The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-31 00:00:00

WESTERN CIRCUIT.

Southampton, and county, Thursday, Feb. 27, at the
Castle of Winchester.
Wiltshire, Wednesday. March 5, at New Sarum.
Dorchester, Wednesday, March 12, at Dorchester.
Devonshire, Monday, March 17, at the Castle of Exeter.
City of Exeter, same day, at the Guildhall, Exeter.
Cornwall, Monday, March 24, at Bodmin.
Somersetshire, Monday, March 31, at the Castle of
Taunton.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.
(Before the Chief Baron and Mr. Baron Platt.)
Berkshire, Saturday, March 1, at Heading.
Oxfordshire, Wednesday, IV:lrch 5. at Oxford.
Worcestershire, Saturday, March 8, at Worcester.
City of Worcester, same day, a'. Worcester.
Staffordshire, Thursday, March 13, at Stafford.
Shropshire, Saturday, March 22, at Shrewsbury.
Herefordshire, Thursday, March 27. at Hereford.
Monmouthshire, Saturday, March 29, at Monmouth.
Gloucestershire, Wednesday, April 2. at GI ucester.
City of GI mcester, same day, at the City of Gl..ucester

THE CHURCH.
(From the Plymouth herald.)
The following petition to Parliament was adopted
at a numerously attended Vestry Meeting of the
parish of Buckland Monachorurn, convened by the
Churchvvardens, held on the 15th for the purpose
of taking into consideration the Bishop's Pastor al
Letter. Several able addresses were made, and it was
resolved to petition both Houses of Parliament, pray-
ing the Legislature to interfere, to put an end to the
unhappy divisions in our beloved Church, and to re-
lieve it of such of its ministers as are dishonestly re-
ceiving its revenues :
The humble Petition of the Parishioners of Buck-
land Monachorum, in Vestry assembled,
Showeth,That your petitioners deplore exceed-
ingly the schisms that have arisen in the Church of
late years, and the attempts of some of its ministers
to revive certain ancient and conflicting laws and re-
gulations that the common sense of both clergy and
laity had consigned to oblivion, by allowing them to
fall into desuetude.

That these attempts, in connexion with the promu'•
gation of what is come to he familiarly termed
Puseyite doctrines from tie pipit-, end the counte-
nance they have received, until very recently, at our
Universities; together with the sanction of some, end
the apparent connivance of other, of the higher order
of its ministers, to whom the people have a right to
look for protection against any inroads on their faith,
have, not unreasoeably, from their decided tendencies
to Romanism, filled them with very considerable ap
prehension and alarm; that your petitioners, judging
from certain expressions in Pastoral Letters, issued
by the bishop of this diocese to his clergy, and the
general tenor of what has received the designation of
Tractarian publications, are conscientiously impressed,
with the opinion that the time is arrived for Parlia-
ment, who alone have the power, to interfere with a
strong hand, not only to repress all attempts at
priestly domination, hut to cause a searching inves-
tigation to be instituted into the origin of these here-
sies, and to relieve the Church of such of its minis
tens, whatever be their station, as are dishonestly re-
ceiving its revenues, by propagating or permitting the
propagation of tenet% at variance with their ordina-
tion vows, and that have a tendency to undt rmine the
Protestant faith. That your petitioners, justly con
ceding to all men the right of private opinion, view
with the highest admiration the noble conduct of
those ministers of the Scottish Church who seceded
therefrom—they thereby showing that a far higher
principle than the love of filthy lucre governed them
in their secession.
That your petitioners deeply lament that this great
example has been lost on the ministers of the Esta-
blishment professing Tractarian opinions.
That your petitioners, earnestly wishing to see
healed these divisions in our beloved Church, there-
fore pray that your Honourable House, conjointly
with the other branches of the Legislature, will take
such-measures :;s shall effectively secure to the people
of these realms their religion in all its purity, as de-
rived from the Sacred Scriptures, untainted by the
traditions of weak and erring men, and will cause
such a code, in lieu of the absurd and conflicting
laws, canons, and rubrics as now exist, to be enacted
for the regulation of its ministers of all grades—from
the archbishop to the deacon—a, shall be in coinci-
dence with the present enlightened state of society,
and have the effect of restraining them, with a view
to increase their superior usefulness, from interfering
in secular affairs.
And your petitioners will ever pray.

Mr. Thomas N. Redington, M.P., has liberally
given 2001. towards building a chapel at Clanranbridge,
county Galway.