APPEALS TO PRIVY COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 948, 15 October 1910, Page 9

APPEALS TO PRIVY COUNCIL.

'ADDRESS BY ARCHBISHOP. CLARKE. Archbishop : Clarke, • in the course'of: an address at the Anglican Synod for the 1 Archdiocese of Melbourne, dealt with, the question of appeals to the ' Privy Council. 011 ; matters of ceremony ; and; ritual: > He said: that in the province of Victoria' the .Church Constitution Amendment Act,. 1873, declared "that it shall be lawful for the- Synod of. the said Church to make provision for the. appointment, 1 deposition, dopriyation, or removal of any; person holdnig office therein of whatsoever order, or degree,. any rights of the'. Crown to the country notwithstanding, 11 That was t'le very unqualified power of self-gov-'oniment. Tiie doctrine.and.ritual; he said, -were the possible causes of the deprivation of the clergy, but it was a serious question whether or not : the c 9, n «niitee .of reference: and panel' of triers possessed sufficient -legal, doc#id, liturgical! knowledge to deal. with:such'j-.niattofs'.'iV;For these'; qiiestipus; he thought, they ought to have a;: .provincial::;court, 'consistirig of bishops, advised; by their Appeal lay frbm -the diocesan courts iiot • ttv the ■ but: to the appellate tribunal.' established by General !Synodiiii; 1872, and', accepted ;by the of Victoria./,,N0 legislation* °f -v e '.^ S '*!?,"¥■ deprive any ,'nian of his. civil rights, butthen, .thoy' worc citizens of, England, : VPj {tlioir - civil, rights were.; to •be .deternijiied'.in Australian' courts, and iany rightsrof the'-RHvy Counlimitdd.%i the; Constitution.:of ~tho>.OomiMoawealtK/1 . .-.vThft,j, l TigK P-fttirV of • Australia; heard 'dotermin'ed appeals . from'.all-Vjudginenti>of' : tho : Su-. pronjo. Court. of any,-, State;.,;with a decision which was final and conclusive. • 'Rofei'ririg-'tt: the. ''debatable' Question :of t u p r 'Archbishop .'said, "r ani'of; opinion' that 110 authority.' oiv cduoii has 1 been : pointed •; praying for the. dead has .been expressly prohibited.. -To, all thfen, • ffho,' uso : such prayers, .and. who • have asked'me if tfiey do wrong, and to ■others, of, whom 1 -Il.do.'.riot, know, I- say •that.your.'Church/allows you. these pe-. titions},-andv'thatshe-has/never forbid-, den such prayers/.so long ;as/you ask aright.". ;■