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incumbent of the large and populous parish of St . James , Bristol , who has intimated his intention of immediately nlacine his resignation of that living in the hands of the biahoD He has for some time been a Puseyite , and not lone since Dr . Pusey preached two sermons in his church roVpositio n to an Intimation by the bishop that the proceeding did not meet with his approbation . One of the reverend incumbent ' s curates preceded him in the march to Rome . . , . The Guardian states that Mr . Bennett is engaged in windin g up the accounts in connection with his charitable institutions , and may be expected to complete his resign nation before the end of this week . He has taken no «« rf in anv of the services since the publication of his ? orre pondLce with the Bishop of London . The altarcloths and other decorations of the chancels of the churches of St . Paul ' s and St . Barnabas , which were removed , have been restored . The choral services have , " for the present , " says the Guardian , been done away
The Leeds Mercury states that the two curates of St . Saviour ' s Leeds , Mr . Rooke and Mr . Beckett , complain of having been unjustly treated by the Bishop of Ripon in the proceedings taken against them . They deny that the charges on which they are removed from office have been proved ; they avow they preach the doctrines alleged against them , but contend they are the doctrines of the Church of England , and desire to have the question settled by an appeal to the Ecclesiastical Courts . The initiatory" steps for having this test applied must be taken by the Bishop , as the curates have no right to appeal against his decision . The Ami de la Religion announces that " the Holy Father has just given another proof of the independence of the spiritual power , by establishing an Episcopal See in Ireland . The diocese of Cloyne and Ross has been
divided in two , and Pius IX . has named a Bishop to the new diocese . It is reported that the Bishop of Oxford has issued an inhibition against Dr . Pusey ' s preaching in his diocese . —Church and State Gazette .
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THE ENGLISH AT ROME . According'to all accounts the English nobility and gentry are making some sensation at Home by the readiness with which they renounce the errors of the Church of England and embrace those of the Church , of Rome . On New Year ' s-day Lord Campden , son of the Earl of Gainsborough , and Lady Campden made a public recantation of Protestantism , and were received into the Roman Catholic Church . Lord and Lady Feilding were present , as well as several other persons who have preceded or followed their example . Rome is said to be crowded with English converts from every rank in society , and the Roman nobility vie with each other in paying them the most marked attention . In all public ceremonies they obtain the best places , and the Pope and the Cardinals never fail to notice them in public .
New Year ' s evening was distinguished by one of the most splendid fetes ever given at Rome . The Prince Cardinal Altieri , President of Rome , and Comarca , openedhis magnificent palace in the Piazza del Jesu . Every person of consideration , foreign and native , was invited , and the numerous salons were resplendent with beauty and diamonds . Among the ladies most distinguished for personal appearance and brilliant costumes was the Princess Torlonia , who was literally one blaze of jewels , many of which were said to have once belonged to the shrine of our Lady of Loretto . A diadem composed of brilliants and pearls eclipsed everything in the way of
ornament present , and it is said to be not only one of the most gorgeous , but the most costly parure belonging to any privato person in Europe . The next personage , whq divided general attention With Madame Torlonia , was the Princess Doria , daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury . On this occasion she produced , from caskets where they had long been hidden , the costly heirlooms of the Pamfili family . The value of these jewels is almost inestimable , not only on account of their intrinsic worth , but their historical association , as many of them are known to have belonged to the celebrated
Donna Olimpia ( said to be daughter of Pope Innocent XI . ) , and are recognized in Velasquez's portrait oi that lady . The Princess Borghese ( a Rochefoucauld ) was likewise splendidly attired . The Princess Altieri , who did the honours for her relative the Cardinal , was also a star of the first magnitude . Her diamonds , in number and value , were scarcely surpassed by those abovenamed . The foreign circle whs completed by all the diplomatic corps and their ladies , and by the French General Commnndcr-in-Chief and his BtafF . The fete is described as ono of the most remarkable ever given at Rome .
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THE PRESIDENT AND TILE ASSEMBLY . T ' - diHmi 88 ttl of General Changarnier , and the breaking up of that union between the superior command of tho national guards of the Seine and of tho army of the first division , which made his power so lomndablo , has not boon followed by uny of those alarming results which were threatened . The organs ol tho majority prophesied that such a measure would bo tho signal for civil war between tho President and the Assembly , and hinted that the effect would only , bo to lodge tho present inmate of tho ^ lyaeo ut VnicenncH . Instead of that , Paris has been
more tranquil than usual , and nobody supposes that now there is the slightest ground for alarm . The formation of the new Ministry and the dismissal of General Changarnier caused much excitement in the Assembly . After much discussion , on Saturday , M . de- Remusat proposed that the Assembly should retire to its bureaux in order to appoint a committee , specially charged to report and propose some measure or resolution adapted to the new state of affairs . The new Ministry ineffectually opposed this motion ; and , as every fraction of the Chamber not positively friendly to the President ' s
Government concurred in the desire to form this committee , which , in fact , pledged themselves and the House to nothing at all , it was carried by a majority of 57 in a House of 603 members present . The composition of the committee , which chose the Due de Broglie for president , and M . Lanjuinais , a member of the tierspartie for secretary , showed that it was hostile to the Government ; but as , with the exception of MM . Baze and Nettement , who have always distinguished themselves by their vehement opposition to the Government of the President , the committee was in general composed of moderate men , it was felt that no extreme measures would be
recommended . The first step of the committee was to demand the communication of the proces-verbaux of the committee of permanence . Not only did the Government call upon the house to comply with this request , but M , Baroche challenged their publication . On Tuesday the important documents were published . The organs of the Government congratulated their party that they brought to light no new charge against the powers that be ; while the Opposition papers rejoiced to find that they fully confirmed all the charges made at the time , and contradicted by the Government papers , with respect to the champagne and sausages distributed at Satory , the Bonapartist proceedings of the Society of the Dix Decembre , and the dismissal of General Neumayer , because he discouraged the cries of " Vive l'Empereur !"
The committee presented their report to the Assembly on Tuesday evening . They had maturely examined the proposition of M . Remusat , and the proces-verbaux of the Permanent Committee , and had not thought that the responsibility of the events which were recited in them should be visited on a higher authority than the Ministers . That opinion was confirmed by the perusal of the proces-verbaux and the explanations given to the Committee by the Ministers of the Interior and of War . It was evident to all that the Government had long endeavoured to excite doubts in the country as to the stability of the present state of things , in order to bring about the
restoration of an Imperial regime . Seditious cries of " Vive l'Empereur ! " had been uttered with impunity . The general who refused to sanction that cry was superseded in his command . The Ministerial press violently attacked the National Assembly , to destroy its moral authority . It was proved that those cries were encouraged and excited by agents of the Government . M . Baroche denied the charge , and opposed his own testimony to that of the Permanent Committee , although he only assisted at one of the four reviews which took place at Satory . The Minister , on being asked why he permitted the Government press to attack the Assembly ,
replied that he had no journals in his pay ; and to show his impartiality he told the committee that he had sent for the chief editors of those papers , and declared to them that , if they continued their attacks against the Legislative Assembly , he would deprive them of the right of selling in the streets . The Minister added , that the dismissal . of General Changarnier and tho suppression of his double command had been long decided . Some differences arose in the Cabinet on that subject , and several members having tendered their resignation , they all resolved to resign . The committee had divided . Two members proposed the simple order of the day , seeing nothing in the conduct of the Ministry to justify a blame ; three presented a resolution of distrust , not however , on account of the dismissal of General Cliungarnier , whose position was irregular , and against which they had always protested . Six others declared that they placed no confidence in the Ministry , and another also expressed his distrust , but in different terms . Finally , fight to seven agreed to submit to the Assembly the following resolution : — " The National Assembly , acknowledging the light of the Executive Power to dispose of military commands , blames the use it made of that right , and declared that the General in Chief of tho Army of Paris preserves tho title to the confidence which tho National Assembly testified to him in the Hitting of the 3 rd instant , anil passes to the order of the day . ' * Tho discussion on tho report commenced on Wednesday . Tho Assembly was exceedingly crowdod , and tho galleries lilled with strangers . The debate has not beon very interesting hitherto . M . do Goulard though ! , the eouunitteo hud gone too far in their resolution , lie thought that all parties ought to accept tho state of things created by tho revolution . M . do Frosnau , on tho contrary , took u very gloomy viow of tho actual stato of things created by the
constitution , which had lost its value , and ought to be revised . M . Monet argued in favour of the supremacy of the Assembly . If it was not satisfied with Ministers , the latter ought to resign . M . Baroche attacked the report for charging Ministers with a desire to evade responsibility . The Ministry was ready to avow its acceptation of the acts of the President . It was difficult to say how the division will be .
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THE DRESDEN CONFERENCES . Nothing has yet transpired which can justify any positive assertion to what will be the composition of the future Executive Power . It seems very plain , however , that all idea of a central legislature under a popular form has been abandoned , even by the most Democratic States . The utmost that is now expected of the Dresden Conferences is a new configuration and strengthening of the imperfect federal edifice constructed in 1815 , whereby an attempt will be made to give strength , vigour , and promptitude of action to the central organ , without in any way trenching upon the Constitutional rights or organization of individual states .
The Committee appointed to deliberate on material interests has held two or three sittings , during which the outline of a system of approachment between the South and North has been brought forward ; but this in no way indicates any nearer immediate connection than a removal of obstacles to more easy border traffic , and to general and reciprocal admission of certain articles of inland produce and general consumption . Great attention continues to be shown by the Court to the Plenipotentiaries who , whatever maybe the issue of their deliberations , will have no cause to complain of want of amusement and good dinners . The ball at Court on the 8 th instant was described by those present as magnificent . Upwards of 600 persons were invited .
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FATHER GAVAZZI IN LONDON . There is now in the metropolis a very remarkable character—Father Gavazzi , the modern S avonarola ; the ecclesiastical Mazzini ; the religions leader ot Young Italy . He has harangued crowded audiences of his countrymen and educated Englishmen at the Princess's Concert-room , in the afternoon of the two last Sundays . A translated abridgement of ¦ his orations is furnished by the Daily News , with admiring comments . " His varied and impassioned arguments , " says the reporter , " were conveyed with a fervour of declamation , and a grace of delivery quite
unknown to our clerical speakers . We honestly confess that we have not seen or heard in London , any public orator at all to be compared with this finished and truly classic preacher . We can fully comprehend the effect of his eloquence on the thousands who filled the great square of St . Mark , and the various other public gatherings throughout Italy , when he swayed the fierce Democracy , and roused the energies of the Peninsula . His command of language is most copious , and the variety , as well as appropriate dignity , of his attitudes and intonation truly captivating . " He is clad in the black serge habit of a Barnabite monk , and wears on his breast
the rude wooden cross of his order . In his last Sunday ' s oration he spoke boldly out against the miserable Italian crew , of whom Lord John Russell pretended to be afraid . " The Popes have brought transalpine hordes down upon us frv > m the outset , —Charles d'Anjou , Norman adventurers , German lansquenets , Spanish cut-throats , the outcasts and refuse of every race have been let loose , by papal intrigue or open invitation , to suck , slay , violate , and plunder among us in the name of Christ , from the days of Manfredi and the murdered Corradino down to those recent deplorable days when that apostate Italian , Maatai , blessed the butchers of Sicily and their king
Bomtia ; blessed Oudinot for strangling the Roman Commonwealth with a tricolour rope ; and would bless the Prince of Darkness himself for replacing on his head that tiara which I hold was originally planted on the brows of « Christ ' s Vicar ' ( in the bitter derision of his doctrine ) by the common enemy of mankind . This monstrous intermarriage between the kingly function and the service of God ' s altar has more publicly offended the moral sense of the human race as ( society has progressed and the dark delusional of past centuries been dissipated by the noon day of civilization . To be a good priest is difficult enough to the infirmity of mortals ; to understand kingcraft in all its branches is a gift few can boast . ; to combine both sacerdotal and regal excellence is a perfectly hopeless pretension . Ileaee , cither the priest is levels his
merged altogether , and a Julius the Second artillery in propria persona on my native Bologna , or the king disappears in the grovelling , idiotic , and timorous devotee , as in the person of 1 'io Nono . A court , forsooth , is requisite to place the patriarch of Christendom on a level with princes ; was a court required to place them on a level with the « mperois of Home ? did they not maintain Christianity against ' giants in those days , ' and could they not do so now when paltry pigmies hit on Kuropeun thrones ? 1 protest 1 have more respect for the grand ( . haunt of I'hibet aB a more excusable object , of blunt , downright homage , from congenial and kindred barbarians , tliun for such a grim juiuolc of carnifax andpontifcx hangman and high priest u (/ the—prudent occupant of the Vatican and tho Caatlo At & ,. Aiifcelo ( tho arched oauocway connecting
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 18, 1851, page 51, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1866/page/3/
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