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Parliamentary Lletllorsjauct. Whe Sessio...
most amongst which was the Savoy business . Here the Government made itsfirst false-move . At the outset Lord J . Rijsse ^ , in the month of January , made his preliminary assertion that the Emperor of the French did not intend to annex Savoy . In February , when again pressed on the . same subject ^ Lord , J . BussEii qualified his first statement by saying that France only contemplated annexation under certain remote contingencies and would first summon a Congress . A third declaration made by Lord J Russeil was to the effect that the annexation would not take place without the eonsent of the Great Powers of Europe . A fourth statement followed on this , that the annexation had taken place m defiance of repeated pledges to the contrary ; that confidence in the French Emperor had been shaken , and that nothing was left to England except the admission that she had been cajoled and defied , and to put forth a disregarded protest . Sir Charles Wood was also unlucky in his denials . Early in the session he asserted broadly that no intention existed to festablish a paper currenGy in India ; almost the next mail from Calcutta brought Mr . Wifcsox ' s verbose financial statement , one leading feature of which was the establishment or a Government bank of issue . The right honourable ^ gentleman will have toreconcile this apparent contradiction , and we will not anticipate his defence . The new Bills next come under notice . A few ot the most prominent can only receive brief indication . A Bill to extend the Protection of the Factory Act to overworked Women ^ and Children was introduced , and to the honour of Parliament an amendment dh-ected against it was defeated by 226 to « 39-. lne Criminal Appeal Bill , introduced by Mr . McMahon , was lost , owincr to its impractical character . The Church ltates Abolition Bill was carried by 264 against 23 L . The Adulteration of I ood Bill succeeded in passing through its first stage . The Bill to legalize Divine Services in Theatres and other . places was rejected fcy 161 to 131 . The Endowed Schools' Bill was lost by 190 to 120 . And last—certainly not least—was brought forward the longaelayed , long-promised New Refoem ; Bixl , quietly received by all , cordially welcomed by none . Of the mass of Bills of minor note , Which were introduced and forwarded a stage oc two , nothing . need b > said further than to remark that theyassist to swell indefinitely the amount of real public business which has ¦ distinguished this , important session . The special exertions which have devolved on ministers will be found to bear due ¦ proportion to the labours which more particularly appertained to individual members . We have already noticed the Reform Bill , itself of importance sufficient to demand almost a session for itself . In addition , Ministers have introduced the Army arid Navy Estimates , each of more than usual moment , owing to the exceptional times on which we appear to have fallen . Then the Budget and the French Treaty , with all the endless discussions , debates , and party contests to which they have already led , and which are not yet terminated . It is by these measures that the stability of the Government has been " tested , and on which it has won its triumphs . The first fair fight between the antagonistic parties , the " ins" and the " outs , " look place on the Budget . Mr . Disbaeu , as opposition chief , led his troops against the Government ; the amendment on going into Committee oa the Customs' Acts was the field selected for a real trial of strength . Government came off victorious by a majority of 293 to 230 . The second real assault , more skilful in design and better adapted to party warfare , was Mr , Du Cane ' s motion , on which . Government obtained a second triumph , the majority of the three nights' discussion being 339 to 223 . The third was an abortive failure incurred by Mr . Hobsmast , who retired utterly discomfited , the majority on his motion being 282 to 56 . Of course we have only given a bare sketch of the salient features of the doings and deeds in the House of Commons . The by-questions of the Churchward Contract , the Convention with America on the subject of the atrocities committed in American vessels , the Purchase of Commissions in the Army , need only bo named as serving to swell theamount of public business fairly dealt with and disposed of at this early period of the session , The Lords have not been behindhand in their labours . A Bill for the better regulation of Chancery proceedings was brought forward almost as soon as Parliament met . Then came a fire of questions and discussions on the Savoy annexation , not very much to the advantage of Government . After wards the address to Her Majesty pn the Treaty of Commerce with France wns debated , and carried by 68 to 38 ; and , lastly , the Ballot inotion was quashed by a majority of 39 over 16 , Upon the whole , the public , it will be seen , has no cause to complain of either the quantity or ^ quality of the business which has been brought forward this Session . Lord Palmebston has had a difiioujb post t <> hold . He ban kept pretty well in hand hitherto a somewhat heterogeneous ministerial team ; he lias hiid to curb the restive and to Jure back the bolters—no sinecure in itself , but it lias been dono with the tact of a veteran .
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JUDAICAL CHRISTIANITY . * In no department of lottors more than the theological hnve recent obligations to Gemrnny been greater and move undoubted . One of . the above works , certain deductions being made , and some qualifications stipulated , must bo accepted By us as increasing thnfc debt . Wo confoBS that wo opened the * volumes with more than I ho usual critical suspicion . Wo do bo in the case of all theological works ,
and in the case of all works published in regular series . For there are manv temptationstothe uncalled-for publication-of religious books -which do not opiate so strongly in other branches-of literature Hence > the primti fticie . chances against the inherent and new worth of a theological work are greater than in the case , of any other . If it be a volume of sermons by an officiating minister more or less popular , his congregation and admirers ensure a certain sale for a book which might not gain success by its own merits . If it be a system of theology , or a definite commentary by a professor of divinity , his own successive classes of students are glad to possess themselves tangibly and completely of the expounded plan to winch they have moulded their whole mode of exposition and clerical % V These volumes form items in the issue of the , for the most part excellent " Foreign Theological Library , " for the-presentation of which in our vernacular , English biblical scholars are indebted to the enterprise of the Messrs . Clark . Their serial nature , also , we have said , makes us look suspiciously on their probable character ; for it is the invariable tendency of such series to degenerate . It the speculation pays , there : is the most obvious inducement to spin it out to the utniost limits ; to go on publishing , for publishing and pay in " - sake , rather than because the books chosen for reproduction have merit sufficient to have them unlocked from their antique or foreign habiliment . Even in the cases of such serial publications as those for which the Camden Society was responsible , or the old manuscripts now being disinterred from the vault * of the Record Office by Sir John Romiliy and his coadjutors , this sentiment has been widely felt and expressed . This , too , in spite of the most advantageous conditions . The end of . these publications is historical , the latest and the most various imaginable ;—for the intrinsically trivial often becomes the most instructive historically . Monkish , maunderings and prolix narrations by feudal heralds , illumine , for modern students , whole eras dull and only fitfully lighted without their miuute , realistic / picturing . A theological series is subject to . as decided and special a ; disadvantage , as a historical . series-has-theantithetical circumstance in its favour . . Nine-tenths of the subscribers to the Calvin , Parker , and Wodrow Societies were heartily wearied long ere their shelves were tilled with the agreed complement of tomes ; and the overdoing of these series did this further damage , —it set the public against the serial plan -altogether , and bv a natural reaction caused the failure , of w ; ort . hy attempts to extend the plan of joint stock republication into fields ot theology and ecclesiastical literature , where inuch that was locked up was worth reproduction . ¦ ¦ w With these considerations affecting : our judgment , we- proceed to ask - " Do the contents of : these three works , by the l \ istor of Schkeuditz , and the Professor of theology far off in the German colony of Dorpat , in the Russian empire , entitle them to republication iu England ? " In the one case we . answer decidedly , no . In the other ° a summing up of faults we find and excellences we admit , leaves the balance to the latter , and dictates a sincere but not unqualified , yes . Stjer's expositions are neither fish nor flesh . la their criticism there seems to us nothing now enough to have merited translation ; and in style and literary treatment , there is none of that elevation abovo mediocrity which only could justify their reproduction for English readers . The Commentary of Dr . Kurtz is the elaborate working- out of , a theory—one in great favour among the extremely orthodox , and which we believe it not difficult to show is at the root of a good deal of . dangerous and despotic opinion in our own days . -Heathenism and Judaism were " two series of developments , which , differing : not only in the means , but also in the purpose and aim of their development , run side by side , until , in the fulness of time ,, . they meet in Christianity , when the peculiar results and fruits of those respective developments are made subservient to its establishment ; and spread . " " Mankind had to bo prepared for salvation , and this salvation prepared for them . '«• * * Hence wo see Jmlai . sm developed bv the side of Heathenism . The latter was to prepare mankind lor salvation , the former salvation lor mankind . " This preparation ol salvation /" or mankind , then , constituted the final cause of the whole Jewish polity , history , sacerdotalism , and general national trainijitr . The immediate means and instrument of twining was- " the old Covenant , " entered into between thuDivineBeingund the seedorAbnihnm . Its re-enactment constituted so many different steps towards , lii ' . st-, the immediate , end of the development of the Jewish nation ; and , second , the further end to which that was thon > e : ms , —the preparation , in Judaism as a matrix , of " salvation for mankind . " Tlio stqw ol the development wore those . First , there wore the raro ami yiiguo declarations of , the Covenant in antediluvian times ; them the funny or patriarchal period , which was concluded by the death of Jncob . The Egyptian bondage was the first stage in tho development of the nation , as contradistinguished from tlio family .. Tlio simile , or theory , is hero driven to the furthest . Egypt was tlio womb out ot which ' tho nation was to be born ; the oppressions of L'lmriiohs and taskmasters , tho labour and pains preceding parturition .- Tlio Exodus was the birth of tlio Jewish -nation . The nation being created , tlio next sla ^ o was its mirifluiiUon , tho junking it a holy notion . ' 1 jn « was fulfilled by the forty years ' sojourn in tho Dosort , of which punml tlio | central fue ' t was , the giving ofljio Law fromfrinui . The noxtstiigO w « i « I tho providing tlio nation , tlnfn nationalised nmlHUuctiliod , wiUi uluml , I the essential putward condition of a nationality . Tlio lust wao Ujo 1 working out of their peculiar nationalism , / . . tho growth of npycjilo 1 national character and culture . The work \ a uncoinplutod , or nt least ; '" incomplete , in vospoct of tho lust two stages . For tho third volume closes upon tho dontU of Utosas , nnd cro tho Coot of tho invading host are dipped in Jordan .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 14, 1860, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14041860/page/14/
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