The Press.
London, England, 1854-10-07 00:00:00

SATURDAY,

Court anb. las4iou.

The head quarters of the Court remain at Bal-
moral, but the Queen takes frequent excursions in
the neighbourhood. Last Saturday her Majesty
drove over to Loch Calater, and on Monday rode to
the Shiel of Alt na Guisach, in company with the
Prince Consort, and attended by the Countess of
Desert. The royal party spent that night and whole
of the following day at the Shiel. On Sunday the
intelligence of the victory of the Alma was received
by special messenger at Balmoral, and on Tuesday
the glad tidings of the surrender of Sebastopol were
also received and forwarded to the Queen at
Shiel. _ _

According to present arrangements, her Majesty
and Prince Albert will leave Balinoral on Thursday,
the 12th inst., remaining at Holyrood that night,
and proceeding to Windsor Castle next morning.
It is possible, however, that her Majesty's stay in the
north will be prolonged fur a few days beyond the
date mentioned.
The Earl of Aberdeen left Balmorai for Haddo-
house on Saturday last. Sir James Graham duly
transmitted to her Majesty on Saturday the earliest
intelligence of successes in the Crimea. The First
Lord left London himself on Tuesday for Scotland,
to wait upon the Queen.
The Duchess of Kent arrived at Southampton
on Thursday morning in the royal yacht Fairy,
en route from the Isle of Wight to her residence at
Frogmore.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and Princess Mary leave Cambridge Cottage, Kew,
this day (Saturday), for Knowsley, to honour the
Earl and Countess of Derby with their company
for several days. The noble earl and countess have
invited a distinguished circle to meet the royal
duchess and princess.
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The Swedish envoy, his Excellency Admiral
Virgin, is about to close his sojourn in this country
as representative of the King of Sweden, and only
awaits the return of her Majesty to the south, to
present his letters of recta. Baron de Geer will
officiate as Charge d'Affaires until the arrival of his
successor at this Court.

His Excellency Count Walewski, the French Am-
bassador, with the countess, arrived in Brighton
last Saturday from London, and took apartments at
the Bedford Hotel. In consequence of the news
from the East, his excellency returned to town on
the following morning.
The Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of
Mecklenburg Strelitz have arrived at the ducal
palace of Strelitz from Baden Baden, rid Berlin.
The Duke and Duchess are expected to a:rive in this
country early in the ensuing year on a visit to their
august relatives.
M. de Kisseleff, ex-ambassador of Russia at Paris,
has just taken for a year an hotel in the Rue liucale
at Brussels.

Lady Raglan and the Hon. Misses Somerset, who
have been on a tour of the German Spas, are ex
petted to arrive in Great Stanhope-street early in the
ensuing week, for the season.
Maharajah I)huleep Singh, Prince of Lahore, who
is at present the guest of the Right Hon. Sir C.
Wood, at Hickleton-ball, Yorkshire, paid a visit to
Doncaster, in company with the President of the
Board of Control, on Saturday last.
Another claimant for the earldom of Perth has
emerged in the person of a pitman's son, who styles
himself Thomas Drummond, of Biddock, county of
Durham, grandson and heir male of James Drum
mcnd, sixth Earl of Perth.

The Guardian of Wednesday recommends the ap-
pointment of a Secretary of State for Ecclesiastical
Affairs, who should be entitled to a seat in the
Cabinet.
Lord Aberdeen, whose mansion, Argyll-house, has
been undergoing embellishment and repairs during
his absence in the north, is expected to arrive in town
at the close of the ensuing week from Balmoral Castle.
Lord and Lady Haddo and family have arrived at
Alexandria, in the Paella of Egypt's frigate, from
Malta, and intend to pass the winter in the East for
the improvement of the health of the noble lord.
The Premier has accepted an invitation from the
Lord Provost and town council of Aberdeen to be
present on Monday next, the 9th inst., at the public
inauguration of his portrait recently painted by sub-
criptions from many of the citizens and the town
council. An address is then to be presented express-
ing approval of his lordship's policy with respect to
the war.
A COMPANY, with a capital of 25,0001. in 51. shares,
is proposed for building an Emigrams' Home at
Tilbury, opposite Gravesend, at the terminus of the
railway. It is stated that an establishment affording
every needful accommodation and comfort for filil
individuals can be erected for 20,0001., and that re-
spectable persons have offered to lease such an insti-
e ution at 7 per cent. on the outlay.

OCTOBER 7, 1854.

THE ARCHDEACON OF TAUNTON.

TILE REv. MR. DENISON has published a supple-
mental series of letters, continuing the correspondence
of which we gave an abstract in last week's PRESS,
and, as be states, "completing the account of the cir-
cumstances under which the present issue has been
raised." These new letters relate to some antecedent
differences of opinion on certain doctrinal points be-
tween the archdeacon and the primate, and are made
public by the former, according to his own profession,
" after lung and painful consideration, with much re-
luctance, but no misgiving." The chief point of this
additional correspondence consists of a second " pro-
test," based upon moral grounds, against the pending
proceedings set on foot by the archbishop. In a
letter to his grace, dated the 2nd instant., Mr. Deni-
son reiterates his former prt.test against the legality
of the commission of inquiry which the primate has
intimated his intention to appoint; and then pro-
ceeds:—
" The moral and the doctrinal aspect of the case are of
far graver, and wider, and deeper import.
"Having regard, therefore,
" 1. To antecedent relations between your grace and my-
self, and to the bearing of such relations upon the attempt
now directed against me by your grace ;
"2. To the consideration that the thing principally in-
tended in the proposed proceedings and desired to be ef-
fected thereby, so far as may be done by sentence of the
existing tribunals, is to implicate the Church of England
in some denial, disavowal, or disparagement of the real pre-
sence of the body and blood of Christ in the Lord's Supper,
and generally in some denial, disavowal, or disparagement
of the doctrine of sacramental grace;

" Having regard to these things, it does not appear to
me to be sufficient, neither does it appear to me to consist
with the faithful discharge of my duty to the Church of
England, that I should rest upon legal and technical
grounds only my protest against all manner of attempt on
the part of your grace to institute proceedings in the pre-
sent case. . . . . .

" I am now, therefore, under the necessity of placing in
your grace's louids this, my second formal protest, herewith
enclosed, aid about to be made public.
The protest here referred to is thus conceived :
( Protest No. IL)

Whereas his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury,
Primate of all England and Metropolitan, has in his charge
delivered to the clergy of the diocese of Canterbury at his
visitation, September, 1853, and more recently by its publi-
cation, commended to the attention of the Church at large,
set out certain statements and interpretations of four of the
doctrines of the faith—viz.,
1. The Holy Catholic Church ;
2. Sacramental grace;
3. Sin after baptism ;
4. Absolution ;
And whereas the undersigned is " persuaded " that the
said stiltementa and interpretations, so set out by his
Grace the said Archbishop, in respect of the said four doc-
trines of the faith, cannot " he concluded and proved by,"
or reconciled with the teachiw of, " the Scripture," as
witnessed to by the Church Catholic, and embodied in the
forinillaries of the Church of England ;
And whereas the undersigned did, on the Feast of the
Conversion of St. Paul,Jannary 25,1834, enter his private,
but formal, declaration and protest against the said state-
men' and interpretations of doctrine, so set out by his
Grace the said Archbishop, and did communicate the said
declaration and protest to his Grace the said Archbishop
in the terms following
"In the name of the Most Holy Trinity. Amen.
" I, the undersigned George Anthony Denison. clerk, M.A.,
Priest of the Cbureh of England, Vicar of East Brent, Arch-
deaCthil of Taunton, in the diocese of Bah and Wells and pro-
viuce of Canterbury, having read and considered certain state-
ments contained in the charge of his Grace the Lord Archbishop
4Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan, deli-
lyre,' to the clergy of the diocese of Canterbury at his visitation,
September, 1853, and more recently by its publication, com-
mended to the attention of the Church at large, respecting—
" L The Holy catholic church,
" 2. Sacramental grace,
":1. Sin after baptism,
" 1. Absolution,
de hereby, with deep reluctance, under a solemn sense of duty,
make this my declaration and protest :
fhat the said statements cannot be reconciled with the
teaching of Holy Scripture, as witnessed to by the Chord. Ca-
tholic and embodied in the formularies of the Church of England.
" Ggotte; A. Di:NII6.ON, Clerk, M.A.,
Archdeacon of Taunton.
" East Brent, Conversion of St. Paul, 1814."
And whereas his Grace the said Archbishop acknow-
ledged the receipt of the said declaration and protest in
the terms following :
" Lambeth. Jan. SO. 1854.
"The Archbishop of Canterbury desires to acknowledge the
receipt of a protest from Archdcactst Denison. and regrets to
find that the arclideacou's opinions do not coincide with his own
upon the subjects eniuuerated in the protest, sad discussed in
his recent charge.
" To the Vett. archdeacon Denison."
And whereas his Grace the said Archbishop has signified
to the undersigned hie intention to issue a commission
under the 3rd and 4th of 'Victoria, C. RI, to inquire into
the doctrine of sacramental grace, as publicly maintained
and taught by the under signed ;

And whereas, of the four doctrines enumerated in the
above dorlaration and prot-Ngt. and discussed in the said
charge of his Grace the said Archbishop, one is the doc-
trine of sacramental grace;
And whereas the undersigned has entered his formal and
public protest, hearing date Sepiendwr 1x54, against
his Grace the said Arelabitdiop in respect Id the legal di*-
ahility of his Grace the said Arriiiiiahoe to issue the com-
mission aforesaid;