The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-19 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

THE CORPORATION OF LIVERPOOL V. CHIPPENDALE.
In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Thursday, Mr.
Stuart called the attention of the Court to this case, in
which, on the previous day, his Honour thought that the
defendant was entitled only to 40s. costs, under Lord El-
don's order. The facts were the plaintiff had obtained
special leave to give:notice of motion, which, however, it
was stated by the counsel in court, was abandoned. It
had been thrown out that the Lord Chancellor thought
the order only applied to cases where the notice was aban-
doned by non. appearance in court. It was arranged that
the matter should be mentioned again.
It appears usual for the Lord Chief Justice to appoint
his son, if he has one, to the office of Associate to the
Court, worth about 2,000 a-year. Immediately on the
appointment of Lord Campbell as Chief Justice he wrote
to the Hon. Thomas Denman, who held the office under
his father, requesting that Mr. Denman would continue
to be his associate. This was, however, declined by Mr.
Denman. who reminded Lord Campbell that he had
sons of his own to fill the office.

THE BEDFORD MARRIAGE CASE.—The government
prosecution against the Rev. M. James, incumbent of the
above district, comes on at the approaching Liverpool
assizes. The John Bull of Saturday says, with reference
to the case :—" The persons, scarcely beyond the years
of childhood, (the man a Separatist, and the woman just
on the point of confinement,) presented to the Rev. M.
James the certificate of the superintendent-registrar, ac-
cording to 6 and 7 Will. IV., and 1 Viet., c. 22, and
thereupon demanded of him the solemnization of matri-
mony, according to the rites and ceremonies of the Eng-
lish Church. It was too evident that this mode of proce-
dure had been adopted to evade as much as possible the
clergyman's notice, and consequently his rebuke ; for
which reason, to prevent the church being outraged and
profaned, and to vindicate her service from (it is to be
feared) its too often desecration, the incumbent declined
the application. The clerk of the Board of Guardians
having taken up the matter in opposition to the clergy-
man, a correspondence ensued with the Home-office, and
eventually it was intimated to Mr. James by the Treasury
solicitor, that instructions had been received from the
home secretary to institute a prosecution against him.
The reason assigned for refusing to marry the parties was
the absence of confirmation in one of them, as the mar-
riage service of the church proceeds upon the supposition
that the parties are in a condition (though it is not impe-
rative) to receive the holy communion, from which an un-
confirmed person is prohibited unless he be ' ready or
desirous of being confirmed.' The prosecution being in-
stituted by the government, will leave this point untouched.
The question to be tried is, whether the certificate of the
registrar is absolutely and unconditionally binding upon a
clergyman."

IRELAND.
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An attempt is making to establish a Sailors' Home at

The Bishop of Down has given £2O to the Belfast
baths and washhouses.

The Lord-Lieutenant has directed several resident ma-
gistrates to proceed to the counties of Down and Armagh
immediately.
Some persons have been convicted for one of the re-
cent incendiary fires in the county of Down, and sen-
tenced to 10 years' transportation.
The owners of property in Dublin fear that much depre-
ciation in its value will take place by the removal of the
Lord Lieutenant.
The Ribbonmen have been long preparing for a pro-
voking display on St. Patrick's Day in Ireland, but the
Orangemen, although severely taunted, have, as usual,
declined to offer the slightest molestation.
The Queen and Prince Albert have subscribed £5O
towards the funds for providing a supply of seeds for
green crops for the peasantry in the south and west of
Ireland.
The Lord Lieutenant refuses to bring before the Synod
of Ulster Lord Londonderry's complaint against the
Presbyterian ministers of Down for agitation with land-
lord and tenant.

On Sunday morning last two men, named Hardy and
Devlin, met to fight in Ballinliss, county Down, and the
consequence was, that there was a general engagement,
and many wounds and serious injuries were inflicted.
It is stated that the potato crop of this year, if it es-
capes even with a partial blight, will be fully double the
extent of last season. Emboldened by the splendour of
the weather, the Irish farmers are directing their whole
attention to its culture, early sowing being now the
panacea for the prevention of failure.

Saunders' Newsletter says that the contemplated ar-
rangement respecting the abolition of the Lord Lieu-
tenantcy is to create a Secretary of State for Ireland, with
a seat in the Cabinet; and to transfer to him, by Act of
Parliament, such of the executive rights as are at present
vested in the Lord-Lieutenant. The prerogative rights
will, of course, remain with the Queen.
At the Limerick Assizes, two brothers, named Matthew
and William Gavan, were capitally convicted, on Satur-
day, before Mr. Serjeant Stork, for the murder of a man
named John Ryan, on the 7th of September last. It
appeared that the murder was an act of revenge, the mur-
dered man having arrested the father of the convict for
debt, and thrown him into prison, where he died.
At King's County Assizes, on Thursday, John Ryan
was found guilty of the wilful murder of Staff Sergeant
James Grant, on the 2d. Nov., 1848, and sentenced to be
hanged. The prisoner heard the sentence unmoved. At
the conclusion he looked up to the gallery where bis
mother was, and said, " come to the gaol to see me to-
morrow; as I am to die, I will die like a man." (To the
Judge) " Good evening to your lordship."
INGENIOUS ROBBERY IN TIPPERARY.—On Tuesday
some fellows entered the farm-yard of Mr. Pierce Power,
Priorstown, and took out the centres of two stacks of
oats which were there. Having carefully cnt the ears off
therefrom they replaced them again, and decamped with
their booty. The darkness of the night prevented them
arranging the sheaves so compact as before; and this
being observed next morning, caused an investigation to
be instituted. Three persons have been apprehended.
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.—The Limerick cor-
respondent of a Dublin paper says :—" The judges could
not get through their business, and the city records have
made remanets,' which is a tremendous hardship to the
parties. Never was there such weather. A spring assizes
in Limerick without rain is quite unprecedented. The
people accept the omen, and are selling their beds actually
to get seed potatoes. Though we had not many heavy
cases, the number of petty thefts is quite enormous ; and
one pretty strong proof of the extent of demoralisation
among the people is this—although the population has
been reduced at least 25 per cent., the magistrates say
they cannot spare a single policeman."
THE USES OF A LORD-LIEUTENANT.—" The Castle of
Dublin" is thus defined in the first part of " the Repeal
Dictionary, by John O'Connell, Esq., M.P." :—" Castle
(of Dublin.)—A moral sink ! The focus of corruption,
tyranny, and insult, during Tory rule. The focus of cor-
ruption and impertinence, during Whig rule." (J'est
pourquoi, the said John Connell, Esq., M.P., has pre-
pared petitions to Parliament against the removal of the
Viceregal Government, and calls upon the people of Ire-
land to join him in the cry. He is an admirer of sinks, a
stickler for focuses (pro aril et focis,) and will not tamely
submit to have his nose defrauded, or his moral sense de-
prived of the slightest whiff of corruption.
THE PROCESSIONISTS OF DOLLY'S BRAE.--The grand
jury of the county of Down has ignored bills of indictment
preferred by the Crown against John Jardine and others,
for unlawfully aesembling at Dolly's Brae, on the 12th of
July last. How any jury of ho-'wt men could have found

such bills we are at a loss to imagine ; the tittter a:mammas
of Lord Clarendon and his officials, is too notorious to
permit the entertainment of the slightelt feeling of sur-
prise at the *ending of the bills before the jury. The
legislature, filial its branches, has justpassed an act declar-
ing such assemblages to be in future illegal, and admitting,
by the very fact of that statutory declaration, that up to
Tuesday last, there was no statute or common law forbid-
ding them, in existence.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.
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OrroßD.—ln a Convocation, holden on Thursday, the
following degrees were conferred :—Masters of Arts:
Rev. William Henry Robert Merriman, Brasenose,
grand compounder ; Rev. Richard Vincent, Brasenose;
Henry Beilby William Milner, fellow of All Souls; Rev.
Robert Blayney Wright, scholar of Worcester ; Rev.
Alfred Charles Smith, Christ Church ; Rev. Hudson
Boyce Pruen, Pembroke.—Bachelors of Arts: Charles
Henry Townsend, Lincoln; George Grey Byrne, Oriel.
On the 14th instant Thomas Alfred Stowell (son of the
Rev. Hugh Stowell, M.A., Hon. Canon of Chester) was
elected Bridgman Exhibitioner at Queen's College, Ox-
ford.

We are informed that the Rev. Mr. Bennett has
" yielded to the tears of his congregation," in Wilton-
crescent, and will not carry into effect his terrific threat
to abandon the Church of England to its fate. Had his
congregation been inclined to move with the rev. gentle-
man his decision might have been different.--Record.—
Lord John Russell has relinquished his pew in Mr. Ben-
nett's church.
THE GORHAM CASE.—In reference to the recent deci-
sion of the judicial committee of the privy council on this
case, the Rev. G. A. Denison, M.A., vicar of East Brent,
has read in the vestry of his church, and then transmitted
to the bishop, solemn protests " in the name of the most
Holy Trinity." In both he recapitulates the facts of the
case. In the first he protests against the state of the law
which empowers the judicial committee to take cogni-
zance of matters of doctrine, and pledges himself to use
all lawful means to prevent the continuance of such law.
In the second he warns all Christian people of his parish
to beware of being moved or influenced by the decision in
the least degree, and pledges himself to use all lawful
means to obtain, by a synod of the church, a declaration
as to the doctrine of the church on regeneration by bap-
tism.
The Times is satisfied that the judgment in Mr. Gor-
ham's case is the only one that could be arrived at. The
Chronicle says it will prove perfectly satisfactory to no
one except Mr. Gorham. The Herald conceives that
the decision has relieved the church from a state of great
peril, and that it will restore peace. The Post deems the
judgment weak, inconclusive, and barren of judicial know-
ledge.

The Rev. T. J. Judkin, Minister of Somers Chapel, St.
Pancras, has written to the Morning Herald to suggest
the propriety of presenting Mr. Gorham with some tangi-
ble memorial, expressive of gratitude and esteem, and
promising, towards this object, a contribution of five
pounds.

SECESSION.—On Sunday, the widow of a late em%nent
physician in Oxford was received into the Roman Catholic
Church, by the Rev. R. Newsham, at the chapel lately
erected at Dorchester, Oxfordbhire.

The Oxford Herald says that the Rev. F. Ralston,
M.A., has given up his living of Benson in that county,
and left the Church of England on account " of his dis-
satisfaction with its posture and future prospects." He
has been joined by his curate Mr. Stratton.
THE NEW MOVE.—It is stated that the Bishop of Ex-
eter is urged, by the most insane of the insane party who
are projecting impious agitation against the peace of the
Church, to refuse Mr. Gorham permission to preach or
pray in his diocese—to institute him in the temporalities
of his living, but to deprive him of exercising a spiritual
office therein. When Dr. Pusey was under the grave
and solemn censure of the University of Oxford, and
condemned to silence by that University, he was allowed
to preach in the diocese of Exeter. In the latter case it
was only treating the University authorities with scornful
contempt.—Church and State Gazette.
MR. DENISON AND HIS PROTESTS.—The Times of
Friday has a stinging article in reference to this subject,
to which we have alluded elsewhere. Our contemporary
says :—" A misguided clergyman, whose fanaticism may
serve to protect him from the ecclesiastical censures and
the legal penalties to which his violent language and ille-
gal conduct undoubtedly expose him, has been moved by
the irritation caused by the decision of the Privy Council
in the case of Mr. Gorham to protest with a ridiculous
solemnity against the legal constitution of the church to
which he professes to belong. We had anticipated, as
our readers may remember, some opposition of this sort
to the moral effect of the late judgment; but we had
hardly anticipated that any beneficed clergyman of the
Church of England would have presumed so far on the
indulgence of his diocesan or the indifference of the public
as to declare his open resistance to every authority which
he is bound to obey. Mr. George Anthony Denison, vicar
of East Brent, has delivered himself of the burden which
this judgment seems to have cast upon his uneasy con-
science, but he has violated the statutes of the realm, he
has violated the canons of the Church, be has broken his
oath of canonical obedience to the Articles of that Church,
and he has been wanting in his duty to the undoubted
supremacy of the Crown. These are offences which
expose him to the penalties of a prcemunire, or to the
rigour of the Ecclesiastical Courts ; and it is to be regretted
that a clergyman who is so extremely anxious to apply the
strict letter of the articles, according to his own interpre-
tation of thorn, to tho opinions of Mr. Cioiliam, should
give in his own person and in his own parish so scandalous
an example of his own contempt of the very law which it
was attempted to enforce."

THE LATE EDWARD BICKERSTETH.—At a meeting in
London last week, the Rev. J. A. James, the eminent
dissenting minister of Birmingham, paid the following
worthy compliment to the memory of the late Rev. E.
Bickersteth :—" His spotless piety against which slander
never uttered a whisper, nor profanity never uttered a
jest ; his gentleness and meekness which rendered it all
but impossible that he should have an enemy or lose a
friend ; his Chrisrian simplicity, united with his manly
intelligence ; his divine charity, before which the demon
of bigotry, like Satan before the seraph—
' Stood abashed, and felt how awful God might be;'
his happy countenance, which looked as if his soul were
ever sunning itself in the light of glory, combined to form
a composite character, which is rarely exhibited in this
world of imperfection. Bickersteth was a member and a
minister of the Church of England, and one of its
brightest ornaments ; but he had a heart which the
Church of England was too scanty to hold, and for which
nothing could be found adequate but the amplitude of the
Universal Church.—(Applause.) I am from conviction a
nonconformist, but I would abhor my conconformity and
repudiate it the next moment, if I felt that it blinded my
judgment, or hardened my heart against the distinguished
excellence of such a minister of the establishment.
(Loud applause.) Sir, that luminary has set; and we
are gazing upon the glowing horizon, and the ruby clouds
which mark its going down, and form its train of glory,
and which attend its transition from the hemisphere of
grace to that of glory. May it he granted to us to follow
him as he followed Christ ! May we find the mantle
which dropped from him when he ascended to the skies,
and go from this place prepared to carry on the work
which he lived to accomplish, and to which he set the
seal of his dying testimony. With what joy would he
have been here this morning ! With what seraphic ac-
cents would he have addressed us; but perhaps with
accents less solemn than those with which he speaks to us
from the grave : Be ye also ready, for at such an hour as
ye know not the Son of man cometh.' "