Polynesian., 1859-04-09
No. 40.

seNed RESOLUTIONS LOT VesLlng the sacred property
In the hands Of the clergy of the Establishment,
and in that prohibiting the authorities of the
Church from leyying Church-rates. Besides these
measures, the consistent Dissenters are preparing
bill for the pure and simple abolition Of the OBJ
noXiOus imposts.
Our established church will of necessity, there
fore, have its prerogatives and claims exposed to
rigid criticism. All that can be advanced on be-
half of the venerable institution will be placed be-
fore the country in the most advantageous light,
and voluntary principles will not suffer for want of
able and prudent advocacy.
The eftting out preparations of the Great Eastern
have been decided on, and in the of another
fortnight army of workmen will be busily
engaged in all parts of the ship. The first trial
trip will take place in July, when it is intended to
run out from Weymouth to the middle of the At
lantic, and try the ship under all possible condi-
tiOns of sail and steam.
A new company, the "Great Ocean Company"
imited) is formed to lay another cable across the
Atlantic. The new cable, which is on the systems
of Mr.. Allen, G. E., of London is direct converse
Of the late one, the popularity of the present
being that the whole metallic strength is placed in
the centre of the insulating medium, thus forming
inextensble core, and so preserving the insula-
tion from injury by tension, in place of the self
destructice spiral wire casing as heretofore. From
its ightness and portability upwards of 5000 miles
can be conveyed in one vessel and the paying-out
gear being dispensed with, it be veered out at
the rate of eight ten miles hour with facility.
The English people have been startled by the
munifcent offer of Sl0,O 900 made to the Rev. q. II.
Spurgeon, by some New York gentlemen, for him
to preach four sermons In the Music Hall of that
city Had the offer been accepted it was intended
to make unprecedented high charges for admission,
believing that the $4,000 would in this way have
been obtained.
This plan, to the credit of Mr.. Spurgeon's head
and heart, has been declined but it has turned the
scale in favor of America, and next April the youth
full evangelist will visit the United States. Mr..
Spurgeon feels that he must preach the Gospel, in
his mode of preaching it, in America well as in
England, but that he must do it under crcumstan-
ces which will not, to himself, appear uercenary,
or hinder the poor from hearing him. Such feel
ing all must respect.
Dickens lately read his "Christmas Carol" at
Hastings, Eng, when at Its close, the effect upon
upon one of his hearers-a miserly, coVetous, rich
old gentleman-wss such, that he at once gave
$4,000 to be divided between three useful benevo-
lent institutions belonging to the town.
A large portion of the Red Sea telegraph cable
has been shipped from Liverpool in the steamers
Imperador and Imperatrice.
The Government has given out large contracts
for cannon and gunpowder
France.
The Paris correspondent of the DAILY Ne,Us states
that Warlike preparations going on 80 actively
that the breaking out of hostities would seem not
question of weeks, but days The demand fox
cavalry is 80 urgent that orders have been given to
buy horses years old. Letters from TOulon state
that sixty-twO war transports are to be ready by
March l. The supplementary surgeons in the Mill
tary Hospitals at Paris and Marselles are ordered
to hold themselves in readiness for active service
In the Artillery there are companies in which FIVE
sixths of the men are excused from active duty,
because they are making cartridges. letter from
GrenOble speaks Of the continued arrival of troops
and formation of corps dsTznee on the Alps.
Three men-Of-war left Toulon on the Goth for Gen
oa, supposed for the purpose of accompanying
Prince Napoleon and his bride to France.
Three ships-of-the-line were under orders at
Cherbourg to join the Experimental Squadron as
quickly as possible.
Italy.
letter in the Opinione, of Turin, states that
the Grand Duke of Tuscany has refused to accede
to Austria's request regarding the exchange of
Tuscan for Austrian troops.
1t has been officially announced to the Court of
Turin that the Prince of Wales would pay visit
to the King of Sardinia in the Spring.
The Times correspondent confirms the report of
a note having been addressed by the British Gov
erument to the Cabinet of Sardinia, eouched in
very earnest terms, strongly deprecating the war
policy.
Letters from Naples of the 18th state that the
act which has formed the subject of so much and
such painful discussion, has at length been con-
summated, and Baron POerio, ex-Minister of Fer
dinand ii, after 10 years of imprisonment and
irons has been shipped off from the country, to-
gsther with many of his companions. Against their
wills, in spite of protesting, and in violation of the
law, which recognizes not that punishment, they
will be transported to the United States. The
government steamer StrOmboli will, it is said, con-
vey the wretched political prisoners to Cadiz,
whence they will be dispatched IN Spanish bottoms.
On arriving at Cadiz each man is to receive some
thing more than 90, and in New York from E9 to
so, or so ducats. The world will then be open
to them where to choose, and not before then; and
nv impression Writes the correspondent of the
Daily News Is that not many months will have
elapsed before their arrival in Piedmont, their sto
~ not whit the less in interest, and they them
selves full of burning vengeance against the au-
thors of their sufferings.
PRUssIA-The Princess Frederick William was
safely delivered of a son on the 9th. The news
of the event reached the Queen of England at
Windsor Castle in SIX minutes after its occurrence
in Berlin.
TURKEY.-The difficulties in connection with the
telegraph between Alexandria and COnstantinOpls
had been surmounted.
Austria.
The Daily Ne,rs has the following:
We have received from Austria an account
upon which implicit reliance may be placed-of
expressions used by the Emperor Of Austria in an
int ryew with the Directors of the National Bank
on Monday last. His Majesty declared that be
could count with certainty, in case OF need, upon
the strenuous support Of the entire population OF
Germ.ny, but assured the deputation of his COM
plete confidence that an amicable arrangement Of
the present difficulty would be very speedily effect
ed He added that he had just received dispatches