The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-21 00:00:00

TAE SUN, WISDOS,

OREIGN NOTES.

TURKEY AND GREECE.

The details already given respecting the result of the
Conference are correct. The Ambassadors have signed a
note containing a declaration against Greece on the three
points of international law touched upon, in the first three
demands of the Turkish ultimatum. This Platonic
declaration will be presented to the Athens Government,
and if its adherence be secured the Porte will withdraw its
ultimatum. In case Greece continues refractory, the
Liberti says that the most complete neutrality will be ob-
served by all the Powers, and the disputants must take their
own course. The Independance Beige says that a proposi-
tion was made at the Conference, with a view of enforcing
the good behaviour of Greece, but the English
Ambassador strenuously opposed this policy. The state-
ment that such a proposition was made decidedly requires
confirmation.

Some waifs and strays of warlike import still float in
the news currents of the various capitals. The statement
that Turkey continues to arm comes from so many
quarters that its accuracy can hardly be doubtful. The
Liberti says that the behaviour of M. Rangel:4 has so
animated the Greeks at St. Petersburg that they have
sent the daring Ambassador a congratulatory address, and
have resolved to raise a subscription in aid of the
" patriotic war." The Russian press, however, not wish-
ing to commit the Czar's Government, are very quiet. It
remains to be seen whether Greece will hazard anything
after the fortuitous collapse of the insurrection in
Crete. Peaceful signs come from other quarters. A tele-
gram from Vienna states that the Prince of Hesse, brother-
in-law of the Emperor of Russia, has given on behalf of the
Czar the most pacific assurances to the Austrian sovereign
and Count Beust. Another symptom is significant. A
few days ago Count Beust was present at a soiree. at the
Prussian Embassy. He was absent from one given a little
while ago.

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THE TIME,: Trnr)

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Mr. C. G. Prowett, of the Temple, writes to the
Times that "it is impossible that we should shut
our eyes much longer to the disintegrating influence
which is at work on the Church of England. There
are now two parties in the Church. On the one
hand, we have those who see in the Eucharist the
communication of the element of Christ's humanity to
the members of His Church--a doctrine which, whether
you term it Real Presence, or Consubstantiation, or
Transubstantiation, is assuredly of such high signifi-
cance that it may well become to those who are
impressed by it the central feature in the Christian
life. On the other hand, we have those who bitterly
impugn this doctrine as downright idolatry, and
whose whole sphere of religious thought must be dis-
turbed by a notion so contradictory to the Calvinistic
aspect of Christianity." 1s it possible, is it desir-
able to retain these within the same communion ?
Mr. Prowett contends that " there is not,
and never has been, at all events since Eng-
land was a nation, any such spiritual body
as the ' Church of England.' Our forefathers,
at the Reformation, never designed any such separate
constitution for themselves. They meant to remain
members of the Catholic Church, only seeking their
coercive jurisdiction from the King's courts instead
of the common centre of spiritual authority at
Rome. Consequently, the ecclesiastical organisation
which they set up is not, as in Scotland, that of
a Church, but simply that of an establish-
ment." This being the case, it would greatly
simplify the matter if the Establishment
Pwhich already includes Episcopalians south, and
resbyterians north of the Tweed) were made to
comprehend various religious bodies in England.
The Ritualists, on the one hand, and Lord Ebury's
" reformed " on the other, might then group them-
selves into separate " Churches " for spiritual
purposes, according to their genuine sympathies.
Such would be voluntary societies, like the exist-
ing Nonconformist bodies, or the new sect which
Bishop Gray wants to found in South Africa." The
Establishment might recognise and employ all, only
stipulating that those who might take clerical func-
tions under it should abide by its laws, which must,
of course, be adapted to the new aspect of spiritual
affairs." Mr. Prowett does not say what advantages
he offers to the Ritualists by way of inducing them
to subject themselves to the State.
" Consistency," writing on the same subject in the
same paper, contends that the Ritualists will be
guilty of dishonesty if they do not leave the English
Church. He argues that even if they should obey
the judgment, they disapprove of, they mean to teach
the doctrine which they say is impugned by it, and
as they mean if they can to effect a reversal of
that judgment, they cannot in the interval remain
in the Church without a suppression of that doctrine,
which they would think heresy, or an enunciation of
it, which he thinks dishonesty. " Consistency " does
not explain how the Church of England could have
been reformed 300 years ago if all the Reformers
had left the Church instead of remaining in it to
reform it.
" A Catholic (Roman) Layman," formerly a clergy-
man of the English Church, writes to the Daily
Telegraph to remind Mr. Mackonochie that when
inducted into the incumbency of St. Alban's he took
the oath of supremacy, and thereby acknowledged the
Queen id be " in all matters and causes ecclesiastical
supreme." The writer cannot understand Mr.
Mackonochie's strong objection to the Privy
Council as a court of final appeal. It comprises two
archbishops and a bishop, it was by this court that
Archdeacon Denison was restored to his preferments
and ecclesiastical status as an archdeacon. The
writer adds that there is a solution for Mr. Mac!iono-
chic's problem. He (the writer), rather than be
bound hand and foot to the Queen in Council, dis-
endowed and disestablished himself by seceding, and
renouncing social position, a moderate professional
income, and reasonable prospect of promotion. He
adds : " I have since then suffered much
tribulation. I have been ' buffeted and per-
secuted,' but ' not forsaken.' I have 4 wandered
about,' if not in sheepskins and goatskins,' almost
denuded of any skin but that which nature gave me;
but yet I enjoy the consciousness of having done this
for Christ's sake, and that having forsaken all' to
follow Him, He will recompense me by not 'forsaking
me in the day of trouble.' I assure Mr. Mackonochie
of the completeness of the remedy for the disease."