The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-21 00:00:00

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OF C.AI\72I.RWIZT ON
.RITUAZISM

it answer to a protest against Ritualism from the
clergy of the diocese of Chichester, the Archbishop of
Canterbury returned the following reply :—" I can assure
you that I am equally sensible with yourselves of the
great dangers arising from the ritualistic excesses of the
present day. lam anxiously considering what measures,
consistent with justice and fairness, may be devised
for their repression ; and it is a great satisfac-
tion to me to know that I shall have the support
of so respectable a body as yourselves in any means which
I shall think expedient to adopt for the purpose."
The Bishop of Chichester replied to the protest as fol-
lows :—" Allow me to thank you for perusing the above
communication from the Primate, so encouraging in the
midst of our present trials and difficulties, nor must I
omit to use the opportunity for assuring yourself and the
rural deans who signed the address of my cordial sym-
pathy in the sentiments you therein expressed."

LORD E. LENNOX ON THE NAVAL

EXPENDITURE.

On Tuesday evening Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, the
Secretary to the Admiralty, addressed his constituents in
the Assembly Rooms at Chichester, replying at length to
the speech of Mr. Stansfeld at Halifax. After asserting
that the whole tenour of Mr. Stansfeld's former speech
was of a party character, and intended to depreciate the
naval administration of the present Government, his lord-
ship said it was high time to resist the bold pretensions
of certain of the Liberal party to a monopoly of sound
administrative principles, and to skew to the country the
injustice of these suddenly-devised attacks upon the Admi-
ralty. He repudiated the charge of having mixed up
estimates with expenditure. Having strictly followed
Mr. Stansfeld, whose former allusions where chiefly to the
estimates, and contended that both estimates and actual
expenditure necessarily entered into the inquiry, his lord-
ship further stated that the figures quoted from Mr. Corry's
speech by Mr. Stansfeld, while strictly accurate in them-
selves, were inapplicable to the purposes to which
Mr. Stansfeld applied them, both because they comprised
items for first equipment which were not included in the
figures originally under discussion, and because they cora-
-1 prised the whole expenditure upon new ships whether
built by contract or in the royal dockyards ; whereas
I the excess of half a million upon which the whole dis-
cussion hung was entirely incurred under vote 10,
ection 2, of the navy estimates. This excess, his
lordship asserted, was not expended wholly on unar-
inoured ships, as Mr. Stansfeld had confidentially
re-asserted the fact being that the only portion
of the half - million which had been expended on
tmarmoured ships was £115,000, and even this included
ki large sum for the fast corvette Volage. His
lordship in the course of his speech gave elaborate particu-
lars of the Blanche class of sloops, and of the Plover and
composite gun-vessels, contending that they were fast,
Strong, and powerful beyond former vessels of those classes,
and therefore the very reverse of what Mr. Stansfeld had
described them. lie denied that in 1867-63 the Conserva-
tive expenditure had exceeded the Liberal estimates, as
Mr. Stansfeld had intimated. Ills lordship emphatically
repeated his statement respecting the almost total cessa-
tion of ironclad shipbuilding by contract in the last year
of the Liberal Government, and denied that Mr, Stansfeld
Lad made good even a single point of his attack upon the
Admiralty.

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