The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-02 00:00:00

CHURCH MATTERS.

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There is hardly a bishop on the bench who is not
recommended by his partisans for the Primacy,
unless he be too old. No one has ventured to recom-
mend the Bishop of Salisbury on the one hand, or
the Bishop of Carlisle on the other ; but the Bishop
of Durham has been suggested in one quarter, and
the Bishop of Oxford in more than one. The
Spectator thinks the Church would bo injured either
by the appointment of the Archbishop of York or
the Bishop of Oxford. The former is an able
man, and a shrewd ecclesiastical lawyer, but he
would be a Primate of the type statesmen too much
love—the type which more than dilutes the Church
with the world. The appointment of the latter
would make it an ecclesiastical intriguer's weapon. The
same paper thinks that if the archbishop were elected
by the suffrage of all the educated men in Great
Britain, Dr. Temple would be chosen. The Record
thanks Heaven that Mr. Gladstone is not in power, or
Dean Stanley would have been appointed. The John
Bull gives prominence to the name of the Bishop of
Gloucester among others, and it is somewhat strange
that he has not been brought forward before. If the
Christian World represent the feelings of Dissenters,
they evidently think that, if ability have anything to
do with the appointment, the Bishop of Oxford
should be the man ; and it is asked whether the
Premier will venture to recommend him to the
Queen.
On the day of the funeral, next Monday, the
meeting of the S. P. C. IC. will only transact formal
business. It would be a strange sight for Church-
men to be squabbling together on that day.
A letter from "A Presbyter" appears in the Times,
in leader type, recommending the transfer of the
archiepiscopal residence from Addington to Canter-
bury. The Primates are in the habit of driving
from Addington to London, and this takes them one
hour and 35 minutes—the exact time the express
occupies in the journey from Canterbury to London.
Dr. Evans writes to the John Bull in reference to
the church of St. Mary-le-Strand, now closed. He
says that, apart from his unfit condition of health,
owing to the annoyance he has undergone, to resume
all our services, it has been deemed best that the
church should continue closed in order to bring the
pending question as to the alterations of the church
to a more speedy issue, but that those who have
placed obstacles in the way do not manifest any like
desire. The suspension of the services he states to
have been a great grief to him.
" A Cumberland Rector " has possession of a copy
of the resolutions signed by thirty-six archbishops
and bishops in 1856, referring to the shortening of
morning service, and would publish it were not the
following sentence prominently marked upon it :
"You are particularly requested not to allow this to
appear in any newspaper." The resolutions werenot
sent round as a circular, but only given to clergy-
men who applied for permission to omit the Litany.
The Rev. J. H. Gibson, the preacher of the
Brighton sermon on Protestantism, complains that
he has been misreported. He was not preaching up
Remanism against Protestantism, but complaining
of the renunciation of the word " Catholic " in favour
of " Protestant."

DISTURBING TUE RITUALISTS.
The faithful witness to the truth who bawled out to
the Protestants in the congregation of St. James's,
Brighton, to " come to the rescue," has made his
appearance in the police-court. lie narrowly escaped
committal to the sessions under the Act of 1688,
4112.11 ft he wpuld have Inca Anocl not less tban g2O.