The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-26 00:00:00

CHURCH NEWS.

The John Bull states that the Queen has appointed
the Rev. AV. G. Cookesley, incumbent of StPeto
Hammersmith, formerly assistant master at Eton,' to
'
the rectory of Tempsford, Beds. Mr. Cookesley
is a well-known classical writer. He is not pro
Rioted, however, for he exchanges £.500 for
£3oo.—The Bishop-designate of Peterborough has
had an interview with the Premier this week,
and was to be at the Deanery, Peterborough,
on Saturday.—Dr. Bowen Evans is about to apply
for a faculty to re-open St. Mary-le-Strand
Church, which is objected to by some
parishioners on the ground of innovations. The
case will be argued before the Diocesan Court,
and should the judge not grant a decree, Dr. Evans
will take the case to the Arches Court.—The Church
and State Defence Society's signature sheets are
F.:al:jug in daily from all parts of England and Ire-
The diocese of Bath and Wells sends the
Earliest
number • thanks to Archdeacon Denison.
York treads close on its heels; but Manchester will
probably exceed all.—While he Middlesex magis-
trates have been refusingis to pay a Roman Catholic
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chaplain, Mr. Hardd a Roman Catholic
priest to visit certaina
female
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prisoners at Brixton,
who have passed themselves
order to obtain some temporal advantages.
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DR. COLENSO'S
REMONSTRANCE.
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his party. Dr. Colenso opens fire by ivin
a flat contradiction to an assertion made
in the House of Lords by the Bishop of
Oxford, that he (Dr. Colenso) had received
"private remonstrances, brotherly counsel, and ten-
derest and kindest counsel from his seniors at
home." To support his contradiction, he gives
his published reply to the letter of the bishop's
calling upon him to resign, in 1863, in which
he expressed his regret to the Archbishop of
Canterbury that his first act of intercourse should
have been of such a character, and that with the
exception of a letter from the Bishop of Oxford and
a message from the Bishop of Capetown that the
Bishop of St. Asaph was willing to enter into a con-
troversy with him, not a single expression of brotherly
kindness had reached him. The Archbishop replied
that he believed the Bishop of Capetown had
intimated the Primate's willingness to hold an
amicable conference with Dr. Colenso, which the
latter had refused, and that the tone of his writings
seemed to repel f Tien dly intercourse. Dr.
Colenso replied that the Metropolitan of
South Africa had not done anything of the kind,
although Dr. Colenso had written to him offering to
meet any of the bishops privately. Since then Dr.
Colenso has been left alone. The latter part of the
bishop's letter is devoted to a complaint of the in-
accuracy of the statements which came from the
colony, referring especially to the reported inter-
ference of the authorities in his favour, as announced
by Lord Carnarvon in the House of Lords. Dr.
Colenso accuses the Bishop of Capetown of being
betrayed into grave inaccuracies when dealing with
Natal affairs, and refuses to believe that a Royal
mandate will be issued for the consecration of a rival
bishop. Now that matters of fact, as well as of faith,
have entered into this lamentable difficulty, it wears
a more unsatisfactory aspect than ever.
POLITICAL SERMONS. ' •

That our clergymen might preach on politics
without offending, and without bad taste, were they
only to choose principles and morals, rather than
parties and persons, is proved by a list of sermons to.
be preached in Whitechapel during the coming season.
With one exception, these sermons—so far at
least as the subjects are concerned—might be deli-
vered to Liberal or Conservative congregations.
One of the subjects is " Local selfishness in voters,"
another " Bribery," another " The claims of party
and the duty of private judgment," this latter to be
preached by the Rev. Stopford. Brooke. Mr. Maurice
takes as a subject, " The faith of a people." Another
of the subjects is " Private property and public
good." We commend these subjects to some of our
" political parsons."