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We have much pleasure in announcing the appointment of Mr. George Arbuthnot to the Auditorship of the Civil List, one of the most import- ant offices in the Treasury. Mr. Arbuthnot has fulfilled the laborious and responsible duties of private Secretary to several successive Chancel- lors of the Exchequer. We believe that he served under Lord Althorp, Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Goulburn, and Sir Charles Wood. The importance and the confidential character of the duties diselvirged by the private se- cretary of a Cabinet Minister were well described by Sir Robert Peel in his evidence before the Committee on Official Salaries, and can only be rewarded by such appointments as that now most appropriately conferred on Mr. Arbuthnot. Mr. Stephenson, one of the private secretaries es- pecially referred to by Sir Robert Peel, will succeed Mr. Arbuthnot as private secretary to Sir Charles Wood.—Tines.

At a Court of Directors, held in the East India House on Wednesday, Lieutenant-General Sir John Grey, K.C.B., was sworn in Commander- in-chief of the Company's forces and second member of Council on the Bombay Establishment.

The Morning Chronicle has " heard it rumoured " that Lord Normanby is about to return from the French embassy, and receive the appointment of Governor-General of India.

The Secretary of State for the Colonies has still under consideration the formation of the new regiment for service in Africa. The appointment of the officers will, we understand, be made by Earl Grey ; but the opinion of such selection will be given by the Commander-in-chief. The corps will be under the command of .a Brevet Major.— United Service Gazette.

The imperfect protection afforded by the existing law of patents, and the injurious costliness of obtaining that protection, have lately led to the formation of a Patent-law Reform League. On Monday a deputation from this body had an interview, by appointment, with Sir George Grey, and Mr. Labouchere, at the Home Office. The deputation having re- porters with it, Sir George Grey guarded himself; and also warned Mr. Labouchere, when he entered the room, against expressing any opinion. He remarked that the society has presented a memorial to the Queen, and asked, had they any statements to add to that memorial ; or had they any suggestions to make beyond those contained in the report of the Com- mittee on the Privy Seal and Signet Office. Mr. Campin replied, that the suggestions of the Committee's report are good, but-they do not go far enough : the main object is to have an immediate reduction of the cost of the patent from its present prohibitive amount of 1001. for each of the three United Kingdoms, and to have preliminary registration at no cost. In America the cost of a patent is about 6/. or 71. to a citizen; to an Eng- lishman it is 500 dollars, because we charge so much in our country. Mr. Price stated that he had been secretary to a society formed to assist poor inventors ; but the society fell to the ground, from inability to meet the immense charges of the Patent Office : if a society was so beaten, how fatally must the poor inventors themselves be repressed ? Mr. Campin, Mr. Waller, and Mr. Townley said, that if something be not done imme- diately, a number of persons intending to prepare models for the Exhibi- tion next year must hold back. Mr. Townley gave a striking illustration in his own case. He exhibited some beautiful specimens of woven brace- lets of human hair, and observed-

" It would take the most skilful workman in England two days to make these in the ordinary way ; I have a machine which would make six of them in as many minutes; but I cannot exhibit it without a patent; and as lean- not afford a patent, I am virtually shut out from the exhibition by the Patent-law.'

Sir George Grey—" Well, I will communicate with Mr. Labouchere." Mr. Labouchere—" What you want is not so much a general measure of patent law, as an immediate measure to reduce the expenses." Mr. Campin—" The general question of patent law is so large that we should not be able to get an amendment of the general law quickly." Mr. Labouehere—" Well, I shall be glad to receive any written com- munication from you, stating what you propose to accomplish your object."

It is stated that an attempt is about to be made to rate the electric telegraph at so much per mile upon the profits of messages and intelli- gence transmitted over the wires in the various towns and parishes they run through, on the ground that the particular places confer an adventi- tious value on the particular means of eommunieation.—Da4 News.

The newly-appointed Romish Archbishop of Westminster arrived in London from Ostend at half-past four on Tuesday morning, by the South- eastern Railway, and proceeded to his residence in Golden Square. The Cardinal left Liege on Sunday; but so late as Thursday last he had no intention of quitting that town for some days. Having, however, been urged by pressing communications from several members of the Catholic nobility and others in England, he determined upon an immediate return. The Cardinal's arrival at this moment was kept so profound a secret, and was so little anticipated, that when he reached town the house that is being fitted up for him was still in prase-Sion of the workmen, and was not in a state for his reception. Pending the decorations of his newly- appointed residence, the Cardinal will reside at St. George's ChapeL We are informed that the Cardinal was extremely surprised by the publication of the Premier's letter to the Bishop of Durham; having a few days prior to its appearance addressed a private communication from Vienna to Lord John Rueeell, and having received no intimation of his Lordship's intended manifesto.—Times.

Next day, at an early hour, " a large number of respectably attired persons, of both persuasions, assembled round St. George's Chapel, in the expectation of catching a glimpse of the Archbishop. Exactly at eleven o'clock, a private carriage, drawn by a pair of grays, was driven to the clergyman's residence attached to St. George's Chapel, from which the Cardinal alighted, attended by his chaplain, who carried a small leather portmanteau and a large packet of letters. His F.nrieenee, who appeared in excellent health, was enveloped in a large blue cloak, and had a su- perbly bound Roman missal in his hand"

The pastoral of Cardinal Wiseman has been followed this week by a pastoral from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Northampton. It begins with the salutation —" Health and benediction in the Lord," and pro- ceeds with the quotation of the text from the Second Psalm, " Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things ? ' He de- clares that " the present outbreak of indignation, the violent declama- tion, the furious onslaught, and unscrupulous misrepresentation of the public press against the Sovereign Pontiff, and ourselves "—the new Eng- lish Bishops—" exhibit a something little short of insanity." Towards the end of his letter he says- " The Holy See, in fact, so far from wishing to oubage the feelings of the country, has studiously avoided any infraction of the Taws ; has merged a portion of its own direct power, by our new appointments, and has taken pains to ascertain that those appointments would give no umbrage to the Bri- tish Government."

He subscribes bimeolf, not by his dignity and surname, but by his dignity and full official description—" + William, Bishop of Northampton. A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle concludes a letter with this accusative inquiry of Lord John Russell—

"Did Dr. Wiseman, before he went abroad, tell your Lordship the obj act of his mission ; and did your Lordship say that there was on your part no objection ? I have heard, in many quarters, that this is so ; and a reply from your Lordship might perhaps be seasonable."

On the other hand, in defence of Lord John Runnel] Mr. C. C. Greville of the Privy Council, " as officially cognizant of the acts and instruments," corrects Mr. Disraeli's assertion that "the whole question has been sur- rendered and decided by the present Government"- " Whether the recognition of the status and precedence of the Irish Roman Catholic Prelates was right or wrong, wise or unwise, it was an accomplished fact before the present Government came into office, and therefore before Lord Clarendon went to Ireland. He found the thing done, and had only to conform himself to it. It was done (no doubt, after mature deliberation) by the Government of Sir Robert Peel, before the schism ; and the recognition came forth in the shape of a formal instrument of the highest authority, bearing date the 13th of January 1845. A warrant or Royal Com- mission approved by her Majesty in Council on that day (to carry out the Charitable Bequests Act) runs as follows—'Know ye that we, reposing especial trust and confidence in your knowledge, dis- eretion, and ability, do hereby, &c. by and with the advice of our Privy Coun- cil, appoint you, the said John George, Archbishop of Armagh ; Richar Arch- bishop of Dublin ; Archbishop William Crony, Archbishop David Murray, John Hely Earl of Donougtmore, Bishop Cornelius Denver, He Paken- ham, &e., to be Commissioners, &c.' Tara was (and was so deemed) a Royal recognition of the spiritual rank of the Irish Prelates, and a concession of precedence corresponding with that of the Prelates of the same degrees of the Established Church. Such rank and precedence it was not in the power of the Lord-Lieutenant either to confer or to withhold ; whether he were a Whig or an Orangeman, it was his duty to treat them according to the dig- nity which it had pleased the Sovereign to recognize in their persons. And this is what Lord Clarendon did : he did not recognize them as Peers' ; he neither 'sought their counsel' nor courted their favour' ; but he re- ceived them all with becoming courtesy and respect ; and those prelates who were distinguished by their loyalty to the Crown, their attachment to the Union, and their personal virtues, he treated with peculiar marks of regard and confidence."

A number of Bishops have made replies to memorials on the subject of the Papal rescript. The Archbishop of Canterbury briefly thanks the Vicar and Churchwardens of Dartford, who had memorialized him, for "protesting against the unexampled encroachment upon our constitution in Church and State attempted by the Pope of Rome ' : the spirit roused is gratifying to him, and he hopes that the assault will only confirm more strongly the principles of the Reformation. The Bishop of Lincoln urges temperate and unexaggerated exposure of the erroneousness of the Romish tenets ; and prays God to remove internal dissension, and whatever may hinder godly union and concord. The Bishop of Chester resents the treatment of our Established Church as a nullity, and the taking posses- sion of the country as a spiritual waste : he confidently relies that the Government and Legislature will take effectual care of the Royal supre- macy and national independence. The Bishop of Exeter declares that "no true Catholic can hesitate to regard as most sehismarieel " the Pope's measures : the Bishops of Bristol and of Bath and Wells concur in deem- ing the act schismatical ; and the Bishop of Ripon reminds the Pope of the declaration by his predecessor Gregory the First, that "whosoever Both call himself universal bishop Seth forerun Antichrist" But a speech of the Dean of Bristol, to a meeting of clergy in Bristol on the 6th instant, contains one of the most notable declarations of der& cal feeling yet made on the subject of the Papal rescript.

At the outset, the Dean concedes as full a spiritual liberty to the head of another church as he would claim for his own. "The Pope might have carried out this determination [to extend the Roman episcopate in England] in a calm and unobtrusive manner, pleading the spiritual wants of those who adhere to his communion in England." But he has thought fit to carry out his determination "in no such quiet, or unobtrusive, or apologetic man- ner" ; he has proclaimed his determination "in terms of unwonted boasting, arrogance, and contumely." It is in this defiant and insulting mode of his ac- tion, that the Dean of Bristol seems to find the gravamen of his offence. "It would be more than strange if this utterly foolish, and presumptuous, and taunting conduct," did not provoke indignation and resistance : but passions, when awakened, are apt to clamour down reason ; and it is " of the greatest possible consequence to our cause, to our standing well with the people, and to our ultimate success, that we are not hurried away into exaggeration— into the assertion of things which may be easily contradicted—and into com- pliant fears which will eventually only excite ridicule." "Let us not meet the question as it seems to be met in some quarters, as though it were a struggle between Rome and some imaginary Church of England for the right and title of being delegated by God to have exclusive dominion over the minds of men here m England. In some quarters there seems to be a fretfulness and indignation, as though occasioned by the as- sumption of some intrusive party of the right to dictate and control, which they wish to keep to themselves. They appear to resent the intrusion of Roman Papacy only because it interferes with their own Anglo-Papacy. It seems to be with these a struggle for power not for truth. From such tem- per, arising from such thoughts, let us diligently keep ourselves." The manner, however, of the Pope's measures should meet with proper reprobation. This language, indeed, may have some of that effect which was intended. "Falling Rome needed some éclat, some claptrap, to sustain the failing hearts of some of its adherents, and to quicken the waning sympathies of others. Its disgrace in Italy was to be redeemed in the proudest and freest and most powerful of nations." It has courted the struggle with Eng- land; let us not be backward to meet the encounter, but let our mode of action be suitably chosen. "I would suggest as a first step, that an address should be prepared to the Queen, to emanate, as I trust it may, not from a small knot of the clergy, but from a meeting of a more public nature. And I would suggeet that that address should convey to the Queen, first, our regret that any foreign poten- tate should appear to lay claim to a supremacy which is vested in the Crown, and to a jurisdiction in direct contravention to our law ; next, our very hum- ble but urgent request that her Majesty should withdraw those marks of fa- vour and of confidence which she has been pleased so graciously to confer on the Prelates of a Church, both in Ireland and the Colonies, who gave her no other return than ingratitude and indignity ; and lastly, a renewed declara- tion of our perfectly unreserved attribution to the Crown of the supremacy in all causes, &e.,' adding that we feel ourselves impelled to that declara- tion because of the denial of that supremacy by sonic who, having made the declaration at their ordination, think fit now to modify it, and yet to retain their dignities and benefices. I would further suggest that we adopt par- tially the advice of the Bishop of London, and petition Parliament to the effect that if the law be not already such as shall _prevent any person or par- sons whatever from claiming jurisdiction in the British dominions, or dele- gating an authority, independent of the Crown, or superior to the law, or conferring titles of honour, or designations which seem meant to convey in- dependent authority, a law shall be forthwith passed which shall secure such result." Having thus given warning and advice as to externals, and the manner of action, he besought attention to the substance of the Pope's measure. "The Pope gives his motives. He states it as a fact, and I doubt not that it is a fact, that the Roman communion of England has much inereeaed, and there is every reason to expectgreater increase. Then, exactly as we accept this statement of the Pope as true • and exactly as we think ill of Humanism, and regret its in- crease, and would withstand its influence, so exactly are we bound to con- sider what is the cause of this past success, and this sanguinely expected in- crease. Is, then, this past and present success and increase due to pure R0111811 aggression ? Does it arise from any action of its own, out of its own proper force and vigour ? I have not heard of any new and great polemic having arisen among them, convincing the world, either by speech or by books ; I have neither seen nor heard of direct antagonism in public debate or controversy between Roman and Protestant opinion. The Papists them- selves seem to admit that all this unwonted success, astonishing themselvetr, and all their new-born hopes, are attributable to the existence and to the working of Tractarianism. It does not need that the Papist should address himself to or enter into discussion with the confirmed Protestant. They allege freely, they have never concealed that Tractarianism is doing their work. It is when Tractarianism has unsettled the Protestant that the Ro- monists step in. They haunt Tractarian congregations; they track and note those unto whom they think they may most safely address themselves ; they arrange the meeting with them, as though it were casual; they con- vey letters to them—I speak of what I know .; their argument is, that the Church of England does not, with any certainty, teach or offer what the Tractarian minister tells them, and as they admit, rightly tells them, is necessary either to a saving faith or to spiritual life, but that the Church of Rome does; and so they ply and gain their victims." Then how best oppose that which takes of our people and .hands them over to Rome ? " The Bishop of London desires us, in this crisis, to preach controversial ser- mons ; I presume his Lordship means against the Romanists, and not the

Tractarians. But what if we preached controversial sermons all our lives long, and every day of our lives, either against Romanism or Tractarianism,

what effect would this have if our authorities countenanced, shielded., pro- moted, or were by law unable to rebuke the Tractarians? Tractananism. will never be effectually checked—Tractarianism will only smile, or deride our every effort, until the authorities of the Church can be induced to per- ceive and acknowledge the utter repugnance between Tractarianion and the teaching of our Church, and the teaching of the Saviour and his Apostles. I think it then very plain indeed that .our Bishops should separately be me- morialized by the laity and clergy of their several dioceses. But I do not think it should be an address for advice, but a memorial rather conveying advice and urgent entreaty, that the Bishops 'should use whatever ' ers the law has intrusted to them, or the influence of their position may acqinile for them, to remove if possible, to restrain at least, - to discountenance at least, Tractarian teaching and practices. It would be invidious; and perhaps impossible, that any body of the clergy only should thus address t.he dio- cesan ; and for that reason but not for that roman only, would I suggest that such an address should. emanate from a mixed meeting. Far to.tong and too much it has been the effort of one part of the clergy to make a dis- tinction, and !so cause division, between the clergy and laity. We cannot too soon connect ourselves with the laity in all common counsels, and more es- pecially connect the laity with the Bishops in kind, equal, and unreserved communication on all that concerns the interests of the Church and of re- ligion."

An unseemly display of feeling was made in the church of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, on Sunday. Mr. Bennett recommended to doubting Christians, that they "confess" to their priest. At the close of the sermon, while the con- gregation was leaving the church, several persons cried out, There's Popery for you! No Popery !" and hissed lustily. In the evening it was found ne- cessary to close the church.

At an extraordinary special Court held on Tuesday last, the Goldsmiths Company unanimously decided to award the sum of 1000/. for prizes to be given to those artists of the craft, of the United Kingdom, who can produce works of the highest design and merit in gold and silver plate, for the Exhi- bition of 1851. The sum of 10001. is to be divided into prizes varying in amount from 3001. to 201. and 10/. for works of the most costly description, which it is more than probable will be eventually purchased by the Com- pany. There will be services, candelabra, church plate, and =ellerAtects, even to a saltcellar ; so that the most humble artisan m the craft shall re- ceive his impulse, to encourage him in honourable exertion, as much in pro- portion as the first goldsmith in the land. The various works for competi- tion are to be forwarded to the Goldsmiths Hall without the name of the

owner; each piece will be rigidly scrutinized, and those possessing the hihest standard of merit in both design and workmanship will be ac-

cepted and forwarded to the Exhibition of 1851, and take their stand in competition against the whole world.—Morning Chronicle. • Moved by reflection on the loss of life from storms on the coast of North- timberland, the philanthropic Duke of Northumberland has offered two handsome prizes towards securing the most efficient and economical life-boat that inventive genius can devise. Through the advertising columns of the :Times he offers a prize of one hundred guineas for the best model of a life- boat, to be sent to the Surveyor's department of the Admiralty, at Somerset HOMO, by the 1st of February 1851; and he offers a further sum of one -hundred guineas for building a life-boat according to the model which may be approved of. It is considered, says the announcement, that the chief objections to the present life-boats are generally speaking—first, that they do not right themselves in the event of being upset ; second, that they are too heavy to be readily launched, or transported along the coast in case of need; third, that they do not free themselves from water fast enough ; fourth, that they are very expensive. It is recommended that the models be on a scale of one inch to a foot ; and stated that the models will not be detained beyond the 1st of April, in case the builders wish to send them to the Great Industrial Show. Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, Surveyor of the Navy, has consented to act as final referee, and has named a committee to examine the models and to experiment with them.