The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-10 00:00:00

CALIFORNIA

The Philadelphia and Crescent City have arrive<l at New
York, with two weeks later advices from California, and
above one million dollars in gold

dust, including

of ore hearing quartz weighing 193 pounds, filled with
gold. The news from the various mining districts is of
so varied and complicated a character that it is almost
impossible to arrive at correct conclusions. 'One reason
for this is the fact that upon the Sacramento and its
tributaries the operations had not fairly commenced, and
as most of the operators there were erecting dams and
digging races, they were compelled to await the fall of
water in the streams before they could successfully work
their locations. Nearly one-half of the whole mining
population, during the months of May and lune, were
engaged in surveying, while awaiting the subsiding of the
waters, and the consequence had been that many new and

Important discoveries had been made upon the head-
waters of Feather River, and between that and the head
of Sacramento River. This was the supposed locality of
the gold lake. Explorations had been made on both
aides of the coast range at the sources of the Trinity
River, and, although some rich and valuable agricultural
country had been discovered, yet the prospects for mining
in that country were poor. The whole region .of Hum-
boldt Bay, so far as it bad been explored, seemed well
adapted to agricultural purposes, and the timber is de-
scribed as the finest in the world. The accounts from the
southern mines do not appear very flattering, although
operations had been carried on steadily during the whole
winter and spring. The yield appeared to be regular,
although not so great as in the northern mines. The
Gold Lake diggings, lying at the head of Nelson's-creek,
are at such an altitude above the level of the plains that
the atmosphere is quite pure and invigorating. Gold had
been found in great abundance over a large tract aquartz
region. The richest deposits were ten feet below the sur-
face. The gold was coarse and beautiful. At this place
amen could make from ]OO dols. to 500 dols. a day with
ease, according to trustworthy accounts. At one spot in
the northern manes four men froth the State of Maine
were making an excavation in the bank when the earth
caved in and crushed them instantly. Around Nevada
City, a new town in this region, gold had been found
scattered promiscuously over the hills, mixed with the
very topsoil, where the earth was light and dusty, like
ashes. There had been some fighting with the Indians at
Trinity City, the Indians being the assailants. The In-
Zan town was thereupon captured and burned, and three
Indians were taken, tried by jury, and shot. Sacramento
city was steadily progressing and improving, not only in
business, but in size. The city had doubled in popula-
tion since last March. Some excitement was caused by
the squgtters locating on unoccupied lands around the
city, but the whole matter was coming up for legal adju-
clication before the proper courts, and would be settled in
that way peaceably and without further disturbance.
South San Francisco was rapidly becoming a place of great
resort for shipping. The ease and safety with which
many of the largest ships had discharged at that place
had made it a very desirable anchorage. It was con-
sidered the most favourable place for storage on the bay,
particularly nn account of its protection from fire. It
Lad the purest water for ships' purposes, and would ulti-
mately be a place of considerable commercial importance.
From a Sacramento paper we extract the following de-
scription of an extraordinary lump of gold, the largest, it
was said, that had ever been found in California:—
" Last evening we examined the largest lump of gold we be-
lieve ever dug in California; it is a mixture of quartz and
gold, the whole weighing 311 b. (360 ounces) troy. From the
tests made, it is ascertained the lump contains about 231 b. of
pare gold. This mammoth piece was dug from a ravine in the
dry diggings between the North and Middle Forks of the Yuba
River (the location being known as the Jem Crow diggings),
by Mr. W. H. Julius, of New York City, and Mr. G. Grives, of
New Orleans. The first of these had been a year in the dig
zings, and had not averaged over 10 dots. a day. Himself and
partner had taken possession of an old hole which had been
worked out and deserted by two negroes. Finding that they
could not work to advantage without draining the water off,
they dug a trench or canal, and as soon as the water disap-
peered commenced work. They had worked several hours,
when one of them thought he espied a piece of gold jutting out
from the earth in the canal which they had dug to carry off the
water from the rrain hole. He stooped to examine it, and,
11 nding it to be The pure metal, he drew forth his case knife,
scraped the dirt loose around it, while it continued to grow
larger and larger, until the 3111 b. lump above mentioned soiled
out at his feet. They kept the matter a prefound secret, and
started off to Marysville, where they were affered 10,000 dots.
for it, which they refused. They are exhibiting it at Milinigifit's
Sutter Hotel, at 50 cents per head. The ravine from which
this mammoth lump was taken is nothing more than a small
brook, running through a fiat; the ground rises gently on the
aides, and is covered with a rich coat of grass. It v; as found
about two feet below the surface. The young men are on their
way home, and expect to realise a fortune from exhibiting it in
the States."

The steam-ship Franklin, the first of a new line be-
tween New York and Havre, is advertised to sail from
the former port on the 16th instant.
A. line of steamers to ply between New York and Li-
-beria is projected at the former place, mainly with a view
of carrying out emancipated slaves to the colony.
Lucerne, in Switzerland, on the 23rd tilt. was visited
by a violent hurricane, which blew down a house in course
of erection as if it had been built of cards, carried away
carts, uprooted trees, &c., and killed one man.
Accounts from Maranham announce that an English
merchant, Mr. Daniel Tullock, had been murdered while
sleeping in his house, with the windows open. His body
was stabbed in several places. The murderers are Portu-
guese, who are in custody.
Accounts from Montpelier state that an extensive ma-
nufactory of gunpowder, for insurrectionary purposes, has
been discovered in that town, in consequence of an acci-
dental explosion on the premises. The proprietors have
been arrested.

An order was issued in July, by the supreme govern-
ment in India, discontinuing in the army the morning
-dram of arrack (a coarse description of brandy.) Drink-
ing in the barracks has been put an end to from the date
of this order.

The Bengal Times gives an account of another dreadful
gunpowder explosion on the Ganges, on the 9th of July.
There were nineteen boats laden with gunpDwder. One
was discovered to be on fire, when nine of the others were
cut adrift. The others exploded, but the precautions
taken prevented loss of life.

►SINGULAR SUICIDE.—The Nashua Gazette says,—
A man from Litchfield came to that town, purchased a
ooffin, took it back to Litchfield, dug a grave, put his
coffin into it, got into it himself, took laudanum, waked
up next morning, and found himself alive, and then got
up and hung himself. He left a letter, with five dollars
enclosed, to pay for filling up his grain:.
Letters from Madrid of the Ist inst. announce the cap-
ture and death of the Centralist Chief Baliardo, who for
the last three months had kept the troops of the Province
of Barcelona in movement. He was found concealed in
his mother's house, about two miles from Barcelona. It
was only atter a desperate resistance, and after killing
two of his assailants, that he was taken. He was at once
put to death.

Great quantities of rich iron ore, surpassing in quality
any before seen, have been discovered in Crawford Coun-
ty, America. So pure is it that it is thought that smelt-
ing furnaces will be unnecessary for obtaining the pure
metal, it yieldinz about 90 per cent.; and the quantity
covers at least 40 acres. An abundance of timber and
water-power is at hand, and iron-manufactories are about
to be erected.

THE POPE AND THE VIRGIN AT RIMINI.—The Pope
Ins addressed a brief to the Bishop of Rimini, empow-
ering him to offer to the image of the Virgin, celebrated
on account of the miraculous movements of its eyes, in
the name of the Pope, and with his authority, a crown of
gold, and granting plenary indulgence, applicable to souls
in purgatory, to all who shall pay their devotion before
the image, either on the day of the ceremony, or within
a fortnight after.
CHOLERA.—The following curious fact connected with
this subject is recorded in the Prussian journals :—" A.
man died in the Gips-street of cholera. His dog, proba-
bly accustomed to sleep on the bed, remained by the
body, where it was found in the morning. Soon after it
fell ill, with all the symptoms of cholera, and died; the
carcase was removed to the veterinary hospital, and there
dissected in the presence of Professors Hertwich and
Leubeuscher, who gave it as their decided opinion that
the cause of death was Asiatic cholera, thereby establish-
Ink a novel case."

AN UNLUCKY FRENG4II SMOKER.—A strange scene
was witnessed the other day on the Boulevard Mont Par-
inasse. A waggoner was employed to convey some furni-
ture from a cottage near Paris to the Faubourg Saint
Germain. On his way he drank deeply at different wine-
shops, and to get rid of the slumber which oppressed him
he lighted his pipe. That, however, made him rather
more sleepy. On reaching the Boulevard he was aroused
by cries of " Fire ! fire !" and was dragged from his seat
by the bystanders. A spark from his pipe had set fire to
the straw, and the cart and all its contents were in flames.
All attempts to check the progress of the conflagration
were vain, and soon all that remained of the vehicle were
the springs and other ironwork.

SUICIDE Or AN ENGLISHMAN IN AMERICA.—A young
Englishman, named George Nichols, who had been in
this country about three months, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head with a double-barrel-
led fowling-piece. There was found in the house after
he committed the deed the following :—" This is my last
will and testamrot. I hereby give and bequeath to my
sister, Mary Amelia Taylor, of Drifield (Yorkshire),
England, £2OO. 1 also give and bequeath to Mary
therwitch, of Grimsby (Lincolnshire), £6O, to be paid as
soon after my death as possible.—GEo. ThumLs."—
; Albany Journal, Aug. 16.
A HUSBAND'S ,LIABILITIES..--The Countess de
Landsfelt (Lola Montes) and Mr. Heald, shortly after
their arrival in Paris, ordered M. Jacquand, an artist of
some celebrity, to paint their fell-length portraits, repre-
senting the latter making ti-.e marriage present to the
lady. The priee agreed on was 10,000 f. for the painting

and 500 f. for the frame. The portrait is not _
'Acted ; but, fearful of losing his money by the sudden de-
parture of the loving couple, M. Jacquand caused Mr.
Heald to be cited before the city tribunal to recover the
amount in question. But, considering that the painting
is not finished, the tribunal gave judgment to the effect
that Jacquand should only be authorised to receive 2,00ef.
on account, and that he should give up certain articles
which had been 'remitted to him to copy in the painting.
Mr. Heald's advocate, M. Blanchette, complained that
the sum of 10,000 f. was greatly too high.
A MARRIAGE AGENCY.—The civil tribunal of Le
Mans has just condemned a person named Designs -and

his son, of Parigni l'Eveque, department of the Sarthe, to
pay 10,000 f. to M. Foy, the well-known marriage nego-
tiator, for having negotiated the marriage of the eon with
a Madlle. de Bree' niece of the Marquis de Malestroit.
M. Foy was applied to by the father and the son to'find a
wife for the latter ; Foy introduced them to Madlle. de
Bruc, who was possessed of a certain fortune, and the
son eventually married her. By an agreement duly drawn
up before the marriage, the father and son bound them-
selves to pay M. Foy 12,500 f. for his services. This, how-
ever, they on different pretexts subsequently refused to
do, and so Fay brought this action, but reduced his de-

mend to ioxior., he having consented, after some nego-
tiation, to accept that sum. After hearing counsel at
great length on both sides, the tribunal gavejudgment in
Foy's favour for the full amount claimed. It appeared in
`he course of the proceedings th' M. Foy is specially

the course of the proceedings that
licensed to act as a marriage agent.

AN 'ECCENTRIC.—On the day on which Louis Philippe
died there departed this life, in the rue Rousse:let Saint
Germain, a singular old lady. formerly an Ursuline nun,
known as sister Marie. She was born in Corsica, on the
15th of August, 1769, the same day as Napoleon, and all
her life she entertained a fervent admiration for her great
countryman. At an early age she entered a convent, but
when religious houses were broken up in 1793, she re-
rurned to the world. She became governess in a noble
family, and they allowed her a pension of 2,000 f. a-year.
On this, having no taste for a convent life, she lived, but
out of respect to her previous vows she remained strictly

alone. For between 40 and 50 years she lived in the same
apartment; and there she had collected.2oo orloo birds,
which she tended with the greatest care. The shutters
of her apartment were always kept closed and barred.
Every morning she went to attend mass in the church of
the Missions Etrangeres, and, on her return, bought her
stock of daily provisions. Sl-e was never known to make
a longer journey, except on the occasion of the funeral of
Napoleon, when, notwithstanding her advanced age, she
followed his remains on foot from Neuilly to the Invalides.
FATAL DVEL.—The Court of Assizes of the Seine-et-
Oise have tried a medical student, named Raly, for hav-
ing killed in a duel M. Berthout, a sub-medical officer of
the army. The two young men had been attached to the
military hospital at Versailles to attend the •Garden Mo-

bites and soldiers who were wounded in the insurrection
of June. One day some dispute arose between them as
to the degree of obedience which a military subordinate

his chief, and this at last ended in a violent alter-
Some insulting epithets having been applied by
3 of a quarrelsome disposition, a duel
Four young men, named Maigne, Pre-

Berthout, who was

resoled on

and Lespian, acted as seconds of the party.
The duel took place in the Bois de Satory, at Versailles.
Artillery swords were employed, but it was agreed that
the points should not be used, and that on blood being
drawn the duel should close. Tt was further agreed that
two of the seconds should stand by the side of the pktrties
and ward off any dangerous blow. Berthout acted with
furious violence in the duel, and Ralc, who had never
used a sword, employed it as a stick. The latter inflicted
a violent blow on the head and shoulder of Berthout,
which caused a large gaping wound. Berthout was taketi
to the hospital, and after some months the wound gan-
grened and he died. All the seconds were tried with Raly.
Maigne, who was at that time a law student, and subse-
quently elected a representative of the people, and who
was condemned for the affair of June, was brought up in
custody from Doellens. After hearing the evidence the
jury came to the conclusion that the duel had been fairly
conducted, and that the faults were on the side of the
deceased. It accordingly acquitted all the accused.

vel, Chenu,

HORRIBLE TRAGEDY AT TROY.—The American papers
contain accounts of an awful event which had occurred
on the 21st ult., at the St. Charles Hotel, Troy. A re-
spectable-looking man and woman, about 30 years old,
stopped at the hotel, as travellers. Next morning they
did not make their appearance, and about ten o'clock the
landlord, who thought the silence which reigned in their
bedroom strange, went to the door and knocked. No
answer being returned, he opened a small window over
the doer, when a horrid spectacle was presented. Both
man and woman were dead. The bodies, the clothes, and
the bed were covered with blood, 2nelithe throats of both
were cut, that a the man being horribly mutilated. An
eye-witness thus describes the sight :—The scene pre-
sented in the bedroom was one we shall not attempt to
describe. A more ghastly and horrible spectacle the
mind cannot conceive. Both were in their ordinary
night-clothes. The woman was in the front part of the
bed, her head resting on the arm, and partially on the
bosom, of her companion. The gash in the throat was
not deep, and the blood had dropped beneath, so that
little was on her person. Her countenance was pallid,
and marked by a serenity amounting almost to a smile.
She bad evidently moved only very slightly after the cut
was made, and then in the struggles of death. She was
of the middle size in height, hardly ordinarily robust, and
apparently aged about thirty years. By her side on the
right lay Caldwell, the most horrid object that the eyes
ever beheld. He was tall, muscular, well-formed, large
head, features strongly marked, and the lower part of his
face covered with heavy whiskers. The gash in his throat
had severed and laid bare his windpipe, and he had bled
most profusely. His face, hands, and breast were covered
with blood, and his hair and whiskers were clotted toge-
ther with it. Judging from the position of his limbs, his
contortions must have been long and severe. By his
right side was found a razor, covered with blood, and also
the case. From letters and papers found in the room it
appears that the man was Wm. Caldwell, of Whitehall,
where he has a father hying in respectable circumstances.
The woman was the wife of a Mr. Van Winkle, of Wil-
liarnsbury, from whom she eloped with Caldwell. The
letters showed that the parties had committed premedi-
tated and deliberate suicide, having evidently lard them-
selves on the bed and cut their throats.
JOHANNAS STAUFF, THEMURDERER OF THE COUNTESS
GORRLITZ.—It will be remembered that this unhappy
man, who was condemned to imprisonment for life for
the murder of the Countess Goerlitz in June last, at that
time protested against the sentence and declared his in-
nocence. The affected strain which he assumed when
first it confinement, gradually, however, gave way ; he
became spiritless and dejected, and finally, overcome by
the harassing accusations of his conscience, he was con-
strained to discharge his burdened mind, and declare his
guilt. He has made a full and detailed confession of the
barbarities attendant on the murder of his noble mistress.
The act was not premeditled : he entered her apartment
—saw her writing-table standing open—knew that it con-
tained her jewellery forced the drawers seized the
bracelets, brooches, and pearls, and was putting them
into his pocket when the countess suddenly entered. She'
hurried up to him, end, fearing lest she could call for
help, he rushed upon her and seized her by the throat.
She struggled violently, and he was once even obliged to
let go his hold ; but he again forcibly pressed his hands
upon her throat, and in less than ten minutes she closed
her eyes, her hands fell powerless, and her countenance
assumed a livid hue. He saw that she was dead. He let
the body fall—rushed out of the room—locked the door
both 6f that room and the outer apartment, and hurried
to a public-house, where he drank off a quantity of wine.
lie then returned to the castle. The count came home
to dinner at half-past six, and, after dressing, went to
call the countess. Not receiving an answer, he concluded
that she was not at home. While waiting at table, Stauff
resolved that every trace of his crime should be oblitera-
ted. As soon as the count was gone, at about eight
o'clock, Stauff returned to the countess's apartments.
He found the body still warm and the limbs pliant. He
placed her in her chair at the writing-table, her elbow
resting upon the open desk, and supporting her head, her
whole body being bent over the desk, as if she were
asleep ; he then placed shavings, paper, &c., upon the
desk and table, and set fire to them close before her face ;
next he set fire to a divan at the other end of the room,
locked the doors of both the inner and outer apartments,
and threw away the keys. He then went to his own
room, when he lighted a fire, in the middle of which he
placed the casket containing the jewels—but he could not
get the fire to burn. Stauff deeply lamented all the un-
just and injurious hints which he had thrown out relative
to the count, and which at one time made him to be sus-
pected of being the murderer of his own wife. Stauff said
he denied his guilt in the first instance. in the hope that
the sentence of not guilty would be passed ; but that the
anguish of his soul was intolerable; 10,000 lives would he
give, if he had them, that that deed of horror might be
undone.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
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A few days ago, an application was made in Chambers
to Chief Justice Jervis for the release of a number of
parties who were confined for debt in White-cross prison
for sums varying from £2O to £25, on the ground that
they were entitled to their discharge under the New
County. Court Act, which it was argued was to be con-
strued in connection with a previous act by which persons
in custody under £2O had been liberated. The chief
justice refused the application, knowing that it was the
intention of the legislature that the act should not dis-
charge persons then in prison, but should only apply to
subsequent cases.
Sir John
(the Chief Justice of Common Pleas),
is the sho Jervis,tinteral between the Coventry and Warwick
assizes, paid a visit to Parr and Wisden's Cricket-ground,
Leamington, and sought relief from his arduous judicial
duties by engaging in the noble game of cricket.
In the Lincoln County Court a Miss Lawson, a pawn-
broker, has obtained a verdict against a general broker,
named Pickering, for £l3 worth of jewellery, &c., and
£6 lent money. The parties were lovers, but the con-
nexion had been broken off, and the broker had sold the
articles he obtained from his sweetheart.

IRELAND.

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The Tablet states that the Romish synod at Thurles
has passed a resolution, by a majority of one, in condem-
nation of the Queen's Colleges in Ireland.
Not one clergyman of the Established Church of Ire-
land has taken part in the " tenant right" sedition ; the
incendiary movers of that sedition have been the Roma-
nist priesthood generally, and a few, though a very few,
Presbyterian ministers.
A HINT FOR HAywAn.—The Nation .cockles over
the account of the outrageous assault committed upon
Marshal Haynau the other day, and asks, " Will he come
to Ireland ? ' Our contemporary adds, "By the sword
of Kossuth if he do —1"

THE CORN PLUNDERERS,—The corn-lifters are at their
old trade in North Tipperary. On Sweday last about.lBo
reapers, and as many tnore binders and helpers, proceeded
cm masse to some lands near Nenagh, and cut down 14
acres of wheat, which they carried off in triumph, having
at their disposal a large number of horses and cars.
The Very Rev. Holt Waring, dean of Dromoce, and
rector of Shankhill, died on Tuesday, at Waringstown, in
the 85th year of his age. Dean 'Waring was long distin-
guished for his 'public and private virtues, his loyalty, and
ability for attaching the people to the cause of law and
order.
At a meet

gig of the Repeal Association, on Monday, at
which the week's collection of rent amounted to £B, Mr.
John O'Connell announced that unless within four weeks
some arrangements could be made to meet the responsi-
";ty of -- tf f-^ Conciliation Hall, be could not,

rent and taxes tor
In justice to himself and his family, continue to incur the
expense of keeping it open.
Such is the desire in Ireland for emigration that the
John Francis, Captain Deaves, which left Cork on Tues-
day for Quebec, with emigrants, had to decline passages
for no fewer than 100 persons desirous to go to that
country. These disappointed parties, not being accom-
modated, left by steamer for Liverpool. The Garland,
Garde, from Dublin, has arrived to take out emigrants to
New York.
A te-

ant-right demonstration, accompanied by boat
races, dances, and other jollifications, has taken place at
the residence of Mr. Ouseley Higgins, the new member
for Mayo. A Popish priest, a .Mr. Egan, addressed the
assembly in the Irish vernacular, calling upon them to
enrol themselves as members of the League, with a pay-
ment ,of one shilling a head, which was assented to by
acclamation; the money to he collected on the following
Sunday at the various chapels
THE QUJ
the Irish ar

HEAVEN.—We must not wonder that
ndifferent subjects of Queen Victoria, when,
in their maryolatry, they have made their Virgin Mary
the " Queen of Heaven." There was a time when the
national feelings might not thus have been outraged with
impunity ; but, now-a-days, the Queen's bayonets may
form a guard for the worship of the Indian Juggernaut,
1 and protect almost equal idolatries at home ; but Lord
Lansdowne telly us that even the constables must not pro-
tect the Irish Protestants in freedom of opinion, in con-
tending for the purity of their faith

Mr. Henry Baldwin, law-adviser to the Irish court,
has'been appointed Commissioner of the Insolvent Court,
with .a salary of £2,500 per annum. Mr. M. Staunton,
proprietor of the lublin Weekly Register newspaper. a
favourite organ of O'Connell's, has carried off the prize
of collector-general of taxes, for which a host of patriots
have been some time contending. The salary £BOO a-
year

We need hardly observe that Messrs. Baldwin and
Staunton are members of the favoured creed. The va-
cant Irish stipendiary magistrate's office has been con.
ferred on Mr. Gibson, who for some years was the Whig
representative for Belfast.

EPISCOPAL CONDESCENSION.—The Bishop of Down
has been edifying the Church with a lengthy charge. His

lordship, in alluding to the educationi- qiiestimi, spoke
plausibly in favour of that toleration, of which he shewed
a rather equivocal example last year, when he forbade Dr.

O'Sullivan to preach at Belfast, on behalf of the Church
Education Society. " I feel it my duty (says he) to re-
mind all of the obligation they are under, as Christians, of
extending to others the same liberty of conscience which
hey claim and exercise for themselves. * *
I concede to those who differ from me the exercise of their
private judgment in approving of any other society." Of
a verity, it is easier to preach than to practise.
DISCOVERIES OF BUTTER IN BOGS.—Last week
small farmer, named James Young, residing in the parish
of Bellaghy, near Belfast, on the estate of John lll`Neile,
Esq. of Parkmount, dug up out of a bog in which he was
working a keg of butter in a state of remarkable preserva-
tion. The wood composing the keg itself was completely
rotten, whilst the butter—about 601bs.—was, in taste,
colour, and general appearance, as though it had not been
secreted more than a month. Those in the neighbourhood
who had seen the firkin entertain the belief that it was
hidden during the " troublesome times of '98." A few
days previously a firkin was found in Fenagh Bog, about
four miles from Ballymena, on the estate of the Earl of
Mountcashell. The possessor of it discovered it a few
inches under the surface of a section of the bog which had

been under cutting for several years. In this case the
butter was quite greyish in appearance, and fusty in taste
and smell.

ROMAN CATHOLICS IN THE NAVY.—The Anglo-Celt,
a Cavan journal, contains the following curious statement :
—" One of our Liberal members of parliament (a Roman
Catholic) lately procured his son to be nominated to a
midshipman's berth in the navy. Having heard that it
was a regulation of the ship that all hands should attend
Divine Service each Sunday, the father wrote to Dr. Cul-
len, asking permission for the son to do so, as a mere
matter of form. The Roman Catholic primate returned a
long answer, in which he is said to have stated, ' That if
such acts were mere matters of form, our ancestors must
have been arrant fools to have acted as they did during the
operations of the Penal Laws,' and giving an opinion that
such an act could not be conscientiously done. The letter
was brought to the Admiralty, who, after some days de-
lay, returned an answer to the effect, ' That the regula-
tion in question was a mere bye-law, introduced by some
over-zealous persons, but did not form any part of the ge-
neral regulations of the service, and of course might be
dispensed with, and should be so in the present instance.' "

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS,

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The Rev. Chas. Hesketh, M.A., rector of North Meols,
the patron, has nominated the Rev. Henry Powell to the
perpetual curacy of Bispham, near Preston vacant by the
resignation of the Rev. Bennett Williams, M.A.
Mr. Gorham is expected to perform the ceremony of
reading himself into the vicarage of Bampford Speke on
Sunday. The rev. gentleman will also preach on the
occasion.

THE BISHOP OF ST. ASAPII ON THE GORHAM
CASE.—In reply to an address presented to the Bishop of
St. Asaph, signed by Lord Dungannon, Earl Powis, and
other laymen of his diocese, in reference to the Gorham
case, his Lordship, while acknowledging that "such quiet
expressions of opinion as the address contained proving
the deep interest taken by the lay members of the church
in the purity of her doctrine, are calculated to preserve
her unity and to strengthen the hands of her ministers,"
urges " that there is, at the present moment, a danger
arising from a breach of charity among sincere members
of our church, who probably differ more in words than
ideas on the subject of baptism."
THE lINIVERSIVY COMMISSIONS.—AII doubt has been
set at rest as to the composition of the two sets of royal
commissioners for inquiring into the state, discipline,
studies, and revenues of the two national seats of learning
at Oxford and Cambridge. The official announcement
of whom the Queen has appointed to be her Majesty's
Oommissioxiers for the important purposes enumerated
appeared in the London Gazette of Tuesday last. Those
for Oxford University, seven in number, are the Bishop
of Norwich ; the Very Rev. Archibald Campbell Tait,
D.C.L., Dean of Carlisle; the Rev. Fras. Jeune, D.C.L.,
Master of Pembroke College, Oxford ; the Rev. Geo. H.
Liddell, M.A.' Head Master of ISt. Peter's College,
Westminster ; John Lucius Dampier, Esq., M.A., Vice-
Warden of the Stannaries of Cornwall ; the Rev. Baden
Powell, M.A., Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford ;
and the Rev. George Henry Sacheverell Johnson, M.A.,
of Queen's College, Oxford. For Cambridge only five
have been appointed. They are the Bishop of Chester ;
the Very Rev. G. Peacock, D.D., Dean of Ely ; Sir J.
F. W. Herschel!, Bart. ; Sir J. Romilly, Fel. Majesty's
Attorney-General; and the Rev. A. Sedgwick, M.A.,
Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge.
THE NATIONAL EDUCATION DECLARATION.—The
Declaration in favour of the minutes of the Privy Council
continues to receive large accessions of names of the most
influential clergy and laity of the Church. In addition to
the names given in a lath number, and which includes
those of a considerable number of the cathedral clergy and
masters of our great public schools, &c., we observe in
the new list, just issued, Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P.;
Sir T. Blomefield, Bart.; Sir W. Russell, Bart. • the
Deans of Carlisle and Ripon ; Sir C. L. Leighton, Bart. ;
the Hon. and Rev. Leland Noel; the Rev. Chancellor
Williams; Canons Cotterill, Garbett, Hastings, Vaughan.
Jones, Sandford, Phillips, and Powell; Prebendaries Venn,
Clark, Lee, and Kennedy ; the Principals of the Church
Missionary Institution at Islington, of the Central Church
of England Training Schools at Cheltenham, and of the
Liverpool Collegiate Institution ; the Head Masters of
Shrewsbury, Beccles, Giggieswiek Chesterfield, Birming-
ham, Bury, Leeds, Christ's Hospital, Ipswich, Horn-
castle, Mansgeld, Congleton, and other schools ; the Rev.
Robert Eden, Examining Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of
Norwich; the Rev. J. Brooks; the Rev. J. Peill, Tutor
Queen's College, Cambridge; Trench, of Reading, Jer-
ram Jowett, &c.—Church and State Gazette.
UNION AGAINST TRACTARIANISM.—The Rev. Daniel
Wilson, vicar of Islington, London, has published a
pamphlet, in which he proposes a union of the party
attached to the genuine sentiments of the Church of
England. The following is an extract :
" There is a general concurrence of opinion as to the neces.
sity of an union in the Church against Tractarian aggression ;
and the main questions are as to the best way, and the most
appropriate time to accomplish the important object.
1. In relation to the time, some delay must needs occur
from nearly every one being at present out of London.
" 2. As to the mode of proceeding at the right time, we are
persuaded that the basis of the union should be stated with the
utmost simplicity and brevity. We all know our objects, but
to define them with accuracy were dangerous to unity, not to
say impossible. Our security is not in definitions, which a
dishonest mind will wind to its own purposes, but in the aggre-
gate character of the mass of men who unite in vindication of
the faith.

" 3. The scheme long contemplated has been that of the
formation of a central Committee in London, composed of
fifty individuals, one half clergymen and one half laymen, and
the formation of similar committees throughout the country
corresponding with this central body. Such a machinery is
abundantly simple, and would be available for all practical
purposes, and will, we trust, be wisely put together, as soon as
the return to town of those of whom it is to be composed will
permit."

RUMOURED SECESSION OF LORD LYTTLETON'.—Lord
Lyttleton, in reference to whose intended secession from
the Church of England rumours have been rife during the
last few days, has explained his views in reference to the
course Lord Fielding and others have adopted in conse-
quence,of the position in which members of the Church
have been ,placed hy:the recent decision of the Judicial

THE I,ll,lRpon STANDARD.