The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-19 00:00:00

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ON

RITUALISM.

The. following further reply has been returned
to an address from a large number of clergymen and
churchwardens in the diocese of Salisbury by the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury :

"Addington-park, Oct., 1867.
" Rev. and Dear Sir,—ln the short answer I gave to the
address you forwarded me some time since, I informed you
that there were legal as well as theological questions in-
volved in my compliance with its prayer in the sense in
Atka I understood it, and that these would require niuuerkyi
careful consideration. You seemed to expect that I s
take some public notice of the late charge of your diocesan
in the way of censure or approval, in consequence of the
representations you made to me of some pasagea in that
charge. But your addrees proceeds upon an erroneous view
of the duties of an archbishop. As bishop of his own die.
moo he is precisely on the same footing with each of his
episcopal brethren in the provinces. Although be be prisms
ipter pares for certain purposes, yet that primacy gives
him no more right to interfere with the conduct of such
bishops in their diocese than they have with his, until his
action as metropolitan be invoked, for the purpose of ad-
monishing or coercing one of his suffragans, through his
court, on appeal in regard to an injury inflicted on some
party by that suffragan in the exercise of hie administrative
authority in his diocese. Ido not, however, gather from
the tenour of the address, that you make any such appeal
to my jurisdiction in the Court of Arches in the matter of
the charge ; so that it would be impertinent in me as a
brother bishop to sit in judgment on the charge of the
Bishop of Salisbury without such appeal, and premature
were /to pan any opinion with respect to it, when my
action as metropolitan might possibly be invoked to
peas a judicial mutant* upon it. The subscribers say
that they feel solemnly bound to resist the in-
troduction into their churches of the practices of
the ritualists ; but they do not allege that the bishop has
insisted in his chug. upon the introduction into all or sny
of the churches of his diocese of these novel practices,
which they assert they would feel bound to resist ; there is
a.cordinzly so far no ground for the intervention of the
metropolitan's authority. In conclusion, I 'oust express a
Isope that the novel variations from the established usage
of our church, which you intimate have caused the
alienation of many of its attached members in the diocese
of Salisbury, will not be continued after the report of her
Majesty's Commissioners ; that the restraint of all such
variations is expedient with a view to promote the peace
of the church.—l am, rev, and dear air, your faithful
friend and brother, "C. T. CANTAIT.
" Rev. Henry Moule, Fordington Vicarage, Dorchester."
The following reply has been addressed to the Arch-
bishop
" Bingham/ Melcombe, Dorchester, Nov. ]5.
" My Lord Archbishop,—ln the absence of my friend Mr.
Moule from home on business, he has requested me to ac-
knowledge in the name of ourselves and our co-signatories
the receipt of your courteous reply to an address for-
warded to you some time since from a large num-
ber of clergy and churchwardens in the diocese of
Salisbury. 11 bile submitting, as we needs must, to the
conclusions to which your grace has come, we can scarcely
fail to consider it somewhat hard that there seems to be no
possible Soye of shielding the church in this diocese from
the authoritative promulgation of such erroneous doctrines
as we believe our bishop to have set forth in hie late
charge, except by embarking in what experience tells us
is likely to be an almost interminable and ruinous lawsuit
in the Eeelesiutical Courts. I trust I have been guilty of
no impropriety in forwarding your grace's letter for publi-
cation in the Tines ne , and I have the honour to
be, your graces faithful and obedient servant,
" C. W. BIEGRA3I."

A deputation from the Home Cattle Defence
Association bad an interview with the Lord President at
the Council-office, Downing.etreet, on Saturday, on the
subject of the importation of foreign cattle into the port
of London. The interview was granted at the request of
Meters. Clayden (chairman), Blewitt, Maahiter, Sturgeon,
Eve, Burrell, Wolton, Keeton, Robertson, Westwood,
Joslin, Bunter, Spiffy, Jackson, and Boyland. Mr.
%Yeller, secretary to the association, was also present.
The deputation was introdeced by Lord nuance Cecil,
M.P., and accompanied by Mr. Selwin Ibbetion, M.P., Mr.
Charles Du Cane, M.P., and Sir Thomas B. Western,
Bart., M.P.
Mr. W. P. Andrew had an interview on Satur-
day with Sir Stafford Northoote at the India-office, on the
subject of the Euphrates Sallow.
Mr. Thomas Barley, Messrs. C. C. Raw-
Bas Imeldemt Uverpool Chamber of Commerce, P. W.
, member of council of the Climber, and Mr.
W. Barney, from the Manchester Chamber of Commerce,
had an interview with the Secretary of State for India at
the India.office on Saturday, the Nth blatant, on the sub-
tlest of the government 'army of the mete from Rangoon
Wotan Chins.