The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-12-28 00:00:00

CONSECRATION OF D. TEMPLE.

On Tuesday morning, at Westminster Abbey, three
bishops were consecrated, making one addition tc
the English episcopate, the other two bishops =poly-
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late head-master of Rugb'y reboot, who has been ap-
pointed to the Bishopric of Exeter, in the room of
the Right Rev, Dr. Henry Phillpotts, deceased; the
Hun. and Rev. Lord Arthur Hervey, D.D., of Trinity
Wage, Cambridge, nominated to the Bishopric of
HAL and Wells, in the room of the Hon. and Right
tier. Lord Auckland, who has resigned that see, and
the Rev. W. 11. Stirling, &A., Irl,o has been for some
yeas past workit.gat 'liens del Fuego in connection
with the South American Missionary Society as Bishop
et the Eugish Cougregations in the Falkland Islands.
lu cuneequence ot the continued illness of the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, his Grace delegated the eon-
s elation of the new bishops to four prelates of his
previuce—namely, the Bishop of London, the Bishop
ot 841/Avid's, the Bishop of Worcester, and the Ills t up
ot Ely. The Litany service was said by the Rev. S.
Flood Junes, M.A., minister of St. Matthew's, Sprmg
ILlardens, and the new bishops were presents I to the
tfliciatiug bishop', being at that time robed in the
ruchets. Tht• Bishop of Exeter was attended by the
Rev. Ernest Saudford, LA., of Christ Church, Oxford,
his domestic chaplain, and by Mr. A. J. Day and Hr.
Jhu thwart, his Lordship's legal advisers. The
other new bishops were attended by Sir Travers Twiss,
the vicar-gaseral of the province; Mr. F. H. Dyke,
the registrar; Dr. Spinks, Q.C., and Dr. Tristram,
advocates, and Mr. J. Shepherd, proctor.
The Bishop of Londeri said he had requested
by the Archbishop of Canterbury to consecrate Dr.
Temple as Bishop of Exeter, and two others who
weie present; and lie thought it necessary to say •
few words with reference to the consecration of Dr.
Temple. It was • matter of publics notoriety that four
protests lad been received from comprovincials,
the Bishops oh Lancaster and Bristol, Hereford, Lich-
field, and Lincoln. It was also stated that four other
bishops, although they had not formally sent in pro.
tot, had diesented from the consecration, via, the
Bishops of Lland•ff, Bangor, Rochester, and Peter.
borough. There were in the province twenty-one
sees, and, taking into account the three vacancies
aud the eight protests, there was still a majority who
ntight (slily be assumed to cement to the carrying
out of the ceremony of the consecration. For himself
representing, as he did, the Archbishop on so solemn
an occasion, he must say he felt the extreme gravity
of the position, not only on account of the character
learning, and standing of the dissentients, but alsO'
because it involved the vital point of the relations
between Church and State; and, dill speaking for
himself he could not avoid adding that it was • most
unfortunate thing that at such • titre as this, when
the gravest questions were arising as to our national
Establishment, this commotion had taken place. One
of the protesters had asked that the consecration
might be deferred, but the consecrating bishop', act.
ihg under the oommiaion of his GlllO6, saw no reason
why the ceremony should be deferred. Owing to the
lateness of the period at which the protests had
arrived, he was deprived entirely of the opportunity
of communicating with any of the other bishop,
excepting the Bishop of Ely, but he had obtained
the eery highest legal advice, and the result of that
was, that there newt be no hesitation or ambiguity
in the matter. There could be no doubt that, (Telly
considered, the Archbishop not only might, but was
boom, to proceed. The Bishop of Lincoln in his pro-
test did not say whether be thought that • majority
of dissentients would bar the consecration, but ac-
cording to the Council of Nice, • majority for it would
bind. The Right Rev, prelate then quoted the
Councils of Nice' Laodicee, and Antioch, also various
canons and legal authorities, deducing from the whole
the fact that a majority of comprovinciaLs being as-
senting parties to the ceremony, left the archbishop
no choice but to proceed. Had there been • majority
protesting, he should have felt how extremely diffl.
cult lie position would have been, but happily this
question did not arise. Ott the previous day be had
Lad the opportunity of counselling some of his corn.
provincial, and they agreed with the eminent lawyer
whose opinion had been taken, that he was bound to
peceed with the consecration in accordance with the
Queen's mandate and the archbishop's cotnmission.
The Bishops of Ely, St. David's, and Worcester sere.
rally said they concurred entirely with what their
, right rev, brother had now said. The parties tlienpe-
mated in due procession to the Abbey. The "real
Creator" was then sung, and the sermon was preached
by the Very Rev. W. C. Lake, D.D. the newly-aps
pointed Dean of Durham. The Holy Communion was
administered after the consecration service, the
Bishop of London being the celebrant.

Strews, the chief of the French Court orchestra for
&acing, Las resigned hi. apprintment.

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New Orleans and Chicago papers express regret at
the presenco of armies of unemployed men in the
streets of those

11.,rat tuti Wagner are in high favour with those
who j„ the programme. for the New York Phil.
Lartnottie, to the detriment of true art, many are in.
eli/Ab' It tinuk.—Mantieal Standard.

•
It Id said that the Government intend to promote
the ge„. Mr. Ryan, who, in a speech at the recent
non.inatiou of candidates for the rpeosontsthjo rd
'rim era:), talked about ttunlaltug Landlords wius
revolvers.
Th. 1,..r4ng of as charge afgainst nos. Henry Wheelie), su, crier of All &tints Priory, New-coeds
Newcastle, of attempting to commit an aLorninalde
effel.ce, sas resumed oh Monday, and at the cons
fitialub of Oa* fiColeticfb Le wits cgolowitted for taiga the abs.a.v.

The Itight II Lor,l Choakani ham at hi, nwii rust
jrat hail all the euttAge• of Ilia tenants at Lttintur
fitteil up with gait.

A bill lots been introdueed into the Alabama I.egis-
Were which requires grand jun men to swear that
they never belonged to the Ku•Klux-Klan.
The California " Moderation Society" pledges ita
members to drink only wine, beer, and eider except
when they are disconraged, and then whiskey is al-
lowed.
A plan has now been formed at Cambridge for the
delAry of • series of lectures to women by those who
are directly occupied in the instruction of the uni-
versity.

It 'a stated that Miss Gladstone, one of the. dangle
tees of the l'remier, will shortly be united In mar-
riage to Sir James eawrence, the late lord Mayor of
Lunn lon.
The Calcutta Eng!Woman says an interesting event
has occurred at Tamales's, the capital of
"in the burning of the must worshipped
and most
respected idols."
Tilo Ottoman Government has derided that after
the mouth of March next the port of Boutin* shall be
declared free for all meecieedies except salt, gun,
powder, and Wawa.