JOHN BOTCHERBY, Darlington, Durham, coal owner, THEOPHILUS LANE, Hereford, coal merchant, scrivener, MEETINGS. CERTIFICATES. To be allowed, unless Cause be shewn to the contrary on th Thomas Rose, Nursling, Southampton, brick burner, Apri Sam. Makepeace, Mitcham, Surrey, silk printer. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Wm. Macdonald, Glasgow, chemist.-James Rankin, Dickson's-park, Jock's-lodge, near Edinburgh, spirit dealer.Wm. Allan, Rutherglen, victualler.-James Graham and Palti Wood, Galashiels, woollen manufacturers.-Andrew Richard, Muirkirk, Ayrshire, merchant.—Jas. Skea, Lochee, near Dundee, merchant. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. March 29, at the same hour and place. Sam. Hodykinson, jun., Wellington-square, Gray's InnSoho, Westminster, print seller.-Eliz. Evans, Little Windmill-street, Haymarket, Middlesex, widow, and lodging-house keeper.-Chas. Reed, White Horse-lane, Stepney, Middlesex, pig jobber.—Wm. 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Robert Hodson, Maida-hill West, and Ratcliffe-terrace, Goswell-road, St. Luke's, Middlesex, coffee9 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, last ex.Wm. Broadbent, Denton, Lancashire, flour dealer, March 27 Oxford-street, Middlesex, eating-house keeper.-John Wm. Bell, Clifford's Inn, London, gentleman.-Peter Richard at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, last ex.John Weightman, Northampton, wharfinger, April 3 at 2, Paice, Brand-street, Greenwich, out of business. Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Geo. Edw. White, Reading, Berkshire, tailor, April 4 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.— -Sam. King, Newgate-street, Lon-road, Middlesex, slater.-Sam. Brown, Princes-st., St. Anne, don, warehouseman, April 15 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Fred. Dudley, Rochford, Essex, builder, April 5 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Hen. M. 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The following are the Names of the Gentlemen who favour THE JURIST with Reports of Cases argued and decided in the several Courts of Law and Equity: We understand that many persons have been led to suppose that the Church Discipline Act, (3 & 4 Vict. e. 86), the act under which an inquiry is now pending which has excited considerable public attention, was intended to have, and would have, the effect of providing a tribunal which should unite to the advantage of affording a cheap, simple, and expeditious means of correction for the misconduct of any person in holy orders having offended against the ecclesiastical law, or contra bonos mores, that of conducting an inquiry into such matters, without the scandal attending a public trial of a clergyman. And we understand that much dissatisfaction is felt by many, lay as well as clerical persons, in seeing, in the course of the inquiry to which we have alluded, how that act works. We can only say, with respect to any anticipations that the act was in all cases to produce the results above mentioned, such anticipations must have been founded much more on the imaginations of the persons entertaining them, than on the language of the statute, or on a due consideration of the nature of the subjects likely to be brought before the species of court whose proceedings it regulates, or on even a moderate consideration of the nature of things; for such anticipations attribute to an act of Parliament little less than a miraculous effect. The object of this statute is twofold:-It provides, firstly, a court of preliminary inquiry, to examine into y charges brought against a clerk in holy orders, and to report whether such a prima facie case is made against him as will justify the institution of further and more formal and final proceedings; and, secondly, it provides, in the event of a report being made in favour of the prima facie sufficiency of the case against the accused, for certain proceedings before the J VOL. IX. bishop of the diocese, for hearing and determining the matter, as a cause between the accused and the promoter of the accusation. The first mode of proceeding is provided for by the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th sections of the act, and it is impossible to read those sections without seeing, that, though the intention of the act is to substitute in some cases, and in certain stages of a charge, in lieu of the regular course of proceeding in the ecclesiastical court, proceedings of a character less artificial, and capable of greater dispatch, yet it is also the obvious intention of the act, that the proceedings directed by it shall not be, as a matter of course, in the nature of a mere private inquiry and admonition, conducted without any of the forms or rules which are generally incident to every legal inquiry. The 3rd section empowers the bishop of a diocese, where any clerk in holy orders shall be charged with any ecclesiastical offence, or where any scandal or evil report shall exist against any clerk, as having offended against the laws ecclesiastical, either on the application of an accuser, or of his own mere motion, to issue a commission, composed of five persons, for the purpose of making inquiry as to the grounds of such charge or report. The 4th prescribes the mode in which the inquiry shall be conducted, and is in these words:-"Be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said commissioners, or any three of them, to examine upon oath, or upon solemn affirmation in cases where an affirmation or declaration is allowed by law instead of an oath, which oath, or affirmation, or declaration, respectively, shall be administered by them to all witnesses who shall be tendered to them for examination, as well by any party alleging the truth of the charge or report, as by the party accused, and to all witnesses whom they may deem it necessary to summon for the purpose of fully prosecuting the inquiry, and ascertain SPAPER ing whether there be sufficient primâ facie ground for instituting further proceedings; and notice of the time when, and place where, every such meeting of the commissioners shall be holden shall be given in writing, under the hand of one of the said commissioners, to the party accused seven days at least before the meeting; and it shall be lawful for the party accused, or his agent, to attend the proceedings of the commission, and to examine any of the witnesses; and all such preliminary proceedings shall be public, unless, on the special application of the party accused, the commissioners shall direct the same or any part thereof shall be private; and when such preliminary proceedings, whether public or private, shall have been closed, one of the said commissioners shall, after due consideration of the depositions taken before them, openly and publicly declare the opinion of the majority of the commissioners present at such inquiry, whether there be or not sufficient primâ facie grounds for instituting further proceedings." This section, it will be observed, most carefully provides for the regular reception of evidence, and for the privilege of the accused to sift, by cross-examination, the proofs tendered against him. If the report of the commissioners is, that there is no primâ facie case against the accused, of course there is an end of the matter. If they report that there is a primâ facie case, then a formal trial is directed to take place before the bishop, assisted therein by three assessors, one of whom at least must be a person of legal learning; unless the parties elect to take the immediate judgment of the bishop upon the report of his commissioners, and in such case the bishop may forthwith pronounce a sentence founded upon such report. The peculiarity of the inquisitorial jurisdiction created by the stat. 3 & 4 Vict. c. 86 seems to be this: that it is flexible. The preliminary inquiries into a charge brought against a clergyman may be of the most private, expeditious, and economical character, if the parties desire it, and the commissioners think fit. They may be made, if the nature of the case is such as to allow it, without the assistance of any professional persons whatever. The parties may attend with their witnesses, and the witnesses may be examined and crossexamined by the commissioners and the parties; and if the charge be either of a trivial character, or, being of a grave character, embraces only a few facts, the preliminary inquiries may be disposed of both cheaply and expeditiously. If, on the other hand, the charge be one involving matter of grave scandal, and depending upon a mass of complicated and conflicting evidence, then the act permits, and the court may require, a more formal mode of procedure. The inquiry may be public; it may be conducted on both sides with the advantage of professional assistance, and may, in fact, be assimilated as closely as possible, in regard to the qualities of regularity, stringency, and precision, to an inquiry conducted in one of the superior courts. easy, as well as for an important and difficult inquiry. This difficulty the jurisdiction created by the 3 & 4 Vict. c. 86 avoids. But it cannot and does not affect to change the nature of things, and to deal hastily and informally with an investigation, if the circumstances involved in it are of such a character as to require the strictness of legal procedure to arrive at the truth. So far, therefore, from considering the similarity which the proceeding now taking place before the commissioners of the Bishop of London bears to a regular trial, as an evidence of the miscarriage of the statute, it appears to us to afford very strong evidence of its beneficial operation. Since it shews, that, in a case in which the character and station of an accused person are at stake, and in which the evidence in support of the charges against him is complicated as well as voluminous, he may have the benefit of a most rigid and searching inquiry, on the result of which final judgment does not necessarily depend; and when the inquiry is closed, he may determine whether he will take judgment upon it as it stands, or whether he will demand a further and more formal trial. Short Causes and Consent Causes every Tuesday at the Sitting of the Court. Notice.-Petitions must be presented, and copies left with the Secretary, on or before the Saturday preceding the Tuesday service must be presented on or before the Friday preceding. on which it is intended they should be heard. Those requiring MASTERS IN CHANCERY.-The Lord Chancellor has The difficulty attending the regular and formal proceeding in a court of the ordinary structure is, that its process is invariable. Whether the matter be grave or slight, whether there be or be not any rational ground appointed the following gentlemen Masters Extraordifor calling in aid its jurisdiction, the forms of its plead-nary in the High Court of Chancery:-Francis Hamp, ings, the rules of its practice, the expenses and delays of Birkenhead, Cheshire; Joseph Yates Ashton, of of its procedure, must all be submitted to for a slight and Liverpool; Robert Williams the younger, of Carnarvon. |