The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-06 00:00:00

,rse. Ho took to delivering popular lectures on
Tractarianism: in them he did not mince matters, but,
from the pulpit traced the growth of that system in
London to the policy and the proceedings of the bishop.
The taste of this, in a chapel to which he was licensed
by the bishop, 'was perhaps questionable; the ptudenoe
nowhere; but the truth, to great extent, un(raiibted.
Tractarianism would have spread in the dioceie. of.
London had its present bishop been a Cranmer, but its
spread has, no . doubt, beehtreatly encouraged by the
fact that he is a Blomfield. Nevertheleasaai, Would
have beenquite as easy to hare delivered convincingand
powerful lectures on the subject, without turning the
pulpit into a forum of accusation even against Bahep.
Blomfield; the lectures might not have 'been so pest
pular or attractive,- unspioed by the personality; but
they would probably have been quite as effective and,
instructive, And, after all, even proprietary. chapels
are places for. divine worship and spiritual .ediacation,.
not-for-polemical- strife and ecclesiastical bitterness.
Exeter-hall la still open for the animosities of religion;
and for better things top. In the midst of this curri-
Culum the Bishop f 14,•nckii deprived Mr. Gladstone of
his licence; which he did without pingping .reasons,
trying hitt') for any eccicsisstical offende, Or evt.ta making
any 'charge of irr .gularity :igeinst" him. The'Bishop
in: rely served Mr. Glalstone with the 'following docu-
ment, as plenary in its terms, and as it turns out is its
authority, as any Pap'3l bull:—
" Charles James, by Divine permission, Bishop of
Inedon, to the Rev. John Eddowes Gladstone, clerk;
B.A. Whereas, we did on or nb'ut the Ist August,
1851, give and grant unto you our licence rnd authority,
but during our pleasuie, to perform the office of minis-
ter of Loog•acre Chapel, being an unconsecrated chapel,
to which you were nominated_ by Charles George
Whitaker STkith,.cl,rk, sole lessee thereof, by and with
the written consent of Henry Mackenzie, clerk, vicar of
the said parisb. Now, we, for divers good causes and
considerations, do, by virtue of our authority, ordinary
and episcopal, and as far as in us lies, and by law we
can revoke,. annul, and make void the said licence, and
do dismiss you from the office of minister aforesaid by
these presents. And we do further by these presents
prohibit you from officiating as minister, or performing
any ecclesiastical duties within the said chapel, or else-
where, within our diocese."
This peremptory prohibition Mr. Gladstone held to
be of no legal value, because of its assigning no canonical
reasons, or its containing no adjudication of his, having
committed any. canonical offence; he therefore disre.
garded it; and, pursuing his ministerial labours in the
chapel (with certainly no • increased respect for the
bishop), was, for the reformation of his manners and for
his soul's health, thrown into the ecalesiastioal courts.
There, on Monday last, Sir John Dodson ruled, without
hesitation or doubt, 'that the bishop had a perfect legal
right to revoke a clergyman's licence thus summarily,
and without stating any reason. rt follows, then, that
the whole race of curates and other licensed clergymen
are at the mercy of their bishops' whim and caprice at
any moment;—that his power over them is arbitrary and
despotic;—that he may at any moment revoke the li-
cence he has granted them;---and that he is under no
legal obligation to explain to any mortal why or
wherefore he has done so. All they have to rely on is
the bishop's sense of moral responsibility and of duty.
Beyond that they have no security that they may not
at any moment be silenced, ruined, and starved. if
this really be the state of the law as to curates
and licensed clergymen, it is certainly without parallel
in English jurisprudence; and not one of the inferior
clergy of this country is for an instant safe. He may
be unfrocked whenever his bishop pleases; and not a
word of explanation need the bishop give. Yet no
sooner does he become a beneficed clergyman—no
Sooner has he a living instead of a curacy or a chapel—
than he may set his bishop at defiance, he may perpe-
trate what moral enormities he chooses, and the bishop
cannot eject him from his benefice. All the diocesan
can do then is to silence him in his church; the profits
of his cure he may continue to enjoy—the only restric-
tion that can be placed on him being that he must ab-
stain from public service. This contrast is clearly very
discreditable to our law; it is arbitrary, and despotic,
and tyrannical to licensed clergymen; it is over-protec-
tive where beneficed clergymen are concerned. Nor is
this the only unpleasant contrast furnished by this case.
How long-suffering, enduring, quiescent, and tolerant
was the Bishop of London with Mr. Oakley, Mr.
Dodsworth, and Mr. Bennett! How premptory, haughty,
and intolerant with Mr. Gladstone! For the former he
had letters, entreaties, requests, and solicitations. For
the latter, instant dismissal and the Ecclesiastical Court.
He bowed Mr. Oakley and "dear Mr. Dodswerth"
politely to Rome. He will drive Mr. Gladstone un-
feelingly to dissent.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, May 5.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Law.)
IN THE MATTER OF PATRIII/C. STEWART.

This insolvent, a clerk in the Ordnance-office, applied
;o be discharged.

Mr. Nichols and Mr. Caalteen opposed for creditors,
and other creditors appeared in person. Mr. Cooke and
Mr. Sargood supported. _

In 1846, wheYthe insolvent's salary was 210/, he ap-
plied to the Court of Bankruptcy, and obtained a final
order. He had paid 60/. a year into that oourt until
the last quartt r, and dividends had been paid. Beiag
without sufficient means ho had raised money on bills,
and had paid for advances and renewals more than 60
,per cent. for the bat two years, until he resolved to
,111 come to this court. He had never been free from the
oney-lenders. He proposed to continue the 601. to
t.:Je Court of Blakruptcy, and to pay 601. a year into
this court for the new creditors out of his present salary
of 3301.

it was arranged b-tvvcen the creditors and the insol-
vent's counsel that 1001. a year should be set aside.

Mr. Commissioner Lew was not disposed to discharge
the insolvent, unless the Ordnance Department would
consent to the proposal, as the creditors might obtain no
benefit. As to the money lenders, ha only wished the
law allowed him to pay the tradesmen first, and such
persons in twenty years time.
Ultimately it was set:Rd that the insolvent should go
out on bail, such permission having been before refused,
and that the case should be adjourned to the 7th June,
to carry the proposal of 1001. a year to the new creditors
into effect.

COURT OF INLAND REVENUE, May 5.
Before H. F. STEPHENSON, Esq., C. J. lIERRIES, Esq.,
and CHARLES .PRESSLY, Esq.)

EXTENSIVE TRA.UDS ON THE REVENUE AND ASSAULT
ON THE orricErts—PENALTY 1,2001.
Charles I3uckland, an extensive soap-manufacturer
of James-street, Walworth-road, was charged on an
information for the following offences against th©
excise laws. For removing and conveying away
soap, with intent io evade the duty charge-
able thereon; for offering and promising to
give 101. to an officer of the excise, to prevail upon him
to connive at the illegal removal of soap, and to neglect
to report the discovery of such removal to the Com-
missioners of Inland Revenue; for molesting and ob.
strutting the officers of excise in the execution of their
duty to seize and detain a large quantity f
o; soap, and
six boxes containing such soap forfeited under an Act
of Parliament; for resisting a seizure of goods, con=
(3-
dities, and things; for cleansing without notice; for pre-
venting the officers of excise from examining the pre-
mises and taking an account of soap and samples; for
making use of six fru:l-s for cleaning
8
Majesty
entry; and for removing, deposit/3, and concealing
"P, without
soap, with intent to defraud her
thereon. The penalties in the ajesty of the duty aggregate amounted to
3,500/,
Mr. Welsby, Q C., appeared on the part of the Crown;
Mr. Parry for the defendant.
The case occupied the en tire a
-aY, and the Court gave
judgment in th© penalty of 1,200/.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.
HARWICH —T
ho retirement of Sir F. Rely, cense-
tupon his election for East Suffolk, has, for the
Fifthtime daring the existing Parliament, caused a va-
cancy in the representation of this borough. The only
candidate iu the field for the vacant seat is Mr. Isaac
Butt, Q C., who cause down last week and prosecuted an
active canvass, besides addressing Me electoral body on
two occasions. The resignation of the Solicitor-General
has led to the abandonment of the petition to the House
of Commons against his return, which it appears was
drawn up and presented under the instructions of Mr.
Coppock. This proceeding has aroused the ire of Mr.
Butt, who a few evenings since convened a meeting of his
friends and supporters, and submitted to them a counter
petition, " to have Mr. Coppock brought to the bar of the
House of Commons for improper interference with the
privileges of the electors of Harwich." The writ for the
new election arrived on Tuesday.
MANCHE STER.-A meeting of the supporters of Lord
Moreton and Mr. G. Loch, was held on Tuesday even-
ing at the Albion Hotel, Manchester. About sixty or
seventy persons only, out of the whole number of those
to whom circulars had been sent were present, and the
most influential were Mr. Robert Gardner, Mr. Robert
Gladstone, and Mr. Robert Barbour. Though the can-
didates profess to come forward on independent tend
liberal principles, they are brought out by the high Con-
servative party,.and the chief motive to action is the
course vvhich the present Members for the borough took
on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill and a desire to thwart
the Anti-Corn-law League.

DEMOLITION OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE4II COll-
- of many thousands of persons in the United Sing
dein having been unable to obtain a copy of the Great
Exhibition Chart, printed in colours, and presented by the
proprietors of the Weekly Dispatch, to their subscribers and
the public, in the months of January and February last, a
re-issue has been determined upon, to take place on Sunday',
the 16th of May. The Chart, which has undergone* careful
revision, shows by simple diagrams the number of persons
that visited the Exhibition daily, the amout of refreshments ken
at the various entrances, the quantity, of on-
sumed ; the names of the Royal Commissioners ; an account
of the origin of the Palace, and its dimensions in feet. In
order that every individual 112 the country may possess this
and to serve as a memento
statistical reflex of curious and interesting results, to mark
the demolition of the building',
ed7_l4-.eS_gaitvuerndaiyio
of its existence, the Chart will bed ivered gratis to every
subscriber and purchaser of the Dispatch, on the day stated.
The Dispatch is or
at four o clock- every
in time the. first
_railway trains leaving London,
morning,
or to Mr.
and for the morning mails. Early orders
R. J. Wood,
The news agents will
all newsvenders in town or country ;
No. 159, Fleet-street.
the Chart with every Dispatch of May 16th, have a copy of
. THoMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER, Til
distinguished exile requires co e escape of this
confirmation.
re-
ceived by some members of his familyion. Letters were
yesterday (Monday) bearing a date from Smith O'Brien
moured escape, and they contain subsequent to the ru-
subjezt. From this it would
continues under appear that Mr. Meagher still
surveillance,
brother wiles.—Freeman's awaiting the fortunes of his
n's Journal.
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The Earl of Malmesbury had an audience of the Queen
yesterday at Buckingham Palace.