The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-09-13 00:00:00

ENTHRONEMENT OF THE BISHOP OP

RIPON.

The enthronement and installation of Bishop Boya
Carpenter took place in Ripon Cathedral on 111.1438 day
in the presence of about 400 of the clergy and a large
number of the laity. At 11.30 a.m. the Dean, Dr. Free-
mantle, attended by the Rev. H. D. Oust Nunn, vicar
and minor canon, the Precentor, Chapter-Clerk, the
Resident Canons, the Rev. S. Holmes, Archdeacon
Cust, W. W. Gibbon, and M. It`Coll, a number of
honorary canons, including the Revs. Archdeacon
Boyd, C. A. Hulbert, E. B. Badcock, H. Temple, J.
J. Pulleine, and the choir,
met at the west entrance,
where the Bishop, attended by his two chaplains
and the Chancellor of the Diocese, Dr. Tristram,
arrived about the same moment. The Dean addressed
his Lordship as follows: As your Lordship has
presented yourself to us to claim the fulfilment on
our part of the duty enjoined upon us in the
mandamus which I hold in my hand. I beg to invite
you to accompany the Rev. Canons and myself to the
choir of the claurch, where we may most conveniently
and devotionally perform our appointed duty. The
Dean, Canons, the Chancellor, and Mace-Bearers led
the way through the nave to the choir, where a large
number of the clergy, the Mayor and Corporation,
and some of the neighbouring gentry and their
families were accommodated, while the north and
south aisles were filled to overflowing as well. While
the procession was in motion and until the Bishop
reached a stall placed opposi& the Communion table,
the choir sang the hymn, "The Church's own founda-
tion," led by Dr. Crown on the organ.
The Dean after reading prayers then addresed the
Bishop as follows: My Lord,—l hold in my hand a
mandamas from the T_Jord Archbishop of York an-
nouncing that your lordship having been elected in
this cathedral Bishop of the Diocese of Ripon, you
have been confirmed and consecrated to your exalted
office in the Church. By this instrument we are
directed to perform the duty of intalling and en-
throning your lordship in this cathedral and to receive
you among us in the full dignity and authority of
your sacred office. The dean, canons, and others
assembled with us on this occasion desire to congra-
tulate your lordship and to express our cordial and
most sincere welcome to you on your appearance
among us this day, and the des.if=aria chapter desire
to assure your lordship that it will prove most agree-
able to them to maintain the same dutiful and friendly,
relations towards your lordship which they have in-
variably enjoyed with your predecessor in the See of
Ripon.

The oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and against the
power aad.. authority of all foreign potentates were
'then administered by the Dean, attended by Chan-
cellor Tristram, as also the following: I do swear
that I reside according to the expressed custom of the
cathedral church of Ripon, unless I. shall otherwise
be indulgecl,.and it shall. be dispensed with in that
behalf, and I will defend the rights and liberties of
the said
.church and observe the approved customs
thereof, and such aeshall hereafter be -approved; so
far as concerns me.; I will cause the same to be
observed by others, as far as they are not contrary and
laws, ordinances; and injunctions of this realm and
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do, by the authority:to rees.cominittpd, iu4ct,
and enthrone you, the Right Rev. Father ha God. to
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The Bishop 'bed'in- revonse, an anthem was
given, and the Dean preached from Acts, let chapter,
?.;fith verse—" And the lot fell upon Matthias." After
Lo lin,offertory was made. for the Wakefield
Bisho.pria Vivid. There,- wai,'a- celebration of' the
• Conimunion, andafter- the Bishop had given the
Ulcssing, the service tsrraina.tiKl : , '

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ARRIVAL OF LORDS NORTHBROOK
AND WOLSELEY AT CAIRO.

A telegram, dated Alexandria, Tuesday, says: Het
Majesty's despatch vessel Iris, with the Earl of North-
brook and Lord Wolseley on board arrived here at
11.30 a.m. to-day. They were saluted by her
Majesty's ship Invincible, the Egyptian war vessel
Mahomet Ali, and the English squadron outside the
harbour. On the Iris anchoring, Nubar Pasha, with
Mr. Egerton and the Governor of Alexandria in his
state barge called on their lordships. They were
soon afterwards followed by Admiral Lord John
Hay, and then by the naval and military officers, the
English Consul, and civilians and high officials in the
Egyptian service. Their lordships landed at the
arsenal at 2.30 in the afternoon under the usual
salutes, and drove through the town escorted by
mounted police and gendarmerie. They were re-
ceived by a full guard of honour of the Yorkshire
Regiment at the station, whence a special train left
for Cairo at 3.30, arriving there in the evening. They
were met by the staff and a great number of officials,
the guard of honour being furnished by the Black
Watch.