The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-03 00:00:00

CARDINAL WISEMAN AND HIS MASTER.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.'
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THE " EVANOEIJCAL CHURCH" IN

PRUSSIA.

Our correspondent writes as follows:
pERLIN, Jute 27.

IT would be the height of folly to regard the
successive impertinent aggressions of the Itomish
court as isolated actions, having only the accidental
connexion of contemporaneitv. They are calculated
and combined movements; the gradual development
of a premeditated attack upon the honour and tran-
quillity of England. They must be met and re-
pelkd with as much of earnest perseverance as they
see made with inveterate and unintermitting hos-
tility.
The character of the present pontiff has been admi-
rably delineated by FAWN':
A meek man and a benevolent prince, Pius IX. was, as
• pontiff, lofty even to sternness. With a soul not only
devout, but mystical, he referred everything to God, and
venerated his own person as standing in God's place. He
thought it his duty to guard with jealousy the temporal
sovereignty of the church, because he thought it essential
to the safe keeping and the apostleship of the faith. • •
In his heart the pontiff always came before the prince,
the priest before the citizen ; in the secret struggles
of his mind the pontifical and priestly Nonni, nee
always outweighed the conscience of the prince and citizen.
And as his conscience was a very timid one it followed that
his inward conflicts were frequent, that hesitation was a
matter of course, and that he often tools resolutions even
about temporal affairs more from religiose intuition or ins-
pire than from his judgment as a man. Add that big
health was weak and susceptible of nervous excitement, the
dregs of his old complaint. • • • At the news of the
violene, suffered by the Jesuits in Naples, and threatened
In his own states, he was troubled, and his heart conceived
resentment against the innovators. Afterwards he was
cheered by learning that one of the rulers of the new re-
public of Venice was Tonimasen,whom he valued as a zealous
catholic. Ile hail a tenderness towards the dynasty of
Hovey, illustrious for its mints, and towards Charles Albert,
who was himself most devout. • • • He had fondled
the idea of making his people happy with guarded freedom
in harmony with their sovereigns, of bringing both into
harmony with the papal see, of a popedom presiding over
the league of Italian states, of internal repose and agree-
ment, of civilising prosperity, and of splendour for religion.
But events as they proceeded from day to day shattered his
design.
This picture is trneed by a dispassionate, observant,
and not unfriendly hand; by a statesman who had
frequent opportunities of observing Ptus IX. both in
action and repose. And the outline of the Pontiffs
early career, and the narrative of his acts as sove-
reign, in FAKINI's " History of Home," alike vouch
fur the truthfulness of the sketch.
The feebleness of NIAsT.II FraitErres constitution,
liable in his youth to fits of epilepsy, was the solo
reason why he was prevented front adopting a mili-
tary career, by entering the not very warlike service
of the Nee. Nay, so great was his infirmity, that
years elapsed after ho had assumed the ecclesiastical
habit, and devoted himself to the study of theology,
before he was ordained priest. Ordination was
granted to him on the condition that he should say
mass only in private, and with a priest assistant. As
he advanced in years, his health became more con-
firmed, and he was promoted in the church, but his
whole soul was wrapt up in his ecclesiastical func-
tions. Until his election he was, and was regarded
as, a mere priest.
Ills concessions as Pontiff to the progressive polities
of the day were made on the calculation that thereby
he might unite all the sovereigns and atates of Italy
in subordination to the tiara. Ile shrunk not from
connection with the wildest republicans so long as
they professed submission to the church ; he turned
against the most moderate liberals as soon as they
asserted the civil and political independence of the
laity. lie spoke laild words against Austria, when
that power in its aggressions upon Italy refused to
be checked by papal fultuinations ; lie betrayed the
cause of Italy to Austria as soon as he began to fear
that the German catholics might be brought by their
political leanings to waver in their devotion to St.
Peter's chair. The prince, the man, were dead within
his bosom; he was a priest and nothing but a priest;
and he shrunk from no duplicity, no violation of his
word, that tended to promote his priestly
Without the reckless ambition of some of his pre-
dectssocs or the sensual vices of others, l'ie's IX.
was as dangerous an instrument of the hierarchy of
which he formed a part as any of them. The priest
politician is searchingly analysed by the author from
whom we have already quoted. He remarks, that to
apprehend the difficulties with which the constitu-
tional ministers of the Pon. were beset,
it is Wine to reflect how all the ordinary criterions
of reason, experieuee, public opinion, and utility, lose their
power, whenever the sovereign, loving also Pope, conceive 4
th some temporal affair of his state has to do with the spi-
ritual power. When the sovereign, guardian of the faith,
and guide of consciences, gives such a judgment, then any
such affair is through him drawn within the sphere of tint
infallible will which does not admit of influence or advice
in a contrary sense. In questions of such a nature, laymen
arc always and throughout impotent in dealing with eccle-
siastics; because thi se last are always prone to contemn
human wisdom, and readily find mains to oust and proscribe
it with the metaphysics of theology, and with the doctrines
of the canons and bulls. And the priestly class has invaria-
bly such a mistrust of the laity as perverts their logic; so
that discussion assumes the character, if not the form, of a
bitter coutest.

The Preuuis.lts kiln,ly publishes in its yester-
day's number an " Mass" decree, ordinance, proclamation,
or encyclical letter, of the central evangelical council to the
evangelical churches, touching the question Iwtween these
church... and the " free congregations." This authoritative
document (having withiu tla• church the force of law),
which bean the lokiist dogmatical character, and puts one I
most forcibly in mind of the papal encyclical letters which
COMMl'llfr with thw words, " It has pleased the !tidy
Uliost awl us," twin:its with ex-cathedral approbation the
proce'llings of the churches towards the free congregations ;
that is, it excommunicates afresh all the members of these
congregations, deny iug theta the rites of baptism, marriage,
or burial in cumwerated grautul. There is a great deal of
commonplace reasoning, which would alnuedhave disgraced
the darkness of the middle ages, in defence of this " hene-
sub rit severity which priceeds from the tenderest concern
foe the souls of those who are the object of it ;" awl the
grand purpose of the decree no doubt is to renew and re-
double the real of the church, which had begun to slacken,
in the holy work of the only species of persecution which
the Mint. enth century can (and that hardly) tolerate.
I.:14;11.h readers may he curious to know of what descrip-
tion of persons the " free congregations" are composed.
But it is nut very easy to satisfy this curiosity. in the brief
space of a newspaper letter. It must suffice here to say that
those persons arc not fur the most part what we should call
positive unbelievers, that they are not indifferent to religion,
or, in a denying sense of the word, rationalists, but seem to
base pushed to an extreme a vice which exists very prowl-
.
neatly in by far the hugest division of the Evangelical
!'hutch, itself ; that of interpreting scripture mystically and
fantastically. They appear to lave grown out of the Strauss
School of 1 heology, ur, 'Clam% to have very strung attini-
tits with that mhuol; uud would transform all mysteries
into a mysterious metaphysics, greatly inure incompreheu-
sible than mysteries thous:lves. As for their moral conduct
they have escaped reproach from their enemies on that
head. so that one may assume it is of a fair average quality,
and their strong attachment to the external rites of christi-
unity. is sufficientlj indica...l by the bitter seal of their ad-
versaries to deprive them of diens.
We sutler Socinians, Unitarians, nay more, Swedenbor-
gian., awl Mornionites, to bear the Christian name, to par-
ticipate in Christian rites ; but these " free congregationists"
are certainly not so fir removed from what is generally
called " orthodoxy" as any of the sects just named. They
reverence the Bible, and most of them, in a mystic sense
of their own, even receive orthodox doctrines.
If, however, the evangelical church merely said—" You
shall have no communication, tus communion with us ; we
won't baptise yon, we wolf % many you, we want bury
you," such a resolution, though an exceedingly mistaken
arid unwise one, might pass without notice. But tbe con-
clave, io the edict alluded to, go much further, and ex-
presaly 'my, the rites of baptism, marriage, and burial,
which you may perform among yourselves, or by whomso-
ever performed in your behalf, have nu validity. We, the
state church, with our " supreme bishop" at our head, pro-
claim you to be, despite these forms which you have gone
through, unhaptised heathens, to be unmarried, living in
adultery with those you !Al your wives, to be the parents
of illegitimate offspring, of bastardy, and we deny you any
other burial than that of Turks or I'sgsns. As such we
denounce you to the people, and thus virtually bid all
Christians to shun and to abhor you.
This conduct of the evangelical church of Prussia stands
in very striking contrast with that of the Lutheran church,
which is not connected with the state, and with the Baptist
churches, which have balms very numerous in Uermany
of late years.
These churches, though objecting as strenuously to the
doctrines of the "free congreg itionists" as the evangeli-
cal., have yet thundered no anathemas at them, but acknow-
ledge them, in the a ide sense of the word, to be their
Christian compatriots—they neither heathcnise them, nor
bastardise their offspring; and are ready to interchange
with them all the common good offices of social life. The
Lutherans and the Baptists, however, might have aeted as
the evangelical church has dune in this matter; and, by so
doing, would have gained great favour from the govern-
ment; whereas, at present, they are exposed to much secret
opposition from that same quarter.

These are the deliberate conclusions of a Roman
catholic who has been a minister of state at Rome
and whose honest and unintermitting efforts as minis-
ter were devoted to the reconciliation of the pontifical
authority with liberal and good government. The his-
tory of Rome from 1815 to 1850, by LUIGI CARLO
FARINT, is a record of experiments made with great
skill and entire good faith to engraft constitutional
government on the institutions of the papacy ; and it
is also a practical demonstration that the POPE is by
character and position the irreconcileable antagonist
of civil liberty and good government. It proves be-
yond dispute that Italy must choose between liberty
and the popedom, for the two cannot exist together.
But since Pius IX. sold the cause of Italy to the
Austrians, and indeed before, he has been struggling
to extend his authority beyond Italy, and reconquer
revolted territories of the church. He is obliging the
Austrians to implement their part of the unholy
bargain by their aggressions upon the protestantism
ens Cassel. His crusade against the ascend-
ancy of civil government is England dates
from an earlier period. It was already pro-
jected when Lord MINT° was at Rome, and
the astute and deceitful l'ontiff, while fawning
upon that unsuspecting nobleman, was weaving nets
around him, to give a show of probability on some
future occasion to the assertion that everything had
been done with his connivance. The division of
England into Roman catholic dioceses, and the ap-
pointment of prelates to them, and the ostentatious
soliciting of Italian subscriptions to found a
.perma-
nent mission in London, have had less in view the
organisation and extension of the Romish church
in this country, than the bidding defiance to its secu-
lar government, and asserting authority over them.
The contest now in progress is less between Romanist
and Protestant than 'between the POPE and free
Englishmen. The abettors of the Papal encroach-
ments, be they Protestants or be they Romanists, are
false to their duties as Englishmen.
The struggle has been none of our seeking. The
emancipation of the Roman catholics from civil dis-
abilities in England has been repaid by the head of
their church with contumely and aggression. Any
weakness, any yielding on the part of the English
government or people, would but invite further in-
sults and contraventions of our laws. Not a hair-
breadth can be yielded to Plus IX. and the mis-
proud priests who are now fighting his battles
among us. Hating the clause respecting common
informers--objectionable on grounds entirely apart,
from the main question at issue—the Ecclesiastical
Titles Bill, as modified by Sir F. Turstcr.ft's amend-
ments, is not a whit too strong fur the occasion.
Not satisfied with the contempt he has shown for
our constitutional law, Cardinal WtsEn.sst has en-
TUE LONG-EXPECTED APPOINTIIF.NT OF ADDI. 7 tered the lists against the secular authorities of Eng-
TIONAL QUEZX's COUNSEL AT TUX EQUITY EAR will, it land on another quarrel. The committee of the
understood, take place forthwith. The learned endears
House Commons.. now inquiring into the law of
mentioned as likely to receive the honour on this occasion
are: Mr. Wilkock, Mr. Ch adder, Mr. Follett, Mr. Camp- mortraam intimated, some time ago, to his Eminence
bell, Mr. Daniel, Mr. Blume, Mr. Craig, Mr. Headlam, and their wish to have the advantage of his evidence. Ile
Mr. Bay.. These elevation, to the Inner Bar have become expressed a coy and modest reluctance to make such a
neetasag in consequence of the contemplated increase of public a nee, but promised to send his solicitor,
the sittings before the new court of 'Nicol, and the recent all n information. The man
oddities of Vies-Chancellor Turner to the Equity Beach.— who woman give
Menav Paper. of law accordingly acp= and answered frankly

enough till some questions were put relative to
the amount of property at the disposal of the
Cardinal, in trust for the purposes of his church.
Then ensued a steno of dexterous fencing that
might have done honour to a witness at the Old
Bailey, ending in a positive refusal to give the in-
formation, on the plea that it would be to violate
professional confidence. The committee, finding that
the Cardinal's substitute (lid not hold himself autho-
rised to give all the information promised, hare been
obliged to insist upon the attendance of his Eminence
in person. The summons has already been sent to
him. The Cardinal, and his master, and the &tate-
/vex of Austria, who arc making cat's-paws of both
to stir up smouldering embers in England into a
flame, will be taught practically that here the secular
law is paramount, and that no servant of a foreign
pontiff (or English prelate either for that matter)
will be allowed to disobey it.

YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAILWAY
COMPANT.—TILE MALTON AND TIIIRa[ BRANCH.—A
special meeting of this company was held on Monday last,
at the Be Grey Rooms, York, to consider and decide upon
the steps to be taken with reference to a return made by
the company to a writ of mandamus issued by the Court of
Queen's Bench, requiring the company to make the Thirsk
and Melton branch, and to consider the terms of any con-
tract previously entered into in reference thereto. There
was a rather numerous body of shareholders present. The
chair was token by Mr. Leeman, who proceeded to address
the shareholders, and having at some length reviewed the
principal events in the history of the company since
1816, he concluded by proposing the following resolution :
" That the directors be authorised to enter into any con-
tracts which may be proposed to them by any persons for
the construction of the Think and Malvin branch and its
works, or in relation thereto, provided the sum to be paid
by the shareholders of this company for such purpose do
not exceed 50,00111„ and that they be empowered to bind
this company to allot shares in the capital authorised to be
raised by the Think and Mahon acts to any parties who
may contribute funds beyond such iiil,oool., and to gua-
rantee to such shares any proportion of the profits of such
line, and to issue suck shares on such other terms and
conditions as may be agreed upon ; and if contracts satis-
factory to the directors be entered into then that the direc-
tors he authorised, if they think tit, to proceed with the
purchase of the land fur the construction of the said line
and works ; resolved that the directors be authorised to
make such return, and take such other steps as they he
advised with reference to the writ of mandamus issued by
the Court of Queen's Bench, requiring the company to pro-
ceed with the Think and Mather branch."—Mr. rulleine,
the deputy chairman, seconded the motion; which was
carried, there being four di•sentients.—A vote of thanks
was given to the chairman and directors, and the meeting
concluded.

A LIBERAL Bisnor.—The Westmorland Gazette
states boa the Bishop of Durham has subscribed 151. toss arda
au Independent chapel in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and gives
the following as a copy of his lordship's letter, transmitting
his donation :--" 4,L pper Portland-place,June 7.—Sir,—Al-
though with ample means at my disposal, I can scarcely
satisfy the demands of my own church and my own people,
yet I have never forgotten that all Christians are brethren,
and that, however we may differ as to the meaning of Scrip-
ture upon some points of doctrine or discipline, very few
Protestants fanto inculcate what is essential in Christianity.
I am painfully aware of the spiritual dentitution of New-
castle, of its increasing population, and of the pains which
have been taken to disseminate infidelity and socialism; I
cannot, therefore, feel myself justified in resisting your
appeal on behalf of a more spacious and commodious place
of worship, and especially for a larger establishment of
schools in the principles of revealed relgion. Towards those
joint good purposes you and the congregation will be pleased
to accept the invitee(' cheque.—l ant, sir, your obedient ser-
vant, 1.. DesEte.—Junes Wilson, Esq."
TIIE QUEEN'S COLLEGES IN IRELAND.—Ott Wed-
nesday a bill in the House of Lords was printed to amend
the several acts for the regulation of attorneys and solicitors.
The object of the bill is to extend the provision of the act
mentioned to students of the new colleges in Ireland, in the
same manlier as to students of Oxford and Catnbridge, to
facilitate their admission as attorneys and solicitors.
THE hu.su CENSUS.—The Saunders News Letter
has the following on this subject, and I believe (says our
Dublin correspondent) the statement is made on good autho.
rity The census will show an important decrease in the
population ; large in a positive and largo in a relative point
lit view. It will be found, we believe, that the diminution in
the population rather exceeds one million and a half; and
while one part of this arises from the pressure of poverty
and disease on the peasantry, a larger portion has been
caused, no doubt, by the desire to fly front thecountry, visited
as it has been, and tried severely.' The Daily [:'sprees says :
We have been just informed that a person, representing
himself to be a clerk in a public department in Lublin, has
voluntarily surrendered to the police in Manchester, and
confessed himself to be the murderer of the mail who fell
ilnwn dead in the General Voluation-office on the 9th of
June. Ile said he owed the deceased a srite, and, awaiting
his opportunity to be avenged, procured some oxalic acid,
and having ordered two glasses of porter for himself and the
doomed mon, shook the poison into the glass of his victim,
who had gone to the window for a moment. Soon after the
deceased, while seated at his office desk, suddenly fell down
witnout sating a word, and died in a pew minutes. The
bud). was to be exhumed yesterday."
13011 Y OF A,TouiuSr FOUND AT LOCIIEARNIIEAD.
—ln the month of September last, a genteel-looking young
man, a stranger, and supposed to be a tourist, ahout twenty-
tire years of age, and apparently about 5 feet 10 inches in
height, dressed iu a black frock coat and shepherd tartan
trousers, was seen wending his way towards a house on the
aorta side of Lochearn. A deep ravine, through which at
the time rushed impetuously u swollen rivulet, had to be
crossed before he could reach the domicile. The
stranger never appeared at the dwelling, and it was con-
jectured he had gone in some other direction until lately,
when the remains of a man in a sadly decayed state were
found near the beach ou the south side of the loch, with
part of the flesh adhering to the bones, and remnants of the
black coat and tartan trousers covering the skeleton. It is
now supposed that the unfortunate tourist had been at-
tempting to cross the rivulet—that the body had been car-
ried down by the atream, and in course of time drifted
across the luck to the spot where the remains were ulti-
mately found.—Perthshire Adotrtiser.
WEST WHEAL JEWEL MINING COMPAST.—
Yesterday, a special meeting of the shareholders in this
company took place at the offices in Ohl Broad-street, for
the purpose of confirming a resolution passed at a previous
meeting, authorising the directors to raise additional capi-
tal by the issue of 3, sl5 preference shares of 30s. each. Mr.
Bowden in the chair. '1 he resolution was confirmed unani-
mously, and a weekly report was presented, showing that
time prospects of the mine were of the most satisfactory
character.

MA-NCHESTER COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION. —On
Friday, at a meeting of the Manchester Commercial MAO-
elation, at its rooms, in York-buildings, it was resolved to
petition in favour of a cheap and uniform ocean postage to
all parts of the world. Tbe association did not adopt the
prayer of a " Penny Postage," which has been so long put
up by Elihu Burritt and others; leaving the rate of postage
indeterminate, and requiring only that it should be cheap
and uniform. The asaociation's petition is to be placed in
he hands of Mr. Brown, M.P.—Manchester Examiner.
THE FLAX CROP ABROAD AND AT lion E.—The
deficiency of the Russian flax crop develops itself more and
more as the season advances. The Nortlwra Whig, refer-
ring to the subject, says: "From the circular of Mean.
11111, Brothers, of Riga, it appears the quantity of flax
packed at that place up to the Ist of Jun this year was.
9,050 tons, against 19,820 tons same period of 1100,
being a deficiency of more than one half. The quantity
received at Riga during the mouth of May this year
had not been officially published , but it was expected
it would not much exceed 1,000 tuns; whereas the
quantity received during the corresponding month of
114.0, was 4,820 tons. The decrease in the supplies arriving
at St. Petersburg and Archangel is about in a like pro-
portion. This deficiency is attracting much attention,
and is so great as to excite the fears of the large flax con-
' miners of these countries. It is true that in Ireland we
are likely to have an excellent Aid an abundant crop, there
being a greater extent of ground under flax cultivation
this year than has been the case for many years past, and
so far the crop progresses most favourably. But although
we are no alarmists, having generally found that a ' long
expected famine' seldom arrives, yet we think that our
spinners should not over coafitlentli rely on the crop of this
country alone. They should bear in mind that their means
of consumption have very materially increased within the
past year; that so serious a deficiency of the Russian crop
must throw the English, Scotch, and continental spinners
into our markets for a portion of their supplies, and that
there will be a very serious deficiency in the quantity of
foreign flax imported into Ireland this year as comrared
with that of lust year. The quantity of foreign Sax im-
ported into Ireland last year was upwards of 11,500 tons,
whereas this year it is not likely to exceed 3,000 tons, if
it should reach so high. The facts we have hero put
forth cannot be controverted, and believing the publication
of them may serve a good purpose we have considered it a
duty to lay them before those who may feel an interest in
the subject."
DUNnow GAMMON OF BACON.—After the lapse
of 100 year* this gammon of bacon has been claimed by a
couple in good circumstances, as farmers, at Felsted, Essex,
named Burrell, but, failing to obtain it from the lord of the
manor, the inhabitants of Dunmow have procured one by
subscription, which will be presented to them, instead of the
lord's, on their taking the usual oaths, at Itroomhills, near
Daamow, on Wednesday, the 16th of July. The couple
will drive on to the pound (escorted by a band el mimic)
in their own eaniage and hones. A buy numbsr of pet,
Boos are eareted to 000gresete to whine, the ceremeessy.