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LONDON, PirEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14.

Tniu is quite a race for the proceeds of the
Thanksgiving Collection to be made in the churches
of this Metropolis to-morrow.
First and foremost in the field is the Pastoral Aid
Society; it claims the oblations of that day because of
the additional religious assistance it gave the afflicted
daring the late plague, to the exhaustion of its ordi-
nary income. This society is, however, a low church
bodily ; it offends high church prejudices in two
essential particulars; it is not episcopally
end it administers religious instruction at I.l7llllmseti
of lay teachers, who are not, of course, blessed with
Apostolical succession ; hence its name is never men-
tioned by ecclesiastics of the opposite faction ; its very
existence is ignored in their churches ; they will
neither preach nor collect for its funds.
The very notion, then, of the Pastoral Aid Society
monopolising or getting any considerable portion of
Thursday's collection is enough to create a clerical
riot in the diocese of London; and, as our
ecclesiastical peace is confided to thesafe keeping of the
astute Dr. BLOMFIELD, that right reverend prelate turn
issued a Pastoral letter in favour of another society;
and strange to say, it is not even a Church society
Here is a change ! Talk of radicalism, and Welker
vile inns, after this! A Bishop promoting a sudsy
not episcopally administered; reign funds /se an
institution not even in the hands of the clergy; ex-
citing his "dear and reverend brethren" to make
over church collections to a body whence dissent
and dissenters are not barred and bolted ; and, worse
than all, poritivelyadvocating its claims on the grounds
of its objects being in accordance with the principles
" Political Economy!" Tempera mutants', et nos
issitansw is iths. Blessed be time and its influences
at " Casein JAMES, byProvidence,
Divine Lord
Bishop of London I" Political economy has at lam
received the Episcopal Benediction. Dr. WHATELY
may now hold up his bead.
A skilful man is Dr. Btomrier.o ; wise and saga
chum in this world's ways ; " of earth, earthy,' he
at once recognised a great point of attraction that the
Pastoral Aid Society possessed for the charitable ; in
an instant he saw, that it bad played cut the best
cord; so, not forgetting the game of his youth, he has
overtrumped it. Lord ABEL/EYE name is to the cha-
ritable in this metropolis "a tower of strength;" it
will draw hundreds of pounds when properly adver-
tised in the newspapers, just as Hrou hilinthifs
will attract thousands of persons to Exeter Hall
when duly placarded in the streets. Now the
Pastoral Aid Society is one of Lord ASHLEY'S pet
societies; he is its pnmate, its bench of bishops, its
alPhst sod omega; through its iastrnmentality he
exercises an snout of ecclesiastical patrcaage such
on Freaks might Nigh hr, and Load Chan-

ellen Gary. To find this society a 'claimant
lbw Ilseeney's oblations was than a mountain in our
Dlesseee'e path. More it any ordinary bishop, any
=elate, would have quailed and despaired ; he
have seen in it a low church triumph, without
the peesibility of its beipg averted. Not BO ear Shep-
herd; crook in hand he parries the advance, he tares
aside the approaching victory of Evangelioanism ; We-
is, bodily, imperially, on Lord Assize, Dr. BLow-
now sa6 the noble lord up,to be guilty of an Trilbies),
against himself. For Lord ASULST, sa all the world
knows, has another pet society, and this is " 'l'hs
Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring
Classes r and up it is placed by Dr. Btoxriximo incom-
petition with the low church claims of the Pastoral Aid
Society—Lord Ammar against Lord Asian—Lord
ASHLEY and a Church charity, against Lord ASHLEY
and a general charity. Who, after this, will deny
that Bishop BLoarisua is a skilful man?
Moat characteristic, too, is the Pastoral Letter in
which the high-church bishop overtrumps the low-
church society. Take a passage :
we shall be chargeable with great folly and want of fore-
sight as poUtical econosisia, sad guilty, I verily believe, et I
great sinfulness as a Christitui people, if we neglect
to profit by the fleetly bought experience of the paht, sad
to take prompt and energetic measures for improving the
'outdid= of the labouring daises, by removing the worst, at
least, of those evils, which at once render them an as posy
to disease and death, ad plan them at a hopeless diraaaa
from the chorales Wailing sad ministry. I emslatedLlt
my &armor letter, that pima iiaseeresd misesysoi =a.
are far the meet part inassessible to the teethes sad maw
latices of the gospel.
Not the shadow of a doubt, not a scintilla of
seepticism has our Bishop on the argument arising
eat of the political economy view of the question ; on
it he speaks decisively, authoritatively, yes, even
dereibeally ; but an the duty of a Christian
poop* he, prelate of the church though he be,
with caution, with reeerve, even with !mita-
he " believes," be is not quite certain. He teals
that'be is impregnable as a political economist; be tears
that he may be tripped up OS a divine. Yet this is the
man who, some few years ago, took upon himself to
shut the gates of Heaven against dissenters ! l'be
times certainly are changing, and very quickly too. For
now we have tho metropolitan bishop connecting
Political Economy with Christianity, and appealing
with certainty to the pockets of churchmen on the
former ground, with hesitation on the latter. It is to
be hoped that Dr. BLOYFIELD, having now acted on
the Paulician recommendation, "proved all things,
will hold fast by that which is good."
Cautious and politic End stealthy is, however, the
episcopal recommendation of this non-church society;
be ism not put it inward plainly or positively ; be
edemas it alternatively, or, as Corporal Trim would
=se:lathe flank. The passage is a fine specimen of
1 dexterity :
I would not be understood to prescribe the channel
through which the collections should be so applied ; but I
would suggest that where the funds so raised ere meaner
dent for carrying out a local scheme for that purpose, they
may be safely intrusted to " The Society for Improving the
Condition of the Labouring Classes," without fear of misap-
plication or waste. Much good has been already effected by
that society, is setting en example of what may be dose
towards providing the poor with decent and commodious
habitations, by an outlay which will ultimately. be repaid
with interest, both In a social and a pecuniary point of view.
Its a remarkable and encouraging fact that is the dwellings
and lodging houses belonging to the society them was not
nee ease of cholera, and two only of diarrhoea, which speedily
yielded to medical treatment.
He would not for the world, not even for the pri-
macy itself, dictate to his clergy ; that is not his ha-
bit; but he recommends, he entreats, and (moat
powerful of all arguments, he thinks, to ecclesiastics)
be points out the pecuniary profits of turning over the
ssllections to this society. Anything. the wicked
will say, to baulk the claims of the Pastoral Aid
Society.
The Pastoral Letter, besides stamping episcopal
salt.....mit/ on political economy, places on record the
belief in the sufficiency of human interven-
e angst such plagues as the cholera :
BWesgerem the unvarying tenor of the reports undo
by We eml inspectors, and of other persons who have
weedsul tbe peeress of that fatal disease, I do not hesitate to
dashes my belief that by far the greater number of those
whielmws Sallee victims to the pestilence minht, ander God's
biesslog, have been saved from death, had timely and *Hee-
• meontrea been taken for cleansing and ventilating their
dwdbge, preventing their overcrowded state, and draining
tlas 4111111116 mad alleys in which they are situate.
_

Here the natural strong sense of Dr. BLOMFIELD
got the.mastery over his professional bias in favour
at sue supernatural. But what will his friends, who
shout out blasphemy" ,to any layman who has pro-
pounded this view say to their diocesan, bigotry
only knows. There ts, notwithstanding a long life
of ecclesiastical prejudice a strong dash of hu-
manity in Bishop BLOMYIELD yet, which is almost
productive of melancholy. Ahl what a man he
might have been, had the church and its wealth not
wrecked his fine mind ! Another and a better CHAD-
WICK.
These societies are tot, however, the only competi-
tors for Thursday's collections. Divers are the small
charities that pray for a portion; hospitals, whose
funds are exhausted; cholera homes, whose funds are
yet to be raised ; societies, whose orphan infante are
still unborn, are all scampering after Lord ASHLEY'S
greater institutions.
Between such clamorous and ravenous claimants,
it is—Heaven be praised !—not our duty to de-
cide ; there is, doubtless, much good: to be done
by them all. Bat we can hardly think that
these centralised bodies, excellent as their objects
and designs may be, ought, on inch an occasion
as to-morrow presents, to supersede altogether
local claims and parochial wants. In every parish
and ecclesiastical district, there are necessities to be
relieved, large enough to exhaust all that will be
given to-morrow ; and the best of all charitable
objects on so solemn a Thanksgiving will be one which
begins nearer home than Exeter-hall.

Toe Board of Health, we are gratified to hear, is
deliberating on a meteors of unitary regulation
having special reference to the graveyards of the me-
tropolis. It is specifimlly, as well as generally, the
duty of the commissioners to submit to parliament •
bill upon th,s important subject, for parliament spe-
cially committed to the board the task of reporting
upon this as upon other branches of sanitary regula-
tion.
The inquiries which have been instituted with a
view to this measure leave little room for doubt as to
what the measure ought to be. Restriction must be put
upon intramural intermentsof whatevercharacter. The
exhalations from the vaults of our churches are quite
as pestilential and injurious to health as the vapours
of the hemmed-in burial-grounds. And it would be
of no avail to close the grounds in which the dead
have been accumulated, unless stringent preventive
measures were also taken against a recurrence of the
evils of which there has been so much reason to com-
plain. Indeed the only good argument which has been
urged against the sanitary measures reoentlyenforced
by the Board of Health has been that they have driven
fumes from the older churchyards to others in Reich-
bourhoods almost equally crowded, and only by a few
degrees less pestilential and oboe:ions. Thus, during
the prevalence of cholera, the churchyard of St. Mary,
Newington, was closed ; but the numbers who died
front amongst the 80,000 inhabitants of that enormous
parish, were mostly carried for interment to the dis-
trict church of St. Peter, Walwortb, around which a
population has arisen quite as dense as that around
the mother church. The Board of Health, therefore,
would not be doing its duty did it not propose mat
stringent measures for regulating interments in the
new grounds as well as for enforcing the closing of
those which are already ascertained- to be filled to
overflowing with the mouldering remains of perish-
able humanity.
The interment of the dead has, of late years, be.
a matter of speculation by public companies. It
will be the duty of the Board of Health to guard
spinet the possible abuse of the powers which -
honest bas committed to thou who have engaged in
these commercial ventures. Under ordinary circum-
stances, the force of competition would be the best
and the most natural protection of the public in
regard to these as to other speculations. But
there se eashierationi which render it peculiarly
desirable to webfoot cemeteries to some sort of control.
The inter/mace with eitareirynels will naturally in-
vest them with additinnd yablia duties; and the
test essallbel to their .segues—the situation of
these essetwise la when% daily beaming lees re-
mote—reembes it nest nessesary that they Swill be
'objected regelstioe which their own piste sets
of parliament are far, at present, fres eahreieg.
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