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Two Cabinet Councils have been held this week, at the Foreign Office —the first on Tuesday, the second on Friday.

Sir John Romilly is reported to have used (we suppose at Devonport) the following words- " I am strongly opposed to the Roman Catholic religion, and as strongly to the doctrines of that peculiar set of persons commonly called Puseyites, whom I consider more dangerous than open and avowed Roman Catholics." Dr. Pusey, scandalized at the insinuation conveyed by the last member of the sentence, has addressed a letter to Sir John Romilly through the

Times, calling upon him, if he did utter the words, to take one of the three courses suggested below; as Dr. Pusey thinks it will be "a great relief to many minds ". to have this question settled, namely, whether the doctrine nicknamed "Puseyite" is at variance with the doctrine of the Church of England. The three courses are-

" 1. To disavow or withdraw the words ascribed to you. " 2. To sue me in an ecclesiastical court. In this case I will defend myself (without any resort to any legal or technical grounds) simply upon the merits

of the ease itself. I will interpose no plea which the state of the law might allow me, but simply maintain what I have taught to be in conformity with the doctrine of the Church of England, or agreeable thereto.

"If you do not, I call upon you and your friends, at least, thirdly, as you respect the principles of justice and honesty, and, much more, as you stand

in awe of the judgment-seat of Christ, in which account is to be given of every idle word, not again to impute to me or to my friends that our doc- trines are not 'open or avowed,' nor to inflame the people against their pas- tors by insinuations which you cannot substantiate.'

The Master of the Rolls publishes the following reply to Dr. Pusey's challenge-

" July 23.

"Sir—The words you refer to formed part of an answer sent by me to an application from an association of persons at Devonport for my opinion in writing on the subject of certain resolutions passed by them, and which answer was published by them. These words correctly express my opinions. r decline to take either the first or second course suggested by you. With respect to the third, I deny that these words imputed, or that they were in- tended to impute, to yourself or to your friends, that your or that their doc- trines are not open or avowed. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JOHN ROMILLY." "To the Rev. Dr. Pusey."

It is stated on the authority of the Preston Chronicle, that the Earl of Derby intends to preside at the meeting and dinner of the Royal North Lancashire Agricultural Association, in Preston, on the 25th and 2Gth of August.

On the Saturday before the Edinburgh election, Mr. Sheriff Gordon entertained the candidates for the representation of the city at dinner. Mr. Macaulay, who was not in Edinburgh, was the only one of the num- ber absent.

Captain Inglefield, R.N., commanding the Isabel screw-steamer, sailed from Peterhead on the 10th instant, for the Arctic Seas, in search of Sir John Franklin.

The Reverend. Mr. Gladstone, who has accepted the pastorate of a Free Episcopal Chapel at St. Mary's Torquay, was to have preached there on Sunday last. This, however, was prevented by a further ecclesiastical document from the Dean of Arches, arising out of, and admonishing him to obey, the decision of that court. In consequence of this, Mr. Glad-

stone's plans are for the present frustrated. He did not preach on Sun- day last, nor will he do so until he has taken further legal advice. The monition embraces the whole of "the province of Canterbury" ; there- fore it includes the diocese of Exeter, in which Mr. Gladstone's new church is situate.

Mr. Edward Pugin, son of Mr. Pugin the architect, has written to the Times to contradict the statement made in the Builder, that his father

"had been beggared by his religious zeal, and removed to a public hos- pital for want of funds to support him. He states, on the contrary, that Mr. Pugin has "received every assistance from those with whom he has been connected, professionally or otherwise."

Mr. Thomas Gisborne, a Liberal and Free-trader of old standing, died on Tuesday, at Yoxhall Lodge in Staffordshire. Mr. Gisborne deserves

to be remembered for his steady and honest support of the cause of Free.. trade before 1846, and when Mr. Villiers was fighting his yearly battles. We all remember the burst of exultation which greeted his return for Nottingham, as a Free-trader, in 1843. At an earlier period, he was distinguished as a stanch supporter of reforms in Church and State, an& as a ready debater in the days of the first Reform Bill, when he sat for Stafford. Afterwards, when farmers were Reformers, Mr. Gisborne re- presented Derbyshire from 1832 to 1837. At the general election which took place then, he was not elected ; but he subsequently contested Car- low with Colonel Bruen, and although beaten at the poll, he unseated his opponent on petition. In 1841, he was defeated in South Leicestershire, and did not again enter Parliament until 1843. He died of disease of the heart.

Mr. John James, the City Secondary, died'on Wednesday, at Worthing.

Marshal Excelmans was thrown from his horse on Wednesday, at Paris, and was so severely hurt that he died next day. He was one of Murat's cavalry officers ; and, in his day, he had served all the dynasties.

A further concession has been made to " officers of infantry." A cir- cular memorandum issued from the Horse Guards, July 8th, permits them to wear a " plain blue frock-coat when riding or walking in the neighbourhood of their quarters." A copy of the kind of garment author- ized has been deposited at the office of Military Boards. The coat must be worn buttoned up, and nothing like a civic waistcoat left visible.

The Viennese correspondent of the Horning Herald states that "several European Powers have accepted the proposition of the English Govern- ment to convoke a congress at London, in order to come to an agreement respecting the regulating of the coin" ; and that France, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal, have been specially nominated.

The attention of the Manchester Commercial Association has been directed to the opening afforded for the introduction of British manufac- tures into Central Asia by the new commercial fairs which will be held at Kurrachee and Sukkur, in Scinde, next December. The Americans are already in the field. They purchase wool for transhipment, and pay for it partly in dollars, partly with coarse cottons. Sir Henry Willock, Vice-Chairman of the East India Company, is "confident that Kur- rachee, at the mouth of the Indus, will become a great emporium for British piece goods, to meet the wants of Central Asia." It is also pro- posed to open up a market with Persia via Trebizond.

It has been found by experiment that very good cotton can be grows in Australia. Samples have arrived in England, and they have been submitted by the Reverend Dr. Lang to the examination of Mr. Thomas Bazley, President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Baxley has concluded that the cotton was of a very rare and perfect quality, and that "the samples indisputably prove the capability of Australia to pro- duce most useful and beautiful cotton, adapted to the English markets, at a range of value from 6d. to 2s. 661, the pound."

A large river skiff laden with eighty-four half-ankere of 'brandy was seized by a revenue cutter on Friday last, off the Isle of Sheppy.

While Plizabeth Ford, a married woman, at Tunstall iriStaffordshire was chastising one of her children, a few days since, she was suddenly taken ill, and expired immediately, from the effects of over-eicitement._ On Saturday last, the Reverend R. Martin, minister of the Lower Chapel, Heckmondwike, put a period to his existence by cutting the main artery in his left arm. " Unhappy differences in ecclesiastical matters " are ascribed as the cause.—Halifax journal.

During the thunder-storm in the South of England on Friday last, the lightning entered the Electric Telegraph Office at Southampton on the wires„. and played round the instruments in such an alarming manner that the tele- graph clerks rushed from the office in a fright.

A singular instance of the effects of the extraordinary heat of the weather occurred last week on the East and West India Dock Railway. About two o'clock on Friday afternoon, the herbage on one of the cuttings near the bridge crossing King Henry's Walk, Ball's Pond, Islington, took fire from the intense heat of the sun. After blazing away for some time, it was ex- tinguished without doing any damage to the railway or works, but leaving a large space on the bank completely charred.

Everything is now settled in preparation for commencing the works to light Rome with gas : the Pope and authorities have expressed themselves as much interested in the undertaking, and the ground is purchased for the works.

Unprincipled brewers in Paris have been poisoning cider-drinkers by vend ing a vile concoction in place of real cider. The brewers have taken wine of a very dark colour, got rid of the colour by acetate of lead, and then fer- mented the fluid by adding rotten apples. They contrived to produce, by adding a great deal of water, a clear, pungent, frothy beverage, pleasant both to the eye and the taste, which bore a striking resemblance to good cider. The drinking of this trash produced vomiting, unconquerable con- stipation, colic, leaden hue of the skin, convulsive movements, impending paralysis, and the characteristic blue line of the gums. The Government have, through the Committee of Hygiene, instituted the most searching in- quiries on the subject.

The trial of Snape and Smith, the men accused of the "garotte " murder at Hull, has been postponed till next Assizes; a bank-note of which the victim was robbed having just been traced, which will lead, it is thought, to important evidence. The York Grand Jury threw out the bill against the prisoners - and they would have been tried on the Coroner's inquisition but for the discovery of the note.

Mr. Saxon, a grocer of Hulme, Manchester, saw three young fellows ill- using a half-witted man, and reproached them for their conduct : whereat all three fell upon the shopkeeper, and he was knocked down twice ; the second time his head struck the pavement, and he died in ten minutes. The ruffians are in custody.

James M‘Nully, a registered coalwhipper, has been committed- by- the Thames Police Magistrate for the manslaughter of James Scott. Scott *and his son were labourers employed by owners of coal-ships—"bona fide" ser- vants, according to act of Parliament. M'Nully, as a registered man, was at enmity with the " bonny fydes," and assaulted both father and son ; striking the elder Scott so that he fell on the pavement, and his skull was fractured.

The youngest son of the Reverend J. P. Mitchell, of Standen House, Berk- shire, had been rabbit-shooting, and returning home, was called by his two youngest sisters from the nursery-window : on his turning round to answer them, the gun went off? and lodged the contents in the forehead of the youngest, a fine little_girl between nine and ten years of age; she survived only a few minutes. The children had their arms round each other's neck

when the accident happeised, but not a shot touched the other. - An engine-driver has met a frightful death, at Gobowen, on the Shrews- bury and Chester line. He was examining his engine on a siding, when some waggons ran down an incline and struck the locomotive : the driver was thrown down, the engine went over him, one of his arms was torn off, and other dreadful hurts were inflicted. It appeared at the inquest that the deceased had been incautious in examining his engine in such a place, as waggons usually ran into the siding.