ENGLISH NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 52, 3 January 1852, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

We are enabled by the arrival of the " Fatima," to continue into September of the year bygone, our usual summary of home intelligence. Parliamentary and political matters were of course, for the'time, well-nigh lost sight of, the autumnal holiday of our law-makers having once more come round. Most of her Majesty's Ministers were absent from London. Lord John Bussell was with the Queen at Balmoral, Sir George Grey cruising in an Admiralty Yacht, the Chancellor of"the Exchequer and Eavl Grey at their country seats, Mr. Labouchere on his way to Spain", and almost all the secondary members of the administration away : but for the presence of Lord Palmerston, London might almost be said to be without a Government. A few political on dits, nevertheless, appear in the journals before us. Sir John H. Maxwell, Bart., R.N"., a conservative, had announced his intention of becoming a candidate for the vacant borough of Harwich. The St. Albans Bribery Commission was to sit in that town about the middle of October, for the purpose of prosecuting its enquiries into the circumstances of the late election. E. C. Egerton, Esq.. son of William Egerton, of Tatton Park, Cheshire, was a candidate for the vacant seat of the East Biding of Yorkshire. Among the ripples in the wake of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, is the formation of a Catholic Defence Society, the preliminary step being an aggregate meeting of Roman Catholics in Dublin, in point of numbers successful, though not so in the quality of the attendance. The Romanist prelates present were few, and Dr. Murray was among-those who virtually repudiated the proceeding by their absence, although taken in what his church considers his own archi-epis-copal city. One Irish peer, Lord Gormanstown, represented the Aristocracy of Ireland ; the Romanist portion of the British peerage was totally unrepresented,—even Lord Arundel and Surrey was absent,' from illness, it has since been rumoured, but the excuse is open to suspicion. The Irish Brigade did not muster strong, there appear to have been nine of them present. Throughout the proceedings the recent act was ostentatiously defied, from the style of the first motion, " that the most Rev. Dr. Cullen, Archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland, do take the chair," to the publication of the resolutions with the title at their feet. It is evident however, from what took place at the consecration of Romish Bishops at Southwark; that the new-made prelates are not prepared to fly in the face of the act. On that occasion the Pope's obnoxious bull was not published, but read in private by dispensation from His Holiness, although an express rubric orders that it be read before the congregation. The matter, however, more strictly connected with parliamentary politics is the line'of tactics to which the Irish Brigade havepledged themselves. Every measure of the ministry is^to be opposed, until a ministry be obtained which will propose the repeal of the hated restriction upon the chief pastors of the Romish Church ; in short, all" attempts at Governments are to be balked and frustrated in the hope that in the confusion which must follow the citadel of protestant supremacy may be taken. • From, a matter partaking both of a political and an, ecclesiastical character, we pass by an easy Ui isition to the more internal affairs of tne eh/ -jli.

The Hirchwardens of Manchester interfered liUely | prevent a collection at the Cathedral, which; (1 been announced by the Dean and Canons without their sanction. They have ;ippeale<to their Diocesan for advice on the point. ;I-Tis reply, a lucid and satisfactory document, explains the nibiics of the church as giving to ■ the Minister and Churchwardens an equal and concurrent discretionary power as regards those '• other devotions of the people " which are intnnlc^rfor other purposes than the relief of the sick and poor; and renders a" reference to the Ordinary inevitable in case of disagreement. The Archbishop of Canterbury has, for some time p»st, been in communication with several clergymen in his diocese, in reference to the manner in which they are in the habit of conducting the ordinary services of the Church. It appears that the clergymen alluded to practise niftny of the ceremonies for which the Bishop of London recently condemned Mr. Bennett, such, for example,'as having lights on the altar during morning prayer, preaching in

the surplice, intoning the prayers, and turning from the congregation during certain portions of the service. To these practices his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury objects, as contrary to the rubrical directions of ttie Book of Common Prayer, and in the communications he has already made has peremptorily ordered their discontinuance. In most of the cases which have come under his Grace's notice the clergymen to whom his instructions have been addressed have merely acknowledged the receipt of the letters addressed to'them, and have persevered in the practices which the Archbishop considers objectionable. His Grace has therefore, determined on issuing monitions against the offending parties, and they will be served forthwith by the officer of the Ecclesiastical Court. If, after the receipt of the monitions, the clergymen alluded to persist in the course they have so long practised, his Grace has determined on citing them into his court, in order to bring the disputed question to. a final issue.

The Guardian of Sept. 3 says :—" We are glad to learn that, although a comparatively short period has elapsed since the opening of St. Augustine's College, Canterbury, for the reception of students, it has already trained and sent forth one labourer for the work of the Church in the colonies. The authorities of the College felt that the departure of the first student from its walls formed an epoch in its history, and they accordingly wished to impart a certain solemnity to its proceedings. On Sunday, Aug. 31, during morning service, after the Nicene Creed, the Warden" read from the steps of the altar, the letters commendatory of Charles Joseph Gillett, prefect and student of the college, who was about to proceed to the diocese of Sydney, and delivered them to Mr. Gillett. On Sunday evening there was. a gathering in the hall, when the Rev. W. H. Walsh, incumbent of Christ Church, Sydney, delivered an address to Mr. Gillett, expressing the paternal affection with which the Bishop of Sydney would greet the first student from St. Augustine's. The Warden then gave Mr. Gillett his parting benediction, concluding with an affectionate grasp of the hand, and the words, " Go, and God be with you." From the hall, all the party proceeded to evening service in the chapel, and separated soon after ten. Thus ended the proceedings of a day which was of deep interest to all who were privileged to be present. It may be regarded as an auspicious omen for this infant institution, the object of so many hopes and prayers, that its first missionary is to leave its walls in the year when the venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel is celebrating its third jubilee, and inviting the especial intercessions of all who love the Church of England throughout the Universe, on behalf of its worldwide operations. Mr. Gillett has received from the Land and Colonization Commissioners, an appointment to the important post of religious instructor to an emigrant ship, which is to sail for Sydney forthwith." The convocation of the clergy of the province of Canterbury was formally prorogued on the 27th of August.

Some curious circumstances, which would seem to justify the charge of Jesuitism brought against the emissaries in England of the Itomish Church, have recently come to light by the publication of certain correspondence in a London journal. One Gawthorn, two or three months ago, writes to the Archbishop of Canterbury, under what of course is a false name, being that of his baptism only, " \V. Francis." Gawthorn, being a lloman Catholic, describes himselfas a Church of England man rescued fnun dissent, and expresses much kindly feeling towards foreign protestant ministers, affecting to be much grieved at the repudiation of their orders by the Bishop of London. The point of the letter is, to ask the Archbishop's opinion of the validity of the orders of such persons without the imposition of hands. The Archbishop falls into this coarsely-baited trap, and replies that "he hardly imagines there are two bishops on the bench, or one clergyman in fifty throughout our church who would deny the validity of the orders of these pastors solely on account of their wanting the imposition of Episcopal hands." Gawthorn then, with consummate impudence, drops the mask, declares all that he said in his note to be strictly true, while he is all the time convicting himsell of a whole round of mendacity,—insults the Archbishop to his face, —tells him that he wrote solely to- obtain a letter damaging to the Church of England,—boasts of his hypocrisy, simulation, and deceit, —and states that all through the piece he had been

acting under advice. Armed with the archiepiscopal rescript, obtained under false prelencf.s, and marked " private," Gawthorn immediately violates the unhappy confidence which has been placed in him. Anxious for the conversion of everybody, ho shews the letter to every bod.^ amongst others to Mr. Cyril Page, who instantsdenounces the scoundrel, and shews thaHl was an old trick of his ; that it was Gawthorn's rule, all the time being a lloman Catholic, to act the aggrieved Church of England man, and to write to the bishops under a false name—in one proved case, under that of ' W. Recs,'—getting High Churchmen into trouble and re,buke, in - order that, through their disgust, he "might* hasten the conversion of those who profess High Church principles to the Catholic Church." The erection of ecclesiastical buildings was proceeding rapidly throughout the kingdom. A new church had been commenced in the town of Kenilworth, which contains a population of 4000 souls. The Leeds Intelligencer gives a long and interesting account of the consecration of St. Matthew's Church, Little London, Leeds, on Wednesday last, by tlie Bishop of Ripon. It it. of decorated style, a/id consists of nave, aisles, chancel, organ chapel at the end of the south aisle, vestry, and north-west tower, with sittings for seven hundred persons. The cost of erection was 2,400 i?. After the ceremony there was a dinner to rich and poor, at which some interesting statements were made by the Bishop of Ripon and the Vicar of Leeds. His lordship stated that St. Matthew's was the twenty-second church in his diocese, built under the operation of Sir R. Peel's Act, which he had consecrated. " There had been thirty-four such districts formed, and it was a proof of the wisdom of the act that in seven years it had led to the formation of this ty-four districts, and to the erection of twenty-two churches already consecrated, and there were six more in the course of erection. One could not but admire the prospective wisdom of that measure. It was beginning at the right end ; placing a minister in a district before a church was built, instilling those principles which would lead the population to wish for a church; and then the church was sure to follow under such guidance and superintendence as this district had had."

The nave of the Old Abbey Church of St. Mary's, Sherborne, has just been restored at great expence. A new church has been consecrated at Berwick, in the Isle of Ely. The foundation stone of Trinity Church, Langley, in the parish of HrJesowen, was laid by Lord Lyttelton, on the 21st of August. A beautiful Episcopal chapel, dedicated to St. Paul, had been consecrated by the Bishop of St. Asaph, at Dolfor, in the parish of Kerry, County Montgomery. The neat little edifice recently erected at Riseholme, at the expence of the Bishop of Lincoln, had also been consecrated. The Court.—Her Majesty has left the South for what now becomes her annual excursion to her Highland home. By the selection made for her route being by the Great Northern Railway, a district hitherto unvisited by, the Queen has had an opportunity of displaying its loyalty, by the usual manifestations.

Her Majesty with the Prince and the Royal children left Osborne, where they jhad maintained a strict retirement, for London, on Wednesday, August 27, and immediately proceeded on their journey to the North, affording an unprecedented treat to the now plebeian neighbourhood of King's Cross Station. At Hitchin, which was reached in three quarters of an hour, the engine slopped " to moisten its mouth." The people were here, as everywhere, all, alive to catch sight of the Queen. In the absence of cannon, bauds, or other noisy manilestaHions of loyalty, they hit upon a pretty method of showy ing it by singing " God save the Queen." ITn»--farm labourers were seen leaving their work and scouring the fields to reach a point of advantage, and occasionally a stont old squire came rattling along on a good hunter, with syns_ and daughters all mounted, and drew up/tfy the line cheering lustily. All the schooM^fly miles must have been present. At the Pffevi'borough station, Dr. Davys, the tutor of J..?/er Majesty's youth, awaited the arrival of the train,^ surrounded by a group of his clergy. The Queen called her former preceptor to the window, and conversed with him sonic time. A little boy about six years of age, in full Highland costume, the son of the Earl of Aboyne, who has a seat in the neighbourhood, came forward to present a bouquet of flowers to her Majesty, the Bishop lifting him up to the car-riage-window. The Queen accepted the bouquet,

and heartily shook the little fellow by the hand. Boston was reached at half-past four ; and there the first official bow was made to the Queen by a municipal corporation. The train stopped but a few minutes, so Lord John Russell quickly presented the municipality, and the Queen graciously received their address. While the address was read, the line should have been ' kept' by a guard of honour composed of a lew of the Coast Guard; but the enthusiasm of the people exceeded their good manners, and they broke in a very disorderly way across the rail, rushed close to the royal carriage, cheering vociferously, and staring with all their might and main, to the number of some hundreds. The Queen is said to have been highly entertained ; but the officials were shocked. Mr. Denison rushed in among the throng with great impetuosity, and, by dint of physical force, kept some sort of order at one side of the train: but the other side was left to the mob, and they made the most of their opportunity till the train moved away. At Lincoln a Corporation address was presented, and another again at Poncaster, which station was reached at halfpast six. The town was in a perfect flutter of rejoicing. The Corporation marshalled themselves on the platform, and delivered their addresses ; Lord Milton and Lord Cathcart drew up with the Militia and the Regulars under their command ; every inhabitant of the town, and all the population of the country round, came to see the Queen, and greet her with loud loyalty. In the court-yard of the station, the assemblage was arranged in the form of an amphitheatre; flags and triumphal arches, and in the later shades of evening a display of fireworks and a general illumination, evidenced the congratulation at having the Queen's highway to the North once more restored to old Doncaster. The Queen made her stay for the night at the Angel Hotel.

From York the further journey was over beaten ground. At Darlington, the bailiff was introduced to her Majesty by Mr. Leeman, while the engine went for its draught of water. Durham was passed without a stoppage ; at Newcastle, which was reached at noon, but a short stay was made ; and the rest of the journey to Edinburgh was equally without incident. The train reached the St. Margaret's Station, which was covered with heather, inlaid with the rarest exotics, at half-past three ; and in the midst of a guard of honour, commanded by the Duke of Ihiccleuch, the Queen entered Holyrood Palace at a quarter to four. At this point the reporter rises to enthusiasm. " When the Queen, leaning on the arm of Prince Albert, and leading the Prince of Wales by the hand, had mounted the steps leading to the main road—when she had entered the carriage in waiting for her—when she had entered the Queen's Park, the scene was altogether changed. Thousands of people were collected in this magnificent panoramic scene — the low ground all around the carriage route was covered with the multitude, whilst the spurs and offshoots from Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags—salient points which constitute the great charm of this picturesque scenery—were literally black with groups of persons who had taken up their positions on those commanding eminences, not :o see the Queen, for that was impossible, but to obtain a full view of the moving peagant. Her Majesty was escorted on the occasion by a number of the high constables of Edinburgh—a body of citizens who have been incorporated from a very early date, and of whom the Earl of Erroll, as hereditary high constable of Scotland, is the head; while the ground was kept by detachments of the 87th Infantry and the Enniskillen Dragoons. In this fashion the Queen, welcomed by the cheers of heriScottish subjects, entered Holyrood, and took po 3 ctession, for the second time, of the old palace of hit ancestors." The Queen left Holyrood House at S o'c'ock on the morning of Aug. 29, and proceeded by the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway to Tarbet; j thence by the Scottish Central to Perth ; thence by the Scottish Midland to Forfar ; and on to I Stonehaven by the Aberdeen railway. The dis|l tance of one hundred and forty-live miles was run '"in less than live hours. At Stonehaven the royal carriages were in attendance with posthorses from Aberdeen. .Her Majesty partook of a luncheon in a small room at the railway station, and alter a short delay proceeded on the journey to Balmoral. The first stage, of lifteen miles, brought the royal party to Banchory, by the Deo side. The course of the river was then traversed by Kincardine, by Charles Town, and Aboyne, to Ballater, whore the .steam was crossed, ocr Majesty proceeded thence forward by the south bank oi' the river,

ami arrived at Balmoral at half-past six o'clock. The first news by usual routine, from Balmoral, comprised die announcement that the death of the Duke of Saxe Coburg, who was uncle both to tiie Queen and Prince, had been communicated to the royal' pair, and the Court accordingly ordered into mourning.

The Exhibit-ton.—The Industrial Exhibition was to close on the 11th of October, as if before the London fogs set in to disgust foreign visitors with the climate. The Commissioners proposed to make an extensive distribution of medals, taking in not only the foreign but the local commissioners, and others who had done good service. The attendance was beginning gradually to diminish. The total number of visitors up to the end of August was 4,205,509.

America and the Exhibition.—The Americans are making up for the contempt with which their portion of the contributions to the world's fair was at first treated. Their famous countryman, Hobbs, the locksmith, has succeeded, in the judgment of the arbitrators, in earning the forfeit of 200/. offered by Messrs. Bramah to the skilful violator of their so-called impregnable lock. The Globe states that a few weeks since this .gentleman accepted the challenge of Mr. Chubb to pick one of his patent locks, and in a very brief period succeeded in opening it with common picklocks. In a letter to the Globe Mr. Chubb denies that Mr. Hobbs was successful. After the trial, however, he was then challenged by Messrs. Bramah, to experimentalize on what had been styled impregnable locks, and was promised a forfeit of 200/. if he should succeed in opening it. In order that the trial might be fairly made, commissioners were appointed to decide upon it, and thirty, clear days were granted by Messrs. Bramah to Mr. Hobbs for his operation. Mr. Hobbs went to work, but in a few days suspended his operations, alleging the weakness of his instruments. As soon as others had been prepared, he desired to continue his attempt, but to tins Messrs. Bramah objected. The commissioners, however, interfered, Mr. Hobbs resumed his labours, and in about a fortnight opened the lock. The Americans have also produced a reaping machine, likely to effect a successful revolution in farming. But above all, they have beaten John Bull where he is most self-sufficient, and where he least likes to find a successful competitor, —on the water. At Cowes Regatta the " America," a racing craft, built it is true, expressly for the purpose, has beaten everything. In a race round the island, for a cup open to all nations, she started last, and came in nearly eight miles a-head of the second vessel. The race excited much interest; the Times devotes three columns to its description ; and the Queen and Prince Albert went out in the Fairy yacht to meet the victor. On arriving at the Needles they discovered it was the America, and though it is not usual to recognise the presence of her Majesty on- such occasions as a racing match, any more, indeed, than a jockey would pull up his horse to salute the Queen when in the middle of his stride, the America instantly lowered her ensign, blue with white stars, the Commodore took off his hat, and all his crew, following his order and example, remained with uncovered heads for some minutes till they had passed the yacht—a mark of respect to the Queen, not the less.becoming because it was bestowed by republicans. Her Majesty has since paid two visits of inspection tj the curiously rigged craft, with "a low black hull," that is just now exciting every attention. The America has enormous spars, bulwark but twelve inches high, very little head-room below for her tonnage, and so little stowage room, that with but a crew of ten or twelve hands, in crossing the Atlantic, she was obliged to carry a portion of her water in casks upon deck. Her proprietors did not come over to England in her, they preferred steam.

An attempt has been made by Mr. Stephenson, M.P., to recover for his country the naval honour* yielded to the United States at the Cowes Regatta. He. backed his iron yacht, the Titania, !00 tons, built by Messrs. Robinson and Russell, of Millwall, on Mr. Scoit Russell's " wave principle," to sail the America a double course lor a double wager of 50/., namely from the Nab Light twenty or thirty miles out "before the wind," and then back to the point of starting- "on a wind," thus testing separately the Heetness and the weatherly qualities of the two jachts. The contest came off on Thursday, and the Titania was as signally beaten as any

of the yachts which sailed in the Cowes Kegatta. In the course out, despite three accidents which lost the America more than a quarter of an hour of time, she beat the Titania by about five minutes out of about two hours ; in the whole course she beat her fifty-two minutes out of about six hours and a half— leaving her at least eight miles astern. An eye witness, writing to the Times, however, argues that the Titania made no such despicable figure as this account represents, but claims a degree of success for her on the course out, that he contends would have been at least maintained on her return, had the wind been fresh. He implies that the America is only built for light winds, and would be beaten in heavy sailing, attributing her powers to the shape of her sails, as flat as a board, which would not then avail her. Be this as it may, she has since been bought by Captain de Blacquiere, of the Indian army, for 7,000/., who is going to test her capabilities by a sail in the Mediterranean. The Exeter Gazette says that her builders are two'natives of Dartmouth, who emigrated to the United States many years ago, and got employment in one of the dockyards.