The Press.
London, England, 1856-10-25 00:00:00

Vrotinrial.

THE SUNDAY LEAGUE held a meeting at Good-
ramgate, York, last week, and the question of open-
ing the public buildings and permitting musical per•
formances on the Sunday was fully discussed. The
meeting was a very stormy one. Mr. Brown, of
Colliergate, presided. Mr. W. Loaden proposed the
first resolution, in favour of the movement. Mr.
Alderman Rountree opposed the resolution ; and
Mr. B. Wales moved an amendment, that opening
the public institutions, dre., on Sunday was a direct
violation of the fourth commandment. Mr. T.
Monkhouse supported the amendment; but, alter a
stormy discussion, the original motion was declared
to be carried.

A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF LLYWELYN, "the
last independent Prince of Wales," has been origin-
ated in Wales. At a meeting recently held the fol-
lowing resolutions were adopted .
That the brave and illustrious deeds of Llywelyn in
defence of the principality of Wales, and the heroic
manner in which he sacrificed his life upon the altar of
patriotism, entitle him to the respect and gratitude of all
who love Cymro, Cymru, and Cymraeg. That a general
and strenuous effort be made to raise a fund by means of
voluntary subscriptions among the natives and friends of
Wales for the purpose of erecting over his grave, or on
some other spot eminently associated with his name, a
monument worthy of his great renown and of his country's
regard and veneration.

It has been agreed that the subscriptions shall no;
exceed 2s. 6d. each.

THE COALBROOK DALE SCHOOL OF ART was opened
last week. Mr. J. A. Hammersley, master of the
Manchester and head of the Lancashire schools,
delivered the opening address. He referred particu-
larly to the advantage to all classes of a knowledge
of the principles of art:—

The question therefore of art education comes home to
every one of us. Few, probably, have reflected upon the
extent of influence which this branch of science has upon
character, yet it is quite certain it has a great deal to do
with the forming the life, in moulding the temper, and in
influencing our happiness. If purely technical, if a mere
matter of paint and pots, of lines and forms, I should
myself abandon the brush at once, and have done with
such unmeaning daubs. But it is not so. One of the
originating motives influencing you in instituting this
school has been that art appeals to our nature, meets our
sympathies, and operates upon the life. Art may likewise
be safely advocated upon the ground that it is the great
instrument by which we are enabled to appreciate the
works of God, and to see the beauty of His creation.
Probably not six persons in this room have seen the beau-
ties of nature to-day. The fact is that we go through life,
nearly all of us, blindly ignorant of the beauties and un-
worthy of the glories that surround us, yet God himself is
writing daily the great book of beauty, is hourly spreading
before us its pages for our instruction and improvement. I
believe these schools of art will enable us to see Nature as
we ought to see her—as a great book of beauty; and I
am content to rest their advocay upon that ground.

OCTOBER 25, 1856.

A RUNAWAY LocorsoTrvE astonished the South
ampton people last Sunday, about four p.m., by
dashing full speed into the terminus, knocking to
atoms four empty carriages, and bringing itself to a
stand still by burying itself in their fragments and
those of the lower portion of the shed it knocked
down. The origin of the escape of the engine was a
concussion at Norham, between a coke and passenger
train ; the coke engine was disconnected from its
train, the driver and stoker jumped off, and the
engine dashed on, full speed, to Southampton. The
passengers in the other train were much shaken.
BREAMORE-HOUSE, a fine old mansion, the seat
of Sir Edward Hulse, Bart., near Fordinbridge,
Hants, was entirely destroyed by fire at an early
hour on Sunday morning. It is not known how the
fire originated, but it had made considerable progress
before an alarm was given, and the mansion is
entirely gutted with the exception of the servants'
wing.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of the Conservative
Land Society have just concluded their twenty-
seventh purchase of land by the acquisition of a very
valuable property in Silver-street, Taunton. It is
locally known as Drake's estate, and from its posi-
tion, close to the town, and natural features, is ad-
mirably adapted for building purposes.
THE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD, K.T. has written to
the chairman of the Manchester Exhibition Com-
mittee that " he will be most happy to contribute his
best pictures to the magnificent undertaking in ques-
tion." _ _

MR. WHITTAKER, the farmer who was attacked,
cruelly beaten, and robbed last week between Rother-
ham and Thryberg, has since died of his injuries.
THE UNITED KINGDOM ALLIANCE held a morning
and evening meeting at Manchester on Monday.
The first was held to consider the policy to be
adopted during the coming year in carrying on the
agitation ; the other was merely the annual public
meeting of the members and friends of the Alliance.

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ARCHDEACON DENISON.

THE case of Archdeacon Denison was resumed on
Tuesday before the Archbishop of Canterbury, at the
Guildhall, Bath.
The archbishop entered the court at half-past
one, and was attended by the Right Hon. Sir J.
Lushington, as his assessor. The commissioners
present were the Dean of Wells and the Rev. Dr.
Heurtly, Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford.
There were also present, in their official capacity,
the Vicar-General, Dr. Travers Twiss, the arch-
bishop's chaplain, the Rev. J. Thomas, F. H. Dyke,
Esq., registrar, and F. linyvett, Esq., apparitor-
general.
Dr. Phillimore appeared on behalf of the ven.
archdeacon, and Dr. Bayford for the Rev. Mr.
Ditcher. The proctor for the rev. archdeacon was
Mr. Bathurst, and for the promoter Mr. Blackburn
The court having been formally opened,

Dr. PRILLIMORE asked leave to argue the point
that the 29th article had not been settled when the
statute 13th Elizabeth, chapter 12, had been passed,
and therefore was not referred to by that statute.
The learned counsel went at great length into his-
torical detail, for the purpose of proving that no book
containing the 29th article, and answering to the
reference of the statute of Elizabeth, was in exist-
ence up to the 29th May, 1571 ; that the first known
edition which contained the article was an edition
which, in all the books to which he had referred,
was entitled copy—a quarto edition, which could not
have been published before the 4th of June, 1571,
and which was perhaps only in type on that day. A
copy of this book (copy E) was only to he found in
the library of Durham College, to which it had been
presented by Bishop Cosin. The argument with re-
spect to this book was that it was not a book the
title of which agreed with that named in the statute
of Elizabeth, though it contained the 29th article.
A reference was then made to the correspondence of
Archbishop Parker with Lord Burleigh (Queen
Elizabeth's chief Privy Councillor), for the purpose
of showing that although that correspondence was
as to what the Articles should or should not contain
in 1571, there was no reference whatever in it to the
13th statute of Elizabeth. The learned counsel
made other references to prove the same point.
Among them was a chapter in Bennett's work, the
title of which was "What edition of the Articles were
required to be subscribed to by the 13th of Eliza-
beth ?" The conclusion to which that writer came,
after the most diligent research, was one of two
things—either that the Parliament intended the
clergy to subscribe to the old translation, which did
not contain the introductory part of the 20th and the
29th articles, or they must have intended them to
have subscribed something which they (the Legisla-
ture) had themselves never seen ; and Dr. Philli-
more remarked, looking at the Puritan character of
the body, it was not to be supposed they suffered the