The Week.

and drew a terrible picture of the results of opposition services being introduced into fche same parish , a . stato of things which he contended the bill would be calculated to promote . Sir G . C . Lewis thought that the bill ivould produce discord and confusion , but he said that he ivould not lie disinclined to take charge of a , bill , provided that an efficient way of accomplishing its object could be pointed out . Mr . Newclegate suggested that tho Court of Queen ' s Bench should be enabled

to compel bishops to hear complaints against clergymen , and that the expenses of these investigations should be met by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners . After a lengthened discussion , which occupied nearly the whole of the . sitting , the house divided , and the vote was as follows : —For the second rending , 131 ; against it , 168 . ; majority against the bill , 3 ~ .

GEXEIUII HOME NEWS . —On Tuesday morning the Earl of Elgin left town for Paris to consult with the French government preparatory to taking his departure for China . The noble earl is not likely to be detained beyond the end of tho week in tho French capital , when his lordship returns to London . It is not expected that the noble earl will leave for the east before the close of this or the lirst week iu the ensuing month . At St . George ' s-iii-ihe-East , the animosity : betiveen the two sects continues with unabated virulence . The ' * Low"

Churchmen aud " roughs" obtained summonses last week against the Rev . Bryan King ancl the Rev . Thomas Dove , who had ejected these gentle religionists from the temple with more force than discretion . Mr . King was fined forty shillings , the warlike Dove got off with tou . It is but common justice to Mr . King to say that by going to the reading-desk last Sunday , as well as by his general conduct of the services , ho has shown every disposition to make concessions ; bufc ifc is plain from the conduct of the persons who ordinarily form the congregation that

nothing in the way of concession will be accepted . Mr . King has commenced an action against Mr . Herbert , the chief constable of the parish , in tbo Court of Common Pleas for trespass . He has also caused five other persons to be served with writs . Under these circumstances , there appears to be very little hope that the excitement which has so long prevailed in this unfortunate parish will , be abated . On Tuesday , the Hon . Judge AA atson , one of the . Barons of the Exchequerwhile on circuit at AVelshpoolin Montgomerywas seized

, , , with apoplexy in court , and died almost on the bench . Immediately after charging the graud jury , the learned baron was observed to put his handkerchief to his face , and a smelling bottle to his nose . He leaned back in his chair , and it was evident that something more than a fainting fit had seized bi « lordship . Pie grew gradually worse , and was conveyed to his lodgings , close at hand . He had scarcely reached there when he breathed his last . Tho baron ' s son happened to be attending his lordship upon circuitand was iu attendance upon him when he

, expired . The shopkeepers in the town put up a portion of their shutters , and blinds were drawn down iu almost every private house in respect to the departed judge . The ship Commodore Perry , for whose safety much uneasiness has been felt , arrived off Portsmouth on Tuesday . Mr . Cobden some years ago was presented with an enormous sum of . money as a recompense for his exertions in the cause of free trade . This

money has been lost m an unfortunate investment . He has since that been employed by the present government to negociate a commercial treaty between France and England . One thing Mr . Cobden has done well . He has made a compact with France which is expected to favour the Lancashire manufacturers at the expense of every other class in the community . It does not , therefore , surprise us to learn that the member for Rochdale is about to be presented with a second fortune by the men whoso interests he has served so faithfully . Nearly £ -10 , 000 . we are

informed , has already been subscribed , and we mention this fact as a convincing proof of the truth of everything we have said as to the real tendencies of Mr . Cobden ' s commercial treaty . On Saturday last at tbe York Spring assizes , before Mr . Justice Blackburn , the Rev . Harry Lloyd Biekerstaffe pleaded guilty to marrying Anna Campbell , his former wife being alive . It was intimated to his lordship that the present proceedings were not instituted by the young lady herself . The learned judge said he looked upon the offence as one of the most aggravated

nature . The prisoner was a clergyman of the Church of England , and a man . of education , yet he had wilfully married a young lady , well knowing at the same time that his former wife was stiff living . He had committed a deep injury to the young lady , and an outrage tasoeiety . He then ordered Biekerstaffe to be kept in penal servitude for three years . Afc Southampton , Carman , a man of colour , has been examined before the Southampton magistrates , on a charge of having poisoned the captain and chief mate of the troop ship Accringlon , from Calcutta .

Tho two deceased persons are represented to have behaved with the greatest brutality to the crew , and even the women on board did not escape violence at their hands . The evidence altogether is of a very painful character . The magistrates considered the evidence insufficient and discharged the prisoner . PoiiEfCix NKWS . —On Sunday last the Monileur published the Treat y of Commerce concluded between France and England . It would havo been much more satisfactory if the official organ of the French

govern ment could have informed us that the Emperor Napoleon had so far yielded to the public opinion of Europe as to give up his projects for the annexation of Savoy , In presence ol ! the contradictory rumours which reach us respecting tbe foreign policy of tho 'French Emperor , it is almost impossible to arrive at any distinct conclusion as to the probable solution ofthe diplomatic difficulty of the day . There is some reason to

believe that the programme contained iu the imperial speech had been agreed upon between Louis Napoleon and Count Cavour , and that the defiant tone of the Sardinian Ministers' despatches is merely assumed , in order that both France and Sardinia may recede with dignity from their original pretensions . The Courier des Alpes publishes a supplement , announcing , upon information obtained from an official source , that Savoy will not be dismembered , but will form two departments , and will preserve the Court of . Appeal at Chambery . Of course n <>

reliance can be placed oil the accounts given iu the French journals of the state of feeling iu Savoy . For instance , the Paris papers publish the following , dated Antilles , 1 . 2 th March : —" The attempted Italian manifestation in Nice has failed . Only five hundred persons were present ; nearly all ot ! whom wore Italian emphyes and children . The annexation to France is impatiently awaited . " It is asserted in Berlin that England supports the demand of Sardinia to ascertain the wishes ofthe populations of Savoy and Nice by universal suffrage . AVhatever may

be the opinion of the Imperial Master of Franco , the populations of the Italian duchies appear to he unanimous in the expression of their wishes as to their annexation to Piedmont . At Sienna , Pisa , and Leghorn , the number of persons inscribed on the list is 45 , 218 . Not less than 33 , 359 votes were recorded , the numbers being 38 , 026 iu favour of annexation to Piedmont , and 333 iu favour of a separate kingdom . In Florence , no doubt , the result will be equally decided . The result of the vote in the city and suburbs of Bologna is as follows ;—

For annexation to Sardinia , 2 ! l , (> 01 ; for separate kingdom , 2 . The whole army voted for annexation . -The reply of the holy see to the last proposals of France has arrived here . The pope declines the proposition to confine within an exclusive political compass a question which , as it concerns tho integrity of the patrimony of St . Peter , is intimatel y bound up with the independence of the Church .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

' W . I ! . " ---Ifc is the usual custom in Lodges of Instruction to give the ceremonies in full . R . B . "—AVrifce to the Grand Secretary . "F . AY . M ! ., " Ballarat--L If a brother , who has served the office of AVAL in an Irish or any other foreign Loclge for the full space of one year , becomes a subscribing

member of a Lodge working under the English constitutions , he does retain his rank and is entitled to all the honours and privileges belonging to him as a PAL 2 . Such a In-other is eligible to be elected AVAL . 1 , A Brother having been duly installed as AA . ' . M , no Prov . Grand Master or Grand Lodge has power to declare him ineligible for the office , unless there has been some gross infraction of Masonic law .

-L Past AVardens of foreign Lodges , having served the office for twelve months , are eligible for election to the chair of any English Loclge of ivhich they are subscribing members . 5 . No Prov . Grand Lodge can prevent tho Master of a subordinate Lodge from accepting an appointment under a foreign Prov . Grand Lodgo—though it would probably be better for him not to do so . ( j . There is no power vested in either the Prov . GAL or Prov . Grand Loclge to disqualify any brother from holding office in a . subordinate Lodge under the English constitution , because he holds office in a forch'ii Prov . Grand Lodge .

MASONIC PORTRAIT OV EARL HOWE , Prov . Grand Master of Leicestershire . — 'The committee appointecl by the Prov . Grand Lodge to procure a portrait of the Prov . Grand Master , . for the decoration of the new Masonic Hall at Leicester , havo resolved upon having the portrait ellgraved and a proof impression presented to each of the subscribers . ' ¦ J . AV ., Ramsgate , " will please accept our thanks for his communication .

' ¦ It . I , ' . '—AVe know nothing of the Order alluded to , excepting that if has no connection with Freemasonry . THE GUAXTJ MASTER AXD THE FREE ' IASOXS' MAGAZINE . In our reportof Grand Lodge last week , our reporter , by the omission of a few words iu the process of condensation , apparently makes us give an opinion that the MAY . Grand Master , on his reelection , returned thanks in very

inadequate terms . The words were those ol ! tho GAL , ancl not ours . AVe should have stated that "the Grand Master begged to express , thmigh . lie fell he . could only do no in very inadequate terms , the high sense which he entertained of the honourconferred upon him in eloctinghim their Grand Master . " The words we have italicised were , however , omitted , thereby giving-an apparent meaning f . o the sentence which it was never intended to convey , and for ivhich we have fco express our regret-