The Church Convention in Ireland has been holding high debate
upon the revision of the Prayer-Book, which nine-tenths of the Episcopalian laity would revise in the Genevese sense. After a debate which came to verbal blows, the Bishops and great laymen rejected the motion for revision, but were compelled to yield to the appointment of a Committee charged to see " whether, without making such alterations in the Liturgy or formularies as would involve or imply a change in doctrine, any measure can be suggested calculated to check the introduction and spread of novel doctrines and practices opposed to the principles of our Reformed Church." The amendment, proposed by the Duke of Abercorn, was carried without a division, but the struggle is far from over. The laity are determined on expelling the High Church, and the purse is in their hands now.
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