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been chasing the refugees , and , it is said , by the Journal des Ddbats , that a communication from the English Legation was received on the 15 th by the Federal Government , protesting against the sending of refugfes to England . Will no member of the Lower House ask Lord Palmerston what this means ? In Hesse Darmstadt both Chambers have refused to prohibit music and dancing on Sunday . Warsaw , at the order of the Czar , is to be lit with gas , and supplied with water " from the Vistula .
An imperial decree was published at Vienna on the 18 th , containing the organization of the Conseil d'Etat , which has to prepare the laws , and to give its opinion as to the measures to be taken by the Ministry . The president of this b » ard is Baron Kubeek , Minister of Finances under Prince Metternich . The members of the council are M . Purkhart , Baron Bunl , Baron Krieg , Count Francis Zichy , M . Ladislas Szogyeni , Count Hugo Salm , and MM . Baumgartner and Salvotti . M . Purkhart is a man of eighty . He held the office of councillor of the state before the revolution . Baron Buol belongs to the extreme Catholic party , to the Jesuitical one ; he too was is
councillor of the state before 1848 . Baron Krieg the well-known Government president of Galicia during the massacres of 1846 . Count Francis Zichy ¦ was under state secretary in the Ministry of Count Batthyany ' s ; he represents the Russian party . He married a Polish , heiress whose large estates are in Russia , and in consequence of his Russian connections he becatne Austrian commissary to the army of Prince Paskievitch during the Hungarian campaign . Ladislas Szogyeni is a man of talent ; he was Vice-Chancellor of Hungary in 1847 ; his integrity has always been highly esteemed , but he was known as the great friend of centralization , and acted as a tool of the anti-constitutional tendencies of Prince Metternich .
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CHURCH DISCIPLINE . The notoriety of St . Saviour ' s , Leeds , increases rather than diminishes . Every one is asking -whom will Dr . Pusey , the most influen ial trustee , appoint ? The Bishop of Rip <> n , replying to the address of the fortv clergymen , distinctly intimates that he " cannot control the trustees in their choice" of a new incumbent who shall conciliate the confidence both of himself and the Church ; that he has no hope that Dr . Pusey will be in the slightest degree influenced by his wishes ; that in the case of an incumbent presented by a patron to a benefice , unless the bishop can convict the individual of heresy , he has no ground
torefuse him institution onthegrouiidof false doctrine . This must be a comfortable assurance to Dr . Pusey . The Bishop of Ripon , in the same letter , mentions that he is about to publish a history of St . Saviour's from its first commencement down to the recent proceedings . Some facts are already patent . Alter all , the congregation is said only to amount to about eighty persons . The clergy and laymen who have seceded to Rome seem to have held on to the Church to the latest moment . An eyewitness , " for the substantial correctness of whose communications the Leeds Intelligencer vouches , narrates some curious evidence on this head . He says that only a year ago
the Reverend S . Rooke did his utmost to prevent the secession of two persons to Rome ; that not very many months ago the Reverend T . Minster pronounced the " divinehonours and addresses given to the Blessed Virgin by the Roman Catholics to be perfectly blasphemous ; " that only four Sundays ago the Reverend R . Ward received holy communion at St . Saviour ' s altar , and on Friday in the same ¦ week ho was received at a Romish Church in Birmingham . He also only a few weeks since assured one of the congregation of St . Saviour ' s that he felt more disinclined than ever to join the Church of Rome . The Reverend H . Coombs celebrated Holy
Communion Sunday before last at St . Saviour s , and on Wednesday in the name week read the Litany in the same church , and yet he also was received on the following day at St . Ann ' s , Leeds . W . P . Neville , Esq ., who had no intention of going to the Church of Rome a day or two before , actually lighted the gas at St . Saviour ' s for evening prayer at half-past seven , and was reading his recantation at the foot of the altar of St . Ann ' s a little past eight on the same These facts worth notingHow
evening . " are . many more are liable to secede at the shortest notice ? Three hundred , as Mr . Bright intimated the other day at Manchester ? It is true that the late Reverend Mr . Crawley has written from St . Anr / n , vaguely denying " Borne of the statements , " and asserting that " others" have been misrepresented ; but the Leeds Intelligencer adopts , an its own , the facts above narrated , and very nuturally asks Mr . Cravigey for more specific , refutations . The * ' eyewitncHB" in one of the flock of St . Saviour ' s who has not seceded ; therefort ; some consideration in duo to his testimony . Various rebukes have lately been given to the Puseyito clergy , and a spirit hostile to thorn is getting abroad . The Dover Chronicle states that " some lay gentlemen of influence 1 ihv « j dcti . Tiiiincd , an a first » t . ep towards putting down Tracturian innovations in the manner of conducting the services of tho Church , to proceed ecclesiastically against a clergyman in the archdeaconry of Mtudntoiie , who , in opposition to tho
Archbishop of Canterbury ' s remonstrances , persists in the use of obsolete and unauthorized customs . " The " novelty" of candlesticks was introduced , on Easter Sunday , at St . Paul ' s Church , Birmingham , by the incumbent and patron , the Reverend G . B . P . Latimer , who , adverting to the "lights on the altar , " in a circular freely distribute . ' in the pews , defended them as being enjoined by the Rubric . Some of the congregation were manifestly annoyed , and others highly indignant .
While the flock of Mr . Latimer still tolerate his Tractarian practices , the people of Uttoxeter have not shown the same deference to the curate . Here , however , the minister only preached Puseyite doctrineit < ioes not appear that he offended in the matter of candlesticks . Whereupon , the Staffordshire Advertiser tells us , a resolution was drawn up , signed , and handed to Mr . Broughton , the vicar , the terms of which were , that if the reverend offender entered the pulpit again they should leave the church in a body . On Palm Sunday the ' offender" did enter the pulpit , and the main of the " offended" marched out of the church . The curate duly preached to the faithful who remained behind .
The Bishop of Manchester is the hero of a curious story connected with church discipline , having all the point and some of the humour , quite unintentional we are sure , of a farce . The Reverend Mr . Alsop , of Westhoughton , falling sick , wrote to the Bishop for permission to employ a curate in the performance of his duties . Dr . Lee replied that he would give permission if Mr . Alsop would undertake that the curate should not preach in his surplice , to which condition Mr . Alsop agreed , excepting only on some particular days , when it would be " inconvenient" not to don the white garment . To this the Bishop appears to have absented . But the formal permission did not arrive at Westhoughton , and Mr . Alsop , being anxious , wrote for it again . The Bishop ,
interposing a new obstacle , now inquired whether Mr . Alsop would guarantee the payment of the curate ' s stipend . When Mr . Alsop said he would , the Bishop hinted that he thought Mr . Alsop could not affoid to do so . Upon this the churchwardens wrote , stating that they were anxious for a curate , and that the Curates' Extension Society would provide the funds . Now comes the singular point of the story . One would think that the matter was about to end amicably . Not at all : the Bishop finishes the drame by intimating that he will answer no more communications ! and so for the present the matter has ended . It is so inexplicable that we are tempted to think there is something not yet made public which will account for the mystery .
Sir John Harington has submitted to Mr . Badeley , the barrister , a " case" for opinion respecting the crosses removed from the altars of St . Paul ' s and St . Barnabas by the order of the Bishop of London . The coss of St . Paul ' s was of wood , that of St . Barnabas of metal . The wooden cross was not fastened , but removable at pleasure ; the metal cross was cemented in its place on the super altar . The incumbent , with the assistance of the churchwardens , Mr . Briscoe and Sir John Harington , were ordered to remove them . Sir John was out of town , and Mr . Briscoe , without consulting his colleague , obeyed the mandate of tne Bishop . Some of the parishioners have demanded the restoration of the crosses , and Sir John desired to know whether consecrated crosses could be removed
at the will of the Bishop ; whether one churchwarden alone could legally remove them ; whether Sir John was bound to restore them in obedience to the wishes of the parishioners ; and whether Mr . Briscoe , having the Bishop ' s order to act , was exempt from parochial lesponsibility ? The gist of Mr . Badoley ' s opinion upon the first and second questions is that he is " inclined to think " that the Bishop acted "improperly , " since he had consecrated the churches , and , therefore , the crosses , which then became the property of the parishioners ; but Mr . Badeley is not at all decided in that opinion .
As to the third question , he thinks that Sir John Harington " may and ought to restore the crosses to their former places , particularly if the parishioners express a desire to have them . " His opinion on the fourth is , that the Bishop would and could effectually protect Mr . Briscoe . And the advice he gives to Sir John is " to restore the crosses to their original position , and leave the Bishop to proceed against him , if he sees fit to < lo ho ; giving notice to his eo-churehwarden that such removal was improper , and that he will not allow the crosses to be again disturbed with out a formal process of the ccclesitiMiieul court . "
While there in strife m the Church , and few , if any , know what " the Church" is , it has yet , been thought proper to present Jin address to the Queen , in which her Majesty is informed that " there is an absolute and immediate necessity for the extension ol theparoehiid syHlcin ; " that <>() 0 additional churches , at a cost of £ 2 , 100 , 000 are needed ; that £ lftO . a-year are required for the support of such churches and of their ministers ; that a sum of £ ' 240 , 000 would thm he wanted for parsonage houses ; ihut merensed Hchool ae < ommodution for more than 200 , 000 children would also be required ; that a further ruliNUneiit . of 1000 seriptuie readers was nmtit desirable ; mid that « n increase in tho ojoiacoputo w « a al » o rioceaaury .
This address has been signed by the two archbishops , eight of the bishops knov / n in popular phraseology as low church bishops , three dukes , one important as being the premier ' s brother ; eighteen earls , two viscounts , eleven barons , fourteen peers sons , me Speaker of the House of Commons , and forty-five members of the lower House of Parliament , eight of whom only are of the liberal party , but amongst whom are Mr . Disraeli , and Mr . Sidney Herbert .
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CATHOLIC CLAIMS . The minor members of the Stanley party in the House of Commons have not succeeded in restraining their ill-concealed antagonism to the Catholic claims within the mild limits prescribed by their noble leader and Mr . Disraeli . Mr . Walpole has given notice of a series of amendments on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill , to be moved in committee , which , in effect , will reconstruct the bill in a shape more formidable to the Catholics than the Whig measure . He will move a new and decided preamble , reciting the act of the Pope , and declaring that the powers conferred by the rescript on the bishops , are " contrary to the laws and
customs" of the realm ; and further that the said powers are " usurpations and encroachments in manifest derogation of the Queen ' s authority . " This preamble is followed by a clause , to stand as clause 1 of the bill , which will render " unlawful and void " everything done by virtue of the present brief , rescript , or letters apostolical ; furthermore prohibiting the introduction of any brief or rescript for any purpose from the Holy See , in any part of the " United Kingdom , under penalty of £ 100 for the first offence , and banishment for the second , at the suit of any person in one of her Majesty's superior courts of law . Upon these amendments the Dublin Freeman ' s Journal exclaims : —
" The mask has at length fallen ! For the last two months Lord Stanley and his friends have dexterously evaded the revelation of their purpose regarding the Catholic Chuich in these realms . As a party they saw the ruin which had come upon their antagonists' power in consequence of abandoning the principle of religious freedom . They naturaLy sought to win over the alienated supporters of the Whigs , ani had they dared for once to be generous or just ., they might "to some extent have been successful . They have proved themselves incapable of either ; their counter project of persecution , after due deliberation , has been at last proclaimed , and it is worthy of its authors and their cause . "
The new bill " to prevent the Forcible Detention of Females in Religious Houses , " has aroused strong feelings in the Irish female mind . Upwards of 1000 names have been already signed at the foot of a petition to the Queon , by the women of Dublin , against this bill , which they allege is professedly to protect , but really to degrade them . Their petition is novel and curious . They protest that they do not require protection " against a mode of life which they have ever believed one of evangelical perfection , and at once an honour to their religion and the pride of their sex , and which they vainly supposed would have dhielded them from the wanton calumnies and
unprovoked insults of gentlemen in that assembly , which , excluding ladies from all share in its constitution and deliberations , yet iniquitously arrogates to itself the right of disposing their reputations , fortunes , and lives . " The third clause of the petition is no less startling and spirited : —
" 1 he undersigned cannot avoid expreasint ? their conviction that had the Parliament been as anxious to take advantage of the valuable services of those admirable ladies for the instruction and improvement of our oppressed and injured 8 ex , they would not at this clay be engaged in framing a bill which—Oh , shame to its propounders !—adds another to our wrongR , by implying a . peculiar propensity to assassination in women , and to Hunction which your Majesty ' s Royal nsscnl may soon be r < quired . Those who dare to make thin odious , ubominable distinction , but to , ) well know that umidst all the wrongs and provocations to which our Bex is unhappily condemned , how much more rare are the infringements of the laws of God and . man by women than by those who accuse us . "
While the ladies of Dublin are petitioning , John of Tuam has been presiding over a kind of synod , in which resolutions have been passed condemning Mr . Walpole- ' a amendments ; eulogizing the Irish members who vote against Ministers , urging them "to hurl the present Ministers once- more from oflice" lesson to their successors ; and finishing off with a turgid peroration in ihat style to which the public are accustomed from the ; I . ion of the fold ofJudnh . Foiiito'ii young girls and one youth have been confirmed by the Reverend Dr . , Spenner , ex-Bishop of Madras , in the Knglish Protestant ( 'Impel , outside the Porto del l ' opolo at Rome . The . Pupal Government allowed the ceremony to j > aHH over without notice .
A piece of Papal grandiloquence Inmjust been published in the nhiij > o of a Latin decree ; by Cardinal Lumhi u .-ehini . He announces that it is the will of the 1 ' on tiff that tlic l / iihof'July , the Cent ivulol " the . violation ol the lile .-. sed Virgin , should be henceforth for ever religiously observed by all the nalioiiH ol * thewoild , with double rites of ihe second cliihti , on account of its being the eventful day on which , in the words ol the document iluclf , * tuo yoke of thoac who occu-
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April 26 , 1851 . ] 3 Kf ) e tL * a&l ?« 383
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Leader (1850-1860), April 26, 1851, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1880/page/3/
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