The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-08 00:00:00

other respects

DR. HAMPDEN'S OBJECTORS.-It was argued that
such a case never had occurred, because an appeal to that
been necessary. What,
,s existed, not one
ns may have been alleged

court might never betor
during all the centuries Christianity h
person, some of whose_ opi

Le bench of bisho

Has the're been none elevated with " spiritual pride,"
none with "jealousies," none against whom some person
or another might not have alleged some sort of " immo-

ralities ?" And even if this were so, were there no per-
sons during all that period capable of making a false
charge—of drawing a false inference ? Where were the
sons of Belial at that time—a class not extinct in these
days, and who never fail to be forward in cases in which
they take so much delight ? But, suppose opposers ad-
mitted : observe what would happen. " Come forth,"
said the proclamation, " and offer your opposition in the
case of this person to be made a bishop." The answer
is, from one, " I knew this man at college 20 years ago,
and I can tell you of some irregularities in his life."
Another would say, " This person is justly suspected by
one of having poerformed the service in a state of inebriety."
A- third' might chaige him with " vanity." Another

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attack his conduct respecting his son. All that the
Pharisee blessed himself in being free from, these people
might falsely allege against the bishop. Be might know
Itions to be false and infamous ; the arch-
t think the accusers utterly unworthy of

belief, or know the charges to be false, but, nevertheless,
the inquiry must proceed, and though they should be dis-
proved, and the confirmation took place, still the fatal
calumny must remain. But how much is the case
strengthened when the charge is the unfathomable charge
of heresy, supported by extracts from books, probably
little understood, and by reported conversations, probably
imaginary, and, if real, difficult to be correctly repeated.
Thus the life of a bishop might be frittered away whilst
proceedings are pending against him, and his see might
be left without any occupant, to the detriment of the
church and of the people.—Lord Denman's Judgment in
Dr. Ha2npden's Case.

LORD DENMAN'S OPINION OF ARCHBISHOP CRAN-
MER.—In delivering his judgment against the issuing of
the mandamus in Dr. Hampden's case, Lord Denman
thus referred to a reflection cast by one of the counsel on
the memory of Cranmer :—" If I caught the remark, and
I believe I am correct, it was a severe reflection on that
great father of the English Protestant church, Archbishop
Cranmer. I understood it to have been said that the king
knew how obsequious an archbishop he had in Cranmer,
who would readily comply with the king's will. True,
Cranmer was not a blameless man ; far from it ; for
shortly before his death he showed a great want of firm-
ness •, but I may be permitted to say not greater than that
exhibited by the apostle whom the head of the church se-
lected from among his brethren as the rock upon which
that church was to be built ; [What a pity that in so no-
ble a defence such a Romish error should be introduced.
Ed. L.S.] and his death at least might have atoned for
this fault, and have saved his memory from such obser-
vations. I must say, I did not expect in this court of law,
and in the presence of so many learned lawyers, and in
the presence of so many of the faithful sons of the Church
of England, to hear the name of Cranmer introduced for
such a purpose, and I think it shows great excitement of
mind existing somewhere on the present occasion, whether
in the clients or in the counsel who made the remark. I
will say that I feel it is doubly the duty of this Court on
such a question as this to take care that it is not led away
by such impressions, or yields too much to the authority
of these eccesiastical powers, which, in my opinion, it has
been the duty of this Court, in all ages, to watch with pe-
Culler jealousy. If Henry relied on Cranmer as upon a
mean and servile churchman, who would truckle to his
caprices, he was wholly mistaken in his man. The arch-
bishop, nn more than one occasion, thoroughly thwarted
the monarch on points which the monarch was especially
bent upon carrying. He opposed him in the matter of
Anne Boleyn, and, despite Henry's utmost anger, mani-
fested himself the unswerving friend of the unfortunate
Queen ; and again, on the matter of the Six Articles, both
in and out of parliament, opposed the monarch, though it ,
was perfectly well known that the latter was determined by any counsel of his own free choice, if not previously BRADFORD.—wool rue nusmess uomg- 14 c... --,_„. 1,...,4
upon the extirpation of all views and doctrines contrary retained or engaged by office from the crown." With a character; as there is no giving way in price to meet, ta,der,
ers, the sales are small. The quantity in the growers re,
to his own by torture and death. spirit the very reverse of Sir Fitzroy Kelly's, Erskine far above an average of last year in February, when the eicil,
CIIIPTI/ItE ItEADERS.=-In the Year 1844 some noble-- ' braved and suffered thc- Hu catened --consequenues. " 1 natty waispositturr to sell, but without a miteriat reds'
men and gentlemen of the highest character, warmly at- was told in plain terms I was not to defend Pain. I did from the prices now sought, it cannot get into the c0n50,,,, to
tached to the church, and earnestly desirous of seeing its defend him, and I did lose my office." bands. Yarns: The small quantity of Yarns now cotrlea
fit clearly indicates that the production is to actual vri:
ala!
mission better fulfilled, formed an association for the pur- Can any man doubt what Erskine's conduct would have market
pose of employing laymen of approved character and corn- been if he had been placed in Sir Fitzroy Kelly's situation
ferritn„
petent acquirements in this work of household visitation in Miran v, Denman ? True, no Attorney-General would at the current prices. Mohair Yarns are siittill'uncienireced fir'sl4',
metosticaksv-e treirbmanacliienreyrysiolall
and teaching. Their efforts were to be confined to the have asked him to desert the plaintiff, and to betray his the spinners so engaged are generally busy. Pieces: 'Pee
populous parishes in London and Southwark. All was confidence as Sir Fitzroy Kelly has been asked—and not cent arrival of the Caledonia steamer from America Ilrof
to be done in concert with the parochial clergy,—the in vain. But suppose the Crown had presented Erskine brought many orders, the high price of money acting aso.atorl
orders'ior the tliTlesninnersirrattliiiieo.l op
reader, in every case, being either nominated or accepted with a retainer—had proposed to him to abandon a client nr,, being closed, causes outu4r tmumaritetionittehielasrhdilppinii'oreci
by the incumbent of the parish or district in which he was who for five years had acted on his advice—whose plead- :fie-oiening of the year. The home-trade houses yarseonot:eoC
to be employed, placed under his direction, and remove- ings he had settled—whose cause he had argued against active, and on the whole the transactions of the day ha" j
back
o.to giving
able by him at pleasure. To avoid all suspicion of irre- the Crown on demurrer—whose evidence he had advised been encouraging. ' • liti°'
gularity, and make this new agency more effective, by se- on—whose fees he had been deluged with ; suppose, we
complaint re,xl apill tentcheig
fur the s pastme me
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HUDDERSFIELD.—More goods this week have been diS ~,re:
curing its subordination to the higher officers of the repeat, the Admiralty of the last century to have reminded of inestigerCel
itsh Hall thaln forom some weeks past. In hptloiet re
general b
church, the sanction of the Bishops of London and Win- Erskine of a doubtful oath of office, and to have claimed houses
the dullestathgae:
chester was asked for and obtained. * * The associa- his services, what would have been that great advocate's have scarcely a week without the announcement of year
t°,,frtV
tion got to work, and incumbents, who began to make reply ? Rather than have complied with such a demand, failures affecting this district, which may easily account i"
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trial of it, half in doubt and half in fear, soon learnt to he would have torn the silk gown from his back, and have want of confidence that Op presses our trade. t'
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appreciate its value, and give to its founders their warmest donned with pleasure the stuff again ;he would have re- ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—There was a nutnerfoodo'll
gratitude and thanks. Men were found willing to labour nounced the post of Queen's counsel, and have been con- leg
aanbceettoefr bcootnhfitretyiecres
has
sd
restored.teelelnersin the
market
freo ill l‘s
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for God, with hearts quite warm enough, and lips quite tent to have sat, admired, and respected, in the utter Bar, good demand for fine and middle qualities of finisheda g,lel'e'
eloquent enough, to set plain, wholesome, saving truth for the remainder of his career. And such, too, we are which were sold at much the same prices as on this daY:poo;
before those to whom it was new and strange, to declare persuaded, would have been the mode in which more than There was rather more selling in coarse flannels and ',05,,
in fitting language the saint's hope and the sinner's doom, one of the present batch of Queen's counsel, vastly in_ Yorkshire goods than for several weeks past. Thereicer
and to assure men weary of their bondage that for them- ferior though they all may be in sensibility and chivalrous on modera
thii to
quantity of wool disposed of at fully as high Pr'
day we
selves they had tried God's service and found it perfect feeling to Erskine, would have escaped from the dilemma HosiERY AND LACE TRADES. The gtov.
freedom. It was discovered, moreover, that beyond all into which Sir Fitzroy Kelly's excessive tenderness of and silk', seems gradually improving. 't_
expectation. they were received with patience or with conscience and regard for his " oath of office " have pre. •in a more depressed condition. The draw,
kindness,—that a rude greeting at a first encounter, was cipitated him. We for Sir Frederick Thesiger's. in an improved state, and great activity pre
followed often by apologies when the visit was repeated,— more manly comprehension of professional honour, con- shops, but this, we regret to say, has many
bobbin net trade is yet in a state of considers
that the offer of instruction was taken as an act of Chris- duct more robust and becoming. We utterly disbelieve as the principal factory still continues to disc
tian faithfulness on the clergyman's part, and of Christian that the leaders of any one of our circuits would, without .
many nf them of twenty years standing. II
charity in his messenger. * * A hundred visits are no • a vigourous resistance, have responded to the Admiralty's we alluded last week has not stopped, but
unreasonable allowance for a single week. Five thousand retainer. For the credit of the Bar, there is, we are con- time to four hours per day. On all sides w
• -1.4.1.- ......1,-...,,A ~,, between the h.-;---' -- vinced, but one man for whom, under such circum- but distressed machine-owners, and of cour
. .. ..

A good deal of discussion has taken place in the press
as to the right of Sir F. Kelly to threw up his brief in a
case—Burow v. Denman—on being called on by the crown
to become counsel for the defendant, after he had become
acquainted with the plaintiff's case, through having been
previously retained as his counsel. The following article
from the Daily News on the point is worth perusing :
If the course pursued by Sir Fitzroy Kelly in the action
of Buron v. Denman, be in accordance with the prevailing
practice of the Bar, the last sixty years must have wit-
nessed a very melancholy decline of that high sense of
personal hunour and of professional independence which
distinguished and adorned it in times when some-
thing else than briefs and fees were in danger. How
different was Erskine's conduct under circumstances not
very dissimilar—involving at least the same principle !
On Tom Paine's prosecution by the Attorney-General in
1792, for the publication of the second part of the Rights
of Man, Erskine was, and not a little to his own annoy-
ance, retained for the defence. " Erskine," said Lord
Loughborough to him, " you must not take Paine's brief."
" I have been retained, and I will take it, by God ? " was
his noble reply. It was in vain that his friends remon-
strated—that a venal press questioned his loyalty—thasi t
was intimated to him, on behalf of the Prince of Wales,
that if he did appear for Paine, he must cease to be the
Prince's ' Gene--1--ti' F last ti --te-

_ attorney-Genera. _nat he was at —reatenes
with the old king's displeasure. " I took," writes Erskine
to Howell, " the liberty of claiming from his Majesty the
unquestionable right of the subject to make his defence

we have had to notice for some time; but, if anything, to,
are more inquiries for goods suited for the spring trade'"
that by both the home and foreign houses. There is 110
ceptibte alteration in prices, and stocks are not heavy

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