The Express. — London, England, 1851-03-17 00:00:00

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Tina 4.11 the Roman catholic church may not be, as a meeting at Whitteehapcl the other day, on the mo'ion n Isuptist minister, resolved it to he, a great conspinwv against the liberties, the property, and the lives of the British people, it is the veriest simplicity or the cunningest craft to treat that chuteh as if it wen , in thus realm a mere ordinary voluntary religious eolunlunity, and to plate it in the tame ellitgUry ass the Wesleyan, the huptist, or the independent ceelesiastii-al society, US did Mr. l'AtArm on Friday night. All that the unman church has in England in emzonain with the diswnting communities is its voluntarism; or rut her is t hut word very differ /oily u n'ilerstond and pramisid. The Yoluntaryinn of di...lit i. a grid. religious principle deeply clicrishid and stoutly propagated; it is the glory and the 11•11111.11 "1 11.11-I'mtrormilw : they would not east it off even if they could; with then. it is the very life of reli.riou, the Mind of their union, the Torun. of tlwir extension. But, here in Englund, the voluntaryism of the ltontan communion is min pulsory. and unwillingly assumed; it is the signal of that chutch's overthrow, the sign sir its de gradation, the seal of its defeat. Nowhere is the Homan than+ a voluntary church of it, own free will: everywhere it see'k's to became nut only the establisl.44 but the only church. its hierarchical system, it. priestly otvanisution, its pretensions to, universal authority nail 'Joplin; )))) , its infallibility, its uitily or art ion, and its tinily of camm law adapted fur generil uv. are all uttcriv opposed to such volun taryism, Ws our dissenting ludies boost the possession et. A church which lei fit:v.'s itself, as a church, to have a divine utissi.m —to be, as a human in stitution, the only means appointed by the A 131161111( whereby men can be brought within the 1.4.1 e of salvation, 1.. be entlowtsl with the power 19 speak authoritatively un earth is require to its d er ......ms • crsal obedience :to exist irrespectively s i r state-' and „iliumma laws, anti tube itukstructildc au, a chinch b utay e rowed into the ismition of volunim; ism; but it is (111 abuse 4.f the great prin ciple or %,,liiiitar‘isni, a. pod, ' 11 and amtertili in the lihrrty 1s lingli.h di,...eisters, tit dismessuch an organisation us a voluntary Issly ; and t.. 31V1111.. 11. does Mr. ItorNogi.i. Ptt nim. the inle t that whatever its acts or deeds. it must is In !gest in the United Kingdom as u thurch purely tcl..ristus us the Wedleyan, uuambilieur as. the 't a p_ list. or devotall to liberty ns the Indepetittents. This la 11011/11.11.1`; wit., worse titan 11011,4•11 W, it is delusion, if it Ire not try.i . yhym. But it limy be said that the law has for the last twenty years twitted it 04 a voluntary church. Certainly it has.. And the law would continue to do lad it not shown tint it aimed, not nwrelv at re ligious rumen* by nwans of Isrop..4,mittlisit. width it WWI and is free to use. hut at its establishment hen' --. . . in Englaml as a pn-dominating. if not the predominant church. Not an account do we receive from Rome, whence only we can learn the m a t object and desikne of the late changes in the orgunisatiem - not a letter is there mblished that does mg flatly contradiet the assertion 1 1111de for domestic uses. that the Poet: and his car inal meant onlv to develop the hierarchy of the I: ttttt an (lurch us England. An expectation of the re-u tt i..n of England to the Chords of Rome is tho pr. sailing belief. the supreme hope of the Poole and his adviser.. Read the lust emcee pn-aehed b% Dr. 111141:m %N. in his lath and plaster cathedral • lmilt only for present use, before leis departure for Rome ; and there you will find how he pro mises that such an union shall nut deprive us of our liberties, hut shall ungnwist our greatness. That is the gnat object of his life :it is by that light we must look on all his meoementie, and actions, and thoughts. Ile himself would be the first to smile at our credulity, slid we :tempt his excuse about developing the hierarchy for his own religionists. The inordinate ambition of the man cares little for them; it is on Eughtnd that he has fixed his "evil eye." It is very true that laws cannot do much, in the war of police or repressive legislation, to check such designs. But that is hardly the object of Lord Joust Russo... Leis bill: that is its form, not its sub stance. What is ehictly required is a brand to be placed on the outrageous aggression of the Roman pontiff and the British cardinal-is a stigma to be fixed on their insolence—is n rebuff to be given to their impertinent.... It is altogether a mistake to suppose that any rational man. certainly none of the liberal party. seeks to oppress or to npress the vo luntaryism. or the internal freed.mt. of the church of Rome. Nothing of the sort. The Roman eatho lies might. in another shape. have had bishops and anlbishops to their hearts' content here in England. and have met in maids as often as they pleased. But when the Port: attempted to give to his prelates a national character and a territorial status, the ho u nds o f ‘o h m e ace . ism were pasted: and those of aggression and tres pass were enters el en. These it ts that we are now resisting: and that we will resist to the uttermexst. The true and honest voluntarism of the Boman communion every liberal would .. have supported and defended, but no liberal can submit to the danger of Roman supremacy. And that, that only, is Cardinal WisraLes s object. But how is it that Mr. Rot-salmi. P eiwra. the tractarian, is thus found to energetically supporting the claims of voluntaryism. 31s falsely presented by the church of Route? • How is it that persons who, like him. place such inordinate importance on the value of a church, and assign to it a position in reli gion for which there is no warrant in revelation— Lew is that they demand fur the Purr, under the flag of voluntaryism. that power and authority and freedom of action which is denied him in all Raman catholic countries? Some few years ago these very men were writing " their little books of nOLIACILSC " in favour of reviving the Roman catholic disabilities and of religious persecution; tome few years ago they told us that " the state had a conscience." and that it was bound to propagate a religion. Now they arc not only for religions liberty but for religious &war. Whence the change ? What is it that has made our PaLaitms. war (it.ttwrems. and our llores, democrats and revei!utionists in religion ? Can any man doubt that their object is to have a model church here in England, such as they have THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1851. necessary for the prolongation of powers; the guvern ment allCged that there was sufficient virtue in the 113th article of the constitution, which said: " All authorities constituted by the actual laws remain in exercise until the promulgation of the organic laws which concern them." The speaker proceeded to tour. thou the provisional character of the bill brought in. It seemed as if the provisional system had been invented for the annihilation of all rights ; states of I siege, suspensions of municialities, every confisca tion of liberties crept in under p the mask of provisional measures, which were nevertheless final in their destruction of all freedom. M. de Ititineey supported the necessity of the tran sitory law to MIL away all doubt and pretext for dissensions, conflicts, and confusion on the subject, which, if left undetermined, would supply a dange rous theme for sedition and agitation. M. Jules Fevre entered into a long and somewhat metaphysical disquisition on the question, and de duced the conclusion that the bill would be a gross u.surpation on the part of the legislative power, which would thereby set itself up as sovereign without ap peal. M. Bare defended the bill. M. Lamartine justified the provisional government from the re proach of having adjourned the elections of the national guard out of hostility against this insti tution. M. de Germinv, Minister of Finance, having been summoned to the bed-side of his mother, who is lying dangerously ill at Rouen, the Mon/teur pub lishes a decree, devolving the portfolio of finance ad interim to M, Magne, Minister of Public Works. M. lkrryer has been prevailed upon to withdraw, or at least entirely to remodel, his motion for reim bursing the 45 centimes tax. 'the Committee of Initiative decided to-day on the rejection of the motion of the Mountain for repaying the milliard voted by the government of the restora tion to the .Inigthr, which was a mere echo to the proposition of M. Berrycr. SCNDAT Evesnyo. The angry polemics of the Orleanist and legitimist papers on the subject of fusion, and the decided re pudiation on the part of the former party of a sub mission equallygulling to the pride of the Orlean s house, and pernicious to its interests, have at length produced a result which is likely to be of considerable benefit to Louis Napoleon, in causing the legitimists to advocate the prorogation of his powers as the most effectual means of keeping the Orleans princes out of France until they have done homage to the Duke of Bordeaux. The church party, headed by Nlontalembert, nets as mediator in cementing this new coalition between the legitimists and Louis Na poleon. To repay the church party for this good office, the Bonapartist organs assume a canting tone. The Constitetionnel accuses the university of teaching atheistical doctrines. The 211imitear, however, contains a communication from the Minister of Public Instruction, defending the univer sity against the canting attacks of the Omstita tioanet, and administering a severe rebuke to that paper. the transitory bill for adjourning the elections of the National Guard was voted last night by 418 against 239. The latter part of the debate wits ex ceedingly animated. Cavuignac, Lammiciere, Jules Fevre, laimartine, Mather de Moujau, Lagrange, each brought their peculiar views to bear on this import ant question, and made, as on the electoral law of May, once more a da;ing . stand in favour of the people's paramount sovereignty through universal suffrage. The legal side of the question is made intelligible without much difficulty. When the con stitution was framed, certain institutions were left to be determined by organic laws. Among these was the public force, consisting of the army and the na tional guard. The organic law on the national guard was presented in the Assembly on the 20th of last July. The delay of the committee in presenting its report has arisen, according to M. Rianoty, from the reluctance of the government to furnish essential documents. Meanwhile the law which rules in the elections of the national guard was enacted in 1831, and fixes the term of command for the officers at three years, at the cud of which period the government ought to convoke the electoral colleges for the appointment of a fresh set of officers. Nevertheless the government of Louis Philippe was not very muictual in this duty, and often deferrt‘d t he eke- I tions for several months. Thus the question came to he raised, whether officers were bound to serve over the I period of three years, and during the period of adjournment. 'This question at length came before the tribunals in 11437, in which year the elections had been adjourned from May 11 to Sept. 1. The Court of Cessation rendered a decree on August 19, obliging officers to serve on until they are replaced. After the revolution of February fresh elections took place, by a decree of the provisional government, on the all April. Hence, according to the law of 1831, the electoral colleges of the national guard ought to be assembled by the sth April, 1851. Again, there is an article in the constitution, the 113th, which says: "All the authorities constituted by the actual laws remain in exercise until the promulgation of the organic laws which concern them." Meanwhile the President claims the prerogative of the monar chy of deferring within certain limits, on his own re sponsibility the period of re-election, relying on the decree of the Court of Cessation end on the 113th article of the constitution for the m.aintentmee of the prevent officers in their functions. Now the Assem bly, that watches with the keenest jealousy any pro ceeding on the part of the executive which loolis like the assumption of sovereignty, must needs put in its oar, and pretend that a legislative act is indispensable. The LeR regard such an act as a usurpation over the principles of universal tuffrage. 'thus three lancers,each claiming to be the sovereign power, the hgis lative, executive, and the electoral, fasten on this bone of contention. The government has excused its double play on the ground that at first the delay appeared too long, but since the committee had pm wised to bring up its report speedily it agreed to ad journ the elections. The chief incident of the debate was the speech of General LamoricK , re, who said in an ominous tone to the Right, that he was sorry to see them sliding on such a precipice as taking on themselves the arbitrary prolongation of the powers of functionaries elected by universal suffrage. Au-' I dren de Kerdrel, a legitimist, called out to the general to remember that he himself had dissolved four legions of the national guard of Paris. Lamo riciere said that he would respect the law if passed, but they must expect that many scruples would be ruined against it. I,amartine spoke nobly in defence of the conduct of the people through out the revolutionary period of 1848. Caving- sae protested against the stale artifice of the ma -- PARIS, SATCRDAY EVENING. ivritY in stopping the mouths of himself and his The Assembly entered to-day upon the discussion P art Y pith the exceptional measures which they had of the transitory bill presented by the conunittev on oeen obliged to resort to at a critical moment of the National Cuard Bill. supreme and solemn risk. Auden de Kerdrel raised M. Waisse, Minister of the Interior, diseulpated a great hubbub by letting the eat out of the hag, and confessing that distrust of what he called the gan the reluc go tance in vernme furnishing the from the committee reproach of hayi n with g the in shown grencd part of the national guard lay at the bottom' - of the measure. The speech of JulesTaire was the formation and documents demanded by it. lie then first that he has delivered since the law of trans tamedexlained how the government had at first enter portation, and was distinguished by that clear and the intention of holding the elections of the National Guard before the sth of April, on which day close logic which characterises his elotmence. expires the delay fixed by the decree of the prom sional government. But the reasons allegedby the corn- Among the minority were several Bonapartists— as Generals Fabvier, braramont, and Gourgaud, Lu cien Murat, and VieillarcL mince against this course had weighed with the go vernment to abandon this intention, and to admit the propriety of adjourning the elections until the The practical question is just this :If the national guard is allowed to proceed immediately to the elec. passing of tlw organic law, now in course of prepa- Ron of its officers, it will infallibly choose, in the vast ration. Nevertheless, the necessity of bringing in a ! ma r rit Y' re p ublicans. The mere announcement of special law with this object ha not been forced guts a result, without taking ulterior consequences upon the conviction of the cabinet, which looked into calculation, would be quite enough to give a upon the decree of the Court of Caseation continuing shock to the brittle frame of society through the all functionaries in their posts until dismissal, as plying in the present instance to the officers of the a p _ • length and breadth of France, and' l to produce the game general agitation which the Paris elections did, national guard, and sufficient for their legal con- Therefore, there exists, in the opinion of the paella. finuance in the performance of their duties. There- mentors majority, a social necessity which outweighs fore the governmeut had declined to take the in- wi tir t e h ly thl l l : e ni m m a po ll r l t e a g n a t l . seMpaidiesa'toriThaielort;ictmaisympTrironnra ing in such a bill but it would not oppose the bill itiative, pressed upon it by the committee, in bring brilliant feats on either side, but will effect nothing. which the committee had thought proper to present The national guard cannot be trusted to choose their in its own name. Madier de Nlonjan regarded the bill as a bold officers, and, whetherlegally or illegally,must be pre- I Tented; that is the real view of the majority. the l ha ne v ti e e a e lr: ge dj a - ed ami e o f un st e r e t c t l h tiei m ye it u th Th e di e s.pesopelumtioeen con of on the part of the legi s l a ti ve . power over ' me the a so ne v e c t is e ig e n iv r e ig n h ia t of suerage the peo . p i. l ., e v , et exe s re te tsc ee sl l7 b B y 9 t t h h r e e tarn the official decree ordering this measure, beside which they publish Louis Nap o leon' s fam ous procla commands in the national guard had be e n best o wed motion to the inhabitants of the same city accusing by the principle of election. The go vernmen t h a d Louis Philippe of having di s band e d th eir l eg i ons , at first done justice to the constitution by its inten , The news from Strasbourg confirms the intelligence tion to hold the elections on the 25tli of March, I sent of the resignations of the mayor and two o f when the powers confided to the o ffi cers ex pi re d by • his deputies. The proclamation of Limis Napoleon, law. But it had allowed itself to be persuaded by contemplate at this time of day . It is as follows : the committee of the danger of holding general in October, 1836, is certainly a curious document to elections at a period so excited according to he T , fi nz t , h , t h l e al h is , li n itari ,m ts of of h, B , trs intt ibu fi r t t— or A e lsa tth c t i o s ,, ns a ,—To you a law of election which had received its deathblow d egas,. of the holy • on the 31st of of eenumttee May, and thee was i t ih h t us e as p i ee t mmwerte.maresushenti alliance, compromised ev a er P y '' d w a : y r more your prospects as a civilised people. The mono witch , a bates of human deities, being alone wise where all are ignorant, alone great where all are grovelling in the dust—this seemed the true paradise to the wor t shippers of high priesthood and indefeasible aris tocracy. And hence has arisen the servile and medico - al school which would reform England by causing it to relapse to the habits and thoughts of the fifteenth century, and thus take place at the tail of Europe, instead of continuing its great mission at the head. Contradistinguished from these remains the old English school of judgment and feeling, which has travelled too, and which has brought home from foreign sojourn no such overwhelming admiration fur the picturesqueness of ignorance, which has observed the social as well as the religious characteristics of those lands, and seen nothing but tyranny, be nightedness, and helpless degradation in countries governed politically and religiously atter the ideas of five centuries back. If in Lord SHREW ,BURY'S pamphlet and in Lord ARUNDEL and SURREY'S speeches we have striking examples of the retrograde school, which would behold nothing but priest-ridden Italy, with the bar-1 barons kingdoms of Europe revolving round it, we have found in Sir Roma l'Eet. a powerful, a genuine, a racy specimen of that thorough Eng lish feeling, true to the age, its maturity - , and intelligence, which knows this country to be three centuries beyond such regions as Italy or Spain, and which esteems a plain Englishman to be a much more sure and sensible judge either on political or religious questions than any brigand of Calabria or monk of Seville, al though the one may have been transmuted into prime minister of the POPE, and the other into his legate in Great Britain. The speech of young Sir ROBERT PEEL was no concoction of the political brain, no got up maiden speech to entitle the maker to take place in any special party. It was a genuine outburst of judgment and sentiment, formed during year!, of re sidence in many countries. those years being also ones of experience and responsibility. The value of these sentiments moreover is, that they arc the sentiments of nine-tenths of travelled Englislunen, of all who have lived in and studied Roman catholic countries. and who have returned, deeply fraught with the horror of any such political and religious system acquiring once more ascendancy amongst us. It must be painful, certainly, to an educated and generous mind, to be compelled to utter such judg ments and opinions of the creed of so large a portion of one's countrymen. And in ordinary times, and under common circumstances, there are few who would not shrink from a task so ungracious. But there are times when we must speak forth the truth, and especially when challenged to it, as English protestants have been, by the monstrous impertinence of Wtseites. If there is discourtesy and ungencrosity in the arguments with which the Humanists have been answered, it is they that have rendered it necessary. And not withstanding the taunt of Mr. 'APO; LLAGII that the late Sir ROBERT PEEL would not have uttered such sentiments as those avowed by his son, we firmly believe that he would quite as fully have entertained them, and that, were he in the prime and commencement of his political career, he would not have shrunk from expressing them. There is, however, one character, ono expression of sentiment, which we have in vain looked for throughout these debates, and which, we think; one had a right to expect. We have heard every degree of protestant feeling, from that which boils in the breast of Sir Rol:filer INGLIS at the very mention of popery, to that which sings in sympathy with it from the nationality of the Irish and non-catholic liberal. We have heard Lord JOHN Resstae. anxious to do little, Sir GEORGE GREY making that little less. and Sir Jamfis Git vti valt professing the purpose of complete impunity to sacerdotal assumption. But we see on the other side no member or man assume or avow the character of un enlightened Roman catholic of the nineteenth century, hold ing to Rome indeed as a point of unity, but unfettered to its bigotry or its ignorance. IVe see Roman eatholics who are Irish liberals. We have not seen any who dare to profess themselves Euro pean liberals. We hear none of them exclaim with °Avant against the infamies of the Roman restoration, of the Neapolitan government, of the sacerdoial reac tion in 'lemony, of its tyranny in Austria, and its libcrtieidc effects at Turin. When we read the de bates in the House of Commons, we are reduced to put the humiliating question whether there be an eminent Roman catholic in this country and in parliament whom his priesthood permits to entertain one really liberal, philanthropic, Euro pean feeling; and who entertains one spark of libe ralism, except that which is immediately to serve his own cause and contribute to the future ascen dancy of his intrinsically illiberal creed. WC put these questions 'because we know that there are liberal Roman catholics in England, very limy of them—nay, that there are many in parliament; and we know of nothing that would be of such beneficial effect in reconciling the best men of the now discordant creed., if men like Lord BE WSW:CT would come forward in the House of Commons and show how little a belief in Roman catholic tenets implies an approbation of the temporal rule or political doings of the popedoni. 'flat there are liberal Roman catholics on the con tinent we also know full well. We are all ac quainted with the name of SICCARDI, and honour it. We know that the Roman catholic minister of Piedmont, who was lately refused absolution on his death-bed because 'he would not for swear and disavow the principle that a priest was amenable for crimes to a lay tribunal: we know that he was a devout catholic, although ltome and its agents treated him as they would a Ilussulman or a !Undoes. Rut from the silence of the Irish and English Roman catholics in our parliament with respect to papal politics, it is open to us, and we fear open also to Europe, to suppose that they are of that bigoted school which reigns in Italy by virtue of French and of Austrian bayonets, and, which, the gaoler and executioner of liberals where it is predominant, humbly invokes their justice and compassion here, in order that it may become se. The Morning Herald says: "We arc able to an nounce that Mr. Balla has withdrawn hid motion in reference to the government of Ceylon." FRANCE. —.—...---•-----__ failed to convert the church of England into? To see what, under the influence of free institutions, the Roman catholic church in England. in its full development, would become? To try if it would not so modify some of the tenets and doctrines and prac- Itiets which now even they cannot swallow, as that they might be able to conform to it ? To make, in short, an experiment whether truetarinnism could not find a refuge in the Roman communion on easier terms than the cardinal will give it admission. Hence tructarian devotion to Roman voluntaryism. A PETITION presented to the House of Commons on Friday, by Sir —ROBERT INGLIS, may be regarded as an appendix or supplement to the report of the proceedings m " Murmur); r. Wtsemaa." The his tory of the devices resorted to, in order to make a aunt out of the Lady AtGC,TA TALBoT, and secure the reversion of her fio.ooo/. for "' the Church," re minds us how indefatigably the meshes of the mystic fisherman's net are being drawn round all ages and ranks. In the words of the old proverb, " All is fish that comes into his net." The large inheritance of the young descendant of many coroneted genera tions, and the accumulated hoardings of the pro tructed life of a penurious schoolmaster, are clutched at with equal greed. The agonising terrors of the departing soul, and the undefined spiritual longings of a spirit in the first flush of existence, are alike coined into drachms. The Lady AUGUsTA TALBOT is in her twentieth year, and has since the death of her late brother be come absolutely entitled to a fortune of 50,9001. The Lady AUGUSTA TALBOT is niece of that great Ro manist Thawnaturge, the Earl of SIIREW , •BURY, and on the other side of the house she is step-daughter to Mr. CUATEN and half-sister to that gentleman's daughter. All intercourse, all friendly and intimate association of the Lady AUGUSTA TALBOT with her sister, her nearest and must natu ral friend, or with her step-father, has been jea lously prevented. In this state of isolation the girl, scarcely emerged from the years of childhood, has been encouraged, or won upon to shut herself up in a convent. In September lust she was Owed in a con vent near Taunton ; in next September she will take the white veil; in the September of 1852 she will take the black veil. Before that time arrives, however, she will be of age, and her 80.0001. will be claimed by the convent, to lie disposed of as the spiritual directors of the sisterhood recommend. Now the nature of nunneries, and the condition of their inmates, is well known. For the honour of humanity we arc willing to believe that some talcs that have been told of such institutions arc gross ex aggerations' or exceptional cases. But take them as they are well known to be, as they are admitted to be by all intelligent Roman catholic!. They are tenanted by associations of women who pass their lives in struggling aiming the natural instincts, and shrinking from the best and most beautiful duties of womanhood; and who seek in frivolous occupations to stifle in their bosoms the natural yearning to re turn to that world which in moments of hallucina tion they have prematurely renounced. Petty gos sip, frivolous heartlessness„ or envious repinings, arc, in ninety-nine instances out of the hundred, the cha racteristics of the inmates of convents. The vene ration claimed for such perverted and stunted natures is a thousand times more preposterous than that which is claimed for inanimate idols. The stone, wooden or metal idol, is in itself a harmless piece of mere matter; no one dreams of becoming an idol, and having himself (or herself) stuck up in a niche of the wall. But nuns, those living idols, arc decoy-ducks to entrap others into becoming, like them, shrivelled and reds-shapen souls, and into, like them, placing more money at the disposal of an am bitious and juggling priesthood. Beautiful, though misguided, are the aspirations which precipitate the young mid impassioned into the living tomb of the cloister. In them deep, tremulous, and sincere devotion, is blended a ith long ings to maintain a spotless purity, and heroic self denial. But it is the duty of all who know the fatal eon sequences of taking any irrevocable step under the guidance of such romantic and overstrained impuluen, to warn the young and inexperienced against it, and to interpose any authority they may pomaisia in order to leave time fir redection and chnrer In the carp of the Lady ArGUSTA TALOOT, the care taken to prevent her from associating with her nearest relatives, who might have combated her over-heated and fantastic superstitious tendencies, warrants the belief that she has not had fair play. She has obviously been encouraged to proceed in a course which must either chill and wither the best part of her natine through life, or make that whole ' life a succession of agonising struggles between un conquerable impulse and a belief that alternates with dark hours of scepticism. The Lady ArGUSTA Taitior is, it appears, a ward of Chancery. Well, the public has a long urrear of grievances to settle with that same Court of Clem eery ; kt us see whether in any one case it can do any good to make sonic partial compensation fur all the ills it has inflicted on us. The partisans and promoters of monasticism ran the vows of nuns a mystic marriage: let us see whether the Court of Chaneery can prevent and punish the irregular pro moters of clandestine or Gretna Green marriages of l i this kind, us it takes upon itself to du in honest and natural unions of man and woman. But it is not every weak and innocent girl who has the equivocal lucle to be a ward of Chancery. 'free. the young women who are not placed under the wgis of Chancery are rarely inhcritrixes of an,oooi.; they are not quite so tempting a prey. But the conventual army needs private soldiers as well as generals: the gaping maw of the convent, in order to be satiated, crams many poor in addition to a few rich victims; and. for our part, the acquisi tion of a good many additional thousands by "the church: . is, in our estimation, a matter of infinitely leas consequence than the enrolment of so many de luded creatures among the "living dead." A proposal to interdict the establishment or main tenance of any monastic institutions whatever, though such a policy has been adopted in more than one Roman catholic country, would probably he met with a howl about undue interference with religious liberty. For the liberty which consists in free per mission to rush into a • life of frivolous misery, we confess we have as little respect or aympathr as for that liberty (which has also found zealous advocates) that so long perpetuated the powers of the Bramins to doom widows to immolation in the flames. But there is a more weighty argument against the prohi bition of monastic institutions. It is impossible to prevent men and women from taking the vows so long as the foolish belief that such conduct is meri torious survives. If not allowed to do so in public convents, they will clandestinely in private abodes. There were nuns and friars in England even at the time when the laws were most stringent against them. If the abuse must exist publicity diminishes instead of aggravating its noxious effects. But, if monastic institutions must be tolerated among us, it is the duty of government and the legislature to take rare that the evil is cooped up within the narrowest possible bounds. Precautions ought to be adopted to protect the weak and ignorant from being allured into them under false pretence& or drawn into them by intimidation, or kept in them one day after they shill entertain the wish to escape from them, All 'such establishments ought to be re gistered, and kept open to the visits of government inspectors at all times, like any other receptacles for lunatics; and as a law ought to be passed to protect the bed of death from the harpy visitations of JeCIASES who " carry the bag; so, in like manner, ought a law to be passed, disposing of the worldly property of all who may take monastic vows, in a manner that will keep it from the fingers of the priests, and thus save their reverences from tempta tion to encourage such folly. Tilt moat remarkable feature in the religions movements, dismission*, and controversies which have of late arisen amongst us. is how little any of them have been the native product of the Engli:h mind, of its necessities, or its development . All these new ideas and tendencies have beeu importations from the continent. First we had German rationalism, the visible results of which drove men, especially of the universities, into an opposite direction, led them to mistrust learning and put their faith in authority. This by degrees produced a new school, which has travelled, and in travelling developed tastes and gathered ideas very different indeed from what Eng lislimett were wont to entertain. The blending of artistic with religious ft tiinz. adniirxiun thow I pkturesque states of wait tv. iu which the many ha plicitly obey the few, and those few enjoy the anti- were made by Monsignor Talbot and other zealous i government of Louis Philippe especially hates you, brave i folk amongst his long-robed courtiers. Gnat efforts . partisans of the papal court to induce Mr. Howard S and b = urg tio ia n us a , ; because bso it h o a o t o esa d ll y t o h o a r t r! great, ge b n y em d tis . , solving . your legions ; it hea d b cri; - 'ed yourthientee-sftMllsli: ito throw up his commission and read fur priest's preserving the entry , d o‘ ux, ,o and , allowi ng ,n y hiohpor,ised il yom trade. i orders, as a preparatory step to a monsignore's purple I ze ro ut 4 o .o f oro [orange i'a C y g o ' u ' have proclainusl your wrongs, and have stockings, and some anxiety was felt amongst the I tealhelecsduzz of to they ourp:oidp,lotU Ai d edat we may by yon andmayeitht try the r'anciu di ish oo t l ir Il ry iein English residents and visitors here lest Mr. ligword, I whose amiable manners had rendered him tread at length, after a long exile, the sacred soil of th e an an universal favourite, should he ine:uced to country. Thanks be to you, Alsatians. My n ame ' s a banner ' that musical' up great recollections ; and this tiag that ion comly with their suggestions ; but, fortunately [ know is never struck to an enemy, will only suffer itse fto 1 for his future prospects, Lis leave of absene, expired be lowered before the majesty of the people. Honour, country'. a few days ago, and Colonel Williams, the corn liberty, these are our incentives and our end. Paris has I wander of his regiment, profited by the cireuinstance shown us how a faithless government is overthrown ; let us ito take hire off at once to England. Up to this bow it in our turn how the liberties of a great people arc s consolidated. To-morrow we march upon Pari , , to deliver I mortis gwe have no news of the formation of a mi. the ' l from traitors and oppressors. Reform your na capita . nistry, but the probability of Lord Pahneroon s re. tional battalions, which alarm an unpopular government ; I turn to the Foreign-office has tilled the ere .e.iastieal keep your city during our absence, this bulwark of the circles with consternation and disappointin,lit, 1110 independence of France, and now the eradlo of its I more galling as it was unexpected, ninny of the car regeneration. Let order and liberty reign within_ . your welt !, I dprelates having celebrated and mty tho genius of France watch Imna s and . his downfall demonstrations amongst themselves. with you over your Alsatian rampart. With a great people with festive . . great things are accomplished. I have entire faith in the A subject which has taken as much discussion as French people. NAPOLEON. any since the restoration of the papal go‘enine lit Strasburg, Oct. 30, 1836. has just been arranged through the medi it . ,:m of Mr. The pamphlet entitled the " Banquet des Eganx, Cass, the United States charge eratfaires. 1 a Ilitde to Loudres, Feb. 24, ts-at," has been seized by order of : the copies of Ifisdati's Bible which were primed hero the authorities, and a prosecution instituted against the I in Italian for the British and Forciga Bible Society, uu printer and editor and authors of some of the toasts. der the republican government (such things li,ing then Mr. Sims Reeves, the English tenor, made his practicable), and subsequently deposited for safe first appearance last night at the Opera des Italiens, k eeping at the American consulate. Tiie Papal in the character of Carts,, in " Linda di Chamouni." government demanded the confiscation oft he Bibles, Mr. Reeves experienced at first that icy reception . then printing and publishing, being exp , s.ly con which renders a Paris audience so formidable to those I reset to the laws of the country, to w;ti, It it might artists who appear for the first time before its tribu- have been replied that they were printed when a nal. Gradually, however, his hearers grew more I form of government existed which ree}gilised no good-humoured, and, although their applause was 1 such law, but as the republican government of Rome never very hearty, still it was enough to give hopes was never acknowledged by the United States, Mr. that the experiment may prove on the next occasion Cass, of course, could not put forward such an more successful. The approbation at the falling of objection. All he has been gble to obtain is that this the curtain was warmer and more general than hills Papal government should get possession of the to the lot of any but decided excellence. Bibles, not as a confiscation, but as a commercial The members of the club des Pyramides met yes- transaction, a sale in fact, the books being taken by terday, under the presidency of M. Leon Faucher, to his Holiness at. a valuation; euttsectuctitly, on the elect a president and questor, when (the regulations . .!•itli of lust month, three thousand sex hundred and not permitting the re-election of the persons now forty-two Protestant Bibles were given up to the filling those offices) Admiral Cecile and M. Augustin Papal authorities, who conveyed them ha i liwith to Girard were elected in the place of MM. Baroche the Quirinal Palace,where it is to be earnestly hoped and Aubertin. The bureau for the month of March Pio Nono and his advisers will take the earliest is thus composed: MM. Iteugnot, Leon Faucher, and op op po rtunity of reading them attentively through. Admiral Cecile, presidents; .11M. Toupot de lievaux, r ulangn on London, 480. Bouvattier, Augustin Girard, questors; M. Louis Lela - rut treasurer. After the election the meeting considered the questions of sugars, of the transitory law on the national guard, and the propositions rela tive to the electoral law of the :flat May. MM. Buffet, Lacrosse, Lecomtc (de Plionne), Insti boudois, Chassaigne, Baroche, and several others, addressed the meeting. The consideration of the electoral law was postponed for a week. The trea surer reported favourably of the pecuniary . position of the club, 165 members out of 174 having paid their subscriptions fur the month. The report of the committee on the proposition of M. Casimir Pericr, as to the sanction of treaties by the legislature, has been presented to the Assembly. The committee reports in favour of the proposition, which has for its object the maintenance of good un derstanding between the executive power and the national representation, to prepare treaties with prudence, and discuss them with wisdom. NAPLES. NAPLES, tt.cit S. All domestic events seem for the prevent to bavo sunk into insignificance in comparison with the great event of the resi n cmation of the Russell ministry. Every one is speaking. of it, and long is it since any purely foreign incident has occurred which has so strongly excited either the fears or the hopes, rho ' lamentations or rejoicings of diffesent par ;es. Tho liberals are in the depths of despair, for throughout the continent they swear by Lord calmer-tun, which name is to them a tower of strength, and whom they regard, par excellence, as the firm and determined antagonist of despotism. The depression and sorrow of the liberals are only to be equalled by tho rejoicings of the royalists, who now dream of the approach of the New Jerusalem, and think that a great obstacle to the aceomplishment of their plans is removed. The plans of the despots will now he more quickly developed, and we shall shortly see what are the objects matted by the immense armaments in formation at Naples. Tat ters from I'ucrio, cx-miuister and Huron, speak of his being in confinement at Ischia, without bed (or any thing deserving the name), or linen, or such conve niences as common decency demands. Five per Cents., IY9I. kxchange on Loudon, 561. SPAIN. MADRID, MAltelf 11 The Committee on the settlement of the debt has adopted the first article of the government's bill. Before discussing the second it demanded the com munication of sonic documents. M. de l.etouchc, who passes through Purim on his way to Hanover, is the bearer of fresh proposals on the part of the Spa nish government with regard to the NA millions of francs claimed by France for the expedition of 1823. FLORENCE, MARCH 7. Thc minister Baldasseroni has suddenly - taken his departure for Rome. People e.t.a lost in conjeeturo as to the object of this journey. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. _ _ _ ItOME 2 _MAnci! 10. GERMANY. intEsDEN. The agitation produced throughout Europe by the prolonged ministerial crisis in England has been felt in a double degree here, where ecclesiastical interests as well as the course of future political events, depend greatly upon the line of conduct to be adopted by the British cabinet. It is singular enough that the temporal and spiritual views of the papal court ' should so far be at variance with each other tut - to produce alternately the greatest satislaetiun and dis approbation at the different progranunes of ministries put forward by the London journals. The idea, for instance, of Lord Stanley succeeding in forming a cabinet was most grateful, in a political point of view, to the majority of cardinals and prelates, be cause they would willingtl put up with some restric tive measures against English and Irish Ronan catholic dignitaries, on condition of seeing the bonds of alliance and political sympathy drawn more closely between England and Austria, and the detested principle of republicanism thereby more effectually crushed throughout Europe. With those few, however, who place the interests of the Roman catholic church before those of the Roman temporal government, the probability of a tory cabinet was deplored, as likely to hinder the farther aggrandisement of the newly created hierarchy in Englund. I hear that Cardinal Lambruschint, either from having a more practical knowledge of the state of party , feeling in England, or front having a more sincere interest in the progress and welfare of the spiritual part of papal dominion (an interest which he proved by the zeal and tamers of his nego ciations with the Russian and Prussian governments upon disputed ecclesiastical points during the Ponti fieate of fops Gregory XVI), is one of the principal deprecators of tory government; hut most of his venerable brethren consider the political security of ' the papal see as of far more importance than the re ' ligious persecution of a few ultramontane prelates. ' This feeling will serve to explain the triumph that pervaded the ecclesiastical circles on Lord John Rus sell's resignation, the celerity of the Giornale de Rana in announcing the hid, and the following bitter comments of the Ossereatore Romano on the ' conduct of the defunct ministry : . . . . _ _ _ The Austrian Correspoadowe of the 11th says that Prince Sehwarzcnbcrg in the course of the week was to return to Dresden, hoping a favourable result, but determined to meet further resistance with all the influence at his summand. The Kohl( r Zeit qny, of the same date, says that the despatches Baron Rosenberg had brought that day from Vienna to lkrlin were by no means calculated to allay anxiety. England, the same paper, of the date of the 14: 1 4 from Berlin, informs us, had presented a note to t h u Prussian cabinet against the entrance of the wholo Austrian monarchy into the Band. A like English note had been forwarded to the cabinet of Vienna. The ministerial organs of the Austrian government deny that there has ever been any intention on tho part of Austria either to menace or to attack Swit zerland or Piedmont. The Awdriftn Curresp,mblwe, however, acknowledges that there have been a good many reflections on the subject, but that these reflec tions differ us much from direct intervention as an egg does front the chicken that conies out of it. Thus out of the denial comes unawares the coati ssion nt the purposes of Austria towards the countries just mimed. The Journal des Debate publishes the following as a detailed analysis of the report and the propositions of the second committee of the conference of I tresden. That body has not yet completed its task, but it has already sent in the five follouing propositions, the ado Lion of which, the .Tuurmd des lielputs remarks, be a rude attack on the constitutional ecybac such us it is established in several Gement states: 1. AU the members of the confederation C112:1:: , to abro gate an the clauses introduced since 1t445 int., the constitu tions of their country, or concerning the constitutions of these countries, and which may be incompatible tither with the federal constitution or with the monarchical principle. 2. in all cases where a dispute may arise between the sovereign and the states of his country, eitker on tin inter pretstion or °attic application of the constitution, the states, as well US the sovereign, will have the right to submit the question in dispute to the federal diet, which will seek to interpose its good offices, or will pronounce on the question tither by itself or through an &Oland tribunal. 3. Any general refusal to vote tuxes oil the part of the staWs will be regunied us an act of resistance of the subjects against the government, and will be, on that respect, treated conformably to Art. 25 of the convention of Vienna of 15th May, MO. 4. The sovereign princes, united in the confcderation, cannot be controlled or limited in any way by the states of their country in the accomplishment of their doh, or in the execution of the conventions resulting front the fell ud constitution The English ministry is fallen. There is no corner of the universe in which this fact is not saluted as a fortunate and wished-for event. The fellah of Egypt, the Chinese, the Indian, and every government of Europe, except some little state of second ur third class, have raised or will raise a !Ty of joy at the news The cabinet which wet Europe upside down falls without leaving a regret behind; struck by the indignation of the parliament, it has obtained neither the love nor the pity of the nation. It hail inaugurated a subtle and treacherous policy, and therefore necessarily fell execrated both by governments and nations. it fell not in a struggle of principles, nor can it appeal to the judgment of history and posterity ; it fell almost without it conflict, without glory, and without hope. This cabinet has ruined catholic and conservative Switzerland, placed Sicily iu flames, furnished all the rerulutionista of Europe with British arms and guineas, hired the English rabble to bumble to the dust the venerable character of a cardinal u. When, in the cases provided furby Arts. 25, 26, and 28 of the said convention of Vienna, the armed intervention of the confederation in a German state shall be necc,sary, thu confederation will seek to enlighten itself us to the cauas of the difference which has arisen ; and, in the event of its being found to have its source in the constitution or in thu laws of the country, it will cause them to be modified. The committee in its report explains that the ob ject of its first proposition is the abrogation of the fundamental rights of the people voted by the As sembly at Frankfort on the 27th December, Ms, that is to say, the abrogation of the principle of uni versal suffrage and that of all restrictions to the right of rsto of the sovereigns. The conference, in adopt ing it, will virtually adopt : Ist, the abolition of thu oath to the constitution taken by the army ; 2nd, the principle of the non-intervention of the tribunals in cases connected with the rights of sovereigns in order to render impossible the recurrence of what has re cently taken place at Electoral Hesse, when: the exercise of the public authority was cramped by the judicial power ; and 3rd, the principle of inde pendence of the sovereign power with regard to tho choice and maintenance in office of the ministers, and a pontiff, and excited against the catholic religion in England the intolerance of Calvin, ant the persecutions of Henry and Elizabeth. And yet thesz minister, agitators of the whole world, spoke of nothing but peace, order, loyalty, justice ' and liberty. If this cabinet has expired ' whilst it thought itself omnipotent, the blow has certainly not come from men, but from Providence. If it is no more, it is well that is no more We hope for the honour of England that the policy of l'almerstun and Ituseell will give way to a more reasonable and more honourable policy. We hope th.st the fall of the English ministry will be lid lowed up by other falls equally necessary for the peace of the world and the prosperity of nations. Prince Paskievitsch, whose arrival here I men tioned a couple of months ago, has made a most de termined attempt at suicide, by stabbing himself six times in the region of the heart with a knife. He was a young man, and nephew to the prince who is the head of the family. His attachment to a Young Polish lady was disapproved of by his friend's and the Emperor, and, in order to break it off, he was sent with dispatches to the Russian ambassador at Rome. The disappointment appears to have affected his reason, since he subsequently gave frequent evi dence of eccentricity, if not mental aberration ; and on Thursday night, after having called for his pistols, which were refused him, he inflicted the wounds as whose existence will be no longer at the mercy of a fluctuating or chance majority. The committer, moreover, declares that it considers the publication of new laws as useless, and that it will be sufficient to correct or revise the federal convention and the final one of Vienna, and it is to this work of revision that its efforts will be applied. OVERLAND MAILS TO TILE LEVANT.—By forward ing correspondence by the railways in Belgium, G. rmany, and Amtria, an extraordinary acceleration of that from Great Britain and Belgium to Austria and those foreign states, to reach which it is sent through Austria, has been obtained. As a proof of this, the feet may be mentioned, that a letter, sent on the 29th of June, 1840, from London by the ordinary post to Constantinople, by way of Vienna, was in the hands of the person to whom at was adeln,sed on the 11th of July. Lien though in isolated instances such expedition could not be depended upon, owing to the season of the year being unfavourable to conveyance by the ordinary roads, it may be assumes' with certainty that, during the greater part of the year, the correspondence re ferred to will reach its destination in a shorter time by way of Austria than by other routes; but the letters must be posted at their respective offices in time to arrive at Vienna on Tuesday, on the evening of which clay the express to Constantinople is despatched. It is also necessary to write on the addresses " N is Ostend and Vienna," as it is only by this means that the post-offices can be directed to send the terreepoodence by the route above stated. I have mentioned above, creating such7s serious in jury that his life is considered to be in the greatest danger. General Cabrera left this city on the 6th for Path; a great many other notables have left for Naples, in order to get over the Lent season, and will return here to witness the papal ceremonies at Easter. I Mr. Howard, of the Life Guards, left Rome during the carnival week, and, if reports are correct, just in time to escape being enlisted in the service of his Holine‘s, who appears very anxious to be surrounded by as many scions of the noble catholic houses of England us possible, and would no doubt have been very glad to number one of the noble family of Nor- 1