Bills of a beneficial tendency have since been introduced, for the future regulation of the Court of Chancery; and Committees, both of Lords and Commoners, have been named, to inquire into the expediency of renewing the East India Company's Charter. With respect to the Church Establishment, we can assert confidently, that the present Government is determined to protect it against all attempts to diminish her property or influence, and that the Ecclesiastical Commission is intended to give strength to the Church, by rendering the Ecclesiastical Courts less objectionable, and not to undermine it, by proposing dangerous innovations. IRELAND. The recently contested election of a member, to represent in Parliament the county of Limerick, has renewed the scenes of disorder and tumult which were exhibited at the election for the county of Clare last year. Mr. Dawson, the liberal member, who supported the papistical measures of the last session, did not, by that step, receive the grateful support of the Popish party; whose priests instigated their wretched slaves to every act of violence, to prevent his return, and carry that of Colonel O'Grady. The voters for the former had no personal safety, but in the protection of the police, supported by the military; and, in some cases, that was not sufficient to them preserve from severe bodily injury. Finally, Mr. Dawson withdrew from the contest, intending, as his friends state, to petition the House of Commons against the election of his opponent. FRANCE.The administration of France has so far consolidated its strength, as no longer to furnish apprehensions of any immediate change. The measures now most under contemplation, are the reduction of the national debt, the improvement of the navy, and the extension of national education. A reduction of five per cent. stock, to four per cent. is anticipated. Confidential communications are required periodically, from the commanders of every vessel in the King's navy, to the Minister of Marine, on the character, ability, and conduct of the officers of his ship, that the Sovereign may know in whom to confide an excellent regulation, if faithfully applied, and judiciously acted upon. The preparations making at Toulon, for the more closely investing Algiers, are carrying forward with great activity. PORTUGAL.-The Empress Queen, to whom so many of the calamities of Portugal may be justly attributed, expired at Lisbon, on the 7th of December, of water in the chest. Don Miguel's attempt to raise money, by loan, in Holland, has completely failed. The Marquis de Chaves, who led the party of Don Miguel against the Constitutionalists, has fallen under the distrust, and consequent displeasure of his master, to avoid whose frenzy, he retired into the province of Tras os Montes, the scene of his former exploits, but where he has been pursued and taken prisoner. Throughout the Peninsula, the weather has been severe in the extreme, and the injuries sustained by the husbandmen unprecedented. The destruction of cattle by the cold has been great, and the olives have received so much damage, that the crops are despaired of for more than the ensuing year. Even in the mild climate of Andalusia, severe frost has been experienced. The Tagus has been frozen, and the mortality among the inhabitants has been so great, as almost to resemble a pestilence. GERMANY.-The Duke of Brunswick has quitted his duchy and gone to Paris, taking with him all the treasures of his state, and sundry valuables deposited in the public treasury, on account of their rarity or worth. He is not expected to return. A report has been circulated, but we know not on what authority, that the states of Brunswick Wolfenbuttel will be incorporated with the kingdom of Hanover. Vienna has afforded a new proof of the intolerant spirit of Popery, and the rebellious temper of its ministers, when the opportunity of displaying it offers. Many of our readers know that when a member of the imperial family dies, the Convent of the Capuchins, at Vienna, preserves the body; the Chapel of Loretta, in the Augustine Convent, the heart; and the Cathedral of St. Stephen, the bowels of the deceased. The Archduchess, who was a Protestant, lately died, esteemed and beloved by all her august_relatives. The Emperor, whose attachment to the Roman Pontiff none can doubt, issued the usual orders for her interment. The priests of the two last-mentioned places positively refused to receive their portions of the corpse. The Capuchins of the former determined not to bear the remains of a deceased Protestant to the vault. The imperative command of the Emperor alone opened the way, and the beloved Archduchess, whose husband had been the military saviour of his country, was conveyed to her final resting-place by her own domestics. Some Protestant Clergymen, who had gained admittance to view the solemnity, were forcibly expelled by these Capuchins from their holy precincts. EASTERN EUROPE.-The intercourse of the ministers of Russia and the Porte, is frequent, with every external demonstration of friendship, and a happy issue of their negotiations. The government of the Czar is very active in raising the military establishment of his empire to its full quota, and replenishing the arsenals. The Sultan is equally indefatigable in recruiting his army, which he has already raised to 100,000 infantry, and 30,000 cavalry. These are disciplined upon the European model, and he frequently inspects the drilling of them in person. The resources of his remaining dominions are applied to the improvement of his military establishment, with all the authority of a despot, and the energy which he so greatly possesses. It marks the influence he has attained over his superstitious subjects, no less than it does his own taste, that he has dared and effected the introduction of the Italian opera into his capital. GREECE.-The interests of Greece continue to engage the attention of the Cabinets of the great Powers, and they are probably yet far from any final arrangement. Several particulars have transpired of great importance, and calculated to give general satisfaction. The territory of this new state is not to be limited to the Morea, but will extend so far beyond as to comprise most of the ancient Grecian republics within its boundary. Perhaps Candia may form a part of it. No particular form of government will be imposed on this people. The powers interested in their welfare will only suggest to the national Congress, for their adoption or rejection, such measures as they may think advisable. The same moderation will be preserved in the nomination of their future Chief. The frequent intercourse which has taken place between Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg, and the ministers of these powers, has revived the idea that the former is to be the Sovereign of Greece. - AMERICA. - United States. - The financial report presented to Congress, is of the most favourable description. It states the last year's revenue to have been 30,574,666 dollars. The expenditure, 26,164,595 dollars, leaving a clear surplus revenue of nearly four millions and a half of dollars. The sinking fund more than twelve millions; and the whole of the public debts, forty-eight and a half millions of dollars, which that sinking fund will entirely discharge in less than six years. BRAZILS. The new Empress, (daughter of the celebrated Eugene Beauharnois, whose fidelity was so nobly proved, at a period when selfinterest was evidently the ruling principle) has arrived at Rio Janeiro; and her inauguration as Empress of the Brazils, has been marked by the institution of a new order of knighthood-that of the Rose. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. NNNNN NEW CHURCH. THE first stone of a new Church, dedicated to St. Thomas, has been laid at Brampton Moor, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, intended as a Chapel of Ease to the parishes of Chesterfield and Brampton. Bleeck, William.. Cape, William Perkins, R. B. ..... Churton, Edward .... CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS. Appointment. Domestic Chapl. to the Earl of Buchan. Morning Preach. at the National Society's Chapel, Ely Place, London. Chapl. to Froxfield Hospital, Wilts. Head Mast. of Gram. School at Peterborough. Head Mast. of Hackney Church-of-England School. Stratton, George W..... Domestic Chapl. to the Right Hon. Harriet, Dowager CLERGYMEN DECEASED. On Monday, February 1, at the Vicarage House, St. Margaret's, in Leicester, after a very short illness, in the sixty-ninth year of his age, the Rev. Thomas Burnaby, A. M. Vicar of that parish, Rector of Misterton, one of the senior acting magistrates, and one of the oldest incumbents in the county, having been inducted into Misterton, in March, 1786. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Robert Burnaby, LL.B. who was Vicar of St. Margaret's, Rector of Wanlip, and Prebendary of Lincoln, by Katherine, only child of Thomas Jee, Esq. of Leicester. He was of Clare Hall, in the University of Cambridge, B. A. 1784, M. A. 1787; and was chosen a Dixie Fellow of Emmanuel College, in August, 1789. He married Lucy, fourth daughter of Richard Dyott, Esq. of Freeford, in the county of Stafford, by Katherine, only daughter of Thomas Herrick, Esq. second brother of the late William Herrick, Esq. of Bean Manor Park, and has left a disconsolate widow and ten children to lament their irreparable loss. In 1795, when the county was in a most disturbed state, an alarming riot broke out at Barrow-uponSoar, in this county; accompanying the Leicester troops of Yeomanry-Cavalry, the subject of this memorial, by his firmness as a magistrate, aided by the good conduct of the Yeomanry, was mainly instrumental in quelling the disturbance. For this service he publicly received the thanks of Government, through the Judges, at the following assizes. He was the fondest and best of husbands, the kindest and most affectionate of fathers, whose greatest happiness was in the bosom of his family. Those who knew him best, esteemed him most. Totally free from hypocrisy or guile, he endeavoured to do his duty to God and man. Could apparent health and strength have ensured continuance on earth, it might have been looked for in him; but at the close of a day spent in the utmost cheerfulness and vigour, he was, in less than half an hour after lying down upon his pillow, summoned to resign his life into the hands of him who gave it. Bishop of Oxford Archdeacon of Oxford and Canon in Cath. Church of Oxford Pett, Phineas, D.D. and Preb. in Cath. Church of Sarum Bishop of Sarum Winchest. Bp. of Winchester Northam. Peterboro' Mr. & Mrs. Brockett Colchester, Holy Trin. R. Essex Norwich, St. Simon, and St. Jude, R. & Stangford Dingley, R. London Balliol Coll. Oxford } Norfolk Norwich Bishop of Norwich Sarum Rev. E.Valpy, D. D. Berks Williams, David..with Leinthal Starks, C. Hereford Hereford Bishop of Hereford Mildmay, Charles St. John. Boulogne. Residence or Appointment. Prince, Thomas, D.D..... Alt. Morning Preacher at Oxford Chapel, London, and Fell. of Wadham Coll. Oxford. Scott, Allriet ... Leiston, Suffolk. Wingfield, Edward John .. Student of Christ Church, Oxford. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. ELECTIONS. 222N OXFORD. James Adey Ogle, M. D. F. R. S. of Trinity Coll. has been unanimously elected, in Convocation, to the Clinical Professorship, on the Foundation of the late Lord Litchfield, vacant by the death of Dr. Bourne. Rev. George Morris, M. A. Scholar of Corpus Christi, has been nominated a Master of the Schools in the room of the Rev. Robert Eden. William Rosser Williams, Esq. M. A. and Michel Fellow of Queen's Coll. has been unanimously elected, in Convocation, to the Vinerian Fellowship, vacant by the marriage of the Hon. Philip Henry Abbott. Messrs. George Cox and Thomas Broad ley Fooks, Scholars of New Coll. have been admitted Fellows of that Society; and Mr. Robert Jackson has been admitted Scholar of the same. At a Convocation, holden for the purpose of electing a Scholar on Mr. Viner's Foundation, in the room of Mr. Williams, lately elected a Fellow on the same Foundation, the numbers at the close wereFor Mr. Giles, Scholar of Corpus.... 94 For Mr. Whatley, Michel Exhibitioner of Queen's For Mr. Ormerod, Hulme's Exhibitioner of Brasennose.... 76 Rev. H. Spencer Markham, Christ Church. BACHELORS OF ARTS. John T. Ord, Exeter Coll. Grand Comp. George Neale Barrow, University Coll. 36 William John Phillpotts, Oriel Coll. Edward Parker, Oriel Coll. Messrs. George Clark and Henry Barry Domville, Commoners of University Coll. have been admitted Scholars on Sir Simon Bennet's Foundation in that Society. DEGREES CONFERRED. BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW, (By commutation.) Charles Barker, Trinity Coll. MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. H. W. Maddock, Fell. of Brasen. Coll. Rev. George Landon, Worcester Coll. Rev. Thomas L. Wheeler, Schol. of Worc. GRACES. Edward Ashe, Balliol Coll. John Smith, Queen's Coll. George Philips, Queen's Coll. Edward Hussey, Christ Ch. Grand Comp. Thomas Paddon, Esq., sometime Fell. of Caius Coll. Camb. has been admitted, ad eundem, of this University. CAMBRIDGE. The following Graces have passed the Senate : To affix the university seal to a letter of thanks to the Hon. East India Company, for a valuable collection of dried plants, presented by them to the Botanical Museum. To appoint Professor Henslow ProProctor, in the room of Mr. Dawes, who has resigned from ill health. To affix the seal to petitions to both |