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      duties which by law had been annexed to the episcopacy ; that as their bishops have no civil status or temporal power whatever , therefore the arguments founded on the analogy sought to be established between them and Protestant bishops to justify interference is groundless ; they deny that any general European law exists whereby ( as it is pretended ) the right of creating bishoprics and bishops is inherent in or dependent on the civil power ; that the exercise of the spiritual authority of the Pope , belonging to him aa the successor of St . Peter , can only be limited by his own free act or concession ; that the late rescript was no aggression ; that the recent change neither injured nor affected their Protestant brethren ; that any justification for the proposed penal enactment , on the ground that a novel and unprecedented extension of the claims of the Catholic Chun h has been

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      attempted , is merely specious , and wholly unfounded both in fact and reason ; that the late act of the Pope does not affect any change in the relation of any of her Majesty ' s subjects to the courts of law ; that by it no new laws whatever are introduced ; that they indignatly reject all interference between them and their priesthood ; that the government of the Catholic Church , through a regularly constituted hierarchy of diocesan bishops , is the only normal and perfect

      condition of the Catholic body , and , therefore , that any law dissolving that hierarchy would amount to persecution ; and that any law which would prevent the laity from maintaining the supremacy of the Pope , from obeying and recognising the bishops , except at the risk of punishment , would be an infringement of the rights of conscience . These are the only events which , the week has brought forth upon this question .

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      MAY MEETINGS . Among the benevolent meetings held in May , two of the most interesting we have to report this week are those of the British Ladies' Female Emigrant Society and the Ragged School Union . The first , which was held at the Hanover-square Rooms on Wednesday , was formed to establish homes for female emigrants previous to their leaving this country ; to provide visitation at the ports , where the emigrants are formed into industrial classes ; to secure the appointment of judicious matrons for the superintendence of the young women on the voyage ; and to form corresponding societies in the colonies for the protection and assistance of the female emigrants on their arrival . The total income for the year was £ 1137 3 s ., and the expenditure £ 811 12 s . —The

      Ragged School Union met on Tuesday , at Exeter Hall , Lord Robert Grosvenor in the chair . From the report read it appears that the total number of schools at the present time amounts to 102 ; of Sunday scholars , 10 , 861 ; week day scholars , 6021 ; evening scholars , 5572 ; industrial , 2062 ; paid teachers , 180 . During the year 3 girls and 81 boys have been enabled to emigrate by the united efforts of the union and local schools , which makes the total number sent out to the colonies 307 . The receipts for the year amounted to £ 3287 Us . 11 ( 1 , and the expenses to £ 3076 J 6 s . 5 dL , leaving a balance of £ 210 15 s . 6 J . ; and for the emigration fund the receipts had been £ 951 14 s ., and expenses £ 037 10 s ., leaving a balance of £ 314 4 s .

      The annual meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held on Tuesday , at the Hanoversquare Rooms , the Marquis of Westminster in the chair . The report stated that the society had made great progress during the past year , that numerous prosecutions had been carried out by the funds of the society for various cases of cruelty to animals , in all of which the aggressors had been punished with fines , that their operations had been of very great service in the metropolitan districts , and various prizes had hern adjudged on the best essays on the ameliorating effects produced by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals .

      The Society for Promoting the Building and Enlargement of Churches held their annual meeting on Wednesday aft < rnoon , at the premises 79 , Pall-mall , his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury in the chair . The annual report stated that in the course of the past year aid had been given towards the enlargement of 63 existing churches , in which 10 , 003 additional sittings had been obtained , all for the free use of the poor . The number of churches and chapels proposed to be built by the society is 42 , the number reported last year having been 39 ; and the number reported to be built during the first 16 ' years oi the society ' s operations only 27 .

      A .. oirt s . e was held at the Freemasons lavern , Great Qucen-Btrect , on Monday evening , by the friends and Bupporters of the British Anti-Slavery Society . A large -amber of Indies und gentlemen attended , amongst whom were a considerable number of natives of Africa . Mr . E . W . Alexander presided on the occasion , und ufter the entertainment | , n ( | ceased , addressed a few words upon the subject of the objects of the society , and its past hucccnh . The Reverend J . Howard Ilinton , Mr . Joseph Sturge , and the Reverend A . II . Garnett , United States , having offered Home remarks upon the iniquity of shivery and the traffic in h < im » n flesh . Mr . Peto , M . P ., said there were three wujh by which they could aid the total liberation of their African brethren . The first was in the pre-BMit yenr , when bo many slaveholders from the United States weic in England , to receive into fellowship wiih a hearty good will , thowe of their black brethren who were in England , but uteudily and firmly refuse to receive into

      fellowship such American visitors as were slaveholders , and who carried on a traffic in their fellow-creatures . The second was by throwing open the pulpits of this country to students who were men of colour , and by receiving tliem freely and familiarly at their tables . The third way was to agitate the question to the very utmost , when there were so many Americans in this country . No means should be neglected , and be sincerely prayed that their efforts might be successful . The Reverend Alexander Crummel , United States , of African descent , but now an Episcopal clergyman in New York ; Mr . Horace Greeley ,- editor of the New York Tribune , and other gentlemen , addressed the meeting , all of them advocating the necessity for exertion in the cause of the African .

      A . public meeting of the friends of the Religious Tract Society was held on Monday , in the saloon of the Royal Hotel . It was stated that the income of the society last year was £ 62 , 169 , being an increase over the preceding year of £ 842 . The total issues of the society last year were 20 , 887 , 064 books and tracts , being 1 , 641 , 623 above the preceding year . The society has now circulated of books and tracts since its commencement 549 millions , and has carefully kept out of debt .

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      ANOTHER RAILWAY SMASH . The express train which leaves Derby for Leeds at 9 . 5 . p . m . broke the pump rod near Clay-cross Tunnel , and stopped there to refit . While they were waiting , a goods train , coming up at about twenty miles an hour , ran into them , smashing the two hindmost carriages , killing two passengers , and wounding fifteen . The occurrence is officially accounted for as follows : — At about three-quarters of a mile from the tunnel , the luggage-train was seen approaching at its usual speed . The engineer , Samuel Stretton , having put on steam after leaving C ay-cross Tunnel , and passing the telegraph box , the signal being right at the station , the curve being sharp at that point , he did not see the passengers' van till within two hundred yards of it , when it was too late to stop the luggage train before it ran into the carriage of the express , when it drove through four carriages , breaking them to shivprs , forcing them above the chimney of the engine of the goods train , and driving the engine of the goods train off the line ; both trains were then at a stand-still , and the lines , both up and down , covered with the debris and carriages not injured ; four carriages , one engine , and tender off the rails . The servants of the railway instantly set to work to discover the injury inflicted , when they found the body of Mr . John Meynell , of Tapton-grove , Chesterfield , under a first-class broken carriage , quite dead , frightfully injured , and Mr . John Blake , in the second part of a first-class carriage , not dead , but who expired before the body reached Chesterfield—his wounds were inwardly ; Mrs . Meynell was very dangerously hurt ; Mr . Fox , a spirit-merchant of Chesterfield , was also much hiut ; Mr . J . Todhunter and his brother were wounded severely ; the Reverend J . Hathie seriously hurt ; Mr . Ash worth , of Sheffield , had his ribs broken ; and other passengers , all of whom had severely suffered—altogether fifteen . An inquest was immediately held , but no evidence of importance has yet been taken . The same day another collision took place at Long Eaton junction , doing serious mischief . We may remark here , that these two accidents , a . s they are called , both occurred in consequence of the neglect of the signals .

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      PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP . This has been the Derby week , and all the elegantly idle have been to Epsom accordingly . We get on gaily now-a-days . The Exposition is still a theme of wonder ; and everybody is thanking the Times heartily for its vigorous attacks upon our defective cab and omnibus arrangements . The Queen ' s State Costume Ball is among Town Talk to come ; but there is already a rush of ladies to the British Museum for model Restoration costumes .

      The Queen gave a . State Ball , at Buckingham Palace , on Monday evening , to a most brilliant Court , the invitations exceeding two thounand and one hundred . The arrangements were similar to the first reception this season , the entire suite of State Saloons being opened , and brilliantly illuminated with handsome crystal lustres and gilt chandeliers . The Garter-room and ante-room at the south end of the Picture Gallery were also opened for the accommodation of the numerous visitors . The choicest exotics and fragrant flowers were tastefully arranged it » the alcoves behind the elevated seats reserved for her Majesty nnd her Royal gueHtn , both in the Ball-room and also in the Throne-room ; groups of flowers also adorned the Picture Gallery and the Grand Hull . The company

      began to arrive soon after nine o'clock , tliose having tht * enlrit : alighting at the temporary garden entrance , and the general circle entering the Pnlace by the Grand Hal ) . All the visitors were conducted by the principal staircm * through the Green Drnwing-rootn to the Picture Gallery and tlie Orni d Saloon . The Queen and Prince Albert entered the Grand Saloon at a quarter before ten o'clock , accompanied 1 ) V the Duchess of Kent , the Prince und Princess of Prussia , Prince Frederick William of Prussia , Prince Henry of the Netherlands , the Duke of Cambridge , the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Ooburpj Gotha , the Duke Ernest of Wurteuiberg , the . Prince

      of Leiningen , and Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar . The Queen wore a blonde dress over white 1 silk , with coloured flowera of vurioun kinds worked on it , ornamented with hunches of flowers to correspond , and diamonds . Her head dress wan formed of a wreath of flowers of vairious kinds , to correspond with the drt'Hs , ornamented with diamonds Her Majruty opened the ball with the Prince of Prussia , in n quadrille , « t five minutes before ten o ' clock , 1 he nis-a vis being the Duke of Saxe Cobing Gotha and the DucIicsm of Sutherland . The other meiubera of the royul party joined in this quadrille . After thia dance a number of quadrilles , waltzes , und other

      dances were performed in the Ball-room by Mr . Boose ' s quadrille band . Dancing afterwards commenced in the Throne-room , where Jullien ' s band was stationed . During the evening the company were served with refreshments in the Garter room and the Green Drawing-room . A state eupper was served with regal magnificence , soon after twelve o ' clock , in the principal dinner room , on long ranges of tables , the splendour of the service being heightened by the consummate taste of the decoration . They were most brilliantly lightedby gold candelabra . The excitement created in fashionable circles by the announcement of the Queen's Costume Ball , for the lrfth of Junedevelops itself in a strong muster of the elite of

      , the aristocracy in the library , reading-room , and printroom of the British Museum , much to the astonishment of the officials and the ordinary denizens of that learned locality . For the last three or four days , the Viscountess Canning , Lady Seymour , the Countess of Waldegrave , Miss Coutts , and a crowd of the fair members of the aristocracy , have been busily engaged in the library , turning over the various collections of engravings of costumes having reference to the period of the Restoration . Several very interesting and highly valuable illustrated works , bearing on this subject , are now placed on the tables by order of the authorities , in readiness for the inspection of their fair visitors .

      The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary left London for the Continent on Saturday morning by express train on the South Eastern Railway . The Duke of Cambridge accompanied his relatives as far as Dover , and returned to London by the Paris special express train . The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg and Gotha , the Prince of Leiningen , and the Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg , arrived in London on Saturday morning , having travelled from Dover by special train on the South-Eastern Railway . The whole journey , from terminus to terminus , eighty-eight miles , was performed in one hour and forty-seven minutes , inclusive of stoppages—the party being on their way to Buckingham Palace , in the royal carriages , within one hour and fifty minutes of their departure from Dover .

      Among the notable deaths chronicled this week are those of Vicount Strathallan , on Wednesday week , at Strathallan Castle , in Perthshire , in his < ighty-fifth year ; Colonel Cadogan , brother to Earl Cadogau , at Pau , in the department of the Pyrenees , on the 14 th instant , in . his sixty-second year ; and Mr . Charles Mott , auditor for the South Lancashire poor-law district , who died at Manchester on Monday last . Jenny Lind has returned to New York , and was to give two concerts at Castle Garden , Her trip through the western part of the states has been remarkably successful . She has realized already a much larger sum than she expected when she first made her arrangement with Mr . Barnum . Some per-ons estimate her profits at nearly half a million of dollars .

      Mr . Fortune , the naturalist , has arrived at Calcutta , from China , with upwards of 20 , 000 tea plants for the use of the Himalayan nurseries , Kernaon and Gurhwall . The Assam Tea Company ' s plantations are also rapidly increasing , and there is little doubt that in a few years tea will be extensively produced in India . The Gazette of Friday contains the formal announcement of Mr . Duncan M'Ncill being appointed a Lord of Session , in room of Lord Mackenzie , resigned . Mr . J . Hind , of the Rtgent's-park Observatory , has discovered another new planet , in tue constellation of Scorpio . It is of a pale blueiah colour , and its light is about equal to that of a star of the ninth magnitude .

      It is said that a new office of " Superintendent of Railways and Rural Mails "—or some such name— is about to be made , and that a brother of Mr . Rowland Hill is intended for it , at a salary of about £ 800 a year . Major Hogg and Mr . Owen have been appointed commissioners to proceed to the Cape for the purpose of inquiring into the recent disturbances in Kaffraria . Captain Paulet . Henry Somerset Avas discharged on Wednesday , the Derby day , from the House of Correction . Strenuous efforts were made by his friends to obtain a remission of punishment , and a petition was forwarded to the Home-office on his behalf ; but Sir Geoigc Grey

      replied that he could not advise her Majesty to remit any portion of the sentence . Captain Somerset had hoped , from the influence of his titled friends , that his imprisonment would have been commuted into a money fine , and he was very downcast on hearing the decision . lie wore the prison dress , subsisted on the prison diet , and fared in that respect the same as any other prisoner . Nevertheless , by the " special " indulgence of one of the visiting justices , he was visited by his wife , and by a very great number of noblemen , officers , and other friends .

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      A letter from Berlin of the Mih instant says , that tho Emperors of Austiiii and liu . s . 'sia are to meet at . Olmutz on the 2 !) tli instant , and that the Emperor and Empress of Russia arrived at Warsaw on the 1 , 'Jth . M . Bois le Comte , the French Miniver" at WnHhingron , who has been recalled by his Government , took leave of the President on Friday , the 2 nd instant . A short time since , a detachment of tho Seventh Chasseurs weie n < nt to the parrison of Ainboise , lor tho purpose of escorting Abd-el-Kader in the promenade which the Emir baa been authorineil to make m tho country surrounding Iwh place of confinement . On 1 iu-hday , for the fir . st time wince , bin arrival at Ainboiso ( says the I'rogrCs d'Indreet-Loire ) , the . Emir left the chateau . His Highness rode in a small carriage , drawn by two white horsew , and wan eHcorted by itixteon Chasseurs in full uniform . The party left about three o ' clock , drove hh far as Chenonceau , und returned to tho chateau at

      Hcven o chick-A ir . ember of the House of Assembly of . ) a : n : uc i \\ w \\ been i x |) iHi ( 1 his weut , he having been found guilty ut tlio uHhizeti i >( forgery , while acting aa eoninmbioner of public acooiintx

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 24, 1851, page 483, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1884/page/7/