The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-21 00:00:00

Vbe Court.

WINDSOR, Oct.
The following had the honour of dining with her
Majesty, yesterday:—The Duchess of Kent, the Princess
of Hohenlohe Langenbourg, the Prince Hermann of Robes-
lobe, the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, the lady
in waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Sin th,
the Earl and Countess of Derby, and Colonel the Hun. C.
D. Phipps.
Prince Albert, accompanied by Prince Hermann of Hoban-
lobe, went out shouting this morning, attended by Colonel
the Hen. C. B. Phipps, Colonel the lion. N. Hood, and
I4eut. Colonel F. H. Seymour.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland left the Castle,
this forenoon, for London.

The Portuguese Minister hod an interview with the Earl
of Derby, yesterday, at his official residence in amilin
street.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The ministers
present were, the Earl of Derby, the Lord clun-
calor, tho Earl of Lonsdale, tho Marquis of S.dis-
bury, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmcs.
bury, Sir John I'akington, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Duke of Northumberland, the
Right Hon. J. W. Henley, the Earl of llardwicke,
Right lion. J. C. Herries, and Lord John %MUM
The council sat two hours and a half. The Earl of
Derby arrived from St. Leonard. to attend the Coon•
cil, and the Duke of Northumberland arii‘ed from
Windsor Castle.

FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF 'WELLINGTON.
The body of the Duke of Wellington will
now understood—be removed from Widmer to ('h,
Hospital one week before the funeral—doling ,411:,11
week it will lie in state. The day of removal is ex-
pected to be the 10th or 11th of November. Os the
night before the funeral, it will be removed from
Chelsea to the Horse Guards, from whence the puhlic
procession will start—the family procession starting
from Apeley House, and passing down birdcae-
walk to join the other at Whitehall.

PRINCB ALBERT ELECTED MASTER OF VIE
TRINITY Houss.—At a Special General Court, Acid
at the Trinity Home (says the SAippioey &nth),
his Royal Highness Prince Albert was, by the anew
moos voice of the Elder and Younger Brethren,
elected Master of that ancient corporation, in the
room of his Grace the late Duke of Wellington.

THE EAST INDIA HOUSE AND TILE DUES OE
WELLINGTON.—Tho directors of the East 1n
Company have summoned a special general court 01
the company for Wednesday next, when a prof'
tion, which has already received the unanimous ap-
proval of the Court of 'Directors, will be submitted
for consideration—namely, the placing of a marlhe
statue of the illustrious duke in the gei.cral rose
room, as a testimonial of the gratitude of the I:Ja-
pan), to him.

ARRIVAL OF TUE Br STINCK.—The Oriental Cow
pany's steam packet Bentinek, Caotain Kelleck, arrivid at
Southampton yesterday, and landed the heavy portion of
the Indian and Mediterranean mails under the charge of
Lieutenant Elltrman, R.N., Admiralty agent. Iler dates
are—Alexandria, October ; Malts, 10; Gibraltar, 15.
The Bentinek brings the following passengers:—CJl. st•
I Maur, 51st; Commander Laud, invalided from her Ma.
I jesty's ship Serpent ; Mrs. Col. Burn, Mrs. Mayne, )lr.
~
°tiling, Mrs. Barton, Mr. and Mrs. Peddiag and family,
Cul. Iloldone, Captain Stopford, 49th Regiment; Mrs.
Oakes and family', &c. ller cargo consists of 753 halo of
silk, 122 Case' of silk, 90 cases of shawls, 39 bundles of t le-
phanta' tusks, 23 bales of wool, 101 packages of sundries,
and 2 Arab horses for her Majesty from Abbas Paths.
The Bentinek, whilst in charge of the Branch pilot, ran on
shore in thick, foggy weather, near New lows. Isle of
Wight, at 7.15, a.m. Two steamers were despatched from
Southampton—one for the mails, and the other for the par
aengers—at 5, p.m. The Itentinek got ott easily, and cane
into S-,utlinnapton water. The weather during the 'spite
was generally fine, strong easterly winds craning the b 4
on tho way home. The ships seen or spoken with dune#
the voyage were a Dutch squadron of three frigates. 504
a steamer under a rear-admiral, oft Teas, stecrinit!'"t:
The admiral desired to he repotted. Frigates eh. Prince of Or Sumatre, sod steamer Oodeh. Adalirt
Banda*, with the squadron, was at Athens on the nth
Ocober, and was expected at Malta the end of this month.
lice Majesty's shies Arethusa, Modesto, and Scourge 5t
Corfu. Ceylon, bury, Resistance ; and pacl.ets
Merlin, and Medina at Malta. 11er Majesty's ship Antelope
at Gibraltar.

THE REV. H. A.
ISHOP GREAVETS REPL. Y TO THE
B OF EXETER

Plymouth, Oct. 18, 1832.
!Slt Liitiri,-1 have received your lordship's letter
of ttw 14th instant. and have given it that con-
sideration which is due to a communication from my

b .op•
now beg to state in reply, that I deny it to be
me duty to prosecute Mr. rrynne—that I claim my
ril.:ht to Ole public expression to my opinions, and
to my reasons for holding them—and that I advanced
no proposition at the meeting to which your
lordship's letter refers, nor stated anything in sup-
port of it, which, even if not correct, would bo a
calumny against the abovemamed clergyman. As
your lordship'd letter has been made pubic, and
&Mils the highly respectable body of churchmen
who either joined with mo in calling the meeting or
a.,,sembled at it, I think it due to them to place it in
the hands of their committee for any further notice
sth:eh they may deem it right to take respecting it.
I remain, my Lord,
Your lordship's obedient servant,
H. A. (IREAVES.
Tne light Rev. the Lord Bishop of Exeter.

Plymouth, October 151 th, 1832.
Ms Lonti.—The committee appointed at the public
meting of clergy and laymen of the Church of 'Eng-
land. held at St. Georges Hall on Tuesday last, have
rewired from the Her. H. A. Greases, vicar of
Charles, a letter addressed to that clergyman by your
loidship, in which you intimate that you deem it to
be the "manifest duty " of Mr. Greases to prosecute
the Iles. O. K. l'rynne in the Ecclesiastical Courts,
for the offence alleged in the resolution mored by
Mr. Greases, that "the system of confession carried
on at st. Peter's was contrary to the doctrine, the
peruke. and the spirit of the Church of England."
In the same letter your lordship is also pleased to
add that will regard the largo body of church-
men oho convened and attended the meeting as
utterlv insensible to what is due to their own
honour:* if they should refuse to supply the funds
neeetwary to carry on the proceedings.
Mr. Gnosis having replied that he declines to
prosecute Mr. Prynne, it mny appear to your lord-
t..ip that inere n. al responsibility rests upon the
sapportcrs ef the motion.
The committee base, therefore, determined to
adds -+ a statement to your lordship, explanatory
of ch.'s reasons for taking a different course to that
%Licit ycii say it is due to their honour to pursue.
%.ur lordship is aware that the Church Discipline
Act. •inl and 4th Vic., c. 86, contains a provision,
enabling the bishop "of his own mere motion," in
ectault of the application of any party, to issue a
commission of inquiry " against any clerk who may
be charged with any offence against the laws eccle-
siastical, or concerning whom there may exist scan-
dal or evil report, as hosing offended against such
laws."

thus independently of the ordinary superintend-
ence of the aliun:h, incident to the office of bishop, it
'mars that the legislature has, by special provision,
made it peculiarly part of that office to prosecute
clerical offenders against ecclesiastical law. i'onso-
quently. if it be the duty of any one to prosecute Mr.
Prvane in the present case, it seems to be pre-
eminently that of your lordship.
It would seem, however, that no such rule can be
laid down, as that the publication of a complaint or
charge of erroneous doctrine against a clergyman
dues involve the chligation necessarily and ander all
circumstances to prosecute him. Your lordship's own
high authority appears to be decisive on this point.
In your lordship's letter to his Grace the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury (1850), you state that Mr.
Gorham's doctrine was "an essential and complete
denial and contradiction of the doctrine of Holy
scripture and of the Church;" bat you add, "al-
though I refused institution to Mr. Gorham, I did
rot prosecute him for heresy, hoping he might be
brought to a better state of mind." " His publica-
tion of the heresy which be maintained in private
was a distinct offence, but I was content to remain
on the defensive"—pp. 80 and 81.
Again, in page 14 of the same letter, you say to
the archbishop himself, " This your teeekhig le rank
Popery and worse than Popery." "I shwa aghast,
when I hear such teaching front such a piss. Yet
your Lordship did not prosecute the Prixage. It may
not be supposed that your Lordship's meow for
thus abstaining are to be found in suy dubbin your
mind, whether "rank Popery sad wane* was or
was not contrary to the doctrine of the Church of
England.
When, therefore, you characterise a charges of
erroneous doctrine made by ono clergyman against
another as, " if not true, a calumny so foul, so mis-
ehievous, that no clergyman, no Christian, no man
with the honest feelings of a man, can hare allowed
himself to assert it, and then shrink from proving it"
in some ecclesiastical court, it cannot 130 assumed
that these words are intended to receive all the ap-
plication which, literally taken, they are calculated
to support.
Doubtless, it was the intention of the meeting at
St. Georp's-hall to do what they could towards
abating the foul practices prevalent in the confes-
sional at fit. Peter's; but they propose to avail them-
selves of such constitutional means as appear to
them best adaptsdkr the purpose.
A peaceful esdeethibelery settlement of the ques-
tion of the Coulbseisud fie the Church at England
might, perhapeo_beymil mimed by some years of '
litigation in the iseiude iW Chub. and your lord-
ship hu freely And the 1111111.8 it dem of perhaps
the only two mad& SAN Of psuuuutig fa these
courts, six., finds by esteding the sue le the (hurt of
Arches direct ;or sessedly, by tryieg it is ywar emu
court.

Your lordship has already disponi of tke latter
method of proceeding, as ashoultr
the circumstances i MUM it ablibt. at Ellrerad me/e
option, leave no appal area T. 11111101issett
meat, which has virtually bass ahead, 1
ReLort to the Court of Amble new eke to peonies
but little benefit, for as an appeal by the ememems-
ful party to the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council would, in oath an imperleat 3•mtio' o, be
matter of course, peat imperious ill Mill• that its
bedrisent, if favourable to peatulaeß views wadi
ineffectual for peace in tbe aborti. Ghee year
lordship, in concurrence with those vibe irsettke of
Jour views, has formally repudiated the
of the Judicial Committee ea a heti.=
court.

In your letter, of which I have before mad alp
self, you characterise a judgment of that coast, op-
paed
to your lordship's sentiments, se " not a pee
dent" but a " warn.ne and " a prevention of jar
tire.' You say that " the truth," resanimg thenby
your own opinions, most be " esdnet
the authority of that court," sad you Vaal era-
chide by minding against the Judgment sal all its
eourequaese, eves to the extent or Wit as coin-
manias with the archbishop in the neat et Ide car-
rying It into Wst.
With three bets before theimthe eemmitiee uit
wane than useless toappsal to as
Indeed, independeatly of tbe ...ithadarst-
Tined to, the meeting and the sumittes which it
has appointed, avowedly aim at a kart *et than
the settlement of an isolated qualm
The widevresd prevalesee is the dor& et the
evilest whisk theyelsel Mewshave pablielyesophgaukdestroye
hope et ellb Gemthe erlisezy legal
triballusala

They will tirwohne_oppeol parliament os Wag
alone Tot Se allied_ Ow* volio& and day
'tepee doeliao rat bridal?. oar to flonitoto
the in adios of tles ewe into the tosiesiootisol
mule.

_
Whilst refusing to pram Mr. Perm, how-
ever, the committee calmly arose M he inform
your lordship that they are ;mind and darker to
take seek st as oh I feel his vindication of
his personal e L• mid the& they are prepared
to name one or more of their nssaaheee, with author„-
ity to asks week admissicem, p. Perna, en WWI
enable Mr. Pryone, if be has not already the power,
cheaply and supeditioaaly to arraigu, before a wart
ofcecamen law, them who took part in the public
meeting, miming that no other plea shall be
untd, or jnetition set up in the defames, than the
truth of the statements which were then made.
I bare tits honour to subscribe myself your lord-
slup's obedient servant,
(Signed) G. W. SOLTAII, Chairman.
To the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of luster.
Plymouth, Oct. 19, ten.
My Lunn,—As secretaries of the committee ap-
pinted at the meeting of the clergy and laity, held
at tit. Cleorge's Hall, Stoneham'', cm Tuesday Mat,

we have Hie homer to midis a later to our lord-
ship, which was adopted at a meeting of the own-
mittee, held ea Monday, the 18th Instants at St.
George's Hall. For your lordship's information we
beg to ammo the same of the gentlemen (42 in
number) who vein moot.
Your lordship's letter having been made public,
we have also seat "spina the inclosed to the press,
We have the hoarier to be your lordship's obedient
servants, Pro Capt. Scott l Honorer
and myself, J Secretaries,
J. E. ELWOKTUT.

Mk WHISTOWS CASE.

The judgment in tho ow of the Rev. Robert
Whitton and the Dean and Chapter of Itochester is as fol-
lows:

"The visitor having heard the appeal of the Rev. Robert
Whist's& spinet the order of the dean and chapter of Ito-
ascetic for his removal from the head mastenhip of their
Khoo!, made on the 19th day of October 1819, declares,
that the pamphlet entitled "Cathedral Trans and their
Fulfilment," admitted to have been published by him, and
which formed the ground of that removal, contains charges
unjust'y reflecting upon the conduct of the dean and chap-
ter, and is libellous, and that the appellant might lawfully
and justly be punished far it under the Bathe-1
deal statutes. But taking into consideration that
the appellant may have been is some degree misled, by
legal opinions of high authority, though given on erroneous
data, upon the main charge against the dean and chapter, of
having illegally taken to themselves a disproportionate

share of the revenue of the cathedral property, and ooe-
sidering also that some of the statutes of the cathedral have
not been carried into strict execution, though such disum
may have been lanctioued by practice prevailing tbu:ng a
loeg series of years, and in one respect by the opinion of the
late Archbishop of Canterbury, the visitor futher declaim
that the appellant shall, on the Ist of January now neat
ensuing, be reinstated in his said office of head school-
master, with all the emoluments appertaining thereto, but
that he shall have no right or claim against the dean and
chapter, or any one else, for any profits or emoluments
accruing from the said 19th day of October 1849, the day of
his removal from his said office up to the lot of January
next ; the visitor being of opinion that the appellant justly
deserved to be suspended during the time aforesaid,
and he directs him to be restored on the lst day of
January next, on this condition, and not otherwise ;
and the visitor, having observed that the charges
unjustly made against the dean and chapter in the
before mandated pamphlet have been repeated in seve-
ral subsequent editions, published since the first commence-
ment at these proceedings, thinks it right earnestly to eau-
, tion the appellant against the repetition of these charges, in
aay attbseqsant publication, as the appellant will not have
the same same of his having been misled as to the legal
right of the dean and chapter, which has been the main
reason why the visitor has bean induced to mitigate the
sentence et removal —Dated this twentieth day of October,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-two. " G. 'Weinman, Visitor."