The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-15 00:00:00

COB VOCATION AND RITUALISM.

Both houses re-assembled yesterday at Westminster for
the despatch of business. Shortly after assembling of the
Upper House, a deputation from the Lower House was
introduced, bringing up a gravamen on the subject of
church rates, and also one on the unsuitableness of the
Jerusalem Chamber as a place of meeting. The Bishop of
Oxford said he thought it important to state in reference
to the resolutions passed last night, that that cosine had
been adopted in virtue of a resolution which had been
passed by the Lower House. He thought that resolu-
tions which their lordships bad adopted would meet with
general concurrence. He should, therefore, move that the
resolutions passed yeatenlay should be communicated to
the Lower House. The Bishop of St. David's seconded
the resolution. The Bishop of Gloucester end Bristol
presented a petition from the London Free and
Open Church Association, asking for their lordships' sup-
port in the objects contemplated by it. " The petitioners,
therefore, humbly pray that your house will adopt such
measures as may conduce to a restoration to the
parishioner, generally of parish churches now closed to
them by private appropriation, and the revival of the use
of the weeklyoffertory." The Itishopof Lichfield ex
his concurrence with the scheme, and the ArchbizErl
Canterbury said he should be glad to see such a principle
adopted if it could be found practicable in any way.
The house, after some further business, adjourned.
The Lower Hotme met in the Jerusalem Chamber, the
Ven. Archdeacon BICKEIiaTEITiI, the prolocutor, • .
Archdeacon Denison presented a petition from himself,
praying that all acts of the Convocation of Canterbury
should be supplied to the Convocation of York. Dr.
Leighton, as Chairman of the committee of " Gravamina
et Iteformands," stated that the committee bad made a
report upon the letter of Sir George Grey, the late Secre-
tary of State for the Home Department, alleging that
the convocation hail no power to reform itself, with the
assent of the crown, without the concurrence of parlia-
ment. This decision was given in answer to an address
from the archbishops, bishops, and cler,:y of the province
of Canterbury to the clues n, asking for the autho-
rity to make this reform. The committee re-
ported that the decision given by Sir George Grey,
on the authority of the Lte law whams of the
crown, appeared to be contradictory to the deliberate
opinion given by Lord Westbury, when solicitor-general,
and Sir F., rhillimere, the present Queen', AdYtcate.
The committee bad arrived at a contrary opinion to that
expressed by Sir George Grey's letter, and stated that it
appeared to them that if ancient precedents were to be
billowed, each archbishop might constitutionally secure
by his own mandate at his own discretion, a fuller reps-
saltation of the clergy than has of late years been
usual in each provincial synod or convocation respectively.
The committee also cousidered that the archbishop might,
with the concurrence of his suffragans. amend the mode
of election of the proctors of the clergy, by snaking it in
all dioceses of the southern province direct, instead, as is
now in souse dioceses, indirect. The consideration of the
report stood over. The debate upon the paposed Anglican
Synod was then resumed. The Prolocutor brought dews,
as a mes..age from the Upper Howie, the judgment passed
by their lonlahips upon ritualism, with a request that the
Lower House would concur in that judgment. It was car-
ried that the judgment and resolutions should be printed
before being oomudered. The Louse aim then prorogued.

I ROYAL INSTITUVON. —Yesterday afternoon, in
the course of a lecture upon sound, at the Royal Institu-
tion, Professor Tyndall exhibited for the first time a
clever experiment devised by BiW, the French philiwo-
- iker. By means of a polariscope mule of rhombi, of Ice-
land spar, placed in front of the electric lamp, the light
' was so polarised List nom of it ft il upon rh. screen. lie
then fixed a strip of thick plate.gl.Fs. alsmt three inches
wide and six feet long, in a vice, i.nd by rubbing it with a
wet cloth made it give off a musical wool, h1:C31121.2 of the
longitudinal vibmt.ons set up. The vice bit the strip ex-
! actly in the centre. and there the strain and pressure of
the musical vibrations were conse.mmitly greatest. But
glass under strain or pressure, a bas introduced into the
polarised ray, will let light pass through the polariscope.
Consequently, when the ray •ss allowed to traverse this
slip of glass near its centre. a broad disc of light appeared
on iuJ screen every time the glu.a act Up a 1111114 CA
but when the strip was at rest thc calc aeons crystals
would allow no light to pass.
IVH.La ANI. a ill of the late Mr.
William Cotton, F.n.s., D.C.L., Governor of
Bank of England, and sooty years a director. was proved,
in the London court, under 70.000/. ersonalty. The
executors are Mr. Benjamin Cottmi, the Mother, of Forest
House, Chigwell ; Mr. Henry Cotton, the sun; end Mr.
Edmund Hay Currie. The will is dated July 6, 1865, and
I there are two codicils (June and Nov., ltiAil, and the tes-
tator died ut his residence. Wslwood House, Leytonstons,
Essex, Dec. 1. ut the age of SO. He has lett considerable
property to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the sup-
port of the church of St. Paul's, Stepney, erected at his
entire expense, and leaves the patr.nage and advowson
thereof to his son, the Rev. Arthur Benjamin Cotton, the
present incumbent. He devises to his son Henry his
manor of Gibbins and Cleeves, in Essex, and leaves his
Bow-couimon estate in trust for his site for her life, and
after her decease he bequeaths the same amongst his eons
and daughters in certain specified portions.
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