The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-01-30 00:00:00

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able apprehension the contingencies of a c ener..l war Liberal
Fr •nce has good reason to care for the independence .4 a
State in which It has so often fouod a reface from proscr p-
tioh, and a t anoint coantry for the .I•.r yrs .klid confessors A

THE NORWICH MURDER.
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William Sheward, the man charged on hie own con-
with the murder of his first wife, Martha
shgw.rd, at Norwich in 1.831, was again broltitt up
for examinavog, „
ate Xendhem, town clerk. again appeared for the prom+
moon, and Mr. Sta.ley, solicitor, for the primmer.
urs. limmah Hunt ,14.01504-1 ton a a idow, and live at
Wytuottilhani, ~folk. lOU riot 1500* the prisoner Sliewarti.
Ile married lily ester. whose maiden 1141110 was Marilm
Francis. I never visited them in Norwich hut shoe, when I
wmt to see nip Amer in St. Giles's. that was twenty yeds
axe. A relation of mine named Fisher died sixteen years
.inre. She ',Pt our farad), some money. I cannot say hoe
much. I got my share front Mr. I ann, a solieitor, of
Wyandelhani. Mr. Cann has since died The prisoner,
Shea ard, never cams to me to make inquiries about my
sister, nor did he ever write to me. Ido not know what be-
came re nip sister's share of the legacy l never heard that
ft was paid to her.
Cross-etxwined.—l and the prisoner never troubled each

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-.once with your opponents, lest you lose love—patience 1
With you, friends, lest you break up your forces—instance I
ab -ye all with yourselves, lest y -to low heart You most be o
p.tieot at home and patient in soe ety - patient in di-cussion
and pa jut (tinnier abase—hut, with all your patience, bold.
°map ken, deten ruined, for your cal.se it the es- e of Gad
a. dof kiis Christ You may lie eto sze only dereat :do not
miud it, your lives, awl your ileatss too, iiithe midst of
defeat, wi I have done their work for God, and those who
come eater will find the remarks which you shah have left
for good upon the Building of that Heavenly Lay which is
the Bride of th Lamb.
At the end of the sermon and the offertory, dui ing
the collection of wh:ch a "sequence" or some versicle
was sung. the "high celebration" proceeded, the
whole, or nearly the whole, of the congregation re-
mainingin their placse The exhortation beginning
"Dearly beloved in the Lord" was oinitted ; and
pauses were left in the prayer for the Church Militant
to enable the congregation to pray more especially
" for all Bishops," " for all them who . . . . are in
other,
trouble, sorrow, need, t-ickness, or any other ant'
John Francis, deposed-1 am now an inmate of the Nor- versity," and "for all God's servants departed this fife
wieh workhouse. I kioov the prisoner, Shewarel ; hem arried in His faith and fear." The absoletion was given by
my sister, Bertha Francis, about 17 or le year" ago.
About. 1 I lived Mr. Nlackonochie in due form with the eign of the
at tyrai, .ii sued to get nly living by selheg fish. 6 ones; but with the Prayer of Coneecration the service
‘,.., ye. on aunt of mine named pt-her died ; she was tity
6,ther's sudar. I did not see the prisoner or Ms wife at relapeed into dumb show. Mr. Mackonochie stood
Oat time. Show aril never applied teo me to know o where my with his back to the congregation, throughout, and
Sister was I went some time after my aunt's death to instead of rising the paten and chalice on high above
seewsries house t went ill comsequence of something which his head, he raieed them to about the level of his month,
my sister, the late is Narita said to me. 'saw Shewarel ad and altlniugh he confermed literally and etrictly to the
tisit him, •• Mr. Cann, the seilicitor. will settle a ith us to- monition with which he had been served as to the priest
n„orrow, if my sister will come." This referred to my sister's I
e,c.„.. sheward nail me he would tell his wife about It not kneeling after the conieecration, yet he made at inter-
when he saw hes Shewanl did not tell me then that his wife vals some five or six genufiexione, to which his attendant
had left hint I did not know anything about her having " deacon " and " sub-deaeon " contrived to add one, or
left hint I was not living et Norwich at the time. poimibly two, more on their own amount. Whether he
, tits. Rachel Fent, aas iolow stated—l live le Alexander- mixed wider with the wine in the chalice the writer of
i here th dher the prisoner's Times th qu estio n has ari whether by the
eas, Heighten. I ate a daughter of airs. Hewitt, who was this does not know, as the chancel ist deep and the
evoidome o day, end nie eof T•• says e zen c.nogregattoon are too far off hi see such mittutite ; bat
death of the Duke of Brabant, Belgium is not threateued
oi.,t wife. I seated them 'rhea they lived in St. Giles's, but
Oct afterwartls. I afterwards saw Shower,' int King-street with an eventual v..c dicy tnf the throne; and whether this we gather from an whireas to his parishioners which
Ms present site was living with him there. It must he event will Lot greatly favour those designs of annexat ion Mr. Mackomichie has published that it he did so at all
th,„„ ~,,re ago, if tent more. I have been there several which France has lung been, suspected •,f entertainiug. Nay, he did not do it "ceremonially." Having communicated
tines imam I lost my husband ; not a great nteal before Sly political conjecture has travelled so far as to disclifia the himself, he proceeded toadmiMster the sacred elements;
hush:eel died feat February. Shewarel has never asked me runcour of a projected matrimonial alliance between the about 12 or 15 men, and perhaps twice as many of
questions about his first site, my Aunt. I asked Idea genes- Priece Imperial of France and the Princess
R"rd "I Belgium what the Roman service bre& calls " the devout female
bon Alpena her in lime-street, about three yeara ago. I asked —between aley of twelve and a girl tof ten years of age—
hint if lie could tII nos anything about my mud. I cannot as bearing on the possible realisation of plats which the sex,"
communicated alms while the oorgan played klB 1
r.esneet what arises rhe ,natle to Inc. lapse of years may develop. We might to dismiss such silly before, and other versicles were smog. As the breath or .
Urms examined —I asked him the question late In the reports as the mere Memos of diseased brains rather the wafer, end the wine were administered to
eyseing when we were at supper. The present MS rs. h
rd eward Could even the estinction of the Coburg Inane be cmindonfi- each person, Mr. Mackorewhie and his deacon made
was le the room at the time, I asked Mrs. Shewa if dently apeculated ulmn, it should tie Imthe in
she CUthe person who went to the pawnbroker's shop in that Belgium is a constitutiotial kieglom, and if it is the sign of the cross, and the service ended in the
St Giles's Mrs Sheward said, "Never in my life." rhis ever to be absorbed it must be either with its own usual manner, except that while the officiating clergy
was all nu the hearing of the prison er. I never said that any consent or by a deed of open violence, the chances of which were "reverently " constuning, according to the
aunt was a mucky wench. The prisoner never told we not to should. toot enter into the calculations of a legal and peace- Rubric, the unconsecrated bread and wine, dome more
speak apreepeetfully of my aunt fol Pale, As to the disposition of the Belgian People with vereicles were sung by the choir.
Thomas Alfred Francis, of Thorpe St Andrew, deposed— respect to France, ro shaelow of doubt can he entelaioed. . The congregation included apparently a very large
My lather was Mother to the prisoner's first wife I know rr mi the manufacturer most earnestly beat en i,nr . fit. , from number i I the upper close of trmlesnien. Here and
sheward, the prismer. Sly ther died M tine latter end of the I itrArnotitme, Catholic most abjectly mimic stye to
to
there were a bonnet and s dress ithinistakeably from
November, ISSI. On that occasion I saw sheward inn a tiriestly yoke, as well as f roan the patriot most jealous of
clothes shop, opposite St clement'a Church I told him my constitutional liberties, thv same generous cry has gone font': Tyh.urnia or
,Beleravia ; but it is clear. that the services
mother wus olcao I, and I wished him, if bethought proper, to —•• We are and we wish to remain Hislgiaus." at St. Athens are friend to be attractive to great Ohm'
cue to ihe general. Ile steel it did not suit him I asked hers of the middle Masa and apparently they are more
hotly aunt could emote mei he Gold me he was sore she popular with the men than even with the women. At
The King said Queen of the Belgians have no other issue
could not. I did. not know at the time that it was said that all events 011 Sunday there were more men than women
she bad left hies He did not tell me she had left hi in 1 re• than two prineesses, one about eleven Years of age and the
, ether a child of four. The long is 33 years iota, noel has been among the worshippers. Aniong them were country
n ember Mrs. Ft her's death. Sheward never applied to me
shout his wife, or to noy father, to my knowledge, about Ids married 17 years to his royal isonsort, an Austrian archduchess elergenien and country gentlemen, and more than one
nearly of his own age As the Belgian crenwto is transmitted member oef Parliament ; while at the bottom of the
wife. , o . ,in accordance with the Salic law, the Ilsir apparent ia the church siot the celebrated Father Ignativa in his
William Bank, a labourer, of Wymondham, N flk monastic dress.
kitties own be ttie Comet of Flanders now in his 321.1
stated—l know the prisonner Shewarol. I married his first . i who has milt 'been marthal twenty-Otte months, and
yafe's tedissister, Mary Franck His first wife's maiden :,;‘,„, „, ~ „„-„.„,, 1., any remark shout be made as to the paucity of
esiet eas Martha Francis. The tw Ms wen e born March aa, . - "-- .'" ''- —', actual communicants in a well-filled church which
1737. and were loaptised March 35, 1757, cc appears by a cer - ; must hold some theuem d persons, it should be remern-
titleate from the snow of Wymendhani, now prodeeed, 1 The funeral of the Prince Royal took place on Monday a„ ~,, '
lived after nay marriage at Wynoondloam, and subsequently mine. ii iii g. The King and the Count of Flanders were present Isereo that there are at St. Alb:fife two or three early
In St James, N.ot with When the prism', and lois first at the Golemn ceremony. There was an immense come ae I ' Celebrations!' at which it is more than probable that
wife came to
se Norwich from Greenwich they wurne to my of spectators, who evinced the deepest symp
the Aathy
rch mel sorro
pw somalread e tof the mid mingregatim had communicated
hou iti St. Jsnies's. The prisoner married his first wife at The funeral service was performed by, bisho of .
Greenwich. Oct Oa, 1536, as appears by a certificate produced. Maliones. y
They stayed at noy house in st. James'. about a quarter of a year.
Atter that they heed in. Ber.street, White Liotostreet, and St. I THE RITUALISTS AND THE PRIVY
Giles's, Nome:h. My a ife awl Mrs Sheward were very fond .
of once another. After the prisoner and his wife had left St COUNCIL JUDGMENT.
0 les's, I awl my wile Came to Norwich, as my wife could not 1 ~,,
rest. We went tea house In St. Martin's Palace-plain, oppo. , aloe monition following the recent judgment of the
site the leishopa-walL My wife went into the house to see , Privy Council in "Martin r. Iflackonochie ' having
her sister, Mrs. Sheward ; she was in the hontise a couple of ' been .erved, the time has come for the defendant and
hipalra full toot go into the house. We came to Nei, ich all who have rendered themselves obnoxious to the law
asain efter this. ma went to Shewntrd's house Ito King-stre, t. as now interpreted It decide upon their future line of
I came to N rw:eh bream., my wife could leot rest. I saw
ea onduct. Accoordite ly, the worshipiwrs at St. Alban's
sheward, and I aud my wife were talkiteg with him Gonne .
tonne ino his house. I did not hear what my wife said to him, ; Holborn, Lone ,no, on um ay, receive an rens ny
1 - S I ' d add 1 .
but I told him that we had come on powwow to know wloat I the perpetual curate of St Alban's to his parishioners,
losol become onf Mrs Sheward, and what were the last wortla . stating lons view of the circumetances arbing out of the
she said to him He sato' he walked with her to the railway I judgment, and of his duty thereon. Mr. Mackonochie'e
train. and said to her, "If you won't write to me, you'll write be :
to some of your sisters " Ile also saitl that she said in ! address gins. • • • ••
answer to him, "No. never." When we were at dinner 1 Ay dear pans, stoners anti men(i a—i must say something
&fitments his hand trembled very much, and he could not : te•on to-d,ey about the wrong—the inost oppressive wrong—d
cut me a piece of meat; he had invited us to diuner. I said I which has hseti den:. 7,_ u'•
lam not going to say bar
to my wife, "Dear we, what's the matter with Me Sheward? , things about those ho have done thino weenie. It Is yen y
sh,,w.d . ea,v for there who have strong prejudices, with not much
he can't cut apiece of meat his hand shakes ato ''
k mewl. age and with little loVe, to do a great wrong and
never applieti tome or my wife about his wile. Mrs. Moretti
lived in London before ehe married and was in the habit of flatter themselves that they are assenting a great Louth. 1
sending ley 5 tie wine of her left off clothes, w Ich fitted mv timilit not thee it is so now. Still, there stands the wrong
Wine excellently Mr, Shewarels shoes also ntted noy wife's C . th I tbl rd i • rtiali .
lti the face of Einglido jus Ice— e a mons as t apt y
feet, which were very small. , of which is, to Its honour, a loye-word over the whole world
CroaGexamined.—When I came from Wymandharn with I —a. judgment bias been prelrueceol, which dam, not declare
my site we had net heard from Mrs. sheward, or from ale lae. , hut overrides, on the s owing of its
iown arn euments, even
sheward either. My wife had heard from somebody that statute law, ho order to teak:
wa law stra,nsn uth.,wel swaly.sicired,
shewarti sed hts aif e had partal. It was on consequence of , us. Neo doubt the Molemen 1 as mean
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thus diet I asked Sheward whet were his wife's last words to thatwhich'
, the suit to Inc against our b eased Lord
:ints
dearest to ilim—the Sacrament of lits Menne Love, but by
loin My site never heard from her sister. WI ten I spoke
I to Sheward about his wine having left him he appeared to be " the good pr vidc en s of our GA upon us, the cenumel of
OW id ep,ths He left id ~,
ta• king about her, ~ appeared , .Ahit.phe.l has_ been turned to foolishness, and the blow Mee
be disposed to talk about anything else but her, fallen upon us.
Mrs Ready Casey deposed-1 am the mother of the late Mr. Mackonochie then proceeded to explain why he
Mr Frani: Tommy. I live now in St. John-street, Dereham- proposes to obey a judgment Which is so illegal. The
real. Norwich. My haxbanol died in 1a53. In laaa my late church and state are in alliance.
son iviti in Hing-treet. i know the present Mrs slieward :
she lived with my sou in King-street as nursemaid. I never The state courta have made decisions on church matters.
saw Sheward at may son's sense, but I hear t that she and Thi? leaves the law c-f the latter just where it was, although
'heard acre acquainted. She lett my sinus service in wm,itt
the
its own pr, nx:ruce—a el, for civil purposes—the decision,
1v53; it was before July, 1553 ; she left tin be married. She .e state court is of cnrce rhe law of the churn h
sanctioned the pract tea which have been attato ed before the
told toe hersel she was goblet Go be tuarried to Sheward Twto sa
mat began; it sanction. them st 11. Thee are just as much
gendlomen oh o were staynnz in the home wished her , our henta e and ottr right as Ettgladi eatholics now as they
happioness anol made her a small present. There Was a per- i , Out 4,
We as malt that they were also our lista
am named Margaret Mills who lived with one at the time I were year.' age. - ' --- ' -
as Etoulish cttmens, by the law od the state. We are told
anii who went to sleep with my son's nursemaid at might .
Niargaret Mills deposed—l live in St. Martitisaddhok, and anent they are met. We are convinced that the decision Is
p sive, and so, most likely, are a large number of
am a Muscle woman. ha 15.51 atod 1552 I worked for Mrs, Implyoureoointir'y'rnsen, who care moth tite about the things them-
Colsey, who Hoed on St And, w's-plain. Mrs. Colsey's son,
selves ; hut we obey The practices forbidden are part in.
Mr F. Colsey, lived ill Knig.sereet, and the present airs
I deed of the right of the church; lout they are not 'necessary •
Sheward lived with Mr. Colsey as nursemaid. One Sun By
at ertmon I went with her to a intblichoose celled the • for the validity of her ordinancies.,
iThey are, no doubt. ,
shakespeare, In St George's. It was then kept by a man most closely c nnected with the • e %nay of that Holy
named Ilic—ins I took tot at the .ihakespeare with Mr Sacrament," bet do toot constitute its essence. If there be
Sheward an-e'l IoM pre.. t Wife. I ham seri; tn. no cosether .a priest, and bread and wine, in a gerret or cellar, there may
amount that time. She left Mr. Colsey's to be man ied, and nethe Id seeed Sacrament. -Übe Chris jeti church has seen a I
aVerwards how her fuel sir sheward at Mr Hug ons's. I prie.t pinioned ton the emend celebrate the divine inysteriell I
with his own ht east for his altar, with his prison garments
.. id not think they were married, ab hough sae said so. I •
tor vestments, and in the absence of all other aiduncts. The I
slept se nth her about six months at Me. Coneey's. church law permits anti claims es its Tight that which shank I
Henry Partin, oof Rising Sundzine, Norwich, deposeel,—l
nono a plutuber and glazier I have a brother-imiew named and Lovel interpretation of
,the state law has now forladden.
Huggins. Ile formerly kept the seakespeare jut 'St Georges. s e are contented to forego for a while..oeur rights as church.
ile is now in Australia, to the beat of my kneowledge. y men. rather than seem to eitsobey as citizens,
knew he kept the Shakespeare int 1a53, but whether he lived Mr. Mackonochie then went over the several points I
there in IseJ I cannot positively state I was in the Itielae I,f 'ldeal against lden, complaining most of the prohibition
visitor g him at the Yliakesp hree
h eare Geo, ~r t tod n d
o,s a week, to use ligtitel candles during the celebration of the 1
senierally of sn evening I know Seward. I o nt know
ommunion and then proceeds :
whether he helm .1 there, lon 11, ave seen hue there reaeateolly. u •
I noise seen the present Mrs She Ward also there frequently. Now the injustice which you and I feel in all this is that
on one oec.ision she asked me who Shew,erd was and I told • we should be interfered with Ins,, unprvoked a manner. We
her he was foreman at Christie's, a pawahronker's It was in have never seugid to force any unwilling protestant to coot, e
the evening when sh.• said this. shewar•l had passeel from he our services. In no case, as far as IMe av, hiss ally •
woe room to the other sea she then asked who lie was. attempt been made to (once protestant& to do what the
I ,ionce himw that she saw him piste ly film% kuow whetter Prayer. ill sat tells them tad". All is mud Lomb .care hosts ef
she wein to lem af er this. I saw them together frequently churches in which the Rubric is broken: 110 daily eervice ; ,
after. ards a, the Shakespeare, and I subseortiently heard n • sabots' day service ;no eotice given of festival or fast :no
they w ere soire to Inc married. I heard Mend it from my Litany on Weolueseley or Friday ; the Athatiashon Creed '
is , her inn law I was at the Shakespeare after they were outlaw' ; the Holy Communion not administered tie each I
composed to nun married. There we, e a few po.ple present, s iverally ; the m m
marriage service utilneted ; time m e Sacraent of
awl I remember going upstairs aeol having a glass of some- Holy Baptisin sold for Is. oil ,by stitholity of the Diocesan 1
thing I saw Anew d and the woman frequently afterwards Itegister ; and, worse than all, the miserable profanation most I
at the shakespeare. To the best •,f noy know ledge they un w iti jowly, I believe, in Most cases, i. erhaps in all, het riot less .
were livire, together as man and wde. MY brother-in-few truly SO of evening communions. Then bishops—perhaps even I
sailed for Australia September •,3, i 553: he had left the the Arehlnishop of York —hahitnally offending, not °oily in re- I
shakespeare about three a eeks previously. Shew erd and gard of these or someof these instances, but also by administer- I
the woman lived at the Shake-peare nearly up to Septeinher, lug the rite of contirmation to candidates by the dozer..
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1,53. 'rine next time 1 saw Mr. Showard he was living In Nearly all these, as well as countless less or grealer matters, I
Kong-street are violations of plain rubrical directions, and are the
Cross-examined—lt was in Si arch or April, 1853, that the greatest possible abominations to us, but we have never I
Writliall asked me who the person was who passed. I mean stirred a finger to interfere nor dio we mean to do so If '
who, Sheweed muss This was almOSt the lint time I had half the parishioners of those parishes who are groaning I
''en tce woman lie passed her within a yard or so and piling tor better things were to press their grievances, 1
shsward passed the woman as a stranger. The woman did it is hard to eee how any c tot could ref one to enforce com. 1
ret leave toe far the porno.; of joining showard. I stopped ',Hance with express rides. But these " aegrieved 1
about a moaner of an hour and left her there i saw sheward parishioners" find other vent for their sorrows, and either ,
111 the house acain three or 'our layst afterwards. I cannot endure in patience, or seek elsewhere for a church in which I
reeollect a bother the plesent 3115. Sheward was at the to pray; while their " painf al minister" is taking his ease 1
Shakespeare again with Showard. I did toot of Lou speak tio at home, or working in self-chosen ways XX loy, then. you I
the priseuer shewarel. are all asking, should we lie disturimol, whence do not wish 1
to diaturb others? I cannot tell you, unless I have given 1
Mrs. Elizabeth i laze, widow of the late Mr Matthew Gaze, the answer already in the fact that the church triumphs !
olepoosol —I live itl King .street. I know slieward, the through weakliest) I
I. Ile lived in a bane Imlonging to my heehaw',
Yr. MaCkiniiMbie then stated the manner in which
I.earl •opmaite to nm-A, in King-etreet. He find came to
live there .0 Mochaelinues, 1153 de left the Mu e shouts the ceremonial will in future be modified at St.
month before last Chi istutaa. I know the present Mrs. Alban's.
Sheward ; she lived with Sheward, inn Kingedreet, from When the decision of the Court of Arches was
:set t., ties, to the M
m hest oof ony knowledge delivered, he discontinued the ceremonial mixing tif
Mr. celha stated that he must aptay at this stage for the water with the wine, and all rise of incense. He
af ur her &mural, as one witness had not attended, and
was aware that in regard of incense, he was doing
mitt he summoned, while another had not yet risen from
rhiblbed. more than the judgment re wired ; but finding the old
The prisoner was accordingly further remanded. use forbidden, he preferred Ude course to any other, in
The bench has consented to an application made by order that he might have time to consider in what
Mr. St anley that a medical man nray be permitted to other way he could best use it without running counter
inspect the remains on behalf of the prisoner, to the judgment. He has now come to the conclusion
that the best plan will be that the church ehould be
- ceased on the days when there is to be a h•gh ceiebras
ton, before each of the services beginning at 7,8, 9,
and 11130, and also before evensong. Aim regards the
poetnre of the priest during the celebration, he will
stand throughout the consecration prayer. This of
course does not affect the congregation. The candles
will not be lighted. He takes this opportuniiy of
stating that he has just had a present made
him of seven lamps for the eatictuary. He
has long wished to have them, since he saw
them in some churches where they have been need for
many years. It is true that they are of Eastern rather
than Western authority ; but they no strikingly re-
mind us of the seven lamps of fire in the Revelation,
burning bet ore the throne, and which are "the Seven
Spirits of God," that this objection at once falls to the
ground. Moreover, they cannot be in any way mite
taken for a violation of the judgment : inaemuch as
they are not themselves ornament-TM in the technical
Renee ; and their use is not ceremonial, SR they will
born continually, night and day. In yielding obedience
to a judement, however unfair, it is right and manly
to yield entirely. He wishes, therefote, that they
should clearly understand that these lanolin are no kind
of substitution for the " two lights on ths Communions
table," nor any way meant as an evasion of the judg-
ment.
But his dear friends will see that there is much for
them to do. In the first place, they must continue
Use three prayers which he asked them to ray at the
beginning of their troubles ; the collect for third
Sunday in Lent (for protection) ' • the collect for Quin-
quagesima (for charity) ; and a third (for their
opponents). "0 merciful God, who had made all
men, and hatest nothing that Thou had made, nor
woublest the death of a sinner, but rather that he
should he converted and live have mercy 1111011 all I
those who seek to withstand l'fiy truth, or ti rob Thy ,
worship of its beauty. Take from them all ignorance,
hardness of heart, and contempt of l'hy word, and so
fill them with the knowledge of Thee and of Thy
love, that they may be saved among the residue of Thy
people; through Jeerer Christ our Lord." Amen.
After which they will eay the Lord's Prayer, combining
the intentions of the three collects. Further they are
to increase their ewn acts of reverence, and to take
more care than ever that they are free from ostentation
and frern selfspleasiret.
'Mr. Mackonochie further said :
I do not want grotesque attitueles, or prostratiana hut to
see you careful never to cross the church when the blessed
sacrament Is present without rteriufiseting. and never to
genufleet when it is not there If you conic up the nave for
communion, to see you very quietly and reverently genuflect
on leaving your seat, on enterieg the chancel, and again
on leaving the altar. Tim see the sign of the crows made in
like manner. before receiving the Holy Commenion in each
kind, and before leaving the altar, also at the end of the
creeds, and "Glory be to God cm hitch," at the absolution
and bessmg, and at the "(bury be to Thee, 0 God," before
the Goapel, on the forehea3, lips, and breast, Blot above all,
remember that these outwod thirties must be the shining
forth of the 'mean' light, or they will he simply mockeries.
our Lord hasall ,wed tins enemes to insult lam by punting
out the symbolical lights , last as, in His pass on he deigned
to suffer, not only the greet tormenta of scourge. and cross,
alld crown of thorns, but also the smiting on the face, the
spitting, and many other such tes-er affronts.
Mr. Mackonochie's final exhertation is :
God has called pouts take part in the great work of giving
back to the Church of England that "Worship in Spirit and
in Tenth" at which more than two ceettireer of cold unloving
Protestantism have robbed iter. You will need patience—.

Tho lodependance Beige, after giving an account of
the prince royal'e death, says :
During the lest three days the QUE43II sever qui,ted the
he side of her C 0.,, nor even chmged her clothes. When the
final art was over, and there was no fur her room to dou,d,
the terrible reality, the King threw himself Into an arm chair
and ease vent to the most heartrending grief the medical I
attendants gathered round him anal insisted ..n his Majesty I
' being immediately helped to bed. As to the Queen, we dare
not Intrude on the sacred character of her grim by any
attempt at descrption in words, the young princesses,
sisters of the tircesaed, were taken in the morning from
Lie ken to the palace of Brussels, where they are to reside
provisionally in the capital all the theatres closed their
doors, and the corwert of the conservatoire, advertised for
Sunday can indefinitely postrameri. Even the performance
at the Monnaie, in aid of the French Benevolent Society WAS
put Mt Funeral chimes were tolled from all the churches at
an early hour on Friday morning, and the craft moored in
the basin of the port lowered their flags half-malt high, in
sign of mourning.

The Belgian papers are filled with sad little souvenirs of
the dead Brince, which bear testimony to a sweet and patient
nature in the sufferer. One journal—after stating that for
many days the Roysl boy had known his end to be approach-
ing—gives an instance in which he corrected one of his
doct,xs for expressing hope, and remarks., '1 am sure that
ate going to die." On New Year's-day the young patient
beckoned his father, the King. to him, and asked for "ever
so much money—six thousand francs." .• What do you want
it for, my boy?" the King asked. "t want it," was the reply,
"to divide between the two kind isters who have nursed Me
like angels."

ST. PETER'S CHURCH, ST. GEORGE'S-IN-THE-EAST.
Every one of the oloservances condemned, not only by the
Jellaba C mmittee of Prory Council. but by Sir Robert
Phill'more, the Dean of Arches whose court many of the less
ardent Itititilista admit to be in some sense a Church court,
was practised last Sunday looming at the church i of St
Peter, St George's.iii-the.Dist, and some other practices
were added which have never been observed in Ritualist
churches hitherto, although a very diligent student 11150.
per halls, null them based upon recommendations in Dr. 1.0.
Lee's " tiir ectorium Anglicantim " says the correspoodent of
a London paper . St. Peter's is a Hew district of that far-
famed parish of St. George's-in.the-E rot where Ritualism led
to riots many years ago Since then the Rev. Bryan Kim
who was the sector at that time, has gone, and in the old
parish church which was formal, the scene if such hitter
strife are now to be found only a dozen or two of worshippers,
Sunday after Sunday, taking part in the most chilling and
cheerless of services.
The Ritualism which tried to make its home there in years
gone by has found a congenial sphere iii a hew chureit, dedi-
cated to St Peter, erected X 0 d Gravel-lane, within a few
yards of the junction of the parish with that of Wappieg ;
Sall So far from their being any oppositi. in or protests, the
church is filled every Sunday :and at week-day services, too)
with persons who seem heartily to appreciate forms atilt
ceremonies of which the old preachers at St. George's were
the feebler type.
The Rev C F. Lowder, the incumbent, who stated the
other day at the great Ritualist meeting at Freemasons'
Hall that lie would on no considerath Ii pat out his altar
lights in obedience to the judgment of the Judicial Corn•
mittee in the cane of " Martin V. Al ackonoehie," has adhered
strictly to his threat, and last, sunday's services were perhaps
more elaborately Ritnalistie than the., of any other church
In London. Mr. Lowder, who in the official documents con- I
tiected with the church is styled "The Father Superior,"
was absent on account of ill-health, but his duties w, re well
sustained by the Rev. F. K Statham, Tll,logieal Associate
of King's Ccllege, London, and the Rev. Mr. Austin. There
were plain matins at 1030, and these 'anted, as naual, Utitil a
little past eleven, when the clergy and choir retired, and the
noon bmly of what afterwards formed the congregation
entered. When all were seated the notes of the itrgan
indicated another service, and a procession eat, r. d the
church from the north at ie of the altar, not movirig, how-
ever, aloof the aisle. of the church, but turning at once
sharp round to the altar steps, the altar itself being raised
an immense height. Pei, to the entrance o.f the mocessbei
an ac lyte had lighted six large candles.li the high altar, and
two small, runes on the cred,- rice or re tattle. Thehead of the
p• ocessiori was. yonng man carrying 'license in a owingmit
estiver, the next Gm hearer of a laige silver cross. they were
vested in red cos Ticks with short surp•ices, arid a,:xonipatliell
by two little boys habited in the same way. They were
followed by twenty clue isters in surplieeo, IMO then
came the bearer of another large silver cross. which he
held .41 high, heralding Me Ansties, who ass to be the
celebrant, and who Wore purple Eucharistic vestment., and
a biretta, after the fashion of Roman Catholic priests. As
the celebrating priest encoded the altar steps clouds of
inceese rose on all stiles, and it was difficult to ascertain what
was going on. Presently, however, it was seen that the
priest himself was swinging the censer, aml that he was Ul-
cerating the altar, hooks, choristers. Will everything around
bins There was nothing else very renx.rkable about the
, service until the priest came tolls, Epiitle of the day, which
, he read on the south side of the altar, a little boy standing
tte'ore him with the nook uplifted and restieg on his
, head. The Gospel was read in the same extr.rdinary
way from the north side of the sitar. Then came
the consecration prayer, which is 1113tV thecrucial test, and in
this respect certainly the service of Si. Peter's av:,s very
, extraordinary Milne& As the celebrant stood before the
altar, the two little boys advanced to the credence or re-
table, and each taking one of the candles which bait been
placed upon it, walked down two or three steps of the altar,
knelt behind the priest, and held up the two atrial' candles,
while the six larger ones were bar,,ing 101 l the high altar
before him. On the celebrant commg to the part of Va
prayer which provides for the c i Becration of the bread, he
elevated the palin, Still then knelt down. While in this
position the church hell tolled. At the concluson
if
the prayer providing for the consecration of the WIS.., lie
lifted the cup : then he knelt down, and again the cherch
bell tolled Enw, the little boys ieplacei their small candles
on the re-table
although the church was well filled, and all stayed during I
the ailmin titration,
partake of the Holy Communion, and from the body of the
church only two very poor, feeble old men—riot a single
weman—a circumstances whic, was perhaps scarcely ever
known lnia Ititualietic church before.
The service was brought to a close in the usual way. The
sermon was preached by Mr Statham, from the words et St.
Matthew's Gospel," Many are called, but fete are ehoeen ;"
but there was nothing in it to call for any remark, except,
perhaps, its great earnestness and its evident sincerity.
It was /11110lilleell that on Monday, being the "Feast of
the Conversion of St. Paul," there would lie a plain cele-
bration of tne Holy Eticharist at seven o'clock a.m., WO a !
chola' celebration sleight a.m. A notice was also given—
but not publicly—that an appeal was made for the red silk
dalrnatia and tunicle now in use in the Feasts of all lloly
Martyrs, &c. It was added that 'the non-resident chureh-
warden promised the Mother Superioress that he would col-
lect aufficient money front amongst his friends to pay for the
two vestments, but he has failed to do so."

At St Jude's, Mooraelds, Sheffield, on Sunday morning,
two candles, placad upon the comniunion table, were lighted.
They continued lighted during the performance of the com-
munion service, after which the incumbent stepped forward
and spoke to the following effect I, John Edward
Johnson, priest and Vicar of thia churca, in compliance with
a recent decision, will now eatinguish the candles which
have usually been allowed to burn at this pixie... I do so
under solemn protest, believing them to be emblematic of
the twofold nature of Christ." Mr. Johnson then extinguished
both lights, after which the curate ascended the pulpit, and
having kissed a crass corked upon a violet-coloured band or
scarf, and placed it round his neck, preached the sermon.

DEATH OF THE PRINCE ROYAL OF
BELGIUM.
On Thursday night iii last week death robbed the 1
Boyd House of Belgium of a beloved cots, and prospecs '
tive King, and as the frequent interchanges of friend- '
ship have made us no friendly with the chivalrous and
brave Belgians, the following reference to this recent,
lint sad visitation, by a London correspondent, will
not be uninteresting to our readers:—
After a long and lingering agony, borne by the little
sufferer with a more than child-like fortitude and patience,
which might have consoled, if it had not sharpened, the grief
a the fond and devoted watchers through the weary Mums
of scarcely interrupted anguish, the Prince Leopold of
itelgium, heir appa rut to the Crown, was at length released
from his sufferings by the mercy of Heaven on Thursday
sioht. Endeared to all by his happy and gentle dispo-
sition, his pretty manners during tam few first years of
his opening childhood, and still more endeared du,
jog bin wasting and protracted sickness by the sweet-
it a liatiire ihomed to fade in its hlossom, the
'namely death of this royal boy will fall heavily on the
hearts and hopes alike of his illustrious parents and of a
loyal and affectionate nation. That tar at h. uso has been
s..r,ly tried of lute; by death, anal by afflictions worse than
akath. Yet no ropil house has ever according to human
judgments, better deserved the happiness ad this world.
inch is the mystery of our niortal destinies; such in the
blinaltiese of our mortal expectations ; such, anal so false
perhaps, is our human estimate of the severities of late and
the beneficence at the Supreme Idspoaer !
Long as this calamity nail been foreseen, few anal faint as
weie the Momentary gleams of hope which the physicians
rather permitted than indulged, the blow strikes, as al such
Mows do strike the nearest and the dearest, suddenly at

Inst.
All Europe will unite In heartfelt sympathy with the
bereaved parents and the svrrowing People. HeMAY for
lie'cium this bereavement will be felt by all the subjecis of
p-ilit li. ass private and personal grief even more than a
public and national loss.
Thanks to the foresighted and unfailing wisdom of the
tun ler id the dynasty, and of t..e freest and most prosper-
MIR State on the Continent of Europe, the Belgian Orme
rests upon fourelationa too I.road and too permanent to be
shaken by any personal Incident, however melancholy and
ealamiioias in itself. The Belgian people are in full pO5-
50551,41 of alt the securities of a constitutional monarchy and
a p irliamentary goveniment. The free institutions with
which the cmintry is endowed are leaccesa hie to the vicissi-
tudes, chances, and changes which overtake and sometimes
overwhelm autocracies.
Vet, it cannot no disguised, the loss of this youeg Prince,
in his tenth year, is something noire than a personal
calamity to the royal house and to the Belgian nation. his
ii.ath leaves no male heir in the direct line, and as yet
inale heir in the collateral line. of the royal succession. Sc-
corimg to the constitution, in default of net e heirs in the
dlrei:t line, the moccasin to the present King would devolve
maul his brother, the Conde de FlSlllireS, auth to his male
issue in the order of primogeniture. lain to be regretted
that the succession is limited to the male line: the mo-
nar.bical principle le at least as safe in the hands of a Queen
as of a King in a constitutional country, where the great
principle of ministerial responsibility, signified by the maxim
"Else King can do no wrong," is so well understood ai.d so
conscientiously nosintaiii“l as in Belgium.
There Is nothing in this melancholy event that should
warrant any fear tor the future of the national independence
of the kingdom That is in the keeping of the Belgian
penile and we believe they have learnt to value it too well
to give it up without a struggle worthy of their ancestors.
The present Emperor of the French has always professed
the most siocere and cordial respect for the neutrality of
and for the solemn treaties which assure It. Ile
has invariably treated the royal family of Belgium with
marked respect and the most friendly regards. The find
King Leopold believed in the F,ruperor'a goodwill towards
has house and kingdom, while he contemplated with miaow