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and we de <* ir < e to sftQW . tha . t its [ personnel , aeserves none of the consideration ^ c ^ o ^ c ^ ^ m ^ Rw rout ^ and legitimaey .. ; ;^ our , r , es ^ e etab ^ M ^ nisters m ^ mz& a ^^ aorern ment wruiM from easinosi , $ & $$ * Ma ^^ rse , -fc English , public ought at , least to ^ dersl ^ f tke . degree of Ucence . which gowning Street allows : to itself whenit goes--t 6 , ;^ risi ; r- ir ^ : f ; ; ; -, v ^ — . ; .- ; : . ¦ ¦¦¦ ]
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CONTINUE ^ ¦ JP ^ E ^ E < (* F ' ' ' $ & % I (^(^ EttTS TO CONYQCATlOiSf . Yoek ; rivals ; Canterbury ? " Ebor ' jwins the palm in the race of subserviency ; and «« Cantuar sits crbwnless : m ^ ambeth ; : Wfe -fchottafhr that Br Suinneriiad succeeded tblerably Well ^ aa ttie Louis Napoleon of the ^ urchrbu ^> Dr . Mus i grave has far sti ^ asSed his co-primate by a very simple process- ^ being : 3 btims . eJf- ? ; jv 7 " r Wflr , . John Bird , &c , " did cause theiBoors of the Jerusalem Chamber' ; to be opened ; and suffer bishops and archdeasons to sit within , JS " ay , they were even permittedito' / go the Jengthof talking and presenting petitions . Dr . Musgrave has not so read his lesson—has not so understood hia duty . True , he caused tlie members of the Convocation of York to be summoned ; the writs were plain , and not to be ; misunderstood . But , with a display of genius which would have made , the fortune of a continental Minister in the stormy times of' 48 , he bolder stopped there . That w . as quite a sufficient homage , to pay to the . principles of the Constitution ; and . amazing as the fact is , yet it is a fact ,. that when the clergy , convoked by said writs , appeared before . the doors of the Chapter at York , they found them locked , , and ¦ no iArchbishop or ,, Ai'phk ^ hpp ' s Commissioner within sifjht , or even , within hearing ! Does not Dr . Muagrave deserve that Order of St . * Andrew , which the JEJmporor Nicholas did , not send to Louis Napoleon ^ !
It is well remarked by . the Comn ^ itteo ,, of : the London Union on Church Matters , in their last Itoport , in reference to these attempts to science tho voice of the Church , that " the exercise of such arbitrary prerogative in the case of , the Churc h , is the only example to be . found in later times , and the only I one , that would now be tolerated . " Such is the fact—a fact full , of strange meaning . A Town Council - Chamber locked up by an order from Downing Street ; a Vestry Koom closed by the fiat of . a Rector ; either of thnsm ncM would creato a small
revolution . But hpro is the Parliament of the Church closed up with scant , ceremony in one instance , and without 4 ny ceremony in another , and littlo is said on the matter .. This suggests grave reflections as to what tho ( Ohuroh has done in past times , to bring onJierBelf such ignominious treatment even from her own sons ., It suggests grave doubts as to whether , aho hap , fulfilled that mission with which sho declares herself
acoreditod . It lays tlie basis for a strong opinion , that tho Church must become far other than she js bofore she can really bo the Church ; of i ^ ngland , and . of the Peoplo of England ^ , Indeed , whether she will obtain those rjffhts to which sho is most justly ontifclod—rights which without a grow . neglect of duty , ' sho may not choose to claim , but must claim and win , in ord » r that eho may bo honest , entirely depends on
herself . This Contest for , Convocation and Synodical action is the test jbfJj ^ er v ^ tu ^ fmd fitness to be what she declares herself . '» ^ ie may not choose j either destruction as aOhu ^ dK . br victory as a Church—tb | tt &ihetclear glternative . "But so Sr- ' a 1 » - 7 -the '; cpidte ^ 'Sai ' ^ fcHe ; rto- ; proceeded , we are bound to confess , thfitt the aaYOcates of Convocation alftd Synodical action of a Churoh ; witJx & jconsc ^ enee , not seated in the Judicial Committee of the tPrivy Council , but in i ^ own represfentative assembly , have , in every insf . nTinA dflp . iriedhr beaten their , antagonists .
While the atjbifeE ^ yJacts ^ f . ?> , rr ' Siimner , and the unmixed contempt of Dr . Musgrave , daily weaken their position ; the able , temperate , firm , and unresting policy oi the friends of Convocation , not only advances their cause , but raises it in the estimation of those who arixiQUsly watch the progress of . both parties ., Jn IiOndp Q , at least , Convoeation was " acknowledged as afact ; and m Yori , the weatt poticy of evasion adopted by the shoft-sighted primage ^ of that province , only throws intd bolder belief the humiliating condife > a of the / ( jlergy face to face with their S tateappomte ^ authoiaties . -And this is a great gam ; fotl ne ' x * to eniyicijtotidn ^ the best ^ thingr you Cart do-ft * -a ; slaTei is to ' make him feel that he is not fre ^ . '> i " ¦ ¦; - ' -- " . : ; : i ¦ " ¦¦ ¦¦¦ : ¦ , ¦
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* THE G ^ ANVItLE CAPITULATION . % Cictisi JRpnianTtis soiin' * vras- the siinple' form in whjSti ! thft JRomari , whensoever he went , claimed theimmujuty of an Imperial protection ; and it wasthe ; l ) Qa 8 t of ^ ibrd ^^ al merston th ^ t th ^ same dedaratipn , " I aai a Jfritish citizeiv show 1 " secure Protection ; to our countrymen j but Lord < 3 Tanville i ; epu 4 ates ihe ; bpast . ; ; It is well that travelers sfould . be ;> ware ? In hi * note to the iKnlomatin renreaentatives of England in Vienna ,
$£ iPetersbvS : | ra # p # id ^ Pari ^^ idechmng to ? expetiOTeW-ref ^ ge ^ front to country . Lord aranvillQ touches , upon ^ I ^^^ S ^ , of rnii ^ mspm m jm ^ p ^^ ^• aveflera j . M , irisfead of simply declaring that he will see right done , by his countrymen , he limits the vindication to wbat he calls " unoflendinc" jJnglis ^ h travellers , and concedes an under ftne / i r ^ gftrr 9 f ;( i # ing " exceptional measures of pTecaut ? on '' iamst " suspected" English travel-Iers . Our countrymen , therefore , -will have to consider well in which category they must be classed , , Here iatnephra ^
e--¦ ¦ i « With reference to the intimation that exceptional iwaaures of precaution wy )» taken agajnst British subjects travelling abroad ; Her Majesty ' s ; Government cannot complain if , while insurrection is ragmg , or its flame is scarcely extinguished foreign Gov (? rninents should : tekcv precautions against suspected Enghsh traveHei * . ' ? ; ; ; : . ¦•¦ ... . As Lord Granville has volunteered this obliging information to the police < of Russia and Austria , it bebonies desirable for Englishmen to cpnsider whatmakesthem " suspected" or " . , p 0 bnding , decordinff to the local interpretation . , Mr . M « t . linr , ' we nresume , is de facto to be considered
a " suspected" man ; and one would -like to Know what he did to earn that distinction in quasi-Austrian Florence . In Naples it is Obvious that Mr . Gladstone would be " s . uspQcted and . rf ho go to Italy again , ho must " look out for squalls . Clearly Lord Granvillo wont answer for him . We complained of Lord Palmerston for only protesting , but Lord Granville declares by anticipation that he wont oven " complain ! By the way , Lord Palmerston would evidently bo ' ? suspected } " arid if he travel in Austrian land , he is'to expect no championship f ^ om the . late Vice-Presidenfc of the Board of Trade and Commifldonnr of the Exposition . On the other hand , be
it is evident that Lord ^ anvillc wjmio , reckoned among tho ¦¦ " unoffending , . ^>< J f ^ J Oroy , Mr . Mao Fnrlane , Lord John Bussell , Sir Francis -Head , and Lord Derby . Lord Granville declines to expel foreign relugdesy and he' uses a peculiar argument . An asylum , ho Bays , has been freely given to all refugees arid « itis obvious that -this hospitality could nQ t be so freely given if it were not so . widoly extended ; " a profound remark , whwh is rendered intelligible by the explanation
that—« Monhrdiical Govommorits might object to ^ Bepub-Hcan rofngocs , and I ^ pubHcan aovormnente inSght object to 4 aH « t refugees ; and it woulj l bo <*« to doflmd sncli hospitality , which would thon 1 >« founded upon favour , hnd not upon o ^ ual laws . Make us expel patriots , says the Glaas-House
Commissioner for Foreign Affairs , and we may be called up / on to expel runaway princes—Bour bons , Buonapartes , or Braganzas . The argument must strike home ; although foreign courts will hatdty understand the difficulty " of making the distinction . If wemay' credit the Suit , however , — an organ , not strongly opposed to ministerjs ^ the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs has been able to show- that tlie inconvenience to which a vulgar national freedom exposes our court is onl y superficial . French and Hungarian refugees , it is
reported , have been s ^ eht away from England , and % the third batch" went off last week ! How is thik ? Thfe explanation is , that they are paid to go ; ¦ they have 4 ? . ahead , besides every " comfort , " and they are furnished with a cab if th « y are late for their ship ; Such are the assiduous attentions of our government ! It may be asked , whence comes the money fbr this purpose P English taxr-payers—niost of whom , just now , would protest against any ' such subservient evasion of the expulsion point- ^ wbuld like to know who
furnishes the subsidies for carrying out Austrian or Napoleonic ideas ? When the rulers of nations take to the practice of buying off danger , they expose their country to disgrace and still greater danger than they aVoid . Thus paying dangerpus Frenchmen to go , we may be visited by Frenchmen , not refugees , in much larger numbers , in hopes that they , too , may bti jpaid to go ; and if we judge by appearances in high quarters , we might look in vain for an \^ 3 muiUs to throw his sword into the
scale . The Eussell-Granville policy , it seems , is to protect foreigners , nay , even \ k > pdy" suspected " Frenchmen here ; but to advertise a licence for foreign Governments to tireat EngUshmen how they please , without any payment at all . " Civis Bomatttis sum" used to be a shield of immunity : * ' I am an Englishman" now conveys , gratuitously , a shooting licence to Gaul , Goth , or Vattdal . ;
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iSTATESMEN AND JOURNALISTS . It were ungracious to deny that the leading journal has , in reply to certain escapades of the House of Peers , very nobly and powerfully vindicated the dignity , and avenged the sincerity , of English journalism . The Times has not only asserted , with a force and precision of language worthy of itself and of the theme , the rights and duties of the English press , but the rights and duties of the great institution itself , which , wheresoever it breathes an uncorrupted air of independence , has ever been found the most zealous and effectual guardian of a nation's liberties . "What a free press is , and what it has to do , cannot be too strongly , too distinctly , enforced . To IiOrd Derby ' s snarling assumpt ion , that as , in these days , it aspires to share the influence of statesmen , so also it must share in their responsibilities , the Times has admirably replied , by denying that the press " is bound by the same limitations , the same duties , the same liabilities as statesmen . The purposes aftd duties of the two powers are constantly soparate , generally ^ independent , sometimes diametrically opposite . ' Separate , indeed : for while the one lags feebly in the rear , the other is ever foremost in the
vanguard of Opinion . It were , indeed , to degrade this mighty organ of civilization , to seek to lower it to the easy level of Lords Grey and Derby ' s " statesmanship . " On such terms , England would as readily dispense with a subservient press , as with the chartered incapacity of official Downinc-street . Political and social progress would bo reduced to
safe . Whig dimensions , secret di p lomacy made absolute , abuses palliated or dissembled , not huntod out and exposed ; reforms dallied with , not encouraged and advanced ; ugly questions burked , not driven into the minds of populations , and thrust upon tho scrutiny of governors ! It would bo to enervate and enfeeble the national life , to impoverish tho life-blood of a people in a medicated atmosphere of reticences and
collu-., Let Statesmen play their ambiguous game . The press has other ground to occupy , other duties to fulfil , other work to accomplish , endued with all the strength , of undiluted principles , and with all the sincerity of uncompromising convictions . Broad i and open as tho day , keen and searching as the air wo breathe , should bo tho tone and spirit of a free press . For what is lfc but the explicit standard of tho realized thought
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Feb . 1 ^ 1852 ] THE LEADER . 153
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 14, 1852, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1922/page/13/
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