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    less from any fear as to the mode in which she would use it , than it arose from an entire want of faiih in her divine mission . { Cheers . ) He claimed for the English Church , from the Crown of England , the right of assembling whenever her need should require ; and he claimed it not only as the light of the Church because the royal word had been pledged to grant her such a liberty , bat he claimed it as her right where the Crown of England was not . ( Cheers . ) He claimed it for her as the Church of God , as the representative of the Apostolical Synod at Jerusalem—( hear , hear)—that the Church , according to His Almighty Spirit , should have a right to meet in her ancient synod . "

    There were those -who looked upon the Church of England as a " mere -weapon to keep down troublesome ideas and thoughts among the people : "" They believed that there was no presence of God with her ; that there was no truth of God in her for which to live , and , if needs were , for which to fall . ( Rear . )" He boldly met the cry of " peace" : — * ' What was the history of the Church but the history of her strife against error ? They had been told that this measure would endanger the peace of the Church . But they all knew that Christ himself spoke of his doctrine as that sendiner a sword upon the earth . And why ? Because he knew that that was not peace which was only an agreement in error ; that it was death instead of p * ace . "

    And , referring to the internal divisions in the Church , he asked whence it arose : — Whence , but that the spirits of the devout were driven inwards , and their hearts were rendered troublous with despair ; whereas , if the Church had been able to discuss those things which so deeply concerned them in lawful synod , with the hope of some practical result , doubtless the presence of the Spirit of God would have been there , and , if there were truth in this world , the result must have been different , and beneficial consequences , ere this , might have been seen . " It was also because the lay element had almost ceased to act any where else that he should be anxious to restore synodical action to the Church of England . The laity could only act through the House of Commons ; and they did not act , but "looked only on the Church as some State establishment for which they had to legislate as for any other institution of Great Britain . " Towards the end of this remarkable speech he said : — "It was not , and never had been , the condition of the Church of Christ to Lave perfect unity of opinion . It could not be . He believed that the constitution of men ' s minds made it impossible . Some must incline to Calvinism , and others to Arminianism . The office of the Church of Christ was not to extinguish all those differences of opinion , but it was , nevertheless , possible that Chiistians should coexist together in harmonious cooperation , according as it had been arranged by the divine founder of the Christian religion . " The motion was agreed to—that is , the copy of the petition was ordered to be furnished to Lord Rede =-dale , and the House adjourned .

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    When the Commons were going into Committee of Supply , Mr . Mo watt brought forward the case of Mr . Whiston and the Dean and Chapter of [ Rochester . It seems that certain schools at Rochester were endowed in 1542 , at the rate of £ 5 a head for each boy . Since that period the income of the estates from which the endowment is derived has enormously increased ; but while tlie Dean and Chapter have availed themselves , according to a custom long established in the Church , of the increased revenue , they have doled out the literal £ 5 to the scholars . Mr .

    Whiston , formerly head master of the school , pointed out this fact to the authorities ; and being unable to obtain any redress , he wrote n pamphlet on Cathedral Trusts and their Fulfilment For this offence , aa the dean and chapter deemed it , Mr . Winston was dismissed from hi « head-mastership , on the ground that a person capable of doubting the infallibility and impeccability of a dean and chapter , was incapable of teaching the boys of a grammar-school . Mr . Mowatt moved for an ml _

    dress to tin ; Queen , praying for a commission of inquiry . The House shirked the question . The motion was ultimatel y negatived without a division , and the House went into committee of supply . The chief sums -voted were £ 4 ( 5 , 824 for the Itrititth Museum , and £ 160 , 000 for public education . On the latter grant the onl y remarkable , thing said was a gratuitous announcement by Lord John Kushku , that , in common with Mr . W . J . 1 ' ox "he also looked forward to the establishment of a more extended system of nati onal education , and that all our efforts were progressing in that direction"

    and he whs afterwards compelled b y enraged Tories to confess that lie did not mean secular education ; in short , that he did not menu anything at all .

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    The weather yentenJay being more favourable , the Scottish fete went off with greater spirit and / out . The solicitor II ugginn h&n been sentenced to death for arson . It is understood that the nentence will be commuted . The newB from Lisbon is to the 7 th . The Liberal Ministers have been compelled to resign , and a spirit of faction ban shown itnelf in the choice of their sucpcsiora .

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    THE PRESENT MINISTRY AND THE NEXT . Ministerial defeats have become so common that they are accounted trifles ; the public cares little whether the Anti-Papal Bill which is ultimately carried to be systematically shelved and not executed , is the one planned by Lord John Russell after his first manner , by Lord John after his second manner , or by Sir Frederick Thesiger : the public cares little whether the House agrees with Mr . Berkeley that there shall be vote by ballot , or with the silent Ministers that there shall be no vote by ballot , knowing equally that there will be none :

    whether , with Mr . Tufnell , that there shall be no property qualification for Members , or with Lord John , that there needs be no property qualification , knowing well that the negative is a nullity and a sham . But the occupation of office by a Ministry at once incompetent and irresponsible through weakness , is a calamity accumulating with the increase of time . The present period is " tranquil , " as the saying is ; but every week that a bad and disorganized Government continues in office , every vote that heaps

    fresh contempt and helplessness on that Ministry , adds to the confusion into which public affairs have got , and increases the risks already multiplying for a time of trouble . The bill of indictment that may be preferred against Ministers , not only incapacitates them from holding office , but ought to make politicians , of whatsoever party , agree on one manifest truth—that such a Ministry should not continue in office a single clay longer . Let us survey some few of the principal charges against them , taken almost at random .

    They are wasting the public means in the ridiculous Kafir war , brought on by the vagaries of their own servant , Governor Smith ; the war is grievous to the colonists of the Cape of Good Hope , who remember with disgust the past alternation of coquettings and threats , which have excited without controlling the marauders on the frontier . Ministers had previously alienated the trust and goodwill of the colonists by the attempt , in breach of all faith and honour , to force convict emigrants on the colony ; and yielding to resistance what they had refused to justice , they had provoked the contempt of the colonists .

    They tantalized the Cape colonists by the spontaneous offer of " English constitution " —a boon now put off , after much debating and controversy , till after the termination of the Kafir war !—of the war provoked by Ministers and not by the colonists ! They have gratuitously excited a similar feeling of contumacy in the Australian colonies , by the spontaneous offer of amended constitutions ; an offer followed up by such measures that the colonists are more discontented than pleased , and that different colonies and different classes in the same colonyaa Free Settlers and Emancipists—are Net against each other , though different , settlements are uniting in an Australian League , " to agitate against the British connection .

    1 he anger of New South Wales han been aggravated by the attempt to renew convictism after the promise to abandon it ; Van Dieinen ' s Land , which is weaker than New South Wales , in forced to tolerate ; the curse .

    In Ceylon they appointed a Governor who imposed odious taxes ; who sanctioned measures of shocking tyranny in the suppression of revolt ; whom they maintained in office against the protest of the colonists , and removed after all the mischief was done . They shielded Captain Watson , who repudiated the fainouH proclamation issued under Ins hand in a multiplied form , threatening immediate death to persons that should hold certain property ; and in all this process they tried to stave off parliamentary censure , by / statements which have wince- been refuted on information that must huvc been in the hands of Ministers at the time . *

    The North American colonies , whose affections it was so desirable to regain , have been asking assistance in a measure that would be most beneficial " not more to the colonies than to immense numbers of English emigrants and to the trade of the empire —the British North American railway : Ministers shilly-shally , negotiate , and procrastinate . The Foreign Minister of the Cabinet interfered in the affairs of a Portuguese Jew making extravagant claims on the Government of Greece : the Minister professedly interfered to maintain " British influence , " in defence of which he invaded our ally ; British influence was kicked out of Athens as the British Minister had been some time before out of Madrid ; and Russian influence reigns

    supreme . Italy rose against the Austriansj a member of the English Government was sent to behave as if British support would be given to the patriots . British support was withheld ; and Austria reassumed the Peninsula ; Sicily falling back to the dependant of Austria—Naples . French troops occupied Rome in connivance with Austria , our Government passively acquiescing . Italian patriots sought refuge in Malta , and were repulsed by the English Governor . Turkey desires to release Kossuth , and would have done so if England had supported her against Russia : he remains in prison .

    Lord Palmerston enjoys the confidence of Tiverton and of English Liberals , of the Emperor and the Diplomatists of the Allied Powers . Ministers wantonly persist in squandering the public money to maintain the mischievous African blockade squadron ; as soon as Brazil becomes diligent in suppression of the slave-trade , they subject her to humiliation and coercion . Ministers have introduced confusion into finance —maintaining the income tax , but handing it over to inquiry by a committee ; proposing a budget to be laughed at , and amending it on compulsion ; abolishing the window tax , and substituting a house tax , which is to fall on one house in seven .

    They have arrayed sect against sect with their Anti-Papal agitation ; they followed that agitation up by a bill which strove to be nothing ; and under compulsion they accept a really coercive measure from their opponent Sir Frederick Thesiger . They proclaim " agr icultural distress" in the royal speech , and have done nothing to alleviate it ; they have since made light of it , though it is getting every day more notorious and deplorable . They promised Law Reform , and have done little or nothing ; Poor Law Reform , and have done nothing .

    lhey have consented to hold office under continual defeats ; under the defeat by Mr . Locke King , Lord John has hinted at a Parliamentary Reform Bill for " next session , " which shall give some real representation to " the working-classes" ; under the defeat by Sir Frederick Thesiger , Ministers acquiesced in a measure of Catholic coercion , and consent to be the Executive which must , ex offieio , be charged with the enforcement of that

    . Endless confusion has been introduced into every department of public affairs ; the Cabinet has no strength , enjoys no public confidence , maintains no straightforward course ; it i « daily bringing Government and Parliament into contempt , and every hour that it continues in office adds to that calamitous state of things . If a time of trouble should come , it will find us with a Government so weak that it cannot " keep a House" for its own purposes ; ho reckless in its language and bearing , that no one trusts it or believes in it

    It in quite evident that the first function of the Ministry which succeeds the present must be , not ho much to carry on reforms or to advance the progress of the country , an U , introduce order where nil i , s disorder ; not to commence new measures , hut to place upon an intelligible footing the measures already commenced—in the eolonie « on the subject of representative government , convict transportation , and native relations ; in foreign alburn , the distinctions between intervention and

    nonintervention , alliance and hostility ; and at home , in every department . The Ministry that should undertake no other function but that of putting all these things in order , would execute the indispensable preliminary to any future progress . Such a function might be performed by almost any party , whatever itH speculative opinions , ho long aH it could supply men of wense . Ifc would secure the respect and gratitude of the country ; and tho nooiicr it should bei / in its work the better .

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    There is nothing so revolutionary , "because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of it 3 creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Ahnolp .

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    SATURDAY , JULY 12 , 1851 .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), July 12, 1851, page 656, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1891/page/12/