The Express.
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1852.

If they were to laveke that grace the the purpose of lu-
ing nothing it was an impiety in which he could nut coincide,
and one which could not be too strongly condemned. He
felt deeply the necessity of the revival of synodal retain in
the church, for the want of it bad led to that which they all
knew he viewed with feelings of great pain, the deci•ion of
doctrinal matters by a civil tribunal. He earnestly hoped
that their lordships would hanction the amendment
which lied been proposed by the Bishop of Ozford. That
amendment did not attempt to revive functions which could
not be revived without the royal license. It merely had
reference to a question of discipline, in which the members
'of the lower house were deeply interested, Ile trusted to
see a measure founded upon that question, which would
meet the approval of her Majesty and the houses of the
legislature. Ile could say that the moment the church of
England ceased her usefulness as a church, he would ccsse
to belong to her. Ile should note() to the church of Rome,
for ho could not contemplate a fall so hideous as that. Ile
know that many defections bad taken place front the want
of synodal action, and he feared that unless it were revived,
many more defections would take place.
After a few words from the Bishops of LONDON and
LINCOLN.

The Bishop of LLANDA Fr entered at considerable length
into the want of church accommodation in various parts of
the diocese, and contended that if the ordinary synodal ac-
tion of the church were revived, it would be enabled to deal
with such matters of discipline more satisfactorily than it
could otherwise be done.
The Bishop of o:rutin, after a short explonati.on, agreed
to withdraw his amendment, if the archbishop would pro
mile that the houses should not be prorogued immediately
afterwards, hut that they should have time to consider the
subject of the discipline of the clergy, to which allusieu had
already been made.
The Ancrinienor said be could not answer any such
question.
The Bishop of Osirnien said that if the house u ere pro-
rogued without the consent of the suffragan bishops present,
it would be their painful duty to sit in his absence.
After a short discussion,
The Bishop of °iron"), by permission of the house, with-
drew his amendment.

The Bishop of SALISBURY proposed an amendment, to
the effect that it was nut necessary to petition her l'ilmesty
fur leave to sit at present, but at the same time affirming
that on a future day the revival of the active functions
would tend to the welfare of the church.
The amendment having been seconded was agreed to.
A protest against the Papal aggreseion was adopted, on
the motion of the Bishop of Oxford.
A committee, engirding of seven bishops, Wl4 then ap-
pointed to confer with a committee of the lower house dur-
ing the prorogation Convocation, and to report next session,
on the heads of a measure for the better carrying out of
ecclesiastical discipline amongst the inferior clergy.
The house then adjourned.
THE LOWER HOUSE.
The Lower House, adjourned from Friday, met'
yesterday, at 10 o'clock in the morning, in the Jerusalem
Chamber. After prayers, the house WWI constituted. Dr.
Peacock, Dean of St. Ely's, as I'rolocutor, again presided
over the proceedings. The attendance included about ninety
to one hundred deans, archdeacons, doctors and re-
verends.

The Prolocutor was summoned to the upper haute,
where he proceeded with the assessors. On his return he
intimated that he had received the commands of his grace
the Archbishop of Canterbury, ordering thst :he lower
house should remain in the Jerusalem Chamber until they
received a message from the upper house.
The minutes of the last meeting were then read over.
The minutes enumerated the number and character of the
petitions which bad been presented for and against the re-
I vital of the active powers of convocation (those in favour
being in a large majority); and then proceeded to state
what resolutions had been poised ; the first being that the
representation relating to matter gravamina reformanda,
brought forward by Dr. Spry, be referred to a committee of
grievances of the lower house; that the upper house be re-
quested so to order the prorogation as to allow of time for
the house to receive and dispose of the report of such com-
mittee ; and, lutly, that the Prolocutor be directed to nomi-
nate the members to serve on that committee.

A discuision took plus u to the system in which peti-
tions were, in future, to be got up. On the present occasion
the many signatures to numbers of the petitions were
signed all in one handwriting, a eireum,tance accounted
for by the feet that it has been the custom to consider it
sufficient to have the petitions authenticated by putting
the person who gets up the petition in possession of
vouchers for the different signatures. But this being deemed
unsatisfactory, it was resolved, on the motion of Dr.
Wordsworth, that in future the petition have attached
the autographs of the petitioners, but that it shall suffice
to have the names pasted, on small slips of paper, which
would be cut from the letters or other documents in,
timating approval of the petition.
The house then proceeded to the consideration of the
order of the day, which was to hear and to consider the
Proloeutor's nomination to the committee of grievances.
The PROLOCUTOR gave the mama of the committee,
vie. i—The Deans of St. Paul's, of Norwich, of Wells ; the
Archdeacons of London, Middlesex, Lewes, St. Albans,
Winchester, and Chichester ; Doctors Spry, Mill, Jelf,
Wordsworth, M'Caul, and Jeremy ; the Revs. 0. Bloom-
field, F. Vincent, F. Massingberd, and the lion. and Rev.
H. M. Villiers. (Hear, hear.) These names (added the
Prolocutor) were submttied to him in obedience to the reso-
lution passed ; but it was for the house to decide on the ap-
propriateneei of the selection.
Dr. JILT had heard his name read with, of course, great
gratification ; for be was sensible of the honour proposed to
be conferred ; and he would not hesitate to accept that
honoar,provided only that he could be perfectly satisfied, on
the faith of the house,on an or two particular points. licked
undimmed at the former meeting, on the high authority of
the Dean of Bristol and the Archdeacon of London, that it
was competent to the house to nominate this committee,
which should be a standing committee, and which would
have the power legally to sit from time to time to inquire
into these gravamina without any infringement of the law.
He wished to have these assurances repeated, whether the
committee could be to nominated, and whether it could sit
without the royal sanction. The latter was the most impor-
tent element; for the Queen was constitutionally part of
the convocation, representing, in fact, the lay element in
the convocation. As a loyal subject, and as a member of
the church, he desired that there should be no doubts on
these matters.

iieTteanOf BRISTOL referred to precedents in favour of
his opinion that a letter of license was net necessary to the
legality of &committee of the lower house sitting between
sessions. Of this he entertained no doubt. But the ques-
tion they had to apply themselves to was whether they
could sit by authority of their own. He did not think they
could ; and this opinion he also substantiated by precedents.
Dr. WORDSWORTH spoke to the same effect.
Dr. 31.C•ol. was still unsatisfied that they could do any-
thing of this kind without license from the crown.
Dr. Briar dealt with Dr. bl'Caul's objections. The cow
mitts' wasn't a committee to oonsider doctrines, to alter
the Liturgy, or in fact to come to any conclusion which
would be a canon. It was only a committee to consider
grievances on common subjects ; and if it wu not met by
the disapproval of the archbishop, it might proceed to fulfil
its functions without bused.
The Rev. Mr. Woonoare quoted precedents for the pro-
posal of inch a committee without the license of the crown
being ebtathed or sought.
AIIMINISOII GRANT took the same view.
Azelekeeen Bane, after agreeing hie partial wind-
demos ha the rascal view as le the legality of the subject,
he appethemset laZibbeagaiet le the approval and conni-
thew at the proceeded to dilate upon
the memeekureses of eamien on which this com-
mie's, was idled into eziateece, end on the immense
imgmthesse et the ;makes which would be re-
hash la them, aid ea which in some measure they
thuld lave to theith It WM clear that however they
Asa the seeembles. the chief business, end, there-
hos, the ark teepeadhility, would fall upon those
who wen set the ohs were residents near the metro-
thus who would have to us the
411OirO7soUT;sotitled aot only to the conaidera-
doe et beam, bat wall, perhaps, be deserving of their
payees Ar eseems. (Hear, bar.)
Aselethems @ARAM TOWNRSITIDNI altogether against
the eggehemeat of this 41111111shille. Were they going
Is renew that basis et agreement in the church
whisk had already edited ? He could not under-
stood how this Hewn et Coaveoation, either by it-
alic or by an latamediets sommittee, could take into SOO-
iisratke thosewrzersethes of which this " represents,-
Wes" wee lull into marked dissension with
large belies in the charels. were acting in the
hales 01 a royal useseinfies ; sad that fad it ap-
peared to him brought ass at thee into collision
with the crown. They semureed, la appointing such
a committee, that they repthesthei the whole of the
aura, clergy and laity; but amaredly, they had no
doles whatever to the character of a national synod.
Where in that house were the representatives of the colonies,
ry the larger dominion of the church of England ?
e the representatives of the church of Ireland ?
last saw, the 'thumb of Ireland was solving the great
prelim et the day—she was shaking to the hue that great
Wader* et superstition which Rome had raised up in he-
lm...fjord wee a church like this to be repudiated on an
when they come to discuss, and perhaps to change,
the whole system, doctrine, and discipline of the reformed
church

-Dr. iVOILDIWOILTK here tolled the venerable archdeacon
to eau. This did not pretend to be • national synod. It
wee only a convocation for the province of Canterbury.
(Sar, hear.)_
Bev. Mr. MLIMINCIPILD—Been the province of York b
*saluted. (Hear, hear.)
Aradeason °moan (after some further discussion as
lo the nolonney of his objections) continued. It was at
hint deee that the appointment of the committee would be
the first step to the revival of the active powers of convoca-
tiontlined, if they entered en this path, let them beware
lot should not be able to stop until all the elements of
whisk aural was inmoosed bad been scattered and de-
stroyed. (" Oh, oh.") Re would not conceal his opinion,
and that opinion was that this would lead to • schism in
tho church, end might end in a separation between church
and state. (" Oh, uh.") Even restricting the representa-
tion of the convocation to the province of Canterbury, he
dosiod that that representation wu {adequate or sausfac-
tee,. The electors in that province amounted to 1.0,000
1
poems, yet only 1,760 had taken part in the election of
proctors. As to the laity, it was notorious that they were
opposed to the proposal which found so much evident
favour with the majority of that house. But he took the
primary objection, that they had no sufficient formal
powers for what they were doing; that they were risking a
collision with the crown, and certainly hazarding • conten-
tion with theirbishop.
The Plol,oonOi corrected the namable speaker on

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this point. What the house proposed was entirely depend-
ent upon the approval of the upper house.
The Archdeacon Ositnerr admitted, this being st, that
a large portion of his objections were removed; and he
would therefore leave his general objections, as to the coo-
sequences of what they were doing. With respect to the
nomination of him•e!f to the committee, be fdt that the
lemur and the responsibility must tall upon throe who were
upon the spot, near London ; and, under the eircum-
stances, doubting his ability to attend, he belt himself
compiled to decline the honour proposed to be conferred
upon him.
Dr. WILKINS (Archdeacon of Nottingham) rep'..el to
Archdeacon Ovrhett. lie did not think that any of the
general objections token could lie, inasmuch as this was:only a
committee to consider and report, and not to decide.
Dr. SPRY denied altogether the truth of the sissurriptiun
that tho " ltvrerentatien" he had presented implied
those grave quatiins which the Archdeacon of Chichester
had raised.

Mr. MASSINOBERD was satisfied generally with the
in inner in which the conithioee nes c instituted, but he
regretted the absence on tile list of the name of the Arch-
deacon of Taunton (Mr. Denison) who, witu himself (Mr.
Massiegherd) was the original author of the " Itepresehta-
lion," although, alter it had passed from their hands, it
hod nedergone very great alterations and improvemen's.
'This remark introduced a side discussion us to whether it
was competent to any somber to propose more names fur
the cetainittee, or in any way to alter the selection mode by
the Prolocutor. The Producutor himself quoted precedent
to show that he was only atehorised to draw up a list,
which subsequently was subject to the approval, name by
',ante, el the house; and this was the ties, held
by the Dean of Bristol and others • but, the
right was agreed to be waved, on the appeal of
Dr. Russell, in order that there might be an appearance
beh,re the public of perfect unanimity, in approving of the
principle on which the Prolocutor had made up the com-
mittee. At the cntrsaty, on that ground. ul Mr. Noosing-
berd, Archdeacon (iarliett consent. d, amid cheerio, th.a his
name should remain on the committee; and, on the other
hand, the Archdeacon of Taunton requested. that Mr. Mal-
eingberd might nit press hie Lame on the attention of the
house. Accordingly that suggestion was withdrawn.
This emit:aide Sc, hug was for a time disturbed by
The Rev. Mr. COTE, who said that he felt bound, how-
ever invidious the task, to take an obj.ction to an indivi-
dual name—that of Dr. Mill. lie respected the character,
reverenced the piety, and admired the learning of that rev.
gentleman ; hut it was notorious that that gentleman's
DAM) was generally associated in the public mind with
those of Archdeacon Wilberforce and Dr. Manning in
connexion with a celebrated document which in efllet im-
pugned the supremacy of the crown—" Oh, ol,")—and he
(Mr. Coxe) warned members of the inference that might bet
drawn from including one of those names on this com-
mittee. (Hear, hear.) The convocation should not for a
mument identity itself with opinions of the extreme cha-
racter held by Dr. Mill—opinions to which even the term
treason might attach. (" Oh, oh," and contusion.)
Dr. MILL (who was loudly cheered) hal only to observe
in reply to the attack made on him that his opinions on the
question of the prerogative of the Crown were to be Poled
in the paper (Dr. Spry's) referred to the committee.
(Cheers.) That was his sufficient answer. (Cheers.) But
after such an attack he would not hesitate to beg that his
name might bo withdrawn from the Prolocutor'e list.
(Cries of "No, no.") And he would only further add
that he did not know of any more "extreme opiuions "
than those which tended to drive brethren out of the
church. (Loud cheers.)
The raoLuccTou would not do justice to his own senti-
ments of friendship for Dr. Mill, and of duty to the convo-
cation, if ho did not protest against what he rewarded as an
ungenerous attack. (Cheers.) lie was sure that in the
whole church of England there did not exist a more loyal
or attached member than Dr. Mill ; and though be (the
Prolocutor) admitted the perfect right of every member to
propose changes in the constitution of the committee, yet,
alter what had passed, he strongly felt that it would ace an
imputation on their own fairness to allow Dr. Mars name
to he omitted. (Cheers.)
Mr. Cove explained. He had not attacked the charnel, r
of Dr. Mill; he had only used his right of pointing out the
inference which might be drawn from identifying the com-
mittee with that gentleman. lie had intended uo olleuet ;
and he only regretted that the Archdeacon of Taunton had
allowed himself to use intemperate language towards him.
('this was understood to refer to a swto foe., exclamation of
disgraceful " used by Mr. Denison, who eat in Mr.
Coxe's neighbourhood.)
Archdeacon DENISOX—You used the word "treason-
able ;" and I say still that is a word not fit to be u.ed in
this house. (Hear, hear.)
The question was then put. There were but two " noes,"
and the list was accordingly agreed to; it being under-
stood that the Prolocutor would be a member es ()Melo of
the committee. The Prolocutor then took up the repert of
what had passed to the upper house, to ask the archbishop',
pleasure when he would consider the resolutions. On the
l'rolocutor's return, he notified that he had laid the resolu-
tions before his grace, requesting his concurrence in them,
and that his grace had desired that they should be left with
him for his consideration. Pending his reply, business was
continued by
Dr. Wounewoatu, who brought before the house the
"Representation,"proceeding individually from himself, to
which he had referred on the former meeting. The fol-
lowing is the document :
" TO HIS °RACE TUE LOUD ARCHBISHOP OP CANTREBUYT,
AND TO TUE RIGHT RIVIIREND BISHOPS HIS
THR HUMBLE H.EPRESENTATION OP THE WHIRR-
UMW MENHIRS OP THS LOWER HOUllt UP CONVOCA-
TION OP Tll6 PROVINCE OP CAMTERIWILT.

" Whereas, by the ancient usage of English convocations,
it was provided that statements of matters requiring amend-
ments in the church should be teutiered to his Unice the
President, and to his suffragans, by members of the lower
i house, or by that house in its corporate character, and
should be read by the reverend the Prolocutor in the upper
house ; and whereas such statements were found henebeial
to the church, es suggesting occasions for conference, and
tending to promote the spiritual welfare of the people, we
therefore now respectfully beg leave to approach your
Grace and lordships, wit► the following representation:
"We render hearty thanks to Almighty Go-1 that he has
enabled the United Church of England and Ireland to re-
tain the true canon of Holy Scripture, and to receive the
Scriptures as the rule of faith, and to acknowledge the
three creed. as an authentic interpretation of Holy Scrip-
tare, and to embody them in her liturgy, and to maintain
her apostolic form of church g ivernment by bishops, priests,
and deacons ; and that be has graciously watched over
her, and has ed to her these inestimable blessing+ to
the present time. And we hereby declare our firm and
unanimous resolution, in dependence on the Divine aid, to
=not tin these benefits and to transmit them unimpaired to
our pceterity.
We recognise other signs and pledges of the Divine
favour to the united church in the successful efforts which
have been recently made to extend the Anglican episcopate
to the colonial possewons and dependencies of the British
crown, and in the signal evidence* of vitality evinced by the
multiplication of churches and chapels, and parsonage' and
schools, in almost all parts of our land, and in the mani-
festation of renewed seal among the clergy, and of increased
intelligence among the laity of the church.
" Thankfully acknowledging these enormities of the Di-
vine presence and blessing, we feel a strong persuasion that
if the hindrances were removed which now partially restrain
the free expansion and development of the spiritual ener-
gies of the church, she would be enabled, by Divine Pro-
vidence, to strengthen the institutions of the country, to
promote the peace of the empire, to be an example in doc-
trine and discipline to other churches of Chriateadem, and
to be a praise and glery in the earth.
" With a view to this result, we feel it our duty to ob-
serve, in the first place, that although the population of
England has been doubled during the last halt century, yet
the number of the Engjish episcopate remains nearly the
Name as it was three centuries ago.
" For the purpose, therefore, of facilitating that cordial
and Intimate intercourse between bishops, clergy, and laity,
which is of primary importance to the church, and with •
view to the administration of confirmation twith due fre-
quency and care, and for the diligent examination of can-
didates for holy orders in the church, and for the vigilant
spiritual oversight of all, we feel bound to declare our con-
viction that it deserves serious consideration whether the
interests of Christianity in this country do not imperatively
demand a large reinforcement of the episcopate.
" Ws would next proceed to observe that the tendency of
the wealth, industry, and manufactures of England and
Wales has been to increase and condense popu:ation in
commercial cities which have far outgrown the means of the
church for their pastoral superintendence, and thus a larp
portion of the people has fallen into dangerous errors in
speculation and practice, and that it does not appear to be
possible for the church to grapple with this great evil, ex-
cept by a large accession of pastors in those districts, and
we beg leave to suggest that for this end, and for the tem-
poral relief of the poor, it appears to be needful to consider
whether it be not requisite to employ the regular apostolic
loam mentality of the holy order of deacons with more
energy and in larger numbers than has hitherto been the
ease
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"We look with gratitude and respect on the services ren-
dered to the British church and nation, and to Christendom
at large, by the pious and learned labours of those eminent
persons who have found the beet opportunities for theologi-
cal study within the venerable walls of our cathedral insti-
tutions, en in a special degree we regard the cathedrals and
chapters of England and Wales as blessings preserved to
us by Divine Providence, for the honour end dignity of re-
ligion, for the perpetual solemn sacrifice of daily prayer, and
pray for aid and counsel to the episcopate, and (or the ad-
vancement of the spiritual benefit of the diocese in which
they are situate ; cud we earnestly desire to see such resto-
rative measures of wise and temperate renovation as, having
due regard to the fundamental principles on which cathedral
institutions were formed, and to the important purposes for
which they exist, would give full scope to their energies in
promoting the welfare of the church
United e ym a t
ch
hy u hc
ho
se:ereVteriarlegtoardwhwicihth threee liriaisash borafnchhearoft feeble
has been subject for many years, and we desire to express
our gratitude to Almighty God for the hopeful prospect
which appears now to be opened to the cause of pure reli-
gion in Ireland, through the instrumentality of the Irish
Church ; and we earnestly pray thut the work of religious
reformation in that country may proceed with increased
success under the guidance of wisdom and charity, and with
dutiful regard to the doctrine and discipline of the church;
and in the abeyance of synodical functions, cud ever in the
suspension of synodical forms In the Irish Churelksince the
union of Ireland with England, we aro of opines that it
deserves consideration whether measures are not now re-
quisite for restoring synodical organisation to that part of
the United Church.
" We are not willing to occupy your grace's time and
attention, and that of your lordships, by a specific detail of
pertioulan which, through the lapse of time end ohmage

R:ctrenaisteisees, luny of the disciplinarian laws of the
Vaited Church have b. come thapplisable or obsolete, and
matinee to be reeler, ed and nes/tided, and othas to he
enacted in their stead ; but, by way of sit cimi-n, we beg
kayo to refer to the injury indicted on religion, and
to the hardship imposed on the ridgy by their liability to
legal penal'ies iii tie tent of their declining to read the
burial seri' of the thatch In certain rams whore. sec. rd.
leg te the spirit of sr ee. letiastical Liles, and to the homer
01 the office itself, that &evict ought not to be reed.
"We have heart with greet regret that an lot. Minn i.
entertained by c. rtaiu parties to make application for •
royal charter, en4h.ing them to constitute au .aLibition nit
a very large scale 113 the neighbourhood of the metropolis,
with permission to keep it open to the public on the Leo"; t
Day, and, fr.-ling !hall! is the bounden duty of thee:et to
come forward era every lawful eaves:ea fur the pu.p,::. ot
maintaining the saneti•y of the christiao Be:oboth, we
tordshir. to consider
—Mimes may he advised* tor avertiug an evil w loch
spy, • ,rs to he fraught with melees injury the religion ot
Zip and.
•• Which. matters we most respectfully request leave te
eahnint 1.. your grace and lordship."
Dr. WORDSWORTH said hr left it entirely to the Immo to
direct how they would of al with their at dement of sewe
owes; whether they would send it to the upper hones u a
collective representation, or ay an individual rept...en:a.
tion, or whether they would 'vier it sot an indlvithiol re-
presentation to the committee they Lead appointed. The
reverend devdor, in a lengthy and apparently tiling
speech, then canna need ou the document, paragraph I.)
paragraoh, and rel. reed generally to the cultel'l n ot
the court h. reproducing thee niewa with which his name
is identified. He urged on convocation the es; edieney of
adopting esthete Mato m all their proteediog• the sere
fratina ,'rote, and of beginning with the smeller grievafict a
in their amours to amend the whole. lie cunt:oiled by
demanding that the church should be placed in
a pus Pion to make a formal soil solemn protest, in
supp trt of the protests pron.. ding hum individuals and so -
Licht". atiaasst tort desecration of the Sabbath which was
threatened by the new Crystal Palace Company, who, it
unchecked, would rapidly assimilate the English Sabbath
in the metropolis to .each a state ot things se war seen on a
Paz Man Saaday in the Champs do Mars and Champs,
Jerks.
Ibe opinion of the house being against sending the re-
presentation to the upper house either as a collective or in-
ividual set of resolutions, it was ordered to be referred to
the convolute.
On the motion of Mr. Catmint:Lt., a resolution was passed
expreesing the sattsfeetton of convocation, who wi re dr-
ier:us or prone:glue the iotercommunion of distinct por-
tions of the church, with the intentions and the results of
the letters addressed during the last and present year by
the Archbishop of Canterbury to the church of Scotland
and to the church in toe Culled States of America.
Some docusiou took place upon the expression " church
of Scotland," but the ditheu'dy was removed by the addi-
tion of the word " episcopal.**
Mr. MASSINDRIDID then brought forward a motion that
the following runs' be adopted and sent to the upper
house :
" Whereas, in • representation introduced into this house
on Friday last, the 12th instant, and retered by vote of this
house to a' committee of grievances,' to consider and re-
port thereupon, among other weighty matters, and groaada
therein addaced for desiring that the deliberative I unctions of
Convocation should be resumed, the Into aggression ot the
See ot Rome is soccitied as calling for a solemn protest, in
the face of Christendom on the part of the church ot Lug-
land, speaking by her Convocation or Synods.
And whereas, it appears to this house that it is, never-
theless, incumbent upon this present amenably ot Convect..
tion to otiginate, under proper authority, mitt that it may
now most fitly origina,e, such solemn precast on the partuf
the church of England.
" Resolved,—That this ii:Ttre do make the following
bumble representation to his grace the president, and to his
right reverend brethren, manual fathers of this Church of
England, in the Upper llouse of Convocation of this pro-
vince of Canterbury now assembled—
" To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Fri
mate of all England and Metropolitan, and to their lord-
ships the bishops of the province of Canterbury in the
Upper Rouse of Convocation mumbled,
The humble repn:.'entatton of the clergy of the Lower
Moue of the Convocation of the said province, showeth,
" That it appears to the house that it is incumbent upon
this present assembly of the convocation of this province, to
originate under proper authority, and that it may now moot
fitly so originate, a solemn protest on the part of the church
of laieland, ag Oust the late art of the See of Itome,
whereby that see has denied the existence of the church of
England.
And that it appears to this house that on this, the first
opportunity presented to convocation of addressing her
Majesty since the commission of this act by the see of
home, it is necessary and expedient that the said act be
made the subject of a special application to the crown.
" This house, therefore, humbly prays your grate and the
bishops of yuur province to frame, for the concurrence of
this house, such special address to her Majesty, in order
that this convocation may have license to make inch so-
lemn protest, in such terms so to the wisdom of your grace
sad your right reverend brethren shall deem meet.
" Further, this house beg leave to represent to your
grace and your right reverend brethren their humble de-
we that year house would be pleased to take into consi
derstion the question of inviting the bishop. and clergy of
all the colonial churches being in your province of Canter-
bury, his Grace the Archbishop and the bishops and clergy
of the province of York, his Grace the Lord Primate of all
Ireland, with his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin and the
other bishops and clergy of our church in that part of this
United Kingdom, the bishops and clergy of the church
Scotland, and the bishop* and clergy ot the church in
the United States of America to concur with us is such our
solemn protest.
" Dated from this Lower House of Convocation of the
province of Canterbury this 16th day of November, fa
the year of our Lord, 1102."

Dr. MILL seconded the motion. The necessity of the
protest was self evident. This wat the first opportunity
which the Coumeation bad had of declaris g themaclns on
the subject ; and be did net doubt they wou:d prose them.
mime the descendants of Bt. Augustin of Cantor bury.
The Rer. Mr. Fats& urged the Mum not to plunge
bunny into this matter. Au that ought to be granted to
this paition wee to order that it should be laid ou the table
for diwuo ion an another day. (Hear.)
The DEAN of Buisroc wee opposed to its being even laid
on the table. It was a most =Air proceeding to offer such
• protest to the house without notice. (Hear, hear) Lot
the rev. gentleman withdr►w it, and pre mike that be
would bring it on afterwards. (User, hear.)
A desultory dissuasion thee ensued, there being a desidol
alderman of minims as to the miaow in which the 'notice
should be dealt with.
TM debate was eventually iaterrapted by a mow from
the Upper Reese, easoceamts the Prolocutor. Oa Ids re-
tina he sammuseed that the archbishop had headed ►in the
address to the news spread or by the Upper Hoses, sad
M which the haearreace of the Lower lime was boiled.

The PROLOCtrTOI read the *Adrian
At the rearlusion et a mead readiag the doesateat,
another merge arrived from the Upper Rouse (whisk had
just adjeuzaed) edientralag the Lower Rouse.
It wu aseeediaily adjourned to We day.