The Press.
London, England, 1858-08-07 00:00:00

THE PRESS, AUGUST 7, 1858.

and the discomfort and very indifferent state of
this house, which had been animadverted upon in
former entries, has more than once formed the
subject of correspondence between this office and
the proprietor."
Why has not Mrs. ALLEN been punished for
this cruelty ? Why is her house still licensed
Is it right that poor helpless lunatics should be
under such a roof? What were the visiting jus-
tices about that they did not discover these enor-
mities ? For what was the visiting physician
paid 201. per annum out of the county rates of
Essex ?

and these pageants are supposed to
growth of Christianity; but it is not
that the Christianity of the Gospel
no more to do with them than it had
the religious wars of Europe,
murders of the Inquisition, or with ,
which overflowed all Europe from
palaces of Papal families in Rome. '
perhaps, all be numbered among the
jus divinum ; but supposing them
they must still be considered among
ones. The wonder of wonders, the real
of the Papal or Jesuit scheme is, not
which it dealt with ignorant and barbarous
but the way in which it meets the -
sistance of more and more enlight
the way in which it shows itself
new antagonism which rises up against
way it gathers strength from what
struction, and makes its poverty r
ness do the work of large revenues
vitality. The real greatness of true
that it deals with each age after its -
befools as infinitely the nineteenth
did the sixteenth, or the fourteet
fourth, and makes its tools of reluctm
nichs or ready Palmerstons, as it did
TINE or CHARLEMAGNE, of WILLIAM
Or LOUIS LE GROS.

And the whole secret of that greatness
the doctrine of jus divinum—in the
succession of sacerdotal sovereigns
from GOD to govern men in this world
sanction of rewards and punishments •
out according to their sentence in '
come.

To engross wholly almost every
learning, to have the principal share
making and the administering of •
were of themselves such sufficiem
supremacy in barbarous ages that
little need of any great development
divinum till the twelfth and thirteent'
In the fifteenth, however, it was
What hold it had taken of the minds 1
men of every rank may be imagined
such fact as MACHIAVELLI tells us
nobleman, treacherously assassinated
Cardinal CESAR BORGIA, spending
breath in imploring his murderer to
his wretched father, ALEXANDER VI.,
of his sufferings beyond the gray
monster, the ex luisite incorporation
vidual of vices that would competently
nished a whole legion, to be regarded
as the keeper of the keys of IL
indeed to the unreflecting simply
SPEARE calls a three-piled hyperbole
yet it needs but the tiniest scruple
to comprehend that it is the irresistil
consequence of a visible succession
of the ALMIGIITY upon earth. Poor
that was the Italian's name, was s.
they who smile at him, and yet stand
divinum, are themselves the senseless
reasoning. Common sense allows -
the rights of GOD (if once ackno‘.
vested in any created tribunal), but
as are set by expediency or the
superior armed force. Where there
of smiting with anathema, and of
the sentence of the condemned soul
prisonment in hell, it is idle to talk ,
than discretionary submission to rests
world, once honestly believing the
of the authority, must be prepared .
not only the conscience to blind obedience,
the person to punishment and the
confiscation. Nay, the reflections
sense teach us still further—what,
canons of the great tridentine count
also—that goods should first be forfeit
body first be subjected to the torture,
sorting to the anathema, which
turn the keys of heaven against
entrance.

And this constructive divinity,
macy over themselves and over
kings virtually acknowledged in 1
it at all, was the unequal ally wit
entered into confederacy. That
made religion a worldly polity,
became the larger part of religion,
were made that they might do the
when dogmas were everywhere
above all laws.