The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-10 00:00:00

CONVOCATION' OP THE PROVINCE OP
CANTERBURY.
Convocation renusembled yesterday morning, and
as this VIII the firet day ea which the bishop met for the des-
patois of Weal besieges there was a large attendee*" of
members Oa the vestment questa. potties. were pee-
stinted ; one—. very large one, from the laity of Plymouth,
praying that their lordships would use their idleness to
prevent any innovations on the losignstablished usages of
the church. The Bishop of Londe., to presenting this
edition, expreseed his opinion that the petition oonveyed
the common sense view of the middle classes of the church
of Ragland. and that if the opinions of that great sad im-
portant class of churchmen were disregarded the church
would be plied in imminent danger. The Bishops of
Lincoln and Oxford expressed themeless strongly in
opposition to any imeova, and assinst say alteration in
the Rubrics. Oo the presew &Lion of a petition for the re-
form of eoevocation the &shop of St. Devid'e deprecated
any reform which would lead to the opinion that maroon-
tion would be useful in framing church measures, which it
would sot be. He considered that any addition to the
number of the lower home would be an usmised evil.
The bishops agreed in substance with the ameedasee: to the
addreee on the subject of the cal tie plague, and the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury explained that the name
why they bad not mentioned it was that it
might be • nineties on her Majesty's misstate,
who bad declined to accede to a day of rational humiliation.
A dimension upon the vestment question and the rubrics,
which lasted three hours and in which all the bishop' took
part, followed, the following resolution being unanimously
adopted :—" That this house desires to meow with the
lower hens" m the address meseeted to it, and that with a
view to granting its request, the lower home be directed to
inquire by a committee sa to such measures as may seem to
them fit for clearing the doubts and allayng the anxieties
to which the address alludes, sad to unsmuniedis to ibis
hoes' seeh neon and also the judgment of the lower house
upon it." This resolutioa was eonsounicatted to the lower
house through the prolocutor nod the archbishop then
directed the convocation to stand aijotrned until the let of
May. In the Lower House the dii cession on the question of
ritualism in the church WY resumed by the Dean of Ely,
who raid that. with the view of shortening the debate, he
bad the following addition to make to the resolution before
the house, which would perhaps tend s' do away with the
appeerance of oomitledoess which in the minds of some of
the members the resolution seemed to poems.:—' In
coming to this resolution the house by no means &stands to
express approval of any deviation of church order not in-
eluded in the expression ' excess of ritualism.' " The house
allowed the alteration. The Dean of Westmioster comas red
generally with the sentime. is of the Dean of Fly, but it
seemed to him that the resolution did not empress the
real merits and importune of the tees. The chief evil
was sot the ritualistic practices of themselves, but
their intrusion into churches, especially country churches,
where they were not desired. But there was a further
evil, namely, the clergymen might introduce them in defi-
ance of the opinion of the bishop, and althoueh he was not
inclined to pay too much deference to the opinions of the
bishops either iedividually or collectively, he was sorry at
the tone which bad been adopted by the extreme ritualists.
As to the ritual practices themselves, his own individual
opinion would have been to have takes oo notice of the
matter. Redid not think any opinion of this house would
convince those who had set at defiaoes the Primate of All
Eolarid. The real and essential safeguard against the evils
which might arise, and against any excessive growth of
ritualism, was the good sense of the mass of the dere,
and the people. After emaiterable further discussion,
Archdeacon Randall moved an amendment to the resolu-
tion, which amendment was subsequently altered to read
as follows : "That this resolution (the first psrsgraph) be
communicated to their lord-hips of the upper house with
an bumble request that they would take the subject into
their eousidesetioo, and adopt such measures as they shall
see fit in ousjuection with this house, for clearing the
doubts and allaying the anxiety that exist upon it." Even-
tually the last three utions of the Lean of El were
withdrawn in favour of resolthe amendmeet, and they whole
together were then put es one motion and agreed to. They
thee reed—" That this house, recognising tee evils which
may arias from an excess of ritualism, deprecates, never-
theless, soy attempt to avert those possible evils by the in-
troduction of changes in the Prayer-book ; that in coning
to these resolutions the house by no mans intend to ex-
press approval of any alteration from church order not
included in the expression excess of ritualism, " sod thee
the above addition by Archdeacon Randall. The hoops was
prorogued at 8 o'clock until May.

RAILWAY 811.18 IN PARLIAMENT. —Yesterday,
Messrs. Smith and Frere, the examiners into standing order
proofs, rammed their sittings at Westminster, and din-
poled of a vary loag list of bills. The fullowtog unopposed
bills were declared to have pissed standing sedan:—Ux-
bridge and Rickmansworth Gaslight and Coke
and City of London Gaslight sod Coke Companies, Gaslight
and Ooke Company, Leda Borough. Leads Improvonseot
Acts Amendment, Swansea Vale Railway, rota and Clyde
Navigation, Whitsbaven and FuniesaJinictioo and White-
haven. Closter, and Egremont Railway, Do went and Shot-
ley-bridge Rod, Bristol and Portishead Pier and Rail-
way ; Coniston G.e and improvement, Tabors Pier and
Harbour. Lougton Gas, Aldriurtos, Hove sod Brighton
Gar, Rydo Gas, Watling-street rod (Wellingtoe district),
Wesleyan sad Gaiters' Assursuem Society, Medway Docks
(No. 1, Railway, London and North Western and
Cockermouth and Workington Railway Companies, Hull
and Horvarea and North &stein Rails aye ; Tain Wa.or,
Bentham Railway (branch), Huddersfield and 111alifax Bad-
way ; Keighteah Central Wales and Casual Wales Ertel-
'ion Railways, Wantage sod Great Western Junction Rail-
way, Swansea Vale and Heath and Breccia Juoction Rail-
way, New Romney Railway. Wrexham, Mold and Goo-
nib's Quay Railway (additional capital), Fiume Gas, Stat.
ford, Churolibridget, Uttourber and Newport Beads, /Ra-
fael. Saodon and Fecleshall Roads ; Hull, Southbridge,
and the Southern Railway. The examiners disslared that
the standing orders had not berm complied with in the op-
posed pedtioos of the Loadoo. Brighton and South Coast
Railway (Surrey lines), the Croydon Direct Railway. and
the Brixton, Clapham and Wham Exteasion Railways.
The unopposed petitions of the Lancashire Ulgoll Railways
(Dee lines) sad of the Greenock and Ayrshirit Railway ware
adjourned until Monday next, and the further eossidsra-
Mon of the opposed Bridport, Lyme sad South Coast Bail-
way petals, was poopoaed until the 19th that. No ago
paaramm was seamed by the parties to the following neap-
Posed petitions —CAW** and Gonoislaks Railway, Clyn
Valley Railways, Banbury (borough) Extension, Meath and
Broom Railway (new !Me), Glasgow C.ty, Suburban and
Harbour Railway, Dorking Water. and tee Silken Rail-
way ; the result in each case being that the bills emu* be
re-ioserted in the examiners' list unless by order of tho
House of Commons.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office
yesterday to the Gorman of the Cape of Good Hope,
Natal, and Bt. Helena.
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