The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-07-21 00:00:00

ecclesiastical Isle Mame.

Tar BISEOP Or CARLISLE ON RITUALISIL—The I
following is a revised report of the speech of the Lord
Bishop of Carliele in the House of Lords. July 9, on
srl
the motion for the second reeling of the E of
Shaftesbuiy's Bill to promote Unifonnity of Public
Worship in the Church. The Bishop of Carlisle said
that the two noble Lord, who bad lest spoken (the lord
Chancellor and the Marquis of Salisbury) were neither
of them members of their Lordship's House when the
noble earl originally Mir deiced a measure similar to
that which was now upon their Lonlahip's t tide. The
overwhelming amount of evidence and argument then
broagtt forward by the noble earl showed the imperative
necessity.for 1-gislation opan thi. question. And bow
was his Bill defeated upon that occasion By a premise
given by the Government of the day. speaking through
their mouthpieee, the noble earl below the gangway
(the Earl of Derby), that a Royal Commisaion idurUld
Rum for the purpose of investigating the subjeot—(bear,
hear). There was, therefore, an honourable oblisation
resting upon the Government to do something, because
the noble earl who was then at the head of the Govern-
ment refused to allow the Bill to be read a second time,
upon the ground that a Royal Commission was about to be
appointed, The noble earl (I)erhy) promised on ,that
occasion that that Commission should stead to the
subj-et of vestments, and cognate matters, firet, and
report thereon with • view to legislation. The Coot-
tension did at length make their first report, and
recommend that something should be done to restrain
the use of veatmenta. In • second report they had
pronounced against light. and itemise also, end advised
that the nes of them should be " restrainelL" It then
became the imperative duty of her Majesty's Govern-
ment to take up the subject, for there was • vital
nemeeity that something should be done if the Church
el England was to be saved. The noble earl having in
vain waited for the Government to do something,
having in fact been informed by the Lord Privy Seal
that the Government were not prepared to move note'
• third report was sent in—c report which had nothing
to do with the special subjects under discussion
mast be exonerated from all blame in now bringing
the subject again before their lordthips. He would not
enter into the question whether the Bill might not be
Improved in committee. Is respect to the legal remedy
proposed in the Bill, be thought it better than the
recommendation of the Commimioners. But, be this
ea it might, it would be, in his opinion, • disastrous
thing if this Bill should be pressed to • division, and if •
majority of their lordship, should decide against legisla-
tion on this subject. He lamented the mune taken by the
Government,bouuse it would lead to the impression out
of doom that they were not alive to the greatness
of the emergency in which the Church of Ragland was
placed. The extracts read by the noble earl were use-
ful as straw. which showed the way of the wind. They
certainly showed that, with the party now attracting
so much atteetion, the Protestant Reformation found
but little favour. And yet the only standing ground
of the Chum/sod England before God and man was as •
Protestant Reformed Church. Bat all this the compact,
organised, energetic body of Ritualists wished to undo.
'I he questions of vestment; light; and imam*, were of
very little importance, except as connected with doctrine
—(hear). Now if there were two things more emphati-
sally repudiated by the Church of Ragland at the
Reformation than any others, it was the sem-ides of the
Mass and the proems of *tricolor oonfeesion. The
speaking of the Lord's Table as the altar, the lights,
the thetilse, and other Ritualistic pruners, were
all connected with the revival of the sacrifice of the
nom. Connerrestly with this WIN the revival of the
claim of the priesthood to exercise judicial functions in
the tribunal of the mnfeadonal. That he was correct in
these assertions, noble lord, might satisfy themaelvea by
perusing the evidence token before the Ritual Com-
•od appended to their first report. Mr. Bennett,
of Fromr, for example, before the Ritual Commission,
acknowledged that he sacrificed and adored the
elements, and Mr. Wagner admitted that he practised
auricular confession. Anil these gentlemen were but
representatives, in these respects, of the opinions,
and too often of the practice; of the clergy known a.
Ritualithic. Various arguments however were urged
against any amendment of the law which should put •
propeSS of un.Protesteriticing the
cheek upon this
National Church. It was mid in the first place, that
the Church of England was • comprehensive church, Ii
was comprehensive, no doubt, but it we., to born,w
technical words from the seism,s of logic, a oompre•
heneion of "contraries" and not of "contradictories."
"Contraries" might stand together' but "contradic-
tories" could not. The Church of England 'untamed
what was rolled High Church and what was called Low
Church. Some members of that Chareh might eall
tt cruelly*, A rniinions and others Calvinist; But while
all these four parties might be "contraries" between
themselves. Rome was contradictory" to all. The
toleration of Romanistn within the Church of England
would he fatal to its existence. The noble marquis
said they were going by this BM to destroy a truce
within the than* that had existed for 200 years. He
(the Bishop of Carlisle) must assure the noble marquis
(Salisbury) that he we. mistaken. The trues, ash* was
plumed to call it, between High Church and Low March,
was not threatened by tho BM. Were he • High
Chorthman he should indignantly repudiate all identi-
fications with the innovating party. -The object of the
Bill was torsos! the invasion of • third, • Romanising,
party who, masked as High Churchmen, were Intro'
docking dootrinee and practices, of essentially Popish
character, and utterly incoteistent with the continuanoe
and healthy existeacee of that church— (hear, heart A
second argument which bad been used on various
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that the per one against whom the noble earl wished to
legislate, w, ro the greatest obstacles te perversion to
ths Chursh et Rome. so said their predecessors, the
Tractarians., 31) years ago. They claimed to be the
greatest opponents of Rome. But their lordships had
not forgotten the hundreds of the Dity and the scores
of the clergy who had gone over to Rome since that
sloes meet began. Arcbbiehop Manning. in • volume of
Essays on Religion and Literature, (wooed eeriest)
edited by him, conclosively disposed of Ibis allegation.
In an "inaugural address" prefaced to that volume the
arclibishi p said :—" I do not include in this, as I have
already snl, those few in number, I believe, who use
these thirigsal • stumbling-block to keep beak suits from
the truth, and imitate the Catholic Church with •
formal oer•ility, that they may pass thermelves off as
Catholics even to our Catholic poor. For such men we
can have no sympathy, and little hope. Every parish
pried happily knows how empty and foolish is the boast
they make of keeping soul. from conversion. The public
Nets of every day refute it. They may keep back the
handful who surround them, god hide the truth from
their own heart., but the steady current of return to
the Catholicised Roman Church throughout the whole
of England is no more to be effected by them than the
rising of the tide by the palms of their hand" Against
their will, certainly, and, perhaps, without their know-
le fge, they are sending on numberless souls into the
'rut% which they probably will never enter. But the
number of those whose good faith is doubtful is not
great. Th. multitude of those who are drawn by a
natural and simple reverence to clothe what they
mincerely belay' with • becoming ritual, and who wor-
ship piously and humbly in churches woich might
almost be mistaken for ours- if it were net for the one
great blank, the absence of life, which is like • beautiful
countenance without sight—is very great, and is perhaps
eontinuelly incrisuing. They are Doming up to the very
threshold of the Church. They hare leveed to lean
upon it u the centre of Christendom, from which they
sprang, and upon which their own Church is supposed
to re". They use our devotions, our books, our pictures
of piety ; they are taoght to believe the whole Catholic
doctrine, and to receive the whole Council of Trent,
not indeed in its true meaning, but in • meaning in-
vented by their 'embers. This cannot lost long. Such
teachers are, as Fuller quietly and tiuly says, like un-
skilful horsemen; they no open gases as to shut them-
selves out, but let others through." 8o much for the
argument that Ritualism was deterrent from Rome—
(hear.) But, in the third place, the noble marquis and
the most reverend prelate segued that if Pastameat
legislated 'hastily," "hastily" indeed, though four, if
not five, y are had elapsed since first the subject waa
broached at Lambeth, by the Bishop of Lincoln, there
might bee fearful disruption in the Church of England,
such as let the Free Church of Scotland to go forth from
the Eatablishment, and such as led the Wesleyan' •
hundred years ago to leave the Church of England.
But the comparison would not tear esamination. Theses
churches were identical in doctrine with the churches
they left, both of them holding Protestant truth, and
agreeing is their shhorrence—he used a word most
properly employed by a noble duke, not now In his
place, the Duke of Argyll, in the late debate—of
Popery. But the Rituelista rejected the Thirty-nine
Articles, or ao they are said to call them the •• forty
stripes save one," and yearned for Rome—(bew). The
comparison of the Ritualista to the Free Church and
the Wesleyan' was untenable, moreover, in other
respects, for the latter had the people with them,
where.. the Nymuthy of the middle and lower 81•••••
Was tot at all with the innovations in the present ease.
The noble eorl (Shafteebury) was quite right when he
said that how much saucer such churches as St. Albans
might be crowded, the middle and lower claws viewed
all that was carried on within their walla with suspicion
and dislike. The truth was, that theme practices were a
check ,upon Church extension : subscriptions having
been withhelt on amount of the pruent state of so.
certainty ea to whether the Church of England would
be Protestant and Reformed some years henoe. He
admitted that, had greater discretion been shown with
rigor,' to the Free Church and the Wesleyan", each of
ths churches which they gala. d would probably have
I been a gainer, for they would have added life and vigour
to its reeks, for the reasons he had given. But, for the
very shsence, the negation, of the same reasons, if Ritu-
alism were allowed to go on it would resolt in the break-
ing up of the Church of England. The true parallel was
between the Ritualists and the Roman Catholic clergy
who refused to conform in the reign of Elisabeth, and
likewies the nonithrors who refused to take the oath of
allegiance In the reign of Wiliam and Mary—though
here again Archbishop Suseroft, Loyal Protestant as he
WAS, would hardly, if alive, endure the oompariaen. The
seceoaion in the former case consisted of 189 clergymen
of all rank., and in the latter of one archbishop, four
hitherto, and 400 clergy. Any secession which might now
I take place of Ritualistic clergy could not egosted—he did
not believe it would come up to half—these numbers.
The Ritealistie party was forward and loud, and com-
pensated for their numerical pancity and personal
insignificance by their organization and the noise they
made in every direction. The House should not,
therefore, be deterred from legialating, he would not
say thie, but early next Hesston, by any fear of corn-
mining grievous injury to the church. They should
rather be deterred from further delay by the grievous
Injury that would accrue if these practices were not
checked. The noble marquis (Salisbury) spoke on a
former occasion of • Puritan faction hammering at the
doors of Parliament ; but prompt legislation was called
for in order that such • contingency might not arise.
Delay was giving force and power to a
Puritan faction outside the church, which was making
use of the present condition of affairs to
assail the rampart. and overthrow the citadel
of the church. And birds he detected a power at work
behind the scenes, which desired to compass the over-
throw of the Churel. of England as the one stronghold
of Protestantism an i the Reformation in the world. He
, did not say that t bulk of th• Ritualist clergy Were
I conscious of the fact. But as • small oog-wbeel kept up
the connexion between the .team power of a vast
manufactory and all the shuttles •t work in every
direction, so a single point of contact between the
Church of Rome and the Ritualists was quite enough
to account for all that was (ping on. If then the
Hones believed that to the blessed Reformation we
owed the tempothl as well as the spiritual liberties of
England, if they believed that the Church of Reiland
in her article., homiliet, and other formularies repro-
seated thet Reformation, they woold permit no tem-
porising policy, no fears, no threats, to deter them from
doing their duty at this solemn . By giving the
Bill • second reading, if the noble earl peened it, they
would emphatically declare their determination at the
first convenient opportunity to take effectual meaeurei
to stay the plague that was at work among us—(hear,
bear).—Carfiele Patriot.

Gmesal littns.

PARLIWIENT is likely to be prorogned about the 28th
instant.

Tux Ministerial whilobait dinner Mu been flood for
Wednesday neat.
Now Ac r ox Di AAAAA cameo Varna—The Ain
Of Pailisnient was priotsi on Wedneiday to promo'
the right. of electors in municipal boroughs in plans
wan will mese to return members of ParMasan otter
the "neat' dissolution.

Ti WHETHER IN ILILAND.-At Limeriek, Newry,
Waterford, and Derry very heavy showers fell dnriog
Wednesday night, and on Thursday the weather was
&gaol threatening. Two or alma days last week heavy
rain fell in the sister kingdom.

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Tex tier...non7 of presenting • memorial window eit
the Guildhall to the Corporation of London, the eft of
the operatives of Lancashire and the cotton manufactur-
ing districts, took place on Wednesday. Colonel Wilson-
Patten, kl.P.,represented the contributors of Lanoashire
sad other eotton distriots.

—Jobn Lovell, Kingsbury, Housersetehlre
labourer. Jaly 3lat, at 12. George Hawker, Yeovil,
Homereetehire. bootmaker, Judy 31. t, at 12. George
Frederick Miles Hann, Yeovil. fishmonger, July 31s1,
nH at 12. John igher atton, Yeloombe Rag* Dorset-
shire, provision dealer, July 3011, it 11.

THI first vacancy in an important Crown living, since
the vote of the House of Commons in reference to the
lent Church, occurred on Tuitedey, by the sudden death
of Dr. Kirwan, dean of Limerick, which took plum
euddenly, immediately after the reverend gentleman had
taken a Turkish bath. The living is worth £l,lOO a
year, with two residences and some patronage.
RZTIREXIIIT OP TSB RSV. BAPTIST NOM.—Upon
retiring from the pertorate of Bedford•row Chapel,
which he haa held sines he relinquished his connection
with the Church of Ragland nearly 20 years ago, the
Hon. end Rev. Baptist Noel was creosoted by his con-
gregation with 1,000 (*loess. The rev. pntleman, who
last Thursday ended his 70th year,intendadevoting him-
self to evangelistic work.

Wientixox CLIO' bad, on Wednesday, • ve27 narrow
escape from destruction, and many of ft. oesupasto
probably from death. Shortly before mid-day the grace
running tip to the entrance of the ammunition tent was
discovered to be on ere, and burning rapidly. It la
supposed that a smoker had thrown down • lighted fusee
on to the dry gran, which immediately ignited, and, in
• very brief space, threatened to be most destructive,
After • short but terribly exciting suspense, however,
the Are wee got under before it reached the tent, in which
there were eeverallthoonand pounds of gunpowder
stored.

MUIPEIT STOPPID.—A repetition of the diegreeeful
sectarian riota which have taken place of late in various
provincial towns in connection with the visit of Murphy.
the anti-papal lecturer, was stopped by the &met on
Tuesday of that individual at Bolton, where be was
announced to deliver a series of addressee on his
favourite and inexhaustible subject. Them were all the
materials favourable to a riot apparent, and the magis-
trates granted a warrant for the arrest of the would-be
disturber of the pesos. lie was, however, liberated on
bail on undertaking not to lecture until the charge
against him war disposed of. On Friday be wes again
brought op, and ordered to give security—liimseU for
£5OO, and two sureties of £230 inch, to be of good
behaviour for twelve months.
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IT is, fact DOW knOWTI to all, that the Chinese largely
prepare and artificially colour the worthless brown
learn of the tea plant, to enable them to be passed off
to the English consumer at high rates, hence th• weak
low quality and dearness of tea 01= sold. To
avoid such worthless aorta being so off, liorni-
man & Co., London, disallow plumbago, Prussian
blue, or any such hurtful " facineon the leaf, and as
their imports consist only of young leaves- choice and
strong—they ere delicious in flavour and cheap; real
judges of tea have but to make trial to become constant
purchasers. The extensive demand for Horniman's
pure tea, has induced some to imitate the packets,
hence the public are cautioned to observe that the
signature of !Wildman 81 Co., London, 'original
importers of the pure tea,' is on all the packets sold by
their 2,500 agents.
A SINGULAR CASS OF SUTIRITITION is reported from
Cornwall. A "whit, witch" of Liskeard was consulted
by the son of • farmer, supposed to be "ill-wished' by
the wife of • labouring man residing on the estate.
On the ncommendation of the witch the latter was dis-
charged. Th. " man fell sick, and during
the night was visited by the village blaaksmith. The
latter, on going to the sick man's house one night, saw
something like • goat; the nen night it assumed the
forced the devil. The witeh on being consulted ordered
that • gnu should be kept losdsd, charged with four-
penny-piens broken into small bits The Islasimmith
kept • strict watch the someeding night and find, to
the greet alarm of the villagers. iii. told themes Is
to some Wore the Cornish megherabe.