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more to the infallible [ private ] judgment of the good Protestants who founded the chapel ; because , forsooth , they cannot abide the idea that the thing for which they are now paying should belong , hereafter , to some persons diverging , more than * they do , from the Church which seceded from Rome . No ; their advance is final ; their pounds sterling are sacred against any further interpretation . We are recounting no imaginary case ; as some of our readers will know ; nor a singular one . More than one chapel is consecrated , for ever , to St . £ . s . d .
A powerless idol , in church or chapel , in council or Parliament . Not powerless over individuals truly ; but we appeal to the actual state of churches , to the actual state of public affairs , for universal and practical proof , that you cannot make Money the supreme ruler , except by debasing other and higher powers , to the destruction of national greatness , of safety , and of strength ; to the destruction of happiness and freedom for numerous classes . " Liberalism" has lent itself to that demon-worship , and now stands like Joan of Arc , abandoned by her familiars , fearing the future .
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WAK IN THE WEST : KENSINGTON . Affairs to the West of Hyde-park have taken a very serious turn ; the spirit of disaffection has spread from Notting-hill to the neighbouring state of Kensington , which has many interests in common with Bayswater . Our purpose this week , however , is to relate an episode in the general contest , to which we only alluded last week . We then mentioned the fact , that a diversion in favour of the Barbarians had been attempted on
the Eastern side of Kensington-gardens , but we had then no idea of the really grave nature of the case . From what has since transpired , it seems that the Barbarian interest has been able to effect a very high alliance ; that there is a traitor in the very councils of the Queen ' s Government ; and we have no hesitation in pointing out , as that traitor , Lord Seymour ! He has thrown off the mask ; and , for the present , is treating matters with a very high hand .
It is well known that he is making preparations to introduce a body of riders into Kensingtongardens . According to Sir Peter Laurie , some of this force , and especially the camp-followers , are not of the highest character ; but we do not desire to take advantage of any prejudices on that score . The case is bad enough as it stands . A deputation of aggrieved inhabitants waited the
upon Lord Seymour , on Tuesday , to represent strong feeling among the natives . It might have been expected that this deputation , including , as it did , gentlemen of the highest respectability , with the Archdeacon at its head , would have been received with some deference ; but we are not told that the chief condescended in any degree from the cavalier course which he seems to have marked out for himself . He will promise nothing .
Lord Seymour may have taken his measures to keep up the war at the Siouth-eastern side on a scale of great strength ; but he will find that he has miscalculated . We say this advisedly . We are not unaware that large bodies of troops are in readiness at no great distance from the scene ; and wo do not shut our eyes to the fact , that a strong force of men in blue uniform is stationed a little to the East . But Lord Seymour will find that this is not an affair of troops .
Meanwhile the wronged inhabitants have also taken their measures . The women and children have been placed in safety , and we have no doubt that they will be protected against any wudden incursion which the hostile chief may contemplate . The able-bodied men , between the ages of fifteen and sixty , arc very generally on the move . The inhabitants may he expected to rise every morning . A Provisional Committee is sitting to watch events , and act when necessary . Intentions have been expressed to turn Lord Seymour ' s position , by seeking an alliance with a yet higher functionary , the Head ( Jominisrfioner of the Exposition , (* rince
Albert . Surely Lord Seymour will not putui matters to such extremity as J . o draw the country into a civil war between Commissioner and (' omnuHnioner ? Certain it in , that th « inhabitants intend to hold public meetings ; and it is even said that ChurliNts have been hccii among them . In nhort , Baynwater and Kuntungton now present an exact counterpart with the Cape oi' Good Hope in its recent content against official despotism ; only that in thin in-Htance , the provocation is far more wanton . Sir Harry Smith was amuitioup to bo the founder of a new province , and the father of a new class in tho older colony , the convict class : inntead of being
the founder of a new province or the father of a class , Lord Seymour would be the founder of a new drive , and the footman of a class . We need not , however , hold out to the united inhabitants the successful example of the Cape : they too are Englishmen . ^__
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LADY ARUNDELX S APPEAL . Lady Akund ^ elx , of Wardour , has made an eloquent and affecting appeal to the Protestant English members of Parliament , against the ribald enactments proposed by Mr . Spooner ' a bill for treating convents like disorderly houses . If her letter falls upon unsympathising ears , it is not that the appeal is foolish , but that public men are degenerate in a sense more practical than commonp lace cant about " the degeneracy of the times . " The English legislators , represented by Mr . Henry Drummond . Mr . Spooner , cast abroad the most outrageous insult on
the ladies ; of the Roman Catholic faith , and propose to institute that insult as an enactment of law . Lady Arundell appeals to the manly sympathies of husbands and brothers ; and if her appeal has not an instant and peremptory force , we must confess that public men have sunk below that level of chivalry , or even gentlemanly feeling , at which an appeal to loyalty is resistless . It signifies something far worse for the country , then , than for the writer , when such an appeal can pass with a sneer or a slight . How different would it be if Lady Arundell had statistically convicted Mr . Spoon er of a financial blunder !
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A PASTOR AND HIS FLOCK . Gunthorpe rejoices in a distinguished man for its pastor—the Heverend John Henry Sparkes : he is not only Vicar of Gunthorpe , but Rector of Levington , also Prebendary of Ely , and yet further , Chancellor of the Diocese , with other ecclesiastical preferments : the whole yearly income is estimated at £ 6000 . Of course even so good a man cannot be in so many places at once , and the most that he can do for Gunthorpe , it seems , is to bless it with an annual visit . We are sure that that is the utmost extent of the possibility , because otherwise he would inevitably be seen oftener in the parish , which is not the case . The people of Gunthorpe , however , do not put this trust in his will , but think that he might do more if he would . Nor are they willing to take quality for quantity—one or two superexcellent sermons for fifty-two of the ordinary tissue . So they resolved on a tacit declaration of their mind . On Good Friday he ascended the pulpit , to preach the annual sermon ; when , by a singular coincidence , as he mounted , the churchwardens and the principal people left the church . There was some talk of his preaching again on Easter Sunday ; a very large congregation assembled ; but no Sparkes ! No Christian can forget the events which those days are intended to celebrate : wity then were they disturbed by this deadly demonstration ? Mr . Sparkes has held the living twenty years , and has received in that time , it is calculated , £ 18 , 000 ; for which the parishioners probably reckon an annual visit too small a return . But surely they cannot use the house of God as tho scene of a quarrel merely on commercial grounds ? They must have some much more serious explanation to give of theii motives . Meanwhile , let us ask , nre scenes like this beneficial to the Establishment , its influence , and stability !
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SKEING IS NOT UELIBVING . Jules Janin , the witty feuilletonist , who is now in London to chronicle the wonders of our Exposition , once began an article with this paradoxical and true remark , "I will narrate a circumstance which I believe to be true , although recounted to me hy an eye witness . " It is a monstrous fallacy to suppose that seeing is believing ; seeing is seeing—nothing more , nothing leas . Believing ia not simple faith in one ' s own sensations , but also a faith in the explanation of the cause of those sensutioiiB . Dr . Cullen was not ho far wrong in asserting that people were never less to be trusted than when relating whut they had seen .
It is not ho easy to see , as people blandly imagine . Even the cominonent facts ure reported by eye witness ™ with ev .-ry variety of error . On the opening of the Kxpohition , for example , the state of the weather was ho important as to direct univcrtml attention to it . Yet whoever read tho rcportfjof " eye witneHmV in the papers , otmervod that not a drop of rain fill , that ahowcru wen ; brisk tx \ ul frequent , that nil occasional shower brought out the beauty of the duy , Ac , < Sh ; . Between Hiiprrh weather , and only a ( tingle gleam of Htin « hine t there wan ovory dcurco of variution , noted oy eye witncBsca .
Theu ugain an to th « Queen ' s horni's , one » ai < l they were nix cream coloured , another four buyn , another two bayw ,. And the Leader , with HhaiutlcnH inconsistency , said in one edition that they were « ix buyH , and in another that they were two ciearim . Yor » , even wo enn err ! To imike thin general cuifuhioii in , oro confounded , an eyi > witm'HU , not a reporter , who « i » w tho carriage pans him , declared when we put the quention directly to him , that he did not know whether tho homes were bays or creams . To the newnpnpor reader the doubt , in hiio . Ii variety of assertions , uiimt occur who in right ? 1 h it . possible thut reporters can report things they have not soon ? Or doet > this contradiction on a thing ho opon to every eye a « the . weather , illustrate tho effect of prcpoHHCHttion in the looking at facts ?
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The World , of Letters is so unusually flat just now that we have rarely a bit of gossip to grace our columns with . Among the rarities here is one which our readers will welcome—a new book from Thomas Carlyle ! It may be remembered that some time ago Archdeacon Hake published a Memoir of the late John Sterling , which dissatisfied many of Sterling ' s friends by the tone it adopted , and many more , by the igvpruW : or ignorance of the fact that Sterling had completely emancipated himself from all religiousdogmas . The archdeacon treated him as if he had been no
more than a " rationalist , " whereas he was no " ist " at all . To set this and all other points in their true light , Carlyle has undertaken the biography pf his friend , and we hope he has availed himself of the occasion to say a few plain energetic words on the great subject . Sterling was one of the many who earnestly thought through dogmatism , if the phrase may stand , and passed various , stages ' what is regarded as orthodoxy , until he £ nally settled in that spiritualism which , with Catholicism , seems certain to destroy the present Church . It is commonly objected by the orthodox that modern scepticism has nothing
new in it , — that it is only a reiteration of the ancient scepticism . True , but modern answers to it are also but a reiteration of ancient arguments . We were struck by the ingenuity of Edward Miall ' s defence of Scripture in his remarkable work on British Churches va relation to the British People ( a second edition of which lies on our table ) , wherein he draws a parallel between the revelation of Scripture and the revelation of Nature . God ' s " method of manifesting himself , " says Mr . Miall , "is diffusive . " He has diffused his manifestation through the wondrous
varieties of Nature , and in like manner has he diffused his spirit through the varieties of history , biography , poetry , prophecy , symbol , allegory , and exhortation which crowd the Bible . Are these " difficulties" in seizing the true significance of each separate text ? Are these " contradictions " between one part and another ? Yes ; but not greater than the difficulties and contradictions of Creation . Study Creation , and its secrets will be unveiled to you , its processes will become visible ; study Scripture in the true spirit , and the same result will be attained .
This defence is ingenious . It m not , however , by the simple reflection that a penalty is attached to the nonrecognition of tho truths of Scripture , which completely destroys the parallel . If I do not rightly seize the meaning of Nature ' s enigmatical utterances , I am , of course , to sorr . e extent a sufferer : but if I do not rightly seize the meaning of these Scriptural enigmas I shall be consigned to everlasting liell lire ! ! Moreover , it is by no means clear that the universe was erected for man ' s especial instruction , whereas the very aim and purpose of the Scriptures is to give men certain definite rules of life , in which case obscurity is
cruelty . The argument , however , is by no moans a novelty : it is as old as Oiuoen , and may be found in that book of extracts compiled by Bahii , and Ghkgory of N A . ZI anzkn , from Oriokn ' h treatise Contra Celsum . These are the words ( Philocalia , ( ,-. 7 . ) : " The same kind , of diificulticH arc met with iu Nature a « ia Scripture . There is much in both which human nature cannot penetrate ; ijcverthe-Ichh , we are not warranted in finding fault with the Creator if we know not why basilisks and Horptmts are marie . " There is more to the waine effect : we
notice it merely as a literary coincidence . The llrilisfi Quarterly Keview ia inoro than usually attractive tliis number , varied in it » subjeetN and Hpiritod in treatment . The article French , Germans , and linylish , contains aorno ac \ ite re-
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Critics are not the legislators , but the judge 9-and PQliC § ot literature . They do not make 1 aws—they interpret ana try to enforce tnein . —Edinburgh Review .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 10, 1851, page 442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1882/page/14/
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