The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-18 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 18.

l tn. alternative given to the clergy by the Order
Gaoled of the 12th of June instant, touching the
management Clauses of trust deeds for church schools
rnment aid, is a very simple affair; and
it- lance is derived from its simplicity. Hence-
&ram.' the clergy, who are the real promoters of ,
thea...lwds, may either adopt the clauses as they
&air stand—which bestow on them and the bishop of
ono diocese complete power over the relagiou in-
oration given and the refiyious books used in the
ath,,,ts, and also over the re/iglos qualifies-
twos and conduct of the school masters
and motresseo,—or they may, by the new
order in couecil, extend this authority over
the instruction given, the moral works used,
and the moral qualifications and conduct of the
awteni; to the complete exclusion of the lay sub-
Kilts rs and committee of management. In other
~weds. the Massie ministry have given the clergy of
th, Aunt of England and their bishops complete
poser and jurisdiction over the morals u well as
the raigion of all parochial or church schools re-
riving building grakts from the Committee of the
Priv% Council on Education; and this they have
a.-mied parliament is, in their judgment, an alteration
of nu importance at all. It is, however, as we
shall show, a greater concession than the National
ter mete, in its correspondence with the Lords of
Council, ever bought ; it is, moreover, one which does
not prevail in their own schools, when unaided by
a government buildin(grant. It is, therefore, an
tuncely new principle introduced into our school
system, enormously augmenting the authority of the
clergy, seriously impairing the power of the laity,
and confounding two things essentially distinct.
Practically it involves that very supremacy of the
spiritual power in schools aided by the state in their
election, the denial and refusal of which has hitherto
been the turning point of the policy of the Committee
of the Privy Council on Education.
By the National Society's " fermi of Union," it is
voided, " In case any difference should arise be-
tseen the parochial clergy and the managers of the
wh.sils. with reference to the preceding rules re-
specting the religious instruction of the scholars, or
auv ngutation conrected therewith, an appeal is to
tiCimule to the bishop of the diocese, whose decision
is to be final." T his is a fundamental provision, on
the acceptance of which the National Society, an
exclusively church body, dispenses its aid, being of
,our-e church-aid, to schools in connexion with it ;
aid the provision limits the absolute authority of the
spintual power to religion only ; it does not extend it
to and over ~,,, ratify. That the National Society was,
and is. content to leave, in its schools, to their " ma-
ngers;" that is, to the lay committees who co-
operate with the parochial clergy.
Arid on this principle the National Society acted
in all its correspondence, and in its differences with
the Coinmittee of the Privy Council on Education.
It has now claimed for the clergy and their bishops
the same power over morals as is given them over
religion. Many and serious though the points
in dispute between these two bodies were—
this never wee one. No such
.pretension was
raised by the Society for this spiritual power; no
difference was ever in discussion on that subject. In
closing their correspondence in December. 1849,
sob the Committee of Privy Council. what the Com-
mittee of the National Society wound up by re.
grating was " the resolution finally adopted by the
committee of council to exclude from all share of the
parliamentary grunt for education, those schools the
promoters of which are unwilling to constitute their
true deeds on the model prescribed by their lord.
ships." But, so long as such dissidents remain in
connexion with the National Society, the parochial
citric, and the bishops have power over religion
saly. Quenises el mesh' are part of the general
namagemmt of soak esheols.
The sew order I. esoneil, therefore, gives to the
elegy a power which their exclusively church asso-
cis les denied, and which it never asked the state
to masses M them. It is, then, a concession to win
higher "Mirth pretensions than those sanctioned by
a high church society ; it recognises the offensive
Cria which the traetarian party have advanced
er' ure h ; and hence it was an the first instance
cessmunicaud to, and received the " imprimatur " of,
Mr. G. A. Dextsos, the denier and reviler of the
Glema's supremacy.
Nor has there been any movement on the part of
any considerable body of clergy to procure this Impor-
tant change. Secret influences have, no doubts been
at work. But public request or solicitation there
has been none. It was not a rusinieed or known
demand that could be watchcase gmedisd spilt by
discussion. It is an canine preload= slanders-
finely set in motion and semelly yielded to • one
stitch the 'clergy as a body lam War claimed or
the episcopate sanctioned. The 'complicity between
the cabinet and the Tractarians is essoequotly be-
yond all doubt.
To give the spiritual power oomph.' sad &Motets
jurisdiction over meals Y stale wheels, is to give
!hem complete pessemien of sdesollen is them. For
if the lay subeeribem mod kind= 'Mbar in reli-
rion or morels, what poet In the sesame or superin-
tendence of the dish an they take Under
morals, there is seared, sorlderi
_that may not be
included—nay, that is ad Iniodsd by the church
from which this pretests's. is deism. History.
astronomy, anatomy, in the Irish alleges' are said all
to affect questisosZat= jalth, mid morals. In
like manner, the table sad the primer
lay be included in morals of *miry schools.
Aid thus we shall ice ow until the ofiritnal power is
(u Lord flume hes simoted it melt to be) predo-
minant in them.

Nien cannotbe too Saslow of snob encroachments
as these. Before the ambition of the spiritual power,
when once roused and encouraged, there are few dell
institutions safe. Add authority. over morals to
authority over religion, and there is nothing that will
not gradually be appropriated; for morality is of uni-
versal application ; rt enters into everything ; no man
rejects or denies its value, it,. use, its necemity. It
hen a pro-existence to religion ; and when placed
under the same protection, there is nothing the pro-
utters may not interfere with. Hence the constant
moiety of priestereft to be recognised u the guardian
awn&

The question that opened and disturbed by Lord
hvisv to gratify him Tractarian sympathem sad
L ;isms is the mat important one that ORR amis
.piety, in principle it extends the spiritual power
over everything and every person ;—it rejects the
'isity as fit protectors and smerton of morality ;—it
out, in the hands of the clergy absolute power over
education of the poor attending church school, to
tv hereafter aided by building grants.
It ia in every respect a violent, uncalled for, and
dangerous violation of the terms on which the par-
liamentary grant for education has hitherto been'
dimributed. And Mr. DISRAELI ought to be held'
strictly to his promise, that until rgarleement shall
Lave an opportunity next semi= of fully assidsvise
this Order in Council, it shall not be acted an by the
administration now temporarily in peemesion et Aloe.

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