The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-15 00:00:00

THE REV. J. E. GLADSTONE

So far as the ordinary tribunals of the country can
decide, the case which was pending between the
Rev. J. E. GLADSTONE and the Bishop of LONDON
has been determined in favour of the latter. It is
said that an appeal to the House of Lords will take
place, but probably nothing of the kind will occur,
for it was a hopeless case from the first. The Bishop
possesses the power to withdraw his license for the
performance of divine service and the administra-
tion of the sacraments, from a certain unconsecrated
chapel. He has so withdrawn it, not having the
same confidence that the duties will be successfully
discharged. He also possesses the power to forbid
a certain clergyman to officiate within the limits of
his diocese, and he has so forbidden Mr. GLAD-
STONE. This is the substance of the whole matter.
It is clear that such extensive powers should not
be exercised for party purposes, or on slight or
capricious grounds ; and this the law assumes. It
is equally clear that authority to maintain order
must reside somewhere; and that a clergyman,
however pure his intentions, should not use the
pulpit which he occupies. for the utterance of tirades
against the hierarchy. We have no doubt that the
reverend gentleman will readily obtain an opportu-
nity for clerical usefulness in some other diocese,
and that in future he will advocate such reforms as
he seeks for, in a more temperate and prudent way.

MR. CARDWELL'S ELECTIONEERING
TRICKS OF THE PAST WEEK.

OUR honourable misrepresentative, and his fellow-can-
didate, Mr. Ewart, have during the past week been en-
deavouring to mystify the electors in various parts of the
borough, occasionally at what their newspapers call
" overflowing public meetings," but chiefly in hole-and-
corner gatherings, the admission to which was by ticket,
not procurable by any but their known supporters. How
much of the actual proceedings of these private meetings
have been permitted to transpire, we do not know ; whe-
the Whig aristocracy, and their candidates, ventured,
whilst thus in the shade of privacy, to own their subjec-
tion to the party who wield the votes of the fabulous ele-
ven hundred Irish Romanists, or this little matter is ma-
naged in still closer conclave. We shall be enabled, how-
ever, to cull from the published reports a few extracts,
sufficient to shew the peculiar tact with which Mr. Card-
well, in particular, adapts himself and his professions to
the various audiences and classes whom he addresses.
The following specimen may be headed his

ATTEMPT TO BLARNEY THE FREEMEN.—At a meeting
on Tuesday evening, of the electors of Kiri:dale, Vaux-
hall, and Scotland Wards, Mr. Card

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held, particularly of the freemen of Liverpool, to agitate
against us. Well, I said, that is curious. It, was the
freemen of Liverpool who, when nobody else had votes,
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