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LONDON, CH unSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1856.

WHAT TO LEARN.

THE HITCHIN MECHANICS' INSTITUTION AND
THE SOCIETY OF ARTS EXAMINATION.
The Rev. Dr. Booth, F.R.S , delivered the following
address on the opening of the Exhibition at the Me.
chanics' Institution in this town :
I shall speak to you this evening about the present aspect
of education in this country, and the probable future
phases of its development. I shall attempt to prove to
you that it is no longer a social want, that it has become
for us at least a political necessity. At Lewes, the other
day, I dwelt at some length on the various difficulties,many
real, many imaginaary, which beset the path of the learner
and imnede his progress. I showed that many obstacles
may be overcome by perseverance, while others may be
eluded by a little foresight, and that in the same way, as
happiness is not the exclusive enjoyment of the rich, nor
misery the unfailing lot of the poor, so the facilities for
acquiring knowledge are not so entirely the inheritance of
those who aro born to ample wealth, and abundant leisure
as the world generally imagines. Were it otherwise there
could bo no healthy circulation among the constituent ele-
ments of society. It would become stagnant. The rick
being in possession of every external social, intellectual,
and moral advantage, would never take the lower place to
make room for the poor man, bidden by the great Master of
the feast to take the higher seat. Having endeavoured to
show on that occasion how a young man should learn, I will
now proceed to discuss what it is he ought to learn. Now,
in the first place, let us contrast the present amount of
knowledge, wisely gathered and safely garnered up in books
for the use and advancement of mankind, as compared with
the-stock the world was in possession of some three or four
centuries ago. Because a careful examination of this matter
will plainly show you that there is much valuable knowledge
and much important information which the most highly
gifted, and the most indefatigible must be contented to con-
tinuo in ignorance of ; that no length of life, no am ount of
leisure, would enable a man to master the circle of the se:.
ences, as it is called ; and that the existence of an Admirable
Crighton, at all times a myth, has now become an impossi-
bility. We must introduce into intellectual acquirements
that principle of the division of labour which has long since
been admitted into and acted upon in the various depart-
ments of mechanical and commercial industry. Knowledge,
then, and ignorance, like virtue and vice, or pleasure and
pain, if they do not go hand in hand, are yet not far distant
from each other. Though the actual amount of our individual
acquirements may increase, our relative ignorance grows in
a much higher ratio, because the sum total of human
knowledge, in all its various sub-divisions of literature,
science, and art, is marvellously augmented from day to
day, nay from hour to hour. The horizon of human know-
ledge is widening and clearing up in certain directions,
while in others an impenetrable veil of cloud rests, and
over will rest upon it. Now, this individual increase,
coupled with relative diminution in the acquisition of
knowledge, serves to draw tighter the bonds of human
society, It makes us more dependent upon others, and our
neighbours upon us. We find the very same principle hold
in the community of nations. What would become of
commercial intercourse or national sympathies, or the
spread of civilisation but for this—that the means of sup-
plying the multiplied wants of man in society are to be
sought for in every clime. This makes the whole earth to
be virtually "of one language and of one speech." Two
centuries ago in this country, and indeed all over Europe,
learning was synonymous with erudition, a man of great
knowledge was a man who had road great books. In those
days the inquiry was not, is it true ? but who asserts it?
Belief was founded neither upon reason nor evidence, but
on authority. Truth stood a veiled form at the entrance
to the temple of knowledge, and her veil was not to be
hastily or rashly drawn aside. There must be esoteric and
exoteric teaching—that is, one form of doctrine for the
enlightened, another for the ignorant. It is not at all
strange that in the infancy of society] teaching should be
based upon authority, that the ipse dixit of the pro-
fessor should serve in lieu of demonstration. The old
Greek proverb applies as well to the childhood of nations
as to that of individuals. Ati itavOarovra ricrrsvEtv
the learner must have faith. The beginner must re-
ceive the elements of knowledge upon trust. He cannot
until afterwards know them to be true. So very modern is
that superstructure of science, in whose courts we all more
or less learn to pay homage, that 200 years ago, you will
be surprised to learn, mathematics were little known or
even hoard of in the University of Cambridge. The cele-
brated mathematician, Dr. Wallis, writes :—" Mathema-
tics were scarce looked upon as academical studies but
rather mechanical, as the business of traders, merchants,
isne azenn
London.
on. Among carpenters,
more
surveyors
(Emmanuel College), I do not know of two had more than
thano f 2
100 a nedt'uadnedn tasi na au:- me
oallkeegres
I, if so much, which was then but little, and but very few
in that whole university. For the study of mathematics
was then more studied in London than the universities."
What a change has since come over the spirit of the place.
For many years past mathematics, with classics, have been
cultivated at Cambridge, to the exclusion of the other not
less important departments of literature and science; but
it is a symptom of healthy progress that this contracted
fashion is passing away, and that Cambridge will vindicate
its just claim to the title of a university by recognising
the universality of knowledge. And indeed the change has
not dome too soon. Look at the now sciences which hard
started into existence and shot up into importance within
the last 60 or 80 years. One hundred and fifty years ago
the little science there was then discovered could only be
reached through the Latin original, or by the help of Latin
translations. It was in this way only that a man could
study the works of Euclid, Archimedes, or Apollonius.
So well established was this custom of burying living
knowledge in the tomb of a dead language, that Lord
Bacon having first thought out and written in English
his great work on the Advancement of Learning, had it
translated into Latin under the title of "De Angmontis
Scientiarum." Now, the range of knowledge is becoming
so vast, so entirely beyond the compass of any one man's
comprehension, however ample his leisure, or untiring his
industry, however tenacious his memory or intuitive his
intellect, that no one can hope to master more than a
small portion of our present knowledge. The possession of
a nugget or two of this vast intellectual treasure must
content us. The practical question with which you have
to deal is this, on what principle you are to make your se-
lection. Believe me, it is much better, under every point,
of view, to know two or three subjects well, than to have
a loose rambling sort of notion as to what several are about.
This is no needless caution at the present day, when a dili-
gent sitter out of lectures may during a session assist at
lectures on astronomy and astrology, optics and clairvoy-
ance, medicine and mesmerism, mining and music, electri-
sity and animal magnetism, geology and conchology, phy-
siology, and a whole heap of ologies besides. Do not ima-
gine that a man is at all the more clear-headed, or even the
better informed, for having all this farrago and jumble of
odds and ends, of bits and scraps of knowledge shot into
his memory, as a carter shoots rubbish into waste ground.
A man's mind which receives impressions in this way is no
better than the sheet on which one may see dissolving
views thrown in a chromatic exhibition. The figures mix
and bleed, and fade into each other; while on the other
hand, if you look through a telescope, although the ob-
jects you examine are but few, you recollect how bright
and distinct they are, how precise their outlines, how sharp
their edges. Much better is it for the traveller to have
exact information about a few prominent distant objects
by the help of a glass, than to gaze at a whole country's
side through a haze or fog. I believe these remarks are not
mistimed in this age of cheap books and light literature, as
it is called. You are not to imagine that every hour you
dream over a flimsy tale or threadbare fiction is so much
time cut off from amusement, and given to mental improve.
ment. The time thus passed in reverie over the pages of a
novel may safely be put down under the same head as time
passedin singing and dancing, or or any other like harmless
es
teedrso u
wtt the
ite
your greenb e f
from
fingero m sward.wiin water, n amusement. It is seldom better spent, and very often worse.
I am not finding fault with this kind of reading. I only con.
tend that it should not he sot down for what it is not. It
would be a pleasant thing for all of us if we could acquire
knowledge in this way, just as you farmers would find it
pleasant and profitable if you could grow wheat by merely
casting the e
reap knowledge than you can reap
:h i You can no more
corn without the sweat
mayothefwrits
rbrow,ite t
l
whether
ie r without.bu t you
must You
ese the chisel and the mallet—you must strain the muscles
of the arm—to grave thorn in marble. When light reading
was scarcely known, and novels were as ponderous as a
blue book on the currency, that profound thinker and acute
reasoner Bishop Butler observed : —" The great number of
books and papers of amusement which, of one kind or
other, daily come in one's way, have in Part occasioned
and most perfectly fall in with and humour this idle of reading and considering things. By this means time even solitude, is got rid of without the pain or
attention,l
neither is any part of it more to be put to the account of
idleness, or spent with less thought, than a great part o'
r,ald
that which is spent in reading"—and to the same effect
by another great authority :—" Nothing,"
says Du
Stewart, " has such a tendency to weaken not only 'the
powers of invention but the intellectual powers in general,
as a habit of extensive and various reading without reflec-
tion. The activity and force of the mind are gradually im-
paired in consequence of disuse, and not unfrequently all
our principles and opinions come to be lost in the infinite
multiplicity and discordancy of our acquired ideas." These
are very important points to be settled by you who pro-
pose to turn your attention to your own improvement.
What are the considerations which aro to determine your
selection ? For what point of the compass are you to
make ? While sailing down a river you want no compass
to guide you ; it is when launched upon the shoreless ocean
that you require the aid of map and charts and all the help

of scientific navigation to direct you. At the annual dinner
of the Society of Arts in the Crystal Palace last Midsum-
mer, our vice-president, Lord Ashburton, in his address
from the chair, wisely and well observed Let us but
remember what we are about—vre are fitting out man
for the struggles of life; we aro not fitting up a store-
house for the use of a philosopher. Man goes forth into
the world as a soldier goes forth into a campaign. His
wants are boundless, his means of carriage are small. Can
any service be greater than that of planning out and as-
sorting his pack of knowledge, rejecting all that shall cum-
ber his movements, selecting all that may afford materials
for the work he has to do ? Surely there is no more urgent
task for us to perform than that- we should employ our
wisest heads to consider man's powers—to consider man's
necessities—to consider man's position in relation to his
Maker, his duty to God, to himself, and to his neighbour,
and then decide upon what principle this small pack of
knowledge shall be composed which ho can advantageously
bear with him into life. This is the question of questions
question that dpermasntdasnfdorthites
philosopher,soliitionth and we highest
—aqualificationg of the priest
rave the question to be decided by the unlettered me.
chanic. Man's wants are boundless—his means of carriage
are small; life is short—schoolinio still shorter—knowledge
is istfinite—what shall his pack of knowledge be ? Now,
in reply to this important question, so forcibly put by
Lord Ashburton, one may, I think, safely lay clown two
general principles for our guidance in this difficulty. First,
that the knowledge in question may be used as an instru-
ment of intellectual development, as an exercise of the
understanding; and secondly, that this knowledge may be
capable of practical application. Regard not the acquisi-
tion of that knowledge which will not *And these two
teute. ..Now, let me explain myself, and -illustrate what I
am saying. I know of no mental gymnastics which can
stand for one moment in comparison with the study of logic.
I mean the ancient Aristotelian logic, with its whole theory
of syllogistic reasoning, and the perfectly rigorous demon-
strations by which the propositions are established. I be-
lieve that, as a whetstone for sharpening and putting a
fine edge on the understanding, giving great precision of
definition, and accuracy in drawing legitimate conclusions
from given premises, shutting out the trith or falsehood
of the premises themselves, the old login of the school-
men, as they are called, stands unrivalled and unapproach-
able. The study of mathematics under this one point of
view is not, in my opinion, to be compared with it. There
may, however, be some doubt as to the position the study
of geometry holds with regard to it; certainly none as re-
spects analysis. Now, notwithstanding all this, anti though
it had besides the prestige of centuries in its favour, the
study of the ancient logic has been almost if not quite
abandoned in all our universities. The spirit of sound rea
soniug still hallows their courts, but its outward form re

poses forgotten in the dust ou their shelves. Why was this?
Because the study of logic failed in this characteristic, be-
causo it was hustled out of its place by studies of more
palpable utility. Logic may have strengthened the grasp,
may have nerved the intellectual muscle ; but it provided
no well-detined mental engine, like mathematical analysis,
or the doctrino of atomic weights, which enable their pos.
sessors to master the stubborn resistance of nature. Your
labourers in the field do not practise gymnastics, because

they sensibly feel that their daily toil gives them quite
enough of muscular exertion. So, in our own day, men
cannot afford the time to whet their wits on barren studies,
no more than our merchants can afford to take exercise of

a morning by walking, when they are forced to rush into

town by the rail. Again, a knowledge of Roman law

would be a most useful acquirement; but how can any
one give his whole time to it, while new discoveries in
knowledge aro matters of daily expectation ?

THE CASE OF ARCHDEACON DENISON.

BATH, OCT. 22.

The arguments in this case were resumed. Theinte-
rest excited yesterday increased, if possible, in intensity
this morning, Judicious arrangements, however, were
made by the authorities, so that while every part of the
ball was filled there was no dangerous or uncomfortable
crowding.

Dr. PHILLIMORE, in rising to reply, said that his
learned friend Dr. Bayford had alleged that his (Dr.
Phillimore's) argument would go to this effect—that,
inasmuch as he contended that the 29th article was not
within the scope of the 13th of Elizabeth, there was no

censure to be passed on a clergyman for contradicting,
depraving, or impugning the articles, That was a mis-
take ; be was not contending that a clergyman was not
liable to punishment for depraving or impugning any one
of them. He was aware that clergymen were obliged to
sign the Thirty-nice Articles. What be maintained was,
that this particular statute did not apply to the 29th
article. The 29th article having been inserted after the
original articles were introduced, the Archdeacon was
exempted from censure. Lawyers who had given their
opinion upon the subject had done so without baying
their attention drawn specifically to the 29th article ;
their authority, therefore, could not be adduced against
the weight of testimony to be advanced from other
sources. It would be a most oppressive construction
of the statute, if there hung about it only a small
portion of the doubt which he thought encom-
passed it, to press it against the Archdeacon to the
deprivation of his benefice, Ile wai entitled to the great
doubt which existed as to whether the article was or was
not within the purview of the statute. If his Grace was
of opinion that he (Dr. Phillirnore) had established the
point for which he had contended, the idea of proceeding
against the Archdeacon for the 28th article isolated from
the rest was one which it was preposterous to conceive,
and indecent to entertain.

Dr. Lushington pronounced judgment lon the point
raised. Having alluded to the authorities on the sub-

ject, the learned judge overruled the objection.
Dr. Phillimore—Before the court proceeds to pass
sentence, I wish it to be distinctly understood that
Archdeacon Denison is perfectly ready to subscribe, ex
animo, tne Thirty-nine Articles.
Dr. Lushington, after consulting with the arch-
bishop, said—l am now expressing the opinion of his
grace, who desires me to say that if, even at this last
moment, the venerable archdeacon will make that revo-
cation which is required by the statute upon the two
points which are named in the declaration of the court
at Bath on August 12, as directly contrary and repug-
nant to the 28th and 29th articles, his grace is ready to
receive such revocation.

Dr. Phillimore—lt is impossible for me to answer
that question without entering into some discussion as
to what is required by the declaration, and what is re•
quired by the statute. I think the Court has included
in that declaration a proposition which it cannot intend
the archdeacon to revoke. It is impossible to revoke a
proposition that the holy elements do not undergo a
change. The archdeacon is called upon to deny a denial
of transubstantiation. I cannot advise him to do so.
Dr. Lushington—There are two propositions con-
tained in this declaration which the archdeacon is called
on to revoke. The first of these is—" That all who
come to the Lord's table, to those who eat and drink
worthily, and to those who eat and drink unworthily,
the body and blood of Christ are given, and that by all
who come to the Lord's table, by those who eat and
drink worthily, and by those who eat and drink un-
worthily, the body and blood of Christ are received."
The Court then adjourned for an hour.
On the return of the Archbishop,
Dr. Phillimore said—My Lord Archbishop, I have
had a conference with my venerable client, and I hope
your gr ice will he of opinion that, inasmuch as the de-
claration was modified by what fell from the Court, I
have not occupied any great length of time in holding it.
My venerable client is anxious that I should state to the
Court, in his own terms, his answer to his grace's re-
quisition. The archdeacon says :—"ln respect of the
receiving of the body and blood of Christ by the wicked,
I find in Article 2G the words following They that
receive them (the Sacraments) unworthily, purchase to
themselves damnation, as St. Paul saith.' I find in
the Catechism—' That a sacrament has two parts, the
outward and the inward. That the inward part or
thing signified of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper is
the body and blood of Christ.' I am, therefore, unable to
deny that the body and blood of Christ, the inward. part
or thing signified of the sacrament, are received by the
wicked to their damnation, and I disclaim receiving
them in any other sense. In respect to the worship due,
I am unable to deny that Christ himself, the thing signi-
fied of the sacraments, is to be worshipped in and with
the sacraments. I say, that apart from and without
the sacrament, wheresoever he is, he is to be worshipped.
I disdain any other worship." That is the declaration
of the venerable archdeacon which I now hand in.
Dr. Lushington.—His grace does not think it neces-
sary to say more than that this is no such revocation as
is required by the act.
Dr. Lushiug ton then proceeded, at great length, to
read the sentence, which concluded with the following :
The archdeacon having declined to wake the revocation
required of him, and having declared his firm adherence
to the substance of that teaching which the Court has
declared to be contrary and repugnant to the articles, it
becomes the duty of the Court to pronounce the sentence
required by the statute—the sentence of deprivation.
The learned judge added that the Court would allow
the costs as against the archdeacon.
Dr. Bayford intimated that his client (the Rev. Mr.
Ditcher) was willing to waive the costs.
Mr. Bathurst, the proctor of Archdeacon Denison,
gave notice of appeal.
Mr. C. Burchett, the proctor, who appeared for the
Rev. Mr. Ditcher, prayed the Court to limit the time
for the appeal.
Sir S. Lushington named Dec. 5.
Mr. Dyke then read the formal sentence of the Court,
which was as follows:
" In tlio name, of God, Amen.—Whereas, there is now
depending in j'Agment before us, John Bird, by Divine
Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all
England, aufid Metropolitan, acting under the provisions
of a certai•S act of Parliament made and passed in the 3d
and 4th Yjears of the reign of her present Majesty, entitled
Au Ac,i for better enforcing Church Discipline,' certain
cause or proceeding promoted by the Rev. Joseph Ditcher,
eslef.l4_,_vi.car of the parish of South Brent, in the county of

a clerk in holy orders of ',the United Church of England
and Irelend, Archdeacon of Taunton, and vicar of the
1 1
omro trei
right
hat, anti brought Canterbury, which . said cause of proceeding is pro-
entah°tiofn°
in
nertishhe of Exit B(ri.Le,npt,aitnh thanedsailvd ceollusn,ty of Somerset,andprovin province
eanodf
of East Brent, belongs to the I,,erd Bishop of the dio-
,reasusl,b,eyllreoafs,onint,haant
eithteoptahtreonsaagael
archdeaconry of Taunton, as of, jn, and to the said vicar-
agecese of Bath and Wells aforesaid ; and whereas we, rightly
and duly proceeding in the said cause or proceeding, issued
our commission under our hand and seal authorising and
requiring the commissioners therein named to inquire into
the grounds of the charges made against the said George
Anthony Denison ; and whereas the said commissioners,
having met and examined witnesses, transmitted to us
under their hands and seals the depositions of the wit-
nesses taken before tbem, and also a report of the unani-
;nous opinion of the commissioners present at the inquiry
that there was sufficient printa facie ground for instituting
proceedings against the said George Anthony Denison ;
end whereas articles were thereupon drawn up• and filed
as required by the said act of Parliament, wherein the
geld George Anthony Denison 'was charged and articled
touching And concerning his soul's health, and the lawful
correction and reformation of his manners and excesses,
and more especially for having offended against the laws
nd statutes and against the constitutions and canons
eicelesiasticai of this realm, by having preached three
sieveral sermons or discourses in the Cathedral of Wells,
s therein mentioned, and by having written, printed,
iiublished, dispersed, and set forth, or caused to be
rinted, published, dispersed, and set forth, the said
1 i mons respectively, with prefaces, advertisements, ap-
itns e)d appendices,
or
peanffidricemesd ,
I endices, and sundry notes thereto, and having advisedly.
' nt
sermons,
ainndeuncohtes,eerain p
:opresiftaicoenss,
oarddvoecr:
ztrie
*hies directly contrary and repugnant to the doctrine of
die United 'Church of England and Irelapd as by law esta-
blished,irthorscoannvdocbaitoonpshooflbdoeth
aptro
Lvoinncedons andin
and especially to the Articles of Religion agreed
re nwhiWolethcelearrchgy
e year of our Lord God 1562, according to the computa-
tion of the Church of England, for the avoiding the diver-
sjties of opinions, and for the establishing of consent touch-
ing true religion, or some one of them, and against the act
statute made in the Parliament holden at Westminster,
the 13th year of the reign of her Majesty Elizabeth,
queen of England, entitled ' An Act for the Ministers of
tlhe
Church to be of sound religion ;' and whereas the said
George Anthony Denison was duly served with a copy of
the said articles, and was duly required by writing under
our hand to appear and to make answer to the said articles;
and whereas we, rightly and duly proceeding in the said
cause or proceeding, with the assistance of three assessors
dominated by ue—to wit, the Right Honourable Stephen
tushington, Doctor of Laws, Judge of her Majesty's High
qourt of Admiralty of England, and who has practised as
an advocate for five Years and upwards in the court of the
Itrchbishop of the said province of Canterbury; the Very
Reverend George Henry Sacheverell Johnson, Master of
Arts, Dean of the Cathedral Church of Wells; and the
Rev. Charles Abel Heurtley, Doctor in Divinity, the Lady
Margaret's Professor in Theology in the University of
Oxford—having heard, seen, and understood, and fully
and maturely discussed the merits and circumstances, and
&o-
ceedings had and done therein, and observe all and sin-
Oiler the matters and things that by law ought to be
(*served, and having heard witnesses examined in proof
o the said articles, and heard advocates and proctors on
bOth sides thereon, did, on Tuesday, the 12th day of
Aftmust, 1856, pronounce, decree, and declare that the
ei htfirst articles filed against the said archdeacon were
13 oved, so far as is by law necessary ; that the 9th, 10th,
1 th, 13th, and 14th of the articles filed in the said cause
o proceeding on behalf of the said Rev. Joseph Ditcher
re proved, and that the charges therein made were es-
t blished, so far as is hereinafter mentioned ; and that
w ereas it is pleaded in the Said 9th article, filed in the
e d proceedings, that the said archdeacon, in a sermon
plinched by him in the Cathedral Church of' Wells, on or
sipout Sunday, the 7th of August, 1853, did advisedly
mbintain and affirm doctrines directly contrary and repug-
mint to the 25th, 28th, 29th, and 35th of the articles of
religion referred to in the statute of the 13th of Elizabeth,
chapter 12, or some or one of them, and amongst other
things did therein advisedly maintain and affirm ' That
the body and blood of Christ being really present after an
immaterial and spiritual manner in the consecrated bread
and wine, are therein and thereby, given to all, and are
reOeived by aLI who come to tbe Lord's table ;' and 'That
all who come to iLie Lord's table, to those who eat and
all who some to •the Lord's table, bythoae who
andliZ,tose who eat and drink un-
drink worthily, the bOdy and blood of Christ are given;
amid that by
eat anddrink worthily
the said archbishop, with the insistent.:
e and unanimous
worthily, the body and blood of Cti,:ist are received ; we,
sopcurrence of our said assessors, did determine that the
doctrine in the said passages was directly cie.leary and
repugnant to the 28th and 29th of the said articlt:s of reli-
gi n mentioned in the aforesaid statute of Queen' sliza-
beit h, and that the construction put upon the said artie2eB
of eligion by the Venerable the Archdeacon of Taunton, '
vi . that the body and blood of Christ become so joined to,
an ',become so present in, the consecrated elements by the
ac of consecration that the unworthy receivers receive in
tit elements the body and blood of Christ, is not the true
3r. n admisaable construction of the said articles of religion;
h t suchdoctrine is directly contrary and repugnant to the
Li h and 29th articles, and that the kr:eland legal exposition
if ...id artialea is, that ther 'body find blood of Christ are
tik,
en and received by the worthy receivers onlyy, who in
a ingand receiving the same by faith do spiritually' eat the
loath of Christ and drink His blood, while the wicked and
tnirrorthy, by eating the bread and drinking the wine with-
out faith, do not in anywise eat, take, or receive the body
,ntl blood of Christ, being void of faith, whereby only the
lody and blood of Christ can be eaten, taken, and received;
ell whereas it is pleaded in the said 11th of the articles
filed in the said proceeding that divers printed copies of the
said sermon or discourse in the 10th article mentioned, as
written or printed, or caused to be printed by, the said
Amhdeacon Denison, were by his order and direction sold
and distributed some time in the years 1853 and 1854,
within the said diocese of Bath and Wells; and whereas
the said sermon or discourse contains the following, among
other passages :—' That the body and blood of Christ being
really present after an immaterial and spiritual manner in
the consecrated broad and wine are therein and thereby
given to all, and are received by all who come to the Lord's
table ;' and ' That to all who come to the Lord's table, to
those who eat and drink worthily, and to those who eat and
drink unworthily, the body and blood of Christ are given ;
and that by all who come to the Lord's table, by those who
eat and drink worthily, and by those who eat and drink
unworthily, the body and blood of Christ are received ;'
wet the said Archbishop, with the assistance of our said as-
sessors, did determine that the passages aforesaid contain
a repetition of the erroneous doctrine charged in the 9th
article filed in this proceeding, and that such doctrine is
dfrectly contrary and repugnant to the 28th and 29th of
the articles of religion mentioned in the aforesaid statute
of Queen Elizabeth. And, whereas it is pleaded in the
14th of the said articles, filed in the said proceeding, that
divers printed copies of a sermon or discourse in th 12th
article mentioned as written and printed, or caused to be
printed by the said archdeacon, were by his order and di-
rection sold and distributed in the years 1853 and 1854
within the said diocese of Bath and Wells; and whereas the
said sermon or discourse contains the following, among
other passages :—' That all who come to the Lord's table,
to those who eat and drink worthily, and to those who
eat and drink unworthily, the body and blood of Christ
are given; and that by all who come to the Lord's table,
by those who eat and drink worthily, and by those who
eat and drink unworthily, the body and blood of Christ
are received ;' and 'lt is not true that the consecrated
bread and wine are changed in their natural substances,
for they remain in their very natural substances, and there-
fore way not be adored. It is true that worship is due to
the real though invisible and Supernatural presence of the
body and blood of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, under the
form of bread and wine. We, the said archbishop, with
the assistance of our said assessors, did determine that the
doctrine in the said passages is directly contrary and re-
pugnant to the 28th and 29th of the said articles of reli-
gion mentioned in the aforesaid statute of Queen Eliza-
beth. And whereas we, the said archbishop, thereupon
allowed time to the said archdeacon to revoke his error,
until Wednesday, the tat day of October, then ensuing
and now last past, with intimation that if no snob revo-
cation as is required by the statute of Elizabeth aforesaid,
should be made and delivered into the registry of Bath
and Wells by that time, we would, in obedience to the
statute, pronounce sentence in the said cause or proceed-
ing, which was therefore adjourned to this day, Tuesday,
the 21st day of October instant, and from thence been fur-
ther adjourned to this day. And whereas Cie said Vener-
able George Anthony Denison, notwithstanding the pre-
mises, bath not made or delivered any such revocation as
aforesaid, but doth still persist in and bath not revoked
his said error, and the said promoter, by his proctor, ear-
nestly praying sentence to be given, and the proctor of the
said George Anthony Denison praying justice without
waiving his protests; therefore we, the said John Bird,
the archbishop aforesaid, having first called upon the name
of Christ, and setting God alone before our oyes, have,
with the assistance of the said Right lion. Stephen
Lushington, the very Rev. George Henry Sacheverell
Johnson, Dean of Wells, and Rev. Charles Abel Heurt-
ley, our aforesaid assessors, and of the Right Rev.
Thomas Carr, a bishop of the Church of England, and
rector of St. Peter and St. Paul's in the city of Bath, in
the county of Somerset, and diocese of Bath and Wells ;
and the C. 0. Mayne, clerk prebendary of the Cathedral
Church of Wells aforesaid ; and the Rev. J. Thomas,
Doctor of Civil Law, sitting with us in the said cause,
with whom we have fully communicated on this behalf,
and having maturely deliberated upon the proceedings
had therein, and the offence proved, exacting by law de-
privation of ecclesiastical promotion, have thought fit to
pronounce, and do accordingly pronounce, decree, and
declare, that the said Venerable G. A. Denison, by rea-
son of the premises, ought by law to be deprived of his
ecclesiastical promotions, and espeoially of the said arch-
deaconry of Taunton, and of the said vicarage and parish
church of East Brent, in the county of Somerset, diocese
of Bath and Weds, and province of Canterbury, and all
profits and benefit of the said archdeaconry, and of the
said vicarage and parish church, and of and from all and
singular the fruits, tithes, rents, salaries, and other ee-
elesiastical dues, rights, and emoluments whatsoever,
belonging and appertaining to the said archdeaconry and
to the said vicarage and parish church ; and we do de-
prive him thereof accordingly by this our definite sen-
tence or final decree, which we read and promulgate by
these presents."
This concluded the proceedings.
During the day the court was crowded to excess, the
greatest anxiety being shown by a largo body of the
clergy and the general public to obtain admittance.

In consequence of the large number of blind and help-
les; Crimean soldiers who, in pursuance of directions
from tho Board of Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital,
are to be discharged from the invalid establishment at
Chatham, Brevet-Major S. G. Bunbury, commanding
the depot of the Medical Staff Corps, has received an
order to furnish a largo party of assistant stewards and
wardmasters to take charge of and assist in conveying
them in safety to their respective homes in various parts