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The office of Associate to the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench has, it is well known, almost invariably been held by a son of that great ju- dicial functionary for the time being ; and it is resigned on a vacancy, either by death or retirement, of the Chief Justice. Thus, in the time of Chief Justice Ellenborough, the office was held by the present Recorder for London • during Chief Justice Tenterden's incumbency, the present Lord Tenterden was Associate ; andlately the Honourable Thomas Denman acted in that capacity. Immediately on the appointment of Lord Campbell as Chief Justice, he wrote to Mr. Denman, requesting that Mr. Denman would continue to be his Associate. This handsome offer of the new Chief Justice was, however, delicately declined by Mr. Denman; who reminded Lord Campbell that he had sons of his own quite as competent to fill the office. Its emoluments are understood to be worth 2,000/. a year; paid, of course, by the suitors for justice in the Queen's Bench.—Dady News.

In consequence of the decision in Mr. Gorham's case, the Reverend George Anthony Denison has caused two protests to be read in the Vestry of the parish-church of East Brent, Somerset, of which he is Vicar. We must take only the most salient points. Whereas George Cornelius Gorham, clerk, B.D., priest of the Church of England, has formally denied the Catholic faith of the Church of England in respect of the holy sacrament of baptism ; and whereas the Judicial Com- mittee of Privy Council has by final sentence pronounced him fit to be in- stituted to a benefice with cure of souls; "and whereas such sentence is ne- cessarily: false," and "all who knowing its intent, and acquiesce in it, are or will be involved in heresy"; therefore,

" I, George Anthony Denison, clerk, M.A., Vicar of East Brent, in the county of Somerset, in the diocese of Bath and Wells, do hereby enter my solemn protest against the said sentence of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ; and do warn all the Christian people of this parish to beware of allowing themselves to be moved or influenced thereby in the least degree: and I do also hereby pledge myself to use all lawful means within my reach to assist in obtaining, without delay, some further formal declaration, by a lawful synod of the Church of England, as to what is and what is not the doctrine of the Church of England in respect of the holy sacrament of baptism."

In the other protest, Mr. Denison pledges himself, in the name of the most holy Trinity, to use all lawful means within his reach to prevent the continuance of such state of the law, and of the power claimed and exercised under the same.

The Very Reverend John Bartholomew, Archdeacon of Barnstaple, has also issued an address to his clergy, declaring the judgment " unsatis- factory."—it is the voice of Councils which, affirming that they have no authority to determine matters of faith, lend themselves indirectly to the establishment of erroneous doctrine " ; and he calls on his clergy to pray her Majesty that the court for taking cognizance of matters of faith be Oonstituted in accordance with the principle that "authority in contro- versies of faith" is vested in the Church alone.

It is stated on authority, that immediate steps are in contemplation by the Metropolitan Church Union for the vindication of the Church's au- tonomy in matters of faith.

A numerous deputation of manufacturers and operatives had an inter- view with Lord John Russell and Sir George Grey on Tuesday, to urge on the Government the universal wish of the manufacturing operatives that the Ten-hours Act should be made effective. Lord Harrowby, Lord John Manners, Sir Robert Inglis, Sir Joshua Walmsley, Mr. Adderley, and seven other Members of Parliament, accompanied the deputation. Lord Harrowby, Dr. Burnett Vicar of Bradford, Mr. Rand of Bradford, and Mr. S. Fielden of Oldham, were speakers • and several working men also. Mr. John Mills, a working man, descried the advantages he and his family had gained by the bill—

He had ten children ; seven of whom worked in the mill ; three girls and four boys. It was his misfortune to have one girl working by " shifts ' ; and there was a marked difference between her progress and that of the other two since the Ten-hours Act came into operation. The two that were work- ing ten-hours had learnt to read and write ; they could now make their own clothes, and do many domestic duties they never knew before ; whilst the one that was working by " shifts " had made no progress. In fact, he thought it cruel to ask her to attend to those matters, after she had been thirteen hours in and about the mill.

The interview lasted an hour. Lord John was attentive and courte- ous; antl the deputation withdrew, "much satisfied with their reception." ' A deputation from the Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee had an interview with Lord John Russell on Monday. Mr. Cobden, Mr Monckton Milnes, Mr. Milner Gibson, and several other Members of Parliament, accompanied the deputation. Their objects were urged at considerable length. Lord John Russell declined to give any answer to a demand for a reduction of taxation : he observed that the reduction of the stamp-duty from 4d. to ld., and of postage from 6d. to ld., are proofs that Government is disposed to promote the enlightenment of the people ; and he bowed the deputation out.

The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce has addressed Mr. Labouchere on the subject of his Bill for Improving the Condition of Masters, Mates; and Seamen, and Maintaining Discipline in the Merchant Service ; agreeing i entirely with him in object, but, a respectful and friendly tone, suggesting improvements.

Vouching the existence of an "almost universal feeling of hostility to the spirit of centralization which characterizes the bill in its present form," they propose "that a clause should be introduced granting to Liverpool and other large seaports the power of electing a local board for coiling out the details of the bill—such as the appointment of examiners, shipping masters, &e." The board should "consist of a certain number elected by the ship- owners, and a certain number by the magistrates; • the stipendiary magistrate be a member ex officio" ; and its duties should be "to report and make Periodical statistical returns to the Board of Trade, who shall retain a veto on any appointment."

Mr. Labouchere has replied with an acknowledgment of the respect due to a communication so temperately urged and authoritatively backed ; but expressing his persuasion that it would be highly objectionable to allow each port to name its own examiner without the intervention of some general controlling power, and dwelling on the difficulty of granting an exemption to Liverpool, which could hardly be refused to other ports of less importance. I believe," Mr. Labouehere writes in conclusion, "that I hold the doc- trine of the wisdom of not interfering with traders in the management of

their own affairs as strongly as most men ; but it is surely to discredit that doctrine to apply it to subjects which are rather of the nature of police re- gulations, to which it is plainly foreign. To say that it is to be left to chance whether a grossly ignorant and incompetent captain or mate shall be allowed to take charge of a ship, crew, and cargo, and that the sailor shall be abandoned to all the frauds to which the crimpage system subjects him, without protection, after a fatal experience has demonstrated the mischief of these practices, appears to me utterly inconsistent with the duty of Parlia- ment and of the Government"

A translation of the main points of the despatch from Count Nesselrode to Baron Brunow on the affairs of Greece has been published.

It states that Russia was well aware that England had claims, and that in 1847, during the administration of Coletti, she was on the point of measures for their enforcement; but since that period she heard no more of them. Had Russia received any intimation on the subject, she would have counselled Greece to attend to the claims; and if Greece then refused to satisfy them, England might have taken what measures she thought suitable. Russia and France have equally lent Greece funds, and they condemn measures which are likely to incapacitate her from honouring her pecuniary engagements. The money demands appear exaggerated ; and they claim a right to know the quarrel. The claim of the two small islands is a territorial question. On it Russia and France are justified in demanding in virtue of what title England " presumes to change a status quo that has lasted for eighteen years ; to take upon her- self to reconstruct the map of Glasses and to appropriate any portion, how small soever, of her territory. This is a question that must be examined into by the three Powers.' . . . . "Surely neither of those three Powers can pretend, nor does it become either of them, to undo its own collective work, to threaten the independence of Greece, to encroach on its integrity, to endanger the existence of that dynasty by humbling it in the eyes of the world, by disturbing the tranquillity of the country, or exposing it to the attacks of factions encouraged as they may be by the presence of the English fleet, and perhaps to the horrors of civil war."

In a subsequent despatch, dated the 8-20th February, Count Nesselrode acknowledges the receipt of the intelligence that Lord Palmerston had relaxed those extreme measures which he had adopted against the Hel- lenic Government and accepted the mediation of France. Count Nessel- rode will not insist on the want of courtesy of which he has complained, nor ask to enter into a mediation already commenced, and which may al- ready have borne fruits profitable to Greece. Nevertheless, with regard to the cession of the Greek islands—a question of territory connected with the delimitation established by a treaty between the three Cabinets, it will be impossible for Russia, as a signer of that act, to admit that this question should be treated by England and France to the exclusion of Russia. She therefore reserves her rights in this respect

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last : the first column of figures gives the ag- gregate number of deaths ni the corresponding-weeks of the ten previous years.

Ten Weeks of 1839-49.

Week. of 1830.

tymotie Diseases 1795 .... 133 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat

'Tubercular Diseases 1849 .... 149 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1236 .... 141 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 290 .... 33 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1904 .... 171 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 579 .... 60 Diseases of the Kidneys, d.c 100 .... 15 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c 109 .... 12 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &a 62 10 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tirane, &c.. 10 .... 4 Malformations 29 .... 2 Premature Birth

223 ....

13 Atrophy 130 18 Age 636 .... 42 Sudden 141 .... 9 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 276 21 Total (including unspecilied causes) 10043 875

'' The weekly mortality continues to decline. In the week ending last Saturday the deaths registered in London were 875, being a small decrease on the previous week. The steady decrease is exhibited in the following series of numbers' being the deaths returned in each week since January, namely, 1,094, 957, 938, 911, 896, and 875. To compare the mortality of the last re- turn with that of the same week in former years (1840-9), it appears that only in 1842 and 1846 were the deaths less than 900; with three exceptions they were always above 1,000; and in 1845 rose to 1,141. The average of ten corresponding weeks, corrected for increase of population, is 1,095, compared with which the deaths in last week show a decrease df 220. Amongst epide- mics, smallpox, scarlatina, hooping-cough, influenza, and typhus show con- aiderably less than the usual fatality; measles and diarrhcea have now fallen to the average, the latter numbering only 9, and in the whole epidemic class are enumerated 133 deaths, whereas the corrected average is 196. Sixty-five persons died of bronchitis, 74 of pneumonia, 17 asthma ; the first being rather above the average, the last two below it. In the class of diseases of the respiratory organs (exclusive of phthisis and hooping-cough) 171 deaths are included, whilst the corrected average is 207. From phthims, or consump- tion, 107 persons died in the week ; the average is 152. In the last week 101 persons were registered who had died in workhouses, 67 who had died in hospitals,. 8 in prisons and Millbank Penitentiary. Of the 67 in hospitals, 12 occurred in naval and military establishments, and 11 in lunatic asylums. "The mean daily reading of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, was above 30 in. on every day except Sunday ; the mean of the week was 30.179 in. The mean temperature of the week was 42'4', exceed- ing the mean of the same week, on an average of seven years, by 2°7'. On Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the mean was from 4° to 8° above the average of these days." The direction of the wind for the week was variable.

All letters from Belgium intended b the writers to be sent in the closed

mail by way ,of France, mist be y addressed either "yid France" or Calais.' —Post-office Notice.

The expenditure required for completing the hall of the new House of Commons, with its libraries, approaches from Westminster Hall, 8rc., is es- timated by Mr. Barry at 102,1801.

The proposed submarine telegraph between Dover and Calais, conceded to Messrs. Brett and Co. by the French Government, is approaching completion. The tower for the battery, offices, and general works at Dover are nearly erected, and the insulated wires are in a forward state of progress, and are exyeeted to be sunk across the Channel in the course of the next month.— Morning Chronicle.

Some experiments were exhibited by Mr. Phillips at the London Gas- works, Vauxhall, last week, to show the power of his invention for extin- guishing fires by surrounding them with an artificial atmosphere of a gas which will not support combustion. A large compartment of an open build- ings twenty feet high, was fitted up inside with partitions and joistings of light wood soaked in turpentine and covered with pitch, and was overhung with drapery charged m the same manner. On the application of a. flaming brand the building was alight throughout almost instantly, and in a few minutes the spectators were driven to a considerable distance by the scorch- ing urgency of the towering body of fire. When the simulated catastrophe had reached a height beyond all control by water, Mr. Phillips projected from a hand-machine into the building, a volume of incombustible vapour, which in half a minute perfectly extinguished the fire ; and shortly after, when the building had been ventilated the breeze, he passed through the divisions of the compartment with a lighted taper in his hand. The appa- ratus used is thus described—" It was rather larger than a good-sized coffee- pot, and consisted of three tin cases, one -within another and mutually com- municating. There was a small quantity of water in the bottom of the machine, and in the centre ease was a composite cake of the size and colour of peat, containing in the middle of it a phial of -sulphuric acid and chlorate of potash. In order to put the machine into action, this phial is broken, and a gaseous vapour is generated so rapidly and in such quantity that it immediately rushes out from a lateral spout with great impetuosity." A company has been formed to bring the invention into practical use.

A trial of ploughing by steam was made at Grimsthorpe, on Thursday the 7th, by Lord Willoughby d'Eresby. The machinery employed consisted of a small locomotive engine, with a capstan attached, moving on a portable railway. An ordinary plough, followed closely by ,a subsoil plough, was drawn by a chain from the capstan, working with perfect precision, and at a greater depth and speed than usual. Several gentlemen and farmers who were present expressed a favourable opinion of the experiment.

Captain Douglas, the gentleman who was recently tried by court-martial and sentenced to be dismissed the service, has eloped with a young lady from Cheltenham. Captain Douglas is a married man, and has two children. He had lately been residing at Cheltenham ; there he obtained an introduction to the family of Mr. Letsam Elliott, and is said to have received great kind- ness and hospitality. At the latter end of February there was a public ball; Mr. Elliott was from' home ; but his family went to the ball. When the company broke up, Miss Marianne Elliott, a lovely and accomplished girl of nineteen, was missed : she had left the rooms with Captain Douglas. No- thing could be heard of her till she returned home of her own accord next day. Precautions were taken to prevent a repetition of the misconduct ; but in vain. On the evening of the 2d instant, 'an opportunity presenting itself, Miss Elliott quitted her father's roof in disguise, and proceeded to Douglas's lodgings ; whence she was traced to have left Cheltenham by the mail-train for London. Mr. Elliott immediately started in pursuit, and has since been indefatigable in his endeavours to discover the retreat of his lost child ; but hitherto without any success."

One of the crew of the German ship of war EekenfOrde (formerly the Danish frigate Gefion) disobeyed an order, on the 3d instant, and was ordered into arrest. His comrades resisted the arrest, and assaulted the under-offi- cer who attempted to carry it out' the commanding-officer came on d ordered the sailors to surrender the offender to the arresting officer, threatened to shoot the first man who disobeyed : a sailor mutinously struck the commander, and the commander instantly shot the rebel dead.

An English officer in Venice, walking one day from the Doge's Palace, thought he observed one of the figures on the clock-tower of St. Mark's stoop down and take up something ! He looked again, and he positively saw the figure take a pinch of snuff! The officer confessed that he was appre- hensive he was losing his senses, or that his vision was deranged ; when an old woman, observing his consternation, soon explained the seeming miracle, by telling him that, one of the figures that struck the hour being out of re- pair, her nephew Jacopo was engaged as a substitute till the machinery was put in order.—Brighton Herald.

One night last week a poor woman at Burwell, Cambridgeshire, dreamt that her child was dead, and that the funeral was taking place ; that she followed it to its last resting-place, and, standing by its grave in the chapel. yard, heard the minister perform his sad task. In the agony of her fright she suddenly awoke, an looked at the child. It appeared in a tranquil sleep' but on touching it, to ascertain if it was so, she discovered that the vital spark had fled: The infant was quite well when it was put to bed. There can be no doubt that she had touched the child in her sleep, and its cold corpse made all the ideas of the dream pass through her mind almost in- stantaneously.—Stamford Mercury.

In the year 1798 there were two men in the parish of St. Dominick, Rich- ard Hill and Richard Nettle, who became fellow servants at Halton Barton, near Callington, and after having lived together for three years, each took a wife, from the maid-servants of the same house (two sisters) ; and the mas- ter provided the wedding-dinner for both parties. Since that time, those men have laboured together for upwards of thirty years on Halton Quays. They both joined a sick-club in the parish on the same day, and died both the same night, and were buried at St. Dominick on the same evening (of the 13th ultimo), side by side, in the same grave, the one aged seventy-six, the other seventy-three years.—Devonport Telegraph.

A gun was discharged on Tuesday last at a train of carriages as they were passing along a cutting towards Berwick, on the Kelso Railway, near to Nor- ham. The man who discharged the gun was seen by the guard doing it de- liberately. Unfortunately the scoundrel has hitherto escaped detection.— Newcastle Journal.

Some Tipperary people, more ingenious than honest, recently effected a robbery in a novel manner. They entered a farm-yard at night, took out the centres of two oat-stacks, carefully cut off the ears, and then replaced the straw. But they had not arranged the sheaves with sufficient mcety, and thus the robbery.was soon detected: three men and a girl were dia- covered by the Police in the act of shedding the oats.

The other morning, a goods-train was entering the Plymouth station of the South Devon l ilway ; there had been a frost, and the rails were slip- pery; in consequence' it was found impossible to check the speed of the heavy train so as to stop at the proper time. The engine-driver managed to leap on to the platform. The train dashed forward, and the engine broke

through a wall and got outside of the station : alto er considerable damage was done, and the stoker's head was lacerated y stones which fell from the wall.

Messrs. Lloyd, of Ludgate Hill, have been showing a picture illustra- ting Queen Victoria's visit to Ireland. It is a view of Kingstown Harbour, by Mr. Matthew Kendrick, a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy ; and it represents the royal yacht steaming out of the harbour, followed by the squadron. It is a clever picture, and gives a very lively idea of the scene. It was purchased by the Queen ; who made Mr. Kendrick her Marine Painter for Ireland. The picture is to be engraved, in line, on a large scale.