A RITUALISTIC INCIDENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1336, 22 January 1881, Page 2

A RITUALISTIC INCIDENT.

The couise of the Ritualistic struggle, says the Gin upturn Wot Id. of December 2nd, has presented some notewoitliy and significant incidents duiiug the past week. On Saturday another recalciti.int clergyman, the Row 11. W. Enraiglit of Bordesley, near Birmingham, was consigned to gaol. Notice havuig been given of the ciuest, the proceedings were maiked by a cine regai il to effectiveness ami even solemnity. Mr Enraiglit, when waited upon by the Sheriff's officer in his draw-ing-room, was found duly arrayed in his cassock, and attended by a considerable ntimbpr of his fiiends. Outside a large crowd had assembled, in consequence of a notice which had been posted on a board near the church railings, as follows :— " Your vicar will be arrested thisafternoon at 1.30. Train leaves for Warwick Gaol at 2.4." The hero of the hour, wheu arrested, read a formal protest in the name of God and of tne Church of England" against being interfered with " under the authority proceeding from the Court of Lord Penzance,'' whose jurisdiction in "piritual matters he declined to acknowledge. This was followed by a s'milar protest in the name of the churchwardens. The assembled crowd raoeived the vicar with cheers, and with equal heartiness groaned at the name of the member of the congregation whose action has Jed to Mr Enraight's arrest. a t the church-yard gate MrEnraight addressed the crowd. In a somewhat vague manner he accounted for his going* to prison, by quoting Mr Gladstone's remark, " That we Churchmen have long been suffering from a gross violation of the true constitutional and legal order of things in Church matters, and therefore of our strict rights as Englishmen." Mr Enraight assured his hearers ihafc he was now going; to gaol, "because thousands of the English clergy and hundreds of thousands of the laity had long agreed that they would not stand this any longer." The Doxology was then sung by the crowd, and the martyr prooeeded on. his way.

A fashioxabhe Gralveston young man thinks he i 9 great as an elocutionist. His strong card is reading the ghost scene in "Hamlet." After hearing him recite, an elderly gentleman was abked what he thought of him. -'Well," said the old gentleman, "I think he ought to have given up the ghost long ago," Another pastor having been accused of kissing the lady- members of hia flock, the Philadelphia Chronicle-Gerald thinks that preachers will have to wear a muzzle ! wUea not on dtity,