It is also to be observed that since the last Act of Uniformity it has been the custom with respect to special public Services for the Crown in Council to order the observance of some day as a day of thanksgiving or fast day, and then to direct the Archbishop to prepare a Service, which may perhaps be looked upon as calling upon him to perform a duty of his office, just as the Crown directs him to summon Convocation, and then he, in obedience to that order, issues his own writ in his own name to the Bishops of his Province.

But the long disuse of this power of ordering Special Services by the Bishops, and by the Archbishop unless in obedience to the command of the Crown, may perhaps be thought to throw some doubt on the lawfulness of its exercise now. Your Committee therefore recommend that steps be taken to obtain a relaxation of the Act of Uniformity, so that the said power may be exercised on due occasion. Such relaxation should be in the form of freeing from liability to statutory penalties any Clergyman who should use

1. Any additional Prayers, or proper Psalms or Lessons, ordered or allowed by the Bishop of the Diocese for a special occasion; 2. Any Special Service issued by the Archbishop with the approval of the Convocation of his Province. Your Committee have treated the whole subject of Special Services, and have not thought it necessary to confine themselves strictly to that of Thanksgiving for Harvest referred to in their appointment. It is to be observed that that form consists of-1. Proper Psalms, Lessons, Epistle, and Gospel; 2. Additional Prayers, and that some of these last are to replace the usual Collect for the day on ordinary week days, but to be added to it on holidays. And the Committee have assumed that some such arrangement would be adopted in the case of other Special Services. Your Committee have made no suggestions as to the action of the Crown. The authority of the Crown to order the use of Special Services has never fallen into desuetude; it seems therefore hardly necessary to include it in such an Act as is now proposed.

Signed on behalf of and by the direction of the Committee,
ALWYNE COMPTON, Chairman.

Jerusalem Chambers, May 3, 1870.

Correspondence.

THE TWELVE DAYS' MISSION. SIR-The deputation appointed at Sion College to see the Bishops of London, Winchester, and Rochester relative to the holding of another Mission in London, have received the following reply from their Lordships in answer to their communications to them on the subject:

Although we are of opinion that such efforts as the " Twelve Days' Mission can be useful, or indeed justifiable, only when exceptional and rare, yet, considering that the Mission of 1869 was confessedly tentative, that there is adequate testimony to its beneficial effects, and that many Incumbents, convinced of its utility, are very anxious to make a similar effort in their own parishes, we shall be glad to encourage the holding of Mission Services in 1871 on the following conditions:

1. That no religious Services shall be used in Church other than those which are contained in the Prayer Book, or consist of the very words of Scripture. 2. That no ritual shall be used in any Church in excess of, or in addition to, the ordinary ritual of such Church; and in particular that no unauthorised form be introduced as a renewal of the baptismal vow. 3. That, although every facility should be given for personal and private communications with the Clergy to those who are troubled in conscience, or who require further comfort, counsel, or instruction, these

Services shall not be made the occasion of recommending the practice of

habitual confession to the Priest as a duty of the Christian life.

To consider what shall be done in consequence of this, I propose to invite the Clergy of the metropolis to meet at Sion College on some day hereafter to be named. It will probably be about the end of October, as by that time most of the Clergy will be again at their posts. Your obedient servant, Lambeth, Aug. 5, 1870.

ROBERT GREGORY, Chairman of the Committee.

THE BENNETT JUDGMENT.

SIR, Will Dr. Lee let me ask:-if the Archbishop speaks by Sir Robert Phillimore, what becomes of His Grace's utterances if reversed by the Privy Council? May not the Archbishop of York, sitting on the Judicial Committee, reverse the judicial utterances of His Grace of Canterbury? Nay, may not Dr. Tait, speaking through Sir Robert Phillimore in the Arches Court, reverse himself in the final Court of Appeal? Suppose Sir Robert had pronounced officially against the Real Objective Presence

?

A TRUE TORY.

SIR.-The letters of Dr. Lee and "M. D. A." on this subject in your last issue bears a striking contrast which Churchmen will not fail to note. The letter of the one is short and to the point, Conservative and

suppose that the remarks of "M. D. A.” are the faithful expression of the feeling on this subject in the Catholic Church. Dr. Lee, in his few fitting words, has so clearly demonstrated the contumaciousness of Mr. Bennett in not appearing before the Arches Court, that no more need be said on that point; it is with regard to that gentleman's conduct towards the Privy Council that I write to oppose the suggestions of "M. D. A.” The latter advises Mr. Bennett to appear before that tribunal-for five reasons, which should be carefully noticed, namely: 1. To avoid "the appearance of running away."

2. To "gain more respect from the outsiders." 3. To "win more adherents."

4. To render the chance of a concocted and sinister judgment but a poor one."

5. To avoid causing damage to the Catholic cause.

Out of these five reasons four are utterly contemptible, the last only is well intentioned, but it is founded on a mistaken idea of what the Catholic cause is. As far as one can judge from the letter before me, "M. D. A." considers that cause to consist in risking its divine and incontrovertible position on the chance of securing a favourable judgment from an incompetent and unjust tribunal, the argument seeming to proceed in this wise-To get a fair hearing before the Judicial Committee you must appear. Not to get a fair hearing would damage the cause therefore you are morally bound to appear. As I am only assuming, on the strength of my common sense, that this is the argument which "M. D. A. " proposes, and as I may be wrong I will not stay to consider the fallacies which it contains, but I assert without hesitation that the conclusion, which is certainly that of your correspondent, cannot be justified by any premises whatever, and this I believe to be the opinion of the Catholic party generally. The authority of the Privy Council in spiritual matters is a legal fiction, possessing no moral or religious justification whatever; the obligation to appear before it is consequently a technical one, and in no sense a moral one: in fact, if there is any moral obligation at all it is decidedly in favour of letting judgment go by default. I contend that the only tenable position for Catholics to adopt is to accept as binding all decisions of the Arches Court, and wholly to ignore those of the Court above. Here they would stand upon intelligible ground, whereas if no authority whatever is acknowledged but the private opinion or conscience of the individual, the position assumed is ludicrous and illogical. Assuming the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to be wholly unbiassed, which is notoriously not the case; and, moreover, skilled in ecclesiastical law, of which it knows absolutely nothing-its decisions would not be a whit more binding on Churchmen than they are under present circumstances. It has no moral jurisdiction, therefore Catholics need not blush though it should proclaim as law the most pernicious heresies which infest Christianity, and any advantage to the cause we all have at heart would be purchased most unworthily by a tacit recognition of its usurped authority. So much for reason No. 5; as to the first four, is it worth while trespassing on your space, so liberally afforded to your numerous correspondents, to expose the evils which they support and encourage? What does it matter if we "appear" to run away, if we are conscious of doing our duty? What is "the respect of outsiders"—that is, I presume, those who do not confess and practise the Catholic Faith-worth compared to the approval of our Master? And is it likely that He will bring adherents" to His Church through so unworthy a means as truckling to an authority which we know He would despise? A "concocted and sinister judgment" is all we may expect from the Committee at any time; we know from its composition that the condemnation of Ritualism and Catholic doctrine is a foregone conclusion with its members, which, together with our knowledge of its lack of authority over the Church of Christ, should make us supremely indifferent to its Yours, &c., decisions whatever they may be.

J. HARRY BUCHANAN, M.A.

THE ROMAN COUNCIL. SIR.-No doubt your readers will remember that quite recently in Convocation the Bishop of Gloucester, speaking of the Council of the Vatican, said that, on the subject of the Council, his Diocese manifested apathy and indifference. Well, I remember the Tablet last year noticing that three Masses had been said on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in a Village Church in Gloucestershire for the intention of the Council: a Clergy man too in the same Diocese told me the other day that he remembered the Council at every Mass he said. No doubt at Clifton, Bristol, and other places the Council is not forgotten. At Frome I am informed there has been an additional Mass every WednesP. K. Q. day for the Council since December 8.

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LONDON, AUGUST 10, 1870.

The Week.

THERE is at least no dearth of war news this week. With a suddenness which, though the constant characteristic of war, is never anticipated, and therefore always startles lookers on as belonging to the marvellous the whole aspect of the struggle between France and Prussia has become changed. Two rapid shiftings of the scenes and the first act of the drama is over. What does it reveal to us of the final issue of the play? That the Prussian army is splendidly generalled and admirably led, that the French have been vacillating or at least indefinite in plan and tardy in action, is clear. But these are the early days of the war and there is time to learn. The issue of the struggle will depend on the valour and determination of the respective nations, and nothing has yet occurred to show one a whit inferior to the other. Indeed, the spirit in which the disastrous news has been received in Paris shows that it will be hard to beat the French people. It shows, also, that there is willingness still to trust the Emperor. The Times, of course, with the low-bred meanness which distinguishes that leader of public opinion, has been preparing for what it deems the imminent duty of kicking the Emperor when he is down, by a preliminary lunge or two by way of upsetting him. But the present may prove no exception to the rule, that the Times is always wrong in its political forecasts. In any case, we may infer from the First Act that the Drama is likely to be a long one.

As the Parliamentary Session draws to a close there are, of course, numerous Bills withdrawn. We greatly regret that the Lectionary Bill is one of these. That Parliament should withhold its sanction from the Table of Lessons drawn up by a Commission of Churchmen, in which the Bishops had so much power that Convocation accepted almost without discussing the revised Lectionary, is a state of matters far from honourable to the Church, or creditable to those Churchmen who aided in bringing it about. One satisfaction there is, that the delay will give time for many worthy Priests, who now stand in doubt, to convince themselves of the wisdom of the great majority of the changes proposed. The practical benefit of shorter Lessons and of having an arrangement by which, when Evensong is twice used, the Lessons may be varied, must soon be seen; and such changes as the substitution

of the Death of Abel as the first Lesson on St. Stephen's Day list, Moses' vision of God instead of the fourth chapter of for a chapter from Ecclesiastes, and for St. John the EvangeProverbs, have only to be known to be approved.

On Thursday, the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill Repeal Act passed the second reading in the House of Commons, with amendments, however, contrary to an understanding between certain Peers and the Government. As a consequence the Bill has been subsequently withdrawn. On Thursday, also, the Commons accepted, with a few verbal improvements, the Lords' amendments on the Education Bill, excepting that they insisted on preserving to the School Board the power, if they thought it needful, to establish free schools. The Bill will, therefore, pass in its present form into law, but we cannot appreciate highly Mr. Cowper Temple's laudation of the successes achieved in its improvement by the National Union. At the meeting for its dissolution he discoursed, after the manner of the Whigs, on the excellent measure which their exertions had obtained, through the improvements which the Union had effected. We incline to the opinion of Sir W. Denison and Mr. J. G. Talbot, and have all along held that the Union injured most seriously the Church's cause by the ready acceptance they gave to Radical amendments which practically cut away the firm ground from under the feet of the Clergy, who now will find themselves in a quagmire of uncertain depth, not knowing whether they can have their schools to themselves as in time past, or may at any time be rated for the support of some secular school intended only for the gratification of a few political Dissenters living miles away.

The

On Monday the Lords' amendments to the Census Bill, adding a voluntary return as to religious belief, came before the Commons. The amendment was disagreed from a majority of 61. On the same day the Judicial Committee Bill was withdrawn in deference to the opposition it had excited. Clerical Disabilities Bill has, as we anticipated, passed without further opposition, and, in all probability, will become law during the present month, affording a fresh opportunity for those who deny the indelibility of Holy Orders to blaspheme. The Act, which has passed through several stages, under the title of the Irish Marriage Law Amendment Bill, is one of those measures of scanty justice to Ireland which, it is sad to find, have only been produced by the dire necessity arising from the infamous disestablishment of the Church last

Session.

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There are very dreaded symptoms now that, however welcome to the Radicals the present Ministry were when they talked of cconomy, and starved our poor people, and the Services in the days of peace, now that war has begun, there is a profound mistrust of the glib assurances they give that all is in most efficient order and prepared for any emergency, though our ships are without stores, artillery and cavalry in need both of horses and men, the line regiments mere skeletons, and the Militia and Volunteers practically without arms. Times plainly says that a Tory Ministry is the only one to be trusted to carry the country honourably and well through a time of war, and the Saturday Review reflects severely on Mr. Gladstone's shortcoming in refusing information on Monday which Lord Granville freely afforded on Tuesday. The writer Either Mr. says one of two explanations must be right. Gladstone is unable to form a policy for a single day in advance, or there is very serious difference of opinion in the Cabinet. One comfort there is, the Government have been fairly compelled to belie their false assurances of everything being in the highest perfection, and are really making some exertion, though at the present rate we shall probably hardly have recovered from their pullingto pieces, starving treatment before the spring comes.

Two Prelates last week gave publicity to letters which they had written. In the one case, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, on whom rests the chief infamy of profaning the Holy Eucharist in Westminster Abbey, inasmuch as he, being Chairman of the Company, is said to have invited the communicants, furnished a quibbling apology in reply to a manly remonstrance from a Priest of his Diocese. That he should find it difficult to apologise for himself does not surprise us, but it does produce both surprise and regret that a Prelate, not utterly callous to all first principles of religion, should think a defence, instead of an expression of deep remorse and contrition, the fitting utterance at such a time. The other Episcopal deliverance is widely different. It comes from Archbishop Tait, and is addressed to General Tate. The Archbishop writes in defence of his order against a charge of supineness brought against them by a pack of ill-conditioned petty tradesmen and adulterous winebibbers at Portsmouth, who, not content with the dense heathenism in which they themselves luxuriate, desire to put a stop to the Services with which the Christians miles off from them, at Wymering and Westbourne, worship God. Their whole character is so low, and the petition emanating, as it does, from men who profess the highest regard for liberty of conscience, so utterly unreasonable, that we should not have taken any note of it, but that the Archbishop touches on some points in reply which are worth noting. Firstly, he, notwithstanding the notorious apathy of the Bishops, stoutly denies that they are not fully alive to all that is going on. Then, after expressing, in a sentence of very doubtful grammar, his appreciation of the late Archbishop's remarks on the point of ritual, he proceeds to inform his correspondent that English Priests are not to be arbitrarily dealt with, like Roman ones or Dissenting preachers, a fact which he rejoices in. This we beg our readers particularly to note. Some ten years ago the same Prelate, as Bishop of London, did his utmost, without regard to law or justice, to crush Mr. Poole, and soon after attained an evil notoriety by a series of sham monitions with which he was in the habit of harassing the unhappy Rector of St. George's-in-the-East, sending them late on Saturday night, apparently in the hope that he might be entrapped into thinking that they really possessed the legal power which was simulated in them. It is matter for hearty congratulation that the Archbishop has, at least, so far seen the error he committed as to rejoice that our Clergy have the power to withstand Episcopal tyranny of this sort.

We learn on good authority that the Bishopric of Edinburgh has been offered to Bishop Cotterill, of Grahamstown, and that he will probably accept it.

It is said in well-informed R.C circles that Archbishop Manning-for obvious reasons-refuses the Cardinal's Hat, which the Pope has expressed his intention of offering to him in the autumn.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has, we are glad to see, recommended that special prayer for peace should be made. The form which he has put forth for the purpose, and which we give in another column, is very much what might be expected from a Scotch Presbyterian.

The Very Rev. J. H. Newman recently paid a visit to his old friend the Rev. R. W. Church, at the Rectory House, Whatley, Somersetshire. By some this visit, combined with other facts, is believed to indicate a movement of importance amongst certain Anglo-Roman converts.

We rejoice to hear, on the authority of the Vicar of All Saints', Lambeth, that Archdeacon Denison is better, and that he may probably be able in a little time to put his foot once more to the ground. May God completely restore him to work yet further for our beloved Church!

Within the last week, at one Church in London-where High Church principles are dominant-no less than seven men, who had seceded to Rome in previous years, having returned to their old Communion, together partook of the Holy Sacrament.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

The Rev. William Ryton Andrews, to the Rectory of Harlington.
The Rev. Augustus Baker, to the Rectory of Naunton Beauchamp, Worcester.
The Rev. Robert Bellis, to the Incumbency of All Saints', Jersey.

The Rev. John Brass, to the Curacy of St. Saviour's, Eastbourne, Sussex.
The Rev. J. C. Connolly, to the Vicarage of Brooke, Norfolk.

The Rev. Richard Jones, to the Chaplaincy of Marston Chapel, Hall Green, near Birmingham.

The Rev. J. R. McDowell, to the Rectory of Charlcombe.

The Rev. O. Hollingworth, to the Rectory of Hollington, Sussex.
The Rev. W. A. Newton, to the Curacy or St. John, Notting-hill.

The Rev. William Nuttall, to the Vicarage of St. John the Baptist, Manchester.
The Rev. Henry A. Olivier, to the Rectory of Havant.

The Rev. Canon Perowne, to the Rectory of Llandysilio, Oswestry.
The Rev. Thomas Piggott, to the Curacy of St. John, Upper Holloway.
The Rev. J. B. Shattock, to the Curacy of Henstridge.

The Hon. and Rev. Algernon Charles Stanley, to the Curacy of St. Mary, Soho.
The Rev. Charles Henry Stewart, to the Curacy of All Saints', Newington.
The Rev. J. H. Snowden, to the Incumbency of Christ Church, Woburn-square.
The Rev. W. H. Strong, to the Curacy of Ashby-de-la-Zouch-cum-Blackfordby.
The Rev. E. J. H. Vandeerlin, to the Curacy of Whittlebury-cum-Silverstone.
The Rev. R. W. Whelan, to the Rectory and Prebendary of Clonmetham.
The Rev. W. Willey, to the Rectory of Ridlington, Rutlandshire.
The Rev. G. W. Warr, to the Vicarage of Childwall, Lancashire.

CLERICAL OBITUARY.

July 29, at Hoxton, the Rev. James John Pickford, M.A., aged 87, Curate of St. John's, Hoxton.

July 29, at Llandefaelog Rectory, near Brecon, the Rev. Thomas Butterall Hosken, aged 39.

July 30, the Rev. W. R. Davies, M.A., Vicar of Radford Semele, Leamington. July 31, at Bath, the Rev. Thomas Whitehead Cockell, M.A., Oxon.

July 31, at the Rectory, Bromeswell, Suffolk, the Rev. Robert Henry King, Rector of that parish.

Aug. 4, at the Vicarage, Dorking, the Rev. W. H. Joyce.

Aug. 4, at Rose-hill, Tunbridge-Wells, the Rev. Frederick Charles Allfree, M.A. Aug. 4, the Rev. George Chelwode, fifty-four years Vicar of Ashton-under-Lyne,

aged 79.

Home and Foreign Church News.

The Bishop of Honolulu has arrived in England. The Archdeacon of Chester is suffering from paralysis. Evening Communions have been discontinued at St. James-the-Less, Westminster.

On the afternoon of Tuesday in last week the Archbishop of York consecrated a new Church and Burial Ground at Newton, near Pickering Another City Church is to be demolished. The freehold site of St. Mary Somerset, Upper Thames-street, has been sold for 10,200/.

The Bishop of Ripon has consecrated a Church at Halifax. It is dedicated to St. Mary, and was built at the cost of Mr. Michael Stock. We are requested to state that the Bishop of London will not be able to receive his Clergy at London House until further notice.

It is said that the Bishop of Hereford has inhibited the Rev. Luke Rivington from officiating in his Diocese.

The Church Times says that a fresh prosecution has been commenced against Mr. Mackonochie.

We regret to record the death of the Rev. W. Joyce, Vicar of Dorking, after months of extreme suffering. He was obliged some short time ago to have his tongue cut out owing to a cancer.

The Parish Church of Kidderminster has been restored and reopened. The Sermon was preached by the Bishop of Rochester, who was formerly

the Vicar.

The Dean of Westminster having left town for a few weeks, all applications in connection with the Abbey are to be addressed to the Canon in Residence.

The large Cathedral in Trondhjem, Norway, is to be repaired at an expense of £100,0007. It is one of the finest buildings in Scandinavia, and dates back to the 12th century.

On Saturday, the elegant Cathedral-like Church of St. Mark, Sandringham-road, West Hackney, was consecrated by the Bishop of London in the presence of a crowded congregation.

The ancient Church of Arksey, near Doncaster, after a careful restoration, was reopened last Friday, by the Archbishop of York. On the following Sunday the choir were vested in surplices for the first time. The Vicarage of Ashton-under-Lyne, which is worth about £1,500 ayear, has become vacant by the death of the Rev. George Chetwode, who has held it fifty-four years. The nomination of a successor rests with the Earl of Stamford and Warrington.

The John Bull says that a layman of the Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol has offered to the Bishop a sum of £1,000 towards a fund for meeting at once any educational needs that may exist in the Diocese. The donor has required that the offering be strictly anonymous.

In the Parish Church of Littlebury, Saffron Walden, Essex, is a brass of a Priest in full eucharistic vestments, holding the chalice and wafer. Anyone wishing for a copy can be supplied with one on sending ls 7d. in stamps to the Rev. R. H. Wix, at the above address. The money thus collected will be given to the Church Restoration Fund.

Efforts are being made to renew the Church's influence in the parish of St. Luke, Lower Norwood. The sum of £3,000 has been collected towards the restoration of the Parish Church, a Mission station has been opened in the parish, and an iron Church has been procured in which to hold Service during the alterations in the Church.

The Bishop of Bangor has opened a Mission Chapel at Rhos-Lesen, in the parish of Llangelynin. The Bishop preached morning and afternoon, once in Welsh and once in English, and in the evening, Evensong was sung in Welsh in the open air, the numbers being too great to get into the Chapel. A lay reader will be in charge of the Chapel.

On Thursday and Friday the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol received the Archdeacons and Rural Deans of his Diocese at the Palace, Gloucester. The subjects discussed were the working out of the Education Measure, the recent proposals connected with Parochial Councils, and Home

Reunion.

To-day (Wednesday), St. Lawrence Day, the Feast of the Dedication of St. Lawrence Church, Jewry, is being observed with the following Services:-7.30 a.m., Holy Communion; 1.15 p.m., Te Deum, and Sermon by Rev. R. R. Bristow, M.A.; 8 p.m., Evensong, and Sermon by Rev. Canon Gregory, M.A. Offertory for St. Paul's Cathedral Fund. At a large meeting of the Committee of the National Society, held on Wednesday, it was unanimously resolved to issue a special appeal for funds to enable the Committee to make exceptionally large grants towards the erection of schools in destitute localities, and to assist in providing additional accommodation, where necessary, in populous districts. The Society is also concerting measures to ascertain in what way the religious teaching in Church schools may be most effectually and universally carried on.

Lord Lyttelton and Sir John Pakington have reported the result of their appeal to the Diocese for funds to complete the restoration of Worcester Cathedral, free of any conditions. They state that, including the contributions of the Earl of Dudley and the Dean and Chapter, the subscriptions promised amounted to nearly 16,000. It has been decided to take the opinion of Mr. Gillert Scott and Mr. Perkins as to the ¡mprovement of the vaulting, and to proceed with oak carvings for the talls, seats, and canopies in the choir.

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On Tuesday in last week, Canon Hornby, the newly-appointed Archdeacon of Lancaster delivered his first Charge. In alluding to the present position and prospects of the Church, he said it was not enough that it should be able to defend itself by arguments against all comers. The age asked for fruit, and if fruit was not forthcoming the cry would be heard, "Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?" To maintain the Church in the present position it was necessary that she should, by doing her appointed work, let it be seen and felt that there was a blessing in her.

A Church of England Hall is to be established in connection with Owen's College, Manchester, under the auspices of Mr. Hugh Birley, M.P. (Chairman), the Bishops of Manchester and Chichester, Mr. Murray Gladstone, and other gentlemen. The hall is designed for students of Owen's College who are members of the Church of England, and such others as may be willing to conform to the regulations framed for its government. The Rev. Evelyn J. Hone, M.A., of Wadham College, Oxford, Censor of King's College, London, has been appointed Warden. Another important step in the restoration of St. David's Cathedral has been undertaken. The Committee appointed to superintend the restorations have determined at once to commence the rebuilding of the

roof and ceilings of the nave and aisles, postponing for the present the restoration of the pavement of the nave, also the west end and porch. The repairs of transepts and chapter-house have also to be postponed. Mr. Gilbert Scott estimates that about 8,0007. more will be required to complete the restorations, and an earnest appeal is now being made by the committee for further subscriptions to make up this amount.

The Bishop of Carlisle has written the following answer to an inquirer:-"Dear Sir,-In reply to your letter just received, I have to say that I do not receive, and do not intend to receive, any candidates for Confirmation except from my own Diocese, and that I recognise no other representative in Scotland of the Anglican Church than that which is commonly called the Episcopal Church in Scotland. At my last Ordination I ordained a Deacon from Scotland, but it was at the special request, and by letters dimissory from the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles.-Yours sincerely, HARVEY CARLISLE, July 26, 1870."

We hear that not one person has sought leave to use the choir of St. Paul's Cathedral for private devotion since the Dean and Chapter granted the favour. From the first we never supposed any man would have the nerve to ask one of the irreverent vergers of the Cathedral for leave to be permitted to pray. To be of any real good the Church should be open during the three hours, the same as the Church of St. Lawrence, Jewry, is. There many business men may be seen saying their prayers. We learn by the Cape mail, which arrived on Saturday, that the Transvaal Republic had extended liberty of worship to the Roman Catholics. Disturbances had occurred at Durban between the Rev. Mr. Robinson, Bishop Macrorie's Minister, and the Churchwardens of St. Paul's, relative to the right of the former to bury in that churchyard without the leave of the Churchwardens. Mr. Robinson and the Churchwardens had given each other in charge of a policeman. The dispute was expected to come before the Supreme Court of Natal.

An Enniskillen correspondent reports that on Sunday last a demonstration in favour of the Curate of Irvinestown, the Rev. S. Evans, took place in the Parish Church. The Rev. Mr. Verschoyle, Rector, had served Mr. Evans with a notice to leave, which expired on the 31st ult. Mr. Evans went to discharge his duty as usual, but the Rector locked up the vestry and would not admit him. He also refused to admit any Churchwarden. During the Service there was perfect order, but on the Rector entering the pulpit, the congregation, numbering over six hundred persons, rose in a body and walked out. Mr. Evans, it appears, is willing to resign after the 1st of January, but not before, as he would in that case become disentitled to his annuity under the Church Act.

The clerk of the Parish Church at Achonry brought an action at the Galway Assizes against the Rev. Viscount Mountmorris, Dean of Achonry, and Rector of the Parish, for an assault and false imprisonment. Damages were laid at 7007. The plaintiff was in 1866 appointed to his office. After several cautions to the plaintiff he was, with the sanction of the Bishop, dismissed in February last for neglect of his duties, but the Archdeacon of Tuam reinstated him in office. Defendant, however, refused to allow him to perform his duties, on the 20th March he directed. the police to remove plaintiff from the pew. He denied having told them to arrest him, but admitted he might have told them to do their duty. The jury found for plaintiff 201. damages.

funeral of a gentleman who was an Orangeman, and one of the officers A singular scene took place in Bangor Church on Thursday at the of the Grand Lodge of the County Down. Most of the members of the order present wore their insignia. When they were in Church they were informed by the Incumbent that Orange emblems were not suitable at such a Service, and he declined to proceed until they were removed.. Immediately all the Orangemen and many others present rose and left the Church, when the Service proceeded. The Orangemen then formed round the grave of their deeeased brother, and it was discussed whether or not the Curate only would be permitted to conclude the Service to the exclusion of the Incumbent; but finally the Incumbent was allowed

to finish the office.

The resolution on the Religious Census adopted by the Burslem Wesleyan Conference is as follows:-"" That, in the opinion of this committee, it is desirable to provide for the taking of a religious census throughout Great Britain in such form, and by responsible official enumerators as well as by the Ministers of the several denominations, as will show the actual accommodation in buildings provided by the several religious bodies in Great Britain for purposes of religious worship, and the actual attendance at each public service in every such building on some Sunday to be appointed by Parliament." The Conference also unanimously resolved that a petition embodying the principles of the resolution should be forthwith forwarded to the House of Lords. Lord Shaftesbury will probably be present.

On Saturday Lord George Hamilton, M.P., laid the foundation stone of a new Church at Hackney to be called Christ Church. After a short Service Lord George laid the stone "in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost." The Church, which is to be built from the plans of Mr. Wiggington, the architect, will be of the middle pointed Gothic style of architecture, consisting of a nave, side aisles, and chancel. The edifice will have no side windows, but will be lighted by a fine window in the western gable and by three three-light windows in the

chancel, which will be apsidal. The roof will be open-timbered, and the building will be constructed of brick with stone ashlar work. In the chancel there is to be a sedilia of good character, and accommodation will be provided for 800 people. At the conclusion of the ceremony the whole party adjourned to the parish school-room, where they partook of an elegant dejeuner, at which the Rev. J. B. Lockwood occupied the chair.

Dean Stanley is certainly going in for popularity. Having admitted an Unitarian to Communion in the Abbey, he has now informed the Wesleyan Methodist Conference that he is prepared to admit within the Abbey a suitable monumental memorial of John and Charles Wesley. The ex-president, in making this announcement to the Conference now sitting at Burslem, said that considering the original associations of the Wesleys and of Methodism, such a memorial in the venerable structure which Dean Stanley had in his able and beautiful volume, recently published, shown to be the historic cabinet and key of England, from the Conquest and before, would be highly appropriate; and if the Conference would authorise himself and the President to provide such a memorial from among their friends in Methodism, he had no doubt that it would be cheerfully and loyally provided. The Conference expressed its grateful acquiescence in the proposal, and recommended the object to the friends of Methodism.

The Bishop of Lincoln has opened a new Church in the sequestered village of Gunby St. Peter's, which lies near the Burgh station on the East Lincolnshire Railway. The old Church, a plain whitewashed building, was erected about 1634. This, after having undergone several alterations, was rapidly falling into decay, when in 1868 Mr. Fowler, of Louth, furnished a design which has been carried out at a cost of about £1,300. The only objects of interest belonging to the old Church which could be retained in the new were two valuable brasses, one of Judge Ladyngton, a Chief Justice of the time of Henry V., bearing the date of 1419; the other a palimpsest used to commemorate first a Thomas and afterwards a Sir Thomas Massingberd. The reopening Services commenced at 11.30, a procession of between 30 and 40 surpliced Clergy preceding the Bishop from the Hall. The Service was intoned by the Rev. T. Archbold, of the Middle School at Burgh, and the Bishop of Lincoln preached. Amongst the many special gifts a magnificent altar-cloth of rich crimson Utrecht velvet, with green silk frontal, bordered with perpendicular bands inwrought with white fleurs-de-lis, is particularly deserving of mention.

The Rev. Frederick W. Greenstreet, of All Saints', Winterbourn Down, publishes a correspondence he has had with his Bishop respecting the recent admission of Revisionists to Holy Communion at Westminster Abbey. Mr. Greenstreet respectfully asks his Bishop whether it is his Lordship's wish that the example thus set in high places should be followed by the Clergy of the Diocese:" In other words, shall we be henceforth justified in offering the Holy Eucharist to all who may present themselves at the altar, even though they may be professed disbelievers in the Divinity of Him whosemeritorious death we are there solemnly commemorating? I ask your Lordship to pardon me for writing strongly, but I could not rest till I had disburdened my mind on this (to me) painful subject." The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol replied "Rev. and dear Sir,-I hasten to reply to your note of this morning. 1. In regard of your first inquiry, let me refer you to my speech in Convocation, as reported in the Times of July 6th and the Guardian of July 6th. I commend to your attention the judgments of the Bishops assembled. I am the chairman alluded to in the speech of the Lord Bishop of Winchester. 2. In regard of your second inquiry, I have only this to say: that in any individual cases actually occurring or expected to occur, about which doubt is entertained, reference should be made to the Ordinary. You are quite welcome to make any use you like of this letter."

Archbishop Manning has sent a circular dated the 3rd of August to his Clergy, asking them to join with him in an act of thanksgiving for the many mercies of the last few months, and for the many memorable events by which they have been marked. He goes on to say "Although the Council of the Vatican is neither prorogued nor suspended, it has nevertheless completed a distinct period of its work. As I hope to lay before you as soon as may be a careful statement of its history and of its acts for the instruction of our flock, I refrain at this time from all details. The Catholic Church throughout the world is now uniting in thanksgiving for the good providence of God which has hitherto watched over the Council, and in intercession that the terrible scourges of war which are now impending over Christian Europe may be mercifully averted. I therefore request that until further notice is given you will add in all Masses the Collect, &c., for peace, and that on Sunday, the 14th inst., you will direct the Te Deum to be sung. And further, in your Sermons, while explaining to your flock the motives of these acts of thanksgiving and intercession, make known to them that the definitions of the Council require no other publication than the solemn act by which the Holy Father has already published them to the universal

Church."

The Archbishop of York has just consecrated a Church dedicated to St. Stephen's at Fylingdales. The old Church at Fylingdales, a small structure, but in a tolerably good State

Barry, therefore, resolved that he would take measures for having a new sacred edifice of more commodious dimensions, and built in the proper place. Mr. Barry selected a suitable site at a short distance from Thorp, and immediately adjoining the road. His project was seconded by the gentry of the district, who contributed handsome sums to the fund being raised for the building of the structure. Mr. G. E. Street, was engaged to carry out the work. The Church is a commanding building, substantially constructed of stone of a durable character. The style of architecture of the Church is the geometric Gothic, with a slight introduction of the German. The chancel is approached by two steps, and the sacrarium by three, and the flooring is very elegant, being composed of encaustic tiles of ecclesiastical pattern. The flooring of the nave and aisle is laid down with coloured tiles. The chancel arch is in three orders, and the nave arcade in two, the outer order in each case being moulded. The chancel is filled up with oak stalls and seats for the choir, and the sittings in the nave and aisle are open and of deal, stained and varnished. The lectern is placed at the entrance to the chancel. It is of ornamental brass and iron work, and has a pretty effect. The pulpit is of oak, and octagonal in shape, the panels being filled in with tracery. The reading desk, also of oak, immediately adjoins it.

Saturday, the Feast of the Transfiguration, was a great day of rejoicing at St. Mary's, Prestbury, near Cheltenham, being the second anniversary the eve, after the midday Angelus had rung, the Church flag was hoisted, of the re-opening of the old Church after its restoration. On Friday, giving notice to all that a Festival had commenced. The flag may be best described in heraldic language-azure, and cross argent, whereon the monogram of Mary between four lilies gules. On the feast day there were celebrations of the B. Sacrament at six, seven, eight, ten, and eleven. At ten the children of the parish were present, and sang Eucharistic hymns, and after Service they were regaled with buns in the grounds of the Priory, adjoining the Church, the residence of the Rev. J. Edwards, sen. At eleven the Service was a Missa Cantata, sung to the music of the De Angelis Mass, with a Sermon by the Rev. R. Randall, of All Saints', Clifton. In the afternoon there was cricket and other games, and at four o'clock about 200 persons sat down to tea in the Newland, and others. At 6.30 Vespers were sung, and after the Sermon Priory grounds. Speeches were made by the Vicar, Rev. J. Skinner of a solemn Te Deum of thanksgiving was chanted, the altar being brilliantly illuminated. The Services were all very beautiful and well attended, the multitude of lights, the flowers, and incense, with the gorgeous vestments of the Celebrant Priest, making a very imposing function. The Collections were for a new organ, which is much needed.

The Bishop of Oxford preached on Wednesday in the ancient Church of Bampton, on the occasion of its being reopened, after restoration. In the north transept are two chapels, although the one on the east is generally called Horde's Aisle, as it was formerly the burial place of a family of that name. Over the junction of the nave with the transepts the tower and spire are erected, the whole rising to a height of 150 feet. At the base of the spire platforms run from the interior which are supported by pediments. On these are placed figures of four Apostles, and the whole presents a very peculiar appearance. In the interior, now that the ugly old high-backed pews are removed, and carved oaken There are several brasses, and many memorials of the Horde family. In benches substituted, the beauties of the place can be rightly appreciated. the northern transept is a recumbent figure of a knight in armour, but it is too much disfigured to be made out satisfactorily; and near and let into the wall are sculptured as on a screen the figures of our Saviour and the Twelve Apostles, and though the carving may be rudely executed, it is yet a fine specimen of the 15th century work; and in the southern transept is another recumbent figure, to the memory of George Thompson, who died in 1603, and bequeathed a sum of money to the poor parishioners. In the chapel or transept there are not fewer than five credence tables and piscinas. In the course of the restorations the clerestory has been removed, and the original pointed roof adopted. A large stone coffin was found in the Church whilst the workmen were digging, but there were no remains within it.

The Leighlin Diocesan Synod commenced its sittings on Tuesday, in Carlow. The proceedings, were commenced with a Celebration in the Parish Church, after which the Bishop of the united Diocese of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin read an elaborate address. "The Act which disrestored, powers to the Archbishops, Bishops, Clergy, and Laity, of endowed and disestablished (he said) at the same time gave, or rather assembling in Convention-a freedom which was considerably curtailed by its union with the State. The vote by Orders, having been accepted and acted upon in the Convention, might be regarded as a settled law of the Church. By this means each of the three Orders had a safeguard against the other two Orders, and all laws of the Church must be accepted by a majority of each of the three Orders, but it was also provided that the Laity should exceed the Clergy in the proportion of two to one. He was well aware of the general feeling that existed amongst the Laity on this subject, nor did he wish to disturb the arrangement; but at the same time he would not conceal his own opinion or feeling upon the point. He could not but think that it was pregnant with evil consequences, as sounding the first note of distrust, and calculated to