The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-19 00:00:00

HARWICH ELECTION CO3IMITTEE.

On Saturday the committee resumed their sitting,
and struck off the pull of Mr. Prinaep, the late sitting member,
the vote of William Printer, objected to on the ground of
bribery. This pot Mr. Crawford (the petitioner) in a ma-
jority of one. Mr. Serjeant Kingluke (counsel fur Mr.
Prinsep) then applied to the committee to require the peti-
tionen to proceeds with the cases of bribery of which notice
had been given. This the committee re(wwd, upon which
Mr. Serjeunt Kinglako said he would go on with the
scrutiny. Mr. E. James, Q. C., on the other side, objected
to this course, on the ground that Mr. l'rin.cp being de-
clared disqualified, the scrutiny ought not to be proceeded
with. The committee decided upon going on with the scru-
tiny. The vote of Mr. Robert Bagshaw (son of the other
member for the borough) was then objected to. Mr. James
took a preliminary objection that no evidence could be re-
ceivwl against thin vote, as no eapress decision had been
come to before the revising barrister. The committee
verruled the objection, sad adjourned till this day.

811 ANDRIES STOMINIMPAK.—ThifI gentleman,
who has so long been mined up in the government of Africa,
and with whose name the whole of the readers of African
news mu.t be well acquainted, arrived at Plymouth on
Friday evening, by the Maidstone East India trader. Sir
Andric', shortly alt, r his arrival, left by railway for the
metropolis.
CUOTOMS

Milner Gibson, M.P., has
just obtained a Mara (printed on Saturday) of the Cus-
toms duties last year. In the year ending the sth of
January last the duty on goods charged with duty at
first landing from the importingships wu 1,706,3961 13e..51.•
on goods warehoused 20,368,M1 Ids. 4d., making the
total amount of duty received on good imported
22.061.660 So. 9d. At London the duty received was
1109'0,14AL 14e. 6d.; at Liverpool 3,346,570/. 78. 7d.;
at Manchester 271,211/. 19s. 7d., and at Newcastle
331,960/. 13,1. Id.
ROYAL NAVAL SCROOL, Nsw CROSS.—Captain
Gladstone, R.N., has prewatcd the munificent sum of 1001.
in aid of the loud for the erection of a chapel attached to
this institution. _

ROYAL COLLEGE OP SCBGEoNs.—The following
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations,
were admitted members of the college on the 16th inst.:—
Messrs. T. White, Chester; E. Long, Dublin: P. W.
Winders, Chesterton. Huntingdonshire; George Brennan,
Cork ; Nerd; Jackson, Stamford ; Edward /Ufa, Tun-
bridge ; Thomas Britton, York ; John Davisjunderland
Jacobus Silverman, Middlesex-place, PaidMgton ; and
Lancelot Armstrong, Camberwell.
NOVA SCOTIA COMMAND.—EiLAII.-CICIMTUI Sir John
Harvey, K.C.8., K.C.H., the lieutenant-governor and
lieutenant-general on the staff at Nova Scotia, is expected
home, as he has relinquished this command.
MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS IN ENGLAND, 'WALES,
£311) TIIR C . Istatsins.—The depot 26th Regiment,
"Placed by the depot 16th at Jersey, is to be stationed at
lioninonth.—The 82nd, now at Newport, is to
move to Beeson, sod the depot of the 19th at Brooms is to
The depot of the 64th et Gamey is
enslark for Bristol, end on arrival 4igs
72sil to Onernory.

In continuation of his strictures on the confessional,
which he anticipated would occupy many successive
discourses, so abundant were the materials and so
important the topic, before resuming his argument
he would dwell on the advantages which truth ever
found in fearless scrutiny, while the blind votary of
established delusions hugged his chains in voluntary
debasement. The slightest effort at inquiry would
dissipate the charm that hung over the fascinated
victim, and hence it was perfectly intelligible why the
terrors of the Roman church were held out to affright
the doubter and to stifle investigation. The ground-
work of human Absolution was perfectly untenable,
but the claim to receive a preliminary avowal of guilt
in all its details from a fellow-mortal and a fellow-
sinner was still more preposterous, and would bear
the test neither of reason nor of scripture, nor even
of patristic authority. To the student of church
history the thing was a palpable and impudent in-
novation. He once more launched into ecclesiastical
antiquity, and plunged into the depths of this contro-
versy. Council after council was sifted for any even
the slightest evidence of auricular dislosures as neces-
sary acoompsniments ofcanonical penance, without a
traoe=s;farstisoizilarinitension on the parted
the . The synods principalljr
canvassed because affording regulations on the sub-
ject of repentance, and therefore likely to touch on
this inevitable matter, were those of Laodicea (an.
SO6), the third council of Carthage, that of Mayence,
and that held under the reign of Charlemagne at
Chalons. From all these assemblies nothing had
been put forth save a recognition of the voluntary
practice of spontaneous confession before the public
body of the faithful : nothing that could be tortured
into the universal enforcement of compulsory revela-
tions in private ears, nothing to warrant the exist-
ence at any period during eight or nine centuries
since the first origin of Christianity of this compara-
tively modern contrivance.
To detail these canonical citations not being
within the scope of a newspaper, it will suffice to
say that the frequent indications of loud concurrence
on the part of his auditory (as numerous as ever),
testified to the impression his proofs and inferences
made es he went on. It was reserved for that dark
era of the world's intellectual slavery, when the
Popedom, in the person of Innocent 111., trod on the
necks of kings and trampled all human authority
with super-human , to make this auda-
cious attempt on deeptalrirl ice
subserviency of fear-
stricken mankind. It was at the very first dawn of
freedom in these islands, while the barons were ex-
torting your Magna Charta from the reluctant
and priest-ridden John, that another charter in
an opposite sense, and with a tremendously
counteracting tendency, was imposed by Innocent on
trembling Christendom, and forcibly thrust on the
acceptance of such bishops as that pontiff held under
his notorious and indisputable control in the Lateran
church at Rome [AA). 12151 While in Englund it
was proclaimed at Runnymede that " omnis Goer
Ammo," &c., &c., at Rome it was then first enacted
by a canon of council, that "ennuis utriusque sexus
coljiteatur peccata eau sacerdoti." Arrived at this
point of its first penal and enforced establishment,
the speaker went into what might appear a digres-
sion, but the episode had a very perceptible bearing
on the question at issue, vist., whether it were com-
petent in any number of church functionaries to intro-
duce under pain of sin an arnuigement of thischaracter,
or to bur all participation in the great atoning sacri-
fice of Christ, save and except under conditions of
this nature. lie alluded to a belief in what was
called the " immaculate conception " of the Virgin,
which the present incumbent of the Roman bishopric
had serious thoughts of rendering imperative on all
under penalty of exclusion from any share in man's
redemption. Had he such power ? It was attempted
at Trent, and referred to an accommodating commit-
tee, who reported favourably, but a vigorous opposi-
tion having manifested itself within the assembly,
the project was withdrawn. Now, all antiquity was
against this long unheard of doctrine, which went to
invalidate the mystery of the incarnation alto-
gether, and the name of Thomas Aquinas was
in the van of those who opposed it on principle ;
yet according to the same theory which would ren-
der man's eternal salvation dependent on the per-
formance of every successive human condition, origi-
nating either in tyranny or fanaticism, it would fol-
low that although up to 1213 Heaven was attainable
without the confessional (but not since that epoch),
up to 1831 the gates of Paradise are still open to
those who disbelieve in this " conception,' but
shortly it may be otherwise determined (noun arons
champ tout trio). and a supplemental article be added
to the symbol of Christianity. The apostles' creed
recites a belief in the " remission of sins;" the great
Nicene standard of faith develops. that article into
an acknowledgment of " one baptism for the remis-
sion of sins," clearly establishing one only ceremonial
formula to which that remission attaches. It was
reserved for Trent to invent what it terms in oppo-
sition to the " one," a " second plank after ship-
wreck," to the exclusive instrumentality of which as
a life-buoy it confines the struggling efforts of
drowning humanity.
Dismissing the records of early councils, the speaker
next addressed himself to the primitive fathers and
writers of the church. lie alluded to the epistles of
Clement, Tertullian " De Pcenitentia," Cyprian " I)e
Lapria," and Origen "On Leviticus," from whom the
usually quoted passages were sifted with much criti-
cal sagacity, and their utter irrelevance as to the
auricular process in its present form vigorously
demonstrated. Coming to the casuists who had
undertaken to elucidate the theory as well as prac-
tice of the confessional, he arrayed them in a variety
of conflicting statements one against the other.
Duns Scotus, Suazez, Vega Cajetan, Puludanus, held
irreconcilable opinions : some deemed a comfession
tendered in writing valid, which others denied, and
required oral enunciation. Some found a divine
right for the bond of secrecy, which others repu-
diated. He next referred to the "sacramental"
words used by the confessor iu the Latin church,
which were admitted to have undergone a serious
and significant change. " Deus te ftdrat," which
was the undoubted original form, had become, no
one knew how or when, "Ego te absolco," with the
precautionary clause, however, " in quantum possum,"
which was an unconscious remnant of misgiving on
the part of the performer as to the efficacy of his
spell. The Greek church had kept in her liturgy the
simple and unassuming prayer for God's forgiveness
on such occasions, and thus bore witness to the alte-
ration made by her western sister at a period subse-
quent to their parting company. Entering into the
merits of the question on the score of ana-
logy, he pointed out the inconsistency of Christ's
declaration against the ceremonial burdens and
Pharisaic trammels of the old law, from
which he professed to deliver his followers with
the imposition of this most onerous of all Pharisaic
requirements, a oke more crushing and intolera-
ble than any Judaic observance in the whole
of Leviticus, and, in conclusion, he narrated
at some length from the annals of Goal-
mcnes and all concurrent church historians
the notorious occurrence at Constantinople under
the reign of Theodosius, when, in consequence of a
noble matron having taken the opportunity of de-
nouncing the conduct of a certain deacon, by confes-
sing publicly his criminal intercourse with herself,
before the assembled faithful, the Greek Patriarch,
Nectarius, the immediate predecessor of Chrysestom
in that see, abolished public confession altogether,
and left it optional to make the bishop alone the de-
positary of secret offences, or be silent on such mat-
ters altogether. Such was the discipline Which,
during the half century that patriarch governed the
' eastern church, prevailed up to A.D. 382. The famous
criterion of Vincent Lerineusis quod server, quad
Nbique, crediturn est, is totally inapplicable to the
confessional.

A bill (as amended by the committee) to prevent
the assumption of certain ecclesiastical titles in respect of
places in the United Kingdom. (The clauses marked A
and B were added b the committee.)
Whereas divers other Majesty's Roman catholic gabjeete
have assumed to themselves the titles of archbishop and
bishops of;a pretended province, and of pretended sees or
dioceses, within the United kingdom, under colour of an
alleged authority given to them for that purpose bye certain
brief, rescript, or letters apostolical from the see of Rome,
purporting to have been given at Rome, on the 29th Sept.,
1850; and whereas, by the act of the tenth year of Kg
George IV., cap. 7, after reciting that the protestant epis-
copal church of England and Ireland, and the doctrine, die-
cipline, and government thereof, and likewise the protestant
presbyterian church of Scotland, and the doctrine, discipline,
and government thereof, were by the respective acts
of union of England and Scotland, and of Great
Britain and Ireland, established permanently and invio-
lably, and that the right and title of archbishops to
their nepeetive provinces, of bishops to their sees, and of
deans to their deaneries, as well in England as in Ireland,
had been settled and eetablished by law, it was enacted
that if any person after the commencement of that act, other
than the person thereunto authorised bylaw, should assume
or use the name, style, or title of archbishop of any pro-
ving*, Wait, deny bishopric, or dean of any deanery, in
Ingiand •se Inked, ho should for every sue Ei offence for-
feit awl pq all sum of one hundred pounds. And whereas
it may be whether the recited enactment extends
te the neeneepilea of the title of archbishop or bishop of a
preiewled melees or diocese, or archbishop or bishop of a
ee Wisitory,or de of any pretanded Ilswisry
fa wt Ireland, not being the see, province, or
diocese of any archbishop or bishop or deanery of any dean 1
recognised by law ; but the attempt to establish, under
colour of authority from the see of Rome or otherwise, such
pretended sees, provinces, or dioceses or deaneries is illegal
and void. And whereas it is expedient to prohibit the as-
sumption of such titles in respect of any places within the
United Kingdom. Be it therefore declared and enacted
by the Queen's meet excellent majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and
commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, that—
Clause A.—l. The said brief, rescript, or letters apostoli-
, cal, and all and every the jurisdiction, authority, pre-
, eminence, or title conferred or pretended to be conferred
thereby, are and shall be and be deemed unlawful and
void.

11. And bo it enacted, that if, after the passing of this
act, any person other than a person thereunto authorised by
law in respect of an archbishopric, bishopric, or deanery of
the united church of England and Ireland assume or use the
name, style, or title of archbishop, bishop, or dean of any
city, town, or place, or of any territory or district (under any
desiguaticn or de•cription whatsoever) in:the United King-
dom, whether such city, town, or place, or such territory or
district, be or be not the see or the province, or co-extensive
with the province of any archbishop, or the see or the dio-
cese, or co-extensive with the diocese, of any bishop, or the
seat or place of the church of any dean, or co-extensive with
any deanery, of the said united church, the person so
offending shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay the
sum of one hundred pounds, to be recovered as penalties
imposed by the recited act may be recovered under the
provisions thereof.
Clause This act shall not extend or apply to
the assumption or use by any bishop of the protestant epis-
copal church in Scotland exercising episcopal functions
within some district or place in Scotland of any name, style,
or title in respect of such district or place; but nothing
herein contained shall be taken to give any right to any such
bishop to assume or use any name, style, or title which he
is nut now by law entitled to assume or use.

MINES.
(nos Ur Daily Nero.)
SATURDAY Evis !NO.
The amount of business transacted in the miuing
share market during the week has been rather above
the average, but, as the bulk of the operations offer-
ing has consisted of sales, the market has shown a
decided tendency downwards, and prices have taken
a lower range, especially in cases where sales have
been pressed. The cause to which this state of things
is mainly ascribable is the number of new adven-
tures which have lately made their appearance. A
certain proportion of mining property, as of other
descriptions of share investment, is usually held on
speculative account, and to make up the large
sums required for the numerous new un-
dertakings many of these holders have sold
out of good dividend mines for the sake
of embarking in schemes in which the risk and the
prospect of ultimate gain may each be fairly assumed
to be of a more extensive nature. Any, even though
only a temporary increase in the demand for cash
accommodation is sensibly felt in the mining world,
and it is not at all improbable that the slight degree
of pressure which has been felt in the money market
during the week has rendered the operations above
alluded to more extensive than they would otherwise
have been, us in the case of a decided plethora of
capital, when money is in fact "a drug in the
market," not the least difficulty would be experienced
in meeting any requirements of this nature, nor would
other branches of mining enterprise be in any degree
interfered with.

The following are the present quotations of the
market, taken from the official list of the Mining
Exchange of to-day:—Alfred Consols, 161, 17 ;
Bedford United, 71, 71 • Can Bruno, 50 ; Cook's
Kitchen, 41; Cwmystwith, 100; East Bassett, 17;
East Ounnis Lake, 2; East Tamar Consols, 18s. 9d.,
20r.; Garreg, 2711. 6d., 30s. ; Kirkcudbright, 4;
Lamherooc, 15, 16 ; Lewis, 201 • Lisburne, 700;
Mary Ann, 644, 631; North Bassett, 121; South
Caradon,l2o; South Trelawney, 31; St. Aubyn and
Grylls, 4; Tincroft, 54; Tregordan, 6; Trcviskey,
200; West Ding Dong, 3;; West Wheal Alfred,
11, 1/ ; West Russell, 1 ; Trelawney, 52, 51, 50 ;
Trcmayne, 221, 231.
In foreign shares—Australian, / to 1 ; St. John
del Itey, lfb, 17; Imperial Brazilian, 4,1; United
Mexican, 31, 41; Cobra, 381, 9; Copiapo, 61,
Coates, 1!!, 2; Santiago, 31, 61.
the accounts showed a balance against the adventu- '
rers of 161. 14s. sd. A call of ss. per share was
made.

At East Wheal Iteeth meeting, held on the 6th
inst., the accounts showed a balance against the ad-
venturers of 3211. 13s. A call of 10s. per share was
made.

At the Peter Tavy and Mary Tavy Consols meet-
ing, on the 9th inst., tho accounts showed a balance
in favour of the adventurers of 1,10.31. lls. Bd.

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