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press ^ ttts astonishment on finding / that when » o trtipoftaut / a subjeet as this was brongUt before the house , the bench of Right Reverend Prelates had not declared hi wdrds «* -no , ttbr fcy a' nb # - ± * abr even by a gesture , whether they meant , to a man , to sanction or condemn * the conduct of their-Hight Reverend Mother .
( Hear , and a laugh . ) Usually those Reverend Prelate ^ were not backward ^ ti expressing their Opinions on subjects comparatively unimportant . They had long been in the habit of attending , and very regularly , the discussions of their Lordships ; but whether for mere ornament and appearance , or for any more useful propose , their conduct on this
evening might possibly decide . Could their Lordships see with indifference a Bench of Bishops thus sitting in timid silence ? Was it not almost a desertion of those whom it was the bounden duty of - those Right Reverend Prelates to instruct ? On any great constitutional question , particularly a year or two ago , they formerly could not complain that eitlifcr the noble and learned Lord on the
woolsack , or- those Right Reverend Prelates , were slow to give the House the benefit of ' thei-r wisdom and experience . But here , on a question of church policy , both were silent . That the Right Reverend Prelates had come down to vote one way or other , was evident enough ; -but the grounds upon which their votes were
to proceed , their Lordships were not to learn . What would the public think , when it was informed , that of * he very many Reverend Prelates who had come down that night to the House , not one was to be found who had a single word to offer upon the- subject before their Lordships ? ( Hear . )
Strangers were then excluded from below the bar . On our re-admission , we found the numbers to be ( on the question of referring the petition to a Committee )—Contents , 19 ; Non-contents , 58 . Majority against the motion , 39 .
[ The ^ ib ^ va s ubject introduced into the House of Commons also , as appears from the following paragraph in the Times of Friday , June 28 : — " We understand that , after a division which took- place 'in the House of Commons on Wednesday night last , and before the
readmission of- strangers hi to the gallery , Mr . Fowku Buxton stated , thafc he had been : desircsd' semu : time since to present two petition * from very respefetajjlle clergymen of the dipcese of Peterb 0 rQUgh » conxplaiuing of ; the conduct of t&eir Bishop , with respect to the eighty-severt questions which that Right Reverend Prelate * had
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prepared , Mr . Buxton added , that wish * hig , ^ possiblev to avc ^ jtotr ^ discussion of such a > sw ^ c ^ ^ i » the House of CoHimtxns , he had n t V 3 ^ com plied with the pequeJit of these two gentlemen , : He had Mtdebiror& 9 a \ so thai their petitions should : be considered
in the first place , in the House of Lords , where the Right Reverend Prelfcte might have the opportunity % f vindicating himself from the allegations they csmtained . That discussion having since come on , he ( Mr * Buxton ) did hope that what had been . said by their Lordships might have the effect of inducing the Bishop to
reconsider the subject in question , and to return to that which had now for so long a period been the practice of < h £ Established € &urch . If , however ^¦ ~ fte"Ni 5 pnduct of the Right Reverend . Prelate should disappoint these hopes , Mr . Buxton said , he should consider ' it his duty to ca | l the attention of the House to this master at an early period of the next session . " ]
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HOUSE of COMMONS , # 1 * 1 ^ 31 , 1822 . Marriagq jict . Mr . Buttjerworth wished to call the attention of an honourable and learned Member ( Dr . Philliifore ) to a clause in
the new Marriage Act , which seemed to him to involve considerable difficulty . There were sects " of Dissenters who dra not baptize their children until they became adult , and Sn fact there Were probably a great many persons in the country who . acting under their peculiar principle ,
were never baptized at all . Now sucji individualSy wouid . be placed in a siUiatioi of great inconvenience by that part ottfae new Marriage Act which went to \ oB&vide that no person should be married wf ^ iout producing a register of his baptism . Dr . Phillimore begged to be distinctly understood as having had nothiHR to do
with the clause to which the honourable Member adverted . Tfc £ clause h ^ fiben inserted in the Upper f&use : tf'RtfffDk Phiinmore ) had framed it , it ceitt&nly would not have stood Ui its present Shape . For the benefit of such pei'sons as -were unable to produce registers , there % as , however , a saving provision in ttie Act :
where it appeared that , tte 1 ^ register i ^ f baptism could not be obtained ^ \ % m &t * t ~ rogate might be satined by itti ^ atfia * av 4 t froai any sufficient person , that the party unregistered was realfy twenty-One- yfears of age . < That ¦ provision he . ( I > r . Phillimore ) - apprehended wa ^^ K >( tgh to remove the difficulty-whibti the hononrable Meniber . ( Mr . Buttcmwiirtii ) i * tmti 0 Wpd of ; but he personally knew nothtttg of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 655, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/71/
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