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no doubt, some misapprehension of orders from one, and permission of another, the old Churchyard was terribly desecrated. The whole surface of the Churchyard was removed to the depth of two or three feet-tombstones thrown down and removed, and human remains carted away wholesale. Certainly the parish seemed immediately to suffer, as it were, by a blight. Those who directed the gangs of labourers both fell by violent deaths shortly afterwards, within a few hundred yards of the Churchyard. Three Rectors in the prime of life were quickly in succession carried off by death, and laid in the Churchyard; the large estates changed hands four, if not five times in nine years. These are facts, and the natural lesson from them has become ingrained in the moral sense of the neighbours, and that is, to beware of disrespect to the dead; let them alone, nor rudely disturb the remains of the departed."

The following is a correct list of the Churches at which Missions will be held, from the 14th to the 25th of November:-St. Alban, Holborn; All Saints, Margaret-street; All Saints, Islington; All Saints, Kensing ton; All Saints, Lambeth; All Saints, Plumstead; All Saints, Rotherhithe; St. Andrew. Plaistow; St. Augustine, Haggerston; St. Augustine, South Hackney; St. Barnabas, Pimlico; St. Bartholomew, Moor-lane; St. Chad, Haggerston; Christ Church, Albany-street; Christ Church, Clapham; St. Columba, Haggerston; St. Cyprian, Baker-street; St. Edmund King and Martyr, Lombard-street; St. Ethelburga, Bishopsgatestreet; St. James, Hatcham; St. John the Baptist, Kentish Town; St. John the Baptist, Leytonstone; St. John the Baptist, Pimlico; St. John the Divine, Kennington; St. John the Evangelist, Red Lion-square, Holborn; St. John, Walworth; St. John the Evangelist, Waterloo-road; St. Jude, Gray's Inn-road; St. Lawrence, Jewry; St. Mary, Grosvenorsquare; St. Mary, Hoxton: St. Mary, Newington; St. Mary, Primrosehill; St. Mary. Plaistow; St. Mary, Rotherhithe; St. Mary, Staines; St. Mary the Less, Lambeth; St. Marylebone Workhouse; St. Mary Magdalene, Chiswick; St. Mary Magdalene, Paddington; St. Mary the Virgin, Soho; St. Matthew, City-road; St. Michael and All Angels, Paddington; St. Michael, Shoreditch; St. Nicholas, Chiswick; St. Pancras Workhouse; St. Paul, Covent-garden; St. Paul, Knightsbridge; St. Paul, Walworth; St. Peter, Bayswater; St. Peter, Great Windmill-street; St. Peter, London Docks; St. Peter, Vauxhall; St. Philip, Clerkenwell; St. Saviour, Hoxton; St. Saviour, Pimlico; St. Stephen, Lewisham; St. Thomas, Stamford-hill; Holy Trinity, Shoreditch; Holy Trinity, West

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The Dean of Exeter has addressed the following letter to the Dean of Ripon :-"My dear M'Neile,-I was not aware when I received your note of the 25th that it was not your intention to give to it the publicity which I find from perusing the Record it has obtained. Had I been aware that such was your intention I should have replied to it, not as I have done, by a private note to yourself, but as I now do, in a more public manner. I am happy to repeat my thanks for the cordiality of your note, as well as the sympathy under present responsibilities which it expresses. I should be guilty of dissimulation if I allowed you to think that my views as to the course which the Chapter of Exeter ought to take coincided with your own. Admitting to the fullest degree the force of some of the objections urged against Dr. Temple, and confessing my great regret that he did not, years since, disunite himself from apparent fellowship with the other writers of the Essays and Reviews, I cannot permit myself to commit an act of (as it seems to me) disrespect to the Crown and unfairness to an individual, by promoting a refusal to elect him to the office to which his Sovereign has called him. It is one question whether, were this act of election spontaneous and uncontrolled, I should give my vote in his favour; and another, whether in the confessed absence on his part of heretical teaching and sympathy with the sentiments of the other Essayists, he should be pronounced by men, professing to be true and just in all their dealings, ineligible. I regard myself as one reluctantly called with others to sit in judgment on his supposed or suspected guilt, and I cannot, without evidence reaching to demonstration, condemn him. My late Diocesan, keen in detecting error and well inclined to strike him through the joints of his armour, could not, did not, feel himself justified in saying more than that his essay was open to very grave remark. Prove to me that Dr. Temple is a heretic, that he has denied the faith, and avowed dissent from the doctrines of our Church, and my path is clear. No consideration, whether of respect for high authority or of provoking obloquy, or of incurring penalties, would prevent my fulfilment of the duty of rejection; but while I would in such a case dare to be inflexible, I have not courage enough to dare to be unjust."

The Dedication Festival of All Saints', Lambeth, is being held this week. The Services commenced on Sunday evening, the Eve of All Saints, when a choir numbering about 100 entered the Church singing the hymn, "Spouse of Christ." The crucifer was vested in scarlet cassock and dalmatic, and on either side of him were boys, vested in scarlet cassocks and cottas, bearing lighted tapers. The precentors wore black tippets, and the sacristans scarlet ones. The Office was sung by the Rev. C. Dunbar, Curate. A Sermon of striking eloquence was preached by the Rev. W. Helps, of Christ Church, Clapham, wherein he enforced the Catholic doctrine of prayers for the departed. The procession left the Church singing, "We March,," &c. To our minds the most striking part of the Service was the grouping of the Priests, cross-bearer, acolytes and precentors, at the Magnificat, when the altar and chancel were

bright with innumerable tapers, and dignity was given to the Song of Our Lady which could not fail to impress the most careless, whilst to the Faithful it taught forcibly the doctrine of the Incarnation. On Monday evening the Sermon was of a similar joyous character. The Rev. C. Dunbar was the Preacher and followed out the same theme as the Sunday evening Preacher, viz: the Communion of Saints. After the procession on Monday the choir returned to their stalls, and the altar having been vested in black, and the Clergy in black stoles, the Dies Ira was sung. On All Souls' Day the Services were necessarily of a more solemn character. At Evensong a Sermon of wonderful earnestness on the same great doctrine of the Communion of Saints, was preached by the Rev. G. B. Hodges, of St. Ethelburga's, Bishopsgate. Besides, the admirable manner in which it was delivered, it had the great advantage of being very brief and pointed, lasting only fifteen minutes noticed with regret the absence of the Vicar, the Rev. F. G. Lee, at in delivery. The festival will be closed on Sunday evening. We have these festivals, which has been caused, we are informed, from severe illness. The offertories are to defray the debt of £500 incurred in restoring the Church, and for which, we believe, Dr. Lee is personally responsible.

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The following Clergy and Laity have, among others, signed a memorial to the Queen against the appointment of Dr. Temple:-Rev. Laughson Alison Alison, Chaplain of St. Margaret's, East Grinstead; Rev. W. Simcox Bricknell, Vicar of Eynsham, Oxon; Rev. J. W. Buckley, St. Mary, Paddington; Robert Brett, Esq., Stoke Newington; Rev. T. T. Bazeley, late Rector of Poplar; Rev. E. D. Cree, Vicar of Upper Tooting, Surrey; Rev. C. Clayton, Rector of Stanhope and Hon. Canon of Ripon; Rev. J. Burleigh Colvill, Chaplain to the County Gaol, Berks.; Rev. R. W. Dibdin, 62, Torrington-square; Venerable Archdeacon of Durham, Gateshead Rectory; Rev. J. Evans, Incumbent of St. James, Shoreditch; Venerable Archdeacon of Exeter, The Close, Exeter; Rev. Richard W. Enraght, Assistant-Curate of St. Paul's, Brighton; Rev. W. Fraser, D.C.L.. Vicar of Alton, and Proctor in Convocation for the Clergy of Lichfield; Rev. C. P. Golightly, Oxford; The Very Rev. the Dean of Gloucester, the Deanery, Gloucester; Rev. G. Pierce Grantham, St. Saviour's, Leeds; Rev. Robert Gregory, Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's Cathedral and Vicar of St. Mary-the-Less, Lambeth; Rev. E. S. Grindle, late Curate of Cuckfield, Sussex; Rev. Charles Gutch, Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Incumbent of Cyprian's, Marylebone; Rev. Gilbert Vyvyan Heathcote, Rector A. West Deeping; Rev. Haldane - Chinnery, Edinburgh; Rev. Philip Hale, Master of the Grammar School, Daventry; Rev. Edmund Huff, Vicar of Little Cawthorpe, Louth; Rev. James Perry Kane, Curate of St. Paul's, Brighton; Rev. Thomas Keble, jun., late Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; Rev. Dr. F. G. Lee, Vicar of All Saints', Lambeth; the Very Rev. the Dean of Llandaff, Deanery, Llandaff; Rev. F. C. Massingberd, Chancellor of Lincoln, and Vicar of Ormsby; Rev. Hugh Monro, 11, Chester-place, Regent's-park; Rev. W. F. Powell, Hinton Court, near Hereford, late Vicar of Cirencester; Rev. Dr. E. B. Pusey, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford; Rev. Cyril W. Page, Perpetual Curate of Christ Church, Westminster; Rev. F. B. Portman, Rector of Staple Fitz-paine and Rural Dean; Rev. George Peake, Vicar of Aston, juxta Birmingham; Rev. Francis E. Paget, Rector of Elford, Staffordshire; the Very Rev. the Dean of St. Paul's, the Deanery. St. Paul's; the Venerable the Archdeacon of Taunton, Vicar of East Brent, Weston-super-Mare; Rev. W. P. Ward, Rector of Compton Valence, Dorset; Rev. Domville Wheeler, Rector of Barcheston, Warwickshire; Rev. Richard Temple West, Incumbent of St. Mary Magdalen, Paddington; and Rev. T. T. Carter, Clewer.

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of the General Synod of the Irish Episcopalian Church. In agreement THE IRISH CHURCH.-Preparations are being made for the assembling with directions emanating from the late Lay Conference, and approved by the Bishops, notice was given in the Parish Churches on Sunday that after an interval of five minutes lay representatives will be chosen in the proportion of, at most, two for every officiating Clergyman, the voters being all male adult members of the congregations. The persons sq chosen will be returned, in the first instance, as to Diocesan Synods, from which delegates will be selected for the "General Synod." The Bishop of Ossory (O'Brien) has stated in a visitation address that the Bishops and Clergy will probably accept, but not unanimously, the principle of "voting by orders," and the double representation of laymen. He condemned the raising of controversies on the Formularies of the Church, as certain to lead to confusion and weakness, if not to schism.

THE PROSECUTION OF MR. BENNETT.-Sir R. Phillimore gave judgment in this case on Saturday on the application (reported a day or two since) to admit the articles. His lordship referred to the remarks he had made on the 5th inst., when he suggested certain alterations. He had to consider whether he was bound to admit the Article 5, as to the Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist. That charge was not before the Commissioners when the inquiry was made, and was not in the letters of request sent by the Bishop to this court, nor in the citation served on the defendant, who had been contumacious in not appearing to the criminal charges of alleged heresy made against him. Then as to the charge as to the reception of the sacrament by the wicked, all that related to that subject must be struck out of the articles. Mr. Stephens asked for an appeal to the Judicial Committee. His lordship's judgment

had materially altered his position as to the charge of heresy. His lordship hesitated to grant an appeal, and after a discussion of some length allowed it, and said he hoped there would be as little delay as possible. THE TWELVE DAYS' MISSION.-George Mansfield, LL.D., Vicar of St. John's, Brixton, has addressed a letter to the Record, concerning the above. He wishes it to be known that "come what may he will have nothing to do with it." The tone of the letter may be gathered from the following extracts:-"The circular inviting co-operation in this revival movement fully betrays the school of thought' (as the euphonious phrase is for every heresy which is now broached) to which these revival gentlemen belong, and we know the sort of gospel which they will preach-that looking to the Parish Priest' (another fashionable phrase), instead of looking to Jesus,' will be the gist of the whole movement, for they counsel in their circular 'a Daily Celebration;' and not a few. I doubt not, will counsel in their Sermons, private confession to their Priest, and that sacerdotal absolution which they so tenaciously, and, as I think, so blasphemously hold. Timeo Danaos etiam dona ferentes. The movement of these gentlemen seems good, but I do not forget, and cannot ignore these words- False Apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness.'-2 Cor. xi. 13, 15."

INEFFICIENCY OF THE CHOIR OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.-After the usual Service at St. Paul's Cathedral yesterday the Rev. Canon Gregory requested the singing men and boys to stay before they took off their surplices, as he had a communication to make to them "in as public a manner as possible." The Rev. gentleman, standing inside the railings which divide the vestry rooms of the choir from the body of the Cathedral, while the congregation gathered round the outside, then addressed the members of the choir. After pointing out in distinct and emphatic language that the Morning Services at the Cathedral were becoming a public scandal and the talk of the town on account of the general want of heart and dignity, and from the lax attendance of many concerned, the speaker went on to declare that it was becoming a grave question as to whether the Services had not better be discontinued. "Only three gentlemen of the choir here this morning and two yesterday; it is really too bad," said the Rev. gentleman. One of the choir then interrupted the Canon with a remark that the Dean and Chapter really paid them such a small stipend that they should starve unless they looked up " other engagements, which remark led to something exceedingly like an altercation between the Canon and the chorister. "The Service of God and the public convenience," said the former, "are above the convenience of the individual, and this is not the place to discuss the question of pay." The Rev. speaker concluded by requesting that Mr. Cowell, the organist, would attend him in the vestry, after having announced to the choir, but apparently at the congregation-who seemed greatly surprised at the whole scene-that arrangements would be made to suit the convenience of the public by having the hour of Service altered. As far as we could gather, the sympathy of the bystanders was with the Canon.

REOPENING OF KINGSCOTE CHURCH.-On the Vigil of the Festival of SS. Simon and Jude the Bishop of Peterborough reopened Kingscote Church after restoration. The Bishop, Clergy and choir entered the Church singing as a processional hymn, "Our festal morn is come." The Service was choral and well rendered. The offertory was about £100. At the luncheon which followed the Bishop made a capital speech. He remarked, it is particularly seasonable that you should have something of this work of Church restoration, and that I should have some such evidence of Church work coming in this month of October, because it seems to be the time of the year when the Church of England breaks out into Congresses and Conferences. In these, men come together to take stock of their work, to see how one another had been doing, to suggest better ways of doing the work, and on the whole to criticise very freely and very largely. Church Congresses and Church Conferences are very liable in many respects to this wholesome criticism. Occasionally one knew there was a great deal of airing of crochets, and one often finds a man who has something to suggest in the Church way, with his mind so full of it as to believe that if it were not carried out the Church must come to immediate and inevitable grief,-and he will come forward and point to this and that weak spot, and implore most effectively and lovingly the helpless and unhappy state of the Church. Everything these sort of men thought depended upon the Rev. A. or Rev. B.'s plans. He comes with his statistics and urges upon the Congress that he has not the responsibility of being a Bishop, and woe be to them if they did not carry out his plans. One of the results of these Congresses, or Conferences is this. We are always hearing of the defects and weaknesses of the Church, and the old story that her constitution needs reform. After going through the week's newspaper reports of such Conferences, one is apt to get a feeling of alarm that this Church of ours, we so much love, this Church of England, is really in a very bad way indeed. It is to be regretted that our brethren in the newspapers, and other ways, will come forward and find all these faults in the Church, but some Churchmen are rather given to this, and fond of doing what I call a gratuitous penance in the month of October. The Church of England appears to be standing in a white

sheet in the autumn season for her deficiencies, and for the especial delectation of the editors of newspapers. It is, however, very consoling to me in going about my Diocese to find that in this much abused Church of England there is a great deal of very healthy, very solid and very satisfactory work being done in spite of all the defects and difficulties so much talked of by some persons. No doubt our Church work is capable of being improved, but still there is a great deal to be loved or cherished. We have every reason to be thankful, considering what it has been in times past, and considering that we have had to endure the neglect of our predecessors and to bear ourselves the burden of their neglect. Our teeth are set on edge with the sour grapes which they have eaten.

REOPENING OF SMARDEN CHURCH.-Smarden Church, popularly known as the "Barn of Kent," after an extensive alteration, has been reopened. The reopening Services commenced on Thursday. The subscribers met at the Lynch Gate at half-past two, and the Clergy in the vestry. The procession into the Church was headed by about 40 of the principal parishioners, all subscribers to the undertaking. On the arrival of the Clergy at the western screen, Hymn 164, Ancient and Modern, was sung. The Rev. E. H. Plumptre, M.A., Rector of Pluckley, preached a very eloquent Sermon from Ezra iii. 11, "And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the Lord; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever towards Israel. And all the people shouted with House of the Lord was laid." At the conclusion of the Service the a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the Rector entertained a number of his parishioners to a substantial luncheon at the Rectory. The choir, the bell-ringers, and the poor were also well provided for. Almost the last of the Churches in the Weald, St. tion. Damp and encumbered by quaint high-backed pews, none of the Michael's, Smarden, has remained in a neglected and dilapidated condiseats facing the minister, no more uncomfortable or inconvenient place for the celebration of Divine Worship could scarcely be imagined. But what made this the more to be regretted, was the fact that it was well known that the structure possessed remarkable architectural beauty, and that if the thick coating of plaster and whitewash which internally disfigured it were removed, the sacred edifice would be as handsome as any Haslewood, who had previously at considerable expense restored the in that portion of the county. Accordingly the Rector, the Rev. F. F. chancel, consulted Mr. J. Clarke, the Diocesan architect, and after a required, the original estimate, which was £1,200, being exceeded by the discovery by Mr. Clarke that the walls were insecure, and required filling in where they had been imprudently cut away in the olden time. responded to the Rector's appeal with a readiness which could scarcely Smarden is not a wealthy place, but both landowners and tenant farmers be exceeded, if equalled, by any parish of a similar size. The Rector and his sons, the Rev. Dr. Haslewood and Rev. Francis Haslewood, Curate of Benenden, are earnest archæologists, and from day to day the work has consists of a nave and chancel with an embattled tower. The nave is of been carried on under the most strict superintendence. The Church most curious construction, being nearly forty feet wide and very lofty. There are no arches or columns to support it, but there is a splendid net work of open oak rafters without tie beams or side bars. The highbacked pews have been removed-one of these, belonging to the Romden Estate, was 15ft. 6in. by 9ft. The chancel is fitted with seats constructed for the most part out of the oak panelling of the Romden pew. It has a very light and graceful appearance. It has undergone a complete restoration, and its beauty is increased by the handsome stained glass window erected by the family of the Rector in memory of their mother. At the opposite end of the Church, the extraordinary theatrical gallery, which formerly existed, has been removed, the ringing loft has disappeared, and a very handsome screen has been placed here. The chancel was formerly partially shut in by a brick arch. This has now been removed, and the handsome ancient arch, which formerly existed, has been rebuilt. At the east end of the nave on each side of the chancel arch is a stone reredos, ornamented with a double corbel table trefoil headed. The corbels on the left side are decorated with human heads and lions, and foliage of exquisite workmanship, and formerly were coloured. It seems that in 1444 a member of the Guildford family founded a Chapel here. Formerly some fine fresco painting was to be found here, but no doubt at the Reformation, or shortly after, this, with the rood loft, was destroyed. There are two niches on each side of the nave which were no doubt intended for statues. In the north wall is a grotesque figure, and beneath it what appears to have been intended for a heart-shrine, but antiquaries are not at all agreed as to the purpose of either. The whole is carved in Bethersden marble, and was until the last few years deeply coated with whitewash. Among the Church furniture is a very ancient poor's-box. It is on a pedestal of solid oak. To the box is attached a curious enamel, which, at one time, evidently formed part of a shrine. The plate is of fine copper, and the enamel represents a baptism. The date of this is fixed by Mr. Haslewood to be between 1192 and 1298, and to have been manufactured at Limoges. In 1859 an ancient sepulchre was discovered in the north wall of the chancel, supposed to have been used in ancient times for a representation of the entombment of our Saviour at Easter. In the chancel are some ancient sedilia and brackets.

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By the Rev. FREDERICK GEORGE LEE, D.C.L., J. T. HAYES, Lyall-place, Eaton-square; & SIMPKIN. F.S.A., Vicar of All Saints', Lambeth.

Contents: Preface-List of Books quoted or referred to. CHAPTER I.-Introductory: Statement of the Author's object. II. The Preface to the Ordinal of 1549. III. Form for the Ordination of Deacons, 1549. IV. Form for the Ordination of Priests, 1549. V. Form for the Consecration of Bishops, 1549. VI. The Edwardine Ordinal. VII. The Ordinal of King Edward VIObjections. VIII. Ordinal of King Edward VI. in substantial harmony with the most ancient forms. IX. Some other ancient forms for Ordination. X. Mediæval forms for Consecration and Ordination in the West. II. The same subject continued. XII Eastern forms of Ordination. XIII. Forms of Ordination in use amongst the separated communities of the East. Christians of St. Thomas. XIV. The Nestorians. XV. Archbishop Matthew Parker. XVI. The Consecration of William Barlow. XVII. The Consecrations of Hodgkins, Scory, and Coverdale. XVIII. The Consecration of Archbishop Parker. XIX. The Nag's Head Fable. XX. The Case of Bishop Bonner versus Bishop Horne. XXI. The Sacrament of Baptism. XXII. The Office of Consecrator and Assistant-Consecrator. XXIII The Doctrine of Intention XXIV. and XXV. Roman Catholic Testimonies to the Validity of Anglican Orders. XXVI. The Cases of Certain Anglican Clergy who have joined the Church of Rome. XXVII. Changes made in the English Ordinal in 1662. XXVIII. Concluding Remarks and Summary of the Author's argument.

ADDITIONAL NOTES.

Tables of Consecration: I. Archbishop Parker.
II. Archbishop Laud. III. Archbishop Juxon.
APPENDICES.-I. Authoritative statements regarding
Ordination officially published in 1537 and 1543.
II. An Act concerning the Consecration of a Bishop
made in 25th year of Henry VIII. Cap. xx. sec. 5.
III. Statutes relating to the Consecration of Bishops
under Edward VI.

IV. Act 3 Edward VI. to draw up a New Ordinal.
V. Act to annex the Ordinal to the Prayer Book.
VI. Act 1 of Mary to repeal the preceding Acts.
VII. Act 1 of Elizabeth to re-establish the Book of

Common Prayer.

VIII. Act declaring the legality of the Ordinations. XI. The Thirty-Nine Articles on Ordination.

X. Documents relating to the Consecration of Barlow and Hodgkins.

XI. Documents relating to Scory and Coverdale.
XII. Documents relating to the Consecration of
Parker.

XIII. Parker's Book, De Antiquitate Britannica
Ecclesiæ.

XIV. Henry Machyn's Diary, with testimonies regarding the same.

XV. Breve of Pope Julius III. to Cardinal Pole.
XVI. Dr. Lingard on Parker's Consecration.
XVII. Documents relating to the Consecration of
Horne.

XVIII. The Nonjuring Consecrations. Bishop Hickes'
Records.

XIX. Documents concerning the Case of Bishop Gordon of Galloway.

XX. Dr. Newman's Letters on Anglican Orders and replies to the same.

XXI. Certain Comments on Roman Catholic statements. The Charges of Forgery.

XXII. Letters of Orders of various Communions. General Index.

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