The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-22 00:00:00

RITUALISTIC INNOVATIONS.

DIPCTATION TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
A deputation, for the moat part consisting of the
lame gentlemen as composed the deputation to the Arch-
bishop of York, afterwards waited upon the Archbishop of
Canterbury at Lambeth-palace.
The same memorial as in the other MS having been pre-
sented,
His Grace the ARCHBISHOP mid—l have alresuly ex-
pressed on a recent occasion, and I hope with sufficient
distinctness, my strong disapproval of the introduction of
novel vestments, incense, and other Romish observances
into the services of our church. In that disapproval a very
large number of the bishops of the united church of England
and Ireland have signified their concurrence, and I am not
aware of one who has dissented from it. A very decided
opinion has also been 'given by some of those most learned
in the law to the effect that these practices are in-
consistent with the law of the church. Under
these circumstances I will not allow myself to
doubt that those ministers of our church who,
with an unwise precipitation and without taking any
counsel of those set over them in the Lord, have chosen of
their own were mind and will to adopt such practices,
will feel themselves morally if not legally hound to
abandon them, and thus remove this cause of scandal
in the church. It is strongly felt that these innovations
' are but a mimicry of the church of Rome, involving in
some instances her erroneous teaching. It will be my
duty to pursue such a course as I may deem most effec-
tual for the discouragement and suppression of them.
At the same time, adverting to some expressions in the
address you have presented to me, I cannot refrain from
stating that the doctrine of the Real Presence, as rightly
understood, is one which the Church of England has ever
held, and which it will be always my duty to uphold. But
it is a real presence, as distinguished from the carnal pre-
sence, which our church distinctly denies. A real pre-
sence—that is, spiritual, than which, indeed, nothing can
be more real, because it is effectual for those purpores for
which Christ's body was broken, and His blood Shed upon
the cross—in the case of all such as„come faithfully to re-
ceive Him according to His own institution in the holy
sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
The Marquis et Wesfu rani observed that there was
not much hope, considering the length of time this Con-
spiracy had been going on, from any mmoustrauce to the
misguided persona engaged in it. It was unfair to the
bishops in general to expect they would be able to sustain
the responsibility of litigation, which was not only threat-
ened but actually put iu operation when they presumed to
stir in the matter. The incomes of many of the bishops were
not equal to protracted litigation in the ecclesiastical courts,
and life was really too short in the case of persons much
younger than himself to hope to see the men who introduced
the practices brought to reason in due time. Therefore,
considering the state of the church, she ought to have
power if advised by her responsible ministers to deprecate
what was going on. He could only hope that his graco
would apply to the State to give that assistance which in
this great emergency the church certainly required, and
that serious measures would be applied to the refractory
persons who were desolating the church and afflicting the
minds and hearts of all theme who were sincerely attached
to the church.
Mr. Ci.u.tuiterN thanked his grace for the courtesy ho
had extended to the deputation, and took the opportunity
of expressing his doubts as to this expediency of parliamen-
tary interference.
The Alice fil.nor replied that no one was more deeply
sensible of the critical position of the church at this
moment, or more earnestly desirous of adopting such mea-
sures as he really believed would effectually check and
suppress this movement. At the same time, it was not
for hint to commit himself to the expediency or otherwise
of parliamentary irnuference. The deputation might rely
that his heart was with them for maintaining inviolate the
doctrines of the cimmh.
The deputation then retired.

GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENTS WITH GALE'S
PROTECTED OC_VPOWDER.

Arrangements have been in progress for some time
past for testing on a large scale the etliciency of Mr. Gale's
process for protecting gunpowder from the danger of ex-
plosion when in store, and the trials took place on Wed-
nesday at No. 37 Martello tower, near Hastings. Five
tons of gunpowder, which had becu mixed with Mr. Gale's
protector, were placed in the tower, 160 barrels being stored
in the magazine on the ground fluor, and about 250 barrels
in the floor above. In three of the barrels were placed
fasces with a small quantity of neat gunpowder, and it
was arranged that these should be fired, one at a time,
from a battery which was placed at No. 3$ Martello tower,
about 800 yards distant. On the firing of the
first fusee no visible effect was produced. When the
second fusee was fired a small quantity of smoke was seen
to issue from the chimney at the top of the tower, and no
further ericet was produced ou the Pring of the third fusee.
After a short interval General Lefroy, with three other
gentlemen, entered the tower, and found that the heads of
two of the barrels coutaitliug the fusees had been blown
out, and a small portion of the contents had been scattered
over the surrounding barrels. The protected powder had
ceased to burn, and was nearly cool. The third fusee had
not taken effect. It was then determined to set fire to the
building, which was easily done, as the fluor of the first
story consisted of loose planks placed at a little distance
from each other, so that they would readily burn, as the
air could get between them. A pile of dry firewood was
placed on this floor ut the edge of the barrels of gunpowder,
and on this being fired dense volumes of smoke were
seen to issue from the door and windows of the tower.
It was soon evident from the colour of the smoke that
the gunpowder was being consumed, and although the
quantity of smoke was irregular and sometimes very
dense, nothing approaching an explosion ooeuned. Ge-
neral Lamy was soon so far satisfied of the non-exist-
ne e
danger that he allowed sever
owe to look
in at the deer of the tower to see the gunpowder
was burning. Two bands of protected gunpowder were
then placed on a pile of faggots, which were fired. From
this a large bonfire soon arose, as the flames were fanned
by a stroni breeze. The Me soon penetrated the
casks,f
and the powder was burnt away without any kind o
explosion. During this time the Pre in the tower conti-
nued to progress, and smoke, but no Same, steadily limed
from the openings. Occasionally a sudden increase in the
volnme of smoke indicated that a barrel had opened and
exposed an unusual quantity of powder to the
flames, bet so ccnfldeut had the gentlemen be-
'come who had witnessed the experiments that
they continually looked into the building, and actually
went inside the door to see how the powder was burning.
This they were enabled to do from the strong in-draught
of fresh air which entered at the bottom of the doorway,
chile dense volumes of smoke issued from the top, over
the heads of curious and daring investigators. The build-
ing was particularly well adapted for the purpose for which
it was used. The tower consists of a circular space, the
internal ilis-neter of which is about 30 feet, divided by ono
floor and covered with au arched roof which did not allow
of any escape upwards. If, therefore, any serious explosion
occurred it must have torn the building asunder. So
totally wee the explosive character of the gunpowder
mastered that, utter the fire had been burning for nearly
two hours, a window which hail been closed on one side of
the building was found quite perfect, and the glass was
broken from the outside in order to admit more air to
increase the fire. The arrangements were under the
superintendence of General tefroy. Nearly all the
members of the Ordnance Select Committee were present.
General St. George and many other °Ricers
nand gentlemen
were also present. The public were kept distance by
a detachment of the county police, a precaution which it
was quite reasonable to adopt, but which it soon became
manifest was quite unnecessary.