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LAN gu utw winunuee to consuier tne resolution to s
the act of 1844, the house divided—For Mr. Herries
motion, 122 ; against it, 163 ; majority against the mo-
tion, 41.

HOUS OF LORDS.
The bill for opening diplomatic relations with Rome
passed through committee.
In the course of the debate the amendment of the Duke
of Wellington, substituting the title " Sovereign of the
Roman States " for that of " Sovereign Pontiff," was
adopted by Lord Lansdowne, and agreed to.
A smart discussion then arose on theamendment pro-
posed by the Earl of Eglintoun, prohibiting the reception
if any ecclesiastic as the accredited minister of the Pope

-FRIDAY

in this countr

The Marquis of T.A.NSDOWNE thought that the right to
refuse any minister who blight be distant:4M tome crown,
ought to be left in the case of the Pope, as in that of any
other foreign sovereign, to her Majesty and the govern-
ment.

The Earl of ABERDEEN said that the amendment could
not be rejected without incurring the danger of grave con-

Vuncio in this cOuntr

Lord STANLEY deemed it highfy important that the
amendment should be carried. While he had no objec-
tion to seeing England properly represented at Rome, he
could never sanction the transplanting of the Vatican to
London.

The result of the division which took place was unfa-
vourable to her Majesty's ministers, the numbers being 67
for the clause, and 64 against it. This amendment would,
in all probability, be considered destructive of the princi-
ple of the bill as limiting the right of the Crown to the
reception of a certain class of ambassadors, but that the
government have in their own hands the power of revers-
ing the decision of their lordships on the bringing up of
the report, by the employment of the proxies with which
they are entrusted—proxies not counting in divisions in
committee. •

Subsequently the Duke of WELLINGTON proposed an
amendment declaratory of the competence of the Crown
to establish diplomatic relations with the Court of Rome,
notwithstanding the ancient laws of this realm, which was
adopted by the government, and incorporated with the
preamble of the bill.
Lord REDESDALE then moved a clause to the effect that
before any diplomatic relations are enured into with the
Court of Rome by this country, the Pope should renounce
all pretensions to temporal power in the dominions of her
Majesty, which was opposed by
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, on the ground that such
claims alluded to by the noble lord meant nothing, and
were therefore unworthy of serious notice.
Lord STANLEY, however, considered that such a renun-
ciation ought to be made by the Roman Sovereign ; but,
at the same time, he was of opinion that the point was
not of such importance as to necessitate a division upon
it.

The clause was then withdrawn,%nd the bill, having
passed through committee, was ordered to be reported on
Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

Lord Jomq RUSSELL made his financial statement for
the year.
He said he felt that he could very inadequately
lay before them the outline of the financial policy of the
g9vernrnent, and he therefore intended to leave to a future
discussion the greater portion of the arguments in support
of that policy. The noble lord then alluded to the recent
difficulties through which the country had passed, stated
the enormous transitions which had taken place in the
value of commodities and in the rate of discounts within
the last 18 months, and also drew attention to the amount
of bullion in the bank at the periods corresponding with
each transition, in order to show the severity of the Tires-

not expedient for them to separate. The reasons were
set down at large, and they stand equally good at this
day.—Wesley's Sermons

vF THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER.—The
negociations for Sedgeley have been broken off, it is
stated, on the ground that the price was higher than the
ecclesiastical commissioners were disposed to give. Since
then two other mansions in the neighbourhood had been
named as suitable. One of these is Rusholm House, the
property and late the residence of Mr. W. Entwistle.
The other is Hough's-end Hall, near Moss-side, the pro-
perty of Mr. Wilbraham Egerton.
The letter of the Rev. Mr. Rowlandson, of Kington,
sets at rest the doubts which have been thrown on the
position taken by the late Archbishop of Canterbury re-
lative to the Bishop of Hereford. Mr, Rowlandson, it
tiara time of the tuathishop's
addressing a most kind letter to the Bishop of Hereford,
expressing a wish to officiate personally at his consecra-
-a most graceful act : it must have been all but the

last letter penned by the lamented primate.
An antique pulpit of remarkable elegance and beauty
has been discovered in the Church of All Saints, Sudbury.

It is Gothic—an octagon of the perpendicular style, beau-
tifully proportioned, richly carved in the higher parts of
the,panels, and terminating in a single pedestal, which is
now very correctly made to rest upon an octagon stone
plinth. The latest date which can be assigned to it is the
early part of Henry Vll's reign—the date of the church,
if we except the northern arch, which is as old as the
reign of Edward IV. The oak is as sound as on the day
on which it was constructed.
The Stipend of the Bishop of Manchester is the sub-
ject of an order in council, published in Tuesday's
Gazette. It directs the ecclesiastical commissioners to
pay £4,200 a-year to the Bishop out of the funds of the
commission ; and in the event of such funds being in-
sufficient, it directs the payment by the Archbishop of
Canterbury and the Bishop of London of £l,OOO each
per annum, and by the Bishop of Durham of a sum not
exceeding £5OO per annum ; the money so contributed
from the rich sees to go in aid of the fund of the com-
mission for the endowment of the new See of Manehester2

In 1847 the diocese of Chester contained 2,435,644 in-
habitants. Of these, 1,390,287 are now assigned to the
bishopric of Manchester, 117,022 are hereafter to be added
to. Carlisle, and 928,335 still remain to Chestei. 'Of the
seven hundred and seventy-seven benefices which it then
contained, 320 form the diocese of Manchester, one hun-
dred and twenty-one are to go to Carlisle, and Chester
will retain ' three hundred and thirty-six. The total
church aecommodation is 535,166 sittings, viz. : for Man-
chester, 257,794 ; for addition to Carlisle, 54,211; and for
Chester, 233,161 ; fully one-half of which is free to the
poor. The number of Parochial Clergy is one thousand
and thirty-three, of which four hundred and forty-two are
in the diocese _of Chester, four hundred and fifty-three in
that of Manchester, and one hundred and thirty-eight
will belong to Carlisle.
THE TITHE REDEMPTION TRUST.—On Wednesday, a
meeting of the members of this society was held at their
office, in Abingdon-street, Westminster. Lord John
Manners presided. There were also present Lord Robert
Grosvenor, M.P., the Rev. Dr. Spranger, the Rev. Messrs.
J. T. Russell, Swan, Denne, Mallet, &c. Mr. G. H.
Drew, and other supporters, of the society. The secre-
tary stated, that he had sent copies of the prospectus to
the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and to all the
bishops, most of whom concurred in their views. He had
received communications from a great number of persons,
some of whom were willing to give up the tithes they held
as lay impropriators fora fair consideration. Several new
subscribers had been added to their list since the last
meeting, and many applications had been made for advice
how to act where there were chances for getting tithes
restored. He then read a long list of suggestions"which
he had received for carrying out the object they supported.
. .

,uowja, cu Mai Loa cl nobt. al Ub YUMA.,
Lord J. Manners, the Rev. Mr. Mallet, Mr. Dingwell,
and the Rev. Mr. Scott took part ; after which a committee
was appointed, and the meeting adjourned.
TIIENEWARCIIBISIIOP OF CANTERBURY.—The Bishop
of Chester has been'nominated to the Primacy ; his lord-
ship has accepted the high office ; but, we believe, the
appointment will not be officially announced for pro-
bably a day or two. It is the rare felicity of
of Dr. Sumner to attain to the highest eminence, in the
Church—to the post of greatest dignity and highest in-
fluence—with the concurrence and approbation of the
first statesmen on both sides of politics. Our readers
cannot have forgotten the spontaneous testimony rendered
to his lordship by Sir Robert Peel, in the,House of Corn-
mons, when speaking as the Prime Minister of this coun-
try, and as the head of the then united and all-powerful
Conservative body. The Premier had occasion to allude
with commendation to other living Prelates; but singling
out the Bishop of Chester from all others, he spoke of
his personal character and apostolic labours in terms of
as high admiration as it is possible for one man to use in
speaking of another. It is this individual whom our
gracious Queen, under the advice of the leader of the
other great section of politicians, has selected to fill the
highest office in the Church, in times of unusual embar-
rassment and danger. Dr. Sumner was appointed Bishop
of Chester in 1828. He is in his 68th year, and the
income of his bishopric, until within the last two or three
years, when it was raised to £4,500, was only £1,500.
The annual revenue of the Archbishopric of Canterbury
is £15,000, with the patronage of 149 livings. The
Bishop of Chester has consecrated, we believe, very
nearly two hundred new churches in the twenty years of
his episcopacy; and a great number of these owe their
erection to his own zealous exertions. And yet this la-
borious prelate has found time to produce, not merely
some volumes, or many of moderate merit ; he is the most
copious and useful writer that the English prelacy has
seen during the last century. His " Apostalical Preach-
ing Considered " is in the eighth edition ; his " Evidences
of Christianity " in the sixth ; his Prize Essay on the
Creation, in two vols. octavo, in the fifth ; his " Sermons
on the Christian Faith. and Character," in the eighth.
His writings form fourteen octavo volumes, and all of
them have been frequently reprinted. 'We repe4, there-
fore, that the premier has had a fine opportunity of dis-
charging a great duty to the church ; and he has promptly
and wisely availed himself of it. The Tractarians, how.
ever, will probably be of a different opinion ; for no mein-
ber of the episcopal bench has so firmly or constantly
withstood their efforts, as has the new Archbishop of
Canterbury.