171, 215.

BOLITION of Church - rate,
Mr. Western Wood and, 23.
Act of Uniformity, the, 205.
Act of Uniformity, the Crown,
the Ordinary, and the, 115,

Adams (Mr.), the War in America and, 198.
Addresses of the Clergy, 169.

Adisham-cum-Staple, Mr. Villiers and the
Living of, 22.

African Bishops contrasted, two, 6.
Albert (Prince), 49.

America: Demoralisation in America, 250.
Severance of Church and State in America,
119. War in America and Mr. Adams,
198.

Ansted and Latham's Channel Islands, 186.
Approaching Royal Marriage, the, 67.
Archbishops and Bishops, and the Bishop of
Natal, 149.

Arches, Judgment in the Court of, the, 22.
Art of Paraphrasing, the, 74.

BABYLONIA and Assyria, 130.
Bampton Lectures, 225.

Bible: Dr. Stanley on the Bible, 50. Plea
for Canons of Criticism as applied to the
Bible, 72.

Biography: Anselm, 32, 79, 125. Boling-
broke, 221. Disraeli, 277. Exeter (Bi-
shop of), 84. Graham (Sir James), 133.
Hallam (A. H.), 182. Henslow (Pro-
fessor), 41. Lives of the Engineers, 183.
Wilson (Professor), 86.

Bishop of London, Charge of the, 1.
Bishop of Natal: Archbishops and Bishops

and the Bishop of Natal, 149. Bishop
Colenso's Theory of Honesty, 159. Pro-
vincial Synod of Canterbury, 97, 241.
Report of Committee on the Book of the
Bishop of Natal, 272.

Bishops Contrasted, two African, 6.
Bolingbroke, 221.

Borrow's Wild Wales, 135.

Broad Sanctuary Logic, 63.

CABINET and the Liberation Society, the,

210.

Canons of Criticism as applied to the Bible,
a Plea for, 72.

Canterbury, Provincial Synod of, 97, 241.
Capitular Foundations, 269.
Case of the Carnatic, the, 152.
Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Na-
tional Church, the, 145.
Channel Islands, the, 186.
Charge of the Bishop of London, the, 1.
Church: Act of Uniformity, 205. Ad-
dresses of the Clergy, 169. Archbishops
and Bishops, and the Bishop of Natal, 149.
Cabinet and the Liberation Society, 210.
Capitular Foundations, 269. Chancellor
of the Exchequer and the National Church,
145. Charge of the Bishop of London, 1.
Church of England and her Assailants in
the House of Commons, 58. Church Pa-
tronage, 106. Church-rate, 259. Church's
Mission, 112. Clergymen's Wives, Sisters,
and Deaconesses, 123. Colonial Churches,
270. Convocation of York, 25. Crown,
the Ordinary, and the Act of Uniformity,
115, 171, 215. Diocesan Congresses, 28.
Festivities in Lent, 168. Free and Open
Churches, 217. Garrick's Mode, 26. Irish
Church Debate, 262. Irish Convocation,
113. Judgment in the Court of Arches,
22. Mission Houses as Specialties, 120.
Mr. Newdegate and Church-rate Commu-
tation, 68. No-Churchism, 173. Provin-
cial Synod of Canterbury, 97, 241. Pusey
and Others v. Jowett, 164. Religious
Questions in Parliament, 117. Severance

of Church and State in America, 119.
Stanley (Dr.) and the Unitarians, 104, 162.
State Endowment of Dissent, 68. Statute
of the 13th of Queen Elizabeth, 267. Sy-
nodical Judgment and Royal Licence, 211.
Two African Bishops contrasted, 6. Vil-
liers (Mr.) and the Living of Adisham-
cum-Staple, 22. Wood (Mr. Western),
and Abolition of Church-rate, 23. Wren's
Churches, 170.

Churton's Gongora, 281.

Clarke's Parish Magazine, 231.

Clark's Students' Comparative Grammar,
136.

Clergy: Addresses of the Clergy, 169.
Clergymens' Wives, Sisters, and Deacon-
esses, 123. Clerical Crotchets, 41.
Colenso's Theory of Honesty, 159.
Colonial: Colonial Churches, 270.
African Bishops contrasted, 6.
Committee of Privy Council on Education,
the, 264.

Congresses, Diocesan, 28.
Consulat et l'Empire, le, 38.

Two

Convocation: Convocation of York, 25.
Irish Convocation, 113.
Cotton-field, the Nagpore, 255.
Cotton Phenomena, 99, 150.
Counsels of Prudence on behalf of the Faith,
60.

Court of Arches, Judgment in the, 22.
Critical History of Free Thought, 225.
Crown, the Ordinary, and the Act of Uni-
formity, the, 115, 171, 215.

DEBATE on Italy, 243.
Decay of the Ministry, the, 195.
Demoralisation in America, 250.
Diocesan Congresses, 28.
Disraeli, 277.

Dissent: Inner Life of Dissent, 232. State
Endowment of Dissent, 68.
Domestic: Approaching Royal Marriage,
67. Church-rate, 259. Decay of the
Ministry, 195. Festivities in Lent, 168.
Government, the, 242. Improvement of
Ireland, 65. Judgment in the Court of
Arches, 22. Mr. Newdegate and Church-
rate Commutation, 68. Our Outside Par-
liament, 17. Parties and Parliament, 54.
Party Spirit and Party Leaders, 251.
Prince Albert, 49. Railways and National
Defences, 57. Royal Marriage, 146. Se-
condary Punishments, 55. Sir George
Cornewall Lewis, 201. Tickets of Leave,
Penal Servitude, and Transportation, 11.
Wood (Mr. Western) and the Abolition
rate, 23.

Durham, the University of, 19.
Durham University Commission, the, 246.

EDUCATION: Art of Paraphrasing, 74.
Broad Sanctuary Logic, 63. Clark's Stu-
dent's Handbook of Comparative Gram-
mar, 136. Committee of Privy Council
on Education, 264. Durham University
Commission, 246. Greek and Latin, 8,
155. National Society, 65, 114, 162.
Proposed Oxford Examination Statute,
166. School System in Holland, 70.
Tempora Mutantur, 219. University of
Durham, 19. University of Oxford, 193.
Westminster School, 118.
Elements of Comparative Philology, 39.
Empire, the, 279.
Entanglements, 185.
Epigrams, Theological, 23.
Essays by a Barrister, 88.
Essays on Liturgiology, 230.

Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature, 227.
Examination Statute, the proposed Oxford,
166.

FAITH, Counsels of Prudence on behalf of
the, 60.

Farrar's Bampton Lectures, 225.
Fathers, Dr. Stanley on the, 101.
Festivities in Lent, 168.

Fiction: Entanglements, 185. Inner Life of
Dissent, 232. Trollope's Orley Farm, 37.
Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient
Eastern World, the, 130.
Foolhardiness, 175.

Foreign. America: Demoralisation in, 250.
Severance of Church and State in, 119.
War in, and Mr. Adams, 198. Crimea,
Kinglake's Invasion of, 128. Greece and
the Ionian Islands, 15, 199. Holland,
School System in, 70. India: Case of the
Carnatic, 152. Nagpore Cotton-field,
255. Young India, 61. Italy, Debate
on, 243. Japan: Fortune's Yedo, 278.
Outrage in, 13. Lord Palmerston's Fo-
reign Policy, 3. Poland, 147. Polish
Question, 257. Prussia, 246.
Fortune's Yedo and Peking, 278.
Foundations, Capitular, 269.
Free and Open Churches, 217.
Freeman's History of Federal Government,

HALLAM, Arthur Henry, 182.
Historical Lectures, 284.

History: Freer's Last Decade of a Glorious
Reign, 275. Freeman's History of Fede-
ral Government, 132. Kinglake's Inva-
sion of the Crimea, 128. Longman's
Lectures on the History of England, 284.
Rawlinson's Five Great Monarchies, 130.
Thiers's Le Consulat et l'Empire, 38.
Holland, School System in, 70.
Honesty, Bishop Colenso's Theory of, 159.
Hook's Lives of the Archbishops of Canter-
bury, 32, 79, 125.

Hope's House of Scindea, 279.

House of Commons, the Church of England
and her Assailants in the, 58.
Huxley's Evidence as to Man's Place in Na-
ture, 227.

IDEAL, the Real and the, 76.
Imposture, the Literature of, 138.
India: Case of the Carnatic, 152. Nagpore
Cotton-field, 255. Young India, 61.
Inner Life of Dissent, 232.
Invasion of the Crimea, 128.
Ionian Islands, Greece and the, 199.
Ireland: Irish Church Debate, 262. Irish
Convocation, 113. Improvement of Ire-
land, 65. Maynooth, 71.
Italy, Debate on, 243.

JAPAN, the Outrage in, 13.

Jenyns's Memoir of the Rev. J. S. Henslow, 41.
Jewish Church, Stanley's, 207.

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plan-

tation, 279.

Judgment in the Court of Arches, the, 22.

KEMBLE'S Journal of a Residence on a
Georgian Plantation, 279.
Kinglake's Invasion of the Crimea, 128.

LAST DECADE of a Glorious Reign, 275.
Latham and Ansted's Channel Islands, 186.
Latham's Elements of Comparative Philo-
logy, 39.

Latin, Greek and, 8, 155.

Law: Universal Law, 111. Novelist's Law,

121.

Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church,

207.

Legitimation, 121.

Lent, Festivities in, 168.
Lewis, Sir G. C., 201.

Liberation Society: The Cabinet and the
Liberation Society, 210. The Liberation
Society and Free Trade, 252.

Life of Bolingbroke, 221.
Life of Sir James Graham, 133.

Life, Times, and Writings of the Bishop of
Exeter, 84.

Literature of Imposture, the, 138.
Literature, Science, and Art: Churton's
Gongora, 281. Huxley's Evidence as to
Man's Place in Nature, 227. Latham's
Elements of Comparative Philology, 39.
Social Science, 202.
Wilson's Prehistoric
Man, 81.

Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, 32,

Maynooth, 71.

Member for the University of Oxford, the,
196.

Memoir of the Rev. J. S. Henslow, 41.
Mills' Disraeli, 277.

Ministry, the Decay of the, 195.
Minstrelsy of the Marriage, 177.
Miscellaneous Literature: Clarke's Parish
Magazine, 231. Essays by a Barrister, 88.
Hope's House of Scindea, 279. Parish
Records of Parish Work, 231. Ruskin's
Unto this Last, 30. Smith's Empire, 279.
Stanhope's Miscellanies, 180. Story's
Roba di Roma, 234. Verses and Transla-
tions by C. S. C., 223.

Miscellanies, by Earl Stanhope, 180.
Mission Houses as Specialties, 120.
Mrs. Galen, M.D., 122.

NAGPORE Cotton-field, the, 255.
Natal, the Book of the Bishop of, 273.
National Church, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer and the, 145.

National Defences, Railways and, 57.
National Society: 114, 162. Resolution to be
Moved at the Annual Meeting of, 65.
Neale's Essays on Liturgiology, 230.
Newdegate (Mr.) and Church-rate Commu-
tation, 68.

New Testament, Textual Criticism of, 253.
No-Churchism, 173.

Novelist's Law, Legitimation, 121.

Polish Question, 257.
Politician, the, 77.

:

Politics Cabinet and the Liberation Society,
210. Case of the Carnatic, 152. Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer and the National
Church, 145. Church of England and her
Assailants in the House of Commons, 58.
Church-rate, 217. Debate on Italy, 243.
Decay of the Ministry, 195. Government,
242. Greece, 15. Greece and the Ionian
Islands, 199. Irish Church Debate, 262.
Lord Palmerston's Foreign Policy, 3.
Member for the University of Oxford, 196.
Newdegate (Mr.) and Church-rate Com-
mutation, 68. Our Outside Parliament,
17. Outrage in Japan, 13. Parties and
Parliament, 54. Parties and Party Spirit
in Oxford, 248. Party Spirit and Party
Leaders, 251. Poland, 147. Polish Ques-
tion, 257. Prussia, 246. Religious Ques-
tions in Parliament, 117. State Endow.
ment of Dissent, 68. Severance of the
Church and State in America. 119.
Wood (Mr. Western) and Abolition of
Church-rate, 23,
Prehistoric Man, 81.
Prince Albert, 49.

Prophecy, Dr. Stanley on, 157.

Proposed Oxford Examination Statute, 166.
Provincial Synod of Canterbury, 97, 241.
Prussia, 246.

Punishments, Secondary, 55.
Pusey and others v. Jowett, 164.

QUEEN ELIZABETH, the 13th Statute of, 267.
Questions in Parliament, Religious, 117.

RAILWAYS and National Defences, 57.
Rawlinson's Babylonia and Assyria, 130.
Real and the Ideal, the, 76.

Reason v. Conscience: III. The Theolo-
gist, 29. IV. The Politician, 77.
Religious Questions in Parliament, 117.
Remains of Arthur Henry Hallam, 182.
Resolution to be moved at the Annual
Meeting of the National Society, 65.
Reviews: Ansted and Latham's Channel
Islands, 186, Borrow's Wild Wales, 135.
Chronicles of Carlingford, 232. Churton's
Gongora, 281. Clarke's Parish Magazine,
231. Clark's Student's ComparativeGram-
mar, 136. Essays by a Barrister, 88. En-
tanglements, 185. Farrar's Bampton Lec-
tures, 225. Fortune's Yedo and Peking,
278. Freeman's History of Federal Go-
vernment, 132. Freer's Last Decade of a
Glorious Reign, 275. Gordon's Memoir
of Professor Wilson, 86. Graver Thoughts
of a Country Parson, 83. Hook's Lives
of the Archbishops of Canterbury, 32, 79,
125. Hope's House of Scindea, 279.
Huxley's Evidence as to Man's Place in
Nature, 227. Jenyns's Memoir of Hen-
slow, 41. Kemble's Residence on a
Georgian Plantation, 279. Kinglake's
Invasion of the Crimea, 128. Latham's
Elements of Comparative Philology, 39.
Longman's Lectures on the History of
England, 284. McCaul's Examination of
Bishop Colenso, 178. Macknight's Life
of Bolingbroke, 221. Mills' Disraeli, 277.
Neale's Essays on Liturgiology, 230.
Parish Records of Parish Work, 231.
Rawlinson's Five Great Monarchies, 130.
Remains of Arthur Henry Hallam, 182.
Robertson's Sermons, 35. Ruskin's Unto
this Last, 30. Shutte's Life of the Bishop
of Exeter, 84. Smiles' Lives of the En-
gineers, 183. Smith's Empire, 279. Stan-
hope's Miscellanies, 180. Stanley on the
Bible, 50. Stanley's Jewish Church, 207.
Stanley's Sermons, 213. Story's Roba di
Roma, 234.
Theirs's Le Consulat et
L'Empire, 38. Torrens's Life of Sir James
Graham, 133, Trollope's Orley Farm, 37.
Verses and Translations, by C. S. C., 223.
Wilson's Prehistoric Man, 81.

Robertson's Sermons, 35.
Roba di Roma, 234.

Royal Licence, Synodical Judgment and, 211.
Royal Marriage, the, 67, 146.

SALEM Chapel, 232.

School System in Holland, 70.
Secondary Punishments, 55.

Sermons Sermons by the late Rev. F. W.
Robertson, 35. Stanley's Sermons, 213.
Severance of the Church and State in
America, 119.

Shutte's Life, Times, and Writings of the
Bishop of Exeter, 84.

Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 201.
Smiles' Lives of the Engineers, 183.
Smith's Empire, 279.

Social Science, 202.

Societies: the Liberation Society, 210, 252.
The National Society, 65, 114, 162.
Specialties, Mission Houses as, 120.
Stanhope's Miscellanies, 180.
Stanley (Dr.): and the Unitarians, 104, 162.
On the Bible, 50. On the Fathers, 101.
On the Jewish Church, 207. On Pro-
phecy, 157. Sermons during the Tour of
the Prince of Wales, 213.

State Endowment of Dissent, 68.
Statute of the 13th of Queen Elizabeth, the,
267.

Story's Roba di Roma, 234.
Student's Handbook of Comparative Gram-
mar, 136.

Subject Races, 279.

Synodical Judgment and Royal Licence, 211.
Synod of Canterbury, 94, 241.

TEMPORA Mutantur, 219.

Textual Criticism of the New Testament,

253.

Theirs's Le Consulat et L'Empire, 38.
Theological Epigrams, 23.
Theologist, the, 29.

:

Theology Counsels of Prudence on behalf
of the Faith, 60. Farrar's Bampton Lec-
tures, 225. Graver Thoughts of a Country
Parson, 83. McCaul on Bishop Colenso,
178. Neale's Essays on Liturgiology,
230. Plea for Canons of Criticism as
applied to the Bible, 72. Report of the
Committee on the Book of the Bishop of
Natal, 272. Robertson's Sermons, 35.
Stanley's Lectures on the History of the
Jewish Church, 207, Stanley on Prophecy,
157. Stanley on the Bible, 50. Stanley
on the Fathers, 101. Stanley's Sermons,
213. Theological Epigrams, 23. Theo-
logist, the, 29.
Thinking, 104.

Thoughts on Gold, 108.

Tickets of Leave, Penal Servitude, and
Transportation, 11.

Times Newspaper, the, 98, 266.

Torrens' Life of Sir James Graham, 133.
Travels and Voyages: Ansted and Latham's
Channel Islands, 186. Borrow's Wild
Wales, 135. Fortune's Yedo and Peking,
278.

Trollope's Orley Farm, 37.
Two African Bishops Contrasted, 6.

UNIFORMITY, the Act of: 205. The Crown,
the Ordinary and the, 115.
Unitarians, Dr. Stanley and the, 104, 162.
University of Durham, the, 19.
University of Oxford: 193.
the, 196.
Unto this Last, 30.

Member for

VERSES and Translations, 223.
Villiers (Mr.) and the Living of Adisham-
cum-Staple, 22.

WAR in America and Mr. Adams, 198.
Westminster School, 118.
What it must come to, 261.
Wild Wales, 135.

Wilson's Prehistoric Man, 81.
Wood (Mr. Western) and Abolition of
Church-rate, 23.
Wren's Churches, 170.

YEDO and Peking, 278.
York, the Convocation of, 25.
Young India, 61.

No. 8, Vol. 2.

The Charge of the Bishop of London. 1862.

HEN we have said that the Bishop of London's Charge is the Charge of the Bishop of London, we have said quite enough to convey to men "of all denominations" in the Church, who think about such things, what kind of thing the Charge is. It is described by The Guardian as "an able Charge;" and, generally, as of much merit. But of what has The Guardian been at any time the guardian, either in Religion, or in Politics? The Examiner, The Daily Telegraph, et id genus omne, welcome the "Charge." In them this is consistent, and it is honest. The Times makes the best apology it can.

There are, on the other hand, a good many "of all denominations" who do not think about such things, but come to conclusions about them without thinking at all. These it is our duty to help to sound conclusions.

Among the inventions of the time the invention touching the proper nature and character of a Charge Ecclesiastical is not the least curious. The Bishop of London, being not unfavourably disposed towards certain discoveries of the day, has adopted the invention.

Let us see what it is.

Some thirty or forty subjects, not handled but, proposed and cursorily touched; a great many divisions; one to each subject; a good many words in each division. All this ex cathedra for two hours

and a-half.

Now, if the sum of all this were a "charge" or direction to clergy and churchwardens upon all, or upon some of, the subjects proposed, there might not be much to complain of.

But when there is, after all, no distinct utterance, and therefore no charge or direction, upon any one subject; when the general character of the whole is letting men's minds loose upon all subjects-legitimate subjects of inquiry, and non-legitimate; when in no one instance is it possible to extract from what is said how the Bishop would act himself in any given case, or how he would not act; when it is not within the compass of any man's acuteness to say, as he comes away, what advice he has received, except the advice to do

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as he likes; when, upon recurring to the " Charge" in print, all that it resolves itself into is a good many words and phrases about prudence, and sympathy, and conciliation, and forbearance, and charity -all excellent words and phrases in themselves, but somewhat of the vaguest as they are put, and certainly not all that men reasonably look for in a Charge Episcopal-with a good many suggestions upon each subject, some this way and some that, and a wonderful amount of balancing, with no definite counsel or direction as the upshot of it all upon any one point-when all this is taken into account, there is a good deal to complain of; and it is not surprising that men, as they come away, should think and say that their time has been wasted.

But the real mischief is not in the waste of time, though the time of clergy and churchwardens be a valuable thing. The real mischief lies deeper by a good deal. The real mischief is that, in so comprehensive an address, for we cannot call it a Charge, some things of primary importance, which, upon its own principle of construction, ought to have found their place, have been either omitted altogether, or stated only to be disparaged; and that some other things which ought to have found no place, except to be condemned ex cathedrâ Episcopi, have been put into the foreground, and, not simply excused or palliated but, advocated and stimulated.

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The curse of the day, visited upon us for our sins as people, is "free inquiry" as applied to Revelation. But the Bishop reminds us that " we are Protestants." We never heard till now that we "protest" against Rome because Rome accepts the Bible implicitly, and we do not. We "protest" indeed that the Apocrypha is not to be taken as part of the Canon; but, for the rest, we are at one with Rome in her implicit belief in "all Holy Scriptures." The Bishop reminds us also that "free inquiry" is of the province of "private judgment." It is hard upon the Church of England to have either Rome, or Infidelity, or both, helped in this way by a Bishop of the Church of England. And especially at this time. There are, no doubt, excellent reasons why a Bishop should wait to deliver his judgment in a "Charge" upon a book like the book of the Bishop of Natal lately published, till such book has been condemned in Synod: but there is no less doubt that to choose a moment like this to deliver a panegyric upon "free inquiry," and to claim it even for the clergy as their right and duty as "Protestants," exercising "the right and the

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