The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-11 00:00:00

The Princess of Wales.

The Princess of Wales, accompanied by his
Royal. Highness the Crown Prince of Denmark,
took a carriage drive yesterday.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
will have a dinner party at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, to-
morrow.

The Earl and Countess Grey have arrived at
their mansion on Carlton House-terrace, from a protracted
sojourn on the Continent.
The Earl and Countess Howe arrived at their
residence in South Audley-street, a few days back, from
Gopsall Hall, Leicestershire, for the season.
The Countess de Grey will have an evening partY
on Wednesday next at the family mansion in Carlton
Gardens.
Viscount Maynard is in a very weak state, and
his medical attendants give his family but slight hopes of
his recovery.

The Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait had a
dinner party yesterday evening at London House, St•
James's-square. Among the guests were Viscount and
Lady Mary Sandon, Lord and Lady Rollo, Lord Ebury
and Hon. Miss Grosvenor, Hon. William and Mrs. Ashley,
Sir Chas. and Lady Anderson, General and Mrs. Malcolm,
Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien, the Rev. J. E. and Mrs. Kempe,
Mrs. Davenport, Mr. Tait, Mr. J. Campbell Tait, Mr•
Frederick Calvert, &c. Mrs. Tait had a reception later in
the evening.

Sir David Davies, M.D., expired yesterday morn-
ing. The deceased, who received the honour of knight-'
hood shortly after her Majesty's accession to the throne,
was for many years the domestic physician of his
Majesty Ring William IV. and his consort Queen Adelaide.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. —The marriage °I
Lieut.-Colonel Sir Henry Marsham Havelock, Bart., son of
the late Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.8., with Lady Alice
Morton, was solemnised yesterday in the church of St•
George's, Hanover-square. late

Mr, Gladstone and Oxford,

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The following letter, in reference to the coming
University election at Oxford, has been addressed
by the Right Hon. Sir John Coleridge to the Guar-
dian newspaper ; and, out of consideration for the
honoured and learned writer of the letter, we here
give it insertion in our columns :
Sir,—You have been in the habit of admitting correspon:
dence with reference to the expected election at Oxford.
request you to give me room for a few observations, 111"
though I shall certainly not be led by them into any Or"
respondence on the subject.
I have been very much struck with so much of a letter
from Dr. Pusey to the editor of the Churchman as appeared
iu the Times of the 28th of April ; and although I am not
vain enough to suppose that anything I can say ought to
have the authority which belongs to what he has said, Ye/
as a very old lay member of Convocation, I hope I Dl*
without impertinence or impropriety, venture to address
through you a few remarks to the electors of Oxford as I:
matter touching so nearly the interests and reputation Uf
our common mother.

I am proud as an Oxford man of our present represents"
tives. No member on his own side of the house is heard
with more respect and even affectionate attention than Sir
William Heatcote,—no one's character cut of it can stand
higher as a Christian gentleman. In the house and out of
it equally, his talents for the transaction of business are re-
markable. I speak from long acquaintance, ripened, I
thankfully say, into intimate friendship, when I describe
his courtesy, his ability, his integrity as admirable ; the
soundness and sincerity of his religious principles as un-
questionable. So much I may say of him : I wish I could
properly say of him all that I feel. Perhaps it was ur
necessary to say so much, because I understand that on all
hands it is agreed that he is to be re-elected.
In Mr. Gladstone we are represented by a statesman, the
originality of whose views, and the simple earnestness,----
call it, if you please, impetuosity,—of whose manner, have
provoked many, from whom in his political career he hag
differed, but whose integrity or sincerity not the bitterest
of his opponents has ventured to question. We have a
scholar worthy of his University ; we have an ea-
lightened statesman—the most successful and scion'
tific financier of the age—and an orator whom I think
I do not over-praise when I call him the greatest whoa
this century has produced. If any one thinks I exaggerate
let him consider on how many and on what different sub-
jects and occasions he has spoken, and as to the Insulter'
the lucidity of his arrangement, the clearness and force of
his language ; as to the matte; the astonishing amount
and variety of his knowledge, the force and subtlety of bif-i
argumentation.
Why is he not to be re-elected ? Not because anything
I haVe just said is denied to be true, but because wall
men, sincere Churchmen I doubt not, differ from hire
some Church matters. They do not question, 1 believe--
lam sure they ought not to question—that he is as sincere
a Churchman as they are, or that he has applied his acute
mind to them with as much sincerity and industry as the/
have bestowed on them. But they differ, and because °I
this difference they will have none of him.
Now, I venture to submit to them that this is a wreas
principle in regard to such an election ; it is wrong to vetAe
on a principle of partial agreement or disagreement, B'3'
not on a fair consideration of the merits of the whole mom'
Do they expect ever to be represented by a man
whom they agree in every particular ?—will they submit'
themselves in nothing to a difference of opinion with bite
whom they send to Parliament ?
In respect to an Oxford election, the conduct pursued
and now avowed towards Mr. Gladstone has been, I will
venture to say, without a precedent. The case of Sir
Peel is often appealed to ; it is entirely distinguishable.
may speak without delicacy of that personally, because
disagreed with my dearest friends upon it, and although t
was then strongly opposed to the Emancipation, I wen:
to Oxford and supported Sir Robert Peel. But I edie3l
and I say, the case was different—the question then at
issue was deemed vital to the Church. Sir Robert, When
he changed his line of conduct in regaid to it, honourably
resigned, and offered himself for re-election. In so doing
he challenged the University to pronounce on the step he
had taken ; she could not have re-elected him without
saw
pressly approving his new opinions, and pronounciss
against her own old and unchanged ones : the poll was t°
determine not so much whether Sir Robert was to be rOl
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elected, as whether Oxford was at once, and as it ave,a-
have seemed without conviction but at the beck of
nister, to support Emancipation. I regretted at the tittle'
but I cannot now condemn the resolution she adopted.
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I sincerely respect and regard Mr. Hardy. I think bite t
excellent member of Parliament. I hope he will find a 5e%
there, but I trust that he will not be offended if I expret
my regret that he has been induced to lend his name to tb:,
miserable travestie of what then took place. As the °o
jority•then voted not so much to elect Sir Robert Inglis s 0
to exclude Sir Robert Peel, so now we shall have (I tresrp
a minority voting not so much out of a well-merited resl37..
for Mr. Hardy, as out of a bitter, all but personal, (0.10
tion to Mr. Gladstone. My confidence in Mr. G105t0...„
is as Dr. Pusey's, perfect, and it is unshaken ; moreover;
also confide in the principles which I believe to aetalle
him ; and as I yield to no man in my attachment to
Church of England, or in respect to the clergy and bocl9c
10,
desire to add one word of affectionate and earnest adliei
The clergy will, I am sure, commit a fatal mistake, if t
band themselves together, under whatever leaders, to
pose all progress—all change ;if they confound i the To
portance of externals and internals, of that will:0.
accessory, and may be temporary, with that which is lr'ios
They must be blind indeed who cannot read the mean poi
of the history of the last half-century; they must irit•
strangely minded who can doubt the force of these 40,
which has been and is at work—it is easy to call it not
spirit—but though not all good, nor all-wise, it is 11.,,
evil : wise men will not deal with: it blindly, or Nrlt.'udg,
temperate and inconsiderate opposition, but Witiqo jay
ment, temper, candour, and charity. It has not Yet, 1, the
opinion, lessened in a single fibre the vital strengtbcohltirox
Church; nor will it do so. I firmly believe, if the at oil
be true to herself,—if Churchmen will be less blte..eco-
defending even her unquestionable rights, than ou.'
ing her from decay or injury within; if they labour
.te;iet,
differences that distract her energies in a spirit net labor()
charitable ; to purify her from all abuses which ma help to
crept into her practice, and to present her by God 'l',
criff-
friend and foe as the most tolerant, charitable, an
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tural branch of *the great Church of Christ.
Heaths Court, May 1, 1865. JOHN T. CoLEItl9°.
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CAPE MAILS.—The Union ComPanYlisas, from
royal mail steamship Cambrian, Captain W. La Toes,.
Toes-
Southampton on Monday, arrived. at Plymouth the Cape,
day, when having embarked mails for Ascension,_tr 0003,
and St. Helena, under the superintendence of 31. for bet
corning
postmaster, Devonport, she left yesterday superintendency
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destination. She takes out also about 70 passeu
o'eo 1000
full general cargo. Her mails consist of 15
17 sacks books, and 88 sacks newspapers.