The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-21 00:00:00

rnE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1344.

the domestic rule, as his judgment shall direct, so
has a bishop considerable power to modify even the
Church's laws in the government of his diocese, not
indeed by a direct action, but by the exercise of a
mild influence. These remarks will, we trust, acquit
us of any want of respect either for the right rev.
Lord personally or for his office, and we will now
proceed to state strictly but fairly what appears to
us to be the case made in the Bishop's reply.
Changes have, within the last few years, been made
in the forms of Divine worship. These changes
have been universally introduced by perverse men,
either frivolous coxcombs or treacherous emissaries
of Romanism, and consequently they have given
great offence, and excited no small jealousy, in the
people. There is a passage in the reply to which we
refer with high gratification, because it proves that
in the course which he has thought himself b..und to
adopt, the Right Rev. writer dis not a volur.teer—
proves that befr,re he sought to provide for the peace
tv...-eh by commanding a general uniformity
with UP:, change proposed, he tried to secure that
Peace by dissuading all from any change, but that he
dirsuaded many in vain :
" If 1 should order my clery, as your letter seems t
suggest, to continue the services 01 the Church as they
":40w are, without any change, any one of them might
sky to me—' We cannot, conscientiously, do what you
Thus illegally order ; we are bound, by our ordination
vow, to " minister the doctrine and sacraments, and
the discipline of Christ, as the Lord hath com-
manded, and as this Church and realm hath re-
ceived the same ;" we have, moreover, solemnly de-
clared that " we will use the form in the Book of Com-
mon Prayer prescribed in public pra er and administra-
tion of the sacraments, and no other ;" and the statute
which requires this declaration from us, requires also
that we ''conform, in all points, to the things appointed
and prescribed in that book." We will be faithful to
these engagements, and will not serve as ministers in
this Church Ha this our faithfulness is nut permitted.—
How could I answer this ?

" You may imagine that I am here proposing an ex-
I retne case, which is utterly unlikely ever to present
itself in real practice. But your imagination would be
unfounded. Several such cases have actually occurred,
and similar ones are likely to occur every month. Al-
ready they have caused to me much perplexity, and
have produced practical effects seriously injurious
to that great object which you value, and which it is,
among my first duties to seek to place on the firmest
footing—peace in the Church, which cannot be secured
without uniformity in the worship of Almighty God."
This, we confess, opens to us a wholly new view of
the question—a view of which the whole episcopal
bench ought to have the benefit, in company with the
Bishop of Exeter.

MARRIED.—To-day, at St. John's Church, Rich-
mond, by the Rev. Charles Proby, Canon of Windsor,
John Berney Petre, Esq., only son of Colonel and the
Hon. Mrs. Petre, of Wostwick Hall, in the county of
Norfolk, to Caroline Susan, second daughter of the late
Right Hon. James Alexander Stewart Mackenzit..
Immediately after the ceremony, a large party of nobi-
lity and gentry, relations and friends of both parties,
assembled at the house of the bride's mother, the Hon.
Mrs. Stewart Mackenzie, and partook of an elegant
breakfast ; after which the happy pair set out for Study
Lodge, the seat of Caroline Dowager Lady Suffield.

RESIGNATION OF TILE VICAR OF BRADFORD.—.
The Rev. Dr. Scoresby, much to the astonishment of
the public, has resigned the vicarage of Bradford. Dr.
Scoresby is a High Church Evangelical. Be has for
years been on uncomfortable terms with several of his
leading parishioners, in consequence of which one or two
new churches, built by individuals, have never been
opened. As a man of science, Dr. Scoresby occupies a
very respectable rank. He had formed a scheme for the
division of the extensive parish of Bradford, and notice
had been given of an application to Parliament next
session for a Bill to authorise it. The Ecclesiastical
Commissioners are said not to approve of Dr. Scoresby's
scheme, and hence it is supposed he has resigned the
living.—Leeds Mercury.

OXFORD.—It is currently reported, and generally
believed, that the Rector of Exeter, who is one of the
chaplains to Prince Albert, will vote in Convocation for
Mr. Ward, and consequently against the charges brought
against that gentleman fur the attacks on Protestantism
contained in his Ideal Church. The Rector of Exeter
against Dr. Hampden.
ETON COLLEGE, DEC. 20.—1 n consequence of the
marriages, during this week, of the Rev. Francis Ed-
ward Durnford and of the Rev. John Eyre Yonge; both
assistant masters at Eton College, two fellowships have
become vacant at King's College, Cambridge. These
vacancies will be filled up by the fellowships being given
to the Captain of the Eton School, Wright, and to Wool-
ley, the next senior scholar at Eton.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, DEC. 20.—Our raw
sugar market must still be considered very dull, for al-
though the refiners have taken about 400 hhds. of West
India, since our last, to carry them over the Christmas
recess, yet the grocers are doing nothing whatever, and
appear to hold fair stocks, which they find a difficulty
in selling, and consequently are not disposed to increase.
In Mauritius and Bengals no transactions are reported,
and the demand for rum continued very dull.—Bristol
Mercury.