The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-10 00:00:00

bt Court.
WINDSOR, SUNDAT.—The Duchess of Kent arrived
hem Pronmomhoese at the Castle yesterday afternoon, and
visited her Majesty and Prince Albert.
Lord J. Russell left the Castle yesterday afternoon
ix his residence in Richmond Park.
The ladies and gentlemen of the court and the
demestie household attended divine write this morning
is the privote chiral of the Castle.
The Duke of Cambridge attended a meeting of the
travoiss of the Bride)). Museum on Saturday.
At the Chapel Royal, St. James's yesterday, the
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Lord and Lady Ebnagton,
Lords Sandwich and Canterbury were among the nobility
present.
MS APPOINTMENT IN PRINCE ALBERT'S ESTA.
internee:VT.—Respecting the appointment in Prince Albert's
household. alluded to on Saturday, we have been assured
that our Windeor oorrespondent was in error, and that Dr.
Meyer has been appointed librarian, and not domestic phy-
sician to his Royal Highness.
HUTS OP REAR-ADMIRAL SIR THOMAS USSIIER,
Y.C.H —The demise of tills distinguished officer, min-
amedevin-ebief of the Irish station, took place at the
Admiralty-hose, Cove, on Thursday. He had attained the
sge of nearly 70.

CONFIRMATION OF THE
ES BISHOP OF
MANCHER.
OPPOSITION TO TILE PROCEEDING&
The ceremony of confirming the election of the new
Lord Bishop of tdanchester (the Rev.
thetaames Prince Lee,
M.A.) took place on Saturday, with ual formalities,
in St. James's Church, Piccadilly. The commis' &losers ap-
pointed by the Archbishop of York and various other offi-
cials arrived at the church a few minutes, before eleven
o'clock, where they were shortly afterwards joined by the
bishop elect, who was accompanied hy the Dean of Manche,.
ter, and attended by his chaplain, his proctor, Mr. R.
Townsend ; and Mr. Binder, the officiating secretary to the
Bishop of London. The commissioners present were, Dr.
Bherrard Beaumont Burnaby, vicar-general of the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury ; and Sir John Dodson, Knight,
master of the faculties—Dr. Addams and Dr. Twin attended
as advecates for the bishop elect. Mr. Francis Hart Dyke,
principal registrar in the province of Canterbury, and Mr.
Barber, the apparitor.general, were also present. The vari-
ous parties having msembled in the vestry,
The proctor for the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral
Church of Manchester (Mr. Townsend) addressed his lord-
ship as follows :—.. May it pleuee your lordship—l exhibit
my prosy (or the Rev. the Dean and Chapter of the Cathe-
dral Church of Manchester, and present to your lordship a
certificate of your being elected to be bishop and pastor of
the raid see ; and pray and once and again earnestly, request
and entreat that your lordship will be pleased to give your
consent to the said election." The lord bishop elect having
read the usual schedule of consent, and Maud his signature
to the same, the commissioners and other officers, with the
bishop elect, proceeded from the vestry into the body of the
church, where they took their seats in the pews immediately
seder the reading desk.
The church was unusually crowded for an occasion of thin
description, probably owing to a rumour that Mr. Gutteridge
—with whose appearance, a few weeks since, in the Court of
Queen's Synch u defendant in a rule for criminal informs.
Sion, applied for by the new bishop, our readers are familiar—
intended to present himself and protest azainst the intended
eanfirmation. This gentleman, as expected, was in attend-
ance, and excited no little observation. The senior church-
warden, Mr. W. Geed's, and other parochial officers, were
present, and here end there, as if in anticipation of a die
turbance, small knots of police constables might be ob-
served, evidently watching the proceedings with curious
interest.
The Rev. John Jackson, M.A., rector of the parish, read
the morning prayers, commencing, as usual on similar ma-
ons, with the Litany. At the conclasion of the service,
the Vicar General and the Master of Faculties, with
the other officer., left their seats and proceeded to the
plasm appointed for them in the centre aisle, where a
table with chairs had been arranged for their accom-
modation. Having taken their seats, the Registrar
read the license from the Archbishop of York for allowing
the proceedings of the confirmioion to take place within the
province of Canterbury.—The Registrar then read the cita-
tory letter from the Archbishop of York, appointing the fol-
lowing dignitaries commissioners for confirming the lord
bishop elect:—The Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Can-
terbury (Dr. Burnaby); the vicar-general of the Archbishop
of York (Mr. Granville Harcourt); the master of the facul-
ties (Sir John Dodson, Kt.) ; the official principal of the
Arches' Court of Canterbury (Sir Herbert Jenner Fast) ;
anti the Chancellor of the Diocese of London (the Right
Hon. Stephen Lushingtcn.) Of these five gentlemen, only
Sir John Dodson and Dr. Burnaby were present.
The letters patent haring been reed, and the vicar-general
having taken on himself the duty of confirming the bishcp
elect in behalf of the commissioners, the bishop elect, who
up to this perio I had remained seated in his pew, was here
conducted to the table, and requested to take his seat oppo-
site the vicar general.
The PROCTOR then, atandina by the ride of the bishop
elect, said : I present unto you the Rev. James Prince Lee,
elected Bishop and Pastor of the episcopal see of Manchester,
and do herejudicially produce his lordship, and as proctor far
the said dean and chapter do exhibit an original mandate,
together with a certificate thereupon endorsed, touching the
execution of the said mandate, against all and Morelia oppo-
ennobled do pray they may onpublicly Ladled.
The VICAR-GENERAL Let the opposers be publicly ,
called.
The APPARITOR-GENERAL then made his proclamation as
foliose . " Oyez ! oyez ! all ye who shall or may, or
will object to the cons. cration of the Rev. James Prince
Lee, as Lord Bishop of the ep scopal see of Manchester,
new come forward and state your objections, and you shall
be heard "
Mr. Games nee (who bad hitherto stood in the centre
aisle, at some distance from the commissioners' table) here
advanced, and in a firm voice, said : 1 am an opposer, and
object_ to these proceedings.
The MASTER of the FACULTIES, observing that Mr. Gut-
terridge stood outside a bar placed across the aisle, ordered it
to be removed, and called on the opposer to come forward.
Mr. Gutteridge having advanced to the table, and taken
,alt position immediately on the left of the lord bishop elect,
~ • The MASTER of the FACULTIES, addreme,g him, said—
What is your name ?
Mr. Orrrzatnos—Thomas Ootteridge.
The Mama of the FACULTIES—Where do you raids ?
Mr. GUTIERIDOE—In Cannon street, Birmingham.
The MASTER of the FACULTIES—Of what profession or
employment are yon?
Xr. Gurreamot —I am a surgeon.
itMamas of the FACULTIES—Do you object to the
ooh of the Lord Elected Bishop of Manchester?
. GUTTERIDOE—I do.
MASTER of the FACULTIES—Have you your objections
up in what purports to he due form of law ?
Mr. GUTTERIDOI-1 have.
The MASTER of the FACULTIES—By whom are they

taped a
Mr. oUTTERIDOR—B7 myself.
The Mairren of the 1. ace LTIEB—Let me see them.
• Mr. ClurrEalooa here rend the following protest:
1, Thomas Gutterldge, a member of the united church of England
and Ireland, do protest against the proceedings of this day for the
confirmation of the Rev. James Prince Lee, bishop elect of Man-
chester, on the ground that it is unlawful to proceed to such oortar-
motion elsewhere than in the province of York, and a.so on the
ground that due and soffhient nonce and publicity have not been
Spend such in.ended confirmation.—Tuowas Ourraarrios, member
of the Royal College of Surgeons, residing at No. If, Cannon-street,
Birmingham, Jan. 8, 1818.
The MASTER of the FACULTIES—We cannot entertain

your protest.
Mr. Gerraamoz—l object also to the confirmation of
Mr. Lee on the ground of his immoral conduct. Mr. Gut.
teridge hero placed on the table a document containing
'even articles, in which the charges be has previously urged
*phut Dr. Lee were repeated in detal
The MASTER of the FACULTIES, without noticing the
protest, here read from a written document as follows:
" We feel it to be our duty not to permit you to appear and
oppose the confirmation of the Lord elected Bishop of Man-
chester. We sit here as commissioners of his Grua the Lord
Aiebbishrip of York, for the express purpose of confirming
the election made by the Dean and Chapter of Manchester;
and we consider that we ere bound by law to proceed to the
confirmation, without committing or suffering any let or
hindrance thereto. The statute 25 Hen. VIII., c. 20, is im-
penttive upon this matter ; it leaves no choice. By the sth
section of that statute the archbishop, upon the election
being signified to him in letters patent from the crown,
is required and commanded to confirm the election, and to
invest and consecrate the person elected. By the 7th sec-
lion of the same statute, it is enacted, that if the archbishop,
after such election should be signified to him by totters
patent from the crown, shell refuse and do not con-
firm, invest, and consecrate every person so elected and
dignified within twenty days nest after such signification, or
if the archbishop or any other person admit, maintain,
alto tr, obey, do, or execute any censur a, excommunications,
interdictions or any other process sr act, of what nature,
name, or kin.l, soever it be to the contrary, or let, of due
execution of this act, then that the archbishop, and all other
persons so offending and doing contrary to this act, or any
part thereof, and their eiders, counsellors, and abettors, 'hall
run into the dangers, pains, and penalties of the statutes of
provision and promunire, made in the 25th of Edward 111.
and in the 16th of Richard IL We are not disposed to run
into those dangers, pains, and penalties, and we are resolved
neither ourselves to do, or to allow, so far as we can prevent
it, any act to he done by another which may be to the let or
hindrance of the confirmation of the Lord elected Bishop
of Manchester, or which may in any way contravene the
provisions of the statute, and especially as you have not put
your objection in due term of law.
Mr. tierreamoe said—ln the full belief that I am acting
in obedience to the law, I beg permissionto plate on the
table another instrument, containing the same charges varied i
in point of form, which I think it is desirable that I should
do, because of this case being a novel and peculiar one. Mr.
Gutteridge here placed on the table another document, de-
scribing the same charges in more technical phraseology, the
principal difference being, that the first article set forth—
" That by the eceletiastical laws and canons and ounstitu-
tions of the church of England all clerks and ministers in
holy orders are required to be erave, decent, reverent, and
orderly iu their general deportment and behaviour in every
respect, and to abstain from drunkenness and any other
excess whatsoever ; but that, on the contrary, they are
enjoined to excel all others in purity of life, and to be exam
plea to other people. And this was and is true, public, and
notorious, and so forth." And in the seventh, which was
se follows: "That all and singular the premises
were and are true, public, and notorious, and thereof there
was and is a public voice, fame, and report, and of which
wet proof being made, the party proponent prays you, the