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Only each ameliorations cannot extend beyond the
principle of the church; they must lie within the
limits defined by its actual tone and constitution :
all others are impracticable, because they would
amount to a revolution, or rather to the creation of a
new institution. In this latter catqmy mug be
placed the dream of a regenerated or of bishops;
for the possibility of such a development is not con-
tained in the essence and the ideas, as they practi-
cally exist, of the Anglican church.
Let us suppose, if indeed we can gravely entertain
such an hypothesis, that the House of Conmentie
had passed a resolution for the appointment chair
fifty minor bishops, how would it deal with the want
ONDOAr, 310ND,1 Y, NOVEM question which would ariao—the determining d the
-- major and minor bishops to each other ? If theme,
Tile words republic and republiean are employed officers are to be really bishops, and are not to be ris
in the protest discussion and manifestation through- crippled as to lose all power of exercising
presid Sir
out continental Europe, in two very different senses. functions beneficilly:, they must have ia
In one signification it implies &hatred, amounting to management of their dioceses, the ruling of the
a horror, of existing princes, and of all those who clergy, the offices of confirming, and it is to be ps
have broken faith with the people. These absolute eumed of ordaining also. What would be left
sovereigns have all by wretched government for the episcopal peers ? An appellation gives
forced their people to look for a remedy in a con-
stitutional reform ;at the first outbreak they have into action : splendid incomes, magnificent
consented to their people's demands, sanctioned them, palaces, a spiritual nobility, a life of case, of leisure,
and swore to them. And thus having first forced and of politics, a high station in the most polished
theirpeople tohccome constitutionalists,then approved society, every earthly good which the most carnal
of their being so, and joined even as far as the most heart could desire. Does any sane man imagine that
solemn oath. in the establishment of such govern- such a spectacle could be endured for even a few
nimbi, they have turned round, brought in the mili- years ? Could the radical worldliness of such an
tars, overthrown the constitutions, shot, hanged, and epiworte, its internal rottenness, its utter annihila-
prosecuted all those who abetted them. From tom o the idea of a minister of CHRIST, be rendered
Naples to Copenhagen this is the story of every court more glaring, more offensive, more intolerable to Grin
in Europe. And the mere facts are sufficient to make and man Y Such an institution of human grandeur
every man of heart and feeling a republican. And and wealth so stimulating of worldly cupidity and
such a school of republicanism as this has not only ambition, would seem specially intended to corrupt
taken root in Hungary and in Italy, but has spread a church, and root out from its domain every element
through Germany and the whole of central Europe of a heavenly and spiritual nature.
with a rapidity and general accord, that may in truth To avert such consequences, it would probably be
give some colour to that general conspiracy which proposed that there should not be any distinction
Louts Nasimacos denounces in his message, but between the bishops—that all should have small
which has none of the attributes of conspiracy, being dioceses, and do the work of a bishop in them—and
neither secret nor confined to a few, but profeseed that either, following the Irish precedent, they
openly by all the world except by the functionaries should sit by rotation in the House of Lords, or else,
and the dependents of the several governments. that a certain number of the seniors should, with an
To this almost universal republicanism of henlimeul increase of income, be invested with the parliamentary
prevailing throughout Europe must be added the peerage. But the difficulties would be as thick
rryoildironism of anion : that is, the general comic- as ever. The rotatory expedient seems to have been
tion amongst capable' and eminent men that the expressly designed to keep alive in every bishop the
gnat resistance to absolutism, and its final over- feelings, the tone of mind, the habit and bearing,
throw, can only he achieved by a great popular the social status of a spiritual peer. The seekers of
movement, by a rising of the people under their own working bishops would infallibly ruin their scheme
leaders, and not under the guidance of either by the adoption of the rotatory rule. On the other
princes or aristocracies. All know that the last hand, the parliamentary bishop must either neglect
=neon( nt in North Italy, and, indeed, in all Italy, the care of their dioceses for politics, or must
was Oren up to the guidance of the monarchic, have coadjutons,which would be substantially the cres-
the aiistocratic, the moderate constitutional tion of two episcopal orders, and be open to
party in each state. Although this latter is the party all the evils described above. And nothing can be
to Which we ourselves feel most attached, we cannot more improbable, more completely visionary, than
but admit that it failed in Lombardy, failed in Rome, to suppose that there is the smallest chance, in the
failed in Prussia; and that the only brave resistance present temper of the episcopal and clerical minds, of
war made by the democratic principle and move- inducing them to consent to the extinction of the
mild.. There was more political sense, and more large incomes, and their redistribution in sums of
military talent in the defence of Rolm than in the 1,5001. or 2,0001. a year to an increased number of
entire campaign of Lombardy. We must not be our- minor bishops. The church must, indeed, be in im-
prised, then, if, after the experience of 18 14 and minent danger before suchaproposal would meet with
1819, all those inen,who look to the rescue of Europe anything but scorn and indignation.
from aboillitiem and soldier law, seek it no longer in Then, again, if we may conceive a classifi-
a constitutional struggle or in civic resistance, but in cation of parliamentary and minor bishops to
a wide, large, thorough democratic movement. Such have been carried out, what would be the
are now the opinions of all continental liberals, and spirit that would animate the whole body ?
mith are the convictions of MAZZINI and liossent. As the eyes of a maiden look unto the hand of her
We must confess ourselves unable to gainsay mistress, so assuredly would the eyes of the inferior
those arguments, upon which their convictions watch the mind of his superior. The magnitude of
are founded —unable to deny the facts or to the worldly prize would still be overwhelming.
question the necessity ; and yet we must re- There is but very faint ground for supposing that
pudiate the name, if it be reproached to us, of the bishop of deep piety, of sustained enthusiasm' of
being republican. Fur however admitting the energetic but irregular activity—the man best be-
justice of that sentiment in the soldier-ridden loved by his people, his poor, his sick, his humbler
and -.Maier-devoured countries of Europe, as well as clergy, would be advanced to wealth and power.
the necessity of recurring to the masses for action Then, as now, the man of business, the eloquent
and resistance, we still have considerable doubts as politician, the learned student, the successful school-
to any tountry in Europe tereiessing the elements inaster,wouldbe rcekonedtheornaments of the church,
requisite for the establishment and working of a re- and obtain promotion. Be it so, it is replied; the
public. men who do not belong. to these classes would give
When we behold France, certainly the fore- up the career of ambition; they would throw them-
most of all those countries in civilisation and en- selves into the discharge of the episcopal office, and
lighteninent —when we behold the French literally become good bishops. But those who use this lan-
incapable of making a fit choke of a president of guage, are carried away. by their own sanguine
their republic, and this front the utter ignorance and feelings. They fail to 'receive, that the new
inamacity of the maws, as well as from the selfish bishoprics would be th with men of the same
and petty views and rivalry of men in the upper stamp as at present—trharieltroimage might occasionally
°taxmen of society—when we see this in France, we be paid to public feeling by the appointment of a
cannot but distpair of Italians, or Germans, or Hun- pious man ; but that unless the aristocratic temper of
priana succeeding in any. essay of republican the whole establishment is altered, and its political
government. We entertain infinite admiration fu influence in the country destroyed, the motives; which
loam: nu, and considerable respect for Nlazicsi ; sway appointments now, and the spirit which they
and we do not say hut that both may be right in cm- foster, would still remain omnipotent.
P cloying the democratic lever to throw off the nimbi But the catalogue of evils is not exhausted. There
that weigh on both their countries, but we must is one in particular of such overwhelming magnitude
say that we totally disbelieve in the power or ability as might well make the advocates of this measure
of either to found a Hureotrian or an Italian pause before they ventured to encounter it. The
,republic. Kossurti„ indeed, is not wedded to strength and the glory of the English church is its
the netiessity of a republic. When in Hungary comprehensiveness. Its rulers have at any
.he w"ula have arrvPled from Europe unl "mitt- rate pre-eminently displayed the virtue of
,tutiosinl sovereign that the liberal powers of Europe moderation. In general, mild, good-natured,
might have recommended. All he desired to be rid easy, gentlemanly men, our bishops have shunned
of was the incurable despotism of the MAPSfirltGs. nothing with so much horror as the falling
Mt/11,41 is mum puritan in his republicanism. Ik into extremes either of opinion or practice. They
iseouts tlw house of Savor, constitutional as it 'troves have had to administer a system whose essence was
itself to he, quite as much as the House of liars- compromise; they have imbibed its principle; and
int kn. And M.i7.7.151 in this opinion is decidedly to this day ecclesiastical history tells of no church
wrong and monstrously unjust. which has sheltered a wise freedom of miinion so
The greatest misfortune that can befall any coon- constantly and carefully as the English. The non-
;try. is the disruption of all tics and all sympathy interference of theepiscopate,whatever disadvantages
between the middle and the working claimed. The it may have, with the action of the parochial clergy,
acre existence of such a schism is either a raging is the charter of this freedom. What would be the
civil war, or a state of things which is no better than result if an earnest, active, vigorous bishop
'civil war. France at this moment offers thu example were planted in each half of every county? Would
of a complete schism between the middle and work- difference of theology be so sure of protection as it is
is g classes, that schism being kept from breaking into now ? Would there be the same liberty of speech ?
civil war by the neutrality of the soldiery; 1702 We know that a high-church learning is inseparable
offers an example of the same schism, overawed by front the English hierarchy. There is many a bishop
no army and by no authority. There is no one evil, now on the bench whose name distinguished the an-
that sh.ould so carefully be avoided by politicians, naps of liberality before his elevation, but whose
whether conservatives or reformers, as this the great- episcopal career has shown how deeply charming is
est of all. And when we sec men like MAEZINI, or the doctrine of the divine right of episcopacy. 'The
like the Red men of France. seeking to base their law is unfailing, and the new bishops must yield to
power exclusively upon the lower classes, nut in con- its pleasant influence. Conceive a talented, pious,
sanction with, but in opposition to, the clam of in- and resolute bishop gathering round hint the concen-
duetrious middle men of society. we dread the ten- crated influence of many of his clergy by the activity
deny of these proceedings and this policy, as almost and purity of his life: what would be the position of
certain to lend to the extreme of democracy in the those (to instance ono out of many easily imaginable
first instance, and after no great lapse of time, to cases), who supliorted the noble and truly Christian
that other extreme, which is antagonistic and de- cause of the Bible Society? Would it be as easy as
.tractive', not merely of democracy, but of all liberty ever now—deeply though the teaching of Oxfonf has
and of all progress. 9 injured unity—to show sympathy towards dissent, to
treat dissenters on a perfect level of Christian bro-
A tome increase in the number of the therhood,ortoadvocate religious sentiments thatwould
which is said to be now under Lord lone R .8 be in discord with church principles ? Yet any injury
consideration, would so disturb the pro done to the comprehensive character of the Em lisp
church would be a most heavy calamity for the Whole
tween the civil and spiritual powers in this kingdom,
nation. Even if no other consideration could be
and would be so sure, sooner or later, to produce such
urged, everyman, however excellent his motives and
important effects, both in the church and state, that
it is worth while to examine in fuller detail the pro- design, who advocated the enlargement if the epie-
bable working of such a measure. It would be no copate, would deserve the highest censure, if he had
trifling change, for good or for evil; it would be the not previously satisfied himself that no mischief
beginning of innovations, of which no man could could thence arise to the breadth and liberal admi-
foretell the end. Singularly enough, the warmest of .Inistratiou of the Anglican church.
its promoters are men who have vehemently depre-
CHURCH EXTENSION AT CARNABTON.—The pre-
luded any extensive reform of the church, loudly sent church accommodation at Cimarron proving very in-
proclaiming that the old fabric was too frail and II adequate to the growing wants of the inhabitants and si-
nckety to admit of repairs,. but if ever history has sitors, a meeting of the townspeople has been held to coo-
t° record a verification of the proverb, that " the new ; sider the propriety of building a new church. The vicar of
garment maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken the parish prestded, and in his address stated that the po-
out of the new agreeth not with tho old, it will be ! ria.irY7l °While etlewnhhiad luiratfiloendi'isltnheacoatunse
all pro-
found found in the insertion of a host of bishops of a new 1
gross d, that manyee families required pews who could
sort into the time-worn and well-nigh threadbare not be accommodated. Schools which cost 5,0001. had been
texture of the ancient episcopate. '. completed and paid for, and they were equally capable of ,
It must he carefully borne in mind that the object providing, church accommodation. Ihe English language
alined at is the creation of an essentially new 17;a30-Urieceogolt:lanthl inowcnou; the young
ttee°PiweoiTledredesirret to
deserie ion of bishops, new in the moderateness of worship. in English, and it was a duty to they would
their reli- '
their incomes, in the spirituality of their lives, in glow wants. A number of resolutions were proposed and
their residence among their flocks, in their familiar seconded by the leading inhabitants, affirming the objects
intercourse with their clergy, in the laboriousness of of the lacetia.p. lt was aereett to petition T.
for the
eat
erection.
in the donation of a proper site il) the in
-
their activity, in the unworldliness of their feelings,
in their abhorrence of that climax of a carnal nature, c ALIFORN lAN GOLD QUARTZ.—The large block
" the minding of earthly things." Can the leopard of gold quart:, weighing 103115., and the value of which is
change his spats, or the Ethiopian his skin? Can any stated to be 3,6001., which was exhibited in the Crystal
historical institution, confirmed by the lapse of cell- Palace, is now "on view," at the Egyption Hall, Picea-
barks, renounce its essence? "Nursed by the dilly, whither it has been removed. la addition to the
Terente,"says Sir JAMES SUPDEN, " adopted 14 the stronglylatrgebit'icakreanb r ionflunreendlactrepdiewerth.7, epzilibiiotueds,mwetmale.
STUAIttS, and wedded in her youth to a powerful °.,.‘ wpsnorn'ina. as a suppiement to that of Col. Fremont's
aristocracy, the Anglican church retains the indelible route across the rocky mountain', is also shown, pourtrayiug
stamp of these early alliances. To the great, the the scenery in the diggings. Mr. W. H. Paul explains the
learned, and the worldly wise, it has for three con- scenery, and, according.f to his statements, appear
tarries afforded a resting-place and a refuge." The ' tlts:ate 17: Creek,bi it g01d.% r, !, ~
m ato a
deptr of ooe feet beloww;lssetasur-
stamp is indelible. A new church with a new "`"
face. There is a vein of the quartz into which three shafts
origin, or the spirit and substance of the old, with have been sunk, and the gentleman who has brought this
its excellencies and its faults, is the only alternative large piece over to this country says he has already got
which the past history add actual position of the i quarts of the value of two million dollars. To extract the
to reduceti,t to powder, aLdifiorttohLsrpara-
English church ;presents to the church reformer. , gull it is ir.ressszy,
On the other hand, it is not intended to deny the i le'olscp!iyactoinwerlrk"thereq‘mri:. Silver anti quicksilverare
TOSaibility of improvement, or to shut out the iaso Nona in the district, end the latter in such abundance
church from the genaal progress of the nation. that it is sold for 3s. ed. an mace.

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FRANCE.
• PARIS, SC/IDiT EVIINING.
I send you to-day the principal features of the
bill framed 'by the Council of State concerning the
ruepoesibility of the President, his ministers, and
public functionaries in general.
The Ist article of the Ist chapter is in these wordi:
The President of the Republic can only be impeached on
account of any acts in which he may have taken part in the
exercise of the power delegated to him in, the following

of M. deThorigny, who said that all persons were
admitted who were decently dressed. id. de Savoie
addressed en interpellation to the government on the
conduct obeerved towards foreign political refares,and
took the occasion to condemn in strong language the
interdiction to KOSSuth of a passage through France.
To these remarks the government made no reply
but the diminution of the grant to refugees by
100,0001, proposed by the committee, was adopted.
A further diminution of 100,000 f. on the remaining
allowance of one million moved by a member of the
Right was rejected. On the whole, this sitting
placed the ministry in a light ill calculated to move
the sympathies of the republicans. It was a perplex-
ing, struggle between the new cabinet and the old
policy.

ales :
1. If he should be guilty of an attempt, or a conspi-
racy, against the safety of the state, or of an attempt or
conspiracy, with the object of destroying or changing the
bras of government, or of suspending the empire of the
mmstitation and the laws.
" 2. If lie should be guilty of exciting to the violation of
Art. 45 of the constitution.
" 8. If he should be guilty of a violation of the constitu-
dm by slamming the command of the armed force
it person, by ceding any portion of territory, by making
vise without the consent of the National Assembly, by
=an amnesty without the intervention of the law,
his pshilege of pardon with regard to a minister
wr say WNW pima who may have been condemned by the
High, Court of Justice, by leaving the continental territory
lithe republic without being authorised by law.'
The 2nd article declares the President responsible, not-
withstanding the countersign of a minister.
The 2nd chapter relates to the responsibility of ministers.
They can be impeached if they should be guilty Ilio accent-
' plices of the crime of high treason defined by
the 68th article of the constitution, or if they should
be accomplices in any of the crimes mentioned
in the article the test of which I have above given. The
cases in which • minister may be held civilly responsible
are mentioned, and these relate principally to expenses in-
curred without a vote of credit, or in excess of the credit
voted.
The 3rd chapter relates to the mode of impeachment.
The President or his ministers may be impeached upon an
accusation signed by ten members of the Assembly.
The 10th and 16th articles relate to the form of proceed-
ing' by the Assembly to pronounce the arraignment. If
the arraignment is pronounced, the Assembly will pass •
decree convoking the High Court of Justice, and desig-
nating the town where the court will hold its sittings. The
Assembly will also appoint the commissioners who are
charged with the minoskre public (a sort of institation
unknown to our courts, and framed with a view to hold the
kalases of justice between the prosecution and the defence)
Wars the High Court, and the accused is immediately
divested of his functions by the very fact of impeachment.
The last paragraph was warmly opposed by M.
Tourangin and others. The 6th chapter relates to
the responsibility of secondary agents. The rest are
without importance. The Council of State has
adopted the bill, as described above. The ministry
wish to adjourn the debate on it. The period for
which the Assembly will fix the discussion will
greatly depend on the progress of relations between
the two powers. But some talk of its coming on the
order of the day in the course of a month.
General Fainter has presented the following as a
sounter-proposition to that of the questors :
Art. 1. The National Assembly, strong in its majesty, re-
nounces all armed force for its security:
Art. 3. The artillery now stationed in the courts shall be
placed at the disposal of the Minister ef War.
In the last sitting of the Club of the Pyramides,
213 members took the engagement to oppose the
Questors' Bill.
The 24th Committee of Parliamentary Initiative
met yesterday to consider the Qusestors' Bill, and
resolved to call in the Minister of the Interior before
coming to any decision upon this important ques-
tion.
The parliamentary club of the Rue de rliniversite,
presided over by M. Holm, have decided for the pure
sad simple rejection of the new Electoral Bill. They
' wish the debate to come on as soon as possible, in
order that the Assembly, by its vote against the
President, may re-establish the moral authority of
the law of May. This club will vote for taking the
Qumutors' Bill into consideration, subject to a refer-
ence to a committee.
The following proposition for the reform of the
electoral law has been presented by M. Randot :
Art. 1. All Frenchmen of full age, enjoying their civil
and political rights, who have complied with the recruiting
law in their commune, and have continued to reside there,
shall be inscribed upon the electoral list of every commune,
according to the prescriptions of the law of May 31.
Art. 2. Every. Frenchman of full age, enjoying his civil I
sad political rights, who is not an elector in the
commune of his residence on account of net I
having resided there three years continuously, shall
upon his request be inscribed upon the list of that commune
to which he shall have complied with the law of recruiting.
IVith the exception of these modifications the law
of 31st May, 18.50, is maintained.
The committee of fifteen, elected by the bureaux
to examine and report upon the bill for abrogating
the law of May, met yesterday. M. Mole, the Pre-
sident, called upon the members for their opinion,
when the majority of 13 adhered to the adverse opi-
nion which they had expressed in their bureaux.
It was resolved that NI. I)aru should draw up his
report at once, without calling upon the Minister of
the Interior to attend the committee.
A warm debate, followed by. an unexpected result,
has taken place in the committee of internal admi-
nistration, upon the question of placing the second
of the Municipal Bill upon the order of the
idloirmi lately mentioned that it was intended by
many influential members of the majority to hasten
the discussion of that bill, and to engraft upon it all
the alterations of the law of May to which they were
prepared to consent. M. E. Amgo in the COM,
Mile° opposed the conversion of a communal into
a political law, and moved that the committee should
propose the adjournment of the second reading. This
motion was supported by MM. Michel (de Bourges),
Prichon, and Morellet
hi. Moulin then moved that the committee itself
should adjourn their consideration of the subject, and
in spite of the vehement efforts of MM. Odilon
Ilserot, Favrcau, de Laboulie, and Monet,; the ad-
journment till Tuesday was carried.
The Electoral Colleges of the Seine aro convoked
foe November 30.
Marrast has been struck with paralysis.
The police profess to have received information
that a number of Frenchmen condemned by
.default
far political offences who had taken refuge in Eug-
land, Belgium, and Switzerland, have resolved ta
come to Paris, there to conspire with the leaders of
the anarchists. Two gentlemen, named Vidal
and Coute, said to be two principal members of
the central committee of refugees in London,
were arrested on their arrival on Friday evening.
As usual in such cases the police reports add that
important political documents were discovered at
their lodgings.
The Paine asserts positively that M. de Maupas
will continue at his post as Prefect of Police.
The sitting of the Assembly yesterday was taken
up with &sharp debate upon the budget of the mi-
nistry of the interior. The new cabinet was placed
in a false and embarrassing position by having to
defend the repressive policy of its prede-1
easson. M. do Thorigny had to bear the
heathen of the sins of M. Leon Faucher. Notwith-
standing
his practice as a speaker, the new Minister
of the Interior was too fresh to parliamentary ,
tactics to baffie as adroitly as DI. Baroehs
would have done, the hits which rained from
Right and Left. When M. baits signalised
the mischievous introduction into criminal pleadings
of anon documents furnished by the police, M.
de readied that the President of the Courts
lat Aides* wespresent to check such an abuse. Next
'IL Croton, the bosom ally of Thiers, used the item
lof a grant on the secret funds to the lithographic
correspondence of Haves as an opportunity
_ to inflict
a mortification on the Elysee. This correspondence,
three or four thousand copies of which were distri-
buted under the auspices of the Prefects throughout
France, was described by M. Creton as an immoral in-
strument of sedition. He proceeded to read an article
which represented Louis Napoleon as the man of pro-
vidence
who would save France in spite of the quirks
of the constitution. M. Faucher replied that the govern-
ment was not responsible for the articles of 'Hamm.
)tat it was n scary to anticipate the news of
I the journals. NI. do Thorigny was obliged to tread
is the steps of M. Faucher, and the Assembly,
which set aside three months ago by voting the
ender of the day interpellations addressed to 11.
Leon Faucher, on the same subject, yesterday in its
severer mood struck off the grant of 32,000 francs to
indict a mortification on the govern meat, which pro-
poses the abolition of the law of May 31. When M.
Ides Fevre called on the cabinet to pledge themselves
Mt la strip printers of their licenses for political rm-
isms If. de Thorigny again offended the Left by
1111,114ging that he would abide by the prescriptions
of the decree of February 1810, and the law of
Dasnaber, 1814, inampamous dates for liberty.
NIL (Manx and lithwieher protested against the
Minim of the Leon lasing prohibited to citizens
is my and blooms. Yoe murmurs arose from the
lisittain at the Mllllldwtary and !Min answer