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and very beautiful sketches . These designs have already received the warm approval of her Majesty and Prince Albert and the progress of the worts is only delayed by fie care necessary in the removal of those time-honoured relics—in the shape of captured flags—with which the walls of the old hall are hung . Many of these flags -were taken in the Duke of Wellington ' s own battles , ¦ liul it is intended that all these shall be introduced in the decoration of the chamber after the Avails have been dressed . The catafalque on which the coffin wall rest is to be placed at one end of the hall , opposite to the door through which the public will be admitted . The windows will be all dark , and the only light obtained
will be from colossal wax candles contained in silvered candelabra , fourteen feet high , of which there are nearly one hundred , placed at stated intervals along the hall , which will be lined with men of the Grenadier Guards ( the Duke ' s regiment ) with their arms reversed . The period that has elapsed since the Duke ' s death has been occupied to very great advantage by the Earl Marshal and his assistants in the College of Arms . The heraldic and armorial decorations have been arranged with the greatest possible accuracy , and it is believed the effect of this portion of the ceremonial will far exceed anything of the kind witnessed of late years . Sir Charles Young , _ ^| rter Kingat-Arms , is devoting himself to the completion of all the irnmortant matters coming -within his department .
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The men arrested for being implicated in the duel at EMiam were on Thursday remanded , and have been sent to Jlorsemonger-lane Gaol . The jury have returned the following verdict in the case of the keeper who was killed by the cobra : — " That Edward Horatio Girling died from the effects of wounds inflicted by a venemous serpent , known as the ' cobra de capello , ' and that tlio injuries were the results of his own rashness , whilst in a state of intoxication . "
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A copy of tlie following circular has been addressed to the chairman of every board of guardians in the United Kingdom : — ' ¦ ' Sie , —I am instructed to inform you that it has been resolved to hold , in the Town Hall , Manchester , on Wednesday , the 3 rd of November next , a Conference of Members of Parliament , Guardians of the Poor , Ministers of Religion , and others favourable to the principle of substituting , in Poor-Law Unions , productive employment for mere relief , either in total idleness , or accompanied by degrading and useless taskwork . " Viscount Goderich will take the chair at eleven o'clock in the forenoon . " In order to avoid loss of time in unnecessary discussion , it has been decided that the objects of the Conference shall bo confined to the two following , viz . : —
" 1 st . To collect and bring under consideration the various methods in use , in English or Irish Unions , for usefully employing the Poor receiving In or Out Door ' liolief , ' with the pecuniary and other results , benelicial or not , arising from their adoption . " 2 ml . To consider and adopt means for promoting the general enforcement of productive and healthful labour , and otherwise furthering the benevolent purposes of the i ' om - Law Asocial ion . ' ¦ In the event of your concurrence in measures which are
increasingly felt to bo not only , more- just and humane to the Poor , but calculated to diminish the burthen of pauperism , correct ( lie indolent habits often predisposing to it , ami reduce the number of those who recruit the ranks of crime , I have the honour very respectfully to invite yourself , mid nnv of your colleagues to be present on I he occasion ; and J beg to expres . s an earnest , hope thai your Board will lake into . serious consideration , and concur in remedying , evils equally deplorable upon humane , economical , or Christian grounds .
" H is conceived ( hntthe present , condition oi l . he country in peciiiiariv favourable to the gathering together of gentlemen ijitalilicd , by prolonged observation and experience , to od ' er suggestions lor the practical adoption of improvements in 1 ' oor-liiiw administration , -which horn ; alrc ( tilj / prof / ' */ . success /'/;/ in Mome places , and if r / r ? i < i '< i / fi / enforced , would not- only product ; immediate bcncfiU . othe Ratepayers , and the I ' oor , but , prepare the country to encounter , without * ri . li or inconvenience , those periodical commercial crises , which t lie records of the past , prove to be inevitable . I litd-ory has too filially isliown that , measures taken hastily , and under iiimicdi it <> pressure , are totally inadequate to the cviln to I » t ! met , and involve as they did recently in Irebuid--fiiorinous waste of the national resources . The compiiral ively slight pressure of those evils at present only renders the time more propitious for introducing tho proposed improvements .
'" I would also especially remind you that the recent 'Order' of the l'oor-l * a \ v Board reiidern an inquiry 111 ( 0 the lic-il . means of ' selling the 1 'oor to work' urgently imjKirl . in I , Ixi / li to tho < i miniums and to Hie Kalepuyci' . s The net mil experience of very many U nions , part iculiirly in I rehuid , weins to demons ! rate , that , t he ditlicult ies of comp lying with the requirements of the Law in this reaped , nrit more imaginary than real . ' ¦ If i I , be I he purpose of yourself , or any of your brother < i iiai'diiiiiH , to nllcnd ( lie (' onference , an intimation to Ilial effect f ' roiii you , it / ion- kii . ttirl j / < l < ii / iij ' tcr tho recei p t oj this , will he highly esteeme'l .
" 1 nut also desired to state that , in the event , of your non-attondance , any practical miggeslioiiH , from MemlierH of your liourd , calculated to assist , the , Conference in carrying out , their objects , will he acceptable , and the requisite Htopn taken to bring Ilium under I lie consideration of the Public and flio lie ; rislat lire . " I have the honour to be , Sir , " Your very obedient , servant , ' " Ak <; iiiiia . m > <<' - Stahk , " ( Jonorul Hcnrol ary oi' thti 1 ' oor-Law AHHooiiilioa . " " 7 , Nbrfoik-Btreol , Munclienter . October IJOUi , 185 SS . . "
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing" so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep tilings fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —De . Aenold .
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THE MEETING OF CONVOCATION « FOR THE DESPATCH OF BUSINESS . " The Times of Monday startled the country with an announcement " not without foundation , " that Ministers have " resolved to advise Her Majesty to permit the Houses of Convocation to sit for the despatch of business , and that the Royal license will he accordingly issued , empowering those ecclesiastical assemblies to enter upon the consideration of such matters as may thereby be submitted to them . " At the same time , the leading journal denounced the measure as " rash and abrupt , " as " perilous to the Church of England , and inimical to the order and tranquillity of society , " as " one of the wildest freaks that ever passed through tlie brain of a statesman , " as a " trick of the grossest kind ; " and garnished its article with plirases far from complimentary to the clergy of the Church it so haughtily upholds . Tlie Times was extremely angry , and it menaced Lord Derby wdth " a storm which neither that noble Earl nor his
colleagues could allay . " Iu short , the limes accompanied the lightning of its revelation with the peculiar thunder of Printing-house-square . People waited for the morrow to read the Herald and the Chronicle . In a foolish article , the former declared the report " preposterously untrue , " while the Chronicle observed that it had been cognizant of the report for some little time , and it charged the Times with withholding a material part of the rumour , —namely , that the deliberations of Convocation would be strictly confined to a single , point—that is , " to devise and recommend a scheme for self-reform and
reconstruction , according to the altered condition of the Church and society . " Writing on the baro report of the Times , the Daily News declaimed with great indignation against tlie whole scheme , as something positively awful , which , if attempted , must be put down in the Laurie fashion , by Act of Parliament . Following out its previous views , and taking up the addition made by tlie Chronicle , tho Times on Thursday retorted , that to make Convocation , a " Constituent Assembly would be " not merely dangerous , hut revolutionary , " taunted the Church with its Act of Parliament origin , mentioned the Act of Submission , and rejoiced that
the Church in Convocation , which claimed , " after the manner of churchmen , something of a , divine commission , " lay " hound hand and foot by tlie limitatioiiH of human . statutes . " The " Hiatus quo" was also highly applauded , and safety was asserted to consist— - "' in the firm and equal maintenance of the present adjustment . " Meanwhile , the ( Hobo had been executing daily a running commentary , and being a Whig journal , had consistently and " Spiritedly taken Whig views . The Globe , looks upon and treats the Church as a , political machine , considers that Iionl Derby in only trying to make capital out of the concessions , depreciates tins clergy ; like the Times , it revels in the fact that the Church i * s in
temporal chains , and with obvious relish it calls for the interference of Parliament . And lo ! at the last hour , the Herald , " on authority , " denies the whole of the . story ! . Hut the ministerial journal has a , great deal to do before iI . can command our belief of its assertions . . Suppose the report to be accurate , and the Koyal licence only wanting tho Koyal signature , what in the present position of things r it in this : —
I he Church i . s at Avar within itself . Not all the efforts of all I he journalists ran conceal the fact . Hut they propose to evade it , as they try to evade ho many other evils , by ignoring it on the ono hand ; while thoy dn-rkly hint at
Parliamentary interference on the other . Now , Parliament is a civil power , notoriousl y compose d of persons variously affected towards the Church and it is reasonably asked—can these with pro * priety legislate for the Church of England P And as Parliament is notoriously incapacitated certain churchmen demand church govern ment by the Church as the only resource left for making theory accordant with practice . They profess to be prepared for the consequences ; and , almost words
in our own , the Guardian accepts the only honest alternative . " Whatever difficulties there may be , " writes that journal , "there is no choice . " " It is getting clear that the Church of England . must , in the present course of events , either be restored sooner or later in practice to what she is in theory , or else sink , and become changed into something very different from , what she has hitherto been—something , very much like the mere red-tape department of the Home Secretary's office . " So far have we arrived .
It is said , that the result of the action of Convocation would narrow the limits of the Church , and that such narrowing would be a calamity But that is begging the whole question . It involves , too , a fatal dilemma . For if the Church be not a specific thing , capable of containing only a given number of persons , who hold a specific creed ; and if it be a good thing to make it capable of containing the greatest possible number of persons—of having the most extensive and elastic limits—why not increase those limits instead of maintaining them within the old termini . And thus the argument used against restriction becomes one in favour of extension .
There is another view of the question equally damaging . The bitterest foes of Convocation now insist that it is an Act of Parliament Church ; that it was created by and subjected to the civil power ; that Henry VIII . was its William the Conqueror : in short , that it is a political machine—a spiritual police establishment . So that , according to this view , the majority of
churchmen are told , that they hold their faith by civil sanctions—that an act of a tyrant ratines what , nevertheless , they consider as revelation ; that the Bible , the Sacraments , and the virtue of the sanetions of the Christian religion are dependent on a majority of voices in a Legislature , under the fiat of a person who murdered his wives , and plundered Churchmen for the behoof of courtiers .
Conscientious churchmen very naturally cannot , dare not regard their Church in this light ; and if there be any churchmen who do , we unhesitatingly say , that they are recreants to the faith they profess , and guilty , unconsciously it may be , but still guilty , of the grossest moral dishonesty . If tho Church of England be not something quito independent of Acts of Parliament , it is one of the grandest impositions ever practised upon a
nation . . . , !<\> r our parts , it behoves us to say that it is not , as a , " States General , " the precursor of a Involution , that wo regard Convocation ; ana in this the Globe has , no doubt unintentionally , quite misrepresented our advocacy . As wo claim for ourselves the right of free development , so wo claim it for all others . That is , and always Han imiiu
been , the strong ground on which wo um advocacy . It is because the only path for con-Hcieiitious members of the Church of Lngliuui lies through the ordeal of Convocation ; it is because we are anxious for honesty of opinion , nil Bides , that we have -supported this demand oi tho Church . Tlie ground we take up is . y tho Church is in a false position ; that Uiw element of falsity in the Church is a bane to tuo nation at large ; that no calamity could arise oia of open strife in Convocation so great as t » calamity which exists , without Convocation , « MUiuiiu v yy iu \ u \ / wri i / Oj vr m * A . \ r * + * ' ,.-.. ¦ --- . concealed unciu
fho shape of the bitterest strife , a . shameful pretence of Conformity . That tlie art ; hostile antagonisms in the Church « ol ) OCl - denies . The bishops admit it ; the arclidcaco »» adji . it it ; the controversy of the week } n public journals has extracted the like «" JmII JV ° from the Times , Die Globe , and the JJatty M * ' - And the question to be resolved is , vvh (! ' ,: , gmut scandal like this , which must neuirai < much of whatever good there may be ih < teaching of the clergy , ought to be permitlee exist one day without a remedy beinff 8 <} U * y Convocation " is the obvious remed y— -the ron ^ j suggested by the most earnest men m < Church itself ! By the issue they aro _ Fep » " to stand or fall , liko honest men . » M w »
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1852, page 1014, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1957/page/10/
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