The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-09 00:00:00

The Lay Address to the Archbishops

Yesterday afternoon a large number of laymen, members
of the Church of England, attended at Lambeth Palace, for
the purpose of presenting to the Archbishops of Canterbury
and York the address which has been Eo numerously signed,
thanking their Graces for their recent pastoral letters on
matters which have recently been productive of some agita-
tion in the Church.

The Earl of RoatNEy read the following add ress,which had
been signed by 137,000 persons:--" To his Grace the Lord
Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Me-
tropolitan; to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of York,
Primate of England and Metropolitan,—We, the under-
signed laymen of the several provinces of England and
Ireland, hereby acknowledge with deep gratitude the pas-
torals lately issued by your graces to the two provinces
of Canterbury and York. Our fervent prayer is that your
graces may be richly endowed with wisdom from on high,
and may be enabled, with the other primates and bishops
of the United Church of England and Ireland, to take
effectual counsel for upholding, amid the peculiar dangers
of the present times, the Divine authority of Holy Scripture,
and the integrity of the faith, so that the Gospel of our Lord
and Saviour may be taught in all its purity among our •
selves and handed on, without diminution or addition, to
our children's children."

The Archbishop of CANTERBURY read the following
replyl:—" I accept
.with cordial satisfaction the expression
of your gratitude for the pastoral letter which I recently
addressed to the clergy and laity of my province under cir-
cumstances of no ordinary gravity. Articles of belief, which
had ever been held by the Church catholic and by all its
several branches, seemed to be impugned, and deep anxiety
pervaded the minds of a large proportion of the members of
our Church. I thus felt myself called upon to give my rea.
sons for having dissented from the recent judgment of the
Privy Council, The principle on which I proceeded is the
very principle laid down and recognised by that judgment
itself, namely, that such rule or teaching only is to be as-
cribed to the Church as we find to be expressly stated in
her Articles and formularies, or which are plainly in-
volved in or to be collected from that which is written.
The doctrines in question seem to me to be so
' plainly involved in or to be collected from' the
Articles and the formularies of our .Church that I had no
alternative but to dissent from a judgment which affirmed
the contrary; and it iA most gratifying to me to find that
the course I then pursued is so consonant with the views
and feelings of the large and important body of Churchmen
whom you represent. and that there is so resolute a deter-
mination on their part to maintain and uphold the cardinal
doctrines of our Church."
The Archbishop of Yonx said—l thank you most sin.
cerely for the address that has just been read, so far as it
relates to myself. I thank you for the support which it
gives to me whose experience in the episcopal office has
been short, and who would gladly have left the leading
part of these discussions entirely to older and wiser prelates.
Nothing but a strong sense of duty would have drawn
from me the pastoral letter to which the address is a reply.
I do not conceal from myself that these are times of severe
trial. The person of our Lord himself, and the divine doc-
trines that fell from His own lips, will hardly escape the

criticism which has begun with the book that reveals
them ; but, on the other hand, past ages have seen the
same sort of storm cloud the sky, and the storm has passed,
and the Son of Righteousness shines still unchanged in the
heavens, author of life and light to them that turn towards

Him. I am persuaded that this will be the issue now, even If
the storm be long, and many hearts fail because of it. The

duty of Christian teachers at this time is not difficult to see.
The Church of England is founded on the Word of God--
that is her law and her doctrine. She has no other weapon

against sin and evil in the world. Our duty is to be more
and more active in preaching the Word—more earnest in
the study of it. and of all that can throw light upon it—
more sedulous in presenting its warnings and consolations
convincingly to our people—more diligent in instructing our

children—more careful that our preaching shall not be an
echo of some past generation, but an application of eternal
truths to the needs of men and women in this somewhat
luxurious and self-indulgent, but intellectual age. If this
is the effect of our present troubios thQ:Church of Christ

may emerge from them chastened and strengthened for her
work of turning souls to Christ.
The proceedings then terminated.

The Wreck of the Steamship Stanley,

The second day's inquiry into the loss of the steamship
Stanley took place in the Town-hall, North Shields, on Wed-
nesday. The magistrates were Mr Alderman Joseph Spence
and Mr A. S. Stevenson, and the nautical assessors, Captain
Harris and Captain Baker. Mr Hamel represented the
Board of Trade, Mr George Kenny appeared for Mr How-
ling, the master; and Mr T. Crawford for Main, the mate
of the ship.
Alexander Reid, an able seaman, gave evidence as to the
vessel making for the harbour, her wreck, and the state of
the sea when she got upon the rocks. He said the reason
why the crew had not fastened the rocket lines to the mast-
head when they were thrown over the ship was because
they (the seamen) were afraid the mast would come
over the side, the ship was rolling so very much. The
master called up the crew twice to fasten the haws, r to the
masthead, but it was not done, The crow never answered
the master.

William Young, a pilot, called by Mr Kenny, gave evi-
dence. He said—l have been 26 years under the Trinity-
house at Newcastle as a pilot to take ships out and in of
the Tyne. I know the channel quite well, On Nov. 24
I was in my coble inside of the bar, above the black Mid-
dens, about 200 or 300 yards, when I saw the Stanley take
the bar , and, according to my practical capctlunoe, she
took the bar in the mid channel. A vessel running be-
fore the wind easterly, with a high sea, always take a cant
to the north or the south according to the sea. This I
have noticed from my experience. When I lost the star•
board light of the steamer—namely, the green light—l
thought she had taken a cant to the northward. There is
a strong northerly current sets to the northward on the
ebb tide. She was then inside, off the first seabreak ; just
inside of the old Sparrow Hawk. I considered then that
the sea had taken the vessel on the starboard quarter, and
the tide had caught the port bow. This would make her
go against her starboard helm, and being a long ship she
would have very little chance to recover. if I had charge
of the ship as pilot, I should have brought her in the same
position; and if I had been there myself the same thing
might have happened to me, whether in daylight or dark,
whether by a light or a flag. We never stop for the lights,
so long as there is water for the ship. There were 20ft.
water, or a few inches more when the steamer came over
the bar. I looked at the scarp—our mark. The bar is
now seven to eight feet better than our old marks. The
scarp is 131 ft„ and adding seven or eight feet to this
makes 20ft. or 211 ft. There was ample water for her to
come in, and she was in the right channel. Since the loss
of the Stanley three barques have come on shore near the
same place, Two of them came there in the daylight. She
was sailing in and had no pilot. I believe that if the Stanley
had not been a. 5 crew she would have got a pilot, as she:was
supposed to be a Tyne screw waiting for her own pilot, most
of those having a pilot of their own, and refused to take
those merely offering themselves. The pilot steamer ran in
a short time before—about a quarter of an hour or 20 minutes
—with pilots on board. It the screws wore free to all the
pilots there would not be accidents with them on the bar.
Mr:R. Philipson, solicitor to the Newcastle Trinity-house,
gave evidence that tho Trinity-house of Newcastle could
not compel shipowners to take pilots in their turn, or to
make them employ pilots at all.
Mr F. Pattison, the keeper of the lowlight-house, was
examined at some length about the harbour lights. He ex-
pressed strong opinions that it would be a dangerous thing
to keep the harbour lights burning all night, irrespective of
tide, as he stated a ship's difficulties arose in an easterly
gale inside the bar, and opposite the Black Middens upon
the last quarter of an ebb tide.
The inquiry then adjourned.