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At a Court of Aldermen, on Tuesday, a deputation was appointed to wait on the Lords of the Treasury and confer with them on the subject of the expenses of prosecutions paid by the Corporation of London in their own wrong. A declaration- against transubstantiation was required of Mr. Bullock on his being sworn into the office of Common Sergeant, on Tuesday. In consequence of that requirement, Mr. Alderman Self:aliens gave notice of the following motion-

"To inquire whether the declaration against transubstantiation has not been repealed by Parliament ; and if so, that it be no longer required on ad- mission to offices in the Corporation of London."

Sir Peter Laurie said he never administered the oath in his ward, and he never would.

The Recorder complained of the frequent obstruction in the passage from Fleet Street to the Old Bailey ; and said that he had contemplated the experiment of an indictment in the matter. The Court resolved to apply to the City Commissioner of Police for a cure of the evil.

At a meeting of Commissioners of Land-tax for the County of Middle- sex, about 130 in number, in Clerkenwell Sessions-house, on Tuesday, a motion was made to have a new assessment of a portion of the county by an equal pound-rate on all the property liable to the tax therein. An amendment to appoint a Committee to inquire, and obtain legal opinions, was negatived by 25 votes to 18. Another amendment, proposed by Mr. Pownall, to petition Parliament for an act more accurately limiting the powers of the Commissioners, was carried. A Committee was appointed to give effect to the amended resolution.

The Lord Mayor has received a letter written by the order of Prince Albert, expressing the gratification which his Royal Highness derived from the banquet given in promotion of the Industrial Show, and congra- tulating him on the " complete success which bids fair to attend this en- deavour to unite all parties and classes throughout the kingdom " in its support. The Queen and Prince Albert have made a further donation of 1604 towards the fund for completing the model Baths and Washhouses in Goulston Square.

A magnificent banquet was given to Viscount Gough, by the East In- dia Company, on Saturday last, at the London Tavern. Lord John Rus- sell and Sir Robert Peel were among the very large number of eminent guests, and were speakers. In proposing Lord Gough's health, Sir Ar- chibald Galloway, the chairman, referred to the "full thirty times and more" that he has fought for his country, and to his gallant Eighty- seventh, " the captors of the first eagle and the first banner of France ' ; and he recalled that entire devotion, singleness of mind, and faith, which have been at once his characteristics and the causes of his success. Lord Gough tendered his acknowledgments with embarrassed warmth ; made kind and hearty reference to his companions in arms, Lord Hardinge of the one service and Sir William Parker of the other ; and sat down wish- ing he had the power to do more justice to his feelings. In acknowledg- ing the toast of the Navy, Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm communicated that crowds have come forward as volunteers in the desperate service of the search after Sir John Franklin. " It was a desperate chance ; for the orders were to push in, through everything, and at all risks to go on, or jierish in the attempt.'

Lord John Russell said for his colleagues, that he had come as a Minis- ter to do honour and give the tribute of their homage and admiration to the gallant Lord Gough-

And as a lover of peace he might do that. For when the necessity of war had once occurred, he who crowns the arms of his country with the laurels of victory is the truest friend of peace : in the successful warrior they might honour the man by whose means the deserted village is repeopled-the man by whom the abandoned harvest is again restored-the man by whom the desolated country again wears the smiling aspect of industry and peace.

Sir Robert Peel further illustrated this idea by a reference to the Ex- position banquet at the Mansionhouse-

Within forty-eight hours he had been called npon to return thanks for the House of Commons on an occasion solely connected with the arts of peace, and on an occasion of commemorating splendid military exploits and a long career of victory. It had been justly said by Lord John Russell that those who show valour in war and moderation in victory are laying the foundations of peace. " Lord Gough will shortly present himself to his ad- miring countrymen : I hope they will see in him a proof that the widest scope for the exertion of Irish valour, and for the exhibition of Irish talent, lies in their cooperation with this country-in identity of feeling with us in our disasters, if we should incur disasters-in identity of rejoicing in our victories-in the participation of a common fate in our common sountry- tbe union of two great nations." (Much cheering.)

The health of Lord Hardinge was an especial toast ; and in acknowledg- ing it, Lord Hardinge did not forget to mention among honoured names, that of his young and gallant friend Major Edwardea.

The ease of Connelly versus Connelly, decided in the Arches Court by Sir Herbert Jenner Fest on Saturday, was a suit for the restitution of conjugal rights, promoted by the Reverend Connelly, of Albury, Surrey, against his wife, Mrs. Cornelia Augusta Connelly, of Hastings. Mr. Connelly was a clergyman of the Episcopal church in America ; he was married to his wife at Philadelphia, in 1831; and there were five children born to him. In 1836, Mr. and Mrs. Connelly visited Rome; became converted to the Roman faith ; and resolved to separate and "enter into religion." Mr. Connelly took Roman orders, and Mrs. Connelly took vows of chastity and became Su- perioress of a religious community of women, which she founded at Derby ;

and has since removed to Hastings. In December 1847, Mrs. Connelly also took the vows of poverty and obedience. In January 1848, Mr. Connelly re- sought his wife's company, and on her refusal, commenced this suit.

In defence, Mrs. Connelly alleged her separation under the rules of the Boorish church. A man and wife may after marriage consummated sepa- rate for the purpose of entering holy orders and making profession, pro- vided the Pope do, on petition, by rescript approve of the separation ' • and when the separation is consummated by the husband's entry into orders and the wife's profession, then the Pope's rescript has all the force of a judicial sentence, so far that it debars the parties perpetually thence " ab omni usu ejusdem," and ordains that thenceforth "alter alterum repetere non potest."

Sir Herbert Jenner Fast rejected this allegation, on two grounds. That which was here pleaded as tantamount to a sentence does not "annul" the marriage; it did not entitle the parties to live separate and apart from each other in the way in which sentences of separation are considered in that court. "Indeed, it appeared that they had resided together in the same house for a considerable period after that vow had been taken." But it is not sufficient to say that the law of Rome has decided so and so, unless the law of Rome has been adopted in this country. In marriage, the lex loci contractile decides the status of parties; but the rights and obligations of the parties only so far as the lex loci have been adopted by us. Among the rights of here, is the right of living in company ; and this right the Ecklesiasti Courts will not allow parties to set aside voluntarily. Parties coming to this county and residing here are subject to its matrimonial regulations andmunicipal laws. It would be no answer to a person suing Mr. Connelly for debts contracted by his wife, to plead that she is professed in religion and head of a religious community; nor any answer to a suit (which the peculiar circumstances render very unlikely) for divorce by a reason of adultery, to plead this foreign separation.

aPP TheeaL allegation having been rejected, Mr. Connelly's counsel gave notice of

Alexander Moir, a baker, of Brydges Street, Covent Garden, is charged with wilfully causing the death of his wife, by most cruel beatings. Moir and his wife have been constantly quarrelling. Lately. a lodger heard them scuffling in their bedroom, and Mrs. Moir's voice saying, " You'll kill me, you'll surely kill me ! " Moir's voice replied, "I'll murder you before I've done with you! " a boy's voice was then heard—" Oh, father., don't kill mother ! you'll kill my mother! " A journeyman heard a noise last week in their bedroom, which was over his bed, as of dragging about on the floor; and he heard Moir talking " very ferocious." When he called his master up he saw Mrs. Moir, and perceived that her face and neck were swelled, and she was crying. On Saturday morning, Mrs. Moir's female cousin saw her repeatedly struck on the head and kicked by her husband : he refused leave for her to lie down an hour, though she had been up all night, and was ill. On Saturday afternoon, he was offended at some act in the business, and again boxed her ears very heavily ; in a few minutes after she swooned ; he prevented the shopman from lifting her up, saying, with an epithet, "Let her lie—let her come to herself!' She recovered enough to say to her eouein, "I am in a fit, and a very bad one; pray, for God's sake, don't leave me' ; and again she swooned. Moir exclaimed, she should never lie on a bed of his again ; but, after some hours, her cousin per- suaded him to let her be put on a bed. She lingered insensible till Mon- day, and died. Mr. Watkins, a surgeon, has given evidence, that he was called on Sunday, and the case was then evidently a fatal one. On a post- mortem examination he found the body covered with bruises and wounds. The head, face, and neck, were enormously swollen ; the integuments and muscles of the head were contused in a manner he never saw before—they were a perfect jelly. All the viscera were perfectly healthy.: the stomach had no odour of spirit i and both the stomach and liver negatived the exist- ence of drinking habits. The injuries were caused by blows, and those blows had been the cause of death. Moir was examined at Bow Street on Monday, and remanded on thecharge of murder till Thursday. On Wed- nesday a Coroner's Jury sat, and, after hearing evidence to the above effect, found a verdict of " Manslaughter " against the husband. On Thursday the inquiry at Bow Street was continued. Some facts appeared which suggested that the assault of Saturday was committed in a great passion, and that Moir thought his wife was drunk ; on her death he was at first unaffected, but subsequently "much cut up." At the end of the inquiry, he said the evidence against him—which had been that of his wife's cousin, his own young child, his shopman, and lodger—was "false." Mr. Hall committed him to be tried for murder.

Albert Merminod, a Frenchman, has been twice examined at Guildhall Police Office on charges of forgery and robbery, and on Wednesday the case i was completed. He appears to have obtained in Paris, surreptitiously, two bills of exchange belonging to Messrs. Calm and Co. of London, and the half of a three-hundred-pound note; the securities being stolen from Messrs. Cahu's establishment at Paris. He presented the bills for payment at Coutta's, writing the name of Xr. Calm on the back ; but they were not paid. Merminod pretended that-a young man in Paris was about to destroy the bills, when the accused, who was coming to London, said he would get them cashed. The charge of robbery could not be sustained in England; but that of forgery was made out, and the Frenchman was committed.

At Worship Street Police Office, on Wednesday, William Langford Jenkins and Charles Pound were examined on a charge of obtaining 8001. in money and bills from Mr. Newman, a colour-manufacturer in Hoxton, by false and fraudulent pretences. A preliminary examination bad taken place before. Pound, who falsely pretended that he was an attorney, was introduced to Mr. Newman by that gentleman's nephew ; he represented that Jenkins, a very young man, was about to come into 20,0001. under a will,—producing what nppeared to be a legal copy of a will ; and by this and other means induced Mr. Newman to lend money and billsto Jenkins, who was introduced to him. It appeared subsequently, that Jenkins only had a claim to a small property, now undergoing a process of litigation which would most likely consume it all. The copy of the will mentioning 20,0001. was a fraud. The case has been further adjourned; the Magistrate requiring heavy bail.

At Lambeth Police Office, on Saturday, Mr. George Waddington attended at the Magistrate's desire to explain continued ill-conduct towards his son, the Reverend John Waddington, a Wesleyan minister. About a month ago, Mr. Waddington was charged by his son with annoying him ; and he was held to bail. Mr. Waddington, it then appeared, Complained in his turn of the conduct of his three sons, all ministers of religion, who would not render him that pecuniary aid which was well in their power; in consequence, he annoyed his son John at his chapel, and went to his house in Surrey Square, and there wrote defamatory sentences with chalk on the pavement. The son stated to the Magistrate, that his father had some years ago deserted his mother, to live with another woman ; leaving his family to struggle on as they mi ght. He now allowed him 108. a month, which was as much as he could afford. The father was in prison for some time; but having got bail, he recommenced the annoyance. Mr. Norton sent for him to point out gam the impropriety of his conduct, and to warn him from continuing it IV ad- dington, however, assumed a lofty tone, and threatened still to pester his son. When Mr. Walter Watts, the lessee of the Olympic Theatre, was brought up at the Ifinsionhouse un Monday, the prosecutors applied for a further re- mand; and it was eventually arranged that the case should be proceeded with next Tuesday.

The beautiful pariah-church of St. Anne, Limehouse, was totally destroyed by fire, yesterday. The fire originated in the chamber between the ceiling and the roof, where a heated flue-pipe. emerged to the air. The two at- tendants who discovered it, about eight in the morning, alarmed the

*one's by an irregular tolling of all the bells, and in a short time a

multitude hastened to the spot. All endeavours to check the flames were futile, from the great height at which they raged ; so efforts were con- fined to the saving of muniments, sacred paraphernalia, and valuable orna- ments. The great central chandelier had scarcely been removed when the ceiling of the nave fell in. The conflagration then assumed an as- pect of imposing grandeur; flames rushed in eddying streams from the side-windows, and chased up the steeple to a vast height in the air, with a terrific roaring and succession of crackling reports. The organ 'toed a long time, apparently unattacked ; at last its pipes were seen to give way, melted by ihe furnace-heat of the air which rushed through them; sud- denly the framework was enveloped in flame, and then in a short time the whole was destroyed. As the belfry was reached and the machinery con- sumed, the bells fell with a crash and shock that shook the earth. Ultimately, the bare walls, the steeple, and the calcined columns that once gracefully lifted the ceiling, were alone left standing. So completely is everything combustible destroyed, that the debris now covers the floor to a depth of some two or three feet.

St. Anne's Church was one of Hawksmoor's mod beautiful works; the date of its building was 1712, the cost about 35,0001. There is an insurance to the amount of about 5,0001.

The Surrey Theatre has been in some danger from fire. Two hours after midnight on Wednesday morning, a night-watchman saw from the yard smoke issuing through a hole m a wardrobe-room on the ground-floor. It appears that some old canvass had been stuffed into this hole; the canvass had taken fire, and communicated to the lining of a partition. The fire, however, was soon put out, with little damage.

After very mild weather, London and its vicinity have had a recurrence of winter—low temperature, sharp frosts at night, and showers of snow. On Sunday, the thermometer was several degrees below the freezing-point, with a piercing wind, and repeated falls of snow.