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No. 427.] LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JAN. 11, 1848. [3d.

conclude by giving their judgment that there
are sufficient grounds for an inquiry. They
express the opinion that the affair should
be brought before the senate. M. Serjas
Lozano supported the conclusions of the commit-
tee, and was speaking when the mail left. M. Sa-
lamanca wan present, and was expected to speak.
It wan generally thought that the report of the com-
mittee would be adopted, and that an inquiry would
be ordered.
sumac Roue, Jan. 4.—Three per Cents., 27 at 60 days, 26 7-16
for task ; Pour per Cents., ; Five per Cents, 151 Gosh • noises,
31 paper.4f cash. Coupons, —. bank of St- Ferdinand, 123 50 clam
Bank of St. Isabella., —. Exchange on London, 46 30-100.

We have received the Florence journals of the 3rd.
Letters from Rome of the let say that popular I
tumults in that city were apprehended. The
alleged plot which we have already noticed exasperated
the people, and it was feared that the houses
of the Jesuits would be attacked. A reinforcement
was demanded for the civic guard. The arms were
charged, and the troops were ready to go out. The
panic, however, appeared to have subsided by the
last accounts.

CONFIRMATION OF DR. HAMPDEN.
This being the day appointed for the confirmation
of the Rev. Renn Dickson Hampden, D.D., to the bishopric
of Hereford, one of the largest congregations ever witnessed
within the walls of • metropolitan church attended at St.
Mary.le-Bow Church, Cheapside, where the ceremony was
conducted, a belief having been generally entertained that
many of the most influential of the tractarian body resident
in Oxford would be present, as well as other persons qualified
to take part in the proceedings, with a view to oppose in
every stage of its progress the confirmation of the bishop
elect.
Shortly after eleven o'clock, the commission, the Right
Hon. Sir J. Lushington, Sir John Dodson, Queen's Advo-
cate, and Dr. Burnaby, arrived in the chureb,:and took their
seats at the table prepared for them, Dr. Hampden taking his
twat in a pew adjacent, and accompanied by his chaplain and
several friends. The advocates present were Dr. Addams,
Dr. R. Phillimore, Dr. Harding, Dr. Hayford, wad others;
the Vicar - General, Dr. Burnaby presided. Mr. Dyke
read the conge d'aire and the documents, after which the
proctor for Dr. Hampden said :
Right worshipful Sirs: I present to your worships the Rev.
Renn Dickson Hampden, D D., who has been elected Bishop
of the see of Hereford, in order that you may confirm suck
election.
TelE VICAR•GENEHAL : Cite all opposers to appear.
THE APPARITOK : Oyez, Oyez; All who shall, or will,
or may object to the consecration, come forward and date
your objections, and you shall be heard.
The proclamation having been read,
Mr. TOWNSEND came forward and @aid :—Right worship-
ful Sirs, I appear here for the Rev. Robert Webster Hunt-
ley, M.A., the Rev. J. J. Jebh, M.A., and the Rev. F. W.
Powell, and exhibit their proxies fer the purpose of opposing
the confirmation of Dr. Hampden.
Dr. LUSHINOTON: We sit here as the Commissioners
under the mandate of the Crown, issued pursuant to the
statute 25th Henry VIII., to confirm tke election, and you
cannot be permitted to appear here to oppose the execution
of that mandate.
Dr. ADDAMS: On behalf of the dean and chapter, I
must object to those proceedings, and I beg to be heard.
Dr. LUSHINOTON : You can only be heard as to the con-
struction of the act of Henry VIII.
Dr. ADDAMS: That is all I intend to do. In order to make
the matter intelligible it is necessary to say a few words with
regard to the statute of Henry VIII. It had been stated that
the act provided for • priemesnire if the dean and
chapter did not elect within twelve days from receiving
the conge ctihre. It was no such thing ; by the dean and
chapter refusing to appoint, the crown took all powers upon
itself, and lulled it. letteropatent for the election. The 25th
of Henry VRI., upon which your worships founded your
opinion of the proonunire, imposes the penalties of preemie
nire Against any person who shall set the papal nuthewity
against that of the crown. There was an clause in the act to
prevent any persons from making objections to the confirma-
tion (in proof of which the doctor cited a great number of
acts of parliament, and also cases where objections had been
made, but had failed, owing to not being drawn up according
to the statute law).
Dr. HADDINO followed on the same side, and added that
it was a mnekery where opposers were cited to appear before
a court of law or justice, and, when they did so appear, to
refuse to hear them, on the ground that there was no autho-
rity in the court to do so. (This elicited a loud cry of
" Hear, hear," which was Instantly checked by the officers
of the court.) He would not occupy their time by arguing
this point, but would proceed to call their attention to the
legal view of the question. The statute under which they
were now acting was a penal statute, and required
to be construed strictly. The court was required
to see that the bishop bad been in due form
elected. The court, therefore, were bound to inquire whe-
ther the election was by proper authorities of • fit and
proper mar. At present the court did not know what the
(mowers' objection was. Supposing the objection was that
he was, a person under legal disabilities—Jew, infidel, or
heretic, convicted of treason or of felony, would they object
to him iu such a case ? They were not to assume what the
objection might be. They asked the proctor for the bishop
to give evidence ; they were pronouncing all parties not ap-
pearing to be contumacious; they were pronouncing •
solemn decision ; and yet refusing to hear opposition. Let
them look on the consequences of the working of',
justice. They were doing an act in derogation of the com-
mon law of England, of common right, and of common
reason. Ile trusted, therefore, that they would be heard in
an ecclesiastical court, into which they were cited.
Dr. It. Puitaistoaz also spoke on the same side.
Tee VICAR-Ogneuere notwithstanding the able argu-
ment of the learned gentleman who had addressed the
Court, was clearly of opinion that the objections to the con-
&elation could not be entertained, and that to do so would
he directly to oppose the provisions of the act of parliament.
He was also of opinion that the commissioner' would incur
the penalties of ptermunire if they did not proceed, in obe-
dience to the royal mandate, to confirm the lord bishop elect.
Dr. LUSHINOTON said, the question to be decided was
whether the parties who attempted to appear to oppose
the confirmation were entitled so to appear. If they were
entitled to appear, it would almost necessarily
follow that they would be entitled to be heard,
in which case -their objections must be considered
and disposed of by the authority of some tribunal. But that
that court had the power to examine into matters relating to
the doctrine, life, conduct, and proceedings of the party
elected since the passing of the Church Discipline Act,
be entertained the most serious doubts. He appre-
hended it was not competent for the court to enter into
any fact or circumstance which would come within the pro-
visions of that act. On looking into the act of Henry
the Eighth, he found the mede of proceeding u to the
election and confirmation of bishops laid down minutely.
He would not enter into the question of what might
have been done had there been no legal election, but
here there was a person presented for confirmation to the
court under the corporate seal of the di an and chapter of
Hereford as the elected bishop of that see, and beyond
that the court could not go. The statute in regard to the
confirmation was entirely directory to the archbishop, whose
commissioners they were, to confirm and invest the party
elected. Without saying whether or not the penalties of
pnenunire would attend the retusal to confirm, he as one of
the commissioners deemed it his duty to refuse to receive the
objections now offered, and to proceed with the confirmation
of the Lord Bishop elect.
Dr. DODSON had only to express his entire concurrence in
the opinions which had been expressed by the other com-
missioners.
The ceremony of confirmation war then gone through,
and the Lord Bishop elect having taken the oaths of allegi-
ance, supremacy, and simony, the proceedings terminated.
The new bishop was loudly cheered on leaving the church.

TRANCE MISTAKEN FOR DEATIL—The etrmarthen
Journal says : " A very strange occurrence happened last
week in the neighbourhood of Llangeitho. A poor woman,
who occupied a part of a small cottage, in one end of which,
separated only by a partition, lived other people, was taken
ill, and after a short time died. The corpse having been
laid out in tke usual manner, the neighbours left the house,
and locked the door. They were, however, soon aroused by
a very strange noise in the deceased's apartment, similar to
hard coughing, width fiighttned them not a little, but no
further notice was liken of it. On entering the apartment
the next morning, they found the corpse turned on one side,
the eyes wide open, the bands Mr se that tied the howls
together, and the sheet that covered the body thrown off. It
is presumed that the deceased must have been in a trams
when laid out, and afterwards in the agonies of death had
struggled violently.
THE BITERS BlT.—Last Friday evening, as a
young female factory worker was wending her way home
from her employment to the abode of her widowed mother
at Wortley, near Leeds, having received her wages for the
week, she was stopped in a lonely place on the road by three
men, who asked her if she had got any money about her.
Somewhat alarmed by their style of address, she at ones
told them that she had four shillings and sixpence. They
said she most give it up to them. At first she hesitated,
saying that it was all that her mother would have to keep
herself and brothers and esters with for the week, but the
men persisted, and she gave up the money. She, however,
implored them to return a portion of it, at least, alleging the
destitution in which they would be placed for want of it.
At length one of them gave her a shilling, and she wee al-
lowed to proceed on her way, the men going off in &contrary
direction. She had not gone far, when she heard footstep
rapidly advancing behind her, and having some misgivings
that the thieves had relented of their gift, and were return-
ing to take it from her, she hid herself under the hedge, and
soon afterwards three men passed her. At a short &steno
they met a man, of whom they inquired if he had met a
young girl, and on his answering in the mega
third tive,
time they
the
re-
turned. After they had passed tier for the ,
girl hastened home, and, to her surprise and joy, found that
the supposed shilling which they had returned her was a
veritablenovereigul

EXTENSIVE FIRE AT ST. SAVIOUR'S
CHURCH.
Shortly before nine o'clock this morning, a dense
volume of smoke was seen to Uses from the vaults under St.
Saviour's church, Borough. The police aroused the parish
authorities, and, the keys having been obtained, efforts were
made to enter, but it was found to be impossible. The
engines from the A, B, end D brigade stations, as wall Le
those belonging to the West of England and County com-
panies were sent for, and without the least delay they
arrived, with a strong force of the firemen. Water was
obtained for all, and the firemen, with their usual
alacrity, left nothing wanting to subdue the fire ; but, with
regret ba it said, their endeavours to arrest the progress of the
fire were for some time frustrated, and upwards of an hour
and a half elapsed before they were successful. On enter-
ing the vaults a most appalling went, presented itself, the
remains of several deceased persona partly or wholly
consumed. The fire originated, it was said, among some
straw in the vaults, about 40 feet by 60 feet, and from what
cause the perish authorities were making due inquiry to
ascertain.

SECOND EDITION.

From the GAZETTE of THIS NIGHT.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 11. It is hereby notified,
that Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, has received from Lord Cowley,
her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at the Sublime
Porte, a despatch, dated the lst of December last, tnaloting
an official communication from Asli Effendi, the Turkish
Minister for Foreign Affairs, stating that the Porte has
raised the blockade of the tout of Albania.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 10.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Archibald Davidson, Esq., Advocate, to
be Sheriff of the shire or sheriffdom of Aberdeen, in the
room of John Thomson Gordon, Esq., resigned. The
Queen tau also been pleased to appoint John Cowan, Esq.,
Advocate, to be Sheriff of the shire or sheriffdom of Kincar-
dine, in the room of Archibald Davidson, Esq., resigned.

BANKRUPTS.
JosantLau, Ipswich, licensed victualler.
EDWARD DAWSON WELBANX MITCHELL, Brighton,
boarding housekeeper.
THOMAS MASTaMSON, La/Mown-terrace, South Lambeth,

111•11-raavgainmam.B.
ALFRED WOOLF, Crooked-lane, City, wine merchant.
WILLI►M NOELET, Paradiae•street, Finsbury, cattle
dealer.
OLIVE GINDER, Canterbury, licensed victualler.
WILLIAM THOMPSON RICKARD, Regent's-street, Mile-
end-road, manufacturing chymiat.
JOHN Roguerrog, North Brixton, Surrey, Laker.
THOMAS FARDELL, High-street, Poplar, omnibus pro-
prietor.
GEORGE LUNOLEY and PETER:LTNOLEY, Litymer-road,
Hammersmith, house and ship joiners.
WALTER SHEPPARD, Manchester, wine merchant.
JAMES KEON, Ashton-under-Lyne, cap manufacturer.
JOHN GOODWIN, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, currier.
THOMAS Cnooste DAUNCET, Stonehouse, Gloucester-
shire, boot maker.
WILLIAM DAT, Axbridge, Someesetabire, farmer.
JOSEPH WOOLEN, Stockton-an-Tees, Durham, draper.
THOMAS THURSFIELD CLARKE, Sunderland, Durham,
baker.
JOHN ERASMUS MOTLEY, Boston, Lincolnshire, tailor.
JOHN CULLEN, Nottingham, grocer.
WILLIAM THOMAS bloßoAs, Neath, Glamorganshire,
draper.
CHARLES FAINT, Blackpool, Lancashire, hotel keeper.
ROBERT MURRAY, Liverpool, woollen draper.
WILLIAM DIXSON SCL`RFIELD, Liverpool, draper.
JOSEPH TITS, Netherbury, Donetshire, flax spinner.
JOHN DENNER BLAKE, Honiton, Devonshire, innkeeper.
WILLIAM Hamm PINE, Honiton, Devonshire, matter.
JOHN WILKINS, Bridport, marble mason.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
JAMES HERR, Edinburgh, brewer.
JOHN ANDERSON, Glasgow, glass merchant.
GEORGE DOUGLAS, Holytown, watchmaker.
JOHN MITCHELL, and JOHN M'INTYRE, Glasgow, mer-
chants.
DAVID Banos, Glasgow, innkeeper.
JAMES Bottoms, Sen., and JAMES Buttons, Jun., Edin-
burgh, warehousemen.
GEORGE CLARK, Glasgow, hotel keeper.
ROBERT PITCAIRN, Edinburgh, printer.
°cotton LANOLANDS, St. Andrews, haberdasher.
JOHN CRAIG, Eaglesham, Renfrewshire, builder.
ROBERT HAY, JAMES A. M'CRAE, and BOYD M.
• M'CRAE, Glasgow, coal muter*.
r JOSEPH ANDERSON, Glasgow, tailor.
I JAMES GAIRUNER, Kirkcudbright, overseer.
r JOHN M'QVEEN and ALEXANDER WQUZEN, Crieff, seed
crusher,.

PROPOUND STATISTICS. EGGS. The following
statistics appear in the Echo de Vesone. It appears from •
work recently published in France, that there are at present
in that conntry 30,096,000 hens. Supposing each of these
to lay 120 eggs per annum, there would be a total of
3,611,620,000 eggs, which at 40 centimes (4d.) per dozen,
would produce an annual revenue of 126,446,080 francs.
This sum give► an idea of the enormous gain to be got by
France out of this single article were its working properly
understood If, which is not impossible, France were to add
to the population of its farmyards a hundred millions of
hens, 15,000,715,200 of eggs would be laid, which would
produce a revenue of seven hundred and sixty millions
eighty thousand francs !