The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-11 00:00:00

A NEW PROTEST OF RITUALIRT3,

A protest against the judgment in the St. Alban's CARO
has been drawn up and signed by twenty-six clergymen of
the English Church. It slates that the judgment tends
to dissociate the present Church as by law established
from the pm; .refdrin ation Church, and by consequence from
the Primitive Church; that if the principles of the judg-
ment are strictly applied, the due administration of the
_Holy Sacraments and the celebration of Divine service
will be impracticable, not impossible (sic) ; that the judg-
ment curtails the reasonable liberties and lawful rights of
Churchmen of one school of thought in a manner and to
an. extent unprecedented, while it lays upon another school
burden of observances which neither they nor their fathers
were able to bear.. Under these circumstances, 26 clergymen
in question p:otest against the judgment and the penalties
imposed. The following arc the k i;,natures:— (In London) :
J. M. Roclwell, St. Ethelburga, Bishopsgate ; Dr. Evans,
St. Mary-le-Strand; C. J. Le Geyt, St. Matthias, Stoke
Newington; Dr. F. G. Lee, All Saints' Lambeth; H. D.
Nihill, St. Michael's, Shoreditch ; Bradley Abbott, Christ
Church, Clapham ; R. EL N. Browne ;Robert Gvvynne. (Pro-
vincial) : F. G. Godolphin Osborne, Elm, near Frome ; J.
Edwards, Prestling, Cheltenham ; Dr. Oldknow, Bordes-
ley ; T. A. Maberley, Cuckfield, Sussex ; J. Purchas,
Brighton ; W. •F. Chambers, N. Kelsey, Lincoln-
shire; W. G. Parks SMith, Torquay; E. Hutt,
Little Cawthorpe, Louth ; Geo. Drury, Claydon ; C. H.
V. Pixell, Skirwith Penrith ; J. Powell, High Deverill,
Wilts; G. Shipton, Great Barlow ; I'. Hutchinson, Kim-
bolton : F. B. Low, Farnborough, Bath ; W. J. Cope,
Falmouth ; A. Wood, Castlenewton, Tewkesbury; R.
Hammond, Jesus College, Cambridge : and E. Husband,
Atherstone.

THE COMIC PAPERS.

(From Punch.)

"Are you aware, madam, that this a smoking compart-
men! ? ' "Yes, yes, I know ! Pray go on ! We always
travel in smoking compartments—to avoid contagion."
HERESY.—Mamma: "You know who built the Ark,
George?" George (promptly) : " Noah, 'ma." Mamma:
"And what did he build it for?" George (dubiously) :
" For little boys to play with, 'ma !"
LITERARY ANECDOTE.—" How came to you insert that
story?" said the spirituel X— to the sparkling Z--
(editor of the brilliant ****). "You couldn't believe it."
" My dear fellow," said Z—, " don't confuse matters.
Editing's one thing, and crediting's another." "Ah !"
said X—.

(From Fun.)

The Song of the Netted Herrirg —" Let me like a Soldier
fall."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.-Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P., has
subscribed £5O to the Bristol Cathedral Nave Restoration
Fund. Bravo, Mr. Morley ! Better spend your money
on that Bristol nave than some of the Bristol (k) naves
your opponents lavished coin on.
SWEET VOICES.-Sir R. Glass, ex-M.P. for Bewdley,
is a member of the party which most loudly condemned
Mr. Mill's proposition for the enfranchisement of women.
But Sir R. Glass's agent —though denying that he had
employed the ladies—admitted that the women of Bewdley
had sent in a bill which was no doubt substantially an
account for screaming at the nomination. This looks
rather like a "screaming farce." If women are to be
allowed to use their voices at elections it should he to talk
sense, not to scream. We suppose Sir E. Glass's colours
were " true blue—and yeller."

(From Judy.)

A FLAT CONTRADICTION.—SeIf -denial !
ANYTHING FOR A CHANGE.—Mamma: "Where ill
papa? Why he has gone to town, of course, to earn some
more bread-and-butter." Young Lady of the Period: " I
wish he would earn buns sometimes, instead!"

KNOTTY QUESTIONS FOR THE TRINITY BOARD.
Would a Welsh captain "eat the leek" if his ship
were to spring one at sea?

Are &ceased sailors usually breed in the shrouds of
their ship?
Are the dead-lights of a ship similar to' " grave
candles?"
Does a ship wear her mainstays round her waist?
Does a ship ever get tired of her own company?
Does water shipped through the portholes taste of red
wine?

What wsuld you do to " case " the commodore should he
get "tight?"
Is "scurvy" treatment equivalent to lime•juice and
vegetab'e diet?

The Commissariat Department of the army will
ceaso to exist as a separate establishment after the Ist of
April. Th:rty of the present staff of officers are placed on
half-pay from that date.

The consecration of Dr. Wordsworth, as Bishop of
Lincoln, Dr. Hatchard, as Bishop of Mauritius, and Dr.
Turner, as Bishop of Grafton and Armidale, takes place at
Westminster Abbey on the 24th inst.

Lady Murchison, wife of Sir Roderick I. Murchi-
son, Bart., K.C.8., died on Tuesday at her residence in
Belgrave-square. She was the only daughter of General
Hugonin, of Nursted House, Hants, and was in her 81st
year.

Colonel Kingscote, one of the members for West
Gloucestershire, has had ono of his legs broken in the hunt-
ing field, while riding with the Beaufort hounds. The
accident occurred near Tetbury.

Another disaster was reported in Liverpool on
Tuesday— that of the destruction at sea by fire of the ship
'Bellcarig, whilst on a voyage from Sunderland to.Bom bay,
with a cargo of coals. The crews aro reported all safe.
The Bellcarig was a 909-ton ship, built at Quebec, and
owned in Liverpool by Mr. M. Williams.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, on Tuesday,
Mr. Butt moved, on behalf of Lady French, fer a writ of
habeas corpus to bring up her daughter, the Hon. Maria
Margaret French, at present in the Lorotto Convent School,
Rathfarnham. The young lady was now over sixteen
years of age ; that she wished to reside with kg mother,
who was now living apart from her husband on the
Continent, but, that she had boon placed in the
convent school by the direction of her father, Lord French.
The deponent had frequently written letters to her daughter,
but they had all been returned unopened. Being over 16
years of age, it was clearly her privilege to say whether
she wished to remain in the convent or joia her mother, and
hence he suggested that. when the return to the writ was
made, his lordship should examine the young lady as to her
wishes, and dicide accord'ngly. His lordship granted the
application.

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On Tuesday afternoon a meeting of the subscribers
to the testimonial propozed to be given by the inhabitants of
Huntingdon to General Peel was held at the Fountain Hotel,
Huntingdon, the mayor in the chair, to consider a letter which
had been received by the Earl of Sandwich from the general.
The purport of the letter was that the General desired that
the fund, amounting to £9OO, should be handed over to the
county hospital. The General added that there was no danger
of bis ever forgetting his friends, and by adopting this plan
the poor and afflicted and others in the borough would per-
petually be reminded of him. It was agreed that the
General's wish should be carried out, and that a
list of the subscribers to the testimonial should
be inscribed on vellum and presented to him at
a public banquet in Huntingdon, at which the Lord
Lieutenant pf the county should 133 requested to preside.
Tho hospital authorities will probably invest the money'
and use it as a svarfr4-0 fund, to b 3 called " Tho Peel Testi-
monial Fund."

THE ALABAMA CLAIMS TREATY.—A petition
to the Senate of the Unitt.'d States, signed by the Hon. G.
B. Upton and others, avinst the confirmation of the
Alabama claims treaty, has been placed at the Merchants'
Exchange, Boston, for sigoatures. The petitioners say :
" This so-called treaty proposes to put upon the same
footing the claims by British ,subjects, which have arisen
under a d'sagreement in ream tl to ordinary forms of neu•
trality, and claims of our own \citizens, upon the British
Government for piracies cm mitted by British built,
British manned, and British a-, 7ned vessels, by vessels
and armament which left Briti: di ports under the pro
section of the British flag, and Zburned American ships
upon the high seas without taking them into port for
condemnation, and without any acti, an being taken upon
the part of the said British.Govermrtent, when these atro-
cities were laid before it, tu, prev ut the same, but, on
the contrary, these pirates we4cvm -ywhere received with
rejoicings when visiting British p arts ; and when the
notorious builder of one of them ba sstecl of the same in
the British Parliament, of which he wa3 a member, he
was received with cheers and exprea\ions of satisfaction.
rills ahem!, in the opinion of you r
.memorialists, the
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