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CHARTISM IN THE PULPIT . . It is not a new thing to find Chartism in the pulpit . Several of the most popular preachers of the Scotch Presbyterian Church have been its avowed advocates and zealous supporters ; and at one titfte "Chartist Christian Churches" were pBttjr generally spread over the country ,. though , as the preachers in them were not duly , ordained , " we question whether we can-legitimately in * elude ' them in the list of « forthodox" defenders . It has been . reHervedy . 'howevei . 'fov the present year to present ; us ' jyitV Clergy . men of the aristocratic ana ' wealthy Established Church of England : irHhecharacter
or Chartist preachers , atid ^ burbhes BurmO A ^ t- h 7 } f ty Bpires dufecroefceted " and "fimaled , " converted into Chartist meeting houses . Our readera have heard of an oldfashonedtune . with the rat ^ r hdmely if not irreverent , but highly s ^ geltive title of lheJ > evil among the Tail 6 ii 3 > ' It would seem that such an apparition could . scarcely exdte more commotion , and tfiamay ^ than Chartism among the Parsons . For some time past a sg ries 6 f eermons under the general . title of th « Mam *™
ua Uhurch'' havebeen delivered in the district Church of St . Joh Di , Charlotte-street , Fitzroy-square , of which the Rev . ft J . Drew 18 the incumbent ; arid the - 'JEtev . T . Dale , Canon of St . Pauls ,. and Vicar of St . Pancras , the patron . These ' . '' Messages " have been delivered by varioug -Clergymen , each " message" todifferent classes of society ! Many of the preachers are inett of high profesBional eminence , great learning , profound research , most . examplary , 1 ^* | n | - d i 8 tin . guished ability . - The series pf " messages " was , we believe ,, commenced by Professor Maurice , « f King ' s Col % Home time ago , and last S \ mday ; evening was continued bv
the Rev . C . HAR 1 ES : KiifosiEr , Rector of Erersleigb , tfants , and panop ! #£ Middl * - ham—better Irtiown as $ \ $ iauthor Vf Alton Locke , Yetist « r , P ^ A / em ^ ad ^ - btKw jworks , which haveattrafljed great and gejaeral atten-. tioa . from the beW and . fearlefis manner- in which they , deal witJi we fundsmentftl and im-
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portant questions of the age , as well as the remarkable talent and literary ability of the author . Mr . Kingsley undertook to deliver the " message" of the Church to the " labouring classes . " According to the brief statement of some " penny-a-liner" in the morning journals , his " message" must have been sufficiently startling to " ears polite . " "He
dwelt , " says the reporter / " most emphatically upon the wrongs and miseries of the poorer classes , attributing their vices to their poverty and ignorance , and those again to the injustice they suffered at the . hands of the rich ; while to the latter he assigned , by direct implication , the responsibility of all the social evil that prevailed to so lamentable an extent . "
From another quarter we learn that " the rev . gentleman" took for the subject of his discourse the 16 th chapter of St . Lukes Gospel ; and the burden of the lessons he extracted thence were " Liberty , Equality , and Brotherhood . " Hear the sequel as described by the same narrator : — Ere , however , Mr . Kingsley had time to proceed so far [ as to pvonounce the blessing ] , Mr . Drew , the incumbent , hastily and eagerly pvocecded from the communion tible to the reading desk , and theve lifted up his hands to arrest any benediction from tha lecturer . Nor was he content
with this ; but , addressing the congregation , told them that , as their minister , he was bound to warn them thu gospel had not been preached in the discourse just delivered ; that lie protested against the sentiments that had been uttered in his pulpit ; and warned them to dismiss the instruction and Chartism they had heard from their minds ; and then , the two regularly ordained clergymen having taken a defiant look at each other , one down from tliepulpit the other up from the reading desk , the congregation were , in disgust and amazement , sent away to their homes ; there to digest what they had heard of the Voice of the Chucch to the Labouriug Classes . '
The "disgust and amazement " -is a slight rhetorical exaggeration of the writer who , by a not unnatural mental transformation , attributes to other people his own sensations . The ultimate result of this new phase of church politics remains to be seen . In the meantime , the two " Liberal" daily papers have opened upon Mr . Kingsley and his friends a battery of abuse and Billingsgate which could scarcely have been exceeded had they broken every article of the Decalogue . These intrepid clergymen have ventured to oppose the economical dogmas of the one , and the decided theological leanings of the other ; and hence the editorial wrath of both has overflowed with unusual bitterness and
acrimony . The Daily News stigmatises the " Christian Socialism " of Mr . Kingsley as " revolutionary nonsense , " and condemns , in toto , the " vague , misty , absurd , and mischievous principles and schemes of Communism which he aud Mr . Maurice , and their weak and silly followers , affect to discover in revelation , and apply to existing society . " This , our readers will perceive , is mere intemperate abuse—the hoarse and passionate screaming of an excited fifih-fag , who knows that Billingsgate is the only weapon she can use . We should like the Daily Neios to drop its vituperation , and prove that the texts of Scripture cited b y Mr . Maurice and his friends , and the doctrines deduced from tnem are cither
" vague , misty , absurd , or mischievous , " It ought to do that before condemning those who have come to a conscientious conviction of their truth as either " weak or silly , " Hard words fortunately break no bones . The virulent denunciations of the organ o ! that system of which Moses and Co . are the most illustrious examples , will not prevent calm and impartial persons from inquiring for themselves what amount of truth there may be in the opinions of men of learning , research , and independence , upon such subjects . The Morning Advertiser takes the theological , more than the political or the economical view of the subject . Here are its lamentations over the " scene" of Sunday last .
The pulpit in question is not the only one in the metro , polis in which strange and anti . Christian doctrines are taught . The Neology of Germany , which is but another name for a modified Deism , has , we fear , its reverend ad . vocatt in more churches than one . Tie Socialism o , ' Robert Owen , or something very like it , is preached , as opportunity ofl ' urs , by several clergymen within the limits of London . The reverend author of Alton Locke , enters heart and soul into the democratic department of elerien ] inculcutions . If report speaks correctly , this Rev . Gentlcman ' 8 sermon last Sunday evening , in the place of worship already referred to , would have done the heart of Feartfiis O'Connorgood . It may , indeed , be doubted
whether the member fur Nottingham could have enforced the doctrines of Chartism with greater effect , had he himself occupied the pulpit . The only creed which seems not to be inculcated from the pulpit , is that of positive Atheism . But if we have no avowed preacher of the principles which constitute that terrific creed , in tho pulpits of the land , we have clerical ineulcators of something very much resembling Atheism through the medium of the press . It is no secret that , some time ago , a weekly newspaper wns started , in London , by a reverend gentleman , still , we believe , a recognised clergyman of the Church of England , whose principal feature has been , ever since its commencement the Atheistical character of it * articles .
This mode of insinuating slander , and whispering away character by inuendo , is , unfortunately , too common in such controversies . The rule seems to be " throw mud enough ; some of it is sure to stick . " Here we find Atheiam spoken of in connection with Socialism and Chartism ;— with Robert Owen andFEARGUs O'Connor ; as if Atheism , though prudently kept in th « back ground , was an essential portion or an inseparable adjunct of both . We really wish the " pious" people who so recklessly indulge in these , aspersions , would remember the commandment which forbids them to " bear false witness against their neighbours . "
Equally unfounded , and perhaps more malicious , is the allusion to the Leader , the " weekly newspaper " indicated in the extract . > It may not be " orthodox " in the estimation of the Morning Advertiser , but it is as certainly not " atheistical . " On the contrary , we should say a profound feeling of genuine religious philosophy pervades its columns far more elevated in its aspirations and universal
m its character than the narrow and stultifying dogmas which hed ge the mere sectarian within the petty boundaries of the conventicle or the "denomination . " It is indeed an honour to British democracy to be so ably , so moderatel y represented as it has been b y " that journal , many of the writers in which may as respects mere artistic finish and practised efficiency , take rank with the first journalists in the metropolis .
How do y ou imagine these two " Liberal' ' papers purpose to deal with this new phase of popular opinion ? They have distinguished themselves during the whole of the Anti-Papal agitation by their incessant and determined opposition to the so called . "Papal Aggression . " But what is it in effect which ' constitutes the real danger of Popery ? Is it not the prostration . of the understanding which it demands from mankind ? Uniformity of belief , blind , unreasoning , implicit submission to the voice of the Church , " as declared bythe is the
priest , " very essence of Eoman Cathohcism . It is by means of that mental despotism , that the Papal Church everywhere , when it obtains power , tramples down all social , political , intellectual , and domestic ? liberty , and converts society into a mental and moraldesert . Yet the two " Liberal Morning Journals . " find fault with the Bishop of London , because he does not act the part of Pope in his diocese , arid compel all the parsons under his spiritual jurisdiction to think and preach exactly as he may dictate . Had Charles JAMES been more of an ecclesiastical tvrant .
theseperplexing varietiesof opinion would never have been allowed in " our Isreal . " But let us ask , would that have been a better sign of health , soundness , and vigour in the Church or more beneficial to society in the largest sense ? It may be annoying to " good easy souls , " who don ' t want their quiet disturbed to find "in one Church Romanism taught in another Presbyterianism , and that to crown the . whokv and to make confusion worse con ^ founded , Chartism should at last raise its ™ . !?' » - JP dpfc " : It may be a frightful alleged by . ^ Advertiser , « permit p 2 ry Somlism , and-Chartism , or something ^ nmch ^ mbling- it ,- ( wbich ^ f $ * £ * % the " it ? ' ) tobe . By ^ maticaUvino ttJcat ^ in
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our metropolitan pulpits ; " but would it not be far worse to have that "Right Rev . Father in Gob ' ' laying down the law on all public questions ? dictating to the clergy , and through them to the people , what they should believe , think , and say onmatterBof universal importance ? We fear our contemporaries have yet to acquire a full comprehension of the nature and scope of the great fundamental principle of Protestantism— " The right of private judgment , " and of a not less important axiom of political science , that all opinion ought to be free , and only controverted by argument . Every appeal to force—every attempt to put down opinion b y coercion , is an infraction of those principles , by which alone truth can be elicited and established , and nations
maintained in that state of healthy , intellectual activity which is essential to their progress . If "Chartism" and "Christian Socialism ' * be so misty , absurd , and mischievous , as they are described , they will all the more easily be put down by argument . It is far better that their absurdity should be brought out in tho full blaze of day , and exposed before the world , than that they should ferment in darkness , and lead astray the ignorant and the partially informed . All we ask for both is ,
that they shall have as good an opportunity of being heard as the antagonist creeds , and political doctrines . If they are really erroneous and absurd , they will be easily scattered to the wjnds . If not , may wo not draw the practical inference that false principles of action , both political and religious , and a system of society based upon these falsehoods , which plunders and oppresses the many for the benefit of the few , can onl y be upheld by a monopoly of legislative power on the one hand , and of the pulpits on the other ?
We will hack " Chartism " and " Chrisdan Socialism'' any day against class legislation and competitive chicanery , on " a fair stage and no favour . ' '
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A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS . Ever since the time Robert Clive forsook the pen for the sword , and exchanged the ledger for the war chest , our career in India has been one of ceaseless aggression , plunder , and oppression . No sooner has one province or kingdom fallen under our rule , than another is found to be in that condition which affords a pretext for our seizing it also . The " political agents " of tho " Hon . Company " understand the art of cooking up a kingdom to be devoured in dne rotation , as nicely as the gardeners at Frogmore do , the growing of cherries for the royal table , months before one can ripen in the open air : as fast as one " house'' is disposed of , another is ready .
It might be thought , however , that on the principle of " honour among thieves " the Company would not endeavour to cheat its auxiliary confederates in this vast scheme of plunder and confiscation . A recent case , to which attention has been directed this week in Parliament , shows that our Indian Government is not troubled by any such nice scruples . Excess of apetite doth grow by what it feeds on ; aud after having plundered princes wholesale , and appropriated immense territories by force of arms , they turn round and attempt to cheat the man who fed their armies whilst engaged in these monster mar * rauding excursions .
It is worth while giving the facts , as an illustration of British Justice in India . Every body knows that one of the most important things to an army is a wellsupplied commissariat , and it is , therefore , a matterof primary necessity to secure a responsible and regular service of that department in time of active warfare . It appears that one Jotee Persaud , a wealthy native Banker , of the Upper Provinces , contracted to perform this service during the period of our Afghanistan invasion , which ended so fatally for the invaders , so gloriously for the brave people who
defended their native land . The undertaking was one requiring such an extensive and widely ramified organisation as well as such enormous means , that perhaps not another individual in India could have been found to carry it out ; and , from the great surface over which the operations were spread , and the number of persons , both native and European , who had to be entrusted with the duties involved , it is not to be wondered at that his accounts , at the close of the war , were not quite as clear as that of a London banking house . He claimed , however , a balance of half a million
sterling , which was disputed , and years of delay and evasion ensued . In the midst of the controversy on this disputed account , the War in the Pun jaub broke out , aud the Indian Government were again driven to rely on Jotee Persaud' s wealth , resources , and organisation . They applied to him to feed their armies in the region of the Five Rivers , as he had formerly done in the mountainous district of Afghanistan . The wealthy Hindoo
refused—he had had enough of them . This refusal might have led to the downfal of our power in the whole of India ; and , accordingly , every effort was made to overcome his reluctance . He did at length assent , on two con - ditions : that bis past arrears should be promptly settled on the conclusion of the new war , and that a title of honour , by way of compensation for past mortifications , should be conferred upon him , upon due performance of the new contract .
These conditions were acceded to . Jotee honourabl y performed his part of the contract , and then demanded fulfilment from the Indian Government . Did they comply ? No such thing . " When the devil was sick , the devil a saint would be ; ; When the devil got well , ihe devil a saint was he . " As long as they were in dangerand needed
, Jotee s assistance , they had ~ no objection to promise him anything when , by his aid , they once more found themselves in safety , and in possession of an immensely-increased territory , they repudiated their engagements . His old balances were not discharged—his new accounts were scrutinised in the spirit of pettifoggers—his title was refused , and his character aspersed .
Failing to find redress in the courts where his opponents had all their own way , the Hindoo contractor wended his way to Calcutta , with the view of bringing the subject before the Queen ' B Courts in that city , where he had at least a chance of a fair hearing . The response to this action at law for recovery of the debts he claimed to be due to him was extraordinary . A counter action of a criminal nature was brought against him in the Company ' s own court at Agra . He was charged with swindling and perjury or subornation of perjury . Various accessory vexations
were perpetrated . The civil cause was refused precedence . He was arrested on some trifling pretext connected with bail , and carried off to Agra , and there placed on his trial before a judge , jury , and proSecutor , all of whom were nominated by a Government which was undoubtedl y in his debt , to an enormous amount , and which sought to make nun a felon , in order to escape their justliabihties . The trial came on . The native witnesses against him who , it is well known , can be suborned to give false evidence at a very tow figure , broke down . The British officers brought b y the prosecution spoke in his favour .
f f-T- a tml of ' tyfijve days , in the course ot which he had the rare services of an independent counsel , he was acquitted amidst every demonstration of popular respect . An acquittal in the face of euch an array of power , and in connexion with the notoriousl y corrupt and . pattiBanl ' cbaracter ' . of the Indian Court * wa * a noveltys ;; Bat tbftt appears to have been owiug-to - Mother novt % ^ .: Jotee rjBBBATO was lucky enough' to faft a lawyer
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who had courage sufficienTtTf ^ sequences of doing what „ Vace O would do in England n . ^ 'W honestly to his cliLu ^ S ^( 1 > the authorities , and makKL ^ W capital" for himself . »" f % tern ; he denounced tho ?^ ttJ * nesses as " the CompanyW m * H $ tered perjurers ; » aJ ^ Jg ^ t of > jurors that they were tho X ^ to-1 secutor ; for all which ?**» of £ *
snubbedandrebukedfrom lleyT ! ^ J Tho Hindoos had never b 2 ? « r * ja nt authorities confronted u J ' « ' § full y appreciated it , and if 1 * " * av > and mpependent lawyers in &c I S yet be possible to attach the JJ ' * J E nfilI 8 ln-ule , byothein . iesC ;; ri < It is most desirable that theS , & a ? pendent character of EnriJt ^ JiJ ' be transplanted to India . tS ' ^ & illustration of tho natuw ofi ?^ proves . that if English refbrnV ^> ^ good faith tho jealousy of th ^* ^ ? be overcome . It pre ^ 2 l ^* J . ; excused for doubting tho f 3 ^ * € ) ment , which first importunes a L $% to enter into AHffnffomn » t . ... " b ?' onuJ" I
his claims for pa ? menr ; Xr ^ I esque of the spendthrift debtor ' ' A f ' ilic K I is a mistake in the bill . " ' ] iea ' % f j Truly if they form their ideas of Or ¦ " ' I honour , morality , justice , . 5 J ^ fe ! on this transaction-and itbeanvA 1 a sample of the sack-we cannot & l , 1 at the detestation with which 2 ^ H I garded by the natives of Hindost « , * i 1 the frcqnent . efforto thai are made to il ! ' ' '• I I our detested yoke . Nji ^
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| PARLIAMENTARY . j | At length the Anti-Papal Bill l , , , „ , 1 from the Committee , and has to J ., ^ V three more stages before it is sent ulT ^ ¦ IS Lords . " Three more stages ! '' Hov . !( | * 1 weeks of wearisome debate nviv , ' ^ I "WABrigad ^ ' Mf they are ao mU ? , ^ during these three stages ; m \ V- ^ i force of large majorities , the bill lcco , ; , J what then ? Why for all prnctic !> 1 it wil be useless . It is a mere hr , f ?* J and that of the most studiously ha ^ CT 1 racier . The Jew Bill—a still ml > I and long delayed Whig pr 0 d « ctS Si passed throug h Committee in the C ^ I Its opponents abstained from dividing I that stage , but uttered the ominous ^ 1 ««¦*» " "" other place "it will m J ? * gotten that tho soeond reading was , 1 ? I
onlytwentyjiveina houEo ^ fiburlgf members . The Lords will , in all vr ^ ' I once more shut the doors of Parliament 1 " gentlemen of the Hebrewpcrsua ^ I seeing the small interest taken W \ 2 I Rothschild and his advisors in tho * nX I it will perhaps serve them ri ght" v ' I ecclesiastical job was exposed on Tw " £ I morning in the shape of the Church B * I Acts Amendments Bill . It may « . ( $ j indicate its nature if we briefly state . ; l ; > - ! " i consideration of a certain amount of : «* ' modation to be given to the poor , the ml : I
ment made a grant to the Church ofo | million sterling . The management &i \ % grant , and other fund ? , was confided vim * % to the Clergy , and having through its fe ? . I mentality got up a good many new Cliuiti ' . , 1 they now come forward with that peculiar ?] I engaging modesty for which they m ^ i famous , and blandly ask leave to covi ' tisenn- . e j ' free seats , " when aud where tboy pie * , ] and charge pew rents for the benefit ofie i Incumbent . This is a species of Christ spoliation against which orthodox joimi , who shudder with horror at the name of Ca ,
niunigm and Red Republicanism , haso ej word to say . The robbery is coinmitKik . cording to rule , aud by an influent ! c ! i , therefore they are "dumb dogs . " Xotr standing the Government has lent m w the cleric al cormorants , it is quite polite this . time they may be disappointed oftk prey . There are a few members in tlitjfe who think the job is really " too hi ; ' '; i as Sir Geo . Gkey has the gigantic jol i nected with the supply of water to liic Itropolis on his hands at the samo tfc
perhaps one of them is as much as creni can attend to at once . In the owe of the same day , an edifying exposition : Manchester thrift was made in the Lt * House . It appears that , sonic years sg * , c magnates of that city thought bended we houses would be a great benefit to them , & procured leave from Government to k * them , on condition that they paid tl . e h 3 expense of collecting the rev t'iiue . This £ •' amounts to about £ 2 , 700 a year . Tko nufacturers of Manchester are , ho \ vc ? er , S JonN Gilhn ' s
wife" Although on pleasure [ profit ] they aiebtt' « They have a frugal mind ;" and hence they are trying to have all tf advantages of tho bonded warehouse wiifct any of the cost they undertook to defr > . The Manchester Financial School trit < Isaddle the country at largo with tlicdiarjt ' an establishment from which a certain pcis 1
only of the inhabitants derive any lei-f The House saw the dodge , awl rejecte d ^ application . A debate on the Savings Bs »" question ended unsatisfactorily , ai : d a Bi ^ placing the Scotch Universities on a $ liberal footing , as respects tests adniiniittf ' to professors , has been lost by only ok ? . ^ other business has been of a miscella ^"
character , the Civil Estimates having ft pied tho whole of Thursday with t ! ie is variety of topic and discursive discussion .
DOMESTIC . Under this head there is an almost ^ dearth of news . With the continued t : weather crowds from the country flu * ' ¦? London , and the Great Exhibition count . ' - ^ daily visitors at nearly 70 , 000 jiOi'EO W . £ the period approaches for the close of tkf : ' . hibition , an agitation for the purcbaSthe building , and its preservation fc'l j rious public purposes , begins to in * :, appearance . To effect this oliect »> '
of Parliament will be requisite , as w ^ f mission are bound to pull down the ^' fi Palace as soon as the goods are remo «^ less there bo counter legislation profit , that period . As there will be plenty cf * fj for the purpose , it is most likely that s ^ tion will be made to the Legislature , ^ the present temper of both houses , equal !) ' !' bablo that it will be readily granwd , ^ In the North-Western districts a j amount of destruction has been done by ^ —— v * r m «•« # * , v * HVV 1 VU JUUO 4 / Ul ^ i \ " * ] 'F
the most-terrific and violent hail storm ' '} companied by lightning , perhaps ever * ^ in this country . The accounts in tno ^ papers remind one more of the fon ^ yj ) vastating hurricanes to which tho West * ^ islands and the Tropics ¦ are subject : anything like our usual temperate dfo * j ^ The . Census for Great Britain sho » increase of 2 , 212 , 892 during the lart tP " j cl ? being at the rate of 12 : 10 per cent-, « , siderable diminution of the ratio ot' » tf ShOWn hv former iWnnninl rftturUB . *_ .. if ——»¦¦• %
—^ , » MVVVUU'H' mv— ^ i || O [ P berof houses has not increased i » J ratio as population , There are H j 3 , 276 , 975 houses inhabited in E » g f Wales . In 1841 there were 2 , 9 * 3 , - ^ increase is less by more than a h » Dlir sand than it ought to have ^" v ^* that a . larger proportion of the peopw ^ i in a worse condition now than the | e ji $ yearB ago , for there is no more ib »»» c / of a deteriorating population than ^ e , j / ing of largo numbers , of pe » JM under one . roof ; . Cheaper buil aiDg JJ cj cannot counteract tlie downward . » ^ our system in this respect . An ° tner
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 28, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1632/page/4/
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