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" ¦ ^ Bishop Durham subscribed towards an TnHeoendent chapel in Newcastle-upon-Tyne . Ihe followinn fa a copy of his lordship ' s letter transmitting his donation : — u ^ jj Portland-place , June 7-
" Sir —Although , with ample nv > ans at my disposal , I rsn scarcely satisfy the demands of my own Church and ^ own people , yet I have never forgotten that all Christians are brethren , and that , however we may differ as to the meaning of Scripture upon some points of doc-Sne or discipline , very few Protestants fail to inculcate Jriat is essential in Christianity . I am painfully aware of Se spiritual destitution of Newcastle , of its increasing Population , and of the pains which have been taken to Seminate infidelity and socialism ; I cannot , therefore fee ? myself justified in resisting your appeal on behalf of 1 more spacious and commodious place of worship , and especially for a larger establishment of schools in the principles of revealed religion . Towards those joint £ « nd nurooses . vou and the congregation will be pleased
to accept the inclosed check . " I am , Sir , your obedient servant , « ' James Wilson , Esq . " E . Dunelm . " Two important resolutions were agreed to by the Synod of Exeter on Friday week , the last day ' s sitting . The first , which was opposed by a minority of five , ran thus : — " That this Synod believes that the res toration of a permanent , or com paratively permanent , order of deacons , under proper restrictions , would be highly advantageous to the Church ; and that the bishop be respectfully requested to consider under what regulations such an order can be best established . " The second is as follows : —
" That this Synod do invite the earnest attention of the clergy of this diocose to the several orders of the Church in the Book of Common Prayer , and in the canons respecting the saying daily of the Morning and Evening Prayer ; also that the earnest attention of the clergy of the diocese be invited to the thirteenth and fourteenth canons as to the due observance of holy days , and that it is the firm opinion of this Synod that the due observance of Ascension Day includes the celebration of Holy Communion , a special preface being provided for it . "
The meagreness of the reports are referable to the Bishop , who in the exercise of his plenary authority , excluded the reporters . It must be confessed that the Bishop of London is a neat hand at resolving a difficulty . The good folks of Stepney have found that out . They elected an afternoon lecturer , whom , it will be remembered , the bishop disapproved and approved of in no time , The rector opposes the lecturer . On Sunday week a scandal took place ; the bishop , resolving to prevent the occurrence of similar scenes effectually—has adroitly closed the church ! A notice , which was posted last Sunday on the doors , informed the parishioners that the Bishop of London had requested Mr . Poole , the lecturer elect , to abstain from preaching for the present .
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MARRIAGE LAWS AND MARRIAGE RIGHTS . CONNELLY versus CONNELLY . A cause has just been heard before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council , which contains points of very great interest respecting the laws and rights of marriage . The Reverend Pierce Connelly and his wife Cornelfa Augusta Connelly , the parties in this cause , are natives of the United States of America , born nt Philadelphia , of American parents , and they were married in that city in 1831 , being at that time members of the Protestant Episcopalian Church in America . Mr . Connelly was then appointed rector of the church of Natchez in the State of Mississippi , where he went to reside until the month of October . 1835 . At that time , however , the rector ' s
wife became a convert to the Roman Catholic faith , and was received into the bosom of that Church . Mr . Connelly himself was desirous of considering and determining the points in controversy between the two Churches more fully in Europe , and with that view lie undertook a journey to Home with his wife . They arrived early in 1836 " , and on the following Palm Sunday he , too , was received into the Roman Catholic Church . The converts soon afterwards returned to the United States , and settled in the State of Louisiana , where in 1840 they formed the design of living apart with a view to Mr . Connell y ' s obtaining orders in the Church of Rome . After another journey to Rome , undertaken by the husband alone , and another return to Louisiana , in
1813 they both proceeded to fulfil these intentions , and again reached Europe in the- month of December of that year . A petition of Mr . Connelly was addressed to Pope Gregory XVI . and referred by him to the Cardinal Vicar- (» enerid and Judge Ordinary of Rome , who pronounced in effect (< ns is contended by Mrs . Connelly ) a sentence of separation accordingly , lii April , 1811 , Mr . i , Connelly became a nun in the Convent of the Sacred Heart , on the Monto Pincio , and Mr . Connelly received the first clerical tonsure and assumed tho dress of a Romish ecclesiastic . In the month of June , 184 / 5 , Mrs . Connelly bound hernelf , with the concurrence of her husband , by the following vow , which wo cun give in no words but her own : —
Almighty and Eternal God , I , Cornelia , tho lawful wife of Pierce Connelly , fronting in thine infinite goo < l-«« ' « b and mercy , and nnimulcu with the denire or nerving I nee more perfectly , with the consent of my hiinband , who intends shortly to tmko holy orders , do makn Thy Divina Majesty a tow of perpetual ohaetity , at the hands
of the Reverend Father Jean Louis Rozaven , of the Society of Jesus , delegated for this purpose by his Eminence the Cardinal Vicar of his Holiness for the City of Rome , supplicating Thy Divine Goodness by the precious blood of Jesus Christ to be pleased to accept this offering of Thy unworthy creature as a sweet smelling savour ; and that as Thou hast given me the desire and power to make this offering to Thee , so Thou wouldest also grant me abundant grace to fulfil the same . —Rome , at the Convent of the Sacred Heart of Jesus , on the eighteenth of the month of June , in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-five . "So it is —Jean Louis Rozaven , of the Society of Jesus . —So it is—Pierce Connelly—Victorine Bois , of the Sacred Heart of Jesus—Loide de Rochequairie , Rse . of the Sacred Heart of Jesus . " From this period until May , 1846 , Father Connelly and this Reverend Mother ( as they were now called ) continued to reside in the religious houses in Rome to which they respectively belonged . But at that period Lord Shrewsbury brought Mr . Connelly to England aa his private chaplain , and the lady also came to England , where she became , and we believe now is , the Superioress of a community of religious women , under the title of the " Congregation of the Holy Child Jesus , '' at Hastings in Sussex , having brought with her from Rome rules for the government of this community . Subsequently , however , and at some . time in the year 1848 , Mr . Connelly quitted
Lord Shrewsbury , Alton Towers , the Romish Church . He appears to have renounced the opinions , the costume , and the obligations which that Church had imposed upon him ; and after a personal attempt to reel aim his wife from her convent , this gentleman proceeded to institute a suit for the restitution of conjugal rights in the Court of Arches . Mrs . Connelly put in an allegation in this suit , in which , claims to separation were strongly stated on the grounds of conscience and humanity ; but many important matters in the case , especially the questions relating to domicile , were not raised . The Dean of the Arches rejected this allegation altogether , as an insufficient defence .
Mrs . Connelly then carried the case before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council , where the arguments on both sides were restated . In behalf of Mrs . Connelly , the appellant , it was contended that there would be great cruelty in compelling her to live again with her husband , simply because he had been reconverted from the Romish Church while she remained a member of it ; that the vow respectively taken by her , with the consent of her husband , after a mutual agreement to separate , amounted to a sentence of separation , and as such was considerd ; and that unless we accept the de facto relations of marriage existing under the laws of other countries , which vary so much , we shall introduce endless confusion .
The case of Mr . Connelly was much simpler . It was contended that the law of England only recognized two causes for separation ; and as neither of these could be pleaded , therefore , the alleged separation , though by consent , was null and void . Also that the domicile at Rome , and in England , was too transitory to affect the law by which they were bound together . On the part of the committee , Dr . Lusbington said that the marriage law of Pennsylvania should be brought under their consideration , and also the domicile of the parties , at the time the transaction took place , at Rome . The case will then be referred again for reconsideration to the Arches' Court .
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THE NORWICH M U R D E It . A murder has been committed near Norwich , which at once brings vividly before the mind the horrors attending the crimes of Cooke , and ( jood , and Grcenacre . But there are new facts connected with this atrocity . A refined , cold-blooded ingenuity has been exercised in disposing of the body , which mukes one shudder . The first accounts appeared in the London papers of Monday , quoted from the Norwich journals , and we extract the substance of tho following from the Norwich Mercury : — "On Saturday forenoon , the 21 st . ult ., a young mun named Charles Johnson , son of a Pi imitive Methodist preacher , residing nt Trowse , accompanied by his dog , passed down what in known us Mrs . Miirtineau's lane . This lane extends from Trowse-road to Lakenham , and is of a sequestered character . About 200 yards within the lane , commencing from the Trowse end , islands ji small plantation on the left , hand wide ; and when the youth arrived opposite to thin , his dog , which had been running among the trees , sprung over the hedge to the road with something in his mouth , which his master thought win a bone or u piece of carrion . A stranger , who wan [ Minding near , authoritatively commanded the dog to ' drop it ; ' but :, iiiHtead of doing so , the animal ran home to Trovvne . Here it was discovered that , the object
the dog had found was u human hand ; and young Johnhou , on hiu return nhortly after , wan horrified to learn what the dog had brought . He detailed the eircum-HlanceH under which the animal had posocssed itself of the hand , and it was then taken to the station-house and deposited with the police . A search was immediately instituted by the police and u number of labourers with dogs , and on Sunday morning a human foot , wiih found about 200 yards further down the lane , in Mr . Jervin ' n plantation , by two young men mimed J . Spruce and T . Dent , and a dog . A portion of the vertebne was nlso
discovered in the same place by a Mr . Warner ' s coachman , and a second portion in a sawpit not far distant by Simon Finch . "On the same morning a dog with Spruce and Dent found the pelvis . A black striped waistcoat was also discovered concealed in the hedge near where the hand was found , and a quantity of waste cotton , such aa is used by mechanics and others in cleansing machinery , the latter being smeared with blood ; also part of a roller , such as is used by weavers . On Monday the search was continued—the police , assisted by labourers and dogs , minutely examining the hedges and every portion of the ground extending for a considerable distance round the lane . Every heap of manure or rubbish likely to conceal any portions of the body was turned over and inspected . Nothing further , however , was discovered on that day . " The Mayor and magistrates of the city examined those parts of the remains that had been discovered on Monday afternoon . The hand which belonged to the right arm , was firmly closed , the muscles appearing to be contracted , as in the case of a person who had suffered great pain . From the appearance of the skin , it also seemed as if it had been placed in water . The toes of the foot were likewise contracted . The foot is small and delicate , with a high instep , and , from the appearance of it and the hand , a person would imagine that they belonged to a girl of 15 or 16 years of age . Death , whether natural or by violence , could not have taken place above a fortnight or three weeks at the utmost , as decomposition had not fully commenced . The ligaments attached to the joints of the pelvis were perfectly elastic , which would not have been the case had they been severed for a long period . The ribs appeared to have been sawn from the Tight side of the vertebree with a coarse saw , in a rough and clumsy manner . " On Tuesday the following -were found : —A fibula , at the lime-kiln on the Hellesdon-road ( distant about two miles from the place where the hand , &c , were discovered , on the opposite side of the city ) , by the man named W . Noller ; a humerus , near Mr . Manning ' s garden , Lakenham , by police-constable Wooller ; another fibula , in a field near the Hellesdon-road , by police-constable Moore ; three pieces of human flesh , at the same place , one of which would probably weigh a pound , and the others something less each , by Flaxman ; two other pieces of flesh in Mr . Reynolds ' s field , near the Hellesdon-road , by William Carter ; another piece of flesh in the same place , by Martin Cory ; a piece of flesh in the hedge near the windmill , by Robert Self ; also a piece of flesh in each of the following places : —Near Mr . Brown ' s farm , by Charles Davison ; near Mr . Reynolds ' s mill , without St . Augustine ' s-gates , by Henry Cubitt ; in the hedge near the mill , and in Brown ' s-field , by Charles Davison .
" The search was continued on Wednesday . A number of the police were employed to drag the river from Trowse Mills upwards to Lakenham Mills , as it was thought that the ^ person who committed this diabolical crime might have thrown a portion of the remains into the river . Nothing , however , was discovered . Another party of the police , together with several labourers , were employed in searching those localities where there was the least probability of any portion of the body being concealed . During the day the following pieces of human flesh were found , and brought to the station-house : —Five pieces of flesh were discovered in a field , a little past Mr . Keynolds ' s mill , by three men named William Neave , Robert Leach , and Itobert Burrow ; a tibia or shinbone ,
in Mr . Shotger ' s fieid , by a young man named George Chapman ; three more pieces in a field belonging to Mr . Gowing , situate next to that of Mr . Reynolds , by Robert Dewing and Mark Bales , and in another field adjoining Keynolds ' s mill , by Charles Johnson . The only other portions found this day were a piece of flesh , by a young man named John Stone ,, in the field next Mr . Reynnlds's mill ; and another piece in a field belonging to Mr . Curtis , by Robert Dewing . These pieces were generally about the size of a man ' s hand , and had been mostly cut from the surface of the body . They consisted nearly wholly of portions of skin , and thin layers of flesh or muscle . A portion of the patella was attached to one of the pieces , and the sciatic nerve to another . Notwithstanding that they bad been found at so many different places , and in spots a considerable distance apart , they
were found to join when tiied , thus proving that they all belonged to one body . From this it would seem that the body had been cut into pieces some time after death , and that tin- author of this atrocity has endeavoured to get rid of it . by depositing small portions in different localities at various periods . This supposition is considerably strengthened by a discovery which was m ; ide on ThurMlay . As Robert Dewing was searching in Philadelphia that morning , he found a piece of human flesh inside a . fence . Mr . Yuri ington in confident that this place was closely searched on the previous day , and , if the statement of Dewing be correct—and there in no reason to doubt itit shows that the guilty i > eison h ^ d deposited this piece of flesh so recently <» s Wednesday- " night . This day a shirt , which has lie * n found on IVloutichold-heath , much smeared with blood , was delivered to Air . Yarington .
" On Thursday morning the search was resumed , the authorities manifesting the utmost , anxiety to adopt every means likely t ;<< throw any light upon tin ' s most mysterious occuircnee . A number of the police were directed to drag the rivei from the New Mills to Trow . se , while others were directed to continue the search on land . " No more remains were found up to Friday night . The inagiHlratCH m «; t and took the . depositions of a surgeon , who wiih of opinion that the porlionn and scraps of flesh and bone lutd belonged to a woman between the ags-H of sixteen and tw « -nty- » ix , and that she had not been dead more than it fortnight . The . following stutement must excite in the thoughtful observer no pleasant Bontmtionti : — __
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i July 5 , 1851 . ] W 1 &t ? lca * JCt \ 627
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Leader (1850-1860), July 5, 1851, page 627, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1890/page/7/
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