The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

=is a It is no positive,
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he March had in
VAC% tinged the et
chi Ile
rem lb dee fern* la die Christian (amnion
Perhytmy 1011.4 claim el the laityM
Isom alba, dim* Istrednoed the adios 41
msramental elbow MS any of 6* idel; pee.
beery abolished il tele Om &Wait ids S 1 • NOW
mint. Its use be the Wadi Wadi with *WI Mb.
rises. Its ems Ilselbed was
islltem with greet drawbeekalii"atrig
ot " great prise in the inch-11
&novel tle imilmements which before aO4 apse
the sal/ft to blues an aristocratical eiseseat tats
die connected itself with the same lib
aed eastries—it eaablished a national system el ode. 11
alive which, although contracted in kind, was mere
widely extended than that of any other waft le
Beret& But here its good effects end. It proved,
whim brought into unchecked operation, to be
mere bigoted than the papal church in its most
bigoted timee, with respect to the exposition ooforeitt
tare. It allowed of no diesent from the few d
propositions into which the whole mass of scriptural
doctrine was tightly compressed. It shut up the
whole Christian faith into a few logical formula,
which the meanest member of the flock understood es
well as the greatest divine. Thus there was no room
for lel attainments in theology. The elders who
had learned the Assembly Catechism knew quite as
muck about the doctrine of the Scottish church as
their minister, and the only merit beyond this limited
'There that was required of a pastor was his fluency
in expounding what every one understood. The
minister saw in his congregation an assembly of jea-
lous critics who watched eagerly whether he would
transgress the boundaries assigned to him. The con-
sequence is, that in the Scottish church there have
been no great divines. This narrow-Waded-
nee. has acted upon the national oberacter.
All freedom of thought in some of the most imperbet I
regions traversed by the human mind has bees
checked, and the natives of Scotland gain that eleva-
tion of intellect which has certainly distil.=
ambers of them, only by a collision with
ionise of thought.
One great corroboration of what we have stated is
furnished by the author himself in his remarks ups
the Free Church. He gives credit to that alma
(and it is no more than the self-samilles of may of
their leaders deserves): for the noble stand mein V
defence of a great principle, and thus he exteede
them his warmest sympathy. Bat la hi eneedeslilb
et their ern exposition of the fundamental Wm of
their seestitution, he shows very clearly that the mo.
mesa% :majority have overruled the better spirits,
and adopted, in an exaggerated form, all those errors
which LIMO @tasted the growth et presbytery—that
they have bated into their institutions- that idea of
divas right which presbyterianism have always as.
aramed, with no leas pretension than Romanian or
&es (rays the Doke) the whets tons Ana of
this doseasm (the less Church Chtesk(em be owe
eonciaely or mere seeerately asserilted then by series that
tie Salem that go semblost nits that body W
ism sot 141, sad ontinioa
~Oleg ft des' cost itself esoolkot is des to its palate-
sanisof So arms et Mist ~ weeds, ft is &mud
to pepeelbst smug splaion hem tee sees, whether
IS MOM of deeleime or of grossamism se et ones ritual,
his Imo way se sere a Aides stem beedhlie et Christ.
To midi se bsserbabis depth et ammegnies is this ear-
-1 ried that the efts efamisraellmaho me w Ibs maw la bop.
Om and the pestles st wilag aids my day bat Ikeda,
he pessibe beam ;bus* hemseed es
Nielafflemeen tbs ot Oboist t" sad
sot scalp see lbw mendeasil this ehmseber, but
they ere swationsd side by side, as it et the
sans NA with ems of the prossem seereptiess of
lsmreia The boss modes et this feet is quite milkiest;
time bee mod mm seament. It is an imam., amen* to
esheim., shimies meemely and inatinsal ideatitios-
den domed is with the moot trivial sad provitsciel
melons. It meeteded, peehaps, from conviction Is the mi-
ldew Mie wrote the catechism sad la these who senetions4
it. Bet it is a mateictome as" sersary"• es the most scraggy
ever seneeived by Laud. We remember nothing more
(antis even is the days of the Covenant—we have: sees
potties mats bigoted even in the pages of the " Spade-
woods."
The only genuine and powerful offshoot of presby-
tery, then, displays even more openly than the parent
tree the peculiar features which we assert, and which
the duke denial, to belong to the latter. We think
that no further evidence is required of the truth of
our assertion. Dissenting, however, from the duke's
conclusions, we heartily thank aim for the miens sad
candid collection of fa• is which he has pima bakers
es. It is a graceful thine to si e a noblemaa of high
rank devotiog his time to laborious investigations on
the nature of the social institution. of his assay
but the pleasure arising from such a 'pieta& is
heightened when, as in the present ease, the
stmpathies of the writer aro unmistakeably on the
side of liberty of thought and conscience.
• ameba.

Pat acts.
PAZLIAMENT.—It is • con-
stant complaint, ea looking at the new beans ct parliament,
that tee meek has been given up to minueenees of detail, the
melt Wag' to feu e. the effect of the building sea whole.
There is a great deal of math in this obj etion, but one
shield eel he is. luny in judging dike general Wept betels
the building is completed.-Whim the Victoria Tower has
been raised to its intended height_ it will then be plights
to tell whether on no, as • ~et the new houses
parliament will be as Imposing r the large smog they occupy
and the height of ;the towers should make them appear.
Meanwhile, • series of Blestratices is being publisted in
parte ilbettating portions of the building. Time detached
views it pone only en tameable to the architecture of Mr.
Barry, est ham a geed err They ere lithogrophed by
en arehiemt, Mv. MOM% who, Mosel sus renal in his
Miens, esems Net M Imbed die greatest possible command
swift mmipallakin if this kid of week. Bach part of the
Welk ithiethei eiterle, twe or more views, end is se-
min lig a mil an mount of the palace of
am earlier times, which is to be con-
tinua tree;th ear part.
ROM ActDriT.—lt is rumoured, but we
tenet my how truly, that the Boys! Academy intends to
ssfitYl is its sew abode (wherever that may be) only the
grof its own member. Such a step, if contemplated,
ailet needless to my, might be ruiner to Mall as well
VI the bawls% of art.
Tan HOLLAND MONITMENT.—SoIne years WI •
simbar d friends and admirers of the late Lord Barad sell,
ten fames eareeiption fx erecting in Westminster Abbey a
ussnmeme in memory of that statesman and ateolar. The
melt Ora sum of 6,0001. clear of all tartness to he devoted
le the prednetion of • work of art. Fur the eggliestita el
de emesetat the committee invited a competition ef det gas:
god the plan Ovum was me by Mr. Bailey, the Alll6lll:ciaa-
soldrer. Tbc Hollend atonement is now laird ; end,
previously to its removal for motion in the Abbey. hes her
se=ruig lanec of the smalpter's galleries for thempres of
the committeethe fund dad an Ursa lbw of
kedge of its effect. The first thing that scribes the mind
about this Holland monument is its noble simpleity—the
mooed that it is unlike anything we have seem before—
the third that, neverthelses, there is nothing new here
bat the portly of the eculptoe's mind. Al is fast-
Bei, yet all is fresh. Os the steps that lend up W
the door of a well—which we might etre te
spew
etted :ter if • visit to the supposed inmate wise
thn• dimes. We know them well. We have
seen them again and again, on the prmentation et the
Wed :—bet here they are revealed with a touch of their
Mr Malay. There is no affectation of attitude tat rams,
—hag the emential looks sadly yet brightly through the
harharem,di Oa
de Their grief is not lachrymose :—it is the grief el
hand ef thruster, is 0 Mu, with hit
the reresed forth t—elbring the step
bre sight ammila deb onabbailks, Literature and /Mem
lime mere menses at hY tands—as they have rem the
himtt mainers at so many others. But all that is
eretrieious about their look or ore is her gonef.Gret
......seent as they were rightly here—the proper 'pints
ea this eternal door. The mere they are looked at
ime they resolve into the essences which they
embody. The perteut simplicity of their presentment
is tall of parr The scroll is in the bands at Liters-
Inn, and that of Benne, rests upon her wheel; but
these Wait see small, teen—neon only at lest—end not
wanted as int centers. The whole is greatly end beauti-
fully monumental. Over the doorwsy co the tomb, the key-
stone, eseiehed by • coiling serpent Otte old emblem of eter-
nity) waste to smear% the empire—nom which fire a rusti-
cated pediment and pedestal. On the litter is placed aw-
hose' bast of the dressed Lord—sad
sou either side of the
tomb are best rellsvt representing severally Charity and
Justine. The monument is twenty feet high, n feet six
inches wide, and km six feet of priliction from the wall:
The aschiteetnral portions are of Sicilian marble. It will be
placed, we undimmed, to the kit of the west doer of West-
miner Abbey.—Athemses.

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lone SY psn Inarnoit Weitaftel.—The Leeds of the Mo
nes, luR ftsainsont ibis moni se
ethe hleat kr Leann lasted at
peseselles to Wyman aol
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neginolos tiss remittent nal rated this nosh.
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