The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, May 4.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :

41 per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of month 69 271
Credit Mobilier 232 50
End of month 232 --
Credit Foncier 1470
End of month..

I Bank Shares
Fan Loan
End of month —
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds 130
Spanish Threes --
llOrna Debt
Deferred —
s.

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RAILWAY

Account
Orleans ... BGS
Northern ............................. ..... 11871
Lyons and Mediterranean ................... 9381
Southern..... ................................. 573 i
Western ....................................... 555
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain 7O
Saragossa
Roman 43

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411 **************
566 i
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................. 375

The Ritual Commissioners have issued their re-
port on the subject of incense and altar lights. Having
in a previous report condemned any departure from the
style of vesture in use in the Church since the Reforma-
tion, they now think that the use of incense and of lighted
candles on the "altar" in the Communion service should
be restrained, as it is clearly at variance, they say, with
the Church's usage for 300 years. The " speedy and in-
expensive remedy" which the Commissioners suggest
should bo provided for parishioners aggrieved by the in-
troduction of incense and candles is as follows :—" First,
that whensoever it shall be found necessary, that order
be taken concerning the same, the usage of the Church of
England and Ireland as above stated to have prevailed
for the last 300 years, shall be deemed to be the rule of
the Church in respect of vestments, lights, and incense ;
and, secondly, that parishioners may make formal appli-
cation to the bishop in camera, and the bishop, on such
application, shall bo bound to inquire into the matter of
the complaint ; and if it shall thereby appear that there

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has been a variation from established usage by the
introduction of vestments, lights, or incense in the
public services of the Church, he shall take order
forthwith for the discontinuance of such variation,
and be enabled to enforce the same summarily."
The Commissioners also think that the determination of
the bishop on such application "should be subject to ap-
peal to the archbishop of the province in camera, whose
decision thereon shall he final; provided always, that if
it should appear to either party that the decision of the
bishop or archbishop is open to question on any legal
ground a case may be stated by the party dissatisfied, to
be certified by the bishop or archbishop as correct, and
then submitted by the said party for the decision of the
Court of the archbishop without pleading or evidence,
with a right of appeal to the Privy Council, and with
power for the Court, if the statement of the case should
appear to be in any way defective, to refer back such case
to the bishop or archbishop for amendment." Precautions
aro suggested to prevent " frivolous applications " from
baing brought before the bishop. The Commissioners
intimate that their intention in making these recommenda-
tions is simply to provide a special facility for restraining
variations from established usage, without interfering
with the general law of the church as to ornaments or the
ordinary remedies now in force. The recommendations
of the Commissioners with respect to the rubrics, orders,
and directions contained in the Prayer Book will form
the subject of the next report.

The Pope has sent to the Princess Margaret,
wife of the Crown Prince of Italy, a magnificent gold
panel, on which a Madonna by Raphael is framed.
The newspapers are teeming with references to econo-
my in tea by co-operation. Horninan and co. have for 30
years co operated through Agents to supply tea on more
advantageous terms than by the ordinary channel; their tea
reaches the consumer in the same pure state as it leaves the
grower, to it is secured in packets.