The southern press., 1851-04-07

cause OF Tellgious liberty, because they would
not submit to the temporal authority of for
eign potentate. He felt the strongest respect
for the Catholics and their religious opinions,
but he did not consider that he was acting in
consistently in giving his vote for the second
reading of the bill. (Cheers.) An honorable
member then moved the adjournment of the de-
bate, when.
| Lord John Russell said he had no intention
of opposing the adjournment, but he hoped,
considering the length to which the discussion
had been carried that division would be
come to on Monday next General cheers and
oh !! no from the Irish members) The debate
was then adjourned till Monday, and the House
adjourned at 20 minutes past II o'clock.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A deputation has been to Lord John Russell
to ask the removal of the Window tax. 1t
seems this tax only yields fl57 900 revenue.
The minister promised nothing.
An explosion took place March Is, at the
Coalpit of Mr.. George Coats, near Paisley, Scot
land The Victoria Pit, in which the explosion
took place, is the deepest in Scotland, being
1850 feet in depth at the downcast shaft, which
is situated about the center of the Southern edge
of the workings from which the inclination of
the strata tends upward to the north, Mt an angle
| OF ABOUT Out iOOL Ill live, 81 tlut ~ tIlc
shaft or pit, which is about quarter Of mile
distant from the working pit, the workings are
only 78O feet below the surface.
Saturday being payday, large number of
the men employed in the pit had commenced
work at an earlier hour than is usual on other
days, and at the time the explosion took place
about sixty three men and boys had gone down.
| This was about twenty minutes to five o'clock,
and the report was so loud that it was heard dis
tinctly at Paisley The whole neighborhood of
course was alarmed, and on the people rushing
| to the pit mouth, it was found that one Of the
cages, which had descended few fathoms, had
been blown up the shaft to probably the height
of the pit framing, some thirty feet above ground,
and after jerking the rope off the pulley at the
top of the framing, fell back down the shaft.
| The shaft presented scene of wreck and
havoc such as perhaps was never seen on any
similar occasion of n coal pit explosion. The
woodwork had been blown from the bottom of
the shaft, and scattered for one hundred yards
all round the pit-head in perfect shower The
same appearances were presented round the ven-
tatng pit-mouth called the "Free Trader" and
situated at the distance of q half mile from the
main down shaft.
Every effort was Immediately made to relieve
those who might remain alive below, but this
was choked by various distractions. On Sun
day evening, the men employed reached the
bottom of the shaft, where two men were found
alive, but in an extremely weak and exhausted
condition. They were immediately brought to
the surface, and means were taken for their re-
storation. They could give no account of the
cause of the explosion.
The latest particulars state, that from the eX-
aminations which had taken place, it had been
ascertaned that The work of recovering the
bodies would be one of time and danger Two
dead bodies have been brought up, but the bulk
of the others, fifty-nne in number, are supposed
to be in another portion of the pit, the APP
prOaches TO which are so filled with foul air
that the miners were beaten back. There is nc
hope that any of those in the pit remain alive
number of collins have been made to receiv,
the bodies of those who may be brought to tn,
; surface.
, Some sixty Hungarians and Polish refugees
have sailed from Liverpool for the United States
The preparations for the Worlds Fair arr
going on successfully.
FRANCE.
4 A PoNTFIcAL CONTROVERSIAL will be re
collected that some time since the Archbishop
Of Paris addressed pastoral letter to his clergy
. recommending them to abstain from politica
agitation. The Bishop of Chartres, NJ Clause
de Cousscrgues, has issued pastoral, in which
he attacks in terms which appear to have been
culled from the vocabulary of the English Phil
potts, the pastoral of the Archbishop of Paris
Unlike the Archbishop of Canterbury, however
the Archbishop of Paris does not choose to SUBJ
nit to TIE vulgar insoence of his suffragan, and
he has accordingly issued the following ordon.
nance:
i "Whereas, the Bishop Of Chartres, by his
pastoral letter of the 10Th inst, addressed to the
clergy Of his diocese, has, in contempt of all
hierarchical order, attacked an act Of our juris-
diction, by which we traced out to our clergy
the line Of conduct which they were to follow
in political affairs and whereas he formally or
dered that his letter should be published in our
diocese through the medium of the public jour
nails; and whereas if it were permitted to each
bishop TO meddle in the internal administration
of other dioceses, and by documents published
in other dioceses, to censure measures of pure
discipline, episcopal authority would be annihi-
lated, the bonds Of obedience dissolved and the
government of the church rendered impossible
whereaS, moreover, in the same letter, the Bishop
of Chartres imputes to us pernicious errors and
doctrines, of which there is no trace in our pas
toral letter. whereas, this attack directed against
our jurisdictiona authority, and this forgetful-
ness of all respect for our dignity rs Metropoli-
tan, well as the scandal which results from it,
will not allow us to be silent on the subject,
however We might desire to be so on account
of the great age and the virtues of our sufra-
gan; looking at all these reasons we refer to the
provincial council of Paris, which will be held
this year, the pastoral letter Of the 10Th March,
1851, of the bishop of Chartres."
This pastoral of the bishop of Chartres is
reprobated by every organ Of public opinion
except the U,dpers, the writers in which avow
their desire to the inquisition revived and the
massacre Of st. Bartholomew re-enacted. In
speaking of this pastoral, the Presse says:
! "There are two religions, there are two
lines Of politics; the one which God has made
and which constantly tends to elevate man, to
perfect him, to ennoble him by liberty, by labor
by instruction, and by aggrandisement in social
life in material rs in moral order the other
which has been disfigured by ignorance and by
egotism, and which has for object to oppress
and stne all noble instincts, all legitimate asp
> rations, and all generous ideas, by prescribing
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