and Gloucester's coming dividend
will be to £lOO : if that is the meaning, then R. Q. is
correct. As to the anticipated extra traffic on the opening
of the Lancaster and Carlisle, few conversant with the
present mode and route can infer otherwise than that it
will be an immense increase. If we compare this line with
the competition so rife through the Centre, South, East,
and West of England, we try in vain to find a line alike
secure against inva,ion with such bright prospects. Whe-
ther the late arrangements with the other company be the
best that could have been come to for the proprietary, is
another matter, such description of property being not yet
put up to the highest bidder. No doubt, should a certain
projected line receive the sanction of the legislature, in the
coming session, then the Lancaster and Preston might
have been a bargain to the parties hinted at by R, Q. at
10 per cent. ; however, I presume that the decision with
the Lancaster asd Carlisle is final, consequently there is
an end to the matter. It app ars, however, that the di-
rectors have made a tolerably fair arrangement, by not
binding the proprietary to a five per cent. for ever, but
have also secured to them one-third of the profits above
five per cent. upon the line between Preston and Carlisle;
or left them at liberty to amalgamate interests if they
chose, which last, I doubt not, will be the result ; so that
the proprietors may only have to wait a little longer for
their ten per cent. than if the plan alluded to by R. Q. had
been carried into effect. Besides, in the present state of
affairs, it is very likely, as well as consistent, that new
shares will be created or executing a double line from
Lancaster to Carlisle, one-third of which shares will be
allotted to the Lancaster and Preston original shares,
otherwise what right will the Lancaster and Preston have
to receive one-third of all the profits upon the whole line ?
Such is in accordance with the proceedings of other com-
nanies similarly circumstanced, (witness North Alidlanci
with Sheffield and Itotheram,) thus placing the Lancaster
and Preston in a better position than if tied down to a ten
per cent, by any lease. The position and capabilities of
the two bodies, once united, opposition being impractica-
ble, will givesecurity for investments unequalled in the pre-
sent history of Railways; it therefore must, ultimately,
prove a most prosperous line. Though not agreeing in all
that R. Q. has stated, yet there is one thing upon which I
cannot differ, that upon the opening of the Lancaster and
Carlisle the Lancaster and Preston shares will be worth at
least double their present price. If R. Q. be a proprietor,
and afraid the directors have made a bad bargain, I would
suggest a little patience, as a very short period will exhibit
his property at a very different price to the present.
Your obedient Servant,
A SHAREHOOR.
Liverpool, 24th January, 1845.
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BRAZILS

Her Majesty's packet Express, Lieutenant Herrick,
arrived at Falmouth, on Thursday morning, from the
Brazils, after the short passage of thirty-nine days from
Rio de Janeiro.
The Alfred, with Commodore Purvis on board, had left
Rio on a cruise, for the northern ports it was conjectured,
as he had been expected up for some time. The Dolphin,
brig arrived at Rio on the 29th of November with the
mails from the River Plate, consequently the dates by
this packet are very old, she having been in port eighteen
days after the Dolphin came up.
A. new journal, published in French, had made its
appearance in Rio, entitled Le Courrier Europein, in
which there is the following announcement :—" The
English government has authorised Mr. Hamilton, its
representative at the Imperial Court, to negociate a new
treaty of commerce with the Brazilian government, and
M. Paule Souza has been chosen by this (the Brazilian)
government, to treat with the British minister thereon."
Affairs at Rio Grande are reported to have assumed a
more tranquil aspect.

BUENOS AYRES.—By the James Gibson. which ar-
rived at Liverpool on Wednesday, accounts have been re-
ceived from Buenos Ayres to the 12th of November. Up
to that date, no change had taken place in the position of
affairs at Monte Video. The only news of interest brought
by this vessel is to the effect, that two or three vessels,
which Rosas had allowed to pass up the river Parana with
the intention of proceeding to Paraguay, were seized at
Corrienties by the insurgents, who refused to allow them
to proceed,—but professed to be willing to pay the value
of the cargoes, which are understood to be principally, if
not en.irely, British property. It was rumoured at Bue-
nos Ayres, that the government of Paraguay had an-
nounced that they would permit no commercial intercourse
with that country until the hostilities on the River Plate
were terminated.

UNITED STATES.—The packet-ship Columbus, Capt.
Cole, arrived in the Mersey on Saturday, bringing New
York advices to the 2d instant, and Washington to the
31st ultimo. There is little news, the chief point being
the introduction into the House of Representatives, on
the latter date, of a bill and joint resolution providing for
the annexation of Texas to the United States on the
terms on which Missouri was admitted into the Union.
Notice of another joint resolution to effect the same object
bad been given on the same day. The New York Jour-
nal of Commerce says—" Richard Abbey, a planter,
residing in Yazoo county, has raised, the present season,
a very superior cotton-plant. It is said to surpass the
Mexican in the size of bolls and equal Sea Island in the
softness and beauty of its staple."

FRANCE

--The chamber having passed, on Wednesday,
from the general discussion to the paragraphs of the ad-
dress, M. de Carne proposed the following amendment to
the first paragraph :—" Our labours ended a few months
ago in the midst of complications that clearsighted and
firm conduct might have prevented or terminated in a
more satisfactory manner." The amendment was sus-
tained by Messrs. Crernieux and Billault, and opposed by
M. de Gasparin and the Minister of the Interior, after
which the question was put to the vote, when there ap-
peared—Against the amendment, 225 ; for it, 197 ; ma-
jority for ministers, 28. Thus the question of confidence
raised upon the first paragraph has been settled against
the coalition ; for although the paragraph related to Mo-
rocco merely, yet the amendment was so worded as to
affect the whole policy of ministers.
The National announces, with what feelings may be
easily conceived, that the " enemies of England," " ha-
ters of perfidious Albion," in a word, the subscribers to
the fund for purchasing a sword of honour for Admiral
Dupetit Thouars, had, figuratively had their proffered
present thrown in their faces. The Admiral, very frankly
and very sensibly, told the deputation of the subscribers,
when they waited on him on last Saturday, that his sense
of duty would not permit him to accept the intended
bribe to break his oath of allegiance, and refuse obedience
to his superiors, nor, consequently, to lend himself to an
attempt to embroil his government with that of Great
Britain, and, what would, perhaps, be worse, to contribute
towards perpetuating in France the diabol,cal spirit of
enmity towards this country which has been the undis-
guised aim of a largeportion of the French press throughout
the last five years.

The Spanish part of Hayti has been amicably formed
into a separate republic, called Republica Dominica, and
has adopted a constitution headed `• God, Country, and
Liberty."

On Christmas eve the baptism of two bells in the Ro-
man Catholic chapel of the hospital of Tours, took place
with the ceremonies usual upon such occasions. One of
the bells bears this inscription :—" Je m'appelle, Anna-
Valerie;" the other, " Je m'annelle Julie-Caroline."

SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATES.—From a statement
cf the total number of slaves in each of the United States
in 1840, it appears that there were in 1840 in the United
States 2,487.213 slaves, of which 1.246,408 were males,
and 1,240,805 females, the proportions thus being nearly
equal.

GUANO : ICHABOE.—Advices received yesterday state
that ab ut 350 vessels were there about the latter end of
November ; that the guano remaining on the island was
estimated sufficient to load about 150 of them ; and that,
owing to this, vessels were leaving in ballast, some pro-
ceeding to Saldanha Bay and Angra Pequena in quest of
the manure that may be deposited on those islands.—
Morning Herald of Saturday.

PROTESTANTISM IN FRANCE.—According to the
Moniteur, the two reformed churches in France posses-ed
in 1815, 464 pastors; in 1843, 677 ; and in 1845, upwards
of 700. The budget of the Protestant Church amounted,
under the empire, to 306,000 f. ; under the Restoration, to
676,000 f. ; and in 1845, to 1,219,000 f. The number of
temples had likewise increased ; but there are still 111
without any places of worship. There is, in
France, a Protestant population of about 4,000,000.

STOCK OF LUMBER IN THE PORT OF QUEBEC, DECEMBER
1, 1844, WITH A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT FOR

A letter from Tahiti received last week by a gentleman
in Yorkshire from his friend in that island, contains the
latest intelligence from that quarter of the world. From
it we learn that the French continue sovereigns and Mas-
ters of the ground they stand upon in Tahiti, and no more ;
—that the Queen's government has not been restored ;
that a brief armistice has been agreed upon between the
French and the native chiefs, which seemed on the point
of being terminated ;—and that many of the English mis-
sionaries are taking their sad departure from the fairest
scene of modern Christian missions, now ravaged by
wicked and licentious usurpers.
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THE LAST FIVE YEARS

Oak Elm I Ash Birch White I Red
Pine I Pine
Tim her. Timber. 'Timber. Timber Timber. I Timber,

1814! 857,721 559.8401 77,4 01 26,13912,552,90412,969,668
1843! 1,361,181 1,107,8641 71,3781 14,356 2,352.411213,474,500
1942 1,733,186 1,416.5221 118,446; 57,877 7,151,45911,392,131
11341 1,743,156 1,768,3161 169,909 9,52 4,l U1;527!1,292,350
1840 1,172,413 1,167,9751 149,1851 22,898, 2,271,953 1,522,448
1839 604,285 200,3951 40,1311 1,584'1,773,61;312,343,690
NotB

timber

—The above includes shippable and unshippable

MADEIRA, Jan. I.—The standing poverty and destitu-
tion of this lovely region, perhaps the most favoured by
nature on all the earth, but for the stigma of human in.
stitutions and laws, have been increased since the flood of
two years ago by an additional drop in Madeira's cup of
misery, arising from the great falling off in the influx of
strangers to the island during the winter. These have at
all times been chiefly English, and the number wintering
here at present is not more than half what it was two
years since. The south of Italy has lately obtained the
preference. Among onr countrymen now in Madeira are
more than a dozen clergymen of the Churches of England
and Scotland. We have likewise two members'of Parlia-
ment, Mr. Dundas, and Mr. Scott, M.P., for Roxburgh-
shire. Dr. Kalley still continues his missionary labours,
but his proceedings are conducted quietly, and for the
present make little noise.
A TRIANGULAR DUEL, NICE, JANUARY B.—There
has been rather a damp thrown over society at large here
recently. At a club supper, after a ball, a dispute arose
between a Russian, a Frenchman, and an Italian ; the
Russian challenged the Frenchman, and the Italian the
Russian; the latter two immediately went out—their
feelings towards each other almost amounted to madness,
as they fixed to have but one pistol loaded, and the muz-
zles to each other's breasts ; but the second (for they had
only one, as the others would not, they said, wait to wit-
ness a murder) loaded the pistol so that it would not go
off. They then returned to town to the Italian's rooms
for other pistols; while there, in walked the governor
with the police, wrested both, and put them in confine-
ment, also the Frenchman. This happened two days
before Christmas-day, and they are not yet liberated.
WEALTH OF THE PROPAGANDA.—The French jour-
nals of last week state that the receipts of the society in-
stituted at Lyons for the propagation of the Rosnish faith
amounted in 1844 to 3,562,088 f. France bad contributed
1,835.029 f. ; Bavaria, 232,748 f. ; Prussia, 145,0661. ;
Germany, 42,159 f.; Great Britain, 237,795 ; Ireland,
181,9051.; Spain, 10,578 f.; Russia, 2,449 f. ; Sardinia,
257,4641.; Sicily, 109,1181. ; the United States of Ame-
rica, 6,384 f. ; South America, 10,2471. ; Oceania, 240 f.,
&c. The society expended--in Oceans, 503,8361. ;in the
United States, 1,044,895 f. ; in the African missions,
266,0691.; in Asia. 997,1251.; in Europe, 547,111 f. ;
costs of printing, 256,360 f.; the entire expenses of the
year amounted to 3,668,7621. There was a surplus of
424,303 f. in the treasury of the society lying over since
last year.

LORD RANELAGH AND DON CARLOS

AGES OV THE EUROPEAN SOVEREIGNS.—The pope is,
since the death of Bernadotte, King of Sweeden, the
Nestor of European sovereigns, being now 79 years 4
months. Out of 52 monarchs, three only are above 70.
viz. :—The pope, the King of Honover (73 years 7
months), and the King of the French (71 years 3 montLs.)
Of the others, ten are between 60 and 70 ; fourteen from
50 to 60, among whom is the Emperor of Austria ; thir-
teen from 40 to 50, including the Emperor of Russia and
the King of Prussia ; three from 30 to 40, seven from 20
to 30, comprising the Queens of England and Portugal,
&c. ; and two only from 10 to 20, the Emperor of Brazil
(19 years 1 month), and Queen of Spain (14 years 3
months). Two changes of reigns have occurred in 1844
by the deaths of Bernadotte, King of Sweden, and Ernest,
Duke of Saxe-Gotha.

STATISTICS OF THE TIMBER TRADE OF

CANADA FOR 1844

(From the Annual Circular of Messrs. Forsyth Ar Bell.)

QUEBEC, DEC. 4, 1841.—Our season for shipments
being now closed, we think it will be interesting to our
correspondents if we take a general review of the market,
furnishing them at the same time with a statement oft e
stocks wintering over, the quantity that has come to Mt
port, and the amount of wood exported. In the early
part of the season the high price of white pine in Liverpool
was generally supposed to result from the bareness of the
market there, but every branch of trade being prosperous
to a degree, caused a great demand for this staple, and
each succeeding steamer brought more flattering accounts,
freights advancirg from 30s. to 355., and sub,equently to
38s. and 395.. and vessels scarce and not to be procured.
13, our advises to the 4th ult., we are informed that the
unparalleled number of 110 arrivals in the port of Liver-
pool, in the month of October, had little effect on the
market, which was wonderfully supported, notwithstand-
ing the addition in such a short period of upwards of 01,000
tons of timber. The number of mills erecting in the ma-
nufacturing districts, and the rage for railroads, which are

projected in every part of the United Kingdom., with the ' were those of: a " hot-headed priest." The Liberator I The parishioners of Tottenham, who recently objected
immense improvements in Birkenhead for the increased Icalled this reverend speaker to order. The rev. gentle- Ito certain innovations attempted in their parish church,
dock accommodation in the port of Liverpool, are all ' man said he maintained the canonicity of the rescriot, but have sent to the Rev. R. Faukner, the incumbent of St.
sensible causes of the great consumption of our timber. denied its application to Repeal. Does not Mr. O'Con- Sepulchre's, Cambridge, the sum of twenty guineas, to-
Whether these will continue, or whether the ensuing nell (he asked) admit that it is canonical ? Mr. O'Con- ' i wards a subscription now raising for that gentleman to de-
season will be equally beneficial to our friends on the St. nell—l am a bad theologian, and deprecate such a discus-
I fray the expenses of the law suit incurred by him in re-
Lawrence and Ottawa, it is difficult to conjecture ; and, sion in this place. Several Repeal wardens were stripped 1 sisting the steps taken by the Camden Society to adorn
acting on the rule we have laid nown for ourselves in the of their commissions for various violations of their instroc- , his church after the Popish fashion. The money sent by
issue of the Prices Current, of merely advising what has tions. The rent amounted to £395. I the Tottenham parishioners is a sufficient proof that they
taken place in the market, and carefully abstaining from e I are willing to help others under circumstances of oppres-
hazarding any opinion of prospective price, we will con- i sion and difficulty similar to their own.
tent ourselves by simply stating that the impression gene- UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS.
MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.—MT. J. W. Smith, who
rally prevalent is that a large and active demand will be i died at his house in Regent's-park on the sth instant, has
experienced next year, and an unusually large stock will OXFORD, JAN. 23.—1 n a congregation held this day' bequeathed the following sums to the undermentioned
be got out to meet it. So much, however, depends on the following degrees were conferred :—Doctor inDivinitY• charities :—To the British and Foreign Bible Society,
our weather in winter and spring, that much uncertainty —Rev. Richard Briscoe, Fellow of Jesus. Masters of £2,000 ;to the Society for Promoting Christian Know-
of the quantity manufacturing getting to market must i Arts.—Rev. J. Mason, New inn Hall. Rev. J. M. ledge, £2,000; to the Metropolis Church Building Fund,
always exist. I Gresley, St. Mary Hall. W. H. Awdry, Magdalene Hall. £2,000; to the Middlesex Hospital, £2,000 ; to the Na-
By the supervisor's return, the quantity received is as Rev. F. H. M., Student of Christ Church. R. B• e• tional Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in
follows :—White pine, 12,150,964 feet ; red pine, 4,164,317 Lyons, Christ Church. Rev. R. A. H. Stroud, Wadham. the Principles of the Established Church, £1,000: to the
feet ; oak, 709,540 feet ; elm, 660,964 feet; ash, 128,458 Res. J. B. Fellow of St. John's. Rev. H. Harris, St. Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, £2,000 ; and
feet ; birch, 73,142 feet ; maple, 821 feet ; butternut, 3040 John's. Rev. H. Pigot, Brasenose. G. J. Piccope' Brase- has directed the whole to be paid, free of duty, within
feet ; basswood, 7919 feet ; tamarack, 19,925 feet ; round nose. Rev. E. Pedder, Brasenose. Rev. S. W. Wayte, three months after his decease.
maple, 255 feet ; hemlock, 1001 feet ; poplar, 45 feet ; Fellow of Trinity. Rev. G. G. Hayter, Oriel. W. Pop- SALE OF A VALUABLE CHURCH LIVING.—On Toes-
walnut, 3489 feet. Taking into consideration a small ham, Oriel. J. Lea, Worcester. Bachelors of Arts.— day the perpetual advowson, with the next presentation to
quantity of timber, wintering over last year without being N. S. Fortescue, Student of Christ Church, Grand Com- the living of Trimley, St. Martin, in the county of Suffolk,
measured, and which of course is not included in the above pounder. B. Bevan, Christ Church, Grand Compounder. was disposed of, by public competition. The large and
return, our exports of square timber and that used in our H. T. Whately, Student of Christ Church. R. Lawson, small tithes had been commuted at the sum of £5OO per
shipments will not vary much from the following :—White Student of Christ Church. J. G. D'Englehart, Christ
pine, 11,950,438 feet ; red pine, 4,669,149 feet ; oak, Church. C. F. Clifton, Christ Church. J. E. Tweed,
annum. The outgoings amounted to about £45 a year,
1,213,110 feet; elm, 1,208.988 feet; ash, 122,346 feet; Christ Church. W. Farrar,New Inn Hall. F. W. but was compensated by the glebe, consisting of 31 acres.
The population, wholly agricultural, consists of about 500
birch, 61,309 feet. The returns of deals and staves are Smith, Magdalene Hall. W. E. Jones. Jesus. F. 0. persons, and the parish comprised above 1,200 acres ;
not yet made up in the supervisor's office, but will be I Giffard, St. John's. H. D. Hilton, St. John's. G. F. while the incumbent is in his 86th year. The auctioneer
hereafter reported. The number of arrivals for the last Tiley, St. John's. W. C. Hibbert, Balliol. G. E. stated the value of it to be £7,000. The first sum offered
four seasons have been as follows :-1841, 1214 vessels, Hughes, Oriel. H. J. Coleridge, Scholar of Trinity.
was £4,000, and it was knocked down, after a spirited
458.971 tons ; 1843, 1185 vessels, 429,741 tons ; 1842, 863 CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 24.—M a Congregation just held competition, for £5,950.
vessels, 307,448 tons. the following degrees were conferred :—Honorary Mas- REVISAL OF THE LITURGY.—In all the authorised re-
' lets of Arts—The Hon. J. Gifford, Emmanuel College ; visions our liturgy has undergone, it has never been sub-
the Hon. W. Cecil Spring Rice, Trinity College. Bache- mitted to convocation but once, namely, at the last, in
Tors of Arts—Henry Newport, Pembroke College ; John 1662 ; an instance little favourable to such a course. On
Taylor, St. John's College. all other occasions the revision has been made by com-
PREFERMENTS AND Meeoiwretesgs.—Rev. P. M. missioners appointed by the crown; and the revision pro-
Brunwin, 8.A., to the curacy of Great Chesterford, posed in 1689, effected, as Archbishop Wake said, by " a
Essex.—Rev. S. B. Byers, 8.A.. to the assistant curacy set of men titan which this church was never, at any one
of St. John's, WalLiam-green, Fulham.—Rev. G. C. time, blessed with either wiser or better since it was a
Cardale, 8.A., to the curacy of Wood Walton, Hunting-
church," (a healing measure, which at that time would
donshire.—Rev. B. H. Puckle, 8.A., to the curacy of
have been, as the same prelate said, "for the interest and
Little Brickhill, Hertfordshire.—Rey. E. G. Reeve, 8.A., peace of our church and state,") came to nothing, from
to be assistant curate of Ide Hill, Kent.—Rev. G. H. its having been subjected to the approval of convocation,
Vachell, M.A., to the rectory of Foulness, vacant by the and there outvoted by a party in the lower house, a result
death of the Rev. G. Knight.—Rev. G. B. Dodwell, 8.A., which caused much regret at its ever having been brought
to be second assistant curate of Finchley, Middlesex.— before such a tribunal,—Mr. Goode's Pamphlet.
Rev. T. A. C. Firminger, , 8.A., to the curacy of Sitting-
miOILE DISTURBANCES IN EXETER.—On Sunday week
bourn, Kent.—Rev. J. Harris, M.A., to the assistant there was another outbreak, similar to those detailed in
From the Church and Stale Gazette. curacy of St. Peter's, Globe-lane, Stepney.—Rev. R. B. our last, at St. Sidwells, Exeter. The Rev. Mr. Cour-
Lord Ranelagh has published a pamphlet containing a Howe, 8.A., to be chaplain of H.M. ship Eagle.—Rev. tenay preached in his surplice, as usual, and proceeded,
correspondence between himself and Lord Aberdeen in F. G. Nash, 8.A., to the assistant curacy of Clavering without the slightest change, in those innovations in the
the course of last year. with Langley, Essex.—Rev. C. Cursham, 8.A., to the service which have excited the universal hostility of his
The first letter, dated in March last, contains a request perpetual curacy of Hartwell, Northamptonshire, vacant parishioners. About two-thirds of the congregation rose
from Lord Ranelagh for an interview; Lord Aberdeen, by the cession of the Rev. E. R. Pemberton.—Rev. W. on his ascending the pulpit, and twenty or thirty left the
with his usual liberality, gave him two. But, by a note of H. Bishop, 8.A., to the assistant curacy of St. John's church. The shuffling of feet, the moving to and fro.
the following May, we find that they had been productive chapel, Epping.—Rev. .1. Green, 8.A., to the assistant the rustling of people rising to look over their seats, and
of nothing, although their subject concerned the future curacy of Rickmanswortb, Herts.—Rev. W. Headley, the whisperings to one another of the congregation, were
tranquillity of Spain. From two subsequent letters, we 8.A., to the curacy of Hazeleigh, Essex.—Rev. J. Hens_
strangely inappropriate to the sacred place. With these
discover that the pacification of Spain was to be achieved man, M.A., to the incumbency of Christ Church, Clifton, undevotional, and indignant feelings the congregation that
by Don Carlos giving his son in marriage to the young Gloucestershire.—Rev. P. J. Brine, 8.A., to the curacy remained heard the " teaching" of the Rev. Mr. Cour-
queen. But Lord Aberdeen, with more sagacity than of St. Mary's, Leeds.—Rev. T. Bagley, 8.A., to the tenay to its conclusion. On leaving the church, the con-
Lord Ranelagh appears to have given him credit for, curacy of St. Philip's, Bethnal-green, Middlesex.—Rev.
gregation mingled with a crowd of seven or eight hundred
scouts the idea of suchen alliance being either practicable J. Baird, 8.A., to the assistant curacy of Trinity Chapel, people who were assembled outside, and waited for the
or likely to be succeeded, if it were, by any but disastrous Tottenham.—Rev. B. Dowry, M.A.. to the rectory of appearance of Mr. Courtenay. He
left the church in the
results. The practised statesman at once saw that Don Hinksworth, Hertfordshire.—Rev. E. Hutton, 8.A., to centre of about a dozen gentlemen, headed by the church-
Carlos made no abandonment of his own pretensions ; the assistant curacy of St. Matthias, Bethnal-green, Mid- wardens, and was received by the crowd with hootings
or that, if he did, be merely transferred them to a son, illesex.—Rev. H. P. Costobodie, 8.A., to the vicarage of and yellings, which were continued until the reverend
who, while wooing a royal lady. denounced her claim to King's Norton, with Little Stratton curacy, vacant by the gentleman reached his dwelling. In the afternoon the
the throne which he asked to share. death of the Rev. T. Ord.—Rev. H. J. Stevenson, M.A., church was again crowded in consequence of the excite-
Unable to procure the introduction of a new fire-brand rector of St. Nicholas, Worcester, to the vicarage of ment. Mr. Courtenay followed his accustomed object-
into an already flaming country, Lord Ranelagh, after Grimley, with Hallow curacy, Worcestershire.—Rev. M. ionable observances. On his entering the pulpit, the con-
being silent for a while, resolves upon procuring some- Barnard, M.A., to the rectory of Little Bardfieid, Essex. gregation appeared all to rise from curiosity; many went
thing for himself. It appears that Lord Palmerston had —Rev. J. Hart, M.A., to the perpetual curacy of Soul- out; the church and lobby were densely crowded, and so
prevented him from being presented at foreign courts, be- bury, Bucks.—Rev. J. C. Reynolds, 8.A., to the rectory great a noise prevailed, that the opening prayer before the
cause he had been engaged in actual war, on the Carlist of Beeston St. Andrew, by Norwich.—Rev. J. Ambrose, sermon was scarcely audible. The churchwarden went
side, when the latter was opposed by a British co-operat- 8.A., to the curacy of Great Tolleshunt. Essex.—Rev. out and endeavoured to restore silence, the appearance of
ing force. He asks that this obstruction to his reaching H. J. Bull, 8.A., to the curacy of St. James the Great, the congregation being rather that of an excited public
foreign courts and continental fetes may be removed, as a Bethnal-green, Middlesex.—Rev. G. F. Burr. 8.A., to meeting, than that of a devotional assembly. Having
stigma cast upon him only on account of his attachment the curacy of Frittenden, Kent.—Rev. A. Christopher- thus by his foolish pertinacity in " things indifferent"
to principles so long maintained by Lord Aberdeen, and son, M.A., to the curacy of the Parish Church, Lances- raised this scene of excitement, and everything but calm
the leading members of her Majesty's Administration. ter.—Rev. C. F. Edge, 8.A., to the assistant curacy of devotional feeling, the rev. gentleman proceeded to preach
But the implied con plim nt is disowned by the Foreign St. Andrew, Holborn, London.—Rev. H. T. M. Kirby, the doctrine of " peace." The service ended, the scene
Secretary, who, on the question of principles, denounces 8.A., to the curacy of Mayfield, Sussex.—Rev. F. Wells, outside the church, (writes the correspondent of the
Lord Ranelagh's friend, Don Carlos, as a very unprinci- 8.A., to be chaplain of H. M. ship Albion.—Rev. T. Times) beggars description. It rained in torrents : yet
pled pretender. Upon this the young English Carlist, Wren, 8.A., to the assistant curacy of Chesterford, Essex. the streets were like a fair. About 2,000 people were
with loyal alacrity, declares that he bad never, directly or —Rev. T. R. Kewley, 8.A., to the assistant curacy of assembled to hoot Mr. Courtenay as he left the church.
indirectly, been engaged against the troops of his legiti- Trinity Church, Halstead. Essex.—Rev. G. J. Atkinson, Gibes, and shouts, and laughter rang through the air. It
mate sovereign ;to which Lord Aberdeen, omitting to M.A., to the vicarage of Eagle, Lincolnshire.—Rev. T. was Sunday—and the Rev. Mr. Courtenay was their
notice the political lecture, infinitely worse than Mrs. Austin, M.A., curate of Haughton-le-Skerne, to the rec- spiritual teacher. The rev. gentleman was again sur-
Caudle's, which Lord Ranelagh inflicts on him, answers tory of Redmarshall.—Rev. H. W. Baker, 8.A., to the rounded by a party of his friends to protect him as he left
that, relying upon the word of an English gentleman. he assistant curacy of Great Horkesley, Essex.--Rev. R. the church. A strong body of the police made a lane
henceforth considers his lordship as innocent of having Neale, curate of Christ Church, Bradford, to the curacy through the crowd for him, and then formed in close file
appeared in the field against British troops; and that he of St. Matthew's, Brixton, Surrey.—Rev. I. W. North, round him, to keep off the crowd. The dusk of the
will, consequently, submit to her Majesty the propriety M.A., to the perpetual curacy of Trinity Church, Green- evening and the immense crowd prevented the quelling of
of cancelling Lord Palmerston's despatch, by virtue of with, Kent. the hootings this time, and in this kind of procession,
which Lord Ranelagh bad been refused access to foreign The new Church Extension Fund already exceeds persevered in notwithstanding the torrents of rain, amidst
courts. £ll,OOO. and is rapidly increasing. hootings and yellings and uproar, was the rev. gentleman
With this a reasonable man would have supposed that
Lord Ranelagh might have been satisfied. Nothing of The Bishop of Oxford has recently ordained a gentle_ escorted and protected to his door." On the following
the sort. Having successfully effected a little matter for man above forty years of age without a degree at either day one of the parties engaged in thus following the rev.
Univ'ersity, to the curacy of a large parish in the neigh- gentleman was brought before the Mayor, and after a
himself, he returns once more to the charge for Don Car- University,
of Oxford. This appears a good beginning to reprimand was discharged.
los, and renews a homily in his behalf, which receives no
the breaking of a rule to which, in the present circum-
further notice from Lord Aberdeen than an intimation in
stances of the Church, it is often most inconvenient to
answer to the letter containing it, that her Majesty had -
adhere.
been pleased to recall the instructions to British Minis-
abroad, by which they were forbidden to present WITHDRAWAL OF THE PROPOSED OXFORD TEST.— The following questions, prefaced by an ample state.
I • • tee history and nature of academical
ment, exp ainin e
g
Ranelagh at the different courts to which they were ac- In deference to the opinion of a large number of the mem-
degrees, and of the practice of subscription to the Articles
credited. Thank you, says the latter lord ; but I shall hers of convocation who have expressed thee. dissent from i
\ Queene, church, have been submitted to Sir J. Dodson,
publish our correspondence. If you do, intimates the the proposed alterations, the intended additions to the Advocate,sta-
and Mr. Bothell, Queen's Counsel,
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, do not suppress any part of tute, title xvii. sect. 3—De Auctoritate et Officio Vice- s..
it. Ab, finally retorts Lord Ranelagh, on the shortest Cancellarii, will by withdrawn ; and so form no part of for their opinion :
day, it never entered into my mind that any gentleman the academical business to be considered and determined "1. Whether. corporations in general bare the power
could ever have entertained such an idea—and therewith on upon the 13th of February. of passing przenle.gm or penal by-laws against their mem-
the matter ends—a matter which we should not have UNION AMONG PROTESTANTS.—What we strongly re- !
r • and if not whether there is anything in the nature
be 8, , , .
noticed, but that it will serve to set Lord Ranelagh right commend is union among those who know and love the , of the University of Oxford to take it our of the ordinary
rule? . ,
with the public respecting his being hostilely in presence truth of God, in opposition to Popery without, and Po- '
of British troops in Spain. Upon this much we congratu- pery within the Church. We would recommend the for- I ." 2. Whether the statute 'De Degradmone autho-
late him. The remaining part of the subject is neither mation of such unions in every city, town, village, and of Convocation to take
I rezes the House
legislativeanexercise over; and,. -if netwhether
dethronement of Don Carlos are evidently produced to exercise of due care and exertion, be effected. They will I it authorizes the deproisvation. of degrees ii_rart_s,_fao'rr_wa_ theo-
log!cal offence, such that imputed to M ..W. d s
excite public commiseration for that royal disinherited all be wanted. If they be adequate, through the blessing
Knight. But that disaster occurred so long ago, that the of God, to the occasion, they will more than realize theclass
Knight. offences3, Whether, if Mr. Ward's case were within the
of contemplated by . . .
public have long found consolation for it. expectations of many sober-minded and able men.—Re- the statute ` De Degrada-
AMA cord.—[This is precisely what the Orange Associat'on tt.one, it would not be necessary that it should be adju-
IRELAND. is doing, and we recommend all persons desirous of fol- I dicated upon by a court compete.nt to inquire into offences
lowing our contemporary's advice, to study (as carefully lof E
against the doctrine and discipline of the church ng-
land before proceed d • •
the university could to eprivation.
Mr. O'Connell himself will not proceed to Rome, but and minutely as they please) all the rules and regulations 1
his son, John, the member for Kilkenny, and Lord -,
of that excellent society, which are open to the perusal of ; "4. Whether the proposed deprivation of Mr. Ward's
i degrees can be supported in law on any other ground ?
every one. j
Ffrench, will form part of the deputation, as announced I "5. Whether it is competent for the university, under
at the meeting of the Repeal Association. The third meeting of the Incorporated Society for Pro- the statute, Tit x., sect. 2, § 2, to pass the proposed new
rooting the Enlargement, &c. of Churches and Chapels,
At the Killarney temperance festival, last week, wheretest without license from the Crown, supposing them to
.
form the held Monday last. Grants were
season, was on
Mr. O'Connell attended, one of the speakers designated be otherwise incompetent to do so in law ?
voted towards building churches for the districts of Wyke, impediment
" 6. Whether, assuming there to be no
the Pope's rescript against Repeal agitation, by bishops in theßirstal, near Halifax ; North Rode, near
parish of
or priests, " a bit of Latin from Italy the other day l" -
CongletonSalford, near Manchester; East-end, Finch- under file statutes of the university, the power of corn-
ll•n ' any member of the university to resubscribe the
A certain Roman Catholic clergyman, not a hmndred ley, Middlesex ; Byley, near Middleton, Cheshire : St. pelting
ticles with the proposed declaration of the sense in
miles from the classic region of Clones, within a few James, Congleton ; and Nent Head, near Penrith. Also which he sub.cribes, upon pain of banishment from the
miles of Carrick-on-Suir, when addressing his flock from towards re-building and enlargingthe churches at Vice-Chan-
theHeflin-
altar a few Sundays ago, emphatically told them that wood, near Manchester; Loughton, Essex ; and Wood- university, can be legally conferred upon the
cellor by the House of Convocation?"
it was " not worth their while to stop their contributions ford, near Salisbury ; and towards enlarging the churches I
to the Liberator until he was crowned."—Waterford at Tilshead, near Devizes; Corby, near Rockingham ;
Mail. Llanelly, Cartnarthenshire ; and Jevington, near East-
A meeting was held in Clones, in the county of Mo- bourn. The treasurer reported a legacy to the society of
naghan, on Sunday last, at which speeches of the most £2,000, from the late Mr. R. Foster, and a donation of ,
inflammatory nature were poured forth against the Be- £230 from Mr. S. J. Lloyd, which, with other smaller I
quests Act, the priests, as usual, taking the lead. One contributions, will enable the society to meet the grants
of these gentlemen made an offer to the Pope of an Irish now voted, but leaving a balance in hand of only £1,600.
auxiliary legion to " bury all the English and Austrians RESIGNATION OF CHURCH PREFERMENT.—The Rev.
in Italy in the Po." It will be, no doubt, duly appreci-
E. Wodehouse, canon of Norwich Cathedral, has tender. i
ated by the holy father. ed to the Bishop of Norwich his valuable living and ca.
ARE SNIPES GAME ?—Lord Mountcashel lately prose- nonry, because he has felt uneasy at continuing to hold
cuted two officers of the 3d Dragoon Guards, stationed at his preferment while be believed that his opinions were
Clogher Barracks, for shooting snipe on his grounds with- inconsistent with a conscientious subscription to the art',
out leave, contrary to the 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 9, cies. The parts of the paragraph to which Mr. Wode-
sec. 69; but it was suggested that" snipe was not game," house chiefly objects are the damnatory clauses of the
and therefore that the penalties were not incurred. Mr. Athanasian Creed, the Form of Absolution in the Office
Brewster and the Solicitor-General have since given their for the Visitation of the Sick, and the following part of
opinion, confirming this view of the case. " Snipe," they the Form of Ordaining Priests :—" Receive the Holy
say, " is not game." Ghost for the office and work of a priest in the church of
THE REPEAL:STAFF.—The Dublin Mail gives the fol- God now committed unto thee by the imposition of our
lowing details of the retrenchments in the expenditure : hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiv n: i
" The cashier reduced to £2 2s. a-week ; the bookkeeper, and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained," &c.
£2 a-week ; the under-secretary, to £lOO per annum. The bishop has unhesitatingly declined to accept or en-
The clerks who had £2 a-week each are reduced to 30s. ; courage the resignation, for, among other, the following
those who had 305., reduced to 255. ; and those who had reasons :—" Because, considering the number and the
255., reduced to 20s. A saving of above £1,500 per an- nature of many of the propositions included in our 39 ar-
num has been effected, and the work to be done no worse titles, the homilies, and Book of Common Prayer, to
than it was—a pregnant proof of the profusion with which which assent is given by subscription, it is impossible that
the people's money was sqandered when it flowed in any number of individuals should view such propositions
freely." in exactly the same light and subscribe to them in pre-
YOUGHAL MONASTERY.—This monastery has been cisely the same sense. Latitude in subscription is there-
dissolved,
and its inmates have conformed to the fore absolutely unavoidable. Such latitude has been re- I
Protestant faith. The superior has published a letter, in peatedly recognized and defended by the highest authori-
which
he details his own conversion and consequent per- ties in our church from the time of the reformation to the
secution by the papists, and then says that the oppression present moment, when it is claimed and exercised in its
and sacrifices endured by him " brought the other to a fullest extent by many who hold and proclaim opinions
stand, and led them to make further inquiries into the much further removed from the spirit of our protestant
faith and practice of the church of Rome. Providentially church than are any objections of yours." There is ho-
they were brought into contact with pious clergymen, and nesty in Mr. Wodehouse's conduct at all events.
after a short time the entire community conformed to the
THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.—The Bishop, in his
Protestant faith." third annual letter, dated October last, says—" The fact
CONVERTS FROM POPERY.—On the 21st inst., in of our having nearly completed the third year of our resi-
Newmarket church, Kanturk, seventeen persons, at their dence in a country of peculiar trial and danger, in the face
own request, and after a full examination of their spirtual of all kinds of difficulties, is in itself a cause of thankful-
views, publicly renounced the errors of popery and em- ness. But we have to speak of more than this. It has
braced the true doctrines of the bible, as held by the .
been our privilege to perceive a gradual increase of our
I
united churches of England and Ireland established in establishment, quite sufficient to lead us 'to thank God
these countries. Many more had gone to the town pre- 1 and take courage.' Whilst ws are still strangely kept in
pared to unite them, but were deterred from going into 1 suspense as to the building of our church, &c., notwitb-
the church owing to the violent conduct of the people, who 1 standing the many promises we have hal during the past
had collected in large numbers in the street long before 1 year that permission was on the point of being granted,
the service commenced, and who continued their hideous we have, in the good providence of God, had our church
yells and hootings, even to the interruption of the service, accommodation enlarged since I last addressed you : so
which caused many of the congregation to go out long that we have at present a commodious place of worship,
before the close of it. Several of the converts on their though even this has, on some occasions, proved inade-
way home were assailed with stones and knocked down. ' quate, particularly when the number of strangers has been
One man was robbed of some articles of provision which large. Our regular congregation has also been on the in-
he was carrying home to his family, and others owing to crease ; so much so, that our former church could not
the lateness of the day, and having a distance to go. were have held them. This has arisen partly from the mission
obliged to take refuge in the town for the night. There having been increased by the arrival of additional labour-
were two windows broken in the house, in which they era, and partly from converts, 13 of whom have been ad-
lodged. They appear determined to brave the storm of ded to the church by baptism during the last year, and
persecution.—Cork Constitution. some are now under instruction, who, of course, regularly
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the meeting on Monday attend the services. We have, in consequence, opened an
the " Liberator" was present according to promise, and additional full service on Sunday evenings, and established
made a long speech, but it was even more silly than usual. a lecture on every Wednesday, besides the daily morning
The following bit of bye-play is the only portion of the (Hebrew) and evening (English) service. Since our arri-
proceedings worth extracting. Mr. Burke, a young agi- val in the Holy City, I find 37 baptisms recorded in our
tator from Galway, read a long letter from the Rev. Mr. register, and 26 of those baptized have been confirmed.
O'Malley, parish priest of Clonish, in said county, alleg- Nine individuals have been ordained deacons, and five
ing that the document recently published as the Pope's re- priests, who are gone forth as heralds of mercy, to pro-
script, but which the rev. gentleman regarded only as the claim the glad tidings of salvation, four of whom are of
letter of the Prefect Franzoni, was not a canonical docu- the house of Israel. At the last ordination, which was
ment. The rev. writer argued that a canon of the church held on Sunday, September 1. three candidates were or-
was a law of the church, that the dictum of an individual dained for the different missionary stations of HeLron,
was not law, and that any attempt to make it law—mean- Beyrout, and Bagdad. On that deeply-interesting occa-
ing canonical law—would have the effect of putting a sion we had no less than 51 communicants. We now ge-
speedy quietus to the power of the Pope. A rev. repealer nerally number from 40 to 50 at the regular celebration of
here rose to protest against the expressions contained in the Lord's Supper, on the first Lord's-day in every
the letter read by the preceding speaker, which he said month."

THE OXFORD CONTROVERSY

Sir J. Dodson and Mr. Bethell have delivered their
opinion in the following terms :
" We are of opinion, that the House of Convocation
has not the power of depriving Mr. Ward of his degrees
in the manner or on the grounds proposed.
" A degree is a certain dignity or title of honour, which
the university derives its right to confer by grant from
the Crown, and to the rank or status thus conferred the
law has annexed many privileges, both ecclesiastical and
civil.* The university can have no power of taking away
this dignity and the franchises with which it is accompa-
nied,t unless such power be derived from the same source,
namely, Royal grant, or has been created by some statute
or by-law which has received the sanction of the Crown,
or been confirmed by act of Parliament.
" But, upon an examination of the statutes of the uni-
versity, we do not find any statute which confers upon or
recognises in the House of Convocation a jurisdiction or
authority to deprive any one of its members of his univer-
sity franchise 4 except only in the subordinate office of
publicly executing the antecedent decree of a court of
competent jurisdiction ;§ and we are therefore of opinion,
that the proposed act of degradation will, if it passes, be
illegal :11 and inasmuch as, by its consequences, it would
deprive Mr. Ward of certain legal rights, we think it may
be properly made the subject of application to the Court
of Queen's Bench, and that such court would by manda-
mus compel the university to restore Mr. Ward to his
degrecs,¶ and to the status and privileges which he now
holds in respect of them.
" We desire to observe,** that we give no opinion on
the question whether Mr. Ward, by the publication of
the doctrines contained in his book, has or has not com-
mitted an offence against ecclesiastical law,tt which might
be made the subject of a proper judicial proceeding be-
fore a competent tribunal ; but simply that in our view
of the case the House of Convocation is not such a tri-
bunal, and that the notion that it can degrade by virtue
of some general or legislative power appears to us to be
erroneous.
" Should the resolution pass, Mr. Ward may have
another remedy, namely, an appeal to the Crown as Vi-
sitor of the University ; and this may be resorted to even
if the Court of Queen's Bench should, on an application
for a mandamus, decline to interfere.
" With respect to the second statute, which, in effect,
proposes to annex a new sense to subscription, we are of
opinion that it is contrary to law= The law requires
the clerical subscriber to take the articles in their literal
and grammatical sense, but the proposed statute requires
him to take them in that sense in which he believes them
to have been originally framed and promulgated, and
also in the sense in which he believes them to be now
accepted and taken by that body which, at the time of his
rotbscription, constitutes the university. I! II Thus the be-
lief or conjecture of the subscriber upon these two diffi-
cult subjects of inquiry is substituted for the legal inter-
pretation. Should this statute pass, protesting memberr
of convocation might perhaps appeal to the Queen in her
capacity of Visitor of the University; but a shorter re-
medy will be to apply for a prohibition, in case the Vice-
Chancellor shall proceed to require any member to sub-
scribe the articles with the proposed declaration.
" JOHN Donsox.
" RICHARD BETHELL.
" Doctors'-commons, Jan. 17, 1845.

"* 1 Strange, 557 ; Selden. 326.
" t See Malden on Origin of Universities and Academical De.

grees.
" 3 The universities were first incorporated by stat. 13 Eliza-
beth, c. 2g ; and, as the powers and authorities of the House of
Convocation are fully defined by statute, there can be no room
m of a prescriptive right.
" e Bagge's case, 11 Coke. gz, b.
"1 ' Rex v. Richardson,' 1 Bun., 517.
" Bentley's case, I Strange, 257, Lord Raymand, 1,334.
" ** Cases Tempore Hardwicke, 212.
" tT See the proclamation or James I. prefixed to the articles,
and stat. 13 Elizabeth, c. 12.
" 32 13 and 14 Charles H , c. 4,—the Preface to the Articles.
" 44 Primitus editos.
" uy Et nunc mihi ab universitate propositos."