Star.
London, England, 1826-01-21 00:00:00

THE ENGLISH CLERGY IN FRANCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Sin—ln the r&erence to the sermon published on
occasion of t' e consecration- of Bishop Luscombe, by
Mr. Honk, quoted in 2 Ime number of your Paper, ex-
plana.co y.ot the mi•sion this iespecteJ Prelate has un-

dertaken on the Continent, a material misconception,
• into which the author appeats to have fallen himself,
and which may, in consequence, be likely to mislead
others, should have at the same t.me been noticed. The
Rev. Author, in speaking of the Clergy exercising the
pastor 41 charge of the British continental congregations,
seems, by vario is intimations that he hada aLegel in
different parts of his discourse, to conceive that, as now
circumstanced, they are acting under, or rather, s. taking
wpm thentselves" an unauthorised commission, and in
consequence require episc .pal license to give sanction
to their ministry I Tins writer must hence be evidently
unaware of the fact, that few, if any, of the individuals
to whom his reflections apply, are in the position lie
supposes; as they have universally been licensed by,
and most, if not all of them continue to hold licenses
from their respective diocesans at home, and therefore,
any further authorization, so far from being called for
at all, could not even add a validity to their minstry
with which their existing commissions do not invest
them. In fact, seem ding to this view of the subject, it
might he with as much consistency asserted, that re-or-
• dinatiou itself was necessary for a clergy, whose com-
missions, as the smartie; s of the established national
Church of Eagl ind, never are (as actually is the case
•with those ordained by the Scots Bishops, as this author
himself admits—with those ordained too, either by the
American, or any of our Colonial Bishops) by law, re-
stricted and limited in the exercise of their functions.
It is particularly requisite that this explanation should
distinctly go forth, lest the very erroneous view which
the author has taken in this part of his argument, to
say nothing of its tendency to lower the estimate the
Clergy at present hold with their congregations,-should
lead to an impression that by their residence in a coun-
try not within the jurisdiction of the Church by which
they are commissioned, the validity of their ministration
has become de facto in a state of suspension, if the very
exercise of it at all, under such a view, be not unwar-
ranted—or whether, as Mr. H. maintains, the very
4. propriety of the conduct of that clergyman, who
takes upon himself to officiate among them (i e. the Bri-
tish residents abroad) for a permanency may not be
questioned ?"

Admitting, however, the correctness of the author's
reasoning on this point, the argument would then no
less involve t'se validity of the Bishop's own ecclesiasti-
cal tuna' ois thus coming abroad, as being exercised out
of the territory to which the spiritual jurisdiction of
the Church is confined, from which he has derived his
commission, and an allegiance to which, of the Clergy
of the English esaJblishment, can by no possibility be
claimed. On these data, it must, therefore, surely
follow that, if the one be unauthorized, or has no justi-
fiable sanction to exercise the Ministry of his lower
ord, r out of the country to which his Church belongs,
no less must the other and higher rank be alike divested
or p3wer to exercise that ministration which pertains.to
his Church (and that even by law) out in its indi.
gent us stare. VIGIL.

P.S. The Reader is requested, if he has the opportunity, of re-
ferring, un this topic, to Dr- Grant's " Apology for continuing in
the Communion of the Church of England," to examine this
author's teaser./ for refusing submission to this Church.

• January 16th, 1626.

Advice. have been received by the way of Odessa,
from Constantinople, dated on the 19th ult. which state,
that the combined Egyptian and Turkish fleets had
suffered a loss of live men of war, in action with the
Grecian Navy. Few particulars are given in this letter;
and as the victory is stated to have been gained in the
neighbourhood of Hydra, its confirmation is by no means
certain. The auxiliary naval forces are by this time,
however, beginning to collect themselves in the Archi-
pelago; and as soon as the season permits, some deci-
sive operations may secure to the Greeks, in future, the
command of those seas.

Dut log the late severe weather, a vessel belonging to
Lyme rode for eight days in a gale off Portland. Their
provisions were reduced to a turnip and a piece of bis-
c,.ir each man.

The lead mines of Misststni cover an area of more
than 3,000 square miles, and are said to be the most
extensive on globe. The ore is of the richest and
purest kind, and exists in quantities sufficient to supply
the whole United States. The number of mines is 165,
in which mot e than 1,100 men are employed, producing
annually 3,000,000 pounds of the metal, valued at
120,000 dollars.

• AMERICAN CANALS. -Abut 3,000 labourers are ern•
ployed un the Ohio canals. One of these canals is to
be from the junction of the Scioto with the Ohio to the
rnsnth of the Giy.thnga river, at Cleareland on Lake
Erie, in length 3(16 miles. The other from Coicinnati to'
Day ton, on the Miami river, GO tn.les in lenoli.

BREAD AND AGR:CDI.TURAL W•GEs.—Tbe price of
agricultural lab. ut in 1732, sealed by Magistt ates W.l)
6s. in wi ,ter, and 7-. in summer. The price of Wheat
was 19, to 24.5. per quarter, or 2s. 9J. per bushel.—
Malt, 15s. to 22.. per quarter, or 2.. sd. per bushel.—
The price of agricultural labour in 1825. was Bs. to
M. per week. Meat, about Bs. or 9s. per bushel.
Malt about 10s. per bushel.—Thercfme it is clear the
labourer can now only procure one halt the quantity of
bread and one-fourth the quantity of beer he could in
1732, and perhaps the land four times the price.
Towards the end of Easter Terme, 1655, the Lord
CHANDOIS for killing in duel] Mi. COMPTON, the yeare
before, and the Lord ARUNDZI. of Warder, one of his
seconds, were brought to theyr tryall for theyr lives at
the Upper Bench in Westminster Hall, when it was
found manslaughter only, as by a Jury at Kingston-
upon-Thames, it had beerf found f. latterly. The Lords
igl.t have had the privilege of peerage (Justice ltor.t.s
!wing Lord Chief Justice) but they declined it by advice
1.1 %Jr. MAYNARD and the rest of theyr counsel], least
by that means the matter might have bin brought ab ut
again; therefore they went upon the former verdict of
manslanghter,and so were acquitted,but yet to be burned
incite band, which was don to them both, a day or two
after, but very favourably. It is observable, Ist, That
these Lords, having bin of the KING'S party, submitted
to be tryed by the present Government. 2,11 y, That
they waved the privilege of peerage (as the Earle of
DOVER not long before had done in Hertfordshire) where
be was indited for coping money. And, 3dly, That
the sayd two Lot ds were burnt in the hand, they being
the fist Peers in England that had been so.—Lord Lei-
ir der's hsw,sml is Sydney Papers.