The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-12-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TOWN-CLERK replied, when the council nominated it remained with the bishop to license the clergyman. Mr. COGLAN thought it would be a strange stretch of power if the council were to vest an appointment like the present in the hands of an ecclesiastical authority that was forminable enough already without making it more so by adventitious aids.  Air. EARLE thought the magistrates as good judges of the characters of clergymen—for they brought certificates of character always with them in cases like the present—as any bishop. He did not look on a bishop to be an extraordinary man. (A laugh.) He did not look on him as coming in a direct line from the fathers of old (renewed laughter), particularly when he saw him declaring that he was horrorstricken at seeing souls perishing, while he himself was drawing twelve thousand pounds a-year. (Order.) lie was in order, he was in order, for the subject of bishops had been introduced. He was a churchman, but be was not bound to approve of every act of every bishop, nor he would'nt do it. (Ironical laughter.)  Mr. CASE thought they would be committing an act of felo de se, if they were to give up appointments of this kind to any bishop. _ _ _  Mr-. HA  Doan and Mr. HODGSON both supported Mr. Lawrence's motion, and argued that it was unseemly that a body of magistrates professing unitarian and other heterodox views, should arrogate to themselves the right of appointing a church of England minister, particularly when they believed the religious opinions of that minister to be erroneous. Mr. AIKIN believed the present discussion was got up on the other side, for the purpose of having another fling at the magistracy.  Mr. .I.3tisHELL was not aware till then that Mr. Aikin was the champion of the magistracy ; but he would say, that the charge he had brought against them, and which it would have been we►l if Mr. Aikin had let rest, was never denied by any one of them up to the present moment. (Loud cries of " hear, hear.")  111 r. AIKIN said, at the time it was made it received the answer it deserved—(a shout of laughter). Sir J. WALMSLEY then moved—  " That the subject of the appointment of a governor of the Borough Prison, in the place of Mr. William Batcheldor, who has tendered his resignation, and the appointment of a chaplain in the place of the Rev. J. Buck, D.C.L., whose resignation is accepted, be referred to the Gaol Committee, to direct the proper advertisements, and to receive, consider, and report upon the applications and testimonials of candidates to the council; and that Mr. Batcheldor's resignation be not accepted until the council shall decide upon a new appointment in his place." Mr. H. HORNBY seconded the motion.  A division was then taken on Mr. Lawrence's amendment, when it was lost by a majority of 13, the numbers being : for the motion 21; against it 34:  The following are the names of the gentlemen who voted on the division :  For the motion :—Messrs. D. Hodgson, H. R. Sandbach, H. Copeland, R. B. B. H. Blundell, T. Sands, T. Toulmin, J. Lawrence, T. Robinson, J. Cooper, H. Lawredce, J. N. Wood, W. Birkett, R. Gladstone, C. Bushell, J. Proctor, J. Kilshaw, R. Rigby, R. Jones, jun., G. H. Lawrence, R. Harbord, and A. Smith, jun. Against it :—J. Holmes, G. Quayle, I. Holmes, R. Houghton, W. Thornhill, T. Case, G. Wright, H. Holmes, J. Mellor, J. Walmsley, J. Aikin, J. Woollright, it. Bright, J. Priestley, H. Hornby, R. V. Yates, T. Morecroft, T. Coglan,W. Slater, J. Smith, W. M`Kee, J. Platt, D. Mather, R. Shell, J. Hornby, R. Roskell, T. Leathom, G. Holt, W. Earle, J. Moon, E. Evans, r. B. Barclay, W. P. Freme, and the Mayor.