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2. “Dr. [George] Walker’s Invisible Champion Foy- 
led. London. 1690. 4to.” 
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ABHBA. 
DECISION OF THE GALLICAN CHURCH UPON THE 
VALIDITY OF ENGLISH ORDERS. 
In a very interesting little work, very recently 
published, A Glance behind the Grilles, I find the 
following passage on the subject of the Apostolic 
succession in the Church of England, as viewed 
by the Gallican clergy : 
“ However, it seems, even among themselves, there is 
a great division of opinion on the point; for he went on 
to say, that not long since, the matter was brought under 
ecclesiastical consideration in Paris. A grand Conférence 
was held on the occasion, and it was decided that all 
accounts of the event should be collected and compared. 
Accordingly, all the libraries were searched, all opinions 
were canvassed, all authorities were consulted; and on 
an appointed day, the theologians once more assembled, 
the question was discussed, and finally put to the vote, 
when the Ayes and Noes were found to be equal. Here 
was an awkward fix, as brother Jonathan would say: 80, 
to save trouble, then, and on subsequent occasions, it 
was thought most prudent to decide against us; and 
from that moment England was denied all participation 
in the Apostolical succession.” —P. 176, 
What other information may be obtained 
respecting this curiously arrived at decision ? 
Perhaps some of your readers of the Gallican 
Church can supply some additional particulars. 
I may mention —as a matter of fact, and not in a 
polemical point of view —that the theologians of 
the Church of Rome differ much upon this ques- 
tion. In a clever controversial work, by the Rev. 
W. Waterworth, S.J., lately published by Burns, 
The Origin and Developments of Anglicanism, the 
writer, arguing against the mission of the English 
clergy, says: 
“JT speak not about their character; I ask not about 
their Orders, but I ask about their mission,” &c.— P. 170. 
And in another page: 
“For these ends they were sent forth as missionaries ; 
but when they apostatized, did this mission last? Orders 
were indeed perpetuated —for the sacramental character 
of the priesthood is indelible—but the mission on which 
they were sent, did that endure? Obviously not.” — 
PriliZ. 
I presume the view of such controversialists to 
be, that the Orders of the Church of England are 
irregular, but not invalid; and this distinction 
must apply still more in the case of the Orders of 
the Church of Ireland, where not a doubt has ever 
been thrown upon the fact of the Apostolic sue- 
cession. I shall be glad to be enlightened upon 
these points, strictly as matters of fact. 
Wurm Fraser, B.C.L. 
Alton, Staffordshire. 
ACTON SURPRISING DIANA. 
Some time since I purchased (receiving a gua- 
rantee of authorship which has since been proved 
to be erroneous) a picture, 25 in. X 21 in., “ Ac- 
tzon surprising Diana and her Nymphs.” Diana, 
nude, seated on a bank of greensward by a marble 
fountain, holds at arm’s length, assisted by a 
negress in a striped robe, a white drapery she is 
about to throw over her person. A kneeling 
nymph is drying the limbs of the goddess with a 
white handkerchief. Four other nude nymphs, 
in various attitudes around the font, gaze with 
alarm at the intruder, Actzeon, a robust, brown- 
skinned individual, clad in a hunting-shirt of 
skin. He has just drawn aside the crimson 
curtain which closed an archway leading to the 
fountain. His dogs are at his heel, and a tiny 
cur belonging to Diana snarls at their intrusion. 
Trophies of the chase are suspended from the 
arch and trunks of trees, and in the distance is a 
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