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      NOTICES TO COBRESPONPENTS . "We do not undertake to return rejected communications . Ko notice can be taken of anonymous correspondence . Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by tie name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of their merits .

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      reforms , under the existing Governments , to be naturally and essentially impossible . Eo amnesty will reconcile the Neapolitans to their King . Nothing -will atone to Italy for the loss of national independence- Nor can the several Governments concede the practical ameliorations which are supposed in England to be specifics against all political discontent . They exist by virtue of the compression which their military power enables them to exerb . No sooner is that compression relaxed

      than they are expelled froin Italy . If , then , we do not desire the abandonment of the Neapolitan , expedition , it is from the persuasion that great events are preparmg in Italy , and not from any belief in , the liberal sympathies of the intervening powers . The gaolers of Cayenne can with no grace solicit an . amnesty from , the turnkeys of Graeta . Nor can England , which has flattered the

      despotism , of France , display an honourable enthusiasm for the constitutional rights of Naples . But the hope of the Liberal party , th . rbugb . out Europe , consists in tbe disturbance of despotic authority , in the conviction that the new peace is not a peace of forty years , and in the rational expectation that , -with the absolutist powers combined against her , England may be forced into an active alliance with the liberalism of the Continent . There

      have been remarkable changes since 1848 . There is Piedmont , which , in the event of a national struggle , would be powerless , unless in union with the National party . Muratism is dying out . The people of all the provinces have learned useful lessons . The Liberals of various shades have united . It is witn sincere pleasure that we mention , in proof of this , the signature of BjiOTFEiiio , of the Turinese Chamber of Deputies , to the subscriptions for the ten thousand muskets , and the resolution , by the friends of MAZzori and

      THE MOVEMENT . The Neapolitan policy of the British Crovermment -works its way slowly through the perplexities of official opinion in Europe . But there has been some positive diplomatic action within the last few days , showing that the question is as far from settled as we represented it to be . The plans of the English S ' oxeign Office have not miscarried , nor are they likely to be abandoned . Indeed , it may be said confidently , that not one point of interiaational difference raised since the

      Conferences of Paris has been adjusted . Those who announced the disappearance of the difficulty respecting the Isle of Serpents were as grossly misinformed as those who have recently declared that Prince GrOitTSOHATCOir's Circular had dispelled the Neapolitan shadow . Instead of tranquillity , there is aggravated confusion . The Russian Government , "which , has armed King Perdinatstd with the hope of a mighty protective alliance , encourages the Marionette ruler of Greece to protest against the military occupation of that country toy the " Western Powers . The Western Powers themselves are not in

      harmony on the subject of the conditions laid down by tbe Treaty of Paris . It is useless to dissemble the truth that Akexandeii II . disputes the interpretation of that treaty , and that bis version is not authoritatively repudiated in Paris . Purther , the movements of Austria in the Principalities , exciting the deepest indignation among the inhabitants , and among seriovis politicians in England , have not been checked , to all appearance , by any decisive representations on the part of the ministers of Xiouis Napoleon . And

      with these complications growing up , outside of the Italian question , wo have ! Lord Pai > mzebston persisting in his pressure upon the King of ^ Naples , and the French Emperor introducing modifications to mitigate the effects of this embarrassing activity . These circumstances , these diplomatic incoherences , instead of consolidating the peace of Europe , are wearing away its foundations . It may seem , to the French . Government , very discreet to keep the squadrons cruisiug oil" the Italian coast at a distance ; but , if they are sent with

      any political purpose , they must approach sufficiently near to the capital to operate as a raenace upon the King . If he can feel their influence , the people can , and will , and it will » e too late , when Italy is in a ferment , to disclaim revolutionary intentions . It is pertoctly well known to the Italians that the ¦ e rencu and British Governments have no revolutionary sympathies . Their well-under , stood object ni to open a safety-valve at various points of the peninsula . Thev believe in the efficacy of local reforms ; but tho Italian * utterly disbelieve in it , and declare adequate

      GrARiBAi . i ) i , to aid the subscription for the hundred guns of Alessandria . When the Opinione is generous enough to recognize this magnanimity , it may be so magnanimous as not to misrepresent the history of the two subscriptions . That for the guns of Alessandria proceeds most satisfactorily . * That for the ten thousand muskets is making rapid progress , in Italy as well as in England , and is about to be extended to Belgium . Gradually , slowly , the movement is matured ; but there is movement . A universal sense of disquietude prepares "Europe for agitation and change .

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      pointed to hold the spiritual charge of Gloucester and * Bristol . Of course the direct results of the causes in appointing the Bishop to that see was , not that a qualified man might episcopate , but that a Babikg might exist in a black apron , a large house rent free , and the enjoynaent of an income which secures splendid dinners . Now the manner in which Bishops perform their duties makes us doubt whether this mode of selection is not , perhaps , as good as

      any . "Set m case : "—There is Henet of Exeter ,, a man with considerable erudition positive ideas as to the duties of a Bishop ' and love of command . He is iio puppet Bishop . He refused the institution to G-oitHam , because Gorham : w as heterodo x on the subject of " praivenieiit grace . " Henry of Exeter has lately had to exercise his authority in dictating the arrangements of a cemetery at Torrington . Uninitiated

      people have an idea that after death the dig . tinctions of this world shoiild cease ; but Dr . PjiiIiPOTTS sustains the doctrine which otller Bishops have set up , that even in the cemetery there must be a sectarian division . One Bishop thought that a gravel walk between the Churchman and Dissenter in their graves was not enough , but that there must be a stout brick wall ; though what the Churchman and Dissenter could do to each other in

      that condition we never could understand . The Bishop of Exeter does nob stipulate for bricks , but for a fence ; and it must beat least four feet high . Three feet nine inches , he thinks , would not be sufficient . A Dissenter might , he fears , jump over a fence of tli at height ; and then Avhat confusion in the

      orthodox part of the churchyard ! Imagine some ghostly Ciiilds of Bungay jumping overy a cemetery fence , to bully the defunct churchwarden who insisted on seizing the goods of CiiiiiDs for non-payment of church rates ! Now the Bishop of Exeter , of course with an eye to the frolics of ghosts , insists that the fence shall be at least as tall as a

      five-barred gate . Of course , too , he assumes that Dissenters are not practised in hunting , for they are always middle-class ' parties , ' unversed in gentlemanly sports , and cannot clear a five-bar . An ingenious person thought to get over the fence difficulty by suggesting that there should be a trench ; and if it were

      deep enough , that certainly seems the more appropriate division . An invisible fence is the true protection against ghosts ; and if the Dissenter and orthodox were bent upon getting at each other to have it out , with their better information on the points in disjmte between them , their proceedings would most likely be subterranean .

      Now these are the duties of High Church Bishops , —to maintain fences against tho depredations of ghosts , and to keep the right distinction between prflevenient and subvenient grace . Probably a Bishop chosen , out of any ordinary dinner-party , —any given Baring , for example , —would be a uaeful check upon these ultra episcopal vagaries . The Bishops who have the care of souls in foreign parts have not suffered us to forget them . One Trench Bishop has been , exerting himself to prevent Protestant boys from

      BISHOPS , FOREIGN" AND DOMESTIC . A pew new Bishops have just been made , and there is a chance that they may be better than some whom we have had , although they are not certified to be tho best that could bo procured . Like officers in the army , however , Bishops , it appears , are not appointed for episcopal qualities , but for some other reasons . One , for instance } is made Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol , nob because ho is expected to be a master of episcopation , but because he is a Baiiin a . There wan n .

      probability that the Reverend Cieen"etix Tiienck would be appointed . He is a very accomplished man , with clear ideas as to the duty of the clergy in these artificial days , and of so superior an understanding and training that he really could oversee the larger proportion of his fellow-clergy ; and so Lord Palmersxon seems to have thought . But a

      contemporary has explained how Chenuvix Trench was set aside and Bam no was elected . Lord Suavxesbury wont and told a lady of influence * that Tiiencie was a Puseyite , — which lie is not ; at the same time ifc was represented that Baring had ' claims ; ' it was reinombered that tho post was promised for Lord Asubuiiton ' s disposal , and thus it ia that a Bauino is

      apinfesting schools . The Bishops of Brussels and Bruges have been setting their faces against free education , —education by professors who write in dofeuce of Ltttiiee , Calvin , or Z \ vingi * e . Throughout Italy , Bishops are equally endeavouring to prevent education . They find education so extremely injurious to * * tho soul ! ' And there is ^ corroboratiou for this view . Certain inspired persons have lately offered themselves us ' nicdiums' between us and ' the spirits , ' and it is interesting to observo how extremely v : \ piu and inane are tho replies and tho couwi-tfa-

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      SATURDAY , OCTOBER 18 , 1856 .

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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 its creation in eternal progress . —Dp .. Abnold .

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      996 THE LEADER , [ No . 343 , Sattjbpay ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 18, 1856, page 996, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2163/page/12/