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Viscount Ponsonby, we hear, has resigned the Embassy at Vienna, and Mr. Magenis will continue to act as Chargé d'Affaires until the arrival of his Lordship's successor. Lord and Lady Ponsonby have arrived in Bel- grave Street for the winter.—Standard.

The Honourable George Jerningham, now Secretary of the Embassy at Constantinople, is appointed Secretary of the Embassy at Paris.

A semi-official weekly contemporary announces that " a Royal Com- mission is about to issue to inquire and report upon the whole subject of the law of Divorce ; not merely the proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts, but the proceedings in Parliament ; not the divorce a ',tetrad et Moro alone, but the more weighty and important question of the divorce is tined° matrimonii, which troubles many an honest man, and we have no doubt many an honest woman too." The Commission, it is understood, will consist of Lord Campbell, Lord Beaumont, Lord Redesdale, Dr. Lushington, Mr. Walpole, M.P., Mr. Page Wood, M.P., and Mr. Bouverie, M.P.

At the public examination of the pupils in the East India Company's Military School at Addiscombe, on Monday, Mr. F. S. Stanton and Mr. Tolima St. John Hovenden were the most successful in the competition for honours. Of the thirty-eight cadets brought forward, five, including Mr. Stanton and Mr. Hovenden, were selected for the Engineers, sixteen for the Artillery, and seventeen for the Infantry, of the Company's troops in service.

The Roman Catholic Peer Lord Beaumont been joined by the hereditary head of his English co-religionists in pronouncement against the aggressive reorganization of their hierarchy the Duke of Norfolk has written the following letter to Lord Beaumont. ■ with leave to make what use of it he likes ; and the latter has sent a copy from his residence in Ireland for publication in London-

" L.'rundel Castle, 28th November.

"My dear Lord—I so entirely coincide wit's the opinions in your letter to Lord Zetland, that I must write to you to er:press my agreement with you. I should think that many must feel as we d , that ultramontane opinions are totally incompatible with allegiance to o Sovereign and with our constitu- tion.

"I remain, my dear Lord, faithf y yours, Nonrotat. • "To the Lord Beaumont."

Mr. Charles Purton Cooper, the Utast/eery barrister, has forwarded a

note to the daily journals, which has aspect of a Catholic suggestion intended to assist the Government o t of any fix that the Protestant movement may seem to have forced them into. Mr. Cooper says-

" A Roman Catholic Peer, as eminent by his talents as by his acquire- ments, has written to me, suggesting that if the Roman Catholic laity in any numbers adopt the advice that has been given, and publicly declare that the late edict of the Court of Rome cannot be received or accepted by English Roman Catholics without a violation of thdr duty as citizens, the whole difficulty of their position would be got over, and further enactments on the subject would be renderedunneemesari! " On the other hand,rettit==zoloaefsesaaa solution of present difficulties by an. pinto:emitted request to the French.army of occupation to get out of our way. The valiant Earl would have our Queen indite this 0 short and decunve comainneurUen to the ore— I " Vietoria,.hy, the grace of Goa, Queen of Great Britain and Irehorl De fender.of the faith,-to the Pope, greeting. . " V the bull recently brined by your .Ifolinees, ' Claire ings doidifibil *Ain 'my ieelmi and.rlatngi.biath myself end,my Protestatit,subjects. aut.bb:dih pale of Chiistianitysoii-not within one ihoziraftertbiadetter iadelirearedstb you withdlawstkendsett Rif, 4 .44ado. Xnealt ve offered to. tee attel 0 WO, ip ,, t*flxlc;6. . _.10 War agai.U" Y947rtnAi4ere. of Rel#9,Niffejlt 14Y1 relfreitIV due satisfaction atyour hid .' -,Sol x -- ' lo'stati. pis, The Reverend G.7ilmot, of Ice wrote to r it at asking authority to tradteetlik s 'fink ," flii- ' :.1i',: ;:

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tholic bierare.ltYliAlite'Cminty would not be... if , o . o • I 1(.■ 9,1"11; 1. To this ineupYLord:Mitito made the feliciy' 4 -i , IR UrileeK 1 " Sir—I very much regret that the reserve necessarily imposed on those *charged with:diplematic*duties does not adroit' of my Ontinngi into ,iiiittu- thorized explanations on subjects connected- With my mis.sitm to Italy; which I should otherwise have been.most ready to. afford you. I venture to hope, however, that recent experience of the distrust with. which statemeuts from the same quarter are to bd received, will induee yen to hesitate in. lend- ing too easy credit to insinuations that I have been consulted upon, or hid sanctioned, any scheme of Roman Catholic, organization in this country. "I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,' MINTO."

The Bishop of...Norwich hasunawered an address from some eight hun- dred of his clergy on the Roman measures.

The Pope's bull in itself would deserve contempt and nothing more—would be as sheer folly as would be a similar attempt on behalf of his faith by the Patriarch of the Greek Church or the grand -Mufti of Mohammedanliun ; but the fact that the nation was once Roman in its doctrines, practices, and government, with some contemporaneous circumstances, give the proceeding significance. Of'the circumstances thus alluded to, the Bishop ranks as fore- most in its importance, the strength of the Romish Church in Ireland and the influence which its strong position there necessarily has on the whole of the United Kingdom.' "Six millions of our fellow-subjoasinIreland are Ro- manies. They exercise their religion there under a church organization. as complete, and as openly displayed, as that which exists in the Papal States, and with a submission to its authority which certainly cannot• be exceeded in the Pope's own dominions. Their Bishops, moreover, assume the same ancient titles as ours ; and their. dioceses and their parishes axe the same, or nearly so. Open a. Dublin Directory, and you will find a table of the &mush Church Establishment side by side with that of ours—clergy list, dioceses, parishes, religious orders, convents, sisterhoods. Ireland, re- collect, is not an independent country in alliance with England, nor is it a dependency of England ; it is an integral part of the United Kingdom. Not only is the British Legislature composed of its- noblemen and com- moners indifferently with those of England amIScotsland, and without re- ference . to religious creed, but it has been long our progressive policy to remove and obliterate every distinction which may give even the appearance of its people being other.than one, people with us. 'The condition of the .Ro- mish.Church in Ireland becomes thus the foundation of a claim that , that Church should be put on. the same footing in England. Its atrengthin one part of the United Kingdom communicates strength to it in every other part. If we speak of the small proportion which the English Romanists bear to the rest of the people of England, they remind us, that they are a fourth of the aggregate population of the United' Kingdom. 'It was to be expected that, sooner orlater, an attempt would be made.to give to their Church in. England the regular and completeftuan, and, if possible, the status and influence, which it has so long had in Ireland. The measure.has been in contempla- tion for some years. They tell us so." To the immense immigration of Irish labourers a considerable influence on the minds of the English priesthood must also be attributed. Of one other cause we can only speak in sorrow. The falling away Of por- tionaof the building of our holy edifice might not unreasonably favour con- clusions that the structure itself was unsound, and near its overthrow ; but these conclusions were hasty. " Our general character as a people, our English habits of thinking and acting, are opposed to the genius of Ito- manism. There is an antagonist principle in our civil institutions and. in our routine of social and domestic life. which forbids it. Danger there may be to this • or that individual or family—increased danger, perhaps. Let us all be on our guard. But it would ,be absurd and weak to believe that the nation's Protestantism, or the Protestantism of the national Church, is in jeopardy. Fnglishmen must undergo other changes before this, or simultaneously with tins, which would leave us the same people in little more than name."

,Apart from rte insulting manner, "the measure itself is nothing of which we have any right 'to complain consistently with our toleration of Romanism." " We may justly look with mistrust and suspicion onan ecclesiastical arrange- ment for the RomisliChurch which can only be adapted to a vast increase of its members, and on the assumption of episcopal titles which seggest a rivalling or superseding of those borne by the Bishops of the Church of England. We may reasonably protest against this new ecclesiastical establishment being „mendd_ over rsv_e entdinal Archbishop, because, as Cardinal, he is, at the same time, a state counssollor to a foreign potentate. But an episcopal church is not tolerated if we initerfere with its liberty to appoint bishops, to deter- mineits number and ran*, and to bestow on them any title, provided those titles infringe on no existfing rights."

is new in this movement,, om contemplatinghat which is no novelty, but

It is above all importannot to be led away by the startling effect of what which is only more protain..)tly brought under notice by it—the one. great feature.tbat the arrangemen,t is made in England by a foreign power. Such a social organization is, withir‘ an indefinite range of action, irresponsible to any power in the kingdom. Ii[ the head of the Church of Rome were the temporal subject of•another stal4, any question of his interference in the temporal affairs of this country i might be made a subject of reference or remonstrance from the Governmer. of this country to that of which the Pope was a subject : but the circumstance of his being at once a spiritual and a tem- poral sovereign makes him in every such instance judge in his own case. It is idle, with respect to an authority so constituted, to speak of its being limited to its exorcise to religious affairs ; d a reference to the earlier periods of our own history, to the history of er nations, and to what is taking place in Ireland at this moment in r -rerenee to education, shows this. Ilae in- convenience and mischief atte .ant on this inuserima in iniperio have been bitable in Roman Catholic d in Protestant countries, and in recent times the security of the system of oncordata has been adopted : but England has r led this.mode and ndop d that of renouncing all official intercourse. c Bishop of of:l orwich co labia his remarks on the polities) aspect of theAutstitin with °owner te his teleEgy,to.laY before the Sovereign tilfik4121- 1 sucen_qeatellotinvi-thericrclialTaupport rur tierviudicieletrother-rights,:dattqf . the"Peo eterieflblie rfettietri,Allietherhishlieretigie inane, .1;:: 41111,.)1,1 " If t mate:114r On the religious branch of the subject headviseithetnttoWtteoret the bitter; Beeislof ocnitroeetidy,',,', While :rot othittir;g.".euchiinstriictioUs of their flecks ma nay enable people-to it Mast the failaoiserhse which:the Burnish' Church seekesteigain aseentsteveneevelts moat =rapt tuntrunspinteatidoetwine bearing iin OW. tfinflapaeli tal. wecil,the4hurchrod

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attgiretietefilikfl Tiukakipkiellyainiles euriefoi. ap.prolettfdie■ the ide-

akatsahi "t/ley iflteekt rik*isittnee, With IttiWttlid foint'a parf'ef iheThitWedinitita- liWk ibbih- iLeintivti4e'.&isabflititis/ of , r pi-aced the slit,litest Confidente tion Re Veil faith thet,See orRume or of the Romish priest- hood in this country, or even because lic'esoidd ascertain. the limits of its influence over the laity of its. communion ; but simply because he be- lieved we were strong enough' to dispense with those safeguards which our. ancestors, while fresh from a perilous struggle in defence. of their civil and religious liberties, very naturally deemed, necessary for their security. He cannot even.now regret the removal of those disabilities. With reference to the declaration they hid quoted, that no-foreign prince, &c. " hath or ought. to have any jurisdiction," &c. within these realms, the Bishop of 'St. David's conceives that this is a declaration " not to a matter of fact, but a point of doctrine, which we hold as Protestants, not as English subjects, and.which our Roman Catholic fellow subjects both notoriously .do and lawfully rimy reject,"—in short, that the words "amount to nothing more than a denial of the Pope's spiritual supremacy."

Upwards of two hundred of the dergy in the Archdeaeomy of London have signed a declaration' against the Roman: aggression, which places it in a new practical light. They say- " We feel assured that this aggression of the Court of Rome upon the pre- rogatives of the Imperial Crown. of England, if not powerfully resisted and effectually repelled, will be the prelude to such constant interference of Romish priests, Jesuits, and monks, in the internal affairs of this kingdom, and to slush public exhibitions of the most offensive rites of the Romish Church as will create universal distrust, will disturb the tranquillity of the country, will expose the loyal and peaceable'lloman Catholics of this king- dom to all the evils which attend upon a double duty of submission, one owing to their spiritual and another-to their temporal Sovereign, and will eventually endanger not only the Church but also the Throne of thisidng- dom."

This large .body of the London -clergy- echoes with distinctness the charge. against Ministers of having themselves induced the move which their chief so vigorously opposes- " Gratified as thepublic at large have been. by the uncompromising terms in which the Prime Minister of the Crown has condemnedthose members of our own. Church whose adoption of Romanist principles and practices may have served to lead-the Church of Rome to the fallacious conclusion that the conversion of Enghuid to Romanism was close at hand, we cannot conceal our opinion:that it is the official recognition by our own statesmen of the Romish hierarchy, both in Ireland and the Colonies, which has deceived the Court of Rome as to the real sentiments of 'the -people' of England, and has led the Pope to imagine that' the time was sons when he might, after the lapse of -three' centuries, once more exercise in' this country that plenary au- thority which he arrogates to himself as the supreme governor of the whole Christian world" The Bishop. of Oxford arrived, at the residence of the Bishop of London, Fulham, on Saturday, with the announced object of ..preaChing a sermon in,Lambeth Old Church nextday, 'in aid of the. Southwark fund for:bauld- nig ohurehes and eohools. He .was.poorly with " cough and violentind- tation of the windpipe," on Saturday, but hoped to recover by next morn- ing : on Sunday, ■ however, he was.much worse,_ and. quite incapable of exertion.

The Bishop of London has directed the Archdeacons of London and Middlesex to visit all the churches and chapels in which it is alleged that Itomish ceremonies are. practised, and to report to him every case in which any ceremonies or. forms are used not autharized by the rubric, nor sanc- tioned by established onstom.—,Tioner.

The Reverend W. J. E. Bennett has resigned into the hands of the Bishop of London, his perpetual curacy of St. Paul's Knightsbridge ; and the cor- respondence which led to this step was published in the Times on Thurs- day. It appears from a reeapitultitory litter of the Bishop, that during the last four years he has several times cautioned Mi. Bennett on the subject of the excessive ritualism he was inclined topractice, as approaching too nearlyto that of the Church of Rome. The earlier remonstrances seem to have parti- cularly concerned intoning the prayers ; the later ones related to still. further deviations,—the posture of the priest and his curates in celebrating the com- munion, the not giving the cup into the hands of the communicants, and the putting of the breadinto their mouths instead of delivering it into their hands,. the crossing of themselves by his clergy, andlis transposition of one of the prayers. Mr. Bennett justified these changes, and any others heshould adopt, on "the principle, that wheresoever no prohibition occurs, there the ancient usages of the Catholic Church Were meant to prevail." The whop controverted this principle. At list Mr. Bennett gave it -up, and pro- posed to adopt only such ritual and ceremonial observances (L) as had been in use for many years, and known_ to the Bishop, in the churches of Mr. Dodsworth, bir. Richards, and Mr. Murray ; (2.) such as were used at the consecration of St. Barnabas • (3.) such as Mr. Bennett found to be common to the various cathedrals of England : other than these he would abandon. The Bishop rejected these criteria. Sup- posing he had not—but he had, in. the strongest manner—objected to some practices in class 1, there must be some practices in those churches of which he cannot be cognizant. There was more of • form and display at thc.conse- oration of St. Barnabas than he liked, though perhaps nothing' rubrically prohibited. • If the cathedral usages cannot be inhibited, the expediency of extending them to parochial churches is very questionable. On the whole, if Mr.. Bennett cook' not simpliciter and ex cruise obey the admonitions of his Bishop, Dr. Blomfield called on him to redeem a; pledge given in July and October last, to retire from his charge. Mr. Bennett, on the-4th instant, 'declared himself unable to comply simplkitemand.ex onionamith ,thzsequi- sitions-made, anti resigned;- ,asd the BishoisWiaittlf:blek4 -944-114titalith- tioa, accepted the resignation of " the incumbency of St. Paul's, and withit the ehapel. of St. Barnabas.",-Icti, oft beeius earls &Enid - . . Yesterday, Mr. BennetitoptiblieHistkein ths4rogaireg ,Chronicie,- a letter complaining that the "suolasstenttittendenti,ef as oturesporulenen" in the Timm had been " extradted ilefakiy Y-; and-he published the wholncerre- sponnenee. ' The • additiaatil;rhitittrZ40--atetialrowneer,-; muchlchange the impressions madeb tliolseb-Oickathel- tie the' it is plain -that Mr.' 'ett Vaitic14041 pitiwreMindicl-elways, the ilshrnp.alatna thni 4.„,cr alinttictibitiiiiiillt the lag.. --Trt his: letter of thei• 11 Trenatt tOittei-W"Iffiel that the world is lest and won to r 'glen not y. teenalrattitifikit sik 'bib.Rit'ereOaaititaa. .-.%nt+bycelkt lafp °neut avas-the sensta, eittl-by objectiateteachture-alieltwomtblesited LardIreacherlthelme- jaebby)mithelessa(thiligstieen by tiei■seastixb loll trouldavinfback the.peopla ehaMsdinelelonetiband intitylibir agniattence.,(eounleddef ceureet withtspilitataltietothatt enllatitiettilo, rchetches, her eeree moniesOgal hqititiONoluPir, Pais ItiiRetala tt t f l ei and froqmsy ,f • ;1.! stirred. up anal

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aw*Vrat - Dis4cate g w their peculiar natirre. needs, RoMini &lies brough ,•. , the Church of Eng-

land has a claim to-their sympathy, those'thatfilite ,'dislike to her preseut

coldness fly to Rome for warmth restrained -ke fair-Rhin her fold ; while the only loss to her would be the hard.Utilitarlan, the dead Germanizing Ra-

tionalist, and the avowed Infidel." .1

His declaration then indicates what wil/ be-his direction now. " It seems quite vain to contend longer in this up,hill battle—never resting, never making one's footing sure—advancing. today a- little in the building up of time pastoral-work, only to have- it all-pulled down about One's ears tomor- row. My heart. is-sick within itself, and vexed and torn within me, and •I confess that I never was so sore tempted to abandon my resition as I am at this present moment. I have followed, the Church's work, which:twenty- one years ago your Lordship commissioned me to do, with my whole strength and energy. My affections have been in it, with it never absent from it—I have given up all for it. But, no' doubt., in my way of doing it I have been mistaken, for zeal may be very often without discretion; and I am- bound to hear and accept your Lordship's opinion rather than my own. But what must be the end ? The end is a growing conviction that I am not rightly, cannot be rightly, according to the interpretation of the Church by the pre- sent Bishops and as it is willed to be by the State, a true member of its priesthood. The end- inti.st Le, ere long, that up the conflict, and seek for peace elsewhere."

The Reyerend IL J. Butler, M.A. of Brasenose College, -Oxford, -and Chap lain to the Lord High Comnussioner of the Ionien Islands, was received into the Catholic Church at Ilome on the 23d of Novetaber last. This gentle- man was formerly Warden Of the House of Charity in-liose Street, • ho.— ?Votes. :The Earl of Winthelsea,,in redoubtable letter containing a cartel for the Queen to thePope, appends "one word for the Tractarisn party," At Rome, in 1843, they said to him, " We wish for no better sons anti daugh- ters than the Tractarians" ;' and told hint even then, that " the Pope had a regu lar account transmitted of every fatally, with the individuals belonging to it, who professed their opinions.

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last:' the first column of figures gives the aggregate number of deaths in the corresponding weeks of the ten previous. years.

Ten Weeks of 1839-49.

Week of 1850.

. Zymotic Diseases 2,447 ..., 229 Dropsy, Cancer, and other dlsassos of uncertain or variable seat 517 .... 39 Tubercular Diseases 1,723 .... 148 D1Seases Grille Drain; Spinal Marrow; Herres, and Senses 1,249 .... 110 • Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels.. ... .— ... .... ...,. 380 .... 44

Diseases of,the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration

2,579 ....

208

Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of DIg,ostion . „ • 602 ....

85

Diseases of the Kidneys, Se , 95 .... 10 Childbirth, diseases of the U terns, ..kc 103 .... 3 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, .hc 89 .... 8

Diseases of tho 8k4u, Veltulsr.Tissuo.„1.

12 .... 2 Malformations 19 .... 3 Premature Birth '218 .... 35 Atrophy

Ago 68 , ... 47 Sudden

104

.... 8 ■ Vaeteneei Prkratibn,Cold, andIntemperanoo..., ... ........... , 268 • ..... 22 Total (Including unspecified causes) 11,284

1,004

Lieutenant Arthur Vaughan Donnithorne Harris, of the Fourth (King's be Own) Regiment, has been tried by a Court-martial, at Exeter, for unoffieer- like and insubordinate conduct. It seems that the accused had a quarrel with Captain Hort, his superior officer. Lieutenant Harris stuck up a pla- card in his room in the barracks, at Plymouth, proclaiming Captain Hort " a liar and a coward." He also told Corporal M‘Bride that Captain Hort was ti scoundrel and a bully, who could not and would not fight. Lieute- nant Harris pleaded "Not. guilty." After the witnesses for the prosecution had given their testimony,—in which the Court prevented them from an- swering any-questions about the circumstances of the quarrel—Lieutenant Harris's defence was read. Ile expressed regret for what had occurred, but ascribed it entirely to the treatment he had received from Captain Hort, whilst at Drake's Island. That treatment consisted of many trifling things, and many of amore serious nature; but he refrained from going into them, as all the other officers who had been implicated in it had apologized to him. He expressed his regret also that he had not left the quarrel in the hands of his father, instead of rushing into it himself. Several officers gave Lieute- nant Harris a good character. The sentence, as usual, will not .be known until it has been confirmed at the Horse Guards. On Thursday, William M'Aulay of Liverpool was tried for burglariously stealing silver articles, and Thomas Charles ffirrell of London with felo- niously receiving them. This case has been frequently before our readers. The property was stolen from the house of the Reverend James Fisher, at Great Crosby; he is a Roman Catholic. priest, and some of the articles were part of the paraphernalia used in the Romish ritual. M'Aulay sent the plate to London by rail, to Mr. Sirrell, in Barbican; whose books show that this was one of numerous similar transactions, On the morning that Sirrell received the parcel, he had a letter by post from M'Aulay ; the. Police seized the packet when delivered by the railway-porter, before it had been opened by Mr. Sirrell, but not till after the carriage had been paid; so that Mr. Surell's knowledge of its contents could not be demonstrated. The Jury acquitted Sirrell, but convicted M'Aulay. Some miners have perished in a coal-pit at Netherton, near Glasgow, by an unusual disaster. There is a furnace at the bottom of A shaft to create a current of air for the ventilation of the mine ; by some negligence or cul- pability of those managing, the current was stopped; the workings were filled with smoke, and. all the people were in peril of suffocation. Some es- caped by a shaft, but five were taken ont-dwd.

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