The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-03 00:00:00

THE ARCHBISHOP OF TVESTMINSTER
ON THE PAN-ANGLICAN SYNOD.

On Sunday last, the feast of St. Michael, in the

church of St. Mary of the Angels, Bayswater, the

Archbishop of Westminster, after preaching on
the subject of the day, spoke in substance as

follows :—'

." The feast of St. Michael the Arch-

angel irresistibly forces upon me other thoughts
bearing upon the present moment. The head and
prince of the angels of God is the special guar-
dian of the chief pastor of the Church on earth.

The ministration of angels and men in a wonder-
ful order, as the Church describes it in Holy Mass,
is so disposed, that the guardianship of angels

surrounds and mingles with the Church through

out the world ; but to their chief is assigned the
protection of the Vicar of its Divine Head. Last

year, on Rosary Sunday, you made special in-
tercession for our Holy Father. A year of tumult
and uncertainty is passed, and he is still upon his
throne : not by the power of kings or of armies,

but by the power of God alone. He is walking on
the water, as his Divine Master, whose power
rules the instability of the world. I call on you
again, on Sunday next, the festival of the Holy
Rosary, to offer your communions and your
prayers for the same intention. Another thought,
forced upon me by this festival, is this : It is th e
anniversary of the restoration of the Catholic
Hierarchy of England. It was on this day that
the great Pontifical act of its creation was signed
and dated ; and that the first Archbishop of West-
minster received from the supreme Pontiff the
pallium of his authority. It is within our
memory that the Church in England was under
penal laws, out of sight, and powerless. The pro-
vidence of God set it free, and renewed its unity
and symmetry in the fulness of Catholic order.
Since that moment it has expanded sensibly and
visibly, year by year ; and is expanding at this
hour with an irresistible force, which no human
antagonist can overcome. The Catholic Church
in England is visible to the eye, and sensible to
the ear. It has entered into the intellect of
Englishmen, and has established itself in

the consciousness of our country. Nay,
more than this. The derision and de-
nunciation of the past is gone ; and men are
turning to it for the knowledge of doctrine, for the
evidence of Scripture, for the proof of Christianity.
But on this I cannot now dwell. There is another
thought which at this•time calls our attention. A
signal event in the religion of England has hap-
pened in these days. Separated as we are by our
faith and the unity of the Church of God from the
people of our country, nevertheless we rejoice over
all that remains of Christianity in England. our land
was once as the garden of Eden, before the storms of
tyranny and heresy three hundred years ago swept
over it the sands of the desert, and turned its
beauty into desolation. The unity and symmetry
of its faith was broken down, and its Christian
order cast to the ground. We lament its shat-
tered state, and we labour to build up again the
sanctuary which has been cast down. There is
something pathetically beautiful in the face of Eng-
land. The outline of the Catholic Church is still
to be traced upon it, as in the bottom of deep
lakes, we are told, or imagination fancies, that the
foundations of ancient cities may still be seen. The
majestic cathedrals and the beautiful parish
churches of England remain as the image of what
Catholic England was. But the Presence has de-
parted from the altar, and the light has been ex-
tinguished. Nevertheless, there is in the English
people a belief in much that their forefathers
believed. The old religion has still great hold
upon them. Remnants of faith, and scattered
Christian doctrines, portions of ritual, yet remain.
There is a spirit of religion and an aspiration after
higher things, great fidelity to conscience, and an
earnest seeking after truth ; there is a religious
life, and evidences of that life. All these things
are to be found both within and without the An-

glican communion. We pray that they may be
increased more and more ; that the smoking flax
may not be quenched ; that the truth and piety
still alive may be unfolded into the perfect faith
and worship of the Church of God. " Some, in-
deed, even out of envy and contention, but some
also for good will, preach Christ. But what then?
So that every way, whether by occasion or by
truth, Christ be preached ; in this also I rejoice,
yea, and will rejoice." There are signs upon
England full of hope. For a hundred years
there has been a reaction towards personal
religion, conversion to God, the works of repent-
ance, and obedience to the Spirit of Grace. There
has been also a continual rising again towards the
faith. Truth after truth, doctrine after doctrine,
shattered and lost in the vehemence of human
passion, which three hundred years ago fell up on
England, has been restored in the reason and the
belief of Englishmen. There has been a reaching
after higher aims and a more supernatural life.
Men have come to believe and to teach many
doctrines of the Catholic faith, and to clothe
them in a ritual which borrows its splendour and

its beauty from the Catholrc Church. They have
learned to acknowledge the sanctity of the reli-
gious state ; and both men and women are devoting
themselves after the manner of the religious life.
They are craving after unity with Christendom at
large, and seeking a restoration to the communion
of the Church throughout the world. They are
conscious of the confusions and disorders of Eng-
land, and are labouring to introduce order and
submission. And now in these last days we are
witnesses of an event of which I should be sorry
to speak as bitter and cold critics of their own
have spoken. The heads of the Anglican Com-
munion in the British empire and in America have
assembled together in Synod. All these things
point one way. All these movements have one
direction. When such strong currents, contrary
to all previous tendencies, converge towards one
point, we may be sure that a greater than man is
here. I fain would hope that the influences which

impel this movement are from above. It is forcing
men from their old moorings. The Holy Spirit is
working upon them ' • and we ought to pray that
He may lift the anchors of pride which have so
long fastened them to this earth ; and that they
may be raised upon the waters of Grace, and
may launch out into the deep for a draught ;
that they may meet him on the water
who alone, in the power of his Master, can
walk upon it. In the last twenty years, the A.ngli-
can communion has been spreading in the British
Empire, but its extension has been without cohe-
sion. It has multiplied its diversities and become
more divided as it has spread. The consciousness
of irreconcileable contradictions and conflicting
doctrines, even among its chief pastors, compels it
to feel about for some principle of coherence. This
very Synod demonstrates the absence of unity, be-
cause it manifests the irreconcileable doctrines of
those who meet in it, and of those who have
marked their differences by their absence. Unity
is the consequence of truth. Truth precedes and
generates unity. Truth alone can unite men.
Authority without truth is impossible. The two
keys of knowledge and jurisdiction are inseparable.
The divisions before our eyes demonstrate the ab-
sence of those keys in that assembly. They are to
be found alone where unity of truth and unity of
order exist together, in that Church to which alone
the keys were given. Nevertheless, the sympathy
of every Catholic heart will be with all who are
seeking for higher and more perfect grace. Though
the original sin of usurping the place of the Church
of God three hundred years ago lies upon that
communion, there are among its members multi-
tudes as unconscious of that sin as infants are of
the sin of Adam. They were born into it, robbed
of their inheritance—born into a state of privation
of which they are unconscious. It is our part to
pray that what they desire may be granted above
all that they ask or understand ; and that when
their chief teachers are gathered together, seeking
for truth and unity, our Lord may bestow upon
them the unity and truth which are to be found
alone in His only Church. This Synod is a break-
ing down of insular narrowness. It is a reaching
out to find a stay and support beyond the four seas
of England. It is a confession that an island is
not enough for the Church ; that a centre to rest
upon is needed ; and that no such centre is to be
found in England. Whether they know it or not
—confess it to themselves or not—it is an instinc-
tive action, an effort to find a rock on which to
rest. It points to the Divine order • " Thou art
Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church,
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of
heaven." On that rock stands the Vicar of the
Son of God, with outstretched arms, with a father's
love, bidding all to come who will return to him
with 41141 confidence and filial oubniiWon,

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Oct. 1.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice, honoured
Sir James Clark with a visit yesterday at Tillie- ~

pronie.

Prince Christian and Prince Arthur, with Sir
Stafford Northcote and the Gentlemen in Waiting,
went out to a drive of deer in the woods.

His Excellency M., Madame, and Miss Van do
Wey:_,r had the honour of dining with the Queen
and Royal family.

DEATH OF SIR 7IIOMAS ST. V. H. C.
IROUBRIDGE, BAR 1., C.B.

Yesterday morning Colonel Sir Thomas St. Vin-
cent hope Cochrane Troubridge, Bart., C. 8.,
deputy adjutant-general at the Horse Guards, died
at his residence at Queen's-gate, Kensington, at
half-past six o'clock, after a short illness. The gal-
lant baronet was taken ill on Saturday last. Dr.
Protheroe Smith and other medical gentlemen were
called in, but with all their care and professional
skill he expired yesterday morning at the above
hour. By the premature death, by fever, of his
wife on the 29th of August last, Sir Thomas sus-
tained a severe domestic bereavement, and had ever
since shown a desponding spirit, which his official
duties did not seem to alleviate. The late baronet
was the son of Admiral Sir Edward Troubridge,
second baronet, by the daughter of the Hon. Sir
Alexander Cochrane, G.C.8., and niece of the Bth
Earl of Dundonald, and was consequently grandson
of the gallant officer who, in 1799, was created a
baronet for his glorious services at the battle of the
Nile, in August the previous year, at which battle
he commanded the Culloden. his melancholy end
after his gallant services is supposed to have taken
place when the Blenheim was lost on his return
home from India. Sir Thomas, the lamented ba-
ronet, was born in 1815, and entered the army in
1834, as an ensign in the 73d Regiment. 1n1836 he
was promoted to a lieutenancy in the 7th Royal Fusi-
liers, in which regiment he obtained his company in
1842, and in 1850 became major of his regiment. On
the outbreak of the war against Russia he was called
with his regiment to take part in the Eastern cam-
paign. He was present at the battle of the Alma
with the Light Division, under General Sir George
Brown, and under the hottest fire headed the storm-
ing party in ascending the heights. Fortunately on
that occasion he escaped injury, although many of
his gallant friends were shot down by the fierce fire
of the enemy. He accompanied his regiment to
Sebastopol, and took part in all the active opera-

tions of his division, till the battle of lnkerman.
On that memorable day he was the field officer for
the day of the First Brigade of the Light Division,
and had charge of the outposts of the 5-gun bat-
tery, one of the most important points of defence.
On the morning of the sth of November, at break
of day, the enemy were found ascending against the
battery. The fire of the Russians had created sad
havoc amongst our soldiers, and the spirited fire
kept up by those within the battery induced the
enemy to concentrate all their power of attack on
that point. The struggle was desperate, and Sir
Thomas was most seriously wounded by a 391 b. shot,
supposed to have come from the Round Tower of
Sebastopol, which carried off the deceased baronet's
right leg and left foot. Notwithstanding his ter-
rible wounds he requested to remain close to the gun
where he had fallen, and also requested those by
him only to elevate his limbs against the gun-car-
riage, for it was feared at the time he might bleed
to death. For two hours he remained in that
wounded state. The battle was then won, and Sir
Thomas was conveyed to the hospital with his shat-
tered limbs. His coolness and self-possession excited

the highest admiration among his comrades. Cap-
tain Lushington, commander of the Naval Bri-
gade, in his despatch to Admiral Dundas,
spoke highly of his cool courage under such
trying circumstances. Lord Raglan also in his
despatches in speaking of the officers of the
Light Division whose services had been brought
under his notice by Lieutenant-General Sir George
Brown (who had to quit the field from a wound in
his arm before the action terminated) and by
Major-General Codrington, said that Sir Thomas,
" though desperately wounded, behaved with the
utmost gallantry and composure." Owing to dis-
ablement by his severe wounds, he returned home,
and landed at Portsmouth early in May, 1855,
where he was received by his uncle, Admiral Sir
Thomas Cochrane. He was rewarded for his gal-
lantry at Inkerma,n by being made a colonel in the
army, nominated a Commander of the Order of the
Bath ; and, as a high distinctive mark of her Ma-
jesty's appreciation of his gallantry, appointed an
aide-de-camp to the Queen. At the presentation,
on the parade in St. James's-park, of the medals for
service in the Crimea by her Majesty, on the 18th
of May, 1855, " Colonel Sir Thomas Troubridge,
Bart., of the 7th Fusiliers, who lost both feet at
Inkerman," was one of two officers of infantry who
were drawn up in wheel chairs ; the other officer
being Capt. Sayer, of the 23d, who had the ankle
joint of his right leg shot away at the Alma. The
official record states :—" To Sir Thomas Troubridge
her Majesty expressed her gratification in appoint-
ing him on such an occasion one of her Majesty's
aides-de-camp." It was noticed on her Majesty
placing the medal on his breast that she was deeply
affected, and expressed the kindest sympathy to
him, as indeed she did to many other officers and men
whose wounds still crippled them. Notwithstanding
the amputation of both his feet, he was enabled to ac-
cept the office of director-general of army clothing in
the same year, 1855. On the abolition of that office
in Feb., 1857, he was appointed one of the deputy
adjutants-general at head-quarters (for the clothing
department), which appointment he held up to the
time of his death. The late Sir Thomas Troubridgo
married in Nov., 1855, Louisa Jane, daughter of

Mr. Daniel Gurney, of North Runcton, Norfolk.
his union with that lady was a happy one, but
lasted too short. After a few hours' illness from
fever, she died on the 29th of Aug. last, leaving a
very young family, her son, Thomas It Cochrane,
who succeeds to the baronetcy, being only in his
eighth year. The gallant and lamented deceased
felt the blow sorely, and there is no doubt it accele-
rated his death. He was a devoted and affectionate
husband, an indulgent father, and a most charitable
and humane benefactor. Few men have gone to
the grave more deeply regretted than Sir Thomas
Trouhridge. IVe had almost omitted to state that
Sir Thomas had received the medal and clasps for
the Eastern campaign ; and the Order (4th class)
of the Medjidie, and Turkish medal.

TILE PRINCESS OF WALES.—The St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital annual dinner took place on Tuesday
evening at Willis's Rooms, under the presidency of Mr
James Paget, F.R.S.,
who has just returned from Wies-
baden, having been in constant attendance on the Princess
of Wales since the departure of her Royal Highness from
this country. Mr. Paget, in proposing the health of the
Prince and Princess of Wales, and the rest of the Royal
Family, said—" It is a great pleasure to me to state that
the health of the Princess was, at the time of my depar-
ture from Wiesbaden on Sunday last, superlatively satis-
factory. Those who sit round me can appreciate •the
gravity of the affection under which her Royal Highness
was labouring, and it is with profound and heartfelt plea-
sure that I am enabled to announce to you, by the per-
mission of the Prince of Wales, that the limb is progress-
ing most favourably, and that her Royal Highness will
shortly return to England, fully capable of participating
in all duties and pleasures connected with her exalted
rank and very great popularity."—Pall-Mall Gazette.
REPRESENTATION OF BRADFORD.—At a crowded
meeting of Liberal electors of Bradfcrd on Monday even-
ing, Mr. Edward biiall, who had been previously nominated
by the Liberal Registration Association, was accepted as
their candidate by an overwhelming majority. Mr. Ripley
has issued an address announcing his intention to stand,
and Mr. M. W. Thompson, who is on the Continent, has
placed himself in the hands of his Conservative friends,
who have decided on bringing him forward. An exciting
contest for the seat vacant by Mr. Wickham's death maY
therefore be expected.