The Express. — London, England, 1848-01-14 00:00:00

'1 F- ARCHBISHOP WHATELY ON THE HAMPDEN CONTROVERSY. The following " Statements and Reflections," by the Archbishop of Dublin, will be read with great interest. It appeared exclusively in the Daily News of this morning. If we were to suppose some intelligent and righteminded member of our church to have resided for the last fifteen or sixteen years in some remote part of the world, and to return at this time to his country, one cannot doubt that he would be greatly astonished, and greatly alarmed, on being in formed of the recent transactions, and at tke existing state of things, in reference to that church. He would learn, first, with no small wonder, that a con siderable number of the ministers and other members of the church had offered remonstrances (not to say threatened resistance) against the appointment of a certain individual to • bishopric. The astonishment he would at first feel at the novelty and apparent indecorum of such a proceeding, would, perhaps, be transferred, for a time, to the conduct of her Majesty's advisers, in recommending for a seat on the gnaw* bench a person who had been stigmatised by the University of Oxford as heretical. And ill proportion as he inquired more and more into the particulars of the case, he would find, at every step, fresh caw for wonder, and fresh reasons for altering the views he bad been at first led to take of the whole matter. For instance, he would learn, with ins reused surprise, that the remonstrating parties did not advert—as at first sight, it would have been natural for him to expect L to any private immorality of life in Dr. Hampden, such as might have never come to the knowledge of ministers, or to any heterodox opinions broached in private conversation, but to matters Which must have been as well known to the ministry as to themselves; to publications which had been before the world for fourteen years, and to a public vote of the Oxford convocation eleven years back. And, to add to the wonder, he would find the remonstrant; not professing to have them selves read these publications,and to have found therein what was, in their own judgment, heterodox, but merely referring to the alleged censure pas.ed by the University. And to crown al, he would find the remonstrant urging ministers, on the me ground of Dr. Hampden's theological unsoundness, to leave him in the office of regius professor of theology. For if they had thought it possible and desirable to remove him from that office, by bringing him to a regular trial for ho mey, and obtaining a sentence against him, of course they would have done so many years ago. And yet, one would think, soundness in religious opinions must be, at least, not less requisite—perhaps even more so— a a professor, who is necessarily occupied in training for the ministry successive generations of divinity students (who me required, generally, by the bishops, to attend his 'ec he*, than in a bishop, who may, and sometimes does, take no part, personally, in the instruction and examination ofcandidates for holy orders—handing them over altogether to his chaplains. From this most important and responsible office, held by De. Hampden for so many years, no attempt was made to remove him. The celebrated vote of convocation only de- Prised him of a seat at the board which appoints the select Preachers before the university ; which was a post of com paratively small importance ; because, in the event of any Ruston arising as to a person's fitness to be select preacher, teas professor bas only one vote among several. But when it was proposed to remove Dr. Hampden from the professor - thip, by raising him to the bench, then the remonstrant bully called for an inquiry into his doctrines, not en the Pound of any conviction that they were heterodox, but avowedly on the ground of the clamour that had been Used ru. him, " And as they cried out, and cast off their thes, and threw dust into the air, the chief captain com manded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he Mould be examined by scourging, that he might know wherefore they cried so against him."—Acts, xxii., 23, 24. A stranger, then, such as I hare been supposing, would be Mauch with this as one of the most extraordinary features of skis strange transaction—that men professing great seal for Parity of doctrine should be found imploring ministers to make choice of some other person" for a bishopric, and to "ewe Dr. Hampden in an office especially calling for sound tbeolegical views, because his views are nasound ! The supposed inquirer, if he pursued the investigation "ith good sense diligence, and candour, would, I think, not ftil to arrive ultimately at the , following conclusions; I. That the alleged aline of the Haiversity of Ozford ought to be totally disregarded. H. That ministers would have beat much to blame had they pared by • Mall pommeging such seine se Dr. Hampden. 111. That tf, a bevies noommoncied him to bee Ye jesty, they lad afliwasmig, Le compliance with the reason- I drawn addressed to them, withdrawn that recommendation, they would have lies guilty of a Fogg dereliction of duty, I would have txmle4 'slimming to merited contempt, and would ban ehalen the fnadations of all lawful authority, inaladia4, man gepsoiany, 'pimps' authority. And IV. That the grommet novsesat lie and mach dis credit and mush lima is the church, which an wholly imputable to the Whom of the movement, end wend have been incalculably groats: still had it proved suconsful. I will proceed tolay before you my reason for theme sow elegiacs. I. First, then, I maintain that the alleged university min- AM of Dr. Hampden, in 1836, ought to be totally diem .ef e d e for the following three as (among others) ht be added), any oof w*lt would be decisive: 7 7:fibat one it iv, at best, very doubtful whether that vote of invocation were legal, and, oonsequently whether it is to M essgarded es propeely the act of the Unlimeity a Became it wait ceded eat virtual, ?Vulva by the University Dull: and 3. Becauselt in manifestly and uotioisellyesallit ' L IS is well known that Dr. H the night of Cesuestis to deprive tin AZ: ;I; bes tubs 21.6 a lend TM* Moist , *s IstiSer—ma He misesesei to lam amenmted Mame .wkdone aa this poin owill to ham been confirmed ialt siv eglest i Um. He Is geaseally believed to have boss Veit *inswing up Ids skim in a mat of Enke merely by7Z 'mobility leamet the enormous, smdillideseiseu, expellees, of such a peendwre; but he never mitist M pretest solsmok lorgnette" legslity of that vote. Now, eremite legality must depend its claim to boll =saas enact of the university at all. For it is phda tires only are to he regarded as the acts of any civil community or other body, which are performed by such famionartes u are, in respect of sash sots the lawful re primands.' of the whole body , to., legally entitled se to proceed in their own respective provinces. Thus. if the sovereign of this empire declares war, or makes a treaty with say foreign state,--if the parliament, in conjunction with the sover4n, impose a tax, a court of law melee • dochisa as to a man's guilt or innocence of some crime, or his legal claim to some property;--all these are considered so sets of the British nation, being the acts of those who, in their respective departments, lawfully represent the mum- But if the sovereign should attempt to impose a tax, such so nip-moray, by royal proclamation , — if the House of Com mons should pretend to declare war, or to make a treaty,— or if • judge sad jury should takempon them to enact a new law ;—these would not be regarded as acts of the nation, bat ea moat culpable attempts at usurpation, by individuals, of powers to which they had no right. It is, then, I say, very doubtful, to say the least, whether the University of Oxford can be said to have ever passed any legal—that is, any real censure, on Dr. Hampden. Moreover, this censure, such as it wee, the university itself virtually cancelled some years atter, and utterly dhow garded. In 1842 the university, acting in • imam beir putably legal and regular, appointed the Regius Framer, —Dr. Hampden then holding the office,—to be a member of a board of theological examiners, for persons who were to hold situations of high importance. Now it would be utterly absurd to require that a ministry should pay more regard to an alleged decision of the uno varsity than was paid to it by the university itself;—that Oxfird should be allowed to dictate to the crown, though not to its own constituted authorities ;—that an act which the university itself had utterly disregarded, should operate m a veto on the royal authority. 111. This alleged vote of censure was manifestly and no- toriously unjust. It is well known to persons conversant with the trans actions which have taken place at Oxford fur the last lifters yams (though, for obvious reasons, many deny what they well know to be true), that the pretended heterodoxy of Dr. Hampden's Hampton Lectures was a mere pretext ; and that the real offence which incensed so many members of the university against him was his pamphlet on dis-ent, which advocated the placing of that university on a similar footing to the University of Dublin, which affords education to Mounters. It would require a longer discussion than I shall now enter on, to prove that the doctrine of Dr. Harapdeu's Hampton Lectures u, in fact, sound ; but that it was not thought ob jectionable by the great mass of the university is an saeer- Um much more easy to be established than most theological dogmas; for, tint, the vote of convocation relative to these lectures was not passed till about three years after they were delivered, and about two years after they were published. If they were heretical, why were not proceedings taken at the time ? Why was the discovery, and the censure, of the heterodoxy, delayed till Dr. Hampden was uoininated Regius Professor The answer—the only answer, as far as I know—that is given by Dr. Hampden's assailants, is one to which I invite your attention, that you may judge what is the soundness of their reasoning, and what the truth of their statements. It is, that during this interval of three years, Dr. Ilempden did not hold any responsible situation in which the soundness of his religious views was a matter of high importance. Now, suppoaiog this assertion true, what a wretchedly lame plea does it constitute! A man is selected from the whole university by the heads of colleges to deliver a course of lectures from the university pulpit, which are afterwards published (printed they must be by the injunction of the founder), and go forth to the world with this high sane. tion from the uoiversity—uncensored; and then this university is represented as saying to the Christian public, "It is true this work is full of moot dangerous errors, and is likely to mislead you; but that is nothing to us, so long u the authors not placed in any new situation of responsibility within these walls! " Such is the plea set up in behalf of the university by those who urge her claim to control the decisions of the sovereign's responsible advisers. But this plea, which would be worthless and disgraceful, if founded on fact, is utterly at variance with facts. During that interval, above alluded to, Dr. Hampden occupied as less than three highly important official situations. 1. At the time of the publication of the work he was, and con tinued to be afterwards, the senior Public Examiner for Degrees in Arts; one essential requisite in the examina tion being theology. 2. He was, during the above-men tioned interval, appointed by the chancellor of the university principal of St. Mary's Hall ; having, u such, the complete superintendence of the studiea secular and rdigious, of the members of that hall. And, 3, he was also appointed, by certain heads of houses, to whom the nomination belongs, professor of moral philosophy. So much for the plea of his bottling no office of high re sponsibility during the interval between the appearance of the Hampton Lectures and the vote of censure upon sham. What has been said will be deemed by many persons quite sufficient to establish the position that Dr. Hampden's Hampton Lectures were not really judged objectionable by the members of convocation generally—that their alleged heterodoxy was a mere pretext, and that, consequently, the mounre paved on him was grossly unjust. But further proolls etas semi point may easily be adduced. For, iloweally, if the accusations against his doctrines had been really believed by the authors of them to be well founded, why did they not bring him to trial in a regular way, so. cording to the existing statutes ? This course was adopted, subsequently, in respect of a sermon of Fearsome Fumy's, which had been objected to, and which was accordingly sub mitted to a calm examination before persons to whom the statutes assign that office; and the result wee a regular statutable suspension from preaching in the university for two years. Such a trial was not deprecated, but earnestly demanded by Dr. Hampden. Why wee a preference given to a vote of, at least, doubtful legality, in convocation—a procedure which, in the first instance, war stopped by the concurrent veto of the proctors, on the ground of its irregularity ? The answer is ob vious. Because the accusers knew how little chance they would have of a verdict, as the result of a calm examination of the book itself, and preferred trusting to a vote, given under the influence of excited feelings, by men who, for the most part, were notoriously utterstrangers to Dr. Hampden's work, and judged of it only from garbled extracts and the re presentations of avowed enemies. For it is to be observed, that that majority in convocation which they calculated on, and which they ultimately obtained, consisted, for the most part, not of resident men:then—men who had held offices in the colleges or in the university, or who, at least, had been accus tomed to take part in university transactions, and were conversant with the theological and other studies of the place—but of non-residents, who bad (perhaps many years before) kept their terms as undergraduates, and taken their degrees, and had never revisited the university afterwards, except for a day or two at a time, at long intervals , and had never known, or cared, or thought much of the statutes, the officers, the pursuits, or, in short, of any of the concerns of the university. But persons so circumstanced had votes equally with the residents ; and their votes were far more likely to be, in many instances, influenced by mis representations of Dr. Hampden, and unfair extracts from his writings. These representations and these extracts (" elucidations," as they were called) emanated from persons among whom the principal leaders have since joined the church of Rome; though not till after having for several years shown their die ingenuousness of character by remaining (u the majority of their party still do) professed members of our church, and partakers of its endowments, while inculcating Romanist principles. But moreover, Thirdly. Their resort to this shameless garbling would alone be sufficient to show how little, in their own opinion, Dr. Hampden's work itself was really open to censure. Sentences and half sentences detached from the context, and pieced together in a kind of cent*, in a way by which the Bible itself might be made to countenance any kind of ab surdity and atrocity, were exhibited as an " Elucidation" of Dr. Hampden's Hampton Lectures. Now the most unscru patois pettifogging attorney that ever was pilloried for per jury would never resort to the misrepresenting and garbling of a document, especially when he knew that the document itself was at hand, ready to be brought into court, if he be lieved that that genuine document would serve his cause. Men who have no reverence for truth will yet, when it hap pens to be on their side,prefer it to falsehood, because they know that falsehood is able to detection. The resort there fore to falsification, by Dr. Hampden's accusers, would alone furnish a sufficient proof that they themselves did not think the truth would serve their cause. Further proofs, if further were needed, might easily be adduced, of the insincerity of many of Dr. Hampden's assail ants ; such as the praises lavished by some of them on his Baropton Lectures to his face, in the presence of witnesses now living, and their reference to him (when Divinity Pro fessor) of young men, for solution of their doubts and diffi culties on religious points. But what has been said is suffi cient to convince those who are open to conviction; and with those who are not it would be lost labour to argue. " Remedia," said the ancient physicians, " non egunt in cadaver." !Oi• • RVIIIO le, the _sue ho had THE CHURCH AND THE ?:rcTant, of I Ka4lit's ust beton •wing his, onibus was thehoroso treating him. On the following day the deemed wee re named on board a steamboat, and conveyed to the London Nomital, when it was discovered he had received • fracture M the mum. He expend on Monday last. Morrison was bk.* before the magistrates, at the Oraveseni police-court, and Imo remade& On fliMarday last he cola appeared, mad in coosenuentie of the dangerous state the dammed was in it was meewsuy to remand him again. On the neat mar aim he will be arraigned for baying caused the death et the ""- - jury then adjourned the Inquiry for further ENTHRONIBATION OF THE LORD ARCH BISHOP OF YORK. Imeerela' y the enthronisation of Dr. Musgrave ode Owe in the Cathedral, at York,tn the presence of many showier i sposeatess. There oould not have beenau ntie lees than r imarrimit. • . Ten Vow& was Rohm appointed for the ' dais . ahopere, bat it was hail pest before they entered the &spear. where a greet sestlar of the clergy of the diocese was esseeabatel. The chapter walked in roosssion, and VIPS psolisi by the aresktent, the Rev. Canon Dixon. I Tbs. Peasklaat Isek the chair, having at his right the laalweer eddies the chapter tools their seats to the right labia The charter were inclosed within a temporary bissir, mewed with crimson cloth, outside of which stood tat egg/ Ite nalisrar ha exhibited and rend the lenses man e airoy elgerad to the fur the enthronisation of the , ger tee. meitbishop, • ThePeinsanster said—Rev. brethren, these letter man datary being now read, is it your pleasure that we should vowed according to the faros, form, and effect thereof t If es, yea will signify the same by holding up your hand. The .chapter signified their assent in the way prate:abed, and thereupon proceeded accordingly, the president reading as follows • s' We, William Henry Dixon, clerk, muter of erg, canon reside bass! of the cathedral and metiopelitical church of at Peter of York, and in the absence of the Right Worship : fel William Cockburn, doctor of divinity, dean of the said sethsdnel, president oithis chapter, by and with the =rent due B ard and canoes now present, do receive with all ard and respect the letters mandatory whit& have now been read by our registrar, and we decree to proceed in this business of enthronisation according to the force, form, and effect thereof." The chapter, clergy, deo., then formed into procession, and see Sed to the west deorsof the cathedral, there to meet his ie Arebbishop,who was in waiting at the residence. The procession leashed the west doors at five minutes to eleven, where they remained until a quarter-put, at which time his grace, accompanied by one of his chaplains, arrived in his carriage. Fieriest alighted, his grace, attired in his full sacerdotal robes, and followed by his traln-bearers, entered the cathedral, and was received by the president. The pro motion then formed into reverse order, and moved on beck to the chapter-house, a magnificent voluntary being per formed at the time upon the organ, by Dr. Camidge. Having reached the chapter-house, the president again took the chair, and his grace was conducted to a seat at the head of the chapter, on the president's right hand. The clergy, de., took their places as before, and then his grace, in a clear and audible voice, read the following petition:— "I, Thomas, by Divine Providence, Lord Archbishop of York, elected, confirmed, and translated, petition to be in ducted, installed, and enthroned, with the full archiepiscopal rights in the said church, and the real, actual, and corporal possession of the archbishopric of York, with all and singular the rights, dignities, honours, privileges, and appurtenances whatsoever, in codonnity and according to the manner, statutes, ordinances, and laudable and approved customs of this cathedral and metropoliticel church of Saint Peter of York, and actually and with effect to assign and appoint to me the throne or archiepiscopal seat in the choir of the said church, and ntly accustomed and used to be assigned to the Archbishop there for the time being, and to do and despatch all other things which may be necessary or in any way con venient in this business of induction and enthronisation." The PRIMMEST then decreed for the enthronisation as follows : " We, William Henry Dixon, clerk, master of arts, president of this chapter, by and with the cement of our brethren and canons now present, do decree the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas, by Divine Providence, lard Archbishop of York, to be inducted, installed, and ea- Ikon A." This having concluded the preliminary proceedings by the chapter, the procession was again formed, and having reached the altar, the Archbishop was seated in a chair placed without the rails, and he shortly afterwards proceeded to petition as before, and then took the following oath, which was administered by the Registrar : " I, Thomas, by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of York, elected, confirmed, and translated, and now to be in ducted, installed, and enthroned into the Archiepiscopal see et this Cad', deal and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter of York, do swear that I will observe, and to the utmost of my power defend the rights, privileges, statutes, and customs of the rid church not contrary and repugnant to divine law, and to the laws and statutes of this realm.—So help me God and the holy Evangelin." The PRESIDP.NT then invested the archbishop with the pastoral and archiepiscopal dignity in the following terms : In the name of Gad, amen, we, William Henry Dixon, clerk, master of arts, canon residentiarr of the cathedral and metropulitical church of St Peter of York, and in the ab sence of the Right Worshipful Wm. Cockburn, Doctor of Divinity, dean of the said cathedral, president of this chapter, by and with the consent of our brethren and canons, now present, lawfully proclaim, install, induct, and enthrone you, with all the right., dignities, honours, privi leges, and appurtenances whatsoever, appertaining to the archiepiscopal see of York." The litany and prayers were then chaunted by the Rev. D. Fellowei. The Archbishop and the President then proceeded to the episcopal throne, which they entered, the other members of the chapter standing round. The Archbishop being seated, the President again declared him to be enthroned, in full possession of the p ,were and jurisdiction of the see. The President then, standing in the throne, and turning to the gumption, read a prayer, and the installation and en thromtation then concluded. The Archbishop remained sitting is the throne, and the canons having gone to their proper stalls, the "To Deum " was sung by the choir. The Archbishop then pronounced the blessing, with which the services concluded. The members of the chapter tubseciuently proceeded to the chapter-house, and there a demise of the manor of Bishopthorpe to the Archbishop was read, and sealed with the common seal. THE 'EXPRtBB, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1848. 11. We have to ingetire'llegebrieener it woad have been Tight that Preetl.4s , ...en .6..4.p, a being re onman er ,ded to hshainnepossedbr. hi Athena to a sunned saran o f • eeendmhYs whin was manihesly unjust, and whiett had ben anew set at nought by the university itself. As fee Dr. lisanden's general qualifications, of my own prints opinion on that point I shall, of coiner, my nothing but there Sr. mime in table facts cowman with it, whin may probably be unknown to many of you, sad whin Sought not to•be oveelookalta referent le the pre sent guidon. He obtained aesiendosi distinctions of almost miry ' kind that maid be bestowed, either by the advent, of by the college et which he was dented Mow and tutor, and in which the fellow ship are sagests of pecelharly emu companies. And bias UK SI, the appnalnint of the university and of tti eleasseilet, several albs Idighost Gad most imporMat aim,—pliltio examiner, fireboat of morel philosophy, Bonstealestezer and head of a bone. His ability, and his varier end szlese.n tiredness an gesonally acknowledged. Aniipet, welder is ozganoll!opeonoo peoesse. what acrid have Wand Wakens - to ileee the proisnesat a Man " when pumessi Innis are nil I" • I obi new weeds fors en arilibta Me et the periodicals, not on assonat WOW ability with wink it is written, but, on the contrary, bonne " a straw best noes how the wind blows; ' because no writer is noisily the representative of a elan not neonelisa he their aim b esea,—those who are not at all neve in paint of fareighted wisdom and elevation stabile' soneinown the lawn elem.= sena," gays this writer, "Goad nima Lied ;ski Rase to obsess out Dr. Hamp den, from mane the 15,000 eingyeass of the Church of Blighted, to be dm new Bishop of Hereford ? Dr. Hamp den is ler than nobody." The writer evidently does not mesa this to be andenton as signify lag that he is " jo hns is none."l " Ile is there tative of no party. He Is the mouthmees of no ular set of opinions.... Theavangeliash distrust him to the full as much se the high church party His claims, considered as a private pe en, are nil. Family influence he hes none ; and his repo nano, sea scholar and a divine, never would have been taken into account at all, had not accident floated it, eleven years ago, to the surface." Now for the choice made by ministers may have been easairl by the considerations here adduced to show the alnagswes of It—how far Dr. Hampden's belonging to =sly," and being the " mouth-piece of no set of opinions," but adhering steadily M the doctrines of his Bible and his church, and hoe hieing risen to eminence without any aid whatever from " family is " or from party influence, how far all this may have recommended him to the choice of her Majesty's advisers it is not for me to pronounce. But this, at least, mast be evident to any sensible and right-minded man, that whenever claims, generally, he may have been thought to parr must have been greatly enhanced by the events of the lest eleven years : first, because all men of any generous feeling wish to distinguish and reward • deserving man, who has been long subjected to unjust and cruel persecution; and secondly, because Dr. Hampden's theological soundneas is more fully established than any man's can be who has sot been exposed to such attacks. His works have been, as it were, tried in the fire. For eleven years they have been scrutinised with the utmost diligence, in search of something on which to fix a charge of heresy. They "urged hint vehemently, and provoked him to speak of many things ; laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might anus' him." For eleven years he has been demanding a regular trial, and courting investigation. And in all that time nothing has been established against him. He has been assailed only by declamations,—by rumours and suspicions,—and by gross falsifications. How many theological authors are there whose writings have undergone such a scrutiny ? How many of his accusers are there whose own sermons could go through such an ordeal ? When, then, a man, otherwise judged to possess high claims, has had these laims thus strengthened, through the increased confi dence justly felt in one whom his opponents have long and earnestly, but vainly endeavoured to convict of error, to have passed over such a man, would naturally and reasonably have been regarded as a sacrifice to party prejudice,—as an indi cation of a base and cowardly dread of unjust clamour. A minister who should so act would be considered,—by the best men, in his own times, amid by almost all men, in future times,—as incurring deserved censure, for the sake of avoid ing undeserved. • I should say, therefore, that, even supposing ministers to have foreseen the very extraordinary movement that has token place, they would not have been justified in allowing themselves to be diverted from their purpose by the antici pation of so unreasonable an opposition. But, Thirdly. Still more unjustifiable would it have been to have withdrawn, in compliance with the remoastrants, the recommendation laid before her Majesty, or to have sub jected Dr. Hampden to a trial on charges for which these remonstranta ought to have brought hint to trial—if at all— fourtee• years before. To have yielded to such an appli cation would hove been a gross dereliction of duty, net less unwise than dishonourable ' as tending to shake the foundations of all legitima te authority, and among the rest, not least, of episcopal authority. It would have afforded a precedent and an encourage ment to any kind, and any amount, of wanton interference with the exercise of the lawful rights, whether of the Sove reign or of any other functionary, civil, military, or ecclesi astical. For example, let any one of you suppose the case of being himself preaer.ted to a benefice in the bishop's patronage, and of a remonstrance being sent to the bishop by some of your brother clergy, together with some of the laity, praying him to make choice of "some other person " instead of you : and this, not on the ground of some imputed immorality of private life, or of supposed strange doctrines maintained in' private conversation, or, in short, anything that might have never come to the bishop's knowledge (in which case he might, with reason, commend those who had given him the information, and make inquiries accordingly) ; but entirely on the ground of your having published, several years before, a work which had been charged with heresy at some public meeting, by perilous of whom a large proportion had never read the work, but judged of it from the representations of avowed opponents and especially of one who has since joined the church of Rome. And you should further sup. pose that the persons thus remonstrating with the bishop against you, did not themselves profess to believe the charges; and that neither they nor any one else had insti tuted proceedings against you for heresy, but merely en treated the bishop to rescind his appointment of you, because it would cause dissatisfaction in the minds of many, and dis turb the peace of the church In short, you are to suppose them saying , as the Israelites did to Samson, "We ere come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines .We will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand ; but we will not kill thee." What would be your feelings, and what your expectations, in such a case ? You would surely expect the bishop to do , justice at once to his own high office and to you. You would expect him to reprimand the spplicants, as having suffered ; themselves to be made the instruments for giving effect to ; the unjust prejudices of others, and as countenancing an ' unwarrantaole interference with his rights. You would , expect him, instead of allowing himself to be controlled by ; those of his clergy and people who were hunting you down ' with unjust clamour, to discharge the duty of his office, by enlightening their judgment, and recalling them to their , duty. Should he act otherwise, you would regard him, I ; conceive, as not only guilty of gross injustice towards your- ; self, but as having deserted his post, and virtually trans- , (erred his authority to an irregular, and turbulent, and irre sponsible democracy. And you would consider hia conduct as—what, thank heaven! it is—wholly unprecedented. But a precedent for it there would have been had ministers ; yielded to the remonstrances lately addresse d to them. They ; I would have shaken the foundations of all legitimate au- ' tkority, from that of the Sovereign downwards, and would have left no man any protection against the worst effects of party clamour and party persecution. IV. I cannot but think, therefore, that the ill effects of the late movement, the disturbance of the peace of the church, and the contempt and odium thereby excited , l i against it, and which, in fairness, must be imputed to the authors of the movement, would have been incalculably increased had the movement proved successful. Already , our bitterest opponents, amongst those who stigmatise us , as heretics, and those who decry episcopacy, are exult- , ing over our di/41,131.10ne ; while many members of our own , church have evidently had their confidence in its rulers and in its constitution greatly shaken. But if the movement had proved successful, every man of good sense would have foreseen, what the rest would have soon learned by expe rience, that a total change must ensue in the constitution of our church, and that the offices of it were to be henceforth disposed of by a most irregular and turbulent kind of election. Any man, whose superior learning or ability might have exposed him to the jealousy of some of his brethren, or who might have become an object of drea d to a p art y , by his firm opposition to their attempts to introduce strange doe. trines or practices, would find a cabal formed against him, which, calling itself " the Church," would overawe and in duce to join with them many well - meaning , out ill.advised, persons, who are alw tys ready to make unlimited concessions for the sake of avoiding a disturbance ; and remonstrances and protests, continually more and more loud and peremp tory,.would be interposed to prevent this and that person'. appointment to a bishopric or to a living, for fear of dis pleasing " the Church ;" and ultimately, no doubt, to dic tate to the nominal patron what person he must appoint, in order to gratify " the Church." Better, by far, would it be, that the constitution of our church should be changed avowedly and regularly, and placed upon a democratic footing, than that such irregular encroachments should be encouraged—that the power nomi nally vested in the constituted authorities should be, vir tually, and in practice, exercised by any who should com bine to overawe them. lam myself no friend to unlimited democracy, If rectors and bishops were to be elected by a mejonty of votes of the people, I believe that turbulence and heart burning' would be the result, and that the persons elected would not usually be the fittest and most deserving. But still, the person chosen in each instance would, at least, be the one whom the real majority of the electors had, whether wisely or not, preferred ; and at lent the wise and good, and peaceably disposed, would have their share of thfluenee. But if the constituted authorities of the church, or of any other institu'ion, are intimidated and controlled by the clamours of any self-constituted body of men, the result is that the decision of every question is left exclusively , in the hands of those who are the most turbulent, the most daring, and the most unscrupulous. For, in the absence of a well•constituted and firmly administered government, it is wonderful how small a number of men of this description will usually succeed in overawing the rest, and in representing their voice ss the voice of the people, of then urch of the whole community. In proportion as we appro towerds a state of anarchy, we are always approaching to the condition of the worst kind of oligarchy—the domineering of a few violent and unscru pulous men over the rest. da:Zersies are seer the Weber emaliell, In Proportion es Isla a disorganised ark teed destitute of an di Vat Ter emis lomi madame tor their boastful end of thetroh. They are en- , allied hi tido Nal that way z=, to join, there j that Wig, have simoody *oho ro Mg, lailailrgastreadosal rig, *Mr nos Pr•tal dem they mooed in steeds, vddl a pipit m , imam maim than their own, by le Ulu= •iiidelet's WO soldiers, who, by a sudden of mad hawk • of Ire alarmed the OM lariat tirmatiVis eaaaoai fay a great . Itis weendes, and them wits with table ea the eoeaestut, s ea the pagniar 1 1 sib, ara Asa 'sauced to aid in giving Chola victory. frees a peresselen that they are already sure of it. And the timid, and these who are such unwise levers of peace as to be willing eternalit by yielding to the violent, refrain haw all top roceedings which they inwardly (limp prove; and are thence reckoned as favourable or as let different be sash proceedinp. NIUDINOOII exemplifications of what I have been might be cited from the annals of the French It often happened that a comparatively small number off 111111111 were enabled, in that disorganised state of society, to over- awe Paris, which in turn overawed France; and thee to rep prment themselves as "tie French nation." And in this island it has often happened that • comparatively small MIMI. bar of agitators have been enabled, by clamour, by primes golleitations, by simulating false roman, by representing themeless as " the people," by dark threaM,—to overawe and hold in a kind of subjection whole districts, of which the' meater pact of the population, could their real wishes be own, would gladly escape that thraldom. I will here mention an anecdote, relating to a matter ig trifling importance in itself, which (yet illesezetes what I was saying es to the mistakes which men are bilk In eide.4 mit is estimating the real faros of agitators. sans' Mtge of a pariah in Suffolk, I proposed to tare foolgedifs an* a manner as to afford greatly besseimed e lateenallegsm most of the inhabitants. But the change was Illswielee advantage to the rectory-house. This cireemeteneee lee sufficient to arouse some of thou agitators who area to be found, I suppose, more or lee, in every poi*. They in duced a small number to believe that the proposed change was detrimental ; and a pod many more to believe that the parishioners thought it so. They called meetings, and made speeches, and circulated loud complaints of the projected injury to the pubis for the benefit of an individual. And some of my friends were so far misled by these representa tious as to advise the abandonment of the plan, on the ground that the parhhioners—though most esteem's ably and unamountably—objected to it. I expreseed strong doubts of the fact ; but promised that if, on fair inquiry, I should find the majority opposed to the change, I would think no more of it. Accord ingly, I sent round several gentlemen to go from house to house throughout the parish, and, without using any soli citations, or entente into any discussions, simply to desire each householder, if he thought proper, to put a white or a black bean into a bag presented to him, according as he was favourable or unfavourable to the proposed alteration. Most of them did se ; though some few professed indifference, and stood neuter. The result was, to the surprise of some of sty friends, that there appeared, for the plan, upwards of 300 votes, and against it only twenty-nine. Yet these, who were lose than a tenth, had contrived to make some persona believe that they were " the parish." Mistakes of this kind, as to the relative numerical strength of parties, and as to what is really the public opinion en each point, are, as has been above remarked, the more likely to prevail, and to lead to the subjection of the many to a few, and those, the least worthy to bear rule,—in pro- portion as any society is in a disorganized condition, and under no settled and steadily-administered government, It is on this account, chiefly, that I have eo long and so ear. neatly advocated a church-government; not a government independent of the state, or claiming control over temporal causes sad properties, but in due subordinatian to the state, and in its own legitimate province ; not (what some seem to understand by church government) a government by the clergy, but, as in the American Episcopal Church, by the clergy and laity conjointly; only, by those, exclusively, who are members of the church. And yet I have little doubt that the very idea of a church government will, by many, be regarded with greater dread and aversion than ever, in consequence of the late move. meet ; as if the absence of such government were the best security against the party contests, intrigues, and cabals which are actually occurring before our eyes! Perham some of our ancestors reasoned thus at the time of Cade's rebel lion, sad the French Jacquerie, ; saying, " You see how turbulent the people are as it is ; how much wens th ey would be if they had • free parliament ?" In troth, a well constituted government is the only effectual check to soak evils as we are cuff ring under ; and, among others, to the mistake above alluded to, respecting the real numerical strength of clamorous agitators. By far the most pernicious mistake, however, is that of thou short-sighted lovers of peace, who think to secure it by yielding to the clamorous and violent, whether many or few, fur fear of occasioning a disturbance. There are always men ready to take advantage of this diepeeition, by resolving d that there never shall be peace as long as any of their de mands remain unsatisfied. When our ancestors bought off pirates by payment of Dane-gelt, they were, in fact, hiring the Danes to repeat their incursions. Those who thus par chase present peace, are sure to produce, in the end, more frequent and more violent contest', unless they are prepared to make unlimited concessions, and ultimately to submit to a complete tyranny. A timid and short-sighted mother is , sometimes induced to grant her children improper indul gences, and to aboain from enforcing wholesome regulations, for fear of occasioniag a present disturbance, arising out of the rebellious wilfulnese of some of them. But we do not find that families thus managed present an aspect of superior peace and contentment. Yet many are always found (as in the present case) in clined, while they disapprove of the proceedings of the agita tors, yet to lay the chief blame on the imprudence of those who, as they express it, caused the agitation, by refusing to submit to the wishes of the more violent and intemperate. And it is tree that almost every disturbance of the public peace is, in a certain sense, caused by those who refuse such submission : and they will always be, by some persons, re proached as occasioning such disturbance. We find Paul represented by his enemies as a " mover of sedition." He and his fellow-labourer* are described as "the men that have turned the world upside down ;" and to them, doubt less, were imputed the tumults at Corinth, at Ephesus, and elsewhere ; so far with truth, that if they had but refrained from preaching the gos el of their divine master those tu mults raised against them would not have occurred. It is true, that—u he foretold,—that Gospel did not " bring peace on earth, but division." But it is the height of absurdity, as well as of injustice, to cast the blame of disturbances of the peace, not on those who unreuocably and unjustly make such disturbances, but on those who occasion them by re fusing to forego the faithful discharge of their duty. I cannot see, therefore, why the whole blame of the pre sent outbi eat, and all the evils resulting from it, should not lie at the door of these exclusively who have taken part is it, and especially of those who were the first movers of the commotion. These first movers, both thepresent occasion and also en that which occurred on Sit esppointment of Dr. Hampden to the professorship, are, I have no doubt, the members of that party from which the Oxford Tracts emanated, and who have acquired of late yearn an accession of strength which, considering the exposure of their real principles that has taken place, is as strange as it is alarming. Yet, on both ore ' casions, they succeeded in inducing several persons to join in their assaults on Dr. Hampden, who do not really approve of the doctrines and practices of the party. By these who do maintain the principles of those tracts Dr. Hampden's Hampton Lectures were early assailed, though with little or no effect on the public mind. The cause of the hostility was obvious. His lectures were, as well as all his subsequent publications, wholly at variance with the doctrinces of the tracts ; especially with their endeavours to place human expositions and formularies, and oral traditions, on a level with the Holy Scriptures. Accordingly, the title, as I remember, of one of the earliest pamphlets written against him was, " The Foundations of the Faith assailed at Oxford." One may naturally ask, of what faith ?" Manifestly, the faith of the Tract party, and not that of our church. For this latter has its foundation on Scripture alone, which is expressly declared to " contain all things necessary to salva tion ;" while creeds and other formulanes are received by our church, not as a foundation, but as a superstructure, " be cause they may be proved by Holy Writ." Now it has never been even pretended that Dr. Hampden impugned the autho rity of Scripture. The "faith" therefore wham ' foundations" he was accused of assailing (and he did wail them very powerfully), is manifestly not that of the church, but that of those nominal members of it who studiously inculcate doctrines utterly opposed to its fundamental principles. The pamphlet just alluded to I recollect hearing my valued friend Dr. Arnold, mention, as affording an instance of the general disregard of truth in the writers of that school. He pointed out to me that the author speaks of a sort of combination of persons, whom he names, to propagate cer tain doctrines they had agreed upon, being connected together by the bonds not only of community of opinions but by those of intimate private friendship ; enumeratiog, among others, Dr. Arnold himself, Dr. Hampden, Mr. Blanco White, Dr. Hinds, and myself. Now, of althese persons, there was, Dr. Arnold remarked, no one, besides myself, of whom, in reference to him, the above description was not utterly untrue. He never had any particular in timacy with Dr. Hampden ; and with Dr. Hinds and Mr. Blanco White he never had se much as a vita ing acquaintance. "Not," raid he "that I should have bad any reason to be asham ed of such an inti macy, had it existed; but as it never did, the put ting forth of such a fabrication to serve a turn,—to excite suspicions agaiast a supposed clique of intimate friends con spiring together to propagate a certain theological system, — serves to show the unprincipled recklessness of truth of which we have, of late years, sees so many deplorable instances." In the same spirit it has been lately maintained, I under stand, by a nearconnexion of Mr. Newman, that Dr, Hamp den's Bampton Lectures were the work not to much of him self as of Mr. Blanco White; because the latter had been observed to give utterance in conversation to many of the sentiments contained in the lectures; no very wonder ful result, one would think, of his having heard or read what Dr. Hampden was writing, and having acquiesced in some of his views. Any who are at all acquainted with Dr. Hampden, how little never they may concur with him in opinion, mast be well aware that he is one of the last men to adopt and maintain, on any human authority, conclusions of which he was not fully convinced. Nothing could have induced either him or any of the other persons above alluded to, to combine together like the tract.writers, as described by two of their own number,—Messrs. Palmer and Perceval,—to circulate publications which some of them selves regarded as containing erroneous and mischievous doe. trines like the Roman Triumvirs, each of whom consented to sac rifice some of his own friends to the murderous hatred of the others, on condition of receiving • like favour from his colleagues in return. The close friendship which existed be tween Dr. Arnold and myself was not impaired by thine dif fewness of opinion between is on several points, which are well known to the readers of our respective works ; nor, again, did that friendship induce tither of aa to proles or propagate anything that he did not in his heart believe or to suppress anythieg that he *received to be as important trot. Bu h t, to thorougtogoiag and unscrupulous party-men. it lo difficult to understand at all those who act oa higher mg purer principles. The earliest 'midis made by the tract party (far less nu merous then than now) on Dr. Hampden, produced, as I have said. little or no affect on the public mind, till the mid 'leaden of hie pamphlet on Dissent (above adverted to) gave offence to many others, and induced them to seek, in a charge of heterodoxy, a pretext for censuring his appoint ment to be mitts professor. But when this charge was thus made, I have no doubt that some well-meaning, but incautious, permits suffered themselves to be influenced by the misrepresentations that we,. industriously circulated, and voted against him under a sincere conviction that he was heterodox. When he pointed out—what is undeniably true—that several terms and phrases in which the articles of our faith are commonly expressed, are of human, and not of scriptural origin, it was easy to penned. some who were not very clear ressoners, that he represented the Articles of Faith themselves as un scriptural, and of man's invention. And when passages in hie works were pointed out to them, which aught, when taken apart from the contest, be understood as favouring Socinian, Sabellian, or Irian views, they failed to reeollect that the same is n otoriously the ems with the Bible itself ; since otherwise, those sects—each appealing to Scripture, which they interpret according to their own respective viam —never could have arisen. I shall not, as I have already said, enter upon any full die elusion of Dr. Hampden's theological views; bet I believe the above to he a correct and full account of the mistake (se I conceive it to be) of those who sincerely regarded his lec tures as at variance either with Scripture or with the tenets of our church. But I would again remind you that bad there been, in the judgment of his accusers, any just ground for such a sus picion, they would not have waited 14 years before they thought of bringing him to a regular trial, and have ulti mately abandoned the design as hopeless. Many, accord ingly, of those who were Minced to join in the first move ment against Dr. Hampden have long sines repented of their rashness, and advocated the rescinding of the vote of censure. And the same, I have no doubt, will be the case with many of those who have taken part in the present movement. Calm and dispaesiorate reflection will turn their indignation against those who have seduced them into prejudging, and condemning without good evidence; and who have led them to mistake one of the universities, or some self-appointed committees, for the church, and to allow them to assume it* title and usurp its functions. I shall rejoice if what I have said shall have furnished you with such information as you sought, and if the remarks I have made shall have been such a, you concur in. It is always satisfaetory to me to find myself acting end thinking with my clergy and with the other members of the united church. But this desirable result can only be brought about by a coincidence of my own deliberate judgment with your opinions and your wishes. I will never—as you must long since have been well aware-60 lend myself to the preju dices or to the designs of any person or party, however powerful, an to do or profess to encourage in others, any thing contrary to my own sincere conviction. Be it your business and mine to appeal with single-hearted desire of truth, to Scripture and to sound reason. May we be enabled, through divine help, to find the truth, and to agree in it ; or if in any point differences of opinion arise, may we have grace to differ without bitter hostility, and without disturbance of the peace of the Christian world ! And may we be enabled to put in practice the apostle's pre cept, to " Study to be quiet (4wArrtiatar6u ilovxa(etv), and to mind our own business"—the instruction end the guidance, by good example as well as by precept, of those committed to our charge ! IRELAND. DUILIN, JAN. 12. Monday, the 24th inst., is fixed for the special oommission in Tipperary, when the calendars of the two ridings will undergo a clearance in Clonmel. Among the prisoners from the north are rive charged with a conspiracy to murder Mr. Uniacke Baily, five more for the wilful murder of Mr. Dillon, and the majority of the rest for robbery of arms and attacks on dwelling-houses. The Hon. Mrs. Westenra received a threatening notice, which well nigh had the effect of adding another to the list of exiles. The charity and benevo lence of Mrs. Westenra would have rendered her I absence a serious loss to the poor. On Sunday, the parish priest, the Rev. Mr. Healy, addressed a vigor ous exhortation to his flock, denouncing the general state of crime in the country, and especially the menace to Mrs. Westenra. The farmers sympathised with their pastor, and in a few minutes after prayers, 501. were contributed to reward the discoverer. An address was also presented by the rev. gentleman at the head of a parochial deputation. Transportation was never so general as at present. Every quarter-session supplies a large addition, and districts which never before were visited with penalty, now contribute their twos and threes. At the Birr sessions, just closed, eleven were sentenced to trans portation and fifty-eight others to various degrees of punishment. Once before an expatriating fit seized the quarterly administrators, which is now renewed —of course with justice, and "according to evidence." The Commissioners of the Great Seal will sit to- norrow in the Court of Chancery to hear canoes. STATE or THE COUNTRY.— The most striking fertuee, and it is no less painful than striking, is the progress of des titution apparent through the west and south. From Mayo the local journal brings us accounts of inquests upon not less than six bodies, in all of which the verdicts ran " Died of destitution." Medical evidence as to the cause of death was heard in each case. Those deaths occurred in various loca lities of the county. The Mayo Constitution states that six bullocks had been boughed one night during the last week on Mr. James Tuohy's premises, • large and wealthy fanner. The outrage would seem not to have arisen from distress, as. though the animals were killed, the carcases were left behind. The sessions here are as fruitful of litigation and as promising of future " clearances " in Mayo as in other counties they have hitherto been. The number of civil bills for trial here are 780, and of civil bill ejectments 24, each including more than one defendant. This applies to the district of Castle bar alone. In another portion of the West Roscommon there was in one district 775 civil bills entered, and the ejectments were represented as " far more numerous than usual." And here a novel application was made to the assistant banister. About 60 persons confined in the debtors' side of the Ros common prison applied to be placed on the gaol allowance, or to have an order made on the detainii creditors to allow , them 2s. Gd. each per week. The barrister having given their ease consideration, directed that as soon as they shall hay given up their lands and houses to the landlords, they shall be in every case discharged. this is another operation of the "clearance system." A curious fact has come to light with respect to the manage ment of the workhouse of Roscommon. A paid board of guardians wu recently appointed, and they found on testing the paupers with the rations issued, that ftom 30 to 40 were rated on the books, and rations drawn for them who had no representatives in the house. Clare presents in its western districts as miserable a phase as Mayo. For five days of the last; week six corpses lay unburied at Ennistymon, awaiting tke Sabbath that a collection might ke made to pro vide coffins for them, as the deceased either had no friends or none who were able to provide them with any. Some of those had died of destitution. A farmer named Cleary was murdered by his wife a few nights since as he lay asleep. The unhappy woman, who is supposed to be mad, struck him several blows with a hatchet.—A Mr. Hart tilled himself in Kilkenny a few days since. Mr. Hart was shaking the butt end of his gun against the ground, for the purpose of forcing some powder into the cap pillar, when the piece accidentally went off, and the contents unfortunst,ly went through his head, the muzzle of the gun being pointed towards his forehead. Decea'ed only lived to utter a few exclamations, which were prayers to God for mercy. SPECIAL COMMISSION. COUNTY CLARE. (PROM OUR OWN ENNIS, WIDNVIDAT, JAN. 12. The judges arrived here to-day from Limerick, at halt past twelve o'clock. They were escorted into the town by a troop of the Queen's Bays and some mounted policemen, and attended by the High Sheriff, R. A. Studdart, Esq. The town is a good deal crowded by gentlemen summoned to serve as jurors, the peasantry, &c. ; and much inte rest and anxiety seems to be excited on the occasion. At half-past one o'clock their lordships took their seat on the bench, and the Clerk of the Crown having read the special commission, the grand panel was called, and the fol lowing grand jury were sworn: Sir Lucius O'Brien, M.P. ; Sir Hugh Dillon Massy, Sir Edward Fitzgerald, Colonel Crofton. M. Vaudsleur, Captain Francis M'Naniara, John M'Donnell, Bindon Blood, John Stackpoole, James Molony, Simon G. Purdon, John O'Brien, Augustine Butler, Colonel Charles Lynge, Thomas D. Studdart, James Butler, George Studdart, Major W. B. Ball, F. Joan Fitzgerald, William Mill., Marcus Patterson, Phillip Heade, Francis Gore, and William Butler. Two o'Ctocx.—The Chief Baron is just proceeding to address the grand jury. As the mail is leaving lam un able to send you any of the address. There is a large number of primners for trial here—at least much larger, it is thought, than could be tried within the time allowed for the disposal of the business, if all the cases were brought forward; but as the crown will only proceed at the special commission with such cases as they are certain of a conviction in, it is probable that many of the cues will be allowed to remain over till the wises—that is, provided there be not an adjoummer' of the special commission here sa in Limerick. Now, is the period for usually holding the mixes, considering the determination evinced to " administer the law with vigour and promptituae, and to make salutary examples.' It should not excite any surprise if this course be adopted There are 164 prisoners in custody for various offences, and among them are the prisoners apprehended for attacking a house at Crat se, in this county, from which a murder resulted, even while the judge, were I. autese.:,tyr:g s ....:-.4 - i tyniese againt Malls lusty ire Ns eardar f Thye, T. , fizt re bill b s B of indict. ..'' Mahon ' au" Hai Jams lansiedy, foe the murder of P. Feely; James Hayes Deihl ly ri c for the n of Mr. Watson; and MANI Deis lid Natb ow H fee the mes h • of Pat 010asg. • The tr i = the ihwaglrsowey aad Hemet, who wanes emit 1 trial Is at the departure of the mail yesterday, fire having eleeskei house of Mr. J. C. Meade, and robbed it I of arms, in head Guilty, and sentenced to be transports& for life. SCOTLAND. . EDINBIT/IGN, JAW. 12. ' 1 . Tea& continues in an uneasy state is Glasgow— , although, as is usual in times of depression have parties set down as on the high-road g = Gazette who are perfectly solvent. The only casualty positively recorded this morning is the failure d Anderson, M'Gregor, and Co., of Kilmarnock, which will cause a serious suspension of employment in that quarter. The counties are regularly organising against Pees Bank Act, In addition to I'orfarahire, formerly men- • I tioned, a meeting Le to be held of the Ayrshire lieu- tenancy, &0., on the 21st inst., for the purpose of peti- 1 1 tioning for repo aL UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL CAMBRIDGE, JAW. 13.—Notice has been given that the following will be the subjects of examination in the lest 1 1 week of the Lent term, 1849:—The Gospel of St. Matthew. Paley's Evidences, the Old Testament History, Last Book of Xenophon 's Anabuis, Virgil 2Eneid 11. • THE BISHOP OP SODOM AND MANN held an ordination on the 9th inst., in St. Nicholas Chapel, Bishops' Court, when the Rev. Gilmour Harvey, of King William's College, was admitted into the order of priests. FOULS/P[o7lB.—h is stated that in the coarse of the year a new church will be built on the East Cliff (the site for the new town of Folkestone), by the Earl of Radnor. . . Sr. AUOUSTINB'S COLLEGE, CANTERBCRY.—No day bag I .. . yet been fixed on for the opening of this college, but the 1 arrangements are in • state of great forwardness. Forty missionary students wall be accommodated on the opening of the college, and this number will be increased u cireuoa- stencee a dmit. The Right Rev. Dr. Coleridge, formerly ,I Bishop of Barbadoes, will be warden of the college. BIRMINOHAM.—IT is asserted that the Rev. J. Garbttt, rural dean of this district, has beea appointed ex - chaplain to the Bishop of Manchester, and that he ' preach the oonsecr.tion sermon of the right rev, bishop. : NAVAL DEVONPORT, JAN. 12.—A court-martial assembled oa 1 beard the San Josef yesterday for the trial of J. Sayre and G. Newcombe, marines, for deserting H.M.S. Endymion. The prisoners were found guilty and sentenced—the former to 15 months imprisonment, 12 to hard labour and 3 solitary ; and the latter to 18 menthe imprisonment, 15 to bard la- beur and 3 solitary.—Wellesley, 72, was undocked yester- ii l, day. She is shipping hand" fast.—Nils was disnuated last . • evening preparatory to her being docked. WOOLWICH, JAN. 13.—Phones, It. v , is in the basin, and will be brought forward for commission—Rattler, st. v.,was undocked on Monday, from the east dock, and taken into the basin ; she is to be commissioned, and to bare an armament of one 8 inch gun and six 32-pounders of 25 cwt. She will be read y to for commission th is month . — Rifleman , st v., is in . the bas in, and is have the engines of the Teaser, 100-hone power. —The chacas have been delivered to the men of the Dockyard Brigade this week. The summer drills will not eocommenceuntil May, and continue till August ; the drills are to be twice a week. The officers and non-commissioned officers are to drill during the month of April. 1 SURERNESS, JAN. 12 .— Modesto is ordered to be paid off here, on Monday next.—Heela, st. sloop, is also to be paid off on Friday next—Hanansh and Ganges were commis- sioned yesterday. The Ganges is well advanced in her fit- ment, rigging, &c.; the Havannah is still in dock. MILITARY. Wooiwicm, Jam. 12.—We reported some time ago the intention of the authorities to increase the Royal 1 Artillery. An order was issued yesterday afternoon for each of the 10 battalions of the Royal Regiment i l of Artillery to give in to the Adjutant-General's office to-day a list of the names of the non-commissioned officers eligible for promotion, that those at foreign stations may be immediately seat home to join the 20 new companies ' ordered to be formed, being two new companies to each of the 10 battalions. The formation of the 20 new companies will promote 20 second-captains to be captains, and to . have the command of companies ; 20 first-lieutenants to be second.captains; 20 second.lieuteuents to be first.lieute- ' nants, to fill up the vacancies by the promotion from the already formed companies ; and 40 second lieutenant' I will also be promoted to give two second lieutenants to each of the new companies. The number of promotions amongst 1 1 the non-commissioned officers will be 20 sergeants to be co- lour-sergesots, 80 corporals to be sergeants, 160 bombardiers to be corporals, 240 acting bombardiers to be full bomber- I diem, and 240 gunners to be mule acting bombardiers, and 40 boys will be enlisted to serve as drummers. , The following is a list of the officers who will be promoted I by the augmentation :—Second Captains.—P. Ellie, N. E. Harlon, C. Cheethan, G. J. L. Buchanan, W. S. Payne, W. IL Gilbert, A. F. W. Papillon, H. Aylemer, G. C. Len in ~. A. G. W. Hamilton, W. Fulford, A. Irving, St. J. T. [ Browne, C. Bingham, H. S. Rowan. J. N. A. Freese, F. D. 1 I 1 1 Cleveland, H. A. Turner, T. B. F. Marriott, T. Elwya.; I to be first captains, and have the command of companies. .. Two of the above are adjutants, which appointments they o 1 . will have to vacate, and two second captains will be ap- pointed adjutants. First Lieutenants: J. J. Brendling, A. R. Wragge, F. W. Haultain, T. W. Lawrence, F. J. " i' , Travers, M. C. Dixon, C. F. Thorndike, H. Rogers, J. Tarr- 1 . nor, A. C. 1.. Fitzroy. E. H. Fisher, R. F. Mountain, S. , Cleaveland,A. C. S. Somerset, P. A. Morshed, S. H. S. Ingle- • field, E. M. Boxer, C. S. Longden, W. A. Middleton, and R. I , f J. Cannon, to be second captains in the new companies. ' . Second Lieutenants W. 11. tdyton, R. P. C. Jones, H. 1. - M Campbell, R. 0. Farmer, C. M. Govan, C. H. Ingilby, i , R. P. Oabbett, H. P. Yates, M. F. Ferrero, 11. A. Thrupp, t C. E. Mainwaring, A. Gordon, W. J. Williams, C. F. , I Young, S. Fretting, 0. R. Stokes, J. F. Pennycuik, W. J. I 1 e Grimston, W. D. ()nine ' and.C. E. Oldershaw, to be first e lieutenants, to fill up the vacancies in the already formed I e companies which will be caused by the augmentation. e The following second lieutenants will he promoted to be i I e first lieutenants in the new companies :N.O. S. Turner, S. ', i e D. Wright, A. Y. Earle, Hon. L. A. Addington, A. Van- e deleur, A. S. OM C. R owland Hill, P. J. Campbell, F. C. 11 . 1 i e Maude, A.W. Twin., R. Curtis, A. Sievewright, F. 8. Seals, e J. Boulton, J. de L. Saunderson, M. Anketell, P. Dickson, 5 /E. Clarke, F. Place, E. J. Bruce, W. P. Richards, J. E. • i l d Hope, H.W. J. Dashwood, A. Brendon, J. de Haviland, S. r. Carden, 0. A. Wilkinson, W. W. A. Lukin, W. Walker, C. .. I ~. E. Walcott, G. Bartchaell, G. Davis, E. G. Bredin, W. J. i l • . it Bolton, G. B. Traherne , S. GB G. atchellor, H. T. Middleton, •• ..,. e t F. Close, J. Sinclair, and H. L. Talbot. ~ The strength of the Royal Artillery will now consist of y Colonel Field Marshal the Marquis of Anglesey, master- . . general ; Major-General Sir Hew D. Roes, deputy adjutant... 1. general ; 11 colonels-commandant : Lieutenant... General Sir " Thomas Downman, of the Royal Horse Artillery, and one • for each of the 10 battalions. 22 colonels, 49 lieutenant- ie colonels, three bolding civil appointments, and the others in . command at home and foreign stations, and of battalions in . • re the garrison at Woolwich, or in charge of departments in the to Royal Arsenal, ete ; 109 captain. ' 7en command of troops of ~, Royal florae Artillery ; 1 superin tendent of the riding-house of establishment, lin charge of the gentlemen cadets, and 100 in • i , command of 100 compauies of Foot Artillery,including the field , batteries; 120 second captains, including the adjutants of je battalions, Ac. • 221 first lieutenants, three to each troop of e )( Royal Horse A rtillery, and two to each of the 100 comps- ' l a ales o f Foot Artillery; 14 second lieutenants, and llquarter- p. masters. The strength of each company of Foot Artillery 4 ,I ei is 99 men, including non-commissioned officers, making an ~, efficient force of 9,900 men, exclusive of Lone artillery. yi tt On Thursday last the number of recruits who marched 1 I g past in the garrison at Woolwich for the inspection of the colonel in c h arge of drills wasup wards of 1 500 all fins y . , , is young men, well adapted for the service. is SPORTING. TATTERSALL'S.—THVESDAY. A moderate amount of business was transacted at the fol- 'IV 1 lowing prices • : 11 LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHAFE.-15 to 1 on the Field ; 20 to 1 'gat Sir Arthur ; 30 to 1 eget Brunette (t); 30 to 1 agst Latitat (t) ; 50 to 1 umt Chatham (t to 5014 ; 50 to I agat Discount (t to 251.); 50 to 1 agst Khondooz (t to 251.) ; 60 to 1 sgst Profligate (t to 251.) • 1,000 to 10 agst Sputa (t). CHESTER Cap.-. 50 00 to 10 ain ' t Blaze (t and aft off) ;660000 to 10 agat Mendicant (t and aft off); 1,000 to 20 agst Chat (t) ; 1,000 to 15 mast Jonathan Wild (t); 1,000 to 15 agat 11- Executor (t) • 300 to 10 wet Cossack and Foreclosure (t). by DERBY —lOlO lon the Field ;20to 1 aget Springy Jack n, (t and aft off ) ; 25 to 1 urn Nil Desperandum (t); 35 to 1 4 1. agn Besborourh (t) ; 1,000 to 15 agst - The Fiddler (t) ; 2,500 ed to 25 agst Brockett (t). :e- -at ROYAL LEAMINGTON AND SOUTHAM STEEPLE he CHASES. al ENTRIR9.—THE GRAND OPEN STEEPLE CRANE STAMM ) 1 - of 20 son eath.—St. Leger, Chatham, Naworth, Caves- '. : dish, Boskeeper, The Nigger, Jerry Chandler, Eagle, Sear- le green Alexander, Miss Fop, tiazeley Salute, Matchless, 10 Gaylail, Culverthorpe, Chronometer, Discount, Profligate, , Y, Tamworth, Edwanithe First, Gayhurst, Proceed, Repeater, • eel St. Ruth, Sir Arthur, Spectator—Weights tobe declared on fle Saturday next, and forfeits on the 19th instant. rn id to tale Intelligente. • ri- EQUITY COURTS. ge Defore the Lord Chancellor. ch MAITLAND V. BACKUOUHR /OW OTHERA.-01:ARDIAN he AND WARD. PaoNiest,aY NuTE,— INJUNCTION.—The if arguments se this motion began on Tuesday, and were con- rill tinned till half-past twelve o'clock, when the Lord Chancel- i see for rose and the further hearing was adjourned. The object sat of the motion was to dissolve an injunction granted by the he Vice-Chancellor, restraining the Messrs. Backhouse, bankers ant in Newcastle, from proceeding with an action at law to as enforce payment from the plaintiff, Min Maitland, of a pro- - .ng miseory note for 5.0001. The note was drawn by Mr. Donald ith Maclean, late M.P. for the city of Oxford, payable to Mire et.' Maitland, and endorsed by her. The note afterwards came led into the peesession of the Messrs. Backhonse, being paid is es, by one of their customers. The equity raised in the bill y ~,,, . ..t o\ o fo na r n b f i r which the tr ee. injunction y ding issued , was thatuse of l i f t ~.,-,-,....._:.: ~ M we Maclean, who was her gwirdian until 1844 , when that : d: nn Ir -- 1... : is ': 4 < 1 1 ' ! i . • ... 1 r ; "3 ' O. "l a -,/' • i --- kr yr. 4 4 • • 1 . ....-. , na ' tee I ‘'lllA, . ..___.-----,-------. _ 61 um we .hii his; -A !ob. - LW* tam of of the helm whole Whirs' ended ,f coals llowsd of Mr.