The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-18 00:00:00

THE ST. ALBAN'S RITUAL CASE.

COURT OF ARCUEIL—(ram DAY.)
(Before Sir R. J. Phillinaore.)
Names a. stactenrocute.
The arguments in this caps were resumed this morning,
and concluded.
Mr. Prideaux said, before Dr. Stephens proceeded with
his reply, he wished to call the attention of the court to
the fact that the lit Edward VI., chap. 12, see. 4, upon
which Dr. Stephens relied, was repealed by the 2,;th
and 27th Victoria, chap. 125.
Dr. Stephens said this could not affect his agument. He
relied on the first Prayer book and the Act of 1662. Pon.
timing his argument on the subject of light, he remarked
that under the provision of recta passed in the reigns of it,.
ward VI., Elizabeth, and Charles 11., candles were directed
to be done away with except for the purpose of giving light.
Candles were not required for the performance of divine see,
vice sooordingto the iitesof the church of England. Theneo
to censers, in Elizabeth's time censers were systematically
destroyed. His learned friend, Mr. James, had given him
opinion on that point. He said, " I find myself unable to
arrive at the conclusion that it is now lawful to
use censers in any part of the service." In that
he agreed, and there he would leave the matter. He
then came to the mixed chalice, and on that point he re.
marked that notwithstanding the omission of any direr
tion for mixing water with the wine in the second Prayer.
book of Edward VI., in the Prayer-book of Eliz dxth, and
that of Charles 11. it might be said that the language
the rubric of 1646 might mean wine and water as wa as
wine. It was true that after the wins had been mixed with
water it was spoken of as wine, but it was spoken
of as wine merely for brevity. It was unnecessary to
speak of it with extreme precision as wine and
But there was no reason to suppose that when the wend
wine was used subsequently in the Prayer-book, and in
canons, anything else than pure wine was meant. en
this subject of the mixed chalice the Bishop of Exeter,
who he supposed would be admitted on the other side to ee
no mean authority, expressed a strong opinion in a charge
delivered by him at Truro, in 1866. The bishop said "he
had been told that there were among the clergy those wan
in administering the blessed sacrament departed fro:A the
custom and ordinances of the church of England, and by
so doing violated the solemn promise and vow male by
them at their ordination. Ile was told that there were
those who mixed water with wine which was taken
in this blessed sacrament. What right laud thy
to set up their own judgment and opiniou
in contradiction to the usage of the ancient church, and of
our own church ? At the time of the reformation it did
not please the Church of England to continue the pt
of mixing water with the wine, and the ministers of the
church had bound themselves to obey her injunctions."
The Dean of Arches—Suppose there had been no rubric,
could not this matter have been dealt with by the or.
dinary?
Dr. Stephens said undoubtedly it could, and whatever
power the bishop had before the reformation he still had,
except so far as it was taken front him by act of parka
meat. He laid down four propositions-1. That in Charles
I.'s reign the bishop exercised the power of making orders
with reference to service which they had power to enforce
out of court by means of the Vicar-OeneraL 2. Thattbis
power was exercised by a dean sad chapter as well as by
bishops.
The Dean of Arches—How would the bishop enforce it!
Dr. Stephens—By that most dreadful of all punish.
meats—excommunication. His third proposition was,
that the exercise of this power was subject to an appeal
to the court of the province ; and his fourth. that the
same power was exercised by Bishop Ridley by general in-
junction issued in his visitation. The learned cones-
went on to observe that the passages in the preface to the
Prayer-book were intended to be a description in popular
language of the power which belonged to the onli•
nary, which was the same as that possessed before the
reformation, which was not altered by the Acts of l'ni•
formity, except that the ordinary was prohibited flora
doing anything contrary to the directions contained
in the new compilations. If the several Acts
Uniformity we re considered in reference to the state of
our institutions and to the state of our jurisprudence when
they were mule—to the necessity of making them, to the
nature of the subjects embraced by them, and to the uni.
venally recognised canon by which the interpretation
our laws was regulated, it was impossible to arrive at any
conclusion, but that the practices now complained of were
not in accordance with the rites and ceremonies preeerib,l
in the Prayer-book. In conclusion he thanked his lordship
for the attention, patience, and courteq which he hal
shown during the whole course of the argument.
Mr. Priehmux, on behalf of himself and his clients, also
expressed his thanks to the court for the patience with
which all they had had to advance leap been heard, and the
courtesy which had been manifest to theni.
The Dean of Arches said he was much obliged to the
counsel for these observations. It was a eery arduous duty
that he had to discharge, and he h-el been greatly assistod
by the arguments of counsel.
The court rose shortly before 1 o'clock.

ILLNESS OP MIL STEEL, M.P.—Mr. Stool,
for Cockerel nub, has, we regret to learn, been surfeit;
from severe illness. We are glad, however, to he able to
add that the latest reports are more favourable, az!
although the illness of the venerable member assumed st
one time an alanniug aspect, he is now much better.—
Car/isle Juormal.
MILLIONAIRES.—Mr. Gladstone was compelled
in his last budget to mention the death of a private Moo
vidual, Mr. Thornton, whose wealth was w enormous
that the legacy duty received perceptibly affected tl,
national revenue. Mr. Thornton, however left only two ,
end a half millions, and the Coothciao, a respectable
Welsh paper, now declares that the property of the late
Mr. Crawshay, the ironuraster, the hulk of which n
Icqueathed to his youngest son, exceeds seven mallow.
If that statement is correct, of which we know noel_
but the Cambrian gives detail', Mr. l'rawebay must I,oe
been the largest, or nearly the largest, holder of persocalts
in Europe. The Rothschild' are said to hold their treat
as family rather than individual property, and we quest,
if outside that powerful clan there is a man iu Emote
whose spendable wealth, &pert from hi. %taled lands, much
exceed* rive millions, and there are probably not ten: eels
reach that figure.—Jpecteffor.
MCSICAL NOTES.—Female siners have been in-
troduced into the choir at Chester Cathedral. The goat
folks of Hong-Kong have been vi.ited by au Itsass
operatic troupe. The season is to open with Ii Proarov.
Dr. Sterndale Bennett's oratorio The Woman of Samara
is to be performed at the latter end of February in St
James's Hall, together with his cantata The Man fie".
We read that at York Minster on Christmu-day a no
feature in the shape of a processional hymn, " Holt thr
herald angels," was used, while the choristers made tleir
way te the choir from the western portal. From St
Petersburg we hear that Berlioz hes received deity
guished marks of appreciation ; the public eagerness is
bear his compositions being very marked. Among de
works performed with the greatest success were his over
tore the Camara/ ROM4iii, his caprice for violin Owl
by Wieniawski, his trilogy the " Infancy of Christ," be
sides songs and dramatic fragments. The fascinated
which the composer Wgner has so len-4 exercised over
the young King of Bavaria has been at length broken.--
Marital Standard.
WILLS AND BIQUESTS.—The will of Thongs
Quartersuaine, hotel keeper, formerly proprietor with Mr.
Lovegrove of the York Hotel, New Bridge-street, Black.
friars. and late proprietor of the Crown and Sceptre
Tavern, Greenwich, was proved in the London Court
ni
Probate by Robert Bacon,. of Birmingham hotel keeper.
and Thomas Mee Daldy,of Broad-street-bending., .rtirgeet,
the joint acting executors, To each of them he leaver
legacy of 100/. The will is dated April 8,1853, and a co.
dicil August 27, 1f464, and he died Nov. 21,180, at St. Gee
main-terrace, Illackbeeth, aged 69. His personal prep
was sworn under 50,000 L He directs his estate to beg
and leaves the interest of one moiety to his wife for bre
life, and the other moiety is to be divided amens, by
children in equal shares, on the sons attaining 25, and rte
daughters at 21 or marriage. The moiety invested for the
benefit of Mrs. Quartermaine, will, upon her decease, "
divided equally amongst their children. The will of Jaen;
Dewar, firm of Dewar, Son and Sons, warehousemen,
of
12, Wood-street, Cheepsicle, Nos. 4to 7, King'suar
yard, and of Dunfermline, manufacturers of table bad.
bible cover embowers, linen powerloom manufacturers.
ice, was peeved in London under 19/000/. personalty. '!w
will of James John Downes, of Highbury-grove, WOO"
late Actuary of the Economic Life Assurance Society. IF'
proved under 12,0001. personalty. The will of Moen
Harrild, of Shoe-lane, printer, was proved under 10,001.
personalty.—City Press.
&tree STRALING.—A bold case of sheep stealit4
occurred on Wednesday night at Ambford, near Stains
Mr. Benjamin Spittle, the occupier of Clockhouse Fare
left a number of sheep on an outlying piece of land, witbe
a few hundred yards of the police-station and some adjoin'
ing cotton on the ores hand, and the union workhouse,
as inn known the Stag and Hounds, and several pee
ie,
houses on the other. On Wednesday morning the she pi
diecovered that no los than 13 of the sheep were misting
and a minute inepeetion of the ground showed that a O
had been backed dose uo er. the hedge, where it was evi
dint the lag sheep badibigg put into it. Althoeglioriff
inquis iries were snap in all directions t o clue that vas
epos bas yst beat diaoorsred.