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off the Kings , particularly Bavaria and Saxony , against Prussia ; but if the latter is , for once , firm , Schwarzenberg will no doubt modify his pretensions sooner than go back to the old Diet ; for what he has more at heart than anything else is his great p lan of entering the Federation with the whole of the Austrian dominions ; whereby he hopes to gain a strong German backbone to that chaotic mass , and to relieve it from the unpleasant necessity of Russian support . To this plan , singularly enough , Prussia had given her consent ; with the view , it appears , that her influence will be the stronger for being a purely German power , and of becoming the real centre round which all German interests must in time group
themselves . In the midst of all this hopeless confusion and discord there is , nevertheless , one element which has gained consideration in the public mind , and some furtherance even at Dresden , and which will , in all probability , form the soil wherein the real eventual unity of Germany will take root and grow , leaving Schwarzenberg-Manteuffel controversies to settle themselves . It is what they call here the " material interests ; " matters of trade and industry , means and conveniences of earthly life , 41 the production and distribution of wealth , " as M ' Crowdy calls it . These mundane affairs will , to all appearances ,
and though one is sorry to find it to be the case , have to accomplish what was once done by religious Delphi temples , Olympian games , or other spiritual agenciesform bonds of union between men and nations . Verily Mr . Cobden will be Pontifex Maximus of a converted trading and free-trading world ! Who can doubt it , "when even Germany , the most ideal of countries , where ** material interests" cannot be mentioned without apology for talking of such gross and unimportant matters , has , willingly or not , to start the realization of its darling idea of unity ( not less a darling for being an idea ) from that same " material" ground . German journals
have taken to a way of writing that made one doubt ¦ whether they were not edited in Manchester or in the Strand : free trade , protection to native industry , capital , labour , reciprocity , independence of the foreigner , buying in the cheapest market , and the whole arcana of political economy , form the staple of daily controversy , showing both the rapid progress of the new religion and the aptitude and zeal of the neophytes . The long and the short of which is , that there is really an opening for seventy millions of people to trade together and to exchange commodities as friends and neighbours ; and though it may , at first , be under the condition of greater restrictions to " outer barbarians" than the Zollverein at present imposes , it is still worthy of consideration . The discussion is carried on
~ b y three parties : the people of the north , who are commercial and agricultural , and have read Adam Smith and Say , are for free trade absolute ; those of the south , who believe in Fried rich List , and wish to be manufacturing , are all for protection to native industry , for a great national fleet , and a great middle empire of seventy millions ; Prussia , with its Zollverein , founded , like the " English Prayer-book , upon a compromise , professing free trade and granting protective duties , stands between the two extremes , and receives kicks from both sides . Still it is allowed by everybody that , having succeeded in minting thirty millions of Germans for some purposes at Beast , it has deserved well of the country , and that new arrangements ought to be made by extending , not by destroying , it .
The committee for " material interests" at Dresden , together with the men of experience that were joined to it , are said to have agreed on various useful matters , 'Collected useful information , and suggestions , and others , and to have prepared reports that promise to lead to important results . The expectations from Dresden have never been great , so that these things , should they find a satisfactory settlement there , will be thankfully received . 80 hope . never dies . J . N . P . S . —Would you believe that the Protestants here are very angry with your Government for cutting down the JSoclesiastical Titles Bill to such small dimensions ?
" They would have liked a thundering bill of pains and . penalties . Any thorn in the Hide of Romanism is wol-• coine and dear to them ; they love it so much from near acquaintance ! One of the most singular results of the . movement of MB has been the revival of fierce religious animosity . The Catholics , the bonds of the state being loosened , have developed an immense energy of zeal and popular action , whilst to the poor enlightened Protestants , who have no Jesuit iiiiasionuries and preaching iriurs to send amongst the people , there is nothing left tout anger and wrath , " not loud but deep . "
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PURITY OF ELECTION-THE ST . ALBANS CASE . The disclosures made before the select committee of the House of Commons appointed to try the merits of the petition presented against the return of Mr . Bell for St . Albans , do not say much for the purity of restricted constituencies , or the h . onour « of the lawmaking classes . According to Mr . Sergeant Wrangham' 8 description , there are three political parties in St . Albans—the Blue , or Tory party ; the Crimson , or Whig party ; and a perfectly independent party , who form a sort of ' floating capital , " which is used as circumstances suggested . Mr . Bell 'having been
selected as a fitting person to represent the borough , Mr . Henry Edwards , a farmer in the neighbourhood , was appointed as his agent , and he , just before the election , hired a private house in the borough , which he opened for committee rooms , "where he was in the habit of seeing voters before the election , who were introduced to him , one by one , into a room up stairs , where he sat , and where gold was placed upon a table , which the voters , having made their promise to vote for Mr . Bell , took up and then retired . This performance was noticed with an . unfavourable eye
by some of the inhabitants of St . Albans , who determined to procure a candidate upon principles of 2 ) urity and independence , and for the purpose of trying the virtue of the borough of St . Albans . They accordingly invited Mr . Alderman Carden , who went to the poll with Mr . Bell . The result of the election was—For Bell 276 , for Carden 147 ; leaving sixty persons who did not vote at all , and making the total constituency about 483 . A large number of very respectable inhabitants of the borough did not vote for Mr . Bell , whose majority was mnde up of the poorer class of voters .
Prom the evidence it appeared that a person named George Howard , after having promised his vote to Mr . Bell , had gone to a public-house and treated all round , and held out a handful of gold , but he denied having received any money for his vote . Mr . Bayley , a reporter , stated that " election money" was the subject of general conversation at St . Albans , and bribery was a very common thing there . People talked about " bell-metal , " and £ f > was usually considered the price of a vote . But the committee wanted more specific evidence ; and several important witnesses having disappeared under very suspicious circumstances , advertisements were inserted
in the morning papers , bills sent to all the railway stations , and placards posted in all the chief towns . Meanwhile the committee adjourned , and on their reassembling , a Mrs . Elizabeth Edwards , living at Limehouse , refusing to tell where her brother-inlaw , Waggett , whs to be found , was given into custody . Terrified and contrite , she consented to be driven to his lodgings , but ho had been precipitately removed , and the frightened landlady identified Mr . Edwards of Sovereign-alley us the lawyer who had . supplied him with money and spirited him away .
Two of the missing witnesses were now forthcoming , but one Lynes prevaricated so much that the chairman ordered him into cust ody , and solitary confinement—which produced a great seiiHiition . Mr . James , Q . O ., at the instigation of the attorney for the other side , got a habeas corpus , hut the Hergeant-at-urms declined obeying it , and L ynes was according locked up till Monday morning . He then showed a better disposition , ' and wat * discharged ; but the committee resolved to Apply for a Speaker ' s warrant for the apprehension of Waggett , Edwar ds , and Haywanl , which was unanimously granted .
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' ¦ PROTESTANTISM . AND POPKKY . A diil ' ereiiM ! exists between the congregation of tit . Ann ' s , Soho , and the Bishop of . London regarding 1 ho Puseyiti ; practices pursued in thut . church . The- church warden states that the congregation is gradually dwindling awuy , that the income of the cUurcli ior . Uw your will not exwod Ju 30 , whilst the
lowest annual expenditure is £ 340 , that the parishioners are very much dissatisfied , with his lordship for ordering an evening service , in proof of which he mentions that only six persons have applied for pews out of a population of 16 , 000 . The churchwarden does not pretend to know " how far the forms introduced are sanctioned by the strict letter of the rubric , " but he knows very well what the result has been . " The parish church is deserted ; and , as if further to alarm that large class who look with suspicion upon any excess of •' ritualism , " in the newly-opened church ( St . Mary's ) , under the control of the rector , the most extravagant forms of "
histrionic" worship are indulged in , pandering to the morbid appetites of those who would seem to make religion a thing of sight and sound . " He concludes by stating that , as three months have elapsed without any steps having been taken to remedy these abuses , the general feeling of the congregation is " that the novelties introduced into the parish by the rector are tolerated , if not encouraged by their bishop . " The Bishop of London , in reply , dated March 27 , says he has caused inquiry to be made into the case of St . Ann ' s , Soho , and has satisfied himself that" there exists no ground of complaint respecting the mode of conducting divine service in that church . "
A few weeks ago an address was presented to the Queen , on the subject of Puseyism , signed by Lord Ashley and some two or three hundred thousands of those who hold similar opinions touching that heresy . The Queen has ordered the address to be sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury , who ought to be able to manage all that sort of disagreement , or else why is he Arch-Overseer ? Along with the address she instructed Sir George Grey to send the following letter to his grace : — " Whitehall , April 1 , 1851 .
" My Lord Archbishop , —I have received the Queen ' s commands to transmit to your grace the accompanying address , which has been presented to her Majesty , signed by a very large number of lay members of the United Church of England and Ireland , including many members of both Houses of Parliament . " Her Majesty places full confidence in your grace ' s desire to use such means as are within your power to maintain the purity of the doctrines taught by the clergy of the Established Church , and to discourage and prevent innovations in the modes of conducting the services of the Church not sanctioned by law or general usage , and calculated to create dissatisfaction and alarm among a numerous body of its members .
" I am , therefore , commanded to place this address in your grace ' s hand , and to request that it may be communicated to the Archbishop of York , and to the Suffragan Bishops in England and Wales , who , her Majesty does not doubt , will concur with your grace in the endeavour , by a judicious exercise of their authority and influence , to uphold the purity and simplicity of * the faith and worship of our Reformed Church , and to reconcile differences among its members injurious to its peace and usefulness . " I have the honour to be , my Lord Archbishop , " Your Grace ' s obedient servant , " G . Ghey . " His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury . " A select meeting of tradesmen and gentlemen in the united parishes of St . George ' s , Bloomsbury , and St . Andrew ' s , Holborn , was held on Saturday evening regarding the introduction of Roman Catholic priests among the children of the several London Unions , and that of the Holborn Union in particular . It was stated by one gentleman that in consequence of the admission of Catholic priests among the pauper children and adults of the metropolitan unions an organized system of proselytism has been carried on for some time . No resolutions were passed , but a hope was expressed that "in the numerous elections of guardians and directors of the poor , now in progress , none would be elected , or even proposed , but those professing sound and hearty Protestant faith and feelings . " The Reverend Mr . Blew , minister of the church of St . John , Rochester , Gravesend , hus been suspended for six months by the Bishop of Rochester . The church of St . John was originally erected by subscription und let out at different timea to different clergymen , and Mr . Blew ultimately became the proprietor by purchase . He hud succeeded in bringing a large congregation to the church , had formed a school , choristers , &c , but he had very imprudently
subscribed an address to J ) r . Wiseman , got up by certain clergymen of the High Church party , in which those whose names are attached regret the manner in which the Cardinal has been received in England ; address him as " your eminence , " express respect for his person and office as a " bishop of the church of God ; " and state that the " clamour of the many" in hit ) case "is not to be regarded an the unequivocal voice of religion and of the Church of England . ' '
We hour that the elder brother of the Bishop of Oxford was received into the Church of Rome a few < luys since , and that Archdeacon Manning , the brother-in-law of the bishop , " professed , " and was admitted into the Romish communion , at the Jesuits ' Church in Farm-street , on Sunday lust ; and on the same day , uutl tit tho buhio i > 1 ucc , was udmittod Mr .
ceremony , and was densely crowded . The Reverend Mr . Brown first explained the service to the congregation . Then came the hymn to the Holy Ghost , followed by the fifty-first Psalm ; a few prayers appropriate to the occasion were next read , and then the new converts read their recantation of Protestantism , or profession of faith , at the foot of . the altar . This done , the officiating priest pronounced over them absolution from all ecclesiastical censures ; the service being concluded by the chanting of the Te Deum , and an address by Dr . Newman .
James R . Hope , Q . C . —Standard . The statement regarding the Bishop of Oxford ' s brother has been contradicted . It has been known for some time that five clergymen , and twelve or ourteen of the laity connected with St . Saviour ' s , Leeds , had resolved on entering the Romish Church . On Thursday evening , several of them publicly made their recantation of Protestantism ; the others having done so privately . St . Anne ' s Catholic Chapel was appropriated to the
The Pope has refused passports to one of his bishops , and to several of his subjects , who were desirous of visiting London during the Exhibition . This disposes of the report th at the Pope was himself coming ; and we are glad of it , for the people of this country would have given a terrible lesson to the insulter of their Sovereign . (!) — Church and State Gazette .
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OUTliKKAK IN LONJJON NJiXT SUMMER . Fantastical rumours of a revolt in London next summer , recently circulated in Puria , are reflected from . America . Tho Mew York lhirald prolesHCH to sketch the cuin » uign . It seoum to bo thought that
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Leader (1850-1860), April 12, 1851, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1878/page/6/
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