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London, England, 1852-08-18 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 18.

IT is characteristic of the DERBY Administration's
regard (or disregard) of public opinion, that, notwith•
standing the excitement across the Atlantic, and the
alarms at home which have followed the disclosure
of their " entire change of policy " in the American
Fisheries question, and of their sending a great fleet
into the Bay of Fundy to seize American smacks, that
its reckless Chief has only now thought it necessary
to summon or to hold a Cabinet Council; and that its

FOREIGN Samentav, in the communication which
it is avowed a government journal held with the
Foreign-office, has sanctioned the propagation of
wows which is false. . . .

The result of that journal's visit to Downing-street
was an assurance to the pub!ic that no change had
been made in the British policy in the Bay of Fundy,
and that no withdrawal of the permission given by
Lord ABEiti)EEN to American fishers to pursue their
occupation therein had been made; further, it was
suggested and insinuated that the sudden increase
of our fleet was only a needful counterpoise to the
French armament in the North American seas.
This statement and this insinuation,both professed
to be made on " authority", turn out to be altogether
untrue ; for by the last steamer from New York the
letter which notified to the American government this
" entire change of policy," after orders had been sent
to carrc it out, has been received ; and therein Mr.
en.turros, the British minister, states to Mr.
WEBNTER :

regent representations haste! been addressed to her
Majesty's government by the governments of the North
Ameriean provieces in regard to these encroachments fupm
the fishing grounds reserved by the convention of 1818],
whereby the colonial fisheries are most usuriously prejudiced,
directions have been given by the Lords of her Majesty's
Admiralty fur stationing off New Brunswick, Prince Ed-
ward's Island, and in the Golf of St. Lawrence such a force
of small sailing vessels and steamers as shall be deemed
sufficient to prevent the infraction of the treaty.
_

Language cannot be plainer than this. The fleet'
was sent to enforce the extreme construction of the
Treaty of Ghent, regardless of the concession of
March, Isla The increase of our armament had no
reference whatever to the strength of the French
squadron. The augmented fleet was intended and
instructed " to prevent infractions of the treaty"—
that is, to seize and carry off for condemnation Ame-
rican vessels.

Nor is this flagrant contradiction between the ex-
planation which the Morning Herald states it re-
ceived at the Foreign-office for public aaa (or rather
for popular delusion), and the official documents, all.
‘ Mr. CR 31IPTO:ed intimation of the " entire change of
policy" to the American SECRETARY of STATE is
dated " July 5." Yet, on the 10th of Juno previ-
°nay, and before the American government could put
its citizens on their guard, the Maine moat, the
Coral, had been seized in the Bay of Fundy. where it
was fishing, in accordance with the pmeales given
in March, 1845; and, regardless of that psirminim,
it has been condemned. So, too, in rapid sessemise,
under these instructions, no fewer than km wr
other American fishing boats have bees captured.
We may have the nght under the Trusty of ChM
to commit these acts of violence ; and the sets of vie-
lence themselves may be legal; it may, in addition,
be sound policy to enforce, our monopoly in these
seas. None of these is, however, the question at
issue. It is the reasonableness of this manner Mast.

ing on the treaty ; of so enforcing its provisions
as to endanger its continuance; of so rudely, rashly,
and dangerously changing our policy as to nsk a
rupture with America ; and of encouraging and fo-
menting all those American prejudices against Eng-
land, which will, in case of exasperation, sooner or
later produce war. This is the charge against the
DERBY Cabinet, and that charge is incontestably es-
tablished by the facts we have just stated. It is not
to be wriggled out of by elaborate arguments on the
Treaty. of Ghent; and it is not to be e.caped from by
tinkering up an arrangement hare in Lconooa with
Mr. Annorr LAvniEtex. For, in the hands of Mi-
nisters who can so act neither the honour of the na-
tion nor the peace of mankind is safe.
According to the Standard, Lord MALIIVA
BURS' has agreed with the American Minister to
throw open all the British fisheries to the United
States at greater distances than three miles from out
coasts; Mr. LAWRENCE making the same ecessmiss
to England of the American fisheries. This is whet
tho Standard "believes" has been settled. But if
so, what becomes of the policy of strielly enforcing
the provisions of the Meaty of Ghent; el what me the
nineteen ships of war sent out " to pweiet intmelises
of the treaty ;" of what value me the somersisess Sit
JOHN PAIINGTON conveyed by his skeelar to the
North American provinces that, milks all other
vertments, her lisitrrr's present goventisent ails-
tend
to enforce the observance of that essvemtiss
Why this is worse and worse ; " bad be mbst worse
remains behind." To bullying, it will ail sewordise ;
to threats, it will add capitulation. Os Ws prised*
Canada is not worth twelve morrigrimes. It is
peace at any prior, and by any
Fur our part, we have always kit tad the mimes I
oeseirsetios et the mandatory piewhisme et the
Their st Oust odd sot be ioslstaboel seder a'
polity stssommaid hoodoo sad to have edified
thus s 11Bobled algotiotios voolpresd otams.
aim wadi ism boos solitable to soy geesioneots.
int dm thin soossoins arid, Wynn oodolloiloy,
be equal sod is the Aostdosa ssossoice spokes et
by tbe Tay pdst there is kte fteality.
whole w
• all mom time Bay et
tartly
to the whole wadi
Bet, fa dig oso but no WI start fair ; let ne all fish
thank ea the sew terms. It the United States
desire to take tisk theme% let them do so ea the come
foods( as British liebell do, without any _bsesAY
the Wm. It they rust provisions sad Ind teen the
bay, let lb= naive it without tax on its ipede.
Daffy,
lewever weight er however braight into their
pmts. Otherwise, is /adios than ists the ley, we
Moll drive ear own Sobers out ; otherwise, to gain
credit with the States, we shall alienate the affections
of our own colonists. _

The notion of the North-Aneurism promisees
giving their fishers equivalent borantios, width Sir
Joss PAKINOTON is ready to sanction, is simply ri-
diculoue. Where are New Brunswick, Primes Ed-
ward's Wand, and Newfoundland to get the
money ? The United States is a great enantry,
with an increasing revenue. How can these colonies
compete in bounties with it ? The avowed object of
bounties is to create and maintain a great naval
force. What need have the colonies of England
of any such force ? And why should their agricul-
ture have to pay bounties to force and foster their
fisheries ? Already the fishers of New Bruns-
wick have to pay more than double for their flour
what their rivals in the State of Maine do, and foe all
other articles of provisions in the like proportion ;
and because New Brunswick agriculture is protected
to this extent. Sir hone PAKINGTOM le going to in-
dulge in another round in the same vicious circle,
and protect the fishers by mean' of a bounty.
In his " Remarks on the Barrier Treaty," Dean
Synrr tell' a story of a party of soldiers robbing s
farmer's hen-house, and while feasting on its con-
tents replying to his expostulation, " Why, are we
not here to protect you 7" And thus it is with the
present government. Coming into power to protect
every interest they are injuring all. In their efforts,
at once silly and dangerous, to protect the British
North American fisheries, they are (if the Standard
be correct in its intelligence), condemning them to
utter ruin.

A stAirtreirro, not altogether unworthy of notice,
has just been jrromulgated, apparently by Cardinal
WPIGMAN and his colleagues. We say apparently,
for though in the superscription it purports to emanate
from " the Archbishop and Bishops of the province
of Westminster, in provincial synod assembled," it is
only signed by three obscurer pnests, under tho desig-
nation of secretaries. " The Archbishop of the pro-
vince of Westminster" with all his Bishops, entertains,
a reverent fear of the F.cclesiastieal Titles Act, and
carefully keeps his own person out of its reach, even
when affecting to defy it. The modern ItiorsAs-A-

BEcKrrr is as careful to ascertain *that " the law is
on our side" before he "bites his thumb" at the
heretical parliament and gore earnest of England, as
ever was any clown who wore the livery of the
Copula or the Montague.
The reason why we notice this manifesto is
because it contains an instructive illustration of
the IVISEMAN policy in respect of secular educa-
tion. As everybody is now a free-trader so every-
body is now a patron and promoter of secular edu-
cation—Cardinal WISEMAN among the rest. But his
patronage of secular education bears a wonderfully
close resemblasma to the Derbyite patronage of free
trade. It is not unlike the tender fostering by
beggars of children hired for the day—pinching and
starving the poor creatures to make them look ema-
ciated and suffering, while affecting to carom and
soothe them. _ _

"Prefer the establishment of good schools to over
other work," says the synedithal letter of the Cardi-
nal and his Bishops. "Our education," it adds
"must be up to the mark of modern demands; in
other words wo must take advantage of the means
afforded us to render the secular part of our educa-
tion as effective as that which others offer." But all
care is taken to impress upon the Cardinal's flock
that this is not because of any real sub-
stantial utility inherent in secular education, but
simply to prevent Roman Catholics seeking it from
other hands than those of the priesthood. " The
greater ansennt of worldly knowledge" is described
as " a iinsees such a one as deceived and ruined our
first parents in Paradise." Again : We cannot
onset km ourselves that the encouragement which
'die dab or the policy of the age gives to education
atendeney to increase *s impinnoe of worldly
knowledge, it net to the t, at lewd to
the 7=netellend learning."
The mode et doctrine is,
that : b oar ty ts fed a seentnipsise for the
undue peagneilmence." And the means proposed for
the attuning* of this AIM am the extension and
completion et the osisaintion of a certain
" Poor School Committee, " to take mea-
sures for withdrawing the attention of the
pupils from merely secular studies, and pro-
moting the appointment of teachers, who, disregard.
ing such profane pursuits, shall devote themselves to
training their scholars exclusively as stanch Ro-
manist& The secular schools of the Cardinal are
meant to prevent the young of his flock from attain-
ing to too much secular learning ; they, are in his
eyes not agencies for imparting instruction of which
he approves, but for reducing to a minimum that
instruction which he finds Ins wayward flock will
seek elsewhere if he does not give it; they are bribes
to prevent Roman Catholics from allowing their
children to associate with young heretics. " Make
your schools (he says) equal in every respect to those
which are opened to allure away your children.
Avail yourselves of every encouragement and every
improvement which tends to raise the standard of
your education, and let there be no pretence tenable
for sending Catholic children elsewhere." In short,
the portion of the synodical letter devoted to the
subject of education, IS on insidious development of •
scheme for minimising the weenier knowledge of
Roman Catholics, and for isolating them from their
Protestant fellow citizens, in order that they may be
brought up to fear, distrust, and hate them.
So far from believing that the rabid spirit of
priestly domination which animates the synodical
letter IS participated in by all Roman Catholics, we
see clearly that the passages relating to education
have been inspired by a thesciommess that • very
different spirit is making pengeeas among them. They
show unequivocally that the Romani Catholic laity are
beginning to feel and assert their rights ; that they are
determined not to be debarred access to knowledge
which their Protestant neighbours enjoy; that they
will set allow themselves to be prevented from asso-
ciating en friendlyand familiar terms with men whom
the Ware WI Pik nssessarily brings them into con-
test with, sr baying their children educated in thesarae
easels. The Cardinal feels that this spirit is too
!nighty to be arrested by an open exercise of author-
ity; and therefore he seeks to turn it aside while
affecting to yield to it. It is not to Protestants, but
to the enlightened Roman Catholic laity, and to the
liberal and well-intentioned of their priesthood, that
our exposure of the Cardinarsiesuitry is addressed.
Had it been= cue at present to address our Pro-
testant brethren, we would have deemed our time
and labour more profitably employed in exposing the
hermit' of this old Romish leaven which still con-
tinues to earropt their own Protestantism. The silly
*aim thin knowledge is inconsistent with piety,
tie mmeembilial prepegandist spirit that would
instate membem et any one communion from all who
dint km its standard, are still too prevalent
mew Protestants, and exercise • most baneful
Mice over education. From the Scotsman of
tininley last we lore that a Free Church.
Idelamosion in the meth of Bathed has refined
*dm to the child d meet its ememedeents. solely
bums hipabildren the peembiellebeed. The
type e/f thrkmedin back hid, bees reamed
en typed to the Presbytery, but the latter body did
net Melees it to deism that the man was entitled
to have 10 GNU baptimedi they merely remitted the
owe to the mean to be desk with de nova. And
though seas at the reverend speakers positively
dedeeded the mead of the kirk-melon, fully one-
half at them sztantated it, and treated it as a venial
error. One et them went so fares to express a feu
that if the derision of the medal were reversed, " a
number of would-be Free Ckarehmea would my
these schools were all the same, and they might all
go helter-skelter, wherever their fancy or interest
might lead them." We have adverted to
this instance of edsoational intaleranoe and
sectarian exclusiveness in the Fres Church,
simply because it is the met remit ea
remd ; not became we believe that communion to be
more deeply tainted with them than ethos The
struggles of National dished ileolety minima the
blenegenseat Classes, and the iedveseey el-what hoe
hem galled the voluntary system et melee edieli-
dm bye ensure= body et Mmeters, have lb*
origin in the even sdoilistiesred sonomelleildi
bl e
.Thy ere ea* end all it them attempts Is
og.:Z and limit sender edneatien by a lempega-
timid *gam with a elenyinea at its head.
The theta le which we have limn ednielleg
ought to be slough to amino any diepseelemele
and candid mind, that neither with Remo Oalbells
nor Protestant can amaia . awed= really have fir
play until the State takes it under its own manage-
ment. The ministers of religion—in all oommu-
sloes—ire as a body a pure, a emcee, a well-mean-
ing class. But they are still men, and therefore
liable to view matters from their own standing point.
They are men et preens animas moving in • limited
red dim apt to be narrow-minded and
The circumstanse of their whole time
Un7dir7edell to watching and a:batting their flocks
givesthem= indulges no mein private individuals
as posses. The defames paid to their sacred func-
tions Mermen this inflame. The extension of secular
knowledge often troubles then, and puts them out.
Thee& ultimately all discoveries of modern science
ham been found perfectly rimonelleable with the
truths of revealed religion, yet there has frequently
been at first view a discrepancy which clef=
have not found it easy to- explain away.
maair,
accustomed to think for themselves on other
matters are apt to demand reasons from their
spiritual directors, instead of resting contented with
authoritative did!. Stich being the case, it is not to
M ...thitse7erbsody of mere men should be
of that secular instruction
ZulliTaTOrves them in troublesome arguments, and
inspires into the laity a sense of their equality with
the clergy. It is at best but a half-hearted, step-
mother kind of fostering that secular instruction is
likely to receive at the hands of any clerical body,
le any congregational organisations over which
Slag, men preside.
The founders of Christianity recognised rights in
the State—attributed to it • sphere of action upon
which the Church had no warrant to encroach. When
Bt. Pm. inculcated on his disciples obedience to the
powers that be, he did not (as servile sophists have
interpreted him) preach implicit unresisting obedi-
ence to monsters like Nilo he merely reminded
his converts that they were citizens or subjects of the
Roman empire; that civil government was a nethe-
r sity before the promulgation of Christianity, and
would continue to be ono afterwards; that it was their
duty to respect and obey the civil laws of their
eountry. The business of the church is to purify and
elevate the dispositions and sentiments of its mem-
lbws, and strengthen the devotional spirit within
them. The business of civil government—of the
state--istodeflne the relations in which citizonsetand
to each other, and compel them to act in conformity to