The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-15 00:00:00

Vbe Court.

The Queen le 111 a 'Court and Privy Council at 3
O'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckinghlun l'alace.
At the court tin Arelthi-liop of Canterbury hail an audi-
tor• of the queen, and pftscutcal an aililnws to her Majesty
Ca (hurrh , 'tension.
Mr. William Page Wood, Solicitor-G.nrral, was pre-
wilted to 'lie duce o at 311 audience hr the Right llon. Sir
George Grey, ti.C.ll„ her Ilajoity•s principal Siwretary of
State fur the llono Department, and hail the honour of
knighthood ...Infernal upon hint by her Majesty.
Mr. C a.' Jame. 'turner was prconti dto her Majesty
at an audi.-ue•c..m hi. appointment as Vice-Chancellor, by
Secretary sir George Grey. The Vice-Chancellor received
from the Ilueen the honour Of knighthood.
The Privy Council was attended by Prince Albert, the
Lord (loin ellor, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secre-
taries of State for the Ilione, Foreign, and Colonial De-
partments. the President of the Board of Control fur the
Affairs of 1111“.1. the I•ll.liicelli.r of the Duchy of Lunerter,
the Lord St: wand, end the Lord Chamberbun.
Sir John Romilly, Master of the Rolls, and Sir George
Jame. Turner, Vbs.-Chancellor, were by command of the
Queen sworn of her Nlayesty's most honourable Privy
Council, and took their places ut the board. The lion. V..
Bathurst w as the clerk of the council in waiting.
The Qui im gave audiences to Sir George Circe and Lord
John Itusw 11. The court was attended by the Treasurer of
the Household, the Vice-Chamberlain. the Marquis of An-
glesey, gold stick in waiting; the Earl of I.istowel, lord in
waiting ; Lieut.-Gen. Sir Edward Bowater, groom in wait-
ing, and Col .1 Wylde, groom in waiting to Prince Albert.
Prince Albert received the foreign commioioni rs for the
Exhibition of IS.II at Buckinglianepalare yesterday at four
o'clock. Ilia Royal Highness was attended by Colonel
Wylde and Colonel the Ilou. C. piny. he commissioners
were iwserully intnaluevil to Ibis Royal Hightails. by Earl
Granville. The commioioners prewentirl were: IM.Salland-
rouse de Lamornaix, Commissaire Woieral du fiouverneruent
Francin,; Mr. 7.111111.311, CIIM0111.1111: 111:TU11111k' Cl ll'Egyprt
lb. Charles Cowlick, Chairman of the Austrian Committie,
and Dr. William Schwarz. Austrian Commissioner ; Baron
Stein, t'ionmissaire des Zollveriens; M. I'. Kamensky,
Commiraire Rowe; Mr. Edward Itinnle, United States
Conamissi ttttt and Mr. John R. St. J,'hn, United States ;
Senor. Itain.m de Echevarria, Ramon de la Sacra, and
Isaac th. Villanueva, Spanish Commissioners; Mr. F. G.
Camp and M. U. Gossocus, Cosomissaires de Ronan& ; Mr.
C. Cuvlits, l'ommissaire Beige ; M. Gustave Doerstling and
Dr. Nt. S. ylfarth, L1..11., Royal Saxon Commissioners ; M.
Schiennimer and M. C. Ilranil,Commissaires du Gouverne-
=mit Wortemberg ; M. Roessler, Commissaire pour he
Grand Melo, do Dere; Chevalier Li:twist', Cummissaire
Datreonlinuire de ha Sardaigne ; Professor l'h. Corriili,
Commissaire du Gouvernement Torun Profiwsor Dr.
Bailey. C mioaire de lu ConVaration Suisse ;M. P.
(Rapt. Commis...lire de firke; Ilamila Elmeaddcm, l'ro-
Cominissaire tie Tunis ; and Mows Santillana, Interprke
Su l'ionmissaire Tunisien ; and M. L. l'iglhein, Commit-
Balm de Ilambourg.
The Prince of Wales, the Triflers' Royal, and the
younger nivaihers of the Royal Family, took their usual
pony anil walking exercise yesterday in thy gardens of
Buckingham l'idsuo.
Prince Albert. attended by Lieut.-Col. lion. A. Gordon,
rode out on horseback yesterday morning.
'Phe rtsval dinner party yesterday at Buckingham Palace
ineludedihe Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Constance
krelll/11 Goner, the Earl mid Counter of Mulgrave, Vis-
count and iwountess Palmerston, Lord Ileyteshury, and
Scar-Admiral Bowles.

A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Corn- I
=1%40D for the Exhibition of 1811, was held yesterday ut
the Hoard of Trade. There were present: Earl Granville,
Lord Overstone, Sir A Spearman. Ban., Mr. l'eto, :SI.P.,
Kr. Cuba', Col. Rend and Mr. Itowring (secretary).
Mr. John W9od, Chairman of the Board of Inland Re-
venue. :Intl Mr. 'Fount, had an interview yesterday with
the Commissioners of Railways, at the office of the Board
of Trade.
Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs, had
an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Transatlantic Packet Station Commission had •
meeting yesterday at the Board of Trade. Present :—Earl
Granville (chairman), lion. W. Cowper, M .1' ~ Sir James
Gordon, K.C.11., Sir John F. Burgoyne, K.C.8., Captain
Stephen.on Ellerhy, and Lord Hobart (secretary).
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Re-
venue, and Mr. Pressly, had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday.
Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Colonial-
office to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and also
K the Governor of Sierra Leone.

Tne yew CLIPPER Snirene,

dm beautiful vessel arrived in the Mersey from Aber-
deen, wherein was built. She is intended for the China
trade, and dumb of comparatively small tonnage, lIIP2MIT-
Iag only 4Nf. m she forms a splendid contrast with the
AlllefiCSl2 built ship the Typhoon, lately arrived in Liver-
owl. On her arrival opposite th., landing stage, the
ebryeolite dropped anchor, and attracted the admiration of
crowds of spectators by the beauty of her form, and her
Mayans and man-of-war like appearance. She is ship-
Tigged, her tall and tapering spars slightly raking aft. and
to altogether a superior specimen of the skill of the Aberdeen
ehrtimddere.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 15.

BISHOP Pittu.rorrs has again this year, as he did
last, disturbed the repcse and humiliation of Passion
Week by a monster letter of discord, addressed to

his clergy.
lie therein denies the royal supremacy in matters
ecclesiastical, as held and accepted by all our great
jurists and worthiest divines; therein he practically
repudiates the statute of Kiug WILLIAM that abo-
lished the Court of Delegates and tiunderreil its ap-
pellate functions to the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council; therein he announces his intention of
refusing institution to benefices in the see of Exeter
of all clergymen holding opinions similar to those of
Mr. Goanam, on baptism, though the law of the
land has decided that they are entitled to such
institution ; therein he charges against the
Primate of the church of England the deliberate
and wilful inculcation of doctrines that are heretical;
therein lie declares " popular protestantism" to be
" far more pernicious than Romanism itself ;" therein
he censures the efforts (feeble enough, it must be
confessed) of the episcopal bench to bring about
ritual conformity, and so cloak and conceal doctrinal
diversity ; and, as if all this were not outrage enough
on the law, the religion, and the peace of the realm,
therein he states his determination to hold a synod
of his clergy, therein he summons such synod to
meet in the cathedral church of Exeter, therein he
lays down rules for the election of clergy to
constitute the synod, and therein he proclaims
thut no definite resolution of such synod can

be adopted without his episcopal coneurreiite.
Such is the preparation of this unruly, ambitious,
and intolerant prelate for the celebration of Easter,
MM. At the very time the QUEEN has recom-
mended to the Episcopate of the English church,
that it shall allay dissensions and (-impose strife
therein, the Bishop of MEIER declares that he will
violate the law of the land, make his cfniscienee over-
ride the judgment of the ultimate Court of Appeal
in ecclesiastical affairs, and will exercise an authority
unknown at any time of our history to the Bishops of
the church of Englatil This announcement brings
natters to a crisis between the Crown of England
and Dr. l'ufm.rous. For, if he can, of his episcopal
authority, and by a power in his episcopal character
of which the constitutions of this kingdom contain
no trace, cull together a synod of his clergy, then
it is obvious that there is an ecclesiastical power
in the church of England above the laws of the
land—then it is clear that the QUEEN is not, in ordi-

nary acceptation of jurists and in natural signification
of the words, the head of the church of England.
Then it is must certain that the bishops and clergy
of that church have au authority and possess a
jurisdiction practically irresponsible.
The principle that runs through and directs and
governs Bishop l'im.i.rorr's letter to his clergy, and
this propcsation to hold a synod, is simply rebellion
--rebellion clothed in antiquarian research, and
draped in pretensions of ecclesiastical freedom; but
nut the less rebellious in principle because advanced
in the narue of religion, and on behalf of what is
called the liberty of the church. The royal prero-
gative over the church of Englund—the supremacy
of the sovereigns of this realm in affairs ceelesian-
tical—is, rightly and properly and philosophically
considered, one of the must precious inheritances
of the people of England, and will continue so as
lung us they have a state church. It is with such
a church their bulwark and mainstay against
the spirit of priestcraft, the intolerance of church-
men, and the supernatural pretensions of ecclesias-
tical organization. It was founded, or rather it
grew, and was consolidated, to resist and keep
within bounds those monstrous claims over the
minds, the intellect, and the consciences of men,
which have characterised priestcraft in all ages; it
was re-asserted and made more predominant than
ever at the Reformation in this kingdom, in order
the more effectually to guard and protect the com-
munity in all times to come from the tyranny, am-
bition, and error then overthrown ; it was then
especially developed, for the purpose of re-
straining episcopal ambition and synodical autho-
rity; it slumbered as an unmeaning phrase whilst
the church of England was humble and obedient;
but now that pride and haughtiness and priesteraft
have again entered into that church, the Royal MI..
premavy is once more a great and a living popular
symbol—the formula and expression of religious
hberty—the outward and visible sign of freedom of
conscience and the exercise of individual thought—
the T of all that " popular protestantism "
which, in the opinion of Bishop Puttcrorrs, "is fur
more prejudicial than Itomanion," because it liberates
us from priestly pretensions, whilst Romanism en-
slaves us to church domination. It is in this sense
that the Royal supremacy has been accepted by all
our great authorities. Listen, for example, to the
raiiwiale given of it by Sir MtenaEt. Fosrea, in the
inestimable criticism to which, at the suggestion of
Lord Chancellor llattnmess, he subjected the pre-
sumptuous learning and the sacerdotal pretensions of
Bishop GIBSON'S " Codex :"
I may venture to affirm, that the divine right appropriated
to eceleseutics is the cursed rout of bitterness whence the
papal supremacy sprung. And if a principle of the right of
jurisdiction anderned from the civil magistrate doth not
always lead to the popery of the Church of Rome, it leads
to a state of things equally mischievous and more absurd-1
mean a popery at our own doors. Our ancestors at and
about the Relormation bad this notion of the matter ; and
therefore they did not content themselves with barely abol-
Wang the usurped power of the Bishop of Rome ; but went
to the rout of the evil, and declared that all jurisdiction, as
well ecclesiastical as civil, is vested in and delegated from
the Crown.
This supremacy, like all other prerogatives of the
English crown, is, of course, limited by law; it does
not pretend of its own mere force and notion to
ail or alter the articles of the church, to vary its
services, or to settle dogmatically controversies; its
design and object is to preserve what has been ar-
ranged, to maintain order, to protect existing rights,
and to repel ecclesiastical aggressions. Though ap-
parently rarely exercised, it is nevertheless m con-
stunt operation ; for it is a perpetual restraint on the
deliberations of the clergy. It is expressly laid
down, in the " Royal Declaration" prefixed to the
"Articles of Religion," that convocation itself has
no authority to deliberate, except on the license of
the crown under the broad seal previously obtained,
and that subscription to the articles is to be accepted
as proof " that none intend any desertion of the
articles aforesaid." If then the highest assembly of
the clergy cannot deliberate without the royal
licence, how much less can any inferior assembly
have the power to do so? If the. primates cannot
call the convocations of their provinces together for
the purpose of deliberating, by what authority can
Dr. PititLeurrs call an assembly of the clergy of his
diocese? Mark, too, the purpose for which 'he has
summoned a synod. It is to supersede, annul, and
render void the other great principle just mentioned;
it is to reject subscription of the articles as evidence
of ecclesiastical devotion to the church; it is to im-
port into the church the doctrine that the will and
whim and caprice of each bishop is to supersede such
subscription ; it is to nullify the royal declaration
that subscription is a proof "that uone intend deser-
tion of the articles aforesaid;" and so to place the
clergy of the kingdom at the mercy of its episcopacy.
All other parts of this letter, all its other offences,
all the bishops intemperate language, his remorse-
less slanders of Archbishop SunsEa, his vile impu-
tations against that venerated prelate, his coarser
invective against Archbishop Mesos.ave, his crafty
patronage of Bishop. Btomristu, his insolent repudi-
Mims of protestantism, his wily defence of excessive
ritualism, his preposterous—though, for his own pur-
poses, his logical—claim for the church of England
of all the forms and usages of the church before the
Reformation, not then specifically condemned and
purged away—all these, each scandal enough to bear
down any other prelate, !sink into insignifi-
cance compared with the audacity of his summons
Ito his clergy to meet him in synod without the