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U, or put-free, from the Lather, ler forty-two Stamps, `ELF-PRESERTATION; a Medi ca l T reat i se kJ . ea the Physiology of Marriage, Infelleitens and Unproductive Unions, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders If Youth aid Ma turity, essay acquired at au early period of life, which enervate the physical and mural powers, diminish and enfeeble the *antral feeltnio , and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practice: Observances el the Treatment of Nervous Debility aid ladigestion. w henter`arising-tom these ceases, close study, or the ialuence of troplecL.cllrnatest. Local and Coastitational Weakness, Sypktlis. atr ketV 3 , And all Diseases and Derangements mulling from Indis cretion. With Fo r ty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy, Physiol og y. and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, ejybliaing. their structures, uses, and fluidises, and *e various ee that are minced In them by solitary habits, excesses, and airection. BY SAMUEL LI'MERT, M.D., hBDEORD-STREBT. ZEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. octpr of Wilicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Kill burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, Leedom Ileamary Member of the London hospital . Medical Society, &c. that ~ M arriage reelaires th° fulfilment of several conditions. in order may be really the cause of mutual happiness. Could the Veil, which covers the origin of domestio wretchodness, be raised, and Its true source in every instance disclosed, iii hew mazy could it be traced to physical dl ua lifications and their attendant disap - Pointm ents. Excesses arct sg alwaYs laiar ioas ; the g ift, which when '15€44 in moderation is fraught with advantage, becomes, wh abnied, the prolific source of mischief, and of greater or less injury to the constitutional and vital powers. The particular excesses, OR ale nature and consoonence of which this Treatise professes to dilate. Zo productiv e of greater severity of misery to the human frame, an any other to which it is subject. tTile work couteini as accurate and mplete eccont of the a , t. mY aid Physiology of the Eenrod co uctive Organs, n and of itji rela tive conditions i n health and disease. It deservedly be (i' ofre the closest atteutien and study, for what subject can sad e;nere i meertance than the preservation of the health, be p o „e Physical capabilies of which every man should victim ef :"d x • It unfortunate ti ly happens that the unhappy in early life ce vicious habits, whether acqaired m fro their t s alve Indulgenc e vied or from t h e follies of a d vance d age, w hil e su ff er i ng plying "aft able consequences, unwisely entertains a fear of ap frequently,- ( 13'r t ii .fi_ed ne • entertained that these complaints are ° physician fin : relief. Shame and the dread so o nly beyond the re act of art, alike restrict litin and prevent his seeking for assistance where con* it can be procured. In acting thus, he forgets that accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of disease, sympathy with the sufferer, aid, above all, secrecy, D.VA rlably eharacterise the .dent and practical physician, and to the Medical man who ean SLION, by kLa posse slon of the requisite'legal rlualltications that he is entitled to esteem anal respect in his prefes *tonal pursuits, the utmost couldoice should be extended. Dr. l ' a A.fltltT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas 1, 11.1fy and the great extent of his practice for many years is a inniantee for his professional experience, which has reference almost solely to the treatment of these diseases. Published by the Author, and may be had of Kent and Richards, 02, Pa ternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Stacie, Tichborne lt,reet. 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TO THE EDITOR OF TrIE TIMES. :west, .day give to m irds, to entreat those - who have given utterance their natural Warm at -our appointment, to - _ well the expression of my' rate opinior you have given such explana tions of what you personally believe on the points of suspicion, And what you intended as your meaning, as may well suffice to quiet all just alarm at your conse cration to the office of a bishop.—l am, my dear Sir, very faithfully yours, " S: OXON. "To the Rev. R. D. Hampden." THE MIRFIELD MURDERS. Sir, —Some of the daily papers, from a disposition, no doubt, to perform a public service; have thought right to censure the line of defence I considered it my duty to adopt as counsel , for Reid on the recent trial for the klirfield ;murders, at .. York. The Ex aminer has, also, a strong article-on the subject, in Which it is stated that I, being previously in pos session of a full confession from Reid which wholly exculpated 11I‘Cabe, endeavoured liy:iiri ingenious argument to shift the burden off my,client to the shoulders of a man I knew to be innocerkk , be clearly essi o n was ?in possession sof ascertained. a statement chat . inad The pres s i s . a f orm id a bl e commen tator; i iipou the conduct of any ,m an , b ut b e f ore conclusions _; are by are al'al l ' i ll a t I felts tsshould Reid on the eve of his trial i s p er f ec tl y t rue ; th a t frpo u this statement I had reason s t rong l y to presume is also true.; but that a s t a t emen t or confession was made or communicated to me irre concileakle with the suppoiition of IVl`Cabe's guilt, or suffidta to satisfy any impartial mind . .that ..... M'Cabe ether acted 'as principal or accomplice I I deny. C - ' questions . were submitted to Reid, chiefly as to - t character of the new evidence against . him, and with 11 - view to the cross-examination of f some witnesses -f the Crown. His replies tended very much to inctiTgale himself, but did not at all ex culpate 111‘Cabe frome suspicion of being some way engaged along with him. And these replies, More over, were so contradictory in themselves, and so totally opposed to the evidence for the prosecution, that I did not believe them, and in no single point did I vary the line of defence I had already resolved to follow. A confession, full and satisfactory, has since been made, and M'Cabe's life will no doubt be saved by it; but with this confession I have nothing to do. Now, Sir, as to my argument, which the Examiner calls " a startling instance of license of counsel." The evidence offered on the trial as to the times:id other matters pressed with about equal weight on die two prisoners; but M'Cabe's stories and conduct, and equivocation, strengthened the case as against him. No concert whatever was proved between them -- ; both prisoners admitted they were at Wraith's about the time of the murders ; M'Cabe at the last trial swore that the • man he saw at Wraith's was Reid. What course was open to me ? If 111`Cabe was in nocent and spoke truth, the man he saw was my client. If M'Cabe was guilty, and no concert was made out, then was it not clear my client was inn cent—clear, I mean, as a reasonable argument drawn from the evidence before the jury ? And now, Sir, assuming that to be true, which I deny, and admitting for a moment that a " full con fession" was made to me " previous to the trial which wholly exculpated M'Cabe," I am yet to learn that I would be deserving of blame for endear vouring to throw the whole guilt upon M'Cabe if the evidence, by which the jury were bound to decide,war ranted such a course. I am yet to learn that this would be either morally or professionally wrong. When a counsel accepts a brief for a prisoner he becomes, in my opinion, bound by a twofold obligation. I esteem it in the first place to be his strict and solemn duty to keep faithful to his client during the trial, of pending it, and to hold his secrets as a religious trust. They are commissa fidei—they must not be violated —they must not be exposed. In the next place, it is equally his bounden duty to frame the best defence in his power from the evidence given at the trial. If a prisoner confesses his guilt, or makes admissions which tend to criminate him while they acquit his fellow-prisoner, is his 'counsel to hurry into the witness-box to ruin and betray him ? if not, then his confession is not in evidence; and does a counsel overstep his duty who adopts a line of defence wholly irrespective of that confession, but which is founded on the evidence before the jury, borne out, and justified by it ? When a veto is put upon this exercise of a counsel's discretion—when,' instead of his argument being weighed and measured by the nature of the evidence, his motives and private opinions are publicly submitted to a rigid moral test —the relation of client and counsel will be deranged, and their mutual confidence interrupted ; the inde pendence of the bar will be violated, and the principle of advocacy will be abolished altogether. Your obedient humble servant, WILLIAM DIGBY SEYMOUR, Of the Middle Temple, an% Northern Circuit,- Dec. 29. Barrister-at-Law THE COAST DEFENCES.—A commission appointed by the Master-General of the Ordne.ce, consisting of Lieutenant-Colonel Hardinge, Director of the Lahore, tory Department of the Royal Arsenal ; Lieutenant- Colonel Colquhoun, of the Carriage Department ; rind Major Sandham, RE., has been sitting for some time at Woolwich, to consider the subject of extending the coast defences, and of strengthening the existing lines of fortification. In pursuance with instructions the Com rniFsioners have visited the whole of the ea,itein, southern and western coasts of England, and have inspected every place where they have judged it probable that a hostile fleet would, in the event of a war, attempt a landing. An extensive correspondence has algo been opened up with the various pilots at the out ports, with the view of ascertaining the spots where it; be practicable for an enemy to attempt a landing, even in flat bottomed boats and launches, in order that the whole of our coasts may be effectually guarded against. the possibility of a surprise. The report of the committee will be referred to the Master• General when completed. ENGLISH SINGERS—IN FRANCE.—It is satisfactory tq know that there is one English singer who has suc ceeded in securing a large measure of approbation in Paris, namely, Miss Lucombe. The France Musicals thus speaks of her:—" A young English artiste, already known in Italy and England, Miss Emma Lucombo, desirous to obtain a Patisian consecration for her talents, after successfully singing in several dilettante saloons, has made her dada in public, in a concert given at Herz's Rooms for the benefit of the young man Kilian. Miss Lucombe had scarcely begun the grand atria, ' Casta Diva,' from Norma, when flattering rounds were audible from every part of the room; the audience were at once struck with the purity, the sonorousness, the brilliancy, and the power of her magnificent soprano voice. As she proceeded, some daring flights, achieved with remarkable facility and effect, increased that satisfaction to the pitch of enthusiasm. Interrupted many times by bursts of applause, she was recalled at the conclusion of the piece to be again applauded." TIIE CASE OF GEORGE PAY.--At the Glasgow Circuit Court on Monday, George Fay, shoemaker, South St. Mungo-street, was accused of culpable homi cide, by confining his wife in a water-closet, while in a state of bodily disease, from the 3d ot June to the 23d of September, when she was liberated, but died on the 7th of October, in consequence of the barbarity inflicted on her. The prisoner, having been out on bail, advanced from the body of the court on his name being called, and took his place at the bar. He pleaded not guilty. The case against the prisoner was fully substantiated by the witnesses for the prosecution. Mr. Ay ton, for the her i)r husbandis , oner,calle h d ad a brieuemnbseereokfilitannessaesylsiunmex:luileprae shetion. The tendency of their testimony was to sho w th a t th e w oman was a drunkard, and of unsound mind, an d th a t might be taken care of. The Lord Justice Clerk summed up the evidence. The jury, after an absence of about twenty minutes, returned into court, with the fol lowing verdict :—" The jury are unanimous in finding a verdict of guilty of unnatural and cruel treatment, to the danger of her life, as libelled ; and, by a large majority, find the prisoner guilty of culpable homicide." The Lord Justice Clerk sentenced him to be transported for life. MELANCIIOLY ACCIDENT.-11,0CUESTER, DEC. 30. —Yesterday evening, an inquiry, which occupied up upwards of four hours, was instituted at the Watermill Tavern, Strood, before James Lewis, Esq., coroner, touching the death of Thomas Lackenby, a private sol dier, belonging to the 39th Regiment, who lost his life at the pier of the South-Eastern Railway Company, at Strood, on the 30th ult. It was shown that, intending to proceed to Chatham, deceased on the day named went on to the pier, with about twenty other passengers, to embark on board the Atalanta steamer. The night was very dark, and the only light on the pier was a small oil lamp. On stepping on the gangway, he missed his footing, and fell overboard. A boat-hook was put out to his assistance, but the tide running swift at the time, be was speedily carried away, and all the boats near at hand being unfortunately made fast with locks, was drowned.. The jury, after about half an hour's de liberation, returned a verdict of "Accidental death," but expressed an opinion that great neglect was attri butablethe sityo of an aoalsomewh ere; alteration aantd the ep recur rence of similar accidents. i s e t r r , on te gly pr n e r v g e e e d t the neces- COURT.MARTIAL.—CirATnAm, DEC. 30.—During the last two days the members of a general court martial have been sitting at this garrison for the trial of private Alexander Patterson, No. 1,508, of the Royal Sappers and Miners, IA ho is charged with having vio lently struck Sergeant James Robinson on the evening of the 7th inst. Lieut.-Colonel A. C. Pole, of the 63d Regiment, was president. The assault was committed on the sergeant when he was returning from paying some of the men, and as h e was attacked at night he could not recognise his assailant. The prisoner, how ever, when tipsy next day, told a comrade that the as sault was committed by him, and that he would have murdered the sergeant had lie not heard some persons coming up. The sentence of the Court will not be known until it is confirmed at the Horse Guards. A DOUBLE DoT.—W hen Louis Philippe began , dowering his daughters out of the national pocket, the responsible editor of the Charivari was prosecuted for several so called libels he had I üblished on the subject of the marriage portions (Juts). He had recommended that,.to• relieve the nation from these burdens, the royal papa should do as other latheis do--pay the money out of his own fortune. On the trial the editor declared, that E 0 far front denouncing the "dot," he had merely adVO ' catcd an "anti-dot,"—Family Jo; Millcr. No. 17,246.] LONDON, SAT U R DAY, EVENING NATION A 1 LOAN FUND LIFE AgAttil.k*cE SOCIETY. . 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. 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No. I. . . Australia Felix. Ralph Waldo Emerson; or the " Coming Alan." By George • Gillillart, Furstentulte. Continued. Scottish Rivers. No. 11. The Tweed and its Tributaries—Con tinued. By Sir Thomas Dick Lauder. Schomburgk's History of Barbadoes. The Sanitary Question. Old Songs. • By Elizabeth Youatt. Literary Register. Political Register. Sutherland and Knox, lidinburgh; Slinpkin, Marshall, and Co., London ; Cumming and Ferguson, Dublin ; James 31`Lood, Glasgow. DR. HAMPDEN'S APPOINTMENT.. The following is Lord John Russell's- reply to the address of the clergy of Belford. "We - subjoin the address to-day, with the names of the clergy who have signed it :—. . , ' Woburn Abbey, Dec. 30, 1847. Rev. Sirs,—l have received with great satisfaction the expession of your opinion as the elevation of Dr. Hampden to the episcopal benca. I rejoice to learn that you " have no share in those feelings of alarm attributed to the clergy through the activity of a portion of them," on the subject of that appointment. Two grounds have been taken to justify the alarm, and account for the activity , of which you speak. The one is the vote of want of confidence, passed by the Convocation of - the U n iv ers ity o f O xford in . 1836: the other, the suspicion ofunsoundness in the faith. With respect to the first ground; the Bishops of Durham and Norwich, and many other eminent per sons, have pointed out the fallacy , of placing re liance on a hasty v ot e of C onvoca ti on , passe d in a period of party excitement, without due examination, and void of ecclesiastical authority. Mr. Woodgate has gone further : he has said, speaking of a similar vote, " Tee proper appeal is not to the passions of ai i mixed multitude, like con. vocations, where, besides 'having no lawful jurisdic tion in the case, there is no exposition of the law, no reference to precedent, no hearing of evidence, and where the same persons are at once prosecutors, judges, and jurymen."* But let us grant that the Convocation was justified in its distrust. Let us., concede that the University properly decreed that Dr. .Hampden 'should be de prived of certain functions and privileges belonging to his office, " because in': his writings he had so treated theotigital-ititsjeatiPthat' in this respect the -University- had no _ con fideuvele tixim.". Have we had no experienee since 1806 ? - Jr* it not possible that Dr. Hampden may hare used expressions, ob scure or careless, which might induce the University to distrust his teaching of theology, but that the evidence of eleven years of sound and blameless con duct as Professor of Divinity may:have removed the just cause of suspicion ? ~,-. . Such I should imagine to be tie opinion of the Heads of the University itself. For in 1842 they placed Dr. Hampden in the chair of a board of theo logical examiners. Such I should imagine to be the conclusion of the great majority of our bishops. For they have required from the Oxford candidates for orders certificates that they had received instruction' in theology from Dr. Hampden. They were clearly under no obligation to do so. The Bishop of Exeter and a" few other pre lates have declined to receive Dr..llampden's certifi cates, and have proceeded to ordain upon other testis mony more satisfactory to them- So that, with the exception of five or six, our bishops must have freely, voluntarily, and deliberately required the proof of attendance on Dr. Hampden's instrnaions in divinity as a necessary preliminary to ordination. Can there be stronger proofs of the confidence re posed in Dr. Hamplen, first by the resident Heads of the University of Oxford, and secondly, by the great majority of the bishops ? How few men have been elevated to the episcopal bench with a greater weight of authority in their favour ? The head of a theo logical board of examiners, the teacher of candidates for the priesthood—can those who_ recognized and confided in him in these characters have believed that he held himself unsound opinions in theology ? He who was to examine others ? He whose training of young men was to qualify - them to receive the solemn rite of ordination ? Surely . this were to ma lign the University of Oxford . and thelreat body of our prelates. But further. I have elsewhere alluded to the fact, that sometime before I recommended : Dr. Hampden to the Queen, I communicated my inten tion to our venerable Primate, and 'received from him no discouragement. It is true that the Arch bishop did not appear to think Dr. Hampden well qualified for the diocese of ,Manchester, neither on reflection did I think proper to recommend him to the Crown for that see, in the peculiar circumstances of its population and Dr. Hampden's studious career. But no one who has that veneration which I enter tain for the candour, piety, attachment to Church and State, and friendly kindness of our Primate, will be lieve the calumny that he thought the appointment might not happen during , his "lateral or my official life, and therefore concealed' his opinion that it would be an act of reckless ineult and injury to the Church I I feel no doubt that the Archbishop, whatever ' objections he might have felt to Dr.,.Hampdan in 1836, had become reconciled to his promotion by the orthodox and Christian character of his subsequent writings. It was therefore on due consideration of the 'pro ceedings of 1836, and of due_ years ; of Dr. Hampden's labours a t Olf o rd ; „Of the many instances in which his predecessors had been raised to the bench; of the policy of giving rewards to learning.; and, lastly, of the zeal for our Protestant Reformation displayed by Dr. Hampden, that I named him to the Queen as successor to the Bishop of llereford. I come now to the second grOund of objection. After I had taken the Queen's pleasure and her Majesty had graciously approved of the appointment, I received privately from the Archbishop, publicly ' from thirteen of the bishops, a warning that the ele vationof Dr. Hampd en wou ld b e di sapprove d b y th e majority Had this objecti on b een f oun d e d on any j us t seen • of the cl ergy . sation against the life and morals of Dr. Hampden, it w as not too late to confess my error and withdraw my recommendation. But founded as it was upon a charge of teaching unsound doctrine, it behoved me not to desert a cler gyman whom the Queen had been pleased to nominate for a bishopric, without some authority or substantial proof. No such authority appeared. The conduct of the Archbishop and bishops gave a strong presumption the other way. No such proof was given, you say very justly " none such have-we found ;no proof or evidence of any strange doetiine ,eontrary to God's weird, as held or favoured by Dr;Hainpden." On the other hand, a strong testimony of the base less nature of the charges against Dr. Hampden is to be found in the extracts made by his enemies from his writings : " such extracts,"" as you truly say, "by their garbled form in some "instances, by, false con nexions in others, quite reversing, the true meaning of the passages. The gross diahonesty of these quota tions has been fully shown 'in an admirable letter by Archdeacon Hare. He observes, very justly, that by leaving out the first words of one passage and the last words of another, we might extract from Scrip ture the dogma, " There is no God," and the precept "Go and sin." The learned and pious author of this letter did not originally, indeed does not noVe, approve of the appointment. But I think, , having proved so clearly the unfair means taken to ruin the repu tation of Dr. Hampden, he must in candour allow that if such means are to deprive a clergyman of those distinctions which our Church boasts of maintaining as the rewards of learning and piety, a fatal blow is struck at all profound inquiry, at all enlightened pursuit of truth, at all clerical ink. pendence. Let us not mistake our position. The Church is not in that easy security of the last century which gave birth to so much negligence, to so much abuse perilous apathy. The Church with abunthnt knowledge, with ff imposing seduces many to her com mprivate j u d gmen t i s b y many oo with nt e io r o i n w e. . p e oo a sn l Ti t n h t h , hge e t authority, one ui such tghhotside, r of i a t y , avoided as a dangerous snare ; the duty of private judgment is thrown off by many more as too heavy a burthen. On the other side, the Protestant Dissenter assails the Church Establishment as an engine for fettering the conscience, and taxing the property of the subject. Novelties have their charm ; the High ' Churchman and the Independent speak alike with complacency of separating Ch urc h an d St a t e. I k n no better security aga i ns t suc h a d anger ow than an able and learned episcopal bench ,: a zealous and God-fearing parochial clergy. Thus may the Reformation be, defended ; thus may the Establish ment be maintained : .otherteise neither Parliament nor preemunire can beat off -the assailants of our Church constitution. But it is said I have disturbed the peace of the Church. There is no use, in 'crying " peace, when 1 there is no peace. . The appointm en t o f Dr:Tillot son to the primacy provoked a party whose unre lenting fury pursued bins to the day of his death. They denounced him as a Socinian and an Atheist, yet our Great Deliverer never made a wiser or snore judicious appointment. In our own day we have seen the learned Dr. Lloyd, once Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, pursued with bitter invective, i when on the Roman Catholic Relief Bill he gave ex pression to the loftiest feelings of Christian charity. You have spoken with praise of the sermons of Dr. Hampden, and your testimony is in this respect peculiarly valuable. You consider his appointment as " a circumstance favourable to the health of the [ Church." It is in that view that, unconnected with and personally unknown to Dr. Hampden, I have Irecommended him to the favour of my Sovereign. I earnestly and devoutly hope that your anticipations NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAT.—The royal yacht Victoria and Albert was paid off this day by her Captain, the Right Hon. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.H., extra naval A.D.C. to her Majesty. The yacht was immediately afterwards re-commissioned by his Lord ship, who, together with Commander Crispin, are ap • pointed to the yacht for a permanency, or during her Majesty's pleasure; thus the changes in the command of the royal yacht are at an end, perhaps a very ne cessary Admiralty measure. The subordinate officers were also re-appointed for terms respectively of three years, except the surgeon, Mr. Greenish, who is super seded by Mr. T. W. Macdonald, surgeon of the Hibernia, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, in the Mediterranean. Lieutenant E. W. Vansittart, 1842, also of the Hibernia, is appointed to the royal yacht. The Acheron steam-sloop, Captain I. L. Stokes, arrived from the eastward this morning, to receive advance and take in mails for New South Wales and New Zealand. The Cygnet brigantine, Commander Kenyon, was paid advance this morning. She sails to-morrow. The Terrible steam- frigate, Captain Ramsay, is waiting for her gun carriages and some appliances to her furnaces, which are expected from Woolwich this evening ; if they arrive, she will make a trial trip on Monday, and proceed about Wednesday to Lisbon. The Penelope steam-frigate, Captain Giffard, bear the broad pendant of Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief on the west coast of Africa, was to leave St. Helena on or about the 9th ult., after watering, for Ascension, having made a tour of five months to the various stations under his command. On her passage from Kabenda to St. Helena, under steam, about 12 o'clock (noon) on Sunday, the 13th of October, when about to take her floats off and make sail, the man at the mast-head reported " a sail." At 12h. 30m. the Penelope steamed head to wind, the chase being on a wind, the steamer altered course, and made all plain sail until 2 F.M., when the strange sail could be seen from the deck. She was a brig, close hauled, with royals set ; she looked so well every one thought she must be a man-of- war. At 3 P.M. she was seen plainly ; a very large boom mainsail, large gib, and enormous flying gib set. She appeared trying to get away. This looked very suspicious when it was discovered she could not be a man-of-war, as she showed no colours. Some thought she might be an American, as they often serve men-of-war in that way. At 4 P.M. it was quite certain she was a slaver. She tried to cross the bows of the Penelope several times ; but they would not let her, keeping her on the weather bow. When within range the steamer fired a shot a-head of her; but the slaver would not heave to. After the lapse of some little time the Penelope fired another shot over her; she then short ened sail, and, without resistance, she became the prize of the steamer at a quarter to five. She proved a magnificent brig, like a Symondite, Portuguese mea surement, 320 tons. The captain said he had made three successful trips in this vessel; the first time he carried 500 slaves, the second time 1,000, and the third trip 500; the fourth was his present venture, which, he said, would have been his last, had he not been taken. On the third trip he said he had been chased by the Helena as he was leaving Bahia for the coast ; he did not think at first she was a man-of-war, and let her get very close to him (within two miles) before he saw his mistake ; he then set all sail and threw everything overboard, even provisions, cut his bulwarks down, and got away. This slave captain said he had been eighteen years engagekin this hor rible traffic, and had made twenty-five trips and been taken three times. He said if the captain of a slaver takes a cargo of 1,000 slaves to the Brazils he gets 6,000 dollars as his share of the cargo only, but if taken, he of course got nothing; and that•the present market price of a slave at Brazil is 300 dollars. The Penelope, says our letter, does now very well, having been considerably improved in every way under her present commanders. She went during the above chase nine knots an hour with two-boilers only, and during the last hour of the race made ten knots with three boilers. The Sharpshooter, iron steam-vessel, sister to the Rifleman, has been masted. It is reported that she is to be rigged and sent to Woolwich to receive en gines more suitable than those she now has in. Both the Sharpshooter and the Rifleman are new vessels and have never been commissioned. In Harbour—The Victory, 104, flag-ship, the Victoria and Albert, Excellent, Terrible, Fairy, Echo, Avon, and Undine. _ _ _ In Dock—The Ajax steam guard-ship, Leander, Sappho, Orestes, and Cuckoo. In the Basin—The Prince Regent, 90, Captain W. F. Martin ' • the Blenheim, ordinary guard-ship, Capt. Yates; the Retribution; Firefly, Lieutenant Pon sonhy ; Kite, Master Commander Battiston ; Swallow, and Rocket. At Spithead—The Cygnet, Lieutenant Commander Kenyon ; the Acheron, steam•sloop, Captain Stokes, and another steamer just arrived, but whose number cannot be made out owing to a dense fog ; she is be lieved to be the Colombia, from Plymouth. It having been asserted by mire than one paper that the Philomel, 8, Commander W. C. Wood, has taken no prize since her arrival Oil the African coast, we are enabled to state that, so far from this being the case, on the 18th of October last the Philomel took a fine Spanish schooner off the river Zebu • and on the 25th of the same month she captured a Portu guese brigantine. The Philonoel sailed -from Ply. mouth a month after the Mariner, viz., May 2d, 1847. SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S SQUADRON, We continue our details from the last arrival, of the movements of the above squadron : Dec. 9.—The packet sailed for England, and in the afternoon the squadron bent sails per signal, which was smartly done by all. Dec. 10.—Exercised arming boats. Dec. 13.—Steamed out for a trial of some days. Dec. 14. Commander-in• Chief inspected the Dragon. Dec. 15.—The Blazer sailed for the coast of Africa. Dec. 17.--Packet arrived from England. She ought to have been here on the 12th. She had heavy gales on the passage out. The squadron shifted main topmasts—the Howe and the Queen first; next the Canopui, the St. Vincent, and the Albion. The weather is very unsettled; occasional squalls from the westward. During the night of the 18th of December the St. Vincent drove, but brought up again, and was employed on Sunday, the 19th, getting into her berth again. The squadron was to have sailed on the 20th of December, but the weather was too bad to start. Dec. 22.—The Alert has just anchored, having ex perienced severe gales on her passage. Neither tho packet from England nor that from Gibraltar had come in yet (noon). The squadron are just ordered to sea, leaving the Howe and the Comet. The squadron consists of the St. Vincent, the Albion, the Canopus, the Queen, the Scourge, and the. Dragon. " Earnest Appeal to the Members of Convocation, by IL A. Woodgate, 8,A., - uAR 1, 1848, a J -N y JAN " * and mine may, by the blessing of God, be amply fulfilled.—l have the honour to be, with great respect, your most obedient servant, J. RUSSELL. Rev. A. J. Crispin, Vicar of Renhold, &c. &c. The following is the address, to which his Lordship has thus replied : TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. We, the undersigned, clergy exercising duties within the county of Bedford, beg leave to submit our opinion to your Lordship in the following parti culars : 1. That we have no share in those feelings of alarm attributed to the clergy, through the activity of a portion of them, upon the subject of Dr. Hampden's elevation to the'episcopal bench. 2. That we have throughout this agitation of so grave a question, looked for the affirmation and 'proof of some sufficient reason ; some unquestionable state ment of erroneous doctrine supported by Dr. Hamp den, some palpable evidence of unsoundness in the faith. But none such have we found ; no proof or evidence of any." strange doctrine contrary to God's word," as held or favoured by Dr. Hampden. 3. On the contrary, we have seen charges ad vanced upon the faith either of extracts from his works, or of general statements of their constructive meaning, which an examination of the original writ ings show to be entirely unfounded—such extracts, by their garbled form in some instances, by false connexions in others, quite reversing the true mean ing of the passages. And we have reason to think that many of the clergy have received their impression of Dr. Hampden's doctrinal views from these un trustworthy sources. 4. That having seen these modes of impugning Dr. Hampden's orthodoxy so largely adopted, and having seen no one proof of unsound faith extracted from any of his writings, we hold ourselves atliberty to conclude (even those among us who have not made a thorough search through all his .works), that none such are to be found. 5. That we have indeed read sermons by Dr. Hampden upon the most vital and influential doctrines of the Christian religion, which we regard not only as admirable expositions of the truth upon those points, but sufficient also to satisfy, our minds that the faith of their author and. his view of Christian doctrine is worthy of all approbation. 6.' That consequently the only objection to the ele vation of Dr. Hampden stands upon the authority of the vote of censure passed upon him by the University of Oxford in convocation, in the year 1836. And that we do not, in the present day, regard that vote as of so much weight as properly to stand in the way of Dr. Hampden's elevation, for reasons which we think it unnecessary to mention. 7. That Dr. Hampden has since the time of his condemnation received a direct expression 'of confi dence, in the very article of previous censure, from the legitimate heads and governors of the University, whose age, and station, and responsibility. and maturer judgment, entitles their act, in our opinion, to more weight of consideration, as representing the sense of the University, than the act of a body com posed in great part of younger and less responsible persons.. 8. That under such circumstances, and reviewing the theological history of Oxford during the period that has intervened since the occurrence above alluded to, we consider the appointment to an episcopal station of one holding, and stating the great doc• trines of Christianity in that vital integrity, strength, and simplicity exhibited in Dr. Hampden' s sermons, a circumstance favourable to the health of the Church. A. J. Crispin, Vicar of Renhold. William S. halk, Rector of Wilden. Edward Swann, Chaplain of the Infirmary. William Monkhouse, Vicar of Goldington. William Henry Greene, Rector of Steppingley. John Wing, Vicar of Stevington, and Incumbent of Elston. • George Maclear, Chaplain of the Prisons, Bedford. Henry Fuller, Vicar of Willington. Henry Pearse, Rector of St. John's, Bedford. Thomas Shuttleworth Grirnshawe, M.A., Vicar of Biddenham. J. W. Hawksley, Rector of Knotting, and Souldrop and Turvey, Bedfordshire. John Gaskin, Curate of St. Paul's, Bedford. Benjamin Trapp, Vicar of Thurleigh. John Theophilus Wilkin, Curate of Stag-Aden. Thomas Pierson Richardson, Vicar of Great Barford with Roxton. George Thornton, Vicar of Sharnbrook. H. F. Lodington, Curate of Yelden, to all except the fifth. John Mendham, Rector of Clophill. Alfred Browne, Vicar of Flitton. Thomas Pearse, Vicar of Westoning. Antony Pulley, Rector of Whip.nade. Maurice Farrell, M.A., Curate of Cardington. Benjamin Maturin, 8.A., Curate of Biddenham, Beds. William Mudge, Rector of Purtenhall. 11. Seymour Yates, Vicar of Henlow. Alfred James Lowth, Assistant-Curate of Arsley and Astwick. John P. Moore, Rector of Apsley. R. Pain, M.A., Apsley. C. Hedges, M.A., Apsley. 11. Mathew, Rector of Eversholt. H. Hutton, Incumbent of Woburn. llenry Le Mesurier, Second Master of Bedford School. The following address from fifteen Heads of Houses in the University of Oxford has been pre- sented to the Bishop Elect of Hereford :-- "TO THE REV. DR. HAMPDEN, RILGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY, &C. " We, the undersigned, Heads of Houses in the University of Oxford, have seen with great con cern the reports of proceedings in various parts of the country upon your proposed appointment to the see of Hereford, tending to injure your reputation, impede your future usefulness, and even create a ge neral distrust of the soundness of your faith in our blessed Lord. Under such circumstances, although we only declare the sentiments which many of us have expressed before, and particularly upon the enactment in 1842 of the new statute concerning theological instruction, we desire to assure you, that having for several years enjoyed ample opportunities of learning the tenor of your public teaching and hearing your discourses from the pulpit of the Uni versity, we are not only satisfied that your religious belief is sound, but we look forward with confidence to your endeavours to preach the gospel of Christ in its integrity. "B. P. Symons, Warden of Wadham, and Vice-Chancellor. " Edward Hawkins, Provost of Oriel. " James Ingram, President of Trinity. " Philip Wynter, President of St. John's. " John Radford, Rector of Lincoln. " Henry Foulkes, Principal of Jesus College.; " John Gaisford, Dean of Christ Church. " Thomas David Macbride, Principal of Magda len Hall. " David Williams, Warden of New College. " Frederick Charles Plumptre, Master of Uni versity College. " Henry Wellesley, Principal of New - Inn Hall. " R. Bullock Marsham, Warden of Merton. " William Thompson, Principal of St. Edmund Hall. " James Norris, President of C C.C. " Francis Jeune, Master of Pembroke." accordingly addressed by several of my clergy, with the request that I would employ this 'machinery to obtain such a trial, by sending a charge against the soundness cf your teaching to the Court of Arches. lat once declined to promote such a suit. I was then requested--by performing the needful ministerial act of granting the letters of request to them—to allow other parties to promote such a suit. Such an inquiry I did not think it right to prevent by the interposition of a mere official veto. I signed accordingly the necessary document, informing you in a letter, dated December 16, that I had done so. " -At this stage of the business it was suggested to me by the promoters that, the matter being now' in legal train, it was possible you might be willing to render to my private suggestion, as bishop of the diocese, the satisfaction which would otherwise be sought by a more painful process through the Court of Arches.. I gladly adopted the - suggestion, and desiring the promoters to scispnd -all further legal action till I had communicated With you, I wrote to you a second letter, in :which I first stated, in detail, the points of doctrine which it was alleged in the Articles' laid before me your writings had im pugned, and asked you whether you would affirm your full belief in them. And, secondly, I asked whether you would be willing to withdraw. the ' Observations on Dissent' and the ‘Bampton Lec tures,' not as admitting their language to be unsound, but for the peace of the Church, and because, in my judgment, as your bishop, and in that of others, they did contain unsound language. Had you felt at liberty to reply fully to my questions, and to consent to my suggestion, you would have given full satis faction as well to the promoters of the suit as to me. "In your letter dated December 18, giving full credit to the motives which led me to address you, you answer my first question thus—' In perfect re spect to you as bishop of the diocese, and for your personal satisfaction, _I unhesitatingly reply in the 3- Y affirniatiYe: - I say e s . to all your queries on my belief in that sense in which they are the plain natural sense of the statements of our Articles and formu laries.' So far your answer was of course entirely satisfactory. To . my request you gave no answer; and this silence I understood as tantamount to a re fusal to withdraw the works in question ; and satis factory as I thought that your declaration of personal faith ought to be to all, I deemed it to be impossible for me to require the promoters of the suit to relinquish it while there remained unwithdrawn and unex• plained language which appeared to me so dangerous as that which was contained, more especially, in your Observations en Dissent' (first edition), which was then on sale in Oxford. I therefore wrote to you to say, that, as the language which seemed to me unsound was not to be withdrawn, I could not require the promoters to abandon their suit. " But immediataly after writing thus I learned from a letter of yours to a common friend, that it was with no sanction of yours, and indeed against your wish, that any copies of the first edition of " Obser vations on Religious Dissent" were now sold ; and that even of the second edition you had put forth no copies since its publication. " This entirely altered my view of the case, and I at once wrote to you, requesting you to allow me to withdraw my last letter, because it, closed a cor respondence from which, if kept open, I now hoped much. " I had now before me, as bishop of the diocese— " 1. Your -unqualified declaration of faith on the very points selected by the promoters of the suit as those supposed to be unsoundly treated. "2. The virtual withdrawal of whiit I deemed especially unsound. " There remained only the withdrawal of the Banapton Lectures' to fulfil every condition at first desired for my own or the promoters' satisfaction. " At this time I received your published letter to Lord J. Russell, in which, to other explanations, you• add the important admission, I should be much concerned if, from any unskilfulness in the use of words, I should have given rise to misapprehensions. I would not assert, however, that I have always suc ceeded in conveying my thoughts exactly.' " This admission appeared to me the more im portant, because at the same time I learned from the common friend to whom I have already referred, that you had expressed to him a readiness to remove, in any reprint of your Bampton Lectures,' any ink citutioiss or obscure language which might have given rise to the impression that they contained unsound doctrines, which you had not intended to put forth. Mad I been able to obtain from you a direct statement that such alterations should be made in passages which I was ready to point out to you, full satisfaction would have been afforded to those who objected to your consecration ; but to my great regret I learned that you were now acting under legal direction, and did not think youself at liberty to answer, or even to receive, any such proposals. This I deeply regretted, because I am well persuatha that by such explana tions and assurances as you could most honestly and easily give, the anxious fears of numbers now disturbed within the Church might be at once allayed, and without such direct' assurances some, I fear, will still remain unsatisfied. Thus, in fact, the promoters of the suit now expressed to me their wish for its continuance. With this wish I could not comply for two reasons—first, because I believed that I substantially possessed already the explanations and assurances desired, and I felt that what the Church needed was, not the assertion of a point of honour, but a real security for the soundness of your doctrine; and, secondly, because I belkved that to allow now the suit to proceed would imply a far more direct judicial assent upon my part to its fitness than I had given in first,signing the letters of request, for since I had performed that act my podtion had undergone an entire alteration. I thought at first that the Church had a right to some assurance of the soundness of your doctrines before your consecration as a bishop ; and when no other way of obtaining that satisfaction appeared to be open, I did not even shrink, at the re quest of my clergy, from relegating the question to the decision of the Court of Arches. Since, at the suggestion of the promoters, and by your consenting to reply to my quasi-judicial questions, I had been led myself,. as bishop of the diocese, to assume the office of a judge in the cause, I could, therefore, no longer act merely ministerially in issuing letters of request. Both parties, to a great extent, committed the matter to my judgment; and now, unless I was satisfied that there was matter for a criminal suit, I could not think myself justified in sending an accusation against you to be tried in the Arches Court. Whether there was such matter, could be determined by me only after a careful study of the works in question, with all your explanations in my mind. Regarding, then, the `Observations on Dissent' as virtually withdrawn, I accordingly applied myself to a thorough and impartial • examination of the Bampton Lectures.' I have now carefully studied them throughout, with the aid of those explanations of their meaning which you have furnished, both publicly since their first publication and now in your private communications. The result of this examination, I am boend plainly to declare, is my own conviction that they do not justly warrant those suspicions of unsound ness to which they have given rise, and which, e u s s e t e el suspicionsto sele c te o d f y e x o t u r r a s me , a n l i nmg3: and s elf with equal frankness say that I discern the cause ss fo ho r arl t oe h dn e g. c a o ls n io s l e r q tt u h ent distrust of the University, I must r (whilst your works remained thus unexplained, and the minds of men unassured by your full profession of the faith) in what appears to me a not unfrequent overstatement of favourite views, and much obscurity of diction, resulting often from thearbitrary use of such words as 'facts,' doctrines," proved,' deduced,' &c.; and hence I believed it happened that men of such various parties in the Church concurred, not unnaturally, in the expression of a painful distrust of your meaning. But allowing for these as the blemishes of what was I believe a necessarily hasty composition, and taking into account, as I now can, your various explanations and assurances, I find in the Lectures' little which will not admit of a favour able construction. And if at times I long for the manifestation of a more evidently reverential spirit in the discussion of the highest mysteries of our faith, I yet read in them a thoughtful and able his tory of the formation of dogmatic terminology, not a studied depreciation of authorised dogmatic language, still less any conscious denial of admitted dogmatic truth—l see in them, in fact, so far, little more than Ns hat has been already expressed in the words (never, I believe, considered liable to censrre) of one of the ablest of your opponents in 1834, who says, If I avow my belief that freedom from symbols and arti cles is abstractedly the highest state of church com munion and the peculiar knowledge of the primitive Church, it is...first, because technicality and formality are,, in their degree, inevitable results of public con fessions of faith.' And again ller rulers were loth to confess that the Church had grown too old to enjoy the free, unsuspicious teaching - with which her childhood was blest; and that her- dis ciples must for the future calculate and reason before they acted:—.Newman's Arians, pp. 41, 42. "Having reached, then, this conclusion through that close 'study of your work and explanations which the due discharge of the office of a judge required from me, I deem it my duty not only to be satisfied with the assurance I possess of your future revision of the work, and to withdraw therefore the letters of re quest, but also, with whatever force my previous desire of explanation - , and my'position as Dish.* of THE BISHOP OP OXFORD AND DR. lIAMI'DEN. Bishop Wilberforce has addressed the following letter to Dr. Hampden : " Cuddesdon Palace, Dcc. 28. "Reverend and dear Sir,—What has passed re cently between us obliges me to mark in some detail the steps by which I have reached the conclusion which I desire to lay before you. And since, under the advice of your legal directors, you are led to de cline all direct communication on the subject, I am further compelled to address you thus publicly. " You are aware that when your nomination to the see of Hereford was first announced by common ru mour, I thought it my painful duty to represent to the head of her Majesty's Government the Inconve nience which in my judgment would arise from the completion of the rumoured appointment. This re presentation was grounded on the censure of the University of Oxford, and on the wile prevalence of a strong opinion of the unsoundness of some of your published writings. It did not assume the justice of this opinion. My desire—and that I believe of others—was that an opportunity should be afforded you of publicly refuting these charges before your nomination to the office of a bishop. The representation, however, produced no such effect, and the apprehensions and alarm which had been foreseen by those who signed it were speedily displayed. As one of their consequences, addresses numerously signed were presented by the clergy and laity to the Archbishop and Bishops, praying that all legal steps might be taken to prevent your consecra tion until the matters alleged against you had been brought to solemn decision. But in my own case more was done. As rector of the rectory of Ewelme, in this diocese, you were placed under my jurisdic tion. This, it was thought, afforded an opportunity for obtaining an adjudiciation on the question under the provisions of the Clergy Discipline Bill. I was PUBLICATIONS. THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH'S WORKS. Third Edition, 3 vols. Bvo., with Portrait , 36 5. 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