goaded by Dr. Lee and other Tory members. The opposition to Mr. C.'s second attack arose, I believe, from the fear of a second goading. Then as regards the Irish Church, what a contrast between a feeble protest against desecration so worded, and intentionally so, as to mean nothing, and the stir they made when the Union of Benefices in London was being urged by Bishop Tait. But it seems to me that viewed apart from any bias as to who the actors are, there can be no question that the sacrilege and desecration in Ireland, besides the loss to the poor in many districts of the means of grace, is many thousand times greater and worse than in London. Only last night, in telling me of Archdeacon Denison's letter as to the E.C.U., the Vicar of Wymering (an advanced Liberal, by the way), remarked that at this crisis the E.C.U. had so utterly failed that actually the Church Association was what we had to look to for the work the E.C.U. was specially formed to carry on. Ever yours faithfully, Purbrook House, Cosham, Nov. 7, 1869. GEORGE J. MURRAY. MR. FFOULKES' CASE. SIR,-I am not a little astonished to find that amongst Catholics Mr. Ffoulkes' case is very much misrepresented. Only heretics are condemned by authority and excluded from the Sacraments. But Mr. Ffoulkes has never been condemned: has never taught heresy-if so I should be glad to know, in exact and express terms what it is-and has had no fair trial before his Diocesan. By a fair trial I mean a regular, public investigation at which he might plead his own cause, explain his statements, prove his facts, and generally defend himself. The same pro-foreign faction which "wrote to Rome," might have remembered that it is not now as it was in my friend Dr. Lingard's day when he was similarly persecuted: for we now have a hierarchy. Then there were only Vicars Apostolic. This high-handed exhibition of personal persecution,-because the subject of it told the truth and wrote the truth about history,-will not commend our rulers to the admiration of educated Englishmen. Alas! alas! that it should be so. A LANCASHIRE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST. P.S. I ought to add that I know nothing whatever of Mr. Ffoulkes personally, but have read his book with admiration. I myself am not a convert, but a member of a Roman Catholic family, no member of which ever turned Protestant. SIR, I am indignant beyond measure at the treatment Mr. Ffoulkes has received. The Register, the Tablet, and the Westminster Gazette, burke all letters in his favour, though their conductors have had plenty. Of what heresy has Mr. Ffoulkes been condemned? Let the VicarGeneral or Dr. Johnson tell us. This kind of persecution will crush all proper independence, and leave religion as a thing merely for women and children, as it is in France and abroad. No cause needs to be supported-least of all the cause of the Church of the God of Truth-by the fabrication of history. And the policy of shutting a man out from the Sacraments because he has thought fit to tell unpalatable truths will work more harm than good in the long run, I belong to an old Catholic family. One of my cousins has already joined the Established communion, and his brother, a peer, is awfully impressed by the increased vigour of your Church. But we wait (for neither of us are writers) for the good day coming and hold our tongues. ALOYSIUS. evidencing a want of information perfectly startling :-"Next, Barlow's record is certainly missing, but Cranmer's wickedness ramified into minute details of neglect of duty as well as into great crimes, and he kept his Register so carelessly that nine consecrations out of forty-five, and five out of eleven translations, are absent from the Records during his Primacy. If the Register had been decently kept, and only this one name were missing, it would be a weighty fact, but not as matters stand." The writer of this evidently has the loosest views both of the duty of an Archbishop and of the nature of an Episcopal Register. A Register, let me inform him, is a volume into which the Bishop's Registrar copies all the acts and deeds of the Bishop. The keeping of the Register is not a part of the Bishop's duty, and he never even signs his name on its pages. The Bishop grants Licenses, gives Induction, performs Episcopal Acts, &c., and the Registrar carefully records them. The keeping of the Register of Archbishop Cranmer belonged to Anthony Huse. He is to blame if any one, not his master, if it be defective. Furthermore the Register of Cranmer is not at Canterbury, as this reviewer declares, but at Lambeth. The only Register at Canterbury is that of the Dean and Chapter. Our modern "Reformers" are too random. I fear they set themselves up as teachers before they have learnt. Obediently yours, M. A., OXON. British Museum, W.C. Nov. 4, 1869. MR. JOHN EDWARDS' LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN. SIR, It is not often that my friend, Mr. John Edwards, Vicar of Prestbury, writes weak letters: but anything more weak than his recent communication to the Guardian he never wrote in his life, and never in the future will be able to write, if he should make the attempt. Dr. Miller belongs to a school which, whether rightly or wrongly, has always had a position in the Church since the Reformation, and he appears to me, though I only know him as a public man, one of the most learned, scholarly, and efficient members of it. I dislike his views on Confession, and I suppose he dislikes ours. But as regards the Essays and Reviews' school, there is nothing but undraped Paganism with a superficial coating of mere Christian sentiment. A Church which admits this latter principle as one to be tolerated is far on the road to ruin. How it will be possible to meet the taunts and arguments of Roman Catholic controversialists is more than I can see. As regards both Mr. Bennett and Mr. Edwards-and if they will allow me I will add myself-I can only say, speaking from an experience Established Church of England is fifty-fold more generous and free than which was at once painful and costly, that the toleration allowed in the that which is denied to Catholic principles in Scotland. In Scotland there laity, whatever it may be, and change their policy with the moon. If a is no such thing as law. The Bishops there abjectly do the bidding of the man is unpopular, or becomes so by attempting to make Church principles popular-one of the deadly sins in Scotland-he will be sure to suffer for his pains. I venture to say that if a tithe of the ceremonial Stirling, the people who did it would have surely suffered for their carried out at Frome or Prestbury had been set on foot in Edinburgh or pains. As regards Frome and Prestbury, how has the State in the very smallest degree interfered either with Mr. Bennett or Mr. Edwards? They have done as they pleased within the limits of, and protected by Providence that there is a law in England to protect them. In that the law, and with my experience they should daily thank a merciful disestablished Utopia, Scotland, there is no law. Should Mr. Bennett by personal experience contrast the two Churches, 1 have no doubt as to the [We give the above letters from two Roman Catholics of position and rank because their own organs of opinion are closed to such indepen-result. dent writers.-ED. C. H.] ROME AND ANGLICAN ORDERS. SIR,-It is now seen that the facts provided by Mr. Ffoulkes in favour of older rather than more modern theories of the Catholic Church, have been simply ignored, without any enquiry, and that he has been cruelly refused the Sacraments because he published them. Now Mr. Gerard Cobb, Dr. Littledale and the High Church Radicals, appear to have a great belief in the Ecclesia docens. But if the Ecclesia docens treats the facts and documents relating to English Orders, (which Dr. Lee is so soon to publish) in this fashion, it is of little use to depend on any decisions at Rome. As it was in Bishop John Gordon's case, so it is in Mr. Ffoulkes'-the plainest and most notorious facts of history are denied and repudiated. And why? Because it is essential to bolster up a foregone conclusion. Your faithful servant, A STUDENT OF HISTORY. Lansdowne-place, Bath, All Saints' Day, 1869. THE CHURCH TIMES AND THE LAMBETH REGISTER. SIR,-Our High Church Radical friends look upon themselves as quite infallible in questions of history, and of course their followers take a similar view. When Dr. Littledale's random rhodomontade about the Reformation was defended by the Church Times, my respected friend, Mr. Denton, one of the most learned of the City Clergy, wrote a powerful comment upon Dr. Littledale's vagaries which was sent to that paper, and was, of course, "respectfully declined." In a recent review of Mr. Haddan's Apostolical Succession in that publication, the following occurs As regards Mr. Bennett's public policy in the present case I cannot at all admire either its wisdom, prudence, or common sense. Unless he sets out with the axiom that he, the Vicar of Frome, is amenable to before the Arches' Court. The Arches' Court is a spiritual court: the State no authority whatever, I cannot comprehend why he does not appear does not appoint the Judge: but the Archbishop. And unless, now he is accused of inaccurate teaching, Mr. Bennett intends to set all authority commit others by so unprecedented a policy. at defiance, I own I cannot comprehend his line. He has no right to I for one, however, decline to be so committed. Yours faithfully, FREDERICK GEORGE LEE, HER MOST RELIGIOUS AND GRACIOUS MAJESTY SIR,-All loyal Englishmen, especially Catholic Conservatives must feel deeply for the widowed Queen in her lonesome and isolated position -too much of a cypher in the hands of the designing. As regards religion, can anything be more melancholy than the policy which Her Majesty has been induced to adopt. To have her desolate soul doctored alternately by Mr. Norman McLeod at Crathie, and Dean Stanley at home, must be a blessed privilege of which no one in this life can ever hope to realize the full importance. Let us pray for the Queen every Yours, &c., A TORY CATHOLIC. day with more fervour and faith. Fragmenta et Miscellanea. No. II-LETTERS FROM THE CATHOLICOS OF ARMENIA TO THE ARMENIAN PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE IN REGARD TO THE COUNCIL OF THE VATICAN. Feb. 11, 1869.-To the Right Reverend Archbishop Bogos, Patriarch of Constantinople, our dear brother, health. We have received your letter of the 14th December last, together with a translation of the letter of His Holiness Pope Pius IX., which was sent to you by his Vicar in your capital. We have read attentively this letter, of which the gist is that His Holiness has the intention of calling together on the 8th of December next, at Rome, a General Council, to which he invites you. Chosen, unworthy as we are, by the will of Providence, to be one of the pastors of the Christian flock, we desire with all our heart the union of the Church, and we offer our prayers that peace and charity may reign in her, and may banish the spirit of division, for it belongs only to the enemy of the human race to fight against the union of the Church. But in carefully considering the letter of His Holiness Pius the IX., we have perceived with sorrow that the union which we desire, which the Saviour of the world longs for, and for which He prayed to His Father, cannot be attained by the approaching General Council. If Rome desires really the union of the Christian Church, she ought, as a first step, to find out what is the cause of the divided condition of the Church. Why, united in one faith, and one love for the Head of the Church, are the members of the Church disunited among themselves, and whence comes the secular hostility which separates Christians? Is not the cause of this separation, as the whole world is aware, the claim of the See of Rome to a supremacy over the Churches of the East? Consequently, those who strive for the truth, would desire to see His Holiness set himself in earnest to get rid of the cause of this separation; to follow in the footsteps of the Holy Fathers, and after having acted in concert with the pastors of the Church of the East, in conformity with the Canonical decision, to form a distinct plan as to the questions to be submitted to the General Council; and, after these questions have been unanimously approved, to fix the date and place of the Council. However, disregarding all that might really conduce to the union of the Church of Christ, the head of the Roman Church has thought fit to publish an anticipatory letter of invitation, and to address it to the Pastors of the Church; thus giving ground to the supposition that he wishes to select himself as the Supreme Head of Christendom, and that he does not recognise the Pastors of the Church of the East as his equals in the hierarchy, in jurisdiction, and in the inheritance of the Apostles, to whom the Holy Spirit gave equal power and equal gifts. The Pope proclaims haughtily the throne of Rome to be the centre of unity, a doctrine which the Holy Orthodox Armenian Church can never admit; for she, with the other people of the Church of the East, recognises our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as the only Head of the Church. He who makes a pretext of the union of the Church, and leaves on one side that which is a necessary basis of a General Council, separates himself more and more by the assertion of his own imaginary personal authority from the union of the Catholic Church, and sets out from principles in opposition to those which are the true doctrine of the Holy Gospel. To hope for true unity is not a light thing. And will not a way be thus opened for new quarrels, for incurable discord, and for relations still more inimical, which will be a scandal for the world, and an occasion for the denial of the Holy Christian Faith? Consequently, we who are incessantly labouring for the spiritual well-being of the people which God hath entrusted to us, and who seek to preserve peace in our flock; we, who are justly proud of our Apostolic Church founded by the Holy Apostles, Thaddeus and Bartholomew, and by the prayers of St. Gregory the Great, against which the gates of hell have not yet prevailed, we look upon it as our duty, of our independent authority, to prescribe to you, our venerable brother, both to refuse this invitation to a Council, which has not a legitimate basis, and to forwarn the Archbishops and all Vicars of our Church in Turkey, not to give place to misunderstanding and to discord. We shall continue to pray from the bottom of our heart, as we have ever done, that Christ, the Saviour of all, the True Corner-stone, and the peace of the Holy Church, who has established peace by His blood-shedding and crucifixion, would summon all men to the one Evangelic doctrine, would keep His Church in peace, and preserve the Armenian people from unforseen dangers. Notes, Literary, Archæological, &c. While Irishmen are differing as to the memorial to be erected to the late Dr. Todd, of the Dublin University, Mr. J. T. Gilbert has wisely suggested that the most appropriate memorial to the great scholar would be the foundation of a Professorship of the Ancient Irish Language. We might, in such case, hope for what Dr. Todd long hoped to see,-a perfect Irish Dictionary of the Academy of Ireland. We are glad to learn that the old military burial-ground attached to Chelsea Hospital, which contained many monuments to famous soldiers, and to the neglected condition of which we have formerly called attention, is to be properly restored, and put in order as a garden. The tomb 6 of Cheselden, the great anatomist and surgeon, who did so much and worked so long for the Hospital, is among those which most need attention. The surgeon's memory deserves more respect than has, for some years past, been vouchsafed to it. A few days ago, some alterations were being made in an old building once an Abbey, and prior to that a Monastery of the Knights Templars, now occupied by a farmer at Sandford, near Oxford. The workmen were preparing an old room for occupation, and picked out what appeared at first to be a moth-eaten piece of flannel. It was discovered to be an old-fashioned genuine felt hat, which had "once belonged to some Rascally Roundhead."" the preservation of which-almost intact-is a matter of wonder. The hat is destined for the Ashmolean Museum. Mr. B. Brogden Orridge has been busy among the Corporation and parochial records to good purpose. One result will be in a volume, to be published by subscription, by Mr. Hotten, entitled "The City Friends of Shakespeare, with some Account of John Sadler and Richard Quiney, Druggists and Grocers of Bucklersbury, and their Descendants." Sadler and Quiney migrated from Stratford-on-Avon about the year 1600, the one being the near relative of Judith Shakespeare's godfather and the other her husband's brother. This matter comes from the parish books of St. Stephen's, Walbrook. A cargo of antiquities has been conveyed from Smyra to Malta by H.M.S. Antelope, to be eventually brought to England. They consist of a large collection of sculpture, architectural marbles and inscriptions, recently excavated at Prime, in Asia Minor, by Mr. Pullan, on account of the Dilettante Society; several cases of inscriptions, discovered by Mr. Wood at Ephesus, in the excavations carried on there under the direction of the trustees of the British Museum; a curious archaic head of colossal size, discovered by Mr. Consul Dennis near Smyra, together with some fragments of very ancient pottery, the fruit of his diggings in the tumuli, near the lake of Gyges, in the neighbourhood of Sardes. In the gallery which crosses the north end of the South Court, at the South Kensington Museum, may be seen several pictures, which are ascribed to S. Botticelli, lent by Mr. A. Barker. One of these works illustrates that strange legend which Boccaccio relates in the "Decameron," and is known as "Onesti's Dream"--the appearance of a lady pursued by a huntsman and his hounds, in presence of a company of ladies and gentlemen at a festival. Likewise four figures of "The Seasons," Italian work of the fifteenth century; "Mars Asleep," probably executed under the influence of S. Botticelli: Venus looks upon the sleeping god, Cupids accompany the pair, and play with his armour. Near these is the companion picture to that which displays the legend of Onesti, and probably represents a marriage festival: it may be that of Jacopo de' Medici and Francesca de' Pucci. Likewise a "Virgin and Child with St. John." What has become of the Great Charlemagne Bible? That is the cry which reaches us from Paris. It is attributed to Alcuin, whom the Emperor enticed from York to Tours, in the scriptorium of which place English and Irish as well as French, Italian and Greek writers and illuminators worked. This must be the superb Bible presented by Alcuin to Charlemagne, and known here as that of San Calisto, from the monastery by which it was once possessed. The French account of this magnificent work is, that it was left by one of the Emperor's descendants to the convent of Prum, in Lorraine, from whence it passed to the Canons of Motier Grandval, near Basle. In the year 1792 it was sold; but its owners are traceable down to M. de Spreyer-Passavant, of Basle, who offered it for sale in Paris in 1830. Since that period the Charlemagne Bible has disappeared, and French bibliophiles are anxious to know of its whereabouts. THE HARBOUR OF AMBOYNA.-Mr. Wallace, in his new book, "The Malay Archipelago," thus describes this harbour:-"Passing up the harbour, in appearance like a fine river, the clearness of the water afforded me one of the most astonishing and beautiful sights I ever beheld. The bottom was absolutely hidden by a continuous series of corals, sponges, actiniæ, and other marine productions of magnificent dimensions, varied forms and brilliant colours. The depth varied from about 20 to 50 feet, and the bottom was very uneven; rocks and chasms and little hills and valleys offering a variety of stations for the growth of these animal forests. In and out among them moved numbers of blue and red and yellow fishes, spotted and banded and striped in the most striking manner; while great orange or rosy transparent meduse floated along near the surface. It was a sight to gaze at for hours, and no description can do justice to its surpassing beauty and interest. For once the reality exceeded the most glowing accounts I have ever read of the wonders of a coral sea. There is, perhaps, no spot in the world richer in marine productions, corals, shells and fishes than the harbour of Amboyna. From the north side of the harbour a good broad path passes through the swamp, clearing and forest, over hill and valley, to the farther side of the island; the coralline rock constantly protruding through the deep red earth which fills all the hollows, and is more or less spread over the plains and hill-sides. The forest vegetation is here of the most luxuriant character: ferns and palms abound, and the climbing rattans were more abundant than I had ever seen them, forming tangled festoons over almost every large forest-tree." Flemish Ecclesiastical Art Workmanship. MESSRS. BRANGWYN & CO., of BRUGES, have And that we shall get this taste, there is very little doubt. In all probability it will do us good, Moreover as the nation now-lazy Peers, cowardly Bishops, artful politicians, and odorous agitators-robbed God by passing the Irish Church Disestablishment Bill we must expect our well-deserved punishment. Pray we, therefore, that if sharp and painful, it may be endured in patience and soon be over. opened a place in London for the Sale and Exhibition of their famed Embroidery, Vestments, and Church Work. All that is requisite for the due and fitting service of the Church is to be procured at their Establishment. They can supply rich Altar Fontals, in any style, after special designs, at £16, and a very good set of Vestments at £9 98. The appointment of Canon Dale to the Deanery of Ely is explicable on two grounds. First, because that eloquent Clergyman has been cruelly passed over very often, and certainly deserved something more than a Deanery; and Secondly because the Liberals have long seen that it would be highly disadvantageous to allow the management of the Cathedral of the metropolis to be in the hands of Conservative Churchmen, such as the Dean and Canon Gregory. The High Church Mission in the metropolis commences on Sunday next, and will no doubt be a success. It will be held at between seventy and eighty Churches, ten elevenths of which are in the hands of Catholics. The pleasant comment on this Mission which appeared in our last impression from the pen of a Clerical correspondent of the Record shows how bitter and malignant the mis-called "Evangelicals" are becoming in their death struggle. Their false religion is a thing of the past, and has given place to "envy, malice and hatred; which are violently intensified when they mark the steady progress of Catholic faith and practice. In the miserable and unhappy Temple case, it should be noticed that the Rock newspaper has taken a far more dignified and consistent line than the Record. The latter paper, like some of the High Church Radical prints-has waited to see which way the wind blows; and, consequently, has spoken in ambiguous utterances regarding this scandalous appointto ment. The Rock, on the other hand, to its great credit, has commented on the policy of Dean Boyd, in bold and forcible language which expresses a genuine and sincere distaste for the wretched policy of dogmatic compromise, now so popular with the Bible-and-the-Bible-only party. THE King of Piedmont, Victor Emmanuel, who styles himself "King of Italy" (having basely and shamefully robbed his neighbours, with the connivance of people who ought to know right from wrong), has for some days' past been at Death's door. Of this kingly person it was cleverly remarked that he has "the manners of a moss-trooper and the morals of a he-goat"-no doubt a very accurate description of him. At all events he is a perjured thief. And as perjury and theft are frightful sins, it is to be hoped that ere he goes his last account he may mercifully obtain Absolution and the Sacraments. For he certainly needs them. We must confess that though there runs in his veins the blood of our right noble and ancient race, the Stuarts, we are invariably repelled when contemplating this Piedmontese Harry VIII. of the nineteenth century-with the exception of Garibaldi and Juarez the most revolting character of the present day. On Saturday last the Queen went to open the new Blackfriars Bridge and the Holborn Viaduct, and the people-notwithstanding the fact that Her Majesty, everlastingly in Scotland, lives so much away from her proper royal residence in the metropolis, and in face of the exceeding great poverty and wretchedness of the unemployed thousands-received her with something like a feeble welcome. The special decorations were poor, the ceremonial contemptible, many of the city magnates next door to ridiculous. Mr. John Brown, the notorious Highland "gillie" accompanied the Queen, riding at the back of Her Majesty's carriage, and was the observed of all observers. The Queen appeared to be in the best of health, strong and robust as ever she was. Mr. Lawrence, the Lord Mayor, because of this royal visit, is made a baronet. Soon an esquire with a bona fide right to the title, and not the retired tinkers, tailors, and tallow-chandlers who assume it, will rank in the estimation of gentlemen far higher than a baronet, for baronetcies have recently been so degraded through the many queer appointments of the Liberals. Mr. Lawrence, however, is a very respectable and upright tradesman. We learn from all sides that the policy both of the E.C.U. and of the Ritualistic Radical press has caused the deepest alarm in all parts of the country; and that the strongest expostulations, disregarded by the Union and burked by the newspapers, have been made from many influential quarters. At last men are beginning to open their eyes to our great dangers and to mark how good a chance they themselves have of being betrayed into the hands of the Liberal enemy, before they realize what has happened to them. When we contrast the policy which was adopted at the boisterous, disorderly and impotent meeting at Freemasons' Tavern after the Cairns' Judgment with the silent apathy and studied indifference of "our great leaders"-as a correspondent recently termed them-we cannot but note how completely corruption and disorganization are doing their work. Candlesticks, Church crockery and chasubles are no doubt very important subjects both for contemplative and active action; but when, with exaggerated and unchastened zeal for these at best but means to an end-there exists a startling apathy as to whether the principle of Essays and Reviews be or be not a part of the Anglican tradition, we cannot help observing that it is far better to have the Divinity of our Blessed Saviour maintained by Christian zeal and Apostolic resolve, than to be possessed of all the pleasing paraphernalia of twenty St. Alban's Churches rolled into one. To deck up in green gewgaws the Clergy of a National Church in which Dr. Temple is to be one of the chief Pastors, and with whom, therefore, the Clergy in green hold communion, seems to us an insult to God and a betrayal of His Son. The Church of England, as regards dogma, has to some extent blown hot and cold ever since the Reformation; but until now she has never admitted as tolerable the odious principle of Sceptical Infidelity which will surely destroy what remains of her Divine life, and-as surely as to-morrow's sun rises-give a speedy triumph to Rome here like to nothing that has yet been seen. Archbishop Manning need neither lift his finger nor wag his tongue. Other people are efficiently playing his game. What Mr. Gladstone has jast effected for the Irish Church, he is now doing, by another and different, but far more efficacious policy for the Church of England; and this men will find out when it is too late. We are informed that the Prelates who are expected and are ready to consecrate Dr. Temple, are the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop Designate of Winchester, the Bishop of St. David's, and the Bishop of Worcester. Bishop Ewing of Scotland will also probably take part in the ceremony, if the Archbishop accepts his proposal to be present. On Thursday next the Exeter Chapter meets for the election of the new Bishop. It is known that the numbers on each side will be nearly even, but it is probable that Dr. Temple will have a majority of one or two votes out of about twenty. It is thought that the proposed scheme of nominating Mr. Mackarness will be abandoned. A correspondent at Rome thus writes:-"Words fail me to describe the frantic delight with which Dr. Temple's appointment to Exeter is welcomed in Ultramontane circles here. The converts from the Church of England, at the Collegio Romano, and elsewhere, who know pretty accurately the true state of affairs in our Church, see that it will greatly tend to a disruption. When it was told and explained to the Pope he is said to have made an excellent pun on Dr. Temple's name—the substance of which (I cannot vouch for the exact words,) was that this Temple would soon destroy all that remained of the old temple." We regret to announce the decease at Bath, on Oct. 25, of the Very Rev. Canon Thomas McDonnell, a distinguished Roman Catholic Priest of the old school. He was one of the first founders of the A.P.U.C., and for many years, like the late Cardinal and other of the R.C. Bishops, was a warm ally and active supporter of it. When the convert outcry was made against it in the Anglo-Roman newspapers, he thought it wise to withdraw from formal membership, but continued to say Mass once a month for its intention, and prayed daily for Corporate Reunion. He was a man of simplicity, moderation and unaffected piety. R. I. P. 10. WED. KALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. Feria, Green. 11. THURS. St. Martin. 12. FRID. 13. SAT. 14. SUND. NOVEMBER. Feria, Green. Abst. St. Britius, B.C., White. At Evensong, Green. Collect 25th after Trinity. Green. 15. MON. St. Machutus, B.C., White. 16. TUES. Feria, Green. 17. WED. St. Hugh, B.C., White. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Rev. J. M. Ashley, Incumbent of St. Peter's Church, Vere-street, London. The Rev. E. Clowes, Curate of Bromsgrove. The Rev. W. Haughton, Vicar of Barton Turf, and Rector of Irstead. The Rev. W. E. Heygate, Incumbent of Brighstone alias Brixton, in the Isle of The Rev. C. Kingsley, Canon of the Cathedral Church of Chester. The Bishop of Norwich has appointed Mr. W. T. Bensly, LL.D., his Secretary. A richly jewelled processional cross has been presented by the ladies of the congregation of St. Michael's, Swanmore, to the Vicar. The Bishop of Salisbury will be enthroned in his Cathedral on Satur day. The Clergy are to appear in surplices. in the Churches in Pembrokeshire this year than in any former years. More Harvest Thanksgivings were held during September and October The special Mission Services at the East end of London will be inaugurated to-morrow morning with a celebration of the Holy Communion in the Parish Church of Stepney. The new Dean of Durham has set to work to remove certain abuses in his Cathedral-specially as regards the conduct and attendance of the choir. The Precentorship of Westminster Abbey, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. C. Haden, is to be conferred on the Rev. Flood Jones, of St. Matthew's, Spring-gardens. The motion of Mr. Sinclair, of Balliol College, "That the French Revolution was a blessing to mankind," was carried in the Oxford Union Society by 20 to 11. The Rev. F. D. Maurice occupied one of the Prebendal Stalls at St. Paul's Cathedral on Sunday afternoon. His appointment to the vacant Canoniy is considered certain. fields will be open for Special Services in connection with the mission Thirty-five Churches in the Rural Deaneries of Stepney and Spitalmovement. Nearly 100 Churches altogether will have extra Services. the Holy Communion in eight of the Islington Churches every Friday We hear with deep sorrow that it is intended to have a Celebration of evening during Advent. It has been suggested to rebuild the Parish Church of Hayton, in memory of the late Lord Derby. It was in this parish that the noble Earl was born. The alms of Churchmen are asked for this work. Once more it is reported that Canon Melvill will resign the Living of Barnes at Christmas. It is also stated that the Rev. H. Westmore, Minor Canon of Manchester will succeed him. The winter meeting of the Norwich Pastoral Work Association was held on Tuesday, when there was a Celebration in the Cathedral. The question discussed was Family Prayer. The Rev. E. K. Creed, in a letter to the Bury Post, says the only unwise step he ever knew the E.C.U. to take was to offer £500 to prosecute Mr. Voysey. A copy of the first edition of the Bible in Welsh, a very rare book, occurred in a sale at Puttick and Simpson's Leicester-square, on Friday, and although imperfect, sold for £37. The fourth anniversary of the consecration of All Saints' Church, Reading, was celebrated on the eve of All Saints' Day. The Bishop of Oxford preached at the morning Service, and Archdeacon Pott in the evening. The new Church of St. Matthew, Silverhill, St. Leonard's, was consecrated on Friday last by the Bishop of Chichester. The Church, a plain Gothic structure, has been built amid a poor population by the Rev. John Cumberlege at his own expense. On Saturday morning, immediately after the conclusion of Service in York Cathedral, the Rev. Francis Whaley Harper, M.A., Perpetual Curate of Selby, who was recently appointed by the Archbishop of York, Prebendary of Barnby-on-the-Moor, was duly inducted a Canon of the Cathedral. We hear that a London Clergyman offered his services to the Bishop of London to act as Secretary to the Diocesan Home Mission without receiving any remuneration. The offer was declined. The salary paid to the Secretary is over £400 a year. The office is vacant. The Rev. J. Edwards, Vicar of Prestbury, will conduct the Twelve Days' Mission at All Saints', Lambeth. It will commence on Sunday The Rev. F. Wood, Rector of Erwarton with Woolverstone, in the County of evening. On week nights the Service will commence at seven o'clock On the Festival of SS. Simon and Jude, the Bishop of Norwich held his Annual Confirmation in the Parish Church of Great Yarmouth, and on Sunday celebrated the Holy Communion at eight o'clock in the morning, when there were more than 700 communicants. On Sunday week the Parish Church of Minehead, Somerset, was reopened after a restoration conducted by Mr. W. A. Sandford, the eldest son of the squire of the parish, who acted as architect. On the previous day Mr. Sandford distributed an ox among the poor. On Wednesday Hollybush Chapel, Castlemorton, was opened by licence from the Bishop of Worcester. The Service was rendered by the Eastnor choir; and the Bishop's license was read aloud by the Rev. A. C. Lefroy. Prebendary Selwyn was the preacher. The Synod of the Greek Catholic Bishops, which lately met at Damascus, has ended its sittings. The decision has been come to that the Patriarch Melchitus shall go to the Ecumenical Council at Rome with eight Prelates, the others remaining at home for reasons of age or of health. A meeting of Prelates of the Church of Ireland was held on Friday, at which resolutions were unanimously passed agreeing to convene the General Synod and appoint a committee to prepare the business for it, a s recommended by the lay conference, also declaring the intention of the Bishops to sit in a separate chamber whenever they think fit, though in general consulting with the rest of the Synod. The Record announces an intended series of Special Services in the parish of Islington. The Clergy have met, under the Presidency of the Vicar, and determined on opening eight of the principal Churches for Special Services during the four weeks of Advent. The Services will be held each week in two of these Churches, on the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings at 7 p.m. On All Saints' morning the Bishop of Oxford celebrated the Holy Communion at St. Mary's Parish Church, and delivered a short but most affecting address, from the words, "Out of weakness was made strong," and thus most appropriately closed his personal official intercourse with a parish in which his influence has been always valued, and where he will ever be remembered with the warmest affection. The Parish Church of Bunington has been restored, and on Thursday was reopened with Special Services. The internal alterations consist of the removal of a very ugly gallery at the west end, and replacing the old floor and high pews with new and open seats. A new altar has been presented to the Church. The prayer desk and lectern are new, but from want of funds the old pulpit has been refixed. The elaborate and handsome rood screen is in process of restoration. Ritualism seems to be progressing and is beginning to influence the dull, cold, lifeless Services at St. Paul's Cathedral. At the last meeting of the Chapter it was decided that the choir should leave the Church in procession, as they entered it, instead of walking out indiscriminately with the congregation. But the procession does not prevent them from laughing and talking all the way. When will the Cathedral choir learn to behave with the same reverence as is shown by the choirs of numerous Parish Churches? On Sunday morning Dr. Vaughan, the new Master of the Temple, preached his inaugural Sermon to a crowded congregation. He chose for his text the words, "And who is sufficient for these things?" In place of the scoffers and scoffing with which St. Paul had to deal, the modern Minister has, he observed, to contend against the freethought tendencies of the age, and the mere outward form of godliness with very little of its power. Another great impediment, he thought, to the advance of the Gospel was the want of sympathy between the Clergy and the laymen of the Church. It is stated that Dr. Temple's refusal to withdraw from his complicity with the Essays does not arise from a merely "chivalrous feeling," but from his thorough acceptance of the position laid down in his own Essay, that conscience is the judge of Holy Scripture; and on this it is now certain that he is prepared to act as Bishop, to the extent of giving very large and wide toleration to a denial of Anselm's doctrine on the part of those whom he is answerable for placing in their positions, such as candidates for Holy Orders, Curates, and Incumbents. Archdeacon Denison has addressed a letter to Dr. Temple urging him to reconsider his determination of not giving any explanation of his doctrine until after his consecration. "Do not leave it (says the Archdeacon) to be removed, after consecration, by personal intercourse,' which must, in its nature, be casual and limited; and will, to many, come too late, if at all; but help us now, that we may be able to pray for you that you may do the work of a Bishop in the Church of God." The Archdeacon says he has received a reply, but as it is marked "private" he cannot publish it. St. Paul's Cathedral was crowded on Sunday afternoon to hear a Sermon preached by Canon Gregory on the forthcoming mission. In an eloquent discourse he remarked that the higher classes were engrossed in pleasures, the middle classes were engaged in business, whilst the lower classes were given up to all kinds of viciousness and lust. It was to arouse each of these classes to the reality of religion, to prepare them for another world, that the Mission had been projected by a body of earnest-minded Clergymen. Most heartily he wished it God-speed, and hoped every one would pray God to bless it. The following letter, addressed by Mr. Gladstone to the late Bishop Blomfield, on his refusal to join with the then Archbishops in the Gorham Judgment, is worth reprinting at the present moment:"My dear Lord Bishop,- It is, I trust, not wholly improper that a layman should write to thank his Bishop; and I must be early in offering thanks to your Lordship from the bottom of my heart, for the act you are to-day announced as having done on behalf of the Church of England-not the last, I trust, and surely not the least, but the greatest in a line of services as long and bright, as adorns the name of any of the Prelates of modern times; an act of faith and courage, and of fatherly protection to weaker men, for which your name will, I trust, be blessed to the latest generation." An address from the Rural Dean and Clergy of the Deanery of Deddington, Oxon, adopted by 41 out of the 42 Clergy resident in it, has been transmitted to the Bishop of Oxford, and his Lordship has replied I echo back your affectionate farewell. I thank you with hearty gratias follows:-" Rev. and dear brethren,-It is with the deepest pain that tude for all the ready and generous help you have rendered me in the discharge of my duties here, and for all your forbearance and kind judgments of me. May the blessing of Almighty God rest upon you all, in your persons, in your families, and in your work.-I am ever, in ties of strong affection, most sincerely, your faithful friend and brother, S. OXON." The Echo thus refers to the Services at St. Paul's Cathedral:-"There is a general want of dignity and reality about the internal arrangements at St. Paul's, which is in strange contrast to the solemn grandeur of the pile itself. First, it has always struck us as being somewhat odd, that in very centre of a great city of between three and four million inhabiget a congregation together at the usual week-day Services. There must tants, professedly religious, it should be so difficult, as it appears to be, to be some reason for this, and we believe it is, that the hours fixed upon are inconvenient to the general body of the public. If we are to have week-day Services in our great City Church, let measures be taken to make them real and hearty." the correspondent who vouches for the facts, and authorizes the editor to his Diocese, announcing his departure for Rome to be present at the At the afternoon Service on the Eve of All Saints' Day the Bishop of Oxford delivered an impressive Sermon at St. Mary's Church, Reading, on the words "Weep with them that weep." The Church was inconveniently crowded, and numbers could not gain admission, it being supposed that this would be the last opportunity of hearing his Lordship in tion of his ability by officially attending in full force. The offertory, Reading. The Mayor and Corporation also marked their high appreciawhich realised nearly £165, was in aid of the fund for building a chamber for the organ. A number of persons waited in the Church after the Service to bid "good-bye" to his Lordship and wish him "God speed in his new sphere of duty, and the Bishop most lovingly shook hands and bade farewell to them. Beecher's Church at Brooklyn, New York, and the Herald's report of the The Dedication Festival of All Saints', Lambeth, was brought to a close on Sunday. At the High Celebration on Sunday a thoroughly Catholic Sermon was preached by the Rev. J. Going, of St. Paul's, Walworth, at the conclusion of which he urged upon the congregation to try and do something towards removing the large debt incurred in restoring the Church, and for which, he said, the Vicar was personally responsible. He referred in high terms of eulogy to the part Dr. Lee had taken in bringing about and carrying on the great Catholic Revival, in which cause no man had worked harder, and regretted the serious illness which had debarred the Vicar from taking any part in the Festal Services of his Church. At Evensong, the Rev. C. Dunbar, the Curate, was the preacher, and gathered up the various lessons taught by the Festival of of All Saints. The procession left the Church, singing with some vigour, "We March, we March, to Victory." |