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APRIL 25 1850.

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STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was rather firmer to-day,
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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF TUESDAY.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Bssinghall-street.
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Leicestershire, surgeon, May 15, at the Court, Birming-
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CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN
SELLON AND LOItD CAMPBELL.
The following correspondence has passed between
Miss Sellon, the Sister of Mercy, and Lord Chief
Justice Campbell :
" The Orphans' Home, Plymouth, March 19.
"My Lord,—lt is with a pain the intensity of which,
amidst such apparent ingratitude, your Lordship will
not really imagine possible that in writing to express my
deep sense t.f your kindness in consenting to aid the
wink at Devonpert, I have now to request the with-
drawal of a name which, noble and honoured as it is, is
connected most painfully wi, h a decision which for the
present brands the Church of England with uncatholic
teaching. As a most uneorthy, yet faithful daughter
of that Church, I have, as your Lordship will perceive,
no choice left me in working for her but to withdraw
from one who has es,isted in a judgment which I am
bound to believe islso contrary to her;fundameetal:priec-
plea as to be fatal toher unless absolutely rejected. It is
useless to multiply words of sorrow. Your Lordship
will know and feel that such a letter as the present ought
not and could not be written without much grief and
embarrassment. Entreating your forgiveness, and
praying that all blessing may attend you and yours, I
am, your Lord hip's humble and grateful servant,
" PRISCILLA LYDIA SELLON,
"Ye Mother Supr."
"Midland Circuit, Warwick, March 31,1850.
" Madam,—Having a most sincere respect for your
piety and benevolence, I would beg you to reconsider your
request that my name may be withdrawn from the list of
those who are desirous of assisting you in the truly
Christian objects to which your life is devoted. I really
believe that you misunderstand the judgment to which
you refer, when you consider that it is so dangerous tolthe
Church and so discreditable to those who concurred . in
it. I assure you that we have given no opinion contrary
to yours upon the doctrine of baptismal regeneration.
We bad no jurisdiction to decide any doctrinal question,
and we studiously abstained from. doting so. We were
only called upon to construe the articles and formularies
of the Church, and to say whether they be so framectus
to condemn certain opinions expressed by Mr. Gorham.
If we be mistaken in thinking that they are not so
framed, you will hardly say • that for this mistake
(which you will charitably believe to be conscientious)
we ought to be excluded from communion with orthodox
Christians. Recollect that the Archbishop of Canter-
bury and the Archbishop of York entirely approved of
what we did, and that they are as much answerable for
it as if they had been members of the court instead of
being only our advisers. Reflect, then, whether
it be for the good of the Church, to which
you are so affectionately attached, to pronounce
excommunication against all who approve of
the decision which you censure. Perhaps you may find
that a large majority of the pious sons and daughters of
the Church of England think that the decision is sound,
and that it may heal the wounds from which she has
lately suffered. At any rate I do hope that upon re-
consideration you will still allow me to have the gratifi-
cation t f being upon your committee. If you remain
inflexible, I must submit to your determination, but I
shall continue to pray that heaven may enlighten your
understanding and further your labours with its choicest
blessings.-1 have the honour to be, with the highest
respect, Madam, your most obedient faithful servant,
" CAMPBELL."
"The Orphans' Home, April 8.
"My Lord,—l found your letter on my return from a
short absence from home. Need I say that the unex-
pected kindness of its contents only made me the more
bitterly mourn over the unhappy cause which separates
me from such a benevolent and noble heart—separates
me, as I still hope, only for a time. for how can I be-
lieve but that your Lordship will in time perceive whet
is involved in your decision, and will lament as deeply as
any one of us that it should have endangered the Church
by the apparent admission of heretical teaching. You
tell me that, on the contrary, it will help to heal her
wounds. Alas! my Lord, that you should say so.
How can it heal her wounds to tell us that her ar-
ticles admit of a heresy which her creed rejects? I
may not believe it, although such words are sanctioned
by the two Archbishops. My Lord, Ido not believe it.
It would be to question the truth of the Church of
England to believe that it were matter of allowed in-
difference whether an article of the creed were con-
tradicted or not. It is not being faithful to her to doubt
until her own voice condemn ber, which may God for-
bid! But many hearts since the decision do fail. They
believe that your decision is just; they do not believe
that the Church of England is a witness to and a holder
of the truth of God—they turn from her as not being
a light set on a hill which cannot be hid.' Their faith
is utterly shaken. I speak from a bitter knowledge of
facts. I see her forsaken by those who have loved ter.
And you, my Lord, do you also believe that the Church
of England has bean untrue to herself—that her frr-
tnularies are so constituted that sbe contradicts her own
belief—that she will not maintain the faith of her creeds
—that she will admit priests to teach her children that
which has been condemned as a heresy T Forgive me,
my Lord, for writing thus to you. How can Ido other-
wise? It is not that I forget the difference which God
has placed between us —the difference between an exalted
and a lowly position—the difference of age, and sex, and
station; but all fades away while I recollect the wonder.
ful kindness of your letter; the noble reluctance with
which you withdraw the aid which once I should have
so joyfully and gratefully accepted; and I cannot but
speak to yuu heart to heart. I thank you earnestly for
your promise of remembering me in your prayers. lam
not worthy to pray fur you; and yet, if the God of all
goodness will hear the supplication of a loving and
deeply-sorrowing heart, he will bring you to grieve for
the injury done to the Church, and will help you to re-
pair it, and give you all blessing in time and in eternity.
" Yours very humbly and aff-ctionately,
" LYDIA SELLON."
" Stratheden-house, April 10.
" Madam,—l deeply grieve that (although in very
courteous language) you adhere to the stern resolution
of excluding me from the gratification of being upon the
list of your committee, and of contributing my mite to
the excellent charities which you so laudably superin-
tend. I must confess that you do not seem to me to
have made any way in proving that my concurrence in
the decision of the Judicial Committee in the Gorham
case should disqualify me humbly to assist you in taking
are of orphans, in providing a Christian education
tor the children of worthless parents, and in mitigating
the physical suff- rings of our fellow-creatures. I cannot
think that I am called upon to answer your observations
tespecting the merits of the decision or its probable
effect upon the Church, or I should easily show that you
be the question entirely by assuming that the doctrine
to which you object has been cotalenaned by her articles
and formularies as a heresy, and I might demonstrate
that whether the decision be wrong or right, it
can afford no plausible pretext for leaving the
Church, as no reproach can be brought upon her by
a misconstruction of her articles and formularies, and
it must be a very slight reproach to her if she has
omitted to denounce one false doctrine as heretical, con-
sidering that no Christian Church has professed to settle
dogmaticallyall points ofdoctrine, and that the Church
in which those who complain most bitterly seem die-
posed to take refuge has studiously left open various
questions, considered by the members of that Church to
be of high importance. I have only now to submit to
your sentence. Though expelled from your committee
and forbidden to have any communion with you in your
charitable deeds, I may perhaps, in parting, be allowed
to remind you of the peril you incur by giving way to a
religious impulse. Some of the darkest and most dan-
gerous prejudices of men,' said Lord Erskine, arise
from the most honourable principles. When prejudices
are caught up from bad passions, the worst men feel in-
tervals of remorse to soften and disperse them; bat when
they arise from a generous though mistaken source, they
are hugged closer to the bosom, and the kindest and
most compassionate natures feel a pleasure in fostering
a blind and unjust resentment.' If at any time hereafter
you should be induced to relent, I shall joyfully avail
myself of the opportunity of again trying to further
your benevolent schemes, and in the meantime I have
the honour to remain, witb the highest respect, Madam,
your most obedient, faithful servant,

" CAMPBELL.

" Miss Selion."
di The Orphans' Home, St. Peter's,
Plymouth, April 16.
"My Lord,—l am very much surprised and pained to
hear that my letters to you have been published. If
your Lordship had thought it advisable that any public
statement should have been made regarding the subject
on which they were written, this could easily have been
done in another form; but those letters were addressed
simply to your own heart, and coming from the fulness
of mine, were such as I should not have shown to others.
They were a sacred matter between your conscience and
my own, and our God; and are, I need scarcely observe,
singularly unfitted for the columns of a newspaper. It
is not the first time that I have had cause to remonstrate
at the way in which my private words have been made
public by others; I would, my Lord, that you, and all
to whom I write, would recollect that my letters are
written only for those to whom they are addressed, and
that I claim the courtesy most wpccially due to a woman
in requiring that Viey should not be published without
my knowledge and permission. I own, my Lord, that
I am rather indignant with you, but I am still yours
humbly and affectionately,
0 P. LYDIA,
" The Mother Supr. ui th, Sisters of Mercy."

LO RD CA MPBELL and the OXFORD CIRCUIT.
The following correspondence has been sent us for
publication :

" Oxford Circuit, Gloucester, April 2.

"My dear Lord,—l am deputed, as the senior mem-
ber of the Oxford Circuit, t offer to your Lordship our
warm congratulations on your appointment to the high
office of Lord Chief Justice of England—a just acknow-
ledgment of the great ability, of the deep and extensive
learning, of the unremitting diligence, and of the varied
acquirements, which your Lordship has always
die-
played in the practice of your prof...siiion. The members
of the circuit feel it a matter of exultation that the ta-
len.s which so early distinguished your Lordship should
have kiln" their first exercise and reward on this cir-
cuit, of which you were so many years a member, and
it is their earnest wish that your Lordship may long
enjoy in health and happiness the exalted station which
you hare attained.

" I beg leave to add that the expression of these sen-
tlinews has been advisedly postponed until the arrival
of the circuit at this place, in order that the largest
number of its members might join, as they unanimously
and cordially do. in ofFering it to your Lordship.
I am, my deir Lord,
" Your very faithful and obedieht servant,
" W. WHATELEV.
" The Right Hon. Lord Campbell,
Circuit, Warwick."

" Midland Circuit, Warwick, April 4.
"My dear Whateley,—l am exceedingly gratificd
by the kind congratulations which you in so flattering a
manner convey to me. On the Oxford Circuit I spent
many of my happiest days, and formrd some of my
most valued and lasting friendship, and it is delightful
to me to think that I am still remembered 'lay 'urably by
my old rissociatee. My first choice uf a circuit shall be
the Oxford ; and I beg you to assure all who have done
me the distinguished laotAour to concur in the senti-
ments which you express that I shall e'er remain
Yours and theirs most sincerely.
•
" W. Whateley, Esq., Q.C."

"CAMPBELL.

THE STAMP DUTIES.

The following is the report of the Board of Inland
Revenue to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the pro-
bable effect on the stamp revenue, by the Bill now
before the House of Commons :

- Inland Revenue, Somerset House, April 18, 1850.
. Sir,—ln pursuance of our instructions, we beg to
lay before you our opinion of the probable effects on
the stamp revenue which will be produced by the Bill
now before the House of Commons.

It will be in your recollection that when, towards
the close of last year we received directions to prepare
a new Stamp Bill, so far as regards the duties on
bonds, conveyances, mortgages, leases, and settle-
ment, we stated that It would be very difficult to
calculate the amount of revenue which would be lost
or gained by an alteration in the present scale of
stamp duties ; because a stamp for a given amount
will serve for several descriptions of deeds liable to
duty ; and when a party purchases a stamp he is not
required to state for what description of instrument
it is intended. For example, a 11. stamp may be used
on an appraisement, apprentice indenture, bargain
and sale, money bond, annuity bond, conveyance,
lease, mortgage, power of attorney, warrant of attor-
ney, or progressive duty ; and so with the other
ad valorem stamp duties up to 251., beyond which
amount almost all ad valorem stamps are used for
conveyance.
The total produce of duty paid for stamps of
amounts which might be used for bonds, mortgages,
and conveyances, as well as for some other instru-
ments in last year, was 1,380,0001. From the best
estimate that can be made by the most experienced
officers of the stamp department, 1,000,0001. 'of this
amount may be taken as the produce of ad valorem
duties, of which it is supposed that about two-thirds
arise from conveyances and transfers of property.
Assuming this estimate to be correct, it will be seen
by the annexed table, which was submitted to you in
December last, that by the then proposed reduction
of duty on conveyances, from the present rates to a
rate of 10s. per cent, up to 5001., of 153. per cent. be-
tween 5001. and 1,0001., and of a fixed rate of 1 per
cent. above that amount, the loss on the conveyance
duty alone will not be less than 260,0001. per annum.
This loss was estimated, irrespectively of that which
would arise from the total repeal of the bargain
and sale duty, from the reduced duty on leases,
and from the relief which is afforded by a si-
milar reduction of such stamp duties in Ireland,
the whole of which cannot be estimated at less
than 40,0001., making with the 260,0001. above-men-
tioned, a loss of 300,0001. There will, however, be
some gain on conveyances above 100,0001., but these
are of such rare occurrence that the gain must be in-
considerable. The loss on small bonds and mort-
gages would, it was supposed, be counterbalanced by
some gain on large bonds, &c. There was also reason
to expect that to some extent an increase of revenue
might be derived from an increased number of stamps
used in documents hitherto not stamped, but no very
large increase could be calculated on from this
source, because, although, on reducing duties on
articles of consumption, the consumption may be in-
creased, yet it cannot be supposed that more bonds
and mortgages will be made, merely on account of the
stamp duty being lower. All that can be expected to
occur is, that more stamps may be used for documents
on which hitherto the stamp duty has been evaded.
Any such evasion must, for obvious reasons, generally
ccur on bonds, &c., for small amounts, and as on
these the duty is much reduced by the Bill, no very
great increase of revenue can be expected from. this
source.

In consequence of the opinion thus expressed, you
estimated the loss in your speech on the budget at
somewhat less than 300,0001. per annum. In Commit •
tee on the Bill, you proposed to reduce the stamp on
bonds, &c., from 103. to ss. per cent., but an amend-
ment was carried reducing the rate from ss. to 2i.,
for one-tenth per cent on bonds under 50/. ; and it is
presumed that this decrease in the duties on bonds
under 501. will be also extended to all bonds, mort-
gages, and warrants of attorney of any amount; thus
reducing the duty on this description of instrument,
throughout the scale, up to 25,0001.
It is well known to all parties conversant with
business of this description, that by far the largest
number of transactions must be on sums under this
amount, and that nearly the whole revenue is de-
rived, not from the higher amount of duty on the few
large transactions, but from the duty paid on the
much greater number of moderate amounts.
It is also to be recollected that, since the introduc-
tion of the Bill, relief has been extended to various
descriptions of instruments beyond what was
originally intended; such as transfers of mortgages,
memorials of registration, admittances to copyholds,
duplicates of conveyances of fee-farm rents, and
leases under 20/. a year rent. Taking all these cir-
cumstances into consideration, we think that the loss
arising from the proposed reduction of duty on bonds,
mortgages and warrants of attorney, from the present
rates to 2=. per cent., will amount to at least
150,000/.; which, with the estimated loss by the
great reduction of the duty on conveyances, transfers
of property, and other instruments above alluded to,
cannot safely be taken at less than from 450,0001. to
500,0001.

We have, &c.,
(Signed) JOHN WOOD.
JOHN THORNTON.
CHARLES PRESSLEY.
To the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, &c.

OBSTRUCTIONS to KNOWLEDGE.
Knowledge has fared ill this week in the House of
Commons. Such of it as a portion of the people
already have access to, crippled by taxation, is not to
be relieved ; and we are threatened with the loss of
such means of extending it to the rest of the people,
as we had lately some hope of seeing tried. A. large
majority has declared against the repeal of taxes af-
fecting books and newspapers, moved by Mr. Milner
Gibson, in a speech of very great ability ; and the
same fate is preparing for Mr. Fox's Education Bill.
To the result of the former motion we submit as a
present necessity; but (the matter less admitting of
delay) we cannot so calmly regard a decision aban-
doning great numbers of the English population to
hopeless and incurable ignorance.
The peculiarity of Mr. Fox's proposal was, that it
meddled with no existing plan by which any modicum
of education was already extended to any portion of
the people. All that it claimed permission to do was
to educate such waifs and strays as neither Church-
men nor Dissenters could draw within their several
folds. Where your efforts stop, was the petition, let
mine commence. The reply is that of the dog in the
manger. What I cannot do you shall not do.
We are grieved to see the religious pretence put
forward by statesmen. We call it a pretence, because
no man in his senses believes that zw•hat at present passes
for religious education at Sunday-schools and the like,
is deserving of the name of education at all. Does
any one think that to put a boy to spell at the Bible or
catechism, helps him half as much forward in spelling
as it drives him back in religion ? The wearisome
substitution of words for realities at that early age is
the greatest mistake we commit. We talk of secular
education as if it excluded religion, when in fact it
is the only discipline that prepares the mind rightly,
for religious truth. We speak of it as opposed to re-
ligion, when it is absolutely the only means of giving
practical force and direction to religions principles
and duties.
But the Church stops the way. At a time when
episcopal authority cannot impose or even explain its
creed, it is to be allowed to withhold or sanction at
its pleasure the multiplication table. We are coming
to a dead lock. Judicial authority has just told us
that we must tolerate differences of doctrine to save
the Church, and legislative authority i. about to tell
us that we must get rid of all such differences if we
would save ourselves. Practically the vote on Mr.
Fox's Bill will be a vote for the spiritual destitution
of large masses of the people. The amendment will
declare substantially that differences of creed must
amount to a prohibition against knowledge, and a
member of the Roman Catholic Church is not ill-
chosen to take charge of such an amendment. But
Lord Arundel's argument was rather odd, even as a
display of bigotry. He quoted a number of infidel
writings in prasenti to give effect to his warning

[PRICE SD.

against infidelity in futuro. The existing condition
of education offering no bar to the promulgation of
non-religious views, we are threatened with the
danger of any attempt to improve that condition !
We gave proof last week of our disposition to in-
sist upon a fair trial for every scheme of education
that has any sort of tendency to lift us out of our
present state. We are for receiving good from
every quarter, for rejecting it in none. As we con-
demn the grudging and churlish criticism of the
Privy Council plan, we condemn the unfair treetnient
of .111,-. Fox's Bill. It is pandering to a gross and
unfounded prejudice to call it irreligious. One of
its clauses allows time for religious instruction out of
the common schools during the week, as well as on
the Sunday, and it would be easy to strengthen this
provision by requiring certificates ' of attend-
ance on the respective religious instructors at
the times so appointed. In his temperate and
judicious speech supporting the Bill, Mr. Milnes
referred to the great public schools, and asked what
proportion the religious part of instruction in these
pieces bore to the secular part. We should like to
have an authoritative answer to this question, for .we
suspect the truth to be that much more satisfactory
provision -even for , religious training is made in the
Bill under discussion—infidel as it is called—than in
any of those orthodox establishments. On this and
other grounds we deny the infidel imputations alto-
gether. The provisions of the measure thus slan-
dered are no other than precisely those repeatedly
recommended by one of the most religious of men,
Dr. Chalmers, providing in the only possible way for
the efficacy of religious teaching, by giving free scope
to the efforts of every religious sect.
We confeia that its rejection will shake our confi-
dence not a little in the future progress of the Govern-
ment plan. If the Church argument is good so far,
Dr.PtriflpOtts and Mr. Denison have only to double their
exertions to make it good throughout. If the State
says that only the congregations of schools and chapels
in particular localities or with particular means shall
be educated, and the rest of the people shall not be
allowed even the opportunity or means to educate
themselves, the end of the Church wedge has entered
sufficiently to admit the rest of it sooner or later.
Our only hope now is in the growing attention excited
to the subject, and in such meetings as have lately
been held in places so important as Manchester and
Leeds. The more discussion there is, the more it
will be made obvious that knowledge and religion can
have no separate or exclusive interests. The know-
ledge which indisposes a man to religion is as likely
to be false knowledge as the religion which indis-
poses a man to knowledge is certainly a false religion.
Each strengthens and elevates the other, nor can pro-
gress be made in either without advantage to both.
Some part of the opposition to Mr. Fox's Bill is
founded on a misconception of this truth, and the rest
on a dread of admitting it.—Examiner.

PARLIAMEN Ti ARY DIVISIONS.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Comm= )

WEDNESDAY. APRIL 24.

AFFIRMATION BILL.

Order for Committee read; Motion made, and Question
proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :"
Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That"
to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " this
House will, upon this day six months, resolve itself into the
said Committee," instead thereof: Question put, " That the
words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question."
The House divided :

MINORITY-AYES, 129.
Adair, Hugh F. Glyn, G. C. Pigott, Francis
Alcock, Thomas Grace, 0. D. Pilkington, JaineS
Anderson, Arthur Grenfell, Charles W. Pinney, William
Armstrong, R. B. Grey, Sir George Power, Dr.
Bagshaw, John Grosvenor, Earl Price, Sir R
Baines, M. T. Hamner, Sir John Pusey, P.
Bass, Thomas Hardcastle, J. A. .Rawdon, Colonel
Bellew, R. M. Harris, Richard Ricardo, Osman
Bernal, Ralph Hustle, Alexander Rice, E. R.
Blake, M. J. Basile, Archibald Robartes, T. J.
Boyle, Colonel Headlam, Thomas Romilly, Colonel
Brockman. E. D. Henry, Alexander Romilly, Sir John
Brotherton, J. Heywood, James Russell, E.
Brown, W. Heyworth, Lawrence Rutherford, A.
Busfeild, W. Hill, Lord Marcus Scrope, G. P.
Buxton, Sir E. Holihouse, T. B. Seymour, Lord
Carter, John B. Hodges, T. Twisden Shafto, R. D.
Cavendish, C. C. Howard, C. W. Simeon, John
Cavendish, G. H. Howard, P. H. Slaney, Robert A.
Cavendish, W. G. Kershaw, James Smith, M. Tucker
Cayley, Edward S. Langston, J. H. Smith, John B.
Clay, James Lascelles, W. S. Stansfield, W. R. C.
Clay, Sir W. Lennard, T. B. Stanton, W. H.
Clifford, 11. M. Lewis, George C. Strickland, Sir G.
Cobden, R. 3l'Gregor, John Thicknesse, Ralph
Cockburn, A. J. M`Taggart, SlrJ. Thompson, Colonel
Collins, William Marshall, J. G. Thortiely, T.
Crawford, W. S. Marshall, Williarn Tollemache, F. J.
Crowder, R. B. Master/nail, John Townley, R. G.
Dalrymple, Captain Matheson, Colonel Trelawny, J. S.
Davie, Sir 11, Mclgund, Viscount Verney Sir 11.
D'Eyncourt, C. T. , Milner, W. -Si. "Vivian, J. H.
Duncan, George Milnes, R. M. Wall, C. B.
Ellice, Edward Mitckell, T. A. Watkins, Colonel
Ellis, John Moffatt, George Wawn, J. T.
Elliot, J. E. Morgan, ii. K. Willcox, Brodie
Evans, J. Morris, David Williams, John
1i1,1119, William Mostyn, E. Wilson, James
Ewart, William Nugent, Lord Wilson, Matthew
Fagan, William O'Flalierty, Anthony Wyvill, AI.
Fordyce, A. D. Ogle, S. C. Young, Sir John
Forster, M. Osborne, Ralph TELLERS.
Fox, W. J. Oswald, Alexander Wood, W. P.
Gibson, T. M. Pechell, Sir G. Bouverie, E. P.