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VOLUME LXVII.-JULY TO DECEMBER, 1874.
First Lord of the Treasury
Lord Chancellor .
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lord President of the Council
Lord Privy Seal
Home Office ....
Foreign Office .
Colonial Office
War Secretary .
Indian Secretary .
Admiralty .
Postmaster General
THE DISRAELI CABINET.—1874.
.Right Hon. B. Disraeli (now Earl ok
Beaconsfield).
. . Lord Cairns.
. Sir Stafford H. Northcote, Bart.
.Duke of Richmond (now Duke of Rich-
mond and Gordon), K.G.
.Earl of Malmesbury, G. C.B.
.Right Hon. R. A. Cross.
.. Earl of Derby.
.Earl of Carnarvon.
.Right Hon. Gathornf. Hardy.
.Marquis of Salisbury.
.Right Hon. G. Ward Hunt.
.Lord John Manners.
POLITICAL
PAGE
A DETAILED notice of a Measure—the Public Worship
Regulation Bill—which excited lively interest in its
passage through Parliament, was postponed until the Intro-
duction to the present Volume, inasmuch as the Bill did not
come down to the House of Commons before July, and only
became law in the very last days of the Session. The
following account of this transaction is mainly drawn from
the Annual Register.
Rendered necessary by the advance of Ritualism in the
Church of England, the Public Worship Regulation Bill
was not originated by the Government, but owed its intro-
duction in the House of Lords to the Archbishop of Can-
terbury. Although no one ventured so far to oppose the
general tide of opinion as to try to stop this measure, yet it
encountered much criticism, and underwent many changes
before it reached its final stage, even in the Upper House.
Indeed, the Bill was materially altered from its original
shape before it went into Committee, and in Committee
numerous amendments were proposed to this “ second edi-
tion.” Of these, perhaps the most important were those
brought forward and carried by Lord Shaftesbury, wbicb
bad relation chiefly to the Judge to he appointed under the
Act.
The Commons received the Bill in July, and as a proof of
the keenness with which it was debated by them, no fewer
than nineteen Divisions were taken on its provisions. Mr.
Gladstone, wbo had hitherto appeared this Session hut
seldom in the House, emerged from his retirement to
oppose the Bill in a speech of great force and eloquence,
and brought forward his celebrated “ Six Resolutions,”
embodying “the principles by which legislation on this
SUMMAEY.
subject ought to be guided.” Notwithstanding such a
powerful opponent, the Debate on the Second Reading
showed so conclusively the Protestant feeling of the House,
that Mr. Disraeli, who had hitherto displayed little or no
interest in the Bill, by his speech made it manifest that vir-
tually the Government took the measure up, and meant to
make its immediate settlement a vital question. The
Second Reading was carried without a division, Mr. Glad-
stone withdrew his “Resolutions,” and large majorities
carried the principal clauses in Committee, but some im-
portant amendments were inserted. The Lords and Com-
mons came into collision on one of these Amendments,
but in the end it was waived by the Commons, and the
Bill received the Royal assent the beginning of August.
Animated debates also arose on the Scotch Church Patron-
age Bill and the Endowed Schools Act Amendment Bill.
As the Public Worship Regulation Act is by no means
one of the law’s dead letters, it may he convenient to sum-
marise its leading provisions. An Archdeacon, Church-
warden, or any three parishioners, are empowered to make
a representation to the Bishop of the Diocese—(1) When
alterations or additions to the fabric, ornaments, or furniture
of a church have been made without lawful authority, or
any decoration forbidden by law introduced; (2) when the
incumbent has used, or permitted to be used, in church or
burial ground, any unlawful ornament of the Minister, or
neglected to use any prescribed ornament or vesture;
(3) when an incumbent has within twelve months failed
to observe, or to cause to be observed, the directions in the
Prayer-Book as to the performance of services, rites, and
ceremonies, or has made or permitted unlawful altera-
VOLUME LXVII.-JULY TO DECEMBER, 1874.
First Lord of the Treasury
Lord Chancellor .
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lord President of the Council
Lord Privy Seal
Home Office ....
Foreign Office .
Colonial Office
War Secretary .
Indian Secretary .
Admiralty .
Postmaster General
THE DISRAELI CABINET.—1874.
.Right Hon. B. Disraeli (now Earl ok
Beaconsfield).
. . Lord Cairns.
. Sir Stafford H. Northcote, Bart.
.Duke of Richmond (now Duke of Rich-
mond and Gordon), K.G.
.Earl of Malmesbury, G. C.B.
.Right Hon. R. A. Cross.
.. Earl of Derby.
.Earl of Carnarvon.
.Right Hon. Gathornf. Hardy.
.Marquis of Salisbury.
.Right Hon. G. Ward Hunt.
.Lord John Manners.
POLITICAL
PAGE
A DETAILED notice of a Measure—the Public Worship
Regulation Bill—which excited lively interest in its
passage through Parliament, was postponed until the Intro-
duction to the present Volume, inasmuch as the Bill did not
come down to the House of Commons before July, and only
became law in the very last days of the Session. The
following account of this transaction is mainly drawn from
the Annual Register.
Rendered necessary by the advance of Ritualism in the
Church of England, the Public Worship Regulation Bill
was not originated by the Government, but owed its intro-
duction in the House of Lords to the Archbishop of Can-
terbury. Although no one ventured so far to oppose the
general tide of opinion as to try to stop this measure, yet it
encountered much criticism, and underwent many changes
before it reached its final stage, even in the Upper House.
Indeed, the Bill was materially altered from its original
shape before it went into Committee, and in Committee
numerous amendments were proposed to this “ second edi-
tion.” Of these, perhaps the most important were those
brought forward and carried by Lord Shaftesbury, wbicb
bad relation chiefly to the Judge to he appointed under the
Act.
The Commons received the Bill in July, and as a proof of
the keenness with which it was debated by them, no fewer
than nineteen Divisions were taken on its provisions. Mr.
Gladstone, wbo had hitherto appeared this Session hut
seldom in the House, emerged from his retirement to
oppose the Bill in a speech of great force and eloquence,
and brought forward his celebrated “ Six Resolutions,”
embodying “the principles by which legislation on this
SUMMAEY.
subject ought to be guided.” Notwithstanding such a
powerful opponent, the Debate on the Second Reading
showed so conclusively the Protestant feeling of the House,
that Mr. Disraeli, who had hitherto displayed little or no
interest in the Bill, by his speech made it manifest that vir-
tually the Government took the measure up, and meant to
make its immediate settlement a vital question. The
Second Reading was carried without a division, Mr. Glad-
stone withdrew his “Resolutions,” and large majorities
carried the principal clauses in Committee, but some im-
portant amendments were inserted. The Lords and Com-
mons came into collision on one of these Amendments,
but in the end it was waived by the Commons, and the
Bill received the Royal assent the beginning of August.
Animated debates also arose on the Scotch Church Patron-
age Bill and the Endowed Schools Act Amendment Bill.
As the Public Worship Regulation Act is by no means
one of the law’s dead letters, it may he convenient to sum-
marise its leading provisions. An Archdeacon, Church-
warden, or any three parishioners, are empowered to make
a representation to the Bishop of the Diocese—(1) When
alterations or additions to the fabric, ornaments, or furniture
of a church have been made without lawful authority, or
any decoration forbidden by law introduced; (2) when the
incumbent has used, or permitted to be used, in church or
burial ground, any unlawful ornament of the Minister, or
neglected to use any prescribed ornament or vesture;
(3) when an incumbent has within twelve months failed
to observe, or to cause to be observed, the directions in the
Prayer-Book as to the performance of services, rites, and
ceremonies, or has made or permitted unlawful altera-