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    -forces * : Ia defiance of a iKheral comatdtation « » d 3 aaintc 3 J % entjpa : efBB , the Eoman hierarchy - teiatiifw 1 * ifigfahim what it has lost ia Sardinia . in ^ SjpMnj also , it flourishes ahnid the coikSrawm ofpblitieB . It threatens tie Government smd seduces the people , and prospers while the Government is degradesd aod tJiepedpl © ^ deceived . Perhaps ^ Ms war iof systems—the conflict of thB civil aaid sacerdotal powers- ^ will be bron ^ a * to » decisive iBSue in Italy , From bIT that appears in # he Eoman Catholic press ,

    and fromall that takes place with reference to the political -settlement of the peninsula , it is clear that the ( chief alarms of the hierarchy are connected with the idea of a free Italian Confederation . Accordingly , the galvanic energies of the Catholic powers are directed to idie invention of a safe alternative to be adopted when the rule of the Neapolitan CiiAXtdtub becomes impossible . The universal cry among statesmen is for a Catholic prince , a man with dynastic pretensions , some one who may sanctify by the legitimacy of blood the principle of a revolution . The Pbectce cmf Caii-A-Biua—the Bourbon Lotus—the son

    of the Pbihtce or Capua—a Mttbat—a Syraeusan—an American Buonaparte—any one , save the choice of Italy , hostile to Austria . The Church moves steadily on ; at every crisis the dynasties are ready with their claims ; perhaps , however , the Italian nation—not to speak at present of Tbhe Hungarians , the Germans , or the Poles— -will

    work out for itself the solution of its destinies . The statesmen of the Holy Alliance , united i by common interests , have no real enemies in the Cabinets of France < xr England ; but the Piedmontese have shown that a people which relies upon itself may hope to achievejeven under the shadow of military and papal thrones , the highest results of political progress .

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    THE NATIONAL THANKSGIVING . Thbbb is a moral to be learned on the day of thanksgiving , and if we had any Ministers capable of founding that which has disappeared from our land—a National Churchthey would preach that moral on the day when they are instructed to thank Almighty God for the signal and repeated successes of the Allied armies in the Crimea . When a form is used that implies that the people of this country are invited nationally to express thanks to the Divine Power for successes , we are compelled to ask what it is we thank Heaven for , who it is that conveys the thanks , and through whom are they conveyed ? What are the signal and repeated successes specially calling for our thanks on Sunday next P The capture of the town of Sebastopol . But by whom was it captured ? Not by the English troops—that fact stands too conspicuously in the record of the contest to be denied . The English troops were repulsed . The special reason for the thanks , therefore , so far as they are to be rendered from this country , fails ; unless , indeed , we are to understand that the thanks , the special thanks , are to be rendered for the success of our Allies alone . The English failed to obtain success on that occasion , because , properly speaking , there was no English army on the spot . The raw recruits and boya who are inveigled into a species of emigration by the recruiting sergeant , and who were led into the Redan battery on the 8 tlx of this month , do not represent the nation , but only certain classes , and those the classes by whom we should least like to be repreafented in the presence of any foreign states . : M ifl said that there were veterans therecJpwrhapsiBo , as old wheat is mixed in with the jset r * "We did not attain the success tecauee

    wedddfflo * tak € -the means to attain it ; and tell as much . It would not be verj ^ agree-Xnt ^ nder thanks for that whkh we-did able if the ^ P ^ ' ^^^ S' ^ S ^ m not earn , we may % > e giving gratitude due to to the congregtftams of the XJnrfe ^ ing dom the Dispenser of Destiny , but we imply < a were to be S 1 ^ % ^ ^ ^ ' ^ X , ? S « claim for ^ a share in the exploit whieh is not believe , however that the QttBBW aibstaxns our own , andwhich we forfeited by a national from any principle ©^ egotistical pride : it- is neelect We have no right to celebrate the more probable that Heb Maje six sefar the dav as a thanksgiving impropriety of being canvasser-in-chief for If we had the right we had not the means , one sect and its charitable institutions , when Whom is it that the Qu ^ n ' s most excellent other sects are not equally favoured Since Majesty in Council invites to join in this the repeal of the Corporation Acts the Distbaiksgiving ? The form is to be distributed senters may be represented in Parliament , fo ^ usem " all the churches ia England and but so far as the State can represent , they WaTes * and in the town of BerwWupon- must not be represented ^ before Heaven . Tweed" It is , therefore , only part of the On the field of battle indeed , and at the isW of Great Britain that is thus favoured . Great Bedan itself , other persuasions were There is a separate Order in Council for represented , yet the Qiteek can only invite Scotland ; but that is issued only for « the sects to jom in thanks for the stories of our Established Church" and for the Episcopal armies ; and the Papists , the Wesleyans the communion " allowed" in " that part of Baptists , the Unitarian ^ or any other Great Britain called Scotland . " There are , ' anans , are not fit to ask thanks for the victherefore , parts of the country specially fa- tory which their communicants have shared voured , and they are England and Wales , m obtaining ! -rwi ™ ,. that part of Grit Britau ? called Scotland , . The members of the Church of ¦ & £ *** and the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed . In itself are discontented with this equivocal fact , however , the Orders in Council nega- state of things , and at Exeter ? £ *** ° * ° tively state a falsehood . The first of them Exeteb roundly rates the Ministers for withsays that " the form of prayer is to be used holding the Queen ' s letter This is one ot in ^ churches a nd chapels , " when , in fact , it the prelates whose duty it will be to adis not meant for anylmt a minority of the minister the thanksgiving of a sect m the chapels in England and Wales , the State name of the nation . ignoring all those chapels which do not belong The nation . itself is not without blame in StheEstabKshed Church . The excluded con- this matter : it cannot make up its mmd stitute something like half the religious part on its . own religious position . We are torn of the nation , to say nothing of a third half by divisions , fierce in proportion as they of the people , principally amongst the work- relate to the ^ o ^ essentials of a true reJagion £ g cUsesf wnfch has no connexion with any The Legislature of the Empire was divided churches or chapels whatsoever , Established lately on the question whether or not beer or not Established . It is not the nation , should be sold during certain hours onbuntherefore , which is invited to join in worship , day ; and through the inertness of the . Legisbut particular sects within the nation fre- lature , the serious . party were allowed to mienting particular buildings in England , prescribe the hours of beer-buying ior the Wales Scotland , and the town of Berwick- community at large . This week the licensed upon-Tweed—for of even that distinguished Victuallers have celebrated the victory which town onlv part is really included . Some per- their representative , Mr . Henet BmKEiEr , sons , then , are invited by the Queen to pre- has obtained by reversing the Act oi the Lesent themselves in the most solemn manner gislature . This week , too , the members oi a before the Supreme Being , and to pretend committee comprising Sir John Shelley bir that they are the people of England . Is not Joshua Waimeslet , Mr . W . J . Fox , Mr . this a mockery of the representative system Geobge Dawson , and other well-known in religion ? If we suppose that the living religious free-traders , have put forth an adpeople of this country can obtain special dress inviting support for a movement to attention for their worship , is there not open the British Museum and other national something positively impious in the false pre- institutions , and to throw open collections ot tences with which the ministers of two sects an instructive character during every Sunday , in the country , the Order of Council in their This week , too , we have seen the anti-cnurchhand , will approach the Throne of Grace ? rate men presenting Mr . Vely with a testi-And who are those ministers to be ? Who monial , while the church-rate men are trying can say of the ten thousand gentlemen clothed to get up a testimonial and paying the exin black and white , with sometimes a little penses of Mr . Cobtauld , gentlemen whose red , that they possess any unity of character , names are immortalised in that case ot Vely or even of " persuasions ? " The Church of versus Cobtauld , which settled an important England is not even a sect , but it is a series question of church-rates in a court oi law . of sects , resembling those outside it . It has As easy as the step from the sublime to the not even a sectarian unity , and at this very ridiculous , is the step from the parish church moment some of its leading men are in con- to the law court . The country cannot make tumacy against the head of the Church .. It up its mind how to maintain the fabric ot haB been the custom for the Queen , who is the church , or how to spend the Sunday m now issuing these orders , to address a letter it . It begins to doubt the honesty of paying to the Church , recommending collections of for the church of one sect out of the pockets money to aid the Incorporated Societies for of other sects . A few years back it had doiithe Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign nifce opinions on the subject of preyenient or Parts and the Education of the Sons of the subvenienfc grace ; m 1854 it was by its re-Clergy ; but this year the Queen has not presentatives distinctly opposed to beer na been " advised to issue that letter . The reason an element on Sunday ; in 1855 , it sees nois not stated ; wo have only the negative fact thing incompatible between piety and the that JHdei JDefensor does not this year ad- national beverage . But whatever its opinions vanco as the canvasser-in-chief on behalf of are , whether Tor church-rates or against those particular societies . Wo can well them , for beer or against it , for a rational imagine the reasons . The people of this recreation on tho Sunday , or an exclusion ot country are not ill off , but they are rather rationality and recreation , it must give exprespressed by the collectors of the State for sion to its opinions in the form of organised income-tax and other demands . At such agitations ; and one sect would rather beat tho times collectors for charitable trusts usually other on the subject of rates or beer , than find a , great decline in the success of their heartily unite to render thanks for a national canvassing . Any collector for hospitals would success where thanks are due . How , then ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 29, 1855, page 938, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2108/page/14/