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tir elessly violated! The promotiou of certain ,i7; r 's o r the depression of en antagonist, is too often re by the corrupt human heart, as a warrant for any ex ertsof u mharitableness, and even for untruth. If aver there was a time when the circumstances of the * w aff l es/toted a temptation to this offence ' it is the pre e church ban now for many years t een grievoudy yis...bled by what familiarly known as the tracterian ment—sa organised agitation for the purpose of Lnivolutionhoug the church of this country, for upwairan nsing it, es it bas been said by some of tba party, or "developing the embolic principle latent in it." with what effect the movement has been working is hut too evident. Not only have numbers been seduced from the church of their fathers to the corrupt church of Rome, bat wing such many even of the clergy, forgetting their ordi 1 t i ou vows, and their sacred obligation to the churchwhich 2 se rried them to Christ in baptism, have led the way in the ipna r n ey. Nur has the evil been stopped inf ected thine open se reseas. Many remain among us, deeply with the mes a principles which have =lied others openly to Rome. These eu..siat chiefly of the younger clergy, ready, as late events hen shown, to respond to the cull of their leaders, and to throw the weight of their numbers into any question d high interest to their party. In such a state of things no see 's theological or pastoral character is safe. Any one who is adverse to the designs o th party, d whm ma be worth while to attr f e ek, cannot expectan o to y an ew. Nothing is easier in such times of excitement than so collect a number of signatures of person, whose MOM are already registered witty their leaden, and to make lo ch persons zealous and active men, as they are for theme' put eager to prove their chivalry in the cause, centres of station la different parts of the country. bur is it anything strange or novel, my lord, which is now ', win ing. From the scripture: we learn how the apostle* niesselves, following their Lord in his persecutions, were reviled and evil-treated by their brethren. la our own coo ntry, the learned author of the " Dercooe of the Nicene ' Faith, Bishop Bull, had to complain of a charge of Socini. mien brought against him by a brother minister of the church. And before him even the excellent Hooker had W defend his opiniocs delivered in sermons at the Temple against the exceptions of an opponent from the same pulpit ,• and at a later period of his life, amidst the simplicity and blamelessness of his doily conversation, to resist a scan dikes attack on his character which nearly bowed him se the grave. And thus Archbishop Tillotson complains, in proof his sermons, of the evil tongues of his days. " I know sot," he says, " how it comes to pots, but so it is, that every sea that offers to give a reasonable account of his faith, and to establish religion upon rational principles, is presently ' branded for a Socinian. . . . But if this be Socinianism, kr a man to inquire into the grounds and reasons of Christian religion, and to endeavour to give a satisfactory account why he believes it, I know no way, but that all considerate, in quisitive men, that are above fancy and enthusiasm, must be either Socinians or Atheists. Let me then, I would say, my lord, be in-Amami and en eminged by these sod other like eon mples to submit with patience to His will, who, in the mes.ery of His providence, 61 appointed for good that I, humble servant of His as I am, Mould piss through this ordeal of calumny. What is most "alining in it is, that I am accused of detracting from His glory and the infinite merits of Ha blessed atonement. Ile knows, however, that I have not done so. I am solaced and siontigthened with this thought. I hope, therefore, calmly to address myself to the objections which my imputuoste adversaries, with all the vehemence of an electioneering coldest, are recklessly throwing out e.einst me. Let me endeavour to silence that codlict of feelings wttain my own heart, which so unmerited and so ben a charge naturally mites. First, then, my lord, I most solemnly deny the scandalous imputation. As an honest man, I say, I do rot, and never did for one moment of my life, in thought o: word, hold or maititsiu any other dextrine respecting our Lord's most holy Person and His blessed Work of Redemption, than that which is plainly set forth from Scr:pture in the articles and formularies of our church. I hold, ton, and have ever held meet firmly, the full doctrine of the Holy Trinity, as stated en the same authority in the same doeuments of the church. Nay, Igo on to say, with the utmost confidence of my dateri y, that I have on every occasion exerted myself to de- Mad these holy truths, which I believe not with a mere assent, but really love and dein, ht in. My conviction has been that no sermon, no repetition of religious doctrine or exhortation to religious conduct, could have any unction of spiritual instruction, any . living power to teach or to per. made, which did not derive its strength from these holy and lovely truths, which describe to usGod the Father giving his , *sly-begotten Son, his co-rqual in majesty and power, to the end that all that believe in Him should nit perish. but have everlasting life,"—God the Son giving Himself in love, taking on Him our nature, and torn into the world, living and dying for us men, and for our salvation,—G d the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, the Third Person in the Blessed Trinity, sent down with holy comfort hem the Saviour to instruct and guide the church through all sign, This. *Teat revealed verities, no mere opinions collected by 'went - afire reasoning, but the manifest indisputable teaching of Scripture, without which Scripture would not be what it iv—l have, then, ever taught and enthreed both so mow nertain and IN most necessary to be believed. It is not my teaching, whatever may have boon attempted to be shown by prejudiced adversaries, that the doctrines of Scripture or any other of its great fur:dementsl truths, such as original sin, justification by faith, preventing and assisting ; rime, the efficacy of the two sacraments instituted by our Lord, are nothing more than theories formed by the human mind on the text of Scripture. It is very great mistake to suppose that I have ever meant this, its what I have said of the force of theory, in my tiampton lectures or elsewhere. It is one thine, to endeavour to unfold the theories on which a particular phraseolngy employed in the sys tematic statement of divine truths has been framed sod adapted to its purpose; and quite another thing to state giat the truths themselves which that phraseology expresses Me mere theories, or mere opinions, or probable conclusions, having no penile e certainty in them. This latter m isconetruc tion belongs to those who have taken it up. It is not mine. It has no warrant in ar.ythirlit that I have said in theoloisical discussion. My Bampton leturee, indeed, were not written for popular reading, but for such as should come to the study of the subject with some previous knowledge both of theological questions and of ancient philosophy. It is no wonder, then, that they should be open to misinterpreta tion to ordinary readers. I should be much concerned if, from any unskilfulness in the use of word", I should have given rise to misapprehension. I would not as-' sent, however, that I bare always succeeded in conveying my theaghts exactly. But I am not, at any rate, to be blamed for some miatikes, or rather perversions, al my meaning. For this I know, that arguments which I have advanced in support of the truth, have, in many in stances, by an artful selection of detached words, been repro tented as upholding the very errors which they refuted. But whatever has been done, by hostile and =candid expositors, in the way of perverting or obscuring.my mean ing, I have the satisfaction of knowing that many honest and intelligent minds have apprehended my true intent, and appreciated my labours. Thus, for instance, this or that person would not or could not see that it is • strong orpi ment for the truth of the catholic doctrine of the Trinity, that even heretics (as I have urged) hays in some sense pro fited it, however imperfectly and injuriously, thus acknow ledging the truth amidst their vain attempts to corrupt and destroy it, unconsciously bearing testimony to its existence in disputing it; and the truth itself ahowing its vital strength in surviving their attacks. Many such instance, of cruel misrepresentation I could allege. But I will not weary your lordship's patience. Let Me, however, be suffered to say, what I would fain have re members d only in thanksgiving to Him whose grace enables m to think or de anything good, that I have reason to blest God that in one instance at least I have not laboured in vain s but that a person, now a pious and distinguished minister of Christ, was confirmed and fixed, by what I have advanced on the subject of the trinitarian controversies, in the true faith of that holy mystery. And does not this one fact more than outweigh the assertions of a thoneand anonymous writers in newspapers, copying one another, and repeating the original false statement of the first mistaken or miarepres stinting commentators ? Mort sincerely, then, and most firmly do I helm that there is but one catholic faith—one invariable standard at orthodox truth ; and that all departures from this, toner quently, are errors of doctrine, and corruptions of** filth, and not that " form of sound words" which God has sat forth to us in Ilia revelation. !challenge my impugners to disprove this exertion of my belief; not by' sophistiad constructions—not by garbled quotations, such as the public has been too familiar with from their hands—not by mere nibs' inferences—not by the false colouring of their own minds, or by the shadows cast from their own theories ; but from plain and direct asser tions qualified and explained, as all assertions mint be, by the context and other passages, and the general tenor of my writings. They have hitherto kept certain portions of my publications es much sa possible out of view, They have continued repeating certain sentences or halfmatences, as if these were so many oracular dicta of mine, striking ever on the same note which they once found to awaken a chord in the minds of the uninformed or the prej *diced, skilfully, indeed, as tacticians, hut most dishonestly . as men. Let them, then, abandon these niers party poll muss. Let them fairly show, if they can, where I have expressed the slightest doubt of the truth or of the importance of the great Christian doctrines which are the foundation of our faith. I nw appeal to any of my sermons, preached or published (I iWitele , in this reference, a volume of Parochial Sermons, patellas= in 1828. and since reprinted), and to every comma delivered by me, whether public or private, es Regius Poo lessor of Divinity. But, my lord, whilst I fully believe that there is bat mos catholic faith, I am not required by this gersamiew to Mot disrespectfully or uncharitably all that digitalin= is. eta* conscientiously declare that they, for their part s camas& hoof that faith from the Bible. I would do nothing to e dispirit from the church. It grieves me, wherever n Bat at the same time, I am fir a full toleration, if Moist be only open and avowed ; a toleration, that is, extending mot ally to the grant of civil privileges to diesenters, but Is ale equitable and kind consideration of their statements and or gamenm, as well as of their feelings. I would try to win them over—l would not exasperate them. I would not pre. NUM to surrender God's truth, which is not mine to giro away, or to call error and falsehood by the sacred name of troth. But as for candid and indulgent consideration for the persona of tho e who are in error, this is in every man's pewee, and is every Chriatiao man's bounden daffy to giVe. MIS, then, I would not withhold, even from these Who hart &partici the farthest from the true faith. If, accordingly, on any marten I have vestigial to ISE mitarians Chris'ions, surely this must be nadoellool M lot wide charitable sense of the term—not in that strid sown is which it belongs to a believer in the divinity and ths Mimed atonement of our Lord, but in a sense not unlike dot la which it is awd in our Liturgy, when we pray for '' all who profess and call themselves Chrimmae," that they " may be led into the way of truth," lee. Wha t I may tar said, that, La charity of the pereons, or of the modes of reasoning, of misbe lievers, cennot its any fairness lee understood as indulgence to their tenets. I repeat, I not only regard the docerites of the Holy Trinity, and of the Incarnation and Atonementof our Lord, and the salvation of man through faith only in him,witle the truths arising out of and closely connected with these great doctrines, as most certain, but further, as vitally importut to be believed, in order to a saving faith and a right practical religion. tee intimate, indeed, I conceive, is the conivaion between a sound theology and a right reli gious conduct, that they alone can properly be said to have a right religion who have a sound theology. Still, the two terms, theology and religioo, admit of being separately de fined, according to the proper notion of each. Fur so St. James speaks of " pure religion, and undefiled before God ?" pointing out the Tactical moral duties, the charity and purity of life, wherein it conliets. Surely no one can justly suppose from this, that St. James dispenses with a sound theology as the basis of that religion which he de scribes. Nor ought Ito have been construed as oivorcing a sound theology and a right religion. I have ineiste I, indeed, my lord, constantly on the supre macy of Scripture as our rule of faith. And what c nerisient member of the Church of England does not ? But this very assertion of the supremacy of Scripture has been tskeu up invidiously by some, as if I rejected altogether the autho rity of the church, and undervalued its importance as a 'W hin institution of Christ's religion. This, however, cannet by any means be justly said of me. 1 hare ever taught that a deferentiel r Jet to the authority of the chyme, as it is laid down and explained in the formularies of our church, was mo,t incumbent on Christians; though certainly i.ot that high and transcend at respect which is doe ro the in spired word alone. But the fact is, that many of those who are now objecting to me, will be satisfied with no view on this subject, which is not virtually the ranee as that of Rome—a-cribing to the church not only an authority of order, such as is claimed in our articles, but an absolute authority for propounding matters of filth, and requiring its decisions to be received with unquestion leg Aube:de-ion by its members. The church, in their vie r, is not simply " the witness and keeper of holy wet." but the depository of revealed truth, the authoritative inter preter of Scripture, without which Scripture is conceived by them to speak an uncertain sense. But what Is this but to suppose that the church is endued with an infallible autho rity? For, unless it can pronounce infallibly, how CAW the Christian be required to receive its decisions as divine truths obligatory on his faith? This notion, however, of church authority will be rand to be the ro t of the objections of this class of theologians to the teaching of ell who require that all doctrines should he drawn from Scripture. With them the reference to Scrip ture is an " heretical principle," because it holds up the authority of Scripture over that of the church in all ques tions of doctrine. Hence their animosity against all who thus establish the articles if faith, and their unchecked bednees in repeating charges of heresy against any ceniession of faith, however round in itself, which claims to be simply scriptural in its authority. A person, in their view, is no believer who does not hold their " church principles"—that is, who does not build his faith on the church in their sense j But, my lord, I must notice before I conclude the hollow pretence of those who are resting their objections to me on the statute et the University, passed in 1638. I think it will be found that some of those who are urging this pilot were the most active instruments themselves in carrying that illegal measure. Men are naturally unwilling to acknowledge their wrong. More is the honour dun to those excels .t persons who have not wished that day of excitement to be remembered against me. but would now gladly erase the record of it. But it is distressing to see that there are other who would fall back on their own wrong, and would take a false advantage from it, to justify themselves to themselves and to the public. Thetteatiite, however, I would observe, has been eirtnelly repealed by two subsequent proceedings in the university : in the first place by the new Theological Statute of 1842, which placed me, as resins profemor, at the head of a newly coast:anted hoard of theological examiners; and then in the same year by the juit act of the chief authorities of the uni versity, with whom rests the initiative of every measure, the board of heads of houses and proctors, who unanimously , proposeda form of statute for rescinding it. So far, then, as the ch ief resenneible body of the university is concerned, j lam relieved of the burden of that statute • though the 'Fractarian party succeeded, with a very reduc ' ed majority, r however, in throwing out the measure in convocation. And is not the history of that statute perfectly under- stood ? How can any venture to put it forward now, when j by such an act they are implicating themselves with the , theology and the spirit of its chief promoters? Every one knows that the editors of the " Trees," and others following in their wake, were the great instruments in the work of calumny on which it was founded. A pamphlet, full of gross misrepresentation of my writings ' this pnyluction of Mr. Newman, was circulated through the cauntry. And the calumnies thus spread abroad, concurred with the great political excitement of the times, in obtainiug a majority against me ; not, however, even then, until after a repulse on the heat assault by the firm and spirited intervention of the proctors. How, then, can any wish to sympathise, or identify themselves with the chit f actors of that day ? Where is Mr. Newman now, let me ask, the principal mover then ? What are the rest doing.— his old emaciates whom he has left—but training others to irnblbe the spirit of their great leader, reluctant as they may be to follow him throughout ? With what real truth, therefore, can it be said, that, as certain persons seem to take an unenviable pleasure in re peating, lam nailer "the censure of the university 1" I sus not, ..11) lord, in truth. In tact, the statute referred to no opinions or doctrines whatever, but only to the manner of treating theological subjects. When indeed a censure of the university is passed, certain propositions are selected from the author's writings, and the decree of convocation condemns those particular propositions. This was done re cently in the case of Mr. Ward, the author of the " Ideal of the Christian Church." Nothing of the kind was done In my case: nothing specific was ever alleged against me. Certainly, whatever may have been the fleet design of the statute referred to, it has had no effect. It has been practi• sally a dead letter. I have centinued to preach and lecture Is the University, without any diminution of attendance or respect on accoucit of it. No divinity profeteoi before me, I believe, has been better attended, or received mere marks of eseafidenee from his hearers. Then, my lord, if further witnesses are needed to my cha reeler as a Christian minister, let the thousands who have heard my semen' and my lectures 'peak for me. Again, let any of my parishioners, who have known my manner of life and conversation now for twelve years past, and ray whole ministry among them, in the church, in the school, and from house to house, be called to Rive their evidence. But let not the public be deluded into a nth and false judg ment by anonymoue elenderers in newspapers. Nor let an undue weight be attributed to meetings convene d by sir. enlace sent through the country, under the instigation of a few individuals, who are, for the most part, wilt known ad versaries, not only of me, but of all that is protestant in our church. I trust, my lord, I have cot exceeded that reserve which becomes me in addressing your lordship. I tun sure you will not wonder at my feeling strongly on an occasion of such solemn interest to me. I have the honour to be, my lord, with every sentiment of respect, your lordship's greatly obliged and faithful ser vant, B. D. HAMPDEN. Christchurch, Dec. 9,1947. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1847. TAMWORTH ELECTION.. On Saturday the Reetion of a member in the stead of Mr. Yates Peel took pace in this borough : it ended as none who have ever been acquainted with the political com pletion of the place and witnessed the hot contests within it could have anticipated—the unopposed return of Cept. Townshend, the liberal, by whom and by whose family the Peels have for a long course of years been so vigorously op posed. Such, are, however, the altered circumstances of the times and the position of parties, that on this occasion many of Sir Robert Peel's personal friends have promoted Captain Townebend's election. The old town-hall was well filled, but Mr. Pye and his proP ctionist friends "did not show." Mr. Insley said he came forward in the "spirit of peace" to put his gallant friend Captain Townshend in nomination, and he expressed his anxious desire that all the unpleasant feeling which had been engendered at previous elections would be forgotten now and for ever. Ho glanced next at the well-remembered fact, that when in 1841 he had proposed to the notise of the constituency is free trader, he was hissed from the hustings, whilst in the short space of six years the principles he then advocated had been admitted to be just by the greatest of his opponents, and had been triumphant.— Mr. Knight, in seconding the nomination, said that Captain Townshend had received promises of support from not less than three-fourths of the constituency. The speaker paid a compliment to the virtues and benevolence of the retiring member and his family, and adverting to the influence which Sir Robert Peel might be supposed to wield in the borough, Mr. Knight said that it watt his firm conviction the right hon. baronet had not in any way whatever sought to influ ence the votes of the constituency in this election. He felt bound, he said, to make this amends to Sir Robert, because of expressions he bad used with reference to him on other occasions, when he had conecientiously diflbred with him re lative to the course he had pursued. He concluded by eulo gising the character of his nominee for his undeviating at tachment to liberal principle', and to that course of govern ment which was most conducive to the interests and happi ness of the people.—No other candidate having been pro posed, the Mayor, amidst vociferous cheering, declared Capt. Townshend duly elected. Captain TOWNS)} lIND, in thanking the electors, said that ten years had passed away since he had the honour of being Brat introduced to the electors of Tatnworth; his political principhe were the came now as at that time; a strong attachment to liberal principles was the great charac teristic of his family; kis father was the intimate friend of Charles James Fox for upwards of thirty years, and so close and so valued was that intimacy that that great states man in his will expressed a wish that the remembrance of that friendship should be perpetuated by its being recorded on hie tablet ; and so long as the name of Fox was remem bered so long would that of his father's be associated with it. His political principles he inherited from his father, and that government which showed itself most anxious to carry into practice those principles would receive the warmest sepport from him. He looked upon Lord John Russell as one of the greatest and moot con sistent statesmen this country had ever produced; and he believed him to be a faithful and consistent exponent of the principles advocated and espoused by the greatest of English statesmen— Fox ; at the same time, he dad not wish it to be understood that he was disposed to pin his faith upon the opinions of any particular individual. The hon. gentleman remarked next on the fact that, in 1837, his attempt to gain a seat for the borough had been declined to be hopeless in the face of the overwhelming influence of Sir Robert Peel. His election that day, however, proved that there was little foundation for the prediction, end he bore testimony to the straightforward conduct of the hon. baronet with reference to the present election. pie concluded by thanking the con stituency for the confident* they had reposed in him, and enuring them of his undeviating devotion to their interests. The newirelected member of parliament was afterwards chaired in the accustomed fashion through the principal streets of the town. THE FATAL RIOT AT THE STOCKPORT ELECTION. • The inquest on James Brown, or Bowie, the man killed in a collision between the partisans of Major Men land and Mr. Kershaw, during Wednesday night last, was held on Saturday afternoon, at the Curt-house, Stockport, before Mr. Hudson, coroner for the borough. A man named John Hurst was in custody o.uring the investigation. Mr. Vaughan, attorney, was for the prisoner, and Mr. Richard Cubbett, attorney, Manchester, representea the friends of the deceased and the Mainland party. Mr. John Reiner, surgeon, said he had made spool mortsee examination of the deceased. This gentleman described the wounds, and said that the immediate cause of death has been the effusion of blood at the base of the brain, surrounding the upper portion of the spinal marrow, which would be instantaneous. Mr. W. H. Mellott, surgeon, said he assisted Mr. John Reyner to make the post mortens examination, and agreed with him as to the cause of death. Betty Brown, wife of the deceased, raid they lived in Health-street, Fanwood, and her husband was a labourer in the crept y of the surveyors of highways for Stockport. His age was 57. She saw him last alive on Wednesday night, between eight and nine o'clock, in the Blue Pig, at l'ortwood. I. Wilkinson, Barlow-street, assietant mechanic to Mr. J. Marsden, said, on Wednesday, about 8 o'clock, he left home to walk about the streets, and went to Major Man land's committee-room, where they staid outside • groat while, when there was a whole lot of men came out, and we were all sent up the new road (Wellington-road). Do not know who it was sent us ; it was a tall man ; could not say whether he was a townsman. They all went in a procession through several /Meets. When they left the major's corn. mittee-room it was said they were going up to the Lyceum. When see got to the Manchester Arms, near the Lyceum, witne.s left them, and they went up to the Lyceum, march i• g three abreast, to the number of about 200. He did not know any of the 200; they had no particular dress, but many of them wore crow-nest hats. When he left them he w. at to the other cod of the street. He was frightened of inaii.g up with them, because he expected there would be • row. He had not heard any one Pay there would be a row, bat knew very well there would be, because they were going up that street. Who nho gut to the other end of the street both parties were fightio.g. The first thing he observed was that both parties wire breaking windows, both the win dows of the Lyceum andof the major's committee-rooms. He stood watching them. The fight lasted above half-an-hour ' • but he left them before it was over. Both parties fought with sticks called picking pegs (pep used by weavers). He saw nothing else patticulat. except the man kilted. The deceased came from among the crowd, when he saw witness, towards the entry where witness was standing. He had no thing in his band. Ile was running, as if to get ,way. He ran to the side of witness, and five persona fed i...red him, one of whom laid hold of him and the others heat his head, with a picking peg. The deceased fell to the ground ; three of the five men then ran away, and the o th er two laid on to deceased. Only one hit him on the head till the three had rue, and then the two others hit him on the head while he was on the ground. The two men then ' ran away tojola the fight which was still g +lag on. Witness then went up to the deceased. took him up by the coat collar. Witness said he was dead. Two other men came up, iV at. Bailey, • person in the court, was one of the two and they carried him away. Witness then left ; the fight was still going on. He knew one of the five men who ran out of the crowd to beat deceased : the prisoner was that man. He sew the prisoner, John Hurst, hit deceased on the head with a picking peg. It was not him who hit him when he fell down; but lie was one of the three who ran back into the crowd. He hit the deceased on the head. He knew one of the other men who hit the deceased on the head with a picking; peg. That man was one of the two who remained, and was the man who hit him when he fell. Witness had men the prisoner before, the tame evening, at the Red Bull, in Millgate, where they were breaking the windows. He saw the other man there also. It was said a man named Barlow had 5 . .. e ordering of the piquetting party. He was not piquetting in all the streeta, but anywhere that he thought proper to go. Meant by piquet ting, watching about the streets. He did not know what he was watching for. None of the 200 he was with were armed with picking-pegs. The 200 people who had left Maraland's ornninittee-room with him were at the Lyceum, in Welling ton street, when the fight took place. They were fighting among the others. There were above 500 people in Web lington-street when the fight was going on. Kershaw'' party was the most numerous ; there was, perhaps, about 300 of them. and about 200 of the other. They were not ranged on either side, but were one amongst another. He knew one party from the other by the "word" they had. The (pass) word of the one was " blue," the other party's words were "X. Y." Thus if one called out " X." and the other " Y," he judged from these cries which party they belonged to. He heard nothing called out by the mew who attacked the deceased. He heard the deceased call out ; he said he was for "blue." He was coming towards witness at the time ho said that, and the five men were following him at the time. The principal part of the fighting was opposite the Lyceum, and not opposite the entry where Major Mars tantl's committa-room was. by Drr. Tagyglasu . The On. ceased fell flat on the flags of the footpath where he died. There was great confusion and noise m the street at the time, and the windows of the Lyceum were broken. Had never seen James Hewn that night (the deceased), and did not know that he had been with the major's party. Frances Ilibbert stated thst deceased was coming up the street, and the crowd came out of the Lyceum and said " X." Deceased called out " blue," and then a man came out of the Lyceum with a picking peg, and struck him on the head, and if witness had not stood out of the way, she would have had the blow he got. The man again hit the deceased, who held his bands np, and said : " Have mercy upon me !" then five or six others rushed out and " lathered" him till he got to an entry beyond where witness stood, where he fell down, and two or three laid on him whilst down, She said to another young woman : " die ; help him into our house." Two men cams and carried him into witness's house, and he died in about five minutes. The man who gave deceased the first blow is the prisoner. She saw him hit the man after he was down, and then he ran into the Lyceum.—By Vaughan : She had heard the last witness say the prisoner did not strike the first blow: that was not the truth. William Kitchener sew a man run from the crowd with three or four men following and beating him. He was knocked down, when some of them left him, and returned to the crowd : two others remained beating bin), and afterwards they went towards the Lyceum. W. Bailey assisted to carry deceased into a house, and remained with the body. He belonged to neither party. About four o'clock in the morning the prisoner Hurst came in, and appeared quite shocked when he saw him, and said " What a pity !" but he did not knew him. J. Lyon, W. Wood, and Esther Mather, were examined, but their evidence was not important. The Coroner here adjourned the proceedings till Wednes day, and the prisoner was remanded. IRELAND. Demur, Disc. 18. We had a short pease from murder. One week past, and we were all gratulation at the prospect of order and the restoration of better feelings to the wicked men who are platting scourges for their own backs. Again the old violence breaks upon us in all its force. The country papers bring intelligence of three brutal murders, one in Limerick and two in Longford, with as attempt to assassinate in the neighbouring county of Leitrim. The Longford murders are of peculiar atrocity, the victims being two old and infirm pen sioners. The motive for this brutality can be traced no deeper than the harking of poor Wilkinson's cur dog. These and similar acts of barbarism must compel the executive to suppression by all means within its power. Already the special commission for the south, to which I have I recently alluded, is talked of as an immediate cer tainty. The judges named are the Chief Baron and Judge Ball, while the prosecution for the crown, will, it is said, be conducted by the new attorney and soli citor-general. The Nenagh Guardian suggests that the north and eolith ridings should exchange pri soners, but the change of venue would be unnecessary, as Tipperary, jurors, south or north, will readily con vict on sufficient evidence. Lord Farnham includes the Rev. Mr. Hughes, of Claremorris, Mayo, among the instigators to crime " down west." The accusation is based on a speech delivered at a meeting to petition for tenant-right, and reported in the Consereatire Journal. The rev. gentleman, in a long letter to his lordship, and pub lished in the Fiveman, denies the language alto- I gethcr, and vouches to warranty, the chairman of the meeting, Mr. John Denis Browne, and many others whose names are attached, to a formal denial. The case of the Rev. Mr. Hughes is a strong one. In other quarters, we find the catholic clergy exerting their influence to keep down crime. In the King's county, where the infection has not widely spread, the Rev. Mr. Healy, of Boveen, denounced from the altar some ruffians who had robbed a soldier of his' gun, and called upon all well-disposed persons to cooperate with the police in eradicating such public disturbers. Other clergymen in the same county are pursuing the same patriotic course. At Banna gher, on Sunday last, the Rev. Mr. Smith tore down a notice calling on the peasantry to march en name on the poor-house. Ile warned them emphatically against such follies. The Earl of Clarendon will hold his first levee, since his arrival in Ireland, early in the ensuing month. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. The country papers to•day bring accounts of two mur ders and two attempts at murder, one of which is likely to terminate fatally. On Thursday night, the house of a far mer, named Murphy, twelve Jades from Limerick, was en tered by an armed party, who allot kluiphy and robbed th e house of a nun of 301. The object of She party would seem to have been plunder, es the unhappy Murphy was a man in comfortable circumstances. He probably offered resistance —and hence his fats. Murphy was • man of large stature and great physical power. He has ail surviving bro thers, who from their great strength and stature are -ailed in badinage the" preemie" (little boys). The other murder occurred in Longford. About six miles north of the town of that name lies Sallinalee, where dwelt two pensioners, Sa muel Wilkinson and William Carson. Both were sitting together by the fire. Twelve men came to the house armed. Five remained outside, seven entered, of whom two immediately presented and fired. Wilkinson and Car son fell, and the party departed, believing doubtless they hod despatched both. Unfortunately, so far at Wilkinson was concerned, they judged truly. He died at ten o'clock that night, several balls or sings having entered his breast. Carson was wounded severely in the hack of the neck, but not dangerously. The Longford paper, in noticing this murder, does not suggest any motive fur it whatever. In the same county, and, indeed, in the same vicinage, on Wednesday night, a murderous attack was made on a man named William Sheerin. The Longford Journal suggests it was because at his trade of a miller be has been more prosper ous than others. The following details of the attack this journal graphically gives : " Shecrin was sitting at the fire about half-past seven o'clock, at the other side of which was a small wall, as customary in country houses, to screen it from the wind of the door •' in this wall was a small square bole, and the first intimation of an attack was seeing the muzzle of a gun presented through this hole, and within • few feet of his head. On seeing this Skeerin stretched over to get his gun, which was standing the other tide of the firtplace, when the fellow immediately Reed, shattering Sheerin's arm, shoulder, and head, from the effects of which he now lies badly, but, we hope, not mortally wounded. At the time the fellow presented the gun at Shemin another ruffian went to an end window (where he could command a view of every per son in the house), and presented a gun through it, declaring he would blow the brume out of any person in it that stirred. Having, as they thought, finished Sheerin, who is a anent inoffensive and proper man, they went off quietly, without any effort being made to apprehend them, although there were three men and a servant boy in the house at the time." An attack, doubtless intended to he fatal, though happily not so, was made on Tuesday night on two men named Maguire and Minogue, employed in a mill a mile or two from Nenagh. Three men aimed attacked Maguire in the presence of Minogue, beating him severely with sticks. He defended himself as well as he could, but was at length knocked down. He is severely—one of his legs being frac tured—but not fatally injured. On going away and passing Minogue, who was terroustricken, they called to the latter to "turn his head aside." With this he compiled, when one of the scoundrels as he pa red discharged a pistol at him, wounding him in the head and neck. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, DEC. 17. Many northerns are eyeing the progress of the Hampden controversy with grim interest. It has several features in common with our own recent non intrusion agitation. The Queen recommendi•lg a given party to be elected to the vacant diocese by the clergy, is very much like a patron in the scotch church presenting a party to a benefice, one technical title to which was supposed to consist in the call of the people. As the Free Church party found no favour at the hands of the state when they preferred I their claims for spiritual independence, they are pleased to find that Lord John Russell is acting with even-handed justice in meting out to the bishops the same treatment that was administered to the Presbyterian judicatories. The adherents of the established church again dislike all coercion used to wards the Anglican church, because being allied to the state, it is showing indignity to the order, but as prelacy always regards presbytery as occupying a lower platform, there is little sincere sympathy. PROVINCIAL. HunlNGuoNsin RE. SEVER PRISONERS ESCAPED from Huntingdon-gaol on Wednesday night. It appears that they bad been con fined in the trial ward, and, on Mr. Smith, the governor, going round the gaol, to his no small amaz,ment he disco vered that the whole seven were gone. Upon making an examinatioa it was ascertained that the several locks had been forcibly opened, the straw beds bad been emptied on the fl or, and the ticks converted into portable ladders, by the means of which the parties succeeded in scaling the boundary wall. To accomplish their object they had in the first instance broken an iron bar, nearly two inches thick and ten feet long. Cam.—Pmarr,--.J. R. Andaman, 8.A., *m.; B. W. Belt, 8.A., Cam. ;B. Cburebi A.C.L., Oaf. ;W. W. pager, B Cu.;l J. P.. Davison, M.A., Out ; P. Dornard, 8.A., Out ; W. Mar, 8.A., Dab. ; .1. P. Hoatinp, 8.A., Cam. ; B. Holmes, 8.A., Cu.;33 W. W. Hem, 8.A., Oat; D. Macaulay, 8.A., Dub.; J. S. Ma" 8.A., Cam.; H. J. Quartley, Cam.; B. B. Rice, 8.A., Dub.; IL , Cam.; J. Mater, &A., Cam.; C. B. Me pp, 8.C.L., Cam.; N. Beebe, 8.C.L., Dub. ; H. Other, Saint Bees; J. M. V. py, Caro. ECCLISIASTICAL PROCIDIDINOS AT SOUTHANITTON.--At a full men , got the whole of the clergy of Southampton and Its dis trict on Friday, It waa rewired t present petitions to the Home at DOIAMAAN Against the we of titles belonging to the minister' of the church of Fnitiand by Roman catholio priests; t. petition parliament spinet the Jewish Dutabilities Remora!&il ; and to petition the era- Inshep of Canterbury against the commotion of Dr. liampden. lint fads. THE INTITTOTE OP TRE FINE ARTS held its first meeting for the season on Saturday. The attendance was large, but the works exhibited were scarcely equ►l in inte rest to the collections commonly entered for the Graphic. very clever water-colour drawing, a St. Cecilia, with at. tendant figures, by Mr. John Tenniel, was one of the chief attractions of the evening. This, we believe, is a design in illustration of Dryden's, intended for one of the many ante ' rooms or balls in the new houses of parliament, and is in every respect a very great advance on the cartoon for which Mr. Tenniel obt lined a viz , : in one of the Weqminster exhibitions. The face of St. Cecilia is very fine—a poetic head, not drawn as St. Cecilia have too often been by dis tinguished artists from singers of eminence like Miss Link), or Mrs. Billington. Sir William Ross contributed a few unfinished miniatures exhibiting his usual qualities of deli cacy and finish, and Mr. S. C. Hall some water-colour draw ing. made for his forthcoming publication of the Vernon Gallery. THE VERNON COLLECTION.—The trustees have selected Mr. Haghe's large water-colour drawing as one of the pictures composing the Vernon gift to the National Gallery. We are glad of this, and trust that in the wets National Gallery (whenever we gt it) a room may be set apart for the reception of drawings illustrative of the English school of painters in water-colours. AND CLERICAL DV/MAIL—At a Comm:Mica, holden Deo. 15, CI. Butler, M.A., Ram. of Exeter Coll., Oxford, was admitted ad enindess. The following Students in Theology were admitted to be Lkentiates in The elegy :-3. D. Anderson, 8.A., J. Burton, C. C. 0. Holler, 8.A., P. Rudd, 8.A., Fellow of the University, It. J. Simpson, EA., C. Thoro tan, B.A. The Professor of D.vinity was nominated by the Warden to the aloe of dub-Warden, and the nomination was approved by the home. Graces were pawed : To accept a scholarship ofd I. a year, to be held by a Student in Theology, and • collection , tures, both bequeathed to the university by the late James Barry, Esq., of the city of Durham. To grant from the university chest 1001. to meet • like MHO given by the late Rev. Canon Oishonse towards • building fund for the university museum. To puchase somei property in the North Bailey, belonging to the charity trustees for the city of Nor Pairs, eit rii;tiatz -Lllefiar; Laid ineuTts;si;daSpeelal Jury. Tut QUEEN v. CAPTAIN CHARRITID, SIR WIS. YorNer, ANNA STEWART, AND EALLETT.—INDICTMENT POE TBAITICRINO IN THE SALE OP AN EAST INDIA CADET /Min.—The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Sir F. Kelly, QC. Mr. L. Wigram, Q.C., Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Peacock, and idr. Forsyth appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Crowder, Q.C., awl Mr. Warren, for the defendant Charretie ; and Mr. Cockburn, Q.C., Mr. James, Sir John • ORDINATIONS. Bayley and Mr. Phipson, for Sir Wm. Young. The other OXPORD.—Yesterday the Bishop of Ozford held an ordi- defendants had not pleaded. The indictment charged the nation in the cathedral of Christ Church, when the following gentle. defendants with having violated the 49th Geo. 111., c. 128, men were admitted into holy ordero, o,ford a. 3, by having conspired to procure for money the nomina te. E. Batty, MA., Brasencee ;It Ciodalt, M.A., Fellow of Queen'. ; lion to a certain office in the mrsice of the East India Com- C. Werner, FLA., Scholar or Worcester; W. F. Dothan*, MA., Fellow pony, to wit, a cadetship ; and, in a second count, for a like of All Souk ;T.C. L. Layton, MA., Scholar of Pembroke ; E. 8. „ m ' mitted ti the defendants Charratie, Stewart, Foulkes, M.A, Fdlow of Jesus ; W. J. itatineett, &A., Wadnam ; F. s '"`" ce B. peyoe, „ h.. F e ll ow o f ;0. ford, Queue. J. 0 . and Rallett, fradulently and unlawfully procuring for Joyce, BA., Magdalen Hall ;T. IL Bakewell, &A., Magdalen Hall; pecuniary reward 'or consideration the sale of a cadetship, F. Temple, WA., Fellow of Baffled ;C. E. Priebard, '14.4., Fellow of and by Sir Wm. Young in assisting the other three defer,- • ; W. Nate, 8.A., Queen's ;T. A. Walker, &A., St. John's. dent, therein. OyCialvidge: B. Holt, 8.A., lit. John's; 0. K. Weston, B.A. Ems. From the o pening address of the Attorney-General it ap no.oel ; A. Trevor, o. Tre .tio vor m , : B s ..A vi „ . Co w. rpus yt... p Ch euo ris . ti a ; Trini & 11;3;17, C Trin . Lit i tt ty e: pared that, in the year 1843, a gentleman residing in Edits • Tiinity ;T. Podmore, ILA., St. John's ;T. Masterman, 8.A., burgh, and there carrying on the Mutate of solicitor to the Wahl= ; V. C. Smith, &A., Fellow of New ;0. Permian, &A., Supreme Court, named Wotherspoon, renewed his acquaint Cbspkbs of Christ Church; J. W. Freeborn, RA., Worcester, Chap- erne with Mrs. Stewart, one of the defendants, the widow of ndie d cant Church ; H. 0. Merriman, Fellow of New ; W. 8. an officer in the army, who bad herself been in India. tie ftoMeivllifa_vildiew of Bramwse ; Arrowunith, Octet ke to her about the desire of his eldest son to obtain an MR. Chaplain of Christ Church ; H. J. Dysoe, B. Fa/Awe Mar isa; W. A. Hill, MA-, Worcester ; R.Hase, M. St. Prqment in the army : she intimated that if a certain sum ligeseed /OW a New Con.; T. B. Mamaniara, 8.A., Hag- was paid, a commission might be obtained ; and, on her dabs item Of L. F. Clarkson. 8.A., Emanuel ; E. shortly afterwards going to London from Edinburgh, Mr. Prat, 8.A., St. John's ;T. H. Tait , 8.A., Trinity ;J. T. Hocaireo, Wotberspoon remitted to her there a sum of 1,1001. fur that LA, Morlaim. urpora. She did not succeed, and a sum of 1,0802. war, not LONDON.—Yesterday the Bishop London held a gene rota afterwards, returned to Mr. Wotherspoon, who, from Tai eggingem la the *bowl of his at Fulham, when the fol. . . . brew seede . mteees adm i tted ho y D G . that time till this middle of 1844, heard nothing further about Awing % 8.A., Magdalen Hell, Oaf., nominated assistant-curate of the matter. Early in that year the defendant Hallett,. whose Al Wawa, Breadaareet; It. Barry, 8.A., St. John's, Camb., noel. conduct had, no a former occasion, been succadully uneati natal saistant-curste of St. Pancras, Middlesex; H. Beattie, 8.A., gated by the East India Company, applied to a Mr. Trotter Trielt r Yi paean, sloe-principal of the Weebninetec Ttelnlng ; for an introduction to an East India director, or tome H. Hayman, B A., St. Johns, Oaf., nominated curate of St. Luke's rson who could obtain an appointment. Mr. Trotter in - Church, Mtnaanev; J. H e a l 8.A., Exeter OxL, nominated curate Pe et aaj a - w — e k j0hme„,,,,,0g 7 t . M. moo., BA, Bt . trodueed Rallett to Captain Caimans, who was the Pura* anted eseletenhoutate of fn. Giles's-bs.tes. secretary of the A dative Mining Company, of which Sir rabbs; /. J. ILA., AWN*" Catab., master of the Cram- Witham Young was a director. In the month of June, mad &dad, aanisatel issistant.atuata of Holy Trinity 1844, Mrs. Stewart stated to Mr. Wotherspoon that she was Clawak DBIBOBNIS stalm"" it • Beet' Dkriait . r , Can' t '' , then certain of obtaining an appointment for his son, and tor Ow wississ set a Si the Britirh crown • W. Clark, J. B. a . m .. 88.8,84 and J. J. Leto i er, e h of the he vs to her, just as she was about to leave Edinburgh a m . / * d e e B d BB B B sa d d epsd d idd i ad d the for London, a draft on Jones Loyd and Co. for 10801. A. MEM crown. Main pollutes wan aim slotted by the however, he expressed a desire to be in some way satisfied NOM of Lauda be eineefe'llardwils m Wien ealthiscr7 his that the negotiation would proceed, she shortly afterwards Om/ the Melaka', Si Clinteeken Y. & Bass, &Ai 8t- John's, sent to him a litter containing another letter, which was in Cana.; C. N. PBS" ILA., Christ's, Camti.,• in. N. Ward, B.A, these words My dear Charretie, 1 shell have much plea- Pembroke, Caleb. Paoits.—ltev.F.O.Blomidi, ILA., Balßol, 8 . 8888 c ...„ of 8 , Mary Abbott .. ch urc h . K m i n t ee ... G . j . sure in giving an appointment to your young friend, William lisafield, M.A., Exeter, Dar, _lkaond mats Si 11. Joba's Church, White Wotherepoon, in November . — W. Young." The WeeranaDter ; Ben. B. H . Bwrilimmat _Ohrlseehrtß4 Oil.; order was duly cashed, in the following notes :— One of 5001., Beamed curate of Lalettam-with.giakera, litten• Rev. J. Bum- one of 3001., two of 1001., five of 101., five of 51., ald 31. 2s. Id. in casb, the discount being equal to the difference. stead, &A., New lan Hall, Oxf. h . 11mmeed cunt* of Trinity Church, permed ca.. 1 c 3 ,f t7,117 . ;!te t , r . C. urch, 11.:1= di r l i i , v 5 ti rri iki V e l.. C rt: , Tr i n i ty, e zz The possession of these notes was to be traced to some of licensed curate of Mbidiesea; Rev. 0. S. Ombler, the defendants. Hallett paid sum of MI. to Trotter for BA., University, Oa, Arab of N. fames Norland, Ken- the introduction to Charretie, and the larger portion was eine= Rev. B. 3. W isilibm• LA. Gee Eat ,amea, licensed received by Charretie himself. The nomination wee made curve of BouAPbChloOl. A . r Iterate in November, 1844, and it then became necessary to con perw,n, one the ta,a lzaillee mam t e t i 1 0 .1 Training 15r owa y ea w" ; Rev' te.e• the appointment, by executing certain papers which d. , dependencies of the British arena. 'Ks ' gentlemen warn a prescribed form, and along with other matters, contained also admitted into the priesthood by the Lied Bishop of Lmdan, on a solemn declaration by the paeans applying for, receiving, letters anti/eon (ran as Grata the Ashok of Canterbury Rev. and giving an appointment, that they did not give or F. J. P.d,head , 8.A., Queen's, Comb .; Rev. E. M. Muriel, M.A., Om- receive any actual or future pecuniary consideration for it. vine and Calm, rinto.; Rev. 3.0. T. Pittman, BA., University, At that time Mr. Wotherspoon knew nothing of Sir William Durham. Young but nevertheless his son's petition for the appoint- Itue Herren- —Yesterday the Bishop of Rochester held a general o ,.,oi nehoo mehhp. awe , et. ur ea ,. meet r o tated that he had been nominated by Sir William refuter. The right rev. prelate admitted the following gentlemen Young, at the recommendation of the petitioner's father. min holy orders .—enoses.—Rev. J. D. Hodgson, H.A., Fellow of The next paper was the actual nomination, which stated that St. Peter's, Cam.; Rt.. P. G. Mc Douai, M.A., Christ Church, Oil. ; Sir William Young presented the young man on one of hie flev. C. 13 . kodnelli C lllll *. Con j il•Edwe . „ 5, B.A , nominations fur the season , and added, " I declare from the Downing, Ces ' lt e e . V . Mat., New ,__ Ott . ; character I have received of him from his father, who certifies Rev. J. W. MOWN 8.A., New Inn Olt ; Rev. J. P. Pops, 8.A., Christ's, Cam.; Rev. D. F. Jarman, BA, tit. John's, Cam.; Rm. A. that he is well acquainted with his character, family, and M. Preston, 8.C., Trinity, Caro. ; Rev. J. W. Harding, examined connexions," that he is fit to be recommended for an student of St Maya Halt Oxf. (not sworn to canonical obedience) appointment. Then came a paper, with questions by the Rev. C. Hawkins, Esthete a Civil taw, Chrid Church , Orr.; Res young sun himself, which stated that his father recom menaed him, and a declarroion by Si, William Young that PAL 0211, BA., Trinl_y, con, Ducoes—C. G. Pickshall, BA, T. ngt ef. ' Behieh. a, • mim e. st. Law jal i 1 1 " 4.1 . ia caaaen'; Oaf .; f u . " he believed all the statements in these several papers to be Wedmore, , ParbrokeebeL correct. The next paper was a certificate of the young man's Wouciatala.—Yostarda the Bishop of Worcester held birth, which wee sent to Eiinburgh to be filled up. It was an ordination at the Church of that eity, when the returned, and with it the required declaration, signed by following were admitted Into holy orders: Ducoes—E. Hayfield, Wotherspoon, that the nomination had been nude without literate; W. 3. Dean, ILA., Oaf.; E. Doer*, Cara.; A. Enna, MA, fee or reward. The son was appointed to the Medea army, (hL; H. B. Faullmer, ILC.L, Cam.; IL Harding, M.D., Oxt. ;J. D. and left for India in December, 1844. Iu the course of the Harkins, M.A., Oaf. ; A. King, BA, Oxf. • F. OfillYW, &A., Oats; &N. Peaskowies, Iterate; 0. Peaks, &C.L, Casa. • T. IL O. Pule. year 1848 some investigation a ff ecting Rallett took plane, Wanes lkdo ORL iC. L. Thomas ; L ,A, Dik.; It, Dwatewei, which excited the alarm of some of the other, sad an the Moth of July of that year Capt. Charretie called on lit. Wellse:spoon, told him that some inquiries were going ea respolleg the appointment of his win, and requested him to wells MA antedate a letter to Sir Wm. Young respecting a person named Gordon, who had run away greatly in debt 'to Sir gram Young, from which it might been usint sprit that Mr. Wotherspoon and Sir Wm. Young bad ances of long standing. Mr. Wotherspoon refused, an Charretie went away. A correspondence between them commenced shortly afterwards, and in the month of August Mr. Wotber won received a letter which stated it was most irame Int that Charretie should see him immediately, as false ri puts were in circulation respecting the appointment whip So Wm. Young had "so kindly and gratuitously glven" to hie son. There was another letter on the 12th of September in which Mr. Wotherspoon was pressed to go to London to see Sir Wm. Young, and Charretic inquired for tie addros of Mrs. Stewart. On the 15th of September Mr. Wotherspoon answered this letter by eupgestisg that they should meet at York; and on the same day he wrote to 8:r William Young, addressing him as an old friend, asking his advice as to the best mode of remitting menu to his son in India, and adding that his son "likes India very well, which enhances the value of your gift; indeed, ee well, that his younger brother Hebert is desirous of going out to India, though he has nearly completed his term of service to become a writer to her Majesty's signet." (Laughter.) Sir Wm. Young answered this letter on the 17th of September, staying that the best mode of making a remittance WM, by obtaining at the India-house a treasury order on the government at Madras, and expressing a wish to tee Mr. Wotherspoon in London, as he had some law buse nem in Scotland relating to a sum of 8,0001. or 10,0001. on . which he should like, before incurring heavy law expenses, to consult him. At that time a secret committee for inves tigating this matter was sitting. Sir James Weir Hogg acted as chairman, and Sir Wm. Young was called benne it. He was told that a short hand waiter was present, who would take down his answers to the questions wh , ch would be put to him; that he might refuse to answer them; but that if he answered them, his answers might be used against him. He expressed his readiness to answer, and his answers were taken down. They were in part read by the learned counsel, and subsequently at length by the officers of the court. The material par-gee were these:—" I know Mr. Wotherspoon; I became acquainted with him by emploe hug him to do law business for me in Scotland. Ho sent up his son with a letter requesting that I would confer the cadetship on him. I told the son he should have what his father askea for. I had a letter within the lain mouth thanking:me. Do not know Mrs. Stewart. Have seen Trotter in the Asturian entice. Have no reason to suspect that any persons connected with the ap pointment gave or received mom y. I think it is possitle I addressed a letter promising the appointment to Welber , spoon. All I hare to state is, I gave the appointment to Wotherspoon's son, on the son coming. There wee no inter vention. that I know of but that of the father. There was no intimacy between the father and myself. I say I did not give it for consideration to me; I do not believe that any con sideration for it was given to any one. I do not know Trotter. I have seen him in the office of the Asturias corn peel, of which lam a director." Other letters pastel. Ica one Charretie urged Wotherspoon to come to London, and when he came, to say that he had seen Sir W. Young at Glasgow between the 12th and 20th of Ju1y,1842 Wotlier spoon wrote to Sir W. Young, thanking hun for tho inform ation about the mode of remitting money saying that he could not go to London, and adding that he would give what assistance he could in the law suit in Scotland. Sir \V. Young was again examined before the secret comueittee on the 24th and 28th of Septem ber, and was asked by the secret committee to procure Waherspoon's attendance before it. Though he bed pro raised the secret committee not to divulge the metier, he communicated to Charretie a copy of his letter to Wother speon. The answer of Wotherspoon to Sir Wm. Young inquired what it was that the former had beetled in the nomi. nation papers, and requested that Sir Wm. Young wined send to him copies of them. Sir Wm. Young did not Make l t il h e e r ft e d q dr ui c re s ! ,A par , e wr rs i t o o en W in oth a e r nroo m n o , Young would swear to be his. On the 2nd of ()debar w i n d W d e under b utcot which,e f r Q h w a . a w y r , d r c i some persons who knee Sir Win. Wotherspoon wrote to Charretie, saying that it was impos sible for him to say . whether his attendance in London would he benefical or prejudicial to Sir Wm. Young. Oa the 30th of September, however, Charlene had written to Wother spoon, urging him to acme to London, and saying that there were suepirions that the appointment of his son had be u bought, but that Sir W. Young had assured the court that is had notbeenbought Wothenpoon answered this letteron the eth of October, eayie.g that he would net go to London until he should lee written for specially, asking whether the into meets he should Lave to me lte must be made on oath, and intimating that both Sir W. Young and Char retie ought to have stood on the defensive. Chareetio wrcto egain to Wotherspoon on the Bth of October, saying that be mistook the position in which Sir W. Young stood ; that no blame was attributed to hint except for giving a cadetship on toe short an acquaintance; that Sir W. Young had deni d having been paid for it, and bad said that he had given it on account of his knowledge of Wotherspoon, derived trout having employed him in • matter relating to an agent by whom he had been employed. The letter went on to my that this referred to Oordon's ease, and " on it depends your acquaintance with him, and it is the reuon why he gave you the eadetship." Wothenpoon replied that he could not write as Charretie bad suggreted, because there were bunting reasons which would make all men of business dishelieve such statements. Wotherspoon persisted in not going to London, until at length his attendance was requested by the directors, and he thee went. Sir W. Young had been asked on the 9th of October by the secret committee, whether be knew whether Wotherspoon was in Edinburgh, and he said that he did not, as, in obedience to the orders of the committee, he hod net opened his mouth on the matter out of that room. Oa the 19th of October, Wotherepoon came to London, and went to Rhodes's hotel, whence he sent his card to Sir W. Young and Captain Charretie, the latter of whom called on him the next morning before breakfast, saying that Sir W. Young, who was below, wished him to remain firm to the state ment of their previous connexion, on account of Gordon ; Wotherspooa refused, and Charretie went away. On the samc day Wotherepoon went to the India House tar the pur pose of being examined. He inquired fur Sir W. Young, was told that he was not there, and bad goes away to a short distance when a porter called him beck. Before he reached Sir '. Young's room be met biro, and Sir William, whom he had never seen before, said " You know that you were my agent in Sco'.land, and that I wrote to you at Glasgow in 1842." They then went into Young's room, where Wotherspoon refused to make any such statement as that proposed to him, and went away. On the 21st of October, Sir W. Young wrote a letter to the secret com mittee, dated the 19th, in which, after saying that he availed himself of the permi.aion given by the committee to correct any parts of his evidence, a copy of which had been sent to Dim, he expressed a wish that so much as related to Wotherspoon might be expunged from the record ,• that after a most careful search he had been un able to fled the letters which he thought would establish that statement, and that since • severe illness, five years before, he felt that be could not rely on his memory; that Charretie had applied to him for the cadet Lip ; that he bad not had the least suspicion that money had been given for it; that he had seen the young man, who had appeared to him to be an every respect eligible ; and that therefore he had appointed him. Onthe 21st of October Mr. Wotherspoon was examined before the secret committee. Captain Charretie was also examined. Upon these facts, and the effect of the several letters and examinations, the learned counsel called on the jury to convict the defendants. The purport of the letters has already been described. Of the remainder of the evi dence, the following is material : Thomas Robert Clarke, the head of the cadet depart meet since 1815.—1 pass cadets; here is a nomination paper, signed by Sir William Young, dated 27th Now m her, 1844, and William White Wo th erepoon, the cadet, passed the committee the 27th November, 1844 ; the words • at the recommendation of his father" are in the 110111i,,a -tioll. That implies that the father obtained the appointment from Sir Wm Young. These are the usual appointments I know Sir William Young's handeriting. This letter in a feigned hand I believe to be Sir Wm. Young's handwriting. Creasexionined (for Capt. Cbarretie): In the ease of a parent the filling up the petitims by the " recommendatory person" is dispensed with. Here it is filled up. The papers are sent. The nomination gives a right to go out. The Mr. Menthe.—l am secretazyw‘eTurtaz:Lihtoi.eyitino.Eues:cgont commission is obtained on lauding in India. He takes a certificate of appointment with him, signed by the secretary. —(For Sir Wm. Young): Sir Wm Young has been a director 20 years. He is aged. I don't know his age. He has been .ailing for some time. Mr. Gl,ddon, assistant to Mr. Gurney, proved the note. of Sir Wm. Young's evil, nee before the secret committee, and that at the commencement of the proceedings the chairman told Sir Wm. Young that what he said would be taken down and might be used against him. The examination was then read, and was in substance the same with the statement of the Attorney - General .— Cross examined : Five directors, the secretary, the solicitor, and the gentleman under examination wen present in addition to myself. F a c ) I;er c B . a ir l , e s. W t e te x illiam r a l i ated ned Yo th un (f e:l9 s d t i h e r li . ) 11 . —en the a I nd i a 2 e . . 7 r o d s w e t r a re o f Isismorand um on the letter and envelope when I received ft I have known Sir William Young many yeah. He has beat in a very bad state of health. I think he is in • state of great infirmity. He is between 70 and 80. His nervous ness has increased oflate years. His mind is not perhaps so strong. I think the infirmity might affect his memory. By the judge.—lt did not appear to me at the examination thee he was incapable of following the questions. Full opportu nity was given to answer. Mr. Wotherspoon.—l reside at Edinburgh. Am solicitor of the supreme court. I have known Mrs. Stewart since 1822. I had a communication in 1841 with her about • cadetship for my son. I asked her when she went to London to procure • commission in the Queen's service or that of the company. She gave me to understand she bad the influence. bhe mentioned that his name must be put into the list at the Horse-Guards. Shortly after I remitted to her 1,0001. She had said it would require a sum of that sort to get the ap pointment. I remitted her another 1001. The sum of 1,0801. was returned, and no appointment procured. I saw her again in June 1844. She said she was going to London again, and might get the appointment then, as tabs had a communication abut it. I sent to her this bank draft, to her lodgirge in Edinburgh. I got this acknowledg ment from her. (The draft and the acknowledgment wins read.) I sent 1,1001. on the first occasion, and the 1,0801. en the second, as 1,1001 we, the cum she bad first mentioned. She went to London the next day. In the letter she said the appointment would be made very soon. I remember receiv ing, through her, a letter enclosing one, purporting to he signed by W. Yourg. It was returned to her by her request. &r. Routh use called, and said • I know Mrs. Stewart. She is not in this country. I hare seen her letters. 1 last eaw her in this country about two months age. Mr. Routh, jun. : I know M. Stewart. A brother et mine married her daughter. She is not in this country. She NAVAL PORIIINFOUTII, DEC. 19.—The For, 42, Sir H. Blaekwood, Bart, by the bat advt.:cam at Trino doclee, Oat. 11, and there refit ting for her voyage to England.—Tbe Pantaloon, 5, Com. Douglas, now at Part Hord, Limmon having suffered very severely from yellow fever, is ordered to Demport to be paid off. —The Mod, ate, corvette, is also expected to January from the Parite, and the Bady na= from the West Indies DEVONPONT, Ore. la.—Columbia at., Lient..Com. Short. lands, arrived yesterday from the North Anr lea sort West India ' , lanai, with km of bowsprit, and other damages matained in a sus crsaion of gala on her voyage home. She will remain bete until her defects ate made go rt.—Maria Poor: trpt.„ Lieut. Black, ageut, put Inv this port yesterday from stress of weather, bound to Malta with groom. ADWRALTY, Doe 18.—ArPorvnirxre.—Capttin : C. Wen, to be Eng captain to Vieteey.—Aasistant Surgeon : J. Peters to kiereulen—Chlef Engineer : A. Mitchell to I !Ore —Midshipmen :W.B. Hooper, to Plover; T. N. Underwood, to Inionstant; W. Page, So Sea:art.—Naval Cadets :J. Thorold, Inconstant ; L Wildman, to Ely dm; G. B. B. Cailagban, to Vengeance; Nies ;As, to Trafalgar. Arminian' Engineer :Af. A. Lyons, to }thadaroanthus.—Gonner O. Lomb, to Sealark.—Acting Oarpsnters: It. U. Collins, to Ban Josef; P. Wetland, to Blenheim. Lieut. J. it. Baker, to be eblef ofker of Coast Guard. MILITARY. THE COURT-MARTTAL ON L:EUT. CROWTHER, of the 63rd Regiment, termimted, so far as the examina:ion of witnesses ht con cerned, on Saturday. There were four charges against the prisoner Ist, For neglect of dots in not obeying the onleni of hi• conmudwliag °Meer ; 2nd, In stating that be was gement and htd complied with the orders that were given; 3rd, For Atatit g that by ban inavected the breed and meat tented to the s - veral names of the regiment ; and 4th, Foe making a haw report. and err hfying that he was present during the whole Inspection and nerving such mimes of then eiment. snob conduct being subversive of good order and military and highlyunliceoming the chame er of an officer. Theevidenet having been concluded, the prisoner asked until Tuccday to prepare hi. defence. The pretadrat aceordingly notified that the court would again smemble on that day (to-morrow). AUGMENTATION OF THE ARMY.—There in a very preva lent rumour that there will be an augmentation of the rank and Ole attic army In the neat estimaten—Nneol and Milit.ry Oasetts. It is very generally asserted the number of additional men to he enlisted (including artillery) will be 12,1100. MEDICAL ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONI3.—The following gentle men baying undergone the neeo•eary elilMiWitial‘ for the diploma of the college, were admitted member* on the 17th lent., : Mears. W. Crosby, York; .1. Bennett, Baker-street; W. Fuller, Piensthlly; W. 8. Falls, Sloane-street, F. Gletion, hiewilutle-upoo-Tyne ; IL Colthuist, Bristol; C. W. Price, Abergatenny ; A. Baron, liaatings; and T. tl Hodgeii, Btilmouth, Devon. At the same meeting of the comet of examiners, Mr R. D. Pritchard passed his czamin .tion for naval surgeon : this gentleman's diploma from the shore college is fisted April 16, 1844. SPORTING. NI At:CHEW/2R BEITIO:O,—FRIDOT.—The only bet laid web JOU to 10 opt Loed,tche for the Derby. Leta intriltunut. EQUITY COURTS. Won the Viec.Chanepor of England. Emnity t. CREFTENDSN.-INJUNCTION TO RESTRAIN THE SALE OF PnoPlutY AT Butollloll. Mr. J. Parker and Mr. Smythe moved fir an injunction to restrain tut defendants, who are trustees for sale of certain houses situate in Grenvilleplace, Brighton, left for the benc tit of the plain tiff, Mary Ann Hernsley, by her uncle, from selling the said houses, which arc now advertised for eels, on the ground that owing to the present pressure upon the money market the property could not be sold for as much as it was worth.— Mr. Bethell and Mr. T. P...rktr, jun., on behalf of the trus tees, consented to an injunction on being paid all the costs incurred in advertiving the houses for sale. The order was accordingly made. It fort Moe-Chancellor Knight Bruce. ATTORNEY. GENERAL V. OARDNZIL.—SCOTCII CHURCH. —This was an inforraaon complaining of the diversion of a piece of land at Birkenhead, which is alleged to have been purchased for the trectiou of a budding to be used as a place of worship according to the doctrines and discipline of the estahliahed church of Scotland, to the use the free kirk. A preliminary objection was raised as to the legality of the conveyance of the land to any charitable purpose, with re ference to the Mortmain Act; and another objection was also taken for want of parties. The arguments upon these ob jections occupied nearly the whole of Friday and Saturday. The Vice-Chancellor, after hearing Mr. Russell and Mr. R. Palmer. in support of the information, and Mr. Rolt, Mr. Cowling, and Mr. Selwyn for some of the defendants , postponed his decision on the preliminary objections till Tuesday. Before Vice-Chancellor Wlgeam. Rocie r. CALLEN.—CONOTIONTION Or WILL—CIINU IATIVR LEOACteI3.-Barsh Child, the testatrix in the cause, after bequeathing part of her wearing atipartil to her servant girl, Eliza Hughes, gave and bequeathed also, to the rid Eliza Hushes, the sum of 201. a year, to be paid to ler by ' the excesaors named in the will immediately after the testa trix's decease. The will wag followed by a codicil, in which was contained a bequest in these words I be queath to Eliza Hughes 201. per annum for her natural life, March 7, 1831. 8. Child." The bill was filed by the legatee and her husband, whom she had married since the death of the testatrix, praying that she I might be declared entitled to the annuity bequeathed to her by the codicil, as well as to that given to her by the will. The question was whether the two annui ties given by the will and codicil were cumulative, or whe ther the latter was not merely in substitution for the former. —Mr. C and Mr R. W. Moore opened the ease for the plaintiffs,contendinp that where a le g acy was given, as in this case, to a stranger, 11:1 two separate instruments, the pre sumption was in favour of cumulation ; and that the circum stance of the legacies being of precisely the same amount, was not of itself sufficient to rebut that presumption.—At the conclusion of the argument for the plaintiffs, the court rose for the day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. I