The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1876-10-20 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

UNITY IN THE CHURCH. OF ENGLAND. (From the Standard.)  tacked  Unity In the Church of England has hitherto been preserved by a general understanding among both clergy and laity that the Reformation settlement was not to be disturbed. Time 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 some points, sacrificed nothing which either panty 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 charalter, and to show that the Church of England, while recognising certain Protestant principles, bad 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 proclaim their resolution to undo, if possible, the work ot the 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, wnose object it is to " de-Protestantise " the Church of England, alms at nothing less 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 Revolution? 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 Reformation 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.  strong  Mr. dohn Hollingshead has taken the Operaeomique In hand.  --The well-known conjuror, Dr. Lynn, is off to India ; but he will return to London in April.  - . Mu Neilson has been staying in Scotland, with Lady Sinclair, but she will, very shortly, be off to America. .  -------Mr. Thomas Atkinson, a master tailor, occupying a prominent position in Leeds, has c)ramitted suicide by hanging himself. The steamer Times, of Leith, which was in collision with a Russian brig off Flamborough Head last week, arrived safely at Rotterdam on Monday. - -  The celebrated spectacle, "Le Voyage dens la Lune," has been 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 inspection. Paul Nicart, who is just dead, was a theatrical celebrity, who has been forgotten by the old genera Wm and unknown to the new. He was, 35 or 40 years ago, director of some of the very minor Paris theatres, notably of the Folios Nouvelles and the Clichy.  An old actress—Madame Jenny Lesbousent—a lady aged 74, c ,mmitted suicide, a few days ago, by throwing herself from the window of her house at Viwinet. On the 12th of August lust she tried to drown herself at Bougival, but was rescued before she was able to carry out bar intention. The piano rehearsals of "La Forza del Destino," at the Parts Itallens, are in ac.ive progress, the orchestra rehearsals begin next Monday, and a fortnight after the theatre will open. In the scene of the field of ' battle, at Vitiate', there will be 180 soldiers of all arms, and the famous " Rataplan" will be sung by a choir of 80 voices.  M. Lasalle, and not M. Maurel, is to succeed M. Faure at the Paris Opera. M. Maurel has accepted an engagement for Madrid. It is not expected that the Grand Opera will need a star till 1878, as the building is still an attraction, and, for the Exhibition season, the director is making every effort to obtain the services of Mdme. Adelina Patti.  ----- Tll6 COLONISATION Or