The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-13 00:00:00

men who had gate over to Rome were men eidneated amongst
themselves; they were their friends and fellow students at
college; and, until recently, as ambits ministers in
the church of Ragland as any in that hall. (Rear,
hut.) What was the cause of that unhappy cit.
nmicanee—of those sad and painful sensations ? (Hear.)
It was not for admiration of the church et Rome, but b.
cease of dissatisfaction with the church of Ragland. (Sense
don.) Dissatisfaction at the conduct of those who should
have bees her frithds. e • Hear," and Natation., If an
Morass of the protestant episcopate was asked for, the
House of Commons stepped in and said " no ;" the House
of Commons was the supreme governor in such matters and
sot the Queen herself. (Rims.) Bishops were made end
the heeds of the church not only not consulted, but their
protests put aelds—hense the secessions from the establish-
meat. He hoped that, In future, wiser counsels would pre-
veil—that the church would have that support which the
circumstances of the times required, and that thereby those
palatal secossions from =saga her (amide would no longer
be whammed.

The Rev. Mr. CALDWALL, tutor of Stafford, seconded
the adoption elate addreesto the bishop, and the archdeacon
was about toput it, but his purpose was staysi by the ex.
citement into which the meeting had then lapsed.
This repost is necesearily a meagre one, bat it appeared
that some sentences in Mr. firealey's speech had trespassed
on disputed points, and fanned dissatisfaction into a home.
la the midst, the Rev. Mr. BARER, rural dean of Stone,
rose and read the following by way of addition to the address
to the Bishop :—" That it cannot be denied that too much
occasion has been g:ven to the Bishop of Rome to entertain
confident expectations with regard to this country, partly by
the 0011ftlet0111 already made to Roman Catholic prelates by
goverement, but still more by the evident tendency towards
Roman Catholic practices and doctrines in many of the
minietwe and members of our own church, and which has
already resulted in the uc.seion ne inconsiderable

numbir to the Church of Rome and, aer;ro;e7;e
earnestly pray your Lordship to take nett measures
in, eonjunctien with your right reverend brethren as
may serve effectually to check so dangerous an evil."
The rev, gentleman was about to address the meeting, but
he was assailed with a voll.y of histess, stamping of the
feet, and sheen, so that he was unable to proceed for some
time. Atter • stir rt time the archdeacon iaterfrend, and the
storm was stayed fer a few minutia. In the interim Mr.
Baker said—Allusion has been mode to our 'nuance in par.
'lament ; our enemies are to be found in oar own household.
(Cheers and hisses.) The rev. gentleman went on to read
an extract from a letter of Dr. Wiseman to Lord Shrews.
bury, written some years since, the purport of which was
to show that the people of England were ripe for conversion, as
was manifested by the conduct of the clergy of the state
establishment. During the reading of this extract, the con-
fusion and expressions of disapprobation increased ; ulti-
mately Archdeacon Modica interfered, and then the storm
having abated, Mr. Baker said—'• I was ordained in this
diocese. I have been 25 yens resident here. My family
have done much for the church and I thick I ought to have
a voice hers." (Applause.)
The Rev. Mr. BROAD, of Newcastle, and half-a-dczen
other gentlemen, seconded the amendment.
The DEAN of LICHFIELD sail, that if such an addition
were appended to the address to the bishop ;he feared that it
would prevent many of the clergy signing it.
The Rev. Mr. EABEIIt, of Burs:eto, suggested a com-
promise. He advised the withdrawal of Mr. Baker's
motion, although (be said) he thought some of Mr. Greeley 's
seuticaents rather detestable—[our reporter so understood
the spesker] —and he expressed himself in favour of same
concessions by churchmen to protestsut dissenters.
The Rev. T. D. Atkinson, of Ragely ; the Rev. Mr. Her-
rho., of Stafford; the Rev, Mr. French, of Borth,; and
other gentlemen, took part in the discussion. Ultimately,
and with great reluctance, which was shared in by many of
the reverend gentlemen present, Mr. Baker consented to
withdraw his motion, on the personal solicitation of arch-
deacon Hodson who paintel out the necessity there was for
unanimity, and for merging minor iiifferenres in such a time
of trial; at the same time (he said) he thought some of the
sentiments uttered by Mr. Cheney rather ill-timed.
The address to the bishop was theta put and agreed to;
se was also a subsequent sue, caning upon the laity to aid
the clergy ie this matter.
At five o'clock the proceedings terminated with a vote of
thanks to Archdeacon Hodson, to whose personal influence
was attributable the satisfactory termination of the pro.
medial/a.

MEETLNG OF THE CLERGY AT EXETER.
A meeting of the clergy of the Archdeaconry of
Exeter took place yesterday, to the Cotlege•ball, convened
by the Archdeacon upon requisition, " To deliberate upon
what measures shall be taken by them with referknce to the
late unprecedented aggrenion by the Bishop of Rome on the
rights and liberties of the English Church." At I o'clock
Archdeacon J. M. STIVIZNII took the chair.
The Rev. Chancellor HARINGTON said,l submit to you
a memorial to the effect :

'That the branch of Ct rist'a Holy Catholic Church in
Britain wu under the jurisdiction of her own metropolitan,
and independent of the See of Rome for flea centuries prior
to the uhnion of Saint Audit.
" That this independence was urged by the British bishops
In their interview with Saint Austin, alt a ground for rotas-
ing to submit to the usumel supremacy of
" That the 6:11 canon of the 0-naval Council of Nice, and
the Sib canon of the General Council of Ephesus, demon-
strate that the claim of authority over tho British church
advanced by the Bishops of Rome, is opposed to the de-
-1 the church, as laid down in the second of her
acamunical councils; the Synod of Ephesus enacting,
against the aggression of the Bishop of Antioch, upou the
province of Cyprus, that the rights which have heretofore,
and from the bi ginning belonged to each Romish see, be pre-
served to it pure and without mtraint, etcording to the
custom which has prevailed of old.'
"That the papal thraldom, under which the church of
England laboured, more or less from the ith to the 16th cen-
turywas the result of this assumed supremacy of Rome.
Tat the Reformation was the means of restoring to the
church of England her ancient privilege+, doctrines, disci
plias, and government, and of rilieviog her from the multi.
rude of errors and the false pretensions of Rome.
" That the reformed church of England is, and claims to
be, a branch of the church catholic ' in which the pure word
of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered,'
by men validly ordained, and thus deriving their commission
and authority by an uninterrupted succession from the
apostles—a position held by many eminent romaniate, and
by the church of Rome herself, at the period of the refor-
mation.

"'That, claiming to be • branch of the holy catholic
church, she protests, in the name of the universal church,
against the violation of one of its plainest and recognised
rules, as laid down in her four general eouncile, ' that there
ought to be but one metropoli an in each province, and one
bishop in each diocese'—a rule enforced by the council of
Carthage (Ain 251) which repudiated the appointment of
Roved= to the see of Rome, styled the usurper of the see
against the lawful Bishop Cornelius, and ctudemned hint
as an adulterer, and • foreigner, and an ambitions usurper
of another titan's chair,' who hat been regnlsrly ordained
before him—a rule, also, which was conrituted one of the
terms of union between the bishop and the Romish clergy
at the Council of Hertford, under Theodore, viz., that 'no
bishop shall lila else any authority in the diocese et another.'
" That the division of the realm of England, by the Pope,
into 13 sees, under a metropolitan, and the intention of
Popish bishops is sees already filled by English bishops, is
not only • direct act of schism, • transgression of a recog-
nised catholic rule, an insult to the Anglican branch of the
church, and en indirect infringement of her independence,
bat is also designed to supplant the doctrine, worship, disci-
pline, and government of the Rsformed Church, within
tress, the Quest's dominions, and to lead to the re-intro.
auction of all the errors and corruptions from which by
God's mercy, this church and realm were delivered at the
Rs °rotation.

" That the coronation oath binds the Snereign to main-
tain, to the utmost of hie power, the laws of Ood and that
profemion of the Gospel, and the protestant reformed reli-
gion, established by law, and to preserve to the bishops and
clergy of this realm and to the 'thatch committed to their
Wars, all such rights sad privileges ea by law do, or shall,
appertain sato them or any ot them.
" That by Statute 6th of Anne, *lisp. B.—an Act made in
contemplas of the Uoion—it is enacted that for ever
hereafter every king sr queen succeeding or coming to the
royal government of the kingdom of Great Britain at his
or her coronation., shall, in the resume of all persons, who
shall be etteadieg the mine, ito., tabs end inscribe an oath
to preserve inviolable the said est .blishment of the church of
England, and the doctriae, worship, discipline, sad govern-
ment thereof, as by law established in this the kingdom of
England and Ireland, the do.. inion of Wales, sad the town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and the territories thereunto be-
longing.
" That whereas in the language of Lord Kenyon, on the
Coronation Oath, it cannot well peas observation that the
old system of laws, to the purpose of the present Inquiry,
was to be guarded against the possible introduction of rupiah
influeasts—and, to adopt the language of the sense distin-
guished writer, 'so far or regards the sovereign it is guarded
by the oath he takes.'
" Your petitioners devoutly pray that your Majesty, taking
these premises into your royal omaideration, will adopt such
=emerge as say couatersetithe Papal encrotriskment devised
by Pops Piss
...bed, whist as eltisens and churchmen, we strenuously
denounce tam amain.. tame act of aggression upon your
Majesty's undoubted prerogative of supeestesy, as Supreme
Head of the Church in thew realms, we oleo feel ourselves
palled moan, as priests and discuses( the ekerek of Christ,
established in this laud, to express our deekted protest spinet
the peculiar and distinstive doctrine, and premiers of the
ithaech of Rome, as contrary to Gods word and manifestly
seeding to the subvenioa ot that pease and happiness, truth
and Julio', religion and piety, wake, under your Melostre
auspices, we now happily enjoy."
The memorial having bees adopted, an address to the
Bishop of Exeter was peeped, and a eemaltise was appointed
to carry out the wishes of the mooting.

AT Bnuranz•D • public isostiag of the inhabi-
tance wu mu is the Town-hall, as Nwasy. for the
of expressing their esstimests co the ball which the ro;eas of i
Rase has had the oreeneeption to and into this country.
The Rey. Audrey Knox melded. and the addresses of the
various speakers were received with unite enthtudasa. The
addressee to the Clef= and the bishop of the abets* were
usanisynisly 'semi to.
AT Cuanza a public meeting of the inhabitants
SPA plate no goads', when amoral Lathiest's] speakers
sods addrooois.A samorid to the Quoes was adopted.