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ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE -THREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CARQULATION, at ONE CHARGE.

GREAT WESTERN ' RAILWAY.
The DIRECTORS of this COMPANY are ready to RECEIVE
TENDERS for LOANS of MONEY in sums of not less than 1,000/.,
for a period of Seven or Ten Years, on the security of Mortgage
Debentures, bearing interest at the rate of Three-and-a-Half per Cent.
per annum, payable half-yearly.
Applications may be made to the undersigned, at the Railway
Office, Paddington station

C. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.

CIIIELAISFORD AND BURY RAILWAY,
by BRAINTREE, ROCKING, lIALSTE ID, SUDBURY,
and LAVENIIAM (with projected extensions to Thetford and Mal-
don). Length, Thirty-nine Miles.
Capital, 750,0001., in Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, I/. 7s. 6d. per Share.
Registered provisionally pursuant to Act 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.

- raovistoNei COMMITTEE.
Sir Hyde Parker, Bart., Melford Hall, Suffolk.
Sir John Page Wood, Bart., Glazenwood House, Essex.
Colonel T. F. Addison, Chilton Lodge, Sudbury
N. C. Bamardiston, Esq., the Ryes, Sudbury.
The Rev. Edward Bull, Pentlow Rectory.
James Brewster, Esq., Little Maplestead Hall, Essex.
J. W. Cater, Esq., Lyston Hall, Essex, and Liverpool.
Samuel Courtauld, Esq., Foley House, Rocking.
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-street, London.
John Edmunds, Esq., Sudbury and London.
Robert Emmett, Esq., Peckham.
The Rev. H. B. Faulkner, Westgate House, Melford.
J. F. S. Gooday, Esq., Sudbury.
R. E. Greenwood, Esq., Bank, Halstead.
Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn.
W. D. King, Esq., Bank, Sudbury.
'I he Rev. Thomas Ludbey, Cranham Rectory, Essex.
Onley Savill Onley, Esq., Stisted Hall, Essex.
George Weller l'oley, Req., Boxted Hall, Suffolk
John Weller roley, Esq., Boxted Hall, Suffolk.
Joseph Sewell, Esq., Halstead. -
Robert F. Steadman, Esq., Sudbury.
John Taylor, Esq., Sible Hedingham, Essex.
Charles Walter, Esq., the Howe, Halstead.
Thomas White, Esq., Manor House, Weathers&ld, Essex.
(With power to add to their number).

ENGINEER.
R. IV. Thompson, Esq., C.E.

BANKERS.
London—Brown, Janson, and Co. Abehureh-lane.
Chelmsford and Braintree—Messrs. Sparrow and Co.
Halstead—London and County Bank.
Sudbury—Messrs. Alexander and Co.
Bury—Messrs. Oakes, Bevan, and Co.
Liverpool—Bank of Liverpool.
souciroas.
Messrs. White and Borrett, Lincoln's Inn-Relds.
Messrs. Chauntler anti Westwood, Gray's Inn-square.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Chelmsford—James Parker, Esq.
Braintree—Messrs. Cunnington, Veley, and Cunnington.
Halstead—D. Sewell, Esq., and G. P. Arden, Esq.
Sudbury —Messrs- Stedman.
Long Melford—Richard Almack, Esq.
PROSPECTUS.
- • -

The Line of Railway now submitted to the Public, rests its claims for
support on the strong general ground of its passing through important
districts in Essex and Suffolk, whose interests have been almost entirely
neglected in the laying out of the different Railways hitherto executed
or projected for the benefit of the Eastern Counties of England, but
which possess, nevertheless, population, wealth, and traffic, amply suffi-
cient to defray the charges of forming a direct railway communica-
tion through them, and to afford a good return for the capital required
for the purpose.
Commencing at Chelmsford (at the station of the Eastern CoMities
Railway), this line will pass close by Braintree, Rocking, Halstead,
Sudbury, and Lavenham, to Bury, running, throughout its whole
extent, of thirty-nina miles, nearly conterminous with the ancient
and most frequented highway_from the Metropolis into the heart of
Suffolk. _ .

It will have, fot ti termini, two important market and assize
towns ; and for its principal intermediate.stations, places which are
the seats of considerable and thriving manufactures.
The towns of Bury and Sudbury are the two largest in the county
of Suffolk, next to Ipswich ; and.Halstead and Braintree, the two
largest in Essex, next to Chelmsford and Colchester.
The population of the hundreds which will be directly intersected
by it amounts to 133,131, and' that of numerous places to which it
would be more available ttian any other Railway, to 43,500, making
the total population which may be reckoned upon, as necessarily
tributary from local vicinage to this line, not less than 176,631.
Between the Metropolis and all the places which have been named,
as well as between these places themselves, there is a large existing
traffic, to which the facilities of the railway system could not fail to
give, as in all other cases, a vast extension.
The Chelmer and Stour Navigations, through which the districts
traversed by this Line now receive their supplies of coal, lime, timber,
iron, &c., and which are also the principal outlets for its agricultural
produce, will not only have their own operations greatly facilitated,
and their revenues increased by its formation, but contribute consi-
derably to the income of the Railway. They would be feeders, but in
no respects rivals to it.
But, besides the above local traffic, the Line would command a
very considerable through traffic between London and all the
Northern parts of Norfolk. From time immemorial more than one-
third of all the coach traffic. between London and Norwich, has
passed over the line of road with which this Railway will be con-
terminous.
An extension of the line to Thetford, and also a branch from Brain-
tree to Maldon, by the way of Witham, have been surveyed, and will
form part of the scheme, if required by the Board of Trade.
From calculations which have been very carefully made of the
existing traffic alone, it appears that, assuming that it would be
trebled by the facilities afforded by railway communication, which is
less than what all railway experience would warrant, the total re-
turns from the projected Railway would amount to 105,405/.
The Line selected for the Railway is the result of an engineering
survey, on which much time and pains have been expended, and will,
it is confidently believed, be found to be not only the very best of which
the nature of the country admits, but one admirably adapted to meet the
wants of its traffic. It will be a Line at once cheaply made and cheaply
worked. The gradients are easy, and well balanced ; the earth•work
will be less than the average earth-work on railways ; and there will
be no constructions of much difficulty or magnitude. The land re-
quired for the Line will be mostly farm-land, of moderate value, and
in no place will it pass through any parks or ornamental grounds.
Deducting 40 per cent. from the gross returns for the expense of
working the Line (a liberal allowance for a Line of this character), it
would leave a net annual revenue of 63,2431., which would be equal to
8 per cent. on the invested Capital.
Power will be reserved In the Act to allow 4 per cent. interest on
deposits until the completion of the line.
Applications for Shares, in the annexed form, may be made to any
of the Solicitors or Local Agents above-named, or to L. M. Simon,
Esq., Broker, Warnford-court, ThrogmOrton-Street ; or to Thomas
Forsyth, Esq., Broker, Liverpool.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
TO THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE CHELMSFORD
AND BURY RAILWAY COMPANY.

GENTLEMEN,
Please allot me Shares in the above Com-
pany, and I hereby undertake to accept such Shares, and to pay the
deposit thereon, and also to execute the Parliamentary contract and
subscribers' agreement, when required.
Dated this day of
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,

Name,
Address,
Profession or trade,
Reference,

, 1845.

pAmis and SAINT QUENTIN RAILWAY
COMPANY,
Having its junction on the Great Northern Railway, at CREIL.
Capital, 35,000,000 francs, or 1,400,0001. ; in 70,000 Shares of 500 francs,
or 201. each.
Deposit, 50 francs, or 21. per share.

WI L S ON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAIN-
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On MONDAY EVENING, February 17, at Eight o'clock,
Mr. WILSON will give for the first time his New Entertainment of

WANDERING WILLIE'S WALLET.
SONGS.

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Piano-forte—Mr.

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FOURTEENTH EDITION of the SILENT FRIEND on Human
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LAMERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c.
" He who ih pleasure's downy arms
Ne'er lost his health or youthfu icharme,
A hers lives, and justly can
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Q, ELF-PRESERVATION : a Popular Essay on
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9, BEDFORD-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
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THIS EVENING, February 14,
Will be repeated
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PRINCIPAL VOCAL PEnFORMERS,
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ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
A New Subject in CHEMISTRY Of universal interest—
PHILLIPS'S PATENT FIRE ANNIHILATOR, illustrated by
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MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and FRIDAYS. DURING LENT
a Series of LECTURES on ASTRONOMY will be delivered by Pro-
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The Music is conducted by T. Wallis, Mus. Doc.
Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.

DORSETSHIRE.
ADVOWSON of the RECTORY of THORNFORD.
MR. W. W. SIMPSON has received instruc-
tions to SELL by AUCTION, at the Auction Hart, on
TUESDAY, the 25th instant, at Twelve,
The ADVOWSON of the RECTORY of THORNFORD, in
the County of Dorset, situate about three and a half miles from
.
Sherborne, which has the advantage of an excellent grammar
school, seven from Yeovil, and nine from Wincanton, all market
towns. The rectory comprises a convenient parsonage.house,
garden, barn, stable, outbuildings, &c , thirty-four acres of glebe
land, and a rent charge of 2271. per annum in lieu of the tithes.
The parish contains 1,426 acres of land, and the population is
390. The living is situate in a respectable neighbourhood, and
coaches pass daily through the town of Sherborne, and more
than one railway is in contemplation for connecting the district
with the Great and South Western lines. The incumbent is in the
63d year of his Age.

The property may be viewed, and particulars may be obtained of
Messrs. Gordon and Son, solicitors, 57, Old Broad-street; Messrs.
G. and R. Poole, solicitors, Bridgewater ; Messrs. Fooks, Goodden,
and Fooks, solicitors, Sherbotne ; Mr. R. Y. Melmoth, solicitor,
Sherborne ; at the Auction Mart; and of Mr. W. W. Simpson, 18,
Bucklerebury.

NET IMPROVED RENT OF 2551. I7s. PER ANNUM
WELL SECURED ON AN EXCELLENT RESIDENCE

No. 32, HYDE-PARK SQUARE.
R W. W. SIMPSON hai received directions
tMhe ensution
goFmFonEtßh,
A NET IMPROVED RENT of 255/.for SALE by AUCTION, at the Mart, early in
• 7s. per annum, well
seeured on an excellent dwelling-house, situate at No. 32, in
Hyde.park.square, Hyde-park-gardens, containing entrance hall.
dining and drawing rooms, several bed rooms, and convenient do.
mestic offices, with coach.house and stabling in Hyde-park.
gardens mews ; held on lease from the Bishop of . London and
others for a term of 911 years, from Midsummer, 1842, at the
annual ground rent of 241. 3s. The property is let on lease to a
most responsible tenant for a term of ten years from Lady.day,
1844, at a rent of 2801. per annum.
The residence may be viewed by cards only, which, with par-
ticulars, may be obtained of William Kinsey, Esq., solicitor, 20,
Bloomsbury-square; at the Mart ; and of Mr.' W_, W. Simpson,
IS. Bucklersbury.

PRESERVER FIRE, LIFE, AND FAMILY
- ENDOWMENT OFFICE, _

BOND-COURT HOUSE, WALitROOK.
As an Indemnity to the Assured, a Deed of Settlement has been
executed, whereby Property, producing' upwards of Five Thou-
sond Pounds per Annttm has been secured to Trustees for the
fulfilment of all engagements entered into at this Office.
The peculiar advantages offered over those of similar Institutions
are, amongst others—

TO ASSURE. FROM LOSS BY FIRE EVERY DESCRIPTION
OF HOUSE, CHARITABLE, and CHURCH PROPERTY, Farm-
ing Stock, Goods, &c., at a considerable reduction from the charges
usually made.

TO -ASSURE THE LIVES OF INDIVIDUALS OF ALL AGES
the payment of the principal 'sum to he made EITHER ON THE
DEA.TII OF THE ASSURED, OR ON A FIXED DAY, IF HE
IjR THEN LIVING. . ,

. ,
v.-ADVANCES OF MONEY FOR LIMITED PERIODS on the
deposit of Title Deeds, without the ex Mortgage Securities.
LOANS TO NOBLEMEN AND 'LEMEN of established
position,• in conjunction with Lif.. ces, upon their personal
responsibility alone.
The ASSURED MAY PAS; •_1 ONE COUNTRY TO AN-
OTHER without forfeiting theft* elides, and MEDICAL EXAMI-
NATIONS are dispensed with.

N,41 Prospectuses and Tables, calculated with the greatest pre-
cision, may be had at the Office.

JOHN WIDOWSON, Secretary,

THE UMVERSITY OF OXFORD.

MR. WARD'S CASE.

OXFORD, THURSDAY EVENING.—The members of the
University poured into Oxford this morning in vast numbers,
as the hour approached for the meeting of Convocation. A
great proportion of those who arrived were men distinguished
in public life, and who came up Furposely to be present at the
Convocation. The hour at which the Convocation was to
meet had been fixed for one o'clock, and soon after that time
the theatre was filled. It is calculated that there were not
less than between 1,200 and 1,300 members of the University
present, although not more than about 1,100 voted.
Shortly after one o'clock, the Vice-Chancellor, pre7eded by
the bedels and other officers, and followed by the heads of
the University, entered the theatre, and proceeded to his
seat. Mr. Ward had peviously ascended the " English"
rostrum (on the left hand side of the theatre), from which
he was to deliver his defence. Among the distinguished per-
sons who either had seats or stood on the floor in the body of
the theatre, were the Earl of Romnev, Lord Faversham,
the Earl of Eldon, Lord Kenyon, Lord Sandon, Lord Ashley,
the Bishop of Landaft the Bishop of Chichester, Sir Thomas
Acland, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Archdeacon Man-
ning,
~.I%,plDohliehriullynt,ounrtehe,eDsßrp.eri‘N.c.,
Mere-
weather eirr:
eW. tehletl
oee DDS rirr.. Hook,J(a)i
Saunders,
,letirloiser,dßat
,RDDer
te,
weather (the Dean of Hereford), Dr. Pilsen Dr. Buckland,
Professor Jenkins, the Rev. R. Montgomery, Mr. Mackinnon,
M.P., Mr. M'Mullen, Rev. Dr. Jenkyns, Master of Balliol;
Rev. Dr. Ingram, President of Trinity; Rev. Dr. Fox, Pro-
vost of Queen's; Rev. Dr. Hawkins, Provost of Oriel ; Very
Rev: Dr. Gaisford, Dean of Christ Church ; Rev. Dr. Cramer,
Dean of Carlisle ; Rev. Dr. Hampden, Rev. Dr. Radford,
Rector of Lincoln College • Rev. Dr. Plumptre, Master of
University; Rev. Dr. Jelf, Canon of Christ Church; Rev.
Dr. Norris, Principal of Corpus Christi College ; Rev. Dr.
Thompson, Principal of Edmund Hall ; Dr. Macbride,
President of Magdalen Hall ; Dr. Marshatn, Warden
of Merton College ; Rev. Dr. Bliss, Registrar of the
University ; Rev. H. P. Guillemard, M.A., Fellow of
Trinity College, Senior Proctor ; Rev. R. W. Church,
M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, Junior Proctor; Dr. Daubeny,
Fellow of Magdalen, Professor of Chemistry, &c.; Dr. Ogle,
Trinity, Clinical Professor; Rev. Dr. Faussett, Margaret
Professor of Divinity; Rev. Dr. Ellerton, Senior Fellow of
Magdalen ; Rev. Dr. Bandinel, Bodley's Librarian ; Rev. Dr.
Ogilvie, Professor of Pastoral Theology ; Rev. Dr. Penfeld,
Mr. Henley, M.P. ; Mr. Maclean, M.P.
The Rev. Mr. Oakley, of Balliol, minister of St. Margaret's
Chapel, London, was in the rostrum with Mr. Ward.

After some preliminary business had been disposed of,
The VICE-CHANCELLOR opened the proceedings by stating
the object for which the Convocation was held, and
Dr. Buss read the passages of Mr. Ward's book upon
which the first proposition to be submitted to Convocation
depended.
The following are the passages read by Dr. Bliss, and of
which the first proposition to be submitted to Convocation
embodied a condemnation :
P. 45 (note).—" I know no single movement in the Church, ex-
cept Arianism in the fourth century, which seems to me so wholly
destitute of all claims on our sympathy and regard as the English
wortatim°
. 473.—" For my own part, I think it would not be right to
conceal, indeed I am anxious openly to express, my own most firm
and undoubting conviction, that were we as a Church to pursue
such a line of conduct as has been here sketched, in proportion as
we did so we should be taught from above to diseern and appre-
ciate the plain marks of Divine wisdom and authority in the Roman
Church, to repent in sorrow and bitterness of heart our great sin
in deserting her communion, and to sue humbly at her feet for
pardon and restoration."

P. 68.—" That the phrase `teaching of the rrayer-book,' con-
veys a definite and important meaning, I do not deny ; considering
that it is mainly a selection from the Breviary, it is not surprising
that the Prayer-bock should, on the whole, breathe an uniform,
most edifying, deeply orthodox spirit—a spirit which corresponds
to one particular body of doctrine, and not to Its contradictory.
Again, that the phrase teaching of the Articles' conveys a definite
meaning, I cannot deny; for (excepting the five first, which belong
to the old theology) they also breathe an uniform intelligible spirit.
But then these respective spirits are not different merely, but abso-
lutely contradictory ; as well coulsi a student in the heathen schools
have imbibed at once the Stoic and the Epicurean philosophies, as
could a humble member of our Church at the present time learn his
creed both from Prayer-book and Articles. This I set out at
length in two pamphlets with an appendix, which I published three
years ago; and it cannot therefore be necessary to go again over the
same ground, though something must be added, occasionally in
notes, and mere methodically in a future chapter. The manner in
which the dry wording of the Articles can be divorced from their
natural spirit, and accepted by an orthodox believer ; how their
priina facie meaning is evaded, and the artifice of their inventors
thrown back in recoil on themselves; this and the arguments which
prove the honesty of this, have now been for some time before the
public."
P. 100 (note).—" In my pamphlets, three years since, I dis-
tinctly charged the Reformers with fully tolerating the absence
from the Articles of any real anti-Homan determination, sloiicoln,iyl
they were allowed to preserve an apparent one—a charge, is
here beg as distinctly to repeat."
P. 479.—" Our 12th Article is as plain as words can make it,
on the evangelical' side (observe, in particular, the word ' neces-
sarily') ; of course I think its natural meaning may be explained
away, for I subscribe it myself in a non-natural sense."
P. 565.—" We find, oh most joyful, most wonderful, most un-
expected sight f we find the whole cycle of Roman doctrine gra.
dually possessing numbers of English Churchmen."
P. 567.—" Three years have passed sii.ce I said plainly, that in
subscribing the Articles, I renounce no one Roman doctrine."
The VICE-CIIANCELLOR having read the Proposition in
English, addressed Mr. Ward in Latin, and asked hint
whether he had anything to say as to the mode in which he
wished to deliver his speech?
Mr. WARD urged in reply that he had received permission
*oak in English, which

The Vier:-CRANczu..on confirmed.
Mr. 'WARD then rose, and spoke as follows :
Mr. Vice.Chancellor,—l am bound at once to state, that I shall
conclude what I have to say by delivering in to you a formal protest
against the legality of this whole proposal. I deny that this vener-
able house has any power, with the present object in view, to aecide
on the question, whether or not my opinions be consistent with
the 39 Articles; much mere I deny that it has any power to deprive
me of my degrees. Still I cal.not shut my eyes to the fact, flue,
should these proposals be unfortunately adopted, they may produce
considerable effect—l do not say on my own personal credit, but,
what is incomparably mere important—on the geoeral well.being of
our Church—nay, you must excuse me if I add, on the credit
and good name of this University. (Here some very marked
demonstrations of applause were made in the theatre, cam.
mencing, as far as could be understood, in the semicircle filled
with heads of houses, doctors, &c., and spreading partially round
the area on which the greater number of the members were stand-

ing. Mr. Ward immediately addressed himself to those who had
made the interruption thus :—" I am sure all who are here must
feel that we are engaged in a very grave judicial inquiry, and that
those whcfare here thus as judges will weigh with judicial gravity
what may be said on the occasion ; and that, therefore, there will
not be any demonstration of opinion or of feeling, however much
it might be personally grateful to me to feel that any such demon.
stration was in my favour." Mr. Ward then continued his
speech.) Feeling this, as I do, very strongly, and believing in my
conscience that this measure, as a whole, however otherwise
intended by many of its supporters, is oppressive and unjust. I
cannot bring myself to pass over any legitimate opportunity given
me to influence the decision to which this house may come ; and
I shall therefore proceed to press on your attention the chief

topics which occur to me as reasons likely to avail with you for its
rejection. In speaking, then, of myself, as of an accused person,
.and of members of Canvoatationhere presages my judges,, you will
not understand me to concede that- any charge is so much
as alleged against me on which I believe Convocation to have
cognisance, but only to concede, for argument's sake, what this
is not the place to dispute, in older that there may be free scope
for what I have to say. If ever there was an occasion when an
accused person was warranted in using the most urgent and cla.
morons solicitations for a full, calm, and unprejudiced hearing,
such an occasion is the present. I stand here the supporter of
doctrines which the great majority of you who claim to try me
hold in suspicion and dislike; the question which you have to
determine is absolutely and entirely distinct from the merit of

those doctrines; and yet, unless you make the greatest possible
effort to free your minds from undue prepossession, it is quite
certain that the dislike and suspicion in which you hold the doc-
trines themselves will bias you, even without your own know-
ledge, in judging of the wholly different issue which you have
to determine. I repeat—for I cannot repeat it too often--the
issue before you has no more to do with the question whether
the doctrine in my book be true or false, than with the question
whether my style of writing be good or bad, or whether my expo-
sition be dull or interesting. You have heard the proposition
submitted to you; it is a declaratory proposition, intended to
serve as the foundation for an enactment. The declaration is,

that I have violated the engagement on which my degrees were
conferred ; and the enactment, that I be deprived of those degrees.
You see at once that no theological determination is so much as
hinted at : my opinions are complained of, not as being false, or dan.
gerous, or undutiful,or rash, but as being inconsistent with my good
faith. One issue in regard to them, and one only, is placed be-
fore you—their consistency with certain formularies which I sub-
scribed when I received my degrees, and my good faith in respect
of those subscriptions. If the Oxford Convocation had any claim
to represent the Church of England, undoubtedly their disappro.
bation of my theology might have the utmost weight in determin-
ing (even then I don't see how it could determine what has been
the meaning of subscription, but) what hereafter it is to be. But
you who are to be my judges have no royal road open to discover.
ing the true sense of the Church of England. You must proceed
by the same humble path along which a private individual like my-
self proceeds : you must judge of her sense by examining her for.
ututaries. All the wishes in the word cannot alter facts. Your
belief that certain doctrines are ever so pernicious can havo
nothing to do with the question whether they are allowed by the
symbolical documents of the English Church ; and set I cannot
but fear that vast numbers of you mix up in your minds these ab-
solutely distinct matters, and spare yourselves the trouble of ex-
amining this question that is before you, because of your intense
conviction on a question that you have nothing to do with.
And this difficulty of procuring a fair hearing is greatly
increased 'by the necessary nature of my defence—l sub-
scribe certain formularies in what I have called a non.
natural sense. Granted. But is it the intention of the
Church of England that t lacy necessarily be subscribed in a natural
sense? If it be, then it is the intention of the Church of Eng.
land that there shall be no subscribers to them at all. Nom, this
is an unpopular line of argument from its very nature; and my
m aning in it has been much misunderstood. The pamphlet which
I have put out in my defence I have heard characterised as dealing
merely with what is commonly called the to quovre argument—as
an attempt to prove that we are all dishonest together. It would
be much nearer the truth to say that it tends to prove that we are
all honest men together. I argue thus—the imponens of subscrip-
tion cannot be an abstraction or a historical personage—it must be
some existing, living person or body. The said imponens, who-
ever he is, wishes some considerable number of persons to subscribe
our formularies ; but if he wished them all to be subscribed in a
natural sense, no considerable number of persons, nor any person
at all, could sign them ; therefore he does not wish them all to be
subscribed in a natural sense. It has been replied upon me, that I
at least carry the license beyond all bounds. I answer, that where
the imponens has spoken on one particular case, that case must be
judged of by the analogy of those on wh:cli he has pract:cally
spoken; and I believe that there is no single party in our Church
holding its place there by however long and undisputed prescrip.
tion, who does not do greater violence to one or other part of our
formularies than I do to that comparatively small portion of our
formularies which appear on their surface to condemn Roman
doctrine. And it is the minor premises in these two
sTllogisms at which I have laboured in my pamphlet I
have laboured, namely, to show that every one here
present subscribes a considerable part of our formularies
in a non-natural sense, and that the opinions which dis-
tinguish such as myself from the great body of Eng-
lish Churchmen do not necessitate so violent a distortion of the
letter of our formularies as do the ordinary high Church opinions,
or what are sometimes called (though I don't wish to use an offen-
sive term) latitudinarian opinions, or what are sometimes called
(though I don't wish to acknowledge that firm either) evangelical
opinions. This line of argument, it must be confessed, is an ex-
ceedingly ungracious one, and there is more than one reason
which renders it extremely difficult fur you to do it justice. In the
first place, I cannot deny that it implie., more or less, of dispa-
ragement of our formularies, by representing them as to some ex.
tent contradictory to each other in spirit, and inconsistent in their
prima facie statements; and we all know, whether it be a matter
of praise or blame, there is no one more ger eral characteristic of
English Churchmen than that an imputation on the existing system
is the one allegation for which it is most difficult to obtain a fair
hearing. In the next place, persons who have for half their lives
held a certain doctrine and also subscribed a certain formulary,
unless they have an unusual power of abstraction, will hardly ever
see any inconsisistency between the doctrine and the formulary;
a new doctrine is brought before them, and its inconsistency with
the obvious bearing of some article is readily climovered. 2So, to
take the strongest case 0132 could possibly be brought, it might
have been thought quite impossible that any one should read our
baptismal service, and doubt that, according to the obvious and
prima facie doctrine of that service, baptism conveys to
infants a real inward gift. Before baptism,—" Thou who didst
sanctify water to the mystical washing away of sites: look upon
this child, wash him, and sanctify him with the Holy Ghost."
After,—" We yield Thee hearty thanks that it bath pleased Thee
to regenerate this infant with Thy Holy Spirit." And yet there
have been multitudes of religious and upright men, as we all
know, who have been quite unable to see it—some, perhaps, here
present, full of indignation at my bad faith in subscribing formu-
laries in a non-natural sense. I refer to these points in no spirit of
party recrimination, but to illustrate what I mean. In like
manner, on the other side of the question, tl e same remarks apply

:o the sense of the article on General Councils. This, in truth, is
the account that must be given of the strange fact, that for a long

time past the two main divisions of our Church have been railing
at each other for dishonest subscriptions, each side wondering how
members of the other can reconcile it to their conscience to remain
ministers of the English Church. I believe, myself, one side has
about as much difficulty as the other; certainly, for one, I never
could adopt the language I have heard used in calling upon
" Evangelicals," as honest men, to resign their preferment. lam
far too deeply impressed with the difficulty of the whole question
as to subscription, and, moreover, lay far too great a stress on the
circumstance that both parties have in fact been tolerated within
our Church, to be able myself to adopt such language ; but I have
said this to Illustrate my position, how very difficult it is for per-
sons to see the prima contrariety between their own opinions
and formularies which they revere, and by necessary
consequence how much they will inevitably exaggerate
that contrariety in the case of another. The argu-

ment appears, also, in a strong point of view on re.
ferring to the wording of the 7th article, which says :—" The Old
Testament is not contrary to the New, for both in the Old and
New Testament everlasting life is offered to mankind by Christ,"
die. Now, it is held by some that, unless you view this portion of
that article in some particular light, it means that a future state
was not revealed to the Jews. Many think one way on that sub-
ject, and many another; but the words of the article would seem
on the surface to condemn the opinion that a future state was not
revealed to the Jews. Two pamphlets have appeared, in which
the subject is considered with reference to my own supposed mo.
tines in acting as I have done in this question, What is said of
me in one of these pamphlets would be most painful to my feelings,
were it not that I am not conscious of being actuated by the sordid
motives imputed to me. The author looks upon me as a man who
trifles fearfully with truth and honesty ; warns every one against
my principles, and, at the same time, himself adopts an interpreta-
tion of the 7th Article which is in the highest degree non.natural.
He actually believes that that Article, in condemning the theory
that the early patriarchs looked only to temporal rewards, does not
at all assert that they knew and believed in the doctrine of a futuretance
state of rewards and punishment. Such, I say, is an ihnism,cir,
of the way in which a man, unquestionably
ner. Mr.
torts one of our Articles in the most startling
can accuse me of trifling with truth,
for a short time,
Ward, after having obtained permission to rest
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to urge, an w
went on to say, that he had another point
ed bow much more easy
would show most forcibly. as he comely ,
down that certain things were wrong,
it was for persons to lay
t The point he referred to was
than to define what was righ .
that the Committee of the Hebdomadal Board, after bilk
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a third object—that of defining, in opposition to '1114:(Mr.
was termed, was received with such a general outcry, ohueht rn ye himself
sNeylvaeird)towhat the true doctrine ought to be. This " test," is- it
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were obliged to withdraw it, and they then substituted for it. a ne.
fwahrigchu.ctehteit matter
gative test in the shape of a condemnation of No. 90.—ui
Ile (Mr. Ward) had three difficulties to contend against atithe"
to and drawn
present
was brought forward. Convocation would be liable to confound
two questions—the one the merit or demerit of the opinions; the
other the honesty or dishonesty of him (Mr. Ward) in his subscrip-
tion.ylinien
necessarily implied a disrespect for the formularies of the Church ;
and his third was, that, accustomed as he was to look at
the formularies as being consistent with the interpretation
he put on them, while some who heard him might think that
interpretation inconsistent, he felt the extreme difficulty, circum-
scribed as he was as to time, of fully making his explanation
known. Another difficulty with which be fdlt he had to contend
on this occasion was that, with all possible respect—with the
highest respect—for the Convocation, as a body, he could not but
doubt its fitness to fulfil the functions of a judicial tribunal. Such
a tribunal required habits of judicial calmness, and a regular course
of training. He need only refer, as an instance, to the case of the
recent Irish trials. There points of the gr_•atcst nicety had to be
decided upon, and the difficulty was felt to be so great that the
k Peers gave up their functions to a few highly trained and fit
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