The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-26 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1850.

MR. HUDSON, M.P.
(From the Standard of last night.)
The conduct of the Times has placed us under the
palfal neceisity of craving the attention of our
reader:, to a matter affecting deeply the character of
this j,,urnal, in common with the whole of the Pro-
tectionist press. We feel, however, that our title to
confidence, and, as a necessary consequence, our use-
fulness, are altogether dependant upon our reputa-
tion for personal honesty—a reputation which we are
proud to believe we have hitherto maintained. The
intrusion, however, shall be brief.
The Times this morning has a column-long article
founded upon a late transaction in the Bankruptcy
Court, the purpose of which article will be seen in
the following extract :
" Hitherto we have not thought it necessary to return
to the subject of Mr. George Hudson's character, al-
though we have not been without abundant provocation
thereto. His own evidence in the libel case tried last
ass-zes at York, even supposing it to be true in every
particular, proves nothing but the coolness with which a
teen may come to rega+ d the most questionable transac-
tions. When that evidence was worked into a pamphlet
and busily promulgated as the spontaneous effusions
of some disinterested bystander, actuated by the
purest sense of justice, the cheat was too
transparent to require any notice, and the verdict of the
public having long been pronounced on the reign of the
deposed Railway King, we spared our readers the
trouble of a fresh examination. We will confess, how-
ever, that our equanimity was somewhat disturbed when
we found the Protectionist organs taking up their old
friend, and labouring to re-instate George Hudson in his
forfeited throne. c • • But it may be
asked, was not the honour of the press implicated in the
attempt of some of its members to whitewash this old
offender? Might it not be too readily surmised that this
successful culprit, who, after disgorging immense por-
tions of his spoil under the threats of legal proceedings,
has come out of the scuffle, it is said, with- 200,0001. in
his pocket, might have used some very weighty arguments
with his amiable apologists? We answer that we had no
right to suspect anything of the kind."
We, the Standard, might we hope rest our defence
against this insinuated charge of bribery upon the
consistent course of this journal, since the appear-
ance of its first number. We might even ad-
duce the written testimony to the " noble disin-
terestedness" with which this journal has been con-
ducted, of men against whom we have found it
necessary to make war because they deserted the
principles which attached us to them. The words
" noble disinterestedness" may seem exaggerated, but
they are the words of the late Sir Robert Peel, and
when accused of a base corruption we have a right to
quote them. We appeal to every member of the Peel
party, that party which we long supperted, and which
afterwards we pursued with more acrimony than we
ever exercised towards any other party, whether Sir
Robert Peel did not, from first to last, hold the same
opinion of the Standard, and whether their own ex-
perience does not justify that opinion ? We release
them from all obligations of secrecy. If it is a mis-
fortune, as no doubt a great misfortune it is, to be
compelled to become the enemies of those who were
our friends, the misfortune carries with it this conso-
lation, that we can, when unjustly accused, appeal to
witnesses above all exception.
We might, we hope, rest our defence upon this
testimony, and upon what the public knows of our
consistency, which must ever repel suspicion of a
corrupt habit; but no man ought ever to offer less
than the best defence in a case affecting his honour,
and the best defence in our present case is the utter
absence of a shadow of ground for suspicion.
We, therefore, come at once to the pretended ground
of charge.
In the Bankruptcy Court, en Tuesday, came on the
case of a gentleman named John Henry Doyle,
printer, publisher, and part proprietor of the Weekly
Chronicle newspaper. Mr Fonblanque was the pre-
siding Commissioner, and the following, taken from
the Times' own report, is all that transpired upon the
occasion which it can be necessary to print for the
elucidation of the truth :
" William Henry Foote, of Freeling•street, Islington,
was called upon to prove the trading. In his deposition
he alleged that he knew J. H. Doyle had, since July,
1849, exercised the trade, &c., of printer, publisher, and
proprietor of the Weekly Chronicle, and that he bought
paper and articles of intelligence, which articles the said
J. H. Doyle worked into articles of news, caused the
same to be printed weekly, and sold for a profit;' that
in November last Doyle and Russell procured to be
printed an article, entitled The Lessons of the Gal-
Jews,' for which they paid the printer 2s. 6d. or 35.,
and charged to Charles Gilpin, of Bishopsgate-street,
7s: 6d.; that Doyle and Russell printed about 1,500
of a sewage manure plan, for the printing of which, on
two pages cf the said paper, for one Richard Dover
they charged to the said l)over 361., although they paid
less than 101. for the printing of the same ;' also 'a letter
to the Editor,' for which 21. 12s. 6d. was paid, and that
the party took 1,500 newspapers at sd. each, &c. The
witness now deposed to further acts of trading as well
as to the above.

" Mr. Lawrance, in cross-examination, asked the wit-
ness how much the Weekly Chronicle was to have been
paid for whitewashing' Mr. George Hudson ?
" The Commissioner said the question was irrelevent.
"It appeared that the newspaper had been the pro•
perty of Sir Henry Ward, and that a Mr. Winter was
the registered proprietor, as trustee for Sir Henry, up
to its purchase by Doyle, Russell, &c.
"In reply to Mr. Lawrance, the witness said, the
paper had been, up to July, 1849,6 in the service of Sir
H. Ward.'

" Mr. Lawrence asked what he meant by ' service ?'
at full length ?—(A laugh.)
Did it mean that the Chronicle would report his speeches
" Witness made no reply, but proceeded to state that
a Mr. Dillon was connected with Doyle and Russell; and
though he did not look upon him as a proprietor, he was
authorised to transact business. Doyle was the editor,
and Russell assisted in the editorial department. • . •
" Mr. Doyle said, the second bill was one of the hills
upon which the petitioning creditor founded his debt.
Out of the second bill arose the bill which formed part
of the claim of the petitioning creditor for 801. 15s. Id.
The third bill was dishonoured."
Mr. Doyle then went into a detailed account of the
bill transactions, and proceeded—
" Robert W. Russell pledged his honour to witness
that the bill had been drawn in his private capacity, and
not is the name of the firm. Believed the name of the
firm had begin forged to that bill; and had so sworn at
the police court. The reason of the quarrel between
himself and Russell was because he as editor refused to
allow the Weekly Chronicle to be corrupted by inserting
a defence of Mr. George Hudson, written by his son-in-
law, Mr. Seymour. Firmly believed he would not now
be in the Bankruptcy Court if it were not fur his refusal
to insert that defence, and to be corrupted. Would not
consent to the Weekly Chronicle being made the tool of
Mr. George Hudson.
.. Mr. H. W. Russell wished to b 3 examined to con-
tradict the evidence of last Witness, but was not called."
We have no wish to add to the pain of Mr. Doyle's
uncomfortable position, but justice to Mr. Hudson
and to ourselves, in comtnon with the whole Conser-
vative press—let us add the sacred duty of doing jus-
tice upon the slanderer in the Times—requires us to
point to the absurd confusion and want of consequence,
in the foregoing evidence. W ihat had Mr. Doy es
refusal to insert a defence of Mr. Hudson to
iinwith
his own bill transactions ? Was it in resentment
afkoer
that refusal a bill was, as he says, forged ?
allow
great allowance for a ruined and perhaps ill-usedanlNm
and certainly an angry man, but we must not
ourselves and other parties as innocent
as ourselves
.to suffer by the dirt thrown in his rage
who he supposes have injured him, and lu
even Mr.nst those
g a
Doyle's evidence, such as it is, does not support the
vile imputation of the Times upon the most
able and the most respectable, because most
refused
honour-
consis-
tentl
portion of the public press. Mr. D
to insert a defence of Mr. Hudson ; to whom was his
to insert
Russell. Mr. Russell might have wished
t though Mr.
refusal directed ? Plainly, from the evidence, to Mr.
the article for many reasons not corrupt,
case there
Doyle suspected a corrupt motive;
inf money by Mr.
is no shadow of proof of any offer
been any such proof
Hudson or Mr. Seymour, or any
Hudson's behalf. If there had
tempere to withhold
Mr. Doyle was certainly not in a
the matter rests.
it on Tuesday last. Here, then,n
of a wish to get
Mr. Doyle suspects Mr. Russell of bother person on Mr.
i written by Mr.
money for the insertion of ants
no imputation upon
Seymour; but this surely casts
Seymour, though it
either Mr. Hudson or
Even supposing Mr.
hAntr:Abelsr. Doyle had of his
this affair reflect
reveals the ill opinion t
partner. And next, how
?d
did not
Doyle to have asserted, what
indirect offer of a bribe had
assert, that a direct or
u,s
behalf, the Weekly
been made on Mr. Hudson's 0
f " the Protectionist
Chronicle is not a he certainly
if Mr. Hudson, a
party of the Times itself; and
enoughoffer
a foolish to
zealous Protectionist, has u
ht it politic to bribe an
press." It is, on the other hand, a journal of the
a bribe, he might have thought
in that portion of the
enemy, particularly
necessary to attempt to could scarcely think it
already bound to him by
pur-
chase the service of those
of political friendship, and who we
press most accessiblentnoecorrupt influence, while he
the strongest ties
will further say would be much more like to be
the insult of a corrupt
alienated than attached by
offer. _

For ourselves, we have but to remind our readers
of the part we have acted in Mr. Hudson's matters.
We had neither quarrel with that gentleman for
railroad advertisements withheld, such as the Times
has had, or envy of his success, such as aetuat-s
the Stock Exchange patron of that journal
Of the truth or falsehood o. f the charges made against
him we had no means of judging, and without such
means we would not offer an opinion; but we would
not join in a cry against the friend of Lord George
Bentinck. Mr. Hudson, however, took the earliest
opportunity of vindicating his honour, and he did
vindicate it triumphantly, demonstrating to every
just man in the empire
.that the rflood of obi( quy
whi. h had overwhelmed him, so long was one great
tide of enormous lying. Reserve in doing justice to
an ally or an adversary, as the Times ought to know,
is no part of our character, and we were no less prompt
in rendering justice to Mr. Hudson that he had been

the personal friend of the man whom we honoured
ab•)ve all other statesmen, need we repeat the rams Ci
our lamented leader Lord George Bentinck ?—aud
that he was himself a zealous member of the Coun-
try party—the discharge of the debt of justice,
always with us a peremptory duty, was, we own it,
in this case " a labour of love." We have said that
the Times ought to know that we allow of no reserve
in the discharge of the debts of justice, and we would
remind it of its own grateful acknowledgment of this
disposition 3n our part, when some years ago it (then
fiercely opposed to us in politics) was the object of
charges of wholesale bribery, distinctly alleged by a
foreign Marquis—charges which derived a colour of
probability from the versatile conduct
.of the accused
journal. The Times succeeded in repelling the im-
putations cast upon it, and we were the first to call
for a verdict of acquittal, for which our contemporary
thanked us in terms that we leave to be repeated by
itself; and yet the Times now says of the Protectionist
press—

" It is very true that the journals we refer to are pain-
fully and ridiculously familiar with the idea of bribery.
We never take them up without finding them
charging somebody with corruption. We believe that
they have accused every statesman in his turn, every
journal, every public man, and every known writer,
out of their own little clique, of taking bribes in hard
cash."

1 1 (From the Morning Post.)
I The base and malignant insinuations against the
Protectionist press which the Times, yesterday, added
to its black list of libel—insinuations so groundless
and so utterly devoid of the shadow of probability
that they cannot fail to recommend themselves to the
. disgust and indignation of every honourable mind—
should have passed without our notice, had not our
able and excellent contemporary, the Standard, deemed
it worth while to visit the miserable effort with his
just rebuke, and so made it in some sort imperative
upon us to express our cordial concurrence in all that
he has advanced. The case attempted to be made out
iby the Times is that, because the proprietor of a
weekly journal, while under examination before the
I Court of Bankruptcy on Tuesday last, is reported to have
,said that he refused to receive a bribe for the inser-
tion of an article in defence of Mr. Hudson—there-
fore, all the Protectionist papers which treated of the
vindication of that gentleman, as presented in the
evidence given on the occasion of the recent trial at
York, were bribed. So inconsequent an inference, and
one, at the same time time, involving so serious a charge,
was surely never before brought forward to insult
the judgment of the public. An accusation so grave,
and so utterly unsupported, is calculated to bring dis-
grace on him only who makes it. We feel some hu-
miliation, even, in being called upon to give the lie to
a slander so foul. Yet in terms not less plain and
peremptory do we wish to be understood as spea king.
For the character of ourselves, and of the Protec-
tionist press, we have thought it needful to say thus
much—more we feel that it would be unbecoming our
position and inconsistent with our honour to add.

SUPPRESSION Oh' DESTITUTION IN

THE METROPOLIS.

The success which has attended the operations of
the well-known institution for the poor in Leicester-
square has been so remarkable as to induce the com-
mittee of that excellent charity to draw up a plan for
the general suppression of mendicancy throughout
the metropolis, by means of establishing an adequate
number of similar asylums in various districts of
London. When it is stated that 476,118 poor persons
have partaken of warm, nourishing meals, and that
16,964 have been provided with suppers, clean com-
fortable beds, and breakfasts, at the Leicester-square
Hospice since its opening in 1847, it will not be diffi-
cult vs: form some idea of the vast service that might
be rendered to the cause of suffering humanity by
the general diffusion of similar institutions throughout
this great city. It is in the contemplation of the
committee that one hundred hospices, more or less,
shall be established in London, and that, as in the
case of the parent house, each shall possess the four
following departments, that is to say, first, a soup
kitchen ; secondly, an asylum with from fifteen to
twenty beds ; thirdly, a free registry for pro-
curing situations and work for servants and
labourers ; and, fourthly, a lavatory to which the
poor of both sexes are to have unimpeded access. At
the soup kitchen, all persons needing food, whether
belonging to the resident or migratory poor, are to be
relieved, be their offences what they may—a wise
and humane regulation, which is not only in accord-
ance with the precept of our Saviour, who tells us
" we must do good to the unthankful and the evil,"
but also in strict conformity with the investigations
of physiologists, who have ascertained beyond all con-
troversy that the anguish of a starving stomach is not
the less poignant from its proximity to a heart which
is no longer the abode of virtue. The kitchen is to
be supplied by contributions, not of .money but of
food, from householders, who, in addition to broken
victuals, would be invited to give food to the value of
from 2d. to 3d. weekly, a provision which would be
ample for all requirements. The experience of the
original institution, upon whose plan it is proposed to
model all these branch establishments, proves that by
these means, and especially with the aid of contribu-
tions from clubs, hotels, taverns, cook-shops, &c.,
good substantial meals might be provided at an ex-
pense not exceeding one penny a meal ! It will
be part of the system that all the ragged
schools in the metropolis shall be supplied
gratuitously from these kitchens. The second
department of the establishment, the asylum, is
to be considered as a certain place of refuge for the
wayfarer, the vagrant, the houseless, and the desti-
tute, and, in fact, for all the members of that wretched
class of Stoics, who at present shiver all night long under
the porches of public buildings, or are compelled to
purchase the miserable shelter of a prison at the ex-
pense of some transgression of the police regulations.
It is computed that the average cost of the asylum
will not exceed one penny per night each bed. In
the free registry department, it is proposed that regu-
lar record shall be kept of the names, characters, and
qualifications of servants and labourers of all descrip-
tions and sexes who are in need of employment. The
importance of this branch of the establishment may be
estimated when it is remembered that, of the 170,000
domestics in the metropolis, no less than 10,000 are,
on the average, always out of situations. The
sufferings and temptations to which they are
exposed while thus circumstanced must be
inconceivably great. The advantages to be
derived to the poor from the fourth branch
of the establishment—the free lavatory—in promoting
cleanliness, decency, regularity, and their concomi-
tant blessing, health, are so obvious as to render com-
ment unnecessary. The committee calculate that the
whole annual expense for each hospice ought not to
exceed 2001. It is proposed to give to the clergy of
the district and committee of each asylum 1001., and
it is confidently expected from past experience that
the householders and tradespeople will cheerfully
make contributions of articles of furniture, such as
bedding, bedsteads, sheeting, towels, and other neces*-
sary requirements. With this contribution there is
every just ground for concluding that abundant
means will be furnished to render each district asylum
complete and efficient for its destined purposes. We
will not suppose that the English public, to whose
honour it is to be recorded that it needs but a clear
indication of the direction in which their charity may
be most adviintageously extended to bring their be-
nevolence into active play, will be slow in giving to
the philanthropic project here briefly sketched
such support as will ensure that it shall be
speedily conducted to a prosperous issue. Be it re-
membered that the success of such an institution
will have a threefold operation—firstly, on the poor,
whose sufferings it will most materially alleviate ;
secondly, on the taxpayers of the metropolis, to whom
an immense saving will be effected in the matter of
police and union rates; and, thirdly, on the commu-
nity at large, to whom the moral benefit will be in-
calculable of rescuing thousands upon thousands of
our fellow-creatures from those dreadful temptations
which continually beset the poor man's path, making
poverty an evil yet more frightful in its spiritual than
in its corporeal consequences. Political economists
will tell us that the claims of the poor are satisfied
when we give them the workhouse pittance, that
frigid bounty to which, no doubt, we are indebted for
the sarcastic allegory " Cold as charity ;" but the
multitudinous institutions which have been founded in
this country for the unfortunate and the destitute
prove more potently than any words how distasteful
is such a philosophy to the hearts of Englishmen.
Alas ! it is a philosophy which has its root, not in that
mercy which falleth like the gentle dews, but in that
selfishness which
" Hardens all within,
And petrifies the feeling."
They who, when they saw the Israelite fainting with
fatigue, and covered with wounds, walked on " the
other side," were the political economists of that day.
Had it been the intention of the Divine Founder of
Christianity that we should acquit ourselves at once
and for ever of our duty to the poor by the sim-
ple payment of a small annual tax, he never surely
would have ordained that " the poor we shall have
always
the swithus No, the permanence of the exigency
proves perpetuity of the duty, and wisely has that
God whose mercy is above all his works, provided for
the perennial existence of benevolence in our bosoms,
by ordering that, from the cradle to the grave, there
never shall be wanting to us occasions for the exer-
cise of that heavenly attribute.

We observe, with unaffected satisfaction, that this
project, for which we now invoke the favour of the
humane, has already received the sanction of some of
the most illustrious names in the country, and that
amongst its most ardent friends is his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, who was himself the
chairman of the committee with whom the idea ori-
ginated.

AMERICAN MODE OF SETTLING A DIFFICULTY.—
A young and beautiful damsel, near Frankfort, Kentucky,
having two lovers, and not knowing which to prefer, settled
the matter by marryipg one And eloping with the other.

THE BISHOP OF LONDON AND

EIS CLERGY.

The following corre,pondence has taken place
" London, Nov. 20, 1850.
" Dly Lord,—We, the undersigned clergy of your
Lordship's diocese, have seen with pain the pubtka-
don of a letter as from your Lordship, a copy of which
we inclose, that you may judge of its correctness.
" From the extreme brevity of that letter, we are
led to think that it never was intended to meet the
public eye. But as it has been published, and is
placing your Lordship in a painful position, and agi,•
tating the minds of many, we feel it our duty re- .
spectfully to draw your attention to it.
" Your Lordship is aware that the very practices
condemned by you in your recent charge have been
introduced into the Church as practices warranted by
the Uhurch.

" In the letter to which Re refer your Lordship
appears to admit that some sort of auricular confes-
sion' is taught by the Church.
" We believe that this apparent admission of the
practice by the use of the word auricular confession'
(a word exclusively applied to the Romish practice),
will be immediately taken by the Romanizing
party as an implied approval of those very practices
which your Lordship meant to disapprove.
" We believe that thus the censure given in your
charge will be practically nullified. And further,
we fear that you might be cited in future as an
authority i❑ favour of the practices which you
condemn.
" Sincerely anxious that you should not occupy a
position so painful, we respectfully request that you
will state more fully and at length your original views
as you briefly stated them in your charge, that the
minds of many attached members of our Church may
be relieved, and an occasion removed for those who
desire it in continuing practices withi❑ the Church
entirely forbidden by it. For, as your Lordship is
well aware, the only mention made in all the standards
of our Church of auricular confession' is in the 110.
mily of Repentance, where it is unreservedly and
utterly condemned.

" Trusting that your Lordship will believe that
nothing but a sense of duty to yourself and anxiety
to prevent other applications of a very different cha-
racter has influenced us in thus writing,
" We beg to subscribe ourselves,
" Your faithful servants,
"6 W. WELDON CIIA3IPNETS,
"6 H. MONTAGU 'VILLIERS,
" EDWARD AURIOL."

‘• Fulham, Nov. 22, 1850.
"Rev. and dear Brethren,—l thank you for having
called my attention to what you consider to be an
ambiguous expression in my answer to a letter which
I received from the Rev. T. Bolton, which answer has
been published without my permission. What I in-
tended to say was, that by the words auricular con-
fession' I supposed that every one would understand
me to mean the Roman practice of confession, and not
that kind of confession which is recognized as useful
and salutary by our own Church. I meant to distin-
guish between that upon which the Church of Rome
insists as an indispensable duty, necessary to the for-
giveness of sins, and that which the Church of Eng-
lar.d permits as being in certain cases profitable.
" The former kind of confession is condemned in
the Homily of Repentance under the name of auricu-
lar confession. The latter kind is thus spoken of in
the same homily Ido not say but that if any do
find themselves troubled in conscience they may re-
pair to their learned curate or pastor, or to some other
Godly-learned man, and show the trouble and doubt
of their conscience to them, that they may receive at
their hand the comfortable salve of God'g word ; but
it is against the true Christian liberty that any man
should be bound to the membering of his sins, as it
bath been used heretofore in the time of blindness and
ignorance.'
"The difference between the two churches is
clearly stated by Archbishop Sharpe, one of the
ablest opponents of Popery in the time of King James
11. The Papists,' he says, do very unjustly tra-
duce and calumniate the Reformation, when they
say that the Protestants are against private confes-
sion. There is no such thing. There is no Protes-
tant church but gives it that due esteem and regard
that it ought to have. All that they have done is to
regulate it; to set it upon. its true basis and founda-
tion, which is done, not by requiring private confession
as a thing necessary, but exhorting men to it us a thing
highly convenient in teeny cases. in all those in-
stances where it can be useful or serve any good
purpose it is both commended and seriously advised;
that is to say, where a sinner either needs direction
and assistance for the overcoming some sin that he
labours under, or where he is so overwhelmed with the
burden of his sins that he needs the help of some
skiltul person to explain to him the terms of the
Gospel ; to convince him from the Holy Scriptures
that his repentance (as far as a judgment can be made
of it) is true and sincere, and will be accepted by
God ; and, lastly, upon the full examination of his
state, and his judgment thereupon, to give him the
absolution of the Church. In all these cases no Pro-
testant who understands his religion is against private
confession ; on the contrary, all the best writers of
the Protestants, nay, all the public confessions of the
Protestants which give an account of their faith, are
mightily for it, and do seriously recommend it.'
(Sermons, vol. 5, p. 122.)
"He proceeds to quote a passage from Calvin's
Institutes' (111. IV., 12), in which private confession
is strongly recommended, and adds—' Thus far Mr.
Calvin, and in the same place, where he (loth thus re-
commend private confession, doth he also speak of the
benefits of private absolution, in order to the easing
and comforting afflicted consciences. And this sense
of his is the general sense of the Protestants abroad,'
and this, I think, may be justified to all the world.'
`But the Popish doctrine in the matter is quite of
another strain, and serves to quite a different purpose.'
By confession they mean, not confession to God, nor
confession to our neighbour in case of injuries, nor
confession to the Church in case of public notorious
sin, but private confession to a priest, which is that
they call auricular confession, because it is whispered
into his ear. This is that confession they make a
necessary part of repentance, and without which
(supposing we have opportunity) sin is not forgiven.'
"He then quotes the decree of the Council of
Trent, which enjoins the private confession to the
priest of all mortal sins, even the most secret, though
they be only in thought or desire, and all the cir-
cumstances of them that may change the nature of
sin ; and declares those accursed who say that
such confession is not by Divine law necessary for
the obtaining of forgiveness; and he justly observes
that as this confession is managed in the Church of
Rome, it is so far from being a check or a bridle upon
a man to have a care of committing the same sins
again that he hath thus confessed, that, on the con-
trary, it gives a great encouragement to sinners to
continue in their sins.' He concludes—' Let all of
us, therefore, when we find ourselves burdened with
the weight of our sins, apply to God, and unburden
ourselves of them by confession to Him. If we need
either advice, or assistance, or direction, or comfort,
we may call in the assistance of pious and discreet
ministers ; nay, we ought in prudence to do so, and
we are wanting to ourselves if we do not. But still,
the confession that is necessary to the obtaining our
pardon must ever be understood of confession to God.
Whosoever humbly and sorrowfully confesses his sins
to Him, and endeavours to forsake them, such a man
shall find pardon, whether he confess to men or no.'
This is the true Protestant doctrine, and let us all
adhere to it and practise it.
" It seems to me that the Church of England does
not encourage frequent or periodical private confes-
sion, the danger cf abusing which is so obvious as not
to require pointing out ; but that she does not forbid
her members to have recourse to private confession
on what may be termed great spiritual emergencies ;
that cases where such confession is proper are excep-
tional cases ; that it is an indulgence to human weak-
ness rather than a duty, and that men are not to be
exhorted, or even invited to perform it, except in the
specific instances for which provision is made in the
offices of the Church.
" I think that such confession should be wholly
and in all its parts voluntary and spontaneous, and
that the minister to whom it is made should forbear
from those particular inquiries which lead to the
abominations of the Romish confessional. So
guarded, I do not think that private confession ought
to be entirely condemned. Our Church,' says
fuller (in his Moderation of the Church of Eng-
land') 'doth declare the necessity of such a confes-
sion a s is
useful to the purposes of true repentance—
thatis, when confession to the minister of God may
be useful for spiritual advice, and for the quieting of
any one's conscience, in order to a good life, or a
happy death, and particularly in order to the fruitful
receiving of the Holy Communion.'
" Dr. Hey thinks that the real purpose of our
Church in quitting the laws of auricular confession,
and at the same time recommending some confidential
intercourse between a minister and those troubled in
conscience, was probably to throw off a yoke hard to
be borne, to give liberty where the sensible and deli-
cate mind most longs for it, to substitute affectionate
exhortation in the room of penal laws and mechanical
observances, and thereby prevent hypocrisy and eva-
sion, without dissolving the pastoral connexion and
relation, or weakening the mutual confidence and
mutual kindness between minister and people.' The
ordinary language of our Church is confess yourself
to Almighty God ;' and it is found even in our first
exhortation to the communion; but when the mind
is tormented with scruples, or debilitated by sickness,
advice is wanted, and the weak should be
moved' to
get over their reserve and solicit spiritual comfort or
counsel.' He might have added, in the words of the
Church, the benefit of absolution' that benefit being,
I apprehend, the comfort which the penitent derives
from being assured by one who is commissioned
to assure him, upon the authority of God's word,

, that if he is truly penitent his sins are for-
given by Him who alone can forgive sin ; and who
prays for him, as one of God's ministers, that He may
hive mercy upon him, and pardon end deliver him
from all his sins. I do not think that a clergyman
to whom confession is made ought to employ any
more positive form of absolution, exce.pt in the single
case of a sick person,for which a special form is pre-
scribed.

" I may remark that the 113th canon, which
speaks of the case where a man ' confesses his secret
and hidden sin for the unburdening of his conscience,
and to receive spiritual consolation and case of mind
from him,' most probably refers to the cases provided
for in the offices for the holy communion and for the
visitation of the sick.

" I need hardly add that private confession, even
as allowed by our Reformed Church, requires the
greatest discretion and carefulness on the part of
those clergymen who encourage or permit it, to
prevent its assuming the character of ' auricular
confession.'

"I remain, rev. and (I,:ar brethren,
" Your faithful friend and servant in Christ,
" C. J. LONDON.
" P.S. I have no objection to the publication of
this letter.

." The Rev. Messrs. Champneys, Villiers
and Auriol."

THE ENGLISH ROMAN CATHOLICS.
The following letter has been addressed to the
editor of a morning contemporary :
Sir,—l have to request that you will insert the
letter which has been addressed to me by a distin-
guished Roman Catholic Peer—Lord Beaumont, s
correct copy of which I now inclose.
It unfortunately did not reach me till after the
late county meeting at York, but having his permis-
sion to make any use of his letter I consider it far too
valuable an exposition of opinion not to be laid before
the public.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
ZETLAND.
Upleatham, Gisbro', Yorkshire, Nov. 24.

(Copy.) •
"Dublin, Nov. 20, 1850.
"My dear Lord Zetland,—l perceive that the
newspapers have announced the intention of the
High Sheriff to call a public meeting to consider the
propriety of addressing the Crown, on the subject of
the late insult offered to this country by the Court of
Rome; and I learn from the same sources of infor-
mation that the step on the part of the High Sheriff
has been taken in consequence of a requisition signed
by nearly all the resident peers in Yorkshire. It is
a matter not only of no surprise, but of no regret to
wt that such a proceeding should be adopted by the
country, for the acts in question are of quite as much
political and social importance as of religious
and sectarian character. The Pope, by his
ill advised measures, has placed the Rom an Catholics
in this country in a position where they must either
break with Rome, or violate their allegiance to the
Constitution of these realms : they must either con-
sider the Papal bull as null and void, or assert the
right of a foreign prince to create by his sovereign
authority English titles and to erect English bishop-
rics. To send a bishop to Beverley for the spiritual
direction of the Roman Catholic Clergy in Yorkshire,
and to create a see or Beverley, are two very different
things—the one is allowed by the tolerant laws of the
country ; the other requires territorial dominion and
sovereign power within the country. If you deny
that this country is a fief of Rome, and that the Pon-
tiff has any dominion over it, you deny his power to
create a territorial see, and you condemn the late bull
as sound and fury signifying nothing.' If, on the
contrary, you admit his power to raise Westminster
into an archbishopric and Beverley into a bishopric,
you make over to the Pope a power which, according
to the Constitution, rests solely with the Queen and
her Parliament, and thereby infringe the prerogative
of the one and interfere with the authority of the
other. It is impossible to act up to the spirit of the
British Constitution, and at the same time to acknow-
ledge the jurisdiction of the Pope in local matters
Such is the dilemma in which the lately published
Bull places the English Roman Catholic. lam not,
however, sufficiently acquainted with their views on
the subject, or their intentions respecting it, to give
any opinion as to the effect this newly assumed au-
thority of Rome will have upon their conduct; but I
am inclined to believe that the Tablet and L'Univers
newspapers speak the sentiments of the zealous portions
of the Roman Catholic community, and that they are
the real, if not the avowed, organs of the priesthood.
The Church of Rome admits of no moderate party
among the laity; moderation in respect to her ordi-
nances is lukewarmness, and the lukewarm she inva-
riably spues out of her mouth. You must be with her
against all opponents, or you are not of her; and,
therefore, when Rome adopts a measure such as the
present, it places the laity in the awkward dilemma I
have alluded to. Believing, therefore, that the late
bold and clearly expressed edict of the Court of Rome
cannot be received or accepted by English Roman
Catholics without a violation of their duties as citi-
zens, I need not add that I consider the line of con-
duct now adopted by Lord John Russell as that of a
true friend of the British Constitution.

"Believe me, my dear Lordietiand, yours very
,ruly,

" BEAUMONT.
'' To the Right Hon. the Earl of Zetland."

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, Nov. 25.
The Queen, with ber Royal Highness the Princess
Royal, drove out this morning in a pony phaeton
in Windsor Park, Colonel Buckley, Equerry in
Waiting, attending on horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting
this forenoon, attended by the Earl of Morley, Lieut.-
Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Hon. Charles
Grey, and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. A. Gordon.
The Royal Family took their accustomed airings.
The Duke of Wellington, Lord and Lady Charles
Wellesley, and Sir George and Lady Grey, are ex
pected to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a visit to the
Queen and the Prince.

The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
the Duke of Wellington, the Right lion. Sir George
and Lady Grey, Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley,
Lady Fanny Howard, and Baroness de Speth.
The Band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards
attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band
will afterwards attend in the Castle.

Mr. James Proudfoot, of Craigieburn ; Mr. B.
Schwikkard, of Port Natal; and Mr. J. J. More-
wood, had an interview with Earl Grey, at the Colo-
nial-office, yesterday.
The Right Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P., and the
Mayor of Hull, had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
Capt. Huish, of the London and North-Western
Railway Company, and Mr. Saunders of the Greet
Western Railway Company, had an interview with
the Commissioners of Railways yesterday, at their
office in the Board of Trade.

The Finance Committee of the Royal Commission
for the Exhibition of 1851 met yesterday at the
Board of Trade, Earl Granville in the chair.

The Commissioners, &c., of the parish of St. James,
consisting of Mr. George Garrett (chairman), Lord
de Mauley, Mr. H. Eddell, Mr. Henry Bidgood, Mr.
J. Woollums, Mr. Frederick Sasse, Mr. Thomas
Tritton, and Mr. John W. Gabriel, had an interview
with Lord Seymour yesterday, at the office of her
Majesty's Commissioners of *Woods and Forests in
Whitehall-place. ,
Mr. Fox had an interview yesterday with Earl
Grey.

Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday for Brocket
Hall, Herts, the seat of Viscount Melbourne.
Dispatches from the Governors of the North Ame-
rican colonies, and also from the Governors of New
Zealand and Van Diemen's Land, were received yes-
terday at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colo-
nial-office for the Governors of Hong-Kong and
Ceylon.

THE NEW NOVEL, " LOVE AND AMBITION," by
the Author of " Rockingham," in 3 vols., is published this
day by Mr. Colburn, and may be had at all the Libraries. Alto
now ready :-2. Nathalie, by Julia Kavanagh, author of
" Women in France," &c. 3. Lettice Arnold, by the author
of " Emilia Wyndham." 4. Lamia ; a Confession. 5. Light
and Darkness; or Mysteries of Life, by Mrs. Crowe. 6.
Singleton Fontenoy, by James Hannay, Esq., late R.N..
7. Our County, by John Mills, Esq., author of " The Old
English Gentleman," Ste. 8. Petticoat Government, by Mrs.
Trollope. 9. Claude, by Miss Molesworth.
PACKET STATION.—The following report has been
prepared by the Limerick Packet Station Committee, and
forwarded to the Commissioners :-Ist. That a Transatlantic
packet station, established on the western coast of Ireland,
would contribute materially to advance the general interests
of the empire at large. 2d. That the Shannon presents the
natural position for effectually accomplishing this grand na-
tional project, as this noble river combines advantages and
capabilities, superior to any other port that can be selected,
while it requires less artificial or extraneous aid, and involves
but a moderate expenditure to render the harbour secure and
complete for all the purposes of navigation. 3d. That the
necessary result of this choice would be the creation of a
central emporium for the objects of trade and commerce, es-
sentially promoting the prosperity of Ireland, and causing
it"vast interne' resources to bee me generally known and
appreciated by the facilities afforded as a transit country for
all Europe to the western world.
EARL FITZWILLIAM AND BIS TENANTRY.—At th
half-yearly rent-days at Wentworth House, last week, Earl
Fitzwilliam informed his West Riding tenantry, that when
their farms were valued years ago, the rent was fixed at a
higher rate than he should have fxed it had he made the
valuation ; and although the price of corn in one or two sub-
sequent years might seem to justify that rate, yet he saw
that, under existing circumstances, the farm would not
now bear their present rental, and he therefore declared hie
intention of ordering a reduction to be made from the Whit•
suntide rent, an announcement, we need scarcely say, which
has been welcomed by his Lordship', nutac rout tenants,—
Leeds intelligencer.

Npil rk,c7,. t ,
Spa
.t,el t r"
e4s=4,-..e t , Afc.i

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

QUEEN'S BEN C ii.—(F HIS DAY.)
ia Nisi Prlns, at svVes=ia,t,.x, before Mr. Jus-
tiZe WIGMTMAN, and a CVLMOL Jury,)
AMISS V. CIUNNINGTON.
(Contirtn.ed from our Afternoon Edition )
A witn.ss namoh Chapman prover!, en the part of the
defence, that he met the def-ndant on the 6'h of March,
the day when tree assault was committed, en his way
• home from the plaintiff's shop, in a state of great excite -
went and half qupor. On the Monday following witness
vi,ited the defen.aht at hip house, and found him still
Very unwell. _ _

Likbella Mils, R servant of the defolidant's, rereem-
e him le Arrng hi. edise on the 6th of March. He was
t •e.i in his usual health. When Le returned in the
afternoon he aveated very unwell, and his mouth was
very nacula swc l n. Afterwards his mouth broke out all
round in sores; there was a running at his eyes and
nose, and he was otherwise unwell.
James Pettit proved that he had hrard the plaintiff
say that if tha dnf-ndatit again came to his she') for
mc,ney won Itickhun (Jut, and serve-him in such a
maro.ir that be wouli n.,r, come baek.
Mr. Sandys, a surg on, in lirn'ish-to.wn, deposed
that he attended the defendant during his illness, &Ed
that the applk:%tion t.) the face of an i ritating sub-
stance or siroig aci,i would produc, flat:, effoiita corn-
plained of by the defendant. He admitted, however,
that he knew of no chemical prepara,i,n which would
have the odour of putrid nn, sr, and :AI cc any person in
the manner &scribed by the defendant
The Learned JUDGE, in summing up the case, left it
to the jury to say whether the plaintiff was justified in
the assault which he committed, or whether violent and
irenr,,per m, and hal been used by him in turning the
defendant :,ut of his shop. The jury would also have to
say whether the cleft ndunt preterrei the ctarge against
the plaintiff really believir g it to be true, or whether
he had d, n, so from a maicinus motive.
The jury, after some conaid ration, found a verdict for
the plaintiff—Damages 154

EXCREQUER.-(T HIS DAY.)
CROWN CASES RESERVED. _

(Before the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Beneb,
Jnstic s Pattmn, Coleridge, Erle, Maule, Cresswell,
Wil►iams, Talfourd, and Barons Parke, Alderson,
Platt, and Martin.)
THE QUEEN V. WILEY. _ _ .

In this case the defesjdanc Wiley was convicted at the
Northumberland Quarter Sessions, for receiving a quan-
tity of !owls knowing them to be stolen; and it now
came before this Court on a point reserved by the jus-
tices before whom the ease was trie:!.

It appeared that two men stole thP fowls, put'them
into a sack, and brought theta into the house of
ta%ner, for the purpo, e of s« fling them
to Wiley. He saw Wiley, the defendant, and after
a short coneer,stion the thre9 parties went into a
stable, ..ne of the men who stole the fowls carrying the
sack on his back, and Wiley bolclirg a light to show
him the way. The pack was placed on the floor, the
parties stealing ar.uud it as if they we.A.te in the act of
bargaining, but no words were heard to pass between
them, and while in that position they were discovered
and taken into questi..n then arose as to
whether there was sufficient proof, on these facts, of
Wiley being in possession of the goods, to render him
liable to an indictment as a receiver of stolen goods
within the irt.auing of the statute.
Mr. OTTER was beard at considet able length against
the conviction, and contended that the g-,tods had never
passed from On possession of the two persons who had
stolen them.

LIDDLE was heard in supp-.,rtof.he conviction.

Their Loldihif,s retired to co- nsi:.!er their jegment,
and after :-.l),E,rit an hour, re: tuned into court, wL en
they deliver d their judgments s.eriotim.
The Learn, d Judges wh , were of opinion that the con-
viction wait wrong were Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Barn
Aid,rson, Justice Pattoon, Mr. Ju,:,ice Coleridge,llr.
Ju Mr. Baton Yiatt, M:. Justice Taltourd,
aid fir. Bar ,n Martin.

T 0.3 Ju,iges who thougl, the cmvic:i6n was
right wkre hr. L rd Chia Ju.ticit Campbell, Mr. Justice
Cre-sweli, Mr. Justice Etle, and Mr. Justice Williams.
TLe ng3.inst tlu et,:.tnetio;t, the jurfg-
m,nt of the ccu t below was revL,rseil, and the defendant
orJertd to be disc!-!ary.ed from cus fAly.

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FRANC 6.

The Cologne Gazette of the 24'h says—" We learn
from a source worthy of credit that the Duke de Bor
deaux has giv,.3n the mot d'ordre t) the Legitirnatist
party in France to employ its efforts in favour of
those who desire to talc,3 advantage of the present
crisis in CNrinany to reconquer the left bank of the
Itnine. According to the instructions given by the
Prince to the.Legitionatist party, France will now have
for mission, with or without ICiapcleteu, to extend her
frontiers, and to recover her anciect glory."
On Saturday a large crowd assembled in the
Tribunal of Correctional Police to hear the complaint
of M. Charles Bonaparte (Prince,:de Canino) ex-
president of the Roman Constituent Assembly,
against M. o'Arlic:court, for having libelled him in
his pamphlet called i' Italie Rouge. But M. Berryer,
counsel ltr the defendant, having written to say that
be could not attend on account of indisposition, the
case was put off to the 3d December.
Tne Gazette de France of Saturday says—" The
meeting of the Ru-] to Eivoli (14:•giimatist). yester-

day pre-sentediminji,e interest; the political-line to be
followed by the right was fully dischssed. An orator,
whose ill-health has kept him from the Assembly for a
year, showed the necessity of abandoning the policy
of abitntion and silence, and of taking an initiative
in conformity with the general sentiment. M. Berryer
replied by an apology or the course hilierto followed,
and is said to have added, as we are assured, that the
negative policy might at present be replaced by an
expectant policy. To this the first speaker is said
to have replied that tie difference between the two
lines of policy could not be defined, and that he con-
sidered it necessary to adopted a militant policy. He
is also said to have declared himself in favour of the
immediate revi'ion of the electoral law of the 31st of
May, and was supported in his opinion by several of
his colleagues, following the direction of the Ho-
nourable General de Saint-Priest. All this sitting
.:;.used a lively emit-Liu in the .P.rliarnentary Right."
We find the foitowing in the Quire, on the subject
of the appointment of the Commissary of Police of
the Natiooal Assembly:—
'° We lately announced that the Minister of the In-
, terior had demanded to be heard by tne Committee on
Pa►liamentary Initiative. relative to the appointment
of the Commissary of Police of the Legislative As-
sembly. The meeting took place on Saturday, and.
after some discussion, the Minister is said to have nearly
come to an understanding on the following points:-1.
The Committee is said to have demanded tnat the func-
tionary attwthed to the Chamber might be chosen
not only from among the commissaries of the city of
Paris, but ami ng all the commissaries t f France. 2.

That he can only be dismissed with the consent of the
buresu of the Ass,inhly. 3. 'rust his salary shall be
p?..id by the Assembly. 4. The committee were of
opinion that the communications of this agent should, in
the first place, be m.de to the Presiient and to the questors,
and that they should communicate them to the Illioister
of the Interior. We mg add that, in the idea of the com•
mittee these different stipulations offer no impediment to
the maintenance of M. Yon as Special Commissary ache
Legislative Asseinnly. M. Baroche, it is said, requested
consult the Council of Ministers on the :acceptance of
these different stipuiat ions, and the committee afterwards
eujourLed to Monday."

(iERMAIY.

The latest papers from Berlin are of the morning of
the 221, the evening journals of that day not having
arrived by the mail. A letter of the 22d states that
the speech of Count Schwerin, on being elected Pre-
sident of the Second Chamber, produced an electrical
- effect on the Assembly. He said, " The universal
• cry that reaches us from all the provinces of Prussia
is—Prussia will submit to no humiliations." The
Count then added, " However difficult our task may
be, the eagle of Prussia must shoW itself in
the light ; the •people, convinced of its rights,
is full of anxious expectation. I hope that in this i
Chamber we shall attain the most elevated 1
point—that of German patriotism, and prove 1
• that Germany is more attached to Prussia since that
power has entered into the family of constitutional
Vates." A letter from Vienna ot. the 18th, in the Co-
• log,ne Gazette, stilt, a that, notwithstanding the COTI.
troued preparation for war, the conferences between
the French .viinister and Prince Schwartzenberg had
led to an exoectation that peace would be maintained.
Letters froM FrenktOrt of the 221 state that the Diet
had adopted some resolutions which, it was hoped,
would lead to the pacific termination of the ditlr-
ences with Prussia on the subject of Electoral Hesse.
A telegrahic dispatch from Berlin, dated in the after-
noon of the 23d brings the quotations of the Prus-
sian Funds a half per cent. lower than on the preced-
ing day.
~t,T-T , A letter from Berlin of the 21st, in the Dibats,
.:-114,1t, ;' \ l 4;Rgives the fellowing account of the manner in which
'-..!--------. ---F-77---. 7.7,, the Ro7eal Speech WW4 received :—" Inc A ssembly at
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i-7 ,f 1 'T) ie prquoli a t.) iliVio'Ablv maiataie the cons.ittr ion
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,:,.. 4.,(1. the Speech in a slow at d wonokt,nous manner,
, 'z. ,til he carne to the passage Which, spoke of
• - ',.. . the disastrous complications in Electoral Hasse.
,4.V.i :). !...;,, His Blajtsty laid particular emphatic on the word

disastrous.' His voice then rose, he read more
rapidly, and in a more emphatic manuer, and with
animated gesture. He was interrupted by the most
enthusiastic applause. Whtn he had finished, there
was a triple round cf cheers, followed by a imilar
compliment to the Prince of Prussia, which is a sig-
nificative demonstration when it is considered that
the Prince is at the head of the war party."
A letter from Berlin of the 22d, in the Inclepen-
dance of Brussels, says 7" The warlike enthusiasm
is still the same ; but the Speech from the Throne, of
which the warlike passages produced an electric
effect on the representatives, has not satisfied the
public out of doors. On a calm reading, this docu-
ment, not having the support of the accent and
action of the august orator, appears lukewarm. The
Constitutional Gazette is of that opinion. The lair,
in general, appears discontented. As regards the
negotiations, notbiog is decided. Prussia demands
two things—the presidency by turns, and the delega-
tion of the executive authority to the two great
powers. As fur the latter point, Austria says that
she must consult her allies. The alternate presidency
is promised. Some persons believed that in conse-
quence of the Prussian mordlization, Austria, in order
not to cede to ineDi..ces, may withdraw the condition,
offered. Tni3 is a point of vi,s w w::.ich must rot be
lightly treated."
A letter from Carlauhe' 21st, says—" According
to accounts from the Grand Duchy of Baden of the
13th, an ordonnance has been published to the effect
that the young men belonging to the military class of
1850 are to be incorporated in the army by the 16th
of next month."
Tne Berlin State Gazette of the 22d has a letter from
Vienna of the 19th, stating that it is not true that the
Austrian Government bad consented to suspend its war-
like preparations, and the march of troops, on the
demand of Prussia. Prince Schwartzenberg, on the
contrary, says the letter, had declared that the Aus-
trian Government had no right to take such a measure,
as the preparations were being made in execution of a
federal obligation.
A letter from Vienna of the 19th says :—" We
learn that upwards of 300,000 men will take the field,
and that no diminution of the army of Italy will be
made, as the troops taken away will be replaced by
others. The other provinces of the empire, especially
Hungary, will continue to be strongly occupied."