The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WWDSOR, FRIDAY.—The unfavourable state of
the weather prevented her Majesty or his Royal
Highness Prince Albert leaving the Castle this
morning.
The same cause prevented the Royal Family taking
their usual walking and pony exercise.
The Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess
Delawarr, the Earl of Auckland, and the Right Hon.
William and Lady Caroline Lascelles, left the Castle
to-day.
Lord and Lady John Russell, are expected to arrive
at the Castle this evening on a visit to her Majesty.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
Lord and Lady John Russell, the Lady in waiting on
the Duchess of Kent, Baroness de Speth, and Colonel
the Hon. C. B. Phipps.
Her Majesty's private band attend in the evening at
the Castle.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
on Thursday, at Gloucester House.
The Judges, Queen's Counsel, &c., will not meet at
the Lord Chancellor's residence, in Park-lane, on the
first day of Hilary Term (Tuesday next). The Noble
and Learned Lord will take his seat in Court at eleven
o'clock on that day.
Lord and Lady John Russell left town yesterday,
morning for Richmond. Lord John Russell pro-
ceeded from Richmond to Windsor Castle, on a visit
to her Majesty.
The Right Hon. H. Labouchere left town yester-
day for Brighton.
The Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Vice-President
of the Board of Trade, arrived in town yesterday.
Dispatches for the Governor of the Alauritius
were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-
office.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—His Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge, his Royal Highness Prince
George of Cambridge, her Royal Highness Princess
Mary of Cambridge, Prince Frederick of Hesse, the
Russian Ambassador, the Belgian Minister, the Mar-
quis of Donegal, the Marquis of Granby, Viscount and
Viscountess Castlereagh, Viscount Cantilupe, the Earl
and Countess of Orford, Viscount Newry, the Earl and
Countess of Verulam, Viscount Canterbury, Lord and
Lady Holland, Lady Seaford, Lady Alexander Russell,
Lord Manners, Lord Maidstone, Lady Hereford, Lord
Aylmer, Lord Cholmondeley, Lord Ward, Lord Strath-
more, Lord Southampton, Lady Mary Fox, Lady Caro-
line Barrington, Lady Parr, Lady Augusta Cadogan, the
Ladies Somerset, the Ladies Cust, Lord William Len-
nox, Lord George Lennox, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence,
Lord Henry Lennox, Lord Forester, Lady Rivers.
Baron Pollock, Lady Caroline Maxee, Hon. J. Mac-
donald, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Fitzgibbon, Colonel
Knox, Count Kielmansegge, Sir Bellingham and Lady
Graham, 4 Sir G. Rose, the Baron Rothschild, Mr.
Hasley, Baron Knesebeck, Count Kondriaffski, Baron
and Baroness Rehausen, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs.
G. Anson, The O'Gorman Mahon, Mr. Horace Twiss,
Count Revel, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Grey, Sir Francis
Peacocke, General Taylor, &c., have been amongst the
highly distinguished visitors who have lately honoured
this theatre with their presence.
THE HOUNSLOW FLOGGING CASE.—It may be
remembered that, at the inquest held by Mr. Wakley,
M.P. (June, 1846), on private White, of the 7th Hussars,
who died in consequence of the severe flogging which he
received for some military fault, and which was the
direct cause of the barbarous custom of flogging in the
army being much mitigated, privates Cooke and Mat-
thewson gave such testimony as was believed would ex-
pose them to the caprice of the " Martinets" of their
regiment. A subscription to procure their discharge
was commenced, but the sum thus raised, amounting
only to 431. ls. 4d., not being sufficient to effect that
object, the Hon. Member for Finsbury (Mr. Wakley)
generously made up the required sum (501.) from his own
private puree, and the men were discharged from the
regiment on Saturday last. Cooke is now in London,
seeking employment on a railway.
~SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 7.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's iron steam-ship Madrid, Captain
Weeks, sailed this afternoon for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon,
Cadiz, and Gibraltar, with the usual mails, in charge of
Lieutenant Newenham, Admiralty agent. She takes a
full cargo of cotton bale goods, and about 20 passengers.
The Sultan is hourly expected from Constantinople,
Malta, and Gibraltar, with that portion of the Indian
mad not forwarded via Marseilles.—Wind W.N.W.,
leggy.
At the Rochdale Petty Sessions on Monday last a
man named Needham was fined 58. for having bitten the
finger off a fellow•workman.

THE BISHOP OF HEREFORD.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHURCH AND STATE GAZETTE.
Danbury Palace, January 4,1848.
Sir,—Your Oxford correspondent ought to obtain
more correct information, and not allow himself to
indulge in slander and unfounded insinuations.
My son had not taken a degree at the University,
and, therefore, had no vote to give, either for or
ageinst Tract 90.
I have no daughter married to Lord Campden.
The charge I delivered to my clergy, in the year
1844, ought to have been sufficient to satisfy any candid
mind of my disapproval of the Tractarian doctrine.
I did not state in the House of Lords that there was
a general unanimity amongst the clergy of my ex-
tensive diocese on this subject. What I did say was,
that there was a general and almost unanimous dis-
approbation of the appointment of Dr. Hampden to
the see of Hereford.

entire
I am equally opposed to the two extreme parties
by which our Church is unhappily divided—and, I
may also add, to a third party, the Latitudinarians.
Mr. Greenlaw entertains the same views I do, or I
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selection of Dr. Hampden for so important an office.
My objection to that appointment was founded on the
grave condemnation of his writings by the University
of Oxford, in which at the time I fully concurred,
o an unwise and dangerous tampering with theologi-
considering his " Bampton Lectures" were the result
f
, cal speculations, calculated to mislead the ignorant,
and to unsettle the minds even of the better informed.
I cannot for a moment object to the recent profession
of his faith which Dr. Hampden has published in his
letter to Lord John Russell. It would have been
well if the retractation or explanation of his former
writings had been made at an earlier period ; for it
must be remembered that, in his correspondence with
the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Hampden declared
that he had nothing to retract or explain.
It is singularly unfortunate, both for Lord John
Russell and for Dr. Hampden, that amongst the
many Sovereigns who have ruled over these king,
doms, and the innumerable Ministers by whom their
councils have been directed, the prudence of the
exercise of the supremacy of the Crown, in the ap-
pointment of a bishop, has never before been pub-
licly called in question by the almost unanimous op-
position of the great body of the clergy, for the
statement is wholly unfounded that it has arisen from
one party in the Church ; although they may have
manifested a greater degree of interest on the subject
than the others whose religious opinions are less
strongly marked.—l am your oboeobedient servant,
G. ROCHESTER.

Upon the preceding letter the editor makes the
following observations:—
"We insert a letter from the Lord Bishop of
Rochester, complaining of some inaccuracies in the
account given by a correspondent of Tractarian in-
fluences in his Lordship's diocese. Our correspon-
dent has explained that it was not the Marquess
Camden who is connected with the Murray family,
but Lord Campden, a son of Lord Gainsborough, to
whom he intended to refer. On another point, how.
ever, we belive our correspondent will be found to.be
correct; as, on reference to the Oxford Calendar for
1844, a son of the Bishop of Rochester appears as a
Master of Arts in the University for that year; and,
as the case of Mr. Waid,,with which the attempt to
procure the condemnation a Tract 90 was contem-
poraneous, did not occur till 1845, his Lordship will .
perceive that there was no inconsistency in s y
upposing
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that his son acted with the Tractarian part
occasion. His Lordship's words art:- ` on tbat
so n d
not taken a degree at the University, and there-,
fore, no vote to give, either for or against Tract 90.
His Lordship must refer to some other son than our
correspondent speaks of; or must imagine that Tract
ha
90 was proposed for condemnation at the time of its
publication."
(From the Church and State Gazette.)

DR. HAMPDEN AND THE ARCHBISHOP
OP CANTERBURY.

The history of the Hampden Controversy would
hardly be complete without the addition of the cor-
respondence which passed between the present Bishop
of Hereford and his Grace the Primate, in 1837.
For this we are indebted to a correspondent, who has
forwarded to us a copy of the Morning Chronicle,
of Saturday, December 30th of that year, and
which contains the correspondence which follows :
LETTER FROM DR. HAMPDEN TO DR. HOWLEY, ARCH-

BISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
My Lord Archbishop,— Having seen for the first
time in the public papers of yesterday a memorial to
his Majesty, from certain members of the University
of Oxford, sent to your Grace, I beg leave most re-
spectfully to address myself to your Grace on the
subject.

I trust I shall be fully believed when I affirm, as I
do in the most solemn manner, that I have had no
thought in anything that I have said or written, on
theological subjects, but to uphold, to the best uly
ability, the doctrines and established formularies of
the Church of England.
My " Bampton Lectures" are simply a history of
the technical terms of theology ; nor have they the
slightest tendency, in my view and intention, to
impugn the vital truths of Christianity. My pam-
phlet, entitled " Observations on Religious Dissent,"
had no other design but to induce a charitable con-
struction of the views of those who differ from us.
Nothing could have been more painfully shocking to
my feelings than the connexion of my name with
opinions which I detest. I may be indulged on this
occasion with saying that a belief in the great revealed
truths of the Trinity and the Incarnation has been my
stay through life ; and I utterly disclaim the imputa-
tion of inculcating any doctrines at variance with these
great foundations of Christian hope.
Ido not pretend, my Lord, always to have stated
my views with the precision and clearness that I
could have wished ; nor do I venture to assert that I
have avoided all mistakes in what I have said, or that
I have always taken the best method of teaching the
truth.

What I wish to impress on your Grace is, that I
have studied to declare it ; and, in doing so, to main-
tain the Articles of the Church. As some evidence
of this I would refer to my volume of " Parochial
Sermons," which has never been attacked.
I have written, therefore, humbly to request that
your Grace will give me a hearing, if there be any-
thing alleged against me which appears to demand an
explanation on my part.
the responsible office of Regius ProfesserfottZuivlilni Divinity,
Dlay I be allowed also to say that, in undertaking
my heartfelt desire is to acquit mysehlf
ofai
whom a high trust has been committed
; and to take
further
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her duty
earnestly a s
peculiar care never to do or say what may injure the
thisthe opportunity of
rsitsaiYt,intogo
sacred cause to which I have devoted myself. I would
ameemmbberracoef
that I am most ready, as in duty bound, to receive
any admonition from your Grace as to the most ef-
fectual mode of discharging the office.
I feel confident that the Bishop of Llandaff, who
has long known me, will bear testimony to the since-
rity with which I express these sentiments.
I have the honour to remain, my Lord, with the
greatest respect,
Your Grace's faithful humble servant,
(Signed) It. D. HAMPDEN.
St. Mary Hall, Oxford, Feb. 27, 1837.
p.s.—l hare written this letter from London; but
I have dated it from my residence, as I shall return
to Oxford to-morrow, and there await the favour of
an answer from your Grace.
THE ANSWER OF DR. HOWLEY, ARCHBISHOP OF
CANTERBURY, TO DR. HAMPDEN.
Lambeth, March 1, 1837.
Reverend S'
have to acknowledge your letter
of the 27th of last month, and feeling that it would
be no less painful than useless to enter on a discus-
sion of the subject to which it relates, I shall touch on
those points only to which you more particularly
call my attention.
You express your " trust that you shall be fully be-
lieved when you affirm, as you do in the most solemn
manner, that you have had no thought in anything
that you have ever said or written on theological
subjects but to uphold, to the best of your ability, the
doctrines and established formularies of the Church of
England ; that your " Bampton Lectures" are simply
a history of the technical terms of theology, nor have
they the slightest tendency, in your view and
,i,nten-
tion, to impugn the vital truths of Christianity.
To this affirmation I cannot refuse credit ; but the
question turns, according to my apprehension, not on
your views and intentions, of which you are the proper
judge, but on the impression which certain parts of
your writings are calculated to make, and have actu-
ally made, on the minds of common readers, as well
as of persons well versed in theology.
You proceed to
"request
that I would give you a
hearing, if there be anything alleged against you
which appears to demand explanation on your part."
In respect to this, it is evident that explanations, if
necessary, should be given to the University rather
than to me, as I have not authority to pronounce
judicially, and my private opinion would have little