The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-10 00:00:00

SHARE MARKETS—(This Day)

THE DENISON CASE.

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The following letter from Mr. Archdeacon Denison,
relative to his case, appeared in the Union of last
night
Sir,—l am advised that, in applying to the Queen's
Bench for a mandamus to the J udge of the Court of
Appeal of the Province to entertain my appeal, it
would be irregular in me to place before the Court of
Queen's Bench, by way of affidavit, the wrong which has
been done me, under pretence of administration of lax,
throughout these proceedings.
Now, no instance of worse or more flagrant wrong is
to be found in the history of our courts of law ; and
as it appears to me that, even now, the public are
scarcely sensible of the fact, and as, however little many
of them may agree with me, they would all desire that I
should have a fair trial, I wish to be allowed, es briefly
as may be, to place before them in your columns the
principal ingredients of which the wrong has been com-
pounded.
The final issue of these proceedings is, no doubt, of
great moment to me, because, if adverse, it is my tem-
poral ruin ; but it is, I apprehend, of much greater.
moment to the Church of England that false doctrine
in respect of the Holy Eucharist should not be
established by construction of courts of law, as will be
the case if the doctrine of the Court at Bath be allowed
to stand. It is again of even greater moment to the com-
munity at large than to myself that the denial of sub-
stantial justice—which has, hitherto, been the rule in
these proceedings - should not escape exposure and
censure at the hands of a higher Court, and general
reprobation at the hands of the public.
My proposition is, that there has been the show, hut
not the reality, of an inquiry—the pretence, and at the
same moment, the refusal of a trial—that the tribunals
before which the case has been brought have been wholly
unfit to adjudicate upon it—and that there has been no
bona fide adjudication, because up to the present time
there has been no bona fide hearing.
I proceed to set out in detail the proofs of this propo-
sition :-
1. The commission was not constituted upon any just.
and equitable, or even intelligible, principle ; the con-
stitution of it was left to the prosecutor, who appears,
from the letter of the Archbishop to myself, published
in the Times, October 11, 1854, to have been allowed
to nominate all the members of it.
Upon this it became my duty to challenge every
member of the commission, in accordance with an old
and acknowledged rule of the law ecclesiastical ; and
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2. A. hearing was refused me either in person or by
counsel, upon the question before the commission.

3. Certain material words were omitted in the finding
of the commission, as in charge ; so that the doctrine
complained of and condemned is not my:doctrine.
4. The commissioners, having found themselves under
the necessity of acquitting me of holding any " Romish"
doctrine, and particularly the doctrine of transubstantia-
tion—that is to say, having found themselves under the
necessity—and this without bearing me—of acquitting
me of everything as alleged against me in respect of the
Holy Eucharist, which the Church of England has
condemned or censured, proceeded, nevertheless to con-
demn my teaching in toto, and to affirm that there was
thereupon prima facie ground for further proceedings.
5. Under the special and exceptional provisions of the
3d and 4th Vic., c. 86, now applied for the first time,
the Archbishop of Canterbury became the President of
the Court at Bath.

I am ready to make oath that, to the best of my know-
ledge and belief, the archbishop had dec:ared beforehand
in 1855—in what manner he should decide the
case, and to produce a witness to prAve this fact.
6. The Court at Bath refused to hear material evidence
disproving the truth of all the several charges against me.
7. As at Clevedon, so at Bath, by the omission of
certain material words, the doctrine condemned is not
my doctrine. There is even less palliation here for the
Court at Bath than for the Commission at Clevedon ;
because the words, though omitted in the charge at
Clevedon, had been inserted in the criminal articles at
Bath.

8. The proceedings at Bath were pressed on through•
out by the learned assessor, and without interference on
the part of any other member of the Court, with the most
indecent haste; showing very plainly a foregone conclu-
sion.

9. The right of appeal, which was never questioned,
but rather assumed throughout by the counsel for the
prosecution and by the Court at Bath, is now sought to
be interfered with on the part of the prosecution, and
has actually, at its instance, been denied by judgment of
Court of Appeal of the Province; so that I am now
compelled to go to the same Court which required the
archbishop to constitute his court in the diocese of Bath
and Wells, and of which it is impossible to suppose that
it, at that time, contemplated any difficulty in the way
of the ordinary remedy by appeal, for a mandamus to
require the Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Province
to entertain my appeal.
The interference with the free course of appeal on the
part of the prosecution, is the climax of wrong done me
under ipretence of law ; and, much as I had been pre-
pared to expect from the whole character of the pro-
ceedings against me, I confess myself to have been at
this point taken by surprise. I could not have supposed,
till now, that all considerations of common fairness and
decency could have been so resolutely put out of sight
by those who have originated and conducted this prose-
cution.

Certainly, if I had had the most remote suspicion that
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sions of the act 3 and 4 Vic., c. 86, which have been
made for the protection of the accueed, should be wrested
to his injury, I should have refused to allow any appear-
ance to be made on my behalf at Bath, and have let
judgment go by default ; because, as it was not possible
to expect justice at the hands of the Court at Bath,
if I had thought that there was any prospect of the law
being so wrested as to make the sentence of that Court
a final sentence—or even anything more than the sen-
tence of a Diocesan Court— I could have bad nothing to
do with so grievous a mockery of law rnd justice as that
presented by the entire conduct and proceedings of the
Court at Bath.

The above are the principal, but by no means the
only, ingredients of about as hideous an injustice as has
ever been sought to be perpetrated under the cover of
English law. I cannot expect that others should feel
each and every one of these things as I do myself ; but
it is my plain duty to others, no less than to myself, to
place them, as they are, before the Church and the corn
munity.
To be deprived of my endowments, and much more,
to be judged to be unfit by any court of law—however
incompetent—to have cure of souls in the Church of Eng-
land, is doubtless a heavy blow. But it is a small matter
when weighed in the balance against the reproach of
distorting a charge—packing a court—refusing a hear-
ing—wresting a statute--nullifying a Liturgy—dispa-
raging the Scripture—suppressing or rejecting facts—
prostituting forum of law, and denying justice.
Very faithfully yours,
GEORGE ANTHONY DENISON,
Archbishop of Tauntcm.
East Brent, Jan. 5, 1867.

be a moderate beginning.

THE SUN, LON rtuN, SATURDA EVEN'IN'G, JANUARY 10 1857

THE TURKISH NATIOZVAL BANK.

(From a Correspondent of the Times.)

CONSTANTINOME, Dec. 29.
I wrote to you in one of my last letters that the
affair of the National Bank had been more vigor-
ously taken up, and that orders had been given by
the Grand Vizier to the commission which was
named for this purpose by the late Ministry to do
something decisive. This has been attempted,
with what success you will see. As was expected,
the commission, after a rather stormy discussion,
came out the day before yesterday with a new pro-
ject. All the competitors were summoned to the
Porte, called in separately, and each received a
copy of the new project.
The project says that the Government, desirous
of establishing a bank, will grant an exclusive pri-
vilege for 30 years for the formation of an Imperial
and National Bank. The capital of the bank is to
consist of from 10,000,000/. to 12,000,000/. ster-
ling, of which 8,000,0001. wll be appropriated to
the redeeming of kalmes, sahims, and beshliks
(paper money and debased currency), and the rest
for purposes of commerce, industry, and agricul-
ture.

The statutes of the bank are to be framed after
the model of similar banks in France and England.
Adopting the principle of fusion, the contractors
oblige themselves to open subscriptions in England,
France, Germany, and Turkey, and leave these lists
open and free to everybody in those countries for a
certain time.
For all the advances which the bank may make
to the Government for the above-named purposes,
namely, the redeeming of the paper money and of
the debased currency, the Government will pay 6
per cent, at par and no commission.
The Government is to appoint the governor of
the bank and a limited number of directors ; the
rest of the directors are to be appointed by the
subscribers, in proportion to the sum subscribed by
each of the above-named four countries.
The contractors are to deposit 200,0001. sterling
as a guarantee.
The bank is to begin its functions six months
after the delivery of the firman.
I suppose it will not surprise you to hear that
the proposal was received with almost unanimous
astonishment. Indeed, three of the competitors,
the Ottoman Bank, the agents of the house of
Rothschild, and the representatives of the native
association, declared immediately that they could
not for one moment entertain the proposal. Messrs.
Wilkins alone, I hear, gave no decided refusal, and
promised to consider the project.
The first thing which must strike every one who
reads the project is, that the men who conceived it
must live in a far more remote fable land, secluded
I entirely from the rest of the world, and certainly
totally ignorant of what is passing in the money
market of Europe; for, unless they suppose that
the title and privilege of an imperial Bank in Tur-
key will lend the possessors the magic wand which
gilds everthing which it touches, they could not ask
the fortunate company to begin its life only with
a capital of 10,000,0001. to 12,000,0001. You
will know far better than we can here how im-
possible this would be even with the most favour-
able conditions ; how much less, then, with the
burdens with which the Imperial and National
Bank is to be charged, especially as the mode of
raising this large capital is the very way calculated
to prevent capitalists from embarking in the enter-
prise !
There would be, perhaps, capitalists willing to
advance, under guarantee, to the Turkish Govern-
ment the sums required for the withdrawal of the
debased currency and other purposes, but if these
sums are to form part of the capital of the bank
the thing becomes different, and I believe that
there will be not many who will lend their money
under the condition of being obliged to enter into
a commercial speculation of the nature of a bank,
and to identify themselves with its ups and clowns.
Then, to oblige the contractors to take upon
themselves from the first moment the withdrawal
of the paper money and debased currency to the
amount of two-thirds of the entire capital before
even this capital is got together, is making the
bank, so to say, insolvent before it is constituted.
Another not less important objection is the 6 per
cent. interest, which the Government promises
to pay at par and without a guarantee to the
bank for the advances made for the withdrawal
of the paper currency. Even with a Turkish
guarantee, very few will be fools enough to
place their money in an enterprise where the
greater part of the capital is to be invested
at 6 per cent., when they can get 6i per cent.
anywhere in Europe. The fact is, the Turks see
that Russia gives only 5 per cent, for railways, but
they don't see, it seems, that 16,0001. are promised
per mile on a road which on an average will cer-
tainly not cost more than 10,0001.
But the most absurd thing is the idea of fusion,
as understood by the commission, prescribing to
the company where to get their capital, as if it was
not enough to let them try whether they can get it
at all.

There would be perhaps no objection to have a
governor or commission appointed to see that the
statutes of the bank are executed ; but how can a
company agree to have "the limited" number of
directors appointed by the Government, who, igno-
rant of the a, b, c of finance, would be voting on
affairs which " their philosophy never dreamt of ?"
Thus it seems to me there is not an article in the
project which is not open to the strongest objec-
tion, and the whole is a valuable, or rather in-
valuable, specimen of Turkish financial wisdom.
The commission seems to think that financial

reform may be blown up as suddonly as soap
bubbles, instead of understanding that in a country
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in which such financial disorder exists there must

TITHE COMMUTATION, 1857.

LITERATURE.

Queen _Leta and the Mistletoe.. By George liaise.

Addey and Co.
Among the many little gift books for the holiday
season which make their annual appearance with
the holly, the etrennes, or the twelfth-cakes, the
present elegant little volume is not insignificant.
It is called "A Fairy Rhyme for the Fireside,"
and the introductory sketch informs us that it is
a legend of New Year's Eve. The prefatory chap-
ter is in prose, and presents us to a family group—
Mr. Doughty and his son and daughter. Their
conversation turns upon the mistletoe, and not-
withstanding their father's indignation, Frank and
Amy become fully convinced that a decided con-
nection exists between the white berries and the
world of fairies. Having arrived at this sage con-
clusion they proceed to put their ideas on the sub-
ject into verse, and a short time after they display
to the astonished Mr. Doughty a formidable manu-
script, relating the history of Queen Lceta and the
Mistletoe. It is a graceful fairy tale, pleasantly
told in verse, narrating the endeavours of the
kindly spirit to disseminate gladness round the
hearths that sheltered the favoured plant. How she
gathered her attendant sprites together—how she
gave them solemn warning to beware of the gloomy
spirit that obstructed their endeavours—what suc-
cess they met, and how the truant fairy became a
spider, we leave the reader to learn. The follow-
ing graceful passage is the conclusion of the poem.
The speaker is little Minnie, the gatherer of the
magic branch, just awoke from a slumber in which
the fairies were busy whispering to tier :
" Sister !" she cried ; " Oh, I have had a dream ;
I saw a crowd of creatures, all with wings,
About my head ; and, sister, they did seem
To whisper in my ear most pretty things !
I think I hoar their loving voices now,—
They seem to flutter still around my brow.
"One said, Fair child ! be evermore a child
In meekness and in gentleness and truth;
Be still, as thou art now, so pure, so mild,
And Time shall never rob thee of thy youth !' •
Another said, May Care thy bosom spare !'
But, Sister, what is Time ? and what is Carl)?
"Another said, Sweet sleeper, may the grace
Of heart and feature which is thine to-day
Through Sin or Sorrow never lose its trace,
Or suffer early trial, or decay !'
And then again she said it o'er and o'er ;
Sister, I never heard these things before !
"Another whispered, 'May thy joyful way
Be ever sunned by long-enduring love,
As true, as fond, and earnest as to-day;
And Death forbear one friendship to remove !'
But what is this the pretty Spirit saith ?
What is it, darling Sister,—what is Death ?"
And loving little Minnie clapped her hands
With gushing laughters, while the watchers place
The chapet on her brow, and, 10, she stands
Embodied happiness and childish grace !
. . . Must such bright lineaments of Gladness fade ?
Life's uses such a thing of light o'ershade ?

And thus the New Year dawned upon the Old,
And thus those lovers Ind their wish, and parted.. .
We too give place, our halting numbers told,
To Darkness and the Cricket, merry-hearted,
Whose "cheer-up ! cheer-up !" sung with all his might,
Makes echo to the pulses of the night.
The volume is suitably illustrated on steel by the
author, who merits the thanks of all the lovers of
fairy lore for his pleasing and appropriate legend.

Notices to Correspondents. Houlston and Stone.

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