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THE CASE OF THE REV . AX . FRED POOLE . Several long and tedious documents relative to the suspension of the Rev- Alfred Poole , curate of St . Barnabas , Pimlico , for practising auricular confession , have been published in the daily papers . The pith lies in a very small compass . From a protracted correspondence between the Bishop of London and Mr . Poole , it appears that the former justifies his suspension of the latter on the ground that the curate had questioned women on the subject of violations of the seventh commandment—a practice which his Lordship conceives has a dangerous tendency ; and that he liad encouraged a systematic admission of his people to confession and absolution" going beyond anything contemplated by the services
or teaching of our churclj . " These practices , he conceives , are likely to produce scandal . The Bishop , at the same time , discredits the worst of the accusations brought against Mr . Poole , and expresses great personal respect for him , Tbut adds that , under the circumstances , he feels compelled to suspend Mr . Poole's license . Under date the 18 th of May , his Lordship cites the curate to appear before him , and show cause why he should not be suspended ; though the option is open to him of writing his defence previous to that date . Mr . Poole chooses the latter course ; and , in various letters to the Bishop ( some of them written before the citation , and one afterwards ) , lie respectfully submits that his Lordship ' s charges are vague " and general , and therefore not
easily answered , and , while denying-the disgusting questions imputed to him , he maintains that , by the laws of the Church of England , he is empowered to put questions to persons coming to confess , even to -women on the subject of adultery , if he has reason to believe them guilty of it . He asks the Bishop for a more precise statement of his vieyre on this point , and of the charges made against him ; but his Lordship simply reiterates his original assertions . One of the documents now published is a copy of seven resolutions agreed to at si meeting of laymen , communicants of the church of St . Barnabas , held on the 17 th ult . These resolutions
uphold the course taken by Mr . Poole , and express great indignation at the aspersions thrown upon certain charitable ladies of the parish at the St . James ' s Hall meeting . In answer to these resolutions , tlie Bishop expresses participation in ihe views there set forth with respect to the ladies , but does not withdraw from his position as regards the curate . The framers of the resolutions again address the Bishop , taxing him ( though in . respectful language ) with various contradictory statements , and boldly affirming the propriety of confession . The Bishop does little more than acknowledge the receipt of this communication , without reopening the points at issue ; and so the correspondence closes .
An open-air demonstration of the Protestant inhabitants of Belgravia and its vicinity was held on Monday itt the grounds of the Pavilion , Sloane-street , "to adopt a memorial to the Queen and to petition Parliament to take such measures as may be deemed advisable for the immediate suppression of the confessional system now attempted to be introduced into the Church of England . " About 10 , 000 people are said to have been present , and the proceedings were presided over by the lion . C . SVereker , M . P . jAvrho was supported by the Earl of Arran , Major-GenerafPowney , Colonel Knife , Mr . Tite , M . P ., the Rev-J . Alexander , and a great number of clergymen and gentlemen . The chairman , in addressing
the meeting , gave a history of the struggles which the locality had made against the Romnn Catholic practices alleged to have been introduced by the Puseyites into the Church of England , and said that a decisive step must be taken to put an end to the proceedings of the Tractarians . A resolution , moved by Mr . Harper , seconded by Mr . Paul Foskett , and supported by Mr . Charles Westerton , that a memorial bo presented to the Queen , was then passed amid loud cheers and the waving of hats and handkerchiefs ; and a petition to Parliament against the practico of the confessional was adopted on the motion of Mr . James Deal , seconded by Mr . L . D . Berry . This closed the business of the meeting .
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NAYAL AND MIL . ITAUY . Fraud in Poiitsmoutii Gakkison . —An infamous fraud has just been discovered in Portsmouth Garrison . The beam of the scales used at tho meat storo of the Cambridge Barracks had been lengthened by being put in the fire . The result was that a difference * was caused of six ounces in tho balance of tho scales , of course in the favour of the contractor . By experiments made subsc quently , it has been ascertained that a fraud has boon perpetrated on tlio regiment ( the 17 th ) to tlie extent o > i Coz . in every 111 b ., mulling daily about 331 b . Mr . Moncricf ' summoned tlie contractor , Mr . Choescnian , before tho Portsmouth magistrates , when tho evidence fully convicted him of tlie fraud on tho troops . IIo was sevorely lectured , and lined 5 / .
TiMnuu l'oit Shh > -11 uii , imng . —In consequence of tho increasing scarcity of good oak timber for ship-building , the use of Honduras mahogany ns a substitute has lately very much increased both in England and other parts of Europe . Experiments tried at Bordeaux prove that this wood is nnicli tougher nnd stronger than cither oulc or teak . Sut John Paicinoton , M . P ., tho First Lord of the Admiralty , arrived at Portsmouth on Wednesday , and
went out in the Fire . Queen steam yacht , Master Commander W . F . Paul , to Spithead , and visited Admiral Lord Lyons on board the Royal Albert . On leaving , he was saluted with nineteen guns , and the crew manned yards . The Fire Queen then proceeded to Osborne with his Lordship . Rear-Admiral , Alkxandek Milne , Third Lord of the Admiralty , visited Woolwich on Wednesday , and inspected the ships under fitment for the coast of Africa . He was accompanied in his tour of inspection by Commodore Shepherd , Superintendent of the yard . The Queen at Deftfokd . —In accordance with a request from the authorities of Deptford Pock and Victualling Yards , those localities will henceforth be called " The Victoria Dock and Victualling Yards , " in commemoration of her Majesty ' s recent visit .
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CRIMINAL RECORD . Mvudek and Suicidk . — Gravesend was horrified on Tuesday by the committal of a double crime . For the previous ten days a man had been living with a woman whom lie called his wife at a beer-shop in Terrace-street . They appeared to be on good terms ; but , early on Tuesday morning , the landlord , who slept in the next room to them , heard a scream , followed by a strange scratching noise at the door . He got out of bed , opened the door , and Siiw , finger-marks of blood on the outside . Entering the adjoining room , he found the woman lying in a pool of blood , and the man lying on the bed with his throat cut . The woman , it appears , had knocked at the landlord ' s door , and had then staggered back to her own room . Medical assistance was immediately sent for , but both the man and the woman speedily expired . At the inquest , it was shown that insanity prevailed in the family ; and a verdict to that effect was therefore returned . Ciiahgk ov Drowsikg a Skaman . <—The crew of the Schiedam , of London , which has just arrived at Shields , have accused . the master of the vessel ( Mr . Fox ) and Mr . Maynard , the master of the Reliance , of Sunderland , of throwing into the Elbe , and drowning , William Barron , a seaman belonging to Sunderland . Barron belonged to the Reliance , and the statement the men have made is this : —On the 22 nd of June , the ves-els were at Hamburg , moored alongside of each other , when Barron came from the shove very drunk , and commenced quarrelling With the crew of the Schiedam . He struck at the master of the latter vessel , and a light took place . Mr . Fox called to the crew of the Reliance to come and
take their , man away ; but only the master came , on board , -when Barron attacked him . A lad , called James Nesbitj and another lad , named Forrester , state that board , " and that they then placed him oil the rail , and Maynard dropped him into the Elbe . They state that the Maynard theii said to Fox , " Let us heave him overmate o £ the Schiedam threw a rope over matron ' s head as he was floating in the water , but that he was too drunk to lay hold of it , and'that he was sucked under the vessels and drowned . His body wes recovered the next day . The British consul lins made inquiries with regard to the man ' s death , and taken the depositions of the principal portion of the crew . It was his opinion that the man had been nccidently drowned , but he ha 3 sent the papers to the Foreign-office . The borough magistrates at Shields conceive that they have no jurisdiction , and decline to interfere .
The Daoisniiam Mintran . —George Pdewitt was again examined last Saturday , when Mrs . Smith ' added to her previous testimony tho fact that she saw Mrs . Blewitt , and Henry Illewitt , the son of the accused , at their cottage on the night of the murder . Inspector WhSohcr said that , when he apprehended Mlewitt , and told him the nature of tho charge , he said , " I will go willi you , for I ' m quite sure that Mrs . Smith cannot say anything to hurt me . " Ho now denied his guilt , but was committed for trial .
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GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . A bian who lost his eye in a singular wny brought an action for damn gen last Saturday in the Court of Exchequer . Ho was going along Sun-court , Shepherd ' sinnrkct ,. May Fair , on tlie 'Jth of last March , when hi . s eye was caught by a meat-hook hanging on tho iron bar cf tho blind of a butcher's shop . Ho was literally suspended in this way , and it wan necessary to lift him up before he could bo got oil ' . Ho was obliged to go to St . Mary ' s Hospital , nnd to have an operation performed ; and the sight of both eyes lias been injured , though thuro are gooil hopes of a perfect recovery . The defence was that the pluintiu" had not taken due care ; but the defendant ( the master of the uho ]>) has hud to pav OOf . damages .
John Winter and Charles Well beloved , described a . s commission agents , were charged at tho Bow-street police-court la . it Saturday with causing an obstruction in Great Queen-street by butting . There appc irod to be no doubt of their having stood for some time betting on tho pavement , nnd tho officer who took them into custody had warned them earlier in tho day . When Unaware brought before the magistrate , they complained of the tyrannical conduct which hud been pursued towards them , and of the needless violence resorted to by tho
officer in apprehending them . It was impossible , th ey observed , that two persons standing together in a wide thoroughfare like Great Queen-street could create an obstruction . The police complained of large numbers assembling there ; but the magistrate thought the charge then before him could not be sustained , and so the defendants were dismissed . Captain William Oman , the dock-master of the St . Katharine Docks , and Thomas Jones and John Triton , watermen and lockmen in the employ of the Dock Company , appeared at the . Thames police-office last Saturday , to answer a complaint lodged by a clerk to the City Solicitor , which charged them with throwing offensive matter into the Thames , by which they had rendered themselves liable to a penalty not exceeding 20 / . each . The company were of course the real defendants ,
and it appeared that a habit had prevailed in the dock of throwing the filth and refuse into the river . Mr . Selfe , the magistrate , convicted the defendants , and said the only question was as to the amount of penalty . Mr . Stuchbury , the solicitor who prosecuted for the Board of Conservators of the River Thames , said he would rather that the magistrate would suspend his judgment for a month , and , if the practice now complained of were not discontinued , he should then call upon his worship to impose the full penalty . Mr . Selfe , after some remarks on the practice of gas companies discharging their poisonous refuse into the Thames , said the proposition of Mr . Stuchbury -was a very reasonable one , and suspended his judgment until Saturday , the 7 th of August . The after term sittings of the Court of Queen ' s Bench came to a close last Saturday . An action was concluded in the Court of Common Pleas on the same day , which had been brought to recover damages'from , the defendant ( a Mr . Davrson ) for not having used reasonable care and diligence in effecting a policy of insurance on behalf of the plaintiff ( Mr . Cahill ) . The action had been tried on a previous occasion , and been sent down from the superior court on certain points . Mr . Cahill is a merchant at Liverpool , and he had employed Mr . Dawson to effect insurances for him . Mr . Dawson , -wherever it was found most advantageous to- effect insurances in London , employed ' -a Mr . Lewis , a merchant in the City , for that purpose ; and the present insurance was effected by Mr . Lewis through an insurance broker named Nail . Mr . Nail by some mistake' entered the name of Mr . Lewis instead of that of Mr . Cahill in the policy ; and hence the action . The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff , find gave their opinion that Mr . Nail , when he-effected , the insurance , was . shown a letter by Mr . Lewis , . which sufficiently informed him that Mr . Cahill was the principal in tlie transaction . Tlie verdict was accordingly entered for the plaintiff , with liberty to move to enter a . verdic for such sum as the court . should think fit . The action spread over two days . A suit lms been instituted before Vice-Chancellor Stuart to set u , side tlie sale of lands by a client to his solicitor , executed so long ago ns 1837 . Mr . Mousley , deceased , of : Durbyj was , lon <* prior to and after the ' year 1837 , the solicitor of Sir Thomas Greslcy , and received tlie rents ' of and managed his real estate , including the rents of the propert }* in question . Sir Royer Gresley was in great pecuniary embarrassment , and Mr . Mousley became the purchaser from him in fee of the manors or lordships of Uresle }' , and otlier manors in the county of Derby , together with the coal , ironstone , and other minerals , at the sum of G 9-10 A lie also prepared tho conveyance , and no otlier solicitor was employed . The plaintiff charged that the . sum paid was a grossly inadequate price , nnd that Mr . Mousley knew this , for that ho had in his possession a valuation of the property far exceeding the purchase 11101103 ' , which information he did not givo to his client . Shortly after the sale , Sir Koger Gresley made hi . s will , devising his property to trustees in trust , to pay the rents to his wife for lift * , and after her decease to Sir William Nigel Gresley , his cousin ( since deceased ) for life , and after his decease to Sir William's llr . st and otlier sons in tail . On Sir "William ' s death , in 1847 , the plaintiff , the present baronet , became ( ir . st tenant in tail , subject to tho life estate of tho testator's widow , and ho attained his ago of twenty-one in 18 . > 2 . Mr . Mousloy , the solicitor , died in January , 1853 , having by his will devised his roul estate to the
defendants . This bill was then filed in 1855 , against Mr . Mousley ' s devisees and executors , the trustees under Sir JJoger firesloy ' t ) will , and his widow , Hi .-cking to set aside tlie conveyance of 18117 aa fraudulent , and lor other consequential relief . The Vice-Chancellor has set aside tlio sale to Mr . Mousley , and has ruled that tho parts of tlio property remaining unsold must bo rc-couveyed to the plaintifl' upon repayment of what ( if any tiling ) remained duo to Mousley ' a entato in respect of the purchase monuy of G 910 / ., with interest at four pur cent , per annum , after charging tho estate with tins juices of curtain parts of it which had been sold , with like interest . The costs of all parties to bo paid out of Mr . Mousley ' a wtuto . An elderly man , named Isaac Champion , bus been charged , together with his daughter , « i yoim « girl , with stealing Home flour from Bull Wharf , Queeuhithc . Ho was employed there , ami last Sunday acted us u wutchnuui . In the course of the afternoon , lut was seen to como out of the warehouse ,, where he had no business , and his daughter was aftor wards found carrying homo ubout six pounds of flour , which wad utoleu from tho
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No . 434 , Jtjlt 17 , 1858 . 1 THE LEADER . 681
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Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1858, page 681, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2251/page/9/
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