The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-12 00:00:00

Zig Court.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by
the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the
Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, and attended by
the Viscountess Canning, the Marquis of °monde, Mr. G.
E. Anson, Major-General Wemyss, Maor-General Bowles,
and Lieut. Col. Seymour, arrived at Claremont soon after
four o'clock on Monday afternoon from Windsor Castle.
Yesterday morning the royal children took their
usual airings in Claremont Park.
The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of
Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. The Duchess of
Cambridge arrived in town yesterday from her residence at
Kew.

The Right Hon. Dr. Lushiagton had an interview
with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Hume-office. Mr.
Palliser had also an interview yesterday with the right hon.
baronet.
Mr. J. S. Brickwood, Public Works, South Sea
House, bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Earl Grey arrived in town yesterday from his seat,
Howick Hall, Northumberland.

(From last night's Gazette.)
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 11.—It is hereby notified,
that Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, has received tram Lord Cowley,
her Majesty's Minister Plenipteutiary at the Sublime
Porte, a despatch, dated the let of December last, inclosing
an official communication Irma Aali Effendi, the Turkish !
Minister for Foreign Affairs, stating that the Porte has
raised the blockade of the coast of Albania. The tenour of
the official note from the Turkish minister is as follows :
It was notified to you, M. le Ministre, by an official note,
dated 21 Shushan last (3rd August), that the coasts of that

part of Albania called Toscalij were blockaded, &oaths; eha
blockade would continue until the acts of rebellion
milted by certain seditious persons were repressed; ease
according to the official intelligence which the Sublime pat:
just received from his Excellency Rechid paeba, maser
of the army of Roumelia, the rebels, being unable t mat
the imperial troops, have been completely dispersed, 00,
thanks be to God, trouble and disorder have given pica—ro
eafety and tranquillity ; and I have, in consequence, the 00,
tisfaction to announce to you, without delay, that tjo.
blockade in question is raised from the 18th of Ziletncli Isot
(Oct. 28). Dated Nov. 23, 1847.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 10.—The Queen has bee,
pleased to appoint Archibald iiavidson, Esn., Adv.cate,
Sheriff of the shire or sheriffdom of Ab-er,:ce,: in the
room of John Thomson Gordon, Esq., resigned Tbi
Queen has also been pleased to appoint John Cowan. Ea,
Advocate, to be Sheriff of the shire or sheriffdom of Kincse,.
dine, in the roam of Archibald Davidson, Esq., resigned,

CONFIRMATION OF THB ELECTION op
DR. HAMPDEN TO THE SEE OF HEREFORD,
A summary of the following appeared in the E.
press of last evening.
The confirmation of the election of Dr. }impact
being appointed to take place yesterday, and the active oe.
position to the proceedings on the part of many atheist el,
have opposed the nomination being anticipated, the lino,
quiet parish-church of St. Mary-le-Bow, in Cheseside, p
seated from an early hour a scene of very considerable er
citement. As that important functionary, the church-Neale
assured us, " a bustling day was expected of it," and sly
parish authorities had made preparations accordiroy
Midway down each of the three aisles strong barrier
had been erected, making the sacred edifice assume e
much of the character of a polling-place, as of a clieree
Nor was the comparison vitiated by the appearance of
the parties who assembled. The parishioners entitle/
to pews were instructed that if they desired to tetais
them they must assemble before 10 o'clock ; but with the,
there came, even at that early hour, many who bore on tees
countenances marks of as strongly heated party feelings as
an election contest was absolutely on the tapia. A ec,d,
of policemen were brought in before the doors opened, „a
stationed at various parts of the church, es if to keep
the peace in the assembly. When the doors were opened,
half.past ten, there was a most indeeerous rush Meshy
body of the church and a general scramble for plame leaes
were lifted over the high-backed pews in the body of te.
building ; and in the galleries every back seat was taken pos.
session ofes a standing place. The parties who there forced
themselves in seemed a very miscellaneous company. 'eh,
majority appeared young men of the clerk class, whose ban.
nee in the church appeared somewhat to require ere',
tion. There was the usual proportion of mere idlers, sad
sprinkled with these we observed several clergymen, soak
we regret to say, not unknown as occupants of uetropoje,
pulpits'. The reserved pews were occupied by a more select
congregation. In those nearest to the pulpit we 'Amtrak
several well-known City faces, and one of those opposite toss
occupied by Mr. Alderman Salomon and the common ones
cif of the ward. The first large pew from the communes
table was reserved for the bishop elect and other officers. Thee
were also present the Dean of Hereford, the Rev. W. 8. X
Bennett, Rev. D. Wright, and Itev. E. Hawking.
Drs. Addams, Harding, and It. Phillimore, appeared
advocates for the objectors. Mr. Townsend, of the firm el
Townsend and Robartes, as their proctors. The objectors,
whe were afterwards named, were, the Rev. It. Webster
Stanley, M.A., of All Souls College, Oxon, vicar of Albee
bury, in the diocese of Hereford; the Key. John Jehb, MA.,
of Trinity College, Dublin, rector of Peterstow, in the diocese
of Hereford; and Rev. W. F. Powell, M.A., of the Cniver-
eity of Cambridge, vicar of Cirencester, in the diocese of
Gloucester.
Precisely at 11 o'clock, the Venerable Archdeacon Hanel.
ton, rector of St. Mary-le-Bow entered the reading-desk
from the vestry, and was followed into the church by the
vicar-general and other officers, and last of all by the bishop
elect, Dr. Hampden, who, after some trilling delay. occa-
sioned by the arrangement of places, took his sea: en the
pew reserved for him. To those who do not know Dr.
flamed, n, it may be interesting to state that he is a small,
slight-made man, of not less, to all appearance, than sixty.
five or seventy years of age. The right rev. prelate's fer
tures are rather large ; his forehead high; nose promitent ;
and cheeks somewhat sunk. He has quick eyes—very little
dark grey hair, combed straight upon the head, and a
slight whisker. Upon the whole, there is nothing in his
appearance distinguished or striking. On entering his pew,
tee right rev. divine immediately knelt, sied until the con-
elusion of the service appeared absorbed in prayer. Oa
rising after the Litany, he slightly glanced around Lira, and
then immediately walked from his place and took hid seat at
the table facing the vicar-general, and with his back to the
public. Dr. Hampden appeared in no degree nervous or
excited by the proceedings.
The Venerable Archdeacon HAMILTON read the Litany.
At the conclusion of the service, the vicar-general and
other officers took their seats at the table in the centre aisle,
where chairs hod been placed for their accoMmedation. The
registrar then read the citatory letter from the Archbishop
of Canterbury, constituting the court for confirmation. The
proctor, who appeared for the Dian and Chapter of Hereford,
then presented Dr. Hampden to the court, and exhibiting his
mandate, prayed that all opposers might be publicly called.
The Appariter-General made the usual proclamation,
whereupon
Mr. TOWNSEND came forward and said :—Right worship.
ful Sirs, I appear here for the Rey. Robert Webster Hunt-
ley, M.A., the Rev. J. .1. Jebh, M.A., and the Rev. F. W.
Powell, and exhibit their proxies for the purpose of opposing
the confirmation of Dr. Hampden.
The VICAIt-GINERAL—We are here under the mandate
from the clown, issued pursuant to the statute 25th Henry
VIII., as cominimiouna on the put of his Grace the Arch.
bishop of Canterbury, to conerm the election. The provi-
sions of the statute are imperative, and we cannot, without
incurring the pains and penalties of the statutes of provision
and pramunire, refuse to confirm, or permit any act in oppo-
sition to such proceeding.
Dr. ADDAMS—I bi ing before the right worshipful court a
libel on the part of the objectors who have been named
against the confirmation of the Rev. Dr. Rein Dickson
Ha:npden, as Bishop of Hereford.
The VICAIEGENERAL—Youcannot be permitted to appear
to support any objection to this proceeding, and you must
know very well, as an ecclesiastical advocate, that you can.
not be permitted to Ding in a libel for such a purpose.
Dr. HATTORI:I —I must oppose my learned friend's being
heard at all.
Dr. ADDAMS—I must, nevertheless, claim to be heard.
The VICAR-twin to--What do you wish to be heard
upon ?
Dr. ADDAMS—In the first place—only as to the cone:mo-
tion of the statute to the right of the objector to be heard
at all.
The Vteen-filesteiteL—Yost will confine yourself strictly
to that.
Dr. Annexe—Certainly ; I do not propose to address a
word u_pon any other point to the court.
Dr. LESHINOTON : You distinctly understand that you
are now to addressy ourself solely to the question as to year
right to be heard ?
Dr. ADDAMS : Perfectly ; and after what I shall bate to
say es to the construction of the statute, and the pr. ceders I
! shall have to submit, I shall be surprised if the diei.ian of
the court should be, that it is inoompcteet to entertain ob-
jections to the present confirmation, under the impression
that by doing so it will fall within the penalties of pratnein4re.
Dr. HAYFORD: I must object to my learned friend being
beard at all. The court has already decided that it will not
i bear the objectors ; my learned friend, therefore, is not ap.
peering here for anybody.
Dr. LtSHINGTON : Dr. Addams will address himself to
the question, whether he has • right to be heard or not.
Sir J. HODSON : And Dr. Addams must pledge himself
that his observations shall be confined to that question.
Dr. Annexe: Certainly I do. The learned advocate pro-
I eroded with his argument, first by a reference to the origin
I of the statute, and the practice of appointing bishops in the
'early days of papal supremacy. The bishops in. those
'days. having been nominated by the chapter, it was
required that they should be confirmed by the
Pope, but the Pope not being satisfied with the
power which the right of confirmation gave him in-
sisted on that of collating or nominating, and this it wee
that produced the first enactment on the au';ject, via., the
25 Edw. 111., cap. 16, which expressly gave the crown the
right to collate and nominate. This was the first act dip
puting the right of the Pope, end so the matter stood until
the 23rd year of the reign of Henry_ VIII., when there was
a statute on attar which was alluded to by Burnet, but
wnot nted in the predecessor which statute was the
foundations and immediate of the act of 25 Henry
VIII., that now under consideration. The preamble of that
act stated that," whereas large sums of money were conveyed
out of this realm to the impoverishment of the same, eme.
cially money taken out to the Pope from English bishoprics,
under the title of annals or first fruits, under the Popes
bulls for confirmation, and other things necessary on the
appointment of new bishops, which sums the bishops
ment of annets or first fruits was grounded on no legal right
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or custom, and was opposed both to equity and justice.
And the enactment prohibited such pa ens for the future,
and provided that if any person elected to any bishopric was
delayed in entering upon his office by being refused con-
firmation by the Pope's bull, he should be confirmed by de
archbishop of the pros ince, or by two bishops named by'
king, after which he should be duly invested. This act
the immediate predecessor of the one in question, and i
passed to prevent the encroachments of the papal see.
this period, which Burnet described as an intermediate sti
between papal supremacy and the reformation, the juriedic.
tion of the Pope was not altogether denied. He was styled
his holiness, and in a letter written the year after the passing
of this statute, Henry in writing to him commences—
" After many commendation, and most devoutly kissing
your blessed feet." Bulls were still obtained from Rome or
the consecration of bishops when Cranmer was appointed'
the archbishopric of Canterbury. Henry, not being desirous
at that moment to break with the Pope, sent to him for the
bulls for Cranmer's promotion; and accordingly bulls'
addressed to the King, the dean and chapter, and the laity
of the province, were forwarded, appointing Cranmer to t/
vacant archbishopric, together with one addressed to'-
Archbishop of York and the Bishop of London, directing
them to consecrate. This was in 1.533, and was the last tee-
hulls from the Pepe were admitted during that reign ;
almost immediately after, the final breach beeweeo lie
and Home took place, and all persons were forbid&
under the penalties of prmnunire, to appeal to Rome.
The act now under consideration was the 25th
Henry VIII., by which it was enacted that no person
should hereafter be nominated by, or presented to, the Pepe
on being elected to any bishopric in this country. In ever
other respect except that which permitted the l'ope
interfere by bull, or otherwise, in the appointees'
bishops, the former act stood. Another clause empo'