In the press, demy 8vo., about 500 pages, with numerous Illustrations, price 158. A Dictionary of Ritual and other Ecclesiastical Terms. In this publication it has been the aim of the compiler to bring together, in a comparatively small compass, as much information as possible concerning the meanings and applications of the many Ritual Terms and other Ecclesiastical Words bearing on the study of Ritual-a detail of Lituriology to which much attention is now being directed. With this aim, the Editor, who for many years has been collecting materials for this volume, has consulted nearly two hundred MS. Church and Churchwardens' Accounts of the period of the Reformation, which tend to throw so much light both on the statute-law and custom of our By JAMES GREENWOOD. CONTENTS. National Church of that period. Neither ordinary nor "The Services of the Church cannot be done and celebrated with too great care and anxiety. 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No words can be too bitter: no condemnation too severe for the men who in the Emerald Isle are simply applying the very same principle of Rebellion, Civil War and Bloodshed which Mr. Gladstone so earnestly recommended some years ago for Italy; when Victor Emmanuel, cursed by his demoralized Ministers and ruffianly soldiers, operated on Parma, Modena, the States of the Church and Naples. In Italy Mr. Gladstone was successful. The glaring mis-statements of his pamphlet, though thoroughly exposed by that high-minded nobleman and eminent diplomatist Lord Normanby, did their evil work. In fact so great was the public indignation, which rose to, and remained at boiling point for some time, that the moral influence of England most unhappily was thrown into the scale against Law, Order and Authority. Rulers of peaceable districts, consequently, were robbed, maligned, and cast out of their territories. And an Infidel adventurer-the most wretched and unprincipled scamp who ever degraded the name of "Prime Minister," i.e., Cavour-making a tool of his master, carried on the immoral work of Robbery, Riot and Revolution. So that prosperous and peaceful States were beggared by taxation and ruined by civil war. We know the melancholy story by heart. It made a deep impression on many. And it has not been forgotten by the Fenians, who prefer to call themselves and to be called " Irish Nationalists.' The principle that was jabbered out by the "friends of Italy". —an omnium gatherum of Rowdies of all nations, was that "Italy shall be for the Italians." There was little sense in the cry, but there was much claptrap; and it efficiently helped on the work of Disorder. Garibaldi the pirate, who ought long ago to have been hung from the yard arm of a man of war, was the hero of the unwashed, and their tool. How it all ended we know. The principle of nationality triumphed, and the demon of Revolution received the adoration of a howling mob. Now this self-same principle is alive and active in Ireland. Agitators, following Mr. Gladstone's valuable instructions, are crying out "Ireland for the Irish." They are dissatisfied with everything, including themselves, and hope in the course of such confusion, disorder and scramble to better themselves. They have nothing and need much. They want the land without paying for it. In other words, they desire to have robbery legalized. On Mr. Gladstone's principle this, too, is quite resonable, quite right, very proper and exceedingly just. For if stealing the property of the Most High can be legalized, a fortiori stealing from peers and landed-proprietors can be. Now the ancient Church of Ireland-in order to consolidate the Liberal party-has been deliberately robbed by as keen and canting a Congress of religious and political hypocrites as ever was assembled. This recent precedent, of course excellent and most appropriate for the Nationalists, is one which they reasonably wish to put Price 2d. into immediate operation as regards the land in Ireland. And, in order to do so with effect and success, they of course desire the active co-operation of those political friends who for sedition have been put into prison. And so they clamour for the throwing open of the prison-doors. At a recent public meeting a certain Roman Catholic Clergyman waxed eloquent in the advocacy of this plan, delivering himself of other lofty sentiments in complete harmony with the same. According to the Times' correspondent, this Priest abused the Premier in unmeasured language. He called on the meeting to " groan Mr. Gladstone, as he was fit for nothing else," spoke in contemptuous terms of the present of a pauperized Church to the Irish people, characterized the statements in the Premier's letters as falsehoods," denounced as calumny the assertion that the men whom Crowley [a Fenian who was shot] represented, were enemies of religion and social order, avowed that they had come "to that sacred grove to do reverence and honour to the spot consecrated by the life-blood of the immortal martyr, Peter Crowley," and commended him still further to the veneration of the meeting by the following statement:-" Peter Crowley stood in that wood bearing on his breast a medal and crucifix when he stood the fire of British soldiers. And a miracle was there wrought. The image of the Redeemer on the Cross was defaced, and the fatal bullet struck on the medal. By that interposition of Providence, the life of Peter O'Neill Crowley was preserved till he received the Last Sacraments of the Church. Was such a man, on whom the Almighty wrought a miracle, to be held up and taunted as an opponent of religion? The best vindication of Peter Crowley, and the cause for which he fell, would be his elevation to eternal fame, while his slanderers would remain howling in obscurity." This kind of comment and policy must be the reverse of pleasant to Lord Spencer, Mr. Chichester Fortescue, and Mr. Gladstone. No wonder the latter was melancholy over the Lord Mayor's turtle soup. Because of all this, and of what it so truly aud truthfully indicates, the Liberal newspapers are, of course, wild with anger, vexation and disappointment. When Mr. Butt, advocating the policy of the Nationalists-which on Liberal principles is a right and good policy, though it is not ours-reminded Mr. Gladstone of his shameful pamphlet about Naples, the Premier grew exceeding wroth. The cue was given to the newspaper-scribes who advocate Rowdyism to abuse Mr. Butt, and suppress his comments. And the abuse was forthcoming in abundance. The suppression, of course, followed. The Irish difficulty, however, is not settled yet. For at present the British public is drunken with the wine of Liberal fornication, and still spasmodically hiccups out "Gladstone and Bright for ever." But when the night of political debauch is over, the morning may bring a return to sense and soberness. Then those who have not yet cast off all respect for an Old Book and a Divine Principle-without which social order is impossible-may be led to acknowledge that the Fenian disturbances-unpleasant as they are-are a merciful and well-merited punishment for a nation, decaying and growing unprincipled, which stood by while Mr. Gladstone and his allies publicly robbed the Irish Church, and neither had the generosity to protect the defenceless nor the justice to punish the thieves. THE ENGLISH CHURCH UNION. noisy. A little while ago it was charmed with Dr. Temple, and did not see its way to oppose him; at the present time, it is about to memorialize the Archbishop not to consecrate him, and to get up a tempest in a tea-cup. Though this policy is both impotent and contemptible, it is exactly that kind of line to which waverers may now and hereafter point as indicating "the valiant, noble, and magnificent stand which was made in defence of Christian Trutb. 22 THE tone of triumph in which the active supporters of the English Church Union sang its praises a few years ago-when there were magnificent statistics and flourishes of trumpets-clever adventurers, or directed by brainless sentimentalists, is is altogether subdued now. The former song was in a sharp and shrill key; the present wail is flat and plaintive-witness recent explanatory utterances from the energetic blowers of the penny whistles of Ritualism. And there is certainly good reason for the change. When the Society, using every effort fair and unfair, to cast out the Conservatives from the Council, was unexpectedly successful, the obscure wire-pullers gloried in the Liberal triumph. Little did they think that in the course of two short years their supposed triumph-in which an unfair balance was struck-would turn out to be an alarming defeat. Few imagined that no less than 1400 members would retire from membership in that short period. And yet so it has been. Men have come to see that what the far-sighted Tories who were ostracised clearly saw would happen, has surely come to pass. Notwithstanding the clever manner in which the various organs of the E.C.U. have managed their cause, the Society is dwindling in numbers and surely losing its previous interest, influence and power. It has now no principle of coherence nor any unity of action. Dr. Pusey the Vice-President, and Mr. Brett, are long-winded in their denunciations of Dr. Temple, while Mr. Wood the President, and Mr. Perry-who represent the Whigs and Radicals -take exceeding good care that nothing shall be done to inconvenience Mr. Gladstone. Carlton House Terrace telegraphs to Burleigh-street what is to be done, and what is to be left undone, and the obedient and docile do their duty of obedience with hearty devotion and genial good-will. This is all very melancholy. The country Clergy who belong to and support the organization do so because they have hitherto believed that it would honestly and faithfully defend the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England. Now we defy any member to tell us what single beneficial work it has done during the past twelvemonths. What Erastianism has it attacked? What practical evil has it removed? What Liberal scheme of robbery has it opposed? In a recent number of the Church Times, there was an article, garnished with butter and honey, lauding the E.C.U. up to the skies, but its statements were so false and fabulous (and the conductors, we regret to notice, appear to have known that they were, for they suppressed Mr. F. H. Deane's letter setting them right in their mistakes), so that no dependence can be placed on what the organs of the E.C.U. say. Just now, it has been discovered at the most recent meeting of the Council that the country Clergy are deeply and profoundly indignant at the tone which was taken in the Temple Case. Men of mark and intellectual ability have plainly threatened to resign unless an entirely different policy is at once adopted. These malcontents have found rational mouthpieces in some of the least Whiggish of the members of the Council, who to their credit spoke out very plainly. The discussion is said to have been most vigorous, but, after two or three clever attempts to shelve the question a second time, by Mr. Gladstone's most earnest allies, it was found that the pretence of doing something-though, of course, practical action is now too late-must be made, or else it was clearly seen that the Union would very speedily collapse. So now the Society, most reluctantly, with very wry faces, and in the worst humour, perpetrates a complete summersault. Before it was black, now it is white. Before it was dumb, now it is In London the High Church party, mainly in the hands of losing what little power and influence it previously possessed, by the utter absence of any policy of principle by which men can act corporately, or successfully defend its position. We may regret this, as we do most sincerely, but the melancholy fact stares anyone in the face who takes the trouble to look for it; and depend upon it we shall reap fruit which will be found bitter enough to the taste before many years have passed over our heads. Men bury their heads in the sand, like the ostrich, and refuse to mark the ever-augmenting dangers which darken every threshold. A comprehensive view of our difficulties is never realized. Men live from hand to mouth. Public dangers are so multiform and complicated that they turn away from them. The Clergy do not exactly fold their hands and sit still but they banish all the leading warnings around, by promoting auricular confession or by hanging up oil-lamps in the sanctuaries of their Churches. Unless a far different policy is adopted from that which is popular just now, the Church of England's tenure of existence as a part of the One Family of God, will be considerably shorter than most of us imagine. The Irish Church, at the first combined and united attack, fell flat like a child's card-house. What is the bond of coherence, not between Puseyites and Puritans, but between High Churchmen themselves, on which we may depend in the future for a lengthened strain? If any of our readers know of what it consists and where it is to be found, we should be glad of the information. For, to be honest and plainspoken, we have as yet failed to discover either. The E.C.U., from which we expected so much, which promised so well, which was so magnificently eloquent in the pledges of its supporters, has not only faltered contemptibly: it has ignominiously failed. From the evil day on which Mr. Wood, Mr. Mayow, the Dean of York, Mr. Radcliffe, Mr. Perry, Dr. Pusey and others resolved that the Tories should, at any cost, be turned out of the governing body, the E.C.U. has grown weak and vapid. Previously all political parties were represented with tolerable fairness, and it was not easy for an affectionate admirer of Mr. Gladstone to make it a mere tool and organization for the Premier's convenience and behoof. Now, however, its policy is changed. Tories, whether in town or country, are either severely snubbed, openly insulted, or dexterously bamboozled. If one policy does not answer another does. And though the Society has certainly gone a little too far as regards wisdom in its recent grand patent-Liberal and Temple policy, there can be no doubt that it has rendered most efficient help to the Bright and Gladstone Government, and that it will continue this blessed and benificent support, so as long as the duped country Parsons continue so generously to provide men and money to carry on its questionable labours. The evils of which he treats are sevenfold; and these to the ultimate destruction of soul and body. Those "Gaffs," again he subdivides and classifies. They are as follows:- or low and obscene theatres, expressly designed for children, Neglected children, professional beggars, professional thieves, where all is acted in dumb-show, are described from pages 67 fallen women, drunkenness, betting gamblers, and waste of to 75 inclusive, and we are told that for the sum of one charity. penny a poor child (who has been so far conscientious as to earn as much, instead of existing by mere theft) will have his mind diverted from his miseries, and his ambition turned into the very worst channel. by exhibitions of highway robbery, murder, drunkenness, and immorality of all kinds. And it is found to be an indisputable fact that a hungry boy will deny his cravings for food to satisfy the still greater craving of the mind for such-like exhibitions. Before we consider the facts that are laid before us, we may touch upon the writer's mode of handling his subject, and prepare the reader for seeing things called by their right names, however painful the theme of which he may treat. Were his intention that of gratifying a morbid curiosity respecting disgusting crimes, and to vie with the brazen authors of many sensational novels, dressing up in attractive attire exhibitions of vile depravity, then indeed the grossness of giving unequivocal names to evil things, and entering into minute details respecting the dens with which he has become so conversant, would only merit the sternest rebuke. Pure-minded people turn with disgust from the paragraphs in our public papers that are defiled with tales of infamy; and here we take the opportunity of observing that their promiscuous publication is a point on which some reformation is required. No object can be gained by corrupting the minds of general readers with accounts of atrocities which they may have neither the power nor the will to prevent. A separate journal containing such information, and all police reports, for the furtherance of the ends of justice, should be the exclusive medium, and that an expensive one, by means of which those who desire to investigate crime for the sacred reasons which justify such researches may pursue the work of its repression, and alleviate the sufferings it has entailed. Thus no risk would be run of propagating vice, by familiarizing the public with it. For crime is undoubtedly of an infectious and epidemic character. In the case of the volume immediately concerned, the object of its publication must commend itself to every justice-loving, generous mind. We feel no sympathy with the squeamishly fastidious and mock-modest who, under such circumstances as those which gave birth to a work of philanthropic character, could take exception at its plain, uncompromising language, any more than we should sympathize with the preacher who, even to deliver a soul from its perdition, would not speak of hell to ears polite!" Like a skilful anatomist, the author lays bare the fearful internal disease which, like a cancerous sore, is spreading in all directions through our enormous metropolis, to say nothing of the far-trailing roots reaching from end to end of the kingdom. 66 There have already been some good articles this year in the Times, preparing us for the still greater exposure now made; and these articles have been reprinted in one or more of the leading French reviews. The article to which we immediately refer is in the Révue Britannique, which winds up with the following shrewd observation, "mais en Angleterre, quand il s'agit de reformes à opérer, il semble que ce soit toucher à l'arche sainte; et l'urgence ne parvient pas toujours à faire que nos voisins consentent à se départir due vieux précept Festina lente, dont l'application d'ailleurs leur a tant de fois réussi." Turning to the first pages of the volume under consideration we find that they relate to neglected children. "In England and Wales," he says. "the present number under the age of sixteen who are dependent on the parochial authorities amounts to 350,000; that in the City of London alone 100,000 boys and girls are de titute of food, clothing, employment, and guardianship; and that more than 100,000 are let loose from the various prisons annually, and turned adrift on the world." And while on the subject of these homeless little beings, and such as may daily wander forth from dens scarcely deserving such a name, to find a precarious maintenance in selling papers and doing errands, &c., we may notice the revelation of the pit-falls laid in their way, tending 66 66 Well Another pit-fall laid for the corruption of children is described in the eighth chapter of these terrible revelations, the publication of immoral weekly papers, also at the low price of one penny. The author gives a list of no less than twenty-three specimens of this kind of literature, which he discovered in one shop alone in Clerkenwell, grossly corrupt, and eagerly bought up by these poor little street Arabs. The too significant names of The Black Knight of the Road," "The Boy Burglar," "Tyburn Dick," "The Mysteries of London," "Panther Bill," "Tyburn Tree," and Starlight Sall," tell their own evil purpose without further comment on our part, the last-named perhaps excelling in the depth of its corruption, so that the worthy exposer of its vile tendencies is constrained to refrain from more than a very limited description of its pages, plain-spoken as he is. Another point to which he draws attention is the almost impossibility of realizing such an enormous sale, as that of a quarter of a million weekly, of these abominable productions, excepting on the supposition that the sale is not merely confined to the poor wanderers of the streets, but that it extends into the ranks of the better educated and responsible. may the writer appeal to the more selfish feelings of the upper classes, since the poison may have already been secretly conveyed within the very precincts of their own homes. Then the question naturally arises, how can we urge severe measures for the repression of these "Gaffs," and obscene periodicals if, instead of holding up every species of crime to public reprobation and contempt, we of the upper or middle classes amuse oursel es with its representation, so gilded and elegantly cloaked as to hide its deformity and mislead the young amongst us? Adulterous wooings and sneers at true religion, expressed in dulcet tones, and murder and suicide made to appear heroic, romantic, chivalrous, so that the very refinement of expression which alone could induce us to tolerate, not to say enjoy, such representations of rose-coloured and gilded crime, must tend to lower our own moral standard, and blind the eyes and mislead the judgment of the rising generation of our own class. But in addition to these grave considerations, another evil follows as a natural consequence of this vicious self indulgence; our hands are tied, and our remonstrances choked in our throats, when attempting to "remove the mote in our poor brother's eye!" Of course we do not deny the difficulty of legislation respecting the amusements of the wealthy and influential, and it might even savour of an illegitimate tyranny to prescribe a rule of universal application, by which all consciences should be rigidly bound. But the fact of the difficulty in no way absolves the Government nor the public from coming to some decision and drawing an arbitrary line somewhere. Let us restrict our own cravings for excitement within the bounds of morality, both in our patronage of novels, and of theatrical entertainments. If evil, whenever represented, were held up to unequivocal reprobation, and "bitter were not put for sweet, and sweet for bitter," that exhibition of our moral plague-spots would tend rather to elevate than to depress our public standard of virtue. Thus the judicial authorities would be aided in their repression of the grosser entertainments of the ignorant, and their most arbitrary measures commend themselves to the |