In the Court of Arches, yesterday, the Judge, Sir John
Dodson, gave judgment on the admissibility of the libel of appeal brought in by Archdea- con Denison against the judgment of the Court of the Archbishop of Canter- bury sitting at Bath. Sir John rejected the libel. It appeared to him a strange and anomalous proceeding—a proceeding contrary to all principle and practice—that an appeal should lie from a superior authority to a sub- ordinate appointed by that same superior authority, from a principal to his official. It looked, as the learned counsel for the appellant expressed it, like turning everything " topsy-turvey." It could never have been the true in- tent and meaning of the statute, that where the Archbishop had heard the cause, there should be an appeal to the Archbishop's Court to be heard by his inferior officer—that is to say, that his official, a person deputed by him, should sit there to revise sentences pronounced by himself the superiorau- thority. Under these circumstances, the Court felt it its duty to pronounce against this appeal, and to reject the libel which had been offered. Whether the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has justified to hear this cause,
be it was not for him to determine; he should not ustified in expressing any
opinion upon that point whatever. The Judicial Committee would be per- fectly able to decide for itself when the question should come before it.
Mr. Commissioner Longfield announced in the Encumbered Estates Court, on Thursday, that Baron Richards had ceased to be a Commissioner of the Court, and that all cases standing in the Baron's list would remain over until further orders.
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