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    account for putting his own interpretation on the Thirty-nine Articles , the manifestoes which have be « n put forward by the Bishop of Exeter and the Reverend Frederick . Maurice , condoae his offence in a very curiowar -reagu The Bfidnqpof Exeter rather defends Geooke Anthony ; , fir , although he adniits that the Shirty -nine Autfefes must be taken as the conclus $ wes index of doctome in the Church , l » ft vindicates the rigkfe afthe clergyman to refer to the other statutes of the Church for his guide in discipline and in interpreftug the Articles . Mr . Maurice openly fivows the hope that the Articles yviVL notbe taken as the exclusive standard of doctrine in the Chuucli .

    Here then we liave both High Ghtirch Exeter and nondescript Maurice practically undermining the Thirty-nine Articles , which have constituted in point of fact the standard of cxcltisiveuess in the Church of England ; while Lord Pai . merston is placing at the head of the Church men whose government is likely to guide it nearer to the opinion and feeline ; of the ffreat body of the

    people . ~ Ye are not quite prepared to vindicate all the motives that may be mingling with , these ecclesiastical agitations , but it is impossible not to note their general bearing on the object which we have so long- had . in view ,- —the Church of England to be the Church of the people of England . liOrd XiticA ^ has tried to obtain vengeance

    upon the Daily JVeics for its censure of Ins conduct in the Crimea , and has failed . The journal accused him of being a bad cavalry commander , of not promoting the good understanding which should subsist between the Commander-in-Chief and his inferior officer's , of occasioning by a misinterpretation of order that murderous charge at Balaklava , and , in short , recapitukited some of the most signal proofs of Lord LucAx's urififcness as a public officer . When he demanded the retractation of the charge and an apology , the Daihr

    ISfeios demanded to know which charge should be retracted and for which the apology should be tendered . After the trial we can well understand TVhy Lord Luca : x did not comply with that coun - ter-demand : his position perplexed him ; to decide upon any one charge which was in itself false , or any one word of censure which necessarily required apology , was perhaps impossible . He laid the article before the Court of Exchequer on . the general issue , and the Daily News pleaded the riht of the

    g press to criticize the conduct of public men . The judge woe Chief Baron Poi .-xock , whom we well remember as a leading lawyer on the Tory side , but who even as an advocate was distinguished by the upright and generous spirit of his conduct , and who has helped , equally with the most illustrious of our judges , to > sustain the exalted character of the English Bench- In a very simple form he referred the case to the jury , and the verdict for the defendant 5 s a new charter for the liberties of the . English

    press . It is the first instance of a trial on the particular issue under the last change of the liberal . l » vw , which has been construed to acknowledge that the conduct ; pf public men maybe freely and even severely criticized , If tho ^ ensure be ¦ wit hout malice . The example of bondage under which the press is kept in other countries , helps to make us value more highly than ever the public right which we are sustaining and developing .

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    PUBLIC MEETINGS . THE SCOTCH MONUMHNT TO WALLACE . A . meetin g was held at Edinburgh on Thursday week in support of the movement commenced at Stirling last August , for erecting a national monument t& Sir William Wallace on the Abbey Craig , near Stirling , " overlooking the field whore , five centuries and a half since , lie routed tlio invading English army , and established tho liberties and independence of Scotland . " Among those present were the Lord Provost of Edinburgh , the Provost of Stirling , the Provost of Lanark , Professor i ?**™ 5 Mr- kogftti , Shoriff of Perthshire ; Mr . Tail , » nenff of Clackmannan ; Mr . Noel Paton , and other fecottish artists , several of the magistrates and councillors of Edinburgh , Glasgow , and other towns , &c . The reader will readily understand the perspiration of © ntliuBiiwm into which Scotchmen would infallibly work

    themSfelvflfon sacfetiTVOJSd&sion . The chief speaker was Professor > Bftck «* -he * flo recently exposed the deficient cies of Scdteh learning ? yet , notwithstanding that damaging adatf&sion , his remarks on the present occasion were of the flM 3 t ' cock-a-doodle-doo' kind . Nothing ctould oTfiewfl -fey national boairiSttg -which he ^ vMHtenad . Nxjt cotffent wttflk asserting'fnt fat vKta-not iri ^ iteelf 0 B « easonabft ^ that Btevidenee ftrtfcnded a distinctioit of ? Nations , an « E that ittwas uaacWsstble for Scotchmen ^ to forgetr th « jrnatuffltfi charactertWcs , heeproceeded time : *—

    ** We hawreasoii to > f £ &r « . tendency to l&tJ&ngYiGed ? and teflfoget that ys ' are STeoSBhmen . Thaw it a greatf danger of people , for the sake of fashion , and glitter , and rank , and show , going to England , and there forgetting that they , are Scotchmen . Young men go to Oxford and learn , there a ' very little Greuls ( re laugt / i )< and at great deal of Episcopacy , and a small portion o £ Popery , and a good deal of anti-Scottish sentimeut—in fact , they become completely smoothed over . Now , gentlemen , this is a serious business . You will find that this

    Wallace monument goes into a very deep question , into the general tendency of Scotchmen-to forget themselves , arid to become apes of . what-1 would call , in many respects , an inferior people . ( Laughter and ' clieers . ) ¦ At all events , I would never allow the English church , with its semi-Popish flirtations and mummeries , a church manufactured , by a King and a ' parcel of sycophantic priests , to be a superior church to the Scottish church , woTked out by the very blood and muscle of the people . [ Cheers . } I deny that even Oxford or Cambridge , with all their appliances of cram , and examination , and rewards in mere mone } r , can produce such an amount of thought and real independent intellectual vigour as the Scottish Universities , provided the Scottish Universities will bo true to them selves ,, and the Scottish people _ true to . their universities . " ( Aj > j ) Iause . ~ ) After some other speeches , the meeting separated . The subscriptions for the monument , according to the statement of a Scotch paper , have reached but a small amount . KOSSUTH ON THE FQUEIGN POLICY OF EXG 1-ASD . Jn a lecture recently delivered by irivitatioii in the Temperance Hall , Leicester , on " The General Political State of Continental Europe , " M . Kossuth remarked : — " It ' ¦ was a lamentable fact , that the power of ¦ 'd espotism ' was ' the same now as before the war , ami especially as we had Xapolcon entering so far into bur foreign policy . England was a lioble country ; and the . English a brave people ; but he would ask if : they had too much blood , and too little debt , that in their foreign policy they should ally themselves witli despots rather thau declare for freedom ? Constitutionalism in this

    country could espouse the .. cause of freedom without compromising English principles . lie was not u socialist , because society was not a "' mechanism but au . organism , and the mathematical calculations and material provisions of one country were not adapted to the circumstances of another . He therefore repudiated system-mongering : socialism . Society should be a mutual insurance company , to secure by iugenuity and industry the moral and material well-being of its members . In conclusion , he would ask if he should part from them in despondency or in hope . For himself , he would sav in hope , strengthened by faith . "

    M . Kossuth has also addressed the working classes of Edinburgh la one of the largest of the Congregational churches , Mr . Black , M . P ., presiding . The attendance was very large , and the requisition which had been tendered to the lecturer was sixty-four feet long , with a double row of signatures . The observations of the speaker were in many respects a repetition of those made by him at Leicester and Manchester : a few specimens will , therefore , suffice . " Great principles , " observed M . Kossuth , " derive safety from extension alone . A principle that docs not extend itself is doomed to wither like a sapless tree . The despots of the Continent perfectly understand tlie truth , and have succeeded but too well in . carrying it out . The American slaveholders , with their oligarchy

    of colour—the worst of all oligarchies—understand it , and are ready to risk life , fortune , and even the existence of the American Union , for the extension of their execrable system . Principles , good or bad , can subsist only by extension . It is indeed the hereditary curse of mankind that virtue flhoukl be blind , but vice ever active and far-seeing . This country ia now the only one in wbich representative government is still standing *; and you may believe me that hatred—inexorable , implacable hatred—of this country is with the despots of Europe the thought of their walling hours and the dream of their restless sleep . And how could it be otherwise when , though purple crime walks there

    with dilated front , incorruptible public opinion hero brands it with the stigma of infamy , und holds it up to the execration of tho contemporary age , and to the reprobation of future history ? ( Cheers . ") How should they not hate this country when tho poor , home-loss exile may speak as . I am speaking , and raise an echoing thunder of approbation from tho lips of millions ?" ( Cheers . ) M . Xossuth then referred to the internal state of Britain , and to the urgency for various refonnu , e . spc cinlly for the further political recognition of tho democratic element-, and for those measures which are required for the social amelioration of the worlring clauses . lie said that -what stopped the course , of legislation in tliis country is tho unsettled state of tho Continent , and

    'thatiilfiifclaadiwould never be able to pursue in o ,, wiT domtafrl ^ dhtion , or carry out pSaccSu rffi " , -fiWialttitterprisc , till the nationalities of EaS *?* emancifeaced . He did not ,-as had been asserted 5 * Engra »* to , tethe Quixote of nations , butTe ^ lSf see h « rsy * ipatluzing with freedom . " What " 1 , 1 , , , " stand * between the raising of the world ' s arm ^' *«* an the neck of despotism ? nZ the Si ? J success o * one man-only one man , a ptib nron ! 7 f du ^ j . d wnwaL . to return to dust-and his name ? g fJS ^ oXeoa , Uonaparte . ( . Cheers . ) Sir , I do no ijf ! fc the stability of succe ^ ul crime . " W ^ iJSo ¦ M . .. Kossuth . has also delivered at Edinburgh I address atr the state of Naples ; but , as the opinion ! lieS expressed have been previousl y uttered by ] , ; , „ " 3 prinied in these columns , we need not now rcnS them . 1 ( -rcat

    THE NEW STBBET TIlROUdH SOUTH WAl'K A meeting of the ratepayers of the borough of ' soutl , wark was held at tbe Hope Tavern , Gruvel-lanTrn Wednesday night , for the purpose of taking into con « i deration the necessity of opposing the route of the new street proposed to be made b y the Metropolitan Board of Works , and substituting for it the more direct line proposed by the plan , of Mr . Pennetiiorne . -If vis finally determined to form a deputation to wait on Sir Benjamin Hall .

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    THE ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM . ASSOCIATION . Mr .. John Eevans , the ' general Secretary of the Administrative Reform Association , has addressed a long letter to Mr . Roebuck , M . P ., the chairman . The future course of the body is here mapped , out , and we are presented with a schenie for acting upon the constituencies , in order that these , in their turn , may actmpon the existing Government : — " During the last few months , several inquiries liave been connnenced ; each inquiry being managed by a separate stafl " , in separate , departments . ¦ . " The Diplomacy Branch will act through a system of foreign agencies . Through such an . organization , the people of this country "will generally be apprised of the intrigues of the Foreign-office long before they have produced any ' serious results upon the unfortunate people of other countries . " The Colonial Branch of the Association will place itself in steady and active communication with the most energetic and intelligent of our colonists , and thus become possessed of the particulars of every colonial grievance . " The Fiscal Branch will confine itself to . tracing , the expenditure ' . every sum , from tie time it lo-ivesthe pocket of the tax-payer . u It will be imperative to inquire , with regard to tlie Admiralty , to what extent tho system of duping the public is carried on by that Board . " The Patronag-o Branch will inquire into the merits of the appointment or promotion of every individual in the service of the public , from the Governor-General of India down to tlie junior tide-waiter at some small English outport ; and also ascertain whether every public servant is as . well cared for as ' Dowb ; ' and if not , why Dowbiggeu is better cared for than nny other public servant .

    " The never-ceasing endeavours of the Home Department to destroy the ancient and valuable local institutions of this coiintr)—tho groundwork of our political freedom—and to substitute the centralizing systems of France , of Austria , and of Russia , will receive the most anxious attention of the Association . Further on , Mr . Revans says :- — " Few constituencies have- the slightest knowledge of the conduct of their members , beyond the occasional

    record in the public press of a vote upon » unie party squabble in the House of Commons , and therefore know not how far to depend upon them . To remedy this evil , we have established an office for registering eyery ' . votc given by each member during each session of . the Parliament , his address , speeches , and promises nt tlie hustings ; hia speeches , if any , in tho House ; . together wtli such of bis antecedents as may be a guide to his public conduct : all theso will be made known to each

    constituency in time for the next election . "As tho will to elect , or reject any particular candidate may often be frustrated by tho disreputable conduct of those who obtain seats in Parliament by bribery or intimidation , wo have established an ollifC , the dutiesi oi which arc to attend to everything coium-ted with tuc possession and tho exercise of the franchi . se . 1 » llliU _ o ( lico are being onrolled tho moat accurate p . -irtuuiais connected with tho constituencies of the kingdom , to nc extent in many cases of knowing every voter , the sorto elecloiv 1

    undue influenco and pressure upon tho , nn ""; persons who systematically demoralize or domineer ovc them . All connected with the laws of ro-i ^ tnition , elections , and election petitions , will be nscerUiinei \ y tho Franchise Branch' of tho Association . » ° Jj . " every person claiming to bo on the register , Vi ; I ' .. . dato ignorant of tho laws of olcction . «»« 1 ovcr . v uii » coflsful candidate ignorant of tho uses of pnrliamci u «^ committees , may receive from our legal adviser ( llC perfect assiatanco , and without the slightest oxpensc

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    ; . .. ' . ¦ . : . . . ' ¦ . - . ' % . . '¦¦ ¦ . : ¦ ' . . . ' . : ' . ¦' . '"' ¦ ' . - V . ¦ 1154 THE LEADER . T ^ o . 350 . Sattt ^

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 6, 1856, page 1154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2170/page/2/