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Rather a miscellaneous week in Parliament opened with the adoption of the Ministerial demand for the continuation of the income tax , unimproved . * Mr . Herries moved the amendment devised at the Protectionist meeting in Lord Stanley ' s house ; on the motion to go into committee of the whole to grant the tax as before , he proposed to abate the amount of the tax ; as the loss of revenue
which it was intended to cure , is met by increasing revenue—in other words , to use the surplus towards the diminution and ultimate abrogation of the income tax . The Chancellor of the Exchequer stuck to his argument , that the tax is still necessary to cover the further measures in completion of the Free Trade policy ; and he urged the old ' * difficulties" against improving the mode of levying the tax . The vote was a mere party vote" Liberal" against Protectionist ; and the Protectionist offer was rejected by 278 to 230 . The speech of Mr . Thomas Baring indicates more than a Conservative sympathy with the Protectionistsit attests the feeling against the tax in the City . But Lord John Russell knows that his seat is
already forfeited . On the question of church rates they have been more flexible , and the Premier has assented to Mr . Trelawney ' s motion for a committee . Why there should be a committee we can scarcely guess ; since church rates are a subject tolerably well known to us ; at least to those who are old enough to remember Charles Childs of Bungay . But
perhaps the committee may be granted for the use of the rising generation ? In most cases , to refer a a subject to a committee is to bury it in a blue book ; and there is the greater chance of that result now , since there is no present agitation on the ¦ ubject ; but we see some probability that it will become a matter of active agitation ; and then the blue book will be an opportune contribution .
The bishops and the clergy are doing their best to give the subject of Church temporalities a new importance . We saw lately the quieting address issued by the twenty-four prelates to the clergy of the provinces of Canterbury and York , ana we , now see the nullity of effect produced by that document . The same discords continue in the Church without the slightest abatement ; quite the contrary . At Leeds , five clergymen leave the Church of England for that of Rome ; but the Church sustained a more grievous loss in the single person of Archdejicon Manning , who was received into the Roman Church , on Sunday last , in Londoni The loas of bo distinguished a person has caused no small consternation among the farseeing members of the laity .
At Rochester occurs another mischievous incident : Mr . Blew , the vicar , writes to Cardinal Wiaeman , disclaiming the virulent sentiments expressed by ho many Proteatmitu ; soiuc person draw / a the I Town Edition , ]
attention of the bishop to that fact , but he takes no notice ; his attention is again drawn , through Lord Ashley , and then the bishop suspends Mr . Blew from his clerical functions for six months . Meanwhile , the suspended clergyman continues his activity in the parish as the guide , philosopher , and friend , the dispenser of charity to the poor . In Rochester , therefore , the Church stands in the moat unfortunate position—the bishop first trying to avoid the exercise of authority , next enforcing his power on the suggestion of a particular party in the Church , and finally placing that party and the ecclesiastical government in antagonism to a parish clergyman who impersonates active piety .
The Bishop of Rochester is not alone in his embarrassments . The churchwarden of St . Ann ^ , Soho , has been corresponding with the Bishop of London , and trying to extort authority to settle the disastrous state of affairs in that parish . The annual expenditure of the church amounts to £ 340 , the income to £ 80 ; and the number of the congregation seems to be progressively diminishing—a consequence of Puseyite practices . The Bishop declines to interfere ; and within the limits of the address lately issued we do not see on what ground he could very well interfere . Meanwhile , however , the church interest in this parish goes to ruin .
These incidents are not more calamitous than than that witnessed in the church at Brighton , where , in the exercise of rubrical rigour , the Reverend Arthur Wagner aroused the parental anxieties of Lord Londesborough , and practically repelled the peer ' s first-born from baptism under pain of a cold shower-bath , which might have been very injurious if not fatal . Many sincere frmuds of the Church cast all the blame of these detrimental scenes on the Puseyite party : but we cannot do so . We cannot withhold from that party the same credit for honest motives
which is claimed by the three or four hundred thousand persons who have just approached the Throne , through the address promoted by Lord Ashley and others , asking for effectual interference . The Putteyites are really less antagonistic than the others : they entertain strong opinions on the subject of regular and emphatic manner in religious observances : but , content to illustrate their own views in practice , they have made no systematic attempt to cast out the Ultra-Evangelical party
which ho strangely remains within the Establishment . Meanwhile , the Crown has referred the Ashley address to the Bishops , who will be obliged to rcdiscuss the subject . The desideratum , if it were possible-, is some enunciation of principles broad enough to embrace diversities of opinion , and yet so positively enunciated , illustrated and enforced us to impart life , once more , to the discipline , practice , and iniluencoof the Church . How the events of the week illustrate this want ! Lord Ashley is best employed in such practical , legislative Good-Christianity as engaged him on TuouuW , i » advancing his bill " to encourage the
construction of lodgings for the working classes . " Our readers know how much such a measure ia needed , to support and extend the utility of those philanthropists who have been before the Legislature , such as the members of the Society for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes . In the course of this debate Lord Claude Hamilton drew from Mr . Labouchere the statement , that Ministers are considering some measure to
render charters of association less expensive . Are Ministers in friendly communication with Mr . Slaney on that subject ? They should be so . In passing , let us note , for the edification of many friends , the progress which the principle of association has made , now that it is becoming , however humbly at first , a commonplace in debate and legislation . Some have doubted the policy of lending to the associative mission the impulse of a political infusion : we point to the passing facts .
Sir William Molesworth ' s proposal to save £ 1 . 600 , 000 a-year on the military expenditure for our Colonies " properly so called , " was met ? by Ministers , with Whig faith , as a proposal to relinquish our Colonial empire . Government has been in sharp contest with London City , and the Commons have decided by 240 to 124 not to " enlarge , " but , by 230 to 65 , to " remove " Smithfield Market . The scheme of the
Corporation would have effected a very great combined improvement—reorganizing the market , routing out the " bad neighbourhood " west of the market , and establishing model lodging-houses in lieu of the bad neighbourhood ; if sanctioned by Parliament , it would have been accomplished . The Government scheme ia more thoroughgoing , and Ministers are pledged by their victory not to leave it a mere paper project .
Some curiosity was felt as to the reception which Ministers would have at the City dinner on Wednesday , after the Smithfield contest : there was no breach of the say-nothing ^ decorum ; and the only incident worth note was the anticipative welcome offered to those foreigners whose aggregation in London during the summer causes bo much alarm to the Republican editor of the New York Herald and the Democratic proprietor of a London paper I The most startling piece of foreign news comes this week—from Spain ! There has been " storm in a teapot "; an angry discussion in the Cortes
respecting the new arrangement of the national debt , and Ministers have resorted to that ultima ratio of men in power—they have dissolved the Chamber . The reelection must take p lace within three months . Till then the debt will be laid to Hleop—previously to its final repudiation . Prussia and all her retinue of helpless Princeswith the IJariNc Towns , and other of the minor German States—have seizc-d upon the happy idea of a restoration of the Diet with an almost ludicrous alacrity . The three years' revolution of Germany is , then , to bo considered " nil a mistake . " If the German people put up with such a finale they wfll dcMi'V *
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VOL . II . —No . 55 . SATURDAY , APRIL 12 , 1851 . Price 6 d .
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"Thb one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea or Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views and by setting aside the distinctions of- Rehafion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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Nbws of the Week— Page Murders and Suicides 340 The Lord ' s Anointed 345 Progress of the People—Parliament of the Week 334 Miscellaneous 311 Literature- The Cl . arust Convention &H > The Mayor ' s Dinner to Ministers .. 336 Public Affairs— LifeofPenn 346 Letters to Chartist 3 d . H A Review of Continental Politics .. 336 The Income Tax Ministers and the Spencer ' s Social Statics £ 47 Open Council—The German Chaos 337 Income Tax Members .. 343 Books on our Table 34 . 8 Reply to Mr . Spencer s Views on Pro-Protestantism and Popery 338 Labour , its Anarchy and Mortality .. 341 Portfolio— perty . .. - *> - The St . Alban ' s Case 338 Austria , the Ever-reen ... 344 De Omnibus Rebus 349 fcomamst Liberality ............. 3 > i Outbreak in London next Summer .. 338 Sir Charles Wood ' s Confession 345 Thb Arts— Ihe Manner in n-hich Anti-Papal The "New Man " at Frankfort .... 339 Underpaid Bishops 345 Masaniello 3 ) 9 Petitions are got up .. &-A Reverend Lothario 339 Mr . Calcraft at Home 345 La Sonambula J 49 Prize Essays .... ioi Crime in Suffolk 340 The Franklin Search 345 European Democracy— Commercial Affairs—AStrangeAffair 340 Lord Stanley and the Churchmen .. 343 GeneralBem 350 Markets , Gazettes , &c .. *>* - *
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Leader (1850-1860), April 12, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1878/page/1/
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