The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9.

Ar length a final judgment has been pronounced
by the highest legal tribunal in this country upon
the charges against two clergymen founded on their
contributions to the volume entitled " Essays and
"Reviews." The defendants were the Rev. Dr.
RowLsers Wim.isms, Vicar of Broad Chalke, in
the diocese of Salisbury, and the Rev. H. B.
WILSON, Vicar of Great Staughton, in the diocese
of Ely ; and the prosecutors were the Bishop of
SALISBURY and the Rev. Mr. FENDALL respec-
tively. The charges were that Dr. Wu.usws, in
his Review of BUNSEN'S "Theological Re-
" searches," and that Mr. WILSON in his paper on
the " National Church," had promulgated doctrines
contrary to the Articles of Religion and in dero•
gation of the Book of Common Prayer. The
prosecution was instituted in each case by filing
a number of "articles," or particular charges,
against the defendants in the Court of Arches. Of
these articles the greater number were dismissed
by Dr. LUSHINGTON, Dean of that Court, but upon
others the judgment of that Court was given
against the defendants, and Dr. WILLIAMS and Mr.
Wneon were sentenced to be suspended from their
O&M/ and benefices for one year, and to pay the
costa. From this sentence an appeal was addressed
to the Privy Council, before which Dr. Wruinas
and Mr. WLLSON appeared in person, and argued
their own cause. Some of the articles which Dr.
LcsimvoroN had admitted were given up at the
:searing before the Judicial Committee, and ulti-
mately there remained but four, on which the
Court yesterday pronounced judgment.
In following this judgment it is important to
bear in mind the declaration of the Judicial Corn
mittee, that its province is simply to ascertain the
true construction of the Articles of Religion and
Formularies of the Church, of which the appellants
are members, and then to ascertain the true gram-
matical meaning of the passages in the writings
alleged to be inconsistent with those Articles and
Formularies. " That only," said the LORD CHAN-
er.ums, "is matter of accusation which is ad-
" viaedly taught or maintained by a clergyman in
" opposition to the doctrine of the Church." in
one of the two articles against Dr. WILLIAMS
which survived the hearing of the appeal he was
charged with denying that the Bible is the word of
GOD, that it contains any special revelation of His
truth or of His dealings with mankind, or
is the rule of our faith. The Judicial Committee
decided that he has not affirmed this ; that
his language is consistent with a belief in those
things which he is said to have denied ; and that
therefore the charge is founded on a misinterpre-
tation of his words. The other charge against Dr.
WILLIAMS was that he had contravened the I Ith
Article of Religion—that on justification by faith.
He had said, in the course of a defence which he
imagined BUNSEN might make against a supposed
adversary, " Why may not justification by faith
" have meant the peace of mind or sense of
" Divine approval which comes of a trust in GOD,
" rather than a fiction of merit by transfer f" Dr.
LUSHINGTON had taken this undoubtingly as a
declaration of the writer's own sentiments.
The Judicial Commit*e refuses to do
so, saying that "it would be a severe
" thing." Further, it declines to reoognise in the
statement that " the doctrine of transfer by
"merit is a fiction," a contravention of the Eleventh
Article, because that article is wholly silent as to
any "transfer " of the priceless merits of
which it treats. The Court further, but only inci-
dentally, took notice of Dr. WILLIAMS'S repudia-
tion at the hearing of the interpretation which had
been made of his statement that the doctrine of
transfer was a fiction. Upon these grounds the
Judicial Committee reversed the judgment of the
Court of Arches against Dr. Witirsais.
The charges against Mr. Wilma!' which the
Court had to consider yesterday were also two in
number. The judgment of the Judicial Commit-
tee on these differs in a very important respect
from that which we have just noticed. Fur
whereas the former turns mainly on the interpre-
tation of the words alleged to contain erroneous
doctrine, the latter deals directly with grave
questions whether doctrines plainly discoverable
inn the writings objected to were allowable.
The first charge against Mr. WILSON related to
the subject of the inspiration of the Holy Scrip-
tures, and in the view of the Court involved the
proposition that it was • eontradiction of the doc-
trine laid down in the 6th and 20th Articles of
Religion, in the Nicene Creed, and in the Ordination
Service of Priests, to affirm that any part of the
canonical books of the Old or New Testament,
upon any subject whatever, however unconnected
with religious faith or moral duty, was not written
under the inspiration of the HOLY SPIRIT. On this
question the Committee did not shrink from
laying down a proposition which has wide and far-
reaching consequences. It declares that " the