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Protection Meetings. This Has Been A Bus...
and that we are prepared , come what will , and cost what it may , at the hour of our country ' s peril , for our homes , our wives , and our families , to take those terrible steps which are the most frightful for a good and loyal man to imagine , but which necessity and unjust treatment hurries us on and brings us to the contemplation of . —{ Cries of " Bravo , Hall , " and vehement plaudits . ) Mr . Watson spoke for the farmers of Scotland . — " One subject alluded to that day roused his Scotch blood a little . The tenant-farmers were told that they had neither the moral nor the physical courage to stand up and insist upon their rights . If such men as the Apostle of Peace ' and his satellites choose to insult us , the men of England , the men of Scotland , and the men of Ireland , then say I to them— ' Come on , Macduff ,
And damned be he who first cries—Hold , enough !'" ( Vociferous cheering . ) Professor Aytoun , of Edinburgh , indulged in the same strain . He believed that " the yeomanry and the tenantry in both countries are united in their determination to have the infamous measures which are over-riding us all repealed : and when the red cross of St . George and the silver cross of St . Andrew are blended indissolubly together , I fear no Cobdens—I fear no opposing force . { Loud and long-continued cheers . ) I despise their threats , as I know that their hearts are cowardly ; and I tell them that their insolent challenge has been taken up , in a manner which they fear to answer , by the true men and the valiant spirits of Britain ; and in the justice of the cause we repose our faith in its issues . { Loud and longcontinued cheering . )
Mr . William Caldecott , of Triton-lodge , near Colchester , would not petition the House of Commons ; " but if we are to have no Protection , let us go thousands in a body to insist upon equality of burrlens . We have the power in our own hands . If they will not listen to the voice of reason—if constitutional means will not avail , band yourselves together in a league for withholding the taxes , the tithes , and the poor-rates—{ immense cheering )—until the Government do listen to your complaints . " broad hint to
Mr . J . Allnutt , of Wallingford , gave a the landlords . " The continuance of the present system will ruin the landed interest of the country . We shall go first , but noble Lords and the aristocracy of England will be the next to follow . We have lived long enough to find out that the expression of ' rowing in the same boat' has meant nothing . We have rowed in the same boat , but they pullod one way while we pulled another—{ Cheers . ) We come forward not only in defence of our own rights , but the rights of our landlords . I believe their eyes will yet be opened , and that , when united with the tenant-farmer , they will not only reestablish his rights , but preserve the throne and prevent the establishment of a Republican form of Government in this country . "
The meeting was also addressed , in support of a series of seven resolutions , defending Protection , and protesting against that " miscalled system of free-trade , " by Sir Matthew Ridley White Ridley , the Earl of Eglintoun , Lord John Manners , and others ; but the most remarkable portions of the proceedings are given in the passages we have cited . Mr . II . Higgins , of Hereford , advised the Ministers to take warning from that , the most extraordinary meeting ever held in England . { Cheers . ) I call on the Government ( said the speaker , suiting his action with outstretched arms to the concluding words of the sentence ) , and I tell them to redress our wrongs ; and , unless they
do so , we are prepared to exercise the strength we still retain in our arms . { Loud cheers . ) If thoy won't be led by argument and by rational means—if they won ' t listen to the voice of reason , and to facts and figures which show the impossibility of farmers continuing under this system — if they won ' t alter their system by moral force—then we will fight for it . ( Tremendous applause , the whole meeting standing up and cheering vigorously . ) The Duke of Richmond said , he was not made of that stuff which permitted him to go about with the wind , flattering rvrvy popular demagogue . { Loud cheers . ) And he hud oi . c Ki . glish quality in him—that he would not he bullied . { Continued cheering . ) He would not
suffer a knot of cotton-spinners in Manchester to dictate to the whole empire—he would not consent to lose the colonies of Great Britain—he would not sit by and see men trying to ruin the shipping interest , and to force into emigration those honest and industrious mechanics who , by their skill , energy , and good conduct , had , up to the time of the repeal of the Navigation Laws , bee / i able to obtain a fair day's wages for a fair day ' s work . { Cheers ) Nor would ho consent to leave the honour and glory of this great country depending upon Mr . Cobden and Mr . Bright .. (/ . owl cheers . ) Thanks wore voted to the Chairman ( the Duke of Richmond ) amidst the most vehement demonstrations of enthusiasm .
A large mooting of Protectionists took place at Ipswich on Saturday . The chief speakers were Major Ueresford and Mr . George Frederick Young . In the course ; of a long harangue , on the need of protection to save the nation from ruin , the latter paid it was folly to look for relief from the present distress by any measure of financial reform . The very utmost reduction which Mr . Cobden could promise in the national expenditure was £ 10 , 000 , 000 , ¦ whereas the loss to the farmers from tho abolition of the Coin Law was said to be COO , 000 , 000 u year . He denounced competition—" the offspring of free trade" —as lying at the root of all our social evils ; the manufacturing system is rotten to the core , so that no lover of his kind would give any encouragement to it ; and we have now arrived at a crisis in ¦ which we must cither give uj > free trade or give up
on the subject of a Woollen League for the professed purpose of ruining the cotton trade . He enlarged upon the necessity of taking immediate steps to put down the men of Manchester . There is no time to lose ; " wait twelve months longer and we ^ shall have Protection restored or the country ruined . " After a long denunciation of American slavery and the cotton trade he went on to ask why it is that slavery exists in the United States , and then answered his own ,
humanity . Major Beresford eulogized , the Parliamentary tactics of Mr . Disraeli , and endeavoured to convince the farmers that the only way in which they can restore protection is by turning out every one of their representatives who does not vote in favour of it . A numerous meeting of landowners , farmers , and others was held at Malton , in Yorkshire , on Saturday afternoonto hear Mr . Ferrand explain his views
question : — " Because England wills it—because you encourage it—because you are the madmen to spend your money in buying slave-grown cotton in America , instead of growing wool in your native land . It is horrible , it is damnable , and the judgment of God is upon us . { Aoplause . ) It is to rescue England from that infamy , that shame , and that disgrace that I call upon the people of England , and the farmers of the Malton polling district , to join the Farmers' Wool League . { Applause . ) Oh , it will be a happy day for England when she can generously stand up and exclaim , ' No slave-grown cotton is permitted within these our realms ; thank God , from slavery our hands are clean . ' { Cheers . ) ' *
It is our dependence upon the United States for cotton which makes us tamely submit to all sorts of indignities from the American Government . Look , for example , at the way in which a sailor on board an English ship was treated by the authorities of Charleston a few weeks ago . On the ground of his being a man of colour he was dragged from the ship , put in gaol , and kept there for two months . What would Pitt , the immortal Pitt , have said had he been alive ? He would have ordered our fleet to sail to Charleston instantly with orders to level it to the ground , unless instant redress were given . But Lord Palmerston thought there would be no advantage in pressing the matter . Never was there anything more disgraceful , more humbling on the part of our Government : —
" It appears now , so far as the Government is concerned , that the protection of the British flag is to be left to British merchant seamen , and as I am a living man , if I were the captain of a merchant ship , and the authorities of Charleston came on board my vessel and tore one of my crew away , I would thrust a red-hot iron into a barrel of gunpowder and blow them to the devil and myself to glory . { Laughter and cheers ) . " He concluded by moving a resolution in favour of joining the Wool League , which was carried unanimously .
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CLERICAL AGITATIONS . Tho ' Morning Chronicle of Wednesday , enlarges upon the extent to which tho clerical agitation has lately gone , no less than 1500 clergyman having expressed a desire that something should be done to set the minds of men at rest on the points at issue , and the journalist affirms that the late meetings of the bishops have not been without a result . After several days spent in anxious consultation at Lambeth , the fruit of their deliberations is the bill laid by the Bishop of London on the table of House of Lords , on Monday , of which we take the following outline from our contemporary : —
" The bill proposes that the jurisdiction of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council shall remain as heretofore , but that as often as it shall bo necessary to determine any question of doctrine of the Church of England , such question shall be referred , in the form of a special case , to the whole Episcopate , to be convoked for that purpose by the Archbishop of Canterbury—the opinion of the majority , when duly certified in writing to the Council , to be binding upon the latter , and to be specially reported to Queen . Much , of course , must depend upon the details of the measure . For instance , we must be sure beforehand that such references , when they occur ( which , judging from the experience of
past times , will very rai * ely happen ) , will not be settled by an opinion drawn up after an hour ' s conversation in the dining-room at Lambeth , but upon solemn argument and grave consideration . Care must be taken to surround the proceedings with such formalities as may impress upon the minds of the episcopal judges a due sense of their responsibility , not to the Privy Council , as advisers or assessors , but , as judicial expounders of doctrine , to the Church . Precautions of this kind , we believe , are not wanting in
the present bill . It is proposed that the bishops shall sit as a court , that due notice of the time and place of hitting shall be given to the parties , who shall be entitled to be heard , either personally or by counsel , and that the prelates present , and concurring in the opinion , shall subscribe the same with their own hands . Assuming that the points to which we have referred will be sufficiently provided for , we have no hesitation in recommending churchmen to give their support to a measure which , if not all that could be desired , promises at least to relieve thorn from the substantial grievance of their
actual position . ' Tho Morning Herald attempts to deny that the meetings at Lambeth hayc produced any thing . Tho
great object of those who promoted the meetings , it affirms , was " To obtain from the assembled prelates a declaration or manifesto touching ' the doctrine of the church on holy baptism , ' as a set-off to the late judgment of the judicial committee . * * * Common rumour reports that a good proportion of the prelates adopted the very rational resolve to be parties to nothing which had not first the approval of the two Primates . This obviously quashed the whole plan , and it is , accordingly , we understand , altogether relinquished . "
In a letter to the rector of St . Philip ' s , Birmingham dated May 1 , which that gentleman has transmitted to the Birmingham Gazette for publication , the Bishop of Worcester alludes to these meetings : he says , " Bishops have already held three meetings , which have been very numerously attended , and they are to meet again on Monday next , when probably some final results may be determined . We find the following statement in the Oxford Herald of Saturday last , furnished by its London correspondent : the comment is such as pertains to the party which the Herald represents : —
" There are strange rumours afloat again as to the interference of Prince Albert with the education of the Prince of Wales , in whose education , as heir apparent to the Throne , the nation must naturally take a deep concern . * * * The report is , that the Prince Consort has objected to his son being taught the Church Catechism . It is also said that his Royal Highness ' s tutor has declined being a party to such a dereliction of duty , and that he has , therefore , either resigned his responsible office , or intimated a wish to be relieved from it as soon as another arrangement can be made . I do not vouch for the correctness of these unpleasant reports in all respects ; but they are very current , and there is too
much reason to believe that they have some foundation in fact . Now , we cannot help Prince Albert holding opinions at variance with the Church Catechism , however we may deplore it . The German Rationalism and Mysticism are so prevalent in the university where the Prince received his education , that it is not , perhaps , much to be wondered at that his Royal Highness should be tainted with their baneful principles ; and there is much in the Prince ' s conduct , as respects religion and the Church , which gives countenance to this idea . But it is most unwarrantable to apply that or any other freethinking system to the education of the Prince of Wales , who stands in a relation to the Church which will admit
of no such tampering with the faith to be inculcated upon him . At his Royal Hignness ' s baptism it was enjoined that he should be instructed in the Church Catechism . And the Catechism is set forth in the Prayer Book—which has the force of law—as ' an instruction to be learned of every person before he can be brought to be confirmed by the Bishop . ' Princes are no exception to this rule of the Church . It is deemed necessary to the attainment of an acquaintance with our holy religion , to which there is no royal road . And if
the heir apparent to the throne is to be trained up as he ought to be , a right-minded , sincere , and dutiful son of the Church—the Church of which he will one day be the supreme governor—it is most essential that he be early and carefully taught the Church Catechism . In common consistency it must be so . There cannot , one would think , be two opinions on the subject , among such , at least , as look upon the Church as a solemn reality , and its requirements as things which are not to be trifled with .
" Coupling the circumstance just referred to with the subject of another report that has been current the last week or two , to the effect that the use of the Athanasian Creed has been prohibited at the Queen ' s Chapel , it has a very bad appearance ; and no wonder that it should be causing much uneasiness among those who are anxious about the religious interests of one who will at some period—not , perhaps , very many years hence—be called to the Throne , and invested with superior authority both in Church and State . The report has been put in print by at least one London journal , in order that it might be contradicted if untrue , that the Athanasian Creed was forbidden to be used in her Majesty ' s private
chapel ; and , as no contradiction has been given to it , the presumption is that it is only too true . And this is one of the evils attending the seclusion of the Royal Family from all public participation in the services and the teaching of the Church . They are never seen at jmblic worshi p now « a-days . The private chapel which they attend is quite confined to the inmates of the palace—the domestic circle—a limitation which only affords too great facility for the indulgence of private predilections and prejudices , without regard to the teaching of the Church herself , as conveyed in her own ordinances . Altogether , the subject is one of great anxiety and disquiet among serious people . "
It was expected that Lord Chief Justice Wilde and Justice Talfourd would have given judgment in the Court of Common Pleas on Wedlesriay , in the case of Gorham versus the Bishop of Exeter , but at the sitting of the Court , the Lord Chief Justice said that , though very desirous to dispose o . f the Bishop ' s application for a prohibition to stay the proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Court , in the present term , the Court was unable to do so , from the necessity of obtaining information essential to the duo consideration of the question .
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The Reverend Gilbert Elliot has been appointed to the Deanery of Bristol , not , however , says the Examiner , because of his relationship to Lord John
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Leader (1850-1860), May 11, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11051850/page/4/
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