The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-23 00:00:00

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LONDO.V, TiIt7ISDAY, OCTOBER 23.

IT has been very difficult fur rational and liberal
foreigners. who naturally look to England for
example and for a leading, to ascertain what were
the feeling, thepeople of this country with regard
to the gnat events of the last three years. Our
government has remained for the most part pruden-
tially silent. Parliament has declined taking inte-
rest in the subject. And public men, alarmed
by the anti-social doctrines of certain continental
liberals, have w ithh, Id at host their public sympa-
thies, even from those whose efforts were exclu-
aively constitutional, and amongst whom the very idea
of communism ur rank democracy were unknown.
It' foreigners turned to the press, they saw there
still more churlish and ungenerous conduct. The
organ of the largest circulation, which evi-
dently durst not affront public °pluton on al
tlanestic question, took part indiscriminately with
all the despots against all the liberals, and was as!
vehement in denouncing Itelsowitz and Gentlest as
I.sitnt -Itto.t.te or l'itorostos. The coming of
Rowse-In, however—and, indeed, the very stund of
Isis corning -has called forth the opinion and enthu-
bia-Mll of that gnat middle class of England of which,
up to this moment, foreigners might have doubted
the very existence..
Th. n are a great mane- things that foreigners
are slow to understand. But the verdict of /lAR-
eLee's, favour men uflon 11.11iN c was perfectly in-
telligent.
That spoke the opinion of the English
working class. And now that they see the great muni-
cipal bodies of the kingdom, the assembled citizens
of London and Westminster, of Birmingham,
Nam pester, Leeds, and Liverpool, all come
forth to propose and present addresses to
the exile IletessrTit, foreigners will feel convinced
that the middle class of Englishmen sympathise
with the woiling classes in honour of stniggkel
for liberty and the victims. to them, such us we have
been taught to revere in our own history. Nor is
Brit sh liberalism coutined to these classes: a fair
portion of even the aristocracy and aristocratic par-
ties are disguskel a ith the military reaction which
prevails% and though all do not speak so loud, or in-
dulge in personal exposure of misdeeds, as Mr
Guatssitsi: has the courage to do, the foreigner may
be convinced that there is actually no chess in thus
country, high or low, so base or au hiberul, as the
press% whith affects to represent, and which does, in
truth, misrepresent all.
Then: is another characteristic of this retrograde
and un-English press, which marks its, tendencies,
and which shows that its adoption of Austrian and
ltussian principles of policy abroad is not without
influence upon its domestic principle and upon its
mode of e wwing and of seeking to change our OWII
instiostions. These reactionary journals litre shown
the nowlveselerisled enemies to municipal freedom.
If there be a eorporation like that of London, in
width power and influenee have etteupel the' great
tory magnates, simply because these are too grand
to pay attentitat to city affairs, too aristocratic to
canvass the vots^, of shopkeepers, then the scheme
in to swamp the old corporate liberties by the crea-
tion of a kneel of munwilsd Rowse of Lords. Of this
/nom ht
.1n other of those amphibious journals which keels
aids rat and a tory flue under the same hood, the
.111,,rnirw l'hp•Hiele, denounces the citizens of Vest-
minster 11% the first of fanatics and fools :—" Nu con-
retitueney in the kingdom lout pronounced iso many
foolish jtiel,mesits upon Hiltons Will pt. 1410011, of which,
or of w I ,it was peUrollillity ignorant." Such
is the opinion of the .1/oronto Chronic!, of the eiti-
rens by whom it is surrounded.
Whilst its sister journal burkes the great meeting
of the West 11l i t aster citizens and their member alto-
gether, the doings and opinions of plaits, honest
citizens are quite too vulgar to be worthy of its
attention, or even ds Meter its contempt.
Let any one turn to the report cif this meeting,
and they will tied a most eteliti, lucid, rational, his-
torical, mode rattly lilwral account of the Hun-
garian resolution. from the mouth of Sir DE
LM'y EV.vss. That speech, full as it is of
the spirit of constitutional liberty, might have
been spokcii in the Blouse of Lords, se marked is it
with eleseornin, and pause', aid fairness. It is im-
posaible to lane a more calm or convincing refutation
of the ealumnits uttered against the Hungarian
cause. Sir 115: LACY Ev evs and Lord lient.s.v
Kn. en r'. speeches were not atddremed to the passions,
but to the' reason and conviction of the men of West-
minster. The smothering of such speeches in silence
and contempt by the anti-Kosaufft organs, merely
shoo,. that they are compelled to shrink from the
fair field of argument, and to protect their flight by
calumnious abuse of liossrrn, of the Hungarian
patriots, and of English citizens and corporations.
However, the ntind of Englishmen is stirred,
which is so seldom the came by a foreign cause,
and on a foreign subject. And as far as the opinion
of all class.. here and in America goes. they are, or
shall be loudly enough expressed for the world to
hear them. I low veer the court circle around
N1(11101 e,, the guards around Ftlentx %No, may be
close and serried, however rigid the is'lgime of the
Austrian police.. high and low, the monarch and the
serf, the S!ave, the German, the Italian, and the
Magyar, will be struck with the light of that great
myna illumination which welcomes Kos:turn to our

short*, and &glares the generous and genuine senti-
ments uf the British people.

A counvsPoNnENcr. between Dr. NzwaaN and
the Bishop of Nonwten, on legendary, or. as the
former prefers to call them, ecclesiastical miracles,
has been published. On Dr. NEWMAN'ti part it ie
distinguished by much of the logomaehy and casuis-
try of those old Spanish fathers—Pascal. s friends—
wino wrote so much and so perniciously. that it is
charitable to suppose they never stopped to revise
what they caused to be printed; and on the Bishop's
part by an affectionate remembrance of old friend-
ships and happier times, by a spirit which
would not willingly, even in the cause of
truth. give offence to a present adversary,
and by un easy. plain, and simple common sense,
which, gently disregarding verbal -distinctions. points
out the practical result of the fallacy and delusion,
that too much learning and too litre judgment have
enshrined in the tine mind of Jons lILNaY NEW-
MAN, at once the most subtle, yet the most perilous
of Runtish controversialists; a scholastic gladiator,
who has advanced the theory of development on
behalf of a church which claims immutability as its
chiefest characteristics.

There legendary tales Dr. Nerru.tx, wo have
said. ealbi ecekshistical mimics. The reason why
he does involves the whole controversy that now
again disturbs English society. If there were, in the
gracious dispensation revealed fur human salvation,
such a means and agency established for the preser-
%ll6oll and inculcation of divine truth, as a visible
church possessed of a supernaturally constituted
priesthood, then it would not be irrational and pre-
sumptuous to hope and expect that miraculous
manifestations attesting its origin, avouching
its mission, and sanctioning its teaching. may have
been vouchsafed to it ; and that awful premiss
granted, such manifestations might be properly
called ecclesiastical, as distinguished from scriptural
miracles. It is therefore to propagate this theory of
a visible church, to accustom our minds to it as a
matter indisputable, and to associate it with our
most sacred thoughts and highest aspirations, that
Dr. NEw MAN, with whom words are so powerful,
prefers the term ecclesiastical miracles.
They. on the other hand, who deny the exist-
ence of any visible church here on earth—
who can fiva uo warrant for a sacerdotal priest-
hood, and who regard human churches as social
organisations or corporations formed merely on their
own responsibility, for religious and spiritual pur-
poses, and who look on their ministers as fellow-men
chosen by themselves, fur the purposes of public wor-
ship and private edification, without having any
supernatural powers, or any particular authority—to
rational, sober, logical, yet earnest and pious persons

thus thinking, the claims of miraculous manifesta-
tions to favour of any church, as a visible church
possessing a monopoly of Christianity and of
salvation, appear unreasonable because un-
necessary and presumptuous ; and they deem
such pretensions to be mere legends, the belief
in which is inconsistent alike with the course of
natural events, with any scriptural authority, and
with any useful purpose. Tney are statements
against the truth of which the reasoning of Ilcits's
essay on miracles applies irresistibly.
Let us hear what the subtlety of Father Newsts:t
has to say in their defence? Ile had, it seems, in
the course of the lectures he delivered some eighteen
months ago to a queer admixture of female fashion
land Irish filth, assembled in rooms once devoted to
lewd revels, but now the abode of the Fathers of the
Oratory, avowed his belief in the stories of the liquifac-
tionof Sr. JANUARIUS blond, in the motion of the eyes
of the picture of the Madonna, in so-called saints
having raised the dead, crossed seas without vessels,
multiplied grain, cared incurable diseases, and stop-
ping the operation of the laws of the universe, "
a multitude of ways," too tedious, we suppose, to
mention : and having avowed this credulity. in the
incredible, he proceeded to place his belief in them
on a level with the, universal acceptation which all
Christians give to the holiest of revealed mysteries;
thus practically elevating his own credulity to the
standard of inspiration. With this strong and
blasphemous statement the Bishop of Noawlett
expressed surprise and disgust at a public
meeting. Whereupon Dr. NssvM.is called on
the Bishop for an explanation, which, in the kindest
terms, he gave his old college friend by referring
him to passages in his lectures and other writings.
On these the Father's own explanation is curious.
We have first a nice distinction between miracles
which arc proveablc and those which are " ante-
cedently probable" or likely; the result of which is,
that ecclesiastical miracles are not in Dr. NovstV.i'S
opinion supportable by the same evidence as scrip-
tural evidence, but that they are on the same level o-
antecedent probability, or quite as likely to have
been performed. "Nay more so," we use his own
words," because they come after Scripture,and Scrip-
ture breaks the ice; and "there is less surprise in a
second miracle than a first."
Now, if this mean anything but words, its meaning
is that the legends of the church of Wane arc supe-
rior in character, and in evidence, too, to the miracles
of Scripture; in other words, that the tales of men's
tradition, if nut of men's invention, are of equal if not
greater authority than the Word of Gud, even when
those talcs are intended to assist in altering, varying,
or enlarging Gou's Word. Should, then, Dr. Nsw-
st %X ever conquer his credulity as to these legends,
in discrediting what he now deems the greater, he
would naturally repudiate what he deems the
lesser: and so lose one great hold which he has on
Christianity. And that is the logical tendency of all
Dr. Nsurmss's writings; his subtlety and his enthu-
siasm curry him into such extremes that the line of
demarcation between his present belief in everything
said a future belief in nothing is the thinnest in the
world: lie stand, on a precipice where it is painful
to observe him, for he has fled so fur from reason that
before him lies chaos. .

......
But,having laid down the proposition that ecclesias-
tical Miril7.llli re " more cred i de" as coming after Scrip-
ture miracles than Scriptures,he adds that a belief in
the more credible is an act of private judgment ; that
is, the church of Rome, though deeming the moving
of the eyes of the picture of the Madonna " more
credible"- in this SCIISC than the draught of fishes,
leaves you to believe it or not, as may suit your con-
' veniente. In this there is a tribute laid to common
IMP.° at the expense of logic and consistency;
perhaps. too, an attractive bait thrown out to persons
trembling on the balance. Enter the church of
Rome, and you may believe or nut la the liquefaction
of St. .IA:it:ARIUS' blood—"just as you please,"
is the notice at the door. Only, says the Father,
all catholics of course believe " that the miraculous
gift has never left the church since the time of the
apostles." But what is a true miracle in the church,
is all uncertainty and doubt. Those arc miracles ;
take your choice. That is Dr. NEWMAN'S doctrine;
he, to make sure, swallows all for the present.
This, we take it, is quite enough far the
protestant people of England ; it is another
serape into which Dr. NEwM.tN has shrugged
the church of Home ; they quietly suppressed
his " Theory of b-relopment" at Rome; they will as
judiciously censure his "Theory of .11irortr.." But
to Englund it is invaluable, as showing that the logi-
cal consequences of conversion to that church is the
degradation of one of the most cultivated minds that
ever eittered it into a belief in all the idle figments of
crufty priests, and all silly tales invented to gain
bwaver over old women and weaker men. We knew
efore whither Puseyism led; we now know the
final conclusion of popery. The church which for-
merly denied that this planet moves, now believes
in the motion of the eyes of a canvas MADONNA !
What next?