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    Cap © € teae—for nothing , ^ t subject a oharge when taken to ijhe Baltic The bane of the service i has been the-want of publicity : JOl crotchety Bfiniater may annoy hundreds of the * best ; diBpo ^ edjL and ; moat loyal people in ? the' empire ^ v bufelb © matter is not pressed on the ^ ' attention ofr his colleagues , or on Parliament . "Ehey consequently remain apathetic ^ -witness fhfei apathy of the House of Ifcosdst-When ? Lord © amning ' s excuses < wetfe

    awpejtted ; though . ' any ; midshipman in the fleefe ^ ouidhare Bpoloen out with all : the eio * qnfi ® e 0 iofaiaL | ui ! fy . These is-a . talk of treachery : ittth © iGk ) veimment ; but no-abler ally hasrtibe Czar t * tan- in the Bed Tape Department j , for t * J 6 i « an ; ti ^ aly ? say that nothing has occurred ew i calculated to ^ upaet discip line and destroy efficiency » e « this > ilk-judged ; step > of liord Oanniptg ' s * to exasperate' an important body of &Shtejm by disappointing and . irritating their begtifeelingsi ,

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    * HE dHtf ^ OT or ENGLAND .. " ' OlHai' Church , of Engird , " what is it . E We aatejimMktdiued to ) refer that opiestion to otfif aa ^ iquariaai ,. heraldic ,, and altogether learned contemporary ^ Mtifte& ; and Queries . " We despair trf discovering any ^ member of the Church ftaelfi who- can de ^ et it ^ nay ,, who can- even pointioutrrtsinucleusi . 8 &vaat aUiins&tfitidB

    —refers , the question- to Mr .. Churchwarden Weatejrton ,, mio makes it a matter of noting in , vestry ; t and * accordingly , the parish , set aside , by their own temporal committee , the trimming bishop * their own parish minister , and * the rubric . Astounding doctrine , which can be decided ; by the voting of the inhabitant ratepayers 1 Astounding Church ,. which is to be settled by " your vote and interest" on her * half of Westerton ! Wei may ask in vain , thenj ,, whether the essence of the Church is to be determined

    by tike rubric which we find in the Piinlica CJaurch , by the bishop w ; hose : authority is supreme ; byri 3 ie parish ; minister who represents the ) clergy , by the churchwarden who is elfectedsfbr a ^ yeto , or" by the vote of vestjry which maiy be upset , next year ,. as it has . upset a pue-existing , order of things . We have often ) said that / the Church of

    England is net the Church of the " people of England * , nor anything : united , enduring ; or coherent ; arid a single parish furnishes our proof Puseyi te * Low Cbnroh ,, aad voluataEyism- ciarry / on litigation ^ which is referred tbithe great tribunal of the'vestry ,, and decided , for a twelvemonth by the" inhabitant ratepayers ; " In truth thia > appears to be a step towards ?) the suggestion ^ our correspon a ? few

    dent «* Gatholie ^? years agOj—that church property should be localised , and" each community bter aaithorifldd to . appoint its- own minister . Bufctheii i ^ hy exclude &ojnsiicli a « church tfce * hundreds of pious ,, able , and trusty minisiers , v who ,, although now outside the ^ establishment , are as like each other , ^ ud aa like any ? national standard of faith-actually i& < use ^ as * the severed sections ; of the Church resemble ; ieaeh other **

    aa the Church might arrogate f ) o itself the ri ^ ht -to fadatoiEiata sgace , v arfdn to , comprise partsr : wfoeb could ; apt , be' entirely defined j but what ia , itiinu < u £ us . £ ^ Whi ^; its ; kett 3 iel ^ the nut wliach contains the pith of its sfetengfch andrasseoce iV ilttvainvweiseelEit . Ifi we taunt to ; one classt of the Church we

    ahaHf ; fiod the ; essential nucleus-described as eowsWaiig in certain , doctrines ^ of the Bvaageuoai > cajBt * - ^ hos « ivdoctrinea which are held bp Mr . Baptist ; NJoel , and which exist / no nxoritfi wathin : thei C&urch ; of England- than thejr do autaidecd : i& = Between the Church of dSogilaatcl and < tha * Baptist it ist impossible to ? dtiamx tlia&liria ? of ^ demarcation which / is pe ^ etMalljF reatoredi between , the orthodox ehurfch' andvthe ^ Etowr Church ; If we go to al

    anaaiea ? aectioil ^ 'wfei ? flnd > high ^ tar , . proces * Bionav inj the * edifices , genuflexions ^ candles ^ intouings ^ manners- and ) customs ,, doctrines * iu ^ e ( pirit ,, whicfcw « i findalso amid the ; foank »« inccbuse ^ the > pictures ^ the platej , andi the BuinptuotaB haliging 3 i of the Italian Church-It : ia inithupnegion . impossible .- to draw that lin « t ) of demaucatiom . between the Church' of fioms and- the Church of England which

    Hum Be drawn between the : Euseyite section and the-right " English " Broad Church ^ , Perhaps the > principal test o £ the ( 3 hurch of England as a body may bei considered to consist , in . the going to the parish church or chapel of ease , on Sundays . Those who preach tfcere :, and those who go there ,, with * « mip fteirig' accused of Puseyism or Itow (^ urtsfiisiti ,, constitute the nearest approach that we * oan couGeiveto the Church of Har

    glandv ^ ut tlien what becomes of all the churches in ^ gJa-nclP "WTlat . brings them into the uni % of » national establishment ? Is it the Boot o £ Common Prayer which , the Puseyite too strictly obserFes , and the parish refuses to obey ? ' Is it the Bishop who , like the Bishop ofliondon , does not object to the rigid obedience which Mr . Liddellpaya to the Common Prayer and rubric , who wishes the parish to remove the altar about which he doubts but does not decide P One of the

    most tangible testB for eliminating these re * seceders to Eorae is the great laundress ques * - tiou «—whether the washing of " surplices , veilB , and capazals" shall be paid for out of the alms or not ? But tho Biahop of London , who does not disapprove much of Mr . Liddell —rather pata him on the back than otherw ise

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    witness , ae ? well" as the Barons ,, the Hampdeng and the ; EUi ' ots ) : the Cokes and Somerses , to > the falsehood o £ the dogma . "Why is ifc that Ea ^ . ishmen at home are not so free as Englishmen in Kova Scotia , the Cape ,, or s * ny English colony ? Because in . ' those colcmies EnglisBaaaen ha * fc of late years renewed their , rights to possess < arm a * $ to die * tate the disposal of their owa inoney ^ and to enjoy a genuine representation in , the of

    Legislature ^—not the representation an exceptional class , a sevenm . of the people , "but the representation of the whole , in which dis > franchisement is-the exceptional instance . But it is : instructive for the peogle to obserre ^' ttiat these standards , of rigbt ^ whic K . the . colonies have recovered through , -fc'ha vigour of their understandings ,, the- energy ;

    of their action , the firmness of their resolution ^ aod the energy of their , hearts , were established by the forefathers ^ f ufi-Emglishmen here in England precisely by ther same means , ' Magna , Charta was not obtaiaed through any inglorious meanness , ; byf astdng John , if he would be pleased to concede it fc but the franklins as well as the barons o £

    England had created the usage of the laud , before , ; for the preventing , of disputation ^ ihej had the , right recorded in . the ^ feeat Charter . They , g ^ oti it first , and then put it into a statute .. So the > Petition of JKighfcfl' had to be fought outj . with sore trial to people ! and ^ Crowns , before Parliament established 1 its independence ^ and taught , through Charles and . James , how men who violate the ^ law ParliamentaJw- of the land ,.

    although they wear erownsj may be punished tfy decapitation or . banishment . , " When a > Somera set down , the rights of the English people—to ^ possesfir arms without distineticwa of class or creed ^ to dispose ? of their own money through their representatives , aud to obtain redress , of grievance- before granting moneysf- ^ the English did not present a j > eti tion for !' Williatn to concede , vbutf they oom ^ pelled his signature to a memorandum , of the r ights of which lie found them in gossessioni

    B * JSB&ESSJE 6 > K TKB ^ LEAGIIEV ^ OSi EEOPI . E , 'EffjEBE is pleniy of work for Englishmen to dov < without infecoducing any new ; institution , without depaarting : fronts the- great Htatute&of oiupiconatitulaoni and \ rathout importing ; : into this ; country purely foreign ; ideast .. If Ens * to

    liahraen ; were ^ as alive their aynx interests as tbay < hare been in times past ; . it would not be < aecessarfy- for them to be thinking' about " IieagueaV for ' the- purpose of making their Q ^ TEemment obey the public opinion oft the country ,. and > fiiithfully support the national standard- sit home as Well as abroad . Englishmen stand ; in fear lest the standard of our

    comttuy—4 ihe > Bed Cros »> of St . George- — siiould ~ be rendered subservient to un-English despotism ^ and ; bowed , before the enemies of their-couniary ; but they run the hazard of being thus shamed because they have themselves been faithless to the standards of their freedom . Statesmen have stood trembling lest th * e men of Birmingham , should come up to London to ask for an extension of the franchise , or lest a London mob should rise

    against the enfranchised class ; but it is go because statesmen have neglected to carry out at home those rights of our constitution , which the same statesmen have carried out in the colonies ^ : —sometimes no doubt , at the dictate of rebellion , but at other times at the dictate of nothing worse than a generous sagacity . What we say is , that if English statesmen would treat their countrymen at home as they treat Englishmen , in Australia ,

    South Africa , the " West Indies , or North America ,, they need not fear sedition , and thjey would acquire a power which would lift them to the pinnacle of the whole world . For there is no libel on the statesmanship of our day worse than the fool ' s dogma , —which we are ashamed to see repeated in English journals , —that a weak people makes a strong Government , and a strong Government a weak people . Elizabeth , Cromwell , " William of Nassau himself , could stand forth and

    It is the same in England or the colomes .- * - while , the English , people took , or upheld their " own . , right manfully , thera was no abatement of it ; but when the ilngclishineop le her ^ came sunk in ease—when , they ; permitted law * - yers to potter over the policv / pf abolishing trial by jury , , permitted , the petition , on grievance to be rendered the . farcical , caricature , of professional agitators , and permitted redress of grievances before granting supply to de ~ generate into a bore at which Ministers

    laugh and Members hoot— 'wheai , N £ or . the sake of peaceful streets , they yielded ; Up the arms which are the true defence of right , and deposited the effective strength of the- country in the hands of the executive Government ,-: —then that people abdicated self-government . They now talk about Leagues to regain English liberties by establishing republics in Italy , or elective monarchies in Poland $ but- liberty , like charity , begins at home . Every

    complaint that the English People make against their Government and " governing classes' * recoils against themselves ; for he only is illused who is weak in hand'and craven , in heart ; and no people are slighted by tyrant governors , unless the recreant character of that people invitea tyranny and contempt . League or no League , there is plenty of work for England to do ; and one of the first

    tasks is to get rid of those refinements which are making us a nation of Hamleta * Our people cannot collect their strength for an * enterprise , but , after they have got iuto action , they begin to ask themselves whether the enterprise ia " right ! " Oar statesmen cannot see a crowd of Englishmen in the streets , but thoy begin to fear for some " disorder , " or babble in unrepressed wonder that Englishmen can gather together without

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    3 X 4 THE LEADER . [ Sattj ri * a ^ ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 22, 1854, page 374, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2035/page/14/