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THE MOVEMENTS IN THE CHURCH. The Court o...
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GUIZOT ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. M. Guizot...
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PRANCE AND HER GOVERNMENT. The French Pa...
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THE RETURN OF THE POPE. The rejoicings t...
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Reform Conference. The Conference Of The...
to be given to Ireland , and that would be a capital argument for the same measure being given to Scotland . He concluded by congratulating the meeting on the peaceful manner in which reforms were carried in England , without Minister s houses being burned , or Kings or dynasties being set aside . It is because in England members of all classes ot the community are found cooperating together .
Mr . Bright complimented the meeting on the compromising character of the agitation . " Our course is to put this question in the most palatable shape , without offence to the frightened and timid ; and if we do not put forward impossible theories to overturn society , whereon to build our own schemeswhich may be effected hereafter as more in keeping with the times , but not to be effected in our lifetime I venture to say these classes will be won
over to our advocacy . At the termination of the Conference on Thursday evening , a soiree was held at the London Tavern , to which each member of the Conference had a ticket and the privilege of introducing a lady .
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The Movements In The Church. The Court O...
THE MOVEMENTS IN THE CHURCH . The Court of Queen ' s Bench was crowded on Thursday to hear the decision in the case of the Bishop of Exeter versus Gorham . Lord Campbell delivered judgment . The motion , he said , was for a rule to show cause why the Dean of the Arches and the Archbishop of Canterbury , should not be prevented from presenting the Reverend Mr , Gorham to the vicarage of Bamford Speke . The ground of objection was that Mr . Gorham had no right to bring the appeal from the decision of the Judge of the
Arches Court to the Privy Council ; the appeal , it Was contended , ought to have been made to the Upper House of Convocation . After a very attentive consideration , the court was of opinion that the objection was unfounded , and that Mr . Gorham had a right to pursue the course which he had taken . He referred to a number of cases to shew that the appeals from the decisions of the Court of Arches had always been to the King in Council , while no case could be found of an Appeal to the Upper House of Convocation . The judgment of the court therefore was that the rule ought not to go .
A meeting of the clergy of the East of London , not under archdiaconal jurisdiction , was held on Thursday week , at the rectory , Stepney , the Reverend R . Lee , Rector of that parish , in the chair , to consider the propriety of addressing the Bishop of London on the late decision of the committee of Privy Council on the Gorham case . An address of thanks to the Bishop of London , expressing a desire that the Church should bo permitted to meet in Convocation , was moved by the Reverend T . T . Bazeley , rector of Poplar . The following amendment was moved by the Reverend W . W . Champneys , rector of Whitechapel : —
" That , considering the present agitated state of the church and of the world , this meeting is of opinion that it would be most conducive to charity and peace to abstain from any expression of sentiment by an address to the bishop of the diocese or to the archbishop of the province . " A division was taken on this nmendment , the numbers were 25 on each side . The amendment being declared lost , the original resolution was then put from the chair , and negatived by a majority of 1 , the numbers being 25 for and 20 against the proposed address .
At a meeting of the London Church Union , held on Tuesday , tho subject of the proposed public meeting , to be held in London , with a view to a formal expression of the feeling awakened by the recent judgment in tho Gorham case , was taken into consideration . The committee ' s report having been read and adopted , it was agreed that a committee should be appointed , with instructions to enter into communication on tho subject with the various provincial unions , and with individual members of the clergy and laity in the diiferent dioceses . — The Guardian .
An address to the Bishop of Chester , signed by Lord do Tubley , Mr . Muinwaring , and several others , both of the laity and clorgy of the diocese , is now in course * of signature , praying his Lordship " to take counsel with his right reverend brethren concerning tho adoption of means which may enable the Church to declare in such terms us shall appear most effectual its doctrine touching the sacrament of baptism . "Chester ( Umrant . It is stated that a caso very closely resembling that nf the Reverend Mr . Gorham anil tho Bishop of Kxetor is likely to occur in the diocese of Gloucester
and Hnstol . ' 1 he magistrates having appointed the Reverend Mr . Simpson who is understood to be tho editor of a publication called Tim Protestant , to tho chaplaincy of the Ihuh-well , in that city , a number of tho high church cleigy have memorialised tho bishop , alleging th . it tho reverend gentleman holds tho heretical opinion that baptismal regeneration is not a doctrine of the Church of F . nglaiul , and praying his lordship , on that account , to refuse him the necessary license . It remains to be been what course the bishop will take in the matter , which has given
rise to a good deal of interest in the neighbourhood . — Daily News . An anonymous correspondent of the Guardian , in a long communication upon another subject , mentions incidentally that upon reading the letters that passed between Miss Sellon and Lord Campbell , he lost not a post in entreating Miss Sellon to allow him to double Lord Campbell ' s subscription towards her ** Orphan Home . " Upon this the editor of the Guardian remarks in a note— " If we are not misinformed , our correspondent might have doubled Lord Campbell ' s subscription without being the poorer for his liberality . We believe that his Lordship has never actually contributed a sixpence to the Orphan's Home . " [ This seems scarcely credible , considering the terms in which Lord Campbell spoke of his aid . ]
We have heard that Mr . Gorham ' s son , who is at Cambridge , has espoused a party the very reverse of his father ' s , and walks about with a large cross on his breast , and ostentatiously displaying other Catholic emblems . As the Prince of Wales used to surprise George the Third by kicking at his door , and shouting " Wilkes and the North Briton for ever I" so young Gorham regales his parent upon all occasions with ardent praises of Henry of Exeter . —Hull Advertiser .
Guizot On Religious Education. M. Guizot...
GUIZOT ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION . M . Guizot has come out in the character of a Protestant missionary . At the annual meeting of the French Bible Society , which was held on Wednesday week , in the Church of the Redemption , rue Chauchat , M . Guizot , vice-president of the society , delivered a long speech on the aspects of the age . The most pressing wants of society at the present day , he said , are faith , hope , and charity . " Those are the wishes , the appeals , which arise from
all parts . Everywhere the satisfaction of these wants is sought for . To obtain a little faith , charity , and hope , the most varied sources are had recourse to , but with little success . The aspirations towards faith are most frequently only the passionate anxieties of doubt , and doubt is again fallen into . Practical charity is general , active , and efficaceous . Never was more assistance given , or more individual misfortunes relieved ; and yet the relations which should be established between those who relieve and
those who are relieved only slightly exist . Practical charity ill attains its moral end ; neither one nor the other is mutually confident and tranquil . Never did more hopes , or hopes more ardent , break out , but they are scarcely anything else than the flights of the imagination in delirium or the transports of material appetites . Our society seeks everywhere a solid faith , an efficacious charity , a hope which calms and fortifies . But it does not find them ; and that because it seeks them where they are not to be found . Men demand from themselves their belief and their virtues ; they have the pretension to derive them from themselves , and themselves alone . But that cannot be . Men cannot be , in the great questions of their destiny , the inventors , the authors of faith , charity , and of their hopes . These wants are not satisfied at purely human sources . We must derive them from superhuman sources . "
He then went " on to show that is only from Christianity that men can derive these consolations . Eternal hopes can alone purify and ennoble the terrestrial hopes . Confined to the earth , our hopes transfer themselves into avidity and selfishness . " The adversaries of Christianity , while they attack it with fury , try to pass themselves off as its heirs and successors , and pretend that they walk in the path it has opened . This is falsehood and profanation . Nothing is more anti-Christian than the spirit of revolt and the spirit of licence . When Christianity first appeared there was a fine opportunity of propagating insurrection , and yet there was not the smallest trace of anything of the kind in the annals of that period . This was owing to the peaceful character of Christianity .
" This immense revolution was accomplished by moral action alone—by the moral and interior reformation of men ; that is , because Christianity is essentially submissive—submissive to God , submissive to established order . It has the spirit of liberty , and even of conscientious resistance , but no spirit of rebellion . It is also essentially severe ; licence is as hateful to it as revolt . It is madness to attempt to extend liberty and democracy by means of the relaxation of religious belief and of morals . Sincere belief and severe morals are indispensable to democracy and democratic liberty . The relaxation of opinions and of morals in a democratic society leads inevitably , first , to anarchy , then to despotism . See how the United States were founded . Do you think it was by tho relaxation of morals ? No ; the founders of the
Americanllepublicwere rigid for themselves and for others , and it was the spirit of rigidity which formed their strength and preserved them from the disorders and errors inherent in Democracy . Be assured that with the spirit of revolt nothing will ever be founded ; as Christianity has the secret of faith , charity , and hope , it is it , also , which has the true secrets of order and social regeneration in democratic societies more than in any other . Let the spirit of revolt and licence not Hatter itself , then , in being able to usurp the Christian work—there is absolute incompatibility between them . At the same time that Christianity can alone satisfy the want of faith , charity , and hope in our democratic society , it alone can give it the spirit of order , resignation , and severe morality , without which , it cannot subsist—at least with a
regime of liberty . Have , then , full confidence in your undertaking—it is essentially good , it responds to the greatest and most pressing interests and instincts of out time . Pursue it with ardour . Make Christians it is Christians that our society requires . "
Prance And Her Government. The French Pa...
PRANCE AND HER GOVERNMENT . The French Parliament have suffered a signal defeat in the Assembly , On a clause of the'Transpbrtation Bill . The penal code has provided that persons condemned to transportation shall be confined in the French territory until the law shall have fixed a place to which to remove them . Hence it follows that so soon as the new bill should be passed , the Government would have the power of transporting all those now under sentence , Barbes , Blanqui , and their companions of May , and those condemned at Versailles for the affair of last June . In the original bill , prepared by Odilon Barrot , a clause had excepted all those prisoners . The Government
threw out this clause , and attempted to carry the bill without it , pressing it on with some haste for the sake of getting Barbes and his friends out of the country . An amendment , that the law should be applicable only to crimes committed posterior to its publication , brought up Odilon Barrot , who made one of his best speeches in favour of the amendment , and in vindication of his own legal character . He could afford to invade Rome , but not to be thought so bad a lawyer as to frame retrospective law . The Minister of the Interior thought the question of retroaction might be settled by the law courts ; but the Assembly would not this time lend themselves to his appetite for vengeance . The amendment was carried by 365 to 301 votes . M . Baroehe talks about
resigning . Some rioting" has been put down at Saumur . A crowd was singing the Chant du Depart . As they neglected to separate so soon as ordered , the troops charged them . Several persons were seriously wounded . The President of the Republic has visited Angers , and distributed rewards among those most active in saving the lives of the soldiers in the late terrible accident . M . Proudhon ' s journal , the Voix du Peuple , has been for the seventh time seized—this time for remarks upon the accident at Angers , M . Proudhon speaking of the soldiers who were there drowned as Socialist victims .
The two journals published at Angers—the Precursetir and the Dimocratie—have also been seized for prosecution , because they demanded an enquiry into the catastrophe , calling upon the authorities to acquit themselves of the charge that the soldiers had been obliged to cross the suspension-bridge in order to avoid a certain part of the town . The National has also been seized for Commenting upon articles in the Napoleon , the Constitutionnel , and the Moniteur du Soir , in which articles the Government was called upon to change the constitution , and prolong its own power . The sale of the Evencment ( edited by the son of M . Victor Hugo ) and the Estafette is prohibited . Neither of these papers is of the extreme party , though both are opposed to the Government .
The Assemble Nationale says a meeting of Republicans is to take place in Paris at the end of the present month , to compare accounts of tho state of the provinces , in order to arrange a movement there to precede an outbreak in Paris .
The Return Of The Pope. The Rejoicings T...
THE RETURN OF THE POPE . The rejoicings that hailed the return of the once popular Pio Nono are painted by the " own correspondent" of the Times in glowing colours . First we have the rejoicings at Velletri , and then those at Rome ; and the accounts are worth attention . At Velletri , where on the happy morning of the 11 th , every one in the town " rushed about in joyful preparation , " As the day drew on the houses were " lost under a mass of scarlet and
green ; " troops were drawn out ; the municipality were in loyal advance . At three o'clock all w ; re waiting . Amidst the roar of the opening cannon from the height , General Baraguay d'llilliers dashes through the gates ; the chasseurs drawing , and the line presenting arms . Couriers and carriages with four and six horses follow : then a squadron of Neapolitan Cavalry , and immediately afterwards the Pope : —
" It was a touching sight . The women cried , the men shouted . As he passed on the troops presented arms , and every one knelt . He drew up in front of the Municipality , who were so affected or bo frightened that their speech ended in nothing . The carriage door was opened , and every one rushed forward to kiss the foot which was put out . One little Abbe caught hold of the sacred foot , he hugged it , he sighed , he wept over it . " The Pope passed in procession to the cathedral , which was densely crowded " principally by troops . " On the raising of the Host his Holiness , " with all his subjects , " bowed their heads to the pavement . The ceremonies of the day closed with the benediction from the Palace , a small chapel having been
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Leader (1850-1860), April 27, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27041850/page/4/
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