The Sun. — London, England, 1836-03-18 00:00:00

DR. HAMPD EN'S INAUGURAL LECURE. The Reverend Gentleman commenced his eloquent ad dress to one of the most crowded and attentive audiences ever assembled in Oxford, by making some observations on the importance and difficulty of the duties which his rew office imposed upon him, lamenting at the same time his own insufficiency, and trusting to the Divine assistance to enable him to discharge them faithfully and effectively. He then proceeded thus : The great foundation, then, that I would lay for all m} teaching, is no other than that on which all our scriptural, instruction is built, Jesus Christ him self," " God with us,' " the Lord our righteousness," the Divine Being condes cending to take our nature upon him, and submitting to sufferings and death on the cross for our sins. " For other foundation," as the apostle says, " can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." 'Whatever either minister of the Gospel may preach, or professor of theology incul cate, it is all valueless u nless it have reference to this pri mary " mystery of Godliness." For w it, all thoughts of eternal life and happiness are groundless. "If Christ be not raised, our faith is vain : we are yet in our sins." The preachings of prophets calling to repentance would lose their spiritual force and meaning—the types and shadows of the Old Testament would want their ar.titype and substance—the discourses of evangelists and apostles would no longer sound in our ears as lively oracles of salva tion—the precepts of holy living scattered through the vo lume of Scripture would be divested of their quickening efficacy. It is this great truth, then, received into the heart by faith as a living principle of conduct, and confessed by the mouth with the confession of the humble and contrite sinner, to which I shall direct all my exposition of Scriptural doc trine. By this standard I demand to be tried ; and to the persuading, and understanding, and love, of this holy truth, I pray, that all my endeavours may successfully be di rected. As it is the animating principle of the Scriptures, both of the Old and New Testament, so would I desire that it should never be forgotten amidst all the various studies and labours of the theological student. He must in fact " draw all his studies this way." All must tend to bow him down in lowliness of adoration and praise before the cross of his Divine Redeemer. It is the holy task of the Christian minister to bring the souls committed to his care to the true knowledge of this saving truth. It is the prize of exertion to the theological professor, to impress the stamp of it on all his teachio2, - ; so that he may in truth, " know nothing among you but Jesus Christ, and him crucified ;" and you may with him " 6;mnt all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord." Addressing myself to Christian hearers, Christian in the highest sense of the term, as implying the disciples of an atoning Saviour, devout believers in the proper Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, I need perhaps scarcely add, that the enunciation of this great saving truth involves in it the teaching of a vast scheme of vital doctrine for its full and proper developement. To know Jesus, therefore, as the Christ indeed, is to know that sublime and ineffable relation in which he stands to us, as the only begotten Son of God, who was with the Father and the Holy Spirit before all worlds, and co-equal with them in majesty, and glory, and holiness, taking upon him our nature, stooping to the humiliation of our manhood, and so becoming a meet sacrifice, obligation, and satisfaction, for the sins of the whole world. Thus it is, that to know Christ is emphatically to know and feel that God is Love. We know and feel that God loves us, not only because he has blessed us with life and placed us under the mercies of his natural Pro vidence, but because he is also the Father of Jesus Christ, and the Giver of the Spirit ; because he has created us again in his Son, and sustains our spiritual existence by personal communion with his Holy Spirit. Hence the Scriptures has said :—" No man hath seen God at any time ; the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared him." If we know Jesus Christ, we know also that revelation of God which he hath declared. We believe, in short, in the full sense in which our Church has expressed it, " Three Persons and one God," " a Trinity in Unity, and an Unity in Trinity. To this sublime confession, I, among others here present, have solemnly and devoutly been pledged in infancy by the fostering care of the Church, and to the same in the ma ture age of reflection I have as solemnly and devoutly set my hand. And I reverentially appeal to the Searcher of hearts as a witness that I have never for one moment swerved from this true faith of the Gospel, but that, the more I have inquired into Scripture—the more conversant I have become with theological antiquity—the more I have laboured to " know of the doctrine whether it be of God," by improving in doing the will of God, more, I have been convinced that the Trinitarian doctrine pro fessed by our church is the true one—that it cannot be denied without expunging the Scriptures themselves, and unlearning every lesson which inspired prophets, and evan gelists, and preachers have taught us. In expanding the great gospel truth of salvation through the blood of Christ, I shall be led to enforce, also, that of our s anctification by the Spirit. We cannot rightly believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins, without embracing also the firm assurance, that he is with us still by his Spirit, the Holy Comforter, pleading with our hearts, preparing and assisting us in working out our salvation, and filling us with all joy and peace in believing. The Scriptures assure us that " without. him we can do nothing ;" that God worketh in us both to will and to do, of his good pleasure ;" that to bring forth good fruit, we must grow in him as the branches in the vine ; and that it is the peculiar office of the Holy Spirit thus to unite us to Christ, and in corporate us, as lively members, into his mystical body the Church. The sound faith in the Holy Trinity, in itself the tvork of the Holy Spirit, carries Us to the acknowledgment of the real proper personality of the Holy Ghost. Now, if we believe in the atonement of a Divine Re deemer, and the sanctification by a Divine Comforter, we cannot but be cordially disposed to receive the doctrines of justification by faith, of preventing and co-operating grace, of tne necessity of repentance, and of Christian holiness of life, of the corruption of our nature,, and of a day - of final retribution and judgment. The application to the heart of the true Trinitarian doctrine entirely cuts off all human pretension, and sinks our highest merits into demerits. Under this conviction we truly say, that " faith without works justifieth us ;" that by grace we are saved, through faith ; and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast"—God, by his prevent ing grace, putting into our hearts good desires ; by his co operating grace, enabling us to bring the same to good effect. Nor, again, do I see how he who holds rightly the in carnation and atonement of our Lord can look at his own nature otherwise than in the language of the article, as " very far gone from original righteousness," and " cor rupt," in the strictest sense of the term. When we go back, too, to the earliest records of Scripture, and find that this Di% ine expiation was provided in the counsels of the Almighty at the transgression of the first man, surely we must acknowledge, as it is simply declared in Scrip ture, the depth of the root of that sinfulness for which the Redeemer came to atone. It is clear, as the Scripture shows, that in Adam all die, even as in Christ all are made alive ; that though there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ, still the infection of nature, the fault, and depravation, remains in every man, the flesh-warring-against the spirit continually, an ~ 1 weighing down and impeding the immortal principle within us. I now proceed to speak of the authorities, and the course of religious study to which my whole'theological instruction will have reference. Let me then, at once state, that I purpose leading my hearers to the Scriptures themselves as the sole supreme authority of all revealed truth. If I shOuld receive any other authority as a legitimate source of divine truth, I should convict myself of deserting the cause of Protes tantism and of our own Church, no less than the cause of the Bible itself. But will my performance of this most sacred duty, of upholding the paramount authority of the Bible, require me to disparage the authority of the Church, and the free use of private reason in examining and judging of the truths of revelation, and the manifold helps of human learning ? Far from it. It will require me certainly to underrate the im portance of these guides to the truth, as viewed in compe tition with the exclusive divine authority of the scripture ; not to dispense with them. With respect to the use of private reason in judging what is the truth of Scripture, the dispute on the subject is, in great measure, owing to the fallacious sense in which the term private reason is employed. If we - understand by it the uninformed reason of every man acting independently of all counsel and aids for forming a right judgment, there can be no doubt that a private reason of this kind is not a proper judge of religious truth. At the same time it is true in one sense that every man's private reason must be to him the ultimate judge of what is true or false in religion as well as in other concerns. For every subject of consideration must ultimately be de cided b y t h at tr ib una l which, each man's faculties, each man's state of mind and heart erect within him. But more particularly in regard to religion , t he dut y of "search ing the Scriptures" is evidently so urgent to every Christian, that every one who can read them or hear them is clearly bound to use his best reason in examining for himself into the matter revealed. So that a truly s criptural Church, as that of the Chu rc h o f England, will never discourage among its members the free application of their reason to the inquiry into revealed truth. But while this is granted, let it not be assumed immediately that any kind of employ ment of private reason in such inquiry would be sanctioned by a scriptural Church. The very duty of avoiding undue prejudice requires of every one that he should inform him self to the utmost before he presumes to decide,—that he should seek the instruction and advice of those more in structed in Christian knowledge, more a dvanced in Chris tian perfection, than himself, and in particular of those who are his appointed s piritual rivate g uides. Then, again, in searching the scriptures, preason m ust pursue the same method as in all other inquiries for r , sce rtaining the truth. It must compare scripture with scripture, things spiritual with spiritual, and so gather up the fragments of truth scattered throughout the sacred vo lume and put them together. This is a perfectly legitimate employment of reason. It is a very different process from i that of the speculatist who selects certain abstract notions and s f frames e s speculate.definitions, 1 and iep u a r r s g u t e i s e s w f i r m o t m i s them callec s i vh th at e must be the truth of revelation. The true Chriitian inquirer uses his reason to the utmost in interpreting what he reads in scripture. He reasons and concludes, and judges, but lie d of faith, analysing and combining the passages of scripture, and so forms a comprehensive scheme of religious truth ' from the Bible. Without such a process, he is the mere • disciple of scattered texts, and not a truly scriptural divine. =---- - - rlt 1 CES OF STU CKS - 1111 DAI Ai - ON I . ; O'CLOZIS.. Rink Stock li)er Cent fled. per Cent. Cons 4 111„ % South Sea Stook — 1 1 , per Cent —; Ohl Annuities Ditto lied —; New Ditto — New 31,', per Cent 99 7 ,4 100 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751. New 3 per Cent ---Exch. Bills, .El,OOO ‘.. . ,0 '''.? pm. ;lank LongAnnuiticstoexpire i Ditto 500 ... "0 01l pm. Jan 5, IStm --; Ditto Small Oct 10, 1.4:0......... ............ --; Ditto Commercial — pm. Jan 5 . 1,4, e ---, Ditto Advertised — pm. Jan. 5, ISSO — Bank Stock for Account 219)-4 April 5, IRSO Jan. 5, 1370 — Consols for Account Omnium Pm.l PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds — f Peruvian Bonds .. — rclgian Bon€ls 103!4 I Ditto Account Ditto Account . 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HAMBURG, FEBRUARY 24, 1836. rIPFIIS DAY, being the FOURTH DAY of DRAWING of the SIXTY-SEVENTH HAMBURG GREAT LOTTERY, No. 1,126, sav One Thousand One Hundred and Twenty-six, obtained the First drawn Prize of Bancomarks One Thousand, and the Premium of Bancomarks 100,000 net. ERR ATA.—In a Letter signed " Observer," respecting the Great Western Railway, which appeared in The Sun of yesterday, for a journey of 30 miles in " 10" minutes, read " 90" minutes, and for subscribers send advocates, read subscribers and advocates. The publication of TIIE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. , c r i" • .7 , 14 . tat el r ift • • :;;: \ T ‹ - ? - tv ; ' 433,,05i _ ~~~ _~ 'Trlio t‘-..;:ttlx-+ LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1836. In another part of our Paper, our readers will find the_ substance of the inaugural lecture delivered yester day at Oxford by Dr. HANIPDEN. We are extremely sorry to have been under the necessity of abridging a composition so eloquent, and in many respects so inte resting, but the crowded state of our columns must plead our excuse. For the same reason we are pre cluded from making any other remark than that it must now be evident to every one that some other cause than unsoundness, in the leading points of orthodoxy, has been at the bottom of the persecution which the Learned Professor has suffered from the Members of the University. Had Dr. HAMPDEN been as sound in the political as he is in the religious faith professed at Oxford, we never should have heard of any opposition to his appointment. The cultivation of waste-lands in Ireland has always appeared to us one of the most obvious as well as most effectual means of improving the state of that hitherto neglected country. Ireland presents an ano maly in the history of nations striking in many res pects, but in none more remarkable than this, that, though possessing a genial climate and a fertile soil, the great mass of the inhabitants have been condemned to the most abject poverty, and to all the vice and mi sery which usually follow in its train. Generations of men, whose energies, had they been properly directed, would have advanced their country in the scale of ci vilization, and added an almost incalculable amount to the national wealth, have sunk, one after another, into the grave, without leaving a trace of their existence, except what is to be found in the records of crime. To what is this to be attributed ? Are the Irish so averse to labour that they will rather endure the severest privations, and submit patiently to the worst that can befal them in a state of idleness, than betake themselves to those industrious pursuits by which alone the conveniences and comforts of life are to be obtained ? No supposition could be more erroneous than this. It is refuted by the strongest of all testimony—the testimony of daily experience. By whom is the hardest labour in this great metropolis performed ? By Irishmen. Instead of preferring idleness for its own sake, we find the Irish in London, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow—in all our great towns in short—submitting to become " hewers of wood and drawers of water," enjoying almost a mo nopoly of the most laborious and disagreeable occu pations ; and when this resource fails them, seeking in foreign lands that employment which they cannot ' find at home. In these praiseworthy struggles, to rescue themselves from the unmerited hardness of their domestic lot, the natives of Ireland are the means of inflicting injury on others. They undersell the labourers of England in the labour-market, and drive multitudes of them into the workhouse. This has long been felt as a serious evil, both by the labourers themselves and by the rate-payers who support them, and has not without reason been numbered among the causes of that dist ress o f w hi c h the agriculturists com plain. It is evident that neither this, nor that still greater evil, which consists in the annual emigration of so many thousands of the best part of the popula tion, can be cured in any other way than by employing the Irish at home. To do this to any extent has hitherto been found impracticable, from the unsettled state df the eOttnt"' .1' and other unfavourable circumstances. 1) day begins at last to dawn ~ut a brighter which has hitherto doue her 7" Ireland. Legislation, much inichief, has at lastfo so un d little o ut good,tilo source so her evils, and is applying the proper remedy. The redress of her grievances, and the employment of her superabundant population, through the medium of a well-considered system of poor laws, arc now no longer questions the policy of which has to be discussed, but measures actually in progress. These measures have produced their natural result in restoring Ireland to a state of tranquillity to which she has long been a stranger, and in turning the attention of capitalists to a country possessing so many natural advantages—the resources of which indeed may be said to be inexhaustible. A Society has been formed, as appeared by an advertisement in our paper of yesterday, for cultivating the waste lands of Ireland. It is under the patronage of some of the first names i❑ the list of the' Irish Peerage, and seems to us—whe ther regarded in a national or commercial point of view—as the means of calling into activity the dor mant industry of the Irish people, or as a safe and profitable mode of investing capital, highly worthy of public encouragement. The plan of the Society, as we learn from the Pros pectus, is not to purchase, but to obtain a long lease of the lands they intend to cultivate, and when it is con sidered that there are in Ireland, according to Parlia mentary Reports, nearly five millions of acres of waste lands, capable of being reclaimed, what a vast field is here opened for the enterprising capitalist I--what an inexhaustible source of benefit to the unemployed and starving natives of that country ! - The Society has our most ardent wishes for success in its truly patriotic undertaking. The more we see and hear of Lord STANLEY'S " Sayings and Doings," the more we are astonished that he should ever have fancied himself a Liberal. Still more are we surprised that he should ever have voted for the Reform Bill, the main objects of which he is now actually endeavouring to retard and embarrass. Nature—whatever circumstances may for a season have done—evidently intended his Lordship for a Tory. His blind reverence for Mother Church, which increases in exact proportion to the old lady's doting imbecility ; Lis indifference to all the best interests of Ireland ; his innate preference of coercive to conciliatory measures.; his dislike of progressing, in the way of Reform, brisker thati at a snail's pace; his patrician arro gance ; his supercilious condescension ; his school boy sophistry ; his spleen—pertness—and small, tricky ingenuity—all prove him to be a chip of the true Tory block. Seated where he now is, on the Opposition Bench—and God grant he may long con tinue there I—he has the handsomest possible op portunity of bringing all his innate Conservative qua lifications into full play ; and who knows, if he but go on as he• has begun, but he may, at no distant period, eclipse even PEEL himself in plausibility, and BILLY HOLNIES in cunning ? Look, for instance, at his Lordship's conduct last night with respect to the Macclesfield Small Debts' Bill. How much true Tory promise was developed on that occasion I The Bill in question had never, it seems, been printed ; no notice of the third reading had been entered on the List ; and but few Members were acquainted with the obnoxious clause : yet these things, which would have made an honest Reformer pause, only confirmed Lord STANLEY in his resolution to persevere. Ac cordingly, the House—after the good old Tory fashion duly packed for the purpose, his Lordship rose to move the third Reading of the Bill, and would have succeeded in fully smuggling it through, had it not been for the manly opposition of Mr. Hum E, who, detecting the manoeuvre at a glance, boldly denounced it, and assisted by Messrs. ROEBUCK, WARBURTON, and GROTE, procured the adjournment of the House. Thus far, therefore, his Lordship is disappointed, which we are heartily glad of ; not merely because we like to see low cunning defeated—as it generally is in the long run—but because, had the Bill finally passed the House, it would have stultified all its former pro ceedings as respects the question of Imprisonment for Debt. An official copy of the treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, with the separate and secret article annexed, will be found in another column. The advocates of our foreign policy will find in this document matter for grave reflection. For our own part, we can not conceive how a British Minister could bring himself to submit this treaty to the consideration of Parliament, unaccompanied by copies of those threatening remonstrances which lie considered it his duty to employ the moment he learned that Russia had compelled the Porte to enter into a con spiracy against the interests and honour of the British empire. In fact, a stranger to the debate on Lord DUDLEY STUART'S motion, reading this treaty for the first time, in the bald form in which it is now laid on the table of the Commons' House of Parliament, would infer from its tenour that Lord PALMERSTON had been unjustly denied an opportunity of defending his own conduct as Foreign Minister, by refusing him the privilege of publishing his correspondence with the Russian Cabinet. To presume that he could be other than most anxious to give every publicity to his own despatches would, under such circumstances, be impossible, without admitting that his Lordship had entirely overlooked his duty as a British Minister. We have received by express the Madrid Gazette up to the 11th inst. The Gazette of the 10th con tains a decree for the suppression of all the monaste ries, and convents of friars arid nuns, in Spain, which are to be closed immediately, and all their property to be appropriated to the State—to be applied to the re demption of the national and foreign debt. It is said that the Ministry was completed, with M. ISTURIZ at the head, and MENDIZABAL Minister of Finance, and that those appointments would not be made public until two or three days before the meet ing of the Cortes. A Correspondent writes us from Madrid, that he understood that remittances were about to be made to London on account of the Dividends. A rumour is afloat in the City this morning, that part of these funds has just reached London. We have received a file of New York Papers to the 28th ult. The power of President JACKSON is on the wane. This fact requires no other confir mat i on than what is supplied by the passing of a Bill by th e S enate and Representatives of the State of Penn s yl van i a, for chartering a Bank, to be called " The U n i ted States ' Bank." This Bill was presented to the G overnor on the 18th ult , and was immediately sign e d b y hi m. All the world knows what trouble it cost the Presi dent to prevent the renewal of the Federal Bank's Charter ; and every person with two ideas in his head must recognize in the new Bank a practical illustration of the fable of the phwnix. The personal friends of the President are greatly enraged that such a mea sure should have received the sanction of the Go vernor ; and the portion of the Press devoted to the maintenance of his views denounce the whole transac tion as an infamous attempt to swindle the people out of their money. But all this outcry will prove ineffec tual. The new Bank Charter is for thirty years, so that a trifling delay in its organization will be of little consequence. Moreover the great bulk of its share holders will be composed of the very men whom the President imagined he had for ever prostrated. In fact, nothing of any importance will be changed but the nam e ; so that, in reality, the new Charter is neither more nor less than a renewal of the old one. All that the President really effected, after years of incessant labour, and a perpetual struggle with the Governors of the Federal Bank, was a temporary sus pension of the Bank's mercantile operations. According to a report recently made to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury the total number of Banks in the United States, including branch Banks, is seven hundred and four, with a capital in round numbers of two hundred and thirty-one and a half million of dollars. These Banks make discounts and grant loans to the amount of nearly three hundred and sixty-seven million of dollars, or considerably more than one million of dollars more than the total amount of capital. The specie belonging to them does not quite amount to forty-four million of dollars. The Americans have everywhere received the news of the re-adjustment of the differences with France; through the mediation of Great Britain, with lively demonstrations of pleasure. The President is like wise lauded for his firmness, even by those who de nounced his conduct when a war appeared inevitable. But the popularity which this measure will procure for him will be insufficient to secure his re-election to the Presidency. His obstinacy is dreaded by all ; arid the good fortune that has attended him in all his op positions to the popular will is not likely to render him more docile in his old age. In addition to the New York Papers referred to in the preceding article, we have received files of Mon treal, Quebec, and Halifax Papers to the 17th, 19th, and 24th of February inclusive. The following are extracts from them : The Montreal Papers say, " We learn that the Earl of Gos ford is to dissolve the self-constituted assembly. A dissolu tion, unless followed by an Imperial statute for the amendment of the Constitutional Acts, would do more harm than good. The same knaves, Bartholomew Guay, Ephraim Knight, and perhaps that ex-bully De Bleury excepted, would be returned ; and the result of the election would again be cited as an irre fragable proof of the unanimous confidence of La Grande Na ion Canadienne. The Quebec papers mention that the advises from Torento say..." The debates in the Assembly have been very warm, and that some very extraordinary expressions had fallen from some of the leading members. For instance, in the de bate on the address, in answer to Sir John Colburne's last speech, in referring to the Royal Commissioners, it is said that " the King had insulted the Legislature by appointing Com missioners to enquire into their affairs, who had no union of interest with the people of the province, and would return and spend their lives in another country. " Of the Provincial Parliament it is stated, that the Speaker laid a despatch from Lord Glenelg, dated the 13th Feb. be fore in the House, with other documents. Upon which M. Morin moved that the documents be inserted in the Journals. The motion was opposed by M. Bedaro, but eventually car ried by a majority of 35, and the documents were referred to a Committee of the whole on the . -ports on the public accounts." Halifax Papers to the 23d or February have the follow ing :--" The two branches of the Legislature are still at issue upon the question—viz., the last Bill from the House rating the sovereign at 255., and all other British coin in proportion. It has been returned by the Council with amendments, which amendments the House have disagreed to. Thus the matter at present stands. " The Quebec papers of Feb. 15, in givins , an account of the p ro ceedings of the Assembly, state—" The e following resolu tions, passed in the Committee of Wednesday last, were re ported and concurred in :- 1. Resolved,—That it is expedient to grant to his Majesty 3,5001. Currency, to cover a like sum advanced by Lord Ayl mer for the contingent expenses of the House of Assembly. 2. Resolved,—That it is expedient to grant to his Majesty 3,0001. Currency, to cover a like sum advanced by his Excel lency Lord Aylmer for the contingent expenses of the House of Assembly, March 4, 1833. 3. Resolved,—That it is expedient to grant his Majesty 22,0001. Currency, to cover a like sum advanced by his Excel lency Lord Gosford for the contingent expenses of the House of Assembly, in conformity with an address of this - House, of Nov. 9, 1835. 4. Resolved,—That it is expedient to grant to his Majesty 3,556/. 10s. sd. Currency, advanced by Lord Aylmer during the year ended Oct. 10, 1833." We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of Wednesday, together with two of the evening Papers dated yesterday. They are filled with little bette r than mere conjectures respecting the THIERS' Cabi net, from which we can draw no other inference than that the President of the Council is in a condition to bid defiance to the Opposition. The Gun-powder plot is likely to end in smoke. One of the chief conspirators has openly declared himself the pro prietor of the illicit manufactory, but adds that his sole object was to evade the duty. This declaration is not credited ; but at the same time the people ge nerally are quite indifferent as to what object the con spirators proposed to themselves. The cry of " wolf" has been raised so often, that no one would stir were it said that he had devoured half the royal fold. The latest accounts from Spain are rather favour able to the QUEEN'S cause. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, MARCH 16. Five per Cents., 107 f. 45c. 35c. 30c. Four per Cents., 10If. 70e. Three per Cents., Slf. 90c. 85c. 80c. Rank Actions, 2,180 f. Rente de Naples, 101 f. 10e. 1001. 95c. 85c. Roman Fire per Cents., 104 1 2 . Spanish Actives, 45% 46. Spanish Differes, Spanish Passives, 15 Itoyal Spanish Loan, 34. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 103%. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 7sq. Portuguese Three per Cents. 48Y. Haytian Loan. 395 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25c. 45c.; money, 251. 45c. Three months, paper, 251.32%c.; money, 251.300. Authentivre. QUARTER TO FOUR.-Five per Cents., 107 f. 60c. ; Three per Cents., 81f. sc. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, -; Three per Cents. Spanish, -; Cortes, -; Coupons, - ; Passives, 15i ; 1 ; Gueb hards, -; Differes, 17 ; New Loan, -; Actives , 46 ; Ducats, -; R om ans, 103 Pedros, 78i ; Belgians, 1031 ; Dutch, -f. ; H ay ti a ns, 385 f. -c. ; Aliguels, -; Brabant Bank, -; elgian Bank, 141; Con tinuation, -c. ; New Differes, 21 ; Five per Cent. Perpe tuelles, -; Royal Loan, 34. The John Bull, the weekly organ of the High Church party, i s , or preten d s to oe, g reatly dissatisfied with the plan of Church Reform recommended by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Great as is his respect for the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, and some of the other Commissioners, he cannot reconcile himself to the idea of la y ing the profane finger of Reform upon the venerable abuses of an institution, the very dust and cobwebs of which are invested with a character of sacredness. We must do our contemporary the justice to say, that in his opposition to Ecclesiastical Reform he has been consistent, if not judicious. He has uniformly opposed the least change in the system — whether from an idea that the fabric is so rotten that, if once touched, it must crumble to dust, we know not—but such is the fact. And in following thi s course, he has silently but emphatically rebuked the total want of principle evinced by the leaders of the political party to which he belongs, who one day de nounce as destroyers and revolutioniSts all who would establish our Municipal Corporations on a useful and popular principle ; and the next are for sweeping them away with the besom of destruction, so that the place which knoweth them now shall know them no more for ever, thus proving to the world their inaliena ble right to the title of Conservatives par excellence ! Tho plan of Church Reform contained in the Re port to which the Archbishop of CANTERBURY has affixed his signature, though, as we have stated before, a great improvement on the present system, and much beyond what we ever expected to see approved of by the Primate of all England, is nevertheless far below the measure required either for the satisfaction of the country, or the moral and religious efficacy of the Establishment itself. We do not wish to deprive the Church of England of one farthing of its revenues, but we object to their unequal distribution. When the scheme proposed shall have been carried into effect, we shall find the ministers of religion, all brethren alike, in the enjoyment of incomes varying from 1001. to 15,0001. per annum. This is intolerable when it is con sidered that the man with the 1001. labours as hard if not harder than he with the 15,0001. The conse quence of continuing this unequal distribution of emo lument is, that non-residence and pluralities, the two greatest enemies of the Church, can be but partially destroyed. They still linger behind to paralyze her exertions and circumscribe her usefulness. There are many other respects in which the Report is unsatisfactory, both in what it recommends and in hat it omits. To those points we shall take an early opportunity of adverting. We have advices from Lisbon to the 8.11 inst. The Cabinet is represented as on the eve of falling to pieces, owing to its own inherent fragility. No Government was ever more contemptible in the eyes of a nation than is the present Portuguese Ministry in the estimation of the inhabitants of Lisbon. Hopes were entertained that by care and management it might be kept together till the arrival of the Prince of SAYE CoBuRG, when it was expected to expire during the delivery of a congratulatory address. The nation is sadly in want of an efficient Government. The pre sent Cabinet is without money, and though surrounded by the most ample resources, is destitute of the trifling talent required for the taking advantage of them. The QUEEN, who is herself aware that the Cabinet must, of necessity, fall to pieces, has charged the Duke of TERCEIRA with the formation of a new Ministry. 'The following is a list of the appointments which the Duke has in contemplation : Terceira Minister of Foreign Affairs. Freire Barreto Ferras Castro Finance. Loureiro War. Villa Real It was reported that the Duke of TERCEIRA made overtures to CARvALIio, requesting him to take the Finance Department, but that the Ex-Minister refused to have any thing at all to do with the new Ministry. LISBON, MARCH I.—ln the sitting of the Chamber to-day, the Minister of Fknance read the account of the receipt and expenditure for the year from July 1, 1834, to June 30, 1835. It seems that from Oct. 31, 1835, for the eight following months, to June 30, 1836, the revenue is estimated at Reis 15,481,598,245 The expenditure at Deficiency ...... 8,510,044,762 Advices from Alexandria to the 2d of February have been received. They repeat the assurances of NIEHENIET ALI'S friendship for the British autho rities, and his desire to remove every obstacle in the way of opening a communication between this country and India. The following is a translation of the Fir man addressed by the SULTAN, at the desire of Lord PONSONBY, to the Pacha of EGYPT, and bearing date the 24th of December, 1835. It will be remem bered that Lord PoNsoNßY's complaint had reference to the duty charged by MEIIEMET ALI upon silk; and also that the duty was remitted before the Firman reached the Pacha To the Illustrious Mehemet Ali Pacha and Governor of Egypt, and of the countries adjoining thereto. " In receiving this noble Firman, your Royal Highness will know what follows. The Ambassador Extraordinary and Mi nister Plenipotentiary from the Court of Great Britain, resi dent at Constantinople, Lord Ponsonby, a personage of great distinction among the grandees of the Christian nations (may his death be happy !) has represented to us, in an official note, by order of his Government, that lately the authorities established by you at Beirout have hindered several Eng lish merchants, not ohly from shipping the silk which they had purchased, but even from withdrawing it from the hands of the sellers, and that this proceeding, which would tend to the establishment by your High ne.ss of a monopoly of silk, fetters English commerce, in contravention of treaties, and at the expense of the friendship which exists between the Sublime Porte and the British Go vernment. The Ambassador has demanded a firman, which shall command you to cease from putting any restrictions upon the commercial operations of English subjects in any of the countries the government of which is confided to you ; and in a subsequent note, in which he has reiterated his complaint, he has stated that the Government of his Britannic Majesty demanded as its right a firman, which should cause you to ab stain immediately and completely from any hurtful interference with English trade in all the States confided to your Admi nistration. " The commercial treaty between my empire and Great Britain stipulates, that the English, and those who are under the English banner, may trade in the Ottoman States; and that, with the exception of gunpowder, and other articles of war, when the English merchants would ship on board their vessels any articles of non-prohibited merchandize, no obstacle whatever should be offered to them; and that if the authorities of any part of the empire where the English might be carrying on their trade should introduce, in opposition to treaties, any innovations of a nature to prejudice them, such innovations were immediately to be suppressed.' This being the case, that which has taken place at Beirout, in whatever manner it may have occurred, is a veritable contravention of existing treaties. You must besides consider that trade is the occupation of the great majority of Englishmen, and that it is our evident duty not to fetter it. " My supreme will then is, that the English should be pro tected from the difficulties in question, and from the wrong by which they are menaced, in a manner incompatible with exis ting treaties. With this object in view, I have sent this firman, on the receipt of which, acting with the prudence and judg ment for which you are distinguished, you will make known to all whom it may concern the crders which it contains. You shall absolutely forbid them to interfere with the speculations in silk which may be entered into by the English merchants, and you will take care that these merchants are protected in every possible manner, and you will take the necessary mea sures to facilitate, as far as is in your power, their commercial operations. It is for this end that I have written, and that I send you the present firman. When this firman, to which your obedience is due, shall reach you, you will hasten to conform yourself to it, and will add faith to the holy symbol with which it is decorated. " Given these first days of the month of Ramazan, in the year one thousand two hundred and fifty-one." DUBLIN ELECTION COMMITTEE This Committee were engaged with eight votes which had been submitted to them by the petitioners' counsel, and struck off six, thereby reducing the majority of Mr. O'Connell over Mr. Hamilton to one hundred, and that of Mr. Ruthven to forty-six. It is expected that the case of the petitioners will close this week. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY_ Ti'r ,AARCH 18, 1856, THIS DAY. The Committee met at the usual hour this morning, and proceeded with the scrutiny. The vote of Joshua Lumby was for some time under discussion, and the decision of the Committee was ultimately in favour of the sitting Mem bers. Counsel for the sitting Members objected to the books of the tax collector being received in evidence, but the objection was overruled by the Committee. There was only one voter struck off the poll of the sitting Members when our Reporter left. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. The boisterous weather has kept out the expected supplies of Grain, and the return this week is very small. There was very little Wheat for sale, and the trade evidenced no alteration from Monday's prices. In other Grain not much business has been transacted, and prices are unaltered. Flour has met a fair demand at last rates. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. English Irish . Foreign Oats. Flour. 540 qrs. 1,210 sacks 2,900 -- SMITHFIEL The supply to this day's marke , dull, at the following MARKET'. was not great, and the trade wa! PRICES PER STONE OF 8I; TO SINK THE OFFA LS. a. d. to s. d. a d to s 4. Interior Beasts. 2 4 2 6 Inferior Sheep 3 2 3 6 Second quality ditto 2lO 3 6 Second quality ditto 4 2 4 8 Prime large Oxen 4 4 4 6 Coarse-weolled ditto..... 5 2 5 4 Prime Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves 4 4 419 Large Hogs 36. 4 2 Prime small ditto 5 0 5 4 , Small Porkers . S'ickling Cal ves each ...12 0 30 01 Quarter old Pigs each, 10 u 14 0 Lamb 55 cid to 6s. 64. SUPPLY, AS PER CLERIC'S STATEMENT. i_ Sheep. I Calves. Pigs 2 ,30 i 2W 380 Beasts. 420 NEWGATE AND LEA At per stone, I s d. tos d Beef, inferior 2 4 2 8 Mutton, inferior - middling 210 3 2 - middling - prime large 1 4 3 8 prime ---prime amid llO 4 0 Pork, large Veal Lamb DENHAM, MARKETS. ly the Carcast s d tos d 2 8 '2 1,1 30 3 4 310 4 6 :3 0 4 2 48 5 0 The Strand Theatre, we hear, has this day received a license from the Lord Chamberlain, commencing at Easter. The public meeting convened for to-morrow will therefore, we presume, not take place. Accounts have been received at the Admiralty of the arrival of the Lady Jane (one of the ice-bound whalers) at Stromness. H er crew was i n a very ailing condition. On 'Wednesday last, the Rev. Mr. Keenan, of the Catholic Chapel, Broughton-street, Edinburgh, waited on Mrs. Marjoribanks, of Marjoribanks, and delivered to her twelve silver table spoons, twelve silver handled knives, and six silver forks, which bad been stolen from her some time ago, but by whom, that Rev. Gentleman, in his ecclesiastical capacity, was not at liberty to disclose.—Scotsman. SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, MARCH 7.—Wind W. N. W., strong breezes. — Arrived the Underwood, Wood, from Demerara ; Lord Nel son, Waters, from Terceira ; and Friends, Thomas, from Gal way. Put back, the St. James, Scher, from New York, and remains, with the rest of the outward bound, all well. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 17. —Wind W. N. W., strong.—Ar rived the Leda (late Gibbs), —, from Charleston; and Speedwell, Pettyjohn, from St. Michael's. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 16.—1 t has blown very heavy gales for the last two days, from W. to S. W. FALMOUTH, MARCH IG.—Wind W., strong breezes and squally.—Arrived the Lord Melville Packet, —, from Lis bon, sailed on the Bth ult. ; and the Ferdinand, Bartlett, from Antwerp, leaky, cargo damaged, bound to New York. MARGATE, MARCH, 17. Arrived off port, the Highflyer, Newton, from St. Michael's; and Favorite, --, from Cadiz. Cowls, MARCH 17.—Arrived the Sedusant, Gregant, from Havre, with damage, and leaky, bound to Martinique. JERSEY, MARCH 15.—Arrived the Othello, Alexander, from Honduras ; and St. Aubin, Primely, from Messina. GUERNSEY, MARCH 15.—Arrived the Twenty-ninth May, Tessier, from Rio Janeiro. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 16.—Arrived the Daniel Grant, Yetts, from Valparaiso; Ceres, Thompson, from Berbice ; Orozembo, Bartlett, and Birmingham, Paterson, from New Orleans ; Hannah, Campbell, from Mobile ; Prince George, Friend, and Millman, Arnold, from Charleston ; Nerio, Jarvis, from Lisbon ; Enterprise, Rudolph, from Riga. Off port the Al ' lerton, —, from Calcutta; and the Water Witch, —, from the Spanish Main. The Leven Castle, Bennet, from Runcorn to Belfast, grounded on the Brazil Bank on the 15th instant, and sunk— crew saved. The Robert and Margaret, Davidson, from Alemouth and Scarborough, was lost off Flamborough Head 13th inst—crew saved. The Harriet, Page, from London, was on shore near Ostend 15th inst., and it was feared would go to pieces —cargo saved In a damaged state. The Clinguard, from Goole to London, was totally lost on the Gunfleet Sand 16th inst.—crew saved. The Amelia, from Genoa to Montevidio, is totally lost near AO Grande de Norto. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Our arrivals this morning are the Ostend and Lisbon mails —the latter by the Lord 111elville, sailed on the Bth of March. A French mail is due. Our ship letters are from Lisbon, Valparaiso, Rio Janerio, and Bombay—the last up to the 10th of October. FALMOUTII, MARCH 16.—The Lord Melville Packet arrived here to-day, from Lisbon, left on the Bth instant ; the news by her, although somewhat important, is not of that character as might have been anticipated ; the Ministry still remain in office, and with less probability of their speedy resignation. Senior Campos has submitted his budget to the Cortes, com prising a period of eight months, by which he shows a defi ciency in the resources of near two millions sterling, for which he has proposed certain plans to meet them. The Minister represented the cou n t r y i n a fi nanc i a l po i nt o f v i ew as being muchinvolved, and requiring great energy to preserve its credit. Consols opened this morning at 91i for Account, and 91 for Money, with little doing at present ; Exchequer Bills, 19 21 ; India Bonds, 4 6. In the Foreign Market little doing as yet ' • Active Spanish Bonds, 45 461; Passive, 154 ?,-; Deferred, 21/ 22; Portu guese, 77i 8i; Three per Cents. 48,1 ; Columbian, 301 311; Mexican, 33 34; Dut c h T wo - an d- a -H a lf per Cents., 56-14 Five per Cents. 103 i. _ _ _ HALF-PAST ONE. The Express from Paris has arrived and brought the French Funds, Five per Cents., 107 f. 60c. ; Three per Cents., 81f. sc. The armies in the North:of Spain were in the same position as per last accounts. The Spanish Active comes I per cent. higher. Consols for the Account, 911 i; Money, 91f ; Exchequer Bills, 20 22 ; India Bonds, 4 6. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 45i i ; Portuguese, 78-1 ; Three per Cents, 484 i ; C o l um bi an, 30}i ; Mexican, 334 34 ; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 56. We are credibly informed that the Spanish dividend due on the Ist of May will be paid. THREE 0' CL 0 CX. Ceasels fir the Aescint, 91i i. We understand, that in consequence of the firm and judicious conduct of Alderman Winchester during his Mayor ality, in protecting the interests of the manufacturers at Belfast, who, it may be remembered, had been defrauded of a considerable portion of their property, which had been traced from Belfast to London, they have recovered payment to the full amount of their property. WESTMINSTER CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY.—The members of, this society have appointed their annual dinner to take place at Willis's Rooms, the third week in next m onth. Lord Eliot has promised to take the chair. The Marquis of Chandos, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, and several other noblemen , have expressed their intention of being present. One hun dred gentlemen have consented to act as stewards, and up wards of four hundred persons of the first respectability are expected to be present. M. de Chateaubriand has at length determined on publishing his memoirs during his lifetime. The Noble Au thor has not wanted editors. The memoirs will form sixteen volumes, two or three of which will appear at a time. Chro nological order will not be adhered to in this publication. Thus the livraison devoted to the Ministry of 1822 and the war in Spain w ill b e t h e f i rst. M. de Chateaubrian d i s to Jr, paid down 150,000 f. for the property (12,000 f a year), tin to the work be concluded, and an annuity of 25,000 f. reversible, Madame d e Ch atea b r i an d, commenc i ng i n 1839.— I mpar tia l. MELANCHOLY DEATHS.—In the early part of th e present month, Mr. Price, of Upcott, Herefordshire, be in S rather unwell, had medical aid called in. When the medic gentleman arrived, Mrs. Price asked the nature of her hus band's illness, upon which she was informed that his case w a l ; hopeless. She immediately e xc l a i me d " Th a t i s a ar t wound for me ;" which proved t oo t rue , f or i n t wo d a ys after wards she died of a broken h ear t, an d M r . P r i ce expire d about three hours afterwards. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—The ordi nary meeting was held on Monday evening, W. H. Hamilton, Esq., in the chair. The Right Hon. Joseph Planta and seve ral other new members were elected, and presents were an nounced from the Lords of th e Ad m i ra l ty an d var i o us othe r contributors. Captain Maconochie, the Secretary, read a let ter addressed by Sir John R oss t o C apta i n Beaufort on t he subject of a new expedition to discover the North-west PO sage. He considered th a t th e easter l y current i n th e Prince Regent's Inlet was accounted for by the melting of the sill and did not afford a n y p roo f o f a p assage t o th e Gulf of Boothia. He likewise opposed the plan of sending out tw o bomb-ships, and of pursuing the passage through the ice, being attended with danger and n o t lik e ly t o l ea d to any Pr a ia tical results. It was absolutely necessary that the ships 5h° 11 ,.., draw less water than the surrounding ice, and, although was only 7 feet, vessels of 18 feet draught had been propose He considered that a small vessel would be more able to at e complish the purpose, and be better able to sustain press b 8 than a large one, and suggested that proper ships should his constructed, with a s t eam - vesse l to atten d t h em. I t was opinion, as well as that of Sir Edward Parry, that the portio t of the sea b e t ween t h e s h ore and the ice held out the greatest hopes of auccess. Captain Maconochie expressed his dis se : l l from some o f th e v i ews ta k en in the letter and consid er that Captain R oss h a d b y no means establishe d the fact of tboo current being produced by the melting of the snow, 85 the did not at all account for that from the west, as well a 5 ,00 drift -wood which had been seen by many navigators. ve bombs proposed to be sent out likewise did not draw a. ° 15 feet of water. et' HORTICULTU RAL SOCIETY.—Th e or di na ry me j r , ing was held yesterday. A. Archdeacon, Esq., in the Cil t .tir, Amongst the company was the Bishop of Carlisle, Lord Fitzroy, the Count e s s o f D uncannon , t h e C oun t ess de Sa so a Lady Quin, Hon. Miss Talbot, Archdeacon Berens, Ho n' f. Rev. Vernon H arcour t an d M rs . H arcour t, Hon. lv• . 0 1 Strangeways, Sir R. P. Joddrell, Sir H. Rycroft, Adt,a fo l i e , Lambrt, E. Pendarves, Esq., M. P., Lady Marie l ia ve Captain Mede, Colonel G a li n d o , M rs . M arr y a tt, Ar yer ol Levett, Esq., and oth e r di s ti ngu i s h e d h or ti cu l tur i s ts. 8 .,„t01i presents were annou nce d, amongst w hi c h was t h e ne w no"t e ll of the " Flora Italiana," by the Marquis of ristol, re y was noticed on account of containing a descriptio ß n of a of of Spanish chesnut s recen tl y i ntro d uce d i nto t h e ga rdell sir the Society. Dr. Lindley announced the plans . for the en e ing exhibitions at th e gar d ens , an d a l so gave notice that th e next meeting there would be an exhibition of camellias at t he rooms, for which priz es an d me d a l s wou ld b e g i v en, e A t ich same plan as pursued t wo y ears s i nce , th e part i cu l a rs of " 14 ,0 would be duly advertised. H e n ex t d escr ib e d the va rae s, articles for exhibition in the ro om , cons i s ti ng of cycl e floe' clematis, camellias, azalias, &c., from ',he gardns of the I v W. F. Strangeways, Mrs. Marryatt, Mr. Alluutt, . - Meeting adjoirned: to the sth of April. , d be' A few days ago, at an inquest which was be' g bJ fore Mr. Stirlini , at the George and Devonshire ArTf o 'er Chiswick Church, on the body of a respectably-dress ed son, which was found in the shrubberies of the Duke ° ho t . vonshire's Park, Chiswick,—the coroner directed " giv e Wright to keep the deceased a few days above ground, 00;0e' the friends an opportunity of identifying his person. 11 _ I c ,„ quence of the publication of the report, the next uai o de' Clunn, the proprietor of the late Richardson's H o tel, ' l O OO the Piazza, Covent-garden, from whose house an Aeon': gentleman has been missing, under very mysterious ° l i r 0' stances, went to Chiswick. He asked to see the boag was told that it was buried. Wright said that he reighie to the clothes, but by w hi c h h e (d r. Cl unn ) was not iim en recognize the d ecease d. F rom t h e d escr i pt i o n gi v e rsc' n Wright of the body, it bore some resemblance to the P missing from Mr. Clunn's. e ittst „ r EXTRAORDINA RY OCCURRENCE.—W' sa then as we received from "report, a circumstance which 115 s orall e rise to a good deal of remark—namely, that one of ° Ur t Jurors at the present Assizes announced, not once o r be o o o l o person, but openly and in various quarters, that truly 0 sora not make up his mind as to the vote he should give uP ° „ tin t ' fiscal matter which was brought before the Grand Ju r 4.' a oss e r ; he had consulted his priest ! As a tail-piece to this bef° tion, we may mention that a trial took place yesterdsiYietweo Mr. Justice Crampton, for a felony, upon which an ilia as apr was found, and conviction f o llowed, and which mat ter i i t ed I° o l peered by the evidence, had been previously oho' Pos t award to a tribunal of three priests !—From the KerrY Wednesday,