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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 58, 12 September 1844, Page 3

Geach, the step son of John Frost, the Chartis* chief, in the attack upon Newport in 1839, who is a solicitor, and who was about two years ago transported for tweniy years for forgery, has been* after working twenty mouths on the roads, allowed a " ticket of leave," and has been hired as a free servant to his wife who followed him out. Frost has sent a letter to Mrs. Frost and his daughter*, desiring them to go out also, in the hope that Mrs. Frost will be allowed to hire him as a free servant. At the Leeds Gourt-licuse, on Thursday, a shopkeeper named James Byiam, of Gilderstone, was fined £2OO or six months imprisonment, for having in his possession and offering tor sale re dried tea leaves. In England the number of persons employedand paid by the Government it under 24,000, with -alaries amounting to less than £3,000,000, While the registered electors are above 900,000. la France, ihe number of paid officers at the disposal of the Kiii'/and his Minisiers amounts to 500,000, aod (heir salaries to £3.000,000, while the number of electors is only 184,000. The Church and the Nation. —Of all the bright pictures which could be drawn of a good national state of things, in which feeling and principle really worked and came up to the surface—if we could jrivp the.best image of a moral nation it would be one in which a Church, such as ours, vvhich ranked amongst its ministers a large proportion of members of the highest families in the city—a Church whose clergy is the most aristocrat, the most educated, and polished in the world—devoted herself to the service of the poor and dependent mass. High as this work is, we will not pay the bad compliment to our Ciiurch to suppose it too high for her. We are convinced it is not. We are certain that she will only be following out her natural character to undertake it. She has a tone about her that in dissenting communities we fail to see—a consciousness of her dignity and origin which makes such condescension to poverty a natural and pleasing du;y. She can afford to make it. The cringing and fawning to wealth, and rank, which is the blot of all spurious and low religions, is not, and we hope never will be, her line. Her line, if she will see it, is to get hold of the poor, to iuforrn. the multitude, unite a number of souls, not a mere ornamental scattering here and there, under her system. She must have a body, she must have flesh and bones and nerve, and musole, if she is to be a strong Church. The poor—the mass of the people—are these flesh and bones, — London Times*