The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY E VEINING, JUL Y 1, 1869

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upon the altar.

Magazine for July.

PROTESTANT DEFENCE.

The East London Protestant Defence Association held
a meeting on Wednesday, presided over by the Earl of
Bandon, and addressed by Lord George Hamilton.
The Earl of 13ANDoN, in his opening speech, said : He
was afraid that very few of those who voted at
the last general election in favour of those who were
pledged to support Mr. Gladstone knew the meaning of
either disestablishment or of disendowment. What was put
before the electors were statements with respect to some
trifling difference in the social position of Irish Protestants
whereas the question which ought to have been submitted
t) them was whether the great religious victory achieved
by the Reformation was to be cancelled by Act of
Parliament. Church and State had ever been connected
since the clays of the patriarchs down to the present
moment, and if the nation would now give up the union
between them it would amount to this—that the
State took no cognisance of any religion whatever, and so
the people.would drift into indifferentism, and from indif-
ferentism into atheism and blasphemy. Mr. Gladstone's
bill was a most unjust one. He denied that. any of that
property had ever belonged to the Church of Rome.
He would ask the English people if the Protestants of

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Ireland, who had ever been peaceful citizens, who had
been at all times distinguished for their love of law and
order, and for their loyalty to the Crown, were to be
betrayed to the machinations of the Church of Rome and
of the Popish hierarchy. In all their calamities the Iri,li
Protestants had this consolation—they were au united
Church. In Ireland the Protestants had an open enemy
to fight against, but in England the enemy, in the shape
of Ritualism, was concealed, and preyed upon the very
vitals of the Church. These Ritualists were all opposed
to the Irish Church, and wished to destroy it, because it
had been at all times true to the primitive faith.
The Conservative member for Middlesex (Lord George
HAMILTON), also denounced very fervently the bill and its
author. A great deal (he remarked) had been said about
the verdict of the country ; but he did not hesitate to say
that the Irish Church Bill was as contrary to the opinions
of the majority of the electors of England as it was hostile
to the future prosperity of the country. It was an
infringement of the solemn treaty entered into with the
Protestants of Ireland at the time of the 'Union.
Noncorformists made great efforts in support of the volun-
tary principle,but he believed that theybad been thoroughly
deceived at the last election. They had been induced to
vote for the supporters of Mr. Gladstone on the under-
standing that not a sixpence of the Irish Church revenues
should be applied to the maintenance of Popery, and yet
the very first thing this bill proposed to do was to provide
a permanent endowment to Maynooth. Regarding Mr.
Gladstone as a veteran defender of Church and State, many
believed he was incapable of doingany injury to the Church,
and, besides, they gave him credit for being a man of gene-
roue impulses, but in all that they had been most miserably
mistaken. Instead of being a generous measure it was a
severe and sweeping one, for it was all nonsense to talk
about religious' equality in Ireland, where Popery was as
much an estabishment as any Church could be. They had
now to consider this question : Would it be an advantage
or a disadvantage to the Church of Ireland to be disesta-
blished? If it were an advantage, then whynot apply the
principle to the Church of England. If it were a disad. I

vantage, then IV hat right had they to inflict such an injury
on the Protestants of Ireland?

NORWEGIAN CHURCHMAIVSIIIP

We spent a Sunday at Odde, and were fortunate enougq
to witness a service. It takes place once in three weeks.
The rector is the brother of the Minister of War, and has
several other churches to look after. This arrangement is
in accordance with the principle adopted at the Reforma-
tion, by which several parishes were amalgamated into one
district, so as to provide a good income for one clergyman.
This was thought better than maintaining each parish a
separate cure as before, and having a poor clergy. The
result of this arrangement is that the Church privileges
of the laity are greatly restricted, but the clergy are the
wealthiest class of the community. On the Norwegian
Fjords the boat takes the place of the carriage in England.
A whole fleet of small craft lay drawn up on the beach.
Sometimes a large boat called the church-boat is used to
convey a numerous party. The women handle the oar as
well as the men, and will often pull five or six miles with-
out stopping. In Norway, as in most other countries, the
women have contrived to monopolise costume. The men
are hardly distinguishable from English peasants, but
the married women are a gorgeous spectacle. Upon
their heads they wear a large expanse of plaited
white muslin, in shape like the bell of the calceolaria
flower. Over their bosoms they display a bodice of
the most elaborate beadwork. The maidens do not don
the cap or the beaded bodice. The younger girls wear

the hair in two long pigtails, others more advanced in
years twist the hair with a scarlet snood. The latter mode
is very becoming, and with the dark skirts, the scarlet and
white bodices and snow-coloured aprons and collars, make
lip a most charming costume. Inside the quaint and
rudely decorated church the men sat upon the right side,
the married a•otneu upon the left, and the girls stood or
knelt in the aisle. Not a few of the sterner sex remained
outside the church and took no part in the service,

for t:,e Norwegians arc by no means a religious race.
The priest wore a close fitting Mack robe and a whito
ruff. There was no Communion, and so his surplice was

Very Joie;.; psalms ♦sure sung to

plaint Ivo chants much out of tune. The priest stood all
the while before the altar with his back to the people; the
precentor leading the singing. At the close of it the priest
mounted the pulpit, made an extempore prayer, followed
by the Lord's Prayer, and then began his sermon. The
celebration of Holy Communion is attended by a good
th-al of ritual. Non-communicants remain and

group themselves around the communicants as the
elements are administered. Great care is taken that no
one communicates who has not previously made his
Contnz it nio n's -81-r ft. This is the only form of confession
required in the Norwegian Church. The utmost
importance is attached to confirmation. The candi-
dates are prepared most carefully for six months by
the parochial clergy, and each clergyman administers the
rite to his own parishioners. A fatherly relationship is
thus established between the two, such as can never exist
between the candidates and the Bishop, whom they have
never seen before and may never see again. Confirmation
as a necessary qualification for all public offices and for
most private engagements, implies not only a religious,

but a secular, education, and the inference would be in the
case of a young man or woman passing the usual age for
confirmation without being confirmed, that they were in-

tellectually deficient or morally unsound, and therefore

were not capable of undertaking any duties.—From
" Fjeld, Fjord, and Foss," in the Churchman's Shilling

Sacramento papers give a long account of
the funeral of John C. Heenan, the " Bcnecia Boy."
It is said that the American gentleman whom
the Reform Club blackballed, notwithstanding the recom•
mendation of Messrs. Bright and Forster, is Mr. Smalley,
of the New York Tribune.

CRIME IN IRELAND.—The assize for the county
of Leitrim has been opened at Carrick•on•Shannon. The

Lord Chief Justice, in charging the grand jury, congratu-
lated them on the state of the county. The cases for trial
only amounted to one-half of the number at the last
assizes. His lordship remarked that the constabulary
returns shewed that serious assaults were the offences
most frequently committed in that county. Intoxication
was the stimulating cause in most of these cases, and he
expressed a hope that the gentry and clergy would exert
themselves to put down this disgracvful vice—" the
parent of crime."

How TIIE COMMONS REJECTED A BILL. Th. 6
Speaker was examined at the last sitting of the Corn
mittee on House of Commons' Witnesses, and gave evi-
dence in favour of a statutory power to examine witnesses
at the bar. The right hon. gentleman, referring to the
traditional jealousy of the two Houses, said that in 1772
Mr. Burke complained bitterly that he had been kept
three hours waiting at the door of the Lords with
a bill sent up from the Commons, and that the
latter were so indignant that shortly afterwards, when a
bill was brought down from the Lords to impose a bounty
on corn, the House rejected it by a unanimous vote. The
4peaker then tossed it across the table on the floor, and a
number of members rushed forward and kicked it out of
the House. Communications are now made through the
officials of both Houses.-00.

THE MEMBERS FOR SOUTHWARK AND THE
TEETorALLEns.—In reference to the remarks made by Mr.
Locke, M.P., in the House of Cuimbons, reflecting on a
certain class of temperance advocates alleged to be in-
fluenced by mercenary motiives, and the promise of Mr.
Layard to establish a restaurant in Victoria Park, a
meeting of about 300 people (chiefly teetotallers) was held
us the Borough road Congregational Church on Wednes-
day night, to protest against the conduct of their parlia-
mentary representatives, and to form a committee to take
action in favour of securing members in future who would
support the closing of public-houses. The meeting was
addressed by the Rev. G. M. Murphy (,:hairman), Mr.
.Taber. West, and Mr. Otway. In addition to the avowed
object of the meeting the advocates took an opportunity
of pushing their favourite doctrine, in support of which
they quoted numerous statistics. Mr. Layard and Mr.
Locke, who had been invited to attend the meeting, sent
letters—Mr. Layard, apologising for unavoidable absence,
and Mr. Locke declaring that he had no explanation to
give, nor did he know that his recent remarks differed
from his previous declarations. This last statement was
received with hisses. The protest and motion for forming
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