The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-02 00:00:00

if low church rural

there is another

opinion, and make -
reform of the Liturgy r
to object to such a following of hie ewe precedent.
He is too elear-sightefl a man Est to be aware
that it is hapeeite to limit maalksison and reform-
ing plans te Sue els YLh church eheraeter.
But whatever UV leDr. Hooe's feeling on the
t, the lovers of bee discussion, they who think
• truth op only gain from the open and un-
flawed atlemeace of opinion, will rejoice at
tiV wow era which the Ran-Decanal Chapter of
We has emmenced in ecclesiastical debate.
The almelo of England has been the bondsman
atlas mai esaventiouality and of a timid and often
Mtge regard for decorum. Its bishops have been
dial of acting or speaking manfully ; its clergy
have felt the weight of episcopal timidity, and have
bared above all things incurnng the reputation of
Wog unsafe men with those who could exercises.*
en immense influence over their fortunes. Ti he
plain outspoken men,—to think and speak forties.
selves,—to examine principles,—and to apply ernls
the existing constitution of the church, and be ee/prt
changes, however rational or needed,—wu the meet
way of being kept off the episcopal list for
promotion. Dr. Molt has broken the ice; he
has pointed out how clergymen may meet, die-
cues, and speak out; he has vindicated fur
them a freedom of speech which no episcopal
synod would ever have conceded. It has been
a most happy qualification in Dr. HOOK for obtaining
this great charter that he is a high churchman. A
plan of low church reform would have raised a vehe-
ment outcry. Whilst suggestions based on keeping
the litany intact are welcomed with favour. But
the victory is for all. It will be their own fault if
evangelical deaneries fall short of the great example
which Dr. Hoos has set them.
Tho suggestions offered in the report embrace a
great number of miscellaneous subjects, and are dis-
tinguished by not a little practical wisdom, and in
some instances by commendable boldness. A 'short-
ening of the present Sunday services, especially
the morning service, by the omission of parts to be
introduced at a different period of the day--a short
alternooa service for children and servants (a strange
association of two classes of persons, who have nothing
in common bat a wish not to be kept long in church),
—occasional administration of the communion in the

effilhises stettlaing der the working classes—week-
arc glivistat Wlsposed of the litany and an n-
ihilist el the Bible—preathings in the open air-
-11 Ida demur.or qedal service, on tionseoutive days
at gendsuir seesese—ie mach segmessee sad con-
vulsive—dem esmetnaise of the wilds and his
wife with young peruse lifter esedbewilem—s sew
authorised, and cheap hymn-book--• huge bream;
ef bias's, and still more of deacons —a better 'Why
if Irish, N the itinerant literature of religion '—the
desirableness of some plan of national °deaths, hi
which religious training shell be an essential lisossi,
hat which shall not make instruction in the astir*
the doctrines of the church a condition of hillniedlS
St the national schools—the supporting of mecisadd
institutes and similar scientific Ibies_by dm show
—them constitute the chiet recommend/Awn el this
'lied able report.
is difficult to find fault with the variety of
the bill of fare. Dr. HOOK and his seatutors fol-
low the church system out into its widest ramifica-
tions, and display a most laudable desire to borrow
improvement from every region, from Rome and
America alike. Nor is it to be denied that many of
the proposed improvements possess eminent value.
But one great and characteristic weakness pervades
the whole—viz., the deeply-rooted dislike of appealing
to the legislature of the church,—that is, to parliament,
—and the settled resolution to bring forward such
changes mays shall not require the sanction of that
mush feared, mad, by clergymen, mach hated body.
This dried of setting parliament in motion on church
lagielatiom manifestly overbalances an honest desire
to borers ; and Dr. HOOK, whether from per-
sonal -feeling or deference to others, shows the
common feeling of his profession, that it is better
to have the good they seek undone, than to have
it dose by parliament, at tho cost of reminding the
aides that parliament alone can, and therefore that
parliament ought to legislate for the reform and im-
provement of the church. They prefer the paralysis
of the church through the suspension of the functions
af lawgiving and governing, to its invigoration and re-
saimation through the instrumentality of a legisla-
tare which the Church of England acknowledges to be
the only one which gave that church its earliest con-
stitution, but which the secret feelings of the clergy,
in spite of their subscription and their voluntary hold-
ing of office in it, dislike and disown.
Not a few of Dr. HOOK'S most important reforms
are marred by this overpowering defect.. It is very
meihnhis to him to utter plainly what is is amp
be heart--the wearisome and wholly maw
=ewe church services, aggravatedby lb, be.
ofloaid in a. sad &urchins, and stein
Beam tbiilbuilisido. sad by sermons an he U
keg er teseeeethe easy useheitteiL Dot, wheal.
=ems& those. his swell Impend hy,bie
tics Wends wilds the law, end the met
be son do h to in • dilksest
s
mow the separateaver.pesolo. •He 'sli-
ght* aws ell fed, adoption el new
pipe% et a nodose, inlenidennee of Mown
parr enmesh Asp or eel se sellishie der
even a illessedfineveur a Ohs dew
Wing espbsnot es maybe ended by the
lamb et poles' loselbien He is still num io-
41=!tiered when he disown; the ,
111 evidently lays the inlishalit
edifelase a lergely extended el tesshoes eft
=tße donna* ings hoped the dietenete.
he angisyment el .deist West=
well mph* the roped el a nun the hold&
lifat lelsseessini d limpet : and be mhos
Me We fres which any
and pennant • el the church new be so
puha The tenth is that thelft ere
'egoists sage* Embus of the &emit with
fle show. law di truth home to the fall
susedsowleritsommember el the church, and to
wiry it eat in all Me heit6l rimes is
the all-impartisd *clef I 1 7 alp* varms.
Dr. Boost aid Ids somplOso hese Bled to ese the
=lt lIIMMI.I4= be weirilsred at, if
fro not Ina its

P OnTRAIT or lowa HUMS, Eno., U.P.
Ilk Mimosa Ins boon castrated l the Uthapaphis
nor by O. B. Moak. Arm a ilsgserrootyps est NA May.
sal. The likeness I. wilting. the traits en made enni
eliaracterisciady animated. The Americas were at lea
t. start the whams of ocenbinieg the phellegsphie eri
litlogrephis arts ; the experiment. but meekly ameemag
at ii t. bee, we ere bound to add, bowl Rota* impose'
es is this lasteace. The habitual drawback of MOM
gurreetype likenesses, their extreme sesaweasse of
street, hat here been skilfelly parried without awing
the resemblesee • indeed, through the tweibli spew
or two essiperativi4p modern iaventipm, llfr. Sem* Hume
be. found that truthful limning widish OUver Creswell
in vain *mitt fir at the hands of the courtly Lily. He is
pneested to se here with side-long glance, evidently listen-
ing to some parliamentary piece of oratory ; whether bril-
liant or not it would be difficult to decide, so stem and im-
moveable mem his well-known features. This 'print is a
metal defy of theracter, and a worthy addition to the
portrait gallery of melees politicians.

Ip3UDDIEN DE47I Or • HOOPITAL CHAPLAIN.—
Yesterday, at en lame odd by Kr. Bedford at Belot
Geerge's Hospital, inhanntien trio esaverid to that ger
Wean of the ashodisly seddas death of the Rev. J. B.
Kawwood, reddest aloplala of tits imitative, who was
found dead la bsi. Dssolusl retired to rest oa the previous
night Wind heath, sad in the morning his female meet
m send tusk to his amber his shaving wider. Receiving
no same to bee repealed hamkings, however, she opened
the Mar owl sea Is dessowl, who not replying, she op-
prossisi tie bpi sag Mmerneed Ms to be • «rpm, what.
=1;ly samossila Mr. Hunan sad Mr. Mensy, the
wee preowned to have bets SOON
tins arlorathe deosesed. wbo was shoat lefty years of
age, had pasolsodi Its‘ two Ms st miseitat out is sup-
posed Is lave AM Is the third Mime; sad Kr. Hamilton
sysmibi ee
vilbipmes iselrs AM death w per-
Meg M ormossl MaS is WWI inquiry before
Ihe swam owslisi.

deco. of the

OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF TRE
TOTES.

LOUIS NAPOLEON'S SPEECH.

PARIS, Tisuuokv Moaxixo.
The lifeisiniur eatable the following proclamation :
TM President of he Itrosislis, upon the report of the
Cessualletive Osumhelm, presimiss the result of the lens
shun td=
shims hr this adoption or egia
*fibs " The Preach people lks the
isaimisimes..'..7‘Missieerrikhly of limn Napelora=
sad delsoess Is Idaho powers neemenry fir
• senetinstien ups the law prenesed la his presimatlon
of Den h 111111." Ths number et peens as von has been
; 7,43881 lave vessel Tas:,;ste7 Saw woad
' Net' 36,830 san hare been
The present hems will be published and plersd frhas=
eannsuase ef ths repablie."
TMs deem is immediately followed by ano-
ther, in wbieh the President, " considering
that the Frisch Republic, in its new form, sae-
n',
Ironed by suffrage of the people, may adoptwith-
out um die souvenirs of the empire and the
symbols which recall the glory of that period ; and
considering that the national Sag should no longer
be deprived of the renowned emblem which con-
ducted our soldiers to victory in a hundred battles,
decrees—l, that the French eagle shall be re-esta-
blished on the colours of the army; and 2, that it is
also re-established on the cross of the Legion of
Honour."

Last evening, at half-past e' ht o'clock, the Con-
sultative Commission p to the Elysie, where
it was received by the President of the Republic,
surrounded by his ministers and his aides-de-camp.
M. Earache, the vice-president, then read, and placed
in the hands of the President, the following extract
of the proms-verbal which declares that the number
of votes given in 88 departmens, Algeria, the army
and the navy,on the ph:buena of Dec. 2, was 7,439,210
in the affirmative, and 640,737 in the negative:

there is another view of the Prayer-book. which i
would meet with small countenance from Dr. Hoot, FRANCE.
though agreeable to not a few even of the clergy them-
selves. It may be, and, indeed, is cateentpely held ••+,.. •._ itbANN ..pkigiihrs i"!
the Prayer-book is a compilation of eamiliedng d :s , ~ 7 I'l '•?•••
matte—undigested into a harmonica, leale700111) - ; • • '
borrowed from ages when the eldieeklMes aclol4olo- uls tt : LER
I LEOT-, :AT rrii iin 'di
!edged to be corrupt—and, iispoine parts
•. • . ..
irreconcileable contradiction tEe ...
. .
if low church rural deaneries proclaim 'such an 'HT SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.
opinion, and make it the basis of an agitation for a (MON ova OWN CONINSTONDIIWZI
reform of the Liturgy ? Dr. HOOK will not be able
to object to such a following of his own precedent. PARIS, Faunas MONNING.
He is too clear-sighted a man not to be aware The Tuileries will benoefortk bs the Mike' nisi-
that it is impossible to limit manifestoes and reform- dews of the president.