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LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 11, 1868.

Yesterday was a day of parliamentary formalities.
Mr. EVELYN DENNISON was elected Speaker of the
House of Commons for the fourth time, Sir DENIS

LE MARCHANT having pointed to Sir GEORGE GREY
and Mr. WALPOLE as Proposer and Seconder—the

election, it need hardly be added after that, being
unanimous, or as the phrase is by acclamation. The
whimsical part of this ceremonial of electing the
Speaker of a new Parliament is—that the members
by whom he is chosen are there in the House at the
time informally--they themselves not having as yet,
of course, been sworn in! Their swearing in being, in
point of fact, impracticable until the Chair has been
occupied by Mr. Speaker. A commencement must

be made somewhere, however, and the custom o

Parliament is for the Members to take the
initiative by electing the Speaker, before
whom they are afterwards to take their seats after
being either sworn in or making that required sub-
stitute for an oath, an affirmation. By Itmday or

Tuesday the swearing-in or affirming will have been
completed, and the Speech from the Throne will
then be formally recited before the Lords and Com-

mons iu Parliament assembled. Meanwhile, the
proceedings were in several particulars shorn of
their glory by circumstances, some of them,
seemingly, quite in keeping with the hurry
and confusion of an abnormal interregnum
between two Ministries. Notwithstanding the
considerate promptness of the ex-Prime Minis-
ter, in resigning office for himself and his col-
leagues at the earliest opportunity in any way pos-
sible towards the close of the General Election, time
ran so short before the succeeding Cabinet could
be constructed completely, that the very Chancellor
himself had to appear in his black gown as Judge
and to occupy for the first time his post of
dignity upon the woolsack, in that sombre raiment,
instead of in his flowing wig and majestic robes in

the midst of the gorgeously-attired group of the Lords
Commissioners. Sir WILLIAM PAGE WooD, he was
still in effect, and not as yet Baron HATHERLEY of
[latherley, in Gloucestershire. Equally as a matter
of necessity, the Speaker had to delay until this
afternoon appearing in his flowing wig and
robes of office as befits the Chairman of
of so august an assembly, the supremacy of
whose power within the walls of the House are sym-
bolized during each sitting by the mace lying upon
a cushion on the table, and who is himself, by right
of that supremacy of his, the first Commoner in the
realm of England. Another circumstance peculiar
to yesterday as the day of the first meeting
of a new Parliament within a few days only
after an unlooked - for change of Government,
arose from the compulsory absence from
the scene of the Leading Members of the New Admi-
nistration. It was not simply the bust of BRUTUS,
the absence of which from the procession was notice
able yesterday—it was BRUTUS himself, an I wit
him all the rest of his principal colleagues. Eager
and ignorant expectants thronged into Palace Yard
and into Westminster Hall, bent evidently upon cheer-
ing to the echo: the new Premier and one other
at least of the Cabinet Ministers, a Cabinet Minister
who is not, it is true, in one of the highest offices of
State, but who, for all that, is second only in popular
estimation to Mr. GLapsrosp: himself as heal of the
Government. Peaple who knew no better, or who
forgot in their eagerness the fact that the recipients of
high office thereby cease ipso facto to be m3mllas of
Parliament until such time as their respective con-
,tituencies have been again appealed to, looked in
vain for the care-worn face of one familiarly-spoken-
of some thirty years ago in those precincts of West-
minster—as " handsome GLADSTONE ;" and equally in
vain for the white head and the comely, bluff, JOHN
BULL features of the Right Hon. JOHN BRIGHT,
President of the Board of Trade, bat not M.P.
for Birmingham. Until the ordinary period for
the assembling of Parliament, that is in February
the new Ministers cannot possibly take their places
on the Tre_►sury Bench, the present extraordinary
winter session being merely inaugurative, as rapidly
and as formally as possible of the newly-elected
Houst.holdera'-Parliament. And it is as well un-
der the circumstances that it should be so—full
opportunity being thereby afforded to the recently
installed Ministry, for the preparation, with every
conceivable care and deliberation, of the great
measure they and the majority of the merabas of the

House of Commons are solemnly pledged to the
electors of the United Kingdom to carry through,
for the immediate abolition and the disendowment as
rapidly as possible afterwards, of the Irish Church as
an ecclesistieal est.iblishment,hitherto,that is for the last
three hundred years, directly associated and almost,
we might say, identified with the State. A measure
so bold, so daring, and so comprehensive demands
no less clearly than it deserves the largest amount of
caution and of deliberation that can be applied to it
by the responsible Ministers of the Crown, who are
at this moment solemnly pledged to undertake at the
earliest possible opportunity the task of its intro-
duction. Afterwards, other great and urgent ques-
tions will have to be considered. But first of all the
Irish Church will have to be bodily removed. Until
its removal, it obstructs the broad, onward path of
legislation as conspicuously, as undeniably, and as
intolerably as the question of Parliamentary Reform
obstructed the way until its removal was effected
only the other day by the daring Constitutional
Reformer now once more the leader of the Conserva-
tive Opposition.

IT is not always true that spectators see most of
the game. When the " game " becomes a battle,
and the players develope into combatants, it is often
very difficult to understand why there should be so
much heat and bitterness. To the lay mind clerical

disputes especially are as a rule unintelligible. It
is difficult, for instance, to understand how the
theological world could have been divided into two
hostile camps 1,500 years ago about an iota. It is
difficult to imagine what there was to interest, much
more to excite, in the SACHEVEREL, HOADLEY,
and HAMPDEN controversies. It is most difficult of

all to appreciate the matter which drove nearly
1,500 clergymen on Tuesday into a state of excite-
ment that surpassed even recent gatherings before the
hustings. These clerics shouted, stamped, yelled,
hurled ugly words at each other, and, in fact,
did everything short of swearing and fighting. The
most respected clergy could not get a hearing ; men
of the stamp of Canon MILLER had to stand for
ten minutes vainly endeavouring to make them-
selves heard above the clamour that proceeded
from an army of white-chokered warriors. It was
only when the Archbishop of YORK threatened to
dissolve the meeting that the Vicar of Greenwich
succeeded in obtaining an audience. It would be
useless, we suppose, to ask these noisy clerics what
they expected to gain by all this tumult. They are
supposed to be logicians, but they would find it hard,
to say what is proved by yelling. We should be inclined
to say the badness of their case, for the man with a
strong case and a good argument never fears discussion.
As it is, the body of men who ought before all others
to set an example of moderation in the expression of
their own opinions, and toleration towards the
opinions of others, have exhibited vehemence and
intolerance that would disgrace even a crowd of
working-men politicians.
And what was all this tumult about ? Nominally,

it was a technical point of the smallest conceivable
importance ; really, it was a struggle for mastery on
the part of a section of the English Church. Originally
it was proposed that the Society for the Promotion
of Christian Knowledge should vote a grant of
£2,000 for distribution in the diocese of Natal.
Usually such grants- are expended according to the
recommendation of the diocesan. In this case the
society were unanimously agreed that the accus-
tomed rule could not be followed. The High Church
party—who hold that the see of Natal is vacant
because Dr. COLENSO has been deposed by Bishop
GRAY, theMetropolita.n of South Africa—insisted that
the money should be entrusted to that prelate and to
the Bishop of GRAHAMSTOWN. The Low Church and
the Broad Church parties, for once making common
cause, objected to this arrangement, because they hold
that Dr. COLENSO is still legally Bishop of Natal, and
that the canonical deposition has no force. They
therefore proposed that the administration of the
grant should be entrusted to the Standing Committee.
This proposal was vehemently contested by the High
Church section of the society. The committee had
with one voice denounced Bishop C LENSO'S heresy,
had pledged themselves that he should not benefit by
the grant ; but this did not satisfy their opponents,
who declared that they had no confidence in
them. Eventually the matter was put to
the vote, amidst the greatest excitement, and in a
division of 1,430 there was a majority of ninety-one
against the High Churchmen. The defeated party
were taken by surprise ; they had made sure of
victory, though, considering that Archdeacon
DENISON was their leader, and that he has, upon
his own confession, always championed the losing
cause, they should have anticipated defeat. As it
was, they neither anticipated nor acquiesced in it.
An attempt was made by a sort of coup de moot to
set aside the decision, and it was only through the
firmness of the Archbishop who presided that this
endeavour was frustrated.
It was stated by one of the principal speakers on
behalf of the minority, that if their proposal were
not accepted the rejection would be fatal to the
society. We are inclined to think that its accept-
ance would have been far more likely to prove fatal.
At the present moment all parties have agreed in
denouncing the alleged heresy of Bishop COLENSO.
But while one party is for getting rid of him in
defiance of the law, the other is for deposing him by
the agency of the law. It has been proposed to
prosecute the erratic Bishop in the law courts,
so as to purge the Church of heresy without
at the same time severing the connection between
the Church and the State. But this process is too
slow for the friends of Bishop GRAY. They are
regardless of consequences—regardless of the rupture
which would ensue between the Church and the
State, and would recognise the validity of Bishop
GRAY'S deposition, though in a court of law it is
wholly invalid. Of course they are entitled to their
own views onthis troublesome matter; butit is not wise
or fair that they should attempt to force them upon a
society which hitherto has carefully avoided partisan-
ship, and has therefore had the support of all
parties. It is the fault of the aggressors that they
are never content with anything less than ascendancy.
• They will force the adoption of their opinions, regard-
less of the rights of their equals and the authority of
their superiors.

LIFEBOA7 SERVICES ON WE EAST

COAST.

KESSINGLAND, SUFFOLK, Tiillradar

I have to report (says Mr. Atkins, the chief
officer of Coastguard) that a schooner, in attempt-
ing to take Pakefield Gat this morning, went
ashore on the Newcombe Sand. It was blowing a
fresh gale from the S.S.W., and there was a very
heavy sea running at the time. The Kessingland
Beachnien's large lifeboat was immediately launched
and succeeded in rescuing the vessel's crew, not-
withstanding that the boat grounded on the outer
Bar as she went out.
CAISTER, near GREAT YARMOUTH,
Dec. 10.

The Rev. G. W. Steward reports that on the
night of the sth inst. large lights were shown from
a vessel on the Barber Sand, while the wind was
blowing very heavily from the W.S.W. almost a
hurricane. There was apparently no time to
be lost, and the large lifeboat of the Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution was accordingly
launchel at once, and made for the spot,
but before she could arrive there the lights sud-
denly disappeared, and when the sand was reached
the vessel had got off and proceeded, and the ser-
vices of the lifeboat were consequently not required.
It afterwards appeared that the vessel which made
the signals was the fishing smack Flirt, of Yar-
mouth. She was coming into harbour through the
inner passage with a cargo of fish, when she was
driven on the sands, and was in the most imminent
peril, but fortunately she did not remain on the
bank, and was able to get into Yarmouth in safety
without assistance.