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Lord Cranworth and Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce have been ap- pointedJudges of Appeal, the latter with a seat in the House of Lords. Sir W. Page Wood and Me. James Parker are to become Vice-Chancellors. A vacancy is tints created in the post of Solicitor-General.

Lord Saltoun is to be a Knight of the 'fhistle, in the room of the late Viscount Melville.

It is rumoured that Captain Houston Stewart will leave the Admiralty .and take up the vacant appointment of Admiral Superintendent of Daven- port Dockyard, and that Rear-Admiral Sir James Stirling will go to the Admiralty ; also that Rear-Admiral Berkeley will leave the Admiralty, and succeed Rear-Admiral Prescott in the superintendence of thiedock- yard.—Plymouth Times.

Mr. Dominick Daly, formerly Government Secretary and member of Council in Canada, is appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Tobago; in the room of Mr. D. R. Ross, whose death by accident we recently described.

Mr. Samuel Morton Pete has been appointed by the Crown to be Deputy Chairman of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers.

Parliament met formally on Thursday, to be formally reprorogued un- til Tuesday the 4th November. The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Duke of Devonshire; and the Commons were represented by their Clerk, Sir Denis le Mer- chant. A number of ladies witnessed the ceremony.

A variety of changes have just taken place in the Excise branch of the Inland Revenue Department.. The whole of the Solicitor's offices, with the clerks and others attached thereto, have been removed to Somerset Hume • by which means the entire management of the legal business of theInfand Revenue will be concentrated in one establishment, and not divided, as has been the case since the amalgamation of the Stamps and Taxes departments. Several of the receivers of the minor taxes in the Stamps and Taxes will, occupy the place vacated in the office in Broad Street ; and the whole- of the legal business will be conducted by Mr. Timm and Mr. Tilsey, as solicitor and assistant-solicitor to the joint de. pertinent. Dr. Bateman, assistant-secretary of the Excise branch, we hear, will retire ; and other arrangements are in contemplation for re- ducing the charges of this establishment. The detective staff has also been reduced: but this appears a verynnomalous movement, when it is considered- that adulteration, in nearly all the exciseable necessaries or luxuries of life has been proved to exist to as great an extent at the present time as.ever it did under the most careful supervision.—Globe.

We understand that 2tfr. Murdoch, the Chief Commissioner of Emi- gration, and, Mr. Stephen Walcott, Secretary to the Board, are about to proceed on. an ofBeial tour, in the course of which they will visit the several outports, with a view of ascertaining how far it may be practicable to carry out the recommendations of Mr. Sidney Herbert's Committee, and remedy prevailing abuses in the American emigration trade. For this purpose their attention will be specially directed to Liverpool; where it is expected regulations of a salutary character will be established, with a view to the. peotection of the emigrants from fraud before em- barkation, and, their domestic comfort ii "lime" or model lodging- housea—Lieerpool The Cologne Gazette states, on authority of a letter from Hanover of the 27th August, that the King of Hanover has resolved, against the advice of his physicians and friends, to pay a visit to England; and that he wilt not establish. a Regency of the Prince Royal. during his absence.

The Infanta of Spain, the Duchess of Mentpensier, gave birth to sr princess, at Seville,. on the afternoon of the 28th August.

A Legitimist correspondent from Germany states that Don Miguel- (whom he calls King Don Miguel) is about tn marry the Princess de Lowenstein -Rosenberg, a relative of Prince Schwarzenberg ; who, al- though not appertaining to a royal house, is still of the-very highest no- bility.—.Daily News.

There seems to be but little doubt that the Duke of Norfolk has left the communion of the Church of Rome, the hereditary faith of the noble house of Howard, and become a member of the Church of England.—Times, eptember 5.

The Bishop of Oiler 1 is engaged on a tour of observation in Switzer- land, visiting alternately the Proter ant raid Roman Catholic Cantons, and taking personal notes of their rela ive rooial condition, with the in- tention of using his information during the next session of Parliament. His Lordship also intends to carry his researches through the Papal States, as a supplementary confirming evidence to the celebrated Glad- stone Letters.—Morning Post.

The Reverend Owen Emery Vidal, Perpetual Curate of Holy Trinity, Arlington, Sussex, hes been nominated, and is willing to go out, as the first Bishop of Sierra Leone, The Archbishop of Canterbury and her Majesty's Government have signified their consent to Mr. Vidal's conse- cration, if a moderate endowment can, be secured.—Cembridge Chronicle. The Archbishop of Canterbury has been entrapped into a somewhat false position by one of the converts- from the Established Church to the Roman Catholic Chureh, Mr. William Rees Francis Gawthorn. Last week the Morning Chronicle published the following letter by the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, stating that "it was not long since written by the Archbishop in answer to an inquiry respecting his Grace's views on the • validity of foreign orders." •

"Sir—You are far too severe in your censure of the Bishop of London for his letter to Mr. Richards ; though I wish that his Lordship had explained himself more fully. But in his original letter to Lord Cholmondeley on the subject of the foreign pastors, he expressly stated that they could not, bylaw, minister in our churches, but that every endeavour would be made to pro- vide places where they mightcelebrate Divine warship according to their OWL forms.

"I hardly imagine that there are two bishops on the bench, or one clergy-

man in fifty throughout our Church, who would deny the validity of the orders of these pastors solely On account of their wanting the imposition of episcopal hands. And I am sure that you have misunderstood the import of the-letter which occasioned your addressing me, if you supposed that it im- plied any such sentiment in the writer's mind.

"I remain, Sir, your obedient humble servant, "J. B. Cerereen."

Much scandal was caused to the High Church Party by the sentiments thus given forth from the highest place. On Tuesday this week, the Chaplain of the Archbishop published the communication to which the Archbishop's letter had been the answer.

" 47 Holywell Street, Westminster, 18th June 1851.

" Lord—I am very sorry to find by the public prints that Bishop Blomfield joins with the notorious Mr. Richards, of Margaret (now Pitch- field Street) Chapel; in casting a slur upon the orders of foreign Protestant tors, so many of whom met your Grace in friendly conference at Willis's

ma on Tuesday last; and that he even conount with that gentleman (at least so it would appear—I hope I am mistaken) in regarding them as mere laymen,' (to use Mr. Richards 's own words, from which the Bishop expresses no.dissent,) just as the Romanista do all Protestant clergymen, Mr. Richards included, though I believe that gentleman repudiates the name of Pro- testant."

[Here follow some severe strictures on the Bishop of London, which are omitted as irrelevant.] "I venture to trouble your Grace with this communication, in order to inquire whether it is your Grace's opinion, and that of the majority of your brethren—in short, whether it is really the sentiment of the Church of Eng- land, that these excellent foreign clergymen (whom we have most certainly led to believe that we recognize their orders) are not as truly pastors of the Church of Christ as even the Bishops of the Established Church; or whether, on the other hand, we should regard them, with the Bishop and his protégé, as 'mere laymen.' "I am myself a convert from Dissent to the Established Church, (and I

trust, therefore, your Grace will excuse my troubling you on this point) ; but I confess to your Grace, that if the latter view isinvolved in adherence to the Church of England, or is the opinion of the majority of your Lordships, I for one shall certainly feel that the National Church has not a particle of claim to my allegiance, and that such a view really sanctions, to a very great ex- tent at least, the efforts of the Tractarians to unprotestantize ' the Church of this country,. and that they are not so very far wrong, after all, in speak- ing of the Rommh as a sister Church,' (vide Christian Year,' &o.) But I cannot believe that your Grace regards the celebrated champion of Protest- antism, Dr. Cumming, (who also, I believe, met your Grace on Tuesday,) and indeed the whole Established Church of Scotland, (which the supreme head of the English Church under Christ has only just assured of her sanc- tion and support,' accompanying the assurance with a very large contriblei tion,) as, as the Tractarians assert, without the pale of the Church of' Christ,' which, however, they may make to include the Romanist. "I am most anxious to be informed of your Grace's sentiments on this subject, as the chief ecclesiastical authority, (under her Majesty) • and I am confident, therefore, that your Grace will forgive the liberty Viet I have taken in venturing to trouble your Grace upon the subject. I will only, in conclusion, humbly request your Grace's attention to Me. Richards's avowed . sympathy with Romenizers, (including even Mr. Harper, who has just joined the Romish Church,) and Romanists, (which is not rebuked by his bishop,) and in particular-with the French Jesuit priest Pare Ravignan, who . I see, assisted Archdeacon Manning in the performance of his first mass' at the Jesuits! Church on the day previous to your Lordship's convocation at Willis's Rooms : and Mr. Manning's name reminds me also to request your Grace's attention to. his friend Archdeacon Wilberforce's recent work, (a History of Brastianim,) in which he distinctly charges his Church with

heresy.

"With many apologies. and great. respect, I have the honour to be, your

Grace's most faithful humble servant, W. FILA.NC18."

The above signature was that of two Christian games of Mr. W. Rees Francis- Gawthorn. The Archbishop fell into the trap laid by Mr. Gaw- thorn, and wrote the letter we have printed, under the impression that his correspondent was, as he declared, "a convert from Dissent to the Es- tablished Church." Though placing so much confidence in a stranger, he had particularly marked his reply "private." Soon, however, finding that this privacy had not been respected, and hearing that his letter had been shown about in different quarters, he sent his Chaplain to make in- quiries about his correspondent, in Holywell Street, Westminster. Mr. Gawthoria was not at home when the Chaplain arrived-; but having now' gained the ends of his stratagem he threw off the mask, in the following letter, which he left for the Cho-Plain if he should make a second call.

"47, Holywell Street, Westminster, July 1.

" Sir—I was informed, on my return home this evening, that a gentleman had called and inquired for Mr. Francis, and that he would come again to- morrow about half-past nine, "As I am going out early in the morning, and as I think I understand the object of your visit, I thought it best to leave a few lines, in order that your second mil might not be altogether to no purpose. "You no doubt wish to know if it was I who addressed Dr. Sumner lately, with respect to the sentiments of his brethren in regard. to the 'foreign pastors.'

"I beg to. say- that I did write to Dr. Sumner on that subject, with a view to the benefit of a relative whom I am trying to convert, (for I aim myself a. Catholic,) and that I omitted my surname in the signature of my letter, in case. it should defeat the object I had in view ; for I thought it was possible. that Dr. Sumner might have heard my name, and might know that I was a Catholic, which would. probably have prevented his giving me the informa- tion I desired.

"I have also to add further, that all that I said in my note was strictly true, and that of course I intended to avoid acting in any way inconsistent with the 'private' nature of the communication. I mean, that I should' not of course feel myself at liberty to publish it, I have much respect for

Dr. Sumner personally, though, I confess, none whatever for 'the Church of England,' and am much obliged to him for his courteous reply to my note If it is thought that the course I pursued in this matter was unjustifiable, or 'doing evil that good may come; I can only say that I did not think so, nor did others who are better able to judge. I have only shown the letter to personal friends, for whose conversion to the Church I am most anxious. "I am, Sir, your obedient servant, W. R. FRANCIS GAWTHORN. "For the Gentleman from Dr. Sumner."

The Morning Chronicle states in a leading article that it has -been in possession of the correspondence for six or seven weeks, but "for obvious reasons, such as duty towards the Church of England and its Primate, did not choose to make public this grievous scandal." Gawthorn, how- ever, published it in a Roman Catholic paper ; and the High Church journalist now gives, as an illustrative supplement, two previous corre- spondences by the same Mr. Gavrthorn. In one of these, the impostor assumed the name of "M. W. Rees," and the false character of English Churchman. In the other, he wrote in his own name to the Reverend Cyril Page, incumbent of Christchurch, Westminster; and in hopes to convert him, stated himself to possess the above letter from the Arch- bishop, described the purport of that letter, and then, though it was marked "private "—which he begged Mr. Page to "bear in mind "—de- clared himself "ready to show the above letter to any one who wishes to see it " : he told Mr. Page in addition, "you are at liberty to make any private use of the information I have given you, short of communicating it to Protestant bishops.' "

"A Country Miller from Boyhood" sent us by railway parcel last week, and marked for "immediate delivery," a second long communica- tion on the subject of Bovill's patent ; the immediate interest of which we failed to recognize. His objects appear to be—to deny over again that the patent grinds more rapidly than the old mode ; to assert that it grinds wretchedly bad ; to ask whether Mr. Dives did not stand "A 1" as a mealsman before he adopted the patent ; and generally to vent an inap- propriate and unbecoming controversial antagonism against ourselves, as

opponents." The assertion seems to us, in recollection of the experi- ments at Deptford which we described some weeks since only to illus- trate the extent of obstinacy with which a man who has Mien a side will ignore palpable facts. The denial has much the same sort of illustrative character; for it does not in the least support that denial to send us meal and bran ground well by the old system and ill by the new, when nothing is known of the comparative samples of wheat, or of the comparative skill used in the work. The object was, not to establish whether wheat can be ground ill by the new mode, but whether it can be ground well by it : we see in practice that it can ; if the Country Miller from Boyhood fails, that is his misfor- tune. The question about Mr. Dives we answer by saying, that we be- lieve Mr. Dives did obtain his present high position before he adopted the patent ; but it is equally true that he retains that position since he has used the patent for years : it is plain, therefore, that much as Mr. Dives values the patent, the public equally value its fruits. In conclusion, we beg to explain to the Country Miller from Boyhood, that his second com- munication was not presentable to the readers of the Spectator ; the weight of its matter did not redeem the faults of its style and tone. The interest of the subject is indeed now quite exhausted : as justice has been done to the inventor and to his opponent, the matter must be finally dis- missed from our pages.

"The weekly reports have not been recently of the most favourable cha- racter. During five weeks that have run since July 26th, the deaths, ex- cept in one instance, have ranged above 1000; in the week ending August 16, they reached 1061, and in the week which ended last Saturday they again rose to the same number. The 1061 deaths now returned indicate not only a high rate of mortality for London as compared with more open districts of the country, but an increased amount as measured by former experience in the Metropolitan districts, at the same season of the year. In the corresponding week of 1849, when epidemic cholera had nearly attained its highest point, 2796 deaths were registered in London ; but with that and another exception the deaths in the corresponding weeks of 1841-50 did not reach 1000, and were generally under 900.

"Of the whole number of persons who died last week, nearly one-half had not completed their fifth year of existence.

"Of the whole number of deaths, more than one-third are classed as caused by epidemic diseases ; among which diarrhcea, cholera, and typhus predominate. This class, which numbered 314 in the previous week, has risen to 378: it includes smallpox, which was fatal in 17 cases, measles, scarlatina, hooping,-cough, which count respectively 18, 20, and 26, while 60 cases are due to typhus, remittent, and other fevers, 174 to diarrhoea, 7 to dysentery, and 28 to cholera."—.Front the Registrar-General's Return.

At Michaelmas the first half-year's instalment under the new House-duty Act will become payable, at 6d. in the pound on the annual value of 20/. and upwards, on shops, warehouses, &c., and of 9d. on dwelling-houses not used as shops, &e.

The Stamp Office has given notice to provincial journals, that announce- ments of "arrivals at hotels," whenever a list appears with a special hotel mentioned, will henceforth be charged with the advertisement-duty. The .Maidstone Gazette thinks this rather sharp practice, and calls for uniformity—let Metropolitan journals be prohibited from stating at what hotels the Queen stops, and what "distinguished foreigners" have arrived at Mired's.

The materials of the old House of Commons and the offices connected with it are to be disposed of on Wednesday. The buildings are marked out in some hundreds of lots, and must be 'Cleared away without any delay. The Speaker's chair is expected to fetch a high price. Several offers are expected for the Ministerial bench; and the partisans of the different political parties who have figured in the House are supposed to bid high for the seats on which their leaders have sat for many years. The sale will be an interesting and attractive one.—Globe.

Out of 1909 inmates of the Sheffield Workhouse, 1047 decline to acknow- ledge themselves of any religious persuasion, and 13 openly avow that they are of none.

Mr. Scoble, the Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, has safely arrived at Boston, United States, en route to Canada, his object being to inquire into the condition and prospects of the Coloured population, many hundreds of whom have lately escaped thither from the fury of the oppressor.—Anti- Blavery Reporter.

A Temperance Society, on the plan of those in England, is about to be or- ganized in Paris. A number of persons in high positions, principally in the ranks of the clergy, the magistracy, and the public offices, have joined it. Its object is to do away with drunkenness among the working classes. The contracts for constructing the electric telegraph between the Metropo- lis and Bristol and Exeter have been entered into, and the wires will be hung up forthwith.

There has been printed a return of the number of steam-boat accidents, and their consequences, with the particulars, as reported to the Board of Trade; and also of the number of eases investigated agreeably to the Steam Navigation Act, since the let January 1847. The number of accidents (sometimes involving, in cases of collisions, injury to more than one vessel) is seventy-eight. Surveys are now in progress for the construction of a line between Chris- tiana mid St. Petersburg, which will have the effect of bringing St. Peters- burg three days' journey nearer London.

The German Journal of Frankfort states that the commerce of Trieste is. menaced with a new Belgian-Turkish Steam Navigation Company. The vessels of the new company are to serve the ports of Spain, Portugal, the Archipelago, and Trebizond: Eight vessels are ready to commence. A report has been made to the Canadian Parliament in favour of deepen- ing the St. Lawrence river. It states that for ten or fifteen thousand pounds the navigation might be opened so far as to permit a vessel to descend from Lake Ontario to the sea with 10,000 barrels of flour.

The health of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has so much improved that he "hopes to be able to commence the summer visitation of his diocese- in September."

A work has been circulating in the French circles at Vienna for some time- past which has caused no little sensation. It is a new edition of a work published in Paris in 1829, from the pen of the Baroness em-borough, mother of Lord Newborough. The Baroness declares herself to be a Princess of the house of Orleans ; and Louis Philippe, the son of an Italian attendant in the prisons, to have been substituted immediately after her birth, to ob- tain the desired object of a male heir to the Orleans branch. The revela- tions in question are contained in very circumstantial letters of this same attendant of the prisons, Lorenzo Chiappini, and in deathbed confessions of other individuals taken upon oath. The raisin... of Lady Newborough to the. Peerage, and the fact of the previously needy Chiappini having left con- siderable property at his death, give weight to the statements; but most of all, the extraordinarily striking resemblance of Lady Newborough and her- sons to the very marked features that characterized the Bourbon family. Louis Philippe was unlike them in build, in features, and in the decided energy of his character (till within the last few years of his life). In France there have long been many persons who believed and repeated this story; and when asked what Louis Philippe himself said to it, they always asserted it to be the rock on which he built his strength. 'Should there be another revolution on Republican principles, he will fall hack upon his. real origin, enfant du people, and tell the Republic he is their man ; no aristocrat, but Louis Philippe, the child of the people."—Correspmdent of the Globe.

A correspondent of the Netv York Express says that the great novelist of America' Mr. J. Fennimore Cooper, continues to fail in health ; though i

be able to ride out, he requires to be lifted in and out of his carriages- He received the rite of confirmation lately, from Bishop de Laney.

The America schooner-yacht has been purchased of Commodore Stephens, by Captain Be Blaquiere of the Indian Army, for the sum of 7000/.

Mr. Hobbs, an American, who exhibits in the Crystal Palace the " pa- rantothic bank lock," and offers 500/. to any one who can pick it, has suc- ceeded in picking Messrs. Bramah's challenge lock, and claims 2001. as the promised forfeit. "In order that the trial might be fairly made, Commis- sioners were appointed to decide upon it, and thirty clear days were granted by Messrs. Bramah to Mr. Hobbs for his operation. Mr. Hobbs went to work, but in a few days suspended his operations, alleging the weakness of his instruments. As soon as others had been prepared he desired to continue his attempt, but to this Messrs. Bramah objected. The Commissioners,, however, interfered ; Mr. Hobbs resumed his labours, and in about a foot-- night opened the lock. The Commissioners met on Saturday, but separate& without coming to a decision."

The Commissioners—Mr. George Rennie, Professor Cowper, and Dr. Black, of Kentucky—have since pronounced that Mr. Hobbs is entitled to the two hundred guineas. He succeeded in opening the lock without in any degree. damaging it. Mr. Hobbs was at work upon the lock fifty-one hours in all; —a pretty good proof of the sufficiency of Bramah's locks against the attempts of those professionals whose efforts must be more hurried.

George Hackett, the burglar who escaped from the Model Prison at Pen- tonville, is in custody at New York, on a charge of complicity in stealing, plate from a house at Newark, near the city. Should he be convicted, the penalty is ten years' close confinement.

It appears from later information, that a woman who accompanied Hackett from England, and a man, are also in prison as accomplices. Hackett and the man have already made an attempt to escape. They were suddenly missed at the time of locking up for the night, and were discovered in biding : a large pointed knife was found in the trousers of Hackett's companion.

Captain Lord Edward Russell, of the Vengeance lost a large sum of money last week, but whether accidentally or by robbely is not very clear. His Lordship started from London on Wednesday evening, with bank-bills to the amount of 500/., and Bank-of-England notes to the amount of 1401. He came down via Brighton, where he stopped some time, and then came on to Portsmouth ; and it was not until mid-day on Thursday that he discovered he was minus the bank-notes.—Standard.

Mr. Blyth, a young man of Ipswich, rescued a boy from drowning in the Orwell last week—the fourth life he has saved within a short time.

The following is a literal copy of an inscription upon a tombstone in the parish-church of Brighton. "In memory of Plicebe Hemel, who was been at Stepney, in the year 1713. She served for many years as a private soldier in the Fifth Regiment of Foot, in different parts of Europe ; and in the yean 1745 fought under the command of the Duke of Cumberland, at the battle of Fontenoy, where she received a bayonet-wound in her arm. Her long life, which commenced in the reign of Queen Anne, extended to the reign of George IV.; by whose munificence she received comfort and support in her latter years. She died at Brighton, where she had long resided, December 12, 1821; aged 108 years."

Some sensation was caused at Orleans two days ago by the statement that a shoemaker in the Rue Taboury bad won the grand prize of 100,000 francs in the Lyons lottery. Immediately all his friends and acquaintances, to- gether with many persons whom he scarcely knew, hastened to congratulate aim, and speculations were made as to what he would do with his fortune._ He was earnestly solicited not to leave the town, and was sumptuously entertained at a cafe. The day after, he quietly informed his friends that he had not gained the prize, but had hoaxed them, in order to receive dur- ing twenty-four hours the homage paid to wealth.—Galignanis Messenger. The Paris National announces a new prodigy. "Count Orloff has just presented to the Emperor of Russia an extraordinfiry musical guenomenon, in the person of a young Wallachian called Frederick Roltz. This man has been born with four hands, each baying ten fingers. He was brought up by a clergyman, who taught him to play on the organ; but the young man, in the course of time, made a pianoforte for himself, of considerably greater power than that of ordinary instruments. He enjoys excellent health, and, with the exception of the hands, presents nothing strange in his person. It is only from the elbow that the malformation commences. The arm there divides into two limbs, each ending in a hand with a double supply of fin- gers. These additional arms are regularly made, and the only remarkable point observed by medical men is the immense development of the deltoid muscle at the summit of the shoulder. The clergyman who had brought up Bohe at his death left him his small property ; and the young man imme- diately purchased diamond rings, with which he loaded his twenty fingers. It was with them so adorned that he performed before the Emperor of Rus- sia; who expressed his surprise at the musical powers of the young man. Roltz, it is said, is shortly to visit Paris."

The G;ornale di Roma gives an account of a remarkable meteor which was observed on the 19th August, after sunset, in the vicinity of the Volscian Appenines and the Alban mountains. The phainomenon was ushered in by sudden flashes of light, shooting from two distinct points of the Eastern horizon behind the Hernia mountains, near Monte Fortino. The colour of the light greatly resembled that of the aurora borealis. After some time, a splendid fiery globe, apparently as large as the moon when seen at the horizon' rose to the altitude of about 30 degrees. From the rose-coloured light it cast upon the adjoining clouds, it was evidently above them. It continued its course, describing something like a parabola, from West to East, for some time, and at last burst with the noise of thunder, scattering thousands of luminous fragments around which soon disappeared. The phie- nomcnon had been preceded by several falling stars in the same quarter of the heavens.