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right to dine in the Hall. In point of law it may be. d-oubtrul
whether against the present owners the Benchers can legally
shut the Hall doors, or force a substitution in money upon
them. 'Should the glaring injustice of their new rules become
apparent to themselves, and if any Gentleman thus situated
wishes to try the xiint,' and will, through your Paper, express
that intention, I doubt not he would be, amply supplied
funds' For that purpose the purse of the writer of thus artick
shall be at his service, because, in such a cause, to resist gross
and indelicate oppression directed against the Profession, his
purse, his heart, his hand, and those of many of his fellows, arc
at all times open.
_

If an Attorney applies to- be called, whose character is
not of the highest kind, the Renchers have the power to
exclude, and ought to have it. Let them require high cha-
racter as indispensable, but this power is sufficient for all.honour-.
able purposes, and it is not creditable to them- to seek to firwe
the power of rejecting Attornies as a cast unfit for competition.
When itbecomes a reproach for Attornies to been their
Members, the 13enchers of our Inns of Court must take from
their heraldic walls some of the brightest escutcheons that adorn
theth. Moral 'Character and inttllectual attainments ought to
be the only indispensable requisiLS to a Student of sufficient
standing, and ,to seek for more, from any man .is to oppress
him." M. T.
No'r±..--My knowledge of lawyers is limited ; tut when the
consider. that not one-fiftieth part of the Barristers-ifave bacr4.
Attornies' Clerks, the instances referred to prove that they have
been generally selected to fill the highest and the Most honour-
at le ranks in the profession.

THE CLERGY.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DUBLIN.
REVEREND MR. MURRAY V. TUE LORD PRIMATE.

This cause, which has excited so much interest, seas yester-
day, Friday, 6th inst., discussed at considerable length; The
arguments turned prinCipally on the jurisdiction of the Couyt
of Ring's Bench, theSolicitaraGer.cial contending that it had
no authority-to-grant a. Mandamus in such a case as the present.
Mr. PENNEravaER, on the other, side, .spoke with !sleet
atili y. He entered particala2ly into the question of jtrasdic-
tion. His client,' he said, was a G-entleman against whose
moral character nothing had been asserted, and lie had. always
canscientioasly acquiesced in the doctrines and precepts of the
Established`Chureh. Nc had been willing to submit himself
to a public examination as to his learning, and to lay all the
sermons he ever preached before his Gracc,•: for his scrutiny.—
On former occasions, the- Primate himself had attested his
zeal ; he had offered to provide for him, and actually did pro-
vide for him, and it was only in consequence of his Grace's libe-
rality having been fettered by previous engagements that the
plan for his advancement had been at that tame given up. In
the Archdiocese of Tuarn, however, a living had been offered
him, and it was wit'a < aiew of proceeding thither the he -sherd
the certificate ; the refusal of which was the cause of the pre-
sent eaapheation.
Sholl such a man then be condemned Unheard ? He
woad be so unless their Lordships condescended- to listen
io hi n.. •The Lord Primate had refused to call him before
him, or hear his • defence in any shape, and the Learned
Counsel was therefore justified in saying that it was altogether
a very arbitrary act of condemnatibri::, He believed in- his con-
science, that the dictates of his own heart did not urge his Grace
to use his client as he did r; but he had been imposed uponond
kid proceeded to give sentence upon a hitherto unimpeached
character without heating a word-on the side of the injured.
party.. character,:
up to this moment • and after Mr, MUrray-had
given in his affidavit, no answer wciate.Ner had been. to it,
and no rumour or report had transpired by which the fault
with which he is charged can be ascertained._Tlie Lord Pri-
mate, in his affidavit, stated, that his conduct wz,s delibearate,
and originated in the met. conscientious motives. But on what
grourAs, is Mr. Murray acCiased ? The affidavit declined speak-
:arias to that. Is not this, then, an arbitrary proceeding ? The •
Learned Ceunsel Conceived it was, and if he was right in .this
opinion, the Coe of,,King's- Bench should. interfere and not
allow a human being, however obscure, to be trampled on. No
one should be condemned without a trial. This was particu-
larlyillustrated in the iass of D. Bentley ; the 'University :of j
Oxfbid took. his :degrees from 'him unheard, and the King's
Beneh at once restored" him w them, heciluse • the act_ was an-,
arbi.trzTy one. Could that 'be called judgment whi-al; p7O • -
notweed on ex pLt-te !atatemcutp, I If the Canon Law had been,
infringed, by his Client,- why not state at once the partiCaalaasofi
h's transy;tession ? lid has a temporal fight, as Well as a h.cpe.
of ecclesiastical preferment, to induce him to demand this. Th
Primate has broadly- stated in his affidavit, that his client had
transgressed the Canon Law, but had,not stated the
Now it wec, -a feet, thnt oho article, of the Canon Law enacted, -
that the clergy should wc.ir black silk caps. Now slap--
pose that Mr. Murray was afflicted Tull rheumatism, and au-
-, iicd to wear a red woolle.n laugh)—the Primate Might..
s so. and that Would appiair- at Last to justify- the charge.
The Primate was merely hsltcd to gi7e, his approval—not to
pledge lihriself for the futroworood &induct of his elicnt, but to
testify his knowleslze as to the manner in which his client had
heretofore conquctel hunselt. itefoze concluding, the Learned
Counsel begged leave m observe, that it was with regret. Ms
client had been driven to see'.: aria remedy be mandarnts ; bnt
his character and hopes of procuring the future means 'of ex-
istence demanded it, and he truc.ed all the measures taken .
would-be viewed in a favourable

• Mr. Serjeant Joir followed on the same side, in a speeth of
considerable length, in the course of whichlie quoted many En-
glish law cases in support of his arfrumenti and among other
authorities the opinion of the 'late 'ford tllenborougli. Tnst
distinguished lawyer had " If 'the 'Bishop reflise
mine, or does it in such a careless or interested manner or to
create a reasonable doubt that he means to, cinde ; either
of these cases the Court will interfere. and of courS'z grant
the mandamus." it wan phini feain his aaan'er that tlie Pri-
mate had gone precipitat2l:i' itl.to the bu&ness and, that tie had
not informed hia mind cc:in-TA:At-4i' on :t. done upon
hearsay, upon surmises, upon had nvither Sum-
moned his client or a single witness and the
testimony of perhaps interested itn:tividltala, had bqez, i;sened
to by hi:: Grace, on a questicir, of Suel,i' awfhl i7.r.portalize to
his client.