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of Lords, on Monday, "a bill for amending the adminis-
tration of justice in her Majesty's Privy Council in all
cases of appeal on ,uest.ions of false doctrine, heresy, and
schism the fruit of the Lambeth conference. It leaves
intact the appellate jurisdiction of the Queen in Council ;
but provides that in the cases specified above, it shall be
imperative on the Council to refer the question, in the
shape of a case in writing, to the bishops of both pro-
vinces, who are co be convoked for the purpose by the
primate, to sit as a court, to hear the parties personally
or by counsel, and to certify their opinion in writing,
subscribed with their names, such opinion to be binding
on the Council, and to be duly reported to the Queen.
CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—OrI Tuesday, the
fifteenth annual meeting was held. T,nra got:►,,,.

LAW INTELLIGENCE,

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'presided, and was supported by the Earl of Waldegrave,
Mr. Labouchere, the Hon. and Rev. H. M. Villiers, the
Rev. W. W. Champneys. the Rev. R. Bickersteth, the
Rev. J. Harding, and other gentlemen. The Bishop of
Manchester had retired from connexion with the society.
The names of the Bishops of Victoria and Prince Ruert's
Land hat.'p

oeen added to the list of vice-patrons. Ile
receipt. of tho year 44. in., including a
munificent legacy of £5,000 Three per Cent. Consuls by
Mrs. Elizabeth Frank, who during her life had been a
generous contributor to the society's funds. The total
expenditure of the year had been £33,808 165., including
the purchase of Long Annuities. By the exertions of the
society as many as 2,144,000 persdns had been provided
with increased pastoral visitation.
THE REV. MR. MASKELL.—A large assemblage of
clergy connected with the Archdeaconry of Exeter, was
held in the College Hall, on Friday last, the official of the
Archdeacon in the chair. Although the meeting was con-
sidered a private one, we believe we are correct in saying
that the object was to determine whether any, or what,
notice should he taken of the very objectionable second
letter of the Rev. Mr. Maskell ; and that a resolution
strongly censuring its dangerous and Romanising tenden-
cies was moved, in a forcible speech, by the Rev. Preben-
dary Coleridge, and ably seconded by the Rev. P. Carlyon.
A very animated discussion took place, hut as on the pre-
vious day a correspondence had been published in some of
the London newspapers, in which it appeared that the
letter in question had been noticed by the Lon! Bishop of
Exeter, the meeting determined, by a small majority, that
it was not expedient to entertain the subject.—Exeter
Luminary.
TRACTARIANT DISLOYALTY.—One of the worst fea-
tures in the agitation has been the reckless and disloyal
attacks made by the Tractarian agitators on the personal
conduct and character of royalty. We have heard it corn-
plained of that Prince Albert interferes with the educa-
tion of the Prince of Wales, as though his Royal Highness,
as a parent, would not deserve the severest censure if he
acted otherwise. We believe the real objection to be that
his Royal Highness and her most gracious Majesty do not
allow the interference of certain personages who imagine
they have acquired a sort of official right to interfere.
Another absurd report has been that the Prince objects to
the heir-apparent being taught the catechism ; and that
his Royal Highness's tutor is about to leave in conse-
quence. The simple answer which we give on the best
authority is, that his Royal Highness does learn the cate-
chism, and that his tutor is not about to leave the palace
in consequence; but we refrain from noticing any more of
this disparaging gossip. Church and State Gazette.
Mr. GOODE'S ANSWER TO THE BISHOP OP EXETER.—
An able contemporary remarks that "The demand for
Mr. Goode's letter to the Bishop of Exeter has been very
great. We discharge a most welcome duty in reiterating
our strong sense of the extreme value of the letter. We
reiterate our most cordial thanks for the inestimable ser-
vice which its author has rendered, not only in laying bare
the wild mis-statements as to matters of tact which have
been ventured upon by the Bishop of Exeter, but in
defending those great truths which have teen handed
down to us by the martyrs and confessors of the English
Reformation. Seldom, indeed, in the annals of religious
controversy, has so complete and crushing a demolition
of pretended facts and sophisticated arguments been
known, as that which Mr. Goode has effected ; and seldom
has an overthrow been so abundantly merited as in the
case of the Bishop of Exeter. It is a blow long to be
remembered by the friends and opponents of scriptural
truth. It is amusing to see how the Tractarian party
littledeal withaooutthiits,
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brook. But one of the most curious arts by which they
seek to turn its force and diminish its influence is to com-
plain of its bad spirit ! (As though the spirit of the
Bishop of Exeter's letter to the archbishop was not the
worst that could be !) The spirit of the bishop's letter
was very well in their esteem a little caustic, perhaps,
though scarcely beyond the severity of the truth ! To
have a spirit to vindicate the truth with energy and power
is of the essence of Christianity. To unmask the pre-
tender, to detect the ringleader in error, to denounce, in
terms appropriate to his offence, the man who would
pervert the faith of the gospel, are works eminently
Christian."

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yeoman, roe even into a higher style in his closing sen-
tences. 'He ended thus—" If this had been a calamity
brought on in the Providence of God—by the failure of
the seasons, or by something which was above legislative
controul, we would have humbly bowed down to it.

•.wrtruuess or mm SWIM we considered to
be the greatest of modern statesmen ; and when the his-
tory of the age that is pasting has been recorded, it will
tell us that at the same period there was in Italy a man
who had been appointed minister of the Pope; that he
was the witness of a rising tumult and a coming desola-
tion; and that on the very morning of his death he was
told not to go to the senate, for if he did so there would
be danger attending him. His reply was, ' I have taken
office, and when I did that I took not only its honours
and emoluments, but its duties and its dangers.' He'
went to the senate, and perished upon the steps of the
forum. But our statesman saw the approach of the
storm, quailed at the tempest, bowed down to the lower-
ing cloud, dishonoured the country, broupht infamy upon
his own name, and poverty upon the people. (Great
cheering.)"

deeply interested in the subject.
At the forty-second annual meeting of the London So-
ciety for the Conversion of the Jews, Lord Ashley, sup- Her Majesty's recovery is complete.
ported by Sir It. H. Inglis. presiding, the Bishops of It is confidently announced that her Majesty proposes to
Chester and Llandaff were elected vice-presidents. pay another visit to Ireland in the course of the summer.
The Bishop of London laid upon the table of the 11".”..
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