LIVELY WORK IN AN ANGLICAN SYNOD.

Evening Star, Issue 4299, 6 December 1876, Page 4

LIVELY WORK IN AN ANGLICAN SYNOD.

At the late Synod meeting of the Church ot England, in Sydney, Mr Charles Campbell gave notice of his intention to move that the proceedings of the Synod having shown that its assembling was premature and inexpedient, it should on rising adjourn till a.d. 189 G. The course of proceedings did not allow Mr Campbell to propose this resolution, and it would appear that he felt rather nettled in consequence, so in a discussion which arose he took Occasion to complain that he had been overruled by decisions that were like “ the arbitrary decisions of a Turkish Cadi.” To he compared to an official of the Turkish Government is not, just a

very high distinction, and the Presi" dent of the Synod (the Bishop of Sydney) asked if Mr Campbell called Lira a Turkish Cadi ? Mr Campbell did not further enlarge on this point, but went on to denounce the whole course of proceedings of Synod. He also raised the question of the propriety of the episcopal signature used in these Colonies, and in reference to the signature of “S. E. Bathurst ” Appended to oue of the reports, he Said “how any English gentleman could adopt so illegal a superscription he was at a loss to know. (Dissent.) A baronial title dragged through the dirt—(sensation) —by a person who had no possible right.” The remainder of Mr Campbell’s viewon this point was lost owing to an interruption caused by the Bishop of Ballarat rising to order. After Mr Campbell had finished his remarks the Bishop of Baßarat reverted to the same subject, and said that he signed himself Samuel Ballarat, and in doing so he did not claim any baronial title or anything. Bub his title was legal and correct. He .obtained legal advice on the matter before leaving England, and had the opinion of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The President said that the Bishop of Bathurst took precisely the same course.