mu (actuarial macaw.

POETRY.

THE FISHERMAN’S SONG. BY THE REV. I. M. NEELE, TRINITY COLLEGE,

CAMBRIDGE.

Come,messmates'. ’tis time to hoist our sail, It is fair as fair can be;

And the ebbing tide and northerly gale \Vill carry us out to sea.

So (lowu with the boat from the beach so steep, “’2 must part with the setting sun;

For ere we can spread out our nets in the deep, \Ve’ve a weary way to run.

As through the night-watches we drift about, \Ve’ll think ofthe times that are fled. And of Him who once call’d other fishermen out To be fishers of men instead. Like us, they had hunger and cold to bear; - ' Rough weather, like us, they knew; , He who guarded them by His care Full oft was‘wlth them too.

’TWas the fourth long watch ofa stormy night, ,And butlittleway they had made. ' ' When He came o’er the waters and stood in their sight, And their hearts were sure afraid; But He cheer’d their spirits, and said, it is I, And then they could fcar no harm; And though we cannot behold Him nigh, He is guardingns still with His arm.

They had toil’d all the night, and had taken nought; He commauded the stormy sea ;

They let down their net's, and of fishes caught An hundred and fifty-there.

And good success to otir boat He will send, It'we tritst in His mercy arig‘ht;

P For He pitietli those who at home depend

On what we shall take to-nig‘ut.

And if ever in danger and fear we are toss‘d , About on the stormy (lccp, ' ' We’ll tell how they once thought that all was lost, A When their Lord “ was fast asleep.” He saved them thou—He can save us still—— For His are the winds and the sea; And if He is with us, we’ll fear no ill, Whatever the danger be.

Or ich see fit that our boat should sink, By a storm, or a leak, like lead,

Yet still ofthe glorious day we’ll think, When the sea shall yield her dead;

For they who depart in his faith and fear

,, Shall find that their passage is short, I From the troublesome waves that beset life here,

To the everlasting port.

scorfisn EPISCbPACY.

BISHOP SKINNER AND THE REV. SIR WILLIAM DUNBAR. ‘

On Sunday, the 13th of'Angust, the following extraordi- nary document was publicly read in all the Episcopal Chapels iu Aberdeenshirc :—

“In the name of’God. Amcn. \Vbereas the Reverend Sir William Dunbar, Baronet, late minister ofSt. Paul's Chapel, Aberdeen, and a presbyterof this diocese, receivcd by letters dimissory frbm the Lord Bishop of London,forgeltinghis duty as a priest ofthe Catholic Church, did, on the twelfth day ofll’lny list, in a letter addressed to us, \Villiani Skinner, Doctor in Di- vinity, Bishop or Aberdeen, wilfully renounce his canoniciil obe- dience to us, his proper Ordinary, and withdrew himself, as he pretended, from the jurisdiction ofthe Scottish Episcopal Church; and, notwithstanding our earnest and affectionate remonstrunces repeatedly addressed to him, did obstinately persist in that his most undutiful and wicked :tct, contrarv to his ordination vows and his solemn promise ()fcauonical obedience, whereby the said Sir William Dunbar biitli violated every principle cfdutv which the laws ofthe Catholic Church have recognised as binding on her priests, and bath placed himsclfin a state of open schism, and whereas the said Sir William Dunbar hath, moreover, eon- tinuetl to ofliciutc, in defiance of our aiitlioriiv; therefore, we, VVillitim Skinner, Doctor in Divinity, Bishop oi‘Aberdecu, nfore' said, sitting with our clergy in Synod, this tenth tlllV of August, in the year ofour Lord one thousand eight hundred dud flirty-three, and acting under the provisions of Canon XLI., do declare that the said Sir William Dunbar butli ceased to be a presbytcr ofthis

, Church, and that all his ministerial acts are without authority, as

being performed apitrt from Christ’s mystical body, wherein the one spirit is; and we do most earnestly and solemnly warn all faithful people to avoid all communion with the said Sir \Villiam IDunbar in prayers and sacraments, or in tiny wny giving coun- tenance to him in his present irregular and sinfuli course, lest they be purtulters with him in his sin, and thereby expose them- selves to the threatening dunounced against those who cause di- visions in the Church, from which diuigcr we most heartily prav that God, of his great mercy, would keep till the fiiitbful people committed to our charge, through Jesus Christ otir Lord. Amen. Extracted from the minutes ofthe Synod ofthe diocese ofAber- deco, holden at Aberdeen, on the 91b and mm (luvs oftbis present :zuth of August, one thousand eight hundred and flirty-three, by . . “ ARTHUR RANKEN, M. A., Synod Clerk " The inquiry will naturally arise, What circumstanCPs hare led to thissttiange exercise of'Episcopal authority. We give ‘the'nnrruttve 0f the curse, as compiled by our able and trust- worthy contemporary the Witness. ' A In and and sober earnest, the facts ofthe case are the fol— lowmg:—~ Sir VVilllam Dunbar accepted the charge of St. Paul’s Chapel in Aberdeen, on the 26th Mny, 1842, which had been offered to him by the constituent members ofthut chapel, wnh_whom !tty the power ofpresentution. . Prior to this, the congregation of'St. Paul’s hadiormed a unctiou With the Scottish Episcopal Church in January, 841. _Up to this period, through a course of'120 years, it had extsted as an English Episcopal congregation, entirely independent of; and unconnected with, the Scottish Episco- pal Church. ‘ When Sir William entered upon his charge, he found tliil Uiictton completed under a document entitled “a Deed of man, 6w.” _ This deed contained the conditions of union on the one slide and on the other. When, therefore, be was culled upon in Jtily, 1842, to sign the Canons of the Scottish Episcopal Church, it is manifest that his signature could never With instice be interpreted in such a manner as to in- xolve an infringement of the conditions of'union. - _One of these conditions secures to the conggegaiion ofSt. Ifaul s, all the “rights and privileges” which they enjoved be- lore the union, as English Itlpiscopalians; and further de- clares, thth any infringement of them on the part of the Scottish lbptscopul Church shall, ipso facto, dissolve the union. During the_ last few months, Sir William has found these conditions infringed in several particulars ofvitul moment. 1. .The Bishop censured hitn, and threatened further pro- ceeding, because Sir William refused to be present at, or to take city‘share in, the administration ofthe Lord’s Stip- per according to the formula of the Scottish Episcopal Church.

' Il."I‘he Bishop refused to administer the rite of confirma- hon in St. Paul 3 Chapel, but only in St Andrew’s, where at

least om service totall and vi . - ' ‘ " ‘ ‘ ' ofthe Chumh ofEnghyld is usé'éll) distinct front the serum: III. Sir William was farther threatened with ecclesiastical censure, unless a collection for the Scottish Episcoonl Church Soctety were made in his congregation, which c‘ol- Iection the managers ofSt. Paul’s (who, by the constitution, as confirmed iii the Deed of Union, had full powers in this respect) refused to sanction. In consequence ofthese utterly unjustifiable encroach ments upon the f‘ rights and privileges” of his congregation and himself; Sir William found himself placed iti this dilemma. tie must either submit to these encrouclimeuts, and so be the instrument of making the conditions ofthe Deed of Union ,a dead'letter,_or he must withdraw his signature from the Scottish Episcopal canons, as enforced by the Bishop, which had'been proved to be utterly incompatible with such union. Sh Williumcould not, and did not, hesitate as totbe alter— native: .He Withdrew himself, on 12th May, 1843, from the wchtinn oft: Bishop .who, by his pressing unqualified Bufldiztpgn _in cprtain pomis, infringed the conditions ofthe Ham uton, binding equally upon himself and Sir Wil- On the 2lst ofJuuc, 1843, the constituent members of St. Paul 5 Chapel met, and by a very large innjoritv resolved that ‘I‘ the Deed of Union between this‘congregntion and thd Septgi’sh Episcopal Church is, from this date, annulled and void, and “that the thanks of the constituent members of St. Paul 3 Chapel are due to the Rev. Sir William Dunbar Ibrhrsconduct in defending their rights.” ’ The whole case,

therefore, lies iii a nut shell. Sir William. I

had his call from the constituent members ofSt. Paul’s. He was “duly elected” by them; and in terms ofthe constitu- tion “THEREBY HAD right to exercise his functions, and to receive the cn’ioluments of his office.” He immediately thereafter entered on his pastoral duties ;-—he preached, be administered the sacrament, and soleuinized the rite of ma- trimony, BEFORE be was inducted by the Bishop (which, ac- cording to Canon IX. ofthe Scottish Episcopal Church, he could not have done, had his ministerial authority been de- rived from, or dependent upon that Church.) On discover- ing afterwards that the conditions ofthe Deed of Union, which lie ivas bound conscientiously to maintain, were iti- friuged, he did nothing more than, in consistency with lus own principles, and in honesty to the constituent members who gave him his call under the Deed of Union, he was con- strained to do ;—he returned to the position which he occu- pied before hc was inducted ; he preached, be administered the sacraments, and solemnized the rite of marriage, as he had formerly done under the saute legal authority, viz., the constitution ofthe chapel, and under the same ecclesiastical authority, viz., his letters of English orders; and for THIS, arid nothing more, with a character unstained, and with un- questioned devotedness in his Master’s cause, he is thus

Christ,” beyond the pole ofthe communion of saints, so that no one shall join in sacraments or prayers with him!! Truly, this is the very height—ofspiritual dcspotisui,—u very remarkable specimen of Episcopal insanity!

Meanwhile, however, it is gratifying to know tlintSir Wile liuin Duuliur is steadfastly holding on his way, despite ol bishops sittingr in Synod with their clergy, and lltt’ll‘

childish imitation ofRomish thunder. 'l'be blow which bigotry aimed against him has recoilctl tipou the tri-

ftitunted men who originated it. Nothing which they could bnve devised could possibly toll with greater effect in Sir William’s favour tliumtliis absurd inuuil'eSto. Strong as his position nthin has been, this has tirade it. stronger still. It was intended to frighten him, but, in truth, it has made him feel that the last shot of his Opponents has been fired, and very blank cartridge it is. It has convinced liitii ofthe rec- titude, nay, the necessity of all that be has done, and has nei‘ved hint with renewed vigour to hold fast the important position which has been so providcutiully assigned to him. His people likewise, as they will always be when led on by sound scriptural zeal and tiucoiiipromising faithfulness, are confirmed in their attachment to their pastor, and have made his struggle their own. The number of his congregation has been nearly dotibled since the beginning ofthe year, and the bishop’s bttll lins tended still further to its increase. Blessed be God for the testimony which minister and people are riiising for “pure and undefiled religion,” against all the shapes and shades of the “mystery of iniquity.”

DEFA M ATIO )1 AND LIBEL.

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The following is an abstract of the act to “amend the law respecting (lefhmutory words and libel.” It received many alterations in the Commons, but the Lords did not press resistance to such curtailments, &c.:—-

“ Preamble—For the better protection ofprivate character, and for more effectually securing the liberty ofthe press, and for better preventing abuses iii exercising the said liberty, be it enacted, &c.

“1. Tlint in any action for defamation, it shall be lawful for the defendant (after notice, in writing, of his intention so to (lo, dtily given to the plaintiffnt the time offiling or deli- vering the plea in sticb action,) to give in evidence, iii miti- gation of dniiiages, that be made or offered an apology to the plaiiitififor such defamation before the commencement ofthe action, or as soon afterwards as be had an opportu- nity of doing so, in case the action shall have been commen- ced before there was an opportunity of making or offering such an apology. F “2. That in an action for’n libel contained in any public newspaper or other periodical publication, [‘ or other peri- odical publication,’ introduced by the Commons and admit- ted by the Lortls,] it shall be competent to the defendant to plead that sttcli libel was inserted in such ' newspaper or other periodical publication without actual malice, and with gross negligence ; and that before the commencement of the action. or at the earliest opportunity afterwards, he in- serted in such newspaper or other periodical publication it ftill apology for the said libel; or, if the newspaper or peri- odical publi tntion in which the said libel appeared should be ordinarily published ntintcrvnls exceedingr one week, had offered to publish the said apology in any newspaper or pe- riodi :nl publication to be selected by the plaintiffin such action; and that every such defendant shall, upon filing,r such plea, be at liberty to pay into Court a sum of'uionny by way of'nnicnds for-the injury sustained by the publication ofsuch libel; and such payment into Court shall be of the same effect, and be avilable in the same manner and to the same extent, and besubject to the same rules and regulations, as to payment of costs and the form ofplentliug, except so litr as regards the plcudiug ofthe additional facts hereiube- fore required to be pleaded by such defendant, as if actions for libel had not been excepted from the personal actions in which it is lawful to pay money into Court, &c.

“3. That ifany person shall publish, orthreitten to publish [‘ or threaten to publish,’ introduced by the Commons and sanctioned by the Lords] nny libel upon any other person, or shall directly or indirectly propose to abstain ti'om print- ing or publishing, or shall directly or indirectly offer to pre- yent the printing or publishing, ol'any matter or thing touch- ing any other person, with intent to extort any money, or security for money, or any valuable thing, from such or any other person, or with intent to induce any person to confer or procure forany person any appointment or office of pro- fit or trust, every such ofi'cutlei', on being" convicted thereof, shall be liable to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, in the common jail or house ot'correction for nuv term not' ex- ceeding three yours; provided always, that withing herein contained shall iii any manner alter or affect any law now pi force in respect of the sendingr or deliveringr of threaten- ing letters or writings. [The concluding proviso introduced by the Commons]

“4. Knowing false defamatory soniueut and fine.

“5. Malicious defamatory libel punishable by imprison- mentor fine, or both.

I“ 6. Provisions as to proceedings upon the trial ofnn in. dicttneut or information for a defamatory libel; and with respect to double pleas; and with n proviso that notbiug'in this act contained shall take away or prepidiee any defence under the plea of ‘Not guilty’ which it is now competent to the defendant to make under such plea to any action or indictment orinformiition for defamatory words or libel.

“7. As to evidence to rebutprimafacie case ofpublication by no agent.

“8. Enacts, that on prosecution for private libel defendant entitled to costs on aequittnl.

“9. As to interpretation of act.

“ 10. Enacts that this act shall take effect from the lst day

of November next; and that nothing in this act sliallcxtend to Scotland.” -

libel punishable by impri-

REBECCA’S ACCOUNT OF HERSELF. (From the Welchman.)

We have received a communication from “ Rebeccn ” of which the following is a copy. We shull abstain from all counuent on this singular production ofthat rustic Queen’s pen, and merely observing that the original hears about it ill abundance, internal as well as external evidence of its‘ authenticity, we leave itin our rcadei‘s’ handsz-

“ Mr. Watchman, sure you will be surprised at seeing my signature to this letter. I am not ashamed of my name Sit“ l glory in it. The world does me injusticemnd even niv,ow1i countrymen dcspitefully eutrent me ; but my triist is in the goodness of Rebecca’s cause, and in the might of the Lord of Hosts. 1 am strong in courage, iti determination and in numbers.. Rebecca will obtain her rights. ' ,

” ‘ In vain you strive to save a gate Ily threnteningblood and slaughter; Your swords slinll ne’er intimidate Rcbeccaand her daughter.

openly branded as an outcast from “ the mystical body of

N t The cheating toll trusts may complain; The mayor may roar his ' riot-;’ Till Becca do her rights obtain,

She never will be quiet.’ Rebecca’s rights once obtained, we shall be as quiet as mice; there will then be no further strife between the slaves (slaves no longer) and the slave-driVers. It is in min to employ special constables; the rural police Will be of no use; and

as to the soldiers, I should think, Sir, that English gentlemen impel-ally assistedall missionaries, Without reference to dam,

and brave Dragoons might sure be more suitably employed

than by being turned into pike and toll men; they are, how- , ,mend ,hdr chapels, when, he had hgard the pl"? word of iGod preached, though unaccompanied by the ritual ofth. l Church ofEngland. The Chief

ever, ofno use in the world, and to their long swords, sad- dles, bridles, Rebecca sings ‘ whack fol de riddle lol.’ Re- liecca bids defiance to all of them: we don’t care astraw for all the soldiers, rural police and special constables, for Re- beccu cart bring into the field it better force and a much more numerous one. Rebecca is more than 1.00.000 strong. The people, the masses to a man throughout the three coun- ties of Carin-arthen, Cardigan, and Pembroke, are Withhie. Oh, yes, they are all my children ; when I meet the lime— meu on the road covered with sweat and dust, I. know these are Rebeccaites—when I see the coalmen coming to town clothed in rags, hard worked and hard fed, 1 know these are mine, these are Rebecca’s children—when 1 see the farmers wives carrying loaded baskets to market, bending under the weight,Iktiow well thattheseare membersofmy faintly—these are the oppressed sons and daughters of liebecca. When _I see” (the manuscript here for several sentences together is illegible, the words “blood and oppressron, loyalty and R - bacon,” being the only ones that can be (IBClplIeI'I-‘tl,) “I blush for my countrymen, and resolve to regenerate then). My children are simple, without iut'oriiiution and Illtlllllt's. They shall not always be thus. Il'God spare the life (it Iii:- bccrin. slic will work out their redemption; and it slic dies, Miss Cromwell and a band of brave mountaineers can cut their way through every obstacle. We must be free. I say it. I who eoiiiiinind. I the Rebecca and Heuetmrtttot‘.

“It‘tl-ichlwch, Ftiirwclwch. Mr. Welshman, they say you are a anou born; he sure you are trtie, and belie not the bright and glorious reputation ofthe great—the governing— the brave and wise Britons. The Government commission sent down to listen to and redress our grievances is English —Rebeccn and her children rejoice. For we know tliiit England will do more for oppressed Welchmen, than Vanes itself with its jobbers and degenerate gentry would, ever have done, But it was Rebecca who gave the word of corn- iuund. It was she who brought down the envoy. from the seat ofthe Imperial Legislature. Once more, Sir, fiarwclwch —Rebeeca’s heart bleeds for her countrymen —she hath compassion for her couutryirien—contempt for cowardice —hati‘ed for oppression, and love for all honest indepen- dence. Bv these presents let all men know,

1 “REBECCA.”

CHATEAU or Etc—The Chateau of En is Loui Pbillippe’l private property, not a royal domain; it it his favourite re- treat, and there be has chosen to receive his fair guest, Queen Victoria. What, then, are its attractions? Apparently, they are the very privacy ofthe place and its difference from state residences; for the description in the Hand-book of France shows it to be just the beau-ideal of a French chateau:—

" Eu is chiefly remarkable on account ofits chateau, be- longing to King Louis Phillippe,’ who inherited it With the Comté d’Eu from his mother, daughter and heiress of the Due dc Penthievre. His Majesty spends here in retire- ment a few weeks ofevery autumn. It is it low building of red brick, surmounted by high tent-shaped roofs ofshtte, like the pavilions of the ’I‘uileries; and is without architec— tural beauty. It was built in 1578, by Henry ofSorraine, Le Balal'ré Due de Guise, on the site ofa castle which had be— longed in ttirn to the Lisignans, the Bricnnes, the Artois, the Cleves, and the St. Pols, and which was burnt down by Louis the Eleventh, (1475,) to punish the treachery of the Conipté de St. I'ol. It has been much augmented by the present King, and splendidly fitted up; the walls being clothed with a collection of historical ant] family portraits, including those ofthe Royal Family and the various lines of the Counts of En, to the numberol 1,100. Many oftbcin are copies, others are mere furniture—pictures ; yet the collection is highly in- teresting, and the formation ofit seems to have given rise to the grander gallery at Versailles, which this resembles on a miniature scale. There appears to be no other arrangement than that ofmakiug a certain number of pictures fitinto cer- tain spaces; names, dates, nations and families are inter— mixed, and the wallsnre covered with them from the top to the bottom of the house. As the pictures are chiefly valua- able iii an historical point of view, not as works of art, and as every one hears its name on the frame, it is useless to enter into long,r details, which would merely be to give a list of the most eminent names in French history. * * 3* The small chapel, a mixture ofGothic and Italian in its decorations, has some modern painted glass windows from Sevres; one is a portrait of St. Atnelie, after the picture by Paul de la Roche The park or grounds are less attractive than the palace, being a wilderness oftrees, mostly weedy elins, plum- ed in rows, with angular terraces, a gloomy canal, and muddy circular ponds beset with willows. No advantge has been takcn,of the slopes of ground—no taste shown in laying out the brotherhood of'alleys and formal parterres. Mr. Loudeu might make something good otit ofit. Only on the left of the castle a few ancient beeches survive; beneath whose branches the Bulufré Dtic de Guise heard the suits of'hii vassals, and concerted plots against his sovereign. Here a small space has been railed in by the King, who has affixed this inscription.—--“lci les Guises teuaieut conseil au XVI. siécle.’ At the extremity ofthe grounds is a terrace, over- looking' the gap through which the Bresle, quitting the bore and dull valley, enters the son; and the little village, Tre- port, is perceived at its month. On this terrace is it brick pavilion. fitted tip by poor .\Iithtllt)iS€lle, during the time she was banished to her estate at Eu by the tyrant Louistbe Fourteenth, for refusing,r to marry the paralytic nutl iiiibet-ile King of Portugal. Louis Pliillippe lins‘restoi'ed it, and ornit- iiieiitetl it with pictures of the events of her life. 'I‘report,