The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-28 00:00:00

CONFIIMATION OP THE BISHOP OF

LONDON.

TDB crypt under St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside
London, where the Court of Arches was formerly
held, having been searched, and no combustibles or
dynamite found in it, the church was full on Tuesday
morning on the confirmation for a second time of
Bishop Temple to the office of bishop within its
walls.

The Litany was said at eleven o'clock by the Rev.
Marshall Vine, the rector, after which Dr. James
Parker Deane, Q.C., the Archbishop of Canterbury's
Vicar-General, assisted by Mr. John Hassard, the
principal registrar of his grace's province, held a
court at a table immediately outside the chancel in
Bow Church, and after the Royal Assent of her
Majesty had been read by the principal registrar (Mr.
Hassard) the court proceeded to receive the declara-
tions and oaths necessary to be made by Dr. Temple,
and then, after opponents had been publicly called and
none appeared, finally, the Vicar-General decreed
in writing full admission for Dr. Temple,
to the see of London and the bishopric
of London once more became filled, and the see of
Exeter was suddenly left vacant. Dr. Tristam, Q.C.,
acted as advocate for Dr. Temple, and Mr. W. P.
Moore as proctor for his lordship. Mr. John B. Lee
was chapter clerk ; and Mr. Harry W. Lee, notary
public for the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. Mr.
Felix Knyvett (the Archbishop's Apparitor -General)
and Mr. Henry Watts, and other officials were also
present. Dr. Percival, president of Trinity College,
Oxford, attended the Bishop of London elect as his
examining chaplain. There were also present the
Bishop Suffragan of Bedford, the Archdeacons of
London and Middlesex, Mrs. Temple, Lady Edward
Cavendish, the Hon. Miss Lascelles, Mrs. Grenfell,
Mrs. O'Brien, the Rev. Canon James Fleming and
Mrs. Fleming, Mrs. Percival, Mrs. George Moore,
Mrs. Arthur 'Tyrrell, Mr. and Mrs. Julian Danvers,
Sir John Hanham, &c.
A correspondent who was present at both confirma-
tions says: "A very much more peaceful scene (con-
nected entirely with one and the same man) took place
at Bow Church on Tuesday than took place there some
fifteen years ago, when the Rev. Dr. Temple then
head master of Rugby School, was ' confirmed ' by
Sir Travers Twiss, then the Archbishop of Canter-
bury's Vicar-General, to the see of Exeter. In De-
cember, 1869, Bishop Trower, and a large party from
the Exeter diocese, attended at Bow Church and pro-
tested against the election of Dr. Temple to Exeter
being 'confirmed' and raised all the challenges—
among them (1) whether the Bishop elect had been
born in lawful wedlock (2) whether he was a an of
good moral character. The public will not have
forgotten that Mrs. Moberly (Dr. Temple's sister)
had to be dragged tip in the night from Rugby,
with an ancient 'Family Bible,' to prove the first
point—as to the Bishop's birth out in Sierra Leone,
where his father, Genera) Temple, was Governor—
and that Sir Ralph Lingen had to repair in hot haste
to Bow Church to make his solemn affidavit that he
had known tor. Temple intimately for eighteen years,
and that he was a temperate, honest, and sober man
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morning voted straight away into the great cathedral
chair of St. Paul, in London, one may well say almost
by universal acclamation. This in Dr. Temple is no
doubt the result of thorough honesty, real fairness
and great breadth of character; and, therefore, al
rejoice in his promotion."

On Saturday the annual association football match
between England and Scotland was played at Ken.
nington Oval and resulted in a draw, each side scoring
a goal.
Several cases of shocking ill-treatment of wives by
their husbands were heard by the police magistrates on
Saturday. In one instance a labourer was sentenced to
six months' hard labour for biting his wife's nose off,
and a decree of separation was granted.