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OCTOBER 7, 1854. THE ARCHDEACON OF TAUNTON. TILE REv. MR. DENISON has published a supple mental series of letters, continuing the correspondence of which we gave an abstract in last week's PRESS, and, as be states, "completing the account of the cir cumstances under which the present issue has been raised." These new letters relate to some antecedent differences of opinion on certain doctrinal points be tween the archdeacon and the primate, and are made public by the former, according to his own profession, " after lung and painful consideration, with much re luctance, but no misgiving." The chief point of this additional correspondence consists of a second " pro test," based upon moral grounds, against the pending proceedings set on foot by the archbishop. In a letter to his grace, dated the 2nd instant., Mr. Deni son reiterates his former prt.test against the legality of the commission of inquiry which the primate has intimated his intention to appoint; and then pro ceeds:— " The moral and the doctrinal aspect of the case are of far graver, and wider, and deeper import. "Having regard, therefore, " 1. To antecedent relations between your grace and my self, and to the bearing of such relations upon the attempt now directed against me by your grace ; "2. To the consideration that the thing principally in tended in the proposed proceedings and desired to be ef fected thereby, so far as may be done by sentence of the existing tribunals, is to implicate the Church of England in some denial, disavowal, or disparagement of the real pre sence of the body and blood of Christ in the Lord's Supper, and generally in some denial, disavowal, or disparagement of the doctrine of sacramental grace; " Having regard to these things, it does not appear to me to be sufficient, neither does it appear to me to consist with the faithful discharge of my duty to the Church of England, that I should rest upon legal and technical grounds only my protest against all manner of attempt on the part of your grace to institute proceedings in the pre sent case. . . . . . " I am now, therefore, under the necessity of placing in your grace's louids this, my second formal protest, herewith enclosed, aid about to be made public. The protest here referred to is thus conceived : ( Protest No. IL) Whereas his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan, has in his charge delivered to the clergy of the diocese of Canterbury at his visitation, September, 1853, and more recently by its publi cation, commended to the attention of the Church at large, set out certain statements and interpretations of four of the doctrines of the faith—viz., 1. The Holy Catholic Church ; 2. Sacramental grace; 3. Sin after baptism ; 4. Absolution ; And whereas the undersigned is " persuaded " that the said stiltementa and interpretations, so set out by his Grace the said Archbishop, in respect of the said four doc trines of the faith, cannot " he concluded and proved by," or reconciled with the teachiw of, " the Scripture," as witnessed to by the Church Cath olic, and embodied in the forinillaries of the Church of England ; And whereas the undersigned did, on the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul,Jannary 25,1834, enter his private, but formal, declaration and protest against the said state men' and interpretations of doctrine, so set out by his Grace the said Archbishop, and did communicate the said declaration and protest to his Grace the said Archbishop in the terms following "In the name of the Most Holy Trinity. Amen. " I, the undersigned George Anthony Denison. clerk, M.A., Priest of the Cbureh of England, Vicar of East Brent, Arch deaCthil of Taunton, in the diocese of Bah and Wells and pro viuce of Canterbury, having read and considered certain state ments contained in the charge of his Grace the Lord Archbishop 4Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan, deli lyre,' to the clergy of the diocese of Canterbury at his visitation, September, 1853, and more recently by its publication, com mended to the attention of the Church at large, respecting— " L The Holy catholic church, " 2. Sacramental grace, ":1. Sin after baptism, " 1. Absolution, de hereby, with deep reluctance, under a solemn sense of duty, make this my declaration and protest : fhat the said statements cannot be reconciled with the teaching of Holy Scripture, as witnessed to by the Chord. Ca tholic and embodied in the formularies of the Church of England. " Ggotte; A. Di:NII6.ON, Clerk, M.A., Archdeacon of Taunton. " East Brent, Conversion of St. Paul, 1814." And whereas his Grace the said Archbishop acknow ledged the receipt of the said declaration and protest in the terms following : " Lambeth. Jan. SO. 1854. "The Archbishop of Canterbury desires to acknowledge the receipt of a protest from Archdcactst Denison. and regrets to find that the arclideacou's opinions do not coincide with his own upon the subjects eniuuerated in the protest, sad discussed in his recent charge. " To the Vett. archdeacon Denison." And whereas his Grace the said Archbishop has signified to the undersigned hie intention to issue a commission under the 3rd and 4th of 'Victoria, C. RI, to inquire into the doctrine of sacramental grace, as publicly maintained and taught by the under signed ; And whereas, of the four doctrines enumerated in the above dorlaration and prot-Ngt. and discussed in the said charge of his Grace the said Archbishop, one is the doc trine of sacramental grace; And whereas the undersigned has entered his formal and public protest, hearing date Sepiendwr 1x54, against his Grace the said Arelabitdiop in respect Id the legal di* - ahility of his Grace the said Arriiiiiahoe to issue the com mission aforesaid; THE PRESS. I, the undersigned, do hereby enter this my formal and public protest against his Grace the said Archbishop, in respect of the moral disability of his Grace the said Arch bishop to issue the said commission, or to institute any manner of proceedings against the undersigned in respect of the charge aforesa id;id; And whereas the thing principally intended in the pro posed proceedings against the undersigned, and desired to be effected, so far as may be done by sentence of the ex isting tribunals, is to implicate the Church of England in some denial. disavowal, or disparagement of the truth of the real presence of the body and blood of Christ in the Lord's Supper; and generally in some denial, disavowal, or disparagement of the doctrine of sacramental grace; And whereas his Grace the said Archbishop has, in his charke aforesaid, set out certain statements and interpre tations of the doctrine of sacramental grace, and of the other doctrines of the faith aforesaid ; And whereas such statements and interpretations of the doctrine of sacramental grace, and of the other doctrines of the faith aforesaid, so set out by his Grace the said Arch bishop, cannot " be concluded and proved by," or recon ciled with, the teaching of "the Scripture," as witnessed to by the Church Catholic, and embodied in the formularies of the Church of England ; And whereas the undersigned is bound by his ordination vow, as priest of the Church of England, to " be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erro neous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word ;" " I, the undersigned, do further hereby enter this my solemn, formal, and public protest against his Grace the said Archbishop, in respect of the doctrinal disability of his Grace the said Archbishop to issue the commission afore said, or to institute any manner of proceedings for the trial of doctrine in the case of the undersigned, or of any other clerk in holy orders of the Church of England. GEORGE A. Dxxisos, Clerk, M.A., Archdeacon of Taunton. East Brent, Weston-super-Mare, Oct. 2. EDUCATION IN LIVERPOOL. THE " Education of the Poor in Liverpool " was the subject of a paper read at the British Association meeting last week by the Rev. I /r. Hume. In 183, he stated, exclusive of children iu connection with public institu• Lions, such as the Blue Coat Hospital, the Industrial Schools, the Orphan Asylum, and the workhouse, there was accommodation in the Church District Schools fur 17,011 children and an actual attendance of 13,929; in Protestant Dissenters' and other schools there was accom modation for 9.320, while the attendance wag 0,4511; and in Roman Catholic schools 8.193 couid he accommodated and 0,5 5 / 5 attended. This gave a total accommodation for 34,924 children and a total attendance of 27,1440. In the Church schools the education of the children cost 10,903/. per annum, or 15s. 10d. per head, of wbieh 33 per cent. was received in the form of payments from the children themselves. This calculation has reference merely to local funds, no notice being taken of the Privy Council grants for education. The rev. doctor estimated the expense of Protestant Dissenters' schools in Liverpool at 5,903/., and that of Roman Catholic schools at 3,9381., which, with the cost of the Church schools, gives a total of 19,7991. This estimate only referred to education as it was, but education as it ought to be was another question. Last year it was calculated that they still required accommodation for 28,0117 pupils, or say 25,000, which represented an actual atten dance of 20,000. Adding the cost of these at the same rate, the whole ought to be 34,1081. a year. In other words (supposing the poor still to pay the same propor tion—namely, one-third) a sum of 11 1,0001. should be raised from the community either by voluntary subscription or local taxation. Now, is the borough of Liverpool there were more than 30,000 persona rated at 121. and upwards, of whom it was calculated not more than 2,4100 esaitributed anything for educational purposes. 1/r. Hume stated that a rate of 4d. or 61. in the pound would be required to aid education in the town as it ought to be aided, and expressed a decided opinion in favour of a school rate for educational purposes. THERE are in the Bank upwards of gilt) clerks, at salaries ranging from 651. per annum to 800/. ; the patronage is in the hands of the directors, of whom there are twenty-four, each having a nomination to admit one clerk, provided he be found qualified on examination. The vacancies are not, as in most public offices, filled up as they occur by deaths, resignations, &c., but by electing from twenty•five to thirty junior clerks every four or five months; it is also usual to admit one-fifth of this number f. om the sons of clerks already in the service. The scale of pensions for length of service is the earns as in the Government. The late governor, with much kind ness and consideration for the comfort of the clerks, instituted a library and reading-room, which bids fair, from the handsome donations from time to time made by the directors, to rival the best of our secon dary metropolitan libraries. The Bank Annuity Society, for the benefit of widows of clerks, is also being remodelled, in order to combine the principle of life assurance with the granting of annuities. This society is under the management of the clerks them selves. The subscription of unmarried clerks is compulsory. THE CRYSTAL PALACE was visited laet week by 37,273 persons, and the amount received for adinis, sion was 1,637/. Iris. On Thursday an elegant and appropriate testimonial was presented to the director of the Crystal Palace band, Mr. H. Schallenn, by the members of hi-, company. This testimonial con sisted of a bAton of silver, richly chased and gilt., and enclosed in a case 'lined and cowered with rich I Genoa velvet, bearing an appropriate ieseription. 945 WRECKS IN 1853. A " WRECK•REoiSTER" is now regularly compiled at the Admiralty, containing an official abstract of all the casualties occurring to the British mercantile marine. Like most other official documents, this register is not made public until long after the period to which it refers, and the register of wrecks during 1853 has accordingly only just seen the light in this authentic form. Late as it is, however, this Admi ralty return possesses much value, and the following abstract of its contents, as compiled in the Life-boat Journal for the current month, will be found of much interest :--- It is, as usual, a fearful list, numbering 832 disasters, but it is gratifying to observe, so fat as the loss of property is concerned, that the register for 1853 shows a very con siderable decrease in the number of wrecks and casualties, as compared with the preceding year, when 1,115 oc curred. In the gales of February, March, April, and July, 1853, the numbers exceeded there of the same months in 1852, and the month of May iu each year produced the same amount; hut in all the other months of 1853 the numbers fell much short of those in the corresponding months of the previous3ear. This may be accounted for by the tact that the gales of the winter months of 1853 were leas fre quent and of shorter duration, although they blew with occasional violence. On the other band, however, the year 11 4 53 records a loss of 989 lives, being (hi more than were lost in 1852, when the number, so far as is known, was 920. This increased number, in proportion to the number of wrecks, was caused by the great sacrifice of life which occurred in two or three individual instances. Thus the loos of the Annie Jane shows 360 alone ; that of the Qom. Victoria, 83; and of the Dalhousie, 59. There can be no doubt that these total numbers for each tear I-how considerably less than the actual amount of loss of life which has occurred on and around our coasts, as there are no means at command for ascertaining the number of those whose vessels sail out of port and are never again heard of. The lives of fishermen and other boatmen are undoubtedly also often lost without any official returns being made of the some. The Admiralty Register of Wrecks is compiled princi pally front the coastguard returns, from Lloyd's published list, from the •Shipping and Mercantile Casette, and from the official reports of Lloyd's agents around the coast to the Admiralty. It is prepared by l'onimander J. V. Read, R.N., and although imperfect, se any such register must be, there is no doubt that it is the most complete account of wrecks published. Annexed to the return is a wreck chart, on which a black spot marks the site of each wreck, tire, or collision, as far as can be ascertained. _ The following is a summary of the register : The wrecks on the coasts and iu the seas of the United Kingdom in the year 1H53 were 632, which may be thus . classed : Totally wrecked Totally lost in collision 42 Damaged seriously, and had to discharge ;NS Damaged seriously in collision The number of casualties in each month were : January .... 106 August .... 33 February .. 91 September.. 70 March .... October .... 96 April May June J uiy Of these 2b3 occurred on the east coast of Great Britain; 76 on the south coast, and 18 on the west coast ; 81 wrecks took place on the coast of Ireland ; 6 were cast on shore at Frilly ; 11 at the Channel Islands ; 3 at Orkney and Shetland; and 1•L at the Isle of Man ; the remaining 266 wrecks occurred in the surrounding seas. A CATALootm 4W THE CHUUCHES each parish of the city of London has been published in a par liamentary return, containing also the names, resi dences, and income of the clergy, and showing the number of sittings in each church. There are sixty churches in the list, and only few of the incumbents reside within the City. The largest income is 2,0fi1/. Os. 541., for St. Botolph, Bishopsgate; and the smal lest is but 401., for St. Helen, Bishopsgate. The average attendance, including children, for last year is remarkable, compared with the church accommo dation. In one church (St. Laurence Jewry and St. Mary Magdalen, Milk-street), with fittings for 1,00(► persons, the average attendance is only thirty. The incumbent resides at Hampstead. The income is 3101. a year. The cervices in January, on Sundays, were two, and on week-days three. At another church, with 700 sittings, the average attendance is thirty. The fees received in January last were very small. The largest amount was 551. and thesmallest 2s. The communicants are very limited, compared with the attendances, and the baptisms by no means numerous. The return was procured at the instance of Dr. Phillimore, with reference to the proposed re moval of some of the City churches. IT is stated that the coluneley of the 50th Font, vacant by the death of Sir George Arthur, will he given to Major-General W. H. Scott, for many years of the Scout Fusilier Guards, a regiment with which he served during many of the trying scenes of the Pei.insulAr war. MR. IYt►.t.tsst EI'INO, insurance-broker, Glasgow, has contributed the in tni iticent sum of 2,000/. towards the completion of a " Sailors' Howe " there, besid.ea undertaking to make up another 5001. by hi; own exertions.