The Press.
London, England, 1856-08-16 00:00:00

'SOY an Voila.

ARCHDEACON DENISON'S CASE.
THE decision of the court in the case of Archdeacon
Denison was pronounced on Tuesday. The Guild-
hall at Bath was crowned on the occasion. Arch-
deacon Denison, accompanied by Mr. Henley, M.P.,
and the Rev. Mr. Ditcher, with their respective
counsel and proctors, arrived early. Archdeacon
Law, and Bishop Carr, rector of Bath, and the Rev.
C. 0. Mayne, vicar of Midsomer-Norton, two of the
commissioners who sat at Clevedon in January, 1855,
when it was found that there were prim&-facie
grounds for further proceedings, and out of which
the present inquiry originated, were also present.
There were also several Roman Catholic divines in
the body of the hall. At half past one his Grace the
Primate, accompanied by Dr. Lushington and the
other assessors, entered the court and proceeded to
the committee-room, and in a few minutes afterwards
took their seats upon the bench, when Dr. Lushing-
ton read the declaration of the archbishop.
It commenced by stating how the proceedings ori-
ginated under the Clergy Discipline Act of Victoria,
and pointed out that the question was not one of
admissible doctrine, as in the Gorham case, but
whether the doctrine proposed was contrary or
not to the Thirty-nine Articles, and declared that
it was to be tried by the 13th Statute of Elizabeth,
which said :

That if any person ecclesiastical, or who shall have
ecclesiastical living, shall advisedly maintain or affirm any
doctrine directly contrary or repugnant to any of the said
Articles, and being convented before the bishop of the
diocese, or the ordinary, still persists therein, or not revoke
his error, or after such revocation eftsoons affirms such
untrue doctrine, such maintaining, or affirming and per-
sisting, and such eftsoons affirming, shall be just cause to
deprive such person of his ecclesiastical promotions, and
it shall be lawful for the bishop of the diocese, or the
ordinary, to deprive such person so persisting or lawfully
rnvicted of such eftsoons affirming, and upon such sen-
tence of deprivation pronounced, he shall be indeed de•
prived.

Dr. Lusbington then delivered judgment as follows.
His Grace being of opinion that the 9th, 10th, 11th,
13th, and 14th Articles filed in the proceedings,
and the charges therein made, were established,
decided :

Whereas it is pleaded in the said 9th Article that the
said a. chleacon, in a sermon preached by him in the
Cathedral of Wells, on the 7th of August, 1853, did advi-
sedly maintain and affirm doctrines contrary and repugnant
to the 2.5 th. 2Hth, 29th, and 35th Articles of the Church of
England; and amongst other things did therein advisedly
maintain that " the body and blood of Christ being present
after an immaterial and spiritual manner in the conse-
crated brea 1 and wine, are given to all and received by all
that come to the Lord's table, and that to all who come to
the Lord's table—to those who eat and drink worthily, and
to those who eat and drink unworthily—the body and blood
of Christ are given ; and by all who come to the Lord's
table—by those who eat and drink worthily, and by those
who eat and drink unworthily—the body and blood of Christ
are received;" his Grace, with the assistance and unani-
mous concurrence of his assessors, has determined that the
doctrines contained in the said passages are directly con-