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26, and her Majesty's ship 'Rodney, 92, Captain C.
Graham, arrived yesterday frbm Portsmouth.
The frigate Leander, 50, Captain S. E. Daeres, having
defects made good, will be taken out of clack to-day, and
will be masted to-morrow.
The crew of the brig Blsitomart, E. Commander
Hese!tine, will'ho paid advance to-day, and 'ho is ap-
pointed to sail to-morrow .for the const of Afrioa,
The Bombay- will be placed in duck to-morrow.
• The Zwalun, 16, Dutch corvette, Captain Naordajn,.
sailed on Thursday for the eastward.
Eits.voNponT, MAY 2.----The Sprightly arrived Fri•
day night end wiled oa Saturday, taking the crew of the
notspur to Portsmouth,'who arc to return here with the
Edinburgh. The LiotTar was put obt of commissim on
Friday evening, • •
Tho Britemart will be pale' advance to-morrow, but is
not expected to sail till after post on Tuesday morning.

• LAW .CNTELL MENGE.
ARCHES' COURT, May 3.
(Before Sir JOHN DODSON.)
THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE PROM6TED BY, HODGSON

v. GLADSTONE •
(Continued from our Afternoou Edition).
Mr. GLADSTONE was not aZ are that he had said any-
thing against. the Bishop,
was only endeavouring
to show that be had obeyed his ordination vows,
be had not resisted the legiti
tu...e exercise of authority.
It 'Was to him a mattere" arid that
of. character and of life; it
affected the security and liberty of the country, arid was
not a personal matter betweelhim and the BielloP. The
Bishop had net treated him irly, bet he owed him no
"
He prayed for him *very day of his life' All
'
the harm that he wished ltitu
as that God would grant
him repentance to the aeknowliAgment of the truth. A
breach of his ordination votlis
had not been alleged
against him. In the churchlae which he was the in-
cumbent before he came to Tiondou he had constantly
endeavoured to drive awayekliite4„tr*e! jle,h44-
-tieiter been calVide-el; or coven accused bulore any com-
petent tribunal of any offence against the laws ecclesiasti-
cal; but his object was to show that not only had the
Bishop exercised an authority that did not belong to
him; but he had pursued a course which was plainly
against the vows that ho had himself taken, and to the
mind of common sense be had acted in contradiction to
the laws of the land. There was no parallel between
this case and " Barnes v. Shore." Mr. Shore, instead of
saying that he had committed no crime, did that which
was tantamount to an acknowledgment of guilt. Ho
had sworn that he would be faithful in his duties as a
minister of the Church of England, but when the out-
ward pressure came upon him he gave up his inward
principle, and sheltered himself by saying that he had
left the communion of the Church of England, and had
retired for security into the arms of dissent. That was
not what he (Mr. Gladstone) had done. Ho was no
schismatic. Let the Church of England become Popish,
and ho would be a schismaic the next day, but so long
as she retained her principles which were her glory and
strength, so long no power on earth should willingly on
his part put him from her ministry. He was in holy
orders, and, God enabling him, so he would continue.
In `• Smith v. Lovegrove," and ° Freeland v. Neale," no
license had been granted; these cases, therefore, had no
application to the present. The nearest case to the
present was " Hodgson v. Dian," but he pro-
tested against his nabe being coupled with that of
Dr. Dillon. He bad already sustained some in-
jury from the association. He (Mr. Gladstone) was
condemned without having committed a crime, and was
sentenced not to preach the gospel, not only without .a
reason being given, but, us acknowledged by the counsel
of him who 1:107^ prosecuted and persecuted him, without
having in any degree failed in his duty. If he had been
a reczor, or a vicar, instead of a curate, the same ma-
chinery would have been put in motion against him. If
the decision in " Hodgson v. Dillon " was held to be
binding in the present case, he must submit to it; but
be contended that that
judgment was founded on a fal-
lacy. No one had ever yet been able to point out the
law which justified the Bishop:in revoking his licence.
In the case of " Hodgson v. Oakeley," the Bishop had
dealt very tenderly, and thought it necessary to proceed
with great regularity. The Nev. Gentleman then read
the promises made by a bishop at his consecration,
and contended that the Bishop of London had failed

to fulfil them, by not driving away erroneous doc-
trine. Had he (Mr. Gladstone) been a deeply
dyed malignant offender, guilty of the blackest
Crimes, the Bishop could not have visited him with
more summary eternal ruin. For seven years be bad
worked hard, and given himself with unremitting care
and diligence to the study of Goers word. flo had never
received anything but a scanty pittance, and now, by the
sentence of the Bishop, he was driven to unlimited beg-
gary and ruin from the highest position which a man
could occupy. For be affirmed that he would not give
up the blessed privilege of preaching the gospel to sin-
ners for all the crowns in the world if their glory could
be fused into one. The Rev. Gentlemen then cited the
three articles inserted in the 36th Canon, and the 26th
Article, and maintained that the Bishop had violated
them by adopting the proceedings he had taken against
him. He believed that the question involved the inte-
rests of the whole nation. The first of these three arti-
cles stated that the Queen, under God, was the supreme
governor of this realm; but he believed that there was
aje.ty
at this moment a deeply ramified conspiracy going on
against the supremacy of her M
The Learned JUDGE inquired ;12Other that qaettion
was now before him?
Mr. GLADSTONE thought it was connected with the
present subject.
The ConuT thought Mr. Gladstone had better confine
himself within reasonable limits. The simple ques-
tion before the Court was the 'admissibility of the
allegation. -

Mr. GLADSTONE then Proceeded to make a quotation
from the trial (as we understood) of Archbishop Laud,
when—

The Learned JUDGE
-"na,a;
it really had nothing whal interposed, and said tha,
atever to do with the case. As
long as Mr. Gladstonhee
before him, he should confined himself to the matter
for a week to come. happy to hear him, if it were
Mr. GLADSTONE said that
was not inclined to give 1- • , as he thought the Court
to her Majesty in Council, full liberty, he would appeal
Dr. BAYFORD, in (Cheers.)
eel • --
Chambers," submitted )hag on the case of " Gates v.
present question. In sa :t it had no bearing on the
charge against Mr. aastAY'hg' that there was only nay
that the Bishop had no other''tune, he did ere
mean to say
The Learned JUDGE b causes of complaint.
Mr. Gladstone was for having
that the sole charge against
and administered the Eying read prayers, preached,
chapel without the liceraB"raments in an unconsecrated
tion of the Bisheie Ttele°, and contrary to the prohibi-
moral eharact
Gladstone's charge did not affect Mr.
and the only question er in any degree whatever;
was the point of law. which the Court had to consider
Gladstone's allegation Could rely, or what part of Mr.
Bishop's charge? Mr, cie admitted as a defence to the
revocation of his licence ladstone had stated that the
part of the Bishop; that was a mere arbitrary act on the
revoke a licence granted by him Lordship had no right to
assigning any reasons or 3' him during pleasure, without
conduct against him, a making a charge of improper
the prohibition served and 0 he very properly referred to
low that the Bishop could him. Did it, however, fol-
besides offence on the part not
have other good reasons
ing the licence? The Biehof Mr. Gladstone for revok-
thought it proper that the alight at one time have
a chapel of ease to the chapel should be opened as
parish church, and he might
now think • it Proper,
divine service should b© pere_oent, and becoming that
The_toresed in a chapel conse-
crated for the purpose.
reasons for revoking the Hoer! might, therefore, be good
degree impugning the eharuco without in the slightest
g J;eter or conduct of Mr.
Gladstone. After strain
substance of the libel
given in by the promoter of the
observed, that the licence gratite suit the Learned Judge
V to Mr. Gladstone was
not an absolute grant, but onl during pleasure, and now
for alleged divers good reaYs.o
drawn it. Mr. Gladstone, in his the Bishop bad with-
' allegation, had given
the history of the chapel, and
the licence of the Bishop, as well that it appeared that
vicar of the parish, had always bee" the consent of the
divine
required in order to
enable the minister to perform
it
wile service. In point
of fact, it was not alleged that
belonging to the parish church. Itis a bona fide chapel
tery chapel belonging to the morevr_aa a mere proprie-
fee was vested in them, and what ceps Coca Company; the
tended
Jens° which they
vent them converting it to any otils7as there to pre-
thought proper? Could it be con
licence
would have
consecrated building in which the minister d that it was a
a right to perform duty without the
No such thing. The fact that it nbelonged to the
yrrinciples which
Mercers' Company brought it vvithicue
had been adjudicated upon in that
jud himself a very
stone, in his second article, had given itl: Mr. Glad-
high character, and he (the Learned
thing, nor had he heard of anything, ge) knew no-
Norwierei:tion? No
But had that any bearing on the present impugning it'
doubt during his ineumeency in
t had
pro-
perly performed his duties. The Bishop of Londone had
estimonials,
granted him a licence after examiningoheiaad.
and there was no necessity either for
tory of the chapel or the character whiching,,,the his-
question
stone had sustained at Norwich. rra, simple mr. Glad-
was whether the Bishop bad a right to revelsete licence.
riche thate he had
Mr. Gladstone, in his third article, alleged
against him.
There
faithfully discharged his duties at Long-
acre
h iittilLnlont
was no charge of a contrary nature made
the case of " Hodgson v. Oakeley,"
not
made revoked the licence, bat there was a seriouse'
made against that gentleman of maintaining Roman
Catholic doctrines, t wan
founded the sentence of the Court n
founded upon it. The fourth article pleaded the prohi-
bition, and Mr. Gladstone contended that it was
not a
godly but an ungodly monition which he had rece' d
The Rev. Gentleman, however, by the ordination "'e
sat-
;
vice, was bound to they the lawful commands of his
diocesan,asdithe question again would be whether ha had
received a lawful command or not. When that soviet
was framed there were no proprietary cha.Paha and no
person could be incumbent of any place without the li-
cence of the bishop first had and obtained, and then it
could not he revoked widaout good cause being shown.
The law bearing on the question had been settled in such
a way that he (Sir John Dodson) was not at liberty to
overrule the decisions which had taken place. The
Learned Judge then examined the cases Which had beer
cited in the course of the argument, and came to the
conclusion that if ell the facts plended in Mr. Gladstone's

allegations were proved, they would not be sufficient to
deprive the Bishop of his power to revoke the licence.
Ire must, therefore, reject the allegation.
Mr. GLADSTONE would venture to protest against the
decision, which be believed was opposed. both to law and
equity. 1.1:, would appeal, therefore, to her Illajesty i❑
'Cuencil.—(Lon.l cheers.)

Dr. BAYFORD 8 utnalittild that, as this was a proceed,•
my unclog the *Church Di,cipitne Act, Mr. Gladstone
could not appeal without the sanction of the Court, and
.he hoped that under the circumstances the Court would
not grant it.
The Learned JUDGE said that as he had simply de-
termined that the allegstion veAs net admissible, he saw
no necessity for the appeal, and therefore decliued to
allow it.

Publication 1.72. s then decreed, and Mr. Gladstone V. 19
snowed watt' the next session to slate whether be would
givu in an exceptive all?gation to the testimony of tbe
t;iniesscs examined on behalf of the promoter of the suit

LITERARY ASSOCIATION OF THE
FRIENDS OF, POLAND.
Yesterday the twentieth anniversary of the Lit?rsry
Association of the FriendS of Poland took place at the

rooms of the Society, and was very fully attended. Lnrd
Dudley Stuart, M.P., the President of the Association,
occ=upied the chair, and amongst the Noblemen end Gen-
tlemen present, the friends of the ,nationality of Poland,
were the Eerl.of Harrington, the Earl of Harrowby, the
Earl of Z Aland, Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., M.P., Cept.
Townshend, R.N., M.P., H. Monckton: Mi!neo, Eqi.,
M.P., W. Pinney, Eici., M.P., B. W. Willcox, Esq., 111. P.,
F. Mowatt, Esq., M.P., the Hon. Fox Strangweys, M.P.,
Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P., R. W. Grey, Esq., M.P.,
John Abel Smith, Esq , M.P., Thorneon Hankey, jun ,
Esq., Governor ofehe Bank of England •, the Rev. Dr.
Worthington, W. Adam Smith, Esq., Edmond John-
stone, Esq., William Pritchard, Esq.; High Bailiff of
Southwark;—Geo, Deering, Eaq , Henry Stuart, Esq.,
W. L. Birkbeck, Esq., J. Clarke Fergusson, Esq., Wynn
Ellis, Esq., Carroll Watson, Esq., Joseph Toyn bee, Esq.,
W. S. Townsend, Esq., Edmund Beales, Esq., Thomas
C. Banfield, Esq., &c.
The Noble CHAIRMAN having briefly opened the bu-
siness of the meeting, letters of. apology were read from
Earl Fitzwilliarn, Colonel Angeratein, Lord Beaumont,
and other gentlemen.
W. L. BIRKBECK, Esq., the Honorary Secretary, 101
the report of the committee for the past year, of w
the following is an abstract:—
The report commenced by expressing slatisfactio at
the vitality and vigour evincedeiretau bsytheees,and when e.
association, u er
asonmdftwwherity years
atdirhaagd
ing
elapsedcircumstances,
eiuce Poland was depr ed
of the fragment of her rights, stipulated by the oat
solemn treaty, but her claims on the justice, the h a-
nity, and the policy of England, have, through the ex-
ertions of this society, never been allowed to sin3lt en-
tirely into oblivion, and the sufferings of her children,
driven to seek a refuge among us by the tyranny of her
oppressors, have never been permitted to remain wholly
unmitigated by sympathy or succour. The sword f the
late General Bern, king on the table, was noti ,d as
one of the precious relies of Polish heroes. The eport
t ding
the referred to the extraordinary genie dis-
played by the sons of Poland, notwithet ding
the obstacles in their way, and it was peculia re-
marked, that of the six refugees who exhibited, ve re-
ceived prize medals. In reference to the opprepors of
Poland, the report said that Prussia had made.further
attempts to denationalise the Grand Duchy of Posen.
Her Puttkamrner, formerly a chief of police, a German,
of little education and unworthy manner, previously din,
tieguished for his democratic and anti-monarchical print
ciples, whose only recommendation to the Government
consisted in hostility to the Poles, author of a pamphlet
entitled Finis Poloniae, was last year appointed Presi-
dent of the Duchy of Posen. On the 7th of September
he opened, in violation of the Prussian constitution, the
provincial diet, and declared that they mast impart to
their councils a character of pure and genuine Prussian
patriotism, that first and highest of national ideas, to
which all others must be subordinate, if they.would not
forfeit their claim to recognition. On a subsequent day
Prince Sulkowski' in a most dignified and patriotic man-
ner, moderately, but firmly, protested against the doc-
trine laid down by the President and against the revolu-
tionary system of changing nationalities by an arbi-
trary decree. Her Puttkammer, in accordance with his
opening speech, has suppressed the only remaining Polish
newspaper, and closed the only source from ~hich books
could be obtained. Among the members o ureaucracy
are always to be found the most violent evolutionists,
men who are equally ready to destroy the institution of
property, the distinction of rank, and thd privilege of
birth. The Polislis,landed proprietors of Posen, and of
other parts of ancient Poland, struggle, with fortitude
and judgment, against the difficulties of their position,
and devote themselves, as farots they are permitted, to
improving their estates, and ameliorating the condition
of the peasantry. Their efforts, in spite of adverse in-
fluences, have been crowned with no inconsiderable sue-

cess.

Tlu report expres,:ed much gratitude for assist-
ance in recruiting the fends of the association from dif-
ferent parties, for enabling refugees to go to America,
and for the much required purposes of relief in sickness

and absolute destitution. The conduct of the Poles has,
for the most part, been exemplary. The report stated
that the income of the association during the past year
was 1,494/. 6s. 6d., of which r..,bove. 8001. was contri-
buted by the Poles. The expenditure was, for relief in
distress, 2714 18s.; in sickness, 2101. 75.; to icave the
country, 511/. Is. 6d.; for education, 201.; for funerals,
121. 15s. &0., &e. The number of the refugees now in
England is about 820. Of these 200 receive assistance
from the British Government. 160 refugees left the
country, of whom 92 proceeded to America, and 13
were removed by death. There is an increase of 60
refugees over the number of last year, and during the
year there were nearly 1,000 refugees in England. The
report concluded with an energetic appeal to Europe in
general, and England in particular, on the policy and
necessity of preserving inviolate and sacred the rights of
individuals and of nations.

The Rev. Dr. WORTHINGTON moved the adoption of
the report in an able address.
W. PRITCHARD, Esq., the High Sheriff of Southwark,
seconded the adoption of the report, and it was carried
unanimously.
The Earl of HARRINGTON moved the second resolu-
tion.--" That this Association has observed, with satis-
faction and pride, the determination of public men of
all parties, as evinced recently in the debates of both
Houses of Parliament, in the discussion made by
Lord Beaumont on the sth, and Mr. Monckton
Milnes on the Ist of April last, regardless of
the remonstrances of foreign despots, to con-
tinue to extend to political refugees that protection and
hospitality which it has long been the boast and the
glory of this country to afford to all persons requiring
them. And this Association tenders to Lord Beaumont
and Mr. Monckton Milnes its best thanks for the service
rendered to their country and to humanity, by their
opportune motions, and by the judicious and able manner
in which they were brought forward."
WYNN ELus, Esq., seconded this resolution, and it

was also carried nein: con.
oRn:
oMfO thanksNClTONt
oMtIhLeN ES
Corporation
Esq., mOved
of theontdhoirnd
froerSotl
the
grant of the Guildhall for the Concert and Ball'inGaidlof
mants em Pp
eaoxthhps
sympathy
swasnhe ddi Hungarian
isp satisfactionervpervaded
dedß aelf
luagtpe
aetsrliei e sgTehinnee riatahol enfe. ceol iuennngttr of
hwihseetahrenreisnt Houseshtheepethtttt h
eof d Parliamentay
might
n or
he out
distantof i
whent
;and
the nationality of Poland would be revived.
Mr. PINNEY, M.P., seconded this resolution, and it
was carried unanimously ; as were also resolutions
moved by Mr. WILLCOX, M.P., the Hon. Fox STRANG-
WAYS, and Mr. MOWATT, M.P., seconded by Mr.
STEWART, thanking the professional ladies and gentle-
men at concerts at Guildhall and other places, on behalf
of the association.
EDMUND BEALES, Esq., moved the next resolution:—
" That the Right Hon. Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart,
M.P., be re-elected president of the association for the
ensuing year."
T. C. BANFIELD, Esq., seconded this resolution, which
was carried unanimously amidst loud applause.
Lord DUDLEY STUART, in returning thanks, remarked
that although at times ho had much feared the benevo-
lent objects of that association would be brought to a
close for want of funds to alleviate the distresses of the
poor unfortunate Poles who have been driven from their
country into exile, still it was now twenty years since
they first assembled in that room to carry out so noble
and benevolent an object.—(Hear. hear.) It was ono
gratifying fact to him (the Noble Lord) that look which-
ever way he would, there was no small amount of tenacity
of sympathy in England for Poland. It was still, hr-
ever, to be regretted that those despotic powers which
caused the destruction of the nationality and the
partition of Poland still continued to sway the destinies.
of that country, and to press upon the whole in
of Poland the iron hand, and had not in the slightest de-
habitants
gree relaxed the rigour of their yoke. At that moment
they still saw in that country living monuments of.
mitted the
cruelty of the Czar of Russia. Men, for acts com
twenty years ago, were still condemned to exile and
were prohibited, under pain of death, frnm.setting foot
upon their native land. Men whose patriotism and con-
duct entitled them to kindness at the hands of
.any pa-
ternal Government were treated with this brutality, and
even sentence of death still hung over the head of that
e.ighty years. old, was excellent and worthy man, arid noble patriot, Prince
the mos:mores
Adam Czartoryski, who, although
down
.his bones in the soil
thus prevented from laying
of his own native country. Austtla. had even gone fur-
paying rewards to the p.easantry to
ethreGr in crime
anadnedyebnloodshed, inciting
murdio the unoffending landlords. the
peas conduct
had been looked upon as more favourable. until they
broke the treaty of vienea, by appointing provisional
diet, and piecing a governor o.ver the Grand Duchy
of Posen, whose energies were.directerd
,towards inciting
upon the wall of the epartment
a hatred to all that was rag Noble Lord,
after groat feeling to the namc? of General
after referring
Beal, whose sword hung
expressed his coeviction that despoticaheadh so oh!
twined the mastery on the. c.ontinent for present
tat he was forced to admit it hung like a black cloud
over the destinies of Poland. He, however, still lived
iu hope to sec the day when that glorious and patriotic
nation would recover Its nationality, He referred to the
privations which the Polish refugees suffered in this
country, on account of its being overstocked with la-