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feared not for yourself, as being toe strong to heed it, why
countenance it by your own example in regard of otters
who wen weak ? why tend towards, and co operate with,
a system which wee likely to be so pernicious and so fatal
to their spiritual weber*? Aug lastly, say lord, why in
, the midst of all this (if It reed so) insidi.us tea tine,"
nu and superstition, " aro. " lea .ing o: the fl xk to
the verge of the precipice," why did you lend your court-
teaanoe and give your elms, not only to the u.aintenstre
and support of that system as then established at one
church, but also to the build' and establishment of an-
other, which you knew would be conducted on the very
souse principles ? Why, not only look on, and bear with, sad
take part In, such a prAine and wicked perv.,:sion if troth
as I must really have been guilty of, if your words an tr.se,
with a pawl?* or acquiescent perminior, but join publicly
and actively in its propagation and extension ? Either, my
lord, you and myself must have been wilfully and g roaly, anal
wickedly wrong for seven years, or we were right--aa only
micaken, or misunderstood. It the former, how awful
mint be cur ewe before the great living God at the great
day of judgment—taropering with holy t/inm, receiving of
his blamed Swami nts, joining in His holy ordinances, pre-
suming to stand before bins, and beck* holy name in
prayer—sod all the while imagining that we were doing no
more than a "mummery," and believing no more than a
" superstition." If the latter, why have you given up what
you once approved, or at least &rented to > Why have you
abandoned what you were content to practise 1 Why have
you denounced what you helped to advance and to icaease ?

But I must come to the next topic of your accusation,
which is seurewbet more important—lt retards auricular
eonfessien, remise:, and absolution. They ail go some-
what mote or lees together, and they form, I do acknowledge.
• very material feature thei organisation and discipline of
the church.
In explanation of this, and in deprecation of a premature
judgment of thines you could hardly well be supposed to
understand, I would ask your lordsbip Motley to turn to
your Prayer-bock, at the service for Ash Wednesday. I
remember that iu one of our more happy yeas' and when
I was not considered among the " insidious," that you were
at church at St. Paul's on an Ash Wednesday. It was Ash
Weeinesday, 1619.
My lord, I was always *seiner, most anxious, as *
pastor of Christ, set over you in the Lnen's eangregez icn set
wheats you were • member—l was always most anxious,
secretly within myself, for your spiritual welfare and cal.
vation. Taie cannot, I hope, be charged against me as nay
set- rept steel( glorification, or claming mere in my duties
than was required of me. Our duty is so very imperative,
to " watch for the souls" of the fleck committed to our
keeping. I elate the wee fact, that when I could not help
seeing you ae I del continually before me, subject to my
teaching, heat irg the elucidation of gospel truths, and
the church's authority from my m ,uth, and joining In
p rrrrr and sacraments from time to time—l state the mere
fact—thee a peculiar and awful sense of responsibility nor
felt to be kinked within. It seemed as if great thins.
might have been depending on the riglituess of my
ntuiting, end that the church, in her real beauty, and
magnificence, and truth, might be lost or not lost, by
I gems mistake err want of judgment on my pare
I knew your Umptatioes and dangers—l Mt ha
yes in the awful responsibilities cf your high office, al
the chief ruler of our country. I feared tor you, and I I
prayed ter you. I would never have tale this, as now I d
but :or the special and awful cries which his,
your principal insteumereality, been brought about. But
this now I will tell, known beton only to God, that fee
quently, very frequently, in the lone night, and when you
have been labouring In the House of Commons, I have bete
in the chuech where you worehipped, and by name (of
course with others of my fl tek according to their needs)
have invoked the Almighty God of nations that He would
vouchsafe to guide your policy for our couatry's welfare, aid
our church's blessing. Y. s, often have 1 swayed socciany
in your behalf—often have 1 specially sought of God that I
might have grace in preaching to win you to the de,p,i
I truths of our most holy faith. I say this now beceuse at
such • tins, it was—l mean in the year 1810—so Lem as Ash
Wedeesdey, 1849-1 had a note in my journal, thus:
" Lord and Lady John Russell at the Rely Comenueion
this deer. This looks wall. Oh that we could make
them love the church." I give you, my lord, the very
genuine simple words of my private journal such words of
lemma never expecting to ace the light. 'Bat the re tatty
I an, and I give them to you to show you how I felt them,
land how rejoiced I was, on such • day, at such a time, to
HS the testimony of your faith, your repentance, and your
love.
I have incurred, lam aware, much odium—l have lees, I
know, the affections and coufideace of many, by open.y
stating the church's doctrine and rule in this matter. It is
very unpopular to the protestant ear. There is loudly anp
thing so identified with Rome. Nevertheless wba: is truth
must be said and this consolation always 'Umbel to if,
namely, that one penitent in his repeatance and confession
saved from eth, is more to be valued in the sight of the hely
angels and saints of heaven and God himself, than 99 who
need, or think that they need, no repentance.
Mr. Beenett repudiates the royal supremacy except is •
"non-natural sense."
It 'suits your lordship, bccauto it is a popular outcry, to
sat the people on • ;aloe scent aeout 'Na popery,' in order
to streogthen your own secret schemes within, of teenaged-
ening the royal power in the things of the church. All the
bishoprics, dean. eeee mimetic', • great number of living',
• offices and placie In end about the church, are 'ours.
You are contending, therefore, for the continuance of your
own advantage, when you contrail for the coniinuanee (in
your sense ot it) of the Queen's supremacy. You are cote
tending fur the power of general liberty of opinioe—latitudi-
, suissism, freethiekiass scepticism, and the like. When
you contend for • 10111 i •••01114ip over the church, you are
contending for our own power to appoint • Dr.
11 empden to all the sees of Beldame and a Mr.
Gorham to all the parishes of England, that by so
doing you may, by the weakness of the clergy, and their
division, and their jealousies of each other, ride through the I
storm yoeeself triumphant. I leave It for your considerae
Lion, whether you really hove any lova for the trite, and
any desire to increase the strength of Christ's ebarch as such
when you speak of the royal supremacy, or whether it is only
from a net of etateeman's etiquette that power should always
be in his hands.
Suffer me to remind you, my lord, that in the English
church, RS by law establiebed, there are two distinct com-
ponent parts. There is not only a royal power as over
civil matters attaching to the church by accident, but there
is the sacerdotal power inbetent in tbe church by essence.
That is me:defuse, without the existence of which the
church would still exist, namely, the royal_ supremacy.
Teat is essential, without the 'Mimics of which the church
would be no church at all, namely, the sacerdotal power
That which is essential we must tske to be the part of
the church which is alone wcrth p-eservation ; that which
Is accidental, notwithetandlng the many priviliges attach
lug to the accident, we must, in the coming contest,
she rfully abandon. Hitherto we have been brought up in
the ides that there is between the two parts an inseparable
connexion. Church and State has been • cry tt the
eighteenth and fin' halt se the nineteenth century, .o which
no uoe, whatever he thoutbt secretly, dared to ruse • voice
of objeetionopenl
But till mysterious chum is fast dis-
Lselvieg now. W thee the church is still to be a parlia.
mentary church is • question that is nave:Asp con.
%Usually agitated and discussed. Whether the " establish-
meet," as a mere legal serail., Is to take the lead and
Toe
the church as Christ's spouse, is now • question.
Toe establishment, as such, is a statesman's tool ; it is his
(suture, his in•trument, his food ; but the church, as such,
le of a very different cempli sloe. She is his opponent,
his mistreas, his superior and ruler. She is not under him
as coming from Caseate but above him as coming from God.
Yen endeavour, sty lord, to confound wo palpably distinct
things. The royal supremacy every loyal Englishman
would cheerfully acknowledge, provided it be limited to
the "establishment," end that goverement of the church
wheal% Is permissible by the law of Christ ; but when
it is claimed over the church, either In doctrine or discipline,
we retire to our citidel and defy it. "My kingdom's not of
this world " The loyal supremacy in Civil matters, as well
ea la etelesiuticel matter., as long n they ere merely rale-
dustiest lied not spiritual ; also is all tempered matters,
menses, and trials, arising out of them, we cheerfully ac-
knowledge; but the royal supremacy in the doctrine' of our
Mewed Lord, in the discipline of the church within, in the
regulation of her pesters, in the enunciation of her doctrines,
we utterly and explicitly deny. Tate matter has been wee
ereasilered, aid the exact maps and form of words by which
1 would emblem the idea of the royal supremacy Is em-
bodied iu the following propositions, to which I beg your
lordship's atteation ; in order that, if I pm right, my flack
may know, as far as I am m; self concerned, what Is meant
by denying the royal supremacy, and what is net meant :
1. I have hitherto acknowledged, and do now acknowledge
the sepremaey of the crown in eulesituitiesl maters to be •
sepreme civil power over all jump.' and causes in temporal
things, and over the temporal accidents of spiritual things.
2. Ido not, and in conscience cannot, acknowledge in
the crown the power recently exercised to hear and judge in
appeal the internal state or merits of epiritual quest', ni
touching doc•ene or dissipline, the custody of which is com-
mitted to the church alone by the law of Christ.
3. I, therefore, for the relief of my own conscience,
hereby. publicly declare, that I acknowledge the royal supre-
macy in the emu above stated, and in no other.
These propasitions, I believe, have been enburihed by
about ens thourend eight hundred c'ergy.
Mr. Bennett swum Lord John Russell that the Church
of England is not the rock of ages ; and leave* him to con-
cise@ that his church Is.
If you drive the church out of England, the church will
else up, my lord, elsewhere. If you destroy her as • eon-
;anent part of the institutions of this country, you will hove
her riding over your head triumphant, in that foreign
prince, whom then you will have good reason, according
to your own principles, to dread. The reek of ages does
not depend upon the crown of any temporal prince,
no%
dreeireet
nfto.rn itawb security oar acts ofoupterdlis.mretst.
i..? Ask
De. Cumming. Would lie mtbmit hie preshyterian doc-
trines to be judged by the civil and temporal law-
Intl of her Majest's Trey Council? He
done so, and he never will. Ask the Winterise, the
Indeperdente, the Baptists, would they permit their
doctrines to be overbauled ia your clans of common
or ecclesiastical lew ? Of mune they would not. Well
then, where is the justice of talking about civil and rele
eons liberty, if the stets fa brought in to rule matters
which do not belcov, never have beloeged, and never Coll
belong to it ? The church's infallibility goes along wish I
the chareh's supremacy. They are ooe and the same.
They are above all earthly canons, out of sight, and beyond'
the mash of all the acts of parliament that England ever I
te; beyond all the sovereigns that ever reigned throhout
world ; beeond, in short, every power d every will,
every strength and every dominion, save that orly which
It
Is of the of kings and Lord of lords.
What le • general character of the church of Enig-
ma, its rang Use, the beating 91 its pulse, the els-

cabal** of its blood ? Statesmen se such k- ow vary
well. And how to rase her and makes her inject either
to the bl.ndl hments of worldly delights or the cirests of
wo loly a:obese* ttey know very well. Its Eetation spirit
—Vs burn, and gene? city speck:cis, lukewarm cute f r seula
when ell rased with tLe Roman thatch—we fe. I humbled
in atknowl:dging. What • bitter std biting se ir,area
that is, my lord, of tho new Cirdinal Ar, hbishop of WM.-
minsttr, when he speaks of conceding the parks and the
palaces of Westutheater to se, retaining the lanes end streets
of the r 0.74 for his archbitkoprin. In parallel with this, I
would ask you to read what Dr. Arnold says. Ile speaks
of the °Much of England as never recovering the "aria.
tcersqc and regal seffi,hcces of Pa birth." I ercrx Dr.
Artoid, let me remind you, because he is one of sour own.
I prey God, my lord—even yet daily more and m•re
will I pray—that you may he spared fran being the Lustre'.
meat, under GA'. hand, for the cl. attraction of the
Church of E.igiancl. It is a Earful thought fora man to
dwell upon, that ptesibly he may be the appointed channel
in the councils et Clad for some sweeping calanity about
de<cend upon this great nation. I presume you
would ready think that tree loss of her church would be a
sweeping Yet the loss of her church is by no
means, at the precont moment, in her peculiar po• Riot:, an
impossible thing. May I, a very humble ind.vidual, en-
treat you to pause, to stay hand, to arrest the down.
ward course of her tall, before it be too late. For myself,
and these around me here, while we will give ourselves only
the lucre sedulously to prayer and sacraments a-id -he good
works of the pour, we will not give way one single inch in
the detice we owe to the church. The spirit of Pilate may
be in the rulers—the milli, of Judas in the brethren—the
spirit of Galli, in the nobles—but yet l,t us hope that there
may be I* the ethic of Peter and Peel in the pricers god
bishops of the fold. For ourselves, the greater the fierce-
ness of the people's madams, so much the greater our
patience; the mere violent their eateries of wrath, the more
earnest end the longer cur prayers.
I have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's fumble
meant and parish priest,
Wu. J. E. BEzmarr.

MEETINGS OF TILE BRISTOL REFORMATION So-
CM!' were held at Bristol on Monday evening aid yesterday,
upon both of which occesioneDr. Cumming spoke in a straits
similar to that indulged in at the meeting at Loader. On
Monday evening an Irishwomen named Woodroits created
a great disturbance in the ely by heading • mob of boys
and idle tallow,. and parading tee struts trying " Duro
with the Pupo," "No popery," " Turn out the papists,"
' &e. They assembled in (rent of Mary's catholic church
and Wan to shake the elan, but the police interfered and
tot!' the women into custody ; thus preventing a greater
riot.
MEETING AT PONTEFRACT. A very crowded
meetingof the iuhsbitsnta was held in the Town Hall, on
Monday weenies, (or the porpoise of ooneideting toe Into
acts of the Pope of Rome. The chair was taken by (le mg.
Green, Esq., the mayor (a diosecter), havinz d•clined to
attend, although he had called tbo meeting, in oni,equence
of • numerously signed requisition. On the motion of Mr.
All. Clough, acme did by Dr. Buchanan, and supported by
tine vicar and other gentlemen, • memorial wu agreed to
be presented to L ho Russell Ind the government, Ex-
pressing the firm determination of the meeting to support
her Majesty an her advisers, to the utmost of their power,
in upholding the principles of the trotesrant reformation,
end the supreme authority of the British crown. It was
rated that an rd-Trees hod been sent up to be presented
to her Majesty some days ago; but that since that time it
had been deemed advisable to have a public meeting on the

subjwit.
NLWArK.— A pubic meeting of the inhabitants of
Newark was held in the Town-hill on Mordey for the
purpose of addressing the Queen on the papal eggnog .n.
Some opposition ws offered, and atter the address to her
blajeety had been reeved, the they. J. Waterworth, a 11...inan
netball.. pelt st, proy.osi..l an amt nriment, which wee n. ga. iced
by a Lary majority, and the address to the Queen carried
with acelainati,n.
SAWLAND.—A public meeting of the inhabitants
of the parish of Newland, Gloucestershire' was held at Col-
ford on the 2"ith ult., when au address to the Quecn against
the papal egirreseion was agreed to.
Wfwarietu.— The Inhabitants of the parish of
Winklield, in the county of Berke, have adopted addresses to
the Queen and the Bishop of Oxford denounc.ng tho recent
act of the Pope.
DULLEY.—At a public meeting held here, com-
prising all denominations of disee*ters end churchmen, an
address to her blajetty was agreed to.
numerous meeting Was held
here on Frisky last to 'spree. an opinion upon the recent
aggressive conduct of the Pope. The meting w..s attended
be Daisy of the leading gentlemen and trautamen of the
town.
CAaotrp.—A meeting has been held here to protest
against the aggreuersn of tae Pope, at which an address to
her Majesty, framed i• ACZOMAIICS with the prevailing
spirit, wee unanimously agreed to. At the conclusion of
the proceedings the persons weembled sang " Ood save the

Queen."
KlPXDALlL—Yesterday evening, at a large and
highly respetrabla meeting of the ratepayers of Kirkdale,
held in the echool-ronm in connexion with Sr. bantl'a
Church, adder e•es ro her Mitjeal on the recent papal -R-
-amadan were adopted.

THE PRIVILEGES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
CAMBRIDGE.

Ia the Cambridge borough police court yesterday
(Tuesday), before Mr. H. Foster, deputy mayor, and •
full bench of magistrates, • totally unprecelested Cu.
came on for he ring, being neither more nor lees than a
complaiet founded upon • warrant of assault grente.l to
Miss Emma Thompson, &slighter of &respectable cowkeeper,
residing in Thompson's-lane, Cambridge, against the Tee.
Johu Finsick, M.A , of Corpus Christi College in, and
rarctor of the lleiversi.v of Cambridge, and two of his
attendants (or " bullerg."). The assault ch.irged consisted
in Mr. Isnot& having stopped the complainant, and having
consigned her to the charge of his men. The court was
crJerde 1 throughout the whole proceedings by the towns-
people and undergraduates, and at times the ehaition of
feeling was such that the bench had great difficulty in pre-
aervisg older. It is not at all improbable that this cage
will lead to some important results, as affset,ng the privi-
leges of the University, or et least to a definition of the
decks of the proctors in the exercise of their ungracious
office, the apprehension of t• lewd women." It may he
pronieed that it was admitted on all hands that the ch'srac.
ter of Miss Tbimpe'.n is most irreproachable. It was shown
'Let, while on her way home, at half-past 9in the evening,
she wee det tined by Mr. Fenwick, who 'okra her
quesiuns, and whose men refused to allow her to proceed.
Some rno c .ming up who recognised the young woman, she
was 'allowed to go hom,, having been a few minutes tuataras
of the proctor's men. Mr. Fenwick claimed to bar- the
metier invired into Inf.?* the Court of the Chancellor,
muter*, and scholars or the University, and protested ageinit
the juriedichon of the borough magistrates; but the clerk to
the justice (Mr. Eder) slid this proceeding was under an act
(9 (iccrge IV., c. 31) which contained no saving clause re-
serviug the privileges t f the univer-ity. The protest, there-
toe, w se of no avail.
Merl; Thompyn, father of the c3roplainsnt, esid, I am a
craw.keeper, and reside in Thompson's-lane. On Wednesday
evenrag lest my daughter came into my house • few minutes
before ten, torl.ape • quirter. I saw she was very much
alarmed, and 1 said, " whatever is the matter with you ? "
She tremble'', and had a regular good cry before ehe wee
able to speak. She afterwards mane • statement tome, and
in cermquence of that I went on the following day to
Corpus Cedego to see Mr. Tenwick. I found him at his
rooms. I said, " are you the proctor of the town of Cam-
bridge, and did you take a young woman in Thompson's-
lane last night? " He said " yes." I said, " will you be
so kind as to tell me for what cause you took her ? " He
said nethinft to that. I then said, " did you see her talk-
ing to • University (man), or a Univenity(seen) with
hr? Did you see her talking with • townsman, or a
townsman with her? " He said " no" to each of these
questions. I said, "did you ye her loitering about cor-
ners, or with any common people or bad girls? " lie said
" no." I said, "did you sashay turning round ebbe way
and that way as though she was waiting for something not
right ? " He said "no." I 'aid, "what in the world,
then, did you stop her for ; what cause had you to stop her ?
He said, " I saw her turndown a dark lane." "Dark !a...."
said I, " why, it was as light as part of the street." Ile
then said, " I saw her walking slow." I said," that is her
littoral walk; if she bad been noosing, you
•might
have thoug`,t there was some guilt." lie then said, "it
is not a carriage-way," sod I said, "it ir, the
mayor's carriage goes down there
toevery day." I said,
° 1 suppose* it you had happened see the mayee's lady,
I you would have to,k her. You had no right to take
say daughter, and you will Soil plenty of wosk to do if
'Pk take the right people." He said, " she did not tall
me bar name, and I said, " You *eked her a twofold quest
1 ties, and so frigh.ened her that she answered the I titer
I only." He mace no apology. I said I thought he was a
butt of sense : he bad a good effice ; butcould not
mgive
er amount of it I would give it up. (The quaint an-
e.' in which Thompson recited the particulars of this inter-
view elicited roars of laughter.)
The evidence having been concluded,
Mr. Hyde said that there was no point is the testimony of
the young lady which he disputed, or indeed any of the facts
whatever; than eor.tended that there was no assault proved,
SO far as affected Mr. Fenwiek and Mr. Tobinsou ; the
uttermost they were charged with was the utterance of
sertain words addressed to Miss Thompson, and he Ins sure
that Mr. Cooper would not contend that words constituted
an assault in law.
The magistrates retired, and, after an absence of a few
mieutes returned, cad the Deputy Mayor said that the
nyestrates haying uusidered the case, found that the assault
was proved, and had determined to fine John Feowick If.,
Hobert Bo dog 10§.. and Joha Tobiason 10s., and tee ex-
penses, Cr, in default of payment, each to suffer It dale
imprisonment.
Mr. Hyde undertook to receive the notice of amounts for
the defendants (who did not appear personally), but when
our parcel !eft it had not been decided as to whether or no
the fines would be paid, or commitments allowed to issue.
The announcement of the decision appeared to gin) the
most ut.mixed eatisfaction t, the dense crowd of townspeople
who hail septet sod themselves into the court.

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PRIZE Mofeutr—(From last night's Gazate).—
Txa DMlT.—Notios is given to the officers and crew of her
Majesty's ship Dart, Edward Hill, Esq., lieutenant coo-
lauding, that an amount of bounty for tonnrge received err
the Despigue, captured May 11,1849, will be forthwith deo
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