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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 451, 8 May 1890, Page 3

The Sydney Mail’s London correspondent writes under date February 21:—The trial of the Bishop of Lincolu is attracting great attention, and both parties in the Church are watching it with great anxiety. The two prelates who take the most active part in the work of the Court are the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, and the astonishing grasp of the principles and details of ecclesiastical law displayed by the former is the theme of much praise, inasmuch as it is held to show that there is every prospect of tho Bishop of Lincoln receiving not only a fair, but a most pain.'taking trial. Nevertheless the friends of the Church of England are contemplating the result with much uneasiness, for, whichever way the decision of the Court goes, it is feared that a dam glng blow will be inflie'ed on the Church. If the Court, either wholly or in any essential particular, decides against the Bishop, his supporters will take the case to the Privy Council, and the latter will have to adhere to the judgments it has already given in esses of a similar complexion ; while if the verdict is in favor of the Bishop, the Evangelical party will carry the appeal to the Privy Council. If, in any event, the ultimate decision on a matter of importance should go against the Bishop of Lincoln, he will resign his see, and a schism will be created in the Church of England which cannot fail to have damaging consequences, and to prepare the way for disestablishment. It should be mentioned as a significant fact that, since the commencement of the prosecution of Dr King, there has been a marked increase in the number of conversions of Ritualistic clergy to the Church of Rome.