The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-11-26 00:00:00

ecclesiastical latsUignice.

LAT WORE IN TNT CIVIICH Or RAlGLaxix em-
inence Oa this .object was h ld in Lorrion on Wednes-
day. If,. Grad.** attended. Sir W Page Wood
said their object was to brie the who's force of the
Month 10 its work, to have a body of laymen under the
goid..es of the bishop, bat to hem. the limit disiisetlp
oonneoied sri,h the parish eyetmo. The coming struggle
with poverty woold requars all their effort.. Th•
Bishop of London mentioned that Sir Page Wood was •
regular Seeder school teacher.

THB ARCHBISHOP OF CAPTIRBUIT AHD TIM NATAL
QOIIITION.--The Rev. W. Butler, of Wantage, publishes
the following ectract of • letter received by him from
the stichhishop of Canterbury :—" I here come to the
oonclusiou that I ought to dime& yoa from availing
yourself of your election to the see of Pietermaritsburg.
To my mind, the appointment of any one of very
marked opinions to the we would be open to 'swim's
objections, end it would be better to select some one
more calculated to meet the various shades of rrligious
opinion that exist among faithful saerabers of the
Church of Riaglead in the °oleo) of NstaL"

—On Tuesday, a lane meeting of
Ritualist. and High Churchmen was hold it St
Junes's-ball, to take into consideration the report
recently made on the subject of Ritual by the Royal
Commissioo. The prissipal speakers were Karl Nelson
(the chairman). Archdeacon Denison. Manure. Slum,
Stewart, Cooper, Carter, Prideaus, Brett, and Sir E.
Leshinere—all laymen, it will b. otherved, ezeept the
Archdeacon. A reisoluLion wan agreed to, to the effect
that the use of high esremonial haying by the highest
**art of judicature, in the ease of Liddell,. Westerton,
been declared a put of the common and statute law of
the realm, any alteration of that law for the purpose of
putting ritualism down would be inexpedient and
objectionable.
Tith EMILIO! CIDDICH UNION AND ItITOALIBII.—A
special meeting, largely attended, was held on Wednes-
day evening at the Freemssone Tavern, to disuse
resolutions of which long Doti*. had been siren by the
Rev. Dr. Pussy, in reference to the report of the
Ritual Cornmissioa. Tbe Hon. C. Lindsay, chairmen,
announced that the council hod that day withdraw.
three of the resolutions. Dr. Puny moved the fourth,
which was, however, altered an as to read :—"That
whilst holding that vestments cannot be deemed
essential to the validity of the consecration of the
blamed sacrament, and ought not to be introduced by
the clergy without the goodwill of their congregations,
thia union nevertheless believes it to be," &a A very
long discusaioo took place on the question whether the
goodwill of the oougruatioa should be alluded to, and
the "aggrieved parishioner" recognised. An amendmeot
to omit the words was negatived, and the resolution
carried. The resolution is to be gent to the Ritual Com-
mission.

Till BRANT Ettri OP THU CHASOILIL—It is Oill7
hard, in these days of ttnieereal curiosity, to Mantilla
anything in merely oonventional respect, and already
lb* "glorious vestments," the "beautiful garments" of
oar ritualiats, are suffering the common lot. A large
collection of these drowse, which ill. profanity so mach
as to touch without the preparation of prayer, ha. been
exposed to the stip, gars on the walls of Messrs.
Debenhase, Storr, and Sons' auction room, London, is
If thry were so mtny theatrical proptotiro, and
on Wednesday were actually dispo•ed of ender the
hammer. It I. sad to state that their maenfacture in
excess of the requirements of the clergy had been the
canoe of a difficulty, the vestments he•ing been sold to
cover an advance. The catalogue contained 350 lots,
and comprised superb seta of prisat.' vestments for high
and low mass, made up of costly materials, and
decorated in a most sumptuous manner rich banners,
magnificent cloth of gold, brocade, damask, seals,
aiastical Isoe, An. The gale attracted a hog- attend-
ance. Among the leading items may he mentioned—•
met of Gothic vestments, of the form used in the eleventh
eentury, whisk sold for LA; • inagnillorot woo of cloth
of gold, £5 1011. ; the ma .erials for a costly Net of vest.
moots for kith MY., of splendid veldts silk moire
antique, embroidered in gold, £22 Is. • a costly crimson
silk velvet 0"1•11, richly embriiderel end lined with
scsrlet silk, £25 4. ; the material. for a wetly set of
ve•tments, of cloth of gold, richly embroidered,
£l7 6.. 61. ; a magnificent cope, if watered cloth of
gold, £23 2s. By some chance a lot of a very different
character found its way into the sale. This was a
magnificent court uniform, manufactured by Metiers.
Starkey and Co., of Conduit-street, for a well-known
mral in the Republican army of Mexico; It laid for