The Bishopric of Jerusalem.
The "Kreuz Zeitung," a journal always well informed on ecclesiastical matters learna that the treaty of September 7th, 1841, botweea England and Prussia, with reference to a Protestant bishopric at Jerusalem is about to be annulled by common consent ; so here at last is the end of a long story. The biehopric in question was the almost fanatical idea of the late King Frederick William 1V M who thought that in this roundabout way he might contrive to Anglicanize the Prussian Church. By the original Anglo Pussian agreement the appointment of the .Terusalemn bishop was vested alternately in the two parties to the treaty, but t-ince the death of Bishop Barclay, 1881, the Prussian Government has never exercised its right, as its ecclesiastics could not be brought to comply with the ordination ceremonies prescribed by the Church of England. Negotiations on the subject have been carried on more or lesa for the la?t five years, and they have now ended in an agreement between the parties to the episcopal treaty to dissolve their partnership. A new treaty will regulate the questions resulting from tb.9 dissolution oi the old one, such as the relief of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and the Bishop oi London from tneir trusteeship Frederick William IV. settled a capital of £15,000 on the enterprise, and this will revert to the Prussian Crown. How the spiritual welfare of the German element in Palestine will henceforth be provided for ia not yet clear, but in Jerusalem, at any rate, Germany possesses a plot of ground, which was prepented for ecclesiastical purposes to the Crown Prince by the Sultan on the occasion of the former's visit to Constantinople after the opening of the Suez Canal. More than ten years ago subscriptions were raised throughout Germany for building a national churcn on this parcel of ground, on which had previously c food a chapel belonging to the Knights of St. John, and this scheme will probably now be carried out. But the interesting fact is the news that the episcopal copartnership of England and Prussia is now at last about to be dissolved ; and whoever desires to study this now anticuarian subject will find all the necessary information in a book on the Jerusalem JBiabopric, compiled. I think, by the Rev. Mr Hechler. Chaplain to the British Embassy at Vienna.— "Times."
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Ninthly, that the change of prices has been profitable to Great Britain, the saving; in imports being thirty-four millions in excess of the lose on exports. Tenthly, that the inoreased production of coal and iron, and greater consumption of fibre in our textile factories, show that our industrial power has not diminished ; and, lastly, that the increase of wealth since 1875 has averaged 180 millions yearly.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 192, 19 February 1887, Page 8
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545The Bishopric of Jerusalem. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 192, 19 February 1887, Page 8
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