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      claims " The cause of God demands all our energies and refuses to be helped by any action that is wean or wrong . " It frankly admits that " former , " we might say present , " anomalies" arose from the over-willingness of Churchmen to trust " the Bishops and the principal laity of the Church , who , under the Sovereign , without the admixture of m embers of any other religion , " formed the Parliament of England . Now , that the admixture exists , obviously Parliament is no longer the fit governor for the Church . It denies that " Bishops or other legislators " have any right to speak in

      Parliament for the Church , not being specially appointed thereto as the Church ' s delegates . It proposes to be guided by " the principle of popular representation , which is the basis of all our liberties ; " it demands an act of Parliament legalizing the meeting of Convocation and diocesan Synods , so that the Church may rule herself ; and it frankly concedes to Parliament that its concurrence shall be necessary to the validity of the decrees and acts of the synods . While it not only courageously declines to go to Parliament and ask for remedies for special grievances , but it condems the Bishops for so doing !

      For our parts that is the point where our advocacy rests . We demand ie fair play ' for the Church—for all Churches . We beg of the London Union to adhere firmly to its strong position no parliamentary peddling—give us freedom : no spiritual diplomacy in the House of Lords—give us free legislation in the House of Convocation : no State Churchmen—but Christ ' s Churchmen .

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      THE AUSTJtO-HTJSSIAN CONSPIRACY . Lord John Russell declared in the summer that there was a great conspiracy on foot against the liberties of Europe . The recent seizure of Paris by the President has given peculiar significance to this declaration . Not one single German journal dares to publish aught that is not authorised by the Government : hence the opinions of the journals of Germany are obviously the opinions of the German Governments .

      On the nigbt of the 2 nd of December a telegraphic despatch informed the Government of Vienna of the event in Paris that morning ; and on the 3 rd Der Lloyd , chief governmental organ , contained the despatch and an article applauding M . Bonaparte . The next day the official journals concurred . The Ministerial Oesterreichische Correspondent of the 3 rd declared M . Bonaparte might '" rely , not

      only on the gratitude of all friends of order in Fiance , but also in all other countries of the continent of Europe . " The Wiener Zeitiuuj , too , has in its official part an article eulogizing JVI . Bonaparte , and expressing a wish for the success of his measures . In Berlin a cabinet council was instantly held , and , according to the Cotutitutiounel , despatches were sent to the Prussian Minister in Paris , instructing him to express the earnest wishes of the Prussian Government for the success of M .

      Bonaparte . Tlio Post ) organ of Lord Pahnerston , M . Bonaparte , and the Kmperor of Russia , says , " The press is completely submitted to the censorship . All journals are obliged to send their proofs for revision to the Minister , who has whatever he thinks not fit for the public eye struck out . " Writing on the 4 t . li , the Paris correspondent of the Post , naively tells us that he went to the ottice of the Minister of the Interior , found him not at liome , and was not sorry—why ? Because " the Minister would not have let me send anything alartniiHi . "

      The Knglish journals , avowedly or iinpliedly connected with the Foreign-oflice , have applauded the coup d ' etat . There is a wonderful unanimity between the Knglish journals ( supporting the Honapartist coup d ' etat , and the Paris authorities in ' ¦ ' ¦ scribing f . lic re . sintu . ure- in Paris to the " Red " party . " 1 ) oes anyone suppose that the lesson »'< 'ad in the quarters St . Antoine and St . Marceau , " writes the Post , " has been lost on the dark corners i' » Germany and elsewhere , when ; rapine and to

      murder were wailing for the prey that lH . »' -S was bring them ? " The Minister of the Interior informed the prefects that a " Red" insurrection was lixed for Sunday week last , he knowing the NJmitt to be false . The men of the " bad quarters " did not light . The massacres of December the 4 th Nwept ; away the bourgeoisie ! , The workmen had " nothing to fight about . " When Lord PahneiHton wanted a Connul- ( i en end 511 St . IVtuiHburg , whom did ho choose ? Tho

      manager of the Morning Post , then the zealous organ of the Emperor for Russia , and since the joint organ for Russia , Lord Palmerston , and M . Bonaparte . In the Dublin trial , the editor of the World stated in his evidence , that he had written articles for Lord Palmerston on Foreign Affairs . Mr . Honan , junior , the son of the Italian correspondent of the Times , was , no long while ago , appointed attache of the Neapolitan Legation at Paris . Mr . Bird , a Vienna correspondent of the Times , is the officious servitor of Metternich .

      The correspondent of the Daily News at Vienna , was within a few days expelled from Vienna , expelled from Dresden , expelled frem Berlin . Only last Sunday the Moniteur contained a semiofficial notice stating that the correspondents of the Globe and the Morning Chronicle had been expelled Paris , for publishing news not derived from the prefect of Police . The correspondent of the Chronicle was not expelled , but the editor of the Chronicle has no doubt a design of that nature was contemplated . The Paris correspondent of an English Bonapartist morning paper has quitted his post , because his letters were garbled by the editor in a manner which exceeded even the endurance of an " own

      correspondent . " Racidula , alias the Baroness von Beck , was arrested at Birmingham . To prove the charge against her , that of being no Baroness but a spy , a letter was read from a Mr . Charles de Soden , interpreter in the English police force , stating , in the most circumstantial terms , that the said Racidula , an Hungarian spy , was in the weekly receipt of a large sum for services rendered as a political agent in the Foreign branch of the English Police , appointed at the request of Austria and other powers . That statement has not been contradicted ; and we can , from our own personal knowledge , affirm that even English tradesmen have been solicited to do the dirty work of the police with respect to the foreign exiles .

      Louis Napoleon ' s soldiers are to receive pay for the Paris campaign as if they were in the field . On the receipt of the news from Paris the Emperor of Austria caused the alarm to be beaten and the whole garrison to be called out : and for their alacrity an order was published , permitting each man to enjoy double pay for three days . At the Lord Mayor ' s dinner neither Lord Palmerston nor any of the Foreign Ambassadors attended . The Corporation had received Louis Kosauth !

      A great entertainment was given at the fclysee on Monday by the Prince President , Consul Electthe Feast of Blood ; largely attended by the Diplomatists : Lord Normanby was there . Austria has been busy in supporting the Pope , and in restoring priestly domination as an instrument of lay oppression . 'Vhejact / uerie in the Cher , which has extended to other departments , began by the peasants

      attacking the priests . M . Bonaparte has restored the Pantheon to the purposes originally designed by " the pious founder , " Louis XV . For this net the President receives applause from the Universthe high Papal organ and defender of the King of Naples : hence he is the self-constituted head of the priestly party . The British Government , permitted the French occupation of Rome and the restoration of the Pope in 1849 . And now we ask Lord John Russell whether Pius IX . is the head tool of "the conspiracy , " or only a subordinate tool of the Northern Courts , backed by Somebody Else , not a hundred miles from Downing-street ? For a conspiracy there is .

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      PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS . Thb idea which most people form of what is called the " Executive Government , " is that it consists of some fourteen or fifteen well-paid , wellinformed , and well-conducted gentlemen—the elite of the aristocracy—selected by the Crown from all the rest of the world ; and who assemble from time to time in the world-renowned Downino-street , and there put in motion that cunningly devised machinery by which the state instrument is kept in motion , and John Bull in good condition and good temper . There is a remnant of superstition occasionally to be met with in the more benighted regions of society , touching the guarantees which the constitution has provided for the uniformly proper conduct of these potent personages ; or what has been called by those who hold the superstition" Ministerial responsibility . " This weakness , however , is not very prevalent . It is generally known to be one of the fictions which " the wisdom of milancestors " devised , for the purpose of reconciling the gullible public to a practice which , but for

      their belief in a theory , would have been likely to encounter a serious opposition . The truth is ,. that what is termed the " Executive Government , " is so cut up and divided , and its several parts arc so divaricated and distributed , that it is difficult , if not impossible , to know how or where to get at it . It has more eyes than Argus ; more beads ami hands than Briarauis ; and these are often occupying themselves in a very objectionable way , and through various agencies , with the affairs of her Majesty ' s lieges , while they are themselves wholly out of sight .

      That the subordinate instruments by which the Ministers of State carry on the drudgery and detail of national affairs , should be constituted into a number of separate delegations , or establishments , each one having the management and conducting of a specific branch of public business , acting , ordinarily , in independence of the rest , is probably indispensable to the working of the state machine ;

      but there can be no fjood reason for shutting up these eccentric bureaux from public view , and concealing from the world the names and rewards of the persons of whom they are composed . On the contrary , there is every reason for the opposite practice . Any thing like a secret , inquisition is not only , in idea , very repulsive to English feeling , but it . is , moreover , sure to operate mischievously . Its members are removed from that influence which , of all

      others in the public aliitirs of this country , operates wholesomely—public opinion ; and hence we find the " Hoards , " as the Hubordinate branches of the Government are called , too often exercising their powers in a most unpleasant and oppressive manner . The : " Hoard of Customs , " for example , has acquired a most , execrable reputation , in this way ; and the " Hoard of Inland Revenue" iti not far removed from it in obliquity . These Hoards lake upon themselves , not onl y to administer , but to interpret the law ; and if this will not suffice for their purpose , they < lo not stand nice about makiiu / law to suit ; the occasion or exigency . To complain of any net of injuHtico or oppression done by tlieiu is useless . The only appeal lies to their own body i

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      Ten „ -10 „ SO „ Kle . vru „ : i 2 „ 4 <) „ Nor were these soldiers personally undistinguished . In Ihe aggregate , they had received sixty-seven Peninsula medals and clasps , and eight Waterloo medals . They had served their country in every clime , and had upheld the honour of the flag in many a hard-fought fight . The injury , however ,

      is even worse than it looks ; from the very force of time , it is not probable that all of them will survive for the next promotion ; and thus they will live out the remainder of their days in undeserved exclusion . It would be curious to note , not only whom that peculiar division of a year excluded , but whom it included within the blessing of promotion . Does it take in some officer of high connection whom a date six months earlier would have shut out ?

      One reason why the soldier sustains these injuries is the unnatural division between his craft and the body of the community . This segregation is incident to the nature of our army , and indeed to the modern form of military organization introduced by the " Standing Army" system . The soldier is taught to stand aloof from the civilian and to despise him . The civilian is taught to hate war , its profession , and its cost . Mutual grudges Ihe

      are kept up by political and social severance . army ceases to be national in feeling ; the nation ceases to share in the interests and sentiments of the army . A more unnatural divorce of a country and its defenders could not be ; it weakens the sympathy which would check the p ower of a me f bureau to make the Army an instrument of political oppression ; it punishes the working soldier with the deprivation of popular support against official injustice .

      Till-: JJRKV . KT INJUSTICE . Military men naturally feel aggrieved at the peculiar limitation of the late brevet . In the last ( lazette promotion , the year 1841 was divided into two parts , and thereby thirty-one Colonels wen ; excluded . Who were these excluded ollicers ? Commencing with Colonel Chamberlaine , Ten had served from f ><) to df > yeara .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1851, page 1183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1913/page/11/