The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-20 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.

The Bishop of Salisbury held his triennial Visita-
tion at Bridport on Thursday last, where there was
a large attendance of clergy and churchwardens.
The Charge consists principally of a vindication of
these doctrines :-1, that certain men have had in-
trusted to them by God, as fellow-workers with
Him, supernatural powers and prerogatives ; 2, that
God had been pleased to give to these His ministers
the power of so altering the elements of bread and
wine as to make them the channels of conveying to
the soul for its subsistence the refreshing body and
blood of Christ ; 3, that as Christ, the ascended
Lord, is ever pleading, so the clergymen, His min-
isters, plead on earth that which He pleads in
Heaven ; and, 4, that God, who alone can forgive
sins, hath delegated to them, His representatives,
the power and authority of expressing to those
fitting to receive it the pardon of their
sins. He proceeded to say that there was a
time to speak and a time to keep silence,
and he felt that the time for being outspoken had
arrived in his diocese, and he had, without any men-
tal reservation, God knew, acted on that conviction.
At this point, the Rev. William C. Templer, the rec-
tor of Burton Bradstock, stepped from his seat into
the aisle in front of the bishop, and exclaimed with
much fervour, " I believe there is a time to speak
and a time to be silent ; let those that are on the
Lord's side follow me," and he turned and walked
out of the church, followed by one of the church-
wardens. This created a profound sensation, and
intense silence prevailed for a minute or two. His
lordship manifested some emotion, but, recovering,
he said, " I would only remind you that this is a
court, and the clergy are bound to attend it, though
their consciences are not bound to receive all they
hear ; of course, a person may be punished for any
contempt of court." He then resumed the reading
of the Charge, but, before he had concluded, every
churchwarden had left the church, and there were
manifest signs of weariness among the clergy. In the
afternoon the churchwardens held a meeting, and
unanimously adopted the following address to the
bishop :
"To the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Salis-
bury :-I\ly Lord,—As churchwardens of the several
parishes within your diocese we have this day at-
tended your triennial Visitation, and heard the
Charge delivered by you to your clergy. Feeling
that we have also responsible duties to perform, in
endeavouring to preserve our Reformed Church from
innovations and practices inimical to its pure faith,
we avail ourselves of the occasion• to express our
deep regret at some of the opinions and doctrines
therein enunciated. We believe them to be at vari-
ance with these principles for which our forefathers
so nobly and successfully struggled more than 300
years ago when they protested against the errors of
the Church of Rome. Entertaining the highest pos-
sible respect for your lordship's personal character
and office, we nevertheless feel it incumbent on us
to assert our belief that unless a check is at once
and promptly made both by clergy and laity to
those innovations and practices which are alien to
the feeling of all sound Churchmen, a considerable
portion of those who are now sincerly devoted to
the Establishment will be induced to withdraw to
dissenting places of worship, or be insidiously
attracted towards the Church of Rome, and thereby
destroy the harmony and weaken the confidence
which has so long and happily existed among
them.—We are, respectfully, your lordship's devoted
servants,
(Here follow the names of 34 churchwardens of
the Deanery of Bridport.)

IRELAND.

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Alfred Aylward was brought before Mr. Barton,
at the Head-office, yesterday, charged with " being
a member of the Fenian Brotherhood, and being
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wounds dressed, three of the shots having taken
effect. In the meantime, shortly after 10 o'clock
that night, two young men went to Lad-lane police
station, and told Acting Inspector Bennet that they
saw about a dozen men near Charlemont-bridge,
and beard shots fired, which one of them thought
were aimed at himself. Immediate • • inquiry was
made by a party of police, and they learned that a
wounded man was gone to Mercer's Hospital. Con-
stable Richard Ryan went there and waited in the
hall till Aylward came out, after getting his wounds
dressed, when he arrested him, and found a large
knife, or dagger, on his person. He said to the
policeman, "Who sent for you? I have nothing
about me, only a knife. Well, I'il go over to the
station house and make a report." He was taken
to the Lad-lane station, and being asked whether
he knew the party that fired at him, he replied, "
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am no Massy. I do not." He was remanded till
Wednesday, the inspector promising to have by
that time evidence to connect him with the Fenian
conspiracy.
This arrest may lead to important results. It will
be recollected that Cody, who was fd guilty yes-
terday of treason-felony, had been acrested a short
time before his trial in consequence of making a row
in Grafton-street and threatening to shoot a police-
man. The pistol which he had was a seven-chamber
revolver ; and he also bad a dagger which he wore
fastened to a belt. In his possession was found a
document containing a list of the judges, jury, and
Crown counsel then engaged with the trial of Burke
and Doran. When Cody was arrested on a former
occasion he had an enormous bowie-knife " for
ripping-up Saxons." An ill-looking fellow, whose
physiognomy is almost enough to convict him, he
was unaccountably set at liberty on condition of his
going to England ; but it appears that he soon re-
turned, and, according to the statement of Corydon,
•he was at the head of an assassination committee,
or club, organised by Colonel Kelly's orders. I
have seen the assassination document in question.
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It is exceedingly well written, in the hand of a
lawyer's clerk. I understand that it is being com-
pared with documents found in possession of the
prisoner Aylward when formerly in custody. If it
should be proved that he is the writer it would con-
nect him with the band of assassins. This circum-
stance helps to explain the mystery of the shooting