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CHURCH MATTERS, A'J! the monthly meeting...
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Forthe sake of securing as inany votes as possible , Mr GrBSpN consented to add to the first resolution the ' words * as early as may be with reference to the security of * he public revenue / ' After the GhangeltoE of the ExoBffiQXTEB had made some explanations , and warned the House not to come to any precipitate resolutions of the kind now proposed , and not to pledge themselves to measures which might endanger the financial position of the country , the House divided on the resolutions , and thenunihers were as follows : — For the first ( proposing the abolition of the paper duty ) . . • » • . 107 Against it . ; . . . . . . . . 195 Majority . . . . . 88 For the second ( proposing the abolition of the stamp duty ) . . .... . . 100 Against it . . « ... . . . . 199 Majority . . . . . ——99 For the third ( proposing the abolition of the advertisement duty ) . . . . ... 116 Against it . . ... • • • • . 181 Majority -65 HOUSE OP LOEDS . IiOrd RedEsdaI / B moved for copies of the forms of writs used for the summoning and prorogation of theconvocation of the clergy for the province of York , on Monday , and stated that thejobject of his motion was to procure the sameprivilegesfor the clergy of the province of York with respect to convocation as were enjoyed by their brethren of the province of Canterbury , The Archbishop of ToRK explained the course pursued by his predecessor and himself with respect to the summoning of convocation in the province of iTork * resting his defence entirely on the fact that he had followed precedent . He added that the address of Lord Redesdale should have his best consideration . After some further discussion , Lord Eedesdale withdrew his motion . Lord Deeby , in reply to the Bishop of London , stated that he could not , without further consideration , undertake to say what course the ( 5 overnment would pursue with respect to appeals in matter of doctrine . The Bishop of ^ London proposes to bring in a bill enabling the bishops to consider and decide on doctrine , transmitting their decision to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council by way of advice . Egypt and Turkey . —In the House of Commons , on Tuesday , in reply to a question put by Mr . Andeksok , the Chawcellob of the Exchecjiteb said he had great pleasure in informing the House that the dispute between the Porte and the Pasha of Egypt had terminated ; that Her Majesty ' s Government haa received official notification that a complete adjustment of their differences had taken place , the Porte having conceded to Abbas Pasha the power of capital punishment for a term of seven years , and the Pasha having accepted that compromise as perfectly satisfactory .
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Ministers At The Mansion-House. Generall...
MINISTERS AT THE MANSION-HOUSE . Generally when Ministers pay a visit to the Mansion-house , and revel in the luxuries of the Egyptian Hall there , they leave politics at Westminster , and take kindly and generously to the pleasures of tho hour . Premiers talk of anything but their policy compliment anybody but one of themselves , and run as gracefully and gaily through a course of pleasant commonplaces as they have through the courses of dinner and dessert . But now and then late favours us with
an exception , and a Premier has been known to speak oracularly from the seat of honour at the jovial table of a Lord Mayor . Ono such , event happened on Saturday . The reigning potentate of the city gave a grand banquet on that day to her Majesty ' s Ministers . To nieot theso high state functionaries , his civic lordship invited several other lords and gentlemen , who , together with their Indies , made a showy spectacle in the great hall famous in , the annals of good dinners . There wore the Duke of Cambridge , who inherits a kind of festal kingship ; the French ambassador , Walowski , tho herald of peace , and a shoal of other ambassadors ,
secretaries , and charge ' s d'affaires ; a great company of inombere of tho Commons , of tho Tory and Protection-Whig persuasions ; and a miscellaneous host of city people . l'ho routine of royalist toasts was preserved , tho Duke of Cambridge replying for himsolf and the " ftoyal Family " tho Duke of Northumberland and kord Combermore acknowledged " the Navy and Army , " tho lutter hoping that in tho hour of ncod tho good citizens of London would placo more reliance on tho swords and , bayonet ^ pf our troops than on the resolutions of tho Peaco Sodioty "— a heavy shot , which some cheered and othora felt bound to laugh at . Then cunio tho toast of the evening— '« Tho Earl of Derby ™ a her Majors Ministers /'
As a matter of course tho Earl of Derby raado a long roply . Abstracting the opening comp liments , hia « pcech may be divided into two parta , tho first being a strong an * unfotajnttoaia argument against the Militia
Bill ; the second a vague , misty , undecided criticism on , and supplement to , Mr . Disraeli's amazing Budget Speech . Translated into concise terms > the first part of Lord Derby's speech said : —Our avowed policy is peace . We accept the presence of foreign ministers here not as a compliment , but as " a mark of adhesion to that policy which professes ah absolute and entire non-intervention in the internal affairs of other countries . " There are elements of internal discord , it is true , in other states ; and ours at least is not the Utopian age when we can do without organized national
defence ; but " throughout Europe and throughout the world there is a general desire on the part of all nations to extinguish at once the slightest spark which may appear to threaten external convulsion , or to endanger the general peace . ' * ( Loud cheers . ) The exertions of all countries will be used to put a " friendly extinguisher" upon the first elements of strife ; and if any one power , without provocation , made a hostile attack on another , that power would be universally reprobated . Not content with that strong testimony in support of Mr . Cobden ' s theory of peace , Lord Derby kindly furnished a yet stronger : he
said" I am confident that there is an enlightened feelmg arising now among all Governments and among all nations - —that there is a growing conviction that their interests , their honour , their welfare , and their real glory , are better promoted by developing their internal resources , by fostering ithe domestic industry of their people , b y promoting the enjoyment , the wealth , and the prosperity of their subjects , than by any dreams of military glory , however brilliant , or by any prospect of aggressive conquests , however dazzling . " ( Hear and cheers . )
After a few more words on the " primary importance" of commercial intercourse , he opened up his second subject . This was no less a theme than the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his Budget Speech : — " Nofc many days have elapsed sinfte a right hon . friend of mine ( the Chancellor of the Exchequer ) , in a speech which fuUy and amply refuted the unworthy notion that a man of wit and genius cannot grapple with the ordinary details of statistics—that a man possessing high ability , a
vivid imagination , and great eloquence , cannot master the driest commercial and financial topics— -most ably and most eloquently demonstrated to an admiring House of Commons the great progress which our trade and commerce have made in recent years , and showed how the reduction of duties imposed upon foreign commerce has produced a largely increasing consumption , and consequently greatly increased enjoyment on the part of the consumers , without affecting the revenue . "
But there was " one topic" which that " right honourable friend" did not touch on , namely , the effect which may be produced on those large classes who , though inainly producers , are also consumers . This is indefinite . enough , but as he proceeds matters amazingly complicate . Government , it is hinted , ought not to confine its attention to one class , but solve this problem- — " how to reconcile apparently conflicting interests- —so that , while giving no undue advantage to one class of our fellow citizens over another , it may promote the interests of all , and by mutual concessions and by mutual compromises may blend the interests of all in one harmonious whole . "
Starting from thia point , he ran round the circle of ideas it suggested , delivering an elaborate essay on the princip le of British government , and saying things which we , certainly , shall not willingly let die—especially the church compromise . "In fact , the whole system of government in every constitutional country is a system of compromises and concessions—not of undue compromises , not of unworthy concessions—not of compromises of principle for the sake of expediency , but of compromises between conflicting expedients , and mutual concessions between apparently conflating interests . ( Hear , hoar . ) The whole system of our Constitution is one groat compromise . Tho Throne itself
is based upon a compromise between arbitrary monarchical power ana those befitting and dignified restrictions which ore imposed by constitutional Governments upon tho minds of Monarchs . Our Houso of Lords is a compromise between an hereditary exclusive aristocracy and a body partaking of the advantages of tho institution of nobility at the same time that it is enabled to claim this groat advantage—that ifc is daily , or at least yearl y and porpotuaHy , recruited from tho ranks of the people , thus blending the aristocracy and tho commonalty . (' Hoar , ' and cheers . ) Tho Houso of Commons is a systom of compromise botweon that influcnco which is exorcised by tho higher classes of sooioty and tho restrictions imposed by partial oxclusion , between those olomonts on tho ono sulo and tho otherbwhich
domocratio power of tho people on tho , y ample and full moans aro givon to tho expression oi every popular sentiment and of every popular wish . Hip Uiurcli of England—long may Provulonco preservei it to us I ( Cheers)—is a compromise , and a most valuable ) comproiniso , between tho unrestrained power of spiritual dominion and tho absolute dopondonco of tho clergy upon the caprice of tho flocks over whom they ar 6 called to prosido . Our whole Bystora is a system of compromises , and no best administers tho ardu «) UB post of conducting the vast and complicated affairs of this groat empire who knows how fitly to adjust the various portions of tho great machine , involving this complicated machinery of mutual cheeks and balances , by the removal of ono of which tho action ot eomo other patti ' might , perhaps , bo mororapw , -row tho
whole machine would be disordered and disarranged . (' Hear , hear , ' and cheers . ) It would , my lord , be an easy task for a Minister to avail himsetf upon every occasion of every gust of popular opinion—to scud before they gale , and to congratulate himself upon the rapidity of his progress , reckless and regardless in what direction that gale is blowing , and whether it is bearing him upon alee-ahorOj or upon a dangerous rock , with the more certain destruction the more rapid may be his progress . But the aim of the noble science of statesmanship surely must be to use the popular elements as the valua b le breeze which fills the
sails—not setting your course in the teeth of the wind that blows , nor scuddingblindly before it , but availing yourself of that breeze to speed you on your destined course , and with a steady hand upon the wheel , and with mmd and eye fixed upon one single object—the safety of the good ship , the crew , and the priceless cargo—to consider , not the rapidity of your progress , but the certainty of the course you are pursuing . Then , by the application of the doctrine of opposing forces , let the wind blow from the north or from the south , the steady hand at the helm may speed the vessel on her destined course , whether that course be east or west . " ( Loud cheers . )
He knew that such a course was not likely to be at all times popular , but he trusted that his countrymen would more consider the steadiness than the rapidity of the progress ; and that if a Ministry acted for itself and upon its own convictions , those convictions would , in the long run , force themselves on the sympathy and support of the people . Count Walewski responded in the name of " the Foreign Ambassadors . " We beg especial attention to his speech , as to a reflective mind it discloses many things . He said —•
" Besides , the presence in this assembly of the reprd * sentatives of foreign powers is the most palpable proof of the amicable relations which , so happily exist between Great Britain and the European continent—What do I say?—Between Great Britain and the whole world . In vain , certain alarmists endeavoured to trouble the public mind at the beginning of this year , and to spread a belief that the political horizon was becoming covered with clouds . These cross-grained pessimists ( malencontreux pessimistes ) have found but few echoes ; and from the opening of Parliament , in both houses , eloquent and justly esteemed voices ( turning towards Lord Derby ) have shown the value of
their vam declamations . . No ,. I do not hesitate tojiffirm that the poTiticaLb-orizon is nowhere overcast ; the eloquent speech ¦ which , you have just heard cannot leave a doubt in your minds on this subject . As to France in particular , I venture to hope that the Ministers of her Majesty the Queen , now present ( turning towards Lord Derby and Lord Malmesbury ) - will not contradict me if I affirm that at no period have the relations between England and France been of a more satisfactory nature , and that a better understanding has never subsisted between the two governments as to tho solution of all the questions now pending both in the Old World and the New . "
After he had sat down , he rose again , and proposed " the prosperity of the city of London . " To drink , said he , to the prosperity of the city of London , is to drink to the peace of the world , for they are inset * parable . Lord Lonsdale replied to the * ' House of Lords ; ' * the Marquis of Salisbury proposed " the Lord Mayor ;" and Mr . Disraeli responded to " the House of Commons" and his own name :- — "I may say of that House—and I see many of my brethren present of contrary political opinions to those which I hold—that it is a true republic . ( Laughter . ) I believe , indeed , it is the only republic that exists founded upon tho principles of liborty , equality , and fraternity ( renewed laughter ); but liborty is there maintained by order , equality is mitigated by good taste , and fraternity takes
tho sliapo of cordial brotherhood . ( ' Hear , ' and cheers . ) I am sure , therefore , I may say for tho members of tho Houso of Commons , whether present or absent , whatever may bo their political opinions or their party feelings , that they would agree upon this occasion in expressing tho gratification which they all feel when they aro remembered b y thoir ancient friend and ally , tho city of London . ( Cheers !) In tho city of London , in troublous times , they have sought and found refuge . The city of London has assisted thorn in vindicating thoir privileges ; and I believe I may say for them that they are prepared at all times to uphold tho privileges of tho city of London . ( ' Hear , ' and cheers . )" Ho wound up with a not very happy compliment to tho " representative" of the Lady Mayoress , whom ho punningly called a representative institution more entitled , at that moment , to thoir gratitude than the House of Commons . As the Chancellor of tho
Excheqnor is a wit of renown , men wore bound to laugh at his bod pun , and they did laugh . Civic toasts and speeches wound up tho evening .
Church Matters, A'J! The Monthly Meeting...
CHURCH MATTERS , A'J ! the monthly meeting of tho London Union on Church Matters , a Report was read , consistinjr inainly of erifcicipmn on tho recent attempts to legislate for tho Church by tho Marquis of Blandford and Mr . Frowon . Wo need only add , that they recommend total at * stinonco from all similar attempts , rightly assorting ,, thnt uynodical action alono will furnish the truo means of remedying existing evils . But m Government may obtuin a majority at tho ensuing election , and appropriate tho hill of tho Marquis of Blandford , the Committeo lay down tho following lino of action : —
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Leader (1850-1860), May 15, 1852, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15051852/page/5/
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