The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-06 00:00:00

trial an Da* Ana)
A Introit to St. Paul's Cathedral joining assem
tog would ha. ve felt subject ro whams
totally diathist in their
two seta of im
On the cue le would haws bete streak
1:1 with colonel
itself comes
fat the eelebradea. la
whicht the nation itself comes leeward as a witomm to
aleistorical fact. On the other heed, he womb
hare been able to snaps ties the evictions
thmitopoo him that certain persons its the building
no
.„ ;wily occup:ed in endsavearn to give
g like form, colour, and bodily pram
to waning historical tradition. n• reef
„„ifoldiggs towering up to the reef
shitting out Wells, columns, status, window%
cod every
sarchitectural detail from view, would have
bxtue testimony to the nature of the national is.
serest in the loueral of the great Duke. Whilst tie
i •al figures clad in black and red, litter-
;nosy Cr 4.
jar ut would bare appeared as smoothing unreal
.---"jl,ld,;Wy in the midst of the great, coarse, bet
lh
vcrthelese imposing realities which had at first
ar, %pita his attention. Ile could scarcely fail to be
fully affected by the contrast between the pee-
wit' as for the funeral of a dead hero, and those
theter lmi:el exhibition of • defunct institution—
e the one side, every thing solid, material, real ; on
.he other, nothing but what was unsubstantial,
ei.k.nry, untrue. The preparations for the funeral
WILLIN6 lON and those for the revival of Cotner
anon meeting on the same spit, would afford ma-
terials fur a contrast which could not but strike the
most careless observer.
Suppaing the visitor to have stayed some time to
eritnise the proceedings connected with the opening
of the greet National Church Assembly, in the
great
National Cathedral, what -would have met his
eye Hearing that Convocation was about to as.
sembk,—knowing that Church matters are umuning
an importance in the eyes of the country that has no
parallel i• the history tit the last two hundred years,
—he would naturally expect to see some widows of
excitement either in the greatness el the .
or the earnestness of the actoreasii spealseme..l72
expectation would have bees miserably limehmled
lir the events of yesterday. Whin the weld set.
side the Cat hedral swept reeled thebeht 1: utter
amonseiousness that a few gottlimes were
indulging in visions of settling the faith, rites, and
grimuni,o of minims of Eagliskersa, there was
r.othing in the nature of the tramestisas bide to
indicate that any matter al bapertanse to the masa
was being carried on. Then wee so large member
of anxious Apeetatots, there were no trees. et any
anxiety on the faces of the actors. Public
Anxiety, which can be excited so easily by events
varying in importance from a debate in Par-
liament to that establishment of • soup-kitchen,
had nothing to do with Convocation. At a quarter
to eleven clergymen in their robes, doctors and roe.
ton in their gowns and wigs, were first seen staring
listlessly upon the huge blocks of timber which
filled the body if the Cathedral. Presently a sum-
mons was heaid from an official with • silver wand
that the meeting was to assemble in the morning
chapel. After a considerable quantity of stumbling
and knocking of heads against the sides of the
planked passages, the chapel in question was reached.
At the report of the ArehbashaVe approach from the
Chapter•houre, a procession was then set in
motion to meet him. The members com-
posing this returned with his Grace in
very broken order, groping their way through
• dark boarded alley dimly lighted by guttering tal-
low candles. Had there been sediment light it
would have been a strange sight, to witness the pro-
gress of this disorderly collection of wigged and
gowned mortals, clad in the antiquated dresses of •
defunct age, struggling through the only avenue
which the preparations for the funeral had left them.
On emerging rots something like daylight, the pro•
osrion then entered the choir. Here a service was
performed. To keep up the ghostly character of the
proceedings this service was written in a dead lan-
ge. The litany was in Latin, the r
iced a Latin discourse, the was
&mimed in Latin. The swills fialelsed
the members of Conmestiee the. edjeareed
to the Chapter-house. Here he the tat dme
the public appeared to have ism& sem Idea
that something was going on. The soden, mime
tented by, perhaps, a hundred min= hemad the
two sides of the alley through the clergy
Palled- This, perhaps, was the meet enredeg lea.
tam of the dare epethdoes, it thin 'she evident
fns. the mystified Inas at NMI the said rem-
seablivea of the sedei—the mull boys namely—
that they were set Ole ere that the gentlemen in
wigs ad Ned bade were met isteaded to bathe two
"oosateisit preseatmeate" of the peat Um
of the day, OPT • Paws. Oa se=
the
vs=r-Meme, the ihemally
is preemie if a wry tightly piked
=ls a small mom, "boom easing oat, eces.
the Awn to the who were
baleshred ths hall or less against the
habsbedies of the st,aircaim This bmbera
esealebdo the ambers again adjoined te the
cathedral, wham they oboes a preleister, or
speaker, and the banana of the day. terminated.
When we consider that the gamma of the revival
of the active powers of C 011•034011 has bees sea-
study mooted daring the last bar parer—that a
violent agitation hais takes piece is tamer of the
re vivale—thst the aseausesessat of the day of meet-
ing has been published br mope time,—and that
in spite of this scarcely half a deem elargyinso—
exclusive .of dime esuessosed—coald be got' to-
gether to whams the opeedeg—emd that near of the
laity. were there—it is mareely possibte to avoid
coming to the 'analogies that the people of liaglead
care aiding Mt all then Comeoeat. If the great
body eftheOherth Wray hid% is theneestios sad-
Isr to thetithisk theima saes of the nation have is
the Siena et Parlimefile. we may be own that this
hith would have berm tatiled by the aigsrooass of
ewe& al whams le the ernmemy •
The Illyesi Therks amid mot met a=eidel-
tilt the meet Mum Memel is the Nene if the
Uwe Oaths& ono sal bity. The maellose of
the 1,64=2 senam are creedi seat
et era emesable her
reel badman without
weating a Wag of
thes isteresti=petustametbers
isethe d n m eesa &ripple
se the bosom of the groat warms of the
And why. is thief Beam" is ti:llll=plass.
Ceemeedem a sot ea deems et any impasses* is
the Watery of our modem Ceara:aim Ms done
lethiag tar vs. It did asi—es has bees efts oh-
moved deliver es bent
at=d the Pepe;
it
M: did
ast
estimate the oar
related tenet thepedlepeey at tee=
bon--4 left estesebell Ile awe the eliegr. It wads
itself resarthabb math. bet spahp, sad be-
esme m peat a maisemee stlas. theetheipeneemeet
vie 4111.111 a=ire it eke theethes
On the ether boil the ef lashed trait to
r 3 in asssesime and thithed sinumets be the deo arc-
ma d the thiereltisweet. The great majority
of ths Ilene of theism being to the Bees-
Wined Chereh. The (heeds is represented is
the Upper Home by about tam.
The members et the March ertiegtar have
in then lasts may remmesble gme tee for the
maiatesioes at who= as "tree doc-
trines" while we en fees the domination of a
party in the Chem& If the Cherie b to be national,
it meat mot havesamembiy. " Wherever "
says the hers.r
elm et the Ami-
d...any of Leaks. " then exists a body,
camer
of clergy and Inky, and cooed-
tatuilie Church representative, apart from
the eatimal tatioo in Pediemeat, thee
*pub/ sad viably Church is &Ham hem the
nation. The attempt, therefore, M met the whole
authority in Church matters is the bade of Convoca.
too is nothing less than an esdatvear to briag the
rhoreh--and through it th;asTirrhase--again
seder • spiritual tyranny.
end—we should have Fumed setbag by ta=wal,9l"-
tiGno.-.110 should IDMIT have enhempedmilefalthla
Pope for an infallible Cooventiess

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