The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-07 00:00:00

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CONTEMPORARY PRESS,

CHURCH DISCIPLINE BILL.
(From the Times of Friday.)
We have before inserted remarks from correspond-
ents on the subject of the Church Discipline Bill, and
therefore admit one deserving of attention to-day.
With respect to our opinion on this matter, we may
say, that the primary motive for bringing in such a
bill was to relieve bishops from the enormous expense
to which they were subjected in the prosecution, and
removal, if necessary, of immoral clerks. That, there-
fore, was the chief point to be attended to; and if the
avoiding of expense be positively effected by the pre-
sent bill, it has the chief merit which was sought for.
In looking over our correspondent's remarks, and com-
paring them with the schedule of the bill which we
have before us, we observe that what may be called the
contentious part of the suit begins only at clause 12.
Up to that point the proceedings in the Bishop's
Court, if any, must have been acquiesced in by both
parties, the accused and the accuser ; and no man will
have a subsequent right to complain of the decision of
a court before which it was prievously optional with
him to be tried or not. By clause 12, indeed, the Bi-
shop may either irresistibly hear and adjudge the cause,
with the assistance of three assessors (a barrister and
two of the clergy), or he may remove it by letters of
request to the Court of Arches. In 19 cases out of
20 we have no doubt that the latter will be the course
adopted. From this Bishop's Court there is an appeal
to the Archbishop; or, if the cases commence there,
from his Court of Arches to the judicial section of the
Privy Council. It would have been obviously better,
therefore, to have gone at once to the Court of Arches,
and then the case will stand simply thus :—An accused
clerk may appeal to his diocesan, and say, " My Lord,
you shall judge whether this charge against me be true
or not ; and if it is, I submit to your judgment ;" or
he may go without any intermediate stept to the Court
at Doctors' Commons.

That it is better to drop that intermediate court is
also clear from other causes. Suppose the clerk
charged. be a son or nephew of the bishop, can the
court of a diocesan thus circumstanced be put in mo-
tion ? Obviously not. And if, as our correspondent
justly suggests, the bishop has the right of presenta-
tion to the living of an ousted incumbent, can he be
thejudge in that case ? Obviously not again. Or will
lay patrons submit quietly to the deprivation of a rela-
tive—a son or nephew—by such machinery as the Bi-
shop's Court, with its assistant barrister and two cler-
gymen ? No. We, therefore, for our own part, see
no use in this . intermediate court. The bill went
through a committee last night, and is to be reported
on Monday.

Number of emigrants arrived at Quebec during the week
ending the 6th June, 1840—From England, 832; Ireland,
2,165 ; Scotland, 59 ; Lower ports, 7—Total, 3063.
DIVING OPERATIONS.—The corps of divers, theannounced
a
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command of Captain Mosley, R.N., which was
few weeks since, In the Constitution, as having arrived
harbour, for the purpose of instituting inquiries in the ,
deep sea" relative to the loss of the Havre, left Cove onp
Sa-
turday for London, to report the progress made in the ex-
amination of the vessel. The apparatus used on the occasion
remains in Cove, and it is expected that the scientific persons
engaged will shortly return to resume operations. The re-
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have belonged to the Britannia, a vessel sailing
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ters of marque," which was blown up about 35
near the spot where the Havre went down. The accident
believed to have occurred in consequence of carelessnessthe
of the cabin boy, in going into the magazine with a lh
candle. The divers were also engaged by the Alessrs.'lVltuerd
phy to examine the coast at Ballymacotter head, with refer-
ence to the loss of a sloop, laden with porter and hides, bound
for Youghal, wrecked about three weeks since, on which oc-
casion every soul on board (four in number) perished. The
sloop went down close to the shore, and, though the divers
made the most minute search, not a trace of the ill-fated
vessel could be discovered. It is presumed that the casks of
porter, being buoyant, drifted the vessel into deep water, but
In what direction it was impossible to discover.—Cork Con-
stitution.