The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

BURGLARY.

Thomas Cox, 18, and 11 illiam Boreker, 18, pleaded
guilty to a charge of burelary at Manchester, in Novem-
ber last. Bowker, an old offender, was sentenced to 7
years' transportation, and Cox to 6 months' imprison.
ment.

The Court then adjourned to nine o'clock this day,

DR. HAMPDEN.

PROTEST OP THE BISHOPS.
The following imnortant correspondence has taken
place in reference to the appointment of Dr. Hampden tO
the See of Hereford :

My Lord,—We, the undersigned Bishops of the
Church of England, feel it our duty to represent to your
Lordship, as head of her Majesty's government, the
apprehension and alarm which have been excited in the
minds of the clergy by the rumoured nomination to the
see of Hereford of Dr. Hampden, in the soundness of
whose doctrine the University of Oxford nad affirmed, by
a solemn decree, its want of confidence.
" We are persuaded that your lordship does not know
how deep and general a feeling prevails on this subject,
and we consider ourselves to be acting only in the dis-
charge of our bounden duty both to the Crown and to the
Church, when we respectfully but earnestly express to
your lordship our conviction that if this appointment be
completed, there is the greatest danger both of the inter-
ruption of the peace of the Church, and of the disturbance
of the confidence which it is most desirable that the clergy
and laity of the church should feel in every exercise of the
royal supremacy, especially as regards that very delicate
and important particular, the nomination to vacant sees.
" We have the honour to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's obedient and faithful servants,
" C. J. LONDON.
"C. WINTON.
"J. LINCOLN.
" CHR. BANGOR.
" HUGH CARLISLE.
• " G. ROCHESTER.
" RICH. BATH AND WELLS.
"J. H. GLOCESTER AND BRISTOL.
" E. SARUM.
" A. T. CHICHESTER.
"J. ELY.
" SAML. OXON.
" To the Right Hon. the Lord John Russell, &c."
" Chesham-place, Dec. 8, 1847.
"My Lords,—l have had the honour to receive a re-
presentation signed by your Lordships on the subject of
the nomination of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford.
" I observe that your Lordship do not state any want
of confidence on your part in the soundness or Dr. Hamp_
den's doctrine. Your Lordships refer me to a decree of
the Universityrof Oxford passed 11 years ago, and founded
upon lectures delivered 15 years ago.
" Since the date of that decree Dr. Hampden has acted
as Regius Professor of Divinity. The University of Ox-
ford, and many bishops, as I am told, have required certiL
ficates of attendance on his lectures before they proceeded
to ordain candidates who had received their education at
Oxford. He has likewise preached sermons, for which he
has been honoured with the approbation of several prelatee
of our church.
" Several months before I named Dr. Hampden to the
Queen for the See of Hereford, I signified my intention
to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and did not receive
from him any discouragement.
" In these circumstances it appears to me that should
I withdraw my recommendation of Dr. Hampden, which
has been sanctioned by the Queen, I should virtually
assent to the doctrine that a decree of the University of
Oxford is a perpetual ban of exclusion against a clergy-
man of eminent learning and irreproachable life, and
that, in fact, the supremacy which is now by law vested
in the Crown is to be transferred to a majority of the
members of one of our Universities.
"Nor should it be forgotten, that many of the most
prominent of that majority have since joined the commu-
nion of the Church of Rome.
" I deeply regret the feeling that is said to be common
among the clergy on this subject. But I cannot sacrifice
the reputation of Dr. Hampden, the rights of the Crown,
and what I believe to be the true interests of the Church,
to a feeling which I believe to be founded on misappre-
hension and fomented by prejudice.
" At the same time I thank your lordships for au
interposition which I believe to be intended for the public
benefit. I have, &c.,
"J. RU
" To the Right Rev. the Bishops of London,SSELL.
Winchester, Lincoln, &c."

MATERIALS FOR CONTROVERSY. The December
number of Fraser's Magazine contains as pretty a mat-
ter for controversy among the antiquarians as we recollect
to have encountered, in a contribution of thirty-five un-
published letters, purporting to be written by Oliver
Cromwell to one of his Ironsides, a Master Samuel Squire,
introduced, and we may say accredited, by Mr. Carlyle.
Our words of qualification, nevertheless, are abundantly
called for by the singular circumstances narrated by the
historian with regard to these documents. Not only has
he never seen the originals, but he assures us that they
no longer exist. A gentleman, " living under the shadow
of a cathedral town," wrote to Lim some months ago,
announcing himself to be the possessor of these precious
epistles, as also of an Ironside journal, throwing light
upon them and many other obscure and explored pas_
sages of the Civil War, but unwilling to yield them up to
the public eye because of the scandal they might breed—
with hints of " family divisions," &c., which restrained
him in communication. Some correspondence passed be-
tween Mr. Carlyle and the owner of these valuable and
interesting papers; the former, naturally, earnestly en-
treating for a sight " with his own eyes of the collec-
tion. But the gentleman held out,—until mistrusting
his own power to withstand Mr. Carlyle's supplications
much longer, and resolute to withhold so much " pesti-
lential Puritan stuff" from the world, he cut the knot by
transcribing the thirty-five epistles, adding to them cer-
tain scraps extracted from the journal,—burning the ori-
ginals, (Cromwell's letters and all,) and forwarding the
copies to Mr. Carlyle for publication ? These copies Mr.
Carlyle has no hesitation, it seems, in pronouncing gen-
uine. He gives to them the valuable sanction of his im-
primatur; telling the whole romantic story in his best
manner by way of introductioly, PP(rftnains
to be seen how far he may a". "ms .tehis
own iMplicie faith to the -
_i/OQ •
dents, and searchers.—. 4

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