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      the animttf b « iw « m th * d «* « rf the festp * y t ) Se »< and thtf dfry of he * ctoatiu The Att ^ rney Generat ftnd the 3 olf cite * -General showed cause against the role , Mr . Sergeant M « f ewether , Sir F . Thesiger , Mr . Peacock , Mr . Hendfct-« on , and Mr . Sears appeared in f&rout of it . After hearing much talk On both Bides , the cetirttook time < o consider the judgment .

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      THE CRYSTAL PALACE . Much , interest ! hag been felt by the ptoblio at Idrgd as to what the fates of admission would bo to this great gathering of all nations . Various suggestions have been made , and several conjectures haaarded , upon this subject ; but nothing has yet been officially p ublished tending in the least degree to supply the kiformation so urgently required . The Standard atflrms that the cofnmiasionefs have resolved up . n adopting the following scale , should not unforeseen ftircumatanees arise to induce them to inodify

      it!—First day , £ 1 ls <> the next six days , 5 s . ; and after that period , 1 b , No open days whatever ate to be granted . " Within the last few day $ the" Executive Committee hare been in communication with the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police relative to a force necessary to preserve the peace in the neighbourhood of the Exhibition at the lime of its opening and during its continuance , although a vast number of superannuated constables have received orders to do duty on that occasion . The Commissioners intimated

      their intention on Wednesday to augment the force by adding 900 men , who will be employed for twelve months only . Those men Will perform duty at the various police stations , in lieu of the A or reserved force , and the latter , with the deteetive men , will be stationed in and about the Great Exhibition building . The additional men employed will have the preference of joining the force as Vacancies fnay occur , instead of taking fresh hands . Her Majesty ' s Commissioners hate decided , in order to prepare for the reception of foreign goods hi the ensuing week , that the public mdst be altogether eieluded from visiting the building after Monday next , the 3 rd of

      February . The Duke of Wellington bae expressed an opinion that it will be unnecessary to encrease the military stf efigth of London during the Great Exhibition , beyond removing the battalion of Guards from Chiehestef to the vicinity of the metropolis ; every precaution will , however , be taken by the authorities of the Horse Guards on _ the occasion of such an excess of visitors ; and buildings have been surveyed tot the accommodation of additional troops , should their service's be required in aid of the civil power , which latter forcte , we understand , ia to be augmented by 1000 men . — -United Service Gazette .

      The Perth Courier states that Lord WilioUghby d Eresby has hired , at his owtt expense , a house in London for the accommodation of such of the tenants on hit extensive estates as may wish to visit the Great Exhibition .

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      PROTESTANTISM AND POPERY . Dr . Pusey , in a "Letter to the Bishop of London in Explanation of some Statements by the Reverend W . I > odsworth , " says , " Itis worse than idle to talk , as some have done , of putting down * Traetarianism , ' in order to check secessions to Koine . Such might drive hundreds from the Church for tens ; but while that precious jewel , the Prayer-book , remains , they cannot destroy or weaken * Tractarianisrn . ' It was out of Holy Scripture and the formularies of the Church , that Tractarianiem arose . It waa cherished by out English divines . It was ripened by the

      Fathers . It was ripened while most of the writers knew scarcely a Roman book , and only controversially . Traetarianism wfls entirely the birth of the English Church . Its life must be co-existent with the formularies with which it is embodiod . Tractarianism was not beheaded with Laud , nor trampled under foot in the Great Hebellion , nor corrupted by Charles It ., nor expelled with the nonjurors , nor burnt , together with the Common Prayer-book , in Scotland , nor extinguished by the degradation of tho Church through Wiilpole , nor in America by the long denied episcopate . Evon the pared and maimed Prayer-book of the Church in tho United States stiflafFordsitanome ,

      and the sameness of the strugglos implies tho same principle of life . " lteferring to tho anti-Papal excitement , the reverend gentleman Bays , " Thut ory has come in part from undefined ! fears , in part it comes from those who would desire an amalgamation of Protestantism by destroying what is tho characteristic of the Church of England . " A letter appears in the Morning Chronicle from Mr . Biddel , the barrister , a relative oi the Roman Catholic Bishop in which , with reference to the late addxeBS

      to Dr . Wiseman from tho body to which he belongs , he diminetlyrepudiateH on behalf of those who signed that document , tho slightest recognition thereby of ultramontane Opinions . In proof of which he instances tho formation of the ' « Cieulpine Club / ' in direct antagonism thereto , a society which counts » i « Uh list nlinoHt every name of euiinenco among the British Roman Catholics—Petro , Stwtford , Jemiogham , Cumoyi * , Norfolk , Arundel , &e . This elub , to wluch woven *! luundwu « 4 tho leading ; gwatffy b « l 9 > Hh

      ha « txseri in active existence for gome thirty years , &H 6 the principle * it recognizes are those set forth in the letters of Lord Beaumont and the Duke of Norfolk , not a single word of which can , according to Mr . Riddel , be construed into anything else but what forms the basis of that club ' s original institution . The Bishop of London has appointed the Honourable and Reterend Robert triddell ,, the vicar of Barking , to be the successor of Mr . Bennett , at St . Barnabas . An interval is to elapse before Mr . Bennett

      legally resigns , and Mr . Llddell is legally appointed . The vicar of Barking is well known as a younger son of Sir Ifcomas Liddell , whom Gfeorge IV . created Lord Ravensworth . He married a daughter of Dr . Welle ^ ley , late rector of Bishop Wear mouth , and was in 1836 , presented by the College of All Souls , Oxford , to the living which he Will now vacate . The Daily N&ies describes him as a decided Puseyite . If that be the case , the people of Pimlico have not made much by the change .

      The Dublin meeting , announced for some weeks past , to address the Queen and petition the Legislature against the Papal aggression , took place on Tuesday in the large room of the Rotunda . Eleven o ' clock was the time fixed for the commencement of the proceedings ; and soon after that hour there was a very respectable , although not a numerous , attendance . The meeting was addressed by Mr . T . Wallace , the Earl of Clancarty , the Reverend Tresham Gregg , Mr . Napier , M . P ., Dr . O'Sullivan , the Earl of Roden , Viscount Suirdale , the Earl of Castlemaine , and Colonel Lewis . A strongly-worded Anti-Papal address was adopted . Another meeting was held in the evening , the Earl of Mayo in the chair , when resolutions of a similar nature were adopted .

      A meeting Of the Protestants of Montgomeryshire was held on Thursday , at Welshpool . The Earl of Powis moved the main resolution , with a speech of very guarded tone ; and the resolution itself expressed the desire of the meeting not to withhold from her Majesty ' s Roman Catholic subjects the full participation of the civil privileges which they enjoy . Lord Powis asked the meeting not to be too sanguine of the measures which the Minister would carry ; for the action taken ttmst apply to Ireland as well as England—there was the great difficulty . Lord Sddely moved an anti-Tractafian

      amendment , and was seconded by & Dissenting minister ( the Reverend John Evans ) . The two lords negotiated , but could not agree ; and the original resolution was carried by a large majority . At Gloucester , a congregation in the Countess of Huntingdon ' s connection has adopted a memorial , the specific pi " ayer of which is for the withdrawal of the Maynooth grant . The Bishop of Durham , iri a letter to the Times , contradicts the rumour that his letter to the A rchdeacon of Lindisfarne was founded upon any knowledge of what course Ministers intend to take with reference to Papal aggression . The statement published in the Globe a few days since that certain queries had been addressed to Cardinal Wiseman by a legal gentleman is , we understand , substantially correct . The letter in question was written by Mr . Charles Pearson , late M . P . for Lambeth , at the suggestion of certain members of the bar , whose object was to found ft prosecution for a misdemeanour upon the admissions Which it was expected the Cardinal would make . It ia unnecessary to say that , to this formal demand to furnish evidence that would criminal himself no answer was returned . In connection with this subj « et we may state that , on the publication of Lord John Ruaeell ' s manifesto , in which he announces that the law

      officers of the Crown would look into the law of the question , to ascertain whether there was any ground for a prosecution , the Cardinal at once gave instructions to a legal gentleman of eminence to take the necessary measures for his defence . Some time having elapsed without any movement on the part of the law officers of the Crown , the Cardinal ' s legal adviser addressed a letter to them , enquiring whether any legal proceedings were contemplated , and , if so , what form the prosecution would assume . After some delay , a reply was received from the Government , stating that it was not their

      intention to institute any legal proceedings , the law in itH present state not being applicable to the act of the Cardinal , and that the question would be reserved for legislative consideration . —Observer . It is said that , during the forthcoming session of Parliament , a bill will be introduced to assimilate tho Episcopalian Church in Scotland to the Church of England , ttnd to free the Scottish Episcopalian clergy from the disabilities under which they have hitherto been placed . By the present law they arc prevented from holding any benefice in England , and may only officiate twice consecutively in any English dioces * .

      The London correspondent of the Dublin Evening Mail says : — " Nothing is as yet definitely known as to tho precise nature of the measure to be proposed by Ministers with regard to the Pope ' s Into aggression ; but you rrtfly depend upon it that Lord John is in constant communication oti the subject with Cardinal Wiseman . It Appears ; by the !*<** number of the Quarterly Review , that a Hop has already been thrown out to the Cardinal by tho appointment of h near relative of Iuh { nephew , I beliete ) , to tho situation of Colonial Secretary at Ceylon .

      The nitwfttian is worth £ 2 / 500 a-year . " A large piece of ground has born obtitined by the Roman Catholic body in the lino of the now street now in course of formation between the Mouses of Parliament and Pimlico , for the lmruoNe of eroding a ma ^ nififitmt cathedral , to be called St . Patrick ' s . Victoriastreet , as the new street has been named , will run through . th « lowent and most densely populated parts of Wcstminrttor i the bonnes are to be palatial in oliaruCter , and the aew opening will be tho meunn of affording a more dhtcot and ccntomodieufrnMUUMi of uccesa

      betweeftjlueki nffham Palaee , the aristocratic district of Belgravia , and the Houses of Parliament , and will tend very materially to improve the ventilation and drainage of that quarter of the town . The Cathedral of St . Patrick will be the metropolitan church of the Cardinal , and will , when completed , it is said , surpass any building of the kind yet undertaken in this country . The purchase of the ground has not yet been concluded , but the necessary arrangements are almost comp leted , and a very large suin has been already obtained in subscriptions and donations .

      The rumour that the Very Reverend Dr . Cox , president of Old Hall College , is to be the new Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark is premature . It is not intended at present to appoint any Bishop of Southwark , as there is a large debt , exceeding £ 3000 , still due upon St . George ' s Church , which , in consequence , remains yet unconsecrated and unfinished , and until this debt is liquidated , the ecclesiastical affairs of the district will be managed by Cardinal Wiseman , assisted by the Reverend Dr . Doyle , the senior clergyman of St . George ' s .

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      MR . BAGSHAW AND THE BISHOP OF LONDON . An extraordinary correspondence between the Bishop of London and Mr . Bagshaw , the son of Mr . Bagshaw , M . P ., is published in the Daily Netds of Saturday . The Bishop having learned that Mr . Bagstiaw was erecting a chapel on his property , in Paddington , wrote to say that he ( the Bishop ) could not license " any unconsecrated proprietary chapel , " and , if Mr . Bagshaw wanted it consecrated , " it will be necessary to provide an endowment , and to submit the plans to me for my approval . " Mr . Ba ? shaw replied that he did not want it to be consecrated , but

      on its completion would solicit his lordship ' to license to the ministry of the chapel a clergyman of long standing in the Church , and who has laboured many years in your lordship ' s diocese to your satisfaction . " The Bishop says he cannot allow any new unconsecrated building to be opened as a chapel ; he found some in his diocese , but had objected to new ones , and even . ' to the reopening of some which had been closed for some time . " He , therefore , will not license any clergyman to such a chapel . Mr . Bagshaw jemonstrates—points to the want of church accommodation in the parish , to the progress of the building , and hints that " there is no law" against him . The Bishop says he shall be satisfied with an endowment of £ 1000 and a small repair fund , and ,

      perhaps , " this may be saved from the sum which you intend to lay out on the building , " and , lastly , Mr . Bagshaw should have the patronage . After mature consideration the latter abandons his project . " At what a heavy pecuniary sacrifice to myself your lordship is already informed , and with what loss to the spiritual interests of the locality , your lordship ' s acquaintance with the want of church accommodation Which there prevails , will make it unnecessary for me to say more on the subject than I have already done . " The Bishop consents to the publication of the correspondence , simply desiring to add that in two or three cases he has licensed chapels , purchased from Dissenters , " in my populous and poor neighbourhoods , " with a view to their being ultimately consecrated as district churches .

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      SPIRITUAL DESPOTISM * N ITALY . The following extract from a private letter , dated Rome , January 14 , will give some notion of the wretched state of public affairs in Italy : —¦ " llonip , Jan . 11 , 1851 . " In this part of the world we are kept safely guarded from any confusion of ideas upon events , by his Holiness refusing- admission to any newspapers which express liberal opinion . It fs the same at Naples , where I shall be in a month , and you may , therefore , judge how acceptable letters from England must be . At Naples they have a very amusing list of prohibited books , amongst them Humboldt ' s Cosmos : this last , an some one remarked , because it treated of the revolutions of the

      hoavenly bodies . Florence charmed me . It ia the richest . museum of art , ancient and modern , in the world , and there for tho firRt time I could appreciate tho genius of some of the Italian masters . To know , for example , Andre del Sarto , one must visit f < 1 lorcneo . . Florence is to me especially interesting , as it is the city tho most really Republican of past times , and the Republic , where the people show in fine contrast to the other rulers in Italy ' s past ages . Its present condition Is melancholy . It is tho flame with all Tuscany . It is experiencing the paternal governments of Austria ; and the streets have exchanged the choruses which the people used to sing ho well for thfl perpetual clank of Austrian swords and the swagger of Austrian and Hungarian soldiers . Tho . Florentines of all Classen behave with considerable

      dignity in their misfortunes . Any Italians who frequent Austrlans in society are immediately avoided by their friends and acquaintances ; so much ho , that even traditional Hirtal Ions arc broken off if the lady dances with an Austrian , —the partito who has ho long been at her feet departs . The people are HiihVring much from the encreased taxation , rendered necessary by the Austrian occupation . The withdrawal of the Austrian garrisons or uny HcrioiiH diminution in their number will be the Mignitl for it revolution . 7 'ho great evil over all Italy , and that which renders anything like real progress » o difficult , is the priesthood . Its progress in power , and its present overwhelming Influence , ure oiving to tho Ignorance of the masses . This in their nooptro , and the priesthood aro well awaro that in tho continuance

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 1, 1851, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1868/page/5/