The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-02 00:00:00

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.tl FETING Or Curvoc4TDlst. —Yesterday morning
both houses of convocatien met at Westminster ; the
upper house at tht bounty office, and the lower house in
the Jerusalem chamber. rThe Archbishop of Canterbury
presided in the upper house; and there were present the
Bishpps of Winchester, St. David's, Oxford, St. Asaph,
Lireeln, Salisbury,. Llandatf, Chichester. Exeter,
and Rochester. 'Pr first business transacted
was to summon tl prolocutor of the lower
house, •in order to inform him that the peti-
tion to the crown, agreed to last - session,
praying for leave to make canons and constitutions, had
been declined by the. Crown. A petition was presented
by the Bishop of Oxford from the Dean and Chapter of
Westnibister, praying that the Archdeacon of Westmin-
ster might .be summoned to Convocation in the usual
manner. , On the motion of the Bishop of Oxford,
seconded by the Bishop of Exeter, it was
resolved--" That the petition of the Dean and
Chapter of Westminster be ' received, and laid
upon the table ; and that his Grace 'the President
be requested to direct his law ,officers to pre-
pare a report on the 'prayer of the said 'petition, to be
laid before Convocation at its . next session." The
Bishop of Oxford addressed the House 'at great length
on the subject of a modification of the ChUrch's laws if
it were ta:continue its labours, and on more frequent
communication between the bishops And clergy by means
of synodal action, and concluded by moving a resolu-
tion requesting -the Archbishop to`' direct the Lower
HouSe teConsider'the'law in reference to the discipline
011ie clergy; and to report thereupon on the 15th of
April. The Lower House assembled finder the presi-
dency of.the Dean of Bristol, the proloeutOr (the Dean
of Ely) being'too unwell to attend. , A 'lengthened dis-
cussien.upon the constitution of Convocation occupied
the greater portion of the sitting. Adjourned Until
Tuesday, April 15.
Manx Law PROCEEDINGS IN PALMER'S CASE.—llitherto
the proceedings in the Rugeley investigations have been
on one, side 0n1y... But with the termination of the pro-
ceedings in the .Coroners . inquests a new phase has
arrived. In the anxiety to give to the public, information
on the case as it presented itself in the many apparently
astounding circumstances which
,Were elicited day after
day Ofthe 'three separate Ahquiyies, Circulation has been
given to rumours, aggravated glad heightened' by..'the
natural excitement of local scandif,' by WhiCh the relatives
of William Palmer have fount 'themselves perhaps not
unjustifiably aggrieved. Among these is ' Mr. George
Paln-4er,the brother of the accused, who coMplaint;
of a paragraph of a nature to implicate his reputation,
and to whiF4,.4dmission had, been .given. incautiously
in several journals,, . metropolitan as• well as provin-
cial, and uppn whieh',he
,has instituted law proceedings,Mr. GeorgePalmerdonsidees bianself deeply aggrie4o b
an i *MO Contained in the paragraph, which he ii.-pr y
e.,
sectl'lira. tbilc6iiiitils
:libellous; inasmuch' as, althellih t sect rntitan'defililitleg-ed are true,:they'anie, in thetiA lYits p
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innocent, andnnot bear' he,conaplexion he prestfinels'te'
be given ter,thein by their- allocation in connection with
the case; sought ,to be made out against William Palmer.
The facts, as stated by Mr. George Palmer, are as follows
Mr. George Palmer purchased, for 751, as an investruent,
ptheertli:featinAiterceesivtaosr,ao.npderixopnennciaemdedisl 11,Iont
rtreapmai,risu. ausernialiisl
uprz
the interest, in due course, of business, for 1004 in the
Scottish Amicable, that office having an agent, Mr. George
Smith, at Rugeley. ' Although it is true that,' Mottrain
having died, after one premium only had been paid, Mr.
George Palmer recovered the 100/, yet, with interest,
premium, 'and expenses, this amounted to no more than
repaid to him the sum :invested.' It happened, also, about
the sr me period that Mrs.' Palmer, the mother. of the
,Rey. Thomas Palmer, had bargained, under the, advice' of
Mr. George
.Palmer, her son acting as, her solicitor, to
have ueen
3,ears, purchase, as a provision for the rev., gentleman, the rever-
sion of a liv;:ii-,, for 5,000/. The, incumbent was seventy
in ease (Z.:the
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any proposals s(nt i
the vendor's inabilli:
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Palmer could advise tY
public as suspicious, and implicating the,p,utchase.
.il:kpn as .a good title ! 1 .
tcoaumsealiteheou7aisinoante7tAeynirt,..monGffoeceiortfe,
That; circumstances.
and of everyday occo' In
' .. b e the
in a possible susnicionrroefnmeeursdheorouulds ibnetebnrt7ong,hthe
Mr. George Palmer
.
has con-
sidered to be ground for proceeding against such journals
as have, unadvisedly, given admission to the injurious
rumour in their columns,