The churches which represent extreme parties, East and West, North
and South, are in renewed commotion. This week St. George's-in-the-East has been the scene of another disgraceful esronnotion ; the Reverend Bryan King having pursued his roseate mission with the support of the metropolitan police ; while the local Luthers having vindicated Protestantism by a riot even more disgraceful to themselves than to the fane they desecrated. At St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, the parish has elected Mr. Wester- ton as churchwarden, flying in the face of the rector, Mr. Lid- dell, who had the best of it in a somewhat bickering attack made upon the rectorial position by the new churchwarden before his nomination.
These conflicts of extremes are imitated in Scotland, with local differences. The Revivalists have been assailed in a stronghold which they possessed in Banffshire, by a party of Rationalists ; the contending factions flinging quotations at each others' beads from profane verse, after the manner of the ecclesiastics and their " battle of the books " in Boileau's Lutrin.
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