The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-08 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS.

Clerk—ll. W. Ilollingworth (1542), of the Indefatiga-
ble, 50, at Lisbon, to be Paymaster and Parser; Clerk,
John Twesdie (1842), to be Paymaster and Purser.
Second-Master—Richard W.Ward (1842),0f the Harpy
steam-vessel, on the south-east coast of America station,
to be Master.

Second-Master—John G. Anderson (1843), recently
paid off from the Atholl, at Woolwich, to be Master.
Second-Master—John Thomas (a) (1343), from the
Contest, 12, sloop, on the coast of Africa, to be Master.
Second-Master—Thomas Earl (1844), from the Thetis,
40, to be Master.
Second-Master—James Pyper (1844), to be Master.
WOOLWICH, MAY 7.—The Archer, sit am-sloop, is at
Devonport under orders for the coast of Africa, and not
at Lisbon as inadvertently stated 3 esterday.
Tee Retribution and Inflexible, steam-frigates, both in
the basin at Woolwich, are ordered to be made ready
for tea by the Ist of July next.

THE TRACTARIAN MOVEMENT.
Since our last publication, accounts have reached
us from all parts of the country of the failures which
have befallen the agitators.
Mr. Goode's reply to the Bishop of Exeter is re-
garded, generally, as crushing in point of argument,
although the great body of the Church clergy will
probably dissent from the personal views of both the
Bishop and his opponent.
Mr. Maskell's testimony to the existence of many
open questions in the Church of England, as coming
from an unwilling witness, is also most valuable :
we refer to his :correspondence with the Archbishop,
who is considered to have made rather too
liberal allowance of what a man may hold, 113
regards absolution and confession, together with
his living?, to suit the general feeling of the Church
as to the meaning of Scripture. It is only to be re-
gretted that the publication of such correspondence,
with whatever advantage attended as indicative of the
gentle and conciliatory spirit of the Archbishop, should
incidentally assist the baffled party in keeping alive
the agitation which is already in a rapid decline.
The same consideration makes us deprtcat.scuss
e the
discuss
means of Bishops, day after day, to
means obviously impracticable of restoring peac?,
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to the Church." Let the " galled jade wince :
there would evidently be peace, if there were no
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failure of the
efforts of the Romanizers to do snore than scanda-
lize the religious laity, at the spirit exhibited by
Amongst other indications of the
their section of the clergy, may be noticed an
address of about one hundred and eighty clergymen
only out of the large and important diocese of
which, probably, numbers
hundred incumbents and curates.
from Gloucester
eight
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nined
Bristol,
In the rural deanery of Mailing, archdiocese of
Canterbury and archdeaconry of Maidstone, the
Manning influence has failed in procuring any move-
ment.

Some clergymen of the deanery of Frome, arch-
deaconry of Hereford, have also addressed their
bishop, Dr. Hampden, who is, however, said to have
discouraged the proceeding.
Of the Episcopal Bench, the Bishops of London,
Exeter, and Oxford, are understood to be chiefly
active in the movement; and to be in constant com-
munication with Mr. Badeley and the other Trac-
tarian counsel in the late trial.
The Catholic Standard even intimates that the
Bishop of Exeter has sought a communication with
Father Ntwman ; but this we can hardly credit.—
Church and State Gazette.