The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-15 00:00:00

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L''ND• SATURDAY. JANUARY 15, ,818

Measures were ye,terchiy adventured upon for the
purpose of ensuring a 1‘.3.n1 inv,stigation into the
conduct of the Vicar- G,n,-ral of the Archbishop of
C ISTEHBURY, in refu:in4 to accept the objec,ion,
#lf certain ecclesiastic: to the appnintment of Dr.
HAmrDEN to the epi,copal see of Hereford. It will

not have been torgotten that when the oi,ponents o
that Right Reverend Pre!ate attempted to stay the
ceremony of confirmation, in compliance with the
jo vita t ioo of the A ppiiritor General, they were
perenipti.rily ordered ht- 1)r. HERRARD 13EAUMON1"
BURNABY' and his colkagues to withdraw their
obstructions, and to behold in complacent si-
lence the confirmation of the Bishop elect. Dr
ADDAMS and several other sacerdotal advocates,
learned in ecclesiastical etiquette and theological pre-
rogatives, maintained, even within the precincts of
Bow Church, the al,-quacy of the oljecions raised
against the continultice of the cerene.nial ; bur in
c'Phosition to those very authoritative opinions, the
Vicar-General of the Metropolitan persisted in
hi
re(u,als being in terror of exposing himself to the
penalties of pre munire. Yesterday the question was
brought under toe consideration of the Court of
Queens bench by Sir FITZROY KELLY, and a rule
7123/ was granted by the Lord Chief Justice DENMAN,
in obedience to which rule the Primate and his Vicar-
General will have (in the event of the conditional
order for the writ of mandamus being made absolute)
to hear the arguments of the various dissentients who
were silenced on the day of confirmation.
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will present itself for es
and the proportionate integrity
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circumference of the ~rena
lay multitude may safely anticipate
a very vigorous contention between theemria,sttiorne.douolinte.
able of the clerical nth/61es. of our gne f h
of the most remarkable of these gladiators of the
e
Church—and certainly one of the most extraordinary
logicians of the age—Archbishop WIIATELEY, to wit
—has already buckled on the gauntlets of discussion
(in re than-DEN) and evinced no very trivial am )unt
of intellectual pugnacity. According to the pamphlet
of the Archbishop of DUBLIN—a pamphlet entitled
s, Statements and Refl,ctions" on the Hampden Con-
troversy--the Pilate Minister is not only to he de-
elareti sinless in tn.taing• the selection of the Regius
Professor of Divinity, but tiv- Noble Lord is said to
have merited for himsrls. the admiration of all orthodox
-, by the di•,:nified resoluteness with which
he Avanced De. HasirDEN to the -ee of Here
ford. in the teeth of the mosr. reckless and virulent
dissentients. When a man of such astuteness and

cap wits a. Are b.sh HATELKT commits himself
,leeict,dly t, such an opiniuu as this it is impos•
siblu to regard the Nary clamour raised against the
successor of Dr. licsGE.rrs, now tha Archbishop of