The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-21 00:00:00

The Lord Bishop of EXETER is a man of consistent
contumaciousness. He has long acquired a notoriety as
extensive as that of his compulsory divorce from the
Rectory of Stanhope for his high-flying principles of
prelatical infallibility, and of the inherent supremacy of
the spiritual over the temporal jurisdiction. From a
period long anterior to the time at which he polemicised
himself into a factious importance, and the political re-
version of a bishopric, by running a tilt at the projected
concession of the Roman Catholic claims, to the present
time, he has lost few opportunities either of dis-
playing the " prelatica superbia" or vesting the odium
theologicurn so congenial to his nature. It is a pity—(for
the Bishop)--that the times have passed away when a
true soldier of the Church availed himself of the abun-
dant opportunities which offered for vindicating the
prowess of the Church militant on her temporal enemies.
In those good times your fierce Bishop doffed his mitre
and assumed his helmet with as much nonchalance as,
now-a-days, a young cornet exchanges his smoking cap
for his shacko. These hierarchical pastors moved to
consecrations or to battles with equal alacrity. If they
were ready to preach or preside at the preaching of the
Christian doctrines of peace and humility, with an array
of armed partisans, resembling the splendid retinue of a
powerful military baron, or with a sumptuously habited
court and clergy (numerous enough to have gratified
Lord J. MANNERS' yearnings for the revival of Convoca-
tion), they showed no unworthy weakness ofpurpose--no
diffidence about their moral justification in marching to
the more exciting pastime of war. Like WALTER
SCOTT'S modern Irish soldiery, " they move to death
with military glee." Many a hard blow, in border
forays, was dealt by Bishops of DURHAM or CARLISLE;
and Bishops:of WINCHESTER and of SAINT ANDREWS
are recorded to have fought in pitched battles with a
zeal not less intense than—and we may surmise about as
holy as—that which animated Pope Juuns, when work-
ing in the trenches, or directing in person the opera-
tions of the siege and the assault. Bishop PHILLPOTTS—
HENRY of EXETER, we mean—is a most worthy repre-
sentative of the bishops-belligerent of our historical tra-
ditions. Could our times be rolled back to that remote
point at which the enlightened toleration and Christian
liberality of a few such unbigoted and self-denying
priests as this Right Reverend Father would heartily
desire that they should be, how astounding a lesson
would he yead to some of those meddlesome laymen who
now presume, to interpose their unwarranted opinions
in matters ecclesiastical ? Why, we would
not trust Mr. CHARLES BULLER, for example,
after a debate in which Puseyite innovations
and their Episcopal patrons had been somewhat freely
handled, within ten miles of Exeter city, were Bishop
HENRY in residence there, armed with the old hierar-
chical authority and power. In our mind's eye, we can
fancy our gentle Bishop, mounted on his Barbary jennet,
and eased in that " harness of proof " which still seems
to render him insensible to the rudest assaults of his
adversaries, heading his body guard at a fierce gallop
to the spot where private information had led him to
believe he might fall in with the luckless Member for
Liskeard, on his unsuspecting return from a legislative
campaign, to the head-quarters of his family in Devon
shire. Oh 1 with what a fiery glance of anticipated triumph
world our good Bishop—followed by his deans and his
canons and minor canons, his prebendaries, priests, and
deacons, his proctors and precentors—all armed like him-
self, to the teeth, despite the cassock or the stole—have
betaken himself to the spoil of such a Philistine I But
the days of practical prelatical doughtiness are past. If
the Bishop of EXETER expect the advent of the most
furious anti-Puseyite protester, by the fastest special
down-train, in these deplorable days of radicalism and
railroads—he cannot, publicly, venture ever to anathe-
matise anything more sentient than the boiler of the
locomotive. He may exorcise the demon-whistle, or he
may threaten the stoker with the censure of the spiritual
courts ; but it is doubtful whether he would be much
more successful in stopping the momentum of the train
than he has been in staying the impetuous current of
anti-Puseyite feeling. Yet still, the Right Rev. Father,
albeit shorn of the good old power of other days, and
oppressed by the accumulating forces of that freedom of
thought and independence of action which the disas-
trous tendencies of the reformed constitution of our
Anglican Church have so fatally fostered in the laity—
still he retains the ancient instincts of his caste. He is,
even in defeat, haughty, domineering, and litigious—
smooth of speech, but eager and reckless in the indul-
gence of once adopted prejudices. Courtier enough to
have studied the science of dissimulation profoundly, he
is so much of a churchman as to permit the expression
of his constitutional temperament sometimes too un-
guardedly to develop itself.
The Bishop of EXETER has been of late too much, too
often, and too discreditably, we must say, before the
public in connexion with what, notwithstanding his
Lordship's testimony to its solemnity and importance,
we shall take the liberty to designate as one of the
most worthless and impertinent squabbles that has ever
vexed the repose or disgraced the dignity of the Esta-
blished Church. He has, in that unhappily officious
spirit which, since his elevation to. the Bishops' bench,
has always been embroiling him in some shape or other,
put himself forward as a determined champion of the
offensive pseudo-papistical observances, which make
small
Birmingham; martyrs of the WARD and PALMER
disciples of Dr. PUSEY'S school, but which offends and
disgusts about four-sixths of all the congregations of the
Establishment in the United Kingdom. We had hoped,
from the signal nature of the reproofs lately administered
by every organ of public opinion, that our excellent Bishop
would have been, by this time, aweary of the controversy.
Ile has been already compelled—and compelled against
his own declared convictions to the contrary—to abandon
the ceremonials he had most vehemently contended for
in a most elaborate correspondence. Yesterday we re-
corded another case of defeat. The curate of Falmouth
has given up, it seems, the Puseyite forms which had so
much estranged his parishioners from his church. Bishop
PHILLPOTTS writes to him and the churchwardens in
a sulky, " I-won't-give-in-though-I-am-beaten" sort of
style—that though, for the sake of peace, he had con-
sented to this abandonment of particular forms, " he
could not permit, in any of the churches of his diocese
the discontinuance of any part of the Liturgy (as ordered
by the Rubric) Which was used there at the date of his
last letter to the clergy (Bth January last). He must,
therefore, require that the reading of a sentence of the
offertory, and of the prayer for the Church militant,
after the morning service at Falmouth, be continued as
before,

Poor Bishop ! He would have thought it graceless to
leave his concession an act of grace ! Is there no retir-
ing fund on which Bishops, after certain periods of active
service, may be pensioned off the bench ?

The intelligence from Madrid is to the 13th inst.
On that day the Chamber of Deputies was again en-
gaged in discussing the Bill for restoring the unsold
Church property, and the report of the minority of
the Committee was rejected .by a majority of 117 to
27. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA made an eloquent
speech on the occasion, for the purpose chiefly of
calming the public mind with regard to the security
of purchases already made, In reference to the

The discussion in the French Chamber of De-
puties on the Bill for open Toting has been brought to
a close by the partial adoption of the measure. Vote
by ballot is still to be allowed, but can take place only
on the demand of twenty Members in place of forty,
e ec Theh 0
fmAold.i
Dfi Cua
rt lioNn,
NNVy
haos
Pthe Chamber. He sup-
ported adopted
li proposedgreat
r chieflyeiant
otiNli,eiflnuoger intgoci
influence in
s
a i.
vote by ballot, but not with forty Members
demanding it, for that wastoo many, but with twenty.
" As for me," continued M. DUPIN, " who am a Con-
servative, but who do not belong to the Conservative
party, and who have no object to preserve for a longer
or shorter period in power such or such men,
or to place there certain others, I am of opinion that
publicity may one day produce almost miraculous
effects, and the next, he attended with most detes-
table consequences. I consider that the ballot is ne-
cessary for the future safety of the country, for the li-
berty of this assembly. When there are so many factions
around us, when we lire in the midst of such great
vicissitudes, I am at a loss to discover how the abo-
lition of the ballot can be called for ! There are
various kinds of tyranny—the tyranny of insurrec-
tions, the tyranny of power. Happy are they who
have the courage to brave everything in the day of
trouble, and declare their opinions aloud ! But there
are others who have need of secrecy to venture to
vote according to their conscience. Do not take
from them the protection they require. Re•
move not from your regulations a guarantee
which is useful in times of calm against corruption,
and in times of agitation against popular tyranny."
The Journal des Debats is satisfied with the result, but
most of the Opposition journals complain that the
evil is by no means removed, and that secret voting
in all important cases will still be resorted to. " The
discussion which preceded the vote," says the Presse,
"has very feebly answered our expectations. Count
DE SALVANDY did not come up to what he promised
on Monday. During his ridiculously solemn evoca-
tion, M. GUIZOT, who was doubly weary of M. DE
SALVANDY, both as a colleague and as an orator,
whistled between his teeth with a sneering air,
beating time with his wooden paper-knife ; but he
said nothing, for he has left off saying anything, this
poor Minister ! After M. DE SALVAAY,I4I.BARROT
occupied the tribune, and found no difficulty in
throwing down the whole scaffolding of sophisms
c e tdotien:
giot
rhthietibeos
when several
so clumsily raised by the illustrious author of
'Nathalie ' and ' Alonzo.' In fine, the secret ballot
found its last advocate in the man who is the best
personification cf the unclassed species, in M. Durfs.
M. DUPIN evoked the solitary efficacious argument
in favour of the secret ballot—fear! In turn, he
made the terrors of riot growl, the blade of the poig-
nerd glitter, the muskets of insurrection flash and
explode in the eyes and ears of his adversaries, and he
conquered. This result, we repeat, is to be regretted.
Happily, however, it is not definitive. An institution
which can be defended by only such miserable argu-
ments cannot continue long in existence." There
will now be three modes of voting—by assis et lave,
hiativegiven a,
Whilst
the Chamber
by actual division or the public vote, and by the
ballot. The vote by division will be given through
the means of two urns placed upon the table, one
white and the other black ; the first destined to re-
ceive the balls in favour of the adoption of
the measure in question, and the oetshaerrigthhte.
balls for its rejection. As the colour of the
urn indicates the vote, it will, of course, be public.
In cases where at present the vote is taken by
the secret sthecerdetembaalnlodt,otfhteenvomteebmybedriavisiitonmbueactombe
even after a vote taken by assis et lea. Recourse
can also be had to the secret ballot when only it is
demanded by twenty Members, either by a written
list or by word of mouth. The conducing scene in
question, was
by the Con-
rt
rather
teh eCr haammub:ira,
amusing, and
reference fie:
thusen
,C
Chamber
theehomrecebne
ree
ardla ensembleoti off
ueMem-
berstr ehesthe
.
stitutionnel :
aentetdion to demand the ballot.
"At the moment when thgeoo
of the porosspiossiettioinevet,oca)ks
ipslapcer,acttihseed
la,ostiongbuylar spectacle. It was
proof of its inconve-
Ititonw
ooufldr
announcedeg
have
laavtoi o n
theirbiesen ti rneta g a i n
judged by itself, and
fact, being prepared. It
sals
of this useless
con-
tained some names, but in vain was the attempt made to
nwioeuolecle.perAhalpisstagwaains,
complete it. It circulated from bench to bench, every-
journey. At last, the faithful defenders of the ballot on
complacentlywhe r e meeting
waitedwith
forne new
the refusals, e f
determinationu
its last day, despairing of finding 20 signatures, tore up
their list. The Chamber proceeded with its business
and the secret vote, dying of itself, was condemned by
tt,
public vote. The Chamber had scarcely separated when
there were seen to pass, on the shoulders of two work-
men, the urns now proscribed, which have served for the
ballot. They were taken away, no doubt, to give them
the colour required for their new destination. They
thus passed mournfully in the midst of the Deputies, and
were greeted with universal laughter."
The following are miscellaneous extracts from the
papers :--.

A letter from Algiers, of the 10th, says The pre-
parations for the expedition against the Kabyles have
commenced. The Vautour left this morning with nearly
30,000 cartridges, which are to be deposited at Bugia,
and 600 cases of biscuit for Denys. It appears that a
column will leave from that point, and another from
Setif, and that they will proceed towards the mountains
of Bugia, and others which constitute Kabylia. We are
assured that General Changarnier will take the com-
mand, under the orders of Marshal Bugeaud. The ar-
rival of the Marshal is positively announced for the 80th,
but the expedition cannot march untiltowards the middle
of April."

Die Semaphore of Marseilles states, on the authority
of a letter from Algiers of the 10th, that there was
found in the ruins of one of the powder-magazines which
was blown up the body of a negro or moor which could
not be recognised, and that this person is supposed under
the influence of fanaticism to have been the cause of
the disaster.
A letter from Zurich of the 15th inst. says :—" By
a circular letter, dated the 12th, the Vorort has freed
the cantons of St. Gall, Thurgau, and Shaffhausen,
from the obligation to maintain their contingent under
arms. The State Gazette of Lucerne, and the Federal
Gazettl of Zurich, attribute this result to the French
note."

TILE BOURSE--WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19.
First Highest Lowest I ast
French Five Ter Cents.. •• •• woe' Price. Price. Price.
118 10 .. 118 10 .. 117 73 .• 117 80
Bank of France...........
Three per Cents..... 85 35
160 .. 85 40 •• 85 30 •• 85 40
Gouin Bank, 1,0004:. Shares. • 1090 —136 3 090 • • 1090 • • 13090
Belgian Bank. ..... 652 30
.. 652 50 .. 652 50 .. 652 50
Belgian Fives, 1840 .... • ... 10514
.. 1081/. .. 103% • • 105%
3160 —lO .. 160 ..
1842 ........ 107 .. 107
Four-and-a-Half .•• 103'' .. 103% .. 103% • • 1031
Spanish Active ••..••. • . • • . 391; ..30!4 • • 3934 • • 30% Passive ...... ...... 7'"
.. 7 .. 6% •• 6%
l'ortugucse Five per Cents.. 67% .. 67)4 .. 67Y1 ••67!4
F.ontan .
........... •• •• 106 .. 106 .. 106 •• 106
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Gennain............... .. 106% 108.4
1190 ..1190 ..1190 —ll9O
Versailles, R. 8....• .. ...... 672 50 .. 673 .. 653 ..667 50
Rouen ....................1180 . 1190
L. 8... •• •• •"••• 400 ~ 410 .. 397 50 .• 407 50
Rouen to Havre.
Avignon to Marseilles-- ..1162 50 ..1162 50 •• 1160
Orleans
..1355 50 —1350 ..1340 —1340
..1160
Strasburg to Bale•••• •••• 348 75 .• 348 75 .• 345 .. 345
Bordeasx ts.Ao:TieLswtoA.y..B.;3lt2T2,us z
ACCOUNT,
T;tr21,2151.
3. .. 230
St. Germain .......•1085 -1182 50 -1185 ..1190
672 50 .• 680 .. 655 .. 665
400 .• 412 50 •• 397 50 .• 410
RVoeurseatiln•e.s.:R 8... ...... .. ..L 8.........:.....1195 ..1195 ..1180 "1180
Rouen to Havre...........,
992 50 •• 992 50 •• 977 50 .• 987 50
~Ort,.l,,,,eahnm.s ~,.. t.n. .R. WA .....
••• •• 1365 . • 1360 ..1337 50 .. 1340
-----'s ----- ..
•• •••• 350 •• 350 •• 343 75 • 346 25
Avignon to Marseilles— ••••1180 —llBO ..1155 .• 1155
Bordeaux to Tests •—• •• • • 230 .. 230 .. 230 .. 230

A Deputation from the Chester and Birkenhead
Railway Proprietors waited yesterday on the Chester and
Holyhead Directors, to endeavour to make better terms
for the sale of their line to the latter Company, but were
mot with a decided refusal on the part of the Chester
and Holyhead Board to entertain any proposal for re-
opening the terms of the existing agreement, which has
been arranged by the Directors of the two Companies,
and been ratified by the Shareholders of each.
It is rumoured that the Earl of Clare is to have the
vacant Ribbon of St. Patrick,