The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-07 00:00:00

CONVOCATION.

The Upper House did not meet yesterday, the
bishops being engaged on the business of the Eoclesiastical
Commission. In the Lower House, which reassembled
at 11 o'clock under the presidency of the Venerable Arch-
deacon IncrEusruni, the Prolocutor.

Archdeacon SANDiOlif) moved that the words recom-
mended by the Upper House to be introduced into the new
canon, with the view of removing the objections of the
Convocation of York, be adopted—the words being in the
Latin canon, "Nisi qui ocean dominion aut per cetatem
caps.% extiterit," and in the English canon, " Unless such
pence he. received, or is competent by reason of age to
receive, the holy communion."
This was seconded by Canon SEYMOUR, who, however,
expressed his preference for words requiring that sponsors
should be actual communicants. He preferred the word
" partioeps " to " apex."
The Dean of CANTERBURY objected to the words as they
stood.

Archdeacon Diulisos held that the canons were the
common property of all the Anglican churches, and moved
an amendment to postpone the question until the colonial
bishops should have MW the opportunity of expressing
their views upon it at the meeting of Anglican bishops
next autumn.

The Dean of WZSTMINSTER thought the house would
but consult its own dignity and the general interests of
the church by postponing the mailer for the present, if
not for ever. The rubric which required that for every
male child baptised there should be two godfathers and
one godmother, and for every female child one godfather
and two godmothers, was the law of the land and of the
church, and that placed them under no difficulty ; it was
the canon out of which all the difficulties arose. It was
always easy 'to get the required number of sponsors if
they were unfettered by conditions which were anaemia-
siu7. Why not treat this canon as the others which had
been referred to a committee for general revision ? He
seconded Archdeacon Denison's amendment, but on dif-
ferent grounds..

Litimakdy the amendment was put to a show of hands
and carried by 28 to 21.
• • •

The remainder of the sitting was occupied in discussing
the report of a committee on bonne of marriage. The re-
commendations requiring the sane particulars lobe fur-
nished to the clergyman on the publication of banns, as to
residence, freedom from legal disability, and other matters,
as are required under the Disaentene Mamage Act to be
furnished to the registrar, were agreed to, while others
were postponed until this day, and the house adjourned at
half-past six.

The Monk Bretton Colliery Company, a new
finn, have just commenced to sink a new abaft about two
miles from the town of Barnsley. The mineral is owned
by Lord Wharncliffe. The shaft will be about 300 yards
deep, and when completed it is expected that the new firm
will give employment to a large number of miners.
Titsnea OUTRAUE.4 AT SHEFFIELD. —The commis-
sioners met again yesterday, end examined several wit-
nesses. Most of tLe evidence related to cases of rattening.
Mr. Overend asked for the books of the Sawgrinders'
Union, in order that he and his fellow commissioners
might know better what was meant by the frequent items
of "sundries," to which reference had been made. An-
other adjournment took place.
Tess MYMTERIOCM DEATH IN THE FOZEST or
FONTAINIBLEAU.—Tbe inquiry into the mysterious death
of a lady in the forest of Fontainebleau is being pursued.
The corpse has been identified as that of Madame de Mer-
tens, • widow. After the death of her husband she had
married an Englishman, but the union had been dissolved
in Belgium, and she had resumed her former name. She
was about 30 years old, and had lost a considerable
part of her property in shares of companies which
bad been unsuccessful. She, however, possessed
still about 10,000 fr. The woman who accompanied
her, and upon whom a certain amount of suspicion
falls, had only been acquainted with the deceased for a
few mouths. She has been subjected to an interrogatory,
and her dwelling having been searched several securities
belonging to Mme. de Mertens, were found, as well as a
revolver which she had lately purchased. She states that
the scrip had been deposited with her for greater security,
and that she had accompanied Mine. de Mertens to meet
a gentleman to whom the deceased bad givens rendezvous,
and that upon their meeting she had left thorn together,
and never after saw her alive. The medical examination
has discovered no trace of poison in the body.
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