lEbt Iftetropolis.

Baron Lionel de Rothschild having accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, the receipt of the writ has been announced by the She.. rife: Monday is fixed for the nomination-day, and Tuesday for the poll, if one be demanded.

Baron de Rothschild has issued an address to the electors, offering him- self as a candidate, and stating that he has sought a redlection in order that they may have an opportunity of reiterating the opinion which they de- clared in electing him.

A meeting of the Liberal Election Committees was held on Thuredme evening, at the Hall of Commerce. Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., presided; Mr. Aglionby, M.P., and Sir De Lacy Evans, M.P., were present on the platform. The chairman and other gentlemen earnestly advocated Barom de Rothschild's claims; and resolutions which pledged the meeting to sup-. port him passed unanimously. Among them was the following- " That while the vindication of a great principle is cheaply purchased at the cost of the temporary abeyance of a portion of the representation of even the chief city of the empire, we feel deeply the responsibility which is involved in suffering even a brief suspension of our representative rights; and we insist upon the ins- mediate reintroduction and pressing forward without delay of such a measure as will effectually remove from the statute-book all representative disqualifications on account of religions opinion."

Mr. George Frederick Young, and Mr. Bevan, have successively been invited by a Conservative deputation ur oppose Baron de Rothsohild; but, both have declined.

At the election of Sherif& of London for the ensuing year, the names of Aldermen Lawrence and Carden were among those submitted in the Shrievalty list to the attention of the City Livery. Mr. Lawrence begged a favour of the Livery which they had rarely refused—that, on the ground of his very recent election- to the Aldermanic dignity, they would for one year put off calling on him to do duty as Sheriff. Amidst cries of "No, no; you must serve!" the question was put to the vote, and Alderman Lawrence was excused. The same favour was extended, for a similar rea- son, to Alderman Carden. Mr. Samuel Morton Peto, "Citizen and Lori- mer," of the late firm of Grissell and Peto, builders, and Mr. Donald Ni- coll, "Citizen and Spectacle-maker," of paletot oelebrity in Regent Street and Cornhill, were elected Sheriffs. Some warm discussion arose on the proposal of Mr. Peto, without his authority having been given to the per- sons who proposed bins: it was imputed to the Livery that they tyranni- cally nominated persons to the Shrievalty who had no ambition for the honour, in order to gain for the City the fine of 6001. whioh is the penalty of refusing to serve; last year Mr. Mills paid this fine rather than serve the office, complaining bitterly that he had been nominated against hie consent.

The members of the Corporation who were called together last week to consider the great object of benefiting Ireland, assembled again at the Mansionhouse on Thursday, and heard a statement by the Lord Mayor. He had recently received, from an individual of the most elevated rank in Ireland, a letter declaring. that nothing could exceed the writer's admi- ration on contemplating the wise and benevolent feelings of the gentlemen lately assembled. In consequence of that letter, the Lord Mayor waited upon Lord John Russell and Sir George Grey, and received from thole Ministers the strongest assurances of support and assistance in carrying out any plan suggested for the advantage of Ireland by the Corporation of London. What would be the proper course to adopt? In his opinion, that of immediately assembling a Court of Common Council,. to teke the question into their most serious consideration: but he was 'ready to be guided by the counsel of his friends around, all of whom he knew to. be the friends of Ireland. The subject was discussed with earnestness; and ultimately it was resolved to draw up and present on the spot a requisition for a Court, with the object of appointing a Committee to inquire formally on the subject. This step was taken, and the Lord Mayor villain a•Coust on an early day.

At the Mansionhonse, on Saturday, the Lord Mayor andlawly Mayoress sumptuously entertained about 170 members of the Conservativewristo- cracy, invited " to meet Lord and Lady. Stanley, the Duke- of Richmond, &a" The toast of the evening, " Lord-Stanley and the Host of Peers," Was drunk with the warmest feeling vend produced from Lord Stanley a characteristic panegyric, eloquent and frank, on his own aristocratic order.

It is happy, said he, for this great country, that the 'aristocracy of England is not; 0 in other less favoured lands, an idle, selfish, and exclusive body, heart- lessly isolated in cold mid formal dignity, standing aloof from the people, 'uncon- nected with them by sentiment, sympathy, and convictien—as the 'holders of in- vidious privileges, or debarred by its constitution and the laws which govern it from free admixture and intertnarriage with the Other claims Of the community.. Doubtless they saw there many who were stimulated to glorious exertion by Me, morials of thoee *hese great actions fi-st shed lustre on theirrames they bore.; but into that assembly there wire continually flowing an invigorating stream' of fresh"' and.youog Walt and certainly not the least illestrions of its merribereare teak. who,-not born noble, have achieved the coronet by 'the exercise of noble talents and noble acquirements. A-seat within its splendid precincts is an objectof glorious ambition:. One of our greatest men, in one of his greatestmothents,ale; dared that the fondest object of his ambition was "the Peerage or Westminster Abbey." -No man could say the House of Lords wanted sympathy in feeling and. action With,the other branch of the constitution: if, indeed, *he were disposed to imputes fault, it was that they were stimetimestoo regardless of the ditty which' in virtue of their position especially devolves An them, ef checking hasty and in- considerate legislation ; so that occasions had- arisen where, in their anxiety to as- similate their proceedings to that illustriona body which is the representative of the people of this ern-iota empini, they bad too' thoughtlessly- given tha'sAnction oftheir authority to Measures-clumsily conceived and' needlessly. intradireed, be- MAIM they believed each measures faithfully reflected popular feelint'at the time. liettoold not help thinking that he 'steed there as the representative of those members of the House ofLords who have confidence in his projects, and who submit to his advice—that in point Of feet he stood there -totems' thanks' on the part of Me Conservative Peers-of England. Without.peettmeing.to offer observations on the merits of the opinions they held, he might say this mute, not alone on his own behalf, but on the part also of those with whom he„ had allied his political destiny. "I arnprsuaded-we shaltbest maintain thadigirity of our order, and best consult for what itiftlue to our Own: character, which to pidgin property, by firmly, steadfastly, anflinchingly--through. -strain And, smi.a shine, through goodmeort, aud evil report-a-advocatirg end upholding those-pries_ ciples of policy which in our consciences we believe to be, ter the .welfare of the state. ,_...erborne for .a time we may be; discouraged mid disheartened some of mittlay'bei bubdefeated we never will be, until convinced by experim ee that the opinions we have held have not beta justified by the fact. If ever s%fl genei Shedd-be realized, the seine honesty of purpose which induced:Mt.to.,', hold our opiolons without compromise so long as we are convinced olt1sAirtrOfb

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*ill Uotalldiv es to flinch from the humiliation M our pride which Would be con- sequent on the admission that heretofore we had been mistaken. But of thit I see no chance. I see no probabilityof our changing our opinions; and be assured, if there be no change of opinion, there shall be no change of conduct. . . . Fore- mast 'amongst the measures which we believe to be essential to the prosperity of the country, is the recognition of this great principle, that legislative encourage- Meat ought to be granted to every branch of domestic industry. . . . I beg of you, thy Lad Mayor, to-believe that nothing can be more grateful to the feelings of the members of that assembly with which we are connected, than to know that, whatever difference of opiaion may exist res'pecting their conduct, the motives of that conduct are approved,and appreciated by the inhabitants of this great city," Speeches were made by•the Duke of Richmond, Mr. Disraeli, and Ilia Duke of Beaufort. The Lord Mayor, though falling-nothing behind the others hi warm Conservatism, yet deelared that "ho was anxious, in diplo- matic language, to cultivate .friendly' relations with all parties," while in' (Ace.

: The Lord Mayor gave an entertainment on Wednesday, in honour- of Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues in the late Ministry. The company. numbered about 200, including, -besides Sir Robert Peel, the Earl Of Aberdettu, Sir James Grahain, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Gladstone, the Earl .of Lincoln, .Mr. Sidney Herbert, the Bishop of 'Oxford, with many .other Members of Parliament, and Several foreign Ministers. All the principal guests-were accompanied by their ladies. and the assemblage was One Of the most brilliant ever entertained within the hospitable walls of the Man- sionhouse.

• La proposing the health of Sir Robert Peel, the Lord Mayor geadually increased in warmth as he Spoke; almost breaking through his own rule of Political neutrality in order to an eelogium nu Sir Robert, his nem- sinus, and his personal sacrifices to the public weal. -

. 'Amidst all the opposition he ever had to eecounter, I never heard it said that. Sir Robert Peel had endeavoured to carve out anything for himself or his friends. it is well known that he has refused the highest honours, and, with a purity of Prieeiple and disinterestednese of character that do him the highest honour, he has ever endeavoured to promote to the best of his ability the interests and pros-. Perity of the country, with entire forgetfulness of himself and his party." .

Sir Robert Peel, in suitably acknowledging the cordial eulogium of the Lord Mayor, determined rigorously to observe the rule which excludes from convivial meetings all topics referring to public differences.

He bad stood there, he said, as the organ of a powerful Government; as the organ of an Opposition little less powerful, trying to subvert a Government; and even then he had respected that rule. "Now when I stand in a different posi- tion—when I remain aloof from party and political conflicts, so fa at least as any objects of personal ambition or interests of party are concerned—I should be in- excuaable indeed if I did not respect the neutrality of this place, or if I threw any impeditnent in the way of your indulging in that munihcent and unbounded hospitality by which you are enabled to collect men of all shades of political opi- nion who, in the absence, on these occasions, of all party cooaiderattous, meet to dblbuour to the first corporation in the world in the .persou of its chief magis trite."

- Nevertheless, after the reference made by the Lord Mayor to the public acts of his administration, he could not suppress those feelings which rose to his mind- when he saw round him those, unconnected with his Government, who had braved misrepresentation, obloquy, and injury, in supporting that Government, even when they knew and felt assured Nut its days were numbered. "Stilliess can I see without emotion thee who were associated with me in the exerciee,of office-- vihoakere bound LO Me by the ties ef a coalmen restonaihility-awluawao more closely bound to use by the ties of att unvarying reciprocity of affection, reciprocity of esteem, and reciprocity of support. I see those of the high, est eminence at the bar, who gave their professional assistance: I see those Conneoted with the commercial and colonial policy of the empire, with whom I conferred on questions of the deepest interest: I see. the Mi., nister with whom I was in daily communication respecting the internal affairs of the country, and who brought to the performance of that datythe greatest ta- lents, the greatest assiduity, the greatest skill in the administration of Unit -de- partment: I see him to whom was especially committed the cherge_of thafinences of this country—niy earliest political friend, with whom I shared every vielsaitutle of forttum--wha by his financial kuowledge and by his- judgmenteonfiliatesithe respect of this great city, in whose integrity the most unbounded contiden0 was placed, and whose administration of the finances of his country was as eminently successful as those of any preceding Chancellors; I see on my right my noble friend who was charged in critical times with the administration of .the: foreign affairs of the empire—who gained the confidence and good-will of areet7 lamp minister with whom he bad to set—who gained for the court of hie SoVereign an. influence that was wholly due to his personal character, and who,ntede that in- fluence which he had obtained subservient to the great end of his Political ' the removal of obstacles which prevented a cordial good understanding-betwefa foreign powers, and to the maintenance of universal peace, so far as that .vras Con- sistent 'with eacrupuloue and undeviating regard to the interests and the hewer of our own country." He could not take the praises too partially gine to him,, PersauallY; and he declared most deliberately, that. no man standing in the pee. tioeug First Minister of the Crown eeer had the same advantages which he had an joyed from the zealous and faithful cooperation of those united with bins. " We had, ow-differences of opinion, no doubt, and we maiataiood those differences as it watt our duty to do; but this I will say, that they never for one moment interrupted the hermony of our private friendahip; and what that decision :WW1 taken by whir:h.-thane differeeces were-ezeitech they never interfered with the resolution to carry it into execution. I am bound to say honestly, that my feelings of iffectioa for therna-my gratitude for their support—my raipect for their Bermes-4:0y at_ tachmeut to them, has only strengthened in the interval that has elapsed time I

resigned the office of. PrimeMiniseer." •. . •

These general reminiscences Sir Robert wound up by, a pertienler ackeowlede- meat,- "It is new forty years eince. my Parliamentary career was esermerissak and my lot has been cast in an importapt and eventful tera in the history of my country.. I look beck necal-Me Ptillition during these eventful tips math iniaQ eseeporaesaaiseaerion mid-regret,- With regret, beertnee, with scarcely 114 OX11.89. liar the tide of time has swept away every one who thee oeCoPlecl the thief posts of .ttle Garernmenta-etImest all wise swayed the destinies of the eanpire,,or com- manded the applause of listening- senates. It has pleased God tesepauneuvailita- triousznan. . (Loral assns.) lie retrains-- ..LtIts some great sea-mast_ standing every taw,

And whin Mae, st eye laim.

I need not say that I allude te (Muck cliCaring.) lie , is sdl spared to us; and I Whitt ov that it us the universal sentiment, the universal prayer, that he may bele olpared to us to enjoy the fail affluence of his fame, and that his countracfn enjoy the lustre of his declining years which 18 not eclipsed even by the mes4i4 splendour of his early career. I have been astociated with him.duriegahed I have held office, and I cannot express in too warn terms the sensl Idrantages which even in his civil life this country has derived trent bit sagaraons counsels." To none other eitol'i4jects referred to by the Lord Mayor would he advert,. with one exception—the inbject of Ireland. 'Men of all parties—of all political connexions—feel the deepest sympathy in the misfortunes of that unhappy cone- try, and evince the most sineere desire to administei to her wants and to Itiy the foundation of her future prosperity. It is now nearly two hundred anti forty years since the Sovereign of this country, being.disirons to make a settlement in Ireland, sought for the assistance of the City of London. He invited them to co- operate with him in restoring what was then called the '.rninated cities! of Lon- donderry and Coleraine. . . . . I hope that after the lapse of two h 'geared and forty years the City of London will be enabled hilin to come forward to pro- mote the welfare of Ireland. It will act now upon more liberal and comprehen- sive principles—it will not now seek to expel the natives of the soil; but it will seek to elevate their character, to encourage industry, to find for them permanent employment, to instil-into them the principles of order, respect for the laws, and submission to authority. That would be a glorious position for the City of Lon- don. I hope it may succeed; Ihope it may receive from the Government that encouragement which it expects. The boundaries of the City are necessarily limited—its jurisdiction cannot be extended; but if it can, by its useful connexion with Ireland, encourage in the remoter districts habits of =diary and of order,. it will endear the English name to the people of Ireland: and it will do mere to cement the Union than mere laws and forms of conetitution ever can do..".- .-11k

The Earl of Aberdeen acknowledged the toast of his healthwielhun onlegium upon universal peace; observing in conclusion— ■ aft

• With, such feelings, you may imagine how satisfactory it was for Ina'-right .hotiourable friend, as well as for myself, that when we retired from office we left • ow-country in profound peace, and every other country in Europe in a state of tranquillity and progressive improvement:" Sir James'Grahrina, in his turn, joined in the tribute of homage justly . due to the peivete character, the public services, and the spotless integrity of Sir Robert Peel.

He would add no fulsome encominms or needless panegyric; bp "ipeianguage of the Commons is ever plain-apOken and sincere, andl should heiinWorthy to represent them, if, differbig as they do on many points, I did not verithie to de- clare, that there is, on the pert of the east Majority of the House ef Canmons, a strong feeling' of respect for my right honourable friend—a'Prond satisfaction that he prefers to remain a member of -that body of which he is so distiagnieled-an ornament, and a conscioatiness that no man now living has done so 1811

suffered so much, in the honest endeavour to promote the welfare and

according to the best of his judgment of the great body of the people. Tea 'my Lord, who are yourself a member of that body, will, 1am sure, bear testimenC4that in expressing what I have now done I d6 but declare a sentiment which, if enun- ciated within the walls of the House of Commons itself, would r,nees with the response of a great majority of that assembly."

The "National Association for the Protection of British Industry and Capital" held "a first public meeting," in Drury Lane Theatre, on Toes.: day;- for the purpose of .reeeivIng a report from the Peoliaional-Cortitaiittera appointed at the meeting held in the Hall of Commerce on the lit OrNay. The'Dnke Richmond presided, and was supported by taniiirgy::the Peers and other Members of Parliament who participate iiihts,vointlie .acceents of the numbers of the Audience are very diacrepentt,theiTiatea saps:that no more than 1,200 ware ever present; the Daily News exteiatie :the limit to 1,500; the Chronicle reporter thought the holm eraw.never more than half full; while the Poet declares, with enthusiastic vagueness, that never. did Drury present a more splendid appearance,—bOnet; stage; pit; and gallery, densely crowded, and the meeting the embodiment sif!the voice of a great empire. Many of the audience were formate A,great portion of the time was occupied in reading the voluminous repottebtre allnded to, and the names seriatim of the Peers and, Commoners who have consented to be Vice-Presidents of the new society, which include the leaders and all the main supporters of the Protectionist party in both , Houses of Parliament. The general tenour of the speaking was one of em- bittered recurrence to the past; the speakers frequently stopping to avow theuaselve,s the disciples only ef,.,pritteiple, and to disclaim personal vitu-

peration. ,.

The Earl of Malmesbury mewed thi Ansa evolution,- agreeing, kaconstitute the new Society, in a speech of,Luarded,thaigh.earnest tone, which historically re- viewed the circumstances thitd !eau the present position: among his facts were,tha enormous iaerestee in theheportation.ef gloves during the past year---an Attemeptisneadarelt 10,01 thejetpertawere-aa213,000 pairs, in March of this year no less than 686,000 pairs; figures.tellinA of diminished vrages

nights to many a poor working man. He was not in favour of totelly-shintiog pat foreigners, but ouly for our old policy of making foreigners pay as much as wo possibly tan.

afr. John Human supported a resolution affirming that the difficulty and dia.- tr,„s of agriculture and the revolting condition of IrAind are aggravated by pro. - lotion. He particularly relied on the anpandleled state of his own county of Sussex, where they now oulfer from what has neeer occurred before, a deficient oroa simultaneously with deficient prioes; a coincidence simply and solely doe to the introduction of foreign corn. - In ,1845, he eskeda particular friend whether Aelcould he relied on; and was induced to think he weld, by reference teeth- Itrbert's declarations at different times, that he never would be a party to any law fix making this country dependent on other countries for any considerable portion of as eubsistence. , Mr. Minims took 'a farm which 'otherwise he should not have taken, and in ailmontlis the law was altered and his stook reduced in value at least olio-third. • Referring to a recent correspondence in the public papers, he teamed iia-was *Leder obligations to the house of Bedford, and would therefore say not a word beyendabisithat "if a landlord supposes that by saying to his tenant,. I will take your farm off your hands,' and the tenant refuses, he has taken away from that tenaat all right to complain I say that that supposition is unworthy of any honest loan. . . . . Any landlord who aided and assisted in the intro- du;ti000ffreUtrade, by which his tenant's capital has been reduced one-third, is toned in common justice to replace those tenants In the situation in which they sire before.' (Great cheering.)

. The Chain= called on Sir Allan M'Eab, as one who, when the enemies of order attempted to revolutionize Canada, came forward at the risk of his life to

maintain peace and good.order. 'Sir Allan seconded a resolution that free trade is diesstronely affecting Colonial. interests; and concluded his remarks with the as- surance that he could with unaffected sincerity substantiate from personal observa- tion the truth of the statement that the new policy bad caused in the North American Provinces a diseontent deep-rooted, wide-spread, and most alarming. Mr. George Frederick Young attacked Bishop Wilberforce with some asperity, fir his votes on the Navigation Bill. Mr. Young asked, would they bear this ranking ducks and drakes of every interest in England ? " There is a. limit to en2urance. -I tell her Majesty's Ministers from this place, that they have nearly rattled that limit. -(Loud cheers; the audience standing up and warirw their hats.) I know that in preaching this doctrine, I, and those who agree with me, will be branded as thong-title:Ss-agitators who scruple not, in the present critical state of Europe and of the world, and of this country especially, to say that Which may stir up agitation. I have lived unhappilyto see that, in the conduct of af- fairs in this-sountrY, it is agitation alone that can effect anything," (Applause.)

Mr. Josiah Booker, of Liverpool, declared that of 672 blast facetieeli, there are 172 now standing still, and 40,000 ablebodied men thrown oat of work, to the cteevation of their families, amounting to 200,000 souls. His Ova personal re- turns were lessened. by 20,0001. a year, and his means of employing labour pro- portionably lessened. As High Sheriff Iasi year, the executions he had to levy made him shudder—one alone was for more than half 'ff million. He ridiculed the idea of jr)* trade, when the President of the United States is notoriously abut to 'Mose a heavier duty on our cotton manufactures.' - !dr. Applying, the Spitalfields weaver, stated, in a long speech, that wages for nuking Mies' velvet were reduced under free trade from 4s. per.yard to la. 6d. PEI VW. .t

The other epeakers of noteswere, Major Beresford,- Marquis or. Dovrnsbire, add Mr. J. W. Freshfield. The resolutions were All carried unanimously, and the meeting separated with a "most enthusiastic A Oldie meeting Was hold on-Wednesday night, at thatondon Tavern,! to heag the statements of a dephtation from the Riiyal 'Exchange Relief Committee of Dublin, on the condition of the Irish peasantry. Mr. John Bright presided; Mr. Ewart, Mr. Poulett Scrape, and some half-dozen Irish Members, were present. Mr. Bright explained the organization of the Re- lief committee and its' machinery for acquiring authentic information on the state of the distressed parishes. The principal objects are to give relief especially to those holding small patches of land, in Bache way as to stimu- late to self-exertion: it was almost incredible to what extent land has thus been- cultivated—in Castlebar Union, in the last three weeks, more than half a ton of turnip-seed had beefs distributed in the district. The Reve- rend•Dr: Miley and Dr. King were the spokesmen of the deputation. Dr. MAO said the regeneration of Ireland would be easy if it Were taken npby Englithain the spirit in whitsh she took up Slave-Emancipation. Out of the direct antagonism of England's enormous wealth and Ireland's dreadful poverty contest will inevitably aiise; and things for which posterity will weep tears of blood May happen if statesmanlike Measures be not adopted. A resolution Of Sinipathy'passeri, and a Committee was appointed to re- ceive subscriptions. Messrs Barclay and Co.; of 'Lombard Street, and Messrs. Coutts, of the Strand, are the bankers.

The Fishmongers Company laid the first stone of forty-two new alms- houses for decayed members of their guild, at Wandswerth, on Saturday last. , The almshouses belonging to the Company, opposite the Elephant and Castle at -Newington Butts, were built in 1617, quite in an open rural neighbourhood; they are now surrounded bye dense population in crowded houses; and while their site has become ineligible as a healthful retreat for aged valetudinarians, it has become so enhanced in value' for modern pur- pose-s, asto pay the cost of removing the almshouses to a new suburban retreat "The site chosen for the new edifice is a piece of .land at East Hill, Wands- worth, next adjohaing the manor house, containing about eight acres' and forming a gentle activity, which commands a view of the river Thames and a charming and well-wooded rural landscape. It is easily accessible from the Metropolis by the liver and the railway, from both of which the new hospital will form a promi- nentand pictureirpte object. The almshonses will form three sides of a quadran- gle, each about 320 feet long, and one of which will, with the chapel and school in the centre, look upon the river. They will be built in the Elizabethan style."

In his address the Prime Warden stated, that the amount now yearly spent on the hospital "is not less than 1,7001., or thereabouts; and whereas the entire cost of the old hospital did not exceed 3,0001., the entire coat of the new one will probably be 25,0000

The new West London Synagogue, in Margaret Street, Cavendish 841waret was coneecrated on Monday, according to the Jewish ceremonial' lair; by the Reverend D. W. Marks It would appear from reports Of the Prociedui,gain the morning pipe* which 'seem' authentic, that the opening' c`f this iriltigogne marks a phase of modern "development" in the BMA and ritual Of Judaism. "It appears," says the account of the Daily News, "that the ccingrft.:Illonif this synagogue RIM formed about seven years ago, by. some of the leading meiiitr the Jewish persuasion, under the guidance of their =lister, the Birrerentt a W. Marks, with the view of introducing into the synagogue worship various antelk- ratioas strenuously resisted by other synagogues. From-the year 1842 until the Present period this new congregation met for divine -service at a qua- 's Button Street, consecrated for that popes& The' increasing-nein- bee- .of coingregants, however, becoming tee large- for the locality, a more spa- cious, edifice has been erected ; the foandation-stooe having been laid by Baron

de:091411nd, June We are further informed, that in the year 1841 a bull of excenununication was extorted- fro the late Chief Rabbi, Dr. Herschel, then in his sixty-sixth year and wins deathbed, against the West London Syna- gogue of Britioh Jews. The grounds for this proceeding were, that the members of,the new synagogue had expanged from their ritual ouch portions as owed their origin to scenes of persecution; that they had omitted all 'talmudic and Mesnaic paseages, as being contrary to the sacred character of prayer; and that they bad determined to draw a line of demarcation between the festivals pronounced hal- lowed by the Scriptures and those which were superadded by the Rabbit's." . The Times reports the consecration sermon in harmony with the fores going account--

The-Bertrand Mr. Marks chose as his text Second Chronicles, c. xxviii. v. 20; and having shortly referred to the Scriptural meaning of the passage, ha proceeded to point oat how the religious observances of the Jewish people had fallen into state which imperatively required reformation; how it had become necessary to secure such a modification of the ritual as would produce a more solemniziug effect on the congregation, and, particularly, elevate the female sex from the degraded position which they had hitherto occupied. He showed that this was to be done by Omitting the Talmudic and Mesnaic passages hitherto included in the service, but not required by the ceremonial law which the Bible imposed. That law he profeseed.his desire to adhere to; but the forms which man item age to-age had. laid, for giving expression to the spirit of the Bible -ought, he contended, to be modified by mccurastances. He had therefore also omitted parts of their ritual relating to times of persecution. On these principles the West London Congre- gation of British Jews had been established seven years ago; and on these pan. ciplen, having ascertained by experience that they met with the approbation of a large number of the Hebrew community, the new synagogue was, he said, conse- crated for public worship. He alluded to the persecution which he and his asso- ciates had undergone in their undertaking; but said that all hostility was now passing away, and expressed his hope that the refer= which had been effected would be found in the end to have strengthened Judaism against infidelity on the one hand and apostacy on the other.

Differences have arisen between the Metropolitan Commiasioners of Sewers and- their Chief Surveyor, Mr. John Phillips; who condemns the plans of Mr. Austen, the Commissioners' Secretary, as "wholly inipractit cable, and unworthy of the objects which should be kept in view for the perfect drainage of this great metropolis." Mr. Phillips appeals to the public through the Times with a counter-plan; 'Which seems at onoe grand simple, and economical-

" I propose tbatabout twenty miles of tunnel sewer should be conatructed in a slightly and uniformly curved direction, following the general course of, and in respect to sewage as a substitute for the river, free) Kingston on the Wawa to . the Kent or Essex marshes on the Eastern extremity nt the jurisdictitei of 1.he Court, at such a depth in the blue clay formation, say one hundred feat below the bed of the river, as would render it independent of all barriers, whether it be the river itself, the Rotherhithe Tunnel, the-Docks, or any other difficulties hitherto

suggested. . . . This work, the cost of which has been grossly exagge- rated, may be extended tip the river thiutentept-tha.sawage el the towtts-abom "'Hsieh at present-pante 'Die strearhe and down the river, as future occasion may require, possibly even to the sea-coast. . . . , - But at present the plan em- braces only that part of the line before described which lies between the river be - :gm Greenwich up to the King's Scholars' Pond main.sewer at Pimlico, a distance of about six miles. Such a work will be as constantly in action as the river, can- not get out of repair, and will endure forages; is aimple, economical, and efficient, and will be readily understood and appreciated by the public. It will afford re- lief at once and alike to all the districts lying below the level of the Thames, and which are now suffering from pent-up filth, and drainage in the sewers and open ditches which abound in these extensive districts. . . . . The six miles of tunnel herein proposed would cost under 200,0001.; and if the Court were to give 50,000/. for the first mile of tunnel, I would undertake to get the retnainder cnted by contract for 26,000/. per mile. A single rate of 7d. in the pound would produce the amount required; and if this were spread over twenty-two yeah, ae annual rate for that period of one farthing in the pound would suffice to pay the principal and interest."

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, the Duke of Brunswick conducted in person an action brought by himself against Mr. James Harmer, the proprietor of the Weekly Dispatch, for the publication of a series of libels extending over the period from 1830 to this time. fhe articles accused the Duke of political trea chery to his former subjects, and represented him as a wretch who had exhausted the patience of his subjects by every sort of robbery and fraud. The plaintiff had by letter requested the paper to desist, and had been met by renewed libels. Lind Denman thought the articles did not fall within the just limits of political re mark. One of the articles went on with considerable eloquence to declare that this country stood in the proud position of being the sole haven of peace and safety. in which exiles from foreign lands could take shelter. That statement was true, and it was a proud thing for this country that such a statement could truly bd. made respecting it. It WAS, however, the duty of journalists not to attack thosd persons who sought refuge in this haven of repose, by accusing them of crimei which; if true, ought to subject them to punishment. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages 5001.

A remarkable case was tried by the Lord Chief Baron, at Westminster Hall, oil Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday—an action of damages, brought by Miss Louisa Nottidge, a maiden lady some forty years of age, against ber brother-in-law, Mr'. Ripleyia London merchant, and her brother, the Reverend E. Pepys Nottidge, foe confining her from November 1846 to May 1848_ in the private lunatic asylum kept by Dr. Stillwell, at Hillingdon, near London. Miss Nottidge is . one of four sisters, ladies of fortune, who have embraced the religious opinions of a sect which about 1845 branched from the religionists called Lampeters. Their peculiar tenet is that "the day 'of grace and prayer is past, and the time of judgment arrived ": they carry oat their belief by perpetual praises to God, using prayer no more; by it community of property; and by living in a state of constant joyousness and mutual love in a single residence, which they entitle Agapemone, • The Abode of Love," at Charlineb, near Taunton. The plaintiff with three of her sisters adopted these opinions in 1846; on the teaching ot Mr. Prince, a clergyman of the Church Of England; and about the same time three of the sisters married (on one day) Mr. Price, another clergyman of the Church of England, Mr. Cobb, and Mr. Thomas, a third clergyman, all disciples of Mr. Prince: together with the plaintiff, who re- mained single, the ladies left their house at Brighton, where they resided with their niother, and took up their residence in the Agepemone. The mother of the Misses Nottidge, a widow lady now nearly eighty years of age, was deeply afflicted at the ascendancy obtained over her daughters, and at the snipe they took of leaving her roof and joining the Agapemone ; she had fears, grounded on information which she thought trastworthy, that her daughters were drawn into a "life of the greatest sin aud'iniqaity." Calling in the advice of her son and son-in.law, she had the plaintiff taken by force from the residence at Charlinch and brought to Lon- don; and after conversing tenderly with her, to no purpose, she took the advice of two medical gentlemen on her state of mind. These gentlemen, Dr. Norton and Dr. Rowland, both living in Woburn Place, Russell Square, and both uncon- neetedirofessionelly with her family, certified that Miss Nottidge was insane: she believed Mr. Prince to be God Almighty incarnate, and herself immortaL

She was accordingly. seat to Dr. Stillevelfs asylum, and'herplaee rif confinement was concealed. In January 1848 she escaped ; communicated-with her relations and friends at Charlinch, and was on her -way to rciointhem; -but she was over- taken on the route, and carried back by force to Hillingdon. In May 1848, after

correspondence of her leadin i ginethren n the Agapemone with the Lunatic Com-

missioners, and after much conference of those officers on her ease, she was libe- rated on the ground of declining health; some of the Commissioners, however, dissenting from the liberating judgment, and none thinking that she was less a lunatic than at first ; but the majority thinking her able to manage her own af- fairs. Some dramatic interest was given to the trial by the personal examination of divers members of the fraternity who live in the Agapemone. John Williams, a farmer, one of the single gentlemen brethren, said—

'lam of a cheerful disposition. I entertain the same opinions as the otherwitnesses In this case. I don't pray, but I desire continually from my inward man to pray. God tens me that the spirit convinces the flesh, and that the spirit of sin convinces you of On. Iris the spirit of truth—it is the spirit within that God looks to, and not to the outward and visible thing or sign. The sun, the moon, and stars, they are the only outward and visible manifestations of God. Now. In Agapemone, we are able to see by the spirit. The plaintiff Is as sane as myself. God says we shall be joyful and happy; and why not ? The plaintiff has never been serious since she believed in the truth. That is like myself, but the animal spirit in us is different ; It is a different spirit that animates my nature. Hers is a joyous and quiet spirit, and that is the dif- ference between the spirit in her and the spirit in me. There is no difference In exhi- bition, but in the manner and manifestation. Now you [Sir Frederick Thesiger) are Serious, and I am happy and merry. The spirit does not teach me that I am to be beery, dull. and serious ; but you are of a gloomy spirit ; I am not at all so. It is ray privilege to be merry, and she does not dishonour God by being so also. If God is not life, happiness, and joy, then we do not know what God means Your house iSir Frederick Thesigers] ought to be an Agapemone. All houses ought to be so ; they ought all to be a family. At present all amongst you is discord—all is a mystery. There Is discord in music, but bring all that music together properly and you will get It right : you will get it together, and then it will become perfect harmony, and the dis- cord will vanish. So it is with you : you are now all discord, but Make your houses an ligapemone and harmony will reign as with us."

The line of the defence is indicated by these observations from Sir Frederick Thesiger's speech—

"This Agapemone or Abode of Love, wherein this unhappy plaintiff had taken up her residence, consisted, amongst other of Its inmates, of four apostate clergymen, one civil engineer, one farmer, one solicitor—for even in this 'abode of love' they could not ao without a lawyer—and two blood-hounds. . . Mr. Prince had been so great, under the swill of God,' that three of Mrs. Nottidge's daughters, with 6,0001. each, had been Carded off from her. It would have been supposed that -18,0001. out of one family would have satisfied these people : but no, It was not eo—they must have another daughter, and another 6,0001.; and the plaintiff was the victim. . . . He should prove that She was not a free agent, and had been as It were Irresistibly drann into a low, de- grading, and disgusting association : he should contend that it was the imperative duty Other family, not only as a matter of tight, but as a high moral duty, to make every effort to pluck this lady from the position of danger into which she had been drawn. blr. Prince, of whom they had heardinuch during the present proceedings, had in 1844, most unhappily for the family of Mrs. NotUdge, obtained a sway over the young ladies L' his preaching at Stoke."

Mr. Mylne, Mr. Lutividge, and Mr. Procter, Commissioners in Lunacy, -con- curred with Dr. Morton, .Dr.Rowland, and Dr. Stillwell, in the opinion that the plaintiff was equally insane at the time she was taken to the asylum and when she was liberated. The late Dr. Prichard was of tile some opinion, and he was strongly opposed to her liberation: they gave instances of her religious delusions. During Mr. Mylne's examination, the Lord Chief Baron interposed, thus- *. Mr. etyma was this lady in such a state or mind as to be —.A....ran:am to herself or bothers?" . . .

Mr. mytne—"Not seas I was aware Or; not BO far as I knew." The Lord Chief Baron—" If she were LILA so, then how was It that you kept her in this asylunt for seventeen months?"

Mr. Mylne—"My Lord, It was no pert of-my duty to keep her there. I was only to liberate her If I saw good and suffideat reason for adopting that course."

The Lord Chief Baron—" It is my opinion that you ought to liberate every person

'Oho la not dangerous to himself or to others. If the notion has got abroad that any person may be confined in a lunatic asylum or a madhouse who has any absurd or even End opinion upon any religious subject, and is safe and harmless upon every other topic, I altogether and entirety differ with such an opinion ; and I desire to impre.s that opinion with as ninth force as I can itt the hearing of one of the Commissioners."

In rep'y, Mr. Cockburn is said to have made one of the-mast striking speeches ewer heard in Westminster Hall: no report gives an adequate idea of his topics or style. In summing up, the Lord Chief Baron instructed the Jury that they must find a verdict for the plaintiff on the first plea of "Not guilty," and that the plea of justification was not made out. "The defendants were not in any way justi- fied in having adopted the course they had taken, unless the Jury should think that the plaintiff was of unsound mind and dangerous to herself and others. If she were not so, then the defendants had no right to go down and drag her away, as they bad done, from her home,—for Charlinch was the home she had chosen, .--and then to cause her to be placed in an asylum." Be commented on the fact, that whilst three of these sisters had been married to three members of this fra- ternity, not one of them had had the precaution of having a settlement drawn. It would have been well if these gentlemen had had this done, for much cause of Suspicion of imputed motives in uniting themselves to ladies much older than themselves would thereby have been removed. His own idea of toleration was, that all those who entertained with sincerity any peculiar doctrine, however ab- surd that doctrine might appear to others to be, ought to be allowed to enjoy that opinion without interference, so long as the principles and the acts they adopted were not forced offensively, or contrary to law, upon the public notice, or against the public morals. If such persons sincerely entertained these doctrines, then they were, in his-opinion, as much entitled to be treated with respect as any other religions sect.

The Jury retired for an hour, and then came back with a verdict for the plain- tiff—damages 501.; but they begged to give their opinion that the defendants Iran not been actuated by any mercenary or unworthy motives in the steps they had taken.

At hiarylebone Police-office, on Wednesday, Mr. Pawson, a farmer of Hendon, was prosecuted by Sir Francis Knowles, for conveying " offensivematter " through the streets. Sir Francis acted entirely on public grounds. He noticed a cart travelling to Hendon, which emitted amost offensive odour ; it contained lime from gas-works saturated with sulphuretted hydrogen, to be used for agricultural pur- =It was contended that Mr. Pawson had committed no offence, as the odour the compound was not noxious. The Magistrate, agreeing with the prose- cutor that it was noxious, inflicted a mitigated penalty of 10s. It was suggested thatmore lime should be used at the gas-works, which would prevent much of the emell arising from the mass.

at complaint was made to the Worship Street Magistrate, on Wednesday, that a dangerous nuisance existed at Whiteahapel. Immediately opposite the London Rev* and near the Workhouse and Parish Schools, there is a collection of sack pests as bone-boilers, knackers, manure-makers, and similar unsavoury track*. The consequences are,that no portion of London shows so high a rate of mortality; and the inmates of the workhouse and the inhabitants of the locality in general are now suffering greatly from diarrheas, while typhus is never out of one contiguous street. The complaint was made by some officers of the Hospital; and the Magistrate directed that a Beaching investigation should be commenced forthwith.

The two Clarkes, who were held to bail on a charge of firing premises at Wap- ping, have been dischargediromenstody by the Thames Police Magistrate, as the evidence against them lad not been strengthened sufficiently to warrant any idtestor proceedings.

Three convicted housebreakers %aye ,made a clever attempt to escape fon Horsemonger Lane Gaol. They managed to secrete an old pewter pot, and out es it fashioned a key to open the door of their cell and an outer door; one night they used it, and got out of the building on to a green in the rear. Here there was a wall twenty feet high, surmounted with spikes. They had made a rope of their rugs and blankets, fastened one end into the spikes, and were about to ascend; but just then a watchman perceived them, and they were secured.