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

♦PPOINTMENTB.

Commander—lhnry C. Otter (1844) to the Comet
steam-vessel, commissioned this day at Portsmouth, for
surveying the Tongue Lands near Margate, where tho
Adelaide steamer was lost, and all the passengers and
crew perished.
Commander—Thomas Smith (d) (1846), additional,
to the Comet.

Master—James Jtffery (1941), to the Comet.
Master—Henry 13. Yule (1843), additional, to the
Comet.

Assistant-Surgeon—L. J. Monteith (1343), to th.
Comet.

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Assistant-Surgeon—Horace H. Smith, M.D. (1848),
acting in the Champion 14 sloop, in the Pacific, is con-
firmed in that rossel.

Assistant-Surgeon—John W. Duncan (1849), from
the Wellesley, and acting in the Alarm, 26, on the North
America and West India station, is confirmed to the
latter vessel.

Clerk in Charge—George Hickman (1846), to the
Comet.

Second-class Engineer George Keynam, to the
Comet.

PROMOTIONS.
Clerk—H. W. Hollingvrorth (1842), of the Indefatiga-
ble, 50, at Lisbon, to be Paymaster and Purser; Clerk,
John Tweedie (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 (s) (1843), from the
Contest, 12, sloop, on the coast of Atrica, to be Master.
Second-Master—Thomas Earl (1844), from the
40, to be Master.
Second-Master—James Pyper (1844), to bo Master.
WOOLWI4III, MAY 7.—The Archer, ate am-6loop, is at
Devonport under orders fur the coast of Africa, and not
at Lisbon as inadvertently stated yesterday.
The Retribution and Inflexible, steam-frigates, both in
the basin at Woolwich, are ordered to be made ready
for sea by the lst 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. Madrell'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, . U
I
regards absolution and confession, together withh
his livings, to suit the general feeling of the C.heurrce.
as to the meaning of Scripture. It is only ton b_ence,
gretted that the publication of such cor.rcestpiovect
of the
with whatever advantage attended as ir,dia
keeping alive
gentle and conciliatory spirit of the Archbishop,
incidentally assist the baffled party n
lid decline.
the agitation which is already in a rap
s deprecate the
The same consideration rafters
day, to discuss
should
meetings of Bishops, day
e galled jade wince :"
to the Church." Let the
eace, if there were no en-
there would evidently baeupue.
We see that some of
means obviously impracticabale of restoring " peace
rbscussing a " meeting held at
our contemporaries are di
couragement to
subjects. 'We repeat that
Lambeth Palace" on these ,
distu
is apocryphal •
the meetings proposed
the meeting
at Lambeth
Palace, we have reason to believe, were,
.
suggestion of the Primate, not held at Lambeth.
at the
m uugs
t other indications of the failure of the
efforts of the Romanizers tope more than scanda-
lize the religious laity, at t spirit exhibited' by
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
Gloucester and Bristol, which, probably, numbers
from eight to nine hundred incumbents and curates:
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 Bencb, 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 Trae-
tarian counsel in the late trial.
The Catholic Standard even intimates that: the,
Bishop of Exeter has sought a communication with
Father Newman ; but this we can hardly credit.--
Church and State Gazette.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF LORDS, May 7.
Their Lordships ass
Pembled at Five o'clock.
ETITIONS.

- The Duke of CLEVELAND presented a petition
from the Dissenters of Durham in favour of the substi-
tution of affirmations for oaths in legal proceedings.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition in favour
of an alteration of the law of marriages.
The Bishop of OXFORD presented a petition from
,Belfast against the introduction of Cuban and Brazilian
sugar; also several petitions against Post-office Sunday
labour. _

The Marquis of WESTMINSTER presented a peti-
tion against Sunday trading.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented a peti-
tion from some place in Down against Post-office Sunday
labour.

PROCESS AND PRACTICE (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion of the Earl of CARLISLE this Bill
was reported.
FOREIGN CHAPLAINCIES BILL. _ _

Earl NELSON postponed the second reading of this
Bill until after Whitsuntide.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE would have been
better pleased had the Noble Earl postponed the second
reading of the Bill to that day six months—(Hear,
hear)—and whenever it might be brought forward, he
trusted that their Lordships would reject the measure.
Their Lordships then adjourned to Friday.

ROUSE OF COMMONS, May 7.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following Bills were read a third time and
passed :
Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction.
North Staffordshire Railway (Extension of Time for
Purchase of Lands, &c.)
South Staffordshire Railway.
The following Bills, as amended, were considered and
agreed to:—
Birkenhead Dock Trustees.
Great Northern Railway Deviations, Amendment of
Acts, Alteration of Tolls, and of East Lincolnshire
Railway Tolls.
Waterford and Limerick Railway.
York and North Midland Railway.
PETITIONS.

Petitions were presented against Sunday labour in the
• Post-office by Mr. W. Patten, from Southampton; by
• Mr. Duncuft, Sir R. 11. Inglis, Mr. Scholefield, Mr.
Henley, Mr. Ewart, and Lord Dudley Stuart, from thp
Scotch Church, Regent's-square.
Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from the
Chnnber of Commerce at Glasgow praying for the
. adoption of measures for the more effectual suppression
of the slave trade.
Mr. G. BERKELEY presented a petition from a
place in Gloucestershire to the same effect, and pray-
ing that a higher duty might be imposed on slave-grown
' sugar; also a petition from Gloucestershire in favour of
international arbitration.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented several petitiont against
the Marriage Bill. _
Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from the
county of Antrim in faiour of tenant right.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from a
place in Cambridgeshire against granting additional
licancei to beer-shops.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY presented a petition from
St. Brides, London, against the law of settlement. •
Mr. CARDWELL presented a petition from Liver-
pool praying that impressment in the navy might be
abolished. -• .
Mr. BECKETT presented a petition in favour of the
Ten Hours Factory Bill.
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from Bir-
mingham in favour of international arbitration, and a
petition .from the same place in favour of a secular sys-
te n•of education.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Abercorn in
favour of international arbitration; also a petition from
• Arbroath:against the Public Health Bill for Scotland,
and a petition from Great Yarmouth against church-
• rates.
•

Captain PECHELL presented several petitions from
Brighton against church-rates; also a petition from
the bakers of Brighton praying fJr the appointment of a
Select Committee to inquire into the grievances of their
trade.

Dr. POWER presented a petition from a place in die
county of Cork in favour of'tetiant right. - • -
Sir DE LACY EVANS prezentA a petition from
bakers in Westminster praying for an inquiry into their
trade.

Mr. O'CONNOR presented a petition from Chester
against any alteration in the Factories' Act.
Mr. CLAY presented a petition from Hull against the
Highways Bill.
Sir E. BUXTON presented petitions from Hackney,
Bethnal• green, and Dalston, in favour of the Extramural
Interments Bill.
Several petitions were presented against the adver-
tisement duty.
ATTORNEYS' CERTIFICATE DUTY.
Mr. BAIIALIE wished to know whether it was the
intention of the Noble Lord (Lord Grosvenor) to extend
his Bill for the abolition of the attorneys' certificate duty
to Ireland and Se-Aland.
L)rd GROSVENOR, replied that owing to an error
in drawing up the Bill Ireland and Scotland were
omitted, but it was his intention to include those por-
tions of the kingdom in the proposed measure.
Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition from St.
Whitzchapel, in favour of the Intramural Inter-
ments Bill.
TAX ON MERCHANT SHIPPING.

Mr. FORSTER gave notice that on an early day he
should bring under the consideration of the House the
subject of levying taxes on merchant shipping, with a
view to their reduction.
SLAVE GROWN SUGAR.

Sir E. BUXTON said, hiving last night, at the re-
quest of the Noble Lord the First Minister, pat off
his motion on the subject of slave-grown sugar, he had
now to inform the House that the Noble Lord had pro-
mised to give him an opportunity of bringing the motion
forward oa Friday.—(Hear. hear.)
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
Mr. EWART deferred his motion on the subject of
capital punishment till the 30th inst.
MALT-TAX.

Mr. FREWEN, on behalf of Mr. Cayley, gave notice
that on the 30t.h of May he should move the repeal of
the malt-tax.

COTTON TRADE-INDIA.

Mr. BRIGHT gave notice that on this day week he
should move that an humble address be presented
to her Majesty, praying her Majesty to appoint , a
' Commission to proceed to India to inquire into the
obstacles which prevent the growth and increase of cotton
in the presidencieS of Bohibay and Madras.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR.

Mr. 11. BAILLIE tasked the Secretary of State for
the Home Department whether he was ab to give the
country any intimation as to the probable period when
the Lord Chancellor might be expected to resume the
duties of his office? - •
Sir G. GREY said that within the last few weeks the
Lord Chancellor had been suffering from a severe fit of
indisposition; but he was happily so much recovered
that, though he had been unable to attend court, he had
' been hearing cases of great importance at his private
residence fur some days past, and had given judgment in
some of them.—(Hear, hear.)
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION OF 1851.
Mr. ARK WRIGHT asked the President of the Board
e: Trade whether he intended to ask Parliament to
. interfere in any gay with respect to the Exhibition of
the Works of Industry in 1851, and whether he could give
an assurance that no application for an advance of public
money in aid of that Exhibition will, under any cir-
cumstances, be sanctioned by her Majesty's Government?
Mr. LA.BOUCEIERE said he certainly did not antiei-
pato that it would be his duty to ask Parliament to in-
terfere in an exhibition which he thought would entirely
tend on the voluntary contributions of individuals.
way in which .he might ask Parliament to in-
- terfeerelllwYould be in order to amend the Act of Registra-
, tion of Designs, with the-veew of protecting from piracy
. those articles
With regard to the
which might be shown at the exhibition.
second question, having the honour
to be one of the Commissioners, he believed nothing
was further from the intention(:4 of. the Commissioners
than to apply for any
and pa
trivialot e m oinneeyi
d,
oe
omp
et
xi
.t
advance
might be for some ordinary
penses.,
INCUMBERED ESTATES COMMISSION.
Lord NAAS asked the Secretary for Ireland, he ther
the notice appended to some of the aclvertisemenra of the
Ineumbered Estates Commissioners, stating "' that the
Cothmissioners will give the purchaser the option of
paying, for the present, half the purchase money,
the
remaining moiety not to be required until Sir John Ro-
• na illy's Bill shall be disposed of," has been issued with the
consent of her Majesty's Government; whether a Perlis-
title will, under such circumstances, be given by
the Commissioners to the purchaser on the payment of the
first ;moiety ;
and, if so, what security the Commis-
sioners will require for the payment of the remaining
Sir W. SOMERVIL LE said with respect to the first
;,questionuestioa he was not aware that the consent of the Go-
vernment was necessary. With regard to the other
• questions he could give no information on the subject.
GOVERNOR BARKLBEEYR.
In Mr. U
reply to a question from U. SELBY,
Mr. LABOUCEIERE said the dispatch of Governor
_
Barkley from British Guiana was to be found in the
blue-book containing the various reports of 3
th 4.
e3Gover-
nors of Colonies to the Colonialeoffice, page
—CAPTURE OF A SLAVE FRIGATE.
trellplyawto,,a question from Mr. G. BERKELEY,
*ssad, he was able to state from in-
MOS qu made that morning at the Admiralty, that in-
formation had been received at tat department of the
capture of a slave steam-frigatecalledPUßLlCPETITIONS. the Provide tl on the coast of Brazil,
e and she was found to be empty.
T
In reply to Mr. H. RERBEETRIIONS. T
The SPEAKER said that the' signatures attached to
-public petitions ought to be attached to the sheet on which the petition was.
Lord CASTLEREAGH said he thought the
i:;unfaotrurmae-2
publio ought to be put in possession of
P,
as he himself often received petitions, tlialetbsi
loagnedther
,to which were on several slips of paper,
senting it he was obliged to paste them °tore pre
Mr. NEWDEGATE inquired whether there 'had been
. any afteration in the course taken by the Committee
• of Public Petitions.
• • Mr. THORNELY said there had been no alteration
whatever. Honourable Members were entirely unaware
of the very irregular manner in which the petition:
presented to tl-e House were got up, bearing to many
cases signatures which might.be the signatures torn from
letters, and often many different signatures written in
the seine hand. Above 8,000 petitiens bad been pre-
sented to the House during the present session, of which
SOO bad been printed.