No end to the Ritualist controversy appears within measurable distance. This Lord Russell, the Chief Justice, in his week the High Church party represented by the English Church Union have made a great protest of their faith. A conference of the Union was summoned and many hundred delegates from all over the country were received by the President Lord Halifax who delivered a stirring harangue in which he laid down the minimum with which the English Church Union would be content. The restoration of ecclesiastical courts with reinstatement of their former powers is what the Union is aiming at, and so far as the proposal of Archbishops to hold courts of inquiry assimilate to such an exercise of ecclesiastical authority the Unionis perfectly willing to submit to the Archbishops. The next morning a most impressive service was held at St, Paul's Cathedral when over a thousand of the clergy and lay delegates took the communion, and afterwards proceeding tothe Cannon Street Hotel, solemnlyadopted a manifesto as a counterblast to the famous resolutions which were formulated a week ortho back at the mass meeting of the Low Church section at the Albert Hall. We are now awaiting the upshot as the two armies seem drawn up in battle array. Par-Vament, it amy safely Ue conjectured, will insist on having the final word.
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