The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-20 00:00:00

Clic Court.

Her Majesty and the court will leave Osborne on
Tuesday neat, for Windsor Cutle, there to paw the Christ-
mu holidays.

A cabinet council was held on Saturday afternoon
at the Foreign-office. The ministers present were—Lord
John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey,
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord
Campbell, the Right lion. H. Labouchere, the Marquis of
Clanricarde, Viscount Morpeth, and the Right Hon. T. B.
Macaulay. The council sat two hours and a half.
A deputation of the committee of the Spaniab Bond-
holders Associa.ion, consisting of Mr. J. Capel, Mr. H.
Chard, Mr. C. W. Stokes, and Mr. A. Whful.en, had an in-
terview with Viscount Palmerston on Saturday.
Mr. Charles Bailer on Saturday took his seat at
the board-room of the Poor-law Commission-office, Somerset-

hows, as president of the sew board of poor-law oomrais-
sionera.

EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.-DEPUTA-

VON TO THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.

On Saturday a deputation, consisting of members of
parliament and ethers interested in the success of a system of
emigration to Australia, had an interview with Earl Grey, at
the Colonial-office.
Sir E. Mac Naosrrare opened the business by stating
that on the previous Saturday a meeting of noblemen and
gentlemen favourable to a plan of colonisation had been held
in London, when the following resolutions were agreed to :
That the oonny Australia, from the salubrity of its climate, the
demand for labour that now exists, and is likely to increase, the
abundance of food (or the support of the labourer, and its other ad.
j vantage!, both social and phyelcal, ofPirs in the opinion of this meet.
' log en admirable outlet for emigration.—That this meeting will do
Ito utmost to urge on her Majesty's government the propriety of
giving pecuniary wisistavice in aid of an emigration to the eJlony upon
a large seek, being deeply impressed with the conviction that the re-
lief that would thus be afforded to the distress in Ireland and Scot-
land, while it would secure a comfortable provision for the emigrants
themselves, could not fail to lay the foundation of wealth and pros-
perity in an Important part of her Majesty's dominions, the benefit of
which the mother country would ultimately Ivan—That the meeting
feel oonadent that the colony itself will liberally contribute to any
measure of pecuniary aid which the government of this country may

Having read the resolutions the right hon. baronet curso-
rily dwelt to their contents, and endeavoured to show that
the adoption of such a plan as the one suggested would re-
sult most advantageously, as well to the emigrants, the land-
owners in Australia, and the people of the British empire
in general. A. conversation, which fasted upwards of an
hour, ensued between the noble earl and deputation, the col-
loquy elucidating some interesting facts on the subject of our
colonial settlements. It was held by the deputation that the
emigration of small farmers and labourer, to Australia would
eventually be productive of the greatest possible benefit to
this couniry should the plan suggested be carried out. The
attention of his lordship was called to the recent deplorable
accounts from Canada and the British settlements in North
America, according to which thousands of the unfortunate
creatures who had left their native homes last year, arrived
in a strange country merely to find the labour market already
glutted.
The noble earl having been asked whether the govern-
ment were inclined to render any pecuniary aid to carry out
the plan suggested, replied that, however desirous the go-
vernment were to encourage emigration so far as lay in their
power, he could not hold out any hope whatever that a grant
of money for the purpose would be asked from parliament.
A sum of money (100,0001.) would shortly arrive from Aus-
tralia ; that, he could say, would be appropriated to the
encouragement of emigration, es weU as any other such
stuns as he hoped would be received front the colony. No
stronger hope, however, was he authorised to hold out. The
noble earl subsequently informed the deputation that a plan
which he hoped would be attended with succeu was under
consideration—namely, that of sending out a considerable
number of orphan boys and girls, to be trained, educated,
and brought up in the colony.
After some further conversation of no public important',
the deputation retired.

DEPUTATION OF IRISH MEMBERS TO SIR
GEORGE GREY.
Several of the Irish representatives having received
certain urgent statements respecting the existence and
increase of destitution in many of those dial:lots even where

the Poor-law Act is in full operation. A depatwa tT7---".
appointed to wait upon Sir G. Ur, y.
Accordingly, pursuant to previous arrangement made nsa
the right hon. baronet, the deputation waited upon ptieg
Grey, et the Homc-office, on Friday last, and had adski„t.
and Sir W. Somerville, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, 7.
interview of ounrideiable lei.gzh, and oae that they
as of a most satisfactory nature.
Sir G. Grq entered very fully into the subject, aid
eared the deputation that the government bed, unmet.
Tiered, at their diapoaal means sutheitnt for the prena:
meet any case of destitution likely to occur sr an tety
period, and which would not be provided for by Ineed7.
sources, prodded those means were used only to co"
which the local rem:mimes of the undin had been ez.reikti h
the fullest extent available and had been found inidgiat
The deputation considrred the right Lou. genii, :astirvt
planation moat satisfactory, and the detennutttion of tat
government calculae I to prevent anything evua approigna.
last year's distress. They ermined themselves in a frais`i
meaniee pleased with the arrangements which Sir G. Snl
assured them, were perfected iu order to aid those dist**
where the poor law would bo found insufficient; and ha...
thanked the right hon. geuttectein for his courtesy, gi
, withdrew.

MARYLEBONE Viterray.—Tug SUPPLY or (Av.
On Saturday a report was presented from the committee's
the vestry as to the terms upon which the Wetter, Gm
Light Company slonld be permitted to come into Ms*
hone to compete with the Imperial and other mt. co reps
The report recommended the adruiseion of the Waettq
Company upon giving security to the amulet of 15edet.
and that they should ha eon:pethd t lay down abut mil;
throughout the whole sixty whet of Msryleb .ne 'Went ow
year from Dee. 31 neat. Three deputy ious wetted'''.
the vestry, for the purpose of urging them to make 16;
favourable terms far the admissi .n of the company, no
first consisted of the directors of the Westi rn llalj,
Company; the second was a deputation tom the peelQ
committee of St. blerylebone, expres.ing their Tureen**
stringent terms of the repute al r protibit d the
coming in, and the third deputation, to preemt a yes
to a similar effect, signed by no less than 1,460 gm *memo
and rate-payers of Marylehone —Mr. .I..te ph mond ai
adoption of the report, which was seconded and sapper**
very considerable length by Mr. Oeo Daniell.—klecue,g,
chairman of the gas committee, moved the recomminalefge
report.—After a long and stormy dieeueton, the woad
motion was withdrawn, and the refers was ordered lake
sent back to the committee.—Tee !nineteen:ea Pesg
—A report was brought up from the unitary sannmineenlyt
reference to the sue jeet of disinfecting fluids refereed b
them. It stated that there were tour c uipeuads submittal
to them—viz., chloride of lime, Sir Wm. Dunett's Woe
which is chloride of sine, Ledoyen'e, which is nitrate offlu1;
and Mr. Ell. rman's, couneting of a prow:aloe of iron. Ike
committee were of opinion, from the tau applied, that*
Ellerman's fluid was superior to either of the ethers, pun.
lug as it dors greater powers of destrejieg oft nays
and at the same time nut ietertyina with the effieacY of saoul
as a manure The committee canal no: recommend
adoption of either upon a large scale, c nsid.ring that gee
remedy which came most strictly within the previewed
public board was a pl. ntiful supply of pure wake fk
cleansing the drains, and thus preventing tie senunohne
of filth and put r. went mutter. Mr. George Deeiell, se eltak.
man of the committee, moved that the 'spirt ie read ad
adopted, which haying been seconded, was carried neural.
SUSPENSION OF TIIE COIL`e LAW.—Au considerable
misconception appears to mist in the country sy to the new,
of the present suspension ot the corn law, and tl.• hrokabliOL
of its being again permitted to come into operatien :a Mardi,
we think it necessary to state tint it does net require my
act of the legislature for that purpose, as many epees: le
suppose. The ease is simply jhis : In 1846 eh .av wen
passed, imposing a wale of duties until February, 1943, de
which period it imposes a fixed nominal duty. The set If
the last session suspended the operation of that law until the
month ot March next, when, without any further set on the
part of the government, the 1 iw of 1816 again comes into
operation, continuing the scale of du;h a far eleven mouths
longer. As there is not the slightest proleihilizy that their
will be any such scarcity or high price as would justify the
government asking parlisment to continue the r,pereum at
the law, there can be no doubt that lieu March, 1848, a
February, 1849. the acne of duties thargeabie under the law
of 1846 will agoin come into operatieu. It should, how.
ever, be remembered that maize. or I edian corn, is not fa.
eluded in that scale, but is sat jeot the law ot 1913 who
a permanent registration duty of Is. per (leen r, rind to
meal to 41d. per cwt., and these will therefore centimes the
same after March, 1848.—Economist.

A REWARD OP 1;01. 'LW BEEN OTFERED POE TER
APPREHENSION OP LORD WILLIAM PAGET, It &ppm
that a true bill was found by the grand jury, at the elitist
Criminal Court, on Sept. 20, against " Capt. Lord Willis
Psget, R.N. for obtaining money under fah, pretnem"
and reward' ls adverliwi re he r•-`•t *- ••••••• .16
will apprehend and lodge, or cause to ha apprehended sat
lodged, in any of her hfajcsty's gaols in Bugle id, the tell
Lord William Paget, who was Iry ely M.P. for Atelowe."
His personal appearance is described. Toe eolicilere lode
Society of Guardians for the Protection of Trade we car
Jounced as the parties seeking his apprehension.
ANOTHER ROBBERY OP CAsH AT THE PADDI/10.
Tow TERMINTS.—On Saturday information was circulate'
throughout the visions divisions of the metropolitan polite,
relative to another very mysterious robbery which tot
plate on the previous evenuig at the Paddington railwq
station. It appears that Mr. Fryer, a part of whore &styli
is to pay the men belonging to the locomotive departme•
left his office adjacent to the entrance gates at six o'clock, t
gas to tea, and on quitting, locked, as usual, the outer dm.
On his return, after an ah,ence of no more than tinkle
minutes, he discovered that the office had been entered,u
doubt by means of a skeleton key, and that upwards of
in gold and Meter had been stolen from a drawer, the load
which had been forced. Information of the robbery ve
promptly communiemed to Mr. Collier, the superintends
el the company's police, who is using his utmost endeavese
to discover the gui ty parties.—Sun&iy pmer.
INQUESTS, SITU RDAT.—ALLEGED NEGLECT OF MB
POLlCE.—Before Mr. Bedford, at the Lord High Adman',
Vaaxhall-bridge-road, as to the death of Lucy Spasm
The deceased was the wife of a drayman in the invited
Mews. Thome' brewers. She had been in a wry id
Mate of health, and was attended by the landlady st
the house. On Thursday morning bee husband vendee)*
work as usual at tire o'clock, and it would seem that*
deceased got up and fastened the room door, fur os
Modlady at eight going to see if she would bare her brae
feet she could obtain no answer. Her hushaed west q,
but was afraid to break open the door, and though he gets
ladder he could see nothing through the window, m*
blinds were down. Be sent to the police-station to say Me
he suspected something wrong, but the answer was ifk
broke open the door it would bc at his own risk. Ultimis,
the husband was sent for from Chelsea, and on his
about ten o'clock the door was forced, and the deemed's
found lying in the bed with her throat cut in a druid
manner. She had been dead tome time. A knife muted
near her right hand, with which she had inflicted the
and on her left was a steel for sharpening the weapon.—Bs
Coroner said it seemed very strange the police did ridie
terfere in this matter, and there was a poeObility the kid
the deceased might have been saved. He hqd
Hat some inquiry would be made, and that a
port should be had.—The Inspector said he was ast•
duty at the time, and could not tell what th
stemage sent was, but it should be inquired MI—
The jury returned a verdict of " Temporay
Solemn PROM Moxonattia.—Before Mr. Bedford, ids
Orange Inn, Cam -street, Lincoln's-inn-fields,
tea dente el Mr. Patrick Murphy.-0. Cromfield,
Oillapdgest, Red Lion-square, stated that the
wee a writer, and lodged at his house. Lately he had Ms
ender the impression that some one was purism; WI
shoot him, and that a person of the name of Wright
Eset parties after him to take hit life. At the latter . •
Lei week he said if he had not employment some me assid
tea it. He had been very much &tressed of lata—B"
wife of the last witness confirmed this tenamony, aid 101
that the deceased repeatedly said he should be ihst e
On Monday she went up to his room, and found it WM
inside. Upon forcing a panel the deceased was fowl et
the bed. There was bloat all over the bed sad doer; le
ran for a doctor, under whose direction he was mania.
the King's College Hospital. A razor was found on dli
bed, by which the deceased had inflicted the injuries—/dr.
Burden, the surgeon, said the wound was six Mem
•
length. The deceased had divided the wind-pits in
tw
places, first with one hand and then the other. He said b
bad made the first attempt on his life at four o'clock in IS
morning, and the second at two in the afternoon. He did
from the injuries on Thurwlay.—The jury returned a Wr
dint of "Temporary insanity."

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DR. HAMPDEN'S LETTER TO LORD JOBS

RUSSELL.
The bishop elect of Hereford has addressed the*
lowing letter to the premier in reply to his wears!
My Lord,—lt is indeed painful to an honest
to answer a charge of unfaithfulness to a hie'
what else is the charge alleged by certsi,
reviving a clamour against me, an,'
with their jealousies and alarms, 1--
to my engagements to the church
If a person holds not in sincerity
to whose ministry he has been
profeeedly in the church, bra'
indifferent about, its faith ,
stance, as far as appears to
sgainst me, but an imputation
religious and moral duty ?
In ordinary circumstances,
with silent contempt. But
mend a sacrifice of feeling.
such an occasion, when by 4._
lordship, I shall at once discharge
Majesty, and to yourself, my lord,
crown,- and may hope, at the sea
meat of the troth, to tranquilize
earn' at Christians, who may have
passioned appeals made to them s
It is, es 1 have said, a painful
such most groundless, but most
devoted service in the miniart
quarter of a century, of which
been divided between the lab
and parochial ministrations, '
replying to accusations
under the eyes of men,
Boeing God who tries the
being required to deny having
of oar holy faith, which it has
uphold and enforce.
Alas, my lord, how commonly
burning' of the polemical spirit
law, " Thou shalt not beat

er in reply to ms arr...^.
painful to an honest mind a liss
sithfulness to a high trust
leged by certtin parties who
at me, and agitatina the gimlg
alarms, but that of unfsiafellet
church of which I am s
nomity the doctrines of thee /all
been called—if he is nOO4OlOl
, but in heart dissents from, or;
; what is this, which is aim;
o me, of what bat hero ado!
dim of the grosiest derelicts
Des, I might treat such d, reni
at there are occssiom it,
And the present appeal la
by thus publicly addrunial
'scheme a duty to her mast
my lord, the first Millii:ff
t the shine time, hy a simple dt
melodize the muds of basal.'
my have been perplexed by**
them against me.
>sinful trial, to hare to WOO
most unrelenting enmity. Abg.
doter of the gospel for mire Mt;
which the Lit twelve yeas
be labours of the Diradfr,
ins, I might well be Woman
which my whole life,
and in the presence of thelLw
as hurt, effectually refute-or
awing Cim been my constant stair'
"la
calmly in the jealousies awl
I spirit Is that precept of tin
soy"
tar fan witness egaiontiPPr
pugned those vital!
11111

tirelessly violated! The promotiou of certain
,i7;r's or the depression of en antagonist, is too often re-
by the corrupt human heart, as a warrant for any ex-
ertsof umharitableness, and even for untruth.
If aver there was a time when the circumstances of the
*waffles/toted a temptation to this offence' it is the pre-
e church ban now for many years teen grievoudy
yis...bled by what familiarly known as the tracterian
ment—sa organised agitation for the purpose of
Lnivolutionhoug the church of this country, for
upwairannsing it, es it bas been said by some of
tba party, or "developing the embolic principle latent in it."
with what effect the movement has been working is hut too
evident. Not only have numbers been seduced from the
church of their fathers to the corrupt church of Rome, bat
wing such many even of the clergy, forgetting their ordi
1
tiou vows, and their sacred obligation to the churchwhich
2 serried them to Christ in baptism, have led the way in the
ipnarney. Nur has the evil been stopped infected thine open se-
reseas. Many remain among us, deeply with the
mesa principles which have =lied others openly to Rome.
These eu..siat chiefly of the younger clergy, ready, as late
events hen shown, to respond to the cull of their leaders,
and to throw the weight of their numbers into any question
d high interest to their party. In such a state of things no
see 's theological or pastoral character is safe. Any one
who is adverse to the designs o th party, d whm
ma be worth while to attrf eek, cannot expectan o
to
y anew. Nothing is easier in such times of excitement than
so collect a number of signatures of person, whose
MOM are already registered witty their leaden, and to make
loch persons zealous and active men, as they are for theme'
put eager to prove their chivalry in the cause, centres of
station la different parts of the country.
bur is it anything strange or novel, my lord, which is now
',wining. From the scripture: we learn how the apostle*
niesselves, following their Lord in his persecutions, were
reviled and evil-treated by their brethren. la our own
coontry, the learned author of the " Dercooe of the Nicene '
Faith, Bishop Bull, had to complain of a charge of Socini.
mien brought against him by a brother minister of the
church. And before him even the excellent Hooker had W
defend his opiniocs delivered in sermons at the Temple
against the exceptions of an opponent from the same pulpit ,•
and at a later period of his life, amidst the simplicity and
blamelessness of his doily conversation, to resist a scan-
dikes attack on his character which nearly bowed him
se the grave. And thus Archbishop Tillotson complains, in
proof his sermons, of the evil tongues of his days. " I know
sot," he says, " how it comes to pots, but so it is, that every
sea that offers to give a reasonable account of his faith, and
to establish religion upon rational principles, is presently '
branded for a Socinian. . . . But if this be Socinianism,
kr a man to inquire into the grounds and reasons of Christian
religion, and to endeavour to give a satisfactory account why
he believes it, I know no way, but that all considerate, in-
quisitive men, that are above fancy and enthusiasm, must be
either Socinians or Atheists.
Let me then, I would say, my lord, be in-Amami and en-
eminged by these sod other like eon mples to submit with
patience to His will, who, in the mes.ery of His providence,
61 appointed for good that I, humble servant of His as I am,
Mould piss through this ordeal of calumny. What is most
"alining in it is, that I am accused of detracting from His
glory and the infinite merits of Ha blessed atonement. Ile
knows, however, that I have not done so. I am solaced and
siontigthened with this thought. I hope, therefore, calmly
to address myself to the objections which my imputuoste
adversaries, with all the vehemence of an electioneering
coldest, are recklessly throwing out e.einst me. Let me
endeavour to silence that codlict of feelings wttain my own
heart, which so unmerited and so ben a charge naturally
mites.
First, then, my lord, I most solemnly deny the scandalous
imputation. As an honest man, I say, I do rot, and never
did for one moment of my life, in thought o: word, hold or
maititsiu any other dextrine respecting our Lord's most
holy Person and His blessed Work of Redemption, than that
which is plainly set forth from Scr:pture in the articles and
formularies of our church. I hold, ton, and have ever held
meet firmly, the full doctrine of the Holy Trinity, as stated
en the same authority in the same doeuments of the church.
Nay, Igo on to say, with the utmost confidence of my
dateri y, that I have on every occasion exerted myself to de-
Mad these holy truths, which I believe not with a mere
assent, but really love and dein, ht in. My conviction has
been that no sermon, no repetition of religious doctrine or
exhortation to religious conduct, could have any unction of
spiritual instruction, any. living power to teach or to per.
made, which did not derive its strength from these holy and
lovely truths, which describe to usGod the Father giving his
, *sly-begotten Son, his co-rqual in majesty and power, to
the end that all that believe in Him should nit perish. but
have everlasting life,"—God the Son giving Himself in love,
taking on Him our nature, and torn into the world, living
and dying for us men, and for our salvation,—G d the Holy
Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, the Third
Person in the Blessed Trinity, sent down with holy comfort
hem the Saviour to instruct and guide the church through
all sign,
This. *Teat revealed verities, no mere opinions collected
by 'went-afire reasoning, but the manifest indisputable
teaching of Scripture, without which Scripture would not be
what it iv—l have, then, ever taught and enthreed both so
mow nertain and IN most necessary to be believed.
It is not my teaching, whatever may have boon attempted
to be shown by prejudiced adversaries, that the doctrines of
Scripture or any other of its great fur:dementsl truths, such
as original sin, justification by faith, preventing and assisting
;rime, the efficacy of the two sacraments instituted by our
Lord, are nothing more than theories formed by the human
mind on the text of Scripture. It is very great mistake to
suppose that I have ever meant this, its what I have said of
the force of theory, in my tiampton lectures or elsewhere. It
is one thine, to endeavour to unfold the theories on
which a particular phraseolngy employed in the sys-
tematic statement of divine truths has been framed
sod adapted to its purpose; and quite another thing to state
giat the truths themselves which that phraseology expresses
Me mere theories, or mere opinions, or probable conclusions,
having no penile e certainty in them. This latter m isconetruc-
tion belongs to those who have taken it up. It is not mine.
It has no warrant in ar.ythirlit that I have said in theoloisical
discussion. My Bampton leturee, indeed, were not written
for popular reading, but for such as should come to the
study of the subject with some previous knowledge both of
theological questions and of ancient philosophy. It is no
wonder, then, that they should be open to misinterpreta-
tion to ordinary readers. I should be much concerned
if, from any unskilfulness in the use of word", I should
have given rise to misapprehension. I would not as-'
sent, however, that I bare always succeeded in conveying
my theaghts exactly. But I am not, at any rate, to
be blamed for some miatikes, or rather perversions,
al my meaning. For this I know, that arguments which I
have advanced in support of the truth, have, in many in-
stances, by an artful selection of detached words, been repro-
tented as upholding the very errors which they refuted.
But whatever has been done, by hostile and =candid
expositors, in the way of perverting or obscuring.my mean-
ing, I have the satisfaction of knowing that many honest and
intelligent minds have apprehended my true intent, and
appreciated my labours. Thus, for instance, this or that
person would not or could not see that it is • strong orpi-
ment for the truth of the catholic doctrine of the Trinity,
that even heretics (as I have urged) hays in some sense pro-
fited it, however imperfectly and injuriously, thus acknow-
ledging the truth amidst their vain attempts to corrupt and
destroy it, unconsciously bearing testimony to its existence
in disputing it; and the truth itself ahowing its vital
strength in surviving their attacks.
Many such instance, of cruel misrepresentation I could
allege. But I will not weary your lordship's patience. Let
Me, however, be suffered to say, what I would fain have re-
members d only in thanksgiving to Him whose grace enables
m to think or de anything good, that I have reason to blest
God that in one instance at least I have not laboured in vain s
but that a person, now a pious and distinguished minister of
Christ, was confirmed and fixed, by what I have advanced
on the subject of the trinitarian controversies, in the true
faith of that holy mystery. And does not this one fact more
than outweigh the assertions of a thoneand anonymous
writers in newspapers, copying one another, and repeating
the original false statement of the first mistaken or miarepres
stinting commentators ?
Mort sincerely, then, and most firmly do I helm that
there is but one catholic faith—one invariable standard at
orthodox truth ; and that all departures from this, toner
quently, are errors of doctrine, and corruptions of** filth,
and not that " form of sound words" which God has sat
forth to us in Ilia revelation.
!challenge my impugners to disprove this exertion of my
belief; not by' sophistiad constructions—not by garbled
quotations, such as the public has been too familiar with
from their hands—not by mere nibs' inferences—not by the
false colouring of their own minds, or by the shadows cast
from their own theories ; but from plain and direct asser-
tions qualified and explained, as all assertions mint be, by
the context and other passages, and the general tenor of my
writings. They have hitherto kept certain portions of my
publications es much sa possible out of view, They have
continued repeating certain sentences or halfmatences, as if
these were so many oracular dicta of mine, striking ever on
the same note which they once found to awaken a chord in the
minds of the uninformed or the prej *diced, skilfully, indeed, as
tacticians, hut most dishonestly. as men. Let them, then,
abandon these niers party poll muss. Let them fairly show, if
they can, where I have expressed the slightest doubt of the
truth or of the importance of the great Christian doctrines
which are the foundation of our faith. I nw appeal to
any of my sermons, preached or published (I iWitele , in this
reference, a volume of Parochial Sermons, patellas=
in 1828. and since reprinted), and to every comma
delivered by me, whether public or private, es Regius Poo-
lessor of Divinity.
But, my lord, whilst I fully believe that there is bat mos
catholic faith, I am not required by this gersamiew to Mot
disrespectfully or uncharitably all that digitalin= is. eta*
conscientiously declare that they, for their parts camas& hoof
that faith from the Bible. I would do nothing to e
dispirit from the church. It grieves me, wherevern
Bat at the same time, I am fir a full toleration, if Moist be
only open and avowed ; a toleration, that is, extending mot
ally to the grant of civil privileges to diesenters, but Is ale
equitable and kind consideration of their statements and or-
gamenm, as well as of their feelings. I would try to win
them over—l would not exasperate them. I would not pre.
NUM to surrender God's truth, which is not mine to giro
away, or to call error and falsehood by the sacred name of
troth. But as for candid and indulgent consideration for the
persona of tho e who are in error, this is in every man's
pewee, and is every Chriatiao man's bounden daffy to giVe.
MIS, then, I would not withhold, even from these Who hart
&partici the farthest from the true faith.
If, accordingly, on any marten I have vestigial to ISE
mitarians Chris'ions, surely this must be nadoellool M lot
wide charitable sense of the term—not in that strid sown is
which it belongs to a believer in the divinity and ths Mimed
atonement of our Lord, but in a sense not unlike dot la
which it is awd in our Liturgy, when we pray for
'' all who profess and call themselves Chrimmae,"
that they " may be led into the way of truth,"
lee. What I may tar said, that, La charity of

the pereons, or of the modes of reasoning, of misbe-
lievers, cennot its any fairness lee understood as indulgence to
their tenets. I repeat, I not only regard the docerites of
the Holy Trinity, and of the Incarnation and Atonementof
our Lord, and the salvation of man through faith only in
him,witle the truths arising out of and closely connected with
these great doctrines, as most certain, but further, as vitally
importut to be believed, in order to a saving faith and a
right practical religion. tee intimate, indeed, I conceive, is
the conivaion between a sound theology and a right reli-
gious conduct, that they alone can properly be said to have a
right religion who have a sound theology. Still, the two
terms, theology and religioo, admit of being separately de-
fined, according to the proper notion of each. Fur so St.
James speaks of " pure religion, and undefiled before
God ?" pointing out the Tactical moral duties, the charity
and purity of life, wherein it conliets. Surely no one can
justly suppose from this, that St. James dispenses with a
sound theology as the basis of that religion which he de-
scribes. Nor ought Ito have been construed as oivorcing a
sound theology and a right religion.
I have ineiste I, indeed, my lord, constantly on the supre-
macy of Scripture as our rule of faith. And what c nerisient
member of the Church of England does not ? But this very
assertion of the supremacy of Scripture has been tskeu up
invidiously by some, as if I rejected altogether the autho-
rity of the church, and undervalued its importance as a 'W-
hin institution of Christ's religion. This, however, cannet
by any means be justly said of me. 1 hare ever taught that
a deferentiel r Jet to the authority of the chyme, as it is
laid down and explained in the formularies of our church,
was mo,t incumbent on Christians; though certainly i.ot
that high and transcend at respect which is doe ro the in-
spired word alone. But the fact is, that many of those who
are now objecting to me, will be satisfied with no view on
this subject, which is not virtually the ranee as that of
Rome—a-cribing to the church not only an authority
of order, such as is claimed in our articles, but an
absolute authority for propounding matters of filth,
and requiring its decisions to be received with unquestion-
leg Aube:de-ion by its members. The church, in their vier,
is not simply " the witness and keeper of holy wet." but
the depository of revealed truth, the authoritative inter-
preter of Scripture, without which Scripture is conceived by
them to speak an uncertain sense. But what Is this but to
suppose that the church is endued with an infallible autho-
rity? For, unless it can pronounce infallibly, how CAW the
Christian be required to receive its decisions as divine truths
obligatory on his faith?
This notion, however, of church authority will be rand
to be the ro t of the objections of this class of theologians to
the teaching of ell who require that all doctrines should he
drawn from Scripture. With them the reference to Scrip-
ture is an " heretical principle," because it holds up the
authority of Scripture over that of the church in all ques-
tions of doctrine. Hence their animosity against all who
thus establish the articles if faith, and their unchecked
bednees in repeating charges of heresy against any ceniession
of faith, however round in itself, which claims to be simply
scriptural in its authority. A person, in their view, is no
believer who does not hold their " church principles"—that
is, who does not build his faith on the church in their sense j
But, my lord, I must notice before I conclude the hollow
pretence of those who are resting their objections to me on
the statute et the University, passed in 1638.
I think it will be found that some of those who are urging
this pilot were the most active instruments themselves in
carrying that illegal measure. Men are naturally unwilling
to acknowledge their wrong. More is the honour dun to
those excels .t persons who have not wished that day of
excitement to be remembered against me. but would now
gladly erase the record of it. But it is distressing to see that
there are other who would fall back on their own wrong, and
would take a false advantage from it, to justify themselves to
themselves and to the public.
Thetteatiite, however, I would observe, has been eirtnelly
repealed by two subsequent proceedings in the university :
in the first place by the new Theological Statute of 1842,
which placed me, as resins profemor, at the head of a newly-
coast:anted hoard of theological examiners; and then in the
same year by the juit act of the chief authorities of the uni-
versity, with whom rests the initiative of every measure,
the board of heads of houses and proctors, who unanimously,
proposeda form of statute for rescinding it. So far, then,
as the chief resenneible body of the university is concerned,
j lam relieved of the burden of that statute • though the
'Fractarian party succeeded, with a very reduc'ed majority,
r however, in throwing out the measure in convocation.
And is not the history of that statute perfectly under-
stood ? How can any venture to put it forward now, when
j by such an act they are implicating themselves with the
, theology and the spirit of its chief promoters? Every one
knows that the editors of the " Trees," and others following
in their wake, were the great instruments in the work of
calumny on which it was founded. A pamphlet, full of gross
misrepresentation of my writings' this pnyluction of Mr.
Newman, was circulated through the cauntry. And the
calumnies thus spread abroad, concurred with the great
political excitement of the times, in obtainiug a majority
against me ; not, however, even then, until after a
repulse on the heat assault by the firm and spirited
intervention of the proctors. How, then, can any
wish to sympathise, or identify themselves with the chit f
actors of that day ? Where is Mr. Newman now, let me
ask, the principal mover then ? What are the rest doing.—
his old emaciates whom he has left—but training others to
irnblbe the spirit of their great leader, reluctant as they may
be to follow him throughout ?
With what real truth, therefore, can it be said, that, as
certain persons seem to take an unenviable pleasure in re-
peating, lam nailer "the censure of the university 1" I
sus not, ..11) lord, in truth. In tact, the statute referred to
no opinions or doctrines whatever, but only to the manner
of treating theological subjects. When indeed a censure of
the university is passed, certain propositions are selected
from the author's writings, and the decree of convocation
condemns those particular propositions. This was done re-
cently in the case of Mr. Ward, the author of the " Ideal
of the Christian Church." Nothing of the kind was done
In my case: nothing specific was ever alleged against me.
Certainly, whatever may have been the fleet design of the
statute referred to, it has had no effect. It has been practi•
sally a dead letter. I have centinued to preach and lecture
Is the University, without any diminution of attendance or
respect on accoucit of it. No divinity profeteoi before me, I
believe, has been better attended, or received mere marks of
eseafidenee from his hearers.
Then, my lord, if further witnesses are needed to my cha-
reeler as a Christian minister, let the thousands who have
heard my semen' and my lectures 'peak for me. Again,
let any of my parishioners, who have known my manner of
life and conversation now for twelve years past, and ray
whole ministry among them, in the church, in the school,
and from house to house, be called to Rive their evidence.
But let not the public be deluded into a nth and false judg-
ment by anonymoue elenderers in newspapers. Nor let an
undue weight be attributed to meetings convene d by sir.
enlace sent through the country, under the instigation of a
few individuals, who are, for the most part, wilt known ad-
versaries, not only of me, but of all that is protestant in our
church.
I trust, my lord, I have cot exceeded that reserve which
becomes me in addressing your lordship. I tun sure you
will not wonder at my feeling strongly on an occasion of such
solemn interest to me.
I have the honour to be, my lord, with every sentiment of
respect, your lordship's greatly obliged and faithful ser-
vant, B. D. HAMPDEN.
Christchurch, Dec. 9,1947.