The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-07 00:00:00

BRIGH TON.-S;J Y

gusty attenth.d Divine worship this moraing ill t,,e it.o) A
Chapel. The suite in attendance upon her Majesty com-
prised thl Countess of Charlemont (Lady in Waiting), Lady
Mary Pelham (Lady in Waiting on the Princess Augusta),
Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Mr. G.
Campbell, Marquis of Headfort, Lord Alfred Paget, Sir
William Murray, Hon. C. A. Murray. There were also pre=
sent the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, the Earl of Surrey,
and Lady Caroline Lennox. The Rev. J. S. M. Anderson
was the only officiating Minister, who preached a sermon on
a text from Numbers xxiv. 17, 18. The choir performed
King's Service in F. Madlle. Ostergaard and Master Gut-
teridge sang the treble parts of Kent's " Hear my Player."
The responses were composed by Mr. Wigan, and Mr. Gut-
teridge presided at the organ.
Rain has fallen in copious showers during, the whole of the
day, which has prevented the Court from leaving the Palace.
The Duke of Norfolk attended service at the Catho!ic
Chapel.
The Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Surrey, the Duke and
Duchess of Richmond, arrived yesterday evening, and will re-
main at the Palace till to-morrow.

The Royal dinner party by invitation, in addition to the
above noble persons, comprised the Princess Augusta, Lady
Mary Pelham, Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, :Marquis
and Marchioness of Thomond, Colonel Barton ( Dragoon), and
Colonel F. Robinson (Scots Fusilier Guards). Her Majesty's
chamber band and the band of 12th Lancers were in attendance.
The Royal dinner party this evening will be limited to her
Majesty, the Duchess of Kent, and tier Majesty's v;sitors.
In consequence of the unsettled state of the weather yester-
day, her Majesty did not take her accustomed exercise on
horseback.

The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by Miss Paget, took a
carriage drive.

COURT CIRCULAR.

A deputation from the Royal Society had an interview with
Viscount Melbourne on Saturday, in Downing-street, to com-
municate some resolutions of the Council, recommending the
equipment of a scientific expedition to the southern regions,
with c view to magnetic observations in Canada, St. Helens,
Van Diemen's Land, Ceylon, and at the Cape of Good Hope.
The deputation cons'sted of J. W. Lubbock, Esq., Vice-Pre-
sident and Treasurer; P. M. Roget, M.D., and S. H. Chris-
tie, Esq., Secretaries; Sir John -F. W. Herschel, Chairman;
Major Sabine and Charles Wheatstone, Esq., Secretaries of
the Physical and Meteorological Committees of the Royal
Society.
Viscount Dnncannon has returned to town from Dorsetshire.
Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the Co-
lonial-office for Sir Howard Douglas, Lord High Commis-
sioner of the lonian Islands, and also for the Lieutenant- Go-
vernor of Malta.

....ord Holland had a small party at dinner on Saturday at
Holland House, Kensington.

EXETER.-SATURDAY.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

The great question of Church and State has been agitated
in this city in a small way, but one which will probably prove
of much importance as a point of precedent and example to
other Corporations.
The present Mayor of Exeter, Dr. Macgowan, is a gentle-
man of education and great respectability. He is a physician
in good and fashionable practice, aed in every respect an esti-
mable and able man. Previous to his election in November
last he was scarcely known as a politician, not having taken
any active part ia local or general politics, though he was well
known as a man of liberal and enlightened views. After his
tion the Tories, who had voted for him as Alderman, aid
who had not opposed him as Mayor, entered proceedings against
him in the Court of Queen's Bench, " in the nature of a quo
warranto," and the genuine sytrit of ill nature, for the pur-
pose of learning by what right he exercised the office of Chief
Magistrate. They have since followed that step up by by various
acts of petty annoyance, and now their rage is beyond all bounds.
His Worship has never yet gone to the Cathedral officially, and
Sunday last, being Session Sunday, he declined attending,
on the ground that religious profession, in accordance with the
Establishment, formed no part of the duty of the Mayor, and
that he objected on principle, therefore, to head or join in any
ostentatious procession on the Sabbath, as being irreligious and
profane. Dr. Macgowan, according to what I have heard,
communicated these samples of conscience to the Rev. the Pre-
centor, and also to the Recorder, in order to show the latter
that be intended him no personal disrespect, and that he might
receive some instruction on a point of conscience that might
set him right. Prom the Rev. Divine he received a formal
and brief note, to the effect, as I am told, that he ought to
come to the cathedral with the niece or go where he
pleased. His Worship did net go to the cathedral, but went,
as was his wont, to his own parish church with his family.
This is the first instance ehat we have met with in the West of
practical separation of Church and State by the civic authorities,
and it will prove a heavy blow and great discouragement to our
beautiful Prelate, Bishop Phillpots, and the dignitaries of the
Chapter, who have had two or three narrow escapes from
this catastrophe. You really cannot conceive whtet a state of
tribulation they are in. It is the first time on record since the
troublous times of the :Commonmealth that both Mayer and
mace have been absent, and there is much wringing of reve-
rend hands and gnashing of episcopal teeth on the occasion.
The first Mayor under the new system was an Undarian—
a Tory ; and he used to attend at the Cathedral with the
mace, and sit and hear himself Athanasianly damned
with the most amiable resignation, and there was but small
fear of him setting such a dreadful example. Our Mayor
last year is a great advocate for the separation of Church and
State, a very energetic and able Reformer. He, however, took
the advice of friends as to the mode in which he
should discharge the duties of the office in relation to this
question, and, following their advice, failed tdwin t'lis laurel
—and went to church. The Clergy having therefore escaped
the two dissensions, never apprehended (lenge: in the present
quarter; and you, my dear Sun, who can throw so much light
on right reverend sorrows, will perhaps depict in your own
pleasant style, the dignified grief that prevailed. Bur, although
his Worship refused to go, the Superintendent of Police went,
and as he went officially, the Mayor remonstrated with him,
and we had a -meeting of the Council to-day on the subject,
who decided that the Superintendent of Police was under the
authority of the Mayor on all occasions. One dispute in
which the question originated, did not come before the Council,
but it was understood to be connected with the above business,
and the Tories fought very hard against a resolution declara-
tory of the Mayor's authority over the Superintendent.
It is to he hoped that the example set in Bishop Phillpott's
episcopal will be followed in all corporate towns throughout
the kingdom, as it is manifest that since the repeal of the
Test and Corporation Acts, as admitted by all classes of reli-
gionists, that the Mayor can no longer represent the religion
of " the corporate body," which •. having no soul" is not
burdened with any religious duties. But the udon of Church
and State in the civic body, must necessarily embarrass the
conscientious Dissenter; and our Mayor, therefore, iu break.
ing through it, is entitled to the sincere thanks of that large
mass of his fellow-eitiz?ns who no longer think it necessary,
and but believe that it is opposed to the sound principles of
civil and religious liberty.

LLOYD'S biIIPPING.—( i HIS DAY.)

DEAL, JAN. s.—Wind W. S. W., moderate.—Arrived and
proceeded for the River the Marshal Blucher, Johns, from St.
Michael's. Came down from the River and remain with the
outward-bound the Ann, Griffiths, for Bombay ; Etheidred,
Hood, and James Ray, Grayson, Jamaica; Chandos, Smith,
Demerara; Forrester, M' Arthur, Tobago; and Agrippina,
Rodgers, Ceylon.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. s.—Heavy squalls from the Westward.
Jan. 6.—Wind S. S. E. to W. S. W., fresh breezes, squally,
with rain.—Arrived the Industry, Hughes, from Cork; Bri-
tannia, De St. Croix, Plymouth ; Westmoreland, Long, Lon-
don ; Freedom, Lapthorn, Salcombe ; Alert, Aradt, Copen-
hagen; and Swift, Hales, Hull. Sailed the Ariadne steamer,
Pirould, for Southampton ; Mary Ann, Snooks, Wales ; Li-
berty, Russel, London ; Gulf of Paris, Wills, Shoreham ;
Alfred, Thomas, Newhaven ; Samson, Sturges, New York,
has since brought up at the Alotherbank ; Hunter, Naples.
RAMSOATE, JAN. s.—Arrived the Hercules, Lundgriff, from
Shields ; Aylesford, Carr, ditto ; Brenda, Stephens, Hull ;
Dundee Merchant, Fife, London; Trusty, Pearce, Shields,
with bows stove, having been in contact with the West Pier.
DUBLIN, JAN. s.—Arrived the Augusta, Viray, Quebec.
CORK, JAN. 5 —Arrived the Earl Grey, Douglas, Leghorn.

WATERFORD, JAN. b.—Arrived the Harmony, London.
MILFORD, JAN. 5. —Arrived the Star, Jennings, Corunna.

LivearooL, JAN. 5 —Fresh breezes from the Westward;
at 5 P. as., blowing a gale from the S. S. E.—Arrived the
Pixiaix, Hartley, from Antigua, Dec. 5 ; Harsan, Charles..
town, Dec. 7 ; Ocean, Swift, Sligo ; Elizabeth, Newry ; Sin.
ters, Arthur, Slanyford ; Mary, Young, Dublin ; Margaret
steamer, Cork. Off port, the Oxford packet, Dec. 19, from
New York—a steamer has gone out to her, but is not expected
back before six o'clock; Nimrod, Charlestown; Ward, St.
John's, New Brunswick, Sailed the Pennsylvania, Sim, for
New York; Majestic, Muslaw, New Orleans; Mary Bibby,
Metcalf, Trieste ; Crusader, Wrekman, Bombay ; St. Andrew,
Thompson, New York; Science, Baker, Constantinople;
Nonpareil, Allan, ditto ; Lynx, Forsyth, Lisbon ; Favourite,
Genoa; Ann Paley, Hunter, Lisbon; Lockwoods, New York;
Vestal, Graham, Barcelona ; Harvest Home, St. Thomas's ;
Thalia, Gulan, Calcutta; Ruby, Gibraltar; Zearman, Thorns,
Demerara.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Wind S. S.W.—Arrived the Me-
sager, Daniel, from Nantes; Pekin, Oleviere, ditto ;
L'Reparateur, St. Giles's; Les Bon Amis, Petrel, Bell, Sun-
derland ; Braganza (steamer), London.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 4.—. Wind W. S.W., fresh breezes with
rain. Dec. 6. Wind W., strong breezes and squally.—Ar-
rived the Pandora packet, Lieut. Jones, from St. Thomas's,
sailed Nov. 28 ; Iberia, Cooper, Gibraltar, 27th ; Cadiz,
virlison, for Madeira, with
28th; Lisbon, 31; Oporto, Jan. 1 • Vigo, 2, with mails.
Sailed the Swift packet, Lieut.
mails; Magnet packet, Lieut. Griffiths, Halifax, with mails.
STANGATE CREEK, JAN. s.—Ari iced the Effort,(Muer,
from Messina. The Splendid, from Belfast, was spoken 18th
ult., off Cape St. Vincent, by the Tam and Jessie, Henderson,
arrived in the River.

The Olive Branch, from London to Drogheda,
was on shore at Islay 30th ult., and would have to discharge.
The Norna, Robertson, of Lerwick, was totally lost on
Blummell's Sound 26th ult.—crew saved.

The last Quarter's Tables of the Revenue were
riven at length in the Observer of yesterday. The
:,t publication of the Observer commences at five
o'clock
Sunday mornings. A Monday afternoon edition
ten si v
o e n
the Observer is regularly published. Price Fivepence.

DIED.
On the lat inst., at Guildford, Mr. James Smart, aged 72.
On the 2d inst., at Winehelsea, Sussex, Mary, relict of the late
Robert Stileman, Esq.
At Barnet, on the 3d inst., Walter 3l'Dowall, Esq., aged 7'.'.

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