The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-08-10
NEGOTIATIONS FOREIGN NEWS.
ITO July 19th.]
ENGLAND,


la the reinsertion, moved by Mr.. Hardy, of
Lord Sslisbury's proposal to transfer &C.
clesiastical appeals from the Judicial COM
mittee to the new court. 1t was opposed
in the Lords by the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, and withdrawn by the advice of
debate in the Lower House, an apprehen-
sion which was anything but justified, as
the transfer met with the approval of
every body: of the Low Church members
because they dislike ecclesiastical judges,
and of the High Church, because they are
anxious to deprive the judgments of all
semblance of spiritual validity. In his
comments on the Ritualist petitions the
Archbishop expressed a strong hope that the
new court would be invested with effec tual
power to deal with such matters. Another
petition, similar to that of the ABB, and
signed by four Oxford professors, has ex-
cited his Grace's indignation even more
than the other, and his structures on the
absent professors, but the paper not being
before the House, procured him snub
bling from Lord Salisbury, who was croft.
clio bound to defend them.
Possible Effect of the Transter.-We do
not wish to be ill-natured, but the prognos-
tic in which the Archbishop of Canterbury
INDUCED in the debate on Lord Salisbury's
an exclusively lay court, is too curious not
to be noticed. Ignorance of theological
terms was SO general, he said, among the
lawyers, that eff there had not been &C.
clesiastical members of the Privy Council
to correct them, one decision might have
another might have excluded the Low
Church party, and a third the Broad
Church party" We need not ask what
would have remained; obviously the No
Church party. And it is, therefore, ma
tural that those whose great hobby is COM
prehensiveness, should, like " Anglicanus"
in the Times, protest against the abolition
of Court " which has hitherto tended to
promote the harmonious working of our
complicated system.
The Bishops and the Rituaiists.-The four
hundred odd clergymen havelcertainly sue
ceeded, first in producing a sensation, and
then in eliciting as authoritative declara-
ton as Is consistent with the peculiar
habits of the Anglican Communion that
" habitual penitents are at least as OBJ
jectionable to it's pontiffs and to the ma
jority of it's members as habitual criminals
of any other class. The only difference of
opinion is as to how they are to be dealt
with. Lord 0ranmore suggested that the
Bishops should inhibit the clergymen who
there should be Select Committee to con-
slider how the danger might be averted
by legislation and the Times backs him
up by asserting that, if there is any risk in
action, "the time has come when the risk
must be incurred" "There is no limit"
continues the writer of the article, to
the disorganizaton before US if the open
violation of the law is to be be tolerated.
1t is not worth while to retain men in the
Church who refuse obedience to it's lawful
authorities" Yet the Bishops evidently
think it unreasonable that they should have
to do anything. The task" said the
Archbishop of York, was "too great for
hoy tn fob
elapsed since the same grievances were |
complained of in petition to the Queen,
and although nine out of every ten bene- |
feed clergymen must have passed away, |
" the same state of facts seemed to exist.n
And he and the Archbishop of Canterbury
both pronounced the same opinion, that |
the remedy was to be found in the action
of the laity. DR.. TAFT appealed to lay pa
irons not to appoint men of "extreme |
vlews;" but we do not suppose they do, |
unless they hold "extreme views" them.
selves, and then what is the use of appeal
ing to them We suspect that the extreme
disinclination of the Bishops to translate
heir denunciations into action arises part
y from the fact that such prosecutions
would be very expensive. The costs in
lumber of Purchas and Bennett trials
would make terrible hole in the income
which has to keep up family establish
nent expected to be on the scale of that of
oii.Uo w squire. IL lS easier TO COnhne
oneself to letters against the sch.sm of
oissenters, such as Bishop Wordsworth
las just been putting forth, letter W hich
'as ELECTED from the Spectator the follow
ng pithy and pertinent remark: emo
wonder they (the Highland dry Blshops)
ire morbid about schism. If our whole
church be not schismatic, in their formal
'ense, what is it But if it be schismatic,
Why, was Wesley worse than Cranmer ?
Apgllcans should cease to maunder about
'chIsm, or else cease to be Anglicans."
PRUSSIA.
State and Church in Prussia-The ap-
continent of Herr Won Balan to be Prus-
'ian Secretary for Foreign affairs has been
officially announced, and the telegram adds
hat Prince Won Bismarck thus virtually
,eases to be member of the Prussian Ca
oinet, though whether he remains so nom-
1ally is unknown. The legacy which he
has left behind him in the shape of a new
policy is already beginning to
produce embarrassment. The Archbishop
IF Cologne has been interrogated in his
own palace-his coadjutor, Mgr. Baudri, is
absent-and the Courts will have to pro-
1ounce upon the monstrous contention of
ihe Government that an Archbishop has
broken the law becauae he haa axcluda5