only that to describe the mode of the Presence as objective, real, actual, and spiritual is certainly not contrary to the law. With respect to the other charges-namely, those relating to sacrifice and worship-I pronounce that Mr. Bennett has not exceeded the liberty the law allows upon these subjects. I make no order as to costs. Notice of appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was given on the part of the promoter. GAVAZZI'S LECTURE ON THE VATICAN COUNCIL. On Friday evening, Alessandro Gavazzi, once a Roman Priest, and at present a Liberal and a Protestant of the most rampant sort, delivered what was pointedly announced to be "his single lecture" in London, at St. George's Hall, on the subject of the Vatican Council. We are grateful for the assurance that there are no more to come; for our own sake, inasmuch as one such performance is sufficiently trying to the patience of a reporter, and a second would be unendurable; and for Mr. Gavazzi's sake, as he would certainly find the speculation anything but remunerative, judging by the paucity of his first audience. But it used not to be so. Years ago crowds assembled to listen and stare at the interesting 'vert, although they understood not his Italian speech. A real live native of Italy, converted to Protestantism, was as great an attraction to the serious world as Jenny Lind or the Hippopotamus to the ungodly and profane, and they went to hear the lion roar accordingly. Now all this ridiculous furore is past, and a mere handful of people assemble to hear him expound his views on the gravest ecclesiastical topic of our day and generation. At the outset he told his hearers that it was not simply "the Vatican Council" upon which he was going to discourse. His theme was the Infallibility of the Pope, since the Jesuits, who are the real managers of this Council, have nothing else in view than to define the Infallibility of the Pope, so as to become themselves infallible afterwards." The lecturer had no difficulty in proving to his own satisfaction and that of his audience, that this dogma is perverse in its origin, sacrilegious in its nature, and fatal in its consequences. To us it seemed that he overstated his case, and if he proved anything proved too much, viz., that Infallibility existed not, except in himself, and his own interpretations of Scripture. Every man a Pope to himself, and a believer in his own personal infallibility, is scarcely an improvement upon the Vatican Schema. Yet this is what his argument, such as it was, would really end in. Of course it is easy to tear in pieces the flimsy arguments and sophistical pleading by which this novelty has been supported, and this Gavazzi did with great skill and humour. He possesses also considerable dramatic power, and a decided genius for low comedy. As to literary or theological learning, it would be as absurd to complain that both were wanting, as it would be seriously to discuss a performance of this ad captandum description, which could never convince a single antagonist, though it did amuse the audience, and might, under more favourable circumstances, have enriched the pocket of the performer. NOTES FROM ROME. The following are supplied to the Westminster Gazette by its correspondent, under date July 14: A general Congregation of the Council was held on Monday, as expected, in which, after the Mass, celebrated by Mgr. Melano, Archbishop of Nicomedia, the Third, and part of the amendments to the Fourth Chapter were voted. At its close, the next Congregation was announced for Wednesday. This Congregation sat for six hours, by two hours the longest that any Congregation has lasted as yet. In this the votes were taken on the remainder of the Fourth Chapter, as in the last, per alzata, and then on the whole Schema de Ecclesiá Christi, by vivá voce declaration of Placet and non Placet, the numbers, we hear, being for it, 448; against it, 153; or more than a third of the whole number who voted divided thus-non Placets, 90; and juxta modum, 63. The applications for leave of absence in this Congregation were as many as fifteen. No notice was announced of another General Congregation, but it will probably be on Saturday. The remarks of those who gave the vote jurta modum have first to be submitted to the Deputation de Fide, who will have to examine them, and report upon them to the Council: if their consideration should involve a modification of the form in which the Definition has already been cast, a new vote will have to be taken. I am credibly informed, however, that if a proposed modification of expression be adopted, the final vote will approach very near the desired unanimity; a concession which, there is little doubt, will be made. The grand result will have already reached you by telegram, that the concession in the final wording of the Definition had won over nearly half those who did not vote wholly in its favour in the General Congregation of Wednesday; the total number reported as present being 535 of whom two only recorded a vote of non Placet, so that it was carried by almost unanimity among those present, but it will be observed that as there were 601 present in Wednesday's Congregation, there were 66 of these who preferred staying away to voting at all. There had been a thunderstorm during the night, and the morning was wet: about eleven the sky was quite overcast and threatening, and a second storm supervened. The interior of the great edifice was very dark, and peals of thunder were distinctly heard, accompanied by vivid flashes, contrasting strangely with the calm within. After the Mass, as usual, there was "obeisance," which did not last very long; then followed the reading of what may be called the Schema, from the pulpit, by one of the Bishops. This occupied about an hour, and was succeeded by the taking of the votes, which consists of a Prelate, from the pulpit also, asking each Bishop to signify his adherence. About an hour and a quarter was passed in this way, when the Holy Father rose to speak, and instantly a burst of vivas resounded through the seats of the Bishops, accompanied by clapping, both being immediately taken up by the masses outside, and continuing several minutes, many adding, Viva il infallible!" His speech was short; but though we were well placed for seeing, it was impossible to catch a single word. His action appeared animated. The Te Deum was then sung, and concluded the Function. The chair of St. Peter was not exposed. The Archbishop of Westminster left to-day for England, via Geneva, having altered his proposed route on account of the war. The Tablet writes:-"On the 24th of April the Dogmatic Constitution, Dei Filius, was passed by a Council of 664 Fathers and the Pope. On Monday last the long and anxiously debated Constitution, Pastor Eternus, on the Roman Pontiff, was passed by 553 Fathers and the Sovereign Pontiff, there being at last but two dissentient votes. The plea of the want of moral unanimity is therefore completely out of court, and the whole Church of God rejoices in the unity of her Pastors in the Faith. If forty or fifty absented themselves from the Public Session it was by an act of their own; had they so pleased they might have joined their two dissentient brethren, and have recorded a last Non placet; but they did not venture on the responsibility. They have before this, we trust, said their Credo to the definitions made by the Church, and will become an example to their flocks in faith and docility. The "Constitution" is a short treatise on the Primacy of Peter, its perpetuity in the Roman Pontiffs, its nature and character, and on the infallible magisterium of the Roman Pontiff. Each chapter ends with a definition, and Gallicanism is now extinct in the Church. In the fourth chapter it is stated, and we recommend the statement to the attention of our contemporaries when they favour us with their commentaries upon Catholic doctrine, that "the Holy Ghost has not been promised to the successors of Peter that they should declare a new doctrine through a fresh revelation, but in order that by his Divine assistance they should devoutly guard and faithfully expound the Revelation transmitted by the Apostles, or the Deposit of Faith." The Pope is decreed to be infallible" when speaking ex cathedra, i.e., discharging the office of Pastor and Doctor of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme Apostolic authority, he defines that a doctrine on faith and morals is to be held by the Universal Church. He then, by the Divine assistance promised to him in Blessed Peter, enjoys that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer endowed His Church in defining doctrine on faith and morals; and consequently the decisions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not in virtue of the consent of the Church." The Catholics of every country have accepted beforehand the decrees of the Council. We look forward to the joy of showing next week how loyally these last decrees have been received by those who opposed them while under discussion." The Globe says:-"All the Orientals who represent real not nominal Dioceses are said to have recorded their non-placet, and great losses to Rome are apprehended in the last. Ketteler of Mayence joined the minority at the last, and Antonelli was among those who abstained from voting." Speaking of Roman matters, the Tablet says:-"The Holy Father continues well, and is said by them who have daily access to him to be in excellent spirits, and most confident of the result. The situation is in every respect a most critical one for Rome. Already the Sect is moving heaven and earth to complicate the question of alliances, and to render both the belligerent powers unable to dispense with the aid of Italy, or at least with her neutrality. It is possible that the cession of Rome to the revolution is the price asked, and although each power has offered an occupation, it may easily end in a complete abandonment of the Pope, if either France or Prussia find Italy a useful ally. No one here believes that the war can be confined to the two principal combatants for above a few months, if so long, and the certainty that Russia is with Prussia, and will back her, if need be, renders the position more difficult to judge of at present. THE VATICAN DRAMA PLAYED Our.-From an able article under this heading in the Saturday Review we quote the following:-"That the Prelates of the minority should have thought it prudent to leave Rome before the Solemu Session would not be at all surprising. For it was generally rumoured there three weeks ago that, when once the definition was made, no Bishop of the minority would be allowed to depart without signing his recantation, and a stringent order had then already been . We can well and misery which covers the face of the earth, that one can admit the possibility of persons so terribly bitter against one another upon points of dogma being actuated by any portion of the true spirit which pervades the religion they alike profess. Church of St. Andrew, Plaistow, which has been erected for a denselyYesterday morning the Bishop of Rochester consecrated the new populated district of that parish. Hitherto the district has been worked by the Rev. George Godsell, as a missionary station. THE CONVENTUAL INSTITUTIONS.-The committee met again on Monday, and have decided merely to report the evidence this session. The only witness whose evidence was worth notice was Mr. Lyne, the father of Brother Ignatius, who said that he did not approve of the efforts made by his son to found Monasteries, but that in all other respects he was a most admirable son. All the Bishops with whom he had been brought into contact admired his zeal and devotion, but disapproved of his practices and his costume. Many private persons were, on the other hand, giving him contributions to enable him to found a Monastic institution similar to that commenced at Norwich, near Abergele, in Wales. The Emperor of the French has decided, according to Galignani, that there shall be a Chaplain of each form of worship attached to every regiment. The tastes of Frenchmen in the matter of religions are, perhaps, not so varied as our own, but the effect of such a plan in our hundred men to each; and supposing all these to possess an average own regiments would be to add a Clerical contingent of about one power of lung, and an ordinately strong tendency to propagate his own beliefs, the advance of the hosts to war would exceed in noise anything that was ever heard from the armies of Troy.-Echo. issued forbidding them to leave unless in case of severe illness. Many of them had accordingly applied to the ambassadors of their respective Governments for protection against this extraordinary stretch of tyranny. But on infallibilist principles the Pope has a perfect right to act in the manner indicated. By Papal decrees again and again repeated, every cleric, of whatever rank and whatever nation, is subject in body as well as soul to his liege lord and master the Pope. believe it, though a more conspicuous illustration of the grotesque unreality of the whole procedure could hardly be conceived. Here are the Bishops of the Catholic world summoned to Rome from every quarter of the globe professedly to sit in Council as judges of faith,' and deliberate on one of the most momentous questions that could be brought before such an assembly, lying indeed, by the admission of both contending parties, at the very root of all belief in Christian revelation. They come together to deliberate-under great difficulties, indeed, and under a system of moral coercion which makes it almost heroic to take any side but one-and then, when the debate is over, all the Bishops who have taken the other side are quietly told that they must recant, or be deprived of their offices, and that it is surprising the minority did not comprehend how much advantage it would have derived in this respect from silence.' The venerable judges of faith' are treated like a pack of naughty schoolboys, who have been abusing their master behind his back, and must retract and apologise, or be flogged and expelled. This is no exaggeration, and we can only say that if such men as Darboy and Dupanloup, Rauscher, Schwarzenberg, and Kenrick - not to mention many more-submit to such outrageous indignities, it will be something surprising. And an English Opposition Bishop is reported to have said the other day that the entire absence of freedom would deprive its decrees, whatever they might be, of all binding force over the conscience. As to the fact there can be no doubt whatever. All trustworthy testimony, public and private, combines to prove that intrigues, intimidation, bribery direct ST. SAVIOUR'S HOSPITAL AND REFUGE. UPPER HOLLOWAY, N and indirect, and all the most discreditable machinery of a contested election, have been the order of the day at Rome for the last seven months. The French Bishops at Trent, as Ranke tells us, used to sneer with more reason than reverence at the Holy Ghost arriving from Rome in a mail-bag. A pamphlet has lately appeared from the pen of the Jesuit, Father Gallwey, who longs, though he scarcely ventures to hope, for the time when we might expect some new definition every morning, and suggests with exquisite naivete that such daily pronouncements, so far from being an evil, would be like the daily provision of manna.' As 'the daily provision of manna' was intended to replace what had been consumed on the previous day, this happy simile seems to imply that yesterday's dogma may be dispensed with when we have got to-day's in its place, and for the old formula Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus, we may substitute henceforth Quod nunquam quod nusquam, quod a nemine. The world will find the latest news from heaven as well as the latest earthly news lying every morning on the breakfast-table in Reuter's telegrams in the Times.. The Dublin Review, in noticing two recent Catholic publications already referred to in this article, observes with an audacity which leaves nothing to be desired, that, as both these volumes are written by persons who | sincerely believe themselves Catholics in faith, the absolute necessity of a definition on the Pope's authority in teaching' is conclusively proved. In other words, the fact that sincere Catholics still reject the new dogma, as it has been rejected for the last eighteen centuries, conclusively proves,' not, that it is no Catholic dogma, but that its rejection must be anathematised. We say advisedly every question, and not every theological question only; for the Civilta Cattolica, the Pope's accredited organ, is quoted by the Dublin Review as saying that to confine infallibility to matters of revealed truth is a Jansenist heresy, and that (the talics are not ours) • there can be very few branches of truth which have not some connection with revealed dogma,' and on which, therefore, the Pope is not infallible." Yesterday morning the death was announced of the Rev. Sidney Henry Widdrington, M.A. He was successively Incumbent of St. Leonard's, Sussex; Rector of Walcot, Bath; and Vicar of St. Michael's, Coventry. In 1863 he was presented to the Vicarage of St. Mark's, St. John's-wood, which has become vacant by his death. It is worth £600 a year, and is in the gift of the Crown. Referring to the prosecution of the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett by the Church Association, we are glad to notice that even the ultra-Radical Echo condemns the bitter spirit exhibited by this small clique of so-called Churchmen. We cannot find room for the whole of the article, but we give the substance:-"It would be difficult to estimate the possible injury done to the Church of England at the present time by having her highest doctrines made the subject of legal investigation, promoted, not so much with a view of making clear the law, as for the purpose of securing a party victory for one or other of conflicting sections. The the casual spectator of such litigation naturly, imagines that the com Received with thanks, The Hon. Mrs. Hubbard, 27.: The Hon. Mrs. Liddell, 27.; The Hon. Miss Grosvenor, 11.; The Rev. J. B. White, 31. 3s.; The Rev. A. W. F., 41. 4s., ditto 5l.; The Rev. S. N. D., 10s.; G. Wingfield Digby, Esq., 2., E. 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They never fail, directly or indirectly they adjust and invigorate the whole animal economy. London: Printed by JOHN HIGGS BATTY, at 6, Red THE WESTMINSTER COMMUNION. THE No one is likely to be surprised at the Dean of West minster committing any irregular act, or at his openly fraternising with heretics of every description, in order to lower the Church in her really spiritual character; but we may be allowed to express our dismay and astonishment at the sight of certain Bishops in the Upper House of Convocation openly and deliberately backing him up in his irregular act, and justifying the part they took in that melancholy scandal. Their Lordships must have had some motive for acting thus. They must have expected some benefit, either personally or to the Church, to flow from it. Perhaps they considered it a popular act—one that would gain them the applause of such leaders of public opinion as are represented by the Times newspaper. Perhaps they thought that by this act they would conciliate Dissenters; or is it that they had their eyes so intently fixed upon the "Establishment," that they forgot entirely the Church of Christ, and were so absorbed in the contemplation of themselves as nominees of the Prime Minister, that they forgot that they were Bishops of the Church of God? We are certainly inclined to this latter view of the case, because the ground which two of the Bishops took was that they could not legally refuse the Holy Communion to Nonconformists, since they were by law members of the National Establishment. Price 1d. ment, they could not refuse to communicate Nonconformists. We confess ourselves to be astounded at this assertion, not only because these Bishops did openly and unblushingly set up the Establishment above the Church of Christ, but because they showed themselves lamentably ignorant of the Canon Law of the Establishment. Not only is there the Rubric at the end of the Confirmation Office, but there are no less than eleven of the Canons of 1603, each of which would prohibit those Nonconformists whom Dean Stanley invited to communion from communicating (see Canons III. to XIII., and Canon XXVII.). We give the title of the latter-Schismatics not to be admitted to the Communion. All such are forbidden the Holy Communion by these Canons, for they are declared to be ipso facto excommunicated "until they repent and publicly revoke their wicked errors." Behind all this there is, we fear, a far more, because a wilful error, on the part of their Lordships, and that is a forgetting, or an ignoring, of their position of Bishops of the Church of Christ, and of the real nature and meaning of the Holy Eucharist. None of them surely, if they believed the words of our Lord, "This is My Body, This is My Blood!" could have contemplated, without shuddering, the awful act of impropriety committed by Dean Stanley when he gave those sacred elements into the hands of one who denied the Divinity of Him whose Body and Blood were given to him. Neither could they have thought of the command given by the Beloved Apostle of our Lord, "If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed; for he that biddeth him God-speed is partaker of his evil deeds." Neither could they have remembered the equally plain words of another Apostle, who said, "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them." All that they seemed to have thought of is, these men are by law members of the Established Church, and therefore by law we cannot refuse them. Consequently we must obey the Act of Parliament before the Word of God. How different from this was the conduct of the Apostles, who, when they were called upon by the authorities of the Established Religion in Jerusalem to cease from acting as Apostles of Christ, answered, "Whether it be right, in the sight of God, to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye, for we cannot but speak the things we have heard and seen." How different was the conduct of the Patriarch Alexander, when ordered by the Emperor to receive the heretic Arius into communion-a case singularly like the present-utterly refused, and desired rather to die than to commit this sacrilege. How different from the modern Anglican Bishop, who outwardly proposes to be ruled by Scripture, and to be guided by the examples of the Primitive Church! Happily, we may confidently look for good out of the evil. Daturally confined to mem- The repetition of such a scandal would be impossible. For were conciliating Dissenters by ships imagined that they to fraternize with the deadliest heresy either in order to gain act, they are very con- popularity or to conciliate Schismatics, or in deference to the bis lay dispenser of State patronage, is as abhorrent to our important revived ideal of the duty of a Christian Bishop as it is tablish- alien from Scriptural and Ecclesiastical theory. If they thought to gain the applause of the Times, and considered it worth while to compromise principle to attain it, they have certainly succeeded. The Times gave a leading article to their praise-a fact which, possibly, they value more than the good opinion of really earnest and pious men of their own Dioceses. If they thought to conciliate Nonconformists, they showed themselves singularly ignorant of the principles which guide those bodies. In all of those, we believe, what they call "close Communion" is the rule; that is, they admit none to their Communion but members of their own particular sect, and so strong is this principle with many of them, that it is one cause of complaint, and, therefore, of separation from the Church, that the latter admits to Communion all sorts of persons without previous preparation and permission of the Minister. It is considered as one of the marks of a loss of discipline in the Church, and has led many to join a sect in order that they may live under a more wholesome discipline. The idea of an indiscriminate Communion, like that at Westminster Abbey, is perfectly abhorrent from the feelings of a genuine Dissenter. This exclusive spirit proceeds not from high spiritual views of the Sacrament, not from a belief in the Divine Presence in it, but from regarding it trom a very low point of view, that it is a mere communion of of the same sect with each other, and, therefore, persons bers only. We fear, if their L siderably mistaken. Let us now examine the question as to the plea that er and more ters of inist CONTINENTAL ANGLICANISM. [COMMUNICATED.] Continued from Page 644. a thorough specimen of a muscular Parson, that on such an I THE Colonial and Continental Society plainly professes that its object is to appoint Evangelical (so-called) Clergymen to vacant Chaplaincies, or to send them out temporarily to minister to travelling English at stations which are not served for all the year, but only for the season. A list is published monthly, which gives not only the stations where this Society has its Chaplains, but also the names of the Chaplains themselves, their cure in England, and the date of their arrival and departure. A friend of ours humorously called this list "Cautions to Wanderers," meaning thereby that travelling Churchmen should avoid spending Sunday where these Chaplaincies are established. A few years ago the caution was very necessary, but latterly we have remarked, on the whole, a great change for the better in these Chaplaincies. We do not for a moment suppose that the Society is getting less Protestant or less intolerant, but the force of public opinion is too strong, the majority of the English who travel prefer the Service performed decently and in order, and will not put up with bigotry and irreverence. The Puritan party is so rapidly dwindling away that it is difficult to supply these Chaplains without accepting the Services of more moderate men, and thus we have frequently found in France and Switzerland, Chaplaincies in connection with this Society where the Holy Communion is celebrated every Sunday, where the surplice is used in the pulpit, and where "Hymns Ancient and Modern " are sung; but such is rather the exception than the rule. The great stronghold of the Colonial and Continental Society is Switzerland. In outof-the-way valleys, on the tops of mountains, in the most retired hamlets and primitive bath-houses, we find the English Chaplain. He is generally boarded and lodged free of expense by the hotel keeper, who thinks that his presence attracts English visitors to his establishment. Some go so far as to set apart a room for the Service, with English Church" written over the door. One of our most painful experiences of the C. and C. was at a hotel of this kind at Stresa, where the Chaplain endeavoured, together with two renowned Broad Church Clergymen, one of whom is now a Bishop and the other a Dean, to sing as a trio Bishop Ken's evening hymn at 3.30, on a bright day in July; and though the young lady who played the piano broke down, the future dignitaries bravely persevered to the end. At other places the dining saloon is cleared for Service, and woe be to those who linger over a late breakfast, for they will ruthlessly be turned out to make way for the Anglican function. The hymns and chants have generally been practised on Saturday evening, and there is almost always a young lady to accompany on the piano. How the room is arranged, especially if there is to be a celebration, depends much on the Chaplain, but a visitor can generally manage to place things decently beforehand. Now and then a C. and C Chaplain will endeavour to administer the Holy Communion by railfuls at once. This should always be resisted. We We have been told that if a Clergyman who is unknown to suffered once from this at Interlaken, where Mr. Forbes, the the Committee applies to the C. and C. for a Chaplaincy, a Chaplain of Paris, and an extreme Low Churchman, was paper of questions on doctrinal points is sent to him, officiating; we are told, too, that it is the case at Geneva. of course denying all the sacramental dogmas of Catholic We have sad recollections of a Sunday at Zermatt some five truth which, if he does not satisfactorily reply to, his years ago, after poor Mr. Hudson and his companions lost application is refused. The S.P.G. is more liberal; they their lives on the Matterhorn. The Chaplain, who was not have far fewer Chaplaincies, but they are open, we believe, an orator, preached an old Sermon he had with him on St. to any early applicant irrespective of opinions. Certain Mary Magdalene, and added at the end a short biographical rules have to be observed, and one is that there should account of all the victims of the accident which occurred in be a Celebration every Sunday. Some of these Chaplainthe week: we have a confused recollection of the Matterhorn cies are admirably served, and we have very pleasing being compared to Pisgah, and Mr. Hudson to Moses. We recollections of Sundays we have spent in Switzerland when had previously suggested to the worthy ecclesiastic, who was the Blessed Sacrament has been administered with great "Oh dear, Mr. So-and-So, these Catholics; it is very sad. have been just trying to explain to our chambermaid a little about our Church, you know-and I told her I was going to our Messe du Soir, and really, though you know the French are so polite, and she is a very civil spoken girl, she laughed in my face. I wonder why?" The Chaplain looked very much puzzled. "Well I'm sure, Miss So-and-so, I can't tell. I should not myself call any portion of our beautiful Protestant Service the Mass-but oh! very likely she laughed because, perhaps, they don't have Mass in the evening at their Churches." "Oh don't they. Well. I'm sure, I never inquired; perhaps not." This only gives one a little idea of the ignorance of travelling English men and English women on matters Ecclesiastical. It sometimes happens that there are only two or three persons at a hotel to attend the Sunday function. A gentleman told us last year that he and his brother once had Matins, &c., read to them alone, followed by an extempore Sermon. Once at Nice we heard the Priest, who was of most lugubrious aspect, and evidently not musical, give out "let us read to the praise and glory of God," instead of sing, whereupon he read the hymn beginning "All hail the great Emmanuel's name." |