The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-03 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3.

EVERY week now unfolds new upsets of the
Presidential Elsotion—ths mast important Presi-
dential Election for half a century. AU the illustra-
tive incidents ars fresh ; and sores of thins are Tory
strange.

The most important move perhaps is the re.
viral of the Bull of GREGORY XYL against negro
slavery, which we publish textually in another part
of our columns. Than Rev. HEM WARD BIIBUICEI4
Mrs. Browit'a brother, edits the most flourishing
religious newspaper in the United Btatss—ths
Arlo York Independent. In a numbs: of that
paper, of 28th of August, the editor relates an
anecdote of a wealthy cities& ending to hie
surprise that his Irish machman, a Catholic,
was not going to vote on the Democratic side on tie
precut occasion. It hes been so oompletely a matter
of course for the Catholics to vote on the " Demo.
Natio" side, and it usually takes so loos to convince
a body, like that of the Europese immigrants, that a
change of principles is covered by the old term, that
all the world concluded that the entire Romanies of
the Union would go for BIICRANAN. The aldose
inquired hie coachman's reason, for intending to vote
for Faxicom The man replied that it wail oontrary
to his religion to vote on the peo-slavery side. The
Catholics who did so, he declared, were ignorant of
the Pupa's Bull ; as they well might be in America,
linos the Bull is omitted from the Prayer-books of
American Catholics. He brought his Irish Prayer-
book to his employer, who handed it to Mr. Buzau.
for the publication of the Bull. It appeared in the
Independent of August 28th, heeded by a wood.
cut representing the Porn blesiag a kneeling
negro. Of course, the Bull was known to American
Catholics when first boned; but Bishop ENOLLXD, of
Charleston, took upon himself to decide that the
slavery denounced was that of Mohammed's eons-
trier, and the trade of the Atrium coast ; and the
Bull was suppressed in religiose books, sad allowed
to drop out of sight sad oat of Riad. Its application
to American slavery is so dear that it required the
audacity of a political priest to igncee it. Its publi-
cation in the Indopondost produced se strong and so
immediate a sensation that an alike, fa pamphlet
form, of forty thousand copies was imbed as soon as
it mold be got ready. Of mum the independent is
reviled in the religious world of tbs South as having
blooms a political sewspaper; bet there is no ex-
cluding a Papal Bull from the ramp of seclesisatiesl
topics, whatever may be its political effect. The
Catholics have in this ease leased something new
within the pale of their own church ; and the imam►
diets effect is carrying over the Catholic body is the
United States to the side of Fasmoier. The lest
American tenons gimethe number of Catholic Menthes
as 1,112, 'addle accommodation intbent as for 620,960;
explairiag that this return gives no idea of the real
ambers, is worship is held in schookooms, private
homes, and public belle, where churches do sot yet
exist. At the lowest computation, the &comics of
the bulk of the Catholic' body may probably auffies to
turn the male in hummer's favour.
Another indication is the vehemence excited in
both parties by the result d the Mauls electives.
An official dependent of the PRISIDInfiI bad cow
Silently betted on a majority of 6,000 against the
Republicans. The first move, ruder the impulse ef
dieappointmeat, is to organise means for disallowing
the elections, if Fazatmer should De the sassessfel
candidate. Absurd and leasable as sash a proposal
appears, it is certainly entsetalsed at Waskingtes.
Some of the Southern leaders say mealy that
"Plummer will not be allowed to take his seat.*
We shall ere presently bow his exelsrion will pro-
batty be attempted. His friends, meantime. are
regretting the exultation with white the MADI3
Wearies. have bees reerimil. It is true, they my,
that so single symptom mold bee favourable m this
dessonstratice of the mead republissahet of the
State which epees the electoral meanest in New
Ilegbad : bat it is too soca he ossildosse. Failure
in Mania would have caused deopreirmey; and
asesses meet sot induce sewarity. The Manta else.
dons were the topic of the day when the last mils
wore sods up.

Another fresh and timely disclosers is that Paz.
mon was dieted and refined, at this time last year,
an embarked and deJilterete ear from the Dine:
amnia party of nomination for Use President hip,
Governor FLOYD, of Virginia, was deputed by the
leading men of the party, North and South, to ease
their marries to Colonel Fusion, and two interviews
took pleas at New York, is September, UniS, whisk
✓esulted in Fuenotres replying that, regarding the
repeal of the htiseeari Compromise as he did--as ea
idiom breach of pledged faith—he meld not
wept nomination by the mime of its supporters.
The fast is now elicited by simmestasces tiara a
hind sad Isilowizamlier (at that tirse)cf Femmes
—Use Hoe. Owens BATIKS, who made his statement
at a public meeting. The delight of the Gee party end
the fury of the other at this &deem may be
imagined.

Butz the time of the Reformation of our Chareb,
in the sixteenth century, then hem never been a
period when the great body of the working clergy
was more intent upon doing its duty than now. The
mashers of this body are, with each exceptions as
we might naturally expect, zealous, hard-wceking,
inselfieb, and singularly bent upon fulfilling mg of
the duties of their station. Those who have Intend
the progress of the Chinch for the lent thirty yeas
will bear us out in saying, that during that time the
alteration in the habits of the working clergy bee
been most striking. The imam of services, of
district visiting, sad of sank, all testify to the ea
tivity of the class of whit& we are speaking. And yet,
strange to say, is the midst of this inereale Of OW
we look in vain for an bums, of knowledge.
In proportion as the slew have bums more esiuset,
they have name more pronerional. Their minded
has improved, but their sympathise have not ex-
tended. They are better clergymen, bet they moot
wiser mes. The better
seal whisk they display
fa their pronesional lams le mot aseempeend by a
sorrespoading tureen of Massey in their tratoperr
Lion with their fellows. We have bees led into these
remarks by the prase tie amass jest publiehedoritk
en appendix, by the Rev. I. IL Ovum It le worthy
studs% as a bold deseneiation of an nil under whirl'
the Chunk eedbrieg, delivered beim a magma

Alan the nature of which makes the sot appear
still more bold. The presehsr had mond
his hearers several of the bishop. They had
assembled in the Chapel of Lambeth Palace
on the °session of the consecration of the Bishops
of Gloucester end Bristol. and of Chriatchmula,
New Zealand. The hardihood with whisk Mr.
Guaxav exposed the real deficiencies of the clergy,
before those whose Medals it is to take care that all
the Aosta of the Church do their duty, was worthy
of the times when the pulpit wee the great educator
of the nation. He pieced out in forcible language
that jest at the very moment when the increase of
the public intelligence and of the means of publle
education were ranking themselves noticed as the
principal features of the age, the power and dieting
of the pulpit were diminishing.
It is as undoubted fast that all that is taught from the
pulpit sow-a-days is as Maiming' persica of the whole
moat of what is poured forth, week by week, to quill=
the !stellate, sad Worm the made, sad gelds the Par
neat, of oar rugb; fellow ematryoms. The sums is
the artistry village oempies • very diluent plea from the
puma of flit, years ago, when the readies of the paste►,
hoped the clergyman's family, were all mstaised, perhaps,
is the squire's pew, sad that of • farmer or twe besides.
The serum is oar large tewa bas litW ammo of NW
masdiag attention from the mere cultivated beans, and
will hardly be liaised to with pales's, perhaps, by ma of
the highest elms of imam; if it be written in • style
Featly inferior to that is which pablia queetioas are dis-
coing is the leading periediege of t►e day.
It should be freshly sosfeseed that something is wanting
is oar eselesiastiesl machinery, o our professional finials&
There le so arta:sty, indeed, that ism of the highest
ability will be pissed where natal power sad scholar-like
attgasseste are moat wasted. But without stoppl•g to
tabs credit for ansdasee if ►idden wealth, whisk un-
friesdly aides Issas out of emesat, we may say, sad ought
to my, that the pulpit bee set kept pees with the peogress
of istelligesee, and that ass value sunless less thee they
sem did. partly became the surest Bantus, whisk is their
daily food, is 8o mesh isapreved sad elevated. Qantas' et
meld morality are discussed, which we Mesh apes, perhaps,
to, 501 d..; prevalent faults sad goes fa the Ming games
are set spared ; sad • freedom of epee* is allowed, soder
the *over of sosersimeet, whisk the preasher might gala
is epees daylight, but, airs! often forbears to ei•im.
Now this is a merlons matter for consideration. No
institution can long maintain its ground whisk in
its ordinary working shows itself below the arrive
intelligens* of the country. People will not long
vaunt to receive ea last:actors in the highest sad
most important matters met whose **km they
would not ask with respect to the ordinary triune•
dons of daily life. Bach a state of things is possible
up to a certain point indeed in Raman Catholic
ormstries, when the doe administration of the sacra-

meats is ccasidmed of higher importance than any
mount of mere teaching, and where the priest ozogicio
lays claim to supernatural powers; but this an
never be the awe in Probstant assatrial. The
poor of the priest bore derma chiefly upon his
lassoes, and his inflames is a joint malt of the holi-
ness of his lib and the energy aad metals= of
his teaching. If people have "to complain;
to as Mr. Gertmires words, " when a sir.

tam le over, that they have beard 'otitis( bat
shallow ramming and trite comisomplaoss, or that
the twirls had little relation to amen's maim= life, or
that meal dillealties which perplex men's minds
have not been dismissed or allowed for," they will

soon cease to hold more than a nominal annmardoe
with the ministees of the Church. No lacrosse of
activity in district visiting, organishig schools,
establiehing societies, solemnising the Nerviest, will
compensate for a defleirmey in the power of producing
an inspeseskes from the pulpit.
In the appendix to Mr. 0171 WIT'S sermon the reader
will And mese of tha omen of the deficiency to which
we have alluded. The remedy will only be foand
by making pablie opinion beer upon the Bishops.
It is these high dignitaries alone who have the power
at stemming an evil which threatens to sap the
foundations of the Church. Calm the Bishops take
proper promotions that no man shall wend a pulpit
who is not competent to preach, the Church will lame
more and more of its Ardency. The great Apostle
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of the Gullies, is the words oilmen by Mr. Ocriutor
foe a text, directs Ttefornr to depute the charge of
the ministry to faithful men, " who shall be able to
teach 'then also." This injunction, which ought
to be respected by oar bishops, is scandalously
untested. All that a bishop knows of the quell-
Sodom of a candidate who presents himself for
ordisation ea a deacon, is that he has a certain
amount of denied knowledge, that he studied a
certain number of books on historical and theologi-
cal sebjests, that he is aequaiated with the leading
points of the great theological sontreversiss, and.
that he as string together a few emboss' in War
Ueda of a given text. Leta young sea of twenty-
three eatisty thus Nodulose, and you soy bow Idol,
the next Sunday after his ordlnaticw, gravely taking
epos himself the charge of instructing some Madrid.,

p;riteps thousands of peewee, nemb;rs of whoa are
pliably kr herAseversedia the knowledge oflieripture
than Massif, who have gone through spiritual and
moral struggles of which he knows nothing but by
hearsay, who have studied the truths which be elides,
roan to illustrate, long before he began to make them
objects of serious attention. Tot these persona, it
they wish to attend their parish church, must lutes
to this deems of twenty-three. No amount of in-
competence ma displace him. Re may iterate, Sun-
day after Sunday, twaddle, which has not even the
attraction of being novel, end his position will not
be shalom There be stands, the instructor of the
salads and the director of the sonsaisosse of numbers
who are burning to have doubts resolved, perplexi-
ties removed, mess of ocamiesee diseased.

There moy booed &Otiose meow whom's at int
early age, ham by intuition sod experience discovered
eaeogh of the nature of the hymen Wed to suable
them to iastruet others; but this is not generally the
over. Mao wet have lived amend their fellow-
men before they is. midoretead orough of the hart
to be competent to sympathise strongly, or instruct
authoritatively.

Mr. Ovaxii directs the peat portion of kis R
mark' spinet the incapacity to preach. so oddest
swept oar elem. We think that We Me&
peolty extends but too often over the 'bele
sphere of the &mamma's activity. This will not
be remedied until the Bishops not only ele-
vate the standard of education. but insist
epos a practical knowledge of the duties of a
clergyman. No &aeon should be allowed to oeeepy
pmmansatly a parish pelpit until he he. paned else
time la active pereshial duty, sad proved to sompe-
teat ledges that be is able to preash. We do set
in het see why the diaconate should not be a probe-
dewy elk% sad that only attar pada( ems time
in it to the satisfaction of his superiors shield a
damn realm ordination se $ priest. We see glad to
perceive, as in the example of Mr. Ovum, that there
Sr. sisrgyarsa is the Marsh of Begiaad who do sot
shrink from tolling harsh truths when the object to
be atteMsd is of importance to the very ezistonm
of the Chuck itself.

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