The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

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EVENING SUN.

THE OXFORD CONTROVERSY..
LETTER FROM LORD ASHLEY.
" St. Giles' House, Dec. 11, 1841.
" SIR—In the letter which I have had the honour .of
receiving from you to solicit my vote and interest in
Mr. Williams's behalf,' you desire also, on the part or.',
the Committee, a reply to their communication.
" I hasten to furnish that reply.
" The Rev. Isaac Williams has presented himself for-
the vacant chair of the Professor of Poetry. I have..
no doubt whatever that he possesses all those amiable,
qualities and high attainments which his supporters put.
forward as the ground of his election. Nor should I
hesitate, as I replied to my friend Dr. Pusey, to render.him any private service that might lie within my power;,.
but the Rev. Gentleman claims a public post, and seeks
to be invested with public authority ; and it has be-
come, tf:erefore, the duty of every one, who has a voice
in the decision, to consider the consequences of raising
him to such NI office.

The Rev. Mr. Williams aspires to be a moral teacher ;
the Professor of Poetry in a Christian "University must
impart to his writings and his lectures, frequently on.
secular, always on sacred, subjects those sentiments and
principles which he believes to be essential to the propaga,
Lion of the truth ; this we should expect of a layman; we
should demand it of a minister. The late accomplished,
and amiable Professor was animated by this spirit, and.
published, with the attraction of his respected name and:
the authority of his official station, sundry poems of ad.-
mitted talent and disputed theology.
"I am now summoned to consider whether a similar
appointment would not confer a simile,: authority.
" The venerable members of Trinit; College have
issued a disclaimer fur Mr. Williams hitoself, and have
deprecated, on the part of others, any attempt whatever-
to introduce, upon the occasion, questions of . theological:
controversy.'
" With all the deference that is due from a lay-
man, I cannot believe myself at liberty to set aside
these important considerations. I acknowledge the
latitude of speculation that must be permitted to
all the members of a common Church ; but there
are limits, I maintain, which must not be over-
p3,Bsed, at least without a solemn and indignant protest.
on the part of those who have bkh an opportunity and.
a right to give an opinion.
e I have ena:avoured, then, to ascertain the principles
of Mr. Williams, aid I have found that he is the* author
of the tract entitled iteserve in Communicating Aeri-
gious Knowledge.'
" There is no power on earth that shall induce "Ile
to assist in elevating the writer of that paper to the
station of a public teacher. I see very little difference*
between a man who promulgates false doctrine and him..
who suppresses the true. I cannot concur in the
approval of a candidate whose writings are in
contravention of the inspired Apostle, and reverser
his holy exultation that he had net shunned too
declare, to his readers, the whole counsel of God."
I will not consent to give my support, however
humble,- towards the recognition of exoteric and esoteric
doctrines in the Church of England, to obscure the per-
spicuity of the Go:Tel by the philosophy of Paganism,.
and make the places set apart for the ministrations of the
preacher, whose duties must mainly be among the poor,
the wayfaring, and the simple, as mystic and mcompl.e-
hensible as the grove of Eleusis.
" These, Sir, are my reasons for refusing my vote to
Mr. Williams ; and I hope I have given my answer as
candidly as you have required it.
" I am, Sir, your very obedient servant,
" Roundell Palmer, Esq. " ASHLEY."

MEMORIAL TO THE QUEEN,
FROM THE WOMEN OF ,BOLTON.

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On Thursday morning George Thorcpson, Esq., the
celebrated advocate of the oppressed, delivered a lecture
on the nature of the Corn-laws, to an assembly of ladies,
in the Town Hall, Little Bolton, preparatory to the
adoption of a memorial to the Qiteen, supplica!Ang her
interferenfe for the relief of her starving people- 11-
Heywood, Esq., occupied the chair ; and we oboe:wed
present, Messrs. Darbishire, E. Ashworth, W. Naisbyf
Rev. W. Jones, Rev. William Fraser, and other gentle-
men. We refer with great pleasure to the memorial
adopted on the occasion by the women of Bolton, which
will .be found in our advertising columns. The meeting,
which was numerous and respectable, was addressed by
the zealous and indefatigable philanthropist in a quiet,,
conversational style, which moved many of his fair audi-
tors even to tears. He described, with deep pathos, the
scenes of deep wretchedness he had that morning wit-
nessed, during a round of visits he had made to the
abcdes of poverty in Bolton—old men and women,
and young children literally starving ; families without
beds, without clothes, without fire, and without food..
The eloquent speaker went on to describe the spirit with
which the women of Manchester had taken up the ques-
tisn of memorialising the Queen. They had made it.
not a political but a humanity question. Ladies belong-
ing to families widely differing in their politics, were
there acting cordially together as a sisterhood of charity,
in the grand work of benevolence. The town had been
divided into districts, and fifty ladies had each under-
taken the canvassing, either by themselves or their
assistants, of one of these divisions, for the purpose of
obtaining signatures to a memorial similar to- that which
he was about to propose for their adoption. The unfa-
vourable weather had not deterred these ladies from pur-
suing this labour of love. There they were, day after
day, going about from door to door, collecting the signa-
tures of all classes of females, and witnessing in their
rounds the-most appalling evidences of thateide-spread
misery, vi hick their memorial prayed her Majesty to
interfere in relieving. In urging the ladies 511. e hint
to follow the example of their sisters at Manche r, he
did not wish to go into an abstruse discussion of the Corn-
, law, though he agreed with the gentlemen around him,
that the bread-tax tended to destroy trade, and to throw
people out of employment, as well as to make bread
dear ; and he wished especially to impress it upon them,
that the Corn-law was unjust. It was a law enacted by
the rich landlords, for their own benefit, at the expense
of the oppressed poor. But he would fix their attention
chiefly in the awful amount of suffering around them,
and then he believed they would be anxious to remove its
causes, the chief of which he believed to be the Can-law.
He reminded them of the influence they had exercised
on the question of slavery, and declared his belief, that
it required but the women of Britain to give the casting
vote for the repeal of the bread-tax. Mr. Thompson
having read the memorial—Mr. E. Ashworth, in propo-
sing its adoption, described a most affecting scene he had
witnessed in Bolton a few days ago: it was the case of a
sober family, who were obliged to pawn their last sheet,
to save themselves from perishing of hunger. Alluding
to the sentiments expressed by Mr. Thompson, Mr.
Ashworth (addressing the ladies) said, if any one at-
tempted to deter them from this work by calling it poli-
tical, they might depend on it that person was political-
-The Rev. Mr. Fraser alluded to the extraordinary ex-
tions of the women of Bolton in the anti-slavery question,
when they obtained upwards of 12,000 signatures to
their petition. At the same time they gave a stimulus
to Manchester, by their noble example. The women of
Manchester expected on this occasion to reach eighty or
a hundred thousand signatures. Let them emulate this
zeal, and give an example to other places in their turn.
A Committee of Ladies, to make the necessary arrange-
ments, having been formed, and thanks having been voted
to the Chairman, the meeting broke up about one o'clock.
Afton Free Press.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
YESTERDAY.
'ElitiltleSi"nteL—
re'Ss-t in the business transacted
axafTteAvrenTroylon, nor is it at all probable that any-
thing seriously was
eriously important will be done on this side Fe-
bruary.. The few bets made, however, served to show an
alteration in Attila, Chatham,
dand Ballinkeele, each
Gorham, The Lord of liofde°rnYeess
quotation, Robert de
having backers at an fin r
alsodegree in favour,
frt
h ob
suet
lastthe prices , and Wiseacre, were
rea
dhs
uthatrsdaL
Lord
conceded i n did not vary in an essential
Robert de Gorham, againstquoted, except in the instance of
fan announced notsuonnwer whom an advance of three
d a solitary bet in fifties. It was
Bruce's Rostrum (the Rosalie colt)
lastr from the effects of an accident.
THE DERBY.
8 to 1 agst ColonelPeeElß'sßlio-;
8 toto 1
1 agst Colonel Anson's Attila
11
agst Colonel Peel's Chatham—taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Verulam's Robert de Gorham—t.
25 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clark's Lord of ilolderness—t.
25 to 1 agst Mr. Maher's Ballinkeele
33 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Dirce
e colt
tak—takeand
n
34 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wiseacren
afterwards offered
40 to 1 agst Ld Westminster's William de Fortibus—t
50 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Phcenix
50 to 1 agst Mr. Riunshaw's Moss Trooper
50 to 1 agst Lordso Master -taken.
1100 to 10 agst G. Bentinck's Felix—taken.
1000 to 5 agst Chatham, for the Derby and St Leger,
and the Baleine filly the Oaks, two being barred for the
latter—taken
400 to 50 agst Attila, and 550 to 50 apt Chatham, in
one bet.

OAKS.
11 to 1 agst • • 'sso ni" ass
Ssiiso.nto—Ytaokreklishire Lad
2145
6 to 1 agst 31‘firr. Ectwwalili
t Duke of Rutland's Baleine filly—bakery
tow 11 agst Mr. Bowes's Lass of Lonton—taken
25 to 1 agst Captain Gardnor's f by Sheet Anchor,
dam by Drutandorf--taken
THE LATE DERBY—MR.. GURNEY'S ACCOUNT
notice was posted yesterday at Tut-
ter,T3' The
he following Managers
of Mr. Gurney's Epsom account, together with a balance
sheet, by which it appears that they hare completely
satisfied the claims of all the creditors, we are of opi-
nion that the Managers have faithfully and honourably
e
discharged the trust which they undertook, under
sanction of the Stewards of the Jockey Club.
" GEORGE " BEDPORD,ANSON,
" GEORGE BYNG."
" Woburn Abbey, Dec. 11, 1841."
The parties who paid their losses to the Managers, on
their undertaking to settle with the creditors in full by
the end of the Houghton Meeting, and who have de-
manded their money back, on the growl(' that this con-
tract was not fulfilled, insist that this document was ob-
tained upon an ex parte and incorrect statement of the
accounts, and that ono of the principal creditors still re-
mains unsatisfied to a considerable amount.

The springs in the neighbourhood of Chichester
have broken unusually early this year, and a-great por-
tion of the underground apartments in the city have at
this time from one to three feet of water. This of course
subjects the inhabitants to very great inconvenience.
The brooks in the neighbourhood, in many places, over-
flow their banks ; and the river Lavent, which generally
through eight months of the year is quite dry, presen is
at this time the appearance of a rapid torrent.—Honp-
shire Advertiser.