The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-31 00:00:00

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daty NI sot Mr.CMWITIZ, and such m-
edlars. Men la drawing paha Median to
its la
word% the mil of the ad-
Mime Om tithe mest easiest Ni essmrsed
m-
mildee b the wield le eid ovosspolown b tba
ttio
own ot tito badiafttior salksbosam bolo boos
Imbed at. If Me Mem wires we mid maw
Met we shield bawl *Mg bates m M the meseity
de Ohs wifivialti Is Mewls easy limp et medal
utility, TM tree eme however, lies mash deeper
them the ems emigned.
This cane is the dieerehieel emetalien of the
adversity. The Mkt body amide el de perms
ealy—th• Vier sAmMor, three Dalin, and two
Motets of Aes. VitoChisoallar himself
usually cheeses his five impede= In rice. This
body, which is celled the Ceewsr, b emslasively the
privilege ef originating Mg weemel he alteration in
the goverment ef the aniolooliv. nod trivial
improvemn. tits loam at the aim abase,
nag bo Ina aggoanad of awl by_tho Otpot
ittalladkott atm
lb.
eft of tofasiag a amodos to rro-
ileis ismist deliberate on any
measere. Ite pewee begins and ends in a
simple allentation or negation of the " gram "
proposed to ft by the &pd. The Senate amide
mainly g
ym the masters of arts, of whom the majority
are clergen engaged ia their parishes at a distance
from the university, sad whose mations are of such
a nature as to must their familia very decided
opinions on the subject of changes, who are oon-
secrently influenced in their votes, whenever party
spirit invokes their pinnace in the senatelonee, by
consideration', or the fleet plausible pamph-
freitrethltimmte their eye. It is a carious sight to se*
turtles of these voters led up to give their votes,
without having or pretending to have, any opinion on
ti .e subject in dispute, beyond that which has been
to a manner forced upon them by Dome
buy frie ar dignitary of their college. When
once this sies, however obtained, is taken, there is
very little chases of its being shaken, as there is no
--•sion allowed. The Senate hu nothing to do but

itcord its vote.
The working of this strange system is, that
all power of legislation rests virtually, except on
sesmaione of great earAtemeat, in the Caput. The red-
dest Senate, as it any be sailed, is a mere form. The
heath of cones" 111.110111 a
in number, elect them-
selves " in and in' to the elm of Vice-Chancellor
and to the Osumil el the Caput. Their posi-
tion thus binge this into contact with the
aristocracy d the firotry.. They supply the materials
teem which bishops and digaitaries are made. They
MVO ia the emppeas wenn et the society of Eng-
land—the mid -addesealbmi moiety in the whole
timid. They are elempei ter ever with the " broad
wow" of tleireey is impemible for any one
net a membor ef the .einweity te aseedve the tre-
mendous gulf tibia emirates these tanctionariee
bon OM nembers of the learned moiety.
The Wm dim" which is applied to them expense
bat very Wady the diary altitude of their position
Now it is this perilous altitude of the authorities if
the university which has proved so prejudicial to the
working of that body, considered as a phme of dm.
tion. Cam and Oxford also have emu Mbe
considered no so merely educational
done, bat as ties where cereals holds are le be
formed. The donne of them two institution is met
now rested on their power of communicating the a-
sults of the efforts of leaned men in various depart-
mute of science, bat as reunions, where the budding
aristocracy of the country may amenable to acquire
oertainhabito,to form certain acquaintances, totem*s
a certain atmosphere, to become influenced by
certain traditions. The most planned and pine
rotates of the universities, such men far indium as
Mr. MAr me, ham rested their adverts., es tine
grounds. This was the view in which they were ia
garded by the belt defenders of the resat=
the debates in the House of Conantem
holds but a secondary position in the argemens tithe
supporters of the two universities; the formalise of
hake' holds the first. The society at he volversityt
its expenu, its deficiency, as aOm et
education, are all excused by bringing premWntly
forward its one as a nursery for the upper ranks of
society. Cock-fighting, boree-recing, and foe-
hunusg, are defended, be it observed, on
precisely the same meson ; they have been
called eunntial parts of the meditation !
Now, if the plural standard of the education of the
universities were raised, this system would perish.
Hundreds of young men, of good families, proceed
at present to the universities, who would never dream
di
entering were the standard placed at all high—were
they, in short, obliged to study. The colleges would
thereby lose their aristocratical character. The dons
would lone numbers of the small links which connect
them with themppa world. They would have to con-
fine their aunties more to the sphere of the univer-
sities, and lose great 'art of the elevation which
is a joint product of their position and of the pre-
sent system. It would never do to require
too much work from the scions of the aristocracy,
or they would never become members of the univer-
sity. This it is which ads as • drag upon the pro-
gress of Cambridge and Oxford, and which will pre-
vent them from taking the foremost rank in the
advance of soignee. It the oligarchical system could
be changed. if the Innate could regain any of Ito
anoint right, could it become a deliberative and
initiative body, we might hope indeed to see these
venerable institutions take a piece worthy d
their ancient fame : until this is done, we can expect
nothing but the retain dos to patchwork legislation.

Wooly willingly inserted in the Express of the
19th inst., a letter in praise of the Bishop of LLANDAFT
from one ci his clergy. Its terms were, however, too
, and its fion too indiserluain" ate, to pro-
runereny ce alteration re
on in, or modification cot the
we had expressed on his lerliiPti soolosteritt
case of the Welsh curate, whose letter VI publiahed
and commented on • so we assempsaird the esosinn
nation with eileoci. It may intiat Dr. Connote=
is, in some people's estimeabin quite a " swig
bishop r bat his alleged gamma spiesspal exisellson 1
we need hardly !murk to a body el lormil men, is I
no reply to specific statesmen sedately diseting the 11
due administration of his dims'.
To-day, however, we inset a letter of a different
damp, from the Rev. WILLIAM Cmonnv, one of the
Archdeacons of the dims, of Lisodsff; and as it pro-
fesses to enter into a distailed delinses of Dr. COPLll-
snows and his aoudad la tide matter, we proceed at
0009 to notice its ocatests,l giving, as his rank de-
mands, prondenco to the charge against the bishop of
Wog & pluralist.
Its nos, mays his lordship's defender, that the
Bishop of LL9NDAFF is a pluralist ; but his use is a
very poor one ; therefore it is necessary to eke out the
1,0001. a year it produces by the revenues of
the deanery of fit. Paul, which we observe are stated
in a parliamentary paper to be worth upwards of
6,00 a a year though only set down in the " Clergy
List "mu 3,000 L In addition to which, another cor-
reeponient iota= as that Dr. Conastrosx holds
the lesesurership of the Cathedral of Llandaff
i midi lOW. a year, and a living in his own flumes
of the same value! We mans our inability 1
to noun to this reasoning. All that we can admit is,
that the Bishop's pluralism is part of a very bad aye- 1
ten whisk was rampant when Dr. COPLISTOIII was'
ailed to the spiseopal bench; but which a high sense
of duty mid iserality had always condemned; and 1,
which pal& splas in advance of episcopal oom 1
taimeerratai. bms at' last forbidden the repetition 1
of, We oast, however, grant that 1,0001. a year
lis too little for a Bishop of LLANDATIP (the Arch-
1 bishop of Peale has hardly so much); whilst oer-
'Moly 6,6001. a year are in our judgment a great sisal
too much, even though he be also Dean of St
treasurer of the Cathedral of Llandaftan
vicar of a parish in that diocese. Nay, at
the risk of being called radicals, infidels. or
even the latest bugbear, ►red republisomes tin
will record the opinion that the rate of JAINISM as-
signed by recent legislation to our bishops is greatly
beyond what their position requires, or what
th., means and necessities of the church au-
thorise ; and that a revision of that scale
is indispensably mammary. The notion that
religion is advanced by the Archbishop of CANTER-
Bray having 16,0001. a year, and two pdadiee, or
that the see ci Durham cannot be properly governed
for leas than 8,0001. a year, garnished by a castle at
Bishop Auckland, and au hotel in town, is really on a
par with old Clamor ROCE'S standing argument, that
perseverance in the Revolutionary War was nsomessay
to preserve ourselves front " the gloomy despair Of
Wilt tun." It is nonsense, but very miembievotas
r..n.P.:,-2. We hact, to be awe, for the future
but 1 Ital of tLe: pa o'ci,as practice of bishop,

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TUPpAT

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bolding lostadesli,,rat: Sidkol4o/4., „..►..aa. est, :th*ll of
[Uvula doss a stall in Daman IAZDIPMISI, as the
Bishop of LLANDJURP doss the dowry of BC aura
but Ws bass substituted for sisal bad Ts
asked *impel imams preposterously ; with
addidsaasatiasseassoiaproviding *sot ' palaoss

still waif. Bat if it were aseismy to give the Bishop al
Lt 6,oool.ayser as Dean =St-Paul's, thereby
rto
iodise and enable him to administer duly and @E-
ska* the malesianisal dhits el that diens., dip
=in tiros said to be =eh& hr the Welsh See mast,
eft meeeeeitate, have bees barthl to the Landon
ikagarry. For if the Mayo ids ditty, the dean must
neglect his. And what geed might sot a real, a true
I Data of Bt. Patifs obis= with eves 40001. a year?
Constantly reddest at his deanery, he weld be fore-
most in every de= wait ; the premeter sad =minis-
tra m. of all Of ty &Mein; thehead. the friend, the
adviser of its aiqpi the eqsalataase and ally of its
laity ; the patron and ci ite poor. How
haMir sad mamma Ms benevolent face would be in
Cheapide. Haw anistantly would his well known
men be min with in the filthiest of our courts and
tn the pelmet se ear alleys. How frequently should
we have him resift over meetings to advance edu-
sides, peseade piety, to relieve suffering. How
=traced= vain his superintendence, would the
cathedral be. Sash a Dean of St. Paul's we, citizens
of Landon, would have been thankful for but such an
one the Bishop of LLANDAY7 has not been to as. He
has treated his deanery as an ;nonage of his see. At
the cost of London he has been charitable and munifi-
cent at Llandaff. And therefore we repeat that if the
union of the deanery and the bishopric in the person of
Dr. COPLESTONI has been beneficial to Llandaff, it has
been hurtfal to Laudon. It may have given to the
principality the substance of a Whop ; but it has
left the metropolis with the shadow of a dean.
Thus every sentence in praise of Dr. Common
the Bishop of LLANDAFF, Involves condemnation of
Dr. Corte.srown, the Ikon of St. Paul's. Unless, in-
deed, it be contended by his clergy that the task im-
posed by his episcopate of governing them, entirely or
to some extent, relieves their diocesan from any atten-
tion to theduties which we hold to attachto the deanery
of St. Paul's. And it really is matter of very great
practical importance, as it certainly would be a psy-
chological curiosity, to ascertain what is the Bishop of
LLANDAYT'S estimate of the responsibilities he in-
curs in holding the deanery of Loudon. For art
own part we think the toclesiastical commimisases
might with great advantage hays bedewed as tlis
Bishop of LLANDATT some part of the ussay they
have spent in buying and building episcopal pale
if only to have released a weak and erring MsaadtYeeerr
from the dangerons predicament of smunung duties
which he doss not adequately perform.
Oar correspondent assures us that the diocese of
Llandaff has benefited greatly by the ability to
govern it which the deanery of St. Paul's, with its
6,000!. a year, has thus conferred on Dr. COPLESTONE.
We hope it is so • bat if be will turn to Mr. J. C.
SYMONS' meat Repot on the counties which sew
pose the bishops see, he will thole find bow meek his
lordship has still to accomplish. For savage barbs
risen is the only general term which is at all de-
scriptive of the detailed accounts there given of
the vice, ignorance, brutality, and irreligion which
characterise the mining districts of Monmouthshire
and of which (for the benefit of Bishop and Arch-
deacon, who seem to have overlooked them) we will
take an early opportunity of giving some examples.
Far this state cl things the bishop is certainly not
primarily answerable. But we cannot discover in
the report any evidence of episcopal interference
to restrain those evils, or to reconquer the
district to civilisation and Christianity. And until
we know what DY.COPLESTONE Das done fee this por-
tion of the dines= we can place little reliance on
flaming panegyrics on his general episcopal exertions.
So much for the Bishop; now for the Curate.
Undoubtedly the Archdeacon of MONYOCTII has added
some new heti to his ease; but that dignitary will
forgive us far saying that the additions have net
much mended the matter. It seems that the nos-
resident vicar had not, as we (favourably for the
bishop) supposed, another living to excuse and
justify Dr. 130PLEBTONE'd permission of non-resi-
dence. It was given because of the want of
a parsonage house in the parish. But this =tat
equally affected the curate ; for Welsh curates
do not, we presume, peewee the habits of their
sweaters, the ancient Britain, and live in the hollows
of trees. If, then, the want of a parsonage holm
was, in the Bishops opinion, a sufficient ground far
his authoring/ the incumbent's non-residence, surely
it ought to have been quite as much an inducement
for his snag to the curate he subetituted a as&
elect stipend. It the vicar, with en income of 4001.
a year, could not reside bemuse be had not a par-
sonage boas, rent free, how, in the name of humanity,
was the carats to live in the parish for 251., 751., or
even on the maximum (only to be reached at the ex-
piration of two years' previous starvation), 801. When
the poverty of the seed Llandafi'was painted oat to Dr.
Coetssrona's patron, the deanery of St. Paul's, with
5,0001. a year, was added to that preferment. When
the curate in question appealed to Dr. Cortarrona
to save him from a povmty which was illegal, his
vicar received permisene. to dim= so trotibleneme a
correspondent. The =trout here is certainly set be
favour of the bishop.
The Archdeacon of Montour!' places the Bishop's
detente very much on the conduct of the vicar wheat
first evaded the law as to curates, and tbsa
deceived the Bishop as to ;building a parson-
age house. But in our judgment, this disorderly
ecclesiastic's conduct makes against the Bishop; ,
for it is obvious that no episcopal favour ought to
have been shown to an incumbent who could act in
such a manic to his diocesan and his parish ; whereas
it appears be was allowed to do very much as he
pleased. Nor does the Bishop gain mach by the state-
ment that the curate was at one time unwilling to
have his stipend relied ; for that unwidingue= if
true, and his future application to be placed in pos-
ited= cd what the law allowed him, at the most only
skews the curate's inconsistency in his conduct to the
Bishop, and, if these allegations be well founded, his
bad faith in corresponding with us. While what we
censured was the bishop's di gn• of his own dais
in the matter; and that he did disregard them we or
peat, the archdeacon's letter r otwithstanding.
The incumbent of the living is admitted to have
been non-resident. What, then, are a Bishop's duties
in cams of non-residence P Happily for the chum*
they are not vague or even discretional ; they are pre-
cise and meant to be compulsory. For by 1 & 9 Vier.,
c. 108, sec. 46, it is emoted—(for the benefit cl
curates we give the very words of the act) :
That is every saes in which any spiritual pin= shall
have bow stags the 20th , July ee benolisr ha
inetitutsa.b=enia".%:n. =liar sht ath.g'
wire hams of any ma art dab
raids thins* the blimp alai =Oat far the mats
llamas& aster the peweidine et Oh an to serve such bene-
fice, sock stipend m bassinshar sant mentioned; that Is
to say, ma stiponi ihall lit no am be Lie dm SOL pee
annum - use low hiss MK per seaum, er them the tilde
value, it sack mho shah not sweat te 1001., sup pad&
or place where the pepolstion shall amount to VS pesesesi
nor leas than Mt per sangem, or than the while wins, II
such value shall nal nmenat to 1201., in any parish or plane
when the pepulatim shall amount to 600 pumas; we Le
thee 1351. per eis, = than the whole Tans, if sash rohn
shall not anseemsem tMs UK, in any perish or pine where tho
popnlatim shall ookoost to 760 persona ; nor lees than MIL
per annual, or them the whets value, if each vow shall not
mount to 1601, is soy pen= ow place whore the pepaladist
Ball amount to LOCO piess.
This surely is strong smash. But the legislature,
as if afraid of sweeps! neglect of even thee
a
tifsg by the 90th" smoke of Wm statute has ma=
that au agreements for stipends to curates sentrery to
the foolroxi section are to be void. And bishops, Is
caseeagreements, are directed to
the profits of the benefice to pay the stipenriatesatiet
pro-
vided for by law.
These, then, are the duties of a bishop in saes of
non-residence. Will it, in the face of such most.
meets, be pretended that the Bishop of LLANDAIIT
in sanctioning a rate of stipend to the curate of a sea-
resident benefice, where the population was 600, at'
231. for the first year, 751. for the second year, 801.
for the third, fulfilled the duties thus imposed an him
by the legislature ? We respect the seal of the Arch-
deacon of Monarorre for the reputation of his dio-
cesan, but, as he has impeached our veracity in this
matter, we call on him, by the obligatiocs he owes to
truth, to answer this inquiry ; to any whether the
statute in this case was duly implemented by the
Bishop of LIANDAR.
Such are the confirmed opinions to which the
Archdeacon of MONMOUTH'S letter, and further reflec-
tion, have conduced ; we cannot expect them to
satisfy Dr. Confirm?: es admirers, but of this they
may be assured, that it is in the prevalence of buck
views only that there is safety or 1,1,c,-si for the
church of 'England.

'ENING, OCTOBER 3

1848.

hls Reps of the isuisipel eleption)t 1/4n
bash is significant. It throws le curious and not an
unplessing light on the state of poffiskal-Meling in the
[Motels
The f=lll6eandiclate for the office of
hohioefnoLte-
testate Ronne Camases—a gentleman
known far beyond the limits of Edinburgh for
eastumtsl abate in the mane' education and popular
Illosion. Mr. CHAMBERS has bees invited to offer
iemeW_ liberals, and le preferred even by the
mesa deeMeo liberals to any other person who has
Imisaamool ix the adios. Yet Mr. Camino has
saw boss a political agitator, and hie earlier
prothistioas indicated a strong leaning to the poetical
peaks at Iscobitisen. We believe he still clings fel
so fez es his imagination or sentiment is concerned be ,
his mirlY predilection', thoosh'experience of life bee
imparted a more practical character to his views.
But the ROBERT CHAMBERS has large intellegimi
sympdides—he takes Mama in every depasemest
a loam inquiry—he feels the importance of odd-
vette( the pure reason, and does his utmost to pro-
mote intellectual education. There is nothing see-
tartan shoat him, either in politics or religion, and he
has new ban mixed up with party. Add to this
that those of his writings which have won for bin
most popularity, and bid fairest to survive, are oter
dies of human character, marked by deep eat Moo
bat playful insight into the motives of adios;
that strong shrewdness and common semi aro
the predominart feature of hie moral refiectiosse I and
that the fortune he has so honourably acquired by Mal
exerticas bespeaks prodsoce and perseverance. He
is a practical liberal-, fully up to the mark of the
society in which he lives, free from party fetters, a
man of principle and integrity.
It is creditable to the sagacity of the Edinburgh
liberals, who have pram I. as their candidate for the
highest samicipal *See in their city an active
liberal, whose earnest anxiety to promote education,
sanitary miens, and other great objects of municipal
institutions hes been proved, to mere loud professors of
the forms& of liberalism whose course has been
marked by infirmity of purpose. Bat the seised=
of Mr. CHAMBERS has a wider significance. Missiles, I
that step in that revolt from the shackles of old
party names which ensured the return of Mr. COWAN
se representative of the city, and it is free from the
equivocal features which the prominence of anti-
Maynooth feelings communicated to that movement. i
The election of Ammar CHAMBERS to be Lord Pro.
vest el Edinburgh would show that the enlighten
yet maexaggerated liberalism which ensured the rte
-tors or FRANCIS JEFFREY and JAMES An Esc:Roma
at the first election under the Reform Bill, still mor-
tises ; and that those who are animated by it have
emancipated themselves from that excessive deference
to conventional rank which used to be their besetting
sin.
We are not sufficiently in the secret of Edinburgh
politics to be able to conjecture what are Mr. CHAM-
BERS'S prospects of success. We have no right and
no wish to obtrude our opinion on the electors of
Edinburgh. Bat should it happen that he is ulti-
mately elected, we feel confident that his integrity,
genial disposition, and sound sense, will make him
a worthy summer of ADAM BLACK, who, widely
though Ise differs from him in regard of the keen
interest he has always taken in political discussion,
and in his somewhat trenchant deportment, cannot be
surpassed in sincere desire to promote the public
good, or in dauntless, incorruptible integrity. The
elevation of Mr. Caumneas to the civic chair would
be a guarantee for the predominance of wise, prac-
tical liberalism in the local administration of Edin-
burgh, and ae a recognition of the merits of one who
is emphatically the son of his own works, would be
-4. invaluable lesson to younger citizens.

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