The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-10-10 00:00:00

A CLERICAL VIEW oi MR. GLADSTONE.

'Tr-jury,

At a tea-party in Blackburn to celebrate the open
ing of a new Conservative Working Men's Club, the
'tee. H. Wescoe, vicar of St. Thomas's, Blackburn, The PREMIER and his CONSTITUENTS.
said two statements which were made by previous
speakers were painfully and awfully true. One was The following address has been issued by Mr.
that the Devil had made his head-quarters in London, Disraeli to the electors of the county of Buckingham :
and Mr. Gladstone was one of his generals; and the " Gentlemens-saince Haat addressed you, Her Majesty has
other was, that the Devil was the first Radical These been graciously pleased, upon the retirement of an illus-
might seem exaggerated statements, but let them trious statesman, to intrust tome the chief conduct of public
think for a moment and look at the union of Church all'ViSving Ssy dth t' du b ken confidence of
and State. Three times there had been an attempt the Earl of ell:iicloyelor Lewes:gag; gyegargs, dugrirg which we worked
to separate Church and State, and in every case the together ins harmony never interrupted, I was thoroughly
agitators had come to ruin. The first instance that acquainted with his policy, and I have pursued that policy
the All-wise gave of His government was that union of without deviation. I may, therefore, in asking a renewal
Church and State in heaven. The first agitator for of your political support, take a pletieral view of the conduct
the dissolution
effected e diiiet ihgl ui
,ttoi
oo
snevileoefftatithlhaet
dAi.og unionail: t
the
was s
0, , ,
af the Devil, a
wtDi es
eN ' niielglitiortlotitlitt, the accession a the Conservative Govern-
iuniontßebihnuget
lo,i‘gi Thseeriq,,sueositiyoenarsof disquietedfer l i l ntthaer yltef
country,r m
.11,, had,
nt,hbe:ri
..as forse, at
gave us another instance of the nature of his govern- and enfeebled succeeeive Administrations, which had failed
ment, and that again was the union ef Church and to lead it to any happy conclusion. We were of opinion
State. That was in Paradise, where in it was the
e with the that this state of affairs should terminate; and by a series of
union of the Church in Adam and Ev
, maiseumeeusalonf the
isl.z.rsszfo:flirosvciyim
piviqulesifiagshtharb,ouat.ai
sovereignty of the All-wise. Satan net to work and various in its provisions, but, as we believe in unison with
this time succeeded, and the result was the rum of the the character of the country, and calculated to animate the
Church temporal lie had given them, in the book of . spirit of the community slid add strength and stability to
Leviticus, another instance of a union between Church 1 the, State. mtrathy
of the Church of the u t
and State, and when it was opposed it was the rail'
, nion, and of th e 1 alai
aett•-tr'tti Am], I influence et England has been estahlished, lit has ZeSti
though it might seem harsh, though it might seem an i used for the malffieniuwe of peace and the interests of dent-
exaggeration of truth, Ile confessed that he felt appalled ' zation.
when he saw the said and terrible parallelism there was i
m'inTAhebyle.gianciy. octoui
Inds insult 1 aynbed iii.n.lst
fyuvrol3d:,ll.ohua,t‘it
encountered
ileft
,
between the enemy of all men and the leader of the i
Radicals, how the enemy of the Church. Ile strongly
....I,l'...aronhinrarchoZtry% l',Vlnt b,:,',7lltta
felt the parallelism, and he would rather occupy IL' I Crown and the cause of humanity and justice, anti it obtained
present humble position than Mr. Gladstone's. 1 for tier Majesty's tomes the admiring respect of Europe.
" When we acceded to office the state of the navy WIL4 one
_ ! which ocensioned serious anxiety ; the fortresses on which
DR. MANNING ON THE POPE'S ; the late Ministry had expended millions were without artil.
, tory ; the British solstice was armed with utterer weapons ;
COUNCIL. i and the military service of the country as unpopular that, if
1 no change had been It tact we might have (limn striven to
At the morning service in St. Mary' s pro -Cathedral , 1 the principle of a conscription. At present, it cannot bc
Moorfields, London, last Sunday, Dr. Manning, i denied that the strength of the navy is materially increased,
Roman Catholic Archbiehop of Westminster, preached I the defences of the country much advanced, the soldier
a sermon in relation to the day of supplication for the 1 ashideably armed, and enlistment become so popular that not
I only is the voted number of our forces no longer is foveae,
Pope's General Council. Preaching from the text.
"Of his kinfidons there :hale be no end," he said the i lgatcratg tjt!,"Tel'iln=l:, attr.en" h'su",thh;r'.2.Vei',lll'.
intention of the Po rs
Pope in calling the council is to make I have, oi Coue, not been obtained lwithout.an ihereass- i of
intercession for the whole Church as spread throughout , our expenditure: lad the expenditure has been on objects of
the world in all its branches, and for the extirpatii in of ; the first necessity ; and, while it has bees defrayed without
lieresy--that bitter, serpentine heresy with which the [ adding to ~sr taxation, it has °Mulled no burden on
intellect of the world would taint the belief in the religion ; ll°ll.tVitY.
of Gi id. Another intenthei is to allay schism. One more 1 eetintlieng°.mire'ilt"l'ie in-e'l4itrTy' tut' g there o
ekaihsilsrteit"cutssi"a"ri'lyf
intention of the head of that great council-scorn,' tends Is increase expentlit'ure. There cams be no economy
as it may be by the proud intellects of men-is to in- I where there is no efficiency. And to secure efficiency you
terpret the will of Giel on earth ; and disbelieve it as I must be vigilant in administrative improvement. Influenced
men will, it will leave its mark 11114111 the history ~f by LW., VieWs, Iler Majesty's Government, iip placisg in
niankind ;it will fonts an epoch in a century of revs)' the hands of a shinie individual a control ON-,:r the expendi-
lotion ; and, more than this, it will paralyse the spirit I t'4'ltne,==, j`..,`,1,',,„'L1;„,',,8,1,11,e,bit,',,t7
of heresiy. Only a few days ago we were warned that i whichwin conduce to greater economy and efficiency butt;
the prospects of his southern people are SO dark and so ' je pease and war.
menacing for the Pope himself, that men wonder he "Great public advantage may be anticipated from this
has the time to think of his children abroml. It is, measure, and the different departments of the State will
indeed, a time when he is most milli:Wale for his be revised in the same xpied. 'This revisi .... will assist that
heiell:ret,li:..tedessing exigencies of the public
children throughout the world. We know that Spain, retr;itellizentz
in which he ruled as a Catholic country promising sup- 'le
"In'te governmiLit of Ireland we hail to encounter a dark
port, has fallen into the bonds of revolution. Austria conspiracy of foreign military adventurers, actieg out the
has slegenerated from its faith in the Holy See. Italy morbid imagination of a limited portion of our Irish fellow -
has snatches( Born the Pope his provinces. It might subjects, and whose active combinations, had they been blle-
be added that Ituasia is beginning to prosecute the eesstul, would have led to general disorgnisimtioss and
pluniler ; that consffiracy has been e every. instance
Cathelic Mishima and to revoke or diem it e the supre. and in evoy quarter, by vigilance andbattl din
firmness, which, being
waxy of the Holy See. Last night brought us fresh the consequence of conscious power and not of panic, have
t,dings 44 persecution. But do these things discourage led to no unnecessary severity, so that eves. the discomfited
us? That titan must be is, need shallow reader, or he have admitted that their treatment has not been marked by
must have a need troscheroue memory of what he has vengeance or cruelty. .
leash, if for one mement he can despair in the perilous " Notwithstanding this untoward state of affairs, we have
tied towards Ireland that wise policy of sympatliy
th
and
anl menacing aspect of that which we see ahout us fs'inii'ciliation which has been followed by all parties in e
when compared with what we have met in century state for the last thirty years. Justice has never in that
after century for lend yeare. I could chow you periods country been administered with noire impartiality ; and,
in the history of .the Church which were storm and whether with respect to the tenure of land or the facilities
tempest compared with the sunshine at this moment, for education, we will continuo to give our earnest con-
If there be a Piintiff whinn Pius the Ninth resembles, Mderatoitim
rtoserlery - s
ant; Ztilewihniaten'allrel'irotuMoLlT-
it is Gregory the First, the restorer of England to the ItZT,,Thiktug,„,.Y'
light of the faith. St. Gregory first feundeil the old "Is, this state of affairs we hail reason to hope, and it was
hierarchy of England. Pius the Ninth has founded generally contemplated by the country, that we might have
the new. What were the circumstances of the Church tranquilly wound up the business id the late Session, and
when first St. Gregory arrived. The whole nation was then asked, according to the provisions of the great statute
Pl'
d'
we the public verdict on our conduct.
under the shade of two great errors. The Byzantine l' ':-: ','
ii hit oehamdi trotatii7l.leS might, Isy the favour of the
emperors were Arians, who persecuted the Church of Sovereign, have continued to serve her Majesty, and enjoyed
Rome ; the Greek Church was separated from tier; an opportunity of effecting those legal and social improve-
Russia was Pagan, Northern Germany was Pagan, ments which are so inuels required, awl to the necessity of
Spain WM Arian. Thiele is nothing at this moment to which we had proved we were not insensible. Gad the
manlier, with the menaces a that perioiL It is as sum swgliet ber ainstv‘errse,„o,7a,s,h,ssegathavz.re.tirAidsgioite
shine tii the storm ; the sky is clear ei aupared with that ;
, tu'itlit7 tae I'lll. eldea.voured to do our' duty.stilli.
therefore we are not alanned by the threatening aspect pared, as representing one of the great parties of the State,
of coming ,events. We know that of his kingdom to co-operate with our rivals in public life for the public
there will be no end. Men ask how it will endure? I good.
say boldly I cannot tell; that must be left to the " This, the natural current of events, was to be inter-
Power and will of God. That is a reply to which no an- nffited. The leader of the opposition in the liouse of
saver can be made. 1 know it is a reply tllat can be an _ , essliTenaTplo'aarnTedleas sitirfde'ilure re tin aoTett
svvered witloidicule; but I know, also that we Can el*, csantry, to recommend a change of the fundamental laws of
lenge the laughers before the hi God hereafter. Let the realm, and to propose a dissolution of the union between
us consider the present condition of the world-the Church and State.
wortsl no lordly in its estimation of the Church. How " lier Majesty's Government offered, and will otter, to this
nds the account between thon? lam no taleopliiit, policy :lass
ittsisisTirormii,fi. res,isttitcuTnztltio.ef
wli leautholitit
and do not affect the spirit of propliecy ; but this 1 , mar ~af,;g,.‘1.,:0f I,''',, S:,,',.iiiy,Aion of ~ rt wait, .0.,
will eay. that, while Christian Europe changes again sense of responsibility even into the depositories of sibsolute
and again, the Church passes tbrough mutatiou a- d power. But, under any circumstances, the absence or
N leissitude ; ilyna.sties change and people fade, until severance of such a tie will lower the character mid duties of
you can scarcely find etre, iii them-the throne of the Government, and tend to the degeadation of society.
Vicar of Christ stands, as it has stood, unchanged and
t." But his urges' that, in the present instance, the applies-
unchangealde. Nay, this I will say, it is a throne p'ss,fit.s,.t.t,hte liiceer..4icyyi.:s only tii.be pialial, and th_atr
telly one
which contaiee the sldrit of civil imwer, aed the true 1 sen;:is be submittelt: lrrge'vgiWsritieren'fga'sas-si Vi"tisr pier::
ultimate basis of the civil order of the world. The ! that ins Ireland the members of the Established Church forni
spirit of the Christian order iif the world is to be i only a minoOty of the population.
found in the Holy See. She has the spirit of that "If tins numerical test is to be accepted, its application
cannot be limited to ireland ; and if, inry of entire
unity awl universality which belongs to the Catholic
toleration, a local instead of an imperiala
gacounuget be wielded,
Church alone. And observe that tbie unity produces the religious integrity if the community %valise soon frittered
authority. What is it that excludes from the Catholic away.
I 'hureh all the contriver:lles, divisions, and subdivisions, - instead 44 Ireland being made an exception to the Imola-
which we see round about its in this our own country? mental condition of slur Coustitution, there are many
Becarso we all hold the faith every day of our lives. secondary navels ashy the Established Church should Ise
The lir Test child begins wish it-the theologian holds religious hostility and
it likewise. The hearts and minds and will of the faith- ma.iblittasi,nutieirsttihaton e,,ii,u,notdry..ggra,
party rancour ; would suppress a resident classed men whose
ate
fill are all under one and the same Divine authority ; social virtues are conducive, as all agree, to the welfare of
tor the faith, wherever it is exercised, has an authority the country 'and would further disninish the seenrite of
in common. It has an ii.diasoluble unity in its eternal ProPettY ie a Wei where its Jepson and enjoyment are not as
unquestioned an they hitherto have been in other pads of
faith. From whence colliee this authority, but from
the faith tMre is ia the light id the authority AS the T. ,'.
il
-- ttie:st-iY;r: ill'i I, et the spoliathin of the Chunsh
jurisdiction which there is in the spirit of the vicar of in irelaud would not he without its effect. confiscation is
Jesus Christ, Therehire, Rome is the source of the contagious, and when once a community luts been seduced
unity and universality of the Church of God. Tile hito plunder its predatory acts have seldom been single.
other day I saw it was asked, "Of what worth will "Theme are, however, even weightier reasons why this new
the great council be ? The priests of the Church are ' policyhshould be resisted.
" T e rty which all her Majesty's subjects
mithing Insde than the speaking instruments Whereby now happily enjoy is religious lthe
owing to tim (11l Li ehlWal ill this
the voice of the Pope is repeated khe hears his own country having accepted the principles sit the Reformation,
echoes." It is a mechanical contrivance whereby the and recognized the supremacy of the Sovereign as the re-
universal Church echoes back the voice of its own preseetatwe of the State, not only in matters temporal, but
head. Well, it is a mechanical contrivance ;itis a in matters ecclesiastical. This is the stronghold of our
masterpiece of AUL It stands alone in the history of riOritual freedom. So long as there is
Pro in this consdry the
i hh the medium of a te affi at Sovereign,
the world. Of all the mechanists who ever rumour I'
dieiiii'liZe:erlei°.i stater and the national Church, religious liberty
plished any great achievement, none have ever yet is
reached to Hitch perfection as this. Let me hear that "That security is now assailea by various means aiiii on
the voice which goes from Canterbury can be re-echoed ditaiirteim.n.tgoertsi,;lob,itet.itinhleidsntphiceni,leisicLirii,aolsiet
oatcot,ilseitly..isefruilihiye
in its integrity in Natal, Sr that that from York can
be rechoeil in Cleatom I take it that tiod, and God le-INgouLliz tiviraoygifiettste rtti!n.iesliUasna,dv aiiert tli eta:lit .seirf.
only, has instituted this system of perfect unity of tion by anticipations of the olowniall of ecclesiastical
faith. No Innuan power has yet been able to construct systems. These are transient efforts-vain and passing
anything even %Millar in kind. I will go further, and aspirations. The ultimate triumph, were our Church to fall,
say it is the will a God that the spiritual and civil would be to that Power which would aubstitute for the
powers of the world should be united together. What ;Tttilloartltly.,°.tehrtf ityssetinT:"rhattil,'Ten Tetae,?ritt tetgil,llhaeli
we hear of the mike of Church and State in the ordi. '
organisation our Church alosse lae, hitherio, been Getsa
nary popular and idexact phrase, but little represents cope, and that, too, only when supported by a determined
the truth. The kingdoms and states of the world were and devoted people.
committed to the Church of Gel. The words of the "I lie, the honour to remain, Gentlemen, your obliged
prophet that the kingdoms of this world should become mid faithful servaet,
•"
the kinstionis of l3sel, were verified. What reproduces • boss-nine-street, Oct. 1,
the civilised order of the world from the corruptio a which .-.---ii•-•-•''s
at one period prevailed ? Why, the pontiffs of Rome. THE QUEEN OF SPAIN'S PROTEST.
Kingdom after kingdom were bound together in one --- --
holy family. Christian unity was the offspring of the
Holy See. Unless there be laws and limitations The following is the text of the protest iif Queen
to the individual wills of kings and princes, they Isabella. The proclamation itself, even were Queen
"
would have in their hands control over the consciences Isabella
of men, and couhl interfere with their religious belief. P'ili not o bnexioue to reproaches of a non.
tical" order, would account in a great measure for
the speedy success of the insurrection. It reads like
Wherever kings and princes- as in lluesia at this
the production of a narrow-minded and ignorant
moment, as hi Constantinople of old, and in Sweden
and I lentnark now -wherever kings and prince's have tmrson. Even thin revolution has evidently failed to
interfered in niatters of religion, there immediate des- teach Queen Isabella the lesson which others of her race
potism lossbeen the result. Such was for centuries could not learn after years of exile.
going on in our own country. It is possible to be a To TIIE SPANIARDS.
pontiff and also to be a k.ng, but it is impoesible to be A conspiracy, for which the history of no European people
a king and to be a pontiff without introducing ilempot. °MOS a parallel, has just flung Spain into all the horrors of
iglu. And here let me allude to what is called Estab- anarchy. l'lle army mid navy, which the nation . generously
liniment. The Catholic Church cannot be established. kept up, and whose servie.es I have always been so happy to
The genius, nature, and Divine origin of the Catholic reward, forgetting glorious traditions and trampling upon
Church all alike refuse establishment. The Catholic
tiZemstesracirnedmoeustrt, turnand a,feasi:lsatti‘trirTatultry,f att,
Church will be treated as a monument of God on rebels raised in Cadizbayg, and repeated in a few prcol7inCestlar
earth, and will accept its relation with civil powers; part ist the army, must echo in the hearts of the inimense
but to be established-never. It is degrading to the majority of Spaniards as the forerunner 44 a storm which
mind, the heart, and the spirit, ti admit that a work perils the interests of religion, the principles of legitimacy
of this nature iS dependant on a superior power, and and right, and the independence and honour of %pain. The
cannot stand alone. What is the meaning of Church lamentalsle series of defecoccurredtions,within the as of incredible dis-
loyalty whis h have as shctort a space of time,
Establishment ? It means a Church which rest for its offend my dienity as a S aniard even more than they affect
support Ini the Crown or the Legislature-the Crown my dignity as a Queen. Piet not the greatest enemies of
may make laws even as to its ritual discipline and authority themselves, in their insane dreams, imagine that a
doctrines--a Church from whose judgment even in power which emanates from so high an authority, can be eon.
spiritual things there is an appeal to civil power. It ferret', modified, or suppressed by the intervention et brute
is bondage, not establishment
force under the inipulse el deluded soldiers. If the towns
• and in the whole and the pr vinees, yielding to the first pressure of siolence,
canon law of the Catholic Church there can be found , submit for's time to the yoke of the Ineurgents, won public
no words equivalent to the words "Established feeling, hurt in its inmost and noblest parts, will
ChUrells" It Was an invention of Henry the Eighth. shake off its torpor, and show the world that the eclipse of

" DISRAELI

The Time,w, in reviewing the Queen's protest, says t
It is almost Incredible that any human being, no matter
what adverse influences stood in the way, should fail to
learn something from such a lesson as this. Yet the ex.
Queen of Spain seems, if we may judge from her Proclama-
tics, to have learnt positively nothing. We look through it
in vain for the slightest symptom lif even a suspicion on her
'tart that there can have been anything in her own conduct
to tall forth such a storm of universal disapprobation,—any
thing that she would be prepared, out of deference to the
expressed wishes of her subjects, to withdraw or modify
She has one idea, and one 4111 y—that she is a well-deserving.
deeply 4 injured woman, who has fallen a victim to the ma-
chili:alone of a mere handful of knavish intriguers, and whose
welfare is so intimately IN Rind up with that of the country that
It cannot beproperly governed or prosper until it has recalled
leeteL,?;his;‘rzzlau,t,i4zlsavetursr,t,4peilh:4.i: "I:l4.llaosnisVnr,a.6eznitia,i,t Fa-,
"till the horrors of anarchy ; " she "blushes for it as a
Spaniard no less than as a Queen ; " it is " disturbing the
peace of families, destroying the sanctity of tile hearth,
killing virtue and patriotism. tier only consolation is that
it does not express the general feeling of Spain ; it is got up
by a few conspirators guilty of ingratitude, felony, and am-
bition," who " by their perjuries, infidelities, and treason "
have misled the people, ant made them forget the Queen's
"3:4 years of sacrifices, vicissitudes, and " tender affection "
for them. The people must soon come back to their
• senses and seek the protection of her "maternal regard."
Pending this event, she Is content herself to enjoy
' the protection of an "august ally," vehemently pm'-
testing, however, that she will not, in consequence of her
' enforced abdication, abate cklie jot or tittle 4,1 her former
i tights. We must not omit to mention the most : 11111 l sing.
not the most characteristic, if the many tOUchei which
' warrant the belief that the Proclamation is a tlionnighly
genuine utterance.
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