The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-01 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

THE ANGLO-CALIFORNIA GOLD

they issued a report to the shareholders of this com-
pany announcing the reports sent over by Mr. Pal-
mer to have been 'gross exaggerations if not fabri-
cations." As this appeared before the letter of your
correspondent at San Francisco, it proves there was
no concealment of this fact on their part. The
lithographic drawing, which you state to have been
issued by the directors in this country, was made
from a sketch by Mr. Palmer and sent over by him
with his report.
With respect to any proof which the directors hare
the power of affording you that the company in this
country has been duped by Mr. Palmer, they can
only repeat what they have before stated, namely,
that the communications received from Mr. Palmer
are in Sir H. Huntley's possession, and cannot be
produced till his return, which is expected the middle
of November. Mr. Massy Dawson, however, who is
the bearer of this letter to you, and a provisional di-
rector of this company, takes with him an agreement
signed by Mr. Palmer previous to his departure, the
attesting witness to which shall, if required, wait
upon you to satisfy you of the execution of the do-
cument by Mr. Palmer, and an original letter from
Sir Henry, from Leamington, acknowledging the re-
ceipt of Mr. Palmer's first report. lie will also show
you the original dispatches (in the first of which he
acknowledges the receipt of Mr. Palmer's second
letter) received from Sir H. Huntley, and from
which the above quotations are made.
In addition to the miners who went out with Sir

MINING COMPANY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.
LATE 6T LETTING UN WEDNESDAY NIGLIT.

Sir,—Allow me as one of tho directors of the
Anglo Californian Company, to say one word with
reference to the attack on the company by the writer
of the City article of to-day's Times. Not to dwell
on the obvious unfairness of its commentary on a reply
to his charges which he refuses to insert, I proceed at
once to the pith of his remarks. He says—" To pre-
vent the possibility of the company feeling injured by
the suppression of their chairman's letter, it may be
well to remind the public in a few words of the pre-
cise statements made by the Times, and to add that
he has omitted to contradict any one of them." He
then enumerates the statements to which (as he
says) no allusion was made in the suppressed docu-
ment. Charge the first is, that letters addressed to
the directors have been returned by the Post-oflice.
This charge, if it have any foundation in fact, must
have arisen from a misdirection on the part of the
writers of the letters in question. To insinuate that the
directors of a company would give to the public a
wrong address, an address where communications
would never reach them, carries with it its own re-
futation. Charge the second is, that the company $
bankers, Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co., disa-
vowed their connexion with the company. Here,
again, the inference sought to be drawn would argue
en approach to insanity on the part of the managers.
The simple explanation is, that the money of the
company was entered not in the name of the com-
pany, but in that of Messrs. Chevin and Williams,
and I suppose the Messrs. Spooner and Attwood
would not decline to vouch for this fact. It is untrue
that the Times has received no explanation on this
head. The explanation now given was given at the
time the charge was first made, but then, as now,
they refuse to convict themselves in their own co-
lumns. Charge the third is, that Mr. Palmer, the
accredited agent of the company, was found on Sir
Henry Huntley's arrival to be an ideal personage,
" neither the eminent engineer nor the mines had
ever been heard of." But, as the suppressed reply
stated, the letters of Mr. Palmer and the original
agreement he drew up, both of which are in exis-
tence, demonstrate the absurdity of the imputation.
Sir Henry Huntley is known to many, as an Eng-
lish officer and a gentleman. He will soon be in
England, and then the world may judge between the
company and its interested assailants. It is not very
surprising that the Times should decline to insert so
decisive a refutation of its " statements" as that now
given ; but it might appear strange that it should
gratuitously repeat those absurd yet injurious attacks
did we not know the slightest flaw, the faintest error,
is fatal to the pretensions of men ambitious of the
prestige of infallibility, and it is to the consciousness
of this that I can alone attribute this desperate tenacity
of falsehood.
Trusting that in courtesy you will insert these
brief observations for which you are in no way re-
sponsible, and which are simply to warn the public of
the real acts of the case,
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
CAVENDISH STUART RUMBOLD, Bart.,
Chairman.

NURSERY STAKES.

6 to 1 ng,t Fogleman filly
8 to 1 agst Glenhawk
8 to 1 agst Exeter
10 to 1 agst Truth
10 to 1 ogst The Ban
10 to 1 agst Brother to Drakelow
10 to 1 ag.t Hesse Homfurg
10 to 1 agtt Paquetta
10 to 1 agst Brother to Truthteller
DERBY.
18 to 1 agst Teddington
25 to 1 agst Lamartine
40 to 1 ogst Lightfoot.
ARRIVALS —Tile following were omitted in our list
sent up On Tuesday :—Duke of Rutland, Marquis of
Bath, Lord and Lady Newn-rt, and Lord Drumlanrig.
THURSDAY'S RACES.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya, each, for three yrs old 7st 41b;
four, Sit 41b; five sod upwards, Bst 11lb; mares and
geldings allowed 31h; the winner to be sold for 250
sovs. if demanded, &e. A.F.
Mr. E. W. Hobson's Gladiola, 3 yrs ...(J. Oshorni) I
Mr. Poult.ney's Woodlark, 4 yrs .........(W. Treen) 2
Mr. R. H. Nevill's Herbert, 4 yrs .........(F. Butler) 3
Mr. 'l'. B. Charlton's Kissaway, 4) rs (Flatman) 4
Betting-5 to 4 agst Woodlark, 2to 1 agst
and 3 to 1 agst Herbert.
Gladiole wale all the running, and after a good lace
up the cords, won by a neck. This race was not timed.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two yrs old; colts,
Bst 71b; fillies, Sit 41b; the winner to be sold for 40
soya. if demanded, &c. last halt' of Ab. M.
Mr. Roles Gipsy Boy (Flatman) 1
Duke cf Rutland's Virago filly (W. Boyce) 2
Mr. Etwall's cby Thistlewhipper (W. Abdale) 0
Mr. Baldock's cby Red Deer (Holmes) 0
Mr. Nichols's Lady Gay colt (F. Butler) 0
Mr. Jaques's Heirloom (J. Manson) 0
Mr. Henry's Julis
Mr. C. Masson na The Timid Fawn ...(Whitehouse) 0
Betting-6 to 4 agst Lady Gay cult, sto 2 agst
Gipsy Boy, and 6 to 1 agst Julia.
The Virago filly, Gipsy Boy, Julia, and The Timid
Fawn lay together in the van throughout, Gipsy Boy
winning by a neck, Julia close up, and Timid Fawn a
good fourth. Run in 51 sees.
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h fr, for two yrs old, colts,
Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 416. Ab. M.
Mr. Gratwicke's Hesse Romberg (Flatman) 1
Mr. Howard's Christina (A. Day) 2
Mr. Delamere's Guy Manneriug (J. Marson) 3
Mr. Neville's Artisan (F. Butler) 4
Betting-7 to 4 agst Hesse Romberg, 2to 1 eget Ar-
tisan, and 3 to 1 each agst the others.
Hesse Romberg made all the running and won by a
length. Run in 1 min. 49 secs.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. oach, for two yrs old, 7st; and
three, Bst 121 b; fillies allowed 21b; the winner to be
sold for 80 sovs. if demanded, &c. T.Y.C.
Mr. Roles Ingratitude, 2 yrs (Charlton) 1
Mr. Thellusson's Falcon, 3 yrs (W. Abdale) 2
Mr. Jenkins's Miss Larkaway, 3 yrs (A Day) 3
Betting-5 to 4on Ingratitude, who won in a canter
by two lengths. Run in 1 min. 14 sece.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soya. each, for two yrs old.
D.M.
Mr. Blyth's Hipporsriff, 7st 131 b (Charlton) 1
Mr. Armstrong's fe.by Venison, 7st 101b(Whitehouse) 2
Mr. R. E. Oliver's Ischia, 7st 81b ......(G. E. Sharp) 3
Mr. Jaques's Entre-nous, Bst 71b ......... (J. Marson) 0
Mr. S. Davidson's Vivandiere, Bst 41b (Holmes) 0
Mr. Etwall's Iracundus, Bst 41b (W. Abdale) 0
Captain Hervey's fby Birdcatcher, 7st 61b...( rreen) 0
Mr. Delamere's Fortuna, 7st 61b (G. Brown) 0
Lord Exeter's Reindeer, 7st 61b (Flatman) 0
Mr. Daley's Avia, 7st 516 (Lye) 0
Betting-6 to 4 agst Wadastra filly (t), sto 2 agst
Venison filly, 4 to 1 agst Entre-nous, 5 to 1 each agst
Vivandiere and Hippogriff, and 6 to 1 agst Fortuna.
The Venison filly, closely waited on by Hippogriff,
made all the running until within ten lengths of home,
when the latter challenged and headed her; but on
being struck ran against the Venison filly and drove
her almost over the ropes. The race terminated in favour
of Hippogriff by a head, but an objection was imme-
diately made by the owner of the Venison filly. Ischia
was a bad third, and Vivandiere fourth. Run in 1 min.
46 secs. The objection against Hippogriff was gone
into after the races, but the decision was postponed till
Friday night.
Glasgow Stakes of 100 Boys. each, Is ft, for two yrs old
colts, 84 71b escb. Last three-quarters of R.M.
Mr. Greville's Ariosto (Flatman) 0 1
Lord Chesterfield's Bro. to Drakelow (JMasson) 0 2
Lord Enfield's Hernandez ......(F. Butler) 0 3
Betting-11 to Bon Hernandez ;2to 1 agst Ariosto;
4 to 1 agst Brother to Drakelow.
Hernandez took the lead, waited on by Brother to
Drakelow and Ariosto, at the latter's quarters; they ran
so into the cords, and then closing, finished bead and
head. The Judge pronounced it a dead heat between
the three. Run in 1 min. 21 secs.
Deciding heat,—Betting-6 to 4 agst Hernandez, and
2to 1 each sgst Brother to Drakelow and Ariosto. In
this heat Brother to Drakelow made the running, Ariosto
waiting on him into the cords, and beating him by a
bead; Hernandez halt a length from Brother to Drake-
low. Run in one min 23 secs.
A dead heat with three, Binnacle, Radulphus, and
Lebanon, was run for this stake in 1845; Binnacle win-
ning the drciding heat—Nat riding.
Subscription Handicap Plate of 501.; for three years
old and upwards. D.I.
Lord Exeter's Tophana, 5 yrs. 7st 41b ...(J. Mann) 1
Duke of Bedford's St. Rosalis. 4 yrs, Bst...(F. Butler) 2
Mr. Jaques's Mildew, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (Flatman) 3
Sir J. Ilawley%; Cranberry, 3 yrs, 7st (Arnold) 4
Mr. Rogers's Bastintado. 3 yrs, sst 121b...(1Iammond) 5
Betting-7 to 4 ag..t St. Rosalie, sto 2 ogst Tophana.
Tophana male all the running, and won cleverly by a
length; a head between second and third. Run in 3
min. 55 see.
Match, 200, h ft; T.Y.C.—Lord Clifden's Coticula,
Bst 71h, te,eived ft from Lord Glasgow's f by Lauer-
cost or Retriever, out of Physalis, ist 71b.
Match, 200, h ft; T.Y.C.—Duke of Bedford's Bor-
deaux, 3 yrs, Bst 71b, received ft from Lord Glasgow's
Nondescript, 2 yrs, 6st 71b.
Match, 300, h ft; Bst 716 each; T.Y.C.—Mr. Greville's
Barcelona received ft, from Lord Stanley's Sensitive
(dead).

Henry Huntley others were afterwards dispatched to
join him, carrying with them large quantities of min-
ing tools and implements. The total number thus
sent out amounts to nearly thirty. The provisional
directors desire to add that as this company is not yet
completely registered, every arrangement made since
the provisional registration of the company (including
the negotiation pending between Sir H. Huntley and
the Mariposa Company) is merely prtlin►inary.
. They do not base the success of this company upon
an amalgamation,with the Mariposa Company. They
have no hesitation in asserting, that as soon as this
company is completely registered (and this will be as
soon as the legal formalities now in progress will
allow) they will conclusively show that the prelimi•
nary arrangements made by them afford the elements
of a most successful enterprise. The company has
neither debts nor liabilities, and has a balance in hand
more than sufficient to meet any immediate requisi-
tions.

The provisional directors are merely desirous at the
present moment of upholding the credit of this com-
pany, and (as connected with it) vindicating their own
honour. To this end they only require fair play; and
they submit it to the public, and to your sense of jus-
tice, Sir, whether the permitting an unknown writer
to attack them in your columns with assertions con-
tradicted by your own correspondent at San Fran-
cisco, and with injurious insinuations founded upon
those assertions, is giving them fair play.
Your own correspondent says, "I am bound in
justice to all parties to add, that from all I can see and
learn, the company (the Anglo-Californian) has per-
formed all its engagements to the Cornish miners with
fidelity. Money is placed here, and bills of lading
for a further supply have arrived, coming forward to
provide for their wants and pay for their passage into
the interior."

P.S.—I moreover entrust to you a copy of the
letter which the Times would not insert, notwith-
standing that the editor sent word by one of his
officials on the evening of the 25th that orders had
been given for it to be printed, and if you can find
room in your columns for it, the so doing will much
enhance the gratitude of myself and my colleagues
for so handsome a vindication of truth and justice.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—The directors of this company claim, as a
matter of justice to the shareholders and to them-
selves, the insertion of this letter, correcting certain
mis-statements (avowed and implied) in the article
upon this company which appeared in your columns
of the 23d inst.
The account (22d inst.) of this company, written by
your correspondent at San Francisco, seemed to the
directors written (apart from a few inaccuracies) in a
truthful and impartial spirit—and the few observations
made by him, tending to throw a degree of suspicion
upon some matters, they believed to have been so
made with the legitimate object of calling the atten-
tion of the public to them. They have, therefore,
read with no inconsiderable surprise the attack made
on the company, in the article of the 23d instant,
asserting, or implying matters so materially at vari-
ance with the contents of your own correspondent's
letter, published the day before, and insinuating a
charge against Sir Henry Huntley, in the teeth of a
letter inserted in another column of the same paper,
written by the directors, and stating that the com-
munications between the directors of the company and
Mr. Palmer, were in the possession of Sir 11. Huntley
for certain purposes there mentioned, and therefore
showing to any impartial person that Sir Henry had
at least satisfied himself before his departure of the
bona fides of those with whom he was acting, as well
as of the authenticity of the published reports of
Mr. Palmer. After referring to the announce-
ment of the receipt of the reports from Mr.
Palmer (which reports, as before stated, are now
in the possession of Sir Henry Huntley),
and to the arrangement made with Sir Henry, you,
in your attack of the 231 inst., observe that " the
company have lately been advertising that they have
received most flattering dispatches from him (Sir H.
Huntley). It now appears, however, that no such
person as Mr. Palmer or Captain Tremaine was
known, and that the locality of the mines, of which
the London directors had issued a lithographic draw-
ing, was equally undiscoverable." You, Sir, and the
public may judge from the following extract from a
dispatch written by Sir Henry Huntley, and received
by the provisional directors of this company on the
7th instant, whether the directors were or were not
justified in stating that they had received flattering
dispatches from Sir IL Huntley. After referring to the
Mariposa Company he writes as follows :—" An in-
terview between the directory and myself was for this
morning arranged. I read before them your letters
to me ; informed them fully of all that had occurred,
and of your punctuality in fulfilling all engagements
with myself and those employed with me ; the result
of which is, that you will receive with this an inti-
mation of readiness to amalgamate your company
with theirs upon terms to be decided upon hereafter ;
you will also receive a certificate, showing them to be
a legally formed company ' • and a certificate of the
amount and quality of gold produced from a certain
weight of quartz rock. I should recommend your
serious consideration of the proposals of the company,
which are herewith sent ; for of the ample remu-
neration to shareholders, there can be no question."
In corroboration of the above, your own corre-
spondent at San Francisco (after referring to the
terms of the proposed amalgamation), says ;
" Their undertaking is not at all Quixotic, in my
opinion. If properly managed, and they can keep
their men together, they will undoubtedly make
money. They have overcome the greatest difficulty
which besets undertakings of this sort, namely, get-
ting their men to the mines I think the
company was not lucky to get the (Tremaine's) land."
Sir Henry Iluntley has expressed an opinion in ac-
cordance with the last observation of your correspon-
dent. In your attack of yesterday (after referring to
the Palmer defalcation) you remark—" Under these
circumstances, Sir Henry has permitted the miners
to hire themselves to another company, the Mariposa,
who coolly propose to amalgamate with his London
friends upon receiving the sum of one hundred thou -
sand pounds for conceding them that privilege. As
the amount thus required would merely purchase the
right for the nine Cornish miners to work in a parti-
cular spot, without furnishing the slightest guarantee
that the proceeds of their labour shall be handed over
by them to their employers, the nature of ithe offer
and the present condition of the shareholders may be
easily appreciated."
Why your writer should have made the above-
quoted gratuitous assertions, or why you should try
to lead persons to believe that Sir H. Huntley would
not take the necessary precautions for ensuring a fair
share of the profits of the mines to the shareholders of
this company, in the event of an amalgamation with
the Mariposa Company, the directors are at a total loss
to conceive. They must, however, leave the following
extract from Sir H. Huntley's dispatch before re-
ferred to, and from another received yesterday, to
prove the value and truthfulness of those assertions.
He says—" I have now to inform you that, with a
view to your amalgamating with this (the Mariposa)
company, I have engaged to carry the miners with me
to the Mariposa Mine belonging to them. The men
are willing to go, and will receive each from this
(MariposaXympany 100 dollars per month, a sum
which you must have added to their wages bad they
commenced upon the Calaveres ; this receipt does not
deprive them of the wages :Treed to be paid by
your company. I thought it advantageous to retain
that tie upon them. . . Last week they proceeded
to the mine of the company upon the Mariposa. The
main provisions of the treaty (with the Mariposa
Company) are as follows :—" The mine is valued at
200,0001. The stock to be divided in 2,000 shares of
1001. each. London to have 1,000 shares upon pay-
y
pay-
ment of 100,000/. to the Mariposa Company, but may
Pless aumniln,erd. !lave
.a
T believeoportimiatnealyve less
only to
in-
terestadd my conviction
will attend an investment in the
Mariposa Mine (the
lease of which, I
may observe, is held under Colonel
Fremont), and my certainty of the legality, sub•
stantiality, and integrity of the Mariposa Mining
Company."
Your correspondent at San Francisco says :
" The Mariposa Company made a proposal to Sir
Henry's Company that the two should amalgamate;
on condition, amongst other things, that the London
Company should put in 100,0001., and, that then
they should start equal and share profits half to each."
Whence, then, your gratuitous insinuation on this
point ?
The directors may remark that, on the 14th inst.,

LATEST BETTING.
NURSERY STAKES.
4to 1 agst Brother to Bto 1 agst HesseHomberg
Drakelow I 9 to 1 agst Ban
6 to 1 agst Exeter' 12 to 1 agtt Ulenhawk
I
6 to 1 agst Fugleman's d f
The sale of the valuable furniture, pictures, china,
books, wine, &c., in the Newmarket residence, lato the
property of Mr. Crockford, purchased by Mr. W. P.
Isaacson, in one lot, and now sold in order that the
house may be constructed into four, attracted great at-
tention, and the prices realized were very good. One bin
of rare old Port made from 7/. 10s. to 91. 10s. per dozen;
and some of the china realized extraordinary prices, as
did also the furniture and paintings in the principal
rooms. The same was conducted in such a manner as to
give very general satisfaction by Mr. R. Tattersall, jun.,
of Newmarket (of the firm of Isaacson and Tattersall),
and proves him to be a very promising " chip of the old
block."

NEWMARKET, THURSDAY NIGHT.

ENTRIES FOR FRIDAY.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 SUVF. each, &c.- D.M.
St. Ann, 5 yrs, Bst 71b—Uriel, 4 yrs, Bst 41b—Mil-
dew, 3 yrs, Bst-I)ulcet, aged, 7=3 101b—Juggler, 4 yrs,
'7st 61b—Bushranger, 3 yrs, 7st—Preslaw, 3 yrs, bat 71b.

-thindicaP. T.Y.G.
Joe-o'Sot, 6 yrs, Bst 91b—Mis Ann, 4 yrs, Bst 51b—
Thornhill, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Dulcet, aged, 7st 81b—Clelia,
3 yrs. 7st 71b—Compass, 3 yrs, 7st 71b—California, 3
yrs, 7st llb—Diligence, 3 yrs, Est 71b—Ondine, 3 yrs,
6st 41b.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each. First half of Ab. M.
Winner to he sold for 3001., &c.
Antigone, 2 yrs—Knight of the Thistle, 2 yrs—Eliza
Middleton, 3 yrs—Flare-up, 3 yrs.
501. Phte. A.F
Preslaw, 3 yrs—Reversion, 4 yrs—Bullfinch, 3 yrs—
Fire-king, 4 yrs--Defaulter, 5 yrs—Dulcet, aged—
Scratch, 4 yrs—Landseer, 4 yrs—Andalusian, 4 yrs.
Sweepstakes. First half of Ab. M. Wiuuer to be sold
for 50/., &c.
Faux-pgs—Gipsey Boy—b fby Gorhanabury, out of
Siberia—Once More.
Both matches are off.
BETTING UP TO TEN O'CLOCK.
NURSERY STAKES.
4 to 1 ag-4 Brother to Drakelow
6 to 1 agst Exeter
6 to 1 agst f out of Fugleman's dam
10 to 1 agst Hesse Homburg
10 to 1 agst Brother to Truthteller
10 to 1 agst The Ban
10 to 1 agst Truth
12 to 1 agst Glenhawk

THE SU N, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, N O'EMBER 1, 1850.

I THE CARDINAL ARCIIBISHOP OF
1 WESTMINSTER.

GREAT MEETING OF THE CLERGY.
Yesterday morning an aggregate meeting of the
beneficed clergy of the city of London was held at
Sion College, in pursuance of a requisition addressed
to the Venerable Archdeacon of London, for the
purpose of memorializing the Lord Bishop of the
diocese on the subject of the appointment of the Car-
dinal Archbishop of Westminster, and to express
publicly their collective opinion on the projected es-
tablishment of the Romish hierarchy in this country.
At twelve o'clock, the hour appointed for the meeting,
there were present the Rev. Thomas Dale, M.A.
Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's ; the Rev. Dr.
Russell, rector of Bishopsgate; the Rev. Dr. Croly,
rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook ; the Rev. Dr.
Vivian, Warden of St. Paul's ; the Rev. T. Wrench,
rector of St. Michael's, Cornhill ; the Rev. Lancelot
Sharpe, rector of Allhallows Staining; the Rev.
Michael Gibbs, M.A., rector of Christ Church,
Ne w gate - street ; the Rev. Dr. M'Caul, Pre-
bendary of St. Paul's; the Rev. T. B. Murray,
M.A., Prebendary of St. Paul's and rector of St,
Duustan's-in-the-East; the Rev. J. Harding, M.A.,
rector of St. Anne's, Blackfriars ; the Rev. Thomas
Horne 8.D., Prebendary of St. Paul's, and rector of
St. ELund,Lombard-street ; the Rev. J. Toogood,
M.A., rector of St. Andrew's, Holborn; the Rev. Dr.
Worthington, incumbent of Trinity Church, Gray's-
inn ; the Rev. William Calvert, M.A., Minor Canon
of St. Paul's, and rector of St. Antholin, Watling-
street; the Rev. J. E. Cox, M.A., rector of St.
Helen's Bishopsgate-street ; the Rev. Dr. Hughes,
rector Of St. John's, Clerkenwell ; the Rev. W. J.
Hall, M.A., Minor Canon of St. Paul's, and rector of
St. Benet's; the Rev. Dr. Charlesworth, rector of St.
Michael's, Bread-street ; the Rev. Edward Auriol,
M.A., rector of St. Dunstan's-in-the-West ; the Rev.
Charles Mackenzie, M.A., rector of St. Benet's,
Gracechurch- street; the Rev. J. P. Bean, M.A., in-
cumbent of St. Mary's, Aldermanbury, and master of
St. Paul's School ; the Rev. Josiah Pratt, 8.D., rector
of St. Stephen's, Coleman-street; the Rev. J.Ellis,MA.,
rector of St. Martin Outwich ; the Rev. R. P. Baker,
M.A., rector of St. Botolph, Aldgate ; the Rev.
Charles Lacy, M.A., rector of Allhallows-in-the-
Wall; the Rev. R. H. Ruddock, M.A., incumbent of
Trinity Church, Bishopsgate ; the Rev. T. R. Red-
war, M.A., incumbent of St.,Thomas, Rolls'-gardens ;
the Rev. Dr. Burnet, rector of St. James's, Garlick
Hythe ; the Rev. R. Wood, 8.D., vicar of St. Sepul-
chre's; the Rev. Thomas Simpson Evans, M,A.,
vicar of Shoreditch ; the Rev. W. Webb Ellis, M.A.,
rector of St. Clement's Danes ; the Rev. George Gib-
bon, M.A., curate of St. Clement's Danes • the Rev.
J. F. M'Carthy, M.A., incumbent of gt. Mark's,
Pentonville; the Rev. T. Letts, M.A., rector of St.
Olave's, Hart-street; the Rev. J. V. Povah, M.A,,
Minor Canon of St. Paul's and rector of St. Anne,
Aidersgate; the Rev. J. L. Marcus, M.A., incumbent
of St. Paul's, Bunhill-row ; the Revs. Messrs. T.
Darling, S. Wix, J. Durham, B. Cox Sangar, M. W.
Lusignan, W. Denton, Denis Kelly, E. Pizey, J.
Lyons, W. Scott, J. Bull, Pownall, Gordon, Rogers,
Marshall, Alfrey, Jones, Austin, &c.
In the absence from illness of the Venerable Arch-
deacon of London, the chair was filled by the Rev. H.
Roxby Roxby, M.A., rector of St. Olave's, Old
Jewry, and president of Sion College for the ensuing
year.
The meeting having been opened by prayer,
The Rev. CHAIRMAN said, they were all aware of
the nature of the subject which brought them together.
It was one, he confessed, which had occupied their
attention for some time. There were few who could
have failed to perceive that the tendency of the Court
of Rome of late years was to intrude upon this cows -
try, upon which the first open act of that tendency had
a most important bearing. It was, therefore, with
great satisfaction that he consented to call them to-
gether cu that occasion, feeling assured that they
would all unite in doing what in them lay to express
to those in authority the feelings of the clergy of the
city of London on a subject important to every one,
whether layman or clerk.—(Hear.) But how im-
portant to those who look forward to the results it
was calculated to produce—those to whom God had
been pleased to intrust the spiritual welfare of the in-
habitants of the metropolitan city of London.—
(Hear, hear.) He only trusted that there might be
no sign of division amongst them on that great
occasion. First, they should all remember that
this occasion was a purely religious one. It was
a religious feeling which had called them there.
He hoped they would abstain from all allusions cal-
culated to introduce political bias into their discus-
sion, and he trusted they might be enabled to agree
upon some such protest as would enable them to ex -
press their feelings upon the religious part of the
question without touching upon the other. If the
law, as it now stood, permitted this assumption of
power which had just been put forth by the Bishop
, of Rome, that assumption was entirely contrary to
the spirit of the law ; and therefore, if it were true
that, according to the letter of the law, this invasion
were admissible, they should be firm themselves, and
strenuous in encouraging others, in joining in an
unanimous address to the fountain head of power,
imploring that the Legislature would put its absolute
veto upon this proceeding.—(Hear, hear.)
The Rev. Mr. Wrx, who was very imperfectly
heard, suggested that as they were all fellows of Sion
College de jure, they should act in their proper ca-
pacity only to carry out the purpose for which the
meeting was summoned, namely, to address their
diocesan only, following the good examples set by the
clergy of Westminster, and the inhabitants of St.
George's, Hanover-square.
The Rev. sir. MURRAY suggested that, as they
were assembled to address the Bishop, they could only
adopt that course at present. It would be competent
for them at a future meeting to address the British
Crown or both Houses of Parliament.
The Rev. Dr. M'CAUL said that the present was a
time of danger, and they were bound to do their best
to avert it. He did not mean that it was a time of
danger to Christ's truth, or to any of the Christian
truths separately ; for whatever any power on earth
might do, they knew that the true Church was
founded on a rock, and would come forth unharmed
from any attacks which might be made upon it. He
did conceive it a time of great danger both to the
Monarch of England and the liberties of our people.
—(Hear, hear.) He thought so because it was an
assumption of power on the part of the Bishop of
Rome, and there has been for some years an appear-
ance in this country of favouring that assumption to
the detriment of the lawful Church of this realm.
Princes had been overturned from their thrones
when they bad given support to the errors and
superstitions of the Bishop of Rome. They had
seen in France a family driven from the throne
soon after an attack on a defenceless Queen upon
whom they attempted to force the errors of the Popish
system. He believed that Popery was a false religion
—false because it opposed God's truths, and because
it brought down the curse of the Almighty upon it ;
and it was because he had that feeling that he trem-
bled for the prosperity of the nation. He hoped they
would stand forth and protest against all Papal as-
sumption, and unite with their brethren to uphold the
truth as they had received it from their forefathers—
to maintain it inviolate, and hand it down to their
children, thus upholding the throne and bringing a
blessing upon the prosperity Of the English Church
and nation.—(Cheers.) It was not his intention to
say more than this, and he only wished to see the
memorial (which had already been submitted to
Archdeacon Hale) carried unanimously by the as-
sembly. The address which he bad to propose was as
follows :
"TO THE RIGHT HON. AND RIGHT REV. THE BISHOP
Or LONDON.
" My Lord,—We approach your Lordship with senti-
ments of sincere respect and affection.
"Having heard with indignation and concern of the
recent aggression of the Bishop of Rome in appointing,'
by an assumed authority, a Cardinal Archbishop of
Westminster, and in assigning, under a Papal bull, cer-
tain districts of this country to the spiritual jurisdiction
cf clergy entitled ' Bishops of the Romish Church; we
feel it our duty to declare our resolution, with God's
help and blessing, to co-operate, as far as we are able, in
guarding the rights and privileges of our native church 11
from the assaults of foreign and usurped dominion.
"They call to mind the fact that the faith of Christ,
in its purity of doctrine and worship, had been planted
and established in the realm of Britain some centuries
before the mission from the Roman See, in the time of
Pope Gregory, had set foot upon our shores. We know,
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and the Church of Rome had, by its unscriptural
and idolatrous practices, corrupted the primitive faith,
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hearty desire for the maintenance of the Christian truth
in all its integrity and purity, as effectually to resist this
novel and presumptuous movement, which appears to us
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offer your powerful aid and counsel in the present con-
juncture.
" We cannot conclude this memorial without request-
ing to offer to your Lordships our best and warmest
thanks for the dignified and uncompromising Christian
tone of your reply to our brethren at Westminster.
" And we ever pray, &c."
He would observe, in order to carry out his former
statements, that the Bishop of Rome had usurped the
prerogative of our Sovereign in appointing spiritual
dignitaries in this land. It was equally a fact that
he had invaded the jurisdiction of the Primate of All
England and other prelates. They had seen the pas-
toral letter of the Cardinal Archbishop of Westmin-
ster, and observed the expression " we govern," as if
he had received his jurisdiction from the Primate of
England. lie thought that by that act the law of

England was invaded. By it had been done, in de-
fiance of the laws of England, that which no Popish
Sovereign in the world would submit to. Was there
any Popish country, Austria or any other, into which
they found that a Papal bull could come without
being first submitted to the Ministers of the Sovereign?
In the same letter was an attack upon the religion of
their country, which was spoken of as being in total
darkness for three centuries, while we had the
glorious light of the Reformation, and the country
had become greater and more glorious, and more
prosperous, than any empire that ever existed of
which they had read, in the whole history of the
world. It was an attack upon the clergy and free-
dom of the country, because, if the Papal dominion
succeeded, they had only to look forward to the same
bodily tyranny under which so many martyrs perished
in the flames.—(Cheers.)
The Rev. T. H. lionise seconded the motion.
The Rev. T. B. Mueser said that, as one of the
clergy, and as a fellow of Sion College, he had signed
the general requisition to Archdeacon Hale, and
therefore he might be justified in saying a few words
upon the motion then before them. They must all
regret the absence of the Venerable Archdeacon, and
the cause of his inability to take part in the proceed-
ings of the day. They had arrived at a crisis in the
Church of England, which ought to move every one
who had an attachment to that Church to bestir him-
self in its defence.—(Cheers.) The circumstance
under which the recent appointment, or he should ra-
ther say attempted appointment, was made must ex-
cite them all as followers of the religion of this coun-
try, and as patriots, to defend the Church of England
as far as possible in this conjuncture.—(Hear.) What
was this measure but one which children might call
absurd ; but which, unless it was averted, they would
live to deplore? It was an attempt to overturn the
principles of the Church of this country, as well as an
attack upon the Queen.—(Cheers.) And those who
followed the tenets of that Church which had been
handed down to them from their forefathers would
certainly do their best to defend its precepts and the
principles acknowledged in this country. The clergy
of London, as well as the clergy throughout the
country, must now follow the agitation that had been
commenced for upholding the Christian truths in
their purity and integrity. The people, rich and
poor, old and young, had the Papal attempt placed
before them, and they would no longer be deceived
by the attempts of a church which sought to destroy
their best rights. He should be glad to see all men
with the Bible open before them in a good, plain, and
honest version. The people were already aware of
the value of the Book of Common Prayer in its de-
vout and spiritual form of words, yet couched in
language which the people could understand. They
were too well aware of the principles of their religion
to adhere to a church which, by its ceremonies, in-
duced its votaries to pay homage to the creature
which was due only to the Creator, and which, on
other points, was equally calculated to mislead them.
On these grounds, as well as on those of patriotism,
and he might add humanity, it was their duty to be
up and stirring. They should remember the price at
which their religious freedom was vindicated and re-
covered at the time of the Reformation, and those who
knew that the Church of Engiand was, in its
heart and principles, opposed to Popery and Romanism,
would never suffer that the country should be
burdened with that which had been once happily re-
moved from them--that which their forefathers were
not able and not willing to bear. And whatever
partiality might in the present day be evinced to tenets
differing from their own principles, they would not
tolerate this aggression. It was not, however, their
part to precipitate the frightful struggle that must
ensue in the case of these two conflicting principles
being brought into opposition. Let them endeavour
to uphold the Church of England in that purity which
had been handed to them, and not permit it to be over-
run by doctrines which were strange to this land.
He had not touched upon the insult which had been
put upon the Queen by this step of a misguided man
—(Loud cheers)—probably taken in consequence of
certain insinuations respecting England which had
been breathed into his ear, but which had no founda-
tion in fact, for he (Mr. Murray) believed that Eng-
land was truly Protestant at its heart's core. They
must see that these measures were aimed at the throne,
which it was their duty, as loyal subjects as well as
clergymen, to endeavour by all menus to keep secure
and safe, while its antagonists tottered to their fall.
On these grounds he heartily concurred in the subject
of the memorial, and he did most thoroughly believe
that England would still maintain her position, not as
the creature of a foreign dominion, but in that glo-
rious situation in which Providence had placed her,
assigning to her the guardianship of Christianity
amongst the nations of the earth.—(Loud cheers.)

The Rev. Dr. CROLY said that he should be very
unwilling to see anything like division or disunion in
a meeting of that description, where all were united
in one common feeling. lie thought the present ad-
dress premature, as the Bishop of London was to hold
his visitation in two days, and to memorialise him
just now would look somewhat like dictation. The
Bishop would give them his advice unasked. They
knew what his opinions were already, and he (Dr.
Croly) felt some anxiety in thinking that the address
was not addressed to the proper quarter. As to the
opinions and sentiments contained in that address,
there could be no difference of opinion ; but that ad-
dress ought to have been to the highest power in the
realm. There had already been an address to the
Bishop, and that was quite sufficient in anticipation,
as his opinions were already declared. In reference to
the subject before them, he would read one or two do-
cuments bearing upon it—the one was the rough
draught of an address to her Majesty, which he had
that morning prepared ; the other referred to the oaths
taken by the Sovereign on coronation. The Rev. Gen-
tleman then read the form of address which he pro-
posed, and proceeded. The Pope had usurped the
supremacy of England, Scotland, and Ireland
in the middle of the sixteenth century. That
supremacy was abolished in the seventeenth
century by the Ist of William and Mary. After
abjuring the doctrine that excommunicated princes
might be deposed and murdered, which doctrine he
justly pronounced damnable, that oath proceeded to
say, " I do declare that no foreign prince, power, or
potentate, bath or ought to have any jurisdiction,
power, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical, or
civil, within this realm. So help me God." By the
Act 31st of George 111., a Papist might hold office
by taking the abjuring oath with reference to the
civil and temporal office of the Pope. The supremacy
or head of the Church was given to the king in 1534,
and confirmed in 1538, by the 26th of Henry VIII.
The oath was as follows :—" I do swear that I will
defend to the utmost of my power the settlement of
property within this realm as established by law, and
I do hereby disclaim, disown, and solemnly abjure any
intention to subvert the present Church Establishment
as established by law within these realms, and I do
solemnly swear that I never will exercise any privilege
to which I am or may become entitled, to disturb or
weaken the Protestant religion or Protestant Govern-
ment in the United Kingdom." At the ceremony of
the coronation the monarch, after having the two pre-
vious questions of governing according to the law and
causing the law and justice in mercy to be executed in all
judgments, was asked by the Archbishop the following
question, which was of much greater length than any
of the former :—" Will you, to the utmost of your
power, maintain the laws of God, the true profession
of the Gospel of the Protestant reformed religion, as
established by law ; and will you maintain and per-
form inviolably the settlement of the united churches
of England and Ireland, and the territories thereunto
belonging; and will you preserve unto the clergy and
bishops of England and Ireland, and to the united
church and all the territories under their charge, all
rights and privileges which, law, do and shall ap-
pertain to them or any of them?" The monarch an-
swers, " All this I promise to do ;" on which the mo-
narch proceeds to the altar, and there, receiving the
Bible, makes oath, holding his hand upon the book,
" The things which I have here promised I will per-
form ; so help me God." The book then was kissed
and the oath signed. After this he would mention a
fact showing the value of the oath administered to
Roman Catholics. Four years after the oath was
prescribed the Government of the country was
cast .out by a combination of Roman Catholic ,
Members of Parliament on a question relating to
the confiscation of the whole of the property of
the church of Ireland, and afterwards upon ano-
ther measure (Lord Stanley's), by which ten
of the bishoprics were extinguished. One-fourth of
the whole episcopal body extinguished. As to the
act by which the present agitation was brought for-
ward in this country, he rejoiced at it. It had
brought matters to a head, and there could be no
possible disunion or discrepancy of opinion respecting
the recent partition of this realm. It showed that it
was impossible to rely upon the word of Rome—
(Loud cheers)—that they could make no compact
with Rome.—(Renewed cheers.) It showed that
while dealing with us as a nation they had regarded
us as in a state of heathen barbariasm, abandoned by
the Gospel. As far as they (the clergy present) were
personally concerned, their ordination letters would not
be worth a straw. Rome regarded them as out of the
pale of Christianity any further than claiming the
right to exercise its power over us. Englishmen were
regarded as rebellious subjects of Rome, and of course
as persons upon whom the whole power of Rome
should be exerted. But if the question were to be con-
sidered in any degree as serious he would indeed con-
fess that it must only be regarded as an act of divine
power for the purpose of awakening the
Protestant Church of England to its duties
interests, and necessities. Had this measure
not been adopted the Church of Rome
might have gone on seducing them, and for years en-
croaching upon the Church of England ; but now war
'vas declared, and that in a manner as ridiculous and
offensive as possible, from the state of things in which
' it was declared. Was it by the Pope, the master of
the world—a potentate distinguished by his ability