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ness, and referred at some length to Acts of Parliament 
recently passed, having for their object the welfare of 
the Church. He then dwelt at great length on 
the controversies within the Church, and expressed a 
hope that on all matters of this nature the clergy would 
80 conduct themselves as not to render themselves liable 
to the charge of using unseemly taunts. In removing the 
errors of the Church of Rome, the Protestant Church 
fought only the cause of truth, and they condemned those 
errors, not for the sake of condemnation only, but for 
that truth by a regard for which he trusted they would 
ever be actuated. ‘The Bishop then proceeded to the con- 
sideration of the authority of the Church,.as Holy, Catholic, 
and Apostolic, and pointed out the great difference 
between that claimed by the Church of England and the 
assumed infallibility of the Church of Rome, noticing in 
detail several points of doctrine in which the two Churches 
differed. Much of the discussion, he believed, which had 
recently taken place, and many of the irregularities which 
had been complained of, would have been avoided, if the 
parties had, in the first instance, submitted their doubts 
to their Ordinary, a practice strongly to be recommended 
in all cases where changes were contemplated. The 
Bishop, after some remarks on the daily service, suggested 
the propriety of a due attention to divine worship, and 
the ordinances of the Church on Saints’ days and other 
festivals, and proceeded to notice the subject of the dress 
Of the clergy. He did not concur in the opinion that 
the whole service should be performed in the surplice, for 
although there was no canon that treated on the subject 
expressly, he thought it was to be inferred from what was 
enjoined—that those parts of the Church service which 
Were purely ministerial, should be performed in the sur- 
Plice ; but during the sermon, which was more to be con- 
Sidered as the opinions of an individual than as the 
appointed service of the Church, it was not improper that 
the gown should be used; but in this, as in similar cases, 
the best plan would be for the clergy to adhere to the 
common usage, and in all cases where doubts arose, to 
apply to the Ordinary. His Lordship made some 
remarks on the educational clauses of the Factories Bill, 
and the check that their abandonment had given to the 
education of the people. ‘he remainder of-the charge 
Was occupied with the consideration of local matters. 
Carmarthen.—Last week the parishioners of Llande- 
feilog parish, about six miles from Carmarthen, met for 
The proceedings were chiefly conducted in 
Welch, but partly in English. A farmer occupied the 
chair. Dr. Picton, a relative of General Picton, and 
Possessed of considerable property in the parish, was 
Present, with two or three very substantial yeomen. The 
Teporter of the Times obtained permission to attend the 
Meeting, and states that the following resolutions were 
Put to the meeting in Welch, and agreed to unanimously : 
—“1. The Highway Act ought to be reformed. b 
\ ieee are too numerous, and the tolls too high. 
“aw. First, the overseer ought to pay the poor. Second, 
this is to be done under the direction of the guardians. 
Third, the guardians ought to choose and pay all the 
cers connected with the workhouse. Fourth, there 
Sught not to be any separation of man and wife. Fifth, 
he old law was better in cases of bastardy than the new. 
fists, the accounts ought to be passed before justices, as 
efore, Seventh, the chaplain ought to have a salary. 
4. Tithes. First, the meeting wish that the tithe should 
8. Poor 
of the land. Third, they ought to be reduced at least 4s. 
a 58. in the pound. 5. Church-rates ought to be amended. 
S Chureh and State. First, they ought to be separated. 
®cond, that the law should defend religion just the same 
men Madagascar and Otaheite. 7. County Stock. The 
®eting thinks the same with regard to this grievance as 
topriynydd Selen meeting did. 8. The Corn Law ought 
wi € repealed for a year or two, to try how it cambe done 
thtout. 9, There ought to be no by-law on the highway, 
hy Bates, the poor, the tithes, and income.tax, 0. 
ae parish to choose its own minister, as in Germany, 
thy ‘he Archbishops and Bishops have better work to do 
ane to be in Parliament, 12. No clergymen or preachers 
fagranted in the workhouse if the guardians do their duty 
Pan fully, 13, ‘The law ought to be amended in many other 
rai ticulars, I tax. Itis great foolish to 
8@ a tax with this name to it. 15. The Dog-tax. The 
“ting thinks Sir Robert Peel will take off this tax if he is 
16. Soldiers are serviceable where they 
der Wanted, but they are not wanted here.’’ It was then 
as tamined to adopt a petition relative to the grievances 
of q, ithes.—A daring attack has been made on the farm 
of poywem, belonging to a magistrate, Mr. W. Chambers, 
anelly, who has rendered himself, it would appear, 
tory ous from his efficiency and activity. On Sunday 
buige®? between 1 and 2 o’clock, the barns and. out- 
an Ings of this farm were fired, together with the hay 
3000 stacks, all of which were consumed, and about 
ig ‘Worth of property destroyed. One of the farm boys 
on fe ekened, and on looking out saw the out-buildings 
8am Te, and about 15 men disguised leaving them. The 
ahoty men were then seen to go across the country to 
ea farm occupied by Mr. Chambers, called Gelby- 
i iifen? where they set fire to the corn and hay stacks, 
Sia, Stacks of corn and one of hay, worth about 1501., 
tet f €ntirely consumed. On the same night the rioters 
ORS reto the toll-house at Hendy Gate, on the road from 
bpatelly to Pontardulais, which was kept by an old woman 
70 years of age, who had received frequent 
if shedid not leave the gate, her house should 
be burnt down. The old woman on being awakened ran 
into the road, and to a neighbouring cottage within twenty 
yards of the toll-house, shouting to the people who 
lived in it, to “come out and help her to put out the fire ; 
as there was not much.”’ The occupier of this cottage, a 
stout able man, was afraid to go out, and begged the old 
woman to come into his cottage, which she refused, and 
went back to try and save some of her furniture. It 
appears her exclamation had been overheard, for the 
rioters returned, and set fire to the thatch again. The 
old woman then ran across the road, and shouted out, 
“She knew them ;” when they fired at her and shot her 
dead. She staggered as far as the neighbouring cottage 
door, and there sunk down dead. An inquest on the 
body was held on Monday at Pontardulais, when the 
surgeon distinctly stated that on a post mortem examina- 
tion he found the lungs considerably congested, with marks 
of some shots on the surface, two of which were found in 
the substance of the left lung. Nothwithstanding this 
evidence, the jury returned the following verdict :— 
That the deceased died from the effusion of blood into the 
chest, which occasioned suffocation, but from what cause 
is to this jury unknown.—The Carmarthenshire magis- 
trates in Quarter Sessions, on Tuesday, resolved to defer 
the question of a rate for a rural police to October next ; 
and the magistrates of Cardiganshire have assented to a 
reduction of the turnpike tolls. 
Dorchester.—The Dorset Chronicle publishes a long 
account of the festivities which took place at Milton Abbey 
on the 5th inst., to celebrate the coming of age of Mr. 
Henry Damer. On the first day, beef, bread, and ale were 
distributed among the people, and the tenantry dined with 
their young landlord. On the following day a déjeuner 
and ball took place, at which all the principal nobility and 
gentry of the county were present. 
Eveier—The salutes fired at Plymouth in honour of 
her Majesty’s late visit to that port were distinctly heard 
on the hills around this city, at Moretonhampstead, Drew- 
steignton, Black Torrington, &c. In one instance, near 
this city, the eminence on which the firing was heard cannot 
be short of 46 miles from Plymouth by the mail-line road. 
Harrogate,—It is said that there are at present upwards 
of 2000 visitors congregated in this town; and all the 
other watering-places in the north. Scarborough, Seaton, 
Carew, Redcar, Tynemouth, Shotley-bridge, Gilsland, as 
well as the Lakes, are full of company. 
ITereford.—The Musical Festival, which was held on 
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of last week, in All 
Saints’ Church, in consequence of the repairs going on at 
the Cathedral, was on a much smaller scale than has of 
late years been usual with the three choirs of Worcester, 
Gléucester, and Hereford, and the attendances at the 
various performances were by no means so numerous as 
had been generally expected. The expenses, however, had 
been studiously kept down, and it is hoped the receipts 
may cover them. The collections after the three services 
amounted to 865/7., being 200/. less than in 1840, but 502. 
more than in 1837. 
Liverpool.—The local papers mention a rumour that 
John Anderson, convicted at the Assizes for having 
knowingly become possessed of the notes stolen at the 
Preston Guild, has declared that if any hope of a commu- 
tation of punishment were held out to him, he would give 
a clue to the murderer of the late Mr. Bibby. It will be 
recollected that this gentleman was found dead in the 
summer of 1840, near Bootle, under circumstances of a 
mysterious character, which have never since been 
cleared up.—A Repeal meeting took place in this town 
on Wednesday, which was attended by Mr. D. O'Connell, 
jun,, and other members of the Dublin Association. 
About 4000 persons were present. Mr. Fitzgerald moved 
the first resolution, which set forth that this public de- 
ion was held, not only as evidence of increasing 
h in Liverpool, but with a view to express a fixed 
resolve to persevere in constitutional agitation till Ireland 
should obtain her right of self-government. In the course 
of his address, he stated that a few months ago, the col- 
lection of ‘rent’? in Liverpool averaged only 27. or 3/. 
per week ; at the present time it had reached 20/., so 
that the Repealers of this town were now remitting funds 
© the “National Treasury’’ in Dublin, at the rate of 
about 10007. per annum. Mr. O’Connell, jun., then came 
forward to support the resolution. He spoke at some 
length, and retired at the close of his address. A riot then 
ensued, and there appeared an evident determination that 
the proceedings should be stopped ; for fights commenced 
in different parts, many of the benches were torn up, and 
an attack was made upon the stage by the anti-repealers 
in the pit. In the confusion the table at which the re- 
porters were stationed was destroyed, and they had to 
effect their escape as well as they could. The police 
secured the assailants, several of whom were seriously 
hurt; and a few of them having been removed from the 
building, order was eventually restored, and, with a few 
trifling exceptions, it was preserved to the end of the pro- 
ceedings. 41J. was then announced as the week’s rent 
for Liverpool, and a petition to Parliament for immediate 
repeal was adopted. 
Leicester.—Mr. Messenger, the master of the man 
receritly murdered at Gaddesby, was fully committed on 
Wednesday week, on the charge of Wilful Murder. There 
were several additional witnesses, but the examination, 
which lasted the whole of the day, being private, the par- 
ticulars have not transpired. 
Norwich.—On Thursday the 7th, the great demonstra- 
tion to witness the meeting of the Bishop of Norwich and 
Father Mathew took place in St. Andrew’s Hall, which 
was illuminated for the occasion. The hall, considered 
one of the finest in the kingdom, and said to be capable of 
accommodating from 5,000 to 6,000 persons, was crowded 
to suffocation. The orchestra, used on the occasion of the 
musical festival, was appropriated as a platform; and 
long before the time appointed it was crowded with the 
ladies and gentry of the city. Father Mathew, accom- 
panied by the Hon. Stafford Jenningham, and the Rev. 
Mr. Nellyan, rector of Carlton, arrived on the platform 
shortly after seven, and on making his appearance, the 
entire assembly rose, and received him with enthusiastic 
cheering. Mr. J. J. Gurney, on taking the chair, said 
he felt great pleasure in doing so, as, although he some 
time since looked upon the principles of total abstinence 
as a fallacy, he begged now to state that he was a con- 
firmed, absolute, and pledged teetotaller. The total absti- 
nence movement was in harmony with the Christian 
doctrine of the Gospel, and, therefore, it was a neutral 
ground, on which they all could meet and join heart and 
hand without political or religious differences. Upon that 
understanding he had taken the chair, and he hoped that 
the proceedings would be carried out in the true princi- 
ples of Christian charity and love. Shortly after this the 
Bishop of Norwich, accompanied by several ladies, arrived, 
and his appearance on the platform was the signal for the 
most enthusiastic cheers. The entire assembly rose, and 
the applause which ensued was tremendous for some 
minutes, which was renewed on his Lordsbip walking up 
to Father Mathew and shaking him cordially by the hand. 
The Bishop then addressed the meeting at great length, 
stating that he had come there contrary to the advice of 
many of his friends, but he should have considered himself 
degraded if he had been induced to remain away by 
the calumnies circulated against him and the Temperance 
cause by certain parties in that city. He had watched 
over the character of Father Mathew, and he would say— 
and say it publicly—that he sincerely believed that it was 
embodied in the words in print which he held in his hand. 
He then read an extract from a printed document, which 
declared that Father Mathew was a gentleman by birth ; 
that his acts had been publicly known for 25 years; that 
during his whole life, although possessed of the franchise, 
he had never given a vote, meddled with politics, or mixed 
with any agitation; and that he was a meek and 
spiritual-minded man. The Bishop then proceeded as 
follows :— ‘* Where did this excellent system com- 
mence? Its birth-place was the land of freedom, 
in America, raised by the descendants of British 
blood, and it winged its way to this quarter of the world. 
But where did it alight? Not in England, but in the 
Protestant town of Belfast, where it began, not with the 
Catholic, but with the Protestant clergy. It then winged 
its way to Liverpool, and the manufacturing districts, 
where I met, and to my shame be it spoken, I opposed it. 
Yes, three years ago I opposed teetotalism as Eutopian, 
treatedit with ridicule, and asa thing which would passaway 
as the dew before the sun. I have since, however, looked at 
both sides of the question. I have followed it from house 
to house, from cottage to cottage, and conviction was so 
strongly enforced upon my mind, that instead of being 
longer its enemy, I became its staunch and enduring friend. 
I can mention one instructive circumstance in connexion 
with the religious tendency of temperance societies. I 
shall never forget visiting the cottage of a man who had 
been all his life a drunkard, and which was the abode of 
misery and wretchedness. He becamea teetotaller, and in 
six months after I found his abode the scene of comfort 
and domestic happiness. This man, with tears in his 
eyes, placing his hand on a quarto family Bible, said, ‘ This 
is the first thing I purchased with the money I saved by 
giving up drunkenness. It was an alien to my house 
before, but it has been my daily comfort and companion 
ever since.’ In proportion as temperance has advanced 
crime has diminished.” His Lordship concluded by 
calling on the meeting to receive Father Mathew in the 
spirit of honest Christian charity. Father Mathew then 
came forward and spoke at considerable length. He said 
it could not be expected that he should reply to the 
charges made against him, particularly after what had 
fallen from his Lordship, of whose friendship he bad long 
known the value, He had come to Norwich, previous to 
going to Ireland, in order to thank his Lordship per- 
sonally, and if there had been any deviation from the 
path of rectitude on his part, he would not have dared to 
show himself, The Rev. gentleman concluded by thank- 
ing the meeting for the handsome manner in which they 
had received him. On Friday, Father Mathew adminis- 
tered the pledge, in St. Andrew’s-hall, to several hundreds 
of persons, and afterwards dined with the Bishop. He 
left Norwich on Saturday for Birmingham, in order to 
administer the pledge in that town, under the patronage 
of Dr. Wiseman, the Roman Catholic bishop. 3 3 
Oxford.—On Friday the remains of Dr. Bri aes 
sident of Corpus Christi College, arrived here oe ta- 
combe, and the interment took place on the next day in 
the chapel of the College. The funeral of Ds Grayson, 
Principal of St, Edmund-hall, took place on Wednesday, 
in the chapel of that ball. It_is a singular coincidence 
that, in 1823, the Rev. Dr. Cooke, President of Corpus, 
and the Rev. Dr. Thompson, Principal of St. Edmund- 
hall, the predecessors of the above gentlemen, also lay 
dead at the same time.—The daily papers state that it is 
intended to establish at Littlemore, near Oxford, a college 
in which young men holding Tractarian principles may 
be trained for missionary Jabour ; and that the Right Rey. 
Dr. Coleridge, formerly Bishop of Barbadoes, will be 
srincipal of the institution.—The Standard announces, on 
the authority of a letter from Oxford, that Mr. W. Lock- 
hart, B.A., of Exeter College, who for the last twelve- 
months has been an inmate of Mr. Newman’s house, at 
Littlemore, and about four years ago adopted Tractarian 
principles, has declared himself a convert to the Roman 
Catholic Church.—On Wednesday Mr. Cobden and Mr. 
