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

No. 17,246.] LONDON, SAT U R DAY, EVENING

NATION A 1 LOAN FUND LIFE
AgAttil.k*cE SOCIETY.
. 26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institutien embraceif fmportint and substantial advantages
with respect tO life. assurances and deferral annuities. The assured
has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
feiture of the policy, hvO•Uarde Of the premiums paid (see Table);
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversioa of his in-
ierests to meet other esnyeniencies or necessity.
Assur.mces for torus of years on the lowest possible rates.
DP/ISION AF PROFITS.
The increasing prosperity of the Soeiety has enabled the Directors
at the annual meeting hell •ow the 12th Slay, 1847, to declare a fiflk
limns, varying front 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums pail ea each
policy elected ea the profit scale.
• I XAMPLI3.

i I Parma- Sam tie
I
Annual ,Policy Bonus in
o;tent Re- Assure/
Are. I ~Pro- taken addition ' Bonus in Auction of may bor.
u g mina. ant in Assured t
Cash. Annual row on
_lr Premlams. Polley.
_-
X s. 4: £ a 1. X a. d. £ s. d.
r 1837 243 9 3'112 8 6 18 4 6 494 8 le
£ fad 1838 215 48. 99 81015 13 5 445 0 0
60 woo 74 a i , • 11329• 192 1' 10' 86 9 3 13 4 9 395 11 1
1840 143 b 10, 66 8 4 919 1 346 2 3
1841 138 14 2 61 17 6 9 9 2 296 13 4
1842 111 6 8 49 10 0 7 10 4 247 4 5

The Annual Report, with tables of rates, /cc., may be kad at the
take. or nay of its branches in tke wintry ; or, on application, will
be forwarded post free.

F. TBROUSON CANIROUI, Secretary.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY.
Ne. 11, LOMBARD-STREET, at the Entrance of the Old Post-
office,•London.
DIRECTORS.
JOHN DIXON, Esq., Chairman.
JOHN MARTIN, Esq., M.P., Deputy-Chairman.
henry Hulse Berens, Esq. Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. George Lyall, Esq.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. StewartMarjoribanks, Esq.
Thermion Ilankey,jun., Esi. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. Robert Milford, Esq.
Jelin Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq. James Morrie, Esq.
George Johnstone, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Req.
John Labouchere, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
John Loch, Esq. James Tulloeh, Esq.

AUDITORS.
A. W. Roberts, E. Henry Sykes Thornton, Esc
Samuel Johes Loyd, Esq. I Henry Norman, Esq.
Acruaaar-0,1111t.b 'Davies:Bog:, P.R.& • .
In the - LIRE DEPARTMENT, Aasuraticelongy 1:4 Wrestle at
row Rates Irithoufparticipition in the Pretiti; or at moderate Rates
with participation in one moiety of the Profits every seven years. At
each of the three Septennial divisions which this Company has made,
the Bonuses amounted to about 1 per cent. per annum on the sum
assured, or about 27 per cent. on the amount of premium received ;
and the whole amount of Reversionary Bonus allotted by the Com-
pany exceeded 530,0001.

LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro-
vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have
attained in each case a value_not under 501.

In the FIRE DEPARTMENT, a Return of profit was declared
on the 2d of June, upon the premiums received on all Policies
which had been in force seven years at Christmas 1846, and the same
is now in course of paynient daily (Friday and Saturday excepted),
between the hours of ten and three o'clock, at the Head Office ; and
also by the Agents in the Country Districts.
Notice is hereby given, that Assurances which expire at
Christmas must be' renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with
Mr. Sams, No. 1, St. James's-street, corner of Pall-mall, or with
the Company's Agents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they be-
come void.

GBOICGE KEYS. Secretary.

UNDER TIIE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HER MOST
GRACIOUS MAJESTY-TUE QUEEN.
rIP HE ROYAL NAVAL. MILITARY, EAST
11 INDIA, and GENERAL LIFE ASSI}RANCE SOCIETY,
13, WATERLOO-PLACE, LONDON.
DIRECTORS.
Colonel Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K.H., R.E., Chairman.
Major-General Sir WILLIAM GOSSET, C. 8., K.C.11., R.E.,
Deputy-Chairman.
Admiral the Right Hon. Sir G. Cockburn, G.C.8., M.P.
Major-General Sir J. Cockburn, Bart., G.C.H.
General Sir Thomas Bradford, G.C.8., G.C.H.
Major-General Sir P. Ross, G.C.M.G., K.C.11.
Lieutenant-General Sir John Gardiner. K.C.B.
Major-General:air Hew D. Ross, K.C.8.,
Captain Sir George Back, R.N
Major-General Taylor. C. 8., E.I.C.S.
Major-General Edward Wynyard, C.B.
Major-General Arnold. K.H., K.C., R-E-
Lieutenant-General Clelland, E.I.C.S.
Lieutenant-Colonel H. Hammer, K.H., late R.11.G.
Lieutenant-Colonel Matson, R.E.
Major Shadwell Clerke, F.R.S.
Archibald Hair, Esq., M.D., late R.H.G.
Captain William Lancey, R.E.
William Chard, Esq., Navy Agent
Jaines Nugent Daniell, Esq.
Wilbraham Taylor, Esq.
Major-General Rolt, C.B.
Major F. S. Sotheby, C.B.
Rasmus—Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand.
AcTumtv--John Finlaison, Esq., the Government Calculator.
Assurances are granted upon the lives of persons in every station
elite, and for every part of the world, upon particularly favourable
terms.
Persons assured in this office may change from one country to ono-
titer without forfeiting their policies.
A BONUS AMOUNTING TO TOMS Pal CANT. on the actual value of
the policies was apportioned to the assured at the First Septennial
Meeting, held in the year 1844.
JOSEPH C. BRETTELL, Secretary.

pROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE,
kn. REGENT-STREET, and 2, ROYAL. EXCHANGE.
RUILDINGS, CITY.

Established 1806.
INVESTED CAPITAL, 1,200,0001.
Annnal Income 140,0001. Bonuses declared 529,0001.
Claims paid since the Establishment of the Office, 1,520,0001.

PRESIDENT.
The Right Honourable EARL GREY.
DIRECTORS.

The Earl of Macclesfield. Rev. James Sherman.
Th• lion. Arthur Kinnaird. Henry B. Churchill. Esq.
Sir Richard D. Kin:, Bart. William Judd, Msg.
Alexander Henderson, M.D. James Sedgwick, Esq.
Capt. W. John Williams. Alfred Beaumont, Esq.
John Deering, Esq., M.P. George Deere, Esq.
William Henry Stooe, Esq. Richard Sherwood, Esq.
I. The 'Cates of Premium are those adopted by the principal Lif•
JNces, the rate without bonus Is lower than that of most other
)ffiCEA. _ _

2. The Bonuses are added to the Policies, or applied to the redac-
ion of the Premiums, or may be received in cash as soon as de-
eared, at their then present value.
3. Policies issued by this office are purchased at their full value ;
er Loam; may be obtained upon them to the same amount.
4. If a party neglect to pay for the renewal of his Policy, ho may
repair the omission any time within twelve months, upon proof of
:oat health.
, Bonuses paid upon Policies whi,

have

Life insured.

,Sum iniurect

te Claims.

John Wharton, Esq.. Skelton Castle
Sir John Saunders Sebright, Bart...
Sir William Wake, Bart. ..
Earl Strathmore • • • • • • • ..... • • • • •

6,000
6,000.
6,000
6,000
3,000
2,000
1,000

Sum paid.

Rev. H. W. Champneys, Canterbury
The Marquis of Wellesley • • • • .. • • • •

Cathcart .. • • ....

X e. d.
7,706 6 0
7,652 13 3
7,500 b 9
7,121 15 8
4,509 1 1
3,411 1 3
1,862 4 11

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DR. HAMPDEN'S APPOINTMENT..
The following is Lord John Russell's- reply to the
address of the clergy of Belford. "We- subjoin the
address to-day, with the names of the clergy who
have signed it :—. . , '
Woburn Abbey, Dec. 30, 1847.
Rev. Sirs,—l have received with great satisfaction
the expession of your opinion as the elevation of Dr.
Hampden to the episcopal benca.
I rejoice to learn that you " have no share in those
feelings of alarm attributed to the clergy through the
activity of a portion of them," on the subject of that
appointment.
Two grounds have been taken to justify the alarm,
and account for the activity, of which you speak.
The one is the vote of want of confidence, passed
by the Convocation of- the University of Oxford in.
1836: the other, the suspicion ofunsoundness in the
faith.
With respect to the first ground; the Bishops of
Durham and Norwich, and many other eminent per-
sons, have pointed out the fallacy, of placing re-
liance on a hasty vote of Convocation, passed in a
period of party excitement, without due examination,
and void of ecclesiastical authority.
Mr. Woodgate hasgone further : he has said,
speaking of a similar vote, " Tee proper appeal is
not to the passions of aiimixed multitude, like con.
vocations, where, besides 'having no lawful jurisdic-
tion in the case, there is no exposition of the law,
no reference to precedent, no hearing of evidence,
and where the same persons are at once prosecutors,
judges, and jurymen."*
But let us grant that the Convocation was justified
in its distrust. Let us., concede that the University
properly decreed that Dr. .Hampden 'should be de-
prived of certain functions and privileges belonging
to his office, " because in': his writings he had so
treated theotigital-ititsjeatiPthat' in this respect the
-University- had no _ con fideuvele tixim.". Have we
had no experienee since 1806 ? - Jr* it not possible
that Dr. Hampden may hare used expressions, ob-
scure or careless, which might induce the University
to distrust his teaching of theology, but that the
evidence of eleven years of sound and blameless con-
duct as Professor of Divinity may:have removed the
just cause of suspicion ? ~,-. .
Such I should imagine to be tie opinion of the
Heads of the University itself. For in 1842 they
placed Dr. Hampden in the chair of a board of theo-
logical examiners.
Such I should imagine to be the conclusion of the
great majority of our bishops. For they have required
from the Oxford candidates for orders certificates that
they had received instruction' in theology from Dr.
Hampden. They were clearly under no obligation to
do so. The Bishop of Exeter and a" few other pre-
lates have declined to receive Dr..llampden's certifi-
cates, and have proceeded to ordain upon other testis
mony more satisfactory to them- So that, with the
exception of five or six, our bishops must have freely,
voluntarily, and deliberately required the proof of
attendance on Dr. Hampden's instrnaions in divinity
as a necessary preliminary to ordination.
Can there be stronger proofs of the confidence re-
posed in Dr. Hamplen, first by the resident Heads of
the University of Oxford, and secondly, by the great
majority of the bishops ? How few men have been
elevated to the episcopal bench with a greater weight
of authority in their favour ? The head of a theo-
logical board of examiners, the teacher of candidates
for the priesthood—can those who_ recognized and
confided in him in these characters have believed
that he held himself unsound opinions in theology ?
He who was to examine others ? He whose training
of young men was to qualify- them to receive the
solemn rite of ordination ? Surely
.this were to ma-
lign the University of Oxford
.and thelreat body of
our prelates.
But further. I have elsewhere alluded to the
fact, that sometime before I recommended :Dr.
Hampden to the Queen, I communicated my inten-
tion to our venerable Primate, and 'received from
him no discouragement. It is true that the Arch-
bishop did not appear to think Dr. Hampden well
qualified for the diocese of
,Manchester, neither on
reflection did I think proper to recommend him to the
Crown for that see, in the peculiar circumstances of
its population and Dr. Hampden's studious career.
But no one who has that veneration which I enter-
tain for the candour, piety, attachment to Church and
State, and friendly kindness of our Primate, will be-
lieve the calumny that he thought the appointment
might not happen during, his "lateral or my official
life, and therefore concealed' his opinion that it would
be an act of reckless ineult and injury to the Church I
I feel no doubt that the Archbishop, whatever '
objections he might have felt to Dr.,.Hampdan in
1836, had become reconciled to his promotion by the
orthodox and Christian character of his subsequent
writings.
It was therefore on due consideration of the 'pro-
ceedings of 1836, and of due_
years ; of Dr.
Hampden's labours at Olford;„Of the many instances
in which his predecessors had been raised to the
bench; of the policy of giving rewards to learning.;
and, lastly, of the zeal for our Protestant Reformation
displayed by Dr. Hampden, that I named him to the
Queen as successor to the Bishop of llereford.
I come now to the second grOund of objection.
After I had taken the Queen's pleasure and her
Majesty had graciously approved of the appointment,
I received privately from the Archbishop, publicly
' from thirteen of the bishops, a warning that the ele-
vationof Dr. Hampden would be disapproved by the
majority
Had this objection been founded on any just seen •
of the clergy.
sation against the life and morals of Dr. Hampden, it
was not too late to confess my error and withdraw
my recommendation.
But founded as it was upon a charge of teaching
unsound doctrine, it behoved me not to desert a cler-
gyman whom the Queen had been pleased to nominate
for a bishopric, without some authority or substantial
proof.
No such authority appeared. The conduct of the
Archbishop and bishops gave a strong presumption
the other way. No such proof was given, you say
very justly " none such have-we found ;no proof or
evidence of any strange doetiine ,eontrary to God's
weird, as held or favoured by Dr;Hainpden."
On the other hand, a strong testimony of the base-
less nature of the charges against Dr. Hampden is to
be found in the extracts made by his enemies from his
writings : " such extracts,"" as you truly say, "by
their garbled form in some "instances, by, false con-
nexions in others, quite reversing, the true meaning of
the passages. The gross diahonesty of these quota-
tions has been fully shown 'in an admirable letter by
Archdeacon Hare. He observes, very justly, that by
leaving out the first words of one passage and the
last words of another, we might extract from Scrip-
ture the dogma, " There is no God," and the precept
"Go and sin."
The learned and pious author of this letter did not
originally, indeed does not noVe, approve of the
appointment. But I think, , having proved so
clearly the unfair means taken to ruin the repu-
tation of Dr. Hampden, he must in candour allow
that if such means are to deprive a clergyman
of those distinctions which our Church boasts of
maintaining as the rewards of learning and piety,
a fatal blow is struck at all profound inquiry, at all
enlightened pursuit of truth, at all clerical ink.
pendence.
Let us not mistake our position. The Church is
not in that easy security of the last century which
gave birth to so much negligence, to so much abuse
perilous apathy. The Church
with abunthnt knowledge,
withff
imposing
seduces many to her com-
mprivate judgment is by many
oo
with
nteior o i
n we. .pe ooasnlTit
nht h,
hge
e t
authority,
oneui such
tghhotside, r
of i at y ,
avoided as a dangerous snare ; the duty of private
judgment is thrown off by many more as too heavy a
burthen. On the other side, the Protestant Dissenter
assails the Church Establishment as an engine for
fettering the conscience, and taxing the property of
the subject. Novelties have their charm ; the High
' Churchman and the Independent speak alike with
complacency of separating Church and State.
I knno better security against such a danger
ow
than an able and learned episcopal bench
,: a zealous
and God-fearing parochial clergy. Thus may the
Reformation be, defended ; thus may the Establish-
ment
be maintained : .otherteise neither Parliament
nor preemunire can beat off -the assailants of our
Church constitution.
But it is said I have disturbed the peace of the
Church. There is no use, in 'crying " peace, when 1
there is no peace.. The appointment of Dr:Tillot-
son to the primacy provoked a party whose unre-
lenting fury pursued bins to the day of his death.
They denounced him as a Socinian and an Atheist,
yet our Great Deliverer never made a wiser or snore
judicious appointment. In our own day we have
seen the learned Dr. Lloyd, once Regius Professor of
Divinity at Oxford, pursued with bitter invective,
i when on the Roman Catholic Relief Bill he gave ex-
pression to the loftiest feelings of Christian charity.
You have spoken with praise of the sermons of
Dr. Hampden, and your testimony is in this respect
peculiarly valuable. You consider his appointment
as " a circumstance favourable to the health of the
[ Church." It is in that view that, unconnected with
and personally unknown to Dr. Hampden, I have
Irecommended him to the favour of my Sovereign. I
earnestly and devoutly hope that your anticipations