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In a letter from Florence , dated the 6 th instant , and published in the Daily News-, we find more particulars of the Austrian outrage to a British subject perpetrated in that city . " Mr . Mather , an Englishman , was seriously "wounded a few days since by an Austrian soldier . He remains Btill in the hospital of Santa Maria Nuoya . The blow he received on the 29 th was given with such hearty good ¦ will that , although the sword happily did not fracture , the skull , it sufficiently injured the bone to render the cure slow and difficult . The wound , having healed too fast on the surface , has had to be reopened to admit of suppuration from within . Mr . Mather ' s friends are preparing evidence for the investigation promised . Several of the
bystanders have voluntarily come forward to testify that , on his part , not the slightest provocation was given . His only offence was wearing the hat common to four-fifths of the population and an Italian scarf . The apology made by Prince Lichtenstein , that Mr . Mather was mistaken for a Tuscan , while but a sorry satisfaction to the English , has greatly increased the fermentation which prevails here among the Italians . They express the greatest anxiety to learn whether , after such an explanation , Lord Granville will content himself with recommending his countrymen to stay at home and keep out of harm ' s way , or will have something to say about the laws of common humanity as a part of the law of nations . Mr . Scarlett is much blamed for having
embarrassed the question by addressing Prince Lichtenstein on the subject . Prince Lichtenstein holds the military command of Tuscany for the Austrian Government ; but Tuscany is still , nominally at least , an independent power , and the British Legation here is accredited to the Tuscan , not to the Austrian court . Mr . Scarlett ' s only official communication , in the absence of instructions from home , should have been with the Duke of Casigliano , Minister of Foreign Affairs . It is further contended that after , the assault on Mr . Mather had been formally defended as an act of necessary discipline , no vague verbal promise of inquiry and
compensation ( which means merely that the matter shall be hushed up ) should have induced Mr . Scarlett to present himself the very next day at the duke ' s ball . It is creditable to him that his first impulse was to stay away ; but his better judgment , it is said , was overruled by a section here of the London fashionable world , who think much more highly of court presentations than of English interests . Mr . Scarlett , you are aware , is Secretary of the Legation , and acts only as our English Minister ad interim , Mr . Hudson ( Mr . Sheil ' s successor ) not having yet arrived . Mr . Hudson , it is hoped , will prove a man of ability , possessing the firmness as well as the judgment required for a critical position . "
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CHURCH MATTERS . Acorresponden . ee has been published in the daily journals , between the Reverend G . Goode and the two Archbishops of the Church of England . Mr . Goode inclosed , the subjoined declaration to the two Primates , informing them by letter that it has been signed by 3262 of the clergy , among whom are seven deans and twelve archdeacons , and a large number of ' dignitaries . "
THE DECLABATION . " A Declaration , by the undersigned Clergy of the Church of England , in support of the Royal Supremacy in things Ecclesiastical , and of the wisdom and authority of the Judgment emanating from its recent exercise . " We , the undersigned clergy of the Church of England , viewing with surprise and concern the attempts made by parties holding office in the Church to invalidate and nullify the judgment recently delivered by the Sovereign , as * supreme governor of this realm , as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal , ' by the advice of the Privy Council and the Primates of the Church in the case of * Gorham v . the Bishop of Exeter , '
, hereby testify our thankfulness for the judgment so delivered , and feel ourselves called upon , under present ciroumstances ( whether holding or not the view which o&lled forth the judgment ) , humbly to state our conviotion that it was a wise and just sentence , in accordance With the principles of the Church of England . " And we respectfully , but firmly , protest against any attempt , from whatever quarter it may proceed , to bring Into contempt a judgment so issued , and to charge with false teaching and discredit with their flocks thoBe whoBe doctrine has been pronounced by that judgment to be * not oontrary or repugnant to the declared doctrine of the Church of England . '
«« Such attempts we hold to be equivalent to the enforcement of a standard of doctrine in our Church , by unauthorized individuals , opposed to that established by its supreme authority ; and , consequently , to be irreconcilable with the first principles of all Church polity , and necessarily to lead to a state of disorder , strife , and confusion in the Church . " Archbishop Sumner replies without circumlocution , that he views the above with " much satisfaction , " a teohnioal phrase for , I am greatly delighted ; as appear * from the rest of the epistle , which we give
enure . . , " There are many questions in theology upon which Christians may differ without reproach to themselves or injury to others . From the Reformation until the pre-• ent time numbers of our clergy have subscribed the ¦ ame articles , have used the same formularies , have ministered in the same churches , whose sentiments , if they had been obliged to state them with logical precision , would have been found to vary , more or less , from each other , both with regard to regeneration and to the eflect of infant baptism . But this difference has not prevented their harmonious oodperation , or impaired their usefulwn / and I should have been seriously grieved if tho period of my atobiepiaoopaoy bad been chosen as the
" Concurring entirely in that opinion , I would only add the expression of my sincere hope that it may be considered by all parties as a final settlement of the point in dispute , and thus tend to promote that peace and harmony among ourselves , which the times and the circumstances of the Church require . " " J . B . Cantuar . " and "T . Ebor . " are unmistakeable State-churchmen . The case of the " clergy of Frome . " versus the Marchioness of Bath , in the matter of the Reverend W . J . E . Bennett , is assuming larger proportions . The clergy , rebuffed by the Marchioness , have appealed to the Bishop of Bath and Wells , who has declined to accede to the request of the clergy of Frbme , and refuse institution to Mr . Bennett .
period when freedom of opinion , within the reasonable limits hitherto deemed allowable , was , for the first time , denied to our clergy in a case where it is not denied them by the word of God or the declared doctrine Of the Church of England . " This is a wonderfcl paragraph . The Archbishop of York is more laconic , simply accepting the decision of the Privy Council in the Gorham case * " I am glad to find such a large number of the clergy agree in regarding ' the judgment ' alluded to as * a wise and just sentence , in accordance with the principles of the Church of England . '
The monthly meeting of the London Union on Church Matters was held on Tuesday , at St . Martin ' shall . The Secretary ' s report was read and adopted . In it the following passage occurs : — " Papers setting out the way in which bills are brought into Parliament affecting the clergy , without their feelings or opinions being consulted in the matter , have been brought under the committee ' s notice , and have been referred to the consideration of the sub-committee on diocesan synods . The Union has , however , already stated its opinion that it will be theMbefter course for Churchmen to object to all legislation for the Church Until her own provincial synods have been reconstructed with powers to make canons that shall not need the assent of Parliament seriatim *"
^ Should any suchbills as above referred to be brought into Parliament , the committee recommend the clergy to act on the judicious suggestion made by the South Church Union at its recent meeting , and call on their respective bishops to summon their clergy in synod , for the purpose of hearing their opinions on this mode of legislating for the Church , and , should it be thought expedient , of considering the provisions of the bill .
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MR . ROEBUCK AND HIS CONSTITUENTS . ON EDUCATION . The annual soiree of the Sheffield Mechanics' Institution was held on Monday . Mr . J . A . Roebuck , M . P ., and Mr . Parker , M . P ., were present . The audience was very small , and its smallness caused some severe remarks from the President of the Institution , Mr . Dunn , on those parents who neglected to avail themselves of the benefits offered for their children . Mr . Roebuck made , of course , the speech of the evening , and took the Manchester movement and the recent deputation to the Premier for his text .
" There was what he called the raw material . There were the people to be educated ; there were the people desiring to educate them . There was great wealth in Manchester , and they went up to the Prime Minister , at the present moment , and said , these are our circumstances , and we want to educate this people . The Reform bill was passed in 1832 , and here , twenty years after , with a supposed representation of the people of England , what was the answer of the Prime Minister of this country ? 'I don't think the time has yet come . ' { Laughter . ) The time not yet come I Children would grow up , and were educated in some way , do what they would . It is not enough to say that we did not educate
them . They were educated ; they were badly educated , and the question they put to the Government of this country was , Won't you endeavour to educate them better ? ( Cheers . ) They did not ask that it should be a Church of England education , but they wanted them to be good citizens and good Christians , which was better than they were at present . And the answer they got was , that Lord Lansdowne fancied it was not the time yet . ( Laughter and a cry of * Shame . ' ) Lord Lansdowne had run his course . The people of England , he hoped , had not run theirs . They wanted the people to be educated . They had got police , they had judges , and they still got the hangman ; but they did not consider that there was something still better than any of these , and that was the schoolmaster . To the person who wished to moke this country a well-governed community , the schoolmaster was worth
them all . And they were told by those very persons to increase the number of gaols , who were willing to have fifteen judges instead of twelve ; who were willing to have quarter sessions eight times a year instead of four—^ they were quite ready to build prisons—anything but schools . They were ready to coerce , but not to instruct—to command , but not to enlighten ; in every way to control and enforce , through the fears of the people , that dominion whioh they ought to obtain through their intellect and love . He could not , for the soul or him , understand how gentlemen , who talked about religion , and Christianity , and kindliness , could allow the feeling of their own peculiar class or sect to interfere with tho great business of making those children—what they were not now , whatever they might call them—Christians . But they all stood off , and the mass of Ignorance and ovil was allowed to foster and corrupt within th » Beenung beauty of what
was called European civilisation . It was a corpse decked in all the array of bridal beauty . Uader the mask of youth and loveliness was a mass of horrible and pestilent corruption . This was the state of modemJSngland . " Mr . Roebuck declared that England had stemmed the flood , nqtby this miserable mass beneath , but by the greatness of those above ; and . he saw no safety but in a system of national educa ^ on . ON , THE ABMT . The next day Mr . Isaac Ironside presided over a meeting , at which Mr . Roebuck spoke long and pointedly on Parliamentary Reform , the doings of the Ministry last session , and cognate topic s * tTpon all these points Mr . Roebuck's opinions are well known . But he said a clever thing about the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill which we cannot willingly pass by .
• " It is in the power of a statesman one day to fulminate acts of Parliament against a whole religion , and the next day to pour water in the pan lest the thing should go off . The novel matter in the speech is the following on the suspected French invasion . " Now I come to the last remaining section of what I intend to speak upon , and that is the foreign policy of this country . And I do so with great anxiety , because I believe we are upon the eve of very great and stirring times . ( Hear . ) I know that amongst my fellow-countrymen , and amongst those for whose politics I have the areatest recard , with whom ! havethe greatest sympathy ,
with whom I daily act in the House of Commons , there is a feeling which I believe is an erroneous one . Now , Mr . Cobden—I call him , and I am sure he will permit me so to do , my friend Mr . Cobden- —not long ago , when that wonderful , and in miy notion horrible , catastrophe happened in France , said , ' * That is the consequence Of an army . ' ( Hear . ) But supposing that you are living in the country ^ ndinaTrisolated hbuse , that you learnt to-morrow morning that the house of a neighbour in the same situation as yours had been entered and rifled and its master killed , should you think it wise to open your doors , to take away all your bolts , to draw the loading from your guns and pistols and bury them inthe garden ,
and expect that you were to be quite safe from moral force and public opinion ? Now , that is our difficulty at present . I acknowledge the evils and horrors of an overwhelming army ; but 1 Bay to my country , Do not be in a fatal security . There are mischievous feelings abroad , a ' ud despotism is- triumphant in Europe now . Constitutional government , liberty , and truth have their sacred sphere only in England . If England-be invaded and crushed , that liberty arid that truth must fly ^ across the Atlantic for protection . We should be a continent Of slaves ; a darkness would come over mankind ; and and that torch of truth which is now held up almost singly by the glorious arm of England , would be reversed and extinguished . ( Cheers . ) Shall such a thing be ? And shall I , representing the people of England , tell
you not to be alarmed , not to expect encroachment , not to expect that real aggression ? I will do no such thing . ( Hear , hear . ) Be prepared . ( Hear , hear . ) Have a national army . ( Cheers , increasing in force for some moments . ) And let soldiers say what they like ; but if the thing be properly done , we shall give a good account of anybody who comes here . ( Laughter , and much cheering . ) Now , I am not going to terrify my countrymen—I am not going to hold the hand , and say , * For God ' s sake , do come here '—for that is the language of most people who are so terribly afraid that they should give courage to their opponents . I say , Be not afraid , but be ready ; and if they do come , let them never return . ( Vehement cheering , at the decline of which the speaker's countenance teas so highly animated and expressive that the vociferations of the audience were renewed with great power . )"
Let those who are sceptical of English pluck , and those who mourn over the decay of a warlike spirit among us , mark well the enthusiaism of the men of Sheffield . And they are not alone .
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THE REFORM CAMPAIGN . The following circular letter has been sent out by the Council of the National Reform Association : — " The Council deem themselves justified , at the opening of their fourth year , in congratulating the members of the Association upon the progress which has rewarded their efforts during a long season of apathy and indifference . In tho language of Mr . Cobden , they have kept burning the lamp of Reform , and trimmed it , at a time when it was very likely to have been neglected by tho great body of the people . ' With funds of comparatively small amount , they have held during three years nearly six hundred meetings , and have published upwards of 250 , 000 addresses , tracts , and other papers . " Without assuming to themselves the merit of
inducing the Prime Minister to pledge her Majesty ' s Government to the introduction of a measure of Parliamentary Reform , they may fairly olaim that the exertions of the National Reform Association have had their due effect . &Theso exertions will be still persevered in . PubHo meetings will be held in the early part of the present month , in Oxford , Reading ; Worcester , Birmingham . Sheffield , Derby , Nottingham , Hull , and other influential towns ; and the Council nave resolved that on the commencement of the next session the members of the House of Commons should be urged to the performance of their duty to the people by the resolutions of a general conference of Reformers , to bo then assembled in London from all parts of the kingdom , and by a great metropolitan demonstration .
. " It is a matter of much gratification to the Council to be able to declare that , at every meeting whioh has been held under their auapioes , renolntion * have beon unanl-
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 17, 1852, page 48, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1918/page/4/
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