A GLIMPSE AT THE FUTURE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 601, 7 May 1851, Page 4

A GLIMPSE AT THE FUTURE.

{From Pwn&A.] His Eminence Cardinal Panialeone, Legate of his Holiness, has arrived at the Golden Cf/isc - arinrv Ptaos = nn 4 • MUM 40 UVaibl V 4 a message to the chief of the British government, demanding the usual acknowledgment on the part of the Sovereign of Great Britain, which has been always and from all time a fief of the Holy see. In case of obstinate recusancy (which is not apprehended) his Eminence is commissioned to proclaim the Prince of Lucca as sovereign ofthese islands, the prince being a direct and undoubted descendant of those legitimate monarchs of England, who were driven by rebellion, the one to death, and the other to exile, from palace of Whitehall. lhe Holy Father has appointed Monsignor Snooks, Lord Chancellor of England, vice Lord Truro, who has not resigned. But the office of Lord Chancellor was always held by

ecclesiastics in England in the good times of the Church, and Monsignor Snooks will take bis seat in the Chancellor’s Court at the commencement of next term. — Driblet. His Holiness has conferred upon Monsignor Snucchi, the new Lord Chancellor of England, the title of Marquis Saint Bartholomew’s of Smithfield. — Diario di Roma. Lodgings have been taken in the New Cut, Lambeth, for his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Vauxhall, until the (titular) Archbishop of Canterbury has vacated the palace which belongs of right to the primates of England. Mr. Sumner has been offered the place of parish beadle, which it is believed he will accept. The Right Reverend Dominic Barefoot, Bishop of Paddington, looked over the outside of London House, in St. James’ Square, yesterday, and thence proceeded by the omnibus to Fulham, his lordship’s residence near London. Until the palace at Fulham is ready for his lordship’s accommodation, the reverend prelate; has engaged a temporary ’residence, No. 42, River Lane, Putney, over the muffinman’s, where the faithful who wish to attend his levees will please to ring the two-pair bell. Very few alterations will be requisite in the churches of the archdeaconry of Pimlico, which will be given over to the orthodox clergy at the new year. It has been judged, however, that the ornaments of the church of St. Barnabas are of so exceedingly antiquated and cumbrous a nature, that the ecclesiastical architects of H. H. are engaged in whitewashing the interior of the building, and simplifying the arrangements, so as to suit the present time. On Wednesday morning last the statue of St. Mary Axe, opposite the Post-office, began winking its left eye in so convincing a manner, that thirty-three letter-carriers, and two commercial gentlemen, staying at the Bull and Mouth, were instantly converted. Mr. Muntz and Colonel Sibthorp have signified their intention to become Capuchin friars; and it is confidently reported that the members for Alderbury and Oldham are in retreat previous to receiving the tonsure. The cathedral church of St. Peter, in Westminster, will, of course, be restored and resumed by its rightful proprietors; but it is not intended to make any ecclesiastical use of the large Heathen building erected on the site of the ancient Basilica of St. Paul, on Ludgate Hill, opposite to Dakin’s tea warehouse. We understand Madame Tussaud is in treaty for it, and will exhibit her ingenious wax-works there, at a price littie differing from the present charges. The residence of the Primate of England will be opposite the new cathedral church of St. George’s-in-the-fields ; and the palace of Bedlam will be prepared for him.