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and I hope you will tell me how I can do it."

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The names of all persons convicted of drunkenness are
read every Sunday from the altars of the Roman Catholic

The Grand Lodge of Orangemen in Ireland have re-
eently passed resolutions condemnato►y of the national
system of education and of the Romish endowment
scheme-
The exurr,
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rish Pa

pists have been holding meetings

len. sympathy with the sufferings of the Pope, andrtalk
of " something practical" in the shape of contributions to
" St. Peter's Fund," to aid his restoration to the Vatican.
A SMALL RETURN.—The high sheriff of the Queen's
County, who had a writ to execute for £33,000 against
_

the property of the Duke of Buckir
has made a return of £4, the mon

viously conveyed away to trustees

SKIBBEILEEN UNlON.—There iq no possible safety for
the union. On the 18th inst., the inmates in the main
building and auxiliary houses were 4,500, and this after
1.500 having been discharged of those coming at all within
the three classes mentioned in the Ist section of the late
act ; and upon the outdoor relief there are, it is considered
about 10,000. A tremendous crash must come, in which
all interests and all classes must be swept away. I un-
derstand a sealed order from the commissioners was
received on yesterday to reduce the number in the house
to 2,500, and to give outdoor relief to the able-bodied.
The consequence must be that the present board, which
struggled with so much credit to itself during two years
of unexampled pressure and difficulty, must dissolve, as

no enort upon their part could even partially meet the
difficulties which now exist. Only think of the rates
struck within the year amounting to £32,000, while the
tithe rent-charge and county cess amount to £15,000, on
a union the yearly value of which at present is not
£60,000. An unfortunate pauper on Saturday fell head-
foremost into a large boiler, in which stirabout was pre-
paring, and lingered a few hours in extreme agony. Two
boys at one of the auxiliary houses were found dead on,
Saturday morning, it is said by suffocation. The inspec-
tor has caused a post mortem examination, the result of
which is not known.— Cork Examiner.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS,

The Bishop of Exeter has " censured." the Rev. V. H.
Somerset, of Honiton, for allowing a meeting of the
Church Missionary Society to be held in his church. The
room in which it was intended to hold the meeting proved
too small for the numbers who attended, and therefore
the people adjourned to the church,

The Rev. t H. Hawker, of Devonport. in a strongly
written letter of remonstrance to the Bishop of Eyptpr

complaining of a reproachful allusion by his Lordship to
the reverend gentleman's father, thus concludes " There
is, however, one hope left for us—the see of Rome is now
vacant and you have my earnest wishes for a speedy
translation."

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.—On Tues-
day last, Exeter Hall was again filled by a deeply inter-
esting audience, composed mainly of young men, to hear
a lecture by the Rev. Canon Stowell, of Manchester, on
the subject of " Modern Infidel Philosophy," who gave a
most powerful exposition of the various aspects in which
Infidel philosophy is presented in the present day, and
concluded by an affecting appeal to the young men to test
and prove the truth of the Word of God by the commis-
sion of the will and of the heart to its gracious and vivi-
fying truth.

THE NATIONAL SOCIETY AND THE PRIVY COUNCIL.
—Will it is believed, after all that has been said, that
even the appellate jurisdiction which is laid down in the
extract is confined to questions of appeal not relating
solely to religious instruction. In religious questions the
Bishop of the Diocese is sole arbiter. We have been in-
formed that the Archbishops of the two Provinces have
expressed their entire concurrence in the management
clauses as they stand. Without professing any special
confidence in the Government, we feel relieved by the as-
surance that the highest ecclesiastical authorities find it
possible to act in concert.
NEW PARISHES CREATED UNDER SIR ROBERT
PEEL'S ACT.—Some persons, says the Manchester Cott-
rier, having found it convenient to doubt that the right
to solemnize marriages between parties residing in such
new parishes belongs exclusively to the respective incum-
bents, the subject was laid before the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners, who replied " that immediately upon the con-
secration of a new church approved by the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners for England, within a district constituted
under the act 6 and 7 Vic., cap. 37, it becomes under the
15th section a new parish hurch for all ecclesiastical pur-
poses, to the entire exclusion of the incumbent of the
original parish or parishes out of which it was taken ;
which parishes, in fact, stand for legal purposes in no
other relation to it or its inhabitants than any other
neighbouring or distant parishes."
ALIENATED TITHES.—A petition to both Houses of
Parliament, for restoration of alienated tithes, has been
numerously signed in order to be presented during the
ensuing session, By a report made to Parliament, in
1834, it is shown that the tithes of seven hundred parishes
are held by deans and chapters of cathedrals. It was de-
cided, so late as the reign of Charles 11., that the bishop
might compel the holder of the great tithes to restore a
part or the whole, according to the need of the narish—
(as parochial tithes were only held by monasteries and
chapters on this condition) ; and that the lessee who held
for lives came in subject to the same charge ; and, if it
be said that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have now
the management of the deans' and chapters' revenue, it
remains for Parliament to call on them to concede to the
parishes their undoubted right as having a claim prior to
that of distant places however populous, or universities
however learned and deserving.

NEW DISTRICT CHURCHES. We gave a fortnight
since a report of a meeting held at Etruria, Staffordshire,
for the purpose of effecting a separation as regards fees,
&c., of all district churchs, erected under Sir Robert
Peel's Act. The chairman, Mr. Adderley, member for
North Staffordshire, appears to have mentioned the main
subject that cauld be raised in opposition to the proposed
measure, namely, the necessity for compensating incum-
bents of parish churches for the loss they would sustain
in the deprivation of a large proportion of the fees they
now enjoy. Mr. Wade met the matter boldly at once by
declaring that such loss must be sustained, on the ground
that the extensive wrong endured by the districts was
greater matter to be thought of than the minor right of the
parish ; in other words, that an acknowledged evil should
gain no immunity because of its lengthened existence.
In principle Mr. Wade may be correct ; in practice the
objection alluded to by the chairman will have to be fairly
provided for. At present the parish incumbent has a
valuable interest in all the fees ; but it does not follow
that his successor should have such interest. In the mean
time, however, the fact must be carefully thought of, and
a plan suggested for meeting the difficulty when it is
raised in a proper quarter. The prime movers in this
important question are naturally anxious not to be consi-
dered " innovators ;" and they will not, we should ima-
gine, tolerate the introduction of a change which can be
proved injurious to any person.
The Rev. St. John Mildmay, rector of Chelmsford, has
refused to bury within the church walls, deeming the prac-
tice dangerous to the public health. This entails a great
pecuniary loss to the rev. gentleman, as almost all the
wealthy families in the district have vaults underneath the
church.

ROBBING LIBRARIES AT OXFORD.-011 Tuesday, Mr.
Andrew Belany, described as an undergraduate of :St.
Peter's College, Cambridge, underwent an examination
at Oxford, on a charge of having stolen 59 vols. of various
books from the University Union Reading Rooms, to
which he had access, through the recommendation of a
friend. The prisoner had been fully committed on a
previous charge of stealing books from the shop of Jr.l
Blotter, bookseller, of the High-street, Oxford.