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ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 



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her Majesty's chaplains," whose name is not 

 given, but they were without result. The 

 bishopric was then offered to the Rev. R. H. 

 Baynes, Vicar of St. Michael's, Coventry. He 

 at first accepted it. The Church Missionary 

 Society now interposed, and declared that their 

 agents would be instructed not to place them- 

 selves under the new bishop's jurisdiction. 

 Thereupon Mr. Baynes, after consultation with 

 his diocesan (the Bishop of Worcester), deter- 

 mined not to have any thing more to do with 

 the bishopric. After several other efforts had 

 been made to arrange matters, it was under- 

 stood that the formation of the bishopric had 

 been definitely determined upon, and the Rev. 

 Henry Rowley was nominated to the see. Mr. 

 Rowley had long been connected with the 

 Universities Mission to Central Africa, and had 

 labored there with Bishop Tozer ; he had also 

 labored zealously in the formation of the mis- 

 sion of St. George's-in-the-East. It is he whose 

 consecration Mr. Gladstone has defeated. 



Correspondence on Church Union in South 

 Africa. A correspondence took place near 

 the close of the year 1871 between Bishop 

 Gray, of Cape Town, and the Rev. Dr. Faure, 

 Moderator of the Synod of the Reformed 

 Dutch Church in South Africa, with reference 

 to a union of the two Churches. It originated 

 in the passage of a resolution by the English 

 Episcopal Synod in favor of such union. The 

 Dutch Synod responded with an expression of 

 willingness to consider the subject. Bishop 

 Gray in his letters mentioned as the points on 

 which the two Churches are agreed, the ac- 

 ceptance of the inspired Scriptures, of a written 

 liturgy, and of the necessity of creeds. Dr. 

 Faure spoke of the English Prayer-Book and 

 Episcopacy as points to which the Reformed 

 Dutch Church would make objection. The 

 correspondence assumed the form of an argu- 

 ment on the parity of bishops and presbyters, 

 and the claims of the Book of Common Prayer. 

 It soon appeared that organic union could not 

 be obtained. Dr. Faure then, on behalf of 

 the Reformed Dutch Church, made proposi- 

 tions for an exchange of pulpits, for a system 

 of united prayer, and for cooperation in the 

 circulation of the Bible, and in other forms of 

 Christian activity. The English bishop de- 

 clined these propositions, because, he said, 

 " Whatever it is that keeps us apart unfits us, 

 in my estimation, to be at once safe and out- 

 spoken teachers of each other's people." 



Free Church of England. After the an- 

 nouncement of the decision in the Bennett 

 case, the secretaries of the Free Church of 

 England issued an address, in which they 

 stated that that Society was organized chiefly 

 to oppose ritualism, and to unite the laity in 

 the government as well as the work of the 

 Church. They claimed as an advantage for 

 their organization that the Evangelical clergy 

 of the Established Church are debarred by ec- 

 clesiastical regulations from going into parishes 

 where ritualism prevails, whereas the Free 



Church of England is free to enter any parish 

 with a revised Prayer-Book, from which the 

 sacerdotal element is erased, and can conduct 

 sound Protestant services. The Society had 

 already expended 15,000 in establishing such 

 services, and they asked 50,000 more to ex- 

 tend the movement so far as might be neces- 

 sary. The policy of the leaders of the Society, 

 as it is indicated in its address, and as it is 

 shown in their subsequent proceedings, is to 

 induce the Evangelical clergy to maintain 

 their position against ritualism within the 

 Church of England, while they accept the aid 

 of the Free Church in the parishes into which 

 they cannot themselves go. 



The tenth annual convocation of the Free 

 Church of England was held in London on the 

 25th and 26th of June. A code of by-laws 

 was adopted. Five ministers were ordained 

 after the forms of the revised Prayer-Book. 

 In these forms the doctrine of the apostolic 

 succession is ignored. The report of the 

 Council " dealt vigorously with the Bennett 

 judgment, and characterized it as a tortuous 

 defence of ritualism." 



ARGENTINE REPUBLIC (LA REP^BLICA 

 ARGENTINA), an independent state of South 

 America, extending from the twenty-second 

 to the forty-first parallel of south latitude, 

 and from 53 to 71 17' west longitude. It is 

 bounded on the north by Bolivia; on the east 

 by Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, and the Atlantic ; 

 on the south by the Atlantic Ocean and Pata- 

 gonia, from which latter it is separated by the 

 Rio Negro ; and on the west by the Cordillera 

 of the Andes, which forms the dividing line be- 

 tween the Argentine and Chilian Republics. 

 The Argentines dispute with Chili the right 

 to the territory south of the Rio Negro as far 

 as Tierra del Fuego, according to the original 

 division by Spain ; and Bolivia urges its claim 

 to that part of the Gran Chaco bounded by the 

 rivers Bermejo and Paraguay. The republic 

 is divided into fourteen provinces, which, with 



