New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-01

Tie London agitation on the subject Of the dis
position Of certain Romsnizing clergymen of the
Establishment to ntr, duce the practice of auricuar
conft ssiop which originated in the case Of the Rev.
Mr. Poole, appears to be extending to other parts
Of the Kingdom. A complaint similar to that which
caused the Bishop ofLondon TO deprive Mr. Poole Of
bis scense curate has lately been brought to the
notice of the Bishop Of Oxford. This complaint
originated in communication which appeared 10
The Bindsor and EtoH Express, ,igred "a Prot.
estapt, complaining Of the conduct of Mr.. West,
curate Of Mr. GIesey, the Puseyite incumbent of
Boyue Hill ia extortiDg confession from poor
woman When just at the point Of confinement, aud
profe,siDg, on the suthority of alady to whom the
story had been told by the womanimmediately after
the eurates visit, to detail the conversation tha.
hsd passed. No notice having been taken of this
communication by Mr. West Mr.. Shaw, incum-
bert of neighboring parish, published communi'
cation in the same paper, under bis own name,
calling on the author of the frst communication to
show himself and offering, if the charge were sub
stantiated, 10 get upa requistion to the Bishop of
the diocese asking for an inquiry and if the charge
we're proved, the iDhction of suitable punishment.
Such requiston was accordingly made, and the
writer OF the frst communication was referred to
by Dame as the sccu,er, and as ready to substan.
tiate the charge. The charge amounted to this:
that the curate came to the woman's cottage unin-
yiied, she being then in hourly expectation of her
confinement. That he examined her interrogatiVely
on the Ten Commandments, and when she denied
any violation Of the seventh, having, as she said,
been married too youpg for that, proceeded to
Inquire whether she had not violated it construc-
lively by looking on any man to lust after him.
That he insisted on her taking the Communion;
told her that she ought to confess her sins to him,
ard charged her not to tell her husband of this con-
yersatiop by all which the woman was quite
"uTset"
The incumbent of the parish who, it would ap
pear, had inquired into the charge when it was
first made, and the curate himself, on being ques-
toned By the Bishop, stated the case as follows
The curate finding the woman in dangerous sick
ness, proceeded under the directions Of the Prayer
Book offce for the visitation of the sick to sex
"smire whether she repented truly for her sins,
"snd required her to examine herself and her es.
Z" tate toward God ard maD," she being a person
who stood in special need of such exhortatons in
making which he went through the commandments,
putting them into the form Of inte1ogatories, but
not pressing for answers on any OF them, nor
dwelling upon one more than another, nor putting
improper questions upon any.
10 this procedure, the Bishop saw nothing to con-
demn ublsss! were the in.erogstive form ofthe ex-
position the commandments, which, to avoid posi-
b!emiscorceptou the cura.e at bis suggestion would
dispense with for tie future and he declined to pur-
sue the cme any further, on the ground that any
evidence that the woman might now give after the
lap,e OF months, and the rise of popular outcry
on tie subject, could not be considered as Of any
weight compared with the result Of the ircu nbents
inquiry into the case when il waa vet recent, fully
confirmed as that examination had been BY the
Bishops own examination of the eurate.
The letter to the Rev. Mr.. Shay, in which the
Bishop thus states bis conclusions, expresses "the
deepest horror ofthe Roman practice Of enforced
"suricusr confession; but It tie same time insists
that confession at the option Of the penisent, snd