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continues to be the leading topic of newspaper polemics . M . Leon Faucher has resumed his duties as Minister of the Interior . At the head of the list of a fresh batch of Chevaliers of the Legion of Honour , created on Wednesday , is a lady named Brulon ,- who enjoys the rank of a lieutenant of Invalides , and whose long military history is probably without a parallel in Amazonian annals . She is the daughter , the sister , and the widow of a soldier . Her two brothers died on the field of battle in Italy . Her husband was killed at Ajaccio in 1791 . The following year she entered , at the age of twenty-one , in the Forty-second Regiment , in which her father was serving . She was allowed to remain , although her sex was known , and she made seven campaigns between the years 1792 and 1799 , rising though the several gradations of fusileer , corporal , quarter-master-corporal , and sergeant . In 1794 she
commanded a detachment of her regiment , and repulsed an attack upon the fort of Gesco , on which occasion she was wounded in each arm . Afterwards , at the siege of Calvi , she received so severe a wound in the left leg that she was disabled , and on the 24 th Frimaire , 1799 , she was admitted into the Hospital of the Invalides . She received from Louis XVIII . an officer ' s commission , in these words : —" This day , October 2 , 1822 , the King being in Paris , having full confidence in the valour , good conduct , and fidelity of Madame Angelique-Marie-Joseph Duchemin , Widow Brulon , his Majesty has conferred upon her the honorary title of sub-lieutenant of Invalides , to take rank from this day . His Majesty desires that his general and other officers to whom it may appertain , will recognize Madame I ? uchemin , Widow Brulon , in this capacity . " Lieutenant Widow Brulon , Chevalier of the Legion of Honour , is now eighty years old .
The Lith . Corres . announces that the German Catholic Church of Austria has been declared to be illegal by a government ordinance , and that the members of this church are forbidden to meet together for the purpose of public worship under a severe penalty of fine or imprisonment . The Conzt . Zeit . affirms that the Emperor of Russia has expressed his satisfaction at the protests of England and France against the admission of the whole Austrian monarchy into the confederation , and that a note to this effect had been forwarded from the Court of St . Petersburg to the Courts of " Vienna and Berlin .
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Orders were received yesterday afternoon at the Royal Mews , Pimlico , from the Master of the Horse , to forward a sufficient number of horses from the royal stud , carriages , and servants , for the service of her Majesty , Prince Albert , and the Court , to the different points at which they may be required in the route of the illustrious travellers . A reception room for the use of her Majesty is being fitted up in the best style at the Doncaster station . So far as present
arrangements stand , her Majesty will leave Osborne early in the morning of Wednesday , the 27 th instant , and reach the terminus of the Great Northern Railway , at King ' s-cross , at half-past one o ' clock in the afternoon . After staying a night at Doncaster , the Queen will proceed to Edinburgh , where she will arrive on Thursday afternoon . She will stay that ni ght at Ilolyrood Palace , and start for Balmoral , at ei lit o ' clock , on Friday morning .
A requisition from a number of the inhabitants of Ilolywell-street and the neighbourhood has been presented to the churchwardens of St . Clement Danes , requesting them to convene a vestry meeting of the parishioners , for the purpose of considering the best course to be adopted for the suppression of the numerous shops in that street for the sale of publications of an immoral tendency . The removal of the heavy stone parapet , and the immense weight of soil from the crown of the defective arches of Dlackfriars-bridge , has had the desired effect , and the subsidence , which created no much alarm hus entirely ceased . Massive timbers , extending from pier to pier , thiiH relieving the arches from all burden , have been laid down on these , the carriage way iH being constructed , and in the course of a few daya the bridge will be re-opened for public traflic .
J he proceedings in the cane of Cole , the policeman , who is charged with having caused the death of William Cogan , alias John Hull , were continued before Alderman Wilson yesterday . lie was ultimately remanded till Tuesday , but was not allowed to go at large till he had iound bail ; two sureties in £ /}() each . We shall give the substance of the examination next week . The great yacht match at C'owes yesterday resulted in the defeat of the English yachts by the clipper America . Ihe start was brilliant . Mighleen yachts , of various tonnage , contested for the prize . The Alarm and America were the lust to get . away from their moorings ; but oil Ryde the foreigner shot ahead of all her competitors , and continued gradually to increase the gap between them . The America readied the winning Hiation at thirty-four minutes past eight ; the Volante about twentynve minutes afterwards .
Ihe question of establishing steam communication between ' Ireland and America was discussed in Dublin <> n Thursday at a very well attended meeting , which was held at the invitation of the Lord Mayor , in the Mansion-house . Resolutions were panned ufHriu-»» 'K the neceBHity of having the apeediest poHHiblu ime of communication with Ireland and America . A provisional committee , consisting of the Lord Mayor , the Lord Mayor-elect , Colonel La Touohe , J . Pirn , « Napier , M . l \ , and . J . Whiteside , M . P ., P . Sweetman , •>¦ Hurlow , — Moylan , G . A . Hamilton , M . P ., and nui (; i » Codd , linq ., were appointed to institute the nectHtti . ry measures for the promotion , of a company , with « ' » instructio n to adopt the largest bauiH consistent with r . in V ° < ' »« y , to combino tho sympathy ami cor poration of overv oIrbb in Ireland . - ' * ' ¦
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CATHOLIC , NOT PROTESTANT . Protestantism is rapidly declining in these our days . It has served its purpose j it has spiritually revolutionized Europe ; it has broken the iron despotism of Rome . Essentially a state of transition , it has necessarily been attended with the evils of transitional existence , —doubt , indifference , and antagonism . And now it goes on its way towards the things that were .
All Christian sects have aimed , if not to be Catholic , at least to belong to that which is Catholic . In all " persuasions , " that which is worth anything is not the negative portion , but the positive ; and it is the Catholic portion of all faiths which is that positive part ; it is the salt which keeps them sweet ; it is the essential , the governing power . The true Catholic religion , therefore , would be the most perfect spiritual government ; and by this , we do not mean spiritual despotism . Protestantism is , however , the reverse of government—it is revolution ; it is only , it can only be the negation of something else that is false ; and the establishment of the principle of that negation as a substitute for a positive faith . However needful that negation may have been , it is still no more than negation .
How , then , can Protestantism lead us anywhere but where it has led—even to domestic contention , anarchy , and spiritual paralysis . Look upon the religious state of England . We see Protestantism in perfection ; it culminates , it is now falling by its own disruptive power . Practically , the Church of England seems to vindicate its own existence and essence , above all things , by denying the Pope ; while a great meeting of freemen , this week , in Dublin , provoked by Whig persecution ,, swears by the Roman image of Absolutism and denies the denier . Dissent denies the authority of the Church of England ; and nationalism denies the foundations of
Dissent . Puseyism denies Gorhamism , and Gorhainism flings back the denial in no mincing phrase . Calvinism denies Erastianism , and fervently records its sentence of eternal damnation ; and in more courtly language Episcopacy damns Presbyterianism . To crown all , the Roman Catholic denies the right of private jndginent ; and , as in duty bound , private judgment denies everybody else ' s judgment . The great net result of Protestantism , after years of toil , it may be years of bloodshed also , is but the establishment of the negative of the thing impugned—not spiritual freedom and concord , but spiritual anarchy and contest .
I his state of things is by no means pleasant wherein to live , move , and have our being . We would fain see the end of it . We would fain have a faith . Now , there is only one way of labouring peaceably and rapidly toward the attainment of the true Catholic faith . Since every sect is the embodiment of one phase of truth , let every sect have freedom to establish what is true in the proposition which it embodies , and to work out a disproof of what is false . A true faith in the ultimate attainment of a Catholic religion would encourage that self-development , and protect it against reciprocal " antagonism " and repression . And if
; is in this direction alone that we sec Kit < iiH of land , of safely , of religious peace . We discern in the aspect of the religious world a disposition to approach to a more Catholic smitimttntthei true prelude of a Catholic faith . Disordered as it is , the stato of England hopefully illustrates this view . Religious activity is inoro wide spread than it . has been for the past two hundred yearn . At the same time there is u strong tendency to liberalize creeds , to waive hohio pointH , and explain away other points of mere doctrinal dissent . Side t » y Hiriu with this advance of liberalism , and partly due to it « prevalence , wo find that wide-spread muiflerent . ym in the Church of England , a phamomenon not to bo looked on without pain ; an in-( htferentiHin which Ihih its source also in the belief that laxity of discipline conduces to freedom of
thought and sentiment , whereas it only conduces to laxity of thought and sentiment and belief . Ihe path of escape from this is long and painful . Ihe whole scheme of religious life must have undergone that process of being broken up and reformed , which we have witnessed with too weak a confidence . Sects are splitting into sections Unitarians , Congregational Dissenters , Baptists , Weslevans—all , and more , are casting off great pieces of their body , each moving towards some more liberal interpretation of its creed . The Church of England itself seems disposed to divide and
fructify ; while Roman Catholics , as we saw by the Irish movement in favour of "the Godless colleges , " especially before the stupid Whig scheme of resisting the Papal aggression , tend towards a less politico-theocratic form of that faith . The very demand for diocesan synods and a general Convocation of the Church—a demand purely just in itself—shows that religion is disposed to throw off the tutelage of the state , and obtain for itself an existence and means of self-development unobstructed by Acts of Parliament . One thing we must have : the Church—all Churches must be set quite free from this state control—that unhallowed weapon which each in turn has used against the others . We contend ,
not for toleration , —it is the hope of the bondman , —but for the just and equal recognition of all sects , churches , and religions , their freedom and right to self-developement . The state is a temporal power . It is decomposed , and recomposed , at intervals . It may be this year Tory , that Whig , the next day Republican . Its acts are collective and binding , obligatory upon all , per force , or by convention , without compromise of eternal truth or the search thereof . Sectarian religion , whether of Rome or Canterbury , is not binding upon all : the mere attempt to make it so would create a revolution . State religion with state supremacy is , and can be , nothing more than state politics under the guise of the religious forms of the Church ; and as such it is condemned .
Every creed is but the fallible human perception of the one truth ; but all seek the one God , who still rules over all ; by his blessing , these contentions shall but lead us to recognize the fact , that in our stumblings we have been only too impatient to approach nearer to the one truth which is universally . The interference of the state can only be tyranny ; and it is as much a stroke at spiritual freedom when it is aimed at the Romanist as it is when aimed at Protestant or Sceptic . Stand we , then , on the broad ground of equal recognition for all , equal defence by each of rights common to aJL
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SErzUltE OF THti NIZAM'S TNRRITOIUKS . As a step in the progress of Indian consolidation , we cannot withhold our approval from the confiscation of the Nizam ' s territories ; but it certainly has the air of a vast practical burlesque to our direct " dependencies , " when we govern those we have , so ill as to be familiar with murmurs of discontent from every quarter of them . It is the more absurd , since the pretext is the non-payment of subsidy , —and to make that good , we are going to seize an annual deficit ; for such is the perennial aspect of the Nizam's exchequer ; and the Indian Government , which undertaken that seizure , is itself conspicuous among great states for being unable to convert a deficit into a surplus .
I he joke is tripled , when we understand that tho seizure is to bo only " temporary , " which forbids the idea of such real reform as could alone render tho finance ; healthy . Our present purpose in noticing thin " transaction , " however , is to assist our readers in porcoivin ^ the immediate practical effects . The ulterior effects might be of the noblest and most beneficial kind , if our Government intended really to grapple with the reeonstitution of Hindustan ; but the past forbids any hiicIi expectation . We find our Ministera positively maintaining the worst influences of the local institutionskeeping down the Hindus , for instance , as a race , by absurd disqualification-of them as professional men , however manifest their faculties and attainments . The primary object of tho seizure is to recover the amount of tribute due—arrears to the extent of £ 850 , 000 . The public revenue of the Nizam is said to be £ 1 , 000 , 000 ; the expenditure about £ : »)() , ()()() more ; and the Mnglish Government proposey to Neizo about . £ . ' { 50 , 000 ; leaving the Nizam to make good tho increased deficit how he may . The case in something liko that of an ordinary " execution" for debt in this country ,
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Arnold .
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SATURDAY , AUGUST 23 , 1851 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 23, 1851, page 799, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1897/page/11/
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