The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNES:DAY, JUNE te, 1841.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Rectory, Feniton, June 11, 1841.
SIR—I have seen in the newspapers a long account o!'
the Bishop of Chester's Charge to his Clergy. I beg leave
to observe, in the first place, that the Gospel which is
there preached is “. no Gospel at all," (to borrow his
Lordship's phrase ;) and in the second place, that his
Lordship would be a much more faithful Minister if he
were as zealous for nforming as he seems to be for
extending the Church.
_ .

I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
11. E. HEAD.

" fly one way alone (his Lordship is reported to have
said) can man propitiate the Son, and that is by believing on
him His faith in this atonement wnich leads to his
acceptance," &c., &c.

With all due respect to the Bishop of Chester—man cannot
" propitiate the 5.,n," either by " believing on him," or by
anything else. '1 he doctrine of Scripture, and of the Thirty-
nine Ankles, (which the Bishop of Chester does not seem to
understand any more than the r st cf his Right Reverend Bre-
thren,) is, that the Divine Saviour saves and regenerates the
clidthesi of promise of his own free grace ; and thin "believing "
is the effect (and not the cause) of tlrs salvoion. What his
Lordship preaches, if one may judge from this " Charge" is,
a more plausible kind of Posejd-m, or Popery. The eirors in
the Confirmation Sei vice, which are couiitenanced is this
Chari,e, may seem light in the eye. of the 'r Lordships the
Bisho, s ; but they arse far from being light in the eyes of
him who warns us nut to " tea,h things which we ought not
for filthy lucre's s. ke " I am far from imputing what are
usually cal ed sordid motives to the Bishop of Chester. I
only assert that principles entirely subversive of the Gospel,
and contrary to it, are to be tound, as well in his Lord-
ship s Charge, as in the Confirmation Service which he up-
holds. The Puseyitcs speak of " reserve," in preaching the
doctrine of the Atonement. The truth is,—they do not under-
stand it. And this remark equally applies to the Bishop of
Chester—if the repor:.'of his Lordship's Charge (which occu-
pies three columns of the Record newspaper) be eon's et.
H. E. HEAD.

THE FLESH LUSTETH AGAINST THE SPIRIT,
AND THE SPIRIT AGAINT THE FLESH.-GAL.
v. 17.

By H. E. HEAD, A.M., Rector of Feniton.
This conflict is not experienced by unregenerate men. It
is not, the working or counterworking of feelings merely natu
rat It is not produced by one corrupt propensity waning
against another. Pharoah, for example, wished to lord it over
Israel ; but feared lest Egypt should be destroyed. lialaam
wished for the rewards of divination ; but feared the loss of
character as a seer of the visions of the Almighty. Ungodly
men in all ages wish to give the rein to lawless passion; but
fear some temporal calamity. All these cases are quite dis-
tinct from the conflict between the flesh and THE SPIRIT.
I. By whom is this conflict experienced? By the children
of pi omise, Ito. ix. 8, the heirS.rif salvation, Ileb. i. 14, the
seed of God, Hos. i. 4, whose names are written in the book
of life, who are chosen in Christ before the foundation of the
Eph. i. 4, by the children of God, in short, whose pe-
culiar distinction it is that the Spirit in due time enters their
hearts, Gal. iv. 6, in order to contend against the flesh, and to
save them, 1 John iv. 4, from perishing in its corruption.
This affords an answer to the questicn
11. Who are the contending parties in this conflict ? The
flesh and THE SPIRIT. The flesh is the entire nature with its
affections, as well as its lusts, which we derive from Adam, and
which we bring with us into the world. Its thoughts are only
evil continually, Gen. vi. 5. It brings forth evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, an evil eye, blasphemy,
pride, foolemess, Matt. xv. 19. Though it may some t.mes wear
a plausible or pleasing aspect—in reality, it is the enemy of
Got, and cannot please God, Ro. viii. 8. Therefore the thir.
teenth article testifies of all works done previously to regene-
ration, that they are not pleasing to God, that they are not
performed on the principle of evangelical obedience, and that
they partake of the nature of sin. Therefore our Lord declares
that those who continue unn-generate shall bo at length stripped
of their apparent goodness, and that that which they seem to
have shalt be taken from them, Matt. xiii. 12.
The other contendire, part is " THE Sentur," that is, the
divine nature, 2 Peter i. 4, the second Adam, the eternal God
from heaven, 1 Cor. xv. 47, to whom the regenerate soul is
united as one Spirit, 1 Cor. vi. 17, " very and eternal God."
Article 5. The term " the Spirit" in such passages, does not
indicate anything inherent in the natural man —nor, on the
other hand, does it indicate the Third Person in the Deity,
to the exclusion ef the other two; but rather Deity in gene-
ral, as contradistinguished from '5 the flesh." The divine
union of the regenerate soul with God is expressed variously.
For example—" If the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus
from the dead dwell in yt-u, he, &c., Ro. viii. 11 2 • Christ
liveth in me, Gal. ii. 20; know ye not that your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you? 1 Cor. vi. 19.
The peculiar operation of the PA RA CLETE is not the point un-
der consideration at present. Suffice it to remember that the
Triune God is signified by " the Spirit," the combatant who
was against the flesh, John iii. 6, iv. 24.
111. Who is the victor in this conflict ? This question surely
is quite unnecessary. For if the eternal God he one of the
contending parties, who or what can possibly prevail against
that ?

‘..0 then, if that be the case, the heirs of . salvation may fall
asleep! They may do next to nothing, or nothing, or worse
than nothing ! They are sure to be saved, let them do what
they will !"
To this very shallow but not very new method, Ro. iii. 8,
of raising objections to truth—the answer is clear and obvi,,us.
God will not suffer the heirs of salvaion to fall asleep. Or
•if they do, In will take care to awaken them.
Sampson, if he had been left. to himself, would have been
a perfect slave to Satan. But the Spirit of the Lord, in spite
of his corrupt nature, ever and anon came mightily upon him,
so that the enemies of holiness quaked for fear. the great
Elijah would have despaired. clad he been left to himself he
never would have arisen from that juniper tree. But the
Angel of the Lord came to the desponding Prophet, and con-
streined him by a touch to walk forty days and forty nights
without food or rest. The prophet Isaiah was for cutting
short the theme of inspiration with a " Woe is me, for I am
undone !" But the grand perspective of eternity was spread
before his passive sight ; and he became a pen in the hand of
the Almighty. Ihe prophet Daniel was stretched on his bed)
and there no doubt he would have fallen asleep. But lie was
constrained to behold the mystical beast—and to write what he
had beheld with feelings of the deepest awe.
The hi:id of the Lord is net shortened : nor do his children
need that helping hand now less than, formerly. So that
when they would give way to the carnal nature which works
within them, the Spirit of the Lord comes mightily upon them,
and in despite of sin, sloth, sorrow, and despondence, stirs
them tip to enterprise, and se:f denial—or sets before them pro-
phetic visions, causing their minds to understand, and their
hearts to delight in the things which the prophets have spoken
John xvi. 13. In this sense we may understand St. Paul's
words—lf the Spirit of him that raised ep Jesus from the dead
dwell in you
&c. Ito. viii. 11, so as to constrain you to render your mem-
bers instruments of righteousness unto God. Ro. vi. If we
content ourselves with anything short of this doctrine of the
divine Saviour's quickening and preventing power, expressly,
effectually, and perpetually exerted for our benefit—we throw
ourselves back upon our miserable works, into a worse position
than that of Adam before his fall—we make the word of'God of
none effect, and grace is no more grace, Ro. xi. 6. In short—
if it be objected to the security and perseverance of the saints
that "the flesh lusteth against the Spirit"—be it also remem-
bered (and blessed be God fir the expression—for it contains
the et.ergy of the Gospel !) that " THE SPIRIT CONTENDS
AGAINST TIIE FLESH." Hence they are already said to be
,nore than conquerors. Ro. vii. 25 ; viii. 37 ; 1 John v. 5.
Conquerors they are, and conquerors they always shall be—
unless you can prove man to be a more powerful combatant
than God. 1 Cor. xv. 57 ; 1 John iv. 4.
IV. This conflict (belt g the certain effect and token of
eternal life and salvation in those who experience it)—to what
is it to be attributed—on what foundation does it rest? It is
to be attributed to the eternal election of the Father.
iv. 6, audit is founded on the atonement of the blood of Christ
—a d.,x;rine which shall be con%iitered in the next tract.
V. 'The effect produced by this conflict in the children of
God, is—" bitterness and sweetness." Rev. x 10. The
" bitterness" arises from an experimental acquaintance with
original and actual sin. Ezek. xxxvi. 31—the ‘• sweetness"
from an adequate estimate of the length, breadth, depth, • and
height of the love of the Saviour, Eph. iii. 18, which causes
them to sing —O how sweet are thy words unto my throat !
Ps. cxix.
VI. The prize of this conflict is, that when Christ shall ap-
pear, the Sons of God shall be like him. 1 John iii. 2. The
greatest of :hem can hardly have more than this, and the least
shall eertainly not have less.

ELECTION' MOVEMEN TS.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
•
GLOUCESTER, MONDAY EVENING. —A requisition, nume-
rously and respectably signed, was last week presented to
H. H. Carter; Esq., Mayor, requesting him to convene a
meeting of the inhabitants, to express their opinion on the pro-
p ised repeal of the Corn-laws, and to forward the return of
two Corn-law tepeale.s for this city at the ensuing election.
In pursuance of which a meeting was appointed for one o'clock
this day, to be holden in the Tolsey. 'I he Mayor was called
to the chair, and shortly after the commencement of the pro-
ceedings the room was so densely crowded that an atijouin-
ment took place to the Shins flail, which was immediately
tilled. Tho greatest unanimity prevailed, excellent speeches
made, and resolutions condemnatory of the infamous Corn-laws
unanimously carried. J. Phillputs, Esq., M. I'. for the city,
was preser.t, and delivered an effective address in favour of
total repeal. He is safe, and there is every prospect of the re-
turn of Captain Berkeley as his roleague.

THC ELECTIONS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Allow me to direct your attention to Brighton. A
general election will soon take place, and it is wel known how
matters stand there—that the Liberal party, united, is strong
enough to carry triumphantly two Ilemhers ; but a fatal di-
vision in their ranks gave the Tories a chance of which they
eagerly availed themselves, and the consequence is that Liberal
Brighton is neutralised, the votes of their excellent Member
Captain Pechell are nullified by the counter •votes of Sir A.
Dalrymple. Well, is that division healed or not? If not, in
the burning struggle we shall see ret•eated the unace,nintable
scene, I do not wish to use strong language, of Liberals voting
fir their bittetest enemies, the Chartists supporting the man
who, on Mr. Duncombe's motion for the release of political of-
fenders, kept out of the way, who had. not the manliness to
record his vote against him, but whose character is well enough
shown by abstaining from voting. He owes his seat to the
Chartists—his vote would have turned the scale, his seat yet
depends on the support of the Chartists, he has thrown them
overboard at a most important moment. Will they again com-
mit such a political ,uicide as would be involved in the act of
supporting him ?—Your-s, &c. A LIBERAL.

THE WEATHER.---NooN, JUNE 15.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAT DE-STREET.
Barometer
nermometer... 59 Highest 7O I Lowest ...... 52
Wind N.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

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DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.—About a quarter before
three o'clock on Sunday morning last an alarming fire took
place on the extensive premises belonzing to Messrs. Fairburn
and Co., engineers and boiler-makers, situate near the river
eer
side at M 11-wall, Poplar, opposite Deptford Dockyard. It
appeared to have commenced in the paint workshop, a small
wooden builchng detached from the main premises, and was nut
extinguished until the pace was entirely burned dorm. The
loss will fall on the -tin It surauce Office. At the time the fire
wa, r Ming at Astley's Theatre on Tuesday morning-last, another
broke out in Church row, at
ad Luke'siunbove-ckuopfieSdth.uuse,
thp Church,ropty
m hick burnt with great fury for nearly an hour, and wholly
des- royed the premkses No. 5,n
of the Ironmongers Company.
An editor, out west, heads his list of marriageswi •., Asse items ;" another calls them " feats of the ring,"
The hay halseat has commenced in this neigh-
bourhood, several fields having been cut and carried off
in prbne condition, during the week. The crops in ge-
neral are very abundant, promising more than an ave-
rage yield. There is ever prospect of a fine harvest,
both as regards quantity and quality.---Carmarthen
Paper.

NEW AND HORRIBLE ATTEMPT
ON THE 'LIFE OF THE DUKE OF NORMAN
DY, SECOND SON OF LOUIS XVI. AND
MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE.
About four weeks ago this unfortunate Prince was officially
informed that his life was in' danger ; but strong in his confi-
dence in the Almighty, he contented himself by replying that
he would make intimation ofit to the police. According to his cus-
t om, he went to town upon the business of hit new invention, and
returned to his residence in the country, where for some time
past he had established his laboratory or workshop, for the
manufacture of certain military arms. We have already given
accounts in our papers of the 4tli lab, and 18th of April of
his new and formidable projectile, submitted to the inspection
of a committee of superior officers at Woolwich, at the same
time specifying that the committee had sent to the Prince
twelve thirty-two pounder bombs, and at his desire, another
eighty-two pounder, that so, he might, on a large:. scale,
exercise the full powers of his invention upon- 'them.
During the time that his alai Highness was engaged
in making the necessary pt eparations. for this . purl 0
various agents, hired by the Prince's political enemies,
and suitably disgu s d, after bribing the servants, fraudulently
introduced themselves into his house while he was absent,
though they but imperfectly succeeded in their diabolical
oject 3he Prince always works secretly, and these wretches,
having won over the fidelity of his domestic), found their way,
by that means, into the laboratory. The Prince. on his re-
turn, &covered nothing, except noticing that a key, similar
to his own, hail been lett in the house ; whereupon he repeated
his severest injunctions' against any person, on any pretext,
being admiqed into the house, and discharged forthwith the
suspected servant. The day following, the Prince, having re-
turned from the c.ty, to adjitst a piece of mechenism for his
preparative trial, was thus Occupied, when fire (the prepared
material of which had evidently been coneeyed into the room
during his absence, and concealed in .a heap of combustibles)
suddenly blazed out from a corner of the apartment. In less
than three seconds, the entire room was in flames; unfortu-
nately he had left, near the window, a small barrel full
of it.flammable ingredients,. an I which formed a
component of his Royal Highness's invention. The
Prince, terrified at danger so imminent, sprang into the
midst of the fire to snatch away the barrel that he might
hurl it through the window ; but at this moment, the stuff
it contained ignited, and the explosion was inevitable. Although
the barrel was already lifted to the window, by which alone the
exp'osion became less perilous the Prince's Lice was dreadfully
burnt, his left hsnd cruelly injured, and almost shattered, and
his right terribly burnt. The Prince then beheld himself
surrounded by flames, through which he was compelled to rush
to make his escape by the door; scarcely, however, was he out
of danger when he remembered that, in the same room, in a
corner to the right, he had left the machine destined to be
tr.:et! at Woolwich. which was his only hope, and on which he
had ,acrificed his last resources. Seizing water in haste, he
threw himself anew into the flames, fighting against them, and
an almost certain death, with the courage of a lion. His shirt
caught fire and scorched and lacerated his body. By means
of tno other measures of water, he at last succeeded in extin-
gu shieg the fire, unaided by any other person.
The Prince has wade a representation to the police, and
furnished them with such necessary clues as shall lead to the
discovery t.f the authors of this atrociaus;:ct. Justice awaits them
—her eye is already upon certain individuals known to have been,
on more occasions than one, guilty of other conspii acies against
the unfortunate son of Louis X VI. Let us hope that this time
the criminals, whosoever they may be, will not escape the im-
partial justice of our couctty.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
SPANISH SWINDLERS.
The soi-disant Marquis d'Albora and Chevalier Joseph
Speroni, of whose condemnatitin by default, on the 26th
nit., by the Correctional Tribunal of Blois, we have given
an account., having moved in arrest of judgment, were
again brought before the same tribunal on the 4th inst.,
to undergo a full trial, and as the summary of the in-
dictment, as given by the public prosecutor at the hear-
ing, furnished us with fuller details of the extraordinary
and eventful career of these adventurers than we were
before in possession of, we return to the subject. D'Albora
is a tine man, tall in stature, with a martial air, and a
remarkably quick and brilliant eve. He was dressed in
black, and conducted himself with confident assurance,
but without insolence. His associate, Speroni, on the con-
trary, was the very type of our friend Bertrand, the
huinole attendant of the notorious Robert Macaire.
Among the articles brought into court to be produced in
evidence, was a splendid uniform, richly embroidered with
silver, and a cross of the order of San Fernando. From
the statement of the substitute of the Procureur du
Rui, we collect the following facts:—D'Albora was
born at Genoa, in 1788. In 1812, lie was a lieutenant in
the trench Imperial Guard, but in that year deserted,
and was admitted by' the Junta of Cadiz as a captain in
the Arragon Hussars. Here he remained till 1814. when
he was arrested, and confined in the castle of Badajoz.
Being released by the amnesty of 1814, he was, in June,
1815, admitted into the King of Spain's Dragoons ; but
in 1816, in consequence of Isis vicious conduct, he was
discharged from the regiment, and sent out of the country.
In the year 1819 he appeared in Paris, and for. the first
time assumed the title of. Marquis, and the military rank
of colonel. In December, 1819, he was a prisoner of
state in Ivree, and in 1823 in the fort of Saint Charles,
at Fenestrelle. Front 1824 to 1828 he was travelling at
Jerusalem, Napoli de Rumania, Alexandria, •Beyruth,
Samos, and Smyrna. He pretends that during this pe-
riod he was serving under General Fabvier, but this
officer deities any knowledge of him. In 1828 he
returned to Genoa, and in December of the same year
he received a passport for America. At the
same time the Sardinian Minister of Foreign Affairs I
wrote to his Consul at Bordeaux, warning him that
D'Albora was no marquis, but a man of bad and immo-
ral character. In 1829 he fell in at the Havannah with
Speroni, who was his fellow countryman, and was sent
by his friends out of Sardinia to save him from the con-
sequences of some political delinquency. From this
time the two have been inseparable. In March, in 1830,
they were at New Orleans, whence they went to Chiapas,
in Mexico, under pretence of serving against the Spanish
expedition then in preparation. At I'arisapa, being
taken for a spy in the service of Spain, he was assailed
by the populace, and so severely treated that he lost his
right hand, which was carried in triumph through the
streets. Being rescued at last, he went to Tonald, where
he obtained letters of introduction to Santa Anna, and
went to Mexico to solicit means to go into Greece to
join, as he stated, his old companions in arms, in fighting
for her freedom. In this it appears he failed, as in
June, 1831, D'Albora and Speroni embarked at Vera
Cruz for Bordeaux, where they arrived the following
August. Here they contrived to delude and obtain from
the Sardinian Consul a certificate that they were po-
litical refugees, and there upon received the Government
allowance of three francs a-clay. They went to reside at
Moulins, where D'Albora was admitted into the first
society, and excited great interest, by affirming that he
lost his hand in fighting for the Polish revolu-
tion. In 1832, D'Albora obtained permission to come
to Paris with Isis Fidus Achates, and for a time made a
great display of fortune ; but at length it was ascer-
tained that they lived by swindling, and in May, 1833,
they received orders to quit the capital. In July they
embarked at Calais for England. How they contrived
to live there is not known ; but in March, 1834, a
passport was granted to Colonel the Marquis I)'Albort,
as a native of Corfu, but a subject of tis Britannic
Majesty, to go to. Spain through France. They, how-
ever, took a Circuitous route, and went by America.
At Philadelphia, the soi-disant Marquis took the first
steps fur becoming a citizen of the United States.
At New York he proclaimed a resolution to go to
Texas, and lend his aid in maintaining its indepen-
dence ; and was artful enough to obtain letters o 1 -re-
commendation to that country front several Atherican
Generals of celebrity and influence. D'Albora and Speroni,
however, did not avail themselves of them ; for they stopped
at New Orleans, thence went to visit. Charlestown, and
afterwards traversed the island of Porto Rico, in every
direction. In November, 1836, they embarked at Cabo
Rojo ; and • having, in February, 1837, reached Gibraltar,
afterwards visited Cadiz and Seville, where they were
again stopped and sent back to Gibraltar. They next
made their way over to Algiers, where they at first were
well received, and allowed rations ; but were soon de-
tected, and made off to Toulon, and thence to Marseilles,
where D'Aloora, by assuming the -character of an Ame-
rican, procured from the Consul of that country a. pass-
port for Spain, which enabled him and his companion to
reach Madrid. Being once more routed out, they
again went to England. At the close of 1838, being
at Portsmouth. the captain of a French ehasse-maree
agreed to take them on board, and on the 2d 'ld-
unary, 1839, the vessel was driven, by stress of wea-
ther, into a matt port on the coast of Finisterre. From
this moment D'Albora began to perform a new charac-
ter, and declared himself to be a Spanish refugee colonel
in the service of Don Carlos, and a devoted victim to that
Prince's cause, having, be said, made great sacrifices to
it of advantages arising from his birth as the son of a
Viceroy of Peru, a Knight of the Order of San Fer-
nando, and other higL distinctions, assuming all the
haughty demeanour of a Castilian grandee, and thus
presenting himself at Archbishops' palaces, Noblemen's
chateaux, and other elevated mansions.. He received
large contributions, but uniformly through the medium
of his confederate Speroni, who every where appeared
thep place,
gave howei'er,
as his nephew. Thus, he found hiinself installed for
weeks at a time in the first houses at Morlaix, Caen,
heD star a u
found his L Lille, at
the which lastwane,
as
him an order to leave France. Not many months
afterwards, he made his re-appearance in Brittany,
where he married the girl Victorine, who, dazzled
by the title of Marchioness, followed his fortunes
till his arrest at Blois, where, as we have stated, she
was involved in the prosecution, but, having shown that
she was an innocent dupe, was acquitted. Having, in his
last excursion, run through Belgium, Cologne, iwyenee,
Manheim, Cassell, Altona, and Hamburgh, he once more
re-entered France, and, in August last, was at Rouen,
where he formed even more brilliant connections than
before. The Duke de Crillon not only supplied him with
money, but permitted him to bury in his own family vault
a child, of which the unfortunate Victorine Was delivered
at Altona. Many other legitimists lent their aid to the
support of his establishment, in commisseration of his
sufferings, as they believed, from his fidelity to his
rightful king. At lust lie reached the end of his
present career. Leaving Rotten for Bordeaux, they
passed through Paris, and arrived at Orleans, where a col-
lection to a considerable amount was made for them on
the faith of the letters they Drought, but, on reaching
Blois, this stupendous bubble burst, and they were all
arrested as they were entering the diligence to go to
T ttiinsg sub-
ordinate in.
N unimpeachable docunren
wellts.
ours. D'Albora, with his wonted assurance, maintained
as Hi
thes
a e t
t ofm l
s though his identity as marquis and colonel, and denied every
point that made against him, but all his allegations were
unsupported by evidence, and most of them contradicted
byormandy, and the other parts of France, were proved
by personal witnesses, as
ordinate complicity of Speroni. The Tribunal- conse-
bora to be imprisoned for two years, and Speroni for one.
quently declared them both guilty, and condemned D'Al-

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suffrrers.

IMPERIAL. PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, June 15.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack at Five o'Clock.
Lord ROLLE presented a petition from Devonshire,
against any alteration in the Corn-laws.
The Duke of RUTLAND presented petitions from
Leicestershire and other places, praying that no altera-
tion be made in the present Corn-laws.
The Insolvent Debtor's(Yreland) Bill went through
Committee.
The Metropolis Improvement Bill was real a second
time.

Lord DUNCANNON said the object of the Bill was
to enable the Commission to raise monies on certain
Crown property in • Middlesex rather than to issue Ex-
chequer Bills.
Several Bills were forwarded a stage.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a eetition against-
the Poor-law Bill ; also petitions from Yorkshire that no
alteration be made in the Corn-laws.
The Earl of RAI)NOE said he should'present a pe-
tition on Thursday with respect to the Poor-law Bill,
from certain operatives in Manchester, and he should
call their Lordships' particular attention to it.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE laid on the table a Bill for
the amendment of the Marriage Act, especially with
respect to the clause which related to marriages in cer-
tain degrees of affinity. •
The Earl of ROSEBERRY presented a petition from
Kilkenny against the Corn-laws.
Lord BEAT MONT presented a petition to the same
effect.
The Earl of ABERDEEN presented a petition
from the seven Ministers of Strathbogie who have
been suspended from their offices. The Noble Earl re-
marked very strongly on the case of the petitioners, who,
he said, had been suspended from their offices fur the sole
crime of acting- up to the laws of their country. He had
known several of these gentlemen, and knew them to be
amongst the most exemplary and orthodox ministers
existing in the Church of Scotland. The case
of these gentlemen had excited a strong feel-
ing in the Minds of the people of Scotland.
Meetings were held, and they came to resolutions reprobat-
ing the treatment of these gentlemen. He (the Earl of
Aberdeen) thought the tyranny towards those gentlemen
was never surpassed by the Church of Rome in its greatest
presumption.
Viscount MELBOURNE said he regretted the pi esent
state of the Scottish Church, but he was not prepared to
admit that that state of things could be attributed to
any remissness on the part of the Government ; the
Government were determined to enforce the law of the
land, and he had no doubt that the Lord Advocate had
done all that it was his duty to do.—(Hear, hear.)
The Earl of HADDINGTON said the General As-
sembly had appointed a sort of roving Commission, with
authority over five Presbyteries, and had given them
power to frame whatcv?r rules and regulations as to
matter of ecclesiastical discipline, and otherwise, as they
might think fit. What would any Right Rev. Prelate
say to that ? 'He contended that such perversion of
power, was gross illegality.

The Marquis ofNORMANBY said that instructions

had been conveyed to the Lord Advocate to take steps
whenever he thought proper, and as he had not done so
on the present, occasion, he must have thought it unne-

cessary._

The Marquis of BREADALBANE complained of the
strongilanguage employed by the Noble Earl (Hadding-
ton), and of the one-sided view of the question which he
took. cHe (the Marquis of Breadalbane) deprecated any
interference on the part of the Government.
The- Duke of ARGYLL made some observations,
which were inaudible in the gallery.
Lord BROUGHAM said the Court of Session of
Scotland had determined this question, but the Presby-
t?ry had applied to the House of Lords, and it had been
_ _

most ably argued and fully considered. Their Lordships
were ably assisted by the law Lords ; and they had also
come to a clear decision, confirming the opinirn of the
Court of Session. This decision, however, had not been
obeyed. He, for one, would never permit the powers of
the highest Court of Judicature to be infringed upon.
Viscount MELBOURNE said that nothing could be
further from his intention, than giving anything like en-
couragement to thma who had neglected the law in
Scotland. It was their intention to execute the law, but
the General Assembly had not done that which
it had been contended they had a right to do. If they
had-done so there was the law as a remedy. The Go-
vyrnment considered that the best way of executing the
laW was for it to execute itself.

Lord BROUGHAM never meant to say that it was
the intention of the Government to give encouragement
to violators of the law. What he had stated was that

he intention was one thing and the tendency was
nother.

Lord BELIIAVEN thought that if the question
could be tried on the presentation of individuals on the
the deposition of those individuals, it would be the best
way to settle the question.
After a few words from the Earl of Aberdeen, the
Duke of Argyll, and the Lord Chancellor, the subject
dropped.

The Marquis of SALISBURY presented a petition
from the Agricultural Association of Essex praying that
no alteration be made in the present Corn-laws.
.Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the
Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Devonport in favour
of the Jews Declaration Bill. Also a petition from
Pontefract cand other places in favour of the measure in-
troduced by her Majesty's Government.
CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL.

.The LOED CHANCELLOR said the object of this
Bill was to secure to the poor the benefit of
The Bill proposed to do this in two ways. It was to save
the expense whenever trustees were appointed. 'When
new trustees were appointed, of necessity there would be
a transfer of the property to those trustees. When that
happened—and it continually happened—considerable
expense was thrown on the trust fund. A deed had to
be drawn—an attorney to be employed--the stamp duty
paid. In small charities this was a great hurthen. The
object of the present enactment was, that whenever such
event. 4 as these should happen, the property shall be
vested in the remaining trustees ipse facto by their ap-
pointment, with power to make up their number. The
other object of the Bill was not a question of expense ;
it was a question of total denial. The words in the Mu-
nicipal Act were that " all the estate, interest, and
title which at that time existed in the Corporation
or any individual holding it for the Corporation shall
on the Ist day of August 1836; and from and after that.
cease and determine." That is that from and after
that time, the Lord Chancellor must be applied to to
make such order as he shall think fit. The Noble and
Learned Lord concluded by moving that the Bill be then
read a second time.

Lord LYNDHURST opposed the Bill. He thought
that a Bill of this description ought not to have been in-
troduced at this late period of the session, more particu-
larly considering the state of the two Houses
of Parliament. The object. of this Bill was
to confirm and complete the title of those trusts
which had passed under the Municipal Act. He
would state one circumstance, which was, that a great
number of these trustees consisted of Dissenters from the
Church of England, and a great part of the property to
which these trusts referred consisted of estates vested in
the Church of England, a great many of them were ad-
vowsons, and this was the reason why he called on their
Lordships not to confirm their title. He would refer
them to the Corporation of Bristol. The trustees
of the charities there only contained eleven mem-
bers of the Church of England. There were
a great number of estates which were ob-
viously granted for members of the Church of
England, and amongst. the property was these advmv-
sons, and Dissenters had a right to present to livings.
This was nit guarded against in the Municipal Reform
Bill. In the Irish Corporation Bill it did so. In that

Bill it was provided that no person should interfere with
the presentation of livings who was not a member of the
Church of England. It was for this he objected to the
Bill. He thought, under all the circumstances, that it
ought not to be brought forward at this period of the
Session, and that it ought not to be brought forward
under any circumstances without being first referred to a
Select Committee. He, therefore, moved that the Bill

be read a second time that day three months.
Lord 131.101.11{GAM said he was quite astonished that
his Noble Friend should take this objection, on such a

ground. If this Bill was thrown out, they put into abey-
ance much of the property of thig country belonging to
the poor. He fully expecte,d. ;his Noble Friend to have
concluded by moving theitisertion of a clause with re-

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spect to advowsorm. But he (Lord Brougham) could
not see what danger there would be even if it were to
happen that Dissenters in some corporations should have
Church patronage. There was nothing in the law of
this country which prevented Dissenters from holding
advowsons. It frequently happened. Jews may hold
them. They were rate-payers. The Noble Lord seemed
to conclude, that because they were Dissenters, they
would present Dissenters to the livings.
The Earl of WARWICK opposed the Bill.

LOrd LYNDHURST explained.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE said, that as Parliament

would meet again in- the course of two months, the in-
terests of the objects of the Bill would not be injured by
its remaining for consideration till then, which he

thought would give satisfaction to all parties.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that there had been

as many various opinions on the construction of the Act
as there had been persons who had given them.
The Earl of RADNOR thought that the objection to
Dissenters intermeddling with this property came with
a peculiarly ill grace from the Noble Lord (Lyndhurst),
who, when Chancellor, had been one of the principal
supporters of the repeal of the Test and Corporation
Laws ; thus, under the old municipal law, enabling Dis-
senters to become members of corporations, and giving
them this very right with which he now objected to en-

trust them.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and their
Lordships divided, when there appeared—
For Lord Lyndhurst's amendment 52

Against it

Majority in favour of the amendment —26
The Bill was consequently lost.
Their Lordships then adjourned at Half- past Eight
o'Clock to Thursday next.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 13.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock.
The Lords amendments to the Totness Small Debts
Bill, and the Wigan Small Debts Bill, were agreed to.
I"assavant's Naturalization Bill was read a third time
and passed.
The Abingdon Road Bill was read a third time and
passed.
On the Order of the Day for bringing up the Report
of the St. Johns Hospital (NV inchester) Estate Bill,
Mr. LEADER opposed the Bill on the ground
that it would be a violation of private interests.
The lessee of. this estate had been promised a
renewal of his lease foF a term of 21 years, and
that was all he asked. tor. He thought, moreover,
the interests of the charity were nut promoted by selling