The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-18 00:00:00

THE SEE OF EXETER.

Archdeacon Denison sends the following memorial for
publication :—To the Very Rev, the Dean, and the Rev.
the Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Exeter.—The
memorial of the undersigned, George Anthony Denison, M.A.,
Vicar of East Brent, Archdeacon of Taunton. Sheweth,—
That it is currently reported and believed that the
Rev. Frederic Temple, D.D., head master of Rugby School,
has been recommended by the Prime Minister for the vacant
See of Exeter. That your memorialist, in the year 1861,
moved for a committee of the Lower House of Convocation of
Canterbury, to examine and report upon the book called
".Essays and Reviews and that he was chairman Of the
committee. That it appeared to him then, as it appears
now, that the essay of Dr. Temple, being the• prefatory essay
of the book, has passages heretical in terms ; and, further,
that it contains the substance of the entire volume.
That it was, and is, impossible for him to come to any
conclusion other than that the volume was so devised
and arranged, that the remaining six " essays" or
" reviews " should proceed to develope in detail the prin-
ciples laid down and indicated in the prefatory "essay" of
Dr. Temple ; the several subjects being assigned to the several
writers by an anonymous editor, conversant with, and,
perhaps, intimating, the entire scheme ; and that, all neces-
sity of intercommunication between the several writers
being thus avoided, each one of them was enabled to say
that he was answerable for his own " essay " or "review"
only. That your memorialist has shown by an analysis of
the volume, published by him in 1361, that it is impossible
to ccme reasonably to any conclusion about the structure
and composition of the volume other than that horeir
stated. The Lower House of Convocation condemned
the book upon the report of its committee.
Dr. Temple has not recalled his essay ; nor retracted
the heretical passages in it, nor disclaimed sympathy
with the other "essays" nor even expressed publicly
his sorrow for having written and allowed it to be
published. That, regard being had to the facts herein
above stated, ycur roemeriaist is compelled to say, that,
if the appointment of Dr. Temple to the Sec of Exeter,
or to any other See of the Church of England, shall ho
carried out, a direct and intolerable offence and treason
will have been committed against Christ and His Church;
and that thereupon it will become the duty of every
Churchman to labour actively and steadily to dissolve all
connection between the Church and the State. Your
memorialist, therefore, respectfully prays that you will
withold your official sanction of and concurrence in such
appointment.

ART AND LITERARY GOSSIP.

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Mrs. Gordon, of Park-hill, N. 8., is busily engaged on
life of her father, the late Sir David Brewster.—Mt
Fetcher will leave England for the United States in the
course of December next.—The subject of Mr. George
Augustus Sala's forthcoming burlesque at the Gaiety
Theatre is " Wat Tyler."—Further works are to be
executed in St. David's Cathedral, in addition to
those which have been already carried on. The new
outlay will, it is stated, absorb no less than £ll,OOO.
£lB,OOO has already been spent on this cathedral.—
Miss Louisa Moore has been triumphantly successful at
Wallack's Theatre, New York. She appeared as Eva, in
Robertson's "Progress."—Titnest Park, near, Windsor,
which was occupied a year or two ago during the Ascot
week by the Prince and Princess of Wales, is for sale.—A
new monthly periodical, called the Oxford University Mag-
azine and Review, will appear on the 20th instant. It will
aim at being a high-class journal for University and general
circulation, advocating no party views in politics or religion
and enjoying th o patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
the Duke of Marlborough, Earl Beauchamp the Bishop of Ox-
ford Mr. Gathorne Hardy, Mr. J. R. Mowbray, Sir Roundell
Palmer, Sir J. D. Coleridge, Mr. Matthew Arnold, Mr.
Robert Browning, Mr. J. S. Mill Mr. W. Morris, Mr
Alfred Tennyson, and other eminent men, most of whet,
have been educated at Oxford. The first of a series of
articles is announced to appear, entitled " Under the
Scalping Knife, or Oxford in the Scales."—Mr. Henry
J. Byron will appear on Saturday, October 23rd, at the
Globe Theatre, in a comic drama of his own writing,
entitled " Not such a Fool as ho Looks." Ho will
sustain the character- of Sir Simon Simple, in which
part he was enthusiastically received in the provinces.—
A second edition of Mr. Murray's new monthly, The
Academy, was published on Friday. The first edition
reached 16,000 copies.—A handsome marble tomb has just
been erected in Kensal-green Cemetery to the memory of
Samuel Lover, the poet, novelist, painter, and composer.
It has been executed by Mr. Gaffin, the sculptor, of the
Quadrant, Regent-street. —A:new series of the Breitmann
Ballads may be soon expected. The principal poem is
" Hans Breitmann in Church," and is based on fact.—
Mr. William Michael Rossetti's new edition of Shelley's
works will contain, omong other unpublished pieces, largo
portions of a " Tragedy of Charles the First." The"Adonais"
will be corrected from the original edition published at
Pisa.—Mr. B. Brogden Orridge has been searching ardently
among the corporation and parochial records. One result
will be in a volume, to be published by subscrip-
tion, by Mr. Hotten, entitled, "The City Friends of
Shakespeare, with some Account of John Sadler and
Richard Quiney, Druggists and Grocers
of Buck.
lersbury, and their Descendants."—M. Alexandre Dumas
fils leaves Paris immediately for Constantinople.—lt is
reported in Paris that M. Auber intends to write a dramatic
scene, in which all the female celebrities of the time—that
is to say, Mesdames Patti, Nilsson, Marie Sass, Mario
Cabel, Carvalho, Bloch, and Marimon are to take part.—
Mr. John Warrington Wood, who in two years has risen
from a stonemason's yard in Lancashire to be the owner
of one of the most noted studios in Rome, and whose
statue of " Eve " attracted great admiration in last
year's exhibition, is at present on a visit to this country.
—The Abyssinian medals are being struck at the Mint, and
it is expected that they will bo ready for distribution by
Christmas.

It is stated that the Rev. Dr. O'Neill, president
of the Tipperary branch of the Irish Tenant League, has
telegraphed, on behalf of that branch, to Mr. John Stuart
Mill requesting to bo informed of his sentiments on the land
and education questions, and whether ho would be willing
to allow himself to bo put in nomination for the representa,
tion of the county.

With reference to an article which appeared in the
Pall-Mall Gazette on the connection of Green, the murderer
of Mr. Kyezor, with the discovery of the Cato-street
conspiracy, a correspondent writes :—" The man
who committed the murder at Whitton was cer-

tainly not Edwards, the Cato-street Government spy.
Edwards, with great patronage, established himself as
a dressing-case manufacturer. His shop was at the corner
of Orange-street and King-street, Bloomsbury. At his death
his son carried on the business, and after him the grandsons.
The whole family have been long dead."

A meeting of the delegates of the Dublin trades
and the members of the Amnesty Association has been held
in Dublin, to consider the best steps to be taken with the
view of procuring the release of the Fenian prisoners.
The meeting, which was largely attended, was addressed by
Mr. Butt, Q.C., who advised his hearers to suspend their de-
monstrations for the present, leaving the Government to
act. Mr. Moore, who afterwards spoke, disclaims a 1 sedi-
tions intentions. The time for talking, he said, was past.
The time for action had not come.

It is reported in Florence that a Royal decree will
shortly bo published finally regulating the relations between
the administration of religious affairs and of ju• tic') and
finance. The department of religious administration
has hitherto wished to bo self-governing and in-
dependent of the other State departments. This
loads to serious inconvenience, and has often been re-
gretted, without any Minister being able to remedy the evil.
This anomalous state of things is incompatible with the con-
stitutional regime, and will be put a stop to by the royal
decree alluded to.