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decree of the University of Oxford is a perpetual bar of exclusion against a clergyman of eminent learning and irreproachable life, and that, in fact, the supremacy which is now by law vested in the Crown is to be transferred to a majority of the members of one of the Universities; nor should it be forgotten that many of the most prominent of that majority have since joined the communion of the Church I deeply regret the feeling which is said to be common among the clergy on this subject. But I cannot sacrifice the reputation of Dr. Hampden, the rights of the Crown, and what I believe to be the true interests of the Church, to a feeling which I believe to be founded on misapprehension and fomented by prejudice."

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14. Mr. Horsman's motion, censuring the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for not carrying out the provisions of the Act of Parliament regarding episcopal incomes, defeated by a majority of 130 to 65.

16. Thomas Sale and George M'Coy, coopers, tried at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of Mr. Bellchambers on the morning of the 11th October last. They were found guilty, partly on evidence furnished by M'Coy when in prison, and sentenced to be executed. Some doubt arising as to the participation of M'Coy in the actual murder, although there could be none as to his subsequent guilty knowledge, his sentence was commuted to transportation for life. Sale was executed on the 10th January.

20. Her Majesty's steam frigate Avenger wrecked on the Sorelle rocks, on the north coast of Africa. She had on board 270 persons, including crew and supernumeraries, all of whom were drowned, with the exception of a lieutenant and four men. The frigate, which was commanded by a step-son of Admiral Napier, appeared to have been carried out of her course by a current.

Came on for hearing in the Court of Queen's Bench the case of Captain Charretie and Sir William Young, late a director of the East India Company, and others, charged with having fraudulently obtained and sold for money a cadetship in the East India Company's service. In order to procure a cadetship for his son, Mr. Wotherspoon, W.S. Edinburgh, remitted 1,100l. to a Mrs. Stewart in London. Through one Trotter, she obtained an introduction to Captain Charretie, and through him she reached Sir William Young, a director. Trotter received 50l. for his aid; the balance of Wotherspoon's remittance was paid to Charretie, who gave Mrs. Stewart a note from Sir Williain, stating that he would have much pleasure in making the appointment in November. The appointment was then made, and the young man went out to Madras. The suspicions of the Court of Directors being excited

regarding various recent appointments to cadetships, a strict inquiry took place, and the result was the present trial. Against Captain Charretie the jury returned a general verdict of guilty; but against Sir William Young the verdict was guilty on the second count only, charging a conspiracy to obtain the appointment by sale.

23. Abd-el-Kader surrenders to General Lamoricière, on condition of being sent to Alexandria or St. Jean d'Acre. In defiance of this stipulation the Emir was sent with his family and attendants to France, and detained a prisoner, first at Toulon, and then in the Château d'Amboise.

25.-Lord John Russell to the Dean of Hereford :-"I have had the honour to receive your letter of the 22d inst., in which you intimate to me your intention of violating the law. I have the honour to be your obedient servant," &c.

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27.-The Times publishes another remonstrance from the Dean of Hereford against the elevation of Dr. Hampden to that see:-ing fully counted the cost, having weighed the sum of bounden duty in the one scale against the consequence in the other, I have come to the deliberate resolve that on Tuesday next no earthly consideration shall induce me to give my vote in the Chapter of Hereford Cathedral for Dr. Hampden's elevation to the see of Hereford." In answer to the Dean's memorial to the Queen Sir George Grey wrote:"I have had the honour to lay the same before the Queen, and I am to inform you that her Majesty has not been pleased to issue any commands thereupon.'

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Election of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford. Dean Mereweather protested against the election being proceeded with till due inquiry had been made into the charges preferred against Dr. Hampden by the University of Oxford, or till the Crown presented some more suitable person to the see. also protested against the proceedings of that day so far as persons voted who were merely honorary prebendaries, and had not complied with the statutes of the Church, and because it was necessary that the dean should be included in the majority. The vote stood: for Dr. Hampden, three canons residentiary, five prebendaries of the old order, and six of the junior order; against, the dean, and one canon residentiary, Dr. Huntingford.

1848.

January 1.-The Kaffir War terminated by the surrender of several of the most powerful chiefs to Colonel Somerset and the new Governor-General, Sir Harry Smith.

3. The property of Tawell, the Salt Hill murderer, confiscated to the Crown by his crime, was this day restored to his widow.

Affray in the streets of Milan between the Austrian troops and the populace, caused by the troops smoking cigars which the people had bound themselves not to consume in order to injure the revenue of the imperial treasury.

4. Special Commission opened at Limerick for the trial of persons charged with murder, housebreaking, and robbery. The first tried was one Ryan, alias Puck, reputed to have been concerned in nine murders. He was found guilty of shooting John King, and sentenced to be executed on the 7th of February. Four others received sentence of death, and between twenty and thirty were transported for periods varying from two to fourteen years. Similar results followed the sitting of the Commission at Ennis on the 12th, and Clonmel on the 24th. In the latter place there were upwards of 400 prisoners in gaol.

The Quarterly Review, published today, in an article on "Ministerial Measures" noticed the aggressive tendencies of the Papal See in words frequently referred to afterwards:"The Pope, it seems, has announced his intention of proving that he has power and authority, both temporal and spiritual, here in England itself, by creating those ecclesiastic officers heretofore tolerated under the modest and sufficient title of Vicar Apostolic into the dignities of Archbishops and Bishops, not merely nominal, not in partibus, but of Popecreated dioceses, in this by law Protestant realm of England; but, having more respect for the special provisions of the Act of 1829 than the English Ministers or his Irish prelates, he calls them Bishops of Westminster and Birmingham.'

The Morning Chronicle publishes the letter on national defences addressed to Sir John Burgoyne by the Duke of Wellington, in Jan. 1847. "Some days have elapsed-indeed a fortnight has-since I received your note, with a copy of your observations on the possible results of a war with France, under our present system of military preparation. You are aware that I have for years been sensible of the alteration produced in maritime warfare and operations by the application of steam to the propelling of ships at sea. . . I have in vain endeavoured to awaken the attention of different administrations to this state of things as well known to our neighbours as it is to ourselves. . . . I have examined and reconnoitred

over and over again the whole coast from the North Foreland, by Dover, Folkestone, Beachy Head, Brighton, Arundel, to Selsey Bill near Portsmouth, and I say that, excepting immediately under the fire of Dover Castle, there is not a spot on the coast on which infantry might not be thrown on shore at any time of the tide, with any wind and in any weather, and from which such body of infantry, so thrown on shore, would not find, within the distance of five miles, a road into the interior of the country through the cliffs practicable for the march of troops. . . . When did any man hear of allies of a country unable to defend itself? Views of economy of some, and I admit that the high views of national finance of others, induce them to postpone those measures absolutely necessary for mere defence and safety under existing circumstances, forgetting altogether the common practice of successful armies, in modern times, imposing upon the conquered enormous pecuniary contributions, as well as other valuable and ornamental property. Do we suppose that we should be allowed to keep-could we advance a pretension to keep-more than the islands composing the United Kingdom; ceding disgracefully the Channel Islands, on which an invader has never established himself since the period of the Norman Conquest? I am bordering upon seventy-seven years of age passed in honour. I hope that the Almighty may protect me from being witness of the tragedy which I cannot persuade my contempo

raries to take measures to avert."

5.-Violent scene in the Spanish Cortes, arising out of a charge of peculation made against Salamanca, the Minister of Finance.

7. Died at Hanover, in her 98th year, Miss Caroline Lucretia Herschell, sister and assistant of the celebrated astronomer, to whose zeal, diligence, and accuracy he was greatly indebted. She also made many useful astronomical observations of her own, and wrote several scientific treatises.

8.-Execution of Reid for the Mirfield murders, at York. On the scaffold he said, "I alone am the guilty person; McCabe is entirely innocent. No human being in the world had anything to do with it except myself." McCabe's sentence had previously been commuted to transportation for life.

9.-Riotous proceedings in Leghorn, arising out of demonstrations made by the National party.

10. A box, containing 1,500 sovereigns, stolen from the parcel van on the Great Western Railway, between London and Taunton.

12. The Sicilians revolt at Palermo against King Ferdinand. A constitution is conceded, but the city continues for many weeks in a discontented and unsettled state.

13. The Emperor of Austria writes to the Archduke Rainer, Viceroy of the Lombardo

Venetian kingdom:-"I have duly examined the events which occurred at Milan on the 2nd and 3rd inst. It is evident to me that a faction desirous to destroy public order and tranquillity exists in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. All that you deemed necessary to satisfy the wants and wishes of the different provinces I have already done. I am not disposed to grant further concessions. Your Highness will make known my sentiments to the public. The attitude of the majority of the population of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, however, induces a hope that similar distressing scenes shall not occur again. At all events, I rely on the loyalty and courage of my troops."

14. The Swiss Diet refuse to recognise the Pope's protest against the conduct of the Provisional Government to the Catholic cantons.

15.-Marshal Radetzky, commander-in-chief of the Austrian forces in Italy, issues a general order to the troops, commanding them to prepare for an immediate struggle :-"The efforts of fanatics, and a false spirit of innovation, will be shivered against your courage and fidelity like glass striking against a rock. My hand still firmly holds this sword that during sixty-five years I have carried with honour upon so many fields of battle. I still know how to use it, to protect the peace of a country, only lately so happy, and which a furious faction threatens to precipitate into incalculable misery."

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16. Confirmation of Dr. Hampden in the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside. the calling of objectors, a protest was presented against the proceedings, but the Commissioners declined to receive it on the ground that they were assembled under a Commission, signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, to proceed with the confirmation, and if they failed to do so they were liable under the statute of Henry VIII. to heavy pains and penalties. The same course was taken in the case of a libel, which the objectors wished to have argued in the Ecclesiastical Courts.

17. The Mexican Congress reject all negociations with the United States while their armies and fleet occupy the country.

18. Died at Bradenham House, Buckinghamshire, aged 82, Isaac D'Israeli, author of the "Curiosities of Literature."

20. Several persons slain at Pavia in a collision between the students and Austrian soldiers.

22.-The Roman Gazette announces the elevation of Dr. Wiseman to the Archbishopric of Westminster. Referring to a proposal to build an Italian Catholic Church in London, it was intimated that subscriptions would be received by his Eminence the Cardinal Prefect of the Propaganda, and by his Eminence the Most Reverend Monsignor the Vicar Apostolic, now Archbishop of Westminster.

24. Revolution in Carracas, Venezuela; five members killed in the Chamber of Deputies.

29.-Proclamation of the Constitution of 1812 for Naples and Sicily.

30.-Numerous arrests and great increase of Austrian military force in Milan and Verona. The Duke of Modena quits his capital.

February 1.-The free importation of grain, granted in the last session of Parliament, ceases, as also the temporary suspension of the Navigation laws.

Sir J. Brooke leaves England as Governor of the new British possession of Labuan.

2.-Debate in the French Chamber of Deputies on affairs in Switzerland, in the course of which M. Thiers severely censured the Guizot Ministry for interfering in the quarrel.

3. On the House of Commons resuming its sittings to-day, Lord George Bentinck presented petitions from West India planters and merchants in Britain and Jamaica, praying for the removal of burthens, for a full supply of African labour, an alteration of the navigation laws, and an assimilation of the duties on colonial rum to those paid by the British distiller. He also proposed a motion asking for a select committee to inquire into the present condition and prospects of the interests connected with and dependent on sugar and coffee planting in her Majesty's East and West India possessions, and the Mauritius, and to consider whether any and what measures can be adopted by Parliament for their relief. The motion was agreed to without a division.

4. The foundation-stone of Sunderland Docks laid by Mr. Geo. Hudson, M. P.

Private Ducker, of the Coldstream Guards, shot in Birdcage Walk by Annette Myers, a young Frenchwoman, excited to the deed through jealousy.

7. A bronze statue of Mr. Huskisson set up in Lloyd's.

At a meeting of Protectionists, in his own house, Lord Stanley announced the resignation of Lord George Bentinck, as the leader of the country party in the House of Commons, owing to his differing with many of them on the questions of removing Jewish disabilities, and of making still further concessions to Roman Catholics.

The second reading of the Government Bill for removing Jewish disabilities carried by a majority of 277 against 204. The third reading was carried by 234 to 173. In the House of Lords the bill was thrown out on the second reading by a majority of 35.

9.-Stormy debates in the French Chambers; Reform dinners declared illegal, and forbidden by the Ministry.

9.-Disturbance in Munich, occasioned by Lola Montez interfering to protect a club of Alemanen students which she had taken under her patronage. She was set on by the popu lace, and made her escape with difficulty in the company of the King.

11. Died William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury, aged 72, one of the most moderate and conciliatory of prelates.

12. The question of Reform rejected in the French Chamber of Deputies. Next day a meeting of 100 Deputies was held in defiance of the Ministry.

The Duffus family of Erichtbank--four sisters and two of their husbands-sentenced to four months' imprisonment at Perth Circuit Court, for destroying a testamentary deed with intent to defraud the interests of minors under the settlement.

15.-The Pope decrees a Constitution for the Roman States.

Opening of the Caledonian Railway between Carlisle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.

16. The Emperor of Russia declares himself discharged from his engagement under the treaty of Vienna to maintain the neutrality of the Swiss Confederation.

Romeo Coates, thirty years since "the Amateur of Fashion," run over by a hansom cab near the Hummums Hotel, Covent Garden, and injured so severely that death resulted in a few days.

17. The proferred mediation of Lord Minto between the Sicilians and the King of Naples accepted.

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18.-Lord John Russell submits the financial scheme of the Government; and in consideration mainly of the large sum required for our national defences, proposes to continue the income-tax for three years at the increased rate of five per cent. The proposal to increase the income-tax gave rise to so much opposition throughout the country, as well as in the House, that on the 28th the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Wood) announced that Government did not intend at present to press this portion of their scheme.

19. An express train from London to Glasgow performs the journey (472 miles) in 10 hours.

20. The Reform Banquet in Paris fixed for to-day deferred to the 22nd. French funds

-Three per Cents 73f. 35c.; Five per Cents 115f. 90c.

21.-Died, in the 81st year of his age, John Quincey Adams, sixth President of the United States, 1825-9.

The Committee of the Paris Reform Banquet issue a programme of their proceedings and the route of the intended procession. On the evening of the same day the Govern ment issued a counter proclamation, prohibiting the banquet. "By the manifesto published this morning, calling the public to a demonstration, convoking the National Guards, assigning them a place in rank with the Legions, and ranging them in line, a Government is raise in opposition to the real Government, which usurps the public power, and openly violates the Charter. These are acts which the Government cannot tolerate. In consequence, the banquet of the twelfth arrondissement will not take place. Parisians, remain deaf to every excitement of disorder. Do not by tumultuous assemblages afford grounds for a repres on which the Government would deplore.'

22. Great Reform Demonstration in Paris. Hôtel Guizot attacked; barricades also begin to appear in the streets. In the Chamber the impeachment of the Ministry was proposed, but defeated by a large majority.

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Came on for hearing in the Court of Queen's Bench the action brought by Alfred Bunn against Jenny Lind for breach of her engagement to sing at Drury-lane Theatre. Damages laid at 10,000. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, and the case was ultimately settled by a payment of 2,000/. by Miss Lind to Mr. Bunn.

23. Serious disturbances at Milan. The city declared in a state of siege.

Fluctuation in the English Funds caused by the French Revolution. This day (Wednesday) Consols opened at 89, but on the arrival of the French news fell to 88; next day they opened at 88, and on the news of the King's flight fell to 85; on Monday they opened at 81 to 814, but fell to 791, being the lowest point reached during the excitement. On the 28th the French Funds: fell in London to Sol.

In Paris great numbers of the National Guards declare in favour of Reform, and join with the people in demanding the dismissal of the Ministers. The Municipal Guards, after firing upon the people, were compelled by the National Guards to surrender their colours. In the evening the troops fired upon the people before Guizot's Hotel, owing, it was thought, to the accidental discharge of a gun being mistaken for an attack. Barricades were now got up with great speed, and throughout the city the troops were seen fraternizing with the people. M. Guizot having resigned in the course of the day, the King sent for M. Thiers to undertake the task of forming a new

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Ministry. By midnight the city might be said to be entirely in the hands of the people.

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24.-Abdication and flight of Louis Philippe. "The King," writes one who was present, "bewildered by conflicting counsels and contradictory reports, which were brought to him from all sides, determined to make a last effort. Followed by his sons and aidesde-camp, some of whom had not even time to put on their uniforms, he mounted his horse and rode along the troops drawn up in the inner court-yard of the palace, and on Repeated cries the Place du Carrousel. .

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of Vive le Roi!' for an instant revived their
these shouts were
hopes; but soon
powered by those of Vive la Réforme!' The
King saw clearly the state of things. The
coolness with which the National Guard received
him showed him at once that his natural sup-
porters, those upon whom he had a right to rely,
had deserted him.

His countenance betrayed neither fear nor agitation, but wore the calm sadness of a man struck to the heart. He returned to his own room, and whilst sitting there with his head in his hands, trying to collect his thoughts, an officer hurriedly entered and exclaimed, 'Sire, there is not a moment to lose; give orders to the troops or abdicate.' The King, after a moment's silence, replied: "I have always been a pacific king; I will abdicate.' Then rising from his seat he opened the door of his closet, adjoining the apartment in which the Queen and Princesses were assembled, and repeated with a firm voice, 'I abdidate!' Resisting the entreaties of his family to recall the words he went to his closet and wrote the act of abdication in these words:

I abdicate the crown, which I assumed in compliance with the will of the nation, in favour of my grandson the Comte de Paris. May he succeed in the great task which this day devolves upon him.' 'May he resemble his grandfather,' exclaimed the Queen." The Duchess of Orleans implored the King not to impose upon his grandson a burden which he thought himself unable to sustain. The King and Queen, the most of the royal family, and a few staunch friends, quitted the Tuilleries as the mob were entering to take possession, and sack the royal apartments.

With some difficulty they managed to avoid any serious encounter with the populace, and proceeded to St. Cloud, where two small carriages were procured. Here the fugitives were divided into two parties: the younger under the charge of the Prefect of Versailles had little difficulty in reaching Eu, and then Boulogne, where they were joined by the Duc de Némours, and got on board a steamer which landed them at Folkestone, on Sunday the 27th. The King's party proceeded with little interruption to Dreux, where the first night was spent, but between this place and Trouville various inconvenient and unforeseen interruptions occurred; and it was not till the 2nd of March that the royal fugitives, under names of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, managed the to get on board the Express steamer at Havre,

which landed them at Newhaven early the
following morning. Prince Louis Napoleon
left his residence in London on the 26th, and
proceeded to Paris by way of Boulogne.

24. The Duchess of Orleans appears in the
Chamber of Deputies with her young chil-
dren.
When the Princes entered the disorder
was extreme; deputies besieged the tribune,
and a strange crowd blocked up the lobbies,
She
barring the entrance of the royal party.
took her place (writes her biographer) near the
tribune, and remained standing there, with her
two children at her side; behind her stood the
persons of her suite, using all their efforts to keep
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off the crowd that pressed around her.
Dupin ascended the tribune to announce that
the act of abdication was about to be presented
to the Chamber by M. Barrot; meanwhile,
he strongly urged that the unanimous accla-
mations which had hailed the Comte de Paris
as King, and the Duchess of Orleans as Re-
gent, should be entered in the procès-verbal.
These words were received with violent oppo-
sition from a part of the Chamber and the
tribunes. The President thought fit to call
upon all strangers to quit the Chamber, and
requested the Princes to withdraw, in defe-
Sir," replied the Duchess,
rence to the rules.-"
Some of her friends,
"this is a royal sitting.'
alarmed at the increasing tumult, entreated her
"If I leave this As-
to leave the Chamber.
sembly, my son will never enter it again," she
replied, and remained immovable in her place.
But the crowd kept advancing, the noise in-
creased, and the heat became so excessive that
the young Princes could hardly breathe.
Duchess was then conducted along the left-
hand lobby running at the back of the semicircle,
to the upper benches opposite to the tribune,
where she seated herself with the Duc de Né-
mours and her children. At this moment M.
Odilon Barrot, who had just returned from the
"The Crown of
Tuilleries, obtained silence.

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July rests upon the head of a child," he said.
At the acclamations of Vive le Comte de
Paris! the Duchess of Orleans rose from her
While one side of the
seat, as if to speak.
Chamber cried out "Parlez, Parlez!" the other
tried to drown her voice. She began with the
words, 'My son and I are come "--but was
instantly interrupted. She again attempted to
speak, but was unable to make herself heard,
Several speakers rose
and sat down.
after another, amidst a confusion impossible
to describe. Towards the close of M. Lamar-
tine's speech a violent knocking resounded
through the hall; the doors of the tribune
of the press were burst open by an armed
mob, who rushed forward with loud cries;
they pointed their loaded muskets towards
different parts of the Chamber, till at length
they perceived the royal mother and her
children, at whom they took deliberate aim.
Most of the deputies quitted the Chamber,
leaving the Duchess of Orleans and her little
sons (with no other protection than that of
the few deputies remaining in their places

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