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by a large and unimpassioned survey of public
circumstances—not brought forward in levity,
-merely to obtain pity support, , oleL•fiwn
from a feeling of YariLaneatary or pen Whit ainc,y-
ance, or in a tone of flippant caprice." Sir CHARLES
WooD, however, laid himself open to the well-
directed shaft by the reason assigned for the with-
drawal of the concessions offered to the agricultu-
rists, and he can scarcely complain if the vacancy
should be taken advantage of, the blot hit, more
especially when he might have continued his
original intention without reducing his surplus
below the necessary amount. He might have
brought forward an entirely new Budget, without
exciting any great wonder. Were he to do so the
second, third, or even the fourth time within
the session, it would not be quite without a
precedent ; it was the insulting reason adduced
that laid him fairly open to animadversion.
Mr. DISRAELI himself, however, was not so ex-
plicit as we could have desired. There was some-
thing vague and shadowy in the terms of his motion.
Were it even affirmed, nothing practical would be
achieved. The House would not be committed
to any definite course or substantial proceeding.
Why did he not fairly take the bull by the horns, and
move for a Committee to inquire into our entire
fiscal system with a view to its revision ? No-
thing less will enable him to obtain the re-
lief he desires for the agricultural and other
suffering interests. The entire taxation of the coun-
try must be placed on a new foundation before ex•
tensive and really beneficial measures can be brought
forward to promote the national prosperity, and ren-
der the industrious classes happy and contented.

How long is Dr. HENRY PHILLPOTTS to be per-
mitted to receive the emoluments, and to enjoy the
power, the privileges, and the patronage of the
Bishopric of Exeter, whilst refusing to perform the
duties of that office ? It appears from a petition pre-
sented to the House of Commons on Thursday last
by Lord ASHLEY, from the Rev. JAMES WAL-
ROND BURROUGH, M.A., Vicar of St. Mary's, Totnes,
Devonshire, that the Right Rev. Dr. PHILLPOTTS
still continues ostentatiously and contumaciously to
refuse obedience to the law of the land, and to per-
form those duties, the performance of which that law
has imposed on him as the condition on which alone
he is entitled to sit in the House of Peers, and to re-
ceive the emoluments, to exercise the patronage, or
to assume the territorial title which those laws have
conferred on the holders of the Exeter see. The peti-
tion sets forth—

" That your petitioner has been, for the last 13 years,
vicar of St. Mary, Totnes, Devonshire, in the diocese of
Exeter;

" That your petitioner received the order of (bacon
and priest from the present Bishop of Exeter it the
years 1835 and 1836 respectively, and was afterwards,
in the year 1838, instituted by the said Bishop as
aforesaid;

" That your petitioner's health having lately bscome
impaired, he was desirous of engaging the service of a
curate to aid him in the discharge of his parochial du-
ties, and nominated to the Lord Bishop of Exe:er for
that office a highly respectable gentleman, ordained,
within the last twelve mouths, by the Bishop of Peter-
borough, as curate to the said Bishop of Peterbotough'a
son, at Peterborough, which place he was compelled to
leave from it not suiting his health, but with the most
satisfactory testimonials as to his character and labours.
" That, notwithstanding such testimonials, tie Lord
Bishop of Exeter declined to license the said nominee
to your petitioner's curacy until after he had under-
gone an examination (a course not usually adopted in
such a case), and that after such examination, conducted
by his chaplain, be (the said Bishop) peremptorily re-
fused to license him to your petitioner's curacy, assign-
ing as his reason that ' what he wrote on the subject of
baptism,' he (the said Bishop) holds 'to be not it accord-
ance with the doctrine of the Church as set feria in our
articles and formularies;' and, further, the said Bishop,
in a letter to y our petitioner, expressly states that he
never will knowingly accept any clergyman wlo agrees
with your petitioner on that subject, thereby entirely
preventing your petitioner from obtaining any help for
the discharge of his ministerial duties.
" That your petitioner and his nominee cordially
accept the articles and formularies of the Church of
England, in their plain and natural sense, and hold
no views on the subject of baptism but what they
consider to be entirely agreeable to the sail articles
and formularies, and what have been recently tdjudged
to be consistent with the doctrines of the Church of
England by a solemn judgment of her Mkjesty in
Council, as supreme governor of the Church, aided
by the advice and public consent of both be Pri-
mates; which judgment the Lord Bishop of Exeter in
common with all the other bishops and clergy of the
said church is by his solemn subscription to the supre-
macy of the Crown bound in his official acts to carry out.
" That your petitioner believes that for this actof in-
justice, under which ho is now suffering, the law as it
now stands gives him no means of redress, the poser of
the Bishop in cases of ordination and granting of licences
to curacies being supreme, and admitting of no appeal."
How long, we ask, is the Bishop of EXETER to be
permitted to set at naught the solemn judgment of
ber MAJESTY in Council, which judgment, by his
solemn superscription to the supremacy of the Clown,
he is bound in his official acts to carry out ? How
long are pious and worthy clergymen such as
this excellent curate of the son of the Bishop of
PETERBOROUGH, to be delivered over to the ruinous
persecution of this sacerdotal despot ? It is atsurd
for my Lord JOHN RUSSELL to pen Durham letters,
or for the Archbishop of CANTERBURY to write ad-
dresses, so long as they suffer such men as Dr.
PHILLPOTTS to flagrantly violate the law. Why
were not proceedings taken for the deprivation of the
Bishop of EXETER on his refusal to institute Mr.
GonnAm ? Had the Archbishop of CANTERBURY
then done his duty this proud prelate would have
been deprived of the power of persecuting
Mr. BURROUGH and his curate; and the show
of vigour in that instance would have been
sufficient to have kept Puseyism from becoming
rampant, and thus leading on to the Papal aggres•
sion. Had HENRY PHILLPOTTS been ejected from the
see of Exeter for refusing to give effect to the
judgment of the QUEEN in Council, NICHOLAS
WisEarAN would never have been by the Porn in-
truded into the sham see of Westminster. It is use-
less for the Archbishop of CANTERBURY to cry
" Peace, peace," when his adversaries declare by word
and deed that there shall be no peace; it is mockery
for my Lord JOHN RUSSELL to denounce the " mum-
meries of superstition," whilst he permits the realities
of persecution to be brought to bear in support of
those mummeries by one who has deliberately set
the law, the Archbi§hop, and the SOVEREIGN at
defiance. The world will begin to doubt
the sincerity of both Archbishop and Minister, un-
less Sir HERBERT JENNER FUST be at Once
entrusted to make particular inquiries concerning
the health of the soul of Dr. llEsear PHILLPOTTS.
Should they, however, neglect their duty, we trust
that Lord ASHLEY will not neglect his, but
that he will at once bring the 'petition,' under
the notice of Parliament in . such a man-
ner as to elicit from Lord JOHN RUSSELL
a distinct declaration whether or not he is content to
take the part of leader in this great controversy.
The opponents of sacerdotal despotism will gratefully
accept him as such if he will do the work thoroughly
conscientiously, but if he exhibits the slightest
symptoms of flinching they will insist that he shall at
once make way for men of firmer mind and more
determined purpose.

AYLESBURY ELECTION.
CLOSE OF THE POLL YESTERDAY.
Bethel! • • .. .. 544
Ferrand .. .. .. 518

Majority

CABINET COUNCIL.—(TMs DAY.)—The Ministers
assembled, for the last time, we believe, before the recess,
this afternoon, at two o'clock, at the Foreign-office. The
Ministers present were the Noble Premier (Lord J. Russell),
the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Carlisle, Earl Grey,
Viscount Palmerston, Sir George Grey, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Sir T. F. Baring, Lord Broughton de Gylford,
the Right Hon. H. Labcuchere, and the Right Hon. Fox
Maule. The Noble Lord President (the Marquis of Lans-
downe) was necessarily absent, on account of the recent
demise of the Marchioness. Lord John Ru,sell and most
of the Ministers are expected to leave town at the close of
the ensuing week, for the holidays.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—Her Majesty and
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by thi Mar-
chioness of Douro, Miss Macdonald, Colonel Buckley,
Colonel Wylde. and Lieutenant•Colorel Hon. A. Gordon,
honoured this theatre with their presence last evening.
REPRESENTATION OF PLYMOUTH.—PLYMOUTH,
APRIL 11.—At a meeting of gentleman representing different
sections of the Liberal party, held here last evening, Mr.
Collier having stated his views on the important questions of
the day, it was unanimously agreed that his becoming a can-
didate would unite the Liberal interest of the borough; and
he has accordingly expressed his intention of doing so.
THE JEWS IN PARLIAMENT.---Mr. Anderton has
given notice of motion for the consideration of the next
Court of Common Council, that the court do petition both
Houses of Parliament that persons of the Jewish persuasion
may be eligible to be admitted into Parliament, and thereby
enjoy with the rest of her Majesty's subjects all the rights of
civil and religious liberty.

Railways. I Paid. Nominal Prices. Business done
JI to-day.
Aberdeen •• 6 8 % % dis dim.
Caledonian 10/. .. • • 10 6% —6%
Chester and Holyhead .. 15 16 16% x.d x.d
East Anglian (31. 10s.)
6 per cent. .. .. • • 1134 234 231
Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Pref. 5 ••
Do. (71. 175.) 7 p.c:Pref. 2
Eastern Counties Eaten.,
5 per cent. No. 1 .. 613 4 par —34 p % pm
Do. No. 2 .. 613 4 par p pm
Do. New 6p. cent. Stock 10 1074 1134
Eastern 'Union, Scrip
guaran. 6 per cent. • • 90 16 1634
Do. 101. Doben. Shares . 10
East Lancashire. 6 per
cent. quarter shares .. 614 • •
Glasgow & S.-W. Consul. 100
Gt Northern, 5 per cent. 1234 1334 13% 13% %
Great South. & Western
(Ireland) eighths .. 234 1 p.
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 20/. .. 6 1% 134 dis.
Do. 6 per cent. Stock '• 100
Leeds and Thirsk, 6 per
cent., No. 1 11 „ p 10%
Do. 6 per cent., No. 2 . 17 „.
Do. 6 per cent., No. 8 . 5 ..
Do. quarters, 1848 .. 9 134 2 p
London, Brighton, and •
South Coast guar. 5 per -
et., late Croydsa thirds 160 •—. ' " 119
Do. pref., 5 p ct. Stock,
1811, from 501. share. E 180 114 120
Do. cony. 5 per ct. 1852 60 57 —6O
Ho. new guar., 6 per ct. 100 136 139
London & S.-W., uew 6 2% p.
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, halt' shares ..
Manch., Sheffield, and
Line , guar. shrs., No. 1 25 13 14*
Do. new, 101. .. • . .10 11% 12%
Do., 61. • • • • .., 3 % 94, 15 3%
Midland Con. 6p. c. stock 100 132 134
Do. Consul. Bristol &
Birmlng., 6 per cent... 100 .. .. 133
Do. Bristol & Glouces. 48 .„
Do. do. do. .. 33 10 6
Do. Erewash Palley .. 50 ••
Do. Leic. & Swanning.
8 per cent. guar. 100 ••
Norfolk Extension .. 20 tl7 —lB
oa.'guar. 534 per cent.. 5 4%
Do. Waveney Valley .. 2
North British .. 6 5 534 z.d b z.d
Shrewsbury and Birm.
No* Guaranteed .. 8 11 11%
Shrews. and Ches. (NPr.
W. Min.) 8 per cent. 10 15 15%
South Devon 25 14 —lb
South-Eastern, 434 p, ct 10 • •
Waterford &Kllkt nny, 51. 1 • • —• •
WestLondon,lstCl.(lo/.) 10
Do. 2d Class do. (par) 20
York, Newc., and Berw., 17
Gt. N of E. Pur. „. 16% 16%
Do. .. •. „ 5 4%
York and North Midland
11. 'aud S. Parch. .. 10 I 413. 9
ronEZare.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 20 934 —9% %
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) .. 20 17% 1834
Demerara ..• 17% • •
Dutch Rhenish 8 5 434 db.
East Indian .. 14 134 —I% p. 1534
Do. do. do. .. 20
Great Indian Peninsula.. 5 %
Ditto ditto .. „ % %
Louvain ala Sambre 734 • •
Luxembourg •. .„ 8 1 —1 %-
Ditto •• •• •• 10 3
Madrid and Valentia
„•Maria Antonia 25 7 9
Ditto, New 734 2 4
Namur and Liege .. 20 8 —B%
Northern of France 16 14 ye 15% 15
Orleans aft Bordeaux .. 8 4 AU. 4% 4
Paris and Orleans „ 20 35 37'
Paris and Rouen .• .. 20 25 —26
Paris and Strasbourg .. 16 5% 5 dim. 11
Rouen and Havre 20 109{ 10% 10%
Sambre and Meuse .. 20 3% 4 4
Tours and Nantes .. 15 8% —B% db. 6%
Tourney, Jurbise, Lan-
don, and Hama 90 .. ••
West Flanders .. 8% 2 —2%

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