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a-order that such works

the progress that had been
ctive duties of Convoca-
done, and he believed it

forwardedthfit he rejoiced to se.
made towards the revival of flu
There was much good to Ix
lv be effected through that instrument. If it were

3 beintrusted to any other hands, it must betotheHouses
of Parliament, or to a commission specially issued for the
purpose. To the first of these he objected, because every
day proved that Parliament was unfit to take the work in,
hand. The subject required close discussion, for whiell
Parliament had not time. Parliament had uot, and did
not pretend to have, a sufficient acquaintance with the
details to render it fit for legislation upon such a subject.
Then asto the other course, namely, a commission from
the Crown ; such commissions were of an arbitrary cha-
Ind opposed to the spirit of our institutions. More-
, commission, however ably constituted, would not
have an opportunity of consulting the Church generally,
and, without the adoption of that course, there could be
no hope of a peaceful settlement. He believed that the
only means of placing upon a firm basis the internal policy
of the Church was to be found in her own councils • that
there were matters requiring immediate action on the part
of those councils; and that to no other body could the
discussion of the matter be so well intrusted. Unless this
power were granted, he believed the Church would sink
into a torpor and a fatal lethargy. But sometimes the
objection took a more definite form—that convocation was
.a-party question, and ought not to be encouraged. To
some extent it was a party question, for it belonged to that
party which was the Church's life, and without the exer-
tions of which it must inevitably die. It had been urged
that these councils would do little more than encourage
polemic strife ; but why shonla thie be the case? It was
not to he supposed that the clergy were the only menwho
Our sYstcns I could not discu.s their aft

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s with quietness ; and the pre-
sent convocation certainly afforded no ground for such an
opinion. The Church had no new faith to seek—no new
Church to encourage. Churchmen were content with their
Church, and it'was unfair to draw an argument from the
unhappy circumstances which attended the close of the

last convocation, in which the existing topics which at that
time moved the nation to its core, forced themselves into
the deliberations of the clergy. At all events, the pro-

phets of evil should allow Churchmen the trial. They
would pray that, in all their deliberations, they might
have the spirit of power and love, and of a sound mind,
that they might-be guided into all truth, and so best pro-
mote the glory and salvation of the people."
His Lordship then pronounced the benediction, and the

congregation dispersed

CHESHIRE AND WALES.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The traffic for
the week ending 29th October, 1851, was as follows:
Passengers, parcels, &c., £2,762 16s. Od ; steam-boats,
£487 15s. 11d.: total, £3,250 lls. 11d. Goods, £1,764 18s.
Total, including Carnarvon traffic, £5,016 Os. 11d. Cor-
responding week last year, passengers, parcels, &c., £2,495
7s. Bd.; steam-boats, £363 12s. 6d.: total, £2,859 Os. 2d.
Goods, £1,528 Os. sd. Total, including Carnarvon traffic,
£4,387 Os. 7d. Increase, £628 Os. 4d.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—
On Friday forenoon, .a man named Laurence Kenlan, a
labourer, engaged at the Morpeth Dock; was crossing
from the ship Salem -to another vessel alongside, and,
whilst standing on the'bulwarks of the Salem, he lost his
balance, and fell down head foremost between the two
.vessels, and, his head coming in contact with the edge of
a boat, lying beneath, he received a very severe fracture
of the skull. He was taken to the Birkenhead Hospital
in a state of insensibility, where he lies in a precarious

condition

TUE WOODSIDE FERRY-BOATS. At the Liverpool
:Police-court, on Wednesday, a complaint was preferred
against Hamilton Pearson, master of the Wirral steamer,
which plies between Woodside and Liverpool. The offence
,charged was for exhibiting a light at the gangway when
the vessel was under weigh,:before arriving at the landing-
stage, St. George's-pier. Re was fined ss. and oosts, the
magistrate (Mr. Smith) conceiving that such light was
dangerous, as tending to decoy passengers.
HOLTITEAD.—A melancholy accident occurred in this
bay, on Monday last, whereby.four human lives were lost
by drowning. Two persons :f em the neighbourhood of
Llanfaethlu having missed the Trefadog ferry-boat, which
usually plies between that place and Holyhead, hired a
staalLboat to take them home, and two boatmen, of the
names of David Hughes and James Brady, undertook to
take-them over. It was blowing a fresh breeze at the
time,.and when within a short distance of Trefadog, the
boat was struck by a heavy sea, which instantly swept
three.of the persons overboard, leaving David Hughes in
the boat. Immediately after this .sad occurrence, Hughes
was also swept over, and all were drowned before any
assistance could be rendered. When the accident was
observed by the Trefadog men, they immediately got their
boat out to attempt saving their lives, but they were only
able to pick up David Hughes, a lifeless corpse.
TEXPDaINCE TEA-PARTY.—A temperance tea-party
was held on Thursday evening, in the school-room under-
neath the Wesleyan Meeting-House, Grange-lane, Birken-
head. There were about 200 persons present. The chair
was occupied by Mr. William Morgan, vice-president of the
Birkenhead Total Abstinence Society. The object of the
meeting was more particularly to draw attention to the
Friendly Societies, as a means of affording Tenet' in case of
sickness and distress, and thus prevent the necessity for
parties availingthemselves of the aid afforded by casual
subscriptions. Addresses on the subject were delivered by
I the chairman, Mr. M`Carthy, and other advocates of the

temperance cause.
A NOBLE lizscrE.—An instance of brave self-devoted-
ness, deserting of record, occurred during the recent gale
off Beaumaris. The sloop Two Brothers, of Aberyatwith,
with a cargo of iron ore, sought shelter in the Menia
Straights, and was d•riv•en on the sands north of Redwharf
bay. The master and crew were exposed all night to a
bitter north-east wind, and were seen in the morning
' hto the rigging, their boat having been dashed to
leces in the attempt to launch it. No life-boat could be
had ; but, though it was thought impossible an open boat
could live five minutes in such a storm, nine brave fellows
-olunteered the rescue. After three hours' fierce battling
ith the elements, with the wind right in their teeth, and
sea rolling fearfully, they reached the wreck and rescued
crew, who had been exposed more than nine
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