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London, England, 1851-05-27 00:00:00

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Poorold Dr. Ilmear PHILLPOTTS is not, it appears,
.o have all his own way, even in the diocese of Exeter.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, with more good nature than
sound judgment, had announced in the House of
Commons that the Government did not intend to in•
terfere with the attempts of the Right Rev. Prelate
to hold what, in the plenitude of his episcopal power
the Bishop chooses to gall a Synod at Exeter, because
indeed and in truth it is no synod at all, a fact of
which the Right Reverend and moat astute Prelate
was perfectly well aware at the time, for he
has always, notwithstanding his phrases of boastful
defiance, abstained, with a caution and prudence
that the most circumspect might envy, from the com-
mission of any overt act that would bring him
into collision with the law. But the clergy,
of the diocese are not quite so complaisant;
they neither regard the vagaries of their Diocesan
with the contemptuous indifference of my Lord
Joliet RUSSELL, nor bale they that faith in the
orthodoxy or the prudence of the Right
Reverend persecutor of Messrs. SHORE and
GORHAM, which it would be necessary that
men should have before they embark themselves
with him on a voyage, the termination of which no
man can foresee; and accordingly a goodly number of
the clergy of the diocese of Exeter have put forth
and published their "reasons" for refusing to join
this synod. This most important document, which will
be found in another column, is most respectfully
worded, and in this respect contrasts most favourably
with the furious, unjust, and ill-bred vitupera-
tions in which the Bishop of EXETER thought
it decent to indulge in speaking of his
superior, the Archbishop of CANTERBURY.
Tha arguments put forth in this protest are most
cogent, and they prove indisputably that whilst the
Bishop of EXETER is railing against schismatics in the
most unmeasured language, he is himself heading an
unbecoming and injurious, if not schismatical ,opposi-
tion to the Archbishop of the province, and the con-
stituted authorities by which the whole body of the
Church of England is governed.
In plainer language he raises the cry of schismatic
in order that under cover of the cry he may indulge
in schism, even as a swell-mobsman raises the cry of
"stop thief," in order to get safe off with the booty.
The reasons relating to the judgment of the consti-
tuted authorities in the GORBAIA Case we give entire,
on account of its great importance—it is as follows
,4 2. Because the primary and avowed object for which
such assembly is to be convened is to issue a synodical dezla-
ration of adherence to the article of the creed—' i acknow-
ledge one baptism for the remission of sins,' which it is al-
leged has bean virtually denied by a judgment delivered by
her Majesty the Queen, as under God, the only supreme go•
vernor of this realm, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical
things or causes as temporal, 'on the recommendation
of the Judicial Committee of Priv Council, with the con-
currence of the two Archbishops; such a declaration being,
as we believe, uncalled for, inasmuch as the decision of her
Majesty was not intended to impugn, neither dues it, in our
judgment, in any degree whatever impugn such article of the
creed--an article which we constantly and solemnly repeat
before God and in the face of the congregation, with the full
`assent and consent' of our minds."
In every word of the above we entirely concur, and
we believe that every unprejudiced person who has
at all gone into the controversy will admit that,
whether right or wrong, the opinions of Mr. GORUAM
are much more in accordance with the doctrines pro-
fessed by the Church of England than are those
of the Bishop of EXETER. But that matter
is entirely beside the question. The decision of the
Privy Council as to the doctrines held by the E4ta-
blisbed Church is, and must be taken to be final,
let the decision be what it may. The Church
is the established of the law as completely as is
the army, the navy, or the police the established of
the law, and i 3 as completely under the control
of the law. As that law can regulate or
disband the army, the navy, or the police, so can
the law regulate or disestablish the Church. The
law established the Church, the law, of course,
knows what it intended to establish; and if the
Bishop of EXETER refuses to obey the law, he should
also, as an honest man, refuse to receive the
emoluments, or exercise the patronage, or enjoy the
privileges which be derives from the law. When we
see him acting in accordance with the principle so
admirably laid down in reference to a precisely similar
case by the Duke of RICHMOND, and resigning his seat
in the House of Peers, giving up his episcopal revenues,
and retiring from all connexion with the State, then
we shall give him credit for being actuated by con-
scientious motives ; but until he shall have done this
we shall continue to regard his synodical speeches as
we have always regarded his Gorham letters,
as neither more nor less than the noisy
brawling of a defeated suitor, who gives vent to his
rage and disappointment in impotent railings against
defeated, sad. the judge who
the opponent who has
has condemned him.

THE SCOTCH . BENCH ' On Wednesday the judge s
assembled in the first division, when the late Dean of Fa.
culty, Mr. M'Neill, presented his commission to supply the
Mackenzie. jr. M'Ncill, alter the reading and acceptance
vacancy in tho bench created by the resignation of Lord
of the royal letter containing
his appointment, withdrew to
the Outer-house, and heard two cases beside Lord Ivory.
His report and judgment were Postponed till Friday, when
he and Mr. Rutherturd finished their probation, and took
their seats iu the Outer-hlatse, in the room of Lord Ivory
and Lird Murray, who go to the first and second divisions of
the court.
THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.--The members of
this society dined together last evening, at the Thatched.
house Tavern, St. James's.street. Sir Roderick Murchison
Occupied the chair, supported by a distinguished circle of gen •
tiemen interested in geographical pursuits, including his
ExcPllency the American Minister (the leading guest of the
evening), Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm, General Sir George
Pollock, Admiral Pike, Sir John Rennie, Colonel Dickenson,
Colonel Lloydd, General Sandwitb, Captain Barrow, Captain
Hamil'on, Sir Henry de la Beche Captain J. H. Smythe,
&c. The usual loyal toasts and others incidental to the
occasion were proposed, and warmly responded io. The ad-
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the attempt by the outraged and indignant commu-
nity. He should relinquish the superstitious venera-
tion he has heretofore exhibited for old regulations,
which must be so modified as to meet the exigencies
of the moment.
But we would ask Mr. KEOGsi_the recognised
leader of the movement—a gentleman for whose
unquestionable ability we entertained a sincere
respect, what benefit or advantage does he
hope to gain for the cause, of which he is
the advocate, by such proceedings ? He has
rendered the English people a thousand times more
determined than ever to have a measure suited to the
emergency. Ministers are now inclined, in conse-
quence of the course which be has followed, to sanc-
tion for more stringent enactments than they would
previously have assented to. They have practically
adopted the views of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman
the Member for Mid burst, and the clients will have
good cause to say—" save us from our friends," for
these friends have occasioned greater mischief than
the most vindictive and malevolent opponents could
have accomplished.

As if to add to the excitement, we find
that the POPE, stimulated by what the
Honourable and Learned Gentleman the Mem-
ber for Yougbal justly termed "a bastard
episcopacy," has endeavoured to set aside the system
of mixed education brought forward by the Go•
vernment and sanctioned by the Legislature
of the United Kingdom. The firebrand of
Tuam has thus had a temporary triumph
over the respected and venerated Dr. MUR-
RAY and those prelates who supported his tem-
p►erate and judicious councils. The " synodical ac-
tion" that has been applied to such a purpose must
necessarily be checked. There is manifestly an at-
tempt to revive the Papal pretensions which
bad been so strenuously and unceasingly
opposed by our ancestors even in the days
of " Catholic England." We will not now endure
an ecclesiastical despotism, or suffer the unwarranted
interference of a foreign potentate with the
prerogative of the British Monarch or the
independence of the British nation. The pro-
tection of our civil and religious liberties is
in our own charge, and we will not aban-
don or neglect the sacred trust. Let Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, then, if he desire to retain the support
and confidence of the people, set aside the tem-
porising and milk-and-water policy which he
has hitherto pursued, let him exhibit a spirit and
energy becoming the occasion, and the Whig Ministry
will have no cause to regret the factious proceedings
of the Irish Brigade, although it has led to the loss
of the most valuable part of the Parliamentary session
of 1851, and completely obstructed the public business
of the country.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 21st have arrived.
There had been a slight disturbance among the
students of the University of Madrid, in consequence
of an attempt to increase the fees of admission, but it
had been speedily suppressed.
The following letter bas been addressed by ESPAR•
TERO to Queen CHRISTINA
" Diadem,-01y due adhesion to the person of the
Queen-Mother, and the respectful sympathy with which
my heart and loyalty take part in the pleasures and
p sins of my Queen, impose on me the duty of represent-
ing to your Majesty my 141:Lotion on hearing of the un-
fortunato accident which your Majesty suffered on the
Bth inst. May God speedily vouchsafe your return to
good health and to the embraces of your daughter. Ac-
cPpt, Madam, with your natural benevolence, this ex-
pression of my sincere wishes for the happiness of your
ki,jesty and all your ro) al family.
" THE DUKE OF VICTORIA."
MADRID BOLSA, MAY 21.—Tbe folio weng are the
prices of Stocks :—Three per Ceuta., 361 to ; Five
per Cents., with current coupons, 16i to l ; Coupons,
811 to ; Passive Debt, 6i to Exchange on
London, 50 70.

GERMAN Y.
The Prussian division of occupation left Electoral
Hesse on the 21st. The ELECTOR reviewed the bat-
talion at Cassel, and accompanied it as far as the
frontier.

The Free Press of Berlin, 231, says :—" The
Prussian Gazette has announced that the Senate was
engaged on a proposition of General LEGEDITSCII,
concerning the press of this city. We can aid that
the Senate has decided on taking no step in this af-
fair, and on waiting until the Germanic Dict shall
have come to a general resolution respecting the laws
for the regulation of the press."
The German journals state that the democrats of
Thuringia are beginning to display activity. In nios
of the communes weekly collections are made for sup.
porting the red journals; at Sonnenberg a de•
mocratic union has been formed ; and a recent demo.
cratic anniversary was celebrated with a certain de
gree of pomp.

HE GREAT EXHIBITION.

(THIS DAY )
The finsuess of the weather, and the assurance hich
yestorday'a experience gave that the shilling admision
tee had not had the effect of over-crowding ;tie building
to an inconvenient extent, seamed this morning to
have induced a lastgtr number to wend their
way to the Crptei Palace thftn visited it yes•
terday. From ten to eleven o'clock 8 894
visi-
tors passed through the doors; at twelve o'clock the
nurnbsr had increased to 15 699; and when we lett, at
one o'clock, something over 20,000 had passed through
the doors in the mornirg. The transept and the naves
presented a much more crowded appearance than they
did yesterday, and though not so brilliant, was perhaps
as numerous as on the ss. days. One change, however,
is perceptible at the first glance—the lounging class
had vanished entirely, and the stream of visitors passed
uninterruptedly along, without the tendency to hover
about particular spots, which was a marked cha-
racteristic of the firmer class of visitors. Although
of the most miscellaneous description, the crowd
was most respectable. The vigilance of the
police, however, is kept on a perpetual stretch,
and three or four suspicious characters have
already been apprehended in the exercise of their
profession. Yesterday two women were apprehended
by two foreign policemen in the act of picking a lady's
pocket; and on being searched a purse was found on
one of them, the contents of which she was unac-
quainted with, neither could she give an account
where she bad obtained it. The probability is that it
was a spoil which they had taken from some person in
the Exhibition in the course of the day. The purse still
remains in the hands of the police to be identified.
Officer,' well acquainted with the persons of almost all
the profesaional thieves were stationed at the
doors, and on any suspicious eheracters passing
through they are followed, and teeir procvedings
narrowly watched. Detectives, in plain clothes, also
are stationed in various departments of the building, and
every possible precaution has been taken to provide for
the protection of the public.
The Duke of Wellington visited the Exhibition this
morning; ho arrived about half-past twelve, and entered
at the east door, but after passing a short way
up the centre avenue, he found the crowd too great
to pa,s3 through conveniently, and departed after having
been about ten minutes in the bending. During hie stay
he was the object of great attention, a great majority of
the visitors perhaps never having before gezed on the
greatest warrior of the age.

A grand d4je?lner prinNnier demi chaud-froid
was given at Soyer's Symposium yesterday, by her Grace
the Duchess of Bedford, at which the following distinguished
per6oneges were present :—The Duchess of Bedford, the
Duchess of Inverness, the Duchess of Buckingham and
Chandos. the Dowager Countess of Morley, the Earl and
Countess Fortescue, Lady Rachel Russell, Lady Caroline
Sanford, Lady and Miss Macfarlane, Lady I-Estop, Lord
Glenelit, Hon. A. Ponsenby, Lord Bateman, Sir R. and
Miss Throckmortoo, Mr. C. Throgmorton, Major-Generul
and Mrs. Hare Clargcs, Mr. Henry Russell, Mr. Henry
Denby Seymour, M.l'., Mr. H. R. Greniell, Mr. Chichester
Fortescue, M.P., Lady Hall (Llanvue), Mrs. A. Villiers, I
Miss 11. Elliott, Mrs. Weymouth, Miss L nisi: Seymour,
tt:-.7.. The band of the 2d Life Guards, under the superin-
the
tenddt,jeaence
neof Mr. Grattan Cooke, was in attendance during
r.
The advices from America are unimportant, being,
as regards business, only two days later than those brought
by the Pacific, but they report c...ntinuo animation in the
stock-market, and the prospect of steady shipment of specie
to this country. The total exports of gold and silver from
New York since the Ist of January had now reached upwards
of 2,0(..]:3,(01. stcrliug. From California there was nsthirg I
later.

Maria Antonin
Ditto, New

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC'',

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
It is now evident that the PRESIDENT has, to se-
cure tl'e support of the parti-pretre, consented to
sacrifice the right to the suffrage of those who elected
him, and to maintain the restrictions of the Law of
the 31st May. The Constitutionnel is evidently-pre-
paring to back out of its advocacy of universal suf-
frage. In an article, signed by Dr. VERON, and
published yesterday, that worthy mouthpiece
of the
Elysee declares that although the LEON FAUCHER
Ministry has declared against universal suffrage, he
shall not withdraw one tittle of his support from them
on that account. It is, however, very doubtful
whether M. DE MONTALEMBERT has not overcalcu-
lated his strength. The following letter, addressed
by M. LEO DE LABORDE to M. NETTEMENT (in
which he classes Bonapartism and Socialism in the
same category), shows that a considerable and influ-
ential party of the Ligitimatists have declined to
" march through Coventry" with the ragged regiment
of the Rue des Pyrarnides. M. LEO DE LABORDE
says—

"My dear collesgue,—On the 28th of the month of
January last I said in the tribune, as the Moniteur and
all the journals prove, that when the moment sheula
arrive for demanding legally the revision of the Consti-
tution, I would present in the tribune a proposition of
which the first article should be France returns to
hereditary monarchy: None of my friends blamed this
declaration. Since: then all the events that have occurred,
and all the disquietude which agitates public opinion,
have concurred to make the presentation of such a pro-
position still more necessary. I believed then that I
should have been consistent, and should have fulfilled
an engagement taken in presence of my constituents,
by prweeting on the 26th of this month a proposition
conceived in the following terms:—' Seeing Art. 111 of
the Constitution, enacting that the National Assembly
may in the last year of the legislature demand the total
modification of the Constitution, I propose that the Legis-
lative Assembly, consecrating that principle, shall adopt
these resolutions :—Art 1. France returns to the legitima.e
and representative monarchy. Art. 2. In the forms
and at the period prescribed a Constituent Assembly
shall be elected to decide on the return to the trauitional
and national principle of hereditary succession. Art, 3.
This Assembly shall be el, cted by universal suffrage, re-
gulated, but not restricted.' I caused this proposition to
be preceded by some considerations which it is useless to
reproduce. The meeting of the Rue de Rivoli has una-
nimously rejected my proposition, and every other of the
same kind. If the sentiment of discipline, which honours
parties and causes their force, imposes on me the obliga-
tion cf submitting to this decision, I owe it to my con-
stituents to explain an insetion so contrary to my ante-
cedents and my promises. Since the Elysean party seeks
with as much cunning as activity to draw the country
into the worst of solutions, it is not to be feared that the
want of our initiative will leave to the future only two
issues equally fatal—Bonapartism and Socialism? To
avoid such an alternative, it would have been better, I
believe, confiding in the wisdom of the country, to have
expressed, with our usual political probity, wishes in con-
formity with the most sacred interests of France."
In the meantime the Republicans entertain, and we
think with reason, the most sanguine expectations
that there will be no revision of the Constitution, but
that Lours NAPOLEON will be succeeded by a Pre-
sident wbo will consolidate the Republic. The fol-
lowing is the argumen t of the Notional on this point :
"Revision of the Constitution! A that measure,
what noise, what hopes, what alarms!ut
To hear some,
the empire is to be proclaimed; to hear others, the re.
gency of the Duchess of Orleans, or the restoration.
Many, not comprehending the solution, think that the
Republic will be endangered. Let us just examine the
case. Will the Constitution be revised? No. Why
so? Because the required majority will never be at-
tained, owing to the firmness of the Republican opposi-
tion. That established, there remains another hypo-
thesis put forward by the reactionists. You think that
there will be no revision, say they, because you oppose
it? Who tells you that your assent will not be dispensed
with? Dispense with us! That is nothing more or
less than a revolution, and who will dare to attempt it?
Bat, between saying and doing there is an immense dis-
tance, and before attemptieg a matter like that, a party
looks twice; first, because men reflect maturely before
they throw their country into civil war; and next,
i be-
cause, supposing that fortune favoured you, who s to
know who will profit by the victory, for if the Re-
public is what divides you the least, what you would
have to put in its place is what divides you the mOtt."
BUSINESS ot ia iN FUICEIG.N KAU, vv Al' n as THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, ALIT 26.
Boulogne and Amiens, 95—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 17— East Indian, 1614—Northern of France,
14%.

Eonlona and Jan Jena ••
Central &f Franca (Or-
Trans and Vierzon) ..
Demerai 2.• • • • • • •

Dutch Rtenish • • • •
Ea,-it Indian
Do. do. do. ..
Great Indic.n Peninsula..
Ditto ditto ..
Louvain a la Sam,tro
Luxembourg •• •• • •
I)itto • • • • • • • •
Madrid and Valentia

Natant' and Liege .. • •
Northern of France • •

Orleans and Bordeaux ..
Paris and Orleans ..
Paris and Rouen •• ••
Paris and Stra3bourg .•
Rouen and Havre .. •
Sambre and Meuse ••
Tours and Nantes • • • •
Toarnay, Jurbise, Lan-
dau, and Tinsselt ••
are■t inaadnr•
St John Del
ISIABai 321

Railways. I Paid.

Aberdeen •• •• • •
Caledonian IN.
Chester and Holyhead ..
Dund. Per. & Aber. June,
East Anglian (31. 103.)
6 per cent. .. • •
Eastern Counties Eaten.,
5 per cent. No.
Do. No. 2 ..
Do. New 6 p. cent. Stock
Eastern Union, Scrip
pia ran. 6 per cent. • •
Do. 101. Deben. Shares .
East Lancashire, 6 per
cent. quarter shares ..
E. & W. York. June. bths
Edin. Per. & Dun..si p. et.
Glasgow & S.-W. Consul
Gt Northern, 5 per cent.
Great South. & Western
(Ireland) eighths ..
Lancashire and York-

shire, F. 201. .
Do. 6 per ct. Stock ..
Leeds and Thirsk, 6 per
cent., No. 1 ..
Do. quarters, 1848
London, Brighton, and
Smith Coast guar. 5 per
et., late Croyd in thirds
De. pref., 5 p ct. Stick,
1851, from 501. share. E
Do. new guar., 6 per ct.
London &S.-W., new ..
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, half shares .
Manch., Sheffield, and
Line , quar. stirs., No. 1
Do. new, 10/. ..
Do., W. ..

.. ..
1111dlaudCon. 6 p. c. stock
Do. Consal. Bristol &
Birmmg., 6 per cont...
00. Bristol & Glouces.
Norfolk Extension ..
..o. gaar. 5% per cent.
Do. Wavency Valley ..
North British .. ..
Ott. War. &Pr 01. 15/.6 p.c
Shrewsbury and Birm.
Now Guaranteed ..
Shrews. and Ches. (Nor.
W. Min.) 8 per cent.
South Devon . .. ..
South-Eastern, 43 p, ct
Waterford & lillkenny, 51.
Vt, est London, Ist Cl. (101.)
Do. 2d Class de. (par)
York, Newc., and Beres.,
Gt. N.of E. fur. ..
York and North Midland,
11. and S. Puri h. ..