Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-08-01 (Darlington, Durham, England)

METER REREDOS CASE. !  [Before the Right Hon: Sir R. PITIELIMORE; . . Dean of Arehes.l This appeal from the judgment of the Bishop of Exeter, assieted by Mr Justice Keating, was broty.;ht to a conclusibrt on Saturday. Dr. Deane; Q.C., and Mr, Welter Phillimore were for the Dean and Chapter, Dr. Boyd, and others; Mr :W. E: Phillpotts was- counsel for' the respondent, .Chancellor Phillpotts. Mr PLE!LLPOTTS • on Saturday. brought his argument tcll a close as to the illegality of images in churches, having on the' previous day contended that the Bishop; as yisitor of his own cathedral, had a perfect riitt to order the-removal of' the reredos. Hb niaintainect that images tended to idolatry, ad were ro, pngnant to the Ptofestant faith. They came' in with repery and went out with Popery, and of late years they were twain brought forward, because there was a tendency to Rbmanise the English Church. It was idle to. suppose that• the,figures recently introduced .into churches were for mere ornamentation--they; were to foster supbrstition. _ _ ' _ •  Mryiummoux, in his reply, denied the mtreme view entertained by the learned< counsel, who, to be consistent, . would have removed from cathedrals, both inside and outside, all figures or other ornament's, on the pretence that they tended to idolatry. The argument, which bad extended over three. days, traced the history of images < rfora, a very early period. The two points were whether the Dean and Chapter had a right to. erect a reredos without havinc, first obtained a, faculty for the purpose, and whether, if they had, were the images lawful, being carved. They would have been legal on painted glass windows-. The MOAN Aucmcs- thanked the learned connsel, for their assistance in the argument, and would consider his judgment..  , The Lords of the Admiralty dined with the Queen at bgborne on Saturday. Field Mills, Leeds-road, Huddersfield, were destroyed by fire on Sunday night. Mr Gladstone left town on Saturday for the North, and ho will not return to Pnaliniment this Session. A woman has been brutally murdered near Curragh, Kildare. Her husband, a respectable farmer, has been arrested.  A horrible double murder is reported from Mitchelstown, Limerick, the victims being a farmer and his wife in poor circumstances. The Cambridge borough magistrates on Saturday fined a non-collegiate student of the University T. and costa for . exting,nishitig a public lamp. The inquest on the 'seven peroons killed by the firework explosion at Northampton, resulted in a verdict of manslanghtcr against Smith, the father of the family. Joseph Crighton, shoornaker,.Edinburgh, his son, and granddaughter, have been apbreheaded in connection with the death, under suspicips circumstances, of a WOITA32 named Ann Marshall:  The Leeds express to SI:0lbld, on Saturday, ran into some coal waggons shunted on to the main line by mistake, near lEln. The engime boiler burst, and the driver and guard were injured. It as stated by Mr lialliday,on Saturday, at the Forest of Dean minera' annual celebration, that the Smith Staffordshire strike had cost the miners 50,000/. John Fletcher, of Thllamoro, Ireland, has been remanded on a charge of attempt* to poison his son, with the object, it is suggested, of getting farm of his. At the D von Assizes- on Saturday morning, Thomas Macdonald, a discharged Royal Marine, w found, guilty, and sentenced to death for te murder of 113.-, paramour, Bridget Welsh.  At the Devon Assizes on Friday, George Payne, the boatman whose unskilfulness caused the late fatal boat accident at Teignmonth, was found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to six months' hard labour. r:L E P