The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-22 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 22.

THE discussion on the Management Clauses last
night in the House of Commons leaves the real
point at issue much as it was found. Lord
JOHN RussELL showed clearly and calmly enough
that to give the clergy hereafter the mold power
over Church schools aided by the State, would de-
grade the character of the schoolmaster by making
him a mere dependent on the clergy—would de-
prive the laity of the interest they now
take in parish schools by rendering them
quite subordinate therein to the clergyman, and
would alienate the laity and the clergy from each
'other in this great matter of education by inking
jealousy into their minds. But when Lord
lolls lttssEtt bad done all this, and when Mr.
WALPOLE had utterly failed in removing these solid
and weighty objections to the new Order in Council,
the house could do nothing ; it cauld come to no
vote. Attention was called to the question, and there
was au end of it. No motion could be made, far
to have made a motion would have defeated the
Appropriation of Supply Bill ; and every one is In-
terested in getting that through the house as fast as
possible, that the general election may be commenced.
But if the discussion resulted in nothing substan-
tial, it showed very clearly how the wind blew with
the Et:rent government. According to Mr. Secre.
Pity WALPOLE, to make the clergy masters of morals
as well as religion in now schools built with State
assistance, is a mere " relaxation" of the old minutes,
which confined their power to religious instruction
and conduct only. And all the "relaxation" would
do was, he said, to bestow on the clergy the full
measure of liberty to which, as he thinks, they
arc entitled. Now this is the Tractarian
argument in favour of a revival of Con-
vocation, of power to hold Synods, and of
the Church's inherent right to legi'date fur her.:
self brushed up and put in a new guise. Our!
whole church system is a series of restrictions on the
clergy ; the Reformation itself was a measure et
restriction ; the Act of Submission was a statute at
restriction •, the authority of the crown over convo-
cation, the royal supremacy, and the pal liamentary
origin and character of the Church, are all restric-
tions—restrictions laid by the Civil I'ower on the
Spiritual power, for the benefit first of religion itself,
and then for the welfare of the general community.
And it was in the spirit of such restrictions
that the Committee of Privy Council on Education
denied to the clergy any exclusive power over the
moral instruction and conduct of Church schools aided
by the money of the State. When, then, the SECILW
TALLY of STATE fur the Ilona DEPARTMENT talks af
the new Order in Cuuncil as removing restrictions est
the clergy, he indulges in the very language and
adopts the very argument of that party in the Church
who wish to make the spiritual power therein pre-
dominant, and who have fought the first step of the
bottle of ecclesiastical submission to the State, or
ecclesiastical freedom from lay control on this very
question of education. Nut only then has Mr. Wei.-
POLE and his colleagues yielded the point which the
Tractatians have put foremost in their crusade, but
they have yielded it .11 the very ground that logically
concedes their whole theory. No wonder that Mr.
Gesusrosa played the part of Mrs. Condole., and
welcomed the concession.

In nothing will the country, however, more deeply
sympathise than with those pemages in Lord JOHN
lt!'ssEi.b's really eulmiruble speeches, in which
he so emphatically denied the right of the
clergy alone to be considered " the church,"
and in which he claimed for the laity their
full aharo in that ecclesiastical organutation.
lu these sentiments Mr. WALPOLE. raid he shared.
llut acts in such malters arc more telling significa-
tion!, of opinion, than words. And with what truth
can a minister say he admits the laity arc part of the
church who has excluded the laity from all power of
taking any part in Ow mural or religious manage-
ment of church schools? If the laity be part
of the church, the clergy can have no pre-

tensions to any such monopoly u this. If
they be not, then, by logical consequence, the
clergy arc entitled to do what they please in Church
Schools. Andes Mr. WALPOLE has given them that
power, it is clear that tho sense in which he and his
fellows on the Treasury bench use the wards-" that
the Church consists of clergy and IW,ty "—is very
different, nay, quite opposite to that which the
country generally will attach to them.
Happily, however, the laity can to some extent
practically protect themselves against this new Order
in Council, by not subscribing to any schools in
which the trust deeds exclude laymen hem their fair
'share iu the management. And that is what wilt
be the result of the " relaxation." When the
clergy have all the power, they will bo left
to pay all the expenses of supporting these
schools. And to this it will come; justifying
to the litter Mr. llesiOs argument that Ministers,
by their alteration in the Management Clauses, had
disturbed a great question, and that no one can tell
where the disturbance will end. The only thing
that is clear and obvious is for us all at present to
button up our pockets when asked for subscriptions
to schools in which Lord Duttiv's new principle pre•
veils, and to go into the question fully when the
House of Commons is again called upon fur a grant
from the national purse.

A MOST extraordinary case was opened yesterday
in the Court of Queen's Bench, Westminster, a report
of which appears in our paper of this morning. The
chief actors in it are an ex-Catholic priest who has
become a Protestant, and an ex-Protestant Clergy-
man who left the English Church to become a priest
of Rome. The one—Dr. ACUILLI—born in Italy, and
educated fur the church, passed through the schools uf
Lucca, became a ] tominican monk, a popish teacher, a
church reformer, a prisoner of the Inquisition—and
a Protestant exile. The other—Dr. NIMMAN—bOrn
in England, also educated for the church, became in
succession a student of Oxford, • Puseyite, and—a
papist. Dr. ACIIILLI now preaches in an Italian
Protestant chapel near Golden-square; Dr. NEWMAN
is priest of the congregation of St. Philip Neri, and
a Father of the Oratory of King William-
street, Strand, and Birmingham. These two
representatives of two opposed churches—alike in
their apostacy from the faith of their youth, equally
men of talent, and each apparently equally embued
with hatred of the other, and of their discarded reli-
gions—arc now plaintiff and defendant, or rather
prosecutor and accused, in a trial commenced yester-
day, and likely, from all appearances, to last for
some days to come.
1)r. Acittuf is endowed with much of that
force of character which enabled the early
reformers to separate themselves from the church of
Rome, and loving this, it is easy to understand why
that church should hate him. Be has been in their

monmsteries, has been entrusted with their affairs,
has assisted in their rites, and, turning his back on
all these, has become a trebly powerful assailant,
from his consummate knowledge of where to
strike with most effect the church he has broken
from. An incuiceration in the dungeons of the
Inquisition was not calculated to soften his
feelings or moderate his preaching@ against the
papacy, and accordingly when, with the connivance
of the French troops in Rome, he escaped from his
prison in that city—when his feet touched the free
soil of England, and large assemblies of the religious '
world flocked to listen to his harangues—he never '
spared his denunciations of a Church that denies free-
dom of thought. Ile told a terrible story of the faith
that seeks to enchain the mind, and of the priesthood
who would fain keep sole charge of the con-
sciences and minds of their flocks i—explaiiiing with
cruel force what plans are employed to maintain
the supremacy of the Romish church. The preach-
jugs of this converted priest were gall and worm-
wood to the Itomanists in England-; but the man
whom the Inquisition had failed to silence, was not
likely to be stayed by any milder means, and on he
went all the more successfully for the opposition he
encountered. Then was laid the foundation of the
case that came on yesterday for trial. Father
NEWMAN, full of zeal for his New Faith,
preached against Aciiitti with talent and
effect, but not content with bringing his own
views and beliefs before his hearers fur contrast with
those he d.nounced—not content to rely upon logic
and argument, and upon his belief in thu holiness of
his own cause—he libelled his opponent. From the
altitude of taith ho slid down into the grossness of
slander; and—warm in his dangerous zeal—did not
hesitate to accuse AculliA of various heinous crimes.
ACIIILLI in self-defemic appealed to the law to de-
fend his reputation ; NEWMAN pleaded justification,
and has now brought from Italy people who swear
themselves to be the victims of the ex-Dominican friar.

The nature of the charges made by Dr. NEWMAN,
is shown in our report of yesterday's proceedings.
Their grossness renders it distasteful to repeat them
hire :—how fur they were founded in fact the verdict
in the Queen's Bench is expected to determine.
The court yesterday was crowded, and the extraor-
dinary nature of the revelations made in evidence
kept every hearer in a state of curious attention.
Each witness was closely scanned, and the manner in
which every word of evidence was given hud an
evident efliet upon those on whom rests the onus of
deciding the points at issue.
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Those who declared themselves the victims of
Acittul were in court to tell their own story ; but it is
said that other Italians are ready to give evidence
rebutting the terrible statements yesterday made.
The name of Cardinal WISEMAN has been freely
mixed up in the alleged authorship of certain state-
ments against ACHILL' ; and, without speculating
upon how far such rumours may be based on
tact, or even likelihood, one thing seemed
yesterday quite clear. It was this -- that
the agencies of the Romish church have
been brought into operation for NEWMAN'S de-
lence. Italy has evidently been searched through,
and the witnesses thus obtained display a most
painful and startling spectacle. If what they say is to
be believed, we behold in that unhappy country the
very sanctuaries of religion turned to purposes of
glaring vice ; and we see ono ecclesiastic, to whom
a victim of that vice confesses her misfortune,
advising her not to reveal the villainy of her ravisher
because he is a priest ! If these witnesses are not to
be relied upon, a still wider vista of criminality, in-
volving still more prominent guilt, opens upon the
view. But this, and the case altogether, we
must not in this stage of the proceedings enter upou
more fully. Our judgment, and the judgment of
the public, must be suspended until the court
prononnces ; vet journalists and readers alike can
scarcely uvula meanwhile reflecting upon the hatreds
and the uncharitableness begotten in the strife of
intolerant contending faiths, or fail to be startled by
the revelations thus made respecting the 'tarnish
church in Italy.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENTs.—It is OUT melan-
choly duty to record two fatal accidents on the railway,
occurring within a few hours of each other, and both owicg
to the unaccountable carelessness of the poor sufferers
themselves. Yesterday morning. as the half-past eight
train up was approaching Port Glasgow station, a seaman,
named Ales. Id•Farlane, was about to cross the line in ordir
to take his position on the proper side to enter the eight'
o'clock down train from Glasgow. The engine was quite
close to him before he act out, but wit had almost come to a
standstill there appeared to be no danger in the mien-
, meat, but he unfortunately stumbled or missed his footing,
! and was struck by the buffer and knocked down, when the
' wheels passed at,er both his legs a little under the knee. Dr.
Reid, of Port Glasgow, was at the station at the time, and
rendered every as•istance, and the unfortunate man was at
once conveyed to Greenock by a spare engine and onetime
which were passing, and taken to the infirmary, but tko
injuries he received were so severe that be died in about
twenty minutes after he was admitted. The other acci-
dent occurred on the same line at a quarter before eight
the previous evening, near Paisley, to a labourer of the
name of John WC:onion, who was engaged on one of the
trucks attached to the ballast engine. From some cause or
other be lost his balance, and fell over, just as the engine
had alnio,t become stationary, and two of the wheels of the
truck passed over his neck, decapitating him, and of course
killing him on the spot. Bo little impetus And the engine
and trucks. that the resistance offered by the unhappy man's
" body brought the train to a stand, only two of the wheels
having passed over liim.—Greenoeh Advertiser.
MIL FEARCit's OtoNNoll..—No perceptible change
for the better was, up to yesterday, reported by Dr. Tuke,
to have taken place in the state ut the untortunnte gentle-
man since his removal to Chiswick, where he is not placed
tinder anything like the restraint experienced in the Douse
of Commons. lle liven liberally, is permitted to drink
wine, pays consii:trobly at billinrchi, hut still talks wander-
ir end acts erroieolly. Dr. ronolly, of Ilanwell, visits
him, yn.l several ni, inM r' of the house hove been down to
Chiswick, where Mr. O'Connor may be said lobe doing as
well as can be czyectud.

FRANCE.

',Anis, MONDAY EVSNINO.
The most remarkable feature of to-day's news is a
rise of more than Ifr. at the Bourse. I lis%e been

able to ob'ain no autiijieni—;:xidiniatiOn of this fact,
and everybody is equally puzzled to account for it.
Some say that the prospect of a peaceful termination
to the session of the Corps Legislatif, and the reci-
procal conciliation with which the sumptuary laws
have been adjourned, and the reduction proposed on
the other hand by the Corps Legislatif in the budget
dropped, has produced a favourable effect upon public
seem ides.

The report of the committee on the budget was
distributed yesterday to deputies at their private
abodes. The great importance of this document lies
in the sad te muttony which it bears of the impotence
of the Corps Legislatif to fulfil even in a small mea-
sure its noon duty and function of controlling the
public expenditure. The government has presented
a budget with a prima filen. deficit of forty millions
of francs. The committee saw no necessity fur car-
rying the public expenditure far beyond that of the
latter years of the monarchy, with which they were
naturally led to compare the cost of the present
r.,yinte, neglecting the irregular finances of the rt-
public since the revolution of February. They found
au increase of some 30,000 soldiers, without any visi-
ble necessity for augmenting the army. They found a
vast system of political police stretched like a net over
the whole country, and although without any distinct
attributions pretending to control. the ordinary agents
of the administration. In their report they pro-
claimed that the expense of that ardent, enormous
as it was, was its leant objectionable feature. They
found that by observing the scale of pay adopted with
regard to public functionaries under Louis Philippe,
an economy of two millions might be obtained.
They proposed this reduction; they proposed to
sweep away the worse than useless ministry of po-
lice, and to cut down the extraordinary addition to
the army. The sum of the economies proposed by
the committee upon ti c administrative estimates
amounted to 28 millions. The report dwells with
emphasis on the abnegation with which the demand
fur retrenchment was compressed into the narrowest li-
mit sconsiateut with duty. And what wasthe answer of
the Coated d 'Etat to thus demand? Why out of the
proposed saving of 28 millions they admitted only
1,633,0001 r. hero then we have the true measured
the control which the legislature is capable of ex-
ercising over the government of the 2nd of Due.
The most reasonable and urgent remonstrances of
the country through its representatives against over-
taxation to pay for things of which the least mis-
chief is their expense, are negatived without appeal,
and produce really no more effect than if such repro-
sentation did not at all exist. The language el
the committee is expressive as a suppressed
protest against the rejection of their amend-
mends. " Your committee," it says, " which
was conscious of having remained below the reduc-
tions of expenses which it might have demanded,
which had charged its reporter to declare to you that
this rapid work, which we present to you today, was
far from setting in relict all the economies that might
have been desired, profonnelly regrets the answer
which has been made to its proposition."

The sum total of reductions upon the budget pro-
posed by the Council of State amounts to 9,244,1331 i.
Seven of these millions were assigned to tho Cettc
and Cherbourg Itailway,, 398,103 fr. belong to a
diminution of interest payable on mites, and the
remainder of the bIIIII is the reduction above-

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mentioned, of 1,635,000 fr. on the general services
With regard to the reduction of 10 millions proposed
on the military estimates, the report says, that what-
ever the opinion of the comniittee may have been,
they did not wish, nor did they deem themselves
able to maintain this reduction under present cir-
cumstances, without coming to an agreement with
the government. The report thus sums up the opi-
nion of the committee on the ministry of general
police:
In the minds of many of the members of the committee,
wto were the eshises of the opposition which manifested it-
self in the bureaux, the increase of expenses resulting from
the establishment of the ministry of general police is the
slightest inconvenience attendant on it. What has more
tugged their attention are the complications and mill-
Ingot to which this establishment may give rise. They
fear that without well defined attributions, without func-
tions which leave traces behind them, the agents et this
new administration may cause conflicts between themselves
and other functianaries, who will be thus expo.ed to lose a
Jart of their MMus nee over the people. They render full
ustice to the idea which induced the creation of this minis-
try, but they know that institutions have also their natural
connection; and if the police has appeared to them veinal's°
when, as an auxiliary to the government and the judicial
authority, it had only n secuudary ..ction, they doubt that
value when it has the principal part to perform. However
this may be, since that admiuistration has only just been
established, since so many detestable doctrines have tor
nearly four years led the towels of the people astray, since
the government thinks to find in this organisati,a a force
necessary to secure pudic tranquillity, however deep our
conviction may be as to the inconvenience of that creation
wo consider it unr duty to wait until experience has decided
more clearly on the subject.
The committee, obliged to yield on the great
points, takes up its stand on the little ones. It main-
tans its amendments for a reduction of two millions
on the works of the Louvre; of 40,000 fr. on the sub-
vention to the Italian Theatre ; 00,0001 r. on that to
the Opera; 3,0001 r. on the personnel of the ministry
of public instruction; 1,500,000 ti. on the Inah%ritti
of the navy; 300,04h0fr. on the construction of roads
in Corsica ; and 230,000 fr on the works of the RIIII
de Strasbourg. It also persists in demanding the
suppression of the credit of 800,000 fr. opened to the
Minister of the Interior, for secret expense% of the
political police; the rejection of the credit opened to
the Minister of Police for expenses of inspection in
the departments, and the suppression of the salaries
allowed to the commandant-in-chief of the national
I guard, and to his chef d'etat major.
The report closes with ten ronsithlrttnts and con-1
I elusions, which are not the less unfavourable to the
go, crnment of Louis Napoleon because their opposi-
tion is disguised by the most deferential forms of
speech. These were carried in the committee by a
majority of 18 votes against 3. M. Prospere de
Chasseloup-Laubat, the reporter, was chosen for this
office as being the mildest of the committee in his
criticisms on the budget, and the most acceptable to
the government. We must therefore regard his
report as the less unpalatable form of opposition in
which the committee was capable of expressing its
views.
The Corps Legislatif eat to-day, for twenty mi-
nnoes only. Id. Gouin presented the report of the
committee upon the budget of receipts. l'he debate
will come on after that upon the budget of expenses,
which stands fixed for to.morrow. M. Cunneen pre-
'Dented the report of the committee upon the bill for
opening a credit of 10,188 fr. for works executed at
the tomb of the Emperor in the church of the Inva.
tides. M. Lcmaire (du Nord) presented the report
upon the bill fur allotting 28,000 francs for the com-
pletion of the monument to Afire, Archbishop of
Paris. These several reports were ordered to be
printed and dis'ributed, and the house then adjourned.
I find in the Patnie the following paragraph, con.
firmatory of some intelligeuce which 1 lately sent
you:

We are assured that the fusion of the Lyons to Avignon
end Avignon to Marseilles railways, and the three lines of
the herd and the Iterault has just been arranged. The
government, it is Faid, has laid before the Council of State.
bill which had been for some time drawn cut, and which
will close the series of bills presented this year to the
Legislative Body. The combination which is sanctioned
by the bill calls for no filefifiCC on the part of the treaoury,
but, on the contrary, offers adventures to the state, and se-
cures the immediate execution of the branelt-line from
Itagnac to Aix, and of the line from blaiseilles to Toulon.
The funds of the united company will suffice to meet for
several years all the different works. The result of this
fusion will also be an important reduction in the tariff of
the coals of the Wands Combo sad the Alai', and the
state will profit by this reduction in supplying the navy at
Toulon.
At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
rose 1 fr. dc., and closed at 101.90; the Three per
Cents. rose 43c., closing at 70.90. Bank of France
shares rose 10. The railway market, so far from fol-
lowing the great rise in the Four-and-a Half per
Cents., was less animated than usaal. However,
Marseilles rose 21.25; Orleans, 10; Teste and Bor-
deaux, 7.50; ltouen, .5; Ifni/ and Strasbourg, 2.30
each; Northern, 1 23; Dieppe fell 2.50.