The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-28 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES

Sir,—Generosity to a foe, and especially to a victim, is an
attribute peculiar to the brave ; whether you possess it will
be seen by your insertion of the following reply to your
attack on me in your leading article of Monday last. You
complain that I have " disclaimed, denied, explained
nothing." If your complaint were honest, you will allow
me in your pages to do all.

_ • _
It is false that on Sunday, July 17, at an Anti-Corn-law
League Meeting I narrated the anecdote relative to the 100
lots and Sir R. Peel. The League never met on the Sunday.
Was it from mere misprint that you say Sunday ? Or did
you of design choose Sunday in order to shock your readers
with the notion of a Dissenting minister attending League
meetings on the day when, by supposition, I had other em-
ployment? _

IT you had no particular object to answer by so doing, I
beg to ask why you should say, We take our account from
the Morning Chronicle, as quoted by Mr. Roebuck ?" You
affect fairness by quoting the Morning Chronicle; but to
have done so would not have suited your views, and, there-
fore, you add, "as quoted by Mr. Roebuck !" And who is
Mr. Roebuck, that you must prefer his version to the text,
and arraign me on his foolish, careless, or malignant con-
struction of my words ? Is this your general style of quota-
tion ?

It is also false that I said I "knew a gentleman, who," &c.
I never did know the person, nor the locality where the chal-
lenge occurred. This, however, I will add. that it was nei-
ther " one of my constituents," nor enacted in Sheffield.
It is not true that I advocated the " application to the par-
liament of force." I have always dissuaded from its use.
Governments are founded on force, and there are circum-
stances when the people are justified in resorting to its use:
but I do not think such a case by any means to be that of
the people of Great Britain. Opinion "is more than a con-
queror' for all that I wish to see achieved.

_
It is also not true that I did not accompany the narration
of the anecdote with a strong protest. Part only of that pro-
test was, however, repeated. Of this I complained at the
time, both to several members of the League, and in a public
meeting at Sheffield immediately on my return. I am willing
to believe that the omission arose from accident rather than
design.

You say, " an act of intention may be mentioned merely
for the sake of denouncing it." Now, it so happens that this
has always been one of the motives I have avowed for giving
publicity to the anecdote ; the other was to show the state of
feeling in certain quarters. If I had concealed the anecdote,
and evil had been perpetrated, I should have reproached my-
self with not having given warning to the government. I
deserve thanks for making the anecdote public, and not
abuse.

If, however, you allege such a subject should not be pub-
licly alluded to, I beg to ask why you dilate upon it so
vehemently, when your leading article is so much more likely
to supply malicious incentive than the comparatively obscure
recital by myself at first?

You hereby receive my thanks for your kind and Christian
suggestions that my speech had a connexion with the mur-
derer 111`Naughten. It was a very gracious act of your lion-
like clemency to

Your obedient servant,
Sheffield Feb. 22. 1843. R. S. BAYLEY

MR. BRIGHT v. LORD BROUGHAM

The opinion entertained by one great man, of the charac-
ter of another, is, of course, :an ,interesting subject of con-
templation ; and we therefore take the liberty of placing
before our readers the estimation in which Lord Brougham
and Vaux, whose past eminence few will deny, is held just
now by Mr. John Bright, of Rochdale, cotton lord and
spouter extraordinary to the Anti-Corn-Law League. Re-
fearing, at the leauge meeting held in Manchester last week,
to a recent speech of the :ex-Chuncellor, delivered in the
House of Lords, the "preterpluperfection" of enlighten-
ment—" the preterpluperfectly bright, as his rev. fellow-
leaguer Giles declared him to be—termed the speech in
question a " Brummugum row"—(a wretched attempt at a
pun, it must be confessed)—and intimated further that any-
thing that fell from that " miserable creature" was un-
worthy of his sublime consideration- Lord Brougham
and Vaux—the once worshipped of the Whig party, the
hero of reform, negro emancipation and a hundred other
quackeries,--a " miserable creature" !—in the estimation , too,
of a shallow Anti-Corn-Law quaker like John Bright !
" To what vile uses do we come at last !"

Henry Brougham a " miserable creature" in the eyes of
John Bright of Rochdale ! Alas for the mighty !

The I,ondon Tinges of Thursday had a loin; leading article
relative to the late ease of the institution of a clergyman at
Chudleigh, by election, and in the course of it says—Validity
of the trusts seems to have been taken for granted by all
parties, and therefore, we presumes that they were so framed
as to be free from objection ; but it is notorious that the late
Rev. Mr. Simeon, and many of those who imbibed his pecu-
liar doctrines under his tuition at Cambridge, have purchased
many advowsons, and vested them in trustees so selected as
to render it probable that none but those who might hold
similar doctrinal views would be presented to the livings;
and any presentation by such trustees would give a fair oc-
casion for trying their right. 'We believe that the validity of
such trusts is decidedly questionable. The policy of the law
requires that no property shall be so tied up as to be per-
petually unalienable, except in certain specified cases, among
which are those technically called " charitable uses."
- - -

SINGULAR CAUSE OF DEATH.-Mr. Hyde, the city coro-
ner, held an inquest on Wednesday, at the Falcon, Broad-
street, Worcester, on the body of Herbet Williams. aged
five months, the child of labouring people, living in Friar's
Alley, which came by its death on the preceeding day, under
the following singular circumstances:—The
deceased, from
his birth, had evinced great repugnance to fowls, and seemed
especially annoyed at the crowing of a cock, On Tuesday
afternoon shortly after dinner, the child's mother was nurse-
mg it at the door, and had placed it to stand upon the ground
mobile holding its arms, when a cock fowl, which had been
fighting near, approached where the child was. and began to
crow. Instantly upon this, the infant shrieked, and went
into fits, which terminated' its existence in a few minutes,
even before the arrival of Mr. Orwin,
surgeon, who had
been sent for directly upon the child been seized. Verdict,
" Died from fright, occasioned by the crowing of a cock."
—Hereford Journal.

MATERNAL AFFECTION.—The following simple and
affecting incident of maternal affection took place in Glas-
gow a few weeks ago :—An elderly widow,in humble
him to
cir-
cumstances, called at the shop of a silversmith, and taking
out of her pocket a " bawbee" (halfpenny), requested
cover the rim of it all round with silver. Curious to know
the reason why so small a piece of copper
.should be orna-
mented at so much expense, the silversmith inquired, when
the poor widow informed him that it was a " gift frae her
son," who had unfortunately been led astray by bad eon).
panions, and, under the sentence of the Court of Justiciary,
was banished for seven Years. On the morning of his de-
parture she went up to Bridewell to see him away, and she
said she had just a glimpse of him, when he gave her the
bawbee—saying that it was all he had in the world. The
poor woman, shedding tears, said she would keep it as a
token of remembrance as long as she lived, as it would " aye
be like a picture to her of her poor Willie, when he was far
Edi
awa' and o'er the seas."_ Edinburgh Witness.
THE PENDLETON MURDER IN 1817.—We inserted in
our paper of Tuesday last a paragraph in reference to a
confession made by an old man, on his death-bed, as to this
murder. The paragraph was from the Manchester Courier,
and induced a belief that the men who suffered for the
murder were innocent. The Manchester Guardian of Satur-
day last, however, says, so far is this confession from
weakening the case against the Ashcrofts and William
Holden, that, if made at all, which we rather doubt, it tends
to strengthen that case. That more than one person had
been concerned in the murder was perfectly manifest from a
variety of circumstances; and, indeed, John Holden's
alleged statement implies that others were with him, as he
says he did not commit the robbery. lie could, therefore,
only mean that he was one of the parties who committed the
crime. If so, what could be more natural than that his own
nephew, and the Ashcrofts, who were constant associates,
should be his accomplices? William Holden and the Ash-
crofts no doubt protested their innocence to the last ; but
that is a fact on which no
Prudent man would place the
slightest reliance, especially in a case where there was no
direct evidence against the prisoners; who might naturally
think that, by persisting in their asseverations of innocence,
they might have a chance of obtaining a reprieve.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—The following gentlemen, who
were not returned at the meeting of
1841, now have seats in the house:—SirParliament in August,
Henry W. Barron,
Robert Bateson, jun., Ralph Bernal, see., Dr. John Boyd,
Edward Cardwell, William D. Christie, Viscount Clive,
Fitzmaurice, Sir Stephen
Y, David A. S. Davies,
John CHenryi. Col qFu
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runny, , EH loi an s.
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Glynne, George Alexander Hamilton, Renn Hampden, Lord
Alfred Hervey, Joseph Hume, Thomas Hussey, Hon. Wm.
S. S. Lascelles, Anthony Letroy, Charles Leslie, Humphrey
St. John Mildmay, David Robert Ross, Sir Samuel Spry,
Charles S. Standish, John Walter, Lord Charles Wellesley,
Hon. James A. S. Wortley, 'Thomas Wyse. In addition to
the above changes, three members of the House of Commons
have succeeded to peerages,
ettion. It is also worthy of
five have retired from parlia-
ment,,ho had been returned for two
three have been rempaorvleiadmbeyndtaeraythd,uttiweso,haanvde acceptedeighteen
election to sit for Cork ; that Mr.
offices incompatible with
have been unseated on Pi
Weymouth, is now member for
counties,re-
mark,H epe , tt thatM.
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mr
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for Weymouth,
Southampton ; and finally, that if Sudbury be disfranchised,
the numbers in the house will be reduced from 658 to 656.
PIGEON FLYING.—The ship Strabane of Glasgow, in the
ts leg by a piece of brass wire.
course of her voyage from Calcutta to Britain, in 1942,
picked up at sea a carrier pigeon, which seems to have flown
on board this vessel on the 23d of July last, in lat. 34 41,
south lon. 22 53, having a rFgtmental button of her Majesty's
kept on board the Mary transport, on
her outward passage to Bombay, by Lieutenant G. Horrocks,
of the 78th Highlanders, it
708nt hr
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nmeeen
ttoa
at t
log
gh ect t o i
appears that this bird was liber-
ated from on board the Mary. on the 13th of July, 18-12, in
lat. 27 14, Jon. 54 46 ; having thus made a distance of nearly
2,000 miles in ten days. Although we believe that pigeons
leave
state
e
winds in the latitudes in question, have
had to encounter a constant succession of adverse gales,
nearly right a-head of its course, from the day of its departure
sstabeene ki nro to
i lhone observed traverse a much greater distance in the
that this bird must, from the
e fthe time,
pt ise wv ,
to
m
from the Mary till that of its capture on board the Strabane.
It is farther remarkable, that it does not seem to have taken
a straight line to reach the Cape of Good Hope, but to have
adopted nearly the course of the Mary, avoiding the land of
the Island of Madagascar, close to which it must have passed.
However curious these facts may be, this experiment does
not seem to throw any light on the wonderful powers of in-
sEtianicntbubyrflun,hißechgtishieer.pigeon is enabled to direct its course.—

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE

CAMBRIDGE

At a congregation just holden the following degrees were
conferred :

Master of Arts.—J. C. Whish, Trinity College.
Bachelors of Arts.—J. H. Brazier, Trinity College; H.. 1.
Cranmer, Trinity Ball.
Clare Hall.—C. J. Graham Jones, scholar of this college,
has just been elected a foundation fellow.
Lectures.—The Lowndean Professor has postponed his
lectures until further notice, there being no class to attend
them.

The following appointments have taken place:—
The Rev. E. H. Langford, M.A., of Sidney Sussex Col-
lege, to the rectory of Marksbury, Somerset—value £240.
The Rev. J. C. Patten, M.A., of Caius College, to the
rectory of North Barsham, Norfolk—value £214.
The Rev. W. Wenman, S.C.L., of Trinity Hall, to :the
rectory of Sarnesfield, Herefordshire—value £203.
The Rev. Edward Arnett Powell, M.A., of Christ's Col-
lege, to the rectory of Toft, Cambridgeshire—value £287.
The Rev. IL Bell, M.A., of St. Johiri's College, to the per-
petual curacy of Eye, near Peterborough—valueE£l6l.
The Rev. J. L. lson, B.A. of St. John's College, to the
curacy of Shepton Mallet, Somerset.
The Rev. J. Otter, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, to
the vicarage of Ludford Magna. Lincolnshire—value £67.
The Rev. W. P. Thomas, LLB., of Trinity Hall, to the
vicarage of Wellington, with West Buckland curacy, Sower-
set shire--value £894.

The Rev. A. Kemp, 13. A., of Caius College, to the vicar-
age of Worth Matrauers, Dorset—value £6OB.
The Rev. J. S. Foster, 8.A., of Pembroke College, to the
curacy of Leigh-upon-Mendip and Downhead, Somerset.
The Rev. J. H. Wise, 8.A., of St. Peter's College, to the
curacy of St. Swithin's, Norwich.
The Rev. A. H. Small, 8.D., of Emmanuel College, to
the curacy of Thurlaston, in the county of Leicester.
The Rev. H. Carrow, M.A., of Trinity College, to the
curacy of Loxton, Somerset.

OXFORD

In a Congregation holden on Thursday last, the following
Degrees were conferred :

BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW.
Rev. William Wetherell, Fellow of New College.
MASTERS OF ARTS.

Rev. Francis Cradock Twemlow, Oriel College.
Rev. George Mount Keith Ellerton, Brasenose College

BACHELORS OF ARTS

John Walter de Longueville Giffard, Merton college.
Rev. Edmund Tew, Magdalene Hall.
Octavius Carey, Oriel College.
William Bruton, Exeter College.
On the 10th instant, the Rev. Evan Evans, M.A., Scholar
of Pembroke College, on the Foundation of Sir John
Philipps, Bart., was elected to the Fellowship on the same
Foundation, in the room of the Rev. F. Thomas, M.A.,
promoted to the Livings of Lambton and Haroldston West,
Petnbrokeshire, void by the death of the Rev. John Andros,
M.A.

The Rev. Joseph Moore, M.A., of Lincoln College,
Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Morley, and Incumbent of
Littleworth, Berks, has been presented to the Vicarage of
Buckland, in the same county ; patron, James Moore, Esq.
The Rev. Frederick Biscoe, M.A., formerly Student of
Christ Church, has been presented to the Vicarage of Coombe
Bissett, Wilts, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. R.
Bird.

The Rev. Theodore Coldridge, M.A., of Exeter College,
has been elected Chaplain to Exeter Workhouse.
The Rev. Arthur Thomas Gregory, 8.A., formerly of
Lincoln College, has been presented to the Perpetual Curacy
of Flixton, Lancashire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev.
W. C. B. Cave.

The Rev. George James Cornish, M.A., formerly of Cor-
pus Christi College, Vicar of Kenwyn and Kea, Cornwall,
has been presented to a Prebendal Stall in Exeter_ Cathedral,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Wittington Landon.
On Friday, the 17th instant, the Rev. H. Robbins, 8.A.,
of Wadham College, was elected Head Master of the Stepney
Proprietary Grammar School.

On Tuesday last, the Rev. William Cockin, M.A., of
Brasenose College, was unanimously elected to the Head
Mastership of the Grammar School at Kidderminster.
The Rev. William Pulling, Fellow of Brasenose College,
has been appointed Domestic Chaplain to the Earl Somers.
The Rev. William Bousfield, of Lincoln College, has been
presented to the Curacy of the third portion of Barnpton
Vicarage, in this county.

The Rev. Fitzherberi Adams Marriott, M.A., formerly of
Oriel College, Rector of Cottesbach, Leicestershire, has been
appointed by the Bishop of Tasmania to the Archdeaconry of
Hobart Town, and also to be his Lordship's Domestic Chap-
lain.

Rev. Richard Stainforth, M.A., formerly of St. John's
College, Cambridge, Vicar of Pontefract, to be Canon of
the Stall of St. Anthony, in the Collegiate Church of Mid-
dleham, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. F. B. Astley.
Rev. Francis Rose, M.A., to the Rectory of Little Wool-
ston, to hold the same by dispensation, together with the
Rectory of Woughton-on-the-Green, Bucks; patron, the
Queen.

Rev. Roger Bird, to the Vicarage of Turkdean, Glouces-
tershire.

Rev. W. Harrison, to be Sunday Evening Lecturer of St
Mary, Aldermanbury.

Rev. J. W. Butt, -M.A., Vicar of King's Langley, Herts,
to be Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Clarendon.

Rev. Henry Thomas Hill, M.A., of Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge, Perpetual Curate of Lye, Worcestershire, to be
Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Worcestershire.
Rev. Edward Armett Powell, M.A., Fellow of Christ's
College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Toft, with the Vicarage
of Caldecote, Cambridgeshire ; patrons, the Master and
Fellows of Christ's College.
Rev. Richard Parkinson, 8.D., of St. John's College,
Cambridge, to be Chaplain of the High Sheriff of Lancashire.
Rev. John Blissard. M.A., late Curate of Hampstead
Norris, Berks, to that Vicarage, vacant by the death of the
Rev. J. Reed; patron, the Marquis of Downshire.
Rev. William Stoddart, M.A., formerly of Christ's Col-
lege, Cambridge, Perpetual Curate of Stretton, in Burton-
on-Trent, Staffordshire, and Second Master of Repton
School, to the Vicarage of Willington, Derbyshire, vacant
by the death of the Rev. W. B. Sleath, D.D. ; patrons, the
Corporation of Etwall Hospital and Repton School.

The twenty-six colleges of Oxford University contained,
at the commencement of the present year, 5,657 members of
colleges, and 2,898 members of convocation.

PRESENTATION OF PLATE.—A handsome pocket Com-
munion service, with some articles of table plate, were pre-
sented to the Rev. T. B. Browne, on the occasion of his
leaving Wortley, near Leeds. for Roos, near Patrington,
where he is now appointed curate. The case of the commu-
nion service bore this inscription :—" Rev. Thomas Briarly
Browne, 8.A., a token of respectful and affectionate regard
from the members of his congregation at Wortley, near
Leeds, on his separation from thm after two years' residence
as their curate. Bth February, 1843.
THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS BILL.—The following is
an extract from a long and able article which appears in the
Chester Chronicle, exposing the injustice, inconvenience,
and fraud, which would be entailed upon the public by the
bill which has been introduced into the House of Commons
by Dr. Nicholl :—" At present any person can have a search
in the Chester registry for one shilling. To get such search
made in the London court will cost ten times as much at the
very least. But this is a small matter. The most important
is, as to the office cha'rges for business done ; and on this
point we have been able to collect some astounding informa-
tion, which we think ought to rouse the country. For in-
stance, in cases where probates had been respectively granted
under the same wills in the registry of Chester and Doctors'
Commons :—ln one estate, the charge in Chester on £35,000
was £l9 Os. sd. : in Doctors' Commons, the charge on
£16,000 was £34 .6s, 4d. In another, the charge in Chester
on £25,000 was £7 13s. 6d. ; in Doctors' Commons, on
£7,000, it was £l9 ss. 10d. In another, the charge in
Chester on £4,000 was £5 Os. 10d. ; in Doctors' Commons
on £6OO it was £ll Os. 4d. In another. the charge in
Chester on £2OO was £7 ss. 11d. ; in Doctors' Commons
on £6OO it was £23 Is. 6d. In another, the charge in
Chester on £3OO was £1 14s. Bd. ; in Doctors' Commons
on £2O it was £2 10s. Bd. These are all recent cases ; and
they show that the injustice of Doctors' Commons business
is as great on small as large estates."
REVENUES OF THE ENGLISH AND WELSH SEES.—The
ecclesiastical commissioners found that the aggregate revenues
of the 26 sees of England and Wales amounted to about
£150,000 per annum, but that this sum was very unequally
divided, varying from about £19,000 per annum for Durham,
to about £l,OOO per annum for Llandaff. As great an ine-
quality existed in the extent of the several sees, whether cal-
culated with reference to the number of benefices or the
amount of population in each, tlie number of benefices vary-
ing from 1,234 in Lincoln to 94 in Rochester, and the popu-
lation from 1,900,000 in Chester to 126,000 in Ely. And the
revenue of the see was often in inverse proportion to its ex-
tent. The commissioners came to the conclusion that this
was a state of things injurious to the interests of the church,
and which consequently required alteration ; and, in so doing,
they in fact only responded to the opinion which must have
been entertained by his late majesty and his responsible ad-
visers, in the appointment of the commission in the terms
before mentioned, an opinion which one would suppose must
meet with universal acquiescence among the well-wishers to
the established church. The alterations proposed by the
commissioners did not involve any increase or diminution of
the number of the episcopal sees, or the amount of their ag-
gregate revenues, but they recommended a more equal distri-
bution of both revenue and territory among the several sees.
With respect to revenue, they recommended that certain an-
nual payments should be made by the incumbents of the
richer sees to a fund, out of which certain annual payments
should be made to the incumbents of the poorer sees. And
with respect to territory, they recommended the transfer of
districts from one diocese to another; but, in consequence
of the great extent of the dioceses in the north of England,
and of there not being any adjoining dioceses to which
transfers of districts could conveniently be made, they re-
commended the creation of new sees at Ripon and Manches-
ter ; and on the other hand, the union, in two instances, of
certain existing sees, of which the combined duties would
not, they considered, be too onerous for a single bishop,—
Defence of the Union of the Sees of St. Asaph and Bangor.
A NEW SUBJECT OF CONTROVESY AT OXFORD.-13y
the will of Dean Ireland, the sum of £lO,OOO, three per cent.
consolidated annuities, was left to the chancellor, masters,
and scholars of the University of Oxford, on condition that
the interest and dividends should be applied for the promotion
of a scheme of education " which is now in progress in the
said university, under the management of a committee of
heads of houses, for the more complete instruction of stu-
dents, particularly such as are destined for the church."
The interest and dividends of this sum of £lO,OOO are to be
appropriated for the benefit of a professor, whose department
shall be the exegesis of Holy Scripture, as is recommended
by the committee in question, other parts of theology being
already allotted to other professors under the general scheme.
This professor is to be appointed by the heads of colleges and
halls ; lie is to be directed by convocation, and is to reside
every six months of every year at Oxford. If the above men-
tioned scheme of education should be abandoned, and it should
be found impossible to carry Dr. Ireland's directions into
effect, then he directed the chancellor to apply the interest,
&c., for and towards the support of the established religion
of England generally, or to the promotion of literature and
science within the university, as the convocation should de-
termine. On Thursday, March 9, at two o'clock, a convo-
cation will be held, at which a statute will be proposed to the
house relative to the bequest made by Dr. Ireland. On the
acceptance of the bequest last term, a meeting was held in
the common room of Oriel, to consider the expediency of re-
sisting it, on the ground of the patronage being vested in the
hebdomadal board. It was overruled, however, in conse-
quence of the interference of the more moderate of the " Ox-
ford party," who felt that great offence would be given to
Dr. Gaisford, whom Dean Ireland is understood to have con-
sulted about the terms of the bequest, and the bequest was
accepted with two dissentient voices—viz., Mr. Seger, of
Worcester, and Mr. of Jesus, friends of Dr. Pusey and of
Mr. Newman. The statute to be proposed on the 9th of next
month admits the new professor into the theological board,
of which Dr. Hampden is the chairman. This is objected to
by the above-named party on the ground that Dr. Pusey, ae_s
Hebrew professor, claims to be exegetical professor.
professor
sides that, it is urged that the addition of one more e
double—
viz., make the regius professor of divinity's vote
ti as chair-
viz., a vote as professor, and one in case of equality,
absence' of a
man ; whereas he now has one in case of an
member of the board, and an equality of votes apbreessideent
and
dhiist
can never happen when all the
is to be hoped that the hebdomadal
the " Oxford
members
wil The enabled to
carry their statute in spite of the oPPosituin of
Party."—Church and State Gazette.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON

The annual general court of the proprietors of the above
college was held, on Wednesday, in the theatre of the Insti-
tution, Gower-street.

The report stated that in the session of 1841-2 the pupils
in the college and the junior classes numbered 886. Of those
336 were students in medicine. 155 in the arts, and 395 were
pupils in the junior school. The amount of receipts from
students and pupils was £12,756 4s. Gd., of which sum
£9,081 18s. having been paid to the professors and masters,
£3,675 2s. 10d. fell to the share of the college. The year's
income from other sources was £4,039 lls. 4d., and the dis-
bursements from the establishment department, including
payment for several permanent additions to the property of
the college, interest upon mortgage, &c., amounted to
£4,000 17s. 11d., thus showing that the expenses were co-
vered by the receipts. Of the sum above mentioned of
£12,756 4s. 6d, received for education, £5,570 10s. was de-
rived from classes of the medical faculty, £2,570 11s. 6d.
from these of the arts and law. To the library a set of works,
100 in number, printed by the government press. at Cairo,
had been presented by Lord Brougham, who had received
them from the Pasha of Egypt. The junior school produced
during the year £4,615, a sum less by £282 than the year
before. The collection made at the public dinner in June
last was £1,120.

Colonel L. Stanhope recommended, first, that clergymen
be appointed to read prayers and the Scriptures for the be-
nefit of the university. He thought that it was highly ne-

cessary that a system of religions instruction should be
undertaken by the university. The council and the proprie-
tors had seen that there were but 145 pupils in the general
school, when they expected to have had at least 3,000. If
they had gone properly to work they would have had the
latter number; but persons exclaimed, "I cannot send my
sons to the London University, because there is no religion
there." He (Col. L. Stanhope) assured the proprietors that
the college was a complete failure, for their shares were per-
fectly valueless in the market ; they had no money ; they
could not even, on account of te expense, accept a present
just offered ; they had no religion, and he might say no hope.
There might be some dogmatical philosophers who thought
that the world might be conducted without religion, but he
should like to ask, did they follow that practice in their own
families ? He would say, that at the time the college was
founded, had the devil himself crept into the council to ar-
range matters for the destruction of the society, they could not
have adopted measures better suited to the purpose than they
had.

Captain SWEENEY, a proprietor, complained of the man-
ner in which his two nephews, scholars in the university, had
been neglected. Last Christmas vacation, being anxious to
see what progress the young gentlemen had made in their
studies, he opened a Virgil before the one who learned Latin,
when he was surprised that he could not translate or scan
two lines. He then tried them in mathematics, and found
them more backward in that science than when they went to
the college. They had been greatly neglected, and assured
him that little or no trouble had been taken with them.
Professor Key said that he paid all possible attention to
the various classes in the school, though his duties were
chiefly devoted to the senior Latin class. The nephews of
Captain Sweeney were brought direct from France when
they could hardly speak English, and it could not, therefore,
be supposed that, being at the college but a short time, they
had made much progress. Their studies had not been ne-
glected, as the hon. proprietor asserted.
Colonel Stanhope's motion fell to the ground for want of
a seconder.

Lord Brougham was elected president, the Earl of Auck-
land vice-president, and Mr. John Taylor treasurer.
[On this subject the London Times remarks—" The gal-
lant colonel gives a pretty strong hint that he conceived the
council to be little better than receivers of money under false
pretences, liable to account for what they held in the Court
of Chancery.

" You have no religion," says the colonel, " and I may
1202 V say (THEREFORE) NO HOPE !" This from a proprietor
of the Gower-street College. Quis tulerit Gracchos " All
education," say the advocates of this and other institutions,
" for promoting neutral education must be either neutral or
sectarian." We accept this exposition of their views. It
assumes that truth is sectarian ; and on this issue—viz.,
whether there is or is not any tangible, real distinction be-
tween truth and falsehood, whether truth is or is not to be
classed with error, and all condemned alike under the deno-
mination of sectarianism, we gladly rest the question. And
that the neutral plan, which holds that there is no such dis-
tinction, is essentially and radically wrong, is shown in this
model of neutrality, the Gower-street College. With their
own mouths they tell us, " the college is a complete failure."
And why ? "It has no religion, and no hope." It dares
not recognize the existence of truth and falsehood in the most
important element of education. It dares not to know any
truth whatsoever.]

CURIOUS FACT IN NATURAL HISTORY.—A gentleman
who cultivates a farm in the ticinity of Dumfries, bought
lately some of the lime used in our gas work for the process
of the purification of the gas, in order to make a compost of
manure for his farm purposes. The hens in his poultry-yard,
which were laying eggs, had access to this compost ; and as
it is well known that fowls partake readily of lime, which
enters largely into, and is necessary to the formation of the
shell, they fed, it is supposed, according to their appetite,
upon it. The consequence was, that in a few days the gen-
tleman and other members of his family perceived, at break-
fast, with a good deal of astonishment, that the eggs, on being
opened, had such an intolerable smell of gas that no one
could eat them.—Dumfries Herald.

AN INDEPENDENT CHAPEL SEIZED BY THE SHERIFF.—
A novel scene occurred on Tuesday last, in East Stockwell-
steet, Colchester. Owing to some dispute between the Rev.
Jos. Herrick and the trustees of the chapel, in which he has
preached for many years, an action of ejectment was brought
against him, to recover possession of the meeting-house;
and judgment having been obtained, the sheriff's officer went
with due authority on Tuesday morning, and read the writ,
and afterwards allowed all the books, cushions, &c., that
belonged to the congregation, to be taken away by them.
Several hundred persons assembled to witness so novel a
scene. After it was cleared out the doors were locked, and
the keys delivered to a person appointed to receive them on
behalf of the trustees who instituted the proceedings, and
thus the matter ended.—C'helmsford Chronicle.
DR. WOLFF.—This distinguished man read a paper on the
Life and Death of Muliammed before the Leeds Philoso-
phical and Literary Society, on the lith inst. The personal
acquaintance of the lecturer with the scene of Mohammed's
impostures, and his profound knowledge of the oriental lan-
guages, gave a peculiar interest and freshness to the histo-
rical narrative; while his sound Catholic views induced re-
flections upon the opinions of " the Arabian Cromwell," as
Dr. Wolff designated Muhammed, which were deeply in-
structive. The learned lecturer clearly shewed, that it was
not until Christianity became corrupted by Arianism and
other heresies, that the licentious creed of the anti-christ of
Mecca—only a deeper shade of prevailing heresy—could
obtain entrance into the east. In refutation of a popular
misconception, Dr. Wolff observed that the professed Unita-
rianism of Mubauamed increased rather than palliated his
wickedness, and the more nearly associated him with the
spirit of those demons who, though acknowledging the ex-
istence of the one God, are demons still. Dr. Wolff con-
cluded by reminding his audience of the fact of the Church
of Christ being the only barrier against the dogmas of Mu-
hammed or those of any other heretical impostor.
POPERY AND CHINA.—The Univers of the 12th inst.
states that the most consoling news for the followers of
Christianity has been circulating for the last fortnight in
Paris. According to letters from Rome, written by person-
ages of note, authentic information has been received in the
eternal city from the Catholic missionaries in China, an-
nouncing that the Emperor of the Celestial Empire has given
permission to the missionaries to enter and pass freely over
his domiuions without being interrupted, and that he had also
requested ❑ew and more numerous missionaries to be sent
over. It is certain, at all events, that the Propaganda has
already appointed forty religious (amongst whom are some
Jesuits) for the Chinese mission, on which they are soon to
enter. The same letters of the Chinese missionaries confirm
the glorious miracle of the apparition of our Lord, in pre-
sence of a great multitude of the faithful and of the infidels.
The Gazelle du Simplon of the Bth inst. gives details of the
miracle in the following terms :—" All religious hearts will
rejoice at the happy news which we have to announce, and
which we have received from different quarters about the
same time. Already had Catholicism hailed with hope the
unexpected event which laid the barriers of the Chinese em-
pire prostrate before European nations ; but we have now to
record more signal signs of the approaching conversion of its
swarms of inhabitants. That land which has been so long
bathed with the blood of martyrs, is about to be covered with
an abundant harvest, which new spiritual workmen are called
to gather in. Yes, the reign of persecution has now ceased ;
the people who sat in darkness have been illuminated with a
great light, and the day is drawing nigh wherein the church
will forget its combats, in order to sing the praises of Him
who has rendered it triumphant. According to accounts de-
rived from an authentic source, in the apostolic vicariate of
China, a great number of Christiana and Pagans, natives of
China, beheld in the air the image of Christ crucified. If
the news which we have given be confirmed, and if, as it is
stated, the emperor, being resolved to embrace the Catholic
faith, has sent to the Sovereign Pontiff for fresh missiona-
ries, the most important result. may be anticipated, and the
conversion of a nation may be reckoned on, the inhabitants
of which amount to 300,000,000.•'—[We copy the above pa-
ragraph from the Tablet, a Roman Catholic journal, to show
the working of Popery. In the same paper, the editor ex-
poses what he justly calls the diabolical imposition attempted
at Youghall by a nun ; and here he copies, without comment,
an equally " diabolical" pious fraud, invented for the pur-
pose of raising money in the introduction of Popery into
China. Truly has it been said, we do not know what Popery
is when it is only seen in the neighbourhood of Protestantism.
—Editor of Record.]

TRUE CHURCHMEN.—The following is the character
drawn by Bishop Burnett of those persons who are idly nick-
named " Low Churchmen" by those whose avowed object
it is to unprotestantize our national church. " They are
cordially and conscientiously zealous for the church, as es-
tablished by law ; but yet they think no human constitution
is so perfect but that it may be made better . . . . , •
They lay the foundation of all that they believe in the
Christian religion in the Scriptures. These, and these
only, are the measure and standard of their faith. N°
great names nor shows of authority overawe them; they
search the Scriptures; there they seek and find their faith.
" They think that in matters declared to be indifferent, no
harm could follow on it, if some regard were had to the
scruples of these who divide from us, in order to the forti-
fying the whole by uniting us among ourselves. But till
that can be done, they think a kind deportment towards dis-
senters softens their prejudices, and disposes them to hearken
to the reasons which they offer them with all the force they
can, without the asperity of words, or a contemptuous be-
haviour, in which they have succeeded so well that they see
no cause to change their conduct. They do indeed make a
great difference between Dissenters and Papists. They con-
sider the one as a handful of people true to the Protestant
religion and to our national interests, not capable of doing
us much mischief, and who are, as far as appears to them,
contented with their toleration, and are only desirous to
secure and maintain it. They have another and a very
different opinion of Popery. . . .They consider Popery
as a conspiracy against the liberty and peace of mankind, on
design to engross the wealth of the world into their own
hands, and to destroy all that stands in their way, sticking at
no practice, how false, base, or cruel soever, that can advance
this. This is the true ground of their zeal against Popery,

and indeed against every thing that has a tendency that way.
The raising the power and authority of sacred
functions beyond what is founded on clear warrants in
Scripture,:is, they think, the readiest way to give the world
such a jealousy of them, and such an aversion to them, as
may make them lose the authority that they ought to have,
while they pretend to that they have not. They dare not
unchurch all the bodies of the Protestants beyond sea; nor
deny to our dissenters at home the federal rights common to
all Christians, nor leave them to uncovenanted mercy.
They do not annul their baptisms, or think that they ought
to be baptized again in a more regular manner before they
can be accounted Christians. They know of no power in a
priest to pardon sin, other than declaring the gospel pardon,
upon the conditions on which it is offered. They know of
no sacrifice in the eucharist, other than the commemorating
that on the cross, with the oblations of the prayers, praises,
and almsgiving prescribed in the office. They are far from
condemning private judgment in matters of religion. This
strikes at the root of the whole Reformation, which could
never have been compassed if private men have not a right
to judge for themselves. On the contrary, they think that
every man is BOUND to judge for himself, which indeed be
ought to do, in the fear of God, and with all humility and
caution. They look on all these notions as steps towards
popery, though they do not conclude that all those who have
made them designed that by so doing."

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HANOVEEt FEB. W.—Among the twenty-four sovereigns
and princes who will be present at the marriage ceremonies
and festivities, there are eight reigning sovereigns ; viz.. the
Kings of Hanover and Prussia; the Grand Duke of Olden
burg and Mecklenburg Schwerin, and the Duke of Saxe Al-
tenburg, Brunswick, Nassau and Anhault Dessau. and the
three hereditary Princes of Hanover, Prussia, and Mecklen-
burg.

17.—At this moment (tour in the afternoon) the
Princess Mary of Altenburg makes her entry into the city,
rather later than she was expected, she having been delayed
on the road by the festive reception given her in almost every
place between this and Hildesheim. _

FEB. I9.—At the marriage of the Crown-Prince, yesterday
evening, the chapel was not crowded. Above fifty carriages
could not draw up in time to the only door, which ZIS
closed exactly at seven o'clock, and many persons who had
tickets could not gain admission. Those, however, who got
to the chapel in time formed a splendid assemblage. The
procession was conducted precisely as arranged by the pro-
gramme, only that the Grand Duke of Oldenburg was kept
away by disposition. The bride wore a white robe of drag
d'argent, with a profusion of jewels, a diadem of diamonds,
and a wreath of myrtle entwined the crown. The exchange
of rings was announced by a exchange of artillery. During
the benediction the young couple knelt at the altar, and.
when they rose, the king embraced them, and all the princes
and ladies present warmly expressed the interest they took
on the happy occasion. Proceeding to the upper apartments
of the royal palace, the formal congratulations were renewed,
but there was no ball. At eleven o'clock the Crown-Princess,
accompanied by her mother, and the Crown-Prince by his
father-in-law, went to the palace of the Crown-Prince, where
the august parents stopped with the young couple for some
time. Their royal highnesses showed themselves to the
people this morning, driving to church in an open carriage
drawn by six cream-coloured horses.

A robin redbreast has built its nest in a mitre carved over
one of the stalls of Glocester Cathedral, and is at present
sitting on four eggs.

Young people invariably wish to be thought older than they
are. In a few years they are cured of this penchant, and
run into the opposite extreme.
The Hon. G. H. Stanley, a son of Lord Stanley, has been
seriously indisposed for the last few days. The answers re-
turned on Sunday to enquiries was, " Mr. Stanley is a little
better." The young gentleman is about 17 years of age.

A professional gentleman, well known in Nortdcb, by the
name of Bexfield, executes Handel's chorus, " But the
waters overwhelmed," playing the whole of the bass with the
pedals, on the organ. Where will execution end ?
The venerable Earl Grey has been re-elected president of
the Northumberland Agricultural Society, of which the Duke
of Northumberland is patron. The venerable ex-Premier,
who completes his seventy-ninth year on the 13th of the en-
suing month, is in the enjoyment of good health.

CAPE OF Goon HoPE.—Advices were received on Satur-
day morning from the Cape down to the lith December.
Some rather important military movements had taken place
towards Colesbourg, and Colonel Hare is to take the com-
mand of 1200 men beyond the Orange River. This activity
has been caused by an offensive movement in Adam Kok's
district of the Griqua country, and open preparations to at-
tack Philipolis, independent of other proofs of open rebellion,
supposed to be connected with the proceedings of the Natal
Boers. These unequivocal demonstrations of the natives
have fully convinced the governor of the necessity of active
measures.

DEATH FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING.—On Wednesday
night, the 16th instant, at about half-pas: twelve o'clock,
framework knitter, aged 53, named Joseph Daft, was found
dead in his bed at Sneinton by his sister, Hannah Daft. The
deceased had been in the workhouse, but notwithstanding
his poverty, would often contrive to be in a state of intoxica-
tion for a month together. He had just finished one of his
drunken freaks, and was nursing himself to recover from the
effects. On the night of his death he had taken caster oil,
and in half an hour after his retiring to bed he was found
dead as described.— Nottingham Journal.
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.—On Friday, the 10th inst., Samp-
son Chivnoweth, who was employed as stampsman at the
Royal Polheron Consols Mine, in St. Agnes, was unfortunately
killed. It appeared be was about to apply some oil to the
co:-wheels of the machine, when his jacket was probably
caught by the cogs, and he was drawn in, and crushed to
death by the wheels. This was evident from the wheels,
which were besmeared with blood and large portions of the
brain. Several pieces of the jacket were also found adher-
ing to the teeth of the wheels, and near them were his hat
and oil-can. The body, when found, was disengaged from
the machinery, and had fallen into the pass behind the heads ;
and had it remained undiscovered an hour longer it would
have been pounded to atoms, and washed off along with the
tin stuff.—Plymouth Journal.

AN ECCENTRIC BRIDE.—On the 26th of last month a
wedding was celebrated among the inhabitants of that fertile
mountain side lying to the north-west of Beauly. The fes-
tivities were carried on with the usual glee—mirth and good
humour ruled the hour—and " all went merry as a marriage
bell," when, as it drew near the " witching hour" of night,
the company deemed it expedient to separate, first wishing
the young couple " good night" in the old Highland style :
but their plans were nearly frustrated—for, lo! the bride was
gone—where none could tell. Anxiously and mournfully
was she sought for. Some of the old folks began to tell
" auld world' tales of " fairy brides and elfin wooers," when,
to the mingled amazement and delight of most of the com-
pany, ,at the end of two hours the fugitive returned, and a
reconciliation took place. —lnverness Courier.
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DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.—A letter received in town this day
states that an occurrence of a very tragical nature took place
the day before yesterday near the town of Tuam, and, as the
parties move in a respectable sphere in life, the event has
caused no slight sensation. It appears that a Mr. Michael
Ward, son of Mr. Manus Ward, of Doon Castle, in the
county of Galway, a gentleman of independent property, and
his wife had not for
some time past been living on amicable
terms,
the lady being, it is alleged, severely afflicted by the
." green-eyed monster"—whether with just reason or no is,
ttweveri a mystery. On the day in question, a serious dif-
ence arose between man and wife, to avoid which Mr.
Ward retired to the kitchen for the purpose of seeing his
dogs fed : thither his enraged partner followed, armed with a
pistol loaded with slugs, the contents of which she discharged
at the ill-fated man, who, after a vain struggle to detain her
in his grasp, sank down, bleeding and exhausted : he lies at
present iu a very low state, with strong symptoms of in-
flammation being about to set in. The wretched woman,
who
is most respectably connected, being grand niece of the
late Lord Clanniorris, has for the present escaped.—Dublin
correspondent of the Times.
THE CHURCH AT JERUSALEM.—Private accounts from
Beyrout, under date of the Ist instant, state that the Emir
Amhed Reslan, the Druise Kaimacan, bad been liberated
from prison, and reinstated by Assad Pasha in his functions.
He had fixed his residence at Shouafat, and the Catholic
Emir Haider at Soiima. On the 14th ult. Izzett, Pasha of
Jerusalem, forwarded a message by one of his effendis to M.
Nicolayson, the chaplain of Bishop Alexander, enjoining
him, as be had no authority for building a Protestant church
at Jerusalem, to cause remorarks to be suspended. AL
colayson having vainly strated with the Pasha, it was
resolved that the Bishop should repair to Beyrout, to take
the advice of the British and Prussian Consuls-General, and
his lordship accordingly started from Jerusalem on the 20th
for Jaffa, where he embarked d
the c for Beyrout.
bef Onore the 23those d htwo
e
reached this last city, an laiase
functionaries, who thought proper to refer it to their respec-
tive ambassadors at Constantinople. Assad Pasha, to whom
they applied in the mean time for an explanation of the mo-
tives of this prohibition, pleaded total ignorance of the aflair.
A STUBBORN ENGLISHMAN. Sir
Je
TOMM:BOWCS. who
died in 1616. has the following anecdote related of him b
Pepys :—" Sept. 5, 1662.-1 dined to-day at Mr. Blend's,
the merchant, where I met Sir John Wolstenholine, and
other very grave fine gentlemen : very good company : and
among other discourse some was of Sir Jerom Bowes, Bra-
n) to be dragged
bassador from Queene Elizabeth to the Emperor of Russia;
who, because some of the noblemen there would go up stairs
to the Emperor before him, be would not go up till the
And when he was come up, they de
ordered t
hei
If hhoesaedd two on (noblemen) lge mu
pe
on every stai? till
Emperoridhoewyn were a h
sa ,with
killed.d
ahaowsolhdiisecr.omAmnadoalaos
if they would have his sword they should have
_gown, and nightcap, and slippers to be sent for
mended his sword of him before he entered the room. He-
aEneelndpoenrOertostlaeyaptiflrlonilie
tchoeuwldingdoowinhis night
aud;
told them,
his boots too,—And so caused his boots to be pulled off, and
of our Enabassador, he replieddown,n
his night
and made the
dress, since he mightntenmotptg,ntoas
jtbehrouetkae,
dhiids Emperor,
oeoealehmin i n
the
sight
that his mistress did Set more by, and didmake b
better use
of, the necks of her subjects : but said, that to show h
her subjects would do for her, he would and did fling down
his gantlett before the Emperor; and challenged all
nobility there to take it up, in defence of the Emperor the
against
his Queene: for which at this very day the name
, of Sir
Jerom Bowes is famous and honoured there "
. —Pepy s Diary.
Baoss AND Burrsa.—During Cromwell's Protectorship
the pia "ncipal residences of Charles II
was at the court of 's
sister in Holland. The Laird of Cock e is
en to
staunch adhe-
rent to the house of Stuart. followed the
attached himself to Charles' household. princeCoclr thither, and
Cockpen, from his
skill and proficiency in music, very much contributed to di-
vert bis royal master, by the impressive manner in which he
played the favourite airs of his native
Pleased Charles so well as the tune of " Brose and
but none,
and Butter.'
So partial was he to this air, that with " Br se
sounding in his ears he was lulled to sl ose anduer"
eep at night, nuts
with
" Brose and Butter" awaked from his
the Restoration Cockpen returned morning slumber. At
to Scotland, whe be
found that, in consequence of hisattachment re
to the royal
cause, his estate had been attained
cations be made to have it put • Many were the appli-
cationsagain in his possession, but
all to no purpose. He at length'
went to London, but was
coldly received by the courtiers,-
ftl hisy, whens b -
put off with fair promises,
and, in all his attempts to gain
was baffled and thwarted. Having/in audience of the king, he
formed an intimacy, as a
musician, with the organist the king's chapel, he solicited,
and obtained, as a special f?
f
the organ before his Majesty, at avour, permission to perform on
the royal chapel. Cockpen
exerted his talents to the utmost, thinking to attract the at-
tention of Charles, but all his efforts were unavailing. On
the conclusion of the service, common voluntary.
instead, of a
. ~
in a fit of despair he struck up Brose and Butter, which
no sooner caught the ear of the king than be flew to the organ
gallery. The regular organist, perceiving the vivid flashes of
Charles' eye, was seized with such a panic that be fell on his
knees and protested his innocence. "It was not me, please
your majesty, it was not me !" " You! you l" exclaimed the
enraptured monarch, as he hastily passed him,—" You never
could play anything like it in your life. Then, addressing
his old associate in exile,—" Odds fish, Cockpen! I thought
yon would have made me dance." " I could have danced to
' Brose and Butter' once with a light heart too," replied the
performer, " but my adherence to your maha
jesty's interest
has bereft me of the lands of Cockpen." " You sll dance,"
said Charles, " you shall dance, and be Laird of Cockpen
yet." Accordingly the Laird was put in possession of his
inheritance.
THE LATE DR. MITFORD.-- The following interesting
notice of her father from the griphic pea of Miss Mitford,
and of her own unwearied desotiou, appears in Mrs. Sigour-
ney's Pleasant Memories of Pleasan!eLeris :--" The el-
ample of filial devotion exhibited by Ma hli ord adds lustre
and grace to the rich imagery of her page. An aged father,
of whom she is the only child, is the oj b object of her constant
cherishing care. Years have elapsed since she has left
receives calls only
him scarcely for an evening, and she h 1
during those hours in the afternoop when
de regu arly takes
rest upon his bed. She is ever in at n ance upon him,
cheering him by the recital of passing events, and pouring
into his spirit the fresher life of her own. The faithful per-
formance of such high and holy duty contains within itself
its own reward. I cannot withhold a sweet picture drawn by
her theoh sensible that she bad no intention of its
meeting public eye. 'My father,' she writes, 'is a swan.
did old man, with a most noble bead, a fine countenance full
of benevolence and love, hair of silvery whiteness, and a
complexion like winter berries. I suppose there was never a
snore beautiful embodiment of healthful and virtuous old
age. He possesses all his faculties with the most vigorous
clearness, but his health suffers, and my time is almost
tirely devoted to bit service, waiting upon him and reading en.
to
him by night and by day. He is affected at your
and sends his blessing to you and yours. How t message,
his comfort, in his advanced years and increasing infirmities.pr
occupies most of my thoughts. It is my privilege
many sacrifices to this blessed duty; for with to make
father, should Ibe so unhapy to survive 11. my dearest
that binds me to this world."' him, will depart all

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