The Express. — London, England, 1851-07-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1851. At length a CERT seemed to call for it, exercise. A vent'-' " Don Vicente," said she, "I cannot speak to yell freely. -- - I Table old priest, in the neighbourhonl. of Ye:dont/se, awoke for yen have sadly shattered my beak with one of your bird - 1 one night in the autumn of the above-named year from bolts." The Scores and Is' i Ids 4 the .11•,liternanean. By the dreams cause' by intlierition, under a strong impression "Your beak, inarbun ?" Rev. 11. Cuateruee, M.A., F.R.S. Bentley. 1 that brigands were in his house, and that his life was in ! "Yea, same. All Jewish ladies work out their purgatory Mr. Christians informs us, is the preface to these"taws • his in the air, antrare their time in the shape of Merle: But danger. Greatly alarmed, he screamed for real .. . half . few. volumes, houseaeeper, heariag his nice, supposed her master was in stay with me and p atike of a 'airried chicken and a volumes, that the visit of which they are the Mentes- , the hands of murderers, and, knowing her own weakneee poached eggs, and you shall have a glass of really comnieu rial was madk during a season of tem rclaxa- attempted to aid him in no other way . than by shrieking se dable Amontillado. Al to the poultry here you have it tion, rendered necessary by ill-health t r rigiit on by ! loud as she could. Ilex shrieks convinced the unlucky old genuine ; down below you are quite as likely to get au old the labours and anxieties of professional duty. There Retakes...l that she heal been seized by the robbers, and was le trish elotheawoman, and half a dozen Hebrew babies, as is something venturesome in an invalid wanderer' uze t tr t i u , oi s n i s ea th , e h e nin‘t unheard of tortures. Horror-struck anything else." redoubled hie exclamations, and she fur a' " Madam, ' said the bewildered Cabellero, " don't say turning author uisin such capital as may be picked similar reason redoubled hers. And here the matter might another wor d. I'll never taste birds or eggs again es long up daring an excursion of ir few mouths, especially hare stopped. 111 A their house been at a distance from as I live." when the ground has been so often and so well ' de- other habitations, they would have screamed till they were' Another day saw the bow broken and the arrows bus at. scribed as the shores and islands of the Nlediterm- i boars,. and then left off, and the morning would have dada ; The nest week convinced the unhappy Don Vicente l that f.. Dean. Nevertheless, habits of close observation, as ,.. r t i e tetall l their f a ear a t . b t %t e un k f a o a rt w un t • i t ‘ te ar ll w e a ls; . n , no ei h b h r ?u i r u h r in t' a k a . Pag a im aa lail t ic a s a w va o i r c t e et .i l t zu i. t their purgatory Lu a rtq a tory , Cre a i r w or th t e he s Ill ia & e ,lle o r 'listed by famaiarity with the aouthern dialects, a island, th'eyndecided the y further deliberation that the . li tel ( G'racchi, he was com pelled to take up the Moslem pnee futile tengs-r, and good tastes have concurred with , carlists heel landed. The panic spread, the caatain-gene- tire, and to abstain from pork. The result of this abstinence much learning to bring Mr. Christmas triumphant ral was made aware of what was imagined to have hap- !has been seen. through this difficulty. His has been the further . Petted, and sent for the priest. I Ode day, while in the court of the convent of the legal rent advantage of visiting such countries as North a Now whether the old gentleman was ashamed of con- sition, and high f hie turs of 9 :testion, au eagle flew fessing , thao he hart been frightened at nothing or he- 1 down from on high, and planet before the astonished pri- Italy, Catalonia , South Au-dria, Greece, and Turkey, I ther he Me'lly fent ict he saw armed men, he deposed before caner his own bad-bolts, neatly tied up with his bowstring at a most ethical and deeply interesting period l 0: the captain - gee rid that he had seen the Carlist army ! The 1 1 into a species of chair. their history, so that his book comes before the 1 troops were called out, martial law proclaimed, and the " Sit down," said the aerie, "Excelleativimo Mio So rtie rather to supply than create a general want .' island was declared in a state of siege. Hours passed —clays nor, and I will take your 'worship far beyond the reach of eral I, these blood-hounds. _" i s narrat i ve emamemmi w i th the Balear i c iy , ands, 1 previ a , ta an t i l l d n a z C t gl t is i t t : isiarae st i a n rce sa l m , u a n a t a il a t c h aa e a c a aptai a n- tabl manner l Don Vicente seated himself ; he wan sure to be burned and is conducted thence, by way of Marseilles, Genoa , ' began ' been maile a fool of. ' But he decided on one thing,—that lif lie stayed. The eagle carried him carefully to the point Leghorn, l'iaa, Venice, Irrieste, the lonian Islands, ! the priest would not have dreamed sheet Carnets it he had of Puig Vicente. Looking down he saw a couple of young Greece and Turkey, to the remotest of the seven! not walla . ' for them ; and, therefore, he shut the poor old dolphins, with Ids old nets and boat made into a very churches of Asia, where the author's task finds its I man up as being himself a Carltsta and afa -ciosn. For pretty carriage. term. 'rho first inconvenience which our author ' ' three months, hewever, the state of siege continual before ' Sc ,," said the eagle, " Senor,—el Cache." Don race people were allowed to conduct their business without Vicees, I ant realy, was the reply ; and as soon as Don encountered in 3lujorea shows where Spain is iu the militar • • d 5 superinten enee. te was seated, race of uatiuns. "Give me your hand," said the eagle, gravely holding The third chapter of the second volume is varied THZ POLICIA •:410 CONSCL. with a legend of Ivka, one of the Balearic islands. out a claw. Our first Maine's, after being comfortably settled in our The two shook hands. new abode, was to visit the l'olicia and the English consul, THE LNGF.ND Or DON VICIN it . " rat,a red corn Dios ! never speak ill of a Jew again." that our pusports might lie ia order ; the latter Was a Spa- Don Vicente, bora on the eve of St. John, had the gift of What took place afterward s nobody exactly knows. lash mereliant, and as English visitors Sr., scarce in the seen g spirits invisible to all besides; and, named after St. Some say that the daughterof Alulallah Ben Hemet gave her 'edema, iseuide, he could toot foresee that his being abeent Vicente, Ferrer, he early term d his mind to religious con- child in marriage to Don Vicente, getting a dispensation and leaving nu substitute could be the cause of any incon- temPlatimaa Ming, however, an only eon, and heir to from the king of the fishes fur that purpose, seeing that the yeteience ; we visited his house maiiii and again, bu t th e great wealth, his friends resisted his win to embrace a con- Sewor was married, and that they have grand Halt dinners days punned before we could ,we bun. ventral life, end persuaded hint to marry. and capital Val de penes down there below. Certain it is At the l'ulicia we were received by a middle-aged gentle- His chief amusement was the chase; in fact, no kind of that Dona Josef.' consoled herself with the comfortable se men, who looked at our passports with much amazement; sport come amiss to him—fishing in a trout stream, then guineas of the inquisitor-general, rind died at last in the first he requested intonnetion as to who on earth lent I el. e the only one in the island, nail now dried up; spending °doer of sanctity. It is to be hoped for their mutual peace mentors might be, axt then begged that 1 would be so good whole nights in his boat on the blue Mediterranean, in the that they may never meet again. as to translate the docutuent into Spanish, which having clear memlight and beneath a cloudless sky ;or pursuing, The present condition of Spain renders travelling dine to his setiefeetion, we. ere referred to the" Gulderno , amidet the recesses of the pine forest, from which the mach safer than it was a few years ago. In Catalonia and obtaiiied Cie neteisite perineasieni to reside. country take's its name, such game as it furnished him, Don the mad-guar( is-g very effective, and robberies of rare 1 Vineente enjeyed ES much solitude as though he had been The quarantine regulations and the absurd custom im„red in a cloister, aud with it a censtait communion occurrence. Mr. Christmas gives on his own personal laws were as usual oceasiouing great annoyance and with nature in her wildest as well us her gentlest moods; knowledge the subjoined account of a robbery which inconvenience to travellers when Mr. Christmas but his solicitude consisted only in the absence of man, for in took place before the reform: visited Spain . Ile gives the following anecdote us proportion as he receded from human society, in like pro- aer ENCOUNTER warn THE APOSTLES. an illustiution of portion did the spirits of the wool and the wave draw The secretary of a wealthy great and man, being sent by nearer to him, awl make him a witness of their presence, SPANISII SMUGOLlNG. important husineesfrom 3 athe to Toledo, his e m li ln y er on nil a confidant of their mysteries. But there was one bar- a Some Tears ago I know that corn was taken to alaLma a • • hatefu l was °baited to go alone. It so happened that there was a • and emu .1.4 Sp:anal earn, which had been grown in South vier —the pursuits of the h un ts man were to them, band of rubbers infesting the road between Madrid and Russia, and slapped Items Odessa to Gibraltar, and this wa. i elthe eagle the wild d fell before his bo• , a i when in deer . et, or Toledo at that time, who had dignified theineelvee with the yinntr , d olp hin Was landed his pinnance, sad voices • dour iu the meet barefaced way imaginable. A permit and the. - .title of fns dose .1 pustules ! and as they were twelve in wailed mewl hi m, and dewy tearalrops, from eyes at that specification were pureluised at aerate fur a certain number wa-- number, each had taken a partieular denomination. Them ' of Lou gee of apaniat corn; the ship to be freighted there-a blneelatained hands moment unseen, fell on Its. gentry untartuaately met our friend the secretary . , and in with mate cavil at noce to Gibraltar and purchased the 1 Often slid grotesque forme unstr ing his ?ow I * whe n he ele the head of his the course of their conversation with him ascertained who Odessa grain, then went on to Malaga and landed the pm- i cemed his aim the mast turban, turn am d. he weii, and where he was goiug. They intinetted their heated wh, at uwler a false tide. It wis in vain that the courser when his arrow a was t ze:ncdat thelor lordly e a gle,mn intention to relieve him of any superfluoue cash or valuables Malaita officer, pointed out the peculiarities of the cunt, all s ' i . !, s i l ' fram t m „ f .2. l l l , l g h d r l 'i t . it dweller . ln ther g e . ' oft en he mieht have about ban. the proprietor would do leas to Uahriit his certiticate. The i ' ' lea " a."..." a -imp, tattle his nets and bring them " Willingly, Caliallerns," replied he, " and indeed the fraud We. epparent enough, but had the introduction of up empty, reattie a n leap again into the sea, seatterlng t h e . more 00, as, to save my watch and a ring, both of which the corn been reeieted, there would hare th e n ask inter- epee , y around like shower of emeralds. Still h , went on ; I are ver y much ii suspicion de ids, all that I have with me minable suit between the custom - house authentic. of Ma- it herd to change an old sportsman, awl the chase al is not mine hut ton —'s, and he will not allow me to be pain is snore a passion than even in Germany o f . yor e , t ill lags and those of Seville, and in such cases the wrung • a loser in his service. one day a change was seen to come "over the spint of his always prevails.l " What you say, Cabatlero, is very much to the purpose, a lie life of a contrubandista is one of much anxiety and his ennance burned his nets, and the e iim ;" he broke up . 1 b , .. let us see what you have." moonlight. Ile said that T • excitement, and his calling neither lowers him in his own he hail no more sea ca""ans by he scrutiny wits unsatisfactory. hail narrowly escaped drowning, mid had made a TOW to eye, nor in those ot the public. The possewion of eithrelter t himself no aWe shall trouble you to give us what you were so rood more in d anger ; his religious obeerv by the imitlieb is a great aseistance to these gentry. It is „P„„,,an ta u, , e ,„, ated • • as to name, but you met permit us to &acne that it is ' 1 fast d in seventy , and on eye ho h• thl unbecoming an hielalgo of such distinction es Dun— here that they make their purchases ; and there are tenons 1' . 1i"...,„„' F": '1 ii hi as he had been ae- 11- • y un eafiest tern 4 . . res whose Mistimes it is to laud carpal of Ha ' a a'`i nn t ilea, i n ti et s 1. , hinted( to brad, Ito allow his meretary to go about will-provided ; so, in totters anti totsweo tin points of the coat signified to diem c fru u lt7 c4 sail water . . kt en ti 7 e °tam, tine the c ha pe l o f at. , order to itnpretis this on his mind, and ou the minds of per by their contraband employers. ' lobe landing is generally a i' L ' f boa 1 sons similarly situated with himeelf, you will not take it NishOMA rece i ve d a new elferin Ithe ig, al , image o a t • • accamplished by Vie teilliiranee of the coast-euanl to • Day by day did ne amt.., if we request you to denude yourself of your appteel, ' in silver was appended at his alter. wheats a regular payment is made, called el sugars., by the I Y '''' a lin order that we may scour ge you with the stirrup-leathers, Vicente become more gloom and more wee a : eg• contrabantiatta awake h Rile; and as the more bales the tours am !try, fruit were successively banished ti from his as much as in our' udgment nature will bear, and the cri er:arm, the mad-guard general) come themselves to see '', fir, • '' din h • cause fhi • • • geuries of the eaat require. wife inquire vain t e ot s increasing that they are not cheated. The corn:dor makes his bale. as table . and his " Gentlemen," said the secretary, " I would venture most sorrow, large as he ran, without any regent to the unhappy meth, first, tl • t I D—h ad respectfully to suggest to s Jil, these i on 'slime back• are to beer the burden; for a bale is a bak, big sin—pe rhapsl • • • h.who say ' Ma. , secret i., ,i. aresy—per aps, can y . contemplated my having the singular roost fortune to meet or little. SOMetiMell, ~when the contraband party arc 11 'P his dre adful • • increased. Don I with your worships, he would here sent his remittances not suspicion V icen t e ate no . strong, they tight their way and carry their cargom into the .. lin paper, but in specie ; secondly, that as he des not peed more ealpicon—seusages became an abomination to Mtn— into tare in detente of the guard. ' there elate, however, , elating etre about the state of my elan, the proceeding you the baron followed the car • to exile. Yes , he must have no greater Viewable between them, in spite of th :con- were so obliging as to allude to would be a punishment not me either a Jew or I.e M os l e m , n and yet his most Chris- ! dowel treaties its y make. 1:10r is gash Leith always kept ou who is the auilty person. lest t:. me, who am alto tian hatred to all the former a tensions, the ireults he . t° him, the part of the revenue esthetes. Of this the following ante- gether innocent ; and, thirdly, that you have, as a mark of tthem, •the Pc ' with which I • treated ' heaped upon tutu contempt ie dote will he an 'Natant*: my high esteem for you, all that I have about me in the them, were highly becoming in a Spanish hidalgo, who Duriug the last revolution, a certain great firm iu Malaga bona ,' lof b ei ng a ~e . ,,aa en „s ee , „ ~„,.,a a—he must I al' I d • el - bl " at dest came isposa c. made a contract with the con's - gourd to allow a valuable p ea -e ` ----a• - - ' - - -------". " Senor Mio," said the Wider, "it is impassible not to be Turk—a worshipper of Mahound. Th., holy priest ; struck with the judgment and good sense which you di.- cargo of fingliseh nainufeetures tube landed at a seven point. I the I asked him the u • I •ed q cation e ane recetv an indignant nega- , The sum PrePosed ( a,Mitia eternise!) was iweePted ; t de I ive The inquisit ion was at ul' el to: hey answered , that • play, and, WI a compliment to it, you shall go away with troops were carefully directed to other points; and the t am M ame ems a lai a a'• n" Don v• • I whole hones; tint reineinhtg not to disgrace your employer y rove ; for first, weute most l'aad!"tt w.." 3 rekl , effeeted The gaols wan' 'lla w i•ked'v abstained Cra m P pork, which was sent on earth on for you nester by travelling again with so sheet a purse, Seam in boles used fir neaten, and the pneprieturknow what you may be asked fur." w s inee .• to fea ili disthetio between tlie Mahommedun I and with his string of mules at the gate, of Malaga. ant the Chris m it a - n 'L SO tha . t the satin f k sal icon I " Caballero., I will bear intuited year caution. Would it but hens the unlucky merchant was taken aside, awl in- and bacon , ' was to be looked g o Par ' I on as a so emn relit P e , be unasasonable to ask you for my nee, which contains my fanned that the etimilation was only for 'setting, and nut i sa i lers: : an' late mother'. hair, and my watch, without which I should d tv. for delivcrina goods ur allowing them to be delivered in not know what o'clock it is?" g &routine, when taxed with his abominably i ta h i Malaga, and that he mast, th•sr,fore, had only Corr. it his bad .• • , • • • • • I ~e " Your worthy mother was a lady of great merit. but as uernea it . which heretics i nva ri ably did, an d 1 e • ' 2,ooite, but also submit to see his whole cargo conliseatea! an w r •c " we are all brethren, she was our cunt, anti it weal.' not he was one of the surest proofs of their guilt. Ferdinand VII. tried in vain to put down smuggling. respectful in us to part with her hair, and as to the watch, Thirdly, he h a d a field as close to the Dominican mi ll,. fanned the TO. 'sue of the natem-hoine to a M. ltiera know the exact , we want ourselves from time to time to vent as the vineyard of Naboth the Jeer eta° was to th in Ina, an•l this . gentleman fitted out five feluccas, and' ' f gond Ki Ahab andequally desirable 71 gardens e h° "' " tig • . attest with such epwit and determination that he all but I n • ' "Gentlemen, " said the secretary, " I would submit with 011PITIN ; so the unhappy leen Vicente was forthwith adjudged' su p eri or - succeeded in his task . lluwever, when he Medea himself great deference to your judgment, that I awn rather , merely to be guilty of Mahommedaniko and before he h ardly marr of aux, sa, he sound that the captains of his feluccas dealt Ine" knew 1 fort he he f oun d hi I' ' feet der I . . nise t twenty . under e, v eto me pe at " wen all corrupted, and n.a berume contrabandi.tas them - d 'e . in . cellrithe I• exclaimed the chief, " we are humane consent aforesaid, and melees. Alter trying in vain to e ff ect his purpose by int o - tro_un position a . m .‘l nican . .' . beyond example to you. 'The hone is not yours, awl you numbly qualihed to draw away his Tinted . yea Ma the subaltern • in the prime taken, he discovered that ' i f ° ' a' • complain about a ring end a watch. This is St. Andrew, the contemplation of mundane a ff tire. Ills name illicit traffic was now carried on by the aid of Genoese rev[- m ay tie , !nail this St. James, peace be with them, and lam St. John I frrt m unatels for the easier v 1' t• of 1 • l egen d, change, who ftsruithed ship s with papers to Genoa, and then ,f. ~.. : t a _ ere tea ion _tea c of I --carajo! I should like to know how you would have come sent them to refresh in 31•11arta harborer, where they stayed ijr i a . i m n the . a s ... f i p a arznewhite•eatsedfin a rn tll prisons o ff if you had fallen into the hands of St. Paul." till they haul done all they emoted. In feet, more than one I _ a ! l m , attic . i ! I , 'to which place n was after sinue. 1 The traveller in these days is wit likely to meet with any I third of th.• trade in the Peninsula is contraband, and those 'the '"" '''''''",. But what was the secret history of such apostolic adventures—all the better for him; if he who carry it en are too numerous and too powerful to be idid?i .waiy e tlat he Inv himself open to s o uth ala e aaers.. i eau make up his mind to a liberal allowance of delay and thwarted by any ireveratnent that would long maintain an 1 an l . _ a , i ' a 'ere"' the _consequence. f dais er rors ? i dislocation, of extortion at custom-houses in Catalonia, and It was on a beautiful moonlight welit that Don Vicente • • existence. of indifferent accommodation , he may go all through Spain was pursuing his custanary amusement, when, on drawing , W Idle in Nfajorea our traveller was much struck by , his net into his twat, ho was somewhat lataiii.hed to see it w ithout d trouble; goo i. d humour is standutlisitiibtily instead o f a practice observed there of holding a unasked hill in ; opened like a folded curtain , and a very elegant but dinii- !an t mar • na a e t' c l o' emergency, Ito s ant c a rbine , but would earnestly ix econmeni A torsi the church. A kind of leave called "el bails dell native lady step gratefully forward. ;as the lest earria,te, and Don Quixote, next to his bible and Don Vicente " raid s h e, "my mother p resents her „,,,. code's," in perfumed by nine dancers, two called book, as the best travellina companion. The seine en aim tete and h ugs to . that if you e l 'Aar • t step . a - a' -- o diablosi,” and mode up necording to the most ap- down in and favour her Wgs arl ' tt e t a fe w sa minutes conv ° e a rsatiu ' a 'vb. . grave, sly humour, the same really high and ntlemanly proved middle-age notions of his infernal majesty's ,would be unspeakably obliged to you." r l • !feeling, distitiguali the Spaniard now as did ant he time of I the great don; and Spain may be es profitably studied in appearance, of course including horns, hoof, and tail. I "Nothing, dear lady," replied Don Vie ate, " would the es of (Cervantes as themeh his immortal work were .., Ihe rs yellers premed to church, where MASS is cote- Rise . k, me n one n l q uarter o n e , so t th m e u lfo h nii ) l l l ( lS aS tfbo h h u a t l f t a ho f t i t st half and ; only mitten yesterday. beaded and a seranou preached ; the masqueraders, ! a n w l a a 'lle foregoing illumtmtions have been selected from afraid 1 should feel a little tathMatic s diffi cu lt y f who have hitherto remained in the poreh, now enter breathine under weter." - - the early stages of the author's journey. The whole the building, and a dance is commenced in the centre, " Not at all, Don Vicente," rejoined the lady ; " only work, ns is fittin g , has been written with an eye to th.: chief eleanicteriatie of which is that it sets at • oblige me by putting on this m an t illa , and everything vial th e amusing andeharecteristic. Mr. Christmas may defiance all grace and ele4anee, and gives full play be easy enough." have discovered little that is new in the historical to buffiw "what Dona J anry, antics, and tumbling. "I am not q •iscfa would say, fur her notions are some- uite sure." thought Dna Vicente to himself, countries he has traversed; but his volumes am a The ecclesiastical staff of M ajorca is out of all w h at o f th e s t ra ightest, an d a m a ntilla is not exactly the pl ea sing vehicle of a large amount of instruction Foportion to the size and population of the island. head-dress for a calealero. However, here goes, sink or upon people and limits of which every intelligent 3lr. Chriatiumi relates the fullowiug anecdote of swim." person desires to know more. PRIESTLY INFLUZNCR IN regulate The lady held out her hand to assist Don Vicente out of A young couple presented themselves to bo married—the the boat, rind down they went—down, down, unfathomable priest objected. depths, till they - stopped at a door, very prettily adorned I •• Your mothers were godmothers to the same child; with mother-of-aearl, and a page in sca-green silk made that makes them sisters! you therefore stand in the vela- his appearance. Don Vicente went with his fair conduc tion of first cousins, and cannot eatery." time sad the "pretty page " into an inner chamber, where, "But," they replied, " We know of first cousins who are reclining on a costly sofa, inlaid with pearls and gems, lay married, and then we are not in any way related." a lady of et itelv press-nee. e Yes, you are related in the eyo ut the church, and I "Senor," said she, " I have sent fur you to complain of your want of courtesy." canned and will not many you." Rebutted thus, they went to the bishop, who confirmed Don Vicente bowe l and stared. The lady went on. all that the priest had said. " Is it possible," said she, " that you are not aware that ; a But is there no remedy ?" asked the young people. the Moslem ladies , work out their purgatory at the bottom " Yee," replied his lordship, " you can have a dispe nse . of the sea, and arc half their time in the shape of fish ? I tion from Roma' would rise to meet you, but you have damaged my left fin, . " Shall we have to wait till it comes from Rome i" by your never-eutfiriently-ta.biaaceursed fish-spear, sad my I " No, we keep them always ready." left arm is now suffering from it. I was the daughter of " And, ruse it please your lurebehip, what will it cost ?" Abdellah Tien Hemet, and you have duubled the grief of • " Twenty dollen," was the answer. my purgatory." The intended bride and bridegroom looked at one another ' Senora ilia," said Don Vicente, "I am deeply dis hopelesely, and left the presence. Next day the mother of tressed at what you tell me. If I had hail the elightest the girl, a shrewd seusible woman, took the matter in hand. ti . • on that it was your ladyship, I would have turn( d my She found the priest inexurabte, as before. She visited the fiehapear sgainst my own breast rather than base wounded bishop. told him that her am-in-law was a poor hisho Too full belie " said honest and industrious—twent v dollars was out of power 1 believe you. the lady ;" I expected no lees to raise. 't he bishop told her that twenty ounces would be from your emirtesy taint now, after you have partaken of a little fish dinner with me , for it is F ida demanded of a cabal I ra, and that her daughter might marry e y (and here the le n 1 e el he 1 * l rse re f), and tasted my Val nes, anybody else without a dispensation. She brought the younglad y cheap do r ms t w On v remember I beseech don, that couple again to plead their own cause, and finding his lord- 52! • ._, • eat an,(, ship in no way disposed to yield, she gave the key of her though wet', me yea may fish , Ibe certain it never house to the young man, sad addressed him in terms such was anything else, yet at your owe table you can never be as these --" There can be no harm iu the marriage, or his sure but that you are eating the mother of a sultan or the sister of a pasha." lordship would not allow it, and give you a paper from the "Mea i " seal Don Vicente " I Pope to get it done. 'Twenty dollen make,' it neither more will m, .1 h a .nk... , give you my honour I nor lees lawful—you have dune all you can to get the bless- e: nevV. run If n his boa t , " • ing of the church, and it is no fault of pet er Nat you cannot See is excellency to exclaimed the lady, obtain it; there is the key,—take it and her." " No, nu. ••• clapping her hands, after a repast not exactly resembling exclaimed the bishop, "we must not have any scandal ; I that of the Danneciae. will girt you the dispensation rather than that you should The next day the fish emcee was broken, the nets burned, live together without marriage ;" and so the priest, fur- and the boat converted into firewood. niched with the talismanic parchment, united them at once. A da y or two after, while in the thick wools of Nineu, the arrow of the Dan brought sornetaine fiutterine, to the The author observes upon this that we shall ground, which was soon bat too evidently a lady, small in shortly want the power: c f e t e sseusation in England, deed in dimensions, but namirably lovely in face and for marriages with a 1 wife's sister aro as figure ; her black tresses, her dark eyoo, the arched nose, numerous now as ever they were, and our having and the Hebrew chancier, embroidered upon her veil, Jewish race, that Don Vicente made that crime will render it necessury to have this - s e nla rm e V h s t l: t e r l 7.7l l - t r ia l ti t r h e e l / " pcmations for those who think that their Christian "Senorma. my sister would y' feel greatly indebted if you Ebert , : is measured by the Bible and not by the would be no obliging isi just to step up into this tree, as she piste canon law. has matters of considerable moment to confide to your wor- Nlr. Cltritmas tells a capital talc of the panic at ship's ear." " Get up into a tree!" exclaimed the Don, in a ra^e. Majorca in 1810, which throws light on the origin ~ Get up into a tree ! What can you be thinking of, 'pun of many impudent Jewish hussy, to propose such a proceeding to a A PRIEST MIRACLE. hidalgo like me ?" In the year 1510, when the civil war in Spain was raging a D on Vicente," replied the little lady, "don't make a with great/fury, a general ex pectation seemed t o p r evail that fool of yourself ; Tour Catalan puddle caanse be compro the Carliets would make a descent upon M aorta, and all the mimd toy what I request. Dos Red-led de Partridge, aeArstuitiAs,or watch-towers, were man ned, t o g i ve he earliest who traces his descent directly from the bird who came out notice of any hostile appearance. The island was garrisoned of the ark with Noah (pease be with has), roosts here by th e (4.stam'a government ; and it appears to have entered every night, and what a half-inch affair is your pedigree into the head of the captain-general, that as the people ge- c o m pared w i t h his? ea, me your hand, ammiaba. It is nervily . were lovers of monks and fnars, they must entertain you that are the favoured party." a longing desire to base so monk-Mao and monk-losing a Don Vicente was overawed by the lady's haughty airs. sovereign as Don Carlos. He kept himself and his garrison and submissively gave her his hand. Very near the top of perpetually on the sleet, and vexed he islanders' gnat the tree, on a conch fanned of its tenderest branches, lay a, dial by his utuanessary sad ancesplamentaty cannon. 1 lady dtbs most tmammdiat Dreams. LITERATURE. THE PAPAL. ATTEMPT. What ! stretches forth her foot the Roman beast To plant it on this land, so long since freed Front her abhorred domain ? Seeks she that creed, The spawn of stagnant ages, to restore, Sprung from the feculence of monkish lore, And prostitute to every cursed deed That smacked of human blood—therefore decreed Through Chri.V4 Apostle, to an end so sore That nations shall astound ? What weapons ought To be arrayed, her inroad to prevent, The shrine of Europe's liberties designed To overturn? Two ready drawn free thought And freedom of the press, of temper meant To hew all hags that override the mind. THE RVHJECT CONTINUED. Free thought and a free press Will these suffice Acsinst a foe so subtle, that no ends D. rer to mean. ; who e'en a free press bends Te work her will ; and fails not to entice I.'ntil she can coeree—when hi a trice .111 freedom moot be eru.hed ? Surely law lends A tighteousaid, whene'erit solely sends To sustain liberty. Away all nice Evasions : while In En•alaud, Itomo unfurls That fl.trant banner, Haunt so oft o'er deeds Devils would di.ayow—her canon law, And here, even here ! beneat s t that standard hurls Mis.ires at free laws launched. Surely she needs Be bound to keep the pease, or the ba.e flout withdraw. CONCERNING CARDIN ti. S .- cardinal, what's that ? A hybrid thing, By priestcraft out of de.potism bred. "There's none in England then," m2tliinks 'tis said: Good sir, the country's free ; and vou may bring Satan here, an you will, to have a fling At what both he and cardinal must dread— lOdigious all freedom head. Enough of badinage. Englaiid still cling To thy groat protest, now for ages held Against the fe•Il abortion popery. Be not deceive(' ; either must now be quelled The spirit Rome evokes, or freedom knelled. Small prescience dotli it need to prophecy Where cardinals survive, there liberty must die! A IL VCDRED RUBJT.CT TO Tin F01E001:40- Shall sleek and stealthy tigers go abroad With maw full large enough to swallow all Our liberties? And yet because we tall This nation free, forsooth, we must not rid The beasts of their worst power to hurt—not bid Their mouths be muzzled, claws elipt, nor forestall Some sudden mischief, by a leat.h, to haul Backward the brute Ctis one though many!) should Its gentle nature urge it to a spring At unawares, upon its close-eyed prey! "Oh, but 'ti. changed, and hurtliss as a lamb." Changed! Why thou Best—for the ravening thing Gorged six Italian nobles t'other day,* And h:re, unchecked, es ruthlessly would cram! • Gut Guic:utlint ea 4 Li =veers. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY, ;WV( 11. The Lain CIILLWCILLL(I4 took his seat at Ave o'elock. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. ADMISSION OP JEWS to PLILL/AMENT.—By the Eat' of CARLISLE, from a place in Essex, in favour of ths admission of Jews to parliament. 1 'foie CUTSTAL PALM:B.—By the Earl of CARLISLE, from Duitatable, praying that the Crystal Palace may be allowed to stand to be used as • winter garden. I FATAL AOOKESAIUN.—By the Earl of CARLISLE, from Wesleyaiu of Brampton, in Cumberland, against mil aggression. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Lord BROUGHAM had to present a petition from a person of great public merit—Mr. Joseph Paxton, of Chats worth, a worthy, ingenious, and talented individual, and a public benefactor, whom ho had had the honour of knowing for upwards of twenty years—against the taking down of 1 the Crystal Palace. 1 heir lordships were aware that he (Lunt Brougham) had taken a prominent part in opposing the erection of the building in Hyde-park, but he had never been opposed to the Exhibition itself. lie objected to its being erected in Hyde-park because of the annoyance which its erection and removal must occasion, but chiefly because it would be an encroachment on what had been called one of the spiracles of London. The object was one of great national utility, awl would be productive of incalcu lable benefit. The noble and learned lord read a consi derable part of the petition, which was similar in terms to Mr. Pa:totes published statement, and said the petitioner concluded that nothing would be more useful for the pur poses of recreation and science than to retain the Crystal Palace, in order that it might be used as a winter garden, in which the amusement and instruction of the people might be promoted. Before the building was removed he thought the fullest investigation of the subject should take place, to see whether the wish of the public, that it should remain could be complied with. There might be legal and other difficulties in the way, which would require careful consideration. After the Exhibition had succeeded beyond arty man's expectation—after the people had been ena moured of the building, and the uses of the building— he must say, if they were all of a sudden to turn round, and say, " Let it be removed; why cumbereth it the ground? Take it away ; break it; smash it, or remove it elsewhere," it would be adding as an appen dix to the inlustry of all nations an exhibition of the fickleness of all nations beyond anything which hail ever been known in tke world before. He believed the trades people of this great capital had suffered considerably by the Exhibition, but he woo certain that would be at an end under the new dispensation if it were converted into a winter garden. Mr. Paxton might truly be called a public benefactor, for he felt morally certain that but for him the Exhibition would not have taken place at all. Without the Crystal Palace—without such a building of iron and glass—nothing which would have answered the purpose could have been erected within the time limited. (Hear, hear.) Ile was the first person to whom Mr. Pax ton showed his plan, and after considering it for an hour or two, he recommended him to lose no time in showing it to the commissioner, but thought they would regard it as a wild scheme. It was infinitely to their credit teat they selected it, and was in keeping with the rest of their conduct, which had been admirable all through—marked, as it had been, by the gee:Oust judg ment and firmness, and by the wisest spirit. lie thought the appropriation of the building to the purposes designed by Mr. Paxton—namely, to the laying it out tots a inter garden, having in it a collection of birds and other ani mate, and so on, would contribute to the health, recreation, and instruction of the people, and there coup l lie but little doubt that it would be gilts-supporting. He belonged to a society which regarded it with peculiar favour, as an ally of the schoolmaster, and an opponent of the gin palece— , (hear, hear)—and when lie was told that two million.' and ' a quarter of people hail already passed through it, only ' one quarter of a million of whom were from the country -7 ' when he found that but a small portion of those who had ' even it belonged to the humbler dame of the people, he could not but wish that instead of twenty-five hundreds of ' pounds being received daily at the present price of mines- 1 ' sion, two hundred pounds a day were received from penny ' admissions. (Rear, hear.) Ile could not believe ' that the people of this country would n i sooner have become enamoured with their bauble, no sooner have played with their glass toy, than they would wish to have it broken to pieces ; and he therefore hoped i aninquiry would take place before it was determined to " take the Crystal Palace down. (Hear.) 1 • Lord CAMPBELL thought the palace of glass might ',. disappear when the time appointed name without subjecte ice the people of this country to the reproach of fickleness ' for it would then have fulfilled its destiny. Ile thought r his noble and learned friend hail been carried away with ' zeal fur his client, like many other advocates, and had sup- premed his own private opinion. For the honour and glory ! ' of Mr. Paxton, he thought it was better not to run the risk of I • failure and to incur the certainty of broken faith. He ! heartily concurred in the eulogy upon Mr. Paxton, who ; was a man of great merit, of great genius, and an honour to ' hie country. (Hear.) The building was certainly the most , wonderful spectacle the world had ever beheld, and the success of the Exhibition had been transcendent. lie be lieved it would be of the greatest benefit to the manu factures of the country, and would promote the fine arts ; and would have a most beneficial tendency in bringing together in harmony and concord all the nations of the earth. (Hear.) lie thought it conferred the greatest credit on the illustrious prince with whom it originated, and ho felt sure that it would secure for him the admiration, the eontidence, and the lasting gratitude of his adopted country. (Hear, hear.) The Crystal Palace itself was the mist striking feature of the Exhibition—(hear, hear)—but would they make as attempt to perpetuate that which was intended to be only temporary? lie had been told that the only way to preserve tke Crystal Palace was to take it down : only one third of the supports were of iron, the remainder being of ill-seasoned wood, and the girders, many of them, were also of wood. Then, if it remained, there seemed a diversity of opinion as to what uses it should be lot to ; some said it should he used as a mu:cam—his noble and learned friend, fur the first time, hail just suggested that it should be a menagerie—(a laugh)—and some one else hail said that it should be used for a collection of models. Mr. Paxton's only object, however, was to make it a garden with a view to preserving a particular climate. Ito odd in the statement which lie had published:—" In the winter perk and ganlen I propose, climate would lie the principal thing studied; all the furnishing and fitting up would have special reference to that end, so that the . pleasures found in it would be of a character which all who visit could shay'; here would he supplied the climate of southern Italy, where multitudes might ride, walk, or re cline :iinii4 groves of fragrant tree'', and here they might lei eine.: eviiiiiie the works of nature and art, regardless of tie bitiiig east winds nr the drifting snow." The area might ;dad perhaps two miles for exercise, but parties must meet the biting east wind as they went, and the same keen blast when they left. But in the midst of the snow, how were they to get theta at ali? t,l iaug's.) In. wet wetter.; pest, etrialui wattle' be drenched before they could reach this garden of Amide, and breathe its fragrant air. All this ho thought woo the effusion of an enthusiast who had not yet seen the difficulties which opposed the accom plishment of his design ; and, after all, he believed there was no:hine like the open-air exercise which we were n o w accustomed to take. Next CMS' the question, how was it to be supported ? An admission-fee w mid keep out children and the lower classes : a shopkeeper's wife and family might repair to enjoy the pleasures of the winter garden, but they could not get in without paying their contribution of sixpence, and the poor, who could not pay, must, of necessity, be ex cluded from enjoying that portion of the park, which Laud been a source of much gratification both to them and to their fathers. With regard to the police, he must do them the justice to say that thcy had per formed their duty well, and had seemed actuated by a desire to oblige everybody. It was impossible to praise then' too much. What, however,would be the Crystal Palace with out the police, and they knew that there was a very large number of them employed about the building. Without the police the good order which had eo much prevailed could not amongst a large concourse of people be expected to pre vail to the same extent, and were they prepared to main tain a sufficient number of police in watching the locality ? He was convinced that before long there would be an out cry for the removal of the Crystal Palace if it were to be continued as a permanent edifice. He:might mention that a very few years ago application had been made for a small portion of Hyde Park, on which to build a church. The application had been refused, and yet they now, for the make of anticipated pleasure, asked to continue a large buntline permanently there. Then it must be a great in convenience to that neighbourhood to have crowds of people tenstantly attracted there. At present the inconvenience was considerable, but it was borne with most cheerfully. The inhabitants considering that they had been abundantly recompensed by find ing the honour which had accrued to their country by the Exhibition. (Hear, hear.) They would, however, solemnly protest against it being continued as a permanent edifice. A solemn compact bad been entered into, not only between the government and the commis/domes, but with the inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Hyde-park, that I when the Exhibition closed and the products were removed, the building would be taken down. Now, this pledge could only be got over by an act of parliament, and an act of parliament, though it might render the matter legal, I would not in honour take away the obligation which the go- I vernment and the commissioners entered into with these people. When they had petitioned the House of Commons against the erection, they bad been told that it was a purely legal question, and a majority of that house had decided. against them, and when they had gone to the courts of law , their claim had been overruled, and they had been I theirs told that the House of Commons being against I them, their craving could not be acceded to. As they said in Scotland, " Let byganes bo byganes," hat do not repeat or continue the injury which had been already inflicted. Injury had undoubtedly been inflicted, and it was very much to be regretted that there should be any attempt made to continue that injury. (Hear, hear.) The Crystal Palace had not been erected as a permanent building, and any attempt to render it per manent was interfering with the purpose for which it had Men erected, and could not in any degree add to the glory 1 which had attended its career. Ile trusted that the appli- Pekin which Mr. Paxton had made to their lordships, which woe virtually to interfere in the matter by legislation, would not be conceded, and he hoped that an act of pulia- I slant with the object of preserving the Crystal Palace' where it now stood, would never receive the sanction of their lordships' house. In conclusion , he trusted that Mr. I Nothing could be done iu convocation contrary to the pre- Paston, without his application being' complied with. l rogative of the crown or against the common lew of thu would still add to the hellcats he had conferred on his count- ! land. Ile would now ask the attentena of the house to some try and to his own honour. ' of those evils which arose from the want of a convocation. Earl GRANVILLE said that slate he had come into the ! Without it, it seemed nt one time as if all the ener g ies of house a petition from the inhabitant* of Ashford had been .the church were paralysed and that it WAS imp o s sible to put into his hands for the purpose of being presented toe keep up united nether. After this net,: of up nthy had their lordships praying that the Crystal Palace Mght bo I existed for a certain time, the feeling in the mials of men preserved. The petition, he might state., was mos t rei "e s I could sot be other than a centre:tiet that it was necessary to ably signed. As had already been lasted , the commis- remove it. And then meremeuts in the church took place. I The first of those 'movements was called the evangelical sinners had made no declaration on this subject. In fact, " movement. What was the effect of the movement? It they were bound to deliver that portion of Hyde-park in cored beneficial to the church. Take the case of John the same state as they hail found ft soon after the Ezhibi esley. He knew of no man who had morn affection in 'Bon was closed. The subject of retaining the building had never been discussed at any meeting of the commiesioners his heart for the church th in John Wesley —( hear , hear) — and if there had been any opening fur him to propound his and he was only aware of the sentiments; of three or fouroi views, so far from bane against the church, he would have : the commiesioners on the subject ; anal these three or four were not unanimous in their sentiment.. urn he been Lis the church, and the effect of his keying carried his own feelings into the body winch he ultimately founded called upon un to g in a vote on the questio n he should car - would, instead of separation, have been union , and that tainly have felt b y :mid to weigh the arguments on both activity which he brought to bear upon the religious feeling ai d es have considered the advantages and disadvantages of the country would have been eminently benetieiel in of retaining the building. With regard to the advanteg stead ofceahugwha c t consequences. uinenaces. great degree ool o n e e schism ori i r to and he thought that they would be considerable to a large pro portion of the inhabtants of the metropolis. As regarded the led to unfortunate I Cc ti own times, there had been another great movement, disadventages, he slida not lay much steels on the general which appe . ared to hhu to show the want of a arguments of . his noble and learned friend (Lord Campbell). convocation.. That ntoveauent was one in which those lie thought, on the contrary, that the strongest point who took strong church views were the first to take steps, against retaining the building, was one on which his lord aud he believed that front the first action that movement ship had touched but lightly, namely, the feelings of the wet a perfectly sincere one as regarded &dee to promote gentlemen who occupies' the houses in the immediate neigh the welfare of the church. (Hear.) But when people of bourhood of the Crystal Palace. As to the adaptation of stroug feelings and entliusitstic turn of mind took up err the buildiug for permanency, he dint not wish to give an crews they certainly did require guidance. How much oinion. With respect to the market of the police, he con- t . tin , the miva looked for such guidance might be seed if they current ill all that had fallen from the noble and learned lord. turned to the very lowest of churchmen anti the must ex- With regard to Mr. Paxton, it was very satisfact or y to trestle of dissenters, for he believed that tine men who made hear fro.n both sides of the !muse, his praises spoken in the manner which had been done. There was one point in the loudest boast of the right of private judgment were those who relied the molt upon the guidance of another which, however ho was nut prepared to give him all the moan's mind, and pieced their faith the roost firmly upon credit which hu'd been accorded to him by the risible and his words. It was natural fur persons to look up to that learned lord (Lord Campbell), and that was with re g ard to his poetical talent. Ile thought that the neble a nd learned which they respected, and every sincere man was ready to accept guidance of that kind. Therefore he held that if lora had proved himself, in this respect, infinitely superior to Mr. Paxton. (Laughter.) there had hem church guidance elating at the moment Lord BROUGHAM did not think that the noble and when that movement took place, when . they were , trembling learned lord (Lord Campbell) had at all answered his state ment, which was simply an array of the facts on both sides of the question. He was sorry that the noble and on the verge of those danger% into which they had now fatten, they would have avualest those danger.. All them concerned in the movement sincerely wished for direction, but they could not obtain it, and when they asked their learned lord had not dealt with his usual fairness with the when he had attacked it in a pecuniary point of bishops very few °bunted satisfactory answer's. The con matter,s ueuce of this want of directing power was tied they went view. la connexion with this they ought to remember that there would be a large surplus ti n the hands of the commis- sequence in their course up to the ashcan when they sinners. Then with respect to the healthful recreation seceded. They wanted the element of idler, and that was the cause of mill that had taken place; mail it was frown tho afforded by a winter garden, the noble and learned lord had said that thane people could not come iu bad weather. In want of son tithing certain and defined that the church had very wet weather they certainly could not come. But in been thrown into the present state of uncertainty. A great many who had taken that course of secession had commented passing romthat,g ordinary winter weather they might be there to enjoy time pleasures of the garden. It was objected, too, that the mild with extreme lowness, and, • f had one to extreme height. Had there beeu a convocation there would have lieell the means for decisions, but, wanting that, they salutary climate would expose people the more to the effects of the biting east wind when they rune' out. to o we ia nt to w ns,. tue and ßible; man—there it. Nothing was More easy than They did not contemplate a very werm climate, but a temperate climate. Then it was said that form y his own opinion. 'the Bible, it was true, was our solo the wealthy who came in their Carriages would leave their carriages and horses outside, and their servants exposed to reference—but then there were interpretations, unit there the cold. It had never, however, struck the noble and were errors in some interpretations and what guide haul this man among them. The principle of the church of Eng learned lord that whatever the noble judges of the lout might do, it was not customary for people to leave their • land was clear as - entirely rejecting tine principle of develop on witicat the church of Rome was built, and on which servants and carriages outside. They sent them home, and some protestant churches relied, they came for them at the time appointed for leaving. Ile (Lord Broughein) acknowlenlged he had been one of those 1 :;' ,.. .i v . ch 1 the claims of the Pope as hint to whom the king who at first did net think it a safe experiment to congre- mof Heavens was revealed; it !ejected tine tenta b o i f the gate hundred.' of thousends of people into that locality, Roman catholic church, and took its stand on the II t., church.re but now, though he entirely agreed in the commentletime lying upon the Bible from the earliest times of the . paseed on the admirable arrangements of the police, lie But it wee didcaked where were their au thoritics, ant what those authorities say. The answer thought it had inecu mainly owing to the adinireble ale was that their authority hail not met fur a hundred mcanour of the people themselves that all theee iipprehen and thirty years, and then the seeker went to the church of sinus had proved entirely without foundetion. As to Mr. Rome, simply bemuse e it appeared to hint to contain the Paxton, he looked on ham to be a great public benefactor, thing he wanted, and there they said to lion you my rely and he hop ea an I trusted that he would not add era to the upon it we have our authority. That was whet was going number of those who, before they Meted of death, tasted of • on at the present moment, mid he believed nothing could public ingratitude. (Cheers.) native us from the consequences but allowing the church to CONVOCATION. speak. But it was saint suppose waives:adieu met met came Lord REDESDALE, after presenting a number of penis to no agreement. lie would only ask thew who used that Wets praying foe the revival of convocation, said it was with argument where is your faith? 'I hey esisl that their church great slitfideuce that he ruse to address their lordships on was the church of God and the pure system of Christianity, the subject of the motion of which he had given notice. On and if they thought tied why did they doue t ? When it thin subject it wee found that great reluctance prevailed on was seen that both parties could meet to advantaise why the part of persons to come forward, but it was a subject should they doubt the power of their own church? lie which, in the present state of the church, it was absolutely believed sauna firmly in the high mission of the church of necessary should be raked. In bringiug the matter forward England; he held that at the time of the Reformatiost it lie did not desire to do anything to pledge their lordship , to was favoured by lieaven in being nallowent to continue tho any particular sentiments; his object ut present was priuci- unbroken succession of those apostolic powemi which had pally to disabuse the public mind of erroneous impression, been handed down from the commencement of Christi entertained regarding the synodical action of the church. unity. That had been given to our cinunh, and since the By many it had been held that it was impracticable to carry Reformation this country had been blessed in the most (m -eet arnelical &than and for a period of four generations at traordiaery way in being perlllitted to extend her church least—for e period of about 130 years—no convocation had over every quarter of the globe, nut only over the vast con met for the transaction of church business. The people had tinent of America, but in India, in the islands of New %ea been living under the impression that such a thing was land, and in Australia. lie saw this, but he hoped that nut to be thonelit of. But the monument contention the constitution of our church would be MOM of tho church, and the position in which !nasty qua-- fully developed, and he holed that before long the dons conueetal with it stood, had raised in meaty people's number of bishops of our church, both at bonnie and abroad, minds the convictiou that matters cola I not remain long as might be largely increased. When he saw that the English they were. They were in a position so unaitistectory and church was the church which, dhow all others, budded dangerous in many points, that unless something were done itself upon the embed faith and menu the Bible, he could o to bring matters to a more settled state, the church could nut but think that it was through that church the east and not be safe, and great danger was to be apprehended to the west would be ultimately drawn together, and that the the constitution both in church and state. The church hail unity of Christ's church would be brought about. That appeared to be governed, and Was in fact governed at that was the feeling of one who earnestly deeired the welfare of moment by extreme parties; and this must Ire so Wherever the church ; but, it' it were so, why not give it taat action there was no regular representatien of nny body. They e hick was latteessary to enable it to proceed tin metering he saw that during the time when parliament was not sitting, yeast the mere assertion of principle? lie believed that the agitators came forward to roues: the public mind with the recent movement of Roue had led men who had not been impression that they Were persons of more importance than used to take part in such questions to desire the Illeat when narliament was sitting. So was it with the church. ardent and united action ins the church. If increased action Without convocation, moderate men had not the opeurtu- was not given to the church, she could not have fair and nay of action, and the government seemed left to the vie- full play in her contest with the Miner churches of the lent of both pieties. The plattbrm was wholly in the world. (lkar, hear.) The noble lord concluded by mov hands of men of extreme opinions. (Rear, hear.) And ing for ° A copy of a petition front clergy and laity of the au impression was created that they were really province of Canterbury, preeentiel to both Rouses of Con the representatives of the feelings of the church vocation on the eth of February, Ittil." of England, and that the, divisions were as 'the question having been put, wide as the yat present seemed. Ile believed the The Arciabiehop of CAN I'ERBURY then roes, and said : reverse to be the case. lie believed that if they could ola No one who is acquainted with the character of thenoblo taint an expression of the opinions of the clergy and Lacy at lord, and knows his atteeloneut to the thumh of which. he large, they would find far more ananimity of opinion, of is a distiuguished inenther, Call doubt the purpose with purpose, of faith, and belief, than a great many believed to which he has brought before your loraships the eubject on exist amongst the mejority of the church; very little ems:us which we are now *engaged, or that he has intneluced it tial difference of opininn would be found to prevail if they with the strongest sense of its import:me to the interests could be brought together in a place where they lead the aad welfere of the church. (War.) Ile is eincenly of opinion right to speak and the power of action. if this then were that the divisions which unhappily exist in the church earl the case, was it not desirable to ulford facility to the express only Inc closed through the usseney of convocation. Ile is not shun of opinion ? If so, they must recollect that it mutt singular in that opinion. Manny petitious here been addressed not be dune except by the reseed of eanvoeatioo. In the to me during the lust year, luaringsignatures well deserving first place, he would consider the objections which had heen of attention, urging me to use whatever influence my station named to convocation. He would ask scat there roythine gave me to promote the aseembliug of convocation. I was in it that could be supposed to be andrary to the constitu- obliged to answer the memorielists, that, judging from the tion of the country or to the habits of the people ? Essen- only grounds of judgment open to me—the experience of tially the reverse. Convocation was not oily legally but former convocations—l could nut agree with their opinion: essentially a part of the constitution, although it had lat. and, therefore, could not comply with their petition. ( Hear,, tarty by an extreme exercise of power been kept in play - hear.) I still think the name, and unwillim as I always nue ; as regarded the habits of the people, they knew am to trespass upon your lordship's attentions, and still that they were in the habit of meeting and discussing all more unwilling as lam to Minss sentiments wheat flitter matters, and they aka knew that all religious commune perhaps from those of many, both in thus honey awl out of ties in this country, except the church of England, met it, with whom it would inc fair more satisfectiny to me to tai .. .ha '!9laidrre'lent me dj...N*4cm - , CII . their USLrs. ;. , colleolf ) - 1 'Wheye it is ney duty, Ater the leech of the might be said, however, that the church of England was noble lord, to state the ground. on which I think that the ass established church, and not to be guided by the example assembling of convocation, with active powers, would tend of other religious bodies; but if they turued to Scotland, to increase discord in the church, and not to produce the they found that the established church had its regular harmony which he desires to restore. (Hear, hear.) I be-. synselical meetings, 'mint year after year. (tkar, hear.) lieve that there are forma! and technical dillicultio attend- And nothing in all probability would be more likely to Mg the revival of the powers of convocation, and the drive that sensible and serious thinking people into rebel- noble lord has acknowledged that before it can act it lion than the stopping of the action of their church. There must be remodelled; into these l will not enter. had existed two convocations of the church, namely, that I will suppose that all such technicalities are over ot Canterbury and that of York. Neither of them was, come, all obstacles removed, her Majesty's advisers however, perfect in its constitution; but if the matter were satisfied, her Majesty consenting, convocation called seriously discussed in a repreeentatim assembly of the together ; what would follow ? Great disappoints church, he din' not think there would he any ditii- ment, or great excitement. (Hear, hear.) What business cult) , experienced in deciding on a constitution which is to be despatched? Some would say the Liturgy requires would prove satisfactory to mist parties, and con- revision. Some rubrics are inconsistent, and others unintel ducive to the welfare and stability of the church. ligible. If the assembling of couvocetiun were to end in If the constitution were to he changed of course it was nes the reconciliation of someconflieting rubrics, or in supplying cessary that the body should meet and decide on the cult- the deficiency of others, or in the eleunge of a few obsolete ject. An objection had been rained to the efdlact that if words or questionable phrases, the result would be little convocation niet there would be no end to dispute. Redid worth the cost of production. (Hear, hear.) It would be not trust much to prophecies on a matter of this sort. 'Lle justly Quid dignem tante saran /lie ',mulles.) /einem (Hear, could not see where any danger was to be apprehended on gear .) Thus far, then, you disappoint ; gsn farther, and this point. No heat would arise in tho discussions, fur he you excite. If more were attempted, mid the doctrine of believed that although there might exist a difference of the Prayer-book were touched, even with the slightest hand opinion, all discussion would be carried on in a manner a Same would he lighted up front ono cal of the country to creditable to the body itself, and with a g•umd effect the other. (Hear, hear.) Where we have now a smothered en 'the tone of public feeling. Another objection was fire, hotter perhaps than is agreeable, but still &mantel& that it would cause still greater division.: between the church we should raise a conflagration which it woula require all anddissenters ; but he thought that, at the present moment, her Majesty's prerogative tun extinguish. (Item., hear) in the alatace of convocation, there was more bitteritese Suppose, then, the Liturgy untosithal, mil nothing more witnessed between the church and those seperated front attempted than what we know to be desired by limy mem ber, than ever previously existed. Another objection ben of the church—the issuing a declaration which should raised was, that this convocation movement was solely pro- contradict a recent decision of the Privy Council, amid motel by the high church party, and that the effect of the defining the effect of baptism more clearly than it is do assembling of convocation would be humanising. Of all tined in our article's,—would ineace follow ? Can we suppose the charges which could be brought against the revival of that this would prove a healbig measure. I cannot ass ni canvocation, this was the last which had any real founda- terpret the spirit of the age as to believe that the g reat then. lie did not believe that the revive' of convocation , body of church, laity or clergy, are prepared to restrict the lie d been promoted by what were called the Romenising ; liberty of opinion in matters hitherto undecided, which our party. Sonic of them, no doubt, had bean induced to joint forefathers have always enjoyed, and under which the chu r c h iin reeking for it, because it was necessary for them to juin has flourishes! for three hundred year. Wu may speak Iwhat was called the church party on all questions. But here with confidence, for the experiment has been tried. they knew that many of that party were strengly For obvious reasons I avoid all allusion to any e vents which opposed to the revival of convocation. (Hear , hear) may have. taken place at home. But the experiment has 1 Another objection was, that convocation had ilerer beau tried in Australia. (Hear, hear.) A declaration such , done any good in matters of dispute. No doubt all as I have alluded to was drawn up in October last by the assemblies a that kind were, more or less, open to objet- , Bishop of Australia, assembled in synod ; and the same ship time of this sort. He knew that in religious matters which brought home the particulare of the synod, brought people had their prejudices, and often carried them to an also the account of the effect which it had produced in ono extent which was not desirable, but this was no reason of the cities where it was first promulgated, which instead against the diseusaion of disputed questions, fur it was by of concord, was dissension, where all had been previously fair and candid disicussson and inquiry, that the troth was peaceful. It had endangered the popularity of a bishop who elicited. No church stood in a more definite position than the was universally and deservedly esteemed ; atul the principal church of England, and what they wanted was a body to laity of the city had met together, and unananiously pro meet, now and then to whom questions connect ed with the tested against a measure which they treated as an infringe " church might be referred for discussion and decision . Ile meat upon their liberty as churchmen . (Hear, hear.) If I i ' believed that if convocation had sat on they would have do not fear any such result here it is because I do not enter- I had infinite:y more of unity in the church at the present tain any apprehensions of the issuing of sushi a declaration. moment. The sovereign, by the constitution of the church, (Hear, hear.) My lords, the noble lord has spoken of the represented from a eery early period, the lay element in convocations as part of the constitution. In point of fact, convocation. It lay with the • sovereign to determine 1 the convocation was a very uninfluential body for 100 years when it was politic to raise questions, e and he be- after the Reformation. (Hear.) But it is a mistake to lieved that in that respect there was a degree of guarded- suppose that we owe to that assembly the constitution and ness over the discussions of the convocations which would fabric of our church.' Convocation had little to do with prevent any danger, and do away with any serious alarm or the framing of our first protestant services and articles. apprehension. Not only this, but the convocation could nut The first protestant service, which has now been ma constitute new canons without the consent of the crown. terially changed, was framed by a committee of bishops INothing could be done by the convocation which could and the divines, at the order of King E dward, in affect the laity, and when they saw how the church was the year 1519 . It was su bmitted to convoc ation, not , governed with regard to everything which could prejudice ,to be formed but to his approved. The articles of those who had been affected by its decisions, lie I the church, three years afterwards, were drawn up, not asked their lordships what just apprehensions Cott ? d in convocation, but by Crammer and delisd they who rest in the minds of any one regarding assisted them. They were ratified, moted, in con- 1 %