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The Gazette of Tuesday notified formally the appointment of Richard Torin Kinderaley, Esq., and of James Parker, Esq., respectively, to "the office eta Vice-Chancellor."

The office of Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancarder, which has recently been vacated by the Solicitor-General, has been con- ferred by the Chancellor of the Duchy on Mr. Bethell, Q.C. and M.P. It is announced that Mr. James, of the Chancery bar, is to be the new Master in Chancery, in room of Mr. Kinclereley. Some speculation has been occasioned this week by the flight of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to his family-seat in. Northumberland. The day before the meeting of the Queen's Council at Windsor, the Court circular announced the departure of Earl Grey for Howick. It is now pretty freely circulated, that at the late Council only three members of Lord John Russell's Cabinet supported his new Reform Bill. proposition. The other members were opposed to any new Reform Bill at all. This division in the Cabinet has caused great consternation.—

/forming Herald. The Globe has announced that "it is not intended," as stated by some other journals, "to make any further immediate addition to the forces now at the Cape or on the voyage to that colony." On Wednesday orders were issued for the conveyance forthwith to Ber- muda of the remaining convicts now lying at the Ir'olkstone Convict De- p&, the Government having resolved to discontinue that as a convict station.—Globe. The directory of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com- pany lately communicated to Lord Palmerston their apprehensions lest the issue of the discussions between the Porte and the Pacha of Egypt should have a prejudicial effect upon the transit of passengers and goods through Egypt. Lord Palmerston replied, through one of his Under- Secretaries, with this information-

" I am to state to TO11 in reply, for the information of the Company, that whatever questions .of etiquette and form may have arisen. between the Sultan and Abbas Pacha in regard to the construction of a railroad between Alexandria and Cairo, or in regard to the introduction of the lanrunat into Egypt, Viscount Palmerston entertains no apprehension that the con- struction of the railroad will be stopped, or that the local Government of Egypt will be deprived of the means of maintaining order in that province."

The great electric cable for telegraphic communication between our island and the Continent is now completed. An additional mile of cable MU manufactured at Wapping, and taken by the Red Rover steamer to Dover and Sanngate. At a convenient hour the submerged end of the cable, which lately proved too short, was fished out of the water, and joined to the end of the new portion by brazing the wires together, cover- ing the point of junction over with the needful gutta pereha and other iodating matters, and then strongly fastening the whole with iron plates and screws. The additional piece of cable was then payed out, and the free end was carried safely up the French beach to a convenient point for uniting it with the existing system of telegraph wires radiating from Paris.

The health of the King of Hanover was said, in the early part of the week to be in a very critical state—so that the young Duke of Cambridge had been sent for : but it is now stated that the reports were unfounded ; that the indisposition of the King was temporary, and very alight; and that the visit of the Duke of Cambridge was merely made on his return from Berlin to London.

The French papers announce the death of the Duchess of Angouleme, at Frohsdorff, on the 19th instant—the anniversary day of the execution of her mother, Marie Antoinette. The last illness of the Duchess was only of a few days' duration ; and her nephew, the Duke of Chambord, was at her side from first to last. The deceased Princess was born on the 19th December 1778.

An interesting correspondence between the Bishop of Norwich (Dr. Hinds) and Dr. Newman the Oratorian Father has been published. It regards the views recently expressed by Dr. Newman on the relative "credibility "—or according to the corrected phraseology of Dr. New- man, the "proveability "—of the Scriptural and the legendary or "eccle- siastical" miracles.

While at Thurles in Ireland, on the 2d instant, a slip of a Norwich news- paper was sent to Dr. Newman, reporting a speech of the Bishop of Norwich at a meeting in Norwich of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in which were certain words, which Dr. Newman could scarcely believe "to have been uttered by one who is so liberal, fair, and temperate, in his general judg- ments." The words were these-

" My friends, I have beard—and I am sure all of you who have heard of it will share with me in the disgust as well as the surprise with which I have heard of it— that there is a publication circulated through this land, the stronghold of Bible Christianity—a publication issuing from that Church against which we are protest- ing, and which is, on the other hand, the stronghold of human authority—a publi- cation issuing from one of the most learned of its members, a man who, by his zeal as a convert, and by his position and acceptance with that Church, speaks with the au- thority of the Church itself, and represents its doctrines and feelings—a publication, as I have heard with dismay, read, admired, circulated—which maintains that the legendary stories of those puerile miracles, which I believe until now few Protestants I thought that the Roman Catholics themselves believed—that these legends hare a claim to belief equally with that Word of God which relates the miracles of our God as recorded in the Gospel, and that the authority of the one is as the authority of the other, the credibility of the one based on a foundation no less sure than the cre- dibility of the other."

"These statements are," said Dr. Newman, "as contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church as they can be repugnant to your own views of Chris- tian truth." He took the liberty of begging the Bishop of Norwich to refer to any work by Dr. Newman in which they are contained, and to permit him to give the same publicity to any answer as had been given to the speech. The Bishop of Norwich sent the following reply.

" London, October 8. 'My dear Newman—As I have already replied to an inquiry the same as that which you make, in a letter to the Reverend W. Cobb, Roman Catholic priest in Norwich, I enclose a copy of that letter.

"If I have misrepresented you, you will, I hope, believe me when I say that it has been from misunderstanding you. Permit me to add, that what has misled me is likely, you may be sure, to mislead others. I shall rejoice, therefore, at any public statement from you which may disabuse your readers of false impressions. When you are found to be maintaining (as you appear to do) that the miracles of the Apostolic age were only the beginning of a like miraculous development to be manifested and accredited through succeeding times, and professing your belief in the facts of this further miraculous development, in terms as solemn as those of a creed, it is very difficult to avoid the impression that the Scriptural narratives are to be regarded as the beginning only of a series of the like histories, partaking of their credibility and authority, although the one may be called scripture and the Other legend. "Time and circumstances have so long divided us, that I ought to apologize for the familiar mode in which I have addressed you; but your handwriting has brought back on my mind other days, and some dear friends, who were then friends and as- sociates of both of us; and I would still desire you to believe me, very truly yours,

"S. Noliwicu."

The letter to Mr. Cobb had made justifying references to the published works of Dr. Newman : to his Lectures on Catholicism in England, Lecture p. 298; to his Discourses for Mixed Congregations, in which he asserts the Scripture narrative to be "quite as difficult to reason as any miracles re- corded in the history of the Saints"; and to a speech made by Dr. Newman at Birmingham, in the course of which, if correctly reported, he used words to this effect—" We have no higher proof of the doctrines of natural religion, such as the being of a God, a rule of right and wrong, and the like, than we have of the Romish system,"—including, as the Bishop naturally presumed, "all those legendary statements which. Dr. Newman so strongly represents as part of that system." Dr. Newman's reply, dated "Oratory, Birmingham, October 11," com- mences thus- " I thank you for the kind tone of your letter, which it was very pleasant to me to find so like that of former times, and for the copy you enclose of your answer to Mr. Cobb." The writer then takes the words of the Bishop as authentically corrected, and submits them to a characteristic analysis in the logical alembic. He asks the Bishop for his "meaning of the word eredibility,"—as it would seem that "a fallacy" lurked in that word. "Archbishop Whately says that controversies are often verbal; I cannot help being quite sure that your Lordship's difficulty is of this nature." Did the Bishop intend to use the word "credible" as meaning "antecedently probable"—" verisimile" ; or as meaning "furnished with sufficient evidence "—" proreable " ? If the latter, and if he supposed that Dr. Newman asserted that the ecclesias- tical miracles come to us on the same evidence as the Scriptural miracles, then he supposed what Dr. Newman never dreamed of. If the former, and if he supposed Dr. Newman to say that the two classes of miracles are on the same level of "antecedent probability," then justice is done to his mean- ing, but he does not conceive "that it is one to raise disgust." He discusses the distinction in detail, and shows that it is not "invented for the occa- sion" but is found in Archbishop Whately's works, and has been pursued at great length in Dr. Newman's "Sermons_ ," and in his "Essay on Miracles," published in 1843. The latter has, he believes, never been answered ; and he begs to present a copy to the Bishop. The gist of the argument in re- ference to the "antecedently probable" or " venatmile " meaning of the word "credible" is this—That the miracles of Scripture preceded the " ecclesias- tical" miracles, and by innovating on an established order, they removed from all miracles the brunt of that antecedent improbability which attaches, as Hume objects, to the idea of a violation of nature ; and thus ecclesiastical miracles conic to be not only as credible, but more credible than the Scrip- tural miracles which they follow after. But in reference to " proveability " or relative support by "evidence," he has nowhere said that the ecclesiastical miracles are on the same footing with the Scriptural ones. All Catholics believe the whole catalogue of the latter, for God has so spoken. But with regard to the former miracles, they rest on grounds which each Catholic may criticize, and may admit or reject accord- ing to his personal estimate of the grounds of belief. The phrases which Dr. Newman has used in reference to them will always be found to have maintained clearly this distinction. He has said that he thinks it "impos- sible to withstand the evidence" for one ; that he sees "no reason to doubt" another ; and that he does not see "why it may not be" in reference to a third. But Protestants "refuse to go into the evidence" for the eeclesiasti- cal miracles ; though on the first blush of the matter, in point of credible- ness of verisimilitude, they are "not stronger" [not more difficult to be- lieve) than those miracles of Scripture which Protestants "happily profess to admit."

Under these circumstances, Dr. Newman hoped that the Bishop would find himself able to reconsider the word "disgust,' as unsuitable to be applied to statements which, if he do not approve, at least he cannot easily refute.

The Bishop of Norwich immediately informed Dr. Newman, that in a pamphlet reprint of his speech, which, by request, he was about to issue, he would withdraw the expression of "disgust,' as it appeared offensive ; and he would also append to the passages a note stating that Dr. Newman dis- avowed the construction which had been put upon them. The letter then continued, and wound up thus-

" At the same time, I am unable still to come to any other conclusion than that of the dangerous tendency which I have represented them to have. If you maintain, as you distinctly do, not only the antecedent probability (credibility in that sense) of the legendary miracles, but your firm belief in certain of them, specifically stated, as forts prored,—and if you further contend that these miracles are only a continua- tion of those recorded in Scripture,—the impression appears to me inevitable, that the legendary channel through which God must have appointed them to be attested and preserved has a purpose and authority the same with Scripture. What I should fear is, not indeed that the generality, of your readers will exalt legends into Scrip- ture, but that, seeing grounds for discrediting the legends, they will look on all narratives of miracles. Scriptural and legendary, as alike doubtful, and more than doubtful. In short, your view, as I see it, tends to a scepticism and infidelity, of which I fully acquit you.

" The report of your speech at Birmingham I read in the Times; but the quota- tion which I sent to Mr. Cobb I took from a letter in the Spectator of September 27 ; the writer's quotation according with my impression of your speech as reported, containing words to that effect.

"The kind present which you propose for me will, I assure you, he valued, if for no more, as a token that we are still friends, notwithstanding a wide severance in matters of faith, and that we may still believe all things and hope all things for one another."

Dr. Newman replied, on the 19th instant-

- I thank your Lordship with all my heart for your very kind and friendly letter, just received, and for your most frank and candid compliance with the request which I felt it my duty to make to you." . . . . " If I keep to my intention of making our correspondence public, it is, I assure you, not only as wishing to clear myself of the imputation which has in various quarters been cast upon my lecture, but also,, in no slight measure, because I um able to present to the world the specimen of an Anti-Catholic disputant, as fair and honourable in his treatment of an opponent, and as mindful of old recollections, as he is firm and distinct in the enunciation of his own theological view.

" That the Eternal Mercy may ever watch over you and guide you, and fill you with all knowledge and with all peace, is, my dear Lord, the sincere prayer of yours most truly and faithfully, Joan H. NEwman."

for the week ending on Saturday last. Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis

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Zymotle Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat:

Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Seisms Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessel' Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration.., Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys Ite Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc

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The Reverend R. Whiston, master of the Cathedral Grammar School of Rochester, has, notwithstanding his gravies Michela against the Dean and Chapter of that church, been elected a Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Cainbridge.—Daily News.

Mrs. Fanny Kemble, whilst riding on the Grand Parade, Brighton, last week, was thrown from her horse with great violence, and narrowly escaped

a very serious injury. She was conveyed to her hotel ; but after a few hours was so perfectly recovered as to deliver successfully, to a gratified audience, the dramatic " reading " which ahe had engaged to give that evening.

M. Brunel, a Parisian aeronaut, has been perilling his life rather than the sensible public should be " disappointed." He was to ascend from the park of Rambouillet in a balloon filled with pure hydrogen gas ; but, from unexpected difficulties, the inflation was not completed at a late hour in the afternoon. M. Brunel removed the car, placed a plank across the hoop, took off his coat, and even emptied the money from his pockets to make himself lighter, seated himself on the board, and had the balloon liberated. It shot up like an arrow, quickly attaining a height of 2000 metres. The spectators uttered a cry of terror; but their fears were soon relieved by the safe de- scent of M. Brunel.

The Hongkong Register of the 29th July says—"We have been much amused, or rather, after a certain amount of indignant contempt had been got rid of, we have been enjoying a kind of derisive laugh at the impudent adver- tising trick resorted to by the owners of the Keying Junk, now in London in dressing up a common Chinese, in their employment, in the habit of a lean- darin, and exciting him to thrust himself prominently forward at the open- ing of the Exhibition ; by which a good many of our contemporaries of the English press, to say nothing of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, if all tales be true, have been most egregiously im- posed upon. We are no admirers of the manners of Chinese gentlemen but in their degree they are as distinct from those of Chinese workmen, of whom Ilesing the English Chinese Mandarin is one, as the manners of an English gentleman from those of an English workman." The Hongkong Register designates our important showman as a "ship-painter."

The Liverpool Standard states that the Arno, a screw steam-ship plying between the Mediterranean and Liverpool, has brought home a youth of sixteen, whose name it would not be prudent to mention, a fugitive from po- litical persecution in Leghorn. "Half an hour before the Arno left Leghorn, he was brought on board, concealed in a sack, and placed for safety among the provisions in the laiaret. The person in charge of the parcel'. paid its passage-money to England, and thus far was all Captain Harem knew about the matter at the time. On getting clear of the port, however, it turned out that 'the sack,' like many of those occasionally dropped in the Bosphorus, contained a living freight; and a dark-eyed boy made his appearance to claim the protection of the commander of the vessel. His only credentials were an appeal to the, sympathies of human nature in assisting a fel- ow creature in distress, and a letter of introduction to Messrs. M'Kean, M‘Larty, and Co. of this town. It appeared that this young gentleman and a number of other precocious spirits had formed themselves into a secret society or club for the printing and circulation of religious and political works, among which the distribution of the Bible, and pamphlets on the 'free- dom of Italy,' formed a prominent part. The authorities having got wind of their proceedings, several of the members were arrested and summarily shot; and to escape a similar fate, our hero was embarked on board the Arno. His parents knew nothing of his connexion with the affair until startled by the appearance of the soldiers to demand the person of their son ; and for a couple of days previous to the Amo's arrival at Leghorn, he had been re- moved from house to house in the suburbs of the city to escape detection."

A "Telegraphic Congress" assembled at Vienna a few days ago, to draw up measures for facilitating telegraphic communications between different countries. It proposes to establish a union between different states ; to have translators employed, so as to transmit all despatches without delay ; to have a uniform tariff; to pay the receipts into a common fund, and to divide them afterwards between the states, in proportion to the length of their telegraphic lines, &c. The new arrangements are, it is said, to come into operation on the 1st of January next ; and if France shall accede to them, i it will be possible to send a despatch n a very few minutes from Trieste to Calais or Ostend.

After the 31st of March next, no steam-vessel is to proceed to sea, or to steam upon the rivers of the United Kingdom, without having a safety-valve upon each boiler, free from the care of the engineer, and out of his control and interference; and such safety-valve is to be deemed to be a necessary part of the machinery, upon which the Engineer-Surveyor is to report to the Board of Trade. This new regulation is ordered by the 21st section of the act 14 and 15 Victoria, cap. 79.

A letter from Amsterdam, of the 18th instant, states that a general meet- ng of the Royal Institute has been held, and an address voted to the King, praying him to dissolve that body. The address is drawn up in the most respectful terms, and states as the grounds of the application, that the sum of 10,000 florins (20,000 francs) a year, allowed by the state to the In- stitute, is insufficient to cover its most indispensable expenses, and that all its applications for an increase to grant have been ineffectual. This step on the part of the first scientific body of the kingdom has caused a very profound sensation.

Upwards of fifty-six tons of shell-fish gathered by the Boston fishermen from the sands about Boston Haven, and which before the Great Northern Railway ran uncollected, are now taken daily to Leeds, Liverpaol, and the populous inland towns, and sold at a remunerative profit.

The Paris Honiteur contains a statement of the imports, exports, and na- vigation of France, for the month of September. The customs-duties levied on the merchandise imported amount to 10,869,000 francs. The correspond- ing amount for the year 1850 was 11,619,000 francs; and for 1849, 10,876,000 francs. The total amount of customs-duties levied upon imports during the first nine months of 1851 is 87,275,000 francs. The correspond- ing amount for 1850 was 92,848,000 francs; and for 1849, 95,153,000 francs.

A Paris letter says on Tuesday—" The opening of the Rue de Rivoli is ad- vancing rapidly, and the macadamized road has already reached the Louvre. On the opposite side, in the neighbourhood of the Hotel de Ville a large space has been cleared and new buildings have already commenced. In a short time, the Jury of Expropriation will have decided on all the cases, and the demolitions will immediately commence. When the demolitions shall have been all effected, the space which runs along the Louvre will be converted into a parterre; and the Louvre will thus be surrounded with ver- dure, and from the Place Saint Jean, near the Hotel de Ville, the Garde Meuble and the Champs Elysees will be visible. The houses to be pulled down between the Rue des Poulie' s and the Mite' de Ville have been divided into ten categories. The Jury. of Expropriation has just awarded 749,330 francs to the owners and occupiers of ten houses comprised in the first cate- gory; the Municipality offered only 586,005 francs. The gallery of Apollo at the Louvre, which has been recently repaired and beautified, was yesterday opened to the public."

What Lesage depicted in fiction in Gil Blashas been really acted in Paris. A gentleman of Paris, oecupyMg a splendid hotel near the Madeleine, was astounded the other day by the visit of some Police agents, who politely in- formed him that he must be arrested for seducing a girl under age, and con- cealing her in his house. Inquiries were made, and it turned out that the offender was Jean, the gentleman's valet. During his master's absence from Paris, Jean was struck by the charms of a girl in a shoemaker's shop; he dressed himself in his master's clothes, got the coachman to convey him in Ins master's carriage, and became a customer at the shop, assuming his

master's name. The upshot was, that the poor girl, dazzled by Jean's splen- dours, consented to share the brilliant charms of his hotel. In a few days the illusion was dissipated : the return of the real gentleman to Paris com- pelled the valet to undeceive his victim ; and she was hid in the valet's garret. The dashing scoundrel was taken in charge by the Police.