11 MARCH 1843, Page 16

A NEW ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITY.

So long as the debates of the House of Commons turn upon the ordinary routine topics, the reporters get along pretty smartly : but new subjects throw them aback. The debate about the Church of Scotland seems to have perplexed them sorely. They have made wild work of technical terms, and of the bead-roll of saints, Scotch and outlandish, glibly run over by the honourable disputants. A reporter of the Morning Chronicle, in his bewilderment, makes Mr. P. M. STEWART "refer to the authority of Beza, the Cyprian Bishop of Carthage." Passing over the delicious jumble of persons in this sentence, we may suggest, that though "fair Cyprians" have often been heard of, a " Cyprian Bishop" must have been but a heathenish sort of saint.