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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ' tffronted them, massacring men, and carrying women UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.
into slavery. Their vessels were found built, armed, iEd _ .
AMERICA. appointed for fighting only, nor was there anything on The Reghte i'rofessorship of Divinity at 'Cambridge
The Royal Mail steam-ship Cambria, Captain Shannon, board resembling merchandise except the plunder, just has been officially declared Vacant, on the resignation of
arrived onTuesday morning,about half-pasttbree,bringing carried off from Lien-Chou-fou, and sonde goods which the Lord Bishop'of Llandaff.
dates from New York to the Bth instant, inclusive. She were identified as part of the cargoes of the unfortunate At a meeting, on Monday,,of the Incorporated Society.
left Boston on the 9th, and Halifax on the 11th instant,. Sylph and Greyhound. Hew are thesennen to be described, for Building Churches, a grant was made in aid of a new
with seventy passengers. The Cambria made a most ex- if not as pirates ?—and, if as pirates, is not an agitation church at Newburgh, in the parish of Orrnskirk.
cellent p'assage, when we consider the strong head winds for the protection of these innocent fishermen' about as ' A dissenting meeting-house at Wednesfield, and ano-
with which she has had to contend. reasonable as an appeal to the society for preventing cruelty they et Long Melford, have just been licensed as places of
The weather at New York was extremely inclement, to animals in behalf of the now ravenous wolves in the worship for the Established Church.
retarding all out-door operations. Pyrenees ?" It is generally reported that the Rev. Dr. Singer has
From the 24th ult., to the day of the vessel's sailing, The cholerabroke out last week with great virulence at been appointed to the Regius Professorship of Divinity,
an advance of fully one cent. per pound had been re- St. Andrew Auckland, in the county of Durham, and in the University of Dublin, vacated by the death of the
alised on cotton. The bulk of the business had been several fatal cases have occurred. Rev. Doctor Elrington.
'done by speculators. The chief cause of the advance was Prince Edward of Saxe Weitncir has inherited from his The valuable living at Hawkchurch, Somerset, which
the reduced estimate of the crop, which we gite below, aunt, the late Queen Adelaide, the sum of £BO,OOO. She was to have been offered for sale at Garraways, on the
Nearly all the accounts agree in Mr. Stewart's estimate, has also left handsome legacies to his brothers and sisters. 14th instant, has been disposed of by private contract.
though some are even lower. It is said that the President of the French republic has The advowson and the next presentation were purchased
There is no later intelligence from California ; but the received a very flattering letter from the Emperor of Rus- a great many years since by the late Alderman Newnham,
steam-ship Chercikee was daily expected, with fifteen days sia—a favour 'which Louis Philippe was never able to of Loudon, and by will he left them to one of his sons,
later from that important quarter. obtain. a clergyman ; but when it became vacant by the death a
In the Senate, Gen. Cass had introduced a motion for Sir James Emerson .Tennent, the Civil Secretary of a former incumbent, he refused to accept the nomination
the suspension of diplomatic relations with Austria, on Ceylon, has arrived in town with Lady Tennent. It is and be inducted to the living from some scruples respect-
account of her cruelties towards the Magyars. This led considered probable that Sir James will assume the ing the oaths. The benefice became then a lapsed one,
to a long debate, and the motion being opposed by Mr. government of one of our Australian colonies. and Dr. Grey, the bishop of the diocese, collated the
Clay, and others, stood adjourned. The ministerial crisis at Berlin has come to a head. present rester, the Rev. Dr. Rudge to it.
The slavery question continued to excite a good deal of The Brandenburg ministry is dissolved. M. Von Gerlach THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND THE REV. MR. GORHAM.
attention. -Mr. Foote has introduced a motion in the and Baron Manteuffel are severally mentioned as having —The following important statement appears in the
Senate 'for a compromise, which be has proposed be- been entrusted by the King with the formation of a new Morning Herald of Thursday ;—" We believe we may
tween the North and the South. But the South also Cabinet. announce with certainty that the decision of the Judicial
moves. A law has passed one branch of the Georgia A division took place in the French Assembly, on Committee of the Privy Council has been made, and is
Legislature authorising the election of delegates to a re- Thursday, on the entire bill on the deportation of the in- against the Bishop of Exeter. Ms lordship has, of course,
volutionary convention of that State, if the Wilmot surgents of June, 1848, when the bill was carried by a received a command to institute Mr. 'Gorham to the rec-
proviso should become law. The Governor of the State majority of 213 ; the numbers being 416 for, and 203 tory of Brampford Speke." This announcement, though
of Alabawa had also announced to the Legislathre-of that a fact, as we believe, may be considered somewhat prema-
State,ethat the time for decided action had arrived. A ture. The judgment has not been formally given, nor has
any day been appointed for it. When delivered it cannot
take effect till it shall have been approved by the Queen
in Council. The judgment, if not unanimous, will be,
we believe, undisturbed by a dissentient voice. Its open
promulgation may be expected next week.
WHOSE IS THE CHURCH P—When the two women con-
tended for the living child, Solomon rightly judged that
she could have no natural love for it, or right in it, who
was content to see it divided with the sword. Two par-
ties are contending for the Church. The Bishop of Exe-
ter is for dividing it, and excluding all who cannot read
the Baptismal Service with his eyes. Mr. Goode, on the
other hand, and the men likeminded with him, [though
they hold their own distinctive opinions firmly and deci-
dedly,] state explicitly that they are not for the rigid ex-
clusion and excommunication of all those who may happen
to differ from them. Is there no argument to be drawn
from this ? Whose is the Church ? Which party most
calls to mind the features of Cranmer, Latimer, and the
rest of our Reforming Fathers ? Who love the Church
most,,and most naturally care for its state ?
TRACTARIAN PRACTICES.—Margaret-street Chapel, of
which Father Oakeley was formerly the minister, and
which has lately kept up its charter as a feeder to.Ro-
manism, by sending its curate, the Rev. Mr. Bittleston,
late of Oxford and Leamington, into the Church of Ro-
mush schism, is about to be pulled down, and rebuilt in a
style rivalling, it is said, the most gorgeous edifices de-
voted to Roman Catholic worship. It is not an uninstruc-
tive fact, taken in connection with this, that several of the
Romanising clergy are developing their tastes and lean-
ings by lighting candles on the communion table at the
noonday services, and braving a prosecution in the Court
of Arches. We believe that in Margaret-street Chapel a
species of mummery took place at a midnight service, on
Christmas Eve, which was very reprehensible. A pro-
cession, we understand, of the congregation paraded
round the chapel ; as midnight struck on the clock, ages
star suddenly shot forth, on which all the people knelt
down and sang, " Hail, Star of Bethlehem!"—Church
and State Gazette.
THE CHURCH AND THE GOVERNMENT.—Mr. Horsman
has addressed to his constituents a damaging letter against
the Government, the members of which be accuses of ter-
giversation, evasive procrastination, and even worse, in
their treatment last session of the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners Bill. Amendments had been proposed by Mr.
Horsman and his friends : Lord John Russell stated in
the house that the amendments bad been adopted, that
the house would go into committee pro forma, and that
the bill would be put in such a shape as to secure its pass-
ing without difficulty ; and the Reformers relied on this
Ministerial assurance : ten days afterwards, late at night,
the house did go into committee pro forma; Sir George
Grey handed in amendments ; they were gabbled ever in
the usual manner on such occasions, and the bill was re-
printed : it did not contain a single line of the amend-
ments which had been professionally adopted ! The ge-
neral effect of the letter is summed up in a single passage:
—" As for any legislative remedy for these proved abuses,
we stand precisely where we were before the question was
ever , stirred. Motions have been made, discussed, and
supported on all sides, with an earnestness and unanimity
which did great credit to the feeling of the house. The
Minister commenced by opposing, ended by acquiescing
in our proposals ; and, compelled to bow before the opi-
nion of the house, and to save himself from defeat, he
promised everything, and has done nothing."

resolute,

iligence from Canada is to the 29th:December.
The government continues to dismiss magistrates and
militia officers who avow themselves annexationists; and
-Rys that in some parts of Lower Canada whole

pecting British aggression in Central America."
more Hungarian refugees had arrivell at New

York.
The intc

one letter

regiments 1-
- A letter,

the year
of cotto

Jeen left without officers

ated Mobile, Dec.29th, says, that during
ling off had been experienced in the receipt
39,000 r bales, and that the warehouses were
The crops in nearly all the. States are .spo-

almost bare
ken of as
Vie packet-ship Wisconsin arrived at New York on
the 3rd instant.

Lord Brougham visited the President of the French

Republic on thural

beet' discovered : the

onspirators have been sent to the

mines of Siberia.
Hayti is a field of blood. The Dominicans are mur-
dering the Imperialist, and burning •their towns in all di-

rectimra

airie K

suth has escaped from Hungary, .and
reached Belgrade, on her way to join her husband at

istence of an immense fresh water lake in the in-
ea is .confirmed ,by recent accounts. Its
to be fertile and thickly inhabited.
li has undergone a second examination, and
that the efforts made for his release will

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terior of Atr
shores a
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eventually be successful

_ays, " The bombardment of Rome,
by the consent of the Pope, has made tremendous havoc
in the ranks of Roman Catholicism in France."
barn electrified the learned world of Paris,
• delivering a lecture in French, before the
fence, on the theory of light. His success
was triumphant.

A French writer

Academy of S

Clara Novello, who quitted the stage on her marriage
with the Count .Gigliucei, of Fermo, has returned to her
profession ; she is engaged as prima donna at Rome,
under the name of Madame Clara Novell°.
A fine American ship, the Charleston, from New York
fn. qn..nyinh_ Wll4 destroyed by fire at sea at the end of

against.
Private advices from the River Plate to the end of No-
vember, via' Rio, state confidently that a treaty had been
ratified between Mr. Southern, the British Plenipoten-
tiary, and Rosas. The documents had been despatched
to England by the steamship Hydra, and may therefore
be expected daily.

A letter from Rome of the 20th inst. states that the
'courier bringing despatches from Naples was stopped by
seven armed men between the Pontine Marshes and Vel-
letri. The leader of the party compelled three travellers
to quit the carriage, which they searched carefully. They
tock possession of the letters, but touched nothing else.
The Peninsular mail arrived at Southampton on Friday,
with news from Lisbon to the 20th instant. During the
debate in the Chamber of Peers, on the address in reply
to the Queen's speech, the ministry declared their inten-
tion to submit, during the session, a new law of election,
The reply then, after a six days' discussion, being put to

the vote, was carried by a majority, there being for it 33;
against it, 18. A vast majority is expected to be in favour
of the Government. _

The crew were taken on board another
inch witnessed the signal of distress.
...Lie Mormons are forming a new colony in the sand
Pitch Valley, about -200 miles south of the Salt Lake
City. It is represented as being remarkably fertile, and
the climate as being very fine. About 100 waggons were
dispatched thither with provisions and property, and from
50 to 100 families accompanied them.
ROME, Jan. 9.—General Cordova announced a few days
'hat he should shortly leave. He at the same time
" I am recalled,-and as the retura of the Pope ap-
rostporred, I cannot remain any longer,
per, I should have taken on myself to have
3 had any hope of shortly paying my respects
in the capital."
rrom Fort Philip, dated Oct. 1, 1849, states
Sandford lost her brother a few days after
d in the Caspar, emigrant ship, at Port Ade-
,e brother, it will be remembered, volunteered
my his sister and child as protector. By some
in attempting to gain the shore from the ship,
Ito the water, and, spite of the exertions made to
save him, he met with a watery grave. The young man

tition, addressed to the Queen of Spain by nineteen in-
cumbents of the Archdiocese of Toledo, states that, out of
the last four years' stipend, two-and-a-half years are in
arrear ; that in 1849 not a maravedi was bestowed either
upon the stipends of the clergy or the support of the
churches. They announce the impending cessation of
public worship for the want of supplies, and complain that
the church presents as beggarly an appearance in her
ornaments as the clergy in their rags.
TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST ON THE ICE IN HOLLAND.
—The Dutch journals relate the following terrible acci-
dent from the giving way of the ice in Holland :—" Some
days since some of the inhabitants of Haaren, in the
eastern part of Hanoverian Friesland, amounting to
twenty-five, went on the river l'Ems with a view to divert
themselves by skating. The river at this part is rather
broad. They had scarcely commenced their diversion
when a part of the ice gave way, and five of them disap-
peared ; the others hastened to their assistance, when
they unfortunately met with the same fate. The whole
of the bodies were afterwards recovered, quite dead.
Nearly all the sufferers were married men, and great dis-
tress has been caused by the calamity.
NIAGARA SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—EarIy in the spring
of 1847, several gentlemen, including Mr. C. Elet, the
engineer of the bridge, were conversing at dinner, in the

pears to be again r
which, horny,
done if T

to his Holines

sara, on the subject of how a wire
got over the river. Bombshells, rockets, &c.,

that Er
their ar
laide.

to accon

accident
he fell it

was 21 years of age.
SIR JAMES BROOKE.—An address, signed by a number
of European residents at Singepore, has been presented
to Sir James Brooke, on the subject of the attacks re-
cently made upon him through a certain portion of the
public press. The subscribers disclaim all participation
in such sentiments, and express their opinion of the ine-
sity which exists for the suppression of piracy
of Borneo, and their approval of the mea-

vitable I
on the c

Al Ca which Sir James Brooke had adopted to effect this.
DIIEL.—A meeting took place on Wednesday morning
in the Bois de Boulogne, between the Marquis de Cois-
lin and M. Testelin, in consequence of an insult offered
to the latter by the former, in the course of a debate in
the Assembly. The insult was nothing more nor less
than that M. de Coislin called M. Testelin a liar. M. de
Coislin, who is the youngest member of the house, is a
Legitimist, as M. Testelin is a member of the Mountain.
The weapon was the broad sword. The affair lasted a
quarter of an hour, when it was found that M. de Coislin
had received a severe wound in the head. They were
immediately removed from the ground, M. de Teslin being
unhurt.
A Com

Eagle Hotel, at
could be

_ WITH AN INDIAN SNAKE. - The Moul-
of October 23, states that on the previous
__lrge snake, measuring 15 feet 6 inches long,
i by Lieutenant West, of the 11th Regiment
ve Infantry. The snake was first seen while
F swallowing a fowl, the noise of the fowl
ght the servants to the spot. Lieutenant
on the snake being pointed out to him, with his
i pierced the head through and fixed the blade in
round. The snake feeling the sudden shock, imme-

mein Ti
Tuesda3,:

in the act
having bro

-.y turned round by the tail, and in a moment coiled
round Lieutenant West, but his servants being present,
they succeeded in uncoiling it from his body, after a long
struggle, fortunately without his sustaining any injury
from the embraces of the reptile.
A CURIOUS CASE.—During the prevalence of the cho-
lera, in the city of Mompox, New Granada, a faithful and
trustworthy slave,belonging to Donna B-, was attacked
by the epidemic, and while in the second stage of the
disease, and in a fainting state, the fatal cart conveying
ten or twelve corpses to the burial place was passing,
Donna B -, without ascertaining whether poor Lucas

with cords attached, were successively suggested, and the
conversation seemed at an end, when Mr. Fisk said that
if they promised not to ridicule his proposal, he had an
idea of a cheaper and simpler plan than any. The pro-
mise was made, and the plan disclosed, which was simply
that of using a kite. Mr. Elet said he did not see why a
kite should not succeed, and an intelligent schoolboy,
named Walsh, was employed, who constructed a kite,
and, on the second trial, threw a line across, making it
fast on the opposite side, by doubling which, a small rape
-was drawn over, and six or seven doubles sufficed to take
ever the first small cable of 36 wires. Mr. Elet used this
to pass over in his little iron car. Next, he and his lady
and many others passed over. Since then, the present
structure was reared, resting on wooden towers, 50 feet
high, over which pass 14 cables ; five of them of 36 wires
each, five of 72, one of 125, and three of 1500-5,165
wires in all. To these the bridge is suspended. It is
capable of sustaining 1,000 tons. It appears so slight
that strangers fear to pass it, and yet heavy teams, five at
one time, besides many droves of cattle, have passed it.
It is as safe as any thoroughfare, but will give way to the
sublime railroad strncture now being prepared. This will
require 16 cables of 600 wires each, all laid straight, not
twisted, but wound with small wire. When completed,
with its massive stone towers, this structure will sustain
more than 6,000 tons beyond its own weight.

was dead or not, required the cartman to stop and remove
him with the others to his last resting-place ! Lucas was
accordingly thrown into the cart, but upon reaching the
place of interment, the old negro, somewhat revived, re.
covered his senses, and asked the meaning of being buried
alive ! He managed to get up and walked away. He has
since then perfectly recovered, and now refuses to return
to his mistress, alleging that as she sent to bury him alive
she cannot claim ownership over him. Donna B— has
gone into court to establish her right, and as it is natural
to suppose every one is on the qui rive, anxious to know
the decision of the court.—Barbadian.
THE PIRATES IN THE CHINA SEAS.—The Times of
Wednesday contained a slashing exposure of the folly of
the principles and the unfairness of the misrepresentations
of the peace society. This was done by a simple detail
of facts concerning the expedition of the three war
steamers which were despatched against a notorious and
sanguinary pirate chief, Shapng-tsai, whose head quarters
were in the Gulf of Tonquin and Island of Hainan. The
pirates, hearing of the expedition, tried to escare amidst
the islands and shoal water of the vicinity. They were
tracked by the relics of their own devastation, by smok-
ing villages, desolated cottages, and other proofs of the
vengeance wreaked on the poor inhabitants, who had
failed to supply their oppressors with supplies of provi-
sion. From Chuckshan the expedition was directed to
Hoonon,g, and from Hoonong to Fa-lung, where it was
said that the population were actually awaiting an attack
from this terrible chieftain. This intelligence proved cor-
rect, and as the squadron neared the specified point they
at length saw the famous pirate fleet, numbering no fewer
than sixty-four vessels, and carrying 1,200 guns and 1,350
men. " There," says the narrative in the Times, " still,
however, remained the difficulty of closing with them, for
they were within the shallows, where Shapng-tsai had
boasted that no English could follow him, and in very
truth for upwards of nine hours the British cruisers were
hunting and prying about for the channel, as Capt. Hay's
despatch expresses it, ' like terriers at a rat-hole. At
last a native pilot contrived to escape from the shore to
the fleet, and took them over the bar. On coming to close
quarters, the first of Shapng-tai's proceedings was to
behead his agent and his whole boat's brew on suspicion
of treachery, and the next to lash to the mainmast as a
target for our guns an unfortunate envoy who had been
despatched to him from Canton. He then resolutely
awaited the attack with a score of his heaviest vessels
moored in line, the guns of which he presently opened
upon some of his own junks, which showed symptoms of
wishing to escape. The fighting then became very sharp
till a lucky shell from the Phlegethon entered the pirate
flag-ship, and blew all into the air. Singularly enough,
the poop of the vessel remained afloat, with the flag of
defiance still flying at the top of the railing until it was
consumed by fire." On the second day the attack was
carried on by the boats, and on boarding one of the
junks an instance of desperation was seen. A gun was
found loaded to the muzzle, depressed so as to bear upon
the approachingboat, and behind it lay the captain dead,
having the burning match in his hand. A shot, probably
directed. "at a venture," had been the winged messenger
of heaven, to avert the slaughter which would otherwise
have ensued. It is added—" In the large junks which
were captured everything was found in such fighting order
as would not have disgraced the smartest European fri-
gate." After detailing the plirticulars of this expedition
can we wonder at the following sarcastic appeal of our
contemporary to the peace societies :—" Perhaps at the
next meeting of the peace society some person will favour
the world with a definition of what, in these days, is still
to be considered piracy, and we shall be happy to apply
the rules to the case before us, gere were upwards of
1,300 men sailing from place to place with a fleet of sixty-
four ships, mounting 1,200 guns, levying contributions
valorem they found means, burning all t9W1113 which