The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

THE TRACTARIAN MOVEMENT.

The Tractarians are straining every nerve to prevent
the elevation of Dr. Hampden to the Episcopal bench.
Among their efforts, the Rev. A. Percival, of All Souls'
College, Oxford, has written to the Mayor of Oxford, the
following letter:—

St. James's Place, Nov. 27, 1847.

SIR,—I request you to strengthen my hands, who am
endeavouring to relieve the Queen and her Ministers from
embarrassment, by presenting from your body a memo-
rial to the Queen, embracing the whole or such portions
of the matter set forth in the accompanying paper, or of
the nature of the same, as shall seem to your judgment
most expedient. I request the courtesy of an answer to
this application.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
ARTHUR PERCEVAL.
To this the Mlyor returned the following very proper,
but no doubt, unexpected reply.
REVEREND SIR,—I have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 27th ult., addressed to me
in my capacity of Mayor of Oxford, and to inform you in
reply, that I must decline complying with your appeal,
considering that a Town Council is not the body best
adapted to arbitrate in theological matters.
I must, however, add, that Dr. Hampden's manner of
life and teaching in this plare, has been such as to secure
for him general respect and affection. and that it is very
improbable that the Town Council of Oxford, if appealed
to, would comply with your suggestion.
I have the honour to remain, reverend sir,
Your obedient humble servant,
R. C. GODFREY,
Dec 2 1847 Mayor of Oxford.

To the Rev. A. P. Perceval, &c.,
The diocese of Exeter is the place where, perhaps, the
Tractarians are especially active, and the following letter
from a clergyman in that diocese deserves republishing :
" MR. ARCHDEACON.—Having received an invitation
to attend a meeting about to be held by you (in answer to
a requisition to that effect), relative to the elevation of
Dr. Hampden to the episcopate, and the writer not having
attached his name and address, I feel myself called upon
to signify to you my inability to attend the said meeting,
and briefly to state the reasons why I cannot agree to any
protest against Dr. Hampden's appointment. I do so,
" First—Because I am credibly informed that the accu-
sation against Dr. Hampden originated with a committee
of six individuals, one of whom (Mr. Newman) has since
seceded to the omish Church ; another of whom (Mr.
Sewell) has pronounced Dr. Hampden's lectures " admi-
rable ;" a third (Mr. Hill) has subsequently voted in
favour of Dr. Hampden ; and a fourth (Dr. Pusey, who
is believed to have been previously hostile to Dr. Hamp-
den) has himself fallen under the condemnation of the
university.
" Secondly—Because I find that the petitions against
Dr. Hampden (during the period of excitement upon the
subject) were signed by less than one-third of the resident
members of Convocation : and that eleven heads of houses,
and three out four of the public examiners, were amongst
Dr. Hampden's supporters ; and that there is good reason
to believe that the great majority of the non-resident
members of the Convocation took upon trust the repre-
sentations of the committee—without having themselves
read the lecture throughout—upon the good old maxim
of 'Audi alter= partem.'
" Thirdly—Because Mr. Newman himself disclaimed
imputing any unsoundness to Dr. Hampden personally.
And, lastly—Because Dr. Hampden's criminated
lecture was mutilated and garbled (in order to make out a
case,) in the face of his own plain declaration in the body
of that lecture, that 'The only difficulties on the doctrine
of the Trinity arise from metaphysical considerations ; '
and that The truth itself of the Trinitarian doctrine
emerges from these mists of human speculation like the
bold, naked land, on which an atmosphere of fog has for
a while rested and then been dispersed.'
If the object of the meeting be (as it professes tobe) to
consider the propriety of petitioning the Queen, perhaps
you will not think it inconsistent with that object that my
letter should be read to the meeting.
" I beg for myself to add that, holding as I do (ex
animo) the doctrine of a Trinity in Unity, my only object
in this protest is, that 'truth and justice, religion and
piety' may not be endangered by any hasty or unadvised
proceedings upon the matter in question.
" I have the honour to be, Mr. Archdeacon,
" Your very obedient servant,
" R. B. BRADLEY,
" Curate of East Teignmouth ; Incumbent of
Ash Priors and Cothelstone, Somerset."

A Row IN DUBLIN THEATRE.—On Thursday night
the performances at the theatre in Dublin were honoured
by the presence of the Earl and Countess of Clarendon.
The theatre was crowded to suffocation ; not a seat was
unoccupied in box, pit, or gallery, and numbers left who
were unable to procure even standing-room. Their Excel-
lencies, on their entrance, were greeted with unanimous
plaudits; but, as the performances proceeded, there was
considerable interruption, caused by cries of "No coercion,"
from a knot of " sympathizers" in the upper regions, in-
termingled with a taw faint hisses for the Viceroy, which
were speedily drowned by counter-cheers from all parts
of the house. The Premier was not so fortunate, Isis
name having evoked a storm of disapprobation, which was
followed by a lonely cheer for Mr. John O'Connell, and a
somewhat warmer one for Mr. Smith O'Brien. But the
uproar was not at its height until the national anthem was
commenced, when the manifestations of displeasure were
most unequivocal. For nearly five minutes not a note
could be heard ; eventually, however. the storm wore
itself out, and the rest of the evening passed over without
any further serious ettempts to mar the evening's amuse-
ment. The play selected was, Much Ado about Nothing.
Mr. and Mrs. Kean sustained respectively the parts of
Benedict and Beatrice.

DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—On Saturday morning, a
fearful discovery was made at the house of an old dealer
in apparel and stores, Mrs. Yoell, living in St. Mary-
street, Portsmouth. Smoke was observed issuing from
the front window of the house 'at the above time, which
led to the inmates being summoned,- when no answer
being obtained, the house was entered by the neighbours
and nolice, and a most horrifying spectacle presented
itself. On the floor of the bed-room lay the body of Mr.
Henry Yoell, burned to a cinder, and Mrs. Yoell was dis-
covered crouched down in a corner of the same room
insensible from the burns she had received. She was im-
mediately removed to the residence of another son in
Queen-street, Portsea, where, however, death put an end
to her sufferings in a few hours. The frightful catastrophe
is supposed to have originated by the ignition of the bed
furniture in which Mr. Henry Yoell, aged 60, a cripple
and bedridden, was lying, and it is supposed Mrs. Yoell
sustained the injuries by endeavouring to render assist-
ance to her son. Mrs. Yoell was 85 years of age. Mr.
Piercey, surgeon, who was called in, is of opinion that
Mrs. Yoell was killed by inhaling or swallowing some
suffocating matter in endeavouring to render succour to
her son. Mrs. Yoell had opened a window before she
was over-powered, it is supposed, to call for help to let
out the smoke.

IRISH ASSASSINATION.—In the course of the recent
debate Sir G. Grey read the following letter. It -was ad-
dressed to a lady whose husband had been denounced :
" Madam,—As a token of gratitude I write to you these
few lines, apprising you of your approaching fate. lam
to inform you that. unless Mr. MsCausland becomes a
better landlord in this country, he will share the same
fate as the demon Major Mahon did. There are resolu-
tions made in this country to take down all the tyrants of
landlords ; he, Mr. M`Causland, is numbered amongst
them, unless he changes, and give a full remittance of all
the arrears that are due to him, and begin in the new with
his tenants; as to think he is far from the rath of this
country, it is useless, the Connaught men are determined,
and may perhaps meet him in his own demesne. There
are two appointed for the expedition ; they are to begin
their journey on the 11th instant. I hope you will not suf-
fer yourself to be a widow, the same as Mrs. Mahon. As
to Ross Mahon the cries of the starved and desolated have
reached the head, and, after shooting him, he is. to be
hanged and quartered, unless he quits Ireland. There is
a fund at present in this country, the subscribers chiefly
Nov.
eolu2n, ty1847; Londonderry."Logf6nrl:
Nov. 12, 1847 ; Dublin, Nov. 13, 1847 ;in America, for shooting oppressors. I take the liberty
of informing you of the fate of the oppressors." 'Ad-
dressed on the outside, " To Mrs. M'Causland, Fruit-hill,
post-office,SadtiY:olzestoan, Nv
Postmarks,a:
Newtownlima-
vady, 14, 1847." Another most extraordinary illustration
of the prostration of moral feeling was incidentally stated
by Sir R. Peel:—" He had himself to detail exactly simi-
lar cases of organised conspiracy. In one instance three
men were hired by a person of some respectability to as-
sassinate a magistrate near Clonmel, and they did so,
their reward being two .guineas each. The Government
offered a reward of X2;000 for information and conviction,
and the very inan"who had himself employed the assassins
informed on them, bail them convicted, anti claimed the
reward of ,i.'9,o' ~ v;Licii he (sir It. Peel) VW obliged to
JAY him." tl

LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

SWITZERLAND.

The latest news from this quarter reports the rah-
mission of the Valais, which had been officially an-
nounced to the Vorort by Colonel Millet. The Diet
were to meet on the 2nd instant, to appoint federal re-
presentatives for that capital. With respect to Neufchatel,
the accounts before us are conflicting. It was hoped it
Paris, however, that the Prussian Government would tale
no hostile steps in consequence of the adhesion of Neuf-
chatel to the League—an event deemed all but certain.
A correspondent of yesterday's Times, writing front
Lucerne, under date Dec. Ist, says :
" At the moment I am about closing this note, prepa-
ratory to starting for Berne to-night, an incident is born
performed under the windows of the Scheisgerhoff, the
General's head quarters, which has taken every:Jody, ars
it were, by storm, and must remove the least doubt which
could have been entertained as to the heartfelt joy occa-
sioned by the restoration of peace to this lately distracted
country. Thousands of people, including the first bur-
gesses of the city, have assembled in the open space, bear-
ing torches, and after serenading him with a hymn, the
chief of the Council of State delivered an eloquent: ha-
rangue, which was received with loud and continued
cheering. General Dufour presented himself on the bal-
cony, and returned thanks in a modest speech, in Whie.k
he spoke highly of the discipline and efficient service of
the army he had the honour to command.
"The assembly then struck up a national hymn, ` 'leftist
du mein Vaterlanu,' which, singularly enough, happens
to be the same air as our ' God save the Queen.' They
are still singing inspiring melodies."