Hitherto a want of money was the excuse offered by successive Deans, but this difficulty being removed by Lord Dudley's munificence, we earnestly hope that the Dean and Chapter will be firm, and put an end to the scandal. Our readers have now an opportunity of observing that the letter which Sir F. G. Ouseley wrote assigning his reasons for withdrawing from the E.C.U., gives, as the principal one, just what we stated-the inaction of the Union as to opposing Dr. Temple. We cannot understand how Sir Charles Young felt himself justified in charging us with "inaccuracy," and could say, as reported in the Church Review, that Sir F. G. Ouseley's resignation was "not for the reason stated in the CHURCH HERALD." The Union does not seem to flourish under his management. There are only 47 candidates for election at the next ordinary meeting, which will be the third of the four now held annually, and adding these to the 433 elected at the two previous meetings, gives us but 480, which would make the probable annual increase this year 640-a wonderful change from 1,500 last year, and 1,407 the year before it. A change of rule is, we see, to be proposed, by which in future the Council are to have the elections in their own hands, but we do not suppose that this will affect the numbers. To us, who view the Union from the position of outsiders, the numbers we have given seem hardly to justify the Church Times in saying that "the tact and wisdom of the new President and Secretary, the high character of the Council, the fortunate secession of that small, cantankerous, and inept element which some time ago disturbed the Society, and the singular concord which now reigns in Burleigh-street, have clothed the Union with a strength it never before possessed, if, as we suppose, numbers go far toward constituting strength." Perhaps Sir C. Young will favour our neighbour with one of his letters, which so marvellously combine elegance and accuracy. We have not the least wish to detract from the Union's merits, if it has any; they do not concern us, but we do claim a right to remark on the accuracy of alleged facts. In another column will be found the decision arrived at on the title and status of the Suffragan Bishops. The conclusion appears to be a perfectly sound one; and though we should grudge the new Bishops no honour, we are not sorry to see the intrinsic difference between Christian Bishops and Spiritual Peers plainly marked. In strict consistency, however, should not the Suffragan Bishops sit and debate, though not vote, in the Upper House of Convocation? Otherwise, a valuable portion of the experience accruing from Diocesan labour will be lost to the Upper House. As the article which we published last week on Catholic Progress has called forth several letters of remonstrance, we think it well to state plainly what we consider to be our position, so that misapprehension may be removed. It is a wellknown fact that a large number of persons among us are in the habit of seeking Absolution, as is advised in the Exhortation given in the Prayer Book to be used when notice is given of Holy Communion. Now we think that this, while it is a gratifying evidence of an increasing conviction of the evil of sin, needs some special provisions to avert the risk of persons being unable to obtain "the benefit of Absolution through a feeling of shyness preventing their applying personally to a Clergyman to appoint a special time and place to hear their Confessions and absolve them. It seems to us that though, as we said last week "boxes" may not be primitive, they are a legitimate development of ancient practice; but if any one prefers returning to the primitive custom of making their confession in public we do not wish to restrain them. Nor can we do better than remind all of the Exhortation contained in Edward VIth's Prayer Book, that those who desire to practise private confession should be unmolested in its use and should not molest those who do not desire that which partakes rather of the character of medicine than food. THE E.C.U. AND THE CHURCH HERALD. In reply to our remarks last week, Sir C. Young has published in the Church Times and Church Review the following letter: "Tenby, Feast of All Saints', 1869. "Dear Sir Charles,-I purposely abstained from stating my reasons for wishing my name removed from the E.C.U., both because I was unwilling to provoke correspondence (for which, in truth, I have no leisure), and also because I hardly imagined myself of sufficient importance to make any such statement a matter of interest. But as you express a wish to know my reasons, although I cannot enter into them at any great length, yet I feel it is but due to say a few words on the subject. I have for a long time been gradually coming to a conviction that the E.C.U. and myself were not at one on several important points (e.g., I felt very strongly that every good Churchman ought to protest with the utmost indignation against the sacrilegious spoliation of the Irish Church. The E.C.U. was very lukewarm in the matter). But when I saw great efforts continually made, and money spent in the defence of the externals of worship, such as vestments and ceremonies, and coupled with that the apathy shown in resisting the appointment of a heretic to the See of Exeter, and when I felt impelled to conclude the reason of this to be a desire to force on a disruption of Church and State (which I can only regard as a great calamity impending on both), then I felt convinced that I should be doing violence to my own convictions, and aiding a course of action with which I cannot at all coincide, were I to remain any longer a member of the E.C.U. I have always been a staunch High Churchman and a strong Conservative. But I am not, nor can I ever become a Ritualist nor a Radical. I look on the E.C.U. as having become the it. I trust, however, that this act of mine may in no wise interfere with organised engine of both. Therefore I must sever my connection with the mutual respect which exists between myself and the majority of my acquaintance among the members of the E.C.U. "I am, yours faithfully "Sir Charles L. Young." (Signed) "FREDERICK GORB OUSELEY. On this Sir C. Young has the coolness to write : Your readers will see that my assertion that the Church Herald was inaccurate in stating that Sir F. Ouseley left the Union merely on account of the supposed 'inaction' on the part of the President and Council, is amply borne out by the language which Sir Frederick uses." Our readers will no doubt form their own opinion on the point. Certainly we never desired to imply Sir F. Gore Ouseley's entire satisfaction with the Union on other matters than the Temple case, when we spoke of that as the cause of his secession. Original Poetry. GONE. Gone! gone! gone! Nothing of wealth, nor of fame, No leaf from the garland, no drop from the shower, No place, no power. Little of pleasure or peace, Of the heart's content, or the spirit's joy, Few glimpses of love's sunshine, Some strength set to endure, Gone! gone! gone! PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Rev. W. H. Burns, to the Rectory of St. James, Manchester. The Rev. John Beauvoir Dallison, to the Rectory of Upwell, near Wisbech. The Rev. C. W. Heaton, to the Rectory of Aston Clinton, Bucks. The Rev. T. N. Hughes, to the Rectory of St. Edmund's, Northampton. The Rev. Dr. Jebb, to a Canonry in the Cathedral Church of Hereford. The Rev. W. Keys, to the Rectory of Clifton, Westmoreland. The Rev. T. W. S. Langdon, to the Vicarage of Seavington St. Mary, Ilminster. The Rev. E. A. Sanford, to the Rural Deanery of Wellington. The Rev. A. E. C. Smith, to the Vicarage of Cootham. The Rev. W. S. Laczy rma, to the Incumbency of Carnmenillis, Cornwall. Curate of St. Peter's, Hackney, will deliver a course of Sermons, specially addressed to women," On certain female characters in Holy Scripture," on Thursday mornings in Lent, at St. Saviour's, Hoxton. Last week Earl Nelson presided at a meeting of the General Committee of the Church Congress at Southampton. Canon Kingsley was elected one of the Vice-Presidents. The Bishop of Winchester recommends that the Congress should be held the second week in October next. The Bishopric of Wellington, New Zealand (according to the Guardian) is about to become vacant. Bishop Abraham, in consequence of the recent illness of Bishop Selwyn, has determined to remain in England and assist his old friend and colleague as Suffragan Bishop in the Black The Rev. G. Southwell, Vicar of Yetminster-cum-Chetnole, Dorset, to the Rural Country. The Rev. H. R. Tanner, to the Vicarage of Fazely, near Tamworth. The Rev. C. W. S. Taunton, to the Incumbency of St. Thomas, Trowbridge. The Rev. H. W. Taylor, to the Vicarage of Luxulyan, Cornwall, The Rev. W. Temple, to the Vicarage of St. Barnabas, South Kensington. The Rev. M M. C. G. Wilder, to the Rectory of Great Bradley, Suffolk. The Bishopric of Sierra Leone has been offered to the Rev. Henry Cheetham, Vicar of Quarndon, near Derby. The Rev. II. P. Liddon is delivering a course of Sermons at St. James's, Piccadilly, on the Sunday afternoons during Lent. At St. Lawrence, Jewry, during Lent the whole of the mid-day Wednesday Sermons will be delivered by the Rev. R. M. Benson. The "recent Judgment" is, we hear, so far obeyed at All Saints', Cheltenham, that Mass is said there in a "surplice with sleeves only." Evensong is now sung every Thursday, during Lent, in Hereford Cathedral at eight o'clock. There are also Sermons by Special Preachers. The Roman Council is (says the Westminster Gazette) to be prorogued i.e., there is to be a vacanza from Passion Sunday till after Low Sunday' The Dean of Winchester completed his ninety-fourth year on Saturday week, when the Cathedral bells "fired" the number of years he had attained. The Boyle Lectures this year will be delivered in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, by the Rev. S. Leathes, Professor of Hebrew in King's College, London. The Countess Delawarr has bequeathed the sum of £666 in the Three per Cents. for the choir and organist of Withyham, Sussex, a Living in the gift of the Earl. It is said that the Rev. Edward Husband has repented of the hasty step he took in joining the R.C. Obedience, and has returned to the Anglican Communion. The Bishop of Calcutta purposes visiting the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in March next. In July and August he will visit Burmah, and will devote the remainder of the year to Bombay and Madras.-Bombay Times. A grant of £200 has been made by the Committee of the National Society in aid of the fund for erecting schools for the children of seamen and others in connection with St. Paul's, Dock-street, the Church for seamen of the port of London. An Examination will be held at Uppingham on Easter Tuesday for four scholarships-two of the value of £50 per annum each, and two of £30, tenable at the school for three years. No candidate is eligible who has reached his fourteenth year. We hear that the Living of Holy Trinity, East End, Finchley, will shortly become vacant by the resignation (after an Incumbency of twenty-four years) of the Rev. F. S. Green, B.A. The Living is in the gift of the Bishop of London. The Irish Church Society have offered a prize of ten guineas for the best essay on "The rights and duties of the laity in the Christian Church." The prize will be open to all members of the Church of Ireland. It appears that the new R.C. Bishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland is to be the Very Rev. Dr. Conroy. The bulls for this consecration were forwarded to Ireland from Rome on the 26th of last month. Dr. Conroy has been for a length of time Chaplain to Cardinal Cullen. St. Andrew's Alms Houses, Clewer, were opened on Shrove Tuesday by the Rev. T. T. Carter, Rector of Clewer, and Warden of the House of Mercy. There are twelve houses for aged couples, or single persons. They are the gift of a friend, and are built after a design of the late Mr. Arthur Ashpitel. A proposal has just been made by the sisters of the late Dean of Durham and the late Right Hon. Horatio Waddington, to devote the sum of £3,000 in the Three per Cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities to the foundation of a Classical Scholarship in the University of Cambridge, to be called, in memory of their brothers, the Waddington Scholarship. In connection with the Diocesan Lay Helpers' Association, a conference was held on Tuesday evening at St. Peter's Schools, Eaton-square, Pimlico. The Rev. C. H. Cope, Curate of St. Peter's, said, even in that parish in Belgravia, south of the Victoria Station, there was a numerous and poor population. He asked for lay help, especially Sunday-school teachers. A memorial is in course of signature in the Diocese of Exeter, protesting against the proposed restoration of Exeter Cathedral according to the plan submitted to the Dean and Chapter by Mr. Gilbert Scott. It is suggested, instead, that a scheme should be adopted similar to the restorations carried out at Ely, Hereford, Lichfield, Durham, Chichester, and Llandaff. The Opinione states that Count Daru has written an imperative letter to Cardinal Antonelli respecting the desire of France that the discussion on the question of Papal infallibility should cease. Another, and it is said a more trustworthy rumour, is current in Rome to the effect that the Count has merely claimed the right of France to send an ambassador to the Council. Letters received from Rome three days ago speak of the majority in the Council as daily increasing. 530 Prelates at least were then known to belong to it, and their resolution not to yield to external pressure or dictation was stronger than ever. It by no means follows, moreover, that all the remaining Bishops can be counted on by the opposition party. -Tablet. Concerning the new Burial Bill, a correspondent writes to the English Churchman:- "The Bill does not even contain the exception made on a previous occasion, exempting all recently-given burial grounds from the operation of the Bill, and therefore the donors of such lands should at once renew their declarations that they would not have given land for the purposes to which the proposed Act would apply them." A letter addressed to the Dean of St. Paul's, as to the fees demanded for visiting certain parts of the Cathedral has been published. The nave and transept of Westminster Abbey are entirely open to the public, and the guides are forbidden to receive more than 6d. from each person visiting the Chapels. The Dean in his reply declines to lower the charges, which amount in all to 3s. 2d. The Rev. Dr. Steere, Rector of Little Steeping, who went out with Bishop Tozer on the formation of the Central African Mission, writes stating that he has received letters from the Bishop, in which the Right Rev. Prelate informs him that the whole district as vet occupied by them is being ravaged by cholera, and that the people of Zanzibar are dying by hundreds or even thousands. There has just been issued a return of all the Commissions issued by the Bishop of London, from November, 1860, up to the present time, under the Act to make provision for the union of contiguous Benefices in cities, towns, and boroughs, This return shows that of the projected unions two have been effected; the Commissioners reported nine to be inexpedient, six are pending, six failed, four have been delayed, and two were abandoned. The Globe remarks that the Bishop of London's fund is wisely and energetically administered. On this statement, however, there are various opinions. There are now 22 Parochial Curates, at a cost of 1,7102; 47 Missionary Curates, 7,470l. ; 31 Scripture-readers, 1,744/. ; and 20 missionwomen, 440/., in the field. There have been 73 mission districts in connection with the fund since 1863. In 23 of these a permanent Church has been built. In every department the work is progressing satisfactorily, but it needs aid. A county meeting was held at Worcester on Saturday, when, upon the The Rev. W. Baird, Rector of Dymock, but who is now acting as motion of Sir J. Pakington, M.P., seconded by the High Sheriff of Worcestershire, it was resolved to present a memorial to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral, asking that body to decline the offer of 10.0007. made by Lord Dudley towards the restoration fund on the condition that the sacred edifice should no longer be used for the musical festivals of the Three Choirs. A Choral Service took place on Ash Wednesday evening in the Temple Church. It is remarkable as being the first Evening Service known to have been held in that building. A correspondent informs us that a number of pews were kept unoccupied throughout the whole Service, and, consequently, many of the immense congregation were obliged to stand all the time, and thus became mere listeners, as it was impossible in such a crowd to kneel. We hope this will be remedied next Wednesday. The accounts of the Queen Anne's Bounty Fund for last year show that the receipts amounted to £303,408 17s. 7d. The disbursements included £95,031 15s. paid to the Clergy; £22,807 13s. 6d. for the purchase of tithe-rent charges, houses, lands, &c.; for the erection of residence houses, &c., £28,182 10s. 6d. ; loans on mortgage to build, &c., glebe houses, &c., £82,478; purchase of various sums of stock, £68,160 3s. 10d.; and salaries to the secretary and treasurer, to the auditor, and to the clerks, messengers, and others, £4,125 9s. 8d. Archdeacon Waring having gained the day in the late prolonged Canonry contest, the Bishop of Hereford has appointed Dr. Jebb to be Canon in the room of the Rev. W. Evans, deceased. This most graceful act on the part of the Bishop cannot fail to give great satisfaction. Hereford Cathedral will once more have its four Canons, and will gain much in possessing two such men as the Archdeacon of Salop, late Fellow and Tutor of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Dr. Jebb, a thoroughly learned man, a sound theologian, and a good musician. At a Ruridecanal Chapter of the Clergy of the Deanery of Dursley, the following resolution was passed :-"That we, without pledging ourselves to all the details, receive with satisfaction the measure proposed by Government with regard to the elementary education of the people, and we desire also to express our cheerful concurrence in such a full and fair conscience clause as would give to the managers and teachers of schools full liberty in giving such instructions, while it would allow to parents and guardians of children the liberty of withdrawing children from such instruction." Dean Boyd presiding at a meeting of Irish Missions at Exeter said that for some time he had not been found on the Society's platform, because he considered the evangelisation of Ireland remained with the Clergy of Ireland. He thought it was the duty of the Clergymen there to convert themselves into Missionaries. As an Irishman he held he had no right to appear before an English public and ask them to undertake that which he thought the Clergy ought to have carried out. He was not surprised at the collapse of the Church in Ireland, because he thought the Clergy had brought it on themselves. On Thursday evening, the 17th ult.. the Bishop of Winchester preached in St. Giles's Parish Church, Camberwell. The Service was full choral Evensong. The crowded congregation had the advantage of realising the Bishop's lately expressed opinion concerning intoning, for his Lordship intoned the Absolution, every word of which was distinctly heard throughout the large building. His Lordship, who had come to inaugurate the working of the Offertory system, preached an impressive Sermon from Isaiah xlv. The alms collected were humbly offered" by his Lordship. We quote the following letter from the Standard:-"Sir.-Having observed in your last impression that the Curacy of Southam, Warwickshire, is vacant, worth 607. a year, I venture to inquire, through your valuable paper, whether this is not a mistake, for I cannot believe that any Rector holding a Living of 6007, a year and a Canonry of 5007. a year would offer a gentleman of education such a miserable stipend, as it is less than the wages of many menial servants?-Yours faithfully, Spencer Thorpelands.-P.S. It is thought that the Rector of Southam obtained his Living through the political interest of his late father with the Liberals." Hessle Church, which for more than two years has been in the hands of the architect and builders, was reopened on Friday week. Restoration and enlargement have been combined. In fact, the Church has been nearly rebuilt, and to effect the latter a process has been adopted similar to what is done when a ship is lengthened. It is cut in two, and the additional length placed between the two ends. So it has been with Hessle Church--the chancel was taken down, and built up again further back, great care being taken in the rebuilding so that stone by stone was placed as before. By this means the nave received additional length. Increased width was also gained by adding to the side aisles. The interesting Church of St. Martin's, Barcheston, Warwickshire, was reopened on Tuesday by the Archdeacon of Worcester. This Church erected in the reign of Edward the First, and showing traces of a yet earlier edifice, had become dangerously dilapidated through age. The work of restoration has been admirably completed from designs by E. Christian, Esq. Though the weather was somewhat unfavourable, fifteen Clergy attended in their surplices, and entered the Church in procession at 11.45 a.m., reciting Psalm xxiv. The Service consisted of the Litany, Hymns, Celebration, and a Sermon by the Archdeacon. In the afternoon there was Evensong at three. The Church was tastefully decorated. In the Rural Deanery of Stepney lay help is much wanted, as there are only sixty-eight Clergymen and forty-eight paid Laymen employed by the Church. The need has led to a series of Church conferences during the last two months. The fourth was held a few days since under the presidency of Mr. R. Robinson, vice-chairman of the London Diocesan Lay Helpers' Association, at St. Mary's Schools, St. George's-in-theEast. Every man in Stepney is now invited to enrol himself a lay helper in Church work, without social or educational distinction. The only qualification insisted on is that the worker should be a communicant of the Church, and willing to subordinate his work to the guidance of the Clergy in whose parish he teaches. Nothing is more remarkable than the comparative indifference of the modern Roman Church to charges of heresy in the proper sense of the word. Probably it would be difficult to describe in too emphatic language the equanimity with which the ordinary layman of the day would endure being called a Monothelite, but it is new to find Papal controversialists taking much the same view of the accusation. The objections advanced by learned Roman Catholic doctors to the orthodoxy of Popes Honorius and Vigilius have been encountered by Ultramontane writers not only with the utmost audacity of historical assertion, but with ill-concealed impatience at being forced to attend to such questions. It is not against old but against new opinions that the Papal Court wages war.-Pall Mall Gazette. The Bishop of London preaching at S. Mary, Aldermary, on the evening of Ash Wednesday said the season of Lent was almost as old Bishop went on to speak of the use of the fast. It was unnecessary to as Christianity itself, certainly as old as the time of the Apostles. The But it could not be feasting the appetite or enjoying society as at other lay down rules for fasting; these should be regulated by circumstances. times. There should be a diminution of regular habits, and this should certainly inconsistent with a due observance of the season. be done unostentatiously. Free indulgence in the world's pleasures was These times militated against the searching of the heart; there was so much bustle and anxiety. But at this time there should be a disentangling of ourselves from worldly pleasures as much as possible. The Rev. Charles Voysey has written to Mr. Shaen, his solicitor. declining to authorise him to continue any negotiation for his resignation, Mr. Shaen found that Mr. Voysey's resignation would not be accepted unless it were accompanied by a personal undertaking on his part not to accept any other preferment in the Church of England, and also by a substantial payment on account of the costs which have been incurred by the prosecutors. Mr. Voysey took counsel with some of his friends and the subscribers to his defence fund, and now states that his advisers, while agreeing as to the resignation of the Benefice, echoed the wishes of his own heart in urging him not to resign his position as a Clergyman of the Church of England, but to wait quietly and hold himself in readiness for future work as a Curate, or for any preferment which might be offered him. Mr. St. John Parry writes in the Guardian:-"Many of your readers may be ignorant that we possess in Great Britain a version of the Holy Version;-I mean the Welsh Translation of the Bible. The first transScriptures which I venture to think superior even to our own Authorised lation was made by Bishop Morgan, with the aid of Dr. Goodman, Dean of Westminster, and published in 1588. This was the first complete edition of the Bible in Welsh, and comprised a revision of the translation of the New Testament by William Salesbury. A new and corrected edition of this Bible was published in the year 1620 by Bishop Parry of St. Asaph, assisted by Dr. John Davies. This is the standard version of the Bible at this day. I have often been struck by the superior accuracy of this version, especially in reading the New Testament, where I am more capable of judging of the merits of a translation. It will be of great use in the proposed revision of our own English version." A few days since the Vestry of Kew decided on enlarging the Churchyard by taking in a piece of land which was given to the parish by Queen Charlotte in 1818. The tender of a builder named Neal was accepted, and his men were busily employed in removing the old, and in digging out the foundation for the new. wall, when an injunction from the Court of Chancery was served upon the builder and Parish Churchwarden. The work was instantly stopped, but not before the northern wall had been entirely removed, and the new boundary marked out. It appears that the person who has taken proceedings in the matter is a Mr. Bush, barrister, residing at Kew Green, who, with some of the parishioners, advocates the purchasing of a piece of ground at some is supported by the Vicar's Churchwarden, while the Vicar himself and distance from the Green for the purposes of a burial ground. Mr. Bush Parish Churchwarden are in favour of enlarging the existing Churchyard. The Times publishes a letter which the Earl of Shaftesbury has written to a professor, whose name is not disclosed, respecting the revision of the Bible. The noble Earl remarks:-Patience and habits of critical comparison are not the characteristics of the working classes. The transla tors will have introduced, so the people will think, a "strange Gospel, and the multitude, believing that it is "another," will finally lose faith in all. Could the revision be limited to marginal readings, I should feel much less objection. But is it possible to open the sluice gates, and provide that the waters shall flow through by driblets? I will maintain that a rude and sudden descent from the majestic and touching tones of our wonderful version to the thin, Frenchified, and squeaking sentences in modern use would be an irreparable shock to every English-speaking man who has drunk in the old and generous language almost with his mother's milk. I believe that were the Bible-reading people polled at this moment, man by man, woman by woman, child by child, the overwhelming majority would announce that they stood firm to the inheritance of their forefathers, and that, here at least they would never "exchange old lamps for new." A case has been submitted to Dr. Stephens, Q.C., asking (1) Whether an Incumbent procuring lay gentlemen to give addresses on religious subjects within his Church breaks any law of the Church; and (2) Whether the fact of the speaker standing in the reading-desk, instead of outside the communion-rails will make any difference. Dr. Stephens after quoting various authorities gives his opinion as follows:-(1) I am of opinion that if an Incumbent and the Churchwardens of a Church permit laics to deliver therein addresses on religious subjects, it would not be a breach of the Laws Ecclesiastical-provided that no "common or open" prayer be said or sung, either at the commencement or at the termination of any such addresses. (2) Every part of a Church is equally set apart to a sacred use, and the reader or speaker can read or speak standing in the reading desk. It might, however, annoy some persons, if, during these proposed addresses, laics were permitted to go within the Communion-rails; it would therefore be advisable to prevent such a cause of annoyance. The general subject of the Oxford Lenten Sermons is The Typical Persons of the Pentateuch;-their Message to the Church in all Ages." The first name of each of the following pair is that of the preacher at St. Mary's, whilst the second is that of the preacher at St. Giles's: Ash Wednesday, March 2, "Continuity of the Typical Teaching of the Old Testament," the Bishop of Oxford, Canon King; Friday, March, 4, "Adam," Rev. R. W. Church, Rev. W. J. Butler; Wednesday, March 9, "Abel," Archdeacon Bickersteth, Rev. G. C. Harris; Friday, March 11, "Noah," Canon Liddon, Rev. W. F. Norris, Wednesday, March 16, "Melchizedek," Rev. T. T. Carter, Rev. C. W. Furse; Friday, March 18, "Abraham," the Bishop of Manchester, Rev. W. R. Clark; Wednesday, March 23, "Isaac," Rev. Dr. Barry, Rev. H. W. Burrows; Friday, March 25, "Eve," Rev. Dr. Pusey, Canon Gregory; Wednesday, March 30, Joseph," the Master of Balliol, Rev. R. Randall; Friday, April 1, "Moses," the Bishop of Colombo, Rev. A. Blomfield; Wednesday, April 6, "Aaron," Canon Fremantle, Rev. W. Ince; Friday, April 8, "Joshua," the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Monsell. The Brighton Gazette, speaking of the funeral of the late Bishop of Chichester, tells how the day was observed at Lancing College. On the news of his decease the bell tolled in each of the College Chapels, which were at once hung in black. On the day of the funeral Holy Communion was celebrated at 8 a.m. in each of the Chapels at Lancing, Shoreham, Hurst, and Bognor; and at 1.30 p.m., the hour fixed for the funeral service in the Cathedral, the Provost and Fellows resident in the different schools assembled at Lancing, the head-quarters of the Society for a religious service. Psalm 130 was sung in procession to the Chapel, where the Litany, followed by the hymn "Jesus Lives," was also sung. The Provost then delivered an address upon the occasion, dwelling upon the great principle of providing religious education for every grade of the community as having been that which at first won and afterwards secured the Bishop's uniform support. At the end of the Service a College meeting was held, when a minute was passed recording the Society's sense of their loss and of their late visitor's merits, with an expression of condolence to his family. The R.C. Bishop of Newport in his Pastoral says:-"The Vatican Council has not only been the mightiest in its preparations, but it is amongst the greatest in its array of Bishops that Christendom has ever seen. Nice, Constantinople, and Ephesus radiated an unquenchable light; they were Councils Ecumenical. But the Bishops of the first Council of the Vatican exceed in number the Fathers of Nice, Constantinople, and Ephesus taken together. And, as new constellations are from time to time discovered in the heavens; so, new centres of light spring up in the Church of God. Lands, beyond seas and mountains not dreamt of by the Fathers of Trent, are represented in the Council Hall in St. Peter's, by blameless Prelates, worn with the long hardships of an Apostolic life. America, China, India, and Japan, and the islands of the distant seas, are witnessing for the first time to the common faith; and while giving a luminous testimony to the Divine unity of the Church, proclaim how she has expanded the girdle of her light, and how she longs to enfold, as in a garment, the multitudes of the human race.' At the monthly meeting of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge on the 1st inst., the proposal of the Standing Committee for three Secretaries was rejected by a large majority. It was resolved to have two, the chief Secretary to be responsible for the general business of the Society, and for the financial department; the other to assist him and to conduct the correspondence of the Publishing Committees. By this proposal a considerable sum will be saved to the Society, and one gentleman will be responsible for the great matters. There was also an animated discussion on matters connected with the Natal grant. Dr. Biber gave the following notice, which stands for discussion on the 5th of April next :-"That a sum not exceeding 1,000l. be set apart towards assisting in the preparation of a Repertory of textual and versional Emendations of the Authorized Version of the Bible, such grant not to take effect until a Committee of Revision for superintending the work shall have been constituted, the composition of which shall be satisfactory to this Board." The Commination Service was the subject of a Sermon preached at St. Stephen's, Lewisham, last week, being the last of a course on "Prayer Book Difficulties," by the Rev. T. Hancock. Selecting his text from Deuteronomy xxvii., the preacher at the outset disposed of the "difficulty" of those who object to come to Church on Ash Wednesday, because "they do not like to 'curse themselves,' and think it wrong to curse their neighbours," whereas in the Commination Service they neither do one nor the other. The Church in the solemn reading of the curses of Mount Ebal places herself in the position of listener, not of speaker. It is God who is the speaker, and to what He says the whole Church replies "Amen." He then proceeded to examine the Service in detail. to empty our Churches. Bad Sermons, illogical discourses, tawdry in Indiscriminate preaching (says the Pall Mall Gazette) is doing much figure and tasteless in illustration, with broken-backed metaphors and mistaken similitudes, are extending Church accommodation far more actively than the Bishop of London's Fund. If we cannot apply the examination test to these men-and I own it would be a matter of difficulty-let us try what could be done by certain measures of repression. Let it be made penal to divide a text into sections according to the words it is composed of; let us suppress conclusions followed by "finally," or and "now;" let us limit the number of "And oh my brethren," so that no one, say, under the rank of an Archdeacon shall have more than four of them in one discourse; and let us be spared the injunction to carry home with us for mature meditation the dreary platitudes that have only rescued us from sleep by the irritation and impatience they have cost us. If the inquiry could be instituted to-morrow, I verily believe that more people are preached out of the Protestant Church than coaxed and cajoled into that of Rome. opening of the restored Chapel of St. John and St. James (belonging On Shrove Tuesday the Bishop of Peterborough__assisted at the to the President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford) at Brackley. At the luncheon the Bishop said he hoped the union between religion and learning would be a lasting one. Those who talked of divorcing the Church of the nation from the learning of the nation, those who grew impatient of the Clergy of the nation having anything to do with education, and said it was time it should be taken out of their hands and placed in the hands of the laity, seemed to him to make a curious mistake with regard to the English Clergy. If they ever succeeded in estranging the Clergy from education they would not only have a demoralised and degraded Clergy, but a demoralised and degraded laity. It deeply concerned the laity that the Clergy should be closely associated both with science and religion. Might it long continue, as in our Universities hitherto, that not only learned men should be trained to be religious, but that religious men should be taught learning and science. Kilburn, and was received by the Superior and by the munificent founders On Monday week the Archbishop of Syra paid a visit to St. Peter's, of the Home, Mr. and Mrs. Lancaster. St. Peter's is, among other things, a training school for nurses, ready to attend at a moment's notice any nearly one hundred patients, and, being of quite recent construction, is one, rich or poor, who may need their services. The Home has beds for fitted up and conducted according to the latest most approved principles of sanitary art. It was by one of the St. Peter's Sisters that the Archbishop of Canterbury was nursed during his recent dangerous illness. Another feature which elicited great praise from the Archbishop is the arrangement by which invalid ladies who do not like to be dependent on charity, but yet cannot afford to pay the usual charges for nursing and medical attendance, are boarded in the Home, at the very moderate rate of 14s. per week. His Grace first visited the dispensary, the Sisters' apartments, and the various sick wards, the Rev. G. Williams acting as his interpreter; and then passed into the beautiful little Chapel. There, after Evensong, the Archbishop delivered a short address on the holiness and high usefulness of a religious and charitable life, and next bestowed his blessing, first, collectively upon all present, and then, separately, upon the founders and the Sisters of the Home. We are informed that an overflowing congregation assembled at St. Chad's Church, Haggerston, on Sunday evening, for the purpose of seeing the Archbishop of Syra and Tenos, who had been invited to attend Service there. On his arrival the Clergy and the choir hastened to the entrance and conducted him in procession to the chancel, on the north side of which a temporary throne had been erected for his use. He was attended by an Archimandrite, and was vested in the black robe and brimless hat in which he usually appears. The Clergy of the Churca wore birettas. The Second Lesson was read in Greek by the Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Rector of St. Ethelburga's, who also preached the Sermon from 1 Peter ii, 5. The invocation and text were given in Greek and English. Tewards the close of the Sermon Mr. Rodwell specially addressed the Archbishop in Greek, who in turn delivered the Benediction in the same language. A considerable number of people remained after Service was over, to see the Episcopal visitor make his exit. He was accompanied to his carriage by the Clergy, the choirmen and boys forming a guard of honour. As he passed up the aisle he crossed his hands on his breast, as if to convey a blessing. The action was received with low obeisances from the waiting congregation.-Record. At a meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the National Educational Union, a report drawn up by Messrs. Cowper-Temple, M.P.; E. Akroyd, M.P.; F. S. Powell; W. H. Smith, M.P.; and C. Buxton, M.P.; and the Revs. Dr. Barry and W. Stanyer, was adopted. The meeting passed the following resolutions:-"1. The Bill of the Government deserves support, inasmuch as it aims at supplying the needs of elementary education without prohibiting religious instruction, without prohibiting parental responsibility, and without extinguishing the schools which owe their existence to the costly and persevering labours of the best friends of the education of the people. 2. The Government scheme is defective in not adopting that indirect mode of compulsion which consists in requiring education as a condition of the hired employment of children, which has been successfully applied through the Factory Acts, and has been more recently adopted in the Workshops Regulation Act, and the scheme is objectionable in its reliance on direct compulsion by means of penalties inflicted on parents for the non-attendance of their children between the ages of five and twelve. 3. Compulsory attendance at suitable schools may be rightly enforced on vagrant children and on those whose parents are receiving parochial relief, or are unable to pay the school fees; and the local authorities in districts where there are no School Boards should be entrusted with the duty of giving effect to the provisions for such school attendance. 4. The Bill, if amended in these particulars, and in some other important details, will be a satisfactory measure for extending and improving elementary education." The following letter has been sent to all the Clergy in the Diocese of Salisbury, by the Rev. John Wilkinson, Secretary to the Salisbury Diocesan Board of Education: "Broughton Gifford, Melksham, Feb. 28, 1870. "My dear Sir, The Government Elementary Education Bill appears to be generally acceptable to the Clergy and Managers of Church Schools, as recognising the present system where found sufficient, and as permitting its extension where deficiency may be ascertained. For this reason, and particularly because it permits and encourages religious teaching, the Birmingham Education League is, through its branches, everywhere agitating the country, and appealing to Parliament against the fundamental principles of the Bill. At such a crisis it is felt that the friends of religious education must not remain silent. They might, perhaps, have thought it unnecessary to express any opinion on the Bill, if the advocates of secular education had also, as at first seemed probable, acquiesced in it as a fair and reasonable adjustment of a difficult question, neither for nor against the interests of any particular religious or political party. But the issue has been plainly raised by the Birmingham League and cannot be declined by us, between those who would inculcate religious truth and maintain religious liberty in our National Schools, and those who would exaggerate and exasperate doctrinal differences for the purpose of introducing a purely secular system. In the short interval which now remains before the second reading of the Bill, there is yet time to petition Parliament in its favour. If I can be of any further use, I beg that you will oblige me by commanding my best services." At a meeting of the Vestry of St. George, Hanover-square, on Thursday, Major Lyon referred to the Memorial as to the Services, the substance of which was given in our last number, and read the following letter, which he had received from the Rector. Judging from the tone of it, we imagine the Rector never dreamt of its being published. At any rate, when he recovers from his "attack of gout," he will, we feel certain, regret he ever penned such an epistle :— "Dear Mr. Churchwarden,-An attack of gout prevents me attending the Vestry to-day, otherwise I should have taken the opportunity of a little more talk with you about the Address.' If you have not seen, I suppose you have heard of, the coarse and mendacious article in the Standard of Monday last, holding up our Parish Church to obloquy as a 'slovenly' and disgraceful place of worship, in which nothing is cared for excepting great marriages, for which alone the Church is kept open on week-days. Of course, the distinguished persons who signed the address are not responsible for the raving of a newspaper partisan, but will rather be disposed to exclaim, 'Save me from my friends.' Still, they have taken a very grave step, and two things seem to be inevitable-1. That the reply of the Churchwardens must be made as public as the Address; 2. That the feeling of the parishioners generally must be in some way ascertained. Perhaps the most direct and conclusive way should be another Address to the Churchwardens, signed by all, high and low, rich and poor,' of those who object to see another All Saints', Margaret-street, in the Parish Church of St. George, Hanover-square. At any rate, it is clear that a 333 crisis has arisen.-Believe me, very sincerely yours, HENRY HOWARTH. Major Lyon." Rectory, 15, Grosvenor-street, March 3rd. The Nicaraguan Gazette of January 1 gives the copy of a letter from Cardinal Antonelli to the Bishop of Nicaragua, showing, the Editor says, the exorbitant pretensions of the Pontifical Government with respect to the Spanish American Republics. The letter is as follows:We have lately been informed here that an attempt has been made to change the order of things hitherto existing in Nicaragua, by publishing a programme in which are enunciated freedom of education' and of lished between the Holy See and that Republic. Although we doubt worship. Both these principles are not only contrary to the laws of God not that your most illustrious and reverend Lordship will do all in your and of the Church, but are in contradiction with the Concordat estabpower against maxims so destructive to the Church and to society, still ANTONELLI." We confess that we think that the Cardinal is right in we deem it by no means superfluous to stimulate your well-known zeal, attempting to make the miserable and demoralised half-breed Government to see that the Clergy, and above all the curas, do their duty. G. Cardinal of Nicaragua keep to its treaty obligations. The separation which has rity has led to a degree of immorality amongst the Clergy which Europeans can scarcely realise. Since the State Church in Nicaragua so long existed between the Republic of Nicaragua and the central authoceased to exist almost all religion seems to have flown, and the parochial Clergy are notoriously scandalous. In fact, were not for the efforts of The "freedom of education" cry is, indeed, a little premature in a nation which has not built a road, a bridge, or a stone house without European a few French Franciscan monks, Christianity would soon become extinct. help, but we suppose it serves to amuse the advocates of Republican institutions here and abroad. : We quote the following from the Paris Letter of the John Bull :is to give his Lent conferences again at Notre Dame. The Arch"The usual break has come with Ash Wednesday. The Père Felix bishop of Paris's Lenten mandement has been read in all the Churches. Would not our Bishops do well to restore this ancient practice? nothing about moot points, ignores all Roman controversies, and scarcely words of good advice as to the best way of observing Lent would be of A few some use to Churchmen and Churchwomen. The Archbishop says of a good death, &c., confining himself to wholesome commonplaces. On utters a syllable which the staunchest Protestant could not use in person. the other hand, the impression gains ground that Papal infallibility will He insists on the importance of Religion, the benefits of a good life, and be decreed. The Pope's own wish is so very decided in the matter that opposition becomes more and more difficult. The Bishop of Laval has openly denounced his brother of Orleans, and Monseigneur Dupanloup is said to feel his position almost or quite untenable. To-morrow, Friday, the 4th, is the so-called Feast of the Five Wounds.' A special devotional exercise is held in all Churches, in honour, it is formally announced, of the Passion of Our Lord and the Compassion of the Blessed Virgin. This consists first in the chanting to an almost interminable Gregorian of the Hymnal Noted,' and then the Stabat Mater. During the singing the Miserere, or the fifty-first Psalm, followed by a sermonet. Then comes the ceremony goes forward of the so-called Adoration of the Cross, which the well-known hymn Vexilla Regis,' finely rendered by Dr. Neale, for of forbidden secondary worship. The fact is, that an act of homage to the Cross, like an act of homage to the British throne, can never be more Mr. Hobart Seymour was, I should say, unjust in ranking with acts than an exhibition of reverence, whatever it may be called. Lovers talk of adoring their mistress, but they do not literally mean that they give the worship due to God only. To my mind this is a touching and a very homage, the sacred sign of our redemption? There is no resemblance, beautiful ceremony. Who would not rejoice to kiss, and that with loving creatures. After the hymns and the homage there is a recitation, private, at all events, between this act and the offering of forbidden prayers to Patri; and all this for the special benefit of His Holiness the Popeof five Paternosters, five 'Hail Maries,' and five times the Gloria Notre Saint Père le Pape-an effective Service, taken altogether, in its way." Gazette:- the bachelors! It was by the blind and the deaf and dumb boys of the |