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with her rigging. She is expected to leave here about
the 24th instant.

The Meander, 44 guns, Captain Hon. Henry
Keppel, is completed. The cabins for the Raja, Mr.
Brooke, and suite, are fitted :up in a very superior
style. There are three on each side erected on the
main deck. Her barge is 34 feet in length, her
pinnace 37 feet, and her launch 42 feet in length, and
8 feet 4 inches in width, and it is built of teak ; the
barge and pinnace of Mahogany ; and the three are
coppered, and are considered to be very superior built
boats. The launch proceeds to-day to Messrs. Sea-
ward and Caple's factory, at Limehouse, to be fitted
with the high pressure engine of three horse power,
which has been constructed for her in such a manner
that it can be lifted out and in when required. The
whole of its works form a square of 7 feet 6 inches,
and 3 feet six inches deep, and it is to work with a
fan screw.

The Hercules store-ship, ➢faster-Commander Ful-
ton, fitting in dock, will be ready for service at the
end of this month. On Tuesday last, during the time
that a number of men were employed in stripping off
her old copper, a large anchor, weighing several tons,
fell from the bow of this ship into the dock, precipi-
tating one man into the dock. Fortunately, he came
off with a slight injury on the head. For the crew
of this ship the Hussar hulk is appropriated.

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 7.

By the packet ship Yorkshire, Captain Furber, we
have received accounts from New York to the 18th
ult. inclusive.

45,000/. were received on freight by the Yorkshire.

The proceedings cf Congress had become more
interesting. In a lengthy document the President
had vetoed the River and Harbour Improvement Bill
passed last session. _

In relation to the more prominent questions of ter-
ritorial aggrandisement and of the Mexican war, the
following had been the movements :—ln the Senate,
on the 14th, Mr. Dickenson submitted the following
resolutions for consideration, which were read and
ordered to be printed. _ .

" That true policy requires the Government of the
United States to strengthen its political and com-
mercial relations upon this continent by the annexa-
tion of such contiguous territory as may conduce to
that end and can be justly obtained; and that neither
in such acquisition nor in the territorial organization
thereof can any conditions be constitutionally im-
posed, or institutions be provided for or established
inconsistent with the right of the people thereof to
form a free sovereign state, with the powers and pri-
vileges of the original members of the confederacy.
" That in organizing a territorial government for
territory belonging to the United States, the princi-
ples of self-government upon which our federative
system rests will be best promoted, the true spirit and
measures of the constitution be observed, and the
confederacy strengthened by leaving all questions
concerning the domestic policy therein to the Legis-
latures chosen by the people thereof."
On the 15th Mr. Calhoun offered the following
resolutions to the Senate :

" That to conquer Mexico, and to hold it either as
a province or to incorporate it into our Union, would
be inconsistent with the avowed object for which the
war has been prosecuted, and a departure from the
settled policy of the Government, in conflict with its
character and genius, and in the end subversive of
our free and popular institutions.
" That no line of policy in the further prosecution
of the war should be adopted which may lead to con-
sequences so disastrous."
They were laid over for further action.

The papers report a great flood on the Ohio, re-
sulting in great destruction of property. The river
was in height within six inches of the great freshet of
1832.

A telegraphic report from Philadelphia, dated on
the 15th ult., says—" There were two heavy fail-
ures here to-day in the grocery trade. Some five
or six country banks are reported lyrcllen." We
do not find in later papers any confir creation of this
statement.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, DEC. 18.

Business, owing to the lateness of the season and
continued unfavourable weather, is going forward on
a very moderate scale, the markets generally being
characterised by nothing but quietude and great dul-
ness. In the money market thei.e is some alleviation
of the previous depression, the banks discounting with
more freedom, and the amount of paper offered for
discount considerably lessened.

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
against 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.

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.
Ykr. Greenlaw entertains the same views I do, or I
should not have placed him in so important an office
as that of my examining chaplain.
I am entirely averse to a disruption of the union
between Church and State, which I consider essential
to their safety and preservation ; but I am of opinion
that the supremacy of the Crown, in the appointment
of a bishop, ought to be exercised with greater pru-
ence and discretion than has been evinced in the
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,
considering his " Bampton Lectures" were the result
' of an unwise and dangerous tampering with theologi-
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 kad 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 obedient 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 he 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. Ward, with which the attempt to
procure the condemnation of Tract 90 was contem-
poraneous, did not occur till 1845, his Lordship will
perceive that there was no inconsistency in supposing
that his son acted with the Tractarian party on that
occasion. His Lordship's words are—' My son had
not taken a degree at the University, and had, 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
90 was proposed for condemnation at the time of its
publication.

(From the Church and Slate gazette.)
DR. HAMPDEN AND THE ARCHBISHOP

OF 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 :
LATTER TROM DR. HAMPDEN TO DR. HOWLEY, ARCH-

BISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
My Lord Archbishop,— Having seen for the firs
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 rily
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 ray 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.
May I be allowed also to say that, in undertaking
the responsible office of Regius Professor of Divinity,
my
cmy heartfelt desire is to acquit myself
h oft? tht rui toot
my duty as a member of the Church
whom a high trust has been committed; and to take
peculiar care never to do or say what may
injure the
sacred cause to which I have devoted myself. I would
further earnestly embrace this opportunity of stating
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,
tour Graces faithful humble servant,

(Signed) R. D. HAMPDEN
St. Mary Hall, Oxford, Feb. 27, 1837.
P.S.—I have written this letter from London ; bu
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 Sir,—l 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 abilitj, 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
,iiten-
tion to impugn the vital truths of Coristianity.
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
anandytehxipnlganaaltlieognedonaygaoinurstpayrt7,,
Iwnhircehspt
appearec ~o
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