The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-31 00:00:00

" TO TER REV. DR. RAMPORN, REGIUS PROFESSOR OF

By • papers -
15th inst. The following, containing the latest news
from Washington, is from a Boston paper of the 16th :
Congrees news is meagre. The Senate yesterday, after
fiWngtho standing committees, adjourned. In the house,
Rev. Mr. Gurley wo, chosen chaplain. C lonel Monroe, of
New York, present d a petition, asking for his seat as •
representative, ill: held, as he contends, by Mr. Jack-
son, of this city. Communications were received from the
Treasure department, on commerce and navigatim, on the
is of 'Treasury note:, &c.
The bill for the relief of Paul Jones's heirs was referred to
the committee on claims. Mr. Webster, of Massachusetts,
is the son ate only, is on the committee oa foreian relations,
sad Mr. Davis on the committees on patents and territories.
Communication with the south, by telegraph, is interrupted.
New YORK, Dic. 15.—1 n the house of representatives in
Washington, the following gentlemen were appointed chair.
men of committees, in addition to those which hoe:: been an.
warmed :—Claims : Rockwell, Connecticut. Commerce:
Runt, New York. Public Lands : Collamer, Vernsamt.
Post Roads: Coggin, Virginia. Revolutionary Claim.:
King, Massachusetts. Public Expenditures: Cli
North Carolina. Private Land Claims: Gavle, Alle
Agriculture: White, New York. Indian Affairs:
Georgia. Territories: Smith, Indiana. Revolutionary
Pensions. Cocks, Tennessee. Roads and Canals: Schenck,
Ohio. Patent*: Ferrelly, Pennsylvania.
We annex the last news from Mexico :
A recent number of the Matamoros Flag reports that
the Mexican General Pilisola was at San Luis Potosi
with an army of 9,000 men, ready to march sips
Saltillo. as soon as he should learn of the return home
General Taylor.
General Wool, at the last advice', was at the Walnut
William Von Eichtel, editor of the Schnell Post, died
here this morning.
The latest from New Orleans announces the ar-
rival of tLe British mail-steamer Teviot. General
Taylor had left in the steamer Missouri, en route to
his plantation at Baton Ronge. He would peas a
few days in quiet with his family, and then visit his
country seat in Mississippi,7so that, if needed in
Mexico, he can return immediately.
The following oonnmercial news is front the New
York Enquirer of the 16 :
The demand, by tbeGmennient,for war purposes, upon the capital
orthecount,Y, teacher wits the large investments making in the
einem and middle stair is railways— may retard, somewhat. re-
enoption by the eellhimaelmg misled beWties
"KU othervisen=rlllllMalarld 48111111/011•Islisarirsble
conemernauon—lng us he,, nate esaYmm tYt neasaption will
take place.

Perel.73.Eichange a old at Welt web% sea bow ere very heddless
ate* arm Good bolls may be Wet le—bet Or gerearg vele ire
fame% Ignaturea of be day bins s. Imam b It'. Or Poir
quota. wry be put at from 313 to 1111 e.
71le Ildiernia will take out it le reared. ben Welt le 1014004
drier le We. Oink errerelgue ofd regebile leder ere now
only lobe Ariel rib delbelty. Of Ode smeeet ase .e_nt
bur Omit. Tr aree• by the
gee nit et breptler 1•.•
year Me greedy seer. Or et ray geed= and
reed le the =mower at emegy MOM* le
three-quaint,.
darb ll* eta kerb gar le aro urgently nem.
nested et Weer Yort, wprat et ebb b lbe Weir amooot of relb
ressived, to the end fee ale edam we American rieriMey
mg be icildated. 1•1181111111Mil&I Win undoubtedly gee•
web; aed se, le dr Norm of tir re lace web MO&
arse Or • tottbarlaperbiloa of ear kers le telena. be
rem dr bruits& *be rat horn lima eggemer br ro*
mew
m budge pia bille American cotweil leinereerd b
ete we..

lie ree--1-1 war tables MIS iambi ese that ibejmort ot waft
Whet bleb Meld be nob retertberty the Moabite la MP.
beam !alba& awl es bide et ides the lest Me
vela wIl Ile tam' le be
thstegiiiia= ~se. ballarsts
tre etteliestagaifad, lathe waft 'lmam bestrzleadat WY
alVelialeat Weal mei bemobeee alverad vary mebrblly
It Odom dolma the IN weiltore obeli apat a swab mare
bud me:SW dmigt be reseabierr deb as
We hem tbe veistals et Se het In we* le *ow law
arab ot the elle bet la dr Mabel betalag beak at the
Camas
taupe mum led Gman*
toed et tall see bad
sealhene es Yew freight* sad
Forte, to dm
Mir Os bleheetinellie puha Set am be abided, we prawns
the imelph bombe* will lemma air Imbid tear.
=alter ear molt be Or tamed. be let Instant, Weis
nervy Italia eent. pm 111. la Mb motet, bat they Mee
Ilan nulled ter gambit ars elpt., and ere row lb= at one quarter
oft street same the rates of be Mb alt.
Ito pertleat astbrete ot the arep to be klled,ooo bake.
Nor MIX, DECRY.= 16. Mosta Nauss.
ire bed a blest Lb day, sad win be slab mere awe cd emote-
oalhitt, tad la betTrtee: Nobeletaibt US i Noslntlq kw, Par l
tae am
71d.
.--There be • a sew Wise Wag le Se sierhet br
SS. lbw der, rid bb motet seellietit i amt. par b. teller.
lON,' attend oar gosh:boas kw mob aleartillbe lOW
71st Illtrattooe of the hat three days t—
.%trair.o.
WM Ida Mad amble.
kfrhor
Ordinary to good imilcary
tyre! Ile
libldling to 'cad middling .
67 II ...... 5 1111
Itinira to Ad kb ti to Si We.
the Naas.

„1:111 export*, he. of aottcro Loco the aret of emu 1611
.100. t Ire i• folloWe
Total h. 2'27 KO To G. 8.115,000 bolts 371,1WItedell MAO
Yollear .. 340.000 50 non 4111•11 ISLAM

=marry, tee, &c.
" We, the undersigned, heads of houses is the Culver-
sit, of Oxford, have seen with great concern the reports of
proceediogs in various parts of the country upon your pro-
posed appointment to the see of Hereford, tending to injure
your reputation, impede your future usefulness, and even
create a general distrust of the soundness of your faith is
our blessed LORD. Under such circumstances, although
eri=l declare the sentiments which many of us have ex-
before, and particularly upon the enactment is
rfrar‘t ' concerning theological instruction,
`at having for several years
learning the tenor of your
• discourses from the pulpit
r satisfied that your reli-
nrwerd with mdisee to
.1 gospel of Christ in its
'adh am, and Vice-Chancellor.
t of Oriel.
Trinity.
. of St. John's.
rvait Lincoln.
"Harrel FOULKES, Principal of Je•us College.
" THOMAS BAMFORD, Dean of Christ Church.
"Jous DAVID MACBILIDS, Principal of Magdalen Hall.
"DAVID WILLIAMS, Warden of New College.
FIIRDERICK CHABLIS PLC Minn'', Master ef Univ. Coll.
" HENKT WaLLaeLsr, Principal of New Inn Hall.
"R. BULLOCK 14 ARSEAM, Warden of Merton.
" WILLIAM Timm/note, Principe' of Bt. Edmund Hall.
" Jamas NORRIS, President of C.C.C.
"lassos Jausa, Master of Pembroke."

THE BISHOP OF OXFORD AND DR. HAMPDEN.
Biahop Wilberforce has addressed the following
letter to Dr. Hampden:
" Cuddeaden Palace, Dee. 28.
"Reverend and dear Sir,—What has passed recently be-
tween us obliges me to mark in some detail the steps by
which I have reached the conclusion which I desire to lay
before you. And since, under the advice of your legal diree•
tors, you are led to decline all direct communication on the
subject, I am further compelled to address you thus publicly.
" You are aware that when your nomination to the see of
Hereford was first announced by common rumour, I thought
it my painful duty to represent to the head of Her Majesty's
Government the inconvenience which in my judgment would
arise from the completion of the rumoured appointment.
This representation was grounded on the censure of the
University of Oxford, and on the wide prevalence of
• strong opinion of the unsoundness of some of your
published writings. It did not assume the justice
of this opinion. My desire— and that, I believe, of
others—was, that an opportunity should be afforded you of
publicly refuting these charges before your nomination to the
office of a Bishop. The representation, however, produced no
such effect, and the apprehension and alarm which had been
foreseen by those who signed ft were speedily displayed. As
one of their consequences, addresses numerously signed were
presented by the clergy and laity to the Archbishop and
Bishops, praying that all legal steps might be taken to pre-
vent:your consecration until the matters alleged against you
bad been brought to solemn decision. But in my own case
more was done. As rector of the revou of Ewelme, in this
diouss, you were prod under my jurisdiction. This, it was
thought, afforded= opportunity for obtaining an adjudication
on the queers weir the provisions of the Clergy Discipline
Bill. wee asserdingly addressed by several of my
clergy** the most that I would employ this machinery
to Orr such a trial by sending a charge against the sound-
ness ife(your tesekkig to the Court of Arches. I at once
dedilasi .0 promote such a suit. I was then requested—by
perky 's*" UN needful ministerial set of granting the
lettere of request to them—to allow other parties to pro-
mote owe • snit. Such an inquiry I did not think it right
to peered by the interposition of • mare official veto. I
algsaigravordiogly the necessary document, informing you,
i• • Weer dated December 16, that I had done so.
a At this stage of the business it was suggested to me by
the renders that, the matter being now in legal train, it
was parible you might be willing to render to coy private
suggestion as bishop of the diocese the satisfaction which
would otherwise be sought by a more painful process
through the Court of Arches. I gladly adopted the sug-
, goation, and desiring the promoters to suspend all further
bpi action till I had communicated with you, I wrote to
you a second letter, in which I first stated, in detail, the
points of doctrine which it was alleged in the ' Articles' laid
before me your writings had impugned, and asked you
whether you would affirm your full belief in them. And,
secondly, I asked, whether you would be willing to withdraw
the Wheervationeen Dinent," and the Bampton Lectures;
sot r admitting their language to be unsound, but for the
=of the church, and because, in my judgment, as your
, and in that of others, they did contain unsound lan-
guage. Had you felt at liberty to reply fully to my gou-
ges* and to consent to my suggestion, you would have given
tall satisfaction as well to the promoters of the suit as to me.
" In your letter dated December 18, giving full credit to
the motives which led me to address you, you answer my
first question thus In perfect respect to you as bishop
at the diocese, and for your personal satiaLetion, I un-
hesitatingly reply in the affirmative. I say' Yea' to all
your queues on my belief in that sense in which they are
the plain natural sense of the statements of our articles and
formularies.' So far your answer was of course entirely
satisfactory. To my request you gave no answer ; and this
silence I understood as tantamount to a refusal to withdraw
the works in question; sad satisfactory as I thought that
your declaration of personal faith ought to be to all, I
deemed it to be impossible for me to require the promoters
of the snit to relinquish it while than remained unwithdrawn
and unexplained language which appeared to me so danger-
ow es that which was contained, more especially, in your
,ObeervatMns on Dissent' (first edition), which was then on
sale in Oxford. I therefore wrote to you to say, that as
the language which Deemed to me unsound was not to be
withdrawn, I could not require the promoters to abandon
their suit.
" But immediately after writing thus I learned from a
letter of yours to a common friend, that it was with ' no
sanction of yours, and, indeed, against your wish, that any
=of the first edition of the' Observations on Religious
t' were now sold ; and that even of the second edition

secondly,
proceed ...aid imply
a far more direct judicial assent upon my part to its
fitness than I bad given in first signing the letters of
request, for since I had performed that act my position had
undergone an entire alteration. I thought at first that the
church bad a right to some assurance of the soundness of
your doctrines before your consecration as a bishop • and
when no other way of obtaining that satisfaction appeared to
be open, I did not even shrink, at the request of my clergy,
from relegating the question to the decision of the Court of
Arches. Since, at the suggestion of the promoters, and by
your consenting to reply to my quuijudicial questions, I had
been led myself, as bishop of the diocese, to assume the office
of a judge in the cause ; I could, therefore, no longer act
merely ministerially in issuing letters of request ; both
parties had, to a great extent, committed the matter to my
judgment; and now, unless I was satisfied that there
was matter fora criminal suit, I could not think myself just'.
fled in sending an accusation against you to be tried in the
Arches' Court. Whether there was such matter could be
determined by me only after a careful study of the works in
question, with all your explanations in my mind. Regarding,
then, the ' Observations on Dissent' as virtually withdrawn,
I accordingly applied myself to a thorough and impartial
examination of the Hampton Lectures-' I have now care-
fully studied them throughout, with the aid of those expla-
nations of their meaning which you have furnished, both
publicly since their first putdication, and now in your
private communications. The result of this exami-
nation I am hound plainly to declare is my own ma-
victim& that they do not justly warrant those suspicious of
unsoundness to which they have given rise, and which, so
long sa I trusted to selected extracts, I myself shared. Foe
these suspicions of your meaning, and for the consequent
distrust of the university, I must with equal frankness my
that I discern the cause (whilst your works remained thus
unexplained, and the minds of men unaesured by your
toll profess km of the faith) in what appears to me a not un-
frequent oversatement of favourite views, and mush ob-
scurity of diction, resulting often from the arbitrary ma of
such words as ' facts,' doctrines," proved,' deftem4'
&c. ; and hence I believe it happened that men of
various parties in the church concurred not unnaturally in
the expression of a painful distrust of your meaning. But
allowing for these as the blemishes of what was I believe •
necessarily hasty composition, and taking into account, as I
now can, your various explanations and assurances, I find
in the lectures little which will not admit of a favourable
construction. And if at times I long for the manifestation
of • more evidently reverential spirit in the discussion of the
highest mysteries of our faith, I yet read in them a thought-
ful and able history of the formation of dogmatic tar-
minology, not a studied depreciation of authorised dog-
matic language, still less any conscious denial of admitted
desensairennitl-1 me in. Mums, in fast, ss far, i
than what bas been already expressed in the wordsiVriater, ^
believe, considered liable to censure) of one of the ablest of
your opponents in 1834, who says, 'lf I avow my belief that
freedom from symbols and articles is abstractedly the highest
state of church communion and the peculi,r knowledge of the
primitive church, it is . . first, because technicality and
formality are, in their degree, inevitable results of public con-
fessions of faith." Aod again, ' Her rulers were loath to
confess that the church had, grown too old to enjoy the free
unsuspicious teaching with which her childhood was blest;
and that her disciples must for the future calculate and rea-
son before they cted '—lrieremon'a Arians, pp. 41, 42,
"H sing reached, then, this conclusion through that dose
study of your work and explanations which the dna dis-
charge of the office of a judge required from me, I drams It
my duty not only to be satisfied with the assurance I
of your future revision of the work, and to withdraw
therefore the letters of request, but also, with whatever
force my pr sinus desire of explanation and my position
as bishop of this diocese may give to my words, to en-
treat those who have given utterance to their natural alarm
at your appointment to weigh well the expression of my
deliberate opinion, that you have given such explanations of
what you personally believe on the points of suspicion, and
what you intend as your meaning, as may well suffice to
quiet all just alarm at your consecration to the office of a
bishop.—l am, my dear Sir, very faithfully your,
" 8. Oxon.
" To the Rev. R. D. Hampden."

; Lieut. It. Warberion, to be isapt., by per., vies Wt?
Rea. M. F. M. Herbert, to be lieut., by par., vide Warburton; 1 M.
Hall, gent, to be em., by pur., vice Herbert.
Nth F.—Ens. P. W. Gillum, to be heat., by par., vine Redmond,
who ref; E. T. Shiffner, gent., to be ens., by par. vice Gillum.
55th F.—Capt. C. C. F. Henry, from 48th F., to be eget., vice Oran-
Title, who sic.
53th P.—Etna L.l. Thompson, to be lieut., without par., vice Ha.
mono dee.; Oent.-Cadet S. Ilaeliet, from the EL Mll. Col., to be Rm.,
vim Thompson.
66th F.—Brea.-071. Sir B. Burdett, Hart,, from h.p. IMO', to be
lietit—coL, vies Lord W. Paulet, who eta ; Major B. WA...eh to be
Ileut..coL, by par. vice Sir E. Burdett, who re-; Bien.-Myerß L.
Phipps, to be majc:e, be par., vice Huey; Lieut. H. H. Greer, to be
apt., by pur., vice Phipps; Ens. F. S. Savage, to be lieut., by par.,
vies Greer ; T. H. L H. Phipps, gent., to bean., by per., vice Savage.
73rd F.—Ens. C. Harioon, to be h. at., by par., vice Hall, who re-
tires; R. M. Peard, gent., to es res., by pur., vice Harlem.
79th F.—Ens. W. C. Cunlnghame, to be item, by par vies H. A.
Murray, who retiree; A. Hill, Feat, Lobe env., by pur., vire Curing-
hewn
frlnd F.—Lient 0. Werrender, to be capt, by par., vice Stewart,
who retires; Rae. J. Cunningham, to to lieut., by pur., vice War.
render ; 0. H. Remy, gent., to be ens., by put., vice LLmingham.
94th F.—Lieut. D. H. Blair, from 26th F., to be lieut., vice Beam,
who euhanges.
e 1
96th P.—Lieut. O. F. C. Bray, from 66th F., to lieut., vise Bar-
lee aste
mWeek India Beg.—Lieut C. W. Grange, to be amt., by par.,
vise Dickson, woo ret.; Ens. H. B. Searle, to be that., nos Orange.
UXAMCWBD.—MII.IO7 R. Cole, from 49th F., to be Lieut col., by
par. • Brev..Major P. M•liie, from 3rd F , to major, without pur.
HOUTTAL Bran.—Asolst..Surg. B. Agar, from 43rd F., to be as-
obt—serg. to the forces, rice Stewart, app. to4let F.
Barrea--Capt. E. Kingsley of the 3rd F., to be major In the army;
Major E. Kingsley, of the 3rd P., to be lieat-coi. in the army.
MAKONANotat.—The commission of Lieut. W. G. %Slier, of 53rd P..
hes beendated 14th Sept., 1047, Instead of sth July, 111111. Lent.-Col.
L.A. O' has been allowed to retire from the army, by the sale
den Reilly
od commission, he being about to settle at the Cape ce
Good Hops,
ADMIRALTY, Doc. 21.
Corps et Royal Mintnes.--BecondLient C. J. Ellis, to be fret tient,
vice 8. B. Min des.; Inwril Lieut. W. 8. Davis. to be Ant lieut.
ADMIRALTY, Dec. 27.
Corps et legal IMithns..-014. Second-Com. J. M'Callum, to be wh-
am. also S. & 3 s Are; Lleut..Col. W. Powell, to be eoL-second
ass, else REollhen, pram ; Bre...Major G. B. Bury, to be limit-
ed., vies Powell, pram.; First Lieut. and Adj. J. 0. Travers, to be
dept., vice Bury, prom.; Second Lieut. IL C. Doraville, to be Bret
Rout., vies Travers, prom.
ADMIRALTY, Dee. V.
The following promotions have this day taken glom meantime
upon tbe death of Adm. Sir O. Parka, K.C.B.:—Aist. dile White
Hon. Sir J. Talbot, 0.C.8., to be sib& of the red; Admit the Lug
Sir W. H. Gage, G.C.H., to be ad m. of the while; !Mudd. of the
Red G. Parker, to be idea. of the We; V es. Ada dlea White Sir
T. Briggs, G.C.M.0., te be vlee-ein. et lie eel; Vlswasam. at the
Blue B. M. need, to le Meeein. ef the whilst Desr.Aesis. ef Oa
Red H. Gordan, to be Aswan. stlhe Uri Ssam-adss. et Yr WM*
C. P.S. Bateman, to be nerade. d/be red; Ilisabbiza. at Ur Mr
Sir T. Umber, (1.13., K C.H., la be reez-nlwel the white; Capt. K.
H. Dixon, to be rear.adin. albs Iles.
IIANIKRItIrIfICO2IIIID.
EDMOWD Hitnittr Anson' and liaxay NOTrinOnAte,
cildennanlnuy, City, shawl warehousemen ; 11th December.

BANKRUPTS.
JOSEPH WINDLI Cote, Great Wiacheeter-street, City,
merchant.
EzRA JANIS COATES and JOHN HILLARD, Bread-street,
Cheapside, merchants.
RicUARD POPE and JOHN BUCKINGHAM Para, Adel-
aide-place. London-bridge, brick manufacturers.
JANSTIE HARRIETTE TWBRDIE, Wandsworth, book-
seller.
WILLIAM HOOLR and JOHN LOCILTRE, St. James's
walk, Clerkanwell, wire merchants.
CHABLIS WILSON MACBRTDE, Watling-street, City,
wine merchant.
JoBN OATES, ;MOH COATES, ROBERT THOMAS BART-
LETT, and GEoßoa Bee', Watling-street, warehousemen.
JAMES CLARK and EDWARD GOSLIN, Northend, Ful-
ham, realtaters.
CHARLES STUART, Herbert-street, New North-road,
wholesale milliner.
THOMAS DENNIS, Woolwich, builder.
WILLIAM ScTrots, Stockport, cotton waste dealer.
BRNIAMIN RICKARDS, Chard, Somersetshire, twine

THOMAS Stocco, Tormoham, Devonshire baker.
GROROB EDWARDS, Drayton In Hales, Shropshire, inn-
keeper.
WALTER BLuca, Leominster, Herefordshire, grocer,
Jong HALL, Coventry, ribbon manufacturer.
ROBERZ KILYINSTER Scaivax, Breckthrop, Gloucester-
shire, baker.
JAMES LAW, Birkenhead, bookseller.
JOHN GEORGE WHITE, Egremont, Cheshire, shipbroker.
ROBRRT NIOHTINOALE, Bury, Lancashire, brewer.
JOHN SMITH MALINO, Scarborough, joiner.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
WILLIAM ROBS, Glasgow, merchant.
Jong Warr, Riga, Olausford, Lanarkshire, farmer.
JOHN ENGLAND HUNTER, Glasgow, merchant.
ALEXANDER HENDR/LBON and JOHN Rosa, Aberdeen,
ironmongers.
CHARLES CAIRD, Parkaook of Arbutbnott, KiECE/diOl-
shire, mason.
Liana ALtsog, Glasgow,
ROBERT HUNTS A, Edinbt

nosier.
candle

BANK OF ENGLAND.:

--
IMOD DIPI
Noses Ismsd as,on,oys

tu,soe.ote

-do-vornmenit Smoothie.
Ihmoid. Dead Weight
Other lhouritiet
hold and 811• et Chia

CST for the Week MUSS Dec
iirilN T.
Government Debt El.. 100
Other Sem.DIN . 2,984,900
Gold Coln sod Bullion 10163.31
Dree Nation 1,340,344

PA {TWIN?.

Baitl"6"s. ct°i'll •
3,618,678
liepOol6liai:
Embee Bay. Realm
Doss I. of imbue!
Dertd DM. kola) 9.235078
Othe Docents . 8,241203
Beyou-dnyand other BllL 807,1981
136.4.17.9.511
1:10.467.8it I
M. MAE/MALL. Chtef fleshier.
SUGAR. —The Average Price of Seger the predate of the
British Pcoscesions in emetics, computed from the return slide In
the week ending the UM day of December, 1047, is Ito. 04d. par out.
Boger the produm of the Mauritius to 72
s. !old. per wt. %gm the
duem of the Bast Indies is 20a. lid. per cwt. The avenge pries
ke three foregoing descriptime, Joildby, is 21s. 7d. per owt.

Dec. O. 1847.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. 1
842 of thestatule coneernic
we demire to wore you, that 1
THIS DAY, Ayr o'cl.t. ;:iticed an
teacgle.,7= your
are net out,
=/mmth7r
6.-9111111111111111111e*:"^".""'"` - eitatrirms Ist we bat i
#"ami
your endeavours to preach the
The Britannia,Capt. Harrison, arrived at Liverpool laterite'.
,terday evening. She lett Boston on the usual day, "B• P.Sraoss,Wardea of Wad
bat did not leave Halifax till the 19th. She has on 4, EDWAILDHLIMINB, PH/VIAL
freight 52,000/. in specie. " James Itmeitox, President of
" PHILIP WYN'TtII President o
By the Britannia we have New York papers to the ~ JOHN 0 ..ADPOHD Rector of Lii