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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26.

lATIIER used to say that the Council of Constance,
instead of being called Concilinns ('.nabutlienie,
should be collideonriiimin non olotantienae, inasmuch
as the said council having, after much investigation,
decided that the sacrament was instituted in both
kinds, and administered in the early church in both
kinds, determined nevertheless (hoe nos nhdante) that
the laity should only receive it in O W Now there
is very little doubt, judging from their past and pre-
sent behaviour, that if ever our bishops should, in
realisation of the wishes of the admirers of synods,
be formed into a deliberative and executive council,
they will divide the right to the epithet non u&slan-
tirnir with the Council of Constance.
l)r. Ryan, the Bishop of Itath and Wells, has in
common with ninny of hi» brethren borne testimony
in public to the mischievous tendencies of the
"Tracts fur the 'times.' There can be nu disputing
that most of our bishops have done this. Au enthu-
siastic clergyman none time back was so struck alth
this fact that he published a treatise, which he called
the " Voice of the Church," consisting of passages
selected front the bishops of the church condemnatory
of tho Oxford divines. Nevertheless (hoc non
oindamtr) our bishop., with scarcely an
ceptions, are continually elevating todignity
and honour men who have rendered t
selves conspicuous for their adherence to the
trattorias heresies, or who at least have devoted
themselves heart and soul to the niiiintenance of that
most mischievous of all the tracturian d which
asserts that the rights of national 31:lies are
nothing, while the rights of the so-called universal
church are everything. Bishop Barron is one of
these non (Aslant bishops. lie in his charges has
denounced tractarianism; he exercised his episcopal
influence in patting an end to the publication of the
tracts; and yet (hose non obstantr) he exalts the sup-
pprters of tructarian principles to the highest posi-
tions in the church. " These Oxford publications and
these Oxford divines arc a pest to the church," says
Om bishop, "but ( hoc tt ohstante) I elect Mr.
licsisris, the firebrand of Brent, the Curyphieus of
Oxford divines, to be my archdeacon."
We arc fond enough in this country of accusing
the church of Buie of insincerity and double deal-
ing, but we ask how long we shall be able to defend
our own church from a similar charge, if acts like
these continue to be of common occurrence amongst
our bishops. When the lLnuan Catholic Bishop of
111.xlivu contradicted himself in his letters with re-
speet to NlissT tuner, and when that lady's marriage a
short time alter ;rave the complete lie to the episcopal
assertions.tlic Protestants were ready enough to trans-
fer the dr linquencies of the bishop to the church of
which he is a minister. Now, while our hishopsact after
the example of Bishop Ilvforr, shall we have a right
to complain if the Itomanists measure us by our own
standards? ('an Bishop HAGOT hate tractarianisin
and love Mr. lissimis ? Ilas not Mr. DEstsos dune
pildiely more then any man in England. in the way
of mere action, tor the cause of l'useyinn ? flab
he not been for years the must active enemy of
the preeminent school of national education, because
that wheisie acknowledges the principle of the
propriety of lay interference in the administration
of national schools? Ilas he not thrown discord and
disunion in the church, in his endeavour to place
the schools under the management of the clergy
alone? Iles he not advocated at Oxford the 'quite
principles of exclusive church instruction that he did
at Westminster? llas he out prutr,ica against the
judgment of the Judicial Committee in the thaws*
case, aftirming that the moirermil church alone de-
cides upon ecclesiastical matters? Ilas he not
been instrumental in getting up " church unions,"
and leaving them in the lurch when the smallest
ray of light was admitted to into tt itt ate the
meth:real darkness in which he would hate had I
business carried Olt MS he nut, discontented with
the present condition of church education, and dis-
gusted nt the liustration of his hopes by a united I
efiiirt on the part of the liberal and orthodox portion
of the church, been canvassing fur fugal, wherewith'
be may be enables! to establish a "training school"
of darkitiss, under his own superintendence.' Ilas
he not been lon-mint ink renouncing communion with
the .trehlrishop of CANTEKIWRV ? kilns lie not
lately alluded to the archbishop's assertion of the
coincidence of the opinion of the bishops and
ekrgy with his (the archbishop's) own un the sub-
ject of the validity of other than episcopal ordination.
as a " hideous impistat
within a few days relatively to this question raised
by the Archbishop's letter given the following as his
statement of what he calls the " doctrine of holy
orders in the churches of Gutless t"

bt, ,IffilwolltrrlY —By the imposition of the hishop's
Lands, the Holy Ghost tor the uthce and work of a priest in
Use ebureh of Gml is " committed unto men, and
thrrros dud Arr. by the power of forgiving and retaining
sins anJ dispensing the word of (isid sad his holy saerar-
anents.••

N. ,Itircly. ft-It4•nd the imposition of the hichop's
bands, "the holy Gho,t fur the ulhec mid work of u priest
in the church of God" is hot "committal unto man, under
the ordinary providence of God."
I understmsd "the ordinary providence of G 011" to in.
elude all can which are not the subject of
spew( re~rkr-
tiuo, the Let of such rem:Lilian living attested by the power
ocor4ipty miriacks.
•
• • •

I hold. therefore, u has always been held in and by TRS
lATUULIC, that without the imposition of the
bishop. hands there is, under the ordinary providence of
aLith-r priut nor sacsaansto ; is other words, that
there is NO t'llUitt

The italics and capitals are Mr. DENISON'S own.
Now,in no one of the Oxford tracts was this terrific
doctrine stated in more decisive terms. Bishop
list.or put a stop to the publication of the tracts, and
yet (hoe non olsolantr) he chooses the man who writes
these words to be his archdeacon, in ecclesiastical lan-
guage " the eye of his diocese." Are we to inter-
pret the bishop by his words or his actions ? It is
of the last importance that we should know this,
because it will let us know whether the bishop
and those who agree with him, are to be
enemies or friends in the great war of light
and darkness that is now waging on the Conti-
nent, and in which England cannot be neutral.
We do not say. this in Use spirit of alarmists, but in
a deep persuasion that the events of the last two
yearshave made considerabk alterations in the eels-'
Lens of religion and the state in all countries. Before
that period the European mind was tending towards
a complete toleration in matters of religion; since
then the absolute governments have 001710 to the con-
clusion that toleration leads to revolution. They have
seen clearly enough that the principles of the Roman
catholic church are the beet supporters of absolutism
in the state. Acting upon this, the governments
of Austria, protestant Prussia, France, and all
countries where the freedom of the people is looked
upou with dismay by the rulers, are fostering the
Roman catholic church, or favouring the develop-
ment in their own churches of Roman catholic prin-
ciple.. The newspapers teem with daily testimony to
the truth of this assertion. Now, are the laity of the
church ofEngland to look calmly on while their'bishops
fill the church with a body of men who are bound to
preach Mr. beetsoe's doctrine. that without a bishop
there is no church? This is the old Roman doctrine,
extra eeeksioni noslia sans, in its broadest, most
offensive and meet untrue shape. Pressed into the
service of modem continental despotism, it means r
not merely that there is no salvation in the next
world for those whe do not belong to the state
church, but no sahhy is this. The church persecutes
dissenters as heretics. end the state punishes them as
rebels, We do net tan to assert that such a con-
sensual= will ever be seadied in this country, but
we de Illoot that ia the 'arts that Mr. DENISON
ad lies p. we rides to labia to it, the nation
may benne a pay Is die lalltureet of
sic., wer. the MIS dm. the best=
for the liberal portals
et es e=sl the
hi pseud te de, is le **GP=
far Mil *girt Ful
oriole,
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to Rome by trattarian video, is taking to his
bosom tbo archtnetarian. Mr. G. A. Draw&

MERE are few politicians whose deeds and whose
career provoke more comment than Lewd PALMERI
nos. There are few men on winne 'merits friends
and foes could be so copious of panegyric or of
censure. But Lord PALMEILSTON'S speeches at Tiver•
ton in no wise resemble his lordships policy, for
there is little to see in them or say of them. That
of the day before yesterday was a very pretty,
pithy, and plain apologuc, conceived much in the
ore of %ri= 4Esor, and well calculated, to peon
the of Tiverton, who, it would seem, are
not the t men in all England.
We were wrong, perhaps, in expecting much from
the speech of a member of the cabinet, with his col-'
leagues still all abroad, and with four months to
elapse before the opening of the session; but we
must coolant° beingdnappointed at finding so little.
Lord PALMERSTON'S speech is but a mere sans.
five of the events of last year, drawn up for the use
of children—an eulogium on the Exhibition, with the
compliment obligate to Prim= ALBERT—a kick at
protection, a promise of peace, an allusion to naughty
foreign powers, that will not allow protestant' to go
to church, as if that were the worst of their offence*,
a distant allusion to KOSSUTH, a boast of Whig pro-
gression, and a paean on the gradual extiuctiun of
the slave trade.
Of all these important topics touched upon by our
foreign minister, the principal point of each was
like the part of Hamlet left out. For example, his
lordship set forth by an enumeration:of whig achieve-
ments in the cause of improvement and reform. We
do not wish to gainsay them. But we were disap-
pointed in perceiving no allusion to future progression.
Not a word was dropped of a new reform bill. We
heard that the lower and the workiug classes were the
foundation of the social fabric, and that it was con-
sequently requisite to make them comfortable, and
rye them cheap food. We should like to have
heard, moreover, that socuethiim was to be done to
improve their intellect and education, and to give
the more industrious and settled some share in the
franchise. !
If the good people of Tiverton were interested in I
the coming question of Reform, they must also have
been anxious as to what was become of the Ecele-
siastical Titles Bill. Lord PALMERSTON boasted that
the government had come forward to prevent
the Pore from carving out the country into
bishoprics. But how has parliament or its
bill prevented them ? Of Ireland we say nothing :
the rule there being time out of mind, that laws were
made to be broken and to remain inoperative. But
in England we are about to have a synod of these
same Roman Catholic prelates, who are evidently
anxious above all things to make a noise, and get the
press and public to take notice of them. The dith
culty is, how to repress and punish their audacity,
without indulging them in the very way they must
desire.

On the great question of foreign policy it was not to
be expected that a foreign minister would be very ex-
plicit. Hut we fully agree with his lordship that
Itf32 is nut so very likely, as is supposed, to be a
year of commotion. We we, indeed, the way things
are tending in France ; the fully, selfishness, tyranny,
and insecurity of every civilian party, brings diner
and closer the necessity of a military government.
Hut things have not yet reached thiit crisis. It is
only coining. Constitutional monarchy, and a consti-
tutional republic, arc both very workable forms of
government, quite sufficient for any people to be
happy under. Hut the French have perverted both,
and rendered themselves so incapable of either that
sooner or later tyranny will be their fate, not
tyr.mny of a Louis NAPOLEON, or a l'rince
; such milk and water characters
would shrink from wielding the red hot sceptre, that
the French are destined to feel, to shrink from, yet to
crouch under. Hut the day is not yet come, nor the
man.

Passing over the dangerous ground of southern
Europe, Lord PabstratsTox dwelt on one topic alone,
the complete identity of interests and policy that
exists between France and England on the subject of
slavery. We shall take another opportunity of
alluding to his lordship's deprecatory plea against
the removal of the African squadron. We shall
merely remark that Lorel Paustraarox's mention of
French and English unity of sentiment was evi-
dently meant to appply to Cuba, and to indicates
an Anglo-French alliance against the United States,
and any further aggression of the Americans. We
must confess we deprecate any such alliance. France
can never be depended on, either fur zeal on behalf
of slavery abolition, or sincerity in upholding our
naval power against that of the United States. If
we ever emicerked in such a contest with France for
our ally, France would desert us.
On the whole,though we find little to gainsay in the
address of the Foreigu Secretary to his constituents,
we ,discover no woudcrful subject of congratulation ur
cause of satisfaction. Never was a more discreet speech
—it prejudges and discloses nothing. Even his usual
propensity of having a fling at one foe or another,
Lord PatsitatsioN her nut this time indulged in.
Ile has bestowed more of a compliment than a sneer
upon SCIIWAItZLNIIEKG, whilst the opportunities
which Lord Aittacinais and Mr. Gi.stisTosis: offered
for congratulating the country on their conversion, on
thcirnew liberalism, and upon their recent discoveries
in the peculiarities or the prison discipline and judi-
cial procedure of despotic governments, have been
completely and generously passed over.