The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-09 00:00:00

[TWOPENCE.

Men to afford you d des • f militita fur the oommeace.
r but of your law salt, ss far be my authority extrude.
seed sessorly my further, that if yes have any cheeps
forward of unsoundness of doctrine or other &rim
violation f the law of the-church, widely yorlhitak
can saran:fate, I shall be reedy • at um le hoar ant te-
Teats to.
"m-'Wits respect to the Rev. F. G. Lea, of whom yen copra-
plan, Met gt nilaroan has no Wave to minister term darn. ens,
and Linea required intimation fo be mat to him to dr sist
from to recitals till he obtains my fmtalsetherby. I have
written to Mr. laaohasoohfe, who is • licemed mete in lite
perish, desiring him to take Me emvios to the pariah chant
tall the rector's return.
" I lave thus stated to ymi "hat Is the poorer L
poseeic of interfering by my authovity personally to emotes
obediette on both
Atte of this minable oostroveray
!and I shell. DOW stun up my decision se imp e;te
this legal power. On tlmpne band._ 'sell on the than oh-
weidans at their peril to do their duty In preserving telt, la
the eburch, and brim* tea to Aide% aceordieg to
the statute. Os the crier bead, I prohibit all unusual vexa-
tions such sayou complain of is the esiabratLa of dicing
envie. I am ready, where lan summarily, to enf.roe
their dime, road if you desire It, I son ready to terther roe
primer-Dam in a mut of kw of those whom I C 411004 toys*
reach muncoarily. Any other complaint of violation of the
church's law I am ready at ma to invertigate, on its being
diattnetty pointed oat. Ido sot coriander myself entitled to
leer to order the alteration of the hoar of serrioe which yon
desire.
" You may feel at aver surprised that my power ea bishop
should go no further .than I have smiled ; hat, pm the
whole, ter my own part, I du not consider it se evil is the
church of Reeked that incumbents of_ mien's am Mew*
ell& so independent a reepeenbility, I sea Mead t•
am in most mum they 021116*
VINIIWONDer
parebiondre, d which twol old _ _ di _
manly IngfirllT spirit to 191 sapeneedat by an arbitrary ve-
terans of epistoler' dominion, As I law mid it is sot ivy
compulsory forte of lean, but by authority of a gentler kind
that a bishop meet effectively works; end I would now
shortly Consider, is the mooed Aim, how such authority
may avail solo tae premed misemble disputes.
" 11. If the rector, m the one Lied, and thole who oppose
hire on the other, hairs my right Chrirtbm spirit, they muse
be thoroughly ashamed of the state into which the
mirth le now btolght ' If the allegations which ham
reached me me to he depended m, bed inns ham mailed
themselves of the imitation which has bees Incited to bring
dishonoir on the worship of GA and the time of oar holy
religion. Ceder such eireemstances Mom members Of
our church cannot, I should think, hesitate as to the duty of
mbutitting their mimed quarrel for arbitration to him whom
God has Owed met them in the church for the very FM..
pee of keeling dilemmas. Up to this time, however,
have received nodietinct intimation from eitherparty of OM
willingness thus to guided by use an their biahop ; 'on the
contrary, some Indications have not been wanting, at lead
on one aide, that my mince will not be lie-
toned to tulles' it can bo penally enforced, If the
car were thus vohmtarity placed in my beads by both
, parties for biendly adjustment—if the clergy of the monk,
on the so. heed, commted to follow my directions se to ;he
ordertag Of the services and the vestry with the cher:h.
wardens, on the ghee hand, were equally willing to be
guided by my advise to the hest way of allayieg the us•
merely tumults which have arisen, I am TOT hopeful that all
Might yet go well. There has, I doubt mt, been no le*
of cosaciestionneses an both Wes, • bet na far as I. egit
at tjudge, than her, I am be to say, be es
si lark of kindly Christian oosiddention eseh other's
feelings. I earnestly beets* a 9 coneetned. for .
eake of the many ignorant end thougbden sesta is this
parish of Bt. George's, not to allow mother day to par
without taking such steps towards Christian reconelliatim es
may, by God's bionics, cod the present miserable dine
turbo:ma. Depend upon it some ma feel any a:Ai:faction fa
these church riots bat those who are the enemies of the
Lord drone Christ sad of ell tree Mirka.
" My Maim to the vestry is formally to request the reciter
to jviti with them in submitting the wards me to my epis-
copal sibitration—both reties binding themselves to *et am I
direct. little offer Y not made, or if, being made, it is not
sanded to, I do not see how I an aid the pariah is any
ether way that by each strictly legal interference ito 'I hare
indicated.
" I have the homer to be, sir, your obedient faithful 'er-
rant, " A. C. LONDON.
• " Lleachrino, Sept. IL"