The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-03 00:00:00

THE LOWER HOUSE.

In the Lower House, after prayers, the Dean of ELY,
who acted as Prolocutor, suggested the propriety of ap-
pointing a committee of privileges to determine what
was the proper course of proceeding for the house to ob-
serve. The standing orders of Convocation, as they
stood, were quite inadequate to meet the contingencies
of the present time.
Dr. SPRY, in accordance with this suggestion, moved
that a committee be appointed to consider and report on
the privileges and modes of proceeding of the house,
and how far it might be expedient to make any standing
orders consistent with the ancient tifactice of the house.
The Archdeacon of LEWES seconded the motion.
The resolution, after some discussion, was put and
carried unanimously, and the list of members settled.
Dr. 'WORDSWORTH proposed the formation of a com-
mittee to consider and report upon schedules of grava-
mina and reformanda tendered by members of the house.
If the Lower House was to do business and do it well,
it could not be done in the house by passion or contro-
versy, but in committees, where calm judgment could
be exercised. To try the point, Dr. Wordsworth placed
a schedule drawing attention to the right of the Lower
House of Convocation to make a representation of grie-
vances to the Upper, and to the fact that by the census
it appeared that 5,000,000 of the population absented
themselves on the Sabbath day from public worship.
Considerable discussion then took place, and Dr.
Wordsworth's motion was finally adopted unanimously
in the followng form :—" That a committee of this house
be formed to consider such schedules of gravamina and
reformanda as may be referred by this house to it, and
report thereon to this house."
Archdeacon DENISON drew attention to the want of
professional trainingfor candidates for holy orders. There
was nothing to debar a man from entering into holy or-
ders at present but the existence of any notorious crime,
and he read to the house two resolutions to the terms of
which he hoped to obtain its sanction. There was no de-
sire on his part to interfere with the office of the bishop,
but so to deal with candidates that the onus might not
be thrown upon the bishop of rejecting or admitting
persons unqualified for admission into the service of
the church. He had to do for eight years with the
examination of candidates, and he could find no im-
provement in them. If they were to contrast the pro-
fessional training of the Church of England with that of
any other branch of the Church Catholic, they would
find it lamentably deficient. The last 10 years had seen
an alteration in the position of the schoolmasters of the
country which they could not shut their eyes to. He
warned the clergy that, if they did not take care, the
schoolmasters, trained as they were, would take the
teaching of the people out of their hands. He believed
that the clergy were in a position of very great peril,
and that they were taking no adequate steps to meet it.
The church should have a general system of professional
education carried out through the universities and cathe-
dral bodies. lie hoped that any attempts for the refor-
mation of the cathedrals would have that prominently
in view, thus making them of real service to the church.
Archdeacon Denison was proceeding in support of his
resolutions, when a messenger, summoning the Lower
House to the Upper, cut short his observations.
The PROLOCUTOR, on his return, astonished the mem-
bers of Convocation present by announcing that they
were called upon by his Grace the President and the
Upper House to nominate two committees of seven, to
act with committees of the Upper House, in accordance
with the resolution just passed by that house.
Dr. RUSSELL moved the appointment of the commit-
tees as desired.

Archdeacon DENISON pointed out the great import-
ance of the position in which the house was placed by
the command of the Upper House.
Dr. WORDSWORTH said that the order was imperative,
and could not be discussed.

The Dean of BRISTOL thought it was in the power of
the Lower House to refuse acting on the dictation of the
Upper House. The voice of a proctor in that house was
quite as powerful as that of a bishop in the other. He
did not set himself in opposition to the spiritual autho-
rity of the bishops by saying this, for they did not sit by
virtue of their spiritual authority only, and could be re-
presented by proxies.
The Dean of BRISTOL proposed, as an amendment to
Dr. Russell's motion :—" That the Prolocutor be re-
quested to inform the President that the house will take
the resolution of the Upper House into its consideration
at the next meeting."
Lord SA.YE and SEALE seconded the amendment.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and on a
division there appeared--

Present. By Proxies.
For the amendment ... 15 28
For the original motion 44 45

i‘raioTity 29 17
The proceedings then terminated, and the house was
prorogued.

THE COLONIAL EXPENDITURE BY GREAT BRITAIN.—
It appears that by a return to the House of Commons
that of the sum of 3,555.0731. 15s. 3d., the net military
expenditure was 3,003,2821. lls. 6d. in 1852. The civil
expenditure was 499,3501. Bs. ; and the naval expeoi.
ture, 55,717/. 4s. 11d. The expenses of the penal settle-
ments were as follows :-39,0251. 4s. 4d. for New South
Wales ; 199,2841. 16s. Bd. for Van Diemen's Land.
The Cape of Good Hope cost in the year mentioned as
much as 1,079,792/. 14s. Bd.
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