The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-13 00:00:00

[PRICE SD.

" SAML. -OXON.
" To the Right Hon. the Lord John Russell, &c."

" Chpl, Dec. 8, 1847.
"My Lords,--I haveesham- had theace honour to receive a
representation signed by your Lordships on the sub-
ject of the nomination of Dr. Hampden to the see of
Hereford.
" I observe that your Lordships do not state any
want of confidence on your part in the soundness of
Dr. Hampden's doctrine. Your Lordships refer me
to a decree of the University of Oxford passed eleven
years ago, and founded upon lectures delivered fifteen
years ago.
" Since the date of that decree Dr. Hampden has
acted as Regius Professor of Divinity. The Uni-
versity of Oxford, and many bishops, as I am told,
hare required certificates of attendance on his lec-
tures befbre they proceeded to ordain candidates who
had received their education at Oxford. He has
likewise preached sermons, for which he has been
honoured with the approbation of several prelates of
our Church.

" Several months before I named Dr. Hampden to
the Queen for the see of Hereford, I signified my in-
tention to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and did not
receive from him any discouragement.
" In these circumstances, it appears to me that
should I withdraw my recommendation of Dr. Hamp-
den, which has been sanctioned by the Queen, I
should virtually assent to the doctriie that a decree
of the University of Oxford is a perpetual ban of ex-
clusion against a clergyman of eminent learning and
irreproachable life, and that, in fact, the supremacy
which is now by law vested in the Crown is to be
transferred to a majority of the members of one of
our Universities.

" Nor should it be forgotten that many of the most
prominent among that majority have since joined the
Communion of the Church of Rome.
" I deeply regret the feeling that is said to be
common among the clergy on this subject. But I
cannot sacrifice the reputation of Dr. Hampden, the
rights of the Crown, and what I believe to be the
true interests of the Church, to a feeling which I be-
lieve to be founded on misapprehension and fomented
by prejudice.

"Ai the same time I thank your Lordships for an
interposition which I believe to be intended for the
public benefit.—l have, kc.,

"J. RUSSELL.
" To the Right Rev. the Bishops of London, Win-
chester, Lincoln, &c."

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen, accompanied by the Royal Family,
took a drire, on Friday afternoon, in a carriage and
four.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at-
tended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George
Couper, left Osborne at eleven o'clock on Saturday
morning, crossed in the Fairy steam-packet to Gos-
port, and took her departure by the London and
South- Western Railway, on her return to her resi-
dence, Frogmore House, Windsor.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked, on Satur-
day, in the pleasure grounds of Osborne.
The Royal Children took an airing in a carriage
on Saturday.
The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay, and Sir
James Clark, arrived at Osborne, on Saturday after•
noon, on a visit to the Queen.
The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay remained
at Osborne yesterday.

Ilis Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge at-
tended a meeting of the Trustees of the British
Mtvieurn on Saturday. His Royal Highness returned
to Hatfield House, Herts, the seat of the Marquis of
Salisbury, in the afterno,in.
A Cabinet Council was held at half past three
o'clock on Saturday lafternoon, at the private resi-
dence of Lord John Russell, in Chesham-place.
The Ministers present were—Lord John Russell,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Viscount
Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the Earl of Auckland, Lord Campbell, the
Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Viscount Morpeth, and
the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay.
The Council sat two hours.

DR. HAMPDEN.
PROTEST OF THE BISHOPS.
The following important correspondence has taken
place in reference to the appointment of Dr. Hampden
to the see of Hereford :
" My Lord,—We, the undersigned Bishops of the
Church of England, feel it our duty to represent to
your Lordship, as head of her Majesty's Government,
the apprehension and alarm which have been excited
in the minds of the clergy by the rumoured nomina-
tion to the see of Hereford of Dr. Hampden, in the
soundness of whose doctrine the University of Ox-
ford has affirmed, by a solemn decree, its want of
confidence.
" We are persuaded that your Lordship does not
know how deep and general a feeling prevails on this
subject, and we consider ourselves to be acting only
in the discharge of our bounden duty both to the
Crown and to the Church, when we respectfully but
earnestly express to your Lordship our conviction
that if this appointment be completed, there is the
greatest danger both of the interruption of the peace
of the Church, and of the disturbance of the confi-
dence which it is most desirable that the clergy and
laity of the Church should feel in every exercise of
the royal supremacy, especially as regards that very
delicate and important particular, the nomination to
vacant sees.
" 'We have the honour to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's obedient, faithful servants,
" C. J. LONDON.
" C. WINTON.
" J. LINCOLN.
" CHR. BANGOR.
" HUGEL CARLISLE.
" G. ROCHESTER.
" RICH. BATII AND WELLS.
" J. H. GLOUCESIER AND BRISTOL.
"11. F.VFTER.
" E. SARUM.
" A. T. CHICHESTER.
" J. ELY.