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PRICE 40. STAMPED, 51).

TILE RELIGIOUS DIS,•:ENSIONS IN

Yesterday evening there was a frightful riot, re-
sulting in the destruction of much of the church
property, in the parish church of St. George-in-the-
East. The morning service, at which the Rev.
Bryan King, the rector, preached, was compara-
tively tranquil ; the afternoon Litany service was
a good deal interrupted ; and at the evening ser-
vice there was such a scene as it would be impos-
sible for any language adequately to describe. By
six o'clock Cannon-street, in which the front gates
of the church are situate, was filled with people
who were anxious to obtain admission into the
church, and loud and imperative demands were made
that the gates should be thrown open. Awed, how-
ever, to some extent by the presence of a strong
body of police, there was no actual riot outside, but
at half-past six the public were admitted into the
church, and then commenced proceedings which it
will be our painful duty to give some description
of. Evening service at St. George's commences at
seven o'clock, and at a quarter of an hour before
that time the church was densely packed, there
being at least 3,000 persons present, of whom about
1,000 were boys who had come with the determina-
tion of making a row, and who took possession of
the galleries. Previous proceedings at this church
have been compared to a theatre on the first night
of a pantomime, but no theatre ever contained such
an audience as that which assembled at St. George's
last night. There was cat-calling, yelling, howl-
ing, hissing, and shouting of the most violent kind
—snatches of popular songs were sung, loud cries
of " Bravo" and " Order" came from every part of
the church ; caps, hats, and bonnets were thrown
from the'galleries into' the body of the church and
back again, while pew-doors were slammed, inciter
matches struck, and attempts more than once made
to put out the gas. In this there was a regular
organisation, but it was not successful, although
various parts of the church were at times placed in
darkness. During all this time the unruly mob
acted without check of any kind, for although
there was a strong body of police outside, not one
policeman was allowed to enter the church.
At seven o'clock a procession of priests and cho-
risters entered the church, and advanced to their
accustomed place in front of the altar. It was
headed by the Rev. Bryan King, the rector, who was
followed by the Rev. C. F. Lowder, and 10 or 12
choristers, habited in their white robes. Their ap-
pearance in the church caused intense excitement.
People jumped on to their seats, pew doors were
violently slammmed, and loud shouts of execra-
tion proceeded from every part of the church.
Mr. King, who appeared to be seriously ill, and
verty much depressed, took his place on the seats on
the south side of the altar, Mr. Lowder being on
the north. The latter gentleman said the first por-
tion of the prayers, Mr. King the last. Scarcely a
word was audible. Hitherto the congregation have
contented themselves with " saying' the responses,
in opposition to the choristers, who sing them ; but
last they indulged in responses which were not in
the Prayer-book, and which were nothisig short of
blasphemous mockery. At the close of the prayers
Mr. Lowder ascended the pulpit, and was hissed
and yelled at by the people with tremendous energy.
He was unmoved by these assaults, and gave as his
text, the Bth chapter of St. Matthew, 26th verse.
He spoke very energetically, but amidst constant
interruptions of the most disgraceful kind, of the
persecutions which in various periods of her history
the Church had been called upon to undergo ; and
adverting to the circumstances of that parish, re-
marked that the clergy had never more reason to
expect success in the conversion of sinners than at
present. He expressed his belief that when the
present persecutions ceased the Church would
triumph, and then exclaimed, with great force—
" Who is fearful for the everlasting Church of
Christ ?" This was followed by a general shout
of " ho's afraid ?" and loud and long-dontinued
laughter. The reverend gentleman bore this
indignity with apparently stoical indifference, and
when tranquillity had been to some extent restored,
addressed the boys present, remin ling them that
one day they might be laid on a bed of siekness,
when the awful sin of sacrilege which they
were then committing would rise up in judg-
ment against them. The boys, however, were proo,
against the reverend gentleman's serious and ear-
nestl
admonition, which they responded to with a
shout of derisive laughter. Mr. King, Mr. Lowder,
and the choristers made their way to the vestry-
room with great difficulty, being more than once
subjected to personal violence. At this moment a
cry was raised for the demolition of the altar, which
was elaborately decorated, and the threat would
have been carried out had not the altar gate been
valiantly defended by Mr. Stutfield, a son of the
county magistrate of that name, and one of Mr.
King's choristers. Over the apse or quasi altar is a
beautiful candelabrum, and this at once became an

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object of attack. Hassocks were collected from the

pews, and hurled at it. Many of them struck it,
and every moment it was expected that it would
come down. As it was, it was seriously damaged.
Anothei object of attack was the large cross over
the altar, at which hassocks and cushions were
thrown from the gallery. All this time there was
fighting, shouting, and singing in all parts of the
church, with no one in authority to repress it. The
scene at
,this time was perfectly frightful, and
would in all probability have ended in bloodshed,
had not Inspector Alison, upon his own authority
entered the church with a dozen policemen and or-
dered it to be cleared. Turned out of the church,
the rioters suggested an attack on Mr. King's
house, and many persons who went there were very
roughly handled. In the course of an hour Inspector
Alison had got the whole of the disorderly mob
into the street. A considerable amount of church
furniture bas been destroyed; the cushions in the
galleries were torn up and thrown into the body of
the church, Bibles and Prayer-books flew about in
all directions, and many of the altar decorations
have been injured.

VAC.IN O.LES, APPOINTMENTS, AND
PROMOTIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.

Foreign Department —The post of charge d'af-
faires and consul-general to the republic of Guate-
mala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Sal-
vador has become vacant by the promotion of Mr.
Wyke ; the vice-consulship at Mahon, Spain, has
become vacant by the death of Mr. R. A. Dalzell—
salary £300; the Hon. Henry Anson Cavendish
has bean appointed to a clerkship, and passed his
examination. War-office—Mr. Robert H. Byrne
has been appointed to the Military Store Depart-
ment, Woolwich, and passed his examination ;
Messrs. Alexander Thomas Christie, John Cranago,
and James Burke Marsh have been appointed to
temporary clerkships, and passed their examina-
tion. India-office--The office of precis writer, In-
ctian Correspondence Department, has become va-
cant by the promotion of the Hon. Gerald C. Tal-
bot ; the Hon. Gerald C. Talbot has been appointed
inspector-general of stores at the Military Stores
Department of the India-office, vice General J. G.
Bonner, retired—salary, £1,200. General Post-
office—Mr.? C. S. Ralph has been appointed to a
clerkship at Ipswich, and passed his examination .
The Dockyards—Mr. R. P. Chaplin, accountant at
Portsmouth, has been transferred to Woolwich, vice
Mr. W. Pen fold, superannuated ; Mr. G. E. Gittens,
first clerk in the accountant's office, Portsmouth,
has been appointed accountant, vice Mr. Chaplin,
removed. Customs—Mr. Henry C. Manners has
been appointed a clerk at Hartlepool ; Mr. James
A. 'Walsh has been appointed third-class clerk at
Waterford ; Mr. John King has been promoted
from fifth to fourth class landing-waiter in Lon-
don ; Mr. K. H. Gough has been promoted from
sixth to fifth class landing-waiter in London ;
Mr. Charles F. Cannon has been promoted from
second to first class clerk in the Examiner's office,
London ; Mr. William Pitcairn has been promoted
from third to second class clerk in ditto ; Mr.
George Cook has been promoted from fourth to
third class clerk in ditto. Ireland—A stipendiary
magistracy has become vacant by the death of Mr.
B. H. Holmes, resident magistrate, Fermanagh.
East Indies—Mr. C. U. Aitchison has been ap-
pointed tinder-secretary to the government
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India in the Foreign Department ; E.
Downes, assay master of Bombay Mint, has been
appointed assay master of Calcutta M
has been Surgeonnp.
a
W. Collum, deputy assay master, ast
The bpointed assay master of Bombay Mini
fol-
lowing deputy magistrates anddeputy collectors
have been promoted :—Mr. C. J. Muller, to first
-
class, Patna; Mr. A. O. Wilson, to first class,
Burhee; Mr. W. It. Pogson, to first class Backer-
gunge ; Mr. C. P. Casperz, to second class, Tir-
hoot ; Mr. W. Sarson, to fourth class, Chittagong
Mr. W. C. Grant, to fourth class, Hoogley ; Mr.
W. Davey, to fourth class, survey department ;
Mr. A. D. B. Gomes, to fifth class, Sunderbmis ;
Mr. H. 11. Metcalfe, to fifth class, survey depart-
ment Mr F. J. B. Walker, to fifth class, Serej
gunge; Mr. J. D'Cruz, to fifth class, Serampore ;
Mr. A. C. Wright, to fifth class, Moonsheegunge.
Mr. E. Maltby has been sworn a member of council
for the Madras Presidency, and appointed Presi-
dent of the Board of Reyenue,—C'icil Service
Gagctfc.