The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-03 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

ARCHES COURT.
" DiSVIS AND REVIEWS."
(Before EV. Lashingtoo. )

~.• ,TTICE OT THE JEDGE PROVUTED ST THE 1111. J.

IFNI, %I L r. THE are. H. B. WILSON.

bewug of the arguments upon the admissiou of the
„• of indictment was resume.' this morning.
e 1.1011.m:too having asked the counsel for the prows-
why in thrir opini.m if criticism might be applied to
Linage of the 11,1,1 e, should it not be applied to the
,„! ; when was the line to be drawn ; and if one
:rack might be construed aumorically why might act all
-he mime's@ be so construed,
l'hillimore replied that there wu a clear difference
~.tseen legitimate liberty of opinion which the church had
• allowed, and that which was claimed under the
term TO ,P 1041015 the verbal accugicy of apm ti•
ssage might be no offence. but to interpret se allege-
, J 1 the root prominent events recorded in
..captures waa certainly beyond the liberty
• the church of England allowed to her clergy. With
to the other point, the church had not sanctioned at
.11 the use of ideology in the interpretation of miracles
j.jiridual divines, is the supposed difficulty of compre-
t,edisi; a puti,uLir miracle, had treated it as allegorical ;
lot so eminent divine in the church had ever claimed
rh,• right to place an ideological construction
cp." all miracles when the plain and literal meaning served
for their comprehension. The prosecution objected to Mr.

Wilson that he claimed for every clerk the liberty of oem•
41 tin; any miracle as each might please- -• claim which
str•lA at the root of miracles as evidence of • divine
rerktv.m.

Ik I.ll.hinston—What yon say, then. oomes to this, that
tb.. ,tirt must (lad the line of demarcation for itself. you
3.1 V that there is a liee; bat the decision of the court mast
arm:slows all the circumstances of the case.
Dr. Phillimaro—That is so. I moot carry the &Cautious
further.

lir. !knee. on behalf of the defendant, thee proceeded to
reph to the arguments advanced by Dr. Phi Diners and Dr.
seshey m support of the articlem. He observed, I. the
first place, that his teamed friends had completely Mom-
dermol what was meant by ideology as used in the .may.
l'hollimere had said that the essay contained the es-
Of a wish on the pat of the writer that he and WI
oth.T4 should be tier front all fetters in the interpretation
64 the scriptures. In order to sustain the indictment stialest
Mr. Wilson, it must be showathai each of the separatedreges
w moor upon which a conviction would lie; it Ina not open to
the prosecution to contend that there were particular
pa.•.i;e. which, though not containing separately sufficient
up a which to found • enesictioo, yet the covet
ott;ht to convict, boxcar, taken collectively, they
the animal of the writer. There was ample
authority in the church, in the writings of her
most eminent divines, ►pint any notion of the inspiration
.1 every word and line of the canonical Scriptures, and in
all fundamentals lied essentials, inspiratioa was admitted
by Mr. Wilson to exist. With retard to the question of
the subscriptine to the Thirtynine Articles, he was willi•g
to admit that if them had been found in the defendant's writ-
ser evasion of the great doctrine of Christianity, it wee
lo.ahis that Mr. Wilson might be brought within the terms
°,l the indictment. But so fat from this being the cam, the
etttyitt het distinctly inculcated the doctrine of the Meer.

nation in the words "so spin the incarnification of the
Ifirioe Emmanuel remains ;" and he had inculcated the
&dripe of the resurrection at page 164, where be said the
the doctrine of the resurrection was a doctrine taught by
the Saviour. The claim of the proecution upon this matter
d subscriptioe wag that the articles were to be subeeribed
in the ;Asia liter►l meaning of the words and sentences.
It would be remembered that in the Gorham case the plain
literal meaning of the articles was in question, and two great
courts of judicature differed in opinion upon it ; so that
even u to the literal meaning of the articles there wee a
difficulty of onostrurtion which must leave some liberty of
*Moo to the clergy. In practice, the Act of Uniformity
boned the clergy, but in matters not of fact, and which wen
not fusalamental or essential priociples, bow could
they obtain that universal agreement of opinion
which they must establish, or the case for the
prosecution failed What the prosecution contended was
that clergyineo meat agree in matters of opinion or gait the
chord.. Wu it rnentud to man's salvation that he should
believe in angelic appearances, or in the literal truth of the
story of Soul and the Witch of &dor I! The church of
Rome hail final the meaning whisk It attached to certain
doctrines, sod had fallen into the error of transubstantia-
tion ; sad to avoid such dangers the thumb of England had
in these matters wisely left the doer open. He was sur-
prised that this prosecution was ever entered upon, because
it seemed to hies that if the pressedings against the
• ritus of the valued " Essays aid Reviews" were wigs
at all, It would have bees well le have stopped for Ohs
result of the led cage before opening a second.
There were seven essays, and they WON all said to be very
bet /Me of the emayists was dead aid eeedier wee a lay.
l.ia ; but there were still three other Nor is which en-
c.-camp must be taken, or the prosseutors mast my, " The
wb de book is hail —but we think the mays of Dr. Walked
sal Mr. Wilson are the too worst." Is thst aer It
woolsl be and that the bishops and 9,000 el the clergy bed
condemned the look than-hone, bat had only the connsge
to vesture itchiest these two, aid that they were mistakes,
therefore, in their original *pinkie that all of the emays ace-
tanked erroneous doctrines. It would seem, however, if an
ILA was said were true, that there were greater errors and
&num in others of the ankles. Ile greatly regretted that
these prosecutions had been undertaken at all ; but what-
ever might be the ultimate decision„ he we% quite certain
that the article* of indictment must be reformed before
the court could admit any of them.

Dr. foishiogtee -I shall not give jnlgnwnt in the
tee of Dr. Williams or in this until the Caw of
'• Punter v. Heath" has lien bean! and decided upon by
the Privy Council. They are the same in mos
though very different in specie", and it le my
hope and expectation that something may fall from
their lon/ships on that occasion that may tend to throw
light upon the comae which it will he my duty to pursue
in conformity with their decision. But I hope very soon
,ftsr that judgment has leen delivered to be able to pro-
Donna, my polio in Is.th of these cases.
Dr. Plidlimore- The _sigh of March is deed for the bear.
in of "Bunks v. Meath "by the Privy Council.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

The March session of the Central Criminal Court was
cres..l thw. morning Isy Ole Right Hon. the Lord Mayor,
I:rvorder. Alilenses Sir J. fluke, Sir F. Moos. Hale,
Mr. Slirrof 'ockerell, Mr. Sheriff Tv...etyma,
Mr. I islee.Shenlf F , Mr. Cuiler.Sheritf Gammon,

l'heealeedar is a very heavy one, there being the Mims
of LS prisoners for trial in the 6rst edition of the calesdar.
The Ilerorder, iu charging the grand jury, said he was
-ory to oli.erce that there were a very large slumber of
to be brought before them. and that sore of therm=
sore of • very scrims, character, there bias so lees tire
three eharzes of wilful murder. The Ent rare of this
iti-aviption was 'nide agaisst a mass eared Heart Quail,
who was seemed of the murder of a person named Wineott.
It epos-aced in this rase that the prisoner and sevend other
I•Tecis, all of wlioni were partially intoxicated, were
,;aged iu a sort of rough play with • servant of the
deceased, who era, bathos a cart with some bones out.
'ele the shop door. They were throwing the bones after
tine ...mint, and he ran into his master's shop,
'Math,, his
him. Deceased interposed,
to protect his servant, when the prisoner took up a trade,
'hi L was clime by. and *tithed him, and he shortly after-
ward...lied. He said lie had been informed that at the
~irifter's Inquest the whole of the persons were implicated,
liot it appeared to him that they were engaged in the
--ent...n pm... .4 w'rudt, and took no actual part in the
.4.41. i. mg. It appeared. however. that one of them made
.4 the words " live it him:" when the prisoner took
the knife. He did not see how they could
•!.• ol`wrwiec than bring in a bill of wilful murder
Unice. there was other evideoee
LC l le fon. tleoli which might reduce it to manslaughter; and
ei it, other men, it would be for them to consider
fo.rn the evidence which would he laid before them whether
of not they were engaged in the matter beyond the common
11., next charge of wilful murder was against a
tea., stam,l ilovonsoz. It appeared the Plisoger. owed
.I.,esed •-•100 nssov, and be paid him part of it, sod alter-
•arils xsked him to give it back to pay another creditor.
I *ceased ',dosed to do so, aged the prima told him that
el 1.• 4.i not it would he wore for him. He
met the dreamed, sad ups his spilt
Ci.mit to give him hack the mosey be stabbed him
•4h a knife, and he died the *eat day. He it
sould le their dote to a tree bill against the
'" th", elan, ditty,. fade were folly borne eat. Hie
roislop thee referred to three eases of reeidasibtev, mid
..,e1 that if the facts were brae out r they appeared
the driseitioas, it enuld he their defy to 6ad true bills
...nut all the pries's% He said the only renmaireg
to which ha &bought a aressary to call the areslies ef