The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-04 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

CHARGES OF MISCONDUCT BT A CORONEE.—In the Lora
Chancellor's Court charges brought by Sir Chas. Anderson,
Bart., and others against Mr. Charles Henry Holgate,
coroner of the Parts of Lindsey, in Lincolnshire, have been
heard. It seems that the justices were so dissatisfied with
the conduct of the gentleman in question, that a committee
was appointed to report as to the• accuracy of some
rumours that were heard. The committee reported
to the effect that Mr. Holgate's conduct when applied
to for the purpose of or when holding an inquest had been
indecent and improper, that he had excluded medical wit-
nesses on certain occasions, and that he had behaved
improperly with regard to pecuniary transactions, viz., in
takingreceipts from witnesses and neglecting to pay them,
&c. In one of the affidavits the deponent stated that
the coroner was accustomed to smoke a short pipe at
inquests, and had refused to hold an inquiry
as to the death of an old woman, aged 80, when applied
to by the police, and on that particular occasion he made
use of the words, " It is time the old devil was dead,
unless she thought she was going to livo for ever." In
the affidavit filed by Mr. Holgate he denied gene-
rally most of the accusations, but admitted smoking
a short pipe at inquests. After hearing the arguments
the Lord Chancellor delivered a long and lucid judgment,
concluding with saying that he had no alternative but to
direct that a writ of de coranatore cxonerando should be
in ned.

ISI£OII,TANT TO SIIMIEHOLDERS.—In the same court the
Lord Chancellor decided the case of Kent v. the Freehold
Land and Brickmaking Company. The plaintiff,Mr. Kent,
applied for 100 shares in the company, which had been
established very shortly before, on the 7th of November,
1865, and paid a deposit. They were allotted to him on
the 16th of NoveMber, and he received the certificate for
them on the 3rd of January, 1866. In February and in
May in that year calls were made of £1 a share, and paid
by him. On the 2nd of April he received a quarter's
dividend of £6 14s. 11d. A. second quarter's dividend
became due on the 16th of May, but was never paid.
On the 13th of August he received notice of a third call,
but having in the meantime, as he alleged, discovered
gross misrepresentations in the prospectus, on the faith of
which he had applied for his shares, be did not pay it ;
and on the Bth of October, an action having been com-
menced against him, ho filed a bill against the
company, the directors, and the promoter, to have the
register of the company rectified by removing his name.
Ile charged, among other things, that the prospectus con-
tained frandulent misrepresentations as to the price at
which the property which the company was to work had been
sold, the proportion of capital subscribed by the directors,
and the number of shares taken by the vendor of the property.
The Lord Chancellor said that he conld not distinguish
the case from that decided by the House of Lords, in re
Overend, Gurney, and Co., and the bill would therefore
be dismissed.

JUDGES AND THEIR PRIVILEGES.—In the Court of Ex-
chequer, the important question of " Can a judge be sued
for slander uttered in his judicial capacity ?" was decided.
Mr. Scott, an accountant and scrivener, brought an action
in which he claimed £2,000 damages against Mr. J. Stansfeld,
the well-known county court judge of one of the districts
of Yorkshire. The words were made use of when a judg-
ment was delivered, and were these : " You are a harpy,
preying on the vitals of the poor." The defendant
relied on the 15th and 16th Vic., cap. 54, sec. 6, and
9th and 10th Vie., cap. 95, sec. 138 ; but the plaintiff,
in his replication thereto, set forth that the
words were made use of maliciously and with-
out cause. The Lord Chief Baron, in his judgment,
said that the court were of opinion that no action could be
maintained against a county court judge for language
spoken by him in the hearing of a case, even if it were
spoken as alleged in the replication.

THE CHAEGES AGAINST A CHURCH CLERGYMAN.— The
case of Moss v. the Rev. Joshua Charles Edwards, rector
of Ingoldswell, Lincolnshire, has been proceeded with,
and is now complete, with th, e 3eption of the judgment.
The defendant, who is charged with immoral conduct with
two young women, conduettd his own case, and called the
females in question, who denied that anything impronAv
had occurred.
THE CHARGE AGAINST A RAILWAY SEMI kRY.—At
the Mansion House, Edward Bannister Ca ow was
charged on remand with forging six cheques. It will be
remembered that the prisoner was secretary to the Ellam
Valley Railway Company, and absconded, and the next
time he was heard of was in Wbitecross•street prison.
After he had been absent a short time it was discovered
that six cheques were missing from the cheque-book.
Evidence was given that the accused, on the same day
that two of the cheques were drawn, had changed some
banknotes for a large amount for some of less value. The
prisoner was again remanded.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST POLICEMEN.-At the Gates-
head Police-court, Police-constable Wilson, stationed at
Ryton, and Police constable Young, stationed at Craw-
crook, were charged with a very serious offence. A pit-
man was sent to prison for two months for stabbing
Wilson ; but their superintendent has since discovered that
they committed perjury, and has made a charge against
them. The case was adjourned fur a week.

EMBEZZLEMENT.-At the Portsmouth Borough Police-
court, on Wednesday, Mr. Henry Hollingsworth; the late
secretary to the Southsea Pier Company, was committed
for trial on a charge of embezzlement. Bail (himself in
£5OO and two sureties of £250 each) was accepted.

0 U TERE AK OF A NEW CATTLE PLAGII E. —.A
very subtle and terribly fatal disease is now raging among
the cattle in some portions of Illinois. Over one hundred
head have fallen victims to it within the past few days. It
usually kills in a few hours. No premonitory warnings
are given, and although all the skill in the possession of
ordinary practitioners has been brought to bear upon it, it
yields to no remedy or treatment, and is fatal in every
instance. Its name and nature have not yet been de.
termined.

BULLION. —The computed real value of the regis-
tered imports of gold and silver bullion and specie into the
United Kingdom from various countries during 1867 was
£23,821,047. Of this sum £61,446 came from Russia,
£216,682 from the ITanse Towns, £37,143 from Holland,
£23,338 from Belgium, £1,338,462 from France, £341,244
from Portugal, A z:ires, and Madeira, £26,751 from Spain
and Canaries, £,',9,973 from Gibraltar, £54,312fr0m Malta,
£52,328 from Turkey, £106,388 from .Egypt, £149,430
from the Nest Coast of Africa, £22,425 from British
possessions in Africa, £205,328 from British India,
£5,801,7f 0 from Australia, £2,335 from British Columbia,
£148,718 from the British North American Provinces,
27,840,862 from Mexico, South America (except Brazil),
and West Indies, £688,141 from Brazil, £6,408,006 from
the United States, and £66,005 from other countries.
By a comparison of imports during the past nine years,
it appears that those of gold reached their maximum
in 1866 and their minimum in 1861, and that the
largest imports of silver occurred in 109, and the smallest
in 1861,

ARCHBISHOP M.ANNING Al BRADFORD.

Archbishop Manning assisted at the opening of
a large Catholic school at Bradford on Friday. The
building is situated in Grafton-street, Manchester-
road, where there are a vast number of Catholics,
and, until a chapel is built upon the same site, will
be used for purposes of worship. It is a substan-
tial erection of stone, and is 100 feet in length by
32 feet in width. There are two stories, and it is
the second one that is to be used as the chapel.
The school has cost about £2,000. A debt of
about £9OO rests upon the building ; but it is due
to the congregation of St. Mary's chapel, who have
promoted the work, to state that, although they
are for the most part composed of the labouring
cla,ses, they have been able, in the course of two
years and a half, to pay for the site, which is an
extensive one, care having been taken that it should
be large enough to afford room for a house for the
resident priest as wall as for the school and con-
templated chapel. In addition they have con-
tributed the amount which has been obtained for

,he erection of the school, and they are convinced

that their efforts in this direction have not been
made too soon, from the fact that already there are
250 children under tuition in the new building.
The ceremony of opening was exceedingly im-
pressive. In the morning High Mass was sung by
Canon Browne, of St. Anne's, Leeds, the Rev. W.
B. Scrutor acting as deacon, and the Rev. T.
Loughran as sub-deacon. The Archbishop of
Westminster and the Bishop of Beverley assisted
pontifically. The attendants at the throne of his
Grace were the Rev. J. Illingworth and the Rev.
A. Riddell, and Canon Motler (St. Mary's, Brad-
ford), whilst at the throne of the Bishop the at-
tendants were Canon Walshaw (Sheffield), and the
Rev. Philip Vavasour. A large number of clergy
occupied seats in the sanctuary. The music selected
was from Righini's Grand Imperial Mass, and was
caresully sung under the leadership of Mr. Stephen•
Scholey, the Bradford " Society of Classical liar-.
monists " taking the instrumental parts. After the
first Gospel, the Archbishop preached from the
words in the first chapter of the Acts—" Ye shall
receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come
upon you ; and ye shall be witnesses unto me both
in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria,
and unto the uttermost parts of the earth." Having
described the circumstances under which this
promise was made, be said there was a peculiar fit-
ness in such thoughts on such a day as that. 1 hey
were met together to open one more of those lowly
sauctuarieaof the holy Catholic Church in England,
in the midst of a country in which the glories of the
holy Catholic Church of other days stood, ruined
indeed, but in majesty and splendour speaking the
vastness and power and grandeur of ,the times that
were gone by. The Catholic Church of to-day did
not clothe itself in the splendour and the symmetry
and the magnitude of days that were past. It as-
sembled in guest chambers—in upper rooms such as
that. Its beginnings were in humility, and, in the
eyes of men, in weakness, but in the sight of God
in power—in the same power, which our Lord pro-
mised to his Apostles when he was parted from
them—in that power which descended upon them
on the day of Pentecost. And there was another
reason why such thoughts were fitting to them.
They were keeping the octave of the great Apostle
of England, Saint Augustine. Some twelve hun-
dred and more years ago, when England had once
again been flooded with Paganism—when the light
of faith which once burned brightly was ex-
tinguished by the inundation of idolatry and un-
belief—from the side of the Pontiff, the Vicar of
Jesus Christ, St. Gregory, the great in name and

great in deeds, Saint Augustine came, the Evange-
list and the Apostle of Saxon England. The light
which he kindled had never been extinguished
From that hour to this the light of the faith of Jesus
Christ had burned in every land, and its radiance

had spread from sea to sea. The witness of the
Apostles had been here. For a thousand long
years in its brightness and its power, and afterwards
in darkness, the light shone—pent up it might be,
in secret places, under the earth, in the mountain
side, in the lowly dwellings of the city, its splendour
veiled, and its majesty overcast, bu burning still
bright and unchangeable as in the beginning. Why
was it that for more than twelve hundred years the

Cathoic Church and the Catholic faith in England,
from St. Augustine until now, had in the midst of
persecution stood steadfast, immutable, unimperish-
able-7the same always—never varying in jot or iu
tittle? Why was it that round about that unity
of the Church and of the faith there were shifting,
varying, fleeting, dissolving, and vanishing forms
of Christian opinion and of religious thought ? It
all pointed to one truth—that there was a divine
rule of faith ; that that divine rule of faith was
vital to the perpetuity of truth ; that those who
adhered to it were inevitably united to the truth,
whilst those who departed from it inevitably and
by a necessary law lost hold of that truth and
forfeited the light of faith. Let him, therefore,
set clearly before them what that rule of faith was
on which the Catholic Church and her children
rested ; and also what was that rule of faith, if be
might 130 spoak, which later days had tried to sub-
stitute in its stead, and in trying to substitute which
bad failed to retain the faith. In one word the
rule of faith in the Catholic Church was the Word

of God. That Word of God was in part written
and in part revealed. That which was unwritten
was before that which was written, and was the in-
terpretation of that which was written afterwards.

The Catholic Church retained the whole of that
revelation of God, whether written or unwritten,
with a jealousy and a zeal for truth which had
never changed. More than this, it bad retained it
not only by a human jealousy and a human zeal for
the truth of God, but by Divine assistance and
guidance it Lad secured the traditions and in-
heritance of truth as they were from the beginning
and would be to the end. On the other hand,
those who had rejected this rule of faith and who
believed that the written Word of God, or Holy
Scriptures, was the full, complete, and only rule of
faith, had entered upon a path so devious, so
wandering, and so dirk,—and had placed their feet
upon an incline so slippery and so perilous—that
three hundred years had sufficed to show the im-
possibility of such a rule. In the first place, the
Apostles, illuminated by the Holy Ghost, were sent
into the world to teach the revelation of Jesus
Christ, and wherever they went that truth, harmo-
nious in all its parts, perfectly definite and certain,
excluding all possibility of error, clear and intelli-
gible iu every detail, was preached by them to the
world. The nations of the world became disciples,
and as they believed they were baptized ; they
learned what they called a creed—the summary
of truth which constituted the necessary faith of a
Christian man. This, then, wa3 the first founda-
tion of their faith, and the faith which was then
declared to the world was incorporated, registered,
and recorded, and made permanent before as yet
so much as a Gospel or epistle was written. What
was the Church itself but that one universal and
indivisible body, the in-dwelling of the Holy
Spirit, of which the Saviour spoke when he said,
"There is one body and.one spirit," &c. That one
visible Church spread throughout the world in
fulfilment of our Lord's promise, given at the
time of His ascension. When the Apostles went
to their rest their witness was perpetuated by the
permanent testimony of the Church that they
had founded. More than this, the Sacraments
which the Church administered were more or less
pregnant with revealed truths; some of them
contained many doctrines. For example, baptism
taught original sin ; for why else should infants be
baptised. It likewise taught them regeneration
by the Holy Ghost. Again, the sacrament of the
altar taught them the incarnation of God. In the
Blessed Sacrament the Body and Blood of Christ

were preeilt, and, therefore, the Godhead anC

manhood in one person full and perfect. In the
sacrament of penance they were shown the power
of absolving sin, the power of the Holy Ghost iu
absolution ; and in the sacrament of order the
authority and organisation of the whole Church
were set forth. And so with all their sacraments :

they contained a multitude of truths. Whereso-
ever the Apostles went they administered these
sacraments from the beginning ; and, therefore,