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LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 17.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

A BPECLIL EDMON of the " EXPRESS,*
sentaining tbe results of the day's Races, is pub-
lished every swain during the Sporting Season, at
ea o'clock.

THE Rev. RICKARD TRIPLE WE Tr, =St* Of %rt..
hill, has been absolved by the Bishop of OXFORD'S
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Commissioners from the charges brought against
him respecting his manner of visiting the sick, and
is once more free to repeat to all the women in his
parish the questions which he admits he pat to
NLPICT ARNOLD. That is the immediate and pros-
goal result of the eleven hours' inquiry which filled so
many columns of our paper on Saturday. The ulterior
and larger consequences which may follow that
investigation will be determined by the judgment
which the public shall form on the facts disclosed.
How necessary was this inquiry is now made roper-
abundaotly evident. It is impossible to my what
the Bishop of Otrosu would have done had he
known as much about the ministry of Mr. Warr
as he may now learn from the newspapers ; bet
it is certain that if his lordship had examined
that gentleman half as strictly as the latter ma-
mines his sick parishioners, he would not have bas'
able to write his letter of July 31 to Mr. gnaw. Oa
that date we find the BMW' affirming that Mr. I
WinT, in his interviews with Mrs. ARNOLD, did not
press for answers to any of his questions, mar pat
improper questions to her. We now know hew
he had qualified hinibillf to make that statement.
Mr. Win told the Court :—" I was examined by the
Bishop. He asked me if I had put improper gum-
" noes. I mid, no. He did not know what bad
been said about fornication. I raid I should like
to know what questions were improper, bat he
" replied that as I had said I had riot asked improper
" voodoo' it was enough." And after having thus
shut oat the truth, which Mr. Wear appears to ham
beets reedy to disclose, the BISHOP sits down to lec-
ture Mr. /Swim, who wee forcing the facts on his un-
willing attention, and declares to that gentleman
that he has discharged his " plain duty " by inquir-
ing into the case " to the best of his power."

But now, " owing," as Mr. COLERIDGE, Mr.Wasr's
advocate, complained to the Court, "to the tone of the
" newspapers respecting this ease," a real inquiry
has taken place. The witnesses on both sides have
been brought forward and exam;tted by skilful ad-
vocates. Their evidence has been sifted and compared,
and the result is exposed to the judgment of the
public. The chief witness was of course the WOMEN
ANNOLD, who was visited by Mr. WEST. She des
peed to the truth of the charges set down in the
requisition to the Bisons., swore that at the intsrview
of March 17 Mr. WEST asked her to confess her SiESS
to him, saying that if she would not confer, she
could not go to heaven, and that he told her to con-
ceal this conversation from her husband. Her
statement agreed in most of its important points
with that which she made to Mrs. ELLEN a
flew minutes after the departure of the rev. visitor;
sad as regards the questions put, it was confirmed
by Mr. Wier himself. But other wituesees proved
that she had told the story at different times
without its worst aggravations, and two of them
deposed that she had admitted with a profane oath
that some of the most serious of her earlier allege-
Lions Were lies. Indeed, it was shown that she had
given so many contradictory versions of what Mr.
WEST had said to her, and she we. detected in so
many incidental falsehoods, that the Court found it
impossible to rely oe her evidence. The oharge
meanest Mr. WEST, as stated in the requisition pre-
sented to the BISHOP, and in the commission under
which the Court was constituted, was, that he had
asked improper questions with the view of
leading her to make confession to him.
Respecting the nature of the questions the evidence
was all on one aide, and wee confirmed by the admis-
sions of Mr. Wm. But the object, confession, was
denied by that gentleman, and the testimony of
Mrs. ARNOLD not being thought sufficient to esta-
blish it against him, he has won the day. Many
things were against him—his known ecclesiastical
laming% and the strongly expressed predilections of
Mr. OWLET, the incumbent, who had brought bin
to Boyn-hill, and who is known to advocate habitual
confession to a priest ; but they were not suffered to
prevail. His cause has been tried according to the
eetabliahed rules of legal evidence, and he is
acquitted. 8o far the case is at an end.

But the labours of the Commissioners and of the
promoters of this inquiry hays not been thrown
away. If they had only served to place the evident.
Mr. Witsr upon record they wenki have readered
great service to the public. The admiasions which
that gentleman and Mrs. ARNOLD made against
theroselveo, taken together exhibit in the strongest
light a system of visitation which calls for the im-
mediate attention of the heads of the Church. We
may well believe that Mr. War; as a gentleman,
said nothing to Mrs. ARNOLD which ha did not in
OM. way or other justify to himself, and that, there-
fore, he did not, as wee alleged, tamely attempt to con-
ceal his conduct, enjoining Mrs. ARNOLD not to tall her
husband. Bat the fact remains on Um mooed, placed
there by himself, that he did attempt to urge the
woman to some sort of confession, end her own mo-
mutt of her answers shows that the remit was
ewe as might have been expiated. Mr. W 137 sap
himself be knew the character of the woman Wire
ha visited her. Be knew that her life had been
irregular, sometimes living with one man, and some.'
times with so many that she could not assign the
parentage of her children. One would have thought