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      rf'thc benefice unless the augmented salary was paid - to Mr , Paris as curate . Hereupon the Rector , encouraged by his legal advisers , appealed to the Court of i :.,, r > < Uf-nrh and obtained a writ of

      proliibition to restrain the Bishop ' s procecd-Ijqs . The second ca . se in the pamphlet nose out of the first . While the cause was pending in the King ' s Bench , Mr . Wctherell engaged his friend Mr . Chambers to take the morning duty for one Sunday , at Byfield , in his absence . Mr .

      Chambers officiated , but not without a protest on the part of Mr- Paris . Presently , the Bishop ' s Secretary , Mr . Gates , cited Mr . Chambers to appear in the Court of Arches for a breach of the 48 th Canon . On reading Mr . Chambers ' s allegation in answer to the articles

      exhibited , Sir John Nicholl , made some remarks which induced the Bishop ' s Secretary to withdraw the articles and sit down with the costs . Even Sylvanus Urban takes part against the Bishop . [ See Gent . Mag . for April , Vol . XVIII . N . S « d . 341 . ]

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      PARLIAMENTARY . HOUSE OF COMMONS . Mar . 17 . Clergymen holding- Lay-Offices . Mr . Hume made a few observations

      "pon the impropriety of clergymen hold-!» g lay-ofliccs , and mixing themselves up " secular aflFairs . To obtain some oftU ai information on this subject , which M vds one of a most interesting nature , he ould move- " That an humble Ad"ess bo presented to his Majesty , praying "J a return of ail persons , iu * Hol / Or'wifl , \ ! ro " 8 corporations or cities , ih „ n ' r > the "a «* of the office , | Je names of the boroughs or cities , whemm ; a ? au benefices , and how >*» e&cot'l ? wliether they reside on ( heir vunice s or not ' ¦

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      Pr . Phillimore opposed the motion , which he considered at the best as unnecessary . JVlr John Smith . was of a different opinion . If the clergy had conducted themselves improperly in such offices , that would be a matter for the future consideration of the Legislature .

      Mr . Peel thought the reason just given by the Honourable Member * for Midhurst in favour of the motion , disclosed its real object , and was thfi strongest that could he urged in opposition to it . If it was the intention of the Honourable Member for Aberdeen to obtain a vote of this House on the

      pivsent motion , lmpliedly declaring its opinion that clergymen ou ^ ht not to hold borough offices , he must say , that such a method of obtaining the opinion was the least correct that could be adopted . If the Honourable Member wished to

      disqualify clergymen from holding such ofliccs , let him do so by bill , in which thev could have the assistance of the other branch of the Legislature , and not in the form of the present motion , in which the disqualification would be by implication alone .

      Mr . K Palmer observed , that it would be impossible to bring in such a Bill as the Right Honourable Gentleman recommended , unless the previous return for which his Honourable Friend moved were laid before the House . He therefore supported the motion . Mr . Carus Wilson opposed the motion .

      Mr . Wynn opposed the motion . He defended the character of the clergy generally , and more especially of the clergy of Wales , and maintained that they had acquitted themselves in many instances with the greatest advantage to the public iti the discharge of the magisterial functions . He recommended to the

      Honourable Member ( or Montrose to withdraw his present motion , and to bring the subject before the House on general principles . Sir J . Newport confessed that he thought it would be expedient that the subject should be submitted to the House

      with reference to the general question of the eligibility of the clergy to civil offices . Although it might be advantageous in the country that clergymen should hold magisterial . situations , it appeared to him that in cities it was quite the reverse .

      Mr . Hume made a brief reply ; after which the gallery was cleared for a division . It appearing , however , that there were not members . sufficient to constitute a House ; there being only four in favour of the motion , and 22 against it , an adjournment necessarily took place . < ii

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      Intelligence . —Parliament ury : Clergymen holding Lay-Offices . 505

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      Dr . Ireland , the Dean of Westminster , has recently placed at the disposal of the University of Oxford , the sum of £ 3000 for the purpose of endowing three scholarships : the nature of the Examinations , and the nomination of Examiners , to be left entirely to the decision of the University .

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      —¦¦^^ PW *—On Sunday , March 27 , the Rev . John In'glis , O . D ., Ecclesiastical Commissary in the diocese of Nova Scotia , \ va * s consecrated at Lambeth , by the Archbishop of

      Canterbury , to the bishopric of that diocese , on the resignation of the Right Rev . Hishop Stanser . The sermon was preached by the Rev . A . Hamilton , Secretary to < he Society for the Propagation of the Gospel iu Foreign Parts .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1825, page 505, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2539/page/47/