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cr f t I t * r 1fJf5 / t i fx-.r, r i ' f l i ff} f -, ± o , f i k’i i j ' ! / . t i i X / Vol. XX., No. 982. ■ . ■ / - . LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1859. P p r / i - (STAMPED, SIXPENCE. A J tlV E (UNSTAMPED, FIVEPENCE. C a f c l e o f C o n t e n t s » sequence was to he brought forward as a Cabinet measure. lUMMARY ' >ATEST in t e l l ig e n c e . .. ... ... .. I’OREIGN AND COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE : —Health of the Princess Royal of Prussia. France; Preparations for the French Army ; theBaD. ^ t^T lllw liM [ Brtaoe Napoleon and his Bride; the Dieppe Fisheries. Sardinia: the Marriage of Prince Napoleon ; the Pope’s Dispensation; Present from the Empress‘Eugenie; the Policy of England. Austria; the Emperor and his Troops. Italy: the Students of the St. Alexander Lyceum, Milan; Address of the Students of Pavia to those of the Roman University. Rome: aul,- tAf i itito ; w Austrian Army. Naples: Movement of Troops ; the State , ^Jratoners; the Eruption of Vesuvius. 81 u; <1- l: its ution of Serfs. Belgium: Discussion upon Education in the Chambers. Swiss Independence. Denmark. The Ionian Islands; Declaration of the Metropolitan of Corfu ; Opening of the Ionian Parliament. The Servian Revolution. The' Jeddah Massacre The Principalities. America: the Revolution in Hayti; Deposition of Souloque. The West Indies; Insurrectionary Movement in Chili and Peru. The Brazils; Change of Ministry. Cochin China . .. . .. ... ( U n g L l C INTELLIGENCE 1 0 « Roman <Jor 82 respondent. Diocese of Westminster; the Kentish Town Mission and Schools: Disturbance at the Oratory. The Afrgllinars Lecture at Liverpool! SIMMs o f Sou&iftirk: St. Mary’s, Croydon. Diocese of Liverpool; Attack on the Cardinal’s Carriage; Laying the Foundation-stone of* a New Catholic Church at Liverpool; Meeting to raise Funds for a New Church. Diocese of Salford ; Haslingden Misy\ sion; Diocese of Clifton: theMission at Swindon. America: Destruction of the Catholic Cathedral, Montreal . .. ... THE QUEEN S SPEECH ... . . . . .. ... S&M IU nM P i p i CW£ I vvi LEADERS:—The World versus Peter; Peace or War; the Rev. Mr. Poole; the Young Men’s Societies ... ... 88-89 REVIEWS:—The Three Archbishops ; Mr. Moore’s Letter to Count de Montalembert; Short Notices. ... ... 90-91 CORRESPONDENCE:—The Royal Commission on Education; “ Common Sense ” on the Gothic Question ; “ B ” on the Gothic Question ; Rumours of War ... ... IRELAND :—Revision of the Magistracy; the Lord Chancellor's Circular; the Protestant Church Establishment; Reformatories—Magistrates; the Chapels and Schools of Toumafulla ; New Reformatory; Recolletine Convent, Ramsfort, Gorey ; the Catholic University ; the Civic Banquet; the Mission of ^the Club, by a Member of the Kilkenny County Club ; Kilkenny and Tipperary ; a Chase after the supposed Murderer of Mr. Ely;, William S. O’Brien, Esq. ; Representation of Galway; More Arrests; the Phoenix Club; Reform CMm*; :Ito Catholic Young M art Societies ...» • . - - v » ^ MISCELLANEOUS :—An Epicene Nationality ; Spes Altera Teucrum; the Rev. Mr. PoOle; Gudbrand of the Hill-side; a Slave Story; Accidents and Offences ' ... ... I 86 87 . •> The stereotyped description o f a Royal Speech at the opening of Parliament used to be that Royal Speeches were generally meagre and unmeaning, but that the one just delivered surpassed in these particulars the most meagre and unmeaning o f its predecessors. W e cannot adopt this time-honoured form in describing the Speech o f her Majesty on Thursday. It was — 1 significance. There is nothing to excite disquietude in the internal state of the country. That is sii ficant. First, it is the answer 'to the discomfited alarmist landlords who lately intended to meet in London and to ask for special legislation on account nf IV». VwiMlijifoililjlWl i iftjnil $ pmfeing toexffite' ilhUhinhldÉ, 'm j&ptm pU m m m tie. intimai stale of hwio'-ébander-' ably diminished/» But if the state o f things at home excites no disquietude, can as much be said for the state o f things abroad ? The silence o f Majesty is a sufficient declaration that it cannot. Tity jfn im j ' ■ « are o f , course. I t was hoped that the Queen’s Speech would announce the final subjection o f the rebels, and the restoration o f order. As this coüld pot he, all that could be done was to trust it soon would be the case. On the next paragraph, about Foreign Powers, we have written elsewhere, her Majesty professes unceasing solicitude for the maintenance'of treaties and the preservation of the general peace. That is a warning to those who are suspected of a design to set treaties at nought, and to seek their own interests in an European war. It is not so explicit as we should have liked to see it, hut its natural consequence is to. give a- Mft to the Austrian loan now in the market. The convention TT%^frr**rnngrfrniîr ‘ qftfee is in course of execution. When anybody experiences any benefit from it we shall no doubt he told. The Address was agreed to without amendment. Lord Derby’s speech, which was delivered too late for our insertion of it, was listened to with an interest and attention which even he, as an accomplished orator, can command hut seldom. England has entered into no engagements with any Power as to her course under any eventuality. Which means that she has promised Austria no support, but <#:^jMaamWMRnonstrat<3d with Austria, Sardinia, and.feanon on A a it warlike preejB-, lions. Austria dtties any Botton o f aggressions W t will keep within the terms o f existing treaties, mid Lord Derby says that he believer the Emperor. He has received similar assurances from Turin, But it will be seen that he nowhere says that he believes them. His warnings both to the French Emperor and the King of Sardinia were most emphatic, and his condemnation o f the system of Government adopted ifr tM tUanan ¡jtoteg was all thai-evain^Whig could re iw a » ‘ T U iTn|s>^nn, l>ow«m, Id fe jr ft on every one is that there is an immediate likelihood o f w ar; that diplomacy will be first tried to get the Pope to yield; that, i f ha_daeliB«a, AflaMa vrafi defend him; and that if Austria be attacked without her having broken any treaty, England will step forward on her 'de. The news that the marriage of Prince Napoleon with the Priiimi> Clot&de o r Savdjr*’ »accomplished will interest aE readers. The formal demand o f the Princess’s hand by General Niel, the ready consent of p X lm t lS & 3 h e contract, the the nuptials,,^ 'stafo ioidi, the visit to the theatre, and the landing o f the bride in her adopted country, are all over, and have been got through at a pace somewhat startling to onr slower and colder insular notions. The 'Prince has certainly wooed and won his bride at a railway pace, i f any wooing has ' ■: W " We will not insist on the existing disparity o f age, m f -uC apyypnwihfr tastes between the newly-married couple, as likely to be the source o f any future unhappiness; but, confining our view a l ik e match aspect, it is one which on well nigh all grounds we must deplore. Allowing that it it is no indication of an alliance between France and Piedmont against Austria (the rumour o f which has never been contradicted), it is certainly an evidence o f a closer alliance between France and Sardinia, and this, supposing both parties to he wise enough to let Austria alone, bodes no good to the Church, but countries in the most objectionable aspect o f the policy o f each. The spoilation o f the Church, the persecution of the Clergy and Religious Orders, and the jnsosolent bearing o f the Sardinian Government towards the Holy See, do not encourage us to see in the alliance of France and Piedmont any hope that the celebrated letter, to Colonel Ney, the re-enactment of the spurious articles of the Concordat, the actual use made o f the illicit appeal to the Council of State in the case of Mgr. de Deux Brize, were isolated acts, aftiijttM.ifci&jSaBip <X policy of interference with the sacred rights of the Holy See. Nearly concurrently with this ill-omened ftl)^oa---!R-<a3^ ped for Frajne%9|^ttina, ait4 tJSaxbtto —we find the Emperor fortifying his position at Civita Vecchia, and demanding from Austria the impossible act of withdrawing her troops from the Legations. But there is one power concerned in this drama, o f which France, Sardinia, and the Whig organs in England take simply no account. They discuss freely what terms shall he imposed upon the Pope with solemn and, perhaps, unaffected indifference to anything He may have to say on the subject. On the supposition that the Emperor o f Austria may defend the Holy See with her material resources, they admit the difficulties which may be interposed in the desired “ reforms.” But they utterly forget that the Vicar o f Christ and the Chief o f the oldest European Power may himself raise His voice and decide the matters in dispute potentially and efficiently. The treaties with Russia and with Japan are made the most of, and so are the negotiations with the Emperor o f the French respecting the slave trade. The Charles-et-Georges affair at Lisbon is not particularly alluded to, probably from the feeling that the least said is the soonest mended ; hut we do not understand i f her Majesty announces rightly in one sentence that the Emperor has abolished his system o f Negro im yitoimCT ifi Bext pl&hg,’we can he told that it is hoped that the negotiations now going on at Paris may tend to the abandonment o f the system. The passage respecting Mexico is not deficient in dignity, hut the instructions to ask for and to enforce reparation for wrongs inflicted upon British subjects are open to the objection that the reasons for not enforcing just satisfaction hitherto exist at the present moment in as much force as formerly. The increase o f expenditure necessitated by the augmentation o f the navy for the maintenance of the naval power o f the country, has an unpleasant significance, in addition to its immediate hearing on the question pf peace or war. We are not, to look for any reduction in taxation, either from the abolition of the paper duty or any other. The reform of the law is always claimed by the Tories as their spécialité, and we ire promised a considerable batch o f laws relating to bankruptcy and insolvency, the codification o f the ejfjgjinal law, an Encumbered Estates Bill for England, and a scheme for registering titles to i Reform Rill is promised, though nothing is said as bo its nature and scope, and unless the promised Tenant-right Bill is included in the “ Other proposi­ There is another possible aspect o f this marriage which may he briefly noted. It may he purely a piece o f dynastic policy—hut this is what France has never yet shown herself tolerant of, and if this be the motive o f the act, its consequences may be none the less serious for the more insignificant and private nature o f the cause. Nevertheless, i f the Emperor pursues his dynastic schemes by Royal alliances, it is fortunate that there are no more Princes of the Imperial House to provide for. — The Ionian Parliament— for in the Septmsular State England has been able to introduce all the forms o f Constitutionalism— met last week. Telegraphic communications having been interrupted, we only know that Mr. Gladstone communicated, hut not personally, his appointment as Temporary Lord High Commissioner, and that the Legislative Assembly answered by an address to the Crown for a union with Greece. The rights of England in Corfu and the sister islands are hardly so old as those o f Austria in Northern Italy, and will hear no comparison with the1 antique tenure o f the Pope in Central Italy. The voice o f the people is clear and unanimous in favour of annexation with Greece, and they have the whip-hand o f the German, Italian, and Roman States, in having once, though not in modem history, formed one state with Greece. Will England recognise the same principles which Whig statesmen and diplomatists have encouraged in Italy ? W ei think n o t ; hut.if they do, we would still humbly decline on the part o f Austria and the Pope to he made the victims o f Whig tions for Æe Amendment o f the Law,” there is no hint that anything of the kind is contemplated. This, howiver, we do not believe, but }t was had policy o f the Ministry, if it has a Bill ready, not to giye Ireland the mpfjffitf of QjtijSmw insurance that a measure which it deems o f such con ■ •■ ' ' ■ - ' ra jLsj.1J Sir Henry Storks has been appointed to relieve Mr. Gladstone o f his temporary mission. He is said to be a man pf invincible firmness and good humour. He knows the language and habits o f the people, and above all he is a soldier— a great recommendation in these chancy and perilous times. \ j , . • ’ ■ | ceptance o f the post he has for so short a time provisionally occupied, has been, made the peg on which to hang an abundant crop o f little pleasantries. The issue o f his attempt will, we believe, hardly he worth the sacrifices he has made, but he has given another proof of liis devotion and patriotism which will not in the end be lost on his countrymen. We could wish that some elwnent, which we cannot now pretend to define, were not wanting in his character which, if present, might make him o f more use to his country and write his name larger in her annals. — There has been a revolution in Haiti, and the last accounts represent the Emperor Souloque or, as’ he I .yP pV t-'k u -lT filO e , iMUM! Proclamations, but unable to make head against the Republicans. The Emperor would appear to he willing y l ; ] 1a<fiifil .rmoi) to kiti>r;ri~pBF this measure was, in the opinion of the successful insurgents, miequal to the gravity o f the situation. Haiti and its Emperors have been known before now to mimic somewhat dudierously a greater nation and its Ruler. E .s ta b l i .s l icd # i i it4 ^ ^ stnctly, justly, M p e rD ■'ftfkrti ‘ m iS im U that Ins Lordship can convince neither friend nor foe of this. He is, himself, we hope and believe, too honest w mm* to I iiiilpjn .wa .igliefe [h&rwaa unknown, im* m, 11» i ^ jh l f t l . Triftllllt explaining his curious theory o f Catholicity, and acknowledging t to * r^4fcfce,JS*llfiiss’d * ^ 4 t e o Urid Protestant.- I f any one meeting him in Berkeleysquare or Sackville-street were to ask- him for the nearest Catholic church, we firmly believe that he would forget his theory, and in all simplicity and good faith direct them right. ■ d.' ZMxbb'MMP bhshes that, i f a Director in a Joint Stock Company elects to consent, from any motives whatever, to the publication o f an untrue report, and the declaration of a dividend purporting to be an application of profits wkfrit ; jnade, he is liable to any subsequent purchaser o f shares who takes them on the faith o f such representation as fact. In . n 4 - *; - -. < , £ a t w t S t r t d l t f le n m .. — ■— ♦ -------------------------- Fr a n c e . : the people of Liverpool is a remarkable and pleasing sign of the times; one o f many which have lately shown that people are coming hack to their senses. Six yearn ago His Eminence would not have been welcomed in Liverpool with the enthusiasm with which he was met last week by persons o f all classes and creeds ; nor would they have resented as a disgrace to their town the acts of some ruffians, whose offence, it appears, has been exaggerated by the intensity of the public indignation. He was then more than unpopular. Anything short o f the worst treatment was too good for him ; and if one at least o f the Liverpool Clergymen could have had matters his own way in 1852, it is possible that His Eminence’s lecturing days would long since have been over. But so sickly and deplorabl# a state of public feeling could not last very long—could not for ever resist the cheering influence of learning and genius. There are people in Liverpool still, we have no doubt, who retain their old animosity, airid to wh6m the Cardinal’s visit has been as had as a fit of the jaundice; a small, ill-tempered, and unhappy section, for whom, in spite o f their follies and impudence, and their shocking propensity to malice and uncharitableness, we feel the deepest commiseration. '¡'hose stayed at home and sulked, waiting for Sunday and M ’Neil to restore their equanimity Men to win.*»'the nnjsome fogs of prejudice are not an went and heard the Cardinal’s lecture-, gave free vent to their admiration; recognised, at least, the scholar, the gentleman, the man of genius, and the min o f sense; and so far has public opinion, even in Liverpool, diverged from the course which it held seven years ago, that it is now possible for Protestant newspapers to speak o f the Cardinal with respect and gratitude, without finding themselves next morning minus a circulation. Such, we are glad to see, is the tone of more than one o f the principal journals. .¡ n ! : v.fJilykj ’ ,, ■ • — Mr. Poole obtained some time since a rule nisi, calling on the Archbishop o f Canterbury (so called) to show cause why he, that is iW.JKhblsj s|d5 E5e^ be heard by the aforesaid Archbishop in his own defence, in his appeal from his Diocesan. The Court has made the rule absolute, without calling on Mr. Poole’s counsel to address them in support o f it. Mr. Poole must, therefore, be heard by the Archbishop, hut whether by counsel or personally the Lord Chief Justice declined ruling, so that f ie unhappy usurper at Lambeth must decide the point for himself, with the rod of the Supreme Court of. Queen’s Bench hanging riTii m jjf(n pf^ifw rjlIIK lfity . ’ ' T ] ■*’ The Guardian, which is an authority for something or other whenever it speaks, says that this decision is o f the very highest importance to the class o f stipendiary curates, and to its -new to the interests of justice. Granted. We have protested, whenever we have alluded to the subject, against the cruel injustice with which Mr. Poole has been treated by his spiritual superiors. But, ignoring altogether any spiritual authority, properly so called, exercisable by Dr. Tait and his Metropolitan, we have proceeded on the natural and popular notion o f the injustice o f condemning a man unheard, aggravated by the cruelty o f depriving him o f his living, without any, even pretended, necessary exercise o f supreme and superiaforal authorityjik«ari^ c k ;G f i^ 5 ^ . ' The people who have done all this, acknowledge all the while that the exercise of their authority in the Established Church o f England and Ireland is subject to review in the temporal courts. And the Guardian not only acknowledges this, hut flies to these courts as refuges from the injustice of their own spiritual rulers, and applauds the beneficial effects o f the sentence which intervenes between the passions or mistakes o f Archbishops, and the rights (temporal or spiritual, we do not quite gather) o f stipendiary curates. It is hard to serve two masters. The Guardian seems to have found it impossible, and elects for the Court of Queen’s Bench against their own Metropolitan. We have treated this new incident in the Stipendiary Curate v. Archbishop cause in.<Jur leading columns. ,i f t e decision is 1 JIM -V -t 'S fK tlla —r - t - *Thikh JwBdr jn i ifl hwiinpfwiali 'HitiiM i i# him 1 written and unwritten, bequeathed by Catholic to Protestant F.ngUai^AtM<tolil‘IiBl'I tjmtjfafVt morals which has since sprung up be ultimately decided? Will Protestant and commercial England,"or Catholic and loyal England win the day ? — Lord Dungannon, in speaking at a meeting, at Dublin, on behalf of the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (according to the newest Protestant edition) in Foreign pqrts, expressed a strong, and no doubt momentarily sincere belief, that to the “ Paris, Thursday Evening, Feb. 3. Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilda arrived at the Tuileries at half-past 3 o'clock this afternoon.” SARDINIA. ; v v , [ , , , ; ■ Tubin, Feb. 3 ,4 IS p.m. A loan has been decided upon. The project will be immediately presented to the Chambers.” THE IONIAN ISLANDS.. “ T r ie ste (via Germany), Wednesday,’ Feb;3. “ Advices have been received from Corfu to the 29th of January. The Ionian P mously declared for union with Greece, passed & resolution to elect a Parliamentary Committee for the purpose of considering what further measures should be taken. Mr. Gladstone, in consequence, addressed a message to the Parliament, stating that this resolution was contrary to the Constitution, and advising that the Committee be merely empowered to address a petition to the Queen of Great Britain. The members of the Ionian Parliament have handed over to Mr. Gladstone the address of the Committee to the Queen, with the request to lay before the Great Powers their desire for union with Greece.” A Paris correspi states that a t posed by I People's Hymn, or fact, a Brupeis Indépendance langage had been comaparte. It. is ntitled “ The Voice Co ..¡cans,” and is, in The Navy Estimates.—W e have already stated that there would be a considerable increase in the Navy Estimates for the year 1859-60, and we have now to state that, although it had been generally believed there would be no increase in the number of seamen votedHtor, we have good foundation for stating that there wffl be an increase of 3,000 men.— Express. A W aterspout in Liscannor Bay.—On Saturday, the 22nd ult., between 11 and 12 a.m., the wind being N.W., and weather squally with showers, a waterspout was observed driving along from the direction of the sunken rocks in the mouth of the bay towards Lahinch, at Oregg. An immense mass of ^liiurky clouds accompanied it, the tops of which shope with the silvery lustre imparted by a wintry sun, while the under part, dark as ink, converged downwards to a point from which descended the funnel or spout. To the N.E, the clouds spread out in the direction of Liscannor and Kilshanny, over which places a weighty shower was falling at the time, though not a drop fell m the bay or the immediate vicinity. Robbery by the A id op Crinoline.—A good-looking female, wearing a huge crinoline, arrived in a carriage three days ago at an hotel in the Bue de Seine, and giving her name Mme. Rollin, hired the best apartment in the house, and had a splendid breakfast served. In the evening she went out, saying that she was going to the railway to seek her luggage, and she never returned. The people of the hotel, on entering her apartment, found that she had carried off the timepiece from the ohimney-piece, and as she had nothing; in her hand when she left she must have placed it, heavy as it was, beneath her crinoline ! She has not since been found, but she has been 4xmdemned by default, by the Tribunal of Correctional Police, to 15 months’ imprisonment. The Manchester Conference.—There was a Reform Conference at Manchester on Tuesday afternoon, and a conference of the most influential and respectable character as much so as any political conference ever held in the provinces. Mr. George Wilson was in the chair, and the presence of Mr. Bright indicated the opportunity* Wf{ S postscript iMgwi, .r o J t^ e r io s of great Reform speeches which he has already made. At this Conference a resolution was submitted, and unanimously adopted, which approved of the measure Mr. Bright had consented to promote,and which pledged the meeting to the support of the Reform principles of which he has been the exponent. Speeches were made in defence of these views by Mr. Robertson Gladstone, Mr. II. Ashworth, Mr. Barnes, the Mayor of Salford, and the Chairman. In reply, Mr. Bright proceeded to describe his real position in reference to the Reform question, and still further to explain and defend the changes he proposes to make, particularly as these changes affect the redistribution of members. As a whole, he offered his measure to the country as one calculated to give them that fair and complete control over our legislation and Government which the constitution says we ought to possess, and which the experience of the country proves is necessary for our future welfare. He also made some striking ohsîftyilÉtons respecting the,House of Lords and the fears 0>L«hc4anded interest.— Morning Star. Progress of Russia.—A Russian journal publishes the following account, showing the progress which has taken place within the last few years in the spirit of industry and speculation in Russia. It was in 1799 that the first joint-stock company (the Russo-American) was founded with a capital of 4,488,000f. "Since that time companies have increased in the following manner:—Front 1832 to 1827, two were founded with capitals of 18,402,852f. ; 1883 te 1838, ten companies, 32,723,404f. capital; 1841 to 1849 ; nine, 14,956,34;" 1851 to 1857, twenty-two, 129,946,000f. ; in 1857, fix: 1,354,360,OOOf. ; and in 1858, thirty-one, 220,1 _ The amount of the year 1857 includes the c’apital^xj' great Russian Railway Company. | A ' ! «

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Vol. XX., No. 982. ■ . ■ / - .

LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1859.

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>ATEST in t e l l ig e n c e . .. ... ... .. I’OREIGN AND COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE : —Health of the Princess Royal of Prussia. France; Preparations for the French Army ; theBaD. ^ t^T lllw liM [ Brtaoe Napoleon and his Bride; the Dieppe Fisheries. Sardinia: the Marriage of Prince Napoleon ; the Pope’s Dispensation; Present from the Empress‘Eugenie; the Policy of England. Austria; the Emperor and his Troops. Italy: the Students of the St. Alexander Lyceum, Milan; Address of the Students of Pavia to those of the Roman University. Rome:

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Austrian Army. Naples: Movement of Troops ; the State , ^Jratoners; the Eruption of Vesuvius.

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u; <1- l: its ution of Serfs. Belgium: Discussion upon Education in the Chambers. Swiss Independence. Denmark. The Ionian Islands; Declaration of the Metropolitan of Corfu ; Opening of the Ionian Parliament. The Servian Revolution. The' Jeddah Massacre The Principalities. America: the Revolution in Hayti; Deposition of Souloque. The West Indies; Insurrectionary Movement in Chili and Peru. The Brazils; Change of Ministry. Cochin China . .. . .. ... ( U n g L l C INTELLIGENCE 1 0 « Roman

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respondent. Diocese of Westminster; the Kentish Town Mission and Schools: Disturbance at the Oratory. The Afrgllinars Lecture at Liverpool! SIMMs o f Sou&iftirk: St. Mary’s, Croydon. Diocese of Liverpool; Attack on the Cardinal’s Carriage; Laying the Foundation-stone of* a New Catholic Church at Liverpool; Meeting to raise Funds for a New Church. Diocese of Salford ; Haslingden Misy\ sion; Diocese of Clifton: theMission at Swindon. America:

Destruction of the Catholic Cathedral, Montreal . .. ... THE QUEEN S SPEECH ... . . . . .. ... S&M IU nM P i p i CW£ I vvi LEADERS:—The World versus Peter; Peace or War; the

Rev. Mr. Poole; the Young Men’s Societies ... ... 88-89 REVIEWS:—The Three Archbishops ; Mr. Moore’s Letter to

Count de Montalembert; Short Notices. ... ... 90-91 CORRESPONDENCE:—The Royal Commission on Education;

“ Common Sense ” on the Gothic Question ; “ B ” on the Gothic Question ; Rumours of War ... ... IRELAND :—Revision of the Magistracy; the Lord Chancellor's

Circular; the Protestant Church Establishment; Reformatories—Magistrates; the Chapels and Schools of Toumafulla ; New Reformatory; Recolletine Convent, Ramsfort, Gorey ; the Catholic University ; the Civic Banquet; the Mission of ^the Club, by a Member of the Kilkenny County Club ; Kilkenny and Tipperary ; a Chase after the supposed Murderer of Mr. Ely;, William S. O’Brien, Esq. ; Representation of Galway; More Arrests; the Phoenix Club; Reform

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Societies ...» • . - - v » ^ MISCELLANEOUS :—An Epicene Nationality ; Spes Altera

Teucrum; the Rev. Mr. PoOle; Gudbrand of the Hill-side; a Slave Story; Accidents and Offences ' ... ...

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The stereotyped description o f a Royal Speech at the opening of Parliament used to be that Royal Speeches were generally meagre and unmeaning, but that the one just delivered surpassed in these particulars the most meagre and unmeaning o f its predecessors. W e cannot adopt this time-honoured form in describing the Speech o f her Majesty on Thursday. It was

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significance. There is nothing to excite disquietude in the internal state of the country. That is sii ficant. First, it is the answer 'to the discomfited alarmist landlords who lately intended to meet in London and to ask for special legislation on account nf IV». VwiMlijifoililjlWl i iftjnil $ pmfeing toexffite' ilhUhinhldÉ, 'm j&ptm pU m m m tie. intimai stale of hwio'-ébander-'

ably diminished/» But if the state o f things at home excites no disquietude, can as much be said for the state o f things abroad ? The silence o f Majesty is a sufficient declaration that it cannot.

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I t was hoped that the Queen’s Speech would announce the final subjection o f the rebels, and the restoration o f order. As this coüld pot he, all that could be done was to trust it soon would be the case. On the next paragraph, about Foreign Powers, we have written elsewhere, her Majesty professes unceasing solicitude for the maintenance'of treaties and the preservation of the general peace. That is a warning to those who are suspected of a design to set treaties at nought, and to seek their own interests in an European war. It is not so explicit as we should have liked to see it, hut its natural consequence is to. give a- Mft to the Austrian loan now in the market. The convention TT%^frr**rnngrfrniîr ‘ qftfee is in course of execution. When anybody experiences any benefit from it we shall no doubt he told.

The Address was agreed to without amendment. Lord Derby’s speech, which was delivered too late for our insertion of it, was listened to with an interest and attention which even he, as an accomplished orator, can command hut seldom. England has entered into no engagements with any Power as to her course under any eventuality. Which means that she has promised Austria no support, but

<#:^jMaamWMRnonstrat<3d with Austria, Sardinia, and.feanon on A a it warlike preejB-, lions. Austria dtties any Botton o f aggressions W t will keep within the terms o f existing treaties, mid Lord Derby says that he believer the Emperor. He has received similar assurances from Turin, But it will be seen that he nowhere says that he believes them. His warnings both to the French Emperor and the King of Sardinia were most emphatic, and his condemnation o f the system of Government adopted ifr tM tUanan ¡jtoteg was all thai-evain^Whig could re iw a » ‘ T U iTn|s>^nn, l>ow«m, Id fe jr ft on every one is that there is an immediate likelihood o f w ar; that diplomacy will be first tried to get the Pope to yield; that, i f ha_daeliB«a, AflaMa vrafi defend him; and that if Austria be attacked without her having broken any treaty, England will step forward on her

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The news that the marriage of Prince Napoleon with the Priiimi> Clot&de o r Savdjr*’ »accomplished will interest aE readers. The formal demand o f the Princess’s hand by General Niel, the ready consent of p X lm t lS & 3 h e contract, the the nuptials,,^ 'stafo ioidi, the visit to the theatre, and the landing o f the bride in her adopted country, are all over, and have been got through at a pace somewhat startling to onr slower and colder insular notions. The 'Prince has certainly wooed and won his bride at a railway pace, i f any wooing has

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We will not insist on the existing disparity o f age, m f -uC apyypnwihfr tastes between the newly-married couple, as likely to be the source o f any future unhappiness; but, confining our view a l ik e match aspect, it is one which on well nigh all grounds we must deplore. Allowing that it it is no indication of an alliance between France and Piedmont against Austria (the rumour o f which has never been contradicted), it is certainly an evidence o f a closer alliance between France and Sardinia, and this, supposing both parties to he wise enough to let Austria alone, bodes no good to the Church, but countries in the most objectionable aspect o f the policy o f each. The spoilation o f the Church, the persecution of the Clergy and Religious Orders, and the jnsosolent bearing o f the Sardinian Government towards the Holy See, do not encourage us to see in the alliance of France and Piedmont any hope that the celebrated letter, to Colonel Ney, the re-enactment of the spurious articles of the Concordat, the actual use made o f the illicit appeal to the Council of State in the case of Mgr. de Deux Brize, were isolated acts, aftiijttM.ifci&jSaBip

The treaties with Russia and with Japan are made the most of, and so are the negotiations with the Emperor o f the French respecting the slave trade. The Charles-et-Georges affair at Lisbon is not particularly alluded to, probably from the feeling that the least said is the soonest mended ; hut we do not understand i f her Majesty announces rightly in one sentence that the Emperor has abolished his system o f Negro im yitoimCT ifi Bext pl&hg,’we can he told that it is hoped that the negotiations now going on at Paris may tend to the abandonment o f the system. The passage respecting Mexico is not deficient in dignity, hut the instructions to ask for and to enforce reparation for wrongs inflicted upon British subjects are open to the objection that the reasons for not enforcing just satisfaction hitherto exist at the present moment in as much force as formerly. The increase o f expenditure necessitated by the augmentation o f the navy for the maintenance of the naval power o f the country, has an unpleasant significance, in addition to its immediate hearing on the question pf peace or war. We are not, to look for any reduction in taxation, either from the abolition of the paper duty or any other. The reform of the law is always claimed by the Tories as their spécialité, and we ire promised a considerable batch o f laws relating to bankruptcy and insolvency, the codification o f the ejfjgjinal law, an Encumbered Estates Bill for England, and a scheme for registering titles to i Reform Rill is promised, though nothing is said as bo its nature and scope, and unless the promised Tenant-right Bill is included in the “ Other proposi­

There is another possible aspect o f this marriage which may he briefly noted. It may he purely a piece o f dynastic policy—hut this is what France has never yet shown herself tolerant of, and if this be the motive o f the act, its consequences may be none the less serious for the more insignificant and private nature o f the cause. Nevertheless, i f the Emperor pursues his dynastic schemes by Royal alliances, it is fortunate that there are no more Princes of the Imperial House to provide for.

— The Ionian Parliament— for in the Septmsular State England has been able to introduce all the forms o f Constitutionalism— met last week. Telegraphic communications having been interrupted, we only know that Mr. Gladstone communicated, hut not personally, his appointment as Temporary Lord High Commissioner, and that the Legislative Assembly answered by an address to the Crown for a union with Greece. The rights of England in Corfu and the sister islands are hardly so old as those o f Austria in Northern Italy, and will hear no comparison with the1 antique tenure o f the Pope in Central Italy. The voice o f the people is clear and unanimous in favour of annexation with Greece, and they have the whip-hand o f the German, Italian, and Roman States, in having once, though not in modem history, formed one state with Greece. Will England recognise the same principles which Whig statesmen and diplomatists have encouraged in Italy ? W ei think n o t ; hut.if they do, we would still humbly decline on the part o f Austria and the Pope to he made the victims o f Whig tions for Æe Amendment o f the Law,” there is no hint that anything of the kind is contemplated. This, howiver, we do not believe, but }t was had policy o f the Ministry, if it has a Bill ready, not to giye Ireland the mpfjffitf of QjtijSmw insurance that a measure which it deems o f such con

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Sir Henry Storks has been appointed to relieve Mr. Gladstone o f his temporary mission. He is said to be a man pf invincible firmness and good humour. He knows the language and habits o f the people, and above all he is a soldier— a great recommendation in these chancy and perilous times. \ j , . • ’ ■ | ceptance o f the post he has for so short a time provisionally occupied, has been, made the peg on which to hang an abundant crop o f little pleasantries. The issue o f his attempt will, we believe, hardly he worth the sacrifices he has made, but he has given another proof of liis devotion and patriotism which will not in the end be lost on his countrymen. We could wish that some elwnent, which we cannot now pretend to define, were not wanting in his character which, if present, might make him o f more use to his country and write his name larger in her annals.

— There has been a revolution in Haiti, and the last accounts represent the Emperor Souloque or, as’ he

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the people of Liverpool is a remarkable and pleasing sign of the times; one o f many which have lately shown that people are coming hack to their senses. Six yearn ago His Eminence would not have been welcomed in Liverpool with the enthusiasm with which he was met last week by persons o f all classes and creeds ; nor would they have resented as a disgrace to their town the acts of some ruffians, whose offence, it appears, has been exaggerated by the intensity of the public indignation. He was then more than unpopular. Anything short o f the worst treatment was too good for him ; and if one at least o f the Liverpool Clergymen could have had matters his own way in 1852, it is possible that His Eminence’s lecturing days would long since have been over. But so sickly and deplorabl# a state of public feeling could not last very long—could not for ever resist the cheering influence of learning and genius. There are people in Liverpool still, we have no doubt, who retain their old animosity, airid to wh6m the Cardinal’s visit has been as had as a fit of the jaundice; a small, ill-tempered, and unhappy section, for whom, in spite o f their follies and impudence, and their shocking propensity to malice and uncharitableness, we feel the deepest commiseration. '¡'hose stayed at home and sulked, waiting for Sunday and M ’Neil to restore their equanimity Men to win.*»'the nnjsome fogs of prejudice are not an went and heard the Cardinal’s lecture-, gave free vent to their admiration; recognised, at least, the scholar, the gentleman, the man of genius, and the min o f sense; and so far has public opinion, even in Liverpool, diverged from the course which it held seven years ago, that it is now possible for Protestant newspapers to speak o f the Cardinal with respect and gratitude, without finding themselves next morning minus a circulation. Such, we are glad to see, is the tone of more than one o f the principal journals. .¡ n ! : v.fJilykj ’ ,, ■ •

— Mr. Poole obtained some time since a rule nisi, calling on the Archbishop o f Canterbury (so called) to show cause why he, that is iW.JKhblsj s|d5 E5e^ be heard by the aforesaid Archbishop in his own defence, in his appeal from his Diocesan. The Court has made the rule absolute, without calling on Mr. Poole’s counsel to address them in support o f it. Mr. Poole must, therefore, be heard by the Archbishop, hut whether by counsel or personally the Lord Chief Justice declined ruling, so that f ie unhappy usurper at Lambeth must decide the point for himself, with the rod of the Supreme Court of. Queen’s Bench hanging riTii m jjf(n pf^ifw rjlIIK lfity . ’ ' T ] ■*’

The Guardian, which is an authority for something or other whenever it speaks, says that this decision is o f the very highest importance to the class o f stipendiary curates, and to its -new to the interests of justice. Granted. We have protested, whenever we have alluded to the subject, against the cruel injustice with which Mr. Poole has been treated by his spiritual superiors. But, ignoring altogether any spiritual authority, properly so called, exercisable by Dr. Tait and his Metropolitan, we have proceeded on the natural and popular notion o f the injustice o f condemning a man unheard, aggravated by the cruelty o f depriving him o f his living, without any, even pretended, necessary exercise o f supreme and superiaforal authorityjik«ari^ c k ;G f i^ 5 ^ . ' The people who have done all this, acknowledge all the while that the exercise of their authority in the Established Church o f England and Ireland is subject to review in the temporal courts. And the Guardian not only acknowledges this, hut flies to these courts as refuges from the injustice of their own spiritual rulers, and applauds the beneficial effects o f the sentence which intervenes between the passions or mistakes o f Archbishops, and the rights (temporal or spiritual, we do not quite gather) o f stipendiary curates. It is hard to serve two masters. The Guardian seems to have found it impossible, and elects for the Court of Queen’s Bench against their own Metropolitan. We have treated this new incident in the Stipendiary Curate v. Archbishop cause in.

— Lord Dungannon, in speaking at a meeting, at Dublin, on behalf of the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (according to the newest Protestant edition) in Foreign pqrts, expressed a strong, and no doubt momentarily sincere belief, that to the

“ Paris, Thursday Evening, Feb. 3. Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilda arrived at the Tuileries at half-past 3 o'clock this afternoon.”

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, , , ; ■ Tubin, Feb. 3 ,4 IS p.m. A loan has been decided upon. The project will be immediately presented to the Chambers.”

THE IONIAN ISLANDS.. “ T r ie ste (via Germany), Wednesday,’ Feb;3. “ Advices have been received from Corfu to the 29th of January. The Ionian P mously declared for union with Greece, passed & resolution to elect a Parliamentary Committee for the purpose of considering what further measures should be taken. Mr. Gladstone, in consequence, addressed a message to the Parliament, stating that this resolution was contrary to the Constitution, and advising that the Committee be merely empowered to address a petition to the Queen of Great Britain. The members of the Ionian Parliament have handed over to Mr. Gladstone the address of the Committee to the Queen, with the request to lay before the Great Powers their desire for union with Greece.”

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The Navy Estimates.—W e have already stated that there would be a considerable increase in the Navy Estimates for the year 1859-60, and we have now to state that, although it had been generally believed there would be no increase in the number of seamen votedHtor, we have good foundation for stating that there wffl be an increase of 3,000 men.— Express.

A W aterspout in Liscannor Bay.—On Saturday, the 22nd ult., between 11 and 12 a.m., the wind being N.W., and weather squally with showers, a waterspout was observed driving along from the direction of the sunken rocks in the mouth of the bay towards Lahinch, at Oregg. An immense mass of ^liiurky clouds accompanied it, the tops of which shope with the silvery lustre imparted by a wintry sun, while the under part, dark as ink, converged downwards to a point from which descended the funnel or spout. To the N.E, the clouds spread out in the direction of Liscannor and Kilshanny, over which places a weighty shower was falling at the time, though not a drop fell m the bay or the immediate vicinity.

Robbery by the A id op Crinoline.—A good-looking female, wearing a huge crinoline, arrived in a carriage three days ago at an hotel in the Bue de Seine, and giving her name Mme. Rollin, hired the best apartment in the house, and had a splendid breakfast served. In the evening she went out, saying that she was going to the railway to seek her luggage, and she never returned. The people of the hotel, on entering her apartment, found that she had carried off the timepiece from the ohimney-piece, and as she had nothing; in her hand when she left she must have placed it, heavy as it was, beneath her crinoline ! She has not since been found, but she has been 4xmdemned by default, by the Tribunal of Correctional Police, to 15 months’ imprisonment.

The Manchester Conference.—There was a Reform Conference at Manchester on Tuesday afternoon, and a conference of the most influential and respectable character as much so as any political conference ever held in the provinces. Mr. George Wilson was in the chair, and the presence of Mr. Bright indicated the opportunity* Wf{ S postscript iMgwi, .r o J t^ e r io s of great Reform speeches which he has already made. At this Conference a resolution was submitted, and unanimously adopted, which approved of the measure Mr. Bright had consented to promote,and which pledged the meeting to the support of the Reform principles of which he has been the exponent. Speeches were made in defence of these views by Mr. Robertson Gladstone, Mr. II. Ashworth, Mr. Barnes, the Mayor of Salford, and the Chairman. In reply, Mr. Bright proceeded to describe his real position in reference to the Reform question, and still further to explain and defend the changes he proposes to make, particularly as these changes affect the redistribution of members. As a whole, he offered his measure to the country as one calculated to give them that fair and complete control over our legislation and Government which the constitution says we ought to possess, and which the experience of the country proves is necessary for our future welfare. He also made some striking ohsîftyilÉtons respecting the,House of Lords and the fears 0>L«hc4anded interest.— Morning Star.

Progress of Russia.—A Russian journal publishes the following account, showing the progress which has taken place within the last few years in the spirit of industry and speculation in Russia. It was in 1799 that the first joint-stock company (the Russo-American) was founded with a capital of 4,488,000f. "Since that time companies have increased in the following manner:—Front 1832 to 1827, two were founded with capitals of 18,402,852f. ; 1883 te 1838, ten companies, 32,723,404f. capital; 1841 to 1849 ; nine, 14,956,34;" 1851 to 1857, twenty-two, 129,946,000f. ; in 1857, fix: 1,354,360,OOOf. ; and in 1858, thirty-one, 220,1 _ The amount of the year 1857 includes the c’apital^xj' great Russian Railway Company. |

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