14 MARCH 1891, Page 15

CRIMINOUS CLERKS.

[To THE EDIIOR OF THE " BPECTATOR."1 SIR,—You seem to have been uncertain whether the Archbishop of York was legally justified in the course he took for the removal of a eriminoue clerk by putting in force the provisions against non-residence, when such non-residence was caused by imprisonment so far back as 1848. The Queen's Bench and the Exchequer both decided that imprisonment for a mis- demeanour was no excuse for non-residence (Earle- Bartlett, 12 Q.B., 488-3 Ex., 28). Of course the proposed amendment of the law would place the Bishop's action on a more satisfac- tory footing.—I am, Sir, &o.,