SilifiCtRittICOUO.

The Bishop of Exeter has published a letter to the clergy of his diocese, which contains a direct denial of an assertion recently made by Lord John Russell at Totness, that the Bishops had opposed a settlement of the Tithe question, when their concurrence was asked for by the late Ministers. The Tory newspapers have exulted mightily at this imputation of falsehood, as they are pleased to call it, on Lord John Russell, and challenge him to rebut it. Well, Lind John met a large body of his supporters on Monday at Tavistock ; and in the course of a long speech on the interesting subjects of the day, adverted to the letter of Dr. Phillpotts, and asserted, in opposi- tion to that pamphleteering Prelate, that Earl Grey, as head of the Ministry, laid a measure for the settlement of the Tithe question, a%

- the commencement of the session td 1S33, formally before the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, as head of the Church. The Archbishop, however, refused to sanction the measure, and intimated that he would Only assent to a bill framed on the principle of voluntary commutation. Lord John goes on-

" I will only add, that if the Bishop of Exeter has consulted the Archbishop of Canterbury, and has received his audio' ity for making the statement he has put forth, no fault can be attributed to the Right Reverend Bishop ; hut if be has not had such authority,—if he has not had the pi sitive authority of the Arehbishap,—I can wily say that he has proceeded somewhat lightly, iu making an imputation of falsehood against another person, and that other person the man who, if not meriting any other regard, bas been intrusted with the confi- dence of the electors of the Southern division of this county."

They say a burnt child dreads the fire ; but a clerical controversialist never knows when be has had enough. This Bishop Phillpotts is eternally getting into scrapes, by asserting what be cannot know to be true.

Lord Stanley has written a letter to a friend ji town, which the Carlton Club cannot at all stomach. It is signed " Your's, Stanley,— as good a Whig as ever, barring the Irish Church." We do not wonder at the mortification of the Conservatives ; and we cannot pity them, for they have richly deserved it. What right had they to disgrace Lord Stanley, by asserting that he meant to support the present Adminis- tration? The truth is, as we stated last. week, and upon no mean authority, that he refused to join them, because he could not support

them ; and that he could not support them, because, on no one point except the Irish Church question did his opinions approximate to theirs.

Iferyord Reformer.

Sir Robert Peel, in his address to his Tamworth constituents, says Ile is a decided enemy to unmerited pensions. Was not Sir Robert a member of the Duke of Wellington's Administiatiou when the at-

tempt was made to quarter two junior Lords of the Admiralty on the country ?—Morning Chronicle.

Among the foolish reports of the week, is one that Lord Minto has been made a Lord of the Bedchamber. We never believed that Lord

Minor was going to turn renegade from his party and his principles ; and the following very decided note, written to a Kelso Magistrate,

who had forwarded to him an address for presentation to the King, puts

his Lordship's soundness beyond doubt-

" Brighton. 16th December 1834. " I have the satisfaction of informing you that the address of the inhabitants of Kelso and its vicinity has been laid before the King. You will see that the Government is at length formed; and the names which we have presented to us are a sufficient warrant of the policy they must pursue, and of the quarters to which exclusively they must look tic rapport. There is no longer room for dunabt or equivocation. It is a high Tory Adminkt ration which has undertaken to cotabiet the government of Has colliery. No OD, (-yea Ir'etti to imagine that it can confront this or another Douse of Commons for a week am! I see many Tories who are amongst the lousiest in condemniag an expl•rime.e ot urLiell the faction is so certain, and which they foresee must lead to the Utter exth.etion of their power as a party.

the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble seivant,

r;eorge Main, Esq." MINTO."

The Premier continues to perform his official functions at his resi- dence iu Privy Gardens. He has not yet transacted business at his office in Dowoiog Street ; and we understand it is at present uncertain

whether he will remove his establishment to Earl Spencer's late resi- dence.—Herc 11. [We hope he will be spared the trouble.] A report has been put in circulation by the John BO, that Earl Grey off2red Sir Edward finatchbull a seat in his Cabinet, and the office of Secretary at War. The Morniny Chronicle, from authority, expressly contradicted this story; but the Standard reasserts its truth most positively, as respects the offer of a seat in the Cabinet, thought it will tort speak certainly as to the particular office. The Standard also affirms that the offer was made by Mr. Charles Wood, then Lord Grey's Private Secretary..

Sir Edward Sugden, proud of his newly-acquired title, ..irected the porter at the Mansionlionse, on Tuesday night, to call " The Chancellor of Ireland's" carriage. On the following morning, when Mr. Wakefield was addressing the Court of Chancery, the Lord Chan- cellor stopped him and said, " I must leave the Court a few minutes,

as the Chancellor of Ireland is in the private room."— Chronicle. The Marquis of Sligo, after an administration of eight months only of the Government of Jamaica, is about to be recalled. Major-General Sir Antos Norcott, the General-in-Command of the forces, will per- form all the functions of his Lordship until the arrival of his Lord-

ship's successor. Within three years there have been three Governors of this important colony ; namely, the Earls of Behnore and_Mulgrave, and the Marquis of Sligo.—Herald.