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The Root Of The Evil. M. Gtjizot, Addres...
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¦ OTE H ) QUSEi OiF PEERS . iNoi ' iaaag ainjoe aneertain group was very well Uznosra in Ifeililia . Seated in a Bath cbair , ) youi » aw . "a igiccl ^ whoae lo velinesa -was only , ' jdunmisbed -by" ter evident Bickness- ; near ih & t walked ua yocangdady in robust health ; -. «« . J mwvSAI * ^ Ivnm MMAv 4-ti / vm IaAit j-X-P Jfvl > 1 AM . "' XT A 4 »* nCl dncith ibem another ladof older
an y years , & andsome face , and great self-possession . SPhey wease ¦* ' persoajta of distinction , ' * for independently of a certain style in which < mtwanrdly <^ visited ' , k man of titfej insomuch that it used to becalledthe " Houseof Peere . " Not long s since the ( fatherofthose / two girls died . He ibad been . > living for some time separate from / the mother , but was reconciled to her b y - ¦ a < kmd friend | and he restored his affection 'both to "the mate of his bosom and to his
; daught < ws , ' who were left in the care of ; J » heir : afiectiopaie mother . " What could be more touching than that act of peace-making ? what more tender than the natural sheltering of that blooming girl , or of the delicate invalidyby a -mother , who , : to experience of life , added the advantages of a good position and wealthc ?
In the XJotat of Chancery the other day , ¦ the A &» rney-. Gteneral told a story which leads us within the door of that happy family . 'There was not perfect harmony there . A lawyer indeed onee penetrated to the house , « ummoned by the interests of the eldest daughter , who had a separate title to some portionjof the ^ the .. house faster than he had entered it . That matronly / lady rated him in good round terms ibr : his intrusion ; vilified the daughter
who had summoned him , as no better than she should be ; ascribed her maladies to the 'unspeakable results of bad life , and , apparently aa her last resource , threw herself on vthe ground in unwitneasable hysterics . The lawyer fled . Others have told through the .. Attorney-General that the young ladies were -kept short of money , stinted even in their food , and subjected to claims of payment on , ' the part of their affectionate mother . Geri tain it ia , that by deed , or bequest , or some otther fbran of transfer , they alienated their own means to enrich the favourite of their mother .
There was another member of the family ; whom' we have . not mentioned . He was boorn thirteen years after the youngest daughter ; he did not use the family name , he did not own to any parents in the world . He was j quite unaccounted for in the Population Returns . He was « ' adopted" by the lady , and < singTilarly favoured by her ; and it is in resistance of his claim of 20 , 000 / . on the property " thatthe- heir-at-law of the eldest
daughter brings the case to Chancery . And what , all this while , had become of * he peace-maker who had restored the wife to ' heat husband- — -had , in fact , it is said , been fvigauHy instrumental in the marriage P He i « still jthe peace- 'maker—he appears as the adviBeiM of' the * < daughters . The property iwhjch « they aiieinate is made over by deed t ^ equted to lam . flPfae lawyer who acts in
fcia xtyw & cm , -U Ha , lawyer , J he ^ n hysic ^ who aJrt & wla the dyinepliusha . na * a his pays * - e & n . -He : k » owa noSwig that he QVgpk noti tpiknQW i k % his aniajayifc almost ignorant qf i & e Tawuljr tr ^ up ^ ciiiQ ^ s ; except that oc-i casionally haappears as peaces-maker and adraaer . ; and J . qhn EsiUwr , the youth of ; unaccounted parentage , anneara .. aa , ultTOateJyj heneSted ; bythe wh # e , arr ^ ngen ^ nt . . . toldin thfclluDlin Court
Svl & x is the atory of . GhiftQew of the "HAirpoaCR iamiljr ; the fpaac 9--majker ieittg the , M ; arqws . pf CiuMTOijCA & dS- The aristocracy do not shine in this secret ; part © f \ socdal history . Tear off the ? ceil at almost . any portion ,, and yon are sure fep £ n . < l eoime venerable , baronet , some , old marquis , some , iamiliar earl . — : B , ut eve © that is not the darkest or most painful moral of such cases . ' The lesson ' wlxieh they teach is , the extent to which realj life isSacrificed to appeacanee . If it is true that living consists mainly in the satisfaction of those instincts and irations which arej
asp . esaemtial fo life in it » hjghest form , then much of tUe in ^ ewjoiiwae thatgoea onie initaelfa deadly noison . The relation between a mother and her children is , perhaps , the purest and most vital exemplifipation of life ^ aridhereitis reduced to the rule of ahardenedj woman speculating in the reversionary m- ^ fcere ^ t of daughters who are sickly or wished to . be , ao . If a strong ' affection that drew the woman from the society of her husband . toj the society of another , there might have been
some reanty in that : but what affection can exist between those who are accomplices in speculating on the deaths of daughters and the paltry chances of legacy from their own offspring ? And the girls—fit , perhaps , for life , if tEeir parents were not—endowed-with affection , with the capacity for enjoyment , bnt tantalised by the fallacious show of means . that seldom home to themoffered
came — ^ view of society in its easier circles , only to know at home penury , infirmity , cruel treatn ment , and . the scheming of professed protectors —• those girls , what was their fate ? The whole of their lives is sacrificed to secure by some base and paltry scheming the means of life . In sacrificing thus to appear-. ances the wonaan becomes a fiend j an adviser of the Qtjjben becomes the deluder of young girla !
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HEfcESr AND CONVOCATIOKT . It was to be expected that the attempts made to place the Church of England in a position as regards the State harmonising with her antecedents and pretensions would but the more clearly demonstrate the reigning dis * eord . So far Convocation has at least been successful . Whether a complete restoration can be effected , is a question which we are not bound to solve . But we should imagine that one of two courses must be ultimately
followed—reitber that the Church should recover her position and assert her independence , or that she . should surrender her claims to that national position which she affects to occupy . The more she is honest , the more she must become uneasy , disaffected , troubled . She arrogates to herself a mission of divine © origin ; she frustrates it by succumbing to the temponal conveniences of the State . She comes down from Heaven , and casts herself at the feet of C ^ sab . She declares herself
harmonious within herself , well-knowing that heresy is rampant in her high places , and that , she is powerless to expel the heretical . She seems to yearn with desires of self * amendment , yet before she enn accomplish one step of progress , she is forced to beg humbly for the sanction of her secular head , to take the matter into consideration even in that shadowy council which her temporal ma & tera have permitted her- to retain . Suwly
this is ne > t a ; peaifeion / ati ^ aJJ ibee ^ ming a divinely constituted authori | by . These reflections , not- new with xub , receive emphatic con firmation from thje proceedings at izhe brief sitting of Convocation , last week . Take three instancea * The Upper House agree upon certain reaoluticaa ^ jpaninorting to require a modification in . the services , of the Church , in other words , a redistribution of
the Prayer Book . More services and shartie . r aerrvicep are wanted .. The matter is simple . One would think that when the Bishops and Clergy agree that some alterations should he made they would , be , made , and there an end . But the divine Church of-England is powerless . Before this simple matter can be considered , the . sanction QJ the Crown must be
obtained * Again .: the Hipper House receive a report on certain not unreasonable changes , in the constitution of Convocation . " What then ? Why * fo » . they resolve that it is not expedient > even to ask the sanction of the Crown fox leave ; to take them . into consideration ! ... The third instance is one even more illustrative of the impotence of Convocation as at nresent , constituted . Gur ; readers know that
Archdeacon Dunison has recently been defendant in a charge of heresy ; and that certain commissioners , appointed , by the Archbishop of ' Cant ^ bbubt , held Inquisition on his case at Wason ' s Hotel , Clevedon , and pronounced a foregone conclusion thereupon . But do our readers know that these Commissioners , whose authority originated , at Iambeth , proceeded under an Act , of ^ ParliameniL which its framera declare waa never intended to be applied to cases of hereay ; an act declared by both Houses of < 5 onvocation
unsatisfactory ? Last wjpekjdr . DBMaoasr nnpressively reminded hia colleagues of this fact , and essayed to bring his case under the- notice of the Lower House ; he did not ask them to interfere ; he knew too well the impotence of the House , He only asked them to hear him : they declined ; he asked them to receive a plain matter-of-fact statement of his case : they rejected it by 36 to 33 votes . Convocation is not a nfece for dealing with heresy * oreven for-considering ; -the-, constitution of those tribunals which are or may be
devised for the purpose of pronouncing upon heresy . When he was interrupted , Mr . Dbnisok said , " It may be necessary for me to bring a charge of heresy before this House ; " did he mean that it might be necessary for him to bring a charge against Archdeacon Denison ? It would complete the
absurdity of the position . It is certainly remarkable that a corporation should pretend to divine origin ; that it should claim to be the sole interpreter of divine law , the sole guide to eternal life ; and yet that it should rest in a position so fettered , so restricted , so emasculated , as to be expressly and carefully prevented from determining charges of heresy
against its own members . What is it that stops the way ? Probe the matter home , and see whether Church property be not at the bottom of all these fatal absurdities . . The Church is an institution based on property , not on the dogmas embodied in her creeds , her liturgies , and her articles . Why cannot convocation determine cases of heresy , or constitute the tribunal which shall determine upon them ? Because the decisions would interfere with the rights of patrons . Were it not for the substantial institutions of the Church—her lands and her wealth — it is inconceivable that she
should remain a congeries of persons x > rofessing a set of heresies , springing from the debris of the Roman Catholic system at the Reformation , This inay look hke the statement of a mere opponent of the Churoh ; but
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 17, 1855, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17021855/page/14/
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