Sermon by the BISHOP OF SALFORD at St. Bede's Church, 4 Sermon by the Rev. R. BUTLER, M.A., at St. Clement's 6 8 "The Fifth of November' Lecture by Col. SHAW, U. S. Consul..... Zion Chapel Mutual Improvement Society [PRICE ONE PENNY. PAGE 9 12 12 General News:-The Church of England Temperanoc 13 IN CONSEQUENCE OF FIRE. HEYWOOD & CO., WOOLLEN MERCHANTS AND CLOTHIERS, 8 & 10, CHURCH STREET, MANCHESTER A GREAT SALE FOR A FEW WEEKS ONLY, OF BODLEIAN LIBRARY 9 OCT 83 OXFORD BOYS', YOUTHS', & MEN'S CLOTHING, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. A LARGE STOCK SAVED IN ALMOST PERFECT CONDITION, AT PRICES TO ENSURE IMMEDIATE CLEARANCE. WOOLLEN LADIES' MANTLE, ABOUT 1500 PIECES, CONSISTING OF JACKET CLOTHS: AND ULSTER CLOTH, IMITATION SEALSKINS, ASTRACHANS, POLARIANS. THESE GOODS ARE VERY SLIGHTLY DAMAGED, BUT IN ORDER TO SECURE AN IMMEDIATE SALE THEY ARE OFFERED AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES. HEYWOOD & CO., Temporary Premises (for a few weeks only) 31 and 33, CHURCH STREET. AND DINING FOR CLEAR SOUPS, TEA LADIES'. ROOM 77, PICCADILLY (Opposite Queen's Hotel.) THE CLYDESDALE RESTAURANT, SPECIALITE. TEAS JOINTS FROM 9D. FROM 6D. The Gentlemen's Dining Rooms are the Largest in Manchester. SIDEBOTHAM & Co., CHURCH & SCHOOL FURNISHERS, "National CONVERTIBLE Desk, This Desk forms also a "Seat with Back," and "Table with Seat." For use in Schools, Mission Churches, &c. Illustrated Price List on application. Designs and Estimates furnished for every description of Church and School Fittings; also for Mediaeval Metal Work. UPPI PPER BROOK STREET FREE CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY. Next THURSDAY Evening, Nov. 9th, a DISCUSSION will take place upon the proposed MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL. Chair to be taken at Eight o'clock. Friends cordially invited to attend and speak. UPPER BROOK STREET FREE CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL.--The annual sermons will be preached to-morrow (Sunday) by the Rev. Dr. Crosskey, of Birmingham-morning, 10-45; evening, 6-30. In the afternoon at 3, a service of song, entitled "Ruth," will be given by the scholars. Reader, Rev. Dendy Agate, B.A., Gorton, who will address the children. 413, OXFORD ROAD. The Proprietors will be glad if Secretaries of Mutual Improvement DRAWING MATERIALS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Societies will send a copy of their Syllabus to them at once. CHURCH AND CHAPEL NOTICES INSERTED AT MODERATE RATES. Large Assortment of Stereoscopic Slides. THE application on the part of the Bishop of Manchester in reference to the case of Mr. Green, confined in Lancaster Castle, is to be heard by Lord Penzance to-day. The churchwardens of St. John's, Miles Platting, of which church Mr. Green is the rector, have received notice of the sequestration of the benefice by the Bishop. The officials of the Diocesan Registry have also affixed a notice to the same effect on the church doors. Ir appears, however, that Mr. Green has already sent in his resignation to the patron, Sir Percival Heywood. In a letter addressed to his congregation he points out that to maintain himself in Miles Platting, in the face of existing obstacles, would entail the expulsion of the congregation and the loss of the patronage. At the express desire of the Bishop, the Rev. Ruthven Pym, B.A., curate of Lytham parish church, has agreed to take charge of the parish. He commences his duties on Sunday next. ARRANGEMENTS had been made for the Rev. Forbes Winslow, vicar of St. Paul's, St. Leonards, to preach last Sunday at the Melbourne Hall, Leicester, a sermon in connection with the local Temperance Mission. The incumbent of the parish in which Melbourne Hail is situated objected, and appealed to the Bishop of the Diocese, who laid Mr. Winslow under an interdict, thus preventing him from carrying out the arrangements. The matter has caused a considerable amount of ill feeling in the district. It is stated that proceedings have been initiated before the congregation of rites at Rome for the canonisation of Sir Thomas More, the learned author of the "Utopia," and the first lay Lord High Chancellor of England. Refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII. as supreme head of the Church of England, he was tried for high treason and executed. AT Bombay seven members of the Salvation Army have been arrested and placed upon their trial, charged with being members of an unlawful assembly, in consequence of their persisting in marching in procession through the Mahomedan quarter of Bombay, in spite of the remonstrances of the police. CHRONICLE. [PRICE ONE PENNY. A MOST valuable collection of manuscripts has lately been found at Revel. Some workmen were engaged in refitting an apartment on the ground floor of the Town-hall when they discovered a vault completely filled with books and manuscripts. Many of these are documents relating to the municipal affairs of the Hanse Towns during the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. ON the 15th of December, the fiftieth anniversary of Mr. Gladstone's return for Newark, Messrs. Cassel & Co. intend to issue a new edition of G. Burnett Smith's "Life of Mr. Gladstone." The addition of several new chapters by the author will bring the biography down to the present time. MR. WILLIAM SAWYER, the editor of Funny Folks, died on Wednesday night of typhoid fever. Mr. Sawyer was born at Brighton in 1828, and at an early age devoted himself to journalism and other literature. The works by which he is chiefly known are "Ten Miles from Town" (1867) and the "Legend of Phyllis " (1872). He also contributed to periodicals a number of works of fiction, some twenty-five novels and many articles, criticisms, &c. THE Athenæum says that the title of Mr. Walter Besant's story for the Christmas number of All the Year Round is "Let Nothing you Dismay." Mr. Allardyce's "Life of Lord Keith" is to be followed immediately by another naval biography. Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co. hope to issue before Christmas a "Life of Admiral Lord Hawke," by Professor Montagu Burrows, of Oxford. The family papers have been placed at his disposal, and there will be as a frontispiece an engraving from a picture of the Admiral in the possession of the family. The court-martial upon Admirals Byng and Keppel will receive some illustrations from original sources in the body of the work. Mr. W. B. Richmond has resigned the Oxford Slade Professorship of the Fine Arts. The Rev. W. Walker is preparing an extended memoir of the Rev. John Skinner, Dean of Aberdeen and father of the Bishop of that name, who wrote the "Annals of Scottish Episcopacy." THE oldest naval officer on the official record, Staff Commander James Charles Atkinson, died at Southampton a few days since, in the 100th year of his age. He was born in Middlesex on the 1st of May 1783, and commenced his seafaring career by entering the merchant service in 1796, in which he remained until 1803, when he joined Her Majesty's Navy as a volunteer. The veteran lost the sight of one eye in 1847, and has been totally blind for the last fifteen years, but otherwise retained all his faculties unimpaired until his death. SERMONS. there among the many nobles that had become priests, and the office was sung with great splendour, there was a leader of the choir called John Precenter, and he was induced to come to England so that he might instruct the monks in Northumbria in the Roman mode of singing the Divine office, and St. Benedict Biscop brought him over for that purpose. St. Benedict Biscop began various monasteries. First, there was the Monastery of St. Peter at Wearmouth. This was commenced but a year after the birth of Bede. There was HE feast we are keeping to-day is the feast of St. Bede, also the Monastery of St. Paul at Jarrow, built somewhat By the Right Rev. HERBERT VAUGHAN, D.D., Bishop of Salford, on Sunday, the 29th October, at St. Bede's Church, Alexandra Park, on the Feast of St. Bede, patron of the Church and College. Tin the two aced, eg Think you will presently all admit, later. There churches or these monasteries were the first in England built of stone. St. Benedict Biscop brought masons who knew how to labour in stone, and there were also not only masons, but he introduced workers in glass and the art of manufacturing glass, and the windows of those two abbey church in England was so lighted and protected. The faith a fitting patron for such a college as this, and not only for the college, but for the congregation itself. For I suppose that the college is what I may call a business college, and the greater number of the members of the congregation are persons engaged in daily work, and in business which occu-churches were filled with glass for the first time that any pies the greater part of their time. The Venerable Bede, therefore, is for them also a most fitting patron. His life, as brought down to our notice, does not contain a very large number of incidents, but still there are some so remarkable and so touching that they pourtray with master strokes the character and the life of the man, and the work which he did, and the especial fitness of his being the patron of this college and congregation. In the year 596 St. Augustine, St. Paulinus, and the monks of our holy father St. Gregory, landed in Britain. The country was covered with the darkness of paganism, but in a short time those mists passed away, and with the coming, as it were with the suddenness of a northern summer, the Catholic faith spread itself from north to south, from east to west, from sea to sea, and that in an exceedingly short space of time. One hundred years before the birth of St. Bede the whole of England was pagan. Forty years before he was born, the kings of Northumbria were all sunk in the darkness of heathenism. The Catholic religion had not then taken full possession of the country. Still great progress was being made, and monasteries and churches were being built in various parts of the country, as was the custom of that time of wood, cemented with clay. Among the great men of that time perhaps the greatest may be considered to have been St. Benedict Biscop, who ruled throughout Northumbria, whose whole life seems to have been summed up in a mission to spread the spirit, and I will say to revive the very life of St. Peter the apostle in England. Five different times he undertook the formidable journey in those days to Rome, drawn by the tender love (which over-years Bede remained there, and 686 a terrible pestilence broke came every kind of resistance) which he had to St. Peter the Apostle. The joy which he felt in kneeling at the tomb of St. Peter overcame every kind of resistance, and long and arduous journeys were quickly accomplished, comparatively speaking, with the full advantage of knowing what would be his recompense at his journey's end. But his heart was also with the Anglo-Saxons over whom he ruled, and each time he went to Rome he came back with his hands laden with benefits, and oftentimes accompanied by illustrious strangers, in order to assist him in instructing the Anglo-Saxon people in the north of England. Thus we read that on one occasion he went into the great Basilica, to the Church of St. Martin, the site of which is now occupied by one of the pillars that support the dome of St. Peter's. On just that site now so occupied there stood the ancient Church of St. Martin, and out in the monastery, and the whole community was swept away with the exception of Ceolfrid, the abbot, and the little boy Bede, then aged fifteen. Those two survived the terrible plague which must have laid low thousands of the population round about when it so severely affected the monastery with all its conveniences and means of sanitary arrangements. And we read that when all the monks were dead and buried, and there remained but the old abbot and the little boy, they were to be seen walking together from the monastery into the church day and night, and there singing together the office of God. And it was, the historian says, with tears and sorrow, as they remembered their dear friends their former companions, who had been so full of promise for the future of the monastery, but so untimely taken away. From that time the venerable Bede, as we learn from various indications |