Litchfield enquirer., 1867-01-10


 ! 1Ne 4snaes, is 2 Dortsetshire clerg yman, an excellent parish priest have always heard. but better known IS an indefatigable ferrit- i CT out of iucolic abuses of all kinds. and a man full of medical and other knowledge .i which he utilizes for the material benefit of his poorer neighbors. Theological ques- tions doubt whether he cares much for or has ever considered, very deeply, but until the last 10 days he has nlanaged to keep on excellent terms with his Bishop D. Ham, iiton IS this dignitary's 8 name, 8 good schOl- ar, and 8 c1urchman Of the Bishop of Ox- lords school, who has gradually gathered round him in the Diocese of Salisbury a very decidedly high church clergy. 590 satching the questions Of the day in his EDoasetshlre home. and seeing how these rltnahstic practices are exercising the Brit lsh mind, and bringing up all the old con- troversies about the priesthood, sets down and delivers himself of two letters to The Times, commenting on the different educa- ton and training of the clergy of the Eng lisn ana Roman communlo ons, how the one ! set live precisely like other young men till ordination, and marry, and exercise lay I functions such as those ofgmagistrates af- terward; and are, in fact, very good fellows and the most cultivated part of the country society throughout their lives, while the others are trained as a distinct class from i boyhood, vowed to celibacy at their con- secration, indoetrinated with the beauties ot ascetlclsm, and taught to separate them seeives from human interests and human 1 life and to believe that they are meant to rule these as spiritual fathers. By an easy jump 590 gets to telling these ritualistic clergy that they had better give up playing at priests, and that for all these mysteri- ous powers and gifts which priests have claimed up and down the world, why, the less said about them the better in this con- nectlon. In fact, the noble and profuse parson clearly shows, that for his part, he has no consciousness of possessing any such powers and gifts at all and doesn't the least believe in them. Whereupon, the Bishop comes down on his outspoken par son with severe apostolic rebuke He writes, and prints in Tbe Gundins, letter to 59O, denouncing his view as ungenerous, undutitui, inaccurate, anda very unworthy or one who has promised to maintain and set forward as much as heth in him, quiet ness, peace and love among all Christian people. Verify these are strong words for 2 Bishop; and the Episcopal mind. must have been deeply moved before inditing them. The Bishop goes on solennly to protest that the clergy of the Church of England "have committed to them. the same powers which the priests of the rest of the Catholic Church inheritance" The deuce they do! One is tempted to exclaim | This IS large order with vengauce. knowing what the Bishop is seriously stand ing up for. Does he mean that he claims our clergy power to forgive sins. to medi- tate between God and man in the sense in which Romish priests profess to hold it, or what arc the mysterious powers conferred by the imposition of Bishops hands when done into plain English? It would be sat- isfactory ii We could get them set out, by such high authority, and then the sooner they are once again unmistakeably dealt with by the long suffering British people the better"
 ARTEMUS WARD.
 'I deferred reporting on the appearance of Artemus Ward ln London, last week, as l had not then been able to go and see him have now been. and am able to say that l think he will have very considerable if not an overwhelming success here. There Is perhaps, scarcely enough in the talk up- on the Mormons to satisfy the British mo- tions of an entertainment, and Artemus, though exceedingly accomplished in his own line, has not the gifts of 'stumbling'' as we understand them, which were posses ed in . high degree by Albert Smith, and more or less by Woodin. and all his success sors who have made anything like hit; at least, If he does possess such gifts he keeps them entirely to himself. There is no singing Of comic songs, or mim- icry, or indeed acting of any kind in Artemus's entertainment He is very quiet and quaint in his Dundrearyis1n, has no help whatever from change of costume and character, and very little from his s'pic- trsrs" which are however, really interesting to any one who cares about and would like If he could to understand something of, the queer caricisture New-Jerusalem which has descended under the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. Despite of these disad- vantages he gets crowded audiences every day, and keeps them well amused His delicious inconsequence is the side of his humor, which pleases us best, I think. For instance, when he told us, in this dry jerking way, that Che should be glad if he make alittle money by these entertainments that he might so-to New Zealand--as he did not wish 10 hore Hred in rain.'' John Bull was dissolved in inextinguishablc laughter. 4 good many of his best sayings are already familiar to those who have read his papers, and this. of course, takes some of the edge off. But he is we'll worth going to hear, and have no doubt will not have s'ived in vain, so far as London is con- cerned Ithink that the descriptions of his performances in your paper gave diff ferent impression of him.. They certainly did to me, and expected much broader, or should perhaps say louder, treatment of his subject, aud more dependence on quaint accent and phraseology. He may however, have this in store for IS, and. be merely feeling the mouth Of our public as yet ''Your attitude as to Fenianism still grieve your friends in England good deal, but we have had an unusual treat as make weight this week in the report of the hear ty speech of Cyrus Field at the New-York banquet Few men, perhaps, could say it so eloquently, but, after all. now isn't his experience thas of all reasonable Ameri- cans who stay here for more than (. hurried week or ten days? Did you ever know a countryman of your own, being reasona- bly good fellow, who wasn't received here with open arms? never did. I know ] it is just the same in America. Eve ry decent Engiishman who comes back tells the same story. Why. can't we then drop snarling in our corhcrate and national characters and begin sefiousdy to set about =; z.--~1