The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-02 00:00:00

LORD NAPIER AND LORD MAYO AT ADEN

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The simultaneous arrival of the new Governor-
General of India and the hero .of Magdala at Aden
gave occasion for an interesting demonstration in
their honour.: The address presented to Lord Mayo
was got up by natives of India and Arabia, the
president of the committee being a 'Parsee, and the
vice-president an Arab. The secretary-, who was also
a Parsee, read the address in. English with fluency.
The address presented to -Lord Napier was from all
the inhabitants of Men,. who were. naturally
much interested in: the war, in wtieh they
played a subordinate part. The city IN-air-decorated
in honour of the two celebrities. -An aAlitte. 260
yards long and two trininphal arches. enhanced. the
display, While a number of Arabs frontthe,interior,
in their national costume, added -to' .the iileturesque •
effect. Lord Mayo, in acknowledging the c :einpli-
ment paid him, declared- that it would beiiis::great
object in ruling India. to .preserve unbroken. peaCe
and to encourage every measure for the social and
material improvement of the people. LOrd Napier,
in reply to the . address presented to him, acknow-
ledged the assistance which he had derived in the
conduct of the Abyssinian war from the trading
community of Aden. rle observed that for his own
part he hadalways endeavoured, in his conduct towards
the people of India, to show the regard and just feel-
ing which the Queen and the English people
generally entertained for them. The departure of
Sir John. Lawrence was a matter of regret, but he
was convinced that Lord Mayo had come to India
with feelings of the warmest interest, and that he
would devote himself to protect the just rights and
promote the welfare of its people.
A GOOD SEA CAPTAIN.
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A passenger by the steamship Columbia during her
late perilous voyage from New York to Glasgow has
given a graphic account of the risks which the vessel
ran, and of the coolness•and courage displayed by her
commander. The danger to which the Columbia
was exposed needs no comment, as it arose from-the
very same accident which occasioned'the total loss of
the Hibernia very recently The accident to the
screw propeller occurred on the 4th of December;
nearly three weeks before the arrival of the Columbia
at Queenstown, and there is very little doubt that
had the captain been a man of less courage,
firmness, and energy, and had he been less ably
seconded by his officers and crew the story would
have been a sad one. The first intimation which the
passengers received of the disaster was the sound of
a violent knocking. They were naturally much
alarmed, but were reassured by Captain Carnaghan.
who told them that an accident had happened to the
propeller, which might delay their arrival in Glasgow.
The gentleman who writes the account was surprised,
on going on deck, to see the boats getting ready. He
was told it was a matter of precaution, andwas asked
to say nothing about it. After consultation with
the engineer, Captain Carnaghan tried to withdraw
the shaft and. let go the screw. The men stood
firm at their posts while the experiment was
made. The rush of water into the ship, however,
compelled them to replace the shaft to stop the leak,
and it was then determined to make fast the screw,
so that it could not again break loose, andthus the fatal
hammering on the stern of the ship, which threatened
every moment to carry it away, would be arrested.
The passenger, in question gives an animated descrip-
tion of the difficulties met and conquered during the
process, and of the active part taken by Captain
Carnaghan, who was hung over the stern by a rope
that he might superinteud the work more effectually.
The screw was made fast, and never moved again till
the Columbia was safe in Queenstown, her passengers
owing their liver, under Providence, to the courage
and coolness of her captain.
A REJECTED BISTIOP.
Some time ago Dr. Jenner, Bishop of Dunedin,
finding that his active and prominent participation
in English ritualist services had rendered him very.
unpopular in his diocese, deferred his departure, and
after a long delay he agreed to submit the differences
which had arisen to a diocesan synod, and to accept
any decision 'to which that body might come.
The Synod :has now decided that it will
be for the benefit of the Church that Bishop
Jenner should not take charge of the diocese,
and he is therefore requested to resign the
bishopric. Ile will be the more able to do this
because, although he has been consecrated three
years, he has not resigned his living, but has placed
in charge of it the Rev. A. Cherol, formerly curate
of St. Raphael's, Bristol, an " advanced " ritualist
Church. It was stated a short while ago that Bishop
Jenner had set out for his diocese, but the Church
.News of this week states that he was last month
taking part in services at a clerical gathering in
Albany, New York.

THE CHURCH IN NEW ZEALAND.
The primacy of New Zealand has fallen by election
to Bishop Harper, of Christchurch. This prelate
stands high in the public estimation, although he
has not the commanding abilities and force of
character which distinguish his predecessors. But
then men like. Bishop Selwyn aro not
to be met • with every day. Bishop Harper
has filled the sea of Christchurch since
1856. He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford,
and graduated B.A. 1820, so that he is probably
about 63 years of age. He was for sixteen years
before his consecration vicar of Stratfield Mortimer,
near Reading. The income of the see of Christ-
church is £OOO from lands . set apart by the Canter-
bury Association, and the interest of £l,lOO vested
in the colony. By the promotion of Bishop Harper
Earl Granville will be called upon to exercise his
Church patronage for the first time.
THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS ON CHURCH AND STATE.

The Religious Society of Friends in Great Britain
nave just issued an address to their countrymen on
the relations between Church and State. They begin
with a review of Church establishments generally,
and of the effects produced upon Christianity by the
alliance of religion with the State, so that the Church
became a political power. The Mosaic law, they
argue, was consistently national, because it could
produce its divine charter of incorporation ; but the
Toleration Acts of our own Parliament have rendered
the Church no longer national, and the Acts of
Uniformity are based on principles diametrically
opposed to the Acts of Toleration. The payment of
tithes was never compulsory under the Jewish law,
and it was not for some centuries after the Christian
era that any stipends were paid to ministers ; in fact,
not until they assumed to themselves the (Alice and
position of priests, which were never claimed in the
early days of Christianity. The Friends illustrate
all their . argument by references to the early
Christian writers. They attack the principles upon
which all State religions are founded, and they
make particular allusion to the question of the day.
The Church. of England in Ireland, they
affirm, is. especially objectionable. It is fourided
on compromise ; it is not national; it produces
arrogance on one side and irritation on the other ;
it tends to foster a spirit of narrow Anglicanism ;
it has secularised and weakened the Church by pro-
moting the abuses of patronage ; it keeps the people
in a constant state of pupilage and dependence on
the clergy. All these objections, in the opinion of
the Friends, apply much more strongly td the
English Church in Ireland than in England. Little
has been done towards its avowed objects, for the
proportion of Roman Catholics to Protestants in
Ireland is now greater than it was a century ago.
The society
ask if any really imagine that in removing
the existing legal Establishment the State would cease
to be Christian. " Can there be a greater fallacy P It
is not the State that makes the Christian; it is rather
the. Christian that moulds the character of the State."
It is noticeable that the pamphlet in question
emanates from the Society of Friends in Great
Britain only; the members of that body in the sister
island having as yet taken no part in the matter.

TUE RITUAL JUDGMENT.
The ritual judgment continues to give rise to a
large amount of correspondence. The Daily, .Nlivs,
as the organ of the philosophical Liberal party, is
evidently tfaiing, alarm at a decision which is now
seen to restrain the liberty of the clergy in a direc-
tion and to a-degree that was not at first' understood.
Our contemporary publishes a large number of letters
on the subject. One, from "A Liberal Churchman,"
commenting upon Archbishop Tait's letter to Mr.
Mackonochie, rebukes the Archbishop for his " cool
assumption" that the judgment has reference only
to one party, and calls upon him and other bishops to
panunit on CIA heat meatus of .enforeinz this_Judr&