The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-23 00:00:00

" It is within the knowledge of many of us that whil t
a large body of the clergy, chiefly young men deeply
committed to the Tractarian system, have freely obtained
appointments, and are now ministering in the diocese, a
considerable number of other clergymen of piety and
learning, but not holding Tractarian views—some of
them advanced in years—beneficed—and serving in this
and the neighbouring county of Cornwall, have been
from time to time rejected by the Bishop as unfit to re-
ceive institution or license, ' by reason, as his Lordship
has alleged,' of their holding doctrines contrary to the
true Christian faith.
" This practice having been extensively pursued by
the Bishop, has been necessarily attended by the twofold
effect of attracting Tractarians to the diocese, and of de-
terring a clergyman of opposite views from accepting
appointments within it, so that patrons and incumbents
of evangelical sentiments can with difficulty procure
ministers and curates whose doctrinal principles shall be
congenial with their own.
" A great and crying evil has thus arisen. The minis-
terial care sad oversight of large bodies of the people,
especially in our populous towns, have been committed
to clergymen, to whose teaching and ceremonial practices
the p;ople at large entertain a well-grounded aversion,
and who consequently withhold or withdraw attend-
ance at their churches. Thus the intentions of the
Legislature in making provision for the spiritual desti-
tution of the people, the liberality of the public in con-
tributing to the erection and purchase of churches and
the special purposes of a Church, as a national establish-
ment, have been in these cases alike defeated.
" We beg also to call the attention of your Grace to
an event which has recently much increased our alarm,
on account of the prevalence of Romish doctrine in the
Church.

`• We refer to a sermon preached on the 12th of Au-
gust last before the Bishop and clergy at Totnes, by
the Reverend William Maskell, the Bishop's Domestic
Chaplain. We will not trouble your Grace with any
comments on this work, but we venture to accompany
our memorial with a copy of it (your Grace's perusal of
which we respectfully solicit), together with the corre-
spondence which has since its delivery taken place be-
tween the Bishop and some of the neighbouring clergy
thereon, by which it will appear that the Bishop has
failed to admonish the preacher, and still retains him in
his dice, facts, which in our opinion, imply a strong
sympathy on the part of his Lordship with the general
sentiments of the author of a discourse, believed by us
(notwithstanding its pretended argument with Fortions
of the Homilies and Liturgy) to be replete with Romish
doctrine.

" Your Grace will obser►e that the correspondence to
which we ha►e referred contains his Lordship's reply to
the protest of the clergy against the tenets of Mr.
Maskell, and as the reply has been published with his
Lordship's sanction, we ha►e not deemed it becoming in
us to address his Lordship regarding matter on which he
has already pronounced his opinion.
" We now submit this statement to your Grace, under
a hope that a remedy may be provided for the evils of
which it treats, and particularly that the attention of the
Legislature may be directed to subjects in►ol►ing matter,
as we believe, so solemn and momentous, and the neg-
lect of which will in our opinion terminate in a wide-
spread defection from the Church of England, and be j
perhaps productive of other and ulterior results still nore
calamitous."

We respectfully submit to the memorialists that
they have not here proposed the proper remedy for
the state of things of which they complain. If, as we
believe, and as they believe, Tractarian doctrines are
contrary to the doctrines of the Church of England,
and contrary to " the true Christian faith," and if as
they believe, and as we believe, HiNRY, Lord Bishop
of EXETER, holds those doctrines, then the proper
remedy is to request the Archbishop •f CANTERBURY
to cause Sir HERBERT JENNER to make anxious in-
quiries after "the soul's health" of the said HENRY, and
to call the particular attention of the said anxious
inquirer to the verdict of the Special Jury in the case
of the QUEEN V. LATIMER. Considering the great
anxiety which Bishop PHILLPOTTS has manifested to
ascertain the state of the "soul's health" of Mr. HEAD
and Mr. SHORE, we think the Archbishop of CANTER-
BURY need not be over delicate in the matter. We
trust that this is only the commencement of an
agitation on the part of the laity of the Church of
England which will never cease until the Church
shall be purged from the presence of those wolves in
sheeps' clothing who preach Oxford but mean
Rome. A conscientious Roman Catholic we admire
and respect, but we have the utmost contempt and
abhorrence for those who, holding the doctrines of
one Church, receive the wages of another. In the
meantime we warn all those who are opposed to
Puseyite doctrines to abstain for the present from
subscribing one farthing towards the building of
churches, or towards Church extension in any way.
The Bishop of EXETER is at this moment raising sub-
scriptions to build four churches in Plymouth, to
which, when built, he will present four Puseyite
priests, and which churches will, in consequence, be
without congregations.
W hr

e .ave been informed on unquestionable au-
thority, that six of the most eminent physicians in
this country have recently examined Mr. Dyce
Sombre, and that they unanimously reported on his
Perfect sanity, and that his conduct since his return
toable. We London last month, has been wholly unexception-
believe that this report will be verified on
affidavit, curd will form the tioround of a new sippien
n to 61' Lord ClCanct:llor ezrls- In Hilary tcr,,,, fur
a supersedeas of the commi.tsion of lunacy issued
against him,

ing to forces down the throats: of the long-suffering
laity. Our readers doubtless remember the perse-
cutions to which the Evangelical clergy of that
diocese have been long subjected, and the Episcopal
favours show ered upon—the almost immunity for the
commission of offences contra bones mores granted to,
Puseyite priests . They cannot but remember that
while that plow aid exemplary clergyman, the Rev.
ERSKINE Hx.a...n, was prosecuted with all the
rigour of the law, and suspended from
his ministerial functions for three years for
differing from his diocesan on some theoretical
point of theology, a Puseyite priest of the county of
Cornwall, convicted on his own confession of having
been seen in a state of unmistakeable drunkenness
in the public streets, to the great scandal of the
Church, was let off with an admonition ; they cannot
forget, either, the persecutions to which Mr. SHORE
was subjected, the controversy between the
Bishop of EXETER and Lord SEYMOUR ; the
part taken in that controversy by Mr. L.A.
TIMER, of the Western Times, the criminal
prosecution instituted by the BISHOP against Mr.
LATIMER for libel, the plea put in by Mr. LATIMER
that the assertions he had made with regard to the
Bishop were true,: and the verdict of the special jury
acquitting Mr. LATIMER, and finding that his plea of
justification was made out, that what he had said of
Bishop PHILLPOTTS was to the letter true. These
things have at length produced their effect, and on
Tuesday last a meeting of the lay members of the
Church of England inhabiting Plymouth, Devonport,
and its neighbourhood, was held at the Royal Hotel,
Plymouth, to take into consideration the propriety of
memorializing his Grace the Archbishop of CANTER-
BURY in reference to the present alarming state of
the Church of England, and of that diocese in par-
ticular, and to adopt such other measures as might he
then determined on.
The meeting was called in consequence of some
recent Puseyite doings of the Bishop-appointed priest
of one of the newly erected district churches in the
neighbourhood of Plymouth; but allusions were made
in the course of the discussion, and also in the memorial
agreed on to the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, to the
Puseyite doings of the Bishop and his proteges for a
series of years past, so that the meeting may
be considered as a solemn protest on the part
of the laity of Plymouth against the
detestable system of sacerdotal tyranny which it is
the aim and object of the Puseyite priests to establish
in every parish in England. The meeting was at-
tended by at least 1,100 persons, and would have
been more numerously attended had the room been
capable of containing a greater number of persons.
Colonel DUNSTERTILLE was in the chair, and the re-
quisition calling the meeting was signed by persons
of all classes. The signatures of officers in the
navy from admirals to lieutenants, of officers
in the army, of members of the legal and
medical profession, of magistrates, of town-coun-
ciilors, of merchants, of bankers, of shopkeepers,
are to be found attached to the requisition ; so that
the proceedings of the meeting may be regarded as
the proceedings of all classes of the laity of the
Church of England. The first resolution was to the
following effect :
" That it is the opinion of this meeting that principles
and practices repugnant to the truth and simplicity of
the Protestant, faith, as taught by the Church of Eng-
land, have obtained wide prevalence in various parts of
the realm, especially in this diocese, and this meeting
respectfully, but firmly, records its opinion that those
principles and practices receive encouragement from the
Lord Bishop; and that the time has arrived fir memo-
rializing the highest authorities in the Church, with a
view to the redress of the alarming evil."
The memorial to the Archbishop of CANTERBURY,
after setting forth the evil of Puseyite doctrines, thus
proceeds—

THE FRE

P ÜBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Assembly has adjourned to Tuesday, the 29th,
on which day it is expected that M. ODILON BARNOT
will present the programme of the new Ministry.
The Democratic Pacifique says--" It was stated
yesterday, in the National Assembly, that the Pre-
sident of the Republic is in dissension with his
Ministry relative to the amnesty, which his
Cabinet does not desire, but which he wishes
to demand from the Assembly. We are assured that
he entered into a formal engagement to do this in a
recent interview with Citizen THEODORE BAC. It is
this difference of opinion which has caused, it is said,
the adjournment for four days which the Assembly
has just made, in order to give to the first magistrate
of the Republic the time to concert with his Ministers
on the point."
M. EMILE DE GIRIRDIN, the disappointed one, is
preparing to go into opposition. The Presse ex-
presses its dissatisfaction with the new Cabinet, which
will not open its eyes to the transcendant merits of
General GIRIRDIN, or its doors to the loud,knocking of ,
his son. It really is very hard upon poor EMILE,
after having done all the dirty work of the re-
actionary party, to be left with only the dirt for his
pains.

The Debate says—
" We shall wait to see the Ministry at work, without
malignity, and rather with the desire to applaud their
efforts. They will have our support as long as they
shall be faithful to the line of moderation imposed upon
them by public opinion. For eighteen years M. Ochlen
BarroE was our adversary, and yet we never refused to
do justice to his talents and his character. How then
can it be difficult to praise in him, if he gives us cause,
the devoted, courageous, and capable Minister ? When
we shall see France tranquil and prosperous, if we shall
still have regrets, they will not at least render us unjust
towards those who shall have devoted themselves to the
glorious task of re-establishing order and tranquillity."
The Constitutionnel says—" M. DE MALLEVILLE on
Wednesday evening took possession of the Ministry
of the Interior, as was natural on the part of a
Minister charged to watch over public tranquillity.
The other Ministers installed themselves yesterday
morning."
The installatinn of the President of the Republic
in the Elysee Bourbon gives a certain animation to
that quarter. Numerous visitors have been to
inscribe their names. A deputation from the Invalides
yesterday waited on the new functionary. Two sen-
tinels have been placed at the entrance of the palace.
Workmen are putting down pipes for lighting the
building with gas, and statues are being placed in the
garden.
_ _

M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE is to go to London as
Envoy to announce the installation of the President
of the Republic.
General CHANGARNIER has informed all the officers
in garrison in Paris that any military man attending
the clubs will be sent away from the capital.
The Moniteur announces the following appoint-
ments :
" Baroche. representative of the people, to be
Procureur-General in the Court of Appeal of Paris, in
the place of M. Come.
" M. Edouard Thayer, Director-General of the Post.
office, in the place of M. Etienne Arago.
" M. Adouille, formerly Inspector General of Fi•
nances, is restored to his office.
" M. Chappuis, formerly Inspector of Finances, is ap-
pointed Inspector-General of Finances.
" M. Legrand (de l'Oise) is appointed, provisionally,
Director of the Personel and Secretary. General of the
Ainister of Finances.
" M. Dubost, the Administrator of the Post-office, is
restored to his functions."
The papers contain no news. Paris is perfectly
tranquil, and the accounts from the departments de-
scribe commerce as improving.
BOURSE.—PARIS, FRIDAY', DEC. 22.
THREE O'CLOCE.—The French Rentes opened higher
than the closing prices of the preceding day, but after-
wards gave way, recovering, however, towards the
middle of the Bourse, and closing with a considerable
advance on yesterday's quotations. The Five per Cents.
opened at 75f. 90c., went down to 751. '25c., and closed
at 76f. 25c. The Three per Cents. opened at 451. 75c.,
and after remaining at that quotation for some time,
began to mend, and closed at 46f. 75c. The Loan was
weak, and but little negotiated, closing at 75f. 50c. The
market, on the whole, must be looked on as firm not-
withstanding the partial decline. The calls for the de-
livery of stock were insignificant, only 6,000 f. being dis-
counted in theTive per Cents., and 1,5001. in the Threes.
No rumours of any kind were in circulation. Railway
Shares have varied but little, and the amount of business
transacted in them was not very considerable. For the
Account the French Three per Cents. have risen If.
85c. ; Five per Cents., 95c.; Loan has fallen, 25c. For
Money, the Three per Cents. have advanced if. ; Five
per Cents. lf.; Loan has fallen 25c. ; Bank of France
Shares have risen 201., closing at 1,740 f. ; Belgian Five
per Cents. have fallen I, but the Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. have risen closing at 75f. ; Spanish, not
quoted ; Roman is unchanged. Exchange ou London
(30 days), 25 37} ; ditto (90 days), 25 271. Railway
Shares for the Account, settling of Dec. 3 :—Rouen
have declined 121. 50c. ; -Orleans, sf. ; Northern are un-
changed. For Money, Orleans, and Versailles (Left
Bank) have fallen 5L ; Nantes, 21. 50e.; Bordeaux and
Strasburg, 11. 25c.; Havre and Boulogne have advanced
sf. Versailles (Right Bank) and Vierzon 2f. 50c ;
Northern are unaltered.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, DEC. 22.
Boulogne and Amiens, i—Namur and Liege, 514
Northern of France, 7%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 21/—
Rouen and Havre,