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organization as a divine institution , and that the ^ same feeling which should prompt them to refuse dictation front the officers of State in sacred things , should lead them to forbear from " expecting advantages ; a very ^ TirSrr clearly we recognise the great principle that it is the duty of the State to sanction and empower by law , bunotoOrig inate spiritual reforms ami that at is our duty as Churchmen , with a due regard to the mutual subordination of our different orders , to set these reforms in motion , the more disposed shall we be to rest satisfied with such dispositions as we have attributed to the Government , and to acknowledge the wisdom of confining them to narrow limits . It will be the duty of Churchmen in duo time ,
and in no unfriendly way , to press on the minister the reforms we desire , and if they receive from him that attention , which is due to their substance , and to the general feeling of Churchmen in pressing them , we shall have no ground for complaint . And while on this topic , it may not be amiss to draw attention to the remarkable words Xord Derby used respecting the interests of the Church beyond the limits of this country , words which can hardly import the creation of a ehurch establishment where the feelings of the community would be averse to it , and which , therefore , probably point to such measures for the colonies as we have already requested—measures of religious freedom and wholesome self-organization;—and the Committee need not remind you that what is now created in the leaven tms
colonies must infallibly before long counwy also . Th ' ey think , therefore , that there is every encouragement to the plain duty of laying down a statement of Church grievances , and calling for redress . " They adhere to the principle laid down in the report of December 9 , that their sole demand from the State ought to be freedom for the Church ; a policy which is highly commendable , and which they propose to fully carry out , by doing their utmost to hinder the presentation of any bills to parliament which like the Bishop of London ' s Church Discipline Bill , would attempt to remedy internal grievances .
" Your Committee consider that we cannot , without the grossest and most deplorable inconsistency , depart from this course , whatever temptation there may be to do so . With regard , therefore , to the greater and more important class of Church , grievances , they hold that not merely no attempt should be made to redress them by the sole action of parliament , but that any attempt made with the best intentions , and by the most favourably disposed Government , to redress them in this way , ought to meet with the most decided , though calm and temperate , opposition of Churchmen . All such attempts should elicit but one reply —give us our Synods , and toe will do it ourselves " They strenuously oppose the notorious " Manchester and Salford Education Bill , " as adverse to the interests of the Church , a topic which affords matter for the following comment : —
" These grievances , discouragements , and dangers , we must , as it has been already said , endure for the present with patience , but not with acquiescence , until such time as bishops , priests , and laity can by common consent devise remedies . The time is , we hope , gone by when these things can be settled by the bishops alone ; by parliament , which is no longer limited to Churchmen ; by religious societies , acting without authorit y from the Church in her proper work ; still less by individual bishops or clergymen , or by the rash and uncontrollable will of the people . " Specifying certain minor grievances , the report Rums up in words of great import , to which we call attention .
" Were such demands as these yielded to us , wo should no longer fear that tho Catechism was to bo set aside in order to make way for a general and anti-dogmatic ( socalled ) religious education . And one happy result of tho removal of ( suspicions will bo , that Churchmen will no longer bo tempted to deny the just duties of tho State a . s to education . Ifc has a great civil duty to perform in looking after education . Happily tho close connexion of religion with education is now , in this country , acknowledged on all sides . That connexion must guide , but cannot abolish , tho duties of tho State . Wo have to remember that what is conceded to us must bo granted to Dissenters also . Tho Church is entitled to educate its own children in its own doctrine- and discipline , and wo must avoid tho appearance of making a territorial claim to a monopoly of education for tho Church , which neither tho upirifc of the times nor those principles of religious toleration which have become a recognised part of the
constitution , will end uro . . " If wo act in this fipirit we shall not , wo may justly hope , find tho State a taskmaster or a tyrant . And , even if a policy antagonistic to tho rights of tho Church were adopted , it could not bo permanent in a free country like tliis , unless popular prejudice wore provoked and kep t alive by injudicious pretensions . And since religious ques tions ecem destined to occupy a largo share of the attention of tho civilized world for many years to come , it is by all means incumbent on us to devote oursolvos to thorn in such a spirit as to avoid Htirving up those- prejudices , ' jnan having any ovil tlu ' ng to say 01 us . '" Wo observe one omission in this report—there in nothing said upon Mr . Gladstone ' s Bill on tho colonial church .
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¦ LORD CAMPBELL AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SHERIFF . Mn . Scott Mukhat , tho High Sheriff of Ruckinglmmuhiro , in a lettor to tho daily papers on Tuesday , has calmly , respectfully , mul with tin acknowledgment of Lord Campbell ' s pcraonal courtesy , called in question
the justice and propriety of the reprimand administered to him at Aylesbury , for having publicly appeared in his capacity of high sheriff , and accompanied the judges , attended by a Roman Catholic ^ chaplain . Mr . Murray observes that he could not decline the office of high sheriff , and that being a Roman Catholic , and supposing " . that the chaplain appointed by the sheriff is the chaplain of the sheriff , " he appointed a Roman Catholic chaplain . ¦ Mr . Justice Crompton was re-, peatedly in contact with the chaplain before the chiefjustice arrived , and expressed no objection . He then reminds Lord Campbell of the circumstances tinder
which lie accompanied him from the railway station to the court , to the protestant church , and finally to the judge ' s lodging , and that the chaplain was not dressed in the garb of any religious order , but in the " usual full dress worn by the Roman Catholic clergy on occasions unconnected with religious ceremonial . " He then observes , that after Lord Campbell ' s rebuke in private , he was not prepared for the repetition of it in open court , which led the grand jury to suppose that he had been guilty of " a violent and wilful innovation . " He then respectfully , but firmly , and with an appearance of logical correctness , denies and combats the two
propositions on which the cMef-justice based his reprimand . " 1 . That the chaplain appointed by the sheriffbecomes the chaplain of the judges . 2 . That the Protestant religion , by which was plainly meant the religion of the Established Church , is the religion of the judges of the country . " One of the duties of the sheriff is that of attendance on the judges of assize , a very important duty , but by no means the most important . The sheriff , " as a portion of the proper state appertaining to his position , " appoints a clergyman as his personal chaplain . " I never heard him called , except by your
loi-dship , the chaplain of the * judges , or the chaplain of any one but the sheriff . " The appointment of a chaplain is not even obligatory on the sheriff , which it surely would be if the judges had any interest in the matter . He regards this claim as a direct encroachment on the privileges of the office of sheriff , which is the less warrantable , because the law expressly recognises the existence of the judges' chaplains as a totally ^ distinct class from those of the sheriffs ' . By 21 st Henry VIIT . the chaplain of the chief justice of the Queen ' s Bench was specially privileged , and by other acts various advantages were extended to all judges' chaplains .
" It is thus plainly in the power of the judges above mentioned to take with them , on their circuits , chaplains of their own , and if for any cause they have thought fit to discontinue their appointment , this can hardly afford a reasonable pretext for endeavouring to appropriate the chaplains of other and independent officers of tho crown . " Lord Campbell ' s second proposition is that the state religion is the religion of the Judges of Erigland . The laws of England say that Roman Catholics and Protestant dissenters of all classes may be judges .
" How are these conflicting propositions to be reconciled ? How is it that men who honestly dissent from the church of Eng land can be lawfully invited to tho bench , and yet , when on the tench , be required to conform to that church ? Are thero two consciences for judges—one to bo saved or lost by , and another to go circuit with ? or , if this bo not so , by what subtle contrivance of law is it that the same conscience is to bo at onco relieved and oppressed , declared to be free—ay , and groat credit taken for , tho declaration—and at tho same time made subject to a dominant cstablislimont ?" Mr . Scott Murray contends that he has followed the precedents of other Roman Catholic sheriffs , and adds in a postscript the following list of cases ;—
" In 1837 , James Wlicblo , Esq ., a Roman Catholic , was high sheriff of Borkahiro , and attended the judges at assizes , accompanied by his Roman Catholic chaplain , tho ltov . J . Ringrosc . Judges—Spring : Tho Right Hon . Sir James Parko , Sir W . Bolland ; Autumn : Lord Abinger , Mr . Justice Coleridge . In tho saino year , G . T . Wlntgrcavo , a Roman Catholic , was high sheriff of Staffordshire , and attended tho same judges , accompanied by tho Rov . Edwd . Huddlostone , his Roman Catholic chaplain . In 1830 , Charles Tompcst , Esq ., ( now Sir Charles Tompest , ) a
Roman Catholic , was high nhoriff of Yorkshire , and attended tho judges , accompanied by a Roman Catholic clergyman Judges—Spring : Tho Right Hon . Sir James Parko ; Mr . Baron Aldorson . Autumn : Mr . Justice Coltman ; Mr . Justico Maulo . During tlio current year Richard Swift , Eoq ., a Roman Catholic , is one of tho joint sheriffs of London . He has attended the judges , m well as the Recorder and tho Common Serjoant , accompanied by his Roman Catholic chaplain .
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PROGRESS OP ASSOCIATION . THE MASTKKS' ST 1 UKR . A ai'TCClATi mooting of tho Executive Council ' of tho Amalgamated Society wua hold at thoir office , 25 , Little Alic-streot , Whiteehnpol , in consoquonco of HiiH-HtutemontH that had been niado regarding tho number of engineers who hud signed tho masters' declaration . The attention of tho council was uIho called to an address , issued by thorn to tlioir members on tho 2 nd ult ., having appeared in tho Timea of Saturday last , and
represented as being a " new declaration , ' ? with th inference that it was a partial abandonment of the " position . To prevent any misconception , the council agreed at once to issue an address to the members which had already been partially determined upon ' The council profess in this address to feel no inisgivmtr as to the result of the struggle being definitively fo their- favour . They explain that all the factories did not close on the loth of January , and that the fenrf ^ neers who have always continued employed , together with the skilled workmen not belonging to the soeietr would give about the number returned as " at work ** without any others having signed the declaration . The number of artisans , whether members or not of tke society , who have signed is very insignificant .
An aggregate meeting of the brass trades took place at the National Hall , High Holborn , om Wednesday , to consider the claims of the operative engineers , and take steps for their support . — -Mr . W Allan occupied the chair . — -No man , he said , ought . fc » be compelled to work more than six days in the week . He , however , knew ah engineer who had in one week worked 100 hours ; he also worked twenty-four Sundays in succession , and because he asserted his right as a man and refused to work on the twent y-fifth , he was discharged . The engineers deserved the suppori of the brass trades in . endeavouring to abolish
overtime . — -Mr . J . Barry , member of the Amal gamated Society , explained to the meeting the nature of 1 & ® dispute from which the strike had arisen , as ; it lias been repeatedly explained in our columns . Several operatives connected with the brass trades afterwards addressed the meeting , and the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : —— " 1 . That in the opinion , of this meeting the closing of the shops by the master engineers was an act of gross injustice , inasmuch asthey have thereby thrown out of employ large numbers of tfaen ; not only those connected with the Amalgamated Society , but also those who were in noway connected with the dispute in question ; and this meetingis also convinced that the question upon which the
employers and the operative engineers are at variance has a bearing upon the future rights of all workmen ^ andi as the result of the present contest must materially affect our relative positions , we therefore pledge ourselves to assist the operative engineers by contributions and our influence while tho struggle continues . —2-That this meeting expresses its sympathy with theoperatives who have been thrown out of employ by theemployers' strike ; and is of opinion that their noble * peaceful , and dignified resistance to the unjust demands ; of the employers , demands the admiration and suppwite of the whole working population of our country . ** - —A committee was appointed to carry out the resolutions , and the meeting separated .
CENTEAIi CO-OPERATIVE AGENCYWeekly Official Report , March 2 nd to MtxaH SWA ., The Agency transacted business with the following stores : —Galashiels , Leeds , Hawick , Barrhead , Ban > bury , Braintree , Brighton , Rochdale , Ullesthorp , Birmingham , Woolwich , Halifax , Swindon , Middlesborof , Burnley , Bradford , Bacup , &c . We hear from Cardiff that tho Co-operative Stare in course of formation there is in an advanced stato . of organization . An application was received from the Oo-operativef Store at Norwich , to have their rules certifiedw
Wo take this opportunity of stating that aE customers not sending in their purchase books for tlie last quarter by tho 20 th March , will forfeit their- bonus-The partners of the Central Co-operativo Agency have resolved to send a copy of , their Weekly Reports to the editors of tho principal London papfiES , and toi * certain number of persons likely to . take an interest , m its proceedings , with the following circular i" Tho partners of tho Central Coropocatiw Agency present thoir compliments to Mr . ,. and bog to oncioao a wookly report of tho business of tho establishment , o » Mm * for his own porusal , or for tho information of tho public , u ho thinks it proper . . . « " Such Reports havo boon published for eomo tune , MW they aro to bo continued regularly . ., » " Tho claims of the Co-oporativo Agency to bo consiuWW ' ftwi
as a public institution , aro as follow : —Although , «« morcial firm , tho Agency is conducted under the eww . **" eion of trustees ; a Public Report is to bo made liauyearly ; tho hooka aro to bo audited by a public aecountauw and half tho profits arocarriod to a common fund Uov < w <* to purposes or publiu bonofit . p v Tho objoctH of tho Agency aro- ^ -lst , To roir ^ dy , ono oj . tho greatest ovils of tho prononfc mode of trading , . couj " toraoting tho system of ndiiltoration , now prevailing » trade , and whicii includes nearly ovory article o 11 con . "Y | | " tion , in food or raiment . 2 nd . " To promote tho . princii mof Co-operative Association as a method of bumnoBB , i » vword Co-onorativo oxprofming that AaHOciation , v > undorntood by tho partnors of tho Agonoy , "nplM » ** equitable arbitration botwoon Labour and Capital , an <» w comploto a conciliation at ) possible of tho conflicting wi rests of tho proeont compotitfyo system , "
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g 42 THE LEADER . C ^ ATraBAY ,
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Leader (1850-1860), March 13, 1852, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1926/page/6/
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