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LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 27.

Tee Bishop of Motional:a and Belem. dis-
cussed, on Monday, at his triennial visitation, two
very dissimilar interests of the Church—the
maintenance, in some form or other, of Church
hates, and the revision of the Prayer Book. The
success of Archdeacon HALE and the Duke of
idaitisoitoucti in the last session of Parliament
does not altogether assure his lordship as to the
future of the first. On the contrary, he is anxious
to press on the attention of his reverend brethren
the consideration that, unless they consent, both
speedily and unanimously, to a liberal concession,
the total abolition of Church Rates is only a
question of time. The Bishop appears to attri-
bute this tendency towards what he would
consider a disastrous settlement of tho
question to the increasing power of Dia.
sent as a political engine. Each year, he says,
there is a growing desire on the part of members
of the House of Commons to get rid, by some
means or other, of a very troublesome vote, which
must offend a large body of their constituents; and
each year the language of statesmen on either aide
becomes more hesitating, so that if some compro-
mise is not made before long, the bill for the un-
conditional abolition of Church Rates will be
passed by the House of Lords, in sheer despair of
finding any other solution of a disagreeable and
difficult question. It is with these convictions
that the Bishop recommends a solution like that
put forward by the Lords' Committee on Church
Rates last year, according to which persons
liable to the rate might be relieved from their
liability on making a formal protest year by
year. We think if the Bishop had placed
himself in a position to take a wider view
of the matter, he would have formed a different
opinion of the causes of the agitation aga'-uit
Church Rates, and would have been able to per-
ceive that a settlement such as he imagines would
prove no settlement at all.

Bishop BARINti need not go out of his family
for accurate information respecting the political
influence which he attributes to Dissenters. There
was a time when the leaders of the Liberal party
would undertake no subject of general importance
without taking pains to ascertain authentically the
opinion of representative men among the Dis-
senters. Thirty years ago the Dissenters bore a
vastly larger proportion to the body of th
Liberal party than they do now. The rea-
son hes on the surface. In the good old days, when
"Church and King" was, on every orange and
purple banner, it was difficult for a man to be a
Churchman and not a Tory. It is now different ;
liberal principles are the fashion, and the position
of Dissenters in the liberal party has been affected
thereby as much as that of the Anti-Corn Law was
by the conversion of Sir Rosser Past_ They
remain in undiminished and even in increased
strength the faithful witnesses to the doctrines of
civil and religious liberty of which they were the
tint confeseors, watching over their development,
and insisting from time to time on their faithful
application ; but those doctrines have ceased to
be their exclusive possession. They have
triumphed ; but their victory has been one not of
party tactics, but of conviction and reason. Bishop
BARINti us therefore unjust to the fair-minded
and enlightened men of his own communion when
he attributes their indisposition to defend Church
Rates to a willingness to yield to clamour what
they cannot concede to argument.
The Bishop denounces as a scheme of confiscation
the Ildl for abolishing Church Rates, which the
House of Commons has repeatedly sanctioned ;
yet he is ready to grant to the individual what ho
defiles to the Legislature. That which would be
confiscation if done by the wisdom of Parliament,
is to be lawful to the sectarianism, the avarice, or
the caprice of the individual. The proposition
subverts every notion of law and public obli-
gation, and on this ground has been op.
posed, as it ever must be opposed, by constitu-
tionalists and jurists of all parties. Nor can we
beheve that it is one which will find favour even
with those who are prepared to consider it with
exclusive reference to Church interests when its
practical bearings come to be understood. For,
conceive a Church supported not out of its own
inherited revenues, but by the payments of those of
members who have voluntarily submitted for
one year to be chargeable for its maintenance.
Its funds are practically a voluntary contribution,
and its business is transacted, according to this
plan, with closed doors by those, and those only, who
have entitled themselves to a voice by their pay-
ments. Can any one recognise in a Church so sup-
ported a national institution? In the words of Lord
Jourr Rcessu, remarking on Mr. Wstrots's
Bill, " You may maintain it, if you will, as a
" powerful Church, as a State Church, as a
" Church that is diffusing religion and morality
" among a vast number of people ; but when you
" have said to one person, ' You are to pay for
" ' the repairs of the church because you have
" the benefit,' and to his next-door neighbour,
" You need not pay because you have not the be-
" nefic you can only maintain it as the strongest

" Moto[ the community.'

Dr. Drama ter advocated

to the laity of his own

that bag - been said by

party in the heat

long as it was argued that compulsory levy
of Church Rates could not be foregone without
danger to public interests, it was only implied that
when legal pressure was removed Dissenters would
probably apply to uses of their own money
which is wanted for the amintenance of the
Church. But the proposition which Dr. BARINO
makes means this—that Churchmen will not
stand by their own principles, but will alloy
the fabrics in their hands to go to ruin. It implies
even something more than this, for it provides
a way in which the nominal and unfaithful
Churchmen may escape payment, and it reserves a
compulsory machinery to be used against the good
men and true who stand by their religion. It is very
unwise of the Bishop to disparage the voluntary
system, for as we see he depends on it, since
the Church Rate, in the form to which it would
soon be reduced under the plan he favours, would
become little more than a cumbrous device for
securing regularity and system in the offerings of
the faithful. Surely the help of Queen. Lords,
and Commons, and the sanction of legal penalties,
cannot be requisite to this simple end.

HER MAJESTY'S ARRIVAL AT COBURG.

A supplement to the London Graette last evening
contains the following :
" WHITEHALL, Mum. 26.
" The Right Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis,
Bart., has received a despatch from the Right Hon.
Lord John Russell, dated Sept. 25, 6 p.m.,
announcing that the Queen arrived at Coburg at
6 o'clock that afternoon."

ERR !LUZ...4I'IS JOURNEY.

Sarr. 94.

At half-past coven o'clock this morning his
Majesty the King of the Belgians, accompanied by his
Royal Highness the Duke of Brabant, her haploid and
Royal Richness the Duchess of Brabant, and his Royal
Highness the Count of Flanders, proceeded in his Majesty's
barge on board the Victoria and Albeit. They were received
by her Majesty the Queen, the Prince Consort, and the
Princes' Alice. The ladies and gentlemen of the suite were
in attendance. Shortly afterwards the Royal party entered
the barge of the King and went on shore, landing at the
Quay, where a guard of honour was stationed, and from
thence were conveyed, together with the attendants upon
their Majesties, in the carriages of the King of the Belgians,
through Antwerp to the railway station. The King and the
Belgian Royal family accompanied the Queen and Prince to
Vervieres.

At Aix-la-Chapelle, the Prince Regent of Prussic re-
ceived her Majesty at the station. His Royal Highness,
together with his brother Prince Charles, accompanied her
Majesty as far as Darew.
Colonel Count Gobs was left by his Royal Highness to
attend upon her Majesty to Mayence.
Lord' Howard de Walden, her Majesty's minister at
&nasals, travelled in her Majesty's smite from Antwerp
to Vervieree, where Lord Bloomfield, her Majesty's minister
at Berlin, awaited her Majesty's arrival. Sir Alexander
Malet was in attendance from Mayence to Frankfort, to re-
ceive her Majesty's commands ; and the British consuls at
the different towns upon the route paid their respects to
her Majesty.
At Frankfort the Princess of Prussia, with their Royal
Highnesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden,
received her Majesty, and afterwards dined in private with
her Majesty, the Prince Comiort, and the Princess Alice.
Prince Giorgio of Saxony celled likewise in the evening
to pay his respects to the Queen on behalf of the King of
:Saxony.

The Queen and Prince received at Vervieres by telegraph
the melancholy and unexpected intelligence of the death, at
7 o'clock thin morning, at Gotha, of the Duchess Dowager
of Saxe Cobourg Goths, stepmother to the Prince Consort.
gar Royal Highness bad for some time been in very pre.
clarions health, but there bed been no meson to apprehend
ea additional or immediate carve for alarm.

The Queen sad Prince proceed to Coboorg to-morrow,
and will live in strict retirement.

swam In the
nismoria of • thousand hearts in South Africa.
Addraines were presented in several of the villages through
which he passed. The reception in the city of Graham&
town was, however, the crowning part of the
affair. The 10th Regiment of the line, the local aosnbsd
and ride corps, and the pensioners, with some artillery,
Rao up an imposing military array. The civic authorities
and the population at large behaved with peat 214 end
"M ticsaand Mimi not the air with their cheers" whim
the Priam, needed by 1,500 because, who heed ced
M noel him, entered the town. A levee we haild by Or
G. Grey at Goveresneat-house, and vsy meammedy as
leaded. After thin the Prism went thud the elm*
ebbed the Botanical Gerdes, Hospilek end lErcemeek end
Lid the caner-stone al the " Abed Tower" of the sew
cotherbaL Deputations hem Blithest and other neighbour.
lag towns more in. Grahamstown was Illuminated at night
The festivities which took Awe next morning at faatlanas,
• park and house belonging to Sir Walter Carrie, were moot
interesting. The children of all the church and Wesleyan
mid missionary schools, with their banners and music, came
out in procession ; and so did • long line of swarthy Kaffir,,
me and women, u well-behaved and peaceable as the rest.
Ia the park there were triumphal arches and pavilion&
erected, where Prince Alfred, with the Governor and the
Bishop of Grahamstown, beheld the scene. A young oak
was then planted by his Royal Highness, assisted by Mr.
Deeper, the curator of the Botanical Garden, the bawd
playing the while the National Anthem, and the people
cheering lustily. A number of ladies were then presented
to his Royal Highness, Sir G. Grey, and General Wynyard.
His Royal Highness gracefully acknowledged the courteeke
of thou who were presented, "but seemed a little alistmeled
during the ceremony." It was now advanced in the day,
and the games were the next item in the programme of the
fête. But, excepting the throwing of the assegai at • mark
by some Kaffir; there was nothing done that could be a
novelty to the Prince. The mark was • wide-awake
about sixty yards distant. The first }Wilt sent the assepi
through the crown of the hat ; the others threw wide of the
mark or beyond it. The Prince kept the assegai of the vie-
tartans Kaffir, and rewarded him for his victory. After this
hb Royal Highness retired with his retinue to the refresh-
ment marquee, conducting Lady Currie thither. About
half an hour after the cortige again formed, and the Prises
returned to town.

In the evening there was a ball, and there were sixteen
boys of Grahamstown who insisted on drawing the Prince's
carriage, adorned with Chinese lanterns, down High-street,
for which service he invited them to the supper-room. On
the morrow, August 11, the prince, with the Governer
and party, left Grahamstown, and proceeded by Fort
Brown and Roonsp to Fort Beaufort, with ranch fun and
loyalty all the way. He then went on to Heald Towns, on
the frontier, an industrial school and institution founded
under Sir 0. Grey's patronage, and under the management
of the Wesleyan Missionary Society. The Fingoes who
have settled around the mission there, had held a meeting,
and made preparations for the occasion, and they came up
to Sir George Grey with a grateful address. It was Sunday,
and the Prince and Governor having inspected the institu-
tion, entered the (Wesleyan) chapel, where a native con-
gregation was assembled. The whole of the staff attended,
and the Rev. W. lame,' officiated. The sermon was in the
Kaffir language, end the conduct of the coloured people was
excellent. It was an interesting sight to see a prince, •
child of the greatest monarch in the world, worshipping
under the same roof with some 600 or 700 natives.

After luncheon the royal party west on to Arm, and
thence into British Kaffraris.

&ARR!AGE 07 THE LADY ARABELLA SAM
VILLE WEST AND 818 ALEXANDER BAN-
NERMAN.

The marriage of the Lady Arabella Diana Sack-
vale West, youngest daughter of the Earl and Counter
Delayer:, a :th Er Alexander Bannerman, Bart., was cele-
brated yesterday in the parish church of Withyham, county
of Suwex. The ceremony was performed by the Ron. red
Rev. Reginald Windsor Sack ville West, brother of the bride.
I r the church were present the Earl end °canter Dela-
Warr, Colonel Lord West, the Marquis sad llarettionew
of Ss'isbury, Lady Elisabeth Rimmil, the Hoe. Mr. sad
Mrs. Mortimer flacirville West, the Hoe. Mr. sod Mn.
William Edward Saari& West, Colonel and the Hon. Mrs.
Biddulph, ke.
Alter the ceremony the wedding party (limited to the
nearest relatives), who had alsernbled at Buckhurst Park
on the previous day, returned thither to a Vjeaner ; and at
2 o'clock the bride and bridegroom Wok their departure for
Radek!, the seat of the Marquis of Salisbury.

His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the
Donates Bernstorff have left Brighton on a visit to the
Duke sad Dunbar of Northumberland at Alawiek Opal*,
(mon whim*, they it:11 proceed on s tour of •aita in Bapt-
ism&

Maria Marchioness of Aileebury is now on a visit
sti Jarman Abbey, the seat of the lbsquis and Ms--
chimer cif Ailinbury, in Yorkshire.

Bir JOllll Lawrence was entertained at Glasgow
cm Tuesday morning at • magnificent breakfut by the
president and members of the Gaiter Club. Among those
present were Viscount Raynham, M.P., Sir Charles
Hastings, Hon. Arthur Kinnard, M.P., Mr. Robert Han-
bury, LP., the Re►. Dr. Norman IfLood, Rev. Dr.
Gethrie, the Lord Dean of Guild, Mr. J. M. Ludlow, Mr.
Napier Higgins, Captain Cain, R.N., C. 8., Col.uel Cid.
field, Mr. T. R. B. Daniel, Q.C., the Rev. Dr. Foley,
Rev. Dr. L'lniff, Captain Mitford, and • large numlier of
the mss/ dietingaisited visitors who are attending the
meeting of the Soda! ficienoe Congress, now being held in
Glasgow.

At a Court of the Governors, held on Monday,
the 24th instant, the Rev. C. Parsons Hobbs, M.A., Ws
senior carate of St. Lake, Chelsea, was elected to the
chaplaincy of the Bunklem Royal HospitaL

flzamt or nrs KARL or DERBY.-]

OF LADY EMMA STASUCTIS MARBIAOX.:TieES;I4 Derby
has been confined to bed at Knowsley Hall for the last few
days by la attack of gout. Inconsequence of the noble
cage illness, the eeponaals of his for Lady Emma
Stanley with Colonel Talbot, which were to have taken
place on Thunday, the 4th proximo, have ham eostPululd
for a week.—Lierrpool Daily Post.
CATIIIDRAL Arroneriliarm—The Ven. Anthony
Grant, D.C.L., vicar of Bamford, and Archdeacon of St.
Athens, has been installed into a cannery residentiot7 in;
Rochester Cathedral, in room of the Yen. Walker King;
M.A., archdeacon of Rochester, deceased. The canonry
will henceforth be attached to the arclulescourr of St.
MS's'. The Bishop of Durham has collated the Rev.
James Cerr, M.A., perpetual curate of St. Buds, South
Shields, to as hosonuy masonry in Durham Cathedra.
The Bishop of Cheater has collated the Rev. Edward Wool-
sough, M.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge, rector of
Northvale% near Manchester, to an aniisouy as Dry is
Chester UsthechaL

CONORZOATIONAL UNION OT ENGLAND AND
Weber'.—The annual meeting of this body was opened at
Blackburn, on Monday evening, by a devotional service in
Park•reed Chapel, Manchester. The first conference we.
held on Tuesday morning, in Chapel-street Chapel, and was
presided over by the Rev. James Hill, who read an elo-
quent address on the "aggressive character of the Christian
religion." A vote of thanks having been accorded to the
reverend gentkman for his adders.. Dr. Ferguson, of Lon.
don, mad a financial statement in connexion with the
Psalm' Retiring Fund. It had already reached 14,0001.,
bat it was the duty of the church to have the stun greatly
Menem& Dr. Brown, of Cheltenham, then moved--
1 "That this assembly le gratified to learn that the
contributions to the Pastors' Retiring Fund have
reached 14,000 f. ; that a much larger sum is needed
to meet the requirements of all our aged motors
who retire ; that the claims of the institution
be therefore urged on the attention of the pastors and
chordal@ of the denomination, so that the newly appointed
trustees cod the managers may be enabled without daisy
to administer these benefits to those who need timer." fie
supported the motion in a powerful aLmech, and
that their wealthy friends were sot suMclently
Eccles, 41 Mill-bill, Livesey, seconded the resolution, mad
hoped that they would take it into their serious colisident,
lion, and do all they could to pooh forward the noble obi's,.
The Rev. A. Fraser, of Blackburn, supported the molten.
Mr. Samuel Morley, of London, said he bad received a
letter from Mr. Freeman, renewing the offer to give 600 E,
if 4001. could be raised. lie (the 'pester) believed he
his name down for 1001. for every 5,000/. which we. mind
for the benefit of the fund, and s 8 be was &elms of ooh-
ing this 4001., he threw out a challenge that he would give
501. towards it if seven ethers would do the mine. Another
gentleman offered to give 50/. The conference room after-
wards ad and the members dined together in the
/brew Amem 7-mom. On Tuesday eight, a mierionery
meeting was held in the Aassinbly.roosi.

SIEGE OF ANCONA.
(0771CUL DISPATCI.)
MONTBACITM, Stn. 26.
The Brigade of Bologna and the Battalions of the
25rd and 25th Regiments of Bersaglieri have taken,
by assault, two of the forts of Ancona, namely, forts
Pelago and Pulito.
Our troops displayed admirable courage. An
attack on Fort Gardetto is imminent.
General Brignone has made four more officers and
78 soldiers of the Papal army prisoners.

(OFFICIAL IMPATCI3.)
MONTEACEITO, Sr.i 26, Emma.
"After • ahort combat the troops of the 4th
corps d'art's& occupied the suburb of the Porta Pia
of Ancona. The enemy with four pieces of cannon
is defending the gates of the town of Ancona."

TURIN, WZDTIODAT.
The King is about to leave for Bologna.
The Governolo conveys to Trieste 1,000 pri-
soners of war, lately mercenaries in the Austrian
service of the Pope.
A report is current that Signor Cattaneo has been
appointed pro-Dictator of Ns.
M. Ledru Rollin is at Naples.
The Opinions says :—" Signor Pallavicino has
left for Naples. He had been entrusted by Gari-
baldi with a mission here, to which it was easy to
foresee the King could not assent."

FRANCL
PARIS, TM:IB4IOAT.
The Moniteur of this morning announces that
the Chevalier Nita had an audience of the Ru-
psror yesterday, in order to take leave. Signor
Grapello, first secretary, remains to conduct the
business of the Sardinian Legation.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, THIJIMAT.
In yesterday's sitting of the Reicharath, M.
Strasser was of opinion that a modern constitution
framed upon K proposition would be
impossible for Austria. H. Strasser also stated
that he did not observe in the report of the com-
mittee any indication respecting the future position
of Austria towards Germany. He desired that an
additional clause should be inserted in the report,
expressing a will for the greatest possible int:macy
of relations with Germany.

SKRV!A.
SEILLIN, Bar. Kt, Evarusa.
Prince Michael Obrenovitch has issued a pro-
clamation announcing that he assumes the govern-
ment of Servia as hereditary prince.
Tranquillity has not been disturbed.

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