The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-05-08 00:00:00

CONFIRMATION OF THE NEW BISHOP
OF MANCHESTER:

On Monday morning the foi mal ceremony of con-
firming the election of Dr. Moorhouse, late litshop of
Melbourne, as Bishop of Manchester, took place at
St. James's, Piccadilly. Dr. Moorhouse resigned the
see of Melbourne by an instrument necessary accord-
ing to the laws of the Australian Colonies before
leaving Australia. The bishop-elect arrived shortly
before 12 o'clock, accompanied by his chaplain, and
was met in the vestry by Sir James Parker Deane,
Vicar-General of the province of Canterbury,
acting for Lord Grimthorpe, Vicar-General of
York, unavoidably absent to confirm the election
of the Dean and Chapter; the vicar (Prebendary
Kempe), Mr. John Hassard, the principal Regis-
trar of the province of Canterbury (acting at the
request of his brother Registrar of York), the
Apparitor-General (Sir John Hanham) and other
officials. Bishop Moorhouse, having signed the
schedule of consent, by whirh he formally consented
to accept the bishopric of Manchester, the whole
party entered the church in procession and took seats
near the communion table. The whole proceedings
were under the authority of the Archbishop of York,
the Archbishop of Canterbury having given permis-
sion for the ceremony to take place in his prcvince.
The vicar read the Litany, and at the conclusion of
that office the Vicar-General took his seat at a table
placed just outside the altar rails, and opened the
Court. Mr. Hassard, the principal registrar, first
read the Royal letters patent approving the
election of Bishop Moorhouse by the Dean and
Chapter of Manchester to fill the vacant
see. Next was read the commission of the Arch-
bishop of York constituting the court then being
held, and the permission of the Archbishop of Canter-
bury. The Vicar-General then proceeded with the
confirmation. The Bishop-Elect having been pre-
sented by the Advocate of the Dean and Chapter, the
Appar itor-General called all opposers, if any, to come
forward and state their objection. A number of
legal documents were next read, and the Bishop-
Elect, having taken the oath of canonical obedience
to the Archbishop of York, made and signed the
usual declaration against simony, the definitive sen-
tence of confirmation was pronounced by the Vicar-
General, and the proceedings terminated. Mr. R.
Copley Christie, Chancellor of the Manchester
Diocese; Mr. E. P. Charlewood, Registrar; and Mr.
William Orford, Chapter Clerk, were the Proctors
for the Dean and Chapter, and Mr. J. S. Sanclars,
p.c.L., officiated as Advocate.

The most positive men are the most credulous;
since they most believe themselves, and advise most
with their falsest flatterer, and worst enemy, their
own self-love.

People have a custom of excusing the enormities of
their conduct by talking of their passions, as if they
were under the control of a blind necessity, and sinned
because they could not help it.—Cumberland.

Shirts are now made for gentlemen to button up
the whole front, and may be put on the same as a
coat. It seems strange some one has never thought
of this before. Millions of men, some as smart as
Edison have been putting these thingson over their
heads for countless years—and even swearing at the
top button, which is apt to be buttoned before the
thing is put on—and yet they have never tumbled to
a coat style of shirt.
Every woman has some special charm which she
should find out and cultivate. It may be her eyes,
her mouth, her hair, her brow, her form, her hand—.
or her foot. It may consist in some trick of smiling,
or of a drooping lid; some grace of speech or of
silence, of laughter or of motion. There are ugly
beauties—the New York stage has one—the Fifth
Avenue another—as ugly and as irresistible as that
famous countess in Berlin of whom Lola Montez
used to tell. She had a dull eye, a rough skin, a dumpy
form and a pug nose. But she had an exquisite voice,
and she understood the difficult art of conversation.
She knew in what her strength lay, and she had culti-
vated her two gifts to the highest point. "Had I a
daughter," Lola Montez said, "the first thing I would
teach her should be that to converse charmingly is a
far greater accomplishment than to play, sing or
danco well."—New York Fasbion Bazaar,