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conduct towards any individual of tny clergy ; but that I looked only to his faithfulness and diligence in-winning souls to Christ . . . . Nothing can adequately supply the place of a zealous and active body of parochial clergymen , carrying the truths and consolations of religion to the homes of their neighbours , especially-the poor , and so awakening them by degrees to a sense of their spiritual wants , and exciting in them a longing for the more solemn and authoritative teaching of the Church in her offices , and in the public preaching of God's Word . At present , there is little prospect of such an increase in the number of parochial clergymen as may fully supply this need : but I am thankful for what has already been done in the way of Church extension , and earnestly hope that the work may go forward with increasing energy and success , and it is one which I heartily recommend as deserving of your cordial co-operation and support . I believe-we may look-for assistance and encouragement from the Christian community , so long as they see that we are faithful to our ministerial trust , and to the principles of our Reformed Church ; combating , on the one hand , infidelity , ignorance , and vice ; and , on the other hand , guarding our flocks against the errors and superstitions of Rome , by whom the Church of England is justly legarded as the firmest bulwark of Protestantis rn . " The New Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol was enthroned on Saturday in the cathedral of the last named city . ¦
The New Public Offices . —The specifications for the n « w public offices were delivered on Wednesday . The Chief Commissioner of Works ( says the Observer ) invites the preparation of designs for tlie concentration of the principal Government offices on tlie site lying between Whitehall and the New Palace of Westminster ; and tlie other two designs are for buildings which the Government has determined , to erect forthwith , as parts of the general scheme—one for the department of the . Secrettuy of State for Foreign Affairs , and the other for the Secretary of State for War . The generator block plans are intended . to show the best mode of concentrating the principal Government offices on tlie site situated between E > owning-street , Westminster Abbey , and St . James ' s Park and the Thames . The proposed new War and Foreign Offices are to te in
Downingstreet , on the vacant space of ground which the Government already possesses in tliat locality . The situation of th « new Westminster-bridge must be considered in connexion with the designs . The prizes for the- be ^ t designs are—for the two best designs for the Foreign Office and AVar Department , two premiums of 800 ? . ; for the second best , two premiums of 50 ()? . ; for the third , two premiums of 300 Z . ; and for the fifth , sixth , and seventh best , there are two premiums of 1001 . eacli . If the architect to whom a premium may be awarded in respect of the designs , or any of them , shall be employed to superintend the execution of the work , he will not be entitled to receive such premium , but he will be paid ii commission at the rate of five per cent , on the outlay , such commission to include all expenses for measuring ' , superintendence , &c , except the salaries of the clerks of the works . ' ¦
Guildhall Improvements . —The improvements and alterations at the Guildhall are rapidly progressing , and principally comprehend two new law courts , with their necessary appendages , and the appropriation of a portion of the ancient crypt of the building for the purposes of a kilclien . —Building Nctcs . Susi'ENSiox of a Goods Traffic Manageh—In consequence of some irregularities in his department , Sir . Samuel Salt , goods manager of the London and North Western Railway Company ( north-eastern division ) at Manchester , has been for the pretcnt suspended . This ¦ Harvest in tiikNoiitu of Scotland . —A week of -very bad weather has seriously interrupted liarvest operations in the north of Scotland . Heavy rains have fallen ,- and a good deal of the uncut corn has been hopelessly laid , but , as a cliangc for the better has taken place in the weather , it is expected that most of the grain will be secured .
market cf our Southern States to an Englishman . With the majority of our respectable population in New England , these articles are considered as pertaining only to the department of medical practice , and , if we have them in our houses at all , it is with the same precaution and Watchfulness that we / use other medicines . When we see how they are publicly obtruded on the eye here every night , with all the attractions of brilliant lights and splendid shops , we wonder that there are any who escape such temptations . But let us hope that our two countries are both on the eve of new and better things . It is our . hope that the cause of liberty in America is about to triumph—that the wise and good , who too long have slumbered and slept , are awaking in good earnest to wipe out the disgrace of past remissness by placing in our highest national seat a President who shall consistently uphold the principles of freedom . " Mrs . Stowe will not get many persons in England , outside the narrow limits of teetotalism , to agree with her in
thinking that poverty would vanish from these islands-on the importation of the Maine Liquor Law . This opinion is no doubt very agreeable to noble lords and large landed proprietors ; but it will not be ratified by the masses . However , there is no question that drunkenness is one of our national sins , and the sooner we get rid of * it the better . —A long correspondence between Lord Stanley and Mr . Samuel Pope , Hon . Sec . of the United Kingdom Alliance for the suppression of the liquor traffic , with reference to the temperance question , has been published . It arose out of a request made by the society to his lordship that he would attend the annual meeting . Lord Stanley declined , and drew up a statement of his reasons against legislative suppression of drunkenness . To these Mr . Pope replies , Lord Stanley again defends his opinions , and the secretary makes another rejoinder , with which the correspondence closes . The documents are too voluminous for analyzation within our limits ; and oTir readers are already acquainted with the arguments on both sides of the general question .
The International Fkee Trade Congress . —The farewell banquet to wind up the business of the Congress came off , on the evening of Friday week ; in the Gothic-hall of the Hotel de Ville , under the presidency of Count C . Arrivabene . . From two hundred , to two hundred and fifty gentlemen sat down to dinner , and the banqu « t-hall was decorated with the flags of divers nations . Among the company were the Count John Arrivabene ( Professor of the London University College , and adherent member of the Congress ); MM . Corr Vanaermaeren , De Molinari , Garnier , Pascal Diiprat , Scialoja < delegate from Sardinia ) , Hertz ( Hamburg ) , Masson , De Cocquiel , Ciersy Kowaki , De Beaulieu , Lesoime , Campan , and Ackersdyk ; Mr . Oliveira , M . P ., Mr . "WInkwortb , Mr . C . Lawson , Mr . E . Chadwick ,
Sbc . Several toasts were drunk and speeches delivered , appropriate to the occasion . Tlie toast of " tlie Delegates from Holland , " proposed by M . CouvreuT ( a Belgian ) , was received with the utmost enthusiasm , several Belgian members rushing round the hall , and striking their glasses against those of their Dutch friends with great emphasis and cordiality . II . Lesoime excited some merriment by proposing "Our Auxiliaries , the Protectionists , " whom he said 3 VT . Pascal Duprat had handled too roughly . By their predictions of ruin to nativo industry from competition—to which experience invariably gave the lie—the Protectionists did . wonderful though unwilling service to the cause of free trade .
Mr . Ohveira , M . P ., took occasion to thank the Belgian authorities for their kindness in throwing open the museums , &c , to foreigners , and ventured to promise a similar courtesy to them when they should visit England . — " The Conference of 1856 , " says the Times reporter , " is now dissolved ; but its work is intended to be taken up by a permanent international association ramifying the civilized world with its multiplied branches . Great activity has been shown by the committee of the local body , who on the very first day after the resolution to create a standing organization was passed , met and formed the nucleus of the projected Free Trade League . Such energy and promptitude augur well for the future .
Svnday Bands . —A Parliamentary return has been issued , showing the number of memorials to the Queen for the stoppage of the Sunday bands . It appears that there were 111 , 309 signatured to 542 memorials , seven only of which came from public meetings , and but two from " associations . " From different varieties of kirks in Scotland , assembly , free , synod , scccder , and presbyter , there were 26 memorials . While the Wesleyan Methodists sent no less than 98 memorials , the Primitive Methodists sent but one . The Church seems unrepresented in tho list , unless that be done by two memorials from " clergy ; " and from " clergy and others , " 28
memorials . The " female inhabitants" of various places sent 377 different memorials . London , it might be supposed , would be largely represented , but 28 mcmorinls , with under 8000 signatures out of tho 111 , 309 , are all that stand to the account of the metropolis . The report shows that 42 memorials , while asking for the stoppage of the military music on Sunday , ask also that tho museums and Crystal Pnlnco may bo keep closed . Five only of thoao 42 memorials come from London and its neighbourhood , and two out of tho five are described ns from " mothers at Cainborwell . " There aro some 27 inenaoriulB which pray her Majesty not only to withhold Jier sanction from tho Sunday opening of tho Museum
&c , but also to put a stop to the assemblage of t"he higher classes in their equipages in the parls on Sunday . " For some unexplained reason , the " drive" in Hyde-park seems peculiarly interesting to the county of Derby ; for , of the 27 memorials on the subject , above 20 are from various places , in that county ; the rest are from Scotland . Only 34 memorials add to their prayer for the stoppage of military bands on Sunday one for the closing of Kew Gardens , and two of these emanate from Bath , one with 3639 signatures ; the 32 others come from all parts of Suffolk .
John BLvcgregor , M . P . — Some of the most influential of the * liberal electors of Glasgow have resolved to call upon Mr . John Macgregor to resign his seat in Parliament . The reason assigned , of course , is connected with the failure of the Royal British Bank . We hope the Glasgow Liberals will not act with precipitation , and condemn Mr . Macgregor unheard . It would be wiser to elicit from the ingenious John , a full , true , and particular account of his profits and losses in connexion with various projects , from the Eastern Archipelago Company , that monumental corporation which forfeited its charter , to the Royal British Bank , the latest example of neediness treading along the edge of legality .
The Parks . — "Various improvements are now being made in the parks . The pieces of ornamental water have ^ been cleansed , deodorized , and , in some instances , ' rendered shallower , in order to prevent those numerous accidents from drowning which are common in the skating season . The new entrance into St . James ' s Park from Pall-mall is completed ; fresh gates have been added to the Green Park in three places along the Piccadilly line ; the walks and carriage-ways in Hyde Park , close to the bridge over the Serpentine , have been ¦ widened ; new plantations have been made in Victoria Park , where other improvements are effected ; the entrances to the Regent's Park have been -widened , and mew footways are being laid down , a 3 in the Green Park ; and in all these public grounds a Large addition to the number of seats has been made . The perpendicular bars have been removed from the foot-passenger gates ; and cows are henceforth to be excluded from the Tictoria and Regent ' s Parks , where , however , sheep may still be pastured . ¦ ¦' - [
London Mission of the Agapemone .. —Two members of the "Agapemone , " near Bridgewater , appeared ( says a dail y contemporary ) on Friday week , at the Hanover-square Rooms , for tho purpose of publicly making known their tenets . The large room was densely crowded . Two respectably dressed men , having nothing peculiar in their appearance , spoke to the meeting , one after another , and urged the claims of their leader , " Brother Prince , " to be regarded as the . inspired-author of a new revelation . They observed that " some persons had been so foolish as to say that his followers regarded Mr . Prince as God , or as the Messiah , or the Holy Ghost ; bat God forbid that any one , either in foolishness or In wickedness , should ever say such a thing . Brother Prince was by nature a child of wrath , but he had been made by grace a vessel of mercy . Some eleven years ago , the Holy Ghost fulfilled in Brother Prince all that he came to be
and to do ; The audience at this statement evinced much disapprobation and disgust , and some persons cried out that it was gros 3 blasphemy , and worse than Mormonism . The speaker , who seemed , quite imperturbable , and who calmly surveyed the meeting through a single glass stuck jauntily in one eye , proceeded to allude to a second spiritual manifestation which , he said , occurred a ' t the Agapemone about five years ago , in which case the phenomenon was exhibited in the person of a woman—a prophetess—" not privately , but in the presence of us all . " Some of the expressions used l > y the speaker in describing this transactimi were probably misunderstood by many of his hearers , for they
interrupted him indignantly , and at last stopped him with a very general howl of execration . The = two strangers , who preserved their impassive demeanour , then retired from the room ; upon which Mr . Newman , apparently a working man , rose and denounced the doctrines and practices of the Agapemone as impious , lie movocl , as a resolution , " that tho statements which had been made by the two persons from ^ the platform that evening were contrary to common sense , degrading to humanity , and blasphemous towards God . " The resolution was carried with acclamation and amid vociferous cheers . A sergeant of police then stepped forward and good-humouredly said , "Now , gentlemen , the meeting is over , " and tho proceedings terminated .
TLhe Bishop of London s FAiucwrcr / u—An address , signed by a largo body of metropolitan clergymen , was presented to tho Bishop of London nt Fulham Palace last Saturday . In reply to the expressions of regret and esteem thus conveyed , tho retiring prelate made some observations , in the course of whieli , after tluuil . ing the clergymen for their affection nncl good will , his Lordship aaid : — "An net of Parliament has been passed enabling ino to resign my bishopric . For the provisions of that act I have groat cause to bo thankful ; though I must confess that I would lather bavo seen u ijoneral measure applicable , with certain safeguards , to tho discs of all bishops of our Church disabled by ngc or infirmity from the active discharge of their duties I am not conscious of having over allowed any difference of opinion upon matters not affecting tlie foundation or essential doctrjnei } of Our Iioly faith , to influence my
The Womah-Floggixg w Mauyleboue Workhouse . —A feud is now raging between the parochial directors and guardians of Marylebone , on the one hand , and the Poor-law Board , on tho other , with respect to the recent flogging of women in the workhouse . The latter body , having instituted an inquiry into the fact 3 of tlie case , called upon the directors and guardians to dismiss the master , but made no reference to the porters , Gr « en and Brown being understood to have resigned . Tho directors and guardians , howovor , determined on setting the Board at defiance . The Board peremptorily insisted on its order bcing ^ carricd into effe ct : but the pariah authorities are resolved to contest the point in the law courts . Tjiic Crystal Palacic—Tho last display this season of tlie groat fountains at the Sydenham Palace took place last Saturday . Litkrary Union . —Mr . John Forster , lato editor of Ihc Examiner , and Mrs . Colburn , widow of the late eminent publisher , wcro married on Thursday wcok . The ceremony was performed by the Rev . Whitwcll Elwyn , ed itor of tho Quarterly Review . New Zealand . —There has been some fighting among tho native tribes , but it does not appear that any of the Europeans have been killed . Parliamentary Statistics . — Tho Administrative
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Octobeb 4 , 1856 . ] THE LEABEB . 915
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 4, 1856, page 945, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2161/page/9/
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