had not yet been removed, and therefore numberless beautiful banners (those in the chancel being of exquisite workmanship), legends, wreaths, &c.. met the eye in every part of the Church. The chancel was ablaze with lights. There was (as also on all Sundays) a full Choral Service; and the long train of surpliced choristers and Clergy, preceded by cross and banner, moved with the sound of Processional and Recessional music. The first part of the Service was intoned by the Rev. Frederic Gibson, Assistant Priest of St. Luke's and Rector of a Church school for boys. The Prayers were intoned by the Rev. W. A. Coale, also an Assistant Priest in St. Luke's. The whole subject of the Guild was clearly explained to the large congregation by the Rev. Charles W. Rankin, the Rector. It is the object of St. Luke's Guild to associate the laymen of the parish more closely in good works, and to organise their labours more thoroughly and systematically for the glory of God and the good of their fellow-men. More particularly they propose to themselves,-1. To assist the Clergy in maintaining the Christian Faith, and to spread a knowledge of the true doctrines of our Holy Religion, especially those relating to the Blessed Trinity, the Incarnation, Atonement, and Mediation of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Apostolic Ministry, and the graces conferred in and by the Holy Sacraments. 2. To maintain, both by precept and example, a religious observance of all the Offices of the Church, by promoting the public administration of Holy Baptism, Confirmation, frequent Communions, regular attendance at Daily Prayer, and a proper observance of the Holy Days and Seasons of the Church. 3. To assist the Clergy in parochial work, without encroaching upon their special duties, and to uphold and extend their proper spiritual authority. 4. To assist in the music and decoration of the Church, and to encourage decency, order, and reverence in public worship. 5. To aid in Church extension, by supporting in every way in our power the Missions of the Church; aiding in the maintenance of Christian schools, and in other beneficent designs. 6. To secure Reading, and other Rooms in the vicinity of St. Luke's Church, not only for the use of our own members, but to which we can invite the youth and men of this section of the city; to provide them with good miscellaneous reading; to encourage active outdoor exercises; to permit such indoor games and amusements as may be unobjectionable; to make arrangements for occasional lectures, readings, and musical entertainments, and thus to afford every reasonable means of improvement and recreation, under the control of a healthy religious influence. 7. To encourage the practice of piety, virtue and charity; teach the ignorant; assist the weak; succour the distressed; console the afflicted; relieve the poor; visit the sick; and give Christian burial to the dead."-New York Churchman. A PEEP AT THE CITY CHURCHES AND THEIR Sunday morning was by no means favourable to the interests of places CHRIST CHURCH, NEWGATE STREET.-The congregation here on Sunday morning was very large, the Rev. Dr. Miller, of Greenwich, preaching a sermon in aid of the Farringdon Within Ward Schools; generally, however, there are but comparatively few. The boys of Christ's Hospital attend here, and occupy the large galleries. It is one of Wren's largest Churches, there being seat accommodation for 2,500 persons. Richard Baxter was buried here. The Churches which were visited before Christ Church were lamentably ST. ALPHAGE, LONDON-WALL.-Idem, here and there one. ST. MICHAEL, WOOD-STREET.-Here there were but very few. ST. MICHAEL, BASSISHAW.-A fine Church, "only empty." | ST. CLEMENT, EASTCHEAP.-This Church is remarkable for having had a trio of great organists, Purcell, Battishill, and Whittaker. Here, too, Bishop Pearson delivered his great treaties upon the Creed, which was preached in a course of Sermons, and dedicated to the parishioners of “S. Clement." Here there is a good congregation. ST. EDMUND THE KING AND MARTYR.Small. ST. ETHELBURGA." That little Church behind the shops" had a fair congregation; but it seats only 250. ST. HELEN, BISHOPSGATE.--Splendid old pile. Escaped the great fire. Contains some splendid monuments. Amongst them are Bancroft's, Sir T. Gresham's, and Sir J. Spencer's. There was a small congregation yesterday morning; but from information received at the Church, the general attendance is "about 140 in the morning, and about 70 in the afternoon." ST. BOTOLPH, ALDERSGATE-STREET.-Very poor indeed.-Morning Advertiser. 46 ITEMS FROM ROME. (From the Tablet.) The last day of Carnival was an apt illustration of the loyal and peaceable disposition of the Roman people. In spite of the menaced demonstration of Friday, and another which the grave and reverend signors who watch over the destinies of Italy have kindly announced as hanging over us for the 7th of April, the authorities had sufficient confidence in the population to allow masks on the two last days, and although the rain on Monday prevented any one profittng by the perbe violating truth if I said the maskers were generally belonging to the mission, on Tuesday the success in a popular sense was perfect. I should highest ranks of society. The amusement is going out of fashion, and the notice had not been long enough for the Roman aristocracy to organize parties for it, but the Roman people entered heartily into the fun, and streets in spite of the remonstrances of the Sect. All the balconies thousands of masks were to be seen in the Corso, Babuino, and adjacent were filled with lookers-on, and the warfare of confetti was carried on gallantly. Among the combatants might be noticed a party of the Church Militant," in the shape of the Hungarian Primate and several the day from the balcony in the Hotel de Rome where they are living. of the Suffragan Bishops, who witnessed and shared the amusements of Their lordships were most prodigal of confetti and halfpence to the poor children in the street below, and seemed heartily to enjoy themselves. The King and Queen of Naples, the Duke and Duchess of Parma, the Prince of Asturias, and the Duke and Duchess of Modena occupied an adjoining balcony in the hotel. Not a case of riot or misconduct called for the interference of the police, although the streets were filled with merrymakers until four next morning, and the experiment answered so well that it is probable that next year a permission for the use of the mask will be issued for the entire Carnival, which will greatly add to its attractions, especially to foreigners. The English Zouaves occupied one much. The artists of the Académie de France had a magnificent "Car of the few carriages in the Corso, and appeared to enjoy themselves of Neptune," manned by sea monsters and illuminated at night by Bengal lights. Prince Borghese gave a splendid Carnival supper on the Mardi Gras to 150 guests, who were served on solid silver. Another and similar entertainment was given by Prince Barberini, and on Monday the Duchess Salviati gave her last Carnival ball. On Sunday night there were balls at the French Academy and at the Military "Cercle in the Piazza Colonno, at which latter Princes Lancellotti, Aldobrandini, Salviati, and Borghese, with their families, were present. Rumours of complications in the French Cabinet are in the official circles and of renewed diplomatic pressure on the Council. Reports of its prorogation are afloat, and I only mention them to put you on your guard. The delay is caused by the objections sent in in writing according to the new "Methodus," and it is hourly expected that the Fathers will receive their letters of notice for the next General Congregation. Monday or Tuesday are spoken of, but in any case it will be in the course of next week. Mgr. Raess's mandement is an example of downneigh-right action which has been (as I learn by private letters from Alsace) received with delight by his Clergy and by the staunch and uncompromising Catholic populations of the Rhenish departments. A meeting was held at Cardinal Mathieu's last Saturday, in which a new programme was decided on by the French opponents, and although the deliberations were private, it transpired that they have greatly modified their views, and are preparing for an honourable retreat and avoidance of all which may give a triumph to the enemies of religion. Cardinal Mathieu is said to have made an admirable appeal in this sense to the Bishops, and as most of them had already declared that the dogma presented no difficulty, and that their only obstacle was that of opportuneness, a good understanding may be hoped for; although a pro formâ opposition from the Gallicans, and a very obstinate one from the Magyar Episcopate, may be looked for. The religious element of the opposition is diminishing daily, and the secular and hostile character is becoming proportionately apparent. The withdrawal of the troops is the menace held over the Pope, and the Council, not only by the Governments opposed to the Definition, but, what is far more disgraceful, by more than one Gallican journal. If the walls of Rome are guarded through the course of the present year, Pius IX. will not have either the Francais or the Echo du ST. BOTOLPH, BISHOPSGATE.-Pretty well full. A large Church, with a large congregation. ST. MARTIN OUTWICH.-It is supposed that this Church was originally erected in the fourteenth century, by one Martin Oteswich. In 1385 the advowson of it was presented to the Merchant Taylors' Company (with the licence of Henry IV.) The old edifice escaped the great fire, but was pulled down in 1796. It was rebuilt and opened in 1798. There are some curious and interesting monuments; but monuments are not worshippers. Alas! the "oval Church of St. Martin" can boast of but few people. From a casual giance there did not appear twenty. Vatican to thank for it, or the officious Catholics who have intrigued with the Cabinets of Paris and Munich to obtain semi-official threats of what may be done in certain cases. On Ash Wednesday the Holy Father blessed and distributed the ashes at St. Peter's, having previously received them himself from the Cardinal Penitentiary to the Sacred College, to the Primates and Archbishops, and as many of the Bishops present as the time permitted. The royal personages now in Rome also took part in the ceremony with edifying devotion, the Duke and Duchess of Modena, the Prince of Austurias, the Duke Charles and his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Tuscany, receiving the ashes at the same time. The Pope was also present this morning at the first Lenten Station in St. Peter's, and made his usual prayer before the Confession, in presence of an immense concourse of persons. He visited the Gesù and Caravita last week, and received the General and Company of Jesus in the Sacristy on both days, and on the latter a great number of the laity, who can bear witness to the falsehood of the disgraceful assertions and insinuations as to the Pope's mental and bodily health, which have recently inundated the revolutionary press; and what is far worse, the soi-disant Catholic journals, whose object is to make it appear that the Holy Father is in his dotage, and as such unfit to transact the affairs of Church and State. The Gallican organs are full of hints to this effect, and those who see and approach the Pope daily, and who know that never was a venerable old age more gallantly or nobly borne, are justly indignant at them. The accounts of the Bishop of Southwark last night were much better. The fever and pain had decreased, and he was stronger and able to take a little food. His Lordship is attended by Dr. Topham. A meeting of the English Bishops was held yesterday in the English College, under the presidency of His Grace the Archbishop of Westminster, to consider the new Education Bill in its results with regard to Catholics. Notes, Literary, Archæological, &c. ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERY.-Castor is situated at about four miles of the City of Peterborough, it was formerly a place of considerable importance, as it has been very satisfactorily proved to have been originally a Roman station, known in history by the name of the Durobrivae of Antoninus, through which passed the celebrated Roman road. Erminstreet, leading from London to Carlisle. Remains of the original Roman town are constantly found in various parts of the parish, which are for the most part in a wonderful state of preservation. As some men were raising gravel last week in the Ailsworth gravel pit they came upon a square hole walled with stone, which upon being partially cleared proved to be an old Roman well. It is two feet six inches square inside, and walled with rough stone of the neighbourhood. The depth is not yet known. It is intended to clear it out so that if any antiquities are at the bottom they may be recovered. Amongst the rubbish at the top, were the remains of Roman pottery of a very coarse kind; also several bones. The spot were the well is situated is about a quarter of a mile north of the old Roman-road, running through Normangate-field, described by Artis as the site of the old city. The present Church of St. Kyneburga may be justly classed among the finest which this country can boast of. In a paper before the Society of Antiquaries on Thursday last. on the Monastic MS. Inventories still preserved, Mr. Mackenzie Walcott mentioned several novel facts-that all the Suffragan Bishops and Deans, and many of the other members of the new foundation, were of conventual orders; that juries of Londoners were sent down to appraise the Monasteries in the Midland Counties, and that sums varying from £20 to £400 were paid for "tolerance or continuance" to Henry VIII. He had also found the Inventories of Winchester and Durham early in the reign of Edward VI., and a precious fragment relating to Westminster Abbey soon after the Dissolution. The paper, we understand, will be printed in the Archæologia. It is said, on good authority, as a proof of the fertility of the fancy of M. Gustave Doré, that since he was fourteen years of age he has made no less than 40,000 drawings, great and small. Prof. Max Müller's four lectures on the "Science of Religion" will be published in four consecutive numbers of one of the magazines. The first lecture will appear in the April number. In order to encourage the observation of comets, the Imperial Academy of Vienna offers eight gold medals for the discovery of as many comets during the next three years. The MS. musical works in the Royal Library, Berlin, have suffered much damage through the bursting of a water-pipe. The accident took place at night, and was not discovered till after hours of mischief. The new edition of Bishop Berkeley's works, edited by Professor Fraser, of Edinburgh, for the Clarendon Press, may be expected before Christmas. Besides the editor's prefaces and notes, and his account of Berkeley's life and philosopby, it contains much hitherto unpublished matter from the Bishop's MSS., which have been supplied by Archdeacon Rose. Dr. Birch lately read an interesting paper before the Royal Society of Literature, on "Coffins and Mummies discovered in Egypt during the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales," a sepulchre having been disinterred at Thebes, just at the time that he was there, containing several coffins and mummies, all apparently of a Theban family, who lived about the seventh century before the Christian era. The site had been known for some time to some of the residents on the spot, but had been kept a secret. The effect of gilding all the decorative statues of sovereigns in the Royal Gallery at Westminster, a costly work, which has been executed within the past few months, is so far satisfactory that the brilliant white of the marble figures no longer interferes with the colouring of Mr. Maclise's pictures on the walls, and is splendid where all is superlatively gorgeous. At present, notwithstanding the use of gold somewhat dimned in its brilliancy, the statues look rather hard and metallic; but -as few things of the sort approach old gilding in richness and sobriety of colour-if the persous in charge can be pursuaded to let time take effect on the figures, the result will certainly be a glorious treat to lovers of colour in the coming generation. It is well worth while to see what a chauge gilding has made in Mr. Thornycroft's figure of Charles the First. The question of the Moabite stone is still in suspense. Since his last letter to the Times Mr. Deutsch does not seem to have come into possession of any of the new material from Paris, which is all the more to be regretted as it was promised to him within a few days. Meanwhile we must be satisfied with what he indeed points out as the most substantial gain, viz., the archaic form of the "Cadmean" letters, which are not henceforth to be sought in those scattered units of "Mesopotamian fragments alluded to in Mr. Deutsch's first communication, but which occur here up and down a large and authentic Royal document, the general date of which leaves hardly room for any doubt. It seems almost a pity that the two agents of France and England, instead of working separately in the matter, did not decide at an early period upon joint action; if they had, possibly the precious relic might have been saved. A full restoration seems almost entirely out of the question now. MR. RUSKIN ON ART. The subject of the fourth lecture delivered by Mr. Ruskin at the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford was “ The Relation of Art to Use." There are two modes in which fine art influences use: I. It gives form to knowledge. 2. It gives grace to utility. As regards the first of these, the function of art in giving precision and charm to visible truth is a very important one. Art must be full of truth or full of use, else it is sure to be inferior, however good in itself. It must either be a means of knowledge or a grace of agency for life. This involves three requisites: 1. That it should be a showing forth of human skill. 2. That it should form beautiful objects by this skill. 3. That it should contribute to truth and use. These three things-skill, beauty, and use-are necessary to all art. All possible modes of error arise from neglecting one or other of these. One of our worst mistakes in the present day is, that we substitute photograph for picture, cast-iron work for sculpture. We think that we can do everything by grinding; but from mere grinding nothing but dust proceeds. And so we have lost, and are losing more and more. the love of skill. Truth and use are, again, a vital element in art. These are always found in all great artists. Whatever other defects they may have, they are never useless or unveracious. We see this especially in our own Reynolds; in him all this power and invention is subordinate to his leading purpose of setting before you such a likeness of an English gentleman or English lady as may be worthy of being looked upon for ever. And art cannot do more than represent a noble human being. You may have more beautiful figures in imaginative pictures, but these are mere child's play to great painters as compared with portraiture. Real strength is tried most of all in painting one man or woman, and the soul that is in him or her. The mind of man never invented anything greater than the form of man animated with faithful love. But the main business of art is in the service of the actual use of daily life-in giving health to reality even more than in giving brightness to picture. The beginning of art consists in getting our country clean and our people beautiful. There has been art where all men are not lovely, but never where they were pale with daily toil and pinched with famine. If the arts are to flourish among us, we inust recover for the mass of the nation three requisites which they at present want: 1. Wholesomeness of food. We must no longer allow them to eat and drink poison instead of food; everything provided for their daily sustenance must be good and pure as well as plentiful. 2. Wholesomeness and decency of dress. It must be such as becomes their rank-serviceable and good, and, at the same time, becoming and in good taste. 3. We must improve their lodgings. All ecclesiastical architecture is developed for civil and domestic building, and its highest achievement may be said to be a "glorified roof." Now in this our modern architects are strangely at fault; they seem hardly to know what to do with a roof. Roofs ought never to be built of iron, but always of wood or stone. At present, England triumphs in her commerce-she is deaf with spinning-wheels, yet her children have not clothes to wear-she is black with fuel, yet they cry aloud for food-she has sold her soul for gold, yet they die of hunger. The Fine Arts are not to be learnt by locomotion, but by making our homes such as to make us love to remain in them. They are not to be learnt by competition, but by doing our quiet task in our own way. They are not to be learnt by exhibition, but by doing what is right and making what is honest, whether it be exhibited or no. We must paint and build, not for pride or money, but for love of our art and love of our neighbour. Religious art cannot be used amiss if we remember that God inhabits cottages as well as Churches; and that in the former as well as in the latter he ought to be well lodged. Put the arts to universal use, and we shall find in them an universal inspiration and benediction: let everything be equally sacred, equally divine: art will be divine wherever it is truly fair and serviceable. God has made everything beautiful in its kind and in its proper place: His will is that all His creatures should be happy. His spirit teaches the ant her path and the bird its flight, and men whatever noble art is possible for them. It dwells in light and in strength in the possession of it is all your peace and all your power. But there exists also an evil spirit, whose dominion is in blindness and cowardice; which tell us that evil things are pardonable, and that we shall not die for them; and that good things are impossible, and that you cannot live for them. Good things are impossible only to those who listen to this evil spirit, and so despair of attaining to what is good. Remember always that all things lovely and righteous are possible, if only you believe in their possibility, and manfully set to work to promote them with your very heart and soul.-Athenæum. Miscellaneous. For the first Lent Sermon preached at the Tuileries on Sunday, we are told, (says the Rock) gentlemen were invited by the Duke of Bassano to attend in white tie and black coat, and ladies in clegant morning costume. The congregation was exceedingly select. L'Histoire says that the Prince de Broglie has been offered the post of French Ambassador at the Council. He has declined the honour, but solely on the ground that, having taken a leading part in the direction of the Correspondent, a very Liberal Catholic newspaper, he would be the object of much suspicion at Rome. great plain, the northern slope of which is drained by the Chambeze. The combined waters of the Lufira and the Chambeze are said by some of Dr. Livingstone's native informants to enter Lake Tanganyika, and thence, under the different name of the Loanda, pass on to Lake Choambe, which he considers to be the same as Sir Samuel Baker's Albert Nyanza; others maintain that the Lufira finds its way by the west of Tanganyika to Lake Choambe. These questions have still to be settled; and in this the interest of Dr. Livingstone's onward movements centres. The lakes which Dr. Livingstone has seen are of considerable size, varying from five to ten days' march in length, and are overhung by high mountain slopes which open out in bays and valleys, or leave great plains which during the rainy reason become so flooded that the caravans travel for days through water up to their knees, and with difficulty find high ground as a resting-place for the night. There are plenty of domestic cattle in the country, and an abundance of large game. The climate is declared to be healthy. THE MORAL RELATIONS BETWEEN LANDLORD AND TENANT.-The fol lowing passage from Mr. Disraeli's speech on the Irish Land Bill is this Bill, of which I entirely disapprove, and that is the compensation worthy of a careful reading:-"I now proceed to another principle of which is to be given for occupation. We have heard many objections to the principle of that clause. I may touch upon them, but I wish at once to state the reason why I particularly object to this clause. It is not in the interest peculiarly of the landlord that I find any objection. My objection to this clause which recognises, at the first blush, property in occupation, and which, therefore, I am not surprised has alarmed many gentlemen, is that this is a proposition which terminates at one fell swoop all moral relations between the owner and the occupier. I doubt very much-though some years ago we used to hear a great deal upon the subject-whether you ever can convert the relation between landlord and tenant into a purely commercial one. There is something, I think, in the nature of the property, something, I think, in the inevitable consequences of local circumstances and local influences, that would always entirely prevent such a consummation, and, so far as I can observe and have learned, have prevented it even in Scotland. where the experiment would appear to have been tried under the most favourable circumstances. But of this I am sure, that this is a relation that can never be established between tenures such as those which mainly exist in Ireland and the proprietors. If ever there was a state of society in which the relations between the landlord and the tenant should be paternal, it is a country Report of debates in the Convocation of Canterbury and York on the where you have farmers of an acre, and men who pay you, as my right Revision of the Authorised Version :- Says the South-"Our book is clearly wrong Let's take the right word-Sumpsimus." Says the North-" We've gone on well so long, We'd better keep our Mumpsimus.”— Guardun The Grand Jury of the Queen's County, following the example of the Grand Jury in Tyrone, have adopted a resolution declaring that it is expedient to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act. They express their opinion that the present state of things in Ireland demands the most serious consideration of the Government, and an immediate application of strong and decided means of correction. The Poplar Guardians have passed a resolution that authority be given to the Relief Committee to grant assistance to emigrants to the extent of £2 per statute adult, limiting the assistance to those whose names have been on the books prior to this date, and that this order remain in force until the 31st of July next. At the last meeting of the Holborn Guardians it was stated that the names of 500 persons who wished to emigrate were enrolled as members of the club. In reference to the "unsectarian" programme of the Education League, the Spectator says that "the League, so far from being unsectarian' in its conception, is, in fact, one for exclusively secular teaching of the children of the irreligious, exclusively sectarian teaching of the children of the religious-as skilful a combination of faults and evils as we can well conceive. "It will interest many people to know," says the Standard, "that Dr. Newman has written to his Bishop at Rome, Dr. Ullathorne, stigmatising the promoters of Papal Infallibility as an insolent, aggressive faction, praying that God may avert this threatened peril from the Church, and affirming his conviction that if He does not see fit to do so, it is because He has chosen to delay the Church's ultimate triumph for centuries." hon. friend mentioned last night, 40s. for their annual rent. Now, sir, position. Why, the relations of patron and client that once subsisted DR. LIVINGSTONE. The Bombay Gazette states that the following news concerning Dr. Livingstone has been communicated to the press by the Government of India. The date of the latest news received from Dr. Livingstone is July 9, 1869, near Lake Bangiveolo. He reiterates his belief that he has found the sources of the Nile between latitude 10 and 12 degrees south, that is to say, nearly in the position which Ptolemy assigned to them. The waters of the northern slope of the elevated plains which overlook the Valley of Cazembe, are conveyed by a multitude of streams into the Chambeze. This river flows into Lake Ban-limbs from the figures and put them in their mouths." giveolo, and under the name of Luapula unites it with Lake Moero. Again it changes its name after leaving this point, and becomes known es the Lualaba, as it runs on to Lake Ulenge. Into Lake Ulenge also flows the Lufira, a large river coming from the western side of the same The Queen of the 5th of March contains the following query :-"Can any lady recommend any Sunday toys for young children-fourteen months old? I find the Noah's Ark is not safe, as they break off the DEATHS. March 4, at his house, at Cambridge, the Rev. Thomas Markby, aged 46. March 7, at the Vicarage, the Rev. Edward Day, Vicar of St. Mark's, Old-street. road. Lately published, 8vo., pp. 530, price 16s. THE ORDERS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAINTAINED AND VINDICATED BOTH THEOLOGICALLY AND HISTORICALLY, WITH FOOT-NOTES, TABLES OF CONSECRATIONS AND APPENDICES. By the Rev. FREDERICK GEORGE LEE, D.C.L., 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 VI.Objections. 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. XI. The same subject continued. XII Eastern forms of Ordination. XIII. Forms of Ordination amongst the separated communities of the East. Christians of St. Thomas. XIV. The Nestorians. XV. Archbishop Matthew Parker. XVI. The Consecration of William Barlow. VII. 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. XXIÍ. The Office of Consecrator and Assistant-Consecrator. XXIII. The Doctrine of Intention XXIV. and XXV. n use 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. IV. Act 3 Edward VI. to draw up a New Ordinal. VIII. Act declaring the legality of the Ordinations. X. Documents relating to the Consecration of Barlow and Hodgkins. XI. Documents relating to Scory and Coverdale. XIII. Parker's Book, De Antiquitate Britannica XIV. Henry Machyn's Diary, with testimonies regard ing the same. XV. Breve of Pope Julius III. to Cardinal Pole. XVIII. The Nonjuring Consecrations. Bishop Hickes, 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. London: J. T. HAYES, Lyall-place, Eaton-square. This day, small 8vo., 3s., nett, or by post, 3s. 8d., THE PARABLES OF CHRIST con phetical Meaning. By HENRY W. I. THIERSCH, D.D., late Professor of Divinity in the University of Marburgh. "This is a very useful and good guide towards the understanding of the twenty-two Parables which were spoken by our Blessed Lord. To those Priests who want to get at the main drift and burden of one of these discourses-either for a Sermon or a Bible Class-in a few minutes this little book will prove itself to be an invaluable boon. The salient points of each Parable are seized upon at once, and the commentary seldom extends over more than five or six pages. The reader is not burdened with useless matter, and what there is, is very much to the point. There is nothing either verbose or high-flown in the treatise; its very earnest simplicity must commend it to any houghtful mind." Church Review. London: THOMAS BOSWORTH, 198, High Holborn. Removed from Regent-street. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE FUND.— This Fund has been started for the purpose of purchasing a piece of freehold land, and establishing thereon a College for the male Members of the Society of St. Joseph. The property will be vested in Trustees for the use of the Society for ever. The following are some of the intended operations when the College shall have been completed : 1. The conduct of Community Life on the "Religious" system, bound by the fixed Constitution and laws of the Society of St. Joseph (founded 1864). 2. Training Members for Mission Work, with a view to their being lent out to Parish Priests as required. 3. Preparing for Matriculation in the cheap Theological Courses, with a view to their Ordination, those inmates and externs who would be otherwise unable to obtain the necessary preliminary education. In consideration of this, all persons so studying, whether inmates or externs, will be expected to contribute certain fixed sums towards the general expenses; unless, in cases of extreme poverty, the finances of the College shall be in a condition to admit of their being dispensed from such payment. PATRONS. The Rev. the Lord F. G. GODOLPHIN OSBORNE, Elm Sir CHARLES L. YOUNG, Bart., 80, Inverness-terrace, W. The Rev. CHARLES G. C. DUNBAR, of Northfield, M.A., DANIEL RADFORD, Esq., Brixton. The rest of the Patrons are included in the The Rev. F. G. LEE, D.C.L., F.S.A., Vicar of All Saints', The Rev. J. EDWARDS, M.A., Vicar of Prestbury, The Rev. T. J. BALL, M.A., The Cove, Aberdeen. The Rev. S. C. SCHOLEFIELD, M.A., Chard, Somerset. CHAS. H. E. CARMICHAEL, Esq., M.A., Gen. Sec. A.P.U.C. CHARLES WALKER, Esq., Author of "The Ritual Reason Why," &c., 69, London-road, Brighton. J. P. TAYLOR, Esq., A.K.C., 17, Regent's-park-terrace, Gloucester-gate, N.W. E. J. ARMYTAGE, Esq. (late 39th Regiment), 2, Cumberland-villas, Lavender hill, S. E. S. N. KEMP. Esq., D.L., The Mission, Chiswick. W. CARR, Esq., the High-street, Stoke Newington, N. The Rev. THOMAS HUGO, M.A., Rector of West Hackney. VICE-CHAIRMAN. The Rev. WALTER WALSH, M.A., St Mary Magdalen's Mission, Chiswick, S. This Mission has been carried on in a new aud rapidly increasing district for more than twelve months with considerable success. Upwards of 70 children are under instruction in the schools. Constant Services are held in the temporary school Chapel, viz., frequent celebrations of the Blessed Sacrament, daily Matins, and Evensong.(with additional Services during the Holy Seasons. A Mission House has been provided for the Priest in charge in which rooms are set apart for Night Schools, Reading Room, and Lectures. A site has been purchased for a permanent Church, and when it is erected, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners will assign it a legal district and endow it. All the sittings in the new church will be free and unappropriated. The time, however, for completing the scheme is limited, and, if allowed to drop, others are ready with funds to take it up in a way of which Catholic Churchmen could hardly approve. The Committee, therefore, earnestly invite all Churchmen who are desirous of maintaining the Church's privileges in all their fulness to come to their assistance. The architect will build the chancel, so as to accommodate the existing congregation and obtain the legal district for £2,500. Two Churchmen are ready to come forward with £100 each, provided twentythree others will do the same, so that the work might be commenced at once, and carried forward to its completion. Another Churchman will guarantee £25 if met by three similar amounts, one of which has already been received. SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS (the latter to be paid at once, or to spread over three years) will be gratefully received on behalf of the Committee by the joint Treasurers, Rev. J. Dart, Mission House, Victoriaroad, Stoke Newington, N.; E. Ferraby. E q., Bank of England, E.C.; or they may be paid to Messrs. Barnet, Hoare and Co., 60, Lombard-street, to the account of "St. Faith's Mission, Stoke Newington." THE FREE CHURCH SOCIETY'S, Strand): Record of Offertory and Anti-pew Movement Visitor. The LORD BISHOP of OXFORD. 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THE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION BILL. WHILE this Bill is intended to uphold the importance of "the three R's," it practically ignores the fourth R. (RELIGION, which ought to be the basis of education, and without which, though children may be taught how to read, write, or sum, they can never be educated in any true sense. The measure meets with a large share of support simply because men fear that if it is not carried the advocates of Secularism, pure and simple, will be strong enough to induce the Government to accept their silly panacea. They propose to cure the evil of diversity of opinion as to education, by withholding altogether that which alone can form its sound basis, namely, Religion. It is evident from the debate on Mr. Dixon's amendment that Government can only carry their Bill by aid of the Conservatives, who, we hope, perceiving this, will make a firm stand against the attack of the Secularist and Radical party, and require the Government to modify the Bill so as to eliminate the evils which we now find in it, and preserve to us the power of inculcating Christianity even among the children of our practically heathen population, the city Arabs. We propose to lay before our readers a sketch of what we conceive to be the chief points in which the proposed scheme differs from the present system, and to offer a few remarks on the effect which the alteration will probably produce, showing what we hold to be the true method of bringing about the desired result, universal education. Few persons realise the change which must in a few years arise if this Bill is passed in its present form. The elementary schools now existing in connexion with the Church, and with various dissenting bodies, but not receiving Government aid, will all be swept away; for those who are obliged to pay rates to maintain schools are little likely to subscribe voluntarily to support others. Our objection to the Bill is that it is wholly framed on a wrong principle, namely, that secular education is the first and most important thing. It is said that religion is not excluded, but only left to be introduced or not, according to the will of the Board elected by the ratepayers. But here a great injustice arises, for there is no reason to suppose, with the diversity of opinion existing throughout the country, that the Board will always be of the same religion with the majority of the parents whose children are taught in the schools. If they are not, either proselytism will be extensively carried on, or the children will be deprived. of religious instruction; and there is no power given by the Act to enable any religious body to establish a school for themselves. All are to be under the Board. True, the Bible may be read in the schools; unless that were granted the framers of the Bill know well that there would be no chance of carrying it. But the whole tone of the Bill is secular; the parent is to have no option as to his child being taught as regards secular matters, but religion is of so much less importance that it is left optional. In the case of compulsory attendance of vagrant and orphan children it seems as though their religious teaching was left to be given by anyone, or no one, as chance may direct. Government Price ld. aid is to be given, and so children will be compelled to go as much to purely secular schools, as to those where religious managers will still endeavour to preserve at least a form of Godliness. Still we have hope that if our friends stand firm, they may modify and change the Bill so as to get rid of much of the mischief. Returns are to be immediately made from all elementary schools, whether receiving aid hitherto, or privately supported, and upon the data thus obtained, the Education Department are to decide whether there is sufficient school accommodation, and if there is, whether the instruction afforded is efficient. How this is to be ascertained in regard to private schools does not appear. The object evidently is not only to ensure that there is opportunity for every child in a district being educated, but also covertly to put an end to denominational schools, and introduce a system of secular education. For the Conscience Clause is the stringent rule; and no school is hereafter to be recognized as "a public elementary school" unless the 3rd Section of Clause 7 be fully acted up to. It runs thus:"No scholar shall be required, as a condition of being admitted into or of attending or of enjoying all the benefits of the school, to attend or to abstain from attending any Sunday school, or any place of religious worship, or to learn any such catechism or religious formulary or to be present at any such lesson or instruction or observance as may have been objected to on religious grounds by the parent of the scholar sending his objection in writing to the managers or principal teacher of the school, or one of them." While of course, theoretically, State aid ought only to be given to Church schools, present circumstances render it a necessity that Dissenters should also receive assistance. We cannot however see that the present system worked so badly as to make its practical abolition needful; and we think that this Bill might be modified so as to preserve the practice now in use of aiding schools according to their efficiency, as shown both by attendance of scholars and their proficiency when examined. The new system does away, so far as we understand it, with all this; and obtains by means of a rate (supplemented in extreme cases of need by a Government grant) the money requisite, beyond that received as "children's pence for carrying on the school. A school may fall below the standard required by Government, and in that case absolutely loses the rate; but we do not perceive any inducement held out to the school authorities to bring their school above the lowest level. " find The compulsory clauses which have called forth so much remark are not easy of comprehension. No parent can be compelled to send his child more than a mile to school (it seems absurd to suppose that all over the country, schools are to be built so that every child may one within a mile), nor to send it to any particular school, for the fact of a child receiving "efficient instruction" in some other manner is a valid defence. The compulsory power rests in the hands of the School Board, subject to approval by the Education Department; and no hint is given as to the means to be employed, further than that the latter part of clause 66 says that the penalty shall not exceed five shillings for each offence. We cannot imagine that our rulers are so utterly |