The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-10-20 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

ITY IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. (From Um Standard.)  Unity in the Church of England has hitherto been eserved by a general understanding among both rlergy and laity that the Reformation settlement was not to be disturbed. The High Church party might object to that settlement on one ground and the Low Church party on another. But after a good many struggles both agreed to acquiesce in it, as a compromise which, however unpalatable in 9ne points, sacrificed nothing which either party thought essential. There was no intention on the part even of the earlier Tractarians to reverse this settlement. All that they desired was to bring out its true chartoter, and to show that the Church of England, while recognising certain Protestant principles, had never intended to abandon her Catholic dogmas. They were loyal, therefore, to the Reformation, though they might have wished it had been differently carried out. But we have now to deal with a class of men who openly pro. 'I their resolution to undo, if possible, the work of he sixteenth century, and to take the Church of England back to what she was before her quarrel with the Papacy. This is a vastly different thing from the ordinary High Church theory, even at its very highest. The extreme Ritualist, whose object it is to " de-Protestantlee " the Church of England, aims at nothing legs than subverting a part of the English Constitution. What should we think of any body of politicians who banded together to restore the government of this country to what it was before the Revoiution ? Yet the one scheme is little, if at all, less monstrous than the other. We desire no persecution. Let Anglo-Catholicism have all the liberty which the terms of the Reformat' ,n reserve for it. But people who reject those terms place themselves beyond the pale of toleration, and have no right to grumble if they find that they cannot break the law with impunity.  The stemer Times, of Leith, which was in collision with a Russian brig off Flemborough Haul last week, arrived safely at Rotterdam on Monday.  The celebrated spectacle, "Le Voyage dens la Lune," has bee.' translated for the Philadelphia Alhambra, under the title "A Voyage to the Earth." Mdlle. Pauline Luigini, who will be remembered here as having sung with M. Humbert's Brussels troupe, has, it is said, been engaged for the Paris Opera Comique.  The Lords of the Admiralty have granted a who'e day's holiday to all the officers and men engaged in the Chatham Dockyard, on account of the satisfactory progress made in the works since their last visit of In. ipectlon.  Paul Nicart, who is just dead, was a theatrical celebrity, who has been forgotten by the old genera two and unknown to the new. He was, 35 or 40 years ago, director of some of the very minor Paris theatres, notably of the Follee Nouvelles and the Clichy. An old actress—Madame Jenny Lesbousant—a lady aged 74, c ,nituttted suicide, a few days ago, by throwing herself from the window of her house at Wsinet. On the 12th of August last she tried to drown herself at Bougival, but was rescued before she was able to carry out her intention. The piano rehearsals of " La Forza del Destino," at the Pars I t,liens, are in acive progress, the oreheslra rehearsals begin next Moe day, and a fortnight after the theatre will open. In the scene of the field of bwlle, at Villetrl there will be 180 soldiers of all arms, and the fatuous R ttaplan" will be sung by a choir of 80 voices.  M. Lavelle, and not M. Maurel, le to succeed 111. Faure at the Paris Op.,ra. M. Maurei has acolited an engagement for Madrid. It Is not exp..cted that the Grand Opera will need a etar till 1).478, as the budding ie efill 511 attraction, and, for the Exhibition Season, the director 1. making every effort to obtain the services of Mdme. Adelina Patti.  TO It COLONISATION OF CENTRA Art: