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    FIRST STONE 01? THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN ...

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    THE ACCOMMODATION-PAPEll MANU If we coul...

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    Ueform In A. Dark Corner. Them- Is A New...

    either of which we could understand a general public demonstration , after which the feelings and opinions of the country in favour of an amended parliamentary representation might gravitate to a Central . League ; or an unostentatious informal consultation , carried on among all the members of the Liberal party , and in no way biassed by personal jealousies or sympathies . But a -Reform clique is a monstrosity , and will command no national confidence . The effect of it is

    simply to show thecards of that which professes to be a party , and to produce the appearance of a sham . During the present and the last year , several attempts of this kind were made , resulting in failure . Firstly , the Residential [ Franchise Association was set on foot , and gamed the temporary . support of some really sound politicians , but these were compelled to fall away when they discovered that £ Jiey were sinking into a confederacy of Jbaeks , itinerants , and superannuated traders .

    Then some one inaugurated ( in private ) a ' Liberal League , ' with offices in Cravenstreet , Strand , and the names of two or three members of Parliament flitted ephemerally on the prospectus ; but this speedily became transparent as the project of an individual with a soul above public considerations , and the Liberal League vanished whither a thousand other leagues composed of a projector and an errand-boy had vanished before it . Then , as we in formed our readers , a good deal

    of gossip went on at the Reform Club , and a conference . ctP JParliamentary Reformer ^ was held within closed doors . in June last , at the King's Arras , Palace-yard , ' "Westminster , Mr . John" AitTHTiifc Hoebttck , the mediating member for Sheffield , occupying the chair . A committee , was appointed as well as whippersin , and it was resolved to draw up a scheme . A vast correspondence is said to have taken place with Liberals in all parts of the country ; concessions have been received frOm the

    special and the extreme ; and , we repeat , there is a new Reform Bill . It is not a bad bill . It confers a large extension of the suffrage on all occupants , owners , or tenants , in part or whole , of premises rated for the relief of the poor ; it establishes the principle of secret voting , on the Australian plan ; it redistributes the

    constituency so as to give , a majority ot representatives to a majority of electors ; it abolishes the property qualifications for members ; and it calls a new Parliament every three years . This , then , is the Hoebuck . Kefbrm . Again , we say , it has a promising aspect , although a little cut-and-dried . But do the G-resham Coffee-house Liberals

    sincerely believe themselves , when they say to their fellow-countrymen that Government , if it meditates the introduction of a measure , will gladly receive popular instructions ? Could not Mr . Roebuck abrogate the ' if , ' since he is so dear a friend of the Cabinet , and confide to us the Pai ^ merston theory ? If not , is he totally unprepared to act in the public light , and to give up backstairs agitations ? ~ We are well aware that only a few

    members of Parliament are acting with him in . promoting this sectional movement . But , if ^ Reform is to bp obtained , it must bo by the union of Heformers , and not by secret cotxclaves , making up a project of shreds and patches , and relying upon a fraction of the people , * instead of tlte whole . From the Public Office , Birmingham , comes a' Charter ;' from Wood-street , ' an outline . ' Which will the public adopt ? Or will it reject both , and frame a Reform Bill of its own ?

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    First Stone 01? The Christian Church In ...

    FIRST STONE 01 ? THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN INDIA . The spirit , of Christianity is to assert itself at all risk to the Christian , witlrnH tolonmee

    for the Heathen . "We have compromised our faith in India ; we have encouraged the Heathen to rebel against us , and we have been fearfully scourged for that infidelity to our own faith . At the same time we have misled the Heathen into a misconception of their own powers and place in the world which is destructive to themselves . In Cawnpore will never be forgotten that hideous monument of Hindoo ferocity—the well . General Neill inflicted a terrible punishment on the traitors , by making them cleanse the , traces of their murderous work before

    hanging them ; the Hindoo gentry being scourged as malefactors to coerce them at their toil . Mr . Henry CuiusTOPitEitsoN has proposed a far nobler revenge : it is , over that well , the tomb of the victims , to erect a Christian church . Naka Sahib has bid his countrymen rejoice because the Christians , even their women and children , have been destroyed—because they have all been sent to hell , and both the Mussulman and Hindoo religions have been confirmed ; ' but on the foundation which he thus hideously prepared , the Christian Church will rise with resistless power , to preach the doctrine of forgive-¦

    ness . . . ¦ .-. " . . It appears to us that Christianity never had such an opportunity in Iudia ; has , indeed , seldom had so sublime an opening in the world . A spirit of chivalry just now animates the whole body of Christians . Thousands upon thousands—millions , who would set little store by the technical refinements of scholastic distinctions of doctrine , are prepared to lay down life and property in vindicating her faith , and in sustaining the Grovermnent which shall assert that faitlx in all

    its purity , in all its gentleness , but in all its power . Some cuurrmg . persons have thought to filch an opportunity , not for Christianity , but sect . One person has suggested this kind of church , that kind of chapel , this other form of cathedral or meeting-house . The Society for the Propagation of the

    Gospel in Poreign Parts at once issued an advertisement , taking the idea of Mr . Christopherson , and appropriating it to the Church of England . Now if thab Church really were , as we have always wished it to be , the Church of the people of England , it would be most fit that its clergy should be the builders of the new Christian church in

    India . But it is not so ; the Church of England might be called the Church ot" the upper classes of ^ England , and even that would overstate its pretensions . Another gentleman has thrown out a very cunning bribe : Havelock is a Baptist by persuasion , and he has . done much to restore peace ; build then ' a Baptist temple on an extensive scale' 'A Curate '

    says he will give a guinea should a cathedral be erected ; but ' I , ' the Baptist , ' will give two guineas , and promise to procure twenty guineas more , should my plan be adopted . ' Here is * S . L . ' ^ offering twenty-ono guineas if the public will choose ' a Baptist temple 'some kind of Greek fane , we suppose , —instead of a Christian cathedral ; so completely does the fanaticism of sect neutralize

    Christianity ! On the other hand , Mr . Emnss'i ? Hawkins , Secretary to the Society for Propagating the Gospel , eagerly declares , through the columns of the Times , that th « Society has , of ita own accord , given the fullest security against any party bias in on appointment of missionaries . It represents

    no party in tho Church ; its missionaries aro appointed by tho Archbishops of Canterbury and York and tho Bishop of London for tho timo being , and tho two missionary martyrs at Cawnporo were thus approved . Is not the Society , however , still a Society of tho Church < of England ? ' If Mr . ISunest Hawkins , with the warrant of his coadjutors

    in the Society , could rise above the level o > sect and give some guarantee that the Church would fairly represent Christianity in India hi would no doubt call forth a national response and he would create a new society worthv to have the most Christian gentleman i / the land , Prince Albert , as its president- and worthy , we will say , of the man who suggested the memorial . Eor Mr . CuRTBTotuHUBoK himself a Nonconformist , has said noting about sect , but has pointed at < good Bisho , ° VV 11 . SON as the man who could vindicate Christianity against its own divisions

    The Accommodation-Papell Manu If We Coul...

    THE ACCOMMODATION-PAPEll MANU If we could venture to do so without presumption , we should urge Mr . Commissioner HoLitoYD to inform himself m ore completely on the subject of bankruptcy , and particularly of that branch which was concerned in the case of Sa . dgr . ove aud Ragg . The case was before him last Tuesday for judgment , and lie delivered si judgment cons picuous for its uprightness and its intelligence . " We have already stated the circumstances under which the firm managed to supply the place of capital with paper . " The financial partner , " says Mr . Commissioner Holhoyd , " resorted to the meanest devices in order to make up for the want of capital ; " and lor those ' meanest devices , ' the bankrupt was punished by the withholding of Ms certificate ; his loss culpable partner being refused the certificate for two years . In the course of his remarks , Mr . Commissioner Hoi / royd declared that

    the manufacturer of a bill purporting to bear a signature which was in its nature false , or to h

    He naively pointed out that proceedings of this kind must inevitably lead to ruin ; but here again we have to teach the Commissioner . The mercantile profits in this case were about 10 ^ pet * cent , on the returns ; mon ey could only bo borrowed at the rate of 10 to 12 per cent ., and the Commissioner sees in this opex * ntion , therefore , nothing but ruin ? How so ? To drop the particular instance ,

    let us take another case—anonymous , but not imaginary . A man sets up a shop , say a linendraper ' s or a grocer ' s ; his capital is small , say 3000 Z . ; and he can only engage in a limited scale of business , can only arrogate to himself a very middle-class income—two or three hundred pounds a year , and must live a great part of the week at a cold-mutton scale of existence . Such a life is rather

    ' slow . ' Ho determines to have an income ot seven or eight hundred a year , or more ; he wishes his box out of town ; and it is easily done . He has only to extend his business . He wants capital , it is true , and he has not customers ; but capital can bo obtained by paying & sufficient price for it , and customers will come it" the goods are sold al ' tremendous sacrifices . ' Accordingly , he

    borrows one or two hundred thousand pounds , at ten or twelve per cent . ; sells his goods oven under prime cost ; drives n , large business to the full extent of bis capital , sets apart for himself his 7001 . or 8001 . a year , or inoro ; goes on for three or four years , finds his debts accumulating , and declares himself bankrupt . But ho keeps excellent books , pays tei * shillings in the pound , nnd establishes him-

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 7, 1857, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07111857/page/12/