The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-14 00:00:00

THE RELIGIONS DISSENSIONS IN

ST. GIORGI &IN- T.111,-.SAST.

Yesterday there was a renewal of the scenes
which have given such an unpleasant notoriety to the
church of Bt. Citorgen•in-tbe But. The painful interest
which attaches to the &opiate between the rector and his
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parishioners ham indeed been rather increaMd then allayed
by the occurrences of the laid few days, in consequence of the
former having invoked the civil power to aid hue in combat-
Mug the opposition to his cletic►l proceedings. Having
failed to wear out opposition by pertinacity, he has at length
determined to put it down if possible with the asektance of
the metropolitan Folios force, and this has naturally excited
Sebago of hostility and bitterness which afford anything
but • pleasant prospect.
The attendance at the church yesterday morning wee la
Melt, to the eye of • 'manual., clearly indkative of
the melancholy state of things in the pariah. The
eburch gates were opened at Wf•paet 10, and from that
tier uctil 11 the number who mitered the sacred Dalian,
which is • large and handsome one, was exceedingly small ;
while it wee manifest that • large proportion of those pre-
sent were net denizens of the district, but visitorefrom other
parted the instropolia, led thither by various motives, in-
cluding, doubtless, in many cams sympathy with the rector
in what is probably considered la seem quarters as • gallant
*tamale with • rebellious Sock.
At twenty minute" to 11 there was witnessed the un-
wonted spectacle just foreshadowed. About a dozen
police:nem of the K division, clothed in their ordinary
attire, and under the command of Superintendent Howle,
entered the church, and, marching stealthily along
the different avenue', mated themselves in various pews,
being so scattered about that they would be enabled to
sae and hear anything which they might suppose to require
their official Interfered.. Their duty wee, as might be ex-

posted, a palely minkteriel owe. lieir biologies lies to eye
everybody, to catch every mod% to note every movement of
ladecorn ,re • sad, this being the case, they were ell without
prayer.booke, sad took port In the service, outwardly at
Isom, merely by varylog thdr posture, kneeling excepted,
sod sitting or iteadusg with the oongregstion. Although
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than pewees was elpected—it havi-og brooms gee._
known that the Home Secretary had authorised it—it never-
theirs anted a good deal of indignant amonishment and a
few whispering protests against such estrange intrusion. It
may be added that the attendance, though at first thin, was
afterwards gradually swollen to the dimensions of a large
At eleven o'clock there was, as on the previous Sunday
morning, a long procession ongoing of clergy and choristers
(there were, it is believed, only two of the former), who,
marching from the west entrance towards the altar stopped
abort before the latter and sesumed thaw usual choral pota-
tions ow either ode of the chancel Instantly it wee per-
ceived by the parishioners that the Rev. Bey= King was
not present, and had deputed the duties of his office to his
principal curate, Mr. Lowder, a gentleman who formerly
filled the post of curate of St. Bmetal", Paulin, and who in
Bt. George's-in-the-get does not appear to yield either an seal
or in unpopularity to his present superior. Toots ware
whispers, "He is gone to the fdioion•houee," "He dare
not oome," and so on • bat it was &fieriest& stated by the
police and by others—nsd the rumour appeared to be believed
by many panshionen—that the reverend gentleman's absence
wee caused by Mame. The service then comnbeand. It war,
with slight exceptions' intoning end chanting throughout,
beteg in Eta general external character • very clues approxima-
tion to the service of a Homan catholic place of worship. The
chaos, for the moat part Gregorian, were generally, in exe-
cution at least, of the noisiest dennption, leaving anything
like distinct articulation or intelligible reeponsr quite out of
the question. The lessons of the day were react, not by •
clergymen, but by a youthful member of the choir—a boy
apparently about eighteen years of age, who is stated
to be a candidate for holy orders, and whose
reading is certainly of that kind by which as little
meaning as possible is allowed to be conveyed by the
words of holy scripture. The first sounds of diaapprobation
seemed to be caused by the omisaion of the Litany. On his
announcing a portion of the 119th Psalm for chanting, im-
mediately before the Communion Service, the afitostuig
minister, Mr. Lowder, was met by coughs, which, taw and
faint at first, terminated in a loud chorus. During the Com-
munion Service there were renewed marks of displeasure,
arising probably from the minister's turning his back very
frequently on the congregation to face the altar. The pub-
lication of the DlStfiar banns was made by Mr. Lowder
from the altar; and it was satisfactory to perceive that ne
interdict has yet been Ired by clerical power upon 1:1111181•
tal rites, the list of anditlatea to the Male being a some-
what lengthy one. From the altar Mr. Lowder proceeded
straightway, &hind in his choral vestments, to
the pulpit, on reaching which, happily, be re-
frained from imitating the rector's conduct on the previous
Sunday morning, in turning his beck upon the congregation,
though, like him, he substituted for the motel prayer the
utterance of the formula "In the name of the Father, of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost." This abstention from one
previous cease of offence was manifestly received for the
moment sea symptom of conciliatory Intentions.
The text was the 14th chapter of St. John's Gospel and the
47th verse—" Pesos I leave with you, my pesos I give unto
era; not as the world giveth give 1 unto yin. Let not your
beset be troubled, neither let it be afraid." The sermon con-
sisted chiefly of a simple narration of the ministry and death
of Christ, followed by illustrations of the fulfilment of Christ's
promise in the history sod experience of the Christian church.
Peace was dwelt upon as arising solely from the embracing
of Christ's religion and the acting on its precepts ; and the
preacher urged on the congregation the necessity of being
true Christians, If they would have peace in their own
hears or peace in their dealings with each other. He con-
cluded in these words: " Let us each say to ourselves,
Have I pence la my own heart ? if I have not, I will seek
it this very day. Then we shall have the peace of God ;
then we shall have love for our neighbours • then all evil
passions and toupees will pass away as the morning cloud,
end we shall all love one another for the sake of Jesus
Christ our Lod."
The sermon generally was by no swans calculated to deepen
01 bat towards the close there were remarks which
was aimed at the prevalent opposition to the rector.
seri la to be implied, if not expressed, that no person
oak' be a real Chriedia who did not suppress his repug-
nance and cultivate a spirit of nook submission. Two or
three time during the discourse there was (perhaps on ac-
count of the apparent tenour of the concluding part of it)
an ebullition of coughs, which lasted only a few seconds;
but et its termination, as the preacher was descending from
the pulpit, there was a perfect storm of disapprobation, in
which coughs, hisses, and a sort of suppressed groaning
were intermingled. The pollee, in their several stations,
ware Instantly on the alert to detect the offenders, but then
apparently in vein, a& the uproar quickly subsided. The
offertory collection was afterwards made from pew to pew, in
little bags, coloured black and green, and ornamented with
010118444 When the proceeds were presented to Mr. Lowden,
at the sitar, there was another short outburst ninon es loud
ea that just mentioned, but which also mewed to defy detec-
tion. The prayer for the church militant was got through
without further interruption, the minister again turn-
ing his back to the people. The benedictioa followed,
and immediately after the procession of clergy
and choristers marched down the church, amid
stilled utterances of diseatiefactien, slightly pressed upon,
perhaps, is their route by the crowded and now retiring
assembly, but otherwise not inoonimoded, much lees
subjected to say person' violence. In fact, speaking gene-
rally, it may be said with truth that notwithstanding the
matufestatloe. already notiesti,which moaned at long in-
terval., the congregation could not by any impartial person
be considered deserving of the epithets riotous and disor-
derly ; the feeling displayed being nothing but a decest, as
some might say Irrepressible, protest In a case in which
silence might be construed into acquiescence. At all event*,
it would in these days be difficult to found a successful pro •
Boeotian upon anything that obviously occurred inside the
church. Oneida the sacred walls, however, the scene
after the service wee of a somewhat tumultuous character.
As the congregation were leaving the church a crowd lin-
gered in front of it, and gave vent to their feelings in audible
remarks oa what hat just taken place within on the absence
the rector, and on the penance of the ;oboe, this last
being &ideally a very sore point indeed. The spread
*emotives through toe crowd, and did their beet to discharge
the duties of their new and enornalons vocation of preservers
sad arbiters of church order and discipline. Presently Mr.
Lowder wee seen in the court-yard adjoining the parsonage
hours. He was instantaneously greeted with loud groans in-
terspened with cries of " rotten eggs, an allusion to on affair
In which he was once mixed up as defendant at St. Bo-
mbes. Two of the titterers of this cry were pounced upon
by the police, and taken off to the nearest station-house,
secompenied, or rather escorted, by a large number of sym-
pet liners. They were both youths, Thomas Duke and
0801111 Leathers, their ages being 18 and 16 respectively,
and their station in lite that of assistants to Mr. Nathan,
pawnbroker' of Ho. 9, Waterloo-terrace Comnierciel-road
East. The charge against them entered is the inspector's
book was that tit using insulting language calculated to pro-
, yoke a breach of the peace. They were immediately bailed
out by Mr. Toone, a member of the vestry, and will no doubt
appear before the magistrate of the district this morning.
Another person, a reepectably-dressed man of about 30 years
of age, had • demand made up= him by • policeman, se he
was leaving the church, for his name and Wrens, in cense-
wiener, as the latter alleged, of his having joined in the inter-
ruptions in the church, and having furnished them he was
allowed to depart. The crowd dispersed soon after the cot-
don= of the service.
At the rector's service in the afternoon, at the period of
opening the doors, half-past two there was • crowd of about
159 people waiting at the gates, divided into group', who
were discussing in a me-sided spirit the merits and demerit.
of high church and low church. But long before a
quarter to three, the hour at which the litany (which consti-
tuted the whole of this service) commenced, every pert of the
church wee crowded. Near the altar there was a consider-
able gather* of the rotor's friends, who had evident,
place themselves in that position to ptotect the officiat
clergymen from peened rudeness, which the hostile snits&
end espy obeervatione dame of the parishioners, and rate