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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 23.

IT would appear from the reply of the Arch-
bishop of YORK to the deputation which waited on
him on Thursday, that the Bishops, or some of
them, am looking forward to the time when they
may be compelled to take measures for obtaining
an authoritative declaration of the law as it
affects those extreme ritualistic practices in our
churches of which we have seen and heard so much

--
of late. The Ancumsnop spoke with a full sense of

the dangers with which these practices are attended;
but we may take it as certain that any invocation
of the tribunals that may in certain cases be thought
advisable will have the solution of a troublesome

question, rather than the annoyance of individual
offenders, for its object. Indeed, the language
which the leaders of the Ritualistic party have
been accustomed to hold gives the public a right

to expect that this is all that will be necessary,
and that if the recent attempt to revive ante-

Reformation usage is found to be contrary to the
law, it will be readily abandoned. Hitherto the
Ritualists have not only relied on a supposed
warrant to justify their own course,
but have occasionally claimed a degree
of credit for forbearance in not requiring its
observance by others. "Of the strict legality of

" the restored forms and modes of worship, .

" the use of incense, lights at celebration, and the
" Eucharistic and ancient vestinents,there can be

" no manner of doubt," wrote the reverend editor

of the Dircctorium ding/hoe/nun, in the preface to
the second edition of that work, in August lut.
Very recently, however, Sir ROUNDELL PALMER,
Sir livou CAIRNS, and two other eminent counsel,
have given a must distinct and decided opinion'
that those things are severally and altogether
illegal, and this opinion the Bishops adopt. On
the other aide, however, it is understood legal
opinions equally clear have been obtained in direct
opposition to that on which the Prelates rely, and
it does not appear that anything short of a special

judgment of the courts can set the question at rest.
Moat impartial persons will be of opinion
that a matter of this kind might bo disposed
of without resort to the law. Changes in
the mode of conducting public worship require
above most things to bo guided by sound judg-
ment and good feeling, and the Rubric plainly
indicates the resort of the clergy to the
advice of the Bishop for guidance in such
matters. The innovators have introduced prac-
tices contrary to the usage of three hundred
years, and the public have only their word that
the law is on their side ; nevertheless they proceed
as confidently as if they had a recent judgment
in their favour. The Rubric directs that when a
clergyman has any doubt as to the meaning of
the prescriptions contained in the Prayer-book, he
shall refer to the Bishop of the diocese, and, if his
decision be not satisfactory, to the Archbishop of
the province, whose decision shall be final. The
Bishop of LoNnuar lately said in the House of
Lords that " in many caeca when he had at-
" tempted to apply this solution he had been
" met by this answer, one which he believed
" amid not be got over—the Rubric said, if
" the clergyman had any doubt,' but these gen-
" tlemen always rejoined that they had no doubt,
" and did not want to refer to the Bishop, or
" Archbishop, or anybody else." But, as the
Committee of Convocation observe in their Report,
the Rubric contemplates not only tho case of
doubt in an individual mind, but that of diversity
of opinion between two parties, and in either case
resort is to be had to the Bishop for the quieting
and appeasing such doubt and diversity. It would
seem that if the Episcopal church polity were good
for anything it ought to furnish a mild domestic
authority adequate to such a case as this, and so
it would if all parties were animated by the spirit
of the system to which they outwardly adhere,
and which they are ready enough to extol when
obedience and the sacrifice of personal predilec-
tions are not demanded. But this is far from
being the case. It is to be feared that the Arch-
bishop of Yeas ton well described the temper of the
"P.,er-day alien he characterised
it as " insuborthhate, and proceeding from a spirit
"of self-exaltation and division." We should all
be sorry to see the Bishops harassing their clergy
by petty and uncalled-for interference, but the
practices now in duestien deeply affect the peace
of the Church, which has been disturbed no one
knows why, and which is still more seriously
threatened. A great outcry los been made in
times past against the authority of the Bishops;
but it certainly was never the intention of the
Church of England to make every beneficed priest
a pope in his own parish. At present, when a
bishop remonstrates, as it is his duty to do, he is
exposed to be told, as the Bishop of Lorimer was
lately told by Mr. STUART, " that he has as good
" a right to his opinion as the clergy have to theirs;
" that he may take all lawful means to effect his
"object, and that they will take all lawful means
"to effect theirs." This is not the spirit in which
the Episcopal system can be worked to advantage.