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to appear at twelve o'clock on Saturday before the
ttall Vice-Chancellor, Proctors, and Pro-Vice-Chancellors
assembled in the Delegates' Room, with a notary
public in attendance. Mr. Ward attended, and was
then and there required to acklo ks ledge or to
disavow the book published by him, with his
name in the title-page, and to say whether
he adhered to, or disclaimed, the octrines pro-
pounded in that work. What was Mr. Ward's
conduct ? What would be the conduct of an honest
ingenuous man in such a case ? Would he not say
at once the book is mine—l published it—l adhere
to all its doctrines ? or, I retract them, or some of
them, as the case might be ? But this was
not the conduct of Mr. Ward; he asked
for two days' time to answer so plain
a question, as whether he would acknowledge
his own book. Any police magistrate would
know how to characterise such a request; he
might grant the remand, but he would scarcely grant
it without a comment not very complimentary to
the party soliciting it. In dealing with such persons
as Mr. Ward there is little difficulty. Our embarrass-
ments come from another quarter, and they will be
found sufficiently illustrated in a correspondence be-
tween Mr. Gabriel Kennard and the Archbishop of
Canterbury, which will be found in another part of
our paper. 'We have great doubts as to the
fitness of printing this correspondence ; but Mr.
Kennard's ability, his gentlemanly style, and his
manifest sincerity, combined with a kind of promise
given by us to the remonstrants of East Farleigh, to
do all in our power to obtain justice in their case,
have determined us. Still we are by no means pre-
pared to give an unqualified vote ; though we confess
that, for a reason which we shall offer at the end of this
article, our bias is to say that Mr. Kennard is right, and
the rector of East Farleigh altogether wrong. Upon
one point, the Archbishop has distinctly decided.
If the rector has been guilty of interpolations in
the Liturgy, he is clearly wrong: and if the imterpo-
lations are the same distinctly charged by Mr.
Kennard, they go a great way to support the
other parts of his complaint. Upon the subject of
sermons, it is perfectly true that they cannot be de-
fended fairly against charges founded solely upon
general impressions; but then it is equally true that
a very bad sermon, or essay of any kind, taken as a
whole, may not afford any particular passages against
which exception can be easily taken. Propositions
in themselves innocent, or apparently innocent,
may, without the exercise of any extraordinary
ingenuity, be made to converge, as premises, to
a very mischievous conclusion, and if the so-
phister who employs such arts leaves the conclu-
sion to be inferred, it is not always possible to
bring him to book. We cannot help thinking,
however, that the clergyman pertinaciously misun-
derstood or misrepresented, in matter of doctrine,
must be himself principally to blame. And this is the
reason for thinking the rector of East Farleigh wrong,
at which we have hinted above, and it is a reason
which we would very earnestly but respectfully
press upon the attention of the clergy. The busi-
ness of a clergyman is to teach, and to teaching to any
useful purpose explicitness and a certain degree of
precision is indispensable. To impart these ne-
cessary qualities to his discourse, a speaker must
have a full knowledge and a clear and precise con-
ception of the subject upon which he discourses his
own mind ; without them, he can only communicate
very much confused and very doubtful instruc-
tion to his hearers. But this alone is not enough ;
a man must speak or write with simplicity and in
earnest if he would be perfectly intelligible. lie
must mot deal in those riddles to which the low ambi-
tion of tutors and examiners sometimes makes such
people to descend—still less must he endeavour to
disguise or hold in reserve his own honest convic-
tions. A man who observes these rules will be
rarely misunderstood ; and it is not easy to see what
excuse an appointed minister of the Gospel of
our Lord can have for neglecting rules which,
after all, enforce no more than the exercise of
ordinary diligence and common honesty. If, how-
ever, the dullness of a congregation, or its per-
verseness, wrought upon by the insidious arts of
enemies, cause a clergyman to be misunderstood, the
misapprehension cannot last more than seven days
after it shall have come to his knowledge. It is the
duty of a teacher, and it will be no less his wish, if he
is honest and sincere, to be rightly understood, for if
not rightly understood he cannot say that he teaches.
When he is supposed to teach unsound doctrine, the
obligation upon him to set himself right is still more
urgent, because he may mislead others by the influ-
ence of his name, and thus teach error, which is a
great deal worse than teaching nothing. The duty
of a clergyman is quite plain ; it is to explain himself
in the most distinct and emphatical manner, so
as to render doubt of his faith impossible. In such
a case to yield to personal pride, were a sin of
frightful magnitude. We see how the Apostles
acted when they were misunderstood and misrepre-
sented (Romans, 3, viii.) ; and we suppose no man is
entitled to more confidence than the Apostles, who
always freely explained themselves, when explanation
was required. If this were generally reflected upon,
we are quite sure that it would put an end to most of
the doubts and heartburnings by which so many con-
gregations are distracted. Meanwhile, we must ad-
here to the presumption that the clergyman who will
not condescend to set himself right must be in the
wrong.

QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.

went to Mr. Ward (who was then Charge d'l
in Portugal), requiring of him to see Inei,j
Mr. Ward gave me only promises of compli'l
was publicly stated, some time age,
large remittance of money had been 0
by the King of Portugal, fur the PI
compensating the British claimants. I w
quently on the subject of my claim to the
IVellinglon, hut at length I received a note;,;
Grace, stating, that of the many letters of millet`
I had in my last communication referred,
received not a single letter; thus, it was sP,
that the conductors of the Foreign-offien_„:
greatest robbers that ever lived. lam not sw'
the suppression of my letters took plaee in
quence of the Post-o-ffice espiilim'e Of Sir
Graham ; but this much there iz 1,--,0;) to 5t
that in the money remitted • ,;;gal, the
of Wellington made the gait
laughter)—by applying an ( ,17),Ai pat
to himself. Ido not think Ow ltn'e
would act thus ; he seems to i)- a 1“-'114je
honest man.—(Renewed laughter.)
object in coming here, at present, is to get tP`o
tunity of making the injustice to which I 111
subjectei, public and notorious—so that it;
length, reach the ears of the authorities, and
them to grant me redress. If the maxim be .41
the people are best governed where the prin%
vails that an injury done to the mealiest subr
injury to the whole community, surely it elv
my case in an especial manner, and the public
insist, and the Government should determine,
wrongs to which I have been so long nu.
should, at length, give way to impartial) .4)
to the payment to me of those moneys win.
remitted from Portugal for my indetvn
according. to my claim, as acknowledged WI:
The Earl of LUCAN—With reference
claims, the gentlemen of the press, who 0100
present, may assist you more than we can;
vince of the Board of Guardians is merely to
the propriety of your admission.
The claimant withdrew. _

MY. GEORGE ORMSBY .1
-He is a fine old fel!
however rich he may have been forrnerlf, bse.
poor now. X think we ought to comply
application.—Admitted.

DUTCH MAIL.
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TrIE HAGUE, Nov. 26.—1 t is said that - „ sorosAl
projects of law which have been present
Chamber have been examined by the seettleo
the observations and objections communics
Government. The sittings of the Chamber,
termination of the debates on some projentsaj
will he adjourned for some time. Among
those for amending the laws on the excise on
on soap, and that respecting the duties on t
THE HAGUE, Nov. 27.—The Second as°
its sitting to day, received the answer of tly
Chamber, stating that it could not agree to
posed address.

Several Members having spoken, it was (15,
a majority of 35 to 20, merely to acknoeli
receipt, and not to proceed any further in 0/101
In the sitting of to-day, two conimunicsu
received from the First Chamber, announcing,
had agreed to the projects of law for diesel
Netherlands Commercial Company (the
Maatschappy), and for the purchase of Tire
Half per Cent. Stock.
THE HAGUE, Nov. 29.—1 n the evening 51
the Second Chamber of the States-General, tb:
mittee of Petitions brought up its report, and
number of addresses. The sections of the
Chamber have been engaged to-day in exam'
project of law respecting the transit and the
duties of importation, exportation, and transit'
One hundred and fifty of the principle 0
houses of Amsterdam have presented to the
Chamber an address concerning the tariff of
The purport of this address, whieh is very
is to recommend the adoption of a very libel!"
and that everything arbitrary in a charge ,
or as preventive measures, on the part of the
tration, shall be carefully excluded. The
ask the Chamber to reject the tariff of 61'
answering the condition.

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