rity to speak for others in the pamphlet itself, as one of the first things said by me to Cardinal Manning, in an interview which I had with His Eminence on January 25th, was that I spoke only for myself, so in my letter to the Morning Post I acted on the same principle. Had I wished to compromise Mr. Mackonochie and his friends I should have kept silence. In my letter to the Morning Post I did not say or pretend that I was "completely alone;" I said that no " organisation" such as that described by the newspapers, to my knowledge, existed. I have dwelt, perhaps, too long upon this matter, but my personal character, which is dear to me, has been so truculently assailed by the Church Times that at the risk of wearying the reader, I have entered at length into these details. The Church Times is, of course, at liberty to differ from me as to the question of Erastianism; or, again, as to that of a Uniat Church; but it is not entitled, because I differ from it on these points, to charge me with conduct unworthy "of a clergyman, a graduate, or a gentleman," and such as "one has heard of at the Old Bailey." It is a fitting sequel to the conduct above-described, that the Church Times has refused to advertise the publication of this second pamphlet: perhaps from a foreboding that therein its own conduct would not escape exposure and chastisement. The Guardian observed at first a lofty silence as to "Christianity or Erastianism?" This it was quite entitled to do, however silly such a course might be on the part of a newspaper devoted to Church matters. On February 9th it broke this silence by a brief sneer at the declarants who had signed Mr. Mackonochie's disclaimer. This led one of them, a Mr. Baker, to repudiate the accusation of being "on the Rome ward road," and he closed his letter with the following passage "I signed the 'Declaration' ex animo, and because I was anxious to prevent the evil which the treacherous dodge of the letter-writer was calculated to produce; but I felt ashamed at the same time, because it seemed like telling the public I was not a cheat and a swindler, nor a traitor and a fool. "P.S.-If Presbyter Anglicanus' has a particle of honour or honesty left he will lay aside the mask, and tell the public who he is." This libellous passage, which indirectly implies that I am "a cheat and a swindler, a traitor and a fool," and which directly accuses me of being dishonest and dishonourable, was admitted by the Guardian into its prudish pages, although it had not afforded its readers any opportunity of knowing what I had written, and so of judging whether Mr. Baker's attack was just, and his censure deserved. Upon reading this intemperate effusion I wrote a letter to the Editor of the Guardian, which I here subjoin: "Sir, It is difficult to write with moderation in answer to such an attack as that made upon me by Mr. Baker in your issue of this week: nevertheless I will endeavour to do so if Mr. Baker will rise above mere inuendo and state what complaint he has against me, in precise and formal terms, to which I can give a definite reply. I am the more anxious that he should do this, as I do not think the most excitable clergyman in England would use towards another such defamatory expressions as Mr. Baker employs unless he were labouring under some grave misapprehension. "I must, therefore, ask Mr. Baker to state as temperately as he can, (for I do not wish to be goaded into truculence myself,) but above all, in clear and precise language, what offence or offences against honour or honesty I have committed? and as you, Sir, have admitted into your columns this attack upon my personal character, I must appeal to your sense of justice to give me an opportunity of defending myself. "I am, Sir, your obedient servant, PRESBYTER ANGLICANUS." "Feb. 17th, 1876. This letter was sent to the Guardian, duly authenticated by the publisher, a course which satisfied both the Morning Post and the Church Times, and which is, I presume, the usual course where an author wishes, from whatever reason, not to disclose his name. Such a wish may be perfectly legitimate; and the Editor of the Guardian himself hebdomadally issues articles on ecclesiastical questions to which no name is appended, and the authorship of which would not, I apprehend, be communicated to any irate clergyman who might disagree with any particular article, and might wish to know who wrote it. My surprise was, I confess, great when I received the following letter:Guardian Office. "Sir, I am desired by the Editor to say that the letter of 'Presbyter Anglicanus' cannot be inserted unless it is signed by him. "February 18th. Yours truly, P. M. M.KIE." My readers will observe the condition imposed by the Guardian. It was not that my name should be communicated in confidence to the Editor. I was prepared to comply with this condition, if insisted on. The request went beyond the stipulations exacted in ordinary cases; and required me to disclose my name to the world in order to gratify all the "Bakers" who might be anxious to hurl their epithets at me. Having thus precluded the possibility of my defending myself in his columns, the Editor, on March 1st, returned to the attack in an article in which, after some condescending patronage bestowed upon Dr. Pusey, the candid confession is made that " Dr. Pusey's generous illusions" (on the subject of Re-union) "are to ourselves very unintelligible." The Guardian is no Re-unionist; it prefers to have Christendom divided— and no wonder in a united Christendom there would be no place for the colourless theology which it disseminates. The consideration of Dr. Pusey's schemes for Re-union afforded the opportunity of hurling a few epithets at "Presbyter Anglicanus; " and so the article winds up with mention of "the wrangling of the loose-minded person" "who unreasonably objects to be called dishonest: of course, have fifty legitimate reasons for concealing his name. But under the particular circumstances of the case, there is one which will naturally suggest itself, and which, on the whole, is rather creditable than otherwise-namely, that he is ashamed of himself." "he may, I am NOT ashamed of myself; and I had, and still have, legitimate reasons, unconnected with any question of profit or preferment, for not giving my name to the public; but as the Guardian writer admits in as many words that I may have fifty legitimate reasons for the course I have taken, his conduct is unjustifiable in choosing and imputing to me one which certainly is not legitimate. I call particular attention to the ethics of this passage, which implies that when you have done a thing that you are "ashamed of," it is "creditable" to conceal your name. I thought this was usually considered by right-minded persons an aggravation of the offence. It is, perhaps, because the subject of Re-union is so "unintelligible" to the Guardian, that it seems specially destined to lose its balance on the subject of Uniat Churches. Excess of zeal is not its besetting sin, but it does get zealous when any proposal is made to take away some of its readers to other Communions. If I mistake not, a gentleman, who some time ago left the Church of England and entered into relations with the Greek Church, Mr. S. G. Hatherley, had occasion to invoke the interference of the law to protect his reputation from the remarks of the Guardian. What, however, my censors have not yet done, and show no inclination to do, is to disprove my facts, and to confute my arguments. Let them try to do this, and cease from analysing my motives or defaming my character; if they cannot do it, let them hold their peace : they will then conduct themselves in a manner more in consonance with their pretensions to speak for Churchmen. If the Guardian would only, during the last ten years, have manifested as much wrath against those who have sought to tamper with the Doctrine, Discipline, and Worship of the Church of England, as it has displayed against me for urging that those who do not like her present condition should leave her (a suggestion first made by the Bishop of Gloucester) it is possible that the Anglican Church might not now be in the plight in which she is, and that the convictions of the great body of the clergy would not be in the jellified condition to which they have been reduced, in great part by the minimizing spirit in which the Guardian discusses Church I have dwelt at greater length upon questions and Church difficulties. the conduct of these newspapers than their merits deserve, but I have no other means of defending myself. Moreover, as an Anglican clergyman, Congregation of the Index at Rome. I have at times heard woeful stories of the tyrannies practised by the The above recital shows that we too have our Congregation of the Index: a secret, irresponsible, and unfair tribunal; which will suppress what it dislikes, if it can; and if it finds it impossible to do so, will defame and proscribe the author whom it does not attempt to answer. THE CURSE OF THE ABBEYS. By the late Rev. J. M. NEALE, M.A., D.D. They tell us that the Lord of Hosts will not avenge His Own, His Sussex woods, his Lewes fields were all a prey of thine; -Amen. At a vestry meeting at Southampton, a letter was read from the Bishop of Winchester, replying to an application from a churchwarden respecting the recent week of missions in the town. The Bishop regretted that habitual, private confession, had been inculcated; he had no power as Bishop in the matter, and the churchwardens had none. A GLIMPSE OF LIGHT IN CLERKENWELL.-The traditions of Clerkenwell, both social and ecclesiastical, are decidedly low, and more particularly is this the case in the neighbourhood of the mother church of St. James. It is therefore with much pleasure we record an effort which was made on Tuesday evening last to introduce a little sweetness and light into the malodorous and benighted locality. The occasion was an effort to raise funds for providing a new organ for the parish church, and the service was fully choral, "Hymns Ancient and Modern" being used, and the Versicles and Responses sung to Tallis's music. The anthem was Monk's "Now upon the first day of the week,," and after the service the "Hallelujah Chorus was very creditably sung, the choir numbering about fifty voices. Mr. Rose, the vicar-elect, preached an appropriate Easter sermon. There was a fair congregation, who appeared to appreciate the innovation of a choral service.-John Bull. Recent Anti-Erastian Publications. 1. CHRIST OR CÆSAR: A Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury. By the Rev. Chancellor WAGNER. London: Rivingtons, 1874. Price 6d. 2. CANON OR STATUTE; A Correspondence on the Public Worship Regulation Act, between Lord SELBORNE and a SUSSEX PRIEST. London: Hayes, 1874. Price 1s. 3. THE LAW OF GOD AND THE LAW OF MAN: A Sermon. By G. A. DENISON, Archdeacon of Taunton. London: J. Parker and Co. Price 2d. 4. CHURCH AND STATE; or, Christian Liberty. By A. W. PUGIN. London: Longmans. Price 1s. 5. RECENT LEGISLATION FOR THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND ITS DANGERS: A Letter to the Bishop of Winchester. By Rev. F. G. LEE. London: Mowbray, 1875. Price 18. 6. THREE RECENT DECISIONS: A Letter to Lord Selborne. By Rev. C. S. GRUEBER. London: J. Parker and Co. Price 2s. 6d. 7. OUGHT WE TO OBEY THE NEW JUDGE? SHIPLEY, M.A. London: B. M. Pickering. Price 61. By Rev. ORBY 8. CHRISTIANITY OR ERASTIANISM? A Letter to Cardinal Manning, by PRESBYTER ANGLICANUS. London: Batty, 1876. Price 1s. 9. REASONS FOR NOT OBEYING THE STATE COURT IN ECCLESIASTICAL MATTEL S. By Rev. J. R. WEST, M.A., Vicar of Wrawby. London: Masters. Frice 6d. 10. CAN CHURCHMEN RECOGNIZE THE NEW JUDGE? London: Masters. Price 1d. 11. LIFE OF ROBERT GRAY, THE FIRST BISHOP OF CAPETOWN. In Two Vols. Edited by the Rev. C. N. GRAY. London: Rivingtons. Price 328. 12. THIS CHURCH AND REALM; or, the Rights of the Church and the Royal Supremacy. London: Hayes. Price 2s. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. J. M. P.-R. D.-W. H. H.-M. R. H. W.-A. B. E.-W. P. C.-A. W. E.-C.A. R.-Vicarius-D. D.-A. P. R.-H. H. D.-Oxoniensis-E. W.-W. F. W., and "Filius Ecclesie" are thanked for their letters concerning the so-called "Free and Open Church Movement." We have long been aware of the rottenness aud artificiality of the unreal agitation, mainly carried on by three-penny-bit laymen," and we are perfectly convinced that, save in a very few favoured and special localities, it is a total failure. H. D. L.-Why not have the boldness to publish a plain record of the job, with your name and address? R. B.-(Croydon). The Protestant theory regarding the faithful departed is tolerably well expressed in the following Gloucestershire epitaph: "Here lies Sir William Guise, Nobody laughs and nobody cries: Where he's gone, or how he fares, Nobody knows and nobody cares." The Anti-Erastian Documents" have been received from our correspondent at Rome, and shall duly appear. Thanks. As a rule, we must decline to insert both personal attacks of every sort and kind, and anonymous letters. If people want to ventilate their opinions (and a newspaper is certainly a proper vehicle for such action,) they must be good enough to sign their names to communications forwarded. We beg our correspondents and supporters to address all Letters relating to the literary portion of this paper to "The Editor of THE PILOT, 376, Strand, London, W.C.;" and all communications regarding the sale and advertising, to Mr. J. H. BATTY, Publisher, at the same address. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. diatribe at Retford, he asserted that he was "under a conviction that at least two previous Ministers had entirely refused, though pressed to co-operate, to have anything to do with a change. However, more pliant persons had now been found; and he had no doubt the thing would be done. A great deal of mischief will now be surely brought about, which might have been averted by the least effort of manliness and straightforwardness, if Mr. Disraeli had had the courage to tell Her Majesty he would not, any more than his predecessors, lend himself to such a course, which he believed in his conscience to be injurious to her Crown and dignity." Unfortunately for Mr. Lowe, his Liberal colleague, Mr. Gladstone, has been obliged, on the point in question, to give him a plain and flat denial. "Neither this nor any similar suggestion was mentioned to me by Her Majesty." Mr. Lowe's attempt to drag the Queen's name into the controversy is unworthy of a statesman, and will only tend to damage the party which Mr. Lowe aims at leading. WE E are sorry to hear of the Barbadian difficulty; and hope that it may soon be removed. Mr. Pope Hennessy is a man of such high character, sound principle, and good abilities, that the Government could not have found an abler Governor, or one better calculated to remove grievances and restore confidence. From the Cape of Good Hope we learn that, as regards the formal printed proposal which treats of Confederation, "no public document which has been published of late years has caused so much interest throughout the length and breadth of South Africa. Whatever may be the outcome of the mission of his Honour the President to England, and of the proposed conference, we are sure that the public of South Africa will duly appreciate the single-mindedness of the Earl of Carnarvon, who has taken more interest in the affairs of South Africa, and has worked harder to promote its welfare, than any other Secretary of State previously. His Lordship is a member of the strongest Government which has held sway in England since the days of Pitt, so more can be expected at their hands than from the Whigs and Radicals, who are always cheeseparing and using ad captandum arguments. The best friends of the Colonies are the Tories, and the best friend of South Africa is the noble Earl who holds the destinies of the magnificent colonial empire of Great Britain in his hands." This is satisfactory. The PILOT will in future be published at 376, Strand. THE certain and rapid collapse of numbers of our THE PILOT. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1876. "Has not all our misery, as a Church, arisen from people being afraid to That our Church has through centuries ever been sinking lower and lower, till good part of its pretensions is a mere sham; though it be a duty to make the best of what we have received.”—P. 274—" HISTORY OF MY RELIGIOUS OPINIONS." BY VERY REV. J. H. NEWMAN, D.D. T Fortnightly Notes. HE unreal and artificial opposition to the title of Empress of India is now apparent to all but Liberal partizans. We learn from India that "the addition of the title Empress of India' to that of Queen of Britain and Ireland' is considered in political circles here to be entirely warranted by existing circumstances, and it is further stated that, immediately after the Royal Proclamation shall have been promulgated, official expression will be given in London to this view on the part of Russia." The Times, Telegraph, and Daily News have only proved most conclusively that they are one and all out of accord with the belief and conviction of Englishmen. In Mr. Lowe's recent violent Christian and National Schools is now before our very eyes. They are being, one by one, steadily shut up. Infidel education,-in which the Name of God is banished,-patronized by the State, (and for which we are bound to pay, whether we like it or not,) is alone in the ascendant. In an admirable letter to Mr. F. Calvert, Q.C., the Rector of Limehouse, Mr. Samuel Charlesworth, writes thus :-" Eventually I must succumb and close my National Schools; competing with seven Board Schools, capable of accommodating as many thousand children, carried on with a lavish expenditure, can only terminate by the weak going to the wall." In this question of compulsory Pagan Education the Tories are just as bad as the Liberals. Lord Sandon, a mere Orange Protestant, is about as mischievous a person as Mr. Disraelicould have found for the position he holds: and any hopeful parson who is weak enough to expect anything good from that quarter, will infallibly both expect and look in vain. AMONGST the other "scientific" barbarities which are now being boldly perpetrated amongst us, we may mention that of "George Laycock, farmer, of Whittington, near Sheffield," who was recently fined 40s. and costs by the local Stipendary Magistrate for gross and appalling cruelty to a horse "which he was taming by electricity at a public sporting ground"-a practice spoken of as common in Yorkshire; and regarding which a correspondent gives us a detailed account which is too horrible and sickening to print. Then, again, over-loading and over-crowding of public vehicles is an increasing evil which needs stern repression. For example, ordinary omnibuses (including driver and conductor,) now carry no less than thirty people, whereas they used แ to carry only nineteen,-thus, with the weight of the vehicle, nearly three tons; while many of the journeys are no less than twelve or fourteen miles at a stretch. A writer in the Globe, of April 11th, "F. P., 94, Piccadilly," asserts that 'it was only last week that two omnibus horses, over-driven and taxed beyond their efforts in endeavouring to breast Piccadilly hill, fell stone dead. One of these unfortunate creatures was literally skin and bone. I am at a loss to understand how such a state of things can be tolerated by the authorities." Is not "F. P." aware that we are living under a state of things which is called "self-government," and that everybody can do almost everything and anything that he likes? Alas! It is a common practice for the Railway Vans, with only two horses, to carry from five to six tons. These poor animals may not be whipped, lashed and goaded as much as in former times, during the day-time: but their burdens have been doubled of late years, and their drivers don't spare them when the darkness comes on. It is the employers, however, who are equally reprehensible with the drivers, and who ought to have a taste of the treadmill. STRAWS on its surface truly indicate the direction of a stream. A brief correspondence in our contemporary the Guardian (which, let it be noted, has as completely demoralized the old High Church party, as the Church Times has first deluded and then betrayed the Liberal Ritualists,)— shows very plainly that the stream of the Established Church is moving rapidly towards the chill and dark Ocean of Unbelief. An honest and outspoken parson (the race is rapidly diminishing,) Mr. Edward Gray, Vicar of Sharow, THA HAT part of Bishop Lord Arthur Hervey's Charge, delivered at Bath,-in a chilly church which felt like a well, and looked like a whitewashed and unfurnished sepulchre,-was, of course, mainly taken up with a strong recommendation of an undefined "moderation," together with more than the customary episcopal twaddle (so thoroughly insincere,) concerning the sadness of " our squabbles about the length of a surplice, the colour of a stole, or the position of a minister "-stuff which we have read twenty times during the last five years. Our own honest wonder is that any clergy of the second order, but the orthodox place-hunters, waste their time by going to take part in such slovenly services, and to listen to such imbecile and useless utterances. A Visitation is the visiting of a parish church by the Bishop, to see that things are done decently and in order not the going to a central spot by all the clergy to "visit" the Bishop. The "Charge" of a Bishop implies the existence of a Court, and the presence of a Judge. But now that all the English Bishops have surrendered their jurisdiction to Lord Penzance, their Lordships have neither Courts, judicial seats, nor Charges to deliver. The whole thing is a consummate and useless farce. : Wextraordinary intellectual crotchets concerning Rome, which appear to have carried him captive, he might become near Ripon, wrote quite lately to the Guardian as follows:"In a recent number of the Contemporary Review Mr. Matthew Arnold, writing, as he professes, in defence of the Bible, states that it is defensible only after surrendering three points-first, the Personality of God; second, the Divinity and Sonship of our Saviour Jesus Christ; third, Miracles. He is thus, I suppose, a typical instance of the persons spoken of by St. John, where he says, 'If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine (viz., of the Father and the Son), receive him not into your house, neither bid him God-speed: for he that biddeth him God-speed is partaker of his evil deeds.' Yet Mr. Matthew Arnold, we are told, has, by special invitation from the authorities of Sion College, recently delivered a lecture there to the clergy and others, the subject of his lecture being 'The Church'-the Church, whose Divine Head he repudiates, whose fundamental doctrines he discards, and whose existence in any true sense he denies. And not only so, but on the conclusion of his lecture he is highly complimented by a Bishop of our Church. Bishop of our Church. I confess that no one event of recent date has so filled my mind with sad forebodings, and I am no less distressed that some weeks should have elapsed, and no voice of remonstrance been publicly raised. I cannot think that such a fraternizing between the Church and an avowed enemy of God's Truth should be passed over sub silentio." Now it should be noted that the person who lectured,-a son of that over-rated and mischievous man, Dr. Arnold, and a private pupil of Archbishop Tait's absolutely denies the Christian Keligion. Yet the Lecture in question, as well as the Lecturer, are openly defended by a notorious Broad Church Ritualist, Mr. W. H. Milman, and his defence is printed in the Guardian. A leading Unitarian newspaper says: "Mr. Arnold's denial of the BUT UT we must say a few words more on this low-minded Personality of God at Sion College is certainly worthy of and ignominious cry for toleration. The amiable Bishop remark." But the Tory Hour is delighted with it:-" Mac- of Winchester, in his recent "Pastoral," practically said to millan leads off with a bold paper on the Church of England, High Churchmen-"Why don't you be quiet and allow by Matthew Arnold, being an Address delivered at Sion Evangelicals to deny the efficacy of Baptism, and Broad College. The writer's definition of the Church is a great Churchmen to abolish Hell and the Devil, without complaint National Society for the promotion of goodness.' He evidently or rebuke, so that you, on your part, may teach the Real believes that, if the Church labours to this end, it will accom- Presence and the Dogma of the Resurrection of the Body plish its purpose, without having to fear Rome, or Dissent, or unmolested?"-which comes to this, Let anybody teach anySecularism. But he is alarmed about its future, unless it thing he likes in his own name- -for there is no authority of can command the sympathy of the popular classes, and he is any sort or kind in the National Church. Only here the not very successful in showing how this is to be secured. State-at the Bishops' express and almost unanimous instigaBut he is very clear upon one point-that the right settle- tion-steps in and says "No: this cannot be. ment is one to be reached not by Disestablishment, but by Broad or Infidel as you like, but the Catholic Faith shall not Comprehension and Union, and that these are to be attained be taught in deed. The P.W.R. Act is to put down Ritualif the clergy will cultivate grace and peace, place Reason ism.' Deny Hell as much and as frequently as you like; and good works above Dogma, and win the attachment of the Omit the Athanasian Creed whenever it is ordered to be lower classes." Such rubbish as this is, of course, hardly recited; preach that Baptismal Regeneration is a mediæval Be as figment, Absolution a farce, and the Real Presence a palpable absurdity, only do not stand before the altar, wear a chasuble or light a candle. If you do, I shall put you down." And this is now happening. Let the work go on, we say. The more and the more vigorously it is prosecuted, the better. Our own great dread is that the Erastians may temporarily shift their tactics, and so throw dust in the eyes of some of us. We therefore earnestly hope that the Ritualists and others may get a good and choking dose of shamArches' Court judgments. The larger it be the more likely is good to come out of evil. Then, maybe, our "dumb dogs who cannot now bark," may begin to measure the revolting character of this vile system of "toleration," and take some efficient means to provide a sound and suitable remedy. We need much more battering, however, before we can be ready for the coming change. IT T is rumoured that Lord Penzance will not hear any more charges against Clergymen for Ritualistic practices until the Privy Council has decided the case of Mr. Ridsdale. This, we believe, will not be till next June. By that time, Lord Penzance will have held his appointment of Judge under the Public Worship Regulation Act for nearly two years-let us say for a year and a half, so as to be within the mark-at a salary of £3,000 per annum. The results which have been achieved during this period by his Lordship are (1) the settlement of a parochial squabble at Ardleigh, between a Mrs. Webb and Mr. T. W. Perry, the parson of that place, who will pose in history as the first prosecutor before Lord Penzance; and (2) the suppression of Celebrations at St. Peter's, Folkestone. Whether these results are worth an outlay of £4,500 is a question which we must leave to those wise persons in Church and State to whom we owe the Public Worship Regulation Act. But there is another point of view of this matter which Churchmen may well take, and it is this :-Could not this money have been spent to better purpose just now when the already over-taxed liberality of Churchmen is being again invoked to found new Bishopricks? We commend this question very earnestly to the consideration of all who may be asked to endow more patronage for the Crown. It should never be forgotten that no difficulty was made by Parliament about endowing the New Judge with the large salary of £3,000 per annum out of existing ecclesiastical resources. Why, then, cannot the same plan be adopted for endowing the New Bishoprick? When it was a question of finding a salary for the New Judge, the Archbishop of Canterbury discovered a sum of money lying idle in Queen Anne's Bounty Office-we forget how much it was-which could be utilized for the purpose. An explanation of the exact nature of this sum, and of the reasons why it was never discovered when some missionary enterprise, for instance, was languishing for want of funds, would be interesting. One thing, however, is certain,—that diligent search should be made whether there is any more such for endowing new Sees. Moreover we ask, in all seriousness, whether under the new system more Sees are really required? Rural Deans have been happily described as "honorary and impotent officials: " but with Lord Penzance as Universal Ordinary it is quite certain the Bishops are almost, if not altogether, "honorary and impotent officials." And if their power of governing their dioceses is henceforth to be limited to the transmission of complaints to Lord Penzance, and the registry of his edicts, we believe that their number might be reduced rather than increased. When all real power and authority is being centralized, the multiplication of "honorary but impotent offices" can only lead to delusion and unreality. most influential Living and a Canonry; he further proceeds to select Dr. Farrar (a clever man and a good writer, but an outspoken political opponent,) for high preferment. Such an act is, of course, very complimentary and impressive to the Tories. It must be singularly gratifying, for example, to Prebendary Burrows, and to Dr. Alfred Lee of the Church Defence Society, who more especially has done so much in supporting the principle of an Established Church, and in resisting the Burials' Bill, and who are both meritorious. The Clergy as a body, at the last general election, gave an earnest support to Mr. Disraeli and the party he leads. At the next election, we fear, many of them will leave him to the co-operation of the Liberal parsons and their allies whom he has promoted. This is an impression shared, as we learn, by Mr. Raikes, Mr. Talbot, Colonel Makins, and other far-seeing men of the same stamp. Dr. Farrar last Sunday in his first Sermon since his appointment, could take no other subject (the public has had nearly enough of it for the present,) than that of Lady Augusta Stanley's decease. Could not the Dean and Canons of Westminster, by their own canonical authority (we mean no pun,) proceed to canonize her ladyship? A new shrine would add greatly to the attraction of the clean and unclean collection of curiosities, which, having been introduced into the Westminster ark, are, with the hideous busts and vulgar printed tickets stuck about, so Barnum-like in their beauty. Now that the rival "Royal Westminster Tadpolium" is so near, the Abbey authorities (even with a Decanal showman) must, as advertisers say, spare no trouble in judiciously adding" to their own Royal and original collection-or they will be beaten by their less favoured rivals. N A able member of the Council of the English Church Union, under the signature of "Presbyter Anglicanus,' recently addressed a public Letter to Cardinal Manning upon the gross and alarming Erastianism of the English Bishops, and proposed a remedy. That Letter, very able and highprincipled, was both temperate and telling. It was received, however, with a howl of execration by the Irish self-importations, the Bakers and the Littledales-who appeared to have gone stark mad in the violence of their hysterical hiccups. For it was by spasmodic adjectives rather than in intelligible sentences that the vials of their Hibernian wrath were outpoured on the head of the Cardinal's Anglican correspondent. Another Letter from his pen, addressed to his Eminence of Westminster, and entitled "Do They Well to be Angry?" has just reached us, too late, however, for review now. It shall be criticised at length in our next issue. Meanwhile we take the liberty of reprinting the Appendix, which specially concerns our high-principled Church contemporaries,-to whom we cordially commend its careful perusal. For "Fair-play is a jewel." treasure-trove" before a subscription-list is opened N Quarterly Review is there any clue whatsoever to the MR. R. DISRAELI has once more exhibited by official action that contempt for Tory Churchmen which he is reported to have recently expressed in very emphatic words to one of his personal supporters in the House of Commons. And he has done this by appointing Dr. Farrar to the vacant Westminster Canonry. Not satisfied with having already rewarded three earnest Liberals for their consistent opposition, viz. :-Dr. Basil-Jones, Mr. F. Pigou, and Mr. Robinson Duckworth, by respectively giving them a Bishoprick, a EITHER in the Quarterly Review nor in the Church policy of our great leaders. The article on "Church Innovations" in the former is a very poor production-from the pen of one who has not, as yet, mastered his subject. He " ventures to think" that "the argument is closed,"-a thought, we are willing to allow, which is tolerably exact: only not exactly in the writer's sense of the term. As regards High Churchmen they have so entirely beaten their opponents out of the field, in literary argument and historical research, and the arguments in their favour have turned out to be so complete and overwhelming, that the Archbishops found it necessary to get the law altered obliquely, as it would not have been easy to obtain its direct alteration. So they secured the aid of Parliament, resigned their own jurisdictions, set up a new Universal Lay Ordinary, who would be ready to make new law by novel and unjust interpretations and decisions regarding the old; and so seem to have been eminently successful. But yet, after all, they have not succeeded, and their present want of success is apparent by the tone of the miserable wail in the Quarterly Review,—tl ● Editor of which is significantly plaintive in his appeal to the Moderate High Church Party. "Detach yourselves from the Ritualists!" urges this feeble but malignant scribe; "for by so doing we shall be better able to put them down'-and when we have put them down (being the most prominent people in our way,) we will then proceed to put you down." If we may judge by the late Dean Hook's policy, they are not quite so shortsighted as they are taken to be. Let only the extreme men be overthrown, and the turn of the "Moderates will soon come. The foul Erastianism of Drs. Tait and Thomson will soon begin to operate elsewhere. As for the new Church Quarterly, its feebleness, its poverty of thought, its superfine impotence, render it at once a portent and a marvel of literary imbecility and pious weakness. To ourselves it is only "dear" in the pecuniary sense of the word. and degraded men, is the sole order of the day. All honour, therefore, to those who have striven to give a turn in a better direction to public taste. Some theatres are admirably conducted, and the Shakesperian Revivals at the Lyceum deserve the most unqualified praise. Other theatres are reported to be greatly improving. The critics are awakening. We read with deep satisfaction in Vanity Fair, for April 15th, the following outspoken remarks upon a recent performance : "I can find no other word than 'shocking' to describe the costume of Mdile. Pitteri, and no other word than disgusting' to describe certain antics of the Fiji Flutterers.' Now, if an ordinary and not over-prudish newspaper can thus speak out, what must be the nature of the "entertainment" provided? The Lord Chamberlain of a Tory Government should certainly request the officers under him to look to a matter of this nature. But perhaps the "Liberal " Mr. Smythe Piggott who, being a Liberal," was appointed by the Tories to his present responsible office of Examiner of Plays,-holds that the practice of Liberalism, License and Latitude in any and every direction, is an advantage and benefit to all enlightened peoples and nations who are supposed to "govern themselves.' F F we own any Roman Catholic readers, we would call their special attention to our first leading article entitled "Religion at Oxford." It is from the able pen of one who knows the state of affairs there most accurately a state which more than justifies the English Roman Catholic authorities of ten years ago in declining to found a College in that University. What some termed "bigotry" is now seen to have been only wisdom and foresight. ΟΝ Good Friday afternoon we visited St. Peter's, London Docks, and accompanied Mr. Lowder from dingy street to unwholesome alley and stuffy court. Could Lord Penzance have followed and seen the listless indifference of the onlookers to the pictured representation of the Sufferings of the Son of Man, he might possibly have realized how utterly fallacious were the pious fears of his Erastian heart that the pictured memorials in question might induce, amongst the Protestants of England, the sin of Idolatry. It would have been evident to him that not only idolatria, but latria (or religious worship of any kind whatsoever,) is far removed. from the bosoms of the practical heathen of Wapping and the Docks. The indifference of the natives through whose locale the zealous devotion of the Clergy of St. Peter's carried the history of the Via Dolorosa, spoke out as plainly as if it had found utterance by the tongues of the unwashed men and women who gazed from their windows or lounged against their door-posts-"If we let you alone, your preaching and pictures, you may think yourselves very well off: we don't know who this Jesus Christ is, and we don't care to know"! Indeed, the ex-Divorce Judge need not fear for his Protestants. They are, practically, as good Erastians as himself. For Mr. Lowder we could not but feel sincere sympathy. He is killing himself in his Master's service. But to all outward appearance, the self-devotion and zeal manifested by him were expended utterly in vain, so far as evangelistic results are concerned. With the exception of a mere handful of his own people, and a noisy following of boys and girls -with, perhaps, at one or two of the Stations, some halfdozen adult listeners-the record of the Sufferings of our Blessed Saviour evidently failed to evoke the sympathy of even a passing heart-throb. The motley following-insignificant, at its best,-fell off long before the close; and, on the return to the church doors, it was evident that the wondrous Story of the Cross had drawn from his or her haunts not a single soul. In sympathy with Lord Penzance, the verdict of the indifferent heathen would seem to have been :-"Our ex-Divorce Judge has condemned your Stations, and we have too much respect (it suits us in the present case) for our Archbishop, and for 'law,' to have anything to do with likely to know it is considered improbable that any Parliamentary action them." TWO WO men of mark have recently passed away,—whose memories deserve a respectful tribute. One, Lord Lyttelton, a scholar, a Liberal Churchman, and something of a politician,-destroyed himself in a fit of temporary insanity. Though a consistent party man-of the wrong party-he was often striving to be liberal, which all Liberals find it so hard to accomplish. He was ever regarded as an agreeable, genial and clever, though somewhat eccentric, person. The other is Mr. Richard Simpson, a convert to the Church of Rome at the time of Dr. Newman's secession,-an amiable and very learned man, neither bitter nor narrow. literary tower of strength to the English Liberal Roman Catholics, and in conjunction with Lord Acton, started the Home and Foreign Review, after the North British (the previous organ of the same people,) had been smothered and killed by the heavy dulness of its articles, and the uninteresting character of its wearisome dissertations. Mr. Simpson died at Rome, (God rest him!) and will be missed by a large circle of friends-of all creeds and none. He was a HE demoralized state of the Stage at certain theatres is so THE marked, that no decent or respectable people can visit them. Unblushing beastliness, perpetrated by painted hussies The Catholic Revival at Home. We learn that the P.W.R. Act is about to be put into operation against certain beneficed clergymen in the Diccese of Bath and Wells. A rumour has just reached us that the Bishop of Llandaff is not unlikely to resign his See. About £330 bave been collected towards the memorial to the late highprincipled and much-respected Canon Humble of Perth. Amongst the contributors are Lords Glasgow and Forbes; and we note with satisfaction that the ex-Provost of Perth Cathedral, Mr. E. B. K. Fortescue, has contributed £5 towards the object proposed. A leading Tory clergyman in the Diocese of Norwich informs us that nearly two hundred of the clergy abstained from supporting Colonel Duff, the Conservative Candidate-on the broad ground that from Dr. Tait to Dr. Farrar, Mr. Disraeli has been consistently appointing his political opponents to positions of influence in the Established Church. We are informed that Her Majesty's Government are quite in favour of the Establishment of a new Bishoprick for Cornwall; although by those will be taken this session. Three or four Cabinet ministers are reported to be interested in the plan; and the name of the Rev. J. E. Kempe (a Cornish man of considerable moderation,) is mentioned as likely to first fill the new See. We have just learned from our German Correspondent that, out of thirty-two congregations of the so-called "Old Catholics," the delegates of twenty-five have voted for, and seven have voted against, a formal proposition to set aside the rule and custom of the celibacy of the clergy. We also learn that the influence of Dr. Döllinger-who is against the change -has been strongly felt in the decision which has been just arrived at. EASTER STATISTICS.-On Easter Day the communicants at St. Mary Magdalene's, Paddington, numbered 1,158, the offertory exceeding £1,500. In these particulars St. Mary's always stands out prominently; but we believe the figures this year are higher than ever before. At St. Alban's, Holborn, the communicants numbered 590. At St. Philip's, Clerkenwell, they reached 370, the offertory being a little short of £28. As usual on the great festivals, at St. Alban's and St. Philip's stringed instruments were used, in addition to the organ, at the High Celebration. EASTER LECTURES AT ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER.-The Sunday afternoon lectures at this church during Eastertide have assumed a new phase, being this year under the direction of the Christian Evidence Society. The first lecture was delivered on Sunday by the Rev. James |