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SeN, LOISDOIV, Flill)A Y 14',V1-42,Ni.NG, 'JUNE 22, 1866.

LAW INTELLIGENCE---This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
',Sittings at Nisi nius, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn
and a Special Jury.)
MALES V. COLEMAN AND OTHERS.
Mr. D. Kean, Q.C., and Mr. B. Rigby appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. D. Seymour, Q.C., and another learned
gentleman for the defendants.
The plaintiff, John Hales, is a solicitor, and the defen-
dants, George Coleman and Maurice Abrahams, are in
business in London, and the third defendant, Mr. Edward
Lawrence Levy, is a solicitor. The plaintiff sued the de-
fendants for an act of trover, in having converted to their
own use and wrongfully deprived the plaintiff of the pos-
session of certain furniture,, fittings, and utensils of trade,
of a tavern keeper, for the value of which he claimed £5OO.
The defendants pleaded not guilty, and the goods were
not the property of the plaintiff as alleged.
The plaintiff stated that he had advanced money to
Jackson last year, for which he received, as security, a bill
of sale on the goods in question. However, he discovered
that it had been seized by another person at the house of
Jackson, in Rupert-street, Haymarket, and when he re-
monstrated with Levy, who was the solicitor of Jackson.
he was threatened with criminal proceedings for making a
false demand, and the party whom he placed in posses-
sion was forcibly ejected from the house by Coleman,
and was, in fact, mobbed by all three defendants.

Ritualism in the Church,

DEPUTATIONS TO THE ARCHBISHOPS. OF
CANTERBURY AND YORK.
Yesterday deputations of lay and clerical mem.
bers of the Church waited upon the Archbishops o
Canterbury and York, on the subject of the presen
Romanising innovations in the ritual of the Church
That to the. Archbishop of the northern province
was ushered into the presence of his grace, at the
Bounty-office, Dean's-yard, Westminster, at a
quarter to one o'clock. It numbered nearly 100
persons, and included the following :—Rev. Frede-
rick Chalmers, Dr. Jardine, Rev. D. Vetch, Mr. A.
Bonar, Colonel Elphinstone, Mr. W. Dclpratt, Mr.
Hawkesworth, Rev. U. Davies, 11.. y. W. Conway?,
Mr. G. A. Allan, Mr. Cressingham, Mr. J. D. Hay-
con, Mr. IT. Wright, the Dean of Derry, Major-
General Mithall, Rev. W. Powell, Rev. E
Marquis of Westmeath, Captain Hull, Lieutenant-
Colonel Reynold, Mr. William Evill, junior, Rev.
W. Conway, Mr. R. S. Faulconer, Rev. S. C. Adam,
Mr. 11. Hill, Rev. J. M. Ward, hey. E. Clay, Rev.
R. H. Killick, M.A., rector of St. Clement's Danes ;
Major-General Nuttall, Dr. James, the Rev. Thos.
Jakes,.M.A., vicar of Chevening ; the Rev. W. D.
Vested, M.A., incumbent of St. Saviour's, Pad-
dington ; the Rev. J. S. Jenkinson, M.A., vicar of
Battersea ; Captain Hill, the Rev. W. Pennefather,
M.A., incumbent of St. Jude's, Islington, and about
a hundred other gentlemen.
Mr. CoultmouN read an address to his Grace,
which he said was signed by 2,499 clergymen, 3,010
churchwardens, and other laymen. Several other
memorials were presented, signed by 24 clergy and
1,815 laymen. He said the deputation did not
understand the memorialists to ask for any restric-
tion in the constitutional liberty and diversity of sen-
timent which were wisely permitted within the
National Church. Accepting the Liturgy as it stood,
the memorialists had to complain of an unconstitu-
tional departure from the orders of the Church, un-
sanctioned by authority, and of the introduction of
Romish practices into the services of the Church.
They complained a communion-tables superseded by
altars covered with drapery and strange ornaments,
accompanied by illegal lights, incense, and genu-
flexions, processions with banners, priestly vest-
ments, being exact copies of those of the Church of
Rome, novelprayers interpolated in the services, all
of which they considered to be outward signs of a
violent change. Unbecoming or frivolous as such
exhibitions might appear, they became grave and
significant when used to convey new doctrines con-
nected with Romish superstitions. After advert-
ing at some length to the doctrines supposed
to be involved in these new practices, the
memorial proceeded to say that it would
be a mistake to suppose that the party within
the Church, now united to undo the work of the
Reformation, were either small in number or influ-
ence, or that they were to be restrained by authority
or persuasion. Within the metropolis episcopal
authority had been exercised in reference to the
matter, both by the late and the present Bishop of
London, but their efforts to restrain the practices
complained of had been of no avail. The council of
the English Church Union, now the acknowledged
head of the new party, had within the last few days
announced the policy which they intended hereafter
to pursue. They made no secret of their deter-
mination resolutely to oppose even a bishop if he
should commit an unjust aggression on any person
in spiritual matters, and that they should regard as
an unjust aggression every attempt to restrain a
clergyman from those peculiar practices and
doctrines which were repudiated by the Church of
England at the Reformation. That such practices
should have been declared illegal as soon as they
were examined Could excite no surprise, for if they
were legal the Reformation of the Church would
have no existence, and the history of the last 300
years would have been a delusion. The memorialists
in conclusion prayed that steps might be taken to
maintain intact the integrity of the Church.
Mr. LEFROY, M.P., presented a vast number of
memorials, which, with those presented by Mr.
Colquhoun, made the total number of signatures
57,383.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said—My lords and
gentlemen, I have already expressed on a recent occasion,
and I hope with sufficient distinctness, my strong dim/17
proval of the intiOduction in several places of novel vest-
ments, incense, and other Romish observances, into the
services of our Church. In that disapproval a very large
number of the bishops of the United Church of Ergland
and Ireland have signified their concurrence, and I am not
aware of one who has dissented from it. A very decided
opinion has also been given by some of those most learned
in the law to the effect that these practices aro inconsistent
with the existing law of the Church. Under these cir-
cumstances I will not allow myself to doubt that those
ministers of our Church who, with an unwise precipitation
and without taking any counsel of those set over thorn in
the Lord, have chosen of their own mere mind and will to
adopt such practices, will feel themselves morally, if not
legally, bound to abandon them, and thus remove this
cause of scandal to our Church. It is strongly felt that
these innovations are but a mimicry of the Church of Rome,
and involve, in sone instances, the adoption of her er-
roneous teaching. It will be my duty to pursue such a
course as I may deem most effectual for the discourage-
ment and suppression of them. (Loud cheers.) At the
samo time, adverting to some expressions in the address
which follows the petition you have presented to me, I
cannot refrain from stating that the doctrine of
the real -presence, as rightly understood, is one
which the Church of England has ever hold, and which it
will be always my duty to uphold. But it is a real pre-
sence as distinguished from a carnal presence, which our
Church distinctly denies; a real presence that is spiritual,
than which, indeed, nothing can bo more real, because it
is effectual for those purposes for which Christ's body was
broken and His blood shed upon the Cross, in the case of
all who come faithfully to receive Him according to His
own institution in the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper. To this real presence our Church bears abundant
testimony, in declaring that if with a true penitent heart
and lively faith we receive that Holy Sacrament, then we
dwell in Christ and Christ in us ; we are one with Christ
and He one with us. Expressing as you do your earnest de-
sire that the order of the Church should not be violated in
the instances to which you have alluded, you will each
doubtless feel yourselves under obligation to see that in
your respective spheres tho directions of the Church are
faithfully observed. The diminution of external differences
will tend, under the blessing of God, to promote that uni-
formity which it must be the anxious wish of us all to see
established, that so the clergy and laity of our Church
may combine with one heart and ono mind, in the unity
of the Spirit and in the bond of peace, to advance tho
glory of God and the extension of Christ's kingdom on
earth.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH, on the part of the deputa-
tion, thanked the Archbishop for the hopeshe held out, but
could not help saying that, considering the length of time
this conspiracy had been going on against the Protestant
he could not expect that any remonstrances would
bo of any avail with those misguided persons who were
adopting the practices complained of. He knew that in
some dioceses there were people with more money than
brains, and less honesty than either, who had expressed
their determination to resist any bishop who should inter-
fere. He thought, moreover, it was unfair to the bishops
that they should be asked to bear the expense of such
proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts ; for the incomes
of many of the bishops were not equal to protracted liti-
gation in the Ecclesiastical Courts. Considering that the
Church and the State were united, and that the Queen was
at the head of both, ho thought herMeoarj,ehsteya'rs.)Ministers
ought to Weaned upon to come forward to arrest the course
of those refractory persons who were now destroying the
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press their opinion that the present was a great crisis in the
history of the Eaglish Church. He believed that the
Church of England was strongly rooted in the confidence
of the people, and would continue to be so as long as she
remained faithful to primitive order and to apostolical truth.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY would merely say, before
they parted, that he was deeply sensible of the critical posi-
tion of the Churea, and no one could be more earnestly de-
sirous of adopting such measures as would effectually check
and suppress the movement complained of. It had been
suggested that legislative measures should be taken. That
was a grave question, and it was not for him to commit
himself at present to any particular plan, but his heart was
entirely with the deputation in the desire to maintain in
their integrity the doctrines of the Church.
The deputation then retired.

DEPUTATION TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.
The Archbishop of York received the deputation in
Queen Anne's Bounty Office, Dean's-yard, Westminster,
the members of which were pretty nearly the same as in the
other case. The Archbishop of York wore his full episcopal
robes. The Archbishop of Canterbury was in plain attire.
Mr. Colquhoun presented to his Grace a memorial, signed.
by 2,121 clergyman and 2,610 churchwardens; also four
other memorials signed by 0- olergymert and 299:laymen

These were indepeildent of other memorials which had
boon presented to the Archbishop from other suurces.
The Archbishop of Yonx, in acknowledging_ them, ex-
pressed a hope that the clergy and laity, would strive to obey
the law of the Church with alacrity. The practiCes com-
plained .of had been spoken of as childish and frivolous, but
he believed they had been adopted with a, deliberate inten-
tion of affecting the doctrinal position of theEnglishChurch.
That was not the place for him to give pledges, but he felt
quite sure that a remedy would soon be found for the
difficulties which were now perplexing the church. Recent
researches in the province of York had shown that there
was nothing in the usages of the Church since the early
part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth to justify the innova-
tions now being introduced.

Mr. COLQUHOUN thanked his Grace for the courtesy he
had extended to the deputation, and took the opportunity
of expressing his doubts as to the expediency of Parlia-
mentary interference. •

Our National Defences—ls England Safe ?

The time has now come when it behoves every English-

lan to give attentive consideration to the present state of

the armaments of his native land. With war declared on
the continent of Europe ; with Fenian raids ma-le on a
distant continent upon one of our patriotic colonies ; with
the Russians edging close to our Indian possessions ; with
two of our most powerful European allies by this hour in
all probability in actual conflict, and with other dark signs
of coming events which may prove inimical to the security
of this wealthy and happy isle, no forethought, no care, no
skill, no cost or effort should bespared at this momentous
period to guard from every ill this " land of the free"—
our populous, peaceful, and intellectual country. To con-
template what would be the effect upon the happiness and
civilisation of the world if England were blotted out by a
sudden conquest, or should cease in any way to maintain her
position as a first-rate power, may well be left, without any
effort on our part to portray it, to every one on his own
account, fur every one, considering such a catastrophe in
his own way, would increase the strength of his own con •
victions by every new thought, by every repeated reflec-
tion, until the feeling that the barest, the remotest possi-
bility of such an event should not be suffered to remain in
the category of mere possibilities, would attain an intensity
which those who have never deeply pondered on this sub-
ject, or those who have rested in the blind faith.of Anglo-
Saxon energy and skill, or in the still blinder and more
baseless belief in the care and watchfulness of our official
government over the security of our national existence,
can have no conception of. Nor is such a sudden conquest,
or such a depression of the eminenceof a kingdom, beyond ,
the pale of possible occurrences in modern warfare. We
drew no comparison hereof our armaments with those of
Franco and other European countries, we purposely avoid
it; but we do assert that there are 'existent the material
poivers capable of effecting the one or the other, while we,
on the other hand, have not, at this moment, nor can we
have for months to come—and months in modern wars are
eventful periods indeed-=the necessary means of prevent-
ing such destructive attacks as could at once be prepared
against us.
In the series of articles we purpose putting before our
countrymen at this critical juncture of public events sen-
sationalism of any kind is in the highest degree as foreign
to our wishes as it would be inimical to our object. We
feel strongly, more strongly oven than we like to express,
that the consideration of our national defences has been
tampered with beyond the endurance of the British na-
tion, if that nation knew and comprehended the true con-
dition of our present military and naval power, and
thoroughly understood the gross and culpable neglect that
there has been of the scientific and mechanical genius of
the country by those to whom during the past
few years since the vital change in military and
naval armaments has been progressing, the charge of

our national defences has been entrusted. It
is not too much tosay that, so far from our national defences
being what they ought to be, they have been trifled with
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to a perilous degree—wo say advisedly perilous degree,

because we have neither a ship, a gun, nor a land fort ca-
pable of resisting such attacking forces as could at this mo-
ment be brought against us, because neither our biggest nor
our thickest ironclad ships, the largest and most formidable
of our guns, the strongest of our land batteries, could resist
the attacks which at least one country has the means already
prepared of making upon them. That the Americans could
sink our Northumberlands, Warriors, and Bollerophons,
with their Monadnocks, Puritans, and Passaconaways, is
perfectly certain. The treatment the Callao forts gave the
Spanish fleet is substantial evidence of this ; and the
Numancia, it should be remembered, is a sister ship of our
vaunted Northumberland, in armour, size, and guns. It
was no idle boast Commodore Rogers made as to what ho
could do with her.

Even if we might at this time advantageously compare
,he strength and number of our own warlike engines with

those of the most powerful continental States of Europe, it
can hardly be supposed those powers who are already
commencing, or those who may hereafter engage in the
coming desperate hostilities, if they continue for any length
of time, will not emerge frcui their mortal encounte►s
with armaments of far greater capacity than they as yet
possess, and that if the British nation does nothing in
the interval to effect and ►naintain the necessary supre-
macy of our military and naval arms, we shall find some
other country than America, and in close and dangerous

proximity, capable of demolishing us at a blow. Suppose
one European ambitious country after a four years' war to
come out victorious with such an armament as the United
States has at this hour in its arsenals, its harbours, and
afloat. Suppose any European country possessed of what
the Americans actually have fit for service, 1,500 15-inch
guns (440-pounders), and some hundreds of 20-inch guns
(1,080-pounders). What have we to bring against such
a stupendous array of artillery ? Not a single gun of equal
calibre—not one efficient 400-pounder, not one of any
larger size whatever. Against such terrible weapons we
have nothing absolutely, and literally not a single effective
gun that could be even hopefully opposed. Not one. Big
gun after big gun, ordered or made by our Government,
either from being wrongly constructed, or worse, being
rifled on wrong principles, bursts at the 300th or 400th
round; and £1,500 after £1,500, and more, is thus time
after time reduced to scrap iron for re-smelting, because
officialdom—we coin the word to avoid personalities—has
put its " foot down" on a wrong principle, and won't take

it up again. Just so officialdom erects forts of granite,
which artillerists toll us shiver under shot from modern
artillery—not British—like glass, and neglects the iron
which even the remote Peruvians Lad the good sense to
select; just so officialdom builds broadside ships and arms
them with little guns, preferring something "tall" to look
at to something less magnificent but infinitely 'more des-
perate and impenetrable in the fight ; just so, too, official-
dom prefers to nick and notch, and twist and coil its can-
non in endless variety of ways, all alike destructive of.
the resistance and endurance of the metal of which they
are made, and involving all the dangers and difficulties
of having to convey to battle-fields and forts a dozen
sorts of shot and shell for the same sized guns, and
none of which will fit any other sort of gun than
that for which it was expressly made, and no sort of
gun being able to be fired with any other sort of shot
than its own. The "muck-muddle' and danger of such a
complex confusion in a real campaign can be easily com-
prehended by any intellect not absolutely obtuse.
To contemplate seriously the bare possibility of such an
event as the blotting out of England as an independent
nation would seem to most like madness, but we say de-
liberately it ought to be contemplated, For as war goes
nowadays, such is the mechanical skill, and so complicated
the machinery by which it is effected, and such the amount
of time required for the production of the instruments of
modern warfare, that the nation which, being attacked,
cannot at once effectually resist, may be quickly beaten
back, until the mechanical appliances of its gun factories
and dockyards aro captured, and then to rally would be

impossible. In every age in all vital national events his-
tory repeats itself. The brave may sometimes win ; the
strongest and best armed generally ; the negligent never.
England encoutages peace and civilisation throughout the
world, and there is thus a moral reason beyond the national
one why England should bo the strongest and foremost
power. This at this moment she is not, but she might be.
What, then, we want to do is to show truly and undis-
guisedly the dangerously neglected state of our national
defences, 'and what can, and how soon can, be accom-
plished that which is necessary to place England in mili-
tary and naval power, so far as human prescience can
acomplish it, beyond the possibility of degradation and
calamitous reverses. Our argument is, that England
having no desire for war, should have the proper military
and naval weapons to enforce respect, and by being too
strong to be attacked with any prospect of success should
thus ensure the calm serenity of peace throughout her
wide dominions. It is certain, however, that England has
been allowed to come to the last hour when desirable pro-
vision for her own security can with any degree of cer-
tainty be made. It would take two months from this day,
from any day, before the first gun of such an artillery as
England ought to possess on land or at sea could be pro-
duced. It would take six months to build the first ship fit
to protect the present navy of England ; and it would take
three months before the first of those iron embrasures and
turrets which our principal forts ought to possess could be
prepared. It would thus take six months, if the British
people took up the subject in earnest at once, before Eng-
land would have made even the first step on the road to
safety.—Morning Herald.

ANOTHER GREAT COTTON FIRE AT LIVERPOOL.—
On Wednesday night a fire broke out in two cotton ware-
houses in Parliament-street and Britton-street, near the
South Docks, Liverpool. The fire had made considerable
progress before it was discovered, and the flames defied the
efforts of the fire brigade. Upwards of 1,600 bales of cotton
were stored in the premises, besides 200 tons of logwood, the
greater part of which has been consumed. The principal
owners were Messrs. Brown, Shipley, and Co. ; a. small
portion of the cotton belonging to Rathbone Brothers
Taylor, and Co., J. S wire, and Walton, Bolton; and Co
The two warehouses were divided by a narrow passage,
and the flaws quickly spread from one, build to the
other, •
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS--THIS DAY.

ThetoßD CHANC:ELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at half-past ten o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were road a second time :—Cheshire
Lines, Glasgow Bridges, Salisbury and Yeovil Rail, North
British Rail way (Saint Margaret's Diversion), North British
and Leadburn, Linton and Dolphinton Railway Compa-
nies, and North British Railway (Stirling, &c., Branches).
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—hers:.‘y Pneumatic Railwiy, Leven and East of Fife
Railway (Amendments), and Stanl?ridge Improvement
(Amendments).
Their lordships then proCeedel to hear some appeals, at
the conclusion of which the house adjourned.

MARKETS. 7-- This Day.

COLONIAL.

TEA.--The public sales have continved to preceed with
a fair spirit, and prices generally are well maintained.
SuGAß.—There has been no public sales during the last
few days, but in the private market fully previous quota..
Lions are current. Refined goods are dull, and without
change in value.

COFFEE.--A very limited amount of business has been
entereJ into, and only superior qualities have maintained,
former prices.

RICE. Tho demand for home consumption has been
moderately active, but holders still demand full rates,
which has in some measure checked operations.
TALLOW. —Tho market has shown symptoms of more
activity, and quotations for both present and forward deli-
very tend upwards. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 4os, and
last three months' delivery 47s 6d to 48s. per cwt.