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" proposition or assertion that Inlay pert of the
" Scriptures was written under the inspiration of
" this HOLY Srrarr is not to be found either in the
" Abides or any of the formularies of Ese Church."
The Court, in constructing this remarkable sen-
tence, appears to have had in view the often-
quoted passage on inspiration contained in ST.
PAUL'S Second Epistle to TIMOTHY, and to
have been not unwilling to display the difference
between the positive teaching of the Church of
England and the popular interpretation of that
text. The judgment of the Court is that the
Church of England, in affirming that Holy Scrip-
ture oontaineth all things necessary to salvation,
has not affirmed that every part of every book of
Scripture was written under the inspiration
of the HOLY SPIRIT, and the Court therefore
declines to say that Mr. WILSON'S teaching
on this point is contradictory to the Articles
of Religion or to the)Formularies. The second
charge against Mr. Wilsox referred to that
part of his Essay in which he says that such is the
neutral character of the multitude, that neither
the promises nor denunciations of Revelation are
applicable to them; that hope must be entertained
that after the great adjudication receptacles may
be found for those who shall be infanta as to
spiritual development, where the stunted may be-
come strong, and the perverted may be restored;
that, in the end, "all both small and great shall
" finds refuge in the bosom of the Universal Parent,
"to repose or to be quickened into higher life in
"„the ages to come, according to His will." It
was contended by the promoters of the snit that
Mr. Wneow, in thus writing, had denied that at
the end of the world there will be a judgmentof GOD
awarding either eternal happiness or eternal misery.
But the Court declined to admit this comprehensive
interpretation. The only question it would consider
was, whether it was competent to a clergyman of
the Church of England to express a hope that the
punishment of the wicke d may not endureto
eternity.
Against opinion appeal WY INade to
the Creed of ATRANASIUS and the Comminution
Service, in which the destiny of the wicked is
spoken of as " everlasting fire." Mr. WILSON had
contended at the hearing that the adjective of time
in this expression has a limited meaning, and he
had further adduced passages from the writings of
many learned men to the same effect. The Court
observed that the words "everlasting fire" are
nowhere interpreted in the Formularies of the
Church, and that an article denouncing the doc-
trine of an ultimate restoration of the wicked,
which had been inserted in the Articles in the
reign of EDWARD VI., was struck out in the year
1562. The Court therefore declared that the For-
mularies contain no such distinct declaration on
the subject as would require it to condemn as penal
the expression of a hope by a clergyman that even
the ultimate pardon of the wicked who are con-
demned in the day of judgment, may be con-
sistent with the will of ALMIGHTY GOD.

Such are the conclusions which form the basis
of one of the wait important judgments ever de-
livered affecting the dogmatic position of the
Church of England and the liberty of its clergy.
All the charges brought against the Esaayista have
failed : some before Dr. LUSHINOTON, others on
the hearing of the appeal, and the remainder, in-
c' .iding the most important, by the deliberate de-
cision of the Judicial Committee, and Dr. Wu,
mina and Mr. WILSON are restored to their
parishes and their pulpits. The grounds of the
judgment will be much and warmly discuaaed
during the next few days, and its oonsequenoes
may be more extensive than some of us suspect.

CO mutt.

OSHORNP., Fa 8.

•
Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain, and Lord
Proby, Comptroller of the Household, arrived at Osborne
to-day, and bet andienoes of her Majesty to present the
addresses from the two houses of parliament in answer to
her Majesty's speech at the opening of parliament.

The Pram of Wales, accompanied by the Hon. Sir
Charlie Phipps, and attended by Lieutenant•G eoeral Koollys
sad Major Tete isle, left Frogmore-hoar yesterday morn-
ing, and came to tows.

The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at a meeting of
the Council of his Royal EGghners, held at the office of the
Duchy of Cornwall. Baciriagham gate. There were priseat
Sir William Dunbar. Keeper of the Privy Seal ; Sir Wilbert'
John Alexander, Atiorney•General ; Colonel the Rau.
Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, Recelver-Geoeral ; and Lieu-
tenant-General K Dolly., Comptroller .of the Household of
his Royal Highassa
In the evening the Prises hammed Earl Granville by
dialog with his at his reddens, ha Brads-street.
BM Royal Highnes afterwards returned to Premixed

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.

The Prince and Princess of Wales will leave
Program. to-morrow afternoon for St. Leonard's-on-Sr,
where their Royal Highussee motemplate a fortnight's
incur. Apartments hays bees engaged for the scommoo-
dation of the Prince sad Primers at Starkey'. Royal Vic-
toria Hotel, as establishment which has before had the
hooour of receiving under lie roof various members of the
English Led French royal families. Ilse infant prime will
accompany his illustrious parents. The Prince and Primers
will leave Windsor at half-past two o'clock in a epeeist
train provided by the London and South Western Rail.
way Company, whose officers will take charge of the
royal party as far as the Waterloo function of the
Charing-cross branch of the South Rasters Railway,
where the of of the latter company will be in
attendance to conduct the illustrious travellers forward rid
Tunbridge and Thnbridge Wells to St. Leonard's-os-Sea,
where the train is timed to arrive at five o'clock. It it
understood the South &atm roots to St. Leonard's has
been adopted in oonsequesor of the Prince's desire to show
his illustrious consort We new railway acros the southern
district of Loudon. The return jemmy will probably be
made over the Brighton and South Coast Railway, and
thence rid the Balham and Clapham junction on to the
Windsor line, by which route a saving of nearly ten miles
may be effected. In compliance with L request which him
been officially conveyed through General Knoll's, there will
be no public demonetratioe either at Hastings or St. Leo-
nerd's during the royal visit.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary honoured the Lyceum Theatre with
their presence last evade&

Royal fligbnees Prince Alfred visited the
Duke and Dachas of Beocisach at Dalkeith House as
Saturday afteroooo.

The Countess Blucher has arrived at Miturigy's
Hotel, from a visit to her Majesty at Osborne, out her way
to Berlia.

LATEST INTELLIGEkeIg

TES GIBILiNIC DIET.

The Nuremberg conferences convoked by Bavaria
will be resumed this week. In spite of the efforts
made to render the project abortive, the cabinet of
Munich has not abandoned the attempt to establish
a league of the secondary estates to counter-
balance the weight of the alliance of the
two great powers. The division is, moreover,
about to be immediately manifested openly. The
representative of Bavaria, M. Von der Pfordten,
has presented his report on the question of suc-
cession. It concludes thus :—" To recognise the
Duke Frederick as legitimate sovereign of Bleswig
Holstein, to admit his representative to the Diet,
and to leave open the question of the succession
of Lauenbourg." Austria and Prussia have
submitted a counter proposition, by which they de-
mand the rejection of the report of M. Von der
Pfordten and a new examination of the question
of succession. If, as is generally believed, the ma-
jority of the Diet is of the same opinion as the
Bavarian Minister, the rupture between the great
and the small states of Germany will be complete,
and no one (says the liidegpemlance) can foresee
where this intestine strife of votes will stop.

AUSTRIA AND ITALY.

A letter from Mantua mentions the following :

General Alfred Benikatan, recently appointed to the
command of the sth corps d'armee, in the place of Count
Stadion, on amusing his command, them deys since, made
a speech to the officers in which be advised them to keep
themselves in a stats of eoostnet readiness for action, pp
under prompt circumstance' Austria might probably be

attacked on two sides as owe. The general added that the
Austriaa army was now much stronger and better °r-
ipened then in 1859, and that, in caw of grave events,
victory could not be doubtful.

Leiters from Bologna in the Opinion of Turin
state that a vast quantity of ordnance and military
storm in daily arriving there, and that the fortifi-
cations are being armed with guns of the largest
calibre.

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Reuter'a office from the Peninaular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company :
CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

MALTA, Fii. 8.

The Masailia, with the Marseilles portion of the
above mails, left Malta at 8 p.m. yesterday (7th).
The Ripon, with the heavy portion of the same
mails, leaves at Ba. m. this day (Bth) ; she may be
expected at Southampton on the 17th inst.
The Carnatic brought the mails to Suez, arriving
there on the Lt inst. (two days early).

The Mauritius mail has not arrival
r wARD BOMBAY MAIL OF JAN. 27 TO
FEB. 3.

The Poonah reached Malta at 8 p.m. on the sth,
and the Vectis at 10 p.m. on the ith inst.

.Nl;._

THE ALABLILL

Sir Hervey Bruce, Bart., M.P., entertained at
diner at his Tandems in Laugh= Time. cm Saturday
the Earl of POW* the Bishop of Bowe, the Speaker
of the House of Commons, the Lord Mayor, the Dean of
Derry, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel. ILP., the Go-
vernors of the Irish Society, the Masters of the Fish-
monger'', Salters', Irearmaseas', sad Closers' Cowpoke,
Sir Frederick Henske, Bart., IL P., Mr. Demme, M.P.,
Mr. M'Cliumick, M.P., Col. and Mr. Broom, Lc.
The marriage of the Hon. Leopold Agar Ellis,
M.P., oldest brother of Viscenat ChM's, with the Hon.
Harriett Stowe, mead daughter of Lord and Lady Osman
was selemeised yesterday, Is the first instance at the
Roman catholic chapel of the Bavarian Legation, is War-
wick-street, aad, secondly, by pedal Memos. &mmHg; to
the protestant rite. at St. James's Chunk Pi...dilly.
The marriage of Mr. Charles John Forbes, aided
sae of Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of News, with Miss Moo-
aside, denglles of Sir moues and Lady Louisa Moe-
miff', is fixed to take place early is April.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office from the Coverer of the Beharams. Despatches
were sent to the Governer of the Falkland Wanda

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=PRESS, TUIIBDAT: ETIRTMG, FEBRUARY 9, 1864.

DIPLOBL&TIO CORRESPONDENCE.

This morning was issued a batch of cone-
poodles' with the United Blain gonsrunisot essiianslisa
of the despatches presented to parliament last Mime. The
sew documents wrist of affidavits sad miscrisle relating
to the depredations of the Alabama sad the Florida,
despatches from Mr. Adams to Earl Rama quoting
each of three as claims for ludo:catty, end sdding them " to
others of the game kind whirl It has been my painful duty
to present to your lordship heretofore;' sod of replica
from Earl Russell disclaiming all responsibility to regard to
the proceedings of the Alabama or of any other Ootifedenite
cruiser.

In the coarse of a despatch dated March 27 last year,
Earl Smell, describing to Lord Lyons an interview with
Mr. Adams, after stating that the Amerkna anibeandor
bad observed that the Presidsat might probably find no
better resource than the issue of kitten of marque
prooseds—" I said I would at owe sagged a better mesa
care. Mr. Seward bad mid to Lord Lynn that the crews
of privateers had this advantsge—that they reaped %whole
benefit of the prizes they took, whines the crews of men-d.
war were entitled to oily half the value of the prises they
took. Let the President, I said, offer a hither reward for
the capture of the Aitken& sad Onto to the crews of
men-of-war than even the satin value of these vowels.
Let him offer double their value se a gratuity, and thus
confine his action to officers and men of the United States
0117, over whom he could keep a control, sad who Were
amenable to the laws which gown as heinolusble
profession. But what could Mr. Adams ask of
the British government? What was hi. proposal'.
Mr. Adams said there was ono thing which might be easily
dose. It was supposed the British government were in-
different to these notorious violation. of their own law.
Let them declare their condemnation of all such infractions
of law. With respect to the law itself, Mr. Adams said
either it was isifficieut for the porpoise of neutrality, end
then let the British government intone it ; or it wse in.
sufficient, and then Ist the British government apply to
parliament to amend is I said that the cabinet were of
opinion that the law was sufficieut ; but that legal evi-
dence could not always be procured. That the British
government bad done everything in its power to execute
the law ; but I admitted that the owes of the Alabama
and Oreto were • scandal, and in some degree a meow=
to our laws. Still, I said, it was my belief that if all the
ainistence given to the Pectorals by British subjects, and
British manitioas of war, were weighed spinet similar aid
given to the Confederates, the balance would be greatly in
favour of the Federal'. Mr. Adams totally denied this
proposition. But above all, he said, there is a manifest
conspiracy in this country, of which the Confederate loan
is an additioaal proof, to produce a state of exasperation
in America, and this bring on • war with aftilla Britain
with • view to aid the Confederate cause, sad secure a
monopoly of the trade of the Southern states, whose inde-
pendents thew conspirators hope to establish by these
illegal end unjust =awaits. He had worked to the best of
him power for pesos, bat it had become a most difficult task.
Mr. Adams fully deserves the character of having always
Laboured for pesos between our two nations, nor I trust.
will hie efforts and those of the two governments fail of
saccess."

On the 14th of September Earl Rosen writes to
Mr. Adams :—" When the United States' govern-
ment assumes to bold the government of Great Bri-
tain responsible for the captures made by vessels which
may be fitted out as vessels of war in a foreign port be-
cause such veseels were originally built in a British port, I
have to observe that such pretensions are entirely at va-
riance with the principles of international law, and with
the decisions of American aorta of the highs authority ;
and I have only in conclusion to express ID,' hope that you
may not be instructed again to pat forward claims which
her Majesty's government cannot admit to be founded on
any grounds of law or justice."
And again, on the 26th of October :—" Foreign-office,
October 26, 11363.—5ir, I have had the honour to receive
your letter of the 23rd instant. In that letter you inform
me that you are instructed to say that the government of
the United States mast continue to insist that Great Britain
has made itself responsible for the damages which the citi-
zens of the United States sustain by the depredations of the
veinal called the Alabama. But towards the conclusion of
your letter you state that the government of the United
States are not disposed to act dogmatically or in a spirit of
litigation ; that they desire to maintain amity as well
as peas; that they fully comprehend how un-
avoidably reciprocal grievances mast spring up from
the divergence of the policy of the two countries
in regard to the present insurrectioa. You add farther on,
that the United States (nobly confess themselves inmate
to regard the present hour as the most favourable to • calm
and candid examination by either party of the fasts oe the
principles involved in cease like the one now in question.
With this declaration her Majesty's government may well
be content to await the time when a calm and candid
examination of the facts sod principles involved in the
case of the Alabama maya is the opinion of the
government of the United States, =dully be undertaken.
In the mean time, I mast request you to believe that the
principle contended for by has Majesty's government is
not that of commissioning, equipping, and manning vessels
in our ports to cruise against either of the belligerent
parties, a principle which was so justly and unequivocally
condemned by the President of the United States in 1793,
as recorded by Mr. Jefferson in his letter to Mr. Hammond
of the 13th of May of that year. But the British govern-
ment must decline to be responsible for the acts of parties
who at out • seeming merchant ship, send her to a port or
, to waters far from the jurisdiction of British warts, and
there commissioe, equip, and man her se a vessel of war.
Her Majesty's government fear that if an admitted principle
were thus made elastic to suit a particular case, the
trade of ship-building, in which our people excel,
and which is to great numbers of them a source
of honest livelihood, would be seriously embarrassed
and impeded. I may add that it appears strange that not-
withstaading the large andwerful naval force Possessed the government of the Unipoted States, no efficient mea-
sures have hese taken by that government to capture the
Alaimo'. On oar part I must declare that to perform the
duties at neutrality fairly and impartially, and at the same
time to maintain the spirit of Bntish law and protect the
lawful industry of the Queen's subjects, is the object of her
Majesty's government, and they trust that the government
of the United States will recognise their earnest desire to
preserve, in the difficult circumstances of the present time,
the relations of amity between the two nations."
On the 29th of the alms month the foreign minister in-
formed Mr. Adams that the proceedings of the Alabama et
the Cape bad been order the consideration of the government;
and the following conclusions bad been adopted by them :
" L That her Majesty's governmeet are satiated by the coo-
current testimony of the colonial and naval authorities at the
Cape, that at the time of capture the Sea Bride was eon-
sidenibly more than three miles distant from the nearest land.
2. That as regards the character of the Alabama that
vessel is entitled to be treated as a ship of war belonging to
• belligerent power, and that neither the govenice nor any
other British authority at the Cage was entitled to exercise
any jurisdiction over her. 3. That as regards the "Tusca-
loosa, although her Majesty's government would have
approved the British authorities at the Cape if they had
adopted towards that vessel • course different from that
which was adopted, yet the quotation as to the manner
in which • vessel under each circumstances should,
according to the teoour of her Majesty's orders,
be dealt with, wow one not altogether free from uncertainty.
Negertheless, instructions will be sent to the British author
rides at the Cape for their guidance in the 'vest of a simi-
lar cans occurring hereafter, arid her Majesty's government
hope that under tLoee instructions notbieg will for the
future happen to adroit of a question being raised as to her
Majesty's orders basin been strictly carried out. Copies
of the reports from the colonial and naval authorities on
the matters in question will be mot to her Majesty's
minister at Washingtoo, who will thereby be enabled to
give to the government of the United States say further
explanation they may desire to obtain on the subject."

Thia morning 2t pages of correspoodeme respectlag state-
ments's Mr. Lay's memorandum, dated Jan. 11, 1862. The
papers oonsitt of replies to various charges made by Mr.
Lay, inspector of customs in the service of the Chinese go-
veroment, against certain leading merchants in Chloe. The
letters are from Messrs. Jardise, liattbsson, sod Co.,
Messrs. Dent and On., the chairmen of the Shaaglisi Chain.
her of Coromerce, sad Mr. Lindsay. The correspondence on
the part of the goveremeot is limited to an acknowledg-
ment of the receipt of the various answer..

VACCINATION. —This morning, a return wag
issued of the number of unions or single parishes in England
end Wales of which the guardians or overman have taken
measures to enforce obedience to the mocioation ems. In
England, out of some 700 replies only 79 are in the affirma-
tive. To the Warn " No," signifying that nothing hen
been done, the remark in some cases is added, " beyond
posting placards."
EDI7C.ATION.—REVIELD CODE or RIIOI7LATIONS.
—This mornings mien was made to parliammt of the
revised code of regulations, dated January, 1964, incorpo-
rating the minutes of 21st March and 19th May, 1863, With
a schedule of all ankh% cancelled or modified, and of all
new articles, by the Right Honourable the Lords of the
Committee of the Privy Council of Educatios.

THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS POE
ENGLAND.