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AN EXAMPLE TO ALL PARTIES IN THE CHURCH. —The Bowling Iron Works Company, near Bradford, have given a munificent donation ot X4000 towards the erection and endowment of a Church in the vici- nity of their works. The Company, consisting of J. G. Paley, Thomas Mayson, Jos. Pollard, and John and Joseph Sturges, Estjrs., have very handsomely placed the presentation in the hands of the Vicar of Brad lim) -Leeds Intelligencer. DIOCESE OF RIPON.The Ecclesiastical Commis- sioners have £10,000 to be appropriated from the funds at their disposal for the erection of an episco- pal residence for the Bishop. THOMAS COPPARD, Esq., of Horsham, has given towards the erection of a Chapel of Ease sufficient ground for the building, and a graveyard, and offers to purchase a more desirable site, if required. Be- sides which, he has subscribed £50, and given up a field, the stone from which for the purposes of build- ing is valued at £,400 This is being a Churchman, not in word, but in deed and in truth.—Brighton Hazette.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. -wdow- AMERICA. The Liverpool steamer, which arrived at Liverpool on the 8th, has brought no news from Canada of the 4i^litest importance. The Montreal papers to the 15th of August have reached us through this medium, but contain no news of interest. The Canadians appear to have anticipated that Lord Clarendon will be their future Governor General. They will accord- ingly be duly disopposed, when they are called upon to meet Mr Poulett Thomson, theorist in Russia Tallow and free trade. A New York paper announces with the greatest satisfaction that the harvest in England has failed, but how it contrived to anticipate such a contingency we are unable to say. NEW YORK, AUG. 24--Oar present crop of wheat is abundant beyond any precedent. The weather, in all quarters, has been most propitious and if the latter harvests should come in as they promise, we shall have a large quantity for export. There ap- pears, however, an active demand in many quarters besides England. SPAIN. The French government have at length resolved to interfere in the affairs of Spain, and as an earnest of their disposition, have sent thither several French officers as commissioners. There seems to be very little doubt that the contest will soon have an end. The character of the Spanish war, instead of having been improved by the defections which have recently take place among the troops of Don Carlos, has taken a tone of wilder ferocity than before a result which usually attends the crises of all similar struggles. Exasperated at the treachery, of which their comrades have been the victims, the Navaresse battalions of Don Carlos have at length taken the law of reprisal into their own hands, and are represented as com- mitting the most frightful excesses. Moreno was shot at Urdax, on the 6th. It was this general who first informed Marotto of the conspiracy to assassinate him which had been entered into by Generals Garcia, Sanz, Carmona, and Guergue (shot at Estella), not- withstanding .the fact that they were mutual and avowed enemies. Moreno thus drew upon himself the vengeance of the Navarresse troops in the interests of Don Carlos. If this man be the officer who, it will be remembered, caused Mr Boyd to be shot, and has committed various other excesses (and there seems to exist considerable doubt of his identity), his fate can excite but little sympathy. His assassination affords an additional and a frightful instance of the excesses to which this fratricidal war has given rise- The Bayonne papers supply a copy of the convention entered into at Bergara on the 31st, between Espar- tero and Marotto. It evinces the appearance of being purposely indefinite. The first article stipulates that Espartero shall "earnestly endeavour" to persuade the Cortes to concede or modify thefueros. By other clauses the rank and honours of the Carlist leaders are preserved, leaving to them the option of continu- ing in the Queen's service or not, as they may think proper. It is also provided that all civil employes who shall present themselves within 12 days from the ratification of the treaty, shall be included in its bene- fits, and that, should the Navarrese and Alavese pre- sent themselves in the same manner as the Castilian, Biscayan, and Guipuscoan battalion, they may obtain the same privileges. Don Carios has denounced Marotto, in spite of his specious attempt to recover his favour, in a proclamation, and Marotto has re- turned the compliment. The Carlist journals repre- sent Don Carlos as at the head of 23 battalions, with which he is about to resume the war against Espartero- THE EAST. There is nothing new from Constantinople in re- gard to the negociations between the Porte and Me- hemet Ali. A most destructive fire has levelled with the ground a great part of Pera and Galata, forming part of the suburbs of Constantinople. CHINA. Extract of a letter from China Since writing the above, nothing of interest occurred till Saturday, May 4, when an edict from the Commissioner, who is at the Bogue receiving the rurrendered opium, reached Canton. It communicates his commands for re-opening the trade, orders the boats and guards surrounding the factories to be withdrawn, and per- mits the passage boats to resume running under cer. tain restrictions, and the ships at Whampoa to re- ceive and discharge cargo. Captain Elliot is allowed to pass to-and fro to facilitate the final delivery of the 20,283 chests; but till that is completed 10 hostages are to be retained in Canton, and none of the vessels outside are to be permitted to come in. The edict in question was immediately followed by a public notice from Captain Elliot, stating, that under existing cir- cumstances, he had only to refer Her Majesty's sub- jects to his proclamation of March 23, for their general guidance, and that he would give the earliest informa- tion in his power as to the probable period of his de- parture from Canton, and as he has elsewhere stated that after this event it will be impracticable for any of his countrymen to remain here, and he will not permit any British vessel to enter the river, we have only to confirm our concluding remarks of the 22nd ult., and to state that a protracted suspension of the trade now appears certain, after the surrender of the drug is completed and the vessels now at Whompoa have cleared out."
IRELAND.
IRELAND. THE LORD LIEUTENANT has been suffering from an attack of illness, arising from an affection of the chest. His Excellency's illness was considered somewhat serious; but he is now much better. THE TIPERARY ELECTION is fixed to take place in Clonmel on Monday next, the 16th inst. Mr Sheil was hourly expected. It was stated that the Conservatives had determined on starting Mr Barker, of Kilcooley Abbey. VALUE OF PATRONAGE IN IRELAND.—-The intro- duction of the Poor Law into Tuam has already put the candidates for situations, particularly the profes- sional men of the town, on the qui vive in real earnest. No less than from 80 to 100 gentlemen, for the most part men of influence, eligible to act as guardians, were entertained by two medical gentlemen alone on the one even in c,Liiterick Chronicle. r, A RAILWAY from Dublin to Trim has been projected by respectable parties, an 1 will shortly be brought before the public. NEW DIVINITY COLLEGE IN DUBLIN.—The clergy of the diocese of Kildare have unanimously protested against the proposed college of the Archbishop of Dublin. A petition is In preparation, to be presented to the Queen, on the subject. Almost every diocese in Ireland has adopted a similar protest. DUTY ON COAL IMPORTED INTO LIMERICK. Under the Shannon Improvement Bill, now passed into law, iron and coal imported to Limerick must pay one halfpenny per ton for every mile the river is navigated —that is, we suppose, from the heads to the quays, a distance of sixty miles. For every ton weight of any merchandise imported, one penny per mile. Every boat of turf, 2s. 6d. We apprehend the citizens were not prepared for this vexatious tax upon the commerce of the port of Limerick, in addition to the heavy rates already levied under the Wellesley-bridge Act.- Limerick Chronicle. VN ATERFORD ELECTION.—Mr Wyse was, yester- day week, returned without opposition. DANIEL O'CONNELL and Lord Ebrington were closeted in the Pheanix Park for a considerable por- tion of Wednesday week, to the no small surprise of many, if not of all, of the Lord Lieutenant's house- hold. It is thought that Mr O'Connell's visit was for the purpose of explaining his Carlow speech. THE REPRKSENTATIVE BISHOps.-The Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishops of Down, Ferns, Cork and Cloyne, are the four Irish representative Bishops for the ensuing session of parliament. IMPORTANT TO THE CLERGY.—We have just learned from authority that the second dividend of the Clergy Relief Fund has been declared. The amount is 28. in the pound, and will be payable in a fortnight. -Dublin Mail. O'CON LN FLL has desolved the Precursor Society, and has transferred the Precursor funds into his own pocket, as trustee for public purposes." This is reason sufficient, without more, for the dissolution ol that venerable and most august humbug. Begun in blasphemy, and conducted in folly, the Precursor Society has ended in fraud. It was to have been the prelude of Repeal, unless certain hopeless ends were accomplished. The ends were proclaimed hopeless at the time, but the people paid up their money, not- withstanding. And where is Repeal ? Echo answers —where? The "experiment," however, has been tried, and as it was hopeless, so it has failed, and the Precursor funds are in Dan's breeches' pocket.— Ulster Times.
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TO CORRESPONDENTS. -0 A verv valuable suggestion from an esteemed corres- pondent came too late to be attended to this week.
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JWERTHYR TYDV1L. AND BRECON, Sep. 14, 1S39. There has been no further shuffle of import- ance in the Ministerial pack since our last. The pause gives us time to look more closely into the effects of that which has already been done. In Cambridge, as we anticipated, Ministers have in the person of the renegade GIBSON sus- taincd a miserable defeat. The final state of the poll was as follows For Mr Manners Sutton 717 For Mr Gibson. 617 Majority for Mr Manners Stittott-100 I At Manchester the Conservatives have achieved wonders, thuugh not as yet a complete victory. At the final close the numbers stood as follow Mr Greg 3,09d Sir G. Murray. 2,969 Colonel Thompson 63 Majority for Mr Greg -127 Owing to some unsettled knotty pOllltS ot law, there has been a double electioa at Man- cliesier the Boroti(,Ii-rec%e and the Mayor each claiming to be the returning officer. Yesterday week, the day after the election, the issue of which we have just stated, the polling was taken under the Wayor's nomination and the follow- ing is the result:— Mr Greg 3,206 Sir George Murray 2,994 Mr Greg 3,206 Sir George Murray 2,994 Majority for Mr Greg 212 It is still a question whether M r Ureg s return can be sustained before a Parliamentary Com- mittee; for Mr Greg, it must be remembered, is at present on the Continent, and perhaps even now in blissful ignorance of having had great- ness thrut upon him." He was, therefore, un- able to answer the questions which electors have the right of putting ou the nomination of a Can- didate, and to which written replies should be given within twenty-four hours. Most probably an honest Committee of the House of Commons would declare the election altogether voi(I should the present House ever meet again, which some people seem to think very problematical. We must confess, however, we are not of that number. Cambridge then is gained to the Conserva- tives. At the preceding election the Whig- Radical had a majority of go now, the Con- servatives carry the day by a hundred votes. Manchester also, where at the preceding election the Whig-Radical had a majority of 1200, now gains the day by about one tithe only of the former majority' Surely then it is clear that the decision of the people," the former watchword of the movement," is now fairly against them. Surely then also, it is sufficiently evident, that principle, in the long run, must carry the day- To principle then let theConservative body firmly adhere; and England may yet recover some of her former greatness her flag shall yet be respected her ascendancy acknowledged from East to West, from pole to pole ;-an ascendancy which, were it only in its moral effects, shall be a benefit to the nations of the world, because the principles which, in being carried out into prac- tice, have conduced to it, will be held forth as an example to them, whereby to direct their course. We may remark further, that it has been no idle cloak to the disappointments which the Conservative body have borne, when they and their organs have asserted that there was safety to Conservative princip!es in a little longer re- tention of office by the Whig-Radicals. to They have said over and over again, that the libertine opinions of the day would be the more com- pletely exploded that the eyes of the people would be the more opened to the hollow pros- pects held out by the Administration, first of Karl GiiEY, and afterwards of his successors. They have looked forward confidently to a return to power, and they have anticipated the long continued retention of that power as the more -ertain, the more fully the practice and profes sions of the self-styled liberal party were ex posed to view. Have they miscalculated in these ? Not a whit! Even inlaiiehester,-a place that surely might be looked upon as a close borough for a Whig or a Radical, is all but matched out of their hands. Turn we again to the appointment of POULET THOMSON to the Canada Governorship. But of that monstrous proceeding we need say little, as the opinions of practical men on this subject are recorded in a succeeding paragraph or two. Surely Ministers made the best choice they could from amongst their coadjutors. This is a very natural supposition. Then to what ami serably low ebb must they have sunk Or else, -and this is not an unlikely view of the case,— Lord MELBOURNE finds the Canadas a very trou- blesome item on his hands and lie would be glad to get rid of them at any price. The easiest way of accomplishing this, is to send the most unfit man in the United Kingdom out as Governor. The Canadas may probably be lost by this means; but he will have the less business on his hands, and more leisure to ride out and dine with the Queen which are far more important to him, than any defence of British interests. Alas that such a pest should have been so long endured We conclude by quoting the following para- graph, which we sincerely hope may be univer- sally acted upon "POPISH APPOINTMENTS IN THE STATE.—The Committee of the Protestant Association have determined to address the Queen on the ap- poiotuieut of Mr Wyse, Mr Sheill lull Mr "O'Ferrall; and likewise to issue an address to the public, urgent!y recommending similar I demonstrations of Protestant feeling to be .4 adopted in every part of the country."
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The Rev. H. H. KNIGHT has condescended to reply to a piece of stupid impertinence inserted in the Welshman of Saturday last. His com- munication will be found in our local columns. So far as relates to his own personal conduct, Mr KNIGHT is perfectly justified in placing the facts at length before the public. But as far as the Welshman is concerned, the practical infi- delity, and the general irreligious tone, which pervade its columns, might have been a sufh cient excuse for a Clergyman of his standing not deigning to notice any petty spiteful effuiion which may find its way into its columns. A charge of Jalsthood, by the way, is one which should not lightly be brought against any public print i—a charge of cool, deliberate false- hood. But when it is brought, all the evidence that can be adduced in its support should be put forward. Ir KIGHT has gone as far into that part of the subject as relatell to himself: let us add one word more ourselves. The Welshman opens its fire in these %vortis There was an exultant paragraph in the Merthyr Guardian, a week or two ago, an- "nouncing the unanimous passing of a Church "rate at Neath, as a grand sign of the times in favour of the compulsory Church." The paragraph referred to was as follows:- "CHUKCH HATES.—At a vostry meeting held at Neath, on Tuesday, the 12th inst., [ August] the churchwardens' accounts were passed, and a Church-rate of6d per pound granted,without the least objection by any person." And this is the paragraph described by the Welshman as "exultant!" and as announcing a grand sign of the times in favour of the com- pulsory Church." We can only say, What a pity it is people will go so far out of the way, and take so much trouble, to tell bare-faced lies, which can be so easily refuted! Such a pro- ceeding would be inexplicable to any honest stranger in this country but as coming from one of the party which exists only by "enormous lying," and some of whose supporters are ready to voie "blaek white" to preserve to it a little longer place and pay, we can easily comprehend the Welshman's departure from truth. One week we convict this Radical print of eucouraging disobedience to the laws; another week we have to expose its falsehoods. What is to be the next step in its disreputable career ?
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Duelling, by every person who conforms to that wicked custom, is admitted to be indefen- sible. Yet no progress has hitherto been made towards putting down this relic of barbarity. We trust there is some hope, now that the Clergy begin to take up their proper position iu com- bating the evil. A spirited and excellent re- monstrance has been addressed to Lord LON- DONDKURY by thirty-one Clergymen, on the subject of his late duel with Mr GRATTAN and a reply, not over creditable to his Lordship, has been forwarded to one of their number. He says,— You call upon me, as a Christian isentior "and nobleman, instead of bowing to the evil requirements of a worldly code, to have sub- stittited exalted station and religious princi- pies. But you forget that this course might in all probability, have entailed personal chastisement and insult. Allow me to observe, "Sir, to your cloth, this may pass over. Civil action may redress. But to ours, this can never be risked." The meaning of this passage is, that because one man thinks it probable another may hold a horse-whip over his head in some public place, saying at the same time, '< Consider yourself horse-whipped," he is thereby justified in placing his own life in jeopardy, as well as that of his adversary, by standing, in the one cage to be shot at, in the other to use the means calculated to take away the lile of his fellow mortal. ltit- ther than bear with an insult, or assault, for a time, till lie might obtain redress in a court of law, Lord LoNDu!sDEIltY would go out and shoot- the man His Lordship in that case must have been sadly libelled by the thirty-one Cler-y,- men who addressed him, when they styled him "a Christian senator ;a man who declares in the above passage, as plainly as words can speak, that he prefers 61 bowing to the evil re- quirements of a worldly code," rather than take his stand upon his own "exalted station," or, what is immeasurably more important, reli- gious principles." Lord LONDONDERRY may be a nobleman of birth and station, but he can possess but little true nobility of mind, to be frightened from the path of duty, and of honour, bv such contemptible bugbears as he has conde- scended to evoke in defence of his conduct. Ever be a soldier's honour dear to him! May England never s-L, the day, when her gal- lallt sons sllail cease to care whether theirs be tarnished, or bright as the noonday sun! But to defend mllrder, downright premeditated murder,—on every occasion of quarrel,—even on those occasions where personal courage can- not by any possibility have anything to do with the matter in hand, appears to us to be, in the most charitable view of the case, a species of downright madness. For, be it remembered, the suicide is as much a murderer, as he who imbrues his hands in another's blood and though Lord LONDONDERRY, or any one else, may go to a duel with the fixed determination of discharging his pistol in the air, still he has. no right, according to the law of God, thus wantonly to peril his own life, by exposing him- self to the fire of his adversary. It may suit Lord LONDONDERRY'S notions to talk about his profession of arms, and the different course which may be pursued by those whom he vul- garly speaks of as belonging to the the cloth;" but He who is no respecter of persons will one day make it known that his law, written with his own finger,-THOU sHALT DO NO MURDER, applied equally to the soldier as to any other person, who unjustiifably, and without cause, placed himself in the position of taking, or suf- fering another to take away from him, the breath of life. His Lordship in his reply says further,— 41 Did the Clergy of any part of the empire "remonstrate with the hero of one hundred "fights when he met Lord Winchelsea in a duel ? From whence, then, may I ask, arises the ex. "treine anxiety at this moment, upon a far hum- bier and less important matter." His Lordship is surely a very poor logi- cian, as well as most unsound in his religious views. He would appear to argue that suppos- ing no Clergyman remonstrated with the Duke of WELLINGTON on a like occasion, therefore the Duke did no wrong; and then that if the Duke was not in error by fighting, so neither can he be. Nay he condemns himself by going farther, and pretending that he fought on a far hllnl- bler UQ less important matter i"then aQ much the more to blame, for having still less cause for placing himself in the position of a murderer The rest of his Lordship's letter is beneath contempt. Can we wonder at the fallen position of our country, when we behold thus the Spirit of Infi- delity, for it is none other, busily, openly, sys- tematically at work, in the highest councils of the realm? When one who has hitherto been supposed, in charity, to be a Christian senator I boldly breaks one of the most stringent laws of the Christian code, and defends that ex- cuse afterwards, when remonstrated with? Lord LONDONDERRY, like many others, mistakes the Christian Religion, as a thing for Clergy- men, or to be respected at most on the Sibbalh; and not as a rule and guide for the whole life and conversation of man \Ve have liD faith in such senators. May their numbers every year be less As to the duel itself, we would be the last to ask for mercy to be extended to any individual who may be convicted of taking the life of ano- ther in a duel, and condemned to death even though that person were of as ex ilted rank as Lord LONDONDERRY- One such example would work miracles, and be the saving of many a life.
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When Sir ANDREW AGNEW was in Parliament, a great deal of puerile nonsense was talked about leaving the observance of the Sabbath as an ''open question." to be decided by such people as Beer-shopkeepers, and the rabble rout who love to soak in the tap-room throughout that day, according as they might think, fi'. A ny legislative eii;kc"llellts, it was declared would do no good. Numerous Sabbath Bills, inconsequence, were successively lost; more than one of which might have been rendered useful measures, had Committees of both Houses of Parliament cho-en to undertake the trouble of carefully revising them. Not that by any means, our present liberalized, and, to some de- gree, infidel House of Commons, was, perhaps, the most likely assembly in the world, to legis- late fittingly Oil such a subject. However, the seed thus sown,—or rather ap- parently thrown on the way side with but little hope of its fructifying, has even now sprung up and begun to bear abundant fruit. The New Metropolitan PoHce Act, without professing to be a bill for promoting the better observance of the Sabbath, has already done more towards that desirable object than most people resident in London ever expected. Public-bouses are not allowed to he opened at all till one o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday; consequently there arc no drunken people turned into the streets just at the very time when the decent and well- disposed are on their way in the morning to their several places of worship, as has hitherto been the practice. In fact universal testimony is borne, that the last two or three Sundays in London have been more quiet, and have been ob- served in a more orderly manner, than any of inhabitants can remember ever before to have been the case. Nor is this all. Several of the principal parishes are using their most strenuous en- deavours to put a stop to Sunday Trading alto- gether. Nor are their endeavours vain. For instance, last week most of the tradesmen in the parish of St. Clement Danes, especially those in and near Clare Ilarket, posted notices in their shops, stating that no business would be done on Sunday. A similar arrangement is being made in the parishes of St. Ann, Soho, and St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Many other parishes are uniting in order to effect a voluntary abolition of Sunday Trading. The noble and christian- like example thus set in the Metropolis, will not, we are confident, be lost upon the pro- vinces; where the open and stated violation of the Sabbath, though it may have prevailed to a much less extent than in London, has been alarmingly destructive of 'he morals of the com- munity. _—————
ELECTORAL CALENDAR.
ELECTORAL CALENDAR. ,September and objections to the Burgess list to be sent to the Town Clerk in writing. 24.—Copy of the said objections to be exhibited in a conspicuous situation within the borough until the 1st of October. 22.-Churchwardens surveyors, and rated house- holders meet, to prepare a list from which the justices select a Surveyor of highways.
THK CANADA nOVERNOH.
THK CANADA nOVERNOH. (From the Timss.J We Jiave not for a long time seen a more charac- teristic and expressive epistle than the following :— To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle "Sir,-1 have seen with the utmost astonishment, this morning, in your paper of the 3d inst., a state- ment that Mr Poulett Thomson had accepted the government of Canada at my earnest request. I desire you will contradict that statement on my behalf, from whatever quarter your information may have been derived. I am, Sir, yonr obedient servant, EDWARD ELLICE. Tnverness-sbire, Sept 6, 1839." This being interpreted seems to mean- Do you take me for an idfotf ou and your Ministerial masters may lie as yon like about others, but you shan't lie about me. Contradict the false- hood immediately, no matter whether Lord Nor- manby or Lord John Russell invented and paid for it Grunticle does as he is bid, and begins to think' z;1 with his masters the Ministers, that "enormous lying" will not nt,v„ys succeed, even when none but Whigs are included in an attempt to deceive the public by the use of it. THE NEW GOVBKNOH (JKNKRAL OF CANADA — By private letters of the 4th inst, from Glasgow, a copy of the petition to her Majesty against the ap- pointment of Mr Thomson as Governor General of Canada, now in course of signature there, has been received. It had already obtained the signatures of many of the leading houses, and it was not doubted would be generally signed among those interested, specially in the welfare and commerce of those colo- nies, without reference to party or politics. Her Majesty is, indeed, expressly assured in the petition that "no party or political feelings mingle" in the affair. The petitioners state, "it is with deep regret affair. The petitioners state, "it is with deep regret *nd alarm that we learn the appointment by your Majesty of the Right Hon. P. Thomson to be your Majesty's representative in those countries." They declare their conviction, adverting to his "deliber- ately expressed opinions" on various questions of commercial policy in which colonial interesti are deeply involved, that they are such as must lender it impossible for him to administer the government of Upper Canada, at this critical period, with advantage to the empire, or with safety to the lives and proper- ties of your loyal Canadian subjects." The petitioners conclude, that" we. earnestly implore your Majesty to rescind the appointment." It will thus be seen that the petition is more strongly worded than the one on the same subject from the British North American Association. A list of the names of various firms who had already signed is given, of which it is only ne- cessary to notice that they are ofundoubted respecta- bility.- Times. CANADA.—The following officers are to form the personal staff of the new Commander in Chief of the Forces in Canada, Sir Richard Downes Jackson, K.C.B.: —Lieut. Col. Sir Charles Routlege O'Donnell, of the half pay unattached, is to be his Military Secre- tary and Captain Brooke Taylor, 81st Regiment, and Lnsign H. L. Warre, his Aides de Camp.
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THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER will con- tinue in the town for some time, for the purpose of making the necessary preliminary arrangements for carrying into effect the act for the establishment of the uniform penny postage. SIR CHARLES SHAW, who served in Spain with considerable credit, has been appointed Commissioner of Pulice for ManchesterMinisterial Paper. SIR JOHN COLBORNE AND MR POULE, T THOMSON. To the Editor of the Standard. September 10. Well, Sir, the truth is coming out. Mr E I ward Ellice has washed his hands ofnir Poulett Thomson. I have from the first asserted that he had nothing to do with this monstrous appointment and I will now venture another assertion, that Sir John (3. lborue never since his appointment, as Governor General has expressed any wish to come home, notwithstanding that the veracious Morning Chronicle would have us believe to the contrary that he did express such a wish whiie mearlv Commander of the Forces, I well know, and possibly even while administrator of the government but again, 1 repeat, that since his ap pointment to the government he has expressed no desire to relinquish it. I verily believe that in all her Majesty's dominions there is not a man, woman, or child (always excepting her Majesty's ministers), to whom the course that ought to have been pursued under existing circum- stances was not clear as day—to have left Sir John where he was, and in the exercise of all his powers, civil and military, during the present winter; to have legislated permanently for the Canadas in the ap- proaching session of parliament, and then to have sent out a man of rank, talent, and high character, to have set the machine in motion. But what madness to supersede the experienced and gallant Sir John bv such a person as Mr P. Thomson Why, Sir, it is the grossest insult that could possibly be olFered to the understandings and feelings of the loyal inh ibi- tan's of both provinces. On Monday, the 2d of September, 1 stated to Lord Melbourne, that amonost all classes ot the coaununitv, Whigs, Rad icals, and Tories, I had not at that date I met with a single, individual who did not disapprove of Mr P. Thomson's appointment. On this, the evening of the 10th of September, I can solemnly repeat the siatement. A CANADA MERCHANT.
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Lieutenant-General John Maister has been ap- pointed to the command of the Forces in the Wind- ward and Leeward Islands, in successiou to Leillt.. General Sir Samford Whittinghain, K. C. B. and K. C. H. MR. WYSE, the new Lord of the Treasurey, is married to a niece of Napoleon Buonaparte, by whom he has two children. HER MAJESTY has been pleased to give the Ga- moys peerage to Mr Stoner, who was proved to be the representative of the elder coheir. This peerage has been long in abeyance. There were two other claimants, one of whom was Sir Jacob Astley, B irt.- Observer. (,Nlr Stoner, being a Papist, was sure to be recommended for the peerage by the hea\ v blow and great discouragement," Lord Melbourne.-times.) HER MAJESTY has been pleased to decide the peerage of "Braye," also a considerable time in abeyance, in favour of :\1rs Otway Cave. This most estimable lady is the mother of Mr Robert Ot-.vay Cave, M P. {or the county of Tipperary. For the e Braye peerage there were also other claimants.— Observer. THE NAVY- It is known in the navy that no officer is eligible to do duty as a commander under a captain, unless he has commanded a sloop of war for three years, or served for a like period as first lieutenant of a rated ship; under a memorandum, however, from the Admiralty, dated 25th of April, (but which has not been circulated in the service, al- though it is published in the last Naval List), the Lords Commissioners have been pleased to direct "that two years service as first-lieutenant of a sloop of war, or as gunnery lieutenant, may be counted for one served as first-lieutenant of a rated ship, and so on in proportion." We learn that army officers of '30 years' full pay service will be allowed to retire on the full pay of their regimental rank. THE BOA CONSTRICTOR, in the menagerie of M. Van Aken, at Rotterdam, a few days since, very nearly destroyed its keeper. He was about to give the snake a young living goat, when the reptile, which had become ravenous by being kept three months without food, in its eagerness to seize its prey, wound its folds round the arm of the keeper, and would, in all probability, have killed him, had not M. Van Aken and four assistants, by their united force, compelled the snake to disentwine itself sufficiently to o-et the poor man released. He suffered severely from the crush, but no bone was broken, and in two or three days he was able to resume his service —The constrictor was Mr O'Connell, the keeper Mr Spring Rice, the goat the Bank of Ireland Bill, though Galig- nani's Messenger, from which we copy the foregoing, has chosen to tell the tale allegorically. Mr Rice was so severely injured, that he has since been obliged to take to another pursuit; and his master having re- fused him a character, he has been obliged to assume another name.) "THE Dun" Oil CONSERVATIVES.—Sound Conser- vative views, which recognize the laws of God as paramount, and impress upon subjects obedience to their rulers as a matter of conscience, are alone cal- culated to ensure the peace and good order of civil society. To do this effectually the public press must be employed, and in the struggle for superiority which is perpetually going on, Conservatives of in fluence must take their places as leaders, and maintain their principles in the press as well as in the senate. It they can take the lead in the former, there is little fear of their success in the latter. But if they suffer the press adversely to take posesion of the public mind they will, under otherwise even chances, be losers in the senate. Under peculiarly favourable circumstances they make head against the stream ot prejudice which will be continually bearing down upon them but the party which suflers itself to be unrepresented in the press '%vill in the ordinary course of things, remain unrepresented in the senate."
ON THE USE OF CATHEDRALS
ON THE USE OF CATHEDRALS From the Itev. Dr. Silvers Letter to Sir R. Inglis on the Spoliation of the Cathedrals of England. The origin and importance of cathedrals are almost forgotten in the revolutionary ideas that now occupy the minds of those who institute these innovations re- specting them. But the cathedral of the Bishop is the parish church of the diocese, the mother ot all parochial foundations around it, and the centre through which the tithe and endowments passed in their appropriation to parishes. In consequence of this origin, all rectors and vicars owe homage to the cathedral, and they all pay a rent-charge, 11 acknow- ledging it but they owe no homage, either to the bishop's commissioners, or to those intended for the cathedral. And the principle of generalization now applied to the bishops and their chapters, unless op- posed may very possibly be applied to livings, all of whose appropriations may be broken up, and, through the admission of this principle, be returned to the general stock from whence they issued. And as all correct and useful knowledge is confounded by a specious affectation of general knowledge, so all honest ideas concerning property, and the useful ap- plication of it to its right ends, will be lost in this generalization of property, which, in such a shape, will approach very nearly to confiscation. The peace and order of Great Britain depend on the principle of hereditary right; but that right, as it regards land, arose in the cathedrals in which the ho- mage for the land was paid. It is a very remarkable circumstance, that the principle of hereditary right first commenced with the bishops, and the present coronation ceremony bears marks of it; lor the ho- mage of the archbishop is to the sovereign and his heirs, hut the homage of all other peers is without those words, because at the time of instituting the service it was not hereditary, nor the family right established, a change owing to ecclesiastical law. It is singular that the form should have remained unchanged to the present day, many centuries after the spirit of the service has been fixed, but it shews the origin and pro- gress of law, and how much the peers and the land- lords of the country owe to the canonists that have existed in the cathedrals. And again, it is the arch- bishop who addresses at the several arches of the ca- thedral all the landholders of Great Britain, and asks them if they will do their homage to their Sovereign, as that homage recognized his hereditary right, as head of the Church ot England and ot the land. T he earliest state ot our parliaments consisted of bishops, mitred abbots, and earls or earlderinen there were few officers but these then the Earl's revenue was attached to his office, and for life only- The Christian religion, through the instrumentality of the bishop and the cathedral clergy, gradually introduced the principle in law of hereditary family right, and ulti- mately the primogeniture, such as commanded in the bible. But the cathedral rights of the chapters, as the ) holders of God's fee, existed long before an heredi- tary right, either in the peers, or the landed gentry of England- When, therefore, it is proposed to break tIP and generalize these rights, notwithstanding tke opposi- tion of the parties possessing them, it might be politic if the body of Earls would recollect what they were once themselves, and that if they sanction the princi- ple of opening the crown grants, and redistributing them, they may be opening a bottomless pit, that may y absorb their own hereditary privileges. There was a time when they were not; they were created by passing through the cathedral bodies; these bodies are not, and the Peers may follow them; the reasoning applies to both. If it is lawful and right to take the lands of the Bishops, Deans, and Chapters, because they are public officers, and the public have a right to them, the Earls are equally public officers, anil originally had only an official and not a family right to their lands and by parity of argument, they may all be geueraiizedj and thrown into a common stack. A NEW CHURCH is to be built at Twickenham, towards which the Queen Dowager has subscribed a hundred gunieas. The spot has been staked out, and, there is a great competition for the lots of ground im- mediately adjoining, which form part of the domain | ot Pope's Villa. Tiiev were offered for sale by Mr f \Varton, at the auction mart, on Thursday, and knocked down at high prices. THI Bistiop OF BATH AND WELLS (who is re- siding at his cottage at Banwell) had a severe attack I of illness a few days ago, but his Lordship is now considerably better. I We are happy to record that the fancy fair lately iield at the vicarage at Walton-on-Thames, for the purpose of aiding the funds of the new church, has I' succeeded so well that t300 has been realized. Upon the occasion the gronnds were thrown open to the inhabitants. THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, who has been on an official visit to the Channel Islands, arrived at Jersey on the 21st ult., in the steamer, accompanied by his chaplain, the Rev. Philip Jacob, and his secre- tary, J. Burder, Ksij. On the following Friday his Lordship presided at a meeting of the Societv. During his Lordship's stay iu Guernsey, he was busily engaged in his official duties as also in examining into the state ot the schools and other institutions in » connection with *lie Established Church, and in advo- cating the claims ot the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and other similar institutions, at their several auxiliary meetings. The gratifying manner it which bis Lordship has been received is thus no- t. ticed in the Guernsey C'oni t:—" Ever since the ar- rival of the Bishop of Winchester in this island on t the 7th instant, a more than ordinary degree of in- t terest has been excited in this place amongst all classes of the community so that, wherever his Lordship has officiated, thousands have flocked from all parts to listen to his pious and instructive dis- ) courses, whether delivered from the pulpit or from the t platform, erected for the advocacy of our public in- | stimtions Whaievermay have been the theological I or political views ot his respective hearers, we think [ we may safely say that nothing escaped his lips cal- [ culateii to give the slightest offence to men differing from his Lordship in the above respects—thereby set- ting an example to his brethren worthy of imitation. CHURCH BUILDING COMMISSION.—The nineteenth Annual Report of the Commissioners for building New Churches has been recently issued. At the time of printing their last Report, the Commissioners state t that ±25 Churches and Chapels have been completed, in which accommodation has been provided for 297, f 12 persons, including 164,495 free seats, appropri- atecl to the use of the poor. Since that time, they 11 report that eighteen Churches have been completed, afford ing accommodation for 16,000 person, inclu- ding 9,775 free seats for the poor, making in the whole 243 Churches and Chapels, aflording accommo- dation for 314,412 persons, including 174,270 free seats for the poor. In addition to these, eighteen other new Churches are now building, and in a very forward state. The number to be accomodated in pews is, 7,207, and in free seats, 9,949, total, 17,156. Plans tor eight other Churches have been approved of, and it is in contemplation to build eight others, at various places. Conditional grants of money have 9 been made to thirty-eight parishes, townships, or places, in aid of building Churches and Chapels: as I also for providing sites for Churches and Chapels in forty-six other different places, interspersedly through- out England. Applications for further Church ac- commodation have been made by the inhabitants of forty-seven districts, situate respectively either in Eng- land or Wales. London, long heretofore designated the City of Churches, will soon, it is to be hoped, better deserve that name, for as yet the wants in this respect of its immense population are but half sup- plied. It is most gratifying to observe, that so large a portion of the new buildings is set apart for the free use of the poor. The expenses of the Commission from 25th March, 1838, to the 25th March, 1839, ( are,-salitries, £:2,565. 10s. 6d.; for rent and taxes, £ 910. 14s. 8d. total, a £ '3,476. 5s. 2d.; the sum of £ 111. lis. 4d., part thereof being paid by the Charity Commissioners, for rent, taxes, &c they be- 1 ing in joint occupation of the premises, leaving the jm%f expenses of the Church-building Commission < £ "3,364 13s. lOd. f HER MAJESTY and the Court are at Wiudsor, where, when the weather permits, the Queen takes her accustomed exercise. THE KING AND QUEES of the Belgians arrived at the Castle on Friday evening. < THE QUEEN DOWAGER, we hear from good authority, 1 will make Torquay her winter residence.- Rest era i Herald. THE OLIPHANT PEERAGE.—On Friday, the 23ti ult., in the County Court, James Blair Oliphant, of Gask, was served heir to this ancient dignity before the Sheriff.
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SUICIDE BY PRECIPITATION FROM THE MONUMENT. On Wednesday morning, at a quarter past 10 o'clock, a young person, aged 23, named Martin Moyes, daughter of a master baker, carrying on business at No. 3, Hemming's-row, Charing-cross, London, committed suicide by throwing herself off the top of the Monument. About 20 minutes before the time just mentioned, she accosted Thomas Jonkius, the person who admits visitors, on the payment of sixpence each, to inspect and ascend the Monument. She inquired if two ladies and a gentleman had not been there, describing their persons, and beinf answered in the negative, she expressed her surprise at their absence, adding that she and the persons inquired after had just arrived, from Gravesend by a steamer, with the view of seeing London from the Monument. She then asked permission to sit within side the railings that encircle the base of the Monu- ment, adding that she was sure her party would arrive In a short time. The keeper, Jenkins, complied with her request, and she sat down on a stone slab inside the railing gates. She then entered freely into COil- versation with Jenkins, and among other remarks observed that the morning was rather cloudy, and she hoped that it would clear up, so as to enable her to have an advantageous prospect. Her manner was apparently perfectly calm and collected. After the lapse of about 20 minutes she rose liP, saying she would not wait any longer, but would ascend the monument without her party. After paying the accustomed fee and ascending a few steps, she turned back and said to Jenkins, "If they come tell them to come up to me, but if they decline ascend- ing detain them till I come down." After this she ascended, and nothing more was seen or heard of her until she had committed the extraordinary and fatal act.
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DR I AYLOR. \Ve have just heard that the borough magistrates have issued a warrant for the arrest of Dr. I aylor, on a charge of sedition, founded on the speech which he delivered in the Carlisle theatre last Saturday week — Carlisle Patriot. ART OF FLOATING.—Any human being who will have the presence of mind to clasp the hands behind the back, and turn the face towards the zenith, may lIoat at ease, and in perfect safety, in tolerably still water—ay, and sleep there, no matter how long. If, not knowing how to swim, you wonld escape drowning when you find yourself in deep water, IL you have only to consider yourself an empty pitcher let your mouth and nose, not the top part of your heavy head, be the highest part of you, and you are safe but thrust up one of your bony hands, and down you go, turning up the handle tips over the pitcher. Having had the happiness to prevent one. or two drownings by this simple instruction, tve lun' publish it for the benefit of ali who either love aquatic sports or dread them.- Walker.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTR AND CU.VRDIAV Sin, —In your p.inerof the seventh of Sept. you have spoken at random in placing mo My Thomas Jones, farmer, of Crickhowell, amount, 'die unfortu- nate suff.-rcrs at the Old Passage— You will for satisfaction to my numerous family, contradict vour assertion in your next Paper. Yours, tvtiiy, [ THOMAS JONES, Farmer and MaJster, Crickhowell. CAUTION TO PARENTS.—Thursday sennight an ac- ("lellt, xvili(!lk proved fatal, occurred to a little irI about two years of aye, who was amusing herself du- rlli the temporary absence of her mother, by putting potatoes to roast; in doing so her clothes caught fire, by which she was so dreadfully burnt about tbe neck and arms, that she expired the same evenmg. A coroner's inquest was held on the body, when a ver- diet of Accidenlal death" was returned. NEWCASTLE-IN-EMLYN.—We regret to state that the continued rains iu this neighbourhood greatly im- pede the corn harvest, and we are concerned to state- j that if the weather continues as at present, the cheer- i ing prospects of a good and healthy crop of grain,. which was lately held out, will he completely blasted.. Prayer meetings have been held on the subject by the- different denominations of Christians in this town,. which we siiiet-i-ely hope will be answered in the Lord's; good time. THE MONEY MARKET.—Tbe aspect of affairs in the City continues to improve. Money bears a good rnte t of interest, because tbe employment of it is in few but it is by no means scarce. Everything tein s at present to relieve tbe Rank from the necessity of continuing its restrictions, and people fiere firinlyrely that when this is felt to he the case in the Bank itself. j