The Express.
London, England, 1856-09-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, BATORDAY,

Lost► PALMERSTON has osetaialy two advantages
esisMing new Bishops. Ho is without bleeds or
oomasaione of his own in the ishurek to promois, sad
he is wittiest any particular bias er leanings is the)•
legy to favour. Lord PALIMUTTON'S large expleiseas
of sea sad the world. his great sagacity, sad his
strong nose reader him es well aware of the
polities' dangers of priestcraft as statesmen bettor
tioquieted with its recent history in this sollabb
aad mush more alive to its scriptural errors. Whoa
ho so snessestally and cleverly aided in debating the
Boaderbead sad the Jesuits in Eiwitserisad, in oppo-
aides to the Calvinistic M. Omar, he made the
Hones of Commons see that it was their political
mirebievormases, sot their doctrinal mistakes. he ow-
batted. Lord PaLwasros, on the other side, is far
too biome by nature, by habits of life and amoda-
time, by the Whom of his position es an Irish pro-
prietor, and of hie extensive keowledge of sad
istereowe with foreign reentries and governments
to have any sympathy with the ultra-Protestant
school that Lord SHAFTESBURY moo Loved to head.
The whole coarse of his public weer has 'operated him
from wacooformity and dissenters; of it and them
be how little and cares las. TS Lord PAL-
anurros, thus isolated, has not sought either sob-
sirstical support or new bishops is the mnsotermine
of the broad churchmenship which prevailed some
thirty years ago, when he was a young man; ho
ha. really sought out good mon to promote; he his,
we believe, been as little sosooptible of private bla-
mer as any Premier ever was; the great dillies/I.
as sees bermes vacant, has beset for the carious, and
um for those most closely ocanseted with him, to
Sad oat where his choice was likely to fall; and the
ecesequence is, that all Lord Pat KRISTOWS appoint.
meats, from Dr. Vu.usas to Dr. Tem have takes
the public by surprise, and every ore is now wader-
lag who will sawed Dr. LOIIOLIT in the bishopric
of Biro.

Doing jastioe to the general judiciousness of Lord
PALMINNION'II promotions, and heartily approving of
his two previous appdatinente, we do not think he
has been equally felicitous in his tenaslailen of Dr.
LONOLET to the See of Drakes, sad in hie ablation
of Dr. T=IT to be Bishop d Larks. The. is as
obviate objection to those antegaseeis irreepsetively
of the shone made. If trandatka be a good pried*
for Durham, it lea much better principle foe London.
If the clergy and laity of Durham require se their
dioessen • prelate of large sad eitahlideed epieoopai
experience and of tried worth, so sorely do the clergy
and laity of London. If there ire reasons @Oast
giving • divine a mitre worth 8,0004 a year in
Durham all at once, surely the male me me
apply with far more fares la the ease of
the larger and richer bishopric of Loaders.
Again, if the adjoining experience of the Bee of
Rips leads naturally to translation to Durham
ought tot we too in London to have a Bishop who
bee had some metropolitan =perigees, sea kaow-
ledge of metropolitan clergy, ease sequaintaaes with
metropolitan congregations, some ihmilierity with
metropolitan life ? There are nearly three millions of
us. Why throw a complete stranger, a men who has all
his work to learn, amongst us P Lit not a dangerous
experiment P FOR/101A HOWLEY, BLOM/MILD bad
all twee Bishops elsewhere, and bed inquired brie
episcopal experience before they were busked to
Leads& Is the profession, are the duties of a Bishop,
the management of clergy, the right bestowal of
patronage, a ekes socomintenee with London, se easily
karat that, while the pitmen et Durham and the
hinds of Northumberland mast have a Prelate of 10
year/ standing, we Loadoner• can be served by •
Nona Howse? Hardt, with great antosimisa to
Lord Paziesaeros, we think be has made set a
wall mistake. His choice may tarn eat well, bat
the experiment is a haurises and ea aspbeemit
ONO. We had rather it had ben made in Durban
than is London.
Turning to the moo cheese, wow 'edited to agree
with a coatemperary that his pressed mlections will
do Lord PALMIISTON no discredit; but will they do the
chunk gad the country any real enrolee P That is the
quesiloo. Dr. LONOLET is a well-itetracted. tomer
Oohed , clever man. Hahne a mild and aspadties so far
above the average as to entitle him to be es&
reliant. His teas of thought and exproadon, equally
deer, lime, sad liberal. fully warranted his elevation
to the Beech by Lord Men.sootan. His treatment
el the case of the churches at Leeds probably''
saddled those who promoted him. Nothing
could be more severe than the expromione of
• his contempt and anger at the equivocation@ Gag
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the part of the High Chrreltsosa with wb
he was dining, or mare decided then his ocedemmi-
ilea of many of their practices. His conduct, how-
ever, in the practical decision at which he arrived,
was at the time felt to be not altogether eoesisteat
with the opinions he bad expressed. He ought
either to have mid less or to have done more towards
the repression of the follies and mischief which he
had condemned.
Sims that time, however, it has been pretty geserelly
lilt that Dr. LotsoLar has become by degrees either
Jess self-reliant, or lees averse to the Sacerdotal School.
His examining chaplain was permitted, and may still
ier all we know to the contrary be allowed, to make
the narrowest interpretation of the fornealaries
sof the Church of &gland as to what II
nailed Baptismal Regeneration, • test for ad-
„ Milan= to orders. The chaplain's views were
saiatained with arguments such se a tyro
At theology ought to have boon ashamed to tee.
Bat Dr. LONOLZT supported his chaplain, and it was
left to the Archbishop of CANTILINUIT to ordain
pagidatan, whom the Bishop of RIPON rejected. In
the Oxford University Commission, also, the Bishop
has disappointed the hopes of those who remembered
hie early liberality and Manses. It truth, Dr.
LONG ET either appears to have foregone his former
opinion, or he yields to seen of views digerati from.
and to capacities far inferior to hie own. As a Lord
of Parliament, Dr. Losetar has been dint; in his
disown he is mid to be very popular.
The translation of an accomplished gentleman, se
the Bishop I ittrot undoubtedly is, may give antis-
fiction to the mere looker@ an, the men careless of
the wee of the contests which are being waged, not
only in the Church of Ragland, but throughoat the
religious world. It will give satisfestion aim to the
Bacerdotal Party, if upon no other posed, simply as
an scrape from an appointment of a ism decided,
eaanstent, seed bolder Roglish Churchman. Aced as
times go, the Low Churchmen of all colours, whether
moderate or ultra, ought to be thaakfal that as yet
a man his not been promoted who will be actively
'motile to them. The oxperinc. of 20 pan ha, '

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