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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1845.

The House of Lords met at Five o'clock.

The Earl of LIVERPOOL brought down her MAJESTY'S
answer to the address on the subject of the provision for
Sir H. POTTINGER, which was ordered to be entered on
the journals of the House.
The Schoolmasters (Scotland) Bill was read a third
time and passed.
Lord BROUGHAM brought in a new Bill to facilitate
the recovery of small debts, which was read a first time.
On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, a Select Committee
was appointed to search the Commons Journals on the
subject of the Common Law Process Bills.
The Archbishop of DUBLIN moved the second reading
of the Bishops Patronage (Ireland) Bill.
The motion was opposed by the Marquis of CLANRI-
CARDE and supported by the Earl of 'not(Low, and, on
a division, wag carried by a majority of 16, the
numbers being—for the second reading, 35 ; against
it, 19. The Bills on the table having been forwarded a
stage, their Lordships adjourned.

The House of Commons met at Four.
The Commons Enclosure and Drainage of Lands Bills
were read a second time.

Munday was fixed by Sir J. GRAHAM for the Com-
mittees on the Irish Colleges Bill.
The adjourned debate on the subject of New Zealand
was then resumed by Mr. ELLICE, who urged the Go-
vernment to state distinctly what was the course they
intended to pursue with regard to the Colony. He was
decidedly opposed to any attempt to take it from the
Company.
The House was subsequently addressed by Mr. CARD-
WELL, Mr. MANGLES, Mr. COLQUHOUN, Mr. SNEIL,
Sir J. GRAHAM, Lord J. RUSSELL, and Sir R. PEEL,
when the House divided, and the resolutions were nega-
tived by a majority of 51.

The charge delivered by the Bishop of EXETER, at his
triennial visitation on Monday last, to the clergy of his
diocese, is one of the most characteristic it has ever baen
our fortune to peruse. Whether because in his own
cathedral the Right Reverend Prelate finds himself par-
ticularly "at home," or• that after exchanging the
turmoils in which his public life is passed on the
banks of the Thames, for the more calm and pastoral
shores of the Exe, his militant spirit—invigorated by
the change—becomes impatient of the quiescent atmo-
sphere by which it is surrounded, and re-assumes all its
energies for new conflicts ; we must do this meek
Churchman the bare justice of acknowledging that his
"charge " smacks of the fierce, vituperative, impas-
sioned zeal of a very much younger polemical champion.
The " charge" is distinguished by one feature of family
resemblance to all the elaborate invectives of which
this forbearing and forgiving prelate has been, at
various times, the author, namely, its extravagant
extent. It is in this property as remarkable
as if it were the inaugural message of a Right
Reverend President to a Congress ecclesiastical.
But it is not the greeting of an ancient man, well
stricken in years, and bending beneath the cares and
honours of his station, but rather the manifesto of a
leader still in the vigour of his purpose and the hey-day
of his vaulting ambition. If this be the language of a
dignified priest, it is that neither of the self-denying
LATIMER nor the lowly FENELON. It is rather the war-
cry of some Pontiff, like Junius 11., shouting from the
trenches against the enemy, whom he has invested but
cannot vanquish. Of course, the general theme of this
remarkable " charge" is a defence of those Puseyite in-
novations on the ceremonial of the Established Church,
which have been nowhere more notorious, offensive, or
contumaciously obstinate than in the diocese which rejoices
in the Christian pastoral superintendence of HENRY of
Exeter. His Lordship adverts to these scandals—not
in terms of regret, but of exultation ; not with any
view to palliate, but with the avowed intention to vindi-
cate them. And we must, ourselves, take heed how we
designate the Puseyite rubric purisms as " innovations,"
for the worthy Bishop is furious and somewhat insolent
in his denunciations of the ignorant presumption of those
laymen who first of all commit a stupendous error, as
he maintains, and then a sin of enormous presumption in
demurring to the decrees of Mother-Church.
Bishops, themselves, preach from texts, as do the
humblest deacons ; and our Right Reverend Prelate
adopted for his, the general purport of the discourse
with which the Rev. Mr. BARTHOLOMEW opened the
business of the day. That discourse was a stern denial
of the rights of private judgment, and a strenuous main-
teaance of the Apostolic succession of the Hierarchy.
The witty authors of the famous quiz on Bishop
BURNET, entitled " Memoirs of P. P., Clerk of this
Parish," never devised, as a vehicle for their waggery, a
strain of more amusing simplicity than that is which
the egotistical bishop thus recurs to the (Puseyite)
squabble, about the obtrusive exhibitions of some of his
clergy last winter. They were, says he, " incidents
which had given to that diocese, and especially to that
city, an unhappy notoriety—extended net only through-
out England but to the remotest regions of Christendom."'
He then falls to that special pleading which we have
already alluded to, as to the, solecism of any layman's
calling a return to the ancient usages of the Church,
as established and settled by the Rubric, " innovation ;"
and he contends that the real innovation is not of above
twenty years' standing, or so, during which the minis-
ters of the Church have been gradually departing from
those ancient usages. It never occurs to the Right Rev.
Prelate, wrapped up in the infallibility of his own
hierarchical position (derived, not from the ca-
pricious accident of a royal conge d'elire, but,
as he will have it, from the indefeasable
authority of the Apostolic succession), that if
the members of a Church, in the proportion of 99 to 1,
prefer and sanction particular forms of celebration to
which a succession of their own Ministers have accus-
tomed successive generations of their forefathers, and
themselves down to the present day, they cannot be
said to uphold an innovation in stedfastly insisting on
the maintenance of those forms. When the Bishop of
EXETER defends the Puseyite parsons by saying " they
revert to the practice of the Church in its best days," vie
may make him a present of the argument. It only
follows that, with Bishop PHILLPOTT'B, the Church must
have fallen on evil days. We should wonder if it had
not, with such a servant. But when he talks' of the
forms, that the 99 out of every 100 members of the
Established Church persist in contending for, being but
the practice of thirty years, we must say that Plum:
POTTS the Bishop is about as intrepid in his assertions
as PHILLPOTTB the pamphleteer. Can we say more ?
The Bishop of EXETER is, as it were, savagely
facetious on the inconsistency he attributes to
such as quarrel with the use of the white
surplice in the pulpit, whilst they tolerate it readily
in the reading desk. Upon this head he exhibits all
the pride of pedantry and grim sarcasm, such as that
with which TORQUEMADA. might have rebuked KING
FERDINAND on the portentous folly of mercy to a Moor.
Then he comes to the offertory question, and on the
plea that it is declared by contemporary authority that
the collections shall be for the use of the poor " and other
pious purposes," he attempts to overthrow the judg-
ments, ancient and modern, of our law Courts as to its
illegality—as to its supersession, by reason 6f the sta-
tutable compulsory provision now made for the poor—as
to its being an absolute offence against the law except in

....a tat Lica-UHL-
views announced on this and other subjects by his brother
in GOD, the Bishop of WORCESTER. He is wroth at the
lack-learning of the ccclekiastical Chancellor RAIKES,
who has decided these and other points against
his own Right Reverend infallibility. He rushes
with the desperation of a drugged Malay in
running a-muck" at no less distinguished a judge and
profound lawyer than the present Lord High Chancellor
of England, and tramples in the dust the miserable
dictum of a Sir L. Powis, a judge in the reign of
GEORGE 1., whom he especially denounces on account of
his strong party prepossessions (! !) In speaking of
the deportment of the whole laity of this country, on
finding that the opinion of the tribunals of the kingdom
corroborated their resistance to the revival of the more
offensive of these exploded forms and services, the
Bishop meekly declares that it was manifested "in a
yell of clamour." He admits, even with contrition,
that he has been guilty of one signal error—to wit,
" the having given credit to the laity of our own times
for such a measure of intelligence, if not of Church
feeling, as would have protected them from falling into
the gross delusions" they had given in to.

The Bishop of EXETER deserves the thanks
of every sincere and heat st member of the
Established Protestant Church. In this signal effusion
of an angry and bigoted hierarch, against all who hold
the detested docrine that the clergy are ministers "of" the
Church instead of ministers "in" the Church—(we do not
misquote his words)—and therefore, we presume, not
accountable to any authorities ouT of the Church, not
even to lay or public opinion ; in this effusion those who
think lightly of the recent Puseyite tamperings with the
Church service may learn to correct their error. In the
effusion of the " odium prelaticum," pronounced by a
bishop of the Anglican Reformed Church in 1645, they
may detect significant hints of the extent to which the
Diocesan of Exeter would push the plenary pretensions
of his order, if he dared, which were proclaimed and
enforced too, by Diocesans of London and Durham,
about 300 years ago, when a MARY sate on the Throne
of a VICTORIA, and the impertinence of lay argument
was extinguished at the stake of ecclesiastical fires.
HENRY of Exeter has been born nearly three centuries
after his time !

* " Now were the eyes of all the parish upon these our
weekly councils. In a short space the minister came among
us. He spake concerning us and our councils to a multitude
of other ministers at the 'Visitation ; and they spake thereof
unto the ministers of London,. so that even the Bishops heard
and marvelled thereat Lo ! thus did our counsels enter
into the hearts of our generals and our lawgivers; and from
henceforth, even as we devised, thus did they."—Miscellanies
(Pope, Swift, &c.), 1719.

Madrid papers of the 12th have been received, from
which we learn that a number of arrests had been made
at Malaga, in consequence of the late affray between the
military and the inhabitants. Among others the editor
of the Opinion Publica, a journal of that place, had
been not only arrested but transported, without trial, to
some distant part of Spain. It appears that the editors
of the two Madrid journals, who had been subjected to
the same treatment, are allowed to reside at Seville, and
communicate with their friends. The Eco del Comercio
announces the arrival at Madrid, from Paris, of specie to
the amount of 48,000,000 rears (480,0001.), advanced by
foreign capitalists, and deposited in the bank of San
Fernando, for the purpo, e of supportit•g the public funds.
The Gazett2 publishes returns of the foreign trade with
Spain in 1843, from which it appears that the imports
amounted to 4,234,2661., and the exports to 3,047,3501
The Customs duties produced only 858,9341. Queen
CHRISTINA appears to be in in bad favour with the
people of Barcelona, and, it is said, will soon return to
Paris.

The Funds cortinue to rise on the Madrid Bourse.
The Three per Cents. closed at 31i for cash, and 33i
at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 22 for cash, and
23 at 60 days ; the Temporary Debt at 6i for cash, and
the Debt without Interest at 71 at 60 days, with I prem.

Most of the Paris papers advert to the discussion
which took place in the House of Commons relative to
the weak points of the Euglish coast, and comment
chiefly on the speeches of Sir C. NAPIER and Lord PAL-
MERSTON. The National concurring in the statements
male by the Noble Lord, says England is no longer
isolated from the continent—she has frontiers, steam has
made her a continental power, and calls upon France to
take advantage of the circumstance and increase her
naval power. The Ministerial G!oLe praises both the
present and former Cabinets for what they have already
done in that respect. After alluding to the statements
made in the Commons it adds :—" The English compre-
hend the importance of the great works executed within
the last few years in our seaports. In the sitting of June
13, Sir C. NAPIER called the attention of the House of
Commons to the extension given to our steam navy, and
to the works going on in our seaports, particularly Dun-
kirk. Whatever may be said by the Opposition, who,
like the Jews in the time of ATHALIE, seem to have
eyes in order not to see, the Government has not ceased
since the Revolution of July to labour ac-
tively for the maritime advancement of France,
by improving our harbours as much in a commercial as
military poirt of view." The army estimates were still
under discussion in the Chamber of Deputies, when
General SUBERVIE complained of the constant changes
made in the uniform of the troops, and more especially
of abolishing certain emblems which France recog-
nised with pride. The Gallic cock, for instance, adopted
after the Revolution of July, had been removed from the
caps of the infantry—a crown had been substituted in its
place,
and it was said that the vacant space on the brass
plate was to be filled up with a fleur delis. Marshal
SOULT said the latter statement was entirely without
foundation. With regard to the other points, he said
the cap had been altered because it was too heavy, and
as there was not sufficient room for the cock, the crown
had been substituted, but the cock still re-
m:lined on the poles to which the colours were
attached. Colonel ALLARD also disapproved of
the change, for which no sufficient reason
had been given, and M. Dr:Pnv justly remarked that
these emblems, though trifling of themselves, had na-
tional recollections, with which it was dangerous to in
terfere, and nothing could be more impolitic than chang-
ing the national uniform, which might be regarded as a
bond of alliance—as a contract between the KING and
the people. On the estimates fur Algeria being pro-
posed, M. LASTEYRIE spoke in strong terms against
the system adopted for that colony, and found fault
especially with the vast expense annually incurred. One
hundred thousand men would soon be required to occupy
the territory, and even that number would not be suffi-
cient. Marshal SounT vindicated the present policy, and
stated that, according to the latest dispatches from the
Governor, there would be no vestiges of the present
disturbances.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Bourse on Wednes-
day at 84f. 10c. ; the Five per Cents, at 122 f. sc. ;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,216 f. 15c. ; Rouen, 1,0901. ;
Vierzon, 790 f. ; Havre, 670 f. 25c.; Avignon, 1,027 f. 50c. ,
Basle, 265 f. ; Spanish Passives, 74,
The following are the quotations for the new lines:-
Orlear.s and Bordeaux, 202 f. 50c. prem. ; Boulogne, 105 f.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 42f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons
( Laffitte), 18f. 75c. ; ditto (Calon), if. 25c. ; ditto (Ganneron),
-tf. 55c. ; Northern line ( Latfitte), 25f. ; ditto (Rosamel),
71. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), Bf. 50c.; ditto
(Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 7f. 50c.; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe),lBf. 75c. ; ditto
(Talabot), 401. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 71. 50c. ;
Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par; ditto and Cette
(Espeleta), 5f.; Creil and St. Quentin, lf. 50c.; Paris and
Strasbourg (Ganneron), 10f. ; Dijon and Mulhausen, par.