Silicius was the first Bishop of Rome who assumed the title of POPE. With him also originated the celibacy of the Romish Clergy. FOREIGN ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE, &c. SCHISMATICS IN HOLLAND.-A party of seceders from the national religion have petitioned the King of Holland to authorize their establishment into a separate community. By the fundamental law of 1814, Protestantism was recognised as the religion of the state, and the king has refused to sanction a departure from it on the part of the petitioners, until it shall appear from their forms and statutes, which they are desired to furnish, that their separation does not compromise the interests of good government and morality. In the meantime the free exercise of their worship is unauthorized, and regarded as illegal. "THE YOUNG GERMANY."-Resolution of the German Diet, in its 31st sitting of last year : "There has latterly been formed in Germany a literary school, which has at length assumed the title of The Young Germany, or Young Literature. Its ostensible efforts, disclosed in its writings, made palpable to all classes of readers, are destined to attack the Christian religion in the most audacious manner, to degrade the actual relations of society, and to destroy all education and all morality. "Considering that it is necessary immediately to arrest this pernicious tendency, which is calculated to undermine the foundations of all legal order, by employing the simultaneous action of all the governments of the Confederation, without prejudice to the further measures which the Diet, or each of the States, may think it necessary to adopt separately, according to circumstances, in order to attain the proposed end; "For these reasons the German Diet has agreed on the following resolutions: "1. All the German governments engage to apply in all their rigour the penal laws, or police regulations of their country, to the authors, editors, printers, and publishers of all the writings proceeding from the literary senate known by the name of The Young Germany,' or Young Literature,' to which school belongs especially Henry Heine, Charles Gutzkow, Henry Laube, Ladolf Wienburg, and Theodore Mundt, and also to hinder, by all legal means, the propagation of their writings, and whether it be by means of the book trade, of reading rooms, or in any other manner. "2. Relatively to the deposit and sale of writings of this description, the booksellers must receive from the government a suitable notice,⚫ and it shall be represented to them at the same time, how much it is to their real interest, with respect to the protection which they have asked from the Diet, effectually to second on their part the measures of the government against the disorganizing tendency of these literary productions. "The government of the free city of Hamburgh shall be invited to give a notice of this nature, particularly to Messrs. Hoffman and Campe, booksellers at Hamburgh, who have been the principal editors and publishers of writings of this description.' SALLE D'ASILE.-Workmen are now employed in the restoration of one of the most beautiful monuments of Gothic architecture in Paris. The building in question was formerly the chapel of an ancient convent, and the roof and windows are exquisite specimens of graceful and elegant workmanship. It is intended, when restored, for a Salle d'Asile. CONVENT OF NUNS.-Three houses in the rue de Varennes, at Paris, have just been thrown into one spacious edifice, which is to become a convent of nuns, under the appellation of the Sacré-Cœur. It is believed that one of the Princesses Royal is the patroness, and a considerable sum has been raised for its endowment. THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. DENIS in France has been undergoing most extensive repairs, which are nearly completed. REFORM IN THE GERMAN UNIVERSITIES. - Certain judicial prerogatives, with which the German Universities have been invested from time immemorial, are threatened with reform. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, &c. AT BRUSSELS.-During the year 1835, the number of births in Brussels were 4,254; deaths, 5,888; marriages, 1,149; divorces, 3. In GHENT, the births were 3,281 (males, 1,587; females, 1,644); marriages, 736; deaths, 2,309, exclusive of 164 soldiers in the military hospital, 47 strangers, and 120 infants still-born. FRENCH SAVINGS BANKS.-The deposits in the French Savings Banks during the year 1835 amounted to the sum of 27,516,000 francs ; viz. Banks in Paris in the Departments 13,670,000 fr. The disbursements made by the Banks amounted to 441,000 francs. The amount of funds on the last day of December was 62,270,000 francs, and the number of Banks, duly authorized by Government, at that date, was 155. THE SABBATH AT BELGIUM.-The Belgian Minister of War has issued a circular to the generals and commandants of provinces, to the effect that reviews, military exercises and parades, are not to interfere with the attendance of the soldiery on religious worship. This is curious at least. THE OBITUARY OF THE CHURCH OF ROME, for the year 1835, contains the names of the Cardinals Canale and Pandolfi Alberici; of the French Archbishop, Raillon, of Aix; of Mgrs. de La Tour-Landorthe, de Lostanges, and Dupont-Poursat, Bishops of Pamiers, Perigueux, and Coutances; and of M. Fallot de Beaumont, formerly Bishop of Plaisance. LAW REPORT. No. XL. LADY HEWLEY'S CHARITIES. THE following Judgment of Lord Lyndhurst on this most important case; to which is prefixed the joint opinion of Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Patteson, was delivered in Gray's Inn Hall on the 11th of February last: This Information was filed in June 1830, by His Majesty's AttorneyGeneral, at the relation of Thomas Wilson, Joseph Read, George Hadfield, John Clapham, and Joseph Hodgson, against Samuel Shore the younger, Offley Shore, John Pemberton Heywood, Peter Heywood, Thomas Walker, and John Wood, the Rev. Charles Wellbeloved, the Rev. John Kenrick, Thomas Bischoff, Varley Bealby, Joseph Henry Oates, and George Palmes, defendants, and was to the following effect. In Chancery. Between His Majesty's AttorneyGeneral, at the relation of Thomas Wilson, Esq., (Treasurer of Highbury College;) Joseph Read, Esq., (Vice-Treasurer of Rotherham College ;) George Hadfield, Esq., (Treasurer of Blackburn Academy;) John Clapham, Esq., and Joseph Hodgson, Esq., Dissenters from the Established Church, within the protection of the Act of Toleration of the 1st of William and Mary, at the time of the, foundation of Dame Sarah Hewley's Charities, Informants; and Samuel Shore the younger, Esq., John Pemberton Heywood, Esq., Thomas Walker, Esq., Thomas Lee, Esq., Daniel Gaskell, Esq., William Walker, Esq., Offley Shore, Esq, and the Rev. Charles Wellbeloved, and George Palmes, the present Trustees, Sub-trustees, and Managers of Dame Sarah Hewley's Charities. The information states: "That Dame Sarah Hewley, the foundress of the charities in question, was a Dissenter from the Established VOL. XVIII. NO. IV. Church, and a Calvinist and Trinitarian: and that the trust deeds establishing these charities were duly executed by her in the years 1704 and 1707 and that thereby the trust estates and premises of the annual value of about 3000, and Lady Hewley's alms-house, were duly conveyed to seven trustees, and seven sub-trustees were appointed to manage the alms-house, all of whom were Dissenters from the Established Church, within the protection of the Act of Toleration of the 1st of William and Mary: and that the trust funds were thereby directed to be applied for the following purposes:-1st, to poor and godly preachers for the time being of Christ's holy gospel; 2dly, to the widows of such preachers; 3dly, for encouraging and promoting the preaching of Christ's holy gospel in poor places; 4thly, for exhibitions for or towards the educating of young men designed for the ministry of Christ's holy gospel; 5thly, for the relieving of godly persons in distress, being fit objects of Dame Sarah Hewley's Charity; 6thly, for the support of Lady Hewley's alms-house for nine poor women, and one poor man, to be governed and managed by the seven sub-trustees, according to the book of rules left by Dame Sarah Hewley; by which she required, as, a qualification for admission to the alms-house, that the alms-women should be able to repeat by heart the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and Mr. Bowles's Catechism. That Dame Sarah Hewley died 23d August, 1710, aged 83. That the charity funds were applied by the original trustees and subtrustees, and their immediate successors, for the sole and exclusive benefit of Dissenters from the Established Church, within the protection of the Act of Toleration, until the year 1756, when certain trustees were appointed who were Socinians in their religious belief. That the defendants, the present trustees, sub-trustees, and managers, were all of them Uni GG |