IO Church Bells. \_New Year’s Eve, 1871. rebukes and chastens.’ For a time she is in the dust. She must BELLS AND BELL RINGING. stoop in pain, and anxiety, and labour, but we believe it is only a prelude to the joyful invitation to arise and put on her beautiful Ik this column wo propose to. insert notices of peals of changes rung in divers parts of the kingdom—new rings of Dells set up by various garments, as a recognised and beautiful daughter of Zion. founders, or remarkable single and memorial bells— of well-conducted W e claim for the Church of Ireland to-morrow the earnest, ringing societies—or anything connected with the scienco of changes or faithful prayers, and the loving sympathy, of every member of the the art of bell-ringing which may tend to raise the respectability of the Church of England. We must pray mightily unto God for her, ringers and advance tfie noble art. and we must say ‘ Amen' to our prayers by real liberality and- We therefore beg leave to request the Ancient Society of College readiness to help her in her hour of need. Surrounded as she is Mouths, the Cumberlands, and other ringing societies throughout the kingdom to favour us with an account of their performances. We also with Romanism, and with superstition leading almost to heathen request the various bell-founders to report to us any new hells supplied idolatry, it is perhaps not to he wondered at that the Irish Church by them, addressing the Publisher; and as carillons are coming into has tended to an extreme in the direction of very low Churchmanship. fashion, we hope to be able to chronicle the setting-up of many. W e have often said this, and we believe that the Church of As for the arclneology of bells, we would not court anything relating Ireland suffers greatly through not being more distinct and some­ thereto, thinking that such notices are more suitable for the world-wide what higher in her Church principles than she is. But for this, pages of our worthy contemporary Notes ami Queries And ‘ Go,’ many imperfect and one-sided forms of religious doctrine had never our first peal. “ II. T. E llacombe. got the hold which they now have on the minds of many persons Ringing the Old Year out and the New Year in. in Ireland. It is easy to say, that where Romanism is so near it is better to be as distinctly different as possible. Thoroughly as we T h e music produced by the ringing of a good peal of hells, at proper times and in moderation) is truly pleasing to the ear. And at this par­ differ from Rome on many essential points, we do not believe this. ticular season many persons will he reminded of the words of Charles The Church of Ireland would have been stronger and better at the Lamb, who says: ‘ Of all sound of all hells—bells, the music nighest late crisis if, instead of acting on this principle, she had zealously bordering upon heaven — most solemn and touching is the peal which sustained and carried out sound Church principles in all her minis­ rings out the old year. I never hear it without a gathcring-up of my- trations,, whichever way they led her. And this we trust she will mind to a concentration of all the images that have been diffused over do now. A ll errors are put down most successfully by the whole the past twelvemonth; all I have done or suffered, performed or neg­ truth. Frequent ministrations of the Lord’s Supper (every Sunday lected, in that regretted time.’ Now the following arrangement, which has been adopted for many if possible) in all her churches, should be forthwith the rule. years at some of our churches, will show how to ‘ ring out the old year Warmth, life, and congregational heartiness, should mark all the and ring in the new,’ in an appropriate manner:— services, whether led by a white-robed choir of volunteer singers On New Year’s Eve a muffled peal is rung from 11.30 till 11.55, to (so successful and now’ so common in England), or in whatever way mark the departure of the old year. At twelve o’clock its knell is conducted. sounded by twelve strokes on the tenor hell. After which, the muffles W e have heard with great satisfaction that the Church body having been removed from the clappers of the hells, the new year is ushered in by a merry opeii peal. T homas W alesby. intend at once to resuscitate the two Archbishoprics of Cashel and Tuam; and as much as possible to renew all the absorbed Bishoprics. Ring out, W ild Bells. We believe this would be an excellent thing for Ireland, and that (From Tennyson's * In Memorialin') nothing would do so much to elicit the hearty sympathies of the R ixg out, wild hells, to the wild sky, English Church, since it would prove the thorough attachment of The flying clouds, the frosty light; the Church of Ireland to Episcopacy and to its advantages, and The year is dying in the night; would be a guarantee that she had no thought of retrogression in Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. the important essentials of her character. Ring out the old, ring in the new, She will, of course, judge for herself whether it be wise or Ring, happy bells, across the snow; unwise to try to maintain such societies as the Irish Society, the The year is going—let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Irish Church Missions, and the like, or whether it might not be better now to merge these, not, however, to sink their work, in the Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more! one comprehensive Church, which she is, we hope, about to become. Ring out the feud of rich and poor, It is for her to consider how far the work of every parish priest Ring in redress to all mankind. may not comprehend also that of the Missions, and none can judge Ring out the slowly dying cause, of these things so well as the earnest men who are living on the And ancient forms of party strife; spot. Ring in the nobler modes of life, Those and many other matters will solve themselves as time With sweeter manners, purer laws. advances. We are surprised and sorry that a plan suggested by Ring out the want, the care, the sin, an English clergyman has not been carried out, by which every The faithless coldness of the times; church throughout England and Wales would to-morrow probably Ring out, ring out, my mournful rhymes, have had a collection for the aid of the spoliated sister Church of But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ireland. Never again can such sympathy be awakened: never Ring out false pride in place and blood, again so simple and so easy an opportunity be found for securing The civic slander and the spite; a probably unanimous gift from every member of the Church of Ring in the love of truth aud right, England in aid of the Church of L-elaud. But though this golden Ring in the common love of good. opportunity be lost, we doubt not that much will be done during Ring out old shapes of foul disease, the new year for the Church of Ireland in this country, and we Ring out the narrow lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, conclude by heartily wishing our sister Church ‘ G o d s p e e d ,’ and by ■ Ring in the thousand years of peace. assuring her of our continued sympathy, interest, and hearty good will. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand: Ring out the darkness of the land, Revival of Religious Life.— Thanks b e to God, a great change for the Ring in the Christ that is to he. better has, in these later years, come over all Church-workers. How numer­ Messes. Meaes and Stainbank inform us that they have recently hung a ously are-the clergy diligent in business and fervent in spirit! How many peal of six hells, tenor nine cwt. in the tower of the new church, Woodles- of our churchwardens are now attentive to the things of faith, as well as to ford, Leeds, the gift of Sir C. Lowther; and a set of six hemispherical bells, those of finance ! How much the spirit of devout zeal has spread among our tenor four and a half cwt. note D-flat, in the tower of the church at High congregations, so that helpers in Sunday-school teaching and district-visiting Lane, Stockport. They have also a peal of six, tenor fifteen cwt. ready to be are increasingly abundant! And how the hallowed impulses of good order, hung in the church-tower, Borobridge, Yorkshire, the gift of Miss Burdett sobriety, and decency, have combined to east forth from our belfries and Coutts ; and have added four bells to the single one in St. Thomas' Church, Bethnal Green, makiDg a peal of five, the gift of the same lady. They have galleries the debauched and quarrelsome belhingers and singers of former also ready a bell of two tons for Kirkby Church, near Presoot, for the Right days 1—From a Modern Treatise, Hon. the Earl of Sefton, Church Bells.