The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-17 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, Di C 16 —Thu Peninsular an
Oriental Company's steam-ship Montrose, Captain J.
Bowen, with the usual Peninsular mails, in charge of
Lieut. James Ing it N., arrived at half-I)aq eleven
o'clock, F.M. During the homeward voyage of the
Montrose she experienced strong westerly winds and
thick weather.

Iler dates of sailing were, Gibraltar, Dec. 6;
Cadiz, 7; Lisbon, 10; Oporto, 11 ; Vigo, 12.
The freight of the Montrose was large and valuable,
consisting of 14 boxes of specie, 348 boxes of oranges,
137 cases of eggs, 132 barrels of dates, 100 boxes
of almonds, &c.
The passengers by the Montrose amount to about
twenty, amongst whom were Capt4in Hussey, Mrs.
Hussey and three children, Mrs. Shells, Mr. Green-
wood, Mr. 13raidwaite, Mrs. Morgan, &c.

STATIONS OF LIER MAJESI MITS.
At Gibraltar—ller Majesty's etextri-ship Janus.
Dec. 6, at seven rig , exchanged blue lights with
three of her Majesty's is teatti•bbips steering in for
braltar Bay, off Cabreta Point, supposed to be the
Arrogant, Encounter, und llogue. They left Lisbon
Dec. 4.

At Lisbon—The Leander, Scourge, and Con-
flict ; Russian frigate Pallas; Austrian frigateVrnere.
Dec. 12, at one P.M., exchanged colours with the
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ju-
piter, in lat. 42 28 N , long. 8 58 W., steering to the
southward against a fresh south-west gele.
Dec 14, at three r m., exchanged signals with the
barque Mountaineer, in lat. 48 60 N., steering to the
eastward ; a fresh breeze and thick weather.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Sultan arrived at Gibraltar on the s:h inst., and left
the same day for Malta and Constantinople.
At Gibraltar it is stated that two or three cases of
cholera had occurred in the garrison.
The quarantine restrictions at Lisbon had been re-
newed in regard to vessels from Great Britain.
Exchange on London, 54. Discount on Lisbon
Bank-notes, 15. All Government papers are getting
higher prices.

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JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE
PRIVY COUNCIL-(THIS DAY.)

GORHAM V. THE "BISHOP OF EXETER.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Mr. BADELEY continued to say that his learned
friends the counsel for the appellant had rested
their case almost entirely on the Articles
of the Church of England. They did not
allow the Prayer-book to be relied on as a declaration
of doctrine, if the Articles themselves were silent.
He apprehended that was an entirely erroneous view.
So far as the Prayer•book was concerned he
apprehended it stood on precisely the same footing
as the Articles of the Church of England, that they
were both to be looked at concurrently, that the one
was not to supersede the other, and that if the mean-
ing of ;he one was not sufficiently clear or needed ex-
planation, that explanation was to be sought for from
the other. When he said they were both of equal
authority, there could be very little doubt that that
was so, for both emana`ed from convocation, and
both were confirmed by statute. It had been over
and over ?weir) said by the counsel for the appellant
that the A tides of pa ClArc'l of Engh nd were her
cede of faith. He (Mr. Badeley) fully admitted that the
Articles did expl citly and completely state the doctrine
upon any particular point; but if the Book of Com-
mon Prayer spoke of any doctrine and explained it
more fully, he must stand by that explanation of the
Articles rather than by the Articles themselves. A
very little examination of the Articles would show
that some of them were not drawn up with any very
severe precision; some six of them were, but there were
many that were not so, for instance that upon the
Sacrament. The 25th Article said, " There are two
Sacraments ordained of Christ our Lord in the
Gospel, that is to say, baptism and the Supper of the
Lord. 'I hose five commonly called Sacraments,
that is to say, Confimation, Penance, Orders, Ma-
trimony, and Extreme Unction are not to be
counted for sacraments of the Gospel, being such as
have grown partly of the corrupt following of the
apostles, partly are sta.es of life allowed in the
Scriptures; but yet have not like nature of Sacra-
ments with Baptism and the Lord's Supper, for
that they have not any visible sign or
ceremony ordained of God." Now upon that
let their Lordships take the doctrine of
confirmation. No doubt confirmation was a rite of
the Church, that bishops were bound to administer it,
and that the clergy were bound to bring the children
in:their congregations to receive it. It the doctrine
of baptismal regeneration was not plainly put forth by
the Church of England, there was no doctrine that the
Church of England had put forward. She seemed
most% particularly to have enunciated that doctrine ;
and certainly there was none more plainly advanced
by her. The Learned Counsel, in support of this
assertion, read portions of the offices of the Church of
England for infant and adult baptism, and of the
homilies. He contended that the spiritual regeneration
of infants at baptism was a doctrine which had been
held by St. Augustine and all the early Christian
fathers,:and from their time down to the Reformation,
and tl:ence to the present time; and was therefore to
be regarded as the absolute unqualified and declared
doctrine of the Church of England.
Tne Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE asked Mr.
Badeley if the term. prevenient grace was anywhere to
be found in theological writings, except those of Mr.
Gorham ?
Mr. BADELEY replied that he had not found the
term used in any of the Articles or formularies
of the Church of England, nor indeed in
any theological writings with which he was
acquainted. The term preventive grace was
to be found in the Articles, but never the words pre-
venient grace. The Learned Counsel proceeded at
great length to contend that the plain teaching of the
Church of' England on the matter of infant baptism
ought to be taken, accepted, and acted on in its plain
and literal construction, and that if any latitude of in •
terpretation were to be allowed among the clergy on
this most fundamental point, maxim tot homines tot
sententim would prevail with respect to it, and there
would be no end to the mischiefs which would ensue.
The Learned Counsel had not concluded his argu-
ment at five o'clock, when the Council rose. The
hearing stands adjourned until to-morrow morning,
at ten o'clock.

LONDON AND BL A CKWALL
RAILWAY COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.)
A special general meeting of the shareholde of this
company took place to-day at the London Tavern,
for the purpose of taking into consideration the report
from the committee of proprietors appointed at the
half-yearly meeting of the company, held in August
last.
J. N. DANIEL, Esq., the chairman of the company,
took the chair shortly after twelve o'clock, when
Mr. GOLDSMID, the chairman of the committee,
proceeded to draw the attention of the proprietors
to the report of the committee, and to the
observations made upon the several parts of that re-
port by the directors. From his statement and the
report it appeared that there had been great mis-
management in the conducting of the line in many
respects, especially in persons being able to get into
the carriages of the company without paying ; the
inconveniences at the Brunsv% ick Pier ; the charging
too high for the transit of some goods and too low
for others; and that the interest of the
proprietors had been overlooked by the
directors in the course they had pursued. The
committee recommended that there should be one
general manager of the line who should be well paid,
and the whole management of the railway should be
placed under his control ; and that, in order to effect
this, the salary of the directors should be reduced
from 1,0001 to TOO/. a year. The report also recom-
mended that no officer of the company should hold
any office in any other company. Alr. Goldsmid,
after adverting at considerable length to the statements
in the report, moved that the report, and the obser-
vations of the directors upon it, should be ,entered
upon the minutes.
The CHAIRMAN at some length defended the course
pursued by the directors, and the answer given by
them to the assertions in the report of the committee.
After some considerable and irregular discussion,
the motion was agreed to, and the meeting then pro-
ceeded to discuss the propositions of the committee
seriatim, wlich occupied a considerable time.
(The meeting bad not concluded when our paper
went to press.)

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING

Six o'CLocx.

CHESTER CUP.
50 to 1 agst Lismahagow
50 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn
1000 to 15 agst Idle Boy
1000 to 10 agst Sir Richard
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STARES.
2 to 1 agst Beehunter
6 to 1 agst Hardinge
DERBY.
9 to 1 agst Bolingbroke
11 to 1 agst Ghillie Callum
11 to 1 agst Knight of Avenel
15 to 1 agst The Italian
20 to 1 agst the Nigger
25 to 1 agst Voltigeur
25 to 1 apt Mildew
30 to 1 agst Clincher
33 to 1 agst Mayors
40 to 1 agst Harding°

RUNAWAY BANKRUPTS.—Two gross instances of
bankrupts absconding from their creditors, carrying
with them valuable property and large sums of money,
have just been brought to light in the London Court of
Bankruptcy. In one case, that of Noah Pattenden, of
Oxford, woollen-draper, the bankrupt, after obtaining
goods of the wholesale London warehousemen to the
value of between 5,0001. and 6,0001., and disposing of
them by forced sales by public auction, absconded, taking
with him nearly 2,000/. in money. It is believed he has
gone to Australia, and since his flight kr. Archibald
Harvey, a warehouseman, of Bow-churchyard, states
that he has discovered that the bankrupt had committed
a number of forgeries. Mr. Cooper, the messenger in
Mr. Commissioner Shepherd's court, has succeeded in
obtaining for the creditors the bankrupt's stock in
trade, valued at cost price at 6871., and some furniture,
plate, &c,, worth about 200/. In the other case, that of
Charles Cotton Butterfield, of the Petersfield Bank, it
has been ascertained within the last few days that the
bankrupt took with him notes and gold exceeding 3,000/.
Previously to his departure from this country he had
violated, in more than one instance, the sacred ties of
hospitality and friendship as regarded the wife and
daughter of a neighbour. He was last seen at Paris, and
and is now in Italy. Mr. James Johnstone, the mes-
senger, upon completing his information, will proceed to
the continent for the purpose of recovering the property
and person of the bankrupt, who was proclaimed an
outlaw some time since. He is the son of Admiral
Bu•tei field. and h s deserted his wife and family.
ANCIENT BRITISH VILLAGIL—SORIe very interest-
ing remains of an ancient British village have been dis-
covered by a Mr. 11. Harrod, the indefatigable secretary
of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, on
the crest of a range of hills at.Weybourne, near Holt.
They consist of a collection of pits, of the uniform depth
of four and diameter of eight feet, amounting in number
to some hundreds, and extending upwards of a quarter
of a mile. At a short distance from the village are the
remains of sepulchral tumuli, probably the burial-place
of theiabariginal tribe.—Bury Post.
--- -,'"- SWANE4,IA, DEC. 16.—The Shamrock schooner was
lost on the,Nash Sand, 11th instant; crew saved.
SuNDXIiIIIAND, DEC. 16.—Part of a boat's stern,
marked "J. dy Gormanby of Whitby" outside, and past
.'
_ i of the nap _of Sanluel„inside, has been pinked up near

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