The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-07 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, .4PRIL 7.

Tin.. laudable promptitude and regularity with
whe a the revenue now Ils arc publish( d at the close
of esel3 quarter is attended with .411.' disadvantage.'
It Coil. every temporary and transient increase or
di crcose of the average produce of the taxes upon
D 11.11.4 1114.11:C, and prompts over-hasty exultation or
depression. lows licit., in fact, with his ouarterly
revenue returns is not unlike a hypochondriac with
his r constantly un his puke. The monthly
trade and navigation returns have made matters
worse, and keep him constantly passing from fever
to shivering tits of a political ague. And his politi-
cal doctor. - protectionists and free traders alike—by
their thuumous sl t- of triumph on detecting any
mnintoin favourable to their respective views, arc
rinr.gh to confuse clearer brains than these of our
at arty maim!, iniliginnire.
Vie revenue .turns for the year and quarter
whit Is (taint un Soturdny will be found in another
column. They art decidedly of a 'UAW!: to assuage
xenons apprehensiveness, though it will not in
the least surprise us to leant that Ili. Yl,t'Nt; puts
an entirely different construction upon them. Last
year the Chaser:Linn of the I.:mime/cue calculated
that he um remitting u million of taxes upon sugar,
stamps, and islets. Instead, however, of a million
owes, he hull" hinoir If this April half a million
(lieslltd.) iu pkee. The consumption of 171:11i, of tea,
of whit and spirits knee more than tilled up the
vend. Anil the increase of 234; thousand in the quar-
ters rev .siun e,f IMII for customs and is still
sore promising and si;.,mitivaot than even that of
fix 7 thousand in the year upon thc•-t -owes, of taxa-

now
T., none are the n-turns to which we have been
adv, rting snore welcome than to the Cif k \TELL' ott 1
of tin- l'Ar111.111•YR and his triettels. They will be
tr umphandy bramlidied in the faces of all 11011114! I
al Commons critics and diviners this even-
intr. The diurnal and weekly wrens cif the
y indulged in n small prelbninary triumph
evultittion on Stiteirelny. 'llw favourulde state al
the rev, witlithe bland and lenient co- !
ceptnni amor.l4 el to the revised financial statement of
the (II vsekt.tatft of tlw Exentkat tat by the bide--
pendent liberals, has indeed ruined the spirits of all
the tattoo. requincrie of government anuaiegly. They
Olin already to have forgotten their v5....-begone I
mood during the late ministerial crisis. n hat with
II
an inv. e+•in the ye ar's revs nue., the foils orance. of
the tinoneial n.liffnuTs, and the manifest failure of
the STANI.KI donnnustrdi.u, Ihey appear to think
minWe rs art in 14 a long-rdiewed lea,• of office.
It may lie doubted whether the higher powers are
quite ron sanguine.
lie fact their linatwial management is the most
danmwitio risk u-In-ael of the present administration.
'llw manner in ',Midi they M.I'M dill/W.411 to play
Lest mid 1.1..1. with eleetond reliant& doubtless
ix-
ntnm Hindi diseindent, and most dn-enal le them to
strengthen their position in the country. But the
rooncepeettees of this blunder etre more remote.
IlistilLes in 'lawny may at any time shake then, out
of .
The it great error ill 1i11:111re, as in mutters regard- i
Mg 1111 rt presentation, tuit•istm in not taking the
work of reform into their own hands. A wide-
spmud and weM-fimWed mnvkinm durable,
MW by improved mmagdmW large who-
lions of expenditure, might hue tilt:chit in
mire than cue eletkirtment, rendering possible,
on 111 e mac hand, alleviations of the burden
ed• twiati.ol, .51 the other the minas of finding
Timm, for finetimis of gitVl 11 1111 l t now a:together
sir in gnnt hart neglected. blintisters who have the
financial maritime) sir tht• country in their hand-
Lare hsruli tr build el •Go setting oil fat maimlinteive 0111 oystumattie improvcint nts. Imictst they
only have that power. By undertaking the tusk
vi int intilligeme and sincerity they would rally an
i 1111 l tense. majewity of the public around their stand-
:nd But instead of ailing thus. they malt to he
premed, and give way to lucid and cplwmerul
ensteries against special taxes. gaining wily monati-
thanks from the parties more immediately in:c-
lewed for I heir eotweosions, it they gain even that.
For instatm, there is the trunsmutution of the
window tax. Win-m 1 lord Di keas proposed this
Lest year. und 11r currying his proposal forced it upon
mit • Wool, Ali, sr...ion, it was by 110 111.31115,
Ill• Mih!l of laird 1)1 51'1,N sir of any of the reformers
that the Moho, remitted sir lust yid' the window
tax should b 5 it a bur to those great fiscal
experiment- which. were going on to the redue-
lion of customs and excise. tin minister 55,1 s
told that in giving up a million ut tlo• window tax. I
In might time a million to substitute in an improved
plan for the std •-tration of the Woods unit
Yon its, or in the avail of the African squadron. But
instead of any melt effort, the eilaYe-Enuttt merely
gives up Iris million window tax, and tells peoph•
nut to clamour for cheap ten, cheap map. or chrap
advertisements. This is, in truth, doing a thiug by
11:11Vi.S, refortnern by
making Owen pay fur every howl by a duct or disap-
pointment.
14urely the n•odi-tribution of the income tax re-
qitired some consideration, too. on the part id a
• lor who, for the last Mie years. has had its
I own al at n fixed day staring hint in the face. To
speak of that tax us Sir Comets Wesin did on
Friday, Keying that a man with lauded property of
Adoot a year, sir earning to that amount--
Mem (Ninny assimilating them--was not to he
oird for plying his amount of incouw tax—
this is not a decorums way fur a mini ter to treat such
gnat and serious objections. For our pout, we cannot
but think that the mere admission et a Minsky that
h haul not fathomed that question. and was not pre-
plred to state his conclusions, mould alone offer lair
grilillas fill 116 instant removal. The statesmen of
sneer a country as this ought not to be unmet ei to
star over such questions, mid to put their hands
rd.-, the potiwto of a large class, who have u strung
%r em that they are no loss thwt tubbed thereby.
without CTell deigning to give Meru an explanation.
On this subject I wenty-fotw Lotus wiU etiahle Its to
stank mom full).

Tur spirit of priestcraft is growing insubordinate
,tut disonterly in - tlw true catholic church." 'lle
high-tlying clergy begin to refuse the laity its offices,
to disregard episcuput authority, and to set at naught
the law of the land. We have nu security that we
4-3 n either come into or go out of this world in
tae decent Christian fashion of our forefathers and
tOreniothers. Fur at the baptismal font. at the hyme-
neal altar, and at the yawning grave, we and our re-
mains are becoming subject to the conscientious
beaks and ecclesiastical scruples of " the true catho-
lic clergy. If it cannot have convocations and
synods, traettuianisut is resolved to plague us with-
out it:, m. For just murk what has occurred in the
dtarsc of 14611011 Girttritr -a gentleman and a
scholar. who gave no encouragement to such deplo-
rable scenes; and not in a paltry parish, or in any
otwure corner; but under tus own eyes in his (Tim-o-
wl cite ill one cure, and in the largest town in Lis
see in the other.
At Chit heater, the lies'. J. KENRICK refused to I
allow the burial set" ice to be read over the remains
of a dissenting minister, whose life was SO pious and
useful as to eunimund the respect of the bishop and
the eulogy of the Duke of Riett no N. II; whose nou-
•-onfornittv was so mild and inottunsive, that he had'
at may inrchused a grave iu which he knew he tould
nut be interred, except through the offices of the
church. and into which the body of his wife had
been deposited. And this refusal was persisted in
atter his bishop had instructed Mr. KLNKICK that it
was a hdation of the law ; and a ? &rawer the
deceased was " • separatist, and a teacher of 'Vara-

tists." So that, accortlin; to traetarianism, Christian
(for, in their opinion, the church only is Christian)
I burial is to he denied all separatists and all teachers

of separatists.
The common law of the land has given to all
parishioner. a right of interment in their polish
burial ground; the rubric only forbids the service be-
ing performed over the remains of such as here not.
been baptised, or as die by their own hands, being
sane; and the church of England recognises the
validity of lay baptism. The question therefore,
is tractariaaian to be permitted to deny us this
common law tight, to practically extend this rubrical
restriction, and to treat as invalid that which has
been solemnly held to be sufficient? It is not a
matter of bigotry or intolerancemerely this; it is one
of law, of authority, of obedience. If the tender
consciences of Mr. kRNRICK and such ceclesiastioi
are to be sneetsvfully pleaded by their bishops as
an excuse for their violations in these respects of the
law, let us know it at once, that provision may be
made for carrying the corpses of dissenters where the
feelings of their friends cannot be outraged by ecck-
Maitties of .! the true catholic church," treating them as
if their souls were Livened. If tractarianism is allowed
to rebel with impunity. let u•s have due notice, that
we mar keep out of die range of the consequences of
its insurrectionary movemeut. But do nut let us be
uncertain whether our corpses can be solely carried
to our own churchy.ails, there to lie with the bones
of our families and our neighbours. If episcupncy
cannot secure us that certainty, why pay the bishops
u year ?
But, says Bishop GILBERT, Mr. KENRICK is so
good, so pious, so chsritable so conscientious a man.
Indeed! In what consisted LI goodness when he out-
ragedthe tenderest feelingsof Mr. PAlLSONs'family,and
friends? Where was his piety when be denied the
possibility of salvation to a man whose life had been
devoted :u the propuAation of religion? Where his
charity, in judging thus harshly of one so estimable?
Where his conscience in disregarding law, authority,
and order? Creditable points there may be in such
a man's character. But it is a bad example and it is
worse morality fur a bishop to laud and praise and
glorify him. To speak tenderly, kindly, and affec-
tionately of Mr. KENRICK, is nut the way to rule
the diocese of Chichester, Bishop GILBERT may de-
pend on it.
Epseopal tenderness in one quarter only encou-
rages ecclesiastical outrage in another. For while
the exeellent and conscientious Mr. KENRR rt
denies to the bodies of dissenters at Chichester,
the sin t.S of the church, the Rev. ARTIIER
WAG? tcflio+ol to cinisten children at Brighton un-
km Le may pour us much water over their bared
flues and heads as, W. his foolish opinion, will suffice
for imptisto ; and Lord and Lady Loxiimuoitonal
not cheep-ing the other day to sukjett their infant to
cold nod wet and damp ut his discretion were
obliged to tarry their child away from the church
unbmaiostd. Yet, pr 'scud}, when Lod LONIbEs-
Ipotorgitt complains of this outrage. Bishop GILBERT
will again carry the charge off by laudations of this
son of the Vicar of Brighten; a gentleman who,
after raising money to build a free church for fisher-
men. has erected a model tractariun place of worship,
over the histrionics" of which the sou in question
presides.
I These air not solitary eases. .\ year has not passed
away rime a Lancashire curate would not marry u
I poor couple, bta-ause one of them had not been eon-
firmed. A little before the incumbent of the parish
in Yorkshire in vehicle Mr. Cie I.LY results, turned
awry the wiles: of his daughter from the church
dour las...use she had died in the Banish communion.
And it way only the other day that the dying wife of
an Oxford-street tradesman was refused spiritual
coronation in the hums of her departure by a Mary-
:lebone clergyman.
This is a serious matter. For the principle in-
volves( in it is not merely that of a nalliatitriul and
a sacrititial priesthood; but a priesthood who be-
cause they assume mediatorial awl sacrificial lune-
limo are the refute, ill their opinion and conduct,
above the iaw of the land, and a law to tht•mselvt s,
whenever the former does nut accord with their
eceltsinstical pretensions.
Lord JOIIN Russia:l. tells us how the How.
I SECRETARY has communicated to the two arch-
bishops Iler Mvaesiv's wish " to discourage any
innovation not in conformity. %%lilt the law, and nut
in conformity with the established USal..eS of the
church;" anti how the QUEEN has full yontithmee
that those prelates will also do so. But the royal
determination and confidence in archit•piscopul mo-
deration. powers admirable in themselves, and calcu-
lated to have intim:mower men of tempmffe mid miller
minas, will not reach such eases as those reft•rred
to. For tht•irat•tionsplate their conscit•nees,tlwir inter-
predation of the chureh's duties, their ceckaiustical
pretensions above royalty, above episcopacy, above
law. They deny the royal supremacy, they disre-
geed upistopil injuuctions, and they knowingly vio-
late law. What is to be done with them? •flow
are they to he reached Are people to be subjected
to their whims and caprices ? A disruption of the
church is a deplorable contingency to be averted by
gnat sacrifices: but not, we assert, by the :subver-
sion of not by encouraging outrages such us
we have described; nut by giving the sanction of
submission to such monstrous pretensions as Chi-
chester und Brighton contain.

FRANCE.