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own eyes.

wand which ha gent Plevna- | Whatever be their character, they have been inn attempt- troduced into your church without authority its front, and wrongfully; and, as your Bishop, I have dedoubtless sired you, by virtue of your oath, to remove Pass of them." Here, then, is the final result of Ritualist SMAN, this resistance. It is not any establishment or exhiby main bition of "Catholic" principles and practices bosses is essential in the Church as a whole, but the degradarams from tion of a number of parish or district churches uragement, into chapels of ease, where certain ecclesiastical as intent outlaws may do each what seems right in his a resolute On their own most cherished princie fact that, ples this is a fatal result for the reactionary d at every section of the clergy. It introduces diversity w, on each where they contend for unity. It encourages and enter- mutiny in a body which, according to their y disregard. highest ideal, ought to be as strictly disciplined ounted in- as the best army. In the long run, if allowed, be regular it would break the Church of England into connearly all gregations as separate in worship, system, docthe chief trine, and practices as the Independents themthat these selves gle break

months, so as to give time:

east of the island of Jamaica. The prese
guano deposits at Morant Keys, situated
the priority of discovery and ownership
British and American Governments in re
gram of yesterday's date, has arisen betwe
A question, according to a Washingto

attendance upon him.
a state to cause the greatest anxiety to t
terday evening at Vienna, the Pope was a
According to private telegrams receive

Pothuau.
the Duc D'Audiffret-Pasquier and A
the post, the favourites of the moment
are canvassing the claims of the candic
Already, our Correspondent adds, the I
than ever, and the fall of the Marshal ine

doubt the elections would be far more
Fecond appeal to the country there ca

the neighbourhood.

was flooded, and considerable

lines have greatly suffered. Par

Plantations, railway bridges, a

tempest which raged on Saturda

Extensive floods in Virginia were cane

having

the degree of desires minute

Church

Somerite
as

suply
it is, with a
national unity.

stand reasonable Nobody

up for

lawful

e qy unique the Danube uniformity of worship, or a strict conformity to place to of preaching. There is ample liberty within

hora. The the Church, and room for many developments

4 orossi o qed into four In the RIDSDALE judgment the Privy Council Plevna, said: "It is important to maintain, as to re

que ese he Loms, a presentations of sacred persons and objects in

we can be a in

cu imultaneous v. BOYD,' subject to the power and duty of

en u popunos en esa operation, the Ordinary so as to exercise his judicial discre

fragments. tion in granting or refusing faculties as to guard

no pointain

occupy the whole territory as far as Boja With the exption of the citadel of

artillery, the citadel of Antivari is still
by the Montenegris, against whom, hov
Fort Nehay, an important position nea
Telegrams from Ragusa report the ca

Etropol had reached ow: Vienna Corres
No particulars concerning the b

Our Paris,

'Correspondent telegraphs t

derive from against things likely to be abused for purposes of masters of superstition." It was open to the Bishop of LONrange DON to have allowed the crucifix and the Maae conditions, donna. He did not do so for reasons that As his Lordship Fortune or seemed to him sufficient. ay enable the says-though stating it as not relevant to the rom a precari-present dispute, which is one of canonical obeaspect to their dience-"The doctrines really taught by picpublished re-tures and crucifixes, whether in the Roman or ating the like- Greek Churches, are proved by the logic of such a turn. facts to be, not so much the Incarnation and in the least the Atonement, as Mariolatry, and what is only

Isod 6,1 of Bum suoosep visit the conclu- distinguishable from idolatry by a refinement na os resisting an impalpable to ordinary minds, and scarcely ten

Russians on Saturday evening, the Tur date, from Bogot, to have been. capture

Etropol is stated in a telegram of

ession is even able by any so long, at least, as prayers offered He cannot be before one image or picture are held to be more e Quadrilateral efficacious than those offered before another." approaches to We know to what images of the Madonnas have pro poos ut apply solely to led in Roman Catholic countries.

иш

This very

s upon the re- year, as a sympathetic chronicler records, the

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well for- ever be the fate of Plevna and of Erzeroum, they cannot, and could not, allege that w
llery and here is a truly stupendous victory for MIDHAT ever done so. This is the account I
Pasha and Turkey, since the colossal antagonist what I yield and what I do not yield. Y
Sunday's
of the Porte is forced to follow the example see that I yield those things for which t
d by the
kish gar-
which has been set; and, in order to pacify the no rubrical direction, and do not yiel
he Rus- agitators at home who know the real truth things for which some rubric can be a
tion, the about the cost and disappointments of the war, Yet, in the face of the thoroughly ecclesi
the Rus the Czar finds himself obliged to cap his decree not civil, condemnation to which Mr. RI
en small. of emancipation with a political charter of some thus bowed, Mr. MACKONOCHIE, of St. A
attle at sort or other. It is not likely to go far beyond having put up in his church an image
spondent the convoking of an Assembly of Notables of Virgin, and a large crucifix, now disobe
various grades, and certain regulations to lighten explicit direction of the Bishop of LONDO
the burdens of the Communes; but the mere refuses to remove them.
talk of such a step, along with the elevation of Against rebellion of this sort the law is
ty of its the Christian population in Turkey to the dig- Before he consecrates a church the Bish
able to nity of bearing arms, shows how many and great order the removal of anything he deems u
things a war sets in motion, beyond the inten-able; and, after a church is consecrated, n
Antivari tion or the desire of those who rashly draw the can be added or removed without a
66 fa
ated to sword.
Mr. MACKONOCHIE, without any such
Ill-fortune continues to pursue the Turkish rity, erected the picture and the image. In
arms. Plevna, it is true, has not been captured, the Bishop of LONDON, not entering int

pture of
r Spizza,

vever,

ina.

it

hat the

y many

n be no

stion of neither has OSMAN Pasha capitulated or broken question of the "legality or expediency
country out of his improvised fastness. He stands at these things, simply pointed out that the
ion, and bay, cut off from the outer world, consuming been erected "without authority," and,
owever, time precious to the invaders, and exacting, by ing on the incumbent's observance o
he new dir of high resolution, a heavy price from his "canonical oath of obedience," requested
riod of enemies. The special misfortune to the Turks to remove both. This request he made
for the just reported is the loss of Etropol. That friendly and private letter. Mr. MACKONO
e open- place, described as a fortified town seated on with the excuse that he had been abroa
lt of a a hill, which rendered access difficult, was the communication from his Bishop unn
Radical taken on Saturday by a Muscovite detach- for four months, and then, in October, sen
vitable. ment under Prince ALEXANDER of Olden- a deliberate refusal, saying, "I must ve
iberals burg, who forced the garrison to retreat, a spectfully but most firmly decline to r
lates to course which they adopted, apparently, in pre- them." In defence of his disobedience h
being ference to the alternative of laying down their that these objects are "deeply valued b
dmiral arms. As the Russians had previously failed people;" that their removal would be cons
before Etropol, it may be assumed that the se-
dyes-cond and successful onset was made with larger and that his "faith in GOD would be repu
gain in
lose in numbers and surer measures. The town stands before their eyes!" But all this is irrel
about fifteen miles south-east of Orkhanie, Suppose some other priest chose to put
on tele- and through it runs a track over the Balkans to "winking Madonna "-and we may come t
en the Zlatitza, and thence easterly towards the head--is it to be retained because in his opini
gard to waters of the Tundja, and southward in the people value it? Is the taste of each c
of the direction of Tatar-Bazardjik. While Etropol man to be the ultimate arbiter as to
south- has thus been added to the many points in images, or pictures, or decorations of
at pos- Russian occupation along the Balkan ridge, parish church? "The question," says the B
the expedition which seized Vratza some time" as I have stated from the first, is not th
1 by a ago has pushed its reconnoitring columns close pediency or even the legality of such
last. up to the western side of Orkhanie, so that ments. That question would have to be
there is now a force in observation upon and decided in another form and place, a
each flank of the army assembled by MEHEMET they are lawful and expedient there is a la
ALI at that important entrenched camp. More- manner of introducing them into our chu

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a slur on our Blessed Lord and His mot