Lord Penzance's sentence on Mr. Mackonochie of suspension , ab officio
et benefieio was affixed last Sunday to the church door of St. Alban's, Holborn, and was at once removed by indignant members of the congregation. The Churchwardens protested against any decree of "a tribunal wholly secular" upon Mr. Mackonochie being affixed to the church door. Further, a -clergyman (the Rev. Mr. Sinclair), deputed by the Bishop of London to supersede Mr. Mackonochie during his suspension, and to take charge of the church and parish of St. Alban's, was refused admittance by Mr. Mackonochie on the same ground, —that only a spiritual tribunal could deprive him of an office -committed to him by the spiritual power ; whereon Mr. Sinclair withdrew, and the services went on with all the ritual declared to be illegal by Lord Penzance. Of course, Mr. Mackonochie must go to prison,—out of which imprisonment the Ritualists will "suck no small advantage,"
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