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. » . " Hk looks as if he couldn't help it , " is the charitable reflection suggested by Lord John Russell ' s position in the ecclesiastical tumult . So wretched is his fate that he is obliged to continue boring Parliament with the attempt to make a measure on the very floor of the House—to make a measure of coercion so small and insignificant that it shall avoid every sort of resistance—courting a perpetual obstruction which amounts to insult—busy
about his dangerous toy , unconscious of the real movements going on without . It must be a very young child not to be ashamed of playing at soldiers on the ground of a great review ; yet Lord John , by no means a very young Minister , is not ashamed to play at Church-militant soldiering while a real conflict is going on around . He has now sunk so low as to plead that his bill would only affect new titles , leaving untouched the long-standing Irish assumption of episcopal titles ; thus ,
after all , it does not extend to Ireland . The Ministerial conduct of the measure has been , from first to last , a simultaneous process of bluster and flinching ; that which was intended for a measure of coercion is becoming simply a measure of exasperation . The Pope , who was to be repelled , has taken once more an advanced position , and ratifies the Thurlea decree against the " godless colleges /' Meanwhile , we see Cardinal Wiseman laying the foundation-8 tone of a new Roman Catholic church .
The present aspect of the agitation within the Church of England assumes a more menacing character . The impracticable Bishop Phillpotts forms the centre round which two parties are combating . Forty-four clergymen of his diocese object to the synod which he intends to hold , as powerless in law ; as " calculated to produce great evil and mischief , even to the disruption of the Church ; and as designedly intended as independent in itself , standing out in unbecoming and injurious , if not schismatical , opposition to the Archbishop of the province . " Meanwhile , the Chester and Manchester Church Union records its
heartfelt gratitude to the Bishop of kxeter for defending the Catholic doctrine of baptismal regeneration , and for summoning a diocesan synod to meet in Exeter . And certain Church Reformera , going still further , propose a purification of the Church ; a stringent proceeding , which would inevitably squeeze a large portion of the clergy out of the orthodox Church . These movements have every appearance of being sincere . They indicate
an increabing zeal m each among the many parties of the (/ lunch , to plant its own standard of the " truth "; a movement as respectable as it is hazardous to the stability of the Church . Such commotion should demand , in the Government , statesmen with power equal to the task of controuling , directing , and moderating : the Ministers I Town Edition , ]
that we have exemplify their capacity or their honesty by the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill . Meanwhile , we cannot help collecting more hope from the struggles towards religious unity than disappointment at their temporary failure . It can scarcely be said that our prelates , especially of late years , have been trained in a faith at once sufficiently humble and exalted to march with ease upon the elevated level of unity : it followed from the necessity of the case that the prayer composed by the Archbishop of Canterbury should be far
inferior to the anticipatory suggestion of Prince Albert The Bishop of London , by the un-official method of a letter to Lord Cholmondeley , offered places of worship to foreign Protestant divines , though he was not able to offer either the parochial churches , or the aid of the established clergy , being restricted from that act of divine fellowship by the dogmatic technicalities of his Church . The Pasteur Monod , in an admirable letter , has respectfully declined an offer thus reserved ; and has cordially
acknowledged the motive : — " We render full homage , " he writes , "to your fraternal sentiments and your charitable intentions . You have done all that you could do ; we thank you for it , and we shall remember it with gratitude ; but we complain of the law by which you are fettered , of the ecclesiastical system which prevents you from acting according to your heartfelt wishes . " Thus , then , is the wish on both sides mutually recognised ; and , if barriers exist , they will not long prevail against the continuance of such a wish .
It is not agreeable to turn from this subject to the Criminal debates in the House of Commons—Mr . Baillie ' s repeated accusation against Lord Torrington for resorting to a needless , illegal , and nanguinary use of martial law in Ceylon . He is accused of obstinately insisting on the death of a man whose guilt had not been established ; his chosen officer , Colonel Drought , had called upon courts-martial for " an example , " complaining because they had not condemned somebody ! The name Colonel suggests various informalities at the
courtsmartial ; the suggestion was made in letters addressed to " dear Watson "—the Captain who so resolutely denied his own signature to proclamations threatening death for trivial offences . The question has been protracted for three years ; Ministers evading , but not refuting , the charge . Minis tera obtained " a majority" ; but they incurred the terrible speeches of Gladstone and'lhesiger : they underwent the more terrible speeches , on their own Bule , of Ilawen and Cockburn .
Ihe Peace party have had other matter for reflection this week . For instance , the sight of Colt ' s revolver—the celebrated weapon which rolls six pistols into one — suggests to the Times the use of mich an arm in bringing the Cape war to a clone . The moral of this is remarkable . Sir Harry Smith , Governor of the Cape , forces the Kufira , a { msto ral race , into surrendering their lands ; imited in their range of pasture , they have visita-| |
tions of hunger ; they encroach upon their own alienated lands ; Sir Harry presumes divers treacherous projects in their chiefs ; he institutes a war for their presumed treachery and their non-adherence to his concession to himself of their lands ; the Cape declines the invitation to pay for that war , and England , deceived by names , supposes that the war at the Cape is a war that interests the Cape ; and so the Times , anxious to end a bad joke and turn the subject , hits upon the notion of establish * ing peace by means of Colt ' s revolvers ! By shooting the Kafirs six times as fast as before , they will be brought to acknowledge the justice of Sir Harry Smith ' s volunteered act for the conveyance of Kafir estates to English occupants .
No small attention has been attracted by Mr . Cobden ' s speech at the meeting of the Financial Reform Association , not only because he is a very important recruit in the speaking corps of that body , but also because he intimated a belief that , if Lord John Russell were pressed enough , his measure of Reform , promised for next session , might be worth accepting . Did Mr . Cobden ever see an eagle hatched from a wren ' s egg ?
While the policy and the duty of the Republican party in France become more simple every day , the position of their antagonists as fast becomes more complicated . The revision party have split into two sections . Montalembert has gone over to the club of the Rue des Pyramides with his maxim , " II n ' y a de legitime que le possible . " He has parted with his friends upon the question whether the revision demanded shall be simple or total—" simple " meaning revision for the benefit of the Bonapartists ; " total" meaning abolition of the Republic . Of course Montalembert is not a
Bonapartist ; he is only using the Bonapartists for his own ulterior purposes of restoring Legitimacy when Legitimacy shall have become possible . Another important fact is , that the Ministry have nailed their colours to the law of the 31 st of May ; they hope to make that the basis for the election of the constituent ; and by that they will Htund or fall . Besides which , M . Berryer , M . Thiers , and M . Odilon Barrot have each declared—and no far as their word is worth anything it in noticeable—that they will not countenance any departure from legality in the revision of the Constitution . heavil
The Htorm , in the meantime , looms up y on the horizon . DebatcH grow hot in the Assembly . The causticity of de Girardin provoked a tremendous uproar and much painful gesticulation in the debate on the Morin-Moulin propositions Cavaignac has again declared that he will defend the Republic with hia sword and inn life , and the Republican press are fighting a deadly battle with the Royalist party . Amid these diHtractioiiH and puerile waste of time , the Republic serins to grow continually « trongcr . JKven the Dtbats double whether a . new Constituent could or would achieve its overthrow . The Dresden Conference * have failed , as th « y
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VOL . II . —No . 62 . SATURDAY , MAY-31 , 1851 Price 6 d .
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I "Thb one Idea -which History exmbits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea or I TTnmftTi-it . y- ~ t . hft noble endeavour to throw down all the banners erected bet-ween men by prejudice and one-sided I views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race I as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt's Cosmos .
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f News OF thb Week— -Page The Fatal Railway Smash . —Inquest 507 Coffee and Tea .... 514 Boaco ' s Egyptian Magic 519 l Parliament of the Week 502 Personal News and Gossip 508 Kingsley's Lectures 514 Vivian to his Correspondents 519 Dinner at the Freemason ' s Hall .... 503 The Colonizing- Bailways of North AndYet ! 515 The Aqua d'Oro 519 i ~ The Church Militant 503 America .... 509 Vanderdecken 515 Progress of the People—Continental Notes 504 Miscellaneous 511 81 oe Philosophy Wanted 515 The " Chartist Programmists" 519 ¦ The Reign of" Order" in Rome . .. 505 Public Affairs— Colonizing Railways 515 Open Council—; National Reform Association 505 God Save the Queen 512 Literature— Sunday in London 520 Advocacy of National Secular Edu- How shall the Working- Classes go Martineau ' s History of 1800-1815 .. 515 Answer to Querist 520 cation 506 to the Exhibition ? 512 Realities 517 Interpretation 520 Church of England Self-Supporting National Unity 513 Mrs . Anderson ' * School ..... 518 8 ir £ . Sugden and the Chancery Village Society 506 Failures of the Universal Suffragists 513 Thb AaTS— Eeform Association 520 Serious Riot at Tarn worth 506 The Progress of Assurance 513 Lucrezia Borgia 518 Commercial Affairs—The International Exhibition 507 The Rome of the Sbirri 514 Fidelio at Covent Garden ; 518 Market 3 , Gazettes , &c 521-4
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Leader (1850-1860), May 31, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1885/page/1/
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