The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-18 00:00:00

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IPaid. Citoz.l4cieng I Business

10 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 61 52
. 20 Ardennes all p
20 Bali.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.e 3 i 21,
5 Belgian East. Junction all 11 1*
20 Beziers to Graissessac all 91 10.
5 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all 24 2
20 Dutch Rhenish
6 • Eastern of France
20 Euphrates Valley 2s. -- P
20 Great Central of France all
20 Gt. Luxem., Con. shs all 81 83
10 Italian Junction
20 Lake Constance & Bale all
20 Lierre and Turnhout
20 Lombardo Venetian 8 44 5 p 121
20 Lucca & Pistoja, sp.c.pf all
20 Lyons and Geneva
334 Maria Antonia all
20 Do. do. New
20 Namur and Liege all 9 •
20 Do. do. 6p. c. Pref all 21 21
16 Northern of France
20 Do. New S'is,res
10 Norwegian Trunk Pref all 84 91
20 Ottoman, gua. 6 per cent 5 3 lel
20 Paris,Lyons, and Medit. all 3.5 351 341
20 Paris and Orleans
20 j Recife& S. Fran. (Fern.) ) 9 1 d 1 p
gua. 7 p. ct. (Lim.) ...
20 Riga and Dunaburg.... 4
10 Rome and Frascati .... all
20 Royal Danish , all
5 Royal Swedish
4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref all
20 Sambre and Meuse all 8 8
2010
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.5111 pere ra 0c ef nt. P rc. a
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2391
2391
81 West Flanders all 5. 5
10 Do. 51 p. c. Preference
20 W. & N.W. of France all 24 25
20 Western of Austria ..
20 Western of Switzerland all -1 r,
6 Wiesbaden
6 Do 8 per cent. Pref all
20 Zealand all
BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
Sharol Railways. 'paid. Closing Business
Prioe. Dona.
100 'Atlantic &St Lawrence., ] all I
Leased at 6 per cent
18 Bom.,Baroda& Cent Ind 1
i 9 1 2P st
gu. 5 percent
18 Do
18 Do. Addit. Capital A 6 ipar IP
18 Do. Do. B 44 par p
201 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 71 8
201 Do. New - l6l 13 121 d
100 f Buffalo,Brant.&Godrich 1 100 83 88•
( 6 p.
do. IJu ly, ct. Aug., 1872 j
100 Do. 1873 100 77 82
• 100 Do. do. 1 June, 1874 'lOO 75 80
20 Clcutta.&S.Eastrn.Lim. 1. 3. 0. —p
20 Cape,Eastn. Prov.(Lim.) 2s.
20 Cape Town & Dock Scrin 2s. Pm
20 Central Oude (Limited) 2s. 6d.
20 Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c 2 11 liP
171 Demerara
20 Eastern Bengal.gu.sp.c 5 1 P
Stock East Indian, gu. sp. c lOO 171 1081 1071
20 Do. C Shares all -
20 Do. E Shares Ext lO 11 11p
20 Do. Jubbulpore 5
100 D0.41p.c. Eds. pay.'s9 all -
20 Geelong& Mel. gua.s p. c. all 161 174
r Geelong Corporation 6 / 100 _
St
°' per cent. Bonds
Stock Grand Trunk of Canada, 100 "37 39 371 1 8
100 Do. 6p.c. Deben.,pay:'7B all 74 76 75
100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref 6O 10 5d
20 GtlndiaPenin.gua.sp.c all 21i . 211
20 Do. New, gua.s per cent 4 1 IPp
20 Do. do
20 Gt.S.of Ind.Lim.—Scrip
cent
2s. 1 4p pm x 4
guaranteed 5 per
201 Gt.W. or Canada Shares all 18 181 18 xII
201 Do. New
100 r Do. Bonds pay. '76,with all 105 108
i ept. till '6O
100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 105 108
100 Do. do. '73 without opt all 105 108
100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 do
20 Madras, guar., 44 p. c all 1 181
cent
20 Do. do. 5 per nt all 20 24
81
20 • Do. 44 p. c. Extension l5 I Id
20 Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.c 5 p
20 Do. Fourth do.
Stock Melb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds 100
20 f NewErunswick&Canda.
Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc 10 2 14d
Class ACapitl.Share
Do. do. Land do ..
20 Do. do. B. Capital do llO 4 3 d
.. Do. do. Land do i —
20 f Northof India Tramroad 2s.
Limited, Scrip —
20 Oude (Limited)
20 Scinde
~,43 )15 i 1 p
20 Do. all
20 Do. New
20 Do: Punjaub
I P 54
20 Do. Indus. St. Flo. :::" 5 P
20 St. And-ews & Quebec A 18
10 Trinidad(Limited) Scrip 1 • par ip •

Stock this day..

Price of Y.C. ..
Delivery last week
Ditto from June 1
Arrivals last week
Ditto from June 1
Price of Town ....

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY -EVENING, OCTOBER 18,

1854,

London
Liverpool
Bristol

Germany
France
America

1858.

lug :,--Sychief, 12,668 ; Tort Philip, 5,820 ; Tasmania, 262
Adelaide, 1,322; Cape, 15,727 ; and New Zealand, 4,928
bales. For English wool there is scarcely any demand,
and prices are rather droop Eng. In foreign and colonial
qualities next to nothing is doing, on former terms. Last
week's imports were 5,139 bales from Algoa Bay ; 196 from
East London; 172 from Cape Town, 470 from New Zea-
land, and 60 from Buenos A.yres.

•
TALLOW.
A fair average business is doing in our market, and
prices are well supported. P.Y.C., on the spot, is selling
at 50s 6d per cwt. Town tallow 5s nett cash. Rough
fat 2s 91d per 8 lbs.

1855. 1056. 1 1857. I 1858.

——
C 0,079. 24,863 1 14,550 20,534 10,152
67s Od to 62s Gd to 55s Od to ,56s 6d to 50s 6d
67s 6d —s Od —s d to! 66s 9d —s Od
2,669 3,264 4,616 4,278 2,637
27,923 48,711 49,3z4 37,301 37,157
2,375 1,610 4,474 3,421 974
22,002 25,931 46,904 44,711 35,742
68s 64 64s Od 55s Gd 59s 6d 53s Gd

STATEMENT OF TALLOW SHIPPING AT ST. PETERSBURG.
Tallow despatbed from Cronstadt 1858. 1857. 1856.
to Sept. 15, 0. S. (estimated at 25 Casks. Casks. Casks.
oods to the cask) 53,215 55,193 76,005
In.ships loading and lighters 14,186 9,166 10,177

- -
Total loaded off from St. Petersburg,
Sept. 13, 0. S 67,431 64,364 89,182
Do. after this date

Total at the close of the navigation

33,832
1,833
",337

103,761 112,095

Other English ports
Ireland 590
Scotland

4,867
1,546

31,559 34,250
1,788 7,978
592 3,367
6,066 6,339
1,132 529
11 2,119
8,127' 13,497
5,893 7,926

Total 53,245 55,198 76,005

THE CONFESSIONAL IN TILE CHURCH
OF ENGLAND.

PUBLIC /41EETING(THIS DAY)

A great meeting of the Vestrymen of the metropolis and
others was held this morning at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly,
to protest against the system of am:cular confession, and
other innovations in the Church of England.
At twelve o'clock, the hour appointed for commencing

the proceedings, the body of the hall and galleries were well
filled, and a number of clergymen were observable amongst
the persons on the platform.
On the motion of Mr. BEAL, Alderman ana Sheriff
HALE took the chair.

The CHAIRMAN said, without occupying the time of the
meeting, he should call upon a gentleman connected with
St. George's, Henover-square, to move the first resolution.
Mr. VEREKER said the attendance that day in so noble a
cause was really a cheet:ng sight. The cause, however,
was good, and he felt they would all agree that the time
had now come when every true friend of the Church of
England should exert himself to rid the Establishment of

its professing friends, the Puseyites, who, while they were
called upon to administer the gospel, clearly showed that
they were the emmisaries of Rome. (Cheers.) The feel-
ing was great in the country that there should be a firm
stand made against the aggressions of Puseyism, and that
a thorough church reform should be insisted on by the
people at large. (Cheers.) But he felt that if
anything was done it could be done by the middle classes of
the metropolis. (Cheers.) If the course he recommended
was :adopted, a movement would be commenced which
would end in good to the Church of England, and would
show to those who fancied they were secure in the position
they were then temporarily holding—(cheers)—that the
people were determined that the gigantic revenues of our
Church should not be the handed over to these traitors to be
used against ourselves for, our own destruction. • (Loud
cheers.) But what was the remedy for the great ex it of which
he. complained ? He knew but one, and that was a revision
of the Book of Common Prayer. Of course he was aware of
the extreme difficulty of procuring such an object, but the
rabic was but the work of man, and therefore no insuper-
able objection existed to such a proceeding. (Cheers.) If
that alteration was made, then these profe,ssing—merely
professing—clergymen of the Church of England would be
defeated in the great object they had in view—the Roman-
ising of that great establishment. (Cheers.) He implored
the meeting to fully consider the importance of firmly bind-
ing themselves together, as by union such a demand could
be made as would compel those who now .received the
stipends of the Church of Endland to administer its doc-
trines in all their purity. He concluded -by moving the
following resolution : •
"That priestly confession, and absolution, and other false
doctrine and innovation, have been recently taught and
practised by many of the clergy of the Church of England,
and encouraged by some of its dignitaries and bishops.
This meeting, believing such doctrine and innovations to
be at variance with the spirit and teaching of the Reformed
Church of England, but especially having no warrant or
foundation for the same in the holy Scripture, the only basis
on which all true Christian doctrine and practice should be
raised. That such teaching and practices having excited
the alarm and fired the indignation of the great bulk of the
members of the ChurCh of England, and of all true Protest-
, ants throughout the empire-' this meeting hereby raises its
solemn p'otest against such teaching and such innovations
in the Church of England, and declarcl its allegiance to the
-doctrines or the Liospel, to preserve winch for our use and
guidance the martyrs of the Reformation suffered. This
meeting, therefore, declares that, if the Church of England
is to be truly the Church of the nation, she must not be
permitted to go back to the darkness and serfdom of the
priest-ridden middle ages, but adapt her institutions to the
growing wants of the people, and take the great and simple
truths of the gospel only as the foundation of her teaching."

Mr. BE AI, in rising to second the resolution, was received
with loud cheers. He said the meeting no doubt expected
to see Mr. Westerton amongst them, but that gentleman's
absence, he regretted to say, was occasioned by a. great
domestic calamity—the death of his wife—but although
Mr. Westerton was not then in- that room, he assured the
meeting that no man was more 2ally convinced of the'ne,ces-
sity of immediate action to counteract the baneful effects of
auricular confession than he was. (Immense cheer-
ing.) Having referred to the steps that had been taken
since the last meeting in that hall to consider the
subject of auricular confession in the Church of England, he
said that Mr. Westerton had received no less than 2,800
letters, the writers of which all assured him that they looked
on and accepted him as their champion in his endeavours to
throw down the barrier of am icular confession, which was
sought permanently to be set up in the Church of England.
(Immense chews.) He called upon the meeting to protest
in the strongest manner possible against a doctrine
so opposed to the sp,- :t of the Church to act
so vigorously that Parliament would be compelled
to interfere —to condemn the practice of it, or to
eject the professors of it f ern their livings. (Immense
cheering, accompanied by waving of hats.) The dark room
which they had heard of was not the only dark room in.
Belgravia. The system of confession was carried on to an
extent that was, he thought, scarcely known. The Jesuit
confessOr entered the private home under the garb of friend..
ship, and there he wrung from the unfortunate victims by
threats and denunciations what he called a confession of
their sins. He strongly advised all those then present in a
parochial capacity, on their return! to their respective
parishes to call meetings, and submit the resolution, which
he had no doubt would be agreed to enthusiastically
that day for consideration, and then embody the sentiments
into a petition to Parliament, condemning, the practice of
auricular confession in the Church of England. (Cheers.)
If such a course were adopted success was certain, but there
must be no depending upon others—each man pre-
sent must exert himself most strenuously. Each mrst
sign the petition to Parliament—must urge his neigh-
bour to do likewise ; and every person who once joins
the movement must not rest in his endeavours until
the manhood of England was aroused. (Immense
cheering.) The resolution moved by Mr. Vercker clearly
showed the spirit by which its author was animated.
(Cheers.) The author of it was Mr. Westerton. (Immense
cheering.) He expected that there would b) no mistaking
the meaning of that iday's,proceedings, but that results would
follow which would restore the Established Church to its pure
simple, and beautiful character, and thorougl'y to, defca
the Romanising doctrines that were now being forced upon
the public by men who were its greatest enemies. (Immense
cheering.) Mr. Beal then concluded by very forcibly urg-
ing the meeting to adopt the resolution unanimously.
Mr. BROWNING, a vestryman of St. Georges's-in-the-
East, said he wished .to read a passage from the Book of
Common Prayer, relating to confession, but the meeting
refused to hear him. For some timehe persisted in his
object, but the feeling of the meeting being decidedly
against him he resumed his seat.
Mr. SimpKINS then addressed the meeting in support of
the resolution. He assured the meeting that if merely the
ordinary means were taken to put an end to a system
fraught with so much evil it would be a long
time before
mretehn whoeiro knew full well thebjeetwasattained bestforand surest
they had for
means of carrying out their objects.
AmidTsAtvgrEneastEcnhmeeorinvedgresolutionionwfaosunthdeedn augrpoeendtthoe.
Mr. e that a pe t petition
foregoing resolution, be drawn up and presented to Parlia-
ment. (Cheers.)
The resolution having been seconded was carried
unanimously.
Thanks having been voted to the Chairman the proceed-
ings terminated.

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THUNDERSTORM AND &Nov.—A thunderstorm
and fall of snow occurred at Kilham and Langtoft, on the
Yorkshire Wolds, on Monday last. The eico:•ic fl.lid
killed 10 sheep in a field belonging to Mr. S. Lampleugh,
and also struck an unoccupied house belonging' to the same
PasingNo
person, and one or two other houses in the neighbourhood.
Every window was broken in one of the houses, and other
damage done. What is rather singular, two wood pigeons
as they weie flying were killed by the lightning.
COLLISION.--Some little consternation was caused
among-the passengers of the last up train on the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, on
urpose was
Chip-
ping Norton junction on Tuesday evening last. At.ploPe a branch line runs off to the town of Chippingthis
ton, and the engine which is used for thsaatl
illstment of
ran on to the
tshheimptoiinngtst,oinsa stiedaidngof, when,passin passing into
asosiiidieinglinit
main line, and dashing-against one of the carriages of the
passenger train knocked it off tho rails, occasioning some
excitement among the passengers. No one, however, was
journey,
van.
,dlhafetpertszatelihttitlae
bedeellt/le, train
proceeded on it
VI %Wing the day. - '