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M. Drouyn de Lhuys, the French Ambassador, arrived at the Embassy, in Belgrave Square, on Friday evening, from Paris, after a temporary ab- sence occasioned by the lamented death of his father. His Excellency's return has, we hear, been hastened by political events—Timm There are still rumours that the Duke of Wellington has at last cons vinced the Government of the absolute necessity of balloting the Militia; and that we shall have a new Militia Act, and also a bill for enlisting seamen, introduced next session.—Daily News.

It is stated that the extra cost of the contemplated reduction in thd price of the rations supplied to soldiers in the Colonies will be about 70,0001. per annum.

Arrangements have been made for the Cape of Good Hope mail screw- steamers, which are to leave Plymouth on the 15th of every month, to call at Madeira and Sierra Leone, on their passage to the Cape; and they will doubtless take mails for those intermediate ports of call. Her Ma- jesty's six ships which used to leave the West of England with mails for Madeira and Sierra Leone have ceased to do so for the last two months.

There are at the present time 1110 steam-vessels in the mercantile navy of Great Britain, and upwards of three thousand accidents have oc- cured betwixt steamers and sailing-vessels within the last three years. The attention of Government having been drawn to the numerous acci- dents, Captain Denham, RN., F.R. S., was appointed to proceed to the various ports to which the vessels belonged, and in many instances to the nearest places where the accidents occurred, to make inquiry into their causes ; and succeeded in obtaining much valuable information on the subject. The gallant officer is now engaged with the legal authorities in drawing up a bill, to be brought before Parliament next ses- sion, for the better regulation of the steam-marine navy, and to compel those in charge of them to adopt greater precautionary measures than they do at present ; the acts of Parliament previously passed being in so many instances inapplicable, and not by any means imperative enough, or sufficient to award punishment for neglect of the regulations. It is feared, however, that the new bill will not be made perfect until all sail- ing-vessels, as well as steamers, are compelled to show lights at night.

—Daily News.

Saturday last being the final day allowed to parties for the deposit of plans for proposed railway, water, gas, and other schemes requiring the sanction of Parliament to enable them to be carried out, the greatest ac- tivity was observable on the part of the Parliamentary agents ; and the official gentlemen at the Private Bill Office were engaged from an early hour in the morning up to eight o'clock in the evening, in receiving and engrossing the portentous documents. Out of about three hundred notices in the Gazette for applications to Parliament, plans were deposited for one hundred and four only : the greater number, however, of those ga- zetted are of that class which require no plans, such as bills to raise ad- ditional capital for existing schemes, to alter and amend powers and pro- visions, &c. • and hence it must not be supposed, from the small number for which dans have been sent in, that private bill business in the en- suing session will be otherwise than brisk ' for it is well known that keen and protracted struggles in Parliamentary Committees take place on bills requiring no deposit of plans. The parties pro and eon are to be allowed to inspect and trace the plans sent in between the hours of twelve and three, commencing on the 4th of December. Compared to the private business of last session' that for the ensuing is considered to be materially greater ; but compared with the sessions 1845 and 1846, when plans and sections for about seven hundred schemes were deposited, the falling-off is striking. The first deposit was on Friday afternoon, for the " Melton and Driffield Junction Railway" ; and the last, within ten minutes of the doors being closed on Saturday evening, was for the " Buckhurst Rail- way." Among that important class of bills for the supply of water, are the " River Lee," " Henley on Thames," and " Watford Spring Water" schemes, all contending for the Metropolitan supply.—Daily News.

An address from the Archbishops and Bishops of England, signed by all the Prelates of the English Church except the Bishops of Exeter and St. David's, appeared in the newspapers on Thursday : yesterday appeared a correspondence between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Exeter, which includes the Bishop's own "humble petition" to the Queen, explaining the reasons which forbade him to subscribe the joint address. The document originally forwarded to the Bishop for his signature was con- siderably different- from the on afterwards adopted. It qualified the Papal measure as an "unparalleled insult to her Majesty's prerogative," and to the Church of which slab. is " the earthly head" ; • declared the Pope to have assumed the "right of assigning spiritual jurisdiction over the people of this country," and to have " claimed the same authority as is exercised by your Majesty " in appointing bishops ; and it prayed the Queen that such measures be sanctioned as may seem best fitted to counteract a scheme to disturb the peace of the realm and im- pede the diffusion of pure religion. The Bishop of Exeter largely participates in the general indignation" at the " rec eat aggression of the Bishop of Rome on the imperial dignity of your Majesty's crown, and on the spiritual rights of the Church of England as a branch of the one Catholic and Apostolic Church " ; but the grounds- taken in the original address appear to bun, wholly beside the question. Her Majesty's prerogative, and the laws and principle of our constitution, are matters between the Queen and her subjects, which, " as a foreign poten- tate can neither be supposed to know nor require to respect them," are al- together out of place. Still, the act of the foreign potentate, in parcelling. out the realm into dioceses, presents weighty subjects of consideration to jurists and atatesinen, " if it be or be not an Infraction of the law of na- tions." If it be—and the Bishop is confirmed in his opinion that it is, by the eloquent ant' befitting words of the chief of her Majesty's Ministers— then, doubtless, her Majesty has been advised to demand the revocation of an act so grossly insulting to her royal dignity : and in this event, the Bishop expresses his joy that recent legislative foresight may now enable "an accredited envoy peaceably to negotiate that reparation for an enor- mous wrong, which it might else have been necessary to extort by military force." He cannot assent to the assertion that the Pope has "assigned spiritual power and jurisdiction " to his Bishops, in that sense which our constitution forbids : the Pope cloth not aesign "authority or jurisdiction in the external forum—coactive power—that authority which the laws recognize and en- force " ; he only gives that which it is known or believed by all that he bath in fact—authority and jurisdiction in t'oro eonveientia—over all who are in communion with him. Nor can the bishop of Exeter join in the opinion that the Pope has claimed to exercise the same authority as is exercised by her Majesty, in appointing bishope; for this implies that her Majesty ex- ercises the same authority with the Pope,—an authority not merely to name who shall receive the spiritual mission, but to confer it as the only source of spiritual authority. "Such authority, as it cannot be exercised by any lay power however exalted, so it would be both.undutiful and unloyal to sup- pose that your Majesty bath ever claimed or ever will claim." Nor is the aggression of the Pope " unprecedented " [unparalleled] ; witness the prat:- lice in Ireland for two centuries, and the recent nets in our Colonies.

But incomparably stronger objections are felt by the Bishop of Exeter to the designation of her Majesty as "the earthly head of the Church in this kingdom." "There is not and there cannot be more than one head, even Christ, of the one body, the Church, which is itself one, now militant upon earth, hereafter to be triumphant in heaven." Ile doubts not that such a title, without restrictions and qualifications, would be as offensive to the Queen to receive as sinful in himself to offer. The statute under which Henry the Eighth iiiikEdward the Sixth bore it,. notoriously falsified the concession of it by the "clergy in their Convocations." "The one Sove- reign whom in the long line of your Majesty's royal predecessors we recog- nize as your truest prototype, the illustrious Elizabeth, refused with horror to receive the title, after the statute which conferred it had been repealed by her sister" ; "saying, with all gravity, 'That is a name which has been given to Christ, and to Christ only ; by no mortal whatsoever can it be borne.' "

In conclusion, the Bishop humbly besought her Majesty to believe • that his dutiful attachment in not less sincere or ardent than that.of any of his brethren.

As we said above, the address was revised. The." insult" was termed " unwarrantable" instead of "unprecedented" or "unparalleled," and was described as aimed not at the prerogative, &c., but at the " Church over, which your Majesty's authority is supreme." The Bishop of Rome was declared to have exercised " a prerogative constitutionally belonging to her idujesty alone" ; and the prayer was framed, that her Majesty should discountenance, by all constitutional means, " the claims and usurpations of the Church of Rome, by which religious divisions are fos- tered" and the diffusion of pure religion impeded. The Bishop of Exe- ter acknowledged that some of his objections have been removed ; but he cannot even now subscribe the address.

• Mr. Roebuck, M.P., has addressed to Lord John Russell, through the daily press, a letter giving expression to his feeling of "the mischiefs which now threaten the peace of this empire." "1 address myself to your Lordship," says he, "because I feel that great principles are in dan- ger, and that to you is attributable the imminent risk to which they are exposed...

y historical references Mr. Roebuck first answers the question, "What are these principles ? " They are those which animated Pitt in 1801, and Lord Grenville and the Whigs of his Cabinet in 1807, when they left office rather than airy an unconstitutional pledge on the Catholic claims; which inspired Lord Wellesley, Mr. Canning, Mr. Grattan, Earl Grey, and a host besides, in the long contest preceding 1829 ; and which enlisted Lord John Russell himself is a follower of those leaders who in 1829 assisted the Duke of Wel- lington and Sir Robert Peel, in' the victory which, as was hoped, for ever laid the foul daemon of religious intolerance, by passing the celebrated men. sure for the relief of ern. Catholic fellow-subjects from all civil disabilities. Those great men deemed that any attempt to degrade by law, and by the imposition of civil disabilities, any one class of believers, was not merely unjust but in the highest degree impolitic also ; that a badge of social in- fenority would be an insult inure galling still than an injury : they there- fore said, let us make all men equal before the law—let us be wise in time— let us erase from our laws those cruel and impolitic enactments which have made religion a curse instead of a blessing—a cause of hate, and strife, and .weakness, in place of being a bond of peace, of unity, and strength. Mr. Roebuok then tells why he believes these great doctrines are now in .peril; and gives a reason, for the fear that is in him. "I find the public mind of England stirred from one end of the kingdom to the other. I hear fierce denunciations hurled against one large class of our Christian brethren ; and I sax politicians nearly of all classes bending beneath the storm, and joining in the cry against l'apists and the Pope.; and I most sincerely assert that I um utterly at a loss to understand how a really tolerant people could be thus carried away by an intolerant feeling. Does any danger really exist ? !Seeing what the public feeling is—knowing as I have for many years known, 149 strong anti-Catholic prejudice of my countrymen—I am not surprised at this outbreak. Simple downright intolerance is at the bottom of it. No real danger exists. It is not fear,- but blind intolerant hate, that has aroused the land ; the same sort of feeling• as that which in 1780 roused the mobs of ence upon the good-sense of-the English people. This-feeling you haveanost unfortunately countenanced; you have given dignity and importance to as antipathy which you ought carefullyto have allayed; and, by your ill-timed support, have done your utmost to keep alive for :vears itdetestable intolers anee, of which in your heart I believe you. ter 115 thoroughly ashamed." With arguments that would not be new to the readers of the articles and correspondence in our columns, Mr. Roebuck endeavours to make plain. the ridiculousness of the danger; but having done so, he owns that the feeling which has really created all the confusien causes him an alarm asnerioua as that of the public is ludicrous. " When we remember that hate, religions bigotry, is at the bottoniof it all—when we remember that every Protestant priest has, by religious antipathy, been roused into action—when we also bear in mind that every Catholic priest in. England and Ireland has now challenged to the combat—is it not clear, my Lord, that your most un- wise and unstatesmanlike letter has served as a trumpet to call into action: the worst and fiercest and most dangerous passions that darken human. rea- son and harden the human heart ? The work of years-has in a moment be destroyed, and all the weary labour of eradicating those now vigorous weeds- in our fair garden—religions hate- and ecclesiastical intolerance—has again, to be encountered. When you were a labourer at this work, you had to aid; you many Protestant sects then suffering under legal disabilities. These you. helped to remove; and now that assistance will no longer be afforded to the friends of religious freedom, for every Protestant sect will band together on the one hand, and range themselves in fierce hostility to all the Catholics amt the other."

Pointing' these allusions by the repetition of the statesman's difficulty, " How is Catholic Ireland to be governed ?" he winds up with animadver- sions on the rashness which hue merged the serene duty of the national. statesman in the immediate and petty views of the political partisan.

Sir Benjamin Hall, opining in his character of a Radical Reformer that there are more causes than one for the present interference on the part of. the Popo, has .written two columns to the Archbishop of Canterbury in advocacy of his plans for administering the wealth of the Establishment with less abuse and more missionary effect. Ile reminds the .Archbishop that the highest dignitary in the Church of France, the Cardinal Archbishop of Parisi and the highest ecclesiastical, dignitary of Prussia, the Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne, each receive no more than 20001. a year; where- as, in the seven years ending 1843, twenty-three Prelates of England and Wales divided a net income of 1,121,1581. 9s. 2d. between them ; while there are in eight sees eighty-five livings worth less than fifty pounds-e' year. He suggests, that the incomes of the two Archbishops should be- 60001. a year ; and that 50,000/..a year should be divided between the' other twenty-three prelates : this would give a yearly surplus that would provide 698' clergymen. with salaries of 2001 a year each. If such re- forms were carried out, and the laity given some power of participating in the election of their pastors, the Established Church would be replaeed on a basis that might equally defy the insidious corrosions of Puseyism and the open batterings of Rome.

Cardinal. Wiseman has decreed, or announced, the immediate obser- vance of "an extraordinary jubilee" by the Catholics of his archdiocese and diocese. The observance was enjoined last Sunday from the pulpits) of the Metropolis. An application by a reporter for a copy of the docu- ment " met' with a courteous' but peremptory refusal," by the direction of "'his Eminence," and the priest read the document so rapidly that a ver- batim report could not be taken : the reporter's note was full enough, however, to enable the faithful publication of the spirit of the document.. Commencing with the usual recital of the Cardinal's titles, and bestowing the regular salutation and benediction, it states that the Church has for mew centuries observed the practice of proclaiming a jubilee every twenty-five vears ; "at which .period, multitudes repair to the shrines of the blessed Apostles of Rome, in order to partake of the spiritual benefits which there abound." By a, jubilee is signified, " a period of time during which the Church more earnestly exerts herself, through her ministers, to bring sinners to repentance,. to obtain the restitution of ill-gotten property and the re, paration of injured reputations ; to reconcile enemies, to make the lukewarm fervent, to awaken faith, enliven hope, and increase charity, and to renew in all the sound principles of true religion and their serious observance." The Church,. at such holy time, exhorts her children to " run to the sacred tribunal of penance," . . . . " to give alms abundantly, according to the ability of each, and to mortify the flesh by fasting." " But further, a jubi- lee is the time for using violence to Heaven by earnest and constant prayer, proceeding from the soiilithus purified, for the averting of calamities from the Church."

Cardinal Wiseman appoints "the. period from. Sunday the 8th De-

cember until i

Sunday the 22d of the same month, both inclusive, as the time for enjoying the, jubilee in the archdiocese of Westminster and the diocese of Southwark,' —a more fitting time than any other, as it will commence with the feast of the Immaculate Conception, "which the Holy Father has graciously granted as the patron feast of both dioceses, and which will supersede the observances of the second Sunday in Advent." The three fast-days of the Ember-week of Advent will "form part of the conditions of the jubilee."

The conditions of the jubilee are—first, that each of the faithful must "partake sacrifice of the penance and the holy. eucharist" ; second, that each must "visit on,threc separate days some Catholic church or chapel, and either join in the prayers hereafter prescribed, or if not assigned, say the Litany of the Blessed Virgin, and five Our Fathers,' and five Hail Marys.' " Further, that on the last day, after mass, a solemn Te Deunt be sung or recited in the thanksgiving for the return of his Holiness to Rome. Finally, the brethren are exhorted as to the "clear duty" of alms deeds : although such are not " a condition of granting the jubilee," " they are among the surest means of obtaining the fulness of its benefita." Tomorrow is appointed "for an annual collection to be made in the dig ferent churches and chapels in this archdiocese and diocese, in behalf of our two orphan schools at Norwood and Hyde."

Mr. Bennett, of St. Paul's Knightsbridge and St. Barnabas Pimlico, has published a pamphlet, under the title of, "A First Letter to Lord John Russell, M.P., on the present Persecution of a Portion of the Eng- lish Church." The daily papers have made it a prominent feature of the week's news.

"I am desirous of informing you," begins Mr. Bennett, "as one of 'my chief parishioners," and "as one charged by our Sovereign Lady the Queen with the governmental duty of keeping order, peace, and harmony among her subjects," "that I am in great trouble and distress of mind at•the pre- sent moment in regulating the affairs of my parish." "I wish to inform you, my Lord," he repeats, "that on Sunday the 10th.of November, while I was performing the duties of divine service m the church of St. Barnabas, a aIl decency, in uttering hisses, and exclaiming No mummery," No Popery, and other similar cries, alarming the decent worshipers." "I wish to in- form you," he iterates, 'that on Sunday November 17, a very large mob of most tumultuous and disorderly persons collected a sewed time," with greater de- monstrations of violence ;that a force of one hundredconstables was required to prevent overt acts of violence but that violence woe committed, and a 1e.ilerof the rioters taken into custody; that the mob again assembled in the evening,, and with yells battered•the doors of the church ; that similar scenes occurred again on Sunday November 24, " when I was interrupted in my ser- mon by outcries " as before. " I -wish to inform you," that in consequence the. church was closed for the evening service on November 10, and must re- main closed till these tumultuous assemblies are stopped. " I wish to in- form you," that from the effector thistumultuotairruption of non-parishion- ers, " the poor, the timid, and particularly women and children," intimidated and shocked by the blasphemous expressions of the multitude " dare not any longer attend divine service." "I wish to inform you" he finally repeats, "that in consequence of this, we on our part—I mean the clergy—are very seriously crippled and hindered in the various pastoral works of our calling ; that the minds of our parishioners are disturbed, and kept in an unhealthy stretch of excitement ; that the peace and love with which it is our duty to look upon each other, however great our differences of opinion, are gone ; that hatred, animosity, and bitterness of spirit, areengaidered among us all; and that we are, in short, both clergy and people, in a very great state of trouble and distress ; that we look forward to the next Sunday, when the greater services of the Church will again be perform+ under (vmxiaPrable fear that some violent outbreak may take place."' "What is the meaning of all this ? How has it come to pass ? Where-is the cause of it? Who has,done it ?"—The answers are suggested by Lord John Russell's letter to the Bishop of Durham, and by his-speech at Guild- hall. "To those who have eyes to see, alas ! it is too plain." A few words, Mx. Bennett claims, "first on the subject of your consistency in regard of this matter, and then in regard of your theological opinions." Proofs of the Premier's inconsistency are then sarcastically heaped up against him in his respective characters of the stanch advocate of the rights of conscience, defender of religious liberty, guardian of Protestantism against its mortal foe of Rome, and the exemplary parishioner under Mr. Bennett's own spiritual care. The reader is reminded how, in 1835, the Devonshire electors were informed by the Premier, that, among other causes, to "the temporary alarm of weak minds caused by the revival of the cry of 'No Popery,' " his defeat was to be attributed; so that Popery and his Lordship "were once identified." He is now notoriously of opinion that even the de- nial of our Saviour ought not to exclude from Parliament, or form a bar to all the honours and privileges of our country ; and that all creeds and dog- mas, and every form of religious profession, may be given up, in order to se- cure education to the poor. He upholds an educational system adopting no creed, while worshiping in a church which anathematizes heresy, and insists upon a creed as necessary to salvation. So far is he from bigotry that he gladly ignores the laws of every church whatsoever ; flying as it snits him to the teaching of Presbyterians opposed to the Church, while nominally remaining within the Church's pale. His system is so large and eclectic, that in the Morning he claims to worship in a communion which says " without bishops there is no church," while in the evening he will worship in a communion which denies the grace of bishops altogether. "Infact, my Lord, it is clear, in regard to your faith, judging it by yonroonduct, that you are in religion as in politics, a Liberal." . . . . But "while you cry out most heartily, 'Liberty of conscience,' you stop the mouths of men, confine the intellects of men, and enslave the souls of mem by a great, cumbrous, unwieldy, tyran- Weal machine, called a State Church, which you enforce against us without snerey; and while you find fault with Chrbies holy Catholio Church for dog- Matizing in creeds, you nevertheless rule them with a rod of iron in the dog- mas of an act of Parliament. While you yourself get free of articles and Queen's supremacy in the liberty of a Presbyterian, you charge the unfortu- nate clergy of the English Church with their bounden duty of submission to the Thirty-nine Articles, and theQueenfs supreme headship and government over them in things spiritual" Not only as a statesman has Lord John been deriding. and destroying what before he praised and fondled, he has done the same in his parochial con- nexion with the "poor church of St. Barnabas." "In the year 1843, the church of St. Paul, Knightsbridge, was consecrated by the Bishop of Lon- don. You being a parishioner, became from the very first a member of the congregation therein worshiping; you were constantly at divine service, constantly at sermons ; you have received the holy sacrament, you and yours, at my hands If my course was insidious, why did you take part in that course ? If I so muttered the liturgy as to disguise its language, why did you join in so glaring a profaneness for nearly seven years? If I practised 'mummeries and superstition,' why did you come to join in them for nearly seven years ? Why did you so far and so deeply join in them as to receive at my hands, so late as Ash Wednesday 1849, the holy eucharist, yourself and your family ? Or if you feared not for yourself, as being too strong to heed it, why countenance it by your own example in regard of others who were weak ? why tend towards and cooperate with a system which was likely to be so perinekus and so fatal to their spiritual welfare ? And lastly, any Lord, why in the midst of all this (if it were so) 'insidious -teaching, 'mummeries of superstition,' and geailing of the flock to the verge of the precipice'—why did you lend your countenance and give your alms, not only to the maintenance and support of that system as then es- tablished at one church, but also to the building and establishment of another, which you knew would be conducted on the very same principles ?" The subject of Lord John's theology is treated under the heads of "the infallibility of the Church" • " the sign. of the ewes " ; " the muttering of the liturgy so as to disguise ihe language in which it is written" ; " auricu- lar confession, penance, and absolution." Mr. Bennett does claim for the Church infallibility : not for our national church —the Articles expressly say that all national churches are liable to err; but for " the whole, universal, Catholic Church, throughout all ages, and in all countries, and in all times agreeing, and blessed by the Spirit of God, as the Apostles were at Pente- cost." The superstitious use of the sign of the cross is of course objection- able; but to say that all use of the sign is superstitious, is to go against the Church, which commands it at the font in baptism. The muttering of the liturgy so as to " disguise the language," Mr. Bennett assumes to mean the eltoml form of service,• and he refers to " the many works" showing the authority of the Church in favour of that practice. On the subject of pe- nance, he quotes authority which Lord John Russell himself should have re- membered. On Ash Wednesday 1849, he was present in the church of St. Paul's and heard and joined in that solemn service of the Church called the Commination Service; in that service he heard-these words—" Brethren, in-the primitive Church there was a godly discipline, that at the beginning of Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open penance, and punished in this world, that their souls might be saved in the flay of the Lord, and that others, admonished by their example, might be more afraid to offend. Until whereof, (until the said discipline may be re- stored again, which is much to be wished,) it is, thought good," &e. Lord John ought to have known, then, that the idea of penance is held in the Church of England as a thing desirable. With regard to auricular conies- *on, (voluntary,: as distinguished from the compulsory confession of the Bee

mans,) and to absolution, the doctrine of the Reformed Church is set fortlein the first Prayer-book of Edward the Sixth. " If you find fault with priestly absolution," you find fault, not with the clergy, but with the Prayer- hook." " The custom of confession is clearly deducible all through the Re- formation down to our own days."

Reserved for final and separate treatment, is what Mr. Bennett believes to be the "one and only one real objection and alarm" in the Premier's mind —his alarm for the Queen's supremacy. "It suits your Lordship, because it is a popular outcry, to set the people on a false scent about 'No Popery,' in order to strengthen your own secret schemes within, of strengthening the Royal power in the things of the Church. All the bishoprics, deaneries, canonnes, a great number of livings, and offices and places in and about the Church, are yours. You are contending, therefore, for the continuance of your own advantage, when you contend for the continuance (in your sense of it) of the Queen's supremacy. You are contending for the power of general liberty of opinion—latitudinarianism, freethinking, scepticism, and the like. When you contend for a Royal headship over the Church, you are contending for your own power to appoint a Dr. Hampden to ali the sees of England, and a Mr. Gorham to all the parishes of England; that by so doing you may, by the wealcuL es of the clergy, and their division, and their jealousies of each other, ride through the storm yourself triumphant. I leave it for your con- sideration, whether you- really have any love for the truth, and any desire to increase the strength of Christ's Church, as such, when you speak of the Royal supremacy ; or whether it is only from a sort of statesman s etiquette that power should always be in his hands." In the English Church at by law established, there are two distinct component parts—the accidental royal power, and the essential sacerdotal power. " That is accidental, without the existence of which the Church would still exist, namely, the royal supre- macy. That is essential, without the existence of which, the Church would be no church at all, namely, the sacerdotal power."

Mr. Bennett acknowledges the ecclesiastical supremacy of the Crown in tem- poral things, and in the temporal accidents of spiritual thugs ; but he does not and cannot acknowledge " in the Crown the power recently exercised, to hear and judge in appeal the internal state or merits of spiritual questions touching doctrine or discipline, the custody of which is committed to the Church alone by the law of Christ." A formal declaration to this of in words well considered, he sets forth, with the information that those propo- sitions have been subscribed by about eighteen hundred of the,clorgy.

Mr. Bennett beseeches the Premier, and those who agree with him in hie theory of an Act-of-Parliament Church, to consider the probable effect of straining too far the idea of governing her by a power external to herself. "Let me supplicate you to pause before you bring. us to this dread shame, tive--either secession from the communion of the Church of England, or re- sistance to the temporal power for cousciena sake." However, if his voice be still raised in vain before the temporal powers, ho and his faithful band in the Church will yet remain firm unto the end. " The spirit of Pilate may be hi the rulers, the spirit of Judas in the brethren, the. spirit of Gallio in the nobles ; but yet let us hope that there may be the spirit of Peter and Paul in the priests and bishops of the fold. For ourselves, the greater the fierceness of the people's madness, so much the greater our patience ; the more violent their outcries of wrath, the more earnest and the longer our prayers."

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.

Zymotic Diseases 2,308 ....

Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat—

510

Tubercular Diseases

1,781

Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,215 ....

Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 315

Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of 'Respiration 2,245

Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion

342

Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 87

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Site 1 IA

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones. Joints, Se 79

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc 10 ....

Malformation 42

Premature Birth 170

Atrophy 134

Age 613

Sudden 140

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 20 .... • • ..

Total (including unspecified causes) 10,665

It is stated that the British Electric Telegraph Company intend to com- mence operations for laying down a submarine line of communication be- tween Scotland and the North-east coast of Irelsud, first forming a line from Dublin to Belfast, and thence across the Channel, which is there narrow, and so very deep as to render it but little likely that the line could be dis- turbed by passing vessels, or any other contact. It is said that the Lord- Lieutenant views with favour these proposed operations.—Morning Poet.

Submarine electric telegraph wires have been laid down on the bed of the American river Hudson above Fort Lee, so as to give a free communica- tion with the South and West.

The existence of a third and innermost ring around Saturn, which has been for some time suspected, has been positively ascertained by the astrono- mers at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

We understand that the North Star, which recently returned from Wob- stenholme Sound in a state of excellent repair, is to be recommissioned forth- with, and sent out to Behring's Straits to relieve the Plover as relief-ship to the Western expedition in search after Sir John Franklin.

The corvette Olivouza, of the Imperial Russian Navy, (26,) Commander Jean Soustehoff, entered Plymouth Sound on Sunday. The Olivouza he provisions for four or five years : with the first shift of wind she was to pro- ceed by Rio Janeiro on to Kamtschatka, on a lengthened voyage of Arctic dis- covery.

At a late meeting of the Institute of British Architects, in conversation after an interesting lecture by Mr. Digby Wyatt on "the Polychromatic De- corations in Italy from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century," Mn God- win hinted that a great work of this kind which has been reserved for this country in the nineteenth century—the proper decoration of St. Paul's—is about to be taken in hand. "No one could now go into that whited sepul- chre without wondering that it had been so long left unfinished. The Dean and Chapter, he believed, had long ago made up their minds that something should be done ; but it was more °difficult to determine on the description of paintings and painted glass to be applied."

Ten Weeks Week,.

of tetls-48. of 1660.

double line of quays from Buoy to Passy. The quay along the poultry market is-now planted for the first time.—Galiynattrs Messenger. In the couse of a discussion respecting the winding-up of the Royal Bank of Australia, Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce lately delivered the following obiter dictum on the Winding-up Act. " I have heard it said that the sta- tutes designated' Winding-up Acts' are so excellent in their construction that they are to form the model for future legislation, and to be the form for the administration of the estates of all dead men. If they are to be,so, my own view is that they will form an additional reason for wishing to continue in life. My conviction is that these acts do far more harm thatgood.4'

The Reverend Lewis Potter, Rector of Dromore, fell dead in the pulpit, on Sunday week, whilst preaching.