The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

`REVOLT IN MOLDAVlA.—Official intelligence receive
un Paris states, that Moldavia was in full revolt, and that
Wallachia was about to follow in the same course. _

A decree of the Queen of Spain orders the construction
'of six steamers of 350-horse power. Three are to be built
in England. and three in the Peninsula.
The Gardeners' Chronicle describes the Paris tree of
liberty as a miserable Italian poplar, rootless and sapless
when planted, dead in a summer, and then but a rotten
stick with a red cap—a fit emblem of the false liberty it
represents. .
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As soon as the Queen of Spain was informed that her
husband bad been thrown from hig horse, and had dislo-
cated his shoulder, she expressed a wish to mount the
same steed, and on that very evening she rode it in the
prado.
Napoleon Buonaparte, son of the former King of
Westphalia, has arrived at Ajaccio, in Corsica. He was
received with loud acclamations by the population and
the authorities, who escorted him in triumph to his pa-
ternal home.

MISS HIITCHINSON.--" Abby," the modest and fa-
vourite little sister of the Hutchinsons, we see it stated
in a Massachusetts paper, is about to secede from the
vocal circle, and be no more heard by her admirers all
over the land. She is to marry, on dit, a son of a cler-
gyman of New York.
The Launceston paper, dated the 18th of December,
states that Zephaniah Williams, who was transported for
life with Frost and Jones, for participating in the chartist
riots at Newport, a few years since, has been sentenced
to one year's hard work in chains, to the settlement at
Port Arthur, for attempting to escape with another con-
vict from the colony.
PosEN.—The Aigemeine Prussiche Zeitung publishes
the most shocking accounts of the cruelties which were
perpetrated by the Polish insurgents, at Trzemersno, on
the 10th inst. They shot every one who seemed to sym-
pathise with the Prussian military, impriioned a number
of Germans and Jews (men and women), and kept them
for three days without giving them any food. At Wreshen.
they slit open the stomachs and cut off the breasts of young
women.

ROBBERY AND MURDER IN SMYRNA.—A caravan of
twelve persons, carrying 60,000 piastres, coming from
Bergame to Smyrna, was stopped by eight armed men,
about ten leagues from Smyrna. The robbers fired upon
the caravan, killed two and wounded two others. -They
plundered it of all the money and got clear off. An
armed party was sent after them from Smyrna. with what
success is yet unknown. Another party has since been
plundered near' Koulah by the Zey-Jecks, who robbed
them of nearly two hundred thousand piastres, but did
not ill treat them. Trade of all kind is completely at a
stand.

The widow of Belzoni, the traveller, an aged English-
woman, is stated by the Observer to be living at No. 2.
Glacis de Waterloo hors de la Porte Louise, Brussels, in
a state of destitution so great that during the whole of the
past inclement winter (in Belgium), she had not the
means once to procure herself a meal of animal food, and
could scarcely obtain sufficient to sustain life upon the
cheapest vegetable diet. Some time since Sir R. Peel,
when in power, allowed her a pension of £lOO a-year for
three years, which she piously, though perhaps not wisely,
devoted to the republication of her beloved husband'3
work ; but that source has long since ceased, and year
after year she has been sinking deeper and deeper into
distress and despair.

POPERY UNCHANGEABLE.—HOW the Apostles would
stare at some of the employments of the man who calls
himself the Vicar of their Master !—how their souls would
be afflicted if they saw him moving in the mummery of a
procession in honour of the recovery of a stolen skull!
The following is from the Roman correspondent of the
Daily News :—" I told you about the robbery of the
head of St. Andrew. On its recovery it was resolved to
restore it to its old resting-place with great solemnity.
Accordingly on the sth, this week, feast of St. Vincent,
Ithe Pope walked the whole way from St. Andrea della
Valle's church to St. Peter's, following the venerable
object, accompanied by a gorgeous procession. The cu-
pola of Michel Angelo was illuminated in the evening."
INSURRECTION AT FRIBURG IN BADEN.—The town of
Friburg has been the scene of great riot and tumult.
Under pretext of holding a public meeting, about 2000
peasants, mixed up with the lowest rabble, came to Fri-
burg on Saturday, the 22nd ult. They were all armed,
partly with guns, lances, scythes, bludgeons, &c. After the
meeting was over, which passed some resolutions of a re-
publican and communistical tendency, the whole mass
constituted itself into a regular little army ; the leaders
were chosen, an attack upon the Yates of the town was
suddenly made, and the town taken possession of by the
insurgents. Troops were sent for, and after a bombard-
ment of more than seven hours, the town was retaken by
storm. A great many of the insurgents were made
prisoners, but the majority have taken flight. Martial
lam has been published in various parts of the duchy.
Symptoms of mutiny have appeared among the troops.
An artilleryman who had deserted was brought to Canis-
rube on Monday, in order to be shot, when another artil-
leryman suddenly drew a large 'knife against an officer;
but the latter killed him on the spot with his sword,
THE WEST INDIAN COLONIES.—The fate of the colo-
nies is sealed. Theory has triumphed over experience,
and facts have given way to falsehood. A more dishonest,
a more heartless course was never descended to by minis-
ter than that which has been pursued by the present go-
vernment in dealing with the West Indian colonies. And
mind what ministers now say. They will not admit that
our present ruin is attributable to free trade; but they
are pleased to ascribe it to the bungling properties of the
act of 1833. Who passed that act ) Are we responsible
for its errors ? So far as the unhappy victim is concerned,
it is immaterial whether the Act of Emancipation or the
Free-Trade Slave-Encouragement Bill of 1846 has been
our ruin. But there is a bound to loyalty as to every
other passion. Self-preservation is a powerful stimulant.
The colonists dwell too near a prosperous continent not,
to feel the disparaging contrast between wealth under
one government, and beggary and ruin under another.
Ministers may persist in their ruinous course—they may
still doom our property to sacrifice, and still withhold
the fair remuneration that is due to us for its confiscation,
but they cannot hold us to our duties as British subjects
when every right of a British subject is denied us.—
Jamaica Dispatch.

COURT AND FASHION.
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The Court still remains at-tbe Isle of Wight.
Sir Robert Peel arrived at Osborne on Thursday, and
had the honour of joining the royal circle at dinner.
On Wednesday the Duchess of Kent returned to town,
from the visit which she had been paying the Queen.
The Queen Dowager arrived at Portsmouth on Thurs-
day, from Madeira, in her Majesty's ship Howe.
Prince Albert left Osborne on Thursday, and proceeded
in the Fairy steam yacht to pay a visit to the Queen Dow-
ager on board the Howe. His Royal Highness afterwards
returned to Osborne.

Viscount Hardinge arrived on a visit to the Duke of
Wellington on Monday, at Strathfieldsaye, Hunts, from
South Park, near Penhurst.
We are authorised to announce that many ladies of rank
and fashion have resolved, during the present season of
distress, to confine their purchases exclusively to articles
of British manufacture. We have reason to believe that
the determination has been made with the sanction and
approval of her gracious Majesty, and that a formal an-
nouncement of the fact will shortly be made. In the
meanwhile, we would strongly advise the tradesmen of the
metropolis and elsewhere not to increase for the present
their stock of foreign goods.—John Bull. [ The Lord
Chamberlain has issued an order stating that " her Ma-
jesty, ever desirous of giving encouragement to the arts
and industry of the united kingdom, and particularly so at
this time of commercial depression, would wish to see the
ladies attending the drawing-rooms in dresses of British
manufacture."]

FASHIONS FOR MAY.

(From the " Londonand Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.")

Very elegant materials are in use for evening dress,
brocarts with large patterns in orange colour, having by
candlelight the effect of gold ; others are of black grounds,
with wreaths of roses or mixed flowers of showy colours,
ondes satins and gauzes sprigged in stars of gold, or silk
reps, broches, &c. Sky blue and violet are the prevailing
colours ; pale blue for young ladies, and deep violet for
the more advanced, which latter colour is also much used
for high dresses ane for tnantelets and pelerines, harmo-
nizing in colour with the dress for these toilettes ; black
lace is well suited ; foulards and bareges again constitute
the most elegant negliges ; we have also toiles de laine
glaces and embroidered, new popelines and checked taffe-
tas ' • the last are in small checks in which white prevails,
and are adapted for young ladies. Many of the spring re-
dingotes are ornamented with buttons, others with biais,
edged with fringe or deep flounces festonnes, pinked or
simply hemmed ; corsages less high will be fashionable,
but will still have to contend with the Puritan form ;
two styles of low bodies are spoken ; those a la Grecque,
with guimpe and tassels, are open, showing the chemi-
sette ; corsages made of lace are spoken of; there is no
particular change in the sleeves ; for dinner dresses the
trimmings are mostly en tablier. In ball dresses the dou-
ble and treble skirt are always worn.

The mantilles, mantelets, demi-pelisses, little paletots,
are all made this season of plain or glace taffetas. the
trimmings generally of frills, pinked in two or three rows
at the back, two of which terminate at the arm, falling as
a sleeve on the hand ; the third is continued round the
ends, which are either round or pointed. The newest
style is the mantillon, and is small in form, resembling
the mantelet in shape without the ends ; the pardessus
Milanais is of taffetas d'ltalie glace' with triple border of
lace. The new bonnets are round in form, and jockey
crowns continue in favour. Some bonnets are of a more
open form, and these require more ornament inside. Some
are made entirely of ribbon, others of mohair and straw,
and of gimp and straw ; but the Parisian ladies always
give the preference to Leghorn!, for which they reserve
their ostrich, marabout, and heron feathers. A new tissu
de paille is made in bands, which, sewed together, forms a
pretty bonnet de fantaisie. The capote castellane of pink
satin, covered with black lace, forming fichu on the crown,
and voilette at the edge, ornamented inside with roses, is
very generally admired. Fancy straws are ornamented by
wild flowers, foliage, bunches of the peach and apricot
blossom, &c. Various simple and pretty caps ire made
for neglige, all of a round form, and many owe much of
their beauty to a new kind of foliage ribbon, which forms
so pretty a trimming. The fauchon is also admired,
richly embroidered and trimmed with Valenciennes or
Mechlin lace.
Small blond caps with flowers, and dress hats with fea-
thers, are reserved for evening wear ; nceuds of velours
epingle are worn in the hair, and many pretty coiffures
are made of bugles in every colour. Bracelets are univer-
sally in favour, large or small, rich or simple, in every va-
riety of material, one or more at pleasure. The Chate-
laine suspended from the waist also varies in value. The
gloves continue short, ornamented at the top by ribbon
torsades. Beads or narrow blond forming ruches.

IRELAND.
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TRAINING TO Atums.--At Cork, Youghal, &c., a num-
ber of parties have been committed for trial on charges of
training to the use of arms.
Mr. Hodges, the government reporter, has been de-
spatched on an official mission to the south of Ireland,
with a view of furnishing a faithful record of the sayings
and doings at the " demonstrations of sympathy" which
are to come off in that quarter during the present week.
MILITARY Pr; EcArrioNs.—Theitiorning Herald states
that 15,000 stands of arms, with accoutrements and am-
munition, have been forwarded from the ordnance store-
houses to different barracks throughout Ireland, for the
purpose of arming the loyal inhabitants in case of need.
In the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday,
the Attorney-General entered a nolle prosequi in the
cases of Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Meagher, and filed ex-
officio informations instead. These traversers, as well as
Mr. Mitchel, moved to appear by attorney, but the ap-
plication was refused.

ODD TASTE.—At the Antrim Farmers' Society, Lord
Massarene, after commenting upon the destruction of
home manufactures, and abusing England, said, " For my
part, I would rather stand my chance to be shot at once
a week in Ireland, than live among the cold-hearted
people of England."
THE BUCKINGHAM ESTATES.—The property in the
county of Clare was put up for auction on Wednesday, in
separate lots, but not sold. After the auction, the entire
property, containing over 7,870 acres, was sold by private
contract, at a fair rate of purchase, to one gentleman.
The Queen's County estates were sold on Thursday
EXECUTIONS.—On Saturday week, John and Michael
Connolly were hanged in front of Nenagh goal, for the
murder of Dillon.—The two men, Shea and Browne. con-
victed at Kilkenny assizes for having aided and assisted
Larkin and Daniel, who since suffered death for the mur-
der of Mr. Prim, pay-clerk, were also executed the same
day.

An execution has been laid in the Castlebar workhouse,
at the suit of a provision dealer, for a sum of £670. There
are no funds of course in hand, and the collection of a
rate is fast sinking into an impossibility, while the roar of
pauperism swells louder and louder each day. The vice-
guardians have appealed to the commissioners, but the
reply was—" collect the rate !"

'On Thursday, as Mr. Barnatyne, of Limerick, was
going in a gig to Clackwater, he was stopped by two
armed men, who threatened to shoot him if he did not
again take into his employment two men whom he bad
.dismissed on suspicion of robbing his mills. He was
allowed to proceed on promising to comply with their
unreasonable demand. •

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The proceedings at the meet-
ing on Monday were extremely stupid, and remarkable for
a strict observance of the law. Mr. Reynolds, in the
course of a long speech, mentioned that twenty English
members of parliament had promised to vote for repeal
when the question was brought to a division. At five
o'clock the rent amounted to £3O.
HORROR AT AN EXECUTION.—Two men were executed
at Nenagh on Monday. Owing to the neglect Gf the
'hangman, the face of one of the culprits was not covered.
It is impossible to describe the dreadful appearance of
the man as he fell through the grating of the gallows !
All the sufferings and pains of strangulation were visible
in the contortions of his countenance. His eyes shot
out; in a moment the face became blood-red; in another
moment it assumed a ghastly livid, hue, whilst again the
facial muscles quivered in every fibre. Death was almost
instantaneous ; but as it was, nothing could be more
revolting.
LOYALTY OF ORANGEMEN. The Grand Orange
Lodge of the County Armagh met on Tuesday, and
adopted resolutions declaratory of their determination to
uphold the legislative union, not concealing that they had
suffered wrongs, but affirming that no such injuries had
shaken their attachment to British connection, which they
were ready to maintain at the peril of life and fortune.
The resolutions were signed by district masters on behalf
of 228 lodges. On the day following, the Grand Orange
Lodge of the County Tyrone met at Ballygawley, and
adopted similar resolutions, which were subscribed on
behalf of 232 lodges.
EFFECTS OF SEDITION.—There is no description of en-
gagement or of business, with the exception of gun-mak-
ing and pike-making, that is not affected by the rebellion
exciters. It has already been stated that even insurance
offices have taken the alarm, and as a proof of it we annex
a copy of a letter received by the agent of a respectable
company :—" London, April•2o, 1848. Dear Sir,—l re-
gret to inform you that the directors are not disposed to
entertain Mr. —'s proposal. The political aspect of
Ireland appears to have brought them to the conclusion
that for the present they cannot grant policies in your
part of the country, any more than in Paris."—Cork
Paper.

STARTLING COINCIDENCES.—in the year 1795, Mr.
Pitt founded the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth,
for the purpose of putting an end to the rebellious feelings
of the Romish priests and people of this unhappy island.
In three years he reaped the fruits of this worldly policy
in the rebellion of 1798. Exactly fifty years after (1845),
Sir Robert Peel greatly enlarged the annual grant to
Maynooth. for the purpose of putting an end to the
rebellious feelings of the Romish priests and people, and
now In three years time, the people are arming themselves
for the rebellion of 1848, to teach the British govern-
ment, if they will learn by experience, the folly of sacri-
ficing truth and consistency at the shrine of political ex-
pediency.
HEARTLESS SEDUCTION. The Tyrone Constitution
states that Miss —, of Derry, a beautiful and fascinat-
ing young lady, about 18 years of age, eloped on Friday
evening se'nnight, with Lieut. Wemys, of the 48th Regi-
ment, whose company had left Derry the day before, en
route to Dublin. The manner in which the elopement
was conducted appears to have been very disgraceful on
the part of the heartless seducer. At Ballygawley, the
mother of the unfortunate girl found her, with her de-
stroyer, at the hotel, and, says an Irish contemporary,
upbraided the epauletted ruffian with his villany in no
measured terms. He took the matter very coolly, how-
ever—remarked that it was difficult for officers to get rid of
the many girls who were laying snares for them—that he
had informed the young lady he had no intention to marry
her—and that she might return with her mother if she
wished, but that he would not urge her to do so, as he
would take care of her it she would remain with him !
STATE PROSECUTIONS.—At the Court of Queen's Bench
on Wednesday, in the case of the Queen v. John Mitchell,
the Attorney-General stated that two several indictments
had been found against the traverser for seditious publica-
tions. Mr. Mitchel, to each of these indictments, has
filed dilatory pleas, to the effect that one of the grand
jury, Mr. Bowles, was a member of the Town Council, in
the city of Dublin, and the traverser made the usual affi-
davit to verify the pleas. So far as he (the Attorney
General) was concerned, he did not think there was any
thing serious in the objection, but as the pleading was
dilatory, and not going to the merits, he should enter a
nolle prosequi on both indictments which had been found
by the grand jury, and file an ex officio information against
Mr, Mitchel. He, therefore, applied that the nolle prose-
qui might be recorded. The information was then for-
mally substituted for an indictment, and the traverser is
to plead in four days.
AUDACIOUS BURGLARY AND ROBBERY.—On Saturday
night last, three men effectel an entrance into the house
of the Rev, Richard Martin, of Killaloe ; by means of a
long ladder, they smashed a pane of glass in a window on
the second flight, and unscrewed the pin. As soon as
they entered they covered the heads of two female servants,
in order that they would not know them or cause a noise.
The Miss Martins, who were in a room adjacent, heard
the noise, and immediately ran out ; the first thing they
saw was three men, with their faces blackened, and one
of them in female attire : one of the ladies ran to the win-
dow, and screamed aloud for help, for which the ruffians
gave her a severe crush on the chest. The other sister
had a poker, and gave one of the ruffians two blows on
the arm when she saw her sister struck. At this time the
Rev. Mr. Martin came up, and the youngest of the Miss
Martins rushed between the ruffians and her aged father,
and said not to shoot him but to shoot herself. One of
them bad a short gun, the other a large hatchet, and the
third a piece of iron. They demanded arms and money.
Mr. Martin was compelled to give them £3. After they
got the money they went off.—Limerick Chronicle.

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UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury will take the chair at
the annual meeting of the Church Missionary Association
in Exeter-hall.

A THANKOFFERING.—The Rev. J. G. Kelly, Bristol
Association Secretary of the Pastoral Aid Society, ac-
knowledges the receipt of a donation of £5, being " a
thanlcoffering " from a beneficed clergyman, in conse-
quence of the late appointment to the see of Canterbury.
The Rev. George C. Algar, M.A., fellow of University
College, Oxford, and tutor in the family of her Majesty's
representative at the Court of Sweden, has conformed to
the Roman Catholic Church, having previously resigned
his fellowship.
WHIG CHURCH PATRONAGE.—The Lord Chancellor
has appointed one of his own relations to the living of
St. Andrew's, one of the most valuable in the diocese of
Llandaff. It is stated that the Bishop has refused to
institute the rev. gentleman to this thoroughly Welsh
parish, on the proper ground that he does not understand
Welsh.
The enthronization of his Grace the Archbishop of Can-
terburytook place at Canterbury Cathedral on Friday. He
was attended by the Dean of the province (the Bishop of
Lichfield, as proxy for the Bishop of London). the Sub-
Dean (the Bishop of Winchester), the Dean and Vice-Dean,
and other officers of the Cathedral Church, and about 200
clergymen. The ceremony of the induction was performed
by the Archdeacon of Canterbury.

VOLUNTARY EASTER OFFERING.—On Easter Tuesday
the Mayor of Newcastle, accompanied by Mr. Willium
Young, the senior churchwarden of St. Nicholas, and Mr.
William Gibson, the treasurer to the fund, waited upon
the Rev. R. C. Coxe, A.M. at the Vicarage, and pre-
sented him with the sum of £450 as a voluntary Easter
offering from the inhabitants of the town, thus affording
a substantial proof of the estimation in which the worthy
vicar is held. A similar offer has been presented for the
three previous years, and on each occasion has been sub-
scribed in a few days. it is deeply to be regretted that
the income attached to the vicarage is so small and in-
adequate.

Eio.cATioN.—The committee of council on education
have just awprded certificates of merit to the following
gentlemen, vho were examined at-the Chester Diocesan
Training Col'eg in November last, by two of her Ma-
jesty's inspectors, and who were all trained in that
establishment :—Second class certificate, Mr. E. H. Hey-
wood, Master of St. Bride's School. Third class, first
division, Mr. J. L. Murphy, Master of St. Augustine's.
Third class,. third division, Mr. C. Becket and Mr. E.
Houghton, of St. Thomas's (Toxteth-park) ar4l St.
Luke's Schools. Mr. A. Boardman, of Bebingtoa Na-
tional School, Cheshire, has also;gaiued a third,closs
certificate.

NEW CHURCHES IN YORKSHIRE.—On Tuesday last,
his Grace the Archbishop of York consecrated the very
handsome new church at Goole. On Wednesday, his
grace consecrated the church at Ellerton recently rebuilt,
and on Thursday the beautiful Norman church at Sowerby,
near Bridlington, built and endowed at the sole expense
of Yarburgh Greame, Esq., the present High Sheriff.
Yesterday, his grace consecrated a church at Carlton, near
Pontefract ; and to-day, the new church at Balby, near
Doncaster.

DR. HAMPDEN.—This now rather celebrated Divine
delivered his farewell charge to his parishioners on Sunday
afternoon last. in the parish church of Ewelme, fifteen
miles from Oxford : a living attached to the Professorship
of Divinity immemorially. A thousand parsons crowded
the church, and many were placed at the windows. The
Right Rev. Prelate exhorted his hearers to persevere in
the zealous discharge of those Christian duties in which it
had been his study to encourage and as i them during
his twelve years' ministry amongst them.
It having been stated that the Lord Bi hop of Glouces-
ter and Bristol has presented £ll,OOO to the fund for
providing parsonage-houses for small livings, &c.,' the
Rev. Prelate has addressed a letter to the papers stating
that the following are the facts :—'• The Ecclesiastical
Commissioners have agreed to purchase my interest in the
estate of Horfield Manor, except a portion which I have
reserved for the eventual augmentation of the vicarage.
The sum which 1 am to receive is £11,587 ; of this I have
determined to devote immediately one-half to the benefit
of small livings in my diocese, and as the most effectual
mode of employing the money, I intend to consolidate
this sum with another fund remaining unexpended from
my yearly donations to similar purposes. The amount of
the latter is at present £3,445, and the whole, amounting
to £9,238, with its increments, will be appropriated to
assist in the erection of parsonage-houses in benefices
which do not exceed £2OO a year."
THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—On the 29th
March a deputation from this society waited upon the
Archbishop, by appointment, at Lambeth Palace. The
deputation consisted of the Earl of Chichester, president;
the Marquis of Cholmondeley; the Earl of Harrowby ; the
Bishop of Oxford ; Sir T. D. Acland, Bart., M.P. • Sir
R. H. Inglis, Bart., M.P. ; William Evans, Esq., M.P. ;
and George Finch, Esq. • vice-presidents: the secretaries
and a numerous body Of the lay and clerical members of
the committee. The Archbishop expressed, !n a very
feeling manner, his affection for the society, and his entire
satisfaction with the principles upon which it is con-
ducted, and cordially accepted the office of vice-patron ;
and added, that if even he had not in years past been a
zealous supporter of the society, he should think himself
unworthy of the station in the church to which he had
been now called, if he hesitated to identify himself with a
society which had long been an honoured instrument of
promoting the object to which his energies ought to be
all devoted—the
,glory of God, and the extension of the
Redeemer's kingdom.
THE BISHOP OF HEREFORD.—The ceremony of enthro-
nisation took place on Thursday, by the General Chapter
meeting in the cathedral library. The Archdeacon's
mandate was read, and the ceremony was proceeded with.
It was understood that the Chapter Clerk presented a
protest on the part of the Dean, who was absent ; but
the Chapter declined receiving it, or allowing it to be en-
tered on the minutes, and proceeded with the business of
the aay. After the first lesson, the Chapter, headed by
the Rev. Canon Musgrave, as Hebdomadary proceeded to
the west door, and met the Bishop, who approached,
attended by his lordship's Chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Hay-
ward Cox, 8.D., the Rev. Chancellor Corbett, and Thos.
Evans, EQq., his lordship's secretary. His lordship then
had the usual oaths administered, and was conducted to
his throne. The 7'e Deurn was then sung, and the Latin
prayers having been offered for the new Bishop by the
Hebdomadary, the Bishop rose, andithe Hebdomadary,
taking him by the hand, placed him in the seat and induc-
ted him, in due form, into the full rights of the see of
Hereford, according to the royal mandate. The dignita-
ries present (among whom we recognised the Rev. Lord
Saye and Sele, the Rev. Canon Morgan, Prebendaries
Webb, Venn, Gretton and many others) were then pre-
sented to his lordship in succession, and the usual service
was proceeded with. The vast and superb edifice was
crowded by an attentive and apparently deeply interested
congregation, and his lordship was the object of the most
respectful recognition of the audience as he entered,
passed, and repassed from the episcopal palace to the
cathedral.

ENGLISH CLERGYMEN IN WALES.—The Rev. J.
Griffith, vicar of Aberdare, has addressed a spirited letter
to the Lord Chancellor, from which we quote the follow.
ing passage The living of St. Andrews, now vacant,
and in the gift of your Lordship, is one of the most valuable
livings in the diocese of Llandaff. It is also not the least
important. By the exercise of that right which no man
it
will deny, your Lordship has, is said, appointed to St.
Andrews one of your own relations. It is also said, that
the Bishop of Llandaff has remonstrated against this ap-
pointment. It is never doubted but that the gentleman
appointed by your Lordship is a man of great piety, and
great merit. But this is not all that is necessary in the
parish of St. Andrews ; nor is it all that is necessary to
render a clergyman useful. One thing above everything
is necessary : it is peculiarly necessary that the clergyman
should be able to communicate and converse in the com-
mon language of his parishioners. In this requisite, Mr.
Sampson is deficient ; and it is for this deficiency that the
Bishop has refused to institute him. His Lordship has
felt himself bound to do so—bound not only by his duty
and his conscience, but also by the stringent clause of an
act of parliament : an act, indeed, which ought to be not
the less stringent, because it was introduced, and passed,
by the very Government of which your Lordship was, as
your Lordship is now, the highest legal authority. But,
it is said now, that there is a flaw in that clause; and,
acting upon this flaw, it is further said, that your Lordship
will compel the Bishop to institute. What foundation
there may be for this rumour, I know not ; but I cannot
believe it. It is impossible for me to believe it, my Lord,
when I call to mind the great stress laid upon the clause
duricg its progress through the Upper House."

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.
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CLOSE OF THE CONTEST IN WICKLOW.—At the close
of the poll, on Thursday, the gross numbers were—
Howard, 368, Monck, 355 ; majority, 13.
The most important intelligence received from Lisbon
is that Lord Palmerston has begun to interest himself in
the behalf of the Portuguese bondholders, by remonstrat-
ing against the non-payment of the dividends.
CHARTIST DOINGS.—Two Chartists of Burnley were
overheard in conversation on Wednesday last to give their
real opinion on the petition. " Ha! ha !" said one, " I
always thought it would be so. It's no wonder the par-
liament laughed at our petition. They would not have
had it at all if they only knew all about it." " Why,"
said the other, " I know a fellow wot put his dog's name
in the petition, he said it would make one more."
RESIGNATION OF MR. MILNER GIBSON.—The Man-
chester Guardian, (Whig paper,) alluding to this event,
says,—" When a man has been hopelessly lingering a long
time under the influence of some painful and incurable
disease, his friends are quite disposed to say, when death
puts an end to his sufferings, that he has had a happy
release ;' and we believe that most of those who are aware
of the extent of the inflictions under which the right hon.
member for Manchester has recently laboured, will be dis-
posed to congratulate him upon his official demise. It is,
indeed, a happy release ;' for no unfortunate toad under
a harrow' could have had a more uncomfortable existence
than that which the right hon. gentleman has endured for
some months past, under the badgerings which he has re-
ceived through the newspapers, and the alternate coaxings
and bullyings to which he has been more privately sub-
jected, have at length overcome his firmness, and he has
resigned his office."
REFORMMOVEMENTS.—Various movements, eschewing
the name of Chartism, but pressing to substantially the
same measures, have been got up in different place. At
Birmingham, on Saturday, a declaration, in the form of a
monster placard, was appended to the walls, setting forth
that the undersigned " earnestly desired, and were deter-
mined to obtain, by all peaceful and constitutional means,
household suffrage, vote by ballot, triennial parliaments,
and electoral districts." More than a thousand signatures
were appended to this document, among them those of
several respectable mercantile houses ; three-fourths of the
aldermen and town-councillors, and several magistrates ;
the list being headed by two M.P.'s—G. F. Muntz and
W. Scholfield. At Leicester, last week, resolutions were
agreed to, in favour of universal suffrage, and the
principles contained in the national charter ; protest-
ing against the constitution of the present legislature of
Great Britain as partial and unjust, and denouncing the
Crown and Government Security Bill as a daring infringe-
ment of constitutional freedom of speech, and as tending
to undermine the civil and religious liberty of the nation.
One of the resolutions provided for the opening of the
register for the borough, iu which the names, age, resi-
dence, and occupation of every person who is in favour of
the national charter shall be entered. Similar meetings
have taken place at Doncaster, Manchester, Bury, Brad-
ford, and other places.
LORD PALMERSTON'S IMPERTINENCE.—The Times, in
consequence of Lord Palnierston's dictation to the Spanish
Government, adds an anecdote in reference to similar im-
pertinence in the same quarter towards the Infanta of
Spain, who was recently driven to these shores under cir-
cumstances demanding every mark of consideration and
kindness. The editor says—" It is now notorious that
the pretensions of Lord Palmerston were such as to in-
duce the Duchess of Alontpensier and her husband to quit
this country and repair to Holland, whilst a Dutch steamer
was. prepared to convey the royal exiles to the coast of
Spam; and when their royal highnesses called to take
leave of Queen Victoria, at Buckingham Palace, on the
eve of their departure, they were not admitted, by the ad-
vice of Lord Palmerston, who was sent for on the oc-
casion, to the honour of an audience. They left England,
therefore, astonished and irritated to no small degree at
the usage which the influence of a single minister could
cause to be inflicted on their rank and their misfortunes.
Thus it was they arrived in Spain ; and it certainly was no
very difficult task to persuade Queen Isabella that her
sister had been received in England with very little of the
consideration to which she was entitled. The effect has
been what might be anticipated. But this was not all.
Mr. Bulwer was `recommended' to follow up these heroic
exploits, directed against fugitive princes, by a diplomatic
demonstration against the Cabinet, which had at any rate
beaten the mob and the revolution in the streets of
Madrid. In short, no means have, as it would appear,
been neglected to render the estrangement and hostility
of the two courts and governments complete."
ANOTHER REFORMER.—An appeal to the middle
classes on the " urgent necessity of numerous radical re-
forms, financial and organic," has been published by Mr.
F. W. Newman. No person acquainted with the writer's
character could doubt that such a production from such a
pen would contain much that was deserving of general
attention, though it might perhaps have been anticipated
with equal confidence that only a limited assent was re-
served for its suggestions. The appeal was written be-
fore the 10th of last month, a circumstance, as will be
I hereafter seen, of considerable importance towards a due