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The Earl of Shaftesbury, it is understood, intends resigning the Chair- manship of the- Manse of Lords next session. Lord lledesdale has inti- mated his consent to succeed the noble Earl—Standard.

We understand that it was yesterday determined by the Court of Direc- tors of the East India Company that the appointment of Governor of their military seminary at Addiscombe shall in future be quinquennial—that is, to be vacated- after five years—like the appointments to the Councils of India and las the General Staff and commands of the Army. This is a measure well caltulated to secure efficiency in the performance of No officer- has yet been selected as successor to Colonel Stannuts whose death was reported more than a month ago ; but many very dis- tinguished officers are reported to be eandidates for the situation.—Morn- ing Post, Nov. 28.

Copies of the circulars issued by the Oxford University Commission to the authorities and professors for information on- the inquiries of the Com- mission have appeared in the newspapers this week. The Vice-Chancellor received a letter containing fifteen questions, as to the amount of the monies now in the-University chest, the net income of the. University estates, and the net profits of the University press ; also as to the emoluments of his own office, and the emoluments of a long list of Univer- sity officers ; a request for a schedule of all the fees taken in his court, and a statement of matriculations ; and general questions for other information.

To the same officer with the Proctors and Heads of Colleges were sent cis- eiders containing sixteen questions with subdivisionarqueries. They related chiefly to the power of the Ubiversity to make, repeal, or alter statutes, and the government of the University in.relation to the Colleges as estalalialiecny the statutes of Archbishop Laud ; the sufficiency of the powers to enforce discipline ; the. mode of appointing professors and the possibility of com- bining the professorial with the tutorial' syslem • the system of private tuition, and its effects on the tutors and students; the possibility of diminish- ing the ordinary expenses of a. .university education and restrainingextrava- t habits ; and the means of extending the benefits of the University. This bit inquiry suggested the alternative modes— "L) By the establishment of new Halls, whether as independent Societies or in connexion with Colleges.

" By permitting under-graduates to lodge in private houses, more than at

present:

"(S4 By. allowing students to become members of the university, and lobe edu- cated in Oxford under due superintendence,. but without subjectiug.thern to the ex- penses incident to connexion with a College 'or Hall. ' (4.) Br admitting persons to professional lectures, and authorizing the pro- fessonste grant-certificates of attendance without requiring any further connexion. with the University." To the Professors were also addressed specific inquiries, into the nature -attd-exterrt-of their endowments and incomes, their qualifications and duties, term of office, advantages of 'residence, &e.

Lord Torrington arrived in this country from Ceylon on Monday, by the Ripon.

General Von.Radowitz has arrived at Fentores.Hotel, from Berlin.

Mr. Disraeli is writing. the life- of Lord George Bentinck. He has un- dertaken this literary task-at the request of the Duke of Portland.—.Daily News.

The death of Lord. Nugent removes a nobleman many ara before the public as a man of letters and, a Whig-Radical politiel. His active sympathy with the Greek insurreetioiu and the Spanish rising in 1823, his official rule of the Ionistrt Islands from 1832 to 1835, his icentry of Parliament as an " advanced " Liberal, andhis literary productions both as a poetical historian. in early life, and as the observer of "Lands Clas- sical and Sacred" in mature age, are not forgotten. Lord Nugent was uncle of the present Duke of Buelringharn; he inherited his Irish barony -as second son of his mother the Merehionesa of Buckingham, under the special provisions of the patent which conferred the barony on that lady. He leaves no issue. His death causes a vacancy in the representation of Aylesbury.

The demonstration made at York has bad, a remarkable appendin in tha shape of a letter from the Reinan Catholic Pear Lord Beaumont to the Earl of Zetland, expressing unmitigated condemnation of the Papal measures. The letter was received too late to be read at York, but the Earl of Zetland has obtained leave to make its unexpected declarations public.

"Dublin, Nov. 20, 1850, "My dear LordiZetland"-I perceive :that the newspapers have announced the intention of the High Sheriff to call a public meeting to consider the propriety of addressing the Crown on the subject of the late insult offered to thia country by the Court. of.P.ome ; and I learn from the same sources of information, that the step oiL the part of the High Sheriff has been taken in -consequence of a requisition signed, by nearly all the resident Peers in York- shire. It is a matter not only of no surprise, but of no regret to me, that such a proceeding should be adopted by the country ; for the acts in ques- tion are of quite as much Tolland and social importance as of religious and sectarian character. The Pope, by his ill-advised measures, has placed the Roman Catholiesin this country in a position where they must either break with Rome or violate their allegiance to the constitution of these realms : they must either consider the Papal bull as null and void, or assert the right of a,foreign prince to.create by his .sovereign authority English titles and to erect English bishepries. To send a bishop to Beverley for the spiritual directiem of the Roman_ Catholic clergy in_ Yorkshire, and to create a see of Beverley, we two very different things : the one is allowed by the tolerant lams of the country, the other requires territorial dominion, and sovereign power within the country. If you. deny that this country is a fief of Rome i and the Pontiff has any dominion over t, you deny his power to create a territorial see, and you .condemn, the late bull as sound and fury signifying nothing.' 11,4 on the contrary, you admit his power to raise Westminster into an archbishopric and Beverley into a bisheprie, you make over to the Pope a power which, according to the constitution, rests solely with the Queen and her Parliament, and thereby infringe the prerogative of the one and interfere with the authority of the other. It i- impossible to act up to the spirit of the British constitution, and at the same time to acknowledge the jurisdiction of the Pope in local matters. Such is the dilemma in which the lately published bull places the English Roman Catholic. I aneno4 how- ever, sufficiently. acquainted with their views on the subject, or their inten- tions respecting it, to give any opinion as to the effect this newly-assumed. authority of Rome will have upon their conduct; but I am inclined to be- lieve that the Tablet andT Univers newspapers !meek the sentiments of the. zealous portions of the Roman Catholic community, and that they are the real if not the avowed' organs of the priesthood. The Church of Rome admits of no moderate party among the laity ; moderation in respect to her ordinances is lukewarmness, and the lukewarm she invariably epees Out of her mouth. You must be with her against all opponents, or you are not of her' • and. therefore, when Rome adopts a measure such as the present, it places the laity in. the awkward dilemma r have alluded to. Believing, therefore, that the late bold and clearly expressed. edict of the Court of Rome cannot be re- ceived or accepted' by English Roman Catholics without a violation of their duties as citizens, I need not add that r consider the line of conduct now adopted by Lord John Russell as that of a true friend of the British con- stitution.

"Believe me; my dear Lord Zetland, yours very truly,

a',0 the Right Hon. the Peri of Zetland. Beetuncerr."

Rio very generally rumoured that Lord Beaumont is to be speedily appointed Governor of Malta. Perhaps this may account in some mea- sure for the tone and spirit of his letter to Lord Zetland, in which a Pa- pistfigures as adopting the extraordinary course of approving and encou- raging a NO-Popery cry:—//forning Chronicle.

Vire learn that,a sentence of excommunication has been passed against 140ra Beauelont,for his letter. There is no truth in the report of an in- folttiOn. to send. Lord Beaumont to Malta • neither is there any truth in. the rumour of the resignation of Lord lelb;to.—.Daily News.

The London- correspondent of the Tablet states, that in consequence of the very indecent attacks upon the Roman Catholic religion that have. lately disfigured the. pages of Punch, Mr. Richard Doyle, the talented author of the "Manners and Customs of the English," Brown, Jones, and Robinson," &a., has considered it torhehia. duty tegisre.up all con- nexion with the periodical. He protested,. sometime ago, against £111 at- tat& on his religion which found its way into its columns, and then re- ceived a solemn promise from the editor that, the offence should nails repeated. However, the engagement has been broken, and Mr. Doyle at once resigned his engagement, and a salary of 6001. a year.—Guardian.

In consequence of a representation made to the Horse Guards that the addresses of the Reverend Ignatius Collingridge, the Roman Catholic priest officiating at the chapel in St. Peter Street, Portsmouth, were cal- culated to have a prejudicial influence on the loyal character of our troop/3, orders were last week received that their attendance at the chapel should be discontinued.—Hampshire Chroniek.

Dr. Ullathorne has issued a second pastoral, with the signature." +Wil- liam Bernard, Bishop of Birmingham, and Administrator of the Diocese of Nottingham." It purports to have been occasioned' by the persecuting spirit of much of the Protestant demonstration ; and it especially rebukes the evil examples set by persons in high places. "What have we heard ? We have heard the First Minister of the Crown pouring out such contempt as a frail mortal can against what we know to be the most holy and sanctifying gifts of our dearest Saviour. We have heard. men of the highest station striving to inflame the minds of men, andin raise a moral or even a legalized persecution against us. We hare heard numbers of her Majesty's clergy—of those who range themselves beneath the spiritual headship of our Sovereign—men who profess themselves to be

the ministers of truth, i and justice, and peace, and charity—urged on by this high example, contending n a heated rivalry of calumnies, of insults, and of every manner of wild misstatements, against the truths we profess and the mysteries which console us, against the spiritual acts of our Chief Pastor, and against ourselves." Dr. Ullathonie administers this consolation to the faithful, that such dealings strikingly resemble "those of a certain ancient administration, amongst whom there were found temporal and spiritual rulers combining together against our blessed Redeemer.' He.exhorts to firmness without fear, endurance with patience, prayer for tbe persecutors, and the bright example of a faithful life.

Dr. Jelf, of King's College, has with some alarm repudiated the voucher which he was supposed to give with the gossip relative to "the highest person in the realm," which we quoted last week. He wrote in these terms to the Times on Monday-

" I hear with surprise and regret that .I am supposed to have had author- ity for some words which, in the excitement of speaking, I inadvertently let fall on Monday at the meeting.of St. Mary-le-Strand. mow, therefore,. wish explicitly to say, that I referred in that speech to the anecdote in question as only a rumour; and further, that I had no authority for the statement."

Bishop Wilberforce communicated to the daily papers on Monday, that, "through an error in transcription, the important sentence which should have ended the address to her Majesty passed at the meeting of the Bishop and clergy of the diocese of Oxford,' oh Friday, was omitted. This is the important sentence-

" And we pledge ourselves to discourage the propagation of. principles and, practices which tend towards Roman opinion within our respective spheres."

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 2,165 .... 203 Dropsy Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 550 .... 48 Tubercular Diseases 1,576 .... 153 Diseases of the Brain Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,126

134 Diseases of the tiesiri and Blood-vessels 518 .... 38

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

1,828 .... 201 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 588 .... 66 Diseases of the Kielneys,/kc 82 .... 18 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, gc 108

9 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Ac 74

Diseases of the Skin, CellularTissue,ao 7

4 Malformations 28

7 Premature Birth 209

11 Atrophy 144

16 Age 680 • • • . 48.

Sudden 100

13 Violence, Privation, Cold, andIntemperance 229 • • • • Mk Total (including unspecified causes) 9.770

1,016

There was a large increase of mortality. The deaths of 'the last three weeks were 801, 908, 1016. The increase has proceeded chiefly from diseases, of the organs of respiration, with the exception of consumption, the patients liable to which were much thinned by the cholera. The mean pressure of the atmosphere was 29-340 inches.of meroury ; the mean temperature 46'9'; the wind chiefly South-west.

The fifth annual report of the Commissioners in Lunacy gives these totals. The number of binaries in England and Wales, in public asylums and licen- sed houses, on the 1st of last January, was l5079; 7074 males and 7928 females. Of these, 238 were found lunatic by inquisition, and 264 were crimi- nals. Of the whole number, 1036 were chargeable to counties or boroughs.. The private lunatics were 3774, and the pauper 11,305. The total number is thus apportioned—in asylums, 7140; in hospitals, 1208; in metropolitan

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They. were enclosed, in an earthern urn. Another small urn was near it, containing 162.medals of pure gold. The latter, which weighed 867 grammes; were sold to the town of Nimes, and to some amateurs, at the rate of 115 francs per ounce. They consist of 2 of Julius Crew, 14 of Trajan, 26 Yes- pasian, 5 Nero, 17 Antoninus, 16 Domitian, 11 Adrian, 3 Commodes, 6 Lu- cius Verus, 10 Faustinus, 1 Fauatina, 2 Septimus Severue, 1 Plotmus, 1 Lucille, (the wife of Antoninus,) 1 Nerve, 1 Sabinus, 1 Didius-julianus, 1 Pertinax, and 2, of Aurelian. Out of the silver medals, only 1500 have been saved.; the others were melted down by a silversmith, to whom they had been sold.

"Jerry Wombwell," the successful showman, died at Richmond in York- shire on the. 16th, in his seventy-third year. Mr. Wombwell was originally a shoemaker, and in his.boyhood. had a fancy for birds, dogs, and other am,- mals. His first exhibition consisted of a pair of boa constrictors, then a novelty in this country' and he made a good deal of money by them. He then became a regular travelling showman, increasing his collection till at kWh it surpassed any other exhibition of the kind; he bas.left no. fewer than, three large menageries, contained in forty caravans,, employing up- wards of a hundred horses. Mr. Wombwell realized a handsome fortune.

While Mr. Stannard, of Nayland Mill, was driving in his chaise to Had. Leigh, he loot ehag containing eleven hundred sovereigns. Alter his retunt to Wayland; he was delighted by a small, &neer bringing him the treasure which, he had found on the, road. Mr.,Stennard preeented,the farmer with one hundred' of the sovereigns. licensed houses, 2945; in provincial licensed houses, 3786.

More than 3000 Roman silver medals have just been discovered by a vine-grower in the neighbourhood of Nimes, in a field belonging to Many fatal disasters at sea are reported as the coniteOuence of last week's storms.

The Gazelle, a brig bound from Sydney to London, was lost off Ramsgate during Sunday night. The first intimation of the wreck was obtained by a smack which picked up some casks of tallow, and a copy of the Sydney Morn- ing Herald, and sighted a figure-head floating amid the waves. Other boats put out from Ramsgate, and documents and other things were found proving what ship had been lost : the long-boat was discovered bottom upwards, and all bands seem to have perished. The Gazelle left Sydney on the 22d July, with a full cargo and one passenger—Mr. W. W. Dillon. A very distressing loss of life occurred between Shoreham and Worthing. The Lalla Rookh, from Brazil to London, was in danger ; a boat containing eleven men put off from Worthing to render assistance ; near the vessel, a tremendous sea capsized the boat, and all the gallant fellows were lost. At a later period another boat reached the ship, and eventually she was safely got into harbour. The Cornwall coast was very fatal. A fine vessel from Cardiff, the Queen, was wrecked, and all her crew of eight or ten perished. A French vessel from Liverpool for Bordeaux went ashore near Padstow,—one light having been mistaken for another; and four out of her crew of six were lost. A vessel laden with Spanish fruit went on shore near Penzance' and all her crew perished. The steamer Severn, from Liverpool to Gibraltar, had a narrow escape : she lost her boats, bulwarks, and one of her wheels, and un- fortunately one of her men was crushed by the falling debris. But the Atlantic coast of Ireland seems to have cost more lives than all. Near &afield, Clare a vessel went on the rocks, and all on board were drowned. Two vessels were seen to founder off Cape Clear, and the fate of the crews seems but too certain. Four vessels were lost on the Blackwater Bank. One was an emigrant-ship from Liverpool for New Orleans, with five hundred people on board : all saved. The most lamentable loss of all oc- curred at Kilkee nine miles from Kilrusla. The Edmund, of London, left Limerick for New York with emigrants ; there were 214 souls on board. Hardly had the vessel left port before she was overtaken by the storm; and about midnight on the 19th she went ashore, amid a raging sea. The Coast Guard and persons living near the spot hastened to give assistance. The Edmund was aground at some distance from the rocks, but as the tide rose she drifted nearer to the Black Rock; the master had a mast cut so that it fell upon the rock, and formed a dangerous bridge, over which many persons passed to the rock. Two or three daring men perilled their own lives by staying on the rock to assist the people from the ship ; and about a hundred persons were saved. But as the sea rose higher, the vessel broke up; and it is believed that in the end nearly a hundred persons perished. A Jury an- panelled on fifty corpses returned the verdict, Drowned by the loss of the bark Edmund; and no blame was to be attributed to the master or crew." The Irish of the vicinity are said to have behaved with savage barbarism; seizing valuable wreck, stripping the emigrants naked, and spoiling even the dead.

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"A Magistrate at Kilkee " sends some particulars to the papers. When the vessel's poop came to shore it was at right angles with its usual posi- tion; on the falling of the tide, the Magistrate examined this fragment, with no expectation of finding any one alive ; but "in a locker where paint and oil had been kept he found over the water-line two women and a man alive." There were also fourteen or fifteen corpses, many with only night- dresses. The writer mentions the latter fact especially, as exonerating the peasantry in some sort from the charge of having stripped the bodies found on the shore with hardly any clothing ; and he asserts that the poor people did not plunder, but merely collected those trifling articles schielktlie authorities did not consider worth the cost of gathering together.