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SOME RESULTS OF CONVOCATION. We can pret...
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THE CONFESSIONS OF MARSHAL ST. ARNAUD. T...
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miserable works which did not defend it . ; On the 15 th KovAtirvsinr moved uponj Zaim , and joined the main body for an attack i upon Kars . . „ , .. . iFoTtunatel y- for the interests of Turkey m Asia the Turkish troops were tinder the , control of British officers . I / ast year , at the instigation off Gutow , redoubts were erected upon the hills that command the town , fortress , and suburbs of Kara ; and this year they have been further strengthened by Colonel IiAKTE , of the Madras engineers .
Kars , therefore , is now a fortified place of considerable strength , and adequately occupied by 20 , 000 men , of whom some 12 , 000 are effective . On the 7 th General Wit-liams arrived at Kars , bringingwith him Captain Teesdaie and Captain Thompson , who , by right of knowledge and valour , became the leaders of men . On the 14 th , the Russians sent forward an advanced guard as far as Mastra , and , being in great force , drove in a few hundred Bashi-bazouks like sheep . This
showed that the Russian army was upon them . They had chosen their time well . The fast of the Uamazan ended on the 15 th ; the feast of Bairam began on the 16 th . The Russians expected to find the Turks lapped in festive idleness , and careless security . They were mistaken . The inhabitants had been armed , and under the appearance of gaiety there reigned a ceaseless vigilance . On the 16 th , the enemy appeared , his dark
masses moving over the flower-paven meadows , preceded by Cossack and Georgian cavalry . The brief combat was opened with a skirmish between the enemy and the Bashibazouks , ending -in the rout and retreat of the latter . Then the guns of the Karadagh and Hafiz batteries , directed by gallant Englishmen , opened upon the enemy , who vainly replied with field-guns . The resiilt of the cannonade was the repulse of the Russians , who retired to Adja-Kaleh .
Thus , there is reason to hope that Kars is safe for this year . At present it is impossible to judge whether the movement of the enemy was intended as the opening of a serious campaign , or as a diversion to show Europe that the Russians are still active in Asia . Rut we cannot imagine that any extensive operations are contemplated ; because , now that Kara is so respectably fortified , and the Turkish army officered , however scantily , by Englishmen , it would require a larger force than it seems probable that Russia can dispose of , for an effective campaign in Asia .
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TEtE LEIB-ER . [ No . 277 , Saturday ,
Some Results Of Convocation. We Can Pret...
SOME RESULTS OF CONVOCATION . We can pretty well predict the course which things will take at firet in the revived convocation , if Dr . PnrxroTTS and Dr . Wixbeupoboe retain their command over the movement which they have hitherto guided . Neither of these prelates is a theological fire-eater . Both are ambitious , and both are disposed to the safe and quiet elimination of Oalvinistic curates ; but we all remember that the Hampden anathema was retracted , and that the Exeter Synod went off in most innocuous smoke . The alarming discussions of doctrine ,
and the condemnation of heresies , which the opponents of convocation apprehend , will at first be sedulously avoided . Quiet measures of Administrative Church Reform will be introduced . Services will bo redividod and abbreviated . Humane regulations will be made for the benefit of curates . Everything will be popular and neutral : and the Bacred conclave will present an unexpected aspect of practical moderation . Then , when everybody ia so agreeably disappointed , will come the time for making the first approaches towards a better definition of Anglican doctrine , and the condemnation of " emergent
Such , we say , would be the course of things , for a time at least , if the leaders could keep the movement in their own hands . But they cannot do so long . Convocation , however laboriously it may be packed , will contain some of the more impetuous as well as the discreeter members of each of the heterogeneous sects which are embraced by the elastic formulae of the Established Church . The sect which is represented by the 'Guardian , is politic and astute ; but the
errors . " Probably some decided rationalist , whose love of truth is equally offensive to all sections of bigots , Calvinistic ns well as Puseyite , will be selected for the first experiment . Then , perhaps , an ultra-Calvinist will be meekly and reluctantly consigned to Satan . And so the good fathers will creep on , as they think , till the Church and doctrine of Laud is again firmly seated upon the shoulders of the English people .
sect which is represented by the Record , is , perhaps to its honour , devoid of these ecclesiastical qualities . If Archdeacon Denison does not throw down the gauntlet , the Dean op Bbistol will . "Where there is such a mine and so many sparks , there must soon be an explosion . There are books published and sermons preached every day which would bring the great party questions to an issue . But there would scarcely be need of any particular question of doctrine to bring on the crisis .
The missionary and educational functions of the Church , during the suspension of its organic life , have been provisionally discharged by private societies formed on a basis more or less partisan , such as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel , the Church Missionary Society , the National Society , and others of the same kind . These societies being merely private and provisional , scope has been allowed in them for the rival factions , and people have been able to iguore
the fact that they represent a radical division in the Church . The revived Convocation , if it pretends to represent a united Church , must resume these missionary and educational functions , or at least amalgamate and control the societies by which they are exercised . A living Church , with two rival propagandas teaching opposite doctrines , and a private society directing religious education on its own account in correspondence with a godless Privy Council ,
would be too much even for the logic of Englishmen . Reorganisation must be attempted . Of course confusion would ensue the moment Puseyites laid their hand on the Church Missionary Society , or Evangelicals on the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel , or either on the National Society ; and the Church of Pusey , Howlky , Close , Maurice , and Donaldson , with its faith once delivered to the saints , would come weltering to the ground .
In short , to give the Church of England the power of self-definition and self-government is to give her the moans of suicide . And she has demanded these powers . She has demanded them , and she has a right to have them . Nay , if , like her wiser and more worldly sons , she was unwilling to receive them , it would be the duty and interest of all lovers of truth to force thorn on her . The ability to uso such powers without danger to her own existence
is the test of her right to exist . Does eho represent any real unity of conviction , any real spiritual communion , any real identity of religious objects among thoso who call themselves her members ? If so , eho nood not fear , and her frionds nood not fear for her , tho gift of organic life . If so , aho will riso from her long torpor , and move forth at onco with the free step of single purpose and harmonious faith . If this is not tho case—if tho , unity , tfhe communion , tho identity are a
fiction—then she is a mere piece of statecraft , a cunning instrument of pdKfcic superstition ; pleasing to tlie eye ; of the worldly politician , odious to tli e single-hearted lover of truth . Which of these hypotheses is the true one we need scarcely ask . What institution—what doctrine , we might almost say , —what historical fact connected with ' the Church of England is there which is not the subject ot mortal quarrel between the parties within her pale ? What peace or compromise can
there be between the Church authority ot the Puseyites , the Bibliolatry of the Evangelicals , and that free use of reason of which we have had recent specimens in the works of Dr . Donaxdson and Mr . Baden Powell ? The fall of a national Church , which is so much bound up with the religion and morality of the nation , win be a terrible event , especially as it is likely to come at a time of great political confusion . There are some amiable latitudinarians , as well as politicians .
¦ who feel this so deeply that they wish the old edifice to remain at any sacrifice of sincerity and logic . They fancy that under its shelter the new trutTi will grow , and that there wilt be a gradual transmutation instead of a disastrous fall . We sympathise , but we cannot . agree with them . The hypocrisy which the present state of things involves eats dee ]) into the very source of truth ; and no truth no honesty , no morality will grow under such a system though it last for ever .
The Confessions Of Marshal St. Arnaud. T...
THE CONFESSIONS OF MARSHAL ST . ARNAUD . The history of a public man is not to lx faithfully written from official despatches Marshal St . Arnattd had one version of the Eastern campaign for publication in the Moniteur , and another , somewhat different , for his family . The appearance of these private letters enables us to correct sonic views that are popularly entertained on the
relative merits of the French and English military sj' -stems as exemplified by the expedition against Sebastopol . Perhaps the most injurious of these errors is that which imputes to the British Government alone tho negligence , the delay , and the blundering by which our efforts were postponed , and our forces frittered away . We now know why the French Cabinet objected to Mr . " Roebuck ' s Committee . It was feared lest tho witnesses
might implicate the officials of Paris as well as those of London . Marshal St . Ahnaud ' s correspondence places tho truth beyond controversy , for liere we find the French general complaining , more bitterly than " Our Own Correspondent , " of the imperfect preparations of his Government for carrying on the Russian war . It was a necessity of his character to hate diplomacy . He abhorred statesmanship , not because it gambles with great human interests , but because it interferes with tho trade
of tho soldior . At Constantinople , therefore , when tho Allied armies were assembling , in May , 1854 , lie wrote in sneering language about " policy and its caution , " which held him back while ho was impatient to be hurled against tho Jfcussians . But it was not of policy alono that ho complained . Tho army , ho said , is condemned to inactivity , because the departments at homo are sluggish . While ho gazed at tlio thcatro of war on tho Danube , ho burned for action— " Oh , that I could give battle !"—but tho forcos at his command wcro
even then scarcely organised . JSTor has ho a stronger illustration in proof of English backward ness and improvidence than— " they aro not more prepared than ourselves . " Ho was thoro , at the Jhcad of an army , " without artillery , without cavalry , or ambulances , or baggage , or means of tr ansport , or provisions . " * ' No one can conceive what it
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Leader (1850-1860), July 14, 1855, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14071855/page/10/
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