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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 23.

THE Bishop of Bausstrav's Charge, being long
enough without the appendix to fill twenty columns
of the Guardian, is not likely to be printed in
any daily newspaper, for the Church of England
has no HENRY Cora. If we are to give an ac-
count of it, we must say that it is an exceedingly
able paper. It has neither the epigrammatic
point of Bishop Tinatwau., nor the mellifluous
ambiguity of Bishop WILBERFORCE'S charges, but
it is grave, thoughtful, and distinct in its treat-
ment of some of the most agitated Church ques-
tions of the day. It has been asserted
that its meaning is obscure. No asser-
tion could be more unjust. There are
some persons who only recognise clearness
in absolute propositions, and who are ready to
complain of darkness as soon as statements are
clothed with their needful qualifications ; and to
this class the charge may well seem obscure. The
document opens with some personal references,
marked by much tenderness, to those of the clergy
of the diocese who have died since the last visita-
tion, and then, after some minor matters have

been alluded to, the Bishop discusses the disputed
ecclesiastical questions which are attracting so
much attention to his opinions. The propositions
laid down as to the Real Presence and Absolution
are extreme, but they are stated in a charitable
temper, and in the softest of tones. The doctrines
which the Bishop considers himself bound to de-
clare plainly, are thus stated:
(1.) That certain men have had entrusted to them by
God, "as fellow-workers with Him," some supernatural
powers and prerogatives.
(2.) That, forexample, God has been pleased to give to
them, as His ministers, the power of so blessing oblations
of bread and wine as to make them the channels of con.
veying to the soul, for its strengthening and refreshing,
the Body and Blood of Christ.
(3.) That as Christ, our ascended Lord, is now ever
pleading His one sacrifice, so these ministers of Christ, as
His representatives, plead on earth that which He pleads
in heaven.
(4.) That God, who alone can forgive sins, has dele-
gated to these same, His ministers, the power and autho-
rity of ministering to those fitted to receive it the pardon
of their sins.

These theses receive ample illustration as the
charge proceeds. Thus, of the second, the Bishop
says that the priest, as the representative of Coeur,
and putting forth some of His delegated powers,
blesses the oblation of bread and wine, through
which blessing it becomes a sacrament, "and so has
"an outward and an inward part." The outward
part remains what it was before, except that it
has become a veil and channel of an ineffable
mystery ; " the inward part is that which our
" LORD took from the Blessed Virgin, which he
" offered to Got as an atoning sacrifice on the
" Cross ; it is His precious Body and Blood, and so,
" by virtue of the hypostatic union, CHRIST Himself."
This oblation is to be offered as a sacrifice ; it is
the LORD'S command, for the original words of
which " Do this " is the translation, mean in
Alexandrine Greek "Sacrifice this." Care is taken
to state that this is not a mere change to faith, a
presence, " in the heart, not in the hand," as
the Christian Year long had it, but an outward
presence. " Our Church witnesses that through
" consecration the Body and Blood of Omar be-
" come really present, and by this I mean ' pre-
" sent ir;thout us,' and not only 'in the soul of
"'the faithful receiver;' or to use words very
" familiar to you, my rev. brethren, the Body and
" Blood of CHRIST are present objectively and
" not subjectively only."
These are probably the passages which startled
the Rector of Burton Bradstock from his
seat, and united the five-and-forty church-
wardens at Bridport in a protest against the
charge. They are indeed, as the churchwardens
observe, at variance with the doctrines of the
Reformation period ; but they are such as are
taught in hundreds of our churches, and they are
none the worse for being proclaimed by a Bishop.
That acute observers of the signs of the times
should think the hour come for declaring them in
the high places of the Church of England
is a remarkable fact, and of course the doctrines
themselves are very important. The Bishop of
Ramisscar ought, however, to have credit for his
open and straightforward mode of proceeding.
He might, we believe, have chosen a more
effectual way of promoting sacerdotal;sni
than by thus stating its theory and in-
sisting on its evidences. If we could con-
ceive a prelate gifted with great eloquence, vigi-
lant, and of great capacity for labour, ready at any
moment to bear his part in ostentation, but
studiously harmless, demonstrations against
Ritualism,while carefully fostering the ultra-sacra-
mental party by the exercise of his influence and
patronage, we should expect to find in the diocese

of such a bisln ,p—although his voice might be
occasionally heard in Parliament against Roman-
izing practices—a greater awl more rapid develop-
ment of sacerdotalism than can be found in the
diocese of Salisbury, where, we believe, all chases
of the clergy are sure of tolerably fair play. The
Bishop of SALISBURY is not the prelate from whom
the Protestantism of England has most to him

THE American Fenian M'Aertery propounded
to the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland on Monday
a doctrine not often roundly expressed anywhere,
and least of all in courts of justice, but which we
suspect is received as a matter of course by the
class of adventurers to which he belongs. Being
asked why sentence of death should not be passed
on him, M'Arrmerr said, " I grant that there
" has been a cloud of circumstantial evidence to
" allow my connexion with the Irish people in
" their attempt for Irish independence, and I
" claim that, as an American and as an alien, I
" have a right to sympathise with the Irish people,
" or with any other people who may please to re-
" volt against that form of government by which
" they believe they are tyrannically treated." If
this were no more than a statement of the
grounds on which the prisoner justified to
his own conscience his participation in an
attempt to overthrow the existing govern-
ment of Ireland a presentation of the
reflections which sustained and corn.rolled him
under misfortune—it would be above criticism.
It takes, however, the form of a quasi-legal defence,
especially as the prisoner proceeds to argue :
" England sympathised with America. She not
" only sympathised with her, but gave support to
" both parties. Who ever heard of Englishmen
" being arrested by the United States Govern-
" went for taking up arms on behalf of the Con-
" federation of the Southern States, or their being
" placed upon trial on a charge of high treason
" against the Government f No such case ever
" appeared." This defence well illustrates the
looseness of opinion engendered by the American
civil war. M'ArrEary is an ex-Confederate
officer, and as such knew that our country-
men were found fighting on both sides. But
no one has over pretended that those who tough'.
for the North owned allegiance to Mr.
DAVIS'S government while the Confederates
early displayed sufficient military force to extort
the practical concession of belligerent rights.
As Englishmen, we should no doubt expect the
United States Government to treat any of our
countrymen implicated in the Southern rebellion
as well as the native Southern prisoners were
treated. M'Arreen, however, seems to ask for
more. The Irish Fenian% who have hitherto been
convicted have not professed to thinic it extra-
ordinary that they should be tried for high treason,
and their American sympathisers must be held
to have cast in their lot w,th them.
WAFFERTY has had fair warning. He was tried
last year, and then experienced British clemency ;
but he and such as he cannot be allowed to
trifle with the peace of this country. The execu-
tive government, it may be hoped and expected,
will spare his life, since no purpose could be
answered by an execution which would not be
equally served by a commutation of his sentence
to penal servitude ; but he ought to suffer some
real punishment for this second attempt against a
country that has done him no harm.

OUR CONTEMPORAREBE.
(THIS DAY.)