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London, England, 1847-12-30 00:00:00

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LONDON,THURS'DAY,DEC. 30.
le may be conducive to the peace of the chunk.
but it is by no means so to the excitement and mann-
meat of the public, that Hula VIII. and his am
should have; taken to their royal selves and ethos the
nomination of the prelates of the kingdom. Weee
such dignities conferred, as of old, deco et pep" me
should indeed have stirring canvasses, and a fond-
dable display of theological artillery at each e
election. Royal nomination was, however, the alp
mode at that time of ensuring anything like unity ere
concord in the church. And most certainly the crown,
in assuming the power, did not intend to assume also
the liberty of at one time nominating a pre-
late of Romanish leanings, which was to be counter-
balanced at the next oppectunity by the similar elevation
of tome low churchman, whose nolo episcopari was in
principle at least sincere. The iuste milieu WY not
known in those days. And although it reveals of j
necessity in these times, we are not surprised that
churchmen should not comprehend, and should protest
against it.
Seeing and knowing the stuff of which bishops, and
even wbig bishops, have been made, we must own
we were not surprised to find a rural dean on the
farthest verge of England entertain the conviction
that the nomination of a liberal divine of a theolo-
gian who had dared to inquire—was an enormity
that could not take place. Why the rural data
should swell himself into an antagonist of the first
minister of the crown, might indeed require explana-
tion. But when we learn that the dean had ac-
tually preached before the Queen Dowager and so
charmed her by his orthodoxy, that her Majesty had
not onl
_y_ made him dean, but actually prevailed on
King WILLIAM THE FOURTH, on his death-bed, to
beg of Lord Meteotricist that he should be a bishop,
then, indeed, we are not in the least surprised at the
dean'e indignation to find, not only another cleric
put over his head, but a cleric of altogether an oppo-
site school.
We do not wish to be hard upon Dr. MERE-
wrrans, who is punished enough by having lived
beyond his age. In the days
__ of Lords ELDort and
DIiOUTH, and of GEORGE in, he would have been
in the ascendant, and a most inevitable bishop. But
times are changed. There is none of ',the old pig-tail
school left in the House of Commons, although
there are still some specimens in the House of
Lords, and in the country parts of England.
Ideas and classes are more long-lived in the church,
and there we are not surprised to find that the speci-
mens, which do remain of the thorough old church
tory, should put forward an indefeasible claim to the
mitre.
We are very glad for the church's sake, and still
more for Lord JOHN'S, that he has given roof to
the old tory churchmen that their right divine is at
an end. Although, this was probably done without in-
tention. We dare say that LordJomsß minx was even
more startled than the public to Had that an opposi-
tion was set up to his nomination of a bishop, who
had dared to inquire and ratiocinate at the university.
Few statesmen have shown stronger episcopal lean-
ings than our present Premier. He has "misdated for
the right reverend bench in a more of ways, which
have not a little contributed to his unpopularity
with his own liberal friends ; and in truth
his lordship nearly jeopardised his election
for London by his subservience to the prelates.
The cry at Guildhall of " No more bishops " is not yet
out of our:ears. And still we find Lord Jolter, so re-
cently almost a martyr to episcopacy, mailed by
these same prelates because of the nomination of
Dr. Ilex ',nets.
What was Dr. HAMPDEN'S crime ? It was that of
having penetrated into the Kosmos of theology—of
having stirred and unwound the swathing clothes of
scholastic science which had enwrapped its in-
fancy —of having examined and traced the
forme of expression and terminology in which the
tenets of our faith are conveyed.
oci In executing
this task Dr. HAnenew did seri to es the Eng-
lish church, in the old formulas and creeds of which
there is much that is repulsive and severe, and illi-
beral in form. Need we appeal to thousands of de-
vont believers in the Trinity and in every essential
article of the English church, who are nevertheless
shocked at the wording of the Athansian Creed P
The researches of Dr. HAWDEN were directed to-
wards as historical explanation of how these
terms and these forms came to be need. His
lectures were calculated to reconcile thousands to
the church. This is his crime. And the question be-
tween Dr. Hampden and his opponents is, comprehen-
siveness or exclusiveness, which is best for the
church ?
It is very remarkable, that throughout all the
theological disputes of late year', the dominant hies
with every inquirer, every innovator, every ar=.,
bee been, sot so much actual truth, as the
finial effects likely to result to religion hem
certain tenets and form of worship. The tanoterlans
looked to authority to restore the vitality,
rity, universality of religion. Their OW
li&d more in tolerance and ream. at mis-
take of the former is, that, whelks their view be
right or not, it rens too much emir to the spirit,
habits, ideas, and progress of the Ise to admit of its
realisation being possible. Our
.age will never ac-
cept authority :. our age will inquire. And if inquiry,
or the having inquired, be constituted a crime by the
English church, and by the university which is its
source, then the English church must become an iso-
lated, antiquated thing, apart from the age, not in it,
or of it.

—.
There is not an article or tenet in the English
church to which Dr. HAMPDEN has not given his so-
lemn adhesion. The Ames requires on the Bishop's
part a renewal of that adhesion. Let the limes open
Archdeaoon Henes pamphlet, p. 25, and it will fled
Dr. HAMPDEN'S declaration quoted from his Inangn-
ral Discourse, as fervent and as full as the most de-
vout trinitarian could require. The difference between
the contending parties in the ohe,oh—betwixt Dr.
Baur-DEN an las foes—is not one of tenets, but of
tendencies and character. The doubt is not as to what
is true, bat as to how truth is best maintained and
expanded—by the inquisitcaial and proscriptive sys-
tem, or by the raUmd and the tolerant

Otte of the accusations made by his enemies
against M. GIIIZOT, has been that he is solely a
foreign politician, or a mere theorist in the ab-
stract science of government But, as to a knowledge
of great ind questions, of the country's material
wants, dangers, or development, M. OUIZOT was pro-
nounced to bs comparatively ignorant. And this
was put forward as a great bar to his advancement
to the poet of Prime Minister.
M. Gutscrr seems determined to refute this asser-
tion, as he hes already made efforts to refute that
ether reproach of his being unfit to advance the catho-
lic and religious interests of the country. The royal
speech addressed to the Chambers on Tuesday, dwells
very briefly and trippingly on foreign questions, re-
serving its full breath and emphasis for reform in
finance and for other important matters connected
with popular interests and public improvement.
The liberals have been agitating through all the
towns of France, but agitating not ea much for any
special reform as against the theories and tendencies
of government. M. Ocizor meets this agitation by '
measures of material improvement. The reduction of
the milt duties is the financial measure roost grateful
to the lower orders in France, and not only to the
lower order, bat to agrionitarista in general, who,
CC account of the dearness of salt, sre unable
Woosapete with the Germans in the fattening of
mtgs. The malt duties in Prance produce very nearly