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December 8, 1883.] Church Bells. 9 IRELAND. BELLS AND BELL-RINGING. (From our own Correspondent.) The remains of the late Bishop of Killaloe were interred in the grave Meeting of Ringers at Dinton and Chilmark, Wilts. yard of St. Nicholas Church, in the City of York, on last Wednesday On Saturday, the 1st inst., a meeting of ringers took place at the above vil lages, each of which possesses a goodring of six bells in fair going order. Several week. The chief mourners were his sons, one of whom is a Fellow of peals of Grandsire and Boh Doubles were rung at each church. Unfortu Trinity College, and Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Natural Philosophy. nately there were not enough change-ringers present to do any six-hell work. In St. Finbarre’s Cathedral, on the following Sunday, the music was The company consisted of Messrs. W. Greenleaf, J. B. Jerram, T. Black- adapted to the occasion, and the Dean in the course of his sermon re bourn, and C. A. Clements, all members of the Ancient Society of College ferred to the late Bishop who had commenced his episcopate in Cork. Youths; Messrs. W. Lanham and J. Short, of the St. Thomas’s Company, Salis bury ; Mr. 5Y. W. Gifford, of the St. Martin’s Company; and Mr. J. Parsons, The speaker pointed out how the Bishops of the Establishment were all of the St. Edmund’s Company, in the above city. Great praise and many disappearing one by one from amongst us : 1 They were great names— thanks are due to Mr. T. Wright, the head ringer at Dinton, for the admir O’Brien, Butcher, Gregg, Fitzgerald. In His providence God will raise able way in which he arranged and carried out the day’s proceedings. up successors to them ; but scarcely such men as were these great men A Peal of Bob Major. and great bishops.’ St. Nicholas Church, of which Dr. Webster, private 6160 chaplain to the late bishop, is rector, was draped in mourning. Dr. 2 3 4 5 6 w. M. h. Webster, at both morning and evening service, referred to the rare 6 4 2 3 5 - - - genius and real Christian life of the eminent prelate. 2 6 4 3 5 Special Advent Services are being held, as usual, in St. Patrick’s 4 2 6 3 5 If the first ten courses be 5 6 2 3 4 - - Cathedral. The appointed preachers are the Bevs. Canon Weldon, four times repeated, it will be 2 5 6 3 4 Henry Dening, and F. F. Carmichael, LL.D. 6 2 5 3 4 reduced to 5600 changes. The Bishop of Cork has appointed the Rev. Canon Henry Woodroffe, 4 5 2 3 6 - - B. F r a n c is , Diss. rector of Leslie, to the archdeaconry of Ross, vacant by the death of the 2 4 5 3 6 late Yen. Archdeacon Stuart. 6 5 4 3 2 - - 4 6 5 3 2 The death is announced of the Rev. J ohn F. Close, rector of the Union of Kilkeel, Annalong, Kilmegan, and Kilcoo. Mr. Close enjoyed a ‘ de 5 4 6 3 2 ____________ - clared annuity ’ of 1136?. Under new arrangements these parishes will Four times repeated. he divided, and the incomes will he 050?. for incumbent and a curate, Lancashire Association of Change-ringers. 150?., 150?., and '2001. respectively. A Meeting for ringing purposes only will he held on Saturday, December 15th, at the Parish Church, Blackburn, when it is particularly requested that Some of the Extreme Evangelical clergymen in Dublin have refused all in the surrounding districts will endeavour to he present. Binging from to act under the Committee recently appointed to carry 011 the proposed 3 p.m. W. J. Chatteeton, 1 ^ mission next Lent in the City of Dublin and its suburbs, because that J oel B edeof.d, ) Committee contains the names of two High Churchmen—the Revs. Canon Smith and F. 0. Trench, all the rest being- either Moderate or CHANGE-RINGING. pronounced Low Churchmen. The Rev. E. RamBant, who leads this At Redenhall, Norfolk. 'case,' will have but few followers. On Monday, the 26tli ult., eight members of the Redenhall Branch of the Norwich Diocesan Association rang 5184 changes of Kent Treble Bob in 3 hrs. Arrangements are on foot to erect a memorial to the late Dr. Studdert, 13 mins. The peal was composed by N. J. Pitstow (it will be found in Snow and a committee is being formed for the purpose. It is believed it will don’s Treatise, Part II., page 56). E. Smith (conductor), 1; W. Sheldrake, take the shape of a window or brass in St. Bartholomew’s Church, of the 2 ; W. Matthews, 3 ; G. Prime, 4 ; G. Mobbs, 5 ; B. Whiting, 6 ; P. Smith, choir of which Dr. Studdert was a member. The Irish Ecclesiastical 7; Captain Moore, 8. Tenor, 24 cwt., in E flat. Gazette has secured tlie offices of a member of the English and Irish Bar At St. Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich, Suffolk.—Muffled Peal. to take Dr. Studdert’s place on the staff of that paper, for the purpose of On Monday, the 26th ult., after the funeral of Mr. T. C. Cobbold, twelve replying to the legal queries affecting the status and rights of the clergy. members of the Norwich Diocesan Association rang, in 3 hrs. 49 mins., a The death is announced at the Archdeaconry, Aughnachry, of the Ven. peal of 5136 Kent Treble Boh Maximus, with the bells fully muffled, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased and his father, J. C. Cobbold, John Whitley Stokes, aged eighty-three, and for forty-one years Arch Esq. (to whom the town is chiefly indebted for the bells). W. L. Catchpole, 1; deacon of Armagh, and Rector of Carnteel. For the 800?. a-year received E. Pemberton, 2; I. S. Alexander, 3; W. Motts, 4; J. Motts, 5; W. Meadows, 6 ; by the late Rector, the new Incumbent will receive 200?. C. Saul, 7 ; H. Bowell, 8 ; R. Brundle, 9; E. Reeve, 10; R. Hawes, 11; The united Synods of Killaloe, Kilfenorn, Kilmacduajfh, and Clonfert, S. Tillett, 12. Composed by J. Reeves and conducted by W. L. Catchpole. will shortly be called together to elect a bishop in the place of At St. Mary’s, Stratford-le-Bow, Middlesex. the late Right Rev. Dr. Fitzgerald. It is difficult, of course, to forecast On Wednesday, the 28tli ult., Holt’s Original One-part Peal of 5040 the result, hut amongst names mentioned are those of Archdeacon Grandsire Triples was rung in 3 hrs. S. Green," 1 ; J. Pettit (con Chester (Killaloe), H. H. Dickinson, D.D., Dean of the Chapel Royal, ductor), 2; A. Cutmore,* 3 ; W. B. Jones, 4 ; H. Springhalt, 5; R. Turner, 6 ; W. D. Smith, 7; D. Sutton,* 8. [Those marked * first peal.] Dublin, and R. P. Reichel, D.D., Dean of Olonmacnoise. There was a very bad anti-Protestant riot in the town of Wexford At St. Edmund’s, Downham, Norfolk. On Thursday evening, the 29th ulfc., another of Mr. F. J. Penning’s peals on last Sunday, which was renewed the following day. Two of Mr. 011 of Bob Minor, containing forty-six calls, was rung in 26 mins. E. Harper, 1 ; Moody’s preachers were announced to hold special Evangelistic services R. Chapman, 2 ; T. Gates, 3 ; G. Woodhouse, 4 • W. Goodchild, 5 ; G. Neal, 6 ; in the theatre. On approaching- the building the Protestants were set G. Spencer (conductor), 7, behind. Also a 360, called by G. Neal. Tenor, upon by the Roman Catholic roughs, and pelted with stones and mud. 12 cwt., in G. We regret being unable to record any performance on eight, The windows of the theatre, of the parish church, the Methodist chapel, as the treble is in an unringable condition. and of several of the Protestant householders, wore smashed, and per At St. Thomas-ye-Martyr, Oxford. sonal violence offered to several. An attempt was made to throw one On Thursday, the 29th ult., six members of the Oxford University Society of Change-ringers rang a peal of 720 Grandsire Minor in 23 J mins. J. R. gentleman into the river. The police were perfectly helpless to prevent Yincent, Esq., 1; C. W. H. Griffith, Esq., 2; G. F. Scott, Esq., 3; F. A. H. the rioting. Large reinforcements are now in the town. No offence of Du Boulay, Esq., 4; J. F. Hastings, Esq., 5; G. E. Coleridge, Esq. (con any kind had been given to tlie Roman Catholic population who thus ductor), 6. Tenor, lb cwt. This peal was rung in honour of the birth of a rose up and showed theii- hostility towards their Protestant fellow- son to Capt. J. E. Acland-Troyte, who founded the Society and became its townsmen because they dared to attend these Evangelistic services. A Master Feb. 2nd, 1872. short time previously the Freeman’s Journal had drawn public attention At St. John’s, Penge, Surrey. to the fact that Mr. Moody’s meetings were not interfered with by the On Thursday, the 29th ult., a peal of 720 Plain Boh (thirty singles and six bobs) was rung by six members of All Saints’, Benhilton, Sutton, in 26 Roman Catholics, who were in a majority, as an evidence of the tolera mins. W. Walker, 1 ; J. Francis, 2 ; James Trendell, 3 ; G. Petrie, 4 ; C. tion dealt out to Irish Protestants. Whether this was taken as a hint Trendell, 5 ; John Trendell (conductor), 6.