The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-14 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOK OF THE EXPRESS.

Sta,-7The Times hu an imaginative, and some
elegant contributor, styling himself "Anglicans.."
There is a peculiarity about him which renders him un-
approachable by any writer of the day, and the peculiarity
consists in this—that the Times will allow no one else to
speak in the same columns with him. A refutation ought
naturally to appear as closely as possible in juata-position
with the thing refuted. But as the Times refuses to accord
this privilege to the public, I am induced to solicit from
you the favour I am denied by it.
_ . .

My incentive is simply thin—the correction of a mistaken
and prejudicial feeling which the letters of " Anglicanus "
are calculated to excite. They are addressed to the passions
of the bigoted many, they raise the cry of " church in
distress," stir up the heart of zealots, and tumultuously
drown the small voice of reason in an overflowing stream
of rage and fervour. . .

During the Commonwealth there was no crime that ex-
pounders of Scripture could not justify or explain sway.
Was money to be withheld—it was Corban dedicated to
the use of the saints. Was resistance to be organised against
the "powers that be " —there was the overthrow of
Pharaoh in the Red Sea. Was a king's life to be taken
—Aga: was hewn in pieces by the Lord's invent Samuel.
It is thus that religion and eternal truth may be made at-
cornplioes in acts the most diabolical ; may become the toys
of hypocrisy, a delusion and cheat to feeble minds. Paint
bat in vivid colours religion assailed, and thousands of
weak heads and tender hearts will be stirring in the cause.
Zeal assumes the vacuum of intellect, tenderness is banished,
and the heart that would welt in pity at the tear of sorrow
or cry of anguish, stir but its Christianity, rouse its
religious sentiments,! lit become* impervious in every
avenue of human affection, an adamantine solid,
a petrifaction, a thing not soluble is aqua fortis. " Angli-
cans. " has taken a commanding position in the fastnesses
of religious association. Easy to raise but hard to lay are
the stout heart and strong faith of the people. Breathe
upon them, and the multitude will follow as their fathers
did Peter the Hermit in bellicose raiment and spirit, to
desolate with An and sword the slumbering valley of
Salem. Crosses, the insignia of the lamb—theycaign whose
gentle blood sae. propitiated a destroying angel.
The basilica is to be recovered spite of " theorisers " and
" idealogists." Christians shall present a easefully em-
balmed malice, prudently retained, without diminution to
the four hundredth anniversary. In 11143, Christianity
shall avenge the flesh-wound received in Constantinople In
14.53 from carnal Mahomet. The sore yet suppurates, and
the medicinable axiom of seventy-fold charity is an unction
too weak to ameliorate such a gangrene.

What an apophthegm is that, that "a Christian people
must have a Christian government." Whence cornea it then,
that in the cradle-time of Christianity, when morals were
so ineorrupted, as antiquarian theologists assert, and salute
were nurtured, whoa* intermediate exemplars are so ob.
score, our first prime pattern—whence eomexitthat Chris-

tianity throve so =Tee:lowly in "thews and bulk," though
scurril pagans in obscene Rome held every post of office and
authority ? Does Christianity look must lovely in crusading
or in evangelising? In suffering or in aggression ? In the
sanction of conquest, or the " beauty of holiness ?"
Christian is cot Seracenic virtue, nor the Bible the Koran.
Can we, then, employ against the Musselman the weapon
that has rendered him accursed, end oursrlves be guiltless ?
Is it the duty of Christian England to immolate human
hecatombs in the tumultusry immure and shouts of war to
propagate or establish these good tidings that first were
uttered in a chorus of celestial symphonies ? " I come not to
send peace, but a swold," was phophctically uttered. Let
us turn from prophecies to precept. " Put uo thy sword
into the ►heath." I can acknowledge no justice in brute
1 amplest, no sanction for letting loose the rivers of blood,
' no Christianity in the point of the sword, or apostleship in
it► edge. I believe in the " fullness of time; ' in wan
and the rumours thereof, but not in their sanctity. Ido not
so regard men as Christians as to contemn their humanity.
I do not so remember I am an Englishmen as to forget I
am a COSMOPOLITE.

HULL BRIBERY COMMISSION. WEDNESDAY,
JULY 13.—The commissioners—F. 8. Flood, John De. ilea,
and W. D. Brett, Esels.—renewed their sitting thi•
morning, after an adjournment of eighteen days. Thee La-
mination of the blues will not be proceeded with until
several orange voters who were set down ore disposed of.
THE AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, WEDNES
nay.—At two o'clock this afternoon, the United States
Nail steamship Arctic, Captain Lure, with the usual mails
for the United States, Canada, &c., sailed from the Merle,
for New York, with 151 passengers, and a large and valua-
Me cargo of merchandise on freight.
STRIKE AT SOUTHAMPTON. The journeymen
plumbers, painters, end gluier. in Southampton have
struck work. They demand 41. a day, instead of 31. 61.,
their present payl

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1853