Lord Penzance, in dealing on Wednesday with the case of
Mr. Edwards, who had been suspended by him for six months, but who had paid no attention to the judgment, said that he should have signified the defendant's contumacy to the Court of Chancery, with a view to his imprisonment, had not the question of his (Lord Penzance's) jurisdiction in cases of suspension just been raised by the Queen's Bench. Lord Penzance did not doubt that he bad ample powers. In the Pnrchas case, the Privy Council, which was the Court of Appeal from his tribunal, did suspend Mr. Parches, just as he had suspended Mr. Edwards, ab officio ; and as for the suspension a be:m.14d°, it was only fair that in cases of such suspension the revenue should go to pay the substitute for the suspended clergyman. Still he deferred a final judgment, in deference to the point raised by the Queen's Bench. In the meantime, Mr. Edwards, who apparently wishes to remain in the Establishment without obeying the laws of the Establishment, obtains a reprieve.
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