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P. 4 „..1 1 ,, ,, ,.. w e' - . 1 . 1. . ..' .:,,,' . ilk .;,, • -.-. --~......- it-, :~ S this-i4se, may give to .words, to entr ea t th ose lave given utteranere tO their natural alarm at . 'iir appointment, to ugh well the expression of my deliberate opinion, that 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, " OXON. ` 1 To the Rev. R. D. Hampden." .NA. • ) - : S JANUARY 1, 1848 7;246.] LONDON, SATuRDAY, EVENING [PRICE SD. THE MIRFIELD MURDERS. COMMERCIAL BANK OF LONDON, Lotlibury. and 6, Hem ietta street, Covent -garden. DIICLCI ORS. RICHARD WALKER, Esq., M.l'., Chairman. JO 11 N TAYLOR, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Thomas Barnewall, Esq. James A. Douglass, Esq. William Beresferd, Ess., M.P. Jonathan Hopkinson. Esq. William Sprott Boyd. Esq. Edward Oxenford, Esq. W. R. Collett, Esq, M.P John Savage, Esq. Edward Cotton, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. Joseph Underwood, Esq. MANAGES Mr. Alfred It. Cutbill. Soticrroas —Messrs. Amory, Sewell, and Moores; and Messrs. Norris and Sons. Accounts of parties received and kept on the plan generally adopted by London Bankers. Parties having curtmat accounts ,lth this Bank have the advan tage of transferring any surplus balance to a deposit account bearing interest; and sums of money are received en deposit from parties not keeping current accounts at such rate of interest, and for such periods as may be unwed. upon. The agency for Country and Foreign Banks undertaken on such terms as may be agreed upon. Purchases and Sales of British and Foreign Securities, &c., ef fected, Dividends received, and every description of Banking buss. nese transacted. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. EXTENSION STOCK, No. 2. The holders of Scrip Shares in this Stock are informed that unless all such AItIMAMS of CALLS as are due by them be PAID to the Company's Bankers on or before the 10th of January next, they will not afterwards be permitted to pay any further sums on the said Scrip Shares, and the Extension Stock, No. 2, to be issued to them will be limited to thu amounts they shall havealready paid ity order of the Bo a ard, C. P. RONEY, Secretary. Ilishopsgate Station, Dec. 30, 1847. FASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. The HALF-YEARLY INTEREST on EXTENSION STOCK No. I becomes due on the 4th January next. The Unregistered Certificates must be I.dged at the Company's Offices two clear days previous to the warrants being issued. By order, C. P. RONEY, Secretary. Bishopsgate Station, December 29, 1847. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. YORK EXTENSION SHARES. The Holders of these Shares upon which 41., 51. 55., 61. 55., or 11. 10s. per Share have bees paid, are required to pay to the Company's Bankers, on or before the 22d of January next, all arrears upon the said Shares, and also to deliver their Scrip Shares when so Paid up, at this Office, is order that they may be exchanged fur Consolidated Stock Certificates, otherwise they will not be entitled to receive the Dividends en the A Quarters, or the Interest on the B Quarters, which will be payable under the Resolutions of the next Half-ye a rly Meeting of the Company, to be held In February next. By order of the Board, C. P. RONEY, Secretary. Bishopsgate Station, December 30, 1847. LOAN'S 4 )1 , T MORTGAGE. TUE LONDON, BRIGHTON, and SOUTH COAST RAILWAY COMPANY will receive TENDERS for LOANS on Mortgage Bonds, 111. sums oflsoo/. and upwards, and for terms not exceeding seven years. Interest at 5 per cent. per annum, payable half yeally. By order, London Terminus, Dec. 27, 1847. T. J. 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It is presumed that the reputation of the Patentee as a West-end Tailor for the last 26 years, as also the fact that this popular gar ment is cow warn by almost every nobleman and gentleman in the kingdom, renders comment on its quality and style unnecessary. In London only of FOUIIERE, Patentee, NUMBER SIX, CON DUIT-STREET, Regent-street, and NUMBER ONE, BUCKLERS BURT, adjoining SO, Cheapside. Agents.—Eirmingham : Hollingsworth, New-street—Liverpoel : Mactaggart, Bold-strest—Msuicbester : Brawn, Market-street —Edin burgh : Marshall an Aitken—Glasgew : Brodie, Macleod, mace., aud principal tailors i d s all large to A A G E. M One half the wend are desolately single, and the other Sippesing the married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a Sense of right determine the former, aid miscalculated hopes em bitter the latter. The solitary oil may shield himself ander the plea of cattle& and worldly pradenee, sad the indissoluble, regret un comprosieg harry ; but :he trath lies deeper. Physical ii.e..pacity, stud broken health, are the great hiedrances to domestic happiness end social content. The dowry should net be the only marrisge set tlement. Moneer and justice demand that health should form an item he the compact; tt alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted tropes er neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if these surmises coscent yea, procure Dr. CULTERWELL'S little MEMOIRS 'On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 robs., Is. each (by pest, in stamps, Is. 61. each). Let no imaginatively Pained, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered ay wdsinterpretatier , of their supposed contents, from obtaining them. They are sot intended certainly for mere idle cariosity, but ter the closet perusal of these mere deeply interested, to whom they are offered as antagonistic to the enspyrical trash put f or th on the above sublects, by unqualified authors, whieh alone or together, are a disgrace to the age. 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Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the varlasts Cases, &c. By C. J. LUCAS and Ce., Consulting Surgeons, No. 69, Newman street, Oxford-street, Lendoa. Member of the London College of Medicine, &c. Ere, CONTINTS Or Tile wenn, Chap. I.—Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induces' by inordinate indulgence if the Passions, illustrated with Coloured Engravings. Chap. I.—Banetltl Results of a Secret Tice oa the Mind and Body, evidenced in the prodection of Consumption, Epilepsy, and other convu l s ive diseases, Insanity, Idiocy, moping Melancholy, Indiges tion, Stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations en the Duties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by Unfruitful Unions. Chap. 3. —Debility and Exhaustion of the principal Thal Functions, the nature and treatment of Impotence and Sterility, and the imperfect performance of the Marital act, caused byt he practice of self-indulgence. Chap. 4.—Gonorrhcea, its symptoms, complica tions aid treatment, Gieet, Stricture, and disease of the Prostate. Chap. b.—Syphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. Cases, and concluding observations, Plates, &c. Sold by Brittala , 64, Paternoster-row ; Gerd in 146, Leadenhall- Street ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street ; Sanger, 150, Oxford street ; Mansell, 115, Fleet-street, London ; Wiuhal, 78, High-street, Birmingham; Whitmore, 119, Market-street, Manchester ; Howell, 54, Church-street, Liverpool; Robinson, 11, Greenside-street, Edinburgh ; Powell, 10, Westmoreland-street, Dahlia ; Lad. all Booksellers. Persons deeireus of obtaining the above work, and not wishing to apply to a bookseller for the same, may, to insure secrecy, have it direct from the Authors, by enclosing 3s. Gd., or Postage Stamps. Messrs. 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Just published, aid may be had in Frolic's or English, is a Sealed Envelops, 2s. it„ er pest-free, frsm the aatker, for forty-two Stamps, SELF-PRESERTATION; a Medical Treatise ea the Physieleu e 1 Marriage, Infelicitous aid Unproductive Unions, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth aid Ma turity, locally acquired at as early period of life, which enervate the Physical and recital powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical Obfervations ea the Treatment if Nervois Debility and ladigestien, Whether arising treat these causes, gloss study, or the lalluence of **Pieta climates: Local and Constitational Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and all Diseases and Dorangemeate resulting (rent Isdis• erotioa. With Party coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy, physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explalaing their struotures, uses, and fuactloas, and the various 'alludes that are prodaoed la theta by solitary habits, excesses, sad btfictiou. ET SAMUEL LA'3IERT, M.D., 9, BEDFORD-STREAT, sEDFORD•SQUARE, LONDON. otter e Ifedicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Ideentiate of Apothecaries' Ilall, Londe', Hosentry Member of the London Hospital Medical bootetY, fcc. Marriage requires the fulfilment of several conditions. In order that it may be really the cause of Mutual happiness. Could the veil, which covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, he raised, and its true source is every instance disclosed, in how many oeald it be traced to physical disqualifications and their attendant cheap pointraeats. Axeeeses are always lajnrioas ; the gift, which when used is usoderatioa it fraught with advantage, isecernes, when abased, the merits swarce of mischief, and of greater or less injury to the constitutional mid vital powers. The particular excesses, S i She nature and C011")4561C0 of which this Treatise professes to dilate, are preduetive of greater severity of misery to the Inman frame, tan any other to which it is subject. This work *intents as accurate and complete accoutt of the 134, PhYsiology of the Iteproduetive Organs, and of Sir relative eenditiens in health and disease. It deservedly "centres the closest, attention and study, fur what subject can be of mere import aeee than the preservation of the health, and of tie physical capabilities of which every man should be eo „. --ess`—'• It infortanately happens that the unhappy vict im et excessive indulgence and vicious habits, whether acquired In early life or iron t h e f o llies of advanced age, while suffering hen their invariable eonsequences, unwisely entertains a fear of ap p TlRg to a " 411104 pkysiciaa ter relief. Shame aid the dread so frequently, but erroneously entertained that these compla i nts aro beyond the reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking for assistance where ale. s it can be procured. In acing tins, ho forgets that accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of (36eMe' sympathy With the sufferer, aid, above all, secrecy, inva riably eisaraoterise the latelligent and practical physician, and to the medical 1111 T who can ch ew by his posse-sion of the requisite legal saualileatiens that ke is entitled to esteem and respect ia his proles /40Ra' permits, the utmo s t conldsnee sheuld be extended. Dr. L• 'MK ItT has obtainer' the highest medical honerss, as his diplomas ffy and the great extent of his praetioe for many years is a Atari antes for his professional experience, which has reference almost solely to the treatment of these diseases. Published by the Author, and rosy be had of Kent and Richards, Si, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, 01%rd-street; Starie, Tie.hborne street, Haymarket ; Mansell, 115, Fleet-street ; Gordon, 146, Leedeahall-street, Loudon ; or, free by post for forty-two stamps, *an lie Author. who may be consulted on these disorders personally " by letter, day, Irma Ten ttll IV°, and from Five till Bight at his leitliflnC4, 9, adibrd-etreet 80 4 ferd - Pluarii London. I .\ T ATION AL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital £.500,000. Empowered by Act of ?ornament. Th:s Institution embraces important and substantial advantages rith respect to life assurances and deferred annuities. The assured la.:, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for feiture of the policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in :crests to meet other convenioneles or necessity. Assurances for terms of years on the lowest possible rates. DITISION 0F PROFITS. The increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors at the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fiftk bones, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid on each policy erected OR the profit scale. lIXAMPLBS. . . ' Perms- 'Sun tke 4 i i Annual (Policy Bonus in' lent Re- Assured ~ ;e. ge, I Pre- Itaken addition Bonus ix duction of may bor , . r., nsiunn. 'oat in Assured. Caak. Annual row •n r 4 i Premising. Polley. —1 X a. 4. £ a 8. X a. 1. £ s. d. c !c r 1837 243 9 3112 8818 4 8 1454 810 1838 218 4 8 99 8 10 15 13 8 .445 0 0 s'- , ' 1839 192 110 86 9 3 13 4 9 1395 11 1 60 . 1000174 3 4 1848 143 8 10 66 8 4 9 19 1 346 2 3 1841 138 14 21 61 17 6 9 9 2 1296 13 4 1 I 1842 111 6 81 49 10 0, 7 10 4 1247 4 5 The Annual Report, with tables of rates, &c., may be had at the efllce, or any of its branches in the conntry ; •r, application. will Ise forwarded post free. F. FERGUSON CA.MEOUI, Secretary. GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR ANCE COMPANY. 0 s:e. 11, LOMBARD-STREET, at the Entrance of the Old Post- office, London. DIRECTORS. JOHN DIXON, Esq., Chairman. JOHN MARTIN, Esq., MX., Deputy-Chairman. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. George Lyall, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Stewart3larjoribanks, Esq. Tl.orsson lis.nkev.itm., Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. Robert Iltitturd, Esq. John Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq. James Morrie, Esq. George Johnstone, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. John Thornton, Esq. Jolla Loch, Esq. James Tulloeh, Esq. ArDITORS. A. W. Robarts, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. •zantuel Jones Loyd, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq. ACTUAZl—Griflith Davies, Esq., F.R.S. . In the LIFE DEPARTMENT, Assurances may be effected at •w Rates without participation In the Profits; or at moderate Rates with participation in one moiety of the Profits every seven years. At each •f the three Septennial divisions which this Company has made, the Bonuses amounted to about 1 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. or about 27 per cent. on the amount of premium received; and th• whole amount of Reversionary Bonus allotted by th• Com pany exceeded 530,0001. LOINS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro ♦ided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have attained in each case a value not under 501. In the FIRE DEPARTMENT, a Return of profit was declared on the 2d of June, upon the premiums received on all Policies which hail been in force seven years at Christmas 1846, and the same is now in course of payment daily (Friday and Saturday excepted), between the hours of ten and three o'clock, at the Head Office ; and also by the Agents in the Country Districts. Notice is hereby given, that Assurances which expire at Christmas mist be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with Mr. Sams, No. I, St. Jarnes'e•street, corner of Pall-mall, or with the Company's Agents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they be come void. GEORGE KEYS. Secretary. pROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, so, REGENT-STREET, and 2, ROYAL EXCHANGE- IaTILDINGS, CITY. Established 180 G. INVESTED CAPITAL, 1,200,0001. Animal 11,...us I t 0; ,vu.. dpelltred 529,0001. Claims paid since the Establishment of the Office, t,:av,taKti. reasamorT. The Right Honourable EARL GREY. The Earl of Macclesfield. Rev. James Sherman. The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird. Henry B. Churchill. Esq. Sir Richard 1). King, Bart. William Judd, Hsq. Alexander llenderson, M.D. James Gedgwick, Esq. Capt. W. John Williams. Alfrei Beaumont, Esq. John Deering, Esq., M.P. George Deere, Esq. William Henry Stone, Esq. Richard Cherwood, Esq. 1. The Rates of Premium are those adopted by the principal Life Offices, the rate without bonus Is lower than that of most other 2. Tlis Bonuses aro added to the Policies, or applied to the redec 'iou of the Premiums, or may be received in cash as soon as de eared, at their then present ♦alue. 3. Policies Issued by this office are purchased at their full value ; er Loans no ay be obtained upon them to the sane amount. 4. If a party neglect to pay for the renewal of his Policy, ho may repair the omission any time within twelve mouths, upon proof of zood health. Bonuses paid upon Policies which have become Claims. ,Sum insured.' Sum paid. UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF lIER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY TIIE QUEEN. rrHE ROYAL NAVAL, MILITARY, EAST X INDIA, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 13, WATERLOO-PLACE, LONDON. DIRECTORS. Colonel Sir FREDERIC SMITH, R.E., Chairman. Major-General Sir WILLIAM GOSSET, C. 8., K.C.11., R.E., Deputy-Chairman. Admiral the Right Hon. Sir G. Cockburn, G.C.8., M.P. Major-General Sir J. Cockburn, Bart., G.C.H. General Sir Thomas Bradford, G.C.8., G.C.11. Major-General Sir P. Ross, G.C.M.G., K.C.H. Lieutenant-General Sir John Gardiner, K.C.B. Major-General Sir Hew D. Ross, K.C.8., R.A. Captain Sir George Back, R.N Major-General Taylor, E.I.C.S. Major-General Edward \Vynyard, C.B. Major-General Arnold, K.C., R.E. Lieutenant-General Clelland, E.I.C.S. Lieutenant-Colonel H. Ilanmer, K.H., late R.A.G. Lieutenant-Colonel Matson, R.E. Major Shadwell Clarke, K.H., F.R.S. Archibald Hair, Esq., M.D., late R.H.G. Captain William Lancey, R.E. William Chard, Esq., Navy Agent James Nugent Daniell, Esq. Wilbraham Taylor, Esq. Major-General Rolt, C.B. Major F. S. Sotheby, C.B. BANKERS—Messrs. Coutts and Ce., 511, Strand. ACTUARY—John Finlaison, Esq., the Government Calculator. Assurances are granted upon the lives of persons in every station of life, and for every part of the world, upon particularly favourable terms. Persons assured in this office may change from one country to ano ther without forfeiting their policies. A BOND, AMOVRTINH TO THIRTY Pint CANT. on the actual value et the policies was apportioned to the assured at the First Septennial Meeting, held in the year 1844. JOSENI C. BRETTELL, Secretary. Life insured. X. X s. d. John Wharton, Esq., Skelton Castle 8.000 7,706 6 0 Sir John Saunders Sebright, ilart. .. b,OOO 7,652 13 3 Sir William Wake, Bart. .. •• • • .... 8,000 7,500 8 9 Earl Strathmore • • 5,000 7,128 15 8 Rev. 11. W. Champneys, Canterbury 3,000 4,509 1 1 Th• Marquis of Wellesley • • Earl Cathcart .. ••..•. • • • • • ••.. • l,OOO 1,862 4 11 Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained upon applica tion to the agents of the office in all the principal towns of the United Kingdom ; and at tke head office, No. 50, Regent-street. JOHN A. BEAUMONT, Managing Director. PUBLICATIONS THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH'S WORKS. Third Edition, 3 vols. Bvo., with Portrait, 365. THE WORKS of the Rev. SYDNEY SMITH. *,,,* This Collection consists of the Author's Contributions to The Edinburgh Review," " Peter Plymley's Letters on the Ca tholics," and other Miscellaneous Works. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longnians. Of whom may be had, Svo., 125., The Rev. SYDNEY SMITH'S SERMONS, preached at St. Paul's Cathedral and several Churches. DAUBENY ON VOLCANOS. Just published, price 21s. cloth, with 12 Maps and Plates, A Second Edition, greatly Enlarged, of ADESCRIPTION of ACTIVE and EXTINCT VOLCANOS, of EARTHQUAKES, and of THERMAL SPRINGS ; with Remarks on their Causes, Products, and Influence on the Condition of the Globe. By Ptofessor CHARLES DAL'BENY, M.D., F.R.S. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers-court. NEW SERIES. Just published, with two St ee l Pl a t es , p r i ce 2s. Gd., No. I. of THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, including ZOOLOGY, BOTANY, and GEOLOGY. Conducted by Sir W. Jardine, Bart., F.L.S. P• J. George Johnston, M.D. ; Charles C. 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Albion Motel, Leeds, Dec. 29. TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE for JANUARY. No. MAX. Price One Shilling, co:crArtio: Ragged Churches. Remedies for Highland Famine. Letters from theChammal Islands. No. I. Australia Felix. nalph Waldo Emerson; or the " Coming _Man." By George (liltiHan. Furstenruhe. Continued. Scottish Rivers. No. It. The Tweed and its Tributaries—Con tinued. By Sir Thomas Dick Lauder. Schomburgk's History of Harbadoes. The Sanitary Question. Old Songs. By Elizabeth Yeuatt. Literary Register. Political Register. Sutherland and Knox, Ildinhurgh; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., London ; Cumming and Ferguson, Dublin ; James M'Lsod, Glasgow. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAT.—The royal yacht Victoria and Albert was paid off this day by her Captain, the Right lion. 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 " 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 P.M., when the strange sail could be seen from the deck. She was a brig, close haul. - 1, with royals set ; she looked so well evv. , ry one th‘r. e .ht she must be a man-of- war. At 3 r.st. 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 engaged in 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 sonby ; Kite, Master Commander Battiston ; Swallow, and Rocket. At Spithead—The Cygnet, Lieutenant Commander Kenyon; the Aehe - A•on, steam-sloop, Captain Stokes, and another ster.mer 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 on 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 Philomel 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 frGm England. She ought to have been here on the 12th. She had heavy gales on the passage out. The squadron shifted ma in topmasts--the Howe and the Queen first; next the Canopu., the St. Vincent, and the Albion. The weather is very unsettled; occasional squalls from the we,tward. During the night of the 18th of December the St. Vincent drove, but brought up again, and 'WM 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 the packet from England nor that fro In Gibraltar had come in yet (noon). The squadron are just ordered to sea, leaving t' he Howe and the Comet. The squadron consists of the St. Vincent, the Albion, the Canopus, the Queen, the Scourge, and the, Dragon. DR. HAMPDEN'S APPOINTMENT. The following is Lord John Russell's reply to the address of the clergy of Bedford. '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 on the elevation of Dr. Hampden to the episcopal bench. 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 University of Oxford in 183 G: the other, the suspicion of unsoundness 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 vote of Convocation, passed 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, " The proper appeal is not to the passions of a 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 Flr. Hampden should be de prived of certain functiims and privileges belonging to his office. " because in his writings he had so treated theological subjects that in this respect the University had no confidence in him." Have we had no experience since 1836 ? Is it not possible that Dr. Hampden may have 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 the 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. Hampden's certifi cates, and have proceeded to ordain upon other testi 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 instructions in divinity as a necessary preliminary to ordination. Can there be stronger proofs of the confidence re posed in Dr. Hampden, 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 opiniens 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 the great 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 natural or my official amid theretoro couvealed his :Ipir.ion that it would be an act of reckless insult and injury to the Church! I feel no doubt that the Archbishop, whatever objections he might have felt to Dr. Hampden 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 subsequent years ; of Dr. Hampden's labours at Oxford; 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 Hereford. 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 vation of Dr. Hampden would be disapproved by the majority of the clergy. Had this objection been founded on any just accu sation against the life and morals of Dr. Hampden, it was 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 " none such have we found ; no proof or evidence of any strange doctrine contrary to God's w ord, as held or favoured by Dr. Hampden." 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 dishonesty 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 do gma , " There is no God," and the precept ,; Go and sin." The learned and pious author of this letter did not originally, indeed does not now, 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 inde 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 of her wealth, to such a perilous apathy. The Church of Rome on the one side, with abundant knowledge, with imposing authority, seduces many to her com munion. The right of private judgment is by many 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 Church and State. I know no better security against such a danger 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 : otherwise neither Parliament nor pnemunire can beat off the assailants of our Church constitution. But it is said I have disturbed the peace of the I Church. There is no use in crying " peace, when there is no peace." The appointment of Dr:Tillot son to the primacy provoked a party whose unre lenting fury pursued him to the day of his death. They denounced him as a Socinian and an Atheist, yet our Great Deliverer never made a wiser or more judicious appointment. In our own day we have seen the learned Dr. Lloyd, once Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, pursued with bitter invective, when on the Roman Catholic Rclief Bill he gave ex pression to the loftiest feelings of Christian charity. You have spiken 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 iu that view that, unconnected with and personally unknown to Dr. Hampden, I have I recommended him to the favour of my Sovereign. I earnestly and devoutly hope that your anticipations • Earnest Appeal to the Members of Convocation, by H. A. Woodgate, 8.A., &c., 1645. 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 hare 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. Hainpien'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 at liberty 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. Chalk, Rector of Wilden. Edward Swann, Chaplain of the Infirmary. 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 Barge Rector of St. John's, Bedford. Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe, 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 Stagsden. Thomas Pierson Richardson, Vicar of Great Barford with Roxton. George Thornton, Vicar of Sharnbrook. H. F. Lodington, Curate of Ybiden, to all except the fifth. John Mendham, Rector of Clophill. Alfred Browne, Vicar of Flitton. Thomas Pearce, Vicar of Westoning. Antony Pulley, Rector of Whipsnade. Maurice Farrell, M.A., Curate of Cardington. Benjamin Maturin, 8.A., Curate of Biddenham, Beds. William Mudge, Rector of Purtenhall. H. 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. H. Mathew, Rector of Eversholt. H. Hutton ' Incumbent of Woburn. Henry be 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. HAIIPDBN, REGIUS 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 i 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." THE BISHOP OF OXFORD AND DR. HAMPDEN. Bishop Wilberforce has addressed the following letter to Dr. Hampden : " Cuddesdon Palace, Dee. 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 wide 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 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 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 1 did not think it right to prevent by the interposition of a mere official veto. I signed accordingly the neces , ary document, informing you in a letter, dated December 16, that I had done so. " At this stage of the business it was suggested ,o me by the promoters that, the matter being now in legal train;it was possible you might be walling 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 suspend 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 Decemher 18, giving full credit to the motives which led me to address you, you Anay..er my first question thus—' In perfect re ' spect to you as bishop of the diocese, anti for your personal satisfaction, I unhesitatingly reply in the affirmative. I say Yes 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 4in 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 what I deemed especially unsound. " There remained only the withdrawal of the Bampton 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 Batnpton Lectures,' any in cautious or obscure language which might have given rise to the impression that they contained unsound doctrines, which you had not intended to put forth. Had 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 persuaded 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 de.sired, 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 believed 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 position 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 r and now in your private communications. The result of this examination , I a m bound p lainl y 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, so long as I trusted to selected extracts, I myself shared. For these suspicions of y our meaning, a n d for the consequent distrust of the University, I must with equal frankness say that I discern the cause (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 th ear bit rary use o f suc h wo rds as facts," doctrines," proved," deduced,' &c.; and hence I believed it happened that men of such various parties in the Church concurre d , not unnatura ll y , i n the expression of a painf u l di s t rus t o f your mean i ng . But allowing for th ese as t h e bl em i s h es o f w h a t was I believe a necessarily h as ty com p os ition, 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 what has been already expressed in the words (never, I believe, considered liable to censure) 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 ' Her rulers were loth to confess that the Church had grown too old Ito 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.'—/Veunnan's Arians, pp. 41, 42. " Having reached, then, this conclusion through that close study ()flour 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 Bishop of TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir, —Some of the laily papers, from adisposition, 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 Alirfleld 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 Al‘Cabe, endeavoured by an ingenious argument to shift the burden off my client to the shoulders of a man I knew to be innocent. The press is a formidable commentator upon the conduct of any man, but before conclusions are drawn facts should be clearly ascertained. That I was 'in possession of a statement made by Reid on the eve of his trial is perfectly true ; that from this statement I had reason strongly to presume Reid's guilt is also true; hut that a statement or confession was made or communicated to me irre concileable with the supposition of M'Cabe's guilt, or sufficient to satisfy any impartial mind that M'Cabe neither acted as principal or accomplice, I deny. Certain questions were submitted to Reid, chiefly as to the character of the new evidence against him, and with a view to the cross-examination of some witnesses for the Crown. His replies tended very much to inculpate himself, but did not at all ex culpate MiCabe from the 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; hut with this confession I have nothing to do. Now, Sir, as to my argument, which the Examiner calls " a iertling instance of license of counsel." The evidence offered on the trial as to the time and other matters pressed with about equal weight on the 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 M'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 inno 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 endea 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, or pending it, and to hold his secrets as a religious trust. They are conunissa _Mei—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 argumant being weighed and measured by the nature of the ev id ence , hi s mot i ves and pr i vate 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, and Northern Circuit, Dec. 29. Barrister-at-Law THE COAST DEPENCES.—A commission appointed by the Master-General of the Ordnance, consisting of Lieutenant-Colonel llardinge, Director of the Labora tory Department of the Royal Arsenal ; Lieutenant- Colonel Colquhoun, of - the Carr:age Dcpstriment f . and 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 missioners have visited the whole of the eastern, 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 also been opened up with the various pilots at the outports, with the view of ascertaining the spots w here it would be practicable for an enemy to attempt a landing, even in flat bottomed boats and launches, in order that the whole of our coasts nay 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 to 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 Musicale thus speaks of her:—" A young English artiste, already known in Italy and England, Miss Emma Lucombe, desirous to obtain a Parisian consecration for her talents, after successfully singing in several dilettante saloons, has made her delnlt in public, in a concert given at Here's Rooms for the benefit of the young man Kilian. Miss Lucombe had scarcely begun the grand aria, Casts Diva,' from Norma, when flattering sounds 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." THE CASE 01" GEORGE FAY.---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 of 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 froin 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. Ayton, for the prisoner, called a number of witnesses in exculpation. The te❑dency of their testimony was to show that the woman was a drunkard, and of unsound mind, and that her husband had been seeking an asylum where she 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. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—ROCHESTER, 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 pior was a small uil lamp. On stepping on the gangway, he missed his footing, and fell overboard. A boat-hook was put nut 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 dr•wned. 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 butable somewhere; and they strongly urged the neces sity of an alteration at the pier, to prevent the recur rence of similar accidents. COURT-MARTIAL.—CHATHAM, DEC. 30.—During the last two days the members of a general court martial have been sitting ti,t, this garrison for the trial of private Alexander Patterson, No. 1,508, of the Royal sapvers and Miners, who is charged with having ♦io leetly 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 he 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 he not beard some persons coming up. The sentence of the Court will not be known until it is confirmed at the Horse Guards. A DOUBLE DoT.—When Louis Philippe began dowering his daughters out of the national pocket, the responsible editor of the Charivari was prosecuted for several so called libels ho bad published on the subject of the marriage portions (dots). He had recommended that, to relieve the nation from these burdens, the royal papa should do as other fathers do—pay the money out of his own fortune. On the trial the editor declared, that so far from denouncing As "'dot," he had merely advo cated an "anti-doe"—Family Jo: Miller. .~±~ ..