The Express. — London, England, 1849-03-21 00:00:00

Mk! al r pNib i t 0 4 OW weal that tt a House of COllllllO6/ Wlll not the place where the question ought Lobe brought, but that it shoul be taken foto a wort of kw. (Hear, hoar.) If the hon. gentleman, seder eater of this Iso4kea, want that a pr , seeution abould be dittoed splint the bishop for imatiasal practices, be did sit ass hew the Is at Comm= emii interfere, Bat if the irainamins was siimpahar biped the law, sad that fa object of the boa spatinnen me to provide for a digemot amasiumat end W t of _ panonsgo k i Mum, the Nam amiss in that ease vonld be, that =shorinid mho some mind sash as ea is might think necessary, with a view to a Mier tIYM trodsta et that patronage in Snare. 'What gamma te bus In he a fir better 001111111 than to take m e a perdurable ace, sad az on it as that alone with a they meld dad. With regard to this whole ease, therefore, be biased to give any positive opinion as to whether the arrangtasars which Dad been ma :a ware the best that could poesibly be made. He begged the how to observe, however, lathe Int helium that it was cash seed by the pentionsn themselves that the clergymen arpoinktd WOO eminently it, that they were of exemplary character, an d of great nakistiniel devotion ; in the next place, that the epplis Rion of the fonds, as far as application was made of them, was with a view of increasing the lamina of the chapeiries and providing for spiritual instruction in the peersh ; and in the last place, that what was oohed was not that Bishop Portsmouth should be butts provided for, but that the surplus should be given to the town of Sunderland, a totally different parish, for which, as far as he could see, there wee no claim in law sr equity, or trona the fact th it both parishes weft in the suss town. Than appeared to h.in to be the subs leatares • the case. The hon. gentleman who bad brought for ward this mode* had taken this opportunity, as on many others of • similar kind, of impugning this particular dis tribution of pa• ard of making ctrtain imputations against the general tor of the Bishop of Durham. He would only male a penal declaration ow the other head, that the Bishop of Dsrhsm's conduct was regulated by a doe regard to the heavy and high responsibility Defeat lag to his episcopal stalk*. (Hear, hear.) When he said that he knew the Bishop of Durham for many yease, be meat that he ham kin at school, where he entirely devoted himself to the pursuits of lowing', and did not eater mash late the world, and wee concerned in Urfa bleed the pur suits of learning, divieity, and those stalks whkis b= Afterwardsto hie sacred callingAfterwardshe was roam he a bishopric, and 13,0001. was taken away from what was then reckoned en twine of 21,0001. a year. (Hear.) His belief was that he always enducted himself with great generosity sad liberality. That he was respected in his diocese, mad had always endeavoured to dispose of hie patronage ia sad a way as to promote the welfare of those who were oomualtted to his spiritual charge. (Hear.) But, however that might be, he submitted he ought not to be singled out as the °bleed of such an invidious motion. (Hear.) 1f there mast be a =oboe let it be of a general kind, end sot of the special nature of the motion now before the house. With regard to reforms is the church generally inquiries were now going on, end others were to be insti tuted on the modes of his noble friend opposite—(Lord Ash ley)--all of which must tend to still greeter rotors% its the shank than had hitherto taken place. It was sot denied that great aleu-ss existed, and year after year efforts had bee* made by the church and the clergy thew...yes to remedy them. Measures bad bees passed, with the universal concurrence of parliament, for the sank object ; and he trusted that, year alter year, they should still further reform the church, so as to enable it to impost spiritual batruction to a still wider 'steal than was heretofore the cam. (Hear, heal.) He hoped the hon. gentleman would co operate in suet reforms, bat he cer tainly could not cogent to a motion which seemed to be in itialled as an 'emotion against an individual, and which, if gat in that shape at all, must be brcuakt is • court of law kr simoniacal practises. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Al& roma THOMPSON said that, having been for so kin a psried umneted with the town of Suaderiand, he loan net conteut himself with a silent vote as the present smailost. He was not prepared to expect acquieseram in the mottos on the pert of the noble lord, but he certainly thtunbt he woald ham munterord to the hoar that it was le intention of the Bishop of Durham to introduce a bill on ths subj. et. (Hear.) Lord J RUSSELL—Poesibly the Bishop of Durham may intend to introdece a bill. Mr. Alderman THOM PSON had expected that the noble lord would have Seen authorised to state that the right rev. prelate was prepared to brine in a bill. (Hear, hear.) He did not earn with the noble lord that the present motion wet attended with any inconvenience, because the circling. stances of Bishop Weananuth were peculiar, and there was no daager that it would be all. d into • precedent for similar motion. (Hear.) The complaint against the Bishop at Durham was not with n spot to the two clergymen whom he appointed, but that he hypothecated a portion of the 111101311/1 of the parish without stating the mode in which he meant to apply ►t. (Hear.) Then the noble lord said that the parish of Sunderlaad had no more right to any part of the temporalities of Bishop Wearmouth than any other pa rish ; but he seemed to forget the fact, that it was only in the last century that these parishes were *operated. (Cheer.) The noble lord bad forg men that although the parish of Sunderland neatened upwards of 20,000 poor penons, the stipends of the rector and his curates did not amount to more than 1001. a year each. The late rector, the reverend Mr. Ony, could not pomibly have acted as he did had he not pond a large fortune. Hie , neome from other sources enabled him •o relieve the necenities of the parish ; and his enceemer, Mr. Webb, finding the pressure upon him too heavy, obtained from the Mahon of Dunham another living. The wish of Sunderland had, he maintained, • spe:ial claim to participate in the temporalitiss of Bishop. westranth. The END , income of the rector was 2,1001. • year, and even after making the requisite dodeetions for curatee, and the expenses of collecting thine e and soon, the net income was 1,2001. a jeer ; while the rector of Strodnland could not possibly receive mon than 2801. • year. la this case it wee to be observed that Sunderland was net opposed to Bishop Westmeath, but the two parishes Joined in petitioning parliament for a bitter distribution. Under such circumstanoes tl , e noble lord had not evinced his usual candour in attempting to make out that the inhabitant , of Sunderland had to claim on the temporalidn which were attached to Sti, &nand. (Hear, heir.) He saw no inconvenience which could arise Isom seceding to the motion. lie should, however, have refund to hear from the noble lord that it woe the inten tion of the Bishop of Durham himself to introduce a bill on the subject. It was impossible fix the Bishop of Durham to apply the surplus finds o! Bishop Wearmouth without making an application to parliament, and it would have been more astisfeetny both to the church end the country if he had followed the churn usual in such cases. If the hon. member went to a division, he should certainly feel it his duty to divide with him. Led J. RUSSELL said thin wss no suggestion as to a bill in the petitions. Re gaits agreed with the hon. member that it would be best to introduce a bill. Lord H. VANE said he also wee of opinion that the best I source wined have been to introduce • bill to secure a dis tribution of the revenue, between the two parishes. At the same lime he thought 010 manner in which the motion had been brought b.rward was moot unfair. So for from the ea teenage of the bishop having been ge Ily exercised as de scribed, he must declare, from his knowledge of cases in which incumbencies had been granted, that nothing cowl be fairer than hie die an! et patronage ; while he bat himself troutributed liberally in the ease of small livings, and had even employed curates at his own expense. He was himself acquainted with cases in which large portions of church pro perty in the county of Durham—he now spoke mere particu larly of property belonging to the dean and chapter—had been applied to the augmentation of small livinp ; and he bad been informed that in many instances the right rev. prolate had himself pursued a similar line of evader. As regarded the way-lraves, they wire of re, precarious a nature that it was impossible to form a permanent eudow. meat from them ; and the right rev. prelare determined last year to set apart the proceeds as • fund for the endowment M email incumbencies instead of attempting to form endow ments for which they might prove inadequate. He hoped the house weight not accede to • motion et so invidious a character, however desirable it might be that the right rev. prelate should himself introduce • Mr. DISRAELI agreed with the noble lord that motions like that under soasidesstice appeared Invidious. Without sabering, Imirsver, into my of the personal details which had bees leieskeed skier to mate er to vindicate the eeminet of the Dielsep of Durham. he wished to ham why it wee neemeary that the Bishop if Durham Await be the person to introduce • bill, when every hoe. member who had spoken admitted that to bring ht • sill was the preferable coerce under the eireum stencte. It was quite in the power of her Majesty's govern ment to introduce one ; and the noble lard having frankly confessed that be thought that would be the beet veins, he should be glad it the government would, by making a pro min, spare him the painful duty of voting for the motion. Hs agreed with the worthy alderman (Mr. Alderman Thew see) that the passing of the motion would tot establish • peecodnt of a 'mike' character ; but it would b. mesh more agremble net to go to • division, and there would be no aseeseiey for &dugs° if the noble lord would give an usu. rum that, after an opportnaity had been afforded to the Bishop of Durham to introduce a measure, if he had not availed himself of it, the government Itself rmald do what wee necessary. (Bear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER raid the hem mum perceive that it was impossible for the govern %tat le tube the step which was suggested. The rector of bey Weavneesth baying at that moment an Indefeasible OM. tie ths prom& of the living, any measure introduced gibe government to interfere with his possession of the Memo mast' be a measure of spoliation. A little injustice bad, be thought, been done to the bishop, whose general aileddinselso of the affairs of his diocese was highly de leitelmg of praise, mei wbs had applied • large portion M MI MU hams to the imprevankent of the parishes under his Aug_ e. As ene of the eeeledsetical commentate» hi Mogi* it 'sly right to elate t r the home that a certain hems having been nesigned to the Bishop of Durham. at the time when bones emitted to the diocese, it woe shoe wards Sava that a eeetiin pardon of the property produced a larger anseent then was contemplated ; whereupon the right rev. probes lolled to the commissioner; hie intention In *Ain; apart 2,01 M. a ear on account of small so bag as he reessised bi shop of the di-cese, whisk se= bees regularly paid, independently of other osetribn lone for the aegeasien of nnall livings. Hs hod the peatest possible **edge to the Rouse of Commons deeding Celt the revises. of • perdeolar parish, and applying them for the benefit of another parish : it would be infinitely bet ter% lam essy peeidshods which might be derived from the bishop& to Lo anis* ceder the direction of the Es. desiestlsal Cennalsoissina. Sir R. PEEL add he 'koala be very reluctant to &equi ties la say motion Insplyian disrespect for a bishop whose gaseral seadact is the shoehorns of his du ics did not da wn say hank judgment. (Hear, hear.) Although the tufo. had reference to a patt;cular transaction, the peeling gawk • motion by the House of Commons must imply, to a amok erase, a want of confidence in the general dia sharp of thebishop's functions. Os that subject he would oh mine that, having formerly, as the first minister of the crown, bad the right of appointaseat In those estelesiagloal trills whisk were formed by the act passed in 1864, his enigma in the justice and integri'y of the right rev. praises hawed Ma to leave the }wrongs is the diocese of Dedlget sties disposal, aid the manner in which it was examieed mmikened the favourable opisioi which be had previossly sabriained of hist. He doubted whether they world be alabilihkag a good precedent by dealing with the awe of this premier pariah. Os the sesame. of Mum vesenelee, the house might be again ailed upon to express an opinion, and it would be Meek to evade the application of the precedent. ( Neer, boor.) At the mine tints, he must exprem his cam earresos it Om main object of the hes. tlemaa's motion. (Chem.) He *ectei to it is a ;he would con sent to nothing with might boll dimmpect to a man of se &deemed as age, on eminent girl ie stlnhonsate, and a ex emplary is hue seednet e as the libbisp of Durham ; bet seek ecasidastiese wan subsidies's', the .she question, sad es that Widest be Wisely sommered in the 'Onion which bad been amsersed ea both Moe st the hems, that the &pull of these mops, abseil be welded for by legislative mast. nest. (Naar, beer.) He thought it weekd be ea mensal mfampb. to propos to make a new distribution of am* mope by set of parliament. Many brass rangy ad venom of the valse of four sr Ire theme& pith a year bad malted the aid of paelbsest to amble them to divest themselves of the patronise and to asks s new dis tribution, and in this ease be thought it wesid be soot openly to all upon the legislature to aid the blimp is tak isg a similar course. (Hear, hear.) He met she say that h. weld not concur in the Mina of the adds lord that Sunderland had no better dela to participate in the re moves of Bishop Wearmouth than any other perish. (Hear, hear.) Let the house cansidee bow mush the spiritual tomtit of Bishop Wearmouth meld be altered by this vicinity of Sanderland ; and, above all, let it be remembered that, bet for the extraordinary &Wilma which had taken Saw, Illulderland and Bishop Weenies* would still be waited. It wee impossible, dwellers, to show that if a new distribution of the us. were made Sunderland had no better elates than any other parish to shire the advantwee of that distribution. Whilst the louse should avoid any precipitate declarati ,n on this subject, he hoped that if the noble lord succeeded in nega tiving the motion, he would make each friendly recommen dations to the Bishop of Darkens, end to all parties con cerned, es would lead them, in accordance with the unani mous folio( of the hum, to set the example of a new appropriation of them revenue by act of parliament ; the means devised for that purpose being such se would most meant* to the spiritual interests (all other considerations being dieregarded) of a vast population, which bad the ad di•ional claim of baying been hitherto most grievously neglected. Mr. MANGLES uld bis teas. Mend Ges eneptelir fa Co71;ormo lasiMaieossi;st;l;•eteseeirt it was neemarfs no* mcreiy foe the sake of this partkaler parish, hut for the credit of the church, that some measure shruld be intrscluced either by Use bishop or by the goverment. (Hear, hear.) He must say that he did not think the noble lord (Lord J. Ruses-11), bad dons his hm. blend (Kr. Holman) Jessie, by the NUMMI' is which he had referred to the motion. The noble lord's speech was more like en attack on kis bon. (thud for his supposed motives than a hir meeting of the statements which he had made to the house. (Hear.) He felt conyineed that his hon. friend had wed throughout as a einem friend and supporter of the chards of Ragland. end that if the snessures which he so strenuously advoestad were adopted, the Interims of that church would be strengthened by them. As re ed the simenisesl part of two question his boa friend alleged the breach of law as an additional reason for legislation. Sin are members of the chunk of England would be relieved from e rest pain and embarramment by reeeivieg from the noble lord enamellists' that he would so =skean of that friendship with the right rev. prelate, which he said he had so long enjoyed, as to secure, by the introiuetion ,of • bill, the accomplish ment of his boa. friend's objects. (Hear, bear.) Lord ASHLEY said what he had chiefly to object to . in this ease was the piscine of a large fund in the hands of trustees without any definite purpose. (Hear, beer.) He doubted, indeed, whether such an arrangement were legal. The property was of coons given by the donors for spiritual parries ; yet it was now set apart to accumulate, and no one but the bishop could tell how long the process of accu mulation was to continue. He heartily concurred in the principle of the motion, and he could bear testimony to the :sal and integrity of the hon. gentleman's conduct. Having had the pleasure of seeing the hon. gentle man mu* in privite, he did not hesitate to express his conscientious belief that in all that he under- took in there metiers be was actusted by a sincere de sire to promote the welfare and efficiency of the church. (Hear, hear) Hs hoped, however, that his hon. fiend would not prom his motion, believuig aa he did that the opinions which had been expressed on both sides of the house would induce the bishop to introduce a means. in strict accordance with the reasonable, and he might say, cusecientions feelings of the House of Commons. Mr. J. 8. WORTLEY said that though he could not vote for the nt Mon, he concurred in the opinion that it was abso lutely neceseary that Dome legislative measure should be in trocksord. Assuming that the aceumulation was excellent in i!a design, ►e would put it to the Boliciter-Oenend whether the agreement which had been entered into, would secure to the perishes for which it was intended the benefit of the fund,. To binned( it was manifest, that if a creditor of the rector claimed the proceeds, the agreement could sot stand in law. Re hoped that such steps would be taken as would mike it yeomanry for parliament itself to originate any pro ceedings. _ _ . Mr. J. A. SMITH felt himself planed in a eery great diffi culty, concurring in the objet of the motion, yet being most reluctant to give pain to the right rev. prelate. There was, however, one course which appeared to him free from objec tion. Believing that the expression of opinion on both aides of the house would not be lost on the right rev. prelate, he thought that lithe debate were adjourned fora certain period a satisfactory route would be arrived at in the meantime. The hots member concluded by moving that the debate be now adjourned • but the motion not being seconded, was not put from the chair. Mr. WAWN exorcised a hope that the hon. member for Cnekerinouth would not coolant to withdraw his motion, until he heard from the noble lord whether there exited en the part of the government any sincere desire to divide the revenue. of the rectorship of Bishop Wcarmouth in the mods that equity pointed out. What security was there afforded to the parishioner' that this division would be effected ? The agreement that had been entered into with the rector was illegal unless it olrained the sanction of parliament. If the hoe, member divided the house he should vote with him. Mr. HOUSMAN said that the course taken with respect to his motion Ey hen. members on both sides of the house plead him in a somewhat difficult position, and he was cum. polled to appeal to the kindness and indulgence of the house, whilst he recalled to mind the circumstances of the case. A great responsibility rested on him in the present flounce, because it was not en isolated motion that he had brought for ward but one only of a NAM of mot ione,respecting the church. When he was asked by the noble lord on the opposite aide to withdraw his motion, he must appeal to the noble lord's memory whilst he asked him to remember how often the same appeal had been made to him on previous °cessions of • similar nature, and also what the result of his compliance bad been. Last year he bad brought forward a series of mod ‘ns relative to the subject of ecclesiastical establish ments; the house had received them all with the same unanimity of sentiment that bad been manifested at present, and he hod been indrord to withdraw them in consequence of the pledges which he had received from the noble lord at the head of the government. The noble lord bad given him distinct pledges on several different occasions. The first mo lion he brought forward was for the fusion into one fund of the episcopal and common funds of the church. The second motion that he had brought forward was relative to the re construction of the ecclesiastical commission. The next woe respecting the cathedral churches, and the fourth motion was directed towards the lame objects whisk he now sought to attain, simply the equitable division amongst the working elm" of the pariah of BiskerWsumeath of the revenues of that rieti With valorem' to the first of these motions, he had rased net to divide the house noon it, but to withdraw it, mai Nate ems remonstrance, he lad at lent* estimated is do so. On that oecodos he was re ported to have said: Be had elicited am *Wm OD draft so taunt that it was ha =est the issessemst le withstand it. The had (Lod J. ealy Owl kw tine te aster with the Arehisidrep of Oates- Ims% ad s elm sot eister to latroctasks meneew ea tile lab. Jesk let es tame te whit& rtoadtdtnMt MM list emserarre he =soh. seelellel. Be weed the Wit bed doter edam memos is ha met be WI me emizh i sedt b Islam SO gram bs wee reedy, shoe es b illr egi g: with the hadable. m at Mis ef hstsodese a het eel, Wades Me, but Wier sameree gnaw Impennee.—erior. elsollies dist deed/ from tie it bell, he Ewa we pros his mid= Is • divides, he Moe the se** must theedefly tad *Ey is the kende of the eseemseeL The promise which the noble hod bed given hisa cm that meg= had not beat Milled, TIOT had tie pledge be ye dasmed. And, what was din worse, no lapse hid been as yet held out to Wes by any member of the government that any steps were in contemplation by which the noble lord's repeated pledme should be carried one. On a subsequent oceselms he lamed for an inquiry into the state of the Wlegi ate ',maim and cathedrals. Oa that occasion the home had auk been ananimonsly of opinion that his motion merited eemidsratim, and under these amiableness he was again aped to withdraw it, and recommended, say pressed, ast to posh it to a division. The noble lord (J. Russell) had again omairred in the views expressed by him, and under these eireemstances he (Mc Rottman) again consented to withdraw hie esot'on, in doing which he was reported to have ned the hawing expreseeems : After what bed alms hem dm aside lout, namely, that without gang the tall MO ofimaing a eemmission of inquiry, he admitted theasessette e s and was ready to institute It, thouits not in tan mile o r =Z ia : be carrestly ondentood the noble killitijftgo that it was inn to good talth,and wadi ie telyssied R Ita—b, &Mild not be justified in prewar few the bolt, Os shape be bed reposed, mad he would not trouble the hems to Wide ea modem Hen spilt was another promise broken ; another pledge unredeemed by tbe noble lord.:bleny of th As poisons with whoa he wen in oonuannicatiun upon tre=e subjects had m distal wised bad occurred. They had even told him that be weal loos the confidence of the public if he acceded to these dewiest appeals for the withdrawal of his notions. He wouM be told they were only sham motions, and he wu warned over sod over again of the consequences of his too eery credulity in the good faith of those who promis so fairly. And now, such befog theme, having previously consented to withdraw his motions,rather than give rise to divisions and dis sessions aranngst those who wished well to the muss he hid taken in hand, he would oak the bane whether he was Mehl to the imputations which had been east upon him, if, ender THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1249. the peculiar eircunoteneee of the ease, he did hesitate. sod elan shriek him credal with the requests sow mods to him ? There was also this different,' between the preouna and the termer modems—that they were abstract peered does not leading to any direct result, whereas his resod motion was founded upon a petitin most numercusly caned by the Yu, Plums who Named from the present elate of skimp late parish of Bishop Wearmatallt, and who bad a right to desonall redrew. Ns knew of no rums wh the boner shealdkulleisfa the eu*at, lie _Wee besalletter and kw men sr kinder/ lira nela bad veinstarily come Reward aflame. peignseL Nk(Ills. Reesman) had certainly expected some sash slep town have been taken by the right rev. pedalo, white west have obviated the nee ssity for his present melba. Not that nether* bees done, he desired to have a legal senellea given to the arrangens.at which the Bishop of Barham Iththelf had proposed, and cot sequently time& astrassy. Wl* respect to the oinervations that bad hen Mole est iii termination to eat us e a s the ies, be could only say be had as reek whit Oft But he must say, and he weld not 111 ble matintents on the subject, that for math d foe&Pillow which was observable in the eteledenasal ortelYmmis of the ootudr7, the moissiastioal Mess them selves Where wholly reeponnble. lie had been subjected iin mei ellinsay on this score, but he had never Inn dig what he conceived to be his duty, nor should he do so em the present emotion, for all which reasons he begged to Mediae accepting the advice that hid been given him, and to persist in making the motion which he had brought forward. Lord J. RUSSELL sell that as the bon, member had accused him of having beet guilty of a dereliction of good faith, and of having broken his pledges, he did not think the house would refuse Wan the indulgence of being allowed to say a few words in explanation and in answer to these seen mason,. The hon. member had referred to his motion on the fueion of the thelesisatical and commen funds of the church. He (Lord J. Russell) had then promised that he would speak to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the subject, but he stated also, that, as his grace had only been recently appointed, some time might elapse before an opportunity for so doing presented itself. He did speak to the archbishop within a week from tho time when the pro mise was made. His grant went through the grounds of the motion, and, finding no valid objection to the arrangement proposed, it was then agreed between the archbishep and himself that a measure might be introdood for the impose of carrying out that arrangement. The honourable member further brought forward a motion Proposing to inquire into the state of collegiate and cathelral churches, 'swell as to suggest that some differ eat arrangements of their revenue. should b 3 made. That was • fa more difficult subject to deal with, and he (Lord J. Russell) had considered that if, on inquiry, further reforms in the cathedral establishments should be found necessary, it was expedient to ascertain what their revenues were pprseevious to introducing any measure for the ra tion of those funds. He had, therefore, adelsoi the crown to appoint • commission, at the heed of which was placed the Reel of Harrowby,sod moral of the members of which had seats in that house— In order to enter Into a full inquiry of the whole subject. AS to the gut mien which had been put to him, why he had eat introduced any measure into the house upon either el these two subjects, he must observe that he had already stated to the hon. gentleman that he would do eo with respect to the reconstruction of the ecclesiastical seemaission, and the fusion of the episcopal and seams. fund into one ; and when the bon. gentleman neared him of violating a pledge, he would put it to the bens whether, Nappanee he had Introduced any such meo ws there could have been any progress nude in them. There wertionly twoldays a week, eight days in a month, specially devoted to the immures of the government and the business of the country—and the time of the boast had been fully occupied up to the present hour in disposing of the more pressing of the public measures. He had introduced since parliament met, the Irish Habeas I Corpus Suspension Act, which would have expired on the let of March. It was net possible to have post posed that measure. The next question introduced was that of she navigation laws, respecting which several of the British colonies, and particularly Oland& felt very deeply interested. The government had also been urgently re spired to take reps to stop the ravages of the famine Is the west of Ireland. These measures were indis pensable. Then he had thought it necessary to take some votes on the army and navy estimates, as the mutiny bill expired in April or May. Now with all this bueinese in hand, bourses which selmitted of no defy, he would put it to the house U there had, yet, been any op portunity for introducing the measures rest reed to by the hon. member. Ho had broken no pledges; he had taken the most important and pressing busintll4 in the order which be deemed necessary, end these were his reasons for not hav ing, as yet, brought forward any measures of the kind re. fund to by the bon. member for Cockermoith. Mr. Ald. THOMPSON urged the hon. member to with draw hie motion. (Divide, divide.) Sir F. BARING said be had waited until the last moment in the hope that the hon. member would be induced to with draw his motion • but as he appeared determined to proceed to a division, and' as the home would thereby be compelled to offer an opinion one way or the other with respect to the motion, an undesirable thing under present circumstances, he thought that the most satisfactory ocurse under all the circumstances would be to move the preview question, which he accordingly did, The house then divided— For the previous question Against it The previous question was accordingly carried, by which a decision on the .in question was avoided. LABOURING POOR. Mr. BLANEY, in bringing forward his motion for the appointment of a standing committee or unpaid com mission, to consider and report from time to time on preetleal measures (unconnected with political changes), likely to improve the condition of the working classes, to encourage their industry, and increase their contentment, stated that he would not set the house to take hie testimony as to the condition of the Mowing population of the country, but he should refer them to the accumulated rel. dense oa this subject, which was embodied in the successive reports which had been made to parliament by accredited authorities, and also by several committees of both houses The working classes were susceptible of two great divisions, namely, the agricultural or peasant classes, and the artisans or operatives who inhabited the large towns and manufacturing districts. The successive reports on the poor laws and their administration, tram 1817 to 1834 gave a most deplorable account of the condition of the agricultural el tinder the operatim of the poor lows as they existed up to the latter year. In the year 1836 • stern and severe poor law was substituted for the former syrem, and his present object sea to inquire whether the labouring population was in any respects better off than it bad been under the former sTstem. The reports of that commission would show what, it any, improvement in the condition of the poorer claws in our large manufacturing towns had been made. The rate of mortality was perhaps the best criterion that could be taken of the general health of those clews. The avenge rate of mentality throughout the country was something more than two per cont. In the large towns it was 2.6 3, and 3 6, and in some of the more densely populated parts of those town., as the courts and alleys, where the poorest of the people con gregated, it was 4.6, and even as high as 6 per cent. In 1838.9, the Poor Law Commission reported as to the unitary condition of the poor in the eastern part of London, and in 1840 a committee of the Rouse of Commons was appointed to inquire into the health of towns p nerally. From the re port of that committee, he would now read some extracts. An Hort. Merluza here noticed, that there were not 40 members present, and on inquiry this being found to be the ewe, the house stood adjourned at a quarter past 8 o'clock. Vie Oriarnifi. OUTGOING MAILS. The mak Or MMUS Sena WrMa. and the Milted BMus, will to mak y» the monis at the Urd Marsh. if. ma b ake Mandits to the atedherrancan, rend. Ad., C6:= IfeomMang, ba. will be ask up as the man* of th NM& The miter Stem Oparlo. Lob" eladatre. Calk mid Gibraltar sill be mak up is the rooroMe of tie V* Mare& The me set Me Wan Coot at AMos and Madeira will be made op an the emsks the Slat of March. The mak Se NM Mil Will., Von koesea's Land. aad New Laird MI be mode up ea *a evader et tie she Mardi. She Wool ledle MMik ladedine Bermuda, Havana, Nowa, Mu Oden rod Mexiso , and minks Mom ler Mok ala rtto, komele.Nisoom se. pia, New Onnedi, Mt. and rem Tin be mak up kik minvies al the ot April. lbe mak ter Idaddra, Me Inak end Buenos Ay r% will be made my a the make al the ilh et Amt. The mak Om Moiler, May 0 the Imlan bleak, ins, tava. kyles. ladle. lemmikas sad eis Southampton, will M amok won the mash* al Oa Seth AptiL IRON WATER AT LONDON IRMO& Tie D.T —Karam. 0 Ws. pot Menem. OW. 0 0 Tallosau. —SievelAa, Sala. pre Atternook 66 sibs. pan LONDON WEDNESDAY MAR.2I THERE is not one of the reasons assigned for the maintenance of our existing army which, if admitted to be just, and logically followed out, would not im peratively require the doubling of that army. If the peac3 and security of our manufacturing cities at home, and of our colonial ports and population abroad -it the defence of oar country from invasion, of oar commercial and political interests abroad from out rage, can only be effected by the size of army and of navy, then what we had better do is not merely to double, but to augment by five or six times, our militery force. If the middle classes of this country put small trust in the government, and if the lower claws should come to consider it hostile, the cannon and the bayonets of that government are decidedly too few. If we have to invade the con tinent, or the continent is to invade as, we are ill and scantily prepared. If the ir tegrity of our colonies depends on the British soldier, these soldiers at present are but drops in the ocean, where they should constitute waves and tides, to sway or over- awe resistance. Our army is in fact either insignificantly small, or exorbitantly grea►. Small, if it alone is to do all this, and absurdly great, if the army can by no risibility perform thoee duties. Now it is quite evident that the army does not in any way perform the task u signed it. It doss not intimidate Iliareps, it does notelet down chatiam, and, as to the colonies, we do believe that the parade, ostentation, and elPeam of military establishments create more dis affec tion amongst them than beget salutary awe. On the continent, it fins become an axiom as well known to foreigners as to ourselves, that England can not interfere. The public spirit of this country is irre sistibly opposed to any interfetenos on our part; the state of our finances deprives the British govern ment of anything beyond moral weight. And that moral weight the English government would exercise with far more effect if it exercised it by word of mouth, and not by menacing broadsides. We have a fleet in the waters of Naples; what cares King FERDINAND for that fleet? He knows our admiral durat not use it. In Lisbon, in Cadiz, before Genoa, ~nd in the Adriatic, we hive vessels, whose presence might in the olden time have awed or influenced the governments of those countries. At present there is not a Mediterranean power that does not know the apparition of a British fleet to mean nothing, and its grins to be vox et praterea nail. We give our Fo reign Secretary thunder at the cost of eighteen millions a year, bat, like trusting a boy with a gun and refusing him powder and shot, parliament and the public both impress upon the Foreign Secretary that he must not use this thunder and this force. For what purpose, then, are they at all, if not for expense and parade, diplomatic dialogues, and an affectation of authority or philanthropy, in which there is really nothing serious, except to the English taxpayer,_ who is at the coat ? We may admit Lord PALIIIIRSTON's or Lord GREY'S good intentions, but the country supports neither of them in coeming either foreign countries, or colonial communities. The frank support of parliament and of the public would give more weight to the words and acts of those ministers in their several departments than all the armies or navies they can direct or despatch. This support (they must themselves perceive) is with drawn. The public is lukewarm—more ready to sympathise with a froward colony than with the prodigal officials that misgovern it—and this state of opinion breaks the sword of coercion in the hands of the Colonial-office. With respect to our foreign policy it is even worse. There are countries and causes now struggling in Europe, for which the English have the deepest sympathies, and yet they crush and put down those sympa. tens, and turn their becks altogether upon foreign politics, liberal or illiberal, led they might give countenance ti ministerial interference or to a renewal of that active policy in foreign matters, which, how ever generous, has always turned out mean, barren, and ingrate of result. The fact is. that force, as an element of authority, has fallen into discredit with us. And our gover nors are called upon to exercise influence and carry on administration by other means. As to military establishments, it is plain that in this empire they will be waited just so far as they are necessary for defence, the using them in a war of offence b.ing a contingency too remote, unlikely, and extraordinary, to warrant anything like unusual or Permanent expense. Hence, confining consideration to the question of defence, we must say, that it is a most disgraceful result of our boosted progress, that we must keep an army of 25,00 0 men in - England and of another 30,000 men in Ireland, in addition to the police of both countries, to keep down the population. Why, this mere fact offers greater incentives to foreign machinations and invasion, were there room or possibility for such, than any amount of standing army could counteract. The humor of 'oldie's in England is indeed eery re markable, and leads to the 0101 tifyir g conclusion that, instead of Dtgland's reclaiming Ireland to the u s es of economy, industry, and peace, Leland is dragging England, by ita example, contact, and misrule, into a riyinte of carat rebellion, coercion, and extrava gance. With respect to our colonies, there is one remark that might have been made in the debate. And this is, the altered estimate that politicians both in this and foreign countries have come to make of the value of colonies. During the last war, and indeed during the wars which preceded it, colonial conquest and possession were the greet prizes that nations aimed at. The great wealth of • European country 17118 oonsideredto exist in its colonies. English prospe rity. was thought to flow altogether from that source ; foreign countries envied us, and went to war with us, and we armed and went to war with foreign countries, with a view to a mutual robbery of each others' colo nies. But people are now wiser. They mu,t see that colonies are not necessary to trade, and that, indepen dent t-ade, they are far more c ostly than profitable. There is no one to whom the history of West Indian elmmerce or of East Indian finance does not lie open ; none from whom the inevi table conclusions of suoh a study can be hid. The days are gone when France would go to war with England in the hope of acquiring Jamaica, or England engage in war with France to deprive the latter of Algeria. Russia, some years back, might I have envied us Hindostan, but as the Czar Ntenotts has become an accountant and a dealer in golden treasures, he has probably computed the debtor and creditor sides of the great East Indian ledger. The thirst of colonial acquisition, the great source of Euro pean wars in the last century, has, in fact, totally dis appeared from this, its absence forming, perhaps, the greatest guarantee of naval and general peace. Such a revolution as this we ought to take into ac count, especially in our system of defence for the colonies, which no longer need comprise defence against a foreign foe. Canada may form an excep tion, but then, again, it is not legions that will avail, but good, cheap, and fair government. In New Zealand, in Ceylon, and at the Cape, we must have force to contend with !Halve races. But had the governors the knowledge that they had not unlimited resources and forces at hand, they would be less prone to excite quarrel, and to attempt to rule by intimidation. And for our own part, we doubt it the Colonial-off.ce will ever wisely and carefully set about the task of organising our far dependencies] fur self-government, until parliament flatly refines them the means of dominating them by the brute force of bayonets. UNITED STATES. We were enabled yesterday to publish the Presi dent's inaugural address to Congresr. The following are details of the inauguration : General Taylor reached Wash;ngton about 4 p.m. on Friday, the 23rd February, and took up his tem residence at WellucTi Hotel. On the morn rogigthe '26th, the committee appointed on the part of the senate and representatives to count the votes of the electoral colleges, waited upon him with the official announcement of his election. In the coarse of that day, the President elect, ac companied by Mr. Clayton, celled upon Pre &dent Polk, at his official residence. Mr. Polk held his last levee on the evening of Wednesday, and left tbeWhite House on Saturday, the 3rd of March. He was to leave Washington with his lady for New Orleans on the evening of the 6th, and the Secretary of the Treasury was to accompany him so far. The inauguration ceremonies took place on Monday the sth. The doors of the Senate Chamber were opened at 10 a.m , and the ladies' gallery was imme diately filled with the fair sex. The reporters' gal lery was also crowded to suffocation. There was great struggling and pressing, and thousands were , forced to leave without obtaining an entrance. The Senate assembled at 11 o'clock, and a resolution was adopted that Senator Atchison tske the chair. The new members were then all sworn in, with the excep tion of Gen. Shields. A resolution was adopted to refer Gen. Shields' credentials to the committee on the judiciary. The Hon. Millard Fill more, Vice-President, and George M. Dallas, ' then came in, arm in arm. Mr. Atchison swore in Mr. Fillmore, who took the chair, and delivered an eloquent address. All the justices of the Supreme Court, and about forty mem bers of the diplomatic corps, including the at:aches, then came in, the first occupying fifteen seats in the area, at the left of the Vice-President, and the latter at the right. Messrs. Buchanan, Johnson, and Toney, of the old cabinet, came in and took seats in front of the diplomatic corps. It was now nearly 12 o'clock, and the President and ex• President had not made their appurance. Considerable impatience was manifested until about half-put 12, when the President and ex-President came in, and occupied seats with George M. Dallas and R. M. Johnson. President Taylor entered into a brief conversation with Chief Justice Taw. and Judge M'Lean. The President then proceeded to the ess'ern portico, where he delivered the address. The crowd in the square was immense, and probably numbered 10,000. There was groat cheering and dis charge of cannon before and after the delivery of .the address. It was agreed dist a daily hour meeting be held every day at 12 o'clock until otherwise ordered. General Shields' eligibility will be the first business before them, after the cabinet nomination.. On mot;on of Mr. Dayton the Senate then adjourned. Our New York correspondent has forwarded to us (by express, after the departure of the mail) the fol lowing authentic saternent of the composition of the new cabinet : Jahn M. Clayton of Delaware, B.eretaty of State. William M. Meredith, of Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Thaw. Thomas H. Ewing, of Ohio, Secretary of the Mom De partment. Wallin B. Preston, of Virginia, Secretary of the Navy. Jacob Collamer, of Vermont, Postmaster• Genera/. George W. Crawford, of Georgia, Secretary of War. Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, Attorney-GeneraL He adds : " The appointment of Mr. Collamer is a very judicious one. The state of Vermont has for a long time been overlooked at Washington." COLONIAL. BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. CANADA.—We find in the New York Courier and Enquirer, of 7th March, the following notice of a legislative measure of the Canadian parliament, respecting which an unnecessary degree of appre hension has been sought to be excited in this country. In the Caudle a good deal of excitement is prevalent by reason of the recent legislation for indemnifying those in habitants of Canada East, who were sufferers in property during the rebellion some years ago; this measure is taken amiss by the population of English descent, inasmuch as its Imams will inures to the Canadian Freneb, whose loyalty to the throne is more than suspected. The government, never theless, have carried the measure through parliament, and the effervesence of the popular mind seems to be passing off. The occurrence, however, in the feelings developed by it, will add another to the element, of discontent, already ex letinfr in the Cenadu, and tending to alienate them front the mother country. As to other quarters on this ontinent, there seems nothing of special interest to commemorate. NEW ZEALAND. We have rccaived from Wellington, New Zealand Spectators to the 13th Sept. last. They contain a memorial presented to the governor by the colonists of that settlement prayirg far representative institu tions, and his Excellency's reply. the Court. The Quern, attended by the Hon. Miss Dawson, Maid of Honour, and Col. the Hon. Charles Grey, Equerry in Waiting, vis ited the Queen Dowager yesterday morning at Marlborough hour. Prince Albert presided yesterday morning at the c mien for the management of the Duchy of Cornwall, at the Duchy-office, Somerot-house. His Royal Highness wu attended by Mr. G. B. Anson and Col. Bouverie. The Queen of the Belgians arrived at Buckingham 'Daises yesterday afternoon, on a visit to the Queen, Her Majesty was attended by the Countess de light, Lady in Waiting, and Major Ile Moerkerke. The Royal dinner party yesterday at Buckingham palace included her Mateisty the Queen of the Belgians, his Euellency M. Van de Weyer, the Countess de Hutt, the Marquis of Abercorn, and Major de Moerkerke. Mr. Hodges, M.P., had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resi dence in Downing. street. Mr. Hutt had also an interview jest rday with the right hon. baronet. A deputation, including Mr. Hamilton, M.P., Mr. Bellow, and Mr. Wilson, bad an interview with Lord J. Rumen yesterday, at his official residence in Downiog.strcet. Despatches were reef iv( d yesterday at the Colonial office from the Gavernon of Van Diemen's Land, New South Wales, and Gibraltar. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. The lords present were the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lord Brougham, the Bishop of London, sod the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Lord Brougham gave judgment on the appeal " Craig y. Formal," from the Court of Arches, reverang the judgment of the court below. THE PRESENT KING OP HOLLAND only left town on Friday, to visit the Duke end Duchess of Cleveland, at Baby Castle. His liajelty arrived at Fenton's Hotel on Monday evening, and left London for the Hague yesterday. - - THE DUKE OP CAMBRIDGE is suffering from a very revere attack of gout at his residues at Kew. COUNT KIELMANSEGGL—The Hanoverian minis ter is now gradually recovering from a severe and dangerous illne s, which at one period occasioned much alum. The brother of the noble count has arrived from Germany, and is staying with bis excellency at the legation. DEATH OF TIIE DOWAGER QUEEN OF SARDINIA.— The ex-royal family of France, resident at Claremont, have just revived intelligence from Italy of the death of the Dowager Queen of Sardinia, only surviving sister of the amiable and pious consort of Louis .Philippe. The deceased Queen enpired on the 11th inst., at Savona. Her late Majesty Maria Christina, was daughter of Ferdinand IV., King or the Two Sicilha and married Chtrles Felix, late King of Sardinia, the 7th of April, 1807, but did not have any tautly by that monarch, who died in 1831. Her Majesty bad completed her 70th year. (From last night's Gazette.) LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S -OFFICE, MARCH 20.—CoURT Mounuirre.—Orders for the court's going into mourniog, on Thursday next, the 22nd inst., for his late Majesty the King of the Netherlands; viz : the ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white gloves, neckla-es and ear rings, black or white 'hoe., fans and tippets. The gentle men to wear black, full trimmed, fringed or plain linen, black swords and buckles. The court to change the mourning, on Thursday. the sth of April next ; viz.: the ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, fans and tippets, or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuffs, with black ribbons. The gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain white, or white and gold, or white end silver stuff waistcoat., full trimmed, coloured swords and buckles. And on Thursday the 12th of April next, the court to go out of mourning. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 16. BRITISH MAR BILOXI; ABKOAD.—Then being reason to @oppose that in , many cases of marriages heretofore solemnised in the chapels or hone-s of British !ambassadors and ministers at foreign courts, and in the chapel. of British factories abroad, the 'clergymen by whom such marriages:were solemnised have retained in their custody the records of such marriages, in consequence of there not having been at the time any fixed office appointed in this country for registering the same ; but arrangements for that purpose; having been made in the year 1816, since which period such record. have been trans mitted, through the medium of her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to the registry office of the Lord Bishop of London, in D octors'-oonsmons: This is to give notice to all such clergymen or their representatives, sr others, who may be in possession of such records as afore mentioned, dated before the year 1816, that they are re quested to transmit such records to the Foreign-conies, in order to their being deposited in the London Registry- Woe. ___ THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.—FOREIGN-OFFICE, Maxon 19.—1 t is hereby notified that Visarnat Palmerston, her Majesty's Principa l Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, hoc received from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty the copy of a letter, and its inclosures, addressed M their lordships by Commodore Sir Charles Mother's, K C. 8., commander-in•chist of her Majesty's forces on the west *oast of Africa, announcing that war bad, in the month of February last, been declared against the Chiefs of Gali na' ; and that he, the said commodore, bad established an effective blockade of that coast between Solynna Point on the south and Cease on the north. ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA.-With reference to the arrangements for daily reports of observations on the set of the wind, and other atmospheric pheno mena, made simultaneously at a number of widely separated stations, which we announced as in pro gress, in a leading article on Saturday last, we have much pleasure in adding to the het of railway com panies, who have promptly and liberally promised their co-operation, the Chester and Holyhead Rail way. We are informed by the secretary of this im portant line that, by instructions from the committee, he is prepared to give the necessary orders for carry ing out our plan, and that he leaves the selection of stations to the Astronomer Royal and ourselves. BANK OF ENGLAND. Yesterday o,7llCrsTitt;r of form, the votes by ballot were taken for the declaration of a dividend for the half year of 64 per cent., and they were simply in the affirmative, no tickets of dimentients having been dropped into the glam. Mr. Knight, the secretary, announced this result soon after four o'clock. GOVERNMENT AID TO IRISH RAILWAYS. MEETING OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. A numerously-attended meeting of members of par liament, for the mod part connected with Ireland, was held on Monday in one of the ermtnittee-roome of the House of Commoni, to heir a communication (rem Lord John Russell on the subject oilcans of public money to Irish railways, and to consider the bed means of urging on the government the advieibility of satiating in the completion of - those na tional works in Ireland. Bir LUCID'S O'BRIEN, Bart., occupied the chair, and opened the Wetness of the meeting by stating that he had received (in Ms capacity of chairman of a deputation which had lately waited upon the government) another letter from Lord Jelin Russell on the subject of the intentions of the govandadd with reference to loans to Irish railway dew psalm The letter of the noble lord was, in Dinbetant*, that the cabinet were of opini-n that loans of public money would b 3 more heneficially employed on the improvement of land, or in the encouragement of arterial drainage, than in assisting in the completion of railways. Her Ilsjesty's government did not undervalue the necessity of making thorough railway communication in Ireland; neither did they wish the deputation to consider this letter as a final derision, because they intended to consult the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who would be is town in a few dare. Raving conferred with the noble earl, hie lordship would again communicate with the deputation. Kr. REYNOLDS expeased his regret that the govern ment had not taken another view of this important subject, foe it struck him that giving precedence to drainage and the Improvement cf the land was very like putting the cart before the horse, as it would be impossible to make the lend valu able in remote districts, without the assistance of a railway; the great value of land consisted in its being so situated that the produce might be brought to market at a cheep and rapid rate. He regretted the more the decision of the go vernment, because he believed that if the railway companies who were in a position to borrow money on the security of their works, were able to raise the sums required, in the ODIUM of one week 200,000 able-bodied poor would be re lieved from being a burden on the rates. As this was a question of such vital importance, not only to the poor, to the owners of railway property, but also to the ratepayers, he begged to suggest the propriety of calling another meeting at an early day, to dis tant the subject, and of inviting the attendance, not only of the Irish members, but also of all the English members who were Interested in the progress of railways in Ireland. II the meeting decided upon passing a resolution to this effect, he suggested that the most advisable c. use for the meeting to adopt would be to appoint a deputation to wait on the Earl of Clarendon, for it was clear that the matter was now to a great extent in his hands. This suggestion met with the unanimous approval of the meeting, and the proceedings were adjourned accordingly. CASE OF THE REV. MR. SIIORE. GREAT MEETING AT EXETER-HALL. YesKrday morning a meeting was held at Exeter-hall for the purpose of adopting such measures as may lead to the liberation of the Rev. J. Shore from St. Thomas's Gaol, Exeter. C. LVOHINOTON, Esq., M.P., in the chair. The large room in the ball was crowded to excess, and the utmost enthusiasm was displayed throughout the proceedings. The Rev. Mr. ItINNEY proposed the first resolution, which was as follows: . _ . . Mist this meeting having fully considered the ease, and the maks, and imprisonment of the Rev. James Shore, affirm that = strong claims to the cordial sympathy of all the friends of civil and religious liberty, and resolve that an affectionate address horn this meeting, signed by the chairman and the committee, be presented to bins at Exeter, by such deputation as the eormuttiee shall appoint. He (Mr. Binney) would not put Mr. Shore's case to th?m in a manner which might 1. ad to the conclusion that they bad come here to give vent to their enthusiasm, and for the grati fication of a party object, but would represent the facts honestly, weak points and all. The Rev. Mr. Shore com menced preaching under holy orders in the year 1829. He was curate of Berry Pomeroy, parish of Tonics, in the diocese of Exeter, province of Canterbury. In this capacity he served under the vicar, the Rev. Mr. Edwards, from the time that he became a priest, ordain. d by the pre decessor of the pretest bishop, to the year 1830, when the change in the diocesan took place ; and he cintinued to fulfil the same office until 1832. In that veer the Duke of Seiner set built a chapel in this very parish. It was licenui for episcopal worship but sot consecrated. This was an import ant point, and he begged the attention of the meeting whilst he explained it. A mere licence might be withdrawn, or the proprietor of the property might at any time secularise it himself ; but if the building were consecrated, it enuld not be converted to any purpose that convenience might cuegest. A chapel not consecrated, but only licensed, might be turned into a theatre, a bazaar, or en exchance. Surely, then, it might be transformed into a nonconformist meeting-house. (Hear, hear.) This chapel being built, the Rev. Mr. Edwards gave Mr. Shore the nomination, the Bishop of Exeter licensed him, and he entered upon his duty. In 1834 the vicar died, and the Rev. Mr. Brown sue. ended him. No fresh nomination was called for—not one word was said to Mr. Shere, and he continued to be the mi nister of that chapel for nine years afterwards. Now, nine years was a long period of time under any cir cumstances and in any place ; but in the diocese of Exeter it was like a little eternity. (Cheers and laughter.) He meant to say that there was ample room and verge enough in the course of nine years for a great many things to be done and said in that diocese which he need not endeavour to particularise. The Rte. Mr. Brown exchanged livings with a Mr. Cousins, and Mr. Cou sins came into possession, or war expected to do so. During the nine years already mentioned, processes of thought were going en in the mind of Mr. Shore with respect to the sys tem which his bishop embodied. When Mr. Cousins suc ceeded to the vicarage the bishop wrote to him to say he should expect from him a fresh nomination, or else Mr. Shore could not continue in the chapel. Oa Sedum day, the 14th of October, Mr. Cousins arrived in the 'perish, and on the following Monday morning Mr. Shore waited upon him and asked for the nomination, when Mr. Cousins frankly told him that the matter was out of hie hands, and that he had engaged with the bishop not to give him the nomination. It also appeared, that whilst that was the private understanding between the bishop and Mr. Cousins, the bishop was writing to Mr. Shore to get the nomination from Mr. Cousins. Mr. Shore wrote to the bishop, and on the very day after he applied to Mr. Cousins for the nomination, he (Mr. Shore) received • letter from the Bishop stating, that as he had in vain waited to hear from him upon the subject, he was bound to consider that he did not desire to be nominated. Thus, it appeared, that the bishop did not wait to hear from Mr. Cousins the result of his interview with Mr. Shore, but on the Tuesday morning, after the Monday alluded to, the right reverend prelate, having "in vain waited "so long, withdrew the licence and sent Mr. Shore about his business. (Cries of " Shame, shame.") Mr. Shore had ilium endeavoured to swertain whether he had been guilty of any immorality, and he bad reason to believe that the real ground of the bishop's objection to him was his (Mr. Shore's) opposition to what was called his Puseyite principles. (Cheers.) 'Well, the chapel was closed, and during the six months that followed no fresh nomination took *co. It was stated by many persons th at Mr. Shore ought to have left the neighbourhood, because the Scriptures said, " When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another." To this Mr. Shore's answer woe, that this doctrine applied to a man whom the people persecuted, and added that " the hireling fleeth because he is • hireling," end there fore he would remain. (Hear, hear.) Here then was a sad state of things. As light peeped in upon the mind of Mr. Shore, he began to feel he should not object to leave the established church, and on the 26th Feb., 1844, the chapel was registered as a place for protestant non-con formist worship by request of the agent of the Duke of Somerset. Now came the mistake—the first false step on the part of Mr. Shore. Mee the church had just been registered, Mr. Shore preached for ono or two Sundays pre viously to his having qualified himself upon his ieceision from the cherish. He (Mr. Bieney) did not think he could do this with propriety, and, therefore. Mr. Shore had com mitted a blunder and a wrong. But Mr. Shore subse quently felt it right to put himself in his proper position, and he went voluntarily before the magistrate, took the oaths, and claimed the rights and privileges of a nos.con formiat minister. He continued to use the prayers of the church of England, but he chose to make such alterations in them as his conscience and understanding dictated. Thus he proceeded for a month or two, and at length the bishop gave him a gentle monition; kindly informing him that he had appointed a commission to sit at the Seven Stars Hotel, at Totem, for the purpose of calling upon him to answer for his conduct. Mr. Shore replied that he had nothing to do with bishops, or the commissions they might appoint ; but he resolved that for the sake of the people of England—for the sake of knowing the law upon the subject—he would go before this commis sion. But he added that for the sake of his position he would do so uoder a protest. The question to be inquired into by the commission war whether or not there were any grounds for bather proceedings against Mr. Shore, and the reply made by the commission to the bishop was in the affirmative. He was then cited to the Court of Arches, and the charges made against him were that as a clergyman of the Church of England, he had preached and had not conducted the worship according to the service book. Mr. Shore demurred to both points, and it so happened that the Sundays fixed upon by his misusers as the days on which he had been guilty of impro priety were subsequent I. his having qualified himself as a dissenting minister by going before the magistrate. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Shore's argument was that he had not continued to act as a clergyman of the established church, and the re ply was, " Once a clergyman, always& clergyman." Upon the other point, that he had not read the prayers according to the Church of England service -book, the answer wee, that he justified one sin by another, which was much worse— that he had no right to make any alteration in the form of prayer. Mr. Shore had been summoned to answer for his conduct, and the result was that he was ordered to pay the orate of the legal proceedines, sad he was moreover ad monished not to offend again by preaching in future in the diocese of Exeter, in the province of Canterbury. Now Mr. Shore felt that it was net the province of secular law to do anything to interfere with the civil and religious liberty of the subject ; and he therefore resolved to go forward volun tarily, and, for the sake of all England, have the matter sifted to the bottom. lie was anxious to learn the true state of the law, but he could not pay the bishop's costs. (Hear.) Mr. Shore carried the matter into the Court of Queen's Bench, and he there got this deliverance : Lord Denman raid it was his opinion that Mr. Shore could not divest himself of his character of priest in holy orders except under the authority of these who ordained him. From this decision Mr. Shore appealed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The Privy Council raid nothing, but referred the matter beck to the Ecclesiastical Court—just as the judges say," You must go hence to the place from whence you came." (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) 1801. war the amount of costs incurred by the appeal to the Privy Council. Sir Herbert Jenne, Fust gave the final judgment, which was to the effect that if Mr. Shore were guilty of a repetition of the offence with which he was charged it would be notonly against his diocesan, but against the authority of this court. He was them admonished not to preach again, and was con demned to the costs. This was the position in which Mr. Shore was placed, and he had thought it right to bring the facts clearly before them, because they were not at present understood by the majority of the people, and he was quite sure that his reverend friend would be e ntitled to the cordial sympathy of every one who felt any interest in the cause. (Cheers.) Earl DUCIB seconded the resolution, and said he sympa thised with all those whose feelings were in unison with his own that this was • great attempt to oppress the people of this counu The resolution was then put and alined unanimously. __~~;.