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THE CONTINUITY QUESTION. THE ANCIENT BRITISH CHURCH. To the Editor of the" BARRY DOCK NEWS." SIB,—As the I; Italian Mission are so busy in England and Wales, trying to make out that the Roman Church has a claim upon the English Church on account of its precedence in Britain, the following will expose the fallacy of such an imposture :-When, in December, 1559, the deprived Popish bishops warned Queen Elizabeth not to listen to those who persuaded her to embrace schisms, heresies in lieu of the ancient Catholic Faith," she replies in these terms Our realm and subjects have long been wanderers, walking astray, whilst they were under the tuition of Romish pastors, who advised them to own a wolf for their head (in lieu of a careful shepherd), whose inventions, heresies, and schisms be so numerous that the flock of Christ have fed on poisonous shrubs for want of wholesome pas- tures. And whereas you hit us and our subjects in the teeth that the Romish Church first planted the Catholic faith within our realms, the records and chronicles of our realm testify to the contrary, and your Romish idolatry maketh you liars. Witness the ancient monument of Gildas, unto which both foreign and domestic have gone in pilgrimage there to offer.Strype's Ann, ch. XI., I., I., 217. Dr Lingard, a Roman Catholic historian, writes that before the close of the second century Christianity had even penetrated amongst the independent tribes of the North of England (" His. of Eng. vol. I., chap. I., p. 36. Lond. 1855) and in page 37 that a regular hierarchy had been instituted before the end of the third century. Theodoret says that St. Paul, after visiting Spain (Rom. XV., 28), brought salvation to the isles which lie in the ocean." Tertullian says that the Kingdom of Christ was advanced in Gaul and Britain, and that Christ was solemnly worshipped by the inhabitants (Tertull., C. Jud., ch. 7). Cardinal Baronius, the Roman annalist, thinks that St. Peter preached the gospel in Great Britain (Annales Ann. 51, 58 n). Eusebius asserts that some of the apostles preached the gospel in the British Isles (Euseb. Dem. Evang. lib. 3, ch. 7). The Greek, Roman, Gallican, and British-and probably the Welsh and Irish-Churches were all planted within the the Apostolic age, so that none of them can boast which of them is the greatest. (Mark IX., 34). The Nineteenth Article of our Reformed Church, in effect, declares the Greek and Roman Churches to be in a state of fatal apostasy, and the homily for Whitsunday (Part II.) calls the papacy the kingdom of Antichrist. We are not so much indebted to Rome for our religious orders as for our disorders. Charles Knight, in his celebrated History of England, vol. I, page 69, quoting from Bede, Book II.. ch. 6, says, "He (i.e., Bede) records that Augustine the monk in 597 (not St. Augustine of 400 A.D., the good Evangelical Bishop of Hippo), performed a miracle (in harmony with the impostures of the Romish Church), which greatly moved the British clergy to listen to him but that one offence against the spirit of the gospel made them reject his authority. The British clergy consulted a certain holy and discreet hermit as to whether they should acknowledge Augustine, whereupon he replied that if he be a man of God follow him. How," said they, are we to know that 1" He replied, Our Lord said, Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly of heart.' If, therefore, Augustine is meek and lowly, it is to be believed that he has taken the yoke of Christ, and offers it to you to take upon yourselves." Again the British clergy ask the anchorite, "How shall we know this? He replied, "Arrange it so that at the conference he and his company shall arrive first, and if at your approach he shall rise up to meet you, he is a servant of Christ. But if he despise you, who are greater in number, let him be condemned of you." They applied the test, and Augustine did not rise. There was, therefore, no sort of union between them. The monk Augustine, in revenge, stirred up the Saxons against the British, and destroyed their ancient Church. The British bishops would not conform to the Popedom, and told Augustine that they were willing to respect the Bishop of Rome as any other bishop, but at present they were under the Bishop of Chester, to cause them," said they, to keep the way spiritual," which resulted in the massacre of 1,200 (some say 2,000) monks of Bangor, probably British clergy, who, owing to the Saxon invasion which Augustine stirred up, had escaped into Wales. As the saying is, The Britishers turned their episcopal tails and found a retreat in the mountains of Wales." The passage in Bede which says Augustine was dead at the time is supposed to be an interpolation (see Knight's English History, vol. 1). It was soon after this that the English Church fell under the great Romish apostasy and oppression which did wear out the saints of the Most High (Dan. vii., 25), until God delivered her at the Reformation through the blood of the noble army of martyrs," when she obeyed the call in Rev. xviii., 4, to come out of the mystic • Babylon that she be not partaker of her sins, and receive not of her plagues." Therefore, when Papists ask us the question, "Where was your Church before the Reforma- tion ? we reply, Where was your face before it was washed ?"—Yours, etc., "M.A. (CANTAB.) To the Editor of the BARRY DOCK NEWS." DEAR SIR,-I am afraid that A. E. P. Ross has lost his temper. It were better he had not done so, seeing that the cause he has undertaken to uphold requires a cool head and plenty of crafty resource. Your readers cannot have failed to observe one peculiarity of his productions, namely, that he seldom, or never, quotes an authority, but con- stantly makes unsupported statements against the Mother Church of England. If I accuse him of making false assertions he has but himself to blame. How silly and ignorant, too, he shows himself in his remarks on the statement that priests became ministers." My Bible speaks of the priests, the Lord's ministers." The Latin vulgate has sacerdotes, ministri Domini," but, of course, all this is nothing to the blindly zealous A. E. P. Ross in his unrighteous anger No doubt whatever is there that the Church of England has valid orders and a true priesthood, nay, she has more—a faithful Christian ministry. I can quote Dr Lingard (a Romanist historian, and, I believe, priest) in support of this, but" A. E. P. Ross" seems to believe chiefly in his own infallibiilty, so it might be of no avail. Through- out the controversy A. E. P. Ross has evinced a most onesided spirit. He appears, indeed, to have perused the little history he has read with his right eye shut. As a fresh instance of this let me mention his statements about the suppressed monasteries. No doubt these had done good and charitable work amongst the poor of England at one time, and a few of them even were doing it at the period just before the Reformation; but the vast majority of them had become infamously corrupt and were a disgrace to Christendom. In fact, the Reformation itself is a proof of their failure in duty. As I said before, I have no wish to defend Henry VIII. and his supporters I do not believe him to have been infallible or impeccable, ex cathedra or elsewhere. God used him to punish those who had introduced gross corruptions into our National Church from the alien Church of Rome. The histories of Italy and other Romanist countries supply similar evidences of gross corrup- tion, but probably A. E. P. Ross has not been introduced to these fields of study. If your correspondent is so fond of England, why does he sneer at the good old English word parson. Perhaps he supposes it to be a post- reformation term, but I am sure that when he knows a little more about our literature he will change his mind. I confess I know absolutely nothing about him whom A. E. P. Ross calls the "Protestant Cobbett," and that seems to be very little less than your correspondent, who, nevertheless, with his usual brazen hardihood, quotes him against me. But, then, that is always the way with the Romish bchool. Let me, in conclusion, say that I always sta'e good Catholic doctrine," and, therefore, regard it as a heinous error to say of one never more than a woman Mary is our only refuge, help, and asylum." At the command of the Virgin all things obey, even God." Is not this extreme blasphemy ? Does A. E. P. Ross" imagine that his dictum about the law of the Church must be accepted by me ? Pray, sir, let us know who is this very great man !—Yours in the One Faith, A PRIEST OF THE UNDIVIDED CHURCH.

THE ALLEGED PERSECUTION OF BARRY CATHOLICS. PUBLIC FEELING ON THE MATTER. Public opinion is actively asserting itself in the Barry district with regard to the recent action of the School Board in vetoing the application made by the authorities of the Roman Catholic School, Barry Dock, for recognition by the Education Department as a public elementary school. ACTION BY THE TRADES' COUNCIL. Mr F. Walls, vice-president of the Barry Trades' and Labour Council, has given notice to move at the next meeting of that body, to be held this evening (Friday), for permission to put a number of questions on the subject to Mr John Rees, the labour member and deputy-chairman of the School Board. PROTEST BY THE NATIONAL LEAGUE. At a largely-attended meeting of the John Mandeville Branch of the Irish National League of Great Britain, held on Tuesday last at the Roman Catholic School Chapel, Court-road, Barry Dock, Dr. O'Donnell (president) in the chair. The following resolution was carried unanimously Proposed by Mr J. Fulford, seconded by Mr T. Goggin, and supported by Mr R. Curran, that we, the members of the above branch, condemn in the strongest manner possible the members of the Barry School Board in their bigoted action by persistently refusing their sanction to the Roman Catholic Schools for a Government grant." THE LABOURERS' UNION PASS A RESOLUTION OF CONDEMNATION. At a meeting of the Cadoxton branch of the Natiopal Amalgamated Labourers' Union of Great Britain, held at the Bassett Arms, Cadoxton, on Saturday evening last, it was proposed by Brother Curran, seconded by Brother Greville, and supported by the chairman (Brother H. Day), That this meeting eondemns the action of the Barry School Board in reference to the application for grant for Roman Catholic Schools, and that our delegates bring it before the Trades' Council at the next meeting," the resolution being carried by the meeting unanimously.

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A BANK-HOLIDAY "LARK" AT LECKWITH. At Penarth Police-court on Monday last-before Mr J. S. Bachelor (chairman) and Major Thornley -two men named Henry Heath and George Bexon (alias Yorkie"). both of Cardiff, were charged with stealing three ducks, belonging to Mr Morgan Lewis, at Leckwith, on Easter Monday, The evidence of Mrs Lewis, Police-constable Charles H. Morgan, T. Hedges and J. Williams showed that on the day named the men were seen on the road near prosecutor's house. Ducks were heard screaming, and one of the birds was afterwards seen bleeding, and tied up in a hand- kerchief in a wood at Leckwith by the witness Hedges. On being charged prisoner pleaded not guilty, but each blamed the other for having led him into temptation." Case dismissed for want of sufficient evidence.

POLICE ASSAULTED DURJNG- A ROW AT CADOXTON-BARRY. There was a boarding-house row in the peaceful and law-abiding Holmes-street, Cadoxton, on Thursday evening, the 5th inst., and a large crowd of interested neighbours congregated to witness the riotous proceedings. The police were sent for, and Constable Griffith Williams (58), Sully, was the first to arrive, and he seized a ruffianly Liverpool corner boy, who seemed to be in a state of drunken frenzy. The fellow turned iound and savagely attacked the officer, but, with assistance, the ruffian was conveyed to the police station.

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ALLEGED INDECENT ASSAULT ON A MARRIED WOMAN AT BARRY DOCK. UNPLEASANT SEQUEL TO A SMOKER. On Monday last, at Penarth Police Court-before- Mr J. S. Bachelor and Major Thornley-John Crammond Stephens, a highly-respectable looking marine r .neer, belonging to Edinburgh, was brought up In custody charged with indecently assaulting Angelina Tynsley, wife of a boarding- house keeper in Travis-street, Barry Dock. Mrs Tynsley said about midnight on Saturday she went towards a grocer's shop in Thompson-street for some candles, when she met the prisoner and some other men. Stephens placed his arm round her neck, and picking up her clothes he behaved in- decently towards her. She screamed and struggled with the man, and her husband (James Tynsley) came, when the accused walked away.—Mr T. H. Belcher, solicitor, Cardiff, who appeared for the accused, subjected the prosecutrix to a severe cross-examination. She admitted her husband came out of gaol the last time on the 28th of January. — James Tynsley, complainant's hus- band. corroborated but witnesses were called for the defence to prove that Mrs Tynsley was not assaulted by anyone. On the contrary, it was distinctly alleged that Mrs Tynsley had solicited the accused, and having walked a little distance with him she called out Jim, Jim," and struck at him. When remonstrated with by her husband^ prisoner became indignant and threatened to beat him.—Mr Belcher proceeded to call the defendant in his own behalf, when Mr Bachelor announced that the prosecution had completely fallen through, and the case was dismissed.

ITEMS FROM BARRY DOCKS BARRY DOCK TIDE TABLE FOR NEXT WEEK. The following i& the tide table for Barry Dook for the week commencing to-mowrow (Saturday) Day. Morn. Aft. h. m. ft in. h. m. ft. in. Saturday, 14 0. 39 26.11 1. 30 27. O Sunday, 15 2. 22 27. 8 3. 11 28. 10 Monday, 16 3. 53 30.10 4. 27 31. 11 Tuesday, 17 4. 67 33.11 5. 24 34. 5- Wednesday, 18. 5. 48 36. 3 6. 8 36. 6. Thursday, 19 6. 28 37.11 6. 48 37. g. Friday, 20 7. 8 38. 8 7. 27 38. 1 LAST WEEK'S SHIPPING AND SHIP- MENTS AT BARRY DOCK. The following is a report of last week's shipping and shipments at Barry Dook :— Number. Tonnage. Steamers arrived 25 28,943: Do. sailed 31 35,037 Sailing Vessels arrived 7. 11,832' Do. sailed 8 9,113 Steamers in Dock 15 20,669 Sailing Vessels do 26 38,671 Total 41 59,340 Vessels in Dock as per previous report 48 62,715 Decrease 7 3,375 Vessels in Dock corresponding week 1893 56 71,901 The imports at Barry Dock last week amounted to 3,295 tons 0 owt; ditto same period last year, 1,107 tons 0 owt; increase, 2,188 tons 0 cwt. The total imports for the week ended April 7th amounted to 41,196 tons 0 cwt. corresponding week ended April 8th, 1893, 42,251 tons 15 cwt; decrease, 1,055 tons 16 owt. The total exports last week amounted to 78,417 tons 14 owt. Corresponding week ended April 8th, 1893, 80,885 tons 7 cwt; decrease, 2,467 tons 13 cwt. Total to April 7th. 1894, 1,300,399 tons 6 owt.; corresponding week lask year, 1,199,011 tons 2 owt. increase, 101,388 toDS. 4 cwt. LAST WEEK'S SHIPMENTS AT BARRY DOCK. The export and import shipments at Barry Dock last week amounted to 81,712 tons 14 cwt., made up as follows:— EXPORTS. Tons. cwt. Coal 77,458 3 Coal 77,458 3 Coke 921 11 Deals 28 t) IMPORTS. Pitwood. 3,226 0 Building materials 54 0 General merchandise 15 a Total. 81,712 14

HOW A BARRY SAILOR TRIEl) TO QUENCH HIS THIRST. John Hudson is a sailor, hailing from the north of the Tweed. On Saturday evening last he felt thirsty after what he said was a drunken snreeT and in passing the shop of Messrs L. Molineaux and Company, Holton-road, Barry Dock, just before closing time," he was tempted to slip off a pair of lady's boots and a child's slipper. Mr T. S. Williams, manager to Messrs Oliver and Company r saw the man do it, and spoiled the little game by promptly arresting him.—Acting-sergeant W. Gammon said prisoner lived in one of the lowest houses in the district.-For the defence, John Paton, a shipmate, said what the accused did was merely for a lark, and he dropped the boots as soon as he pulled them off the nail.-At Penarth Police Court to-day, Mr J. S. Bachelor said the prisoner had a very narrow escape, and dismissed him with a. caution.

SHEBEEN RAIDS LAST SUNDAY AT BARRY DOCK. Early on Sunday morning last, Police-constables W. Smith and Rees Evans visited an empty house,. No. 44, Gueret-street, Barry Dock, and seized two 4i-gallon casks of beer and a number of drinking 2 vessels. The shebeen was carried on by a man named John Morris, well-known at Barry Dock, and a number of persons were found on the premises. A considerable amount of traffic was witnessed by the police during the morning.—The same morning Acting-sergeant Herbert Evans and Police-constable William Williams raided No. 44,. Wood-street, Barry Dock, occupied by a fitter- named John Conroy. A number of persons were on the premises, and a 9-gallon cask of beer was taken by the police, together with drinking utensils.

LOCAL FOOTBALL. BARRY v. GRANGETOWN.—This, the last maich of the season in connection with the Barry club, was to have come off on Saturday last at the Buttrills, Barry, but owing to the Grangetown team not putting in an appearance the match was not played. ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. BARRY DISTRICT V. NEW TREDEGAR A.F.C.— Owing to the non- appearance on Saturday last of the New Tredegar team to meet the Barry District at the- Witchill Ground, Cadoxton, the match had to be abandoned. PRINTING OF EVBRY DESCRIPTION, executed with neatness and dispatch, at the Barry Dcclc News office, 137, Holton-road, Barry Dock.