The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-08-07 00:00:00

SUICIDE.

THE REV. DR. JAMES ON
"RITUALISM."

On the occasion of laying the frnindation.stone of a new
wesleyan Chapel, at Horns., when several of the minister.
visiting Hun, during the sitting of the Conference, were
present,
The Rev. Dr James (Chairmen of the Hull District)
made a hdlp and able spetsb, in the course of which he
ferred hi Romanism He said their Preaident had
t.. 11 them on l'hunsdav that to make no distinction
between truth and ern.r. and to pay public money for
the support and spread of Popery, wan a thing they, as
a people, always did, and he hoped always would, re-
sist. He had the happiness in his early ministerial life
of opposing the endowment of Maynooth, and he
heli,vel that one of the greatest public blunders ever
ma. le was ,n tile in the endowment of that college. He
hoped the Methodists nev..r would depart from th.
witness of a Protestant people emairist the errors and
usurpations, the desperate corruptions and oppressions
whic'i made up Popery. Many among them mum be.
dewed that the chief bulwark of Protestantism in
Great Britain was the Church of thin country. He
wished he could believe that now. He bad nothing to
nay shout Church Estahlialimente ; that wee one of
the hurled wie,tions "n oCca.jd),lB of that kind ; but h.-
thought they were bound as Englishmen, and as Pro.
temente, and as Methodists, to do all they c.sild to es•
isms arid drive away horn the Cour,ll of the nation
men who were doing the work id the nation's greatest
enemy. He did not believe that the Boman Catholic
priests in this country were doing so much to spread
Popery as some of theclergy of the Church of England.
He believed the ritualistic movement was far more in.
sidious and • far more dangerous movement than any
direct movement

PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE CAPTIVE
BALLOON.
The captive balloon at Ashhisnham Park, Chelsea, London,
Is deemed a nuisance by its neigninurs, and on Tuesday the
Re• J G. Crom +ell. principal .d St. Ma, k's College, chelsea,
applied to Vice Chancellor Magas for an injunction against it, •1
The enormous ditruntior a of this balloon, the 4?1,16l '
cubic feet of gaa which is rewired to inflate it, the
highly explosive nature of this gas, and the danger
theretrom by reason of the fireworks from Cremorne-
gardens, are made subjects of complaint by the
plaintiff's bill ; while the iron ballast which weights
the car, the gi;!antic cable of 2.000 feet in length and
two toes weight which connects the great machine
with the earth, and by means of a 2do herse steam en-
gine draws it down when occasion regnirea, are all net
forth as Pourers of danger and alarm to the inhabitants
of the neighbourhood, Iver whose houses and grounds '
the balloon sways with every breath of wind. The
sixth paragraph of the bill nets forth "that when the
b dlosin is elevated in the lair the alightest motion of the
wind acting upon so large a surface causes it to deviate
from the perpendicular, and to be carried when the
wind is in that way, and to hover over the buildings
and gr.:midis of the said college, and film the inmates
and members of the said college with alarm and terror
lest the Paid car, or the said ropes, should become de-
tached from the said balloon, and tall with cri.hing
weight on the buildings and grounds of the said college,
or upon the plaintiff, or any of the inmates of the add
, college, and occasion great destruction of life and
Property."
The plaintiff's counsel said that the sword of
Damocles was a joke to it.
The Vice-Chancellor said he was disposed to grant
the injunction unless an undertaking were given by
the proprietor of the balloon that the nuisance should
not be continued beyond the present summer.
The defanding counsel, in the absence of his client,
declined to give any undertaking, and the matter stool
over; but the Vice • Chancellor said it was most im-
probable that any argument would convince him
that the elate of things described did not constitute
a nuisance.
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On the case being resumed on Wednesday, the Vice.
Chancellor said he had no doubt that when the cause
came to a bearing be should decide that the balloon
and the structure erected for it were nuisances, but
inasmuch am the plaintiff had been dilatory in apply•
iog for au injunction, and there would be no oppor-
tunity to the defendant to apply immediately to the
appeal court if au injunction were granted, the motion
noi.t .tad over till Ptlicheolmso term, but the plaintiff
would have liberty to apply in the meantime if any
unforeseen event should occur.