The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-10-23

&V4 Will tOS upon yUu1 ssuu WuhS 10 UsOTG,
the eye of the police will BIO upon you.' .
There were men in the Church who needed
o law to bind them. He would not say they
intended to be factious, but they mere fac
tious. He babe them beware. Let that
canon which had existed over seventy
years still continue.
Rev. Mr.. Edmund Z. Perkins, Of Ken
lucky, argued that the canon should be
amended in the manner proposed, and some
respect showed to the memorials SO hume
rously signed that he'd been presented. He
believed that in the recent case in New
York there was no violation of the canon,
and others believed that there was. What
he wanted was to have the canon made 50
plain that it should be understood by all.
Rev. Dr.. Adams moved that the whole
subject be laid on the table; which was
carried-yeas, SO; nays, 90.
A deputy said he was not in favor of
/" instructipg" the committee to make a
particular report. If that phrase were
withdrawn he would move reconsidera-
ton of the last vote. This was agreed to,
the vote was reconsidered, and then the
subject was recommitted.
A report was submitted from the Com
mittee on Canons advising that the House
do not concur in the action Of the House of
Bishops declaring that the clergy of the
Church of England in Canada are admissi-
BILE to oil the rights and duties of the
Church in the United States, which action
is contrary to canon 10. The report was
adopted.
After the transaction of some further bu-
siness of, little Importance, the secretary
read the usual notices prior to adjournment.
Among these was one to the effect that
memorial was at one Of the tables awaiting
Of which the subjoined is a
copy:
THE POPE AND THE EPIsCOPALTANs.
To the Right Reverend Bishops of Thu
Protestant Episcopal Church in The
United States Of America:
Reverend Fathers in God THE under
signed, while expressing their gratitude to
God for the evident presence of His Holy
Spirit in the council of His Church now
assembled, and avowing their firm belief
and confidence that Christ is ever with His
body, desire most respectfully to present
this petition: ~
. s# " ucTcdS, tuc OloHOp VA 1sOLAC, uL
Of that catholicity which characterized the
early occupants of his See, has issued q call
to what he presumes to style an Ecumeni-
cal Council Of the Catholic Church, and,
with whatever motive; or erroneous convio-
ton further presumes to ignore the Ameri-
can branch of the Church Catholic, but evil
IDENTIFY designs to include it among the
Protestants and other Catholics" to
whom, through the public newspapers, he
has addressed q letter, in which he calls all
such "to return to the truth and commu-
MON of the Catholic Church." Therefore,
in view of the historic position of the Bishop
of Rome, and in memory Of what the West
ern Church owes to Christian Rome Of old,
and in Difference to the dignity and Just
claims of our branch Of the Church, and
with due regard for enlightened public
opinion. the undersigned, members and
presbyters of the one Holy Catholic Church
in America, do most respectfully and earn
estly petition your venerable body to no.
tice this letter of the Bishop Of Rome, and
through the same channels in which it was
sent make such response as your wisdom
may suggest, asserting clearly and fully the
true Catholic position of our branch Of the
Church and its real unity with the body to
whom our Lord assured his constant pre-
sence, and wherein he verifes his promises
that the gates of hell shall not prevail
against her.
WEDNESDAY MORNINGS PROCEEDINGS.
Mr.. Tazewell Taylor offered resolution
directing the secretary to inform the House
of Bishops that proposition to reconsider
the canon on assistant bishops is before
the Convention, and request the return of
the papers for the further action of the
House of Clerical and Lay Delegates.
The President announced that hereafter
the reports submitted will lie on the table
of the secretary, and be taken up fol-
the action of the Convention in regular
order. ~. -
Several members asked for brief leaves
of absence; which were granted.
The Rev. DR.. B. J. Haight, of New York
for the Committee on Canons, offered the
following report:
The Committee on Canons, to whom was
referred proposed amendment to canon 8
section 8, title 2, beg leave to report fol
adoption by this house the following reso,
luton: 80
RESOLVED, the House of Bishops concur.
ring, That section 3 of canon 8, title Q, is
hereby amended 30 as to read as follows in
line three: "The presiding bishop" in
stead of "the pesiding bishop Of the
Church," The report and resolution were
adopted. .Tf.ey7-ft-.f 9ry7~,
!. Judge William Fl. Battle, of North Caro-
lima, for the same committee, reported o
canon on the conservation of churches, the
adoption of which he warmly supported in
brief speech. IS
It was laid on the table and ordered to be
printed for the information of the dele
gates.
The Rev. Mr.. B. J. Haight, of New York,
for the Committee on Canons, offered the
following report: fr,- Ell
The Committee on Canons, to whom it was
referred to inquire as to the necessity Of
an addition to article of the Constitution
of the words "or by the Bishop himself
of some other diocese" or Of some phrase
equivalent thereto, beg leave to report that
in their opinion it is not expedient to
make any such addition to article 4 Of
the Constitution and they ask to be
discharged from the further consideration
of the subject. l.s.
The report was accepted, and the commit
tee was discharged.
The President announced the receipt of
several messages from the House of Bishops,
one stating that they do not concur with the
House Of Delegates in its action on the
amendment to canon 8; and another that
they do concur in the proposed addition OF
another cycle to the prayer-book calendar.
They also transmitted to the Convention
an elaborate report made to them by the
Committee on Christian Education which
was read by the secretary to the Conven-
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