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    "Church In Danger!» —From The Clergy. Un...

    reverend gentlemen to reader them a reality . In . the Convocation of York , the Reverend Canon TasroR claimed the right to elect " our proleutor ; " but the Beverend Canon . Harcourt , . sitting < as Commissioner of the Archbishop , could only " receive a written , document . " He could not even hear ifc read— " I can hear nothing at present ! " he cried . " Before you prorogue , sir- " exclaimed Canon Truyob . - " In the name of God , Amen ! " rejoined the Commissioner . " We William

    VeuffON" HaKCOTJRT , & C . " The Eev . Canon Trevor— " Now , shy I claim to be allowed to elect a proleutor . " The Commissioner—" You must not interrupt me . We prorogue this synod or convocation to Tuesday , the 31 st of March ; and we continue and prorogue the same— " The llev . Canon Trevor— " I claim my right to " The Commissioner— "To that day , or any other day , if occasion should require . " The Commissioner had beaten , the Canon .

    Convocation is a delusion , a mockeiy , and a snare . We know of no attitude in -which the Commissioner ought to sit , save one which may be seen in tlie Egyptian hieroglyphics . It is also described by Rabelais . It consists of putting the thumb to the tip of the nose and extending the whole of the fingers . The historical painter who portrays that scene in Convocation will depict the Commissioner thus extending the hand of fellowship to the Canon .

    If we look into the sections of the Church , the picture is not much better . The gentlemen in black are cutting each other up , root and branch . The benefieed clergy in the diocese of Oxford met in St . Mary ' s Church to elec |> a Proctor in the Lower House of Convocation . It is evidently an election TvUieli should be free ; and clearly , the Bishop , si member of the Upper House , ought not to preside . It is as bad , said the Reverend Thomas Curme , Yicar of Sandford and

    Domestic Chaplain to the Duke ' of Maklborough , as if a Peer sab to preside over the election of a member of the House of Commons . Mr . Curme , therefore , objected ; but the Bishop said that no one could interrupt the meeting until , the Synod was formally opened ; that is , until the Chairman was firmly established . Mr . Curme still protested ; on which the Bishop brought forward a Tery strong argument ; he sent for a policeman / Tho peremptory Chairman , thus protected , opened the Synod , and declared himself willing to hear any benefieed clergyman who wished to address the

    meeting . JCr . Cltrme wished to hand in his respectful protest . "But , " said tho Bishop , " you cannot protest' at this stage of the proceedings ; it must he at the close ; " that is , we presume , when tho Bishop and tlie clergy had broken up and departed . It seems that the conscientious clergy must stand in terror of the police . If they attempt , on the one side , to introduce reality , some Bishop or Commissioner will introduce tho police . A clergyman who vindicates freedom of election ia placed on a footing with tho tickot-ofleave men ; and it is the superior clergywho set up this regime I

    Wo do not wonder that there is no c Church extension' under these circumstances . Tho Church , for all its wealth , confesses its own beggarly incapacity to carry out self-extension . It seems capable only of sell-extinction . I ? v tho parish of Stepney there arc 80 , 000 persons , and in the whole parish there is church accommodation for GOQO . Besides , the poor arc kept away , ns -wo "have already said , by whame at their own poverty-stricken garb , and at the

    supercilious treatment -which they receive . Is the Bishop able to open the church te them ? He has no mwih . -power . He contrasts htm * self with many of his brothel ? -clergy ; , by fc really generous act , when , in connexion tvith a local incumbent , he opens a poor school to be used as a place of worship , in which the poor Christians may not be ashamed of their poor dress . The real Church , it seems , even , in our own day , is to be found amongst publicans and sinners , in stables and catacombs . As to the High Church , its clergy are kept in order by police , and its denizens are an offence to the Yery burial-ground .

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    The Ministry—Gladstone—Disraeli. Mr. Gla...

    THE MINISTRY—GLADSTONE—DISRAELI . Mr . Gladstone's disposition to coalesce with Mr . Disraeli is only too clear . It may be that the new compact does not extend beyond the question of the estimates , the great battle-ground of the session Mr . Gladstone is obviously and naturally eager to revive the principles of his own settlement , and seems to have been enticed by the adroit declarations of the Tory leader . But we put it seriously to him and to his friends , -whether he will not lose in prestige and in position by consenting to any actual alliance with the Disraeli connexion . Are his motives their motives ? Is their morality his ? "Woxild he become the member of such an Administration as that which Lord Derb y introduced to the Queen at " Windsor , and which dragged itself through a general election more corrupt than any that had taken place for thirty years ? Constitutional G-o vernment would , indeed , appear tinder an eccentric aspect , with the Byzantine subtlety , the refining-. mystifying intellect of Mr . Gr / AJOSToarE in combination with the Asian mystery of his

    new-found friend . Such a political union , it must be evident , could not be the offspring of pu blic spirit ; it bears , at least , the appearance of intrigue it w ould be characteristic on the part of Mr . Disbae : li ; but on the part of Mr . Gladstone it would be something more than a paradox . He might remember his own definition of Tory finance on a former occasion ; and now tliat he hears Toryism exclaiming against the immorality of Lord Palmerston ' s Government , its

    habit of blustering to the weak , its systematic complicity with the powerful , its half-way meddling and insincere professions of Liberal sympathy , he might with great propriety ask himself what have the Tories done , since 18-16 , but display incompetence when in office , and malignity when in opposition ? The promises of the Quarterly are old cards

    turned up again . Lord Derby played and lost with the same suit in 1852 , when Mr . Gladstone derided Mr . Disraeli ' s Budget as a shopman ' s scheme , and suppressed with merciless ridicule his pretensions as a finance Minister . What were Mr . Diskaeli ' s criticisms on Mr . Gladstone in 1853 , when tho gall of the Coalition still rankled in the Tory mind ? Not of a character to induce tho

    expectation that we should see these two ex-Chancellors of tho Exchequer , in . 1857 , exchanging flatteries across tho floor of tho House of Commons , and combining to defeat a nominally Liberal Government . Wo arc not concerned to solicit sympathy for Lord Palmetiston . His liberalism , aa we have repeatedly said , is , in our international

    relations at least , more damaging to tho cause of freedom than all tho prejudices that encumber the Tory benches . But wo had hoped to seo tho political heirs of Sir Hobeiit Peel giving their aid , as tho groat Minister would have given his , to the construction of tho Liberal party upon a baaia more honourable tlum that of "Whig egotism and

    insincerity , broader and more enduring ftittti that of Whig survivorship . Tory adventurers and Ctonsert & tife & a & - trinaires are not a hopeful confraternity .

    The Ghost Of Alice Leeot. "When The Case...

    THE GHOST OF ALICE lEEOt . "When the case of Axioe LeroY was exposed , the whole public was suddenly made avvare of the proceedings of a Madame Denis , % ^ Frenchwoman , who imported girls froni Prance and Belgium , and who rendered heirself" liable to a criminal prosecution . In the story of the time an ' old marquis' figured . There was an old nobleman who is understood

    not to have been a marquis , and it now turns out that there . is a marquis who is not old . The case was again brought before the Court of Queen ' s Bench on " Wednesday . TWt > stories were told in court , and we must carefull y discriminate between tbem . A man named Harrison said to have he & ti a partner of one Dknis , seems to have been either the husband , or some other connexion of Madame Denis . This person

    represents himself as a wine merchant . He avows to have frequented the house , iiOrw notorious , No . 3 , Denbigh-terrace , Pittxlico , and he says that to that house catne various noblemen- —the Marquis of Bath , Lord Somerton , Lord BatematSt , and others ; the Duke of Cambridge being of the number . These persons , in 1852 , gave him orders for wine , for it seems he did not serve Madame Denis , bait professed to be the creditor of the individual visitors at

    the house . He also alleged that he had con veyed letters to various ladies , some ap parently in Paris , for the Marquis of Bath , who had paid him 10 Z . at a time . The Duke of Cambridge was subpoenaed as a ¦ witness , and was in court . At first Harrison swore to the identity of the Duke ; afterwards he said that a gentleman came to the house who was called . " Cambridge . " He came there as a friend of Lord Batemadt . The Duke said to Madame Denis , " My name is

    Cambridge ! ' and when Lord Batsman" was present , he said to the person in question , " Hallo , Cambkidge 1 " Subsequently , however , IIabrisox thought he would not swear ib was the Duke of Cambridge ; he would only swear that the person was like the Duke , and was called Cambridge . Again , he swore to the persons of Lord Somerton and Lord Bateman , both of whom have denied the story ; and actions against them , as debtors to Harrison have been withdrawn . The

    Marquis of Bath denies tho debt for wine . He admits having paid Harrison 5 Z . on ono occasion , and probably a sovereign on others , but it was aa a gift . These discrepancies in the evidence of . Harrison' and of the persons whom he charged as his debtors , created , of course , a strong fooling in court . The jury gave a verdict for Lord Bath ; tho Chief . Tustice declared the claim to have been " a

    most unfounded and infamous demand . " The wholo claim took tho shape of an attempt to extort money under fear of exposure—a most baso and cowardly mode of attack ; and the Marquis of Bat it obtained some credit for resistance . That is ono story . " We now come to the story'which is not contradicted . It is told by the Marquis of Bath himself . Ho caino of age on the 1 st of March , 1852 . " I was induced , " ho says , " to visit tho house of Madame Denis . " Ho

    owed nothing to Harrison . " 1 have always paid for tho wine , if not at tho time , on my second viHit . " "I used to give IVIadamc D . RNIS presents occasionally , and I understood they covered everything . " Tho Marquis " never Bent IIahrison with letters to any place , but Madame DiiiNia acnt letters to mo to tho different clubs , and no doubt Hak-

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 7, 1857, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07021857/page/11/