The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-20 00:00:00

,THE . =MEW THURSDAY EVENINGI; finIBRIJARY '2O, dls4B

CONvocATION O
ER THE PROVINCL: or
CANBURY.

estonlaymorning the Convocation of the Province
of Cinterhury assesuhLel at Wee:winger, the Upper HOUVI
under the presidency of Cie .Archbishop of Cdatterhury.
On the presentation of • petition from the . English Chursals
Union, relative to the works oldie Her Mr. Voysey, an
animated conversation ensued as to the desirability of
considering whether the works should not be condemned.
At length it was agreed that, as Mr. Voysey was beneficed
in the province of York, the presentation of the petition
should be delayed. Their lordships then proeesded with •
debate on the clause of the Bishop of Loudou's resolutions
whisk affirmed "that the limits of ritual observances
should not be left to the uncontrolled discretion of indivi-
dual clergymen, and oughttherefore to bedefined by lawful
authority."
After • long discussions, in the warm of which the Bishop
of London said be bad received notice from two of the
curates of his diocese that they had joined the churl of
ROllle, the original resolutions, and the Bishop of Oxford's '
amendment were withdrawn, and the following, proposed
by the Bishop of Winchester, carried with but one &seen-
tient (the Bishop of Salisbury) :—" That the limits of
ritual observance cannot be left to the unrestricted discre-
tion of individual clergymen, and ought therefore to be
defined by rightful authority, and that therefore means
should be provided for enforcing the due observanu of the
rule laid down at the end of the rubric concerning the are-
vices of the church, with a view of duly interpreting di-
versely taken common rules, and, if necessary, for re- I
moving ambiguities in the existing law." This resolution I
was sent down to the Lower House, and their lordships ad-
journed.
In the Lower House, after the presentation of several
petitions and gravamina, Chancellor Massingberd gave
notice of a motion for the appointment of a committee to :
promote the unity of the different branches of Christ's
chuieb. Also of a resolution in favour of repealing the •
clause of 25 Hen. VIII., cap. '5, which imposes the
penalties of gravamina for neglect to obey the royal license
to elect, and when elected or nominated, to consecrate
bishops. Archbishop Grant move, i that the resolution
passed on the previous day for reading the encyclical be
communicated to the Upper House. This was seconded
by Archdeacon Denison and carried, but not unanimously.
Canon Seymour presented • gravamen, which hsmoved the
adoption of as an articulas deal, to be sent to the Upper
Howe (the standing orders Laving, by a division of 3-I
to 49, been [suspended for the purpose), to the effect that
the church of England accepted as vend the excommunicm
tion of Dr. Oolenso," and antil he be reconciled to and re-
ceived into the church by proper authority they would in
accordance with the 3.*d of th• 39 articles bold him as cut
off from the church and excommunicated. That they se
cepted the spiritual validity of the act of the Bishop of
L Cape Town in deposing Dr. Coleus) from his bishopric."
Archdeacon Denison seconded the motion. Canoe
13/akslayregrettedthatthemotionhadbeenbroughtforward,
and moved an amendment that it was inexpedient that the
gravamen should be converted into an artieutus teal. The
Dean of Westminster seconded this, arguing that they
could not, in a cue of this kind. separate the spiritual
from the legal question. Archdeacon Wordsworth sug-
gested that in order to avoid the inconvenience of the
motion being carried by only a small number, or the evils
that would follow if it were loot, the mover should be con-
tent with his (the archdeacon's) gravamen on the same
subject, which had already received the signatures of 37 of
the most eminent members of the house, many of them
of European reputation, and which would be more
consolatory to the church in South Africa that:
any formal, end, as it were, unanimous articuless deal.
, The Dean of Ely suggested an amendment in substitution
'el that moved by Canon Blake•ley, " That while fully sym-
pathising with the Bishop of Cape Town in the painful
position in which he was placed, and anxious that the
divisions in the church at Natal should, under God's good
providence, be healed, the house could not adopt the gra-
vamen, because it involved quertious of law, on which it
was not competent to decide." The amendment was put,
and lost by • large majority. The Dean of lily then morel
his amendment, which the Dean of Canterbury seconded.
Archdeacon DODidoll IZIO%da, and Archdeacon Wordsworth
seconded the adjournment of the debate, which was agreed
to, and the house adjourned at six o'clock.

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ALARMING RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR - THE
CLAPHAM Juscfrme.—The following appeared in ell f
second edition:—Yesterday morning, between nine and
tea o'clock, great excitement was caused by • pas-
=train running over an embankment between the
road (Battersea) and the Clapham Junction stations.
The train in question belonged to the London, Brighton,
and South Coast Railway, and left the Victoria station at
9 a.m. for the Crystal Palace. It was due at Clapham
Junction at 9.27, but on arriving about 100 yards from the
Pope Arch Junction the engine left the metals, ploughing
up the gr.aviC tearing away the sleepers and fantas-
tinily twisting the permanent way. The train proceeded
rocking and jolting for another lad yards, when the engine
and tender ran down a sloping embankment of thirty feet
in height, drawing the train after them. One carriage
followed on the steefurdzont, but owing to the engine
turning on its side, was stopped. On
the train coming to a stand-still, of the passenger
rushed out of the carriages, and took refuge in the field
at the bottom of the embankment. The extent of the.
Injuries the passengers has received has not been
yet correctly ascertained, but they were very severely
shaken. Some were attended by Dr. Conlin who is
attached to the company's staff, and it is raid they all
were enabled to be sent either to their nrsidences or to
return to Victoria for another train to convey them.
William Harrison, the driver of the engine, was preci-
pitated on to • fence of the field at the bottom of the
embankment. He was carried away by men in a severely
injured stereo The fireman, George Green, also was in-
jured, but u far as is known, not so severely as Harrison.
It is said that there was a third man on the engine and
tender, who is also injured. The company's officials were
very prompt in providing medical assistance to those who
were shaken and injured, and in affording speedy moats
to those who were able to proceed to then destinations.
The train consisted of eleven carriages, Including two
guards' vans together with an engine of 30 tons weight,
and the tender. There were three Ist clan carriages two
composite (Ist and 2nd), three 2nd, and the remainder
were 3rd claw
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—The
half-yearly meeting of the 'eters of this railway was
held at Manchester yesterday. Mr. G. Wilson, chairman
of the company, presided. The attendance was large.
than usual. An abstract of the report has been published
The chairman cougratnlated the proprietors on that =-
taffies source of their prosperity, the revenue of the
company, which showed an increase for the half-year of
00,0001. over the corresponding half of the previous year.
He reminded the meeting that in all the great measures
for securing economy in working, such as the substitu-
tion of coal for coke the adoption of the best brakes
(Newell's and Fay's), and in the use of gas for lighting
, this mpany had led the way. He explainedtrubjeliotugh co
directors had charged all the additional
expense to revenue of substituting heavier iron rails
far older outs, yet in the matter of steel rails It
had been deemed advi.able to charge a portion
of the cost, amounting to 3,0001., to capital If they in-
tended to have the full advantage of the substitution of
steel rails for iron, he thought this was the fair way
of dating the matter. Mr. Dugdale, vioe-chaimen,
mended the motion for the adoption of the report, which
wee serried. An amendment that the 30001. charged to
eipital Is the difference between steel and lieu rails being
be
to revenue being negatived, • resolution, moved rrled .Lever recommending joint action betweeni their
own board and the boards of other companies, with a view
to obtaining an alteration in the laws applying to oompen-
satin to porringers for accident, was adopted. The usual
metier' declaring the dividends for the half-year of the
Tunes stocks having been carried, Mr. Thomas Malden,
of Todmordea, moved that the annual allowance to the
17 direotors of 4,1031. for expense" be increased to 5,0001.
per annum, with the understanding that the extra 1,0001.
should be psid to the chairman, and the remainder be
' divided.' before. The resolution was carried amidst a,
good deal of cheeerninngg. The meeting was then made
special, and a nnolatica was adopted empowering the
asking of 600,0001. saw alum capital, by the issue of wee
51. shares.
TIN ALLEGED 017111A011 AT NOITINCI-HILL. —At
the Hammersmith Police-court, yesterday, Psedeak&
Snipe, the man of colour who was charged last week with
being consersed in robbing Mr. M'Keown, with violence,
seer the Notting-bill Railway station, was brought up for
re-examination. Inspector Oharlwood informed the me-
rate that, in a letterzht was. published. in Flaws,
otting-
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he prosecutor gmlb‘ediiy carried off the
main-read into a by-place, robbed, and ill-treated. It now
that the prosecutor went voluntarily into the
pCeir:rth the prang woman. Mr. lilreown said the
Weer was not published by his authority. Mr. Inborn
said he had se doubt the bleat man and thri other mite and
woman wen drinking in tho publiehouse when the prose-
odor entered, and Wooed ber to lean their company.
They walbeltogetber into &rivets place, followed by the
sew most probably from motives of jesloasy, but possibly
fie the purpose of getting mosey Gem hiss, and they beat
hist violently, It was quite dear that they did not in-
tend to rob him, for his watch and money wan left in his
poskels. The locket and lisoglass which tie mired were
I afterwards found on the spot where they had been. Ho
1 Oen sentenced the prisoner to be committed to the House
el Therection for two months with bard labour for the
atotalt.
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