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996 THE LEADER, [No. 343, Saturday,
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THE MOVEMENT. The jSTeapolitan policy of...
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BISHOPS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. A few new...
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996 The Leader, [No. 343, Saturday,
996 THE LEADER , [ No . 343 , Saturday ,
Notices To Correspondents. We Do Not Und...
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . We do not undertake to return rejected communications . No notice can bo taken of anonymous correspondence . Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owiug to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently froin reasons quite independent of their merits .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep' things fixed vp-hen all the world is by tho very law of its creation in . eternal progress . —De . Arnold .
The Movement. The Jsteapolitan Policy Of...
THE MOVEMENT . The jSTeapolitan policy of the British Government works its \ vay slowly through the perplexities of official opinion in Europe . But there has been some positive diplomatic action witfhin the last few days , showing that the question is as far from settled as we represented it to be . The plans of the English foreign Office have not miscarried , nor are they likely to be abandoned . Indeed , it may be said confidentl y ^ that not one point of international difference raised since the
Conferences-of Paris has been adjusted . Those who announced the disappearance of the difficulty respecting the Isle of Serpents were as grossly misinformed as those who have recently declared that Prince GroitrscnAKOFp' s Circular had dispelled tlie Neapolitan shadow . Instead of tranquillity , there is aggravated confusion . The Russian Government , which has armed King Ferdinand with the hope of a mighty protective alliance , encourages the Marionette ruler of G-reece to protest against the military occupation of that country by the Western Powers . The Western Powers themselves arc not in
harmony on the subject of the conditions laid down by the Treaty of Paris . It is useless to dissemble the truth that Alexander II . disputes the interpretation of that treaty , and that his version is not authoritatively repudiated in Paris . ^ Further , the movements of Austria in the Px * incipalities , exciting the deepest indignation among the inhabitants , and among serious politicians in England , have not been checked , to all appearance , by any decisive representations on the part of the ministers of Louis Napoleon . And ,
with these complications growing up , outside of the Italian question , we have Lord PaTj-MEBSTOiir persisting in his pressure upon the King of Naples , and the French Emperor introducing modifications to mitigate the effects of this embarrassing activity . These circumstances , these diplomatic incoherences , instead of consolidating the peace of Europe , are wearing away its foundations . It may Beem , to the French < 3-overnment , very discreet to keep the squadrons cruising off the Italian coast at a distance ; but , if they are sent with
any political purpose , they must approach sufficiently near to the capital to operate as a menace upon the King . If he can feel their influence , the people can , and will , and it will be too late , when Italy is in a ferment , to disclaim revolutionary intentions . It is perfectly well known to the Italians that the . trench and British Governments have no rev ?«* tionary sympathies . Their well-understood object is to open a safety-valve at various points of the peninsula . They believe in the efficacy of local reforms ; but the Italians utterly djsbeheve in it , and declare adequate
reforms , under the existing Governments , to be naturally and essentially impossible . No amnesty will reconcile the Neapolitans to their King . Nothing will atone to Italy for the loss of national independence . Nor can the several Governments concede the practical ameliorations which are supposed in England to be specifics against all political discontent . They exist by virtue of the compression which their military power enables them to exert . No sooner is that compression , relaxed than they are expelled from Italy .
It , then , we do not desire the abandonment of the Neapolitan expedition , it is from the persuasion that great events are preparing in Italy , aud . not from any belief in the liberal sympathies of the intervening powers . The gaolers of Cayenne can with no grace solicit an amnesty from the turnkeys of Gaeta . Nor can . England , which has flattered the despotism of France , display an honourable
enthusiasm for the constitutional rights of Naples . But the hope of the Liberal party , throughout 'Europe , ' consists in the disturbance of despotic authority , in the conviction that the new peace is not apeace of forty years , and in the rational expectation . - . that , with tlie absolutist powers combined against her , England may be forced into an active alliance with the Liberalism of the Continent . There
have been remarkable changes since ISIS . There is Piedmont , which , in the event of a national struggle , would be powerless , unless in union with the National party . Muratism is dying out . The people of all the provinces have learned useful lessons . The Liberals of various shades have united . It is with sincere pleasure that we mention , in proof of this , the signature of BitQjrrERio , of the Turinese Chamber of Deputies , to the subscriptions for the ten thousand muskets , and the resolution , by the friends of Mazzini and
Garibaldi , to aid the subscription for the hundred guns of Alessandria . When the Opinione is generous enough -to recognize this magnanimity , it may be so magnanimous as not to misrepresent the history of the two subscriptions . That for the guns of Alessandria proceeds most satisfactorily . That for the ten thousand muskets is making rapid progress , ivi Italy as well as in England , and is about to be extended to Belgium . Gradually , slowly , the movement is matured ; but there is movement . A universal sense of disquietude prepares Europe for agitation and change .
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BISHOPS , FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC . A few new Bishops have just been made , and there is a chance that they may be better than some whom we have had , although they are not certified to be the best that could be procured . Like officers in the army , however , Bishops , it appears , are not appointed for episcopal qualities , but for some other reasons . One , for instance , is made Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol , not because lie is expected to be a master of episcopation , but because he is a Bamng . There tvas a
probability that the Reverend Ciienevix Thench would be appointed . He is a very accomplished man , with clear ideas as to the duty of the clergy in these artificial days , and of so superior an understanding and training that ho really could oversee the larger proportion of his fellow-clergy ; and so Lord pALMERSTOHr seems to have thought . Bub a contemporary has explained how Ciienevix Trench was set aside and Baring was
elected . Lord Shaptesbury went and told a lady of influence that Titujsrou was a Puseyite , —which he is not ; at the Bftine timo it was represented that Baking had ' claims ; ' it was remembered that the post was promised for Lord Asiibuhton ' s disposal , and thus it ia that a Baking is
appointed to hold the spiritual charge of Gloucester and Bristol . Of course the direct results of the causes in appointing the Bishop to that see was , not that a qualified man might episcopate , but that a -Bauing might exist in a black apron , a large house rent free , and the enjoyment of an income which secures splendid dinners . Now the m anrier in which Bishops perform their duties " makes us doubt whether this mode of selection is not , perliapsas good-as
, any . ¦ " Set in case : "— There is Hejtby op ExE ^ Bu ^ a man with considerable erudition X ^ ositive ideas as to the duties of a Bishop ' and love of command . He is no puppet Bishop . He refused the institution to Goriiam , because Gorham was heterodox on the subject of " prarvenient grace . " HjENiiY of ExETEit has lately had to exercise his authority in dictating the arrangements of a cemeterv at Torrington . Uninitiated
people have an idea that after death the distinctions of this world should cea . se ; but Dr . Philpotts sustains the doctrine whiehother Bishops have set up , that even in the cemetery there must be a sectarian division . One Bishop thought that a gravel walk between the Churchman and Dissenter in their graves was not enough , but that there must be a stout brick wall ; though what the Churchman and Dissenter could do to each , other in that condition we never could understand .
The Bishop of Exeter , does not stipulate for bricks , but for a fence ; and it must be at least four feet high . Three feet nine inches , he thinksj would not be sufficient . A Dissenter ¦ mi ght , he fears , jump over a fence of that height ; and then what confusion in the orthodox part of the churchyard ! Imagine some ghostly ChiIjDS of Bungay jumping overy a cemetery fence , to bully the defunct churchwarden who insisted on seizing the goods of Ohilds for non-payment of cntircli rates ! Now the Bishop of Exeter , of course with an eye to the frolics of ghosts , insists that the fence shall be at least as tall us a
five-barred gate . Of course , too , he assumes that Dissenters are not practised in hunting , for they are al \ va 3 s middle-class ' parties , ' unversed in gentlemanly sports , and cannot clear a five-bar . An ingenious person thought to get over the fence difficulty by suggesting that there should be a trench ; and if it were
deep enough , that certainly seems the niors appropriate division . An invisible fence is the true protection against ghosts ; and if the Dissenter and orthodox were bent upon getting at each other to have it out , with their better information on the ]> oints in dispute between them , their proceedings would niost likely be subterranean .
Now these are the duties of High Church Bishops ,- —to maintain fences against tho depredations of ghosts , and to keep the riglit distinction between preevenient and subvenient grace . Probably a Bishop chosen out of any ordinary dinner-party , —any given Baking , for example , —• would be a useful check upon these ultra episcopal vagaries . The Bishops who have tho care of souls in foreign parts have not suffered us to foi'gct them . One French Bishop has been exerting himself to prevent Protestant boys from
infesting schools . The Bishops of Brussels and Bruges have been setting their faces against free education , —education by professors who-write in defence of Luther , Calvin , or Zwinglb . Throughout Italy , Bishops are equally endeavouring to prevent education . They find education so extremely injurious to * the soul ! ' And there is corroboration for this view . Certain inspired persons have lately offered themselves as ' mediums' between us and 'the spirits , ' and it w interesting to observe how extremely v .-vpiu and inane are tho replies and the conversa-
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 18, 1856, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18101856/page/12/
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