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SUN OFFICE Three o' Clock.

The charge of the Bishop of Oxeonn to the clergy of
his diocese, delivered last month, contains some sus- i
picious and many ambiguous remarks respecting the
doctrineS of the I'useyites. From the manner in which
be interfered lately with the authors of the " Tracts for
the Times," and his urgent request to close the publica-
tion of these writings, the public very generally believed
that Dr. BAGOT was entirely opposed to the new doctrin' s
His charge, however, will undeceive all those who had
formed such an opinion, for without -exception it is the
must ample and most sincere apology for Puseyism
that has yet come under our notice. The attacks of the
Right Reverend Fa:her are directed not against what
many good Protestants considerel Popish doctrines, but
against all those who have condemned these encroach-
ments of the Church of Rome, against the Puritans and
Calvinists, against writers in newspapers, against young
men the disciples of PUSEY and NEWMAN, who have al-
lowed their zeal to outrun their discretion, and in fact
against almost every party except those who are the real
authors of the schism ; nay, what is more, these inno-
vators.are extolled. to the skies as the best reformers of
the Protestant church. After alluding, in the most.
gentle manner, to' the faults of the " Tracts," the Bishop
thus proceeds :—" Within the Church it is impossible to
mark the revival of Church principles, the increasing
desire for unity, the increasing sense of the guilt and
evils of schism, the yearning after that discipline which
we have so much lost, the more willing and ready
obedience to ecclesiastical authority, the greater desire
live by the Prayer-book, the better observation
of fasts and festivals, of the Church, the more decent
ministration of and deeper reverence for her sacraments,
growing habits of devotion and of self-sacrifice ; it is
impossible, I say, to see these things and their growth
within the last ten years, and not acknowledge that under
GOD the authors of the Tracts have been the humble in-
struments of at least bringing them before men's minds
and of exhibiting in their own lives their practical fruits."
This certainly is very high praise, and it is therefore
most cruel conduct on the part of the Bishop
to check these godly men in a career which has hitherto
been fraught with such blessings. We infer, from the
whole tenor of the charge, that many, and possibly all
the new doctrines find favour in the eyes of the Bishop,
anti that the great fault consists in imbuing young ardent
spirits with these tenets, and "in hurrying on a crisis,
from the acceleration of which nothing is to be hoped
and every thing to be feared." There would be no
harm in the Puseyite scheme, were it only carried into
cifeet quietly and gradually, so as not to awaken the sus-
picions and fears of real Protestants. In that case,
" the observances of the festivals of Lent and Passion
Week, and as opportunity may offer, of the Ember and
Rogation Days, may in due time bring us back to the
restoration of the Daily Service." And why not bring
us back also to the observance of Saints' days, to auri-
cular confession, absolution, and the great sacrifice of
the mass ? It is not the, practice of religionists, and

least of all young ardent spirits, to halt half-way ;
and. we are much mistaken, notwithstanding the
fling of the Bishop at the "schismatical and
Anti-Christian Church of Rome," if he has
not by this address done more to encourage them in
their dangerous course than all the writings and preach-
jugs of the useyites together. From the marked
silence, so long preserved by the Heads of the Church,
even when remonstrances against these Popish doctrines
were made again and again, only one inference could be
drawn, namely, that they were favourable to the change;
and this charge of Dr. BACOT, delivered after mature
deliberation, has, in our opinion, reduced this inference
tu a, firm conviction.

•
' low inleed must be the moral feeling in an assembly
which could listen -unmoved to the petition read,by Mr.
O'Corucm.r. in the House of Commons last night, pray-
ing for a suspension of the writ of election for the
borough of Belfast till an inquiry shall take place into
the corrupt practices of the Tory candidates, Mr. JAMES
EMERSON TENNENT and Mr. W. G. JOHNSON, at the
last election for that borough. Were the offence less
hoinotts and revolting, the bri::eri Mr. J. E. TENNENT,
aml the bribed, PETER. STEPEIEN CROPPER, innkeeper
of Bafast, would make two o: as capital characters fur a
novel froth the pen of Mrs. Titou.orE, as any Vicars of
WreihiX or Widows Bansrarty that ever had an exist-
ence in her. not over-fastidious fancy. Mr: CROPPER'S
aecoint of himself, and his personal intercourse with
TEKNENT, form a more curious narrative than the
latter gentlenun's Tour in l'e'gium, or a-ty other Tour
ever written by hi,n. Mr. CROPPER, for twelve years of
his life, had been a hatter in Carnarvon, but getting into
difficulties- in 1838, the year following he went to
Belfat.t, opened an inn, and bec:.me an elector of
the I:Qrough. lle had always been a Liberal, always
voted for Liberal candidates, and was generally known
among his neighbours as a man of decided Liberal
opinions. But the progress of teetotalism ruined his
projects of public-house prosperity ; he again gut into
debt ; and to make the matter worse, on the eve of the
last election he found himself hard pressed for payment
of a trifling debt by an obdurate Tory creditor. What
immediately followed is so graphically given in CROP-
PEIt's petition, that we quote his own words :
" That your petitioner was canvassed by partisans of both
sides, and. personally by Mr. Tennent and Mr. Johnson.
•' nit some days before the first day of poll the wife of your
petitioner informeu him that offers of money had been made to
her by the Tory fatty in Bulfast, to induce your petitioner to
vote for the said antes Emers in 'ferment and William Gillilan
Johnsoul and that your petitioner well knew that large money
bribes were being extensively offered to electors c f the borough.
That your Pet'"ner's wife pressed your petitioner, on account
of his embarrassment, and because of the threats of Tory
creditors
to saclike principle to wan',' and to take money for
his vote 'from the Conservative party. That 30.,r petitioner
was most reluctant to sell his vote, and because he had attended
the meetings of the Liberals, and had made public his intention
of vetting for Lord Belfast and Air. Boss.
" That two active Members of the Committee of Air. Ten •
neat and Mr. Johnson repeatedly cslled 00 your petitioner
and paid for tiqucKs. Anil paid small sums for treating at his
house, • and several times nressed your petitioner to accept
money for his vote ; and offered your petitioner the pecuniary
means of paying any creditor of the Liberal side whdolnitight be
pressing your petitioner to vote for Lord Belfast ari r. Ross.
That for some days your petitioner resisted such offers.
" That sour petit oner believes that he voted on the third
day's I,o'l That on the morning of the day of his poll
the said two Members of the Committee of the Tory can-
didates again called at the house of your petitioner, and
again pressed ;your petitioner, and offered your petitioner
twenty pounds for his vote. That your petitioner, under
the pressure of his pecuniary embarrassments, then
agreed to poll as desired; that your petitioner accom-
panied his tempters to the Committee-room of the late sitting
Members, for the purpose of being put upon a tally of voters.
That your petitioner, after he entered the house occupied by
the Tory Committee, became ashamed of his intention, and
returned home without being tallied. That the said two.gen-
dam!. imartedie.tely followed your petitioner to his house, and
perk ei him to return) and to he placed upon the tally and
one 'of them, showing your petitioner 201. in one cute of the
Northern Bank of Ireland, promised that sum' to your petitioner
after his poll. That your petitioner then asked a neighbour,
who was present; to guarantee the money, who promised to
Semite responsible for the bargain ; and that your petitioner
then-went to the said Committee-room, and wss entered on a
tally, and polled the same afternoon for Mr. Tennent and Mr.
JohnAgp•
" That about ei;ht or nine o'clock in the evening in the
evening one of the said two members of the 'fory Committee
came to your petitioner's house (accompanied by the neigh-
bour who had guaranteed payment to your --petitioner), and
pa;d your petitioner a twenty-pound note of the Northern
Banking Company of Ireland.
That one of the Tory creditors of your petitioner, who had
threatened your petitioner with .notice of legal proceedings if
be did not vote for the Conservatives, mainly induced your
petitioner to accept the bribe ;-•,.thiat .ynur witioner
drably after the receipt of the said twenty pounds paid such
creditor 121. part of his debt ; and the temaininst 8/. your
petitioner chiefly paid to other small creditors. That your
AIL° fellowine• his receipt of the said 201. note